Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  16,  1896.

We can sell you

HHY  E r "   COAL

LIME OR CEMENT.

S.  A.  MORMAN  &  CO.,
19 Lyon St., Grand Rapids. Mirh.

Snedicor & Hathaway

80  to 89  W.  Woodbridge St.,  Detroit, 
Manufacturers  for  Michigan  Trade. 

DRIVING  S H O E S .

M E N 'S   AND  B O Y S '  GRAIN  S H O E S . 
C. K  Smith Shoe Co.. Aets. for Mich  . O. and Tnd.

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If interested write for prices.
H o l l y , M is t l e t o e ,  W r e a t h in g ,  E tc. 
C h r istm a s  T r e e s, 4 ft. to  15 ft.

PIED J. SHOWN  GO.,

WHOLESALE DEALERS,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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BROO M S  AND  W HISKS

M A N U F A C T U R E R   O F

D E T R O I T .   M I C H .

Number 691

Established 1780.

COCOAS

The Oldest and 

:r Baler  Oa.,s
PURE, HIGH GRADE

Largest  Manufacturers of

Dorchester- Mass..

AJND

GHOCOLATES

on  this  Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  used  tr 
their manufactures.
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa Is absolutely pure- 
delicious,  nutritions,  and costs less than 00» 
cent a  cup.
Their  Premium  No.  I  Chocolate  la  tb* 
host plain chocolate in the market for family 
use.
Their German  Sweet Chocolate is good to 
eat and good to drink.  It is  palatable,  nutr* 
tious  and  healthful;  a  great  favorite with 
children.
Bayers  should  ask  for  and  be  son  that 
they get the genuine
W a lter  B ak er  &  Co.’»

goods, madf  *t

Dorchester.  Mass.

W hy  are  the .

Manitowoc 
Lakeside  Peas

Better  than  ever?

Because  they  are  grown,  handpicked 
and  packed  by  an  experienced  force. 
They  have  thus  become  a  “Standard 
of  Excellence.”

Sold by

W ORDEN  GROCER  CO. 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING  AND  LUBRICATING

OILS

I   N A P H T H A   A N D   G A S O L I N E S

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Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Hk  Bulk  works  at  Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee,  Cadillac,  Big 

Rapids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington,  Al- 

legan, Howard City, Petoskey and Reed City.

!|S  Highest Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

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We are jobbers of these goods, among which are

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

Qualities the best and  prices the lowest.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS & SO N, Cl rand  Rapids,  n ic h

N E V E R   B E F O R E

Have we been ab'e to show  such an  immense  selection of  Holiday Goods as  this 

season.  Our counters are now in shape to suit every  one.

Handkerchiefs— all  sizes,  all  prices— enough  to  supply  the 

town.

Good  Dolls— Cheap  D olls,  L on g  Dolls,  Short  D olls— in 

fact,  all  kinds  of  Dolls.

Picture  Frames— T oilet  Soaps,  Perfum eries,  Pins,  F an cy 

Com bs,  T id ies,  N apkins,  etc.,  etc.

Gents’  Furnishings— L arge  line  of  T ies,  Shirts,  Collars, 
Cuffs,  Socks,  U m brellas,  G loves,  H andkerchiefs—  
in  fact  everything  you  need.
BU Y  NOW   WHILE  S E L E C T IO N   IS  G O O D   A T
P .  S T E K E T E E   &   S O N S .

Stll '1 GW W

It  is  a big. pure,  full weight,  solid  one 
pound bar (16 oz.) whb h retails  for  o >ly 
5 cents.  G* t  the  price y- u can buy it at 
from your Wholesale Groci r nr his Agent. 
• *ne trial and you will  always keep  it in 
stock.

100 Bars in Box, $’ 50.  This is  a Cracker 
Jack to make  a  run  on.  and  it  will  be a 
winner for you both ways.

ALLEN  B.  WRISLEY  CO.,

CHICAGO. 

Manufactured only by

DOLL  SOAP

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Co ffee

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There  is  Money  in  It

T asty  and  attractive  styles  in  D ry  Good 
and  M en’s  Furnishings are  money m akers 
W e   carry  a  com plete 
line.  A lw ays  u 
to  date.

NOW

is  the  tim e  to  m ake  up  your  mind  to  d 
your  next  year’s  business  with  us.  Specia 
attention  given  all  m ail  orders.

VOIGT,  HERPOLSHEIMER &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

COFFEE

MANUFACTURED

BY

Kmeipp Malt Food Co,
C.  H.  STKUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio,

Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

Every  Dollar

Invested  in  Tradesman  Company’^ 
COUPON  BOOKS  will  yield  band 
some returns in saving book-keeping 
besides the assurance  that no charge 
is forgotten.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

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

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W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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

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T ravelers’  T im e  T ables.

CHICAGO and West Michigan R’y

Going to Chicago.

Muskegon via Waverly.

Returning from  Chicago.

lv.  G’d. Rapids...........8:3uain  1:25pm  til :00pm
Ar. Chicago.................  3:0upm 6:50pm  t 6:30am
t.v. Chicago................   7:20am  5:oupm til:90pm
vr. G’dKapids..............1:25pm  10:30pm t  6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapias............ t):30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
at.  G'd. Rapids............ 10:15am 
..........10:30pm
Lv. G’d Rapids...........  7:20am  5:30pin  ...........
vr  Manistee..............   12:05pm  10:25pm  .........
Ar. Traverse City......   12:40pm 11:10pm  ...........
Ar. Charlevoix...........  3:15pm 
........................
at.  Peioskey..............  4:55pm 
.....................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  8:50 
p.m.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoskey.

PARLOR  AND  8 L K R P IN 0  CARS.

Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
North.  Parlor  car  ft>r  Traverse  City  leaves 

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

tEvery  day. 

Others week days only.

n C T D A I T  
jum is, l i f t
D L  i   f y U l   1 , Laming & Northern R.R,

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit,

Saginaw, Alma and St. Louis.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit................... 11:40am  5:40pm 10:10pm^
Lv. Detroit....................7:40am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids...... 12:30pm  5:2opm 10:45pm
Lv. G R7:uoam 4:2Upm  Ar. G K ll:ooam  8:15pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids........7:i Uam 
l:3opm  5:25pm
Ar.  from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
..........
Parlor cars  on all trains  between  Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains run  week days only.

To and from Lowell.

TUKOUOH  CAR  SEHVICE.

Gbo.  DbHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

H P  A N H  Trank Railway System 
L i I y / Y I 1 U   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv.

Eastward.

tNo. 14  tNo. 16  tNo. 18  'No. 81 
Lv. G’d Rapids. 6:45am  10:10am  3:3;)pm  10:45pm
Ar.  Ionia........7:40am  11:17am  4:34pm  12:30am
Ar.  St. Johns. .b:25am  12:10pm  5:23pm  l:57am
Ar.  Owosso__8:00am  1:10pm  6:o3pm  3:25pm
. 
Ar. E. Saginawl0:50arn 
........  8:0upm  6:4oam
............   8:35pm  7:15am
.vr. W.Bay C’y 11:30am 
Ar. Flint........10:05am 
.............  7:05pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:o6pm 
............  8:50pm ?:30pm
Ar. Pontiac..  10.-53am  2:57pm  8:25pm  6:10axn 
Ar.  Detroit..  ll:5oam  3:55pm  8:25pm  8:05am 

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 the east, 6:35a.m.,  12:45p.m.,  5:o?p.m.,  0:55 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west, lu:05a.m., 
3:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. lo Wagner parlor car.

E. H. H ushes, A. G. P. & T. A.,
Chicago.
Ben.  F letcher, Trav. Pass. AgL,
J ab. Campbell, City Pass.  Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St.

GRAND  Rapids  & Indiana Railroad

Northern  Dlv.

Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack.. ,t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C'y, Petoskey & Mack... t  2:15pm  t  6:3Uam
Cadillac....................................t  5:25pm til :10am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  car to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

Southern  Dlv.

Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati................................t  7: loam t  8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................t 2:00pm t  l:5opm
Cincinnati  ............................. *  7:00pm  * 7:25am
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

LvG’dRapids...............t7:35am tl:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  8:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am til :45am  t4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids............   8:30am  12:56pm  6:20pm
A. Almquist, 

tExcept Sunday. 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt.

'Daily.
C. L. Lockwood,

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Every  Merchant

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.  Grand  Rapids

Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  16,  1896.

Number 691

C IT IZ E N S
T E L E P H O N E
C O M P A N Y

89-91  CAMPAU  ST.

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and  Moorland, by full copper  metallic.
Holland, Vrlesiand,  Zeeland,  Hudson- 
ville and Jenisonviile t y copper wire.
Allegan,  South  Haven,  Saugatuck, 
Ganges.
Lansing,  Grand  Ledge,  Lake  Odessa, 
H  stings.
Ionia,  Saranac,  Lowell,  Ada,  Cascade.
St. Louis, St. Johns,  Alma, Ithaca,  etc.
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THE  INTEREST  IN  CUBA.

The  situation 

in  Cuba  has  become 
the  all-absorbing  topic  of  the  press,  un­
til  there  is  a  wave of scathing  denuncia­
tion  sweeping  over  the  country  against 
the  poor  Spaniards  on  account  of  the 
crowning  climax  of  treacherous  barbar­
ity 
in  the  assassination  of  the  Cuban 
general,  Maceo,  and  his  staff  while  un­
der  the  ostensible  protection  of  a flag  of 
truce. 
Indeed,  the  matter has  assumed 
so  much  importance  that  it  is  monopo­
lizing  a 
large  share  of  the  attention  ol 
Congress.

insurrection 

For  some  time  after  the  report  of  the 
death  of  the  revolutionary 
leader  be­
came  current  the  fact  was  persistently 
denied  by  Cuban  sympathizers  and  the 
report  was  credited  to  Spanish  political 
design. 
It  was  maintained  that  all  the 
circumstances  of  the  finding  of the  body 
were  too  improbable  for  belief  and  that 
it  was  a  device  intended  for  effect  on 
the  action  of  our  Government;  that  the 
report  of  the  killing  of this  leader would 
indicate  that  there  was  really  little  of 
the 
left  with  which  the 
Spaniards  had  to  deal.  But,  with  the 
confirmation  of  the  news  of  the  killing, 
Cuban  sympathy—which  means  almost 
universal  sympathy  in  this  country—as­
sumed  that,  if  Maceo  was  not  living, 
he  had  been  made  the  victim  of  Span­
ish  treachery.  Circumstantial  accounts 
of  the  firing  upon  the general  and  staff 
while  under  a  flag  of  truce  are  given 
and  seem  to  be  accepted  without  ques­
tion,  although  the  elements  of 
improb­
ability  appear  as  manifest  as 
in  the 
It  would  seem  that  the 
earlier  reports. 
Spanish  general  would  have 
taken 
means  to  prevent  the  early  forwarding 
of  the  real  facts  if  they  were  as  repre­
sented.

Whether  true  or  not,  these  reports  are 
serving  the  purpose  of  raising  the  tem­
per  of  the  country  to  white  heat  in sym­
pathy  for  the  struggling  Cubans.  And 
in  the  movement  there 
is  a  decided 
feeling  of  indignation  that  our  Execu­
tive  refused  to  make  operative  the  ac­
tion  of  Congress  in  their  behalf  at  the 
close  of  the  last  session.  That  there  has 
been  so  much  patience  is  to  be  attrib­
uted  largely  to  our  political  distraction. 
But  now  there 
is  time  to  consider 
others,  and  it  begins  to  look  as  though 
there  would  be  consideration  to  some 
purpose  soon.

CHURCH  AND  STATE.

The  admission  of  Utah  into the Union 
of  States  is  already  furnishing  a  ground 
for  regret  which  is  entirely  unconnected 
with  size  of  population  or  the  fact  that 
the  State  cast 
its  vote  in  a  particular 
direction.

The  Mormon  church,  as  a  church,  is 
directly  interfering  in  the  selection  of  a 
United  States  senator and  attempting  to 
defeat  Moses  Thatcher 
in  his  aspira­
tions,  as a means  of  disciplining  him  as 
a  Mormon  apostle,  or,  at  least,  as  a 
member  of  the  church.  Reports  from 
Utah  are  all  to  the  effect  that  Mormon- 
ism  is once  more  defiant  and  aggressive 
in  that  State,  that  it  is  dominating  the 
political  situation, 
is 
practiced  again  with  impunity  and  that

that  polygamy 

the  Saints  propose  to  reap  the  benefits 
of  their  now  virtually 
independent  po­
sition.  A  Gentile  can  hardly  purchase 
any  lands  or desirable  properties  in  the 
State  and  the  spirit  of  the  Boers  of 
South  Africa,  in  rigidly  maintaining 
ascendency  over  newcomers,  appears  to 
be  equally  manifest  in  Utah.

False  Notions  About  Good  Times.
Intelligent  persons  are  heard  on  all 
sides  wildly  proclaiming,  in  conversa­
tion  and  in  the  press,  that,  although  an 
entire  month  and  several  days  have 
elapsed  since  the  winning  of  the  sound- 
money  victory  at  the  November  general 
election,  there  has  been  no  revival  of 
prosperity  in  the  country,  and  no  wide­
spread  distribution  of  wealth  among  the 
people.

It  is  difficult  to  understand  what  such 
persons  expected;  but  they  talk  as  if 
they  had 
looked  for  a  flood  of  gold  or 
some  other  astonishing  occurrence  to 
follow  immediately  upon  the  announce­
ment  of  the  result  of  the  election,  and 
universal  prosperity  to  overspread  the 
land.

When  it  is  remembered  that  but 

lit­
tle  more  than  two-score  of  days  have 
passed  since  the  holding  of the election, 
and  that  the  age  of  miracles  is no longer 
with  us,  it 
is  unreasonable  in  the  ex­
treme  to  suppose  that  there  should  or 
could  have  been  any 
considerable 
change  in  the  financial  condition  of  the 
country.  When  a  sick  patient  has  been 
suffering  from  a  prolonged  attack  of 
wasting  and  enfeebling  bodily  disease, 
convalescence  and recovery must be slow 
and  gradual.  There  can  be  no  sudden 
and  immediate  restoration  to  health and 
vigor,  and  nobody 
for  any  in­
stantaneous  recovery.

looks 

A  like  condition  exists  as  to  the  com­
merce  and 
industries  of  the  United 
States.  They  were  struck  down  in  1893 
by  one  of  those  financial  convulsions 
which  overwhelm  the  business  of  every 
country  from  time  to  time  when  there 
has  been  an  unusual  excess  of  specula­
tion  and 
inordinate  overtrading.  The 
most  radical  and  disorganizing  political 
agitations  followed  the  financial  panic 
of  1893,  and  for  three  years  have  ag­
gravated  the  depressing  and  demorali­
zing  conditions  until  all business in  this 
country  has  been  paralyzed.

The  settlement  of  many  most  serious 
political 
issues  was  effected  by  the 
presidential  election  of  a  little  over a 
month  ago,  and  a  most 
important  vic­
tory  was  gained  for  sound  money ;  but 
every  reasonable  person  ought  to  see 
that  the  mere  announcement  of  these 
facts  cannot  secure  or  bring  about  an 
immediate  recovery  of  all  trade  and  in­
dustries  from  the  condition  of  paralysis 
from  which  they  have  so  long  been 
suffering.  Such  recovery  is  a  matter  of 
time.  The  causes  which  start  up  fac­
tories  and  set  in  motion  all  the  compli­
cated  mechanisms  and  processes  of 
commerce and  manufacturing  can  only 
act  gradually.  The  first 
impulse  to­
wards  the  revival  of  prosperity  can  only 
be  communicated  from  one  person  to 
another,  until,  by  degrees, 
the  entire 
working  population  shall  feel  the  thrill 
that  means  revived  prosperity.

It  ought  to  be  remembered  that  the 
ablest  advocates  of  the  sound-money 
cause  never  promised  any  sudden  res­
toration  of  good  times,  nor  any  shower 
of  wealth.  They  constantly  held  that  a 
victory  for  sound  money  would  cause  a 
restoration  of  business confidence, which 
had  been  almost  wholly  lost  during  the 
political  agitations  which  followed  the 
panic  of  1893,  and gradually,  but  surely, 
bring  about  better  times.  That  was  all 
that  could  possibly  have  been  expected 
by  reasonable  people,  and 
it  was  all 
that  was  promised  by  any  such.

Even  now  the  situation  is complicated 
by  the  expressed  determination  of  the 
Republicans  to  reorganize  the  national 
revenue  and  change  the  tariff.  This 
must  exert  a  further  unsettling  effect 
upon  business,  and  will  delay  the  full 
return  of  good  times  for  a  year  or  two 
to  come;  but  the  recovery  will  only  be 
retarded— it  will  not  be  prevented. 
Business  confidence 
is  being  re-estab­
lished.  Capitalists  are  already  making 
inquiries  with  a  view  to  investments. 
There  is  no  speculative  movement,  nor 
anything  like  it;  but  a  movement  is be­
ginning  to  be  felt.

F ra nk  St o w e l l.

lighting 

local  municipal 

The  periodical  agitation  of  the  ques­
tion  of 
is 
again  occupying  the  attention  of  the 
city  officials  and  those  interested  in  the 
furtherance  of  such  schemes.  There  is 
this  possible  benefit  in  the  repeated dis­
cussions--they  may  serve  to  keep  up  to 
their  duties  the  private  contractors  now 
doing  the  work.  But  the  Tradesman  is 
not  yet  convinced  that  the  time  is  ripe, 
or  indeed  ever  will  be,  for  the  city  to 
take  up  such  work.  Electrico-mechan- 
ical  science  is  still  too  rapidly progress­
ive  for any  investment  in  such  lines  to 
have  permanent  value.  The  building 
of  a  plant  by  the  city  means  bonding  to 
pay  in  the  distant  future  for  that  which 
will  be  entirely  obsolete  and  worthless 
in  less  than( half  the  life  of  the  bonds. 
This  will  mean  simply  running  in  debt 
for  the  payment  of  the  current  expense 
of  lighting.  The  Tradesman  is  not  op­
posed  to  any  judicious  expenditure  to 
be  paid  in  the  future  for  the  acquire­
ment  of  that  which  is  of  permanent  or 
increasing  value,  but  there  is  no  more 
reason  why  the  city  should  draw  on  the 
future  for  lighting 
its  streets  than  for 
its  fire and  police  service.

By  direction  of  the  Omaha  Board  of 
Education,  boys in  the public schools are 
asked  to  sign,  of  their  own  free,  will  a 
pledge  to  abstain  from  the  use  of  tobac­
co  during  their  school  days,  with  a 
proviso  that  they  can  be  released  from 
their  pledge  at  any  time  on  a  personal 
request.  The  teachers  report  that  the 
plan  has  worked  well,  that  very  many 
of  the  boys  have  signed  the  pledge,  and 
that  keeping  it  has  come to  be  regarded 
as  a  matter  of  honor.  Better  scholar­
ship,  better  morals  and  more  cleanly 
habits  are  among  the  direct  results  of 
the  movement.

Queen  Victoria  now  rules  367,000,000 
people,  a  greater  number  than  has  ever 
before  acknowleged  the  sovereignty  of 
either  king,  queen  or  emperor.

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Petting  the  People

Art  of  Reaching  aud  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising.

Every 

inch  of  space  bought  for  ad­
vertising  purposes  at  this  season  of  the 
year  may  he  made  doubly  productive by 
the  careful  methods  used  in  tilling  such 
space.

While  the  hard  times  are  rapidly  be­
coming  a  thing  of  the  past,  still  money 
is  not  so  plenty  that  buyers  can  afford 
to  throw  any  away,  and  the  search  for 
bargains  in  Christmas  gifts  is  as  strong 
as  at  any  time  during  the  past  five 
years.  The  mere  statement  that  you 
keep  Xmas  goods  will  not  be  sufficient. 
You  must  convince  the  public  that  you 
don't  "keep ”   such  goods,  but  that  your 
prices  on  such  goods  are  so  low   and  the 
values  So  high  that  you  " S e l l ’ *  them.

One  of  the  best  plans  1  know  of  for 
advertising  Christmas  goods 
is  to  an­
nounce  a  daily 
list  of  bargains.  For 
instance,  tell  the  public  that,  commenc­
ing  Monday  morning,  from  7  until  q, 
you  will  dispose  of  a  large  assortment 
of  sleds,  making  the  prices  on  them  at 
cost,  or  even 
less.  From  9  until  11, 
dolls,  with  cut  prices.  Then  proceed 
to  portion  off  the  day  in  like  manner, 
being  sure  to  make  such  prices  that  the 
public  cannot  resist  them.  Keep  this 
up  for  a  week  and  by  the  end  of  that 
time  you  will  find  your  holiday  trade all 
you  can  desire,  and  the  cut  prices  on 
certain  articles,  so  sold,  will  be  more 
than  compensated  for  by  the  large  in­
crease  of  sales  in  more  profitable  lines.
Let  your  show  window  correspond 
with  the  hours  advertised.  Show  sleds 
with  cut  prices  from  7  to  0.  and  so  on 
through  the day.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

One of  the  most  unique  schemes  to 
in  connection  with  holiday 
be  used 
window  advertising  is  as  follows:  Em­
ploy  a  reliable  man  and  dress  him  in 
any  neat  fancy  costume,  out  of  the  or­
attractive. 
dinary 
style — something 
Let  him  stand  on  the  walk 
in  front  of 
the  window,  varying  his  position  oc­
casionally,  and 
let  him  with  his  right 
hand  point  continually  at  the  goods  dis 
played.  He  must  not  utter a  sound,and 
should  look  as  dignified  as  possible.  In 
some  convenient  place  on  his  person  he 
should  carry  a  sign  in  black 
letters  on 
white  cardboard,  as  follows:

i  POINT  THE  W AY 

TO

:  CHRISTMAS  BARGAINS.

It 

is  a  well-known  fact  that  if  one 
stops  anywhere  on  the  street  and  looks 
or  points  steadily  at  one  place  for a 
moment,  all  passers-by  are  attracted. 
This 
is  the 
principle of  the  plan  above outlined.

is  human  curiosity,  and 

Show  window  tableaux  are  becoming 
more  and  more  popular  as  means  fur 
"Getting  the  People."  The  pictures 
given  should  be  very  plain  and  easily 
understood,  and  should  have  direct  ref­
erence  to  goods  offered  for  sale.  The 
homelier  the  tableaux,  the  more  draw­
ing power they  will  develop.  I  will  give 
an  illustration:

The  "properties"  used  are as follows: 
A  saw-horse,  buck-saw,  stick  of  wood, 
on  the  tlat  side  of  which  should  be 
painted  the  words  "Prices  on  Holiday 
Goods,”   and  a  pretty  young  lady.  The 
girl  should  be  dressed  as  a  country  lass, 
and  should  be  engaged  in  sawing  the 
stick  of  wood.  The  saw  should  be  re­
versed  in  the  frame,  so  it  will  not  cut,
I aud  some  sawdust  scattered  about.  It

I 

believe  Santa  Claus  might  be  put  to 

will  be  advisable  to  have  several  sticks 
of  wood  prepared,  on  which  may  be 
painted  such 
legends'  as  "Prices  on 
Toys, 
Prices on  Games, ”   etc.  The 
young  lady's  position  should  be  facing 
the  window,  so  that  the 
inscription  on 
the  stick  of  wood  may  be  read  by  the 
crowd  in  front.  The 
interpretation,  of 
course,  is  "Prices  on  Holiday  Goods 
Cut  in  Tw o."  The  sawyer  may  change 
the  stick  as  often  as  deemed  desirable. 
This 
is  a  simple  tableau,  and  in  its 
very  simplicity  and  the  action  intro­
duced  lies  the  secret  of  its  success  as  a 
"People  Getter.”

Santa  Claus  in  the  window  is  a  time- 
honored  attraction,  and  still  holds  its 
proportion  of  drawing power.  But  such 
tableaux  as  I  have  outlined  above are 
new,  and  " a   new  broom  sweeps clean. "

better  use  in  a  personal  way.  For  in­
stance,  decorate  and  load  up  a  sleigh  or 
carriage,  if  sleighing  wiil  not  permit, 
with  an  assortment  of  tovs  and  holiday 
goods.  Hire  a  pair of  mules  and,  if 
it 
can  be  accomplished,  rig  them  up  as  a 
imitation  of  reindeer,  and 
ludicrous 
with  any  quantity  of  bells. 
Put  a 
large  card  on  the  outside  of  each  say­
ing,"  1 am  supposed  to  be  a  reindeer." 
Put  Santa  Claus  in  as  driver,  and on his 
back  place  the  legend,  " I   am  Smith  & 
Co.'s  Santa  Claus."  Supply  him  with 
some  neatly  printed  cards  inviting  the 
public  to  call  on  Smith  &  Co.,  and 
in­
spect  the  wonderful  bargains  offered 
in 
Christmas  toys  and  novelties.  Then 
let  Santa  Claus  make  a  comprehensive 
tour  of  the  residence  portion  of  the 
town,  stopping  at  each  door and leaving 
one or  more  of  the cards.

This  plan  will,  I  am  convinced,  do 
more  to  draw  the  Christmas  trade  than

a  dozen  Santa  Clauses  located  in  the 
window.

to 

structure, 

A  beautiful  and  pathetic  window  pic­
ture,  and  one  which  will  draw  many  a 
stray  half  dollar  from  the  pockets  of  the 
public,  may  be  made  as  follows:  In  one 
side  of  the  window  build  a  forlorn  and 
desolate 
represent  the 
abode  of  poverty.  On  the  wall  should 
hang  a  ragged  stocking,  appealing  to 
the  sympathy  of  Santa  Claus  by  its  very 
misery  and 
inability  to  hold  together. 
The  room  should  be miserably furnished 
—you  can  readily  find  samples  in actual 
life  in  almost  any  town.  The  balance 
of  the  window  space  should  be  taken  up 
by  a  winter  scene,  arranged  with  cotton 
for  snow,  and  evergreens,  etc., 
for 
scenery,  building  back  into  the  store  if 
necessary.  You  can  easily  manage  that 
part.  A 
in  rags,  and 
"made up"  to  look as nearly starved and 
as  cold  as  possible,  should  be  engaged 
in  gathering  pieces  of  wood 
in  her 
apron,  occasionally  varying  this  occu­
pation  by  taking  a  peep  at  the  forlorn 
stocking  hanging 
in  the  shanty,  and 
any  other  effective  "stage  business”  
appropriate  to  the  situation.  Suspended 
about  half  way  down  the  center  of  the 
window  should  hang  a  half  sheet  card, 
in  such  a  position  as  not  to  interfere 
with  the  view  below,  and  yet  plainly 
visible.  This  should  read :

little  girl,  clad 

REMEMBER  THE  POOR.
Spec'al Prices on  Holiday  goods  pnr- 
cha ed for di-trlhntion among the  poor 
children of this city.

Of  course,  it  will  be  necessary 

to 
stick  to  your  bargain  and  make  the  spe­
cial  prices  bona  fide,  but  your  sales and 
profits  will  be  found  largely  increased

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by  this  device,  as  it  appeals  more  for­
cibly  to  the  hearts  and  pocketbooks of 
the  benevolent  at  Christmas  than  any 
other  device  known.

All  of  these  plans are inexpensive,and 
may  be  varied  „to  suit  different  tastes. 
At  Xmas  time  the  show  window  is  a 
most  profitable  field 
for  advertising, 
and  the  more  original  and  striking  the 
picture  in  the  window,  the  greater  the 
financial  results.

Following  I  give  a  few  original  holi­
sell 

day  advertisements  which  will 
goods:

A  Few  Suggestions 
For  Gift  M aking. 

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Your best girl  would  like  a  toilet  or  •  
manicure  set.  Your  mother would  ■  
like an album or view  holder.  Your  •  
fatber  would  be pleased  with  a  set  •  
of Dickens’ Works, or perhaps a nice  •  
cane.  Your  brother and  sister will  ■  
be  glad  of almost any kind of a gift,  0  
if it r  presents brotherly love, but we  ■ 
would  suggest  a  handsome  Initial  •  
pin  for  the  former,  and  a  pair  of  •  
opera glasses for the latter.  We can  •  
suit you in any of the above, and any  •  
quantity of other  novelties for  pres-  •  
entation.  See our phenomenally low  •  
•
prices. 
■

SUITErtEASY  &  CO. 

We  Don’t  KEEP  Xmas  Goods, 
We  SELL  Xmas  Goods  . . . .

And the reason for this is found in 
our  absolutely  fine  and  complete 
stock of Dulls. Toys, Games, Noah’s 
Arks, Picture Books, Albums. Toilet 
CaseR and Toilet Goods of all kinds, 
and  everything  which  goes to suit 
the  taste  and  purse  of  any  pur­
chaser,  which  we  are  offering  at 
“Before  Election’’  prices,  and 
everyone  knows  such  prices  mean 
rock bottom.  Watch our window.
QOODSTOCK  BROS. 

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i   Respect  for  McKinley’s  Socks

than he  has  for the  stockings  of 
the  poorest  child  in  the  United 
States.  Neiiher  have  we. 
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will sell you any  one  or  a  dozen 
articles  out  or 
our  enormous
stock of

Gift Goods

at just as close and  closer  prices 
than if you  were  President-elect. 
Seeing  is  believiDg.  Come  and 
look.

NORESPECT  &  CO.

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X  Old  Brains  and  Young  Brains 
X  Are  Puzzled  alike  to find  out 

Where  Santa Claus  comes  from.

But when you see a man  or woman 
with an  armful of Christmas  gifts, 
with  a  contented  smile  on  his  or 
her face,  you  may  put  it  down  as 
sett.ed  that  the  goods  came  from 
the  CHRISTMAS  BARGAIN  DE­
PARTMENT  of  A.  M.  Pleasemall 
& Co.  We  are  showing  a  greater 
variety this  year  than ever before, 
at  prices  which  make  it  possible 
for all to secure gifts  for  their  lit­
tle ones and friends.

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Hang on 
To Your Money

until  you  see  the  bargains  in 
Christmas  gifts, 
toys,  dolls, 
novelties, games, albums  and a 
thousand  other  things  which 
Fairweather & Co.  are  offering 
at  prices which will tempt you. 
Everything new and this year's 
buying—no old  stock.  The  at­
tractions In  our  show  window 
are merely a drop in the bucket 
in  comparison  with  what  we 
have 
inside. 
There’s no pushing  and  crowd­
ing—our room is ample  for all, 
and  we’ve  plenty  of  clerks. 
Come, and don’t forget  to bring 
the baby.

to  show  you 

Don’t  neglect  printers’ 

ink  at  this 
is  a  neat 
season  of  the  year.  There 
profit  in  holiday  goods  and  money 
in­
vested  in  pushing  the  sales  of  this  line 
is  a  sure  profit-winner.  There 
is  no 
in  such  goods  but 
merchant  dealing 
to 
can  well  afford 
spend  consider­
able  time  and  money 
in  promulgating 
and  originating  “ People  Getters,”   in 
the  way  of  catchy  ads.  and  attractive 
show  windows. 
is  not  necessary  to 
be  absolutely  original.  There  are  so 
many  good  ads.  written  and  so  many 
good 
ideas  published  that  it  is  a  com­
paratively  easy  matter  for  one  to  adver­
tise  effectively  without  claiming  orig­
inality. 
Another  Way  to  Attract  Christmas 

N em o.

It 

Trade.

in. 

Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Dec.  5— If  you  and 
your  readers  will  not  think  I  am  taking 
up  too  much  of  your  space and  their 
time,  I  will  comply  with  your  request 
and  give  you  a  brief  account  ot  my 
Christmas  attraction  for  1895 :
I  purchased  $15  worth  of  small  toys 
(and  until  you  make  such  a  purchase 
you  have  no  idea  how  many you can buy 
for  that  amount)  and  then  made  a Santa 
Claus  by  getting  a  false  face  with  long 
white  whiskers,  a  pair  of  old  pants, 
shoe packs, long socks and an old  Macki­
naw  jacket. 
1  built  a  house  in  one cor­
ner  of  one  of  my show windows,  covered 
the  bottom  of  the  window  and  the  house 
with  cotton  to  represent  snow,  placed 
my  Santa  Claus  on  top  of  the  house  and 
then  filled  the  window  with  the  toys, 
having  room  enough  to  put 
in  a  few 
printed  cards  calling  attention  to  the 
tact  that  every  child  under  12  years  of 
age  who  wrote  a  letter  to  Santa  Claus, 
addressed 
in  my  care,  would  receive  a 
present  on  Christmas  morning.  Other 
cards  were  printed  in  the same  manner, 
with  a  few additional  claims  in  regard 
to  the  quality  of  footwear  to  be  found 
within. 
I  made  a  large  display  in  the 
newspaper  about  Santa  Claus  and  his 
presents,  and  about  the  15th  of  the 
month  the  letters  began  to  pour 
I 
opened  them  and  registered  the  names 
of  the  writers 
in  an  index  book.  By 
Christmas eve  I  had  received  over  1,000 
I  placed  a  large  basket  in  the 
letters. 
it  as 
window  and  put  all  the  letters  in 
they  were  received,  arranging  them 
in 
such  a  manner  that  they  could  be  read 
from  the  outside.  As a  window  attrac­
tion,  I  can  safely  say that, from the time 
the  first 
letter  was  put  into  the  basket, 
my  window  was  crowded.  Christmas 
morning  I  was  down  town  early  and had 
my  toys  all  put  up  in  packages,  one 
toy 
I  then  painted 
twelve  banners,  and  by  that  time  the 
crowd 
in  front  of  my  store  was  some­
thing  awful. 
larger 
boys  into  the  store  and  gave  my  Santa 
Claus  to  the  largest  two  boys  to  carry, 
and  my  banners,  which  displayed  the 
quality,  style  and  durability  of  Cond- 
lon’s  shoes,  were  distributed  among  the 
other  boys.  I  then  started the procession 
around  the  city,  the  smaller  children 
willingly  falling 
They 
marched  for  an  hour  and  then  came 
back  to  the  store  to  receive  their  pres­
ents.  That  act  was  the  most  difficult 
part of  the  whole  show,  but  with  the  as­
sistance  of  several  policemen  and  of  a 
very  bright  little  girl  who  could  name 
every  child 
in  the  city,  I  managed  to 
get  through  with  the  distribution  with­
out  any  trouble  by  1  o’clock.  A  happier 
lot  of  children  was  never  before  seen, 
and  by  the  number  of  parents  who came 
in  and  congratulated  me,  I  knew  that 
my  Christmas  effort  for  1895  was  a  de­
cided  success.
In  regard  to  the  effect  of  such  an 
advertising  scheme,  all  I  can  say  is 
that  this  year  I  have  greatly  increased 
my  sales 
in  school  shoes,  and,  as  one 
gentleman  from  the  country  told  me,  it 
almost  made  bis  boy  come  to  town  on 
Sunday  to  buy  a  pair.

in  each  package. 

I  called  all  the 

behind. 

in 

Wil l   J.  Co n d lo n.

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.

Wealthy  Men  Not  Often  Likeable 

Men.

I  do  not  know  of  a  more  melancholy 
example  of the  human  race  than  what  is 
known  as  the  highly  successful  Ameri­
can  business  man,  the  sort  of  a  man 
who  ‘ ‘ opens  his  daily  life  with his office 
key  and  closes 
it  with  a  letter  for  the 
late  mail. ”

He  has,  of  course,  secured  what  nine- 
tenths  of  the  young  men  of  this  country 
wish  they  had—business  success,  a large 
amount  of  securities,  ample  provision 
for  bis  family  and  a  certain  power  in 
the  commercial  world.

As  far as  he  is  concerned  there  is  no 
other course  left  for  him  in  life  except 
either  to  keep  on  the  same  treadmill, 
accumulating  and  perhaps  dispensing, 
or accumulating  and  becoming  a  miser, 
or to  give  it  all  up  and  begin  to  learn 
to  live anew.

