Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY  20,1897.

We can sell you

HHY  &

TV  COBI

LIME OR CEMENT.

S.  A.  MORMAN  &  CO.. 
I) Ljn Si, Grand Rapidi. Mich.

PEfiKiBS A BESS,  * r  I B S ,  Furs. Wool »III TalW  j

We carry a stock  of cake tallow for mill  use. 

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Nos. 132 and 124 Louis St.. 

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Grand Rapids.

Number 696
Snedicor & Hathaway

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

DRIVING  SHOES.

M EN 'S  AND  B O Y S '  GRAIN  8H O E8.
C. E. Smith Shoe  Co., Agts. for Mich., O. and Ind

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It is a trade  winner. 
lots write

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S. S.  SHILLING,

GREEN  BAY,  WISCONSIN.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

PETOSKEY,  MICH.

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II Are You Pushing

your  flour  trade  for  all  there  is 
in  it? 
Are  you  selling  a  flour 
that  gives  complete  satisfaction t 
Are  you  selling  a  flour  that  you 
can  guarantee to give satisfaction 
or  money  refunded?  Are  you 
selling  a  flour  that  you  know  is 
the  best  for  the  money  in  the 
market?  If  not,  you  should sell

44

LILY  WHITE”

flour.  W e  have  described 
above.

it 

§   Valley  City  Milling  Co..

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We solicit correspondence in-

...n iX E D   C A R S ...

FLOUR, FEED and MILL STUFFS

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

1197 YBLENTINES

Quick sales.  Big  profits.  Good Assortment. 
Small 
investment.  Brightens  up  your  store. 
Get catalogue and prices  from

FRED  BRUNDAGE,

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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,  will be trade winners for  the 
►  merchants  who  know  them. 

F O R   1> 
Thin Butter Crackers  j;
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►  Christenson Baking Co.,  \ \
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The Michigan Mercantile flgencu

FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel.

Grand Rapids.  J J

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3. A. MURPHY, General Manager.

SPECIAL  REPORTS. 

LAW  AND  COLLECTIONS.

Represented in every city and county in the United States and Canada.

Main  Office:  Room  n o a ,  M ajestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

,  N-  B.—Promptness  guaranteed  in  every  way.  All  claims  systematically  and  persistently 
nanaled until collected.  Our facilities are unsurpassed for prompt  and  efficient  service.  Term s 
and references furnished on application.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

CHICAGO “ 4W£ T £ r '

doing to Chicago.

Returning from  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentw ater.

Manistee. Traverse City  and  Patoakay.

Lv.  G’d. R apids............8:3uam  1:25pm  t i l  :00pm
Ar. Chicago..................   3:00pm  6:50pm  t  6:30am
Lv. Chicago................. 7:20am  5:00pm til:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids.............1:25pm  10:30pm  t  6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapids..............8:80am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids.............10:15am  --------- 10:30pm
Lv. G’d Rapids............  7:20am  5:30pm  ............
Ar Manistee.................  12:05pm  10:25pm  ............
Ar. Traverse City.......  12:40pm 11:10pm  ............
........... -............
Ar. Charlevoix............  3:15pm 
Ar.  Petoskey...............   4:55pm 
.........................
Trains arrive from north at l :00p.m.  and  0:86 
.m.
Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
North.  Parlor car on morning train  for  Trav­

riiLOB Am>  a u x n x e  cabs.

sleepers on night trains.
erse  City.

tBvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Gko. DbHaven, General Pass. Agent.

DETROIT **nnd  & Westers.

doing to  Detroit.

R eturning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.........7:00am  1:30pm 5:25pm
Ax. Detroit......................11:40am  5:40pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit......................7:00am 
1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........12:30pm  5:2upm 10:46pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ax. G R 12:20pm  0:30pm 
1:30pm 6:25pm
Lv.  Grand  Rapids.........7:00am 
Ar.  from  Lowell.......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
...........
Parlor  cars  on all trains  between  Grand  Rap­
ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains run  week days only.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH CAB BSBVICK.

Gno.  DbHavbh,  General Pass. Agent.

GRANDTn,Bk Mlwljr Syite“

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv.

Eastward.

tNo. 14 

tNo. 16 

tNo. 18  *No. M 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am  10:10am  3:30pm  10:45pm
Ar.  Ionia.........7:40am  11:17am  4:34pm  12:30am
1 :57am
Ar.  St. Johns..8:25am  12:10pm  5:23pm 
Ar.  Owosso__ 9:00am  1:10pm  6:03pm  3:25pm
............  8:00pm  6:40am
Ar.B. Saginawl0:50am 
Ar. W.Bay C’yll:30am 
.............   8:35pm  7:15am
Ar. F lint........ 10:05am 
..............  7:05pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:05pm 
..............  9:50pm  7:30pm
Ar. Pontiac..  10.-53am  2:57pm  8:25pm  6:10am 
Ax.  D etroit... 11:50am  3:55pm  9:25pm  8:05am 

W estw ard.

For G’d Haven and Interm ediate Pts__ 7:00am
For G’d Haven and Interm ediate 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.,  5:07p.m.,  9:55 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 10:05a.m., 
:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.

E. H.  Hu g h e s, A. G. P.  & T. A.,
Chicago.
Bnn.  F l e t c h e r ,  Trav. Pass. A gt, 
J ab. Ca m p b e l l , City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe SL

GRAND Rapids  & Indiana Railroad 

Sept.  37 ,  1896.

Northern Dlv.

Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A M ack...+ 7:45am  t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & M ack.. .t 2:15pm 7 6:30am
Qsdfiiae.......................................7 5:25pm 711:10am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  oar to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

Southern  Dlv.

Leave  Arriva
Cincinnati...................................t  7:10am t  8:25pm
Ft. Wayne....................................t  2:00pm  7 1:56pm
Cincinna ti................................. .* 7:00pm  • 7:25am
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  oar  to  Cincinnati. 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains, 

s o m e  w e s t .

Lv G’d Rapids..t7:35am  tl:00pm 75:40pm
Ar Muskegon.....................0:00am  S:10pm 7:06pm
Lv Muskegon...............78:10am 711:4fiam  74:00pm
Ar G’d Rapida..............0:80am  IS :55pm  5:00pm
A. A uroum r, 

7Kxoept Sunday.  ‘Dally.
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Paaa. *  Tkt. AgL

O. L. Lockwood,

MOTO BAS*.

Every Merchant

knows ha la avowing 1—  and anney 

Who naos tha Treda— n Company*» 
COUPON  BOOKS,  doe»  an  with  a 
aanaa  of aecnrlty  and yrotL  foe m  
snaa  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  O raai  t o p i*

is  y c _ - _w m m

_____  ___ 
OLD  COUNTRY  SOAP  while 
you  can  secure  one  box  free 
with every order  for  io  boxes.

m ALLEN BERKLEY'S 
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OLD  COUNTRY

SOAP.

has  stood  the  test  of  time  and  is  everywhere 
recognized as one of the  leading  brands  on  the 
market.  This offer bolds good  for a  short  time 
only, being subject to withdrawal at any time.
ALLEN  B. WRISLEY CO., Chicago.

flssijw's  Sale

On January 28th, 1897, at 3  o’clock  p.  m.,  will 
be exposed at  public  sale,  on  the  premises  of 
the Mt. Jewett Furniture Co., at Mt.  Jewett, Pa., 
all property belonging to said  company, consist­
ing of complete  plant  (including  two  acres  of 
land and  buildings),  well  equipped  with  new 
and  latest  improved  machinery  necessary  for 
the manufacture of  furniture,  ary  kiln,  steam 
heating, blow  pipe  system  and  elevator.  Also 
city water for use ana  for  fire  protection,  and 
natural gas for fnel.  Everything  O.  K.  and  all 
ready to get np steam and start tne plant.
This plant is located in the midst of an  abun­
dance  of  bard  wood  timber.  Plenty  of  good 
Swede labor can be secured at  reasonable  rates, 
Railroad facilities first class.
This entire plant, which cost about 117,000, will 
be sold on the above date to the highest  bidder.
A chance of a lifetime  for  the  right  man  or 
men. 

OEO. V. THOMPSON, Assignee

Protection

DIAMOND  CRYSTAL 
SALT in boxes is impervious 
to  the  odor  of  the  mackerel 
barrel.  Fastidious customers 
believe in such protection.

Se« Price Current

DIAM OND O RYSTAL SA LT C O ., 

S T . C LA IR . M IO N.

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Em pty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

J E S S

/ J i

J E S S

“ Everybody wants  them.” 

“You  should  carry  them  in  stock.”  For  sale

PLUG AND  FINE CUT

TOBACCO
MIMLMAN GROCER CO.,

only by

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

J E S S

J E S S

H fm U flN  GANDY GO.,

OF  KALAMAZOO-------------

About  February  i  W ILL  MOVE  to  their  New  Building  on 
East  Main  Street  to  accomodate  their  GROWING BU SIN ESS.
This  building  is  66  x  165  feet,  3  stories  high  and  has  side 

track  from  the  L.  S.  &  M.  S.  Ry.

Foil  equipment  of  the  TIOST  MODERN  MACHINERY  is 

being placed  in  the  new  building.

CHARLES  riANZELTIANN

B R O O M S  AND  W HISKS

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

D E T R O IT .  M IO H .

Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JANUARY  20,  1897.

Number  696

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M ISTAKEN  ECONOMY.

I  Will  Invest!

$100,000.00

J  
in  a  bard  or  soft  wood  manufacturing  T  
X  business with someone who  can  furnish  T  
X  capital  or  organize stock  company  hav-  X 
X  log experience  and  capable of assuming  X 
X  management in every detail of plant now  X 
in ope  ation, within  100 miles of Buffalo.  X 
Two lines of railroad, splendid  shipping  X 
a   facilities, easily accessible to forest lauds  X 
X  of Pennsylvania.  Private R.  R. switches,  X 
X  electric  light  plant  and  perfect  equip-  X 
X  ment.  Original  cost  nearly  1300,000.  X 
X  Fifth largest  in  the  United  States.  To  X 
X  some person  who  will  organize  a  com-  X 
pany for  manufacturing  wood  mantels,  X
desks, bank and office furniture, etc.,  an  X 
▲  exceptional opportunity. 
X
bee letter  on  file  with  Grand  Rapids  X 
X 
X  Furniture Manufacturers'  Association.  X
X
X 
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For further particulars  address 

BLINN  YATES,  Agent, 

The.......

PREFERRED
BANKERS
LIFE
ASSURANCE
COMPANY

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Incorporated by 100  Michigan  Bankers.  Pays 
all  death  claims  promptly  and  in  full.  This 
Company sold Two and One-balf Millions of  In­
surance In Michigan  in  1895,  and  is  being  ad­
mitted into seven  of the Northwestern  States  at 
this time.  The  most  desirable  plan  before  the 
people.  Sound  and  Cheap.

Home  office,  DETROIT,  Michigan.

Established nearly one-half a century.

All mail  orders  promptly  attended  to,  or  write 
our Michigan Agent, William  Connor,  Box  346, 
Marshall, Mich., who will  show  you  our  entire 
line of  samples.  He  will  be  at  Sweet’s Hotel, 
Grand Rapids,  from  Friday  morning,  Jan.  22, 
until Monday  evening, Jan. 25.

f i r e !

Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 

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The Michigan Tfusi Go.,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Acts  as  Executor,  Administrator, 

Guardian,  Trustee.

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

GommerGial Credit Go.,

(Limited)

ESTABLISHED  1886.

Reports and  Collections.

411-412-413 Wlddlcomb Bldg, 

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Grand Rapids.

The  protests  of  the  more  intelligent of 
the  community  against  the action  of  the 
Board  of  Supervisors 
in  reducing  the 
salaries  of  the  circuit  judges  resulted  in 
the  rehearing  of  the  matter  on  petitions 
signed  by  most  of  the  representatives  of 
the  bar  and  many  of  the most prominent 
and  conservative  of  the  business  men 
of  the  city  and  county.  But the narrow­
ness  characteristic  of  such  boards,  actu­
ated  by  the 
ignorant  popular  demand 
for  “ economy,”   precluded  the  possi­
bility  of  the  success  of  such  petitions, 
so  by 
its  denial  the  original  action  is 
affirmed.

This  result 

is  greatly  to  be  depre­
cated. 
It  is  a  consequence  of  a  lack  of 
appreciation  of  the  necessary  qualifica­
tions  of  a  jurist  to  fill  such  a  position. 
The  salary  which  has  been  paid  is  as 
small  as  could  safely  be  offered  to  se­
cure  the  legal  knowledge  and  ability  to 
properly  guard  the 
interests  of  those 
coming  before  the  courts  and  to  -protect 
the  tax-payers  from 
the  cost  of  re­
manded  trials.

One of  the  judges  affected  by  this  re­
duction  has  already  made  preparations 
to  vacate  his  position.  There  will  be 
no  lack  of  aspirants  for  the  vacancy— 
indeed,  they  will  be  much  more  numer­
ous  than  if  the  salary  had  remained  at 
the  higher  figure,  as  that  would  have 
limited’ the  number  to  the  higher  grade 
of  legal  ability,  instead  of  offering  an 
ambition  for  every  mediocre  political 
aspirant  of  the  profession.  That  the 
thousand  dollars  cut  off  from  the  sal­
aries  of  each  of  these  judges  will  be 
lost  several  times  every  year that  the 
new  order  remains  in  force,  is  a  propo­
sition  with  which  every  careful observer 
of 
judicial  proceedings  in  the  county 
and  State  will  fully  agree.

THE  MONETARY  CONVENTION.
The  National  Monetary  Convention, 
whose  session  at  Indianapolis  last  week 
was  anticipated  with  considerable  in­
terest,  has  proved  a  disappointment  to 
those  who  expected  such  action as would 
command 
legislative  attention  or  have 
any  material  effect  on  the  currency 
questions.  And 
its  failure  in  this  re­
gard 
is  no  less  a  source  of  satisfaction 
to those  who  think  the  results  of  the last 
election  sufficiently  indicate  that  radi­
cal  changes  in  financial  methods  are not 
desirable.

The  action  taken  was  the  passing  of 
resolutions  favoring  the  retirement  of 
the  different 
forms  of  United  States 
paper  currency  and  the  substitution  of 
National  bank  notes,  and  the appoint­
ment  of  a  permanent  committee  to  con­
tinue  the consideration  of  the  question. 
It  was  noticeable  that  in  the  proceed­
ings 
little  attention  was  given  the  two 
members  of  the  banking  and  currency 
committee  who  were  present;  they  were 
treated  very  cavalierly  by  the  majority 
of  the  convention.  Assuming  this  at­
titude  and  antagonizing  the  probable 
financial  policy  of  the  incoming  admin­
istration  and  Congress,  it  is  not  prob­
able  that  any  action  will  ever  be  taken 
by  the  committee  which  will  command 
attention,  and  the  entire  mevement  will

the 

have  no  significance  except  to  empha­
size 
is 
thoroughly  tired  of  the disturbing effects 
of  continued  financial  agitation.

that  the  country 

fact 

Growth  of  Department  Stores. 

Written for the T r a d esm a n .

The  department  store 

is  an  institu­
tion  of  comparatively  recent  origin. 
The  oldest  enterprise  of  this  character 
is  the  Bon  Marche  of  Paris,  which  is 
said  to  have  been  established  about 
ferty-five  years  ago.  The  date  of  the 
establishment  of  the  oldest  in  this coun­
try  is  more  recent,  but  is  not  accurately 
known,  if,  indeed,  there 
is  a  definite 
date.

In  many 

Most  of  the  department  stores  are  of 
very  gradual  growth  trom  the  begin­
ning. 
instances  their  origin 
is  without  a  distinct  plan. 
In  some  few 
cases  they  are  the  result  of  department- 
izing  the  different  kinds  of  wares  in  a 
variety  store,  but  more  frequently  they 
result  from  the  addition  of  side  lines  to 
the  main  business  of  some  enterprising 
dealer  who  fancies  that  he  has  pushed 
the  single  branch  of  trade  to  its  utmost 
possibilities. 
In  such  instances  the be­
ginning  is  without  a  deliberate  plan— 
the  enterprise 
is  a  sort  of  spontaneous 
growth  dependent  on  the 
conditions 
and  opportunities  of  the  trade  and  on 
the  personality  of  the  projector,  if  he 
may  be  so  termed.  Depending  thus  on 
a  favorable  combination  of  circumstan­
ces  involving  so  many  factors,  not many 
of  the  enterprises  started  on. the  way  to 
become  a  great  department  store  suc­
ceed  in  attaining  that  position.

is  manifested 

The  success  of  these 

institutions  de­
pends,  in  a  great  measure,  on  the  per­
sonality  of  a  director  possessing  a  pe­
culiar  genius.  This  may  be  an  indi­
vidual,  or 
it  may  be  a  firm  in  which 
some one  of  the  partners  takes  the  lead. 
This  genius 
in  the  se­
lection  of  subordinates  and  in  the  de­
vising  of  methods  of  organization which 
shall  introduce  and  maintain  a  constant 
accession  of  strength  in  each  of  the  di­
visions  of  the  enterprise,  through  all  the 
means  of  emulation  and  the  suitable 
recognition  and  reward  of  individual 
merit.

in 

Then  the  surroundings  and  clientage 
of  a  great  undertaking  of  this  kind 
must  be  the  most  favorable,  for  their 
permanence  to  be  assured,  even  when 
guided  by  the  highest  genius.  Many 
merchants  have  undertaken  to  build 
this  many-sided  structure 
localities 
where  the  trade  could  not  be  com­
manded  by  the  means  of  advertising  at 
hand,‘and  their  efforts  have  ended  in 
failure  when  success  might  have  been 
possible  elsewhere.  Thus  the  combina­
tion  of  sufficiently  favoring  conditions 
is  not  very  frequent;  consequently,  the 
number  of  such  stores,  taking  the  coun­
try  through,  is  not  great,  and  the  in­
crease  in  the  number  is  very  slow.

The  growth  of  the  department  store 
is  by  a  constant  accretion  of  trade  in 
the  various  departments.  This  increase 
in  the  few  great  institutions  is  owing  to 
a  carefully-devised  emulation  and  com­
petition  between  the buyers  and  mana­
gers  of  the  different  departments.  This 
is  a  competition  as  to  results  in  profits

in  quantity  of  sales,  which 
more  than 
keeps  the  main  object  constantly 
in 
view  and  keeps  every  one  at  his  best. 
In  this  fact  is  found  an  instructive 
les­
son  for  the  managers  and  employes  of 
the  regular  stores. 
It  is  so  easy  to  let 
vigilance  and  energy  slacken  when 
there  is  not  the  immediate  presence  of 
the  competition  and  accounting  which 
are  such  prominent  features  of  these  in­
stitutions.

While  the  aggregate  number  of  de­
partment  stores  may  be  considerable  in 
all  the  great  cities  of  the  country,  they 
are  few  compared  with  the  stores  con­
ducted  on  the ordinary  plan.  There 
is 
no  principle  involved  in  that  system  of 
distribution  of  goods  likely  to supersede 
the  individual  stores.  With  the  general 
growth  of  the  country  there  will,  doubt­
less,  be  an 
in  their  number 
and  magnitude.  But  some will  fail  as 
the  result  of  the  loss  of  competent  man­
agement,  through natural changes;  other 
supporting  conditions  will  change  and 
some  others  will  decline. 
In  fact,  it 
will  be  found  that  such  institutions  are 
subject  to  the  same  general  laws  as  the 
other  forms  of  modern  trade.

increase 

W .  N .  F u l l e r .

In  the  last  issue  of  Bradstreet’s  there 
is  given  a  table  showing  the  compara­
tive  prices  of  commodities  at 
intervals 
of  three  months  for  the  past  five  years. 
The  showing 
is  significant  in  that the 
prices  for  the  last  quarter  of  1896,  while 
not  showing  a  material  advance,  indi­
cate  that  the  long  movement  downward 
is  finally  arrested.  During  the  entire 
year  there  was  an  advance  in  the  price 
of  thirty-three  quotations,  with  a  de­
cline 
in  that  of  seventy-two and  three 
were  practically  the  same.  The  show­
ing  for  the  last  quarter  is  an  advance in 
forty  articles and a decline in  forty,  with 
twenty-eight  the  same.  When  the  fact 
is  taken  into  consideration  that  during 
this  latter  period  there  was  an 
increase 
in 
the  number  of  declining  prices 
caused  by  the  breaking  up  of  combi­
nations,  especially 
iron  indus­
tries,  it 
is  reasonable  to  conclude  that 
the turn  in  the  trend  of  prices is passed, 
and  that  the  future  will  show  an  ac­
celerating  movement  in  the  right  direc­
tion.

in  the 

Every  man  with  ordinary  intelligence 
has  a  niche  somewhere  waiting  for  him 
to  fill;  and  he  alone  can  satisfactorily 
solve  the  problem  as  to  what  he  was 
made  for.  There 
is  no  doubt  that,  in 
many  instances,  men  on  the  road  have 
mistaken  their  calling  in  this  direction, 
and  have  eaten  the  bitter  fruit  of  disap­
pointment  for  their  mistake. 
There 
has  been  a  certain  illusion  about  the 
life  led  and  the  elegant  time  had 
easy 
by 
commercial 
travelers,  while  the 
truth  of  the  matter  is  that  to make a suc­
cess  of  the  calling  needs  clear  intellect, 
keen  foresight,  a  vast  degree  of  execu­
tive  ability,  a  fair  knowledge  of the line 
of  goods  handled  and an unusual amount 
of  hard  work.

Among  the  holiday  purchases  of  a 
wealthy  negro  at  Americus,  Ga.,  were 
thirty  bottles  of  imported  champagne, 
which  he  paid  for  in  gold.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in 

his  lungs  out.  And  why?  Because  one 
was  the  revenger and  the other  was  the 
revengee.
“ And  the nub  of  it  is  herein :  Blank 
was  a  wealthy  man 
in  the  city  of 
the  advertisements 
Nameless,  where 
showed  up  the thickest,  and he  was  ultra 
swells  and  un-American  and 
looked 
down  upon  earned  wealth  as  compared 
with  the 
inherited  kind—he  being  an 
inheritor.  He  snubbed  most  ol  his  fel- 
low.’.citizens  when  he  had  the  chance, 
but*"he  was  particularly  ready  to  down 
the  man  who  was  the architect  of  his 
own  fortunes.  He  who  made  money  was 
too  utterly  vulgar  for  anything.  Across 
the  street  from  him 
lived  one  of  the 
kind  he  disliked  so  heartily,  and  this 
man  was a  millionaire  and a gentleman. 
He  had  made  every  cent  he  possessed, 
and  made 
it  hcnestly,  and  a  snob  was 
one  of  the  objects  in  life  he  was  gun­
ning  for  perpetually.
“ And  Blank  was  one he  had  it  in  for 
more  than  all  the others,  for  Blank  he 
had  with  him  always.  He  didn’t  know 
just  how  he  was going  to obtain  his  ob­
ject 
life,  but  he  waited  and  trusted 
in  Providence,  and  one day  it  came  to 
him  in  the  shape  of  a  formula  offered to 
him  by  a  prominent  physician,who  rec­
ommended 
it  as  very  nearly  an  infal­
lible  remedy  in  certain  cases.  He  lis­
tened  quietly,  said  nothing,  took  the 
formula,  made  up  his  mind,  and  one 
Sunday  morning  every  Sunday  news­
paper  in  the  city  of  Nameless  and  in all 
the  cities 
in  the  United  States  fairly 
blossomed  with  the  circus  bill  posters 
of  Blank’s  Wonderful  Whatever-it-was, 
and  Blank  woke  up  to  find  himself  fa­
mous.  He  tore  the  carpets  up  in  his 
vain  pawings  to  assuage  his  wrath,  but 
that  did  no  good,  for  before  the  week 
was  out  there  wasn’t  a  spot  on  earth 
within  reach  of  Blank’s  eve  that  didn’t 
carry  the  hateful  thing  to  glare  at  him 
and  make  his  life  a  mockery  and  a 
bitterness.
“ His  was  a  proud  name  to  be  thus 
dragged  through  the  mire  of  vulgar 
printers’  ink,  but  he  had  no  recourse, 
for  the  other  man  had  found  another 
Blank,  one  who  wasn’t  so  aristocratic 
and  was  willing  to  sell  his  good name at 
a  fair  price  to  decorate  a  patent  medi­
cine. 
in 
law 
it  wasn't,  and  Blank  couldn't  do 
one  earthly  thing  except  groan  in  spirit 
and  curse  the  day  that the  man  across 
the  street  had  been  born.  Once  he 
threatened  to  challenge  his  tormentor, 
but  on  second  thought  concluded  that 
would  further advertise  himself  and  the 
medicine,  so  settled  down  finally  to  ac­
cepting '  the  situation  and  preserving  a 
dignified  silence,  which  he  has  done  to 
this day.
“ Now,  just  to  show  how  Providence 
is always  on  the  side  of  some  people,”  
concluded  the  drummei,  “ I  may  say 
that  the  man  who  risked  his  money  to 
make  Blank’s  name  a  burden  to  him 
made  half  a  million  dollars  out  of  the 
patent  medicine,  and  to  add  somewhat 
to  the  romance  of  it,  he  gave  $25,000  of 
bis  earnings  to  a  widowed  sister  of 
Blank,  who  had  several  children  de­
pendent  upon  her and  had  but  a  small 
income. ”

It  was  the  same  name,  yet 

2

B ic y c le s

The  Highway  Movement.

Written for the Tradesman.

is  giving 

During  the  present  sessions  of  the 
increased  at­
various  state  legislatures 
tention  is  being  given  to  the  subject  of 
road  improvement,  and  the  press  of  the 
it  more  prominence 
country 
In  some of  the  states  action 
than  ever. 
is  resulting,  but 
in  many,  of  course, 
there  is  more  of  talk  than anything else.
As  might  be  expected,  from  their 
greater  wealth,  some  of  the  Eastern 
States  are  making  the  most  positive 
advance.  New  Jersey  and  Massachu­
setts,  in  proportion  to  area,  are  doing 
the  most,  perhaps. 
latter  of 
these  the  difficulties  of  roadbuilding,  on 
account  of  the  hilly  country  and 
in­
tractable  materials  to  be  dealt  with,are, 
probably,  as  serious  as 
in  any  part  of 
it  has  been  found 
the  country.  Thus 
necessary  to  construct  much  of  the  most 
costly  Macadam  or Telford  roadbed  at 
a  great  cost,  $10,000  per  m ile;  and  yet 
these are  found  to  pay.

In  the 

In  New  York,  where  the  movement  is 
being  urged  with  a  strong  probability 
of  material  results,  the  problem 
is  al­
most  as  serious  as 
in  Massachusetts. 
Good  road  material  must  be  transported 
considerable  distances,  and  the  char­
acter  of  the  soil  is  such  that  only  the 
most  costly  construction  will  answer.

In 

In  contrast  with  those  localities,  per­
manent  road  improvement  in  Michigan 
is  really  a  simple  matter. 
the 
first  place,  the  road  surface  in  much  of 
the  State  has  better  natural  drainage 
and  the  comparatively 
level  country 
makes  easier  the  preparation  of  the 
Then,  in  the  construction  of 
roadway. 
the  permanent  way,  there 
is  suitable 
material  widely distributed  which  may 
be  had  for  the  taking.

And  the  demands  upon  the  roads 

in 
Michigan  are  not  so  heavy  as  in  the 
older  communities, and  so  it  is  not nec­
essary  to  build  in  so expensive  a  man­
ner.  With  a  properly  shaped  roadway, 
covered  with  a  suitable  thickness  of 
ordinary  gravel,  the  roads  are  amply 
sufficient,  with  slight  annual  repair,  for 
the  needs  of  Michigan  traffic.  Thus 
it 
is  not  necessary  for  our  legislators  or 
press  to  discuss  projects  involving  such 
large  sums  per  mile,  and  yet  contem­
plate  reasonably  permanent  structures.
A  subject  which  should  receive  spe­
cial  attention 
is  that of  reforming  the 
present  modes  of  “ working  out"  the 
road  tax  of  the  State.  The  old  useless 
methods  are  still 
in  vogue  in  most  lo­
calities. 
In  much  of  the  State  there  is 
absolutely  no  beneficial  result  from  the 
present  custom. 
If  some  means  could 
be  devised  by  which  there  could  be  the 
direction  of  the  present  expenditures  to 
the  construction  of  a  small  quantity  of 
improvement  of  a  permanent  character, 
it  would  be  a  long  step  in  the  right  di­
rection.

Too  much  cannot  be  said  of  the  value 
of  good  roads.  There  must  be  created 
an  appreciation  of  the  costly  character 
of  a  mile  of  good  road,  even  in  Michi­
gan,  and  the  sentiment  must  be made to 
result  in  its  preservation.  Tires  must 
be  regulated,  so  that  a  heavily-loaded 
vehicle  may  not  do  more  damage  in 
traveling  a  short  distance  than  the  en­
tire  outfit  is  worth.

These  matters  are  receiving  some  at­
tention,  but  not  to  the  degree  desirable. 
There 
industrial  way  by 
which  the  entire  community  can  be

is  no  other 

raised 
in  the  scale  of  material  comfort 
and  wealth  so quickly  as  by  giving  at­
tention  to  its  highways.

W.  N.  F u l l e r .

Is  Cycling  Healthy?

From the London Lancet.

The  lengthy  correspondence which has 
recently  appeared 
in  the  columns  of  a 
contemporary  has,  as  might  have  been 
expected,  elicited  a  wonderful  diversity 
of  opinions.  Some  have  nothing  but 
good  to  say  of  the  cycle;  others  record 
ail  sorts  of  aches,  pains,  and  nervous 
affections  coming  on  after a  ride.  One 
rider  attributes  these  entirely  to  the  use 
of  the  bicycle  as  apart  from  the  tri­
cycle,  owing  to  the  unconscious  strain 
involved  in  keeping  the  former upright. 
The  plain  truth  seems  to  us  to  rest upon 
a  very  simple  basis:  Cycling 
is  not 
good  for  everybody,  and 
if  abused  is 
good  for  nobody.  * Within  the  last  two 
years  people of  all  ages  have  rushed  in- j 
to  cycling  in  the  most  haphazard  way. 
They  have  regarded  neither  age  nor 
previous  habits  nor their  physical  con­
dition.  Small  wonder  then  that  many 
have  found  evil  rather than  good  come 
from  an  exercise  which  inevitably  de­
mands  a  heavy  expenditure  both  of 
nervous  and  muscular  force.  Probably 
just  the  same  outcry  would  have  arisen 
if  the  same  class  had  suddenly  taken  to 
running  or  rowing  or  mountain  climb­
ing  without  any  previous  preparation. 
It 
is  easy  to  preach  moderation,  but  it 
must  be  remembered  that  moderation  is 
a  term  varying  with  the  individual,  and 
everyone  finds  for  himself  how  much  he 
can  do.  With  regard  to  the  strain  in­
volved 
in  keeping  up  a  bicycle  and 
is  probably  no 
keeping  a  lookout,  it 
more  than  that 
in  walking 
down  the  Strand  without  “ cannoning”  
against  others,  but  many  of  us  have 
done  the  one  from  childhood,  while  the 
other 
is  but  a  newly-acquired  accom­
plishment.  There 
is  no  need  to  make 
a  bicycle  a  very  heel  of  Ixion,  espe­
cially  with  a  “ safety,”   for  it  is  easy  to 
get  off  and  equally  easy  to  remount; 
therefore  the  cry,  “ You  must  go  on  or 
you  will  fall,”   seems  to  us  to  ignore the 
fact  that  we are  reasoning  animals.

involved 

How  One  Gentleman  Got  Even  with 

Another.

From the New fo rk  Sun.

This  time  the  drummer  was  a  travel­
ing  salesman  for  a  large  drug  firm  in 
Philadelphia  and  he  was,  as  he  put 
it, 
merely  knocking  around  New  York  to 
see  if  his  goods  were a  drug  in  the mar­
ket  or  not.

“ The  meanest,  low-down  kind  of  re­
venge  I  ever  heard  of  one  man  taking 
on  another, “ he  was  saying  when  the 
conversation  had  got  around  to  the  an­
ecdotal  stage,  ‘ ‘ was  told  me  the  other 
I  won’t  mention  names  of persons 
day. 
or  places,  for the  parties  are  still 
liv­
ing ;  but  a  dozen  years  ago  there  was 
hurled  at  the  great  American  public, 
through  the  newspapers, 
from  every 
dead  wall 
in  the  city  and  every  fence 
and barnside  in  the  country,  in  millions 
of  pamphlets and  pictures,  and by every 
means  known  to  the skilled  advertiser 
with  unlimited  capital,  the  name  and 
virtues  of  a  medicine  that  would  cure 
all  the  ills  that flesh  is  heir  to,  and  this 
valuable  truth  was  heralded  forth  with 
all  painful  and  realistic  details  until 
it 
actually  made  the  reader  feel  as  if  he 
needed  some  of  the  cure-all  as  soon  as 
he could  get  to  it.

it  seemed  as 

“  In  some sections  of  the  country  the 
landscape  was  alive  with  the  glittering 
and  glaring  advertising  of  this  wonder­
ful  medicament,  and  in  one  particular 
city  and  state 
if  every 
available 
inch  of  unoccupied  territory 
was  covered  with  notices  of  it.  Bigger, 
too,  than  the  name  of  this  medicine was 
the  name  of  this  Napoleon  of  Public 
Benefactors,  this  Healer  of  Mankind, 
the  Great Discoverer,  and Blank’s What- 
ever-it-was  was  far  more  in  evidence  as 
Blank’s  than  as  Whatever-it-was.

“ In  the  meantime  one  man in  the city 
referred  to  above  was  gnashing  his 
teeth  and  pulling  his  hair out  by  the 
follicles and  another man  was 
laughing

A  Remnant.

Love  keeps a shop beneath the trees, 
Where orange blossoms sway 
Forever in the fragrant breeze,
And every month is May.

And there, some twenty years ago,
’Twas Anna's, but she scorned me so 

A heart I  wished to buy;
I found the price too high.

To-day again I chanced to trace 
And there I found the same fair place 

My way to that same store,
That I had known before.

And there hung Anna's heart unsold;
Tnis spinster's heart, a trifle old,

It boie this sign:  “ To-day 
At what you please to pay.”

Said I, “ This wreck will never sell;
1 care for it no  more,” and, well—

'Tis damaged past recall.
I bought it, after a fl!

E l l is  P a r k e r  B u t l e r .

Germany  pays  foreign  countries about 
$7,000,000 a  year  for  fruit.  The  recent 
move  against  American  apples  may 
have  been  towards  reducing  expenses 
and  not because  the  deadly  bacillus  was 
present  in  them.

ADII PIS & H0RT,

A  few  more  good  agents 

wanted.

SOLE DISTRIBUTERS,
BRIP  RflPIDS,  PIICP.
Rider K n o w s

Every

How bad bad bicycles are;  what an endless am ount of expense 
and  trouble they are.  W hat  rider has not  had experience, or 
seen  some  friend  experiment  w ith  bad  bicycles?  Bicycles 
made by inexperienced  builders, who could  make good  guns, 
fine  furniture,  smooth  sewing  machines,  magnificent  mill 
machinery, etc.  To  build  zood  bicycles, a fine  plant, organ* 
ized labor, and  years of  car, fui experimenting are among the 
requisites  of successful  bicycle  producing.  New  CLIPPERS 
are acknowledged by all standard makers as standard bicycles, 
which has long since passed  th a t uncertain stage of construc­
tion which  has cost  thousands of riders  thousands of dollars. 
New CLIPPERS are too good for departm ent stores and auction 
rooms  Sold by Dealers only.

/M B C //*
me '
^   ''® U N D
QUA!

IP ID S   (V cL E  
kAFms,

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

3

Getting the  People

Assuming  Too  Much.

John C. Graham in Printers’  Ink.

Some  business  men  are  tempted  to 
advertise by  the glowing  accounts  they 
It  is  to  be 
hear  of  others’  successes. 
feared,  however,  that  these  are, 
too 
often,  much  exaggerated.  The  whole 
truth  is  not  told  about them—the amount 
of 
labor,  time  and  money  involved  in 
securing  success,  the  untiring  energy 
required,  the  eternal  vigilance  neces­
sary  to  win  and  hold  popularity. 
In­
stantaneous,  or even  rapid,  successes  in 
advertising  are  extremely  rare.  For 
each  one  of  them  known  to-day,  we  can 
count  hundreds  of  instances  where  suc­
cess  has  only  been  attained  by  the  ex­
penditure  of  much  capital  through years 
of  hard  work  and  unflagging  attention.
This  fact  should  not  discourage  sen­
sible  merchants. 
in 
all  other  things,  the  certainty  of  success 
lies  rather  in  patieut  perseverance  and 
persistent  energy  than  in  brilliant  but 
brief  effort—the  spasmodic,  “ flash-in- 
the-pan”   sort  of  methods  that  have 
marked  the  meteor-like  existence  of 
some  concerns.  Again,  as  a  general 
rule,  the  longer 
it  takes  to  build  up  a 
business  by  advertising,  the  more  solid 
is  the  success,  while, 
and  permanent 
invariably,  the  quick  triumph 
is  soon 
changed  to  decline  and  failure.  We  can 
all  remember  a 
list  of  “ brief 
booms”   that  lacked  stamina,  and  con­
sequently  died  a  natuial  death.  Their 
fate  should  be  a  warning  to  others.

In  advertising,  as 

long 

It  would  be  more 

In  commencing  advertising  it  is  not 
wise  to  assume  too  much  in  regard  to 
results. 
judicious 
to  prepare  for  small  losses  at  first,  to 
anticipate  those  little  disappointments 
that  are  sure  to  come  in  the  best  man­
aged  concerns,  and  to  set  to  work  with 
the  clear  understanding  that  many  diffi­
culties  have  to  be  overcome and  much 
annoyance  endured  before  lasting  suc­
cess  comes.  But  it  will  come  if  brains 
and  industry  are  properly  combined 
in 
the  effort  to  produce  it,  if  the  advertis­
ing  is  well-worded  and well-placed,  and 
the  statements  and  promises  embodied 
in  them  are  honestly  adhered  to  by  the 
advertiser.

It 

Some  men  assume  too  much  at  the 
start  by  supposing  that  it  is  only  neces­
sary  to  advertise  in  order  to  draw  a 
crowd  and  sell  goods.  There are  others 
in  business  besides  themselves—others 
who  may  be  doing  a  good  trade  because 
of  their  previous  persistent  advertising. 
It  is  not  likely  that  the  single  effort  of 
a  new  advertiser  is going  to  take  busi­
ness  from  those  who  have  already  built 
up  a  solid  reputation  by  advertising, 
and  thus  popularized  their  goods  with 
the  public. 
is  more  reasonable  to 
suppose  that  the  newcomer  will  have  to 
do  the  same  amount  of  advertising  as 
they  did  before  he  can  secure  the  same 
amount of  business  they  enjoy.  Neither 
is  it  sensible  to  assume  that  the  public 
will,  or  should,  believe  the  first  an­
nouncement  of  a  new advertiser.  True, 
it  may  have  no  valid  reason  for  doubt, 
but  it  is  not  in  human  nature  nowadays 
to  place 
in  the  profes­
sions  and  promises  of  a  stranger—as 
one  who  has  never  sought  publicity  be­
fore  must  necessarily  be  to  the  public. 
The  new advertiser  may  reasonably  as­
sume  that,  by  using  good,  attractive 
matter  that  states  the  truth  about  his 
goods,  in  mediums  of  large  circulation, 
and  keeping  his  advertisements  regu­
larly 
in  those  mediums,  he  may  ulti­
mately  secure  a  fair  share  of  business 
which  will  recompense  him  for all  his 
outlay and  give  him  a  handsome  profit, 
but 
if  he  expects  to  make  a  fortune 
little  or  no  effort,  on  a 
quickly,  with 
small  cash 
investment,  he  is  deluding 
himself  and  assuming  too  much.

implicit  faith 

Who  Was  the  Hypocrite?

