Volume  XIV.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  3,1897.

Number 698

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BY

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C.  H.  STRUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio,

Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

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Greetin g :

To

H E J N R Y   K O C H ,   your  c l e r k s ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
sa le sm e n  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you.

■ y  it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  ol

Ne^  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

How, fëljcrcfore, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

ROCfi.  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you,
case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  at 

“ SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “ SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO”  in  any 

W t i u m ,

[seal]

The  honorable  Me lville  W.  F u ller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  Stages  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this 
thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one 

i6th  day  of  December, 

[signed]

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainant s  Solicitor

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

CUrt

CHICAGO

Travelers* Time  Tables.

Going  to Chicago.

Returning from  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentwater.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoakey.

L.V.  G’d. Rapids.............8:30am 1:25pm 711:00pm
U. Chicago..................  3:0upm 6:50pm  t  6:30am
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  5:00pm til :30pm
Ar.G’d,Rapids............1:25pm  10:90pm  t 6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapids............ 8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............ 10:15am  .......... 10:30pm
Lv. G’d Rapids.........  7:20am  5:30pm  ...........
Ar Manistee...............  12:05pm  10:25pm  ........
Ar.Traverse City......  12:40pm  11:10pm  ........
Ar. Charlevoix...........  3:15pm 
..
AI.  Petoskey..................4:55pm 
....
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:56 
p.m.

Chicago.  Parlor cars ou afternoon trains and 
North.  Parlor car on morning train  for  Trav­

DETROIT Grand ^apids & Western.

sleepers on night trains.
erse  City.

g e o . DkHavrn, Gen' ral Pass. Agent.

Others week days only.

PARLOR  A1TD  SLEEPING  CABS.

tEvery  day. 

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.......7:00am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit...................11:40am  5:40pm  10:10pm
Lv. Detroit.................. 7:00am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......12:30pm  5:2t>pm  10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids...... 7:n0am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar.  from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
..........
Parlor cars  on all trains  between  Grand  Rap­
ids and Detroit and between Grand  Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains run  week days only.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH  CAR SERVICE,

Gao.  DeHavkn,  General Pass. Agent.

n n   4  A i n   Truk Railway System 
IJlvAl 1U   Detroit and Milwaukee Div.

Eastward.

tNo. 14  tNo. 16  tNo. 18  *No. 82 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am  10:10am  3:3<ipm  10:45pm
Ar.  Ionia........7:40am  11:17am  4:34pm  12:30am
Ar.  St. Johns, .b:25am  12:10pm  5:23pm 
l :57am
Ar.  Owos80__9:00am  1:10pm  6:03pm  3:25pm
.  ........   8:0upm  6:40am
Ar.E.Saglnawl0:50am 
...........  8:35pm  7:15am
Ar. W. Bay C’y 11:30am 
Ar. F lin t...... 10:06am 
...........   7:05pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt.Huron. 12:05pm 
...........  9:50pm  7:30pm
Ar. Pontiac..  10.-53am  2:57pm  8:25pm  6:10am 
Ar.  Detroit..  11:5oam  3:55pm  9:25pm  8:05am

Westward.

For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts__  7:00am
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts__12:53pm
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts__5:12pm
tDaily except Sunday.  »Daily.  Trains arrive 
from the east, 6:35a.m.,  12:45p.m., 5:07p.m..  9:55 
p.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west, lu:U5a.m., 
3:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Waguer parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. lo Waguer parlor car.

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

GRAND Rapids  & Indiana Railroad

Sept.  37.  1890.

Northern  Div.

Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... t  2:15pm  t  6:3Uain
Cadillac................................... 7 5:25pm tll:10am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15  p.m.  has sleeping  car to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Div. Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................+ 7: loam  + 8:25pm
Ft. Wayne...............................7 2:00pm  t   1:56pm
Cincinnati  ............................. * 7 :00pm  * 7:25am
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING  W EST.

QOIHQ BAST.

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

LvG’dRapids............. t7:35am tl:00pm 75:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:06pm
Lv Muskegon.......  ..t8:10am  til:45am  74:00pm
ArG’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
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Number 698

REGULATION  OF  RAILWAYS.
The  present  session  of  the  Michigan 
State  Legislature  convened  after a polit­
ical  campaign 
in  which  the  matter  of 
dealing  with  corporations,  especially 
those  engaged 
in  transportation,  was 
made a  prominent  issue.  The  Governor 
of  the  State  made  his attitude  toward 
these  corporations  the  principal  feature 
of  his  canvass,  and  carried  a  phenom­
larger  vote  apparently  on  ac­
enally 
count  of  the  popular 
in  the 
subject.

interest 

it  was  promised 

Just  what  was  to  be  done  in  the  way 
of  regulating  the  roads  was  largely  a 
matter of  conjecture  as  far as  any direct 
statements  of  the  new  Executive  were 
concerned;  but 
for 
him  that  he  would  do  all  that  could  be 
asked  to  make  the  roads  comply  with 
the  standard  which  had  been  made  for 
them 
in  popular  opinion  in  the  matter 
of  rates,  taxation  and  the  management 
of  their  corporate  affairs.  The  popular 
confidence  that  he  would  do all  this  was 
based  on  the  fact  that,  as  Mayor  of  De­
troit,  he  had  waged  a  long  warfare—of 
varying  success—with  the  several  street 
car companies  of  that  city.

But,  contrary  to  the  general  expecta­
tions,  there  have  not  as  yet  appeared 
any  systematic  efforts  for  the  accom­
plishment  of  any  particular  work 
in 
the  direction 
indicated.  To  be  sure, 
bills  have  been  presented  or  noticed 
bearing  upon  the  subject,  some  said  to 
have  been  prompted  by  the  Governor; 
but  none  have  been  presented  or  pushed 
in  a  way  to  indicate  that  any systematic 
effort  would  be  made  to  gain  the  prom­
ised  results.  There  seems  likelyto.be 
sufficent  activity 
in  this  direction  to 
meet  the  views  of  constituents,  but little 
show  of  any  actual  accomplishment. 
As  yet,  there  has  been  no  move  made 
toward  securing  the  use  of  interchange­
able  mileage tickets,  a reform demanded 
by  the  principal  business  interests,  and 
one  which  might  be  easily  accom­
plished.  But  it  seems  more  to  the  pur­
pose  of  the  would-be  reformers  to  make 
the  necessarily  futile  effort  to  secure  a 
two-cent  rate,  as  such  a  move  has  a 
more  tangible  appearance  in  the eyes  of 
the  people.

There  is  no  question  but that there are 
many  ways  in  which  railways  and  their 
management  may  be properly regulated ; 
but,  in  view  of  the  reports  of  the  con­
dition  of  the  roads  throughout  the  coun­
try,  and 
in  Michigan,  it  may  well  be  a 
question  whether  such  regulation  should 
include  the  drastic  measure  of  reduc­
ing  the  passenger  rates  to  a  uniform 
two-cent  basis.  The report  of  the  Rail­
way  Commissioner  as  to  the  condition 
of  the  Michigan  roads  was  not  one  that 
would  warrant  any  movement  in  the  di­
rection  of  lessening  the  amount  of  re­
ceipts—indeed,  the  Commissioner  gives 
it  as  his  opinion  that,  unless  the  situa­
tion 
improves,  a  considerable  mileage 
of  the  roads  will  be  abandoned  in  the 
immediate  future.

The  roads  of  Michigan  are  probably 
in  no  worse  condition  than  the  average 
throughout  the  country ;  but  the showing 
for all  is  decidedly  discouraging.  Ac­
cording  to  a  recent  article  by  the  emi­
nent 
statistician,  Robert  P.  Porter,

is 

one-half  of  the  railway 
investments  of 
the  country are  nonproductive,  and  the 
average  returns  upon  the  other  half  are 
distressingly  low.  There  are  probably 
few  who  realize  the  tremendous 
invest­
ment  there 
in  the aggregate  of  the 
railway  interests  of  this  country.  Ac­
cording  to  the  same 
the 
is  only  exceeded  by  one  other 
amount 
interest,  the  farming 
land,  and  that 
but  little,  comparatively.  The  railway 
investment  is  no  less  than  $12,000,000,- 
000,  while  that  of  farms  is  $13,000,000,- 
000.  All  the  manufactures  of  the  coun­
try  combined  are  considerably  less  than 
half  the  investment  in  railways.

authority, 

Now,  when  it  is  considered that  near­
ly  or quite  one-half  of  this  vast  outlay, 
an  amount  exceeding  all  the  manufac­
turing 
investments  of  the  country,  is 
nonproductive—and  Michigan  is  prob­
ably  little,  if  any,  better  than  the  aver­
age— is 
it  reasonable  to  propose  a  ma­
terial  reduction  of  passenger  rates  with­
out  some  amelioration  of  these  condi­
tions?

it 

in  which 

The  railway  problem  is  a  serious one. 
The  abandonment  of  lines  is  a  recourse 
to  be  employed  only  at  the  direst  ex­
tremity,  for 
involves  practically  the 
loss  of  everything.  These  companies 
will  continue  the  operation  of  losing 
lines  for  a 
long  time,  in  the  hope  of 
eventual  improvement.  " That  there  are 
many  ways 
they  may  be 
helped,  and  so  the  people  helped,  by 
legislative  action  there 
is  no  doubt. 
Thus,  the  furnishing  of  free  transporta­
tion  and  reduced  rates  to  certain classes 
should  be  prohibited,  and  all 
trans­
actions  should  be  put  upon  a  correct 
business  basis.  Then,  instead  of  legis­
lation 
in  restriction  of  the  receipts, 
there  should  be  devised  measures which 
will  secure  a  more  economical  service, 
undue  competition  should  be  restricted, 
and  the  Government  and  the  people 
should  co-operate 
in  making  the  rail­
ways  of  the  country  reasonably  produc­
tive  to  the  investors  therein  as  a  means 
to  the  general  welfare.

Viewed  from  a  Distance.

New  England  Grocer:  The  annual 
supper  tendered  the  working  force  of 
the  Tradesman  Company,  Grand  Rap­
ids,  on  Franklin’s  birthday,  Jan.  16, 
was  doubtless  a  most  pleasant  occasion. 
Editor  E.  A.  Stowe  is  one  of  the  reli­
able  men 
in  trade  journalism—a  man 
who  believes  a  trade  paper  can  be  run 
without  cutting  prices  of  advertising, 
and  who  appreciates  the  loyal  support 
of  his  employes.  Long  life  to  the  Mich­
igan  Tradesman  and  all 
its  working 
force!

New  York  Merchants’  Review:  We 
have  received  a  copy  of  the  bill  of  fare 
of  the  annual  supper  tendered  to  the 
working  force  of  the  Tradesman  Com­
pany,  Grand  Rapids,  on  January  16— 
Franklin  s  birthday. 
This  company 
publish  our  esteemed  weekly  contem- 
pory,  the  Michigan  Tradesman,  and  do 
a  large  engraving,  printing  and  bind­
ing  business.  The  well-known  advo­
cate  of  grocers’  rights,  E.  A.  Stowe,  is 
President  of  the  company.  The  list  of 
dishes  discussed  by  the  banqueters  was 
such  that  we  have  little  doubt  that  they 
all  enjoyed  themselves.

How  much  you  read  is  of  less  conse­
quence  than  how  much  you  think  about 
what  you  have  read.

PRISON  LABOR  AND  ROADS.
It  would  seem  to  the  observer  that  the 
movement  for  good  roads  is  likely  to 
receive  a  considerable  impetus  from the 
agitation  so  widely  prevalent  against 
the  productions  of  convict  labor  as  ele­
ments  in  the  problem  of industrial  com­
petition.  The  State  of  New  York  has 
undertaken  the  solution  of  the  question 
in  earnest,  as  a  consequence  of  the 
adoption  of  the  constitutional  amend­
ment  prohibiting  the  sale  of  convict- 
made  goods  in  the  State.

After casting about  for all  the  ways  of 
employment  possible  in  the  production 
of  such  articles  as  can  be  used  by  the 
State  in  its  penal  and charitable institu­
tions,  it is  found  that a  large  proportion 
of  the  convicts  must  yet  remain  idle. 
As  a  consequence,  all  possible  means 
of  securing  their  employment  are  re­
ceiving  attention  and  discussion.  That 
this  discussion  will  eventuate  in  some 
practicable  plan  for  the  utilization  of 
such 
labor  for  the  public  good  in  the 
way  of  road  improvement,  as well  as  the 
prosecution  of  other  public  undertak­
ings,  can  scarcely  be  doubted.

A  significant  phase  of  the  question 
has  developed  as  a  result  of  the  wide­
spread  abuse  of  authority  by  the  iocal 
courts  in  that  State,  by  which  prisoners 
are .sentenced  for a sufficiently long term 
to  enable  them  to  be  taken  to  the  peni­
tentiaries  under  the  rule  refusing  terms 
of  less  than  sixty  days,  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  the  fees  of  the  officers  for 
the  delivery  of  the  prisoners.  Thus  a 
sentence  of  sixty  days  is  often  imposed 
when  the  nature  of  the  offense  does  not 
warrant 
it,  and  when  the  placing  of 
such  criminals  among  the hardened con­
victs  in  the  State  institutions  is a means 
of  spreading  moral  contagion. 
In  con 
sequence  of  this,  and  of  the  inability  of 
the  State  to  keep  such  prisoners  em­
ployed,  it 
is  suggested,  in  the  last  re­
port  of  the  State  Prison  Commission, 
that  the  several  counties  should  care  for 
and  use  their  own  convicts  rather  than 
have  them  boarded  in  penitentiaries  at 
great  expense  and  thus  lose  their  labor.
Coming  as  this  agitation  does  in  con­
junction  with  the  wide-spread  interest 
in  the  good  roads  movement,  it  will  be 
strange 
if  plans  for  the  utilization  of 
the  convict  labor  on  highways  are  not 
formulated  and  tried.  Just  now,  New 
York  is  taking  the  lead  in  the  matter of 
prison  regulation,  and 
is  one  of  the 
most  active  states  in  the  matter  of  road 
improvement.  But  there  is an extended 
and  growing  feeling 
in  all  the  states 
against  the  production  of  prison  goods 
for  sale 
in  the  markets,  and  all  will 
watch  the  experiments  of  the  Empire 
State  with  the  greatest 
interest,  and 
movements  will  follow  elsewhere  very 
quickly  when  the  right  methods  become 
sufficiently  demonstrated.

The  Ohio  Legislature  is  to  consider  a 
bill  forbidding  the  promiscuous  distri­
bution  by  patent  medicine  venders  of 
pamphlets  and  bills  describing 
the 
symptoms  of  diseases.

The  city  of  Philadelphia  is  more than 
twice  as  large  as  Boston,  hut  arrests  for 
drunkeuness  there  the  past  year  num­
bered  only  23,107,  against about  36,000 
for  Boston.

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.  Mr.  Connor will  announce  in 
the next issue of this  paper  dates when  he will 
be at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids.

5  AND 7  PEAPL STREET.
Tradesman Coupons

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Bicycles

The  Meeting.

We met, ’twas only yesteiday,
1 th   unlit be  I'a-f.un lair
Ai d wtien i lett ner t - bet way 
. Alj  i ead  was  ighi as air.
We met, ’iw s  evening in the street, 
And bum  ly f itliug at tier leet, 

sh 
i o passion I gave  sway.

in  k my  brentn . way.

We imt. but oti'y met to part,
I w -.ir her i.u tge o'er my heart—

And  1 s   re p a in   t.i feel;
The image of ne  whe  1.

Si gel  Rocsb.

News  and  Gossip of Interest to  Dealer 

and  Rider.

A  new  gear  has  been  introduced  in 
this  country  by  an  English  inventor 
which  has  aroused  considerable  interest 
among  racing  men.  The  gearing 
is 
done  on  the  crank  and  then  transmitted 
to  the  back  chain  pulley  by  a  pulley  ol 
an  equal  instead  of  a  larger  size.  While 
the  device 
is  somewhat  novel,  its  ad 
vantage  can  only  be  ascertained  b\ 
practical  use. 
is  felt  that  such  an 
appliance  is  necessary  on  a front driver, 
but  that  on  a  rear driver  the  required 
ends  are  gained 
in  a  much  simplei 
manner  with  the  ordinary  two  pulleys 
of  different  sizes  and  one  chain.  With 
this  device  there  are  two  chains,  foui 
chain  wheels,  and  two  toothed  wheels. 

It 

*  *  *

There  is  likely  to  be  a  great  demano 
for  gear  cases  by  American  riders  this 
year.  The  case  is  used  abroad  by  all 
road  men  and 
is  found  to be a  great 
protection  to  the  chain,  keeping  it clean 
from  dust  and  adding  to 
its  ease  o* 
running.  Americans  have  heretofore 
avoided  the  use  of  the  gear case,  due  to 
its  added  weight  of  from  two  to  foui 
pounds,  but  its  decided  advantage  has 
now  become  so  well  known  that  the 
manufacturers  anticipate  a  call  for  the 
attachment  this  season.
*   *   *

While  it  is  doubtful  if the average 
bicycle  rider  is  anxious  to  make  any 
radical  departure  from 
the  ordinary 
type  of  bicycle,  the  number  of  peculiar 
or  freak  models  that  will  be  offered  to 
the  public  this  year  promises  to  be 
quite  large.  A  Western  manufacturer 
has  turned  out a  new  wheel  with frame 
work  of  wood,  excepting  the  front  forks 
and  head  piece.  The  seat  is  connected 
to  the  wooden  frame,  which  is  circular 
in  form.  The  model  reduces  the  weight 
and  makes  an  attractive-looking  ma­
chine.

The  Bicycle  Exhibits.

Written for the T radesman.

Saturday  night  closed  the winter cycle 
show 
in  Chicago,  after  a  week  of  the 
most extensive and successful business of 
and  ever  held  in  the  West.  The attend­
ance  was  very large,estimated at  200,000 
admissions  in  all.  The  business  trans­
acted  in  the  way  of  placing  orders  was 
extensive,  although  many  of  the larger 
dealers  complain  that  the  smaller  ones 
carried  off  the  lion's  share.  But  the 
reason  given  is  that  it  was  not expected 
that  the  larger  houses  would  depend 
much  upon  actual  transactions,  relying 
more  on  the  general  value  of  their ex­
hibits in  the  way  of  advertising.  Many 
of  them  state  that  the  cost  of  these  ex­
hibitions  is  charged  entirely to advertis­
ing  account.

The  consensus  of  opinion  seems  to 
indicate  that  the  annual  exhibitions  are 
likely  to  be  permanent,  although  some 
of  the  bouses  would  prefer  their discon­
tinuance,  or  at  least  the  limiting  to  one 
great  show,  either 
in  Chicago  or  New 
York—the  Western  exhibitors  contend­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ing,  naturally,  that 
it  should  be  the 
former.  The  expense  attending  these 
exhibits 
is  very  considerable—from 
$5,000  to  $10,000  for  each  exhibitor, 
taking  both  tbe  Chicago and  the  New 
York  shows 
into  consideration.  Then 
the 
interruption  to  the  work  of  the 
traveling  salesmen,  and  to  tbe  regular 
routine  of  placing  goods,  is  very  con­
siderable.

While  the  Western  exhibit  was a  very 
extensive  one,  that  to open  next  Satur­
day  night  in  the  Grand  Central  Palace 
will  be  still  greater—the  greatest  that 
nas  occurred  in  the  history  of  the  cycle 
trade. 
is  estimated  that  the  cost  to 
the  trade,  including  decorations,  rentals 
and  other  expenses,  will  foot  up  no  less 
than  $1,000,000.  There  are  900  spaces 
to  be  rented  by  nearly  500  manufactur­
ers.  Last  year  the  show  was  visited 
oy  4,000 dealers.

It 

Many  of  the  manufacturers  at  the 
Chicago  exhibition  favor  local  exhibits 
to  precede  the  opening  of  the  wheeling 
season  by  two  or  three  weeks. 
It  is 
probable  there  will  be  more  of  such  ex- 
nibits  this  season  than 
last,  as  they 
seem  to  serve  the  excellent  purpose  ol 
getting  up  an  enthusiasm  for  the  bene­
fit  of  the  retail  trade. 

N a t e.

The  Outlook  for  the  Bicycle  Season. 
From the Minneapolis Commercial Bulletin.

Manufacturers  and 

jobbers  are  now 
ready  to  tell  the  world  about  the  things 
they  will  do  the  coming  season  regard­
ing  bicycles.  The  styles  for  the  year 
nave  been  generally  decided  on.  There 
may  be  some  remodeling  on  the  part  ot 
some  manufacturers  as  the  result  ol 
pointers  picked  up  at  the  Chicago  cycle 
*how,  but  the  greater  number  of  manu­
facturers  are  settltd  as  to  the  styles they 
will  manufacture,  and  have  already 
made  models  for  their 
jobbers,  and 
nave  issued  printed  matter  advertising 
the  new  things  they  have  for  1897. 
t here  will  be  little  change  in  the  styles 
trom  those  of  last  year. 
In  general  it 
may  be  said  that  there  will  be  a  hand­
somer average  wheel  on  the  market  this 
season,  which  rule will apply  not  only 
to  the  higher  priced  machines,  but to 
the  cheaper  ones as  well.

The  enamel  and  trimmings are looked 
to  more  carefully.  There  will  be  a 
greater  variety  of  colors  than  there  is in 
shoes,  which 
is  saying  a  good  deal. 
Stripings and  flowers  will  be  more of  an 
element  in  the  exterior  decoration.  The 
frames  will  generally  present  a  more 
finished  appearance,  this  being  espe­
cially  true  of  the  higher grade  wheels. 
The  flush  joint,  while 
it  does  not  add 
to  the  strength  of  the  wheel,  does  add 
to  the  finished  appearance,  and  will  be 
an  item  in  selling.  Manufacturers  have 
not  hesitated  to  add  a  little  weight  to 
the  wheel  to  give  it  a  better  appear­
ance,  and  aiso  to give  it  more  durabil­
ity.  The  road  wheel  will  weigh  not  far 
trom  twenty-four  to  twenty-five  pounds 
this  season,  a  very sensible weight.  The 
gear  will  be  higher  than 
last  year, 
seventy  being  the  standard  in  this  mar­
ket.  With  the  higher gear  tbe  heavier 
wheel  is  demanded,  to stand  the  strain.
There  are  a  great  number  of  little 
changes  about  tbe  pedal  region. 
In 
these  changes  the thing sought after  is 
greater  durability,  and 
simplicity. 
Less  parts,  greater  ease  in  changing, 
for  cleaning  or  repairing,  and  greater 
strength  have  been  the  points  in  view 
in  this  simplicity.  A  better  protection 
against  dust 
in  the  bearings,  a  saving 
of  wear by  making  the  lubricant go  di­
rectly  to  its  desired  place,  easy  adjust­
ment  of  every  adjustable  part  are points 
that  have  been  made 
in  favor  of  the 
wheel  of  1897  as  compared  with  that  of 
previous  years.  Though  there  are  few 
radical  changes,  it is geneially conceded 
that  the  wheels  of  this  year  thus  far 
shown  are  superior  to  the  products  of 
the  factories  in  any  previous  year.

The  factories  in  general  have  shown 
in  manufacturing 
some  conservatism 
wheels  this year.  They  are  not  prepared 
at  this  date  to  flood  any  part of  the

country  with  their  finished  wheels. 
Though  some  ot  them  have  a  fair  stock 
there  are  many  that  have 
in  band, 
hardly 
finished  machines  enough  to 
supply  the  desireu  samples.  There  is 
already  some  delay  in  sending  samples 
to  their  retail  agents.  It  will  be  as  well 
tor  agents  who  have  decided  upon  tbe 
line  ot  wheels  they  will  cairy  tnis  year 
to  put  in  orders  immediately  for  their 
sample  wheels.

Counting -the  Cost.

Charles Paddock in Piiuters’  Ink.

It  is  much  better and  wiser  to  figure 
ou  tbe  expense  of  advertising  before 
doing  it  than  after  it  is  done,  but  un- 
loitunately  everybody  does  not  follow 
the  better  plan. 
It  they  did,  there 
would  be  much  saving  of  heartaches, 
anxieties  and  disappointments.  Noth­
ing  could  be  worse  tor a  new  advertiser 
than  an  elastic  appropriation,  one  that 
ne  draws  upon  at  will  and  uses  indis­
criminately.  The  principle  of  rigid 
economy  should  be  applied  to  the  ex­
penditure  of  every  dollar  in  the  pur­
chasing  of  space.  No  money  whatever 
should  be  spent  returns  for  which  do 
not  appear  reasonably  certain.  Experi­
menting  in  unknown  channels should  be 
careluily  avoided. 
tentative 
efforts  are  all  right  when  made  by  the 
seasoned  advertiser,  but  tbe  new  begin­
ner  has  no  business  “ monkeying"  with 
them.

Such 

It  is  a  mistake to  make  any  contracts 
for  which  you  cannot  pay,  in  the  hope 
that  your advertising  will  be  profitable 
enough  to  enable  you  to  meet  your bills. 
The advertisements  may  be  successful, 
but  if  they  are  not,  what  then?  You 
should  count  the  cost  at  first  and  have 
wherewith  to  meet  it.  Then  you  know 
exactly  where  you  are  and  how  much 
you  can  afford  to  invest.  You  will  pos­
sibly  have  to  make  provision  for  more 
than  the  first  output,  because  returns 
do  not  always  come 
in  as  quickly  as 
one  wishes,  so  wisdom  would  dictate 
the  holding  of  part  of  your  appropria­
tion  in  reserve.  And  do  not  forget  that 
part  of  the  “ cost“   of  advertising  is 
patience.  One  has  to  wait,  sometimes 
lunger  than  is  pleasant,  for  the  seed  to 
take  root  and  grow.  Of  course  this 
waiting 
is  more  or  less  dependent  on 
the quality  of  the  seed  and  the  ground 
in  which  it  has been  sown,  but  a  wait 
of  some  duration  is  inevitable.  That  is 
why  impatient  people  should  not  adver­
tise  unless  they  are  prepared  to  count 
the  cost  to  their  patience.  They  are 
on  the  “ anxious  seat”   of  expectation 
all  the time.
When  a  merchant  buys a  bill  of  goods 
he 
is  careful  to  count  the  cost as  he 
figures  on  his  probable  profits  or  losses. 
If  he  sees  a  loss  ahead,  he  won’t  buy. 
If  he  doesn’t  see a  pretty  certain  profit 
ahead,  he  won't  buy.  And  unless  an 
advertiser  is  sure  that  he  can  afford  tbe 
cost,  and  has  a  likely  chance  of  getting 
good  returns,  he  had  better  keep  his 
money  in  his  pocket.

A  standing  advertisement  in  a  trade 
journal  often  does  more  to  strengthen 
the  credit  of  a  house  than  would  a  big 
bank  account.

Money  in  Tangerines.

The  prediction  about  the  price  of 
In 
Tangerine  oranges  has  come  true. 
August  it  was  said  that  Tangerine  or­
anges  would  bring  $14  a  box.  An  ac­
count  ot  the  sale  of  six  boxes  of  Tan­
gerine  oranges  November  28th  showed 
that  they  brought  $90,  or  $15  a  box, 
gross.  They  netted  $12.24.  The  Tan­
gerine  crop  of  the  State  will  not  exceed 
500 boxes.

“ From  this  time on,”   said  he,  when 
the  only  woman  who  had  ever  rejected 
him  passed  from  his  sight,  “ from  this 
time,  mine  shall  be  tbe  delight to wreck 
I shall  be  a  shoe 
vengeance  on  wcman. 
clerk,  and  instead  of  selling  them  shoes 
one  size  too  small,  with  my  persuasive 
manner  I  shall  make  them  buy  still 
smaller."

It  has  become  a  maxim  among  the 
quick  thinkers  in  the  trade  that  it  does 
not  pay  to  carry  goods  of  any  kind  from 
one  season  to  another,  and  they  close 
them  out  at  the  best  price  obtainable 
ere  the  season  is  past.

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D Clippers  are  not  experim ents.  T hose  who  desire 
a  neat, well-built,  honestly  m ade,  well  finished  and 
well  equipped  ladies’  or  g en ts  bicycle,  cannot  do 
b etter th a n  invest in one of our $60.00 wheels.  T hese 
bicycles are not cheap bicycles.  W e m ight call them  
“ high grade’’ if we  couldn’t m ake  a  finer  w heel  and 
didn’t care w hat we said.  T hey are w orth $60.00 or we 
wouldn’t ask it.  T here are cheaper w heels  b ut  none 
so good.  T hese are satisfactory bicycles, and w ill give 
satisfaction every tim e.  O ver 4,000 sold in ’96, and not 
a dozen dissatisfied custom ers th a t we know of.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it 

and  Vice-President  have  received  a 
minority  of  the  popular  vote;  but  it  is 
well  known  that  the  majority  of  the 
Senate  is  elected  by  the  Legislatures  of 
States  whose  total  population  is  a  small 
part  of  the  population  of  the  United 
States.
But 

is  not  worth  while  to  pursue 
this  line  of  argument  further. 
It  may 
be  fairly  open  to  doubt  whether  Mr.  Ol- 
ney  is  correct  in  his  contention  that  the 
President  has  exclusive  authority 
to 
recognize  a  new  government—jurists 
differ 
in  regard  to  that  question—but 
Senator  Turpie  did  not  strengthen  his 
case  by  claiming  a  general  superiority 
for Congress  on  the  ground  that  it  alone 
represents  the  supreme  power  of  the 
people.  The  truth 
is  that  there  is  no 
absolute  supremacy  vested  in  any  one 
of  the  three  great  departments  of  the 
Federal  Government.  Each  department

3

its  special  functions  under 
discharges 
the  operation  of  the  checks  provided  by 
the  constitution. 

F rank  Stow ell.

The 

lives  of  some  people are  open 
books;  the  lives  of  others  blank  hooks.

Sells
Best

Because  it  salts  best, 
tastes best, keeps best— 
is  best.  D IA M O N D  
C R Y S T A L   SA LT.

See Price Current.

Diamond Cryctal Salt Co., St. Clair,Mich

The  Danger  of  Encroachment.

in 

The  Government  of  the  United  States 
presents  the  most  complex  political sys­
tem  that  has  ever  been  devised  and 
successful  operation 
maintained 
through  fundamental  social  and 
indus­
trial  changes.  Mr.  Gladstone  said,  a 
good  many  years  ago,  that  its  constitu­
tion  was  the  most  nearly  perfect product 
of  human  wisdom  that  had  ever  been 
struck  off at a  single effort. 
It  must  not 
be  supposed,  however,  that  the  organic 
law  of  this  country  was  elaborated  on 
strictly  a  priori  principles.  The  con­
stitutional  convention  of  1787  consulted 
the  history  of  the  whoie  past,  and  espe­
cially  the  history  of  the  Continental 
Confederation  under  the  government  of 
a  simple  representative  chamber which, 
it  undertook  to  exercise  to 
although 
some  extent  the 
the 
three  natural  divisions  of  government, 
found 
itself  at  the  advent  of  peace  al­
most  wholly  incapable  of  dealing  with 
the  many 
important  questions  then 
settlement. 
pressing 
Intelligent  observers 
practical 
thinkers  saw  that  it  was  absolutely  nec­
essary,  first,  to  separate  the  legislative, 
judicial  and  executive  branches,  and 
then  to  secure  their  mutual  independ­
ence.

functions  of  all 

immediate 

and 

for 

Such, 

in  the  rough,  was  the  new 
scheme  of  federation.  But  the  authors 
of  the  constitution  were  very  prudent 
men.  They  did  not  deem 
it  safe to 
confer  an  unlimited  power of legislation 
upon  Congress,  or  to 
leave  the  Presi­
dent  entirely  free  and  irresponsible  in 
the  disbursement  of  patronage,  the  con­
trol  of  the  army  and  navy,  and  the  con­
clusion  of  treaties  with  foreign  coun­
tries.  The  power  of  the  judiciary  is 
necessarily  unlimited,  except  insofar  as 
its  province  is  defined  by  the  constitu­
tion ;  but  the  judges  are  appointed  by 
the  President,  and  are  subject  to  im­
peachment  for  grave  misconduct,  al­
though  not  for  errors  of 
judgment, 
which  can  only  be  determined  by the 
court  of  last  resort.  The  independence 
of  the  judiciary 
is  further  secured  by 
the  provision  that  the  judges  shall  hold 
their  offices  during  good  behavior.  The 
complexity  of  the  system  as  a  whole 
was,  of  course,  greatly  increased  by  the 
continued  existence  of  the  several  State 
Governments  with  reserved  rights,  and 
by  the  division  of  Congress  into  two 
houses ;  but 
is  the  purpose  of  this 
article  only  to  insist  upon  the  supreme 
importance  of  maintaining  the  sepa­
rateness  and,  within  certain limits,  the 
independence  of  the  three great  co-or­
dinate branches of  the  General  Govern­
ment.

it 

General  Washington  alludes  to  this 
question  in  that  ever-memorable  Fare­
well  Address  which  he  left  as  a 
legacy 
of  patriotism  and  wisdom  to  his  coun­
trymen  for.all  time  to  come.  After  re­
ills  to be  apprehended 
ferring  to  the 
from  “ irregular  oppositions” 
to  the 
Government’s  acknowledged  authority, 
from  the  disposition  to  propose  changes 
upon  the  credit  of  mere  hypothesis, 
intense  partisan  or  factional 
from  an 
temper,  and 
from  sectional  rivalries 
and  jealousies,  he  said:  “ It  is  impor­
tant,  likewise,  that  the  habits  of  think­
ing,  in  a  free  country,  should  inspire 
caution,  in  those  intrusted  with  its  ad­
ministration,  to confine themselves  with­
in 
constitutional 
spheres,  avoiding,  in  the  exercise  of the 
powers  of  one  department,  to  encroach 
upon  another.  The  spirit  of  encroach­
ment  tends  to  consolidate  the  powers  of 
all  the  departments  in  one,  and  thus  to 
create,  whatever  the  form  of  Govern-

respective 

their 

ment,  a  real  despotism.  A 
just  esti­
mate of  that  love  of  power,  and  prone­
ness  to  abuse  it,  which  predominates  in 
the  human  heart 
is  sufficient  to  satisfy 
us  of  the  truth  of  this  position.  The 
necessity  of  reciprocal  checks,  in  the 
exercise  of  political  power,  by  dividing 
and  distributing  it  into  different  depos­
itories,  and constituting  each  the  guard­
ian  of  the  public weal  against  invasions 
by  the  others,  has  been  evinced  by  ex­
periments,  ancient  and  modern ;  some 
of  them  in  our  own  country,  and  under 
our  own  eyes.  To  preserve  them  must 
be  as  necessary  as  to  institute  them. 
If,  in  the  opinion  of  the  people,  the 
distribution  or  modification  of  the  con­
stitutional  powers  be,  in  any particular, 
wrong,  let  it  be  corrected  by  an  amend­
ment  in  the  way  which  the  constitution 
designates.  But  let  there  be  no  change 
by  usurpation;  for  though  this,  in  one 
instance,  may  be  the 
instrument  of 
good,  it 
is  the  customary  weapon  by 
which  free  governments  are  destroyed. 
The  precedent  must  always  greatly 
overbalance, 
in  permanent  evil,  airy 
partial  or  transient  benefit  which  the 
use  can,  at  any  time,  yield.”

immense  responsibility 

From  time  to  time  the  question  of 
prerogative,  or  exclusive  authority,  has 
been  a  source  of  conflict  between  the 
executive  branches. 
legislative  and 
The 
imposed 
upon  the  President,  the  variety  of  his 
duties,  and  his  power  to  check 
legisla­
tion  by  veto  render  the  administration 
of  his  office  peculiarly  liable  to  criti­
cism.  Washington  and  Jackson  were 
as  bitterly  denounced  in  their  times  as 
Cleveland  has  been  in  his.  But  there 
has  been  very  little  disposition  on  the 
part of  the  people  to  curtail  the  power 
of  the  Chief  Executive.  The  other  day, 
Senator  Turpie,  of  Indiana,  argued 
that  Congress  has  authority  to  recognize 
the  independence  of  a  new  foreign  gov­
ernment  because  Congress  represents 
the  supreme  power  of  the  people.  He 
seemed  to  irhply  that  the  power  or  sov­
ereignty  of  the  people  was  not  repre­
sented  by  the  Chief  Executive,  or,  at 
most,  not  to  the  same  degree.  But  if 
that  is  what  he  really  meant,  it  should 
be  said  that  a  more  untenable  proposi­
tion  could  hardly  be  advanced.  The 
main  business  of  Congress  is  legisla 
tion,  and  the  President has  more  power 
over  legislation  than  fifty  members  of 
the  Senate,  or  than  a  hundred  and  fifty 
members  of  the  House  of  Representa­
tives. 
is  said,  sometimes,  that  his 
power in this respect  is  purely  negative, 
but  that  view  will  not  bear  a  close 
analysis.  He  votes  for a  measure  when 
he  signs  the  bill  embodying  it.  His 
signature  is  his  affirmative  vote. 
It  is 
true  that  he  may  refuse  to  sign  a  bill 
is  unwilling  to  veto,  and  may 
that  he 
allow 
it  to  become  a  law  by  simply 
keeping  it  in his own hands  for a period 
of  ten  days. 
In  such  a  case  his  course 
is  similar  to  that  of  a  Congressman  who 
declines  to  vote  either  for or against  a 
bill.  Moreover,  the  President  and  Vice- 
President  are  the  only  officers  of  the 
United  States  who  are  voted  for  by  the 
people  of  all  the  States.  They  are 
chosen,  it  may  be  said,  by the Electoral 
College ;  but  the  electors,  appointed  by 
the  people  of  the  several  states,  cast 
their  votes  under 
instructions  which 
they  do  not  dare  to  disobey.  The  Presi­
dent  and  Vice-President  are  usually 
elected  as  the  nominees  of  a  party,  and 
owe  their  nominations 
largely  to  the 
fact  that  they  are  supposed  to  be  in  ac­
cord  with  the  policy  and  principles  of 
a  party.  It  may  happen— indeed,  it  has 
happened— that  the  chosen  President

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

I bas  removed  to  Alma. 

S t  Louis—G.  L.  Spicer,  meat  dealer, 

tbe  Majestic  Building  Co.  for $5,000.
1  He  says  be  engaged  space  in  tbe  build­
ing  when  it  was  proposed  to  devote 
it 
to  department  stores,  but  now  finds  it 
bas  been  leased  to  tbe  Mabley  &  Good-
lellow   Co.

Belding—Ed.  Lamb,  the  grocer,  at-
tempted  to  take  a  steel  hoop  from  a
Detroit—Samuel  P.  Wilkus  bas  sued  pickle  barrel  a  few  days  ago,  and  in 
some  way  got  a  steel  chip  into  one  eye. 
His  physician  advised  him  to go  im­
mediately  to  Detroit and  consult  a  spe­
cialist,  who  would  save  tbe  eye  if  it 
were  possible  to  be done.  Mr.  Lamb 
did  as  advised,  but  the  occulist  said 
that  tbe 
injury  was  so  serious  that  he
could  give  him  no hope  of  saving  the 
sight

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Saginaw—L.  H.  Hues  succeeds  Plues 

&  bacon  in  tbe  bakery  business.

Camden—Wm.  Ewing  will 
open  a  new  hardware store  here.

shortly 

Mt.  Clemens— G.  E.  Clark  succeeds 

J.  G.  White  in  tbe  drug  business.

Alpena—Hamilton  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Paul  Dane.
Millington— D.  McLean  succeeds Mc­
Lean  &  Seeley  in  the  grocery  business.
Big  Rapids— Jacob  Hangstorfer, 
meat  dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Frank 
Angel.

Benton  Harbor— Rowe  Bros,  succeed 
in  the  meat 

Rowe  Bros.  &  Summerill 
business.

Millington— A.  C.  Allen  succeeds  A. 
C.  Allen  &  Co.  in  the  drug  and  grocery 
business.

Owosso— Paris  &  Son's grocery  stock 
has  been  purchased  by  A.  Byrne,  ot 
Saginaw.

Calumet— The  drug  stock  of  John 
Cleino,  Jr.,  has  been  closed  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Holly—The  H.  M.  Church  Drug  Co. 
succeeds  Howard  Church  in  business  at 
this  place.

Holland—J.  A.  Vander Veen succeeds 
C.  Blom,  Jr.,  in  the  confectionery  ana 
bakery  business.

Stockbridge —VV.  E.  Brown  &  Co. 
succeed  Nichols  &  Brown  in  the  drug 
and  grocery  business.

Otsego— Temple  &  Chase  have  sold 
their  bakery  business  and  grocery  stock 
to  Williams  &  Pierce.

Ann  Arbor— Frederick  J.  Gerstner 
in  the  bakery 

succeeds  Wm.  Gerstner 
and  confectionery  business.

Charlotte— W.  H.  McBride,  under­
taker  and  furniture  dealer  at  North 
Star,  has  removed  to  this  place.

Saginaw—J.  D.  Draper  continues  the 
grocery  business 
formerly  conducted 
under  the  style  of  A.  O.  & J.  D.  Draper.
Merrill— Lamon  M.  Russell  continues 
the  harness  business  formerly  conducted 
under  the  style  of  John  V.  Russell  & 
Son.

Coleman— The  Coleman  Hardware 
Co.  has  filed  chattel  mortgages  cover­
ing  stock,  to  John  M.  Moriey,  of  Sagi­
naw.

Saginaw—C.  H.  Becker,  boot  and 
shoe  dealer,  filed  chattel  mortgages  ag­
gregating  $2,829.20.  S.  W.  Jenning  is 
trustee.

Holland—C.  Blom,  Jr.,  has  sold  bis 
confectionery  stock  to  E.  A.  Van  der 
Veen,  who  will  continue  the  business  at 
tbe  same  location.

East  Jordan—F.  E.  Boosinger,  gen­
eral  dealer,  has  formed  a  copartnership 
with  his  brother,  John  A.,  under  the 
style  of  Boosinger  Bros.

Saginaw—The  stock  of  E.  A.  (Mrs.

E.  S .)  Crawford,  dealer  in  wall  papei 
and  decorating  materials,  will  be  dis­
posed  of  at  mortgage  sale.

Holland —Pessink  &  East,  proprietors 
of  tbe  Holland  City  Steam  Laundry, 
have  dissolved  partnership.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  by  Oscar J.  East.
Detroit—Robert  Keller  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  at  the  corner  of  Third  and 
Warren  avenues  to  Miss  Ida  M.  Covey, 
a  skilled  pharmacist  who  has  clerked 
for  him  two  years.  He  will  devote  all 
bis  time  to  other  business.

Flanders—Tbe  general  store  of  Will­
iam  G.  Carney  was burned  to the ground 
Jan.  25.  The  postoffice  was  located  in 
the  building,  but  most  of  tbe  Govern­
ment  property  was  saved.  The  loss  is 
about $1,500;  no  insurance.

Traverse  City— M.  E.  Haskell  has 
resigned  his  position  as.manager  of  the 
Dock  and  stationery  store  of  Lyon, 
Beecher  &  Kymer.  M.  B.  Holley,  for­
merly  owner ot  the  business,  and  lately 
a  salesman 
in  the  store,  has accepted 
the  position  vacated  by  Mr.  Haskell.

Eaton  Rapids—  The  C.  H.  Cowan 
stock  of  groceries  and  fixtures,  which 
was 
inventoried  at  about  $700,  was 
sold  to  Jos.  D.  Powers,at public auction, 
at  32  cents  on  the  dollar.  The  book 
accounts,  which  were 
inventoried  at 
Si54,  were  sold  to  Mr.  Cowan for $10.25.
Union  City—George  W.  Buell,  suc­
cessor  to  Buell  &  Spring,  hardware 
dealers,  has  filed  mortgages  for  $3,400 
in  favor  of  two  local  banks.  A  former 
mortgage 
favor  of  Mrs.  Charles 
Spring  brings  the  total  up  to  $5,000. 
t he  store 
in  the  possession  of  the 
sheriff.

in 

is 

Detroit—Grunow  &  Patterson  have 
tiled  articles  of  association  with  tbe 
County  Clerk,  to  engage  in  the  whole­
sale  and  retail  drug  business  with a rep­
resented  paid-in  capital  stock  of $6,000. 
Oliver  H.  Grunow  holds  300  shares';  B.
E.  Patterson  and  Alfred  E.  Patterson, 
150 each.

Bay  City—Thomas  Grow,  doing  a 
clothing  business  at  Pontiac  under  the 
name  of  Grow  &  Co.  and  in  this  city 
under  the  name  of  Grow  Bros.,  filed  a 
trust  mortgage  Feb.  2  covering his stock 
to  secure  creditors  whose  claims amount 
to  $16,654.56.  J.  Lounsbury,  of  Pontiac 
is  named  as  the  trustee.

Muskegon— Julius  Rosenthal  &  Co., 
clothiers  doing  business  at  the  corner 
of  Terrace  street  and  Western  avenue, 
have  sold  out  to  G.  L.  Rosenthal,  of 
Syracuse,  N.  Y.  Sol  Rosenthal,  who 
has  been  conducting  the  clothing  store 
in  the  Mason  block,  will  continue  tbe 
business  as  manager,  and  will  consoli­
date  the  stocks  shortly.

Northville—The  banking  house  of  J. 
S.  Lapham  &  Co.  is  to  erect  a  new  fire­
proof bank  building  in  tbe  spring.and  a 
large  two-story  and  basement  library 
building  and  hall 
is to go  up,  a  num­
ber  of  new  houses are  to  be  built,  and 
the  indications  are  good  for a  very  per­
ceptible  increase  in  business  at  tbe  fac­
tories,  which  are  now  running  on  short 
time.

Fennville—A  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation  was  recently organized here, with
F.  S.  Raymond  as  President,  Theo. 
Wade  Vice-President,  Charles  Bassett 
Secretary,  and  Jesse  Hutchinson  Treas­
urer.  The  main  objects  of  the Associa­
tion  are  the  protection  of  business  in­
terests  and  the  advancement  and  build­
ing  up  of  the  village  and 
country 
around  it.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo cold  stor­
age  building,  owned  by  A.  C.,  J.  B. 
and  F.  C.  Balch,  burned  Feb.  2,  to­
gether  with  its  contents,  which  included 
nearly  5,000  barrels  of  apples,  several 
thousand  dozen  of  eggs  and  large  quan­
tises  of  butter  and  beer.  The 
fire 
caught  near  the  top  of  the  building  and 
the  firemen  could  make  no  headway 
fighting 
it.  The  fire  probably  caught 
from  plumbers  working  there  arranging 
an 
ice  tank  to  be  filled  tbe  next  day. 
The  loss  on  the  building  and contents  is 
about  $25,000;  insurance,  $11,000.

Kalamazoo— The 

friends  of  Julius 
Schuster  regret  exceedingly  his  deter­
mination  to  leave  Kalamazoo  and  settle 
in  Milwaukee.  Many  have  called  upon 
him  and  urged  him  to  reconsider  it  and 
remain  in  the  city  where  he  has  spent 
over  thirty  years  of  his  life.  Mr.  Schus­
ter  told  his  friends  that  he  regretted  the 
necessity  of  his  going  away  fully  as 
much  as they.  The  firm  of  Desenberg 
&  Schuster  will  go out  of  business  after 
a  long  career.  Mr.  Schuster  contem­
plates  embarking  in  tbe dry  goods  trade 
at  Milwaukee.

Bay  City—A  suit  of  more  than  usual 
interest  was  decided 
in  the  Circuit 
Court  one  day  last  week.  Hibbard  S. 
Clossen,  of  Lansing,  sold  Buck  & 
Leighton,  of  this  city,  750  dozen  ot 
eggs.  The  purchasers  declined  to  pay 
for  them  after  receipt,  on  the  grouna 
that  they  were  too  old,  that  they  had 
been  limed  for two  years,  whereas  they 
ordered  fresh  limed  eggs,  meaning  eggs 
not  more  than  a  year old.  They claimed 
that  they  talked  with  the  defendant  by 
telephone  and  specified  what  kind  ol 
In  a  letter  they  re­
eggs  were  wanted. 
ferred  to  “ the  limed  eggs.”  
Judge 
Maxwell  held  that  the  letter  was  evi­
dence,  while  the  telephone  message  was 
not,  and  he  directed  a  verdict  for the 
plaintiff.

Detroit—Judge  Frazer  took  from  the 
jury  the  case  of  Stevens  &  Todd,  the 
druggists,  against  Madame  M.  Yale, 
the  complexion  beautifier,  for  alleged 
breach  of  advertising  contract.  He  di­
rected  a  verdict  for  Madame  Yale  on 
the  ground  that  both  parties  were  not 
subject  to  the  alleged  agreement.  The 
firm  agreed  to  purchase  $250  worth  of 
cosmetics  from  the  Chicago  face artist,- 
and 
in  consideration  the  Stevens  & 
Todd's  name  was  to  be  used  in  all  the 
local  advertisements  of  Madame  Yale’s 
preparations.  After  eight  months  an­
other  drug  firm’s  name  was  substituted 
in  the  advertisements.  The  court  held 
that  the  agreement  was  too  indefinite 
as  to  time  and  other  conditions. 
It 
ceased  to  bind  tbe  drug  firm,  tbe  court 
decided,  the  moment  the  consignment 
of  goods  agreed  upon  was  purchased 
and  paid  for.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Zeeland—The  Zeeland  Furniture  Co. 

has  declared  a  dividend  of  7  percent.

Drenthe—The  Drenthe  Creamery  Co. 
paid  a  semi-annual  dividend  of  15  per 
cent,  last  week.

Coldwater— The  Coldwater  Oil  Stove 
its  factory  with  a 

Co.  has  started  up 
full  force  of  men  in  all  departments.

Menominee— The  Menominee 

Iron 
Works  Co.  has  declared  a  dividend  of  6 
per  cent,  on  the  capital  stock  as  the 
profits  on  last  year’s  business.
Jamestown—The  directors 

the 
Jamestown  Creamery  Association  have 
declared  a  semi-annual  dividend  of  20 
per cent.,  making  38  per  cent,  for  the 
year.

of 

Gowen—-John  Hansen,  proprietor  of 
the  Gowen  creamery,  recently  became 
entangled  in  the  machinery  of  the  mill 
and  fractured  the  kneepan  of  the  left 
knee.