If  his  life  permits,  that  is,  if  it  has 
not  been  worn  out  by  too  close  applica­
tion  to  work,  he  may  probably  before he 
is 60 go  to  the  school  of  common  sense 
and 
learn  the  joys  of  outdoor  life—of 
flowers,  music,  art,  literature,  sympathy 
with  his  kind,  a  tender  appreciation  of 
everything  there 
in  the  world  that 
makes  life  worth  living.

is 

If  he  learns  that  successfully,  the  last 
ten  years  of  his  life—between  60  and  70 
— may  be  passed  in  comparative  com­
fort.  But  how  much  wiser 
it  would 
have  been  if,  after  he  had  accumulated 
enough  money  to  pay  his  bills  and  keep

in 

luxury,  which,  ten 
his  family—not 
chances  to  one,  would  ruin  his  sons  and 
injure  the  future  of  his  daughters— he 
had  packed  away,  both  in  his  heart  and 
theirs,  the  love  for  the  things  which 
would  have  made,  not  only  the  last  ten 
years,  but  all  other  years  of  his  life 
lovely  and  happy!  In  other  words,  to 
sum  it  all  up,  I  would  rather  have  my 
little  piece  of  pie  every  day  I  like  than 
wait  until  I  am  so  old  my  teeth  won’t 
chew  it. 

F.  H o pk in so n  S m ith.

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Around  the  State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Saginaw  —  Geo. 

Zarnko 

succeeds 

Zarnko  Bros 

in  the  grocery  business.

Saginaw  (W.  S .)— P.  H.  Aurentz  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  J.  H. 
Lav in.

Bay  City—Tenny  &  Raymond  suc­
in  the  furniture 

ceed  P.  W.  Gardiner 
business.

A.  G.  Drake  &  Co.  succeed  W.  Voss 
in  the  harness  and  wood  business  at  141 
Canal  street.

Springport—J.  A.  Hammond  has 
closed  out  his  grocery  stock  and  retired 
from  business.

Sears— R.  P.  Holihan  has  embarked 
in  the  Frank  Bark 

trade 

in  general 
store  building.

Midland —The  Hawks Mercantile Co., 
incorporated,  succeeds  Hawks  & 

not 
Co.,  Agts.,  in  general  trade.

Fife  Lake— The  Fife  Lake  Hardware 
Co.  has  merged  its  business  into  a  cor­
poration  under  the  same  style.

Manistee— Mrs.  T.  B.  Hoisington  has 
opened  a  branch  confectionery,  tobacco 
and  notion  store  on  River  street.

Norway— O’Callaghan  &  Fors 

ceed  O’Callaghan  &  Monroe 
millinery  and  dry  goods  business.

suc­
in  the 

Hillsdale— Donaghy  &  Crane,  furni­
ture  dealers  and  undertakers,  have  dis­
solved,  VV.  W.  Donaghy  succeeding.

New  Lothrop— Patterson  &  Kildea 
continue  the 
implement  business  for­
merly  conducted  by  John  W.  Patterson.
Benton  Harbor—Loomis  &  Rice, 
dealers 
in  wall  paper,  picture  frames, 
etc.,  have  dissolved,  Judson  E.  Rice 
succeeding.

Traverse  City— Hiram  Cook  has  re­
sumed  the  giocery  business,  which  was 
interrupted  by  the  recent  conflagration 
at  this  place.

Ferry—S.  B.  Chamberlin  sold his drug 
stock  to  Dr.  Rhorig  and  J.  E.  Converse, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Hart—The  Bell  Telephone  Co.  has re­
duced  the  rate  on  service  between  this 
point  and  Pentwater  to  5  cents.  Com­
petition  did  it.

Chesaning— Fred  H.  Blakeslee  is suc­
ceeded  by  the  Union  Supply  Co.,  not 
incorporated,  in  the  musical  instrument 
and  sewing  machine  business.

Detroit— E.  Schloss,  Son  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  Moses  I.  Schloss  in  the  wholesale 
men’s  furnishing  goods  business  and 
the  manufacture  of  pants  and  overalls.

Hastings—Archie  McCoy  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner,  Will 
Fuller,  in  the  furniture  business,  and 
will  hereafter 
conduct  the  business 
himself.

Mackinac  Island—Bogan  Bros,  have 
just  completed  a  block  of  three  stores, 
50x70  feet  in  dimensions.  One  of  the 
stores  will  be  occupied  by  the  owners 
of  the  block  with  their  drug  stock.

Traverse  City— C.  A.  Bugbee  and  W.
F.  Roxburgh  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  Bugbee  &  Rox­
burgh  for  the  purpose  of  embarking  in 
the  drug  business  here  about  Jan.  1.

North  Dorr— Lewis  Hildebrand  has 
retired  from  the  firm  of  John  Schichtel, 
Jr.,  &  Co.,  general  dealers.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  by  the remaining 
partner,  John  Schichtel,  Jr.,  in  his  own 
name.

Greenville—Geo.  R.  Slawson  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  cousin,  Wm. 
W.  Slawson,  in  the  drug  firm  of  Geo. 
R.  Slawson  &  Co.  The  business  will  be 
continued  by  Geo.  R.  Slawson  andWm. 
A.  Hall  under  the  same  firm  name.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Manistee—Zander  &  Mongrain  have 

opened  a  new  meat  market.

Menominee— The  extensive  hardware 
stock  of  Dunning  Bros.  &  Co.,  recently 
attached  by  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Menominee,  on  a  claim  of  $13,000,  was 
sold  at  attachment  sale  to  Buhl  Sons  & 
Co.,  of  Detroit,  for  $16,700.  The  stock 
inventoried  at  $27,000.  Business  was 
immediately resumed  by  the purchasers, 
who  held  a  claim  against  the  establish­
ment  for s8,ooo.

Detroit— The  stock  of  Lyons  Bros.  & 
Co.,  the  Jefferson  avenue  hosiery  deal­
ers,  has  been  appraised  at  $9,411.23  by 
Ransom  Gillis  and  S.  T.  McCormack, 
of  Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  under  the 
mortgage,  to  secure the Preston National 
Bank 
for  notes  amounting  to $12,000. 
The  firm  has  other  creditors,  who  might 
as  well  charge  their  accounts  off  to 
profit  and  loss.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Richmond— Cooley  Bros,  succeed Mil­
ler  &  Cooley 
in  the  foundry  business 
and  in  the  manufacture  of  agricultural 
implements.

Manton— Business  is  looking  like  old 
times  since  election.  More  lumber  has 
been  shipped 
in  three  weeks  than  for 
six  months  before  Nov.  1.

Greenville— D.  H.  Moore  has  been 
elected  general  manager of  the  Green 
ville  Implement  Co.’s  works,  Charles 
Abbott  having  sold  out  his  interest  in 
the  concern.

Manton—Andrew  Macfee,  of  Lake- 
view,  has  bought  the  stave  mill  which 
idle  for  two  years,  and  will 
has  been 
make 
broom 
handles,  giving  employment  to  thirty 
men.

staves,  heading 

and 

Detroit— The  Detroit  Mill  and Supply 
Co.,  doing  business  at  149  Lamed 
street,  filed  a  chattel  mortgage  in  the 
sum  of  $1,300,  in  favor  of  Frederick 
Boughton,  and 
immediately  afterward 
filed  a  bill  of  sale  of  its  property  to 
John  H.  Jones.

Hartford—The  local  improvement  as 
sociation  will  endeavor  to  secure  the 
establishment  of  a  factory  for  the  mak­
ing  of  fruit  packages  in  that  village. 
Much  of  the  timber  used  in  the  basket 
factories  of  the  lake  shore  fruit  belt  is 
shipped  from  that  immediate  vicinity, 
and  the  fruit  growers  figure  out  that  a 
factory  there  would  save  them  freight 
charges  both  ways,  as  well  as  build  up 
an  additional  home  industry.

Manton— Paul,  Andrew  and  Aaron 
Johnson  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  Paul  Johnson  &  Co. 
and  purchased  the  John  Closson  mill 
plant  at  Putman’s  Siding,  three  miles 
north  of  this  place.  The  new  firm  has 
purchased  sixteen  forty-acre  tracts  of 
hardwood  timber 
in  Greenwood  town­
ship.  The  Johnson  brothers  will  take 
up  their  residence  at  the  mill  at  once 
and  expect  to  have  2,000,000  feet  of 
hardwood 
and 
piled  in  the  yard  this  winter.

lumber  manufactured 

Detroit—When  the  Improved  Match 
Company's  plant  burned  a  year  ago  it 
was  partially 
insured  in  the  Michigan 
Mutual  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  of  Lansing, 
the  policy  having  been  secured  through 
a  Detroit  agent.  Not  realizing  upon  its 
policy  for  some  months,  the  match com­
pany  brought  suit  against  the  insurance 
company  and  notice  of  the  same  was 
served  upon  the  local  agent.  A  clause 
in  the  policy  provided  that  suit  must  be 
begun  within  a  year  after the fire.  After 
this  period  bad  passed,  the  insurance 
company  made  a  motion  to  quash  the 
suit,  claiming  that 
it  had  not  been 
served,  as  the  Detroit  man  was an  in­

surance  broker,  not  its authorized agent. 
Judge  Donovan  refused  to  quash  the 
suit,  holding  that  insurance  companies 
could  not  get  out  of  settling  fire  losses 
on  such  technical  grounds.

Houghton—For  the 

last  two  weeks 
Thomas  L.  Chadbourne,  of  this  city, 
has  been  at  work  on  the  very  tedious 
important  task  of  looking  up  the 
but 
titles  to  the  several  properties 
involved 
in  one  of  the  most  important  mining 
deals  in  the  history  of the Lake Superioi 
region.  This  is  the  purchase  by  East­
ern 
capitalists  of  the  Isle  Royale, 
Huron  and  Grand  Portage  copper  min­
ing  properties.  Just  when  work  will  be 
resumed  is  a  matter  of  conjecture,  but 
it 
is  understood  that  when  operations 
are  commenced,  some  time  early  in  the 
new  year,  two  compartment  shafts  sim­
ilar  to  those at  the  Red  Jacket mine  will 
i)e  sunk  to  a  distance  of  1,600  feet  on 
both  the  Isle  Royale and  Grand  Portage 
properties. 
It  has also  been  given  oui 
that  the  stamp  mills,  shaft  houses  ano 
all  other  surface  improvements  will  be 
of  the  most  modern  type,  and  when 
in 
full  operation that  not  less  than  600  men 
will  be  employed.

it 

the 

tremendous 

Houghton—An  idea  of  the  richness  ol 
some  of  the  copper  mines  of  Michigan 
may  be  gained  from  the  fact  that  the) 
have  thus  far  paid  their  owners  divi­
dends  of  fully  $70,000,000.  The  divi 
dend  of  $25  a  share  just  declared  by  the 
Calumet  &  Hecla  Copper  Mining  Com­
pany  for  the  current  year 
is  especially 
noteworthy  because 
is  the  greatest 
dividend  ever  paid  by  this  remarkable 
property.  There  are  100,000  shares,  so 
that  the  total  sum  distributed  among 
shareholders  was $2,500,000.  When  it  is 
considered  that  the  original  value  of  all 
these  shares  was  just  the  last  amount 
mentioned, 
earning 
power  of  the  property  will  be  appre­
ciated.  The  selling  value of  the  stock 
is  about  thirteen  times 
its  par  value. 
The  year  1896 has  been  the  most  pros­
perous  ever  known  for  copper  mining, 
owing  to  the  great  foreign  demand  for 
American  copper.  The  home  demand 
was  restricted  by  the  depressed  condi­
tion  of  business,  but  this  falling  off  has 
been  more  than  made  up  by  the demand 
from  abroad.  During  the  ten  months 
ending  Nov.  1,  the  European  purchases 
of  copper  amounted 
225,000,000 
pounds,  nearly  double  that  of  the  same 
period  last  year.  This  was 60  per  cent, 
of  the  entire  output  of  this  country  and 
was  drawn  principally  from  the  Lake 
Superior  copper  mines.

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Purely  Personal.

J.  O.  Seibert  and  family are at  Perris, 
for  the 

Riverside  county,  California, 
winter.

Geo.  J.  Menold,  the Douglas druggist, 
was  recently  married  to  Miss  Melinda 
Gale,  of  Caledonia.
Frank  Metivier, 

for  six  years  pre­
scription  clerk 
for  Bogan  Bros.,  at 
Mackinac  Island,  will  spend  the  winter 
in  Chicago  for  the  purpose  of  taking  a 
course  in  a  business  college.

Geo.  W.  McWilliams  succeeds  E.  R. 
Jewell  as  shipnjng  clerk  for  the  I.  M. 
Clark  Grocery  Co.  Mr.  McWilliams  is 
a  son  of  W.  A.  McWilliams,  traveling 
salesman  for  the  same  house.

There  are  119,000,000  old 

copper 
pennies 
somewhere.  Nobody  knows 
what  has  become  of  them,  except  once 
in  a  while  a  single  specimen  turns  up 
in  change.  A  few  years  ago  4,500,000 
bronze  2-cent  pieces  were  set  afloat. 
Three  millions  of  these  are  still  out­
standing.  Three  million  3-cent  nickel 
pieces  are  scattered  over  the  United 
States,  but  it  is  very  rarely  that  one 
is 
seen.

News  and  Gossip  Concerning  Banks.
S.  W.  Webber  &  Co.  have  again  es­
tablished  a  banking  office  at  Muir,  hav­
ing  purchased  the  business  of  Hayes, 
Olmsted  &  Co. 
S.  W.  Webber  estab­
lished  a  bank  in  Muir  in  January,  1869. 
Two  years  ago  Mr.  Webber  established 
a  banking  office  in  Lyons,  where  he  re­
sides,  and  sold  the  Muir  business  to 
Hayes,  Olmsted  &  Co.,  which  business 
he  has  now  repurchased.  He  will  also 
continue  his  Lyons  office.

The  stockholders  of  the  First  State 
Savings  Bank  of  Evart,  at  their  annual 
meeting,  elected  C.  H.  Rose  President, 
t he  bank  is  in  a  prosperous  condition 
and  will  soon  move  into  more  commo­
dious  quarters  in  a  new  building  which 
has  been  erected  for  that  purpose.

Saginaw  Courier-Herald :  For  some 
time  there  has  been  more  or  less  talk 
regarding  the  organization  of  a  new 
oanking 
institution  and  since  the  sus­
pension  of  the  First  National  this  talk 
nas  become  more  and  more pronounced. 
The  promoters  of  the  enterprise are very 
reticent,hence  it  has  been  impossible  to 
get  at  the  details,  but  enough has leaked 
out  to  afford  a  reasonable  assurance  that 
it  will  materialize. 
The  gentlemen 
whose  names  have  been  mentioned  in 
connection  with  the  matter are  of  rec­
ognized  financial  solidity. 
It  is  said 
that  the  list  of  names  includes a number 
of  former  stockholders  of  the  old  Home 
National  Bank.

Cashier  John  L.  Kleckner,  of  the 
broken  Citizens’  Bank  of  Edwardsburg, 
failed  to  appear  for  trial  in  the  Cass 
County  Circuit  Court  and  his  bail  bond 
was  declared  forfeited.  Kleckner 
is 
charged  with 
the  embezzlement  of 
$17,000,  thereby  causing  the  failure  of 
the  bank.  The  depositors  have  received 
but  one  small  dividend  since  the  clos­
ing  of  the  institution  and  they  are  now 
planning  to  compel  Kleckner’s  bonds­
men  to  make  good  the  deficit.

It 

A  statement  of  the  assets  and  liabili­
ties  of  the  People’s  Saving  Bank  of 
Lansing,  which  failed 
last  July,  has 
been  made  by  Receiver  Foster  to  the 
Ingham  Circuit  Court. 
is  not  a 
showing  which  will  be  gratifying  to  the 
depositors  of  the  defunct 
institution. 
While  the  total assets,at their face value, 
are  $375,825,  as  against  total 
liabilities 
of  $241,769,  the  actual  value  of  the  for­
mer  will  fall  far  below  the  latter.  A 
great  deal  of  the  paper  held  by  the 
Bank 
is  entirely  worthless  and  reveals 
lack  of  care  if  nothing  worse,  in  mak­
ing  loans of the $313,057 in notes receipt­
ed  for by  the  receiver.  Only  $129,281 
of  these  notes  was  in  the  possession  of 
the  Bank,  the  remainder  having  been 
rediscounted  or  placed  to  the  credit  of 
other  banks  as  collateral  to  loans  made 
from  other  banking  institutions  by  the 
People’s  Savings  Bank.  A  large amount 
of  the  paper  held  by  the  bank  is  with­
out  an 
indorser  and  a  large  portion  is 
uncollectible. 
The  overdrafts  of  the 
bank  on  the  date  of 
its  failure  were 
$39,081.50.

Coffee  from  Kansas.

for 

Robert  Cherry,  of  Mulvane,  Kan., 
has  been  raising  coffee 
several 
just  finished  gathering 
years.  He  has 
his  crop  ofr  1896.  The  seed  is  planted 
about  the  same  time  as  corn. 
It  will 
grow 
in  any  kind  of  soil,  but  a  sandy 
loam  is  the  best.  Only  one  seed  is  put 
in  a  place  and  the  plant,  which  grows 
to  the  bight  of  two  or  three  feet, 
should  be  cultivated  the  same  as  corn. 
The  berry  matures  the  latter  part  of 
October,  and  is  gathered  and  browned, 
just  the  same as  green  coffee  bought  at 
the  stores.  Several  people  have,  un­
knowingly,  drunk  this  Kansas  coffee, 
and  pronounce  it  better  than  any  they 
have ever  used.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Gottfried  Adrian,  grocer  at  221  West 
Bridge  street,  has  closed  out  his  stock 
and  retired  from  trade.

Martin  Pegg  has  opened  a  grocery 
The  Olney  &  Judson 

store at  Crapo. 
Grocery  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

I.  M.  &  W.  M.  Haybarker  have 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  Orono.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Geo.  C.  Dougherty  will  shortly  open 
a  grocery  store  at  Sunfield.  The  Mus- 
selman  Grocer  Co.  has  the  order  for  the 
stock. 

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S.  Orlowski  &  Son  have  embarked  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Charlevoix. 
The  I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.  furnished 
the  stock.

Foster  &  Burke,  hardware  dealers  at 
Harbor  Springs,  have  added  a  line  of 
groceries.  The  Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

Hiscock  &  Orr  have  opened  a grocery 
store  at  a  point  five  miles  southeast  of 
Lakeview.  The  stock  was  furnished 
by  the  Worden  Grocer  Co.

Gray  &  Gray, 

formerly  of  Spring 
Lake,  have  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
of  Eness  &  Parish,  at  57  East  Leonard 
street,  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Jacob  F.  Bender  has  purchased  the 
store  building  at  252  Cass  avenue  and 
removed  his  gtocery  stock  and  meat 
market  from  the  corner of  Spring  and 
Oakes  streets  to  that  location.

Jacob  Sanford,  who  formerly  con­
ducted  a  meat  market  at  689  Madison 
avenue,  succeeds  Peter  Braam,  in  the 
meat  business  at  the  corner  of  Eleventh 
avenue  and  South  Division  street.

C.  L.  Becker  succeeds  Becker  &  El 
linwood  in  the  meat  business  at  661  S. 
Lafayette  street  and  has  opened  a  gro 
eery  store  at  659  S.  Lafayette.  The 
Ball-Barnhait-Putman  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

J.  P.  Platte  has  leased  the  ground 
floor and basement  of  the  L.  D.  Putnam 
building,  58  Monroe  street,  and  will 
take  possession  of  the  premises  Feb.  1. 
In  the  meantime  the  floor  will  be 
lowered  to  the  level  of  the  sidewalk,  a 
new  front  put  in  and  the  premises made 
modern  in  other  respects.

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Lemon 
&  Wheeler  Company,  held  on  Wednes 
day,  Dec.  16,  the  old  Board  of  Direc­
tors  were  re-elected  as  follows:  S.  M. 
Lemon,  A.  K.  Wheeler,  Geo.  B.  Caul­
field,  John  A.  Covode  and  S.  P.  Jenks. 
The  election  of  officers  resulted  as  fol­
lows:  President,  S.  M.  Lemon;  Vice- 
President,  John  A.  Covode;  Secretary, 
A.  K.  Wheeler;  Treasurer,  Geo.  B. 
Caulfield.

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Worden 
Grocer  Co.,  held  on  Tuesday,  Dec.  15, 
the  old  Board  of  Directors were re-elect­
ed,  as  follows:  A.  E.  Worden,  Chas. 
F.  Rood,  Wm.  M.  Butts,  W.  L.  Free­
man,  T.  J.  O ’ Brien,  Chas.  W.  Gar­
field,  W.  D.  Talford,  N.  Fred  Avery 
and  W.  F.  Blake.  The  election  of  offi­
cers  resulted  as  follows :  President,  A. 
E.  Worden;  Vice-President,  Chas.  F. 
Rood;  Secretary,  Wm.  M.  Butts;  Treas­
urer,  W.  L.  Freeman.

Frank  Parmenter  has  handed  in  his 
resignation  as  traveling  salesman  for 
the  I.  M.  Clark  Grocery  Co.,  to  take

effect  Jan.  1,  and  has  formed  a  copart­
nership  with  his  son,  Chas.  B.  Parmen­
ter,  under  the style of  Parmenter  &  Par­
menter,  for  the  purpose  of  embarking 
in  the  merchandise  brokerage  business 
here.  The  senior  member  of  the  firm 
has  been 
identified  with  the  grocery 
trade  for  nearly  forty  years  and is,  prob­
ably,  as  thoroughly  posted  on the details 
of  the  business  as  any  man  in the  State. 
The  junior  member  of  the  firm  has 
been  identified  with  the  furniture  trade 
of  the  city 
in  various  capacities  for 
about  a  dozen  years  and  has  made  an 
enviable  record  as  an  energetic and suc­
cessful  salesman.

The  Grain  Market.

Owing  to  the  lack  of  speculation  dur­
ing  the  fore  part of  last  week,  the  wheat 
market  was  quite  dull  and  depressed. 
However,  there  was  a  material  change 
for  the  better during  the  last  two days of 
the  week  and  we  are  thus  enabled  to 
record  a  2c  per bushel advance from one 
week  ago,  while  at  one  time  there  was 
a 
loss  of  2c,  making  a  variation  of  4c 
per  bushel  since  our  last  report.  The 
advance  was  fully  warranted,  as  the  de­
crease 
in  the  visible  was  fully  double 
the  amount  anticipated,  being  2,028,000 
bushels,  against  an  increase  of 3,048,000 
bushels  for the  corresponding  week  last 
year,  leaving  the  visible  about  12,000,- 
000  bushels  less  than  it  was  in  1895  and 
35,000,000  bushels  less  than  in  1894.  A 
decrease  at  this  time  of  the  year  makes 
a  very  peculiar situation.  Foreign  ad­
vices  are  very  strong  and  present 
indi­
cations  are 
for  considerably  higher 
prices.

As  is  usual,  there  is  nothing  doing  in 
coarse  grain.  Prices  remain  the  same 
and  trade 
is  sluggish  in  both  cereals. 
Rye  dropped  about  ic  per bushel.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were: 
wheat,  50  cars;  corn,  7  cars;  oats,  3 
cars.

Millers  are  paying  86c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Flour  and  Feed.

We  have  had  another  week  of  drag­
ging  markets,  until  toward  the  close, 
when 
it  became  apparent  that  the  vis­
ible  wheat  supply  would  show  a  large 
decrease  compared  with  the correspond­
ing  week  of  last  year.  Since  the  figures 
were  posted  and  the  market  figured  up 
in  consequence,  there  has  been  a  good 
deal  of  enquiry  for  flour,  resulting  in 
sales  of  some  good  round  lots.  The 
mills  of  the  Northwest  report  heavy- 
sales  within  the  past  few  days,  both 
domestic  and  foreign.  Our  city  mills 
are  running  steadily  and,  while  orders 
for  immediate  shipment  are  not  crowd­
ing,  they  are  booking  a  sufficient  num­
ber  for  January  and  February  to 
insure 
the  steady  operation  of  the  mills  during 
the 
1897.  The  most 
troublesome  question  is  where  to  find  a 
sufficient  supply  of  such  wheat  as  our 
mills  need.

first  part  of 

Feed  and  meal  are  weak  and  a  trifle 
lower,  in  sympathy  with  the  lower price 
of  corn  and  oats.  Millstuffs  are  steady 
and  practically  unchanged  for  the week.

W m  N.  R o w e.

A  Fellow  Feeling.

“ There  goes  a  man  who  has  done 
more  for  pedestrianism  than  any  man 
in  America. ”

“ He  does  not  look  like  a  patron  of 

sports. ’ ’
isn’t;  be  manufactures  tacks, 
“ He 
and  his goods  have  punctured  a  million 
tires. ”

Ask  about  G illies’  New  York  Spice 

Contest.  Phone  1589.  J.  P.  Visner.

LIFE  OR  DEATH.

Desperate  Methods  Resorted  to  by 

the  Bell  Telephone  Monopoly.

Grand  Rapids  people  were  somewhat 
surprised,  last  week,  to  be 
informed, 
through  the  medium  of  the  daily  press, 
that  the  Bell  Telephone  Co.  would here­
after  furnish  free  telephone  service  to 
all  present  subscribers  to  the  Grand 
Rapids  exchange  and  that  anyone  who 
wished  a  telephone  would  be  accommo­
dated  without  money  and  without price.

*  *  *

In  no  other  city 

It  has  been  known  for some  time  that 
the  telephone  situation  in Grand  Rapids 
is  a  decidedly  perplexing  one  to  the 
Bell  people. 
in  the 
country  has  the  Bell  monopoly  met  with 
such  strong  opposition  as  here.  The 
reason  for this  is  found  in  the  character 
of  the  men  who  have  created  and  are 
maintaining  the  opposition  exchange. 
They  comprise  about  400  of  the  leading 
business  men  of  the 
town—bankers, 
manufacturers,  wholesale  and  retail 
dealers,  professional  men—and  working 
men,  who  have  undertaken  the  enter­
prise  for a  two-fold  object—the  reduc­
tion  of  the  telephone  rentals  to  a  proper 
basis  and  to  make  money  out  of  the 
business.

*  *  sfc

The  Bell  people  claim  that  it  is  not 
possible  for  the  Citizens  people  to make 
any  money  on  the  present  basis;  that 
S20  and  830 a  year  is  not  enough  to  re­
imburse  a  company  for  the  equipment 
and  maintenance  of  an  exchange and 
the  payment  of  dividends  to  stockhold­
ers.  They  insist  that  it  is  necessary  for 
a  company  to  collect  $40  and  $50  a  year 
to  meet  these  requirements  of a  success 
ful  exchange.  The  representatives  ol 
the  Bell  company  are  frank  in  the state­
ment  that  they  have,  so  far,  gotten  the 
worse  of  the  fight;  that  their  actual 
paid  subscribers  have  been  reduced 
from  1,400  to 
less  than  600,  and  that 
they  now  have  on  hand  eightv-eight  re 
quests  from  present  subscribers  to  dis 
continue  the  Bell  service  on  Jan.  1. 
This  will  reduce  the  number  of  actual 
subscribers  below  500. 
In  the  mean­
time  500  free  telephones  will  be  put  in, 
if  possible,  so  that  by  February  the Bell 
people  will  be  giving  service  to  1,000 
people.  They  admit  that  they  have 
failed  to  defeat  the  Citizens  company 
in  two  important  particulars  -litigation 
and  superiority  of  service— in  both  ol 
which  directions  the  Bell  people  ex­
pected  to  win.  The  litigation  begun 
against  the  competing  company  was  so 
ridiculous  that 
it  resulted  in  a  fiasco, 
while  the  service  given  by  the  Bell 
company  for  the  past  three  months  has 
been  very  much  inferior  to  that  of  the 
competing  company.  The  Bell  people 
are  frank  to  admit  that  their  service 
is 
inferior,  but  insist  that  this  is  not  due 
to  the  fact  that  their  telephone  is  infe­
rior  to  the  Kokomo  phone,  but  that  it  is 
to be  attributed  solely  to  the  inferiority 
of  their  wires and  insulation,  instead  of 
to  the  phone.  They  assert  that,  if  the 
Bell  system,  outside  of  the  exchange, 
were  as  good  as  the  Citizens  system  is, 
their  phone  would  be  as  good  a  talk­
ing  instrument  as  the  Kokomo  device.

*  *  *

Having  failed  to  substantiate  every 
promise  made  their  subscribers,  and 
having  failed  to  carry  out  every  threat 
and  bluff  made  public since competition 
put  in  an  appearance,  the  Bell  people 
now  admit  that  the  only  way  they  can 
stifle  competition— if,  indeed,  it  can  be 
stifled— is  to  furnish  every  person  who 
will  consent  to  take 
it  a  free  phone. 
This  is,  certainly,  a  humiliating  posi­

tion  for  the  Bell  people,  but  it  appears 
to be  the  only  course  for  them,  and  the 
outcome  will  be  watched  with  much  in­
terest  by  all  concerned.
*  *  *

to  assist 

In  making  the  offer of  free  phones, 
the  Bell  people  are  evidently  acting  on 
the  assumption  that  there  are  a  consid­
erable  number  of  people  in  the  city who 
are  willing,  for  the  sake  of  a  little  per­
sonal  advantage, 
in  stifling 
competition  and  thus  enable  the  Bell 
people  to  become  supreme  in  the  field, 
in  which  case  they  assert  that  they  will 
make  the  people  pay  dearly  for  the 
trouble  they  have  been  put  to  in  the 
present  fight.  They  will  probably  put 
the  price  of  telephone  service  up  to  S75 
and  890 a  year,  as  was  the  case  in a city 
in  a  neighboring  state  where  the  Bell 
institution  bad  a  lively  tussle and finally 
succeeded 
in  starving  out  a  competing 
company  by  free  telephone  service  for 
a  series  of  months.  The  Tradesman 
very  much  doubts  whether  there  will  be 
found  any  considerable  number  of  peo­
ple  who  will  be  so  short-sighted  as  to 
permit  themselves  to  be  made  the cat’ s- 
paw  of  a  monopoly  in  this  manner,  es­
pecially  as  everyone  who  accepts  a  free 
phone  does  so  with  the  understanding 
that  he  is  casting  his  influence  against 
400  of  his  fellow  citizens who have made 
a  voluntary  investment  for  the  purpose 
of  saving  the  telephone  users  of the  city 
thousands  of  dollars  in  the  shape  of  tel­
ephone  rentals.

*  *  *

The  Bell  people  assert  that  they  pro­
pose  to  acquire  the  plant  of  the  Citizens 
company  as  soon  as  they  shall  have 
crippled  the  institution  by  their  present 
policy  of  free  phones.  They  assert  that 
they  will  do  this  by  buying  up  the  stock 
of  the  competing  company  at  from  40 
to 60  cents  on  the  dollar,  as  they  real­
ize  that  a  victory  which  involves  the 
loss  of  the  capital  invested  by the stock­
holders  of  a  competing  company  would 
be  very  barren,  indeed,  because  of  the 
in  the  mouths  of  the 
bitter  taste  left 
vanquished.  They, 
therefore,  propose 
to  buy  up  the  stock,  and  it  is  under­
stood  that  several  transfers  have  already 
occurred  and  that  negotiations  are  now 
in  progress  for  other  holdings.

*  *  *

Taken  altogether,  the  telephone situa­
tion 
is  decidedly  interesting,  and  if  it 
is  a  fact  that  the  Michigan  Telephone 
Company  has  been  bled  to  death  by  the 
parent  monopoly  at  Boston,  so  that  it  is 
hard-pressed  for  means,  it  is  not  at  all 
unlikely  that  the  Bell  company  will  be 
compelled  to  retire  from  the  field  alto­
gether,  although  it  is  asserted,  without 
contradiction,  that  the  Bell  people  have 
taken  81,500,000  in  profits  out  of  Grand 
Rapids  and  that  it  can  afford to  spend  a 
portion  of  that  sum  in  endeavoring  to 
regain  its  business  in  this  field.

The 

A  report  having  gone  out  through  the 
I State  to  the  effect  that  Geo.  H.  Reeder 
&  Co.  have  retired  from  the  shoe  busi­
ness,  the  Tradesman  takes  pleasure 
in 
stating  that  the  report  is  incorrect  in 
every  particular. 
corporation 
known  as  the  Reeder  Bros.  Shoe  Co. 
recently  merged  its  business  into  a  co­
partnership  under  the  style  of  Geo.  H. 
Reeder  &  Co.,  which  continues  the  sale 
of  the  Lycoming  and  Keystone  rubbers 
in  this  State  under  a  factory agency and 
also  some  spec ialties 
in  men’s  and 
women’s  shoes  adapted  to  the  trade  of 
Michigan.  Messrs.  Reeder  &  Co.  re­
tain  the  same  location  as  the  incorpo­
rated  company  and  will  push  the  busi­
ness  just  as  aggressively  and  probably 
just  as  effectively  as  the  former  corpo­
ration  had  the  reputation  of  doing.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis-Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Dec.  n — The  grocery 
trade  of  New York  remains  steady,  with 
an  increasing  trade  in  holiday  goods  to 
nearby  dealers.  This trade  has  reached 
high  tide  so  far  as  dealers  from  out  of 
town  are  concerned,  and  the  year  will 
go  on  record  as  “ one  of  the  finest.”   In 
this  season  of  peace  on  earth  and  good 
will  toward  men  it  seems  out  of  place 
to  read  of  wars and  rumors of  wars;  but 
go  where  one will,  the  Cuban  question 
seems  to  overtop  Christmas.  A  year 
ago  it  was  Venezuela.

Prices  of  grocery staples  remain about 
unchanged  and  the  fluctuation  in  any 
instance  is  very  slight.

Coffee,  although  regarded  as  very 
cheap,  is  exciting  no 
interest  on  the 
part  of  jobbers.  The  stocks  at  both  Rio 
and  Santos  are  enormous,  amounting, 
in  round  numbers,  to  2.000,000  bags. 
This  has  the  effect  of  suppressing  any 
upward  tendency  and,  besides,  it  is  a 
time  of  year  when  dealers  are  taking 
enough  only  for  hand-to-mouth  wants. 
Rio  No  7  is  held  at  10c.  Mild  coffees 
sympathize  with  Brazil  grades  and  the 
trading 
is  of  small  volume.  A  sale  of 
600  bags  of  Maracaibo  was  reported 
Thursday,  and  this 
is  about  the  daily 
average of this  sort.
The  market  for  raw  sugar  is about  as 
dull  as  at  any  time  previously.  Scarcely 
a  transaction  has  taken' place  between 
refiners  and  holders.  The  meltings  of 
refiners  have  been  larger  than last week, 
but  are  not  yet  up  to  the  average  of 
past  weeks.  For  refined,  prices  show 
scarcely  any  change  and  the  demand for 
granulated  is  light.  Just  enough  is  be­
ing  taken  to  “ keep  things  moving,”  
and  improvement  is  not  anticipated  un­
til  after  the  turn  of  the  year.  Granu­
lated  is  held  at  4j^c.

There  was  a  sale  of  10,000  packages 
of  Pingsuev  teas  on  “ spec,”   and  this  is 
regarded  as  the  most  important  trans­
action  for  some  time.  Sales,  as  a  rule, 
are  of  very  small  lots,  but  the  general 
situation 
is  rather  encouraging  for  a 
better  condition  of  affairs  all  around 
soon  after  the  holidays.  Auction  sales 
attract  quite  a  number  of  buyers,  but 
bidding  is  moderate.

it 

“ Well,  there 

is  nothing  doing 

just 
now  in  rice,  but  we  hope  for  a  turn  for 
the  better  very  soon.”   This  is  the  talk 
of  dealers  generally.  Arrivals  of  for­
eign  are  closely  sold  up  and the demand 
is  fairly  good.

