Volume XIV.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  10,1897.

Number 699

CHARLES  nANZELriANN

BROOM S  AND  W HISKS

MANUFACTURER  OF

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

JESS

JESS

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

PLUG AND FINE CUT

TOBACCO
MUSSELMflN  GROCER CO.,

only by

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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We carry a stock  of cake tallow for mill  use.

Noil*  ,aa and ,a 4  Louis St.. 

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Grand Rapids.

DETROIT BRUSH  WORKS

L.  CRABB  &   SON,  Proprietors

JESS

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. tm

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of
FUBE,HieS GRMIE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than oue 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put up in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their German Sweet  Chocolate is  good  to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable, nutri­
tious, and  healthful ;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.,

Dorchester,  Mass.

An
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If you have a sign  over vonr door, 
you  are  an  advertiser.  The  sign  is 
intended  to  advertise  your  business  Si 
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a reliable trade paper is only so many 
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great many square miles.
You  can’t  carry  everybody to your 
sign,  but The  Michigan  Tradesman 
can  carry your sign to everybody.

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FROM  THE  CURSE  OF  CREDIT

Hundreds of merchants are now aban­
doning the old-time credit system and 
discarding the pass book  for  the  cash 
and  coupon  book  system,  which  en­
ables the dealer to avoid all the losses 
and  annoyances 
inseparably  con­
nected  with  the  credit  business. 
you are a victim of the credit business 
and desire  to  place  your  business  on 
a  cash  basis,  send  to  us  for  a  cata­
logue  and  samples  of  our  several 
kinds of  coupon  books, which will  be 
forwarded free on application.

If  - 

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

mmmmst has  stood  the  test  of  time  and  is  everywhere 

recognized as one of the  leading  brands  on  the 
market.  This offer holds good  for a  short time 
only, being subject to withdrawal at any time.
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MANUFACTURED

BY

Kneipp Malt Food Co.
C.  H.  STRUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio,

Accent for Ohio, Indiana and  Michigan.

Simplest  and  Most  Economical 

Method of  Keeping  Petit 

Accounts.

File and 1,000 printed blank bill heads........*8 75
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Printed blank bill heads, per M  ..................  1  25
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Grand  Rapids.

Snedicor & Hathaway

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

D R IV IN G   S H O E S ,

M E N 'S   A N D   B O Y S *  G R A IN   S H O E S . 
Smith Shoe Co., Agts. for Mich., O. and Ind.

by abandoning the  time-cursed  credit system, with its 
losses  and  annoyance,  and  substituting  therefor  the

Goupon B ook S u stem

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

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

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

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapids.

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Travelers’ Time  Tables.

CHICAGO

doing to Chicago.

Returning from  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentwater.

uv.  G’d. Rapids...........8:3oam  1:25pm  til :00pm
Ar. Chicago.................  3:0upm  6:50pm  t  6:30am
Lv.Chicago..................7:20am  5:00pm tll:30pm
vr. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:30pm t  6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapids............ 8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............ 10:15am  .......... 10:30pm
LV. G’d1 Rapids....... . 
7:20am  5:30pm  .............
i f  Manistee....... . 
12:06pm  10:25pm  ..'........
Ar. Traverse City......   12:40pm 11:10pm  ...........
ir. Charlevoix..........   3:15pm 
.................. .
Vr.  Petoskey..............  4:56pm 
.......................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:55 
p.m.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Potoskoy.

PARLOR AND SLBRFtHO OARS.

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

sleepers on night trains.
erse  City.  -

Othen week days only.

lEvery  day. 

Gro. DrHavrn, Gen, ral Pass. Agent.

DETROIT,Grand Rapids & Western. 

Jan. 1. 1897.

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....................7:0Uam  1:10pm 6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:3Upm  5:2upm 10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G K 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids........7:i<Jam  1:30pm 5:25pm
Ar.  from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
Parlor can 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 8KRV10R.

Gro.  DrHavrh,  General Pass. Agent.

.......

GRAND Trunk Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

Eastward.

tNo. 14  tNo. 16  tNo. 18  -No. 82 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am  10:10am  3:3opm  10:45pm
Ar.  Ionia........7:40am  11:l7<tm  4:34pm  12:30am
Ar.  St. Johns..b:25am  12:10pm  5:23pm 
i:5?ain
Ar.  Owosso__ 9:00am  1:10pm  6:03pm  3:25pm
.  .......   8:0upm  6:40am
Ar.E.Saginawl0:50am 
Ar. W. Bay C’y 11:30am.  ...........  8:35pm  7:15am
Ar. F lin t...... 10:06am 
...........   7:06pm  5:4Uain
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:06pm 
...........  9:50pm  7:30pm
Ar. Pontiac..  10.53am  2:57pm  8:25pm  6:10am 
Ar.  Detroit...11:50am  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 ti'd Haven and Intermediate Pts—   5:12pm 
tDaily except Sunday.  -Daily.  Trains arrixe 
from the east, 6:35a.m.,  12:45p.m., 5:07p.m..  9.55 
p.m  Trains  arrive  from  the  west, lu:05a.m., 
3:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. la Wagner parlor car.

E. H. Hughes, A. G. P. & T. A.,
Chicago.
Brn. Fletcher, Trav. Pass. AgL, 
J ab. Campbell, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St.

r S D A N i n   R*P,ds  k Indiana Railroad 
U K A n U  

sept.  37, 1890.

Northern Dlv.

Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack., .t 7:45am 1 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack.. .t 2:15pm + 6:30am
Cadillac....................................t 5:25pm 111:10am
Train'leaving at 7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  oar to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

Southern  Dlv.

Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...............................t 7:10am t 8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................+ 2:00pm t 1:66pm
Cincinnati  .............................•* 7:00pm • 7:26am
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon T rains.

GOING WEST.

Lv G’d Rapids..............t7:35am tl :00pm 15:40pm
Ar Muskegon....  .......  9:00am  2:10pm  7:06pm
Lv Muskegon.............+8:l0am  tll:45am 14:00pm
ArG’d Rapids............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
IBxcept Sunday.  -Daily.
A. Alm<juist, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt.

C. L. Lockwood,

60010 BAST.

Every  Merchant

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.  G raad  Rapids

Volume XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  10,1897.

Number 699

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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.

The.

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this time.  The most  desirable  plan  before  the 
people.  Sound  and  Cheap.

Home  office,  DETROIT,  Michigan.

Proposed Insolvency Legislation— More 

Salutary  Laws  Necessary.

One  of  the  results  of  the  recent  legal 
squabble  over  the  Mabley  &  Company 
failure,  at  Detroit,  is  the  appearance  ot 
three  bills  in  the  hands  of  Representa- 
ve  Wetheibee,  whose  intent  is  to  make 
mportant  changes  in  commercial  laws, 
he  bills  are  fathered  by  the  Detroit 
Credit  Men’s  Association. 
If  they  are 
made  into  law  it  will  be  still  more  diffi­
cult  for  insolvent  firms  to  give  prefer­
ence  to  certain  of  their  creditors  when 
break-up  comes.  The  present  law  on 
assignments  prohibits  the  preferring  of 
any  of  the  creditors,  but  the  law  has 
been  evaded  under  Supreme  Court  de- 
isions  permitting  the  filing  of  chattel 
mortgages  giving  the  first  rights to those 
whose  mortgage  was  first  filed.  Another 
game  for  the  preference  of  certain 
creditors  has  been  worked  by 
the 
wobbling  business  firm  permitting  some 
preferred  creditor  to  get  a  writ  of  exe­
cution  or  levy on the goods in their store. 
The  plan  of  buying  goods  on  credit  and 
selling  them 
in  a  lump  to  some  other 
person,  leaving  the  first  owner  to  hustle 
tor  his  money  as  best  be  may,  is  an­
other  one  of  the  schemes  worked.  The 
three  bills 
in  question  ptopose  to  do 
away  with  such  practices.

*  *   *

The  first  one  of  the  three  bills  pro­
vides  that  if  any  merchant  or  manufac­
turer  shall  buy  goods  wholly  or  in  part 
on  credit,  he  shall  not  sell  them  except 
n  the  ordinary  business  way 
in  his 
store,  and  not  make  a  lump  sale,  except 
by  consent  of  the  creditors.  The  bill 
provides  that  any  such  sale  without con 
sent  of  the  creditors  shall  be  deemed 
fraudulent,  and  any  sale  of  goods  by  an 
nsolvent  merchant  or  manufacturer  ex 
cept  in  the  ordinary  course  of  business 
shall  be  equivalent  to  a  voluntary  gen 
eral  assignment.

*  *  *

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Acts  as  Execntor,  Administrator, 

Qnardian,  Trustee.

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

Commercial Credit Go.

(Limited)

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Reports and Collections.

411-412-413 Widdicomb Bldg,  Grand Rapids

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PECK  BROS

The  second  bill 

is  intended  to  pre 
vent  the  preferring  of  certain  creditors 
by  permitting  them to go  into  court  and 
levies  or  writs  of  execution 
secure 
These  little  games  are  called 
“  col­
lusive”   in  the  bill,  and  it  provides  that 
collusive  levies  and  executions  shall 
operate  only  as  mortgages.  Pledges  cf 
goods  and  chattels  are  also  to be classed 
as  mortgages.

*  SIt  *

The  third bill  is  an  amendment  to  the 
chattel  mortgage  law. 
It  provides  that 
every  chattel  mortgage  shall  operate  as 
a  general  assignment,  unless  all  credi 
tors  are  treated  equitably,  as  based  up 
on  the  relative  amount  of  indebtedness 
Any  creditor  not  represented 
in  such 
chattel  mortgages  may  apply  to  court 
and  have  a  receiver  appointed.

*  *   *

It  has  occurred  to  the  Tradesman  that 
if  these  three  measures  were  combined 
in  one  general  statute,  it  would  prac 
tically  amount  to a  State  insolvency act 
and,  in  view  of  the  necessity  for  salu 
tary  legislation  of  this kind,  the Trades 
man  suggests  that  the  business  interests 
of  the  State  unite  in  agreeing  upon  the 
terms  and  conditions  of  such a measure, 
with  a  view  to  securing 
its  enactment 
during  the  present  session  of  the  Legis

lature.  A  National  bankruptcy  act  is 
preferable  to  the  present  loose  method 
of  settling  estates,  but  it  has  two  great 
bjections—the  United  States  courts are 
not  accessible  to  the  people  at large,and 
they  are  fearfully  expensive.  The  cir­
cuit  courts,  on  the  contrary,  are  easily 
accessible  and  are  comparatively  inex 
pensive. 
If  the  measures  above  pro­
posed  were  combined  in  one  statute  and 
clause  added  thereto  absolving  debt­
ors  from  further liability when they have 
turned  their  entire  assets  over  to  their 
creditors,  the  Tradesman  believes  that 
the  business 
interests,  both  wholesale 
and  retail,  would  be  better  protected 
than  they  are  at the  present  time.

*   *   *

With  a  view  to  ascertaining  the  sen- 
iment  of  the  wholesale  and  retail  trade 
on  these  points,  it  has  been  suggested 
that  the  annual  banquet  tendered  the 
Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
be  made  the  time  and  place  for  a  gen­
eral  discussion  of  this  matter  from  all 
possible  standpoints,  and  if  the  idea  is 
given  sufficient  encouragement,  the  call 
for  the  convention  will  distinctly  state 
that  the  usual  set  piogram  of  toasts  and 
responses  will  be  dispensed  with  on 
that  occasion  and,  in  place  thereof,  the 
convention  will  be  entirely  given  over 
to  the  discussion  of  this  important  sub­
ject.

*   *  

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Four  years  ago  a  complete  State 

in­
solvency  measure  was  drafted  by  Arthur 
C.  Denison,  of  the  law  firm  of  Taggart, 
Knappen  &  Denison.  The  bill  was  in­
troduced  in  the  House  by  Representa­
tive  Covell,  of  Traverse  City,  but  failed 
to  receive  the  support  it  was  expected 
to  receive.  Two  years  ago  the  bill  was 
completely  revised  by  Mr.  Denison  and 
Mr.  L.  E.  Knappen,  in  which  form 
i 
was  introduced  in  the  House  by  Repre 
sentative  Covell,  and  passed  the  House 
but  failed  to  pass  the  Senate.  The  bill 
has  again  been  revised,  to  meet  the 
quirements  of  the times,and has recently 
been  introduced  in  the  House  by  Rep 
resentative  Adams,  of  this  city,  and  >n 
the  Senate  by  Senator  Covell,  of  Trav 
erse  City.  The  proposed  bill  combines 
all  the  good  features  of  the  Torrey  bill, 
which  has  been  so  long before Congress, 
and  also  such  features  of  the  present 
State 
insolvency  as 
seemed  desirable  to  retain.  The  bill  is 
too  bulky  for  the  Tradesman  to  print, 
as 
it  comprises  about  eighty  pages  of 
typewritten  matter,  but  the  salient  fea­
tures  of  the  measure  will  be  taken  up 
from  time  to  time  by  the  Tradesman 
and  discussed  at  length 
in  these  col­
umns.

laws  governing 

*  *  *

It  is  unnecessary  for  the  Tradesman 
to  call  attention  to  the  fact  that  the 
present  laws  on  the  statute  books  relat­
ing  to  insolvency  operate  quite  as  dis­
advantageous^  to  the  reputable  debtor 
class  as  they  do  to  the  creditor  class, 
because  they  permit  insolvent  debtors 
to  carry  on  business  in slipshod fashion, 
demoralizing  the  trade  of  a  locality  by 
cutting  prices  and  pursuing  other  un 
businesslike  methods,  culminating  in  a 
failure  which  brings  reproach  on  the 
community  as  a  whole.  Just  and  equi­

table  insolvency  laws are  in  the  interest 
of  all  lines  of  business  which  are  con­
ducted  on  sound business principles,and 
should  have  the  hearty  support  of  all 
who  deny  the  “ divine  right”   of  the 
banks  and  favored  relatives  to  prior  se­
curity  in  cases  of  insolvency.

Congress  Nearing  Its  End.

The  prospect  of  legislative  agitation 
to affect  the  industrial situation unfavor­
ably  glows  rapidly  less  as  the  session  of 
Congress  nears  its  end.  The  probability 
of  any  action  as  to  the  currency  is  now 
past  and  the  remaining  time  seems 
ikely  to  be  fully  taken  up  by  matters 
which  at  most  can  only  have  temporary 
effect  upon  speculative  values.  These 
are  the  British  arbitration  treaty  and 
the questions of  Cuban  recognition.

Perhaps  the  most 

important  matter 
under  consideration  as  far as  business 
interests  are  concerned  is  that  of  bank­
ruptcy  legislation.  Two  bills are  before 
the  Senate,  the  Bailey  bill,  which  pro­
vides  only  for  voluntary bankruptcy, and 
includes  invol­
the  Torrey  bill,  which 
latter  has  passed 
untary  as  well.  The 
the  House  with  a 
large  majority  and 
promises  to  receive  favorable  consider­
ation  at  the  hands  of  the  Senate  if  de­
bate  is  ever  finished  on  the  arbitration 
treaty.

As  there  are  only  three  weeks  more  of 
the  session  it  is  not  probable  that  other 
disturbing  elements  will  be  introduced; 
and  as  the  work  of  the  special  session 
of  the  next  Congress,  expected  to  be 
called  March  15,  is  pretty  well  defined, 
it  is  safe  to  say  that  Congress  has  about 
ceased  to  be  a  disturbing  business  fac­
tor,  for some  time  to  come  at  least.

Siftings  from  the  Saginaws.

in  trade 
January  was  a  quiet  month 
circles.  This  month  there 
is  an  im­
provement  and  we  are  looking  forward 
to  a  gradual  increase  in  business  until 
it  reaches  its  normal condition.  A  boom 
cannot  be  expected  in  the  Valley  until 
employment  is  given  to  all  labor.  Sagi­
naw  is  passing  through  a  peculiar  peri­
od,  such  as  comes  to all  cities  sooner  or 
later  which  depend  on 
the  salt  and 
lumber 
industry.  Through  the  efforts 
of  the  Board  of  Trade and  other  medi­
ums,  we  have  been  able  to  add 
indus­
is  thought,  will  prove 
tries  which,  it 
profitable  as  an 
investment  and  give 
added  employment to  labor.

The  New  York  Shoe  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
has  moved 
into  the  store  on  Genesee 
avenue  recently  occupied  by  C.  S. 
Grant  &  Co.

R.  A.  Harrington  has taken a postion, 
with  the  James  Stewart  Co.,  Ltd,  and 
will  cover  the  “ Thumb”   of  the  mitten 
for them.

The  Board  of  Trade  banquet  will  be 
held  Friday  evening,  Feb.  12,  at  which 
time  Hon.  Thomas  W.  Palmer,  of  De­
troit,  will  speak.  His  subject  will  be, 
“ What  Are  We  Coming  To?”   Hon. 
Washington  Gardner  will  address  the 
guests  also,  his subject being “ Abraham 
Lincoln,”   a  subject  that  never  dies.

The  wholesalers  claim  that  there  was 
a  great 
in  retail  trade  from 
the  smaller  outside  places  during  the 
last  week.

increase 

Isaac  Bearinger  says  he  is  retiring 
from  business  as  rapidly  as  possible. 
Mr.  Davis  will  take  his  place  in  the 
management  of  the  Inter-Urban  com­
pany.

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*  *  *

*  *  *

tion,
cess.

to  quote  the 
Last  year’s  si

Nearly  all  the  visitors  seem  to  be | 

is as  much  gayety  an 
addition  of  height.

It  may  be  said  right  now  that  the ¡of  disappointment,

B ic y c le s
from  the  New 

tracted,  and,  when it  was  moving again, 
be  handed  those  nearest  to him  a  tape- 
like strip of  paper,  traced like a weather 
York  Cycle i map,  containing  dynagraphic  records of 
j tests—and  the  line,  after a  united  sigh 
faded  away 
like 
ng  a  very  much
11  tile,  is a  suc- surprised  exhibitor  waving  the  slips  of
r  was  luminous, I paper behind  them.
* 
This  year  there
litter,  with  the] A  cycle  city  is  a  complete  title for the
is  a  show  in show.  From  the  complete  models  to 1
It
le  ground  floor | every  minute  part  and  section  the  ex­
lisk.  Each layer hibits  are  full  and  complete,  and,  in
the arrangement and  the  multiplicity  of 
stands,  the  exhibition  seems  a  town  in 
itself.  There  is  no  danger of getting 
lost  in  this  maze of  streets and  shops, 
tor,  besides  a  bureau  of  information  at 
the  entrance,  neatly-uniformed  guides 
stand  about to  direct the  visitors to  any 
desired  stand  or  section.  Of  course  the 
in-  bicycle accessories  are  as  prominent  as 
In  every  nook  and  corner  is  an  the  models  of singles,  quads,  tandems, 

and  rises  up like an 
is good,  like  the  succeeding  divisions 
in  a  strawberry  shortcake,  and, 
like) 
that  Yankee  luxury,  the  big  berries  in j 
this  cycling  cake,  the 
’97  models,  are j 
on  the top  layer.