M uskegon—B.  H .  T ellm an,  G.  H. 
T ellm an  and  J.  Cooper  have  form ed  a 
copartnership  under 
the  style  of  T ell­
man  Bros.  &  Co.  for  the  purpose  of em ­
barking 
tbe  m anufacture  of  baking 
powder  and  extracts.

in 

E ast  Taw as—T he  H olland  &  E m ery 
Lum ber  Co.  has  discontinued  the  sale 
of  m erchandise,  the  stock  b eing divided 
as  follow s:  G roceries  to  Jam es  H am il­
ton ;  hardw are 
to  R ich ard s  Bros.  ;  dry 
goods  and  clothing  to  A.  Barkm an.
Buchanan—T he  H atch  cutlery 

fac­
tory,  about  to  be rem oved to Kalamazoo, 
has  been  a  g reat 
It  was 
started  in  E lyria,  O hio,  and  w ent  suc­
cessively  to  K ensington,  111.,  South M il­
1894,  to  Bu­
waukee,  and  finally, 
chanan.

traveler. 

in 

M uskegon—T he  E n te rp rise  Foundry 
Co.  has  had  a  change  in  m anagem ent 
and  ow nership.  W.  B.  M cLaughlin  has 
purchased 
interest  of  W.  H.  M iles 
and  assum es  the  p artn ersh ip   w ith  E .  J. 
Sberwin.  Mr.  V an  Y antzen  becom es 
Secretary.

the 

Dorr—W hile  m any  of  the co-operative 
in  M ichigan 
cream ery  establishm ents 
finacially  unprofitable  the 
have  proved 
th is  place 
past  year,  the  cream ery  a t 
its 
m ade  extensive 
plant 
the  past  season  and  declared  a 
cash  dividend  of  15  per  cent,  to  the 
fortunate  farm ers  who  conduct 
in­
stitution.

im provem ents 

the 

to 

D etroit—A rticles  of  association  of  the 
Watson  M achine  and  N ovelty  W orks 
have  been  filed  w ith  the  County  Clerk. 
The  purpose  outlined  is the m anufactur­
ing  and 
jobbing  of  all  kin d s  of  m etal 
work.  .  T he  ca p ita l  stock  is  $6, 000,  all 
paid  in.  T he  organizers  are  Nelson  H. 
Watson,  270  sh a re s;  G eorge  N.  Brady, 
90  shares,  and  R.  M cCleland  Brady, 
240  shares.

is  paid 

D etroit—Schw anbeck  Bros,  have  filed 
aiticles  of  association  w ith  the  County 
Clerk.  T he  object 
is  the  m anufacture 
and  sale  of  m oldings,  p ictu re  fram es, 
easels,  show  cases  and  sim ilar  articles. 
The  capiatl  stock  is  $ 50,000,  of  w hich 
$34,000 
in.  T he  stockholders 
are  G ustave  A.  Schw anbeck,  Wm.  H. 
Schwanbeck 
and  L ouis  H .  Schw an­
beck,  800  shares  each ;  H enry  E.  Beer- 
ling,  600  shares,  and  G uy  C.  Sm ith, 
400  shares.
List  o f  C re d ito rs  o f  M.  K elley  &  C o.
L.  M.  H artw ick,  assignee  for  M. 
K elley  &  Co.,  dealers  in  clothing  and 
m en’s  furnishing  goods  at  H art  and 
the  T radesm an  w ith  a 
Shelby,  favors 
the  creditors,  show ing  the 
schedule  of 
total  lia b ilitie s  to  be  $4, 561. 54,  d ivided 
am ong  forty  creditors 
in  the  am ounts 
set  opposite  th e ir  nam es:
Holzman Bros., New York,............................$  4  5°
Rochester Neckwear Co , Rochester.............   8  75
Roberts, Butler & Co.,  Utica  ...................... 134 00
Desbecker, Wei.I & Co.,  Buffalo....................  953 00
Lyke & Bishop. Glov^rsville  . 
.................»05 00
Mason, Campbell & Co , Johnstown..............  18  60
Lamkin & Foster, Boston..............................200 00
Friend & Marks. Milwaukee........... .. 
24 00
Komadka Bros , Milwaukee. 
  ...................  13  12
Racin'- Shoe Co.. Racine 
..........................   3 00
LaCrosse Knitting Works, LaCrosse.............. 
2  50
Sprague Umbrella Co.. Norwalk...................  n   55
Goshen Shirt Manufacturing Co., Goshen......  18 00
A. C. Staley Manufacturing Co., South Bend..  119 09
Grossman, Michealsohn & Co.,  Chicago........  12 00
K  G- Sterns & Co , t hicago.........................   n   00
J  L. Gatzert & Co , Chicago.........................  16 50
Illinois Rubber Co.,  Chicago.........................  21  21
Woolley & Co.,  Chicago 
.........................  132  58
Conyne Manufacturing  Co., Chicago.............  6 63
C. G. Leopold, Chicago.................................  6  55
Long ley, Low & Alexander, Chicago.............  48  83
Hart Bros , Cr icago......................................  32  75
Becker, Mayer & Co., Chicago 
................  710 47
Oceana County Saving Bank, Hart................45° 00
Citizens Exchange Bank, Hart......................  150 00
C. W. Slayton. H art....................................  580 00
Richardson Silk to., Belding.......................  
x  03
Reed City Robe Tannery, Reed City............   12  5°
Valley City Manufacturing Co., Saginaw, E. S.  57 00
100 00
Churchill & W ebber, Shelby 
The Nonpareil Manufacturing Co., Detroit...  37  00
Marvin M. Stanton,  Detroit........................  179 96
Walter Buhl & Co., Detroit............................  179 63
S. A. James & Co., Detroit............................  
it  02
Enterprise Neckwear Co., Grand Rapids.......  13  75
Wurzburg Jewelry Co., Grand  Rapids...........  11  10
Ideal Clothing Co., Grand Rapids................  70 02
Michigan Clothing Co.,  Ionia.  ................ 
72  25
Cooper, Wells & Co., St Joseph....................  22  65

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

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5

Grand  Rapids  Qossip
C.  B.  Metzger,  manufacturer  of  the 
Garland  bicycle,  will  open  a  display 
room  at 6  Canal  street  March  I.

Vandusen  &  Supernaw  will  shortly 
open  a  grocery  store  at  Norwood.  The 
Worden  Grocer  Co.  has  the  order  for 
the  stock.

G. 

D ’Ooge  has  opened  grocery  store 

at  the  conrer  of  Quimby  street  and 
Noith  avenue.  The  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

The  United  States  Cigar  Co.,  for­
merly  located  on  the  fifth  floor of  the 
Weatherly  &  Pulte  building,  has  re­
moved  to  the  third  floor  of  the  Leppig 
block,  54  Lyon  street.

Jacob  Datema,  formerly of  the  firm  of 
Hedges  &  Datema,  has  opened  a  dry 
goods  and  grocery  store  at  704  Madison 
avenue.  The  Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the  grocery  stock.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Values  remain  unchanged  but 
there  is an  element  of  uncertainty  as  to 
their  steadiness,  owing  to  the  position 
of  the  raw  article,  and  the  rather  re­
mote  prospect  of  a  sugar  war  induced 
by  the  roasted  coffee  fight.

Provisions—Peculiar  conditions  still 
prevail—weak  and  declining  hog  prod­
ucts  and  a  rising  market  for  live  hogs. 
Several  causes  have  contributed  to  the 
in  value,  and  these  are  the 
weakness 
general  depression  of  businesss, 
the 
mid  week  decline  in  wheat  and  heavy 
selling  by  English  houses.

Canned  Goods—The  market  is  rather 
quiet,  although  prices  are  well  main­
tained  throughout.  Tomatoes  are  still 
firm  at  the  full  price  but  offerings 
thereat  are  comparatively  scarce.  No 
advance  in  price  is  in  sight  at  present, 
although  the  trade  implictly  expect  it. 
Corn 
is  very  dull,  with  hardly  any  en­
quiry.  Holders  are  very  firm  in  their 
ideas,  however,  and  corn  is  almost  sure 
to  advance,  if  higher  prices  for  toma­
toes  materialize,  as  it  usually  advances 
in  sympathy  with  the  latter.  Besides 
this,  the  statistical  position  of  corn 
would  constitute  a  good  reason  for an 
advance.  Peas  are  quiet,  without  any 
is  un­
enquiry  to  note.  The  price 
changed,  and  there 
immediate 
prospect  of  fluctuation.

is  no 

Rice—The  situation 

is  strong,  as 
stocks  throughout  the  country  are  light 
and  the  forward  supply  short  of  any 
year  in  the  last  decade.  Advices  from 
the  South  note  free  movement  at  all 
points  along  the  Atlantic  Coast,  with 
prices 
In  New 
Orleans  the  apparent  volume  is  among 
the  largest  the  present  season,  due  to 
speculative  transaction  outside  of  reg­
ular  demand.  Foreign  styles  are  firmly 
held,  as there is sharp movement abroad, 
and  every 
indication  points  toward 
higher  prices.

firmly  manitained. 

Dried  Fruits—The  demand  is  grad­
ually  increasing  and  a  good spring trade 
is  anticipated.  Prunes  are  seling  rather 
better  than  they  have  been,  but  there  is 
still  considerable  room  for 
improve­
ment.  Low  prices  are  the  cause.  No 
lower  prices  are  expected  on  prunes, 
and  the  probability  is  that  the  opening 
spring  trade  may  bring  a  slight  ad­
vance.  Peaches  are  very  firm  and  me­
dium  grades  are  in  fair demand.  Fancy 
grades,  which  constitute  the  bulk  of  the 
supply  iq  this  city,  are  not  so  well  en­
quired  for.  Prices  on  all  grades  of 
peaches,  however,  are  well  maintained 
and  a  better  business all  around 
is  ex­

pected,  with  probable  higher  prices. 
Currants  are  rather quiet  on  the  basis of 
lower quotations.  Raisins have  not  been 
selling  so  well,  although  prices  are  just 
as  firm,  if  not  firmer.  Stocks are  being 
reduced  gradually.

Molasses--The  price 

is  unchanged, 
with  no probability of fluctuation.  There 
is  a  good  supply  of  all  grades,  except 
fancy  open  kettles,  which  are  out  of  the 
market.  The  supply  of  poor  molasses 
is  very  large  and  will  probably  prevent 
any  chance  of  higher  prices.
The  Grain  Market.

The  past  week  has  been  one  of  con­
tinual  drooping 
in  the  wheat  market. 
The  decline  during  the  month  was  fully 
ioc  per  bushel.  To-day  there  was  a 
plump  drop  of  2c  per  bushel  on  both 
cash  and  futures,  which  was  caused  by 
the  report  that  wheat  had  declined 
id 
in  Liverpool.  When  the  visible  came 
in,  showing  a  decrease  of  1,700,000 
bushels,  prices  reacted 
in 
former  years,  with  the  present  condi­
tion  of  things,  an  advance  of  fully  3c 
would  have  been  in  order.

ic,  while 

is 

is,  there 

less  than 

Our  visible 

is  49,500,000  bushels, 
which 
it  has  been  at  any 
time  since  1892.  While  cash  wheat 
dropped  to  84^0 
in  Detroit,  Grand 
Rapids  millers  paid  80c.  The  long-an­
ticipated  good  sleighing  is  here,  but 
it 
does  not  bring  as  good  wheat  movement 
as  was  expected.  The  dollar  wheat  that 
has  been  looked  for  seems  to  be  farther 
off  than  ever,  notwithstanding  the  scar­
city  of  the  article. 
It  is  unnecessary  to 
go  into  the  details  of  this  matter.  The 
fact 
is  no  wheat  in  farmers’ 
hands. 
If  there  was,  at  least  some  of 
them  would  sell.  There  seems  to  be  no 
demand  for  flour,  even  with  the  de­
pressed  price  of  wheat.  A  few of  the 
older heads  buy  a  very  little,  but proph­
esy  lower  prices.  They  may  come  but 
our  honest  opinion  is,  that  we  will  see 
higher  prices,  although  there  seems  to 
be  antipathy  at  present  against  any 
higher  prices.  With  our  receipts  of 
winter  wheat  only  about  one-quarter 
what  they  were  during  the  correspond­
ing  week 
last  year,  and  with  good  ex 
port  demands,  we  cannot  see  what  will 
make  prices  go  lower.  But  when  an 
article  is  so  cheap  that  it  has  to  go beg­
ging,  the  price  will  surely  decline.

Corn  and  oats  are  hardly  worth  men­
tioning,  as  the  trade  is  only  normal  and 
prices  are  very  low,  with  no  signs  of 
recuperating.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were: 
wheat,  24  cars;  oats,  6  cars—a  very 
small  amount.  This  goes  to  show  that 
wheat 
is  not  very  plenty.  Millers  are 
paying  80c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o igt.

Purely  Personal.

Wm.  E.  Elliott,  Manager  of  the  El­
liott  Button  Fastener  Co.,  is  away  on  a 
fortnight’s  trip  to  the  jobbing  centers 
of  the  West  and  South.

Byron  J.  Robertson, 

the  all-round 
hustler  of  Breedsville,  in  company  with 
his  wife  and  daughter,  Fern,  will  spend 
the  next  two  months  in  Florida, 
in 
search  of  health  and  recreation.

Frank  A.  Rockafellow,  President  of 
the  Rockafellow  Mercantile  Co.,  at 
Carson  City,  was  married  Jan. 
14  to 
Miss  Altha  Vallian,  of  Lockport,  N.  Y. 
The  Tradesman  extends  congratula­
tions.

It  has  been  estimated  that  1,250,000 
pounds  of  wool  was  clipped  from  the 
250,000 sheep  in  Alabama  last  year.

No  advance  on  Gillies  New  York  teas 

Phone  Visner,  1589.

Meeting  of the  Grand  Rapids  Retail 

Grocers’  Association.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  on  Tues­
day  evening,  Feb.  2,  Vice-President 
Merrill  presided.

A.  W.  Rush  &  Co.,  grocers  at  217 
East  Bridge  street,  applied for member­
ship 
in  the  organization  and  were  ac­
cepted.

Secretary  Klap  read  the  following  let­
ter  from  the  Secretary  of  the  Detroit 
Retail  Grocers  and  Butchers’  Protective 
Association :
At  the  last  meeting  of  our  Associa­
tion,  the  Kendall  Manufacturing  Co. 
received  some  attention.  Our  members 
do  not  approve  of  the  methods  em­
ployed  by  this  house,  and  it  is  our 
in­
tention  to  “ get  after”   the  corporation.
I  have  been  instructed  to  write  you 
in 
connection  with  this  matter  to  find  out 
how  you  conducted  your  crusade against 
this  house  and  the  result  of  same.

We  are  preparing  a  bill  to  present  to 
the  Legislature  to  amend  the  wage  ex­
emption  law  and  will  have  copies  out 
in  the  course  of  a  few  days,  when  I  will 
send  you  full  details.

We  meet  again  next  Wednesday  and 
would  be  pleased  to  receive  your  reply 
in  regard  to  the  Kendall  Co.  to  present 
to  our  members  at  that  time.

Secretary  Klap  was  insttucted to reply 

to  this  communication  as  follows:

Nearly  eighteen  months  ago  our  As­
sociation  passed  resolutions  discourag­
ing  the  sale  of  Soapine  by  the  retail 
grocers  of  this  city,  no  doubt  for  the 
same  reason  your  Association 
is  dis­
cussing  the  matter;  and  while  there  are 
still  a  number  selling  the  article  at  the 
present  time  lowing  to  the  false  prom­
ises  of  their  agents,  made  at  different 
times  since  the  adoption  of  the  above 
resolution,  to  discontinue  their  unbusi­
nesslike  methods  of  disposing  of  their 
goods),  we  are  all  of  the  opinion  that 
the  resolution  is  the  only  way  in  which 
the  Kendall  Manufacturing  Co.  can  be 
“ brought  to  time.’ ’  We  are  pleased  to 
note  your activity  in  the  premises  and 
hope  your  crusade  will  result  favorably 
to  the  retail  grocers of  your  city.

Allow  me  to  thank  you  in  advance  for 
a  copy  of  the  proposed  bill  you 
intend 
having  introduced  at  the  present session 
of  the  Legislature  in  regard  to  the  ex­
emption  law.

B.  S.  Harris  stated  that  he  no longer 

has  any  calls  for  Soapine  at  his  store.

A.  Brink  stated  that  he  had  sold  very- 
little  of  the  article,  on  account  of  the 
great  number  of  competing  articles  in 
the  field.  He  said  he  took  hold  of  it  a 
second  time  because  the  agent  assured 
him  that  the  difficulty  between  his  com­
pany  and  the  Association  had  been  ad­
justed.
Mr.  Harris  stated  that  the  agent  told 
him  the  same  story,  but  that  he  would 
not  accept  the  sale  of  the  article  with 
out  better  authority.  He  subsequently 
learned  that  the  agent’s  assertion  was  a 
misstatement.
Secretary  Klap  reported  that  he  had 
consulted  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  in 
regard  to  the  Sunday  closing  move­
ment,  with  the  result  that  several  of 
the  grocers  who  had  been  in  the  habit 
of  keeping  open  on Sunday had received 
letters  from  the  Prosecuting  Attorney, 
warning  them  to  close  their doors  on 
that  day.

A.  W.  Rush  suggested  the  enactment 
of  a  city  ordinance  in  regard  to  Sunday 
closing,  covering  the  same  as  the  State 
law,  on  the  ground  that  prosecutions 
under  the  State  law  would  engender  an­
tagonisms  and  bring  stigma  on  the  or­
ganization,  whereas  a 
local  ordinance 
would  be  enforced  by  the  police  de­
partment.
Messrs.  Rush,  Brink  and  Harris  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  take  the  mat­
ter  under  consideration  and  act  in  pur­
suance  of  their best  judgment.

Secretary  Klap  stated  that  he  would 
start  out  next  Monday  on  his  annual 
calling  trip  among  the  trade.
Mr.  Brink  called  attention  to  the 
fact  that  the  local  oil  companies  were 
selling  oil  at  retail  nearly  as  cheaply  as 
at  wholesale.

Mr.  Rush  gave  the  members  present 
a  good  talk  on  the oil question  and  ad­

vocated  making  the  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  the  liveliest  organization  in 
the  city.

There  being  no  further business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

Come  One,  Come  All.

From  present 

indications,  the  con­
vention  of  the  Michigan  Retail Grocers’ 
Association,  which  will  be  held  in  this 
city  February  24  and  25,  will  be  the 
most  largely  attended  of  any  meeting 
ever  held  by  the  organization.  The  en­
tire  program  is  not  yet  completed,  but 
a  number  of  assignments  have  been 
made  as  follows :

forced” — Hon.  E.  N.  Bates,  Moline.

“ How  the  food 
laws  should  be  en­
“  The  exemption  laws  again"— Rob­

ert  Johnson,  Cadillac.

“ Co-operative  buying  among  gro­

cers"— N.  H.  Beebe,  Big  Rapids.

"M y  experience  in  shipping  produce 
outside  of  M ichigan"— E.  Ë.  Hewitt, 
Rockford.

“ Is  the  basket  branding  law  enacted 
by  the  Legislature  a  desirable  one"— 
John  W.  Densmore,  Reed  City.

“ What  effect  has  the  sale of  butterine 
on  the  price  of  dairy  butter"—J.  Ma­
son,  Clare.

“ Retail  grocers’  associations;  their 
objects  and  benefits"— W.  H.  Porter, 
Jackson.

“ Reasons  for  the  January  slump  in 

eggs” — M.  R.  Alden,  Grand  Rapids.

“ The  peddling  manufacturers"— E. 
Marks,  Secretary  Detroit  Retail  Gro­
cers  and  Butchers’  Protective  Associa­
tion.

“ The  retail  grocer"— W.  H.  Porter, 

Jackson.

It  was  proposed  to  hold  business  ses­
sions  Wednesday  forenoon  and  after­
noon  and  a  banquet  Wednesday  even­
ing.  Additional  business  sessions  will 
be  held  Thursday  forenoon  and  after­
noon.

Every  retail  grocer  in  Michigan  is 
cordially  invited  to  attend  the  conven­
tion,  as  matters  of  paramount  interest 
to  the  trade  will  be  presented  for  dis­
cussion  and  action.
Excellent  Showing  Made  by the  Grand 

Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Co.

in 

its  office 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  stockhold­
ers  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Fire  Insurance 
Company  was  held 
last 
Wednesday ;  2,918  out  of  4.000  shares  of 
capital  stock  were  represented  The 
following  Directors  were  elected :  A 
V.  Mann,  Muskegon;  C.  T.  Hilis, 
Muskegon ;  George  W.  Gay,  D.  M. 
Amherg  and  O.  F.  Conklin.  W.  Fred 
McBain  and  Charles  H.  Hackley  were 
elected  to  fill  vacancies  of  A.  J.  Bowne 
and  A.  V.  Pantlind.  The  officers  were 
re-elected  as  follows :  President,  J.  W. 
Champlin;  Vice-President.  George  W. 
Gay;  Treasurer,  William  H.  Anderson; 
Secretary,  W.  Fred  McBain ;  Assistant 
Secretary,  Henry  L.  Bogue.  The  fol­
lowing  were  elected  members  of  the 
Executive  Committee :  William  H.  An­
derson,  chairman ;  George  W.  Gay, 
Edward  Lowe,  O.  F.  Conklin,  J.  W. 
Champlin.  The  company  paid  a  semi­
annual  dividend  of  3  per  cent,  on  the 
capital  stock. 
Its  statement  shows  a 
large  increase  in  assets,  surplus  and  re­
insurance  reserve. 
its 
premium  income  was  over  $100,000,  do­
ing  the  largest  business  in  its  own State 
of  any  Michigan  company.  The  com­
pany  operates 
in  thirteen  states  and 
has  just  added  the  States  of  Massa­
chusetts  and  Pennsylvania. 
It  has  over 
500 agents  reporting  direct  to  the  home 
office. 
In  the  year  1896 it  sustained  692 
losses  and  paid  $157,394.12. 
It  has 
paid  since  organization  $1,008,029.11  in 
losses  without  any  litigation.

In  Michigan 

Keep 

insured.  No  merchant  can 
afford  to  risk  his  capital,  credit or stock 
without  being  fully  covered.  Lack  of 
proper  insurance  will injure your credit. 
Keep  insured.

We  never  realize  how  much  we  are 
test 

capable,  of  enduring  until 
comes. ”

the 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

AS  T O   PROSPERITY.

An  esteemed  friend of the Tradesman, 
who  gives  some  consideration  to  eco­
nomics, is very much puzzled at the  prob­
lem  which  confronts  him 
in  the  lack 
of  general  prosperity  existing  at  this 
time.

His  proposition  may  be  thus  stated : 
A  year  or  so  ago,  when  heavy  ship­
ments  cf  goods  were  being  made  from 
the  United  States  to  Europe,  the  fact 
was  accounted  for by  the  statement  that 
the  people  of  the  United  States  owed 
abroad  more  money  than  their  exports 
of  produce  could  pay  for,  and,  there­
fore,  gold  had  to  be  shipped  to  pay  the 
difference.  As a  serious  industrial  and 
financial  stagnation  was  pressing  upon 
the  people  of  this  country,  the  exporta 
tion  of  gold  was  associated  with  the 
general  depression  and  was  assigned  as 
one  of  the  causes  of  it.

Now,  the  exportation  of  American 
products  has  assumed  immense  propor­
tions,  so that  not  only  do  they  serve  t< 
pay  all  debts  due  abroad,  but  the\ 
create  a  large  balance  in  favor of  the 
United  States,  and,  as  a  result,  there  is 
no  more  exporting  of  gold  to  Europe: 
but,  on  the  contrary,  Europe  is  sending 
gold  to  this  country  to  pay  debts.  Here 
is  a  condition  of  foreign  trade  radicalh 
different  from  what  it  was  a  year  ago : 
but  still  there 
is  no  great  revival  of 
prosperity,  and  this  is  what  puzzles  the 
gentleman  referred  to above.

The  trouble  with  the  questioner  is 
that  be  takes  a  superficial  and  limiter 
view  of  a  broad  and  extended  subject. 
It  will  be  in  order to enquire:  What  is 
prosperity? 
It  is  upon  a  proper  under­
standing  of  the  matter  that  any  usefu> 
consideration  of  so  important  a  subject 
must  be  based.

The  notions  of  what  prosperity  is  ar* 
widely  different  if  they be  regarded onh 
from  the  standpoint  of  each  individual. 
If  a  man  had  the  only  bakery,  or  bar 
room,  or  grocery,  or  dry  goods  store,  ii 
a  particular  community,  and  was ahl< 
to  monopolize  all  the  trade  in  his  line, 
he  would  consider  himself  as  special!' 
prosperous  and  times  as  very  good ;  but 
the  majority  of  the  people  in  that  com 
mumty  might  consider  times  extreme!) 
bad  and  themselves  entirely  “ out  ol 
luck  ”   From  this  it  will  be  seen  that 
much  depends on  the  point  of  view. 
Ii 
is  plain,  then,  that,  in  defining prosper 
ity,  a  broad  and  general,  and  not  a  per 
sonal  and  narrow,  view  must  be  taken 
of  the  conditions  required  to  produce it
Some  further  illustration  of  this  will 
be  useful.  The  first  note  of  dissatis­
faction  and  cry  of  hard  times  came 
from  the  farmers  of  the  United  States, 
and  it  was  heard  iong  before  the  finan­
cial  panic  of  1893.  The  Western  farm­
ers  complained  of  the  low  prices  of 
their  grain,  while  the  Southern  farmers 
were  intensely  dissatisfied  with  the  low 
prices  of  their  cotton.  The  former  were 
constantly  talking  about  the  good  times 
when  wheat  was  worth  a  dollar a bushel, 
while  the  latter  lamented  the  change  of 
circumstances  which  had  brought cotton 
down  from  12 and  10  cents  a  pound  to 
6 and  5  cents.  But,  in  the  meantime, 
for  years,  up  to  the  panic  of  1893,  busi­
ness  of  every  sort  had  been  very  active; 
factories  of  every  description  were  in 
full  operation ;  the  railways  were  taxed 
to  their  capacity  in  transporting  mer­
chandise  and  passengers,  and  new  rail­
way  lines  were  being  built  at  the  rate 
of  4,000 and  5,000  miles  a  year,  and 
in 
1887  the  new  mileage  for  the  year  was 
near  13,000.

These  were  good  times  for  everybody 
except  the  farmers.  The  masses of  the

people  were  at  work  earning fair wages, 
while  the  prices  of  food  and  all  other 
necessaries  were  lower  than  had ever 
I before been known.  Money  was being 
actively  employed 
in  investments  and 
enterprises  of  every  sort,  and  finally, 
about  a  year  before  the  hreak  up  of 
1893,  speculation  of  the  wildest  sort  be­
came  rife  throughout  the  country.

From  this  brief  recital  of  facts,  well 
known  to  all  who  have given  proper  at­
tention  to  the  subject,  it  will  be  seen 
that  there  is  no  such  thing  as  universal 
prosperity,  because  the  very  conditions 
which  bring  advantages  and  benefits  to 
some  operate at  the  expense  of  others, 
and,  while  the  masses  of  the  people 
were  enjoying  cheap  food  and  clothing, 
they  wrre doing  so  at  the  expense  of the 
farmers,  who  were  lamenting  the  low 
prices  of  their  products.  Suppose  flour 
were  Sio  a  barrel,  calicoes  15  cents  a 
vard,  and  sheeting  and  shirting  at  from 
;o  cents  to  a  dollar.  The farmer  would 
he  rolling  in  luxury,  while  the  work­
people  would  have to stint themselves in 
bread  and  clothes.

The  impossibility  of  ever establishing 
my  commercial  and 
industrial  condi­
tions  which  will  make  everybody  rich 
ind  prosperous  has induced many think­
ers  to  adopt  socialistic  notions  in  which 
they  dream  of  a  paternal  government 
which  will  take  from  the  rich  to give  to 
the  poor  and  keep  up  a  constant  and 
systematic  distribution  of  benefits  to the 
entire  population—an  utterly 
impracti­
cable scheme.

labor  at 

in  productive 

To  come  back  to  a  reasonable  and 
practical  definition  of  prosperity, 
it 
means  that condition  of  affairs  in  which 
the  entire  able-bodied  population  is  en­
gaged 
fair 
wages.  When  this  shall  be  realized, 
(here  will  be  a  general  activity  in  busi- 
iess,  with  money 
liberally  invested  in 
the  development  of the  natural resources 
’f  the  country,  including  the  building 
if  railroads.  Of  course,  there  will  be 
nany  persons  who  are  dissatisfied;  but 
hat  will  be  the  onlv  general  prosperity 
•hat  will  he  possible  in  this  world.

The  question  of  exports  and 

imports 
comes 
in  as  a  side  issue.  There  is 
nothing  specially  important  in  itself  as 
o  which  way  stands  the  balance  of 
•rade.  Everything  depends  on  circum- 
tances.  When  the  United  States  was 
shipping 
large  amounts  of  gold  to 
Europe,  it  was  because  widespread  dis­
trust  bad  been  created  concerning  the 
American  money  standard,  and  there 
was  a  general  apprehension  that  Amer­
ican  securities  and  obligations,  public 
and  private,  might  be  paid  in  depre­
ciated  dollars;  therefore,  such securities 
were  sent  back 
in  great  numbers  and 
forced  on  the  markets.  Foreign  invest­
ments  were  closed  out, 
too,  and  the 
money  carried  abroad.  For  this  reason 
the  exports  could  not  pay  the  debts  due 
abroad,  and  gold  had  to  be  sent  out  to 
settle  the  accounts.  This  adverse  bal­
ance  of  trade  was  not  the  cause  of  the 
financial  panic  in  this  country,  but  one 
of  the  injurious  results  of  it.

leave  a 

Now  that  the  exports  from  the  United 
States  greatly  outvalue  the  imports from 
foreign  countries,  and 
large 
balance  in  favor of  the  United  States, 
it,  that 
so  lhat  gold  has  to  come  to  pay 
does  not  mean  that  prosperity 
is  re­
stored.  It  does  mean,  however,  that  the 
rigid  economy  to  which  the  American 
people  have  been  driven  by  the  hard 
times  has  compelled  them  to  stop  buy­
ing  abroad,  and  has  forced  them  also  to 
buy  as  little  as  possible  at  home,  and 
so debts  have been  paid,  the  bankrupt

concerns  have  dropped  out,  and  many 
old  scores  have  been  settled.

This  does  not  mean that  prosperity 
has  been  restored,  but  that  business 
has  settled  down  to  bed  rock,  and  is 
ready  for  a  fresh  start  upwards.  That 
is  the  whole  of  the  matter. 
It  means 
that  times  are going  to get  better,  and 
that  the  movement  will  be  henceforth 
upwards.

To  come  back  to  imports and exports, 
it  makes  no  difference  to  a  man’s  pros­
perity  how  much  he  buys,  provided  he 
is  able  to  afford  the  expense;  but  it 
makes  a  difference  to  other  people,  be­
cause  so  much  more  money  is  put  in 
circulation  and  so  much  more  of  the 
products  of  labor  are  consumed,  all  of 
which  helps  to  general prosperity.  The 
miser  who  hides  away  his  money  is  all 
the  time  getting  richer,  but  he  is  an 
enemy  to  general  prosperity.  To  se­
cure  prosperity  for  the  greatest  num 
hers,  the  people  must  be  put  to  work  at 
producing  wealth  for  general  circula 
tion  and  consumption.  The  moving 
force  in  all  this  is confidence,  which 
induces  the capitalist  to  risk  his  money 
in  the  various 
industries  and  enter­
prises,  and  he  will  only  do  so  when  he 
believes  that  he  will  have  due  security 
for  his  investment  and  a  good  prospect 
of  making a  fair  profit  on  it.

Influence  of the  Working  Woman.
The  question  of  the  working  woman 
is  one  on  which  there  is  bound  to  be  a 
diversity  of  opinion. 
The  political 
economist,  with  an  ample  income  of  his 
own,  looking  at  the  subject  ftom  an 
impersonal  point  of  view,  is  apt  to  say 
that  women  have  lowered  wages,  and 
that 
in  communities  where  women  are 
the  bread-winners—as  in  places  where 
women  work 
in  mills  and  factories— 
the  men  belonging  to  them  are  noto­
riously  shiftless  and  worthless.  Re­
lieved  of  the  support  of  their  families, 
men  have  less  incentive  to  labor.

On  the  other  hand,  the  working  worn 
an,  looking  at  the  question  from  the 
intensely  personal  standpoint  of her own 
experience,  will  say  that  the  opening  ol 
almost  every  occupation  to  woman  has 
lone  nothing  but  good ; 
that  the  wom­
an  who ate  the  bitter bread  of  depend 
in  other  days,  who  was  half 
ence 
starved,  illy  clad, 
is  now  as  free  to 
make  a 
living  as  any  man,  and  her 
achievements  and  earnings  are  only 
measured  by  her own  abilities.

Aside  from  this  view  of  the  subject  it 
is  interesting  to  note  the 
influence  the 
working  woman  has  had  upon  the  rest 
of  the  world  of  women.  It  has  been  like 
a  pebble  cast  into  a  pool,  whose  ripples 
nave  spread 
in  every  direction  until 
they  have  reached  even  the  women  ol 
fashion  who  stand  upon  the 
further 
shore.  No one  can  doubt  that  she  has 
dignified  labor.  Almost  every  family, 
from  the  highest  to  the 
lowest,  has 
some  woman  in  it  who  has,  either  from 
choice  or  the  force  of  circumstances, 
become  a  working  woman.  The  ex­
ample  of  so  many  women  so occupied 
with  the  practical  affairs of life has been 
contagious.  It  has  deepened  and  broad­
ened  the  purposes and  aims  of  all  wom­
ankind.  There  are  few  even  of  the  fa­
vored  daughters  of  fortune  who  have 
neither  to  toil  nor spin,  who  have  not 
some  serious 
interest  in  either  club  or 
study  or  philanthropy  with  which  they 
concern  themselves.

Another  result of  the  advent of women 
in  the  working  world  has  been  to  teach 
them  the  advantage of  punctuality  and 
the  value  of  time.  The average  woman 
i®  a  spendthrift  of  her  own  and  other

It 

people's  days. 
is  a  continual  sur­
prise  to  her  through  life  that  the  trains 
won’t  wait  for her and  that  the  theaters 
do  not  defer  their  performance  until
she  gets  her  hat  on.  The  first  sharp 
lesson  the  business  woman  gets 
is  that 
things  must  be  done  on  time;  that noth­
ing  can  be  put  off,  and  this 
invaluable 
bit  of  experience  she  passes  on  to  her 
sisters  at  home.

Not  the  least  in  importance  is the fact 
that  through  the  business  women  other 
women  are  coming  to  understand  more 
about  the  value  of  money. 
It  has  al­
ways  been  one  of  the  most  cherished 
masculine  theories  that  women  were en­
tirely  incapable  of  understanding  any­
thing  about  finance.  A  father  who  had 
to 
hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
leave  his  daughters  would 
let  them 
in  such  absolute  ignorance  of 
grow  up 
such  matters  that  when  they  came 
into 
possession  of  their  fortunes  they  did  not 
know  whereabouts  on  a  check  to  sign 
their  names.  A  man  harassed with busi­
ness  losses  will  let  his  wife  go  on  igno­
rantly  spending  money  and  making 
bills  he  cannot  pay.  The result  has been 
that  women  have  been  the  victims  of all 
sorts  of  dishonest  men,  who have robbed 
»hem  of  their  money  because  they  had 
not  been  taught  to  take  care  of  it.  The 
business  woman  knows  better,  and  it  is 
largely  through  her  influence  that  it  has 
come  to  be  looked  upon  as  silly,  not 
interesting,  for  a  woman  not  to  under­
stand  the  rudiments,  at  least,  of  finan­
cial  transactions. 
In  New  York  one  of 
the  fads  of  the  winter  among  fashion­
able  women  is  belonging  to  book-keep­
ing  classes.

Taking  it  all  in  all,  the 

influence  of 
the  working  women  has  been wholesome 
and  salutary.  She  has  her  faults,  as 
who  has  not?  But  she  has  brought  the 
genius  of  common  sense  and  practical­
ity  into  a  sphere  that  is  only  too  prone 
to  sentimentality,  and  for  that  alone  the 
world  owes  her  much.

Minuteness  of Railroad  Book-Keeping.
Few  persons  outside  of  the  offices  of 
great  corporations  know  anything  of  the 
care  and  minuteness  with  which  the 
systems  of  accounts  keep  track-of  every 
detail  of  operation.  The  character  of 
these  accounts  was  illustrated  the  other 
day  by  an  anecdote  told  by  an  ex-divi­
sion  superintendent  of  the  Pennsylvania 
railroad  regarding  an  item  of  two cents. 
Some  one  had  told  of  an  outlay  of some­
thing  like $100  in  clerk  hire  and  other 
expenses  made  by  the  United  States 
Government  in  collecting  and  account­
ing  for  a  sum  of  one  cent,  which  had  to 
be  covered  into  the  Treasury  in  order to 
make  a  clean  balance  sheet.  Then  the 
railroad  man  spoke  up.

freight  which 

“ I  had  an  experience  somewhat  sim­
ilar,’ ’  he  said,  “ when  I  was  clerk  of 
the  shops  on  the  division  where  I  was 
afterward 
in  charge.  We  were  about 
halfway  from  Philadelphia to  Pittsburg 
and  we  had  to  have  a  whisky  jack  sent 
from  Harrisburg  to  our  shops.  At  the 
rates  of 
the  railroad 
charged  itself  for  material  transported  I 
figured  that  we  owed  the  main  line  two 
cents  upon  that  whisky  jack  and  sent 
in  a  report,  which  made  it  possible  for 
the  other division to  collect  that  amount 
from  ours.  That  amount  had  to  be  en­
tered  in  a  number  of  books beyond ours, 
but 
it  became  a  matter  upon 
which  some  very  intricate  figuring  bad 
to  be  done.  Every  general  item  of  shop 
expense  had  to  be  apportioned  to  eigh­
teen  different  accounts,  in  accordance 
with  a  system  of  percentages  which  had 
been  adopted,  and  no  two  accounts 
were  of  the  same  value.  Therefore, 
when  I  paid  out  that  two  cents  I  had  to 
divide 
into  eighteen  unequal 
parts,  and  charge  it  up  to  the  eighteen 
different  accounts.’ ’

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

WEDNESDAY,------ FEBRUARY  3,  1897.

Rev.  Dr.  Rainsford, 

TH E  GOOD  OF  EXTRAVAGANCE.
rector  of  St 
George’s  church,  in  Rutherford  Place, 
New  York,makes  public  protest  againsi 
what  he terms  “ ostentatious  displays  ol 
wealth.”   He thinks  such  displays  “ can 
but  seem  reckless  extravagance  to  the 
great  mass of  people,”   and  is  “ injudi­
cious  at  a  time  when  the  lines  between 
the  rich  and  poor are  so tightly drawn. ”  
Says  Dr.  Rainsford:

Never  were  the  lines between  the  two 
classes—those  who  have  wealth  and 
those  who  envy  them—more  distinctly 
drawn. 
It  is  my  opinion  and  the  opin­
ion  of  many  persons  I  have  talked  with 
that  ostentatious  affairs  such  as  this 
serve  to accentuate existing social differ­
ences. 
They  draw  attention  to  the 
widening  chasm  between  the  two classes 
I  have mentioned,  and should,  therefore, 
be  discouraged. 
affurs  giv» 
demagogues  excuse 
for  attacking  th» 
East,  and  furnish  texts  for  homilies  oi 
the heartless  extravagance of  the wealthv 
in  the  face  of  poverty  and  destitution

Such 

The  particular  display  which  calls 
out  the  reverend  gentleman’s  protest 
is 
a  projected  costume  ball,  to  be  givei 
Feb.  io  by  the  Bradley-Maitins,  at  a 
Fifth  avenue  hotel.  The  rector  admits 
that  he  has advised  members  of his con­
gregation  not  to  accept  invitations  to 
this  ball,  and  to  use  their  influence  in 
their  social  set  to  discourage  extrava­
gance.

In 

Dr.  Rainsford’s  church  is  one  of  the 
most  fashionable  in  New  York. 
its 
congregation  are  many  rich  people.  J. 
Pierpont  Morgan 
is  one  of  its  vestry­
men.  General  Wager  Wayne,  Charles 
E.  Tracy  and  R.  Fulton  Cutting  are 
others.  Mr.  Morgan,  by  the  way,  last 
week  authorized  the  erection  of  a  build­
ing  for  a  charitable  purpose,  to  cost 
$1,000,000.  No  fault  is  found  with  him 
on  the  score  of  “ ostentatious  display  of 
wealth.”   He  is  commended,  instead, 
and  properly,  as  a  public  benefactor. 
The  million  dollars  which  are  to  be 
fashioned 
into  a  building  will,  in  the 
process  of  fashioning,  pay  wages  to 
quarrymen, 
teamsters, 
railroad  men  and  boatmen,  masons, 
carpenters,  decorators— woikmen  in  a 
hundred  branches  of  industry.

brickmakers, 

The  thousands  of  dollars  expended  by 
the  Bradley-Martins and  their guests for 
a  ball  perform  an 
immediate  service, 
so  far  as  they  go,  like  the  million  of 
Mr.  Morgan.  They  go  to  merchants,  to 
tailors,  to dressmakers,  to hairdressers, to 
musicians,  to florists. ,to  liverymen,  the j

harnessmaker,  the  blacksmith  and  the 
carriagemaker;  they  employ  man  ser­
vant  and  maid  servant;  they  help  to 
| keep  up  the  great  hotel  which,  without 
[ the  patronage  of  those  able  to  pay  for 
j  its  luxuries,  would  have  to  close  its 
doors,  throwing  hundreds out of employ- 
menL  The  luxuries,  the  extravagances, 
the  “ ostentatious  displays  of  wealth”  
put  money  into  circulation,  make  busi­
ness, 
in  many 
fields.

employment 

furnish 

When  the  late  William  H.  Vanderbilt 
in  Fifth  avenue  he 
built  bis  bouse 
wanted  a 
longer  and  broader  flagstone 
for  his  walk  than  was  trodden  upon  be­
fore any  other  house  in  the  metropolis. 
It  cost  him  $5,000  to  gratify  his  wish, 
every  dollar  of  which  was  distributed  to 
iabor,  to the  quarry  owner,  to  transpor­
tation.  He  might  have  covered 
the 
ground  with  ordinary  flagging  and  kept 
54,950  to  his  credit 
in  bank.  He  did 
oetter  by  his  fellow  men,  in  gratifying 
ms  “ extravagant”   desire.  The  Brad- 
ley-Martins  could  keep  their  money.  So 
could  the  rich  generally.  Trade  and 
iabor  would  be  the  sufferers.

laborers  employed 

“ The  poor  we  have  always  with  us;“  
they  would  be  poorer  if  those  who  have 
money  refrained  from  spending 
it  ex­
cept  as  the  necessities  of  frugal 
living 
required.  Luxuries  would  not  be  pro­
vided  if  nobody  indulged  in  them.  The 
great  army  of 
in 
their  production  would  be  out  of  work, 
forced 
into  other  channels  to  seek  a 
livelihood,  thus  swelling  the  roll  ol 
in  those  channels,  to  the  in­
workers 
creased  misery  of  all. 
It  is  not  neces­
sary  to  applaud  the  taste of  this  one  or 
that  in  the  method  selected  for  putting 
his  money  into  circulation.  But,  so  that 
his  method 
is  lawful  and  harmless,  he 
may  well  be  encouraged  in  its  pursuit. 
The  dude  who  sports  a  change of  cloth­
ing  for  every  day  in  the  year  is  doing 
something  for  the  wool-grower,the  man­
ufacturer,  the  merchant  and  the  tailor. 
Why  quarrel  with  him  in  the  one  mat­
ter  in  which  he  is  useful?

NATIONAL  bOARD  OF  TRADE.
One  of  the  most  significant  of  the 
recommendations  of  the  National  Board 
if  Trade,  at  its  recent  session  in  Wash- 
ngton,  was  the  adoption  of  a resolution 
presented  by  the  Baltimore  Chamber ol 
Jommerce  to  the  effect  that  the Govern 
ment  should  cease  the 
issue  of  paper 
currency  and  that  that  duty  should  de 
'olve  upon  the  National  banks. 
It  was 
also  recommended  that  these  banks 
should  be  allowed  to  issue  currency  to 
the  par  value  of  the  bonds,  that  the  tax 
on  circulation  be reduced ; also that such 
circulation  should  be  kept  under  Na­
tional  supervision,  and  that 
it  be  re­
deemable 
in  gold  at  the  bank  of  issue 
or  in  the  city  of  New  York.  There 
was  also  a  recommendation  that  such 
banks  of  issue,  with  a  capital  of $20,000 
or  more,  be authorized  to  be  established 
in  towns  and  villages  of  3,000  or  less 
population.

Another  suggestion  was  the  establish­
ment  of  a  National  clearing  house  for 
banks.  Another,  that  after July  1,  1898, 
no  notes  should  be  issued  by  National 
banks for less than $5.

A  declaration  was  adopted advocating 
the  policy  of  reciprocity  which  existed 
until  recently  with  Germany,  Spain, 
the  South  American  nations  and  other 
countries.  Another  that  the  interstate 
commerce  provisions  should  be  made 
more  effective.

The  establishment  of  a  Department 
of  Commerce  and  Manufactures  was 
urged ; also  that the long-pending Torrey 
bankruptcy bill  should  be  enacted  .into 
law.

THE  IM M IGRATION  BILL.

from 

somewhat 

The  immigration  bill,  as  agreed  upon 
by  the  Senate  and  House  conferees, 
the  original 
differs 
measure  passed  by  the  House. 
It  pro­
vides  for exclusion  from  the  country  of 
all  persons  over  16  years  of  age  who 
cannot  read  and  write  the  English  or 
some other  language;  but  a  person  over 
50  years old,  who  is  not  so  able  to  read 
and  write,  may  come  in  with  a qualified 
child  or  grandchild  who 
is  over  25, 
and  capable  of  supporting  him,  or  may 
be  sent  for  by  such  qualified  child  or 
grandchild.

in  various 

For  the  purpose  of  testing  the  ability 
of  an 
immigrant  to  read  and  write, 
inspection  officers  are  to  be  furnished 
with  copies  of  the  constitution  of  the 
United  States 
languages, 
printed 
in  double  small  pica  type,  on 
numbered  and  uniform pasteboard slips, 
each  containing  not  less  than  twenty, 
nor  more  than  twenty-five  words.  The 
slips  are  to be  kept  in  boxes,  a  box  for 
each  language,  so  constructed  as to  con­
ceal  them  from  view.  When  an 
immi­
grant  designates  the  language  in  which 
he  prefers  the  test  to  be  made,  he  shall 
draw  a  slip  from  the  box  containing 
that  language,  and  read  and  afterwards 
write out,  in  full  view  of  the  immigra­
tion  officers,  the  words  printed thereon 
After  each  test,  the  slip  drawn  shall  be 
returned  to  the  box  and  the  contents 
shall  be  shaken  up  before  another draw­
ing  is  made.

Every  immigrant  failing  to  read  and 
write  out  the  slip  he  draws  shall  be  re­
turned  to  the  country  whence  he  came, 
at  the  expense  of  the  transportation 
company  which  brought  him,  as  now 
provided  by  law.  The 
inspection  offi 
cers  shall  keep  a  certified  memorandum 
of  the  number of  the  slip  the immigrant 
failed  to  read  and  copy  out  in  writing. 
In  case  slips  are  not  at  band,  the  in­
spection  officers  shall  thoroughly test the 
ability  of  the 
immigrant  to  read  and 
write  some  language,  using  the  most 
appropriate  and  available  means  at 
their  command,  and  shall  state  fully,  in 
writing,  why  slips  were  lacking,  and 
describe  the  substitute  method  adopted

to 

become 

in  relation  to  contract 

To  the  educational  provisions  of  the 
considerable  has  been 
original  bill 
idded 
labor. 
Male  aliens  who  do  not  signify  their 
intention 
citizens  are 
barred  from  employment  on  Govern 
ment  works,  and  are  also  prohibited 
from  habitually  coming  to  this  country 
for  the  purpose  of  working  for  wages  or 
salary,  and  returning  from  time  to  time 
to a  foreign  country.  Employing  such 
persons  is  declared  to  be  unlawful,  ex­
ception  being  made  in  the  case  of  em­
ployes  of  transportation 
companies 
whose  boats  or  trains  pass  over  the 
frontiers. 
It  is  further  provided  that 
the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  may  per­
mit  aliens  to  enter this  country  for  the 
purpose  of  teaching  new arts  or  indus­
tries,  under  such  rules  and  regulations 
as  he  may  provide. 
It  is  also  provided 
that  none  of  the  provisions  of  the  act 
shall  apply  to  persons  arriving  in  the 
United  States  from  any  port  or  place  in 
Cuba,  during  the  continuance  of  the 
present disorders  there,  who  have  here­
tofore  been 
inhabitants  of  that  island. 
The  penalties  prescribed  for  violation 
of  the  act  are  fine  and 
imprisonment, 
as  well  as  deportation.

It  might  possibly  have been  as  well 
had  the  bill  been  confined  to  the  educa­
tional  test,  leaving  the  contract  features 
to  be  dealt  with  by  other  legislation. 
In  its  entirety,  however,  the  measure  is
nnp  tn 

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. 

—k®  approved.  An 

who  cannot  read  and  write  twenty words 
of  some  language  is  certainly  not  as  de­
sirable  material  for  citizenship  as  one 
who  can;  and an  alien  should  not  be  al­
lowed  persistently  to  divide  wages  with 
those  who  are  called  upon  to  bear  ex­
penses of  Government,  with  the  purpose 
of  taking  the  money  out  of  the  country. 
If  the  bill  becomes  a  law,  it  will  work 
no  hardship  to  desirable 
immigrants, 
while  it  will  shut  out  those  the  country 
can  easily  get  along  without.

the 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITU A TIO N .
While  much  disappointment 

is  ex­
pressed  as  to  the  downward  tendency  of 
prices  and 
lack  of  apparent  ad­
vance  in  activity  in  many  lines,  on  the 
part  of  those  of  speculative  tendencies 
or  who think  there  can  be  no  such thing 
as  returning  prosperity  without  a  boom, 
there  is  yet  a  decided  advance  for  the 
month  of  January 
in  general  industry 
and  trade.  This  has  been  especially 
apparent  in  the  great  number of  resum­
ing  enterprises  in  all  parts  of  the  coun­
try,  compared  to  the  small  number 
which  have  suspended.  According  to 
R.  G.  Dun  &  Co. ’s  report,  during  last 
week  ten 
iron  works  started  and  only 
two  stopped,  while in  the  woolen  indus­
try  thirteen  started  and  nine  are  about 
ready  to  start,  while  only  three  have 
stopped,  and  the  same  state  of  affairs  is 
reported  in  other  industries. 
It  is  now 
so  long  since  the  November  flurry,  that 
works  are  not  starting  on  account  to 
undue  confidence—the  resumptions  are 
backed  by  orders.  But  there  has  been 
a  good  deal  of  buying 
in  . anticipation 
of  an  expected  advance,  which,  of 
course,  has  resulted  in  disappointment 
to  the  buyers  and  holders  and  has  oper­
ated  to 
increase  the  downward  move­
ment.