In  spices 

is  the  same  old  story. 
Week  after  week  goes  by  and  there  is 
scarcely  any  change,  either  in  the  sta­
tistical  position  or  in  prices.  Sales  are 
small  and  there  is  nothing  going  on 
in 
an  invoice  way.

Strictly  prime  New  Orleans  molasses 
is  worth  29c,  and  some  fancy  stock  has 
sold  as  high  as  34c.  This for new  crop. 
Old  is  meeting  with  very  little  enquiry 
and  the  market  is  dull  in  the  extreme. 
Syrups  are  meeting  with  fair  sale  for 
best  grades  and  the  outlook  is  quite  en­
couraging.  Prime  to fancy sugar syrups 
are  quotable  at  i8@25c.

As  with  some  other staples  the canned 
goods  situation  is  one  of  quietness— 
characteristic,  perhaps,  of  the  season. 
Jobbers  are  doing  some  business,  but 
from  first  hands  trading  is  light.  The 
aim  now  is  to  carry  over as  light  stocks 
as  possible  and  not  burden  the  shelves 
with  quantities  of  goods,  even  though 
they  can  be  snapped  up  at  a  bargain. 
Some  things  are  evidently  in  very  light 
supply  and  of  corn  theie  is  thought  to 
be  less  than  for  several  seasons.  Toma­
toes  vary  largely  in  price,  some  Mary­
land  stock  going  at 65c,  and  New  Jer­
sey  at  80c.  Red  Alaska  salmon  is  in 
steady  demand,  quotable  at  $1. i2'/2.
Dried  fruits  are  practically  without 
is  a  fair  demand  for 
change.  There 
loose  California  raisins  and  the  market 
is  rather  firmer  than a week  ago.  Three- 
crown  fruit 
is  worth  $)&c,  with  some 
holders  asking  5^c.  Prunes  show  no 
change  and  the  market  remains  quiet.
Lemons  sell  slowly  and  at  low  rates 
is  one  that  might 
Still,  the  situation 
be  worse.  Oranges  are  moving  freely

in  small  lots— just  enough  to  last  until 
the  Christmas  demand is over.  Califor­
nia  oranges  are  in  good  demand.  The 
supply  of  Florida  stock  is  quite  large, 
but  sales  do  not  seem  to  be made freely. 
Bananas  and  pineapples are  moving 
in 
an  everyday  manner.

The  butter  market  presents  very  few 
features  of  interest.  Western  creamery 
extras  are  worth  24^0.
Cheese  has  been  rather  quiet  and 
prices  have  tended  to  a  lower base.  The 
inquiry  for  export  has  been  fair,  but the 
cheaper  sorts  seem  to  be  wanted  for 
such  purposes.
Style  of  Package  and  Packing  for 

Market.

Boston,  Dec.  15— In  regard to packing 
butter  for  the  Boston  market,  we  prefer 
spruce  tubs  of  assorted  sizes,  especially 
through  the  winter  season.  From  May 
to  August  first,  we  can  handle  the  ash 
tub  as  well  as  the  other  markets.

There  have  been  several 

We  require  one  ounce  of  salt  to  the 
pound,  with  parchment  paper  on  top  of 
the  butter 
instead  of  cloth.  We  have 
received  the  past  season  considerable 
butter  with  paper  lined  tubs  and  they 
have  been  received  with  great  favor. 
The  tubs  should  be  well  soaked  and  a 
coat  of  salt  rubbed  on  the  inside  before 
packing  the  butter.  This  will  prevent 
the  butter  from  moulding.  This  is  a 
very  important  part  of  the  work  of  pre­
paring  butter  for  market.
thousand 
boxes  of  butter  shipped  from  our  mar­
ket  this  year  to  the  foreign  market, 
which  have  been  received  there  with 
great  favor.  These  boxes  hold  fifty-six 
pounds  of  butter  net.  They  are  made 
of  white  wood  and 
lined  with  parch­
ment  paper.  This  butter  sells  for  bet­
ter  prices  than when packed  in tubs,  and 
we  would  advise  ail  creameries  to  give 
the  matter of  packing  butter  for  foreign 
shipment  careful  attention  and  be ready 
to  use  them  at  any  time  the  foreign 
market 
in  shape  to  pay  us  as  much 
as  our own  market,  so  that  we  can  dis­
pose  of  our  surplus  butter. 
If  all  of  our 
surplus  butter  had  been  packed inboxes 
this  season,  it  would  have  sold  in  the 
foreign  market  for  mote  money  than 
it 
will  ever  sell  for  here,  after  losing  the 
storage  and 
interest,  and  at  the  same 
time,  we  should  have  gained  some  fa­
vor  with  the  foreign  market  by 
letting 
them  know  that  we  have  fine  butter 
here  as  well  as  Australia. 
It  has  been 
our  practice  to  ship  the  poorest  butter. 
In  this  way  we  have  hurt  our  credit  as 
a  butter-producing  country.

is 

is 

less  of  the 

Now  that we  have  established  so many 
creameries,  there 
low 
grades  of  butter  and  more of  the  high 
grades  than  we  can  consume  at  home. 
It  is  very  plain  to be  seen  that  it  is  our 
duty  to  cater  to  the  wishes  of  the people 
upon  whom  we  are  dependent  to  use our 
surplus  butter,  and 
in  order  to  do  this 
we  must  give  them  the  style  of  package 
they  require,  as  well  as  salt  and  color 
to  their  wants.

One  of  our  neighbors  has  just  re­
turned  from  Liverpool  and  he  tells  me 
he  has  seen  the  retailer  there  try  to  sell 
tub  butter  and  the  buyer  would  not  look 
at  it  but  must  have  his  butter  from  the 
square  box.  The  same  butter  would  sell 
at  retail  for  2c  a  pound  more  cut  from 
the  box  than  from  the  tub.
Now,  with  these facts in  view,  is  it not 
worth  our  careful  attention  to  try  and 
build  up  a  trade  for our  surplus  butter, 
which  the  writer  is  satisfied  is  going  to 
be  increased  year  by  year,  as  the  dairy 
business 
in  its  infancy  in  this 
country?

is  still 

I  would  like  to  give  you  a 

little  ad­
It  should  be  un­
vice  in  regard  to  salt. 
derstood  by  everyone  using  salt  that 
it 
is  a  great  absorbent  of  all  impurities, 
as  much  so  as  fresh  butter  or  cream. 
Salt  should  be  kept  in  a  clean  room  by 
itself;  never  in  a  store  where  there  are 
kerosene  oil,  salt  fish,  molasses  and 
other  articles.

The  writer  first  discovered  this  fact 
in  1887,  by  one  thousand  sacks  of  salt 
being  shipped  from  Liverpool  to Boston 
in  a  Cunard  steamer,  which  were so im­
pregnated  with  the  odors  of  the  rest  of 
the  cargo  that  the  steamship  company 
was  obliged  to  pay  for  the  salt.

Shortly  after this,  I  was  having  butter I

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from  Messrs.  Gurler  Bros.,  of  De  Kalb, 
111.,  and  found  that  there  was  an  off 
flavor  to  their butter,  that I  could not  ac­
count  for 
in  any  way  until  I  visited 
their  creamery.  The  first  thing  I  did 
when  I  arrived  there  was  to  smell of  the 
salt  and  it  smelt  of  ammonia  from  the 
stable.  On  investigation,  we  found  the 
salt  had  been  stored  in  the  shed  where 
Mr.  Gurler  kept  his  horse.
These  facts  led  me to make a thorough 
test  of  all  American  salts,  as  I  did  not 
think 
it  safe  to  use  salt  that  had  been 
transported  across  the  ocean 
in  vessels 
with  other  cargo.  The  results  of  the 
tests  that  I  made  with  the  foreign  and 
American  salts  showed  me  beyond  a 
doubt  that  we  have  better  salt  in  the 
United  States  than  any  imported  salt.

We  have  made  our  tests  yearly  with 
the  best  brands  of  salt  and  in  all  cases 
when  butter had  been  held  four  months 
in  stcre,  American  salts  showed  but­
ter  to  be  worth  from  one  cent  to  one 
and  a  half  cents  a  pound  more  than 
when  salted  with  foreign  salt.

These  facts  ought  to  be  proof  enough 
to  show  that  American  sail  is  the  safest 
and  best  to  use.  Do  not  haul  salt  home 
and  leave  it  in  the  stable  over  night  or 
throw  horse  blankets  over 
it  when  be­
ing  drawn  home.  Thousands  of  dollars 
lost  on  butter  when  salted 
have  been 
with  salt  that  had  been 
impregnated 
with  foul  odors. 

O.  D o lg la ss.

“ P.  &   B.”  Oysters  Always  Good 

And  they  always  will  be good.  We  will 
be  prepared  to  fill  vour  Christmas  and 
New  Year’s  orders  with  the 
finest, 
freshest  and  best  oysters  that  go  out  of 
Grand  Rapids  or  any  other  city.  You 
can  buy  common  oysters  from  this  mar 
ket  at  a  few  cents  less  than  our  prices, 
but  you  want  the  best  and freshest goods 
to  be  had,  and  you  will  get  them  from 
us.  Give  us  your  orders  now,  and  place 
your  holidav  orders  with  us  as  soon  as 
you  can.  They  will  have  our  prompi 
attention.

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Wholesale  Oyster  Packers.

Molasses  for  Gas  in  Germany.

Owing  to  the  low  price of  molasses, 
it  is  proposed  in  Germany  to  use  it  for 
the  manufacture  of  gas! 
It  has  long 
since  been  demonstrated  that  too pounds 
of  calcined  molasses  is  equivalent  te 
30  pounds  of  oil,  and  it  is  possible from 
220  pounds  of  the  residuum  to  obtain 
nearly  2,000  cubic  feet  ot  gas  which 
may  be  used  for  heating  purposes.

Your  Best  Customers

And  your  competitors’  best  customers 
will  find  during  these  holiday  occasions 
that  the  Anchor  brand  oysters  are  the 
richest  in  flavor  and  largest  and  fresh­
est.  Are  you  supplying  them,  or  are 
you  allowing  other  merchants  to  furnish 
them  to  your  customers?  F.  }.  Detten 
thaler,  of  Grand  Rapids,  can  fill  your 
mail  or  wire  orders.  Fresh  shipments 
received  every  day.

Florida  Turning  to  Peaches.

Florida  orange-growers,  who  suffered 
so  severely  by  the  freeze  of  1894,  art 
in  part  turning  their  attention  to  the 
production  of  peaches,  which  are  not 
liable  to  the  same  catastrophe.  They 
expect  to  place  peaches  in  Philadelphia 
and  New  York  in  the  month  of  May  by 
express  at  the  cost  of  50  cents  a crate.

Human  Nature.

Old  gentleman  (to  small  boys  steal­
ing  apples)—Good gracious,  boys,  steal­
ing 
if  you  must 
steal,  why  don’t  you  take  the  ripe  ap­
ples  instead  of  the  green?

is  bad  enough;  but 

Boys  (in  chorus)— Th’  man what owns 
the  orchard  will  give  us  all  the  tipe 
ones  we  want  if  we  ask  for  ’em. ”

Good market in  Detroit.  Write

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693  Mack  Ave,

GRAND  RAPIDS  IN  1850.

Business  Relations  of  the  Village  to 

Grand  Haven.

Written for the  T rad esm an.

In  1850,  Grand  Rapids  and  Grand 
Haven  were  very  closely allied  in  their 
business  relations.  River  navigation 
was  the  only  channel  of  transportation, 
no  stage 
line  being  established.  The 
mails  between  the  two  places  and  inter­
mediate  points  were  carried  on  the 
boats.  T he  entire business  of  the  Grand 
River  Valley,  outgoing  and 
incoming, 
was done  through  Grand  Haven.  Every 
article  destined  for  the  Chicago  or 
Buffalo  market  was  transferred  there 
and  sent  forward  by  steamboats  or  sail­
ing  vessels  to  its  place  of  destination. 
This  made  the  storing  and  shipping 
business  extensive  and  profitable 
in 
Grand  Haven.

The  salt  wells  at  Grand  Rapids  had 
been  abandoned,  but  the  large  quanti­
ties  of  lumber  in  the  shape  of three inch 
oak  plank  for  paving  the  streets  of  Chi 
cago,  lumber  of  every  description  for 
building  purposes,  lath,  shingles  and 
shingle  bolts,  as  well  as  round  and 
square  timber of  every kind  suitable  for 
masts  and  shipbuilding,  made  up  a 
heavy  shipping  business.  Milwaukee 
tnd  Chicago  at  that  time  handled  ail 
the  surplus  wheat  and  flour  produced  in 
»he  Grand  River  Valley.  Add  to  this 
»he  products  of  the  gypsum  mills  and 
vou  can  imagine  lively  times  in  Grand 
Haven  during  the  season  of  navigation : 
but  in  winter  it  was  icebound  and  land­
locked.

There  were  three  warehouses  there  at 
that  time—one  owned  by  the  Gilbert 
brothers,  one  by  Ferry  &  Sons  and  the 
third  by  C.  B.  Albee. 
I  think  all  three 
of  these  added  merchandising  and other 
'ines  of  trade  to  their  warehouse  busi- 
»iess.  Ferry  &  Sons  and  the  Gilberts 
operated  large  sawmills  for  those  early 
lays  and  were  extensive  shippers  of 
lumber,  as  well  as  dealers 
in  pine 
lands.  C.  B.  Albee  owned  and  operated 
in  extensive  tannery  also.  They  were 
ill  men  of  uncompromising  integrity 
ind  of  broad  business  capacity.  They 
were  educated  business  men  of  the  old 
school.  Ferry  &  Sons  were  vessel  own­
I  believe  they  built 
ers  and  builders. 
and  owned  the  first  propeller 
launched 
from  the  Michigan  shore  of  Lake  Mich­
igan  named  the  Otawa.  She  was  very 
staunch  built  and  popular as  a  passen­
ger  boat.  The  Gilbert  brothers  were 
also  vessel  owners.  Their  successors 
were  three  of  their  former  employes— 
Vlessrs.  Haxton,  Cutler  &  Wartz—three 
hustling  young  men  for those early days. 
They  enjoyed  the  confidence  of  the pub­
lic,  earned  by  strict  attention  to  busi­
ness,  conducted  upon  the  same  honor­
able  lines  as  their predecessors. 
I  have 
frequently  met  the  genial,  good-hearted 
Ben  Haxton 
in  Detroit,  where  he  has 
long  lived,  one  of  the  leading  tobacco 
nists  of  the  city.  I  do  not  recall  having 
met  Mr.  Cutler  since  I  left  the  Grand 
River  Valley,  but  have  often  heard 
of  him  through  mutual  friends.  The 
uninterrupted  prosperity  he  has enjoyed 
has been  honestly  earned  and  well  de­
served.

On  the  ground  now  occupied  by  the 
Cutler  House  there  stood  a  two  story 
wooden  structure  known  as the Pennoyer 
House,  owned  and  kept  by  Mr.  Pennoy­
er,  one  of  the  oldest  settlers 
in  the 
Grand  River  Valley.  He  was  one  of  the 
victims  of  the  Port  Sheldon  Bubble 
which  collapsed  early 
in  the  thirties, 
the  most  extravagant  and  disastrous 
speculation  of  those  wild-cat days.  Mr.

Pennoyer  was  a  polite  and  courteous 
gentleman  of  the  Micawber  type,always 
looking  for  “ something  to  turnup.”  
In  address and  deportment  he was  a ver­
itable  “ Turveydrop. ”   Even  in  his mis­
fortunes  his  natural  dignity  was  un­
ruffled  and  his  patronizing,  smile  the 
same  as  when  he  counted  his  fortune  by 
ten  of  thousands.  He  was  over  six  feet 
tall,  and  of  faultless  proportions  that 
commanded  the  admiration  of  all  with 
whom  he  came  in  contact.  The Indians, 
to  whom  he  was  a  generous  friend,  both 
loved  and  feared  him.  They  gave  him 
the  name  of  “ Big  Foot.”   The  writer 
vividly  recalls  an  August  night  spent 
at  the  Pennoyer  House  in  1850.  The 
wild  notes  of  an  Indian  flute  joining  in 
chorus  with  the  ceaseless  hum  of  the 
treble-voiced  mosquito  and  the  basso 
profundo  of  croaking  frogs  made  any­
thing  but  a  pleasing 
to  the 
nerves  of  a  tired  guest,  and  I  was  re 
joiced  when  the  cheerful  mill  whistles 
recalled  the  sleeping  town  to  life and 
activity and  your  humble  servant  to  an 
excellent  breakfast.

lullaby 

Grand  Haven  was  prompt  to  furnish 
good  soldiers  to  take  the  field  in defense 
of  the  Union,  and  a  statesman  who  took

listen 

in  our  National 
rank  with  the  ablest 
late  Hon.  Thomas  VV. 
councils,  the 
It  was  the  good  fortune  of  the 
Ferry. 
writer  to 
to  Mr.  Ferry’s  first 
rallying appeal  to  the  people,  soon  after 
the  bombardment  of  Fort  Sumpter. 
It 
was an  exhortation  to  his  countrymen  to 
arms 
in  defense  of  the  Union,  and  re­
vealed  the  blood  of  the  revolutionary 
patriots  that  coursed  through  his  veins.
One  can  hardly  realize  the  contrast 
between  the  Grand  Haven  of  1850  and 
the  Grand  Haven  of  1896. 
Its  sand  and 
sawdust  business  streets  are graded  with 
more  substantial  material.  The  one- 
story  shapeless  wooden  stores have given 
place 
imposing  blocks  that  are 
models  of durability  and  modern  archi­
tecture,  and  the  unpainted  low  wooden 
residences  scattered  through  its  ungrad­
ed  sun-burned  streets  have  given  place 
to  tasteful  residences,  shady  avenues 
and  well-kept  lawns.

The  limit  of  this  article  prevents  any 
further  description  of  the  panoramic 
view  ot  old  Grand  Haven 
in 
that 
memory  stretches  out  before  me. 
Its 
sawdust  plains  are  things  of  the  past, 
to  which  1  bid  adieux.

to 

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GENERAL  TRADE  CONDITIONS.
improved  situa­
While  the  generally 
tion  as  to  employment  and  production 
continues,  there  is  more  or  less  of  dis­
appointment  *in  the  materialization  ol 
demand.  This disappointment  is caused 
not  so  much  by  the  failure 
in  whai 
ought  to  have  been  expected  as  in  thc 
indulgence  of  too  great  expectations.  A 
steadily 
increasing  demand  continues 
in  most  lines,  but  there  are  disturb­
ances  of  values  on  account  of  combina­
tions 
in  some,  and  the  dulness  of  tht 
season 
in  wholesale  trade,  which  are 
factors  exerting  a  strong influence on the 
general  result.  The  retail  demand  foi 
holiday  goods 
is  decidedly  encoura­
ging,  especially  considering  the  degree 
of  depression  obtaining  so  long  and  s< 
recently.

The  pendulum  of  wheat  values  seems 
to  swing  at  almost  weekly  intervals, 
generally  rising  to  higher  values at each 
upward 
impulse.  Dollar  wheat  was 
long  ago  a  reality  in  the  English  mar­
kets,  and  has  moved  westward  until  it 
has  become  familiar  in  all  the  seaboard 
cities. 
in 
progress  at  the  date of  the  last  issue  of 
the  Tradesman  continued  until  Satur­
day,  when  the  movement  turned,  and 
has  been  progressing  since,  although 
with  a  slight  reaction  yesterday,  which 
is  generally  thought  to  be  temporary.

The  reaction  which  was 

The  struggles  of  the  trusts  and  com­
binations  in  the  iron  trade  continue  as 
a  dominant  factor  of  demoralization. 
The  belief  that  the  breaking  up  of these 
organizations  will reduce  prices operates 
to  prevent  orders,  and  so  increases  tbe 
downwaid  tendency.  There  is  nothing 
in  the  general 
industrial  situation  to 
account  for  the  iron depression ;  in fact, 
is  needed—the  condition  of 
nothing 
these  associations 
is  amply  sufficient. 
Just how  long  this  feature  will  operate 
as  a  hindrance  to  tbe  revival  is 
impos­
sible  to  conjecture,  but  surely  it  cannot 
continue  indefinitely.

The general  activity  in  the  wool trade 
continues,  but  the  outlook  for  the  man­
ufacture  is  not  much  improved,  demand 
continuing  very  slow.  Cotton  has  de­
clined  in  price  and  the  mills  are  com 
plaining  on  account  of  an  increase  of 
manufactured  products.

The  dulness  in  tbe  speculative market 
still  continues,  but  there  is  a  decided 
improvement  in  the  demand  for  bonds 
and  other  investment  securities,  a  nat-

I  ural  result  of  the  continued  plenty  in 
the  money  market.  The  stringency  has 
again  increased  in  the  London  market 
and  the 
in 
sterling  exchange  still  continues.

in  New  York 

investment 

Bank  clearings  have  had  the  natural 
falling  of  the  second  week 
the 
month,  but  they  still  continue  above  the 
billion  point.  The  amount  was$i,o65,- 
700,000.  Failures  were more  numerous 
by  22,  amounting  to  381.

in 

CONGRESSIONAL  FORECAST.
Tbe  last  session  of  the  Fifty-fourth 
Congress  has  an  abundance  of  work  be­
fore  it,  but  it  is  doubtful  if  much  of 
it 
will  be  attended  to  before  the  4th  of 
March,  when  the  present  Congress  ex­
pires  by  operation  of  law.

There  are,  we  are  told,  some  1,100 
private  bills  and  over  200  bills of public 
importance  pending. 
In  addition  to 
these,  the  large  number  of  appropria­
tion  bills  will  claim  attention,  while 
the  tariff and  financial  conditions  of  the 
country  are  also  subjects  of  much  dis­
cussion.  With  such  a  mass  of  business 
on  hand,  therefore,  and  the time at  the 
disposal  of  Congress  so 
limited,  the 
outlook  for 
legislation  of  a  beneficial 
character,  beyond  the  passage  of  the 
appropriations, 
Yet 
there  are  matters  of  great public  interest 
pending  which  ought  to  receive  prompt 
consideration.  There  are  the  immigra­
tion  bill,  the  Pacific  railroad  bill,  the 
Nicaragua  matter,  the  bills  for  reorgan­
ization  of  the  naval  establishment  and 
the  army,  the  Cuban  question  and  a 
multitude  of  measures  suggested  by  the 
lepartment  chiefs  for the 
improvement 
of  the  public  service  in  various particu­
lars  and  incorporated  in  pending  acts. 
Some  of  the  private  bills,  indeed,  are 
matters  of  common  justice  that  ought  to 
r»e  looked  after.

is  very  dim. 

It  is  more  than 

likely,  however,  that 
the  vast  majority  of  these  measures  will 
be  passed  over  and  that  the  only  results 
if  the  session  will  be  the  further  ap­
propriations  required.  Congress  is  get­
ting  to  be  an  unwieldy  body,  notwith 
standing  the  fact  that 
it  is  a  smaller 
body  than  either  the  French  or  British 
Parliaments.  The  time  is frittered  away 
luring  the  long  session  in  debate  and 
in  the  efforts  of  individual  members  to 
oass  pet  measures  calculated  to  aid  in 
their  re-election.  The  most 
important 
issues,  from  time  to  time,  the  sugges­
tions  from  the  departments  looking  to 
the  necessities  of  the  public  defense 
and  public  service,  fare  the  worst of all. 
The  gloomy  prospect  is  never improved 
by  the  selection  of  a  new  membership. 
The  dilatory  methods  and unsatisfactory 
record  of  the  Fifty-third  Congress  have 
been  duplicated  by  the Fifty-fourth and, 
the  probabilities  are,  will  be  repeated 
in  the  Fifth-fifth  Congress.  It  has  come 
to  be  regarded  as  a  reasonable  compli­
ance  with  public  requirements,  if  no 
positively  hurtful  legislation  is  enacted.

Contrary  to  general  expectation,  Con­
gress  seems  bent  upon  taking  up  the 
consideration  of  the  tariff  question  at 
the  present  session.  The  Ways  and 
Means  Committee  of  the  House  has  de­
cided  that  hearings  shall  be  given,com­
mencing  December  28  and 
lasting  two 
weeks,  on  tbe  various  schedules  of  du­
tiable  articles,  to  which  all  interested 
are 
It 
seems  hardly  probable  that  this  com­
mittee  would  take  up  the  work  in  this 
it  had  some 
methodic  manner  unless 
reason  to  believe  that  such 
legislation 
would  stand  a  show  of  favorable  consid­
eration 
the  hands  of  the  other 
branches  of  the  Government.

invited  to  offer  suggestions. 

at 

TIRES  AND  STREETS.

is 

It 

is  a  significant  fact  that  most  of 
the  horseless  carriages  which  promise 
success  are  those  provided  with  pneu­
matic  tires.  There 
in  this  fact  the 
promise  that  this  new  application  of 
the  old  principle  of  elasticity  in  the 
rolling  surfaces  of  carriage  wheels  is 
coming  to  stay;  for  there  is  never  so 
extended  an  adoption  of  a  new  method 
that  it  does  not  supersede  the  old,  even 
if  it  is  eventually  superseded  itself  by 
something  else.

It 

In 

is  a  great  wonder  that  in  the  ad­
vance  of  mechanical  science  this  ap­
plication  of  elasticity  waited  so  long. 
From  time 
immemorial  man  has  built 
his  vehicles  with  the  most  rigid  pos­
sible  surfaces  to  the  wheels,  and  has 
striven  to make  roadway  surfaces to sus­
tain  them. 
fact,  he  has  been  so 
bungling  that  he  has  made  his  wheels 
with  such  narrow  edges  that  one  with 
the  least  mechanical  knowledge  must 
know  that  they  would  destroy  any  or­
dinary  roadway;  and  it  has  so  recently 
dawned  upon  his  understanding 
that 
there 
is  one  advantage  in  using  tires 
wide  enough  to  support  the  load  that 
the  majority  are  still  the  narrow  ones. 
It 
is  thus  with  many  of  the  applica­
tions  of  practical science— we  wcnder at 
the  blind  bungling  which  has  so  long 
In  the  case  of  the  con­
ignored  them. 
tact  surfaces  of  wheels  the  blindness 
is 
the  more  remarkable  that  we  have  had 
the  plainest  possible  examples  of  the 
application  of  elasticity  in  nature,  and 
we  have  persistently  ignored  them.  We 
nave  seen  the  camel,  for  example,  pass 
over  the  yielding  sand  with  the  utmost 
ease  with  his  broad  “ cushioned  tires,’ ’ 
but  it  has  never  occurred  to  us  that  we 
could  do  otherwise  than  plow  through 
our 
road  surfaces  with  knife-edged 
wheels.

But  at  last,  slowly  and  gradually,  we 
are  coming  to  know  that  the  contact 
surface  of  the  support  of  a  load  must  be 
mechanically proportioned  to its  weight, 
and,  in  addition  to  this,  that  we  may- 
use  the  principle  of  a  partial  yielding 
to  the  asperities  of  the  surfaces  in  a 
way  to  greatly  reduce  the  destructive 
friction.  The  first  use  of  rubber  in 
vehicle  tires  was  for baby  carriages and 
children’s  bicycles.  Soon  the  advantage 
was  recognized  by  older  riders,  but  it 
was  only  a  matter of  personal  comfort 
that  was  considered.  And 
in  the  ad­
vance  to  the  use  of  confined  air,  it  was 
still  only  that  the  rider  might  glide 
along  with  luxurious  ease-  there  was  no 
thought  of  any  consideration  for  the 
road  surface.  Indeed,  it  is  only now  that 
this  phase  of  the  question  is beginning 
The  discovery 
to  receive  attention. 
that  elastic  tires  are  effective 
road 
makers,  where  they  are given  a  chance, 
seems  to  have  been  purely  accidental 
and  secondary.  The  great  number of 
wheels  coming  into  use  in  the  last  year 
or  so  has  afforded  many  examples  of  a 
quickly  made  path 
through  the  most 
uncompromising  mud  of  the  streets.

As  long  as  the  rigid,  and  especially 
the  narrow,  tire  has  to  be  provided  for, 
the  matter  of  road  building  is  very  for­
midable. 
It  involves  engineering  en­
terprise  of  the  most  costly  character. 
But  if  it  should  transpire  that  the  prin­
ciple  of  elasticity 
in  tires  should  be­
come  universal 
it  would  give  a  new 
phase  to  the  problem.  A  road  surface 
would  not  need  to  be  supported  by  a 
great  thickness  of  the  most  costly  road 
material. 
It  would  only  be  necessary to 
provide  a  properly  shaped  and  drained 
highway,  with  a  surface  that  would 
pack,  and  the  wheels  would  do the  rest.

The  paving  and  maintaining  of  city 
streets 
is  a  serious  economic  problem. 
The  best  pavements  known  are  quickly 
destroyed  by  the iron  shod traffic.  Every 
year  the  best  of  modern  pavements, 
where  traffic  is  heavy,  must  be  repaired 
and  renewed  at  great  expense.  The 
adoption  of  elastic  tires  would  do  away 
with  all  of  this.  Given  the  self  pro­
pelling  wagon  with  pneumatic  tiies— 
dispensing  with  tbe  horse  and  the  steel 
rimmed  wheel—and,  regardless  of  the 
amount  of  traffic,  the  asphalt  pavement 
would  be  practically  indestructible.

it 

And  this  suggestion  is  not  Utopian. 
Just  now  the  attention  of  tbe  world  is 
being  directed  as  never  before  to  this 
subject.  The  repeal  of  antiquated  laws 
in  England  which  have  long  hampered 
invention  and  experiment 
in  this  di­
rection  has  given  a  tremendous  impetus 
to  the  movement.  Already  companies 
are  being  organized  to  put  the  self-pro­
pelling  cars,  with  elastic'  tires,  on  the 
streets  of  London,  to  supersede  the  cab 
and  even to  dispute  precedence  with  the 
train  car.  The  demonstration  of  this 
experiment  is  of the widest significance. 
If 
is  shown  that  the  horse,  with  its 
unhealthy  street  litter,  can  be dispensed 
with,  it  will  mark  a  great  advance. 
And 
if  the  destructive  clatter  of  the 
Belgian  block  pavement  can  be  done 
away  with,  it will  be another great  step. 
Whether  the  horse  shall  be  entirely  dis­
placed  for  street  traffic  or  not, 
it  is 
reasonable to  predict  that  the  destruc­
tion  of  streets  and  vehicles  by  the  rigid 
steel  tire  will  soon  be  superseded  by 
the  gliding  movement  of  elastic  wheels 
on  a  smooth  surface  which  will  not  be 
costly  to  maintain.
THE  RUSSIAN-CHINESE  TREATY.
It  has  frequently  been  confidently  as­
serted,  and  as  frequently  been  denied, 
that  a  treaty  had  been  arranged  between 
China  and  Russia,  giving  the  latter 
country  important  commercial  rights  in 
Chinese  territory. 
That  Russia  was 
desirous  of  so  arranging  matters  as  to 
successfully  dominate  affairs  in  China 
nobody  for  a  moment  doubted;  but  it 
was  deemed  improbable  that  China,  a 
power  so  jealous  of  foreign  influence  in 
her affairs, would consent  to any arrange­
ment  which  would  give  Russia  greater 
privileges  than  were  accorded  to  other 
powers.

It  now  appears,  however,  that  a  treaty 
between  China  and  Russia  is  an  actual 
fact.  According  to  its  terms,  Russia  is 
to  have  the  right  to  operate  a  railroad 
through  Manchuria,  and  to  maintain  a 
force  of  troops  wherever  necessary  to 
protect  the  road  and  secure the  stations. 
Port  Arthur 
is  also  to  be  fortified  and 
maintained  by  Russia  on  behalf  of 
China,  and  the  piactical  control  of  the 
Liao  Tung  peninsula  is  to  be  placed  in 
Russia’s  hands.

immense 

influence 

These  concessions  mean  that  Russian 
influence  will  henceforth  be  paramount 
in  China,  and  that  Russia  will  seek  to 
monopolize  Chinese  trade.  From  a  mil­
itary  point  of  view,  the  treaty  will  give 
Russia 
in  the  Far 
East,  and  will  make  her  an  important 
rival  of  Great  Britain 
in  the  Orient. 
Her occupation  of  the  Liao  Tung  pen­
insula  will  be  a  serious  menace  to 
Japan,  and  that  power  must  now  suffer 
the  mortification  of  seeing  all  the  fruits 
of  her  recent  victory  over  China  pass 
into  the  hands  of  Russia.  This  fact 
must  sooner  or  later  produce such irrita­
tion  that  an  armed  clash  will  become 
almost  inevitable.  That  Japan  is  pre­
paring  for  such  an  event  is  undeniable.
improving 
is  an  indication  that  it  could  be  made 
still  better  by  a  little  effort.

The  fact  that  business 

is 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN 

S

in  London,  but 

BRITISH  IMPERIAL  FEDERATION.
The  British  Empire  League  has 
again  convened 
its 
present  meeting  appears  to be devoid  of 
all 
enthusiasm.  Mr.  Chamberlain’s 
proposition  of  free  trade  within  the 
empire  does  not  appear  to have found as 
much  favor  with  the  autonomous  colo­
nies  as  had  been  hoped,  and  its  practi­
cal  failure  is  largely  responsible  for  the 
poor  progress  of  the  proposed 
imperial 
federation  movement.

in  administration. 

While  it  is  generally  recognized  that 
some  arrangement  must  eventually  be 
made  which  will  knit  more  closely  to­
gether  the  various portions of the British 
Empire,  the  trade  difficulties 
in  the 
way  appear  to  be  formidable.  The 
necessity  for  providing  for  the  common 
defense  and  the  apportionment  of  the 
expense  of  such  defense  among  the  va­
rious  component  parts  of  the  British 
Empire  necessitate  some  sort  of  repre­
sentation 
It  has, 
therefore,been  the  aim  of  British  states­
men  for  some  time  past  to  devise  a 
plan  on  bringing  all  the  colonies  to­
gether  upon  some common ground.  Free 
trade  within  the  empire  very  clearly 
will  not  serve  the  purpose,and  as  yet  no 
other  alternative  proposition  has  been 
presented;  hence 
imperial  federation 
may  be  said  to  be  in  abeyance  for  the 
present.
It  is  rather  remarkable  that in England 
the  opinion  is  frequently  expressed  that 
the  United  States  will  eventually  be  in 
duced  to  enter  into  some  sort  of  federa­
tion  with  Great Britain and her colonies. 
Why  such  ideas  should  find  a  lodgment 
there,  when  they  meet  with no sympathy 
at all  in  this  country,  it 
is  difficult  to 
imagine. 
is 
neither  desired  nor  even  thought  of  by 
the  American  people.

an  arrangement 

Such 

COMMERCE  DESTROYERS.
While  the  American  navy  can 

lay 
claim  to  little  in  the  way  of  originality 
in warship construction since  the combat 
of  the  Merrimac  and  Monitor  in Hamp­
ton  Roads  revolutioned  warship  build­
ing,  there 
is  at  least  one  matter  in 
which  we  can  justly  claim  to  have  been 
pioneers,  namely,  in  the  originating  of 
the  modern  commerce  destroyer.

When  Congress  authorized  the  con­
struction  of  the  7,500-ton  unarmored 
cruisers  Columbia  and  Minneapolis  for 
the  express  purpose  of  developing  a 
very high  speed,  coupled  with  ability  to 
keep  the  sea  for  a  long  voyage,  foreign 
naval  experts  were  disposed  to  question 
the  wisdom  of  the  expenditure,  on  the 
ground  that  such  ships,  being  unable  to 
do  much  fighting,  would  scarcely  justify 
the  expense  of  maintenance  and  would 
prove  less  serviceable  than  the  armored 
class  of  cruisers.