There  is  plenty  to  gratify  the  desire 
equipped

third  degree  cyclists,  but,  even  to  those
without  the  cult  the  show  is  full  of 
terest. 
oddity  or  a  beautiful  bit  of  standard  and  sextets  complete, 
workmanship  to  please  the novice and | 
is  no  mistake  about  the 
There 
tempt  him  to  join  the  wheeling  host.
rong  to the  show.  The  people  come
To  the  inexperienced  the  larger  sprock­
ets  are  the  striking  novelty  of  the  ’97 [docking  in  without  any  cessation  until 
wheels.  When  this  is  noticed  the  casual | nearly  closing  time. 
It  is  evident  that 
visitor goes  off  on  the quest  for the 
n-1 the  cycle  curiosity that  amazed  the town 
usuaL
last  season 
is  still  vigorous  and  ram­
pant.  One  thing  is  evident.  The  mak­
ers  know  the  strength  of  the  demand,  if 
for  the  odd.  One  bicycle 
the  price  cards  are  a  true  indication.
with a  shining  brass  fire extingt 
The  figures,  as  a  market  quotation,
universally  picked  out  as  a  motor  ma­
| would  place  the  price  of  women’s 
chine,  and  the  salesman  at  this  booth 
j  wheels  at  $75  to $125,  men's  singles  at 
is  kept  busy  explaining  that  it  is  not  a 
from  $100  to  $150,  while  tandems  and 
self-propellor.  Nearby  is a  dainty  cat­
quads  start  at  $150  and  run  to  fancy 
amaran,  the  screws  worked  by  a  eye! 
j figures.  The army  of  “ drummers”  
is 
attachment. 
In  one room  is a  cycle  of
polit,e,  eager,  and  cheerful  as  at  the 
Xew  York  show,  but  the  young men 
gigantic  size,  the  seat  thirty  feet  from 
a  monopoly of  the  field, 
the  floor,  and  with  .tires  on  the  wheels  no  longer 
is  com-  The  new  woman  has  entered  the  cycle 
two  feet  id  circumference. 
is  as  attractive  there  as 
plete 
  At  many  standSi
hath  would  find  it  just  the  thing  for  a  OQ  the  cycle  ^
spin  on  the  Boulevard. 
In  direct  con-  dressed  in  neat  road  habits,  are  these 
trast,  on a  booth  a  few  feet  away,  stands |new  aspiniDts  ior  selling  honors,  and
a  wheel  only  fourteen  inches  high  and 
from  the  number  of  questions  visiting 
weighing  but  five  pounds. 
is  as 
; women  asked  them  the  new  departure 
daintily  finished  as  a  woman's  watch 
! should  repay  the  maker.  One  advantage 
and 
The 
they  have over  the  men  is that  they 
il­
wheel  spokes  are  like  spider  threads, 
lustrate  their  words  by  jumping  into  a 
and  suggest  the  tiny  chariot  made  by 
saddle and showing a woman hovering on 
the  fairies  for  Queen  Mab  in “ Midsum­
the brink  just how  they  will 
look  on  a 
mer  Night’s  Dream.”   A  cycling  joker 
wheel.
on  another  floor,  who  displays  lamps, 
shows  a  wheel  studded 
in  every  part 
with  his  pretty  designs  for  illuminating 
the  cyclist's  path.  The  machine,  with 
its  wealth  of  jewelry,  recalls  the  dia­
monds  on  a  sporting  man's  shirt  front. 

in  every  part,  and  a  modern  Go- j gej<jt  and  she 

is  perfect  in  every  way. 

v  *  *

It 

It 

1

To  the ordinary  cyclist  of  average  in- 
j telligence  who appreciates  his  cycle  as 
j a  machine the  show  will  prove  bewil- 
j dering 
in  a  double  way.  At  the  first 
glance there appear  in  the  1897  models 
j to  be few  reasons  of  intrinsic  character 
why a  rider  should  abandon  bis  mount 
of  1896  and  go  to  the  expense  of  pur­
chasing  one  wholly  up  to date.  This 
embarrassment  is  naturally  consequent 
upon  the  uniformity  of  frame  patterns. 
The  tubing  being  used 
is  about  the 
same  size  as  it  was  last  year.  It  is  true, 
however,  that  the  larger  diameters  of 
tubing,  inch  and  an  eighth,  and  inch 
¡and  a  quarter,  are  more  generally  em­
ployed.  Quite a  number  of  makers,  of 
conservative  ideas,  who  held  back  in 
1896,  have adopted  the  larger  sizes  for 
this  season.  This  fact,  coupled  with 
J  the  knowledge  that  the  large  tubing  has 
withstood  the  test  of  practical  use,  in­
dicates  that  tubing  of  the diameters now 
m  vogue  is  not  only  fashionable,  but  is 
also  mechanically correct.  Large  tubing 
may  now  be  safely  Said  to  have  passed 
into  the  list  of  permanent 
features 
which  are  fast  giving  the  modern  cycle 
a  fixed  type.

*  

*  

*

it 

is 

In  the first survey,  when  only  general 
appearances  are  noted,  the  enquiring 
rider  will  notice  chiefly  the  slight  alter­
ation  of  lines  in  the  frame  by  the  crank 
hangers  being  lower  with  relation  to the 
In  fifty  of  the 
rear  axle  and  bearings. 
best  known  makes of  wheels 
im­
possible  to  find  one  having  the  crank 
i axle  on  the  same  level  as  the  rear  hub.
!  The  drop  is  from  one  inch  and  a  quar- 
1 ter to  two  inches.  The  average  is  about 
an  inch  and  three-quarters.  One  effect 
I of  this  apparent  to  any  eye  is  a  for­
ward  slope of  the  rear  forks  and  chain 
and  new  lines  to the quadrant  formed 
by  the  rear  forks,  back  stays,  and  seat- 
post  mast.  With  the  dropped  crank 
hangers  this  section  of  the  wheel 
looks 
like a  more  substantial  truss.  An  oft- 
repeated  fallacy  on  the  part  of  unthink­
ing  riders  concerning  the  reason  for this 
change 
it  causes  the  chain  to 
run  down  hill.  Mechanics  who adopt  it 
argue  that 
it  strengthens  the  frame  in 
accordance  with  engineering  theories 
and  gives  them  new  angles  of  weight 
pressure  upon  which  it  is  easier  to com­
pute  in  turning  out  their  bearings.

is  that 

*   *   *

The  only  other general  change  in  the 
1897  models  which  is  superficially  plain 
is  the  prevalent  substitution  of  flush 
joints  for  the  old  external  style.  This 
change  has 
considerable 
material  for  discussion  between  both 
riders  and  mechanics,  and  will  prob­
ably  continue  to  do  so  until  the  test  of

furnished 

time  in  service  has  demonstrated  their 
soundness  or  their  fraility.

*  *  *

Having  noticed 

these  distinctions, 
the  intending  buyer  may  well  continue 
to  wonder  why  he  should  sell the old and 
buy  the  new,  which  is  so  slightly  differ­
ent.  The  arguments  pro  and  con  on 
even  these  points  might  easily  con­
fuse.  Many  makers  had  flush  joints, 
dropped  bottom  brackets  and  the largest 
of  bicycle  tubing 
in  their  machines 
last  year.  Some  had  only  one  or  two  of 
these  features.  To  those  riders  who  are 
devoted  to  one  make of wheel,  and make 
it  a  point  to  keep  up  to  date  by  pur­
chasing  a  new one  every  year,  there 
is 
no  problem.  Every  manufacturer  shows 
a  number  of  differences  between  his 
1896  and  1897  product. 
If  their  1896 
machines  had  all  the  peculiarities  of 
frame  construction  that  have  become 
typical  of  this  year’s  models,  then  new

A   few  more  good  agents 

wanted.

mHPIS i l|IT ,

SOLE  DISTRIBUTERS,

MOD  ««IS.  M .

♦   *  *

It 

There  is  a  hungry,  hunting  look  in 
the  faces  of  many  of  the  visitors,  even 
after  they  have  made  the  full  circuit 
through  all  parts  of  the  show. 
It  is  the 
old  familiar  souvenir  longing,  so  much 
in  evidence  last year. 
is  only  dis­
pelled  by  the  announcement  that  the 
souvenir  barrels  have  not  been  tapped. 
Before  this  was  known  an  exhibitor on 
the  promenade  deck  had  a  lively  ex­
perience.  On  the  rail  of  bis  stand  is 
a  little  machine  called  a  dynagraph,  a 
delicate 
instrument  used  at  his  cycle 
works  for  measuring  the  friction  of 
bearings. 
It  looks  like  a  policeman’s 
shield,  studded  with  metallic  points, 
aiid  seems  just a  nice  handful  to give as 
a  souvenir  badge.  For  a  moment 
it 
stopped  working,  and,  as  the  exhibitor 
began  fixing  it,  an  inquisitive  onlooker 
stood  to  watch  bis  methods. 
in­
stant  a  single  file of  women  and  men,  a 
hundred  strong,  bad  formed  before  the 
stand.  They  stood 
in  an  orderly  line, 
patiently  awaiting  a  distribution  of 
'any  old  thing. ”   The  exhibitor  looked 
flattered at the attention bis  device  at-

In  an 

The  officers  of the  National  Exhibi­
tion  are  decidedly  pleased  at the turnout 
of  visitors,  for  in  their  hearts  had  been 
a  lurking  fear  that the change  in 
loca­
tion  might  have  been  a  mistake.  But 
they  are  well  satisfied,  and,  when  not 
complimenting  each  other, 
the  cycle 
their  Secretary. 
magnates  seek  out 
Ernest  R.  Franks,  who  has  borne  the 
brunt of  the  work,  and,  as  one  of  them 
says,  “ just  stand  and  throw  bouquets  at 
him.”

*   *   *

Visitors  at  the  show  who go  because 
they  actually  want  to  see  wheels and 
study  what  is  new  in  them  have  no  easy 
time  of  it.  The  confusion  in  the booths, 
is 
where  the  work  of  getting  to  rights 
interfere 
still 
with  the  explanation  of 
flush  joints, 
crank  fastenings,  ball  retainers,  bear­
ings  adjustment,  and  all  the  rest  of  the 
salesmen’s  mechanical  trade.

in  progress,  seriously 

*  *  *

To  those  who  attended  the  Chicago 
show  there  seem  to be,  on  the  whole, 
more  wheels  and  more  features of  novel 
construction  in  the array  at  the  palace. 
In  part  this 
impression  is  just.  The 
number  of  exhibitors  who  have  spaces 
here  who did  appear  in  Chicago  is  sur­
prising. 
in  excess of  the 
□umber who  exhibited  in  Chicago only.

It  is  much 

cupper Horn. Roadster

the highest possible grade, the most expensive equip­
ment  and  material  is  used  in  its  construction, the 
finest finish possible to get by careful polishing, hand 
and water rubbing.  These frames are  finished in the 
same manner as the finest furniture,  Every wheel is 
carefully inspected, carefully made of selected stock, 
not  a  single  ‘‘stock  part”   is  used  in  its entire con­
struction.  The  only  wheel  made  with  tapered  D 
tubes in rear  forks,  which  is  the  most  expensive  in 
the  world.  The ’97 Clipper Light Roadster embodies 
every up-to-date  practical  feature  known.  Compare 
it to any  wheel  at  any  price,  take it  piece  by piece, 
analyze  it,  test  it,  ask  any  uninterested  expert  for 
his  opinion.  We  feel  confident  of  the  result.  We 
are sure you’ll purchase  this  wheel  if  you  want  the 
finest  bicycle  that can  be  made,  regardless  of  cost. 
880.00 is the price.
GRAND  RAPIDS  CYCLE  CO.

Pratt 

T. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

8

mechanical  wrinkles  appear  in  the  de­
tails  of  spoke,  handle  bar,  crank,  and 
seat-post  fastenings, 
in  the  style  of 
axles  used,  and  the  kind  of  bearings. 
To  the  rider  who 
is  not  unalterably 
biased  in  favor  of  some  make,  but  who 
continues  the  quest 
into  the  realm  of 
such  details,  there  comes  confusion  of 
another  kind.  ^Investigation  beyond  the 
superficial  reveals  a  wonderful  variety. 
The  new  features  in  details  are  seem­
ingly  endless.  They  offer  an  embarrass­
ment  of  riches  to  the  seeker  after  nov­
elty.  While  to  the  casual  inspection  all 
the  wheels  in  the  show  look  alike,  it 
is 
entirely  true  that  no  two  are  precisely 
the  same.  When  the  differences  be­
tween  them  are  studied  and  the  reasons 
for  the  points  of  variance are  sought, 
the  task,  which  at  .first  flush  seemed 
trivial,  comes  to  assume  stupendous 
proportions.

*  *  *

frames,  hygienic 

All  kinds  of  lines  in  front  forks  and 
rear  forks  can  be  found;  all  sorts  of 
connections  at  the  joints,  endless  vari­
ety 
in  the  style  of  fastenings,  adjust­
ments,  and  other  details  are  at  hand, 
and  all  kinds  of  reasons  are given  for 
each  particular  departure  from 
the 
method  employed  by  others.  There  are 
hygienic 
saddles, 
hygienic  handle  bars,  and even hygienic 
pedals.  There  are  adjustable  handle 
bars,  adjustable 
saddles,  convertible 
tandems,  convertible  single  wheels,  and 
changeable  gears.  There are  freaks  as 
well  as  novelties,  and  more  than  ap­
peared  at  the  National  Show  held  in 
Chicago.  The  makers  of  specialties 
seem  to  have  concluded  New  York  to 
be  a  better  mart  than 
‘ ‘ Windy 
City, ”   and  certain  manufacturers  who 
made  an  elaborate  display  in  the  West 
have  new  features  in  their  stalls  here. 
One  Eastern  concern,  which  is  using  an 
invisible  brake  that  binds  on  the  crank 
axle  by  a  turn  of  the  grip,  exhibits  a 
wheel  with  sections  cut  from  it  lon­
gitudinally,  so  as  to  show  all  the 
inter­
nal  action  of  the  device.  This  makes 
plain  a  matter  that  has  hitherto been 
mystifying.

the 

♦   *  *

Among  the  most  striking  novelties  in 
complete  cycles  is  a  machine 
imported 
from  England  by  a  prominent  Brooklyn 
tradesman. 
It  is  a  chainless  wheel,  but 
front  driving.  The general  appearance 
of  its  frame  is that  of  the  old  ordinary, 
or  high  wheel,  but  its  saddle  height  is 
no  greater  than  that  of  the  common 
It  has  a  front  wheel • about 
safety. 
thirty 
in  diameter,  and  a  rear 
one of  about  twenty.  The  rear  wheel 
trails  from  a  curved  backbone  of  the 
same  style  made  familiar by  the  ordi­
nary.  There 
is  no  rake  to  the  front

inches 

forks.  They  run  sheer  up  to  the  steer­
ing  head.  The  handle bars  are  curved 
first  outward  and  then  backward,  so  as 
immediately  above  the  forks. 
to  be 
The  saddle 
is  on  the  spine,  as  in  the 
ordinary,  and  the  cranks  are  attached 
to  the  axle,  so  that  there  is  a  slight  for­
ward  thrust.  The  gearing,  which  is  of 
the  spur  variety,  is  encased  in  a  metal 
box.  This  is  the  first  specimen  of  this 
machine  ever  seen  in  this  country,  but 
in  England  they  have  been  on  the  mar­
ket  for  several  years.  They  are  the 
product  of  a  veteran  manufacturer,  who 
finds  a  ready  sale  for  his  output.  The 
machine  attracted  general  attention  on 
the  part  of  the  trade  as  well  as  the 
public.

*   *   *

In 

studying 

the  designs  of 

fork 
crowns,  a  tendency  in  the  direction  of 
using  the  arched  or bell-shaped  crown 
is  noticeable.  The  number  of  crowns 
made  of  a  one-piece  forging  and  show­
ing  only  a  single  square  or  oval  plate  is 
much  less  than  in  former  years.  The 
two  types  most  general 
in  this  year’s 
models  are  the  arched  form  mentioned 
and  the double  crown,  made of two forg­
ing  plates  joined  by  sockets.

*  *  *

In  previous  years 

The  number  of  cheap  wheels  ex­
hibited  is  a  feature  unknown  in  former 
years.  Several  concerns  showing  only 
juvenile  cycles  are  among  the  exhibit­
ors. 
it  was  almost 
unheard  of  for a  bicycle concern to cater 
to  the  rising  generation.  The  making 
of  children’s  wheels  was 
in  the  hands 
of  regular  makers,  and  the  production 
of  the  smaller  machines  was  generally 
regarded  as  unprofitable.

*  * 

♦

A  curious  instance  of  what  may  be 
truly  regarded  as  a  reversion  of  type  is 
found  in  the  space of  one of  the  largest 
and  best-known  manufacturers. 
It  is  a 
convertible  single  wheel,  for  the  use  of 
either a  man  or a  woman. 
In  the  days 
of  the  first  safeties,  when  they  were 
heavy  and  clumsy,  it  was  common  to 
see  a  drop  frame  machine  with  a  re­
movable  top  bar.  During  the  last  three 
or  four  years  the  type  has  become  al­
most  extinct,  and  the  revival  of  it  by  a 
progressive  manufacturer 
is  a  venture 
the  result  of  which  will  be  watched with 
interest. 
In  favor  of  this  resurrected 
pattern  it  must be  said  that  it  is  as  far 
superior  to  its  prototype  as  the  modern 
safety 
It  is  sur­
prisingly  light,  and 
is  not  ungraceful 
in  appearance.  The  lower  part  is  con­
structed,  like  the . ordinary  wheel,  for 
women,  with  curved  double tubes,  while 
the  top  bar,  when  fastened  into  position 
at  the  head  and  seat-post  tube,  is  per­
fectly  horizontal,  and  has  all  the  ap­
pearance  of  the  upper  tube  in  a  regular 
diamond  frame.— New  York  Sun.

is  to  its  progenitors. 

The  Warm  Penny  of  More  Value than 

the  Cold  Dollar.

We  live  in  a  world  of  vicissitude  and 
change.  This  is  as  true  of  human  con­
ditions as  it 
is  of  the  wind  and  the 
weather.  Health  that  blooms  on  the 
cheek  and  sparkles  in  the  eye  may van­
ish  at  the  breath  of  a  cold  wind  or  the 
visit  of  a  silent  microbe.  Friends  once 
loyal  and  true  may  drop  away  as  the 
leaves  of  a  maple  or  the  blossoms  of  a 
peach.  Wealth  may  drag 
its  golden 
in  the  sea  of  mis­
anchor  and  drown 
fortune,  and  what  we  had  or  have  of 
luxury  or  fíne  raiment  may  leave  us  as 
poor  as  Lazarus  and  as  ragged  as  a 
scarecrow.  This  is  happening  all  the 
time  and  everywhere.  Man  in  his  best 
estate  has  not  the  fixedness  of  a  rail­
way  spike  or  a  nine-penny  nail. 
In 
this  never-idle  kaleidoscope,  the  prince 
and  the  peasant,  the  wise  man  and  the 
fool,  have  a  common  fellowship.

shatters 

The  sorrowful  and  the  hungry,  the 
spirit-broken  and  the  unfortunate  are 
always  with  us,  and  we  should  not  for­
get  that  we  who  look  may  yet be cast  in­
to  the  same  dark  stream.  Let  no  man 
despise  the  other  with  a  broken  for­
tune,  a  darkened  life,  a  wet  eye or  a 
dismal  fate.  He  is  of  the  same  stuff, 
and  the  hammer  that 
the 
image,  be 
it  Parian  marble  or  com­
mon  clay,  is  no  respecter  of  persons. 
Not  an  outcast nor  a  waif,  nor  a  human 
ruin  standing  on  the  highways of  time, 
but  has  a  claim  upon  the  sympathies  of 
us  all.  There  was  a  time  when  to  such 
a  man  life  was  bright  as  a  spring morn­
incense  of  opening  buds 
ing,  with 
and  its  music  of  birds.  Home  had 
its 
latch,  its  kindly  voice  and  its 
lifted 
sacred  endearments.  A  soul  looked  out 
of  its  windows  on  what  was  to  be  seen 
in  the  vista  of  the  future,  and  what  was 
to  be  heard  of  the  invisible  choirs  that 
sing  of  hope,  happiness  and  the  glories 
of  a  world  to  come  once  rang 
in  the 
ears  now  dulled  with  the  echoes  of  a 
storm.  For  such  as  these  the  Man  of 
Nazareth  walked  the  hills  of Galilee and 
died  on  a  Roman  cross,  and  what 
heaven  sought  to  save  let  no  man  cast 
away.  What  are  we  here  for,  if  it  is 
not  to do as  He  did?

its 

The 

idea  that  a  man  is  put  on  this 
planet  for  no  other  purpose  than  to  ac­
cumulate  wealth  or become  a  basket  of 
bouquets,  or  to  wear  out  his  knees  in 
serving  and  worshipping  his  own  iso­
lated  personality,  is  a  fraud  more  de­
ceptive  than  a  gold  brick  or a  tongue 
with  more  oil  than  veracity.  There 
are  lots  of  us,  however,  smoking  this 
kind  of  opium,  with  a  waking  up  to 
come  when  the  pipe is empty.  ‘ ‘ No man 
liveth  to  himself,”   is one  of the greatest

verities,  but  'that  a  goodly  crowd  are 
living  some  thirty, 
fifty  and  seventy 
years  for  that  one  lone  personage  is  a 
gruesome  fact.  A  number  nine  shoe 
covers  the  planet  and  the  rim  of  a 
hat  the  two  poles  and  the  equator.  A 
mortal  man  of  flesh  and blood the grave- 
worm 
loves;  of  vitality  that  may  de­
pend  on  a  pill  for 
its  continuance,  he 
has  no  more  jurisdiction  in  the  cosmic 
system  than  the  wing  of  a  black  bat  has 
in  an  eclipse of the moon ;  he is a self-or­
ganized  monopoly  of  interests  and  the 
obligations  of  one  man  to  another.

Two  peas  cannot  live  in  the  same pod 
without  their  affinities,  and  no  man  in 
this  world  can  share  lodgings  in  it  with 
the  rest  without  having  more  or  less  of 
a  common  interest. 
It  may  be  denied 
or  ignored,  but  the  web  of  the  tissue  re­
mains.  Few  men  deny  this,  but  a great 
many  forget  it.  They  recognize  their 
duty  but  forget  their  relationship.  They 
have  money 
for  hospitals  and  old 
clothes  for  Provident  Associations;  they 
dance  all  night  at  a  charity  ball  and 
are  not  guilty  of discontent  or  private 
swearing when  searching  for the missing 
bivalve  in  the  oyster  stew  at  a  church 
sociable:  but  so  far as  personal  sym­
pathy  goes  for  the  man  who  needs  a 
wooden  leg,  or  the  washerwoman  who 
is  loaded  down  with  a  pair  of  twins and 
a  husband  who  would  rather  sleep  than 
work,  they  are  as  indifferent  as  a  her­
mit  crab 
is  as  to  who  rented  the  shell 
in  which  he gets  a  free  lodging.

