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Volume  XIV.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  25,  1896.

Number 688

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SOAP

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ers.  People who have 
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the  B E S T .

is 

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it  say 

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CHOCOLATES FOR HOLIDAYS

Order

early and be in the push.

Chocolate Nunkeys, 
Chocolate Montevldoes, 
Chocolate Clito,
Chocolate Shell Bark, 
Chocolate Nougat, 
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Chocolate Extra Vanillas,
Chopolate Pineapple,
Chocolate Hand Made Small,
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—flour that embodies the great­
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strength-giving  properties. 
If

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did  not  meet  this  requirement 
and  please  every 
flour  cus­
tomer of your establishment, we 
could  not  expect  to  enjoy  a 
continuance of your flour  trade. 
Considering 
the  number  of 
flour  customers  on  our  books, 
we  know  our  brand  is  all  we 
claim  for  it.  Note  quotations 
in price current.

Ball-Barnhart-Putman Oo.,

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One that you can  depend  on  giv­
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satisfaction?

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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.

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GREEN  BAY,  WIS.

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Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  25,1896.

Number 688

MICHIGAN  APPLES.

The  Deterioration  Due  to  the  Pecul­

iarity  of  the  Season.

“ I  am  so  disgusted  with  Michigan 
apples  that  I  am  seriously  considering 
the  plan  of  handling  them  only  as  sec­
onds  another  season. ’ ’

Barnett  Bros.,  where 
I  happened  to 
meet  the  senior  member  of  the  firm, 
Geo.  W.  Barnett,  whose  opinion  on  any 
topic  relating  to  the  fruit  business  I 
esteem  highly.  Without  informing  him 
of  my  former  interview,  I  asked  him  to 
give  me  his  opinion  on  the  condition  of 
the apple  crop  of  Michigan  this  season. 

*  *  *

Thus  remarked  Joseph  B.  Earl,  pro­
prietor  of  Earl  Bros.,  the  South  Water 
street  (Chicago)  commission  house,  one 
a  day  last  week. 
I  recalled  the  fact 
that,  within  the  life  of  the  Tradesman, 
I  had  seen  South  Water  street  men 
sciape  the  stencil  marks  off  from  New 
York  fruit  and  restencil  it  “ Michigan 
Apples”   and  it  occurred  to  me  that,  as 
there 
is  a  reason  for  all  things,  there 
must be  some good  reason  why  Michi­
gan  and  York  State  apples  had  changed 
places  in  the  estimation  of  the  people. 

*  *  *
several 

‘ ‘ There  are 

reasons  why 
Michigan  apples  have  been  compelled 
to  take  a  back  seat,”   remarked  Mr. 
Earl. 
“ In  the  first  place,the  climate of 
the  Southern  and  Central  portions of  the 
State  is  most  too  warm  to  raise  the  best 
fruit,  which  always  comes  from  a  local­
ity  where  the  temperature  is  cool  and 
even.  Grand  Traverse  fruit  was  never 
finer  than  this  year. 
I  received  fifty 
bushels  of  Snows  from  my  old  friend, 
G.  V.  Nash,  at  Norwood,  which  were 
the  finest  I  ever  saw—and  I  have  seen  a 
considerable  number  in  my  time.  My 
experience  has  been  that  Michigan fruit 
generally  has  rotted  this  season  before  I 
could  get  it off  my  hands,  so  that I have 
been  compelled  to  use great  caution and 
act  very  quickly  to  avoid  loss.  Canada 
and  York  State  apples,  on  the  other 
hand,  are  excellent  keepers  and  are 
meeting  with  active  demand 
in  places 
where  we  dare  not  place  Michigan  fruit 
at  all.

He  *  He

limestone 

“ To  what  do  I  attribute  the  deprecia­
tion  of  Michigan  fruit?  To  the  fact 
that  the  soil  on  which  the  apples  are 
grown  is  running  out,  while farther East 
the orchards  are  located  on  land  which 
has  a 
foundation,  which 
effectually  prevents  the  leaching  of  the 
soil.  Then  the  farmers  of  Michigan 
have  become  discouraged  over  oc­
casional 
failures  of  the  crop  and  have 
permitted  their  orchards  to  run  down, 
so  that  the  trees  are 
in  anything  but 
good  condition,  so  far  as  care  and trim­
ming  are  concerned.  Then,  again,  the 
farmers  do  not  exercise  sufficient  care 
in  packing  their  fruit,  but  put  in  too 
many  small  and  gnarly  apples  which 
ought  to  go  to  the cider  mill 
instead.  I 
appreciate  the  efforts  you  are  making  to 
raise  the  standard  of  Michigan products 
and  have  watched  the  columns  of  the 
Tradesman  with  much  interest. 
I  am 
afraid,  however,  that  the apple business 
of  the  State  is  too  far  gone  and  too  low 
down  to  encourage  you  to  think  you  can 
again  elevate  the  product  to its old-time 
standard. ”

*  *  *

Believing  that  there  are  two  sides  to 
every  controversy  and  that  it 
is  unfair 
to  base  a  definite  conclusion  on  the 
statement  of  any  one  man,  I  sauntered 
up  the  street  to  the  establishment  of

*  *  *

“ I  never  saw  finer  fruit  than  we are 
getting  from  Michigan,”   remarked  Mr. 
Barnett. 
“ When  it  is  carefully  picked 
and  properly  packed,  it  is  all  right,  but 
any  spots  or  bruises  quickly  develop 
into  rot.  The  cause  of  this  is  a  pecul­
iarity  of  the  season,  due  to  the  crop 
ripening  a  month  earlier  than  usual and 
the  extremes  of  heat  and  cold  which 
have  prevailed  in  Michigan  during  the 
past  month  or six  weeks.  Within  a  day 
or two  you  have  had  the  thermometer at 
65  to  70 degrees,  which  is  exceedingly 
trying  weather  for  apples.  York  State 
and  Canada  did  not  begin  to  harvest 
their  crop  until  a  month  after  Michigan 
fruit  was  in  market.  While  New  York 
apples  are  very  small,  on  account  of  the 
enormous  yield,  the  crop  has  been  fa­
vored  with  an  even  temperature,  due  to 
the  cool  winds  from  Lake  Erie  and 
Lake  Ontario,  and  the  keeping  quality 
of  the  fruit  is  first-class.  I take  no  stock 
in  the  statement  that  Michigan  fruit has 
permanently  deteriorated,  because  I  be­
lieve  that another  season  will  see  Mich­
igan  apples  on  top,  the  same  as  has 
been  the  case  for  many  years.

♦  
that 

Realizing 

♦  
local  dealers  were 
probably  in  a better position to ascertain 
the  cause  of  the  trouble  than  foreign 
buyers,  I  approached  a  couple  of  Grand 
Rapids  men,  with  the  following  result:

♦

in 

tween  Michigan  and  New  York  apples 
is  mainly  a  difference  in  the  manner  of 
caring  for  and  marketing the  fruit.  The 
Michigan  growers  have  never  seemed 
to  realize  the  importance  of  care  in  the 
handling,  and  the  reputation  of  the 
State  is  suffering  in  consequence.  This 
is  especially  noticeable 
localities 
near  this  city,  on  account  of  giving  all 
the  care  to  the  handling  of  the  peach 
crop.  To  be  sure,  the  condition 
is 
much  worse this  year,  on  account  of  the 
early  ripening. 
In  New  York,  on  the 
other  hand,  the  utmost  care  is  generally 
taken.  The  fruit  is  all  carefully  picked 
and  handled  so  as  to  prevent  even  the 
slightest  bruises. 
I  take  no  stock  in 
the 
is  any  permanent 
change  in  the quality  of Michigan fruit. 
In  fact,  it  is  my  observation  that  we are 
no  worse  off  this  year  than  are  the  New 
Yorkers. 
I  have  just  returned  from  a 
trip  through  that  State  and  the apples 
are  rotting  badly  everywhere 
New 
York 
in  apples  that 
Michigan  has,  a  car  load  of  160  barrels 
usually  containing  as  much  as  125  bar­
rels  of  Baldwins. 
I  saw  the  best  fruit 
offered 
in  Rochester  by  the  farmers  at 
65  cents  per  barrel,  including  the  bar­
rel,  and  that  without  takers. 
If  the 
farmers  will 
importance  of 
handling  their  apples  properly,  M ichi­
gan  will  have  no  trouble  in  retaining 
her  prestige  as  the  apple  state.”

lacks  the  variety 

idea  that  there 

learn  the 

E.  A.  Moseley: 

“ It 

is  a  fact  that

C. 

N.  Rapp: 

“ The  difference  be­

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Michigan  apples  are  not  keeping.  We 
are  having  serious  trouble  with  our 
shipments  on  this  account.  The  slight­
est  bruise  or  scab  quickly  develops  into 
decay,  destroying  the  fruit.  Then  the 
apples  matured  very  much  earlier  than 
usual  and  the  winter  varieties  were mel­
low  during  the 
fall.  Northern  Spys 
were  good  eating  in  October. 
I  under­
stand  that  the  Ben  Davis,  which  is  the 
main  dependence  in  Missouri,  is  keep­
ing  as  well  as  usual,  but  it is an  inferior 
variety.  It  is  true that  Michigan  apples 
were  poor  and  bad  keepers  last  year 
and  the  preceding  year,  but  the  crop 
was almost  a  failure  both  years  and  the 
fruit  is  apt  to  be  poor  when  that  is  the 
case.  No,  I  take  no  stock  in  the  idea 
that  there  has  been  any  permanent 
change  in  the  quality  of  Michigan  fruit 
and  under  normal  conditions  of  temper­
ature  it  will  be  all  right  again.”
The  Famine  in  India.

It 

According  to  the  latest  advices  from 
London,  the  news  from  India  with  re­
spect  to  the  scarcity  of  grain  in some  of 
the  districts,  due  to  crop  failures,  is 
rather disquieting.  Lord  George  Ham­
ilton,  Secretary  of  State  for  India,  in 
the  British  Cabinet,  in  a  recent  speech, 
admitted  that  very  nearly  a  million peo­
ple  are  already  feeling  the  effects  of 
the  scarcity,  although  the  Government 
is  taking  steps  to  cope  with  the  diffi­
culty.

It  is  now  very  evident  that the  British 
government  will  have a  serious  task  on 
its  hands  to  provide  for  the  wants  of 
is 
the  needy  in  its  Indian  Empire. 
true  that  the  crop  shortage 
is  not  as 
great  as  it  has been  in  times  past,  and 
it  is  also  true  that  the  government 
is 
now  better  equipped,  by  means  of  the 
railroads  which  traverse  the  Indian 
provinces, 
from 
more  fortunate  sections  to  the  suffering 
districts.  Nevertheless,  the  providing 
of  food  will  be  a  great  expense,  as  it  is 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  those  dis­
tricts  which  have  made crops  will not be 
willing  to  part  with  their  surplus except 
at  high  prices.

to  distribute 

food 

Aside  from  the  advantage  that  the 
crop  shortage  will  be  to  those  countries 
which  have  a  surplus  of  grain  to  ex­
port,  there  are  political  considerations 
attached  to  the  threatened  famine which 
must  be  considered.  Russia  has  been 
quick  to  take advantage  of  the  trouble 
of  the  Hindoos  to  endeavor  to  win  their 
good  will  by  subscribing  means  to  ship 
a  large  amount  of  grain  to  India.  No 
doubt  attempts  will  be  made  to  distrib­
ute  this  grain  direct  by  Russian  agents, 
and,  should  the  British  government  ob­
ject,  the  fact  can  be  pointed  to  that 
Russia  was  willing  to  help  the  Hindoos 
in  their  trouble  had  not  their  British 
taskmasters  interfered.

Russia  has  always  coveted  India,  and 
has  for  many  years  been  credited  with a 
secret  desire  to  replace  England  there. 
She  has  pushed  her outposts  as  near  to 
the  frontier  of  India  as  she  dared,  and 
would,  no  doubt,  be  glad  of  an  oppor­
tunity  to  win  partisans  among  the  peo­
ple  of  India  themselves,  so as to prepare 
the  way  for  a  fire 
in  the  rear  of  the 
British  defenders  should  the  time  come 
for  an  open  attack  upon  the  outposts  of 
England’s  Eastern  empire.

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

Fruits  and  Produce.
A  Fortune  in  Preserving  Eggs. 

From the Philadelphia Times.

A  few  years  ago  it  was  reported  in the 
inventor  and  chemist 
papers  that  an 
in  making  artificial 
had 
succeeded 
imitating  the genuine 
eggs,  so  closely 
that a  jury  of  experts  was unable  to  dis­
tinguish  one  from  the other.  The  yolks 
and  whites  were  made  of  an  albumen 
obtained  from  plants,  saffron  and  car­
rots,  mixed 
in  proper  proportion,  and 
several  other  secret  ingredients.  The 
shell  was  manufactured  of 
lime  and 
oyster  shells.  The  reason  why  the  al­
leged  discovery  did  not  revolutionize  a 
great  industry  and  force  several  million 
hens  out  of  business  was  never  given, 
but the  story  served  to  call  attention  to 
the  fact  that  several  hundred  scientists 
had  fondly  entertained  hopes  of  making 
artificial  eggs  some  day,  and  many  of 
them had devoted  the  best  part  of  a  life­
time  to  experiments  along  this  line.

The 

idea  of  spending  so  much  time 
and  thought  upon  such  a  small  thing 
appears  at  first  sight  a  little  absurd,  but 
it  is  more  than  probable  that the invent­
ors  were  working  for  the  pecuniary  re­
wards  they  knew  would  tail  to  their  lot 
if  they  could  make  artificial eggs cheap­
er  than  the  hens  could  lay  them.  But 
one 
is  tempted  to  ask :  Why  so  much 
study  over  making  artificial  eggs,  when 
there  is  a  fortune  for  the  man  who  can 
invent  a  method  of preserving those pro­
duced  by  the  ordinary  process  of  na­
ture?  There  are  a  good  many  million 
eggs  consumed 
in  this  country  every 
winter  and  they  are  sold  at  an  average 
price  of  twenty-five  to  thirty  cents  per 
dozen.  These  same  eggs  can  be  pur 
chased 
in  the  middle  of  summer  for 
twelve and  fifteen  cents  per dozen. 
Im­
agine  the  profits of  a  dealer  who  should 
purchase  two  or three  hundred  thousand 
dozens at  twelve  cents  a  dozen,  and  by 
using  a  new  perservative  sell  them  in 
the  middle  of  winter  at  thirty  cents  a 
dozen.  But  the discovery  of  a  sure  egg 
preservative,  one  that  will  keep  the 
eggs  in  their  pristine  freshness  for  six 
months,  has  engaged  as  much  attention 
as  egg-making,  and  we  have  many 
methods  advocated  by  scientists  which 
are  promised  to  accomplish  the  desired 
result.  The  fact 
is  eggs  have  been 
preserved 
for  years  for  a  certain  time, 
in  the  keeping  they  lose  some  of 
but 
their  delicious  freshness  which  makes 
the  chief  charm  of  a  breakfast. 
It  is  a 
fact  probably  not  generally  understood 
that  bakers  and  confectioners  depend 
almost  entirely  upon 
limed  and  pre­
served  eggs  for  their  winter  supply,  and 
if  it  were  not  for  this  their goods  would 
be  thirty  per  cent,  higher.  These  eggs 
are  good,  but  very  strong  when  broken, 
and  even  the appetite  of  a  tramp  would 
be  somewhat  allayed  by  their  odor. 
Nevertheless,  they  are  not  bad,  and 
when  mixed  with  the  other 
ingredients 
which  go  to  make  pies,  cakes  and  pas­
tries  they  seem  to  lose  their  distinctive 
flavor and  odor.  There  are  several  sys­
tems  of  preserving  eggs,  any  one  of 
which  will  answer  for  certain  purposes. 
These  preservatives  will  keep  the  eggs 
in  a  fairly  good  condition  for  two  or 
three  months,  but nature  places  a 
limit 
there,  after  which  they  begin  to  decay. 
The  eggs  will  keep  longer  than  meat  or 
game,  simply because they  are surround­
ed  by  a  shell  that  is  well-nigh air-tight. 
It  is  this  prison  wall  which  makes  egg 
meat  the  best  to  keep  for any lengthened 
period.  But  the  shell 
is  more  or  less 
porous,  and  it  begins  to absorb whatever 
it  comes 
in  contact  with,  and  though 
the  process  is  slow,  it  is  very  sure.  The 
first  essential  thing  to  preserving  eggs 
has  consequently  always  been  to  make 
the  shell  as  impervious  to  air and  water 
as  possible.  Oil, 
lard,  paraffine  and 
similar  substances  were  smeared  over 
the  eggs  when  fresh,  and  these  helped 
to  prolong  their  life.  Later  a  man  in­
vented  a  patent  paint,  which  was  sup­
posed  for a  time  to  be  the best preserva­
tive.  When  painted  over  the  outside  of 
the  shell,  it  made  a  perfectly  air-tight 
shell,  and  as  no  air  could  get  into  the 
meat  to  decompose  it,  the contents  must 
keep  for  an  indefinite  period.  But  the 
paint 
inventor  had  not  studied  em­

bryonic  life  as  closely  as  he  had  his 
chemicals,  or he  would  have  known  that 
natuie"had  already  planted  the  seeds  of 
destruction  inside of  the  shell.  Before 
his  paint  was  ever  applied  there  was  a 
small  quantity  of  air  in  the  shell—only 
a  small  quantity,  but 
just  enough  to 
cause  the  mischief.  And  so  the  eggs 
decomposed  even  under  this  treatment. 
Now,  an electrician  has  come to the front 
with  a  system  that  promises  some better 
results.  He  proposes  to  place  the  eggs 
in  a  vacuum  chamber  when  fresh,  and 
then,  instead  of  absorbing  outside  air, 
the  eggs  will  give  it  out  until  they  are 
practically  free  from  all  air.  When  they 
have  been  in  the  vacuum chamber forty- 
eight  hours,  they  are  to be  painted  with 
a  composition  that  will  keep  them  from 
absorbing  any  more  air.  But  even  at 
this  stage  decay has  not been  thoroughly 
arrested.  The  electrician  then  proposes 
to  give  them  an  electric  bath.  They 
are  packed 
in  barrels,  in  which  fresh 
water  is  poured,  and  a  current  of  elec­
tricity  is  introduced  sufficiently  strong 
to  destroy  all  animal  life.  All  germs  of 
decay  are  thus  killed,  and  the  eggs  are 
ready  for  packing  in  sand  or  sawdust. 
As  all  decomposition  has  been  de­
stroyed, 
the  paint-preservative 
keeps  out  the  poisonous  air,  the  eggs 
are  supposed  to  keep  for  many  months 
as  fresh  as  when  first  laid.

and 

It 

is  very  slow. 

The  test  of  this  system  will  be  made, 
or  rather  is being  made,  this  fall  and 
winter.  Two  barrels  of  eggs  that  were 
subjected  to  the  electric  bath  are  now 
preserved  in  the  storeroom  of  the  elec­
trician’s  house  in  New York,  and should 
they  prove  to  be  as  fresh  and  delicious 
four  months  from  now  as  they  were  in 
July,  the  problem  of  egg-preserving will 
be  solved.  The 
inventor of  the  system 
will,  meanwhile,  be  rejoicing  on  the 
highway  to  fame  and  fortune.  At  pres­
ent  the  methods of  preserving  eggs  for 
market 
in  winter are  well  understood. 
In  the cold  storage  house they  are  kept 
at such a  low  temperature  that  decompo­
sition 
If  they  could  be 
frozen  they  would  keep  longer  in  this 
is  that  the  egg 
way,  but  the  trouble 
shells  crack  when  they  reach  the  freez­
ing  point. 
is  possible  to  preserve 
meats  and  poultry  very  well  by  this 
method  because  no  harm 
in 
freezing  them.
The  most  acceptable  system  of  pre­
serving  eggs  for a  late market  is to pack 
them  away  in  limed  water.  This meth­
od 
is  employed  more  extensively  in 
Europe  than  this  country,  and  vast 
quantities  of  Italian  and  Danish  eggs 
are  shipped  to the  English  markets 
in 
winter 
The  lime 
closes  the  shell  from  the  outside  air and 
water,  and,  at  the  same  time,  destroys 
or  keeps  dormant  any  germs  that  might 
attack  the  egg.  Preservation  of  eggs 
by  limed  water  is  very  old,  and  in  1791 
William  Jayne,  of  England,  was granted 
letters  patent  for  preserving  eggs  with a 
pickle  composed  of 
lime,  salt,  water 
and  cream  of  tartar.  Since  that  early 
date  about  seventy  different  methods 
have been  patented  in  England  and  this 
country,  but  no  one  has  yet  improved 
upon  this  simple  system,  unless  the 
electrician’s  plan  should  prove a  great 
success.

in  this  condition. 

is  done 

Shrewd  Dealing  Down  East.

From the Lewiston (Me) J  urnal.

That  story  of  a  Caribou  potato  raiser 
who  refused  an  offer  of  48  cents  a barrel 
tor eleven  barrels  of  potatoes,  declaring 
that  he  would  have $5  or  nothing  for the 
load,  is  matched  by  a  yarn  which comes 
from  Grand  Lake  Stream  of  a  man  who 
recently  went  after  a  calf  he  had  pas­
tured  out  all  summer  and  asked  what 
he  owed  for  the  pasturing.

“ Well,”   says  the  farmer,  “ I ’ve  got  a 
bill  of  $7  against  you,  but  I  will  take 
the  calf  and  call  it  settled,  providing 
you  are  willing. ”
“ I  will 
not  do  that,  but  I  will  tell  you  what  I 
will  do.  You  keep  the  calf  two  weeks 
longer  and  you  can  have  her. ’ ’

“ No  sir,”   was  the  answer. 

The  Supreme  Court  of  Minnesota  has 
ruled  that  a  mileage  ticket  is  a  contract 
between  the  railway  and  the  purchaser, 
and  that  the  fact  of  its  not  being signed 
by  the  latter  does  not  abrogate  the  con­
tract  nor  permit  it  to  be transferred.

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Buying  Swine  by  Rhyme.

Kalamazoo,  Nov.  20—I  happened  to 
pick  up  the  last  issue  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman  and  therein  noticed  a  copy 
of  a  sort  of  poetical  order  for  cheese 
from  Desenberg  &  Schuster,  of  this 
city,  which  pleased  and  amused  me 
in 
a  peculiar  way.  The  firm  must  be  of  a 
poetical  turn  of  mind,  since  some  four 
or  five  years  ago,  when  I 
lived  on  a 
farm,  I  mailed  them  a  postal  card offer­
ing  a  quantity  of  pork  for  sale  and  ask­
ing  them  to  quote  me  the  price  they 
would  pay. 
1  promptly  received  their 
reply,  of  which  the  enclosed  is  a  copy. 
I  used  to  preach  formerly  and  I  once 
took  their  letter  along  to  a  convention, 
where  it  created  any  amount  of  merri­
ment. 
I  think  it  outranks  by  far  their 
cheese  order and  is  well  worth  bringing 
It, 
to  the  attention  of  your  readers. 
therefore,  you  wish  to  use 
it,  it  is  at 
your  disposal.  You  need  not hesitate 
on  any  grounds,  since  I  first  asked  the 
author’s  permission  to  publish  it  in  the 
Tradesman,  before  I  sent  it  to  you.

G.  L.  Ca e sa r.

This answer, we hope you may  see,
Contains a little pleasantry;
How strange it seems a man  well  versed 
And who, no doubt, has oft rehearsed 
Holy Scripture line for line 
Should traffic in forbidden swine!
And stranger still it seems that you 
Would sell it to the hoary Jew!
But stranger things than this transpire—
The Jew, condemned to lasting fire,
Has set to work his brain and wit;
Bound to get square with Holy Writ,
He fights it on another line—
To draw his profit from the  swine.
Therefore, mark well, the price  we’ve  made 
Is seven cents a pound in trade.

Has  No  Standing  Anywhere.

8

Gladwin,  Nov.  16—I  wish  you  would 
give,  through  the columns of the Trades­
man,  if  you  can  do  so,  the  commercial 
standing  and  business  method  of  the 
Farmers’  Wholesale  Supply  Co.,  372 
Michigan  avenue,  Detroit.

J.  M.  Sh a f f e r .

The  concern  enquired  about  has  no 
standing,  financially,  carrying  no  stock 
to  speak  of  and  obtaining  its  supplies 
from  regular  merchants after  the  orders 
are  secured  from  the  deluded  farmers 
who 
imagine  they  are  buying  goods 
cheaper  because  they  give  their  orders 
to  a  concern  which  masquerades  as  a 
wholesale  house.  This  concern  has  fre­
quently  been  referred  to  by  the  Trades­
man 
in  the  past,  its  operations  being 
confined  almost  wholly  to  farmers  and 
denizens  of  small  villages.  Contrary  to 
frequently 
expectation,  the  goods  are 
found  to  be  of 
inferior  quality;  and 
while  low  prices  are  made  on  some  ar­
ticles,  inspection  of  the goods  after  de­
livery  invariably  discloses  the  fact  that 
the  purchaser  has  not  succeeded  in  get­
ting 
lower  prices  than  he  could  of  his 
regular  dealer  if  he  were  to  buy  goods 
in  similar quantities.

1, 

After  Nov. 

1896,  the  retail  cigar 
dealers  will  give  you  a  light  every  time 
you buy an  S.  C.  W.  5c  Cigar.  This offer 
remains  good  until  further  notice.

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Nov.  21—Trade  in grocery 
jobbing  circles  during  the  week  has 
been  very  good.  Some  of  our  leading 
stores  have  been  obliged  to  work  their 
force  at  night,  that they  might  not  get 
behind  in delivering their orders  There 
have  been  a  goodly  number  of  buyers 
here  from  out  of  town  and altogether the 
situation 
is  one  of  encouragement. 
Goods  of  all  kinds  seem  to  be  in  re­
quest  and  stocks  in  the  interior  appear 
to  be  light.  There  is  considerable holi­
day  buying  and  Christmas  this  year 
promises  to  be  a  profitable  season  for 
the dealer  in  food  products.

The  coffee  market  is  pretty  much  un­
changed.  Buyers  from  out of  town  seem 
the  prices 
to  hesitate  about  paying 
asked,  while  sellers  maintain  that  they 
have  made  very  low  rates.  Rio  No.  7  is 
nominal  at 
10c  and  the  market  rather 
weak.  There  are  not  many  bids of over 
9&c.  Prices  for  mild  grades  continue 
quite  firm  and  a fair volume  of business 
is  being  done  in  a 
jobbing  way.  West 
India  sorts  are  steady,  with  a  pretty 
good  supply  here.  Good  Cucuta,  \6% 
6$i6% c. 
There  are  afloat  of  Brazil 
coffee,  672,804  bags,  against  549,518  at 
the  same  time  last  year.

The  recent  display  of  activity  in  tea 
has  somewhat  subsided.  The  increased 
demand  of  a  fortnight  ago  seemed  to  be 
unexpected.  A  good  many  orders  came 
in  as  soon  as  there  was  any  advance 
in 
quotations  and  interior  dealers  seem  to 
have  laid  in  a  pretty  good  supply. 
It  is 
likely  that  the  market  will  be  firm  from 
now  on  and  there  may  be  some  further 
advance.

Refiners  have  nearly  caught  up  on 
their  orders  and  seem  to  be 
indifferent 
whether  they  take  any  more  raw  stock 
or  not  beyond  a  quantity  sufficient  for 
everyday  wants.  Refined sugar  has  been 
in  rather  light  request.  The  orders  that 
come  are  for small  lots  and  there  has 
been  a  decline  in  quotations. 
Imported 
granulated 
in  a  moderate 
way,  but  supplies  are  not  large.

is  moving 

The  demand  for  rice  has  been  a  little 
slow,  but  prices  are  very  firm,  with  no 
chance  of  being  any  lower.  Advices 
from  the  South  snow  no  change.  Prime 
to  choice,  domestic,  is  quotable  at  4 ^  
@5/^c,  with  fancy  at  5% @6c.

Molasses  buyers are very conservative, 
the  warm  weather  having 
interfered 
somewhat  with  the  trading  during  part 
of  the  week.  Supplies  of  really attract­
ive  goods  are 
insufficient  and,  until 
buyers  can  have  a  larger  selection  from 
which  to  choose,  there  is  not apt  to  be 
much  animation  displayed.  Open  ket­
tle,  prime  to  fancy,  is  worth  25@340.

There  has  been  a  moderate  volume  of 
business 
in  syrups.  Orders  generally 
are  small,  but  quite  numerous,  and  al­
together  the situation  is  rather  encoura­
ging,  especially  for the better sorts.  Low 
grades  are  not  sought  for.

lemons 

The  lemon  market  is  very  quiet  and 
buyers  show  little  if  any  interest  in  the 
situation.  Fancy  Sicily  are  worth  about 
$4.25  for  300s.  There  is  a  very  fair sup­
ply  of 
in  this  country  and  no 
advance 
is  anticipated  in  the  near  fu­
ture.  There  has  been  quite a  demand 
for  repacked  Jamaica  oranges,  but  the 
receipts have been liberal and  the  prices 
have  shown  no  advance.  There 
is  a 
good  demand  for  Florida  oranges,  but 
there 
is  a  limited  supply.  There  is  a 
light  demand  for  bananas  and  prices 
are  a  trifle  lower.  Grapes  are  in  mod­
erate  request.
The  dried  fruit  market  is quiet  and 
jobbers  are  doing  quite  a  business,  but 
show  no  anxiety  to  replenish  their 
stocks  after  they  have  once  moved  out. 
California 
loose  muscatel  raisins  have 
met  with  some  demand  from  out-of- 
town  buyers,  and  are  quite  firm.  For 
the  remainder of  the  line—prunes,  cur­
rants  and  dates—quite a good many sales 
have  been  made,  evidently  for  holiday 
supplies.  This  is  also  true of  nuts  of  all 
kinds.

In  domestic  dried  fruits  there  is  a 
little  better  demand  for  choice  evapo­
rated  apples.  Prices  are  pretty  high

and,  if  large  amounts  were  wanted,  the 
quotations  would  have  to  be  shaded  a 
little  to  effect  sales.

It 

The  canned  goods  market  is  steady. 
The  demand  is  fair  and  prices  are  well 
held  on  all 
lines,  some  articles  being 
higher.  Tomatoes and  corn  are  sought 
for  and  buyers  do  not  hesitate  to  pay 
the  price  asked. 
is  a  good  time  to 
buy.

The  supply  of  strictly  fresh  butter  is 
very 
light  and,  in  fact,  unequal  to  the 
demand.  Holders  of  the  best  grades 
want  22c  and will  take  no  less. 
It  must 
be  very  good,  however,  to  average  this. 
Lower grades  are  dull  and  neglected.

for  cheese 

The  demand 

continues 
moderate  and,  the  supply  being  ample, 
the  market  is  rather  quiet.  Small  size 
white  fuil  cream  sells  at  10c  for  Sept. 
Colored,  a  fraction  higher.

The 

is  quiet, 

egg  market 

fresh 
gathered  bringing  24c.  Western  fresh, 
23c.  Western  prime,  2i@22c.  Quota­
tions  are  so  high  as  to cause the demand 
to  be  rather  slack.  Eggs  are  eggs  now­
adays.

The  button  craze  has  naturally  sub­
sided  since  the  election,  and  not  only 
buttons  of  political  significance,but also 
those of  every  kind  have almost entirely 
disappeared.  A  new  fashion 
in  this

lately  come 

a  more  useful  purpose  than  any  which 
preceded  it,  the  cost  of  the  new  but­
tons  is  likely  to  be  too  great  for  the 
fashion  ever  to  become  so  prevalent 
as  the  other.  Over  from  Paris  there 
have 
some  diminutive 
watches  no  larger  than  a  cent  piece, 
and  they  are  made  to  fit  into  a  button­
hole.  The  works  are  contained 
in  a 
large  circle  made  of  platinum.  The 
few  buttons  of  this  kind  seen  so  far 
are  of  French  workmanship,  and  the 
watches  are  said  to  keep  excellent time. 
They  cost  too much to become very com­
mon,  but  they  are  likely  to  be  seen,  as 
the  importers  are  already  preparing  to 
put  large  numbers of  them  on  the  mar­
ket.

The  swell  but 

One  of  the  curious  examples  of  the 
way  in  which  certain  trades  cling  to 
particular  neighborhoods  can  be  found 
in  lower  Fourth  avenue,which  for  many 
years  has  been  practically  the  head­
quarters  of  the  trade 
in  aquariums, 
goldfish,  and  all  other objects  connected 
with  such  aquatic  pets.  There  are  prob­
ably  more  shops  of  this  kind  there  be­
tween  Fourteenth  Street  and  the  Bowery 
than  in  any  other  part  of  the  city,  and 
apparently  there  is  no  indication  of  any 
tendency  to  remove  to  other quarters  of 
the  city.  Few  of  these  shops  confine 
themselves  exclusively  to  the  aquarium 
business,  which  seems  to  exist  concur­
rently  with  the  canary-bird 
industry, 
and  that  flourishes  with  equal  evidences 
of  prosperity  in  this  down-town  region.
impecunious  society 
women  will  open  a  tea  room  on  Fifth 
avenue.  They  had  hoped  to  open  their 
feminine  chatting  club  before  horse 
show  week,  but  the  fates  were  against 
them.  When  the  new 
idea,  which  is 
European,  reaches  the  proper  stage  of 
development 
it  will  be  possible  for  the 
weary  shopper  to  get  a  more  substantial 
luncheon  than  orange  pekoe  and  wafers 
at  the  tea  room.  A  regular  noonday  re­
past  will  be  served  until  3 o’clock,  after 
which  “ afternoon  tea”   proper,  with  all 
its  English  accompaniments  of  muffins 
and  bread,  or 
its  American  ones  of 
sweet  biscuit and  cake,  will  be  served.
instructive  picture  of  one  phase 
of  metropolitan  life  is  on view at Broad­
way  and  Twenty-third  street.  There  a 
mother and  daughter  conduct  an  exten­
sive  news  business.  Though  the  stand 
has  only  an  electric 
light  pole  and  a 
well-arranged  dry  goods  case  for  its 
base,  they  handle  a  number  of  maga­
zines,  as  well  as  the  daily  papers.  The 
daughter  spends  most  of  her  spare  mo­
ments  studying  stenography,  and  is  fre­
quently 
in  the  midst  of  a 
difficult  “ transcript”   to  make  change 
for a  5-cent  piece  for a  1  cent sale;  but 
she 
is  always  courteous,  and,  judging 
from  the  earnestness  with  which  she 
pursues  her  studies  amid  the  roar  of 
traffic  and  trials of  trade,  she  will  some 
day  make  her  mark  inathe  world.

interrupted 

An 

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Are  you  ready  for  it?  Not  unless  you 
have  one  of  our  Oyster  Cabinets.  Will 
pay for itself several times in  a  single  sea­
son.  They  are  neat,  durable,  economical 
and cheap.  No dealer who handles oysters 
can  afford  to  be  without  one.  Made  in 
sizes  from  8  to  40  quarts.  Write  for  in­
formation.

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

Around  the  State
Movements  o f  Merchants.

Muskegon—The  Sibley  Drug  Co.  suc­

ceeds  Sibley  &  Co.

Cbarleswortb — Chris  Barnes  has 

opened  a  general  store  at  this  place.

Shields—Geo.  Arrow-smith 

succeeds 
Arrowsmith  &  Fuebr  in  general  trade.
Coldwater —  Cbas.  Ewing  succeeds 
Ewing  &  Portner  in  the  marble  busi­
ness.

Devereaux  — Clawson  &  Houseman 
have  opened  a  general  store  at  this 
place.

Saginaw  (W.  S .)—C.  L.  Grube  suc­
ceeds  C.  L.  Grube  &  Co.  in  the drug 
business.

Adrian—The 

style  of  the  Eastern 
Bankrupt  Association  has  been  changed 
to  Marvin  &  Cook.

Albion—L.  G.  Rafter  &  Sons  have 
sold  their  meat  business  to  Mohrhard 
Bros.,  of  Grand  Rapids.

St.  Louis—Max  Tyroler  has  uttered 
three  chattel  mortgages  on  his dry goods 
stock,  aggregating  §5,200.

Cheboygan—H.  Hale  Cobb  continues 
the  book  and  stationery  business  for­
merly  conducted  by  Cobb &  Freeman.

Otsego—C.  I.  Clapp  has sold his cloth­
ing  stock  to  Cbas.  F.  Strutz,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Highland  Park—John  C.  Hickey, 
dealer  in  drugs,  groceries  and  meats, 
has  been  closed  by  virtue  of  a  chattel 
mortgage  on  his  stock.