The  decline 

in  the  wheat  market, 
while  largely  speculative,  has  been  a 
disappointment  to  many.  The  fall  is 
partially  attributed,  also,  to  the  dis­
parity  between  the  price  of  wheat  and 
corn.  The  export  movement  of  the  lat­
ter  was  very  heavy  during  the  month  of 
Januarv,  amounting  to  over  7,800,000 
bushels,  as  against  6,500,000  last  year. 
The  export  of  wheat  was  6,500,000 
bushels,  against  8,400,000  last  year.

The  sales  of  wool  during  the  month 
nf  January  exceeded  those  on  record  for 
ihe  corresponding  mouth  in  any  year. 
Price  has  scarcely  changed.  Cotton has 
suffered  from  the  heavy  surplus ol goods 
at  the  mills.

While 

iron  prices  are  still  tending 
downward,  there 
is  a  steadily  increas­
ing  demand  for  many  products.  Sheets 
and  bars  are quite  active,  on  account  of 
car  building  demand.  Southern  export 
demand  continues  good.  Tin  and  cop­
per are  stronger,  but  competition  is  re­
ducing  the  price  of  tin  plates.

continues 

favorable. 

The  general  situation 

in  the  money 
market 
Stocks 
have generally  strengthened  and  the  de­
mand  for  bonds  continues  good.  Bank 
clearings  declined  8  per  cent.  There 
was  a  sharp  falling  off  in  failures—326, 
as  compared  with  429  for the  preceding 
week.

During  the  past  tew  years  some  solic­
itude  has  been  manifested  as  to  the 
effect  of  Japanese  competition  on  the 
industries  of  other  nations  on  account 
of  the  low  scales  of  wages  obtaining  in 
that  country.  The  statement,  therefore, 
of  a  recent  writer  in  the  Contemporary 
Review  that,  with  the  growth  in  indus­
try,  there  has  been  so great  an  increase 
in  the  cost  of  living  and  the  scales of 
wages  in  that  country  that  this  advan­
tage  is  likely  to  be  wholly  lost  is  of  in­
terest.  From this  it  may  be  argued  that, 
when  any  nation  makes  such  an  ad­
vance 
industrial  development,  the 
powfer  of  hurtful  competition  will  be

in 

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immigrant 1 similarly  lost.______   ______

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

HEADED  TOWARD  PROSPERITY.
When  people  have  plenty  of  money  or 
good  credit,  they  buy  all  they  want. 
When  the  hard  times  come  they  are 
forced  to  economize.  They  buy  as  little 
as  they  can,  and  make  the  most  of their 
reduced  means.  This  sort  of  thing  is 
seen 
in  the  condition  of  the  foreign 
trade  of  the  United  States.  The  people 
of  the  United  States  have  for  several 
years  been  experiencing  hard  times. 
They  have  been  buying  abroad  as  little 
as  possible  and  making  the  most  of 
their  exports,  in  which  latter  respect  an 
active  foreign  demand  at  fair  prices 
has  aided  them.

The  official  statement  of  the  foreign 
trade 
in  merchandise  for  the  calendar 
year  1896  shows  a  large  excess  of  ex­
ports  over  imports.  This excess amounts 
to  more  than  $325,000,000.  The  largest 
previous  excess  of  exports  for any  year 
it  was  $20,000,000 
was 
in  1878,  when 
more  than  it  is  now. 
In  1878  the  coun­
try  was  recovering  from  the  financial 
panic  of  1873  and  the  long  period  of 
commercial  depression  which  followed 
it. 
In  1896  the  country  is  recovering 
from  the  financial  panic  of  1893  and  the 
serious  commercial  and 
industrial  de­
pression  which  that  panic  brought  on.

The. idea  that  there  can  be  any 

im­
mediate  and  sudden  recovery  from  any 
great  financial  convulsion  which  par­
alyzes 
industry  and  checks  trade  is  a 
most  mistaken  one.  There  can  be  no 
restoration  to  financial  health  and  busi­
ness  prosperity,  save  by  gradual  and 
progressive  steps.  There 
is  no  medi­
cine  that  will  cause  a  broken-down  con­
in  a  moment  the 
stitution  to  take  on 
strength  and  vigor  of  health. 
It  is  so 
with  commerce  and  industries.

It 

is  no  sign  of  prosperity  when  the 
exports  of  the  country  largely  outfigure 
the  imports. 
It  simply  shows  that  the 
people are  exercising  a  strict  economy 
in  their  purchases. 
is  no  sign  of 
prosperity  when  the  people  are  stinting 
and  pinching  themselves.  It  only  shows 
that  they  have  had  a  hard  time  and 
have  been  forced  to  do  so.  But  this 
stinting  and  pinching,  this  strict  econ­
omy,  will  lead  to  better  times.  That  is 
all  that  can  be  said  of  it.

It 

It 

All  extravagance 

is  a  good  sign  when  people  are 
buying  liberally,  if  they  are  able  to  do 
is  wrong  and 
so. 
wicked ;  but  without  generous  and 
in­
there  can  be  no 
telligent  spending 
prosperity.  A 
liberal  consumption  of 
all  the  products  of  labor by  those  who 
are  able  to  do  so  is  what makes prosper­
ity.  That  is  what  sets  all  the  wheels  of 
industry  to  work  and  gives  employment 
to  all  willing  hands.  The  pinching and 
stinting  process  is  the  first  step  to  the 
recovery  from 
the  financial  pressure. 
Better things  will  follow.

The  combined  volume  of  the  exports 
and  imports  for  1896 was $1,686,434,000. 
This  total  was  exceeded  by  an  average 
of  over  $100,000,000  for  the  two  calen­
dar  years  1891  and  1892,  and  by $172,- 
000,000  for  the  fiscal  year  1892,  when 
our  foreign  trade  reached  high-water 
It appears,  therefore, that  while 
mark. 
there  is  a  gratifying  increase  in  our 
trade  as  compared  with  1895  and  1894, 
the  total  is  still  materially  less  than  for 
the  years 
immediately  preceding  the 
panic.

During  the  fiscal  year  1873  the  im­
ports  exceeded  the  exports  of  merchan­
dise 
in  value  by  nearly  $120,000,000, 
and  during  the  preceding  ten  years  the 
annual  excess  of 
imports  had  ranged 
all  the  way  from  $40,000,000 to $182,- 
000,000.  During  those  years  we  were 
borrowing  capital  abroad,  partly for war

for 

purposes,  but  mainly 
industrial 
purposes.  Then  came  the  panic,  and 
with 
it  a  sudden  change  in  the  trade 
balance.  The  excess  of  exports  over 
imports  went  on  increasing  until  in  the 
calendar  year  1878 
it  exceeded  $305,- 
In  1879  came  resumption,  and 
000,000. 
the  depression  was  changed  to  prosper- 
ity.

Conditions  are  similar  now  to  what 
they  were  in  1878.  There  is  a  like  gain 
in  the  volume  of  foreign  trade  after a 
considerable  falling  off,  and  there  is  a 
like  and  even  greater  increase  in  the 
excess  of  exports  over  imports.  This  is 
good  evidence  that  the  hard  times  are 
being  pushed  into  the  past  and  a  better 
state  of  trade  is  at  hand. 
It  is  coming 
steadily  and  good  times  are  not  far  dis­
tant.

As  a  matter  of  course,  while  the 
American  people  have  so  large  a  trade 
balance  to  their  credit,  they are relieved 
from  the  necessity  of  shipping  gold 
abroad,  and,  therefore,  the  Treasury 
gold  reserve  is  safe  from  attack  for  the 
present.  A  change  in  the  trade balance 
will  again  start  the  drain  on  the  gold 
reserve ;  and  this  danger  will always  be 
is 
present  just  as  long  as  the  Treasury 
liable  to  be  called  on  to  redeem 
its 
paper  issues.

The  United  States  is  in  more  danger 
of  the  plague  from  Cuba,  manufactured 
by  Spain,  than  it  is  from  “ the  plague 
of  Bombay”   and  India.  The  chances 
are  that  before  we  pass  the  coming 
August  this  fact  will  be  demonstrated. 
Every  sanitary  law  is  being  violated  by 
Spain  in  Cuba.  People  are being driven 
from  rural  districts  to  the  towns  and 
cities,  where  no  arrangements  are  made 
for  their  health  or  comfort,  and  it  re­
quires  no  prophet-to  foretell  the  dire 
results,  or  that  the  United  States  may 
not  escape  the  contamination.

It  is  proposed  to  see  what  Mexico can 
do  in  the  way  of  competing  with  native 
wines 
in  the  Cincinnati  market.  A 
sample bottle  of  orange  wine  has  been 
sent  to  Cincinnati,  and  an  effort  will  be 
made  to arrive  at  some  conclusion  as 
to  whether  it  can  be  sold  in  the  market 
there.  The  quality  of  wine  made  from 
oranges  in  Mexico  is  considered  so  far 
different  from  what  Americans  are  used 
to  consuming  that,  if  the  wine  should 
sell,  it  would  be  more  in.the  nature  of a 
novelty  than  genuine  patronage  of  a 
meritorious  article.

Success  has  attended  an  experiment 
of  some  land  owners  at  Orlando,  Fla., 
who  undertook  to  raise  Kentucky  blue 
grass  and  timothy.  The  Orlando  plot 
chosen  for  the  experiment  is  hammock 
land  with  marl  underneath,  and  great 
hopes  are  built  upon  the  favorable  in­
dications  of  this  first  trial.

jail  there,  has 

It  has  been  announced  in Paris,  Tex., 
that  a  prisoner,  S.  E.  Knight,  in  the 
Federal 
invented  an 
aluminum  airship,  weight  700  pounds, 
in  the  manufacture  of  which  a  New 
York  company  is  said  to  have expressed 
a  willingness  to back  him.

The  combination  of 

lamp-chimney 
manufacturers which  has been  in  exist­
ence  for  ten  years,  and  which  in  that 
time  has  had  absolute  control  of  prices, 
has gone to  the  wall.  The  withdrawal 
of  the  Lippincott  Glass  Co.  is  respon­
sible.

In  Pennsylvania  the  pure  food 

law  is 
being  rigorously 
In  most 
cases  the  defense  was  ignorance  of  the 
law  and  that  the  goods  were  impure. 
The  judges  ruled  that  ignorance  was  no 
excuse.'.....................

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ENOS  PUTMAN,  President Grand  Rapids National  Bank.

C.  0.  A.  VOIQT.  Voigt Milling Co.  and  Voigt,  Herpolsheimer &  Co.

D.  M  AMBERQ,  Capitalist.

FRED  C.  MILLER.  Lumber  Dealer and  Manufacturer.

JOSEPH  HOUSEMAN, President  Houseman  &  Jones Clothing Co. 
JULIUS  BERKEY,  President  Berkey  &  Gay  Furniture Co. 

JOHN  B.  MARTIN,  Capitalist.

WM.  H.  ANDERSON,  Cashier Fourth  National  Bank.

WM.  VIDDICOMB.  Capitalist.

QEO.  H.  DAVIDSON,  Contractor and Builder.

CHAS.  D.  STtBBINS,  Ex  County Treasurer.

E.  A.  STOWE,  Editor Michigan Tradesman.
THOS.  M.  PECK,  Peck  Bros.,  Druggists.

CHAS.  W.  WATKINS,  Insurance.

CHAS.  W.  GARFIELD.  President Grand  Rapids Savings Bank.
AMOS  S.  MUSSELMAN,  President  Musselman Grocer Co.

C.  CARROLL  FOLLMER,  Lumber and  Shingles.

S.  A.  SEARS,  Manager  New York  Biscuit Co.

JOHN  CAULFIELD,  Capitalist.

GEO.  0.  WHITWORTH,  Manager  Furn. Caster Association. 

SIDNEY  F.  STEVENS,  Foster,  Stevens &  Co.,

W holesale Hardware.

ENOS  PUTMAN,  President. 

CHARLES  W.  WATKINS,  ist Vice  Pres. 

SIDNEY  F.  STEVENS.  2nd  Vice  Pres. 

CHAS.  W.  GARFIELD,  3rd Vice  Pres.

GEO.  0.  WHITWORTH,  Secretary.

A.  B.  MASON,  Assistant Secretary. 
CYRUS  E.  PtRKINS,  Treasurer

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One of the greatest sources of  loss  in 
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In  that  case  the 
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ing.

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BUSINESS  AM EN ITIES.

The  Saving  Grace  of  a  Commercial 

Career.

linger. 

My  subject  at  once  suggests  some  of 
the  many  pleasant  incidents  that  have 
occurred  in  this  business  career,  being 
the  bright spots  around  which  memory 
delights  to 
In  my  mind  they 
crowd  and  jostle  each  other,  for  my 
business 
life  has  been  full  of  pleasan­
tries,  made  possible  by  delightful  as­
sociates  (who  have 
far  outnumbered 
those  who  have  not  been  agreeable), 
who  have  made  the  busy  days  brighter 
by  the  shake  of  the  hand,  expressions of 
interest,  and  many  such  kindred  ways 
which  befall  the  lot  of each of  us.  Who 
here  would  rejoice  if  at  the  close  of  the 
day  he  could  banish  from  his  mind 
temporarily  the  memory  of  those  who 
are  his  daily  competitors?  Does  not 
each  day  bring  its  blessings  of  friend­
ship?  Are  not  the  ties  of  business 
friendship  nearly  as  strong  as  those  of 
the  average  social  type? 
I  pity  the 
man  whose  business  situation  is  such 
that  no  ray  of  sunshine  seems  to  enter 
into  it,  and  if  there  is one such here,  for 
him  the  clouds  must  be  temporary,  for 
He  who  sends  the  thunder  also  sends 
the  rainbow.

Business  is  business.  This  is  a  com­
mon  remark  heard  every  day,  and  when 
you  analyze  it,  what  does  it  mean? 
It 
means  that 
is  an  expression  of  his 
Satanic  Majesty  put  into the mouths and 
lives  of  men  to  kill  charity  and  fellow 
feeling  in  commercial  transactions.

it 

No greater opportunity  is  aSorded the 
commercial  man 
to  exemplify  the 
amenities  of  business  than  in  a  case  of 
distress  of  his  fellow-man  who  has  hon­
estly  failed  in  business. 
I  say  honestly 
failed,  because  there  are  many  such 
failures.  These  are  the  times  when  the 
commercial  vultures  descend  beside  the 
Christian  Samaritan.  One  as  the  com­
mercial  grave  digger,  the  other as  the 
physician  with  the  balm  of  fellowship 
and  brotherhood.  The  first  will  try  to 
squeeze  the 
lifeblood,  but  the  second 
will  stand  and  demand  that,  although  it 
is  stipulated 
in  the  bond  that  a  pound 
of  flesh  shall  be  forfeited,  one  extra 
ounce  of  blood  will  cause  the loss of that 
which  he  might  have  received.  Swe­
denborg  said: 
‘ ‘ Charity  itself  consists 
in  acting  justly  and  faithfully  in  what­
ever office,  business  or  employment  a 
person  is  engaged."

We  are  all  interdependent  and  can­
not  get  along  alone.  There  is  no  such 
thing  as  an  independent life.  Commer­
cial  life  necessarily  brings  us  into  con­
tact  with  our  fellow-men  and  the  result­
ant  effects are  what  we  make  them.  An 
honorable  man,  in a bad bargain,  has the 
balance  of  power  in  his  own  hands,  and 
as  most  men  are  honorable,  it  follows 
the  majority  are  on  the  side  of  fair 
dealing  and  justice.  To-day  business 
is  conducted  on  an  entirely  different 
plane  from  what  it  was  forty  years  ago. 
About  that  time,  in  the  line  of  trade  in 
which  I  have  fished  for  a  fortune,  firms 
used  to  pack  their goods  and  mark their 
cases  at  night,  and  the  following  day, 
when  ready  to  ship,  means  were  used  to 
cover  the  marks  so  competitors  could 
not  tell  to  whom  the  goods  were  sold. 
Notice  the  change  to-day.  Mr.  A. 
comes  into  your  store,  and  seeing  the 
floor  covered  with  goods,  asks 
if  you 
are  doing  all  the business  in  your  line, 
or  if  your  shelves  are  overloaded.  You 
tell  him  the  goods  are  sold,  the  goods 
charged  and  perhaps  will  be  paid  for. 
He  then  asks  if  you  are  selling  Mr.  S. 
and  how  he 
is  paying.  You  tell  him 
your  experience  and  perhaps  tell  him

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

l l

you  are  about  to  sue  for  your  account. 
This  intercourse  would  have  been 
im­
possible  years  ago,  but  now  a  fellow- 
feeling  exists  among  merchants,  and 
our  interests  are  mutual  interests.  This 
is  emphasized 
in  all  lines  of  business 
by  the  many  trade  organizations  formed 
for  the  benefit  of  all  concerned. 
In  the 
hardware 
line,  in which  I  am  engaged, 
there  are  now  firmly-established  organ­
izations  scattered  throughout  the  North, 
South,  East  and  West,  and  one National 
Association,  which  meets  at  stated 
periods  and  has  accomplished  many 
revolutions  of  a  beneficial  character. 
This  motive  has  not  been  confined  to 
the  firms,  but  has  been  taken  up  by 
those  representatives  of  commercial  life 
known 
‘ ‘ Drummers, ”  *4 Advance Agents, ’ ’ etc., 
and  has  resulted  in  the  establishment  of 
Commercial  Travelers’  Homes,  Aid  So­
cieties,  etc.
Business 

is  a  pursuit  or  occupation 
that  employs  or  requires  energy,  time 
and  thought,  and  Lowell  says:  "There 
is  no  better  ballast  for keeping the mind 
steady  on 
its  keel  and  saving  from  all 
risks  of  crankiness,  than  business."
To business that we love, we rise betime
And go to it with  delight.
Aaron  Burr  said:  "T h e  rule  of  my 
life 
is  to  make  business  a  pleasure. "  
But  what  makes  business  particularly 
pleasant? 
is  the  amenities  of  busi­
ness  life  exemplified  every  day  in  some 
way.

as  "Commercial  Tourists,"

It 

I  have  spoken  of  our  mutual 

interests 
interdependence.  How  well  this 
and 
is  carried  out  by  those  natural 
idea 
merchants,  our  friends, 
the  Hebrews. 
They  sell  their  customer  all  that  is  pos­
sible  from  their  stock,  and  then  turn 
him over to their relative or friend.  Mr. 
Isaacs  sold  his  customer  a  suit  oi 
clothes,  warranting  them 
imperishable 
black. 
In  a  short  time  the  customer 
returned  and  complained  the  cloth  was 
turning 
Isaacs  replied: 
"M ine  vriend,  dose  clothes  vas  all 
right,  und  dey  vas  black ;  you  vas  get­
ting  color  blind;  I  vill  gif  you  a  card 
to  my  brudder,  who  vas  an  occulist. ”  
This  is  a  sample  of  Jewish  amenity.

gray.  Mr. 

In  selling  goods,  it  is  not  necessary 
to  run  down  those  of  our  competitors. 
Our  Trade  Mark  bams  may  be  a  little 
higher  in  quality,  but—there  are  other 
hams,  and  the  best  way  to  convince  a 
customer  of  their  superiority  is  to  in­
duce  him  to  eat  of  a  Trade  Mark  bam 
and  then  leave  it  to him to  try  to  be  sat­
isfied  with  others.  We  cannot  sell  all 
the  goods  in  our  line;  we  must  live  and 
let  live.  But  there  are  many  methods 
that  have  been  used  that  should  be 
avoided  now.  No  such  supposed neces­
sity  now  exists  to  sell  goods  as  to  fill  a 
man  with  liquor  or  to  take  him  to  ques­
tionable  places  of  amusement.  These 
were  ways  of  former  years,  but  do  not 
now  count  to  the  benefit  of  the  sales­
man.  The  highest  standards  of  morality 
and  honesty  call  forth  the  greatest  com­
mendation,  and  redound  to  the  credit 
of  the  business  man,  be  he  either  em­
ployer  or  employe. 
In  the  "School  for 
Scandal”  occurs  this:  " I ’m called away 
by  particular  business,  but  1  leave  my 
character  behind  me.”   Let  any  man 
try  to-day  to  conduct  business  on  such a 
basis,  and  failure  will  be  the  result.  I 
do  not  want  to  close  this  ramble without 
a  reference  to  that great  power of to-day 
—the  trade  journal.  What  power  is  so 
potent  as  cold  type  and 
infused 
with  life  by  the  editor  at  the  helm,  as­
sisted  by  the  printer’s  devil.  A  per­
sonal  notice  in  the  paper  will  do  more 
to  make  a  man  enquire  within  than  any 
means  I  know  of. 
If  the  notice  is  true, 
it  will  not  puff  him  up,  but  will  make 
him  realize  that  the  attention  of  the 
readers  has  been  called  to  him  and  that 
he  must  try  and  live  up  to  it,  and  if  the 
notice 
is  untrue  his  ears  will  tingle 
with comments.

ink 

A l f r e d   D.  Cl in c h .

TH E  PO STM ASTER’S  SNAP.

A  Comedy  o f  Many  Acts  and  More 

Scenes.
Written for the  T radesman.

Farmer  Brown 

Scene—Beauteous postoffice.
T im e — A n y  h o u r  o f   th e   d a y .
Characters—Name them yourself.
Postmaster  (checking  up  box  rent  ac­
counts)— Guess  I ’ll  have  to  take  that 
box  away  from  old  Skinflint.  The  slip 
has  been  in  his  box  over  ten  days  now.
(entering)  —  Hello, 
fer  our  folks? 
B ill!  Got 
Haint,  eh?  Any  fer Jones’s,  er  Smith's, 
er  Pete’s wife’s sister?  Called  fer?  Oh, 
well,gimme  me  a  stamp.  How much do 
yeh  charge  fer a  letter  to  Cedar  Cross­
ing?  2  cents  an  ounce?  Sent  a  pack­
age  clear  to  New  York  t’other  day  fer  a 
cent  an  ounce.

any  mail 

Mrs.  Fussy  (who  has  entered  and 
stands  waiting  for  Brown  to  finish)— 
Mr.  Post,  please  make  me  out  a  postal 
note  for  25  cents.  Don’t  issue  postal 
notes?  Well,  a  money  order  will  do. 
Write  out  an  application?  No,  you 
write  it.  Busy?  Well,  I  guess  you  can 
take  time  to  tend  to  your  business, 
can’t  you?  Who  for?  Why,  me,  of 
course.  Who  am  I  sending 
it  to? 
Well,  now,  I  ain’t  in  the  habit  of  tell - 
jn’  everybody  my  business— you 
jest 
make  it out and don’t  be  too inquisitive.
in)— Say,  Bill,  yeh 
didn’t  see  my  pocketbook,  did  yeh? 
Jest  sold  my  taters  an’  I  was goin’  to 
pay  my  taxes,  an’  now  my  pocketbook 
is  lost  Yes,  I  had  it  when  I  was  here 
in  my 
a  minit  ago.  No,  never  put 
inside  pocket.  Yes,  here 
is.  All 
right,  Bill. 
(Goes  out,  leaving  door 
open,  and  half  a  dozen  school  children 
troop  in).

Brown  (rushes 

it 

it 

Chorus—Say,  mister,  mister,  be  there 
any mail  fer me er my folks?  (All pound 
on  the  boxes).  Here’s  a  letter  fer  me, 
a  paper  fer  me.  Oh,  goody. 
I  wonder 
who  it’s  from.

(Postmaster hands  out  mail.  Children 
look  it  over,  then  hand  it  back.)  Guess 
we  won’t  take  it  till  we  come  back. 
(Whisper  among  themselves.)  What  an 
old  crank  he  is !  How  he  slammed  them 
papers back !

Office  fills  up  with  patrons.
Banker  Cash—You  may  order  me 
2,000  stamped  envelopes.  Just  shuffle 
these  letters  around 
into  their  boxes, 
will  you?  Thanks.  Got  some  large  bills 
over  to  the  bank  to  help  you  out  on 
your  remittance  any  time.

G.  R.  Traveling  Man—Any  mail  for 
Hustler,  "G .  T. ?’ ’  None?  When does 
the  next  mail  arrive  from  Grand  Rap­
ids? 
11  o’clock  to-night?  When  will 
this  letter  go  out?  5  in  the  morning? 
like  to  hear  from  the  house 
Well,  I’d 
in.  Have  to  tele­
before  I  send  this 
phone?  Guess  I’ll  send 
it  anyhow. 
What,  short  paid?  Let  the  house  pay 
the  rest—don’t  make  any  difference  to 
you,  does  it?  Get  your  pay  for  cancel­
lation?  Well,  put  the  rest  on.

Uncle  Hayseed—I  guess  that  dem 
money  I  sent  to  Catchem,  Skinem  & 
Co.,  Chicago, 
last  week  Monday  has 
got  lost.  Got  a  letter  from  ’em  and  they 
say  they  will  have  to  have  the  money 
before  they  ship  the  goods. 
I  gave  you 
the money to  send  ’em,  an’  you  know it. 
You  didn’t  send  ’em  anything?  Well, 
why  didn’t  you? 
I  paid  you  to,  an’  I 
got  the  receipt  right 
in  my  pocket. 
Here 
is.  What?  That’s  the  money 
order?  I  have  to  send  that?  Why  didn’t 
you  say  so?  Dern  queer  way  you  have 
of  doing  business  here!

it 

Mr.  Pension— Hev  any  of  the  checks 
come  back  from  Detroit  yet?  No? 
Well,  it's  about  time.  They’re  tarnal

I  didn’t  fool  around 
it  was  time  to  make  out  my 

slow  down  there. 
when 
voucher,  I  can  tell  you.

Farmer  Rusher—Anything  for  George 
Rusher,  Nancy  Rusher,  Sarah  Rusher, 
Daniel  Rusher 
or  Peter  Rusher? 
Nothin’  for  anyone  out  on  the  town 
line  road,  I  don’t  suppose?  Say,  that 
letter  I  was  tell in’  you  about,  what  was 
lost  and  you  was  tracing  up,  the  one 
with  a  New  York  draft 
in  well,  Bill 
Easy  had  it  in  his  overcoat  pocket.  He 
got  my  mail  that  day  and  forgot  to  give 
it  to  me  till  yesterday.  Reported  it  to 
the  Inspector  and  he  is  lookin'  it  up? 
Well,  that’s all right—that’s what they’re 
paid  for.

in 

Mrs.  Missionary— Howde  do,  Mr. 
Post?  You  know  our  Society  for  the 
Psychological  Advancement  of 
the 
Heathen  Sisters,  which  has  been  doing 
so  much  good  the  past  year 
looking 
after  the  spiritual  welfare  and  bodily 
comforts  of  the  poor,  suffering,  igno 
rant  and  neglected  heathen 
in  many 
lands,  is  now  making  an  effort  to  send 
a  box  of  nightcaps  to  the  women  of 
Prince  Wabsconcider  Island. 
These 
poor  downtrodden  women  have  never 
enjoyed  the  comforts  of  a  nightcap; 
their  principal  articles  of  dress  are lim­
ited  to 
little  beyond  a  bracelet  for  the 
ankle  and  a  ring  for  the  nose.  Just 
think,  Mr.  Post,  of  the  civilizing 
in­
fluence  of  a  nightcap  on  these  poor 
creatures  who  have  none  of  the  priv­
ileges  of  our  own  land,  and,  instead  of 
improving  their  mind  by  participation 
in  such  useful  work  as  that  of  our  soci­
ety,  for  instance,  are  mere  drudges  and 
expected  to  look  constantly  after  their 
family  and  household affairs.  Knowing 
your 
liberality  and  the  influence  your 
action  will  have  with others,  we came  to 
you  first. 
If  you  will  head  the  list  with 
$2  we  will  be  so  thankful and  call  again 
next  year.

Mrs.  Careless—Dear  me,  I have  a  let­
ter  from  my  Cousin  Samantha,  out  in 
Washington,  say in’  as  how  you  have 
sent  her a  notice  sayin’  there  was  a  let­
ter  here  for  her,  which  you  would  send 
when  the  postage  was  paid. 
It  don’t 
seem  possible  that  I  forgot  to  put  a 
stamp  on  that  letter  to  her  just  before 
New  Year’s.  Yes, 
Sakes 
alive!  I  wish  you  had  told  me  before. 
Didn’t  know  who  wrote  it?  Don’t  you 
in  here  and 
remember  of  me  bein’ 
mailin’  that 
letter  about  three  weeks 
ago?  There’s  another  letter  pasted  up 
here.  Why  don’t  you  send  that?  No 
address?  Well,  how  careless  some  folks 
are.

that’s  it. 

Johnny  Juks—Gimme  that  letter  in 
letter  with  heavy  bordered 
in 

130. 
mourning  envelope.)  Well,  we’re 
it.  Our  folks  have got  a  dead  letter.

(Gets 

George  Masher 

(confidentially)— 
isn’t  a  letter  in  the  drop  box  for 
There 
me  that  you  haven’t  taken  out,  is  there? 
Please  look ;  I  am  expecting one.  None? 
Well,  say,  don’t  let  any  of  my  folks 
have  any  of  my  letters  for a  few  days. 
Put  them  in  another  box,  can’t  you. 
I 
am  negotiating  a  very 
important  busi­
ness  matter  and  the  letters  might  get 
lost.  All  right,  on  the quiet,  you know.
Mr.  Positive— No  letter  for me?  Well, 
that’s  strange.  Anybody  git  my  mail 
to-dav? 
there  ain’t  no  mail?
I Well,  there  ought  to  be.  Better  look 
again.  Here’s  a  letter  that  is  stamped 
the  12th  and  I  didn’t  get  it  till  yester­
day,  the  18th.  Back  stamped  the  17th? 
Looks  like  a  12  to  me.  Didn’t  leave 
Detroit  till  the  16th?  Well,  they  prob­
ably  got  their  postmarks  mixed  up.

Sure 

Farmer  Confidence— Well,  Bill,  I  sup­
pose  you’ll 
lose  your  job  purty  soon 
now.  You’re  a  good  feller,  Bill,  but 
you’re  on  the  wrong  side.  You  ought  to 
hev  come  out  for  the  old  flag  and  the 
appropriation 
long  ago,  Bill.  No,  I 
don’t  want  nuthin’— jest  dropped  in  for 
a  pleasant  chat.  Good  bye,  Bill.

The  postmaster  smiles and  returns  to 

his accounts.

(Quick  Curtain.)

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

1 2

JOE.
Written for the T radesman.

handsome  boy,  with 

“ I was  engaged  in  trade in Northeast­
ern  Indiana,"  said  my  old  friend,  Carl 
Morris,  whom  I  had  lost  track  of  for  a 
score  of  years,  and  with  whom  I  was 
exchanging  reminiscences.  "One  freez­
ing  cold  afternoon  in  the  month  of  De­
cember, "   he  went  on,  " a   boy  appar­
ently  about  14  years  of  age,  and  thinly 
clad,  entered  my  store  and  timidly  en­
quired  if  I  would  direct  him  the  near­
est  way  to  the  county almshouse. 
I  was 
alone  at  tne  time,  and,  feeling  some­
what  downcast,  or  "b lu e,”   because  of 
some  losses  I  had  recently  sustained, 
the  appearance  and  errand  of  the  lad 
enlisted  my  sympathy.  He  was  a  rather 
stout, 
finely- 
chiseled  features,  and  gave  one  the  im­
pression  of  an  intelligent,  hard-worked 
farmer’s  son.  As  he  removed  the close 
from  his  head,  1 
ly-knit  Scotch  cap 
noticed  the  handsome  hair,  which  was 
a  mass  of  closely-cut  biack  curls.  His 
hands  were  large  for  his  age,  and  rather 
rough,  apparently  from  hard  labor;  his 
feet  small,  and  encased  in  rough,  well- 
worn  shoes.  Before  answering  his  ques­
tion,  I  pushed  a  stool  toward  the  stove 
and  asked  him  to  be  seated,  for  1  saw 
he  was  suffering  with  cold;  then  told 
him  that  directly  west  was  the  nearest 
and  best  road  for  him  to  follow;  ‘ but,  I 
added,  it  is  now  rather  late  in  the  day 
for  you  to  reach  the  farm,  as  it  is  six 
miles  west of  here. ’ 
I  did  not  recog­
nize  the  lad,  and  said  to  him,  ‘ Tell  me 
who  you  are,  and  how  far  you  have 
traveled  to-day—perhaps  you  had  better 
remain  with  me  to-night  and  go on  in 
the  morning.’

bright  and  intelligent  boy,  we  keep  him 
for  the  present,  which  would  give  her 
more  time  to  help 
in  the  store,  and 
possibly, 
through  him,  we  might  yet 
solve  the  disappearance  of  our goods. 
To  this  proposition  1  assented,  and  the 
following  morning  said  to  Joe,  ‘ My boy, 
I  have  thought  you  might  be  useful  to 
me  if  I  were  to  keep  you  here  this  win­
ter.  Do  you  think  you  could  split  and 
bring 
in  the  wood,  milk  the  cow,  and 
do other  such  work?’

‘ O,  I  can  do  all  that  and  much 
animation.
more,’  Joe  replied,  with 
Being  an  cnly  child,’  he  continued,
my  mother  taught  me  to  do  all  kinds 
I  am  called  a  good  cook 
of  housework. 
and  1  can  wash  and 
iron,  make  bees, 
use  a  needle,  and  do  a  lot  more  things. 
And  I’ll  be  so  thankful  if  you  can  keep 
ine  until  my father  comes, ’ and  his  eyes 
shone  with  expectancy.

"W ell,  I  kept  Joe  from  entering  the 
poorhouse,  and  tor  the  first  week  after­
ward  he  was  my  wife’s  ‘ help,’  in  and 
about  the  house;  and,  to  my  numerous 
questions  regarding  Joe’s  proficiency  in 
ms—to  us—new  vocation  for  a  boy,  she 
answered :  ‘ He  is  nearly  faultless.  You 
have  already  eaten  his  bread,  cake  and 
pastry,  his  roast  meats  and  soups,  and 
have  drunk  his  tea  and  coffee. 
I  have 
watched  him  closely.  At  first,  like  all 
boys,  he  appeared  rather awkward ;  but 
since  he  has  found  where  everything  u 
kept—and  his  memory  is  wonderful—] 
pay  little  atttention  to  him,  except  to 
answer  his  questions. 
I am  certain  that 
in  Joe  we  have  secured  a  prize;  and 
next  week  I  shall  be  able  to  devote 
nearly  all  my  time  to  the  store,  leaving 
him  to  manage  the  housework  alone.’

‘ Thank  you,  sir,’ was  his  reply. 
it  so  far  away.  My 
‘ I  did  not  think 
name 
is  Joe  McTavish,  and  I  started 
from  my  uncle’s,. John  McTavish,  whose 
farm  is  seven  miles  north  of  here.  My 
mother  died  last  year.  My  father  is  in 
Scotland  on  business and  left  me  at  his 
brother’s  until  he  returns;  but  uncle 
is 
a  poor  man,  with  a  large  family,  and 
now  has  a  broken  leg,  and  the  doctor 
thinks  will  be  in  bed  all winter.  So  we 
all  thought  it  best  if  I  could  fincf  work 
elsewhere.  I  started  out  three  days  ago 
to  look  for  work  of  any  kind,  but,  not 
finding  anything  for a  boy  to  do,  I  pre­
fer  to  go  to  the  county  house  rather than 
return  to  my  uncle  and  aunt,  who  have 
been  so  kind  to  me. 
I  am  sure  I  ought 
not  to  add  to  their  burden  now;  and  my 
father  may  return  in  a  few  months  and 
then  we  shall  go  home again. ’

‘ Have  you  any  brothers  or sisters?’

I  asked.

‘ No,  sir,’  was  the  reply.
‘ Well,  my  boy,’  said  I,  ‘ you  re­
main  with  me  to-night.  It  will  cost  you 
nothing  and  you  will  feel  refreshed  for 
to-morrow’s  walk.’

‘ The  losses  I  mentioned  having  re­
cently  sustained  were  that,  from  time 
to  time  during  the  past  eight  months,
I  had  missed  goods  of  various  kinds— 
more  especially  dry  goods— from  my 
store,  and  for  which  disappearance  I 
could  not  account  except  that  some cun­
ning  kleptomaniac  was  systematically 
robbing  me,  entire  pieces  of  goods  be­
ing  often  taken.  My  front  door  was 
provided  with  a  fine  Yale  lock,  the  key 
of  which  I  constantly  carried,  and  all 
other  doors  giving  access  to  the  store 
were  bolted  on  the  inside  at  night,  and 
found  secure;  and  I  thought  that  any 
in  the  store  would  awaken  me— 
noise 
our  living  rooms  were 
in  the  second 
story,  directly  over  it.

"A fter  the  lad  retired  that  night,  my 
that,  as  he  seemed  a

wife  suggested 

Pausing 

" A t  the  close  of  the  second week after 
the  introduction  of  Joe  into  the  family,
I  again  discovered  that,  notwithstand­
ing  the  combined  vigilance  of  myself 
and  wife,  two  pieces  of  print,  a  box  of 
fine  linen  handkerchiefs  and  a  quantity 
of  unseasonable  hose  had disappeared. ”
in  his  story  to  light  a  cigar, 
my  friend  Morris  pointed  to  the  back 
end  of  the  store,  and  continued:  "N o ­
tice  that  ten-foot  partition  across  the 
room?  Well,  there  is a  hallway  divid­
ing 
it  and  running  fifteen  feet  to  the 
outside  entrance.  On  the  west  side  of 
that  hall  is  a  small  room,  unused  then, 
and  on  the  east  a  storeroom  and  a  stair­
way  leading  to our  living  rooms.  Now 
Joe,  who  proved  to  be  a  very  bright 
boy,  soon  became as  deeply 
interested 
in  discovering  the  thief  as  we;  and, 
finding  that  no amount of time expended 
in  watching  customers  disclosed  any­
thing,  he  begged  to  be  allowed  to  sleep 
in  this  little  room  on  the  gtound  floor. 
He  evidently  had  theories  of  bis  own, 
and  was  so  persistent  that  at  last  we 
placed  a  bed  in  there and  allowed  him 
to  occupy  it,  not  thinking 
it  possible, 
however,  that  anyone  could  enter  the 
building  by  night  without  being  beard 
from  above.  But  the  boy  seemed  to 
differ  with  us.

"In   the  meantime,  he  had  written  to 
his  uncle  and  aunt  informing  them  of 
his  success in finding employment;  and, 
one  day,  a  woman  came  in  and 
intro­
duced  herself  as  ‘ Mrs.  McTavish,’  and 
asked  to  see  ‘ her  nephew,  who  was  in 
my  employ. ’  Joe  was  called 
in  and 
the  two  seemed  greatly  pleased  to  see 
each  other;  and  something  in  their con­
versation  seemed  to  excite  the  aunt  to 
almost  uncontrollable  laughter.  She  had 
good  news  for  Joe,  having  heard  from j 
his  father;  he  had  been  successful  and 
would  return 
in  two  or  three  months. 
Before  leaving  for  home  Mrs.  McTav­
ish  purchased  some  groceries  for  her I

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

family,  and  thanked  my  wife  and  me 
‘ for our  kindness to her  nephew. ’  She 
noticed,  she said,  we  had  presented  him 
with  a  pair of  new  shoes,  a  better  cap 
and  some  new  underclothing.

♦  ♦  Jfc

"Joe  had  been  in  our  employ  four  or 
five  weeks,  when,  one  very  dark  still 
night,  I  was  suddenly  awakened  from 
a  deep  sleep  by  the  sound  of  something 
having  fallen  heavily  on  the floor below. 
I  found  myself  in  a  sitting  position 
in 
the  bed,  and  listening  intently.  Then 
a  deep  groan  of  anguish  reached  my 
ears. 
I  sprang  from  my  bed,  aroused 
my  wife  and  hurriedly  told  her  some­
thing had happened in  the  store,  donned 
some  clothing  and,  with  lamp  in  hand, 
rushed  below  and  into  Joe’s  bedroom, 
but  only  to  find  it  deserted.  Then  I  ran 
to  the  front  room,  where  my  astonish 
ment  may  be  better  imagined  than  de­
scribed.  There,  in  the  center  of  the 
floor,  near  the  stove,  I  discovered  Joe 
lying  on  his  back.  He  was  only  partly 
dressed,  and  his  face  and  neck  were 
covered  with  blood,  which  was  still  ooz­
ing  from  a  deep  wound  over  his  right 
eye.  He  was  breathing,  but  seemed 
totally  insensible.  Only  a  few  feet  dis­
tant  from  him,  and  nearer  the 
front 
door, 
lay  a  middle-aged  man,  upon 
whom  I  saw  no  wounds,  but  who  was 
unconscious  and  had apparently fainted. 
Upon  closer examination,  I  thought  his 
right  arm  was  broken  near  the shoulder, 
and  as  I  moved 
it  he  uttered  a  deep 
groan.  By  this  time,  my  wife  was  be­
side  me,  and  we  gently  raised  Joe  and 
carried  him  to  his  bed;  then,  telling 
her  not  to 
I  hurriedly 
called  a  physician  who  lived  a  couple 
of  doors  away.  Telling  the  doctor  to 
give  his  entire  attention  to Joe,  I  ran 
to  summon  an  officer  to  remove  the

leave  him, 

\

stranger  from  my  premises. 
I  had  al­
ready  discovered  he  was  a  burglar,  as a 
quantity  of  my  goods  had  been  removed 
from  the  shelves,  and  lay  near  the  rear 
of  the  store  with  a  cord  about  them,  as 
if  to  be  carried  out  in  that  direction, 
and  all  his  overcoat  pockets  were  bulg­
ing  with  articles  I  recognized  as  mine. 
What  puzzled  me was  that  my  front  door 
was 
locked,  and  I  had  the  key  in  my 
pocket,  while  the  rear  door  was  un­
bolted.

"When  the  officer  and  an  assistant 
came  to  remove  the  stranger,  he  had 
recovered  consciousness,  but  would  not 
talk  except  to  acknowledge  his  guilt 
and  explain  that  the  boy  had  broken 
his  arm  by  a  blow  from  some  weapon, 
while  he  had  at  the  same  instant  struck 
at  the  boy  with  a  hickory  whipstock, 
which  was  then  lying  upon  the  floor,  its 
handle  covered  with  blood.  Both  man 
and  boy  had  apparently  fallen  to  the 
floor at  the  same  moment.

the  wounded 

" A s   the  officer  and  his  man  departed 
with 
thief,  my  wife 
touched  my  arm  and  said  softly,  ‘ Carl,
I  have  a  surprise  for  you,  as  well  as 
myself—Joe  McTavish  is  a  g irl!!’

‘ Well,  w ell!’  I  exclaimed  with  em­
phasis,  ‘ this  is  surely  a  night  of  sur­
prises!  But  she 
is  a  coutageous  girl 
to  surprise  that  stranger  in  the  way  she 
did!’

‘ Joe’  was  unconscious  for  several 
hours  and  did  not  realize  what  had hap­
pened.  Her  skull  was  not  fractured, 
but  the  scalp  was  laid  open  to  the bone, 
and  the  physician  said  she  would  bear 
a  scar  for  life.

"Poor 

faithful  Joe!  We  thought 
more of her, if possible,  than before.  And 
in  due  time  we  heard  her  story.  Her 
full  name  was  Josephine  McTavish,  but 
from 
infancy  she  was  known  a s ‘ Joe.’

«

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.

Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Her  uncle  and  aunt  had  proposed  that 
she  personate  a  boy,  when  leaving  them 
to  seek  employment,  as  a  girl  would  not 
be  so  successful  nor  so  safe;  and  she 
had  approved 
it,  but  had  intended,  at 
the  proper  time,  to  reveal  her  sex  to us. 
That  eventful  night  she  was  awakened 
by  a  noise  at  the  back  door,  which  she 
had  bolted  as  usual  on  retiring.  Then 
light  footsteps  were  heard  in  the  pass­
age.  Now  thoroughly  awake  and  par­
tially  dressed,  she  stepped  into  the  hall. 
Noiselessly  picking  up  an  ax  helve 
standing 
in  the  corner,  she  flew  to  the 
partition  door,  and,  by  the  dim  light 
of  a  bull’s-eye  lantern  on  the  floor  near 
the  front  door,  beheld  a  man,  who  stood 
with  his  back  toward  her.  Joe  was 
cautiously  creeping  forward,  her weapon 
grasped  in  both  hands,  when  the  man 
suddenly  turned  and  faced  her,  and, 
snatching  a  hickory  whipstock  from  a 
near-by  rack,  sprang  toward  her.  That 
is  the  last  she  remembers,  only  that 
she  was  cool  and  determined;  but  she 
thinks  they  struck  each  other  at  the 
same  instant.

“ On  seeing  the  burglar  by  daylight,  I 
recognized  him  as a  peddler  who  had  at 
times  purchased a  few  goods  of me,  and 
who  drove  a  horse  and  wagon  about  the 
country.  He  confessed  that  he  had  en­
tered  my  store  at  various  times  for more 
than  a  year  past—always  bv  the  back 
door,  which  he  unbolted,  and  again 
bolted,  upon 
leaving.  He  explained 
that  he  had  bored  small  gimlet  holes 
through  the  wall,  close  to  the  door  cas­
ing  that  they  might  not  be  noticed, 
through  which  he  inserted  wires  which 
would easily  unbolt  the  door,  and  bolt  it 
again  when  he  left.

*  *  *

In  my  younger  days,  when  I  used  to 
cover  more  territory  than  I  am  able  to 
now,  I  used  to  know  an  old  grocer down 
in  a  small  Virginia  town.  His  name 
wasn’t  Jones,  or  anything  like  it,  but 
that’s  what  he’ll  be  in  this  story,  just 
the  same.  Jones  was  an  old-fashioned 
grocer,  non-progressive,  conservative, 
stubborn,  but  successful.  He  made  a 
comfortable  sum  of  money  out  of  his 
grocery  store,  partly  because  he  kept 
first-class  goods  and  partly  because  he 
and  his  father  before  him  had  grown 
up  with  the  town  and  had the confidence 
of  its  people.

Jones  had  a  son—a  clever  young  fel­
low  who,  when  I  first  knew  the  old man, 
was  about  14  years  old.  His  father  sent 
him  to  the  local  public  school  and  gave 
him  the  very  best  chance  he  could. 
Early  in  his  son’s  life  Jones had  got  an 
idea  that  he  was  cut  out  for a  grocer, 
and  he  let  that  idea  grow  on  him  until 
it  became  a  passion  with  him.  Any­
body  could  see  with  half  an  eye  that  the 
young  fellow  was  cut  out  for anything 
but  a  grocer.  He  was  of  a  different 
type  altogether.  When  he  was  about  16 
years  old  he  fell  in  with a civil engineer 
and  speedily  developed  a  remarkable 
liking  for  that  profession.  He-did  some

sterling, 

“ It  was  more  than  a  month  before 
we  let  Joe  assist  us  again;  but  in  the 
meantime,  our only  child  and  son,  Wal­
ter,  who  had  been  two  years  in  a  law 
school 
in  the  East,  returned,  and  was 
able  in  part  to  take  her  place.  The  fol­
lowing  February  Joe’s  father  returned, 
bringing  a  draft  on  New  York  for  one 
thousand  pounds 
left  his 
daughter  by  her  mother’s  father,  who 
died  a  year  previous.  We  were  not  al­
lowed  to  adopt  Toe,  although  she  was 
permitted  to  make  her  home  with  us. 
At  her  father’s  request,  she  spent  the 
next  two  years  at  a  young 
ladies’  pri­
vate  school  in  Indianapolis,  where  she 
graduated  with  high  honors.  And  I  am 
only  too  happy  to  say  to  you  that  to-day 
she 
is  mv  beloved  daughter-in-law, 
residing  with  her  husband  in  their  own 
beautiful  residence  in  one of the suburbs 
of  Chicago,  where  my  son  is  practicing 
his  profession. ”   F r a n k.  A.  H o w ig .
A  Case  of  Misfit  in  the Grocery  Busi­

ness.
Stroller in Grocery World.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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little  work  around  for  this'engineer, 
who  afterward 
told  me  that  the  boy 
would  have  made  a  splendid  surveyor 
had  he  had  the  chance.

Well,  the  youth  finally  mustered  up 
enough  nerve  to  ask  his  father  to  allow 
him  to  learn  the  profession.  The  old 
man,  who  wasn’t  so  young  as  he  once 
was,  was  looking  eagerly  forward  to  the 
time  when  the  boy  could  take  the  busi­
ness  off  his  shoulders.  He  opposed  the 
suggestion  strongly  aqd  flatly  refused  to 
let  the  boy  study.  The  latter  was  a 
rather  mild-minded  youth,  reluctant  to 
engage 
in  a  squabble  with  anybody, 
and  the  upshot  of  it  was  that  he  'finally 
gave  up  his  civil-engineering  ideas  and 
resolved  to  enter  the  store.  When  he 
did  so  he  was  about  20  years  old.

Jones  was  a hard-headed,  horse-sensed 
man,  and  he  put  the bov  in  at  the  very 
bottom—sweeping  the  store  and  doing 
other  equally  pleasant  things. 
In  two 
years  the  son  knew  as  much  about  the 
business  as  he  ever  would,  which wasn’t 
much.  He  could  wait  on  customers  and 
keep  the  books  after  a  fashion,  but  so 
far  as  taking  charge  was  concerned,  he 
wasn’t  in  it  for a  minute. 
I  think  the 
old  man  saw  it,  but  he  was  too  grim  to 
admit  it,  even  to  himself.