This 

is  not  charity  any  more  than  a 
suit  of  clothes  is  a  man,  or  a  paste 
diamond  a  genuine  stone.  We have seen 
dewdrops  on 
a  bunch  of  Concord 
grapes,  but  the  water  was  not  wine, 
and  have  heard  the  music  of  the  sea 
in 
a  shell,  but  it  was  not  the  Atlantic. 
Samaritans  of  this  type  are  as  com­
mon  as  cheap  shoes.  They  autograph 
subscriptions,  it  may  be  to  the  rescue 
of  ship-wrecked  mariners,  or  the  pro­
tection  of  mules,  the  education  of  bar­
barians,  or the  purchase  of  socks  for the 
waifs  of  Whitechapel;  and  so  far  so 
good,  but  the  man  who  is  a  Samaritan 
by  proxy  may  be  a  different  gentleman 
altogether  where  he  eats and  drinks  and 
sleeps,  or  makes  his  money.

That 

is  what 

Giving  is  not  charity  unless  the  giver 
be given with  the  gift.  The  world  wants 
the  man,  and  poverty  something  more 
than  the  money. 
is 
wanted ;  and  that  is  what  is  missing.  A 
kind  heart  is  better than  a  silken  purse. 
It  is  as  rain  to  the  dry  grass  and  candle 
light  to  a  dark  room.  It  may  not  have  a 
cold dollar,but it is never without a warm 
penny,  and,  so  far  as  the  misfortunes 
and  poverty  of  this  world  go,  the  warm 
penny  is  of  infinitely  more  value  than 
the  cold  dollar. 

F r e d   Wo o d ro w .

TIME IS MONEY 
LIFE  IS SHORT

And  Rapid  Transportation is 
a  N ecessity..............

To secure the  most prompt delivery of goods at the least ex­
penditure  of time and  money it  is  essential  that  the  mer­
chant have  a delivery  wagon  of  the  right  sort  We make 
just that kind of a wagon and sell it  as cheaply as  is consist­
ent with good work.  For catalogue  and  quotations  address

BELKNAP  WAGON  CO.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Manton—A.  Alvin  is  closing  out  his 

clothing  stock.

Evart—McDougall  &  Selby is the style 

of  a  new grocery  nrm.

Petoskey— T.  C.  Delezene  has  sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  VV.  A.  Major.

Jackson—J.  B.  Cbampiiu  has  opened 

a  new  grocery  store  and  meat  market.

Jackson— Flowers  &  Co.  have  opeueo 
a  new  grocery  store  at  238  East  Mam 
Street.

Saginaw—C.  H.  Mitchell  succeeds 
Mitcneil  &  Downs  in  the  tobacco  and 
cigar  business.

Bay  City— R.  A.  Forsyth  succeeds 
John  McBride  in  the  grocery  and  boot 
and  shoe  business.

Cass  City— W.  J.  Campbell,  dealer  in 
implements,  will  discon­

agricultural 
tinue  business  April  1.

Menominee— E.  A.  Duval  has  pur­
chased  the  clothing  and  tailoring  busi­
ness of  John  Joiner  &  Co.

Detroit— Mrs.  Anna  Andrews 

suc­
ceeds  Wm.  H.  Miller  in  the  restaurant 
and  conlectionery  business.

Shepherd— Taylor  &  Shaw  continue 
the  general  store  business  formerly  con­
ducted  by  Frank  M.  Taylor.

Calumet---- Louis  Sibilsky  succeeds
in  the  dry  goods, 

Culan  &  Sibilsky 
clothing  and  boot  and  shoe  business.

Detroit—Chapp  &  Weber,  dealers  in 
drygoods,  have dissolved.  1 he business 
will  be  continued  by Leonard E.  Weber.
Jackson— R.  P.  House,  lately  from 
Missouri,  succeeds  E.  L.  Grover  in  the 
grocery  business at  217  Francis  street.
Jackson—C.  R.  Townsend,  formerly 
of  Parma,  has  opened  a  grocery  store at 
the  corner  of  Greenwood  and  First 
streets.

Jackson—Chas.  Wiley  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  1412  East  Main  street. 
He  was  formerly  engaged  in  the  milk 
business.

Wayland—J.  M.  Burpee  has  sold  his 
stock  of  boots  and  shoes  and  groceries 
to  C.  A.  Ryno,  who  will  continue  the 
business.

Allegan—Oliver & Co.  have  purchased 
the  H.  H.  Cook  stock  of  furniture  and 
trunks,  and  will  do  business at  the same 
location.

Jackson—J.  V.  Hoover,  grocer  and 
meat  dealer,  has  removed  from  the  cor­
ner  of  Greenwood  and  First  streets  to 
East  Ganson  street.

Jackson— Riggs  &  Winslow  have 
stocked  and  opened  a  new  grocery  store 
in  the  store  building  at  the  corner  of 
Mitchell  and  Milwaukee  streets.

Pentwater—C.  R.  Whittington  has 
sold  his 
furniture  and  undertaking 
stock  to  Peter  Lagesen,  who  will  con­
tinue  the business at  the  same  location.
Woodland—H.  C.  Carpenter  &  Son 
will  shortly  open  a  branch  hardware 
store at  Lake  Odessa. 
It  will  be  under 
the  personal  supervision  of  C.  B.  Car­
penter.

Elk  Rapids—T.  E.  Reily,  who  for 
the  past  three  years  has  been  in  charge 
of J.  W.  Balcom’s  drug  store,  has  taken 
a  position  with  Paul  V.  Finch,of  Grand 
Rapids.

Ravenna—W.  E.  Patterson  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  H.  M.  Gannon 
in  the  drug  and  grocery firm of Thatcher 
&  Gannon. 
The  new  firm  will  be 
known  as  Thatcher  &  Patterson.

Traverse  City— M.  E.  Haskell  has 
leased  the  store  in  the  Markham  block 
formerly  occupied  by  W.  J.  Bell  and 
will  open  up 
in  the  book,  stationery 
and  wall  paper business  March  1.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Sears—Richard Halihan  has  opened  a 

grocery.

Port  Huron—A.  H.  Tibbitts,  who  has 
been  manager  of  the  drug  store  owned 
by  R.  J.  Cram,  of  Detroit,  has  been 
succeeded 
in  his  position  by  Harry 
Adams,  formerly  of  Knill's  drug  store 
here.

Jackson— A.  A.  Jankowsky,  formerly 
engaged 
in  the  jewelry  business  on 
Steward  avenue,  has  removed  to the new 
building  at  503  East  Main  street and 
embarked 
in  tne  grocery  and  jtwelry 
business.

Cadillac—The  J.  W.  Cummer  build­
ing,  at the corner of  Mitchell  and  Harris 
streets,  has  been 
leased  by  J.  Present, 
of  St.  Ignace,  who  is  arranging  to  oc­
cupy 
it  about  March  1  with  a  stock  of 
dry  goods.

Muskegon— William  Coppel  has  re­
moved  his  stock  ot  groceries  from  303 
Clay  avenue, 
the  store  formerly  oc­
cupied  by  D.  B.  Jones,  to  the  Duquette 
block,  on  the  corner  of  Clay  avenue and 
Seventh  street.

Detroit— F.  Rosenfield  &  Bro.,  tobac­
conists,  have  discharged  a $27,000 mort­
age  given  Dec.  16 to  Strauss  Bros.,  of 
Ligonier, 
is 
claimed  that  all  the  debts  of  the  firm 
have  been  paid.

Ind.,  and  others. 

It 

Kalamazoo—The  G.  H.  Raynor  Co. 
stock  of  books  and  stationery  has  been 
sold  to  Edward  Woodbury,  one  of  the 
creditors,  tor $10,756.  The  secured  in­
debtedness  is $10,245.60.  The  stock in­
ventoried  $20,000.

Mt.  Clemens— G.  E.  Clark  succeeds 
Dr.  J.  G.  White  as  proprietor  of  the 
City  Drug  Store,  Mt.  Clemens.  Mr. 
Clark  was  formerly  traveling  salesman 
for  the  wholesale  drug  bouse  of  Lyman, 
Knox  &  Co.,  of  Toronto.

Vermontville— Byron  Archer,  of  Cold- 
water,  who  was  here  last  week 
looking 
over  the ground,  has concluded  to  locate 
here and  has  rented  the  Pray  block,  re­
cently  vacated  by  W.  E.  Imes,  and will 
handle  poultry,  eggs and  farm  produce.
Jackson—Gleason  Bros.  &  Dack, 
dealers  in  dry  goods  and  clothing,  an­
nounce  their 
intention  of  dissolving 
partnership  Feb.  20. 
is  understood 
generally  that  John  Glascow  and  Mr. 
Dack  will  open  a  new store  in  another 
building.

It 

interest 

Muskegon— L.  C.  Mangold  has  sold 
his 
in  the  Union  Tea  Co.  to 
John  J.  Bither,  who  has  been  asso­
ciated  with  him  as  partner for  the  past 
twelve  years.  Mr.  Bither  will  continue 
the business  at  the  same  location  under 
the  same  style.

Detroit—A.  H.  Krum  &  Co.  succeed 
C.  L.  Weaver  &  Co.  in  the  jobbing  of 
Candee,  Woonsocket, 
and 
Rhode  Island  boots  and  shoes  and  rub­
ber  soled-tennis  shoes,  to  which  they 
will  shortly  add  a  line  of  mackintoshes 
and  rubber  clothing.

Federal 

interest 

Carson  City—C.  Lightstone  has  de­
cided  not  to  remove  to  Eaton  Rapids 
and  take  an 
in  his  brother’s 
shoe  business,  but  will  remain  here  and 
continue  business  under  the  style  of  the 
Chicago  store.  He  has  leased  a  store 
in  the  Gardner  block  and  will  shortly 
add  another  line  of  merchandise  to  his 
stock.

Detroit—Ward  L.  Andrus  &  Co.  has 
filed  notice  of  the  formation  of  a 
limited  partnership  to  carry  on  the 
wholesaling  of  fancy  groceries,  fruits 
and  oysters.  Ward  L.  Andrus 
is  the 
general  and  Samuel  C.  Tewksbury  the 
special  partner.  The  latter  contributes 
$25,000  to  the  business.  The  partner­
ship  expires  Fetx.ti  1902.

Port  Huron—The stock  and  book  ac­
counts  of  Osman  &  Beard  were  sold  at 
public  auction  Tuesday  by  Chas.  D. 
Thompson,  trustee  mortgagee.  The  in­
ventory of  the stock footed up $23,596.63, 
while  the  book  accounts  amounted  to 
$6,469.60.  Mrs.  Agnes  Beard,  a  creditor 
under  the  first  mortgage  for $14,000,  was 
the  purchaser,  bidding  in  the  stock  for 
$i;,ooo  and  the  accounts  for  $2,000. 
The  proceeds  will  not quite  cover  the 
amount  in  class  A  of  the  mortgage. 
It 
has  not  yet  been  determined  what  dis­
position  will  be  made  of  the  stock.

Newaygo  (Democrat)---- Our  fellow
townsman,  S.  K.  Riblet,  who,  for  the 
past  thirty-five  years,  has  been  the  most 
active  business  man  in Newaygo county, 
was  missed  from  his  post  of  duty  last 
Friday.  Every  man,  woman  and  child 
of  the  village noticed his absence.  Upon 
enquiry 
it  was  learned  be  had  fallen 
from  the  express  wagon  and  broken  a 
rib,and  sustained  other  bruises  which of 
themselves would have kept  the  majority 
of  mankind  in  doors several weeks.  The 
following  day  “ Sol”   was  out  and  now 
he 
is  behind  the  counter  of  his  dry 
goods  store  again.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Middleville—The  Cold Spring Cream­
ery  Co.  recently  declared  a  dividend  of 
30  per  cent.,  after  having  spent  25  per 
cent,  in  improvements.

Holland— L.  Van  Putten  has  leased 
the  upper  floor  of  Slagh's  planing  mill 
and  purchased  machinery  adapted  to 
the  manufacture  of  wooden  toys.

Owosso—James  E.  Clark,  for  nearly 
five  years  past  Secretary  and  Treasurer 
of  the  Estey  Carriage  Co.,  has  resigned 
his  position  and  will  soon  engage  in 
other  business.

New  Lothrop—The  Hess  Bros.,  ac­
companied  by  Morrice  Odell,  were  in 
Saginaw 
last  week,  contracting  for the 
iron  work  of  the  Lehigh  washing  ma­
chine,  which  they  will  manufacture 
here.

Birmingham—Senator  F.  M.  Warner 
large  consignment  of 
has  shipped  a 
cheese 
The 
freight  to  New  York  was  23  cents  per 
hundred,  and  from  New  York  to  Glas­
gow 46.

to  Glasgow,  Scotland. 

Kalamazoo— O.  Torgeson  has  retired 
from  the  firm  known  as  the  Torgeson- 
Hawkins-Torgeson  Co.,  manufacturer 
of  Nacretoin.  The  business  will  be 
continued  by  T.  M.  Torgeson  and  Wm. 
R.  Hawkins  under the  style  of  the  Tor- 
geson-Hawkins  Co.

Muir— The  Muir  Washing  Machine 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
the  County  Clerk. 
The  shareholders 
are  J.  O.  Prosbasco,  100  shares;  Levi
M.  Greenwood,  100  shares;  Rudolph 
T.  Rohler,  100;  George  B.  Haves,  100; 
Arthur  A.  Stoddard,  70;  John  Dilley, 
30. 
The  company  will  manufacture 
washing  machines  and  various  wood 
novelties.

Menominee— P.  C.  Christianson,  for­
merly  engaged  in  the  sawmill  business 
at  Daggett,  has  leased  the  Pang horn 
Manufacturing  Co. ’s  plant  in  this  city 
and  will  soon  open  a  hoop  factory.  The 
necessary  machinery  has  been  ordered 
from  Chicago.  Ash  will  be  used  prin­
cipally  and  a  large  stock  of  timber  is 
now  being  secured  at  different  points 
along  the  line  of  the  Chicago  &  North­
western  and  other  roads.  A  large  force 
of  men  will  be  employed  by  the  new 
works.

Detroit—H.  S.  Robinson  &  Co.  is re­
ported  to  have  issued  a  circular  letter 
containingastatementof their affairs and 
a  proposition  to  their creditors.  The

property  has  been  appraised at $108,000, 
and  in  this appraisal  $40,000  of  uncer­
tain  accounts  is  thrown  out,  10 per  cent, 
taken  off  all  accounts  believed  to  be 
good, machinery and fixtures are  reduced 
to little more than a nominal amount,and 
the  merchandise  valued  at  what  it  is 
thought  to  be  worth  in  its present shape. 
If  the  business  is  continued,  it  is  pro­
posed  to abandon  the  store  on  Jefferson 
avenue,  by  which  a  saving  of  $10,000  a 
year  can  be  effected,  and  to  move  all 
the  goods  to  the  factory  building;  to 
pay  no  salary  in  excess  of  $100 a month, 
which  will  effect  a  saving  of  several 
thousand  dollars  a  year over  former  ex­
penses  under  this  head;  to  abandon  the 
factory  as  a  manufacturing  plant,  but 
use 
it  as  a  warehouse  and  do  a  mer­
chandise 
instead  of  a  manufacturing 
business.  The  circular states  that  sub­
stantially  all  the  creditors  have  been 
consulted,  and  the  situation 
is  as  fol­
lows:  The  banks  want  their  notes  paid, 
but  they  are  not  disposed  to  force  the 
sale  of  the  stock;  are  willing  to  wait 
until  the  money  can  be  realized  to  the 
best  possible  advantage.  The  United 
States  Rubber  Company  has  refused  to 
take  preferential  stock 
in  a  new  com­
pany  to  be  formed,  but  will  allow  the 
stock 
in  trade  to  be  sold  by  such  new 
company,  and  give  the  re-organization 
all  that  can  be  made  over  and  above 
the  first  mortgage  and  the  mortgage  of 
$35,000  to  the  Rubber  Company.  The 
Rubber  Company’s  claim  amounts  to 
$51,000,  and  this  would  be  a  concession 
of  $16,000 off  the  face  of  the  claim. 
It 
is  now  proposed  to organize  a  corpora­
tion  under  the  laws of  Michigan,  to  be 
known  as  the  H.  S.  Robinson Company, 
this  company  to  issue $83,000 of  stock— 
$43,000 to  be  preferred  stock,  to  be  de­
livered  to  the  creditors  secured  by  the 
third  mortgage  and  a  few  small  unse­
cured  creditors,  so  as  to  close  up  all  the 
old  affairs,  each  creditor  to  receive 
stock  at  par  to the  amount  of  his claim ; 
$40,000  in  common  stock,  to  be 
issued 
and  go  to  the  partnership  of  H.  S.  Rob­
inson  &  Co.,  subject  to  the  first  mort­
gage,  and  the  $35,000  to  the  Rubber 
Company;  but  the  new  corporation  not 
to  assume  the  partnership  debts;  the 
property  to  be  transferred  to  a  trustee, 
and  the  new  company  to  dispose of  the 
property  as  the  agent  of  that  trustee. 
The 
large 
creditors  will  agree  to  this  arrangement 
as  the  best  that  can  be  done  under  the 
circumstances.

indications  are  that  the 

Cuban  Steamboat  in  a  Jackson  Show 

Window.

The 

proprietors 

Jackson,  Feb.  8—A  grocery  house 

in 
Jackson  has  a  show  window  which prob­
ably  attracts  as  much  attention  as  any­
thing  of  the  kind 
in  the  State.  The 
is 
window  is built  is  such  shape  that  it 
conspicuous. 
are 
geniuses  and  they  attract  many  a  dol­
lar’s  trade  by  their talent  in decorating. 
Their  principal  feature  at  the  present 
time  is  a  steamboat,  named  the  “ Three 
Friends,”   made  entirely  of  material 
in  the  store.  The  boat  is  about 
found 
6  or  8  feet 
length.  The  frame  is 
made of  pieces of  board  from  packing 
boxes.  The finish  of  the  vessel  is made 
up  of  stock  found  in  the  store,  consist­
ing  of  cakes,  fruit,  vegetables,  pen­
holders,  pencils and  other  notions. 
It 
in  all  its  details,  from  bow 
is  perfect 
to  stern  and  from  water  line to  top  of 
smokestack.  Space  will  not  permit  my 
into  the  details  of  construction, 
going 
finish  and  decoration,  but  the  vessel 
is 
a  marvel  of  design  and  a  catchy  adver­
tisement.  The  boat  is  only  one  feature 
of  the  window,  as  there  is a  fine display 
of  goods all  around  it. 

in 

P.

No advance on  Gillies  New York teas. 

Phone  Visner,  1589.

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Park  &  Caxton,  dealers  in  notions  at 
Kalkaska,have added a line of groceries. 
The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

A.  Schram  will  shortly  open  a  new 
drug  store  at  Hesperia.  The  Hazeltine 
&  Perkins  Drug  Co.  has  the  order  for 
the  stock.

The  Valley  City  Drug  Co.  has  sold  its 
stock  at  601  Cherry  street  to  A.  B. 
Bartlett,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

A.  D.  Otis,  formerly  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  South  Arm  Lumber 
Co.,  at  South  Arm,  has  taken  the  posi­
tion  of  office  manager  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  end  of  the  Cappon  &  Bertsch 
Leather  Co.

Geo.  Humiston  and  James  Carlton 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  Humiston  &  Carlton and opened 
a  dry  goods,  hat  and  cap  and  boot  and 
shoe  store  at  Lakeview. 
The  shoe 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Herold- 
Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

of 

After numerous  postponements  it  has 
finally  been  decided  to  hold  the  winter 
convention 
the  Michigan  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  on  Wednesday 
and  Thursday,  March  3  and  4.  The 
change  in  dates  is  due  to  the  desire  of 
the  officers  to  hold 
convention 
simultaneous  with  a  political  conven­
tion,  so  as  to  secure  the  advantage  of 
half fare rates from  all parts of  the State.

the 

Purely  Personal.

M.  J.  Lohstorfer,  the  Port  Huron 
druggist,  has been  confined  to  his  bed 
for  the  last  six  weeks  with  inflamma­
tory  rheumatism.

James  Harry  Goodeve  has  left  the 
employ  of  W.  V.  Wendover,  of  Detroit, 
to  take  a  position  with  Nelson,  Baker 
&  Co.,  manufacturing  pharmacists  of 
Detroit.

G.  L.  Thomas,  house  salesman  of  the 
Ball-Barnbart-Putman  Co.,  has  returned 
to  his  duties  after a  five  weeks’  vaca­
tion,  which  was  spent  among  friends  at 
Stanton.

Homer  Klap,  Secretary  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers'  Association,  is 
making  his  annual  rounds  among  the 
trade  of  the  city  and  is  meeting  with  a 
cordial  reception  everywhere.

It  is  reported  that  Geo.  Medes,  for­
merly  with  the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe 
Co.,  has  purchased  an 
interest  in  the 
banking  establishment  of  Chas.  W. 
French,  at  Stanton,  and  that he  will  re­
move  to  that  place and  take  an  active 
interest  in  the business.