Stroller In Grocery World.

impossible  to  get  along 

Some  truth-teller  has asserted  that  it 
is 
this 
world  of  sorrow and  care  without  nerve, 
and  I  believe  he  is  right.  Observation 
justifies  me 
in  declaring  that  the  man 
with  the  most  nerve  usually  gets  ahead 
the  farthest and  the  fastest.

in 

Grocers  have  to  have  nerve, 

too. 
Some  of  them  have,  heaven  knows,  but 
there are  lots  who  haven't.  This  is  the 
story  of  one  who  has,  and  who  tells  me 
it  pays  him  to  have.

He’s  a  little  grocer  up  in  New  York 
State,  not  far  from  Albany.  I  say  little; 
be  does  a  few  thousand  a  year,  prob­
ably about  the average  country  grocery 
store  trade.  Last  week  be  let  me  in  a 
scheme  he  has—a  scheme  which  for 
barefaced  nerve  and  downright  gall  I 
If  I  were 
have  never  seen  equalled. 
to  get  one  of  the  circulars  that  fellow 
sends  out,  there  would  be  one  store 
in 
town  where  I  wouldn’t  deal,  and  that 
would  be  his.

This  grocer  is  an  ardent church-mem­
ber  and  religious  worker,  and  makes 
money  by  being  so.  He  told  me  so 
himself.  Whether  he 
is  these  things 
for  the  sake  of  money,  you  can  infer.
I  have  my  own  conclusions,  but  they’re 
not  for  publication.

We—this  grocer  and  I—were  talking 
of  the  value  of  advertising,  and  the 
grocer  said  he  didn’t  believe 
in  it. 
That  didn’t  surprise  me  at  all,  after  I 
had 
listened  to  some  of  his views  on 
other subjects.  While  we  were  on  the 
subject,  he brought  out a  circular which 
he  said  he  used.

“ I  don’t  know  whether  you  can  call 
this  an  advertising  circular, ”   he  said, 
“ but  I  believe  it’s  done  me  a  heap  of 
good.’ ’
I  got a  copy  of  the  circular,  and  here 

it  is :

-----,  N.  Y . , -----,  189-.

D ear-----:
I  have  noticed  with  much  pleasure 
the  fact  that you  have  joined  the  ranks 
of 
the  First  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  of  which  I  am  a  member,  and 
it  is  my  desire  that  you  may  be  blessed 
in  your  religious life.  Everybody should 
be a  member of  some  church.  We have 
a  ’devoted  pastor,  who  carefully  looks 
after  the  interests  of  his  flock,  and  our 
church 
in  a  very  prosperous  condi­
tion.

I  presume  to add  that  I,  who  am  one 
of  your  fellow-members,  keep  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner of  Bank  and  Smith 
streets.  The  store  is  up  to  date  in  every 
particular,  and  I  strive  to keep  the  best 
goods  at  the  lowest  prices. 
I  shall  be
glad  to  take  you  by  the  hand  as a -----
(brother or  sister)  in  the  church.

is 

Yours  in  the  church,

When  I  had  absorbed  this  and  bad 
fully  realized  its  consummate  nerve,  its 
sacrilegious,  hypocritical  self-seeking 
under  guise  of  religious  zeal,  my  jaw 
dropped.  Then  I  got  hot  all  over,  for 
though  somewhat  unregenerate  myself, 
I  have  too  much  respect  for  the  church 
to see it smeared in this way.  The grocer, 
however,  stood 
looking  at  me  with  a 
fatuous  smile,  too  thick-headed  to  see 
how  the  thing  really  impressed  me.

“ What  do  you  do  with  this  thing?"  I 

asked,  sharply. 
“ Why,”   said 

the  grocer,  “ every 
brother or  sister  who  joins  my  church  I 
send  one  of  these,  filled  out  according 
to circumstances. ”
“ Do  you  get  any  custom  by  it?”   I 

>

asked.

these to  resent  it?”   I  asked.

” 1  think  I  do,”   said  the grocer.
“ Don’t  any  of  the  people  you  send 
“ We—ell,’ ’ said  the  grocer,  hesita­
tingly,  “ sometimes  somebody  takes 
it 
wrongly,  although  I  send  it  in  the kind­
est  possible  spirit.  You  see,  when  a 
man  or  woman  comes 
into  a  strange 
town,  they  feel 
lonely  and  appreciate 
the  grasp  of  a  Christian’s  hand.”

“ Y es,”   I  said,  “ I  suppose  they  do. 
You  appreciate  the  grasp  of 
their 
hands,  too,  don’t  you,  when  they  come 
to  your  store?”

“ Oh,  yes,”   said  the  grocer,  “ but 
they're  glad,  as  a  rule,  to  get  a  good 
grocery  store  to  deal  with.”

"W ell,  my  friend,”   I  said,  “ it’s  a 
mystery  to  me  that  some  of  your  church 
friends  don’t  jump  all  over  you  for  this 
sort of  soliciting.  ’

“ Why,”   said  the  grocer,  in  an  ag­
grieved  tone,  “ I  think 
it’s  all  right. 
Sometimes  a  man,  as  I  said,  don’t  take 
it  right,  but  that’s  because  he's  not a 
true  Christian.  Just  to  show  what  hypo­
crites  some  church  members  are,  I ’ll

now  bristle  with  prices.  The  great 
American  maxim,  “ Suit your  goods  to 
your  customers’  tastes  and  fit  your  price 
to  their  pockets,”   has  won  out.

Some  Elmira  Bargains.

From the Elmira Dally Advertiser.

A  West  Water  street  photographer  has 
put  up  a  placard  that  is  sure  to  attract 
attention:

REMEMBER!  BABIES  REDUCED 

TO  II A  DOZEN.

A  Lake  street  cobbler  has  this  cheer­
ful  sign  hanging  in  front  of  his place  of 
business:

STOP!  GET  YOUR  SOI.ES  SAVED 

FOR  75  CENTS!

The  next  one,  found  on  Railroad 
avenue,  needs  to  be  repunctuated  and 
reconstructed  before  the  public  will 
clearly  understand  it ;

COCKROACHES  CAUGHT  ON  STICKY 

FLY  PAPER  FOR  SALE  HERE

This 

is  the  first  time,  outside  of 
printing  offices,  that  there  has  been  any 
known  demand 
for  cock­
roaches.

in  Elmira 

As  an  example  of  the  condition  to 
which  corn  land  in  England  has  fallen, 
the  Fambridge  estate  of  763  acres,  near 
Rochford, 
forty  miles  from  London, 
valued  in  1872  at  .£30,000,  and  on which 
an  insurance  company  advanced  £20,-
000  on  mortgage,  has  been  within  the 
past  few  days  sold  for  ,£6,275.

show you  a  letter  I  got  a  few days ago. ’ ’
He  went  to a  desk  he had  and  hauled 
out  a  letter.  While  I  was  reading 
it  a 
customer  called  him  away,  and  I  made 
surreptitious  notes  on  a  bit  of  waste 
paper.  Here  is  the  letter,  and  it  suits 
my  ideas  as  thoroughly  as  if  1  wrote  it; 
Mr.  -----,
Dear  S ir:—I  have  received  a  circular 
letter  from  you  containing  a  curious 
mingling  of  religion  and  advertising. 
You  apparently  use  your  religious  affili­
ations  as a  cloak  to  try  and  secure  new 
customers.  Allow  me  to  say  that  I  do 
not believe  any  man  who  can  find  this 
possible  is  a  true  Christian.  I  shall  buy 
my  groceries  wherever  I  please,  regard­
less  of  the  fact  that  you  are  a  member 
of  the  church  I  have  lately  joined. 
If  I 
find  your  store  is  the  best,  1  shall  deal 
there.'  But  1  do  not  expect  to  find  it 
the best.

Very  truly,

“ Did  you  ever  see  a  worse  hypo­
crite?”   said  the  grocer,  when  he  re­
joined  me.

“ Hypocrite!”   I  echoed,  “ he did  ex­
actly  right—just  as  I  would  have  done 
under  the  circumstances!”

“ Don’t  you  believe  the  members  of  a 
church  ought  to  stand  together?”   said 
the  grocer,  in  an  injured  tone.

in  patronizing  those 

“ If  a  consumer  who 

“ Under  certain  circumstances  I  do,”  
I  replied. 
is  a 
church  member  can’t  get  better  goods 
of  a  grocer  outside  of  his  church,  1  be­
lieve 
inside  his 
church. 
If  he  can  get  better goods  out­
side,  he  owes  it  to  his  best  interests  to 
do  it. ”
“ Young  man,’ '  said  the  grocer,  as  he 
looked  at  me  sadly,  “ I ’m  afraid  you’re 
not  what  you  ought  to  be.  Why  don’t 
you  join  some church?”

“ I ’m  afraid  I  might  get  one  of  your 

circulars, ”  

I  said,  as  I  left.

There  ought  to  be  a  law  against hypo­

crites.

The  Power  o f  Price.

From N. Y. Dry Goods Chronicle.

General  advertising  operates  on  a 
community 
in,  a  general  way;  but  the 
feature  that  directs  the  steps  of  the  pur­
chaser  straight  to  your  store  is  the  fact 
of  the  published  price  and  description 
of  the goods.  Time  was  when  the gieat 
conservative  stores  of  New York  ignored 
this  power  of  the  printed  price;  they 
sternly  refused  to  yield  to  such  a degen­
erating  tendency ;■  the  traditions of these 
establishments  were  against  it,  and  so 
it  was  frowned  down,  although,  unfor­
tunately 
it  refused  to  be 
frowned  down  to  any  great  extent ;  the 
practice  grew,  and 
its  friends  to-day 
are  legion.  One  by  one  the great  stores 
have  fallen  into  line.  The  latest  con­
vert  to  the  idea  is  Tiffany,  New  York’s 
great  jeweler.  Tiffany’s  advertisements

for  them, 

a lew Cade Frosting

ready for immediate use, always reliable 
and absolutely  pure.  Put  up  in  12  oz. 
glass jars in beaten and unbeaten  form; 
Chocolate,  Lemon,  Vanillla  and  Rose 
Flavors.  $2.40  per  dozen,  in  cases  of 
2 dozen assorted.

TorgcsoD, 'Hawkins,  Torgesog  Co.,

WE  PAY  FREIGHT.

KALAHAZOO,  niC H .

I R M d  M u  Room 
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1 

Will  last longer than any other roofing  now on the market.
We have full  faith  in  its  merits.  But  if  you  want  other
kinds  we  always  have them at reasonable  prices.  Let us
quote you prices,  if you need  roofing of any sort.

H .  M .  R E Y N O L D S   &   S O N ,

S   Detroit Office, foot of 3d  Street. 

ORAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

Around  the State
Movements  o f  Merchants.

Rushville—W.  C.  Perkins  has opened 

a  drug store at  this  place.

Maple  City—Fralick  &  Ennest  have 

opened  a  drug  store  at  this  place.

Mulliken—Boyer  &  Crane  succeed 

Frank  Gould  in  the  meat  business.

Ionia—Wm.  Wing  has  purchased  the 

harness  stock  of  W.  S.  Bouk  &  Co.

Saginaw—Jay  Ostrander  succeeds  Jay 
Ostrander  &  Co.  in  the  drug  business.
Bay  City—Thornwaite  Bros,  succeed 
W.  J.  Thornwaite  in  the  harness  busi­
ness.

Portland—John  C.  Campbell,  of  Se- 
jewelry- 

bewa,  succeeds  N.  Cary  in  the 
business.

Mulliken—The  new  cold storage ware­
is  nearly 

house  of  Albert  Lawrence 
completed.

Durand—Dr.  P.  E.  Witherspoon  will 
erect  a  new  building  which  he  will  oc­
cupy  with  his  drug  stock.

Benton  Harbor—Winninger  &  Suther­
land,  meat  dealers,  have  dissolved, 
Rufus  Sutherland  succeeding.

Ludington—Frank  C.  Ewing  con­
tinues  the  carriage  and  implement busi­
ness  formerly  conducted  by  P.  Ewing 
&  Son.

Chauncey—Filkins  Bros,  have  sold 
their  general  stock  to  G.  W.  Bentley, 
who  will  continue  the  business at  the 
same  location.

Webberville—Dr.  F.  N.  Turner  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  bis  partner, 
Mr.  Harvey,  in  the  drug  firm  of  Tur­
ner  &  Harvey.

Charlotte—F.  H.  Goadby  has  sold  his 
dry  goods  stock  to  Watson  &  Newman, 
of  Des  Moines,  la.,  who  will  take  pos­
session  April  i.

Vermontville—Clark  E.  Smith, 

for 
three  years  in  the  drug  business  in  De­
troit,  has  moved  his  stock  to  this  place 
and  resumed  business.

Ishpeming—Chas.  A.  Lind  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of John  Carlson  in 
the  grocery  firm  of  Lind  &  Carlson  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location  under his  own  name.

Horner—B.  F.  Woodbury  &  Co.  have 
branched  out somewhat  from  the  regu­
lar  routine  of  the  drug  business  and 
have  put 
in  a  telephone  exchange  in 
the  village  and  extended  a  State  line  to 
Marshall.

Cadillac—Chas.  H.  Sinclair  and  John 
A.  Benson,  who  conducted  the furniture 
and  undertaking  business,  under  the 
style  of  Sinclair  &  Benson,  have  dis­
solved. 
Each  will  continue  business 
hereafter  in  his  own  name.

Cold water—John  H.  Buggie  has  ut­
tered  a  chattel  mortgage  to  his  wife, 
for  $3,255  on  his 
Mary  E.  Buggie, 
clothing  stock  and  book  accounts. 
It 
has  been  known  for  some time  that  Mr. 
Buggie  was 
involved  but  it  was  hoped 
and  believed  that  he  would  pull  through 
all  right.

Wayland—Geo.  McConnell,  who  has 
been  in  the  meat  business  here  for some 
time,  was  in  Sparta  last  week  and  pur­
chased  a  market 
in  that  village,  and 
will  soon  move  his  family  there  to  re­
side.  Mr.  Eugene  Hicks,  a  former  res­
ident  of  this  village,  has  joined  the firm 
as  a  partner.

Ferry—The  firm  of  Fisher  &  Gershon 
has  been  dissolved  and  the  business dis­
continued  at  this  place.  The  grocery 
stock  has  been  purchased  by  P.  F. 
Ernst,  and  the  dry  goods  and  boot and 
shoe  stocks  have  been  removed  to  Stet­
son  and  consolidated  with  the  general 
stock  of  Mr.  Fisher.  Mr.  Gershon  an­
nounces  bis 
intention  of  removipg  to

Chicago  and  embarking 
in  the  meat) 
business.  The  firm  had  been  in  exist-1 
ence 
than  six  months,  having 
opened  for  business  here  on  July  21, 
1896.

less 

Eaton  Rapids—L.  T.  White  has  sold 
his drug,  grocery  and  notion  stock  to  J. 
H.  Ford,  of  Albion,  the  transfer to  take 
tffect  Feb.  I.  The  store  building  has 
also  been  sold  and  Mr.  White  has  taken 
as  part  pay  for  the  property  a  third 
in­
terest  in  the  J.  W.  Brant  Medicine  Co., 
of  Albion.  Mr.  White  expects  to  move 
his  dye  works  business  to  Albion  as 
soon  as  he  can  secure  a  suitable  loca­
tion,  and  will  handle  the dyes  himself 
instead  of 
jobbing  them.  The  < drug 
store 
in  this^city  will  be  in  charge  of 
Mr.  Herzer,  a  son-in-law  of  Mr.  Fold, 
a  graduate  of  the  chemical  and pharma­
ceutical  department  of  the  University 
of  Michigan.  Mr.  Ford  has  been  a 
traveling  salesman  for  many  years  and 
is  well  and  favorably  known  to  many 
business  men  here.

in 

trust  mortgage 

Port  Huron—Asman  &  Beard,  dealers 
in  dry  goods  and  carpetings,  are  in 
financial  difficulties,  and  have  filed  a 
chattel 
favor  of 
Charles  D.  Thompson,  trustee  for  the 
creditors, 
for  $57,039.  The  mortgage 
covers  everything  owned by  the firm,  in­
cluding  fixtures  and  appurtenances,  also 
all  book  accounts,  notes  and  bills  re­
ceivable.  It becomes due  March  1,  1897. 
The  mortgage  includes  all  creditors  of 
the  firm,  a  total  of  118,  who are  divided 
into  four  classes,  A,  B,  C  and  D.  After 
providing  for  the  payment  of  all  neces­
sary  expenses,  trustee’s  compensation, 
taxes  and  insurance,  payment  of  credit­
ors 
is  provided  as  follows:  Class  A, 
First  National  Exchange  Bank,  Port 
Huron,  $5,500;  Strawbridge  & Clothier, 
Philadelphia, 
Class  B, 
Agnes  Beard,  $14,500;  Anton  Asman, 
Sr.,  $1,000;  Jeannette  Balmer,  $1,450. 
Class  C,  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co., 
$1,698.54;  S.  L.  Merriam,  $1,13 5 ;  L. 
A.  Sherman,  $425;  Walter  Sanderson, 
$471.  Class  D  comprises  109  creditors, 
to  whom 
is  due  a  total  of  $23,207.91, 
ranging  from  $5.75  due  the  Monatuck 
Silk  Co.  to  $1,626.42  due  H.  B.  Claflin 
&  Co.,  New  York.

$7,651.55- 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  H.  M.  Snyder  Co.  suc­

ceeds  The  United  States  Cycle  Co.

Saginaw—The  Michigan  Lumber  Co. 
is  succeeded  by  the  G.  A.  Alderton 
Lumber  Co.,  not  incorporated.

Muskegon—W.  R.  Konkle,  for  twelve 
years  in  the  employ  of  the  Alaska  Re­
frigerator  Co.,  as  one  of  the  foremen  on 
the  machine  floor,  has  resigned  in order 
to  devote  all  his  attention  to  his  feed 
store  business,  which  his  son  has  been 
managing.

Calumet—Work  was begun  Jan.  11  on 
the  old  Centennial  copper  mine,  near 
this  place.  An  assessment  was  made 
on  the  stockholders,  and  what  was years 
ago  one  of  the  prominent  copper  mines 
will  sooh  be  a  producer  again—of  cop­
per or another  assessment.

Detroit—The  Alpha  Manufacturing 
Co.,  manufacturers  of  shirt  waists,  has 
filed  a  chattel  mortgage  on  its  stock, 
machinery  and  furniture  at  134 Jefferson 
avenue.  Malcolm  P.  McGregor 
is 
named  trustee  of  the  mortgage,  which 
secures  seventeen  creditors,  who  have 
claims  aggregating  $16,330.  The  prin­
cipal  creditors  thus  secured  'are  the 
Singer  Manufacturing  Co.,  $1,502.02; 
Chas.  L.  Morgan,  $285;  E.  C.  Whate- 
ley,  $81.94;  Wm.  H.  Wetherbee,  $130, 
who  are  preferred  creditors;  Strong, 
Lee  &  Co.,  $13,803.23;  Merrick  Thread 
Co.,  $119.90;.  Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,
$119.55.

Tribute  to  the  Tradesman.*

to 

It  is  with  great  satisfaction  that  I 
meet  you  at  your  annual  gathering  to­
night.  Although  a  stranger  among you,
I  do  not  feel  myself  in  a  strange  land, 
neither  do  I  feel  that  you  are  all  quite 
strangers to  me.
Through  the columns  of  the  Trades­
man  I  have  held  weekly  seances  with 
some of  you  for  the  past  three  years, 
and,  by  reading  between  the  lines  of 
your contributions,  I  have  formed  a  fel­
low  friendship  with  you  only  next  to  a 
personal  acquaintance.

importance 

To be a  contributor  to  the  columns  of 
a  journal  of  such  practical  utility  and 
broad  usefulness  as  the  Tradesman 
is 
truly  an  honor.  Its  field  of  usefulness  is 
unconfined  and  embraces  the great  hive 
of  workers  for  the  honor,  prosperity and 
glory  of  our  common  country,  giving 
paramount 
industrial 
avocations  * which  are  daily 
adding 
wealth  to  the  world.  Devious  or doubt­
ful  methods  of  doing  business  by  un­
safe  or dishonest  dealings are  promptly 
pointed  out  in  its  columns  and  sternly 
rebuked. 
It  is  a  faithful  record  of  the 
experience  of  practical  business  men  in 
every  branch  of  mercantile  life,  intend­
ed  for  the  benefit of  the  less  successful, 
is  the  adviser  and  friend  alike  of 
and 
the  employer and  the  employed.  Per­
haps 
it  does  not  become  us  to  speak 
much  in  praise  of  its  literary  character, 
outside  the  cold  details  of  business  ex­
perience,  but  I  can  safely  affirm  that, 
through  the  vigilance  of 
its  manage­
ment,  unprofitable discussions  are  dis­
couraged,  all  personalities  ruled  out,  a 
general  air  of  courtesy  pervading  its 
columns 
in  perfect  harmony  with  its 
unrivalled  mechanical  make-up.  Every 
contributor to  such  a  journal  should rec­
it  as  his  duty  to  use extra  care 
ognize 
in  the  preparation  of  his  offerings.
Simple  language  used  in  expression 
of 
is  always  forcible  and  some­
times  eloquent.  Any  narration  should 
bear  the  stamp  of  truthfulness.  When 
the  imagination is set to work,  the fiction 
produced  should  follow  so  near the  line 
of  fact as  to  be  hardly  distinguishbale 
from  the  actual  truth.  A  knowledge  of 
when  and  where  to  stop  should  also  be 
cultivated.  Characters  or  descriptions 
that are  overdrawn  or  unnatural  always 
invite  unpleasant  criticism.

A  word  about  the  mechanical  make 
up  of  communications  for  publication 
may  not  be  thought out of  place  here. 
It  has  always  seemed  to  me  that  there 
was  (or ought  to  be)  a  moral  obligation 
resting  upon  every  contributor  to  a 
newspaper  to  place  his  ideas  before  the 
editor  and  compositor  in  as  plain  and 
legible  a  form  as  possible.  The  time  of 
editors  and  compositors 
is  always  too 
valuable  to  spend 
in  interpreting  bad 
spelling  and  worse penmanship.  A care­
ful  attention  to  these  suggestions  would 
do away  with  much  unspoken  profanity 
and  some  outspoken  cuss  words  in  the 
compositor's  room.  No  doubt,  many 
valuable  contributions  have  found  their 
way  into  that  common  grave  of  buried 
literary  hopes  and  ambitions—the  edi­
tor’s  waste  basket—from 
cause 
alone.

ideas 

this 

The  birthday 

anniversary  of  the 
Printers’  Patron  Saint 
is  peculiarly  a 
proper  time  for  holding  such  social 
gatherings  as  this.  What  better  tribute 
could  be  paid  to  his  memory  than  the 
general  adoption  of  the  custom  by  all 
the  newspapers 
in  the  country  on  that 
day  of gathering  together their employes 
in  honor of  his  immortal  name?

In  conclusion,  I  know  you  will  all 
join  me  in  congratulating  the  Trades­
man  upon  its  past  success  and  wishing 
it  the  continued  enjoyment  of  the  pros­
perity  it  so  richly  merits  and  the  honor 
of  first  place  in  the  rank  of  commercial 
journals.  To  my  fellow  workers  in  all 
the  departments  that  go  to  make  up  the 
Tradesman,  I  will  say,  in  the  language 
of  Rip Van  Winkle,  “ May  you  lit  long 
und  brosber, ”   and 
in  your  declining 
years  may  you  look backward upon life’s 
journey  with  the  same  pleasurable  sen­
sations  that  you  would  experience  in 
looking  upon  a  beautiful  landscape  or 
reading  a  pleasing  book.
•Address by W. S.  H. Welton at annual  banquet
of working force of Tradesman Company, Jan.

The  Old  Man.

Who, when bis evening prayer is said,
And wearily h -,8 gone to bed,
Who thanks his stars he's not been bled?

The old m an!

Who greets us with a cheery  smile,
In which the stranger sees no guile—
Until he's here a little  while?

The old m an:

Who, when the day is very hot,
Can cause the mercury to drop 
Until you wonder where 'tw ill stop?

The old man I

Who shares alike our woes and joys,
Aud calls us all bis girls and  boys,
And never seems to mind a noise?

The old m an!

Who, after all is said and done,
Who works from dawn till set of sun—
In short, who makes the whole thing rnn?

The old man

W ANTS  COLUMN.

BU SIN ESS  CHANCES.

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Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
head  for  two  cents  a  wdrd  th e  first  insertion 
and  one  cent  a  word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisem ents taken for less than 
35 cents.  Advance paym ent.

1  show cases—metal and wood—In good order, 
*7.50  each,  boxed  The  Converse  Mfg.  Co., 
Newaygo. Mich.________________________ 180

Iriott  SALE—SIX  8  FT.  ROUND  FRONT 
£¡>08 SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK OF 
EXCHANGE—FOR MERCHANDISE ORSELL 

'  merchandise—Forty  acre  farm   near  Hart, 
gooa buildings, 900 bearing fruit trees.  Address 
,\o.  170. care Michigan Tradesman. 

—80 acre farm two miles from station,  near 
Ferkiugs,  Upper  'M ichigan;  land  first  class. 
v\ rile tor  full  description.  P. A.  Bredeen,  Es- 
c-naba,  Mich. 

SMALL  SHOE  STOCK  WANTED—CORKES 
pond with XXX, care  Michigan  Tradesman.
|84
I  HAVE  120 ACRES  OF  THE  FINEST  HARD 

wood timbered land  in  Northern  Michigan, 
with  some  improvements,  well  watered,  aud 
half a mile from a  beautiful  lake, which  I  de­
sire to trade for  stock  of  groceries,  boots  and 
clothing.  Address  Box  *04  Harbor  Springs, 
Mich. 
r p o   EXCHANGE  —  MODERN  HOUSE,  9 
X   rooms, furnace, grate, gaa,  etc , 15  minutes’ 
walk  from  Monroe  street;  also  two  lots;  will 
take stock  of  goods  or  farm  for  part  and  give 
time on balance.  W. H. Kinsey, 19 Fountain st., 
Grand Rapids.___________________________ 181

Ij>OK S ALE FOR  CASH—STOCK  GROCERIES 

1  and crockery  invoicing  between  $3,OOU  and 
»3.500;  good location;  good  choice  stock.  Will 
sell  cheap.  Good  chance  for  someone.  Ad­
dress D, Carrier No. 4, Battle Creek, Mich.  177
r p o   EXCHANGE—58  ACRES  ADJOINING 
X   thriving village in Gratiot  county  for  mer­
chandise.  Address  Lock  Box  27,  Baldwin, 
Mich. 
1 1 7 ANTED—IN  GRAND  LEDGE.  MICH.,  A 
m   a  first-class  boot  and  shoe,  clothing,  or 
dry goods firm;  a good opening for any of  these 
lines.  Store  for  rent  Jan.  15;  located  in  the 
very best point for trade;  size. 22x85  feet, brick. 
Geo. H  Sheets, Grand Ledge.  Mich._______ 172

174

182

fee mill, show cases, Howe and Fairbauk scales, 

FtOK SALE—GOOD  SET  OF  FIXTURES  FOR 

grocery store, in< luding  $18  Enterprise  cof­
lamps,  oil  tank,  candy  trays,  cracker  case, 
cheese safe, etc., etc.  All  modern  and  in  good 
shape.  Will  be sold cheap for cash or  bankable 
paper.  Address No. 168, care  Michigan  Trades­
m an___________________________________168
Y17ANTED—TO  BUY  A  GOOD  WATER 
TT  power flouring  mill.  No  steam  need  ap­
ply.  Also  a  good  dtug  stock  from  $3,0u0  to 
$',<.00.  N.  H.  Winans,  Tower  Block,  Grand 
Rat .ids.________________________________ 166

1  Grand  Rapids,  having  established 

Ij>OR  SALE—FINEST  MEAT  MARKET  IN 

trade 
among  best  people.  Don’t  apply  unless  you 
have  82.0U0  ready  cash.  Good  reasons  for  sell­
ing.  Address  No.  163,  care  Michigan  Trades 
man.___________________________________163
"VIEW  HOUSE,  SPLENDID  LOCATION  AND 
i. 1  rented to desirable  tenant.  W ill  trade  for 
stock of goods in any live  town  of 2,000 or over. 
Address Lock Box 22, Lowell,  Mich.______158

Ru b b e r   s t a m p s  a n d   r u b b e r   t y p e .
ti>OR  SALE  AT  A  BARGAIN  THE  WAT- 

Will J.  Wel.er, Muskegon, Mich. 
rous’  drug  stock  and  fixtures,  located  at 
Newaygo.  B- st location and stock in  the town. 
Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.. Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.__________________________ 136

i jUIR SALE—IMPROVED  8u  ACRE  FARM  IN 

Oceana  county;  or  would  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address  380  Jefferson  Avenue,
Muskegon._____________________________1 iQ
Ij K)H  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
f   farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
m an __________________________________73

160

M ISCELLANEOUS.

druggist,  fourteen  years’  experience and 

sober.  P.  11. G., care  Michigan Tradesman.  162

■ ANTED—SITUATION  BY  R E G IS T E R E D  
■  ANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SU1P- 
■ ANTED—SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN- 

pers of butter and eggs  and  other  season­
able produce.  R.  Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit.

tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 

price, Vindex, care Michigan Tr&derman.  868

951

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Grand  Rapids  Oossip
J.  W.  Bottriel,  who  conducted  the 
grocery business  at  323  South  Division 
street,  has  closed  out  his  stock  and  re­
tired  from  trade.

Wm.  Vinch  has  removed  his  grocery 
stock  from  the  corner  of  Gold  and  West 
Fulton  streets  to  the  corner  of  Broad­
way  and  North  street.

Johannes  Fernambucq  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  at  632  North  avenue  to 
Albert  H.  Robertson,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Wellington  R.  Lawton,  general  dealer 
at  Berlin,  has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  of  Geo.  E.  Stahlnecker,  at  95 
Broadway,  where  he  will  continue  the 
business.  He  will  retain  his  store  at 
Berlin  and  divide  his  time  between  the 
two  places.

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co. 
earned  $$19,383  net  during  December, 
against  $20,424  in  December,  1895.  The 
net  earnings  for  the  fiscal  year  ending 
Dec.  31  were  $125,438,  being  an 
in­
crease  of  over  7  per  cent,  over the  net 
earnings of  1895.

At  the  fifth  annual  meeting  of  the 
Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,  the  following 
officers  were  elected :  President,  Chris­
tian  Bertsch;  First  Vice-President, 
Alonzo  Herold;  Second  Vice-President, 
F.  E.  Walther;  Secretary,  R.  W. 
Bertsch;  Treasurer,  A.  C.  Wetzell.  S. 
H.  Simmons  was  elected  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Directors.

Samuel  I.  Harrison,  who was formerly 
identified  with  Harrison  Bros,  in  the 
retail  clothing  business  at  St.  Louis, 
and  afterwards  engaged 
in  the  shoe 
business  at  the  same  place,  has  pur­
chased  the  notion  stock  of  Morris  Levy, 
at  29  Crescent  avenue,  where  he  will 
continue  the  business.  Mr.  Levy  will 
continue  his  connection  with  the  busi­
ness  as  city  salesman,  and  bis  son, 
Oscar,  will  cover  the  outside  trade of 
the house.

The  annual  banquet  tendered 

the 
working  force  of  the  Trademsan  Com­
pany  was  held  at  the  office  of  the  estab­
lishment  last  Saturday  evening.  Covers 
were  laid  for  forty  persons  and  only 
two  places  were  vacant  when  the  party 
sat  down  to the  repast,  which was served 
in  Caterer  Swetland’s  superb  style. 
After  the  menu  had  been  discussed  for 
an  hour,  a  couple  of  hours  were  pleas­
antly  spent  in  listening  to  volunteer  re­
sponses  and  the  relation  of  interesting 
reminiscences  connected  with  the  early 
history  of 
the  Tradesman  and  the 
Tradesman  Company.  The  affair  was 
thoroughly  enjoyed  by  all  present,  and 
affords  substantial  evidence  of  the  cor­
dial  co-operation  and  hearty  good  feel­
ing  which  have  always  existed  between 
employer  and  employe,  as  well  as  the 
employes  in  the  several  departments  of 
the  Tradesman  Company’s  business.

The  Potato  Situation.

The  following  expressions  from  sev­
eral  of  the  prominent  Grand  Rapids 
shippers  and  the  officials  of  the  princi­
pal  potato carrying  lines  will  be  of 
in­
terest  to  buyers  and  dealers generally :

Yes,  there 

C.  B.  Metzger: 

is  no 
question  but  that  the  movement  of  pota­
toes  has  been  greatly  aided  by  the 
change  in  classification. 
I  do  not  think 
that 
increased  the  price  very 
much—the  consumer  gets  the  benefit; 
but  I  have  shipped  quite  extensively 
into  localities  where  there  would  have

it  has 

been  no  market  but  for  the  change. 
I 
am  finding  no  difficulty  in  placing  all 
the  shipments  I  am  making.  Yes,  I 
am  handling  a  good  many  potatoes, 
but  not  as  many  as  I  would  if  there  was 
more  money  in  them.

Moseley  Bros:  The  change 

in  the 
rate  has,  undoubtedly,  aided  the  move­
ment  of  potatoes  greatly,  but  it  is  not 
yet  what  it  ought  to  be.  While  the  spe­
cial  rate  to  Texas  points,  which  termi­
nated  a  week  ago,  was  in  force it helped 
our  trade  materially  and  since  then 
there  has  been  a  decline  in  the  volume 
of  our  trade.  Yes,  we  feel  encouraged 
as  to  early  improvement.

C.  N.  R ap p :  Our  potato  shipments 
have  steadily  increased  and  the  outlook 
for  the  future  is  favorable.  No  doubt 
the  movement  has  been  greatly  helped 
by  the change  in  the  classification,  and 
during  the  time  of  the  special  rates  to 
Texas  points  it  was  considerably  stim­
ulated. 
The  outlook 
for  continued 
movement  is  favorable.

E.  C.  Leavenworth,  General  Freight 
Agent  of  the  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana : 
There  is  no  question  but  that  the  reduc­
tion  of  rates  has greatly  increased  the 
movement.  Naturally,  the  first  effect 
was  felt 
in  the  towns  nearest  the  con­
suming  points;  thus  Sturgis  sold  all 
its 
crop  early 
in  the  season.  We  find  the 
improvement  gradually  moving  to  more 
distant  points  from  market  and  think 
there  will  be  no  trouble as  to  the  move­
ment  of  the  entire  crop  on  cur  lines. 
Our  supply  of  refrigerator  cars  seems 
to  be  kept  busy,  but  there  is  no  trouble 
in  furnishing  a  sufficient  quantity  as 
yet.  Yes,  I  was 
in  favor  of  changing 
the  rate  and  I  am  satisfied  that  it  is  re­
sulting  in  finding  markets  which  higher 
rates  would  have  prevented.

Mr.  Williams,  for the Chicago  &  West 
Michigan  and  Detroit,  Grand  Rapids & 
Western,  thinks  the  outlook  good  and 
that  the  lower  rates  have  helped  the  sit­
uation.

Flour  and  Feed.

The  week  has  been  without  special 
feature,  either  in  the  flour or feed trade, 
buyers  being  content  to  purchase  sim­
ply  for  present  needs;  and,  while  the 
conditions  surrounding  the  wheat  mar­
ket,  or  which  affect  actual  supply  and 
demand,  are  such  as  to  indicate  much 
higher  values  before  another  crop  can 
be harvested,  the  trade  prefers  to  wait 
for  a  decided  and  well-sustained  up­
turn  of  the  market before  making  pur­
chases  for  spring  trade. 
Just  when  this 
will  come 
is  very  uncertain  and,  no 
doubt,  many  will  delay  entirely  too long 
to  get 
in  on  the  basis  of  present 
values.  European  traders  are  taking 
our  surplus  steadily;  and,  with  much 
smaller  world’s  shipments  during  the 
past  three  weeks,  they  will  be  likely  to 
take  what  little  we  have  to  spare  within 
the  next  few  weeks.  Grand  Rapids 
mills  are  getting  their  share  of  the busi­
ness  and  are  running  as  steadily  as  a 
limited  supply  of  good  milling  wheat 
will  permit.

The  prices  of  feed,  meal  and  mill- 
stuffs  are  steady  and  unchanged  for  the 
week. 

W m  N.  R o w e .

Guests  to  Burn.

“ I  had  a  funny  dream  last  night,”  
remarked  Albert  C.  Antrim  the  other 
day. 
” 1  thought  I  had  died  and  was in 
hades.  When  I  met  Satan  he  had  a  big 
crowd  around  him.

“   ‘ You  seem  to  have  a  lot  of  guests, 

your  majesty,’  I  said.

“   ‘ Yes,  indeed,'  he  replied,  ‘ I  have 

guests  to  burn. ’  ”  

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The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Nos.  1  and  2  were  advanced  a 
sixpence  last  Friday  and  on  Tuesday 
of  this  week  these  grades  were  marked 
down  to  the  old  level,  while  all  grades 
above  No.  1  were  reduced  %c.  The 
market 
is  quiet  and  rather  dull.  Do­
mestic  raws  are  firm,  and  the  Trust  has 
not  succeeded  in  bearing  the  market  to 
any  extent.  Only  small  purchases  are 
being  made  at  present.  '  The  European 
market  is  fairly  steady.  The  consump­
tive  demand 
is 
rather  small,  as  is  usual  at  this  season 
of  the  year.

for  sugar  at  present 

Tea—Jobbers  report  fair  sales  at  full 
prices.  The  trade  still  look  for  first- 
class  business  after  general  conditions 
revive  somewhat.  The  present  volume 
of  trade  is  not  more  than  half  what  it  is 
expected  to be  later.  The  Japan  tea  sea­
son,  which  starts  about  the  first  of  May, 
is  expected  to  develop  a  decided  short­
age,  which  will  probably  result  in  an 
advance  between  this  and  then.  Some 
dealers  prophesy  an  advance  in  Japan 
teas  of  2c  a  pound.

actual 

coffees 

Coffee—While 

are 
quoted  at  ^ c   below  last  week,  there 
seems  to  be  no  change  in  the  situation 
to  warrant  a  lower  basis.  The  slight 
weakness  is  due  probably  to  manipula­
tion,  based  on  reports  of  a  fairly 
large 
growing  crop.  The  demand  from  the 
country  has  been  good  and  outlook  en­
couraging.  Maracaibos  are  very  firm 
and  selling  freely. 
Java is firm  and  un­
changed.  Mocha  is  in  light  demand  at 
unchanged  quotations.

Molasses—The quantity  of  centrifugal 
goods  is  quite  large,  as  is  that  of 
low- 
grade  open  kettle,  which  are  decidedly 
cheaper  than 
last  year  at  this  time. 
Fancy  open-kettle  molasses  is decidedly 
scarce  and  will  probably  be  out  of  the 
in  a  few  weeks.  Prices  are 
market 
much 
lower  now  than  last  year at  this 
season.  The  demand  is  fair.

Rice—Stocks throughout  the  country 
are  at  minimum  and  it  is  only  a  ques­
tion  of  a  few  weeks  when  there  must 
be  widespread  demand.  Advices  from 
the  South  note  full  former  movement 
along  the  Atlantic  Coast,  with  enlarging 
inquiry  in  New  Orleans.  Foreign  sorts 
are  moving  at  satisfactory  rate  and  bet­
ter  selections  are  once  more  selling 
in 
advance  of  arrival.