When  the  boy  had  been  in  his father’s 
store  about  three  years  and  three  or 
our  months,  Jones  was  disabled  with  a 
paralytic  stroke  and  the  whole  burden 
of  the  business  was  suddenly  thrown 
upon  the son’s  shoulders.  He  made  as 
complete  a  failure  as  any  man  could 
possibly  make  and  the  business  un­
doubtedly  would  have gone  to  the  dogs 
if  the  old  man  hadn’t  partly  recovered 
after  a  few  weeks.  He  didn’t  get  able 
to go  about  or  to  do  any  work,  but  only 
recovered  his  clearness  of  mind.  This 
was  a  gigantic  aid  to  the  son,  who  de­
father’s 
pended  absolutely  upon  his 
say-so  for  everything.  The  son  ran  the 
store^ by  proxy_ for  several  months. 
11 
didn’t  do  quite  as  well  as  when  Jones 
himself  was  at  the  active  head;  that 
was  not  to  be  expected,  but 
it  went 
along  measurably  better  than  it  would 
have  done  had  the  son  run  it  himself.

The  old  man  died.  The  day  he  suc­
cumbed  to  a  third  paralytic  stroke  that 
store,  I  suppose,  was  doing  a  business 
of  $20,000 a  year. 
It  was  making  a liv­
ing  and  considerably  more  for  Jones, 
and  had  the  right  man  been  at the head, 
would  probably  be  doing  so  yet.
The  right  man  was  not  at  the  head, 
however.  The  son  made  break  after 
break.  Any  salesman  could 
impose  on 
him,  and  the  worst  of 
it  was  that  he 
didn’t  learn  by  experience.  He’d  get 
bitten  by  an  unfortunate  purchase  one 
week  only  to go  down  the  next.  Right 
and  left  he  caught  it,  and  his  name  was 
the  synonym  among  jobbers’  salesmen 
for  miles  around  for  pure  and  simple 
incompetency.

No  business  will  stand  this  sort  of 
thing  long,  and  the  grocery  business 
Jones  left  behind  soon began to crumble. 
The  son  was  utterly  incapable  of  sizing 
up  to  the  situation ;  but  remember  that 
it  was  not  he  who  placed  himself  in 
it.
I  was  in  this  town  one  day  about  two 
weeks  ago,  and  watched  the  sheriff  sell 
the  remnants  of  the  stock  Tones  took 
such  pride 
in  keeping  full  and  com­
plete.  The  son  had  failed  inside  of  two 
years  after  his  father’s  death.  He  took 
that  business  in  1895,  solvent,  prosper­
ous,  profitable,  owing  nothing,  and 
in 
1897  he  turned  it  over  to  the  sheriff. 
It 
was  a  clear case  of  wrecking—but  the 
son  wasn't  to  blame,  any  more  than  the 
chisel 
is  to  blame  for  the  misstroke  of 
the  stone  cutter.

I  saw  the  son  at  the  sale.  He  was  a 
prematurely-aged,  old-young  man,  with 
hair  gray  at  the  temples,  and  wearing 
the  genuine,  unmistakable  air  of  an 
unsuccessful  man.  His  clothes  were 
shabby,  his  shoulders  were  bowed ;  he 
had  been  the  square  peg  in  the  round 
hole.

I  don’t  believe  in  speaking  ill  of  the 
dead,  but  that  father  wrecked  his  son’s 
life 
just  as  surely  as  the  son  had 
wrecked  his  father’s  business.  He  had 
attempted  the  impossibility  of changing 
a  man’s  whole  bent  and  tendencies:  of 
setting  a  man  down  in  an  uncongenial 
environment  and  expecting  him  to  suc­
ceed............  

-  •

• 

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No  matter  what  may  be  your  requirements  in  the  line 
of printing,  there  is  an  establishment  in  Grand  Rapids  which
can  meet  your  requirements, 
The  establishment  is  known
as  the  .  .  .

T radesman

Company

and  it  is  located  in  one  of  the  finest  office  buildings  in  the 
city,  the  .  .  .

New Blodgett Building

occupying  two  floors,  each  66  x  132  feet  in  dimensions,  which 
is  the  largest  floor  space  utilized  by  any  printing  establish­
ment in  Western  Michigan.  Why  deal  with  establishments 
which  have  not  the  necessary  assortment  or  experience  to 
turn  out  first-class  work  when  the  same  money  will  buy  full- 
count,  full-weight,  artistic  work ?  Remember  we have the  .  .

Largest  Floor  Space 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather
Timely  Hints  for  Live  Retailers  of 

From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Josh  Billings  said:  “ Mi  dere  fellow, 
yu  kan’t  git  ennything  out  ov  this world 
unless  yu  ask  for  it,and  yu  ain’t a-goin’ 
to  git  mutch  ennyhow  unless  yu 
insist 
on  it.”

*   *   *

Shoes-

From  Italy  comes  the  latest  quick­
tanning  method,  which  requires  the 
usual  forty-eight  hours. 
It is  strikingly 
odd  that all  these  quick-tanning  meth­
ods  that  nobody  adopts 
require  just 
forty-eight  hours.

*  *  *

If  the  breast  of  the  heel  is blacked 
the  shoe  looks  neater,  but  sometimes 
appearance  is  not  so  much  the  cause  of 
the  blacking  thereof  as  the  quality  of 
stock  used  in  the  making  of  the  heel.

*  *  *

Shoe  workers'  wages  in  the  East  are 
being  reduced  quite  generally,  in  order 
that  manufacturers  may  cut  prices  to 
Western 
is  a  mistaken 
jobbers.  This 
policy  that  will  prove 
its  own  short­
comings  later on.
*  *  *

This  is  a  hard  year  for rubbers,  there­
fore  every  possible  advantage  must  be 
taken  of  every  rain,  no  matter  how 
slight.  Push  the  goods  out  early  and 
late.  Show  them 
in  the  window  with 
appropriate  cards  and  catchy  prices.

#  *  *

Impress  on  lady  customers  the  great 
importance  of  having  neat-appearing 
footwear. 
is  a  fact  that  untidy  or 
well-worn  shoes  spoil  any  costume,  and 
women  should  be  made  to  know  this. 
It  may  make them  buy  more  shoes.

It 

*  *  #

Patent  leather trimmings are  not 

in­
in  as  recklessly  as  they  were. 
dulged 
Especially 
in  cheap  shoes  elaborate 
decoration  was  the  rule  a  few  seasons 
ago,  but  the  tendency  now 
is  toward 
more  taste  and  less  glitter  in  ornamen­
tal  work.

*  

*  

*

For  wheelwomen  an  attachment  has 
been  patented  consisting  of  a  clasp 
which  fastens  to  the  shoe  top,  leggin  or 
stocking  and  is  connected  to  a  piece  of 
round  elastic  pinned  to  the  skirt,  pre 
venting  the  latter  being  blown  about  by 
the wind.

*  *  #

Women  who  have  large  feet  which 
they  do  not  feel  proud  of  can  have 
them  reduced  in  size  in  photographs  by 
the  use  of  a  microscope  lens  reversed 
There 
is  only  one  trouble  with  this 
scheme—it  is  only  practical  in  photo­
graphs and can’t outdo nature in real life. 
The  manufacturers of  a  medicated  in­
sole  designed  to  prevent  too 
liberal 
perspiration  of  the  feet  say,  “ Sweaty 
feet  are  the  cause  of  more  colds  and 
resulting  evils  than  all  other  causes 
combined.”   This  may  be  a  trifle  ex­
aggerated,  but  there  is a  great  deal  of 
truth  in  the assertion  just  the  same.

*  *  *

*  *  *

*

*  

Coin  toes are gaining  favor  for  wom­
en’s  wear  steadily.  Jobbers  who  have 
heretofore  stuck  to  Razor  and  Needle 
toes  with  persistence  are  leaving  them 
In 
and  going  to  the  round  toe  variety. 
the 
the  West  and  South,  however, 
pointed  style  goes  out  slowly. 
is 
likely  to  prove  permanent 
in  great 
measure.

It 

*  
Something  new 

for  the  bootblack 
stand  has  been  devised  which 
is  said 
to  hold  the  foot  in  proper  position.  On 
the  ordinary  stand  a  man  must  hear 
most  of  his  weight  on  his  foot  while 
getting  a  shine.  Otherwise 
it  slips 
about.  The  improvement  is  of  the  same 
order as  the  old-time  standard  used  by 
photographers  when  a  five-minute  ex 
posure  was  necessary.  A  rest  is  screwed 
up  against  the  back  of  the  foot  above 
the  heel,  not 
in  the  least 
with  the  manipulation  of  the  brushes.

interfering 
*  *  *

The  National  Recorder,  a  journal  for 
inventors,  gives  these  as  subjects  for

shoe  trade 
inventors  to  work  on.  An 
improved  construction  which  will  pre­
vent  the  entrance  of  water  through  the 
lacing  openings;  a  sole-cutting  ma­
chine  provided  with  means  whereby  the 
size  or  shape  of  the  sole  may  be  regu­
lated ;  a  simple  and  effective  stretcher 
which  is  adapted  to  stretch  the  shoe  at 
any  point  where  it  may  bind  upon  the 
foot  of  the  wearer;  a  device  for  creas­
ing  uppers,  which  may  be  used  either 
separately  or  as  an  attachment  to  a  shoe 
sewing  machine;  means  for  attaching 
India  rubber  to  soles  for  the  purpose  of 
making  the  same  water-tight  or 
for 
adapting  the  same  to  be  used  as  base 
ball  or  tennis  shoes,  where  it 
is  a  de­
sideratum  to  prevent  slipping.

*  *  *

Many  manufacturers  turn  out  splen­
did  samples  and  try  honestly  to  keep 
the  run  of  the  goods  fully  up  with  this 
mark,  but  fail  because  of  lack  of  uni­
formity.  Their  shoes  won't  run  smooth. 
One  pair  is  a  quarter too  good,  the  next 
a  quarter too  poor.  The  trouble  is  with 
the  workmen.  They  don’t  select  their 
stock  right.  Every  manufacturer  should 
make  his  foremen  and  responsible aides 
stand  on  their  own  bottoms. 
They 
should  be  paid  to  do  their  work  right 
and  should  be  made  to  do  it  right  all 
the  time  or  lose  their  heads.  Retailers 
should  keep  manufacturers  posted  in  a 
friendly  way  on  the  inequalities  in their 
goods.  The  chances  are  that  the  man­
ufacturer  is  as  much  bothered  about  the 
matter as  is  the  retailer,  and complaints 
in  caustic 
language  only  make  him 
pugnacious.

It 

“ To 

The  Window  Frosting  Nuisance.
There  is a  small  fortune  and  the  grat­
itude  of  thousands  of  window  dressers 
and  storekeepers 
in  store  for  the  man 
who  will  devise  some  way  of  keeping 
frost  from  windows.  The  nuisance  and 
all  the  loss  and  annoyance it causes have 
been  fully  discussed,  and  many  schemes 
have  been  tried  which  for  a  time  have 
seemed  successful.  There  are  partial 
remedies  for  the difficulty,such  as  keep­
ing the window inclosed and heated,orhy 
boring  holes,and,by  admitting  the  outer 
air,  preventing  the  sweating.  Liquid 
preparations  have  been  made also which 
were  thought  for  a  time  to  solve  the 
difficulty,  but  all  have  failed  of  com­
plete  success.  Any  of  the  plans  that 
have  been  mentioned  are  worth  trying, 
but  they  are  of  no  avail  in  case  of  a 
sudden  change  of  temperature  or  an  ex­
tremely  cold  day.

says: 

situation 

in  winter  time 

A  scientific  discussion  of  the  problem 
is  given  by  an  exchange,  and  some 
valuable  and  interesting  facts  are  given 
which  may  assist  some  one  to  the  solu­
tion. 
remedy  any 
trouble,  we  should first  get  at  the  cause; 
and  if  we  contrive  to  remove  the  cause, 
we  have  removed  the  trouble.  The rea­
son  frost,  as  we  term  it,  accumulates  on 
windows 
is  because 
moisture  condenses  on  the  glass,  and 
then,  the  glass  being  below  the  freezing 
point,  the  atoms  of  moisture  are  frozen. 
If  the  temperature  of  the  room  is  high 
enough  to  maintain  the  glass  above  the 
freezing  point,the  water  remains  fluid, 
and 
is  spoken  of  as 
“ steam  on  the  windows.”   Air  has  the 
property  of  keeping  in  mixture  a  cer­
tain  percentage  of  water,  in  the  shape 
of  transparent  vapor.  The  temperature 
of  the  air  in  a  great  degree  governs  the 
percentage  of  moisture.  In  winter  time, 
when  a  cold  air  is  prevailing,  there  is 
hut  little  moisture  in  the air;  and  when 
such  air 
is  heated  in  a  room,  it  lacks 
the  amount  of  water  which  should  ac­
company  the  temperature.  To  remedy 
this,  all  modern  heaters  have  water  at­
tachments,  to give  out  a  certain  amount 
of  vapor  to  c jrrect  the 
lack  of  the 
proper  humidity  of  the  air.  Probably, 
living  rooms,  the 
in  most  stores  and 
amount  of  water  diffused 
the  air 
would  be  the  proper  moisture  for  about 
60 degrees  F.  If  such  air comes  in  con­
tact  with  glass  or  metal  cooled  below 
the  freezing  point,  the  moisture  is  sure 
to  condense  and  freeze.  On  the  surface 
of  the  situation,  it  would  seem  that  we 
have  but  two  visible  solutions  to  the 
problem;  first,  to  keep  the  degree  of 
moisture  down  so  that  none  will  be  de­
posited  on  the  glass;  second,  to  keep

the 

in 

span

tears.

weadh,
and health.

People Who  Lift and People Who Lean.
Therp are two kinds of people on earth to-day, 
Just two kinds of people, no more, I ray.
Not IhPsfnner and saint  for’tis well understood 
The good are half bad and the bad are half good.
Not the rich and the poor, for  to  count a  man’s 
Tou  must  first know the state of his conscience 

the  glass  at  a  temperature  above  the 
condensing  point.  Neither  of  these 
plans 
is  practicable,  and  this,  in  a 
great  degree,  accounts  for  the  fact  that 
so  far  there  has  been  no  satisfactory 
plan  proposed  for  abating  this  mid­
winter  nuisance.  The best  plan  which 
has  ever  come  to  our  notice  has  been  to 
have  the  show  windows  built  as  bulk 
windows,  and  the  inner  sash  placed  so 
as  to  have  the  window  in  fact  a  com­
partment  by  itself.  This  will  remedy 
the  condensation *of  moisture  on  either 
the  outer or  inner glass  in  the  daytime. 
At  night,  if  gas or oil  lamps are burned 
in  the  show  windows,  the  combustion of 
such  gas  or oil  will  produce  moisture, 
and  condensation  will  follow.  Electric 
is,  of  course,  free  from  this 
lighting 
objection.  A  good 
illumination  for  a 
bulk  window»  constructed  as  described 
can  be  secured  by  placing  the  lights  in­
side  of  the  inner  glass,  and  throwing 
light  down  by  concave  reflectors. 
the 
The 
inner  sash  must  be  arranged  to 
have  small  glass  dcors,-to  permit  ac­
cess  to  the  window. ”

Not the  humble  and  proud,  for  in  life’s  little 
Who puts on vain airs is not counted a man.
Not the happy and sad. for Ihe swift flying years 
Bring eacn man his laughter  and  each  man  his 

No:  the two kinds of people on earth I mean, 
Are the people » ho lift and the people who lean.
Wherever you go yr>u will find the world's mssses 
Are always divided in just these two classes.
And oddly enough, you wi'l find, too, I ween, 
There is only one litter to twenty who lean.
In  which cla*-s are you?  Are you easing the load 
Of overtaxed lifters who toil down the road?
Or are you a leaner, who lets others bear 
Your portion of labor, and worry, and care?

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sonally  they  let  nothing  distract  their 
attention.  They  keep  their  eyes  fixed 
on  the  business  in hand  as  intently  as  if 
it  were a  triphammer or  a  buzzsaw 
in 
motion.

The  members  of  the  cash  brigade  are 
not  worrying 
themselves  personally 
about  what Congress  is  going  to  do  with 
the  financial  question,  or  the  reciproc­
ity  question,  or  the  revenue  question.
1 hey  are  not  losing  any  sleep  over the 
price  of  corn  or  farm products.  Things 
that  they  cannot  change  they  are  leav­
ing  to  time  and  to  the  men  who have 
been  elected  to  fix  them  right.  They 
are  going  on  the  theory  that  the  thing 
to  do  is  to  make  the  most  of  the  oppor 
tunities  at  hand,  and  that  if  these  are 
fewer  than  could  be  wished,  then  hit 
them  the  harder.

These  are  the  men  who  understand 
their  environment  and  who  have  the  in­
telligence  to  make  the  most  of  their 
possibilities.  They,  and  they  alone, 
are  to  be  the  successful  merchants  of 
the  future.

Three  years  of  the  civil  war  educated 
a  million  of  American  boys  into veteran 
soldiers  equal  to  any  that  ever  followed 
the  banners  of  Wellington  or  Napoleon. 
Three  years  of  business  depression  and 
uncertainty  have  produced  in  the  West­
ern  States a  brigade  of  experienced  vet­
eran  merchants  who  are  the  equals,  in 
skill  and  ability  for  conducting  their 
affairs,  of  any  merchants  that  the  com­
mercial  history  of  the  world  can  fur­
nish.  These  men  one  and  all  belong  to 
the  cash  brigade.

These  are  the  men  for  whom  the busi­
ness  triumphs  of  the  present  and  near 
future  are  reserved.  The  possibilities 
of  success  are  all  theirs. 
It  becomes 
clearer  every  day  that  the  merchant who 
wishes  to  prove  himself  the  man  for  the 
hour  and  the  circumstances  must  adjust 
himself  to  the  changed  conditions  that 
have  placed  the  cash  dealers  in  the van. 
These  men  have  been  the  first  to  de­
cipher  the  signs  of  the  times.  They 
fully  realize  that  they  must  buy  goods 
for  cash  and  save  their  discounts  if they 
would  make  a  profit  and  remain 
in 
business.

less 

it,  although 

Merchants  more  or 

isolated  in 
the  country  are  likely  to overlook  the 
sweeping  nature  of  this  change  for  the 
imperativeness  of  the  natural  forces  be­
hind  it.  Most  of  them  realize  that  the 
day  of  long  credits  is  disappearing,  but 
they  have  not  yet  awakened  to  the  fact 
that  to  cling  to  the  old  way  has  come 
to  mean  commercial  suicide.  Yet  to all 
who  can  see  things  from  a  great  center 
like  Chicago  the  truth  is  clear.  Less 
than  five  years  has  worked  a  revolu­
tion  in  the  conditions  affecting  success 
for  the  retailer.  The  hard  times  have 
hastened 
it  would  have 
come  in  any  event.  The  same economic 
laws  that  are  forcing  the  cash  system 
upon  the  retailer  are  at  work  in  other 
ways  upon  the  manufacturer  and  job­
ber.  The  tendency  toward  centraliza­
tion,  quick  turning  of  stocks,  and  cash 
buying  is  as  irresistible as  the  advance 
of  a  glacier.  The  only  men  in  the  com­
mercial  world  who  can  survive  and 
flourish  are  those  who  stand  from  under 
and  take  new  and  higher  ground.  That 
is  what  the  members  of  the cash brigade 
have  already  done,  and  what  every 
merchant  should  do  at  the  earliest  pos­
sible  moment.
Think  this  matter  over.  Make  up 
your  mind  that  the  only  way  to  succeed 
under  existing  circumstances  is  to  sell 
for  cash.  Join  the  cash  brigade!

Excelsior.

The shades of night were not yet drawn, 
W heuinam ill  where wood ixsawn,
A lot of boys were told to haul 
Away the stuff that Carvers call

Excelsior.

Soon 'neath these curls made Into packs,
They stagger forth with loaded oacks;
Across the way there stands a shop 
Where into bins they softly drop

Excelsior

Next day some skilled mechanics c^me;
Sharp need es ply;  swift shuttles hum;
Huge sacks are made  w  th corners square, 
And scheming hands deposit there

Excelsior.

Soon after this, a great big store
Hangs out the sig .:  ‘ For Sale  Some more
Of those hair mattresses, the kind
You want. ’  But here again we find

Excelsior.

In politics as well as trade 
Reforms are often likewise made.
Not of the hair  and wool they laud.
But of that cheap and shoddy fraud,

Exce’sior.

And  Destiny will somft'mes puff 
A  Prophet with snch fulsome stuff 
Th it in lh<* place of heart and brains 
The inquest shows in the remains

Excelsior.

in 

The 

saddle 

We  are  told  that  the  leading  attrac­
tion  at  the  Paris  Exposition  in  igoowill 
be  a  “ Big  Bike,”   the  largest  wheel 
ever  constructed. 
and 
handlebars  will  overtop  all  the  other 
buildings 
the  gay  city  of  Paris. 
Spiral  stairways  are  to  lead  up  through 
the  tires,  and  visitors  will  be  permitted 
to  ascend  for  “ a  price.”   The  back­
bone  of  the  great  bicycle  will  be  a  ban­
quet  hall,  where  at  one  long  table  600 
persons  can  sit  down  and  make  merry. 
The  saddle  will  be  a  platform  on  which 
100  people  can  be  accommodated  in  the 
open  air. 
In  the  handlebars  will  be 
vast  picture  galleries.

Hereafter  no  member  of  the  Masonic 
intoxi­
fraternity  in  Minnesota  can  sell 
cants,  and  100 persons  now  in  the  liquor 
business  will  be  expelled  from  the order 
if  they  do  not  change  their  occupation.

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

eta ts ma

DO  YOUR  FEET SLIP?

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

PINQ REE &   SM ITH,  Manufacturers.

. 

successors to

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SHOE  EYELETS.

One  of the  Few  Things  Sold  by  the 

Million.

There are  many  things  that  are  sold 
by  the  gross  and  not  a  few  that  are  sold 
by  the  thousand,  but  there  are  not many 
that  are  sold  by  the  million.  Among 
the  things  that  are  so  sold,  however,  are 
shoe  eyelets.

Shoe  eyelets  are  made  of  brass,  by 
machines  whose  operation  is  almost  en­
tirely  automatic.  Three  or  four  ma­
chines  are  required  to  produce  the  eye­
let  in  the  form  in  which  it  is  sold,  the 
brass  being  fed 
into  the  first  machine 
in  thin,  flat  strips.  As  sold  to  the  shoe 
manufacturer,  the  eyelet  is  turned  down 
at  one  end  only.  The  eyelets  look  as 
much  as  anything 
like  so  many  little 
hats  with  narrow  brims  and  without  any 
tops  in  the  crowns.  The  upper  end  of 
the  crown,  which  is  like  the  end  of  a 
little  cylinder,  is  put  through  the  eye­
let  hole 
in  the  shoe,  the  finished  brim 
or  flange  of  the  eyelet  resting  against 
the  leather  upon  the  outside.  After  the 
eyelet  has  this  been  put  in  place  its  in­
ner end  is  turned  down  upon  the  leather 
by  a  machine  made  for  that  purpose. 
In  the  manufacture  of  the  eyelets  a 
number  of  very  slight  vertical 
¡denta­
tions  are  made  at  equal  distances  apart 
in  the  outside  of  the  eyelet  around  the 
smooth,  straight  end.  When  the  shoe 
machine  smashes  down  the 
inner  side 
of  the  eyelet,  the metal  parts  at  these in­
dentations  and  is  spread uniformly,  thus 
giving  it  a  secure  hold.

Eyelets  are  made  of  various  sizes 

in 
diameter  and  of  various 
lengths  of 
shank  or  cylinder,  according  to  the 
thickness  of  the  material  with  which 
they  are  to  be  used;  and  after  they 
come  from  the  machines  they  are  fin­
ished 
in  great  variety.  Some  are  fin­
ished  white—these  are  silver-plated; 
some  are  gilt  finished  and  some are cop­
pered.  Eyelets are  Japanned  in  black 
or  in  various  shades  of  russet;  they  are, 
in  fact,  made 
in  any  size  and  of  any 
color  that  may  be  desired.  Sooner  or 
later  the  Japanning  wears  off,  Exposing 
the brass.  There  are  now  made  shoe 
eyelets  that  are  covered  with  celluloid, 
which  keep  their  color,  but  these  are 
more  expensive  than  the  kinds  com­
monly  used.

Shoe  eyelets  are  packed  in  boxes  con­
taining  1,000,  10,000, 
ioo.ooo,  250,000 
and  500,000  each.  Eyelets  of  the  kinds 
most  commonly  used  are  sold  according 
to  sizes  and  styles  at  prices  ranging 
from  $60  to  $135  a  million.  Some  of 
the  celluloid  covered  eyelets  sell  for  as 
much  as  $500 a  million.

The  sale  of  shoe  eyelets  depends,  of 
course,  somewhat  upon  the  prevailing 
style  of  shoe.  When  button  shoes are 
more  generally  worn  not  so  many  shoe 
eyelets  are  sold  through  their  sale  is  al­
ways  very  large.

Eyelets  are  made  for  a  wide  variety 
cf  uses,  up  to  the  great  eyelets  that  are 
sewed  into the  corners  of  sails,  through 
which  the  sail 
is  lashed  to  the  end  of 
the  boom  or  yard.  Taking  them  alto­
gether  the  number  is  enormous;  of  shoe 
eyelets  alone  there  are  sold 
this 
country  some  thousands  of  millions  an­
nually. 

_____

in 

Cash  Brigade  Possibilities.

Prom the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

It  cannot  be  too  thoroughly  impressed 
upon  the  merchants  of  the  West  that 
henceforth  they  must  do  business  under 
changed  conditions.  The  severe  de­
pression  and  competition  of  the  last 
three  years  have  produced  a  distinctive 
type  of  merchants,  who  may  be  collect­
ively  described  as  the  cash  brigade.

Even  during  the  darkest  times  the 
merchants  of  this brigade  have  actually 
made  some  money.  Why?  Because 
they are  personally  alert,  active,  aggres­
sive  men,  with  the  business  insight  to 
see  the  change  taking  place  in  their 
conditions.  They  push  their  business, 
push  their employes,  push  their  compet­
itors,  push  themselves.  They  are  cash 
buyers,  cash  sellers,  and  continuous, 
careful  advertisers.  Their  stores  are 
clean,  attractive, 
inviting;  they  insist 
on  that.  Their  employes  are  obliging, 
appreciative;  they  must  be.  And  per­

There  are  two  things  in  a  woman  that 
the  man  of  refinement  admires  fqually 
as  much  as,  if  not  more  than,  beauty, 
and  those  are  a  pleasant  voice  and  a 
cheerful  disposition.  There 
is  not  a 
man  in  the  world  brave  enough  to  cope 
with  a  woman  who  whines.  He  will  put 
himself  to  any  amount  of  trouble  to 
avoid  her.  Fortunately,  though,  whin­
ing  is  going  out  of  fashion. 
It  is  now 
considered,  and  rightly,  more  womanlv 
to  meet  trials  and  troubles,  both  small 
and  great,  cheerfully. 
If  your  trouble 
be  a  great  one,  however,  you  may  risk 
telling 
it  to  your  best  man  friend,  be 
he  lover  or brother,  feeling  sure  that  be 
will  do  his  best  to aid  you ;  but  never 
venture  meeting  him  with  a  bundle  of 
imaginary  woes.

V O IG T ,  H E R P O L S H  E 1 M E R   St  O O .

" 

W H O L E S A L E   D R Y   G O O D S .

© R A N D   R A P I D S .  M IC H .

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fruits  and  Produce.
An  Average  Egg—Advantages  of Cold 

Storage.

Correspondence  Minneapolis  Commercial  Bul-
1  tin.
Dirty  eggs  are  a  disgrace  to  the  ship­
per  and  salted  eggs  are  a  disgust  to  the 
receiver.  No  hen  was  ever  guilty  of 
producing  either  variety,  so  the  de­
moralizing  touch  of  man  comes  in  to 
reduce  the  grade  and 
lower  the  cash 
value  of  the average  egg.

How  can  a  salted  egg  remain  a  fresh 
egg?  How  can  “ salt  junk”   still  be  a 
juicv  roast?  How  can  salted  mackerel 
continue  to  carry  in  stock  the  freshness 
and  richness  of  early  youth?

There  is no  law  against  salting  eggs— 
even  our  game  law  doesn’t  touch  the 
case,so the thoughtful housewife can con­
tinue  to  provide  for  winter’s  needs from 
summer's  abundance  as  long  as  the  salt 
holds  out  and  the  hens  don't  strike,  but 
it  is  an  awful  sin  to  swindle  the  unsus­
pecting  storekeeper  with  the  result  of 
her  imprudent  prudence.

What  is  the  matter  with  salted  eggs? 
Let  me  tell  you.  The  first  act  of  salt  on 
an  egg 
is  to  knock  out  the  one,  only, 
overtowering  virtue  it  has,  which  is  its 
freshness.  Then  follows  the  next  stage 
of  the  disease and  the  albumen  shrinks 
away  and  the  yolk  hardens  and  becomes 
attached  to  the  shell,  and  the  “ X  rays’ ’ 
of  a  candle  reveal  a  vacuum  where 
once  fulness  existed,  and  worthlessness 
where  once  real  value  was  in  sight.

It 

There 

is,  then,  no  law  prohibiting 
the  salting  of  eggs,  and  we  have  no  ob­
jections  to  raise  against  it,  but  we  d< 
object  to  marketing  salted  eggs,  for 
ii 
this  lies  the  “ overt  act"  of  which  wr 
complain.

To  sum  up  the  case,  we  would  say. 
the  only  strictly  honest  thing  an  ege 
salter  can  do 
is  to  keep  the  salted 
stock  for  home  consumption,  and  never, 
under any  circumstances,  allow  it  to  go 
into  circulation  under  the  cover  of  a 
saline  falsehood.
The  mummy  of  Potipheri  VII.  comes 
nearer  being  a  plump,  healthy  man  of 
the  present  Anno  Domini  than  a  salted 
egg  does  to  being  a  fresh  one.

is  an  axiom  that  quality 

is  the 
prime  essential  on  which  grade  is  fixed 
and  value  established,  but  in  the 
item 
of  eggs,  quantitv  is  a  parallel  virtue, 
and  as  long  as  they  are  sold  by  count, 
this  factor  will  hold  good.

Those  “ cute  little  eggs,”   the  foot­
note  of  the  litter,  the  appendix  to  the 
nestful,  the  terminal  cackle  of  that 
series  that  count  one  but  are  not  really 
half  a  one,  and  which  slip  out  of  dis­
honest  fingers  under  the  convenient  de 
ception  that  “  Aneggzanegg, ”   is another 
unpleasant  feature at  the  market  end  of 
the  transaction.

We  would  draw  the  line  at  Guinea 
eggs,  which  belong  to  the  “ under-size 
grade,"  and  with  them  all of those half- 
grown  samples  of  what  a  hen  usually 
carries  in  stock.

An  average  egg 

is  what  an  average 
hen  will  produce  in  the  discharge  of  an 
average  day’s  work,  and  the  average 
buyer  wants  an  average  egg  every  time. 
is  the  equilibrium  of  trade—the 
This 
“ value 
received”   of  merchandising 
where  sixteen  ounces  are  given  for a 
pound  and  thirty-six 
inches  make  a 
yard.  Our  counsel  is,  that  you  save such 
hen  effotts  at  home—this  is  to  the  poul­
try  raiser—and  if  the  country  merchant 
is  foolish  enough  to  “ take  them  in,”  
we  would  most  heartily  counsel  him  to 
be  wise  enough  not  to  ship  them to mar­
ket.

Cleanliness  and  freshness  and  size- 
ness  are  the  three  prime  factors  that 
constitute  “ An  Average  E g g ;”   there­
fore,  be  clean,  be  good,  be  honest,  and 
stand  by  the  hen  that  lays  a  standard

There  are  several  kinds of  cold  stor­
age.  When 
it  came  to  be  popular  to 
ship  eggs  any  distance,  the  pasteboard 
egg  case  was  invented.  Before  that  date 
eggs  were  packed  in  oats,  bran,  straw 
and  anything  that  might  keep 
them 
whole  on  their  travels.  But  the  egg 
case  has  proven  the  thing  that  fills  the

bill.  But  this  same  case  is  liable  to  be 
a  detriment  to the  egg  in  storage.  The 
paper  about  the  egg  collects  the  damp­
ness  about  the  storage room and,  becom­
ing  musty,  makes  the  egg  taste.  Every­
one  knows  that  an  egg  is  almost  as  sen­
sitive to  taints  i' d  the  atmosphere  about 
it  as  a  roll  of  butter  is. 
It  is  simply  a 
little  slower  about 
it,  because  a  little 
thicker  skinned.  The  egg,  then,  lying 
in  its  musty  case,  will take up  the musty 
smell,  and  when 
it  comes  to  you  on 
toast  at  the  table  you  detect  the  smell, 
and  know  it  for a  storage  egg.  To save 
this’loss  from  dampness  is  the  last  step 
in  the  advance  of  storage  for  eggs.  The 
chemical  storage  plan  is  about  as  near 
this  as  anything  can  be. 
If  eggs  can 
he  placed  in  a  room,  set  by  a  button  to 
a  certain  temperature  not  to  be  changed 
a  degree,  and  with  no  ice  within  reach 
to  dampen  the  atmosphere,  the  liability 
to  dampness 
in  .the  egg  cases  is  very 
slight,  and  this  is  the  idea  of  chemical 
storage.  This  helps  the hen amazingly. 
She  can  lav  her  eggs  in  the  warm  sea­
son.  the  which  men gather  up  and store, 
and  during  the  cold  months  she  can  rest 
and  refresh  herself—or  refresh  man  by 
following  her  eggs  to  market.  This 
storage  scheme 
is  also  a  great  aid  to 
the  men  who  eat  eggs,  for  it  keeps  the 
market  lower than  it otherwise would be. 
Before  the  storage  scheme,  and  when 
the  egg  supply  has  been cut off from this 
market  by  snowdrifts,  I am told by  com­
mission  men  that  eggs  have  gone  as 
high  as  K2  cents  a  dozen,  and  that  eggs 
had  to  be  kept  locked  up  in  burglar- 
proof  rooms  as  coal  has  sometimes  had 
ro  he  when  the trust  wanted  to  make  a 
little  money  on  the  side.  But  the  mar­
ket  cannot  go  very  high  these  days,  all 
because  some  thoughtful  men  gather 
»-ggs  in  the  spring  and store them.  Here 
comes  the  difference  between  the  civi­
lized  man  and  the  savage.  The  former 
can  sit  by  his  fire  and  eat  eggs  at  ii 
cents  a  dozen,  while  the  savage  could 
-at  eggs  only 
in  the  egg  season,  and 
then  he  had  to  let  himself  over  high 
cliffs  and  imperil  his  neck  to  get  a  few 
gulls’  eggs  with  a  rank,  fishy  flavor.
Why  Men  Do  Not Talk Shop at  Home.
“ I’m  so  glad  to  find  you  in,”   said 
Mrs  Brown,  as  she  entered  her  hus­
bands’  office;  “ I  was  afraid  you  might 
he  out,  and  I  have  so  much  to  tell  you, 
dear.”   “ Something  very  important?” 
replied  Brown 
interrogatively,  and  in 
a  tone  which  plainly  said,  “ Couldn't 
vou  have  waited  until  evening?  You 
see  I’m  awfully  busy.”   And  he  turned 
to  the  papers  upon  his  desk  as  a  hint 
that  he  hadn’t  a  moment  to  spare. 
“ Well,  no,  perhaps  not  so  very  impor­
tant,”   said  Mrs.  Brown,  paying  no  at­
tention  to  her  husband’s  discourage­
ment;  “ but  then  it  is  so  nice  and  cozy 
here,  and  you  know  we  don’t  often have 
a  chance  for  a  quiet  talk  together.”  
“ Aren’t  I  home— ”   “ Oh,  yes,  Henry; 
vou  are  home  every  evening;  I’ll  say 
that  to  your  credit.  But  it  is  so nice  to 
come  here  and  see you.  *' But,  then. 
I’m  pretty  busy  this  morning.”   “ I 
know;  but  I  must  tell  you  what  that girl 
of  ours  has  done.  After  breakfast  this 
morning,  she  hadn’t  a  bit  of  hot  water 
to  wash  the  dishes  in,  and  her  work  was 
delaved  a  good  half-hour 
conse­
quence.”   “ But,  my  dear— ”   “ I  know 
what  you  are  going  to  say.  You  think 
I  ought  to  give  her  a  good  talking  to 
And  so  I  did  But  what  does  it  amount 
to?  Only  last  week  I  told  her  to  shut 
her  dampers  so’s  the  oven  would  heat, 
and  when  I  went  into  the  kitchen  they 
were  wide  open  and  the  coal  was almost 
burnt  out  and  the  oven  was  as  cold  as  a 
stone.”  
“ I’m  afraid,  my  dear— ”   in­
terrupted  Brown,  taking  up  a  new  lot 
“ Of  course  you  are  afraid, 
of  papers. 
Henry,  and  so  am  I. 
I  expect  nothing 
else  but  that  there  will  be  an  explosion 
or  something  one  of  these  days.  And, 
by  the  way,  did  I  tell  you  that  another 
of  those  Wedgwood  cups  was broken? 
It’s  the  third  within  a  month  Really, 
I  believe  I  shall  go  distracted.  And 
there’s  that  new  carpet  in  the  hall;  it’s 
a  sight  to  behold.  The buffalo  moths 
have  got 
it  and  you  could  shoot 
peas  through  any  part  of"  it.  And  that 
reminds  me  that  we  didn’t  get  the 
clothes dry on  Monday,  and—”  “ But,

into 

in 

my  dear,”   broke  in  Brown,  " I ’ve  got 
work  to  do.  Of  course,  I  sympathize 
with  you,  but  I  can’t,  really  cannot, 
listen  to  you  now.  Why  don’t  you  tell 
of  these  things  when  I’m  at  home?”  
“ Why,  Henry  Brown !”  exclaimed  Mrs. 
“ Tel!  you  when  you  are  at  home? 
B. 
The 
idea!  Don’t  you  have  so  many 
other  things  to  talk  about  when  you  are 
at  home?  How  could  I 
interrupt  you 
to  talk  about  my  domestic  affairs  when 
you  have  so  much, to tell  me  about  the 
way  the  office  boy  tires  you,  and  about 
the  distracting  manner  in  which  your 
partner  refuses  to do  things  as  you  want 
them  done,  and  what  a  nuisance  that 
Mr.  Robinson  is  who  never  knows when 
to  go,  and  about  the  bad  spelling  of 
your  type-writer,  and—  Why,  Henry, 
aren’t  my  evenings  sacred  to  your  busi­
ness affairs?  How  can  you  ask  me  why

1  don’t  tell  you  about  household  matters 
when  you  are  at  home?  But  I  must  be 
going. 
I’ll  try  to  come  in  again  in  an 
hour  or  so.”   Mrs.  Brown  did  not  come 
is  a 
in  again  in  an  hour  or  so.  But 
from  and 
curious  circumstance  that 
after  that  visit.  Brown  never 
talked 
shop  at  home.

it 

License  for  Foreign  Salesmen.

Representative  Fischer,of  New  York, 
has 
introduced  a  bill  requiring  a  sales­
man  from  a  foreign  country  to  procure 
a  license  from  the  collector  of  each 
in­
in  which  he 
ternal  revenue  district 
transacts  business.  The  license  fee 
is 
fixed  at  $500,  and  a  penalty  of  $1,000  is 
prescribed.  The  bill 
is  urged  by  the 
Merchant  Tailors’  Association  of  the 
United  States  and  by  various  importers 
of  New  York.

H E N   F R U I T - * * “—

Is  always  seasonable.  Eggs  “just  laid”  get 
the  very  highest  market  price  with  me.
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17

What  effect  has  such  employment  on 

the  moral  aspect  of  the  community?

New  England  Apple-Growers  Melan­

choly.

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  Jan.  30— Local  trading has 
been  seriously  hampered  by  extreme 
cold,  making  it  very  dangerous  to  ship 
fruits,  and  after  the cold  came the snow, 
which  has  delayed  shipments  to  some 
extent,  although,  with our present street­
cleaning  facilities,  snow  doesn't  loaf 
around  very  long.  With these exceptions 
we  have  had  a  fair average  trade  and 
jobbers  are  fairly  well  pleased  with  the 
outlook.  An  encouraging  incident,  too, 
is  the  favor  with  which  Lyman  Gage’s 
appointment  as  Secretary  of  the  Treas­
ury  is  regarded.  With  so  representative 
a  man  at  the  head  of  this  bureau,  our- 
dealers  are  already  looking  ahead  with 
unwonted  confidence.  Trade  is  bound 
to  take  a  new  lease  of  life  at  once  and 
we  shall  soon  be  in  the  full  tide  of  re­
turning  prosperity.  So  mote  it  be!

to  bring  package  coffees 

A  result  of  the  coffee-sugar  war  has 
into 
been 
prominence 
in  the  East.  Heretofore 
one  might  run  his  legs  off  in  this  city 
looking  for  “ Ariosa,”   or,  in  fact,  for 
any  other  coffee 
in  packages,  without 
finding  it,  and  such  has  been  the  case 
in  other  cities.  But  now  we  will  have 
coffee  in  packages  and  sugar 
in  “ car­
tons,”   each  weighing  exactly  a  certain 
amount—no  more,  no  less.  Your  cor­
respondent  has  frequently purchased two 
pounds  of  coffee,  which  was  weighed by 
careless  clerks  and  actually  overran 
from  two  to  four  ounces  the  amount 
actually  paid 
for.  Now  the  patent 
weighers  “ split  a  hair, ”   and  here  is 
where  one  of  the  “ economies”   of  the 
trust  or  monopoly  comes  in.  During 
the  week  the  deliveries  of  Brazil  coffee 
have  been  very 
large,  amounting  to 
109,152  bags,  against  79,000  hags  last 
week.  The  market  closes  lower  for  No. 
7,  which  is  quotable  at qj£c.  For  mild 
grades  the  demand  has  been  of a  fairly 
satisfactory  character  and  the  position 
is  strongly  in  favor  of  holders.  Mocha,
22>^@23C.

The  demand  for  sugar  has  been 

light 
and  rather  unsatisfactory  for  refined, 
with  quotations  unchanged  from  a  week 
ago.  Stocks  are 
increasing  in  a  man­
ner  by  no  means  satisfactory  and  the 
result  is  that  raws  are  very  dull,  neither 
refiners  nor 
importers  showing  any  in­
terest  in  the  situation.  Orders  for  re­
fined  by  mail  have  been  infrequent  and 
buyers  in  person  have  been  few  and  far 
between.

Sales of  invoice  lots  of  teas  have  not 
been  made.  At  auction  slight  interest 
was  displayed,  and  yet  the  general  tone 
of  the  market  is  better  than  in  the  past.
In  rice  the  condition  of  affairs  is very 
satisfactory,  a  very  good  demand  pre 
vailing  here  both  for  foreign  and  do­
mestic,  with 
the  former  taking  the 
preference,  as  a  general  thing.  Orders 
have  come  from  all  parts  of  the  country 
and  especially  from  the  South.  Java, 
4 c;  Japan,  xj&c.

Singapore  pepper  is  making  a  record 
and  other  peppers  are  acting 
in  sym­
pathy  therewith.  Advices  from  abroad 
are  very  strong  for  this  line  of  goods 
Other  spices  are  moving  slowly.  Prices 
are  practically  unchanged,  although  the 
probability 
is  that  we  shall  have  no 
lower  figures  on  anything.
There  is  a  quiet  market 

in  molasses 
for  the  general  run  of  goods,  but  for 
fancy  sorts  of  New  Orleans  there  is  a 
steady  enquiry  from  many  quarters  and 
stocks are  pretty  well cleaned up.  Prices 
are  practically  the  same  as  have  pre­
vailed  for  some  time.  Syrups  are  in 
light  request,  although,  as 
is  the  case 
with  molasses,  for  extra  fine  goods  the 
enquiry  is  sufficient  to  keep  stocks  well 
in  band.

Canned  goods are  mighty  quiet.  The 
recent  advance  has  taken  a  step  back­
ward  and  we  have  a  dull  and  dragging 
tone  to  the  whole  range  of  goods.  Some 
articles—notably  tomatoes,  peas,  apri­
cots 
gallon  apples—have  been 
shaded  2 }^@SC  rather  than  lose  a  cus­
tomer.  Strandard  No.  3  Jersey  tomatoes 
are  held  at  80c 
in  New  York —if  the 
If  not,  he  will  take 
holder  can  get  it. 
77^c.  Salmon 
is  steady  and  without

and 

is 

particular  change. 
simply  to  fill  everyday  wants.

The  demand 

In  foreign  green  fruits,  as  noted,  the 
weather  has  been  “ agi’n”   shipments. 
Little  business  has  been  done  and  at 
prices  showing  about  the  same  range 
that  has  prevailed  for  some  time.  Some 
is  felt  as  to  the  effects  of  the 
anxiety 
cold  wave  in  the  Far South. 
If  Florida 
has  suffered  a  setback  like  that  of  a  few 
winters  ago, 
it  will  be  a  paralyzing 
stroke.

In  dried  fruits  prices  show  no  partic­
ular  improvement  and  this  is  especially 
true  of  domestic  fruits,  evaporated  ap- 
oles  and  the  smaller  varieties. 
In  for­
eign  dried  the  demand  is  of  an  average 
character.
light 
and  the  receipts,  while  not  especially 
large,  are  still  sufficiently  ample 
t<* 
prevent  any  advance 
in  rates  and  the 
outlook  is  not  particularly  encouraging 
for  holders.

In  butter  the  demand  has  been 

The  cheese  market  is  strong.  Stocks 
are  light  and  prices  are  very  firm.  Full 
cream,  1114c.

The  cold  weather  has  curtailed  the 
supply  of  eggs and  prices  show  a  sharp 
upward  tendency.  Best Western  are held 
from  I7@tgc.
Beans  are  steady  and  without  notice­
able  change. 
Pea  beans,  95(^97}£c ; 
medium  are  held firmly at St.o5@i.o7)4-
The  sales  of  one  of  the  big  depart­
ment  stores  here  aggregated  for  the  last 
four  months  of  1896 83,000,000  or  8750,- 
000  per  month.  Considering  that  it  was 
a  year  of  political  excitement, 
the 
amount  can  be  considered  fairly  good.

The  Minnesota  Legislature  After  the 

Department  Stores.

resolution 

The  State  Senate  of  Minnesota,  under 
a 
introduced  by  Senator 
Theden,  of  Minneapolis,  has  appointed 
a  committee  for  the  investigation  of  the 
methods  of  department  stores.  The fol­
lowing  are  some  of  the  questions  put  to 
the  owners  of  special  retail  stores:

Are  they  (department  stores),  in  your 
opinion,  good  or  evil  enterprises  for the 
city  or  state?

In  what  way  do  you  believe  them  to 
be  an  injury?  Have  they  competed  with 
or  injured  your business  in  any  way?

Is  it  true  that  in  your  line you can sell 
many  specialties  as  cheap  as  they  are 
now  sold 
in  department  stores  as  per 
their  advertising?

Why  do you  not  advertise  in  a similar 

manner?

Have  you  any  knowledge of  the  going 
out  of  business  by  retailers  from  the ad­
vent of  the  department  stores?

Have  rents  depreciated  during  the 

past  six  years?

What  has  been  the  effect  of  the  de­
cline  in  the  number of  independent  re­
tailers in your city-  laborers,  mechanics 
lawyers,  doctors,  church  revenues,  job 
bers,  brokers,  manufacturers?

Do  you  think  the  quality  of  the  goods 
sold  by  department  stores  equal  to  that 
of  those  sold  by the  regular  dealers?

Are  department  store  clerks  of  equal 

ability  to  ordinary  store  clerks?

Are  their  wages  about  the  same  as 

those  paid  in  ordinary  retail  stores?

Is  it  not  a  fact  that  department  stores 
employ  mostly  female  and  chdd  labor?
If  so,  does  this  not  deprive many men 
with  families  of  employment  in this and 
many  other  lines  which  have  hitherto 
been  a  certain  and  safe  source  of  liveli­
hood?

Can  a  like  degree  of  trade,  culture, 
morality  and  property  be  maintained  in 
a  city  where  the trade  is  a  monopoly?

Do  department  stores  advertise  at  low 
prices  goods  which  they  do  not  have 
when  called  for,  or  have  in  such  small 
quantities  that  they  are  disposed  of  to  a 
few  early  buyers,  and  late  comers  take 
other goods  at  high  prices?

The  following  are  from  the  list  asked 
of  the  department  store  representatives:
it  possible  for  a 
woman  to  live  comfortably  on  the  aver­
age  or  lowest  wages  you  pay?

Do  you  consider 

What  methods  do  you  pursue to attract 

trade?

How  much  did  your  advertising 

amount  to  during  the  past  year?

Do  you  advertise  tc  sell goods cheaper

than  a  non-department  store? 
how  and  why  can  you  sell  cheaper?

Can  the  small  stores  maintain  their 
standard,  or  must  they  give  way  to  the 
new  methods  of  doing  business?

Is  it  not  true  that  poor  wages  make  a 

If  so, 

poor  standard  of  living?

of  labor  organizations:

Do  you  ever  advertise  genuine  goods 
and  replace  them  with  seconds  at  sale?
The  following  are  from  the  list  asked 
In  your  judgment,  is  the  wages  paid 
by  department  stores  to  men  with  fam­
ilies  sufficient  to  maintain  a  family 
comfortably?
In  your  estimation,  is  it  possible  for 
a  young  woman  without  a  home  to  sup­
port  and  clothe  herself  comfortably  on 
four  dollars  per  week?

In  your  opinion,  has  the  advent of  de­
partment  stores  brought  with  it  a  de­
mand  for  cheaper  labor?

In  your  opinion,  what  effect  has  the 
employment  of  men  and  women  in  de­
partment  stores  on  the  marriage  statis­
tics  of  the  country?

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from  apple  shipments  to  England  from 
Hillsborough  county  this  season  show
the business  to  have  been  a  dismal  fail­
ure,  and  on  the  last  lot  shipped  abroad 
the  farmers  will  not  only  not  make  a 
profit,  but  will  be  obliged  to  lose  the 
apples  and  pay  a  charge  of  1 %  cents  on 
every  barrel.  This  is  the most disastrous 
apple  year  in  the  history  of  the  coun­
try.  The  actual  cost  per  barrel  was  60 
cents.  For  the  various  shipments  the 
farmers  have  received  90  cents,  84,  80, 
50,  48,  47^,  iQ/i,  and  on  the  last  ship­
ment  there  is  a  charge  of  \%  cents  per 

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The  Indian  Brave  longs  for  the  good  old 
times when hunting was easy;  and  in

The Ghost Dance 

IS

he thinks he sees  the  signs  of  their  return. 
Of course he is doomed to

Disappointment

But so  likewise  is  the  Business  Man  who 
sighs for the days when trade came unasked; 
and thus spends his time in

S   Hugging a Phantom &

instead  of  meeting  modern  competition 
with modern  methods.