Despite the  criticisms,  however,  both 
the  French  and  British  naval authorities 
lost  no  time  in  perfecting  plans  for  the 
construction  of  similar  vessels;  but,  un­
like  us,  they  have  not  been  content  to 
stop  at  securing  as  good  ships  as  we 
possess,  but  have  endeavored  to outstrip 
us,  and  as  far as  Great  Britain  is  con­
cerned  this  has been  accomplished. 
It 
was  found  that  the  Columbia  and  Min­
neapolis,  while  very  fast  vessels,  would 
not  be able  to  successfully  overhaul  any 
of  the  swift  transatlantic  liners. 
It  was 
also  discovered  that  their  fighting  qual­
ities  were  quite  short  of  what  they 
should  be,  considering  their  size;  in 
fact,  many  small  cruisers  possessed 
heavier armaments.

To obviate  the  defects  developed 

in 
the Columbia and  Minneapolis,  the Brit­
laid  down  two
ish  naval  authorities 

vessels  of  14,200 tons  displacement, with 
immense  engine  power.  These  gigantic 
ships are  now  ready  for  service,  and 
it 
is  said  one  of  them  will  be  sent  to  act 
as  the  flagship  of  the  British  North  At­
The  Powerful  and 
lantic  squadron. 
Terrible,  as  these 
formidable  vessels 
are  named,  have  developed  a  speed  un­
der  natural  draft  of  22  knots  per  hour, 
which  will,  it  is  claimed,  enable  them 
to  make  as good  speed  as  the  fastest  of 
the  great  \tlantic 
liners.  Owing  to 
their  size,  the  engine-room force will be 
able  to  remain  at  work  for  a  longer 
time  than  on  smaller  vessels,  and  the 
immense  coal  capacity  allows  them  a 
wide  range  of  usefulness.

The  Powerful  and  Terrible  are  538 
long  and  have  a  beam  of  71  feet. 
feet 
Although  the  vessels  are  not  armored 
they  are  protected,  as  far as  the  vitals 
are  concerned,  by  an  armored  deck. 
The  guns  and  gun  crews  are  also  pro­
tected  by  armored 
The 
armament  of  these  cruisers  will  be  very 
heavy,consisting of  fourteen  heavy  guns 
and  twenty-eight  lighter  weapons,  be­
sides  many  machine guns and  torpedo 
tubes.  The  crews  of  these  ships  will 
comprise  in  each  case  about  850  men.

casemates. 

It  is  doubtful  if  the  advantages  to  be 
gained  by  the  possession  of  these  mon­
ster commerce destroyers will sufficiently 
compensate  Great  Britain  for  the  heavy 
expense  of  maintaining  them. 
The 
Columbia  and  Minneapolis,  although 
much  smaller  vessels,  are  very  nearly 
as  fast,  and  the  very  apparent  de­
ficiency 
in  their  armament  could  be 
readily  made  good  by  additions.  The 
big  British  ships  are,  moreover,  mere 
developments  of  the  idea  represented  in 
the  two  American  cruisers,  and our navy 
is,  therefore, fully entitled to all the cred­
it  that  attaches  to  the  invention  of  this 
type  of  warship.
Cash  Prize  and  Diploma  for  Best 

Essay.

Dayton,  Ohio,  Dec.  15—We  do  not  be- 
live  the  Michigan  Tradesman  can  do  a 
better  work  for 
its  readers  than  to  lay 
before  them  the  ideas  of  successful  gro­
cers  on “ How  to  Successfully  Conduct  a 
Retail  Grocery  Store”

To  this  end  we  have  decided  to  offer, 
with  the  permission  of  the  Michigan 
Tradesman,  a  prize  of  $25  in  gold,  and 
a  diploma,  for the  best  essay  written  by 
a  retail  grocer,  on  the  subject,  “ How 
to  Successfully  Conduct  a  Retail  Gro­
cery  Store. ’ *

Esssays  entered 

in  the  competition 
must  not  exceed  2,000  words  in 
length. 
They  must  be  written  on  one  side of  the 
paper only  and  mailed  to  the  editor  of 
the  Michigan  Tradesman  on  or  before 
April  1,  1897.

Each  essay  must  be  marked  with  a 
fictitious  name,  the  real  name  of  the 
in  a  sealed  en­
writer  being  enclosed 
velope  and  sent 
in  the  same  package 
with  the  essay.

The  prize  will  be  awarded  by  a  com­
mittee  of  three  judges,  one  chosen  by 
the  editor  of  the  Michigan  Tradesman 
and  one by  us,  these  two  to  choose  the 
third  judge.

Some  of  the  essays  entered 

in  the 
competition  will  be  printed  from  time 
to  time 
in  the  Michigan  Tradesman. 
The  essay  to  which  the  prize  is awarded 
will  be  printed  in  the  issue of  May  5.
N a t io n a l  Cash  R e g is t e r   Co.

Ontario  farm  lands  have  taken  a  big 
in  value  during  the  past  twelve 
drop 
years.  The  total  value 
in  1883  was 
placed  at $654,793,000;  in  1895  the  val­
uation  was  reduced  to  $572,938,000. 
The  bringing  of  new  wheat  districts 
into  competition  with  the  Ontario  fields 
is  given  as  the  cause  of  the  rapid  de­
cline.

No  man  who  is  intoxicated,  or  whose 
breath  is  even  tainted with strong drink, 
is  allowed  to  take  his  post  on  a  train 
on  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway.

The  Woman  of  It.

Wrltten fo r the T radesman.

There  was  a  rustle  of  skirts,  a  gentle 
footstep  on  the  floor  and  the  salesman 
looked  up 
in  time  to  catch  the glance 
of  enquiry which, for a  fleeting  moment, 
overspread  the  face  of  the  new  custom­
er.  She  was  tall  and  not  ungraceful, 
carried  herself  erect  and talked as easily 
and  as  fluently  as  a  lightning  rod agent.
“ Do  you  keep  shoes?  Yes,  I  under­
stood  that  you  did.  My  cousin,  Mrs. 
Bartley  Smith,  said  that  you  did.  You 
know  her,  of course?  Yes,  she  said  you 
would.  She  said  that  all  I  had  to  do 
was  to  mention  her  name  and  you would 
be  glad  to  show  me  just  what  I  wanted. 
I  hate  to  buy  shoes,  don’t  you?  It’s  an 
awful  nuisance. 
I  don’t  see  why  they 
can’t  make  shoes  that  will  last  forever; 
but of  course  they wouldn’t  do  that,  for, 
if  they  did,  you  merchants  wouldn’t 
have anything  tc  do.  But  then  the  shoes 
they  make  nowadays  aren’t  what  they 
used  to  be.  Everybody  admits  that. 
When  I  buy  shoes  I always  want the best 
thing  I  can  get.  The  best  are  poor 
enough,  goodness  knows.  But  then  it 
seems  as  though  you  can’t  believe  what 
anybody  says  about  shoes.  They’ll  tell 
you  that  a  pair  of  shoes  are good  to 
wear,  and  first  thing  you  know  they  are 
I  got  a  pair  of  slippers 
all  to  pieces. 
last  winter  to  attend 
the  Governor’s 
ball,  and  they  were  very  expensive, 
too,  and  I  was assured  that  they  would 
give  me  complete  satisfaction,  but,  if 
you  will  believe  it,  they  are  all  off  my 
feet,  and  I  really  must  have  something 
to  wear  right  away.  Now,  if  you  have 
something  that  is  good  and  stylish  and 
pretty  and  just  my  size,  I  should  like  to 
see 
it,  and  you  must  remember  that  I 
am  a  cousin  of  Mrs.  Bartley  Smith,  and 
she  says  that  they  buy  nearly  all  of their 
shoes of  you,  because  they  say  that  your 
shoes  are  good,  and  that  they  can  al­
ways  depend  upon  what  you  tell  them. ”
“ Certainly,  I  shall  be  glad  to  show 
you  anything  we  have.  Now  here  is 
something  that  has  been  very  popular 
of  late. 
It  is  the  new  coin  toe,  and this 
tip  has  the  advantage  over  the  patent 
one  of  never  cracking  or  peeling  off, 
and  it  looks  nice as  long  as  the  shoe  is 
worn. 

I— ’ ’

I 

“ O,  isn’t  that  lovely? 

look  at  a  number  four,  too. 

just  think 
that 
is  the  sweetest  shoe  I  ever  saw. 
Now  do  just  let  me  try  on  a  pair  of 
them— I  think  I  had  better  have a  C 
last,  I  dislike  a  wide  shoe  so  much. 
I 
really  ought  to  have  my  shoes  made  to 
order,  my  foot 
is  so  peculiar—so  nar­
row,  you  know—and  there  are  so  few 
people  that  wear  a  narrow  shoe  like 
that  that  I  sometimes  have  trouble  in 
getting  ready-made  shoes  to  fit me.  You 
might  let  me  try  a  three  and  a  half,  and 
I  will 
I 
never  wore  a  four,  but  -Mrs.  Bartley 
Smith  says  that  very 
large  shoes  are 
more  comfortable  in  cold  weather,  and 
I  care  nothing  for  style  anyway. 
I  am 
such  an  old  fogy  about  having  every­
thing  loose  and  comfortable.  My  broth­
ers  say  that  I  am  a  regular  crank  in that 
respect.  But  I  would  rather  be  a  crank 
than  be  uncomfortable,  wouldn’t  you?”
There  was  a  creaking  of  ribs,a strain 
ing  of  corsage,  a  red-faced  lady  and  a 
discomfited  shoe  clerk.  Then  he  said :
“ Beg  your  pardon,  ma’am— I  got  the 
wrong  pair,  come  to  think.  Here  is  the 
one  I  was  looking  for;”   and,  taking  a 
pair  of  4%  E  from  the  box,  he  man­
aged  finally  to  squeeze  them onto the ex­
tremities  of  the  lady  who  wished  to  be 
comfortable  and  buttoned  them  up.

“ There!”   said  she,  “ you  see  how 

it 
is—they are  lots  too  big.  I  can  scarcely

ever  find  a  shoe  but  what  is  too  wide 
for  me,  and  then,  after  I  have  had 
them  a  few  days,  they  are  so  loose  that 
I  wish 
I  can  hardly  keep  them  on. 
I 
there  was  a  good  shoemaker  here. 
wouldn't  think  of  getting  store  shoes 
if 
there  was.  I  don’t  know  whether  to take 
these  or  not.  They 
look  pretty  good 
now  but  I  am  afraid  that  they won’t  last 
long,  and  I  do  so  hate  to  buy new shoes. 
Is  that  good  leather  in  the  uppers?”  

“ Finest  Dongola  kid  stock.  We  guar­
If  they don’t 
antee  every  pair  of  them. 
give  satisfaction,  return  them  and  get 
your  money  back. ”

“ The  buttons  came  off  the  last  pair  I 
had  in  just  a  few  days  and  I  had  to  sew 
them  all  on  again.  Do  you  fasten  the 
buttons  on?”

Isn’t  that 

“ Certainly. ”
“ Whatdid  you  say  the  price  is?”  
“ Three  dollars.”
“ O,  my! 

I  didn’t  want  anything  as 
expensive  as  that. 
rather 
high  for  this  kind  of  a  shoe?  The  last 
pair  I  got  didn’t  cost  nearly  as  much.”  
“ Why,  three  dollars  is  no  price  at  all 
for  those  shoes,  ma’am.  They  are  made 
of  the  very  finest  kid  stock,  as  I  said 
before,  and  nothing  but  the  best  ma­
terials  and  workmanship  enter into their 
make-up.  Shoes  like  that  in  the  cities 
are  sold  for  from  four  to  five  dollars 
right  along  to  the  best  trade  and  are 
considered 
lower 
priced  shoes,  of  course,  but nothing that 
will  give  the  satisfaction  and  wear  that 
these  will,  or  be  so  cheap  in  the  long 
run.  You  can’t  do  better  than  to  take 
these  shoes.r ’

cheap.  We  have 

for  some  time,  and 

“ Well,  that  may  be,  of  course.  I don’t 
want  to  dispute your  word,  but  I  think 
it  is  more  than  1  should  care  to  pay  for 
that  kind  of  a  shoe—and,  come  to  think 
of  it,  I  am  going  to  stay  at  Mrs.  Bart­
ley  Smith:s 
it 
doesn’t  make  so  much  difference  what 
one  wears  here  in  the  country  as  it  does 
in  town. 
I  think,  on  the  whole,  that  I 
will  get  something  cheap  that  will  do 
until  I  go  home again,  and  then  I’ll  get 
a  good  pair. 
I  like  these  very  much, 
and  I  suppose  you  will  keep  them  right 
along,  so  that  I  can  get  a  pair  of  them 
when  I  start  back?”

“ O,  of  course.  We  couldn’t  afford 

to get  out  of  these  shoes. ’ ’

“ Then 

if  I  take  two  pairs  you  will 
make  some  reduction?  They  always  do 
where  I  came  from. ’ '

“ Why,  yes,  we  wouldn’t  object  to 
making  a  little  reduction  where  a  per­
son  takes  several  pairs  at  one  time.”  

“ No,  but  I  mean 

if  I  buy  one  pair 

now  and  one  pair  when  I  go  away?”  

“ Well,  I  couldn’t  promise  to do  that. 
You  see,  that  is  only  buying  one  pair at 
a  time,  and 
lots  of  people  buy  shoes 
that  way.  No,  we  would  have  to  charge 
the  regular  price.  The  best  way  for  you 
would  be  to  take  two  pairs  to-day  and 
then  we  can  make  a  little better price. ”  
“ Well,  I  think  I  will  go  back  to  Mr. 
Sissons’  store.  Mrs.  Bartley  Smith  said 
I  had  better go  there,  and,  if  I  couldn’t 
find  what  I  wanted,  then  I  could  come 
here. 
I  was  at  Mr.  Sissons’,  and  he 
has  a  pair  that  just  suit  me,  and  he 
doesn’t  charge  anywhere  near  what  you 
do,  and  I  think  they  are  better shoes, 
too. “

When  the  clerk  came  to  himself,  the 
lady  had  gone,  the  clock  was  striking 
thirteen  and  the  cash  register  had  rung 
up  $9.99 on  its  own  account?

G e o.  L.  T h u r sto n.

The  planters  of  Yucatan,  finding  the 
present  price  of  sisal  hemp  to  be  too 
low  for  good  profit,  have  turned  their 
hand  to cultivating potatoes  and  indigo.

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F lo u r a n d   F eed

Fashion  vs.  Flour.

W ritten fo r th e T radesman.

That 

inexorable 

tyrant,  Fashion, 
seemingly  demands  that  we  shall  sacri­
fice health,  wealth,  and  even  life  if  nec­
essary,  in  order  that  our  bread  shall 
present  a  more  attractive  appearance 
in  color,  regardless  of  the  nourishment 
it  may  contain  or  the  efforts  of a  fam­
ishing  human  system  to appease hunger. 
There 
is  a  doubtful  merit  in  the  new 
process  flour  if  we  desire  the  well-being 
of  mankind.  Not  so  much 
is  this  in 
crushing  the  grain  as  in  the  after  proc­
ess  of  the  separator. 
But  what  has 
that  to  do  with  the  question  if  society 
decrees  that  such  flour  shall  constitute 
the  “ bread  we  eat?”

There  was  a  time  when  our  flour  cost 
us  more,  but  it  gave  us,  in  return, 
the 
wealth  of  good  health  and  bright  smil­
ing  faces.”   The  quaint  old  gristmill, 
its  ponderous  water  wheel,  and 
with 
low  rumbling  roar  of  the  millstones 
in 
the  distance,  and  its  presiding  genius, 
the  honest  old  toll  gatherer,  are  but 
shadows  of  the  past,  while  many  are 
now  asking  a  return  of  the  substance.

is 

impressed 

The  writer 

to  speak 
upon  this  subject  from  having  lately 
seen  wheat  flour,  marked  second  grade, 
sold  at  §1.20  per  too  pounds,  which, 
upon  examination,proved to  be  superior 
flour  in  all  respects— if we except  pearly 
whiteness—to  that  sold  beside  it at Si. 80 
ioo  pounds.  A  test  was 
and  §2  per 
it  into  bread  and  it 
made  by  making 
was  found  to  contain  at  least 
io  per 
cent,  more  nutriment  than  the  more  ex­
It  was  also  a  bread 
pensive  kinds. 
which  would  keep 
in  good  condition 
longer,  retaining  moisture  better  and 
being  more  palatable.  And  still  another 
more  valuable  quality,  which  will  be 
noticed  further  on  in  this  article,  was 
observed—that  the  appetite  was satiated 
with  a  far  less  quantity  of  the  food. 
What  causes  this  difference,  you  ask, 
and  why,  if  a  better  flour,  is  it  sold  ata 
less  price?  First,  a  demand  has  been 
created  for  a  whiter  flour,  i.  e.,  a  flour 
containing  a  larger  proportion  of  starch 
than  Nature 
intended,  for  our  Mother 
Nature,  in  all  her  operations,  does  what 
is  best  for  her  children. 
Says  Dr. 
Johnston,  an  English  chemist:  “ The 
nutritive  quality  of  any  variety  of  grain 
depends  very  much  upon  the  proportion 
of  gluten  which 
it  contains;”   and  ex­
perience  has  proven  the  correctness  of 
his  statement.  The  fine  wheat  flour, 
made  by  the  old  process  of grinding and 
bolting,  contains  io  per  cent,  of  gluten ; 
the  bran  of  the  wheat  alone,  18  per 
cent.  Our best  oatmeal  contains  18  per 
cent.  ;  Indian  corn  meal  12  per  cent., 
but  our  roller  process  flour,  with  patent 
separator, 
for  bolt­
ing,  contains  barely  5  per  cent,  of 
gluten.  What  becomes  of  the  balance? 
It  has  gone  into  the  middlings,  and  it 
is  probable  those  middlings  (the  finer 
part  of  the  bran)  are  mixed  with  a  cer­
tain  proportion of  the more starchy flour, 
in  price,  although,  in 
to  cheapen 
reality,  to  make 
it  worth  more  to  the 
consumer.  To  be  more  explicit,  Dr. 
Johnston  says:  “ The  outer  coating  of 
wheat,  rye  and  other  cereals  contains 
only  3  or  4  per  cent,  of gluten,  the  inner 
coating  from  14  to  20  per  cent.  All  this 
is  separated  in  the  bran.  But  through­
out  the  mass  of  the  grain,  around  and 
within  the  albumen  cells,  the  gluten 
is 
diffused  everywhere  among  the grains of 
starch. ’ ’  Thus, we  see  that,  where  the 
middlings  and  bran  are  entirely  ex-

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

just  sufficient  water  to 

cluded  from  our  flour,  we  have  little 
left  except  starch  and the  small quantity 
of  oil  or  fat—about  2  per  cent.— in  the 
grain.  Should  anyone  be  desirous  of 
testing  the  proportion  of  gluten  in  flour 
of  any  grade,  he  may  readily  do  so  by 
mixing  a  given  quantity  of  the  flour 
with 
form  a 
smooth  and  elastic  dough.  Then  place 
the  dough  upon  a  piece  of  fine  muslin 
tied  over  any  tin  or  other  vessel,  and 
knead  or  work  this  mass  with  the  hand, 
under  a  small  stream  of  water  poured 
upon 
long  as  the  water  passes 
through  milky.  When  the  milky  water 
has  become  clear  by  standing,  a  white 
substance  will  be  found  in  the  bottom 
is  common  starch, 
of  the  dish,  which 
and  the  sticky  substance 
left  on  the 
muslin  will  be  the gluten.

it,  as 

You  ask,  Why  not  use  the entire prod­
uct  of  any  grain,  when  ground,  without 
any  bolting  or  sifting?  Ah,  my  dear 
sir,  or  madam,  there  again  that  capri­
cious  goddess,  Fashion,  steps  in.  One 
old  lady  says,  “ It  looks  too  much 
like 
pigs’ 
food.’ ’  Another  says,  “ It  may 
taste  pretty  well,  but  what  horrid  look­
ing  bread  or  biscuit  it  would  make. ”  
So,  it  appears,  we  are  eating  more  for 
ostentation  or  show than for nourishment 
and  health.  Some  one  has said,  “ What 
fools  we  mortals  be!”   But,  truly,  not 
all  are  foolish,  as  we  find  many  persons 
preferring  graham,  or whole  wheat  flour. 
Even  this  is  generally  supposed  to  have 
2 per cent,  of  the  outside  covering  of the 
grain  removed  before  it  is  placed  upon 
is  all  right  as  a 
the  market,  which 
point  of  cleanliness.  Graham 
flour 
should  be  produced  at  a  lower  price, 
that  it  might  be  more  generally  used.

of  water, 

Another  person  asks:  “ Why  do  you 
find  any  fault  with  flour  if  the  gluten  is 
all  removed,  when  you  tell  me  that  100 
pounds  of  baked  wheat  bread  made 
from  flour ground  and  bolted  in the  old- 
time  gristmill  contains  about the  pro­
portion 
forty-five  parts; 
gluten,  six  to  eight  parts;  starch,  sugar 
and  gum,  forty-nine parts—changes take 
place 
in  the  process  of  baking,  etc., 
some  starch  being  changed  into  sugar— 
the  last  three  constituting  seven-eighths 
of  ail  the  solid  substance?”   All  very 
true,  sir;  but  no  matter—the  compound 
is  not  complete 
in  regard  to  nutrition 
without its  proportion  of  gluten  that Na­
ture  furnishes. 
If  the  gluten  were  not 
necessary,  we would  never  have found  it 
combined  with  the  other  ingredients.

Dr.  Johnston  further  says:  “ Gluten, 
starch,  oil  and  sugar  form  the  basis  of 
all  that  sustains  life ;  yet  health  cannot 
be  maintained  on  an  exclusive  diet  of 
any  one  of  these  basic  foods alone. ”   To 
condemn  a  prisoner  to  subsist  upon 
starch  alone  would  be  to  consign  him 
to  death  by 
lingering  torture—starva­
tion.  We  have  noted  that  our  best  flour, 
meaning  made  by  the  old  process,  con­
tains  10  per  cent,  of  gluten.  And  our 
best  rolled  oats  contain  18  per  cent.  ! 
Owing  to  a  peculiar quality of the gluten 
which  the  oat  contains,  the  flour  of  this 
grain  does  not  admit  of  being  baked 
into  a  light  fermented  spongy  bread. 
Thus  we  consume this  excellent  food  in 
other  forms.  Oatmeal  or  rolled  oats, 
seasoned  with  a  little  salt and made  into 
mush  with  water,  and  steamed  about 
twenty  minutes,  may  be  eaten  with 
sugar,  milk,  butter, 
jams,  or 
other  fruit,  and  forms  a  delicious  and 
highly  nutritious  diet.  Can  we  wonder 
at  the  stalwart  Scotchman,  reared  from 
boyhood  upon  a  large  proportion of such 
a  diet?  And  then  compare  him  with 
the  diminutive  and  effeminate  China­
man,  whose  food  is  largely  rice  in  some

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Lessons  from  the  Nail  Trust.

From the American Grocer.

form,  and the gluten  in  this  does  not  ex­
ceed  7  per  cent.,  and  fat  or  oil  i  per 
cent.  ! 
In  rice  countries  the  natives de­
vour  what  would  seem  to  us  enormous 
quantities  of  this  grain.  We  may  as­
cribe  this  to  the  small  proportion  of  the 
highly  necessary  gluten  it  contains.  Po 
tato flour  contains  92  per  cent,  of starch, 
is,  therefore,  unsuited  for  making 
and 
into  bread  by 
itself,  or  to  become  an 
exclusive  diet,  but  should  always  be 
eaten  with  something  containing  plenty 
of  gluten  or oil,  as  meats,  cabbage,  etc. 
The  potato  flour  is  said  to  be  less  nutri­
tive,  weight  for  weight,  in  the  sense  of 
supporting  strength and  enabling  a  man 
to  undergo  fatigue,  than  any  other  ex­
tensively  used  vegetable  food,  with  the 
possible  exception  of  rice.

in 

We  may  take  bread  as  the  type  of  all 
our  vegetable  food.  As  a  rule,  the 
greater  portion  of  our  food  is  eaten  ac­
cording  to  true  chemical 
laws,  whether 
cooked  or  eaten  raw,  although  we  may 
not  always  be  cognizant  of the fact.  The 
fibrin,  or  muscle  of  the  flesh  we  eat,  is 
analogous  to  the  gluten  of  the  grain  and 
to 
vegetables;  the  fat  represents,  and 
a  certain  extent  replaces,  the  starch 
in 
our  vegetable  food.  We  therefore  eat 
bread  or  potatoes  with  our  meat,  so  that 
starch  shall  form  a  portion  of  our  diet. 
Gluten  is  found  to  constitute  from  10  to 
25  per  cent,  of  all  our  food  and  is  prob­
ably  calculated  to afford  a  chemical,  as 
well  as  a  nutritious,  action  upon  the 
system.  All  the  principal  varieties  of 
food  which  are  at  the  present  day  em­
ployed 
feeding  the  human  race, 
partly 
in  the  form  of  bread,  contain  a 
sensible  proportion  of  three  most  im­
portant  constituents,  viz.,  gluten,  starch 
and  fat.  When  the  proportion  of  any 
of  these 
is  too  small,  chemistry  indi­
cates  and  experience  suggests  that  an 
additional  quantity  of  this deficient sub­
stance  should  be  added in the  process  of 
cooking  or  preparatory  to  eating.  Thus, 
we  consume  butter  with  our  bread  and 
mix  it  with  our  pastry  because  flour 
is 
deficient 
fat;  or  we  eat 
cheese  or  onions  with  the bread,  to  add 
to  the  proportion  of  the  gluten  it  natur­
ally  contains  and  to  furnisn  stronger 
nutrition.  So  we  eat  something  more 
nutritive  with  our  rice  or  potatoes,  they 
being  almost  wholly  composed of starch. 
We  add  fat  to  our  cabbage,  we  enrich 
our  salads  with  vegetable  oil  or  butter, 
eat  our  cauliflower  with  melted  butter, 
and  beat  together  potatoes,  cabbage  and 
butter 
into  a  nutritious  Irish  “ kol-can- 
non. ”

in  natural 

in  which 

A  well-known  physiologist  says:  “ It 
is  interesting  to  observe  the natural  pro­
portions  and  adjustments  of  the  main 
elements  of  food  to  the  wants  of  the 
lower  animals,  in  the  composition  of 
the  eatable  parts  of  plants.  But  it  is 
still  more 
interesting  to  observe  how 
experience  alone  has almost  everywhere 
led  mankind  to  a  rude  adjustment,  in 
kind  and  quantity,  of  the  forms  of  nu­
tritive  matter  which  are  essential  to  the 
supply  of  their  animal  wants  under  the 
circumstances 
they  are 
placed.”   And  the  absolute  necessity 
for  such  adjustment 
is  proven  by  all 
physiological  history.  The  writer  would 
not  be  understood  as  sowing  seeds  of 
contention  in  the  flour  market.  Quite 
the  contrary.  The  maker  and  the  dealer 
are  each  equally  interested 
in  furnish­
ing  the  kinds  desired  by  the  public; 
and,  although  the  maker  and  dealer  are 
also  consumers,  they  may  choose  to 
make  obeisance  to  the  popular custom— 
in  other  words,  to  Fashion. 
If  so,  it is, 
of  course,  their  privilege.  We  simply 
make  a  plain  statement  of  well  attested 
facts. 

Ch e m is t. 

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The  collapse  of  the  Nail  Trust  and 
its  history  have  many  instructive  les­
sons.  Trusts  are  organized  to  make 
profitable 
lan­
guished  and  been  unprofitable,  gener­
ally  on  account  of  excessive  competi­
tion,  which  is  a  double-edged  sword.

industries  which  have 

The  units  ot  any  unorganized 

indus­
try  are  competitors  for  raw  material, 
and  therefore,  in  their  eagerness to  ob­
tain  supplies,  bid  up  prices  against 
themselves.  They  are  also  competitors 
in  the  market  for  their  manufactured 
product,  and 
in  their  struggle  for  pat­
ronage  cut  prices  against  each  other. 
Open  competition  therefore  advances 
the  market  for  raw  material  and  pro­
motes  a  decline 
in  the  price  of  the 
manufactured  article.

The  wire  nailmakers,  through  open 
competition,  cut  the  price  of  wire  nails 
until  they  reached  85  cents  per  keg, 
against  £3.50—the  price  when wire nails 
were  first  introduced,  about  nine  years 
ago.  The  number  of  wire  nailmakers 
increased 
rapidly,  after  wire  nails 
into  favor— so  much  so  that  in 
came 
1894  the  production  reached  5,841,403 
kegs,  against  an  output  of  2,129,894 
kegs  of  cut  nails.

and 

The  combination  or  Trust  was lnrmed 
to  regulate  competition 
restore 
prices  to  a  figure  profitable  to  the  mak­
ers.  Success  attended  their  work  until 
they  abused  their  power and  raised  the 
price  to  an  excessive  figure,  and  one 
which  made  wire  nailmaking  a  very- 
profitable  industry.  This  was practically 
placing  a  premium  on  the  starting  of 
new  wire  nail 
This  new 
competition  has  proved  disastrous to the 
Trust,  and  has  caused 
its  dissolution. 
Short-sightedness  on  the  part  of 
the 
managers,  coupled  with  greediness, 
has  caused  its  ruin  and  relegated  wire 
nailmaking  to  the  list  of  unprofitable 
enterprises.

factories. 

This  policy  is  in  marked  contrast  to 
that  adopted  by  the  Standard  Oil  Trust, 
the  Sugar  Trust  and  other  combinations 
which  seek  to  keep  prices  as  low  as 
is 
consistent  with  a  fair  return  upon  in­
vested  capital.  And  notwithstanding 
oil  and  sugar  are  sold  at  very  low 
prices,  and  both  are  of  better  quality 
than  in  years  gone  by,  the  Trusts  have 
not  avoided  competition.  Russian  oil 
interests  have  forced  the  Standard  Oil 
Company  to  a  division  of  territory  in 
foreign  lands.  Foreign  sugar  refiners 
and  private  domestic  enterprises  are 
active  competitors  for  the  sugar  trade. 
The  American  Tobacco  Company  has 
its  formidable  competitors.

Trusts  cannot  escape  competition  any 
more  than  can  the  individual  trader. 
The  moment  they  use  their  power  un 
fairly  they  invite  disaster.  The  history 
of  the  Nail  Trust  is  a  powerful  iliustra 
tion  of  the  good  and  evil  in  trusts,  and j 
proof  that  the  true  issue  is  the  regula­
tion  of  trusts  by  law,  rather  than  their 
extinction.

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not  yet  ended,  as  is  evidenced  by  the 
many  suggestions  appearing 
the 
Northern  newspapers.  The  latest  claim 
brought  into  the  foreground 
is  that  of 
the  mountain  laurel—the  Kalmia  Lat- 
ifolia. 
Its  champions  claim  that  it  is 
exclusively  an  American  flower;  that  it 
is  evergreen,  and  that 
its  form  will 
lend  itself  to  architectural  design.  The 
columbine  would  hardly  fill  the  whole 
of  this  bill.

The  Queen  of  Portugal  and  Queen 
Regent  of  Spain  have  distinguished 
themselves  by  saving  life.  The  former 
into  the  Tagus  on  one 
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occasion  to  save  her 
from 
drowning,  and  received  a  medal  in  rec­
ognition  of  her  bravery;  the  Queen  Re­
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long  ago,  from  a  railway  train  that  was 
bearing  down  on  the  spot  where  the 
child  was  heedlessly  playing.

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GOOD  TIMES  FOR  RETAIL 
MERCHANTS ARE HERE. 
TAKE  ADVANTAGE  OF  THEM. ( 8 3 4   1843  185*0  »861 

Benner's chart  showing how good and bad times follow each other in regular order.

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Sam uel  Benner  is an  O hio student  of  trade conditions.  H e  predicted  the  panic w hich  is  Just  over 
five years  before  it  began.  H e declares  that  good and  bad  tim es are independent  of everything  except  the 
law  of supply and demand.  T h e chart above, beginning in  1834 and running down to the close of the cen­
tury,  show s how  good  tim es and  bad  tim es have followed each other in regular order so  far in this century 
and how  w e m ay reasonably expect good tim es from now  to the close of the century.  W e have been guided 
by Benner’s prophecies for the past tw enty years and have never found him  w rong.

W e are  therefore preparing  for  good  tim es.  W e advise retail  merchants  to do  the sam e.  T h e first 
step is to m ake the necessary provision for taking better care of all transactions between clerks and custom ers 
in your store.  T h e N ational  Cash  Register  System s  are the  best  for that  purpose.  W e build  registers for
all  kinds of  stores,  large and sm all.  T hey are sold on the  installm ent  plan, w ithout  interest.  D on’t w ait. 
Address  D ept.  D , T h e  N ational  Cash  Register  Com pany,  D ayton,  O hio,  and  our  agent  w ill  call  on you 
when next in your vicinity.

1.  D E SK   A U T O G R A P H IC   R E G IST E R S:

6  D ifferent Kinds.  Prices* $8* $IO . $12, $15, $ 2 0 , $ 2 5 .

Sales are recorded by writing on a strip of paper, which moves under a glass when the 
lever  is  operated to  open the  cash-drawer.  The strip  is wound  automatically  upon a  storage 
roll, which  can be removed when the register is balanced.

2.  MANIFOLDING  AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTERS:

4   Different Kinds.  Prices, $10, $ 2 0 , $ 3 5 , $ 4 0 .

Records  are  written  on  the  paper—showing  through  the  aperture in  the  top  of the 
register—with  pen  or  pencil.  Three  copies  are  made  with  one  writing.  Especially  suited 
for use in lumber  yards, coal  offices,  physicians' offices, etc.

3.  D E T A IL -A D D IN G   R E G IST E R S:

2 3  Different Kinds.  Prices, $ 2 5 , $ 4 0 , $ 6 0 , $ 8 5 , $100, $125, $150, $175,

$200.

Records are made by machinery by pressing the keys.  At the close of the day's business 
the  total  of  all sales is obtained by adding together the amounts shown on each  adding wheel.

4 .  K E Y   T O T A L -A D D IN G   R E G IST E R S:

3 5  D ifferent Kinds.  Prices, $100, $125,  $150, $175, $ 2 0 0 , $ 2 2 5 , $ 2 5 0 .
Records  are  made  by  machinery  by  pressing  the  keys.  The  amounts  of  all  gflfcg 

recorded are  automatically  added  together  into  one  total  by  the  register.

5 .  T O T A L -A D D IN G , CH ECK  A N D  D E T A IL  P R IN T IN G  R EG ISTER S: 

(I  Different  Kinds.  Prices, $ 2 5 0 , $ 2 7 5 , $ 3 0 0   $ 3 2 5 ,  $ 3 5 0 .

Records are made by pressing the keys and turning the handle.  The amounts registered 
are automatically added  into one total  by the  register,  and  the  details  of  each  transaction  are 
printed  on a  continuous  strip  of  paper inside the register.  A   paper check  is  also  printed  and 
thrown out by the register, giving the amount  of the sale, its consecutive number, the date and 
the proprietor's business card, or any other matter.

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Value  of the  Old-Fashioned  Virtue  of 

Patience.
W ritten fo r th e T radesman.

Now  that  the  election  is  over, ’ ’  says 
Mr.  Goodfaitb,  “ and  the  country  has 
decided  not  to  try any new experiments, 
but  to  recall  and  retain,  for at  least four 
years,  the  well-tried  old  financial  policy 
that 
in  past  years  brought  prosperity 
and  made  business hum,  we  have  every 
reason  to  expect  that  better times  are 
coming.”

“ Yes,”   pipes  in  Mr.  Cantwait,  “ so’s 

Christmas. ”

impatience. 