P ro v isio n s—N o tw ith sta n d in g   th e  

lib­
eral  current  manufacture  of  product  and 
the  evidence  that  the  months  of  January 
and  February  will  show  a  gain  over  last 
year’s  operations, 
there  has  been  a 
more  confident  tone  in  the  market,  the 
trade  seeming  to  feel  that,  if  last  year’s 
total  for  the  winter  is  not  to  be reached, 
the  situation  on  the  present  basis  of 
values  is  an  encouraging  one.  A  better 
jobbing  demand 
is  being  experienced 
by  dealers  and  the  current  distribution 
of  product  is  fairly  liberal.  The  week’s 
exports  were  moderate  of  lard  and 
lib­
eral  of  meats-the  comparison  being 
with  an  exceptionally  large  movement 
last  year.

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  surprised  the  bulls 
as  well  as  the  bears  during  the  past 
week.  The  longs  were  exceedingly sur­
prised  at  the  decline,  as  all  reports  fa­
vored  higher  markets.  The  visible  de­
creased 
1,420,000  bushels,  the  world’s 
shipments  were  only  about  5,000,000 
bushels  and  the  world’s  visible  de­
creased  about  4,068,000  bushels.  The 
short  interests  were  timid  about  putting 
out  new 
lines,  but  were  nonplussed 
when  wheat sagged  so  easily.  The  only 
beqx  news during  the  week  was  the  re­

port  from  the  Illinois  Millers’  Asso­
ciation,  which  claimed  that  22  percent, 
of  the  crop  of  ’96  was  still  held  in farm­
ers’  granaries  and  20  per  cent,  of  the 
crop  was  still  held  in  grain  elevators.
If  they  refer  to  Chicago  they  may  be 
right,  but  Chicago  holds  only'  about 
150,000 bushels  of  winter  wheat—good, 
bad  and  indifferent.  The  fact 
is,  only 
about  50,000  bushels  of  this  is  good  No.
2  red  winter.  The  remaining  13,000,000 
is  spring  wheat,  which  came 
bushels 
To  show  how 
from  the  Northwest. 
scarce  winter  wheat 
is,  we  will  state 
that  a  Grand  Rapids  mill  bought  two 
cars  of  wheat  of  a  good  elevator  man. 
He  shipped  one  car,  but  wanted  to  be 
released  on  the  other  car,  as  he  could 
not  furnish  it,  notwithstnding  wheat  has 
declined  fully  2c  per  bushel. 
It  is  al­
ways  thus.  Rumors  of  $5,000,000 gold 
exports  and  more  bank  failures  all  help 
to  depress  prices,  especially  in  grain.

Coarse grains  are  as  dead  as  can  be, 
owing  to  the  superabundance  of  both 
corn  and  oats.  Prices  remain 
in  statu 
quo.  Rye  shows  a  slight  advance  of 
about  ic  per  bushel.

The  receipts  in  this  city  were  about 
the  smallest  on  record,  being  only  24 
cars  of  wheat,  1  car  of  corn  and  1  car  of 
oats.

Owing  to  the  scarcity,millers  are pay­

ing  85c  for  wheat.

The  growing  crop  of  winter  wheat 

is 
well  protected  and  promises  to  show  up 
well  in  the  spring.  C.  G.  A.  Vo igt.

Purely  Personal.

Sumner  Wells,  Secretary  of  the  Clark- 
Jewell-Wells  Co.,  has  been  confined  to 
his  home  for  a  week  by  an  attack  of  the 
grip.  He  is  now  on  the  road  to  recovery' 
and  hopes  to  be  able  to  resume  his 
duties  at  the  house  by  the end  of  the 
week.

Richard  R.  Bean,  who  served  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  eight  years 
in  the  capacity  of  book-keeper,  and who 
has  been  on  a  ranch  near  San  Diego  for 
the  past  year,  recruiting  his  health,  has 
returned  to  the  city  and  taken  the  posi­
tion  of  book-keeper 
for  the  Putnam 
Candy  Co.

interested 

J.  Henry  Moores,  President  of  the 
Moores  &  Weed  Co,  at  Lansing,  pro­
poses  to  remove  about  Feb.  15  to  Ellis- 
burg,  Miss  ,  where  he  is 
in 
two  sawmills  and  a  tract  of  50,000  acres 
of  yellow   pine.  M r.  M oores  has  been 
actively 
identified  with  the  lumbering 
interests  of  Michigan  for  thirty  years 
and  takes  to  his  new  location  an  inti­
mate  knowledge  of  the  details  of  lum­
bering  operations  which  will  serve  him 
to  excellent  purpose.

Easily  Changed.

Irate  Manufacturer—See  here!  I  sent 
you  an  advertisement  saying  my  pianos 
were  ‘ ‘ inferior  to  none.”

Editor—Yes,  sir.
Irate  Manufacturer—You  printed 

it 

‘ ‘ inferior  in  tune.”

Editor—Oh,  well,  neverm ind;  that’s 

easily  fixed.

Irate Manufacturer—Eh?  Easily fixed?
Editor—Certainly.  Change  the  name 
of  your  pianos  and  send  me  another  ad­
vertisement.  Here’s  a  card  showing  our 
rates.  Good  day,  sir.

His 

intended  bride  having  deserted 
him  at  the  eleventh  hour,  a  Crewe,  V a., 
man  thought 
it  too  bad  to  deprive  his 
friends  of  pleasure  just  because  he  had 
been  shabbily  used,  and  he  held  the  re­
ception  just  the  same,  discoursing  phil­
osophically  on  the  chances  of  life.

No  advance  on  Gillies  New York teas. 

Phone Visner,  1589.

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

NEW  PO TATO ES  IN  WINTER.

Interesting  Discovery  of  a  Wisconsin 

Man.

From the Milwaukee Wisconsin.

Genuine  new  potatoes,  fresh  from  the 
soil  as  in  July  or August,  will  doubtless 
be  considered  a  remarkable  delicacy  in 
midwinter.  Yet  just  such  potatoes  are 
now  on  the  market  in  Milwaukee,  and 
are  meeting  with  a  ready  sale,  although 
the  novelty  of  new  winter  potatoes  is 
one  of  the  very 
latest  things  known 
among  produce  commission  men here.

“ If  you  want  to 

inspect  really  new 
potatoes,  drop  in  and  see  us,”   was  the 
request  which  floated 
into  “ The  Wis­
consin“   office  yesterday  over  the  tele­
phone  wire  from  a  well-known  commis­
sion  house on  Lower  Broadway.  Taking 
the  sender of  this  message  at  his  word, 
the  potato  editor  of  this  great  family 
journal  was  sent out  to  investigate.  He 
did  so,  and  found  several  barrels  of new 
potatoes,  of  the Early  Rose variety,  with 
every  appearance  of  being  fresh  from 
their  native  soil.  That  they  were  as 
youthful  as  they  looked  was  soon  dem­
onstrated,  and 
the  assurance  of  the 
commission  man  that  the  visitor  could 
have  all  the  new  Murphies  he  might 
want  at  the  rate  of S3  per  bushel  rather 
staggered  the  potato  editor,  who  has 
long  been  accustomed  to  meeting,  inter­
viewing  and  writing  up  freaks  in  the 
potato  family.

the 

There  they  were,  a 

large  supply  of 
fresh,  young  potatoes,  tender  and  new 
in  every  sense,  on  the  last  day  of  the 
year,  when  “ old”   potatoes  are  ususaliy 
found  to be  somewhat  decrepit  and 
in­
sipid  from  age  and  the  general  wear 
and  tear  since  potato-digging  time  in 
the  fall.  Those  who  had  partaken  of 
the  novelty  potatoes  pronounce  them 
just  as  delicious  as  any  July  product.

Inquiry  brought  out 

fact  that 
these  new  potatoes are  now  being  pro­
duced  by  means,  it 
is  said,  of  some 
secret  process,  by  Frank  Dalzell,  an 
extensive  potato  grower  at  Genesee, 
Wis.,  where  he  has  a  farm  of  160 acres. 
On  this  farm  is  a  large  building  which 
no  one but  Dalzell  himself  enters,  and 
here,  it  is  said,  he  is  now producing the 
early  summer  potato 
in  all  its  glory. 
He  has  made  the  Milwaukee  commis­
sion  firm   of  Thomas  &  Shaus  his agents 
for  Wisconsin  and  they  positively  state 
that  they  are  daily  in  receipt  of  a  suffi­
cient  quantity  of  these  new  potatoes  to 
supply  an  average  matket  for such  a 
vegetable  novelty  in  midwinter.  They 
are  also  assured  by  the  grower,  Mr. 
Dalzell,  that  by  another  winter  he  ex­
pects  to  be  able  to  supply  the  entire 
Milwaukee  market  with  the  winter- 
grown  article.his  intention  being  to  put 
genuine  new  potatoes  on  the  market 
here  months  before  the  Southern  grow­
ers  can  have  any  of  their  very  earliest 
potatoes  ready  for  the  North,  which,  is. 
during  the  latter  part of  February  or  in 
March.  First,  he  guarantees  to  furnish 
fresh,  new  potatoes  during  any  and 
every  winter  month,  and  to  have  them 
in  sufficient  quantities 
for  all  by  an­
other season.

absolutely 

fresh,  plump 

It  has  been  suggested  that this  new 
potato  wonder  is  the  result  of  the  dis­
covery  of  some  process  for  preserving 
new  potatoes from  early  summer  until 
midwinter  in  such  a  manner as  to  keep 
them 
and 
“ new”   in  every  sense.  But  this  is  de­
clared  to  be  an  erroneous  idea,  and,  on 
the  contrary,  Mr.  Daizell’s  most 
inti­
mate  friends  insist  that  he  produces  the 
potatoes 
in  the  natural  way,  without 
hothouse  aid  or  other  artificial  means, 
except  that  the  secret  process,  dis­
in  their 
covered  by  himself,  is  used 
growth  and  protection  from  frost. 
It  is 
claimed,  also,  that  he  can  grow  new 
potatoes 
large  quantities  with  the 
ground  covered  with  snow  and  things 
frozen  up  generally,  just  as  easily  as  at 
the  present  time,  when  the  weather  has 
been  much  milder  than  the  season  calls 
for.  Whatever  is  the  secret  of  this  new 
move,  it 
is  quite  certain  that  “ new”  
or  “ early”   potatoes  are  now  on the mar­
ket  in  Milwaukee,  and  that they  are de­
licious  and 
in  every  way  as  edible  as 
those  taken 
from  the  average  garden 
when  the  robins  and  the  early  summer

in 

zephyrs  are  singing  carols  to  contented 
Nature.
Marvelous  Increase  in  the  Consump­

tion  o f  Eggs.

From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

It  has  become  an  adage  that  there  are 
millions  in  cheese,  but  there  is  more  in 
eggs.  I  am  told  on  as  good  an  authority 
as  the  census  of  the  United  States  that 
there 
is  more  wealth  taken  out of the 
hens’  nests  of  the  United  States  in  any 
given  year  than  there 
is  taken  out of 
the  gold  mines  of  this  country.  This 
sounds 
like  a  fairy  tale,  but  figures do 
not  lie,  though  sometimes 
in  a  presi­
dential  campaign  liars  do  figure.  This 
country  produced  something 
like  $45,- 
000,000  worth  of  gold  last  year,  but  the 
eggs  were  worth  more  than  that,  al­
though  just  how much  more  no  one  can 
say  to  a  nicety,  for  every  farmer  who 
ate  an  egg  for  breakfast,  and  every 
farmer’s  boy  who  sucked  an  egg  out be­
hind  the  strawstack,  did  not  render an 
account  thereof  to  the  United  States 
bureau  of  statistics.  However,  we  do 
know  that  the  eggs  were  worth  more 
than  the  gold.

*  *  *

an 

The  men  who  make  a  study  of  eggs 
tell  us  that  the  demand  for eggs  is  on 
the  increase  in  this  country.  Good  eggs 
are  a  good  thing.  Scientific  farmers 
say  that  the  brain  workers  of  the  cities 
are  calling  for  more  eggs  and  less  pork 
and  that  the  poor  people  of  the  same 
cities  are  taking  eggs  because they have 
to  pay  too  much  for  fish.  Candymakers, 
using 
too,  are 
unconscionable 
amount  of  eggs 
in  their  trade,  while 
butchers,  and  bakers, and  calico  makers 
need  eggs  in  their  trades.  At  any  rate 
there  is a  call  for all  the  eggs  that  can 
be  produced,  at  prices  ranging  from  7 
cents 
in  the  flush  of  the  season  to  23 
cents  or  about  that  figure  in  the  midst 
of  the  winter.  The  profit 
in  eggs  has 
set  people  to  raising  hens asa specialty. 
It  has  been  found  that  hens  will  sup­
port  a  man,  and sometimes  his  wife  and 
children.  Good  ben  scientists  say  that 
it  costs  but  75  cents  to  keep  a  hen  all 
the  year  around,  while  she  ought to  lay 
an  average  of  168  eggs  a  year.  A  hen 
farmer  with  600  hens  made  report at one 
of  the  recent  farmers’  institutes  of  a  net 
profit  from  his  hens  of  $1,076  in  one 
year.  The  man  who  made  this  profit 
says  that  he doesn’t  have  to  work  more 
than  four  days  out of  the week,  counting 
ten  hours  to  the day.  The  rest  of  the 
time  he  takes  for  reading  up  on  how  to 
raise  hens and  eggs.  Now  I  hope  this 
rosy  tale  of  profits  will not induce every­
one  to  rush  into  the  hen  business,  for  in 
this  thing  there  are  a  plenty  of  fools 
in  where  wise  men  fear  to 
who  rush 
tread.  The  man  who  does  not  do  some 
fine  studying,  and  use  good 
judgment, 
is  as 
likely  to  see  his  600 bens  drop 
over  with  the  pip  or  cholera  some  fine 
summer  day  as  he  is  to  make  a  profit 
oS  them.  The  hen  and  the  egg  have as 
many  enemies  as  have  wheat,  corn, 
watermelons  or  apples.
*  *  *

Three-fourths  of  the  unsatisfactory 
results  that  come  to  the  egg  and  the 
hen  business  come  through  the  same 
channel  that  unsatisfactory  results  come 
to  butter and  cheese.  To  keep  a  breed 
of  fowls  that  lay  the  maximum  of  eggs 
in  a  season,  one  can’t  let  his  flock 
roam  all  over  the  farm,  roost over  the 
horses’  mangers  and  qn  the  buggy  top, 
pick  up  their  living  around  the  hog 
pens,  behind  the  cattle 
in  the  stable, 
and  on  the  steaming  manure  pile.  This 
is  the  kind  of  treatment  that evolves the 
ancient  breed  of 
fowl  known  as  the 
“ dung  hill  fowl.”   The  man  who  asks  a 
hen  to  elaborate  fine  flavored  eggs  in 
her  anatomy  from  such  food  is  too mean 
to  know  a  good  egg  when  he  tastes  it, 
but  he  will  know  something  when  he  at­
tempts  to  get  rich  off  such  eggs.  This 
is 
farmer  that  throws 
whififletrees  at  his  hens  to  keep  them  off 
the  onion  bed  and  uses profane language 
whenever  his  wife  talks  about  setting 
some  hens.  He  looks  on  the  whole 
breed  of  domestic  fowls  as  so  many ver­
min. 
If  they  were  as  poor a  success  at 
their  trade  as  he 
is  at  farming,  they 
would  not  be  worth  the  raising;  but

the  kind  of 

hens,  properly  handled,  can  produce 
much  good  food  for  the  world  and 
profit  for the  breeder,  as  many  can  tes­
tify. 

_________

Meet  Sunshine  Halfway.

Habit,  like  fire,  is a good  servant  but 
a  bad  master.  Grumbling  about dull 
trade  gets to be a  habit  with  some  men 
and  they  keep 
it  up  even  when  trade 
has ceased  to be dull.  We have known, 
and  now know,  several  such  men.  They 
may  have  been  cheery  fellows  in  other 
days,  but  they  have  probably  incurred 
some difficulty  with  the  liver which puts 
a  smoked  glass  between  them  and  the 
fair outer world.  Nothing  bears a  pleas­
ing  hue and  they  have  lost the  knack  of 
hopefulness.
Everybody  knows that  business  dur­
ing  the  current  season  has been far from 
satisfactory,  and  yet  some  investigation 
among  grumbling  friends  has elicited 
much  better totals to date  than  they  or 
we  had  suspected.  There  are a  good 
many houses,  both  wholesale and  retail, 
that have done  more business  than  they 
did  to  the same  date  last  year.

It never helps  matters to look blue and 
grumble. 
If  any  good  can  be done by 
complaining,  have  it  out and  done with 
it.  Anybody  can  be  jolly  when  every­
thing  is  floating  his  way,  but  it  is  when 
the  skies  are  leaden  that the plucky  fel­
lows  shows  his  ginger.  Smiles  and 
cheery  words are  better  than  new  goods 
in business.  There are strong indications 
in  the near fu ­
of  great 
ture,  and  the best that all  can  do 
is  to 
meet  the  sunshine  halfway.

improvement 

Get  Better  Acquainted.

From the Pharmaceutical Era.

Much as  we  regret  to  say  it,  the  fact 
remains  that  there 
is  a  large class-of 
druggists  who are  unconsciously  slow  to 
grasp  an  opportunity  or  take all  that 
should  come  to  them.  These  are  the 
men  who  sell  what 
is  called  for,  but 
never  dream of  trying  to  push  an  article 
on  their own  account.  They  act  as  if 
they  thought  that  their customers  buy

medicines  as  they  do butcher's meat, 
and  as  if  the arts  of a  clever  salesman 
were  of  no  avail  in  a drug  store.  They 
are  entirely  dependent  for  the  disposal 
of  their  stock  upon  the demand  created 
by  the manufacturers,  and  never  lift  a 
finger 
to  stimulate  that  demand  or, 
least of  all,  create  a  new  one.

This attitude  of  the druggists  has  led 
to  a  curious  mistake  on  the  part  of  the 
manufacturers.  Because  the * druggists 
do  not  create  a  demand  the  manufac­
turers  think  they  cannot—as 
if  a  drug­
gist’s word  of  recommendation  were  not 
of any  a va il!  Nevertheless,  the  fallacy 
exists  in  full  strength,  and  every  day 
manufacturers  are 
losing  money  be­
cause,  instead  of  recommending  their 
wares  to the druggist  and  trying  to  get 
him,  in  turn,  to  recommend  those wares 
to his  customers,  they  ignore  him  and 
advertise  entirely  to  the public.  Put­
ting  the  cart before  the  horse  is  as  little 
profitable  as  it  is  logical.

To  a  Beginner  in  Business.

A  word  to  the  young  man  preparing 
to open  a  store  of  his  own :  When  you 
get  ready  to tell  the  public  what  you are 
going  to  do,  tell  the  public  what  you 
are  going  to  do.  Use  plenty  of  adver- 
ising  space  to  tell  your  story  well  and 
it  simply.  Don't 
thoroughly,  but  tell 
whoop.  Don’t  turn  verbal 
flip-flaps. 
Don’t  make  a  jumping-jack  of the Eng­
lish 
language.  Don’t  tear  your  hair 
and  froth  at  the  mouth.

Just  get  down  to  business  and  tell 
people, 
in  short,  simple  words,  all 
about  your  new  store  and  your  new 
goods.  Act  like  a  solid  business  man, 
not like  a  fly-by-night  fakir.  The  man 
who  merely  jumps  up  and  down  might 
as  well  stand  still. 
“ Soft  and  fair  goes 
far  in  a  day.''

OYSTERS

Work  up  a  good  solid  business by 
solid  business  methods. 
Coax,  and 
wheedle,  and  suggest,  and  argue—don’t 
try  to  yank  trade  in  by  the  hair.  As 
Bill  Nye  once 
observed: 
“ When  you  want  to  kiss  a  girl,  don’t 
grab  for 
time—it’s 
there. ’ ’

Wholesale foreign  ' .....fruii noil Vueles

ALL&RTON & HAGGSTROJH, 127 Louis St.

The only exclusive Wholesale Oyster Dealers in Grand  Rapid«. 
Prompt  attention  given  to  Mail  and  Wire  Orders.

Take  your 

sagely 

it. 

^

ANCHOR BRAND

Prompt attention given telegraph and mail orders.  See quotations in price current.

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

“ Illinois  Jersey  Sw eets”

are grown in Illinois from New Jersey Sweet Potato Seed.  They are just as fin< 
but cheaper.  We have them  oy car lot or less, also

CAPE  COD  CRAN BERRIES,  SPANISH  ONIONS,  ORANGES,  LEMONS, 

FANCY  W HITE  CLOVER  HONEY.

BUNTING  &  CO.,

20 a  22 OTTAWA ST R EET ,

GRAND RA PID S,  MICH.

FANCY  GOODS
9 N. Ionia St, Grand Rapids. 
Both Telephones 10.

Nuts,  Figs,  Honey,  Grapes,  Lemons,  Oranges,  Cranberries 
Spanish Onions,  Sweet  Potatoes,  a t . . .

STILES &  PHILLIPS

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7

GOTHAM  G O SSIP.

News  from  the  M etropolis-Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Jan.  16—Business  here  in 
grocery 
jobbing  circles  has  averaged 
from  fair  to  middling,  but  with  very 
few  has  it  been  satisfactory.  With  re­
ports  of  improving  manufacturing  there 
come  also  tales  of  curtailed  production 
and,  altogether,  we  have  no  great  im­
provement  to  report.  Over  one-third 
is  said 
of  all  the  money  in  the  country 
to  be  concentrated  here,  and  this 
is 
indication  of  depressed 
certainly  an 
business  in  the  country  at  large.
inactive.  The 
closing  quotation  for  Rio  No.  7  is  10% 
cents.  The  American  visible  supply  is 
about  17,000  bags  larger  than  last  year, 
but  almost  a  quarter of  a  million  bags 
larger than  two  years  ago.  Everything 
indicates  an  era  of 
for 
coffee.

is  weak  and 

low  prices 

Coffee 

Sugar,  the  market  for  refined  has 
been  quiet. 
Buyers  have  not  been 
numerous  in  person,  although  a  reason­
ably  fair  amount  of  orders  have  been 
received  by  mail.  No  delay  is  experi­
enced 
in  promptly  filling  orders,  and, 
in  fact,  the  delay  is  all  the  other  way. 
Raws  steady  and  unchanged.

Teas,  the  market  for the  better grades 
is  fairly  satisfactory,  but  the  general 
inquiry 
low-price  qualities. 
Auction  sales  bring  out  the usual crowd, 
but  no  particular  animation 
is  dis­
played.

for 

is 

Rice,  dealers  are  hopeful.  The  past 
week,  however,  has  been  a  quiet  one. 
Stocks  are  about  of  an  average  charac­
ter and  probably  one could  do  as  well 
to  make  purchases  now  as  later  on.

Spices,  there  is  scarcely  anything  of 
interest  to  chronicle  in  this  line.  Pep­
per 
is  firmer,  and  for  other  articles 
there  is  no  change.  Demand  has  been 
of  an  average  character,  though  dealers 
profess  confidence 
in  the  future—say 
about  March  5.

Canned  goods,  same  old  song;  and 
yet  a  little  investigation  shows that mat 
ters  might  be  a  good  deal  worse  than 
they  are,  and  that  they  have been worse.
Tomatoes  and  corn  are  especially 
firm,  and,  considering  that  the  demand 
is  not  active  and  that  buyers  are  con­
spicuous  by  their  absence,  the  feeling 
is  one  tending  to  an 
improved  feeling 
all  along  the  line.  N.  Y.  gallon  apples 
are  worth  $1.50© 1.75.  N.  Y.  corn,  6o@ 
70@8o@85c—the  latter  figures  for  fancy 
stock;  best  grades  Maine,  90c  f.  o.  b. 
Portland.  An  average  rate  for  standard 
tomatoes  is  70c,  net  cash.  No.  3  N.  J. 
pack  is  firmly  held  at  77)4@80c.
Dried  fruits  remain  in  light  request, 
and  sell  at  about  the  figures  that have 
long  prevailed.

Fresh  fruits  are  in  better  demand  and 
in  increasing  num­
orders  have  come 
bers.  Lemons 
show  no  special  ad­
vance,  but  for oranges  there  is  a  better 
outlook,  and  it  is  undoubtedly  a  pretty 
good  time  to  make  purchases.  Apples 
are  in  full  supply  and  sell  for  $1.75^ 2 
per  bbl.  Fancy  cranberries,  S5@fl5.50 
per bbl.
Butter,  a  better  trade  has  been  done 
during  this  week  than  last,  but  there 
is 
scarcely  any  difference 
in  quotations. 
Western  extra  creameries,  20c.  West­
ern  firsts,  i8@I9C.
indi­
cations  are  that  we  shall  see  advanced 
quotations  shortly.  Full  cream  fancy 
stock  is  worth  11c.

Cheese,  the  market  is  firm  and 

Beans,  market  remains 

Eggs,  the  market  has  been  so  fully 
stocked  that  quotations  have  been  ham­
mered  down  until  the 
freshest  stock 
brings  but  20c.  Values  are  entirely 
nominal.
in  pretty 
much  the  same  condition  as  before,  al 
though  if  any  change  be  visible  it  is  to­
lower  basis.  Pea  beans  are 
ward  a 
worth  97J^c;  marrow,  $ 1.17 ^ .
Molasses  is  in  very  light  request  and 
selling  prices  are  on  a 
low  range. 
Syrups  in  fair  request,  and  selling  with­
in  a  range  of 
i8@23c  for  choice  to 
fancy.
Annual  Convention  of  the  Michigan 

Dairymen’s  Association.

The  annual  convention  of  the  Michi­

gan  Dairymen’s  Association  will  be 
held  at  Charlotte,  Feb.  2,  3  and  4.  For 
the  first  time  in  the  history  of the organ­
ization,  the  work  has  been  carefully 
specialized,  the  cheesemakers,  butter- 
makers  and  jersey  cattle  breeders  each 
having  a  session  to  themselves.  Fol­
lowing  is  the  detailed  programme:

TUESDAY  FORENOON.

Music.
Prayer.
Address  of  Welcome—Mayor  of  Char­

lotte.

Response—John  I.  Breck,  Jackson.
President’s  Address—James  N.  Mc­

Bride,  Owosso.

TUESDAY  AFTERNOON.

Music.
The  Man  at  the  Receiving  Can—E. 

A.  Haven,  Bloom ingdale.

Rennet,  Its  Preparation,  Use  and  In­

fluence—Myers  Sine,  Clio.

Curing  and  Cooking  the  Curd—B. 

E.  Peebles,  Fairfield.

Dipping,  Salting  and  Hooping—B. 

C.  Martin,  Hilliards.

TUESDAY  EVENING.

Music.

'  The  Curing  Room—S.  G.  Power, 
Northville.

The  Needs  of  Michigan  Cheese  Man­
Fruit 

ufacturers—Geo.  B.  Horton, 
Ridge.
from  the 
Standpoint  of  Health  and  Economy — 
Dr.  Mary  E.  Green,  Charlotte.

Milk,  Butter  and  Cheese 

WEDNESDAY  FORENOON.

Music.
Appointment  of  Committees.
The  Chemistry  of  Milk,  Butter  and 
Cheese;  their  Adulteration  and  Methods 
of  Detection—W.  L.  Rossman,  State 
Analyst,  of  Lansing.
Patrons—E.  A.  Darling,  Willis.

The  Relation  of  a  Factory  to 

Separation  and  Care  of Cream—A.  H. 

its 

Pomeroy,  Petersburg.

Creamery  Buttermaking  —  A.  O. 

Barnes,  Caledonia.

WEDNESDAY  AFTERNOON.

Programme  furnished  by  the  Michi­

gan  Jersey  Cattle  Club.

Music.
Some  Great  Jerseys and their Families 

—J.  F.  Avery,  Ann  Arbor.

The  Jersey  as  a  Necessary  Adjunct  to 

the  Dairy—j.  W.  Helme,  Jr.,  Adrian.
Jerseys  vs.  Other  Cattle.  Liability  to 
Consumption—John  I.  Breck,  Jackson.
What  Can  Our  Association  Do  for  the 

Jerseys?—Hcmer  E.  Flint,  Detroit.

Do  Jerseys  Stand  Scientific  Tests?— 
Prof.  C.  D.  Smith,  Agricultural College.

WEDNESDAY  EVENING.

The  Work  of  the  Dairy  School—Prof. 

G.  H.  True,  Agricultural  College.
The  Old  and  New  in  Dairy  Feeding 
—Prof.  C.  D.  Smith,  Agricultural  Col­
lege.

The  Dairyman  as  a  Business  Man— 

Aaron  Clark,  Caledonia.
A  banquet  will  be  served  immediately 
after  this  session  by  the  ladies  of  the 
Congregational  Church.

THURSDAY  FORENOON.

Music.
How  to  Start  and  Operate  a  Co-oper­
ative  Creamery—A.  C.  Jones,  Middle- 
ville.
Are  Co-operative  Creameries  a  Suc­
cess 
in  Michigan—B.  S.  Holly,  Wood­
land.
The  Production,  Care  and  Mode  of 
Delivering  Milk  to  City  Customers—A. 
M  Welch,  Ionia.
If  time  will  permit,  reports  will  be 
received  and  election  of  officers  held, 
so  that  the  meetings  can  adjourn  at  the 
close  of  this  session.

THURSDAY  AFTERNOON.

Music.
Reports  of  Committees.
Reports  of  Secretary  and  Treasurer.
Election  of  Officers.
Selection  of  next‘place  of  meeting.
Miscellaneous  business.

This  Colder  Weather 

Is  good  for  oyster  appetites  and  the 
progressive  merchant  avails  himself  of 
the  opportunity  to  gratify  his  best  cus­
tomers  by  offering  the  best  oysters  ob­
tainable.  In  Eastern  markets  oysters are 
still  high,  but  the  famous  Anchor  biand 
is  still  being  billed  at 95c  per  gallon  by 
F.  J.  Dettentbaler,  of  Grand  Rapids.

Uncle  Silas  and  the  Universe.

“ What’s all thl* thing about?” says he.
“ What good is alt this wo-l’ to me 
The same ol’ thing!  Git up an’ dress,
Then go to bed. git up an’ dress,
What’s all this thing about?” says he.
But, as for me, I like to  see,

*• Wall,  l dunno,” says I.
This Ian’ an’ sea an’ sky?
An’ eat an’  w rk  like sin;
An’ eat an’ work ag’in.
Says I:  *  Can’t tell ye, John;
To see the thing go on

“ There ain’t no end to this machine 
So fur ss I have ever  seen,
Its belts aie hitched to far-off gears,
An’ I’ve no doubt ’twill run for years 
“ But w hat’s the thing about?" says he;
But. as for me.  I like to  see,

An’ 1.0 man hereabout.
Can tell what it grinds out;
Far out be-end the sun.
The way it alius run.”
Says I. •  Can’t tell ye,  John;
T-> see ’he thing go on."

“  ’T isday an’ flight an’  night an’  day,
The same ol’ thing,” says John.
“ I guess it is,” sa\ s i . “ but  say,
Let’s watch the thing go on;
For all the grass an’ things that grow,
An’ stars, it seems t« me,
Are jes’ a fr- e-for-nothin’ show.
For us deadheads to see.
An’ I ain’t tired of it yit.
It’s pretty mi'idlin’, John;
An,’ as for me. I like to see,
To see the thing go on.

“ I like to see the thing, my friend,
’Tis healthy sport for man.
Though  I  can’t  tell  ye  where  ’twill  end, 
Nor where the thing began.”
“ W hat’s all the thing ab .ut?”  “ Dunno;
’Tis fun enough for me 
To jest lay back an’ see the show 
An* wonder;  yes, sir-ee!
An’ so I guess that we are here 
An’ that’s our business, John,
To work an’ git ourselves in gear 
To h-lp the thing go on.”

S am  Wa l t e r   F oss.

A  Good  Example.

From the Pharmaceutical Era.

A  drug  store  was  damaged  by  fire,  and 
the  Secretary  of  the  Board  inspected  the 
drugs,  and  all  which  were  damaged  or 
deteriorated  by  reason  of  the  fire  were 
condemned  and  thrown  out.  We  do  not 
know 
just  how  far  the  Board  of  Phar­
macy  would  be  legally  upheld  in  trans­
actions  of  this  sort,  but  certainly  the 
idea  is  a  good  one.  It  is  all  well enough 
to  have  fire sales  in  the  dry  goods  busi­
ness,  but  when  it  comes  to  drugs  noth­
ing  but  the  best  should  be  allowed  for 
use.  Yet  we  have  known  of 
instances 
where  drugs  badly  damaged  by  fire  or 
other  causes  have  been  sold  and  used 
without  compunction  by  the  purchaser. 
Some  manufacturers  of  pharmaceuticals 
and  patent  medicines  are  supposed  to 
be  continually  on  the  lookout for job lots 
of  material,  and  to  be  not  over  scrupu­
lous  as  to  the quality  of  this  material, 
provided  the  price of  the article is right, 
and  some  cutters  have  been  accused  of 
purchasing  shop-worn  and  fire-damaged 
patent  medicines  at  low  figures,  to  sup­
ply  the  rapacious  demand  for  these  ar­
ticles.  What  would  be  the  best  way  to 
prevent  the  sale  and  use  of  damaged 
drugs,  it  is  hard  to  assert,  but  one  thing 
is  sure,  it  should  be  prevented.  The 
action  of  the  Vermont Board  furnishes  a 
delightful  precedent.

It  is  stated  that  the  Gulf  of  Mexico 
has  risen  one  foot since  1850.  With  ex­
is  as  to  whether  it 
perts  the  question 
contains  more  water  or  has  the  erosion 
of  the great  area  draining  into  the  gulf 
filled  the  bottom  to  the  depth  of  one 
foot.  Possibly  seismic  action  has  much 
if  not  wholly  to  do  with  the  change.

It  is  fully believed  that  Claus  Spreck­
els  will  relent  when  he  realizes  that  his 
daughter  will  have  to  live  on  the  paltry 
$2,000 a  month  that  constitutes  her 
in­
come  since  she  deeded  her  father’s gifts 
back  to  him.

The  Vermont  State  Board  of  Phar­
macy  set  an  example  the  other  day 
which 
it  were  well  should  be  followed 
by  other boards  throughout  the  countsy.

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WEDNESDAY,-----JANUARY 20,1897.

AN  AMERICAN  A RISTO CRACY.
Now  that Chicago  has  become,  as  to 
population  and  business,  the  rival  of 
New  York  City,  it  must  also  become  a 
social  center.  To  this  end  a  committee, 
with  Hon.  Robert  T.  Lincoln  as  chair­
man,  has  been  appointed  to  formulate 
a  social  organization  and  to  dictate  who 
shall  be  its  members.

There was a  considerable  demand  that 
the  Chicago  Four  Hundred  should  be 
based  upon  “ blue  blood,"  o r’aristo­
cratic  descent;  but  that  was  found  to 
be  impracticable  in  a  new  place,  which 
can,  necessarily,  have  no  “ old  fami­
lies.”   Doubtless  there 
is  no  lack  of 
gentle  blood  among  the  Chicagoites, 
but  its  representatives  are  in many cases 
poor  and  have  not  the  means  to  make 
the  show  that  would  be  required  in  the 
select  circles  of  Chicago.

The  simple  fact  is  that  any  American 
aristocracy  must  be  based  upon  wealth ; 
there  are  no  other means  of  making  a 
privileged  class  in  a  democratic  repub­
lican  country.

In 

this 

The aristocracy  in European countries 
is  so  by  virtue  of  possessing  certain 
rights  and  privileges  of  social  preced­
ence.  One  person,  in  the  exercise  of 
these  rights,can  sit  higher  than another, 
or  walk  in  front of  another,  on  state  oc­
casions. 
republic,  official 
station  confers  some  such  privileges; 
but  they  are  only  temporary  and  tran­
sient,  since  the official  of  to-day  may  be 
a  private  person  to-morrow,  while  the 
social  precedence  given  by  rank  and 
titles  in  monarchical  countries  is owned 
for a  lifetime,  and  may  be  transmitted 
to  descendants.  One  man  there  is  bet­
ter  than  another by  virtue  of  his  rank, 
while  here  there  is  no  such  title  to  su­
periority.

In  a  country  like  ours  an  aristocracy 
must  he  founded  upon  something  sub­
stantial,  and  there 
is  nothing  else  but 
money  that 
is  available.  However, 
there  will  always  be,  even  in  an  aris­
tocracy  of  wealth,  a  process  of  natural 
selection  which  will  bring  together  peo­
ple  more  or  less  congenial.  There  are 
some  rich  people  who  cannot  get  social 
recognition,  no  matter  how much  money 
they  may  have.  Moreover,  it  is  a  ne­
cessity  to  society  that  there  shall  be 
agreeable  and  cultivated  people  in  it, 
and,  therefore,  there  can  never  be  any 
sharply  drawn 
lines  between  classes. 
into  the  other,  and  soj
One  will  run 

there  will  always  be  a  decided  demo­
cratic flavor  in  American  society.

Social  leaders  must  be  persons  of 
ability and  distinguished  social  quali­
ties,  for  the  American  people  of  no 
class  will  ever  be  content  to  be  led  by 
gilded  fools;  therefore,  American  so­
ciety  will  always  possess  delightful  and 
charming  qualities,  millions  or no  mil­
lions.  It  is  announced  that  Anglophobia 
will  not  be  a  feature  of  the  Chicago ton, 
and  there  will  be  no  objection  to  per­
sons  in  trade. 
In  the  meantime,  crests 
and  coats  of  arms  are  blooming  out  on 
writing  paper  and  carriage  doors,  with­
out  regard  to  the  European  colleges  of 
heralds.  _______________

M ISTAKEN  GEN ERO SITY.

Attention  has  repeatedly  been  called 
to  the  adverse  effect  of  the  competi­
tion  of 
lands  given  as  homesteads  by 
the  Government,  during  the  past  thirty 
years,on  the  agricultural  interests  of  the 
country. 
It  has  been  shown  that  the 
older  localities  in  which  land  is  costly 
cannot  compete  with  the  fertile  prairies 
which  have  been  acquired  simply by oc­
cupation.  One  result  of  this  mistaken 
policy  has  been  a  depreciation in values 
of  the  older  lands  many  times  greater 
than  any  benefit  which  may  have  ac­
crued  to  the  comparatively  few  who 
have  profited  by  the  generosity  of  the 
Government.

legislators.  There 

But  these  considerations  have  failed 
to  leave  any  effect  on  the  majority  of 
the  National 
is  a 
popularly  attractive  sound  to  the  terms 
“ free  homesteads”   and  “ free  homes”  
which  secures  their approval  regardless 
of  the magnitude  of  the  ulterior  effects. 
Any  movement  looking  to  the  retention 
of  the  remnant of  federal  lands—a  rem­
nant  still  of 
immense  value,  although 
small  compared  to  what has  been  given 
iway—receives  no  attention.