Hunting  is  better tban  Dancing,  for Indians. 
Advertising  is better  tban  Waiting,  for Business Men.

If interested in the When?  What?  Where?  and  How?  of Ad­

vertising,  consult the

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapids.

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Clerks’  Corner

Avoid  Too  Much  Familiarity—Keep 

Good  Company.

if 

if 

It 

People  are  touchy  on  the  subject  of 
their names. 
If  you  can’t  remember a 
customer’s  name or  can’t  recall  it  don’t 
give  the  fact  away  by  continually  call­
ing  him  “ M r.”   and  then  end  it  with  a 
pause.  Let  the  name go entirely.  Say, 
“ sir”   or  “ ma’am”  
it’s  an  elderly 
person  and 
it’s  a  young  person  you 
can  best  dispense  with  all  titles.  Act 
as 
if  you  knew  the  name  perfectly. 
Sometimes  it  will  happen  that  the name 
of your  best  friend  will  get  chased  away 
into  the  cobwebby  corner  of  your  mind 
and  you  can't  remember  it,  although  it 
may  be  the  commonest  name 
in  the 
calendar. 
is  always  well  to  know 
and  use  the  customer’s  name  if  pos­
sible,  although  not  the  Christian  name 
on  too  short  acquaintance.  Strangers 
should  be  left  nameless  rather  than  the 
name asked  and  then  used. 
If  a  stran­
ger orders a  thing  delivered,  it  is  time 
enough  to  ask  for  the  name. 
If  pos­
sible,  the  name should  be  obtained  from 
some  other source and  carefully remem­
bered. 
It  pleases  any  customer  to  be 
addressed  by  his  name  when  he  doesn’t 
If  on  his  second  visit  a 
expect  it. 
stranger’s  name 
is  not  known,  he  is  a 
little  put  out.  He  thinks  the  store  is  of 
a  chilly  character. 
If,  however,  his 
second  call  finds  him  greeted  as  though 
he  were an  old  patron,  and  he  is wished, 
a  good  morning  with  his  name  attached 
thereto,  he  sets  the  place  down  as alive, 
anxious to  please  and  a  good  place  to 
trade.

*  *  *

No  clerk  is  too  good  to  wait  upon  any 
If  you don’t

customer—remember  that. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

want  to  attend  to  the  wants  of  any 
patron  who  may  come  in  you  had  best 
get  out  of  the  clerking  business. 
It’s 
galling  sometimes  to  wait on  a  certain 
class  of  trade,  but  in  the  clerk's  posi­
tion  one  must  make  up  his  mind  to 
grin  and  bear 
it  or  he  will  not  prove 
popular  with  his  employer.

*   *   *

indifferent  clerk  is  a  store  nui­
An 
sance. 
If  a  clerk  takes  no  interest  in 
his  work,  merely  attending  to  business 
because  it's  the  best  job  he  can  get,  he 
is  not  only  wasting  good  time,  but  in­
juring  his  employer  as  well.  The  mer­
chant  who  employs  an  indifferent  clerk 
should  soon  learn  his  failing  and 
if  he 
continues  to  offend  should  fire  him  bod­
ily.  A  slighted  customer  will  not  forget 
the  slight.  Nor  will 
it  be  charged 
against  the  clerk  merely,  but  against 
the  store.

*   *   *

Of  poor  policies,  that  of  cutting  the 
price  when  a  customer  starts  to  leave  is 
one  of  the  worst.  It  makes  the  customer 
suspicious. 
The  average  person  has 
more  respect  for a  one-price  house  than 
for  one  that  shades  prices  on  the  slight­
est  pretext.  Moreover,  such  a  store 
soon  becomes  known  and  its  peculiarity 
taken  advantage of.  Nobody  will  buy 
except  after  a  tedious  process  of  beat­
ing-down  until  they  believe  they  have 
reached  the  very  bottom.  One  price 
is  the  only  rule  for  a  successful  mer­
chant 
in  a  good  comumnity,  but  that 
one  price  need  not  be  a  high  one  by 
any  means.

*  

*  

*

When  the  clerk  of  good 

judgment 
leaves  an  employer he  will  do  so  with  a 
clean  sheet  behind  him 
if  possible. 
Aiding  in  the  circulation  of  dispara­
ging stories.giving away business secrets

or  speaking  in  a  slighting  manner  of  a 
former  employer  is  mighty  poor  policy 
if  not  worse.  No  man 
is a  hero  to  his 
it  may  be  desirable 
valet.  Sometime 
to  have  a  friend 
in  the  person  of  the 
former  employer.  Circumstances  alter 
wonderfully 
If 
good  cannot  be  said,  say  nothing.

twelve-month. 

in  a 

*  #  *

There  are  better  places  to  loaf  than 
around  billiard  rooms,  saloons  and 
liv­
ery  stables.  If  you  have  more  time  than 
you  can  use,  get  a  bicycle  and  ride 
it, 
go  fishing,  go  and  see  your  girl,  read, 
write,  study 
literature,  mathematics, 
music,  take  exercise—anything  but  loaf 
around  where  “ sporting”   is  the  princi­
pal  topic  of  conversation.  It  is  unfortu­
nate 
the  honorable  old  term 
“ sport"  has  fallen  so  low  that  it  is  al­
most  a  synonym  for “ fake”  or “ cheat. ”

that 

*   *   *

The clerk  who  takes  pride  in  his pop­
ularity  with  customers 
is  on  the  right 
track  if  he  doesn’t  permit  pride  to  de­
velop 
into  the  big  head.  When  a 
clerk's  good  opninon  of  himself  leads 
him  to  be  overhearing  to  the  other 
clerks,and  to  pick  the  customers  he will 
favor  with  his  attention,  he  has  struck 
the  toboggan  slide  sure.  The  alert  em­
ployer  notices  things.  So  do  customers. 
So  do  the  other  clerks. 
It  doesn’t  take 
long,  and  pretty  quick  there’s  a  sudden 
dull  thud  and  a  clerk  is  out  of  a  job.

*  *  V

Employfers  are  usually  better  posted 
on  the  clerk’s  shortcomings and  good 
points  than  the  clerk  imagines.  There 
are  few  employers  who  cannot tell pretty 
nearly  what  each  clerk  is  worth  to  them 
and  what  one  is  not  worth  much.  Try­
ing  to  fool  the  boss  is  seldom profitable. 
—Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

Cash  Prize  and  Diploma 

Essay.

for  Best 

in 

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 

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

Each  essay  must  be  marked  with  a 
fictitious  name,  the  real  name  of  the 
in  a  sealed  en­
writer  being  enclosed 
velope  and  sent 
in  the  same  package 
with  the  essay.
The  prize  will  be  awarded  by  a  com­
mittee  of  three  judges,  one chosen  by 
the  editor  of  the  Michigan  Tradesman 
and  one  by  us,  these  two  to  choose  the 
third  judge.

Some  of  the  essays  entered 

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

The  essay  to  which  the  prize 

N a tio n a l  C ash  R e g is t e r   Co.

Mile.  Borniche,  an 

eccentric  old 
lady  who  died  some  time  ago  in  Paris, 
leaving  a  fortune  of $600,000,  had  one 
extraordinary  diversion.  She  used  to 
have  herself  wheeled  about  the  town 
of  Mary-sur-Marne  in  a  wheelbarrow, 
to  the  intense  delight  of  the  small  boys 
of  the  place,  who  acted  as  her  body­
guard.  She  used  to  make  her  gardener 
count  all  his  fruit  daily,  and  one  of  her 
whims  was  to  have  fresh  vine  leaves 
put  on  her  statues  of gods and goddesses 
every  morning.  Now  her  will  is  being 
contested  by  her  heirs.

JAMO
BISMARCK 
CAROYI

♦

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A  Hamilton  Drummer  Proves  Himself 

a  Modern  Job.

Written for the  T radesman.

‘  Nice  roads  now,”   said  the  Simcoe 
liveryman,  as  he  unbuttoned  his  fur 
overcoat  and  took  out  his  watch;  “ we 
were 
just  forty-five  minutes  driving 
over. ’ ’

“ Ye  don’t  alius  have  sich  nice  roads 
when  yer  driving  these  commercial  fel­
lers  around  the  country,  do  ye?”   piped 
in  a  chronic  old  loafer sitting  on  a  nail 
keg.

“ Well,  I  guess  not,”   replied 

the 
driver;  “ sometimes  it’s  mud  up  to  the 
hubs;  sometimes  the  mud's  all  stood  up 
on  end  and  froze  harder  than  Pharaoh’s 
heart,  making  it  absolutely 
impossible 
to  drive  faster  than  a  slow  walk  without 
danger  of  breaking  the  horses’  legs, 
smashing  the  rig  or  spilling  the  trunks, 
and  sometimes  the  rain,  snow,  hail, 
sleet,  cold  apd thunder and lightning are 
something  terrible;  but  it  makes no dif­
ference—when  a  drummer  gets  ready  to 
go  he  goes,  and  all  the  combined  fury 
of  the  elements  cuts  no  figure  in  the 
business. ”

“ Mighty  hard  on  bosses  an’  rigs,”  
in  an  old  farmer  who  sat  on  a  bag 

put 
of  beans  smoking  an  old  clay  pipe.

“ You  betcher  boots’tis”   came  from 
in  corroboration  of  the 

the  nail  keg 
farmer’s  remarks.

“ I  suppose  you  charge  enough 

to 
make  up  for  it  all,”   querried  the  sole 
clerk  of 
the  wayside  store,  as  he 
warmed  the  bottom  of  a  tin  of  lard  pre­
paratory  to  dumping  it  out.

is 

“ Charge?”   repeated the driver,  with a 
twinkle  in  his  eye.  “ What  do  you  sup­
pose  I  keep  a  livery  stable  for? 
If  1 
were  to  charge a  farmer or  a  neighbor 
what these fellows  pay  me,  I  would  have 
my  establishment  pulled  down  on  my 
head  by  a  vigilance  committee  before  1 
had  time  to say  my  prayers.  But,  then, 
it’s  all  right.  An  ordinary  human  be­
ing  values  his  own  life  too  highly—say 
nothing  about  his  respect  for  horse  flesh 
and  road  wagons—to  try  to  bend the ele­
ments  and  every  kind  of  road  obstruc­
tion  to  his  own  sweet  will.  When  the 
drummer  has  a  point  to  make  he  makes 
it.  He  orders  the  necessary  means  and 
never asks  the  price.  He  must  simply 
go,  and  whoever 
in 
sending  him  on  his  way  presents  his 
biil  and  the  drummer  pays  it  without  a 
kick  or  a  squeal.  The  only  time  a 
drummer  ever  kicks  is  when  we  fail  to 
through  on  schedule  time. 
pull  him 
You  remember  the 
first  day  of  the 
freeze-up  after the  last  thaw?”

instrumental 

“ I  do,”   came  from  the  nail  keg. 

“ I 
went  aout  to  ole  Blinkers  to  look  at a 
spring  calf  'e  wanted  to trade me fur— ”
“ Well,  sir,”   continued  the  livery­
man,  addressing  the  clerk,  who  had 
finished  the  deal  with  the  lard  customer 
and  joined  the  crowd  around  the  stove, 
“ I  had  the  worst  drive  that  day  I’ve 
had  for  years.  The  night  before,  a 
drummer  called  me  up  from  The  Mel- 
bourn  and  said  he  wanted  a  drive  to 
Renton,  baggage  consisting  of  three 
large  trunks  weighing  1,300 pounds.  He 
wanted  a  start  at  eight  o’clock  in  the 
morning  and  a  return  in  time  to  catch 
the  afternoon  express,  west. 
It  was  a 
nine  mile  drive  and  every  foot  of  it, 
except  the  first  half  mile,  was  the  stick­
iest  kind  of  clay.  The  bottom had fallen 
completely  out,  making  the  road  almost 
impassable. 
It  turned  cold,  you  know, 
during  the  night,  and  in  the  morning  it 
was  froze  up  harder  than  blixum,  and 
cold  enough  to  freeze  the  face  off of 
anything  but  a  drummer 
I  think  a 
heap  of  my  horses,  and  I  tell  you  what

it  is,  I  hated  to  pull  out with that  drum­
mer  and  his  1,300  pounds  of  truck. 
I 
knew  that  it  was  not  frozen  deep enough 
to  hold  up  the  team  in  all  places,  and  I 
doubted  the  possibility  of  their  being 
able  to  pull  through. 
I  went  around  to 
The Melbournand  held  a  private confer­
ence  with  my  man. 
I  pointed  out  the 
danger  of  the  undertaking,  and  told him 
it  would  be  impossible,  at  any  rate,  to 
get  back 
in  time  for  his  train.  But  it 
was  no  use.  He  had  willed  to  go  to 
Renton  and  go  he  would.  He  said  the 
merchant  down  there  had  written  bis 
house  wanting  to  know  why  their  man 
never  called  on  him,  and,  therefore,  he 
must  go  down  and  take his  order.  Well, 
we  loaded  up,  and  started  on  time,  and 
when  we  struck  the  clay  the  curtain 
rose.  There’s  a  blacksmith  shop  about 
halfway,  and  we  pulled  up  there for re­
pairs  about  ten  o’clock.  We  had  made 
four and  a  half  miles  in  two  hours  and 
pulled  off  three  shoes  and  smashed  one 
spring. 
It  was  past  one  when  we 
reached  Renton,  and  there  wasn’t  a  dry 
hair on  the  horses.  There 
is  no  hotel 
there  and  we  had  to  go  without  our  din­
ner,  but  I  put  the  team  in  a  friend’s 
barn  and  fed  them.  And  now  comes 
the  funny  part  of  it:  that  fellow  didn’t 
give  the  drummer  an  order  for a  cent’s 
worth  of  stuff,  and  wouldn't  even 
look 
at  his  samples.  Well,  we  got  started  on 
the  home  stretch  about  half  past  two, 
with  a  furious  blast  of  icy  sleet 
in  our 
I  never  felt  so  sorry  for  a  drum­
faces. 
mer  in  my  life  as  I  did  for  that  fellow. 
He  never  swore  a  word,  and,  thinking 
that  he  was  too  mad  to  swear,  I  heartily 
and  with  the  best  of  intentions indulged 
in  a  few  prohibitory  remarks  for  him. 
Before  he  had  gone  two  miles  one  of 
the  big  trunks  fell  overboard.  After 
tugging 
in  vain  trying  to  reload  it,
I 
left  the  mute  drummer  in  charge  of 
the  team  while  I  went  to  the  nearest 
farmhouse  for  help,  and  when  I  saw  the 
smile  that  played  around  that  dium- 
mer’s  mouth  under  his 
frosted  mus­
tache,  and  heard  the  soft,  mellow  tones 
of  his  voice,  as  he  graciously  thanked 
the  farmer  for  his  services,  I  made  up 
my  mind  he  could  swear  as  well  as  I 
could  if  he  wanted  to.  Well,  sir,  from 
that  time  on,  that  poor  fellow  rode  on 
his  trunks,  exposed  to  the  frigid  blast, 
being  on  his  knees  a  good  share  of  the 
time,  and  it  was  all  be  could  do to  keep 
that  upper  trunk  from  being  ditched  an 
even  twelfth  of  a  dozen  times.  Swear? 
Not  he.  But  would  you  believe,  sir— 
that  fellow  actually  hummed  a  gospel 
hymn  whenever  the 
icicles  on  his 
mustache  broke 
loose  from  his  chin 
and  made  it  possible  for him  to  do  so. 
It  was  six  o’clock  when  I  unloaded  him 
at  The  Melbourn,  and  he  was  nearly 
frozen  to  death.  The  new  Salvation 
Army  barracks 
is  located  near  my 
stables  and  that  night  they  had  a  big 
blow-out  by  way  of  a  dedication  serv­
ice.  They  seemed  to  be  enjoying  them­
selves  immensely,  judging by the  racket 
they  made,  and  I  thought  I  would  go 
over  and  see  what  they  were  doing. 
When  I  entered,  the  drum  and  tin-horn 
corps  were  putting  in  their  best  licks, 
and  when  the  noise  subsided,  a  series 
of  short  prayers  followed.  One  of  the 
voices  had  a  very  familiar  sound. 
It 
was  a  masculine  voice,  soft  and  mu­
sical,  and  it  gave  utterance  to a  feeling 
of  thankfulness  for  mercies  received 
and  blessings  enjoyed  that  was  quite 
refreshing  as  I  thought  of  our  experi­
ences  of  the  day.  Then  came  another 
interval  of  blowing  and  pounding,  and 
after  that  a  series  of  fervent  exhorta­
tions.  The  army  was  in  full  muster

and  every  one  had  his  or  her  say. 
Young  misses,  gray-haired  matrons, 
young  castaways  claimed  by  nobody, 
reclaimed,  weazened-faced  old  bums, 
and  a  great  variety  of  back-alley  frag­
ments  of  humanity  that  had  been 
gathered  up  and  renewed  and  washed— 
yes,  washed,  for  the  present,  at 
least— 
were  all there  to  testify to  the  wonderful 
healing  properties  of 
the  Christian 
faith. 
It  began  to grow  a  little  monot­
onous  and  I  was  in  the  act  of  leaving 
the  place  when  my  ear  once  again 
caught  that  rich  familiar  voice.  Mov­
ing  about,  I  saw  a  full-faced,  neatly- 
dressed  gentleman  of  about  thirty-five 
years,  standing  in  the  full  glare  of  a  gas 
jet,  with  arms  extended,  and  pouring 
forth  a  stream  of  honeyed  words  of 
consolation 
for  the  downtrodden  and 
the  afflicted. 
I  stood  spellbound  and 
listened  as  the  silver-tongued  exhorter 
pled  with  his  audience  to  accept  the 
Savior and  find  peace  for their  troubled 
souls.  Who  do  you  imagine  that  man 
was ? ’ ’

“ Great  gosh!!”   exclaimed  the  nail 
keg,  “ ye  don’t  purtend  to  say  it  was 
that  air  drummer?”

“ Yes,  sir,  just  as  true  as—all  right, 
I’ll  give  the  horses  a  pail  of  water. 
Gimme  your  grip  and  when  I  whistle, 
climb  in  and  we’re  off.  E.  A.  Owen.

Lavender 

is  still  used 

in  English 
is  threat­
linen  closets,  but  the  supply 
ened  with  extinction.  The  growers 
in 
the  village  of  Hitchin,  one  of  the  chief 
centers  ot  the  lavender 
industry,  assert 
that,  owing  to a  succession  of  bad  sea­
sons,  the  plant  is  dying  out  there,  and 
that,  moreover,  they  cannot  compete 
with 
lavender 
water.  The  business  of  growing  and 
manufacturing  lavender  is  mainly in the 
hands  of  Quakers. 
It  does  not  pay  to 
be  natural  when  all  smells  on  earth  can 
be  so  cheaply  manufactured.

imitations  of 

foreign 

19

To  Restrict  Credit.

Atlanta,  Ga.,  has  a  retail  grocers’ 
association  that  is the  real  thing.  This 
association has just adopted  a  rule  that 
all  applicants  for credit  should  be com­
pelled  to sign  this application  blank :

APPLICATION  FOR  CREDIT.

To.......................................  Street......................
Name.......................... Residence........................
Occ'ipati'm.................................. Monthly Salary
Or income................................ Amounts Warned
Each..........................
Give the name and  address  of  the  merchants 
you have been dealing with for the pasi twenty-
four mon'hs.........................................................
Do you own any real estate?................................
Is the deed in your nam e?...............................
If not, in whose name is it? .................................
Ir it encnmbered?........................................... .
How long have you lived in Atlanta?.................
....................... In  Pulton connty?........................
If we agree  to  credo  you  how  do you  wish  to
settle account—weekly?.......................................
Monthly? 
.................Annually?  .....................
Will y  u promise to pay your bill promptly?......
Applicant's s gnatiire.....................................
In r> questing you to make this  application  on 
this form, the Retail Grocers' Association of  At­
lanta seeks  to  protect  your  interests  and  their 
own  by  extend lie  ciedit  to  those  who  are 
worthy of it and withholding It from  those who 
are not entitled  to  credit, 
if  the  grocer  loses 
no money by bad  debts, he  is  able  to  sell  the 
prompt  payer  cheaper.  Our  motto  is  to  give 
justic.  to nil buyers.
Prompt paying men will dll ont  and  sign  this 
application.  Drones  and  deadbeats will  com­
plain
The merchant who offers to  enter  vour  name 
on his book before this application is  made  out 
and signed by you is  unreli .ble.  unworthy  and 
has deliberately falsified his word 10 the

R e t a il   g r o c e r s '  A s s o c ia t io n .

M erchants  in other cities, and  in sm all 
towns as well,  m ight very  profitably  fol­
low  the  lead  of  A tlan ta’s  grocers  and 
adopt a  sim ilar rule and  blank.  C redit 
is  altogether  too  easily obtained,  and  a 
system   of  th is  character  would  serve  to 
m ake  the  cred it  end  of 
the  business 
m ore profitable.

A 

farmer  near  Bartlett,  Neb.,  har­
vested  forty-one  bushels of  good peanuts 
from  three-eighths  of  an  acre  of  ground 
last  season.  The  peanut  will  grow  to 
maturity  almost  every  season 
in  Ne­
braska,  and  the  sandy  soil  is  just  rivht.

Unpretentious

the  subject 

Attractiveness  in  printing  does 
not  always  imply  ornamentation; 
simplicity 
is  sometimes  much 
more  effective—it  depends,  of 
course,  on 
to  be 
treated. 
If  your  printer  has  not 
made a life study  of  art  in  good 
printing  he  will  not  succeed  in 
getting  the  best  results. 
If  the 
work  is  important, and  you want 
it as  it should be, and  without any 
annoyance, 
it  will  pay  you  to 
know us.  Personal  interview  by 
appointment if desired.

tradesman  Company,

brand Rapids.

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20

Hardware

The  Hardware  Dealer and  His Second 

Written f o r  the T r a d e s m a n .

Hand  Stove.

My  friend,  the  hardware  dealer,  was 
unfortunate. 
Some  household  goods 
had  been 
left  with  him  for  sale,  and 
the  attendnat  circumstances  were  such 
that  he  was  really  trying  to  dispose  of 
them.  He  had  made  several  unsuccess­
ful  attempts  in  that  direction,  so that 
when  the  village  Chronic  called  to  see 
about  the  parlor  stove,  he  was  not  espe­
cially  demonstrative.  He  had  seen  the 
Chronic  before  and  knew  him  like  a 
book.  The  Chronic  would  bother around 
for  half  a  day  and  then  decide  that  he 
did  not  want  the  stove;  at  least,  such 
was  the  opinion  of  my  friend,  the  hard­
ware  dealer.

“ Whereabouts  is  that  air heatin’ stove 

of  Billy’s?’ ’

‘ ‘ Over at  the  house. ’ ’
“ Waal, 

jes’  wanter 

I 

look  at 

it. 

Goin’  over  there  now?’’

“ No, 

I  hadn’t 

intended 

to. 

I’m 

pretty  busy.”

“ Waal,  I  dew  wanter  see  that  air 
heater awful  bad.  The  woman’s  be’n 
after  me  more’n  a 
little  to  see  about 
gittin'  it.  Ye  couldn’t  knock  off  fer 
five  minutes,  could ye?”

“ Don’t  see  how  I  could;  but  you  can 
just  as  well  without  me. 

look  at 
Here’s  the  key. ”

it 

“ Thanky,  thanky.  Much  obleeged, 
too,  an  ’  I’ll  bring  it  right  back  soon’s 
I  look  it  over  good— How  much  be  ye 
askin’  fer  that  air  heater?”

“ Five  dollars.”
“ Five  dollars!  Gee  whiz!  Et  mus’ 
be  a  powerful  good  secent  hand  heater 
to  be  wo’th 
that  money.  Be’n  used 
much?”

“ Why,  you  just  go  over  and  see  for 
I  think  the  stove  is  in  good 
yourself. 
shape,  but  you’ll  have  to  be  your  own 
judge. 

It’s  not  my  stove  at  all. ”  

“ Waal,  then,  mebbe  I’d  better  go  'n' 
see;  but 
it  must  be  a  extryordinary 
bang  fired  good  stove  ef  it’s  wo’th  that 
much.  Anythin’  go  with  it?”

“ Not  a  thing.”
“ Gosh! 

I  allers  git  furnitur  when  I 

buy  a  stove.  Hain’t  the’  no  poker?”  

‘ ‘ Not  a  poke.”
“ The’  mus’  be  a shovel,  hain’t the'?”  
“ No.  Nothing  at  all.  Just  the  bare 

stove. ’ ’

“ How  about  tbrowin’  in  a  len’th  o’ 
in 
pipe  with  it?  That’s  allers  rulable 
leave  to  the  hull 
buyin’  stoves;  I’ll 
crowd, ”   and  the  Chronic 
looked  ap­
pealingly  at  the  small  knot  of  loafers 
which  was  just  beginning  to  he 
inter­
ested  in  the  conversation.

“ Betcher  neck,  Uncle,”   answered 
several 
“ Allers  git  stove­
pipe  with  a  stove.  What’s a  stove  good 
fer without  pipe?”

in  chorus. 

In  these  little  differences  of  opinion 
between  buyer  and  seller  the  crowd  al­
ways  takes  sides  against  the  merchant.
“ That’s  the  p’ int  I  was  amakin’, ”  
strengthened 
continued  the  Chronic, 
for  the  fray  by  the  decided  encourage­
ment. 
“ An’  another  p ’ int  in  the  same 
line  is  this :  What’er’s  the  pipe  wo’th 
without  the  stove— ”

“ Twenty  cents  a  joint,”   interrupted 

my  friend,  the  hardware  man.

The  Chronic  glared  at  him  for  a  mo­
ment  as  if  undecided  whether  to  go 
away  without  finishing  his  business,  or 
challenge  him  to  mortal  combat;  but 
at  length,  ignoring  the  remark  entirely, 
he  resumed :

“ My  p’ int 

is  this:  Stove’s  no good

stove.  One 

without  pipe.  Pipe’s  wo’tbless  without 
a 
goes  with  t’other; 
t’other  goes  with  one.  Ever’body  ad­
mits  that.  Now,  what  I’m  atryin’  to git 
at  is,  if  I  buy  that  air  heatin’  stove,  be 
ye  agoin’  to  throw  in  a  len’th  o’  pipe 
with  it?”

“ No,  I’m  not,”   firmly  replied  my 

friend,  the  hardware dealer. 

i 

“ Waal,  now  it’s  be’n  admitted  by  all 
han’s  that 
it’s  rulable,  an’  the  proper 
thing  to  do.  What  I  wanter  know  now 
is,  why  won’t  ye  do  it?”

“ If  I  went  over  to  Pete  Jones  and 
bought  a  loaf  of  bread,  would  you  give 
me  a  pound  of  butter  to  eat  on  it?”  

“ That  air’s  a  matter  foreign  to  the 

subj— ”

“ Would  you  do  it?”   interrupted  my 

friend,  the  hardware  dealer.

“ Why,  no,  I  don’t  s’pose  I  would.”  
“ Well,  then,  Uncle,  why  should  I 
give  you  a  joint  of  pipe  if  you  buy  a 
stove  of  Billy  Simms?  Now,  you’d  bet­
ter  go  and  look  at  the  stove  if  you  want 
to.  You’ll  find  it  just  where  I  told  you 
and  §5  is  the  price— no  more,  no  less.”  

*  *  *

When  the  Chronic  returned  he  wore 
a  more  cheerful  expression  on  his 
grizzled  face.

“ That  air  hain’t  such  an  awful  bad 
heatin’  stove,”   he  ventured. 
“ Course 
it  hain’t  the  lates’  style,  nor  nothin’ 
like  it,  but  it  looks  like  it  might  be 
a  tol’able  good  fire  keeper  of  a  cold 
night,  ’n’  we  don’t  go  much  on  style 
to  our  house  no  how. ’ ’

Then  he  stopped  and 

considered 
a  while,  weighing  his  forthcoming  de­
mands  carefully.  At length,  they  being 
in  satisfactory  order,  he  proceeded : 

“ One  o’  them  air  little  nickel-plated 
acorn  things  what  goes  onto  the  top  of 
the  hinges  on  the  little  door’s  broke  off.
I 
ye’d  put  another  one  on 
there?”

s’pose 

“ Of  course,”   said  my 

friend, 

the 

hardware  dealer.

” ’N’  the  isinglass  is  all  busted  out 
in  the  little  winder  in  front.  Ye  orter 
put  that  in,  too.”
“ To be  sure."
“ ’ N’  the  top  lid’s  cracked. 

I  don’t 
s’pose  they  cost  much,  anyway.  Y e’d 
better  gimme  another  one  fer  that.”  

“ All  right. ”
“ Them  air  rods  what  runs  up through 
it 
is  burnt  pretty  bad,  too, ”   said  the 
Chronic,  gaining  courage  at my friend’s 
new-found  amiability,  “ an’  ye  orter  put 
them  in  new,  too,  hadn’t  ye?”

“ Why,  certainly. 

1  can  do  that  just 

as  well  as  not. ’ ’

“ An’ the  grate’s got  kinder  warped. 
How'd  it  be  about  havin’  another  one 
o’  them?”

“ Just  the  thing  exactly.  We'll  putin 
a  new  fire  back  and  the  urn  on  top 
must  be  getting  shabby. 
I  presume 
you’d  like  that  replaced,  too.  And,  by 
the  way,  there  are  some  chairs  over 
there  and  a  little  table.  You  might  like 
to  have  them.  Just  what  you  need  with 
the  stove. ’ ’

“ I  was  a  thinkin’  them  things  orter 
go  with 
it,”   said  the  Chronic,  much 
pleased  at  the  turn  matters  seemed to be 
taking.

“ And  while  you’re  putting  so  much 
expense  on  the  stove,  you  might  as  well 
order  a  new  bottom  and  have  another 
body  put  in.  That  and  a  coat  of  car­
riage  black  ought  to  make  it  practically 
as good  as  new. ’ ’

“ Me  put  expense onto  it?”
“ You?  Why,  of  course.  You  didn’t 
think  for  a  minute  I  was going  to  do 
that  on  my  own  hook,  did  you?”

“ Why,  I— ye— ”

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“ All  there  is  to  it,  you  order  and  pay 
for  the  repairs  and  1  put  them  on. 
I’ll 
do  you  a  good  job,  too,  and work cheap. 
Is  it  a  go?”

“ How  much  d’ ye  say  fer  the stove?”  
“ Five  dollars. ”
“ Bes’  ye  kin  do  fer  cash?”
* ‘ The  very  best.' ’
“ Put  in  a  j ’ int  o’  stovepipe?”
“ Not  a  pipe.”
“ Gimme  time  on  half  of  it?”
“ No,  sir.  Terms are  spot  cash.”  
“ Waal,  the  ole  woman  wants  it  or  I 
wouldn’t  bother.  Ye  couldn’t  take  a 
couple  o’  cords  o’  wood  onto  it,  could 
ye?”

“ No.”
“ Nor  some  petaters?”
“ No.”
“ Waal,  write  me  out a  receipt  in  full 

an’  yer  money’s  ready.”

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 1

The  Hardware  Market.

Conditions  of  trade  in  a  general  way 
are  fairly  satisfactory,  although  there 
are  none  of  us  but  could  take  care  of 
more  business,  if  it  were  offered  to  us. 
While  dealers  are  not  manifesting  a 
disposition  to  buy  with  any  great  free­
dom,  they  are  still 
inclined  to  keep 
their  stocks 
in  better  shape  than  for­
merly.  While  we  do  not  think  it  a  wise 
policy  to  buy  any  more  goods  than  one 
can  pay  for,  we  do  find  that  dealers 
who  are 
in  shape  to  take  care  of  their 
bills  as  they  mature  are  certainly  not 
in  buying  freely 
making  any  mistake 
at  the  present  market  prices. 
It  is  be­
lieved  on  the  larger  lines  of  hardware 
that 
impossible  for  prices  to  go 
lower,  and  should  we  have  the  revival 
in  business  that  we  are all  looking  for­
ward  to,  it  is  quite  evident  that  we  will 
have  to  pay  more  for goods  in  the  fu­
ture  than  we  have  in  the  past.  The  re­
cent  snow  in  all  parts  of  Michigan,  as 
well  as  in  various  parts  of  the  country, 
has  had  a  tendency  to  revive  business 
quite  perceptibly,  and  should  our  snow 
not  leave  us,  we  think  we  may  all 
look 
for  a  good  trade  during  the  coming 
month.

is 

it 

Wire  Nails—We  regret  to  say  that,  as 
yet,  there  is  no  evidence  of  advancing 
prices  in  this  article,  and  while there  is 
no  decline,  we  must  say  the  market 
does  not  appear  strong. 
It  is  said  by 
manufacturers  of  nails  that  at  the  pres­
ent  price,  they  are  lower  than  they  ever 
were,  and  should  there  not  be  a  change 
in  some  direction,  many factories would 
have  to  be  shut  down,  as  they  are  not 
getting  cost  for  their  product.  We  be­
lieve  nails  at  the  present  price  to  be  a 
good  purchase  and  do  not  see  how  any 
one  can  make  a  mistake  in  buying  lib­
erally  for  their  spring  business.  We 
quote  at  present,  wire  nails  from  stock, 
$1.65  to  1.75,  and  from  mill,  $1.45  tc 
$1.50.

Barbed  Wire— Nearly  all  dealers  have 
placed  their  crders  for  carload  pur­
chases  for  spring  shipment.  We  feel 
that  they  have  acted  wisely,  as  the 
price  is  low and  buyers are  fully guaran­
teed  against  any  decline,  so  they  are 
not  taking  any  chances  of  lower  mar­
kets.  While  there  may  be  a  temporary 
weakness 
in  this  article,  owing  to  the 
intense  competition  now  prevailing,  we 
do  not  think  that  any  of  us  may  look 
for  a  much  lower  price.  We  quote  at 
present  pai-nted  barbed  wire  from  stock 
at  §1.75,  and  from  mill  at  $1.50,  with 
the  usual  advance  for  galvanizing.

Sheet  Iron— Manufacturers  are  not 
disposed  to  enter  orders  for  future  ship­
ments  on  sheet  iron,  as  they  do  not  be­
lieve  the  present 
low  prices  will  last 
into  the  spring.  The  demand,  both  for 
common  and  galvanized  iron,  is  quite 
good  and  many  factories  have  sold 
ahead  their  entire  capacity  for  the  next 
sixty  days.

Bar  Iron— Prices  that  have  been  rul­
ing  of  late  have  not  been  as  firm  as  the 
dealer  might  wish.  The  low  price  oi 
raw  material  has  affected 
it  quite  ma­
terially,  as  well  as  lack  of  orders  from 
many  branches  of  trade  that  at  this 
time  of  the  year are  usually  placed  tor 
future  shipments.  We  think 
that  at 
the  present  time  bar  iron  is  as  low  as 
it  ever has  been.

Miscellaneous— The  recent  combina­
tion  that  was  formed  by  all  the  bolt and 
nut  manufacturers,  whereby  they  were 
enabled  to  make  material  advances 
in 
all 
lines  pertaining  to  their  manufac­
ture,  has  gone  to  pieces,  and  at  the 
present  time  prices  are  very  much  de­
moralized.  Jobbers  as  yet  have  made  no

material  change 
in  their  discount,  as 
they  are  waiting  for  a  few  days,  until 
the  market  reaches  bottom.  We  may 
look  for quite  a  decline  in  the  course  of 
a  week.

Owing  to  the  scarcity  of  material  that 
goes 
into  the  manufacture  of  wool 
twine,  there  has  been  a  decided  ad­
vance  and  prices  are  now  being  quoted 
from  6@6j^c  per  lb.  for  spring  ship 
ment.  Those  that  are  posted  advise  us 
that  we  may  not  look  for  any  lower 
prices.

In  sheet  copper  there  has  been  an 
advance,  owing  to  advance  figures  on 
ingot  copper.  While  this  advance  is 
small,  it  indicates  that  purchases  now 
made are  wisely  done,  as  lower  prices 
for  the  spring  will  not  prevail.  Jobbers 
as  yet  have  not  made  any  change  in 
their  prices.

Market  reports  from  other  quarters 

are  as  follows:

St.  Paul:  As  the  severe  snowstorm 
and  blizzard  which  has  prevailed  in this 
section  of  the  country  for  the  last  week 
interferes  with  traffic,  both  by  rail  or 
road,  orders  have  not  been  as  plentiful 
as  dealers  might  wish.

Omaha:  Trade  in  this  section  starts
out  remarkably  well,  and  we  are  all 
looking  forward  to  good  spring  trade.
Chicago:  Orders  for  shelf  hardware 
are  only  in  moderate  volume,  but  deal­
ers  are  placing  orders  very  freely  for 
barbed  wire and  nails,  believing  that  at 
the  present  prices  they  are  making  no 
mistake.

Philadelphia: 

Traveling  men  are 
sending  in  very  liberal  orders,  consid­
ering  the  uncertainty  of  general  busi­
ness.  Orders  for  future  shipment  are 
coining  in  in  very  satisfactory  volume 
and  indications  all  point  to good  spring 
trade.

Bicycle  Agencies.

From Hardware.

As  this  is  the  important  season  of  the 
year  when  the  bicycle  manufacturers 
are  making  evety  effort  to  obtain  re­
sponsible  agents,  it  becomes  a  matter 
of  some  consideration  to  the  dealers 
in 
the  hardware  trade  that  they  should 
make  application  for  the  agency  of  a, 
stiictly  high  grade  wheel  with  the  sale 
of  which  they  could  feel confident profit­
able  results  would  be  obtained.  The 
dealer  possesses  every  advantage  from 
the  standpoint  of  the  manufacturer  to 
make  a  safe,  energetic  and  responsible 
agent,  and 
if  he  but  knew  the  usual 
methods  adopted  for  obtaining  repre­
sentatives,  he  would  readily  compre­
hend  why  so  many  weak  agents  are 
representing  excellent  cycles  deserving 
a  large  distribution,  the  assignment  of 
which  was  made  because  the  weak  man 
was  backed  up  by  some  of  his  wealthy 
triends  who  really  “ desired  to  see  the 
young  man  do  something  for a  living.’ ’ 
Such  an  agent  is  of  no  more  advantage 
to  the  best  interests  of  the  wheel  he  has 
under  his 
care  than  an  undertaker 
would  be  to  solicit  business  for  a  young 
physician.

No  Bananas  for  England.

thus 

The  cable  brings  word  of another fail­
ure  to  ship  bananas  from  Jamaica  to 
England,  and 
furnish  English 
tables  with  a  fruit  which  has  become 
very  common  in  this  country.

Disaster  has  attended  every  attempt 
of  this  kind.  The  first  was  made  by 
the  merchants  of Jamaica,  who chartered 
a  fast  steamer  for  the  purpose,  but  the 
entire  cargo  had  to  be  thrown  over­
board.  The  second  attempt  was  made 
with  unusual  precautions,  each bunch  of 
bananas  being  crated  separately  and  an 
elaborate  refrigerating  apparatus  being 
employed  to  reduce  the  temperature. 
The  refrigerating  apparatus  broke down 
and  the  voyage  was  abandoned.  The 
third  attempt,  which  has 
just  been 
the  fruit  reaching 
made,  resulted 
England 
in  such  bad  condition  that  it 
was all  condemned.

in 

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s............
Jennings’, genuine...............
Jennings’, imitation.........
AXES

First Quality, S. B. Bronze........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze......
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel..........
First Quality. D. B. Steel...

Railroad...........

BARROWS

BOLTS
Stove............................ 
Carriage new list.................
Plow............

Well,  plain................

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

Ordinary Tackle__

BLOCKS

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

CROW  BARS

............ 25410
............ 60410

............   5  00
............   9 50
........  5 50
............   10 50

..  .. 

fin
70

...........* 3 25

.............70410
............ 75410

70

4

fif*
»»
a,

.. per lb 

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10......................
Hick'S C. F ...................................  
^  
M usket........................  

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

npr m 
ilo. m 

CARTRIDGES
,

Rim  F ire ........................................
Central  Fire......................... 
CHISELS

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

............ 50& 5
............ 25t& 5

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks.................................. 
go
Taper and Straight Shank........  ...............  50& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................... 50&  5

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in........................... doz. net 
Corrugated............................................. 
Adjustable.....................................,’dis 40410

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26 ........ 
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, *34; 3, *30.............................  

55
j 555

30410
25

PILES—New  List

New American...........................................   70&10
Nicholson’s........................................’’’ 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................. .’’.6041©

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

13 

14 

16......... 

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
go

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................$16 00, dis  60410
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00, dis 60410
Hunt's......................................... *18 50, dis 20&10
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
Coffee, P. S. 4  W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's...............  
Coffee, Enterprise........................................  

MILLS

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring........................  
  30

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base............................... 
........  1  60
Wire nails, base...........................................   1  70
20 to liO advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.
8 advance.............
6 advauce............
4 advance............
3 advance............
2 advance............
Fine 3 advance__
Casing 10 advance. 
Casing  8 advance. 
Casing  6 advance. 
Finish 10 advance 
Finish  8 advance. 
Finish  6 advance., 
Barrel  % advance..

PLANES

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

 

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

PANS

RIVETS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  QOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware......   ................new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware......................................20&10
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40410
PotS;.............................................................. 60410
K ettles...................................................   ...60410
Spiders......................................................... 60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3...............................  dis 60410
State......................................... perdoz.net  2 50
go
Bright........................................................... 
Screw Eyes................................................... 
go
Hook’s.................................................... \ 
go
Gate Hooks and Eyes.............................  
go

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

LEVELS

ROPES

70
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
Sisal, H inch and  larger.............................   6
Manilla..  ..  ................................................... 
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels........................................... .
Mitre....................................................

SQUARES

9
go

SHEET  IRON

 

dis

WIRE

TRAPS

com. smooth.  com.
IN OS.  10 to 14............................
.$3 30
$2 40
Nos. 15 to 17.  .........................
.  3 30
2 40
Nos. 18 to 21.........................
.  3 45
2 60
Nos. 22 to 24.......................
.  3 55
2 70
Nos. 25 to 26................................. .  3 70
2  80
No.  27......................
.  3 80
2  90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter, 
over  30 inches
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 & Norton’s70410410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market..................................” .. 
75
Coppered  Market.................................  
..70410
Tinned Market.............................................  g2H
Coppered Spring Steel........................................ " 50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ...........................  2 10
Barbed  Fence,  painted.................................  1 75
Au Sable........................................................... dis 4041C
Putnam............................................................. dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  .........  
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages....................................
Pumps, Cistern................   ...........
Screws, New List...........................
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................
Dampers, American.......................
METALS—Zinc
600 pound casks..............................
Per pound......................................

30
50
80
80
50
80
85
50410410
50

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

 

SOLDER

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................* 5 75
14x201C, Charcoal......................................   5  75
...........   7 00
20x14 IX, Charcoal....................  

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Ailaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal. D ean............................  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allsway Grade............   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Ailaway Grade............   5 50
20x28 1C, 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, per pound...

9

WM. BRUMMELER  & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS, 

Pay  the highest  price  in  cash for 

MIXED  RACiS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  nETALS.

fDor°Sffere onapostal  “ Any  Old  Thing.”

Every Dollar

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

the  assurance 

charge 

is 

Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

 
Iron and  Tinned.............................. 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 

 

«0
60

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON

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

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list............................... dis 33H
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................. dis 40410
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Haud 30c list 40410

22

AFTER  TH E   CYCLO NE.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A  Strained  Situation  Which  a  Cloud­

burst  Relieved.

W. L. Alden in New York Sun.

“ Yes,  sir,”   remarked  the  landlord, 
as  he  sat  tanning  himself  on the veranda 
ot  the  Middleville  hotel,  "a s  you  say, 
this  town  has  sprung  up  like a  mush­
room  in  the  night.  Why,  only  live  years 
ago  there  were  only  two  houses  here, 
and  now  we  have  the  biggest population 
of  all  the  towns  id  Northern  Minnesota. 
The  two  bouses  were  pretty  small  ones, 
too.  Mine  stood  just  where this  hotel  is 
standiug,  and  it  was  nothing  more  than 
a  one-story,  two-roomed  shanty.  Capt. 
Martin's  bouse,  which  generally  stood 
on  a  knoll  about  a  quarter  ol  a  mile 
irom  here,  wasn’t  much  bigger."
“ What  do  you  mean  wnen  you  say 
that  your  neighbor's  bouse  'generally 
stood on a knoll?’ "   1  asked.  "W asn't it 
in  the  habit  of  staying  in  the  same 
p lace?”
“ Why,  what  with  cyclones, and  cloud­
bursts  and  one  thing  and  another,  that 
there  bouse  did  do  considerable  travel­
ing  while  it  was  in  this  section.  What 
became  of  it  alter  it  left  here,  I  can’t 
precisely  say,  but  I  rather  think  it made 
its  last  journey  when  it  went  down  to 
West  Antioch. 
It  was  a  curious  Sort  ol 
bouse,  being  put  together  with  ropes 
instead  of  nails,  which  was  probably 
one  reason  why 
it  lasted  as  long  as  it 
did.

“ You  see,”   continued  the  landlord, 
“ I  was  the  hrst  settler  here. 
1  took  up 
a  quarter  section  ot  land,  and  with  the 
heip  ol  two  mules  and  a  Norwegian,  1 
put  up  my  bouse  and  went  to  larmmg. 
About  six  months 
later  along  comes 
Capt.  Martin,  and  allows  that  he  will 
farm  the  quarter  section  next  to  me. 
He  was  a  man  about 6o  years  old,  who 
had  been  a  seafaring  man  ail  bis  days, 
and,  like  most seafaring men,  he wanteu 
to  be  a  farmer,  although  be  didn't know 
beans  from  a  bull's  loot.  First  along  1 
thought  be  was  a  sociable  sort  ot  old 
chap,  and  he and  me  used  to spend  our 
evenings  together.  But  1  iound  out  that 
he  wouldn't  take  any  advice,  and  when 
I  told  him  that  he  was  a  blamed  foot 
for  building  a  house  on  a  knoll  in  a 
country  where  cyclones  were  almost  as 
common  as  snakes,  be  got  mad  and j 
dropped  my  acquaintance.  He  was  as 
toucny  as  he  was  opinionated,  which  is 
saying  a  good  deal.

“ Well,  be  built  his  house  with  the 
help  of  a  couple  of  men  lrom  Lucullus, 
which  at  that  time  was  the  nearest  set­
tlement  to  us,  and  was  considered  to  be 
seven miles from here,  although now that 
Middleville  has  grown  clear  up  to  the 
southern  boundary  of  Lucullus,  it  don’t 
seem  to  be  so  tar  away. 
I  told  you  that 
Martin's  house  was  put  together  with 
rope  lashings.  The Captain  said  that  no 
land  carpenter  knew  how  to  build  a 
house,  and  that  he  hadn't  any  confi 
deuce 
in  nails,  and  didn't  consider 
them  shipshape.  His  house  was  much 
the  same  thing  as  mine  except  that  it 
had  a  veranda  on  one  side,  where  the 
Captain  used  to  walk  up  and  down  and 
look  at things  through  a  telescope.

Between my  lanu  and  Martin’s  there 
was  the  highroad,  although  at  that  time 
it  wasn’t  often  that  anybody  passed 
over  i t ;  and  by  the  side  of  the  road and 
just  at  the  foot  of  the  Captain’s  knoll 
ran  the  Pomponoosuc  River. 
It  don’t 
like  a  river at  this  time  ot 
look  much 
year,  and  you  could 
jump  across  it 
most  anywhere,  but  just  you  wait  until 
the  spring  freshets  set  in  and  you’ll  ad­
mit  that 
it  is  right  smart  of  a  stream. 
I’ve  known  halt  a  dozen  men—sober 
men,  too—to  be  drowned  in  the  Pompo­
noosuc,  which  is  more  than the Lucullus 
people  can  say  for  their  miserable  little 
river.