This  is a  common  way  Mr.  Cantwait 
has  of  expressing  his 
In­
deed,  sometimes  it  expresses  more  than 
impatience,  for  old  Negatio  Nofaith 
himself,  who  never  can  see  beyond  the 
end  of  his  nose,  will  sometimes  make 
use  of  the  same  expression. 
“ So’s 
Christmas  cornin’, ”   he  will  croak  out, 
in  reply  to  some  cheerful  prediction  of 
a  forthcoming 
improved  condition  of 
things,  meaning  by  the  expression  that 
the  prediction  will  never  be  verified. 
This  whole  Nofaith  family  are  nothing 
but  a  species  of  bullfrog 
in  human 
form,  and  they  spend  their  whole  lives 
in  croaking  at  every  positive 
idea  ad­
vanced  by  their  observing  and  calculat­
ing  neighbors.  Christmas  never  comes 
to  this  brood  of  troglodytes— in 
fact, 
nothing  good  ever comes  to  them.  They 
are  perpetually  in  the  dumps;  and,  if 
they  ever  greatly  multiply  in  numbers, 
the  earth  will  become  a  very  disagree­
able  place to  live  in.

But  it  is  different  with  the  Cantwaits. 
They  are  not  frogs,  although  they  are 
subject  to  froggy  moods.  The  trouble 
with  them 
is  they  have  no  patience. 
They  know  that  Christmas  is not  always 
coming,  although  it  is  coming  364  days 
in  the  year;  but,  when 
it  does  come, 
they  have  the  sense  to  appreciate  it. 
If  the  wheels  of  time  were  to  acciden­
tally  slip  a  cog  or  two,  causing  an  un­
avoidable  delay  of  Christmas  until  mat­
ters  could  right  themselves,  then  the 
Cantwaits  would  join  the  frog  chorus.

Yes? 

There’s  no 

Did  you  ever  sit  on  a  log  by  the  edge 
of  a  mill  pond  and  fish  for  bullheads  on 
a  dark  night  when  the  air  was  thick 
with  mosquitoes? 
Then  you 
know  what  the  depressing  effect  of  this 
bullfrog  chorus  is  like.  One  old  fellow 
will  poke  his  head  out  of  the  water  on 
your  left,  and  croak  out  in  graveyard 
tones  that  nearly  knock  you  off the  log: 
“ Go!  Go-home! 
fish 
here.”   You  smash  a  mosquito  on  the 
end  of  your  nose  and  fling  your  hook 
farther out,  when  another old  fellow  on 
your  right  pops  his  head  out  and  roars: 
“ Look! 
look  out!!  You’ll  catch  fast 
on  a  root.”   After  recovering  from  this 
shock  you  put  on  a  fresh  worm  and 
give  your  line  another fling,  but  before 
the  hook  gets halfway  down  to  the  bot­
tom,  an  old  grandfather  at  your  very 
feet  vociferates:  “ Ould Sinner!  What 
are  ye 
tryin’  to  d-0-0-0?  Ye  can’t 
fish  now!  Go  h-o-m-e. ”   This 
catch 
gives  you  a  “ kink”  
in  the  back  and 
makes  you  snap  off  the  end  of  your 
pipestem  and  swallow  it;  but  you  brace 
up  once  more,  put  on  another  worm, 
give it  a  fling  and  then  sit  and  wait  and 
wait,  and  grit  your  teeth  while  the  buz­
zing  bloodsuckers  are  pumping  away 
on  every  exposed  portion  of  your  anat­
omy.  But,  after  a  while,  a  big-headed 
mud cat  makes  up  his  mind  that a worm 
of  such  persistency  must  be  something 
worth  nibbling  at,  and  so  he 
lazily 
glides  up  and  cautiously  inspects it with 
bis  glassy  eyes. 
looks  fresh  and 
seems  exceedingly  juicy  and  he  smacks 
bis big  wide  mouth  at  it.  This attracts

It 

the  attention  of  others and soon there are 
quite  a  number of  interested  spectators 
gathered  around  the  tempting foreigner. 
Now 
is  the  time  the  man  on  the  log 
keeps  a  steady  hand.  The  frogs  may 
croak  and  the  mosquitoes  may  do  their 
worst—he  has  had  a  nibble  and  he 
knows  that  patience  will  bring  success 
at  last.  The  finny  tribe  down 
in  the 
bottom  have become  interested ;  and the 
biggest  fish  in  the  crowd,  after  he  dis­
covers  that  a  nibble  or  two  does  not  kill 
the  little  fish  who  had  been  coaxed  up 
by  him  to  make  the  first  attack,  swal­
lows  the  whole  business  and  suddenly 
starts  for  dry  land.  One  by  one  the 
patient  angler  gathers  them 
into  his 
basket  until  he  has  enough  for  break­
fast.  This  was  what  he  set  out  to  do; 
but, 
lacked  the  virtue  of 
patience,  he  wculd  have  gone away with 
an  empty  basket.

if  he  had 

Now,  we  are  all  fishing  for  something 
to  eat  in  the  great  mill  pond  of  human 
industry.  Some  have  charmed  hooks 
and  seem  to  haul  out  more  than  their 
share  of  the  fish;  some  catch  more  than 
they  can  eat,  and  succeed  in  laying  up 
a  goodly  surplus;  others—and  they  con­
stitute  the  great  mass—catch  enough 
from  meal  to  meal  to  keep  them  from 
getting  hungry,  while  some  of us seldom 
get  a  nibble.  There  are  fish  enough  in 
this  great  pond  to  satisfy  a ll;  but  who­
ever  saw  a  party  of  fellows  go  a-fishing 
and  each  catch  the  same  number  of 
fish?  Some  are  more  lucky  than  others. 
Some  are born  with  the  charmed  hook, 
and  others  blunder,  accidentally,  right 
onto  a  school  of  fish,  where  they  have 
only  to  bait  the hook  and  haul  them  in.
But  with  the  mass  of  mankind  it  is 
not  a  matter of  luck. 
It  depends  upon 
business  qualifications.  To  be  success­
ful,  a  man  must  know  the  How, 
the 
When  and  the  Where  of  it.

How  to  fish  is  the  first  essential.  His 
fishing  tackle  must be  of  the  right  sort. 
A  bent  pin  or  “ any  old  thing”   will  not 
do;  neithei  will  a  towstring  attached 
to  a  cornstalk  be  any  good.  We  see  too 
many  business  men  trying  to  catch  fish 
in  this  way;  and  they  make  a  terrible 
fizzle of  it.  They  get  a  few  nibbles,  but 
if  they  accidentally  hook  into  a fish,  the 
pin  straightens  out  or  the  string  or 
cornstalk  breaks  and  away  goes  the fish. 
Then  again,  they  must  know  what  kind 
of  bait  to  use and  how  to  use  it.  Some 
business  men  use  “ any  old  thing”   for 
bait,  but  they  don’t  catch  fish.  But, 
even  if  they  have  the  best  of  tackle  and 
the  very  best  of  bait,  they  may  never 
catch  a  fish.  These  things  are  only  nec­
essary  preliminaries—the  great essential 
is  the  virtue  of  patience.  Without  this 
qualification  no  man  can  catch  fish. 
If 
he  goes  whipping  up  and  down  the 
pond,  slashing  first  into  this  hole,  and 
then  into  that,  always  on  the  move  and 
never  waiting  for  results,  he  will  go 
fishless  to bed.

himself 

governs 

To  know  when  to  fish 

is  almost  as 
necessary  as  to  know  how  to  fish.  There 
are  times  when  fish  bite  readily,  and 
there  are  times  when  any  amount  of 
coaxing  will  not  avail.  The  business 
man  who  succeeds  knows  when  to  fish 
and  when  not  to.  He studies conditions 
and 
accordingly. 
When  the  conditions  are  favorable  he 
improves  the  time,  let  the  difficulties 
appear  ever  so  great;  and,  when  the 
fishing  season  is  past,  or some unlooked- 
for combination  of  circumstances brings 
about  an  unprofitable  season,  he  does 
not  give  way  to  despair,  but  waits  with 
calmness  and  guards  well  the  portals  of 
his business  “ till  the  clouds  roll  by.”  
He  possesses  the  virtue  of  patience and

knows  that,  as  the  storm  required  time 
to  gather,  so  it  must  have  time  to break 
and  to  disperse.

To know  where  to  fish  is  also  impor­
tant.  When  I  was  a  little  shaver  I  used 
to  fish 
in  the  rain-trough—and  I  must 
confess  that  since  I  commenced  my  life 
work  I  have  fished 
in  more  than  one 
rain-trough.  Dear  reader,  did  you  ever 
see  a  business  man  waste  his  time,  and 
a 
lot  of  good  bait  beside,  fishing  in  a 
rain-trough?  Dozens  of  business  men 
wonder  why  they  are  not  catching  fish. 
If  they  but  possessed  the  virtue  of  pa­
tience  they  would  at  least  save  their 
bait  and  wait  until  they  found  a  place 
where  fish  are  known  to  exist.

In  this  great fish pond  every man must 
fish  for  himself.  The  option,  “ fish  or 
cut  bait,”   does  not  apply  in  this  case. 
The  man  who  would  make  a  success  of 
his  life  work  must  rely  upon  his  own 
resources.  Of  course,  he  can  steal  fish 
from  the  poor devils who do catch them ; 
but  it  is  not  safe  to  do  that— unless  he 
can  swipe  enough  to  give  him  a  corner 
on  the  market.

It 

Yes,  Mr.  Cantwait,  Christmas  is com­
ing. 
is  near  at  hand,  and  we  know 
the  very  day  it  will  be  here.  Better 
times  are  coming  also— in  fact,  they 
have  already  come.  All  do  not  perceive 
it  as  yet.  But  a  throb  has  been  felt 
in 
the  great  industrial  centers,  and  sooner 
or  later  a  quiver  of  returning  life  will 
be  experienced  in  every  trade  artery  in 
the  great 
industrial  system.  But  re­
member,  Mr.  Cantwait,  that  only  those 
who  possess  the  heavenly  virtue  of 
patience will  be  in  a  position  to  feel the 
first  nibble  and  get  the  first  catch  when 
the  good  run does come.  E.  A.  O w en.

Bruin  vs.  Drummer.

W ritten for the  T radesman.

Some  two  or  three  years  ago, when  the 
Northern  Hotel  of  Big  Rapids  was  hon­
ored  with 
its  full  share  of  commercial 
travelers,  one  cold  day  about  the  first  of 
December,  a  knight  of  the  grip  from 
Boston—we’ll call him Williams—placed 
his  autograph  upon  the  register,  intend­
ing  to  spend  several  days  in  the  place, 
drumming  orders  for goods.

In  passing  along  Michigan  avenue, 
one  of  the  principal  streets  of  the  town, 
he  noticed,  hanging  beside  the  open 
door of  a  meat  market,  the  carcass  of  a 
big  black  bear,  the  glossy  skin of  which 
had  been  removed  from 
its  fat  hind 
quarters  and  was  drooping  over  the 
shoulders  of  the  body.  Being  fond  of 
game 
in  general,  and  never  having 
tasted  bear  meat,  he  determined  to  im­
prove  the  present opportunity.  Stepping 
inside  the  market,  Mr.  Williams  an­
nounced  that  he  would  like  to  purchase 
a  piece  of  steak  from  the  animal,  and 
ordered  a  generous  slice  to  be  sent  to 
his  hotel,  with  further orders  to  the chef 
de  cuisine  that 
it  be  cooked  in  the 
proper  manner  and  be  served  for his 
dinner  the  following  day.

It 

is  unnecessary  to  state  that  Mr. 
Williams  did  not  forget  to  be  promptly 
on  hand  at  the  dinner  hour,  and  with 
an  appetite  which  he  believed  would  do 
justice  to  the  bear  steak,  which  his 
friends  had  so  often  extolled.  Being 
seated  at  the  table  of  the  Northern, 
where  he  was  well  known  by  most  of 
the  attaches  of  the  house,  one  of  the 
waiters  approached  to  take  his  order, 
just  as  he  was  glancing  over  the  bill  of 
fare,  upon  which,  however,  no  bear 
meat 
in  any  shape  soever  was  men­
tioned.  As  the  girl  bent  her  head  for 
his  order,  he  said  in  a  low  tone,  “ Bear 
steak,  please,”   and  then  named  the 
other  dishes  he  wished.  After  a  brief 
steak  was
delay, 

the  well-prepared 

placed  before  him,  the  color,  he 
im­
agined,  a  little  dark,  but  rich,  rare  and 
juicy—a  dish,  in  fact,  fit  for  a  king. 
As  Mr.  Williams  afterward  asserted,  he 
never ate  a  more  delicious  steak ;  and 
he  then  and  there  decided  that  he would 
express  a  sample  of  the  same  to  his 
family  and  some  choice  friends.  There­
fore,  immediately  after  dinner  he  went 
again  to  the  market  and purchased some 
thirty  pounds  of  choice  cuts  from  the 
carcass  suitable  for  steak  and  roasts and 
ordered 
it  securely  boxed  and  at  once 
shipped  to  his  home  by  express.

It  was  nearly  dark  the  same  afternoon 
when  the  cook  at  the  Northern  entered 
the  office  to  inquire  if  Mr.  Williams had 
dined  that  day,  and,  if  so,  why  he  had 
not  ordered  the  bear  steak  which  had 
been  sent  up  the  previous  day  for  his 
dinner.

in. 

“ I  believe  I  saw  him  come 

in  about 
the dinner hour, ”   answered Mr.  Stearns, 
the  landlord,  glancing  about  the  room 
as  if  expecting  to  see  him. 
“ But  here 
he is  now— let him  answer  for  himself,”  
he  continued,  as  that  gentleman  just 
stepped 
“ Come  here,  Williams, 
and  explain  your absence  from  the  din­
ner  table  to-day—with  that  bear  steak 
of  yours  in  prospect,  too.”

its  equal. 

“ Ah!  Monsieur, ”   smilingly  replied 
the  commercial  man,  “ I  was  on  hand 
in  good  time,  rest  assured,  gave  my  or­
der  to  Maggie  for  the  steak,  and  I  must 
say  never  ate 
In  truth,  I 
liked  the  game  so  well that I determined 
it  should  grace  my  own  table  for  the 
coming  Christmas  dinner,  and  I  have 
just  shipped  a  quantity of  it  home  for 
my  family and some particular friends. ”
A  broad  smile  spread  over  the  fea­
tures  of  landlord  and  cook  as  the  latter 
assured Mr.  Williams that  his  bear  steak 
was  at  that  moment  reposing  in  the  re­
frigerator  where  it  was  placed  the  day 
before,  and  that  some  mistake  had  oc­
curred,  which  Maggie  alone  must  be 
able  to  explain.  So  Maggie  was  sum­
moned  to  the  office  and  asked  what 
meats  Mr.  Williams  had  that  day  or­
dered  for  his  dinner,  and  what  she  said 
to  him  at  the  time.

“ I  did  not  even  speak  to  Mr.  Will­
iams, ”   she  replied. 
looking 
over  the  bill  of  fare  when  I  came  to 
him,  and  when  he gave  me  his  order he 
said  in  a  low  tone,  ‘ Raresteak,  please,’ 
and  that  is  what  I  brought  him.”

“ He  was 

A  puzzled  look  stole  over the quartette 
when  the  girl  ceased  speaking.  Then 
followed  a  hearty  laugh  as  the  mistake 
of  a  word  dawned  upon  them.

“ Maggie,  said  Mr.  Stearns,  the  first 
to  regain  composure,  “ you  are  par­
doned,  as  bear  steak  and  rare  steak 
sound  so  much  alike,  and  particularly 
when  you  were  in  blissful  ignorance  of 
there being  any  bear  steak  in  the house. 
But  Mr.  Williams  here  will  now  set  up 
the  cigars,  and  solemnly  affirm  that  at 
his  Christmas  party 
in  Boston  he  will 
partake  heartily  of  the game,  will praise 
it,  whether  palatable  or  not,  and  will 
extol  the  skill  and  attainments  of  the 
in 
chef  of  the  Northern,  particularly 
transforming  a  beefsteak 
into  one  cut 
from  a  Michigan  black  bear!”

F r a n k.  A.  H o w ig .

Owed  no  Man.

“ I  owe  no  man  a  cent,”   said  he, 

proudly.

admiration.

They  gazed  on  him  with  wondering 

“ No  man  on  earth.  The  only  per­
sons  I  owe  are  my  landlady  and  my 
washerwoman. ’ ’

We have  cigars  to  burn.  G.  J.  John­
the 

son  Cigar  Co.,  manufacturer  of 
S.  C.  W.  5c  Cigar.

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FAME  WINKED  AT  HIM.

How  James  Junius  Strawhacker 

Chased  a  Will-o’-the-Wisp.

When  I  first began work  in  Hi  Slade’s 
shoeshop  James  Junius  Strawhacker  was 
a  journeyman. 
It  was  in  the  day  when 
men  wore  high-top  boots  and  if  they 
were  properly  provident  they  had  the 
boots  made  to  order.  Jim  was said  to  be 
an  exceedingly  good  workman.  He 
treated  with  great  scorn  the  rival claims 
of  Dick  Smith,  a  shoemaker 
in  B. 
Mather’s  shop,  across  the  street,  and 
the  second  day  I  was  there,  Hi  Slade 
himself  said,  just  after  James  Junius 
Strawhacker  went  out  to  dinner,  that 
“ Jim  could  stretch  a  vamp quicker than 
any  man  in  Indiana.”

It  was  about  the  time  when  Clement 
L.  Vallandigham  was  making  a  stir 
in 
the  world,  and  I  remember  secretly 
opining  that,  however  that  notorious 
personage  might  be 
upon  men’s 
tongues,  he  couldn’t  “ stretch  a  vamp”  
as  quick  as  Jim  could.  However,  I 
seldom  called  him  Jim,  even  in thought. 
He  was  a  somber,  portentous  individ­
ual  and  resented  liberties.  He  certain­
ly  would  permit  no  familiarity from me. 
He  declined  to  join  in  any  of the  politi­
cal  discussions  of  the  day,  growling  his 
contempt  for  the  whole  of 
it,  wrapping 
what  appeared  to  me  a  very  clumsy 
cloak  about  his  shoulders  and  striding 
majestically 
into  the  street  whenever 
the  party  clamor  in  the  shop  grew  too 
loud  for  him.

On  the  bench  at  his  side  lay  a  large 
book,  bound  in  leather,  stained by  much 
wear,  small  of  print  and 
illustrated 
with  any  number  of  steel  engravings.
I  often  looked  through  the  volume.  The 
pictures  impressed  themselves  upon me. 
One,  I  remember,  presented  a  woman 
in  a  nightgown,  her  eyes  staring  fright­
fully  at  a  dirk  or  dagger  which  seemed 
suspended  in  the  air  before  her.

Another  was  of  a  gayly  dressed  young 
man  on  a  rope  ladder,  with  something 
like  a  guitar 
in  his  hand,  smiling  up 
into  the  face  of  a  pretty  young  woman 
who  leaned  over  the  rail  of  a  balcony. 
Still  another showed  two  young  men  ex­
amining  a  skull,  while  a  short  distance 
away  was  an  open  grave  with  a  man 
in 
it  tossing  out  a  shovelful  of  earth.  The 
book  was  plainly  of  great  value.

James  Junius  Strawhacker  used  to  de­
claim  strange  periods  with  great  fervor, 
particularly  when  hammering  a  pegged 
shoe 
into  submission.  One  day,  after 
ranting all round a  No.  11 boot,  he tossed 
the  lasted  thing  from  him  with  the  ex 
clamation:

Sole let It.  Bewith, seize her!

Though  no  Mr.  Bewith  appeared  on 
call,  I  had  my  doubts 
if  even  the 
vaunted  Vallandigham  could  have heard 
such  shoemaker  learning  unmoved.
One  day  he  drove  an  awl  home, 
reached 
into  his  apron  for  a  peg  and, 
regarding  me  with  tearful  eyes,  wailed : 

One month—one little month.
Or ever those small shoes were old 
In which she followed  my poor  father 
To his funeral
Of  course,  if  shoes  had  been  properly 
made,  and  they  were  made  properly 
in 
our  shop—they  should  not  be  old  in  a 
month ;  and  I  was  exceedingly—though 
unaccountably—sorry  for  the  lady  who 
had  attended  the  burial  of  Jim’s  pro­
genitor—a  gentleman  whom  I  afterward 
met  in  the  flesh,  to  my  great  confusion.
About  the  time  I  had  risen  to  that 
stage  of apprenticeship  where  I  might 
safely  be  trusted  to  “ buff”   a  sole  and 
draw  the  lasts,  my  mother  concluded 
journalism  and  not  shoemaking  was  my 
mission;  and  I  was  accordingly  set  to 
learning  the  printer’s 
trade.  There, 
sitting  by  the stove with a certain“  jour”  
printer  on  wintry  nights  I learned some­
thing  about  books.  The  traveling  print­
ers  of  thirty  years  ago  were  readers  of 
the  classics,  and  usually  as 
intelligent 
as  they  were  intemperate.

This  man  told  me  the  story  of  “ Mac­
beth,”   quoting  long  passages and paint­
ing  the  scenes  before  me  so  vividly  that 
even  Booth,  when  I  came  to  see  him 
years  afterward,  was  not  all-satisfying. 
He  told  me  of  “ Romeo  and  Juliet,” 
though  he  cared  little for  that story ;  but 
he  reveled 
in  “ Hamlet”   and  wormed 
my  wages  out  of  me,  instantly  transfer­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ring  them  to  the  nearest  saloon,  so  that 
he  could  come  back  and  flood  me  with 
advice—

Neither a borrower nor a lender be;
Costly thy raiment as thy purse can buy:
And
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
Gradually  1  came  to  see  James  Junius 
Strawhacker  in  a  new  light.  His  long, 
black  wavy  hair,  which  was  never 
combed 
conventional  manner, 
seemed  to  fit  those  heroic  ages  where 
his  heart  dwelt.  His  deep,  musical 
voice  was  surely  the  very  tone  of  An­
tony  in  the  orations,  of  King  Henry  in 
the  address  to  his  troops  and  of  Othello 
in  his  rare  defense  upon  the  charge  of 
winning  the  heart  of  a  woman.

in  a 

Strawhacker,  indeed,  seemed  to  re­
gard  my  i hange  of  labor  in  the  light  of 
an  advance.  He  considered  I  was 
nearer  the  regions  where  his  spirit 
longed  to  dwell. 
I  had  begun  to  under­
stand  him ;  had  begun  to  read  Shakes­
peare  on  my  own  account  and  to  prize 
nothing  so  much  as  an  evening  by  the 
fire 
in  the  printing  office  when  the 
printer—who  knew  not  only  those  print­
ed  pages,  but  the  atmosphere  and  en­
vironment 
in  which  they  came  to  frui­
tion—and  the  shoemaker  met  and  wan­
dered  from  tragedy  to  tragedy.

The  printer  had  seen  all  these  plays 
presented  and  he  broadened  our  vision 
by  his  pictures  of  the  lights,  the  music 
and  the  color  of  acting.  But  I  never 
could  get  him  to  quite  accept  my 
estimate  of  James  Junius  Strawhacker. 
At  times  I  almost  suspected  he  was 
laughing  at  Jim,  though  he  never  de­
clined  to  drink  from  the  bottle  that  Jim 
brought  up—and 
instantly  and  utterly 
forgot.

Jim  confided  in  me  that  he  meant  to 
become  an  actor  presently.  He  knew 
every  line  of  Shakespeare’s  tragedies, 
he  told  me,  and  I  believe  he  could have 
recited  whole  plays 
if  he  had  tried. 
He  grew  bolder  as time passed—took  me 
up  to  his  room  and  showed  me  a  col­
lection  of  wigs and  costumes,  that  im­
pressed  me  greatly.  He  put  on  a  very 
gray  one,  and,  stooping  to  the  posture 
of  an  old  man,  cried  out:

Blow, ye winds, and crack your cheeks! 

and  all  the  rest  of  Lear’s  transcendent 
curse.
Once,  in  May,  he came to  me,  where  I 
was  working  at  the  case,  and  seemed 
singularly  excited.  He  was  enveloped 
in  his  long  cloak,  though  the  weather 
was  quite  warm,  and  his  eyes  glittered 
with  a  fine 
intoxication.  His  stride 
was  something  more  than  ordinarily 
tragic.  He  showed  me  a letter and slyly 
slipped  it  under  my  copy,  asking  me  to 
read  it  and  let  him  have  it  again.

It  was  from  a  theatrical  manager  in 
Chicago,  and  seemed 
in  response  to  a 
very  serious application  for an  engage­
ment. 
It  was  not  particularly  encoura­
ging ;  but  then,  as  Jim pointed out later, 
it  did  not  positively  bid  him  abandon 
hope.  He  could  scarcely  pull a “ waxed- 
end”   for  a  week  after  that,  took  to 
wearing  his  hair  even  more  tumbled 
than  usual,  and  to  walking  along  the 
bank  of  the  river,  and  assuring  the 
fishes  that—

“ Only  I  am  Caesar!”
When  I  got  so  I  could  set  two  galleys 
of  pleaded  bourgeois  a  day  I  left  my 
home  town,  and  traveled  to  far  Roches­
ter,  seat  of  a  county  fifty  miles away, 
but  I  did  not 
forget  James  Junius 
Strawhacker  nor  lose  faith  in  his  des­
tiny.

We  corresponded 

fitfully,  and  he 
broke  it  off  at  last. 
I  was  rather  glad, 
for  his  ill-spelled  letters  grated  on  me 
more  and  more  as  the  printer’s  craft 
instructed  me.  Of  course,  I  could  see 
it  was  one  phase  of  his  genius;  but  I 
wanted  the  picture  unmarred  by  bad  or­
thography  and  violence  to  grammar.

I  met  a  man  from  the  home  town 
once  who  told  me  Jim  had  gone  away 
mysteriously,  and  that  he  had  had  the 
tailor  make  him  a  new  cloak,  still 
larger,  still  more  somber  and  of  still 
more  expensive  material.  No  one  there 
knew  where  he  had  gone.

I  knew.  I  knew  James  Junius  Straw­
hacker  was 
interpreting  Shakespeare 
some  place—under an assumed  name.no 
doubt—and  was  amazing  thousands with 
the  depth  and  strength  of his portrayals.

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from  second  to  first 
As  I  advanced 
journeyman,  and  finally  to  foreman,  I 
often  thought  of  him,  assured  that  such 
a  character,  with  such  a  love  for  such  a 
master,  must  win  and  keep  a  place 
in 
the  world’s  recognition.

But  five  years  wore  this  picture  from 
the  tablets  of  memory,  and  it  was  only 
when  some  related  circumstance  arose 
that  James  Junius  Strawhacker  came 
back  to  me.
One  day  I  received  a  heavily  marked 
copy of  a  paper  from  Girard,  111.  The 
item,  scored  about  powerfully  with  lead 
pencil,  told  of  the  opening  of  the  new 
opera  house  by  a  portentously  entitled 
dramatic  company  in  the  play of “ King 
Lear,”   and the  character  of  the  rare  old 
kind  was  said  to  have  been  played 
“ right  down  to  the  ground”   by  an actor 
whose  printed  name  meant  nothing  to 
me,  but  whom  I  knew  as  James  Junius 
Strawhacker;  and  believing  the 
item, 
though  not  very  satisfactory,  was  meant 
in  kindness,  I  was  glad.

About  three  years  later  the  following 
letter,  without  date  or  signature,  came 
to  me  from  an  Iowa  town :

When  the  fires  of  genius  burn  up  and 
is  a  radiance  across 
Is  Hamlet  disappointed,  is 
is 

consume.  There 
the  sky. 
the  spirit  ever  subdude?  richard 
himself  again.

long 

From  which  I  gathered  that,  while the 
rudiments  of  Junius’  education  were 
still  in  a  somewhat chaotic state,  his for­
tunes  must  be  improving.

identified 

there  saw 

In  the  summer  of  1884  I  became  a 
partner 
in  the  business  of  publishing 
the  “ Eagle,”   with  which  my labors had 
been  so 
that  was  the 
way  the  salutatory  read—and  went  to 
Chicago  to  buy  new  type  and  material, 
as  we  were  now  going  to  enlarge  the 
paper.  At  night  I  visited 
the"  only 
theater  where  Shakespeare  s  plays  were 
being  presented,  and 
an 
Othello  whose  borrowed  name  and 
blackened  face  thrilled  me  with  con­
viction.  He  had  the  same 
stalwart 
frame,  the  same  dark  skin,  the  black 
and 
and 
the  same 
vehement  strength 
those  passages 
which  glow  with  the  fire  of  man’s  deep­
est  passions.  How  gratified  I  was! 
What  change  it  meant!  How  splendid 
a  triumph  had  genius  achieved !  This 
magnificent  Moor,  with  a  culture  that 
seemed  to  have  begun 
in  childhood, 
thrilled  a  thousand  men  and  women 
with  pictures  from  an  old  life—with 
passions  that  are  ever  new.

tumbled  hair 

Five  years  ago  I  went  for the  first 
time  on  a  visit  to  my  native  town. 
In 
getting  off  the  cars  I  ripped  my  shoe— 
by  no  means  a  new  one—and  at once re­
solved  to  hunt  up  Hi  Slade,  if  he  still 
lived  and  kept  a  shoe  shop.  But  he 
had  gone.  B.  Mather, 
the  old-time 
rival,  had grown rich  and  was  resting.  I 
selected  a  store  at  random,  and  showed 
my  shoe  to  a  stripling  clerk,  whose 
mother  might  have  been  a  schoolgirl 
when  I  departed.  He  tossed  it  across  a 
little  half-partition,  calling  out,  as  one 
having  authority:
“ Here,  Jim,  fix  this  shoe.  The  gen­
tleman  is  waiting.”
“ Not
“ Jim?”   said  I, 

inquiringly. 

in 

James— ”

I 

“ Jim  Strawhacker,”   he  said,  and 

left  me.
leaned  over  the  small  partition. 
There  sat  a  small,  withered,  black- 
browed  man,  a  deep  scowl  on  his  face, 
his  poor  bent  hands  stained  deep  with 
shoemaker's  wax  and  pulled 
in  fur­
rows  by  much  sewing.  The  hair  was 
gray  and  thin,  but  tumbled;  and  the 
cheeks  were  sunken  and  the  teeth  were 
gone.

“ Hello,  Jim !”   said  I. 

“ Don’t  you 

remember  me?”

He  did  not,  and  he  was  in  a  hurry.  I 
recalled  myself  to  his  memory,  and  yet 
he  only  nodded.  He  was  afraid  of  the 
stripling  clerk.  But  at  night  he  came 
to  the  hotel,  sat  about  for  an  hour, 
noticing  no  one  further  than  to  hasten 
out  of  the  way  repeatedly.  He  was 
finally  leaving,  and,  thinking  his  mood 
of  the  morning  might  have  melted,  I 
called  to  him. 
I  wanted  to  talk to some 
one  who  filled  so  much  of  that  distant 
page  in  my  life.

He  was  clearly,  pathetically,  delight­
ed  to  have  me  address  him.  He  came

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

close,  and  spoke  a  sentence  at  a  time, 
each  time  starting  as  if  to  leave  me,  yet 
always  returning.

“ I’ve  gone  out  a  good  many  times.  I 
I 
foller  them  up.  They  don’t  know  it. 
slip  in  and  watch  them  play 
it.  When 
my  money  runs  out,  I  come  back  here 
and  peg  shoes.  Something  is  going  to 
happen^  to  him  some  time,  and  when 
he  can’t  play  I’ll  go  on.  They  don’t 
play  it  right.  They  leave  outlines.  I’ve 
got  it  all. 
it  yet. 
I  know  where  you 
I’ll 
are. ’ ’

I’m  going  to  play 

let  you  know. 

Then  he  went  away.  The  people 
the  hotel  smiled  and  I  turned  around.

He  knew  where  I  was!  Had  he 
thought  of  me  as  one  by  whom  his 
triumph  should  be  published?  Had  he 
sent  me  that  marked  newspaper  from 
Girard  because  some  tragedian  bad  al­
most  (ailed?  How  many  triumphs  he 
must  have  felt  that  night!
He  will  never  be  nearer.
For,  with  all  the  tragedies  of  Shakes­
peare  at  his  tongue’s  end— and  in  his 
heart—James  Junius  Strawhacker  will 
never  play  a  part.  And  his  own  life 
drama  is  almost  as  pathetic  as  anything 
in  the  much-stained  volume  at  his  side 
on  the  bench.

in 

No  Place  for  the  Peddler.

From the Ohio Merchant.

There 

is  no  real  place  in  the  legiti­
mate  world  of  commerce  for  the  peram­
bulating  huckster.  He  lesorts to  every 
trick  and  artifice possible to  beguile  the 
dollars of the susceptibleand unwary pur­
chaser.  He contributes nothing to the sup­
port of church, school or state,  never  goes 
down 
in  his  pocket  to  relieve  the  dis­
tressed  or  unfortunate ;  has  no  interest 
in  the  upbuilding  and  im­
or  welfare 
provement  of  the  city 
in  which  he 
moves  and  from  which  he  derives  a 
livelihood,  yet  he 
is  permitted  in  this 
city,  through  the  political  machinations 
ot  our  beloved  Mayor and  the  grace  of 
the  Common  Council,  to  ply  his  voca­
tion  and  directly  antagonize  those  who 
help  to  bear  the  burden  of  taxation  and 
the  unequal  load  of  rent  and  other  dis­
bursements  necessary  to  the  conduct  of 
legitimate  merchandising,  by  the  pay­
ment  of  a  small  license,  wholly 
incom­
patible  with  his  circumstances  and  sur­
roundings.  Even  this  bagatelle  is  fre­
quently  dispensed  with  for  years  and 
the  peripatetic  vendor  is  allowed  to  fol­
low  his  calling  without  let or hindrance. 
The  fact  is,  the  huckster  should  not  be 
permitted  to  peddle,  as  the  business 
is 
conducted  in  Cleveland,  at  all.  But 
if 
permitted  or 
antagonize 
those  who contribute  to  the maintenance 
of  our  streets,  schools,  charitable  insti­
tutions, 
public  and  private  enter­
prises,  and  all  the  elements  which  go 
to  create  and  sustain  communities,  that 
distinguish  them  from  roving  Arabs  of 
the  desert,  they  should  be  compelled  to 
pay  well  for  that  opportunity  and  priv­
ilege.

licensed  to 

A  Matter  of  Passion.

Mrs.  Prosy:  “ Reading 
passion  with  my  husband.  ’

is  quite  a 

Mrs.  Dresser:  “ So  it  is  with  mine— 

when  he  reads  my  milliner’s  bills!”

The  cultivation  of  the  cassava  plant 
has  been  begun 
in  the  United  States. 
is  a  shrub  from  6  to  8  feet  tall,  and 
It 
bears  large  tubers  underground.  These 
are  first  heated’  to  drive  off  the  poison­
ous  hydrocyanic  acid,  and  they  are  then 
made  into  tapioca  and  dextrine. 
It  is 
said  that  the  latter can  be  more  easily 
manufactured  from  this  plant  than  from 
corn.

A  man  with  the  blues  should  keep 
himself  dark.  He  has  no  right  to  in­
flict  his  troubles  upon  other  people,  un­
less  the  other  people  are  policemen 
paid  for  listening  to  complaints.

The  contents  of  the  stomach  of  an 
ostrich  that  recently  died  in.a  French 
menagerie 
included  the  iron  tip  of  an 
umbrella,  a  comb,  two  pieces  of  coal 
and  a  silk  handkerchief.

After  Nov.  1,  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.^

successors to

REEDER  BROS.  SHOE  CO.

Michigan Agents for

rs

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.

Pin^ree

B.TCWTCD 
*  ~  rte 2S  '8 9 8

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

DO  YOUR  FEET  S U P ?

The “ Neverslip”   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.

PINOREE &   SMITH,  Manufacturers.