N.  B.  Clark,  President  of  the  Mich­
igan  Bark  &  Lumber  Co.,  is  spending 
a  few  weeks at Indiana Mineral Springs, 
Ind.,  in  company  with  Wm.  Gerber,  of 
Reed  City.  Mr.  Clark  writes  that  he  is 
rapidly 
in  health  and  that 
he  will  be at his  desk  again  sometime 
between  the  1st  and  15th  of  March.

improving 

The  ambition  of  some  men  knows  no 
bounds.  Not  content  with  managing  the 
most  successful  paper  mill  in  the  coun­
try,  being  the  social  leader  of  his  town, 
the  political  boss  of  his  county  and  the 
leading  spirit  in  a  minstrel  show,  Geo. 
E.  Bardeen,  of  the  Bardeen  Paper  Co., 
at  Otsego,  now  insists  on 
invading  the 
realm  of  mercantile  life,  having  suc­
ceeded 
in  getting  himself  elected  a 
Vice-President of  the  Brownson  &  Ran­
kin  Dry  Goods  Co.,  at  Kalamazoo. 
Some  friend  of  Mr.  Bardeen’s  should 
put  a  stone on  bis  heed.

lacob  Jesson, 

formerly  engaged 

in 
the  drug  business  at  Muskegon,  but  for 
the  past  year on  the  road  for  Seabury  & 
Johnson 
in  Southern  California,  has 
purchased  a  drug  store  at Ontario,  about 
forty  miles  west  of  Los  Angeles.  Mr. 
Jesson’s  Michigan friends—and  they  are 
legion— will  be  pleased  to  learn  that  he 
is  pleasantly  located  in  a  growing  town 
in  the  fruit  belt  of  the  Land  of Flowers.
Fred  Macey  has  resigned  his  position 
as  advertising  expert  of  the  Bissell Car­
pet  Sweeper  Co.,  to  take  the  manage­
ment  of  the  Rapid  Hook  and  Eye  Co., 
C.  <*.  Follmer  retiring  to  re-engage 
in 
the  shingle business,  in  which  he  won 
both  distinction and shekels.  Mr.  Macey 
is  an  exceptionally 
competent  man, 
having  made  his  mark  as  an  advertiser 
while 
in  the  employ  of  the  Bissell  in­
stitution.

C.  S.  Udell  (S.  P.  Bennett  Fuel  and 
Ice  Co.)  attended  the  golden  wedding 
of G.  C.  Jones  and wife,  at Jenisonville, 
Tuesday  evening,  and  distinguished 
himself  in  two directions—by  perform­
ing  the  marriage  ceremony  in  the  most 
approved  manner,  in  the  absence  of  a 
regular  cleigyman,  and  by  kissing  the 
bride  on  the 
least  provocation—and 
several 
times  without  provocation. 
Heretofore  Mr.  Udell  has  generally con­
fined  his  attentions  to  beautiful  young 
ladies  and 
interesting  and  intellectual 
young  widows,  but  the  events  of  Tues­
day  evening  indicate  that  even blushing 
brides are  not  exempt  from  his  pains­
taking  attentions  and  oscillatory demon­
strations.

W.  Fred  McBain,  Secretary  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  will 
be  married  Feb.  17  to  Miss  Ann  Kath­
leen  Hughston,  of  La  Porte,  Ind.  The 
ceremony  will  occur at  the  residence  of 
the  bride’s  aunt,  Mrs.  Geo.  Wilson,  of 
La  Grange,  111.,  the  officiating  clergy­
man  being  the  rector of  the  Episcopal 
church  at  La  Porte.  Miss  Anna  Mor­
rison,  of  La  Porte,  will  act  as  brides­
maid  and  the  groom  will  be  supported 
by  Maynard  A.  Dominick,  of  London, 
Eng.,  who 
is  now  on  his  way  to  this 
country  for  that  purpose.  The  wedding 
tour  will  include  a  trip  to  Florida,  the 
intention  being  to  return  to  Grand 
Rapids  about  March  15.  The  happy 
couple  will  take  up  their  residence  at 
i4g  Paris  avenue,  where  they  will  be 
“ at  home”   to  their  friends on  and  after 
April  20.  Mr.  McBain  has  won  recog­
nition 
insurance  circles  by  his  pro­
gressive  policy  and  application  to busi­
ness  and  the  Tradesman  heartily  joins 
the  many  friends  of  the  contracting 
parties 
in  wishing  them  long  life  and 
much  happiness.

in 

Flour  and  Feed.

There  is  very  little  change  to be noted 
under this  head.  Buyers,  as  a  rule,  ap­
pear  to  be  extremely  cautious  about 
placing  orders,  except  as  they  are 
obliged  to  buy  for  the  immediate  needs 
of  their  trade.  Stocks  of  flour  in  East­
ern  and  Southern  markets  are  now  very 
low,  but  with  indifferent  dragging  mar­
kets  for  the  next  few  weeks,  there  will 
undoubtedly  be  very  little  change  in  the 
situation.  On  the  other  hand,  should 
the  grain  markets  continue  to  improve, 
as  has  been  the  case  the  past  few  days, 
buying  will  be  more  spirited.

Millstuffs  are 

in  better  demand. 
Prices  have  advanced  from  5oc@$i  per 
ton.  Bran  especially  is  scarce.'

A  good  trade 

is  to  be  reported  on 
ground  feed,  coarse  meal,  etc.  Prices 
are  ranging  very 
low  and  the  margin 
for  handling  is  small,  but  orders  have 
been  quite  plentiful.

W m.  N.  Rows.

The  Grain  Market.

in 

Cash  wheat  closed  very  strong  at  3c 
higher 
local  markets  and  2c  higher 
in  grain  centers.  Futures  also  advanced 
about 2c.  All  reports  point  toward  still 
higher  prices.  The  visible  decreased
1.706.000 bushels, against 600,000 bushels 
during  the  corresponding  time last year, 
leaving  the  visible  47,885,000  bushels, 
against  66,167,000  bushels  the  corres­
ponding  date  in  i8g6.  Argentine  ship­
ments  were 
14,000  bushels,  against
667.000  bushels  last  year.  The  French 
crop  report  shows  that  the  present  con­
dition  is  33  per  cent,  less than  last  year. 
India  will  have  to 
import  wheat  this 
year,  while  in  former  years  she  has  ex­
ported,  and  the  only  countries  to  supply 
this  demand  are  the  United  States  and 
Russia  and  our  supply  of  both  spring 
and  winter  wheat  is  very  limited.  Our 
exports  were  3,100,000  bushels—rather 
above  the  average— but  this  does  not 
seem  to  effect  the  short  sellers,  as  they 
keep  the  market  well  supplied  with 
wind  wheat—options.  What  is  there  to 
offset  these  strong  points?  The  only 
thing  we  know  of 
is that  people  con­
sume  more  potatoes,  rye  flour,  buck­
wheat  flour,  corn  meal,  etc. 
If  the  re­
ports  are  true  that  in  Minnesota,  with 
the  exception  of  Minneapolis  and  Du­
luth,  the  millers  are  compelled  to  hustle 
for  wheat,  the  same  as  Michigan  and 
other  winter  wheat  millers  are  hustling, 
we  may  consider  the  present  price  very 
cheap.  We  are  creditably 
informed 
from  private  sources  that  20  to  25  per 
cent,  of  the  farmers  have  to  be supplied 
with  seed  wheat.  Cash  wheat  to-day  is 
higher  than  May.  By  combining  all 
these  facts  we  think  prices  must  surely 
lower.
be  higher before  they  get  much 
Owing  to  the  large  exports  of  coarse 
grains,  prices  have  firmed  up  a  little, 
but  there  is  no  material  change.  There 
is  not  much 
in  either  of  these 
cereals.  As  we  have  a 
large  crop  of 
both  corn  and  oats  in  this  State,  we  are 
enabled  to  export  from  the  State,  in­
stead  of  importing.

life 

The  local  receipts  of  wheat  do  not 
improve  and  we presume  our  prediction 
that  farmers  have  none  to  offer  is  right. 
We  do  not  see  where  our  supply  is  com­
ing  from  to  keep  the  mills  in  operation 
until  the  new  crop  is  harvested.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were: 
wheat,  40  cars;  corn,  4  cars;  oats,  6 
cars.

Local  millers are paying 83c for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Isolated  Districts.

Attention 

is  being  called  to  the  fact 
that,  notwithstanding  Grand  Rapids  has 
an  extensive  system  of  improved  roads 
radiating  in  all  directions,  there  are  yet 
considerable  districts  which  are  either 
practically  excluded  from  this  market, 
so  far  as  farm  productions  are  con­
cerned,  or  are handicapped  by  toll  and 
other  charges  to an extent which goes far 
to neutralize  the  benefits  of  practicable 
highways.

In  some localities serious obstacles are 
found  in  the  lack  of  bridges  for  passing 
Grand  River.  During 
the  floods  of 
1883-4,  a  number  of  these  were  carried 
away  and  some  have  never  been  re­
built;  and  there  are  other  places  where 
such  bridges  are greatly  needed.  The 
lack  of  these  cuts  off  considerable  tracts 
of  country  from  easy  access  to  the  city, 
or  subjects  the  farmer  to  ferry  and  toll 
charges  too  heavy  to  be  borne  by  the 
low  prices  obtained  from  the  sale  of  the 
farm  products.
A  striking 

illustration  of  the  matter 
in  the  case  of West  Bridge

is  found 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

it  happens  that  this  road 

street  gravel  road.  This  road  ends  at 
a  bridgeless  crossing  of  the  river,  over 
which  passage 
is  effected,  during  fa­
vorable  stages  of  the  water,  by  a  chain 
ferry  supported  by  tolls  from  the  pass­
ing  traffic.  Frequently,during  times  of 
high  water,  the  ferry 
is  not  in  opera­
tion  for  considerable  periods,  neces­
sitating  a 
long  detour  over  villainous 
roads  for  the  residents  affected  to  reach 
the  city.
Now 

is 
paralleled  at  a  short  distance  on  the 
south  by  the  bridgeless  stream,  and  that 
at  the  end  of  the  road  the  river  makes 
a  long  turn  toward  the north,  thus  effec­
tually  cutting  off  all  the  region  west  of 
the  terminus,  except  by  dependence 
upon  the  ferry.  Even  when  this  route 
is  practicable,  the  matter  of  toll  is  a 
serious  one,  in  view  of  the  low  prices 
commanded  by  produce.  Thirty  cents 
for  the  round  trip  is  a  sum  sufficient,  in 
many  cases,  to  prevent the journey ;  and 
when  the  expenditure  is  warranted,  it 
must  be  borne  by  the  ones  least  able  to 
bear  it.

The  matter of  making  all  the  country 
easily  and  cheaply  accessible  to  the city 
is  one  worthy  the  attention of every mer­
chant  and  business  man.

Another  Enlargement  of  their  Labo­

ratory.

laboratory  on 

It  may  be  of  interest  to manufacturers 
in  scientific  re­
interested 
and  those 
learn  that  Thum  Bros.  & 
search  to 
Schmidt  have  again  enlarged'their  an­
alytical  laboratory.  For  years  this  firm 
has  done  all  kinds  of  analytical  wotk. 
The  demands  on  this  department  have 
grown  steadily  until  to  dav  we  find  a 
perfectly-equipped 
the 
third  floor,  over  their  store  at  84  Canal 
street.  Among  the  specialties  are  water 
for  both  sanitary  and  boiler  purpt ses, 
estimation  of  substances  for  fertilizing 
values,  also  of  licensed  and  unlicensed 
fertilizer,  assaying  of  ores,  determina­
tion  of  limestone  values,  barks  for  tan­
nin,  quantitative,  pig  and  cast  iron, 
steel  for  carbon,  butter  and  milk  tested 
for  adulterants,  chemical  and  patholog­
ical  examination  of  urine,  and  general 
analytical  analysis.  All  work  receives 
prompt  attention,  the  laboratory  being 
in  charge  of  two  chemists  who  confine 
themselves  solelv  to  this branch of work. 
Parties  who  wish  to  save  “ boiler  com­
pound”   expenses  will  find  advantage 
in  knowing  what  water  at  their  disposal 
gives  the  least  amount  of  scale,  etc. 
While  this  work  has  been  done  for years 
and  is  well  known  to  the  firm’s  regular 
customers,  the  Tradesman  thought 
it 
well  to  mention  to  those  who  may  have 
demands  tor  analytical  researches  that 
this 
in  our  midst  can 
supply  such  knowledge  as  one  usually 
seeks 
in  a  chemist.  The firm  will  at 
anv  time  be  pleased  to  show  to  those 
interested  the  facilities  they  have  for 
supplying  the  demands  of  a  laboratory.

laboratory  here 

When  he  was  in  Egypt  Mark  Twain 
hired  two  Arab  guides  to  take  him  to 
the  pyramids.  He  was  familiar  enough 
with  Arabic,  he  thought,  to  understand 
and  be  understood  with perfect ease.  To 
his  consternation,  he  found 
that  he 
could  not  comprehend  a  word that either 
of  the  guides  uttered.  At  the  pyramids 
he  met  a  friend,  to  whom  he  made 
It  was  very  mys­
known  his  dilemma. 
terious,  Twain  thought. 
“ Why,  the  ex­
is  simple  enough,”   said  the 
planation 
“ Please  enlighten  me,  then,”  
friend. 
said  Twain. 
“ Why,  you  should  have 
hired  younger  men.  These  old  fellows 
have  lost  their  teeth,  and,  of  course, 
they  don’t  speak  Arabic.  They  speak 
gum-Arabic. ”

The  cultivation  of  flowers  for  export 
and  for  the  perfumery 
factories  at 
Grasse  is an  important  industry  on  the 
Riviera. 
It  is  officially  estimated  that 
the  value  of  flowers  annually  exported 
from  Nice,  Cannes,  Beaulieu  and  Men­
tone  is  $600,060.

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Fruits and Produce.

Progress  Made 

in  the  Commission 

Business  o f  Late  Years.

Columbus,  Ohio,  Feb.  6—There  is  no 
business  that gets a  man  out  earlier  or 
keeps  him  up  later,  or causes  more 
in­
terest  in  the  unopened  telegram  or  the 
unread 
letter  than  this  exciting  and 
fascinating  commission  business.

The  writer  well  remembers  his  first 
experience  with  a  commission  house. 
After  peddling  most  of  the  forenoon 
during  a  warm  day  in  May  with  a  load 
of  strawberries,  and  being  unable  to 
make  a  sale,  he  was  persuaded  by  a  fel­
low  peddler  to  try  a  well-known  com­
mission  house. 
After  unloading  his 
berries  on  the  sidewalk  and  tying  his 
team  in  an  alley,  he returned  to  see  how 
the  fruit  looked  and  found  it  sold  and 
$1.50  more  per  stand  awaiting  him, 
after  paying  the  commission,  than  he 
*bad  offered  to  take on  the  street.  No 
more  street  peddling  after  that;  the 
commission  man  was  his  friend,  and  a 
few  years  later  he  engaged  in  the  busi­
ness  himself. 
I  firmly  believe  that  all 
growers  of  perishable  fruit would realize 
a  greater  price  for  their  products  if 
consigned  to a  reliable  house  than  they 
would  by  trying  to  dispose  of  them 
through  their own  efforts.

received 

crates,  and  we  have 

At  the  time  mentioned,  strawberries 
were 
in  heavy  two-bushel 
stands,  and  first  receipts  came  from 
near  Nashville  about  the  first  week 
in 
May.  Now  they  arrive  in  16,  24  and  36 
them 
quart 
from  December  until  July, 
starting 
from  Florida  and  closing  the  season  at 
Minneapolis.  At  that  time  they  all 
came  by  express  and  endured  the  ten­
der  handling  of  over-worked  messen­
gers.  At  present  they  arrive  during 
their  season  in  express  refrigerator  cars 
with  capacity  of 800  cases,  and  are  run 
through  to  destination 
in  fruit  trains 
on  passenger  schedule  and  the  fruit 
shows  as  nicely  as  when 
it  left  the 
patch.  No  transfer,  and  can  be  held  in 
the  car  for  several  days.

Next  came  peaches,  which  were  re­
ceived 
in  rough  bushel  boxes  and  fre­
quently  brought  to  market  in wash-tubs; 
now  we  receive  them 
in  one-fifth,  one- 
half  and  one-bushel  baskets,  wood  cov­
ered,  with  bright  netting  to  enhance 
their color;  also  in  carriers  and  crates 
of  two,  four and  six  baskets  each,  care­
fully  graded  in  size and color.  Formerly 
Ohio,  Indiana  and  Kentucky  supplied 
the  demand;  now we  receive  them  from 
Michigan  on  the  north,  Delaware  on 
the  east,  Georgia  on  the  south  and  Cal­
ifornia  on  the  west,  in  car  lots.  Fre­
quently  solid  trains  of  peaches  are 
brought  to  the  larger  markets  daily, 
and  to  the  inexperienced  it 
is  a  won­
der  how  rapidly  the  markets  are cleaned 
up  at  the  prices  obtained.

Cultivated  blackberries  were  then  a 
scarcity;  now  an  article of  much  value 
during  their  season.  Next  came  ba­
nanas ;  not  many  years  ago,  an  expen­
sive  luxury ;  at  present  a  staple  article, 
and  can  be  found  on  sale  at  every  vil­
lage  store  in  the  Union,  and  at  prices 
within  the  reach  of  every  one.  The 
volume  of  business  in  this  branch  alone 
reaches 
into  the  million  dollar  mark 
yearly.

Oranges  and 

lemons  have  been  a 
staple  article  on  the  markets  for  many 
years,  and  were 
it  not  for  the  fear  of 
awakening  some  painful  memories  of 
the  past,  a  book  might  be  written  re- 
ating  the  profits  and 
losses  on  those 
two  articles.  How  our  anticipation, 
some  seasons,  on  well-purchased  lemons 
would  rise  as  the  thermometer  would 
climb  into  the  nineties  during  the  latter 
part  of  June,  and  would  almost  grasp 
the  margin  when  a  cold  rain  would  set 
in  and  a  chilling  wind  from  the  north 
would  check  the  demand  and  decay 
would  set 
in  and  require  two  boxes  to 
make  one.  Away  would  melt  the  profits, 
like  ice  in  a  summer  morn !  But  there 
have  been  good  margins  in  lemons,  and 
there  will  be  again.  Oranges,  while 
not  affected  so  much  by  the  weather, 
sometimes  cause  a  peculiar  uneasiness 
and  a  smile  or a  frown  to  pass  over  the 
countenance  as  the market varies.  For­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

merly  foreign  countries  furnished  us 
with  nearly all  our  oranges,  but  during 
the  last  two  decades  Florida  and  Cali­
fornia  have  supplied us with the luscious 
fruit,  and  during  the  past  few  seasons 
have  secured  a  place 
in  the  leading 
markets  of  the  world.  Since  the  de­
struction  of  the  Florida  groves  by  freez­
ing,  Mexico  has  found  our  markets  a 
valuable  outlet  for  her  orange  crop.

Probably  the  grand  and  growing  en­
terprise  of  the  fruit  auction,  in  the 
larger  cities,  has  alone  done  more  to 
assist  the  importer  and  buyer  of  foreign 
and  domestic  fruit  than  any  industry 
during  the  history  of  the  commission 
business.  Cargoes  and  trainloads  of 
fruit  are  disposed  of 
in  a  few  hours, 
with  less  expense  and  generally  more 
satisfactory  results  than  by  any  plan 
ever  adopted,  the  goods  being  sold  on 
their  merits  and  placing  every  reliable 
firm  on  an  equal  footing  at  the  sale.

favorite, 

Apples—everybody’s 

and 
an  article  that  some  years  causes  some 
of  us  to  pass  through  a  season  of inward 
bleeding  and  of  fearful  anticipations 
of  the  outcome— were  formerly  handled 
in  all  sized  barrels  and  frequently  dis­
honestly  packed,  but  lately  a  more  uni­
form  package  has  been  used,  and 
it 
seems  now  that,  through  the efforts  of 
the  National  League,  and  the  Apple 
Growers’  Association,  a package  will  be 
adopted  of  uniform  size  in  every  state, 
and  also  a  system  of  grading  the  fruit 
into  classes,  whereby  a  dealer  may 
know  exactly  what he will receive in size 
of  fruit  and  packages.