One  of  the  last  things  that  I  said 
to  the  Captain  before  he  and  me  had  a 
coolness  was  that  he  bad  better  dig  a 
cyclone  pit.  You  know  what  that 
is,  I 
suppose.  No?  Well,  then,  I’ll  tell  you. 
It's  just  a  bole  in  the  ground,  about 
six  feet  deep,  covered  with  a  tiap  door. 
When  you  see  a  cyclone  coming  you 
into  your  cyclone  pit  and  shut  the 
get 
doot  until  the trouble  is  over. 
It’s  the 
if  you  stay  in  your 
only  safe  way,  for 
house  you're 
liable  to  be  crushed  to

in  bad  weather. 

death,  and  if  you  stay  outdoors,  the  cy­
clone  will  pick  you  up  and  carry  you  to 
Kingdom Come.  But old Martin wouldn’t 
hear  of  digging  a  pit.  He  allowed  that 
I if  a  cyclone  did  come  he  calculated  to 
be  on  deck  and  see  it  out.  He  said  it 
was  all  very  well  for  me  to  skulk  down 
below,  seeing  as  I  was  only  a  lands­
man,  but  that  he  considered  that  the 
quarter  deck  was  the  proper  place  for 
him 
I  made  my  cy­
clone  pit  nearly  opposite  his  house  and 
close  to  the  road,  tor  1  calculated  to  use 
it  as  a  handy  place  for  keeping  shovels 
and  spades  and  rakes  and  such,  and 
save  the  trouble  ot  bringing  them  up 
to  the  bouse.  Capt.  Martin  used  to 
sneer  a  good  deal  at  my  pit  and  called 
it  ‘ the glory bole, ’ which 1  considered  to 
De  irreligious,  as  well  as  ungentleman- 
ly.  However,  the  day  came  when  he 
would  have  been  glad  to  have  a  cyclone 
pit,  and  to  be  able  to  climb  down 
into 
it  without  my  knowledge.

living 

“ The  Captain  hadn’t  been 

in 
his  new  bouse  above  six  months  when 
the  great  cyclone  of  1887  came along, 
and  1  don’t  doubt  that  you  have  hearu 
of  it. 
It  was  about  10  o'clock  of  the 
morning,  and  it  was  at  least  20  degrees 
hotter  than  it  is  to-day,  although  it  was 
only  the  middle  of  June,  instead  of  the 
middle  of  August.  There  wasn’t  a 
breath  of  air  stirring,  and  the  sky  hada 
sort  of  greasy,  coppery  look  that  made 
you  feel  sort  of  suffocated  just  to  look 
at 
it.  The  mules  and  the  Norwegian 
were  lying  under  a  tree  down  in  the 
sorghum  held,  and  1  was  making  a  pre­
tence  of  weeding  my  onion  bed,  al­
though  I  didn’t  make  much  headway 
with  it. 
I  happened  to  turn  around, 
and  there  in  the  Northwest-was  a  little 
patch  ot  cloud,  which  I  was  glad  to see, 
thinking,as  I  did,that  perhaps  it  might 
mean  rain.  But  while  1  was  looking  at 
it  1  could  see  it  was  spreading  as  fast 
as  a  gallon  ot  petroleum  would  spread 
if  you  dumped  it  into a  millpond. 
In 
a  few  minutes  pretty  near  one-half  the 
sky  was  covered  with  a  cloud  that  was 
as  black  as  Pittsburg  coal  smoke.  The 
it  spread  reminded  me of  a  parcel 
way 
ot  men 
laying  a  carpet  on  the  stage  of 
a  theater.  You could  see  the  upper  edge 
of  the  cloud  rolling  over  and  over  in 
great  thick  masses.  All  of  a  sudden  a 
light  breeze  sprang  up  that  blew  direct­
ly  toward  the  quarter  where  the  cloud 
came  from,  and  I  knew  then  that  we 
were  going  to  have  a  big  storm,  and 
that  the  wind  was  drawing  toward  it. 
The  next  thing  I  saw  was  a  sort  of  fun­
nel  that  seemed  to  drop  from the middle" 
ot  the  cloud.  The  lower  end  kept  twist­
ing  and  squirming 
like  the  tail  of  a 
snake  when  you've  got  your boot-heel 
on  its  head. 
1  didn't  wait  any  longer, 
but  I  just  dropped  my  hoe and  made  a 
bolt  for  my  cyclone  pit.  There  was  no 
mistaking  what  that 
funnel  meant. 
There  was  the  biggest  kind  of  a cyclone 
on  its  way,  and  it  was  coming  straight 
for  me. 
I  wasn’t  on  speaking  terms 
with  the  Captain  then,  but  as  I  came 
near  his  house  and  saw  him  standing on 
bis  veranda  and  lashing  himself  to  one 
of  the  posts  with  a  rope,  I  sung  out  to 
him  to  come  with  me  if  he  valued  his 
life.  He  only  said,  in  a  mighty  cool 
and  condescending  way, 
‘ I  don’t  re­
member asking  you  for  any  advice,  my 
man. ’

“ That  made  me  so  mad  that  I  didn’t 
waste  any  more  time  nor  breath on him, 
but lifted the cover off my pitand jumped 
into  it  without  stopping  to  use  the  lad­
der  and  pulled  the  cover  on  again.

“ By  this  time  the  cyclone  was  mak­
ing  itself  heard.  First  there  was  a low, 
rumbling  sort  of  sound,  like a  railroad 
train  makes  when  it  is  a  good  way  off. 
It  grew  louder  and  louder,  until  it  got 
to  be  a  kind  of  shrieking  roar,  like a 
hundred  big  church  organs  mixed  up 
with  a  dozen  or  two  steam  whistles. 
It 
was  as  black  as  night  in  that  pit,  ex­
cept  when  the  lightning  flashed, 
for 
there 
is  always  more  or  less  lightning 
playing  around  the  funnel  of a  cyclone. 
It  seemed as  if  no  expense was spared in 
making that cyclone as variousand enter­
taining  as  possible.  Just  when  the  roar­
ing  was  at 
its  loudest  there  came an 
awful  crash  that  made  the  earth  shake, 
and  then  the  sound  began  to  weaken, 
and  in  a  few  minutes  it had  died  away,

and  the  place  was  as  still  as  a  man’s 
house  when  he  comes  back  to  it  from 
his  wife's  funeral.

“   ‘ So  far,  so good,’  says  I  to  myself.
if  there 
‘ Now  I'll  clamber  out  and  see 
is  anything 
left  of  my  house,  and  the 
mules,  and  the  Norwegian.’  But  when 
I  tried  to  lift  up  the  covet  of  the  pit  I 
could  stir  it  only  a  few  inches,  and  that 
didn't  let  in  any  light. 
I  couldn't  un­
derstand  what  that  meant,  but  being  a 
smoker,  of  course  I  bad  my  matches 
with  me,  so  I  struck  a  light  and  inves­
tigated. 
I  found  that  there  was  a  sort 
of  board  flooring  above  the  cover  of  the 
pit  which  prevented  me  from  lifting  it, 
and  I  knew that the cyclone had dropped 
something  just  over  my  head.
“ Luckily  there  was a  crowbar  among 
the  tools  standing  in  the  corner  of  the 
pit,  and  1  hunted  it  up  and  got  to  work 
as  well  as  I  could  in  the  dark.  It  didn’t 
take  me  very  long  to  burst  a  hole  in  the 
flooring  that  I  spoke  of,  and  after  I  had 
made an  opening,  and  let  in  the  light, 
1  saw  that  there  was  a  house  on  top  of 
me.  I  set  to  work  again  with  the  crow­
bar,  and  presently  I  was able  to  climb 
out,  and  found  myself  in  a  small  bed­
room. 
I  didn't  stop  to  examine  it,  but 
opened  the  first  door  I  came  to,  and 
there  I  was 
in  Capt.  Martin’s  sitting 
room,  face  to  face  with  the  old  man. 
The  furniture  was  all  upset,  and  the 
sides  of  the  house  were  slanting  one 
way  and  another,  but  there  was  no  mis­
taking  that 
it  was  a  house,  and  that 
Capt.  Martin  was  there  looking  none 
the  worse  for  having  been  through  a  cy­
clone.
‘So you’ve been  and  broke  into  my 
house  with  a  crowbar,  have  you?’  he 
asked.  ‘ Perhaps you don 't know, my man, 
that  you  have  committed  a  burglary and 
I  can  have  you  arrested  for  it. ’

“   ‘ Perhaps  you  don’t  know 

that 
you’re  trespassing  on  my  land,’  said  I. 
‘ I  never  gave  you  no  permission  to  put 
no  shanty  on  my  land,  and  if  you  don’t 
take 
it  off  mighty  sudden  there’s  a 
prospect  that  there’ll  be  shooting. ’
‘ You  don’t  know  much  about  law,’ 
says  the  Captain.  ‘ I  never  put my house

leave 

on  your  land. 
It  was  done  by  what  the 
underwriters  call  “ act of  God  or  public 
enemies,”   and 
if  you  was  a  sailor, 
you’d  know  that  nobody  can  be  held 
responsible  for  sucb  occurrences. ’

“ Just  then  he  saw  me  looking  out  of 
the  window  toward  where  my  house 
had  been,  and  he  said,  “ The  last  I  saw 
of  your  house  she  was  scudding  before 
the  wind,  and  heading  about  southeast, 
or  mebbe  a  little  east  of  that,  She  was 
making,  as  I  should  judge,  about  thirty 
knots  an  hour. 
It’ll  take  you  consider­
able  time  to  overhaul  her,  and  you’d 
better  give  chase  at  once. ’
“   ‘ I  ain’t  anxious  for to  stay  in  your 
it  this 
house,’ says  I,  ‘and  I ’ll 
minute. 
It’s  my  duty  to  warn  you  that 
if  you  set  foot  on  my  land  there’ll  be 
trouble.  As  for  the  matter of your squat­
ting  with  your  house  on  land  that  don’t 
belong  to  you,  I’ll  see a  lawyer this very 
day,  and  I  calculate  you’ll  wish  you 
hadn’t. ’
“ With  that  I  made  him  a  bow  and 
left  him.  He  came  out  on  the  veranda 
and  said,  ‘ If  you're  looking  for  them 
mules,  and  that  there  Finn  of  yours, 
you'll  be  wasting  your  time. 
I  saw  a 
couple  of  mules  about  sixty  feet  in  the 
air,  and  when  they  do  come  down  they 
won’t  he  of  any  further  use,  considered 
as  mules. ’
“ My  house  and  everything  else  be­
longing  to  me  was  clean  gone,  but  I 
was  that  mad  at  the  Captain  that  I 
didn’t  care  a  straw  about  it. 
I  walked 
straight  to  Lucullus,  which  the  cyclone 
hadn’t  touched,  and  1  hunted  up  Squire 
Gibbs  and 
laid  the  case  before  him. 
He  said  that  he  couldn’t  see  as  Capt. 
liable  for  tres­
Martin  could  be  held 
passing,  so  long  as  he  stayed 
in  his 
house and  didn’t  step  outside  onto  my 
land.  ‘ You  can’t  set  bis  house  afire  or 
anything  of  that  kind,’  said  he,  ‘ with­
out  getting  into  trouble.  No  more  can 
you.  move 
it  while  he  is  in  it,  for  that 
would  be  an  assault  on  him.  But  I 
don’t  see  anything  to  hinder  you  from 
getting  a  team  of  oxen  and  some  rollers 
handy,  and  the  first  time  he  comes  up 
to  Lucullus  to  buy  groceries  you  can

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laid 

move  bis  house  back  onto  his  own 
land,  and  be  can't  find  any  fault. ’
“ Squire  Gibbs  was  a  first-class 

law­
yer,  and  I  knew  I’d  be a fool  if  I didn’t 
follow  his  advice—after paying $5 for it. 
So  1  hired  a  tent  that  I  could  sleep 
in 
until  such  time  as  I  could  run  up  an­
other  house;  and  I 
in  provision 
and  a  yoke  of  oxen  and  some  rollers, 
not  forgetting  a  small  hydraulic  jack. 
When  1  got  back  to  my  farm  1  pitched 
the  tent  right  in  front  ot  Martin’s 
shanty,  so  that  I  could  keep  a  good 
watch  on  him,  and  1  went  to  work  with 
the  help  of  a  couple  of  men  from  Lu­
cullus  to  build  me  another  house.  You 
see,  the  full  force  of  the  cyclone  had 
passed  over  just  where  my  house  had 
stood,  while  only  the  outer  edge  of  it 
had  struck 
the  Captain's  premises. 
That  accounts  for  the  fact that my house 
had  been  carried  clean  away,  while 
his  had  only  been  picked  up  and  car­
ried  a  few  rods.  As  for  the  mules  and 
the  Nowegian,  they  were  scatteed  all 
over  Minnesota. 
It  was  said  that  some 
of  the  Norwegian  was  picked  up  about 
thirty  miles  from  here,  but  it  wasn’t 
ever  satisfactorily  identified.

it  projected  a  few 

“ Capt.  Martin’s  house  happened  to 
be  planted  in  such  a  way  that  one  cor­
ner  of 
inches  onto 
the  highroad,  and  he  was  able  to  get 
out  of  a  window  and  into  the  road  with­
out  coming  onto  my  property.  How­
ever,  he  didn’t  feel  easy  to  leave  the 
house  alone,  for  fear  that  I  might  med­
dle  with  it,  so  he  stayed  at home  for  the 
best  part  of  a  week,  when  his  provi 
sions  or  his  whisky  or  some other neces­
sary  run  short,  and  he  had  to  walk  over 
to  Lucullus  to  lay  in  a  fresh stock.  This 
was  what  I  had  been  waiting  for,  al­
though  1  never  hinted  it  to  him.  He 
used  to  come  out  on  the  veranda  and 
remark 
in  a  general  way,  without  ad­
dressing  himself  to  me  or any  one  else, 
that  he  was  mightily  pleased  with  his 
new  location  and  wouldn’t  change  it  for 
any  other  building  lot  in 
the  whole 
State.  1  never  said  anything  to  him  ex­
cept  to  remark,  also  in  a  general  sort of 
way, 
if  any  rascally  old  sailor 
should  set  foot  on  my  land  he  would 
have a  hole  bored  through  him  so  quick 
that  he  would  never  know  what  hurt 
him.  Neither of  us  felt  that  it  would  be 
judicious  to  quarrel,  you  understand, 
and  so  we  confined  ourselves  to  remarks 
that  neither  of  us  was  obliged  to  take 
any  notice  of.

that 

“ I  waited  about  an  hour  after  the 
Captain  had  gone,  thinking  that  he 
might  turn  back 
in  hopes  of  catching 
me 
in  the  act  of  meddling  with  his 
house.  At  the  end  of  an  hour  I  felt  safe 
enough,  for  it  was  certain  that  he  must 
have  gone  on  to  Lucullus,  and  that  he 
couldn’t  get  back  before  dark.  So  1 
called  the  men  that  were  working  on 
my  house,  and  we 
jacked  Martin’s 
shanty  up  with  the  hydraulic  jack,  and 
bad  her  on  rollers  in  next  to  no  time. 
Then  I  hitched  the  oxen  to  her  with  a 
double  oxchain  and  started  her  towards 
In  the  course  of  an  hour  1 
the  road. 
had  her  planted  square  across  the  mid­
dle  of  the  road,  so  that  nobody  could 
possibly get  by  her,  and  I  had  my fence 
put  up* again,  and  the  ground  smoothed 
out  where  it  had  been  cut  up  by  the rol­
lers,  and  then  I  sat  down  and  waited for 
the  Captain  to  return.

“ It  was  10 o’clock  and  the night  was 
pitch  dark  when  I  heard Martin  coming 
along  the  road  and  singing. 
I  knew 
from  his  style  of  singing  that  he  had 
filled  himself  up  with  whisky  and  I  cal­
culated  that  he  would  be  considerably 
surprised  when  he  found  out  what  had 
happened.  He  never  saw  the  house un­
til  he  had  walked  bang  up  against  it 
with  considerable  of  a  crash.  Presently 
he  says  to  himself: 
‘ Here’s  a  house 
anchored  right  in  the  fairway,  and  with 
no  riding  light  displayed.  Thishyer’s 
a  pretty  state  of  things.’  Then  he  hails 
the  house 
loudest  voice  and 
wants  to  know  how  she  is,  and  where 
she  is  from,  and  where  she  is  bound  to, 
and  what  sort  of  an  everlasting  fool  her 
captain  might  call  himself.  Not  get­
ting  any  answer,  he  swore  he  would 
climb  aboard and  wake the anchor watch 
with  a  belaying  pin.  But  after  fum­
bling  around  for  some time  and  ham­
mering on  the door and  smashing  a  few

in  his 

panes  of  glass,  a  new  idea  struck  him. 
Thishyer’s  a  derelict;  that’s  what  she 
is,’  said  he. 
‘ I’ll  just  stand  by  her  un­
til  daylight  and  see 
if  a  salvage  job 
can’t  be  made  out  of  it. ’  That  was  the 
last  that  I  heard  of  Capt.  Martin  that 
night.  He  lay  down  in  the  road  close 
alongside  of  the  bouse  and  was  asleep 
and  snoring  the  snore  of  the  just  in  less 
than  a  minute.  Then  I  went  to  bed 
myself,  considering  that  there  wouldn’t 
be  any  more  performances  that  night.

“ The  Captain  woke  up  before  I  did 
the  next  day,  and  when  1  came  out  of 
the  tent  he  was  nowhere  to  be  seen, 
having  unlocked  his  door  and  gone  into 
the  house.  About  noon  he  came  out 
on  the  veranda,  looking  pretty  savage, 
and  1  remarked  to  one  of  my  men  that 
nobody  but  a  born  fool  would  put  his 
house  in  the  middle  of  the  public  road, 
tor  he  would  be  certain  to  be  fined  tor 
obstructing  the  road.  Martin  didn’t  sav 
anything,  which  sort  of  riled  me,  so  I 
said  to  the  man  who  was  nearest  to  me 
that  I  wanted  him  to go  straight  up  to 
Lucullus  and  tell  the  Sheriff,  with  my 
compliments,  that  Capt.  Martin’s  house 
was  standing  directly  across  the  road, 
so  that  I  couldn’t  get  by  it  with  the 
oxen,  and  that  it  was  the  Sheriff’s  duty 
to  see  that  the  road  was  kept clear.  The 
man  naturally  did  as  he  was  told,  and 
in  the  course  of  the  day  the  Sheriff rode 
down  and 
investigated  things  and  or­
dered  Martin  to  take  his  house  out  of 
the  road.

‘ I  didn’t  put 

in  the  road,’  said 
the  Captain,  ’ and  there  ain’t  no  pos­
sible  way  of  taking  it  out  of  the  road 
without  putting 
it  on  the  property  of 
that  individual  alongside  of  you.’

it 

“   ‘ Heaving  cuss  words  at  one  of  our 
leading citizens, ’ says the Sheriff,  ‘ won’t 
help  you.  I’ll  give  you  two  days  to  take 
your  bouse  out  of  the  way,  and  if  at  the 
end  of  that  time  I  find  it  still  in  the 
road,  I’ll  make  kindling  wood  of  it  and 
arrest  you  into  the  bargain.  You  hear 
me. ’
“ The  Captain  heard  him  well  enough 
and  knew  that  he  meant  business. 
However,  he  didn’t  condescend  to  make 
any  answer,  and  I  could  see  that he  was 
determined  to  let  his  house  stand  where 
it  was.  The  truth 
is  he  couldn’t  do 
anything  else.  He  couldn’t  haul 
it 
back  onto  my  land  without  committing 
a  trespass,  and  he  couldn’t  haul  it  on­
to  his  own  land  without  first  getting  it 
across  the  river,  which  was  more  than 
he  or any  other  man  could  do.  My  own 
idea 
it  hadn’t  been  for  the 
cloudburst  that  happened  the  next after­
noon,  Capt.  Martin  would  have  waited 
for the  Sheriff  with  a  shotgun,  and  the 
Sheriff,being  one  of  the  brightest minds 
in  our  section,  would  have  had  his  re 
volver  ready,  and  before  the  work  of 
demolishing  the  house  could begin there 
would  have  been  one  or  two  corpses 
ready  for  the  Coroner.

is  that,  if 

“ You  know  what  a  cloudburst  is? 
Well!  that  is  astonishing.  A  cloudburst 
is  what  we  call  a  sort  of  Noah’s flood 
without  any  ark.  You  see,  some  big 
cloud,  that  holds  perhaps  a  million  tons 
of  water,  suddenly  goes  to  pieces,  and 
the  water  all  comes  down  at  once,  the 
same  as 
it  does  at  Niagara  Falls. 
Thishyer  cloudburst  that  I  am  speaking 
of  took  place  thirty  or  forty  miles above 
here,  and  the  whole 
lot  of  water  ran 
into  the  Fomponoosuc River and swelled 
it  into  a  raging  torrent that swept every­
thing  befoie  it. 
I  heard  it  coming  just 
before 
it  reached  me,  and  I  went  for 
that  hill  yonder  as  fast  as  I  could  run, 
and  just  managed  to  reach  it  in  time. 
Before  I  started  I  hailed  the  Captain, 
and  told  him  to  run  while  he  could,  but 
he  pretended  not  to  hear  me,  and  re­
marked,  as 
if  he  was  speaking  to  the 
universe  and  all  the  rest  of  mankind, 
that  the  curse  of  thishyer  country  was 
the  confounded 
impertinence  of  the 
lower  classes.  He  was  one  of  those  men 
that  nobody  can  help  except  with  a 
club,  he  was  that  everlastingly  obstinate 
and  conceited.

Martin  saw  what  was  going  to happen 
just  as  well as  I  did,  and just  before  the 
flood  struck  his  house  I  saw  him  trying 
to  rig  up  a  sort  of  steering  gear  by 
lashing  a  plank  to one  of  the  veranda 
posts.  Then  the  flood,  which  came 
down  like a  wall  six  feet high,  burst on

the  house,  and  away 
it  whirled.  The 
Captain’s  steering  oar  wasn’t  of  the 
least  use,  and  before  he  went  out  of 
sight  he  dropped  it  and  sat  down  on  the 
railing  of  his  veranda,  with  an  arm 
around  the  post  and  his  pipe  in  his 
mouth,  as  comfortable  as  you  please. 
I 
watched  him  for  the  best  part  of a mile, 
and  I  couldn’t  see  but  what  the  house 
was  doing  very  well,  and  that  the 
chances  were  that  it  would  bring  up 
in 
some  safe  locality  before  reaching  the 
Muskingum  Falls,  which  are  seventeen 
miles  from  here. 
‘ Anyway,’  I  says  to 
myself,  ‘ here’s an  end  of  trespassing on 
my  property and  blocking  up  the public 
road,  and  an  end  of  a  mighty  disagree­
able  neighbor. ’  The  Sheriff,  when  he 
came  the  next  day  and  found  that  there 
wasn’t  any  work  for  him  to do,  said 
pretty  much  the  same  thing.

“  What became of Capt.  Martin?  Well, 
his  house  floated  ashore  pretty nigh onto 
seventeen  miles  from  here,  and  the 
Captain  never  so  much  as  got  his  feet 
wet.  When  the  water  went  down  it  left 
the  house  on  the  most  valuable  corner 
lot  in  West  Antioch,  just  where the peo­
ple  had  calculated  to  put  up  a  new 
opera  bouse.  Of  course,  the  owner  of 
the  lot  made  trouble  for  Martin,  and 
Martin  made  trouble  for  him.  There 
was  no  less  than fifteen separate lawsuits 
going  on  at  the  same  time  between 
them,  and  the  prospect  was  that  they 
would  both  die  of  old  age  before  the 
courts  would  find  out  who  was  in  the 
right.  Capt.  Martin  made  an  arrange­
ment  with  a  grocer  in  the  town  to heave 
in  all  his  supplies  through  a  window, 
and  he  loopholed  the  walls  of  his  house 
and  made 
it  shotproof,  and  swore  that 
he  would  never  leave  it alive.  He never 
did,  for  one  day  he  got  so  particularly 
mad  that  he  had  a  stroke,  and  when  the 
Coroner  broke  into  the  house  a  few days 
later he  found  Martin  lying  on  the  floor 
dead.

“ Yes,  sir,  what  with  cyclones  and 
cloudbursts  and  prairie  fires  and  bliz­
like,  Northern  Min­
zards  and  such 
nesota 
lively  place. 
However,  we  folks  that  live  here  never

is  a  middling 

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allows  ourselves  to  worry  over  what may 
happen  tomorrow,  and  then  again,  may 
not  happen  for  the  next  twenty  years. 
Besides,  it  would  take  a  first-class  cy­
clone  or  a  tremendous  big  flood  to  move 
a  house  that  is  built  so  solid  as  this  yer 
hotel  is,  so  you  needn't  be  afraid  that 
you’ll  find  yourself  sailing  through  the 
air  or  floating  down  the  Fomponoosuc— 
that  is,  so  long  as  you  pays  your  board 
regular,  as  I  am  free  to  say  you  always 
has  done,  and  I  presume  you  always 
will  do. ”

The  Debt  We  Owe  to  Liberty.

Shall we who In the mighty West 
Let vulture Spain hide in her nest 

Set foot upon a king's decrees
The fair pearl of the Southern seas?

In selfish ease we watch the  fight 
Yet, lending nothing of our might,

And say, “How  fine their battle-rage!”
We forfeit our own heritage.

We mock the Briton’s eantious plan 
Amid (he Sultan's bloody work,
But while we prate of love of man.
May not the Spaniard match the Turk?

We praised Kossuth.  Mazzinl's name 
And Garibaldi’s warmed like wine:
Remembering them, ’tis to our shame 
We aid not Cuba's wavering liue.
1 know not whether black or white 
They be who strive to make her free;
They seek the sun at darkest 11 ght 
And prove their right to libe.ty.

I know not whether white or black,
Nor care, since Lincoln’s strong arm caught
The i urled whin o'er the bondsman's back. 
And a wronged people’s freedom wrought

A Latin people gave us aid 
To Cuba let the debt be paid 

And dared for us to break a lance;
We owe to liberty and France.
Hark, the long Caribbean wave 
We, with our lion's strength to save,

Moans on the island beach  and dies;
Fed the shame growing in our eyes.

No, we are not a coward land,
Let us help rear, with practised hand,

A sword flash  with our sympathy
A new republic of the sea.

Meredith  Nicholson.

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that  gives  complete satisfaction ?
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  L.*r  the  money  in  the 
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How  Bashful  Blinker  Lost  His  Type­

W. J. Lampion in New York Sun.

writer.

How  pretty  she  was  as  she  sat  with 
her  sbapely  fingers  dancing  on  the  key­
board  ot  her  typewriter.

ltniuk  in  tne  tune  to  come  when  this 
shall  have  become  the  classic  period tor 
the  future  centuries,  as 
the  ancient 
Greek  is  the  classic  lor  us  ot  this  time, 
that, instead  of  the  maiden  with  the  dis­
taff  as  we  have,  they  will  have  the 
maiden  at  the  type-writer,  as  one  of  the 
beautilul  figures  that  make  art  everlast­
ing.

Her  eyes  were  so  blue,  her  cheeks 
were  so  pink,  and  truly,  her  hair  must 
have  been  transplanted  Irom  the  banks 
of  the  Pactuius,  whose  shifting  sands 
were  crystals  of  pure  gold.

Tne  man  sat  near  her  dictating  a  let­

ter.

On  the  window  pane  next  to  the street 
were  the  words  “ Hurford,  blinker  & 
Co.,  Biokers, ”   and  the  man  dictating 
was  the  blinker  ot  the  firm.  He  was 
also  the  Hurtord  and  the  Co.,  seeing 
tnat  he  had  bought  out  everybody  else, 
including  the  well-known  name  of  the 
firm.

And  what  a  man  was Blinker— Haver­
hill  Blinker.  A  bachelor  ot  forty  years’ 
experience,  a  business  man of large  anu 
increasing  wealth,  a  calculating  specu 
Iator,  a  good  all 
'round  teliow,  and 
among  women  the  very  prototype anu 
synonym  ot  bashtulness.  To  .see  him 
bow  and  smile  to  and  at  a  lady  when 
meeting  her  would  have  led  the  most 
critical  to  say  he  was  a  courtier  of  the 
courtiers,  but  it  it  became  necessary toi 
bun  to go  beyond  the  bowing  and  smil­
ing 
limit,  life  had  no  further  charms 
for  Haverhill  Blinker.  Strange  to  say, 
too,  he  was  not  always.conscious  of  his 
weakness,  and  there  were  times  when 
he  really  tnought  he  was quite a  ladies' 
man.

When Jie  recovered  from  one  of  these 
latter attacks  he  was  always  surrouuded 
bv  a 
circle  ot  sympathizing 
friends  (male).

large 

Until  wituiu  six  months  he  had  never 
been  able  to  persuade  himselt  that  the 
real  and  only  way  to  accustom  himseil 
to  tne  use  ot  a  woman’s  society  was  to 
employ  a  "lady  type-writer,"  and then 
he  did  it  because a  relative  of  his,  his 
aunt,  in  fact,  in  a  neighboring  town, 
had  asked  him  as  a  special  favor  to 
help  tne  daughter of  an old school trieud 
ot  ners,  m  sore  distress,  wno  was  quite 
a  skilled  stenographer  and  type-writer.
It  was  entirely  beyond  the  comprehen­
sibility  ot  Air.  Blinker’s  aunt  that  Airs. 
Blinker  would  give  her  employment, 
but  the  aunt  tnought  he  might  know 
some  one  who  hau  a  place  tor  her. 
Therefore,  when  he  wrote  to  his aunt 
saying  that  he  would  give  the  young 
woman  a  place 
in  his  office  at  $40 a 
moutn  she  was  more than surprised—she 
was  delighted,  and  sent  the  golden 
haired  daughter  of  her  dear  old  school 
friend  rigut  over  to  her  nephew.

1 he  day  she  made  her  first  appear­
ance  Mr.  Blinker  was  out  when  she 
called  about  11  o’clock,  and  the office 
boy  and  the  clerk  having  insisted  upon 
her  remaining  for  a  tew  minutes  until 
Mr.  Blinker snould  return,  she  sat  down 
near  the  window  and  waited,  never once 
noting  the  fact  that  the  office  boy  and 
the  clerk  were  each  putting  in  every 
moment  of  his  spare  time  watching  her 
and  wondering  what  the  mischief  busi­
ness  an  angel  right  from  heaven  had 
with  Mr.  Blmkei.

When  Mr.  Blinker  finally  appeared, 
and  the  office  boy  and  the  clerk  col­
lapsed,  he  hadn't  the  least  idea  who she 
was,  and  bis  heart  began  to  pound  so 
on  the  inside  01  him  that  he  tnought 
it 
was  the  janitor  turning  on  mure  steam 
and  shaking  up  the  radiators 
in  the 
office  and  halls. 
It  was  the  very  first 
time  he  had  ever  seen  a  woman  in  his 
office,  and  the  experience  was  so  en­
tirely  novel  that  tor  an  instant  be  was 
speechless.
"Is this  Mr.  Blinker?”  she enquired, 
rising  to meet him as he  came  hesita­
tingly toward  her.
" Y e s ’m, ”   responded  Mr.  Blinker, 
feeling  as  if  he  were  a  schoolboy  about 
to  be  licked  for  pasting  a  wet  wad  on 
’ * May  1 enquire to what I am j
the  walk 

indebted  for  the  honor  of  this  visit, 
ma’am?”

Blinker  would  no  more  have  made 
such  an  egregiously  silly  and  stilted 
speech  as  that  to  a  man  than  he  would 
have  tried  to  have  told  the  truth  in  Chi­
cago,  but this was a  woman,  and  Blinker 
was  not  responsible.

"Your  aunt,"  said  the  visitor,  with 
a  roguish  twinkle  in  her  eye,  but Blink­
er  didn't  see  it  any  more  than  he  saw 
profit  in  honest  politics.

" I — I— I  beg  your  pardon,  ma’am ," 

he stammered.

The  very  idea  of his saying "M a ’am " 
It  would  have  been 
if  Mr.  Blinker  had  been  re­

to  a  girl  like  that ! 
criminal 
sponsible.

then  she  told  him  who  she  was;  and 
the  way  Mr.  Blinker  began  to  assume 
airs  and  strut  around  as  if  he  were a 
mighty  potentate  with  a  lot  of  subjects 
was  as  funny  as  it  could  be.

Now  she  had  been  with  him  ‘ six 
mouths,  and  he  sat  near  her  dictating  a 
letter.

In  the  midst  of  it  he  stopped  short.  • 
.»He  had.been  tempted  to  do this  many 
times  before.  He  had  studied  the  mat­
ter  thoroughly,  as  he thought,  and  hav­
ing  considered  it  in  every  light  and  de­
liberated  upon 
it  for  many  days,  and 
having  tried  to  accomplish  the  desired 
result  by  every  means  in his knowledge, 
ne  had  at  last  determined  to  do  this.
it.

Therefore  he  stopped  in  the  midst  of 

" I   am  very  sorry,  Miss  Prince,”   he 
began,  quite  abruptly,  and  as 
if  he 
wanted  to  get  through  with  the  dis 
agreeable  task 
in  a  hurry,  "but  I  am 
atraid  1  shall  have  to  lose  you  as  my 
type-writer. ”

She  clutched  suddenly  at  the  sides  ol 

"Ww-w-by, ”   she 

the  machine  as  if  to  support  herself.
stammered  with 
quivering 
lips,  "why,  Mr.  Blinker, 
what  have  I  done  that  I  should  be  dis­
charged  without  warning?"

"B ut  I’m  giving  you  warning,"  he 
said,  half  with  bravado,  halt  with 
apology.  "You  don't  have  to go  right 
away.' ’

" 1   do  not  want  to  go  at  all  until  I 
know  why  I  am  going, ”   she  argued.
’  This  is  ail  I  have  in  the  world,  and  1 
am  entitled  to  know  why  I  am  unfitted 
for this. ”

"Oh,  it  isn’t  your  fault,  exactly,”   he 
went  on  evasively. 
"There  are  such 
things,  you  know,  as misfortunes,  which 
can  scarcely  be  classed  as  faults. 
In 
your  case.  Miss  Prince,  your  misfortune 
is  that  you  are  too  pretty,”   and  Mr. 
Blinker actually  tucked  his  head  to  one 
side and  simpered  at  her.

bbe  had  been  suspicious  for  a  long 
time,  as  most  women  are  when  they 
have  their  wits  about  them  under  cir­
cumstances  similar  to  those  surround­
ing  Miss  Prince  and  Mr.  Blinker,  and 
she  almost  smiled  through  the  mist  that 
was  gathering  in  her  eyes.

"You  have  always  said,  Mr.  Blink­
liked  to 

er,”   she  pleaded,  "that  you 
see  pretty  things  in  your  office. "

He  coughed nervously,  uneasily.  How 
many  things  he  had  said  to  her  he  did 
not  know.  How  many  more  he  wanted 
to  say  he  did  know.  What  he  was 
now  saying  he  did  not  know  how  he 
was  ever  going  to  hnish.

" I   know  that,"  he  admitted,  "but 
sometimes,  you  know,  my  dear  Miss 
Prince,  a  man  cannot  always  have  what 
he  wants.  As  long  as  I  was a  bachelor, 
Miss  Prince,  I  could  do  as  I  pleased, 
but  1  am  to  be  married,  at  least  I  hope 
so,  and  you  know  a  man’s  wife  some­
times  differs  with  him  on  what  may 
seem  to  the  world  at  large  to  be  quite 
trivial  points. ”

Married!
At  one  blow  all  her  castles  were 
thrown  to  the  earth,  with  not  so  much 
as  a  corner  standing  to  show  that  they 
had  ever  been  other  than  crumbling 
rums.

True,  he  had  never  said  anything 
definitely  to  her,  but  there  is  so  much 
more  in  what , is  never  said,  and  daily 
out  of  the  unspoken affinity which surely 
existed  between  these  two  congenial 
people  the  more  foolish  woman  had 
constructed  such  hopes  as  women  cher­
ish  to  the  end  of  time.  That  he  had 
thought enough of her to  warrant  these

and 

Haven’t  you  always  known  I  didn’t 
care  a  darn  for  any  woman  on  earth  but 
you?  Ruth,  darling,  don’t  look  at  me 
like that!"

emotionally,  and 

Mr.  Blinker  was  going  all  to  pieces 
the 
mentally 
young  woman  took  pity  on  him,  for 
it 
dawned  upon  her  all  at  once  that  the 
more  bashful  a  bachelor 
is  the  more 
ridiculous  he  is  in  love,  and  the  only 
way  to  prevent  a  tender  emotion  from 
becoming 
ludicrous  is  to  accept  it  on 
the  spot.

Which  she  did,  and  Mr.  Blinker 

never  had  another  pretty  type-writer.

Haven’t  Struck  This  Section.

"There  is,"  says  the  New  York  Re­
tail  Grocers’  Advocate,  " a   gang  of 
sharpers  out  among  the  grocers,  trying 
to  swindle  them  in  a  new  manner.  Two 
of  them  will  walk  into  a store  that is  for 
sale  and  offer  to  buy  it.  One  will  make 
an  offer  and  then  go  away  apparently 
not  ready  to  pay  the  price  asked.  The 
other  will  then  remain  or  come  back 
soon  afterwards,  introducing  himself  as 
an  agent  and  asking  a  commission,  if 
he  should  be  successful  in  making  the 
other  man  buy  the  store.  The  next  day 
the  pair  will  come  back,  making  an 
offer  which  is  accepted,  and  the  buyer 
will  give  a  check  on  account.  After  he 
has  gone  out  of  the  store  the  alleged 
agent  will  take  his  commission,  if  he 
can  get  it.  The  check  is  n.  g. ”

Association Matters

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  H enry C. Weber, Detroit;  Vice-Pres­
ident. (Juas. F.  Bock,  Battle Creek;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, Henry C. Minn ie, Eaton Uapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J . Wislek,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Stowe,  Grand  Kapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatman, Clare.
Next ^Meeting—At  Grand  Rapids,  Feb.  17  and

President,  T hos.  T.  Bates;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C.  Winchester;  Secretary, H omer 
K l a p;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  Lehman.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall 
over E. J. Herrick’s  store.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. b.  Wh ip pl e; Secretary, G. T.Camp­

bell;  Treasurer,  W. E. Collins.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Byron C.  Hil l ; Secretary,  W.  H. Por­

t e r ;  Treasurer, J. F. H elmer.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

President,  F.  W.  Gilchrist;  Secretary,  C.  L 

Partridge.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  F.  15.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

D a r l i n g ;  Treasurer, L. A. G i l k e y .

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J.  Katz:  Secretary, P h il ip Uil b e r ; 

Treasurer. S. J.  Huppord.

hopes,  a  thousand  thousand  wordless 
witnesses  testified.

Now  thus,  in  the  very  midst  of  the 
work  that  he  had  given  to  her to do  for 
him,  and  that  she  loved  to  do  because 
it  was  for  him,  the  blow  fell.

"Y e s? "  she  responded  to  his  state­
ment,  in the  faint,  pathetic  questioning 
tnat  fills  a  woman’s  voice  when  she  is 
thus  called  upon  to  face  her  heart's 
doom,  and  her  hands  unconsciously 
sought  to  go  on  with  her  work.

"Yes,  Miss  Prince,”   he  said,  with 
no  sound  of  sympathy  in  his  voice, 
"and  1  am  pretty  sure  my  wife  will  not 
permit  you  to  remain  here  as  my  type­
writer. 
I  may  say, " a n d   he  simpered 
again,  "as  my  pretty  typewriter."

bhe  never  so  much  as  saw  the simper, 
and  in  that  far  Mr.  Blinker  should have 
thanked  his good  fortune.

" 1   have  thought  the  matter  all over, ”  
he  continued,  "and  I  leave  it  to  you  as 
a  fair-minded  woman  whether  it  is  my 
duty  to  gain  a  wife  and  lose  a  type­
writer,  or  vice  versa?"

By  this  time  she  had  recovered  from 
the  primary  shock.  She  had  even  be­
gun  to  wonder  how he had ever mustered 
up  sufficient  courage  to  propose  to the 
future  Mrs.  Blinker.  She  even  went 
turther,  and  made  up  her  mind  that  the 
lady  was  a  widow,  and  had  used  the 
traditional  wiles  of  the  widow  on  the 
unsuspecting  and  bashful  Mr.  Blinker.
"B y   all  means,  Mr.  Blinker,”   she 
said  coldly,  "gain  the  wife.  The  world 
is  full  ot  type-writers,  but  it 
is  not 
every  day that a  man  can  get  a  wife— 
at  least  such  a  wife as  you  deserve, ”  
and  in  spite  of  herself  there  was  some­
thing  soft  in  her  tone  that  she  did  not 
want to  be  there.

Mr.  Blinker  noticed  it,  too,  but  he 

didn't  stop  to  comment  upon  it.

"Good  for  you,  Miss  Prince,"  he 
laughed.  * * I  knew  you  were  a  woman  of 
sense. ’ ’

She  shrank  as  if  she  had been touched 

with  a  hot  iron.

"  Thank  you,  Mr.  Blinker, ”  she said. 
"Now,  if  you  please,  we  will  go  on with 
our  work. ”

It  seemed  as 

if  a  whole  lifetime  had 
passed  since  she  had  written  the  last 
word ;  and  as  she  bent  down  over  it,  as 
if  the  better  to  see  what  it  was,  a  tear 
fell  upon  the  line.

This  Mr.  Blinker  also  observed,  but 

said  nothing,  seeming  to  enjoy  it.

"Before  we  do,  Miss  Prince,”   he 
said,  "m ay  I  ask  a  favor  at  your  hands 
—a  promise?"

"What  is  it—yes,”   she answered.
Mr.  Blinker  braced  himself.
"That,  if  this  woman  whom  I  am 
soon  to  ask  formally  to  be my w ife,"  he 
said,  "should  refuse  me,  you will  marry 
me.”

For  an  instant  the  girl  looked  at  him, 
then  she  rose  to  her  feet,  her  eyes  fairly 
blazing.

Mr.  Blinker  saw  that  the  tigress  was 
about  to  spring,  and  he  was  frightened.
"W ait,  stop!!”   he  exclaimed,  hold­
ing  up  his  hands  as  if  to  shield  himself 
from  the  blow. 
"Hold  on  until  I  tell 
you  who  the  woman  is. 
It’s  you,  Miss 
Prince— you — you — you !  Won’t  you 
marry  me?  Will  you  be  my  wife?

THE_______________

TRADESMAN

Reaches the  buyer
The  buyer sells  the  goods—
The goods you  have  to sell

The  moral  is  plain— USE THE TRADESMAN, 

L A R G E S T   P A ID   C I R C U L A T I O N .

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

President. J as  F  H amm ell. Lxnsing;  Secretary, 
D.  M.AGHT, Flint;  Treasurer, Chas. McNolty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President, S.  H.  I I a b t ,  Detroit:  Secretary  and 

Treasurer. D. Morris, Detroit.

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

dent Association.

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

President. A. F. Peake, Jackson:  Secretary and 
Boari  of  Directors—F.  M  T yler,  H.  B.  Fa ir- 
child. J as. N. B radford  J   H enry Daw ley.G eo.
J.  HEINZELMAN, LHA8. S.  ROBINSON.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Cluh.
President.  W.  C.  B rown.  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ixson,  Marquette.

G ripsack  Brigade.

E.  H.  Poole,  who  formerly  repre­
sented  the  Standard  Oil  Co.,  is  now  on 
the  road  for  the  Dingman  Soap  Co.

It  is  only  a  few  years  since  the  com­
mercial  traveler  used  to  look  at  every 
competitor  as  an  enemy.  Organization 
and  association  have  changed  all  this.

When  Shakespeare  said  that  “ age 
does  not  wither  nor  custom  stale  his 
infinite  variety,”   he  likely  referred  to 
the  man  hustling  for  business  on  the 
road.

Everybody  wants  a  “ sure  thing”   if 
he  can  get  it,  and  therefore,  in  doing 
business,  the  commercial  travelei 
likes 
to  eliminate,  as  much  as  he  can,  the 
element  of  risk.

F.  V.  Freeman,  for  the  past  four 
years  on  the  road  in  this  State  for  the 
Chicago  Rubber  Clothing  Co.,  of  Ra 
cine,  has  engaged  for  1897  with  the 
World  Manufacturing  Co.,-  of  New 
York,  taking  the  same  territory  as  be­
fore.

The  semi-monthly  social  party  of 
Post  E  (Grand  Rapids,)  which  was 
held  at  Imperial  hall  last Saturday even­
ing,  was  well  attended  and  proved  to  bt 
one  of  the  most  enjoyable  entertain­
ments  of  the  series.  There  were  no 
sideshows  and  no  elephants—just  danc­
ing and cardplaying.  The next party will 
be  held  at  the  same  place  Saturday 
evening,  Feb.  13.

Owosso  Times:  George  W.  Haskell, 
of  this  city,  received  notice  on  Tues­
day  of  his  appointment  as  one  of  the 
deputy  food 
inspectors  under  the  new 
State  Food  Commissioner,  E.  O.  Gros- 
venor,  of  Monroe,  No  better  man  could 
have  been found for this important work, 
and  we  predict  Mr.  Haskell  will  prove 
to  be 
just  the  man  for  the  position. 
His  selection  gives  excellent  satisfac­
tion  to  the  Republicans  of  the  entire 
county.  The  salary  is S3  a  day,  with  all 
expenses  paid  by  the  State.

“ I  was 

in  the  Upper  Peninsula  last 
week, ”   remarked a well-known traveler, 
“ and  stopped  for  dinner  in  a  sawmill 
village,  where  a  hasbery 
is  conducted 
by  the  wife  of  one  of  the  mill  bands. 
The  food 
is  tough,  and  a  meal  usually 
comprises  a  dish  of  fried  bacon,  swim­
ming 
in  grease,  yellow  jaundice  bis­
cuits  and  boiled  coffee,  for  which  the 
modest  landlady  charges  ‘ us  drummers’ 
half  a  dollar,  while  anyone  else  is asked 
to  pony  up  but  a  quarter.  On  the  wall 
in  the  place  called  the  dining  room 
hangs  the  motto: 
‘ Feed  my  Lambs.’ 
On  this  occasion,  as  I  stepped  in  the 
dining  room  I  met  a  Detroit  salesman, 
who  bad 
just  about  finished  his  meal, 
and  the  disgust  on  his  usually  smiling 
countenance  was  plainly visible,  as be

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

got  up  from  the  table  and,  taking  out 
bis  well-filled  wallet,  asked  the  land 
lady  ‘ How  much?’ 
‘ Half  a  dollar,  sir,’ 
was  the  response. 
‘ All  right,  madam,’ 
said  the  Detroiter,  ‘ but  I  would  suggest 
to  you  one  thing,  and  that  it  that  you 
take  down  that  motto  up  there and place 
one  there 
instead  reading,  ‘ Shear  My 
Lambs.’  ”

The  Cranks  We  Meet  on  the  Road.
They  say  “ it  takes  all  kinds  of  peo­
ple  to  make  a  world,”   and  no  one  is  in 
a  better  position  to  verify  this  adage 
than  the  commercial  traveler.

The  crank,  like  “ the  poor,  we  have 
with  us always. ’ ’  There  may  be  cer­
tain  favored 
localities  where  he  does 
not  exist;  if  so,  I  am  traveling  in  the 
wrong  territory.

idea  that  he 

The  worst  crank  we  meet  on  the  road 
is  the  “ new  man’ ’—not  new 
in  the 
sense  of  the  “ new  woman,”   but  the 
young  fellow  who  has  just  started  out, 
filled  with  erratic  and  original  theories 
of  commercial  and  social  problems, 
with  an 
is  the  “ real 
thing.”   How  tired  he  makes  us!  He, 
perhaps,  comes  from  a  home  of  the 
plainest  and  most  modest  pretensions, 
yet  no  hotel 
is  good  enough  for  him. 
If  he  arrives  at  midnight,  he  kicks  be­
cause  the  best  room 
in  the  house  has 
not  been  reserved  for  him  and  insists 
that  the landlord should have anticipated 
his  arrival;  he  keeps  the  bell  boys  on 
the  jump ;  rattles  the  waiters  and  dis­
gusts  the guests  generally.  After  a  few 
trips  he  either  braces  up  or  is  called 
in,  and  the  place  that  knew  him  knows 
him  no  more.

the  genial, 

While  many  of  my  best  friends  are 
among  the  hotel  men,  yet  they  are  not 
jovial,  all-round 
always 
good  fellows  they  are  pictured. 
I  sup­
pose  reasonable  allowance  should  he 
made  for them,  as  the  countless  annoy­
ances  incident  to  their  business must  be 
enough  to  ruin  the  most  angelic  dispo­
sition.  Often  they  seem  to  vent  their 
spite  upon  us  by  making  confirmed 
dyspeptics  of  us  or  by  consigning  us 
to a  cold  storage  room,  with  an  arrange­
ment  called  a  bed,  which  appears  like 
a  relic  of  barbarism  left  over  from  the 
Inquisition—a  veritable  rack  of  torture, 
conceived 
in  a  hotter  place  than  the 
aforesaid  room.

Lest  I  do  him  a  seeming  injustice  in 
this  enumeration  of  cranks,  1  must  noi 
ignore  the  “ frosty”   hotel  clerk.  How 
some  of  those  fellows  anticipate  us  with 
a  glance  if  we  presume to question them 
regarding  the  arrival  or departure  of  a 
train!  With  what  withering  sarcasm  we 
are  informed  that  there  is  stationery 
in 
the  writing  room,  if  we  so  far  forget 
ourselves as  to  enquire  for  paper  at  the 
office!  With  what  a  positive  air  he  as­
sures  us  that  there  is  no  mail  for  us, 
when  subsequent 
investigation  reveals 
letter  containing  a  long-looked-for 
a 
check  or,  perhaps,  a 
letter  from  our 
wife— if  we  are  so  fortunate  as  to  pos­
sess  that  necessary  adjunct  to  human 
happiness.  These  are  but  a  few  of  the 
experiences  we  have  all  doubtless  had 
with  the  individual  referred  to.  While 
this  sort  of  fellow  is  exceptional,  yet 
none can  deny  his  existence.

Probably  the  most  common  species  of 
crank  we  meet 
is  the  cranky  buyer. 
How  amusing  to  witness  the 
important 
and  blase  air  of  certain  dealers  in  the 
smaller  towns! 
I  have  observed  that 
these things  are governed  by  geometri­
cal  ratio—the  more 
insignificant  the 
town  and  the  smaller  the  volume  of 
business  conducted,  the greater  the con­
ceit and bombast of' the  buyer. 
I once

I 

approached  a  buyer whose 
introductory 
salutation  was,  “ Well,  what  the  d—1  do 
you  want?”  
informed  him  that  I 
wanted  him  to  try  and  be  a  gentleman, 
however  painful  the  effort  might  be, 
and  that  if  the  experiment  proved  a 
success  I  would  state  my  business  on 
my  next  trip.  Experience  has  taught 
me  that  it  pays  to  be  a  gentleman ;  but 
when  one  encounters  a  case  like  the 
one  cited,  one  is  justified  in  adopting 
the  other  fellow's  tactics.

Time  and  your  patience  would  scarce 
permit  of  a  more  complete  or  compre­
hensive  enumeration  of  the  various 
forms  of  cranks  we  meet  on  the  road.  I 
do  not  wish  to  infer  that  all  with  whom 
I  come 
in  contact  are  cranks;  on  the 
contrary,  I  find  comparatively  few such.
I  have  merely  referred  to  a  few  freaks 
whom  I  have  a  dim  recollection  of  hav­
ing  met  in  the  course of  my  travels.

A  traveling  man  must,  of  necessity, 
become  something  of  a  kicker  himself. 
He  seems  to be  a  mark  for  everyone, 
and  unless  he  has a  full  appreciation  of 
what 
is  due  him,  and  insists  upon  his 
rights,  he  will  be  continually  imposed 
upon.

In  conclusion,  let  me  suggest  that  we 
all  start  out  on  the  new  year  with  the 
idea  of  doing  what  we  can  by  example 
and  precept  to  minimize  the  number  of 
cranks.  Let  us  go  forth  with  a  firm  be­
lief 
in  the  universal  brotherhood  of 
man;  let  us  practice  toward  mankind 
in  general  those  virtues  which  appeal 
most  strongly  to  our better  selves;  let 
us  so  govern  our actions  as  to  make  the 
name  of  “ drummer,”   as  borne  by  us,  a 
still  greater  honor  in  the  future  than  it 
has  ever  been  in  the  past!

Jo h n  J.  Bu sh.

The  New  Officers  Take  Hold.

Flint,  Feb.  1— At  a  special  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  held  at  Hotel 
Downey,  Lansing,  Saturday,  Jan.  30,  all 
the  members  were  present.

The  bonds  of  the  Secretary and Treas­
urer  were  presented  and  accepted  by 
the  Finance  Committee,  and  the  books 
of  the  organization  were  turned  over  to 
the  newly  elected  officers.