Yet 

As  illustrating  this  proposition,  there 
is  a  measure  called  by  the attractive 
title,  the  Free  Home  Bill,  which  was 
introduced  early  in  the term  by  the  del­
egate  from  Oklahoma,  for  the  remission 
of  the  charges  of  the  Government  for 
the  valuable  lands  acquired  from  the 
Indians.  A  year  ago,  the  Secretary  of 
the  Interior  reported  that  the  proposi­
tion  would  involve  a  loss  to  the  Govern­
ment  of  over  §15,000,000. 
it 
promptly  passed  the  House,  and  as  it 
comes  up  in  the  Senate  the 
inconsider­
ate generosity  of  that  body  prompts it to 
add  an  amendment  making 
its  provi­
sions apply  to  all  sim ilar lands  outside 
of  Oklahoma  as  well.  This  amendment 
increases  the  loss  to  the  Government  to 
the  considerable  sum  of  §40,000,000. 
This  means  the  taking  of  that  amount 
from  the  proper  revenues  of  the  country 
and  the  distributing  of 
it  among  the 
members  of  a  class  comprising,  no 
doubt,  many  needy  ones,  but  also  many 
of  the  well-to-do  and  wealthy.  But  the 
injury  wrought  by  this  feature  of  the 
matter  is  much  less  than  that  resulting 
from  the  undue  competition  of  such 
lands,  as  already  stated.

A  small  minority  of  the  Senate,  ap­
preciating  the  injustice  of  the  bill,  vig­
orously  protested  against 
it ;  but  their 
number  was  too  small  to  stem  the  tide 
of  the  mistaken  generosity  of  the major­
ity,  and  the  bill  was  quickly  passed. 
The  amendment  will,  no  doubt,  soon 
receive  the  concurrence  of  the  House 
and  become  another  of  the  series  of 
laws  which  have  worked  injury  to the 
agricultural  interests  of  the  country.
The  greatest  tax-payer  is  tobacco. 

In 
the  last  twenty-seven  years  this  product 
has  paid  a  tribute  of  §1,000,000,000  to 
Uncle .Sam  alone.

THE  TRADE  SITUATION.

While  there 

is  considerable  disap­
pointment  that  prices  do  not  improve 
more  rapidly,  the  increase  in  industrial 
activity  and  in  the  movement  of  goods 
in  many  lines  is all  that  could  be  rea­
sonably  expected.  Manufacturers  of 
cotton  goods  were  too  prompt  in  their 
anticipations of  returning  demand  and 
the  mills have  piled  up  production until 
curtailment  again  seems  necessary.  At 
the same  time,  iron  and  steel  plants  and 
other  manufacturing  enterprises  w hich 
have  long  been  idle  are  resuming  oper­
ations  all  over  the  country.  The  nat­
ural  dulness  of  the  season  affects  the 
general  jobbing  movement  in  dry  goods 
lines,  but  the  reports from 
and  allied 
travelers  are  decidedly  encouraging,  esr 
peciallv  on  orders  for  spring delivery.

In  the  face of  strong  foreign 

indica­
tions  of  further  advance  in  wheat,  the 
bears  in  the  speculative  markets  have 
kept  the  price  on  a  slight  downward 
tendency  most  of  the week.  The  move­
ment has been  less  active  and  promises 
to  be  without  interesting  features for the 
present.

in  prints  than 

The  textile  situation  is  still  unsatis­
is  more  move­
factory,  although  there 
for  weeks  past. 
ment 
Woolen  mills  have  made  heavy  pur­
chases  of  wool,  but  there  is  little  im­
provement  yet  manifest  in  the  manu­
factured  products.

Hides  have  declined  slightly in price, 
but  there  is  a  decided  increase  in  the 
demand  for  leather,  indicating a healthy 
outlook  for  the  shoe trade.

With  the  exception  of  the  steel  rail 
movement,  which  is  Kept  back  by  what 
is  considered  too  high  a  price,  there 
is 
decidedly 
increased  activity  all  along 
the  line  in  iron  and  steel.  The  output 
of  pig  iron  increased  during  the  month 
of  December,  from  142,278  tons  weekly 
to 
159,720  tons  weekly,  but  heavy  pur­
chases  have  prevented  a  reduction  in 
price 
in  consequence.  Exports  from 
the  Southern  mines  still  continue,  and 
there  was  a  shipment  of  2,000 tons of 
billets  from  Pittsburg  to  Manchester. 
The  demand  for  steel  bars  and  finished 
products  is  steadily  increasing.

The  general  financial  situation  con­
tinues  favorable,  especially  at  the  prin­
cipal  centers.  The  movement  of  gold 
has  been  small,  but  the  import  for  the 
month  has  exceeded  the  export  by  up­
wards  of §2,000,000.  'During  the corres­
ponding  month  of  last  year the  export 
was over §14,000,000 more  than  the 
im­
ports  Bank  clearings  were §1,048,000,- 
000  and  failures  were  478,  against  488 
last  week.

PRO SPERITY  IN  BRITAIN.

The  commercial 

interests  of  the  va­
rious  great  trading  nations  of  the  world 
are  So  closely  knit  together that  what 
affects  favorably  or  otherwise  one  of 
them 
is  pretty  apt  to  react  upon  all. 
When  the  Barings  failed,  some  years 
ago,  precipitating  financial  difficulties 
in  London,  this  country  was  prompt  to 
feel  the  effect,  and  poor 
in 
Europe 
is  apt  to be  very  promptly  re­
flected  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 
justify 
This  experience  would  seem  to 
the 
in 
Europe  would  be  pretty  apt  to  be  soon 
felt  in  this  country.

that  prosperity 

expectation 

trade 

It  is  well  known  that,  for  some  little 
time  back,  Germany  and  France  have 
in  a  fairly  prosperous trade  con­
been 
dition. 
It  now  appears  that  Great  Brit­
ain  has  also  shared  in  the  trade  revival, 
and  is enjoying,  at  the  present  moment, 
a  period  of  great commercial expansion.
In  an  address  delivered  last  week  at

imports  showing  an 

Bristol,  Sir  Michael  Hicks-Beach,  the 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  of  the 
United  Kingdom,  said  that  the  prosper­
ity of the  country  in  i8q6 even exceeded 
that  of  the  preceding  year,  the  value  of 
the 
increase  of 
¿25,000,000,  while  the  exports increased 
in  value  ¿14,000,000.  He  said  he  had 
reason  to  anticipate  a  fair  revenue,  and 
declared  that  the  surplus  would  be  be­
yond  what  was  generally  expected.  He 
foresaw  that  Ireland  would  be  a  power­
ful  claimant  on  the  surplus,  and  he  did 
not  intend  to  discuss  the  difficult  q u e s­
tion  of  the  financial  relations  between 
that  country  and  Great  Britain  until 
Parliament  met.  He  did  not  wonder 
that  the  Irish,  in  face  of  the  report of 
the financial  commission,  were  demand­
ing  consideration;  but  there  was  no 
subject  which  required  to be approached 
with  a  more  judicial  mind,  and  which 
was  further  apart  from  sentiment.

The  fact  that  the  British  revenue  has 
proven  so  very  much 
larger than  was 
estimated  proves  to  what  extent  trade 
has  expanded  in  the  United  Kingdom. 
This  business  activity  will  not  be  long 
in  reaching  our  shores, if  only  our  legis­
lators  at  Washington  are prudent enough 
to  give  us  a  tariff  law  which  is  adapted 
to  the  exigencies  of  the  present time.

OUR  FOREIGN  TRADE.

Although  the  full  details  of  the  for­
eign  trade  movement  during  the  past 
year  have  not  yet  been  made  public, 
the  Bureau  of  Statistics  of  the  Treasury 
Department  has  already  issued  the  cus­
tomary  advance  statement  showing  the 
exports of  the  principal  articles  of  do­
mestic  produce,  including  breadstuffs, 
cotton,  oils  and  provisions. 
These 
figures  show  a  very  considerable 
in­
crease 
in  the  shipments,  not  only  over 
1895,  but  also  over  the  preceding  two 
years,  for  which  statistics  are  given.

named 

during 

articles 

1894,  and  §583,000,000 

The  total  value  of  the  shipments  of 
the 
1896 
amounted  to §634,000,000,  as  compared 
in  1895,  S537,- 
with  ouly  §522,000,000 
000,000  in 
in 
1893.  Cotton  and  grain  contributed  the 
most of  this  increase,  although  oils  also 
showed  a  fair  gain.  In  provisions  alone 
was  there  any  shrinkage,  and  that  was 
but slight.  The  exports  of  breadstuffs 
approached  very  closely  to  the  ship­
ments  during  1893,  the  year of  the  great 
scarcity 
the  higher 
prices  prevailing  that  year  were  prob­
ably  more  largely  responsible  for  the 
larger  total  valuation  than  any  excess  in 
quantity.

in  Europe,  and 

imported  during  the 

The  full  figures  of  imports,  as  well  as 
interest, 
exports,  will  be  awaited  with 
as  there 
is  every  reason  to  expect  that 
a  very  large  trade  balance  in  our  favor 
will  be  shown.  The  rate  at  which  gold 
has  been 
latter 
half  of  the  past  year  is  now  readily  ex­
plained,  as  it  was manifestly impossible 
for  Europe  to  settle  the  enormous  trade 
balance 
against  her, 
through  her  heavy  takings  of  our  prod­
uce,  in  any  other  way  than  by  ship­
ments of  the  yellow  metal.

accumulated 

Germany  is  “ making  up”   to  Mexico 
on  every  occasion  nowadays.  Germany 
appreciates  the  value  of  a  trade  which 
the  United  States  have  made  no  govern­
mental  effort  to  obtain.

It  is  suggested  that  somebody  at  once 
negotiate  a  treaty  of  arbitration between 
the  Senate  and  the  State  Department  at 
Washington.

If  you  don’t  keep  eternally  at  it  you 
will.become  a  back  number  in  no  tine.

CO N Q U EST  OF  THE  WORLD. 
Many  rulers  have  dreamed  of  univer­
sal  conquest,  and  not  a  few  have  at­
tempted  it,  and  always  with  force  and 
violence.

The  ancient  conquerors  were  able  to 
inspire  and  spur  on  their  men  by prom­
ising  them  the  plunder  of  rich  coun­
tries.  Alexander  the  Great  turned  his 
back  upon  Europe,  because  it  was  not 
rich 
in  gold  and  silver,  and  invaded 
Asia,  where  had  been  accumulated  the 
wealth  of  many  ages  of  civilization  and 
luxury.  Outside  of  Greece,  the  people 
of  Europe  were  barbarians,  and in many 
cases  savages,  living  by  war  or  the 
chase.  They  had  no  cities,  no  culture 
and  nothing  that  could  be  called  civili­
zation.

Nothing  was  to  be  gained by invading 
any  of  the  European  countries.  They 
had  no  mines  of  gold.  There were silver 
mines 
in  Spain,  which  were  monopo­
lized  by  Phoenicians  from  the  eastern 
shoes  of  the  Mediterranean,  and,  as  all 
the  world’s  wealth  was 
in  Oriental 
countries,  Alexander,  when he attempted 
his  scheme  of  conquest,  turned  his  face 
to  the  East,  where  not  only  glory,  but 
countless  wealth  was  to  be  won.

After  the  Greeks,  it  was  much  the 
same  with  the  Romans.  They  invaded 
Gaul,  Britain  and  Spain;  but  the  whole 
of  Germany  and  of  what  is  now  Russia 
were  left  almost  untouched,  because 
they  offered  no  rich  spoils  to the world's 
mightiest  robber  nation.

The  Spaniards,  animated  by  an  un­
quenchable  thirst  for  gold  and  silver, 
invaded  and  conquered  all  that  part  of 
America  in  which  there  was  any  civili­
zation,  and,  as  a  result,  an  accumulated 
wealth.  The  people  of  Mexico  and  of 
Peru  were  found 
living  in  stone-built 
cities,  in  a  comparatively  high  state  of 
civilization,  and  were  possessed  of 
im­
mense  quantities  of  gold  and  silver. 
The  natives  in  the  other  portions  of  the 
hemisphere  were  savages,  with  no  ac­
cumulated  wealth,  and  only  subsisting 
on  the  precarious  fruits  of  the  chase, 
and  they  were  not  worth  the attention  of 
conquerors  who  were  fired  by  a  love  of 
gold  and  were  willing  to  face  every 
difficulty  and  danger  to  secure  it.

Rome  plundered  every  country  her 
iron  legions  conquered,  and  left  all  the 
conquered  peoples  in  poverty  and  mis­
ery.  Spain  did 
little  better.  Robber 
nations  have  always  been  destroyers, 
not builders.  The  ruins  of  ancient cities 
and  the  destruction  of civilizations older 
than  their  own  are  the  chief  of  their 
achievements  that  they  can  boast  of, 
for,  after  they  had  spent  in  luxury  and 
debauchery  their  ill-gotten  wealth,  they 
fell 
into  decay,  and  Rome  finally  suf­
fered  the  fate  she  had  inflicted  on  so 
many  victims.  Spain  may  profit by  the 
example.

The  dream  of  universal  dominion 

is 
still  nourished,  and  it  is  stimulated  by 
the  same  objects  which  have  spurred  on 
every  other  conqueror,  namely,  the  de­
sire  to  secure  the  wealth  of  the  nations 
of  the  earth.  But  no  more  will  there be 
any  essay  to  win  it  by  force.  Commerce 
takes  the  place  of  war,  and  the  ships 
that  sail  to  foreign  lands  are  no  more 
filled  with  armed  men  and  munitions  of 
destruction.  They  carry  the  products  of 
peaceful 
in 
friendly  traffic  for  the  wealth  of  the 
strangers.

labor,  to  be  exchanged 

England  has  been  foremost  in  this 
sort  of  conquest  and  has  come  nearer 
than  any  other  nation  of  the  modern 
age  in  securing  the commercial domina­
tion  of  all  lands  and  seas.  The  present 
is the  age of  traffic  and  it  is  not  strange

that  Germany,  Russia,  Italy,  and  even 
France,  the  most conservative of all  the 
nations 
in  the  matter  of  colonies,  are 
seeking  to  extend  their  settlements  on 
many  strange  shores 
in  order  to build 
up  their  commerce.

In  all  this  extraordinary  movement, 
the  richest  and  most  populous  of  the 
civilized  nations,  the great  Republic  of 
the  New  World,  is  resting  supine  and 
inactive.  The  country  which  should 
lead  the  commerce  of  the  world,  and, 
by  virtue  of  vast  extent  and  geograph­
ical  position,  should  dominate  all  seas 
and  carry  the  world’s  products,  has  no 
ships.  This  great  nation  is  wholly  de­
pendent  on  the  ships  of  strangers.  The 
United  States  flag  is  a  rarity  in  most  of 
the  great  commeicial  ports  of the world, 
and  in  many  has,  perhaps,  never  been 
seen  for a  quarter  of  a  century.

The  American  people  seem  to  have 
no  faculty  for  handling  the  world’s 
trade.  The 
idea  most  popular  with 
them  is  to get  money;  not by trafficking 
with  the  nations  of  the  earth,  but  out  of 
each  other by  means  of  class  legislation 
and  special  privileges  to certain classes. 
is  that  there  is  no great  and 
Thus 
wise  system  of  national 
finance  and 
commerce  in  this  country.  There  seems 
to  be  an  utter  ignorance  or  neglect  of 
the  fact  that  wealth  is  to  be  gathered 
from  other  countries,  but  now  by  the 
peaceful  methods of  trade  rather  than 
by  war  and  conquest.

it 

The  eloquent  Henry  Watterson,  one 
of  the  most  eminent  journalists  in  this 
country,  said 
in  a  speech  in  Chicago, 
on  Jackson’s  Day,  that  to-day  the  mil­
love 
lions  of  the  American  people 
money  more  than  liberty. 
If  so,  they 
ought to  use  the  wisest  methods  within 
their  reach  to get  it.  But,  so  far  from 
that,  they  are  not  seeking  to  bring 
wealth  into  the  country,  and  so  increase 
the  common  stock.  On  the  contrary, 
they  seem  to  have  no  other  idea  than  to 
take  from  those  of  their  own  country­
it,  and,  in  a  word,  to 
men  who  have 
inaugurate  an  internal  and 
internecine 
struggle  for  the  possession  of  what  there 
is  already  here.

All  American  politics  to-day  tends  to 
that  end.  The  ultra  protectionists  are 
just  as  much  wrong as  are the socialists, 
and  thus 
is  that  the  country  which 
should  dominate  the  commerce  of  the 
world 
is  far  behind  many  weaker  but 
more  enterprising  nations.

it 

THE  NEW  SECTIO N ALISM .

The  Populist  Governor  of  Kansas 
sent  his  first  message  to  the  State  Leg­
islature  last  Tuesday. 
It  was  specially 
remarkable  for  its  violent  attack  on  the 
Eastern  States,  their cities,  their morals 
and  their  press.  He  characterized  the 
cities  of  New  York  and  Chicago  as 
semi-civilized 
foreign  colonies,  with 
semi-barbaric  splendor at  the  apex,  and 
semi-barbaric  squalor  at  the  base  of 
their  social  life,  the  vicious  instincts 
of  whose  people  are  pandered  to  by  a 
venal  press.
This  is a  violent  assault  on  the  social 
life  of  the  Eastern  States,  and 
is  the 
first that  has  been  officially  made.  The 
Western  socialists,  with Governor Waite, 
of  Colorado,  for  a  spokesman,  threat­
ened  to  slaughter  the  Shylocks  and 
money-grabbers  of  the  East  until  the 
Western  hordes  should  ride  in  blood  up 
to  the bridle-bits;  but they  proposed  to 
spare  the  women  and  children.  But 
now  Governor  Leedy,  of  Kansas,  em­
braces  all  classes and  conditions  in  his 
fierce  and  scandalous  denunciations. 
This  is  a  more  loud-mouthed  sectional­
ism  than  ever  gave tongue  in  the  pre­
liminary  war of  words  which  preceded 
the  conflict  of  arms  between  the  South 
and  the  North.  The  one  ended  in  a 
bloody  war.  What  will  be  the  climax 
of the  other?

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

THE  BRITISH  EM PIRE.

It  is  rather  a  noteworthy  fact  that  re­
less 
cently  Great  Britain  has  shown 
disposition 
to  acquire  new  territory 
than  was  formerly  her  wont.  Notwith­
standing  the  pickings  which  the  result 
of  the  war between  China  and Japan left 
for  the  great  powers  to  quarrel  over, 
England  made  no  sign  of  any  desire  to 
share  in  the  spoils,  and  Russia  was  al­
lowed  to  elbow  Japan  out  of  the  fruits 
of  a  dearly-bought  victory  without  op­
position.

People  who  have  watched  the  course 
of  British  diplomacy for  the past quarter 
of  a  century  and  more  are  wondering 
what  can  be  the  cause  of  this  forbear­
ance.  During  the  periods  when  Mr. 
Gladstone  held  the  reins  of  power it was 
well  understood  that  he  was  opposed  to 
further  colonial  extensions  and  was  pre­
pared  to  withdraw  from  existing  re­
sponsibilities  in  that  line.  The  present 
conservative  Government,  however,  has 
always  been  active 
in  fostering  terri­
torial  extensions  and  is  adverse to yield­
ing  a  single  foot of  territory  now  held. 
It 
is,  therefore,  somewhat  remarkable 
that  Lord  Salisbury  should  have allowed 
so  many  recent  opportunities  to  pass  by 
without  seeking  to  secure  fresh  addi­
tions  to  the  British  domain.

Some  explanation  may  be  found  for 
the  inactivity  displayed  by  Great  Brit­
ain,  in  the  speeches  which  have  been 
made  by  cabinet  ministers  and  other 
public  men  in  England  on  the  Turkish 
question.  All  these  speeches  indicate 
an  unwillingness  to  interfere  in  Turkey 
for  fear  that  such  interference  should 
precipitate  a  dismemberment  of  the 
Turkish  Empire  at  a  time  when 
it 
inconvenient  for  England  to 
would  be 
profit  extensively  by  the break-up. 
It 
is,  in  fact,  admitted  that,  for  the  time 
being,  Great  Britain  has  her  hands  full 
in  looking  after  the  various  and  widely- 
separated  British  possessions  and  that, 
in  the  event  of  war,  it  would  be  already 
a  difficult  task  to  properly  defend  every 
portion  of  the  Empire  as  it  now  exists. 
Here,  then,  is  a  plausible explanation of 
the  recent  inactivity  of  England  in  the 
scramble 
for  new  territory.  She  has 
more  already  than  she  can  properly care 
for.

free 

For  several  years  past  the British gov­
ernment  has  endeavored  to  promote  a 
closer  union  of  interests  between  the va­
rious  fragments  of  the  British  Empire. 
to 
Colonial  secretaries  have 
sought 
bring  about  an  imperial  federation 
in 
which  the  colonists  might  be  brought 
into  a  close  understanding  with  the 
mother  country  on  matters  relating  to 
the  common  defense.  A 
inter­
change  of  products  was  also  a  part  of 
the  federation  scheme,  but the  difficulty 
of  bringing  about  an  equalization  of 
tariffs  has  so  far  been  in  the  way  of  the 
success  of  the  imperial  federation  plan. 
The  anxiety  of  England  to  enlist  the 
colonies  in  a  movement  for  the  general 
defense  proves  that  the  burden  of  pro­
viding  for  the  protection  of  all  parts  of 
the  Empire 
is  bearing  more  heavily 
than  formerly  on  the  home  government.
The  recent  statements  of  Lord  Rob­
erts  with  respect  to  India  also  prove 
that  the  Biitish  government  sees  em­
barrassments  ahead  in  the  management 
of the  magnificent  Indian  Empire,  the 
most  valuable  of  all  England’s  posses­
sions.  While  it  is  true  that  the  Indian 
army 
in  splendid  condition  and  is 
undoubtedly  loyal,  there  are  many  evi­
dences,  as  Lord  Roberts  points  out,  of 
dissatisfaction  among  the  great  masses 
of  the  Indian  population.  The  existing 
famine  in  India  only  serves to  intensify

is 

8

more  enduring  subjects  of  discontent.
Profiting by past experiences,  England 
will  no  doubt  take  such  steps  as  will se­
cure  the  tranquility  of  India,  but  the 
necessity for such precautions only serves 
to  add  emphasis  to  the  explanation 
given  above  of  the  recent 
inactivity 
shown  in  the  scramble  for  new territory.

AMERICAN  PHILANTHROPY.
The  world 

is  not  nearly  so  bad  as 
some  of  the  pessimists  would  have  us 
believe,  and  those  who  try  to  find  evi­
dences  of  the  steady  progress  of  man’s 
humanity  to  man  can  discover  them 
easily  at almost  any  time  in  this 
latter 
part  of  the  Nineteenth  Century.

indicate 

requirements  of 

in  a  Nation  and 

The  provisions  made  through  private 
donations  for  education,  religion  and 
charity, 
from  year  to  year,  measure 
admirably  the  extent  of  moral  develop­
ment 
the 
growth  of  the  idea  of  the  citizen's  obli­
gations  to his  fellows,  above and beyond 
the 
legal  statutes. 
Measured  by  such  tests,  the  year  just 
past  shows  a  gratifying  and  remarkable 
progress  over  the  preceding  year,  as, 
indeed,  1895  showed  over  1894. 
In  the 
latter  year  the  sum  total  of  the  bequests 
of  the  character  above indicated,accord­
ing  to  the  Chicago  Tribune,  amounted, 
In 
in  this  country,  to  but  $19,967,000. 
1896 the  sum  was  $33,670,000. 
In 
1895 
reached  $28,943,000. 
these 
Here 
for  the 
worthy  objects  among  which  these  large 
sums  are  distributed.  Of  the  money 
given 
year,  colleges  obtained 
$16,814,000, in  round numbers; charities, 
$10,854,000;  churches,  $2,135,000;  mu­
seums  and  galleries,  $2,333,000,  and 
libraries,  $1,452,000.

charities 
is  seen  a  steady  gain 

last 

When  the  unusually 

fortunate  and 
wealthy  people  of  the  world  begin  thus 
to  recognize  their  moral  obligation  to 
the  cause  of  education  and  charity  and 
religion,  there  is  great  hope  for  the  fu­
ture.  Immense  fortunes  will be regarded 
less  suspicion  and  enmity  by  the 
with 
general  populace  when  the  multi-mil­
lionaires  betray  a  sympathy  in  a  prac­
tical  way  with  the  less  fortunate  life 
about  them.  The  poor  have  ever  been 
dependent  upon  the  rich  for  any  com­
forts  enjoyed  beyond  the  bare  neces­
saries  of  life.  The  higher 
institutions 
the  public  galleries, 
of 
libraries,  great  hospitals 
and  other 
adjuncts  of  our  humane  and  refining 
civilization  must  largely  depend  upon 
voluntary  contributions.  Where  shall 
these  benefactions  come  from 
if  not 
from  the  rich? 
In  proportion  as  the 
great  millionaires—and,  indeed,  wealthy 
people  generally—recognize  their  stew­
ardship  for  the  public,  in  just  such pro­
portion  will  their  fortunes  in  the  future 
be  safe  and  the  world  grow  better.

learning, 

in 

1663. 

The discussion  about  the  origin  of the 
fountain  pen  has  led  to  the  discovery 
that  the  Danish  Countess  Ulfeldt  had 
one 
In  her  account  of  her 
prison  life  she  speaks  of  her “ silver pen 
filled  with  ink,  which it can send forth.’ ’ 
It  must  have  been  a  different  fountain 
pen  from  the  kind  made  now  if  it “ sent 
forth  ink.”

Governor  Black,  of  New  York,  has  no 
fault  to  find  with  the  fact  that  the  State 
appropriated  $1,000,000 to  preserve  the 
surroundings  of  Niagara  Falls,  but  says 
that  this  object 
insignificant  com­
pared  with  the  necessity  of  keeping  in­
tact  the  Adirondack  forests.

is 

Somebody  told  a  New  York  woman 
that  gasoline  would  burn  better 
if  it 
live  long 
were  boiled.  She  did  not 
enough  to  find  out  how  the  experiment 
terminated.

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

Early  Aspirations  o f  an  Embryo 

W ritten fo r the T r a d is m a h .

Merchant.

My  first commercial  aspirations  were 
of  a  very  modest  character. 
Some 
young  ladies  came  to  our house to spend 
a  Fourth  of  July  when  I  was  a  little 
boy. 
I  had  acquired  a  bag  of  candy, 
and  it  occurred  to  me  that  I  might  start 
a  store therewith,  and  finally  obtained 
permission  to  use  an  empty  box  for a 
counter.  Mother  suggested  that  I  dis­
pense  the  goods  without  recompense, 
but  this  view  of  the  matter did  not gain 
my  approval.  Mine  was  to  be a  regu 
lar  store,  and  people  who  bought  must 
pay.  Mother's 
ideas  of  hospitality 
were  much  more  pronounced  than  those 
which  touched  matters  commercial,  so 
that  we  finally  compromised.  The girls 
bought  liberally  of  my  stock 
in  trade, 
paying  for  it  in  pins—and  Mother  fur­
nished  the  medium  of  exchange.

in  a  small  city 

Next  I  find  myself  in  company  with 
another  boy  planning  to  set  up  in  the 
peanut  business 
in 
Northern  Wisconsin.  We thought  a  reg­
ular  stand 
like  old  Mrs.  Maloney's 
would  about  fit  our  case,  and  we  had 
selected  the  street  corner where it should 
repose.  There  were a  good  many  bad 
boys  in  Oconto,and  we decided  that  the 
first  of  our  fixtures  should  be  a  large 
and  heavy  black  snake  whip  with  a 
very long lash.  Armed with  this weapon, 
we  would  pursue  the  recreant  gamin 
who  refused  to  liquidate,  and  chastise 
him.  The  peanut  business  fell through, 
but  I  do  not  find  that  these  aspirations 
interfered 
in  any  way  with  the  normal 
development  of  my  mind,  for  I  remem­
ber  with  a  pang  of  regret,  which  the 
softening  hand  of  time  can  never  quite 
obliterate,  the  intense grief  I  felt  when 
father  refused  point  blank  to  let  me  go

to  work  in  a  shingle  mill.  Other  boys 
of  my  age  filled  positions  in  that 
insti­
tution,  and  earned 
in  some  cases  as 
much  as  seventy-five  cents  a  day.  A 
boy  I  know  ran  a  knot  saw  there,  and 
lost  three  fingers  and  a  thumb,  and  was 
a  hero  for  ever  so  long.  But  that  made 
no  difference  with 
I  even 
thought,  if  possible,  he  was  more  un­
yielding  than  before  that happened,  and 
I  was  half  sorry  that  I  told  him  of  it. 
However  I  did  not  work  in  the  shingle 
mill,  and  bad  to  console  myself  by 
wading  a  little  farther  than  any  other 
boy  of  my  size  in  the  old  muddy  slough 
back  of  the  Jefferson  schoolhouse.

father. 

Charlie  Smith  had  a  gun,  and  when 
he  started  for  the  woods  on  Saturdays, 
there  was  always  a  small  drove  of  boys 
who  wanted  to  go  with  him. 
1  shall 
probably  never  forget  the  pride  that 
filled  my  breast  when  of  all  the  rest  I 
was  chosen  one  afternoon  to  accompany 
him  upon  his  hunting  expedition. 
1 
was  allowed  to  carry  the  gun  where  no 
game  was  visible. 
It  was a  great  heavy 
musket,  and 
it  wore  the  skin  off  my 
shoulder,  and  hurt  my  back.  Charlie 
shot a  porcupine  and  a  very  large  owl, 
and  he  let  me  carry  them,  too. 
I  got  a 
quill 
in  one  of  my  legs,  and  the  owl 
recovered  consciousness  long  enough  to 
bite a  piece  out of  my  right  hand.  But 
that  was  nothing.  There  wasn’t  a  boy 
in  my grade  who  wouldn’t  have  given 
ten  years  of  his  life  to  have  been  in  my 
place.  Ultimately  I  became  the  pos­
sessor  of  a  gun,  too,  and  later  in  life  I 
acquired  a  watch.  A  horse 
trader 
queered  me  out  of  my  timepiece,  and 
I  sold  the  gun  for  $2.

Thus  I  have  brought  you  by  easy 
stages  to  the  time  when  1  entered  the 
employ  of  Wadsworth  &  Thurston  at  a 
salary  of  $5  a  month.

A  man  wanted  some matches  and  Mr. 

Wadsworth  said :

“ Oh,  George’ll  get them  for  you. ”
You  should  have  seen  me  wait  on that 
customer.  That  was  all  he  wanted. 
Just  a  box  of  those  old  “ seven  day”  
sulphur  matches,  and  the  price  was  ten 
cents.  He  smiled  benignly  upon  me 
when  he  paid  for  them, 
it  was my  first 
sale,  and  he  knew  it.  Nevertheless  it 
was done. 
I  had  made  my  debut  in  the 
world  of  commerce.

Those  were  the  days  when  we  had  to 
in 
haul  our  purchases  twenty-five  miles 
winter  and  at  least  nine 
in  summer. 
We  used  to  buy  in  the  fall  all  the  flour 
and  pork  and  sugar  and  other heavy 
goods  that  we  thought  we could  sell dur­
ing  the  winter,  and  after  the  teamsters 
had  been  drawing  goods  from  the  near­
est  lake  port  for a  week  or  ten days,  our 
warehouse  was a  sight  to  behold.  1 have 
been 
in  some  pretty  big  wholesale 
houses,  and  I  was at  the  World’s  Fair, 
but  1  have  seen  nothing  which  so  im­
pressed  me  with  a  sense  of  vastness  and 
immensity,  or so  filled  me  with  awe,  as 
did  that  old  warehouse  the  first  time  I 
saw  it  piled  high  with  goods.  Why,  it 
must  have  contained  ten  barrels  of 
sugar!  and  fifty  of  flour!! 
I  positively 
know  that  there  was at  one  time  fifteen 
barrels  of  pork,  for  it  was  bad,  and  had 
to  be  carted  clear  back  to  Mancelona 
and  re-shipped.

I  never  could  understand  where  so 
many  goods  went  to.  And  yet  how 
anxiously  we  watched  it  after  the  mid­
dle  of  winter,  and  how  rapidly  all 
those  provisions  melted  away  toward 
spring!

Then  we  had  to  start  teams  out  again 
and “ sort  up.”   And  how  glad  we  were 
when  navigation  opened  again !

As  a  salesman  I  ,'wasj not  a.marked

success. 
I  sold  goods,  it  is  true,  but 
that  was  nothing  to  my  credit.  People 
in  those days  came  to  buy.  They  knew 
pretty  near  what  they  wanted,  and  they 
were  bound  to  have  it  if  it  was  to be 
had.  Whether  I  wanted  to  or not  I  had 
to  sell. 
I  think  it  a  common  fault  with 
boys  to  get  rid  of  customers  as  quickly 
as  possible  when 
it  can  be  done  with­
out  attracting  the  attention  of  a  supe­
rior.  I  well remember the wonderful fac­
ulty  father  had  of  unearthing  goods  that 
I  had  just  said  we  were  out of.

Father  was  always  finding  things. 
He  would  find  dirty  tinware and  dishes, 
no  matter  how  carefully  I  hid  them 
away,  and  he  would  suggest  the  advis­
ability  of  their  being  washed.  While  I 
was  following  his  advice  he  usually 
asked  me 
if  I  didn’t  think  it  better  to 
attend  to  those  things  at  the  time  they 
were  soiled.  And  I  always  agreed  with 
him. 
I  never  did  a  disagreeable  job 
in  my  life  without  wishing  that  some­
body  had attended to  it  before.

Competition  was  not  very  close  in 
those  days.  East  Jordan  was  but  a 
postoflfice,  Bellaire  had  not  been  in­
vented  and  Charlevoix  (Pine  River 
then)  and  Elk  Rapids  were  each  a  long 
way  off. 
John  H.  Silkman  at  Torch 
Lake  and  R.  W.  Coy  at  Spencer  Creek 
were  our  nearest  competitors.  John Pear 
also  had  a  store at  Eastport,  but  I  think 
he  went  out  of  business  about  that time.
Everything  was  new  and  crude  and 
raw.  Dexter  &  Noble,  of Elk  Rapids, 
were  buying  cord-wood  for  the  furnace 
with  “ scrip”   good  for  merchandise, 
and  this  acted  as  currency  to  a great ex­
tent.  Any  store 
in  this  region  took 
these  “ maple  slivers”  the same  as  coin. 
Many  town  treasurers  accepted 
it  for 
taxes,  and 
land  was  paid  for  with  it. 
It  was  very  plentiful  when  we  came

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here,  and  everybody  had  it,  yet  it  never 
seemed  to  take the  place  of  money.  A 
man 
in  our  store  with  a  pocketful  of 
“ splinters”   always  acted  uneasy  until 
he  had  bartered  it  all  away,  to  the very 
last  ten  cent  piece.  And  it  sometimes 
seemed  as  though 
it  made  very  little 
difference  what  he  got  for  it.

He  would  buy  what he  came  for,  and 
in  a 

look  about  the  store 

then  often 
puzzled  way  and  say :

“ Well,  I've  got  some  more  o’  them 
d—d  slivers.  What’ll  I  get  fe r ’em?”  
But  without  them  many  people  would 
have  suffered  positive  want.  They  were 
really  good  things,  and  in  these  days  of 
short  currency  and  hard  times  I  often 
think  that  a  few  thousand  dollars’  worth 
o’  maple  slivers  scattered  over  Antrim 
county  every  month  for a  while  would 
make  many,  many  wretched  people 
comfortable. 

G e o .  L.  T h u r s t o n .

“ It’s  an  III  Wind  that  Blows  Nobody 

Good.”

The following  well-authenticated  story 
is  told  of  Lundy  Foote,  who  was 
once  a  great  snuff manufacturer of  Dub­
lin,  and  originally  kept  a  small  tobac­
conist’s  store  in  Limerick.

One  night  his  store,  which  was  unin­
sured,  burned  to  the  ground.  As  he 
contemplated  the  smoking  ruins,  in  a 
condition  of  mind  bordering on despair, 
some  of 
the  bystanders,  searching 
among  the  embers  for  spoil,  stumbled 
upon  several  canisters  of  unburned  but 
half  baked  snuff,  which  they  tried  and 
found  so  grateful  to  their  olfactory  or­
gans  that  they  loaded  their  pockets  with 
the  stuff.

Foote,  aroused  from  his  stupor,  imi­
tated  their  example  and  took  a generous 
“ pinch”   of  his  own  property,  when  he 
instantly  struck  by  the  superior 
was 
pungency  and  flavor 
it  had  acquired 
from  the  great  heat  to  which  it  had 
been  subjected.  Accepting  this  valu­
shop 
able  hint,  he  engaged  another 
and,  preparing  a 
for  the 
purpose,  set about  the  manufacture  of 
the  high-dried  commodity  which  was 
known  a s “ Bla  k  Yard  Snuff,”   a  name 
derived 
from  his  location,  and  subse­
quently  corrupted  into  the  term “ Black­
guard. ”

large  oven 

Foote  made his  customers  pay  liberal­
ly  for  one  of  the  best  kinds  of  snuff 
in 
the  world  and  soon  found  himself  the 
possessor  of  a  large  fortune.

A  Slave’s  Overcoat.

In  an  old  copy  of  the  “ Natchez  Free 
Trader,”   published  in  Natchez,  Miss., 
in  the  year 1852,  was  discovered  the  fol­
lowing  curious  invention,  which  was  no 
doubt  of  great  value  at  the  time,  but 
how  many  colored  men  are  there  to-day 
who  could  be  induced  to  wear  the  over­
coat? 
It  was called  a  “  water-proof sack 
for  negroes. ’ ’

For a  plantation of fifty or 100 negroes, 
take  twenty  gallons  of  linseed  oil,  into 
which  mix  three  pounds  of  litharge, 
after  the  oil  shall  have  been  boiled  a 
few  moments.  The  litharge  should  be 
pulverized  before  being 
incorporated 
with  the  oil  and  well  stirred  in.
Previously,  an  overcoat,  or 

sack, 
should  be  neatly  made  from  common 
cotton  cloth,  called  Domestics, 
long 
enough  to  reach  below  the  knees,  to  be 
closely  buttoned  up  in  front.
litharge 
immerse  the  garment, 
is  boiling  hot 
wriqg 
it  as  dry  as  possible  and  let  it 
hang  in  the  sun  for  three  days,  when 
it 
will  become  completely  waterproof,  an 
overcoat  for  the  negro  secure  against 
storm  or  tempest,  impervious  to 
the 
wintry  winds  or the  chills  of  the  night. 
It  will  cost  less  than  sixty  cents  per 
sack  and  last  one  or two  years.

When  the  mixture  of  oil  and 

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

Early  Standards  o f  Commercial  Inter­

course  in  the  United  States. 

W ritten  fo r the T r a d esm a n .

In  view of the  recent agitation  in favor 
of  a  “ gold  standard,”   “ bimetallism”  
and  other  “ isms”   in  this  country,  a few 
facts  anent  the  early  currency  in  use 
before  gold  and  silver were even thought 
of  as  a  means  of  exchange  will  be  of 
interest  to  readers  of  the  Tradesman.

Long  before  any  permanent  settle­
ments  were  made  on  the  shores  of  New 
England  an  extensive  commerce  was 
carried  on  with  the  Indians  of  that  ter­
ritory  by  the  ships  which  came  each 
year  from  England  for fish  and  furs.  In 
this 
intercourse  cash  was  scarcely 
known.  The  Indians  were  eager  to 
give  large quantities  of skins  for  beads, 
knives,  hatchets  and blankets, and  espe­
cially  for  tobacco,  powder,  shot,  guns 
and  whisky. 
Philanthropists'  of  that 
day  who  wished  to  bring  the savages 
under  the  salutary  restraints of  civiliza­
tion  perceived  that  the  majority  of  such 
articles  used  for  barter  tended  to  de­
moralize  and  render  Lo  a  dangerous 
neighbor.  They  petitioned  for  and  ob­
tained  restrictions,  which  caused  much 
excitement  among  the  English  traders, 
who  cared  more  for  their  own  interests 
than  for  the  welfare  of  the  Indians.