DETROIT  BR USH   W ORKS

C R A B B   &   S O N ,  P ro p rie to r s

30  and  32  Ash  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

I

that’s worth just the price  asked;  no  more,  no 
less.  Many  bicycle  buyers  do  not  care  for  a 
light, fancy "finished, har.d"made  mount.  They 
want  a  good,  honestly  constructed  bicycle  to 
knock  about  with,  and  they  want  it  to  stand 
up.  It’s lor this class  that  CLIPPER  No.  30 
is made.  There is  r.o  bicycle  that  equals  it  at 
the price.  No bicycle can be meee  for lees that 
is safe,  Tco  good for dry goods stores,  sold  by 
dealers only.

THE

as (&«.(£••

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7

LUMBERMEN’S SUPPLIES

LARGEST  STOCK  AND  LO W ESf  PRICES.

WHOLESALE 
GROCERIES AND 
PROVISIONS

IF. C.  Larsen,

61  Filer  Street, 
Manistee,  Mich.

Telephone No. 91.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

An  Old  Grocer’s  Views  on  Depart­

ment  Stores.

Stroller In Grocery World.

Who  hasn’t  heard  that  old  and  pithy 
adage,  “ It  all  depends  on  whose  ox 
is 
gored?”   We  all  feel  differently  when 
we  ourselves  are  affected.  We  can  pre­
tend  to  sympathize  with  somebody  else 
over a  misfortune,  and  reaily believe we 
feel  a  part  of  their  regret  or  sorrow, 
but  how  vastly  different  we  feel  when 
we  meet  the  same  misfortune.

No,  this  is  not  a  sermon. 

It’s  merely 
the  prelude  to  the  recital  of  an  incident 
which  illustrates  how  true  the  ox-goring 
adage  really  is.  Before  the  case  de­
veloped  so  far  I  really  thought  I  had 
run  across  one  of  the  most  sensible  old 
grocers  1  had  ever  met.  While  he  be­
longed  to  the  past  generation,  and  his 
store  had  scarcely  kept  pace  with  all 
the  new-fangled  notions  which  newer 
grocers  affect,  he  was  a  solid  old fellow, 
blessed  with  the  strongest  sort  of  com­
mon  sense.  At 
least  that’s  what  I 
thought at  first.

We  were  talking of  department  stores. 
This  old  grocer  does  business  in  a  town 
within  about  twenty-five  miles  of  a  city 
which  holds  several  department  stores, 
two  of  which  conduct  grocery  depart­
ments.

“ I  don’t  see  nothin’  pertickelarly 
'bout  these  department  stores,”  
bad 
“ They’ve  all  got  a  right  to 
said  he. 
live,  jest as  we  all  have. 
I  don’t  take 
no  stock  in  these  'ere  yelps  to  pass laws 
I  see 
gittin' 
some  o’  the  papers  is  a  doin'  this. 
I 
don’t  think  it’s  rig h t”

them  out  o’ 

the  way. 

This  is  a  sensible  man,  I  said  to  my­
self.  He  takes  the  department  store 
sensibly,  just  like  he  ought.  Let  me 
say  here,  parenthetically,  that  I  believe 
just  as  the  Grocery  World  does about 
department  stores. 
I  believe  they’re  a 
nuisance  to the  small  merchant  and  all 
that,  but  there’s  nothing  criminal  about 
them.  They’ve  got  a  right  to get  all 
they  can.  While  some  of  their  methods 
are  open  to 
improvement,  none  of  us 
are  quite  perfect,  except  candidates  for

office,  and  even  they  have their off days. 
But  to  proceed.
“ I  agiee  with  you"perfectly,  my  dear 
sir,”   1  said. 
“ You  have  exactly  ex­
pressed  my  own  views  regarding  the de­
partment  stores  quite  as  forcibly  as  I 
could  do  it  myself.”

He  nodded.
“ Why,  what  are  them  stores?”   he 
continued. 
“ They’re  simply  a-goin’ 
back  to  fust  principles,  that'll  all.  The 
fust  stores  that  did  business  was  gen­
eral  stores.  They  kep’  everything,  just 
as  these  department  stores  do.  Why, 
when  I  wuz  a  boy  I’ve  went 
into  some 
o'  these  country  stores  and  got  a  paper 
collar and  a  stove.  Why,  it’s a fact, ” he 
went  on,  warming  up,  "that  these  gen­
eral  stores  kep’  more  than  the  depart­
ment  stores  do.  They  kep’  drugs,  and 
not  all  department  stores  do  that. 
I 
tell  you,  these  places 
is  simply  goin’ 
back  to  fust  principles.  Let  ’em alone, 
I  say.  Every  man  for  himself.  Let 
these  fellers  who  kick  over  the  big 
stores  tend  to  their  own  business  an' 
they’ll  get  along  better.”

Then  he  took  a  good-sized  chew  and 

subsided.

I  was  tickled  to  death. 

I  had  at  last 
found  a  real  sensible grocer,  by  which 
I  mean  one  that  agreed  with  me. 
I 
patted  him  on  the  back,  figuratively 
speaking,  over  his  good  common  sense.
While  we  were  talking,  the  grocer’s 
boy,  who  had  been  out  on  a  tour  for 
orders,  came  back,  and  the  two  ran over 
them  while  I  sat  there.  There  was  a 
good-sized  batch  of  them,  and  when 
they  were  all  gone  through  whn  the gro­
cer  said,  looking  over  his  spectacles:
Hamilton?”

“ Why,  ain’t  ye  got  nothin’  from Mrs. 

“ She  wouldn’t gimme  no order, ”  said 
the  boy.  “ She  asked  our  price  on  three 
or  four  things,  and  then  said  she  could 
get 
in  the  city  at 
Snooks  &  Snooks’. ”   Snooks  &  Snooks 
run  the  largest  department  store  in  the 
city.

’em  cheap’n  that 

“ A in’t  she goin’  to give  us  no  more 
the  grocer,  blankly, 

orders?”   asked 
scratching  his  bead.
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“ Dunno, ”   said 

the  boy,  meekly. 
“ She  said  she  could  get  everything 
cheaper  at  Snooks  & Snooks’,  and  she'd 
have  to go  where she  could  buy  cheap­
est. ’ ’

“ An*  there,’tis,  drat 

The  grocer  was  certainly  mad. 

it!”   ejaculated 
the grocer,  testily..,“ There's  one  o’  me 
best  customers gone  to  the  durned  city 
stores.  They  can't  sell  good  goods  no 
cbeap’n  I  can !  What  right o’  they  got 
to  stick  their nose  in  my  business,  any­
how?  Why,  that  woman  bought  $500 
worth  of  goods a  year  o’  me.  Durn  the 
pesky  things  to  hullabullooly!”   (Where 
he got  this  frightful  oath  1  don't know.)
" I t ’s 
a  measly  outrage!”   he  stormed  on. 
"H ere  I ’m  a-tryin’  to  get  along  the 
best  I  kin,  an’  a-hardly  makin’  both 
ends  meet,  an’  here  comes  along  this 
big  place ana  swamps  me  with  one  0’ 
me  best  customers! 
it 
again,  I'll  have 
’em  arrested!  That’s 
what  I ’ll  do;  now,  you  see  ef  I  don’t! 
T hey  ought  to  be  arrested—that’s  what 
they  ougnt!  An’  I'm  jis’  the  man  to  do 
it,  for  I ’m  a  bad  man  when  1  git  riled. 
I'm  old,  but  I'm  tough!”
1  sat  a good  deal  surprised.  Was  this 
the  level-headed  grocer  who  just  a  mo­
ment  before  had  spoken  so  sensibly 
about  the  department  store?  Was  the 
only  man  who  agreed  with  me  about 
this  matter  to  turn  against  me?  1  could 
not  bring  myself  to  believe  it.
"W hy,”   1  began,  "you  said  a  min­
ute  ago  that  you  believed  these  places 
had  as  much  right  to exist as anybody, ” 
1  said.

they  do 

If 

"W hat!”   snapped the grocer.  “ Never 
said  nothin'  o’  the  sort! 
I  think  the 
whole  passel  of  ’em  ought  to  be throwed 
in  the  river!  What  right  have  they  got 
to  compete  against  a 
little  store  like 
this?  E h !”   he  repeated,  fiercely.

"W ell,  you  said  you  thought  if  the 
little  stores  would  attend  to  their  own 
business  they'd  get along  all  right, ” 1 
said,  mildly.

"Who  did?”   he  said,  furiously. 

‘  I 
never  said  nothin’ 
like  it!  See  here, 
young  man,  I  do’  know  what  reason you 
got  tor  lyin’  to  a  old  man  .like,.me,

but  I  want  it  stopped.  Do  ye hear me?”  
;   I  looked at  him  in  amazement  What 
had  I  done  to' ^brihg  such  a  tornado 
about  me?

’em  this  very  night!  Durn 

“ Durn  the  pesky  places!”   raged  on 
the  old  fellow,  still  unappeased. 
“ I 
wish  somebody'd  burn  the  hull  caboodle 
of 
’em! 
There’s  one  o’  me  very  best  customers 
clean gone!  Durn  ’em to hullabullooly !”
When  he  uttered  this  awful 
impreca­
tion  1  could  distinctly  see  a  blue  flame 
playing  about  his  bald  head.

left  the  old 

fellow  hugging  his 
changed 
regarding  department 
If  the  big  stores  have a  bitterer 
stores. 
enemy  than  he  is  now,  I’ve  never  seen 
him.
‘ ‘ It  all depends on whose ox  is gored. ’ ’

idea 

1 

Ideas  for  the  Holidays.

A  room  scene,  with 

fire-place  and 
frosted  windows,  is  a  good  idea  to  put 
into  execution  at  this  time.  Stockings 
hanging  at  the  fire-place  should  be 
tilled  with  toys,  and  other gifts  should 
be  on  the table.

Holly,  smilax,  palms  and  evergreen 
interior 

should  be  prominent 
decorations at  this  season.

in  all 

An  old-fashioned  Christmas  tree  is  a 
good  center-piece. 
It  can  be  made 
very  pretty  with  tinsel  and  small  ar­
ticles  of  bright  colors.  For  illumina­
tion  incandescent 
lights  are  best,  and 
nothing  else  is  safe.

Another change  can  be  rung  on  the 
Santa  Claus 
idea  by  showing  the  ex­
terior  of  a  house,  with  the  old  man  on 
the  roof  or  disappearing  down 
the 
chimney.

Extra  attention  should  be  given  the 
handkerchief  stock  during  the  present 
month.  That  means  an  extra  endeavor 
should  be  made  to  make  an  attractive 
window  display.  For a  design  make  a 
large  fan  out  of  strips  of  wood,  with 
lace  looped  at  their  ends,  and  cover 
each  rib  with  handkerchiefs.

Always  do  as  the  sun  does—look  at 
the  bright  side  of  everything;  it  is  just 
as  cheap,  and  three  times  as good  for 
digestion.
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ment  of  May 29,  1896.  Our sales  have  been  enormous  and  everyone  who  handles  it  is  a 
winner,  as  it  steadily  increases  his  trade.  There  will  be  no  advance  in  price.  Quality 
absolutely  guaranteed.

W.  J.  GOULD  &  CO..

TEA  IMPORTERS, 

DETROIT,  MICH.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

J.  W.  Schram,  Detroit’s Candidate for 

Secretary.

Commercial  Noose

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.

Commercial T ravelers

Michigan Knights of the Qrip.

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

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

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

Michigan Division, T. P. A.

President, Geo. F. Ow en,  Grand  Rapids ;  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  J ab.  B.  McI nnes,  Grand 
Rapids.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, G eo.  F  Ow en. Grand Rapids. 

President, A. F. Peake, Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  T yler,  H.  B.  F air- 
child, Geo. F. Ow en,  J  H enry  Dawley,  Geo. 
J. Heinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W.  C.  B rown.  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer. A. F. W ixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Eighteen  ninety-six  is  walking  on  its 

uppers!

Tactics  of  trade  of  to-day  are  as 
scientific  as  the  tactics  of  any  military 
age.

The  commerce  of  all  civilized  coun­
tries  depends  largely  upon  the  traveling 
salesman  or  on  personal  solicitation  for 
trade.

Frank  L.  Palmer,  formerly  with  Geo. 
H.  Reeder  &  Co.,  has  engaged to travel 
for  a  Ft.  Wayne  shoe  house,  covering 
Eastern  and  Southern  Indiana.

It 

is  wrong  to  expect  the  traveling 
man  to  pay  double  price  in  most  small 
villages  and  towns  for  meals  and 
lodg­
ing,  while  all  other  classes  of  patrons 
pay  just  one-half  for  the same entertain­
ment  the  knight  of  the  grip  receives. 
It's  not  fair.

Eaton  Rapids  Herald:  D.  L.  Le- 
Baron,  who  travels  for  a  Cleveland 
wholesale  dry  goods  house,  has  made 
regular  trips  to  Eaton  Rapids  since 
1865.  He  was  a  band  master  during 
the  war  and  is  quite  a  cornet  player  at 
the  present  time.

lighter  step 

Commercial  travelers  making  Cham­
pion  will  "Clim b  the  hill  to  Beacon”  
with  a 
in  the  knowledge 
that  Frank  Haines,  of  the  Haines  & 
Fairburn  Lumber  Co.  of  Ishptming, 
is 
now  the  buyer  at  the  company  store,  D.
G.  Stone  having  retired.

forces 

Competition  within  reasonable bounds 
is  natural  and  right; 
the 
adoption  of  the  best  methods  of  con­
ducting  business;  it  stimulates  enter­
prise,  is  a  preventive  of  dry  rot  and  of 
that  conservatism  which 
is  simply  a 
polite  name  for  incapacity.

it 

C.  H.  Morgan,  who  has  carried  the 
furnishing  goods  iine  of  the  Root  & 
McBride  Co.,  of  Cleveland,  for  several 
years  in  Western  Michigan,  has  signed 
with  the  Peerless  Manufacturing  Co. 
for  1897.  His  territory  will  include  the 
Upper  Peninsula,  Wisconsin  and  Min­
nesota.

The  man  of  samples  began  with  the 
beginning.  He was  a peddler; wandered 
in  boats,  afoot,  .on  horseback  or  on 
wheels;  sold  goods  for  himself  or  for 
others.  He  is  more  numerous  now  than 
in  the  long  ago,  but  bis  instincts  are 
much  the  same;  if  his  energies  are 
in­
creased,  it  is  only  because  of his greater 
facilities.

Eaton  Rapids  Herald:  Frank  J. 
Brainerd  has  gone  to  Lincoln,  Neb., 
where  he  has  a  position  in the wholesale 
grocery  house  of  Raymond  Bros.  &  Co. 
He  will  remain  in  the  store  for  a  time,

after which  he  expects  to go  on  the road 
as  a  traveling  salesman.  Frank  has  a 
host  of  friends  in  his  native  town  that 
wish  him  success.

Three  deaths  have  occurred 

in  the 
ranks  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  during  the  past  two  weeks— E.  C. 
Kenthan,  No.  2,029,  who  died  of  ap­
oplexy  at  his  mother’s  home  in  Chicago 
Nov.  30  and  was  buried  at  Madison, 
Ind.  ;  Daniel  Loeb,  No.  2,388,  who died 
in  Toledo;  Carl  A. 
at  his  home 
Rentsch,  who  died 
at  Kalamazoo 
Dec.  12.

H. 

S.  Powell,  formerly  Upper  Penin­

sula  representative  for the  I.  M.  Clark 
Grocery  Co.,  but  for  the  past  four  years 
Minnesota  and  Dakota  representative 
for 
the  Stone-Ordean-Wells  Co.,  of 
Duluth,  has  been  given  a  desk  in  the 
house 
in  full  charge  of  the  tea,  coffee 
and  spice  department.  Mr.  Powell’s 
friends  will  rejoice  with  him 
in  his 
good  fortune.

No  hotel  should  be  too good  and  no 
car  seat  too  comfortable  for  the  com­
mercial  traveler,  for  the  public  ought 
to  realize  that  he  is  away  much  of  the 
time  from  home  and  its  comforts,  the 
associations  of  his  family  and  friends, 
deprived  of  needed  rest  and  wholesome 
food,  suffering  from  inclement  weather, 
imperfectly  ventilated  rooms  and  all 
the  ills  that  flesh  is  heir  to.

The  Central Passenger  Committee  has 
authorized  the  use  of  a  5,000-mile  inter­
changeable  mileage  ticket,  and  already 
has  a  committee  hard  at  work  prepar­
ing  a  plan  for  putting  the  scheme 
into 
operation.  The  tickets  will  be  issued 
from  the  office  of  the  Chairman  of  the 
Committee,  the  individual  roads  having 
nothing  to do  with  their  issuance.  Hav­
ing  secured  this  concession,  the  travel­
ing  men  have  now  gone gunning  after 
the  Western Passenger Association,  after 
which  they 
intend  giving  their  atten­
tion  to  the  Southern  roads.

Annual  Meeting  of  Post  E.

total 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  Post  E, 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  held  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel  Saturday  evening,  Dec. 
12,  Chairman  Dawley  presided.

The  annual  report  of  the  Secretary- 
Treasurer 
receipts  of 
$161.58  and  disbursements  of $121.69, 
leaving  a  balance  on  hand  of  $39.89. 
The  report  was  accepted.

showed 

The  General  Committee  on Fxcursion 
to  Detroit  announced  the  following  sub­
committees :

On  Transportation—C.  I.  Flynn.
On  Badges— Geo.  F.  Owen.
On  Souvenir—Geo.  F.  Rogers.
Chas.  I.  Flynn  moved  that  the  Com­
mittee  on  Badges  be  instructed  to  pur­
chase  fifty  badges  for  the  use  of the 
Post.  Adopted.

Election  of  officers  being  then  in  or­
der,  W.  F.  Blake  moved  that  the  elec­
tion  be  deferred  one  week,  which  was 
adopted.

The  next  meeting  of  the  Post  will  be 
held 
in  conjunction  with  the  semi­
monthly  dance  and  pedro  party  at  Im­
perial  Hall  on  Wealthy  avenue  on  Sat­
urday  evening  of  this  week.  A  full  at­
tendance  is  desired.

The  Jolly  Knight  of the  Grip.
And he made h ts of *■ mon., ’
His business full of fuu.

There was a eommereial traveler,
Bit moe th hi this, he seemed to find 

He was as chipper as a lark.
He never could look glum:
He never said the times were bad,
Nor business ou the “ bum.”

“ I don’t have lime, my friend,” he  said, 
It doesn't pay—besides. y.>n know,

“ Tokiek. or snarl, or g owl;
I’m not that kind of fowl.

“ I’m hound to make my business  pay,
I'm j oiliest when I w  ra  th° most,

And  make my litile pi e:
And Work best when I smile ”

D. C. Collins.

J.  W.  Schram,  whose  portrait  appears 
in  connection  with  this  article,  received 
the  endorsement  of  Post  C  (Detroit)  at 
the  monthly  meeting  held  Nov.  29 as 
its  candidate  for  Secretary  of  the  Mich­
igan  Knights  of  the' Grip,  to  be  voted 
for  at  the  annual  convention  to  be  held 
in  Detroit  on  Dec.  29 and  30.

Mr.  Schram  was  born  at  Grimsby, 
Ont.,  in  1851,  and  sold  agricultural  im­
plements  for  Nichols  &  Walker,  of 
Streetsville,  Ont.,  for  five  years,  from 
1872  to  1877.  He  then  accepted  a  po­
sition  as  traveling  salesman  for James 
Popham  &  Co.,  boot  and  shoe  dealers

Lighted by Electricity,  Heated by Steam.

All modern convenient s.

$2 per day. 
IRA A. BEAN, Prop.
THE WIERENGO

E. T. PENNOYER. Manager,

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

HOTEL  BURKE

G.  R.  &  I.  Eating  House.

CADILLAC,  MICH.

All modem conveniences.

C. BURKE, Prop. 
W. 0. HOLDEN, Mgr.
FR E E   C H E C K   R O O M

EUROPE * N HOTEL.  Entirely New.
J. T. CONNOLLY, Proprietor, Grand Rapids, 
52 S. Ionia St., Opposite Union Depot.

NEW  REPUBLIC

Reopened  Nov.  35.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  SI 50  to $2 00.

Cor. Saginaw and  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.
B E   G O O D

to yourself while  in  Grand  Rap­
ids.  Go  to  FRED  MARSH  for 
tonsorial work.

23  MONROE STREET.

B (SS//V £ SS

V 

/DÆT/=?0 / T ,  M / C f f .

L eading1 B usiness T ra in in g  I n s titu io n  o f  A m erica, 
com posed  o f  live  su p erio  
S h o ith  tn d , 
D. aw in g .  11-19  w ileox St.  W.  r . Jew ell, P. R  fcpen

schools,  viz  ,  B usiness. 
nd  V ech an ical 

? n g lish ,  P en m an sh ip  

C I G A R S
B and  give  customers  good 

satisfaction. 

s  
;

of  Montreal,  covering  Ontario,  remain­
ing  with  that  house  until  1886,  when  he 
came  to  Detroit  and  engaged  with 
Snedicor &  Hathaway,representing them 
in  Southern  Michigan  until  1892.  He 
then  severed  his  connection  with  that 
house  and  took  a  position  with  the  C. 
E.  Smith  Shoe  Co.,  which  he  still 
holds,  traveling 
in  Ohio  and  Southern 
Michigan.

Mr.  Schram  has  been  a  member  of 
the  Knights  of  the  Grip  since  1890.  He 
has  been  Secretary  of  Post  C  during 
1896 and  has  given  such  satisfaction 
in 
that  capacity  and  made  so  many friends 
among  the  boys  that  he  receded  the 
hearty  endorsement  of  the  Post  over  his 
two  popular  rivals.  Mr.  Schram  owns  a 
cozy  home  at  609  West  Boulevard  and 
has  an  interesting  family,  consisting  of 
a  wife,  four  sons  and  three  daughters. 
He  enjoys  a  wide  circle  of  warm  and 
loyal  friends  who  will  be  pleased  to  see 
him  elected.

As  the  Detroit  boys  have  no  represen­
tation  among  the  officers  of  the  State 
Association  and  have  always  been  very 
modest 
in  asking  for  positions,  they 
feel  that*with  so  strong  a  candidate  and 
with  their  just  claims  to  recognition, 
they  should  have  no  difficulty  in  elect­
ing  Mr.  Schram  to  the  position  for 
which  they  have  endorsed  him.

Mr.  Schram  will  be  a  member  of  the 
Reception  Committee  to  welcome  the 
visiting  knights,  and  will  be  pleased  to 
meet,  not  only  his old  friends  and  ac­
quaintances,  but  also  all  of  the  mem- 
bets  of  the  organization  whom  he  has 
not  formerly  had  the  pleasure  of  know­
ing. 

John  McL ean.

A  prominent  physician  is  quoted  as 
saying  that  children  will  have  no  diph­
theria,  scarlet  fever  or  worms  if  they 
eat  freely  of  onions  every  day.  The 
onions  may  be  served  in  any  way.

Rociiesier,  n.  y.

An  interesting  relic  of  early  days  has 
been  discovered  at  Augusta,  Iowa,  in 
the  shape  of  the  first  stone  burr  for 
grinding  ever  used  in  the  State_of Iowa.

All mail  orders  promptly  attended  to,  or write 
our Michigsn Agent, William  Connor,  Box  346, 
Marsh,11, Mich., who will  show  you  our  entire 
line of samples.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Drugs--Chem icals

MICHIGAN: STATE-BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31, 1896
C. A. Bugbee. Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31,1897
S. E  P arkill, Owosso 
-  Dec. 31, 189*
F. W. R.  Perry. Detroit 
- 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31, 1899 
Geo. Gundbum.  Ionia  - 
Dec. Si, 1900

------- 
- 

President, S. E.  Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, Geo. Gundbum, Ionia.
Coming  Examination  Sessions—Detroit,  Jan.  6 
and  7;  Grand  Rapids,  March  3  and  3;  Star 
Island  (Detroit),  Ju n e—;  Upper  Peninsula, 
Aug  —.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

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

The  Drug  Market.

Alcohol—Grain  from  first  hands  is be­

ing  steadily  held.

and  values  are  firm.

Alum—Average  volume  of  business 

Atropine— Quotations  have  been  ad­

vanced  50c  per  ounce.

request 
copaiba 

Balsams — Consuming 

for 
prime  Central  American 
is 
active  and,  stocks  being  exceedingly 
light,  prices  have  gone  up.  Tolu 
is 
rather  steady,  the  movement  for  small 
parcels being  fairly  good.  Market  for 
Peru  is  strong.

Cascara  Sagrada— Demand  from  con­
sumers  is  moderately  active  and  values 
are  firm.

Cantharides—Tone  of  the  market  is 

steady.

Codeine—Pure  in  bulk  is  still  firm.
Cod  Liver  Oil— Holders  being  still 
anxious  sellers,  the  tone  of  the  market 
is  easy.

Colocynth  Apples— In  general  the  sit­

uation  is  satisfactory  to  holders.

Cubeb  Berries—Market  dull  but fairly 

steady.

Essential  Oils—Anise  has  again  been 
reduced.  Camphor  is  firmer.  The  con­
siderable  advance  in  balsam  has  result­
ed  in  higher  prices  for  copaiba.  Cubeb 
has  declined.  Lemongrass  has  again 
been  advanced.  Natural  sassafras  has 
gone  up,  also.  Although  Messina  es­
sences  show  no  change 
in  quotations, 
prices  for  orange,  as  to  primary  mar­
kets,  have  met  with  an  advance  equal 
to  25c  per  pound.  Peppermint,  con­
suming  demand  is  good  and  prices  are 
ruling  steady.

Gums— A good  business  is  reported  to 
be  doing  in  camphor  at  former  prices, 
and  stocks  of  foreign  are  practically 
exhausted.  Market 
is  firm  for  domes­
tic.

Leaves— Senna, 

fairly  active  and 

steady.

Lycopodium—Market  dull  and  weak 
irregular  and  looking 

and  prices  are 
toward  the  nominal.

Menthol—Demand  slow.
Morphine— Quiet,  but  values  at  first 

hands  are  still  firm.

Opium— Market quiet  but  ruling  fair­

ly  steady.

Orange  Peel—Consumers  are  pur­
chasing  to  supply  light  current  wants 
only;  values,  however,  continue  steady.
Roots— No  new  features  as  to  the gen­
eral  market.  Blood  root  is  very  firm. 
Spot  supply  of  gentian 
is  limited  and 
the  market  is,  consequently,  firm.  Man­
drake  is  still  hardening.

Seeds— Nothing  of  importance  to  note 
as  to  the  general  market.  Both  Dutch 
caraway  and  poppy  are  said  to  have  de­
clined  abroad  and  spot  quotations  arc 
lower  in  sympathy.  Coriander,  season­
ably active and  firm.  Celery,  sales  are

slow and  the market is reported  as barely 
steady.

Spermaceti—Values are  steady.
Sugar  of  Milk— Demand  is active,  but 
the amount  of  business  is  small,  due  to 
scarcity.

Systematic  Saving.

Written for the T r ad esm an.

One  of  the  principal  reasons  why  so 
many  persons 
in  this  country  of  high 
wages,  and  usually  steady  employment, 
are  reduced  to  want  when  work  stops  is 
the  neglect  of  systematic  saving.

in 

Not  having  been  educated 

the 
school  of  adversity,  nor  even  that  of 
economy,  the  life  of  the  majority  of 
American  workingmen 
is  essentially  a 
hand-to-mouth  existence,  which  means 
hunger  and  discouragement  in  times  of 
depression,  like  that  through  which  we 
have  passed  during  the  past three years.
Unfortunately,  this  is  largely  true  of 
clerks  and  salesmen,  whose  natural  effi­
ciency  has  fitted  them  for  positions  of 
responsibility,  but  who  so  seldom  suc­
ceed  to  an 
independent  business  of 
their  own,  because  of  their  failure  to 
accumulate  by  their  own  efforts  suffi­
cient  means  with  which  to  start.

Their  salaries  would  seem  princely  to 
many  a  common  laborer,  but  still  they 
often  find 
it  difficult  to  meet the  ordi­
nary  expenses  of 
life  and  maintain 
themselves  and  families  in  a  style  fit­
ting  to  their  position,  as  they  are  ex­
pected  to  do  by  their  associates,  the 
public,  and  even  their  employers.

Yet,  with  a  view  to  provision  for mis­
fortune,  to  say  nothing  of  preparation 
for  bettering  one’s  condition,  it  would 
seem  that  some  sacrifices  might  be 
made  to  lay  aside  a  regular  monthly 
saving,  which, 
though  small  in  itself, 
rapidly  grows 
into  a  substantial  sum 
and  increases  present  satisfaction  and 
future  prospects  of  the  owner.  The 
clerk  on  a  small  salary  would  soon  find 
himself  the  possessor  of  an  amount 
which,  at  the  start,  would be  considered 
a  very  comfortable * * nest  egg. ’ *

Time  is  so  short—after  it  has  passed 
—that  one  often  wonders  where  the  year 
has gone,  and  there  is  scarcely  a  reader 
of  the  Tradesman,  working  on  a  salary, 
but  will  in  his  own  mind  admit  that  he 
might  have  saved  a  portion  of  his 
monthly  earnings  for  a  series  of  years 
without  much 
inconvenience,  and  not 
one  who  will  deny  that  it  would  be  a 
pleasure  to contemplate the possession of 
the  accumulation  of  five  years,  if  even 
no  larger  sum  than  $5  per  month.

It  is  system  that  counts  in  this as  well 
as  in  the  greater  undertakings  of  life, 
if,  indeed,  there  be  a  greater  undertak 
ing  than  that  of  preparing  for  misfor­
tunes  which  may  come,  or getting ready 
to  launch  upon  the  sea  of  business  with 
capital  of  one’s  own  saving.

it 

There  are  banks  in  nearly every town, 
as  well  as  in  the  cities, which  pay  inter­
est  on 
time  deposits  of  even  small 
local  boards  of  reliable 
amounts,  and 
loan  associations,  and  if 
building  and 
there  be  none 
is  easy  to  remit  the 
monthly  installment  to  the  home  office. 
The  clerk  having  an  employer  who is in 
every  way  responsible  could,  no  doubt, 
arrange  to  leave  a  portion  of  his  wages 
until  the  end  of  the  year,when  he  might 
draw  it  in  a  lump  sum  for  deposit  in  a 
convenient  bank  or  investment  in  pay­
ing  securities  on  good  real  estate.

The  essential  idea  is  that  there  shall 
be  a  systematic  plan  for  the  regular 
saving  of  some  portion  of  the  earnings; 
and  if the  future  plans  of the saver have 
been  formed  working  in  that  direction, 
and  keeping  the  money  well  in  hand for 
use  to  the  best  advantage  when  the 
proper  time  arrives,  the  results,  need­
less to  say,  will  be  satisfactory.

H a r r y   M .  R o y a l .

Examination  Session  of  the  Board  of 

Pharmacy.

Detroit,  Dec. 

10—The  Board  of 
Pharmacy  will  hold  a  meeting  for  the 
examination  of  candidates, 
in  Arion 
Hall  (Catholic  Club  Building),  corner 
Wilcox  street  and  Barclay  Place,  De­
troit,  Tuesday  and  Wednesday,  January 
5  and  6,  1897,  commencing  at  9  o’clock 
a.  m.,  Tuesday.

All  candidates  must  be  present  at that 

hour.

Candidates  must  file their applications 
with  the  Secretary  and  must  furnish 
affidavits  at  least  one  week  before  the 
examination,showing that  they  have  had 
the  practical  or  college  experience  re­
quired.

Applications  for 

examination  and 
blank  forms  for affidavits  for  practical 
or  college  experience  may  be  obtained 
from  the  Secretary.

Next  examination  at  Grand  Rapids, 

March  2  and  3,  1897.

F.  W.  R.  P e r r y ,  Sec’y.

Long  Odds  Against  Him.

He  (pathetically):  “ All  great  men 

have  smoked,  my  dear.’ ’

She  (with  animation):  “ Oh,  if  you 
will  only  give  up  smoking  until  you  are 
great  I  shall  be  quite  content.”

The  only  smoke  the  insurance  agents 
are  not afraid  of  is  that  of  the  S.  C.  W. 
5c  Cigar.  Best  on  earth—sold  by  all 
jobbers.

GINSENG  ROOT
Write us. 

Highest price paid by

P E C K   B R O S .

m iO R TATES.

A Seed and  Havana Cigar a«  nearly  perfect 
as can be made.
The  filler  is  entirely  long  Havana  of  the 
finest quality—with  selected Sumatra Wrapper.

Regalia Conchas,  44 inch,  $58.00  M. 
Rothschilds, 
\ \  inch,  65.00  M. 
Napoleons, 
5)4 inch,  70.00  M.

All packed 50 In a  box.
We invite  trial  orders.

morrisson, PiummBr & Go.

200  TO  206  RANDOLPHlST.,

CHICAGO.

¡¿iBGypsinef

^   m p g f p HAttc  E f f l  

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rajmTOllMr.T  1 / 1  
m f/fm  

Is the permanent wall finish, and 
Is the permanent wall finish, and
trade on Gypsine is  the  perma­
trade on Gypsine is  the  perma- 
nent  wall  finish  trade.  Why?
nent  wall  finish  trade.  Why? 
Because  Gypsine  gives  such 
Because  Gypsine  gives  such 
erood  satisfaction  to 
the  m n-
good  satisfaction  to  the  con­
sumer that, after using  Gypsine 
once, he will have Gypsine  and 
nothing  else.

Send  for  prices,  color  card, 
and  plan  of  local  advertising 
for the dealer to

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C id e r!

Save your cider by  using  Geo.  McDonald’s  Cider  Saver.  Absolutely  safe and 
h arm less  and  does  preserve  the  cider.  Contains  no  Salicylic  Acid  or poison of 
any  kind.  Does  not  change  the  natural  taste or color of the cider.  Equally good 
for  preserving  Grape  Juice,  Wine,  Vinegar  or  Preserved  Fruits.  Originated  and 
manufactured by

G E O .
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If they cannot supply you write to me direct.

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

are made of the best imported stock.

C0UQH  DROPS

too  PER  CENT. 
PROFIT  TO  DEALERS

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Morphia, S.P.& W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co...................
Moschus Canton...
Myristica, No. 1___
Nux Vomica.. .po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H . 4 P
D. Co...................
Picis Liq. N.N.V4 gal
doz.......................
Picis Liq.,quarts...
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pilx  Burgun..  —
Plumbi  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes II 
& P.  D. Co., doz..
Pyrethrum,  pv......
iuasslae.................
Juinia, S. P. & W .. 
Quinta, S. German.
QUinia, N.Y...........
Rubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salad n ...................
Sanguis Draconls..
Sapo,  W.................
Sapo, M..................
Sapo. G...................
Siedlitz  Mixture...

1  75® 2 00
1  65®  1  90 
®  40
65®  80
® 
10 
15®  18
®  1  00
® 2 00 
®  1  00 
®  85
50 
18 
30@
10® 
12 
1  10®  1  20
®  1  25 
30®  33
8®  
10 
27®  32
23®  28
25®  30
12®  14
24®  26
3 00® 3  10 
40®  50
12®  14
10®  
12 
©  15
20  ©  22

Sinapis.................... 
®  18
Sinapis, opt............  
©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
Voes......................  @  34
Snuff,Scotch.DeVo’s 
®  34
Soda Boras..............  6  ®  8
Soda Boras, po........  6  ®  8
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1V4® 
2
5
3® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
Soda, Ash...............   3%® 
4
Soda. Sulphas.........  
® 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2  60
50®  55
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
® 2 00
®  2  39
Spts. Vfni Rect. bbl. 
Spts. Vlni Rect. Hbbl  @ 2 44
Spts. Vlni Rect.lOgal 
® 2  47
Spts. Vlni Rect.  5gal  @ 2 49
Less 5c gal. casb 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  4U@  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2H@ 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2V4
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
io
Terenenth Venice... 
Theobromae............   42®  45
Vanilla..................   9 00@16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

B B L.  SA L.
Whale, winter.........  
70
70 
45
Lard,  extra...............  40 
40
Lard, No. 1................  
35 

28® 30

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

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

LB.
Hi  2  ®8 
Hi  2  ®4 
Hi  2  ®3 
2H@3 
2H  24i®3
13® 
15 
70® 
75 
15  @ 
24
16 
13® 
5Q@ 
5*
© 
%  
®
90 
1 00
©  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

Varnishes}?