But  little  advance  has  been  made 

in 
the  handling  of  potatoes.the  staple  still 
coming  to  us  in  barrels  and  crates  fot 
the  first  receipts  of  the  new  crops,  and 
sacks  and  bulk  for the  later  grown  and 
storing  varieties.  However,  much 
im- 
provemeent  could  be  made  in  grading 
potatoes,  even  if  they  do  sell  at  10 cents 
per  bushel  some  seasons.
Most  of  us  remember the  old  box  car 
for  loading  freight  articles,  when  400 
bushels  of  potatoes  or  150  barrels  of 
apples  constituted  a  car  load,  and  in 
severe  weather  false  floors  and  stoves 
were  used  to  prevent  freezing.  Now 
we  have  the  modern  freight,  ventilated 
and  improved  heater  cars,  in which  ber­
ries,  oranges,  bananas,  tomatoes,  apples, 
potatoes  and  other  tender  commodities 
can  be  shipped  from  one  end  of  the 
United  States  to  the  other,  with  the 
thermometer  ranging  from  go 
in  the 
shade  to  20  below  zero,  and  have the 
goods  arrive  in  perfect  condition. 
It  is 
but  a  few  years  ago  when  we  seldom 
went  east  of  Buffalo  or  north  of  Detroit 
for our  potatoes  and  apples,  or  south  of 
Nashville  for our berries.  Now  almost 
every  house has  its  representative  right 
at  the  grower’s  door  and  orchard,  re­
ceiving  direct  from  field,  tree  and  vine; 
and  even  further,  quite a  few  commis­
sion  men  owning  large  orchards  of  ap­
ples  and  peaches  and  groves  of  oranges. 
We  also  read  where  foreign  capital  is 
being  invested  in  large  orchards  for  the 
purpose  of  supplying  the  export  de­
mand.

is 

Another  change  of  importance 

in 
the  manner of  securing  consignments  of 
goods.  Formerly  a  letter  written,  quot­
ing  the  market,  would  keep  you  well 
supplied;  next  came  the  solicitor  and 
the  encouraging 
Returns 
were  then  made  once  a  week.  Quite fre­
quently  a grower  drew  but  a  small  por­
tion  of  his  returns  until  the  close  of  the 
season.  Now  remittances  are  made 
daily,  and  very  often  net  sales  daily  by 
wire.  So  anxious  are  the  growers  to 
know  the  result  that  the  mail  is  too 
slow.

telegram. 

Competition  has  cut  a  large  figure 

in 
the profits of many houses,  also extension 
of  bills,  smaller  percentage  in  commis­
sion  charges,  delivery  of  goods  to  dis­
tant  paits  of  cities  ana  to  depots.  This 
item  of  delivery  and  the  cost  of  teams 
is  an  expensive  one,  and  other  costs  ol 
conducting  this  branch  of  business,  as 
compared  with  some  twenty  years  ago, 
are enormous.  It is a subject for wide dis­
cussion  and  of  vital  interest  to all of us.
The  old-style  buildings  of  ordinary 
thickness,  kept  at  uneven  temperature 
with  natural 
ice  and  wet  rooms,  have 
been  supplanted  by  modern  buildings; 
and,  by  the  use  of  chemicals kept at any

desired  degree  of  temperature  at  all 
seasons  of  the  year,  the  preservation  of 
apples,  pears,  oranges,  cabbage,  pota­
toes,  onions,  butter,  eggs,  fish  and  many 
other articles  in a  state  of almost natural 
perfection  has  been  secured.

We  find  during  the  last  few  years  that 
the  telephone  is  the  commission  mer­
chant’s  best  friend.  You  can  make a 
bare  or glutted  market  over  the  phone 
just  as  easy as the occasion requires,  and 
can  make  a  fancy  grade  out  of  an  ar­
ticle  that  wouldn’t  pass  for  choice  if the 
customer  were  at  your  side.  You  can 
make  him  think  you  are  his best  friend 
and  have  just  saved  the  finest  crate  for 
him,  when  the  sidewalk 
is  full  of  the 
same  quality. 
It  saves  numerous  t^ips 
to  the  depot and  express  office;  and  you 
may  talk  awfully  loud  to a  big man over 
telephone  when  you  would  have  to  keep 
silent  were  he  near you. 
It  is  also  as 
easy  to  be  imposed  upon  over  the  tele­
phone 
for,  on 
goods  that  are  made to  appear  in  very 
bad  order,  when, 
if  returned,  no  rec­
lamation  would  be  asked  for—simply 
because  the  market  declined  or the  cus­
tomer overbought.

in  deductions  asked 

The  advance  made  in  transportation, 
uniformity of  packages,  prompt  returns, 
reliable 
information  as  to  prices,  the 
bringing  together  of  grower,  commis­
sion  merchant  and  consumer,  exchang­
ing  ideas  as  to  how  best  to  work  for  the

benefit  of all,  are the  results  of the active 
brain  and  never-tiring  energy  of  the 
commission  merchant,  always  ready  to 
assist  the  grower  to  realize  good  mar­
gins  for  his  labor  and  to  give  the  con­
sumer at  all  times  the  first  and  best  that 
grows,  and  at as  lew  prices  as  possible.

L.  K.  Su tto n.

The  red  man  is going  to  cease  being 
merely  picturesque  and  go to work.  The 
Indians  on  the  Red  Cliff  reservation  are 
to  go 
into  the  logging  business.  The 
Government  has  not  yet  sold  any  pine 
on  this  reservation,  but  it  has  been  de­
cided  to  let  the  Indians  begin 
logging 
their  timber,  and  the  logs  thus  cut  will 
be  sold  next  spring  to  the  highest  bid­
der.  Captain  Scott,  who  is 
in  charge 
of  La  Pointe  agency,  has  received  a 
from  Washington  containing 
letter 
specifications  as  to  how  the 
timber 
should  be  cut.  A  portion  of  the  timber 
on  the  reservation  has  been  burned  over 
and  will  be  ruined  unless  cut  this  win­
ter,  and  the  Government  has  authorized 
Captain  Scott  to  begin  the  work  at 
once.  A  sum  of  money  has  been  placed 
at  his  disposal,  with  which  to  conduct 
the  logging  operations,  and next spring, 
when  the  logs  are  sold,  the  Government 
will  be  reimbursed  for the  money  ad­
vanced  and  the  remainder  will  be 
turned  over  to  the  Indians.

M.  R.  ALDEN
<■»> H1H  Ol fffi
H E N   F R U I T - - » —

98 S.  DIVISION ST ., ORAND RAPIDS.

W rite  me................................ .........

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

R.  HIRT,  JR.,  flarket S t.,  Detroit.

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large samples beans with best price you can furnish carlots or less.

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137  Louis St., 

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7

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Feb.  6—Slowly,  it may be, 
but  surely,  we  are getting  on.  A  better 
feeling  here,  a 
little  more  demand 
there,  and  firmer  quotations  on  some 
things  are all  straws  indicating  that  the 
wind 
is  blowing  from  the  right  direc­
tion.

The v American  Coffee  Company  has 
been  formed  with  a  capital  of  half  a 
million  dollars  and,  of  course,  the  Hav- 
emeyers  are  at  the  head  thereof. 
It 
seems  likely  that  the  war  now  is  to be 
to  the  hilt  and  the  time of  the  consumer 
is  at  hand—that 
is.  the  time  when  he 
can  have  cheaper  coffee.

is, 

Trusts  are  being 

investigated  by  a 
Legislative  Committee—that 
the 
committee  is  going  to  try  to  commence 
to  get  ready  to  make  a  terrific onslaught 
on  these  “ blood-suckers.”   The 
inves­
tigation  will  continue  until  the  tiusts 
“ put  up”   enough  to  make  a  good  cam­
paign  fund.

Supplies,  which 

The  market  for  coffee 

is  decidedly 
dragging. 
it  was 
thought  might  show  some  falling  off, 
large  and  the  roasters  are 
are  still 
abundantly 
supplied,  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  there  has  been  a  great  call 
for  roasted  coffees  from  many 
interior 
points.  Mild  goods,  both  East  and 
West  Indian,  are  moving  in  a  very  sat­
isfactory  manner  and,  if  supplies  were 
larger,  there  would  be  still  more  doing. 
is  worth  9^c.  The  total 
Rio  No.  7 
amount  afloat 
is  688,285  bags,  nearly 
200,000 bags  more  than  last  year  at  the 
same  time.

Granulated  sugar  has  been  in  average 
demand.  The  supply  is  more  than  suffi­
cient  and  altogether  there  seems  no  im­
mediate  occasion  for  any  advance  in 
quotations.  Foreign  refined  sells  well 
and  at  steady  figures.  Foreign  granu­
lated  is  worth  3.05c.  Domestic  granu­
lated,  4#c.

The  auction  sale  of  teas  brought  out 
a  fair  attendance  and  after  that  came 
one  of  the  dull  periods— if  one  period 
in  this  market  can  be said  to  be  duller 
than  another.  The  demand,  both  in  an 
invoice and  jobbing  wav,  is  practically 
nil.  Dealers  all  over the  country  seem 
to  have  tea  enough  to  last  for a  year, 
and  orders,  whether by  mail  or  in  per­
son,  are  for  only  the  smallest  amounts, 
although  for  some  lines  of  extra  fine 
goods  there  is  not  much  to  complain  of. 
With  cheaper  coffee  there  comes  a  less­
ening  demand 
for  tea  and,  between 
coffee  and  beer,  tea 
is  having  a  hard 
time  of  it.

The  rice  situation  is  most  encoura­
ging.  The  South  reports  manv  orders 
from  the  West  and  at  good  round  rates, 
while  here  the  enquiry  has  been  excel­
lent,  both  for  domestic  and 
foreign, 
with  a  very  steady  range  to  values.  Re­
ports  from  abroad  indicate that  so much 
rice  will  be  needed  for  the  famine  dis­
tricts  of  India  that  the  amount  left  for 
export  will  be  comparatively  small  and 
higher  prices  are  confidently  looked  for 
in  the  not  distant  future.

The  market  for  pepper  holds decided­
ly  strong.  Cloves,  too,  have  taken  an 
upward  twist.  Other  lines  are  quiet, 
but,  upon  the  whole,  the  tendency  is  for 
a  stronger  market  right  along  from  now 
on.  Singapore  pepper,  6 c;  West  Coast, 
5^ c;  Zanzibar  cloves,  5@ 5Xc;Am - 
boyna,  io^@ nc.

In  molasses,  business  is  better. 

It 
takes  some  courage  to  say  that,  but  it 
is  a  fact  and  it  is  hard  work  to  get  the 
same  quality  for  the  same  price  that 
prevailed  a  fortnight  ago.  The  grocery 
trade  is  doing  most  of  the  buying  and 
at  quotations  ranging  from  27@3ic.

While  the  demand  is  of  rather  a  per­
functory  character,  the  supply  of  syrups 
is  none  too  large  and  so  both  sides  are 
about  equally  balanced.  Prime  to  fancy 
sugar  syrups,  i8@22c.

Lemons  have  taken  a  tumble  and 
range  all  the  way  from  goc  or  less  up 
to $2.75,  or  possibly  $3  for  extra  fancy. 
Messina oranges are quiet,  but  Valencias 
and  other  varieties  are  selling  fairly 
well.  The  demand  for  bananas  and 
pineapples 
is  light,  the  former  selling 
at  $i@i.2o  per  bunch  for  firsts.

There 

In  canned  goods,  the  market  is  im­
proving  steadily  and  from  now  on  we 
lope  to  have  a  more  cheerful  tone to  re­
port  weekly.  There  is  a  little  doing  in 
“ futures”   and  altogether  the  feeling 
among  the  trade  is  one  of  more  hope­
fulness.

The  butter  market 

is  stronger,  with 
an  improved  demand,  and  supplies  not 
large.  Best  extra  creamery  is  worth  20c.
is  continued  strength  to  the 
cheese  market  and  the  outlook  is  ex­
tremely  favorable  to  holders.  The  ex­
port  trade  is  looking  up  and  altogether 
we  have  every  cause  for  looking  for  a 
firm  market  from  now  on.
There  has  been  a  very  light  demand 
in  eggs  and,  with  supplies  sufficiently 
large,  there  has  been  no  appreciation 
in  price.  Western  prime,  17c.
Patriotism  of  a  Traveling  Salesman.
“  I believe, ”   remarked  the hotel  clerk 
to  a  group  of  listeners,  according  to  the 
the  most 
Washington  Star, 
patriotic  men  we  have 
in  the  United 
States  are  the  traveling  salesmen.”

“ that 

“ And  why  they?”  enquired  a  member 

of  Congress.

“ Because  they  know  the  country  bet­
ter  than  any  other  class  and  see  it  in  all 
its  sections  and  are  among  the  classes 
who  maintain 
it  and  make  it  possible 
for  the  rest  of  us  to  live  with  a  great 
deal  more  ease  than we might otherwise. 
Now  there's  one  who  went  out  of  the 
office  just  as  the  gentleman  from  New 
York  came  in.  That  man  travels  for  a 
Boston  house  and  his  territory  extends 
from  Maine  to  California  and  he  makes 
the  trip  every  year,  stopping  usually  in 
the  big  cities,  but  taking  many  of  the 
others  in  on  his  way.

“ He  has  been  doing  it for years,  until 
he  knows  the  people  of  the  country  in 
every  state  and  I  have  yet  to  hear  him 
say  a  bitter  thing  or a  foolish  one  about 
sectional  peculiarities  or  differences. 
He  is  too  broad  for  that—that  is  to  say, 
he 
is  too  patriotic.  Then,  again,  he 
comes  to  Washington  once  a  year  sim­
ply  to  spend  two  or  three  days  here  so 
that  he  may  feel  the  sense of  govern­
ment  by  contact  with  it,  to  walk  about 
the  streets  of  the  capital  of  the  nation, 
to  look  at  the  magnificent  buildings  of 
Government  ownership,  to  stand  in  the 
glorious  beauty  of  the  grandest  building 
on  earth,  to  sit  for  a  time  in  the  halls 
of  legislation  and  to  experience  for a 
brief  season  some  of  the  material results 
of  his  citizenship  of  the  proudest  re­
public  the  sun  ever  shone  upon.”

There  was  a  round  of  applause  for 

the  clerk's  presentation  of  the  case.

it  off. 

“ Don't  do 

it,  gentlemen,”   he  said, 
waving 
“ Those  are  not  my 
words,  but  the  words  of  that  traveling 
man.  He  is  the  broadest-minded  citi­
zen,  the  firmest  patriot  and  the  squarest 
man  I  know  and  if  it  were  possible  to 
have  a  nation  of  his  kind  it  would  be 
possible  to  make  one  nation  of  the 
whole  world.  He  has  been  in Washing­
ton  for  three  days  and  when  he  leaves 
to-morrow  he  will  take  with  him  more 
than 
loo  books  containing  pictures  of 
the  city  and  its  great  buildings,  which 
he  will  distribute  among  the  children 
of  the  men  he  meets  in  a  business  way 
and  who  will  never  be  able  to  get  to 
Washington  to  wander  amid  its beauties 
and  learn  here  among  its  marble  walls 
lessons 
and  pillars  the  all-important 
which  they  teach  and  which 
every 
American  should  learn. 
I  presume  he 
has  distributed  thousands  of  these  pic­
tures  and  has  been  a  well-spring  of 
patriotic  sentiment  to hundreds of young 
men  and  women 
in  every  state  of  the 
union.  Who  can  say  as  much  for  him­
self?”   And  even  the  Congressman 
could  not  answer  in  the  affirmative. 

.

It  is  stated  in  the  Boston  Post  that the 
inventor  of  the  whistling  buoy,  “ that 
godsend  to  the  sailor,”  got  his  first  idea 
of  the  device  from  seeing  a  small  boy 
pushing  an  ordinary  tin  horn,  mouth 
downward,  into  a  hogshead  of  water. 
The  air  thus  compressed  was  forced 
rapidly  through  the  small  end  with  a 
whistling  noise,  and  that  same  princi­
ple  is  now  embodied  in  all  the  appara­
tus  supplied  by  the  Government,  the 
rising  of  the  tide  or  action  of  the  waves 
driving  the  air  into the  horn.

ORANGES VALENCIAS

SEEDLINGS
NAVELS

BANANAS,  LEMONS, 
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J.  M.  DRYSDALE &  CO.,

WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE. SAGINAW. E. S., MICH.

Fancy stock at close prices.

Pure  M incemeat
MEADER  &  KNUTTEL,

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Nuts

Figs

Honey

drapes

Lemons

Oranges

Cranberries

Sw eet Potatoes

STILES

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9  NORTH  IONIA  ST.,  ORANO  RAPIDS.

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HAVE  PAID  THE  PENALTY.

One  abuse,  when  not  promptly  cor­
rected,  is  sure  to bring  a  host  of  others 
in 
its  train,  and  to  produce  a  dozen 
evils  where  one  formerly  existed.  This 
is  seen 
in  the  great  sources  of  annoy­
ance  and  serious  loss  imposed  on  the 
railway  corporations  of  this  country  by 
the  abuses  growing  out  of  the 
irregulai 
traffic  in  railway  tickets.

Probably  as  late  as  three  decades ago. 
when  a  passenger  purchased  a  through 
railway  ticket—say  from  Grand  Rapid- 
to  New  York —but  on  arriving  at  some 
intermediate  point,  say  Buffalo,  re­
ceived  a  telegram  calling  him  back,  hi 
found  himself  burdened  with  a  railwav 
ticket  which  he  could  not  use,  anr 
which  the  railway  company  would  only 
redeem  with  transportation,  but  not 
with  money.  He  could  not  get  his  cash 
back  for  the  unused  portion  of  the 
ticket.

That  sort  of  thing  created  a  demand 
for  some  means  of  disposing  of  the  un­
used  transportation,  and  so  the  railway 
ticket  broker  or  scalper  had  his  begin­
ning.  He  would  buy  the  unused tickets 
at  a  reduced  price  and  sell  them  at  a 
profit,  but  below  the  regular  rate.  This 
sort  of  thing  would  never  have  occurred 
if  the  railway  companies  had  redeemed 
their  own  tickets;  but  this  they  refused 
to  do,  and  by  that  refusal  raised  up  a 
plentiful  brood of trouble for themselves. 
The  abuses  that  have grown  out  of  the 
ticket  brokerage  have become  so serious 
and  so  flagrant  that  the  Interstate  Com­
merce  Commission  has  more  than  once 
rem arked  upon  them  and  recommended 
congressional 
legislation  for  their  cor­
In  the  last  official  annual  re­
rection. 
port  of  the  Commission  occurs  the  fol­
lowing :

The 

illegitimate 

traffic  known  as 
ticket  brokerage  has  become  a  positive 
scandal,  and  decisive  measures  should 
be  taken  to  put  an  end  to  these  illegal 
transactions.  The  Commission  recom­
mends  that 
it  be  made  a  penal  offense 
for  any  person  to  engage  in  the  busi­
ness  of  selling  interstate passenger tick­
ets  unless  he  is  an  authorized  agent  of 
the  carrier,  duly  constituted  such  by 
written  appointment.

In  pursuance  of  this  recommenda­
tion,  which  has  been  re-enforced  by  ex­
pressions  of  approval  from  the boards of 
trade  and  commercial  bodies  and  pri­
vate  persons  in  many  parts  of  the  coun­
try,  a  bill  has  been 
into 
Congress  prohibiting  the  sale of  railway

introduced 

tickets  by  any  persons  save  regularly 
authorized  agents  of  such  corporations, 
and  providing  that  the  transportation 
promised  and  contracted  to be furnished 
to  the  bolder  of  such  ticket,  when  the 
same  shall  not  have been  used  in  whole 
or 
in  part,  shall  be  redeemed  by  the 
seller  in  cash  to,the  amount of transpor­
tation  not  actually  received  by  the  pur­
chaser.

This  bill  ought  to become  a  law,  and 
it  would  be  well  for  the  commercial 
bodies  of  this  city  to  indorse  it and  join 
in  recommendations  to  Congress  for 
its 
enactment.  The  bill  is  in  the  hands  of 
the  House  Committee  on  Commerce, 
and  it  has  been  proposed  to  appoint 
Feb.  16 as  the  day  when  a  hearing  will 
be  given  to  those  interested  in  it  before 
the  Committee.

them 

The  ticket-scalping  business  has  cost 
the  railways  immense  losses  in  money, 
giving 
besides 
immeasurable 
trouble. 
If  the  bill  should  become  a 
law,  as  desired,  the  railways  will  have 
to  do  just  what  they  should  have  done 
from  the beginning,  and  now  they  real­
ize  it.  They  have  paid  severely  for 
their  past  failures  to  do  a  simple  act  of 
justice,  and  now  they  should  have  re- 
lief.

SHOULD  BE  DISCIPLINED.

The  obscure  little  Asiatic  kingdom 
of  Siam,  which  figured  in  so  ignoble  a 
roll  three  years  ago,  when  France  de­
liberately  compelled  the  cession  of  a 
fourth  of  its  territory,  but  which  ordi­
narily  attracts  but  small  attention,  is 
lust  now  achieving  a  new  sort  of  noto­
riety.  The  Siamese  police  have  ap­
parently  undertaken  the  task  of  making 
ife  unbearable  for  all  Europeans  or 
ivilized  foreigners  in  the  country,  anr^ 
tre  setting  about  it  by  maltreating  all 
prominent  foreigners  that  fall  into  their 
lands,  through  one  pretext  or  another.
It  is  but  a  short  time since the Ameri- 
an  Vice  Consul  General  was  cruelly 
maltreated,  because  he  presumed  to 
take  steps  to  take  possession  of  certain 
property  to  which  he  was  entitled.  A 
couple  of  days  ago,  the  German  Min­
ister  at  the  Siamese  capital was arrested 
and  thrown  into  prison  because his  car­
riage  accidentally  injured  a  passer-by, 
and  two  on-lookers,  an  American  and 
an  Englishman,  who  persnmed  to  pro­
test  and  explain  matters  were  also  ar­
rested  and  beaten.

indiscriminately 

No  doubt  the  Siamese  are  smarting 
under  the  humiliation  put  upon  them 
by  France;  but  their  way  of  demon­
strating  their  animosity  by attacking  all 
foreigners 
is  sure  to 
speedly  bring  them  into  serious  trouble. 
They  must  be  taught  a 
lesson—the 
quicker  the  better.  The  Washington 
Government  has  already  dispatched  the 
cruiser  Castine  to  Bangkok,  and  the 
German  and  British  governments  will 
no  doubt  take  prompt  steps  to  protect 
their  respective  subjects.