Traverse  City—C.  A.  Bugbee  has 
definitely  decided  to  re-engage  in  the 
drug  business  here  as  soon  as  he can se­
cure  a  satisfactory  location.

Fisher—Cornelius  Quint  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  D.  Van 
Bruggen  &  Son  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Petoskey—L.  E.  Clark  has  removed 
to  this  city  from  Traverse  City  and  an­
nounces  his  intention  of  engaging 
in 
the  grocery  and  meat  business.

Traverse  City—O.  G.  Millar,  who  re­
cently  engaged  in  the  musical  merchan­
dise  business  with  W.  P.  Kenny,  has re­
tired  from  the  firm  and  Mr.  Kenny  will 
hereafter conduct  the  business alone.

Menominee—The  extensive  hardware 
in 
Local  people 
in  securing  themselves  on 
indorsed  paper.  The  assets 

firm  of  Dunning  Bros.  &  Co.  is 
financial  difficulties. 
caused 
it 
$9,000  of 
are  said  to  be  ample.

Wayland—The  book  and  stationery 
stock  of  the  late  John  Chappie  has  been 
purchased  by  his  son,  L.  D.,  who  will 
combine  the  same  with  his  drug  busi­
ness.  Mr.  Chappie  was  highly respected 
in  this  community  and  his  death  is  sin­
cerely  lamented.

Holland—Den  Herder & Witvliet have 
opened  a  meat  market  in  the  building 
formerly  occupied  by  Bert  Dok.  Mr. 
Den  Herder  comes  from  Grand  Rapids, 
where  he  conducted  a  market  for  sev­
eral  years,  and  Mr.  Witvliet  is  cf  this 
city.

Manistee—F.  C.  Larsen has purchased 
a  site  which  he  will  convert  into  a  pub­
lic  market  for  the  use of  farmers  who 
visit  the  city  with  produce  to  dispose 
of.  He  will 
lease  the  property  to  the 
farmers  free  of  charge,  providing  they 
will  fit  it  up  for  their  use  and  maintain 
it.

Kalamazoo—Isaac  B.  Wentworth  has 
uttered  a  mortgage  on  his  hat,  cap  and 
furnishing  goods  stock.  The  mortgage 
runs  to  Harry  B.  Hoyt,  as  trustee,  to 
secure  himself 
the  amount  of 
$2,933.38,  the  City  National  Bank  to

to 

the  amount  of  $1,450,  and  other  local 
creditors  to  the  amount  of  $2,558.67.

Howard  City—Geo.  Heilner  and  G. 
M.  Pratt  have  formed  a  co-partnership, 
and  purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  T. 
M.  Lander.  They  will  move  the bakery 
into  the  rear  of  the  store  and  will  carry 
on  a  restaurant  in  connection  with  the 
bakery  and  grocery.  Mr.  Lander  will 
pursue  the  avocation  of an agriculturist
Mt.  Pleasant—A  couple  of  weeks  ago 
a  nice  appearing  young  man  canvassed 
all  the  good  ladies  of  this  city  and  ad­
joining  townships  taking  subscriptions 
to  the  Michigan  Farmer  He  carried 
a 
lot  of  dress  goods  samples  and 
agreed  to  give  a  pattern  free  with  every 
subscription.  This  took  well  and  the 
dollars  fairly  flew  into  his  pocket.  The 
premiums  are  now  overdue,  as  well  as 
the  paper.

large 

Clio—J.  G.  Davis,  of Detroit,  patentee 
of  the  Davis  cash  carrier,  was  here  last 
week.  The  Consolidated  Store  Service 
Co.,  of  Boston,  has  brought  suit  to  re­
cover  rent  for the  time  his carriers  were 
used,  alleging  that  they  are  an  infringe­
ment  of  its  patents.  Mr.  Davis  wanted 
each  merchant  to  subscribe to  a  fund, 
engage  a  patent  attorney  and  defend  the 
suit.  He  offered  to  swell  the fund,  but, 
as  the  merchants  thought  he  did  not 
offer  to  give  his  share  towards  it,  they 
declined  to  consider  the  proposition.

Olivet—H.  E.  Green’s store was burg­
larized  last  Friday  night.  Mr.  Green has 
an  electric  burglar  alarm  system  con­
necting  his  home,  as  well  as  several 
other  places,  with  alarm  bells.  This 
called  out  several  people,  who  rushed  to 
the  store 
just  as  the  burglars  were 
coming  out  and  caught  one  of  them. 
Two  escaped,  after  being shot  at several 
times.  The  captured  one  was  put  in 
jail  and  all  hands  turned  to  pursuing 
the  other  two,  without  success.  On  re­
turning,  they  went to  take  a  second look 
at  their  “ catch,”   when,  to  their  sur­
prise,  they  found  that  their  bird  had 
flown  through  the  roof,  but  he  was  cap­
tured  at  noon  Saturday  by  Sheriff  Clay, 
near  Springport.

Detroit—The  produce and commission 
dealers  of  the  city  have  undertaken  to 
secure  the  enactment  of  an  ordinance  at 
the  hands of  the Common  Council,  com­
pelling  those  who  deal  in  goods  in  car- 
lots  or  from  warehouses,  and  maintain 
no  store 
in  the  city,  to  pay  a  license 
fee  of  $100  per  year.  The  penalty  pre­
scribed  for  failure  to  take out a  license 
is  a  fine  of  S5  to  $100 and  imprisonment 
in  the  House  of  Correction.  The  object 
of  the  ordinance  is  to  prevent  country 
merchants  from  shipping  fruit,  produce 
or  poultry  to  the  Detroit  market  and 
selling  it  direct  to  the  retail dealers,  in­
stead  of  turning  the  shipment  over  to 
some  commission  house. 
In  case  the 
ordinance  passes,  it will  opeiate against 
the  Detroit  market  very  seriously,  as 
many  merchants  refuse  to  be muzzled  in 
this  manner and  will  divert  their  ship­
ments  to  other  markets, 
rather  than 
submit  to  the  imposition  of  a  tax.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Saginaw  ( W.  S. )— Jackson  &  Church 
Jackson  in  the 

succeed  McGregor  & 
boilermaking  business.

Battle  Creek—A  receiver  has  been 
applied  for  by  the  creditors  of  the 
Homer  Steel  Fence  Co.

Cass  City—Frutchey,  McGeorge  & 
Co.  succeed  Frutchey,  Ale  &  McGeorge 
in  the  elevator,  salt  and  lime  business.
Bay  City—The  Maltby  Lumber  Co., 
not  incorporated,  has  dissolved.  Alzina 
Maltby  will  continue  the  business under 
the  same  style.

000  to  45,000,000 gallons  of  water 

Kalamazoo—S.  Salomon  continues  the 
manufacture  of  pants  and  overalls  for­
merly  carried  on  under  the  style  of  S. 
Salomon  &  Co.

Slights—Kelly  &  Covell  have  started 
their  charcoal  kilns  again.  They  have 
begun 
logging  for  the season,  expect­
ing  to  get  in  about  3,0000,000  feet.

Traverse  City—The  Oval  Wood  Dish 
Co.  will  put 
about 
10,000,000  feet  of  logs,  which  will  be­
gin  to  come  in  as  soon  as  snow  flies.

in  this  season 

Grand  Ledge—The  Grand  Ledge 
Chair  Co.,  not 
incorporated,  has  dis­
solved.  The  business  will  be  continued 
by  E.  A.  Turnbull  under the same style.
Gladstone—The  Buckeye  Stave  Co., 
of  this  city,  has  purchased  the  elm 
stumpage  on  the  Cleveland-Cliffs  Iron 
Co. 's  lands  at  Cooks  and  has  started 
making  camps.  There is about  6,000,000 
feet  of  it.

Gladstone  -Work has been  resumed  on 
the  new  railway  to  Munising  to  connect 
with  the  Northwestern  at  Little  Lake.
A  branch  is  being  built  to  the  Big  dam 
on  the  White  Fish  River, 
in  Delta 
county,  to tap  a  large  body  of  pine  and 
hemlock  timber.

Houghton—The  Sturgeon  River  Lum­
ber  Co.  has  put  in  two  camps  and  will 
establish  additional  camps  later  in  the 
season.  The  cut  decided  for  the winter 
is  10,000,000  feet  of  logs,  or  about  one- 
half  the  cut  of  last  winter.  The  Nestors 
are  the  only  lumbermen  who  will  make 
as  large  a  cut this  winter as  last.

Detroit—Hugh  Johnson  &  Son,  car­
riage  manufacturers  at  102 Larned street 
west,  have  uttered  a  chattel  mortgage 
on  their  stock  and  accounts  to  Robert
D.  Robison,  as  trustee,  to  secure  their 
creditors  in  the  aggregate  sum  of  $15, 
000.  The  consideraiton  named 
is $1. 
A  similar  instrument,  covering  the  real 
estate  owned  by  the  firm,  was  filed  in 
the  Register  of  Deed’s  office.

Benton  Harbor—The  Orton  Manufac­
turing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  an 
authorized  capital  of  $100,coo  for  the 
purpose  of  embarking  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  tools,  implements,  mechanical 
appliances  and  windmill  supplies.  The 
promoters  of  the  company  have  been 
negotiating  for  the  purchase  of  the  Buss 
Machine  Works  plant,  but  have  failed 
to  meet  the  requirements  exacted  by  the 
owners of  the  property.

Traverse  City—The  Oval  Wood  Dish 
Co.  has  now  fully  completed  the  build­
ing  which  has  replaced  the 
factory 
burned  some  time  ago.  The  structure 
larger  than  the  old  one,  more 
is  much 
substantial  and  complete 
in  every  re­
spect. 
is  fitted  with  all  improve­
ments  required  in  the  business.  There 
are  already  seven  of  the  wire-end  ma­
chines 
in  and  the ‘ other  machinery  is 
being  prepared  to  place  in  position  as 
rapidly  as  possible.

It 

Iron  Mountain—The  Indiana  mine, 
one of  the  old  properties  of  the  Menom­
idle  for  a 
inee  range,  which  has  been 
number  of  years,  started  work 
in  a 
small  way  three  months  ago  and  re­
cently  has  added  to  its  forces.  Time 
has  brought  back  to  activity  mines 
which  a  few  years  ago  were closed down 
because  of  the  small  demand  for  ores  of 
the class  produced  by  them.  A  notable 
instance  of  this  is  found  at  the Traders’ 
mine,  of  this  place,  a  property  produc­
ing  a  high  silica  ore,  low  in  metallic 
iron  and  phosphorous  and  of  the  class 
now  in  brisk  demand  for  mixing  with 
the  Mesaba  Bessemer  ores.  The  Trad­
ers’  is  under  the  management  of  J.  T. 
Jones,  a  mining  man  and  metallurgist 
of  much  enterprise,  who  nearly  every 
season  manages  to  find  something  valu-

able  about  some  abandoned  mine  or 
rock  burrow.  All-rail  shipments  to  Chi­
cago  during  the  winter  are  anticipated 
and  about  fifty  men  have  been  added  to 
the  force  formerly  worked  there.

Lake  Linden—The  Calumet  &  Hecla 
Mining  Co.  will  begin  the  erection  in 
the  spring  of  the  third  stamp  mill  of 
eleven  stamps.  The  building  will  be 
constructed  of  steel  and  require  two 
years  to  build.  When  completed,  it  will 
give  employment  to  200  additional men. 
Last  fall  the  new boiler  house  was  com­
pleted,  the  stack 
in  connection  being 
252  feet  high  and  i6j£  feet  in  diameter. 
This  improvement  is  made  necessary  to 
stamp  the  rock  which  will  be  hoisted 
from  the  Whiting  vertical  shaft  at  Calu­
met,  which 
is  28  feet  square  and  5,000 
It  contains  four  compart­
feet  deep. 
It  has  already  taken  five  years 
ments. 
to  excavate 
it  and  cost  an  immense 
amount  of  money,  as  well as seven lives. 
The  hoisting  machinery  of  the  Whiting 
shaft  was  made  by  Krupp,  of  Germany. 
Few  people  realize  the  amount of  water 
required  to  run  the  stamp  mill  as  it 
is 
now.  One  pump,  with  a  daily  capacity 
of  60,000,000  gallons,  daily  pumps  from
40.000. 
now,  and  when  the  new  stamp  mill 
is  completed 
it  will  require  the  full 
capacity  of  the  huge  pump  to  supply  it.
Marquette—As  the  shipping  season 
draws  to  a  close  it  becomes  evident  that 
the total  output of  ore  by  the  five  Lake 
Superior  ranges  for  the  calendar  year 
will  be  much  nearer 
10,000,000  than
9.000. 000 tons.  Two to  four weeks  of late 
navigation  remain  and  as  ore  freights 
are  remarkably  low,  considering  the ad­
vanced  season,  shipments  continue  to 
be  heavy.  Although  there  remain  un­
sold  on 
enormous 
quantities  of  Bessemer  ore,  certain 
grades  of  non-Bessemer  ores  are 
in 
quite  brisk demand,  the  supply  on  hand 
at  the  furnaces  and  receiving  ports  be­
ing  plainly  inadequate  to  the  demand 
until  spring.  There  are  a  number  of 
indications  which  lead  to  the belief  that 
all-rail  shipments  will  be  in  order be­
fore  the  opening  of  navigation  next sea­
son,  notwithstanding  the  amount  of  ore 
now  piled  up  and  awaiting  purchasers. 
All-rail  shipments  to  local  furnaces  in 
Northern  Michigan,  Wisconsin 
and 
Minnesota  are  the  rule  every  winter and 
they  will  be  continued  this  winter;  but 
shipments  to Milwaukee,  Chicago,  Joliet 
and  even  as  far  east  as  the  Mahoning 
and  Shenango  Valley  districts  may  be 
necessary  before  spring  raises  the  em­
bargo  on  lake  traffic.  One  thing  is  ab­
solutely  certain—that when business as  a 
whole  really  does  boom  in  this  country 
the  demand  for  iron  and steel  will  be  so 
great  that  the  Lake  Superior  ore  output 
will  be  much  greater  than  is anticipated 
by  all  except  the  longest-headed  and 
best-informed  men  in  the  business. 
If 
the boom  is  to  be  next  spring  furnace- 
men  will  not allow  an  all-rail haul of 300 
to 600  miles  to  stand  between  them  and 
the  filling  of  orders.

lake  docks 

lower 

THE WIERENGO

E.  T. PENNOYER, Manager,

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

HOTEL  BURKE

Q.  R.  &  I.  Eating  House.

CADILLAC,  MICH.

A.11 modern conveniences.

C. BURKE, Prop. 

W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Co.  has  re­
moved  from  20  Scribner  street  to  321 
South  Division  street.

Edgar  S.  Kiefer  succeeds  Kiefer  & 
Fecht  Co.  in  the  wool  pulling  and  hide 
business  on  South  Front  street.

Moseley  Bros,  have  put  in  a  new 

10 
horse  power  motor  for  driving  their 
bean-cleaning  machinery and conveyors.
J.  C.  Sillaway  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at 
105  Page  street.  The  I.  M. 
Clark  Grocery  Co.  furnished  the  stock.
The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
bid 
in  the  Minnie  A.  Watrous  drug 
stock,  at  Newaygo,  at  chattel  mortgage 
sale.

C.  Van  Aarsten  has  opened  a  grocery 
stock  at  the  corner  of  East  Bridge  and 
Union  streets.  The  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The  Grand  Rapids  Packing  and  Pro­
vision  Co.,  which  had  a  prosperous 
career  for about  fifteen  years,  but  which 
has  suffered  severely  by  the  shrinkage 
in  values  during  the  past  year,  has 
closed  out  its  stock  on  hand  and  will re­
tire  from  business  as  soon  as  the  out­
standing  accounts  can  be collected.  The 
retirement  of  this  corporation 
leaves 
Grand  Rapids  without  a  provision 
house—an  opening  which  some  enter­
prising  gentleman  will  probably  under­
take  to  occupy  in  the  near  future.

10  and 

The  Tradesman  heartily  commends 
the  project  of  the  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation  to  curtail  the  hours of business 
still  further by  closing the grocery stores 
at  9:30  o’clock  Saturday  night  and  6:30 
o’clock  the  other  days  of  the  week. 
Many  who  are  now  in  trade  can  recall 
the  time  when  the  stores  were  kept 
open  until 
11  o’clock,  every 
night  in  the  week,  and  while the change 
to  7  o’clock  is  a  long  step  in  the  right 
direction,  the  Tradesman  believes  that 
a  further  shortening  of  the  day  by  half 
an  hour  would  work  to  the  advantage  of 
all  concerned.  At  present  the  conces­
sion 
is  asked  from  Dec.  1  to  May  1 
only,  but  if  it  is  found  to  be  saisfactory 
to  all,  there 
is  every  reason  to  believe 
that 
it  will  be  continued  indefinitely. 
The  tendency  of  the  times  is  toward 
shorter  business  hours  and  the grocers 
are  simply  falling  in  with  the  trend  of 
the times  in  agitating  this matter at this 
time.

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The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  sustained  three 
separate  declines  on  consecutive  days 
last  week.  Wednesday  softs  went  off 
%c,  Thursday  hards  met  a  similar  fate 
and  Friday  softs  set  the  pace  with  a 
downward  movement  of  %c.  The  mar­
ket  is  still  weak  and  lower  prices  are 
looked  for.

Tea—The  market  is  without  material 
change  from  a  week  ago.  The  good 
prices  will  probably  bring  more  teas 
over  from  China  and  Japan  than  would 
otherwise  be  the  case,  but  this  increase 
will  only  slightly  lighten  the  situation. 
No  radical  advances 
in  price  are  ex­
pected,  but  rather  a  gradual  increase 
which  will  probably  aggregate  several 
cents  per  pound.  The  consumptive  de­
mand  for  tea  is  increasing  slowly.
Coffee—Brazil  grades  are  a 

little 
lower  than  a  week  ago  and  the  demand 
has  been  rather  light.  There  seems  to 
have been  no  apparent  reason for the de­
cline.  The  rumor  of  the  purchase  of 
100,000  bags  by  the  Brazilian  govern­

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

5

is  attributed  to  be  the  starting 
ment 
point  of  the  decline,  but its authenticity 
has  been  disproved,  however. 
There 
is,  therefore,  no  change  in  the  situation 
to  occasion  any  fluctuation  in  that  di­
rection.  Mild  coffees  are  very  firm,  es­
pecially  Maracaibos  and  Javas.  Mocha 
is  firm  and  unchanged.

Dried  Fruits—The  supply  of  all  lines 
of  dried  fruit  is  now  practically  equal 
to  the  demand,  except  sundried  apples, 
which  are  scarce.  Peaches  are  in 
fair 
supply,  with  the  price  well  maintained. 
The  business  is  not very heavy,  although 
there 
is  a  good  enquiry  for  the  higher 
grades,  which  are  rather  scarce.  Prunes 
are  selling  fairly.  Currants  are  lower. 
Raisins  are  in  good  demand,  especially 
Sultanas  and  2-crown  loose  Muscatels. 
The  demand 
for 
fancy  clusters  as  the  holiday  trade  be­
gins  to  awaken.  The  price  for  raisins 
has  not  changed.  Three-crown 
loose 
Muscatels are  firmly  held  and  may  ad­
vance  later.

increasing 

is  also 

Provisions—The  market  is  somewhat 
unsettled  under  the  enlarged  manufac­
ture  and  increased  offerings  of  product, 
and  values  at  Chicago  show a  decline 
of  42JÎC  on  pork,  42j^c  per  100  pounds 
on 
lard  and  20c  on  short  rib  sides,  in 
comparison with a  week  ago,  for January 
delivery.  There 
for 
complaint  as  to  current  call  for  meats, 
although  the  larger  supplies  of  poultry 
and  offerings  of  game,  etc.,  have  had 
more  or  less 
influence  in  thé  demand 
in  some  markets.

little  ground 

is 

Salt—A  Saginaw  correspondent  writes 
—The  outlook  for  the  salt  industry  is 
blue  unless  Congress  tacks  on  a  duty. 
Sales  have  been  quite  free but  the  price 
is  so  low—35  cents  for  280  pounds of 
fine  salt  with  a  20  cent  package  thrown 
in—that  many  have  quit  manufactur­
ing.  The  seventeen  salt  wells  at  Mc- 
Graw's  have  been  plugged.  The  block 
of  Tyler  &  Son,  at  Crow  Island,  burned 
Friday  night  and  it  is  not  likely  to  be 
rebuilt.  The  well  is  one  of  the  best  on 
the  River and  furnished  brine  sufficient 
to  manufacture  100  barrels  of  salt a day. 
The  production  in  Saginaw  county  has 
dropped  greatly  this  year,  a  dozen  or 
moie  blocks  being  idle.  The  inspection 
year  ends  November  30,  and  the  prod­
uct  of  the  State  will  be  about  as  large 
as  last  year.  George  W.  Hill,  the pres­
ent  State  Salt  Inspector,  will  be  unan­
imously  recommended  by  the  salt  man­
ufacturers  of  the  State  for  reappoint­
ment.  The  cost  of  the  State  inspection 
is  paid  by  the  manufacturers  them­
selves,  hence  it  has  been  customary  by 
all  of  the  State  executives  heretofore  to 
respect  the  wishes  of  the  manufacturers 
in  the  appointment  of  Inspector. 
is 
believed  that  Governor  Pingree  will 
follow  the  established  precedent.

It 

New  Sugar  Card.

The  Committee  on  Trade  Interests  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  As­
sociation  has  promulgated  a  new  sched­
ule  for  the  sale  of  granulated  sugar,  as 
follows :

5  cents  per  pound.
5  pounds  for  25  cents.
10  pounds  for  50  cents.
20  pounds  for  $1.

Spain’s  vexatious  and  petty  imposi­
tions  upon  American  commerce 
in 
Cuba  are  breeding  trouble  for  the  dons. 
It  looks 
like  a  pity  they  can’t get  the 
drubbing  they  seem  to  be  hankering 
after  so  much.

Now  that  the  smoke  of  the  campaign 
has  cleared  away,  you  will  see  more 
smoke  from  the  S.  C.  W.  You  do  not 
need  silver  or  gold,  but  only  a  nickel  to 
get  the  S.  C.  W.

Purely  Personal.

James  H.  Parks,  the  Eaton  Rapids 
merchant,  has  purchased  the  pacing 
horse,  Lumps,  which  has  a  record  of 
2 :i6.

Robt.  Arnott,  Jr.,  the  genial  Luding- 
ton  grocer,  was  married  Nov.  18 to Miss 
Jennie  Wood,  daughter  of  an  esteemed 
clergyman  of  that  city.  The  happy 
couple received many  valuable  presents.
Geo.  B.  Caulfield,  Secretary  of  the 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company,  surprised 
his  friends  on  Monday  evening  by  mar­
rying  Miss  Ethelyn  M.  La  Valliere, 
who  has  achieved  more  than  a local rep-- 
utation  as  an  elocutionist  and  dramatic 
reader.  The  happy  couple,  who  start 
out  with  the  hearty  congratulations  of 
hosts  of  friends,  have  taken  up  their 
residence  at  507  South  Lafayette  street.
The  vacancy  caused  by  the  resigna­
tion  of  Frank  P.  Mills  as  agent  of  the 
Cleveland-Cliffs  Iron  Co.,  at  Gladstone, 
has  been  filled,  M.  M.  Duncan,  Super­
intendent  of  the  Antrim  Iron  Co.,  of 
Mancelona,  having  been  appointed  to 
the  position.  Mr.  Duncan  will 
take 
charge  of  the business  of  the  company 
at  the  beginning  of  the  new  year.  The 
position  of  agent  of  a  Lake  Superior 
iron  mine  is  practically  that  of  general 
manager and  is  one of great responsibil­
ity.

The  Tradesman  regrets  to  learn  of the 
death  of  John  V.  Crandall,  the  veteran 
Sand  Lake 
lumberman  and  merchant, 
which  occurred  on  Sunday.  Mr.  Cran­
dall  was  a  man  of  strong  parts  and 
made  friends  wherever  he  went.  He 
was  prominent  in  the  work  of  the Mich­
igan  Business  Men’s  Association  and 
enlivened  many  a  banquet  and  social 
gathering  with 
speech  and  repartee. 
He  died  on  the  farm  on  which  he  set­
tled  forty  years  ago.  He  was  respected 
by  his  acquaintances  and  beloved  by  all 
his  friends.  The  Tradesman  extends 
heartfelt  sympathy  to  the 
in 
their great  bereavement.

family 

The  Grain  Market.

less 

exceeded 

Wheat,  as  is  usual  of 

late,  followed 
influences  and  was  not  governed 
home 
much  by  foreign  trade.  While  cables 
have  shown  a  decline  for  several  days 
past,  the  amount  on  passage  has been 
large  and  the  world’s  ship­
extremely 
ments 
9,800,000  bushels. 
Wheat  made  an  advance  of  fully  3c  per 
bushel,  which  was 
fully  warranted. 
First  of  all,  the  visible  showed  a  de­
crease  of  more  than  1,000,000  bushels 
during  the  week,  against  an  increase  of 
1,900,000  bushels 
the  corresponding 
week  last  year.  We  have  now  2,000,000 
bushels 
in  sight  than  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  A  small  decrease  was 
expected,  but  no  one  anticipated  that  it 
would  be  so  large,  and  this is something 
unusual  at  this  time  of  the  year.  A  de­
crease 
is  never  looked  for  until  about 
the  second  week  in  January.  The  re­
ceipts  of  winter  wheat  are  exceedingly 
light, 
the 
high  price  paid,  as  the  difference  be­
tween  winter  and  spring  wheat  is  15c 
per  bushel.  The  Northwestern  receipts 
are  also  decreasing  and  are  about  33^  
per  cent,  less  than  they  were  at  the 
same  time  last  year,  and  they  are  likely 
to  fall  off  still  more.  With  the  present 
conditions 
it  looks  as  though  we  had 
not  seen  the  pinnacle  yet.  We  might 
enumerate  several  more  causes 
for  a 
higher  range  of  values,  but  these are the 
most  potent  ones.

into  consideration 

taking 

Corn,  while 

it  tried  hard  to  follow 
wheat,  remains  practically  the  same  as 
when 
last  reported.  The  same  is  true 
of  oats.  We  can  see  nothing  in  sight  at

present  that  will  change  the  price  of 
either  cereal.  While  the  consumption 
of  both  corn  and  oats  is  large,  the  sup­
ply  is  fully  equal  to  the  demand.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  as 
follows:  Wheat,  49cars;  corn,  12  cars; 
oats,  6  cars.  The  receipts  are  about 
normal.  Millers  are  paying  86c 
for 
wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Answers  to  Correspondents.

M.  D.  Elgin—We  have  always  be­
lieved  that  May  was  the best  month 
in 
the  year  for  those  who are matrimonially 
inclined  and  we  commend  this  month 
to  you,  confident  that  the  fates  will  be 
on  your  side 
in  case  you  conclude  to 
adopt  our  suggestion.

large 

Charley  Remington—Yes,  it  is  a  fact 
that 
fortunes  have  been  made 
through  the  sale  of  patented  remedies 
and  proprietary  articles.  Perhaps  such 
a  fate  awaits  you  in  your  contemplated 
undertaking.

C.  S.  Udell—If  it  is  a  fact  that  your 
daughter’s  contribution 
in  the  last  is­
sue  of  the  Tradesman  embodied  a  bio­
graphical  sketch  of  yourself,  perhaps  it 
would  be  well  for  you  to  take  the  hint 
and  send  her  that  coveted  wheel  with­
out  further  delay.

Samuel  M.  Lemon—We  regret  to  in­
form  you  that  no  one  connected  with 
this  establishment  is  a  candidate for ap­
pointive  office  under  the  next  adminis­
tration. 
If  any  of  our  people  hankered 
after a  job  under  Uncle  Sam,  we  would 
surely  commend  him  to  the  considera­
tion  of  so  merciful  a  mediator  as  we 
know  you  to be.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt—We  believe  it  is  a 
part  of  the  curriculum  of  some business 
men  to  forget  promises  as  soon  as  they 
are  made  and  then  to  make  new  prom­
ises  with  no 
idea  of  recalling  them 
afterward.

Ben.  W.  Putnam—Yes,  raising  pork 
and  poultry  is  hardly  as  dignified  a pro­
fession  as  manufacturing  confectionery, 
but  we  presume  it  pays  about  as  well.

Flour  and  Feed.

Evidence  is  accumulating that foreign 
in­
demand  for breadstuffs  is  likely  to 
crease,  rather  than  decrease, 
for  the 
next  six  months.  The  countries  which 
will  harvest  grain  again  before  we do in 
little  of  old 
America  have  but  very 
stocks  on  hand  and 
it  is  well  known 
that  their  crops  now  growing  have  been 
so  damaged  and  are 
in  so  inferior  a 
condition  that  they  will  be  more  likely 
to  be 
importers  than  exporters.  With 
such  conditions  before  us,  we may quite 
reasonably  expect  that  the  demand  for 
American  flour  will  be  such  as  to  main­
tain  a  higher  level  of  prices  than  have 
yet  been  reached.  While the  movement 
is  likely  to be  steadily  upward,  it  must 
not  be  forgotten  that  the  market  is  like­
ly  to  fluctuate  wildly  at  times,  and  the 
cautious  buyer  should  watch  it  closely. 
The  movement  of  flour  from  the city 
mills  has  been  steady  and  constant  for 
several  weeks  and  the  mills  are  running 
at  full  capacity  with  plenty  of  orders  on 
the  books  and  more  in  sight.

Feed  and  meal  are  steady  and  un­
changed  for  the  week.  Millstuffs  are  in 
fairly  good  demand,  with  prices  well 
maintained. 

W m.  N.  R ow e.

Excessive  tea  drinking  is  assigned  as 
the  chief  cause  of  the  high  rate  of 
in­
sanity in  Onegal, Ireland,  and  the  theory 
would  seem  to  be  strengthened  by  the 
fact  that  there  are  three  female  lunatics 
to  one  male  in  the  asylums.

Ask  about  G illies’  New  York  Spice 

Contest.  Phone  1589. 

J.  P.  Visner.

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

The  Germans  and  Trade  Schools. 

Written for the Tradesman.

The  American  apprenticeship system, 
while  such  a  system  could  be  said  to  be 
in  operation,  was,  naturally,  an  adapta­
tion  of  the  one 
in  use  in  the  mother 
country ;  but  to  meet  the  changed  con­
ditions  on  this  side the  ocean  the  sys­
tem  was  much  modified.  A  most  radi­
cal  change  caused  by  the  New  World 
rush  was  the  shortening  of  the  period 
of  service  from  the ancient  rule of seven 
years  to  less  than  half  that  time,  or 
three  years.  Still  other changes  were  in 
the  direction-  of  the  greater degree  of 
personal  freedom  which  has  always  ob­
tained  in this country.  The condition of 
the  early  British  apprentice  at  that time 
closely  approximated  that  of  actual 
slavery  if  the  pictures  of  the  writers  on 
the subject  are  at  all  accurate.  But  now 
the  reflex  of  American  liberty has raised 
the  Englishman  to  as high  a  plane  of 
personal  freedom  as  that  in  this  country 
and  the  result  on  the  apprenticeship 
system  has  been  considerable.

its  disintegration 

But  there  nave  been  more  serious 
causes  for 
in  both 
countries,  and  indeed throughout the  in­
dustrial  world,  than  modem  rush  or  the 
increase  of  liberty.  One  of  these,  of 
universal  effect,  is  the  application  of 
machinery  in  the  arts  and  another  is the 
operation  of  modern  unionism.  This 
has  been  most  destructive  in  this  coun­
try,  perhaps,  though  its  power  has  been 
seriously  felt 
in  reducing  the  trade 
learners  in  many  countries  of  Europe. 
In  this  country  the  effect,  added  to  the 
introduction  of  machinery,  has  been the 
practical  abolition  of  the  system,  and, 
as  we  have  made  almost  no  provision 
tor  supplying  its  place,  the acquirement 
of  trades  by  the  young  has  almost 
ceased.  Recently  there  have  been  some 
attempts  to  remedy  the loss  by  the  es­
tablishment  of  technical  and  manual 
training  schools 
in  the  largest  cities, 
but  as  yet  these aie but  a  drop  in  the 
bucket.  England  has  also  essayed  to 
supply  the  place  of  the  lessening  trade 
learners,  and  has  carried  the  movement 
farther  than  the  Americans  have done, 
but  England  can  only  be  said  to  have 
commenced  the  work.

But  during  this  time  the  Germans,  in 
their  quiet  way,  have  been  taking  the 
opportunity  thus  left  to  them. 
In  the 
conservatism  of  the  German  character 
there  has  been  less  of  interference  with 
the  ancient  system  of  trade  learning 
either by  the  adoption  of  machinery  or 
the  action  of  trades  unions.  And  yet 
the  interference  has  been  considerable. 
And  this 
interference  they  have  set 
about  promptly  to  remedy.

The  German nation has been criticised 
by  their liberty-loving cousins in Britain 
and  on  this  continent  for  the  contin­
uance  of a  spirit  of  too  great  conserva­
tism  and  submission  to  authority.  The 
paternalism 
in  government,  amounting 
to  a  supervision  of  private affairs  and 
regulation  of  personal  conduct,  which 
would  not  be  tolerated  for a  moment 
in 
this  country,  has  been  said  to  have  re­
duced  the  German  soldier,  and  artisan 
as  well,  to  the  condition  of a  machine. 
The  effectiveness  of  the  military  ma­
chine  was  seen  in  the  results  of  the 
Franco-German  war of  1870.  And  now 
the  results  of  the  industrial machine bid 
fair  to  become  as  manifest  even  on  a 
larger  scale.

When  the  Germans  returned  to  the 
quiet  of  industrial  life  after  the  episode 
with  France,they  did  so  with the knowl­
edge  that the question  of  their  military 
ascendancy  on  the 
continent,  where 
only  it  was  directly  interested,  was  set­

tled.  While  the  military  establishment 
was  kept  up  to  a  sufficient  degree  to 
make  that  ascendancy  assured, it yet  left 
the  nation  comparatively  free  to turn  its 
attention  to  the  development  of  indus­
tries.  This 
it  proceeded  to  do  by  the 
exercise  of  the  same  paternalism  which 
had  contributed  to  make 
its  military 
power  invincible.

Technical 

instruction  had  been  a 
characteristic  of  German  schools 
for 
many  years,  but  after  the  war  the  sys­
tem  was  greatly  enlarged.  Technical 
and  trade schools  were  established  in al­
most  every  city,  and  the  exercise  of 
authority  over  the  pupils  in such schools 
was  much  greater  than  would  be  pos­
sible  in  this  country.  But  the  German 
character took  to  it  kindly  and  the  class 
of  workmen  turned  out  by  these  schools 
are  the  superior  of  any  others.  They 
are  superior  in this,  that,  while the tech­
nical training  is  the  most thorough,there 
is  given  with  it a  broad  and  liberal  ed­
ucation,  usually 
several 
languages.

comprising 

The  development  of  these schools dur­
ing  the  past  twenty  years  has  been 
turning  out  the  most  competent  artisans 
at a  rapidly  increasing  ratio,  and  these 
are  fast  taking  charge  of  the 
industries 
of  the  world.  The  failure  of  the other 
industrial  nations  to  supply  the destruc­
tion  of  the  apprenticeship  system  with 
some other  has proved their opportunity. 
The  degree  in  which  they are taking ad­
vantage  of  it  is  especially  manifest 
in 
the  prosecution  of  all 
industrial  enter­
prises  in  the  newer  colonies  and  the  re­
cently  developing  countries  south  of  us, 
in  Africa  and  other  parts  of  the  Old 
World.  This  they  have  done quietly, 
imperceptibly,  while  the  other 
almost 
nations  were  flattering  themselves 
in 
the  security  of 
industrial  prestige,  as 
England,  or forgetting the need  of  prep­
aration  in  the  rush  of  modern  progress, 
as  this  country. 
is  the  story  of  the 
hare and  the  tortoise.

It 

The  progress  of  this  movement  has 
already  assumed  great  proportions,  but 
we  are  not  yet  hopelessly 
left  in  the 
race.  We  are  the  cousins  of  these 
pioneers  of  technical  education  and  can 
claim  the  same  natural  abilities  which 
have  made  them  so  successful.  They 
are  now  ahead  of  us  in  the  race,  but 
there  is  no  reason  why  we  may  not  yet 
come 
in  close  second,  or even  dispute 
the  first  place,  for  we  have  the  aid  of 
American  inventive  genius  and of wider 
facilities  for  the  application  of  indus­
trial  science.  But  to  do  this,action must 
be  taken  soon.  The  first  work 
is  the 
establishment  of 
the  trade  schools. 
Every  moment 
lost  in  every  important 
town  is  opportunity  irretrievably lost for 
that  town,  for  the  industrial  centers  are 
to  be  the  places  first  entering  upon  this 
form  of  enterprise. 