On  motion,  it  was  decided  to  hold  the 
next  annual  convention  at  Kalamazoo 
on  Dec.  28  and  29,  1897.

A  vote  of  thanks  was  tendered  Post 
H,  of  Port  Huron,  for  its  kind 
invita 
non  to  hold  the  next  convention  of  the 
organization  at  that  place.
by  Director  Peake,  was  adopted :

The  following  resolution,  presented 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  this 
Board  hereby  tender  their  heartfelt 
chanks  to  the  retiring  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  for  the  efficient  manner  in 
which  they  have  discharged  the  duties 
devolving  upon  their  respective  offices 
and 
lor  the  courtesy  at  all  times  ex­
tended  to  their  fellow  members.

......... . 

J.  Frost,  sala ry.... 

The  following  bills  were  audited  and 
an  order  drawn  on  the  Treasurer  for  the 
payment  of  same:
Ge<x  F. Owen, salary......... ...................................$21  67
J . 
5  55
A.  F.  Peake,  attendance at  Board  M eeting....  4  10 
F  M  Tyler,  attendance at  Board  M eeting....  3  81 
J  R.  Wood,  attendance at  Board  Meeting.......   5  02
K.  I).  Palmer,  attendance  at  Board  Meeting  ..  4  5,
Geo.  F.  Owen,  attendance at  Board  Meeting ..  3  95 
1  has  L. Stevens,  attendance at Board  Meeting  5  36 
F.  R  Street,  attendance at  Board  Mee ing.......   6  10
C.  McNolty,  attendance at  Board  Meeting........  a  23
D. C.  Slaght,  attendance at Board M eeting.... 
4  48
There  being  no  further  business,  the 
meeting  adjourned,  to  convene  March 
27,  at  the  Downey  House,  Lansing.

D e l l   C.  S la g h t,  Sec’y.

A  well-known  clergyman  of  Boston 
went  to  an  eminent  dentist  of  that  city 
to  get  a  new  set  of  teeth  made. 
In  a 
few  days  the  work  was  finished.  The 
parson,  who  possessed  a  voice  pitched 
in  an  almost  feminine  key,  stepped  up 
in  front  of  a  long  mirror  and  began  to 
grimace,  opening  his  mouth  wide  so  as 
to  show  bis  new  teeth.  Suddenly  he 
burst out with  the  exclamation,  “ Jesus

25

two  or  three  times 

Christ!”   The  dentist  was  a  very  reli­
gious  man,  and,  not  knowing  that  his 
patient was  a  clergyman,  protested  most 
vigorously  when  the  exclamation  was 
repeated 
even 
stronger  than  before,  against  what  he 
considered  blasphemy.  The  good  dom­
inie  turned  from  the  mirror  in  astonish­
ment,  and  said,  “ My  good  friend,  I’m 
not  swearing. 
It’s  thirty  years  since 
I’ve  been  able  to  pronounce  the  name 
of  my  blessed  Redeemer  without  whis­
tling. ”

We  could  all  be  great  men  if we could 
be  measured  by  the  great  things  we  in­
tend  to  do  to-morrow.
F R E E   C H E C K   R O O M

EUROPE *N HOTEL.  Entirely New 
J. T. uONNOL  Y, Pr •prietor. Grand Rapids, 
52 N. Ionia S t. Opposite Union  Depot.
N E W   R E P U B L IC

Reopened  Nov.  2 5.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam beat.

Electric Bells and  Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1 51 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.  Thev  will 
conduct the Cutler House as a striotlv first-class 
house,  giving  every  detail  painstaking  at­
tention.

Commercial  House

Lighted by Electric’ty.  Heated by Steam.

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.
All modern couvenienc  s.

S2 per day. 

IRA  A.  BEAN,  Prop.

THE WIERENGO

E.  T.  PENNOYER.  Manager,

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

while  you  take  a  snooze  is 
quickest acquired at

FRED  MARSH’S

in  Wonderly 
barber  shop 
Building,  at  Grand  Kapids.

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

Grand Rapids.

Telephone 3HI  1 

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and  give  customers  good 

satisfaction.

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Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIQAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
T e rm   expires
Dec. 31, 1896
C. A. Bu s s e s, Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31, 1897
S. E  P arkill. Owosso 
Dec. 31, IHH
P.  W. R.  Per r t.  Detroit 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Geo. Gundrum.  Ionia  - 
Dec. 3l, 1900

---------  
- 

President, S.  E  Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, P.  W.  R.  P erry, Detroit.
Treasurer, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coining  Examination  Sessions—Detroit,  Jan.  5 
and  6;  Grand  Rap'ds,  March  2  and  3;  Star 
Island  (Detroit),  Ju n e—;  Upper  Peninsula, 
Aug. —.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

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

The  Drug  Market.

Alcohol— Market  for  grain  is unsettled 
and  values  are  rather  irregular,  due  to 
continued  competition.

Alum— Only  an  average  amount  of 
is  going  forward,  but  tone  of 

business 
the  market  is  steady.

Balsams—Copaiba  is  decidedly strong 

and  has  advanced.  Peru,  dull.

Beans— Mexican  vanilla  in  first  bands 
are  being  steadily  held.  Tonka,  no 
change  as  to  the quiet  condition  of  the 
market.

Bismuth Preparations— Manufacturers 
have  marked  up  prices  40c  per  pound, 
the  raison  d’  etre  being  cables  from 
London  announcing  an  advance of  50c 
in  the  metal.  Some  are  inclined  to  the 
belief  that  the  control  of  the  metal  is 
again  in  the  hands  of  a  syndicate  and  a 
further  advance  is  anticipated.

Cassia  Buds—Outlook  is  particularly 
encouraging,  as  demand 
is  active  and 
supplies  are  limited  and  firmly  held, 
and  cable  advices  from  China  report 
strong 
in 
London  and  Hamburg,  also,  are  said  to 
be  practically  exhausted.

conditions 

Stocks 

there. 

Castor  Oil—Trading  moderate,  values 

steady.

Cocaine— Has  declined  25c per ounce.
Cream  Tartar— Market  firm.
Cubeb  Berries—Market 

inactive  but 

reasonably  steady.

Essential  Oils—An 

easier  feeling 
characterizes  anise.  Copaiba  is  higher, 
in  sympathy  with  the  balsam.  Cubeb 
has  been  again  reduced.  Lemongrass  is 
firmer.  Sanderson’s 
lower. 
Also  sassafras.

lemon 

is 

Flowers-----Prime  quality  German
chamomile  are  growing  scarce.  Amer­
ican  saffron  has  met  with  a reduction.

Gelatine—All  varieties  are  higher, 

Glycerine— No  change 

due  to  the  advance  across  the  water.
to  note 

in 
prices,  but  competition  is  still keen and 
the  state  of  the  market  is  more  or 
less 
unsettled.

Gums—Asafoetida  remains  active  in 
a  speculative  way,  and  some  consumers 
are  buying 
in  anticipation  of  future 
wants.  Camphor  is  again  lower,  by  2c 
per  pound.  Local  refiners  assign  as  the 
cause  the  peculiar  course  of  foreign 
markets.  But  still,  cables  from  London 
report  an  advance  in  crude.  Fresh  ar­
rivals  of  England  refined  are  being 
kept out  of  the  market  on  advices  from 
abroad.  The  situation 
is,  to  say  the 
least,  perplexing.

Juniper  Berries—The  bulk  of  the  new 
crop  is  reported  as  rain-soaked,  and  the 
supply  of  prime quality  is  limited  and 
quotations  are  firm.

Leaves— Short  buebu  remain  strong, 
the  tendency  being  upward,  and  the 
market  is  reported as active,  with values 
firm.  No  change  in  prices  of  any  of  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

varieties  of  senna,  but  the  market  is 
quite active.

Mercurial  Preparations— Manufactur­
ers  have 
the 
higher  markets  for  quicksilver  being 
the  cause.

advanced  quotations, 

Opium— Market  depressed,  owing  to 
continued  liberal  receipts  and  small  de­
mand,  and  values  are  lower.

Quicksilver— Higher  prices  abroad 
influenced  a  firmer  market  here 

have 
and  quotations  have  advanced.

Quinine— Has  been  reduced  3c  per 

ounce  by  all  manufacturers.

Roots—Tame  as  to  general  market 
and  there  are  no  mentionable  changes 
in  values.  Supply  of  Mexican  sarsa­
parilla 
is  abundant  and  the  market  is 
easy.  German  dandelion  is  marked  bv 
an  absence  of  offerings.  Jalap  is quiet. 
Ipecac  is  slow  of  sale  at  the  recent  re­
duction.

Seeds— All  varieties  of  canary  are 
exceedingly  dull  and  nominally  steady. 
Cables  report  Dutch  caraway  as  slightly 
firmer  as 
regards  primary  markets 
and  spot  quotations  are  steady.  Sup­
plies  of  Russian  hemp  are  abundant 
and  prices  are  a  shade  lower.  Millet  is 
also  a  trifle  lower.  Mustard,  all  varie­
ties quiet.  Rape  is  a  degree  higher.

Sponges— Market quiet.
Carelessness  in  Handling  Medicines. 
Prom the Pharmaceutical Era.

A  Baltimore  druggist  has  got  himself 
into  a  peck  of  trouble  by  prescribing 
for  a  woman  who  complained  of her 
poor  appetite.  After  listening  to  her 
symptoms  he  gave  her  a  box  of  pills 
containing  pepsin,  quinine,  iron  and 
nux  vomica,  which  she  took  home  and 
placed  on  the  diningroom  mantel.  Her 
baby  boy  get  hold  of  the box,  swallowed 
the  pills  and  in  less  than  twenty  min­
utes  was  dead.

The  Baltimore  newspapers  have 
opened  the  vials  of  their abuse  upon the 
druggist,  but 
it  would  seem  to  us  that 
in  this  case the mother was to blame. 
It 
is  true  that  the  State  law  prohibits  a 
druggist,  unless  he 
is  a  graduate  of 
medicine,  from  prescribing  for  a  pa­
tient,  and  this  is  as  it  should  be.  The 
trouble  arises  when  we  come  to  define 
prescribing. 
It  is  unreasonable  to  sup­
pose  that  people  are  going  to  pay  a 
doctor  every  time  they  have  an ordinary 
cold  or a  sick  headache. 
It  is  equally 
unreasonable  to  debar  a  druggist  from 
giving  advice  as  to  what  medicine  a 
sufferer from  such  trifling  ailments shall 
take.

That  the  pills  contained  poison  does 
not,  to  our  way  of  thinking,  prejudice 
the  druggist’s  case  one  whit. 
It  is  not 
his  business  to  find  out  whether the  cus 
tomers  have  children  or  not  and  warn 
them  accordingly. 
In  a  general  sense 
all  medicines,  even  food,  are  poisons  if 
taken  to  undue  extent.  Suppose  that 
the  child  had  drunk  the  contents  of  a 
bottle  of  eau  de  cologne  and  had  suc­
cumbed  thereto,  would  the  druggist who 
sold  the  bottle  be  responsible  for  the 
death  because  he  had  not  warned  the 
mother  that  eau  de  cologne  was  not  the 
best  thing 
in  the  world  for  infants  in 
arms?  And,  if  not,  why  not?
_No,  the  blame  for  this  lamentable  ac­
cident  is  clearly  attributable  to the care­
less  habit  of  so  many  households  in  the 
keeping  of  medicines.  It  is a safe wager 
that 
if  the  box  of  pills  bad  been  fur­
nished  with  all  the  blazonry  of skull and 
crossbones 
in  red.  it  would  still  have 
been  put  on  the  diningroom  mantel 
within  easy  reach  of  the  children.

little 

listened 

There  js  really  nothing  noteworthy  in 
this  Baltimore  tragedy  except  inasmuch 
as  it  tends  to  lend  force  to  a  homily  so 
often  preached,  so 
to, 
that  just  alluded  to.  Every  day  in  the 
year, 
in  thousands  of  households  all 
over  the  country,  dangerous  medicines 
are  placed  on  the  “ diningroom  man­
tel,”   as  it  were,  within  easy  reach  of 
the  children. 
It  is  a  matter  of  wonder­
ment  that  more  tragedies  of  the  kind  to 
which  we  have  made  reference  do  not 
occur.  All  the  same,  there  are  far too 
many,  and  all  the  more  pitiful  because 
so  easily  preventable.  But  the  way  to 
prevent  them 
is  not  by  pounding  the 
druggist.  Reform  the  families.

Proposed  Draft  of Measure Amending 

the  State  Peddling  Law.

Section  1.  The  People  of  the  State 
of  Michigan  enact,  That  it  shall  not  be 
lawful  for any  person  to  engage 
in  the 
business  of  hawking,  peddling  or pawn- 
brokerage  by  going  about  ftom  door  to 
door  or  from  place  to  place  or  from  any 
stand,  cart,  vehicle  or  in  any  other 
manner  in  the  public  streets,  highways 
or  in  or  upon  the  wharves,  docks,  open 
places or spaces,  public  grounds or pub­
lic  buildings 
in  any  township  in  this 
State  without  first  having  obtained  from 
the  township  board  of  the  township 
where  such  business  is  to be  carried  on 
a  license  therefor.

Sec.  2. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
township  board  of  every township  of  the 
State,  immediately  after  this  act  shall 
take  effect,  to  fix  the  amount of such 
license,  which  shall  not  in  any  case  ex­
ceed  the  sum  of  one  hundred  dollars  or 
be  less  than  ten  dollars.

Sec.  3.  The  actions  of  the  township 
board  in  fixing  the  amount  of  such 
li­
cense  shall  be  by  resolution,  which shall 
be  spread  at  length  upon  the  records  of 
the  proceedings  of  the  board  and  the 
same  may  be  annulled  or  amended  by 
resolution  of  the  township board,  passed 
at  any  subsequent  meeting  thereof  and 
spread  at  length  upon  the  records  of  its 
proceedings:  Provided,  That  such  res­
olutions,  or  any  resolution,  annulling  or 
amending  the  same  shall  not  take  effect 
until  twenty  days  after  a  written  or 
printed  copy  of  the  same  shall  have 
been  posted 
in  five  of  the  most  public 
places  in  the  township.  The  person  or 
persons  posting  copies  of  any  such  res­
olution  shall  make  and  file  with  the 
township  clerk  proof  by  affidavit  of  the 
fact  of  such  posting.  And  in  all  suits, 
actions  and  proceedings  where  the  pas­
sage of  any  such  resolution  by  the town­
ship  board,  or  the  posting  of  copies 
thereof  as  above  provided,  shall  come 
in  question,  a  copy  of  such  resolution, 
and  of  such  affidavit,  certified  under the 
hand  of  the  township  clerk,  shall  be 
prima  facie  evidence  of  the due passage 
of  such  resolution  and  of  the  posting 
of  copies  thereof.

Sec.  4.  Licenses  granted  under  this 
act  shall  not  be  transferable,  and  shall 
expire  on  the  first  Monday  of  May  next 
after the  granting  thereof.  Every  per­
son  to  whom  a  license  shall  be  issued 
under  this  act  shall  give  a  bond  in  the 
sum  of  fifty  dollars  with  two  sufficient 
sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  township 
board,  conditioned  that  he  will carry  on 
said  business 
in  a  quiet  and  orderly 
manner,  and  that  he  will  faithfully  ob­
serve  all  the  laws  of  this  State  and  the 
rules,  regulations  and  ordinances  of  the 
township  or  village  where  his  business 
shall  be  carried  on,  in  relation  to  said 
business.

Sec.  5.  All  sums  received  for licenses 
granted  under authority of  this  act  shall 
be  paid  into  the  township  treasury  of 
the  township  granting  the  license,  to 
the  credit  of  the  contingent  fund.

Sec.  6.  Every  person  who  shall  be 
found  traveling  and  trading,  or  solicit 
ing  trade,  contrary  to  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  or  without  the  license  required 
by  any  resolution  of  any  township board 
passed  in  pursuance  thereof,  or contrary 
to  the  terms  of  any  license  that  may 
have  been  granted  to  him  as  a  hawker, 
peddler or  pawnbroker,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con­
viction  thereof  before  any  court  of com­
petent 
jurisdiction,  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  fifty  dollars 
and  costs  of  prosecution,  or  by  impris­
onment 
in  the  county  jail  for a  period 
not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment,  in  the  dis­
cretion  of  the  court  before  which  the 
conviction  may  be  had.

Sec.  7. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
supervisor  of  each  township 
this 
State  to  see  that  this  act  is  enforced 
and  in  case  of  any  violation  thereof  to 
immediately  notify  the  prosecuting  at­
torney  of  the  proper  county  and  take  all 
proper  steps  for  the  prosecution  of  the 
offender.

in 

Sec.  8.  Nothing  contained  in this act 
shall  be  construed  to  prevent  any  man­
ufacturer,  farmer,  mechanic or  nursery­
man  residing  in  this  State  from  selling 
his  work  or  production  by  sample  or 
otherwise,  without  license,  nor shall  any 
wholesale  merchant  having  a  regular 
place  of  business  in  this  State be  pre­
vented  by  anything  herein  contained 
from  selling  to  dealers by  sample,  with­
out  license,  but no  merchant  shall  be al­
lowed  to  peddle,  or  to  employ  others  to 
peddle,  goods  not  his  own  manufacture, 
without  the  license  provided  for  in  this 
chapter.

Sec.  9.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  in­
consistent  with  the  provisions  of  this 
act  are  hereby  repealed.

Plenty  of California  Honey.

A  great  honey-produing  country  like 
Southern  California 
is  never  entirely 
drained  of  its  honey.  Many  of  the  trade 
supposed  that,  owing  to  a  total  failure 
of  the  crop  this  past  season,  good honey 
would  be  scarce  and  command  a  higher 
price.  But  small  lots  keep  coming  for­
ward,  which  shows  that  considerable 
honey  is  held  over  everv  year.  It  would 
require  several  total  failures  to  strip 
the  market  of  honey,  or  to  even advance 
the  price.

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inch,  65.00  M.
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Advanced—Balsam Copaiba, Oil Copniba, BlMnu'h, Mercurials
Declined—G u m   t|a m p h o r ,  ^ u m   O p iu m ,  O il  O ra n g e ’  o i l   L e m o n ,  O il  C u b e b   O il  S a s s a f r a s   f n  
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Acidum

4® 
6
6® 
8
12®  14
12®  14

Acetlcum..................8  8@8
Benzoicum, German  75®
Boracic....................   @
Carbolicum............. 
27®
Cltrlcum.................  
44®
3®
Hvdrochlor............. 
8®
Nltraoum................ 
10®
Oxalicnm................ 
Phosphorium,  d ll... 
®
Salicylicum............. 
45®
Sulpnuricum...........  1%@
Tannicum...............   1 40®  1  60
Tartaricum.............. 
34®  36
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbon as.................  
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black........................ 2 On® 2  25
Brown....................  
8(®  1  On
R ed......................... 
45®  50
Yellow.....................   2 50® 3 00
Baccae.
Cubeaee..........po. 18  13®  15
Juniperus................ 
6® 
8
Xantnoxylum.........  
25®  30
Balsam um
Copaiba...  ............. 
Peru......................... 
Terabin, Canada__ 
Tolutan.................... 
Cortez
Abies, Canadian__ 
C assis....................  
Cinchona Flava...... 
Euonymus atropnrp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Vlrgini........ 
Quillala,  gr'd.........  
Sassafras......   po. 18 
Ulmu8...po.  15.  gr’d 
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hsematox, 15 lb box.
Hsemat  x  Is
Hsematox, 4 s .........  
Hsematox, Ms.........  

24®  25
28®
11@ 
12
13®  14
14®  15
16®  17

75®  80
@260
40®  45.
65®  75

18
12
18
30
8»
12
10
12
15

Perru

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

15
2 25
80
50
15
2
35
7

Flora

Folia

Arnica.................... 
12®  14
18®  25
Anthemis................ 
Matricaria..............  25®  30

15®  20
Barosma..................  
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol.Alx.  25®  30
Saivia officinalis, *.4s
and  4 s................. 
12®  20
UraCrsi..............  .. 
8®  10
Gumml
@  65
Acacia.  1st picked.. 
@  45
Acacia.  2d  picked.. 
@  35
Acacia.  3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
@  28
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28  14®  18
Aloe, Cape__po.  15  @  12
Aloe. So**otri..po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafcetida__po. 30 
22®  25
Benzolnum............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
Catechu, 4 s............   @  14
Catechu, 4 s............   @  16
Camphors.............. 
42®  48
Euphorbium..po.  35 
10
Galbanum...............   @  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Guaiacum......po. 35  @  35
Kino...........po. S4.u0 
@ 4 00
Mastic....................   @ 6 0
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii... po. S3.30@3.50 2 35®  2 40
4'©   6"
Shellac.................... 
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80

© 

Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
38
22
25

Absinthium..oz.  pkg 
Eupatori um . oz. -pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr. .oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........  20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20©  25
Carbouate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 2S@ 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc__  
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00® 8 25
Anisf.......................   2 2i@  2 30
Aurantl  Cortex......   2 00®  2 20
Bergamii.................  2 2-@  2 3o
75®  80
Cajiputi................... 
Caryophylli............   53®  58
Cedar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadii..............  @325
Cinnamonll.............  2 25®  2 50
Oltronella...............  
3b@  40

35®
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i  20®  1  30
Cubebae.................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthitos...........  1  20®  1  30
Erigeron.................  l  20®  1  30
Gaultherla..............  l 50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  O @  1  10
Juuipera..................  l  so® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
9i@200
Limonis...................  l  2©   i  4,
Mentha  Piper.........  1  6*@  2 20
Mentha Verid......... 2 65®  2 75
Morrhuae,  gal.........   l  91©   2 no
Myrcia,...................   4 00@  4  50
OJive....................... 
75® 3 00
Picis  Liquida.........  
10© 
12
®  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
Rlcina....................  99®  1 04
Rosmarini.............. 
@  1  00
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50@ 8 50
Succini..................   40®  45
Sabina..................  
go@  1  00
Santal......................2 50®  7 00
Sassafras................. 
55©  $
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tlglii.......................  1  40®  1  5
Thyme 
.................   40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Barb.................... 
15®
13®
Bichromate............ 
Bromide..................  48®
Carb.......................  
i2@
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®
Cyanide..................  
50®  ■
Iodide......................  2 90®  3 00
Potas8a, Bitart, pure  27®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®
Potass Nitras........... 
7®
Prussiate.................  2S@
Sulphate p o ........... 
15®

Radix

Aconitvm...............  20®
Althse......................  22®
Anchusa................. 
12®
Arum po..................   @
Calamus................. 
20®
Gentiana........po  15
12®
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
16®5
Hydrastis Canaden .
Hydrastis Can., po..
®
Hellebore,Alba, po..
15®
Inula, po................. 
is®  ■
Ipecac, po...............   1  65®  I  75
Iris plox....po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   40®  45
Maranta,  4 s ...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
R hei....................... 
75®  1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhei, pv..................  
75©  1  35
Snigelia................... 
35©  33
Sanguinaria... po. 30 
©  28
Serpentaria............   30@
Senega....................  40®
Similax,officinalis H  @
Smiiax, M...............  
®
10®
S* ill®..............po.35
Sympiocarpus, Fceti-
dus.  po.................
@
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
Valeriana,  German.
15®
Zingiber a ...............  
12®
25®  27
Zingiber J...............  
Semen
Anisum....... .mo.  15 
@  12
13® 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
Bird. Is.................... 
4© 
e
10® 
Oarui..............po. 18 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
f© 
iu
Cannabis  Sativa__  34® 
4
Cvdonium...............  
75®  1  00
Chenopodium  ........ 
io® 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 90® 3 00
Fceniculum............   @ 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
-  " .................  24® 
4
4
Lini,  grd....bbl. 24  34® 
Lobelia..................   35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  34® 
4
Rapa.......................  44® 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7® 
8
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Splritus

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   @ 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
®  1  10
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @  85
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  65
Hard, for slate use..  @  75
Yellow  Reef,   for 
slate  use.............. 
®  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................  @  50
®  50
Auranti Cortes.......  
®  50
Zingiber.................. 
Ipecac.................... 
®  60
Ferri Iod................. 
®  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smiiax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega....................  @  50
Belli®..........  
@  60

50

niscellaneous 

Scill® Co.................
Tolutan..................
Prunus virg............
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum.............. 
Cardamon..........
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor.....................
Catechu..................
Cinchona............. ”
Cinchona Co........
Columba..............!
Cubeba..................
Cassia  Acutifol__ _
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co............
Guiaca.................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
Lobelia.............
Myrrh...............
Nux Vomica.........
Opii.........................
Oi>ii, camphorated.
Opii, deodorized__
Quassia..................
Rhatany..............  .
Rhei.....................,]
Sanguinaria  .
Serpentaria............
Stramonium..........
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride..
Zingiber..................
•dSther, Spts. Nit.3F  30® 
•dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Aiumen..................   24®
Aiumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
Annatto................. 
40®
4®
Antimoni,  po...... 
Antimoni et PotassT  55®
Antipyrin.............. 
®
<a
Antifebrin 
.......... 
Argenti Nitras, oz.
55 
Arsenicum.............
10®
1. 
Balm Gilead  Bud’!
40
Bismuth  S. N........
1  40®  1  50
_  
Calcium Chlor.,  is! 
Calcium Chlor., 4 s.  @ 
10
Calcium Chlor..  4 s.  @ 
12
Cantharides.  Rus.po  @  76
’’apsici  Fructus. af.  @  18
Capsici Fructus. po:  @  15
Capsid FructusB.po  @ 
1
laryophyllus.po.  15 
10® 
12
Carmine, No. 40... 
@ 3 7:
Cera Alba, S. A F  ..  50®  55
lera  Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus  ..................   @  41.
Cassia Fructus.......   @  27
Centraría.................  @ 
it.
Cetaceum............. .  ,  @  45
Chloroform..........60©  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  15©  1  30
Choudrus................  2U@  25
Cinchonidine.P.A W  a ©   25 
15®  22
Cinchonidine, Germ 
Cocaine..................   3 55© 3 75
Corks, list, dl8.pr.ct 
65
Creosotum..............  
©  35
@  2
Greta.............bbl. 75 
Creta, prep.............. 
© 
5
Creta, precip........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
5
Crocus.................... 
30®  35
Cudbear.................  @  24
5® 
Cupri Sulph............  
6
Dextrine.................. 
10® 
12
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  go
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
Ergota.......... po. 40  30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla..  ................... 
©  23
iambier.................. 
8® 
9
ielatin, Cooper..  ..  @6 1 '
Gelatin, French......
35® 60
60,  lOAtu
lassware. flint, box
Less  than  box__
60
Glue,  brown..........
9® 1
13® 26
19® 26
@ 15
25® 55
77
9
@ 67
@ 87
@ 97
45® 55
@ 60
25® 1  50
75® 1  00
80® 3 90
@ 4 70
@ 2 25
fo@ 55
65® 75
@ 27
10® 12
3
2®
14
50® SO
-   ® S 60

Grana  Paradisi  __
Hum ulus.................
Hydraag Cblor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am...

Liquor Arsen et Hy­
dra rg lod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Maunla, S. F ........
Menthol..................._

Iodoform. 
Lupulin.  .

Morphia,S.P.AW...  1  75® 2 00 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  1  65®  1  go
Moschus Canton__  @  40
Myrlstica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nnx Vomica... po.20  @ 
10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................  @  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.4gal.
doz........................ 
@200
Picis Liq., quarts....  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba  ...po.  35  @  30
Piix  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10®  12
PnlviB Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...  @  1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30®  33
Quassise..................  
8® 
10
Quinla, S. P. A W .. 
2i@  29
18®  25
Quinia. S.German.. 
Qujnia. N.Y............   22®  27
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  24®  26
Salacin....................3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconls...  40®  50
Sapo,  W..................  
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo. G....................  @  15
Siedlitz  Mixture__  20  @  22

Sinapis....................   @ 
is
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 Tatt. 
2
Soda,  Carb..............  14® 
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
5
3® 
Soda,  Ash...............   34® 
4
Soda. Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @  0 00 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 37 
Spts. Vini Reft. 4 bbl  @2 42 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @ 2  45 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 47 
Less 5c gai. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  aubl.........   24® 
3
2®  24
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Tere'-enth Venice... 
a ©   30
Theobromse............   42®  45
Vanilla..,..............   9 00@16 ¿0
Zlnci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

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

Linseed, pure  raw..  28 
Linseed,  boiled  __   30 
Neatsfoot. winterstr  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  33 

30
33
70
38

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........   14  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  14  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
Itj  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  24  24@3 
Putty, strictly  pure  24  23f@3 
Vermilion,  P r i me
American.............  
1.3® 
15
Vermilion, English.  7n® 
75
Green, Paris...........  134®  19
16
Green.  Peninsular..  13® 
Lead. Red................  Kq@  54
Lead, white........... 
5Q@  5M
Whiting, white Span  @  70 
Whiting,  gliders’ .. . — 1  @ 
to 
White, Paris Amer..'  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff........  ........... 
®  1  40
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 F um ....  1  00®  I  10 
Extra Turk  Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

m

We  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.* 1— .

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 

I Acid  U.  S.  P.

(gn\ 

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  Svrups  to  be  unchangeable  and will 
not deposit free iodine.
Price  per  pound  i%  50c;  per  gal.  83.50. 
Price  per  pound  2%  75c;  per  gal.  84.50.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

dealers6  Thev aren r< ia?eH ^M ctw ^   f°^ th<I trade ° nlyi in such Quantities as are usually purchased  by retail 
Dossihh* fn SfX  nnrSof vf  d 
It is im- 
e ra le  orices^for a v e r s e  rn n H ilf^6 f fr a  conditions of purchase,  and those below are given as representing av- 
Purchase.  Cash  buyers or those of strong credit usually buy closer  than
those  who  have  o o o f credit*t
i ^ J .° n S g i e S i ; ‘. < £ 5 2 5 3  s s y a n s i  ” poim 
s-» “ »

l H 0re &omg j?.P ress and are an accurate index of the local market. 

or °“

,ny 

]

doz.  gross
Aurora.......................„55  6 00
Castor Oil....................60  7 00
Diamond..................... 50  5 50
Frazer's...................... 75  9 00
IX L Golden, tin boxes 75  9 00
Mica............................ 70  8 00
Paragon.......................55  6 00

BAKINQ  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acme.

X lb cans doz..................  45
X lb cans doz................... 
85
1 
lb cans doz..................   1  50
X lb cans 3 doz.................  45
X lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
1 
lb cans 1 doz...............   1  00
Bulk...................................  
10
X lb cans per doz............  
75
X lb cans per doz  ...........  1  20
1 
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
X lb cans 4 doz case........ 
X lb cans 4 doz case. 
lb cans 2 doz case.

El Purity.

Home.

35

OUr Leader.

X 1 b cans, 4 doz case...... .
X lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
1 
X lb cans.......................... 
X lb cans.......................... 
1 
Peerless.
_ 
1 lb. c a n s...............
BASKETS.

85
lb cans, 2 doz case........  1 60
45
75
lb cans..........................  1  50
85

CHEESE.

Acme  .....................   @
Amboy.....................iov@
Gold  Medal...........
Ideal......................*  @
■Jersey.....................   @
Lenawee.................   @
Oakland County.....   @
Riverside.................  @
>paria....................  @
Springdale............  
<a
Brick........  ............   @
Edam.......................  @
Leiden...................   @
Limburger.............   @
Pineapple....... 
60  @
Sap Sago.................  @
Bulk
Red

Chicory.

CATSUP.

pints........... 

Columbia, 
Columbia, X pints.......’.'.'.'.'.2 50
5 gross boxes...........................45

CLOTHES  PINS.

4 25

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags....................... 
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages...-........ 
CREA/l  TARTAR. 

2X
3
4

Strictly Pure, wooden boxes.  35 
Strictly Pure, tin boxes....... 3

COFFEE.
.

Oreen. 
Rio.

F air........................................ p.
Good...................................". ig
Prime............................!!” !!l9
Goiden  ................................. ’20
Peaberry  ..................... 
22

 

Santos.

Fair  ....................................... 19
Good  ..................................... 20
Prime.............................’ . . ’ ’ ’22
Peaberry  .............................. [23

Mexican  and  Ouatamala.

Fair  .......................................21
Good  ..................................... 22
Fancy 
.............................. .'^24
Maracaibo.

Prime...... ...............................23
Milled.....................................24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth.....................2 7
Mandehling............................ 28
Im itation.............................   25
Arabian  .................................28

Mocha.

Java.

Roasted.

j 

Per doz.

S»andard Bushel..............  1  25
Extra Bushel...................  1  75
M arket............................ 
¿q
X bushel, bamboo del’ry.  3 50 
U bushel, bamboo del’t v .  4  00 
1  bushel, bamboo dei’jy.  5 00 
Diamond Clothes. 30x16...  2 50
Braided Splint, 30x16......  4 00
American....................... 
70
English....................................80

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

BATH  BRICK.

.  BLUING.

CON5 0 SED

s U

*  5 
BROOflS.

1 doz. Counter Boxes.
12 doz. Cases, per grò". . .  4 50 i n?,oi 
So. 1 Carpet.......................  1  90
No. 2 Carpet.......................  1  75
No. 3 Carpet.....................    1  50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  15
Parlor Gem....................'.  2 00
Common Whisk...........
go
Fancy Whisk..  .........  
Warehouse............... 
2 25
Nacretoin, per doz............   2  40
Two doz. in case assorted flav 
ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. 
8s ................. . 
7
i6s .................................
Paraffine..........  ................... g
CANNED GOODS, 
flanitowoc  Peas.

CAKE FROSTING.

CANDLES.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   1  00
Lakeside E. J ....................  1  30
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1 40 
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  66 

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’«.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sweet...................  . .22
Premium............................!.!!gi
Breakfast  Cocoa...............   42
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 60
Jnte, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jute. 72 ft,  per doz............    gg

Clark-Jewell-WellsCo.’sBrands
Fifth  Avenue......  
......... 30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__30
Wells’ Mocha and Java......26
Wells’ Perfection Java......26
Sancaibo  ............................23X
Valley City Maracaibo. 
. . .20
Ideal  Blend.........................17
Leader Blend..............  . . . .15
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands 
I Quaker Mandehling Java. .31 
i Quaker Mocha and Java....29
,Ta7a...... 26
* *w  Quaker Golden Santos....... 23
State House Blend..............22

s

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local freight  from
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credft  on  the 
Invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package.  In  60  lb. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in full cases.
Arbuckle.................... 
15 00
.......................  14 50
Jersey.. 
ricLaughliii’a XXXX......... 14  50
Extract.

Valley City X gross__ 
Felix X gross.............. 
Hummel’s foil X gross 
Hummel’s On X  gross 

75
j  «&
85 
1  43

Kneipp Malt Coffee, 

lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9
CONDENSED  MILK.

, 

_ 

_  

_ 
4 doz in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle........  6 75
Crown..................................... 6 25
Daisy  ...................................5  75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia 
4  25
Challenge................................. 3 50
 ............... .„.......3 35
.
Dime .

........... 

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom....  150
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__il  50
1,000 books, any denom__ 20 00

Economic Grade.

50’books,  any denom....  1  50 
100 bonk8,  any denom ....  2  50 
500 books, any denom ....II  50
l,000<books, any denom__20 00

Universal Grade.

?0 books, any denom__  150
100 books, any denom__  2 50
50-) books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
ion books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom.... 11  50
1.000 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 ........8 00
1000, any one denom’n ........ 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ........ 8 00
Steel punch.......................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOHESTIC 

Applet.

Sundrled.......................   @ 3
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 4

California  Fruits. 

A pricots-..................11X@
Nectarines.................  6  @
Peaches.......................   7X@ 9
Pears..........................   @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................

California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4M
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @  4 v
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 5X
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @ 6
50 - 60 25 lb boxes..
@ 6X 
40 - 50 25 lb boxes..
@ 7X
30-4025 lb boxes.........  1
X cent less In bags
Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 5 Crown.
Debesias.......................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscntels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls......................(
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......(j
Cleaned, bulk  .................4^ _
Cleaned, packages..........@  (j

Peel.

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

Raisins.

Ondura 28 lb boxes.......  @  7v
Sultana  1 Crown...........  @ ¿X
Sultana 2 Crown.........  @ 9
Sultana  3 Crown...........  @ 9%
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @ 934
Sultana 6 Crown...........  @M>X

FARINACEOUS  GOODS

Souders’

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the

Best  in  the  world 
money.

for 

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

Farina.

Grits.

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s..........2 25
Barrels  ............................3 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums..........1  50

Hominy.

Lima Beans.

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

Dried 
3X
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........ 8 50

. 

Pearl Barley.

Common........................... 
13$
Chester............................  2
Empire  ............................  2X

Peas.

Rolled  Oats.

Green,  bu.........................  80
Split,  per lb......................  2
Rolled Avena,  bbl......... 3 75
Monarch,  bbl....................3 25
Monarch.  X  bbl................1 75
Private brands,  bbl....... 3 00
Private brands, Xbbl........1 63
Quaker, cases....................3 20
German............................  4
East  India.......................  3X
Cracked, bulk..................   3
24 2 lb packages.................2 40

Wheat.

Sago.

Fish.
Cod.

Georges cured............  @4
Georges  genuine........  @ 4X
Georges selected........  @ 5
Strips or bricks.........   5  @8

Halibut.

10

Herring.

Chunks............................. 
Strips...............................
Holland white hoops keg 
60 
Holland white hoops  bbl
8 00
Norwegian......................
Round 100 lbs...................... 
„
2 50
Round  40 lbs...................  1  ao
Scaled............................... 
14

flackerel.

No. 1 100 lbs......................  11  00
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 7j
No. 1  10 lbs......................  125
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
re
Family 90 lbs............
Family 10 lbs............
Sardines.

55

Trent.

Stockfish.

Russian kegs.................... 
_ 
No. 1,100 lb. bales............  
iox
No. 2,100 lb. bales............  8X
„  
No. 1100 lbs......................  4
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 20
No. 1  10 lbs.
63
No. 1  8 lbs......................
53
No. 1  No. 2
Fam 
100 lbs...........  6 75  5 75
1  75
40 lbs...........  3 00  2 60
1  00
10 lbs........... 
73
33
8 lbs........... 
61
29
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Whiteflsh.

83 
69 

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............................  j

48 cans In case.

POTASH.
Babbitt’s..................  
4 qq
PennaSalt  Co.’s....!...!!.  S 00

Rice.

Domestic.
Carolina bead........... 
Carolina  No. 1........... 
Carolina  No. 2....  
Broken-......................3*

.........  

«w
5*
iu

Imported.
Japan,  No. 1........... 
514
Japan.  No. 2.........  
5™
Java, No. 1.........................  4v
Table  ....................... .........  15

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

SALERATUS.
Church’s .......................  
33«
Deiand’s .............."  ............*  ic
Dwight’s ............... ............. 3 on
Tayior’s .......................
SAL SODA.

1 10
Granulated, bbls... 
Granulated,  100 lb cases.' 1 50
Lump, bbls....................... 
j
Lump, 1451b kegs........  .!! j  jq

SEEDS.
A nise.............................  13
Canary, Smyrna...... 
4
faraw ay.................... 
jq
80
ardamon,  Malabar  !!! 
Hemp,  Russian............  
4
Mixed  Bird.............. 
414
su
Mustard,  white...... 
Rape............................... 
5
SU

SNUFF.
Scotch, in bladders.
Maccaboy, In lars
French Rappee, In jars

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels............
Half  bbis.................;;;;

Pure Cane.

Fair  ..............
Good...............
Choice...........

37
...  35
..  43

14

16
20
25

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

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

Pure Oround in Bulk.

Allspice  ............................. .
Cassia, Batavia............ !!! !22
Cassia,  Saigon.................! .35
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
Nutmegs,......................40@u0
Pepper, Sing., black__ 1C@14
Pepper, Sing., w hite.... 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage......................................is

SODA.

Boxes.................................... 514
Kegs, English........................444

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz..........1 20
4oz.........2 40
XX  a  rade 
Lemon.

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

2oz. 
4 oz

.1  75 
3 50

GLUE.
, 

' 

. 

, ,  

per do-.
_ 
Jackson Liquid, 1 oz......  
65
gg 
Jackson Liquid. 2 oz. 
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz.........   1  30

’ 

ÖUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs....................................    00
Hair Kegs............................ 225
Quarter Kegs................. 
1  05
1 lb  cans.............................   30
X  lb  cans............................ 
ig
Choke  Bore—Dupont's.

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

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

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

Sage.. 
Hops .

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes........
F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes.

JELLY.

lb palls..........................
lb palls................. 
34
lb palls........................!!  60

LYE.

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

UCORICB.

Pure.....................................  30
5
Sicily....................... 
 
Root..................................... 
jo

 

MINCE MEAT.

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  ¿0

riOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................ 
ii
F air..................................  
14
Good................................  
20
Fancy  .......... 
24
Open Kettle......................25@35

 
Half-barrels 2c extra.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes............ 1  60
Barrels,  l‘*0  3 lb bags........2 75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags........2 50
Butter, 56 lb  bags...............   65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags...........3 00
Butter, 280 lb  bbls..............2 50
100 3 lb sacks....................... 2 60
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  85
28 U-lb sacks..................... 1  70
50  4  lb. cartons...............3 25
115  241b. sacks...................4 00
60  5  lb. sacks...................3  75
22 14  lb. sacks.................3 50
30 10  lb. sacks...................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk In barrels....................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......  15
56-lb dairy in iinen  sacks...  60
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
60
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Saginaw.............................   60
Manistee  ............................  60

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar  Rock.
Common Fine.

Warsaw.

STARCH.

Kingsford’a  Corn.

Diamond.

40 1-lb packages...................6
20 1 lb packages...................  64
Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages...................  64
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..........................   45i
1-lb  packages......................  44
3-lb  packages......................  44
6-lb  packages......................  5)4
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   2^
Barrels  ...............................  25£

Common Gloss.

Common  Corn.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour's Brands.

Armour's  Family..............  2 70
Armour’s  Laundry...........  3 25
Armour's Comfort............ 2 80
Armour's White, 100s........  6 25
Armour's White, 50s.........   3 20
Armour's Woodchuck  __ 2 55
Armour’s Kitchen  Brown.  2 00 
Armour's Mottled German  2 40

IS

Single box.............................2 85
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 80
10 box lots, delivered.........   2 75
<)AS.  8.  KIRK  S GO/
American Family, wrp'd__ 3 31
American Family, unwrp'd.3 27
Dome.................................... 3 33
Cabinet................................. 2 20
Savon  ...  ......... 
2 5i
Dusky Diamond. 54 oz.........2 10
Dusky Diamond, 58 oz.........3 00
B  ue India........................... 3 00
Kirkoline..............................3 75
Eos.....................................  3  t5
Acm e................................... 2 85
Cotton  Oil........................... 5 75
Marseilles.............................4 00
Master..................................3 70

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

 

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

Single box.................................2 85
5 box lots, delivered..........2 80
10 box lots,  delivered____ .2 75
25 b o x   lo ts  dpllvw *>d........  2  65

Thompson A Chute's Brand.

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

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  ..Z  15 
Good < heor, 601-lb. bars....2 35
Uno, 100 »¿-lb. bars..............2 80
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 25
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz......2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz...........2 40

Scouring.

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf..............................4 87
Domino............................... 4 75
Cubes.............................. ! .4 50
Powdered  ......................... .4  50
XX XX  Powdered................ 4 62
Mould  A..............................4 511
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
No. 
1.......... 
4 00
2................................. 4 0j
No 
No.  3..................................4 on
No.  4..................................3 94
No.  5..................................3 87
No.  6................................. 3 81
No.  7................................. 3 75
No.  8..................................3 69
No.  9................................. 3 69
No.  10....... 
3 62
No.  11.................................3 56
No.  12................................3 50
No.  13.................................3 44
No.  14.................................3 37
No.  15.  .............................. 3 31
No.  16.................................3 06

 

 

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigar«.

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.'sbrand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

S. C. W................................35 00
Quintette........................... 35 00
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick..........................35 00
Leroux Cider......................... 10
Robi nson's Cider, 40 grain.... 10 
Robinson’s Cider. 50grain.  ..12 

VINEGAR.

WICKINa.

Fresh Fish.

No. 0, per gross....................  25
No. 1, pergross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, per gross....................  75
Fish and  Oysters
Per lb.
Whitefish............... @ ft
T rout.....................
@ 8
Black Bass.............. @ 10
Halibut.................. @ 12*
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Bluefish.................. @ 10
Live Lobster.........
@ 16
Boiled Lobster.......
@ .«
Cod........................
@ 10
Haddock................. @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel.......
@ 8
@ 7
Pike........................
Smoked White.......
@ 8
Red Snapper........... @ l'i
Col  River Salmon.. @ 13
Mackerel 
.............. @ 20
F. H. Counts..........
@ 38
F. J. D. Selects........ @ 27
Selects.................... @ 22
F. J. D.  Standards.. @ 20
Anchors.................. @ 18
Standards...............
® 16
Favorite  ................ @ 14
2 00
Counts....................
1  60
Extra Selects...........
1  40
Selects.....................
1  10
Mediums.................
Baltimore Standards
95
I  25
Clams  ....................
Shrimps.................. @ 1 25
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1 M 50
Clams,  per  100.........
»1  00

Oysters in Bulk.

Oysters in Cans

Mixed Candv.

Fancy—In Bulk.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

bbls.  pails
Standard........................ 
Standard H.  H....... 
7
Standard Twist......  6  @ 7
Cut Loaf................. 
7)4® 8)4
cases
_ 
Extra H.H.............. 
@8)4
Boston  Cream........ 
® 8)4
Competition............ 
@ 6
@ 6)4
Standard...-............  
Leader  ................... 
@ 7
Conserve................. 
@ 7
@7)4
Royal...................... 
Ribbon.................... 
@ 8)4
Broken..................  
@ g
Cut Loaf................. 
@  8
English Rock.........  
@ 8
@ 8)4
Kindergarten.........  
@ 9
French  Cream........ 
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Valley Cream.........  
@13
Lozenges, plain...... 
@ 8)4
@ 8)4
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops........... 
ll  @14
Choc.  Monumentals  @12)4
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
Moss  Drops............  
@ 7)4
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 8)4
@8)4
Imperials...............  
Lemon Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops__ 
@65
@75
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
Gum  Drops............  
@35
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
@55
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@60
Lozenges, printed.. 
Imperials...............  
@60
Mottoes..................  
@65
Cream Bar.............. 
@.10
Molasses B a r.........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25  @
Wintergreen Berries 
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
.  Fresh  Meats.
Carcass......................5)4@ 7
Forequarters............ 4  @ 6
Hind  quarters...........  6  @ 7)4
Loins No.  3...............   8  @12
Ribs............................ 8  @10
Rounds......................5)4@ 6)4
Chucks.................. 
4  @5
Plates  .......................  @4
Pork.
Dressed......................34®  4*
Loins.........................6)4@
Shoulders..................   @ 5
Leaf Lard..................   @5)4
Carcass..................... 6  @ 7
Spring Lambs............   7  @8
CarcasR  ....................  6  @8

Mutton.

@30
@45

Veal.

Beef.

Crackers.

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

TheN. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX..................   6
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6)4
Family XXX......................  6
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  6)4
Salted XXX.......................  6
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  6)4 
Soda  XXX  .......................  6)4
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__  6-%
Soda,  City...........  ...........   7)4
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX.........  6
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb  carton.  7
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  11)4
Bent’s Cold Water............   13
Belle Rose.........................  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
Imperials..........................  8)4
JumDles,  Honey...............   11
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ..................   15
-Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  made  ......  8)4
Pretzelettes, Little German  6)4
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas............................  12
Sears’ Lunch......................  7)4
Sears’ Zepbyrette............... 10
Vanilla  Square................ 
8)4
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Pecan Wafers....................  16
Fruit Coffee......... ..............  10
Mixed Picnic....................   104
Cream Jumbles.................  11)4
Boston Ginger Nuts..........  8)4
Chlmmle Fadden..............  10
Pineapple Glace................   16

Wheat.

8U

7
Wheat................................ 
Winter  Wheat Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents.............................  5 00
Second  Patent.................  4 55
Straight............................  4 30
Clear..................................  3 c0
Graham 
.......................... 4 33
Buckwheat............... . 
3 40
Rye  .................................. ‘  2 65
Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.'s Brand.
Quaker,  )4s.......... 
4  50
Quaker, 4 s.......................   4 50
Quaker, )4s..........................4 5o

 

 

.

Spring Wheat  Flour. 
Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, )js.............. 
  4 75
........  4  t5o
Ceresota, 54s
Ceresota, 4 s......................  4  60
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand.
Grand Republic, )4s............ 4 75
Grand Republic, )4s............ 4  t5
Graud Republic, )4s............ 4  60
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 4 s ...............  
4  75
Laurel, 54s .......................... 4  65
L&urcl, 
.........................  4  tJu
Lemon <& Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian,  )4s................... 
4  75
Parisian, 4 s................  
4  6>
Parisian.  4s......................   4  eo

Meal.

Bolted...............................  1  50
Granulated......................... 1  75

Feed and  Mlllstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__¡0  75
No. 1 Corn and  Oats
9 75 
Unbolted Corn Meal......
9 zo 
Winter Wheat  Bran...  . 
9 00 
Winter Wheat Middlings
10 00 
Screenings.....................
8 Oo
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots............................... 24
Less than  car  lots............  26

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................... 20
Carlots, clipped................   22
Less than  car  lots...........   24

No. 1 Timothy carlots......  10 00
N o .  1  T im o th y ,  to n  l o t s ___11  00

Fruits.
Oranges.

Fancy  Seedlings 

Mexicans  150-176-200  @3 00
Cal. seedlings.........  2 50@3 uo

Lemons.

Strictly choice 360s..  @2 50
Strictly choice 300s..  @2 50
Fancy 360s.............. 
@3 00
Ex. Fancy  300s........  3 25@3 50

Bananas.

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

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
Figs, Choice  Layers
101b..................... 
@10
Figs,  New  Smyrna
201b...................... 
@14
Figs,  Naturals  in
30 ib. bags,............ 
@7
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes................... 
@8
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................  
@ 6
Dates, Persians, G.M.
K., 60 lb cases, new  @ 6
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ................... 
@ 5
Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @12
Almonds, Ivaca.........  @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @12
Brazils new...............   @7)4
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @12
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @10
Walnuts,  soft shelled
Calif.......................  @12)4
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med.........  ... 
.  @  9
Pecans, Ex. Large__  @10
Pecans,  Jumbos.........  @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 75
Butternuts  per  bu__  @  60
Black Walnuts per bu  @ 75
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Cocks......................  @434
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................   @7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4)4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  ...... ..........  @ 54

Ohio, new...............   @

Peanuts.