The  article  of  peltry,  abundantly 
offered  by  the  natives and eagerly sought 
by  foreigners,  was  received  and  passed 
as  cash  by  the  colonists.  Another  com­
modity,  which was adopted from the abo­
rigines  was  wampum. 
This  was 
brought  from “ Manhadoes” —afterwards 
New  York—in  1628.  The  result  of  this 
is  thus  described  by  Governor  Brad­
ford :

in  time  turns  most  to 
“ That  which 
is  their  now  acquaint­
our  advantage 
ing  and  entering  us 
into the  trade  of 
wampum.  By  which  and  provisions, 
we quite  cut  off the  trade  both  from  the 
fishermen  and  straggling  planters.  And 
strange  it  is,  to  see  the great  alteration 
it  in  a  few  years  makes  among  the  sav­
ages.  For  the  Massachusetts  and  others, 
in  these  parts,  had  scarce  any,  it  being 
only  made and  kept  among  the  Pequots 
and  Naragansetts,  who  grew  rich  and 
potent  by  it ;  whereas,  the  rest,  who  use 
it  not,  are  poor  and  beggarly.”

Here,  then,  is  the  position  so  long 
assured, 
that  a  circulating  medium, 
aside  from  the  fruits  of  the  harvest  and 
the  wealth  of  the  forests,  tends  to enrich 
and  strengthen  a  people,  confirmed  by 
the  experience  of  savages.

it: 

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Roger  Williams,  in  observations  on 
this  early  money  of  the  New  England 
Indians,  gives  the  following  description 
of 
is  of  two  sorts,  one 
white,  which  they  make  of  the  stem  or 
stalk  of  the  periwinkle,  when  all  the 
shell  is broken  off.  And  of  this  sort,  six 
of  their  small  beads,  which  they  make 
with  holes to string as their bracelets,  are 
current  with  the  English  for a  penny. 
The  second  is  black,  inclining  to  blue, 
which 
is  made  of  the  shell  of a  fish, 
which  some  English  call  hens—poqua- 
hock—and,  of  this  sort,  three  make  an 
English  penny.  One  fathom  of  this, 
their  stringed  money, 
five 
shillings.”  

is  worth 

SlNDEX.

People  who  are  afraid  of  handling 
money  will  be  relieved  to  learn  they 
may  use  silver  with  impunity,  as  there 
is 
little  danger  that  bacteria  may  be 
transferred  on  coins.  Metals  are  fatal to 
microbes.  The  Vienna  Medical  Gazette 
100 
says  that at  a  temperature  of 95 
degrees  Fahrenheit,  which 
is  common 
in  pockets  where  money  is  carried,  the 
destruction  of  microbes  occurs  within 
three -hours.-

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The  Staff  of  Life

should be made of the best flour 
—flour that embodies the great­
est  quantity  of  nutriment  and 
If
strength-giving  properties. 

GRAND  REPUBLIC

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

Baü-Barnhart-Putman Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

A Safe Cracker

In  your  store

combining  healthful 
properties  with  de­
licious 
flavor  will 
win  trade.

Sears’ Saltine Wafers

Daintily crisp 

Finely salted 

Strictly pure

and-.

Particularly fine
Lead in every respect.

We wish all the greatest prosperity for 1897.

NEW  YORK  BISCUIT  CO.

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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You  can  meet  these  payments  out  of  the  extra 
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This,  That  and  the  Other.

Written for the  T r a d e sm a n .

The  Standard  Oil  Co.  has  received no 
end  of  criticism  from  a  suffering public 
for  sins  of  omission  and  commission. 
Though  one  of  the  sufferers,  it  is  not 
my  purpose  to  cast  an  additional  stone 
at  this  gigantic  corporation,  that  in  de­
fensive  tactics  so  much  resembles  .a 
jelly-fish.  Besides,  my  grievance  does 
not  justify  such  harsh  measures.  It  con­
cerns  externals only,  though  it affects the 
personal  comfort  and  cleanliness  of  all 
who  are  obliged  to  handle  the  product.
I  allude  to  the  smear used  on kerosene 
intended  as  a  trade-mark 
barrels. 
infringe­
alone,  it 
ments  are,  with 
immunity,  continually 
made  upon  it.  Surely  no  court  would 
decide  against  the  unfortunate  trans­
gressor  because  he  was  compelled,  in 
spite  of  the  utmost  carefulness,  to  carry 
off  portions  more  or  less  on  his  hands 
and  clothing.

If 
is  a  failure,  since 

Whatever  may  be  the  purpose  in  cov­
ering 
each  container  with  a  bluish 
oleaginous  mixture,  every  dealer  han­
dling  the  same  has  personal  reasons  for 
protest. 
In  behalf,  therefore,  of  thou­
sands  who  have  heretofore  concealed 
their  feelings,  I  modestly  suggest  to  the 
company  that  they  instruct  all  deliver­
ing  agents  to  use  a  genuine  brand  of 
paint  compounded  with  a  material  of  a 
drying  nature  and  apply 
it  to  each 
package  at  least  twenty-four  hours  pre­
vious  to  shipment.

ie  *  *

Of  all  topics  that absorb general  inter­
est  the  weather  stands  pre-eminent. 
It 
is the  theme  of  discussion wherever men 
or  women  meet,  either  accidentally  or 
by  previous  notice and 
intention.  Not 
so  much  what  the  weather  has  been,  nor 
what  it  is,  but,  rather,  what  it  is  to  be, 
is  the  subtle  question  that  keeps  most 
of  mankind  on  the  ragged  edge  of  con­
jecture.  This  is  a  broad  statement  but 
it  would  be  a  needless  waste  of  time  to 
verify  it  by  citing  particular 
instances 
in  full.  Should  any  doubt  it,  let him 
ask  the  proprietor of  any  country  drug 
store,  where  almanacs,  calendars  and 
other gratuities  are  kept  on  tap  to  sup­
ply  the  public  thirst  for  information. 
People  who  are  stoical  by  nature  con­
cerning  the  acquisition  of  wealth  by 
speculation  here  show a  morbid  desire 
in  futures.’ ’ 
to  “ dabble 
It  is  an  ex­
citing  and 
less  expensive  game  than 
that 
in  which  the  bulls  and  bears  of 
metropolitan  exchanges  delight.  Among 
the  piles  of  almanacs  that  crowd  the 
druggists'  counters,  those which  furnish 
the  most  detail 
in  the  matter  of  fore­
casts  are  the  favorites.

Last  year  a  certain  annual  published 
in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  led  all  the  rest  in 
that  respect,  so  that  the  last  copy  was 
taken  when  its  advertising  competitors 
were  comparatively  neglected. 
This 
year  it  failed  to  arrive,  and  it  is painful 
to  witness  the  expressions  of  disap­
pointment  on  the  faces  of  customers  as 
they  note  the  absence  of  the  pamphlet 
that  has  so  satisfactorily  ministered  to 
their  mental  idiosyncrasies  in  the  past. 
What  wonder,  then,  if  the  public  feel  a 
sense  of  grievance  toward  the  druggist 
for  failing  to  stock  up  with  a  leading 
staple  which  they  consider  they  had 
the  right  to  demand.

interesting  to  observe  that  this 
is 
peculiar 
reference  does  not  always 
spring  from  a  blind faith  in  the  weather 
predictions  so  eagerly  sought  by  them. 
Indeed,  most 
the 
claims  of  astute  weather  prophets  con­
cerning  thermal  conditions  a  year  in 
that
advance, 

though  acknowledging 

ridicule 

people 

It 

science  may  predict  the  motions  of 
planets  for  centuries,  as  they  regularly 
appear  true  to  the  celestial  time  table. 
They  even  take  more  delight 
in  mark­
ing  the 
incorrect  guesses  than  they  do 
those  that  are  occasionally  verified  by 
actual  events.

to  disseminate 

To  one  who  closely  watches  the  trend 
of  popular  sentiment  it  is  evident  that 
people,  nowadays,  are  naturally 
in­
clined  to  let by  gones  be  by-gones,  and 
direct  most  of  their  attention  to  the  fu­
ture.  The  press  recognizes  this  feeling, 
and  hastens  to gratify  it  by  publishing 
every  fact  gleaned  by  the  Government 
Bureau  to  feed  the appetite  of  all  who 
“ want  to  know,  you  know.”   Local 
agencies  seek,  by  steam  whistles  and 
flag-signals, 
timely 
forecasts  to  all  who  cannot  afford  to 
take  a  city  daily  paper. 
In  fact,  this 
age  is  determined  to  discount  the future 
as  fast  as  the  mysterious  forces  of  Na­
ture can  be applied  to  that  purpose. 
If 
it  were  possible,  every  great  catastrophe 
occurring  in  any  part  of the globe would 
be announced  in  advance  to  our  expect­
ant  millions—not  indeed  with  any  hope 
of  prevention,  but  solely  to  gratify  the 
universal  craving  for  news  that  shall  be 
newer  than  time  itself—always  a  slow 
coach—Can  supply.  But  that  possibil­
ity  is,  unfortunately,  a  thing  of  the  fu­
ture,  and  must  remain so until Invention 
has  made  a  few  more  giant  strides 
into 
the  misty  realms  of  the days  that  shall 
be.

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Speaking  of  the  advertising  matter 
sent  to  local  dealers  for  distribution,  it 
is  evident  that  the druggist  is  getting 
more  than  bis  share  of  this  undesirable 
surplus.  Compared with  the  goods  they 
represent,  the  sales  amount  to  a  most 
insignificant  fraction. 
In  patent  medi­
cines  especially,  these  avant-couriers 
often  show  such  a  ratio  to  sales  that  the 
latter  can  only be  computed  by the deci­
mal  system.  Besides,  but  few  of  the 
most  popular  remedies  have  more  than 
an  intermittent  demand.  A  fickle  pub­
lic,  accustomed  to  diagnose  their  own 
ailments  by  the  aid  of  free  medical  lit­
erature  stripped  of  technicalities  and 
toned  down  to  the  comprehension  of  the 
average  mind,  seldom  remain  steadfast 
in  the  use  of  any  one  remedy.  They 
prefer,  like  the bee,  to  flit  from  flower 
to  flower,  in  hope  to  sip  the  nectar  of 
health  from  some one  of them,  until Na­
ture  rebels  and  the  chronic  sufferer  is 
compelled  to  turn  over  to  the  hands  of 
professionals 
of 
further  experimenting  on  a  diseased 
system.

responsibility 

the 

There are  probably  no  lines  of  trade 
so  difficult  to  manage  in  harmony  with 
the  law  of  supply  and  demand  as  patent 
and  proprietary  medicines.  Since sales 
depend  not  only  on generous advertising 
that  will  reach  remotest  corners,  but 
also  on 
its  newest  and  ever-changing 
forms  to  attract  notice,  the druggist  can 
seldom  anticipate  far  in  advance  what 
the  demand  is  likely  to  be. 
In  spite  of 
the best  business  judgment,  dead  stock 
must accumulate,  which  cannot  be  dis­
posed  of  by  the  common  method  of  dis­
count  or bankrupt  sales.  Yet  a  thought­
less  class  of  buyers  are  ever  ready  to 
insist  that  the  Procrustean  theory  of  a 
fixed  percentage  of  profit  should  apply 
to  this  kind  of  stock,  however  irregular 
may  be  the  demand.  At  the  same  time, 
proprietors  of  patents  tire  the  patience 
of  druggists  with  solicitations  to  load 
their  shelves  with  goods  that  have  as 
much  prospect  of  practical  use  in  do­
mestic  economy as  the  Thompson  door­
plate  Mrs.  Toodles  declared  to be “ such 
a  bargain!”  

S.  P.  W hitm arsh.

A  Definition  of  “ Competition.” 

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

it 

to 

the 

life 

in  trade 

Competition 

is  considered 
life  of  business.’ ’  Now,  while  I 
“ the 
in 
do  not  pretend  to  set  up  my  opinion 
opposition 
established  and 
acknowledged  proverbs  of  our  fathers, 
still  I  differ,  in  some  particulars,  with 
the  spirit  of  the adage  quoted  above.  It 
should  be  qualified  and  amended.  Hon­
orable  competition  is  a  means  of  creat­
ing  trade  and  develops  the  capacity  of 
men..  But  that  competition  which  seeks 
every  means  in  its  power  to  monopolize 
trade  by  reducing  prices  and  by  other 
reprehensible  practices 
is  far  from  the 
“ life  of  business,’ ’  and  is,  in  fact,  its 
sure  death.  Fair,  upright,  honorable 
dealing  is  always  sure  to  obtain 
its  re­
ward,  although  the  returns  may  not  be 
immediate.  Anri 
is  better  to  com­
pete  fairly  and  openly  than  covertly and 
in  secret.  We  live  in  excitement,  and 
commercial 
is  a  constant  conflict. 
In  this  country,  competition  does  not 
yet flourish  to  the  extent  it  has  reached 
in  Europe.  Still,  we  have  a  strong  con­
injurious  effects  when 
ception  of 
carried  to  excess. 
In  the  great  battle 
for  existence  and  wealth,  men  resort  to 
every  species  of  trick  to  secure  success 
in  trade,  and  every  device 
is  used  to 
entice  custom.  This  spirit  is,  unfortu­
nately,  on  the 
in  the  United 
States,  and  merchants  continually  un­
dersell  each  other,  without  reference  to 
the  market,  to their  own  injury  as  well 
as  those  whose business  they seek  to  un­
let  live”   should 
dermine. 
be  the  Golden  Rule  of  trade. 
It  is  at 
variance  with 
that  motive  which 
prompts  a  merchant  to  undersell  his 
neighbor  for  the purpose of obtaining his 
clientele,  and  deserves  to  be  practiced 
more  frequently.  There  is  no  selfish­
ness  in  it,  but,  on  the  contrary,  a  spirit 
of  liberality  and  courtesy,  which  makes 
more  fortunes  than  any  other  method.

“ Live  and 

increase 

its 

Were business  men  to  study  their  true 
interests,  there  would  be  less  of  this 
false  competition  among  them,and there 
would  be 
fewer  complaints  of  dull 
times and  far  less failures.

The  spirit  of  competition,  when  car­
ried  to  excess,  and  its  false  definition 
tend  to  degrade  merchants  and  make 
them  heartless,  selfish  and,  in  some  ex­
treme  cases,  even  cruel  to  their  fellows. 
If  this  is  not  checked,  it  leads  to  dis­
trust,  enmity  and  uncharitableness.  A 
disposition  for  fair  dealing  will  do 
much  to  destroy  these  evil  results,  and 
makes  life  much  less  irksome and  mis­
erable  than  if we pass through it with the 
full  determination  to  advance  our own 
interests,  no  matter  what  the  conse­
quences  to  others.  There  is  a  living, 
and  even  more  than  that  implies,  for 
all,  without  seeking  to  deprive  each 
other  of  the  means  of  livelihood ;  and  if 
that  spirit  of  selfishness  which  prompts 
to  excessive 
is  thrown 
aside,  the 
individual  will  be  benefit­
ed,  as  well  as  others,  and  the  world  of 
trade  will  be  a  much  more  endurable 
place. 

competition 

R a d i x .

The  Origin  of  Metal  Currency.
In  the  early  ages  of  mankind,  all 
commerce  was  conducted  by  means  of 
barter.  The  tradesman  exchanged  his 
cattle  for  goods,  and  the  merchant  his 
goods  for  food  to  eat.  But  such  a  status 
of  affairs  could  not  continue  long  and 
the  necessities  of  mankind  led  to  the 
substitution  of  a  medium  of  exchange, 
or  representative  cf  value.  The precious 
metals,  from  their 
intrinsic  worth,  as 
well  as  their  portable  character,  natur- 
I ally  suggested  themselves  for  this  pur­

pose.  At  first,  however,  they  were  used 
in  bars,  without  stamp  or  coinage,  and 
were  necessarily  weighed  and  essayed 
at  every  transfer.  But the inconvenience 
of  this  method  soon  became  apparent, 
and  the  expedient  was  soon  hit  upon  of 
establishing  the  weight and  authentica­
ting  the  value  by  a  mark  or  symbol. 
Soon  after,  that  the  needs  of  trade 
might  be  further  met,  the  bars  were 
made  of  various  sizes.  Finally,  to  still 
further  impress  the  character  of  a  legal­
ized  currency  on  the gold,  silver,  bronze 
or copper  employed,  appropriate  shapes 
were  selected,  the  circular  form  being 
that  most  generally  adopted.

employed 

It  was  not  always,  however, 

that 
money  was  made  round.  Our  British 
ancestors,  prior  to  the  invasion  of Julius 
Caesar, 
rings,  sometimes 
singly,  but  oftener  made  into  a  chain. 
Large quantities  of  this  species  of  coin 
have  been  unearthed  in  England,  Ire­
land,  Scotland  and  Wales.  The  small­
est  piece  of  money  of  this  description 
which  has  been  discovered  is  a  gold 
ring  weighing  half a  pennyweight.  But 
others 
times  this 
weight,  and  up  to  a  pound  Troy,  have 
also  been  dug  up,  thus  proving  that  the 
rings  were  not  intended  for  ornaments, 
but  for  currency.

containing 

three 

Even  among  the  Romans,  circular 
coins  were  not  in  use  until  the  time  of 
Servius  Tullius,  and 
in  Great  Britain 
they  were  not  employed  until  some time 
after  the  Caesarian  conquest.

Of  all  ancient  nations,  the  Greeks 
produced  the  most  beautiful coins,  those 
of  the  Romans  not  being  particularly 
attractive  until  a  late period  in their his­
tory.

The  method  of  stamping  the  piece  of 
money  was  simple.  Usually,  the  blow 
which  made  the  impression  was  struck 
by  a  hammer  and,  at  first,  the  die  was 
cut  in  the  face  of  the  instrument 
itself. 
So  late  as  two  centuries  ago,  the coining 
of  money,  even 
in  England,  was  con­
ducted  after  a  rude  fashion,  and  many 
a  Spanish  coin,  still  in  evidence,  bears 
decisive  proof  of  uncouth  coinage.

Even  now,  at  the  close  of  the  great 
Nineteenth  Century,  a  century  which 
marks  greater  advance  in  the  arts  and 
sciences  than  any  preceding,  a  large 
amount  of  the  coin  of  Europe 
is  dis­
graceful  to  art,  and  is  frequently  base­
ly  alloyed.  The  exceptions  are 
the 
coins  of  England,  France,  Belgium 
and  Prussia.

Some  of  the  finest  coins  and  medals 
ever  made  were  those 
issued  by  the 
Emperor  Napoleon.  The  worst  executed 
coins,  among 
civilized  nations,  are 
those  of  Mexico  and  the  South  Ameri­
can  States.

Money,  according to the encyclopedia, 
is  a  word  derived  fiom  the  temple  of 
Jupiter,  moneta,  where a  metallic  cur­
rency  was  first  struck  by  the ancients. 
Cash  comes 
from  the  French  word 
caisse,  a  coffer  or chest  in  which  money 
is  kept.  The  word  pecuniary  is  derived 
from  pecus,  the  Latin  word signifying a 
flock  or herd  of  animals,  these  constitu­
ting,  in  the  earlier ages,  the equivalents 
of  money.

No  Danger.

Doctor:  “ You  won’t  forget  your med­

icine?”

Patient:  “ Can’t,  Doctor. 

disagreeable  to  forget.”

It’s  too 

During  the  civil  war  in  France,  Mon­
taigne  always  kept  his  castle  gates  un­
barred,  and  was  not  molested.  His 
character  was  more  powerful  than  the 
K ing’s  Guards.  Truly,  as  Pope  says, 
he's  armed  without  that’s 
innocence 
within.

14

Shoes  and  Leather

T h e   L ittle  S h o e .

I'd been out in the fight and frenzy,
In the battle that men call  business,

In the desperate struggle and strife;
And came home wearied of life.

I  dragged  my  coat  from  my shoulders,
I threw me prone on the  sofa,

And tossed my hat with a sigh;
With a hand pressed over each eye.

And yet I saw visions and visions 
Of the turmoil and clamor and din,
Of the pitiful grasping for riches 
By methods approaching to sin.
I rose to dispel these bad visions;
Had just reached the library door 
When something arrested my notice.
Something lying upon the floor.
’Twas nothing of serious import;
For the thing I saw lying before  me 

Nothing tragic, uncauny or grue.
Was only a little shoe.

Only a wee  baby's something, 
Ly.ng there just where she kicked it,

yet great as the world is wide;
Toppled upon its side.

’Twas worn and battered  and  crumpled.
The buttons were lost or loosened 

But it set mv heart in a  glow;
And a great hole kicked in the toe.

" i stooped and raised it and fondled  it;
Of the wee chubby foot that wore  it.

My breath came faster to think 
The wee chubby foot so pink.
And I tiptoed into the bedroom 
I saw a baby foot peeping 

Where a cradle was standing still:
As baby feet sometimes  will,

Pushed through the rounds of the cradle. 
I dropped on my knees beside it,

Dangling so tempting and sweet.
Close down by my dear baby’s  feet.

I clasped the warm lump of a “ tootte ”
I was instantly transported hither 

Between the broad palms of my hands,
To fairer and happier lands.

The touch of that wee tender handful 
Sent a thrill through my uttermost part,
From »he furthermost lips of my fingers 
To the bottommost depths of my  heart.
’Twas so soft aud so warm and so precious,
And I thought a wee babe such a blessing 

And I kissed it again and again.
To be sent to the lives of men.

Mv kissing disturbed the fair  sleeper:
And turning and tossing and sighing.

She drew in her foot through the rounds;
Made such murmuring, baby-like sounds.

I rose and bent over the cradle.
Till the folds of the little pink nightie 

And I gazed on her dimpled  form.
Seemed a mystical mantle so warm
I saw her breathe softly and  gently 
L ke the swell of an angel’s sigh:
A 'd  I  turned with my eyelashes ¿listening 
As the dew from a summer sky.

I'd foreotten the fight and the  frenzy,
I'd forgotten the battle of business.

And the desperate struggle and strife:
1 was chastened and charmed with  life.

C h a r le s  N elso n  J ohnson.

Some  Dealers—But  There Are  Others.
Written fo r the T r a d e sm a n .

“ I ’ll  tell  you  something  that  hap­
pened  to  me  once,”   said  an  old  shoe 
dealer,  in  my  presence,  “ and 
if  you 
had  told  me  that  I  could  be queered that 
way  I  would  have  called  you  a  liar.

‘ ‘ A  lady  came  in  one  morning  to  look 
at  some  fine  shoes.  She  wanted  the best 
we  had,  and  it  didn’t  take  long  to  suit 
her.  She  asked 
if  I  objected  to her 
taking  the  shoes  to  her  friend’s  house  a 
couple  of  blocks  off,  to  try  on;  and,  as 
she  was 
ladylike  and  apparently  all 
right,  I  gave  permission  without  the 
slightest  hestitation.

“ She  returned 

in  the  course  of  an 
laid  the  shoe  box  on  the 
hour  and 
counter,  saying  that  she  bad  concluded 
not  to  take  them,  and  walked  out. 
I 
was  wiiting  at  the time,  and,  as  one  of 
my  clerks  received  the  package,  I  can 
give  no  good  reason  for going  to  look  at 
the  shoes.  I  suppose  I  wanted  to  see 
that  they  were  properly  buttoned.

‘ ‘ I  took  them  from  the box,  and  lo ! 
what  had  been  a  beautiful  hand-sewed 
kid  shoe  was  transformed  into  one  of 
those shoddy  sheepskin  affairs that sells, 
nowadays,  at  retail  for about  a  dollar. 

‘ ‘ I  seized  the  box  and  rushed  out  of

the  store.  Not  far away  I  perceived  the 
retreating  form  of  my  fair  customer; 
and,  quickly  overtaking  her,  I  said :

‘ *  ‘ Beg  pardon,  madam,  but 

there 
must be  some  mistake.  You  have  re­
turned  the  wrong  pair  of  shoes.’

“ She  gave  me  a  stony  stare  and  said, 

in  an  indifferent  tone:

“   ‘ O,  there 
part,  at  least. ’

is  no  mistake—on  my 

‘ ‘ I  hadn’t  got  the  hang  of  her  yet, 

so  I  blundered  innocently  on :

”   ‘ Sorry  to  contradict  you,  madam, 
but  we  never  had  a  pair  of  those  in  our 
store.  You  have  certainly  brought  back 
somebody  else’s  shoes. ’
‘ ‘ She  shrugged  her 

as 
though  my  persistence  annoyed  her. 
and  turned  the  corner,  saying  that 
‘ she 
was  not  in  the  habit  of  being  swindled 
by  shopkeepers. ’

shoulders 

‘ ‘ That  made  me  mad  and,  following 

her,  I  sa id :

“   ‘ Madam,  you  will  kindly  return  to 
my  store  with  me.  You  have  cast  a  slur 
upon  my  honesty. 
I  will  show  you  that 
you  are  mistaken.’
‘ ‘ She  turned  her  head  slightly  and 
that same cold,  indifferent  tone  said :

“  ‘You fool,  go back  home and let me

in

alone—you  make  me  tired !’

‘ ‘ That  was  pretty  queer  talk  from  a 
woman  and  I  stood  stock-still  watching 
her  retreating  form. 
In  fact,  I  didn’t 
get  properly  mad  until  she  was  out  of 
sight.

‘ ‘ Then  I  swore  a  circular  oath  that  1 
would  have  that  woman’s  scalp—and 
the  shoes,  too—and  I  hurried  to  the 
office  of  a  friend  of  mine  who  was  a 
lawyer,  and  told  my  story.

“ He  thought  the  thing  over a  minute 
and  advised  me  to  let  the  matter  drop.
I  could  have  had  the  house  searched 
where  she  was  staying,  and  that  was 
very  likely  what she  wanted.  If  I  failed 
to  find  the  shoes,  she  would  probably 
have  come  ‘back  at  me’  for  damages.

‘ ‘ I  took  my  friend’s  advice.”

*  *  *

“ I  went  to  Smith’s  hardware  store 
fer  an  8xio  window  t’other  day,”   said 
the  kicker,  as  he borrowed  a  fresh  chew 
and  settled  himself  within  easy  shot  of 
the  box  stove. 
“ I  wanted  an  8xio  win­
dow  cuz  the’  wouldn't  no othei  size  fit 
I  sez  to  Hank,  sez  I, 
my  house,  an’ 
‘ One  dollar,’  sez 
‘ How  much  be  they?’ 
he.’ 
I.
‘ Yer don't  charge  nothin’  fer  ’em !’  sez 
I. 
‘ Glass  is  up,’ 
is,  an’ 
sez  he;  ‘ way  up  skyhigh,  glass 
we  can’t  hardly  git 
love  nor 
money.  Guess  yer  don’t  keep  posted 
on  glass,'  sez  he. 
‘ Waal,  by  gum !’  sez 
I ;  ‘ can’t  be  helped,  I  s’ pose,  an’  I ’ve 
gotter have  it  anny  hows. ’

'What’s  the  matter?’ 

jeehossyphat!’  sez 

‘ Jumpin’ 

fer 

it 

feller. 

“ So  we  went back  inter  the  store,  an’ 
jes’  then  in  come  a  feller  with  two  coon 
hide  an’  a  skunk.  Hank,  he  grabbed 
’em  up  an’  looked  ’em  over  an’  slatted 
'em  daown  on  the  floor  an’  started  off 
a  whis’lin,  like  he’d  forgot  all  ’bout 
’em.
“   ‘ Hain’t  yer  a  goin’  ter buy  ’em?’ 
asked  the 
‘ Buy  what?'  says 
Hank,  turnin’  raound  kinder  s ’prised 
like. 
‘ Why,  these  here  skins,’  says  the 
feller.  ‘ O,  by gum !’ says Hank ;  ‘ I d ’no. 
is  ter’ble  low  now.  Market  all 
Furs 
gone  ter  h—1.  Hole  inter  it  bigger 
’n 
a  b ’loon—skins  hain’t  wo’th  what  they 
uster  be.’  ‘ What'll  yer gimme  fer  ’em,’ 
says  the  feller, 
‘ D ’no 
’em  at  all, ’  says  Hank. 
’s 
‘ Make  me  an  offer,’  sez  the 
feller. 
‘ They  hain’t  no  good  to  m e.’ 
‘ W aal,’ 
sez  Hank,  kinder  slow  an’  hesitatin' 
like,  ‘ I  s’pose  I  might  gin  ye  thirty 
cents  fer  ’em. ’
‘ ‘ So  the  feller,  he  took  it.  Bought 
nails  with 
it.  An’  nails  bad  riz,  so 
Hank  said.

lookin’  sorry. 

I  want 

G e o r g e   C r a n d a l l   L e e .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Welcome  to  Boots.

From Shoe and Leather Facts.

A 

leading  retailer 

Well,  why  not?  Surely  the 

informed  us  this 
week  that  he  still  occasionally  has  a 
demand  for  a  pair of  the old-time men  s 
fine  calfskin  boots,  and  he  anticipates 
that  the  time  is  not so  very  far  distant 
when  there  will  be  a  return  of  this  style 
of  footwear,  at  least  to a  considerably 
greater  extent  than  most  people  antici­
pate  could  be  possible.
leather 
manufacturers,  as also  the  members  of 
many  other  branches  of  the  trade,  would 
welcome  a  swinging  back  into  former 
grooves 
The  more 
leather the average  individual  wants  in 
his  footwear,  as  also  materials  of  other 
kinds,  provided  he  is  willing  and  able 
to  pay  for  them,  the  better  it  is  for all 
who are  connected  with  the  production 
or  handling  of  such  goods.  Shoes  are 
too  cheap  in  comparison  with  clothing 
and  other  commodities,  as  every  mem­
ber  of  the  trade 
is  willing  to  admit. 
Why  should  a  lady  pay  a  couple  of

in  this  respect. 

hundred  dollars  for  a  dress,  and  prob­
ably  not  more  than  three or  five  dollars 
for  the  pair of  shoes  she  wears 
in  con­
nection  therewith?  Why  should  not a 
man  have  the  satisfaction  of  knowing 
that  his  boottops  are  lined  with  the 
most delicate colored  kid,  and  that  the 
ornamentation  thereon  is  a  work  of  art?
Do not  say  that,  because  shoes  are  so 
much  more  comfortable, boots  will  never 
come 
into  use  again.  Were  razor  toes 
comfortable  as  at  first  constructed?  Is  a 
French  heel  very  conducive  to  ease  in 
walking  or  a  graceful  carriage?  Non­
sense!  that  has. very  little  to  do  with  it. 
One of  Carlisle's  characters  dilates  at 
considerable  length  on  the philosophy of 
clothes,  and  endeavors  to  prove,  with 
considerable  success,  that  footwear  was 
first 
for  ornamentation, 
rather  than  as  a  protection  to  the feet.

introduced 

‘ ‘ Time 

is  short,  but  art  is  long,”   is 
the  old  saying,  and  who  knows  but  we 
may  have  reached  the  point 
in  the 
swinging  of  the  circle  when  boots  will 
again  be  en  regie.

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

An  Experience  Which  Furnished  Fun 

for  Another  Man.

From the New York Sun.

“ In  a  house  that  I  was  in one night, ”  
said  the  retired  burglar,  “ I  opened  a 
door  from  the  hall  on  the  ground  floor 
and  went  right  on  into a  room  without 
flashing  my  light  ahead,  something  that 
I  very  rarely  did. 
I  hadn’t  gone  more 
than  four  feet  before  I  tripped  over 
something  and  fell.  Whatever  I ’d  fell 
over  I  upset  when  I  first  struck 
it,  and 
the contents  spread  over  the  floor ahead. 
In  trying  to  save  myself  I  got  skewed 
in  some  way  and  went  down 
around 
finally  flat  on  my  back 
in  this  stuff, 
it  was,  and  I  found  out  very 
whatever 
soon  what 
it  was—it  was  paste;  and  I 
was  covered  with 
it  all  over  my  back 
from  head  to  foot.  And  in  some  way 
which  I  didn’t  understand  then,  and 
which  I  have  never been  able  to  cipher 
out  since,  I  had  got both  my  feet  into 
another  bucket  of  paste,  and  my  shoes 
were  plastered  thick  and  heavy  with  it, 
as  they  would  have  been  with  mud  if 
I ’d  been  walking  in  soft,  sticky  mud.  I 
turned  my  light  on  them,  which  I ’d 
hung  onto  when  I  went  down,  and  took 
a  look  around.

“ This  was  apparently  the  library  of 
the  house  that  I  was  in  and  they  were 
repapering  it   There  wasn't  a  blessed 
piece  of  furniture  in  it—nothing  but 
the paperers’  things,  and  a pile of  rolls 
of  paper  in  one  corner.  Along one side 
of  the  room  there  was  a  long  high  table 
such  as  paperers  use, 
long  smooth 
boards  laid  on  fcigh  horses,  and  there 
were  a  few brushes and  things and  these 
two  buckets  of  paste  standing  on  the 
floor. 
1  suppose  I  might  have  noticed 
there  was  no  carpet  on  the  floor,  but  I 
had  on  rubbers,  and  you  run  across 
more  or  less  hardwood  floors,  and  I 
hadn’t  noticed  it.
“ Well,  I  stood  there  a  minute,  cov­
ered  with  paste  and  my  feet  heavy  with 
it,  and  waited.  The  bucket  had  made 
a  good  deal  of  slamming  when  I  upset 
it,  and  I ’d  jarred  the  house  consider­
ably  when 
I  went  down,  though  I ’d 
tried  to  go  down  as  easy as  I  could;  but 
I  didn’t  hear  anybody,  and 
I 
thought  I ’d 
like  to  get  some  of  the 
thickest  of  the  paste  off  my  shoes be­
fore  I  went  any 
it 
wasn’t  very  comfortable  to carry around. 
There  wasn’t anything  to  sit  on there—I 
suppose  I  might  have  turned  up  one  of 
the  paste  buckets  and  sat  on  that,  but 
I ’d  had  about  all  I  wanted  to  do  with 
the  paste  buckets—and  so  I  stepped 
into the  room  ahead. 
It  was  the  parlor, 
just  to  the  left  of  the  door,  as  I 
and 
in,  I  saw  a  low  corner  seat  with 
went 
about  ten  thousand  soft  sofa  cushions 
on  it. 
I  could  see  this by  the  light  that 
was  burning 
in  the  front  hall  turned 
down  low.

farther,  because 

then 

“ I  sat  down  on  this  corner  seat  and 
spread  out on  the  floor  in  front  of  me  a 
newspaper  that  I ’d  found  in  the  library 
and  got  the  blade  part  of  my  jimmy  out 
of  my  bag  and  began  scraping 
the 
paste off  my  feet. 
It  seemed  as  though 
there  were  tons of  it and  it  stuck  very 
hard.  I  found  it  pretty  difficult  to  reach 
around  and  get 
it  off  the  back  of  my 
feet,  and  I  thought  I  might  do  better  if 
I  could  get  my  rubbers  off. 
I ’d  been 
holding  my  feet  on  the  floor  and  bend­
ing  over to scrape,  with  my  lamp stand­
ing  on  the  floor  in  front  of  me  and  the 
light  from 
I 
straightened  up 
and  sat  back  and 
brought  my  left  foot  up  over  my  right 
knee and  pulled  off  my 
I 
could  do better  with  it  then,  and  when 
I ’d  got  that  one  pretty  well  cleaned  I 
put 
it  back  on  my  foot  and  did  the 
same  thing  with  my  right  rubber,  and 
then  when  I  went  to  get  up  it  seemed 
as  though  there  was  something  sort  of 
pulling  me  back,  and  when  I  stood  up  1 
was  like  a  great  human  dromedary  with 
I  had  sofa  cushions 
a  million  humps. 
sticking  to  me  all  over 
I  couldn’t have 
got  through  the  door of  a  barn.

it  shining  on  my  feet. 

left  rubber. 

“ There  must have been  glue  or some­
thing  in  the  paste,  because  they  didn’t 
drop  off and  I  couldn’t  pull  ’em  off. 
I 
reached  around  and  tried  about  seven 
times  to  pull  off the one  on  my  left  el­
bow,  but  I  couldn’t  start  it  a  bit.  Then 
I  thought  I ’d 
’em  off 
against  the  jamb  of  the  library  door,

rubbing 

try 

“ Standing 

in  the  doorway 

scraping  my  back  to  and  fro  on the door 
jamb,  and  I ’d  just  got  my  feet  braced 
and  was  beginning  to  rub  when  I  heard 
something.
leading 
from  the  hall  was  a  man  trying  so  hard 
to  keep  from 
laughing  that  I  thought 
he’d  bust.  When  he  saw  me  look  up  he 
sat  down  on  a  chair  in  the  hall  and 
laughed  until  I  thought  he’d never come 
to.  Of  course,  there  wasn’t  anything  to 
be afraid  of  in  a  man  that  could 
laugh 
like  that  and  I  stopped  rubbing  and 
waited.

' Let  me  help  you, ’  he  says.  ‘ Those 
are  my  wife’s  sofa  pillows  that  you’ve 
got  on.  She’ll  feel  bad  enough  to  find 
paste  on 
’em,  but  she’d  feel  a  mighty 
sight  worse  to  have  ’em  torn. ’

“ So  he  turned  up  the gas  in  the  hall 
and  came  in,  and we stood near the door, 
where  he  could  see  better,  and he helped 
me  off  with  the  cushions.  Gradually  he 
worked 
tearing 
more’n  two  or  three  of  ’em,  and  when 
he’d  got  ’em  all  off,  he  says:

’em  all  off  without 

‘ You  don’t  want  anything  more 

here  to-night,  do  you?’

“ And  I  said  I  didn’t  think  I  did.

‘ Then,  if  you  don’t mind,’  he says, 
‘ I  think  I ’ll  let  you out  the  front  door; 
you  might  stick  in  the  cellar  window. ’
“ I  laughed  with  him  a  little  myself 
at  that,  but on  the  whole  it  never  struck 
me  as  a  funny  experience.”

G etting  W hat  You  Give.

Deacon in Furniture News.

There 

The other day  my  attention was drawn 
to  the  peculiar  action  of  a  farmer’s 
team  at  the Central  market.  The  team 
had  started  a  few  steps  without  orders, 
which  movement  called  for  a  loud  yell 
from  the 
team  were 
blocked  from  going  further  by  another 
sled,  and  instead  of  attempting  to  move 
backward  or  forward,  they  began  alter­
nately  to  stand  on  their hind  legs.

farmer.  The 

is  a  screw  loose  in  the  family 
government  on  that  farm,  thought  I, 
which  guess  proved  true  when  the  farm­
er  ran  to  the  team,  caught  them  by 
the  bits  and  began  mauling  them  on 
fist.  This,  of 
their  noses  with  his 
to 
course,  served  to  quiet  the  team, 
second 
bring 
thoughts, 
them  tractable, 
docile  and  altogether  valuable  and  well 
broken.

them  to  their 
to  make 

I am  no  horse  tamer  but  I  have driven 
some  horse  flesh  in  my  day  and  genera­
tion.  And  this  I  am  ¡free  to  say:  You 
can  get  out  of  a  horse,  scrub  or 
thoroughbred,  all  you  put  into  him. 
If 
you  are a  chump,  so  will  your  horse be. 
If  you  are  a  devil,so  will  your  horse be. 
If  you  are a  gentleman  and  a  scholar,  so 
will  your  horse  be.
The general  principle  underlying  this 
specific  case  is  also  true:  You  can  get 
out of  your  business  results  commensu­
rate  with  what  you  put  into  it. 
If  you 
are  dull,  so  will  your business  be. 
If 
you  are  bright,  so will  your business be. 
If  your  balance  is  right,  so  will  that  of 
your  ledger  be.

sober 

Moreover, you  can  get  out  of  the world 
about  what you  put  into  it.  Carry  sun­
shine  with  you  and  the  world  will  be 
sunny  where  you  are.  Wrap  yourself 
in  a  thunder  cloud  and  you  will  sour all 
the  milk  of  human  kindness  in  your 
neighborhood. 
Be  a  clean,  decent, 
honest  man  and  you  will  be  surprised 
to  find  how  full  your  town  is  of the same 
sort of  folks.  Be  a  moral 
leper  and 
your  world  will  be  a  leper  colony.