W.  N.  F.

Otto  Shobert,  a  German  machinist 
who  lives  in  Brooklyn,  is  a  claimant  on 
behalf  of  his  wife  of  a  fortune left by an 
East  Indian  nabob named Paul  Hofman, 
who  died  without  leaving  a  will.  Mrs. 
Shobert 
is  his  niece.  The  fortune  is 
said  to  be  $50,000,000,  but  “ distance 
always  lends  enchantment  to  the  view’ ’ 
of  fortunes  as  well  as  scenery,  and  the 
fortune  will  probably  shrink  in  size  the 
nearer  the  claimant  gets  to  it.

A  fine  wine  and  vinegar  are  made  of 
the  juice  of  pineapples  in  Mexico.  The 
leaf  furnishes  a  fiber  of  extraordinary 
strength  and  fineness,  making 
it even 
more  valuable  than  the  fruit.  The  fiber 
is  made 
into  ropes,  cables,  binding 
twine,  thread,  mats,  bagging,  hammocks 
and  paper.  A  pineapple  rope  three  and 
one-half  inches  thick  can support nearly 
three  tons,  it  is claimed.

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Taste  like  .  . 

They  are  .

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make it to look at.

JU D G E  IT  BY  THE  C A K ES.

Warranted Strictly  Pure, Wholesome and  Delicious.

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PERRY,  MICH.,  U.  S.  A.

MANUFACTURERS OF

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for their produc- 
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*— 

We will be pleased  to  send  samples  for  examination — Express  pre- 

tion, and also In the mannfacture or the goods. 

 
paid — to responsible dealers in any part of the  Union.  Any  portion,  or  _  
_  
all, of these samples may be returned at our expense. 
 
, 
_  

Dealers will consult their own interests by examining these goods. We 
are sending out THREE lineB of these samples, as follows: 

, 

Line No. 1, for Men, Women and Children, consisting of 18 pairs. 
Line No. 2, for Men and Boys onlv, consisting of 12 pairs. 
Line No. 3, for Ladies, Boys and Children, consisting of 12 pairs. 

In ordering samples please to say which line you wish. 
Goods shipped at one»-, and satisfaction guaranteed. 

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i^U U U U U U U U U M U U U U U U f;

Four  Kinds of  Coupon  Books’

Are  manufactured by us and all sold on  the  same  basis,  irrespective  of  size, shape 

or denomination.  Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand Rapids.

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Movements  in  the  Match  Industry. 

From the N. Y. Shipping List.

Many  reports  are 

in  circulation  re­
garding  competition  in  the match trade, 
and 
if  half  of  them  were  true,  the  gro­
cery jobbers  would  be  reaping  consider­
able benefit  from  a  demoralized  match 
industry.  The  industry,  however,  hap­
pens  to  be 
in  a  flourishing  condition, 
while  the  numerous  statements  to  the 
contrary  are  circulated  for  speculative 
effect.  Dividends  continue  to  be  paid 
by  the  leading  corporation,  and  that 
fact 
is  accepted  as  evidence  that  a  fair 
margin  of  profit  is  realized from the sale 
of  matches.  There 
is  a  disposition  in 
some  quarters  to  unsettle  the  market  by 
agitation,  and  to  make 
it  appear  that 
competition  is growing  at  a  rapid  rate. 
At  headquarters  it  will  not be  acknowl­
edged  that  prices  are  being  cut,  but 
complaint  is  made that  unknown  cheap 
brands  have  been  placed  on  the market. 
These  matches  are  inferior 
in  quality, 
and  find  their  principal  outlet through 
peddlers.

Production  has 

increased  somewhat 
during  the  past  few  years,  to  meet  the 
requirements  of  increased  consumption. 
Although  some  foreign  matches  are sold 
under  the  domestic,  the 
imports  are 
in  volume.  During  the  fiscal 
smaller 
year  to  June  30  the  total  value  of 
matches  received  from  abroad amounted 
to $i47»377-9fl.  as  compared  with  $183,- 
614.50  for  the  preceding year.  The tariff 
duty  of  20  per  cent,  has  no  effect,  ap­
parently,  in  limiting  the  imports.  For­
eign  manufacturers  have  cheaper  labor, 
but  lack  the 
improved  machinery  in 
use  by  match  plants  in  this  country. 
The  products  from  abroad  have been 
coming  here  so  many  years  that they 
have gained  a  foothold,  and  this is what 
the  foreign  manufacturers  started  out  to 
accomplish.  Efforts  have  recently been 
made  to  introduce  American  machinery 
abroad  with  the  view  of an  international 
agreement 
in  the  match  trade,  and  we 
believe  negotiations  are  still  in  prog­
ress,  but  with  little  hope of  success.

We  learn  from  leading  jobbers  in  the 
city,  that  the  reports  of  ruinous  compe­
tition  emanate 
in  speculative  circles. 
If  they  have  been  given  any opportunity 
to  take  advantage  of  cut  prices,  the  re­
bate  system nips the  practice  in  the  bud 
and  maintains  a  steady  market.  Like 
other  proprietary  articles  with  a  reputa­
tion,  special  brands  of  matches  are 
called  for  in  all  orders,  and  jobbers  are 
satisfied  to  fill  these  at  a  profit,  without 
using  their 
influence  in  promoting  the 
interests  of  new brands.

Considerable  chaff  finds  its  way 

into 
the  daily  papers  concerning  this 
indus­
try,  because  misleading  statements  are 
made  by  competitors  and  others,  with 
the  view  of  influencing  the  stock  mar­
ket,  and  reflecting  on  experienced  man­
ufacturers.

Em pty
Honey  C an s  . . .

We  have  on  hand  a large number 
of empty  Honey Cans,  packed two 
cans in case, which we  will  sell  at 
very low prices for immediate ship­
ment.

New  York  Biscuit  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Petting  the  People
Side  Lights  on  Advertising.

The  simplest  and  most  effective  way 
of  writing  an  advertisement  is  to  write 
what a  good  salesman  would  say.

*  *  *

in  business  but 
in  business  that  make  suc­
in  advertising 

It  is  not  the  capital 

the  brains 
cess.  Without  brains 
capital  will  soon  vanish.
*  *  *

A  merchant  puts  bis  money  in  a  safe, 
and  it  stays  there  until  he  goes  after  it. 
He  puts 
it  in  an  advertisement  and  it 
multiplies  and  comes  back  to him.

*  *  *

A  smart 

looking  delivery  wagon, 
drawn  by  a  good  horse,  can scarcely fail 
to  secure  a  retail  merchant  a  consider­
able  amount  of  respectful consideration. 

*  *  *

If  you  need  any  article  whatever, 
from  soap  up  to  a  sealskin  coat,  your 
mind  instantly  associates  with  the  thing 
desired  the  name  of  the  firm  which  has 
advertised  such  goods.  That 
is  the 
beauty  of  persistent  and  prominent  ad­
vertising—it 
identifies  the  merchant 
with  his  merchandise.

*  *  *

There 

is  not  much  use  in  having  a 
trade-mark  and  talking  about  it  unless 
you  show  it,  and  show  it plainly and un­
mistakably,  every  time. 
It  wants  to  be 
branded  into  the  reader’s  eye  by  repe­
tition,  and  the  plainer,  stronger  and 
oftener  you  can  do  it,  the better.  It need 
not be  monotonous,  either.

*  *  *

In  hard  times  the  advertisements  of 
sharp  merchants  contain  many  great 
bargains.  The  failures  of  unsuccessful 
firms  give  stronger ones  chances  to  buy 
goods  cheap  and  sell  them  under the 
usual  price.  Some  people’s  misfortunes
are  other  people’s  opportunities.

*  *  *

I  will  not  attempt  to  discuss  the  rel­
ative  value  of  weeklies,  monthlies  and 
dailies,  but  I  do  not  hesitate  to  say  that 
the  policy  of  a  general  advertiser should 
turn,  in  no  small  degree,  upon  whether 
or  not  he  believes  that  one  thousand 
circulation  among  one  class  of  persons 
is  just  about  as  good  as  one  thousand 
circulation  among  another class  of  per­
sons,  both  classes  being  within  the  lim­
its  of  ignorance  and  highest knowledge, 
and  the  mediums  going  to  persons  of 
reasonable  buying  power.

*  *  *

A  paper  in  a  lively  town  may get  out 
what 
is  called  a  "souvenir  edition,”  
in  which  the  biography  of  everybody 
who  has  helped  to  make  the  town  is 
written,  and  his  face  pictured,  and  in 
which  the  various  businesses  there  are 
described.  But,  well  as  it  is  to  do  this, 
and  to  send  a  few  copies  of  it  to distant 
parts  of  the  country,  its 
influence  is 
It  is  only  a  some­
mainly  momentary. 
what  magnified  and  illuminated  edition 
of  a  weekly  or daily  paper,  and  no  sin­
gle  copy  of  any  paper’s  issue  abides 
long.

*  *  *

The average advertised  article  is  not 
apt  to  be anything the average advertise­
ment  reader  would  have  any  possible 
use  for  just  at  the  time  he is reading the 
advertisement.  Therefore,  the art  is  to 
impress  the  name  and  use of  the  adver­
tised  article  upon  his  mind  when  he 
doesn’t  want  it,  so  that  he  remembers  it 
when  he does  want  it,  or wants anything 
in  the  same  line.

*  *  *

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

®  Returning 
Prosperity

may not strike us all in a lump, 
but it's coming,  su-e as Christ­
mas, and we'll all feel the good 
effects in a short time.
If you’ve putoff buying shoes, 
come now.  Assortments  were 
never  better  and  prices  never 
more favorable—and  you  must 
have shoes.

® ® ® @ ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® ® @ ® ® ® ® ® ® ®

Be  Sure 
You’re  Right 
On  Footwear...

There’s  lots  of  trick«  in  the 
trade, and they’re practiced more 
than you think, but not  here.
This  store  makes  you  sure 
you're  right.  This  store guaran­
tees  you  a  safe  Investment  of 
every  dollar  you  put  into  the 
shoes  we  sell  you.  It  is a good 
shoe  store,  full  of good shoes, at 
prices that worry our competitors 
out of their sleep.

Hard  Times 
Hade  Easy

By buying your  h lrd ware  of me. 
No  matter  what  article  you may 
want, you ran save money bvbuy­
ing  it  here  This  season  of  the 
year you will be

Looking for ■  Stove.
I hive several of the most reliable 
makes at rea-onable prices 
I am 
not tied to any one make, so I can 
suit you in some of them.  1 have 
some  bargains  in  second-hand 
coal stoves  I  will  trade  for  your 
wood  stove  if  you  want  to burn 
coal.  Everything  in  the  hard­
ware  line  going  at  prices to suit 
the  times.  Come  and  see  my 
goods before you buy.

That  Tired  Feeling

is always in  evidence  when  you’ve 
made a bad bargain.  Especially is 
this true in CLOTHING.  No other 
article will  show  its  poorness as  a 
Suit or  Overcoat  that  is  of  unreli­
able manufacture and material.
You run no risk in coming direct 
to  us  for  your  wearing  apparel. 
We carry nothing  but  what  is  first 
class and up to date and our prices 
are as low as those quoted  on  infe­
rior goods by other dealers.
We wish to call your  attention to 
our OVERCOATS  at  $10.  They’re 
alt wool Beavers and Kerseys, made 
up in  elegant style, with first-class 
linings  and  trimmihgs,  and  are 
equal,  if not superior,  to  any coat 
you'll  find  elsewhere  at  $12. 
It 
costs you nothing to make the com­
parison and  find  out  for  yourself. 
That's what we want you to  do.

In  Buying 
Groceries..

In  Point
of Quality

The  Lowest 
Prices..........

The first thing you should de­
cide upon is, “ where would  I 
be the most apt to get the best 
quality of goods?’’  When you 
have  determined  this  point, 
the  next question  is,  “where 
can I get  ine  lowest  prices?’’

Anyone  who  is  at  all  posted 
will tell you that  Hunt  keeps 
the  best, freshest goods that it 
is possible  to  get.  Every  ar­
ticle  is  warranted  to  be  ex­
actly  as  represented and can 
be returned if it  1b  not  satis­
factory.

He  will  not  allow  anyone to 
undersell him on  any article, 
and yon are always  sure  that 
if you trade  at  his  store  you 
are getting your goods  at  the 
lowest possible prices.

7

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1897.

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in  addition  to  the  news  of  the  week.

It  can  usually  be  subscribed  for  with 
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it 

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much  matter  as  the  Weekly.
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of  a  family,  has  now  been  recognized 
by  the  Semi-Weekly  Tribune 
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If 
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matter  will  incline  many  to  seek  in  less 
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paper.  It  is  printed  on  superfine  paper, 
and 
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new  value  to  bound  volumes  and  make 
each  copy  valuable  long  after  the  date 
of  publication.

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Published at the New Blodgett Building, 

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ADVERTISING  RATES  ON  APPLICATION.

Communications invited from practical business 
men.  Correspondents  must  give  their  full 
names and addresses, not  necessarily  for pub­
lication, but as a guarantee of good  faith. 
Subscribers  may  have  the  mailing  address of 
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say  that  you  saw  the  advertisement  in  the 
Michigan Tradesman.

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

WEDNESDAY,----- NOVEMBER 25,1896.

GENERAL  TRADE  CONDITIONS.
Notwithstanding  the  speculative  re­
action  of  last  week,  the  aggregate of  the 
trade  movement  continues  in  the  right 
direction.  According  to  the  reports  at 
the  end  of the  week  the number of estab­
lishments  resuming  operations exceeded 
3qo  and  over  300  had  increased  their 
working  force.  While  the  reactionary 
tendency  of  the  week caused disappoint­
ment  as  to  the  volume  of  the  increase 
in  trade,  there  was  no  decrease  and 
most  lines  tended  to  increase.  Some  of 
the  reactions  in  demand  were  the  result 
of  advancing  prices,  in  the  same  or 
controlling  lines,  as  that  of  orders  for 
shoes  by  the  advance  in  hides.  At  the 
close  of  last  week  the  reaction  seemed 
to  be  over,  as  wheat  began  to  advance 
on  Saturday,  and  the  general  upward 
movement  seems  to  have  been  resumed 
this  week.

In  the  reaction  of 

last  week  wheat 
declined  3 ^   cents 
in  New  York  and 
probably  a  little  more  than  that  in  Chi­
cago.  The  rapidity  of  the  increase  in 
price  naturally  checked  the  export  de­
mand,  hence  the  break  in  price,  which 
was  the opportunity  of  the  speculators. 
Corn  and  other  grains  shared  in  the 
reactionary  tendency,  though  changes 
in  price  were  small.  The  last  of  the 
week  saw  the  movement  forward  again, 
wheat,  of  course,  taking  the  lead.

The  tendency  in  the  iron  market  has 
been  toward  better  demand  and 
im­
provement in prices,  but  the  situation  is 
greatly  complicated  by  the  combina­
tions. 
The  scales  these  have  been 
striving to  maintain  are higher  than  the 
market  has  warranted  and  dealers  have 
sold  below  them,  resulting  in  an  appar­
ent  reduction  in  some  lines.  There  has 
also  been  some  reaction  fiom  the  spec­
ulative  buying  attending  the  result  of 
the  election.

Wool  continues  strong.  Cotton,  which 
had  advanced  above  8c  to  a  price  suffi­
cient  to  check  export  demand,  has  de­
clined  nearly  half  a  cent  and  is  moving 
rapidly  again.  Lumber  still  continues 
its  upward  movement.

in  all 

Exports 

lines  continue  to  in­
crease 
in  volume,  those  for  the  week 
exceeding  those of  any  preceding  week 
Imports  for  the 
since  October,  1890. 
same  week  were 
17  per  cent,  smaller 
than  for  the  corresponding  week  last 
year.  Thus  the 
increase  of  the  trade 
balance  in  our  favor  is  unabated

The general  increase  in  the  volume of

business 
is  making“ itself  felt  in  the 
bank  clearings  reported  for  the  country 
—$1,236,000,000. 
the 
unusually  large  total  for  last  week  by  4 
per  cent.  Failures  have been  50  more 
than  for  preceding  week,  or  308.
WHEAT  GOING  SOUTH.

This  exceeds 

A  significant  feature  of  the  unusually 
large  export  movement,  especially  of 
wheat,  is  that  it  does  not  unduly  crowd 
the  facilities  for  storing  and  handling 
in  New  York.  Of  course,  everything is 
full  and  space  for  storage  and  for  ship 
room 
is  engaged  far  ahead ;  but  ordi­
narily  such  an  increase  in  the  volume 
of  export  would  have  taxed  the  re­
sources  of  the  Knickerbocker  to  the 
utmost,  for  their  facilities  are  gauged 
to  the  comparatively  small  export  that 
has  prevailed  for  a  number  of  years 
past.

The  reason  why  they  have  met  the 
emergency  so  easily  is  that  the  greater 
portion  of  the  increased  trade  has  been 
through  other  ports.  The  movement 
from  the  Pacific  coast  cities  has  been 
unprecedently  large  and  there  has  been 
a  great increase  in  the  trade  of  the  Gulf 
and  more  southerly  Atlantic  cities. 
These  are  more  natural  directions  for 
the  cereal  to  take,  but  heretofore  it  has 
followed  its  accustomed  channel  by  the 
longest  way  out  of  the  country.  The 
change  in  the  present  movement  is  the 
result  of  various  causes,  such  as  the  im­
provement  of  the  Gulf  harbors, 
in­
creased  and  more  modern  facilities  for 
handling  grain  and  lower  rates  on  the 
railway 
interested.  New  York 
still  uses  the  antiquated  system  of light­
erage,  necessitating  a  double  transfer  of 
the grain,  while  Baltimore  and  the Gulf 
cities  load  directly  from  elevators,  a 
matter  of  no  small  importance  in  the 
direction  of economy.  Still  another  ad­
vantage  is  the  operation  of  the  English 
rule  allowing  deeper  lading  of  ships  on 
the  southern  routes  on  account  of  the 
Noith  Atlantic  storms.

lines 

Taking 

into  consideration  all  these 
advantages  for  the  southern  movement, 
the  wonder  would  seem  to  be  that  so 
much  of  the  movement  still  continues 
in  the  old  direction.  This  is  sufficiently 
accounted  for  in  the  fact  that  New York 
is  the  long-accustomed  inlet  for  the  im­
port  trade  brought  by  the  returning  ves­
sels.  But  this,  also,  is beginning  to  in­
crease  at  the  southern  ports.

That  New  York  will  lose  her  prestige 
as  the  great  port  of  the  country  is a con­
tingency  undoubtedly  remote  but  this 
change  of  trade  into  channels  naturally 
so  much  better adapted  to  it  is,  to  say 
the  least,  a  matter  of  significance.

It  is  significant  that  in  taking  up  the 
business  of  the  failed  millionaire  de­
partment  store  of  New  York,  Hilton, 
Hughes  &  Co.,  John Wanamaker  begins 
his  advertising  as  “ Successor  to  A. 
T.  Stewart  &  Co.”   The  career  of  the
failed  concern  is  a  forcible 
illustration 
of  the  appreciation  of  the  value  of  the 
advertising  of  a  long-established  and 
widely-known  enterprise.  As  compared 
with  the original  house,  the  later  names 
are  not  considered  worthy  of  notice  by 
the  present  advertiser,  although  many 
thousands  were  spent  annually 
for  a 
long  time  in  making  them  known.  The 
original  name,  A.  T.  Stewart  &  Co.,  is 
considered  of  such  value  that  it  will 
likely  be  used  for  many  years,  yet  the 
original  successors  of  the firm seemed  to 
think  nothing  of  dropping 
it  for  the 
sake  of  seeing  their  own  given  promi­
nence.  The  name  of  the  original  con­
cern  would  have  been  of  great  value 
if 
it  could  have  been  continued.

THE  PROBLEM  OF  IRRIGATION.
The  United  States  Supreme  Court has 
rendered  a  decision 
in  which  a  large 
portion  of  the  country  is  deeply  inter­
ested.  The  Court  affirmed  the  consti­
irrigation 
tutionality  of  the  California 
law,  which  had  been  attacked 
in  the 
Federal  courts.  There  were  two  cases 
involving  the  constitutionality  of  the 
law  before  the  final  tribunal,  and  the 
decision  covers  both,  as they  were  iden­
in  character.  One  of  the  cases 
tical 
was  an  appeal 
from  a  decision  of  the 
California  Supreme  Court,  affirming  the 
constitutionality  of  the  law,  while  the 
other  was  an  appeal  from  a  decision  of 
the  United  States  Circuit  Court,  declar­
ing  the  California  law  to  be  uncon­
stitutional.

The  constitutionality  of  the California 
act  was  tested  in  the  Federal  court  by  a 
property-holder  who 
is  an  alien,  the 
claim  being  that  it  was  contiary  to  the 
Federal constitution to  alienate  property 
for  private  use,  or  to  permit  the  use  of 
water  from  the  streams  for  private  pur­
poses.  The  Supreme  Court  reversed  the 
decision  of  the  Circuit  Court,  and  at 
the  same  time  affirmed  the  ruling  of  the 
State  Court,  holding  that  the  use  of  the 
water  for  the  irrigation  of  large  tracts 
of  arid 
lands  was  using  it  for  public 
purposes  and  conferring  a  public  ben­
efit  besides.  The  Court  decided  that 
the  California  Legislature  was  compe­
tent  to  legislate  on  the  subject,  and that 
the  act  was  constitutional  and  binding.
Several  states  have  adopted  irrigation 
laws  based  upon  the  same  general  lines 
as  those  of  California,  hence  very  great 
interest  attaches  to  the  ruling  of  the Su­
preme  Court  in  the  matter.  There  are 
vast  tracts  of  arid  land  in  the  Western 
States  which  are  susceptible  of  a  high 
if  properly  irri­
degree  of  cultivation 
gated.  To 
irrigate  these  waste  lands 
has  long  been  a  great  public  problem 
with  the  states  interested.  Hence,  now 
that  means  have  been  found  of  accom­
plishing  the  great  work,  and  laws  cov­
ering  the  case  have  been  passed, 
it 
would  have  been  a  severe  disappoint­
ment  and  hardship  had  such efforts been 
neutralized  by  an  unfavorable  decision 
of  the  tribunal  of  last  resort.  The  de­
cision  of  the  Supreme  Court,  however, 
settles  the  question  permanently,  and 
makes  it clear  that  states  have  the  right 
to  provide  for  the 
irrigation  of  their 
waste 
lands,  to  levy  taxes  for  the  pur­
pose,  and  to  utilize  water  in  the  public 
streams.

AN  UNJUST  JUDGE  REBUKED.
A  notable  case  of  tyranny  and 

inso­
lence  on  the  bench  appears  to  have 
been  popularly  and  emphatically  re­
buked  out  in  the  Sacramento,  Califor­
nia,  judicial  district  in  the  recent  elec­
tion,  and  the  Sacramento  Evening  Bee 
is  laughing  best  because 
laughing  last 
over  a  foe  against  whom  it  has  been 
biding  its  time  for  more  than  a  year.

Too  many  of  our  judges are  disposed 
to  abuse  the  power  to  punish  for  con­
tempt  and  it  seems  that  one of  that  cat­
egory  was  on  the  bench  in  Sacramento. 
In  a  case  whose testimony  was  reported 
by  the  Bee,  the  judge  desired  to  shield 
an  attorney  against  whom  damaging 
evidence  was  taken.  Upon  the  publi­
cation  of  the  testimony  in  full  in  the 
Bee,  the  judge  characterized  that  por­
tion  relating  to  the attorney  as  “ a  gross 
fabrication”   by  the  reporter.  The  Bee 
sustained  the  reporter  and  declared  the 
judge  had  not  told  the truth  in  charg­
ing  a  fabrication.  The  editor  of  the 
paper  was  cited  before  the  court,  the 
judge,  became  prosecutor and  jury and

It 

fined  the  editor  $500. 
In  the  recent 
election  the  Bee  opened 
its  batteries 
and  kept  this  case  before  the  people 
and  they  repudiated  the  unjust judge  by 
a  large  majority.

authority  play 

The people are always, and  justly,quick 
to  uphold  the  dignity  of  the  courts,  but 
they  will  not 
indorse  arbitrary  and 
tyrannous  conduct  on  the  part  of  the 
in  a 
judges.  Too  often  men  dressed 
little  brief 
fantastic 
tricks  and  browbeat  and  abuse  their 
fellow  men  simply  because  the  mean 
spirit  and  opportunity  have  met,  but 
in 
inevitably  such  a  course  results 
arousing  popular  contempt  or 
indigna­
tion  and  ultimate  humiliation  for  the 
petty  tyrant. 
is  gratifying  to  know 
that  such  cases  are  exceptions,  how­
ever,  to  the  rule.  The  majority,  pos­
sibly,  of  the  members  of  the  American 
judiciary  are  men  who  have  a  proper 
appreciation  of  the  dignity  and  de­
mands  of  their  position  and  fully  rec­
ognize,  at  the  same  time,  the  rights  of 
the  public,  including  freedom  of speech 
and 
immunity  and  propriety  of  honest 
and  decent  criticism  cf  public  officials.
It  will  be  a  great  day  for  the  Ameri­
can  people  when  the  freedom  of  criti- 
icsm  and  publication  by  the  press is en­
larged  still  further. 
If  legislatures  and 
courts  would  take  the  bridle  off  the 
press,  public  office  would  soon  become 
in  reality  a  public  trust.  Punish  the 
press  only  for  malicious  mis-statements 
and 
let  the  truth  be  a  justification  in 
every  case  where  no  malice  is displayed 
or evil  purpose  disclosed.

REFORMS  CAN  WAIT.

It 

Although,  as  a  result  of  the  recent 
election,  the  country  has  declared  un­
equivocally  in  favor  of  sound  money,  it 
must  not  be  supposed  that  all  the  finan­
cial  ills  from  which  the  nation  suffered 
are  at  an  end. 
is  true  that  the ac­
cumulation  of  silver  bullion  has  been 
stopped  by  the  repeal  of  the  Sherman 
law,  but the  problem  involved  in the ex­
istence  of  the  legal  tender  treasury notes 
and  in the menace they  create  to the gold 
supply  remains  unsolved,  while 
the 
matter  of  providing  adequate  revenue 
for  the  maintenance  of  the  Government 
is  still  a  burning  question.

These  are  problems  which  will  not be 
solved  in  a  day,  and  it  is  even  doubtful 
if  the  coming  Congress  elected  at  the 
recent  election  will  be  able  to  dispose 
of  them. 
is  equally  true  that  the 
country  will  not have fully emerged from 
its  financial  difficulties  until  these ques­
tions  are  disposed  of.  Granting  all  this, 
however,  the  business  world  may  still 
view  these  matters  with  complacency, 
now  that  it  is  convinced  that  the  sturdy 
common  sense  of  the  American  people 
can  be depended  upon to take the proper 
view  of 
financial  problems  and  to 
promptly  dispose  of  unhealthy  and  un­
sound  propagandisms.

It 

Never  was  the  country  in  better  posi­
tion  to  await  with  complacency  a  delib­
erate  settlement  of  these  very  important 
questions.  The  recent  vast 
importa­
tions  of  gold  have  so  fortified  our  gold 
reserve  that  there  is  no  early prospect of 
further  bond  issues  to  meet  the  drains 
permitted  by  the 
legal  tender  notes. 
Moreover,  the  necessities  of Europe will 
compel  her  for a  long  time  to  come  to 
buy  more  heavily  of  us  than  we  are 
likely  to  buy  of  her,  thus  maintaining 
a  balance  in  our  favor  and  turning  the 
flow  of  gold 
in  this  direction  rathei 
than  the  other  way.  With  good  crops 
and  reviving  business,  it  is  likely  that 
the  revenue  of  the  Government  will also 
improve,  and  that,  as  a  result,  a  delay 
in  revising  the  tariff  will  not be serious­
ly  felt

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

9

LABOR  AS  A  MORAL  AGENT.
Every  person  who thinks and observes 
knows  that  there  would  be  without  la­
bor no  civilization—no  progress,  no  in­
vention  or discovery—nothing  good,  in­
deed,  in  material  life ;  but  it  is  not  so 
generally  known  that  work 
is  also  a 
great  moral  agent.

The  races  of  people  which perform  no 
regular  and  systematic  labor  are  simply 
savages.  They  live  in  idleness,  except 
when engaged  in  war  or hunting.  They 
have  no  agriculture  and  they-store  up no 
stock  of  provisions  for  the  winter,  or  to 
be  used  in  bad  weather.  They  live  each 
day  without  regard  to  the  next,  and,  in 
consequence,  they  suffer  extremes  of 
privations  and  often  lack  almost  every 
necessary  of  life ;  yet  these  peoples  are 
so  averse  to  any  sort of  regular and  use­
ful labor  that  they will suffer before  they 
will  undertake  it.  They  prefer  to  live 
in  a  state  of  absolute  idleness,  except 
when  their  violent  passions  and  the  ne­
cessities  of  existence 
impel  them  to 
some  spasmodic  action.

It 

It  has  been  said  that an  idle  brain 

is 
the devil’s  workshop. 
is  true  that 
persons  who  are  by  preference  persis­
tently  idle  are  pretty  sure to be addicted 
to  vice  and  crime.  All  persons  possess 
certain  degrees  of  vital  energy  which 
must  be  worked  off  in  some  sort  of  ac­
tion,and  which, if  not  employed  in good 
and  useful  exertion,  will  be  exerted  for 
evil  purposes.

in  useful 

When  a  man’s  physical  forces  are 
consumed 
labor,  he  has  no 
dispositoin  to  engage  in  displays of vio­
lent  passion. 
In  the  course  of centuries 
of  the  civilizing  and  subduing  power  of 
work,  society  has  come  to  be what  it  is. 
Savage  nations  are  constantly  engaged 
in  warfare.  Perpetual  strife  is  the  chief 
feature  in  the  life  of  all  primitive  peo­
ples. 
In  the  middle  ages,  in  Europe, 
violence  and  rapine  were  the  rule,  and 
almost  within  a  century  past, in Europe, 
it  was  the  custom  of  every  man  to  wear 
a  sword  or other  weapon  on  stirring  out 
of  his  house.

The  peaceableness  of  the  people  in 
all  civilized countries  at  the  present  day 
is  the  result,  to  a  large  extent,  of  the 
regular  and  constant  employment  of  the 
great  masses  of  the  population  in  sys­
tematic  work. 
It  is  not  always  the  case 
that  the  men  who  desire  to  be  regularly 
employed  can  find  congenial  employ­
ment;  but  it  is  often  the  case  that  men 
who are  out of  employment  are  not will­
ing  to  work  steadily,  but are  given  to 
changing 
occupation. 
Some  statistics,  quoted  by  William 
Ferrero 
in  the  November  Forum,  pre­
sent  some  instructive  lessons  of  the  re­
lation  between  work  and  morals.

location 

and 

A  work  on  the  economic  conditions 
in  their  relation  to  crime  in  the  United 
States,  by  William  Wright,  shows  that, 
of  4,340  convicts  at  one  time  in  Massa­
chusetts,  2,991,  or 68  per cent.,  were  re­
turned as having nooccupation. Theadult 
convicts  numbered  at  that  time  3,971; 
of  these,  464 were illiterate,  and  the war­
den  of  the  State  Prison  for  the  year  in 
question  stated  that,  of  220  men  sen­
tenced  during  that year,  147  were  with­
out  a  trade  or  any  regular  means  of 
earning  a  living.  In  Pennsylvania,  dur­
ing  a  recent  year,  nearly  88  per cent,  of 
the  penitentiary convicts  had never been 
apprenticed  to  any  trade  or occupation ; 
and  this  was  true  also  of 68/4  per  cent, 
of  the  convicts  sentenced  to  county  jails 
and  work-houses  in  the  same State,  dur­
ing  the  same  year.  Further,  in  Mr. 
Frederic  Wines’  recent  report  on  homi­
cide 
in  the  United  States  in  1890,  it  is 
shown  that,  of 6,958 men,  5,175,  or more

than  74  per  cent,  of  the  whole,  were 
said  to  have  no  trade.  Sichart,  a  Ger­
man  savant,  found  among,  3,181  prison­
ers,  1,347  (42.3  per  cent.)  who  hated 
work  and  who  were  classed  as  follows: 
Of  1848  thieves,  961,  or  52  per  cent., 
hated work ;  of  381  swindlers,  172,  or  45 
per  cent.,  hated  work;  of  155 
incendi­
aries,  48,  or  31  percent.,  hated  work; 
of  542  sexual  criminals,  145,  or  26  per 
cent.,  hated  work;  of  255  perjurers,  21, 
or 8.2  per  cent.,  hated  work.

Mr.  Ferrero  holds,  with  good  reason, 
that  capacity  for  methodical  work  is, 
in  short,  the  very  essence  of  morality, 
the  quality  upon  which  all  others  de­
pend.  Those  who  do  not  possess  it  may 
be  able  to  partially  make up for this de­
fect  by  brilliant  intellectual  qualities, 
but  they  will  always  remain  fundamen­
tally  imperfect  individuals;  those  who 
possess  this  quality  and  do  not endeavor 
to  develop  it  by  practice are dissipating 
the  most  precious  treasure  with  which 
Nature  could  endow  them.

There 

influences 

is  no  more  effective 

relief 
from  a  great  personal  grief  or  anxiety 
than  to  spend  one’s  time  in  constam 
and  useful  labor.  The  Hindoo  philoso­
phers  and  religious  fakirs  teach  that 
the best  means  of  relief  from  such  de­
pressing 
is  to  live  a  life  of 
retirement,  idleness  and  contemplation. 
Sucha  course  may  suit  the  peculiarities 
of  the  Oriental  character,  but 
is 
wholly  out  of  place  among  the  active 
and  restless  Western  races.  As 
the 
writer quoted  well  remarks : 
"T h e   ca­
pacity  for  methodical  work  is  the  in­
heritance  which  a  father  ought  most  es­
pecially  to  desire  to  transmit  to  his 
children  and  to  see  increased  by  a  wise 
education;  because 
is  the  magic 
shield  behind  which  a  man  can  defend 
himself  in  the  most  terrible  adversities 
of  life ."

it 

it 

it 

in 

live 

that, 

idleness 

is  certain 

However  it  might  be  with  the  Orien­
in  Western 
tals, 
Europe  and  the  United  States,  if  men 
were  to 
in  order  to 
meditate  more  freely  upon  the  moral 
aims  of  life,  they  would  at 
last  grow 
weary  of  this  meditation  and  would  be­
come  irritable,  impulsive,  easily  roused 
to  violence;  the  amount  of  mental  equi­
librium  that  exists  in  the  character  of 
civilized  man  would  be  lost,  to  make 
room  for  the  continual  want  of  balance 
noticeable  in  the  savage  and  barbarian 
character;  for  it  is  only  in  very  strong 
and  lofty  minds  that  such  elevated  and 
abstract  meditation  as  that  upon  the 
moral  aims  of  life  could  possibly  main­
tain  the  equilibrium  of  character,  just 
as  the  mechanical  exercise  of  method­
ical  work  does  nowadays  for all  men  in 
our society.

Without systematic  and  constant  labor 
for  the  production  of  useful  articles, 
and  for  the  development  of  natural  re­
sources  and 
the  control  of  physical 
forces,  the  human  race  would  in  time 
relapse  into  ferocious  and  blood-thirsty 
barbarism.

If  the  coffee  planters  of  Brazil  do  not 
exactly  want  the  earth  they  at least want 
a  good  slice  of  it  if  the  proceedings  of 
a  recent  congress  held  in  Sao  Paulo  be 
any  criterion. 
It  was  proposed  thereat 
that the  state  should  found  a  bank,  with 
funds  to  be  raised  by  a  foreign  loan  of 
^10,000,000,  the  bank  to  advance  loans 
on  the  growing  crop,taking  10  per  cent, 
interest.  Of  course,  the  coffee  had  to  be 
predicated  at  a  certain  price perarroba, 
but 
if  the  present  state  of  the  market 
for  the  bean  be  any  criterion  there  is 
little  likelihood  of any foreigner advanc­
ing  the  wherewithal  to  found  the  bank.

A  SAMPLE  OF  NERVE.

“ I ’ll  tell  you 

just  how 

’twas,  Mr. 