6)4
6*
64
6
9

4
4
4
4
4
%
1

Barreled Pork.

Smoked  Heats.

follows:
Mess  ...................... ......  
8 00
Back  ..................... ......   8 75
Clear  back.............. ......   8 5u
Shortcut................. ...... 
8  50
Pig.......................... ......   11  50
Bean  .....................
7 75
Family  .................. ...... 
9 oc
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies.................... ......  
5
Briskets  ................. ......  
5
Extra shorts........... ......  
43i
Hams, 12 lb  average
9 Si
Hams, 14 lb  average
94
Hams, 16 lb  average
94
Hams, 20 lb average
83Ü
Ilam dried b e e f__ .... 
104
54
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear.........
7
California  hams__ ---  
5H
Boneless hams........ ---- 
84
Cooked  ham...........
.... 
104
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...............
Kettle...................... ----
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs.........advance 
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Pails......... advance 
10 lb Pails.........advance 
5 Ib Palls......... advance 
3 lb Pails......... advance 
Sausages
Bologna............ .
Liver.......................
Frankfort...............
Pork.......................
Blood  ....................
Tongue  ..................
Head cheese........... —
Beef.
Extra  Mess............ __  7 00
Boneless  ...............
.... 10 00
Rump.....................
....  10 00
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs..............
.... 
80
4  bbls, 40 lbs......... __  1  5U
4   bbls, 80 lbs.........
....  2 80
Tripe.
75
Kits, 15 lbs..............
4   bbls, 40 lbs.........
....  1  40
%  bbls, 80 lbs.........
....  2 75
Casings.
Pork.......................
18
.... 
Beef  rounds...........
34
Beef  middles.........
8
Sheep......................
60
Butterine
Rolls,  dairy............
10
Solid,  dairy............
94
Rolls,  creamery__
13
Solid,  creamery__ .... 
124
Corned  beef,  2  1b..
....  2 P0
Corned  beef,  14  lb..
..  .14 00
Roast  beef,  2  lb..
....  2 00
Potted  ham,  4 s.
.... 
60
Potted  ham,  4 s..
....  1  00
Deviled ham,  4 s ..
60
.... 
Deviled ham,  4 s..
....  1  00
Potted  tongue 4 s .. .... 
60
Potted  tongue 4s..
....  1  00
Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-
lows:
Hides.
Green......................
Part  cured...............
Full Cured............... .  64@ 74
D ry .........................
.  6  @ 8
Kips,  green.............. .  44@ 54
Kips,  cured.............. .  64@ 8
Calfskins,  green__ .  64@ 8
Calfskins, cured__ .  74®  9
Deaeouskius  ........... .25  @30
Pelts.
Shearlings..............
5@  10
Lambs............... .... 25®  50
Old  Wool................. 4o@  75
Mink......................... 30®  1  10
Coon.........................
30®  80
Skunk......................
40@  80
Muskrats..................
9@  14
Red Fox...................
80@  1 25
Gray Fox................
30@  70
Cross Fox  ............... 2 5 @ 5 10
Badger.....................
25®  50
Cat, VV ild .................
10®  25
Cat, House...............
10@  20
Fisher...................... 3 00@ 5 00
Lynx........................ 1  0 @ 2 00
Martin, Dark............ 1 50@ 3 00
Martin, Yellow........ 75©  1  50
Otter........................
Wolf........................ 1  t0@ 2 00
Bear......................... 7 00® 15 10
Beaver...................... 2 0U@ 6 00
Deerskin, dry, per lb
15®  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb
10®  124
Wool.
Washed 
...............
.10  @16
Unwashed............... .  5  @12
Tallow....................
.  2  @ 3
Grease Butter.........
.  1  @ 2
Switches  ...............
.  14© 2
Ginseng.................... .2 50@2 75

Canned  Meats.

fllscellaneou*.

Furs.

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ..................
XXX WiW.Micb.HdI
W W Michigan........
High Test Headlight
D., S. Gas.................
Deo. Naptha...........
Cylinder.................
nglne  ..................
lack, winter...........

@104
@ 84
@ 8
@ 7
@ 9
@ 84
.30  @38
.11  @21
@ 9

29

Crockery and

Glassware.

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
)4 gal., per doz.............. 
50
5*4
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
8 gal., per g a l.................  04
10 gal., per gal.................. 
64
12 gal., per gal..................  64
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
2u gal. meal-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal., 
lu 
30gal. meat tubs, per gal..  10. 

2 to 6 gal., per gal............ 
Churn Dashers, per doz... 

54

Churns.

Milkpans.

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

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

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

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

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

Tomato Jugs.

4  gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., e. cb...................... 
7
Corks for 4  gal., per doz..  20 
Corks fur  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
4  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
No.  2 Sun.......................... 
75
Tubular.............................  
50
65
Security, No.  1................... 
Security, No. 2...................  85
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
Climax..............................  1  go
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 and  labeled__  2  10
wrapped and  labeled__2 25
wrapped and  labeled__  3 25

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
crimp  top,

First  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  and
labeled............................  3  70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............  
80
No. 1 San. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........ 
1  25
No. 2  Sun, plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   150
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.........1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........  3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)___   4  70

La  Bastie.

Rochester.

 

 

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  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  0U 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  6 U0
5 gal Tilting cans..............  9 00
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas  ...  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.  OTubular........  ........4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular...  ........  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount 
  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No:  3 Street  Lamp  ........  3 75
LANTERN OLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........ 
45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box  15 cents........... 
45
No. OTubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................   40
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
1  25
cases 1  doz.  each... 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................... 
20
No. 1 per gross...................  25
No. 2 per gross................... 
38
No. 3pergrobS................... 
58
Mammoth per  doz............. 
70

. 

30

Getting the  People

An  Advertising  Epic.

Bus ness slack, 
Mercnant sad.

Hid

his

He

to

name,

blame.
Sense came back, 
Wrote an ad.
Custom came,
Trade « as good. 
Known

Pet pie

to

fame.

came.

Merchant same 
Au. renewed.
W bile be had 
N u ; a<l.
He

was
Business

madl
bad.

Now he swears,
Ou his outb, 
Busine-s cares 
Come from sloth 

In advertising.

Art  of  Reaching  aud  Holding  Trade 

by  Advertising.

Last  week,  under  this  head,  I  called 
things  advertisers 
attention  to  some 
should  not  do. 
In  this article  I  desire 
to  point  out  some  essentials of profitable 
and  economical  advertising.

First,  let  us  look  at  the  question  of 
practical  economy.  How  often  the 
solicitor  of  advertising  hears  the  re­
mark,  “ Oh,  I  can’t  afford  so  much 
space.  Half  the  amount  1  am  now  us­
ing  will  do  just  as  much  good,  and  1 
can  save  so  much  expense.”

In  nine  cases  out  of  ten,  such  a  re­
mark  is  made by  a  man  using  already 
only  a  half  or  perhaps  a  quarter  as 
much  space  as  his  business  actually  de­
mands  and  will  more  than  pay  for  in 
increased  profits.

is  an 

Now,  here 

illustration:  A 

is 
doing  business  on  a  capital  of  $15,000 
His  store  room  will  admit of  carrying 
$25,000  worth  of  goods,  which 
increase 
may  be  easily  handled  by  the  force  of 
clerks  employed  on  the  $15,000  basis 
The  added  stock  will  demand no greater 
outlay  for  rent,  light,  heat  or clerk hire. 
It  will  mean  an  additional  expense of  a 
few  dollars,  only,  for  insurance.  He  is 
using  advertising  space  costing  him, 
for  the  year,  $500.  His profits,  figuring 
them  at  10  per cent.,  above  cost  of  sell­
ing, 
if  he  does  a  $15,000  business, 
amount  to $1,500  But  A  is  a  wise  mer­
chant,  and  isn't  satisfied  with  this,  so 
he  doubles  his  advertising bills,  making 
them  $1,000. 
In  far  less  time  than 
would  seem  possible  to  the  uninitiated, 
A  is  handling  $25,000  worth  of  goods  a 
year;  the  only  increase  in  expense  is  a 
insurance  and  $500  more  for 
trifle  for 
publicity. 
Ten  per  cent,  profit  on 
$25,000  is $2,500  per  year.  Deduct $500 
from  this,  and  we  find  that  the  extra 
advertising  has  not  only  paid  tor  itself, 
but  added  dollar  for dollar  with  itself 
to  the  yearly  profits  of  A.

This  is  not  a  superficial 

illustration, 
but 
is  a  fact,  demonstrable  m  thou­
sands  of  instances.  Double  the  amount 
of  money  you  now  spend  for  publicity, 
up  to  a  reasonable  point,  and  for  every 
cent  so  expended  you  are  not only  re­
imbursed,  but  there 
is  a  definite  gain 
in  profits.

Of  course,  the  above  argument 

is 
predicated  on  the basis  of  using  the  ut­
in  the  writing  of  the  adver­
most  care 
judgment 
tisements,  the  use  of  good 
and  forethought  in  placing  the  same 
in 
the  proper  channels,  and  so  surround­
ing  advertising  expenses  with  every

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

safeguard  that  the  returns  cannot  fail 
to be  satisfactory.

“ But,”   says  B,  “ I  tried  that, 

last 
year. 
Instead  of  a  double  six-inch 
space,  I  contracted  with  our local  paper 
for  twenty-four 
inches,  which,  while 
the  cost  was  almost  double,  didn’t bring 
me  in  a  dollar’s  worth  more  profit."

And I have no doubt B is right.  But let 
us  look  into  the  matter.  B  doubled  his 
space,  but  did  he  double  his  “ brains?” 
In  other  words,  did  he,  in  preparing 
his  advertising,  double  hisu care  and 
painstaking  effort  to  make  it  profitable? 
I ’ll  tell  you  what  he  did  do.  He 
No! 
wrote an  advertisement  something 
like 
this:

-D E A L E R S   IN—

BROWN & 6 0 .
Du Goods,  M is,
Ml) M SIIK.

Full line  always  in  stock.

1-2  S lo w   St.,

sometime 

S l s s p y   ? o w i ] ,   D .  Y .
This  he  sent  to  the  printer  on  Janu­
ary  1.  Along 
in  March, 
when  the  printer  saw  that  his  type  was 
being  worn  out,  he  called  on  B  and 
in­
sisted  that  he  change  his advertisement.
"W ell,”   drawls  B,  in  a  sleepy  tone, 
“ I  haven’t  time  to  be  fixing  up  new 
advertisements  every  day.  Change  it 
to  suit  yourself  and  put  in  anything  you 
want  to. ”   The  printer  does  so,  which 
means  that  he  merely  changes  the  style 
of  type— not  the  language.

The  readers  of  the  Tradesman,  who, 
of  course,  are  progressive  and  up  to- 
date  in  all  matters  pertaining  to  busi­
ness,  may  consider  the  Brown  picture 
overdrawn,  but  I  can  assure  them  to  the 
contrary.  I  have  heard  such  remarks as 
B  made  to  the  printer  hundreds  of 
times,  and  not  so  long  ago,  either.

And  this 

is  only  one  of  the  many 
different  ways  in  which  money is wasted 
in  advertising. 
I  can  only  enumerate  a 
few :

If 

Carelessness  in  preparation,  is,  I con­
sider,  the  greatest  evil.  Each  adver­
tisement  should  receive the closest study 
and  the  strictest  criticism.  You  can­
not  afford  to  say,  “ Oh,  anything  will 
do— it's  only  an advertisement. ”   Mod­
ern  buyers  judge  of  a  firm  by  its  adver­
it  shows  care,  the  reader 
tising. 
knows  that  firm  is  careful  in 
its  selec­
tion  of  goods. 
If  it  carries  an  absolute 
conviction  of  truthfulness,  the  reader 
knows  the  house  is  reliable and  honest. 
If  it  goes 
into  a  careful  depiction  of 
values and  details,  the  reader  knows  at 
a  glance  if  such  an  article  as  he  desires 
is  to be  found  in  that  store. 
If  it  con­
veys a  certain  courtesy  and  kindliness 
in 
its  general  tone,  the  reader  knows 
that  dealings  with  that  house  will  be 
carried  on  pleasantly  and  in  a  manner 
which  satisfies  both  customer  and  mer­
chant.  He also knows  that an  advertiser 
who  writes  a  pleasing  advertisement

surrounds  himself  with  clerks  who  are 
gentlemanly 
in  their  deportment,  and 
therefore  make  a  visit  to  that  store a 
pleasure  as  well  as  a  matter  of business.
To  sum  up  the  facts,  every  advertise­
ment  is  a  sure  delineation  of  your  busi­
ness  character. 
If  you  exhibit  those 
qualities  which  appeal  to  the  sensible 
and  conservative,  yet  progressive  and 
aggressive,  side  of  human  nature,  you 
attract  customers  of  the  best  sort,  for 
their  appreciation  of  such  qualities 
places  them 
in  the  ranks  of  the  finan­
cially  solid  citizens.

element, 

If,  on  the  other  hand,  your  publicity 
shows  neglect,  carelessness,  lack  of  in­
telligent  descriptive  matter,  and  a  gen­
eral  deficiency  along  this  line,  the  only 
trade  you  can  hope  to  win  is  that  of  the 
lazy  and  shiftless 
for  this 
class,  if any,  never read the newspapers.
Let  us  suppose  that  B  is writing a let­
ter  to a person whom he desires to secure 
as  a  customer,  knowing  that  bis  trade 
is  worth  a  large  amount  annually.  Does 
be  leave  such  correspondence  to  one 
of  his  clerks?  Does  he  say  to  a  man  in 
his  employ,  “ Oh,  write  a 
letter  to 
Jones,  and  put  in  anything you please, ”  
and  then  dismiss  the  matter  from  bis 
mind?  Not  by  any  means.  B  sits  down 
at  his  desk  and  ponders. 
“ What  is  the 
best  thing  to  say  to  Jones  which  will 
be  a  convincing  argument  why  he 
should  give  me  his  trade.”   And  when 
B  has  decided  on  a  policy  to  be  pur­
sued,  he  consecrates  the  best  efforts  of 
his  mind 
that  policy  in 
words  at  once  so  fatting  and  conclusive 
that  Jones  cannot  fail  to  be  impressed 
and  influenced  in  B’s  direction thereby. 
Not  only  does  B  do  this,  but  when  his 
first  effort  is  completed,  he goes  over  it 
carefully  with  the  pruning-knife  of  pru­
dence,  and  carefully 
lops  off  all  such 
twigs  and  shoots  as  are  liable  in  the 
least  to carry an unfavorable impression. 
And,  at  last,  when  B  has  produced  just 
the  epistle  which  good  judgment  and 
careful  thought  convince  him 
is  sound 
in  argument  and  attractive  in  form,  he 
doesn’t  mail  it  at  once,  but  proceeds  to 
beautify  it  still  further  by  the  mechani­
cal  skill  of  the  typewriter.

in  clothing 

Not  until 

it  has  received  every  ad­
vantage  which  brains,skill  and mechan­
ical  embellishment  can  give  to  it  does 
the  important business  letter  start  on  its 
mission  of 
influencing  and  controlling 
the  recipient.

The  Oldest  Inhabitant

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in  Decen  uer  ® 

cannot remember  another such 
a winter season  as  this:  balmy 
instead  of  biting  air;  rain ana 
mist instead of snow  and sleet; 
mud instead  of  sleighing;  No- 
vt mber  weatbe 
and  part  of  January.  Suc-h 
is  toe  cau-e  of our d sconient, 
and the  ieason we  shall start a 
dealing  sale  Monday  that will 
clear.  We aie  raretul buyeis. 
and  won d  have  been snlu  out 
“ slick  and  clean"  had  the 
weather been co der.  However, 
it  doesn't do  any  good  to  find 
fault  because  we've  lost  the 
piofit on half our winter goods, 
and our customers are going to 
get  it:  so  here's  a  cherry  . nd 
cordial invitation  10 attend the 
greatest  moi-ey-saving  sale  in 
your experience.

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of an offer from us of  a half-a-dollar 
coin with every pair  of $3  shoes  you 
bought this week?
You'd  pronounce  it  a  snap  and
take  advantage  of  it  very  quickly,
wouldn’t you?
Well, we're doing something  equal
to that offer in selling our  regular  $1
shoes at only $1.M) a pair.  We deduct
the half  a  dollar.  If  we  asked  full
price,  which  the  shoes  are  fully
worth,  and  presented  you  with  the
coin, you might  recogni.e the saving
more clear'y, but we leave it  to  your
intelligence  to  just  as  fully  appre-
elate  tli •  gift  m  this  selling  of  $3
shoes for  ¡J2.S0.

We have every size and  style.

—

A  Shoe’s 
Good  N am e.

cannot be made in  a day, nor 
in a single season.  Its merits 
must be demonstrated.  Peop'e 
must  wear  i  a  reasonable 
length  of  time  before  they 
will  place  the  stamp  of  ap­
proval  upon  it.  The  Blank 
Sho-,  which  we  .e'l  ynu  at 
only  $2.50,  has been  worn for 
fully  1 wo years.  Every  sea­
son, those people who wore it 
before ask for itagain  They 
take  it in  preference to most 
$3 --hoes. 
If you wore  it  one 
sea-on  you d  want  it  again, 
like the rest of them.
Try it this Spring.

How  much  greater,  then,  should  be 
the  care  used  in  preparing  the  adver­
tising. 
Instead  of  costing  two  cents 
for  postage,  the  advertisement  may  cost 
anywhere  from  ten  to a thousand dollars. 
Instead  of  being  intended  to  reach  and 
influence  one  person,  it  aims  to guide 
and  control  the buying  interests  of  the 
community,  and  in  so  much  greater  de­
gree 
is  the  public  advertisement  the 
criterion  of  the  merchant’s  business 
acumen  and  capacity  for  suiting  his
trade. 

N e m o .

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Grace  and  Sense.

It  may  sound  strange,  or look 
odd  in  type,  but  there  can  be 
in  sensible  shoes 
gracefulness 
ju-t as well as not.
The  trouble  with  most  of  the 
sensible  shoes  is  that  they  are 
clumsy  and  • wkw .rd  in  appear­
ance. and ofttlmt-8 in rea ity.
But that’s been overcome in the 
newer and better  styles.
We  can  now  se 1  you  either 
men’s or women’s shoes  that  pos­
sess  all  the  comtort-giving  and 
health-protecting  qualities  and 
yet are graceful in shape.

You should see them.

Subjoined  are a  few pattern advertise­
ments,  selected  from  some  of  the  best 
which  have  recently  come  under  our 
observation:

‘Behind the Bars”

of  a  mosquito  netting,  in  a 
hammock,  is 
the  place  to 
sleep  in  summertime.  But 
now when it’s cold and drear, 
genuine  comfort 
is  found 
sleeping  between  our  XXXX 
A1  double  width  blankets, 
soft  as  eiderdown  (nearly), 
warm  as  July,  wearable  as 
Iron.  S  eclal  prices  on  all 
bedding goods this month.

For Sloppy 
W eather.

One day of freezing and one day of 
thawing—that’s the way it’s been  go­
that’s  what 
ing  this  winter,  and 
makes  the  walking  miserable—not 
only in ’he  country, but in  the  best- 
paved cities.
It is just  the  sort  of  weather  that 
most  demands  the  wearing  of  rub­
bers.
We’ve  an  immense  stock  of  the 
best  grades  of  rubbers  of  all  sorts 
and  sizes.  There  are  n< ne  l<>w.-r 
priced,  and  none  higher  in  quality 
at the price.

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LIFE  IN  OLD  M EXICO .

Some  of 

Its  Features  Briefly  Set 

From Modern Mexico.

Forth.

The  ladies  never  flirt.  •
American  apples  are  retailed  for $i  a 

The  women  have  not  yet  adopted  the 

dozen.

bicycle.

Soldiers  wear  a  linen  uniform  when 

on  fatigue  duty.

Good  household  servants  are  paid 

from  $4  to $8  a  month.

Cigarettes  are  made  of  pure  tobacco, 

and  are  very  cheap.

You  clap  your  hands  to  stop  the street 

car or  call  a  waiter.

Men  arrested 

made  to  sweep  the  streets.

for  drunkenness  are 

The devout  Catholic  always  raises  his 

hat  while  passing  a  church.

There  are  free  band  concerts  in  all 

the cities  at  least  once  a  week.

You  can  hire  the  finest  cab  on  the 

street  for  two  silver  dollars  an  hour.

It  is  quite  the  proper  thing  to  take  a 

little’ nap  after  the  midday  meal.

The  peons  wear  sandals  made  of  sole 

leather,  and  prefer  them  to  shoes.

Church  bells  are  rung  as  fast  and 
sharp  as  fire  bells  in  the  United  States.
You  may  listen  for  a  year  and  never 
hear  an  angry  word  spoken  in  Spanish.
It  never  gets  cold  enough  to  kill  the 
grass  or  the  leaves  on  the  hardier  trees.
The  bananas  that  are  considered  best 
inches 

by  many  are  only  about  two 
long.

The  largest  business  houses  are closed 
for  an  hour  and  a  half  in  the  middle  of 
the, day.

Turkeys  are  driven  to  market  through 
like 

the  main  streets  of  the  cities,  just 
sheep.

Even  the  peon’s  wife  has  a  piece  of 
drawn  work  to  cover her  husband’s  din­
ner  basket.

The  departing  lady  kisses  her  lady 
friends  on  both  cheeks  at  the  door  or  on 
the  street  car.

The  Federal  telegraph  has  recently 
inaugurated  a  night  service,  and  ten 
words  can  be  sent  for  ten  cents.

Nobody  chews  tobacco,  but  nearly 
everybody  smokes  cigarettes,  including 
most  of  the  women  ot  the  lower  classes.
White  paper  is  one  of  the  things  that 
are  expensive.  Ordinary  newspaper 
costs about  io  cents  (silver)  a  pound.

One  of  the  favorite  sweets for children 
is  sugar  cane.  It  is  sold  in  pieces  about 
eighteen  inches  long  for  i  centavo each.
You  can  buy  all  the  beautiful  flowers 
you  can  carry  home  in  a  half  bushel 
basket  for  an  American  half  dollar.

Babies  and  children  all  wear  half 
socks,  and  are  happy  with  bare  legs 
when  Northern  visitors  require  over­
coats.
,  Cigars  that  retail  for  ten  cents  are 
said  by  good 
judges  to  be  equal  to 
brands  that  sell  in  the  States  for twenty- 
five  cents.

The  weather  is  not  a  subject  of  com­
ment  unless  it  is  bad.  It  is,  as a  rule,  so 
fine  that  it  furnishes  no  variety  of  con­
versation.

The  stamp  law  is  very  thoroughly  en­
forced. 
form  of  commercial 
paper,  from  check  to  contract,  contrib­
utes  to  the  revenue.

Every 

The  hiss  is  used  almost  as universally 
as  among  the  French,  not  only  to attract 
some  one’s  attention  but  to  denote  dis­
approval.

The  street  car  mules  make better time 
than  in  any  other  country  in  the  world. 
About  half  of  the  time  they  are  kept  on 
a  full  gallop.

Horses  with  tails  more  than  twelve  to 
eighteen 
inches  long  are  rare  excep­
tions,  as  the  tails  of  fashionable  coach 
horses are  invariably  docked.

Everybody 

shakes  hands  both  at 
meeting  and  parting,  even  though  the 
visit  may  be  on  the  street  corner  and 
lasts  only  two  minutes.

Banks  are  capitalized  for  immense 
sums  and  have  very  strict  regulations, 
and  failures  among  these  institutions 
are  practically  unknown.

The  politeness  the  common  people 
show  each  other  and  their  affection  for 
their children  area  never-ending  source 
of  pleasure to  foreigners.

MICHIGAN

TRADESMAN

31

Every one  is  required  by  law  to  keep 
a  bowl  of  water  in  the  entry  way of  his 
house  for  the  convenience  of  dogs,  so 
that  they  will  not  go  mad  from  thirst.

The  waiter  will  give  you  a  complete 
change  of  plate,  knife,  and  fork  with 
every  separate  order  of  meat  or  vege­
table,  and  the  style 
is  to  eat  but  one 
thing  at a  time.

Very  few  horses  are  used  except  for 
carriages.  The  little  mules .pull  and 
carry  immense  loads.  Big  two-wheeled 
carts  are  used.almost  exclusively  for  all 
kinds  of  drayage.

There 

is  an  excellent  Federal  tele- 
graph_system,  and  nothing  can  happen 
in  the  whole  republic  of  any importance 
whatever  that  President  Diaz  does  not 
know  of  it  almost  immediately.

A  gentleman  would  almost  feel  dis­
graced  to be  seen  carrying  a  two-pound 
package  or  his  satchel  on  the  public 
streets.  Servants  and  carriers  are  so 
cheap  that  such  work  is  always  left  to 
them.

Fires  are  almost  unknown.  Cooking 
is  done  with  a  little  charcoal 
in  stoves 
made  of  masonry,  and  as  the  houses are 
universally  built  of  stone  and  bricks, 
and  have  no  chimneys,  there  is  little 
chance  for conflagrations.

Gentlemen  rarely  drive,  and  Mexican 
ladies  never  do. 
If  they  do  not  have 
their  own  carriage  and  coachman  they 
hire  cabs.  There  are  very  few  rigs, 
even  in  the  City  of  Mexico,  that  can  be 
hired  without a  driver.

Aside  from  fresh  fruits,  which  areal- 
ways  served  abundantly,  dessert  is  al­
most  unknown  on  the average  home  or 
hotel  table.  A  dulce,  or  simply  a sweet 
of  some  kind,  is  served  at  the  end  of 
the  meal,  but  it  rarely  consists  of  more 
than  a  very  small  portion  of  preserved 
fruit  or  one  little tart about  the  size  of 
a  dollar.

Everybody  buys a  lottery  ticket  once 
a  week.  Even  the  peons  gather  up  ten 
cents  for  a  fraction  of  a  ticket,  and 
many  people  claim  that,  as it  is  the only 
real  luxury  or  pleasure  they  can  afford, 
they  should  not  be  deprived  of it.  Many 
families  give  the  servant  money  for  the 
lottery  ticket  when  she goes  out  to  do 
the  marketing,  and  some  firms  even 
keep  a  lottery  account,  setting  aside  so 
much  each  month  for  the  purchase  of 
tickets.

in 

town 

in  winter  than 
in 

The  Demand  for  Thermometers.
A  dealer  in  thermometers  said  that 
under ordinary  conditions  the  sales  of 
thermometers  were  about  ten  per  cent, 
greater 
summer. 
There  were  more  people,  and  so  more 
buyers, 
in  winter,  and  he 
thought,  too,  that  people  are  more  in­
in  the  temperature  of  winter 
terested 
weather  than 
If 
there  should  be  a  prolonged  spell  of 
very  hot  weather  in  summer  the  sale  of 
thermometers  would  increase  enough  to 
it  equal  with  the  usual  sale  in 
make 
winter.  A Mike  cold  spell 
in  winter, 
however,  would  increase  the  sale  in that 
season,  so  that,  take  it  altogether,  the 
average  sale of  thermometers  was  great­
er  in  winter  than  in  summer.

in  that  of  summer. 

When  strict attention  to  business  and 
a  stock  of  the  right  styles  of  right goods 
at  right  prices  does  not  produce  busi­
ness  for  you 
in  your  community,  it 
would  be  wise  to  move  to  some  other 
location.  Your  community 
is  surely 
dead.

Joseph  H.  Choate, 

the  great  New 
York  lawyer,  who  was  a  candidate  for 
the  United  States  Senate,  is  worth  at 
least $2,000,000,  earned  in  the  practice 
of  his  profession.  He  is  a  nephew  of 
Rufus  Choate  and  a  graduate  of  Har­
vard.

Advertising  your business  is  as  legit­
imate  as  paying  rent.  Merchants  should 
look  upon  it  as  their right-hand bower— 
something  potent,  if  persisted 
in,  to 
bring  legitimate  returns  on  the  outlay.

A  newly-patented  nail  for  use  in  fas­
tening  the  soles  on  shoes  has  the  tip 
made  smaller  than  the  body  of  ibe  nail 
and  soft,  so  it  can  be  easily  turned  to 
clinch'it  when  driven  in.

3  ACRES  A  DAY

Notice  that  the  beak  does  not  lock  until  the  jaws  are  nearly  closed.
When the beak is pressed into the ground it unlocks;  when the beak Is withdrawn it instantly 
locks again.  Therefore the planter Is locked at all times when not actually In position for planting. 

Retail price of the ‘ EUREKA,”  *1.25; of the “ PINGREE,” *1.00.
Liberal discount to  the trade.

The ‘‘Eureka” patent Seed and Fruit Sack.  Retail price, 50c.  Just the thing for use with  the 

hand  potato  planter.

S O L E   P A T E N T E E S   AND  M A N U F A C T U R E R S .

GRBBNYILLB  PLA N TER   CO.,

S u c c e s s o r   to  e u r ek a  P lanter  C o .,

G R E E N V IL L E .  M IC H IG A N .

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The  Opportunities  of  Trade. 

Written for the Tkaukbman.

One  of  the  most  beneficent  of  the laws 
governing  the  evolution  of  character, 
the  gaming  of  that  higher  moral  and 
mental  status  which  distinguishes  one 
individual  above  the  average  of  his 
fellows,  is  that all  attainment  must  be 
the  result  of  effort. 
It  is  through  the 
operation  of  this  law  that  there  is  such 
a  thing  as  a  “ natural  selection,"  as  the 
evolutionists  term  it,  which  is  advanc­
ing  the  race  by  the  survival  of  those  in 
dividuals  who  put  forth  the  greatest 
effort.

In  the  decision  of  the  question  as  to 
who  shall  be  chosen  to  lead  in  the  ad­
vance  there  are  usually  two  factors, gen­
erally  operative 
in  varying  degrees: 
one  of  these  is  fouud  in  the  surround­
ings  ot  the  individual,  the  other  in  his 
natural  endowments.

It  is  a  common  observation  that  the 
most  energetic  and  progressive  peoples 
of  the  world  are  those  compelled  by  the 
vicissitudes  of  their  environment  to  put 
forth  considerable  effort  for  the  preser­
vation  of 
life.  To  be  sure,  there  are 
instances  where  the  battle  is  so 
many 
severe  that  only  a  stunted  existence 
is 
the  price  of  victory,as in the inhabitants 
of  the  most 
inclement  regions.  But 
these  are  very  few  compared  with  the 
numberless  millions  of  the  denizens  ol 
what  are  considered  the  most  favoreu 
climes,  where  the  tempered  breezes  are 
sufficient  shelter,  and  where,  at all  sea 
sons,  the  fruits  of  earth  are  to  be  hao 
for  the  gathering.  There  is  an  instruct­
ive  lesson  in  the  fact  that  vast  num 
bers  are  destroyed  by  the  enervation  ol 
such  comfort  and  plenty  where  one  sue 
cumbs  to  the  undue  severity  of  the  most 
rigorous,  storm-beaten  shore.

it 

And 

The  degree 

is  scarcely  necessary  to  cite 
the  examples  of  the  so-called  sons  ol 
fortune  among  the  progressive  peoples, 
whose  lives  are  failures  fur  the  want  ol 
incentives  to  effort. 
In  this  case,  how 
ever,  there  are  exceptions  to  tbeuniver 
sality  of  the  condemnation  of  these 
“ favorites  of  fortune”   in  that  there  are 
individuals  here  and  there  who  escapt 
the  fate  of  their  fellows  through  iht 
operation  of  the  natural  characteristics 
which  constitute  the  other  factor  in  the 
decision  of  leadership  referred to above.
in  which  the  personal 
equation  signifies  varies  greatly  in  the 
different  avocations  of  civilized 
life. 
There  is  in  the  character of many trades 
and  employments  only  the  opportunity 
for a  mediocrity  of  effort  and  of  result. 
The  artisan  has  his  task  apportioned. 
A  certain  amount  of  work,  with  a  cer 
tain  compensation,  is  the  outcome  ol 
each  day  s  set  routine. 
In  the perform­
ance  ot  this  task,  with  the  preparation 
is  really 
of  habit  and  practice,  there 
little  effort.  And  the  recompense 
in 
the  development of any marked character 
is  as  small  as  the  stipend  earned.  And 
thus  with  a  majority  of  the  ordinary  oc­
cupations—each  day’s  task  comes  to 
hand  and  the  performance  of  it is easier 
than  its  neglect  would  be.

But  there  are  some  occupations  in 
which  there 
is  opportunity  for all  the 
capabilities  of  effort  the  individual may 
possess.  Pre-eminent  among  these  is 
that  of  trade,  with  its  complement  in­
dustry  or  manufacture. 
In  trade  there 
may  be,  and  too  often  is,  the  low  level 
of  mediocrity.  There  may  be  either 
the  lack  of  physical,  moral  and  mental 
energy  to  keep  the  subject  alive  to 
every  opportunity,  or  there  may  be  a 
lack  of  the 
intellectual  insight  neces­
sary  to  enable  him  to  see  the  strategical 
advantages  within  his  reach.

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

It  is  noticeable  that  in  the  mercantile 
is  the  greatest  degree  or  va­
life  there 
riety  of  attainment.  There  are  “ mer­
chant  princes”   in  great  number,  and 
there  are  very  many  from  the  ranks  of 
trade  who  are  prominent  in  public  and 
philanthropic  life. 
These  are  they 
whose  early  surroundings  were  such  as 
to  call  forth  the  degree  of  effort  which, 
supplemented  by  the  natural endowment 
of  an  aptitude  for  work,  was  sufficient 
to  select  them  to  be  the  leaders  of  their 
lellows.  To  the  man  actuated  by a  de­
termination  to  develop  all  there  is  of 
character 
in  him  the  opportunities  of 
the  business  life  are  infinite.

Wa r r e n   N.  F u l l e r .

Jottings  from  the  Saginaws.

Retail  Clerks’  Union,  No.  65,  gave 
an  annual  masquerade  ball  at  Teutonia 
nail  Wednesday  evening.  It  was  a  great 
success,  both  socially  and  financially. 
There  were  a  great  many  maskers  and 
at  11  o’clock  all  uncovered  their  faces.
Frank  Bowen,  who  covers  Northern 
Michigan  for  J.  Baur,  of  Toledo,  was 
“ Frank"  reports  trade 
nere  last  week. 
oad,  with  big  “ B ,”   but  better  than 
in 
January  of  last  year.

Beach  &  Co.,  the  West  Side  tailors, 
will  remove  February  10 to  the building 
tormerly  occupied  by  the  Second  Na­
tional  Bank.

According 

leaves  February  1 

The  Hoyt  Dry  Goods  Co.,  which  has 
conducted  business  in  this  city  the  past 
eight  years, 
for 
Cleveland,  where  it  will  occupy  one  ol 
the  finest  store  buildings  in  the country.
to  W.  C.  Phipps,  ol 
Phipps,  Penoyer  &  Co.,  the  citizens  ol 
the  United  States  spend  over  one  hun­
dred  million  dollars  annually  for  to- 
oacco,  or about  $1.50  per  head  for every 
.nan,  woman  and  child 
in  the  country. 
vVhile  the  use  of  tobacco  appears  to  be 
on  the  increase,  the  trade  has  changed 
greatly  in  the  last  few  years,  especially 
in  plug  tobacco.  He  says  that  a  few 
years  ago  the  popular  retail  price  ol 
plug  tobacco  was  40  to 50 cents a pound ; 
now  it  is  20  to  25  cents  a  pound,  anu 
very  little 
is  retailed  above  the  latter 
ngure.

Pnipps,  Penoyer  &  Co.  will  probably 
supply  their  watchman  with  a  ther­
mometer.  The  steam  pipes 
in  their 
store  froze  and 
it  was  necessary  for 
some  good  church  member  to  do  some 
‘ hot"  talking  to  keep  warm.
Isaac  Bearinger,  who  owns  the  build- 
ug  which  the  Hoyt  Dry  Goods  Co.  will 
soon  vacate,  is  one  of  the  largest  prop­
erty  owners 
in  the  city.  Report  says 
that  he  will  form  a  stock  company  to 
engage  in  the  dry  goods  business,  to  fill 
the  vacancy  caused  by  the  retirement 
f  the  Hoyt  Co.
The  retail  grocers  of  the  Saginaws 
held  a  meeting  at  the  office  of  Spangler 
&  Davis  the  other  evening,  when  it  was 
decided  to  hold  the  third  annual  ban­
quet  of  the 
fraternity  on  Thursday, 
h ebruary  11,  to  take  place  at  A.  O.  U. 
W.  hall  on  the  West  Side.  John  Mc- 
Bratnie,  Geo.  Holcome,  H.  J.  P. 
Graebner,  P.  F.  Traenor  and  A.  D. 
Spangler  are  the  committee  appointed 
to  effect  the  preliminary  arrangements. 
It  promises  to  be  a  very  pleasurable 
event.

Timely  Warning  Against  a  Rascal.
Worcester  Mass.,  Feb.  1—The  latter 
part of  October  last,  a  man  calling him­
self  James  Murray  started  a  retail  cash 
grocery  store  in  this  city.  He  repre­
sented  to  the  wholesalers  that  he  had 
been  traveling  for a  wholesale  produce 
house  in  Canada  and,  happening  to stop 
over  a  train  in  this  city,  was  impressed 
with  its  appearance and  decided  to start

in  business  here.  He  claimed  to  have 
a  cash  capital  of  $2,200  and  bought 
goods  of  the  wholesalers,  paying  half 
cash  and  was  given  30 days'  credit  on 
the  balance,  paying  cash 
for  goods 
in  the  meantime.  When  the 
bought 
bills  became  due,  be  paid 
them 
promptly  and,  naturally,  was  given 
further  credit.  He  now  began  sending 
for goods,  forgetting  to  send  the  money 
every  time,  and  the  consequence  was 
that,  when  he  disappeared  on  the  night 
ot  Dec.  24,  a  few  days  before  the  sec­
ond  lot  of  bills  became  due,  be  was  ow­
ing  the  wholesalers about $2,000.

As,  judging  by  bis  conduct  here,  it  is 
our  opinion  that  he  started  in  business 
bere  with  the 
intention  of  defrauding 
his  creditors,  and  as  we  think  he  may 
nave  played  the  same  trick  before,  it  is 
possible  that  he  has  now  started  again 
somewhere  under a  different name.  The 
undersigned  wish  to  warn  all  the  job­
bers  of  the  country  against  the  man  and 
make  it  difficult  for  him  to  meet  with 
the  same  success  that  he  had  here.  He 
is  a  man  between  30  and  35  years  ot 
age,  about  5  feet  10  inches 
in  height, 
weighing  about  160  pounds,  smooth 
face,  dark  brown  hair.  He  has  rather 
shifty  grey  eyes,  and  speaks  in  a  low, 
rather  moderate  tone  of  voice.  He 
dressed, while  here, in  a  long black frock 
coat,  and  black  soft  felt  hat,  which, 
with  his  smooth  face  and  pale  com­
plexion,  gave  him  a  rather clerical  ap­
pearance.
If  any 

this  circular 
reaches  has  recently  commenced  selling 
a  man  as  above  described,  it  will  be 
for  his 
interest  to  watch  him  sharply 
and  have  nothing  but  cash dealings with 
dim.  Any 
information  regarding  the 
man  would  be  appreciated.

jobber  whom 

E.  T.  S m ith  Com pany.

Flour  and  Feed.

During  the  past  week  there  has  been 
an  active  enquiry  for  flour,  but  buyers 
have  hesitated  because  of  the  downward 
tendency  of  wheat,  hoping  each  day  to 
be able  to  buy  at  a 
lower  price.  For 
the  present,  at  least,  the  decline  seems 
to  have  been  checked,  but  an  upturn, 
with  steadier  markets,  is  now  in  order. 
The  outlook  is  for  a  much  better  de­
mand  from  this  time  on,  which  will 
create a  more  lively  demand  for  cash 
wheat  at  grain  centers  where  stocks  are 
comparatively 
light,  especially 
for  winter  wheat.

very 

Stocks  of  flour  are  not 

large,  but 
when  an active  demand  from  consumers 
(who are  now  eating  up  their  winter’s 
supply)  begins,  a  higher  range  of  val­
ues  may  be  expected.  The  city  mills 
are  doing  all  they  can,  with  the  lim­
ited  supply  of  wheat  at  hand.

Bran  and  middlings  are  in  better  de­
mand,  with  prices  firmly  held.  Feed 
and  meal  are  more active  since  sleigh­
ing  began,  while  prices  are  nominally 
unchanged  for  the  week.

W m  N.  R owe.

The  Pioduce  Market.

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

Butter—Fancy  dairy 

in  plentiful 
supply  at  I2@!3c  and  factory  creamery 
s  slow  sale  at  19c.  Receipts  continue 
iberal.
Cabbage—5o@5Sc  per doz.,  according 

is 

to  size  and  quality.

Celery— 15c  per  bunch.
Cider—$4  per  bbl.,  including  bbl.  .
Cranberries—Dealers  hold  Cape  Cods 

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

Eggs—The  market 

is  well  supplied 
with  shipments  of  fresh  stock,  which 
find  an  outlet  on  the  basis  of  12c.  Oc­
casionally  ic  more  is  obtained  for  small 
lots  of  extra  fancy  stock.

Grapes—Malagas  bring  $6 per  keg  of 

65  lbs.  gross.

Honey—White  clover  is 

in  fair  de­
mand  at  I2,j£@i3c.  Buckwheat  is  not so 
salable,  bringing  8<^ioc,  according  to 
quality  and  condition.

Onions—Sharp 

advances  have  oc­
curred  during  the  past  week,  handlers 
now  paying  75c  for  ail  offerings  of

in  a 

choice  stock,  which  they  hold 
small  way  at  $1  per  bu.

Potatoes— Handlers  pay  15c  for  stock 
in  carlots  on  track. 
In  a  small  way 
dealers  find  no  difficulty  in  obtaining 
23c  per  bu.

Squash—Still  scarce  and  high,  good 

stock  readily  commanding  3c  per  lb.

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln-dried  Illinois 

are  in  good  demand  at  $2  per  bbl.

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

191

200

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

LA  of  excellent  land  near  LaFontaine,  Iud. 
Cm lease  it  any  tin e  for  oil  and  gas.  Large 
wells  near  by.  Price,  $i>,000.  Andress  N.  H. 
a inans. 2 Tower Block. 

Ij'XCHA ' GE FUR LIVERY STOCK—. 0 ACRES 
ir u i R   s a l e —s i o » k   o f   g e n e r a l   m e k -
IjNOR  SALE—LARGEST  BAKERY  BUSINESS 

chandise,  including diugs.  Only drug store 
in town,  M.  H.  Mccoy  E*t.,  Grandville,  Mich.
198

1  iu  Grand  Rapids,  including  confectionery 
nd delicacy  store  aud  r< stau  ant  at  97  and  99 
Canal  street.  Established  twelve  years.  Good 
liusine-s every day and  night  Illness  compels 
quick  sale  at  a  bargain.  Pait  pay  upon  easy 
terms.  Joseph Tschxnner. 
IT'OR  SALE  AT A  BARGAIN—A  WELL-KEPT 
T   stock of general merchandise in a veiy good 
town  Address A.  B., Grant Station,  Mich. 
196

tpOK  SALE — STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  IN- 

voicing  about  $1,001,  in  a  live  Michigan 
town.  Good trade, nearly all cash.  G  od reasons 
for selling.  Address 197, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

snoe store. Grand  Hap d<._______ 

and  fur  Sale  cheap.  Growler  Bros.  Double 

(NoR SALE—$3,800 Drug  Stocx.  etc.,  tirst-c ass 

1  In  every  paticular:  nice  Room  aud  Low 
Rent;  at  a  Bargain  if.  taken  at  onqe.  Fine 
chance for a  good  Druggist  Call  and  see  me. 
II  C  Cunningham, Kendallville,  Ind 
192
SODA  FOUNTAIN,  uARGE  AN I*  ELEGANT 
tNOR SALE OKEXc H.aNGE  FOUR MODERN 

c  ttages in good  repair—three  nearly  new, 
ail rented—for sale, or will  exchange  tor  clean 
stock ot  dry goods  Address  tester  &   Co.,  2il 
North  Ionia s’ red. Grand  Ripids 
INOR SALE CHEAP— GOOD  60  A.  hE  FttUIT 
r   »nd grain f«rm. s  ven  miles  from  A1 egan; 
_ood  buildings;  dandy  location.  Or  will  ex­
change for a stock  of  dry  goods.  Address  No. 
85, care Michigan Tradesman. 

I ¡AO R  SA LE—SIX  8  FT.  ROUND  FRONT 

1  show cases—metal and wood—in good order, 
«,.50  each,  boxed  The  Converse  Mfg.  Co., 
Newaygo  Mien. 
lAORSALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  SiOCR OF 
P   merchandise—Forty  acie  farm  near  Hart, 
goon buildings, 900 bearing fru  t trees.  Address 
o.  79  care  Michigan Tradesman 

Ij'XcHA.xGE—FUR At EKC11 AN DiSo. O l i  SELL 

—80 ac  e farm two utiles fiom  station,  near 
Peritiugs,  Upper  Michigan; 
land  nrt-t  class. 
Writeior  lull  description.  P. A.  Bredeen,  Es- 
c  naba,  Mich. 

183

185

197

193

194

I8u

1,9

184

182

poud with XXX, care  Michigau  Tradesm ,n.

SMALL  SHOE  STUCK  WANTED—CORRES- 
I HAVE  120 ACRES  OF  THE  Fl.»EsT  ilAKD- 

wood timbere > laud  in  Norihern  Michigan, 
tth  some  improvements,  well  watered,  and 
naif a mile from a  beautitul  lake, which  I  de­
sire to  trade for  slock  of  groceries,  boots  and 
-hoes  or  clothing.  Address  Box  404  Harbor 
Springs,  Mich. 
¿H>K S ALE FOR  CASH-STOCK  GROCERIES 
I   and crockery  invoicing  between  $3,uuo  and 
r.s.50u;  good loca ion;  good  choice  stock.  Will 
seli  cheap.  Good  chance  for  someone.  Ad­
dress D, Carrier No. 4, Battle Creek, Mien.  177 
'T'O   EXCHANGE—58  ACRES  ADJOINING 
J.  thriving village in Gratiot  county  for  mer­
chandise.  Address  Lock  Box  27,  Baldwin, 
Mich 
R
IjAOR  SALE- AT  A  BARGAIN  THE  WAT- 
X1  rous’  urug  stock  aud  fixtures,  located  at 
Newaygo.  B  st 1  cation aud stock in  the town. 
Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co.. Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
136
IT'OR SALE—IMPROVED  80  ACRE  FARM  IN 
F   Oceana  county;  or  would  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address  380  Jefferson  Avenue, 
nu-kegon. 
L   OR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
F   farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  AddresB No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
73
man. 

UBBER  STAMPS  AND  RUBBER  TYPE. 
Will J.  Wel.er, Muskegon, Mich. 

loO

174

lio

MISCELLANEOUS.

199

new  two-boise  covered  peddlii.g  wagon. 
Must ie a bargain.  Addiess K. & B„ care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 

W aNTED—A  GOOD  SECONDHAND  OR 
W ANTED—SITUATION  As  CLERK 

IN 
clothing,  furnishings  aud  shoe  trade, or 
traveling i-alesman.  by married man  of  27, with 
s x years’ expeiieuce in  business.  Add.ess  No. 
187, care Michigau Trade-mui. 

W a n 1 e d - P o sitio n  a s   b o o k-k e e .  e r

or office clerk by a married man of  twelve 
years’ experience in ibe banking business.  Can 
furuisb  best  of  references.  Address  11.  N.  S., 
Box 379  Lakeview,  Micb. 

W ANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SlliP- 
pers of butter aud eggs  aud  other  season­
able produce.  R. Hlrt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
961  L

186

187

Strike while the 
Iron  is Hot

and  send  us  your  order  f 
OLD  COUNTRY  SOAP  while 
you  can  secure  one  box  free 
with every order  for  io  boxes.

ALLEN B.WRISLEY'S
OLD  COUNTRY

SOAP.

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

WHEN  CONDITIONS  PAVOR  YOU 
M AKE  USE  OF  THEM.

PLUG AND  FINE CUT

TOBACCO
MUSSELMAN GROCER GO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

only by

JESS! 

JESS

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

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH  AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

Rapids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington,  Al­

legan, Howard City, Petoskey and Reed City.

Highest Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasolide  Barrels.

I coupon Book »m l

by abandoning  the  time-cursed  credit system, with its 
losses  and  annoyance,  and  substituting  therefor  the

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  Bookkeeping.
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,

In Time of Peace Prepare for War

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

Patent  Delivery and 

«^'Pleasure sieions.

WRITE FOR  PRICE  LIST.

The  Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

¿SSP'

Our New  Hub  Runner.

The  Dayton Money Weight Sys­
tem  is right. 

It  measures

for  the  same  amount  of  your 
customers’  money. 
It  makes 
clerks  and  proprietors  as  care­
ful  in  weighing  as  when  mak­
ing  change. 
Its  sensitiveness 
proportionate  to  the  price  per 
pound  is  the

I

It  is  tw enty  tim es  more  sensitive  at  60  cents  per  pound  than  at  ^  rpntc  n?r 

j

lght  f 6aChineS  are  m° re  sensitive  than  Pound  and  ounce  scales.  Pound  and  o u n c H c a le s   glveT ust  ^ n ^ h o v e r "  
3  as  at  60  cents  per  pound.,  w hile  with  our  m oney  w eight  system   it  is  im possible  to  give  more  than  a  quarter  of  a

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THE COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY, Dayton, 0., U. S. A.

Q Y P S I N E

Is the  permanent  wall  finish,  and 
trade on Gypsine is the  permanent 
wall finish trade.  Why?  Because 
Gypsine  gives  such  good  satisfac­
tion  to  the  consumer  that,  after 
using Gypsine  once,  he  will  have 
Gypsine  and  nothing  else.  Send 
for prices, color  card,  and  plan  of 
local advertising  for  the  dealer  to

DIAMOND WALL FINISH CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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WANTED

/ 

In Exchange for Farms and Cash.

Good  S to c k s   )  In Exchange for Timber Land.
mm 
\  In Exchange for City Property.
Merchandise  )  In Exchange for Money.

___ * • 

\  In Exchange for Live Stock.

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

Make your wants known through the wants column of the