While  the  United  States  Government 
can  feel  no  desire  to humiliate  Siam, 
that  little  country  must be  taught  that 
Americans  citizens  cannot be maltreated 
with 
impunity;  hence  a  firm  demand 
for  reparation  must  be  made,  and,  if 
such  reparation  be  not  promptly  forth­
coming,  then  steps  should  be  taken  to 
inflict  a  suitable  punishment.  Ordinary 
diplomatic  usages  will  not  serve  in  the 
case  of  a  semi-barbarous  country  like 
Siam.

The  city  of  Haverhill  manufactured 
last  year. 
is  the  high-water  mark  for  all 

15,444,920  pairs  of  shoes 
This 
Massachusetts  shoe towns.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
The  characteristics  which  have  dis­
tinguished  the  business  outlook  for  sev­
eral  weeks  past  continue  to  manifest 
themselves  without  material  change. 
As  fast  as  there  is  an  acceptance  of  the 
new  conditions  as  to  prices,  there  is  a 
steady  revival  of  activity  in  most  man­
ufacturing  centers.  But  the  discoura­
ging  element  continues  to  be  the  slow 
response  in  the  improvement  of  prices. 
In  the  textiles and  in  iron  manufacture 
the  general  tendency  continues  down­
ward,  but  the  recent  increase in demand 
would  seem  to  indicate  that  the  decline 
had  about  reached  its  lowest  ebb.  The 
activity  in  woolen  manufacture  and 
in 
certain  branches.of  the  iron  trade  con­
tinues  as an  encouraging  feature.

Wool  sales 

in  Boston  are  unusually 
active,  probably  on  account  of  contem­
plated  tariff  legislation.  The  sales  since 
January  1 are 40,000,000lbs.,  against 24,- 
000,000 for the same period last year.  Ad­
ditional  nulls  are  resuming  and  the 
outlook  as  to  activity  in  this  direction 
is  certainly  promising.  Cotton  fabrics 
continue  slow  and,  in  spite  of  the  less­
ening  of  production,  the  movement  of 
the  heavy  stocks,  on  hand  fails  to  ma­
terialize.

Sales  of  pig  iron  are  increasing,  hav­
ing  exceeded  those  of  any  other  week 
since  the  short  rush  after  election,  but 
the  general  movement  of  manufactured 
products  is  slow.  A  notable  feature  of 
the  trade  is  the  increase  in  demand  for 
export  from  the Southern furnaces.  This 
seems  to be  assuming  proportions which 
give  good  promise  for  a  permanent 
movement.  From  Pittsburg  come  re- 
oorts  that  most  of  the  great  companies 
are 
increasing  their  forces,  some  of 
them  running  continuously  with  double 
shifts.  The  activity  of  the  Iron  City 
indica­
is  considered  a  very  significant 
tion  of  the  general 
It 
only  needs  to  be  supplemented  by  the 
normal  deman*d  from  the Western cities.
The  downward  movement  of  wheat 
seems  to  have been  finally  checked,  and 
this  week  shows  a  tendency  toward  re­
vival,  although  not  very  marked.  Other 
cereals  have  shared  the  declining  tend­
ency  of  wheat.

improvement. 

The  general  tendency  of the industrial 
stocks  has  not  been  favorable,  on  ac­
count  of  “ investigations”   and  the  pos­
sibility  of  unfavorable  legislation.  This 
has  tended  to  increase  the  demand  for 
bonds  and  other  purely  investment  se­
curities.  The  reduction  of  the  Bank  of 
England  rate  to  3  per  cent,  tends  to 
make  our  financial  situation 
less  fa­
vorable  as  related  to  English  exchange.
Bank  clearings  show  an  encouraging 
increase,  9  per  cent,  over the  preceding 
week,  or  $ 1,047,000, 000.  F ailures  are 
becom ing  still  less,  305,  as  against  326 
for  preceding  week.

ENGLISH  HYPOCRISY  REBUKED.
The  English  philanthorpists  of  the 
Exeter  Hall  type,  who  have  so  often 
had  their  righteous  souls  vexed  at  the 
cruelties  practiced  upon  negroes  in  the 
United  States,  were  dealt  a  stinging  re­
buke  by  United  States  Consul  General 
Collins,  who  was  a  guest at  the dinner 
of  the  White  Friar’s  Club,  in  London, 
a  few  days  ago.

The  Prince  of  Wales  was  present,  as 
were  also  a  number  of  other  distin­
guished  persons. 
In  replying  to a  toast 
to  his  country,  Mr.  Collins  remarked 
that  the  English  people  have  so  much 
time  on  their  hands  that,  in  order  to  get 
through  with 
it,  they  must  devote  a 
great  deal  of  it  to  regulating  the  affairs 
of other  nations.  Said  the Consul:  “ In

the  course of  that  business  of  regulat­
ing  the  peoples  of  other  countries,  you 
have  taken  special  pleasure  in  holding 
meetings,  appointing  committees  and 
adopting 
resolutions  denouncing  the 
lynching  of  negro criminals in America, 
yet  you  kill  more  negroes  in  Africa 
in 
a  month  than  the  Americans  have  done 
in  their  entire history.”

imaginable  good  humor  and 

Not  only  did  this brave  American  ut­
ter  a  truth,  but  he  dealt  a  piercing  re­
buke  to  those  excessively  righteous  per­
sons  who  can  never  see  their  own  faults 
while  they  magnify  the  imperfections 
of  others.  The  words  were  said  with 
all 
in  a 
vein  of friendly badinage;  but they went 
to  the  mark, and  they showed  that Amer­
icans  are  capable  of  speaking  a  word 
for  their  own  country,  even  under the 
oppressing 
influences  of  a  complimen­
tary  dinner,  at  which  it  is  in  order to 
flatter the host.

If  all  American public representatives 
abroad  would  oftener  speak  up  for  their 
own  country, 
institu­
tions, 
they  would  be  more  highly 
esteemed  abroad  and  at  home,  as  well.

its  people  and 

GARBAGE  ARISTOCRACY.
Imitation  is  the  sincerest  flattery. 

It 
is  one  of  the  aspirations  of  an  alleged 
select  set  of  New  York  society  to  ap­
pear  as  much  as  possible  like  the  Lon­
don  Cockneys,  and  that  spirit  of  imita­
tion  has  gone  to  such  a  degree  that  it 
has  become  a  sort  of  madness,  classified 
as  “ Anglomania.”

It  appears  to  have  produced  an  in­
tense  disgust  in  the  minds  of  the  Eng­
lish  people,  who  do  not  appear  to  ap­
preciate  the  compliment  paid them,  and 
the  sham  Anglicism  is violently resented 
and  unsparingly  denounced  by  Labou- 
cliere,  the  radical  and  ravening  editor 
of  London  Truth.  Said  that  unsparing 
satirist:

No  one  is  a  greater  admirer of  Amer­
icans  than  I,  but  if  they  are  judged  by 
New  York  society,  a  more  corrupt  and 
contemptible  crew  never  played  their 
pranks before  heaven.  They  are  a  par­
ody  on  the  worst  features  of  European 
capitals.  The  man  who  can  spend  the 
is  deemed  the  leader,  while  the 
most 
jeunesse  doree 
is  not  satisfied  with 
aping  the  most  vulgar aspects  of  Euro­
pean  society,  but  is  anxious  to  return  to 
the  orgies  which  disgraced  Rome.

In  all 

Doubtless  this  stinging  denunciation 
of 
the  American  Anglomaniacs  was 
called  forth  by  the  notorious  Setly  din­
ner. 
it  was  but  a 
imitation  of  what  the  wealthy 
clumsy 
woodenheads  who  assisted  at 
it  had 
seen  abroad,  and  they  were  only  enjoy­
ing  a  foreign  fashion  which  they  had 
impoited  for  their  own  use.

likelihood 

But  the  silly  dandies  who  have  no 
higher  aspiration  than  to  imitate  for­
eign  follies  are  no  more  the  proper  rep­
resentatives  of  New  York’s  best  people 
than  they  are  of  the  American  people 
generally.  Their  morality 
is  that  of 
the  slums,  and  that  is  the  standard  by 
which  they  should  he  measured socially.

Certain 

It  has  been  stated  that  a  bank  burglar 
can  so  heat  the  walls  of  a  safe  with  an 
electric  current  as  to  be  able  to  get 
in­
side  without  waiting  more  than  a  few 
minutes. 
laboratory  experi­
ments  lend  some  sanction  to  such  a  no­
tion,  but  electrical 
journals  pooh-pooh 
it.  It  is  much  easier  to  talk  about  steal­
ing  electricity  from 
live  trolley  and 
lighting  wires  than  it  is  to  do  it—that 
is,  with  safety.  The  Electrical  En­
gineer,  after  pointing  out  some  other 
difficulties 
in  the  way  of  such  opera­
tions,  remarks  that  “ men  can  take  and 
have  taken  the  current 
from  supply 
mains,  even  more  than  is  required  for 
melting  through  safes,  although  in  nu­
merous  instances  the  parties maintained 
perfect  silence about  it  ever after. ”

THF  REAL  ILLS  OF  LIFE.

"T he  battle  of 

life”   was  a  current 
phrase  long  before  evolutionists  began 
to  talk  about  "the  struggle  for existence 
and  the  survival  of  the  fittest. ”   The 
earth,  although  it  has  been  described  as 
the  temperate  zone  of  the  solar  system, 
is  a  planet  subject  to  various  inclemen­
cies ;  the  well-being  of  the  human  con­
stitution  depends  upon  things  which 
very  frequently  can  be  obtained  only 
with  great  difficulty,  and  the  develop­
ment  of  civilization  engenders  new  de­
sires  and 
imposes  additional  burdens 
upon  the  shoulders  of  mankind.  Pessi­
mists  have  made  the  most  of  all  the  in­
evitable  labors  and  sufferings  of  life  in 
this  world.  They  have  summed  up  the 
case  for despair;  but,  after all,  what  is 
going  on 
is  a  lengthening  trial  of 
strength.

It 

is  easy  enough  to  sit  down  some­
where  in  the  shade  and  sketch  a scheme 
of  civilization  demanding  only 
four 
hours  of  light  work  a  day,  with  an  as­
surance  of  three  square  meals  and 
abundant  leisure  for  recreation  and  cul­
ture.  But  is  there  not  something  essen­
tially  superficial  in  the  philosophy  that 
looks  to a  consummation  of  that  sort  as 
the  crowning  triumph  of  history? 
If  it 
could  be  attended  by  the  discovery  ot 
the  elixir  of  life  and  the  secret  of  con­
tentment  such  a  system  might,  perhaps, 
be  made  to  last  for  some  tim e;  but  how 
could  it  supply  the  place  of  that  neces­
sity  which 
is  the  mother of  invention, 
and  what  nurture  could 
it  afford  for 
herosim? 
it  seems  probable 
that  many  traits  of  character  now  re­
garded  as  beautiful  and  strong  would 
be  left uncultivated,  because there would 
be  no  occasion  for  their  exercise.  What 
demand,  for 
instance,  would  there  be 
for  self-denial?

Indeed, 

A  certain  school  of  psychologists  ex­
plain,  or  attempt  to  explain,  all  the 
more  complicated  animal 
instincts as 
cases  of  "lapsed 
intelligence.”   One 
curious  about  the  wonderful  economy 
instance,  would  be 
of  a  beehive,  for 
told  that  what  the  bees  now  do 
instinc­
tively  their  remote  ancestors  did  with 
conscious  purpose,  it  is  commonly  held 
by  the  same  school  that  there  is  no  real 
in  kind  between  human  and 
difference 
animal  intelligence. 
If  that  theory  can 
be  maintained  it  is  conceivable  that  a 
race  of  men,  or  a  particular  commu­
nity,  might,  under  certain  conditions, 
acquire  complicated  instincts  and,  un­
der  their control,  conduct  their  govern­
ment  and  transact  all  their  business 
with  as  little  conscious  adaptation  of 
means  to  ends  as  the  bees  have 
in  the 
construction  of  their  hives,  the  rearing 
of  their  young,  the  selection  of  their 
queens  and  the  storing  of  their honey. 
If 
it  be  asked  what  is  needed  to  pro­
duce  a  case  of  lapsed  intelligence  the 
answer  to  be  expected  is  simply  a  per­
manent  routine.  The  mental  process 
becomes  a  physical  habit,  and  so  at  last 
is  organized 
in  the  race.  Now,  con­
sider  the  condition  of  a  society  which 
has  lost  the  spur of  want,  and  which, 
from  the  completeness  of its comfort and 
freedom  from  anxiety,  no  longer  cares 
for  invention.  Would  not  that  society, 
into  a  permanent 
or  community,  fall 
routine,  subject  itself  to  a  lapse  of 
in­
telligence  and  so  deprive  itself  of  all 
the noble  joys  of  intellectual  life?

it 

A  speculation  of  this kind  is  curious 
and  amusing  rather  than  fruitful,  per­
haps ;  but 
is  true  that  human  nature 
cannot  afford  to  lose  the  discipline  of 
toil  and  suffering.  Too  much  impor­
tance  is  attached  to  the demand that life 
should  be  made  pleasant  in  all  things;

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

itself 

that  roses  should  be grown,  so  to  speak, 
without thorns.  One  is  not  disposed  to 
admire greatly  a  man  who  was  born  to 
wealth and who has  always  lived  in ease, 
without  effort.  One  admires  rather  the 
hero  who  has  carved  a  foothold  for 
himself  in  obdurate  rock  at  every  step 
upward.  He  at  least  has  demonstrated 
the  power  of  the  human  will.  How 
could  a  personality  so  strong,  an  in­
dividuality  so  definite,  assert 
in 
a  land  of  lotus-eaters,  or  in  a  commu­
nity  where  everybody  is  perfectly  com­
fortable  and  content?  But  contentment 
is  something  with  which 
the  human 
breast  is  unacquainted.  Men  who  have 
inherited  titles  of  nobility  and immense 
wealth  often  abandon  the  gay  circles  in 
which  they  are  courted  and  flattered, 
forsake  the  luxuries  of  civilization,  and 
travel  thousands  of  miles  to  shoot  ele­
phants  in  Ceylon or tigers  in  the  jungles 
of  Hindoostan.  They  go  in  pursuit  of 
excitement,  the  thrill  of  dangerous  en­
counters.  Over  there 
in  their  London 
mansions,  or  in  their  palatial  country 
houses,  they  have  been  stricken  with 
that  subtle  disease  which 
is  called 
ennui.

A  merely  pleasant 

life,  that  is  to  say 
a  life  which  does  not  tax  the  energy  of 
the  will,  is  not  enough.  What  man­
hood  really  requires 
is  a  chance  to 
itself  by  winning  victories  over 
prove 
individ­
difficulties,  a  chance  to  assert 
uality  by  strenuous  endeavor. 
That 
chance  is  offered  in  a  genuinely  demo­
cratic  country.  Men  like  Andrew Jack- 
son  and  Andy  Johnson,  Lincoln  and 
Garfield,  are  typical  representatives  of 
the  grand  possibilities  of  American  cit­
izenship.  What  manly  man  wants  is 
not  to  be  made  comfortable by the State, 
but  an  opportunity  to  make  himself 
great  by  his  own  exertions.  An  equality 
of  opportunity  under  the  law  is  the  only 
equality  he  cares  for.  Let  him  be  born 
in  any  rank,  all  he  asks  is  a  higher 
rank  to  which  he  can  look  and  towards 
which  he  shall  be  free  to  make  his way. 
Then,  if  he  fails,  he  makes  no  com­
plaint.  He  has  had  his  chance.  After 
all,  the  main  thing  is  to  fight  the  bat 
tie  of 
it  is  the  fight 
and  not  the  victor’s  wreath  that  makes 
the  soldier.  The  real 
life are 
those  things  that  repress  the  noble traits 
of  human  nature.

life  bravely;  for 

ills  of 

THE  RUSSIAN  CENSUS.

The  Russian  Empire  is  now  engaged 
in  the  task  of  enumerating  its  immense 
population.  The  census,  which 
is  the 
first  general  enumeration  of  the  kind 
ever  attempted  in  Russia,  is  to  include 
all  the  inhabitants,  without  exception, 
of  all  the  Russian  dominions,  and  is  to 
contain  a  full  and  exact  computation  of 
the  population  of  the  country  accord­
ing  to  the  different  regions,  govern­
ments,  districts  and  villages,  and  also 
according  to  the  ages,  sex  and  profes­
religions,  nationality,  occupa­
sions, 
tions  and  other 
indications  mentioned 
in  the  census  blanks.

This  census  is,  of  course,  intended  to 
serve 
the  military  and  commercial 
needs  of  the  empire,  and  will  no  doubt 
be  of  the  greatest  value  for  statistical 
purposes.  While  naturally  the 
interest 
felt 
it  will  be  mainly  confined  to 
Russia,  still,  as  the  Russian  Empire 
plays  no  small  part  in  making  contem­
poraneous  history,  the  result of the com­
pilation  will  be  carefully  watched 
abroad  as  well.

in 

It 

is  claimed  by  Boston  papers  that 
there  are  only  seventeen  towns  in  the 
whole  of  Massachusetts  without  public 
(libraries.

MATTER  OVER  MIND.

Time  was,  and  that  time  has  not  so 
long  passed  away,  when mental develop­
ment  and  intellectual  culture  were  the 
sole  objects  to  which  colleges  and  uni­
versities  were  dedicated,  and  athletic 
sports  were  used  as  a  recreation,  a  re­
laxation  from 
the  severity  of  mental 
strain.

its  students 

To-day,  however,  physical  culture 

is 
not  only  as  much  a  part  of  the  educa­
tional  courses  at  the  prominent  schools 
as  are  science  and  art,  but  the  success 
of 
in  public  professional 
athletic  sports  confers  more  distinction 
and  celebrity  upon  a  college  or  univer­
sity  than  would  all  the 
intellectual  tri­
umphs  that  could  possibly  be  gained. 
Not  only  the  prominence,  but 
in  a 
marked  degree  the  patronage  bestowed 
on  a  school  depends  on  the  success  of 
its  athletes  in  public  professional  con­
tests.

A  striking  example  of  this  is  seen 

in 
the  Harvard  University,  near  Boston. 
President  Eliot,  in  his  report  to  the 
Board  of  Overseers  for  the  year  1895-6, 
in  a  somewhat  mournful  tone,  refers  to 
the  falling  off  of  attendance  of  students 
in  the  college  proper,  and  to  the insuffi­
ciency  of  the  funds  of  the institution  for 
its  needs.  The  President  does  not  at­
tribute  the  decline  in  the  attendance  of 
under-graduate  students  to  any  special 
cause;  but, 
in  view  of  the  fact  that 
Harvard  has  recently  been  quite  un­
successful  in  its  athletic  contests,  and of 
the  effort  of  the  President  to account 
for  the  fact,  in  his  report  to  the  over­
seers,  it  is  more  than  probable  that  the 
failures 
in  athletics  have  much  to  do 
with  the  falling  off  in  the  numbers  of 
matriculants  in  the  college  proper. 
In 
this  connection  the  following,  from  the 
President’s  report,  is  significant •

The  conduct  of  intercollegiate  sports 
during  the  year  proved  afresh  that  the 
management  of  these  sports  at  Harvard 
has  been  for  some  years  unintelligent, 
and  for  that  reason  unsuccessful.  The 
evils  of  overtraining  and  excessive  ex­
ertion  on  the  part  of  the  members  of 
the  principal  teams  were  exhibited  in 
high  degree.  A  fundamental  defect 
in 
the  athletic  organization  has  been  that 
coaches  of  limited  experience,  who  may 
be  either  unobservant  or  obtruse,  can 
over-ride,  on  the  spot,  the  advice of  the 
trainer  and  physicians.  The  result  is 
that  the  principal  players  of  football are 
almost  all  more  or  less  injured  early 
in 
the  season,  and  are  then  brought  to  the 
in  a  crippled  or  ex­
principal  games 
hausted 
crew 
comes  to  the  final  race  less  capable  of 
endurance  than  they  were  a  month 
earlier.  The  remedies  are  the  subor­
dination  of  coaches  to  an  expert 
in 
training  or  to  a  medical  adviser,  and 
the  general  adoption  of  more  reason­
able  views  about  all  training for athletic 
sports.

condition,  while 

the 

When 

importance 

the  P resident  of  a  great  uni­
versity  feels  called  upon  to  explain  and 
apologize  to  his  board  of  trustees  for 
the  failure  of  its students in professional 
football  contests,  it  shows  to  what  su­
preme 
instruction  in  foot­
ball  and  other  acrobatic  exercises  has 
attained  in  the  curriculum  of  most  col­
leges. 
is  coming  to  be  the  main 
staple  of  the  higher  education,  while 
learning"  falls  to  a  subor­
the  "book 
dinate  position. 
It  is  a  curious  feature 
of  educational  evolution.