Barnum.  You  see—"

“ One  moment,  Forney. 

If  I  didn't 
know  about  how 
it  was  without  your 
telling  me,  I  wouldn’t  be  fit  to  hold  the 
position  I  do.  You  were 
in  charge  of 
switch  tower 
‘ 77,’  just  this  side  of  the 
Sempiola  Bridge,  last  night.  You  were 
ordered  to  run  west-bound  freight  ’82’ 
onto  the  construction  spur,  and  let  the 
fast  mail  through.  While  the  switch 
was  open  a  walking  delegate  came  up 
into  the  tower  and  commenced  talking 
politics  to  you. 
Something  he  said 
made  you  forget  for  just  two  minutes  to 
clear  the  main  line,  and  the  mail  was 
on  top  of  you  before  the  levers  could  be 
reversed.  Seeing  that  the  engineer  was 
running  by  the 
signal,  you 
landed  at  the  foot  of  the  stairs  in  one 
jump,  grabbed  a  red  lantern  which hap­
pened  to  be  lighted,  and  succeeded 
in 
stopping  him  before  the  trains  came 
together—though  the  engine  was  within 
four  feet  of  the  freight  caboose—after 
which  the  mail  backed  down  and  pro­
ceeded  on  the  main  line  as  soon  as  you 
cleared  it.  Am  I  right?"

‘ home’ 

“ Yes,  sir,  that’s  just  how  ’twas—but 
you  see  there  wa’n't  no  real  harm  done. 
The  mail  was  ten  minutes  late,  but  I 
guess  Jefferson  made  that  up  before  he 
struck  Pittsburgh."

“ No,  he  didn’t!  He  missed  connec­
tions  at  Perryville  Junction,  and  the 
despatcher  had  to  keep  him  on  orders 
all  along  the  line—he  was  over an  hour 
late  getting  in! 
’ 49’  and  ‘ 65’  were run­
ning  in  two  sections  each,  on  account 
of  the  convention,  and  you  kept my hair 
standing  on  end  for six  hours,  expect­
ing  every  minute  to  hear  from  that 
in  a  smash  up.  But  the 
cussed  mail 
loss  of  time 
is  the  smallest  part  of  it, 
Forney.  That  delegate  had  no  business 
in  the  tower—you  disobeyed  orders  in 
speaking  to  him—and  you  must  have 
known—it  was  your business  to  know— 
that  the  red  glass  was  broken  out  of that 
‘ home’  signal,so  that  it  showed  a  white 
If  Jefferson  hadn’t 
light,  running  west. 
slowed  up  at  the 
‘ distant,’  saltpeter 
wouldn’t  have  saved  him from smashing 
into  that  freight  caboose—he  said  the 
weather  was  so  thick  he  couldn’t  see 
the  semaphore  arm  in  the  dark,  until he 
was  right  under  it,  and  a  second  later 
he  caught  sight  of  >our  lantern.  Now 
you  know  it’s  dead  against  the  rules  to 
talk  with  any  one while  you’re  on  duty. 
How  did  it  happen?”

I 

“ Why,  Mr.  Barnum,  I  didn’t  mean 
to  at  first,  but  when  that  jay  said  if  I 
voted for Bryan  I ’d get sixteen silver dol­
lars for  every  paper  dollar,  and wouldn’t 
have  tc  work  as  hard  as  I  do  now,  I
asked  him  did  he  think  I  was  a  d-----d
fool!  Then  he  sez: 
‘ No, ’  sez  he ;  ‘ I 
thinks  you’re  a  down-trodden  workin' 
man what the  corporations  is  a-grindin' 
an’  oppressin’. 
thinks  you  ain’t 
makin’  enough  to  buy  bread  for  your 
fambly,  an’  that  you  could  get  all  the 
money  you  want  by  jest  votin’  to  down 
the  m’ nop’lists  an’ 
they 
speckylates  with,  an’  I  thinks  you’ll  be
a  d-----d 
if  you  don’t  do  it !’
Then  I  makes  a  jump  from  where  I  was 
standin, ’  by  the  levers,  an’  pushes  his 
face  in  for  him,  an’  chucks  him  down­
stairs—him  a-cursin’  an’  a-sayin’  the 
union’ll  be  takin’  my  card  away  for  a 
blasted  m’nop’list  sympathizer;  an’ be­
tween  pinnin’  up  my  shirt  where  it  got 
tore  an’  gittin’  over  the  mad  I  was 
in,
I  clean  forgot  about  the  switch  until  I 
heard  a  stone  go  smash ag’ in the ’ home’ 
signal,  an’  before  I  could  git  my  fist  on 
the  lever,  Jefferson’s  headlight was right

the  gold 

fool 

on  top  o’  me,  an’  I  had  to 
jump  down 
for  that  lantern. 
I  could  see  the  light 
a-hangin’  on  the  semaphore  all  right, 
an’  I  didn’t  know.,  until  Jef  told  me, 
that  the  red  glass was out  of the frame. ”
“ I  see!  Mmmmm—how did  that  fel­

low get  into  the  tower,  anyhow?"

“ Just  opened  the 

lower  door  and 
walked  in,  I  suppose.  You  can’ t  keep 
people  from  goin’  where  they  like  on  a 
dark  night,  Mr.  Barnum—leastways, 
not  without  an  army  of  watchmen. 
If 
the  section  gang  don’t  happen  to  be 
around,  there’s  nothin’  to  hinder 
’em, 
an’  I  reckon  if  you’d  be’n  in  my  place 
when  that  feller  pitched  into  me,  you’d 
ha’  did  about  as  I  done."

“ Perhaps  I  would,  Forney.  But  the 
question  just  at  present  is,  what am  I  to 
do  with  you  now?  Put  yourself 
in  my 
place—suppose  that  you  are  sitting  in 
this  chair as  Central  Division  Superin­
tendent  of  the  road,  and  that  I  am 
called  before  you  as  switchman 
in 
charge  of  tower  ‘ 77.’  Considering  all 
the  circumstances,  what  would  you  feel 
obliged  to  do  to  me?”

“ Well,  sir,  I  suppose  I ’d  dock  you 
for  a  few  weeks  to  make  you  keep  your 
mouth  shut  next  tim e.”

just  how 

“ But  that  wouldn’t  make  Jefferson 
feel  any  more  secure  when  he  runs  over 
I ’ve  no  doubt 
your  switches  in  future. 
he  understands 
it  occurred, 
and  doesn’t  blame  you ;  but  he wouldn’t 
be  human  if  he  didn’t  get  nervous  run­
ning  by  your  signals  at  full  speed.  And 
when  a  ‘ runner’  gets  rattled,  just  a 
lit­
tle bit,  all  kinds  of  trouble  may come of 
it  inside  of  half  an  hour.”

“ I  hope  you  ain’t  a-goin’ to discharge 

me,  sir?”

“ I ’ve  got  to—haven’t  any  choice  in 
the  matter.  But  I ’ll  do  the  best  I  can. 
If  you  don’t  find  another  job  within  a 
month,  come  back  here  and 
I ’ll  get 
Mr.  Johnson  to  give  you  something  on 
the  Western  Division. 
It  won’t  be a 
responsible  position  at  first,  but 
in  a 
year  or two  you  can  work  back  into  one 
of  the  towers,  or  something  even  bet­
ter.”

The  perspiration  was  standing 

in 
great  beads  upon  the  switchman’s  fore­
head,  and 
in  pulling  out  his  red  ban­
dana,  a  small  object  fell  upon  the  mat 
at  his  feet.  This  he  was  too  disturbed 
to  notice  as,  with  a  muttered  “ All 
right,  sir;  good  morning,”   he  turned 
and  left  the  office.  Then  the  superin­
tendent  swung  his  chair  around  and 
looked  sadly  out  of  the  window.  The 
interview  had  been  one  of  the  hard 
things  that  enter  into  the  daily  life  of  a 
railway  authority;  he  knew  that  the 
switchman’s  discharge  probably  meant 
privation  and  want  to  his  family,  yet 
his  duty  to  the  road  admitted  of  no  half 
measures.  The  most  vital  necessity 
in 
railroad  management  is  that  discipline 
shall  be  rigidly  maintained  and  every 
possible  element  of  danger  to  life  or 
property  removed.  Trainmen,  ordina­
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to  which  they  are  exposed ;  but  let them 
get  an 
in 
whose hands  their  safety  or  destruction 
may  lie  has  been  found  careless  in  one 
single 
is  a  long  time 
before  they  get  over  an  unconfessed 
nervousness  in  his  vicinity.

impression  that  a  comrade 

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Looking  absently  around  the  office, 
Mr.  Barnum  presently  noticed  the  ob­
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standing. 
It  was  a  child’s  shoe—just 
an  ordinary  baby’s  spring-heel  dongola, 
such  as  one  may  buy  in  small  stores 
where  the  poor  man’s  dollar  goes  a  long 
way.  The  stubby  toe  had  been  worn 
through,  and  three  of  the  buttons  were

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sitting  outside 

gone.  Evidently  the  switchman  had 
put  it  in  his  pocket  as  a  sample  for  the 
new  pair  which  he  intended to buy when 
the  pay  car  ran  through  next  day.  As 
the  superintendent  examined 
it,  noting 
the  fact  that  bis  own  little  girl’s  feet 
were  about  the  same  size,  he  thought 
for  the  twentieth  time  that the  irregu­
larity in  tower  “ 77”   was  one  into which 
the  most  trustworthy  man  on  the  line 
might  have  been 
led,  even  himself. 
Fi nally he took from  his  pocket  a  roll  of 
bills  and  stuffed  several  notes  into  the 
little  shoe.  Then,  hastily  wrapping 
it 
in  brown  paper,  he  called  to  one  of  the 
brakemen 
the  train 
despatcher’s  room,  and  told  him  to  find 
Forney’s  wife  as  soon  as  possible. 
“ Give 
Forney  herself, 
Brown,”   he  said;  ‘ ‘ and  simply  tell  her 
that  one  of  the  men  on  the  road  saw 
Tom  drop 
it—you  want  to  forget  the 
name  of  that  man,  too.  Understand?”
Meanwhile,  Tom  Forney  had  left  the 
building  and  was  walking  toward  the 
yard,  where  he  expected  to  find  a  fast 
freight  starting  up  the  road.  As  it  was 
only  five  o’clock,  the  strings  were  not 
yet  made  up,  and  two  of  the  road  crews 
were  standing  near  the  operator’s  office 
waiting  until  the  yard  master  was  ready 
for  them.  Among  the  best  of  railroad 
men  there  is  always a certain percentage 
of  discontented  ones  and  a  number  who 
are  vicious  by  nature;  these are  always 
the  first  to  breed  trouble  and precipitate 
strikes.  Forney’s  affair  was  by  this 
time  known  all  through  the  division, 
and  the  result  of  his  “ dance  upon  the 
carpet”   in  the  superintendent’s  office 
was  under discussion  when he appeared. 
That  he  would 
lose  his  tower  was  the 
only  logical  outcome of  the matter ;  but, 
in  discounting  this  fact,  three  of  the 
more  unruly  spirits  had  worked  them­
selves  into  a  rage  against  the  “ supe, ”  
out  of  sympathy  for  their  fellow-work­
man.  Such  thoughts  form  pretty  ex­
plosive  material  when  they  are  warmed 
by  direct  evidence  of  personal  distress; 
and  the  group  of  trainmen,  though  or­
dinarily  loyal  to  the  road  in  which  they 
took  so  much  pride,  soon  shunted  the 
conversation 
into  dangerous  channels. 
At  six  o’clock  the  first  crew  pulled  out, 
with 
fifteen 
“ mixed”   cars,  Forney  accompanying 
them 
in  the  caboose.  Unfortunately, 
one  of  the  brakemen  happened  to  be his 
brother-in-law,  and,  by  remarks  con­
cerning  the  switchman’s  family  affairs, 
strengthened  the  impression that his dis­
imminent  starvation  to 
charge  meant 
them—on  account  of  the  expensive 
last 
baby  and  the  doctor’s  bill  for  girl  num­
ber  three.  Suspending  him 
from  the 
switch 
they 
argued,  but  “ the  old  man”   certainly 
ought  to  have  given  him  another  job 
with  as  much  pay.  To  make  matters 
worse,  a  walking  delegate  from  District 
Assembly  “ 99”   happened  to  be  taking 
a  sociable  ride  with  the  engineer,  and, 
hearing  of  the  affair,  crawled  back  to 
the  caboose  with  the  benevolent  inten­
tion  of  magnifying  the 
incident  if  it 
were  possible  to  do  so.  His destination 
had  been  Palmerville,  but 
instead  of 
dropping  off  there,  he  ran  over  the  en­
tire  division  and  spent  several  hours  in 
he  Junction  yard  at  the  end  of  the  run. 
By  this  time  Forney  and  his  mates  had 
been  talked  out  of  their  ordinary  com- 
monsense,  and  were  chewing  over  re­
flections  chock-full  of  trouble  for  both 
the  road  and  themselves.

tower  was  one  thing, 

“ straight”   and 

twenty 

During  the  following  two weeks,  busi­
ness  on  the  line  ran  along  as usual,  with 
no  apparent  disturbance,  but  there  was 
an  undercurrent  of  apprebensiveness  all

through  the  Central  and  Western  D ivi­
sions—a  feeling  which  no  one  put  into 
words,  but  which  penetrated  even  to the 
executive  offices  and  in  a  measure  pre­
pared  the  officials  for the  startling intel­
ligence,  one  morning,  that  the  Central 
Division  was  practically  tied  up,  and 
that others  were  likely  to be  at  any  mo­
ment.  Forney’s  case  had  been  bunched 
with  those  of  several  men  discharged 
for  various  reasons,  and  the unions were 
at  their  old  game—a  sympathetic strike.
Mr.  Barnum  was  an  official  who  rec- 
ognzied_the  unions  because  they  were  a 
daily  menace  to  his  organization—not 
because he  considered  them  desirable 
either  for  the  men  or  for  the  company; 
and  in  order  to  maintain  his  position 
in  various  skirmishes  with  them,  he 
was  careful  to  examine  each  new  situa­
tion  in  all  its  bearings.  So,  for  the  first 
three  days 
the  trouble  com­
menced,  he  waited  for  the  master  work­
men  to  show  their  hands—keeping  his 
passenger  service  moving,  but  not at­
tempting to haul  the  stalled  freight  until 
matters assumed  a  more  definite  shape. 
On  the  evening  of  the  fourth  day  he 
walked  into  the train despatcher’s office, 
after  a  consultation  with  the  general 
manager,  and  ran  over  the  telegrams 
from  up  the  line.  As  he  did  so,  he 
began  to  whistle  softly.

after 

“ This  begins  to look serious,  Frank,”  
he said.  “ Calling  out half  our best  men 
is  one  thing,  but  stopping  mails  and 
expresses  is  another  matter.  Anything 
later than  these?”

“ Yes,sir—I ’m  talking  with Perryvilie 
now—wait  a  minute.  All  right.  He  says 
they’ve  taken  possession  of  the Junction 
yard  and  the  three  nearest  sections. 
They’ve  put  Forney  back  in  charge  of 
‘ 77,’  with  orders to  run  everything  on­
to  that  spur  at  the  river-bank—mails 
and  all—and  they’re  talking  of  burning 
the stalled  freight  if  the  company  don’t 
give  in  before  Saturday.”

“ Are  they!  Well,  I  guess  it’s  about 
time  for  me  to  take  a  hand.  Confound 
the  boys!  What  gets  me 
is  how  the 
devil  men  of  ordinary  sound  common 
sense  like  ours  can  be  so  badly  fooled 
by  these  cussed  delegates  from  the  as­
semblies.  Most of  them  are at  the Junc­
tion,  are  they?  Have  they  put  an opera­
tor  in  77’  with  Forney?”

“ Y es;  man  that  was  fired  from  the 

Richmond-Danville. ”

If  the  line 

“ All  right;  give  him  this  for  Tom, 
straight.  The  Chicago  mail  will  pull 
out of  here  on  time,  with  me  in  the for­
ward  car;  and  a  limited  express  will 
follow  as  a  second  section  ten  minutes 
later.  The  mail  will  pass  tower 
‘ 77’ 
at  I :io  a.  m.,  running  sixty  miles  an 
hour,  and will  not stop  for  any  signal  in 
that  vicinity.  If  Forney’s switch  isopen 
on  the  spur,  the  entire  train,  myself 
included,  will  go  to everlasting smash at 
the  bottom  of  the gorge. 
is 
clear,  across  the bridge,  I ’ll  go  through 
with  the  mail,  and  return  to  the  Junc­
tion,  where  I ’m  going  to  talk  to  the 
boys 
in  a  way  they’ll  understand,  by 
next  train.  Now,  when  you  get  that  off, 
send  for  George  Harris,  tell  him  to  put 
a  couple  of  green  lanterns  on  the  pilot 
of  ‘ 38,’  and  get  ready  to  pull  me  with 
that  mail.  Give  him  my  message  to 
Forney,so  that  he’ll  know  just  what  sort 
of  a  run  he has  before  him ;  and 
if  he 
weakens,  try  Frazier.  Use  your  own 
judgment,  but  have  those  two  trains 
ready  to  pull  out  on 
time.  Under­
stand?”

“ Perfectly;  but  I ’ve  a  darned  good 
mind  to  knock  you  down  and  lock  you 
in  the  closet  here  until  the  doctor  can 
sit  on  you.  Forney  and  those  other  fel-

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lows aren’t lambs just at present—they’re 
raving  crazy.  They’re  not  their  own 
masters,  anyway. 
Suppose  the district 
assembly  says  that  you  had  fair warning 
and  deliberately  persisted  in  going  to 
smash?  There  ain’t  a  man  on  the  line 
who’ll  believe  that  either  you  or  George 
Harris  would  actually  run  past  danger 
signals  onto  a  spur  that  ends  inabuffey 
and  trestle  hoistway,  ninety  feet  above 
a  stony  river-bed;  and  salvation  isn’t 
more  of  a  certainty  than  that  they’ll 
make  Forney  open  the  switch  in  just 
that  way. ’ ’

“ Well,  that  remains  to  be  seen. 

I 
think  I  know  these  men,  and  this  strike 
inside  of  forty-eight 
is  going  to  end 
lose  my  life,  of  course, 
hours. 
but  the  chances  are  against 
it.  Come 
now,  get  a  move on  that  message.  That 
mail  must  pull  out  of  here  at  eleven, 
sharp.’ ’

I  may 

Shortly  before  one 

in  the  morning, 
Forney  and  three  other  men  sat by  the 
levers  in  tower  “ 77,”   excitedly discuss­
ing  the  superintendent’s  message.  One 
burly  fellow  with  an  ugly  face,  who 
represented  District  Assembly  “ 99,”  
expressed  himself  violently  to  the  effect
that  it  was  all a d-----d  bluff; but Forney
disagreed  with  him.

“ You  don’t  know 

‘ the  old  man,’ 
Brady,”   he  said. 
“ What  he  says  he’ll 
do,  he generally  does;  but  even  if  he’d 
run  by  a  red  light  himself,  Idon’tthink 
George  Harris  would  pull  him.  George 
has got  a  sick  mother besides  his  wife 
and  ten  kids. ”

“ Well,  we’ ll  see  what  they’ll  do 

in 
about  nineteen  minutes.  Daniels,  here, 
says  the  mail  has  just  passed  Perryville 
goin’  like  h—1.  That  there spur’s  open, 
an’  the  signals  ’ll  tell 
’em  so;  if  they 
want  to  kill  theirselves,  ’tain’t  any  of 
our funeral. ”

At  this  moment  a  woman  came  up the 
stairs.  When  the  shawl  was  unwrapped 
from  her  head,  it  proved  to  be  Forney’s 
wife.  Without  even  glancing  at  the 
other  men,  she  went  close  to  her  hus­
band  and  said :

“ Tom,  one  of  the  boys has  just  told 
me  about  Mr.  Barnum  coming  on  the 
m ail;  do  you  s’pose  he  really  will?”
“ Don’t  suppose  anything  about 

it, 
M ary;  he  passed  Perryville  at  12145. 
The  operator  there  saw  him  talking 
with  George  on  the  machine.”

“ Then,  for  God’s  sake,  clear  the  line 
If  he  said 
for him  before  it’s  too  late. 
he  wouldn’t  stop  for signals,  he won’t.”
“ D-----d  if  I  think  he  will,  myself.
Say,  look  here,  Brady;  we  can’t  go  kill 
the  ‘ supe’  and  one  of  the  squarest  run­
ners  on  the  line.  Suppose  ‘ the  old  man’ 
did  fire  me,  he  reckoned  he  was  only 
doing  his  duty  by  the  road.  I ’m  a-goin' 
to  close  that  switch.”

“ The  h—1  you  are!  !  1  Well,  you’ve 
got  to  take  hold  o’  me  first!  D ’you 
s'pose 
is  a-goin’  to  be 
monkeyed  with  by  the likes  o’ you,  Tom 
Forney!”   (Here  Mary  Forney  broke  in 
passionately.)

the  unions 

“ The  unions  are  a  curse  to every man 
on  the 
line,  Mr.  Brady;  they  make 
trouble  for  us  all  the  time!  Look  here! 
Do  you  see  this  little  shoe?  Well,  Tom 
dropped  that  when  he  was  ‘ dancin’  on 
the  carpet;’  and  after  Mr.  Barnum  took 
away  the  tower,  what does  he  do but put 
a  hundred  dollars  in  it and  send  it  to 
me  by  Paddy  Brown.  ‘ Tell  her  that  one 
o’  the  men  on  the  road  saw  Tom  drop 
it, ’ he  says  to  Paddy,  ‘ but you forgit the 
name  o'  that  man. ’  Paddy,  he  come 
up  on  ‘ 84'  an’  done as  he  was  told,  but 
when  I  asked  him  what  man  on the road 
had  a  hundred  dollars  to  give 
’way,  he 
seen  be  was  caugbt-j-an’  then  be  said

who  ’twas  what  sent  it!  Would District 
‘ 99’  do as  much  for  Tom?  I  reckon  not! 
Here! 
if  you  want  to  know  the  kind  o’ 
stuff  Mr.  Barnum's  made  of,  clear  the 
in 
main  line,  but  hang  a  green  lantern 
place  of  the  white  one on  the 
‘ distant,’ 
hang  a  red  one back  of  the  top  arm  on 
the  ‘ home,’  an  hook  the  white light out­
side  the glass  in  the  lower  arm,  'stead 
o’  behind  it.  Fifty  feet  away  there ain't 
a  runner  livin'  what  would  know  the 
spur  wa’n’t  open  or  the  main  wa’n’t 
blocked!  !  ! 
to  stop, 
that’ll  stop  him—if  he ain’t,  you  won’t 
have  his  blood  on  you !”

If  he’s  goin’ 

“ By 

That’s 

thunder! 
John,  grab  those  lanterns 

a  great 
scheme! 
in 
the  corner and  run  down to the ‘ distant, ’ 
while  I  open  the 
line!  Come  now, 
Brady,  you  sha’n’t kick  at  that! 
If you 
do,  I’ ll  chuck  you  clean  through  the 
window,  an’  my  old  woman  here’ll  help 
m e!”

Just  as  Grogan  came  up  the  stairs 
with  the  white  lanterns  which  he  had 
taken  from  the  semaphores,  they  heard 
the  rumble  of  the  approaching  mail 
around  the  curve;  and  a second later the 
headlight  flashed  from  behind  a  clump 
of  trees.  The  green  “ distant”   was  now 
in full sight  of  the  engineer,  but  though 
they  strained  their  ears,  there  was  no 
sound  of  the  air-brake.  On  the  train 
came,  running  all  of  sixty-five  miles  an 
hour,  though  the  danger  lantern  on  the 
“ home”   shone  red  as  blood  in  the  en­
gineer’s  eyes.  Nearer—nearer—with  the 
roar  of  four  hundred  tons  thundering 
over the  metal—until  the  train  flashed 
by  the  tower and  they  saw  the  superin­
tendent  leaning 
in  the  doorway  of  the 
forward  mail  car,  the  strong  light  be­
hind  him  revealing  the  fact  that  he  was 
calmly  smoking  a  cigar,  and  that  his 
hands  were  thrust  deep  in  his  trousers 
pockets,  as 
if  the  thought  of  personal 
danger had  never occurred  to  him.  At 
the  same  moment  the  fireman  opened 
his  door,  and  in  the  red  gleam  from  the 
burning  coal  they  could  see  Harris,  the 
runner,  sitting  on  his  box  like  a  statue, 
keenly  watching  the  track  ahead. 
It 
was  an  exhibition  of  nerve  which  after­
ward  became  a  part  of  the  road’s  his­
tory,  and 
it  broke  the  strike.  When 
Forney  could  get  command of his tongue 
again,  he  said :

I  reckon 

“ That’s  the  kind  o’  man  that  took 
away  my  job  ’cause  ’twa’n’t  safe for the 
road  to  have  me  stay—leastways  until 
lesson.  An’  he  know’d  I 
I'd  had  a 
meant  to  do  my  duty,  too. 
if 
he  ain’t  afraid  to  risk  his  life  for  the 
sake  o’  the  line,  it  ain’t  for the  likes o’ 
us  to  say  we’ll  tie  him  up  ’cause  he 
won’t  take  back  men  what  he  found 
wa’n’t  safe.  Daniels,  you 
tell  the 
despatcher  I'll  work  these  levers  for  the 
comp’ny  until  ‘ the  old  man’  sends  a 
new chap  to  take  charge  of  them ;  an’  I 
reckon,  when  they  hears  o’  this  night’s 
run,  them  men  at  the  Junction 
’ll  go 
back  to  work  if  he’ll  take  ’em !  There’s
your  d-----d  old  union  card,  Mr.  Brady!
If  I  ever  join  another  assembly,  it’ll  be 
one  what’s  got  some  sense  an’  knows  a 
little  more  ’bout  railroadin’. ”

Cla r en c e  H e r b e r t   N ew .

Practical  Suggestions 
From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

Dressing.

in  Window 

As  a  background  for  cloaks  and  suits, 
furs  are  as  attractive  and  harmonious  as 
anything  that  can  be  used.  Robes  or 
rugs  of  fur  are  found  in  the ordinary 
stock  at  this  season  of  the  year,  and  to 
display  them  in  combination  with  other 
goods  is  a  convenient  plan.  They  are 
rich  in  effect  and  give  the air of warmth 
to  the  window  that  is  altogether  appro­
priate  in  the  winter.  Another  thing  in 
is  that  they  can  be  used  a
their  favor 

great  deal  without  the  danger  of  dam­
age  by  tearing  and  soiling  that  is  so ex­
pensive  when  good  fabrics  are  used.

A  scheme  that 

is  used  a  great  deal 
now  as  a  decorative  effect  is  a  net  work 
or  basket  weave  of  ribbons  for  part  of 
the  background 
for  arches  or  designs. 
Ribbon  usually  of  narrow  width  and  of 
different  but  harmonious  colors  are 
woven  in  a  frame  or  from  one  place  of 
attachment  to  another. 
It  gives  sort  of 
a  checker board  effect,  and  is  either  ar­
tistic  or gaudy,  as the  operator  has  been 
successful  in  manipulating  the  shades
In  a  millinery  display  a  pleasing  fea­
in  State 
ture  that 
is  a  number  of  stuffed 
Street  windows 
invisible  wires. 
birds  suspended  from 
is  some 
In  the  millinery  trade  there 
realistic  work  done 
in  the  way  of 
stuffed  birds,  and  to  see  a  number  of 
them  apparently  flying  about  the  win­
dow  makes  one  stop  and  take  a  second 
look. 
is  a  good  way  to  fill  in  the 
vacant  space  over  the  display  of  hats, 
which  is  usually  filled  with  an  elaborate 
design.

is  frequently  seen 

It 

Goods  that  must  be  kept  hefore  the 
should  be 
public  for  several  weeks 
changed  from  one  window  to  another, 
so  as  to  allow  other lines  to  share  the 
benefits  of  the  best  location.

For  a  small  window  a  beautifully  and 
simple display  of  black  and  white  silks 
can  be  made  by  covering  the  back­
ground' and  sides alternately wi*h widths 
of  them.  The  body  of  the  display  need 
be  only  three  of  the  piped  pyramids.

Small  articles should be comparatively

near  the  glass  and  large  pieces  back. 
If  a  large  object  is  close  to  the  glass, 
the  eye  of  the  passer-by  will  not  take  it 
in  quickly,  and  this  is  necessary  if  the 
window  is  to  be  a  success. 
It  is  hardly 
necessary  to  say  that  the  smaller  the  ar­
ticles  the  nearer  the glass  they  should 
be.

Reflection  is one of  the  hardest  things 
the  dresser  has  to  contend  with,  and 
considerable  skill  has  to  be  exercised to 
overcome  it.  Some  windows  are  situ­
ated  so  that  this  is  exceedingly  annoy­
ing.  Even  some of  the  finest  are  prac­
tically  a  failure  on  this  account.  The 
only  way  to  overcome  reflections  is  to 
have  plenty  of  white  and  light  colored 
goods  and  as  little  dark  as  possible. 
Dark  colors  make  good  reflectors  and 
must be avoided.

A  variation  to  the  usual  line  of  price 
tickets  has  been  suggested.  For  a  fall 
opening,  press  bright  colored  autumn 
leaves  and  print  prices  on  them.  For 
spring  new green  leaves  can  be  used  in 
the  same  way.

A  department  store  on  State  Street 
took  advantage  of  the harvest  season  by 
having  a  “ Harvest  Home  Celebration 
and  Sale.”   The  store  was  profusely 
decorated  with  agricultural  products. 
Over  the  entrance  was  an  arch  covered 
with  corn  stalks,  with  grapes,  apples 
and  other fruits  attached  here and there, 
and  piles  of  pumpkins  at  the  base. 
Three  similar  arches  were  across  the 
front of  the  store  on  the 
inside,  and  at 
every  possible  place  fruits  and  vege­
tables  were  used  for  decorations.

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

JANE  CRAGIN.

An  Invitation  to  Dinner,  Which Cy and 

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

Sid  Accept.

“ Will  that be  all  to-day,  Mrs.  Walk­
er?”   asked  the  proprietor  of  the  Mill- 
town  store,  as he  tied  the  string  of  the 
last  package  she  had  ordered.

‘ ‘ All  in  this  line,  thank  you,”  replied 
his  white-haired  customer;  ‘ ‘ but  I  shall 
be  glad  to  have  you,  Mr.  Huxley,  and 
.Mr.  Benton  come  to  dinner this evening 
at  six  o’clock,  if  you  will. 
indulge 
Mrs.  Willowby  occasionally  in  a  bit  of 
city  foolishness,  and  to-day  it  is  a  late 
dinner.  Shall  I  have  the  pleasure  of 
seeing  you  then,  and  will  you  kindly 
tell—oh,  here  he  is. 
I  was  just  asking 
Mr.  Huxley  and  you  to  dinner  this 
evening,  Mr.  Benton,  and  I  hope  noth­
ing  will  prevent  you  from  coming—at 
six  o’clock.”

I 

I 

"Thank  you, 

shall  be  glad  to 
come, ’ '  was  the  reply ;  and  hostess  and 
guests  parted  with  smiles  and  bows.

‘ ‘ Well,”   remarked  Sid,  ‘ ‘ that  means 
swallowtail,  I  suppose.  We  shall  prob­
ably  see  a  good  deal  of  splendor  on  the 
part  of  Mrs.  Willowby,  for  they  do  say 
it’s  stunning  the  way  she  blossoms  out 
on  occasions. 
It  must  be,  Cy,  that  you 
are  the  victim  this  time.  I ’ll do my  best 
to  keep  Mrs.  Walker  interested  so  you 
can  have  a  fair field. 
I  wonder  what 
started  them  off?”

‘ ‘ Well,  Sid,  I  don’t  mind  telling you: 
I  know  I  am  agreeable  to  both  of  the 
ladies,  and  they  think  that  I ’m  a  little 
bit  put  out  because  Mrs.  Willowby 
didn’t  go  to  ride  the  other day  when  I 
called  for her.  Women  are  queer,  some­
times. 
If  anybody  makes  a  little  of 
’em—anybody,  you  know,  that  they  can 
take  a  fancy  to—they get  perfectly  be­
witched.  Now  I  think  that  Lilian—that 
is,  Mrs.  Willowby,  you  know—is  a  fine 
woman,  a  magnificent  woman,  and  all 
that  sort  o’  thing,  but—well,  the  fact  of 
the  matter  is,  my  boy,  she’s  altogether 
too  easily 
impressed.  Mr.  Willowby 
was,  no  doubt,  a  fine  fellow,  but  I  hear 
he  was  one  of  these handsome men,  with 
not  much  stability  to  him,  and  I  fancy 
that  the  widow  intends  to  profit  by  her 
experience  when  she  makes  a  second 
choice.  With  all  the  world  to  choose 
from,  it  seems  sort  o’  odd  that  she 
should  be  satisfied  with  what  she  finds 
in  Milltown,  doesn’t  it  now?  Of  course, 
I ’ve  asked  her  to  ride,  and  have  been 
over  there  considerable,  and,  of  course, 
she  sees  that  we are  prosperous here and 
can  have  what  we  want;  but  thunder! 
Sid,  she  ought  to  know—and 
if  she 
doesn’t,  Aunt  Walker  ought  to—that  I 
am  only  trying  to  be  perlite. 
But 
that’s  the  way  with  ’em  all—they  pick 
out  what  they  think’s  the  best  and  set 
their  cap  at  him  for  all  they’re  worth. 
They’ll  find,  though,  they're barkin’  up 
the  wrong  tree  this  time  and,  if  the 
worst  comes  to  the  worst,  I  shall  have 
to  look  a  leedle  oudt. ’  Now,  this  din­
ner  business 
is  gotten  up  just  to  show 
me  that  they  didn’t  intend  to  hurt  my 
feelings.  Well,  if 
it’ll  make  ’em  feel 
any  better,  I  s’pose  I  ought  to  be  glad 
to  sacerfice  myself. 
I  think,  though,  I 
shall  have  to  play  off  so  far  as  Mrs. 
Willowby 
is  concerned;  and,  so far  as 
you  can,  Sid,  I  want  you  to  help  me. 
Between  you  and  me  and  the  hitchin’ 
post,  Sid,  I ’ve  just  teetotally 
‘ made  a 
mash’  on  pretty  Mrs.  Willowby—and  I 
can’t  say  that  I  care  to  go  on  with  it. 
Now,  I  wish,  every  chance  you  can 
get,  you’d  sort  o’—sort  o’  cut  in,  don’t 
you  know,  and  give  me  a  little  rest,  for 
I ’m  ’fraid  she’ll  be  hanging  'round  me 
from  the  time  I go  in till wecome.away.;

and,  if  you  see  a  chance,  I  want  you  to 
make  the  most of  it. ”

At  first,  there  was  something 

like  a 
smile  pulling  at  the  corners  of  Sid ’s 
mouth  and  creeping  into  his  eyes;  but, 
as  the  twaddle  went  on  and  Sid  could 
see  that  Cy  was  ‘ ‘ gittin’  gone  on  him­
self, ”   and,  what  was  worse,  that  he, 
Sid,  was  considered  too  stupid  to  see 
the  real  condition  of  things,  the  smile 
faded  and  something  strongly  resem­
bling  disgust  took  its  place.  Then  he 
began:

‘ ‘ You  don’t  seem  to  be  aware  of  the 
fact,  Cy,  that  you  have  been  playing  a 
mean,  contemptible  part  in  this  busi­
ness.  You  don’t  seem  to  know  that,  if 
half  you  say  is  true,  instead  of  inviting 
you  to  dinner,  Mrs.  Walker  ought  to 
wring  your  neck  for  you.  What  if  Mrs. 
Willowby  had  been  my  sister—do  you 
think  you  would  have  come  to  the house 
every  day,  and  stayed  three  hours  out 
of  the  twenty-four,  and  taken  her  to 
ride,  and  lavished  no  end  o’  candy  on 
her,  and  got  all  sorts  of  notions  into  her 
head—all just  because  you  wanted  to  try 
to  make  Jane  Cragin  think  you  are  a 
‘ deuce  of  a  fellow’  around  the girls,  and 
to  get  her  jealous?  Well,  I  just  don’t 
think  you  would! 
I  think,  when  you 
had  got  about  as  far  as  you  have  now, 
you’d  find  that  you’d  gone  a  little  too 
far  to  back  out.  And  I  think  that’s 
what  this  dinner  party  means.  There 
isn’t  a  court 
that  wouldn’t  decide 
against  you,  if  the  matter  had  to  go 
there;  and  you  know  pretty  well  by  this 
time  what  the  temper  of  the  town  is. 
It’s  a  mighty  ticklish  business,  this 
foolin’  with  women;  and  you’ll  find 
it 
so  before  you  get  through  with  this. 
Take  this  dinner.  You’ve  got  to  go, 
for  you’ve  accepted 
invitation. 
Looks  to  me  as  if  you’d  been  invited  to 
it  as  a  kind  of  public  recognition  that 
Mrs.  Walker,  Mrs.  Willowby’s  nearest 
relative  here,  accepts you  in  this  formal 
way  into  the  family.  That  looks  to  me 
the  fix  you’re  in.  Don’t  you  want  to 
stand  off  and  admire  yourself?  Of 
course,  this 
isn’t  any  affair  of  mine, 
and  I ’m  not  supposed  to  know  anything 
about  it—furthermore,  I  don’t  want  to 
know  anything  about 
it;  but,  when  a 
man  of  your  age  deliberately  goes  about 
to  try  and  get  a  woman  to  liking  him 
because  he  wants  to  make 
another 
woman  jealous—well,  somebodv’d ought 
to  call  a  halt;  and  in  this  case  it  looks 
as  if  I'm  the  fellow.  I  don’t see,though, 
what  you  can  do  now. 
like  a 
gone  case;  and 
I  guess  you’d  better 
carry  the  matter  out  as  you’ve  begun  ”

looks 

the 

It 

‘ What  do  you  mean,  you  kid?”
“ Why”   (ignoring 

the  appellation), 
‘ ‘ swallow  the  dose  you’ve  been  mixing 
and  make  the  best  of  it. ”

‘ ‘ Thunder,  Sid! 