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  7»
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

SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Declined—Oil Anise.

gn@ 

35® 

90® 

65
Conium  Mac............ 
Copaiba.......................  
Cubebse......................  i  50® l  60
E xechthitos............  1  20® 1  30
Erigeron..................   l  20® 1  30
Gaultheria...............  l  50® 1  60
Oeranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
60
50@ 
Gossippii, Sem. g a l.. 
Hedeoma..................   1  0 @ 1  10
Junípera...................   1  so@ 2 00
Lavendula.................. 
Li monis....................   1  30®  1  50
Mentha  Piper.........  1  6 ®  2  20
Mentha Verid..........   2  65®  2  75
Morrhuae,  g a l.......... 2  00®  2  !0
Myrcia, ounce..........  
50
@ 
75®  3 00
2 2 ,7* V i- 'Y J ............ 
Picis  Liquida..........  
lo® 
12
@  35
Picis Liquida, g a l... 
93®  1  00
R ic ín a ...................... 
@  1  00
Rosmarini................. 
Rosse,  ounce............  6  50®  8  50
40®  45
S u ccin i....................  
90@  1  oo
Sabina....................  
cantal........................2  50®  7 On
63
sassafras..................  
58® 
65
@ 
sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
JlgHl.........................   1  40® 1  50
40@ 
££ym e...................... 
50
@  1  60
Thyme,  opt.............  
ineo brom as............ 
15^   20
Potassium
18
B|Barb...................... 
Bichromate.............  
15
51
Bromide.................... 
15
Uarb.........................  
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
18
Cyanide....................  
55
[pdMe.......................   2  90@  3 00
30
Potassa,  Bitart, pure 
15
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
10
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass Nitras............ 
9
28
Pressiate................... 
sulphate  p o ............ 
is

15® 
48® 
16® 
50® 
27© 
@ 
8© 
7® 
25® 
15® 

Radix

20® 
22® 
12® 
20® 
12® 
16® 

25
Aconitvm ................. 
25
i 11“ ® .......................  
Anchusa..................  
15
@  25
^rum  po....................  
40
Calam us................... 
15
jentiana........ po  15 
18
Blychrrhiza... pv. 15 
@  35
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  40 
Hydrastis Can.,  po.. 
15®  20
Hellebore.Alba, po.. 
inula,  p o ................  
is®  20
pecac,  po.................  i  65®  I  75
iris plox--- po35@38 
35® 
40
Jalapa,  pr................. 
40®  45
Viaranta,  Ü8............ 
@  35
25
Podophyllum,  po__  £2@ 
75®  1  00
.........................  
@  1  25
R{*ei, cu t................... 
Rhei, pv....................  
75®  1  35
35®  33
ipigelia..................... 
Sanguinarla...po. 25 
@  20
serpentaria.............. 
30®  35
Senega...................... 
40®  45
@ 4 0
similax,officinalis H 
25
Smilax,  M................. 
® 
5<iH®............... po.35 
12
10® 
symplocarpus, Pcetl-
25
.............. 
@ 
dus  po. 
25
Valeri ana,Eng. po. 30 
<& 
15@  20 
Valeriana,  German. 
13® 
£ìn?jb era................. 
i6
25® 
27
Singiberj................. 
5emen
Anisum..........po.  15 
® 
12
13® 
15
Apium  (graveleons) 
3ird,  Is...................... 
4® 
6
<&rui.............. po.  18 
12
10® 
Cardamon.................  1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............  
8® 
ip
Cannabis  Sativa__  3H@ 
4
Cydonium................. 
75@  1  00
Chenopodium  ........  
12
io® 
Dipteri!  Odorate...  2  90®  3  00
10
foeniculum.............. 
@ 
fcenugreek, po........  
8
6® 
4
A n i. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2H® 
4
Ani  g rd ....b bl. 2H  3K@ 
40
35® 
io n e lia ....................  
Jharlaris  Canarian.  3V4® 
4
4*@  
5
“ i *  
dnapis Albu............ 
7® 
g
ditapis  Nigra..........  
12
11®  
Spiritila

frumenti,  W.  D. Co.  2  00®  2  50 
frumenti,  D. F.  R ..  2  00®  2  25
frum enti.................   1  25®  1  50
lumperis Co.  O. T ..  1  65®  2  00
luniperis Co............  1  75®  3  50
taacharum  N.  E ....  1  90@  2  10
>pt.  Vini G alli........   1  75®  6  50
/Ini Oporto..............  1  25®  2  00
/ini  A lba.................  1  25@  2  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...................2  50®  2  75
íassau sheeps  wool
@  2 00
carriage................. 
/elvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
Extra yellow sheeps' 
wool,  carriage.... 
■ rass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................. 
lard, for slate use.. 
fellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  use............... 
Syrups
ic a c ia ...................... 
turanti Cortes........  
liugiber...................  
pecac...................... 
ferri  Iod................... 
thei Arom...............  
■ milax Officinalis... 
« n ega...................... 
IclUs......................... 

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

@  1 10
@ 85
@ 65
@ 75
®  1 40

 

 

i  oo

2  00

niscellaneous

ScillteCo................. 
®  50
Tolutan...................  @  50
Prunus virg............   @  50
Tinctures
AconitumNapelllsR 
60
Aconi tum N apellis F 
50
Aloes.......................  
60
60
Aloesand Myrrh__  
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafoetida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
60
Benzoin................... 
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
Cu beba....................  
50
Cassia Acutifol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
Digitalis................. 
50
Ergot....................... 
50
Peni Chloridum.... 
35
Gentian................... 
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca....................  
so
Guiacaammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
Kino......................... 
.50
Lobelia...................  
50
Myrrh......................  
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
Onii, camphorated.. 
50
1  50
Opii, deodorized.... 
Quassia..................  
50
Rhatany.................. 
50
Rhel......................... 
50
Sanguinaria........... 
50
Serpentaria............  
50
Stramonium........... 
60
Tolutan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
50
50
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber.................. 
20
¿Ether, Spts1. Nit. 3 P  30®  &5
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 P  34®  38
Ainmen..................   2)4® 
3
3® 
Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 
4
Annatto..................   40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimoni etPotassT  55®  60
Antipyrin.............. 
@  I  40
© 
Antlfebrln.............. 
15
Argent! Nitras, oz .. 
®  55
Arsenicum............. 
10® 
12
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..  38®  40
Bismuth  S. N.........   1  00®  1  10
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
9
Calcium Chlor., Hs. 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  14s 
12
Cantharides. Rus.po  @  75
Capsid  Pructus. af.  @  18
©  15 
Capsid Pructus, po. 
Capsici PructusB.po  @  15
10® 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
12
Carmine, No. 40... 
® 3 75
Cera Alba, S. & P  .. 
50®  65
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
@  40
Coccus....................  
Cassia Pructus........  @  27
Centrarla.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform..........  
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  15®  I  30
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchonidlne.P.* W  20®  25 
Cinchonidine, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   4 3l@ 4  50
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct. 
65
Creosotum............. 
@  35
@  2
Creta.............bbl. 75 
® 
Creta, prep.............. 
5
Creta, precip........... 
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra......  
® 
8
Crocus.................... 
50®  55
Cudbear................. 
®  24
CupriSulph............  
5® 
6
Dextrine.................. 
10® 
12
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po...............  
® 
6
Ergota.......... po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................  @  23
Gambier.................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper___  @  60
3i@  50
Gelatin, French......  
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__ 
60
9® 
Glue,  brown........... 
fc:
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycerina................ 
19®  26
Grana  Paradisl  __   @  15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @ 
Tlydraag Chlor Cor.  @  65 
Hydraag Ox Kub’m.  @  85 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  95
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  60
Iehthyobolla, Am...  1  25®  1  50
Indigo......................  75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 80® 3 90
Iodoform.................  @ 4  70
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
60®  55
Macis.......................   65®  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10® 
12
Magnesia. Sulph__ 
2®
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1%
Mamila. S. F ......... 
50®  80
Menthol...................  @ 3 50

® 
® 
@ 

io
40
46
5
10
12
15
50
5
1  60
36

6
8
14
14

2 25
1 »
50
3 00
15
8
30
65
2 60
45
75

18
12
18
30
2o
12
10
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
2 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
56
IO
1  no
70
35
4 00
60
40
2 40
6-'
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

3 50
50
8 25
2 30
2 25
2 30
75
58
65
2 50
2 50
45

Goloones and 
Toilet Waters
Holiday  Trade

Finest quality in bulk for

- 

$6.00
White  Rose  Cologne 
White  Rose  Cologne  second  quality  4 .O O  
German  Cologne 
6.00
Eau  de  Cologne 
Lilac  Spray  Cologne 
Violet  Cologne 
Lavender  Water 
Lavender  Water second quality 
Violet  Water
Violet  Water  second  quality
Florida  Water 
Ocean  Spray  Cologne

3 - 5 0
4.00
6.00
6 .0 0
4.00
6.00
4.00
4.00
8.00

HHZELT1HE & PERKINS DRUB CO.
Perlomers id  m irate inigsis.

Grand Rapids, piicp.

2 0

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Q R O C 3 R Y  P R I G ©  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  GREASE.

Aurora......
...............55
Castor Oil..
..............00
Diamond...
..............50
Frazer’s __ ............... 75
IX L Golden tin boxes 75
Mica........... ............... 70
Paragon...
..............55

doz. gr068
6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
9 00
8 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

M lb cans doz..............
14 lb cans doz..............
1 

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

Acme.

45
75
lb cans 1 doz............ ...  1  00
10

14 lb cans 3 doz............ ... 
14 lb cans 3 doz............ ... 
1 
Bulk..............................
... 
14 lb cans per doz........
14 lb cans per doz  ...... ...  1  20
lb can« per doz........ ...  2  00
1 

El Purity.

jaXon

¡4 ib cans 4 doz case.. 
14 lb cans 4 doz case................ 85

45
lb cans 2 doz case........  160

.. 

54 lb cans 4 doz case................ 35
54 lb cans 4 doz case................ 55
'  lb cans 2 doz case................ 90

Home.

Our Leader.

54 lb cans.......................... 
54 lb cans.......................... 
1 

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

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUING.

c o n s ™ )

g g S fe

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

BROOns.

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

CANDLES.

Hotel 40 lb boxes...................954
Star 40 lb boxes...................  .854
Paraffine............................... 854

CANNED GOODS, 
rianitowoc  Peas.

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

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pints.............. 4 25
Columbia, 54 pints..............2  50

CHEESE.

Acme.......................   @  1054
Amboy....................  954®  10=4
Carson City.............  @  io
Gold  Medal............  
10
Ideal.......................  @  1054
Jersey......................  @  1054
Lenawee..................  ®  954
Oakland County......  @  10
Eiverside.................. 954®  IO54
Sparta....................   @  10
Springdale  ______   ®  1054
Brick.......................   @  9
Edam.......................  ®  75
Leiden.....................  @  19
Limburger.............  
®  15
Pineapple.............  60  ®  95
Sap Sago.................  ®  20

Chicory.

Bulk 
Red 

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet........... 
.  .  ..22
Premium.................................81
Breakfast Cocoa.................... 42

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 gross boxes 

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

45

254
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Roasted.

Maracaibo.

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

P air.........................................17
Good....................................... 18
Prime......................................19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ............................... 22
Fair  ....................................... 19
Good 
....................................20
Prime..................................... 22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
Pair  ....................................... 21
Good  ......................................22
Fancy 
...................................24
Prim e......................................23
Milled......................................24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth...................... 27
Mandehling............................ 28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28
Quaker Mocha and Java.......29
Toko Mocha and Java...........2*
State House Blend................. 23
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
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.......................  16  50
Jersey.............................   16 50
ricLaughlin’s  XXXX........16  50
Valley City 54 gross...... 
75
Felix 54  gross.............. 
1  16
Hummel’s foil 54 gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin 54  gross... 
1  43
Knelpp Malt Coffee.
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9
CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz. in case.

Package.

Extract.

for 

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

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

3

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s........ .2 25

Farina.

Grits.

Hominy.

3%

Peas.

Pearl Barley.

Barrels  .......................... .3 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums........ .1  50
Lima  Beans.
D ried............................
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box___ .  60
Imported,  25 lb. box___ .2 50
Common..............   — .  m
Chester..........................
Empire  .......................... ■  2%
Green,  bu....................... .  90
Split,  per lb.................... •  2H
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl...... .5 01
Monarch,  bbl.  ............
.4 50
Monarch,  *4  bbl............ .2 W)
Private brands,  bbl__ .4  35
Private brands, I4bbl__ .2 30
Quaker, cases................. .3 20
Oven  Baked.................. .3 25
German..........................
4
East  India....................
314
Cracked, bnlk...............
3
24 2 lb packages.............. .2 40

Wheat.

Sago.

Fish.
Cod.

Halibut.  *

Georges cured...........
@  4
Georges genuine.......
@ 4H
Georges selected........ @ 5
Strips or  bricks.........  5 ®  8
10
Chunks............................. 
9
Strips..................... .......... 
60 
Holland white hoops keg 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  8 00
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs..................   2 50
Round  40 lbs..................   1  30
Scaled............................... 
12

Herring.

Hackerel.

No. 1 100lbs..............  ....  11  50
No. 1  401b8......................  4  9i>
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....................

Sardines.

Trout.

Stockfish.

55
Russian kegs.................... 
No. 1,1001b. bales............  10=4
No. 2  1001b. bales...........  
814
No. 1100 lbs......................  4 75
No. 1  40 lbs  ....................  2 20
No. 1  10 lbs 
63
No. 1  8 lbs
53
Whlteflsh.
No.  1  No. 2 Fam
100 lbs. 
.  ...  6  60  5 75  2  00
....  2  90  2 60  1  10
40 lbs 
10 lbs. 
...... 
35
8 lbs
...... 
31
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.
Jennings’. 
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.......1  20

80 
67 

73 
61 

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.
50 books, any denom... 
100 books, any denom... 
500 books, any denom...
1,000  books, any denom...

.  1  50 
.  2 50 
.1»  50 
.20  00

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom... 
100 books, any denom... 
500 books, any denom... 
l,000<books, any denom...

.  1  50 
2  50 
11  50 
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 $10 down.

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

Credit Checks.

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

Apples.

Snndrled....................... @ 314
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. ®  4

California  Fruits.

Apricots......................1014®
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  6  ®
Peaches..........................  714® 9
Pears..........................   ®
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................

California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.........
90-100 25 lb boxes.........
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........
30 - 40 25 lb boxes........
*4 cent less In hugs
Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers5 Crown.
Debesias  .....................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscstels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

1  60
2 50
3 50 
5Q 
614

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

4% 
-® i % 
• @ 6* 
•® 6%

N.  Y.  Condensed  Milk  Co.’s 

brands.
Gail Borden  Eagle................. 7 40
Crown..................................... 6 25
Daisy.......................................5 75
Champion  .......................... 4 50
MagDOlla  ................... 
  4 25
Dime 
............................... 8  35

5
7

Peel.

Citron American 10 lb bx  ®14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ®12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ®I2

Raisins.

Ondura 28 lb boxes.......  ®  7%
Sultana  1 Crown...........  ® 8V4
Sultana 2 Crown.........   ® 9
Sultana 3 Crown...........  ® 0V4
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @  9%
Sultana 5 Crown...........  ®1014

Peerless evaporated  cream.5 75

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

OUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

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

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

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

HERBS.

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

INDIOO.

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

JELLY.

15 lb  palls............................  30
17 lb  pails............................  40
30 lb  palls............................  60

LYB.

New Orleans.

P air..................................  
Good  ............................... 
Extra good.......................  
Choice.............................. 
Fancy  ........... 
 

Half-barrels 3c extra.

 

ig
22
24
27
30

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

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

PICKLES.
fledlum.

Small.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216................. 
r i l f ’J '   o’ ful1 count  • - 

POTASH.

48 cans in case.
Babbitt’s.............. 
Penna Salt  Co.’s 
RICE.

1  70
65

a  00
' '  3 00

Domestic.
Carolina head......  
«w
Carolina  No. 1  ..... 
5’
Carolina  No. 2... 
414
Broken.................................. 3*

 

 

 

 

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......  
514
Japan.  No. 2... 
5™
Java, No. 1........... 
"  4V
Table  ......................... " " I   5*

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .........  
Deiand’s ............   ...............o
Taylor’s............................. J  00

o on

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

SEEDS.
A nise...............................  J3
Canary, Smyrna...... 4
Caraway.......................  
jq
Cardamon,  Malabar 
80
Hemp,  Russian............  
4
Mixed  Bird.............. 
414
Mustard,  white__
Poppy.......................... ;;;  «
Rape............................... 
Cuttle Bone........  ........  20

5

SNUFF.

SYRUPS.

Cora.

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

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

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

HATCHES.

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

HOLA5SBS.
Blackstrap.

Sugar house.......................i0®12

Cuba Baking.

Ordinary........................... 12®14

Porto Rico.

Prim e............................... 
............................ 
Fancy 

20
so

Barrels......................... 
14
Half  bbls.............................ig

Pure Cane.
Pa‘r  .................................  16
Good..........................  
20
Choice........................ 
'  25

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  .............................   9
Cassia, China in mats......  10
Cassia, Batavia in  bund...  20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia................... 60
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1..................[fo
Nutmegs, No.  2....... 
[45
Pepper, Singapore, black.!.  9 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12 
Pepper,  shot......   ...............10

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  ..............................12
Cassia, Batavia...........  ......22
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................20
Cloves, Zanzibar..................15
Ginger,  African..................16
Ginger,* Cochin...................20
Ginger, Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.....................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,..................... 40® 0
Pepper, Sing., black .... 10@14 
Pepper, Sing., w hite.... 15®18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage......................................ig

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.
Cases. 24 3-lb  boxes.........
.1  60
Barrels,  1”0  3 lb bags  ... .  2 75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags__ ..2 50
Butter, 56 lb  bags............
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags........ .  3 00
Butter, 2801b  bbls........... ..2 50

Common Grades.
100 3 lb sacks....................
60 5-lb sacks....................
28 11-lb sacks..................

Worcester.

.2 60
.1  85
1  70

50  4  lb. cartons............
.3 25
115  2V£lb. 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

Warsaw.

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

.  30

.  ft*

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in iinen  sacks

56-lb dairy In linen  sacks 

Solar  Rock.

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

Common Fine.

Saginaw..........................
Manistee  .........................

SODA.

Boxes...............................
Kegs, English..................

STARCH.

Kingsiord's  Corn.

40 1-lb packages....................  6
20 1 lb packages....................  ('4

Kingsiord’s Silver Oloas.
40 1-lb packages....................  614
6-lb boxes........................... 7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

Common Oloss.

20-lb boxes..........................5
40-lb boxes...........................4%
1-lb  packages......................  4Vi
3-lb  packages......................  41/,
6-lb  packages  ....................   5V4
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   2*
Barrels  ...............................  2J£

SOAP.
Laundry- 

Armour’s Brands.

Armour's  Family..............  2 70
Armour’s  Laundry...........  3  25
Armour's Comfort............   2  90
Armour's Whtte, 100s........  6 25
Armour s Whit>*. 50s.........   3 20
Armour's Woodchuck  ___ 2 55
Armour’s Kitclen  Brown.  2 00 
Armour's Mottled German  2  65

Siugle  box............................... 2 85
5 box lots, delivered..........2 80
10  box lots,  delivered...... 2 75
Jas. 8.  Kirk A Co.’s Brands. 
American  Family,  wrp’d...3 33
American Family, plain__ 3 27
Acm e.......................................2 85
Cotton  Oil............................... 5 75
Marseilles.................................4 00
Master.................................3 70

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

Allen B.  Wrisley's Brands.

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

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 do z...... 2 40
Sapolio. baud. 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  iu  which  he 
purchases to h is 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 in  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. 3...............
............... 4 00
No. 4  ..............
............... 3 94
No. 5...............
............... 3 87
No. 6...............
............... 3 81
No. 7  ..
............... 3 7a
No. 8...............
............... 3 69
No. 10...............
............... 3 56
No.  11. 
.3 50 
No.  12. 
3 44
No.  13. 
No.  14. 
.3 31 
No.  15
.3 25

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea A 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. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Clark Grocery Co.’s brand. 

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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

F ruits.

Oranges. 

Fancy  Seedlings

Mexicans  150-176-200
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s-
Fancy 360s..............
Ex. Fancy  300s........
Bananas.

Stick  Candv.

Mixed Cand V.

Fancy-In Bulk.

bbls.  pails
5%© 7
524® 7
6  @ 7
7V£@ 8 Vi
cases
@ 8 Vi
@ 8V4
@ 6
@ 6 Vi
@ 7
@ 7
© 7Vi
@
@ 8
@ 8
@  8
@ 8 Vi
@ 9
@10
@13

Standard.................
Standard IL  H........
Standard Twist......
Out Loaf.................
Extra H. H..............
Boston  Cream........
Competition............
Standard.................
Leader  ..................
Conserve........  ......
Royal............
Ribbon....................
Broken  ..................
Cut  Loaf.................
English  Rock.........
Kindergarten.........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan.............
Valley Cream. ..
Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
@ 8Vi
Choc.  Drops........... U  @14
Choc.  Monumentals
®12Vi
Gum  Drops............
@ 5
Moss  Drops...........
@ 7 Vi
Sour Drops..............
@ 8 Vi
Imperials............
Lemon  Drops.........
Sour  Drops__
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
imperials........
Mottoes...............
Cream  Bar............
Molasses Bar  .........
IIami Made Creams
Plain  Creams......
Decorated Creams..
String Rock...........
Burnt Almonds......
W intergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes .................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes ..................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  .  ...........
Fresh  M eats.

@50
@50
@60
@65
@75
@35
@75
@50
@55
@60
@60
@65
@50
@50
80  @90
60  @80
@90
@60
@55

Fancy—In  5  lb. Boxes.

@30
@45

25  @

Beef.
Carcass ...................
Fore quarters........... .  4  @ 6
Hind  quarters.........
6  @ 7Vi
Loins  No.  3............
.  8  @12
Ribs.........................
.  7  @  9
Rounds....................
5Vi@ 6 Vi
Chucks.................
4  @ 5
Plates  ....................
@ 4
Pork.
Dressed.................... .  3Vi@  1
Loins....................... •  «Vi® 7
Shoulders...............
© 5
Leaf Lard.................
@ 5 Vi
Mutton.
Carcass  .................... .5   @6
Spring Lambs...........
Veal.
OareaRs 
..............

sm a  7

Crackers.

Butter.

TheN. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  6
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  cartou 
tvi
Family XXX......................  6
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton. 
t *4
Salted XXX.......................  6
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  614 
Soda  XXX  .......................   654
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  6^
Soda,  City.........................  7yt
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long Island Wafers.........   11
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX........  6
6

Oyster.

Soda.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Wheat.

88

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

Local Brands.

Patents.............................   5 25
Second  Patent............... . .  4  75
Straight............................  4 55
Clear.................................. 4 00
Graham  ............................  4 45
Buckwheat......................  3 75
R ye..................................  3 00
Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, l$s........................  4 65
Quaker, Vis........................  4 65
Quaker, Vis........................   4 65

Spring  Wheat Flour. 
OIney A Judson’s Brand.

Meal.

Feed and Millstuffs.

Ceresota, Vis......................   5 00
Ceresota, 54s......................   4 90
Ceresota, Vis......................   4 go
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand.
Grand Republic, Vis.............5 00
Grand Republic, V4s..........  4  90
Grand Republic, Vis.............4 80
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Vis.........................   4 90
Laurel, V4s.........................   4 80
Laurel, Vis.........................   4 75
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Parisian,  Vis.......................  5 00
Parisian, V4s......................... 4 90
Parisian. Vis..................  ..  4  80
Bolted................................  1 75
Granulated....................’  2 00
St. Car Feed, screened__ 12 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats...........11 50
No. 2 Feed...........................11 00
Unbolted Corn Meal...........11 00
Winter Wheat  Bran............9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 10 00
Screenings.........................   8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Car  lots............................... 23
Less than car  lots...........   25
Car  lots............................... 22
4»
Less than  car lots......
25
No. 1 Timothy carlots..
10 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots
11  00
Fish  and  O ysters

New Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

Fresh.Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...............
@ 9
Trout ...................... @ 8
Black Bass.............. @ 10
Halibut..................
@ 15
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Bluefish..................
@ 11
Live Lobster.........
@ 18
Boiled Lobster........ @ 20
Cod......................... @ 10
Haddock................. @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @ 8
Pike......................... @ 6
Smoked White........ @ 8
Red Snapper........... @ 13
Col  River  Salmon.. @ 12Vi
Mackerel 
.............. @ 20
E. II. Counts........... @
F. J. D. Selects........ @
Selects........ 
........ @ 22
F. J. D.  Standards.. @ 21
Anchors.................. @ 18
Standards..............
@ 16
Favorite  ................
® 14
Counts.....................
Extra Selects..'........
Selects.....................
Mediums.................
Baltimore Standards
Clams  ....................
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
Clams,  per  100.........
90@1  00

Oysters in Cans.

Oysters in Bulk

1  75
1  60
1  40
1  .0
90

@12Vi

N u ts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
@13 
Brazils new...............
@ 8 
Filberts  ....................
@11 
Walnuts, Grenobles .. 
@13 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
@10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@12 
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@12 
Table Nuts,  choice...
@10 
Pet ana. Small............
@ 6 
Pecans, Ex. Large__
@12 @14
Pecans,  Jumbos........
Hickory  Nuts per bu., 
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks @1 50
Butternuts  per  bu__ @  75
Black Walnuts per bu @  75
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Cocks......................
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags @ *%.
Roasted..................
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
@ 4V4 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras, 
Roasted  .................
@ 5Vi

@2  00

Peanuts.

Provisions.

Tripe.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

Barreled Pork

10V4
4V4
5V4
Vi
V4
V4
Vi
V
1
5
6
«Vi
6V£
6
9
6
7 00
10 00

follows:
Mess  .............................   8 00
Back  .............................   8  75
Clear back.....................   8 50
Shortcut.........................  8 50
Pig..................................  11  50
Bean
9 ¿0
Family  .......................... 
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies..........................
5V45
Briskets  .......................
Extra shorts.................
4«
Smoked fleats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __
9%9H
..
Hams, 14 lb  average 
Hams, 16 lb  average......
9V4
Hams, 20 lb  average___
8V4lu'4
Ham dried beef..............
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
Bacon,  clear..................  
7
5V4
California hams................ 
Boneless hams................... 
SV4
Cooked  ham................... 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
Kettle................................. 
55 lb Tubs.......... advance 
80 lb Tubs.......... advance 
50 lb T ins.......... advance 
20 lb Pails.......... advance 
10 lb Pails.......... advance 
5 lb Pails..........advance
31b Pails.........advance
Sausages.
Bologna.....................
Liver...............................
E’rankf ort.................
Pork...... ...............
Blood  ..........................
Tongue  ..................
Head  cheese..................
Beef.
Extra  Mess..............
Boneless  ................
Rump.......................
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs.................
80
V4  bbls,  40 lbs...............   1  50
Vi  bbls,  80 lbs..............  2 80
Kits. 15 lbs...................... 
75
V4  bbls,  40 lbs...............   1  40
Vi  bbls,  80 lbs...............   2  75
Casings.
Pork.........................
Beef  rounds............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep.......................
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy..............
Solid,  dairy..............
13V4
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  
13
Corned beef,  2 lb........... 2 00
Corned beef, 14  lb..........14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2 00
Potted  ham,  V4s.........  
80
Potted  ham,  Vis.........   1  00
Deviled ham,  V4s.........   60
Deviled ham,  Vis.........   1 00
Potted  tongue V4s......... 
60
Potted  tongue Vis.........   1  00
tild es  and P elts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  foi-
lows:
Hides.
Green......................
Part  cured..............
Full Cured..............
.  6  @ 7
D ry .........................
.  5  @ 7
Kips,  green...........
.  4Vi@ 5Vi
Kips,  cured............
•  6  © 7
Calfskins,  green__ -  5Vi@  7
Calfskins, cured__ .  «Vi® 8
Deacoiiskins  .........
.25  @30
Pelts.
Shearlings..............
5@  10
Lambs....................
25@  50
Old  Wool...............
4u@  75
Furs.
Mink  ......................
30@  1  10
Coon........................
25©  70
Skunk.....................
40©  80
Muskrats.................
8©  12
Red Fox..................
80©  1  25
Gray Fox................
30©  60
Cross Fox  .............. 2 5' @ 5 10
Badger....................
25@  •  50
Cat, W ild...............
2U@  30
Cat, House..............
iO©  zO
Fisher...................... 3 00© 5 OO
Lyux...  ................. 1  O © 2 00
Martin, Dark.......... 1  00© 2 50
Martin, Yellow___
65©  1  UO
Otter....................... 4 50© 7 50
W olf....................... 1  10© 2 00
..................... 7 00©)5 I 0
Bear 
Beaver.................... 2 00©  6 00
Deerskin, dry. per lb
15@  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb
10©  12Vi
Wool.
Washed 
...............
.10  @16 
Unwashed..............
.  5  @12
Tallow....................
-  2  © 3
Grease Butter.........
.  1  © 2
Switches  ...............
Ginseng..................
.2 50@2  7»
Oils.
Barrels.

Canned  Meats.

Hiscellaneous.

@  6 Vi

Eocene  .....................   @10)4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @  8Vi
W W Michigan...........  @8
High Test Headlight..  @7
D., S. Gas....................  @9
Deo. N aptha..............  @ 8J4
Cylinder....................30  @38
Engine.......................11  @21
Black, winter............   @9

2 1

Crockery  and

G lassw are.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

Vi gal., per doz.................
50
1 to 6 gal., per gal...........
5 Vi
8 gal., per g a l.................
6 Vi 6V£ 
10 gal., per gal..................
12 gal., per gal..................
6^ 
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
8
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal- 
8
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal- 
10
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal-  10 

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

2 
5Vi
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

Vi gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5Vi 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Vi gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5Vi 

Stewpans.

Jugs.

Vi gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
V4 gal., per doz.................
Vi gal- per doz..................
1 to 5 gal., per gal............

40
50
«Vi
70
20
30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
Vi gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..I  00 

Vi gal., per doz.................
1 gal., e«ch......................
Corks for Vi gal., per doz..
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..

Tomato Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb -.  2
No.  0 Sun..........................   45
No.  1  Sun.......................... 
50
No.  2 Sun.........................; 
75
Tubular.............................  
50
65
Security, No.  1................... 
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
Arctic................................   1  15
LAMP  CHIMNEYS-Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................  1  88
No.  2 Sun..........................  2 70
No.  0 Sun, 
No. 
1 Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

First  Quality.
top,
crimp 
  2  10
wrapped and  labeled 
crimp 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__2 25
crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled__ 3 25

XXX Flint.

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

crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled 
  2 55
crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
crimp  top,
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................  3 70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled............................  4 70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..................... 
4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............  
80

La  Bastie.

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

Rochester.

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

Electric.

OIL  CANS. 

LANTERNS.

Pump  Cans.

No. 2, Lime  (70e doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4  40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  75
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  3 00
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  00 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  6 00
5 gal Tilting cans............   9  00
5 gal galv iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9  00 
5 gal Eureka non overflow 10  50
3  gal Home Rule............10  50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............9  50
No.  u Tubular..................  4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular................6  50
No. 13 Tubular Dasb......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp  ........  3 75
LANTERN OLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents........... 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................   40
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1  doz.  each...........1  25
No. 0 per gross...................  20
No. 1 per gross...................  25
No. 2 per gross................... 
38
58
No. 3 per gross................... 
Mammoth per doz............. 
70

LAMP  WICKS.

@4 25 Farina Oyster.  XXX.........

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................ 11V»
Bent’s Cold Water............ 12
@3 00 Belle Rose......................... 8
@3 50 Cocoanut Taffy................. 9
Coffee Cakes.....................
@
8Vi
@4  00 Frosted Honey.................. 12
Graham Crackers  ............   8
Ginger Snaps, XXXround.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla.................  8
imperials............................  8V4
Jumbles,  Honey...............   11
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  made  ........  8%
Pretzelettes, Little German  6Vi
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas..................... 
12
Sears’ Lunch.......................   754
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square.................. 
8*4
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Pecan Wafers.........   ........  16
Fruit Coffee.......................   10
Mixed Picnic....................   loti
Cream Jumbles.................  livi
Boston Ginger Nuts...........  fcVi
Chimmie Fadden................10
Pineapple Glace................   16

@10
@13
@7
@8
@6
@ 6% 
@  5y,

 

Single box.............................2 85
5 box lots, delivered_____ 2 80
10 box lots,  delivered.......... 2 75
2R Hot  Ints.-doMT-orori 
2 65

Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

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
101b...................... 
Figs,  New  Smyrna
20 lb...................... 
Figs,  Naturals  in
Si lb. bags,............ 
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes..................  
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................  
Dates, Persians, G.M.
K., 60 lb cases, new 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ................... 

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

2 2

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware

The  Hardware  Market.

inch  and  larger sisal  rope.  Wool  twine, 
however,  has  advanced  to  6c.  Binding 
twine  is quoted  in  lots of carloads  at  6c 
per  pound,  f.  o.  b.  New  York.

General  trade  continues in satisfactory 
volume,  when  we  consider  the  season 
the  proximity  of  the  close  of  the  year 
and  the annual  inventory.  Most  of  the 
orders  are  for  the  supply  of  impov 
erished  stocks  and  some  purchases  are 
being  made  on  goods  which  are  espe 
cially  low and  it  is  safe  to  buy. 
In  the 
matter  of  prices,  the  market is  not  quite 
so  strong „ as, a  week  or  two ago.  The 
break  in  the  price  of nails  has,  perhaps, 
had  some  effect on  other goods,  but  thi 
is  slight,  as  a  decline  was  anticipated 
and  was  recognized  as  helpful  to  the 
market,  putting  on  a  more  natural  basi 
a  leading 
the  artificial  price  on 
which  has  long  been  a  menace  to  the 
trade,  involving,  as  it  did,  the certainty 
of  an  early  collapse.  Notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  the  market  has  not as 
sumed  a  buoyant,  advancing  tone  as 
rapidly  as  some  desire,  the  year  draws 
to  a  close  with  a  hopeful  feeling  and 
the  certainty  of  excellent  business  con 
ditions  in  1897.

line, 

Wire  Nails—Since  our  last  report  the 
wire  nail  market  has  gradually  been 
taking  shape,  as  the  dissolution  of  the 
Association  and  the  adoption  of the new 
card  left things  in  a  very  unsettled  con 
dition.  Very  general  satisfaction 
ii 
experienced  by  the  trade  with  the  re 
vised  card,  as  it  obviates  the  objection 
of  the  old  card  which  caused  so  much 
inconvenience  and  called  out  so  much 
criticism.  With  the  new  card  now  in 
use,  the  base  price  much  more  nearly 
represents  the  average  price  on  nails 
than  before.  The  market  at  present 
seems  to  be  from  $ i . 6o @ i .65  at mill and 
$i.75@i.85  from  stock.  The  dissolution 
of  the  steel  billet  pool  may  have  some 
effect  on  future  price  of  nails,  but  how 
much  time  alone  will  determine.