It 

The  ancient  philosophers  and  wise 
men  of  an  earlier age  continually taught 
the  superiority  of  the  mind  over the 
in  this  day  of  material  de­
body;  but 
velopment,  in  which 
is  so  largely 
held  that  the  mind  is  only  an  emana­
tion  frorh  the  body,  and,  therefore,  itself 
a  material  thing,the  body  which created 
mental  manifestations  is,  therefore,  of

it 

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chiefest  and  supreme 
importance  and 
should  assume  the  place  of  greatest dis­
tinction 
in  any  modern  scheme  of 
education._____________

There  seems  to be  a  desire on the part 
of  the  managers  of  trades  unions  to 
keep  their  organizations  as  prominently 
in  evidence  everywhere  as  possible. 
Every  opportunity  for  aggressiveness 
that  is  presented  by  the  slightest  tech­
nical  difference  or  in the way of changes 
in  methods  is  quickly  seized  and  made 
as  arbitrary  as  possible. 
If  a  concern 
is  paying  by  the  piece  they  will  make 
a  demand  that  the  rate  be  by the day ; if 
paying  by  the  day,  they  will  only  be 
satisfied  to  change  to  the  piece system— 
anything  to  give  the  walking  delegates 
or  the  executive  officials  an  opportunity 
to  come  to  the  front  and  assert  their 
prerogatives.  A  characteristic  incident 
illustrating  this 
feature  of  unionism 
comes  from 
the  shoe  manufacturing 
town  of  Brockton,  Mass.  T.  D.  Barry 
&  Co.  were  paying  a  certain  class  of 
operatives—sole  fasteners  and  trimmers 
—$3-50  per  day,  an  amount  with  which 
they  were  perfectly  satisfied.  But,  in 
the  majority  of  the  factories  of  the 
town,  the  piece  method  was  in  vogue, 
by  union  regulation,  and  so  the  change 
must  be  made 
in  the  others.  On  the 
refusal  of  the  management  to  make  the 
change,  a  strike  was  ordered,  much 
against  the  wishes  of  the  poor  victims 
cf  union  tyranny,  who  are  thus  placed 
between  the  devil  and  the  deep  sea— if 
they  refuse  to  strike,  they  are  insulted 
and  assaulted  by  union  henchmen;  if 
they  go  out  on  strike,  the  shadow  of  the 
poorhouse  looms  up  before  them.  The 
outcome  of  all  such  occurrences 
is 
easily  conjectured.

Couldn’t  Let  Go.

From the Chicago Times Herald.

A  business  man  accustomed  to  hard 
work  for  many  years  usually  finds 
idle­
ness  irksome.  Men  who  have  been  ac­
tively 
in  the  harness  as  a  rule  do  not 
like  to  retire,  although  retirement  in 
old  age 
is  the  goal  of  the  average 
worker.  A  successful  Chicagoan,  who 
has  reached  60  years,  said  to  me  the 
other  day:  " I   am  going  to  quit. 
I 
have  worked  for  thirty  years  without  a 
week’s  vacation;  now  I  am  going  to 
rest  for  thirty  years. 
I  have  earned 
every  dollar  I  possess;  now  I  intend  to 
spend  money  and  stop  worrying  about 
accumulating  it.”

I  applauded  this  determination  and 
enquired  how  he  determined  to  spend 
his  leisure.

" I   have  bought  a  homestead 

in 
Blank,"  he  said,  naming  a  small  town 
in  Michigan,  "and  I  shall remove  there 
with  my  family  and  simply  wallow  in 
idleness  and  contentment."

time?”   I  insisted.

"B ut  how  will  you  pass  your  spare 
‘ ‘ Well,  I’ll  hunt  and  fish,”  he  said.
‘ ‘ Good;  but  that  will  not  keep  you 
"N o ;  but  I  shall  read. 
I’ll  take  all 
I  will  get  together  a  little 

busy  the  year  around, ’ ’  I  ventured.
the  papers. 
library,  too.”

"W ill  that  occupy  all  your  extra

time?”
"Oh,  I  shall  walk  about  a  good  deal, 
I  dare  say.  Exercise—you know—great 
thing  for  an  old  man.”

" Is   that  your  entire  programme?”
" N —no,  not  exactly,”   he  said,  hesi­
tatingly. 
" I ’m  going  to  organize  a 
private  bank  down  there  and  man­
age  it. ”

Five  bachelors  of  Shelbyville,  Ind., 
who  dined  together  on  Christmas  day 
are  pledged  to  marry  before  the  expira­
tion  of  the  twelvemonth.  There  would 
be  no  difficulty  in  living  up  to  their  ob­
ligation 
the  Argentine  republic, 
where  the  lady  is  fined  if  she  refuses  a 
proposition  of  marriage;  but  they  do 
things  differently  in  Indiana,  and  it  is 
just  possible  that one  of  the  party  may 
have  to  pay  the  forfeit.

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Petting the  People

Province  of  the  Booklet—Advantages 

o f the  Show  Window.

Written for the Tradesman.

As  an  adjunct  to newspaper publicity, 
it  has  been  thoroughly  demonstrated 
that  the  folder,  or  booklet, 
in  some 
novel  form,  is  valuable  above  almost 
any  other  method.

First  in 

To  make  the  folder  most  effective and 
derive  all  possible  advantage  there­
from,  it  must  possess  several  require­
ments.  a  few  of  which are the following :
importance  is  the  page  or 
portion  of  the  folder  which  is 
intended 
to  catch  the  reader's  attention.  What 
this  shall  consist  of  depends  largely 
upon  the  article  or  kind  of  goods ad­
vertised. 
It  should,  in  any  event,  have 
a  direct  connection  with  the  article. 
Headlines  or  title  pages  which,  while 
they  may  be  novel  in  themselves,  yet 
have  no bearing upon  the  subject  should 
never  be  used. 
It  is  important  that  the 
reader’s  mind  be  fixed  upon  your  busi­
ness  right  from  the  start.  An  abrupt 
“ jumping-off  place”   between  the  ar­
ticle  and  the  words  intended  to  first 
catch  the  eye  causes  a  sense  of  incon­
gruity  which  nullifies,  largely,  the  good 
effect of  the  folder.

It  may  be  well,  in  this  place,  to  give 
an  illustration  of  the  “ direct”   and “ in­
direct”   catchline:

Koaled  Weather

means weather which is 
made comfortable by the 
use of Kliukerless K >al. 
(this followed  by appro­
priate  and 
interesting 
descriptive matter.price, 
etc.)

Where  Do You  Live?

“Down  South”  would  be 
the most  agreeable  place, 
justnow, wouldn’t it?  But 
if you use K lin k e r le s s  
Koal, etc.

In  example  No.  i  we  have  the  direct 
alliteration  between  the  catchline  and 
the  article  advertised,  and  the  connec­
tion  is  made  smoothly,  while  in  No.  2, 
the  conjunction  of 
is  lacking, 
ideas 
causing  an  awkward  break.

But,  in  deciding  on  the  words  to  be 
used  as  a  catchline,  great  care  must  be 
taken  to  use  such  language  as  will  be 
sure  to  catch  the attention  at  a  glance. 
It  should  be  something  suitable  to  the 
subject-matter of  the  folder  or  booklet, 
and,  above all  else,  must  not  be  offen­
sive  or coarse  in  the  slightest  degree.

Then  comes the subject-matter proper. 
This  should  be  treated  tersely,  yet  with 
sufficient  amplitude  to  allow  of 
an 
amount  of  entertaining  description  that 
will  force  the  reader  to  continue  after 
once  commencing.  Like  newspaper  ad­
vertising,  aiguments  ‘ “ why”   should  be 
multiplied,  and,  so  far  as  practicable, 
a  complete  description  of  the  goods 
should  be  given. 
“ What  will  please 
and 
interest  the  buyer?”   is  the  ques­
tion  to  be  decided,  not  “ What  pleases 
me?”

Now,  after we  have  carefully  prepared 
our  folder or  booklet,  comes  the  ques­
tion of  printing ;  and here,  nothing short 
of  the  best  should  be  for  a  moment 
thought  of.  * ‘ But  Jones  charges  more 
for  his  printing  than  Smith  does,”   you 
remark.  Very  well,  then  take  our  fold­
er,  by  all  means,  to Jones;  for,  if  Jones

charges  more,  it  nearly  always  follows 
that  he  does better  work,  furnishes  bet­
ter  stock,  and,  above  all, 
furnishes 
more  brains  to  be  applied  in  original 
styles  of  shape,  composition  and  gen­
eral  typographic  up-to-date-ness. 
It  is 
generally  the  case  that  Jones’  reason  for 
higher  prices  on  printing 
lies  in  the 
fact  that  more  artistic  workmen  are  em­
ployed  at  a  higher  salary— men  who,  by 
intelligence,  skill  and  artistic 
their 
ability,  are  able  to  add  ten  dollars 
in 
value  to  your  folder  as  an  advertising 
medium  where  you  are  compelled  to 
pay  one  dollar  in  advance  of  competi­
tors’  prices.

into 

Next  comes  the  method  of  distribu­
tion.  This  is  a  most  important  matter, 
as  upon  getting  the  folder 
the 
hands  of  the  right  parties  depends, 
largely,  the  success  of  the  advertise­
ment.  Ordinarily,  the  best  way 
is  to 
in  plain  envelopes,  addressed 
enclose 
personally,  and  mailed. 
If  not  mailed, 
they  should  be  placed  in  sealed  envel­
opes  and  addressed,  just  the  same,  for 
the  address  compels  a  certain  degree  of 
attention  which  the  matter  would  not 
otherwise  receive.

It  is  advisable,  in  the  use  of  booklets 
and  folders, 
to  connect  the  wording 
with  some  advertisement  in  the  news­
papers,  which  may  appear  either  pre­
viously  to  their  distribution  or  after­
ward.  This  is  a  matter  for  the  adver­
tiser’s  judgment  to  determine.

*  *  *

Window  advertising,  while  making 
rapid  strides  in  the  direction  of  perfec­
tion,  is  still  a  sadly-neglected  feature 
with  too  many  merchants.  And  this 
is 
not  from  any  lack  of  progressiveuess,  it 
may  be,  but  because  the  great  advan­
tages  which  window-advertising  offers, 
and  at  a  cost  which  is  almost  nil,  are 
not  understood.  But  anyone  who  has 
inspected 
the  magnificent  windows 
shown  in  the larger cities,  in lines where 
competition 
is  the  strongest,  and  has 
noted  the  thought  and  labor  expended 
in  making  them  attractive,  realizes  that 
such  publicity 
is  not  an  experiment, 
but  a time-proven  and  profitable  fact.

As  I  have  reiterated  so  many  times, 
simplicity  in  the  ideas  used  is  a  cardi­
nal  virtue.  A  window-advertisement 
to  the  passing  public 
that  presents 
in  home-life, 
something  old-fashioned 
something  unique 
in  its  oddity,  some­
thing  humorous  yet  not  coarse  or  ridic­
ulous—something, 
that  ap­
peals  directly  and  forcibly  to  the  every­
day  sentiments  of  humanity  and  excites 
curiosity, 
tears—will  do 
more  towards  selling  goods  than  any 
other  plan  of  window-publicity.

laughter  or 

in  short, 

And  these  simple  things  are  so  easy 
of  attainment:  A  man  sawing  wood, 
an  elderly 
lady  operating  a  spinning 
wheel,  a  girl  washing  dishes  or  sewing, 
a  couple  of  boys  playing  marbles,  a 
white-capped,  white-aproned nurse rock­
ing  a  baby  to  sleep—all  these  pictures 
of  everyday 
life  appeal  to  the  senti­
ments  and  are  trade-drawers.

*  *  *

In  this  connection,  an  old  story comes 
to  mind—whether  told  of  John  Jacob 
Astor  or some  other ¡equally  well-known 
merchant  I  am  unable  to  say,  but  a 
novel  plan  for  advertising,  in any event. 
This  merchant,  one  morning,  employed 
a  laboring  man  with  pronounced  Irish 
physiognomy,  and  set  him  to  work 
in 
the  following  fashion:  First,  he  bad 
the  laborer  carry  a  large  quantity  of 
bricks  into  the  front  of  the  store.  Then, 
taking  one  in  hand,  he  carried  it  care­
fully  from  the  store  door to  the  edge  of 
the  sidewalk.  Then  he  came  back  for

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another  and  set  it  down  a  little  farther 
away.  After  this,  another  brick  was 
carried  to  a  still  greater  distance.  Then 
another  and  another,  until  the  stock  of 
bricks  was  exhausted.  By  this  time, 
the  passers-by  had  begun  to  notice  the 
brick  man  and  his  peculiar  method  of 
returning  to  the  store  each  time  for  a 
lone  brick.  Some  of  them  even  allowed 
their  curiosity  to  make  such  headway 
as  to  compel  them  to  follow  the  brick- 
carrier 
inside.  Well,  to  make  a  long 
story short,  when  all  the bricks were out, 
the  man  began  to  return  them,  one  by 
one,  to  the  store.  No  amount  of  ques­
tions  from  the  wondering  public  could 
get  a  word  out  of  him,  either  as  to  the 
meaning of  his seemingly  crazy  occupa­
tion,  or  anything  else. 
is  recorded 
that,  when  the  last  brick  was  deposited 
in  the  store,  the  carrier  had  a  jam  of 
people  watching  him.  And  each  time 
he  entered  the  store,  as  many  as  could 
get 
in  followed  him,  thus  securing  the 
great  end  of  publicity,  “ Getting  the 
People. **

It 

This 

simple 

advertising  method, 
while  it  did  not  probably  cost  the  mer­
chant  over  two  dollars,  brought  his
name  and  business 
into  great  promi­
nence,  and  was  the  talk  of  the  town  for 
weeks  afterward. 

Nemo.

*  *  *

Below  are  a  number  of  newspaper  ad­
vertisements  which  are  to  be  com­
mended  as  being  excellent  samples of 
what  good  advertising  should  be :

Shoes  for 
Little  Toddlers.

If you are a wise parent, you will 
make  sure  that  your  little  ones 
are wearing the sort of shoes best 
adapted to their tender tiny feet.
There  is  a  great  deal  of  care­
lessness  among  parents  in  this 
matter of footwear  for the  little 
folks, and dealers are not exempt 
from carelessness, either.
We have  endeavored  to  make 
this  pre-eminently  a  child-en’s 
shoe  store.  We  have  made  a 
study of children’s footwear.  We 
believe  we  have  the  best  little 
shoes  that  are  made.  Might  it 
not profit you to try us?

The  Reason  Why

Our  advertisements  are  not  literary 
gems is because we are plain business 
men,  not  gifted  in  penning  fine 
phrases  or  cute sayings;  therefore, 
what we say  to you from  day to day, 
we express briefly.  This time it’s the 
news of our

February Clearing Sale.

If there’s a thing you  need in winter 
goods you  can't  afford  to  miss  this 
sale—buying  elsewhere  will  mean 
paying higher  prices.  We couldn’t 
te'l the story more  briefly  or  plainly 
than that, could  we,  or put the truth 
any more  strongly?  That’s all—the 
prices quoted  below  will  talk  better 
than we can.

W hen  tn  D oubt.  .

as to whether you are buying goods 
cheap enough, try this store.  Com­
parison  of  prices  you  are  paying 
elsewhere  with  those  which  we 
charge  may  open  your eyes  to the 
money-saving opportunities always 
open to you at this store.  Just now 
our  February  Clearing  Sale  is an 
affair in which  our  customers  are 
taking  great interest.  If you want 
to get acquainted with the store, we 
feel like saying that this is the best 
time  we  know  of.  We  shall  be 
glad to welcome you among our list 
of  patrons.

There’s  an  Exodus

of winter goods just  now  at  our 
store,  and  the  cause  of  this hur­
ried departure on the  part of the 
merchandise  which  has  been 
with us since  about  November  1 
is  our  February  Clearing Sale. 
The goods can’t  help going, even 
if they wanted to stay, for people 
are  bound  to  have  them.  You 
will want a  share,  once you  visit 
the store  and  see  the  values  we 
are  offering.  We  shall  quote 
some  prices  below,  but  if  you 
want a  correct  idea  of  the  sale, 
better come to the store.

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Hard  Lines.

Some lines  of shoes  are  hard 
to sell;  not because  they are 
not as  good  as  the  lines  that 
find a  ready  market,  but  be­
cause sometimes  good  things 
are  passed  by.  In  o-der  to 
get clear of a number of shoes 
classed among  the  slow  sell­
ers, we have cut the  prices  to 
less than  actual  cost  for  this 
week’s selling.

Hunger  and  Cold.
Sisters two. all praise to you.
With your faces pinched and blue; 
To the poor man you’ve been true 
Yon can sneak the keenest word, 
You are sure of being heard,
From the point you’re never stirred, 

From of old

Hunger and cold.

Let sleek statesmen temporise;
Palsied are their shifts and lies 
When they meet your bloodshot eyes 
Policy yon set at naught.
In their traps you'll not be caught, 
You're too honest to be  bought,

Prim and bold.

Hunger and cold.

Bolt and bar the palace door.
While the mass of men are poor,
Naked truth grows more and more 
You had never yet. I  euess,
Any praise for bashfulness;
Yon can vi-it sans court dress,

Uncontrolled.

Hunger and cold.

Wh'le the music fell and rose 
And the dance reeled to its  close,
Where her round of costly woes 
I beheld with shuddering fear 
Wolves’ eyes through the windows peer: 
Little dream that you are near 

Fashion  strolled.

Hunger and cold.

On his gold.

When the toiler’s heart you clutch 
Cons’ence is not valued much.
He reeks not a bloody smutch 
E' erything to you  defers.
Yon are potent  reasoners:
At your whisper treason stirs,

Hunger and cold.

Rude comparisons you draw.
Words refuse to sate your maw.
Your gaunt, limbs the'cobweb law 
You're not eloeged with foolish pride, 
But can seize a right denied:
Somehow God is on your side.

Cannot hold.

Hunger and cold.

You respect no hoary wrong 
More for having triumphed long:
Its  past victims, haggard  throng,
You nnbury  Swords and spears 
Weaker are than poor men's tears. 
Weaker than your silent years,

From the mold

Hunger and cold.

Let them guard both hall and  bower, 
Through the window you will glower, 
Patient till your reckoning hour 
Cheeks are pale, but hands are red, 
Oniltle's blood may chance be shed,
But ye must and will be fed,

Shall be to’led.

Hunger and cold.

God has plans man must not spoil.
Some were made to starve and toil.
Some to share the wine and oil,
Devils’ theories are  these.
Stifling hope and love and peace, 
Framed your hideous lusts to  please, 

We are  told.

Hunger and cold.

Scatter ashes on thy head.
Tears of burning sorrow  shed,
Earth,  and  be by  pity  led.
Ere they  block  the  very  door 
With  lean  corpses  of  the  poor,
And will hush for naught but gore, 

To love’s fold

Hunger  and  cold.

Jaxes  Russell  Lowell.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Proper  Province  o f  a  Trade  Journal 

on  Credits  and  Collections.

A  subject  of  ever-present 

interest  to 
the  dealer  is  that  of  credits,  for  there 
are  yet  comparatively  few  enterprises 
in  which  it  does  not  seem  to  be  neces­
sary  to  recognize  the  principle  of  credit 
in  some  degree.  There  are  those  who 
are  happy 
in  a  strictly  cash  business, 
but  the  number  is  limited.  While  this 
is  true,  there are many who  have  learned 
to  keep  their  credits  within  reasonable 
and  safe  limits,  and  especially  to  re­
strict  them  to  those  who  are  known  to 
be  reliable.

*   *   *

it 

The  subject  of  credits  is  of  universal 
interest  and 
is  one  which  naturally 
early  engages  the  attention  of  the  pub­
lisher  of  any  journal  devoted  to  the 
work  of  the  merchant.  How  to  secure 
immunity  from  loss  in  dealing  with 
ir­
responsible  persons  and  to  escape  the 
snares  of  the  dead-beat  are  questions 
sure  to  be  propounded  in  a  way  to  as­
sume  prominence 
in  the  thought  and 
work  of  every  thorough-going  journal 
devoted  to the  interests  of  trade.  In  this 
respect  the  record  of  the  Tradesman 
is 
no  exception,  and 
it  trusts  its  readers 
will  pardon  a  reference  to  its  history  in 
this  regard,  which 
in  the 
career  of  one  of  its  contemporaries  in 
another  State  tempts  it  to  make.

incidents 

*   *   *

Very  soon  after the  publication  of  the 
Tradesman  began,  the  matter  of  credits 
and  collections  assumed  importance 
in 
its  columns.  It  early  advocated  the  pre­
vention  of  the  evil  by  care  in  trusting, 
and  at  the  same  time  endeavored  to  de­
vise  some  adequate  means  for  its  cure, 
in  suggesting  methods  for  the  collection 
of  questionable  accounts  and 
in  devis­
ing  systems of  warning  against  migra­
tory  vampires  of  credit. 
In  later  years 
this  became  one  of  the  matters  leading 
to  the  organization  of  business  men’s 
associations  throughout  the  State,  and 
many  of  the  readers of  this  journal  will 
endorse  the  statement  that these associa­
tions  have  done  a  notable  work 
in 
bringing  about  a  better  credit  system.