Do  you  think  it does  not pay to squan­
der good  works  on  a  selfish  and  unap­
preciative  world?  Yes,  it  does  The 
world  crucified  its  Savior,  but  His 
life 
impressed  a  handful  of  appreciative 
people,  and  that 
is  what  makes  this 
world  fit  to  live  in  to-day.  Don’t  worry 
about  the  world’s  appreciation.  Be  a 
righteous  man  a  while,  see  how good 
it 
feels,  and  you  will  keep  at  it  for  the 
sheer  love  of  it, whatever  the world  says. 
The  world  will  take  a  hitch  upward 
if 
you  live  right.

Representative  Lambert  will 

intro­
duce  a  bill  early  in  the  session  of  the 
Kansas  Legislature  to  prohibit the wear­
ing  of  bloomers  by  women  and  to  make 
the  riding  of  bicycles  by  women  astride 
a  misdemeanor.

Good  Things  Taken  from  the  Adver­
tisements of Up-to-date Shoe Dealers.

It  makes  us  “ laf”   when  we  think  of 
the  many  merchants  offering  you  shoes 
at  less  than  cost,  without  stating  their 
reasons  for  so  doing.  There  is  no  ne­
cessity  for  our  making  such  statements, 
for  you  know,  gentle  reader,  our  prices 
are  always 
lower  than  any  of  the  “ be­
low-cost  men’s”   prices.
Every  man  should  have  at  least  two 
pairs  of  shoes;  by occasional  changing, 
shoes  wear  better,  allowing  the  perspi­
ration  to  dry  inside;  they  retain  their 
shape  longer  and  certainly  feel  much 
more  comfortable.
for  putting  in  good 
Our  reputation 
quality  and  style  for  the  price  of  qual­
ity  alone  should  bring  every  wearer  of 
shoes  within  fifty  miles  of  the  Bee  Hive 
to  this  department  Saturday.  We  wish 
we  had  space  to  say  all  the good  things 
that  should  be  said  about  these  shoes. 
Show  your  good 
iudgment  by  coming 
to-morrow—day  or  evening.

Ever  had  that  uncertain  feeling  after 
making  a  purchase? 
It’s  never  known 
to  buyers  here.  There  is  a  satisfaction 
when  you  know  for  a  fact  that  you’re 
getting  the  best.  We  back  all  our 
claims  with  reliable  goods.

Our  enterprise  and our  superior facili­
ties  are  linked  to an  honest  ambition  to 
sell  you  better  shoes  than  anybody  else 
—and  sell  them  for  less  money.  The 
biggest  store,  biggest  stock,  biggest 
variety,  biggest  values  and  biggest 
crowds  are  the  unmistakable  signs  of 
success.

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Bicycle  and  Winter 
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DO  YOUR FEET SLIP?

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

PINGREE &  SMITH,  Manufacturers.

successors to

REEDER  BROS. SHOE  CO.

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“ I  do  not  believe  that  I  have  a  true 
“ So  you  have  been  trying  to  borrow 

friend  in  the  world.”
money,  too,  have  you?”

Maine  is  one  of  the  mighty  few  states 
where  the  farmers  outnumber  all  the 
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that  is  where  the  young  lawyers  manage 
to get  a  living.

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Clerks’  Corner

Observance  o f  the  Golden  Rule 

Business  Affairs.

in 

Did  you  ever  pause  to  think  what  an 
impetus 
it  gives  to  your  every  move­
ment  to  know  that  you  are  in  the  em­
ploy  of  a  firm  whose  “ word  is  as  good 
as  its  bond,”   and  how  prone you  are  to 
boast  of  the  “ standing  of  our  house,”  
with  pretty  much the  same  feeling,  too, 
that  you  experience  when  it  is  a  case  of 
“ one  of  the  fam ily.”   If  not  in the  em­
ploy  of  such  a  house  strive  to  get 
there. 
It  will  prove  an  excellent  in­
centive  to best  effort.  Note  the  differ­
ence  between  employes  of  such  an  es­
tablishment  and  one  where 
is  one 
eternal  dun.  Remarks  concerning  the 
house  are  greeted  with  contempt  by 
others,  and  thus disgust  creeps 
in  and 
helps  to  deaden  many  a  good  business 
impulse,  and 
in  time  brings  a  general 
careless  way  of  taking  hold  of  things 
and  deadens  the  sensibilities  as  to  the 
value  of  commercial  integrity.

it 

*  

*  

*

While  too  much  aggressiveness  is  not 
a  desirable  quality,  neither  is  too  little 
any  more  to  be admired.  The one  pro­
duces  a  lucifer  match  and  the  other  a 
milk-sop.  There  is  no  need  of  friction 
over  every  trifle  but  when  a  matter 
calls  for  settlement,  it 
is  the  duty  of 
everyone  interested  to  court  an 
investi­
gation. 
Therefore,  when  differences 
arise  among  employes,the  most sensible 
way  is  to  have  a  straightforward  search­
light  thrown  upon  the  matter  and  have 
it  settled,  instead  of  indulging  in  re­
criminations,  tale-carrying,  etc.  Noth­
ing  detracts  more 
from  dignity  and 
lowers  the  tone  of  a  business  establish­
ment  than  this  very  thing.  There  are 
these  who  think  that,  by  exercising  un­
limited  forbearance,  they  are  displaying 
a  Christian spirit, but,  in  the opinion  of 
the  writer,  they  not  only  harm  them­
selves,  but  also  others  by  pursuing  this 
course.  All  injustice  merits  investiga­
tion.

*  *  *

It  will 

interest  all  clerks  who  are 
anxious  to  profit  by  the  experience  of 
others  to  note  the  results  of  a  minister 
of  St.  Louis  who  made 
inquiries  of 
forty  business  men  as  to  the  observance 
of  the golden  rule,  “ Do  unto  others as 
you  would  that  others  should  do  unto 
you,”   in  business.  Thirty  replied  at 
greater  or  less  length  and  some 
in  di­
rect  opposition  to  others.  This  latter 
that  a 
fact  would  seem  to 
man's  view  of  business  morality 
is 
shaped  largely  by  his  own  practice.

indicate 

*  *  *

in 

“ The  saying 

One  man  writes: 

iniquity  and  born 

is  a 
true one,  that  competition  is  the  life  of 
trade,  and  competition  forces  men  to 
deceive  and  blunts  the  fine  edge  of hon­
esty.  The  competition  one  meets  with 
in  these  days  of  progressiveness  is  con­
ceived 
in  sin. 
The  merchants  who  instruct  their  sales­
men  to  sell  articles  at  cost,  ‘ to  start  the 
trade, ’  and  then  make  up  the  lost  profit 
on  other  articles,  certainly  blunt  the 
fine edge of  honesty.  Men  who  attack 
the  integrity  of  their  competitors,  who 
make  sneering  remarks  of  other  houses, 
their  methods  and  their  credit,  do  not 
know  what  the  golden  rule 
is,  for  they 
never  practice 
it.  Merchants,  shrewd 
business  men,  so  called,  who  force  their 
smaller  competitors  out  of  business; 
do  they  practice  the  golden  rule?  Men 
who  manipulate  markets  for  their  own 
profit,  crushing  out  small  holders,  driv­
ing  them  to  starvation  and  absolute 
want;  do  they  know  anything  about 
Christian  principles?  Men  of  wealth, 
heads  of  large  institutions,  big  givers 
to  charities  and  large  contributors to the 
support  of  their  respective  churches, 
who  employ  a  large  number  of  men 
and  women  at  salaries  that  will  scarcely 
keep  body  and  soul  together,  who  by 
their  methods  put  a  premium  on  dis­
honesty ;  what  do  they  know  of  the 
golden  rule?  What  need  I  say  about  the 
obligations  made  by  people  for  the  sup­
port of  churches  and  charitable 
institu­
tions,  obligations  that  are  never  paid? 
These  matters  and  methods  are  as  fa­
miliar  to  you  as  they  are  to  every  one

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

who  has  given  the  subject  any  thought 
or  attention.  Under  existing  condi­
tions,  it  is  almost  impossible  for one  to 
conduct his  business  entirely  on  the line 
of  Christian  principles  and  the  golden 
rule.”

*  *  *

Another  says: 

“ Any  business  which 
is  conducted  on  a  basis  of short measure 
or  light  weights,  or that  carries  with 
it 
deception,  exaggeration  or  untruthful­
ness,  is  bound  to  come  to  grief. 
In 
these times,  when great concentration  of 
forces 
is  characteristic  of  the  mercan­
tile  pursuit, 
it  requires,  perhaps,  a 
closer  watchfulness  ot  self  and  self-in­
terest  than  ever before  to avoid touching 
on  methods that  are  questionable.  But 
with  the  increased  responsibility  there 
comes  a  realization  of  the  necessity  for 
such  rules  of  government,  applying  to 
all  alike,  as  are  the  best  safeguards  of 
commercial  life.  It  is  a  well-recognized 
fact  that  in  every  community  there  are 
men  in  mercantile  life  who  are  in a cer­
leaders  in  forming  public 
tain  sense 
opinion ;  who  follow,  as  faithfully  as 
it 
is  within  the  power  of  weak  human  na­
ture,  the  principle  of  the  Gospel,  to 
‘ live  and 
let  live,’  and  to  ‘ love  thy 
neighbor  as  thyself. ’  Nor  is  there  the 
slightest  opposition  or  conflict  between 
following  the  golden  rule  and  the  suc­
cessful  conduct  of  business  enterprise. 
These  men  stand  at  all  times  for  the 
best 
in 
which  they  live,  being  ready,  with warm 
hearts and  sympathetic,  cordial greeting 
and  generous  purses,  to  do  what  they 
can  to  alleviate  human  suffering  and 
contribute  to  the  enlightenment  and 
elevation  of  the human  family. 
*  *  * 
It  is as absolutely  possible  to  conduct  a 
mercantile  business  purely,  honorably 
and honestly as it is to live so in any other 
phase  or  condition  of  life. 
In  all  the 
large  and  successful  houses  of this coun­
try  you  will  find  that  the  basis  of  every 
act  is  fair  dealing  and  a  close  follow-1 
ing  of  the measure  of  the  golden  rule. 
It 
is  confidently  believed  by  the  best 
element  of  mercantile  life  in  this  coun­
it  embraces  within  its  sphere 
try  that 
many  of  the  best,  purest,  most  high- 
minded  and  generous  men  that exist 
in 
the  world  to-day. ’ ’

interests  of  the  community 

A  Boy’s  Pocket.

“ Where,”   said  the  auctioneer,  ad­
dressing  an  audience  of  possible  pur­
chasers,  “ where  else  on  the face of  the 
globe  will  you  find  in  one  place  copper, 
tin,  iron,  cotton,  hemp,  grain,  game—”  
And  a  voice  from  the  crowd  replied: 

“ In  the  pocket  of  my  youngest  son!”

The  business  of  farming  in  Spain 

is 
so  much  depressed  that  the  government 
is  about  to  devote  $1,200,000 to  the  re­
lief  of  that  industry.

Guard  Well  Thy  Tongue.

Deacon in Furniture News.

I  had  occasion 

last  week  to  call  on 
Lawyer  Goshawk  on  business. 
I  had 
never  met  this  personage,  and  on  enter­
ing  his  office,  in  which  three  men  were 
sitting,  I  inquired  if  Lawyer  Goshawk 
were  in.
“ Well,  I  guess  yes,”   responded  one 
of  the  three,  a  man  of  some  thirty-five 
years,  who  proved  to  be  Lawyer  Gos­
hawk.
I  transacted  my  business  in  five  min­
utes,  but  it  did  not  take  me  five seconds 
to  arrive  positively  and  finally  at  the 
following  definite  conclusions,  viz.  :
If  I  had  suit  with  a  railway  company 
involving  $250,000,  I  should  not employ 
Lawyer  Goshawk.

If  I  were  forming  a  corporation  with 
a  capital  of  $50,000,  and  wished  to 
know  my  rights  and  liabilities  in  the 
premises,  I  should  not  consult  Lawyer 
Goshawk.

If  I  were  trying  to get  a $500  back 
pension  for  my  uncle’s  widow,  1  should 
shun  Lawyer  Goshawk.
If  I  were  swindled  on  a  $50  horse 
trade  and  wanted  legal  redress,  I  should 
think  twice  before  hiring  Lawyer  Gos­
hawk.

If  papers  had  to  be  drawn  in  order  to 
convey  away  my  right  and  title  in  a 
brindle  cat,  and  no  other  lawyer  were 
within  call,  I  might  seek  the  services of 
Lawyer  Goshawk.

And  why  should  I  thus  take  so  sud­
den  and  serious  a  dislike  to  Lawyer 
Goshawk ?

Because  he  is  a  frivolous  and  flippant 
fellow,  “ for  his  speech  betraveth  him .”
For  aught  he  knew  I  might  have  been 
a  prospective  client  seeking  advice  on a 
serious  matter.  My  address  is  dignified 
enough  to  call  forth  the  average  dignity 
of  any  man. 
I  think  I  called  forth  his 
average  dignity,  afld  such  dignity  as 
appeared 
in  the  first  four  words  I  ever 
heard  him  utter  is  not  dignifitd  enough 
for  legal  judgment  in  any  case  eligible 
to  go  beyond  a  justice’s  court.

The  moral  of  this  is  that, though many 
young  men  think 
it  witty  and  uncom­
mon  smart  to  corrupt  the English tongue 
with  sloppy  slang,  that  staid  old  tongue 
will  have  its  revenge.  When  the  world 
sits 
judgment  between  the  English 
tongue  and  the  man  who  mistreats  it, 
its  verdict 
in  favor  of  the 
plaintiff.
Cash  Prize  and  Diploma 

is  always 

for  Best 

in 

Essay.
Dayton,  Ohio,  Dec. 

15—We  do  not 
believe  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. ’ ’

Essays  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.
in  the 
competition  will  be  printed  from  time 
in  the  Michigan  Tradesman.
to  time 
is 
awarded  will  be  printed  in  the  issue  of 
May  5.

The  essay  to  which  the  prize 

Some  of  the  essays  entered 

N a t io n a l   C a s h   R e g is t e r   C o .

Commercial  Ginger.

leaves.  The 

The  ginger  of  commerce  is  the  prod­
uct  of  a  plant  growing  in  both  the  East 
and  West  Indies. 
In  appearance  it  re­
sembles  a  reed,  while  the  stems  rise 
from  a  root  similar  to  the  sweet  flag  or 
iris.  Like  the  root  of  this  flower,  the 
ginger  plant  spreads find increases every 
year.  From  the  upper  surface  of  the 
ginger  root  arises, 
in  the  spring,  a 
green,  reed-like  stalk,  about  two  and  a 
half  feet  high,  which  bears  narrow, 
flowers  of 
lance-shaped 
the  plant,  which  are  white  and  lilac 
in 
color,  grow  on  a  separate  stem.  The 
ginger  we  employ  as  a  spice  is  the root, 
to  obtain  which  the  plant  is  cultivated 
in  much  the  same  manner  as  potatoes, 
and  when  the  stalks  have  withered,  the 
roots  are  dug  up.  Thè  best  and  sound­
est  of  them  are  selected,  scraped  clean 
and  carefully  dried 
in  the  sun,  when 
they  are  ready  for  use.  The  inferior 
roots  are  boiled  in  scalding  water,  in­
stead  of  being  scraped,  and  these,  when 
dried,  make  what  is  called  black  gin­
ger—an  article  very  rarely  used  at  the 
present  time.  The  color  of  black  gin­
ger 
is  a  yellowish  gray  on  the  outside 
and  an  orange  brown  within. 
In shape, 
it 
is  thick  and  knotty.  The  best,  or 
white  ginger,  being  scraped,  is  smaller 
in  size,  not  being  so  thick  and  knotty. 
Its  color 
is  of  a  light  yellow,  and  it  is 
much  more  aromatic  and  pungent  than 
the  black.

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their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell  ^
 
in  you  that they  are  only  trying  to  get you  to  aid  their 

vjp  new  article. 

:
W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

: 

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Is  it  not  the  Z ^  

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for other articles. 

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17

CotnmercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, J as  P  Hammell,L ansing;  Secretary, 
D. C.  si,aght, F lint;  Treasurer,C has. McNolty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers'  Association.
President, S.  H.  H a b t ,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D.  Mo r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Chancellor. H.  Ü .  Ma r k s ,  Detroit ;  Secretary, 
E dw in Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  G eo.  A.  R e y ­
n o ld s,  Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

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

President, A .  F .  P e a k e , Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F .  M.  T y l e r .  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h il d . J a s . N . B r a d f o r d . J   H e n r y  Da w l b y .G eo. 
J .   He in z e l m a n , C h a s. S.  R obinso n.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

“ It  is  no  trick  at  all  to  do  business, ’ ’ 
so  says  an  old-timer on  the  road,  “ pro­
vided  one  has  the  right  kind  of  goods 
to  do  it  with.’ ’
the  man  who  knows 
In  business 
everything  that 
is  happening  is  a  long 
way  ahead  of  the  fellow  who  knows only 
some  of 

It  pays  to  keep  posted.

it. 

All  buyers  have  little  weaknesses  and 
the  traveling  salesman  who  can  touch 
them  in  the  tender spot  is  sure  to secure 
an  order.  This  is  philosophy  and  busi­
ness  combined.

Frank  W.  Hadden,  for  the  past  six 
months  on  the  road  for  Geo.  H.  Whee- 
lock  &  Co.,  of  South  Bend,  Ind.,  has 
signed  with  I.  T.  &  Geo.  H.  Bowman 
&  Co.,  of  Cleveland,  covering  Western 
Michigan.

The  oldest  traveling  man  has  turned 
up  again.  This  time  he  is  J.  J.  Squaier, 
of  Chicago,  who  is  81  years  of  age  and 
has  traveled  over  sixty  years.  He  sells 
grocers’  sundries,  doesn’t  look  over 65 
and  says  he  is  good  for  twenty  years 
yet.

A  mighty  maxim  for  all  buyers:  “ Be 
careful  when  you  make  an  appointment 
with  the  traveling  man  to  look  over  his 
line;  but  having  once  promised  to  be 
at  his  sample  room  at  a  certain  time, 
stand  by  it.”   The  man  who  has  a  rep­
utation 
for  keeping  his  appointments 
promptly  has  an  asset  which  is  better 
than  a  big  bank  account.

W.  B.  Holden,  who  the  past  year  has 
covered  Michigan,  Wisconsin,  Indiana 
and  Ohio  for  the  Rapid  Hook  &  Eye 
Co.,  has  now  signed  with  Voigt,  Her- 
polsheimer  &  Co.  to  cover  the  territory 
between  Grand  Rapids  and  Detroit, 
which  has  been  covered  by  Joseph  Mar­
tin.  This  is  the  third  time  Mr.  Holden 
has  returned  to  the  employ  of  Voigt, 
Herpolsheimer  &  Co.

As  will  be  noted  in  the  report  of  the 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  Geo. 
F.  Owen  will  continue  to  act  as  Secre­
tary  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  until  January  30,  on  which  date 
the  Board  will  hold  another  meeting  at 
Lansing  for  the  purpose  of  acting  on 
the  bonds  of  the  recently-elected  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer,  in  case  they  are 
ready  for  the  Board  at  that  time.

is 
The  Jackson  Liquid  Glue  Co. 
represented  on  the  road  as  follows: 
In 
Michigan  by  C.  C.  Colville,  who  was 
for  several  years 
identified  with  the 
hardware  trade  of  Central  Michigan ;  in 
Ohio  by  J.  J.  Thompson,  formerly  con­
nected  with  the  Jackson  Grocery  Co., 
and 
in  Illinois  by  W.  A.  Kintzel,  of 
Freeport,  111.,  who  formerly  traveled 
for  the  Novelty  Manufacturing  Co.,  of 
Jackson,.................

The  success  of  Mrs.  Wm.  R.  Allen  in 
influenced  E. 
the  Michigan  field  has 
W.  Gillett  to  place  another  salesman  in 
the  territory,  and  an  arrangement  has 
been  effected with Mr.  Allen by which he 
will  take  the  Eastern  and  Southern  por­
tion  of  the  State,  while  his  wife  will 
continue  her  visits  to  the  trade  of 
Northern  and  Western  Michigan. 
If 
Mr.  Allen  succeeds 
in  achieving  the 
same  measure  of  success  Mrs.  Allen  has 
accomplished,  he  is  “ all  right.”

The  customer  who  is  in  the  habit  of 
taking  solace  out  of  the clay  pipe  may 
experience  beatitude  through  a  choice 
Havana  cigar,  which  will  allay  discord­
ant  feelings  and  put  him  in  good  buy­
ing  humor.  But 
it  must  be  handled 
cautiously  by  the  traveler,  and  it  must 
never  appear  that  he goes  about  with  a 
case  full  of  the  article 
intended  ex­
pressly  for  the  purpose  of  giving him an 
audience  with  the  trade.  The  dealer  is 
not  to  be  bought,  and  if  the  offering  of 
a  cigar  carries  with  it  the  remotest  in­
timation  of  this  sort,  the  traveler had 
better  pack  his  grip  on  the  spot.

“ I  rode  forty  miles  into  Petoskey  on 
a  caboose  the  other  day, ’ ’  remarked  a 
well-known  traveler,  “ and  saved  two 
hours  by  so  doing,  so  it  paid.  A  ride 
in  a  caboose,”   he continued,  “ is  exhil­
arating.  There  is  neither  ease  nor  ele­
it,  and 
gance  about 
it’s  as  different 
in  a  Wagner  as  is  a  trip 
from  riding 
in  a  farm  wagon 
over  a  country  road 
from  a  drive  on  a  paved  street 
in  a 
Brewster  victoria.  There  are  no  triple 
spiral  springs  under  a  caboose,  but  it 
trips  merrily  along  at  the  tail  end  of  a 
long  string  of  cars,  bobbing  serenely 
from  side  to  side  with  an  irregularity 
which  prevents  all  attempts  to  nullify 
the  motion.  There 
is  an  invigoration 
in  the  way  the  train  stops and  starts, 
and 
if  one  braces  himself  to  receive  a 
swing  to  the  right,  he  gets  a  lurch  to 
the 
left  which  bangs  his  head  against 
the  wall,  or  probably  the  stove.  Yes,  I 
I prefer to  ride  on  a  passenger  train,  but 
time  on  the  road  is  money,  and  to  make 
it  the  commercial  traveler  must  once  in 
a  while,  at  least,  resort  to  the  little  red 
caboose  on  the  hind  end  of  a  freight 
train. ”

“ I  don’t  think  that  the 

Miss  May  Gerson,  who  has  followed 
the  profession  of  commercial  traveler 
for  seven  years,  recently  submitted  to 
interview,  in  the  course  of  which 
an 
she  said: 
life 
of  a  commercial  traveler  is  suitable  for 
women,  which  is  evidenced  by  the  fact 
that  so  few  of  them  have  adopted  it.  In 
my  career  on  the  road  I  have  met  with 
only  one  real  woman  drummer. 
I  often 
tell  people  I  am  the  only  one  in  the 
world.  The  fatal  objection  to  the  busi­
ness,  viewed  from  the 
female  stand­
point,  is  that 
it  takes  you  away  from 
home.  Home  means  much  more  to  us 
than  to  men.  A  man  can  manage  to 
get  along  with  periodical  visits  to  his 
family  and  gets  hardened  to  hotel  exist­
life  wasn’t  in­
ence,  but  that  sort  of 
tended  for  his  sisters  or  daughters. 
I 
am  not  at  all  soured  or  disappointed, 
but  am  taking  a  common  sense  view  of 
the  subject.  My  own 
is  full  of 
pleasant  spots;  I 
live  well  and  get  a 
comfortable  salary,  having  climbed  up 
the  ladder  from  a  beginning  of  §7  a 
week. 
People  treat  me  nicely,  and 
there  isn't  a  town  in  half  a  dozen  states 
where  I  haven’t  a  lot of  friends.  Dur­
ing  all  these  hard  times  I  have  taken 
orders,  and  expect  to  take  more  than 
ever,  now  that  the  election  is over.  Per­
sonally,  I  have  nothing  to  weep  over, 
but  I  reiterate  my  advice  to  all  women 
who  may  contemplate  entering  on  the 
life of a^drummer—don't, ”

life 

Regular  Meeting  o f the  Board  o f  Di­

rectors,  K.  o f  G.

adopted 

receipts 

Grand  Rapids,  Jan.  18—The  regular 
meeting  of  the  Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  was 
held  at  the  Hudson  House,  Lansing, 
Saturday,  Jan.  16.  All  of  the  members 
of  the  Board  were  present  except  Pres­
ident  Symons and  Director  Streat.

Secretary  Owen  presented  his  finan­
cial  report,  showing 
in  the 
general  fund  of  §1,428  and  in  the  death 
fund  of  §2,722, 
tor  both  of  which 
amounts  he  held  the  Treasurer’s  re­
ceipt.  The  report  was  approved  by  the 
Finance  Committee, 
and 
placed  on  file.
Treasurer  Frost  presented  his  report, 
showing  cash  on  hand 
in  the  general 
fund  of §1,275.85,  and  in  the  death fund 
of  §2,851.59.  He  presented  a  statement 
from  the  cashier  of  the  City  National 
Bank  of  Lansing  to  the  effect  that  he 
has  a  credit  in  that  bank  of  §4,206.69, 
which 
includes  outstanding  checks  of 
§79-25-
The  following  bills  were  audited  by 
the  Finance  Committee  and  orders  were 
ordered  drawn  on  Treasurer  Frost  for 
their  payment:
Geo. F. Owen, salary....................... .............S491  20
J. J   Frost, silary ............... ..........................  «4  84
Postage account  ..........................................   7 1 25
Tradesman Company....................................  23 50
v. F.  Peake, attendance at Board meeting  2  7 < 
F.  M. Tyler, attendance at  Board meeting  6 00 
John R.  M ood, attendance at Board meet­
6 02
ing................................................................. 
B. D. Palmer, attendance  at  Board  meet­
ing ................................................................  
5 02
Geo. F.  Owen, attendance at  Board  meet­
6 35
ing ................................................................  
Chas.  L.  Stevens,  attendance  at  Board
meeting........................................................ 
5  36
Chas.  McNolty, attendance at Board meet­
ing ................................................................  
273
D. C. Slaght, attendance at Board meeting  2 48
On motion,  the  Board  of  Directors  for 

1896 adjourned  sine  die.
President  Hammell  called  the  new 
Board  together  with  a  very  pleasant 
speech,  urging  economy  and  faithful 
discharge of  the duties  devolving  upon 
each  member.  He  announced  the  fol­
lowing  standing  committees:

Finance—A.  F.  Peake, 

M .'  Tyler,  Grand  RapidS; 
Wood,  Detroit.
Tohns;  N.  B. 
Brown,  Hastings.

Jackson;  F. 
John  R. 
St. 
Jones,  Lansing;  C.  S. 

Legislation—E.  P.  Waldron, 

Railroads—John McLean,  Detroit;  C. 
S.  Kelsey,  Battle  Creek;  Leo  A.  Caro, 
Grand  Rapids.
Hotels—S.  E.  Symons,  Saginaw;  A. 
Becker,  Detroit;  J.  B.  Heydlauff,  Jack- 
son.

J.  Moore, 

Bus  and  Baggage—W.  S.  Cooper, 
Jackson;  A. 
Lansing;  W. 
Saul,  Menominee.
Printing—B.  D.  Palmer,  St.  Johns; 
Chas.  L.  Stevens,  Ypsilanti;  F.  R. 
Streat,  Flint.

Employment 

and  Relief—Geo  F.
Owen,  Grand  Rapids;  J.  H.  Temmink, 
Lansing;  M.  V.  Foley,  Saginaw.

Coldwater.

Chaplain—John  M.  Fitch,  Durand.
Sergeant—at—Arms—C.  L.  Lawton, 
On  motion,  the  Secretary  and  Treas­
urer  were  each  required  to  furnish  a 
bond 
in  the  sum  of  §4,000,  issued  by 
some  surety  company  satisfactory  to  the 
Board.  Both  gentlemen  stated  that they 
had  not  yet  secured  the bonds asked  by 
the  Board,  and  were  therefore  granted 
two  weeks’ 
further  time,  when  the 
Board  would  meet  in  special  session.
Communications  were  read  from  A. 
W.  Willis  regarding  the  Nashville  Cen­
tennial  Exposition;  G.  W.  Lampkins, 
in  regard  to  souvenir book;  J.  C.  Witt- 
liff and  Mayor  N.  S.  Boynton,  extending 
invitation  to  hold  the  next  convention 
at  Port  Huron ;  J.  A.  Hoffman  and  City 
Clerk  C.  H.  Gleason,  inviting  the  As­
sociation  to  come  to  Kalamazoo  for  the 
next  convention.  The  communications 
were  placed  on  file,  the  invitations from 
Kalamazoo  and  Port  Huron  being  made 
the  special  order  of  business  at  the 
meeting  to  be  held  Jan.  50.

The  following  resolution,  presented 

by  Director  Peake,  was  adopted :

Resolved,  That  in  the  future  the  Sec­
retary  be  instructed  to  turn  over  to  the 
Treasurer  all  moneys 
in  the  deposit 
fund  and  report  same  to  the  Board  at 
each  meeting,  as  provided  in  constitu­
tion  and  by-laws.

Proofs  of  death  of  E.  C.  Keuthan, 
Daniel  Loeb,  Carl  A.  Reinsch  and 
James  B.  Rue  were  received,  and,  on 
motion,  warrants  were  drawn  on  the 
treasury  in  the  sum  of  §500  for  the  ben­
eficiary  in  each  case.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 
meeting  adjourned,  to  convene  at  the 
Hotel  Downey,  Lansing,  Saturday,  Jan. 
30,  at 9  o’clock  a.  m.

G e o .  F.  O w e n ,  S e c ’y.

Bismarck  is  a  passionate  smoker,  but 
of  late  tobacco  seems  to disagree  with 
him,  and  he  has  a  daily  struggle  with 
himself  as  to  the  number of  pipes  be 
may  indulge  in.

Young’  men  and  women  attain   greatest  financial 
gain bv  securing  a course in the Unstress. Shorfha1  d, 
English  or  Mechanical  Drawing  Dei ailm ents  of  the 
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AND  FREIGHT  WAGONS
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Reopened  Nov.  2 5.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam beat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1 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.

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Drugs^Chemicals

- 

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1896
-  Dec. 31,1897
Dec. 31, 1PM
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 3i, 1900

C. A. B u g b e b , Traverse  City 
S.  E .  P a k k il l ,  Owosso 
F. W. R.  P e r r y ,  Detroit 
A. C.  Schu m a ch er,  Ann  Arbor 
G eo. Gu n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 

President, S. E. P a r k il l , Owosso.
Secretary, E. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, G eo. G u n d ru m ,  Ionia.
Coming  Examination  Sessions—Detroit,  Jan.  5 
and  6;  Grand  Rapids,  March  2  and  3;  Star 
Island  (Detroit),  J u n e —;  Upper  Peninsula, 
Aug. —.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h il l ip s,  Armada.
Secretary, B .  Sch bo u d er,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C h a s. M an n, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. Co lx a n , Kalamazoo;  G eo.  J.  Wa r d ,  St. 
C l a i r ;  A.  B .  St e v e n s,  Detroit;  F .  W.  R . 
P e r r y , Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

the 

Atropine—Advanced  50c  per  ounce.
Balsams—Peru  is  a  trifle  easier.
Beans—Vanilla,  market  very  strong 
and 
is  toward  higher 
prices  and  holders  are  not  anxious  sell­
ers.

tendency 

Cantharides—Demand  shows  no  par­
ticular  improvement,  but  values are well 
maintained.

Cassia  Buds—Consumptive  demand  is 
fairly  satisfactory  and  the  market  is 
firm.

Castor  Oil—Values  are  steady.
Cocaine—Prices  have  been  reduced 
85c  per  ounce,  the  reason  being  over­
production  and  the  large  stocks  abroad.
Cream  Tartar—Prices  firm  at hands of 

manufacturers.

Cubeb  Berries—Dull  but  steady.
Essential  Oils—The  market  is  none 
too  active  and  there 
is  room  for  im­
provement,  but  still  general  trading  has 
been 
Few  of  the 
changes 
incident  to  the  beginning  of 
the  new  year  are  of  more  than  ordinary 
importance.  Anise  is  lower.  Sassafras 
is  marked  by  an  easier  feeling.

somewhat  better. 

Flowers—General  market quiet.
Gums—Asafoetida,  active  and  firm. 
Camphor,  fairly  active  at  the  reduction 
mentioned  last  week,  but market is more 
or less  unsteady.

Iodine—Business is of  average  volume 
jobbing  way  and  manufacturers’ 
continue 

resublimed 

for 

in  a 
quotations 
steady.

Juniper  Berries—Fair 

jobbing  de­
mand  as  to  small  parcels  and  values  are 
firm  at  the  former  range.

Leaves—Short  buchu,  fair  consump­
tive  demand  and  prices  steady.  Senna 
is  having  a  good  demand.  Consuming 
demand 
light  for descriptions  other 
than  above  and  the general  market  may 
be  said  to  be quiet.

Lycopodium—Market  is barely steady, 
due  to  abundant  stocks and  exceedingly 
inactive  demand.

is 

Manna—Market  strong  at  the  recent 
advance,  prices  being  well  maintained, 
and  some business  has been  going  for­
ward,  as  to  consumers,  at  the  improved 
quotations.

Morphine—Jobbing  demand  has  kept 
on 
improving  and  the  movement  into 
consuming  channels  has  been  fair,  with 
manufacturers’  prices  ruling  steady.

Opium—Market 

still 

exceedingly 

quiet.

Quicksilver—Market  fairly  steady.
Roots—Gentian,  easier.  Same  is  true 
of  golden  seal.  Blood  root  is  said  to  be 
practically  out  of  the  market,  and 
powdered  has  gone  up.

Salicin—The  only  inquiry  is  for small 
jobbing  parcels.  Prices  are  unchanged 
but  fairly  steady.

Seeds—Coriander 

is  showing  some

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

activity,  but  the tone  of  the  market 
lower.

is 

Spermaceti—Quiet  but 

reasonably 

steady.

Sugar  of  Milk—Market  remains  ac­
tive,  there  being  a  good  demand  both 
as  to  home  consumption  and  export, 
but  business 
is  confined  to  small  pro­
portions,  on  account  of  the  light  avail­
able  stocks.  Quotations  are  unchanged 
but  firm.
Why  Women  Are  Not  Adapted  to  the 

Drug  Business.*

In  a  certain  pharmaceutical  journal 
there  recently  appeared  an  article  with 
the  same  title  as  the  one  I  have  an­
nounced. 
It  was  written  by  a  Miss-----,
and 
it  was  evident  from  its  tone  that 
the  fair  writer  was  meeting,  and,  let  us 
hope,  surmounting,  many  and  serious 
obstacles  to  the  attainment  of  a  full 
realization  of  her  ambition  to  be  a 
“ pill-roller.”   I  regret  you  have  not  all 
read  the  article  referred  to,  but  I  shall 
endeavor  to  have  you  know  what  was 
said  therein  by  my  references  to  the 
same.
I  take  direct  exception  to  several 
statements  made  by  this  writer,  and 
in 
some of  these  exceptions  I  believe  there 
exists  excellent  argument  as  to  why 
women  are  not,  as  a  class,  fitted  for  the 
duties  and  requirements  of  the  phar­
macist.

In  the  first  place,  while  the  statement 
that  “ statistics  show  that  the  great  ma­
jority  of  wage-earning  women  have 
others  dependent  upon  them  for  sup­
port”   may  go  unquestioned, 
it  can 
have  but  little,  if  any,  bearing  upon  an 
argument  in  this  instance,  for  statistics 
will  not show that  women  who  desire  to 
become  pharmacists  are,  even 
in  the 
majority  of  cases,  forced  to  wage-earn­
ing  that  they  may  provide  food  and 
clothing 
for  others.  On  the  contrary, 
the  years  of  unremunerative  apprentice­
ship,  which  are  as  unavoidable  as  they 
are  necessary,  and  the  expenses  of  ac­
quiring  aji  adequate  pharmaceutical 
education,  make  it  incumbent  upon  one 
to  have  some  means 
for  existence. 
Neither  can  the  laudable  ambition  to 
be  possessed  of  the  proverbial  corner 
drug  store  be  gratified  from  the  earn­
ings  of  the  drug  clerk.  True,  there  are 
a  few  such  instances  on  record,  but  in 
the  great  majority  of  cases  all  this  is 
clearly  contemplated  when  the  start  is 
made.  Hence,  the  argument  that  the 
ranks  of  pharmacy  should  be  open  to 
women,  that  an  additional  means  of 
wage-earning  for  the  support  of  others 
might  be  created,  is  a  weak  one.  When 
the  unfortunate  necessity 
for  wage­
earning  by  women  exists,  there is  no  in­
dividual  entitled  to  greater  encourage­
ment,  assistance  or  respect,  but,  look­
ing  at  it  from  an  unprejudiced  stand­
point,  one  cannot  but  admit  that  phar­
macy,  in  the  abstract,  does  not  pro­
vide  a  means  of  existence  for  some 
years  after  it 
is  entered  upon;  and  I 
might add  that  there  are  but  compara­
tively  few  male  apprentices  to  the  drug 
business  who  contemplate  providing  for 
the  existence  of  others  until  such  time 
in  the  future  when,  having  completed 
their  studies  and  entered  upon  the  en­
joyment  of  the  large  (?)  salaries  paid 
their  kind,  they  create  family  obliga­
tions  with  new  mouths  to  feed  annually.
Continuing  the  argument,  and  con­
ceding  that  the average  woman  who  en­
ters  upon  the  study  and 
learning  of 
pharmacy  does  not  do  so  from  a  neces­
sity  of  wage-earning,  I  cannot  but  utter 
a  word  of  warning.  The  ambition  of 
the  average  woman  is  granted  to be  to 
acquire  all  the  accomplishments  pos­
sible,  both  useful  and  ornamental,  to 
enjoy  the  sweets  of  life,  to  command 
the  homage  of  man  and  the  world  and 
to  eventually  “ marry  some  good  fellow 
and  be  happy  ever afterward.”   To be­
come  a  pharmacist,  woman  must  dis­
entangle  herself  considerably  from  the 
“ poetry  of  life, “ and  to  say  that  she 
must  get  down  to  the  “ stern  realities 
of  life”   when  she  takes  up  the  profes­
sion  of  pharmacy 
is  but  expressing  it 
mildly.
♦Paper read by H. D. Dietrich at annua) conven­

tion Wisconsin Pharmaceutical  Association.