I  don’t  want  Mrs. 

Willowby!”

“ You  want  her  now  as  much  as  you 
have  wanted  her  all  along,  don’t  you? 
And  that’s  all  she  has  to go by.  I  guess, 
Cy,  you’d  better  not  make  a  bad  matter 
worse.  Go  home  a  little  earlier  to-day 
and  rig  yourself  up  in  your  togs  long 
enough  heforehand  so  you  can  get  over 
feeling 
like  a  gawk  in  ’em;  then  call 
for  me  on  your  way  over  there  and 
we’ll  face  the  music  together.  But  I  tell 
you  now,  if  Mrs.  Walker  gets  out  the 
family  plate  and  the  cut  glass,  and  the 
ladies  have  on  their  dinner gowns,  it 
means—well,  you’ll know what  it  means. 
And  you’ll  just  have  to  govern  yourself 
accordingly!”

customers  were  getting  too 
numerous  for  Jim  to  take  care  of,  and 
Sid  went  from  the  office  to  help  him, 
while  Cy,  chewing  Jane’s  lead  pencil, 
stalked  out  of  the  store  with  a  scowl  on 
bis  face.

The 

. 

i  .  R ic h a r d   Ma lc o lm   S tro n g.

Philosophy  of Telephone  Service. 

Written for the T r a d esm a n .

“ What a  wonderful  practical 

inven­
tion  the  telephone 
is !”   remarked  a 
rural  friend  one  day  when  I  had  hung 
up  the  receiver  at  the  close  of  a  call 
from  another  office  on  the  State  line. 
“ It  takes  one  back  to  the  old  times 
when  marvelous  tales  of genii enthralled 
one’s youthful  imagination with the most 
dazzling  impossibilities,  that,  when rea­
son  returned,  made actual  life  so  dull 
and  insipid.  And  now  we  have  a  part 
of  them  at  least  accomplished  facts, 
while  every  day  brings  more  wondrous 
things to  the  evidence  of  our senses. ”

Remarks  like  the foregoing have often 
been  uttered 
in'  my  hearing  by  people 
brought  for  the  first  time  in  direct  con­
tact  with  this  peculiar  invisible  agency 
that  has  arisen  from  a  myth  of  the  in­
ventor’s  imagination,until,  like a gigan­
tic  spider  web,  it  has  spread  over every 
part  of  the  civilized  globe  and,  though 
no  better  understood  than  the  mysteries 
of  sunshine  and  darkness,  is  almost  as 
frequently  used  and  enjoyed.

it 

is 

interests 

Viewing  this 

instrument  of  modern 
progress 
in  a  philosophical  mood,  one 
who  has  for  years  noted  some  of  its 
vagaries  and  unexplained  peculiarities 
is  less  inclined  to wonder at the dynamic 
effect  of  sound  displayed  than  at  the  re­
markable  effect  it  produces  on  the  gen­
eral  public,  whose 
in­
tended  to  serve.  Nearly  every  agent 
now  employed 
for  the  use and  benefit 
of  humanity  had  once  its  day  of  novelty 
and  experiment.  Many  seemed  at  first 
to  contravene  natural 
law,  until  their 
modes  of  operation  became  better  un­
derstood.  Afterwards,  they  grew  to  be 
the  abject  servant  of  man,  to  be  used, 
abused,  grumbled  at  or  altered  to  suit 
every  freak  of  fancy;  but  never  more  to 
be  viewed  in  the  light  of  romantic  con­
templation.  Any  invention  that becomes 
a  useful  servant  of  the  public,  no  mat­
inception, 
ter  how  wonderful 
drops  to  the  commonplace as  it 
is  fol­
lowed  by  some  fresher  novelty.

its 

in 

for all  time  to  come.  Should  the train 
be  late  by which he hopes to  make quick 
connections,  his  grumblings  drown  the 
click-click  of  the  telegraph  sounder  and 
he  vents  his  exasperation  on  the  opera­
tor.  The  temperature  of  the  railway  car 
is  frequently  commented  on  with  em­
phatic  allusions  to  Nova  Zembla—or the 
other  place.  Time  tables are  compared 
with  one another,  and praised or blamed 
in  proportion  as  they  suit  or  ignore  his 
convenience.  The  public  functionary 
who  faithfully  collects  fees  for  excess 
baggage comes  in,  at  times,  for  volleys 
of  his  protests,  and 
lost  or  damaged 
property  finds  in  him  a  pertinacious 
defender  and  an  unyielding  claimant 
for  equitable  remuneration.

Yet  before  this  one  instrument  and 
agent  that  promises  to  give  audience 
with  those desired  he  stands  and  waits 
in  humble  submissiveness,  or  shouts 
and  spells  words 
into  the  transmitter 
with  desperate  energy,  straining  all  the 
time  his  auricular  muscles  to  catch  the 
faintest  wave  of  sound  in  reply. 
It  is 
hard  to  explain  why  the  hustling man  of 
business,  always  anxious  to  accomplish 
results  by  the  quickest  and  most  direct 
route,  submits  so  meekly  to  conditions 
that  from  other  sources  would  not  be 
accepted  without protest,  much less with 
patient  silence.

And  that  is  why  the  writer,  watching 
th is  m ental  phenom enon  exhibited  by 
persons  whose  practice  is  to  insist  al­
ways  on  value  for  money  expended, 
finds  it  a  problem  difficult  to  solve.  He 
considers 
it  far  more  wonderful  than 
the  mystery  of  sound  waves  that  so 
miraculously  transmit  the  human  voice 
to  distant  points  every  hour  of  the  day 
and  night,  over  miles  of  wire,  through 
heat  and  cold,  tempest  and  sunshine, 
and  thus  perform  practical  service  to 
the world  at  large.

Concerning  one’s  own  experience 
gained  as  manager  of  an  office  on  the 
State  line,  there  may  be 
something 
worthy  of  note  in  a  future  article.

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

Of  all  agencies  ministering  to univer­
sal  needs  the  telephone 
is  surely  the 
most  erratic,  uncertain  and  aggravating 
in  service between distant points.  What­
ever the  cause—whether  rarity  or  den­
sity  of  atmosphere,  induction,  crossed 
wires  or  weak  batteries—the  fact  is  ap­
parent  that  it  is  not a  uniformly  accom­
modating  servant  of  the  public.  Yet 
the  public  are  generally  disposed  to  be 
patient  even  with 
its  most  seemingly 
ungracious  whims.  Business  men  es­
pecially,  who  are  usually  pressed  for 
time,  show  consideration  for  the perver­
sities  displayed—perversities  calculated 
to  try  the best  of  tempers. 
I  have  seen 
them  spend 
long  periods  of  precious 
time  waiting  on  its  capricious  moods, 
and  making  most  powerful  efforts  at 
vocalization 
to  converse 
through  the 
inconstant  medium—quite 
as  the  votaries  of  spiritualism  hover 
around  a  table  to  catch  the  faintest  sign 
of  intelligence  from  another  world.  As 
business  men  they  consider  the  instru­
ment a  servant  to  command,  but  a  serv­
ant  to  be  humored  rather  than  abused, 
no  matter  what  the  cost 
in  time  or 
money  necessary  to  command  its  reluc­
tant  service.

trying 

in 

Elsewhere,  circumstances  appear  to 
alter  cases.  Let  the  traveling  salesman 
receive  ever  so 
little  slight  or  lack  of 
efficient  service  at  a  hotel and bis choler 
—if  not  his  collar—rises  at  once.  The 
landlord  is  sure  to  receive  marks  of  his 
‘ ‘ distinguished consideration, ”   sub rosa 
or otherwise,  and  fellow  knights  of  the 
road  are  warned  against  that hostelry

Motocycles  in  New  York.

An  experiment  has  been 

in  progress 
for  some  months  in  New  York  City  in 
the  use  of  collecting  and  sorting  postal 
wagons  which 
is  about  to offer  an  ex­
ceptional  opportunity  for  the  testing  of 
the  feasibility  of  using  horseless wagons 
for  regular  service  in  city  streets.  The 
experiment  referred  to  has  been  the  use 
of  wagons  or  large  vans  with 
interiors 
arranged  for  sorting  and  stamping  the 
mail  while 
in  transit  from  the  street 
boxes  to  the  general  postoffice  or  mail­
ing  station.  This  experiment  has  been 
so  far  successful  that  the  use  of  the  sys­
tem 
is  assured  and  it  is  probable  that 
arrangements  will  be  made  for  deliver­
ing  the  mail  to  postal  cars  direct,  thus 
greatly  expediting  the  service.

It 

is  now  proposed  to  substitute  the 
horseless  wagon  for  those  in  use.  One 
is  nearly  ready  for  use  will  be 
which 
put 
into  the  service  in  the  course  of a 
week  or  two.  This  experiment  will  be 
watched  with  the greatest  interest,  as  it 
is  the  first  in  this  country where the self- 
propelling  wagons  have  been  put  into 
regular  daily  service. 
Six  months' 
steady  use  of  a  wagon  under  these  con­
ditions  wiil  do  more  for  the  advance  of 
the  coming  mode of  street  transit  than 
many  exhibits at  races and  experimen­
tal  trials.

The  Boston  Post  draws  attention  to 
the  fact  that a  number  of  bogus  dollars, 
halves and  quarters bearing the date i860 
are  in  circulation.  The  coins  are  made 
of  brass,  heavily  silver-plated,  and  have 
the genuine ring to them.

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l   Leonard 

& sons’  T M i i i i   Letter

Grand Rapids,  Mich.,  Nov.  25,  1896. 

To the Subscribers of the Michigan Tradesman:

Gentlemen— We really feel under obligations to our friend, 
Mr.  Stowe,  for establishing such a medium of communication as the 
Michigan Tradesman between us and his subscribers, nearly all of whom 
handle more or less goods  in our lines, and it  is very gratifying to 
consider that we can write an ordinary business  letter and know  that 
it will be read by 6,000 or 7,000 business firms largely interested 
in the lines of China and Holiday Goods.  We have such a sense  of the 
value of this opportunity that we are showing our appreciation to-day 
by a Thanksgiving letter of a full page,  which we are  sure will at 
least meet with the hearty approval of the managers  of  the paper.

We attribute the extraordinary number of orders now on our  books 

largely to the fact  that dealers  everywhere are beginning to  be­
lieve,  with us,  in a most  extraordinary Christmas trade.  The people 
will eagerly demand of their merchants a full assortment  of TOYS, 
DOLLS,  GAMES,  BOOKS and HOME AMUSEMENTS for their children.  They 
will  certainly want ALBUMS and the many novelties  in that  line,  and 
they will demand to see  the extraordinary assortment we are  showing 
of DECORATED CHINA,  NEW VALUES AND NEW DECORATIONS,  which will  cer­
tainly never be so  cheap again,  owing to the undoubted increase in 
our tariff,  under the new administration.

Christmas is the one time of the year when parents never count 
the  cost.  The mother will spend money freely and the father will 
rejoice  in the happiness of his family.  It  is  the merchant's oppor­
tunity and must be planned and prepared for in advance.  Our receipts 
of Dolls,  Toys and China,  since our last  letter,  consist  of  sixty 
cases from Europe,  just  cleared through the Custom House here,  which 
happened in in the  “ nick of time,**  to fill up many items which had 
been sold out,  and this,  with our domestic receipts,  makes  our stock 
to-day more complete than Thanksgiving has  ever found it before.
We are very busy in all departments,  working our full force  thirteen 
hours a day,  and the Christmas presents that are going out  on every 
wagon-load, and the many compliments we have received on our display, 
show that the buyers are satisfied with our lines,  and,  best  of all, 
the re-orders show that the people are already buying for  Christmas. 
The holiday air is over all and the confident faces of the buyers 
predict,  as we have said,  the greatest holiday season on record.
We are ready for it.  If you have not our catalogue,  we will send it 
to you on request.  If you cannot  leave your store,  communicate with 
us and we will  endeavor to  show you our goods.  Hoping everybody 
sees occasion,  and is glad of an opportunity,  to give thanks  to­
day,  we remain,

Very sincerely,

H. LEONARD & SONS.

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

Shoes  and  Leather

Prices  Advanced  Again.

From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Higher  prices  are  still the all-absorb­
ing  feature  of  the  shoe  and  leather 
trades  and  they  are  occasioning  much 
uneasiness 
in  wholesale  and  manufac­
turing  circles.  Men’s  grain  goods  are 
now  held  at  17>£  to  20  cents  higher  than 
last  season ;  women’s  grain  shoes are  10 
cents  higher;  men’s calf shoes 7% cents, 
and  kid  and  split  boots $2  to  $2.50  per 
case  of  twelve  pairs.  These  prices  are 
held  too  stiffly  by  some  Eastern  manu- 
factuers,  while  others  are  compromis­
ing  by  accepting  a  half-season’s  order 
from 
jobbers  at  a  little  more  than  half 
these  advances,  the  jobbers  agreeing  to 
take  the  balance of  the  season’s  goods 
later  on  at  prices  then  prevailing.  This 
makes  the condition  very  unsatisfactory 
and  a  difficult  one to  estimate.

in 

the 

Eastern  manufacturers  are  confident 
that the  prospects  are  such  as  to  make 
lower  prices  an  utter  impossibility  fora 
year  or  more  at  least.  They  have  an 
unimpeachable  argument 
low 
status  of  retail  and  jobbing  stocks.  The 
trade  revival  that  has  set  in  with  such  a 
tremendous  rush  is  another  point  in  fa ­
vor  of  the  permanency  or  present  or 
higher  prices  and 
it  is  admitted  even 
by 
jobbers  that  had  trade  been  even 
satisfactory  a  year  ago  the  slump  in 
prices  would  not  have  occurred.  Scar­
city  of  leather  is  indubitable  and  hides 
are  absolutely  hard  to  get  at  the  very 
sky-rockety  prices  asked.  There  seems 
in  truth  nothing  lacking  that 
is  essen­
tial  in  bracing  higher  prices.  The  law 
of  supply  and  demand  is  operative  here 
and  the advanced  figures  held  to  firmly 
by  packers,  tanners  and  shoe  manufac­
turers  find  ample  justification therein.
jobbers  are  not  yet  taking  the 
precautions  that  they  should.  They  are 
slow to  mark  prices  higher and  with  the 
bitter  competition  existing  all  seem  in­
tensely  apprehensive  of  taking  the  in­
itiative.  All  want  the  other  fellow  to 
try  it  first.  This  is a  phase  of  the  situa­
tion  that  favors  distinctly  the  retailer 
and  merchants  are  quite  generally  tak­
ing  advantage  of  it,  as  the  many  heavy 
spring  orders  now  being  placed  attest. 
The  Gazette  would  not  advise  its  read­
ers  to  overstock  through  fear  of  higher 
prices,  but  to  place  orders  for  spring 
goods  at  once  in  safe  quantity.  Every 
indication  now 
is  that  unless  this  is 
done  more  money  will  have  to be  paid, 
as  jobbers  will  not delay much longer  in 
putting  prices  on  a  profitable  basis. 
Heavy  goods  at  to-day’s  prices  are an 
excellent  purchase.

Yet 

The  Road  Question.
is  no  time 

There 

in  the  year  when 
agitation  of this  subject  is  more  likely 
to  be  of  effect  than  the  present. 
It  is 
the  time  for  the  meeting  of  farmers’ 
clubs  and  other  kindred  organizations 
and  the  time  for  ambitious legislators  to 
gather  the  material  for distinguishing 
is,
themselves  in  their  winter  work. 

It 

therefore,  encouraging  that considerable 
attention  is  being  given  to  the  subject 
by  the  press,  which  argues  that 
it  will 
receive a  hearing  this  winter.  The  im­
portance  of  the  matter  is  such  that  it 
should  receive  even  greater attention, 
both  by  the  press  and  by  its  advocates 
in  public  assemblies.

improvement  plan. 

The  work  of  educating  for  good  roads 
is  scarcely  begun  in  Michigan,  although 
a  few  counties  have  taken  up  the  sys­
tematic 
To  the 
great  mass  of  farmers  the  subject  ap­
peals  with  a  visionary  vagueness  and 
that  do  not  attract 
impracticability 
their  attention,  and  their  perception 
in 
this  direction 
is  not  sharpened  by  the 
scarcity  of  money  which  has  been  so 
manifest  a  condition  the  past  few years. 
This  has  co-operated  with  the  mutual 
conservatism  of  the  class to provoke an­
tagonism  to  any  scheme  which  suggests 
systematic  work  and  cash  expenditure 
in  place  of  the  customary  and  conven­
tional  expenditure  of  energy  in  “ work­
ing  out  the  tax."

The  farmer  is  not  the  only  one  to  be 
educated. 
Indeed,  it  is  not  the  farmer 
alone  who  should  pay  the  expense  of 
improvement.  The  interests  are  mutual 
foi  town  and  country  and  every  mer­
chant  and  business  man  should  be 
brought  to  a  recognition  of  the  fact  that 
he  has  a  direct  pecuniary  interest  in 
the  matter.  While  the  interest  may  be 
less  direct,  every  owner  of  village  or 
city  property  is  a  sharer  in  the  advan­
tages  of  good  roads  and  should  be  a 
contributor.  Thus  the  subject 
is  one 
of  universal  interest  and  should  receive 
attention  at  the  hands  of  every  one 
in­
terested  in  the  welfare  of  a  community. 
There  is  danger  that  the  universality  of 
the 
interest  may  operate  against  the 
cause,  on  the  principle  that  what  is 
everybody’s  business  is  nobody’s  busi­
ness.

There  is  no  direction  to  day  promis­
ing  so  good  returns  for  public  enter­
prise  as  the  improvement  of  the  roads. 
The  advantages  have  been  sufficiently 
reiterated  and  are  acknowledged  by  all 
of  intelligence  who  have  given  the  sub­
ject  attention.  But  there 
is  an  idea 
prevalent 
it  is  tbe 
farmer’s  business  and  the  farmer,  as  I 
have 
intimated,  is  too  poor  financially, 
and  too  conservative,  to  do  anything  of 
a  permanent  character.  What  can  be 
done?

in  the  towns  that 

If  the  improvement  of  the  roads  is for 
the  benefit  of  all,  some  plan  should  be 
devised  for a  sharing  of  the  expense  by 
all.  Thus,  some  plan  of  state,  county or 
township  prosecution  of  the  work should 
be  put  into operation.  This is  a  matter 
for the  action  of  the  Legislature  and  its

members  should  have  their attention  di­
rected  to  it.

The  question  of  which  system  is  the 
best  is  one that  needs  careful  consider­
ation.  New  Jersey  and  Massachusetts 
have been  very  successful  in  devising  a 
state  system,  which  seems  to  meet  their 
needs,  but  it  may  be  that a  county  sys­
tem,  such  as  has  been  tried  in  some  of 
the  counties  of  this  State,  is  better 
adapted  to  our  needs,  and  more  likely 
to  produce  early  results.

Let  the  importance  of  the  subject  be 
urged.  Every  newspaper  should  be  an 
apostle  of  good  roads,  especially  just  at 
this  season.  Every  business  man  should 
give  it  attention,  and  not  only  urge  the 
farmers  whom  they  may  influence,  to 
take  up  the  matter,  but  they  should  rec­
ognize  the  fact  that  it  is  their  own busi­
ness  and  should  join  actively  in  taking 
measures  to  secure  the  accomplishment 
of  the  work. 

W.  N.  F.

1,000,000,  and 

Less  than  eleven  years  ago  there  were 
only  six  firms  engaged  in  the  business 
of  manufacturing  bicycles,  with  an  out­
put  of  a  few  thousand  wheels.  There 
are  now  more  than  500  firms  with  a 
product  of 
innumerable 
smaller ones,  which  will  probably  add 
200,000  more.  As  nearly  as  can  be 
learned,more  than  3,000,000 bicycles are 
already  in  use  in  the  United States,  and 
some  authorities  make  the  number 
greater  than  this  by  nearly  1,000,000. 
Even  the  smaller  estimate  shows  that 
nearly  one  person  out  of  twenty-four 
has  already  taken  to  the  cycle  as a  mat­
ter  of  business,  amusement  or  health. 
In  France,  where  the  number  is  known 
because  of  the  collection  of  a  tax,  the 
proportion 
in  each  250 of 
the  population.

is  only  one 

Many  physicians 

in  Russia  charge 
only 
15  cents  for  a  consultation,  and, 
although  their  number  is small,  suicides 
are  frequent  among  them,  the  cause  be­
ing  inability  to  make  a  living.

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At following prices to the  consumer.

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Josephine, 7  Button......  ........  0.50
Paris, 7  Button.........................  0.75
Felt,  10 Button.............................0.50
Victoria,  10  Button...................  0.75
Leggings, all Wool, extra long,  1.50 
Legging,  part Wool,...............   1.00

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LET  THE  CURRENCY  ALONE.

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

It 

is  not  to  be  expected  that  public 
attention,  which  has  been  engrossed  by 
the  financial  question  to  such  an  extent 
during  the  past  months,  will  drop  the 
subject  entirely,  even  though 
it  would 
seem  to  be  so  effectually  settled  by  the 
popular  verdict.  While  the  particular 
phase  under  consideration will generally 
be  dismissed  with  the  nausea  of  weari­
ness,  other  phases  will  come  to  the 
front,  for  there 
is  a  considerable  pro­
portion  of  the  people,  and  of  their  serv­
lawmakers,  who  cannot  be 
ants  the 
convinced  that  much  of 
the  recent 
financial  distress  is  not  owing  to  some 
defect 
in  the  forms  of  our  currency. 
Thus,  as  the  time  approaches  for  legis­
lative  meddling,  there  is  much  specula­
tion  as  to  the  changes  to  be  made.

It  would  seem  as  though  the  experi­
ence  of  recent  years  would  have  suffi­
ciently  demonstrated  the  fact  that  legis­
lative  and  political 
interference  with 
financial  questions  has  become  the  most 
serious  drawback  to  business  prosperity 
in  this  country.  The  effect  of  the  re­
cent  campaign,  as  demonstrated  by  the 
industrial  rebound  when  the 
incubus 
was  removed,  is  an  example  of  the  con­
sequence  of  political  interference,which 
is  sufficiently  fresh  in  the  minds  of  all. 
A  salient  example  of  the  effects  of 
leg­
islative  meddling  was  the  long-pending 
consideration  of  the  Wilson  tariff  bill 
two  years  ago,  when  purchases  were  so 
long  suspended  awaiting  the affect  on 
the  value  of  commodities. 
In  addition 
to  these  there  have  been  silver bills, 
bond  bills  and  currency  bills  almost 
without  number,  having  more  or less di­
rect  effect  on  current  business.  It  would 
seem  as  though  the  country 
is  unac­
countably  blind  to  the  effect  of  these 
disturbing  elements  or that  it  is  driven 
by  some 
infatuation  to  keep  up  a  de­
structive  meddling  with  business  inter­
ests.

Now  that  the  silver  question  is  out  of 
the  way,  all  sorts  of  schemes  are  being 
projected  for  the 
improvement  of  the 
currency.  That  the  system  now  in  oper­
ation  is  absolutely  or  nearly  perfect  is  a 
proposition  that  none  will  undertake  to 
maintain.  There  are,  doubtless, 
too 
many  kinds  of  money,  with  too  many 
distinctions  as  to  legal  tender  qualities 
and  modes  of  redemption.  Thus,  the 
silver  certificates  were  an  element  of 
uneasiness  during  the  campaign,  on  ac­
count  of  the  provision  for  their  redemp­
in  silver  coin,  with  possible  de­
tion 
same  way  the 
preciation. 
National  bank  notes  are  redeemable 
in 
Government 
tender  or  silver. 
While,  practically  there  is  no difference 
in  any  of  these  so  long  as  there  is  no 
danger  of  a  depreciation  of  silver  or 
other  forms  of  currency,  they  were  a 
source  of  uncertainty  while  the silver 
question  waspending.  But,  while these 
forms  of  currency  are  not  theoretically 
perfect,  it  is  the  opinion  of  the  Trades­
man  that  vastly  more  harm  will  be  done 
to  business  prosperity  by  efforts  to 
change  them  than  can  possibly  result 
from  their  imperfections.

legal 

the 

In 

it 

But 

is  not  to  these  questionable 
forms  of  the  currency  that  the; attention 
of  the  reformers  is  directed.  Actuated 
by  the  spirit  that  prompted  the  wild­
cat  banking  scheme 
last 
year,  or  by  the 
interests  of  those  who 
would  like  to  furnish  the  paper  circula­
tion,  or  of  those  who  still  have  a 
prejudice  against  the  name  “ green­
back”   on  account  of  the  “ greenback 
craze”   of  twenty  years  ago,  attacks  are 
being  made  on  the  best  forms  of  the

in  Congress 

currency,  not  even  excepting  gold—the 
greenback  and  the  treasury  note.  Sev­
enteen  years’  use of  these,  since  the  re­
sumption  of  specie  payments,  has  dem­
onstrated  to  those  who  have  given  the 
subject  the  most  careful  attention  that 
they  are  the best  forms  in  every way,  as 
well  as  the  cheapest  and  most  economi­
cal.

The  furnishing  of  a  circulating  me­
dium  has  been  claimed  as  a  prerogative 
of  banking;  but  there  are  comparative­
ly  few  who  would  advocate  the  exercise 
of  the  prerogative  independent  of  Gov­
ernment  guarantee.  The  experience  of 
the  past  has  sufficiently  shown  that  the 
most  essential  quality  of  the  circulating 
medium  is  absolute  reliability.  This 
can  only  be  given  by  the  Government. 
To  give  this  guarantee  requires  a  cum­
bersome  and  costly  system  of  guarantee 
deposits  on  the  part  of  the 
issuing 
banks  and  supervision  on  the  part  of 
the  Government.  Thus,  if  there  is  any 
real  banking  in  the  furnishing  of  circu­
lation,  the  Government  has  to  do  the 
most  essential  part,  and  then,  accord­
ing  to  Matthew  Marshall,  the  people 
would  have  to  pay  §15,000,000  a  year  to 
the  banks  for  the  expense  of  the  $400, - 
000,000 of  circulation,  which  now  costs 
nothing.

If 

If, 

idea. 

issue  of 

The  grave  charge  has  been  urged 
against  the  greenback  that  it  constitutes 
an  “ endless  chain”   for  the  pumping  of 
the gold  out  of  the  Treasury,  thus  com­
pelling  the 
interest-bearing 
bonds.  This  has  been  urged  with  a 
plausibility  which  has  given  the  idea 
quite  extended  credence.  The  point 
which  has given  it  the  fatal  quality 
is 
that  the  notes are  re-issued  and  can  be 
used  over  and  over  again  to  draw  out 
little  consideration  shows 
the gold.  A 
the  absurdity  of  this 
the 
notes  were  retired  when  received,  the 
currency  would  be  contracted  to  that 
extent. 
to  prevent  this  contrac­
tion,  new  notes  were  issued  and  the  old 
destroyed,  what  difference  would  re­
sult?  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  the  gold 
went  out  of  the  Treasury  to  pay  the 
Government  expenses,  and  it  was  to  re­
imburse  these  that  bonds  were 
issued, 
and  not  as  the  consequence  of  an  “ end­
less  chain.”   And 
it  went  out  of  the 
country  on  account  of  an  unfavorable 
condition  of  the  trade  balance.  As  this 
has  changed,  it  has  come  back  into  the 
country;  and,  in  spite  of  the  continued 
deficit 
in  the  expenses  of  the  Govern­
ment,  it  goes  back  into the Treasury,  for 
it  is  not  wanted  in the circulation.  With 
right  trade  conditions  and sufficient rev­
enue  for  Governmental  expense  the gold 
would  remain  in  the  Treasury  to any ex­
tent  desired.

If  changes 

Let  the  currency  alone. 

It  may  have 
been the growth  of conditions  affected by 
legislative  tinkering,  which  has  caused 
imperfections;  but  it  is  now  serving the 
purposes  of  trade better  than at any time 
in  the  history  of the  country.  The  vol­
ume  is  approximately  the  correct  one, 
in  that  business  is  based  upon 
it,  and 
radical  change  means  radical  business 
disturbance. 
in  volume 
should  be  found  desirable,  let  them  be 
made  gradually  and  to  as  small  extent 
as  the  needs  may  seem  to  require. 
It  is 
probable  that  all  needful  changes  will 
be  provided  for  in the  maturing  of  Gov­
ernment  securities  and  the  proper  issue 
of  silver  under  the present coinage laws. 
The  proposition  and  urging  of  any  rad­
in  form  or  quantity  will 
ical  changes 
only  result 
industrial  disturbance 
more serious  than  any  possible  good  to 
be  attained.  We  have  had  enough  of 
this.  Let  the  currency  alone!

in 

Aluminum  in  the  Kitchen.

For  domestic  utensils,  aluminum  is 
destined  to  be 
in  increasing  demand. 
They  are  so  pretty,  so  light  and  so  easy 
to  keep  clean,  and  they  cost  just enough 
more  than  other  kinds  to  make  them 
fashionable.  Complete  kitchen  outfits, 
from  coffee  pot  to  frying  pan,  are  now 
manufactured. 
It  is  certain  that  water 
can  boil  quicker  in  an  aluminum  pot or 
pan  than  in  a  vessel  of  any  other metal, 
for  two  reasons—the  aluminum  is  made 
very  thin,  and 
is  an  excellent  con­
ductor  of  heat.  For  covered  dishes  de­
signed  to  retain  the  heat  aluminum 
is 
the best  metal  we  have.

It  is  a  remarkable  feature  of  some  of 
these  utensils  that they  are  cast  and  not 
stamped.  A  tea  kettle  can  be  cast  only 
the  sixteenth  of  an  inch  in  thickness, 
that  will  stand  any  amount  of  banging 
and  denting,  which  would  lead  anyone 
not  familiar  with  the  facts  to  suppose 
that 
it  was  made  of  rolled  or  stamped 
metal.

it 

See  that  the  goods  in  your  store  are 
the  kind  that  people  want.  Don't  think 
they  a re ;  make  sure  of  it. 
If  you  have 
any  goods  that  are  out  of  style,  or soiled 
or  wrong  in  any  way—and  there  always 
are  in  the  best  of  shops—get rid of  them 
even  at  an  apparent  loss.  It’s  not  a  real 
loss;  it's  a  gain,  for  goods  are  only 
worth  what  they  will  sell  for.  All  peo­
ple  make  mistakes,  especially  buyers, 
but  if  you  do  make  a  mistake  admit 
it 
and  rectify  it  at  once.  Don’t wait—it's 
more  money  lost  to  wait.

A  motor  car  scheme 
It 

is  being  pro­
moted  in  Liverpool. 
is 
intended  to 
introduce  motor  cars  capable of drawing 
three  wagons  carrying  ten  tons  of  prod­
uce.  The  wagons  are  to  be  loaded  at 
the  ship's  side,  and  the  ordinary  high­
ways  are  to  be  utilized  without 
laying 
rails  or  using  any  other  mechanical 
aids.

We  have  cigars  to  burn.  G.  J.  John­
son  Cigar  Co.,  manufacturer  o f  the 
S.  C.  W.  5c  Cigar.

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

(MXeNTED
FW23I89S

DO  YOUR  FEET  SU P ?

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.

PINQ REE &  SM ITH,  Manufacturers.

successors to

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

Michigan Agents for

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

Lycoming  Rubbers  Lead  all  other 
Brands  in  Fit,  Style  and  Wearing 
Qualities.  Try them.

— Remember

The

largest stock of  Ladies’  and  Gentlemen’s

Mackintoshes

In  Michigan  is with

Studley  &   B arclay,

Grand Rapids.

Send for. 

.

.

.

.
SAMPLES  OF  CLOTH,
PRICE  LISTS  AND  DISCOUNTS.

S  ftfyhiJfdfippess  (Tt/yàu/Çb/i/yaeja  (S/f

I New  Clipper  Bearings.

i  
^   Grand Rapids Cycle Co., Grand Rapids, Mich.
© 

Gentlemen:—

•• Detroit, Mich , Oct. 5,1896.

I want to congratulate  you on your Clipper 
Bicycle bearings for '96.  So far we have not replaced 
S  a  single  bearing,  nor  heard  of one  wearing  in  the 
a  slightest manner. 
§* 
S' 
I   Sept. 1st, 1896.
0  

Mr. Macauley sold  344 189«  Clipper Bicycles up to 

Q/ÿidQDfyaao  Q/\fèu/^Df]peM

J. F. MACAULEY.”

Yours truly,

Piatt 218.

CLIPPER BEARINGS
KiiPsiTi« world.

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

Clerks’  Corner

How  the  Society  Inclined  Clerk  Can 

Bring  Grist  to  Mill.
From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Winter  coming  on  again  brings  with 
it  the season of sociables,  parties,  dances 
it’s 
and  so  on—the  social  season,  as 
called. 
It  is  not necessary  to  say  to  the 
average  clerk,  “ You  want  to  be  in  it.’ ’ 
The  average  clerk  usually  is  in  it  from 
start  to finish ;  and thereby he sometimes 
makes  mistakes.  He  wants  to  go  so 
much  that  his  employer  doesn’t  like  itt 
This  is  short-sighted  policy  on  the  em­
ployer’s  part,  no  doubt,  for  a  clerk  who 
is  popular about  town  with  the  class  of 
people  who  buy  goods  can  bring  a  no. 
amount  of  business 
inconsiderable 
But  shortsighted 
through  “ society.”  
as  this  policy 
is,  there  are  some  em­
ployers  who  believe 
in  it and,  as  they 
are the boss, the clerk must  knuckle  to  it.

*  *  *

I  speak  of  this  subject  because  I  am 
reminded  of  a  young  friend  in  a  small 
town  who  was a  social  favorite,  but  who 
was  obliged  to  curb  his  desires  in  that 
direction,  owing  to  the  objections  of his 
employer,  an  old  merchant,  who  seem­
ingly  had  lost all  count  of  the  fact  that 
he  had  ever  been  young  himself.  The 
young  man  stood  it  one  winter,  but  the 
next he  determined  to  quit  rather  than 
miss  most  of  the  affairs,  so he  Bided his 
time  and  waited.  The  first  dance  of 
the  season  he attended,  going  after  the 
store  closed.  The  next  week  there  was 
a  church  sociable  that he  was  anxious 
to  go  to,  owing,  perhaps,  to  the  fact 
that a  certain  fair-haired  damsel  was  to 
sing  a  solo  early  in  the  evening.  His 
employer objected  to  his  getting  away 
before  the  closing  hour—9  o'clock. 
Visions  of  the  fair  hair  rose  up  before 
him  and  nerved  him  to  end  it  then  and 
there.  He  did.