Barbed  Wire— In  sympathy  with  the 
decline  and  unsettled  condition 
in  the 
price  of  steel  billets,  the recent advance 
made  in  wire  of  all  kinds  will  be  diffi­
cult  to  maintain.  Orders,  however,  are 
being  taken  for  spring 
shipment  at 
$1.35  for  No.  9  plain  wire  and  $1.60  for 
painted  barbed,  with  30c  advance  for 
galvanizing,  for  shipment  about  May  1, 
and  prices  guaranteed  against  decline. 
With  this  guarantee  we  do  not  see  how 
a  dealer  takes any  chance  of  a  loss  and, 
should  there  be  an  advance— as  there 
usually 
is  fully 
protected  against  same.

in  the  spring—he 

is 

Sheet  Iron—Although  the  demand 

is 
light  at  this  time  of  the  year,  prices  on 
the  better  grade  of  sheet  iron  are  firm 
and  without  change.

Window  Glass—The  resumption  of 
work  at  all  the  factories  has  had  a  de­
moralizing  effect  on  certain  Eastern 
jobbers,  who,  feeling  anxious  to  unload 
their  present  stock  of  glass,  are  making 
some  cut  prices.  This  is  not necessary, 
as  it  will  be  fully  thirty  days before  any 
new  glass  will  be  ready  to  come into the 
market.  We  quote  at  present  70  and  5 
per  cent,  by  the  box  and  60 and  10  per 
cent,  by  the  light.

Shovels  and  Spades—At  a  recent 
meeting  of  the  manufacturers  of  the 
above  articles  a  desire  to  make  an  ad­
vance 
in  prices  was  overruled  by  the 
more  conservative  members,  and  the 
prospects  are  there  will  be  no  change 
in  these articles  for  the  coming  spring.
Cordage—There  has  been  no  change 
in  the  price  of  rope  during  the  past  two 
weeks.  Quotations  remain  quite firm, 
with  the  jobbers  on  a  basis  of 6c  for

The  Hardware  Christm as.

From St. Louis Stoves and Hardware Reporter!
It  will  pay  the  hardware  dealer  to  be 
gin  now  to  plan  and  make  preparations 
to  secure  a  share of  the  distinctly  hoi 
day  trade  which  merchants 
in  other 
lines  enjoy.  It  is  not  necessary  for  him 
to  branch  out  into other  lines  to  do this. 
A  great  many  hardware dealers  make 
a  practice  to  lay  in  a  stock  of  substan 
tial  toys  for  the  Christmas  trade,  and 
when  they  do  so  wisely,  and  advertise 
and  push  the goods  properly,  it is found 
to  pay,  as  the  pioht  on  such  goods 
generally  large. 
It  is  not  necessary  for 
the  hardware  dealer  to  turn  his  store 
into  a  toy  bazaar  to  get  a good  share  of 
the  holiday  trade,  however.  He  has an 
abundance  of  articles 
in  stock  which 
can  be  pushed  energetically at  this  sea 
son.  The  practically 
inclined  house 
wife  can  make  no  more  suitable  present 
to  the  mechanically 
inclined  husband 
or son  than  a  chest  of  tools.  The  hard 
ware  dealer  can  make  up  tool  chests 
from  his  own  stock  that  he  can  make 
attractive  prices  on,  as  he  can  afford  to 
make  a  lower  price  on  the  whole  than 
when  the  tools  are  sold  individually 
The  chest  itself  need  be  nothing  more 
than  a  cheap,  unpainted  pine  affair, 
made  in  the  store  or  at  the  neighboring 
carpenter’s.  Wringers,  washing  ma 
chines,  numerous  kitchen  utensils,  es 
pecially  labor-saving  novelties,  stoves, 
table 
silverware,  manicure 
sets,  all  make acceptable  presents  to  the 
wife.  A  new cooking stove,  or range,  or 
heater,  will  make  not  only  the  wife  but 
the  whole  family glad.  Sleds,  skates and 
pocket  knives  are  staple  Christmas 
goods,  but are  not  always  displayed 
advertised  as  they  should  be.  Bicycles 
should  of course not be overlooked.  Start 
out  the  week  after  Thanksgiving  with  a 
good  strong  advertisement  in  your  local 
paper,calling  attention  to  the advantage 
of  giving  useful  Christmas  gifts,  and 
mentioning  a  number  of  those  articles 
that  you  deem  most  suitable.  Keep  this 
p  constantly 
in  your  Gaily  or  weekly 
paper,  bringing out a  different  article  or 
me  in  each  succeeding  issue, andmak 
ng  a  mere  passing  reference  to  the 
other  goods  suitable  for  presents.  Run 
n  little  items  in  the  local  columns.each 
referring to  some  special  article  or  line 
Change  your  windows  and  have  nothing 
n  them but your Christmas goods.  Rele­
gate  builders'  hardware  and  everyday 
in ware  to  the  rear  for  the  time  being 
t  Christmas  eve  scene,  or  a  Christmas 
tree  bearing  the  lighter goods,  will  im 
press  on  passers-by  the  fact  that  the 
nardware  store  is  as  much  a  repository 
of  Christmas goods  as  the  dry  goods  or 
department  store.

cutlery, 

HMD  SLEIGHS

At prices  much  lower than 
the  manufacturers’.

Send  for our catalogue.

Foster, Stevens & 60.,

Grand Rapids.

His  Business  Wouldn’t  Permit  It. 
“ You  are,  sir,  a  stranger  in  the  town, 
believe,”   said  the  melancholy  man  in 

black,  addressing  the  drummer.

I  am.”
I  want  you,  sir,  to  do  me  a  great 

favor. ’ ’

“ Really  I  haven’t  a  cent. 

I  expect  a 
check  at  the  next  town  and  have  barely 
enough  money  to  reach  it.”

“ Oh,  no;  it  isn’t  that. 

I  want  you  to 
do  something  for  me  that  I  would  not 
dare  to ask  anyone  here  to  do  and  will 
not  trouble  you  very  much.

is  very 

“ Let’s hear  it.”
"You  see,  sir,  a  friend  of  mine, 
ill.  He  is  a 
Charles  Yonke, 
very dear  friend  of  mine and  I  want  to 
‘  now  how  he  is.  Will  you  have  the 
indness  to 
inquire  at  his  house,  1273 
Main  street,  and  find  out  without  men- 
oning  my  name?  You 
see  I  am 
an  undertaker.  Now,  please  don't 
I  am  really  a  great  friend  of 
laugh. 
Charley^s,  but 
if  I  should  ask  myself, 
my  motives  would  be questioned,  and  it 
would  be  the  same  if  I  were  to ask  any 
friend  of  mine  to  ask  for  me.  Fond  as 
I  am  of  Charley,  1  dare  not  ask  myself. 
My profession  prevents  it  ”

A large number of hardware dealers handle

THE OHIO  LINE  FEED  GUTTERS

OHIO  PONY CUTTER

Fig. 783.  No. 11*.

Made by SILVER  MAN’ F’G  CO.,

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

There is only one  size, and  is  made  so  it  can 
be knocked down and packed for shipment, thus 
securing lower  freight  rate.  Has one 11)4 inch 
knife, and by  very  simple  changes  makes  four 
lengths of cut.

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

ADAMS  &  HART,  General  Agents,  Grand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

For  Every  Failure  under  the  Sun
There’s  a  Reason  or  There’s  None. 
Written  for the T r ad esm an.

In  accounting  for  success  or  failure 
in  any  business  it  is  necessary  to  note 
every  cause  that  affects  the result,  either 
nearby  or  remotely.  Among  the  many 
who  fail  to  score  a  success 
in  mercan­
tile  enterprises  a 
large  number  evi­
dently  enter  the  field  poorly  equipped 
for  the  work.  Not  a  few  are  drawn 
thereto by  a  glamour of  the  imagination 
that  hides  reasonable  probabilities  and 
reveals  only  remote  possibilities.  The 
history  of  most  failures  among  country 
dealers  shows  so  little  difference  in  es­
sential  features  that,  in  describing  the 
career  of  any  unsuccessful  one,  the story 
of  all  is  told.

We  begin  by  saying  that  he  was 
brought  up  on  a  farm  by  a  father  who 
was  not  a  practical  farmer,  but  who 
owned  a  goodly  number  of  acres  bought 
cheaply 
in  early  times  and,  aided  by 
legacies,  had  added  to  them  several 
eighties,  besides  building  a  large  resi­
dence  with  modern  improvements  His 
boys  grew  up  and  married,  but  only  one 
of  them  stuck  to  the  soil.  The  rest  went 
out 
into  the  world  to  shift  for  them­
selves  except  one  who  believed  himself 
possessed  of  a  commercial  faculty  that 
he  hoped  would  * * lead  on  to  fortune. ’ ’ 
He  began 
in  a  small  way,  speculating 
in  such  products  as  a  limited  capital 
allowed,  and  learning  just  enough  by  a 
few  profitable  bargains  to convince him­
self  that  the 
increments  of  commerce 
were  easier  of  attainment  than  those  of 
agriculture.  Large  ventures,  assisted  by 
paternal  capital,  seemed  to  confirm  this 
belief,  and  so  he  entered  the  field  as  a 
buyer  and  seller  of  produce 
in  carlots. 
As  with  many  other  incipient  specula­
tors, 
excitement  of  dealing  by 
wholesale  enlarged  his  mercantile  am­
bition  a'nd  stimulated  to  gteater  enter­
prises  He  naturally  acquired  some 
knowledge  of  the  forms  and  usages gov­
erning  wholesale  distribution 
and, 
though  now  acting  for  other  parties  on 
commission,  like  the  fly  on  the  carriage 
wheel  felt  sure  that  he  was making busi­
ness  move  in  the  right  direction.

the 

About  this  time  he  became  impressed 
with  the 
idea  of  establishing a  retail 
store,  thinking  it  would  work  in  profit­
ably  with  a  general  produce  business. 
He accordingly  fented  a  vacant  build­
ing  in  a  small  village  where three stores 
had  been  already  established,  and which 
were  supplying  fully  every  demand  of 
the  public.  A 
limited  knowledge  of 
business  forms,  aided  by  the  sugges­
tions  of  salesmen,enabled  him  to  put  in 
a  miscellaneous  stock  of  goods  and 
hopefully  bid  for  a  share  of  custom. 
Things  went  on  smoothly  for a  time, 
since  “ a  new  broom  sweeps  clean, ” 
and  purchasers  gravitate  naturally  to 
new  enterprises.  The  poorer  class of 
customers  whose  credit  had  grown  stale 
on  the  books  of  his  competitors  began 
putting  small  sums  of  cash  and  produce 
in  his  till,  as  nest  eggs  to  batch  out 
birds  of  favorable  omen  in  the  shape  of 
bills  receivable,  though  not  necessarily 
payable.

Why  did  he  fail? 

In the first place  he 
was  no  judge  of  the  stock  in  which 
he  dealt. 
Its  selection  therefore  was 
left  either  to  the  young  clerk  engaged 
at  a  low  salary,  or  trusted  to  the  sales­
man,  who  worked  every opportunity  of 
legitimate  advantage  for  his  house. 
In 
the  second  place  he  was  more  intent  on 
making  lively  sales  than on turning such 
stock  into  cash  at  a  profit.  Much  of  his 
time  was  spent 
in  outside  business, 
leaving  important  details at  the store  in

the  hands  of  a  clerk  un instructed  as  to 
credits  and  supplies.  The 
latter  were 
obtained 
irregularly,  without  system 
and  without  consideration  for  the  wants 
of  the  trade.

left 

love 

Then  he  had  no  fixed  method  of keep­
ing  accounts.  As  volunteer  assistants 
were  often 
in  temporary  charge, 
there  were  many  chances  for  error  and 
waste— in  fact,  the  store  was  practically 
in  the  hands  of  irresponsible  persons  a 
great  part  of  the  time.  The  clerk, 
though  young,  was  a  fairly  good  sales­
man,  and  would  have  proved  valuable 
as  a  helper  to  one  who  gave  his  busi­
ness  close  attention,  but  he  could  not  be 
trusted  with  full  management.  Mean­
time,  our  bold  merchant acted  as though 
his  retail  department  was  but  an  annex 
larger  outside  business  and  so 
to  his 
gave 
it  less  and  less  of  his  attention. 
To  this  was  added  the  fact  that  the  dull 
routine  of  small 
trade  was  decidedly 
distasteful  to him,  and  he also possessed 
a  keen 
for  athletic  recreation. 
Baseball  kept  his  mind  occupied  in  the 
season  devoted  to  such  sport,  as  he  was 
active  manager  of  a 
local  team;  be­
sides,  he  attended  many  games  away 
from  home.  The  inevitable  result  be­
gan  to  be  manifest  within  a  year.  Bills 
accumulated,  while  stock  decreased; 
and  while  stock  accumulated  spasmod­
ically,  overdue  accounts  of  customers 
and  bills  from  jobbers  increased,  until, 
in 
less  than  two  years,  all  he  had  to 
show  for  the  capital 
invested  were  a 
long  list  of  claims  against  poor  debtors, 
a  file of  unpaid  invoices  and  a  remnant 
of  deteriorated  stock  which  his  assignee 
vainly  hoped  would  satisfy  the  most 
pressing  demands  of  creditors,  leaving 
the  balance  to  be  placed  in  the  columns 
of  profit  and  loss  representing  the  un­
divided  assets  of  a  bankrupt  concern.

Possibly  but  few  failures  of  country 
dealers  present  such  hopeless  features 
as  the  case  cited.  To some  young  com­
mercial  adventurers  cut  short  in  their 
first  career  the  lessons  taught  by  ex­
perience  have  proved  of  the  greatest 
possible  use, 
for,  profiting  by  them,  i 
they  have  afterward  developed  into con­
servative  and  prosperous  business  men. 
From  them  also  have  been  recruited 
armies  of  expert  traveling  salesmen, 
showing  that  one  unsuccessful  venture 
need  not  prove  a  life  failure.

There  are,  also,  many  dealers  who 
failed  as  moneymakers,  and  were 
obliged  to  sell  out  at  a  moderate  loss  of 
capital.  When  fortune  comes  to  such 
as  these,  in  after  years  in  other occu­
pations,  they  still  may  reflect  with  some 
satisfaction  on  their  brief  mercantile 
experience,  adapting their remembrance 
to  the  spirit of  the  old  refrain—

“ ’Tis better to have loved and lost 
Than  never to have loved at  all.”

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

The  Why.

Hanford— “ Well,  all  that  I  have  to 
say 
is  that,  as  far as  I  am  concerned, 
I’d  much  rather  have  inherited  money 
than  any  other  kind.”

Bloomer— “ Inherited  money?  Why 

do  you  prefer  that  kind?”

Hanford—“ Because  you  don’t  have 

to  work  for  it. ”

The  new  ordinance  which  has  recent­
ly  been  enacted 
in  New  York  raises 
the  street-peddlers’  license  fee  from  $5 
to  $15,  and  allows  a  peddler  to  stay 
but  half  an  hour on  a  single  block,  in­
stead  of  indefinitely;  it  requires  him  to 
leave  a  ten-foot 
interval  between  his 
push  cart  and  his  neighbor,  instead  of 
making  an  impenetrable barrier;  it pre­
vents  him  from  standing  within  twenty- 
five  feet  of  a  corner,  and  it  prohibits 
him  from  standing 
front  of  any 
building  the owner of  which  objects.

in 

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

the  assurance 

charge 

is 

Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

H ardw are  Price  Current.

AUaURS AND  BIT5

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

AXES

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

BARROWS

BOLTS

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

Stove...................................................... 
60
Carriage new list..................................65 to 65-10
Plow.......................................................  
40410

Well,  plain..................................................#3 25

BUCKETS

BUTTS, CAST

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

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

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

 

 

70

4

BLOCKS

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10...............................................per’m  65
Hiok’sO. F .......................................... perm 
56
G. D.......................................................per m  35
Musket..................................................perm  60

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire...........................................................504 5
Central  Fire..................................................254  5

Socket Firmer..............................................  
Socket Framing........................................... 
Socket Corner..............................................  
Socket Slicks...............................................  

80
  80
80
80

Morse’s Bit Stocks......................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank............................ 504 5
Morse’s Taper Shank...............................  . .504  5

CHISELS

DRILLS

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
Corrugated............................. ................ 
Adjustable................................ 

55
1  25
dis 40410

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

FILES—New  List

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

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

28
17

Discount,  75

15 
aAUOES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................*16 00, dis 60410
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00, dis 60410
Hunt's......................................... *18 50, dis 20410

MILLS

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

 

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

40
40
40
30

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  1  80
Wire nails, base...........................................  1  90
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
10
8 ad vance.................................................... 
6 advauce...................................................  
20
30
4 advance...................................................  
45
3 advance................................................... 
70
2 advance.............................................  ... 
50
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance....................................... 
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
*5
Finish 10 advance  ...................................  
36
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  6 advance.......................  ,............  
45
Barrel X advance.......................................... 
85

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

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

PLANES

PANS

RIVETS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

 

HINGES

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware.......................   ...........20410
Granite Iron  Ware.........................new list 40410
Pots............................................................... 60410
K ettles......................................................... 60410
Spiders.........................................  
60410
Gate, Clark's, 1, 2,3...............................dis 604 ip
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50
Bright..........................................................   HU
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s.....'................................................... 
ho
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
so
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s................ dis 
70
Sisal, *  inch and  larger.............................  
6
Manilla........................................................ 
9
Steel and Iron..............................................  
80
Try and Bevels.............................................
M itre............................................................

LEVELS
ROPES

WIRE  aOODS

SQUARES 

j

SHEET  IRON

WIRE

TRAPS

com. smooth. com.
*2 4(1
2 40
2 60
2 70
2  80
2  90
’over’30  inches

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

Nos. 10 to 14................................ .*3 30
Nos.  15 to 17................................. .  3 30
Nos. 18 to 21...............................
.  3 45
Nos. 22 to 24................................ .  3 55
Nos. 25 to 26................................ .  3 70
No.  27........................................ .  3 80
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’88...................................... dis
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................  
60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4 Norton’s 70410410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market.............................
75
Annealed  Market.......................
75
Coppered Market........................
70410
Tinned Market............................
62*
Coppered Spring Steel..............
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized........
Barbed  Fence,  painted..............
1  90
HORSE  NAILS
Au Sable.....................................
dis 4041C 
Putnam........................................
dis 
5 
Northwestern.............................
dis 10410
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled  ........
30
Coe’s Genuine...................................
50
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought
80 
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
80
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  ..................................... .
50
Pumps, Cistern..................................
80
Screws, New List...............................
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate.....................
50410410
Dampers, American..........................
50
.... 
6* 
600 pound casks................................
Per pound..........................................
....  6X

METALS—Zinc

.... 

SOLDER

* @ * ...........................................................   12*
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

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

 
Each additional X on this grade, *1.25.

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, *1.50.

 

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
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allawav Grade............  9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE

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

9

WM.  BRUMMELER & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS,

Pay  the  highest price  in  cash for)

MIXED  RAUS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  flE TA LS.
?oÄeonapostal “Any Old Thing.”

Every Dollar

Iron and  T inned........................................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 

60
60

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list............................... dis 3354
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................. dis 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 404101

25
70

24

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— No  change  in  quotations  has 
occurred  during  the  past  week  and  the 
market  is  utterly  without feature,  except 
for  the  movement  of  New  Orleans 
grades.  A  decline  in  the  value  of  hard 
sugars  is  expected,  because  quotations 
are at  present  out  of  proportion  to  the 
soft,  but  the  action  taken.will  depend 
upon  the  position  of  raw  sugars.

Teas—After the  holidays  are  out  of 
the  way,  a  generally  good  trade,  with 
firmly  held  prices,  is  expected.  Prices 
have  made  no advance  during  the  past 
week,  but  the  grades  are  steadily  de­
preciating,  a  price  now  being  asked  for 
a  grade  of  tea  that  would  have  brought 
much  less  a  few  weeks  ago.  Cables  re­
ceived  from  China  and  Japan  corrobo­
rate  the  shortage  reports  and  also  state 
that  teas  are  selling  here  relatively 
lower  than  in  their  own  country.  There 
is  at  present  no  speculation  in  tea,  but 
there  may  be  somewhat  later.

limited 

in  very 

Dried  Fiuits—There 

is  a  good  de­
mand  for  the  lower grades  of  peaches, 
which  are 
supply. 
Prices  all  along  the  line  are  well  main­
tained.  The  spring  will  probably  bring 
a  good  trade  for  peaches,  and,  possibly, 
higher  prices.  Prunes  are  holding  their 
own  very  well,  but  the  demand 
is  not 
very  heavy. 
Prices  are  unchanged. 
The  demand  for  cleaned currants is very 
fair.  The  price  is  unchanged.  Raisins 
are  selling  better  all  along  the  line, 
with  the  market  very  strong  on  all 
grades.

Rice—Advices  from  the  South 

indi­
cate  a  demand  of  goodly proportions,  so 
far  as  Carolina  is  concerned,  but  slug­
gish  conditions  in  New  Orleans.  For­
eign  styles  are  moving  with  nearly  for­
mer  activity,  and  a  considerable  per­
centage  of  the  business  doing  with  the 
South  and  some  points  in  the  extreme 
Southwest.  Advices  from  abroad  note 
generally  firm  markets.  No  appreciable 
difference  of  values  need  be  expected, 
however,  before  the  spring  months,  as 
stocks 
in  English  and  German  centers 
are  light,  and  decreasing  rapidly  by 
reason  of 
large  demands  made  upon 
same  from  the  United  States  and  Italy.
Molasses— Fine  goods  are  selling  at 
good  prices and  will  probably  continue 
to  do  so  as  long  as  the  season  lasts. 
There  are  large  quantities  of  poor  mo­
lasses  and  compounds  on  the  market, 
and  these  are  selling  at  almost  any 
price.  The  outlook  is  that  really  good 
molasses  will  bring  high  prices  during 
the  cooler  season.

Provisions— In  the  provision 

trade 
there  has  been  lacking  any  special  de­
gree  of  activity,  either  in  shipping  or 
speculative  operations,  and  prices  of 
leading  articles  are  somewhat 
lower 
than  a  week  ago.  The  export  clearances 
of  product  for  the  week  were  of  a  fair 
volume,  but  not  large,  the  total  falling 
short  of  corresponding  time  last  year. 
While the  trade  is  not  especially  active, 
and  the  offerings  of  product  are  fairly 
liberal,  there  is  manifestly  a  prevailing 
feeling  that  prices  are  not  likely  to 
give  way  much  from  the  present  basis.
Completeness  of  the  Local  Arrange­

ments.

Detroit,  Dec. 

15—John  McLean, 
Chairman  of  the  Program  and  Banquet 
Committee  of  the  Knights  of  the  Grip, 
reports  that  the  program  is  nearly  com­
pleted  and  will  be  in  print  this  week.
The  banquet  will  be  served  at  the 
Light  Infantry  Aimory  Hall  on  East 
Congress  street  on  the  evening  of  De­
cember  29 at  7 ¡30  o’clock  by  Caterer E. 
R.  Warner and  will  be  an  elaborate  and 
enjoyable  spread.  The  responses  will 
be  made  entirely  by  members  of  the | 
Association  and  their  employers,  inter­

spersed  with  several  choice  vocal  se 
lections.  Music  will  be  furnished  by 
Schremsers’  orchestra,  and  the  Com 
mittee  hopes  that its efforts will be satis 
factory  to  all  the  guests.  A  ball  will be 
given  on  the  evening  of  the  30th  at 
dtrassburg's  dancing  academy  to  hold 
ers  of  coupon  tickets  which  admit  to 
banquet  and  ball,  the  ball  being  undei 
the  management  of  Chairman  W.  H. 
ttaier,  ot  the  Ball  Committee.  The  in 
vitations,  giving  hotel  accommodations 
and  rates  and  other information,have al 
ready  been  mailed  and  advices  from 
the  various  Posts  of  the  State  indicate  a 
large  attendance,  as  much 
interest  is 
taken  in  the  election  of  officers for  1897. 
1 he  business  meeting  will  be  held  in 
the  council  chamber  of  the  city  hall.

John  R.  Wood,  chairman  of  the  Hotel 
and  Railroad  Committee,  has  issued  a 
circular,  announcing  the  program  and 
hotel  arrangements  as  follows:

TUESDAY.

8  to  12,  Reception  Committee  meets 

all  trains.

12  to  2,  Dinner.
2  to 6,  Business  meeting.
7:30  to  11,  Banquet.

WEDNESDAY.

8130 to  11,  Business  meeting.
11  to  12,  Parade.
12  to  2,  Dinner.
2  to 6,  Business  meeting,  concluding 

with  election  of  officers.

8 :jo,  Ball  at  Strassburg’s  Hall.

HOTEL  ARRANGEMENTS.

Russell  House,  $2.50^4.
Hotel  Cadillac,  $2.50^4.
Hotel  Ste.  Claire,  $2.5o@3.50.
Wayne  Hotel,  $2^3.50.
Hotel  Normandie,  ^@2.50.
Griswold  House,  $2.
The  special  §2.50  rate  at  Russell 
House  and  Cadillac  is  for  two  persons 
to  a  bed.

Hotels  will  charge  the  above  rates, 
graded  according  to  room,  and  make 
no  charge  for  one  lady  accompanying 
member.  Lady  occupying  room  alone 
will  be  charged  half  the  regular  rate.

The  Produce  Market.

4o@5oc 

Apples— The  market 
Beans— Handlers  pay 

is  without  par­
ticular  change.  Transactions are  small.
for 
country  picked,  holding  city  picked  at 
6o@70c.  The  demand 
is  fair  but  the 
market  is  featureless.

Butter— Receipts are  small  and  prices 
are  gradually  moving  to  a  higher  level. 
Fancy  dairy  now  brings  13c  and  factory 
creamery  is  strong  at  20c.

Cabbage—40@5oc  per  doz.,  according 
In  carlots  dealers 

to  size  and  quality. 
are quoting  §8  per  ton.

Celery— I2@i5c  per  bunch.
Cheese—The  consumption  of  cheese 
is  very  light,  which  is 
at  this  season 
probably  due  to  the  consumption  during 
the  fall  and  winter  of  soft-made  cheese. 
Nearly  all  of  the  foreign  soft-made 
cheese  is  now  imitated  here  very  suc­
cessfully  and  the  consumption  of  these 
goods  has 
increased  year  after  year 
and  has  had  a  decided  effect  on  the sale 
of  the  regular  factory  cheese.  The  out­
look  for  cheese  is  hard  to  predict,  but 
the  general  opinion 
is  that  the  condi­
tions  are  pretty  favorable.

Eggs—Strictly 

Cider—§4  per  bbl.,  including  bbl.
Cranberries—Dealers  hold  Cape  Cods 
at  $2@2.25  per  bu.  and  §6@6.50 per bbl.
fresh  candled  stock 
commands  20c.  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— Malagas  bring  $6  per  keg  of 

65  lbs.  gross.

Honey—Scarce  and  higher,  white 
clover  having  been  marked  up  to  13c, 
while  dark  buckwheat  now  fetches  11c.

Nuts—Ohio  Hickory  $1.50  per  bu. 
Onions—Spanish  are  in  fair  demand, 
commanding  $1.25  per  bu.  crate.  Home 
grown  are  in  fairly  good  demand  at  35 
¿640c  for  first  class  stock.

Potatoes—Without quotable  change.
Squash— Hubbard  is stronger, bringing 

$1.25  per  100  lbs.

Sweet  Potatoes—The  market  is  about 
the  same,  Baltimore  and  Virginia  stock 
commanding  $1.50  per  bbl.,  while  gen­
uine  Jerseys,  kiln-dried,  bring  $2.50.

The  Bishop  and  the  Baby.

A poor little pale-faced t>at>y,
Lost and hungry and eolu,
With th-chill wind pinchinghertear-wetcheeks 
And milling her bright hair’s gold.

For ju«t when the busy people 
Were 1 u  Tying here and yon,
Buying their gifts for the Christmas tree,
Hei mother was suddenly gone.

W A N TS  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.

She did not cry, poor midget,
But li  ted  pililul eyes 
it the crowds or ca-eless strangers,
At tne gray indifferent skies.

Jostled and pushed and frightened,
A tiny waif of the street,
With the winliy darkness falling.
And the snow-flakes gathering fleet.

She wss seen by a great kind giant;
With swinging stri-ie he came:
Even  then the angels in heaven 
Wrote saint before bis name.

From the height of his splendid stature 
He stooped 10 the  ittie maid,
Lifted her up in tender arms,
And bade her not be afraid.

Against his broad breast nestled, 
sh- clung like a soft spring flower 
That a breeze had caught and carried 
To a strong and sheltering  tower.

In his thick, warm cloak he wrapped her.
The little shivering child.
“ I’ll flud your mother, baby,”
The bishop said, and smiled.

That smile, like a flash of the suniise—
’Tls but a memory dim,
For ihe years are hastening onward,
And we are mourning him.

The cold white snows are drifting 
Wher- to-day he lies asl-ep;
Aftei  his life's long warfare 
The soldier's rest is deep.

But of dear things said about him,
No sweeter t  ie is told than this 

Of victories that he won.
Of his grace to a little one.

M a r g a r e t   E.  S a n g s t e r .

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  on  Tues­
day  evening,  Dec.  15,  Vice-President 
Dyk  presided.

The question  of  getting  the  city  mill­
ers  to  place  the  sale  of  flour  on  the  re­
bate  plan  was  discussed  at  considerable 
length,  culminating  in  the  adoption  of 
a  resolution  calling  for  the  appointment 
of  a  special  committee  to  wait  on  the 
mills  and  ascertain 
if  some  such  ar­
rangement  could  not  be  consummated. 
The  Chairman  appointed  as  such  com­
mittee  E.  D.  Winchester,  Thos.  H. 
Hart  and  L.  J.  Witters.

four  weeks  during 

Secretary  Klap  gave  notice  that  he 
would  spend 
the 
months  of  February  and  March  in  call­
ing  on  the  grocers  of  the  city,  with  a 
view  to  securing  as  many  new  applica­
tions  for  membership  as  possible  and 
also 
in  collecting  the  annual  dues  for 
1897-
Considerable  discussion  followed as  to 
the  sum  the  Association  should  decide 
upon  for  the  dues  for  next  year.  The 
matter  was  finally 
laid  upon  the  table 
until  the  next  meeting.

The question  of  closing  on  Christmas 
and  New  Years  was  then  taken  up  foi 
discussion,  resulting  in  the  adoption  ol 
a  resolution,  presented  by  L.  O.  Dah- 
lem,  requesting  the  members,  and  other 
grocers  as  well,  to  close  their  stores  at 
10 o’clock  in  the  forenoon  of  both  holi­
days.

There being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

It 

is  not  domestic  trade  that  makes  a 
community  wealthy,  but  outside  busi­
ness  that  adds  continually  to  the  local 
stock  of  money.

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BARCUS  BROTHERS,  Manufacturers  and  Repairers,  Muskegon.

ROOFS AND FLOORS

OF TRINIDAD PITCH LAKE ASPHALT

Write for estimates and full information to

W arren  Chemical  &  Manufacturing  Co.,

81  Fulton  St.,  New  York, 

94  Moffat  Bld’g,  Detroit.

Offices also in CLEVELAND. CINCINNATI, TOLEDO, BUFFALO, UTICA, BOSTON and TORONTO.

Weatherly 
& Pulte,

99  Pearl  St., 
GRAND  RAPIDS.

Plum bing  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.

Best equipped and largest concern in the State.

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it  say 

TRY  HflNSELMflN’S  SUPERFINE,

Order

early and be in the push.

6H060LflTES  FOR  HOLIDAYS
Chocolate Cherries,
Nunkeys,
Chocolate Brandy,
Montevidoes,
Chocolate Opera Drops,
Clito,
Chocolate Opera Caramels,
Shed  Bark, 
Chocolate Peppermint,
Nougat,
Chocolate Wintergreen,
Sour Orange, 
Chocolate Raisins,
S''ur Lemon, 
Chocolate Extra Pralines Assorted, 
Marshmallow, 
Chocolate Extra Vanillas,
Angel ique, 
Chocolate Pineapple,
Almonds, 
Chocolate Hand Made Small,
Filberts, 
Chocolate Hand Made Large,
Pecans, 
Chocolate Shoo Flies,
Walnuts,
Also i  fall  line of Confections 
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J E S S

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PLUG  AND  FINE CUT

T O B A C C O

“Everybody wants  them.”  “You  should  carry  them  in  stock."  For  sale

only by

NIUSSELMAN GROCER GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

J E S S

J E S S

1  T(|8  Unii  Glove  and  IDillei
HIM M E  BUIES Ml IMBS

PERRY,  (RICH.,  U.  S.  R.

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F

Made from  Pure  American  and 

Australian  Wools  and  the  Finest Quality  of Silks.

This  Company  controls  a large  number of  the  latest and best inventions of Mb. 
I. W. Lamb, the original inventor of the  Lamb  Knitting  Machine,  and  all  our goods 
are made under his personal supervision.
Merchants  will  consult  their  own  interests  by  examining  these  goods  before 

placing  their orders.

A R M O U R S  
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ARMOUR’S W HITE:

Absolutely  pure  snow  while  Floating  Soap,  10 oz.  and 
6 oz. cakes.  Nothing finer made.

ARMOUR’S  LAUNDRY:

A  guaranteed  pure  neutral  Laundry  Soap,  12  oz.  oval 
cake, fits the hand.

ARMOUR’S  FAMILY:

Best  Soap  made  for  all  Family  purposes,  16  oz.  solid 
cake of Pure Soap.

ARMOUR’S COMFORT:

12 oz. square cake pure Laundry Soap.  There is comfort 
in its use.

ARMOUR’S  WOODCHUCK:

10  oz.  Wrapped  Cake  Floating  Laundry  Soap.  “It’s  a 
wonder and a winner.”

ARMOUR’S  KITCHEN  BROW N:
ARMOUR’S  MOTTLED GERMAN:

A pound bar of good Scouring Soap.

A  Soap  of  wonderful  cleansing  and  lasting  properties. 
Cut In pound bars.

ARMOUR’S  W ASHING  POW DER:

Superior  to  all  washing  compounds,  elixirs,  etc.  It  is 
the perfection of quick acting,  labor  saving  ’‘cleansers.”

flKMOU K SOflF WORKS .GMGaoo,

ARMOUR & GO..  Proprietors.

Little  Reflection

will  show  you  that  there’s  sound

business  economy  in  using

The  Daytop  Gopiputipg  Scale
T H E   M O N E Y   W E I G H T   S Y S T E M   of this  scale  avoids costly  mis
-......   —  takes,  and  the  head-scratching,
.... 
pencil-gnawing,  nerve-nagging  delays  and  uncertainties  of  figuring  the  value  within  the  head  or  on  paper,  and 
permits  the  proprietor  or  his  clerks  to  wait  upon  customers  with  greater  rapidity  on  account  of  the  confidence
of being  right.

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M a y   we show you  our S ystem  of S aying y o u   M oney?

If so, put Tour business address on blank below and mail to us.

Name-

C ity .

-,  State-

SS'” lt will cost you nothing to investigate our sy-tem.

Business-

-,  Date

THE COMPUTING SC/Ui E CO., Daytop, Ohio.

In  Time  of  Peace  Prepare  for  War

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

P a m   Delivery and 

«■^Pleasure sieions.

WRITE  FOR PRICE  LIST.

The  Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

O u r  N e w   H u b   R u n n e r.

The  GAIL  BORDEN EAGLE  BRAND

U N E Q U A Z e B D .  

Condensed  M ilk
is  not rivaled  by  any other brand of milk.  This is the universal 
testimony  o f  Consumers,  Dealers  and  Jobbers, and accounts for 
the largely increased sales each year.

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is  also  growing rapidly.  O f course,  this  indicates  merit 

 
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New  York  Condensed  M ilk  Company.

The  demand  for

BORDEN’S   P E E R LE SS  BRAND

Prepared  and  guaranteed  by  the

I T   H A S  NO  EQUAL. 

ABSO LU TELY  PU R E

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