The  writer  of  the  article  referred  to 
asks  that  “ the  world  recognize  the  fact 
that  woman  is  compelled  to  seek  em­
ployment  side  by  side  with  man  and 
that 
it  give  her  the same  chance and 
consideration  that  it  shows to  him .”   Be 
it  so,  by  all  means,  and  if  women  will 
persist 
in  becoming  pharmacists  then 
let  them  do  so  “ side  by  side”   with 
men.  Let  them  begin  at  the  age  of 
“ sweet  sixteen”   or  earlier to assume the 
duties of  the drug  apprentice—to  sweep 
and  dust  the  store,  clean  the  windows, 
scrub 
the  sidewalk,  carry  the  coal, 
chop  the  wood,  run  the  errands,  ham­
mer  the  vanilla  bean  for  four  weary 
hours,  take  a  twenty-pound  shovel  and 
mix  the  horse  and  cattle  powder,  and 
an  ax  to  break  up  into  salable  shape the 
caustic  soda,  charge  the  soda  fountain, 
yank  the boxes  up  and  down  the  cellar 
steps,  and  withal begin the day’s work at 
6:30 a.  m.,  only  to  end  it after  sixteen 
or eighteen hours of “ work that is work, ”  
and  then  either  walk  to  her  home a long 
way  off  or  seek  for  lest  on  a  cot  in  a 
dingy  room  either back  of  or  above  the 
store.  Ye  gods!  this  is  serving  an  ap­
prenticeship  “ side  by  side”   with  man, 
and  I  will  leave  it  to  ninety-nine  drug­
gists  of  every  hundred  who  have  served 
an  apprenticeship  whether  this  picture 
is  overdrav/n  or  not.

Oh,  no,  such  an  apprenticeship  is  not 
the  kind  woman 
is  seeking,  and  the 
man  who  would  require  it  of  a  beauti­
ful  little  woman  would  be  justly  termed 
a  brute.  What a  woman  wants  is  a spe­
cial  sort  of  an  apprenticeship—one ar­
ranged  for  her  benefit.  But  this  work 
must  be  done,  and  if  not  by  the  “ lady”  
apprentice  then  either  by the proprietor, 
his  right  bower  or  by  a  second  and 
probably  otherwise  unnecessary  adjunct 
in  the  shape of  the  small  boy.

The  fair  writer  quoted  concedes  that, 
to  be  a  successful  pharmacist,  woman 
must  be  unusually  well  and  strong— 
able  to  stand 
long  hours  and  a  great 
deal  of  drudgery;  hut  women  who as­
pire  to  become  pharmacists  are  seldom 
built  that  way.

Woman  as a  pharmacist  is a  beautiful 
picture,  my  friends,  but  as  an  appren­
tice  to  pill-rolling  and  a  dead-sure 
thing  it  don’t  go,  and  1  would  ask  here 
whether 
in  the  vocabulary  of  woman 
there  is  language  sufficiently  express­
ive  for  use  when  a  little  “ pillulet”  
which 
is  being  carefully  and  lovingly 
rolled  between  the  fingers  drops  to  the 
floor  and  rolls  out  of  sight  under the 
prescription  counter,  or  when  a  pre­
scription  for sixty  capsules  or  twenty- 
four  suppositories 
is  presented  at  five 
is
minutes  before  twelve,  just  as  she 

I  fear 
about  to  escape  for  the  last  car? 
not. 
If  woman  actually  desires  to be  a 
druggist,  then,  by  all  means,  let  it be 
as  suggested  by  this  writer,  “ side by 
side  with  man.  That  alone  will  cure 
many a  woman  of  her ambition  in  this 
direction.

a d m ira tio n ; 

fo r  w om an 

I  do  n o t  w ant  to  b e   m isu n d e rsto o d  

in 
th is  m a tte r.  F o r  w om an  I  h av e  th e  m ost 
p rofound 
I 
w ould  re a d ily   y ie ld   ev ery   p o in t  of  v a n ­
tag e,  a n d   b e lie v e   m e,  it 
is  solely  b e ­
cau se  of  m y  UDdying 
love  fo r  w om an 
th a t  I  w ould  ra is e   m y  v o ice  a g a in st  h e r 
s u b m ittin g  
in d ig n itie s   h e ap e d  
not  only  upon  th e   a v e ra g e   a p p re n tic e , 
but 
th e   m atu re d ,  full-g ro w n ,  all-w ool- 
a n d -y a rd -w id e   d ru g   clerk   a s  w ell. 
I 
th e   a c h in g   h e art,  th e  
w ould  sav e  h e r 
th e  
w eary  body,  th e  
tire d   h e ad   a n d  
d ru g  
so iled ,  callo u sed   h a n d s  of 
in e v ita b le ,  for 
clerk  ;  an d   all  th e se   a re  
to  slig h tly   p a ra p h ra se   th e  
la n g u a g e   of 
th e   poet,  “ H e   (o r  sh e)  w ho  e n te rs  h e re  
leav es  a ll  h o p e  b e h in d .”
GINSENG  ROOT
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Morphia, S.P.& W... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co.............7 ..
Moschus Canton...
Myristica, No. 1__
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os  Sepia.......... ...
Pepsin  Saac, H. A P
D. Co....................
Picis Liq.N.N.Kgal
doz....................
Picis Liq., quarts 
Picis Liq., pints.
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Pi per N igra... po.  22
Piper Alba__ po.  35
Pilx  Burgun............
Plumb!  Acet............
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassise....................
Quinia, S. P. A W .. 
Quinia, S. Germ an..
QuJnia, N.Y.............
Rubla Tinctorum ... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin......................
Sanguis Draconls...
Sapo,  W ....................
Sapo, M......................
Sapo. G......................
Siedlitz  M ixture__

1  75® 200
1  65®  1  90 
@  40
65®  80@ 
10 
15®  18
@ 1 00
@ 2 00 
@  1 00 
@  85
@  50
@  18 
@  30
@ 
7
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...............   1M® 
2
5
3® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.......... 
Soda,  Ash.................  3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas..........  
@ 
2
Spts. Cologne............ 
@ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........  
50®  55
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
@  0 00
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. 
@  2  39
Spts. VlniRectM bbl  @ 2  44 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @ 2  47 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
@  2 49 
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl..........   2H@ 
3
2®  2M
Sulphur,  Roll......... 
8® 
Tam arinds...............  
10
Terehenth Venice... 
28®  30
42®  45
Theobromae.............. 
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 On
Zinci  Sulph.............  
7® 
8

Oils

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

BBL.  SA L.
70
70 
40 
45
35 
40

Linseed, pure  raw ..  30 
Linseed,  Dolled....... 
32 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  33 

1 9

33
34
70
38

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian..........   Hi  2  ®8
Ochre, yellow Mars,  m   2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
1442  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2Q  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2J£@3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American............... 
15
13® 
Vermilion,  English. 
70®  
75
Green, P a ris............  13M® 
19
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
16
Lead, R ed.................  5q @  5m
Lead, w hite.............   5Q®  5M
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’... 
@  90
White, ParisAmer.. 
@  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
@  1  40
C liff...........................  
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp..............  1  60®  1  70
Coach Body..............  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp P o m ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.
». Blood root.
Declined—Cocaine.

10
80
15
39
46
5
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12
15
50
5
60
36

6
8
14
14

25
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15
8
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65
60
45
75

18
12
18
30
20
12
10
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
25
80
50
15
2
35
7

14
25
30

20
25
30
20
10

65
45
35
28
80
18
12
30
60
25
55
13
14
16
50
10
00
70
35
00
60
40
50
6"
45
80

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

50
50
25
30
50
30
75
58
65

00®  4 50

30®  1 50

35®  65

15®  1 25
50®  1 60
20®  1 30
50®  1 60

Conium  Mac............ 
Copaiba....................   i 
Cubebae......................   l 
E xechthitos............  1  20®  1  30
Erigeron..................   1 
G aultheria...............  1 
Oeranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma..................   l  O'1®   1  10
Junipera...................  l  so® 2 00
Lavendula............... 
90®  2 00
Limonis....................   1 
Mentha Piper..........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid..........  2  6F@ 2 75
Morrhuse,  gal..........  1  90®  2 00
Myrcia,.....................   4 
0*1 ve.........................  
75® 3 00
10® 
Picis  Liquida.......... 
12
@  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
R lcin a...................... 
99® 1  04
@  1  00
Rosmarini................. 
Rosse,  ounce............  6 50© 8 50
S uccini....................  
40®  45
S abina.................... 
90®  1  00
Santal.......................... 2 
50® 7 00
Sassafras..................  
58®  63
@  65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
Tigli!..........................  1 
40®  1 50
40®  50
Thym e...................... 
Thyme,  opt.............. 
@  1  60
Theobrom as............ 
15® 
20
Potassium
Bi-Barb...................... 
Bichromate............. 
Bromide.................... 
Carb......................... 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
Cyanide.................... 
Iodide.......................... 2 
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass Nitras............ 
Prussiate..................  
Sulphate p o ............ 

is
15® 
13® 
15
48®  51
12® 
15
16®  18
50©  55
90®  3 00
27©  30
®  15
8®  10
7® 
9
25©  28
15® 
18

Radix

10® 

Aconitvm................. 
20®  25
22®  25
Althse.......................  
12® 
A nchusa..................  
15
Arum po...................  
@  25
20®  40
C alam us................... 
Gentiana........ po  15 
15
12® 
16® 
18
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15 
@  35
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@ 4 0
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15®  20
Inula, po..................  
is® 
20
Ipecac, po.................  1  65®  I  75
Iris plox —  po35@38 
35®  40
Jalapa,  pr................. 
40@  45
@  35
Maranta,  Ms............ 
22®  25
Podophyllum, po.... 
R b e i......................... 
75®  1  00
@  1  25
Rhei, cu t................... 
75®  1  35
R bei.pv.................... 
35® 
Spigelia..................... 
38
@  28
Sanguinaria...po. 30 
Serpentaria.............. 
30® 
35
Senega...................... 
40®  45
Simi lax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M................. 
@  25
Scilla.............. .po.35 
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po..................  
@  25
®   25
Valeriana, Eng.po. 30 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................. 
16
12@ 
Zingiber j ................. 
25®  27
Semen
12
@ 
Anisum..........po.  15 
13®  15
Apium  (gravefeons) 
Bird, Is...................... 
4®  
6
12
10® 
Carol...............po. 18 
Cardamon.................  1 
8@ 
10
Coriandrum.............  
3M@  4
Cannabis  Sativa.... 
Cvdonium................  
75®  1  00
12
io® 
Chenopodi u r n ........  
Dipterix  Odorate...  2  90® 3 00
Foeniculum.............  
@ 
10
Fcenugreek, po........  
9
7® 
Ljnl- 
--...................  2*@  
4
Lini,  grd.... bbl. 2%  3K@  4
L obelia.................... 
35®   40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3H@  4
R apa.........................   4M® 
5
Sinapis Albn............ 
7® 
8
Sinapis  Nigra.......... 
11® 
12
Spiritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
F rum enti.................  1 
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis Co............  1  75® 3 50
Saacbarum  N. E __   1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini G alli........   1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto.............   1 
Vini  Alba.................  l 

25®  1 75

25®  1 50

25® 2 00
25® 2 00

50® 2 75
@ 2 00
@  1 10
@ 85
@ 65
@ 75
@  1 40

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool 

carriage.................  2 
carriage...*............
Velvet extra  sheeps'
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps'
woof,  carriage__
Grass  sheeps’  wool, 
carriage.................
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  u s e .............
Syrups 
A cacia......................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod..................
Rhei Arom...............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega ......................
Scillse........................

@
@
@

niscellaneous 

SclllseCo................... 
T olutan....................  
Prunus virg..  ......... 
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.........................
Aloes and Myrrh__
A rnica......................
Assafoetida.............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex.......
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosm a..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum ............
Cardamon................
Cardamon  Co..........
Castor........................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co............
Columba..................
Cubeba......................
Cassia  Acutifol.......
Cassia Acutlfol Co  .
D igitalis..................
E rgot........................
Ferri Chloridum....
G entian....................
Gentian Co...............
G uiaca......................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine........................
Iodine, colorless....
Kino........   ...............
Lobelia....................
Myrrh........................
Nux  Vomica............
O pii...........................
Opii, camphorated..
Opii,  deodorized__
Q uassia....................
Rhatany..................
Rhei...........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stromonium............
Tolutan.....................
V alerian..................
Veratrum V eride...
Zingiber....................
.¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 3 F  30® 
35 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
A lum en....................  2}<@
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7
4 
Annatto..................
50
40®
Antimoni,  po..........
5
55®  60
Antimoni etPotassT
A ntipyrin...............
@  1  40 
A ntifebrin.............
@  15
Argenti Nitras, oz .
@  55
Arsenicum..............
10®  
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud  .
38®  40
Bismuth  S. N .........
1  00®  1  10
Calcium Chlor.,  is!
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Fructus, af 
Capsid Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
10®
Caryophyllus.po.  15
Carmine, No. 40....... 
®  a  va
50®  55
Cera Alba, S. & F   .. 
Cera  Flava............... 
40®  42
@  40
Coccus...................... 
Cassia Fructus........  
@  27
Centrarla..................  
@ 
10
Cetaceum.................. 
@  45
Chloroform..............  
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35 
Chloral H ydC ret....  1  15®  1  30
Chondros.................. 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.A W 
20®  25 
Cinchonidine, Germ 
15®  22
Cocaine....................  3 8^@  4  0u
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
65
@  35
Creosotum............  
Creta.............. bbl. 75 
@  2
Creta, prep............... 
@ 
5
9® 
Creta, precip............ 
11
Creta, Rubra.......... 
@ 
8
Crocus...................... 
50®  55
C udbear................... 
@ 
34
5® 
CupriSulph.............  
6
Dextrine...................  
10® 
12
75®  90
Ether Sulph.............  
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po................. 
6
@ 
Ergota............po. 40  30®  35
Flake  W hite............ 
12® 
15
Galla.......................... 
@  23
Gambier...................  
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
@ 6 0
60
Gelatin, French....... 
35® 
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__  
60
Glue,  brown............ 
9® 
12
Glue,  white  ............ 
13®  25
19®  26
Glycerina................. 
Grana  Paradisi  __  
15
Humulus................... 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  75
Hydraag Chlor  Cor. 
@  65
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
@  85 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  95
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.......... 
60
Ichthyobolla, Am ...  1  25®  1  50
Indigo........................ 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........   3 80® 3  90
Iodoform..................  
@ 470
@ 225
Lupulin..................... 
Lycopodium............ 
50®  55
Macis.........................  
65®  75
Liquor  Arsen et Hy­
dra rg Iod...............
27 
@
LiquorPotassArsinit
10®
12 
Magnesia,  Sulph__
2®
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
1H 
_ 
Mannia, S. F ........
50®  SO 
Menthol...................
@ 3 60

@ 

@ 

W e  manufacture

Essence  Pepsin

Equal  to  the  best  in  the  market.  Test  it. 
One  teaspoonful  will  curd  one  quart  of 
luke-warm milk.

Price per pound 50c;  per gal. $3.50.

De Boe’s Soluble 
Elixir  Flavoring

For  making  a  brilliant  simple  elixir with­
out the trouble of filtering.  Full directions 
on  each package.

Price per pint 50c;  per gal.  $3.50.

Soluble  Extracts 
Lemon  and  Orange

For  making  brilliant syrups of Orange and 
Lemon.  No precipitates will form  in  using 
our  soluble  extracts.  Can also be used for 
soda fountain syrups.

Price per pound 75c;  per gal. $5.00.

Syrup  Hydriodic 
Acid  U. S. P.

And  the 2%   Syrup.

This Syrup will  be  found to possess all the 
alterative  effects  of  the  preparations  con­
taining salts of this element.  We guarantee 
these  Syrups  to  be  unchangeable  and will 
not deposit free iodine.
Price  per  pound  i%  50c;  per  gal.  $3.50. 
Price  per  pound  2%  75c;  per  gal.  $4.50.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Be
me

a

Regular
Grade
Lemon

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

PICKLES.
riedium.

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

Small.

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

PIPES.

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

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ................................ 4  00
PennaSalt  Co.’s ..................  3 00

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head......................  614
Carolina  No. 1....................   5
Carolina  No. 2....................   414
Broken....................................  3

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1........................  514
Japan.  No. 2..... 
Java, No. 1...........................   434
Table.....................................   514

...............   5

SALERATUS.

Packed 60  lbs. in  box.

Church’s .................................3 3C
Deland’s .................................3  15
Dwight’s .................................3  30
Taylor’s .................................. 3 00

SAL SODA.

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

l

SEEDS.

4

A n ise .................................. 
is
Canary, Smyrna.................... 
Caraw ay.............................  10
Cardamon,  M alabar.......  80
Hemp,  Russian...............  
4
414
Mixed  Bird........................ 
614
Mustard,  w hite................. 
Poppy  ................................... 
8
R ape......................................  
5
Cuttle Bone..........................  20

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders.............   37
Maccabov, In J are.................  35
French Rappee, In  jars.......  43

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................   13
Half  bbls...........................  15

Pure Cane.

Fair  ......................................  16
Good.....................................   20
C hoice..................................  25

SP IC ES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ....-.........................   9
Cassia, China in m ats........   10
Cassia, Batavia in  bund...  20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................is
Cloves, Zanzibar...................  9
Mace,  B atav ia .....................60
Nutmegs, fancy.....................60
Nutmegs, No.  1.....................eo
Nutmegs, No.  2.............. 
Pepper, Singapore, black...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite.. .12 
Pepper,  shot.......................... 10

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  .................................12
Cassia, B atavia.....................22
Cassia,  Saigon.......................%
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 20
Cloves, Zanzibar  ..................15
Ginger,  African 
................ 15
Ginger,  Cochin.....................20
Ginger,  Jamaica  ..................22
Mace,  Batavia...................... 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................... 25
N utm egs,........................ 40@*0
Pepper, Sing., black___10® 14
Pepper, Sing., w hite___15@18
Pepper, Cayenne.............17@20
Sage......................................... 18

SODA.

Boxes..................................... 5)4
Kegs, English........................  434

45

B u lk ..................................

3 

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ........ 2 25

Farina.

Grits.

Hominy.

Barrels  ............................ 3 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drum s........ 1  50

Lima  Beans.

Dried 
..............................
3)4
Maccaronl and Vermicelli. 
eo
Domestic,  101b. box-----
Imported,  25 lb. box..  .. 2 50

Pearl Barley.

Common............................
C hester.............................
E m p ire............................

134
2 
2)4

:

Peas.

80
2)4

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  b u .........................
Split,  per lb ......................
Rolled Avena,  bbl....... 4  00
3  50
Monarch,  bbl.................
Monarch.  )4  bbl............. 1  88
Private brands,  bbl__
Private brands, Vibbl — 1  75
Quaker, cases.................. 3 20
4
Germ an............................
East  India........................
3)4  Ja
Ja
Cracked, bulk...................
Ja
3 
24 2 lb packages............... 2 40

W heat.

Sago.

Cod.

K
Georges cured............. @ 4  H
Georges  genuine........
@4)4  Qi
11
@ 5 
Georges selected........
Strips or bricks..........  5 @8  H

Halibut.

Herring.

10
Chunks..............................
9
Strips................................
E
Holland white hoops keg
60  S,
Holland white hoops  bbl .  8 00  Vi
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs.................. .  2 50
Round  40 lbs................... .  1  30
14
Scaled................................
K
No. 1100 lbs...................... .  11  00  H
No. 1  40 lbs...................... .  4 7J  Q
No. 1  10 lbs...................... .  1  25  H
No. 2 100 lbs...................... .  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs...................... .  3 50
95
No. 2  10 lbs......................
Family 90 lbs.................
Family 10 lbs.................

flackerel.

St
B

Sardines.

55

Stockfish.

Russian kegs.................
No. 1, 1001b. bales........
No. 2, 100 lb. bales........ - 
No. 1100 lbs................... .  4 75
No. 1  40 lbs........................  2 20
No. 1  10 lbs........................ 
63
No. 1  8 lbs........................

Trout.

.  ion  v
8)4  S.

Whlteflsh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs............  6 50  5 75  2
40 lbs............  2  90  2 60  1  10
10 lbs. 
8 lbs.

FLAVORING EXTRACTS.

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora............. ...........55
Castor O ll....................60
Diamond........ ............50
Frazer’s ______ ............75
IX L Golden, tin boxes 75
..........70
Mica.................
Paragon.......... .............55

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

BAKING  POW DER.

Absolute.

H lb cans doz....................  
¡4 lb cans doz....................  
I 

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

Acme.

% lb cans 3 doz..................  
% lb can 8 3 doz..................  
1 
Bulk....................................... 

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

El Purity.

K lb cans  per doz............ 
75
% lb cans per doz  ............  1  20
1 
lb cans per doz..............2  00

Home.

H lb cans 4 doz case........  
% lb cans 4 doz case........  
lb cans 2 doz case......... 

35
55
90

Our Leader.

ii lb cans............................. 
M lb cans............................. 
l 

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

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

85

Peerless.

BASKETS.

p S H i i l i l i i
a | _s s

Per doz.
Standard Bushel...............   125
Extra Bushel.....................  1  75
Market.......  ...................... 
30
% bushe1, bamboo del’ry.  3 50 
34 bushel, bamboo del'ry.  4 00 
1  bushel, bamboo det’ry.  5 00 
Diamond Clothes, 30xr6...  2  50 
Braided Splint, 30x16 
4 00
BATH  BRICK.

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

A m erican.................................. 70
English....................................... 80

 

BLU1NQ.

C P D E N O T )
K'^ P E A R O S f

-uitfG

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

B R oons.

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

CAKE FROSTING.

Nacretoin, per doz.............   2  40
Two doz. in case assorted flav­
ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. 

CANDLES

8s..............................................7
16s  ............................................ 8
Paraffine...................................8

CANNED  GOODS, 
riaoltowoc  Peas.

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

CHOCOLATE.

W alter Baker & Co.’«.
............. . 

German Sweet 
22
Premium....................................31
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

 

C H E E SE .

Acme  .......................   @ 
ion
Amboy......................  934®  1034
Gold  Medal.............  
1014
Id eal.........................   @  10)4
Jersey.......................   @  10)4
Lenawee...................   @  9%
Oakland County......  @  10
Riverside..................  @  11
Sparta...................... 
@  10
S pringdale..............  @  10)4
Brick.........................   @  9
Edam.........................  @ 7 5
Leiden.......................  @  19
Limburger................  @  15
Pineapple........ 
60  ©  95
Sap  Sago..................   @  20

Balk 
Red 

Chicory.

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

CATSUP.

5
7

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

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

2)4
3
4

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

CO FFEE.

Green.
Rio.

P a ir.............................................17
Good...........................................18
P rim e......................................... 19
Golden  ......................................20
Peaberry  .................................. 22

Santos.

Fair  ...........................................19
Good  .........................................20
P rim e.........................................22
Peaberry  .................................. 23

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

Pair  ............. 
21
Good  .........................................22
......................................24
Fancy 

 

 

Maracaibo..

P rim e.........................................23
Milled......................................... 24

In terio r......................................25
Private  Growth........................ 27
Mandehllng...............................28

Im itatio n .................................. 25
Arabian  .................................... 28

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__30
Wells’ Mocha and Java...... 26
Wells’  Perfection  Java.......26
Saneaibo  .............................. 23)4
Valley City Maracaibo........ 20
Ideal  Blend...........................17
Leader  Blend....................... 15
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands 
Quaker Mandehllng Java. .31
Quaker Mocha and Jav a__29
Toko Mocha and Java........ 26
Quaker Golden  Santos........23
State House Blend...............22

Package.

for 

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
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.
A rbuckle.........................  15  00
Jersey................................  14  50
ricLougklln’s  XXXX........ 14  50

Extract.

Valley City )4 g ro ss......  
Felix a   gross................. 
Hnmmel’s foil % gross... 
Hammel’s tin )4  gross... 
Kneipp Malt Coffeo.

75
1  15
85
1  43

1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
t !b. packages, 100 lb. cases  9 
CONDENSED  M ILK.

Gail Borden  Eagle..............7 00
C row n....................................6  25
D aisy......................................5  75
Champion  .............................4 50
M agnolia...............................4 25
Dime 
....................................3  85

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom__   2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1,000 books, any denom__ 20 00

Economic  Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom__ 2  50
500 books, any denom 
11  50
20 00
1,000'books, any denom 

Universal Grade.
50 books’, any denom 
  150
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
l,000.books, any denom___20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 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—DOITESTIC 

Apples.

Sundrled,..........................  @ 3
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  &  1

California  Fruits.

Apricots........................1114®
Blackberries................
N ectarines..................   6  ®
Peaches.........................   714® 9
Pears............................. 
®
Pitted Cherries............
Prunnelles....................
Raspberries..................

California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes..........  ®
90-100 25 lb boxes..........  ®  514
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..........  @  554
70 - 80 25 lb boxes..........  ®  614
60 - 70 25 lb boxes..........  ®   634
50 - 60 25 lb boxes..........  @  7Q
40-50251bboxes..........  @714
30 - 40 25 lb boxes..........  @
14 cent less in hags
Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Crown. 
D ebesias......................... 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

1  60 
2 50
3 50
5v 
614 
714

FOREIGN.
C urrants.

Patras bbls......................... @  434
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ @  i%
Cleaned, b u lk ................... @ 614
Cleaned, packages............@  634

Peel.

Citron American 10 lb  bx  @14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  @12 
Orange American 101b bx  @12

Raisins.

Ondura 28 lb boxes........  @ 734
Sultana  1 Crown............  @814
Sultana 2 C ro w n ..........  @ 9
Sultana  3 Crown............  @914
Sultana  4 Crown............  @934
.Saltans 5jQrawn.. 
.  @1PM

GLUE.

per do*.
98

F i s h .

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont's.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

.2 25 
.  45

HERBS.

JELLY.

15 lb  palls...............................  30
17 lb  pails...............................  34
30 lb  pails..............................   60

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

LICORICE.

Pure.........................................  30
C alab ria................................  25
Sicily.......................................  14
Root.........................................  10

MINCE MBAT.

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

HATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur.........................1 65
Anchor  Parlor............................1 70
No. 2  Home................................. 1 10
Export  Parlor............................4 00

nOLASSBS.

New Orleans.

Black................................... 
F a ir................ 
G ood...................................  
Fancy  ............................... 
Open Kettle...................
Half-barrelB 2c extra.

 

11
14
20
24

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

W orcester.

Common Grades.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes............... 1 60
Barrels,  100  3 lb bags..........2 75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags..........2 50
Batter, 56 lb  bags.................  65
Batter, 20  14 lb  bags............. 3 00
Butter, 280 lb  bbls.................2 50
100 3 lb sacks...........................2 60
60 5-lb sacks........................... 1 85
2811-lb sacks......................... 1 70
lb.  cartons.................3 25
50  4 
115  2)41b. sacks......................4 00
lb. sacks.....................3 75
60  5 
22 14 
lb. sacks....................3  50
3010 
lb. sacks.....................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks..................   32
56 lb. linen sacks...................  60
Bulk in barrels...................... 2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags.......  30
28-lb dairy in drill bags.......  15
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
.  60 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks ...  60 

W arsaw.

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar  Rock.
Common Fine.

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

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

STARCH.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z .......2 40
Sapolio, hand. 3 d o z ............2 40

Scouring.

SUOAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf..................................... 4 87
Domino.......................................4 75
Cubes.......................................... 4 50
Powdered  .............................4  50
XXXX  Powdered...................... 4 62
Mould  A ......................................4 50
Granulated in bbls.....................4 25
Granulated in  bags...................4 25
Fine Granulated........................4 ¿5
Extra Fine Granulated....... 4  37
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4  37
Diamond  Confec.  A................. 4 25
Confec. Standard A................... 4 12
1.................. .................4  00
No.
No
2.................. .................. 4 0j
No. 3.................
.................4  00
No. 4  ................................... 3  94
No. 5.................. .................. 3  87
No. 6.................. .................. 3  81
No. 7 .................
No. 8.................................... 3 69
No. 9.................................... 3  69
No. 10..................
No. 11.................................... 3 56
No. 12...................................  3 50
No. 13.................................... 3 44
No. 14.................. .................. 3 37
No. 15.................. .................3 31
No. 16....................................3 06

Kingsford’s  Corn.

Diamond.

40 1-lb packages....................   6
20 1 lb packages....................   614
Kingsford’s  Silver  Gloss.
401-lb.packages....................   6)4
6-lb boxes  ...........................7
64 10c  packages  ................. 5  00
128  5c  packages...................5  00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5  00 
20-lb boxes.............................  5
40-lb  boxes.............................  4%
1-lb  packages........................  414
3-lb  packages............. ..........  414
6-lb  packages.......................   514
40 and 50 lb boxes.................  2 \
Barrels  ..................................  254

Common Gloss.

Common  Corn.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour's Brands.

Armour's  Fam ily...............  2  70
Armour’s  Laundry............  3  25
Armour's Comfort  ............  2  80
Armour's White, 100s........   6  25
Armour's White, 50s..........   3  2U
Armour's Woodchuck  ___ 2  55
Armour’s Kitchen  Brown.  2 00 
Armour's Mottled German  2  40 
Jas. S. Kirk A Co.'s Brands. 
American  Family,  wrp’d ...3   33
American Family, plain__ 3  27
A cm e......................................2  85
Cotton  Oil............................. 5  75
Marseilles...............................4  00
M aster....................................3  70

Lautz Bros. &  Co.’s Brands.

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.'s brand.

H. & P.  Drug Co.’s brand.

S. C.  W................................... 35 00
Q uintette..............................35 00
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.'s brand. 
New  B rick .......................... 35 00

VINEGAR.

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

WICKINO.

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

Fish and  Oysters

Single box................................2 85
5 box lots, delivered............2 80
10 box lots,  delivered............2 75
25 h o i  lots. rtpUvorod 
9 65

Thompson A Chute's Brand.

W hitefish.................
T ro u t.......................
Black Bass...............
H alibut....................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Blueflsh....................
Live Lobster..........
Boiled Lobster........
C o d .....  ...................
Haddock..................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike..........................
Smoked W hite........
Red Snapper............
Col  River  Salmon..
Mackerel 
...............

Oysters In Cans

Single box................................... 3 00
5 box lot, delivered................. 2 95
.........2  S5
10 box lot, delivered 
25 box lot, delivered__ ___ 2  75
Wolverine Soap C o’s Brands.

F. 11. Counts............
F. J.  D. Selects........
Selects...............—
F. J. D.  Standards..
Anchors....................
Standards.................
F av o rite .....   .........

to
9
@ 8
@ 10
@ 15
4
<a
h
to 16
to 18
to 10
8
to
8
to
6
to
8
to
to 13
to 15
to 20

to 35
to 27
to 22
to 20
to 18
to 16
to 14

Oysters in Bulk.

2  00
Couuts......................  
1  60
Extra Selects............ 
Selects....................... 
1  40
1  10
Mediums..................  
Baltimore Standards 
95
Clams  ...................... 
1  25
Shrimps....................  @  125

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per  100. . .......1  25® 1  50
Clams,  per  100 ....... 
90@1  00

Single b o x .............................2  65
5 box lots, delivered..........2 60
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 50
Allen B.  Wrisley’s Brands. 
Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars. ..3  15 
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars— 2 35
Uno, 100 54-lb. bars...»........ 2 80
Doll, 100 10-os. bars..............2  25

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

C a n d i e s .
Stick  Candy

Mixed Candv

Fancy—In Bulk.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

bbls palls
54i<&  7
0%i@ 7
6 @  7
7V4@  8)4
cases
to  8%
to  8)4
to  6
@  en
to  7
@  7
to  8)4
to  8
®  8
to  8
to  9
toio
@13
to  8)4

Standard..................
Standard H.  H........
Standard Twist.......
Cut Loaf..................
Extra H. H ...............
Boston  Cream........
Competition.............
Standard..................
Leader  ....................
Conserve...................
R oyal.......................
Ribbon......................
B roken....................
Cut  Loaf..................
English  Rock..........
Kindergarten..........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan...............
Valley Cream..........
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops............
11 @14
Choc.  Monumentals
@12)4
Gum  Drops.............
@ 5
Moss  Drops.............
@  7)4
Sour Drops...............
to  8)s
Im perials.................
to  8)4
Lemon Drops..........
@50
Sour  Drops.............
@50
Peppermint Drops..
@60
Chocolate Drops"__
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops..
@75
Gum  Drops.............
@35
Licorice Drops........
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops
@50
Lozenges,  plain__
@55
Lozenges,  printed..
@60
Im perials.................
@60
M ottoes....................
@65
Cream  B ar...............
to-0
Molasses B a r ..........
@50
Hand Made Creams. 80 @90
Plain  Creams..........
60 @80
Decorated Cream s..
@90
String Rock.............
@60
Burnt Almonds.......1 25 to
@55
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
b oxes....................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes............. ......
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ...................
Fresh  Meats.
Beef.
C arcass....................
5)4® 7
Fore quarters.............. 4 to  6
Hind  quarters............ 6 to  7)4
Loins  No.  3................. 8 @12
Ribs...........................
8 @10
R ounds......................
Chucks.......................
4 to  5
Plates  .........................
@  4
Dressed......................
Loins  .........................
Shoulders.....  ..........
Leaf Lard..................
M utton.
C arcass......................
Spring Lambs............
Carcass 
..........  ......
Crackers.

6 @  7
7 to  8
6 @  8

to  5
to  5)4

@30
@45

354®  4M
7 to

Pork.

Veal.

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX....................   6
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6%
Family XXX........................  6
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton.. 
ty2
Salted XXX.........................   6
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  6*4 
Soda  XXX  ...........................   614
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__   6it
Soda,  City.............................  714
Zephyrette...........................   10
Long Island  W afers..........  11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX..........  6
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb  carton.  7
Farina Oyster,  XXX..........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
A nim als..............................   1114
Bent’s Cold W ater.............   13
Belle R ose...........................  8
Cocoanut Taffy...................  9
Coffee Cakes.........................     8)4
Frosted Honey....................   12
Graham Crackers  ..............  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city ...  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla..................   8
Im perials...............................  814
JumDles,  Honey.................  11
Molasses  Cakes...................  8
Marshmallow  ....................   15
Marshmallow  Creams.......  16
Pretzels,  hand  made  .........  814
Pretzelettes, Little German  614
Sugar  Cake.........................   8
Sultanas..............................   12
Sears’Lunch..........................  714
Sears’ Zephyrette................. 10
Vanilla  Square.................... 
814
Vanilla  W afers.................  14
Pecan W afers......................  16
Fruit Coffee........•................   10
Mixed P icnic......................   10*4
Cream Jum bles..................   1114
Boston Ginger Nuts............  814
Chimmie F adden...............   10
Pineapple Glace.:____.....  16

W heat.

Wheat........   ..................

W inter  W heat  Flour.

Local Brands.

.  5  25
.  4 75
4  55
.  4 00
.  4  45
.  3  50
2 65
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis-
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand.

P a te n ts.............................
Second  Patent.................
Straight.............................
Clear..................................
Graham  ...........................
Buckw heat..................
R ye...................................
count.
ditional.
Quaker,  )4s .......................
Quaker,  Ms.......................
Quaker,  j^s.......................

.  4  70
.  4  7U
.  4  70

Spring  W heat  Flour.

Olney & Judson ’s Brand.

Ceresota, 
.....................
.  54)0
Ceresota, M s....................
.  4  90
Ceresota, )j¡s.....................
.  4 85
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, )4s........ ..  5 00
Grand Republic, Ms........
.  4  yu
Grand Republic, )4s........ ..  4  80
Laurel,  )4s........................
.  5  00
Laurel, Ms........................
.  4  90
Laurel, ms........................
.  4  80
Lemon A  Wheeler Cd.’s  Brand.
Parisian,  Ms.  .................. ..  5  00
Parisian,  Ms.....................
.  4  «0
Parisian.  Ms....................
.  4  80

Worden Grocer Co.’s Braud.

Meal.

B olted...............................
.  1  75
G ranulated...................... ..  2 00

Feed and  Millstuffs
St. Car Feed, screened  .. .11  00
No.  1 Corn and  Oats.......
.10  50
Unbolted Corn Meal.......
.10 UU
Winter Wheat  B ran...  .
.  9  00
Winter Wheat Middlings ..10 00
Screenings........................
.  8  00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co.
quotes as follows:

New Corn.
Car  lots...................... 
Less than  car  lots..........

.. ..  23
.  25

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots.............................
Carlots, clipped..............
Less than  car  lots..........

.  20
.  22
.  24

No. 1 Timothycarlots__ .10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  .
.11  UU

F r u its .

Oranges.

Fancy  Seedlings

Mexicans  150-176-200
@3 25
Cal. Seedlings..........  2  75©3 00

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

@2 50
@2  50
@3 00
@3  50

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs, Choice  Layers
10 lb .......................
Figs,  New  Smyrna
20 lb ........................
Figs,  Naturals 
in
30 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  ........   .........

N u ts .

@10
@13
@  7
@  8
@ 6
to  6
to 5)4

Almonds, Tarragona.. @12
Almonds, Ivaca..........
@11
Almonds,  California,
@13
soft shelled.............
Brazils new .................
to  TK
@10
Filberts  ......................
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12)4
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. @10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
@13
C alif.........................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
toll
@10
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med................ @  9
Pecans, Ex. Large —
@10
@12
Pecans,  Jum bos.........
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
@2  00
Ohio, new.................
Oocoanuts,  full  sacks @4  00
Butternuts  per  bu__
to  60
Black Walnuts per bu
to  60
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Cocks.......................
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted....................
Choice, H. P„ Extras.
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  ..................

to  4M
to  7
to 4 a
to  5)4

P r o v i s i o n s .

Beef.

Swift  A  Company quote  as

Pigs’ Feet.

Barreled  Pork.

Smoked  Heats.

1
5
6)4
6)4
6)4
6
9
6)4

follows:
......................... __  
Mess 
8 00
Back  ......................... .... 
8 75
Clear  back.......  ....... .... 
8 50
8  50
Shortcut..  ................ .... 
Pig............................... ....  11  50
Bean  ......................... .... 
7 75
Family  ...................... .... 
9  00
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies........................ .... 
5
Briskets  .................... __  
5
Extra  shorts.............. .... 
4 \
Hams,  12 lb  average
9*
Hams,  14 lb  average
9)4
Hams,  16 lb  average.
9«
Hams, 20 lb  average.
83£
Ham dried beef  ....... .... 
10)4
5M
Shoulders  (N. Y. cu t).  . 
7
Bacon,  clear.............
California  ham s.......
5)4
Boneless hams..........
8)4
Cooked  ham ............. .... 
10)4
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound.................
.... 
4^8
Kettie......................... ---- 
bU
55 1 b Tubs..........advance 
M
80 lb Tubs.......... advance 
m
50 lb T in s ..........advance 
M
)4
20 lb Pails..........advance 
10 lb Pails..........advance 
M
51b Palls..........advance 
%
3 lb Pails..........advance 
Sausages.
B ologna.................... .... 
Liver.........................
Frankfort...................
P o rk .........................
Blood 
.......................
Tongue ......................
Head  cheese.............
Extra  Mess............... ....  7  00
Boneless  ................... .... 10 00
R um p......................... ....  10 50
Kits, 15  lbs................. .... 
80
U  bbls, 40 lbs............ __   1  DO
)4  bbls, 80 lbs..........
....  2  80
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs...............
75
M  bbls, 40 lbs............ ....  1  40
%  bbls, 80 lbs..........
....  2  75
Casings.
P o rk .........................
18
.... 
Beef  rounds..............
3)4
Beef  middles............
8
S heep........................
60
Butterine
Rolls,  dairy...............
Solid,  dairy............... . . .  
Rolls,  cream ery....... .... 
Solid,  cream ery....... ..  . 
Corned  beef,  2  1b... ....  2 00
Corned  beef,  14  lb... .. ..14  00
Roast  beef,  2  1b... ....  2 00
Potted  ham,  Ms.  . ... . 
60
Potted  ham, 
)4s... ....  1  00
Deviled ham,  Ms... .... 
60
Deviled ham,  Ms... ....  1  00
Potted  tongue Ms... .. 
60
Potted  tongue )4s... ....  1  00
Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol-
lows:
G reen......................... •  4)4®  5)4
Part  cured.................
to  6)4
Full Cured................. •  6)4@  7)4
D ry ............................
Kips,  green............... .  4)4®  5)4
Kips,  cured...............
Calfskins,  green....... .  6)4@  8
Calfskins,  cured.......
Deaconskihs  ............ .25  @30
5@ 
Shearlings.................
10
L am bs........................ 25®  50
Old  Wool..................
4o@  75
Mink  .........................
30®  1  10
Coon...........................
25®  70
Skunk.........................
40®  80
Muskrats....................
Sto  12
Red Fox.....................
80®  1  25
Gray Fox...................
30®  60
Cross Fox  ................. 2 5* @ 5 I U
Cat, W ild..................
20®  30
Cat, House.................
10®  20
Fisher........................ 3  00®  5  00
Lynx........................... 1  O'® 2  00
Martin, Dark............. 1  00®  2 50
Martin, Yellow........
65®  1  00
Otter........................... 4  50® 7  50
W olf........................... 1  (0®  2 00
B ea r........................... 7 00@!5 to
Beaver....................... 2  00®  6  00
Deerskin, dry.  per lb
15®  25
Deerskin, gr’n.perlb
10®  12)4
Wool.
Washed 
.................
.10  @16
Unwashed................. .  5  @12
Tallow ......................
.  2  @ 3
Grease Butter............ .  1  @ 2
Switches  .................. -  1)4®  2
Ginseng...................... .2 50@2 75

Canned  Meats.