*  *  *

Saying  that  the  clerk  should  make 
himself  popular  with  those  who  buy 
goods  does  not  mean  making  himself 
popular  with  only  the  bon  tons.  The 
bon  tons are  not the big  buyers,  but  the 
average  class  are  the customers  to  work 
for.  The  clerk  makes  a  mistake  in  be­
coming  dudish  or  too  good 
for  the 
blacksmith  and  the bricklayer.  It  is  not 
necessary to look  down  on  the  carpenter 
in  order  to  become  popular.  On  the 
contrary  that 
is  the  surest  way  to  win 
dislike.  Be  a  friend  to  everybody. 
When  you  meet  Hank  Smith  on  the 
street  salute  with  a  “ Hello,  Hank, 
how’s  Pete?”   as  pleasantly  and  scrupu­
lously  as  you  greet  Maj.  Bond,  the 
banker.  At  the  party  make  yourself 
generally  agreeable.  Don’t  eschew  the 
girls  and  fellows  who  are  not  quite  top 
notch,  as  it  were,  and keep yourself with 
the  “ dead  swell”  
exclusively. 
There’s  policy  in  all  this  and  playing 
policy 
isn’t  always  a  disadvantage by 
any  means.

set 

#  *  *

There’s  one  thing,  however,  that  a 
clerk  should 
look  out  for,  and  that  is 
getting  mixed  with  too  many  social  en­
terprises  which  engross  his  attention 
and  keep  his  mind  on  matters  other 
than  his  work.  Making  arrangements 
for  parties,  etc.,  requires time and many 
consultations. 
It  keeps  people  running 
into  the  store  to  talk  it  over.  This  is 
not  right  and  the  clerk  should  discour­
age  it.  Such  consultations  should  be 
held  during  the  clerk’s  lunch  or  supper 
hour or after  hours.  The  merchant who 
finds  that  his  clerk  is  devoting  most  of 
his  thinking  to  dances  and  parties  isn’t 
apt  to  like  it. 
It  may  do  no  harm,  but 
the  merchant  is  pretty  sure  to  look  at  it 
as  being  a  good  deal  too  foreign  to 
for 
business 
clerk  to  become 
wrapped  up 
It  is  well,  there­
fore,  for the  clerk  to  fight  shy of  getting 
too  deeply  interested  in  matters  social, 
to  the  extent,  at  least,  that  there  may 
be  cause  for  “ the  boss”   to  fancy  his in­
terests  neglected.

the 
it. 

in 

“ Mr.  Slater,”   he  said,  respectfully, 
" I   am  aware  that  you  do  not  believe  in 
my  going  to  balls  and  parties.  All  last 
winter  you  refused  me  every  time  I 
asked  to  get  off  a  little  early  for that 
reason.  You  have  just  denied  me again. 
Now  I  want to  ask  you  to  talk  this  mat­
ter  over  with  me  on  a  strictly  business 
basis,  if  you  will. 
I  won’t  deny  that  I 
want  logo  to  social  affairs  for  the pleas­
ure  I  derive  from  them—but there 
is  a 
business  side,  too,  that  I  don’t  believe 
you  have  given  sufficient  attention. 
Last  Friday  night  I  went  to  a  dance. 
Purposely 
in  my  conversation  I  men­
tioned  to  Bessie  Ellis  and  Sadie  Harris 
the  new  patent  leather  slippers  we  got 
in  last  week.  Sadie  Harris  was  in  yes­
terday  and  bought  a  pair and  Bess  has 
looked  at  them  and  says  she  will  get  a 
pair  Saturday.  Harry  Myers  was 
bothered  about  a  birthday  present  for 
bis  sister,and  I  had  his  promise to come 
in  and 
look  at  the  fans  we got  in  last 
month  before  I  left  him.  He  bought  a 
$3.50  fan  to-day.  I  have  made  five good 
sales  this  week  that  I  traced  directly  to 
that  dance.  Now,  if  you  will 
let  me 
get  away  early  when  something  of  that 
kind 
is  going  on,  I  will  continue  this 
same  policy  and  will  guarantee  you  that 
it  will  be  profit  to  you,  as  well  as  a  big 
favor to me. ’ ’

*  *  *

Contrary,  really,  to  expectations,  “ the 
old  man”   did  not go off  in  a  huff.  He 
said,  “ Well,  I ’ll  think  about 
it.  You 
can  go  to-night  and  I ’ll  tell  you  what  I 
think  about  your  proposition  to-mor­
row.”   The  young  man  thanked  him 
and  that  evening  did  his  best  to  talk 
just  enough  shop when  he  could  without 
giving  opportunity  for  offense  or  carry­
ing  the  impression  that  he  was a  walk­
ing  advertisement.  He  got  two  returns 
the  next  day, and  as  luck  would  have  it, 
Bessie  E llis  came  in  and  got a  pair  of 
patent  leather  slippers. 
In  an  off-hand 
way  these  facts  were  put  in  possession 
of  “ the  boss.”   He  capitulated. 
“ I ’ll 
agree  to  your  proposition,’ ’  he  said, 
“ only  don’t  abuse  the  privilege  or  I 
shall  nullify  the  contract immediately.’ ’ 
In  this  unique  way  that  clerk  secured 
the  desired  permission. 
It  paid  the 
merchant,  too. 

J

The  Tyrant  on  the  Mantelpiece.

From the Pall Hall Gazette.

It 

is  no  exaggeration  to  sav  that  the 
clock  is  gradually  enslaving  the  whole 
of  the  civilized  world.  Not  one of  us 
but  can  call  to  mind  among  our ac­
quaintances 
individuals  who  belong 
body  and  soul  to the clock—whose whole 
lives  are  dominated  by  its  chimes  and 
intervals.  The  attitude  of  such  persons 
is  one of  servile  deference  to  the  clock.
Everything  they  do  is  with  a  view  of 
conforming  to 
its  wishes.  They  sleep 
by  the  clock,  dress  by  the  clock,  eat  by 
the clock,  sit,  walk,  read,  smoke,  work 
by  the  clock.  Their  beads  are  full  of 
periods  of  time—hours,  minutes  and 
seconds.  They  spend  their  lives  count­
ing  them.  They  can  nevei  enjoy  them­
selves  or let  themselves go  without pull­
ing  themselves  up  suddenly  for  fear 
they  should  forget  the  clock.  They  will 
stop  doing  something  useful,  interest­
ing  and  enjoyable  and  force  themselves 
to  do  something  dull  and  uninteresting, 
simply  because  the  clock  happens  to 
strike.  And  no  matter  how greatly they 
desire  to  change  an irksome occupation, 
they  will  stick  to 
it,  because,  forsooth, 
the  clock  has  not  yet  struck.  They  may 
be  enjoying  the  most  delightful  slum­
ber,  of  a  morning,  but  will  bound  out of 
bed  like  a  skyrocket  because  the  clock 
happens  to  strike.  And  though  they 
have  not  the  slightest 
inclination  for 
sleep,  they  will  put  themselves  forcibly 
to  bed  because  the  finger of  the  clock 
marks a  certain  hour.  Their  whole lives 
are  spent  in  trying  to  force their natures 
into  accordance  with  a  mere  machine.
Such  people are as  much  slaves  to  the 
clock  as  the genii  in  the  story  of  Alad­
din  were  slaves  to  the  lamp.  They  are 
perpetually  at 
its  beck  and  call  and 
must obey  its  voice  as  they  would  that 
of  the  veriest  tyrant.

The  only  smoke  the  insurance agents 
are  not afraid  of  is  that of  the  S.  C.  W. 
Sc  Cigar.  Best  on  earth—sold  by all 
jobbers.

Mexico  produced  53,983,509  pounds 
last  year,  the  yield  of  more 

of  coffee 
than  50,000,000  trees.

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I M U H I I   ASPHALT ROOF COATING
WARREN CHEMICAL AND MANUFACTURING CO.

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

81 Fulton street. NEW YORK.

iiao Chamber of Commerce. DETROIT.

Weatherly 
& Pulte,

99  Pearl St., 
GRAND  RAPIDS.

Plumbing  and  Steam  Heating;  Gas \ 
and  Electric Fixtures;  Galvanized  Iron 
Cornice and Slate Roofing.  Every kind 
of Sheet Metal  Work.

Pumps and  Well Supplies.
Hot Air Furnaces.

Beat equipped and largest concern in the State.

C H A R L E S   riA N Z E L H A N N

B R O O M S   A N D   W H IS K S

M A N U FA CTU RER  O F

DETROIT.  MICH.

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Photograph of  your
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THE  BABY 
YOUR  PET  DOG 
YOUR  STORE  FRONT 
THE  OLD  HORSE 
THAT  STRING  OF  FISH
YOUR  OWN  "P H Y S .”

(You didn’t catch)

YOU

ARE  NOTHING 
NOW -A-DAYS 

IF  YOU 
ARE  NOT 
ORIGINAL.

/ ^ N V - r m i M n  

_____

You w ould like to   hand  o u t  to  y o u r friends 
o r custom ers on Ja n u a ry   1st.  W e w ill  re ­
produce it and  g e t  you  up  a   C alendar w ith  
an  individuality  th a t  w on’t   need  a   trad e ­
m ark o r a  p atent.

W E  ALSO  HAVE  A VARIETY  OF  D E­
SIGNS  IN  STOCK  WHICH  W E   CAN 
FURNISH  ON  IMMEDIATE  NOTICE.

Dop’tpapg fife!
Talk JJowI

TRADESM AN  COM PANY*

Getters-up of Original Printing.

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17

Commercial T ravelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President,  S.  E.  Symons,  Saginaw;  Secretary, 
G eo.  F.  Ow e n ,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  J. 
F rost, Lansing.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, J. F. Co o pe r, Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. M o r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H.  U.  Ma r k s,  Detroit;  Secretary, 
E d w in H udso n,  Flint;  Treasurer,  G*o.  A.  R e y ­
n olds,  Saginaw.

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, G e o. F. Ow e n ,  Grand  Rapids;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  J ab.  B.  M cI n n e s,  Grand 
Rapids.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow e n ,  Grand Rapids. 

President, A. F. P e a k e , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  o f   Directors—F .  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h il d ,  G e o.  F.  Ow e n ,  J.  H en r y  Da w l e y ,  G eo. 
J.  H e in ze l m a n , C h a s. S.  R o binson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B row n.  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ix son,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

The  successful  old  timer  on  the  road 
never  has  a  good  trade,  at  least  he  al­
ways  answers,  when  asked  the  condi­
tions  of  trade,  “ very dull,”   but  he  con­
tinues  on  his  route  when  the great sales­
man  is  forgotten.

So  far  as  the  Tradesman’s 

informa­
tion  goes,  there  are  six  candidates  for 
the  position  of  Secretary  of  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip—Geo.  F. 
Owen,  Grand  Rapids ;  Dell  C.  Slaght, 
Flint;  VV.  V.  G.awley,  M.  Howarn  and 
J.  W.  Schram,  Detroit;  J.  B.  Heydlauff, 
Jackson.

The  Tradesman  hopes  to  see  a  large 
turnout  of  the  Grand  Rapids  boys at the 
first  social  party  of  Post  E,  which  will 
be held  at  Imperial  Hall  the  first Satur­
day  evening 
in  December.  All  mem­
bers  of  the  Post  are  requested  to  come 
early,  to  participate  in  a  meeting  held 
for  the  purpose  of  making  the  prelimi­
nary  arrangements  for attending the De­
troit  meeting.

R.  N.  Hull  in  Ohio Merchant :  Com­
mercial 
travelers  have  much  to  be 
thankful  for  this  year  and  should  hold 
Thanksgiving  day 
in  grateful  remem­
brance.  They  should  rejoice  that  the 
wheels  of  commerce  are  still  rolling  on­
ward ;  that  they  have  been  able  to  hold 
jobs  through  the  depression  until 
their 
the  light  of  better  days  now 
illumines 
the  departing  gloom.  And,  last  but  not 
least,  abundance  in  sight  is  a guarantee 
that  a  prosperous  and  happy  career  is 
opening  up  that  will  lead  on  to  success.
Two  Grand  Rapids  gentlemen  will re­
spond  to  toasts  at  the  annual  banquet  of 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  at 
Detroit  Dec.  29,  S.  M.  Lemon  having 
been  assigned  the  topic,  “ The  Em ­
ployer, ”   while  W.  Fred.  Blake will dis­
cuss  the  subject,  “ The  Em ployed." 
The  first  assignment 
is  all  right,  but 
whoever  has  undertaken  the  preparation 
of  the  programme  made  a  serious  mis­
take  in  the  latter  assignment.  There  is 
only  one  subject  on  which  Mr.  Blake  is 
thoroughly  posted,  and  that  is  a  topic 
on  which  he  is  admirably  fitted  to  talk, 
both  by  association  and  experience— 
the  simple  topic  of  “ G irls."

Stephen  T.  Bowen,  who  has  covered 
the  clothing  trade  of  Michigan  twenty- 
five  consecutive years  for Clement,  Bane 
&  Co.,  transfers  his  allegiance  to  B. 
Kuppenheimer  &  Co.  Dec.  1,  taking 
the  same  territory  as  heretofore.  The 
transfer  is  occasioned  by a contemplated 
change  in  the  old  house,  but  whether  it 
will  culminate  in  Clement,  Bane  &  Co. 
retiring  from  trade  will  be  determined 
at the anaual meeting of  the .stockhold­

in  December.  Mr.  Bowen 

ers 
insists 
that  his  new  line  is  strictly  up-to-date, 
and  asserts  that  the  day  of  “ job 
lots" 
and  “ bankrupt  stocks"  is  passed,  so 
far  as  he  is  concerned.  Mr.  Bowen  is 
universally  conceded  to be the smoothest 
salesman  who  ever  traversed  the  State, 
his  wonderful  fertility  of  resource,  per 
suasive  eloquence  and  nonchalant  man­
ner  enabling  him  to  undertake  and  con­
summate  deals 
in  alleged  bankrupt 
stocks  which  would  stagger  a  man  of 
less  ingenuity  and  determination.  The 
Tradesman  has  on  file  full  particulars of 
several  transactions  of  this  character ; 
and,  now  that  Mr.  Bowen  announces 
his 
intention  of  abandoning  the  “ job 
lot"  feature  of  his  work  hereafter,  the 
Tradesman  will  take  pleasure  in  regal­
ing  its  readers,  from  time  to  time,  with 
the  amusing  details  of  the  transactions.
Quarterly  Meeting  of  the  Board  of 

Directors,  M.  K. of G.

Grand  Rapids,  Nov.  23—The  regular 
quarterly  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Di­
rectors  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  was  held  at  Lansing  Saturday, 
Nov.  21.  All  of  the  members  of  the 
Board  were  present  except  Director 
Streat.
Secretary  Owen  presented  his  finan­
cial  report,  showing  total  receipts  for 
the  death  benefit  fund  of  $94  and  $10  in 
the general  fund,  for  both  of  which  he 
held  the  Treasurer’s  receipts.  The  re­
port  was  approved  by  the  Finance Com­
mittee  and  adopted  and  placed  on  file.
Treasurer  Frost  presented  his  report, 
showing  cash  on  hand 
in  the  general 
fund  of  $361.78  and  disbursements  of 
$330.07,  leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of 
$31.71. 
In  the  death  benefit  fund  he 
had  on  hand  $2,288.96  and  had  made 
disbursements  of  $1,150,  leaving  a  bal­
ance  on  hand  of $1,138.96.

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

The  report  was  approved  by 

 

 

ery...........................  

The  following  bills  were  presented 
and,  on  recommendation  of  the Finance 
Committee,  the Treasurer was instructed 
to  draw  orders  for  the  amounts :
Gen. F. Owen, salary for quarter............... $ 7 20
Tradesman Company, printing and station­
19 25
John R  Wood, printing................................ 
2 50
S. E. Svmons, attendance Board meeting...  4  95 
Geo. F’ Owen, attendance B  ard meeting..  4 85
A. F. Peake, attendanc •  Board meeting—   3 Os
F  M. Tyler, attendance Board  meeting----  3 20
.John R. Wood, attenda  ce Board meeting  5 02
B. D. Palmer, attendance Board meeting...  4 56
Post  C  (Detroit)  was  voted  $50  to 
meet  the  expense  of  sending  out  the  in­
vitations  for  our next  convention.
Proofs  of  death  of  Neil  J.  Browne  and 
Geo.  M.  Stone  were  presented  and  ap­
proved  and  the  Secretary  was  instructed 
to  issue  warrants  on  the  Treasurer to the 
amount  of  $500 for  each  beneficiary.

Treasurer  Frost  reported  that,  after 
the  payment  of  above  claims,  there 
would  be  less  than  $500  in  the death 
fund.  The  Board  ordered  the  Secretary 
to 
issue  Assessment  No.  3,  to  be  sent 
out with  the  notice  of  the  annual  dues, 
making  the  total  payment  $3.
The  special  Committee  on  Amend­
ment  presented  its  report,  which,  after 
discussion,  was  adopted  and  ordered  to 
be  printed  in  a  circular  letter  and  sent 
out  to  each  member  with  the  Assess­
ment  No.  3.
Director  Wood  was  instructed to make 
arrangements  at  some  hotel  for  head­
quarters  during  the  convention.

The  Board  then  adjourned,  to  meet  in 

Detroit  Dec.  29.

G eo.  F.  Ow en,  Sec’y.

Shop-Worn.

Solomon—Why  do  you  advertise  that 

your  clothing  “ fits  like  a  glove?”

Isaacs—Pecause  I  haf  had 

hand"  so  long,  ain’t  id?

it  “ on 

All  traveling  men  do  not agree  on  the 
silver  and  gold  question,  but  they  all 
agree  that  the  S.  C.  W,  is  the best 
nickel cigar on earth,......................

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

Dell  C.  Slaght,  Flint’s  Candidate  for 

Secretary  of the  M.  K.  of G.

Dell  C.  Slaght  was  born  at  Grand 
Blanc,  Michigan,  a  small  town  seven 
miles  from  Flint,  in  1862,  and  lived  on 
a  farm  until  1876,  when  he  moved  with 
his  parents  to  Flint,  where  he  attended 
school  until  1879.  He  then  entered  the 
employment  of  Jas.  Jacobs,  in  a  gen­
eral  store  at  Davison,  where  he  worked 
one  year.  From  that  time  until  1884 
he  was  employed  by  O.  M.  Smith  & 
Co.,  the  American  Express  Co.  and  C. 
L.  Bartlett  &  Co.  He  commenced  trav­
eling  for  Fuller,  Childs  &  Co.,  boot 
and  shoe  dealers  of  Toledo,  in  1884,  and 
was  with  that  house  until  March  15, 
1886,  when  he  entered  the  employment 
of  Lawrence  Depew  &  Co.,  wholesale 
cracker  manufacturers  of  Detroit,  which

ing,  held 
Saturday,  Nov.  21,  Mr. 
Slaght’s  candidacy  was  endorsed  with­
out a  dissenting  vote.

A l b e r t   M y e r s .

Geo.  F.  Owen  Endorsed  by  Post  E.
At  a  meeting  of  Post  E,  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip,  held  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel  last  Saturday  evening,  the  Enter­
tainment  Committee  reported  that it had 
arranged  to  hold  a  combined  pedro 
party  and 
informal  dance  on  Saturday 
evening,  Dec.  5,  at  Imperial  Hall,  667 
Wealthy  avenue. 
report  was 
adopted.

The 

On  motion  of  J.  N.  Bradford,  the 
Post  unanimously  endorsed  the  candi­
dacy of  Geo.  F.  Owen  for  re-election  as 
Secretary  of  the  State  organization.

The  subject  of  attending  the  Detroit 
convention  with  as  representative  a  del­
egation  as  possible  was then  introduced, 
culminating  in  the adoption  of  a  resolu­
tion  to  refer the  matter to a general com­
mittee  of  three  members,  which  com­
mittee  shall  undertake  the  supervision 
of  the  work,  appointing  such  sub-com­
mittees  as  may  be  deemed  desirable. 
The  chairman  appointed as such general 
committee  Chas. 
I.  Flynn,  Byron  S. 
Davenport  and  W.  E.  Richmond.

It  was  announced  that  the  railways  of 
the  State  had  granted  a  half  fare  rate  to 
the convention.

N E W   R E PU B L IC

Reopened  Nov.  35.

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Steam beat,

Electric Bells amt Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1 50 to S3 00.

Cor. Saginaw ami  Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHINDHETT,  Prop

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

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J. T. CONNOLLY, Pr iprietor, Grand Rapids, 
52 S. Ionia St., Opposite Union Depot.

company  merged  into  the  United  States 
Baking  Co.  in  June,  1890,  since  which 
time  he  has  traveled  continuously  and 
acceptably  for  that  institution.

Mr.  Slaght  was  married  to  Miss  Fan­
nie  B.  Eldridge,  of  Flint, in  1884,  where 
they  have  since  lived.

Mr.  Slaght  became  a  member  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  in  1889— 
the  year  of  its  organization—and  holds 
membership  certificate  No. 
121.  He 
was  Vice-President  of  the  organization 
three  years  and  has  never asked  for  any 
office  in  any  society  that he  belongs  to 
until  this  time.  He  is  also a member of 
the  following  societies:  Genesee  Lodge 
No.  174,  F.  and  A.  M.  ;  Ivanhoe  Lodge 
No.  27,  K.  of  P.  ;  Apollo  Council  No. 
27,  Royal  Arcanum;  Flint Council,  No. 
29,  U.  C.  T.  ;  Flint  Court  No.  29,  I. 
O.  F.  ;  Flint  Division,  No.  1,  Loyal 
Guard;  Flint  Lodge,  No.  222,  B.  P.  O. 
E.  He  holds  the  position  of  Grand 
Conductor  in  the  Grand  Council  of  the 
U.  C.  T.  of  Michigan,  which  order  he 
has  been  instrumental  in  organizing 
in 
Michigan  and 
in  which  he  has  always 
been  an  ardent  worker.

Personally,  Mr.  Slaght  has  hosts  of 
friends,  at  home and  on  the  road  where 
he travels.  He 
is  a  poor  man,  finan­
cially,  for  reasons  best known to himself 
and  a  few  personal  friends.  He  has  had 
a  good  deal  of  experience 
in  secretary 
work,  being  Secretary  of  Flint  Council, 
No.  29,  for  six  years,  and  if  the  M ichi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip  see  fit  to  elect 
Dell  C.  Slaght  Secretary,  they  may  rest 
assured  that  every detail of the office will 
be  fully  attended  to  by  him  personally. 
Mr.  Slaght  has  the  names  of  all  the 
Flint  members  and  several  new  appli­
cants,  and  will  organize  a Post Saturday 
night,  Nov.  28.  At  an  informal meet­

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

Drugs—Chem icals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1896
C. A. B u g b e e . Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31, 1897
S. E.  Parkii.l, Owosso 
-  Dec. 31,1898
F. W. R.  Pe b b y ,  Detroit 
- 
A. C. Sch u m a c h eb,  Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
G eo. G u n d ru m ,  Ionia  - 
Dec. 31,1900

------- 
- 

President, S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, F.  W.  R.  P e b b y , Detroit.
Treasurer, G eo.  G u n d ru m , Ionia.
Coming  Examination  Sessions—Detroit,  Jan.  6 
and  7;  Grand  Rapids,  March  2  and 3;  Star 
Island  {Detroit),  June—;  Upper  Peninsula, 
Aug. —.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. Phillips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schrouder, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Chas. Mann, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. Co lh a n,  Kalamazoo;  G eo.  J.  W a b d ,  St. 
C l a ib ;  A .  B.  St e v e n s,  Detroit;  F .  W.  R. 
P e b b y , Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Arsenic—Prices  here  for  powdered 
white  are  firmly  maintained,  in  sym­
pathy  with  the  continued  improved  sit­
uation  abroad.

Balsams— Copaiba  has 

advanced. 
Holders  of  Peru  are  firm  in  their views.
light,  prices 

Cacao  Butter—Stocks 

firm.

Cantharides—Russian, 

reduced 

in 

supply  and  firmer.

Cassia  Buds—Still  in  good  demand 

and  a  very  strong  feeling  prevails.

Essential  Oils—Anise 

Castor  Oil—Market  very  firm  and 
holders  of  prime  are  not  willing  sellers.
is  still  going 
lower  and  prices  have  again  been  re­
duced.  Citronella,  higher  quotations 
from  Ceylon  have  resulted  in  a  firmer 
feeling  here.  The  business  in  pepper­
mint  has  improved  and  quotations  are 
steady.

Glycerine—Still 

in 

limited  demand, 

but  strong.

Gums—A  fair  business  is  reported  as 
to  asafoetida,  with  the  market  strong 
and  tending  upward.  Camphor 
is  ex­
ceedingly  firm ;  but  the  confidently-ex­
pected  advance  at  the  hands  of  Ameri­
can  refiners  has  not  yet materialized,  al­
though  the  reported 
situation 
abroad  would  seem  to  warrant  higher 
quotations  on  this  side  the  water.  The 
reports  seem  to  lack  confirmation,  how­
ever.  One  was  to  the  effect  that a  cer­
tain  Hamburg  refiner  had  taken  up  the 
entire  stock  of  crude  belonging  to  the 
London  syndicate.

lively 

Juniper  Berries—Market  is  active and 
prices  are  higher,  and  they  seem  to  be 
getting  a  fair  share  of  attention.

Leaves—Demand 

and  values  are  steady.

is  good  for  senna 

Lycopodium—The  market 

is  weak 
and  demoralized,  there  being  pressure 
to  sell  and  an  entire  absence of demand.
Morphine—Moderate  consuming  de­

mand  but  the  market  is  tame.

Opium—Demand has  very  perceptibly 

lessened

Podophyllin—Scarcity  and  enhanced 
in 

cost of  mandrake  root  have  resulted 
advanced  quotations

Roots—Good  seasonable  demand  for 
ipecac  and  prices  remain  firm.  Jalap  is 
steady.  Mexican  sarsaparilla 
is  very 
dull.  Possibly  small  lots  of  mandrake 
might  be  picked  up,  but  the  stock  is 
practically  exhausted.  Gentian 
is  very 
firm  at  the  late advance.  St.  Vincent 
arrowroot 
is  higher,  being  very  scarce, 
with  only  small  quantities  obtainable.

Seeds—Coriander,  market 

is  active 
and  strong.  Celery 
is  unsettled,  with 
prices  as  variable  as  a  woman’s  fancy. 
Demand  for  mustard  has  bettered  in  a 
general  way,  although there is no change 
to  note  in  values.  A  good  business  is 
going  forward  in  poppy.  Local  holders 
of  German  rape  have  advanced  their

quotations,  owing 
to  higher  prices 
abroad.  Cardamons  remain  very  strong 
at  the advance  mentioned  in  last week's 
issue.

Sugar  of  Milk—Demand 

is  active, 
but  the  long-looked-for advance  has  not 
yet  put  in  its  appearance.

Rumors  About  Camphor.

From the New York Shipping List.

In  the  early  part  of  the  week,  advices 
were  received  from  London  by  letter 
detailing  a  new campaign  of  operations 
in  the  crude  camphor  market,  to  the 
effect  that  a  camphor  refiner of  large 
means  in  Hamburg had relieved the syn­
dicate  of  the  entire  stock  of  crude  con­
trolled  by 
in  the  various  markets. 
After  the  receipt  of  this  unexpected  in­
telligence,  the announcement  came  by 
cable  that  the  London  price  of  crude 
had  dropped  i6s.  This  piece  of  infor­
mation  was  a  greater  surprise  than  the 
first  advices,  but  the  amount of  the  de­
cline  proved  to  be  a  mistake,  as  subse­
quent  cables  made  a  correction  of  5s.

it 

is 

in  progress,  but 

The  manner of  communicating the in­
formation  indicated  an  unsettled  state 
of  affairs 
in  London,  as  if  the  market 
there  had  been  greatly  disturbed by con­
flicting  rumors,  and  efforts  were  made 
to  get  at  the actual  trouble,  without  suc­
cess. 
Interested  parties  here  hardly 
know  what  to  think  of  the  situation 
abroad,  but  they  are  patiently  awaiting 
a  confirmation  or  denial  of  the  reports. 
It  is  believed  that  manipulation of some 
sort 
is  hard  to 
realize  that  the  bluffing  syndicate  has 
succeeded 
its  stock  and 
deserted  the  market. 
If  the  Hamburg 
refiner  referred  to  has  complete  control, 
it  remains  to be  seen  how  the  one-man 
power  will  influence  the  Formosa  mar­
ket.  The  reported  decline  in  price  of 
crude,  following  the  alleged  retirement 
of  the  syndicate,  is  one  of  the  puzzling 
it  may  be  classed  among 
features,  but 
the  peculiar  speculative  tactics 
for 
which  London  is  noted.  The  local  mar­
ket  has  not  been  influenced  a  particle 
by  the  rumors.

in  unloading 

it 

The  Sultan  of  Turkey  a  Bad  Debtor. 
From the New York Tribune.

A  certain 

included  mahogany 

lumber  firm  of  this  city 
more  than  two  years  ago  shipped  to  the 
Sultan  of  Turkey  several  thousand  dol­
lars’  worth  of  its  most  valuable  goods. 
The  order 
and 
ebony 
logs  of  unusual  size,  and  of  the 
finest  coloring  and  general  quality  that 
could  be  obtained.  The  payment,  or 
rather  the  promise  to  pay,  was  in  the 
shape  of  a  draft  on  the  Sultan,  the 
money  to  be  forthcoming  upon  the  ar­
rival  of  the 
logs  at  Constantinople. 
Naturally  the  American  firm  regarded 
the  Imperial  Treasury of Turkey as good 
for  the  price  of  a  shipment  of  lumber.
In  due  time  the  mahogany  and  the 
ebony  reached  the  Golden  Horn,  and 
the  Mediterranean  Steamship  Company 
sent  in to the shippers a gentle  reminder 
that  the  settlement  of  freight  charges 
was  in  order.  But  meanwhile  nothing 
had  been  heard  from  the  Sultan  or  his 
agents,  and  the  New  York  lumber  deal­
ers  did  not  fancy  being  held responsible 
for  charges  upon  goods  which  were  not 
yet  paid  for.  Cable  dispatches  and  let­
ters  were  sent  to  the  Porte,  but  the 
“ Sick  Man  of  Europe’ ’  was  apparently 
too  busy  attending  to  his  Armenian sub­
jects  to  be  able  to  look  after  such  trifles 
as  settling  with  American  creditors. 
No  satisfactory  response  of  any  sort 
could  be  obtained.

Then  the  lumber  firm  made  applica­
tion  to  Mavroyeni  Bey,  at  that  time  the 
Turkish  Minister  at  Washington.  He 
promised  to  see  that  his  sovereign  paid 
the  bill  without  further  delay,  and  the 
hopes  of  the  dealers  were  again  raised. 
But  not  even  Mavroyeni  Bey  was able 
to  open  the  Sultan's 
purse-strings. 
The  Armenian  question  still  absorbed 
bis  attention.  Mavroyeni  Bey  was  re­
called  without  having accomplished  this 
bit of  work.  The  firm  had  a 
lawyer 
working  on  the  case,  but  had  for months 
practically  abandoned  all  idea  of  ever 
getting  the  money.

On  the  last  day  of  October,  very ap­
propriately  on  the  occasion  of  the  great

sound-money  parade  in  this  city,  things 
took  a  most  unexpected  and  joyful  turn. 
Influenced  afar  off,  it  may  be,  by  the 
prevailing  American  sentiment  in  favor 
of  paying  one’s debts  honestly,  the  Sul­
tan,  too,  decided  against  repudiation, 
and  about  noon  on  that  day  word  was 
sent  to  the  firm  that  the  draft  had  been 
paid.  Since  then  the actual  money  has 
been  received.

The  moral  of  this transaction  would 
seem  to  be  that,  if  you  have  business 
dealings  with  Abdul  Hamid  II.,  you 
must  be  content  to  wait  a while  for  your 
money,  he being  a  slow  debtor,  but  one 
who  will  come around  at  last  if you give 
him  plenty  of time.

The  Little  Dishonesties.

Fight  shy  of deceptions—even  small 
deceptions.  When  asked 
if an  article 
be  so  and  so,  though  it  may  be  quite 
as  meritorious  as  that  desired,  do  not 
say  that  it  is  just  the  thing  asked  for  if 
it  isn’t.  Many  merchants  consider  it 
policy  and  necessary 
in  trade  to  tell 
these  little  fibs.  Nothing  of  the  sort. 
Though 
likely  plenty  of  patrons  never 
find  out  how  “ their  eye  has  been  shut 
up,”   there  are  many  who do  realize  it, 
and  soon 
lose  confidence,  which,  once 
lost,  may  never  be  regained.  Honesty 
in  small  things  should  be  reckoned  as 
part  of  the  assets  of  a  merchant.

Belgium  is  no  longer  the  most  dense­
It  has 
inhabitants  to  the  square  mile, 

ly  populated  country  in  Europe. 
202 
while  Saxony  has  234.

Do  Not  Cut  Too  Much.

In  the  effort  to  economize  do  not  cut 
the  selling  force  to  such  an  extent  that 
customers  are obliged  to  wait  beyond  a 
in  order  to 
reasonable  length  of  time 
have  their  wants  attended  to. 
In  fact 
this 
is  not  economy,  but  extravagance, 
for  by  this  course  dissatisfaction  will 
soon  arise  and  patronage  be  lost;  con­
sequently  it  will  prove  just  the  reverse 
of  economical. 
It  is  a  good  plan,  also, 
to provide for holiday  trade by  engaging 
salespeople  some  time  ahead  and  hav­
ing  them  drilled 
in  their  respective 
duties.  By  doing so  they  will  be a  help 
instead  of  a  hindrance  when  the  rush  of 
trade  is  on.  Who  has  not  seen  a  lot  of 
raw  recruits  called  into  action  with  the 
result  that,  being  unacquainted  with 
prices  and  methods,  many  a  customer is 
lost  and  much  dissatisfaction  and  an­
noyance,, caused,  most  of  which  could 
be  remedied  by  the  adoption  of  the 
above or a  similar  plan.

The  Hudson-Kimberly  Printing  Co., 
in  the  person  of  its President,  Treasurer 
and  Secretary,  has  been 
indicted  at 
Kansas  City  for  distributing  advertis­
ing  cards  on  which  had  been  stamped 
the  imprint  of  a  $20  gold  piece.  The 
grand 
jury  held  that  this  constituted  a 
serious  offense  against  the  Federal  laws 
regulating  counterfeiting.
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Os  Sepia.................
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doz........................
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Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80 
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
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Plumbi  Acet__
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
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Quassise...............
Quinia, S.  P. & W. 
Quinia, S. German
Qujnia, N.Y.........
Rubia Tinctorum. 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin...................
Sanguis Draconis..
Sapo,  W.................
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Snuff, Maccaboy, De
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4
Soda, Sulphas.........  @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts.  Ether  Co........ 
50©  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
© 2 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 37 
Spts. Vini Rect. VJbbl  @ 2 42 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal 
© 2 45 
Spts. Vini Rect.  agal 
© 2 47 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40©  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2)4@ 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2©  2%
8©  10
Tamarinds.................  
Terebenth Venice...  28©  30
Theobromae............  
42©  45
Vanilla..................   9 00©16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph................ 
7©  8

Otis

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

Linseed, pure  raw..  32 
Linseed,  boiled......   34 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
33 

35
37
70
40

Painta 
b b l . 
l b .
Red Venetian.........  
lj£ 2  ©8
lj£ 2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  15i  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2)4 2)4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2%  2=£©3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13©  15
70©  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  15  ®  24
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13©  16
Lead, Red...............   5Q@  5%
Lead, white............  5)4®  5M
Whiting, white Span 
®  70
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  90
White, Paris Amer.. 
©  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00©  1  15

V a rn ish e s

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10©  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60©  1 70
Coach Body..............  2 75© 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum __  1  00©  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55©  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70©  75

Seasonable
Products
■  Of  our

White  Pine  Expectorant
treatment of Throat and  Lung  Diseases.

Popular with  Physicians for the 

Laboratory

$3.00 per gallon. 
§5.00 per dozen.

Syrup  Hypophosphites  Comp

(Churchill’s)

Syrup  Hypophosphites  Comp

With  Iron.

Syrup  Hypophosphites
With  Iron,  Quinine  and  Strychnia.

$3.00  per gallon.
$5.00  per dozen.

Cod  Liver  Oil

Norway.

In pints, $4.50 per dozen.
Cod  Liver  Oil

Palatable.

In  pints, $6.00 per dozen.

Special  prices for quantity in bulk.
We guarantee the quality of our preparations.

Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.

Wholesale  Druggists  and 
Manufacturing Chemists,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

niscellaneous

© 
Scillae Co................. 
50
Tolutan..................   @  50
Prunus virg............  
©  50
Tinctures
Aconitum N apellis R 
60
50
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes....................... 
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
60
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafcetida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
Benzoin..................  
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum.............. 
50
Cardamon............... 
75
Cardamon  Co__ 
. 
75
1  00
Castor.....................  
Catechu..................  
50
Cinchona................. 
50
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba................. 
50
Cubeba.................... 
50
Cassia  Acutifol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
Digitalis................. 
50
Ergot......................  
50
Ferri Chloridum__ 
35
Gentian..................  
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca.................... 
50
60
Guiaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
Kino........................  
50
Lobelia...................  
50
Myrrh......................  
50
Nux  Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Oi>ii, camphorated.. 
Opii, deodorized__ 
1  50
Quassia................... 
50
Rhatany.................. 
50
Rhei........................  
50
Sanguinaria........... 
50
Serpentaria............  
»0
Stromonium..........  
60
Tolutan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrum Veride... 
50
Zingiber.................. 
20
■Ether, Spts. Nit.3F  30©  35
Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  31©  38
Alumen..................   2)4© 
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7
Annatto..................
40©
Antimoni,  po.......
4©
55@
Antimoni etPotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin 
.........
Argenti  Nitras, oz !
Arsenicum.............
Balm Gilead  Bud  .
Bismuth  S. N........
Calcium Chlor.,  is.
Calcium chlor., Hs 
Calcium Chlor.,  Qs. 
Cantharides.  Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus. af.
Capsici Fructus.  po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus.po.  15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba, S .4 F   '..
!
Cera  Flava..............
Coccus
4U
Cassia Fructus........
27
Centraria........
© 1U
Cetaceum.....
© 45
60© 63
Chloroform......
©  1 35
Chloroform, squibbs
1  15©  1 30
Chloral HydCrst...
20© 25
Chondrus........
('inchonidine,P.& W 2i® «5
Cinchouidine, Germ 15© 22
Cocaine....
4 3M& 4 50
05
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum. ...
© 35
Creta.............bbi. 75
©
2
Creta, prep......
©
5
Creta, precip.........
9© 11
Creta, Rubra__
8
©
Crocus........
50© 55
Cudbear.........
© 24
Cupri Sulph__
5® 6
Dextrine............
10© 12
Ether Sulph...
75© 90
Emery, all  numbers
8
©
Emery, po__
6
©
30© 3ft
Ergota............ po. 40
Flake  White__
12© 15
© 23
Galla................
Gambier...............
8© 9
@ 60
Gelatin, Cooper..
Gelatin, French__
3i© 50
60,  10&10
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
60
Glue,  brown...........
9© 12
Glue,  w h ite........
13© 25
Glycerina............
19© 26
© 15
Grana  Paradisi  ..
Humulus...........
25© 55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  75
©  65
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
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...........  E0@  55
Macis.......................  65©  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy­
dra rg lod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit  10©  12
3
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2@ 
©  1)4
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ........... 
50©  90
© 3  50
Menthol...  . 
.... 

@  55
10©  U 
38©  40
1  00©  1  10 
9
10 
12 
75

10©
50© 
40©

© 
© 
© 
©

© 3 

12

Conium  Mac........... 
35©  65
Copaiba..................  
90®  1  00
Cnbebie....................  l  50@  1 60
Exechthitos...........  1  20©  1 30
Krlgeron.................  1  30@  1 30
Gaultheria..............  1  50©  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  © 
75
Gosslppli, Sem. gal.. 
50@  60
Hedeoma.................  1  O'®  1 10
Junípera.................   l  50© 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90© 2 oo
Limonis..................   1  30@  1 50
Mentha Piper.........  1  60©  2 20
Mentha Verid......... 2  65@ 2 75
Morrhuas,  gal.........   2  00© 2 10
Myrcia, ounce.........   @  50
Olive....................... 
1?® 3 00
10@ 
Picis  Liquida.  ......  
12
Plcls Liquida, gal...  @  35
Ricina.................... 
93© 1 00
Rosmarin!...............   @  1  00
Ross,  ounce...........  6 50@ 8 50
Succinl..................   40©  45
Sabina..................  
go@  1  00
Santal....................... 2  50© 7 00
Sassafras................. 
53©  63
Sinapls, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tlglii.......................  1  20©  1 25
40@ 
Thyme.................... 
50
Thyme,  opt............  
©  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15©  20
Potassium
Bi-Barb.................... 
jg
15© 
Bichromate............ 
13© 
15
Bromide..................   48@  51
Garb....................... 
12© 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16©  18
50©  55
Cyanide..................  
Iodide....................... 2  90©  3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
27©  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
@ 
15
Potass Nitras, o p t.. 
8© 
10
Potass Nitras........... 
7© 
9
Prussiate.................  25@  28
Sulphate p o ........... 
15©  18

Radix

10© 

Aconitvm...............  
20©  25
22©  25
A lths.....................  
Anchusa................. 
12© 
15
Arum po..................   @  25
20@  40
Calamus................. 
Gentiana........po  15 
12©  15
16©  18
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
©  35
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  40
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15@  20
Inula, po................. 
is© 
20
Ipecac, po...............   1  65©  I 75
Iris plox--- po35@38 
35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   40@  45
Maranta,  &s...........  @  aft
Podophyllum, po.... 
18©  20
75©  1  00
R hei....................... 
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
75©  1  35
Rhei, pv..................  
Sj.igelia................... 
35©  38
Sanguinaria...po. 20  @ 
18
Serpentaria............   30© 
35
Senega.................... 
40©  45
©  40
Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax, M...............   @  ¿5
S' ill*..............po.35 
12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
©  25
d“s,  Po................. 
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
©  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15©  20
Zingiber a...............  
ie
12© 
Zingiber j ...............  
25©  27
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
Apium  (graveleons)
Bird, Is.................. .
Carui............ po. 18
Cardamon...............   l  25©  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
g@ 
10
Cannabis  Sativa__  3y,@ 
4
Cydonium...............  
75©  1  00
10@ 
Chenopodium  ........ 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 90@ 3 00
Faeniculum............  
© 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
6@ 
8
U n i......................  2H@ 
4
Lini,  grd— bbl. 2%  3%@. 
4
Lobelia..................  
35©  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3)4© 
4
Rapa.......................  44@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7@ 
g
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
li© 
12
Spiritus 

© 
13©

Frumenti, W. U. Co.  2 00@ 2 50
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00© 2 25
Frumenti..................1  25©  1 50
Juniperis Co. O. T.. 
1 65© 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75© 3 50
Saacharum  N. E .... 
1 90© 2 10
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 sheeps  wool
carriage...............
2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1 10
Extra yellow sheeps
woof,  carriage.T.. 
85
Grass  sheeps’  wool, 
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac....................
Ferri lod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Scillee.......................

©
©
©
©
©
©
50©
©
©

©
©
©
©

10
80
15
40
46
5
10
12
15
50
5
60
36

6
814
14
25
0050
00

15
8
30

60
60
45
75

18
12
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
25
80
50
15
2
35
7

14
25
30

20
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
80
18
12
30
60
25
55
13
14
16
58
10
00
70
35
0065
40
40
6*'
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
2225
36

50
50
25
50
40
30
75
58
65
50
50
45

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

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

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

AXLE  OREASE.
Aurora............ .......... 55
Castor Oil....... ...........60
Diamond........ ...........50
__7S
Frazer’s ____
DLL Golden, tin boxes 75
Mica...............
.........70
Paragon......... ...........55

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

ii lb cans doz.................. 
44 lb cans doz..................  
1 

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

Acme.

El Purity.

45
M lb cans 3 doz................. 
44 lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk...................................  
10
J4 lb cans per doz............  
75
44 lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
1 
45
M lb cans 4 doz case........ 
44 lb cans 4 doz case.......  
85
lb cans 2 doz case........  1  60
35
55
90

H lb cans 4 doz case........ 
44 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
I 
lb cans 2 doz case........ 

Home.

JaXon

Our Leader.

U lb cans.......................... 
14 lb cans.......................... 
l 

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

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUINQ.

CQNfiiMSED

Ö L u i N Ö
1 doz. Counter Boxes.. . .  
40
12 doz. Cases, per gro........  4  50

BROOITS.

No. 1 Carpet.......................  I  90
So. 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

CANDLES.

Hotel 40 lb boxes...................914
Star 40 lb boxes..................... 814
Paraffine............................... 814

CANNED  QOODS. 
flanltowoc  Peas.

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

CATSUP.

Colombia, 
pints............... 4 25
Columbia, 14 pints...............2 50

CHEESE.
Acme  ...................... @ 1044
Amboy....................
10V,
Butternut..............
@ 10
Byron...................... @ 9
Carson City............. @ 10
Gold  Medal............
10
Ideal....................... @ 1044
Jersey............
@ 10
Lenawee.................
@ 944
Oakland County.....
@ 10
Riverside. 
.........  10 @ 11
Sparta....................
@ 10
Springdale............
@ 1044
Brick....................... @ 9
Leiden..................... @ 19
Limburger............... @ 15
Pineapple...............  80 @ 95
Sap  Sago................. @ 20

CLOTHES LINES.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 Kross boxes 

...................... 45

COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................
Less quantity.................
Pound  packages............
CREAfl  TARTAR.

4

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

COFFEE.

Qreen.
Rio.

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Roasted.

Maracaibo.

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

F air.........................................17
Good....................................... 18
Prime......................................19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ............................... 22
Fair  ....................................... 19
Good  ..................................... 20
Prime..................................... 22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
Fair  .......................................21
Good  ..................................... 22
Fancy 
............................ 24
Prime..................................... 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 00
Jersey.............................   17  00
ITcLaughlln’s  XXXX....... 17 00
Valley City 44 gross...... 
75
Felix 44 gross........  ...... 
115
Hummel’s foil 44 gross 
86
Hummel’s tin 44  gross... 
1  43
Kneipp Malt Coffee.
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9
CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

Package.

Extract.

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.’s

brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle................. 7 40
Crown..................................... e 25
Daisy.......................................5 75
Champion  .......................... 4 50
Magnolia  ............................4 25
Dime 
3 35

 

 

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 hooks, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__II  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 $10down.

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

Credit Checks.

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

Apples.

Sundried.......................  @ 344
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 444

California  Fruits.

Apricots..................... 1044® II44
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  6  @
Peaches......................   5  @9
Pears..........................   @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................

California  Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @544
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @  5 %
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 644
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @614
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @744
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @ 7%
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
44 cent less in hags
Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Cro vn. 
Dehesias 
................... 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown 

1  60 
2 50
3 50
544
644
7*4

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls........................ @ 5
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases.........@ 544
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @  644
Cleaned, packages............@ 7

Peel.

Citron American 10 lb  bx  @14 
Lemon American 101b bx  @11 
Orange American 101b bx  @11

Raisins.

Ondura 29 lb boxes.......  @744
Sultana  1 Crown...........  @844
Sultana  2 Crown.........   @9
Sultana a Crown...........  @944
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @9M
Sultana 5 Crown...........  @10

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

B ulk................................ 

3

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s.........2 25

Farina.

Grits.

Hominy.

Peas.

2
244

Lima  Beans.

Barrels  ........................... 3 25
Flake, 501b.  drums.........1  50
D ried..............................   344
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common......................
Chester.......................
Empire  .......................
Green,  bu.........................  90
Split,  per lb.....................  
Rolled A vena,  hbl.........5 01
Monarch,  bbl........................4 50
Monarch,  44  bbl...................2 50
Private brands,  bbl.......1  35
Private brands, 44bbl.......2 30
Quaker, cases....................... 3 20
Oven  Baked.........................3 25
4
German............................ 
East  India....................... 
344
Cracked, bulk..................  
3
24 2 lb packages............... 2 40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

244

Fish.

MS.

Georges cured............ 
3%
Georges  genuine........  @444
Georges selected.......   @5
Strips or bricks.........  5  @ 8

Halibut.

Herring.

10
Chunks............................. 
Strips...............................  
  9
Holland white hoops keg. 
60 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  8 00
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs..................   2 50
Round  40 lbs....................   1 30
Scaled...............................  11

rtackerel.

No. I  100 lbs......................  11  50
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 90
No. 1  10 lbs......................  130
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
95
Family 90 lbs....................
Family 10 lbs....................

Sardine«.

73 
61 

80 
67 

Trout.

Stockfish.

Whlteflsh.

55
Russian kegs.................... 
No. 1,1001b.  bales........... 
1044
No. 2  1001b.  bales..........   844
No. 1 100 lbs......................  4 75
No. 1  40 lbs.....................   2 20
No. 1  10 lbs...................... 
63
No. 1  8 lbs....................  
53
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 50  5 75  2 00
40 lbs 
........  2 90  2 60  1  10
10 lbs........... 
35
8 lbs  .........  
31
FLAVORINQ  EXTRACTS.
Jennings'. 
D.C. Vanilla
2 oz.......1  20
3 oz.......1  50
4 oz..  ..  2 00
60Z........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
3 oz.......1  00
4 oz.......1  40
6 oz.......2  00
No.  8  .  2 40 
No. 10. ..4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T.l  50

Soudera’ .

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

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

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke  Bore--Dupont’s.

Kegs...............
Half Kegs.........
Quarter  Kegs...
1 lb  cans...........

............... 4 00
............... 2 25
............... 1  25
...............   34

Eagle  Duck--Dupont's.

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

HERBS.

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

INDIGO.

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

JELLY.

15 lb  palls............................  33
17 lb  pails............................  43
30 lb  pails............................  60

LYB.

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

LICORICB.

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

MINCB MEAT.

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......................... 1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 00

IlOLASSES.
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.
nedlum.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  3 50
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 25

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 count...........  4  50
Half bbls, 1,200 count........  2 75

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216......................  1  70
Clay, T.  D. full count........ 
65
Cob. No. 3..........................   1

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

6Q5
4443

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................
Carolina  No. 1  .................
Carolina  No. 2...................
Broken...............................

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................
Japan.  No. 2....................
Java, No. 1.........................
Table  ................................

SALERATUS. 

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

Deiand’8  ............................ 3  15
Dwight’s .............................. 3 30
Taylor’s................................ 3 00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls............. 1  10
Granulated,  100lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls....................... 
1
Lump, 1451b kegs............. 1  10

Scotch, in bladders............   37
Maccaboy, in jars...............   35
French Rappee, in  Jars  __   43

SEEDS.
A nise.......................
Canary, Smyrna.......
Caraway.................
Cardamon,  Malabar
Hemp,  Russian........
Mixed  Bird..............
Mustard,  white........
Poppy  .....................
Rape........................
Cuttle Bone..............
SNUFF.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels__
Half  bbls

Pure Cane.
Fair  ..........................
Good..........................
Choice.......................
SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

13
4
1080
4
444
644

14
16

16
2025

Allspice  .............................  9^
Cassia, China in mats..........to
Cassia, Batavia in  bund  ..  15
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar..................10
Mace,  Batavia................... 70
Nutmegs, fancy...................65
Nutmegs, No.  1 ...................60
Nutmegs, No.  2...................55
Pepper, Singapore, black..! 10 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .20 
Pepper,  shot......  ........... 
is
Pure  Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  ........................10@15
Cassia, Batavia................... 17
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................15
Cloves, Zanzibar..................10
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... ¿0
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.............. 60@65
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,......................40@60
Pepper, Sing., black__ 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white.... 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage........................... .......18

Chicory.

B u lk ...........................
Red 
......
CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet..............
Premium......................
Breakfast X’ocoa...........

Walter Baker & Co• *«.

5
7

..22
..31
..42

Peerless evaporated  cream.5 75

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

21

Allen B.  W risley’s Brands.

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

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d oz......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...........2 40

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf..................................5 00
Domino....................................4 87
Cubes.......................................4 62
Powdered  .......................... 4  62
XXXX  Powdered.................... 4 75
Mould  A.................................. 4 62
Granulated in bbls...................4 37
Granulated iu  bags................. 4 37
Fine Granulated......................4 37
Extra Fine Granulated......4 50
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4 50
Diamond Confec.  A................4 37
Oonfec. Standard A................. 4 25
No.  1.......................................4 00
No  2.......................................4 oo
No.  3.......................................4 00
No.  4  .................................3  94
No.  5.......................................3 87
No.  6.......................................3 81
No.  7 .....................................3 7o
No.  8.......................................3 69
No.  9.......................................3 62
No.  10.......................................3 56
No.  11.......................................3 50
No.  12.....................................  3 44
No.  13.......................................3 37
No.  14.......................................3 31
No.  15...................................... 3 25

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson’s  brand

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

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Clark Grocery Co.’s brand. 
75

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 213-lb  boxes............1 60
Barrels,  100  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, 280 lb  bbls.............2 50

Common tirades.

1003 lbsacks...................... 2 60
60 5-lb sacks...................... 1  85
28 11-lb sacks.....................1  70

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons..............3 25
115  2Mlb. 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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks.  .  60 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 

60 

Solar  Rock.

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

Common Fine.

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

Boxes.................................. 5M
Kegs, English.....................   45£

SODA.

STARCH.
Diamond.

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

Kingsford's  Corn.

20 1-lb packages...................6M
40 1 lb packages...................  6
Kingsford’s Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages................... 6%
6-lb boxes  .........................7

Common Corn.

20-lb boxes..........................  5
40-lb  boxes..........................   43£

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  4M
3-lb  packages....................  4M
6-lb  packages  ....................   5M
40 and 50 lb boxes................  2 \
Barrels  ...............................  2M

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.

Gowans & Sons’ Brands.

Armour's  Family..............  2 70
Armour’s  Laundry...........  3 25
.........   2 90
Armour's Comfort 
Armour’s White, 100s........  6 25
Armour's Whit-. 50s.........   3 2n
Armour's Woodchuck  ... 
Armour’s Kitel en  Brown 
2 00
Armour's Mottled German  2 65 
Crow.................................. 3 10
German Family.  ..............  2  15
American Grocer  100s.......3  30
American Grocer  60s........  2 
Mystic  White....................  3 80
Lotus  ................................   3 90
Oak Leaf............................2 85
Old Style............................3 20
Happy Day.........................  3  10

JAXON

Single  box............................... J 85
5 box lots, delivered..........2 80
10 box lots,  delivered..........2
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.’s Brands. 
American Family,  wrp’d...3 33 
American Family, plain— 3 27 
Acme  .................................. 2 85
Cotton  Oil............................... 5 75
Marseilles.................................4 00
Master........... 

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

3  70

 

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

Fruits.

Oranges.

Fancy  Seedlings 

Mexicans  150-176-200  @3  50

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

@3 50
@4 50
@
@5 00

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs, Choice  Layers
@10M
101b...................... 
Figs,  New  Smyrna
201b.....................  
@13
Figs,  Naturals  in
30 lb. bags,............ 
@7
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes..................  
@8
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................  
@6
Dates, Persians, G.M.
K., 60 lb cases, new  @ 7
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ..................  
@

Single box.............................2 85
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 80
10 box lots,  delivered.......... 2 75
9 05

hox  lot« 
Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

Single box............................ 3 00
5 box lot, delivered............2 95
10 box lot, delivered 
........ 2  86
25 box lot, delivered............2 75

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Mixed Candv

Fancy—In Bulk.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

bbls.  pails
Standard.................
5M@ 7
Standard H.  H.. — 5%@ 7
Standard Twist......
6  @ 7
Cut Loaf.................
7K@ 8/4
cases
Extra H. H..............
<& m
Boston  Cream........
@ 8M
Competition............
@ 6
Standard.................
@ 6M
Leader  ..................
@ 7
Conserve.................
@  7
Royal......... ............
@ 7M
Ribbon....................
@
@ 8
Broken  ..................
Cut  Loaf.................
@ 8
English Rock.........
@  8
Kindergarten.........
@ 8M
French  Cream........
@ 9
Dandy Pan.............
@10
Valley Cream.........
@13
Lozenges, plain......
® 8^4
Lozenges,  printed..
@ 8M
11  @14
Choc.  Drops...........
Choc.  Monumentals
©12M
Gum  Drops............
@ 5
Moss  Drops............
@ 7M
Sour Drops..............
@  8M
Imperials...............
@ 8M
Lemon  Drops.
@50
Sour  Drops............
@50
Peppermint Drops..
@60
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
@50
A. B. Licorice Drops
@55
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
@60
@60
Imperials...............
@65
Mottoes..................
@50
Cream Bar..............
@50
Molasses Bar  .........
@90
Hand Made Creams.
Plain  Creams.........  60  @80
Decorated Creams.
@90
@60
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds......1
@@55
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................
@30
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
@45
boxes  ..................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .  ..............
Fresh  Meats.
Carcass......................5  @7
Forequarters............ 4  @ 6
Hind  quarters...........  6  @ 7M
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
Ribs............................7  @9
Rounds....................  5%@ 6%
Chucks................. 
4M@ 5M
Plates  .......................   @4
Pork.
Dressed......................  4  @  4M
Loins.........................  @7
Shoulders...................  @5
Leaf Lard...................  @7
Carcass......................5  @6
Spring Lambs.............6M@ 7M
CnrpftBo 
7

Mutton.

Veal.

Beef.

Crackers.

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

TheN. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX..................   6
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  bM
Family XXX......................  6
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  6M
Salted XXX.......................  6
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  6M 
Soda  XXX  .......................   6M
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__  6lt
Soda,  City.........................  7M
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX.........   6
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb  carton.  7
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  11M
Bent’s Cold Water............   12
Belle Rose.........................  8
Cocoanut Taffy.................  9
Coffee Cakes......................  8M
Frosted Honey..................   12
Graha m Crackers  ............  8
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Saps,XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla.................  8
Imperials..........................   8M
Jumoles,  Honey...............   11
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ..................   15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  8M
Pretzelettes, Little German  6M
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas............................  12
Sears' Lunch.....................   7M
Sears’ Zephyrette...............10
Vanilla  Square...............  
8M
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Pecan Wafers....................16
Fruit Coffee.......................   10
Mixed Picnic....................   10M
Cream Jumbles.................  11M
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   8M
Chimmie Fadden..............  10
Pineapple Glace................   16

Grains and Feedstufls

P r o v i s i o n s .  

C

Wheat.

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

86

Local Brands.

Patents.............................   5 25
Second  Patent..................   4 75
Straight............................  4 55
Clear..................................  4 00
Graham 
..........................   4 40
Buckwheat.......................  4 00
R ye.................................... 3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand.
Quaker, Ms......... ..............  4 75
Quaker, Ms.......................   4 75
Quaker, Ms........................  4  75

Spring Wheat Flour. 
Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Meal.

Feed and Millstuffs.

Ceresota, Ms......................   5 00
Ceresota, Ms......................  4  90
Ceresota, Ms......................  4  85
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, Ms............5 00
Grand Republic, Ms............ 4  90
Grand Republic, Ms............ 4  80
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Ms.........................  5 00
Laurel, Ms.........................  4  90
Laurel, Ms..............................  4 85
Lemon A Wheeler Co.'s  Brand.
Parisian,  Ms......................  5  00
Parisian, Ms......................   4  90
Parisian. Ms............................  4 80
Bolted....................................  1 75
Granulated............................  2 00
St. Car Feed, screened__13 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats.......... 12 50
No. 2 Feed.............................. 12 00
Unbolted Corn Meal.......... 12 00
Winter Wheat  Bran..........10 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 11  00
Screenings.............................   8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Corn.
Car  lots............................. 27
Less than  car  lots............   3u
Car  lots............................... 21
Carlots, clipped............  ..  22
Less than  car lots............   23
No. 1 Timothy carlots___  10 0«
No. 1 Timothy, toulots  ... 11  0<
Fish and  Oysters

Oats.

Hay.

Glassware.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

5

60

Fine Glazed Milkpans. 
al. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
al. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 

Jugs.

Butters.

per gal..

Milkpans.

Stewpans.

Lards.  In Tierces. 

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

al. fireproof, bail, doz.  85

8 00
8  75
8 50  M
8  50  1
11  50  8
7  75  10
9  U0  12

: gal , per doz.............. 
gal., per gal...........
, per g a l.................
, per gal..................

5 
Sq
4M  30
9M  2
9M  Cl
9M
9
10M  1
5M 
1
5M  M
SM 
1
10M
„
4M
5
M

follows:
Barreled  Pork.
Mess  ............................
Back  ...........................
Clear back  ..................
Shortcut.......................
Pig................................
Bean  ............................
Family  .........................
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
Briskets  .......................
Extra  shorts.................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  ...
..
Hams, 14 lb  average 
Hams, 161b  average__
Hams, 20 lb  average__
Ham dried beef  ...........
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
Bacon, clear.................
California hams...........
Boneless hams..............
Cooked  ham.................
Compound.....................
Kettle............................
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs......... advance  M  M
50 lb T ins......... advance  M  M
per doz  ................  50
20 lb Pails.........advance  M  It
al., per gal............  
10 lb Pails.........advance  M
Tomato Jugs.
5 lb Pails......... advance 
%
: gal., per doz.................  70
3 lb Pails.........advance 
1  M
¡ach...................... 
7
Sausages.
C(
>r M gal., per doz..  20 
Bologna.......................
? 
C.t
>r  1 gal., per doz..  30 
6 
^
Liver...........................
Preserve Jars and Covers. 
Frankfort....................
6M
P ork...........................
t gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
6M  M
]
6 
Blood  .........................
al., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
9
Tongue .......................
Head  cheese...............
6
.  7 00
Extra  Mess.................
.10 00  N
Boneless  ....................
N
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs.................. ■ 
80  N
r
M  bbls, 40 lbs..............
S
M  bbls, 80 lbs..............
N
75  A
Kits. 15 lbs..................
M  bbls, 40 lbs..............
L
M  bbls. 80 lbs..............
Pork............................ • 
Beef  rounds...............
Beef  middles..............
Butterine.
Rolls,  dairy.................
Solid,  dairy.................
Rolls,  creamery.........
Canned  Meats. 

0 Sun..........................  
1  Sun.......................... 
2 Sun.......................... 

3. in package, per lb...  2

LAMP  BURNERS.

First  Quality.

Sealing Wax.

.  1  65 
.  3 00 

.  1  50
.  2 75 

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

gal..

Per box of 6 doz.

8M

4
5
7

Hides.

18  V
5 
»
7  N
IOM  >
10
14M  I
14
h
Corned beef,  2 lb...... ..  2 00
.14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb...... ..  2 00
Potted  ham,  Ms...... . 
60 
Potted  ham,  Ms...... ..  1  00
Deviled ham,  M»...... . . 6 0  
Deviled ham,  Ms...... ..  1  00
. 6 0  
Potted  tongue Ms......
Potted  tongue Ms...... ..  1  00
Hides  and  Pelts.  *]
Perkins  A  Hess  pay as  fol-  j
lows:
Green......................... 554@ 6î4
Part  cured................. @  7
Full Cured................. 7  @ 8
D ry ............................ 5  @ 7 
Kips,  green............... 5M@  6M
Kips,  cured............... 7  @  8 
Calfskins,  green........ 6  ©  7M
Calfskins, cured........ 7M@  9 
Deaconskins  ............ 25  @30
5©  10
Shearlings...............
25@  50
Lambs.....................
Old  Wool................. 40®  75
30@  1  00
5  M ink.......................
)  Coon......................... 25®  70
)  Skunk....................... 40®  80
8® 
5  Muskrats..................
12
80®  1  25
5  Red Fox...................
5  Gray Fox.................. 30®  60
Cross Fox  ...............2 S' @ 5 00
25®  50
n  Badger.....................
n  Cat, W ild................. 20®  30
10®  zO
Cat, House...............
-  Fisher.......................3 00@ 5 00
Lynx........................ 1  Of© 2 00
Martin, Dark........... 1  00® 2 50
Martin, Yellow____ 65®  1 00
Otter.........................4 50® 7 50
Wolf........................ 1 10® 2 00
00® 15 fO
Beaver......................2 00®  6 00
'i  Deerskin, dry. per lb. 15®  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb.
10®  12M
.................. 10  @16
Washed 
Unwashed................. 5  @12
2  @ 3
Tallow.....................
Grease Butter........... 1  © 2
Switches  .................
Ginseng.................... 2 50@2  75

Hiscellaneous.

Wool.

Pelts.

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Oils.
40 
50
60 
Barrels.
*0  Eocene  ....................
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W W Michigan.........
M  High Test Headlight.
D., S. Gas..................
M  Deo. N aptha............
M  Cylinder.................. 30  @38
Engine...................... 11  @21
@ 9
M  Black, winter...........

©10M
@ 8M
@ 8M
© 7M
© 9M
© 8M

@ 61/

top,
top,
top,

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

0  Sun,  crimp 
1  Sun,  crimp 
Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
top,
0  Sun,  crimp 
»
wrapped and  labeled__  2 55
top, 
1  Sun,  crimp 
*
wrapped and  labeled.  ..2  75
top,
To.  2  Sun,  crimp 
*
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
To. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................  3 70
To. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................  4 70
To. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4 88
To. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............  
80

La  Bastie.

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Rochester.

1  25

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OIL  CANS. 

D( 
gal tin cans with  spout..  1 
gal galv Iron with spout.  1 
! gal galv iron with spout.  3 
I gal galv iron with spout.  4 
i gal galv iron with  spout.  5

Pump  Cans.

1 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 
i gal Eureka non-overflow 10
I gal Home Rule................ 10
> gal Home Rule................ 12
5 gal  Pirate  King........ 
.9
LANTERNS.
No.  (1 Tubular................     4
No.  1 B  Tubular................6
No. 13 Tubular Dash.........6
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........   fl
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tnbular, cases 1  doz.
each, box 10 cents..........
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents...........
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................
No. 0  Tubular,  bull's  eye,
cases 1  doz.  each__ 
LAMP  WICKS.

No. 0 per gross..... 
..........
No. 1 per gross...................
No. 2 per gross...................
No. 3 per gross................. 
Mammoth per  doz............  

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Fresh Fish.

Per 11
Whitefish...............   @  9
T rout.....................   @  8
Black Bass..............  @  10
Halibut...................  @  15
Ciscoesor 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..  @ 12
Mackerel 
..............  @  20
F. H. Counts...........  @  35
F. J. D. Selects........  @  27
Selects....................  @  22
F. J. D.  Standards..  @  21
Anchors..................  @  18
Standards............ 
@  16
Favorite  ................   @  14
1
Counts..................... 
Extra Selects........... 
1
Selects........  ........... 
1
Anchor Standards... 
1
Standards...............
Clams  ....................  
1
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1
Clams,  per  100 .........   90@1

Oysters in Cans.

Oysters in Bulk.

@13

@   8 
@11 
@12 
@11
@12 
@ 12 
@10 
@ 6 
@12 
@14

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

T H 6   M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

H ardw are
The  Hardware  Market.

1st  space 

to  show  the goods ;  too  frequently as  late 
as  December 
is  made  on 
one  of  the  upper  floors  to  accommodate 
a  stock  of  dolls and  playthings that have 
been  bought,  and  almost  surreptitiously 
smuggled 
into  the  store.  The  regular 
customers  make  the  discovery  acciden­
tally,  sometimes  even  after their  wants 
in  this  line  have  been  supplied.  The 
general  public 
is  supposed  to  be  pos­
sessed  of  more  than  ordinary  powers  of 
second  sight,  for  without  a  word  of  an­
nouncement  they  are  expected  to  come 
in  and  buy,  just  as  though  it  had  been 
an  everyday  occurrence  for  them  to  get 
toys  at  that  spot.  Of  course,  not 
thing  must  be  carried  over,  so  during 
the  last  few  days  preceding  Christmas 
when  crowds  are  found  in  every  store, 
some 
lively  price-cutting  has  to  be  in 
dulged  in.  The  whole  thing  winds  uj 
with  a  balance  on  the  wrong  side  of  the 
ledger,  and  the  venture  is  voted  a  fa 
ure.  How  could  it  be  otherwise?

So  far as  general  trade  is  concerned, 
conditions  remain  about  the  same  as  re­
ported  in  our  last  issue.  The  desire  to 
buy  goods  among  the  average  dealers  is 
not  very  marked.  Everyone 
is  pursu­
ing  a  conservative  policy,  as  the  first  of 
the  year  will  soon  be  here,  which  will, 
with  most of  us,  be  inventory  time,  and 
no  one  is  desirous  of  having  more 
goods  on  hand  at  that  time than are nec­
essary. 
In  some  lines,  where  the  mer­
chant 
is  positive  advances  will  take 
place,  moderate buying  is  being  done.
Wire  Nails—While  the  Association  is 
still 
in  existence  and  the  prices  at 
which  the  jobbers  can  buy  their  nails 
remain  without  change,  a  feeling  that 
its  dissolution  is  near  at  hand  produced 
widespread  demoralization  among  the 
jobbers  and  each  one  is  trying  to  see 
who  can  unload  his  stock  the  quickest 
and  how  low  a  price  it  is  necessary  to 
make 
the  retail 
dealer to  purchase.  Prices  are  quoted 
at $2.25  rates  to  everyone  and  we  find  a 
price  of  $2  to  be  quite  regular.  This 
uncertain  condition  of  the  nail  market 
will  continue  until  December  1,  when 
the  next  meeting  of  the  Nail  Associa­
tion  takes  place. 
It  is  then  hoped  that 
some  permanent  action  will  be  taken, 
either  by  the  dissolution  of  the  Associa­
tion  or  the  making  of  a  lower  price 
which  will  be  satisfactory  to  all.

in  order  to 

A  new  department  must  be  well 
heralded  or  nobody  outside  a  small  cir 
cle  will  be aware  of  its  existence.  Dolls 
and  picture-books  are  not the  only  ar 
tides necessary,either,  to make an up-to 
date  toy  or  fancy goods department,  and 
the goods  provided  for  it  should  not  be 
the  exclusive  perquisites  of  Santa 
Claus.  His  advent  is  too  late  foi  profit 
able  business.  The  new  venture  should 
be  started 
in  good  season  and  every 
thing  done  to  make  it  a pronounced sue 
cess  from  the  start,  in  order  to  counter­
balance  the  price-cutting  at  the  close. 
The  earlier  the  merchant  completes  hi! 
purchases  and  arrangements  the  better 
are  his chances  for  doing  a large,  profit 
able  trade.  The  best  way  to  buy,  prob 
ably,  is  by  a  personal  canvass  of  the 
markets,  to  see  the 
latest  novelties, 
games  and  puzzles  that  will 
interest 
and  amuse  both  young  and  old;  then 
get  the  exclusive  right  of  them  for  your 
town,  if  possible,  and  advertise  them  in 
such  a  way  that  people  will  become 
curious to know  more  about them.  If  the 
article  or  lines  selected  possess  merit, 
they  will  not  only  advertise  your  new 
department,  but  the  whole  store  will 
reap  the  benefit.  Devote  a  window,  if 
Poultry  Netting—In our  report  a  short 
possible,  to  articles  suitable  for  prizes 
time  ago  we  mentioned  that  an  agree­
and  presents,  etc.,  that  will  be  wanted
ment  had  been  arrived  at  between  all  for  birthday  parties,  anniversaries  and 
the  manufacturers,  making  an  advance | other  social  gatherings.  Arrange special 
doll  sales  and  set  the  children  talking 
in  the  price.  We  regret  to  say  that,  be­
about  your  lines  of  toys.  Keep  things 
coming  suspicious  of  each  other,  they 
lively  until  the  rush  of  Christmas  buy­
were  unable  to  maintain  this  advance; 
ing  sets  in,  and  you  will  find  the  de­
and,  while  the  price 
is  not  as  yet as 
partment  will  not  only  be profitable,  but 
a  great  help.
low  as  was  made  last  season,  it  is  grad­
ually  nearing  that  point.