Hlscellaneous.

10
9)4
13
12)4

.  5  @ 7

Hides.

Pelts.

Furs.

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ......................
@10M
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdll
@  8)4
W  W Michigan.........
@  8
High Test Headlight
@  7
D., S. Gas...................
@ 9
Deo. N ap th a............
@  8)4
Cylinder.................... .30  @38
Engine  ...................... .11  @21
Black, w inter............
to  9

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE.

Butters.

50
514

14 gal., per doz............... 
1 to 6 gal., per g al............  
8 gal., per g a l.....................  
10 gal., per gal......................  
12 gal., per gal....................... 
15 gal. meat-tubs,  per gal.. 
8 
20 gal. meat-tubs,  per gal..  S 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10

614
6t%
614

2 to 6 gal., per g al.............  
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85

514

Churns.

Milkpans.

14 gal. flat or rd,  hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  514 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.
14 gal.  flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal.  flat or rd.  but., each 

514 

Stewpans.

14 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  13 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10

Jugs.

14 gal., per doz...................  40
14 gal.,  per doz...................   50
1 to 5 gal., per gal.............  

614

Tomato Jugs.

14 gal., per doz...................  70
1 gal., each.......... ............  
7
Corks for 14 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
14 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..I  00 

Sealing Wax.

2

5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
LAMP  BURNERS.

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

wrapped aud  labeled__ 2  10
wrapped and  labeled 
  2  25
wrapped and  labeled__   3'25

crimp  top,
crimp 
top,
crimp  top,

 
F irst  Quality.

-  

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  aud
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. l 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. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  .........4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)____  4  40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  60
1 gal galv iron with  spout.  1  75
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  3 00
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  00 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5  00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  6  00
5 gal Tilting cans...............   9  00
5 gal galv iron  Nacefus  ...  9 00 

Pump  Cans

LANTERNS.

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.  OTubnlar....................   4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular...............6 50
No.  13 Tubular Dash..........0 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount 
  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  OC
No.  3 Street  Lamp  ........   3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents............ 
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box  15 cents............ 
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5  doz.
each,  bbl 35...................... 
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1  doz.  each... 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross.............. 
. 
No. 1 per gross..................... 
No. 2 per gross..................... 
No. 3 per gross....................  
Mammoth per  doz.............. 

45
45
40
1  25
20
25
38
58
70

, 

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

The  Hardware  Market.

The  condition  of  trade  at  the  present 
time 
is  not  very  encouraging,  as  the 
average  dealer does  not manifest a  dis­
position  to  buy  beyond  his 
immediate 
wants.  Prices  remain  stationary,  ex­
cept  in  some  staple  lines,  which  mani­
fest  a  decided  weakness.  Manufactur­
ers  are  of  the  opinion  that  the  low 
prices  now prevailing  on  certain 
lines 
of  goods  are  only  temporary  and  that 
we  will  soon see a  revival,  both  in  busi­
ness  and  in  prices. 
is  to  be hoped 
that  this  will  prove true,  as  no one  feels 
like  buying  many  goods  on  a  falling 
in  many  states 
market. 
formation  and  action  of 
against  the 
trusts  has  had 
its  effect  on  prices,  as 
well  as  the  slow buying,  and  the  condi­
tions  of  trade,  as  reported  to  hardware 
journals  in  various  parts  of  the  country, 
indicates  that the  same  waiting  policy 
prevail  and  that  the  conditions  now 
prevailing 
in -  Michigan  are  not an  ex­
ception.

Legislation 

It 

Wire  Nails—Notwithstanding  the  fact 
that  manufacturers  claimed  after  the 
dissolution  of  the  trust  that the  price  on 
wire  nails—$1.55—involved  no  profit, 
owing  to the  strong competition existing 
between  manufacturers  of  the 
large 
mills,  the  price  is  still  on  a  downward 
grade. 
It  is believed  and  claimed  that 
the  present  price  is  not  justified  by  the 
price  of  raw  material  and  that at  the 
least  provocation  the  low  price  now  rul­
ing  will  be  withdrawn  and  that nails 
will  go  to a figure  which  will  affcrd  the 
manufacturers  a  profit  As  the  spring 
trade  is  near at hand,  this does not  seem 
unreasonable,  and  the  dealer  who  can 
enter  his  order  now  for shipment  with 
price  guaranteed 
is  taking  no  risk  in 
his  purchasing  and  is  certainly  protect­
ing  himself  against  any  advance that 
may  occur  between  now  and  the  open­
ing  of  business.  We  quote  wire  nails 
from  stock  at $1.7 5 ;  from  factory,  $1.50 
to $1.45,  according  to  quantity.

Barbed  Wire—As  the  price  on  barbed 
wire  has  now  reached  nearly  the  lowest 
it  ever  did,  dealers  are buying 
figure 
freedom 
with  much  more 
for  future 
shipments.  As 
the  same  guarantee 
against  decline  covers  this  commodity 
as  it  does  on  wire  nails,  manufacturers 
are  refusing  to  sell  at  the  present  price 
beyond  April  1,  as  they are satisfied that 
it  is  only  a  question  of  a  very short time 
before they  will  get better  prices.  We 
quote  at  present  painted  barbed  wire 
from  stock,  $1.7 5;  galvanized,  $2.10, 
and  for  shipments  from  the  mill  20  and 
25c  less  than  above  prices,  according  to 
the quantity.

Coil  Chain—At  a  recent  meeting  of 
the  manufacturers,  the  prices  on  all 
grades  of  chain  were  reduced  about  25c 
per 
100,  which  makes  the  following 
prices  ruling  on  y%  inch  chain:  com­
mon,  4 j¿c;  B  B,  5 c ;  BBB,  5&c.

Ammunition—Owing  to  the  advance 
in  powder  that  has  taken  place  during, 
the  last  six  months,  averaging  at  least 
$1  per  keg,  the  manufacturers  of  loaded 
shells  have  been  advised  to  make an ad­
vance  in  their  prices  which  averages 
about  15  Der cent  The  present  discount 
on  Winchester  and  U.  M.  C. 
loaded 
is  40,  10  and  5  per  cent,  and 
shells 
40,  10  and 
10  per  cent.,  according  to 
the quantity.
Clothes  Wringers—Owing  to  the  ad­
vance  of  raw  rubber,  the  manufacturers 
of  wringers  have  made  an  advance all 
along  the  line  that  averages  not  less 
than $2  per dozen.

New  Members  Who  Have 

Since  Last  Report.

Joined 

Grand  Rapids, Jan.  18—The following 
additions  have  been  made  to  the  mem­

bership  book  of  the  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip  since  the  last  report:

.

Elmer  E.  Smith,  Hillsdale.
M.  N.  Ryder,  Marshall.
R.  M.  Griswold,  Winona,  Minn.
Jos.  P.  Presley,  Belding.
H.  H.  Tremayne,  Ionia.
Hull  Freeman,  Grand  Rapids.
J.  L.  McCauley,  Detroit.
Emma  L.  Allen,  Chicago.
T.  J.  Hanlon,  Jackson.
W.  H.  Hulsizer,  Rochester.
A.  W.  Patriarche,  Saginaw.
D. .  M.  Witmer,  Caledonia.
S.  B.  Rosenfield,  Detroit 
Geo.  J.  Kellogg,  Plymouth.
H.  Riegelmann,  Deer  Point,  N.  H.
C.  H.  McKnight,  Muskegon.
M.  Jameson,  Linden.
Earnst  Wilke,  Saginaw.
F.  M.  Bosworth,  Olivet.
J.  R.  Mantle,  Hartford. 
W.  O.  Wells,  Albion.
E.  E.  Saylor,  Saginaw.
W  A.  Drury,  Grand  Rapids.
J.  C.  Sounenberg,  Saginaw.
J.  H.  Kerswill,  Detroit.
Wm.  Weed,  Saginaw.
P.  T.  Walsh,  Detroit.
Stephen  Christie,  Grand  Rapids.
L.  T.  Norton,  Chicago.
O.  P.  Bilees,  Saginaw.
F.  G.  Rolland,  Chicago.
W.  M.  Guider,  Saginaw.
B.  N.  Mercer,  Saginaw.
E .  T.  Danby,  Owosso.
W.  S.  Burns,  Grand  Rapids.
E .  D.  Voorhees,  Lansing.
L.  Thacher,  Cincinnati.
J.  A.  Hickey,  Port  Huron.
Chas.  Gruel,  Port  Huron.
W.  E.  Stewart,  Port  Huron.
W.  J.  Worden,  Detroit
E .  1.  Butler,  Detroit.
J.  F.  Hutt,  Petoskey.
Burr  Willbur,  Hillsdale.
A.  W.  Lewis,  Hillsdale.
F.  H.  Bowen,  Jackson.
A.  Gilson,  Owosso.
J.  A.  McConvey,  Owosso.
C.  W.  Allen,  Detroit
C.  F.  Smith,  Jackson.
D.  A.  Clark,  Pontiac.
H.  C.  Kendrick,  Flint.
Eugene  Crane,  Lansing.
A.  B.  Stanton,  Pontiac.
S.  M.  Lemon,  Grand  Rapids.
E .  F.  Peer,  Lansing.
Wm.  H.  Yates,  E.  Saginaw.
G.  W.  Gorman,  Detroit.
F.  E.  Bowen,  Armada.
W.  A.  Reynolds,  Jackson.
G.  J.  Wendall,  Ionia.
Otto  Schupp,  Saginaw.
J.  J.  Alger,  Grand  Rapids.
F.  M.  Crowe,  Owosso.
A.  R.  Kibbe,  Chicago.
A.  W.  Town,  Jackson.
M.  R.  Layton,  Leslie.
T.  C.  Conway,  Detroit.
M.  W.  Smith,  Detroit
A.  F.  Wixson,  Marquette.
A.  R.  Horton,  F lin t 
Geo.  E.  Newall,  F lin t
H.  P.  McHugh,  F lin t 
J.  W.  Straughn,  Flint.
E.  C.  Mathewson,  F lin t
F.  L.  Dupont,  Detroit.
T.  Fred  Anderson,  F lin t 
Roy  S.  Knaggs,  Bay  City.
B.  S.  Ratcliff,  Detroit
E.  M.  Holbrook,  Detroit.  .
Chas.  W.  Devine,  Detroit.
J.  C.  Vail,  Detroit.
L.  C.  Steers,  Detroit.
F.  C.  Loranger,  Detroit 
Alex.  Rafel,  Detroit.
C.  R.  Vane,  Grand  Rapids.
J.  Q.  Ryan,  Detroit.
J.  S.  Shaul,  Detroit 
H.  E.  Gibbs,  Detroit.
S.  M.  Johnson,  Detroit.
C.  C.  Pierce,  Detroit
N.  B.  Hickey,  Detroit.
C.  H.  Stanton,  Lansing.
James  M.  Bostwick,  Detroit.
F.  M.  Walsh,  Detroit.
N.  Hezzlewood,  Imlay  City.
J.  A.  Frise,  Flin t
A.  Myers,  F lin t
H.  C.  Woodruff,  Saginaw.
Geo.  L.  Blackburn,  Detroit.
William  Murcb,  Mt.  Clemens.
Jno.  F.  Bible,  Ionia.
C.  H.  Adams,  Grand  Haven.
J.  C.  Higgins,  Detroit

G e o .  F .  Ow e n ,  Sec’y.

A  Crippled  Post  Office.

From the Washington  Star.

“ I 

“ I  obtained  a  peculiar order  from  a 
Kentucky  storekeeper,”   said  a  cigar 
salesman. 
left  the  railroad  to  work 
some  interior  towns  and  stopped  at  the 
country  stores  en  route.  At  one  of  these 
places  I  found  a  man  whom  the  com- 
merical  agencies  gave  a  good  rating 
and  who  acted  as  postmaster as  well  as 
storekeeper. 
I  handed  him  my  card 
and  he  said :

“   ‘ Thar ain’t  but one  thing  yo’  kin 

sell  me. ’

"   ‘ What  is  that?’  I  inquired.
“   ‘ Yo’  kin  sell  me  ’bout $50  wuth  o’ 

stamps,  envelopes  an’  postal  kyards.’

”   ‘ Why,  you  can  get  them  from  the 

Government. ’

“   ‘ No,  I  kain’t.  Yo’  see,  they  won’t 
credit  me. 
I  hev  ter  sell  stamps  an’ 
put  ’em  on  people’s  bills,  but  th’  Gov­
ernment  won’t 
let  me hev  none  ’thout 
sendin’  th*  money. 
’Tain’t  right,  o’ 
co’se,  fer  I’m  good—they  orter  know 
thet.  But  I  hain’t  got  a,  stamp  nor a

kyard 
in  th’  office,  an’  no  way  ter git 
none. 
I ’ll  hev  ter  buy  ’em somewhars.’ 
‘ ‘ After  becoming  convinced  of  the 
man’s  solvency, 
1  sold  him  a  line  of 
stamps,  stamped  envelopes  and  postal 
cards,  to  be  shipped  with  a  bill  of 
cigars. ”

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with the writer, a Boston man, in  the  9 
control, for the State of  Michigan, of  9 
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remove  State  Headquarters  to  9 
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Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND  BITS

Snell’s ....................................................  
to
Jennings’, genuine..................................'.'.'.'.’.25410
Jennings', im itation....................................... 60410

 

 

AXES

First quality.  S. B. Bronze.........................   5  00
First quality,  1). B. Bronze................... 
9 50
First quality.  S. B. S. Steel....................................................................................    5 50
First quality.  D. B. Steel.............................  10 50

BARROWS

K ailroad.................................................$12 00  14 00
Garden....................................................   net  30 00

TH E  AMERICAN  A PPETITE.

It  Is  Undergoing  a  Slow   Transfor­

mation.

That  the  American  appetite  is  chang­
ing,  slowly  yet  definitely,  as  the  years 
go  by 
is  one  of  the  curious  facts  that 
escape  the attention  of  most  people.  Its 
tendencies  are  easily  to  be  seen 
in  the 
light  of  recent  dietetic  investigations, 
which  men 
like  Professor  W.  O.  At­
water,  of  Wesleyan  University,  and  E d ­
ward  Atkinson,  of  Boston,  have  been 
prosecuting 
for 
several  years  past. 
These  investigators,  however,  have con­
fined  themselves 
largely  to  studies of 
the  comparative  nutriment  of  the  differ­
ent  foods  of  America,  the  most  complex 
and  inclusive  bill  of  fare  of  the  world. 
It  has  been  reserved  for  men  of  lesser 
note  to  point  out the  new  directions  of 
appetite  and  precisely  what  these mean.
There  is  one  of  these  tendencies  that, 
because  of  its  importance,  overshadows 
all  the  rest—the  largely  increasing  con­
sumption  of  sugar  and  sweets.  Pri­
marily,  thisjias  been  brought  about  by 
the  cheapening  of  all  kinds  and  grades 
of  sugar;  that  is,  its  full  use  has  been 
placed  within  the  reach  of  many  of  the 
poor,  who,  when  a  pound  cost  seven 
cents,  and  even  more,  had  to 
limit 
their  delving  into the  sugar  bowl.  The 
surprising  thing,  though,  is  that  cheap 
sugar  should  have  proved  such  a  boon. 
Other  foods  have  gone  down  in  price, 
and  the  consumption  of  them  has  not 
increased  materially.  But  let  a  fraction 
of  a  cent go  off  the  price  of  sugar  and 
hundreds  of  barrels  more of  it are eaten. 
There 
is  no  other country  in  the  world 
that  is  developing  so  fast  or  so  surely  a 
sweet  tooth.

Already 

Interesting  deductions  are  to be  made 
from  this.  Scientific  men  say  that  in 
time  this  tendency  will  completely  alter 
the  American  sense  of  taste,  and  will 
make  a  greater  variety  of food necessary 
to  satisfy  the  craving  of  the  future 
American’s  system. 
it  has 
had  some  effect  in  reducing  to  a  degree 
the  consumption  of  alcoholic  liquors. 
It 
is  a  well-known  fact  that  total  ab­
stainers,  as  a  general  thing,  eat  a  great 
deal  of  sugar,  getting  a  large  part of the 
pleasures  of  their  diet  from  it.  With 
sugar  placed  within  the  range  of  every 
laboring  man’s  pocket,  so  that he  can 
thoroughly  satisfy  himself  with  it  three 
times  a  day,  some  part  of  the  tempta­
tion  to  drinking  is  removed.  Scientists 
say  that  if  sugar  continues  low  in  price 
an  indefinite  length  of  time  this  tend­
ency  will  be  very  marked. 
It  takes,  it 
should  be  said,  many  years  to  bring 
such  a  change  about.

it» 

(roughly 

speaking, 

itself  apparent. 

At  first  sight  the  importance  of  this 
does  not  make 
It  is 
better  understood,  however,  when  the 
scientific  fact 
is  explained  that  food  is 
divided  into  three  great  divisions—the 
nitrogenous 
the 
meats,)  the  fats  and oils,  and the starchy 
substances,  such  as  flour,  potatoes,  and 
most 
important  of  all,  grape  sugar. 
Everything  popularly  known as “ sweet”  
is  changed 
in  the  course of  digestion, 
by  the action  of  the  saliva  and  the  pan­
creatic 
juice,  into  this  grape  sugar, 
which  exists 
its  primary  state  in 
grapes  and  fruits  of  all  kinds.  Sugar  is, 
therefore,  one  of  the  elementary  forms 
of  food,  and 
in  one  or  another of  its 
forms  practically  a  principle  of  life.

Whether the  great  increase  in  its  use 
is  going  to  do  any  harm  to  the  Ameri­
is  something  that  doctors 
can  people 
are  divided  on. 
It  is  pretty  generally 
conceded  that  digestively  it  will  prove 
a  decided  benefit  in  the  way  it  is  yearly 
forming  a  larger  proportion  of  the  diet, 
for thereby  a  smaller  proportion  of meat 
is  eaten—an  advantage,  for a  meat  diet 
tends  to  nervousness  and  excitability; 
but  many  physicians believe  that  it  will 
prove  of  serious 
injury  to  the  coming 
generation’s  teeth.  This  point  is  being 
actively  debated  now.

Sugar,  nevertheless,  important  as 

it 
is,  is  not  the  only  article  of  diet  that  is 
having  an  effect  upon  the  appetite  of 
Americans.  Beer  made  according  to 
the  German  method  has 
increased 
enormously  in  popularity  among  people 
in  this  country  that  have  no  German 
connections or affiliations,  and  not  only

A 

that,  but  darker  colored,  heavier  beer  is 
more  and  more  coming  into  vogue. 
It 
is quite  the  same  with  a 
large  number 
of  solid  German  delicacies,  a  few  years 
ago  hardly known among English-speak­
ing  Americans,  now  enjoying  an  ex­
tended  sale 
large  American 
cities.

in  the 

further 

general 

tendency 

is 
toward  food  well  spiced  and  curiously 
seasoned  in  foreign  styles.  The  swarm 
of  foreigners  that  has  been  pouring  into 
the  harbor  of  New  York  for  fifty  years 
has  brought  this  about,  it  is  true,  but 
it  is astonishing  how  nearly  all  native 
Americans  have  taken  to  these  foreign 
dishes,  materially  altering  their  tastes. 
Oils  and  condiments  of  many  strange 
and  pungent  flavors  have  risen  into  es­
teem,  and  German,  Spanish  and  Hun­
in  no 
garian  cookery  has  settled  down 
uncertain  popularity. 
simple, 
old-fashioned  cookery  of  the'past  is  no 
longer  cared  for,  and  the  “ bakings,”  so 
distinctively  American,  have  gone  by, 
it  is  probable,  never  to  return.  This  is 
the  tendency,  even  among  the  poorer 
classes.  Again,  the  coarser  foods,  little 
by  little,  are  being  dropped  out  of  the 
category  of  breakfast,  dinner  and  sup­
per  possibilities,  and  are  being  re­
placed  by  those of  finer  quality.  This 
is  especially  the  case 
in  bread  and 
meat,  and  is  due  to  a  finer appreciation 
and  a  more  delicate  sense  of  taste.

The 

The  American  “ French  Mixed.’’ 

From the Washington Star.

“ In  the  manufacture  of  candy,”   said 
a  diplomatic  officer  of  experience, 
“ there 
is  no  doubt  but  that  America 
now  leads  the  world.  American  candies 
are  about  the  only  ones  made  of  sugar 
in  Paris.  Though 
that  can  be  bought 
the  French  have  long  led  the  world 
in 
this  line,  they  have  gradually  but  surely 
managed  to  do  .away  with  the  use of 
in  their  candies,  except  where 
sugar 
they  make  them  for  consumption 
in 
other  countries,  and  in  America  in  par­
ticular.  The  French  people  will  not 
buy  a  confection  which 
is  made  of 
sugar alone.  They  want  combinations 
and  depend  more  upon  starches  than 
sugar.

is  rarely, 

“ I  think  I  am  safe 

in  saying  that 
sugar-made  candy 
if  ever, 
sold  in  Paris.  Of  course,  it  would  he 
made  if  it  were  desired  but  the  people 
of  Paris  prefer  something  else.  Two 
weeks  before  Christmas  I  was  in  Paris 
and  I  had  to  send  to  at  least  a  half- 
dozen  so-called  famous  candy  manufac­
turers  before  I  could  buy  any  sugar- 
I  could  get  hundreds  of 
made  candies. 
choco­
combinations,  marshmallows, 
lates  and  things  in  that 
In  Ger­
many,  it  is  much  the  same  way. ”
Association Matters

line. 

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  He n b t  C.  W k b k r , Detroit;  Vice-Pres­
ident, C h a s.  F .  B o ck,  Battle Creek;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, Hx n b y  C .  Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

President, J. W is l e k ,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Sto w s,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
T atm an, Clare.
Next  Meeting—At  Grand  Rapids,  Feb.  17  and 
18, 1897.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Ho l l t ;  Treasurer, C. A .  Hammond.
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C.  Win c h e s t e r ;  Secretary, H o mer 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  Gko.  L eh m a n.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall, 
over E. J.  Herrick's  store.

Owo8so  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  Wh ip p l e  ; Secretary, G. T. C am p­

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

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, Btron C. Hil l ; Secretary, W. H. P or­

t e r ;  T reasurer, J. F.  He l m k r .

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

President,  F.  W.  G il c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e .

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  J ohnso n;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

Da r l in g ;  Treasurer, L .  A .'G il k e t .

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L . J .  K a t z ;  Secretary, P h il ip  Hi l b e r ; 

Treasurer, S. J .   Hu ppo rd.

$2 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware...........................new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware........................................ 20410
Granite Iron  W are...........................new list 40410
Pots................................................................. ,.60410
K ettles...............................................................60410
Spiders  ............................................................. 60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3..................................  dis 60410
State............................................. per doz. net  2  50
go
B right................................................................ 
80
Screw Eyes........................................................ 
Hook's................................................................  
go
Gate Hooks and Eyes..................................... 
80

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

LEVELS

ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................. dis 
Sisal, % inch and  larger...............................  
Manilla..................-........................................... 
Steel and Iron................................................... 
Try and Bevels.................................................
M itre............................................. ...................

SQUARES

70

6
9
80

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.

 

dis

TRAPS

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

Nos. 10 to 14.........................................$3 30 
Nos.  15 to 17 .....................................   3 30 
Nos. 18 to 21............................  
  3  45 
Nob. 22 to  24............................................  3 55 
Nos. 25 to  26............................................  3 70 
No.  27.............................................   3 80’ 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND  PAPER 
List  acct.  19, ’86.............................
SASH  WEIGHTS
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
WIRE
Bright Market.......................
Annealed  Market.................
Coppered  Market..................
70410 
Tinned M arket......................
62% 
Coppered Spring  Steel........
50 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  . 
2  15 
Barbed  Fence,  painted.......
1  80
An Sable......................................................dis4041C
Putnam ........................................................dis 
5
Northwestern............................................. dis 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled  .......
30
Coe’s Genuine......................................
50
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought
80
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable.................... .
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  C ages.........................................
5080
Pumps, Cistern.. .*................................
Screws, New L ist................................
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate.......................
5041041060
Dampers, American............................
600 pound casks......................................
6%
6*
Per pound.............................................

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

... 

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............................................ $575
14x20 IC, C harcoal...............................................  5 75
20x14 EX, Charcoal...............................................   7 00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

40
40
40
30

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D e an ..............................   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............................   10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Alla way Grade.............   4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   5  50
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway 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, J^per pound...

9

WM. BRUMMELER  & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS,

Pay  the  highest  price  in  cash for

M IXED  RAUS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SH O ES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  flE T A L S .

? o ^ ffe ro n apo stal  “Any  Old  Thing.”

Every Dollar

BOLTS
Stove .............................................
Carriage new list....................
Plow...............................................
BUCKETS 
Well,  plain.................................

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

BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle......................

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10.....................................
Hick’s C. F ..................................
G.  D ....................................................
M usket...........................................
CARTRIDGES
Rim  Fire........................................
Central  F ire.  ......................

60
65 to 65-10 
40410

$ 3 25

70410
75410

70

4

65
55
35
60

504  5
254  5

go
go
go

go

. - per lb

..per m
..per m
m
m

CHISELS

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

 
 

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in .............................. doz. net 
55
Corrugated..................................................  
i  25
Adjustable...................................................dis 40410

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

30410
25

FILES—New  List

New Am erican.......... '. ..................................  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 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

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

MILLS

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

MOLASSES  GATES

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

 

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...............................................   165
Wire nails, base.......  .....................................  1  75
20 to 60 advance...............................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.............................................. 
05
8 advance........................................................  
10
6 advance............................................ -..........  
20
4 advance........................................................  
30
45
3 advance.......................................................  
70
2 advance.................................................  ... 
50
Fine 3 advance.....................................  .  ... 
Casing 10 advance........................................... 
15
Casing  8 advance........................................... 
25
Casing  6 advance.,........................................ 
35
Finish 10 advance  ......................................  
25
Finish  8 advance...........................................  
35
Finish  6 advance............................................ 
45
Barrel  % advance.............................................. 
85

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

Fry, A cm e...................................................60410410
Common, polished..................................... 
704  5

PLANES

PANS

RIVETS

Iron and  T in n ed .................................  
 
Copper Rivets and Burs.................................. 

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60

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

“A”  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  8 20 

Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list...................................dis 33%
Kip’s  ........................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s..................................................dis 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................... 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’* Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list40410

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

GRAND RAPIDS.

the  assurance 

charge 

is 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

24

From 

the  Tradesman’s  New  York 

Correspondent.

New  York,  Jan.  5—I  beg  to  thank you 
most  heartily  for  your kind  invitation 
to  participate  in  the annual  supper  you 
will  give  to  the  working  force  of  the 
Tradesman.  Distance alone prevents  my 
accepting.

Some of  the hardest-working  years  of 
my  life—and  some of  the  happiest  ones 
—were  spent 
in  “ general  stores”  
in 
Michigan. 
It 
is  almost  twenty  years 
since  l struck a small  hamlet  in  Alle­
gan  county,  where  the  only  store  was 
crowded 
from  morning  until  night 
Railroad  ties  were  legal  tender  there, 
and,  in  fact,  constituted  about  the  only 
visible  supply  of  money.  They  went  to 
furnish  .part  of  the  supply  of  the  G 
R.  &  I.  Kailroad,  and  1  mink  the  de­
mand  from  the company  was  sufficient 
to  take  all  the  neighborhood  had  to 
spare.  My employer  came  out ahead  in 
tnis  deal;  but  tne  tables  were  turned 
when  butter  became  the  legal  tender. 
R e  must  have  had  three  or  tour  tons 
packed  away 
in  kegs.  He afterwards 
sold  it  to  a  soap  factory  in  Grand  Rap­
ids  in  exchange  for  soap—and  what  an 
almighty 
lot  of  not  very  good  soap  he 
bad! 
It  didn't  end  here,  either,  for, 
notwithstanding  all  he  received,  there 
was  still  more  to  come,  and  1  believe 
the  factory  failed,  owing  him  many 
boxes.

1  recall  several  Grand  Rapids  drum­
mers,  the  heavyweight  being  “ 'H i.”  
Robertson. 
1  have  forgotten  his  firm, 
but  one  could  never  forget  “ H i.”  
Artnur  Meigs  was  then  on  the  road, 
and  he  always  came,  no  matter  what 
the  weather. 
1  believe  he always  wore 
a  broad-brimmed  slouch  hat.  And  there 
was  genial  Wm.  Logie,  of  Rindge, 
Bertsch  &  Co.—always  the same, always 
successful.
Times  have  changed  and  methods 
1
have  been  overturned  since  the  70's. 
suppose  the 
influence  of  the  big  city 
is  felt at  the  remote 
department  stores 
points  and  that  trusts  and  combinations 
make  life  not  altogether  pltasant  tor the 
small  dealer.
1  extend  to  you  and  yours  my  hearty 
congratulations  upon  the  success  you 
have  achieved  with  the  Tradesman. 
You  have a  paper  worthy  the  patronage 
of  all  retailers  and  manufacturers  of 
food  products  and  I  hope  your  shadow 
may  never grow  less. 

F.  J.  R oot.

Advertisers’  Bright  Sayings.

High  art  divorced  from high prices.
The  temptation  we  spread  betore  you 
is  quality—without that any  price  would 
be  dear.

We  know but the  one grade—the  best. 
is  an  every-day  suit,  pants 
it  the  best for 

Whether  it 
or  overcoat,  you'll  find 
the  price that  can  be  produced.
• < u   Pa t ’en *-  once  said  of  her  doctor:
He  has  the  largest  practice  in  the 
city,  yet  never  seems  to  have  any  case 
but  mine.  ’  That’s  a  perfect  physician. 
We  endeavor  to  carry  out  this  same 
principle  with  each  and  every  one of 
our customers.

Because  we  sell  high-grade  clothing 
some  people  infer that  we  have  no  low- 
priced  goods.  That  is  a  mistake.  We 
have  no  shoddy  or other  truck  for  sale 
at  any  price,  but  we sell  as  low  and  as 
is  consistent  with  durability 
good  as 
and  honest  trading.
The  first  thing  a  shrewd  man  does, 
when  considering  a  business  proposi­
is  it 
tion,  is^  to  ask  himself,  “ What 
worth?”   When  we mention  our guaran­
tee  as one  inducement  for  you  to  take 
up  the  sale  of our  goods,  you  naturally 
ask  this  question.  Consult  your  Dun’s 
or  your  Bradstreet’s  and  it  will  be  an­
swered  to  your  entire  satisfaction.

Good  Words  from  an  Old  Friend.
.  Traverse  City,  Jan.  1 5 —Your 
invita­
tion  to  be  present  at  your annual gather­
ing  to-morrow  evening  is  before  me. 
It 
would  afford  me  much  pleasure  to  meet 
with  you,  and  I  sincerely  regret  that 
home duties are  such  at  this  time  as  to 
prevent  me  from  once  more  enjoying 
your  hospitality.

A  gentleman  once  said  to  me  that  he 
took  great  pleasure  in  giving  you  ad­
vertisements  for  the  Tradesman—first,

social 

because,!he  got  his  money’s  worth; 
second,  because  the  expenditure 
in­
volved  a  percentage  of  proht  to  me,  he 
thinking  that  I  was  a  part  owner  in  the 
paper.  1  assured  him  that no cash  divi­
dends  had  ever  been  declared  in  my  fa­
vor,  but that  I  felt  highly  complimented 
that  my 
relations  with  the 
Tradesman  had  even  appeared  to  be 
bordering  upon  a  moneyed 
interest 
therein. 
It  may  have  appeared  to  some 
that  I  owned  the  Tradesman  out and 
out,  because  I  sat at  the  editor’s  desk 
frequently,  especially  jn  his  absence, 
like  the  pompous  darkey  who  was  jani­
tor  in  an  uptown  church.  A  young  son 
of  the  pastor  who  had  for  the  first  time 
attended  church  and  Sunday  school  was 
carefully  taking 
in  all  the  movements 
of  the officious  negro.  Finally,  he  saia 
to  his  father,  in  coming  away,  “ Does 
that  big  nigger  own  that  church  and 
Sunday  school?”   You  see  I  have  en­
joyed  the  distinction  without  any  pe­
loss  consequent  upon  the  hard 
cuniary 
times.
My  interest  in  the  Tradesman  has  al­
ways  been  of  the  kindliest,  and  I  trust 
that  the  coming  year  will  be  one  of 
prosperity  to  you  and  all  connected 
with  it. 

F r a n k   H a m il t o n .

T he  P ro d u c e  M arket.

Apples—Local  dealers  hold  carefully 
selected  Johnsons  and  Steel’s  Red  at 
^1.50  per  bbl.  and  other  varieties  at 
¡1.25.

to  size  and  quality.

Butter—Fancy  dairy 
is  sluggish  at 
o@i2c  and  factory  creamery  is  slow 
sale  at  19c.  Receipts  continue  liberal.
Cabbage—506555c  per  doz.,  according 
Celery—15c  per  bunch.  The  quali., 
s  very  inferior  this  year,  owing  to  the 
fall  rains,  which  affected  the  crop  in 
peculiar  manner.
Cider—§4  per  bbl.,  including  bbl. 
Cranberries—Dealers  hold  Cape  Cods 

at  $1.75  per  bu.  and  §5  per  bbl.

Eggs—The  market 

is  glutted  wi.u 
shipments of fresh  stock,  which  finds  an 
outlet  at  126813c,  according  to  size  and 
quality,  the  outside  price being for care 
'ully  candled  stuck.  The  trade  gener 
lly  are  using  strictly  fresh  eggs and the 
present  use  of  storage  eggs  is  confined 
to  bakers  and  the  cheap  trade  on  the 
basis  of  about  10c  per  doz.
65  lbs.  gross.

Grapes—Malagas  bring §6  per  keg  of 

is 

Honey—White  clover 

in  fair de 
mand  at  I2j^@i3c.  Buckwheat  is  not 
so  salable,  bringing  86510c,  according 
to  quality  and  condition.

Onions—Home  grown  continue  to  ad­
vance,  handlers  now  paying  5o@6oc and 
holding  at  6o@75c  per  bu.  Spanish 
stock  is  now  out of  market.
in  carlots.

Potatoes— I2^@ i5c  per  bu.  on  track 

Squash—Scarce 

and  higher,  good 

stock  readily  commanding  3c  per  lb.

Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln-dried  Illinoi 

are  in  good  demand  at  $2  per  bbl.

Mr.  Rockefeller, 

the  Standard  Oi, 
magnate,  has  just  been  made  defendant 
in  a  novel  suit.  The  Tabernacle  Bap 
tist  church,  of  which  Mr.  Rockefeller  i„ 
a  member,  wished  to  establish  a  home 
for  young  working  women.  Mr.  Rock­
efeller  gave  §50,000  worth  of  Northern 
Pacific  bonds  bearing  5  per  cent,  inter­
est.  The  Northern  Pacific  got 
into 
trouble  and  the  interest  defaulted.  The 
church,  through  its  pastor,  Mr.  Potter 
claimed 
that  Mr.  Rockefeller  was 
obliged  to  make good,  so they  sued  for 
the overdue  interest.

TIE Oil OODSE

UTO TOE HEW

Before  breaking  up  our 
stock  for  removal  to  our 
new  store  building,  we  of­
fer  special  bargains  in  our 
our  entire  line  of  syrups 
and molasses, among which 
are:

Silver  Drips, 
Bertha, 
Bagatelle, 
Allendale,

Ideal  Vanilla, 
St.  Clair,
St. James, 
Ben  Hur.

We  also  offer a  full line of 
canned  fruits  and  veget­
ables,  including 500  cases 
of Michigan and New York 
gallon  apples  and  a  com­
plete assortment of Curtice 
Bros,  celebrated  goods, for 
which  we  hold the agency. 
W e  suggest the  advisabil­
ity of our customers buying 
liberally  of these goods, be­
cause  they  are  bound  to 
go  higher.

CLHRK-JEWELL-WELLS GO.,

GB.flJID  B JIPIOS.

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NO  I

No 3

The  “Eureka”  sell-locking hand Potato Planter.

The only perfect tube planter.

Retail price $1.25.

The “Pingree” self-locking Hand Potato Planter.

A stick-handle planter, with greatly improved lock. 

Retail price $1.25.

The  “ Eureka”  Patent  Seed  and  Fruit  Sack.

Retail price 50 cents.

Always open. 
It  cannot  swing.  Never  in 
the  way.  Leaves  both  hands  free. 
Just 
the  thing  for  use  with  the  hand  potato 
planter.

Liberal Discounts to the trade.

GREENVILLE  PLANTER  CO.,

SOLE PATENTEES AND MANUFACTURERS,

Successors to EUREKA PLANTER CO..

GREENVILLE,  MICH.

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BARCUS  BROTHERS,  Hanufacturers  and  Repairers,  Muskegon.

-I  ROOFS AND FLOORS

OF TRINIDAD PITCH LAKE ASPHALT

Write for estimates and full Information to

Warren Chemical & Manufacturing  Co.,

81 Falten St, New York,  H Moffat Bld’g, Detroit

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Four  Kinds of Coupon  Books

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

or  denomination.  Free samples on application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Qrand Rapids.

Shake off the

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6ouDon Book Sust6m

b y  ab an d o n in g   th e   tim e-cu rsed   c re d it  system , w ith  its 
losses  a n d   an n o y an ce,  a n d   su b stitu tin g   th e re fo r  th e

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which enables the merchant to place his  credit  trans­
actions on a cash basis.  Among the manifest advant­
ages of the coupon book plan are the following:

No  Forgotten  Charge.
No  Poor Accounts.
No  Book-keeping.
No  Disputing of Accounts.
No Overrunning of Accounts.
No  Loss of Time.
No Chance for Misunderstanding.

We are glad at any time to send a full line of  sample 
books to any one applying for same.

Tradesman  Company,

Grand Rapids.

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MUSKEÛON  M ILLING  CO.

WHOLESALE 
GROCERIES AND 
PROVISIONS

\F. C. Larsen,
61  Filer Street, 
Manistee, Mich.

Telephone No. 91

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Be sure to have this In 
stock.

MUSKEGON,  MICH.

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 Slews.

WRITE  FOR  PRICE  LIST.

The  Belknap Wagon  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Stan  Riom 
With the
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By ordering 
your store 
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