Barbed  Wire—Owing  to  the  recent 
advance  in  steel  billets,  manufacturers 
are  withdrawing  prices and  at  the  pres­
ent  time  are  declining  to  make  prices 
for  spring  shipment.  They  say,  how­
ever,  that  in  a  few  days  they  hope  to  be 
able  to  do  so.

induce 

Many  country  merchants  lose  thou­
sands  of  dollars  by  neglecting  to  get 
ready  in  season  for  the  fall  and  winter 
trade.  Summer  weather  has 
lingered 
long  and  fondly  this  autumn,  but  snow­
flakes  are  about  due,  and  the  days  when 
there  will  be  an  active  demand 
for 
heavy  goods  for  winter  wear  and  use  in 
a  variety  of  ways  are  almost  upon  us. 
Are  you  fully  ready  to  supply  this  de­
mand?  One  reason  why  storekeepers 
accumulate so many  unsalable  articles  is 
that  they order too  late.  There  is always, 
at  this  busy  season  of  the  year,  more  or 
less  delay 
in  obtaining  and  shipping 
goods.  By  the  time  the  retailer  receives 
the  goods  and  gets  them  unpacked  and 
displayed  on  his  shelves  and  counters 
the  demand  for  them  may  have  ceased 
and  the  season  be  almost  over. 
If  the 
goods  are  carried  over  until  the  next 
season  they  become  more  or  less  out  of 
style,  shopworn and  unsalable.  Custom­
ers  want novelties—goods  that  are  fresh 
and  new—and  they  want  them  when 
they  ask  for  them.  They  do  not  want 
to  be  told  that  you  will  order  them  and 
hope  to  be able  to  supply  them  in  a  few 
days.  The  success  of a  retail  merchant 
largely  depends  upon  his  shrewdness 
and 
in  anticipating  the  de­
mands  of  his  customeis—in  being  able 
to  say  to  every  patron:  “ Yes,  here  it 
is;  just  what  you  want;”   not  “ I  will 
get  it  for  you  by  and  b y.”   Every  mer­
chant  should  keep  a  stock-book  and 
carefullly  note  in  it  whatever  goods  he 
may  be  in  need  of.  Think  ahead;  re­
member  that  Christmas,  New  Year’s 
and  other  days  are  coming,  when  sea 
sonable  goods  will  be  wanted.  Have 
everything  on  hand  in  time;  sell  it  off, 
and  carry  over as  little as  possible.

judgment 

Window  Glass—No  arrangement  has 
yet  been  arrived  at  between  the glass- 
makers  and  their  workmen  and  there  is 
no 
indication  that  there  will  be  a  re­
sumption  of  the factories  this  year.  The 
present  condition  of  the  markets 
is 
not,  What 
is  the  price  but,  Have  you 
the  sizes  wanted  and  may  we  have 
them  at  any  price? 
Jobbers  are  nom­
inally  asking  60 and  20  per  cent.,  and 
are  filling  very  few  orders,  even  at  this 
price. 
instances  dealers  can 
only  secure  the size  they  want  by  pay­
ing  as  high  as  60  per cent.

In  many 

Gas  Pipe—Manufacturers  have  ad­
vanced  their  prices  another  5  per  cent., 
and 
indications  of  still  higher  prices 
are  more  than  evident.

Get  Ready  for  the  Christmas  Trade. 
Prom the Toronto Merchant.

In these days of getting-ahead-of-your- 
neighbor,  the 
retail  merchant  who 
doesn’t  take  time  by  the  forelock  and 
take  advantage  of  his  earliest  opportu­
nities to get prepared for special seasons, 
such  as  the  Christmas  holiday  trade, 
will  simply  find  himself  not  in  the  race 
when  the  time  arrives  for  doing  the 
business.  From  now  until  the  end  of 
the  year  the  fancy  goods  and toy depart­
ment  can  be  made one of  the  best  pay­
ing  ones  in  every  general  store  if  prop­
erly  managed ;  there  are  probably  fewer 
risks  and larger returns  from  the  notions 
stock  than  any  other  line,  towards  the 
approach  of  Christmas.  But  it  will  not 
do  to  wait  until  the  season  has  arrived

A large number of hardware dealers handle

THE OHIO  LINE  FEED  CUTTERS

OHIO PONY CUTTER

Fig. 783.  No.  11\i.

Made by SILV E R   M A N '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 11J4 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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TIGHT 
HEATERS

FROiT  $ 3 .5 0  TO  $9 .0 0   E A C H . 

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Send for Catalogue.

FOSTER, STEVENS & CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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

3 8

SM ART  SAYINGS.

Short  Catch  Phrases  and  Pointed 

Paragraphs.

Notice.  No  matter  what  the  other 
fellows  advertise,  bring  us  their  ads. 
We  will  duplicate  the  same  goods  for 
less  money.

It  pays  to  talk  truth 

in  your  adver­
tisements.  Business 
isn’t  necessarily 
a  bunco  game.  Friends  made  for  your 
business  boom  your  receipts.  Bargains, 
genuine  ones,  likewise.

“ Touch  the  pocketbook and you touch 
the heart, ”   goes  the  saying.  We  will 
lightly  if  you 
touch  your  pocketbook 
want to  purchase  a  new  one, because  we 
sell  you  an  excellent  article  at  a  small 
price.

Grocery  bargains  are  not 

Pick  where  you will through the Yerxa 
stocks  and  you’ll  save  on  anything  you 
buy.  No  risk  in  grocery  buying  here— 
unless  the  risk  of  buying  too  little— 
for  you'll  not  match  the  following  offer­
ings at  the  following  prices  in  a  hurry.
inferior 
goods  at  a  small  price,  but  the  best 
goods  at  a  reasonable  price. 
It’s  econ­
omy  to  buy  the  best  and  that  is  the  rea­
son  why  prudent  buyers  come  to  us, 
our  patrons  knowing  that  groceries  of 
poor  quality  have  no  place  in  our  store.
Odd  pieces.—You  pick  up  an  odd 
chair,  or a  cabinet,  or a  table  occasion­
ally  and  pretty  soon  the  parlor 
is  ele­
gantly  furnished.  You’ve  hardly  missed 
the  money—you  do  miss  the air  of  lux­
ury  such  things  give  every  day  till  you 
get  them.

The  cathode  light  penetrates  every­
thing.  It  is  an  eye  that can look through 
steel,  gaze  through  a brick w all; and see 
what is behind one of Secretary Carlisle’s 
bond  schemes,  but  Ley’s  prices  can 
give  it  cards  and^spades and then beat it 
at  pleasing  the  public.

it 

Stringent  times  demand  caution 

in 
business  matters.  Look  through  your 
insurance  and  see  it 
in 
the  strong  companies  represented at this 
agency. 
If  it  is  not,  give  us  a  call  and 
we  will  be  glad  to  do  your  business 
—and  do  it  well.

is  placed 

The  strong  eyes  of  the  eagle  may  be 
yours  if  you  will  take  the  trouble  to  ob­
tain  this  strength.  The  eyes  are  the 
only  part  of  the  body  which  get  no  va­
cation—no  rest.  Let  us  see 
if  they 
need  it—if  they  are  weakening.  E x ­
amination  free.

iridescent  beauty  and 

The  iris  around  the  dove’s  neck,  the 
peacock’s 
the 
rainbow  tints  are  all  reproduced 
in  the 
folds  of  the  new  novelty  suits.  We 
could  - as  easily  sketch  the 
shifting 
beauty  of  an  autumn  sunset  as  describe 
these  loom  wonders.  Come  and  see  for 
yourself  what  art  can  do.

Test  of  time  has  stamped with  ap­
proval  those  big  “ Domestic  Loaves.’ ’ 
Others have  come  and  gone.  But  those 
substantial,  old-fashioned,  honest  loaves 
are  still  in  demand.  A  “ good  thing" 
is  safe with an appreciative public—that 
is  the  reason  we are  baking  so  many  of 
those  loaves.  Sample  ’em  and  see.

Brains  in  your  feet.  There  are  evi­
dences  of  brain  work  about  my  shoes— 
they  were  conceived  by  brainy  design­
ers;  they  were  manufactured  by  brainy 
workmen;  they  have  the 
impress  of 
brains  all  over  them  in  style,  value  and 
service,  and  they  are  worn  by  Denver’s 
brainy  people.

It’s  the  perfect  fit  of  our 

jackets— 
combined  with  faultless  style  and  a 
reasonable  price—that's  rushing  them 
out  so  fast.  There’s  ample  variety  to 
choose  from,  too—you’re  not  confined 
to  one  style—whatever’s  new 
is  here, 
and  there’s  nothing  here  that  isn’t.

We  advertise  more  than  ever,  be­
cause  we  are  receiving  more  goods  than 
ever and  selling  more.  With  us the qual­
ity  of  advertising  is  not  strained,  but 
droppeth  as  the gentle  rain  from heaven 
upon  the  place  beneath;  into the  public 
mind—it  twice  doth  service:  it blesseth 
him  who  prints  and  him  who  reads.

Your  faithful  $3  feet  aie  rendering 
you  the  best  of  service  and  deserve  the 
best  of $3  shoes.  Why  not be as faithful 
to  your  feet  as  your  feet  are  to  you? 
If 
you  have been  wearing  “ ordinary”   $3 
shoes,  for  a  change  give  them  the  best 
$3  shoe  made—give  them  F yfe’s  $3

ladies'  or  gentlemen’s  shoe  and  note 
the  decided  difference.

Sticky  prices.  Prices  that  won’t be 
forgotten—that  are  continually  bobbing 
up—that’s  the  reason  we have  so  much 
trade.  People are continually finding out 
what  good  stock  we  keep.  Then  we 
know  how  to  run  our  business  econom­
ically—we  know  where and  how  to  buy, 
and  that helps  to  make  our  prices  the 
lowest.

“ wolf”  

Not anywhere  else  in  the  world  are 
boys  and  children  as  well  and  as  tastily 
dressed  as  in  this  land  of the  free.  The 
boy  of  the  wage-earner  wears  more  be­
coming  clothes here  than  the  son  of  the 
banker  in  Europe. 
If  you  come  to  the 
Hub  for  boys’  suits  or  reefers  you’ll 
get  the best  in  the  land  at  rock-bottom 
prices,and your money back any time you 
don’t  think  so!  We  never  cry  “ wolf”  
when  there 
in  sight. 
(You  know  the  old  “ fable.” )  We  are as 
careful  what  we  say 
in  our  advertise­
ments as  we  would  be 
if  we  were  on  a 
witness  stand  under oath,and  would  not 
for  any  consideration  mislead  or  disap­
point  you  by  anything  we  say  in our ad­
vertisements.  When you  see anything  in 
our  advertisements,  it’s  so!—you  can 
pin  your  faith  to  it.

A  man  in  one  of  the  hotels  the  other 
day  offered  to  wager  ten  to  one  on  a 
race  horse.  No  one  else  offered 
to 
take  it,  so  the  elevator  boy  took  him 
up.  Manufacturers  have been  tempting 
us  all  season  with  extra  inducements  in 
underwear  and  hosiery.  They  needed 
money and  were  looking  for  large  buy­
ers.  .  We  took  many  of  them  up,  and 
are  prepared  to give  you  the  benefit  of 
our  close  buying.

is  no 

It  Is  Poor  Policy.

It  is  poor  policy  to  take  all  the  time 
entitled  to  pay  a  bill  if  it  can  be  done 
sooner and  the discount secured thereby. 
The  merchant  who  allows  bills  to  run 
their  full  limit  fails  to  be  received  with 
the  same  favor  as  he  who  follows  the 
rule of  getting  discounts  wherever  pos­
sible.  Sellers  are  apt  to  be  somewhat 
suspicious  of  him,  thinking  that  he 
must be  hard  pushed  to  allow  his  obli­
gations  to  run  to  the  last  hour,  or  else 
sadly  lacking  in  business  ability.  They 
are,  consequently,  generally  ready  to 
draw  the  reins  with  a  tight  grip.  On 
the  other  hand,  prompt  pay  has  no 
weights  attached  to  it and  is  met  with 
gilt-edged  regard  everywhere.

A  Kansas  City  firm that makes canned 
soups  of  various  sorts  was  surprised  to 
receive  from  Rhode  Island,  the  other 
day,  an  inquiry  as  to  the  terms at which 
it  would  sell  ‘ ’wishbones”   in  thousand 
lots.  This  request  has  revealed  to  the 
company  a  new  source  of 
income,  and 
one  not  wholly  unimportant.  Hitherto 
the  skeletons  of  the numerous fowls have 
been  ground  into  fertilizer,  but  having 
discovered  that  there 
is  a  demand  for 
“  wishbones, ”   to  be  used  for  various 
decorative and  sentimental  purposes,the 
Kansas  City  men  think  that,by  properly 
pushing  the  trade,they  can  get  more  for 
this  one  bone  than  they  have  been  re­
ceiving  for  all  the  rest.

An  Eastern  gentleman  has the courage 
to  tell  laboring  men  this  truth: 
“ You 
have  organized  yourselves  to  such  an 
extent  that  you  will  not  let  live  either 
capital  or  the  labor  of  other  men  beside 
yourselves;  you  still  demand  the  old- 
time  high  wages,  and occasionally strike 
for  an  advance;  you  discourage  capital 
from  engaging  in  enterprises  in  which 
you  allow  it  no  profit,  and  in  this  land 
of  boasted 
liberty  you  rob  your  fellow- 
laborer  of  what  should be his inalienable 
right to  earn  his  daily bread.  A  debased 
currency  and  an  extortionate  tariff  are 
great  evils,  but  the  unreasonable  de­
mands  of  organized  labor  are  the  worst 
of  all. ”

Rev.  Miles  Grant,  of  Boston,  thinks 
he  has  solved  the  problem  of  living. 
is  a  strict  vegetarian,  and  never 
He 
uses  meat,  pies,  cakes, 
tea,  coffee, 
sugar,  salt  or  spices.  His  daily  food  is 
unleavened  graham  bread,  vegetables, 
cheese  and  milk,  and  he  says  that  he 
lives  well  at  a  cost of  87  cents  a  week, 
the  result  being  that he  is  healthy  and 
strong.

9

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware........................ new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron  Ware.........................new list 40*10
Pots................................................................60*10
K ettles..........................................................60*10
Spiders  ......................................... 
60*10

HOLLOW  WARE

 

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

Gate, Clark's, 1,2,3...............................  dis 60*11)
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50
nu
Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
so
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
Sisal, *  inch and  larger.............................  
6
Manilla.................................................... 
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels.............................................
M itre............................................................

LEVELS
ROPES

SQUARES

 
80

 

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.

2 70

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14................................... #3 30 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................  3 30 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  3 45 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................  355 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................  3 70 
No.  27 ..........................................   3 80 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 
50
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game............................................  
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70*10*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
WIRE
Bright Market.....................
75 
Annealed  Market...............
75 
Coppered  Market................
70*10 
Tinned Market....................
62* 
Coppered Spring  Steel........
50 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  . 
2  10 
Barbed  Fence,  painted......
1  75
Au Sable..:............................................dis40*10
Putnam..................................................dis 
5
Northwestern.........................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.........
30
50
Coe’s Genuine...................................
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought
80 
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
MISCELLANEOUS
50
Bird  Cages  ......................................
80
Pumps, Cistern.................................
85
Screws, New List..............................
50*10*10
Casters, Bed and  Plate.....................
50
Dampers, American..........................
...  OH 
...  6\
600 pound casks................................
Per pound........................................ .
*@*.................  12*
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

MET ALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

.... 

TIN—Melyn Grade

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

Each aidditional 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, 91.50.

 

ROOFINO  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean...........................   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............   1100

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, I per pound...

9

TRADESMAN 
ITEMIZED 
LEDGERS

«  
( 3

Size 8  1-2x14— Three Columns.

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

voices.....................................   #2 00

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUQURS  AND  BITS

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

Axes
First Quality. S. B. Bronze 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel__
First Quality. D. B. Steel......
BARROWS
Railroad................................
Garden....................................
BOLTS
Stove ....................................
Carriage new list.................
Plow.....................................

6  00 
» 50 
5 50 
10 50

#12 00  14 00 
net  30 00

60
65 to 65-10 
40*10

70

4

65
55
35
60

BUCKETS

BUTTS. CAST

Well,  plain................................................... #325

Cast Loose  Pin, figured............   ................ 
70
Wrought Narrow.........................................75¿¡10

BLOCKS

Ordinary Tackle.......................... 
CROW  BARS

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

 

 

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10.............................................. per[m 
Hick’s C. F ........................................... per m 
G. D......................................................perm 
Mnsket.................................................perm 

CARTRIDGES

CHISELS

Rim Fire....................................................... 50*   5
Centra]  Fire................................................. 25& 5

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

80
  80
80
80

DRILLS

ELBOWS

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

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
55
Corrugated..............................................  
1  25
Adjustable................................................dis 40A10
Clark’s small, #18;  large, #26........................30*10
Ives’, 1, #18; 2, #24; 3, #30  ............................ 
25

EXPANSIVE BITS

FILES—New  List

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

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

13 

14 

28
17

Discount,  75

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................#16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................#15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt's.........................................(18 50, dis 20*10

MILLS

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

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

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

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  2 15
Wire nails, base................................................  2 25
50
10 to 60 advance.......................................... 
8..................................................................  
60
75
7 and 6......................................................... 
4..................................................................  
90
3 ....................................................................  1 20
2 ............................................................   ...  160
1 60
Fine 3 ............................................................ 
Case 10..........................................................  
65
75
Case  8.......................................................... 
90
Case  6..........................................................  
Finish 10...................................................... 
75
Finish  8 ...................................................... 
90
Finish  6 ...................................................... 
10
70
Clinch 10...................................................... 
Clinch  8 
................................................... 
80
Clinch  6 ............................... 
90
Barrel  %.......................................................  1 75
PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s.  fancy................................  
.550
60
Sciota Bench................................................ 
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60

 

 

Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished..................................... 
70* 5

PANS

RIVETS

Iron and  Tinned  ........................................  
60
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
“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 *c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

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

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

A  SH O RT  BOOM.

One of  the  most  interesting  phases  of 
the  later  portion  of  the  political  cam­
paign  and  its  ending  was  its  effect  up­
on  the  business  situation.  The  pressure 
of  political  distraction  and  uncertainty 
was  sufficient  to  effectually  hold  back 
the  conditions  favoring  the  revival  ex­
cept  that  here  and  there  some  branch 
would  attempt  to  break  away  from  the 
incubus.  Occasional 
factories  would 
resume  operations, 
induced  by  confi­
dence  that  the  outcome  would  be  fa­
vorable  to  the  views  of  the  proprietors, 
and  the  same  considerations  allowed 
occasional  advances  in certain  products, 
as  hides and  leather,  for  instance.  The 
advance  in cereals  was  owing  to  foreign 
conditions;  but,  as  a  whole,  the  pres­
sure  was  maintained  to the last.

In  any 

iron  trade, 

When  release  finally  came the rebound 
instantaneous.  The  revival  was 
was 
universal. 
lines  where  it  was 
not  sufficiently  warranted  by  the  actual 
conditions,  as  the 
it  was 
sufficiently  anticipated  by  speculative 
buying; so that the  movement  comprised 
all  branches  of  trade.  However,  the 
Tradesman  was  compelled  to  predict  at 
the  time  that  there  would  follow a  par­
tial  reaction.  This  has  been  realized 
during  the  past  few  days.

the 

followed  by 

The  movement  following  the  election 
was  a  veritable  boom.  The  business 
world,  released  from  the  long 
incubus, 
became  intemperate.  Speculation  was 
active 
everywhere  and  the  activity 
quickly  outstripped 
condition— 
there  was  a  boom.  All  booms of  this 
sort  are 
reaction;  but 
booms  under  certain  circumstances  are 
not  matters  of  serious  concern.  If  the 
reaction comes early,  before the artificial 
movement  has  too  far outstripped  the 
underlyiug  conditions,  it  is  a  matter of 
comparatively  little 
importance.  The 
present  reaction  has  come at  the  right 
time  and  in  the  right  way  to prevent  in­
jurious  consequences. 
If  the  velocity 
of  the trade  movement  for  the  first  two 
weeks  had  been  maintained  any  length 
of  time,  it  would  have  led  to a  more 
serious  reaction.  Prices  would  have 
been  unduly  inflated ;  wages  would have 
gone  beyond  support,  and  the  reaction, 
when  it  did  come,  would  have  been  fol­
lowed  by  a  long  and  serious  depression. 
The  experience  of  the  unwarranted  iron 
boom  of  last  year  is  an  illustration fresh 
in  the  minds of  all.

The  reaction  has  been  a  very  slight 
one.  While  the  decline 
in  wheat  was 
considerable,  it  was  principally  specu­
lative  and  was  not  of  significance  as  to 
the  general  trade  condition;  but  there 
has  been  a  slight  reaction  in  general 
activity  all  along  the  line,  especially  in 
speculative  circles.  This  amounts  to a 
healthy  stopping  to  take  breath,  which 
augurs  well 
for  the  maintenance  of 
the  future  pace.

The  balance  of 

There  has  been  no  change  in  the  con­
ditions  favoring  the  general  return  to 
prosperity. 
foreign 
trade  continues to improve  in  our  favor, 
domestic  demand 
and 
money 
is  abundant  and  easy  to  obtain 
and  confidence  is  restored  everywhere. 
But  the  return,  to  be  lasting,  must be 
gradual.

increasing 

is 

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—Dealers  report  occasional  or­
ders  from 
localities  where  the  fruit  is 
not grown,  which  are  filled  on  the  basis 
of $i  per bbl.
Bananas—In  fair  demand,  owing  to 
The 

the  approach  of  the  holidays. 
supply  is  not  excessive.
Beans— Unchanged. 
are  handling 
on  exceedingly  small  margins.

Local  dealers 
large  quantities  of  stock 

Butter—Receipts  are  more  liberal,  in 
consequence  of  which  the  price  has sus­
tained  a  decline,  choice  dairy  bringing 
loc  and  fancy  about  2C  more.  Factory 
creamery  is  firm  at  19c.
Cabbage—40@5oc  per  doz.,  according 
In  carlots  dealers 

to  size and  quality. 
are  quoting $&  per  ton.

Celery—12^150  per  bunch.
Cider—$4  per  bbl.,  including  bbl. 
Cranberries—The  apple glut  is affect­
ing  them  disastrously.  The  holiday  de­
mand  will  probably  move  large  lots,  but 
will  hardly  affect  prices.  Dealers  have 
reduced  their  quotations  to $2  per  bu. 
and  $5.50  per  bbl.

Cheese—Factories  are  holding  their 
cheese  for  a  little  more  money  than 
buyers  are  willing  to  pay,  and  large 
markets are  about  on  a  parity  with  the 
country. 
In  consequence  but  a  very 
little  stock  is  moving  either  way.

Eggs—Strictly 

fresh  candled  stock 
commands  19c.  Candled  cold  storage 
brings  16c,  while  candled  pickled  stock 
is  in  fair  demand  at 
15c.  Supplies  of 
fresh  are  not  equal  to  the  demand.

Grapes—Home  grown  Niagaras  com­

mand  12c  for 9  lb.  basket.

Honey—White  clover  commands  12c. 

Dark  buckwheat  brings  10c.

Nuts—Ohio  hickory,  $1.50  per  bu. 
Onions—Spanish  are  in  fair  demand, 
commanding  $1.50  per bu.  crate.  Home 
grown  are  in  fairly  good  demand  at  28 
@3oc  per bu.

Potatoes—The  market  continues  to 
rule  low,  but 
indications  point  to  a 
higher  range  of  values  and  a  steady  de­
mand  later  in  the  season.
lbs.  or § i5  per  ton.

Squash—Hubbard  brings  $1  per  100 

Sweet  Potatoes—The  market  about 
the  same,  Baltimore  and  Virginia  stock 
commanding  Si-75  per  bbl.,  while  gen­
uine Jeresys,  kiln-dried,  bring  $2.50.

The  furniture  trade  journals  are  de­
voting  much  space  to  the  discussion  of 
the  question  whether  the  semi-annual 
furniture  exposition  shall  be  abolished, 
changed  to one  a  year,  or to  one  held in 
Grand  Rapids,  New  York,  Chicago  or 
Rockford,  or  to  one  in  each  of  two  or 
more  of  those  baliwicks.  The  manu­
facturers  who  respond  to  the  numerous 
enquiries  sent  out  on  the  subject  are 
pretty  unanimous  in  their  opinion  that 
they  should  be  done  away  with.  Yet 
laws over  which  the  trade 
journals,  the 
manufacturers  or anybody  else  have  no 
control  have  enacted  that  these  exposi­
tions  shall  be  held  in  Grand  Rapids, 
and  the  manufacturers  and  exhibitors 
are  preparing  for  the  inevitable  with  as 
good  a  grace  as  possible.

The  City  of  New  York  has  asked  for 
the  loan  of  the  Sunday  school  rooms  for 
common  school  purposes.  The  popula­
tion  of  New  York  is  growing  more  rap­
idly  than  its  educational  facilities,  and 
we  may  expect  still  greater  percentages 
of  illiteracy  in  its  population  in  a  few 
years  than  it  presents  now.  One  of  the 
most  striking  evidences  of  the  igno­
rance  there  now  is  the  Pharisaism  and 
arrogance  of  its  press.

The  labor  agitators  should  not  object 
to  starting  up  of  all  the  mills  and facto­
ries  in  the  country.  They  can  form 
combinations  and  organizations  with 
the  men  who  have  secured  employment, 
threaten  strikes  and  manage  to  make 
the  men  who  are  working  support  them 
in  idleness.  The  walking  delegate  is 
the  rooster  that  picks  up  the  food  where 
the  industrious  hen  scratches.

changing 

In  a  country  of  Central  Africa  there 
is  an  admirable  custom  that  all  public 
speakers  must  stand  on  one  leg—with­
out 
legs—while  speaking. 
This  rule  insures  two  good  things—one 
is  that  the  speaker  is  reasonably  sober 
and  the  other  is  that  he  will  not  speak 
very 
This  reform  should  be 
brought  over  and  adopted  in  this  coun­
try.

long. 

The  Onion  King.
Henry  J.  Vinkemulder, 

the  South 
Division 
street  produce  dealer,  has 
been  designated  the  Onion  King,  owing 
to  the  large  amount  of  stock  he  handles 
in  that  line.  He  also  handles  apples  in 
carlots.  He 
is  achieving  an  enviable 
reputation  as  a  . mail  order  house,  due 
to  good  stock,  right  prices  and  square 
dealing.

F. 

J.  Dettenthaler  has  had many over­

tures  to  handle  other brands  of  oysters, 
but  has  held  tenaciously  to  the  famous 
Anchor  brand.  The  experience  of  the 
past  few  weeks  has  demonstrated  the 
correctness  of  his  conclusion.

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 
35 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

136

rous’  drug  stock  and  fixtures,  located  at 
Newaygo.  B  st location and stock in  the town. 
Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.. Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 

FOR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN  THE  WAT- 
IT'OR  SALE—WELL-ESTABLISHED  GOOD- 

’  pHying  business  in  Grand  Rapids;  capital 
required from $V 00 to 10,000.  No  brokers  need 
apply.  Addiess  Business,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

ing  and  boarding  students  and  others,  in  the 

IT'OR  SALE  OR  RENT—A  FINE  NEW  GRO- 

cery store, with dwelling attached for room­
best locality in  city  of  Ann  Arbor  for doing an 
exclusively 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. Ann Aroor, Mich._____________  131

134

W ’ANTED—A  FEW  HUNDRED  CORDS  OF 

first-class,  thoroughly  seasoned  16 iuch 
feed, meal, grain, hay or  anything  else  in  our 
line.  State  price  f.  o  b.  your  station  Thos. 
E. Wykes & CO., Grand Rapids,  Mich.____ 129

beech and  maple wood, in  exchange  for  flour, 

FOR SALE—IMPROVED  80  ACRE  FARM- IN 

Oceana  county;  or  would  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address  380  Jefferson  Avenue, 

Muskegon. 
L'OR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
-12  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

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73

MISCELLANEOUS.

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IN  THE  sTATE-THE 
E8T  OPENING 
business  men  of  Dorr  offer  a  two-story 
fr- me  mill building and two acres of ground  to 
an experienced miller who will erect  an  engine 
room and equip the plant with power and roller 
process  machinery.  Address  J  C.  Neuman, 
Do  r, Mich. 
SNAP!  CITY OF 25,000.  O PPO SITIO N  
light.  Location  good.  Rent  reasonable. 
Bakery, candy, ice cream soda.  Restaurant and 
lunch  counter.  Everything  made  on  premises 
in first-class shape.  Reason O. K.  At a bargain. 
One-half cash,  ba’aoce  secured.  Pay  monthly. 
Apply at once  to No.  '44, care Tradesman.  14«
'  tionery  stocx.  Excellent location  for  gro 
eery.  R<-ut low.  Frank Hinds, 232 Lyon  street, 

IpOR SALE— MALL  CIGAR  AND  CONFEC- 
IpOR SALE—COMPLETE SET TINNER’S HA- 

chines, stakes, shears, wrenches, etc.  Used 
will work for  firm  and  furnish  tools.  Address 
No. 140, care Michigan Tradesman. 
140
Drug  stock  fo r“ sa le—t h e  b e s t  lo-
cated suburban  store in Kalamazoo,  Michi­
gan.  Stock is clean;  rent  low.  Address  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids,  Mich.
13S

less than  six  months.  Will  sell  very  cheap  or 

IT'OR  SALE-ONE  KIT  TINNER’S  TOOLS, 

1  nearly new.  Will sell  cheap.  B. W. & I. E. 
Hewitt, Maple Rapidk, Mich. 
137

Grand Rapids. 

143

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141

145

ANTED—SITUATION  AS  CLERK  IN  A 
clothing, shoe  or general store by a young 
man  of 25.  Best references.  Six  years’  expe 
rience.  Address  No.  145,  care Michigan Trades­
man. 
ANTED — REGISTERED  A S SI ST A NT  
pharmacist.  Give  references  and  salary- 
desired.  Address  No.  141,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman 
\ \ 7 ANTED—POSITION  AS ENGINEER AND 
vv  blacksmith  by  expert  workman  who 
holds first-class license from State of Miuuesota. 
Sawmilling  preferred.  Best  of  references. 
II. 
D.  Bullen,  27  New  H juseman  Block,  Grand 
Rapids 
ICHIGAN  STAMP  WORKS,  ALLEGAN, 
Mich., rubber stamps,  stencils,  dies,  >ea!s, 
etc.  Satisfaction  guaranteed.  M.  A.  Nelson, 
Proprietor. 
TVTEW  MERCHANTS’  PRICE  AND  SIGN 
i. v  markers,  $2 50  a  set.  Send  for  circular. 
Will J. Weller, Rubber Stamps, Muskegon, Mich. 
____________________________________ 139
pers of butter and eggs and  other  season 
able produce.  R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit. 
951
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WANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SH1P- 
WANTED-SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 

tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 
price. Vindex. care Miohiesn Trade-man

135

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But  not  so  busy  that  we  cannot  give 
prompt  attention  to  every  letter  o f in­
quiry, every letter asking for quotations, 
and  every  order 
received, 
whether  for  one  barrel  of  flour  or  ten 
carloads of mixed goods.

We  have  a  Western  Union  operator 
in our office and direct  line  to  Chicago. 
We are posted  on  the  markets  and  we 
will be glad  to  keep  you  posted.  We 
will advise you to the best of  our  ability 
if you  write  or  wire.  We  have  a  long 
distance  “ Phone.”  We  have  every 
modern  appliance  for  doing  business 
quick.  We  are  constantly  improving 
all along the line.  We have competent 
men  watching  every  detail.  We  buy 
and grind  only  No.  1  wheat.  We  are 
selling more

“ LILY  WHITE  FLOUR”

than ever before. 

Is it any wonder?

V A LLEY CITY MILLING CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

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

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

TRADESMAN COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Travelers’  Time  Tables.

CHICAGO

Sept.  7,  1894

and West Michigan R'y

doing  to  Chicago.

Muskegon via Waverly.

Returning  from  Chicago.

G'd. Rapids...........8:3uam  1:25pm til:00pm
at. Chicago..................  3:Uui>m 5:50pm t   6:3oam
v. Chicago................   ?:20am  5:uopm  +11:30pm
r. G'd Rapids.......... 1:25pm  10:30pm  t  6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapids............ B :30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............ 10:15am  _____10:30pm
Manistee, Traverse  City  and  Petoakey.
G’d Rapids...........  7:2oam  5:3opu  ...........
.Vr  Manistee...............  12:05pm  10:25pm 
at. Traverse City......  12:40pm 11:10pm  ...........
Ar. Charlevoix..........  3:15pm 
........................
Ar,  Peioskey................  4:55pm  ........................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:50 
p.m.

TAKLOK  AND  SLEEPING  CABS.

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

sleepers on night trains.
Grand Kapids7:30am.

+K very  day. 

Others week days only.

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n C T D A I T  
June as, 1896
U C  1  1 \ U  1  1 y Lansing & Northern R. it

doing to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.......7:ooain  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit...................ll:4uam  5:4Upm  10:lupm
Lv. Detroit....................7:4Uam 
1: lupm  6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids...... 12:3upm  5:2Upm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:uuain -t:2upin  Ar. GR 11:53am  9:15pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids........7:<uam  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ax. from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:2upm 
..........
Parlor cars  on all trains  between  Grand  Rap­
ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains run  week days only.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH CAB 8JCBVICB.

Gbo.  DbUaven,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Yrank Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv.

Eastward.

+No. 14  tNo. 16  tNo. 18  «No. 81 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am  10:10am  3:3tipm  10:45pm
Ar.  Ionia........7:40am  U:i7am  4:34pm  12:30am
Ar.  St. Johns..b:25am  12:lupm  5:23pm  i:57am
Ar.  Owosso__9:uukm  1: lupin  6:03pm  3:25pm
Ar. B. Saginaw 10:50am  ............   8:0upm 6:4uam
Ar. W.iJay C’y 11:30am  ............  8:35pm 7:16am
Ar. Flint........10:05am 
.............  7:05pm 5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:u6pm 
............  9:5upm 7:30pm
Ar. Pontiac..  10.53am  2:57pm  8:25pm  6:10am 
Ar.  Detroit... 11 :auam  3:56pm  9:25pm  8:UDam 

Westward.

For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts....  7:00am 
For G’d Haven and intermediate Pts.. ..12:53pm 
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts....  5:12pm 
tDaily except Sunday.  «Daily.  Trains arrive 
from tne east, 6:35a.m.,  12:45p.m.,  5:07p.w.,  9:55 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  tne  west, lo:06a.m., 
3:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlur  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. I3 Wagner parlor car.

E. H. H u g h es, A. G. P. &T. A.,
Chicago.
Be n .  F l e t c h e r, Trav. Pass. Agl., 
J ab. Ca m pb e l l, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe SL

GRAND Rapids  & Indiana Railroad

Northern  Div.

Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 7:45am t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey  Mack...t 2:15pm  t 0:3uain
Cadillac.................................. t  5:25pm til Guam
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  car to 
Peioskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv, Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t  7 Guam t  8:25pm
Ft.  Wayne...............................t 2:uupm  t  l:5opm
Cincinnati  ............................. * 7 :UUpm  * 7:25am
7Gua.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
7:0up.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

G O IN G   W E S T .

LvG’dRapids...............t7:35am tl:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon...............  9:uuam  2: lupm  7:U5pm
Lv Muskegon.............. tBGuam tll:45am  t4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids.............................9:3oam  12:55pm 5:2upm
A. aljkjuist, 

tExcept aunday.  «Daily.
Ticket Agt. Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass, dt Tkt. Agt.

C. L. Lockwood,

G O IN G   E A S T .

Every  Merchant

Who uses the Tradesman Company’s 
COUPON  BOOKS,  does  so  with  1  
sense  of  security  and  proiit,  for  he 
knows be is avoiding loss and annoy - 
ance.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

BORDEN’S  PEERLESS  BRAND

E V A P O R A T E D   C R E A M

Is  pure  milk  reduced  to  the  consistency  of  cream,  light  in  color,  natural 

in  flavor.

It  cannot  be  compared  with  any  unsweetened  milk  or  evaporated  cream 

heretofore  offered.

It  is  not  dark  in  color. 
It  is  not  disagreeable  in  flavor. 
‘Prepared  and  guaranteed  by  the . . . .

It  does  not  thicken  with  age.
It  does  not  spoil.

NEW  YORK  CONDENSED  MILK  COMPANY

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THE  DAYTON  COMPUTING  SCALE  SYSTEM

Quite  a bit lower,  and  still  allow  you  the 
SAM E  MARGIN  OF  PROFIT.

T h p   P r ’r v fl'I"  R o c i c   of  Bankers is about 5  per cent 
■   1  V ia 1 X.  H u d  I d   of Grocers is over  15  per cent.
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C  n  a I  a s  « p  £  •  Bankers, less than  2 per cent. 
m O, 11 U  i C d i   Grocers, over 60 Der cent.
Grocers, over 60 per cent.

Grocers should  measure their goods as accurately  and  as  closely 
as  Bankers.  This  can  only  be  done  by  the  M oney -W eight 
S y stem   of The D ayton C om puting Scale.

-c *s to your interest to investigate our money-saving system. 
At preset: t nrices its use will prove a gold  mine.

T H E   CO M PU TING  S C A L E   CO.,

DAYTON, OHIO,  U. S.  A.

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In  Time  of  Peace  Prepare  for  War

Winter  is  coming  and sleighs will be needed. 
We make a full  line of

P a w   Delivery and 

«•^Pleasure Sielolis.

W R IT E   F O R   P R I C E   L I S T .

The  Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Our  N ew   Hub  Runner.