*  *  *

Early 

in  the  work  of  the  Tradesman 
and  of  these  associations,  prominence 
began  to  be  given  to  the  matter  of  the 
prevention  of  the  credit  evil  by  restric­
tions  and  the  closer  adherence  to  cash 
dealing. 
In  these  regards  there  has 
been  a  decided  advance  during  recent 
customers 
years.  Both  dealers  and 
have  been  educated  to  the 
idea  that 
credit 
is  not  nearly  so  necessary  as  it 
used  to  be  considered,  and  that  where 
it  is  necessary,  it  is  not  such  a  serious 
matter  for  the  one  asking  credit  to  be 
required  to  give  reasonable  assurance 
as  to  responsibility.  While  the  Trades­
man  may  claim  a  small  share  in  this 
work  of  education,  it  is  willing  to  ac­
cord  more  of  the  credit  to  the  increased 
co-operation  of  the  dealers  through  the 
medium  of  these  associations  and other­
wise.

*  *  *

While  the 

increase  of  cash  dealing 
and  the  restrictions  of  credits  have 
greatly 
lessened  the  evil  of  bad  ac­
counts,  it  has  not  yet  brought  about  a 
business  millenium.  There  is  still  work 
along  these  iines  for  business  associa­
tions  and  a  demand  for  the  protection 
of  the  local  credit  agencies,  which  have 
grown  up  as  a  result  of  the  co-operative 
work  of  the  associations,  and  this  will 
continue  to  be  the  case  as  long  as  busi­
ness  methods  make  any  credit  neces­
sary.  The  agencies  referred  to  are  be­
coming  very  efficient  in  all  prominent 
towns  and  are restricting  the  depreda­

tions  of  the  moving'parasites  of  trade 
to  a  wonderful  degree.
*  *  *

journal 

incidents 

in  Iowa.  The 

The  Tradesman 

is  led  to  make  this 
its  own  past  history  by 
reference  to 
in  the  career  of  a  con­
some 
in 
temporary 
its  career  not 
question  started  upon 
long  after  the  Tradesman  began 
its 
work ;  and  soon  the  matter  of  credits 
its  attention  as  well.  Unlike 
engaged 
the  Tradesman,  it  confined 
its  efforts 
to  the  matter  of  collecting  questionable 
accounts  and  furnishing  warnings  and 
ratings  to  the  business  men  of the State, 
and  both  the  business  men  and  their 
exponent  seem  to  have  failed  to  learn 
the  lesson  of  the  proper  restriction  of 
credits  which  obtains  in  Michigan,  as 
before  indicated.  The  journal  referred 
to  seems  to  have  found  no  wider  field 
than  the  dealing  with  bad  debtors—the 
Tradesman  believes 
it  has  a  broader 
work.

*  *  *

During  the  early  publication  of  the 
two 
journals,  the  Iowa  editor  had  his 
attention  attracted  by  the  activity  of 
Michigan  merchants  in  the  work  of  as­
sociated  effort,  and,  conceiving  that  a 
greater  field  might  be  occupied  by  a 
union  of  forces,  he  came  to  tbe  Trades­
man  with  a  proposition  to  that  end. 
Failing  to  win  its  concurrence  at  that 
time,  another  similar  visit  was  made 
some  years  later,  but  the  roseate  prom­
ises  of  vast  results  to  follow  from  the 
magnificent  scheme  again  failed  to  win 
he  Tradesman  from 
its  more  modest 
work.  Naturally  the  career  of  each 
journal  has  been  a  matter  of  interest  to 
the  other.

*  *  *

As 

to  do, 

the  Western 

indicating  the  peculiar  work  it 
aimed 
journal 
adopted  the  name  of  the  Inter-State 
Tracer—a  name  decidedly  suggestive 
of  giving  more  attention  to  the  bad  ele­
ment 
in  a business  community  than  to 
that  more  worthy.  Thus,  instead  of  en­
deavoring  to  aid  in  educating  its client­
age  to  the  avoidance  of  bad  debts  by 
the  guarding  of  its  credits,  the  journal 
abandoned 
theory  that 
such  debts  are  the  normal  condition  of 
trade  and  degraded 
tbe 
work  of  tracing  out  the  rascally  element 
and  striving  to  force  the  “ black  book”  
accounts  by  every  possible  means  of 
coercion  at 
its  command—hardly  an 
ideal  work  for a  trade  journal.

itself  to  the 

itself 

to 

A  natural 

*   *   *
consequence  of  zealous 
work 
in  the  line  indicated  was  a  legal 
encounter  with  some one  who  had  been 
treated  unjustly  by  the  paper  in  ques­
tion,on  account  of  the  inevitable  misin­
formation  which  must  be  given  in  some 
cases  where  a 
large  business  of  this 
kind 
is  attempted.  This  brought  the 
editor before  the  United  States  Court  at 
Des  Moines,  where  he  was  convicted  of 
technical  violation  of  the  law,  but  was 
discharged  with  an  admonition.  But 
he  did  not  yet  learn  wisdom ;  after  con­
tinuing  the  same  objectionable  course 
some  years  longer,  he  was  recently  ar­
rested  and  brought  before the  same  tri­
bunal  for  trial,  and,  upon  conviction, 
was  sentenced  to  six  months’  imprison­
ment  and  to  pay  a  fine of  $1,400;  but, 
on  account  of  the  intercession  of  some 
of  the  business  men  whose  interests  he 
had  thus  mistakenly  been  trying  to 
serve,  the  punishment,  excepting  a  fine 
of  $400,  was  suspended, 
conditional 
upon  the  discontinuance  of  this  feature 
of  the  business.

*  *  *

The  Tradesman  has  as  little  regard 
for  the  credit

for  the  dead-beat—or 

It 

thief,  which 
is  a  better  name—as  any 
one;  but 
it  believes  that  the  best  time 
to  deal  with  him  is before be  is  on  the 
books. 
is  better,  even,  to  run  the 
risk  of  losing  a  good  customer  than  to 
run  the  risk  of  loss  through  a  bad  one. 
In 
localities  which  have  taken  this 
question  up  in  the  right  way  there  are 
means  of  ascertaining  the  standing,  in 
most  cases,  without  danger  of  offending 
one  who  is  reliable;  and  the Tradesman 
does  not  believe  that 
it  is  the  proper 
province  of  a  trade  journal  to  devote  it­
self  to  the  work  of  a  collector  of  bad 
accounts.  Such  work 
is  properly  the 
held  for  collection  agencies,  and  the 
journal  having  no  wider  one  had  better 
cease  its  existence.

Her  Reward.

In her women’s heart was a poem,
A grand and tender song,
A word of hop** for ihe  weary,
A stern rebuke to the wrong;
It often pleaded for utterance.
For voice to reach the w *rld,
To be raised where all might heed It, 
A banner of love unfurled!

But she never found tbe moment,
To breathe out the burning heart-words 
There were alwa\s household duties, 
And just befo-e her, s ep by step,

With days se full of care.
Of her poem nesting there.
Du'l rounds for every day.
Some task unfinished lay.

Her cirldren  grew  up and  blessed  her, 
And honored her sainted name;
She guarded their ehildish footsteps,
But she misled the road to  fame;
From the many snares and pitfalls 
Alona their youthful  way
Her watchful eye had s  v.*l them;
Not one has wandered astray.

The good aneel wrote down her lifework— 
A pure and shining  page,
More sweet than dreams of  a poet,
More grand than seer or sage;
She had met each homely  duty,
Striving not for earth's renown;
Her life was a poem of beauty.
Her reward in heaven—a crown.

Alma  Pendextek  Hayden.

is  the 

Cincinnati 

important  city  in 
the  United  States  in  which,  according 
to  the  official  statistics  for  1896,  less 
lager  beer  was  consumed  than  during 
the  year  preceding,  although  some  peo­
ple  have  come  to  look  upon  the  retail 
beer  business  as  the  most  flourishing 
locai 
industry  of  that  thriving  town, 
and  as,  perhaps,  the  most  distinctive 
mark  of 
its  municipal  celebrity,  says 
an  exchange.  The  total  annual  product 
of  the breweries  of  the  United  States  is 
36,000,000 barrels,  and  heretofore  New 
York,  Chicago,  Milwaukee,  St.  Louis, 
Cincinnati  and  Newark  have  been  the 
chief  beer-consuming 
cities  of  the 
Union.  With  the  growth  of  population 
in  each,  the  demand  for  beer  has  in­
creased  proportionately  everywhere  ex­
cept  in  Cincinnati.  The  German 
in­
habitants  of  the  Ohio  city  continue  to 
be  many  and  prosperous,  and  hence,  it 
is not  easy  to account  for  this  diminish­
ing  consumption  of  beer  in  a  way  satis­
factory  to  Cincinnati’s  pride  as  a  grow­
ing  community.  Moreover,  the  rival 
Ohio  city  of  Cleveland  has 
largely 
eclipsed  Cincinnati’s  former  promi­
nence  as  a  shipping  port  and  is  claim­
ing  an  increase  in  population  so  rapid 
as  to  have  made 
it  larger  by  several 
thousand.  As  an  offset  to  this,  a  loyal 
Cincinnati  man  calls  attention  to  the 
circumstance  that  the bank  clearances 
of  Cleveland  last week,  $6,400,000,  were 
only  a  little  more than  half those of Cin­
cinnati,  $12,330,000.  He  prefers  prom­
inence  in  banking  rather  than  beer.

A  bill  before  the  Legislature  of  Mis­
souri  provides  for  the  utilizing  of 
idle 
convicts 
in  reclaiming  swamp  land  in 
the  southeastern  part  of  the  State. 
It  is 
said  that  by  digging  ditches and  build­
ing  levees  fully  3,000,000 acres  of  land 
can  be  reclaimed.

Queen  Victoria’s  book  will  be  pub­
lished  in  America  by  the  Century  Com­
pany.  There  will  be  too  copies  on Jap­
anese paper at $50,  and  600 on fine paper 
at  $15.  Both  editions  are strictly limited 
and  no  more  will  be  printed.

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log  cabins 

the  first  of 

It  was  early  in  the  last  decade  of  the 
last  century  that 
these 
United  Empire  Loyalists  landed  on  the 
shore  of  old  Norfolk  and  erected  the 
first 
in  this  Long  Point 
Country.  They  were  a  God-fearing, 
law-abiding,  home-loving  and 
indus­
trious  class  of  pioneers. 
They  had 
suffered  much  and  sacrificed  everything 
for  the  love  they  bore  the  old  flag,  and 
they  came  into  the  new  country  a highly 
favored  class.  They  were  allotted  lands 
on  the  lake  front,  and  the  best  locations 
and  all  official  positions  fell  to  them  as 
a  sort  of  birthright.  The  favors  granted 
them  by  Governor  Simcoe,  who  had  ob­
tained  special  authority  from  the  home 
government  for  so  doing,  gave  them  a

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very  great  advantage,  from 
the  very 
start,  over  British  emigrants  and  set­
tlers  who  came  from  the  States  with  no 
political  bias. 
It  was  the  most  natural 
thing  in  the  world  for  these  U.  E.  Loy­
alist  settlers  to  assume  a  dictatorship 
in  matters  social,  political  and  reli­
gious.  Toryism  was  part of  their  reli­
gious creed,  and  “ loyalty to the old flag”  
was  the  only  true  passport  to  a  life 
hereafter.  They  looked  upon  a  “ Yan­
kee”   as  a  vile  reprobate  who  had  com­
mitted  the  unpardonable  sin,  and  re­
publicanism  was  deemed  the  rankest  of 
political  heresy.  Such  was  the  charac­
ter of  the  original  log, cabin  builders.
E.  A.  Owen.

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The  Foundation  Builders  of  Ontario.
Written for the Tradesman.

influence 

The  men  who  built  the  first  log cabins 
in  Upper  Canada  belonged  to  that  fac­
tion  of  American  colonists  known  in 
history  as  United  Empire  Loyalists. 
It 
was  a  strong  faction  and  exerted  no  in­
considerable 
in  all  the  col­
onies  in  retarding  the  movement  for  in­
dependence.  These  men  believed 
in 
the  divine  right  of  kings,  and  this  be­
lief  was  an  essential  part  of  their  re­
ligion.  The  king  was  supreme  in  the 
exercise  of  his  prerogatives;  and, 
in 
their  estimation,  it  was  a  sin  against 
high  heaven  to  call  into  question  the 
manner  in  which  he  was  pleased  to  ex­
ercise  his  divine  rights,  or to  pronounce 
any  act  of  his  detrimental  to  the  well­
being  of  his  subjects.  They  were  thus 
blind  to  the  many  acts  cf  injustice  per­
petrated  by  old  King  George  against 
his  American  subjects,  and  they  looked 
upon  the  protesting  acts  of  their  more 
liberty-loving  brethren  as  treasonable. 
When  the  colonies  took  up  arms  in  de­
fense  of  their  just  rights,  these  super­
loyalists  branded  them  as  traitors,  al­
though  they  kept  up  the  struggle  for 
many  months—until,  in  fact,  every  pos­
sible  means  for  bringing  about a redress 
for  the  grievances  complained  of  had 
been 
they  turned 
against  the  old  flag  and  threw  off  their 
allegiance  to  the  British  crown.

exhausted—before 

I  say 

More  than  a  hundred  years  have 
passed  since  that  handful  of  colonists 
gained  their 
independence;  and  when 
we  look  upon  the  Great  Republic  and 
contemplate  the  mighty  result  of  the 
surrender  of  Cornwallis,  and,  on  the 
other  hand,  remember  the  pitiable  con­
dition  of  these  loyalists  at  the  close  of 
that  struggle,  it  would  seem  as  though 
the  God  of  nations  had  so  ordained  it. 
It  would  seem  that  these  worshipers  at 
the  shrine  of  royalty  were  actuated  by  a 
spirit  of  political  fanaticism  rather than 
by. the  principles  of  eternal  justice,  and 
that  the  cruel  adversity  which  fell  to 
their  lot  was  a  just  and  righteous  pun­
ishment  for  the—to  say  the  least—un­
natural  part  they  played  in  the  bloody 
drama. 
it  would  seem  so;  but 
we  must  remember  that  the  god  of  bat­
tle 
is  a  fickle  god,  and  that  circum­
stances  altogether  beyond  human  con­
trol 
sometimes  make  and  unmake 
armies  as  well  as  individuals.  Might  is 
not  always  right,  although  it  wear  the 
crown. 
is  a  divinity  that 
shapes  our  ends,”   and  truth  will  ulti­
mately  prevail,  although  centuries  may 
be  required  to bring  it  to  the  surface. 
Man,  however,  lives  for  the  present, 
and  to  “ might”  
is  accorded  every 
honor  claimed  by  “ right.”   “ To  the 
victor belong  the  spoils,”   is  the  univer­
sal  rule  of  the  world.  A  cause 
is 
deemed  a  bad  cause  when  it  is  a  lost 
cause—never  before.  Whether  a  patriot 
is  a  patriot  depends  altogether  upon  his 
physical  strength: 
if  he  be  able  to 
crush  his  adversary,  all  well  and  good, 
but  if,  by  chance,  the  adversary  hap­
pen  to  crush  him,  he 
is  no  longer  a 
patriot,  but  a  rebel—a  peace-disturb­
ing  factor deserving  of death,  imprison­
ment  or  banishment.

“ There 

With  the  history  of  the  world  spread 
out  before  us,  it  is  perfectly  reasonable 
to  assume  that  the  Declaration  of  Inde­
in  1776  migl^t  have  had  a 
pendence 
different 
ending—and 
then  what? 
George  Washington  would  not  have  be­
come  “ the  father  of  his  country,”   and 
the  men  who  fought  for  British  suprem­
acy  in  America  would  not  have  become 
refugees.  They  would  not 
political 
have-been  subjected  to an 
ignominious

and  bitter  persecution. 
They  would 
not  have been  branded  as  political rep­
robates  by  their  old  neighbors  and  fel­
low  colonists;  and  their  homes  would 
not  have  been  confiscated  and  them­
selves  expatriated.  They  would  have 
been  on  top,  and  their  defense  of  the 
old  flag  would  have  given  them  a  con­
spicuous  page 
in  history  as  heroes  in 
the  upbuilding  and  upholding  of  that 
mighty  empire  upon  whose  vast  and 
wide-reaching  domains  the  sun  never 
sets.  But  the  fates  decided  otherwise 
and  these  United  Empire  Loyalists  re­
tired—or  were  driven,  rather— into  the 
forests  of  Nova  Scotia,  New  Brunswick 
and  Western  Canada,  where  the  old  flag 
still  waved.

It 

is  said  that  over  25,000  of  these 
loyalists  left  the  United  States  in  1784, 
the  year  following  that 
in  which  the 
treaty  of  peace  was  signed,  and  settled 
in  the  British  colonies;  and  of  these, 
10,000  came  to  Upper  Canada,  settling 
chiefly  around  the  Bay  of  Quinte  and 
along  the  Niagara  and  St.  Clair  Rivers. 
Each  U.  E.  Loyalist  received  a  free 
grant  of  200  acres  of  land  for  himself, 
for  each  of  his  sons,  and  for  each  of  his 
daughters  when  they  married. 
In  ad­
dition  to  this  they  were  given  a  three- 
years'  supply  of  provisions,  besides 
clothing, 
imple­
ments.  Disabled  soldiers  also  received 
grants  of  land,  besides  aid  from  the 
Government  for  a  time.

tools,  and 

farming 

In  1791  Canada  was  divided  into  two 
provinces  and  George  III.  gave  the 
people  of  Upper  Canada  a  Parliament; 
and  Sir  John  Graves  Simcoe,  himself  a 
U.  E.  Loyalist,  became  the  first  Gov­
ernor.  As  a  British  loyalist  Governor 
Simcoe  was  a  stalwart  of  the  stalwarts. 
He  saw  the  wondrous  possibilities  that 
awaited  the  settler  in  the  new  province, 
and  he  resolved  to  lay  a  foundation  for 
the  new  commonwealth  that  would  be 
so  thoroughly  British  that  the  super­
structure,  however  great 
it  might  be­
come,  would  remain  loyal  from  center 
to  circumference.  A  century  has  passed 
since  Governor  Simcoe  traversed  the 
forests  of  Upper  Canada,  and  if he were 
permitted  to  ride  in  a  Pullman  coach, 
to-day,  over  the  network  of  railways 
that  cobweb  the  beautiful  Ontario  pen­
insula,  and  view  from  the  car  window 
the  substantial  homes  and  fertile  fields 
of  the  people,  and  learn  how  devotedly 
attached  these  people  are  to  the great 
Empire  of  which  they  form  a  part,  he 
would  retire  to  his  place  of  rest  feeling 
that  his  wildest  dreams  had  been  more 
than  realized.  As  a  commonwealth  of 
comfortable  homes  and contented home- 
dwellers,  Ontario  has,  without  a  doubt, 
no  peer on  the  face  of  the globe.

loyalists. 

Governor  Simcoe  championed  the 
cause  of  the  refugee 
Pie 
visited  Nova  Scotia  and  New  Bruns­
wick,  where  he  held  public  meetings 
and  portrayed  the  advantages  of  settle­
ment  in  the  new  piovince.  He  prom­
ised  them  free  grants  of  land  and  va­
rious  immunities  and  privileges,  which 
had  the  effect  of  starting  a  tide  of  emi­
gration  from  the  rigorous  climate  and 
rock-bound  valleys  of  the  little  prov­
inces  “ down  by  the  sea,”   to  the  tim­
ber-laden  El  Dorado of  Upper  Canada. 
Emissaries  were  sent 
into  “ The  Jar- 
seys”   and  other  new  American  states 
with  circulars  descriptive  of  the  new 
country,  and  many  known  British  sym­
pathizers  were  thus  induced  to  cast  in 
their  lot  with  their  expatriated  and 
more  pronounced  brethren,  in  the  work 
of  planting  anew  the  principles  of  Brit­
ish  institutions  in  another  section  of the 
American  continent.  •  -

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A  Drummer’s  Peculiar  Experience  in 

a  Country  Store.

Written for the Tradesman.

During  a  blinding  snowstorm  which 
seemed  to  have  blocked  the  highways 
and  suspended  trade  in  the  city  as well,
I  found  it  necessary  to  visit  a jeweler 
for  some  slight  repairs  on  my  watch. 
While  observing  the  man  at  his  work,  I 
remarked, 
“ Yours,  Mr.  Williams,  is, 
in  many  respects,  a  peculiar  vocation. 
You  may  be  both  a  mechanic  and  a 
merchant —  perhaps  a  manufacturer 
and  often  have  in  your  stock,  or  in  pos­
session  for  others,  wealth  amounting  to 
a  great  sum.  And  it  must  require  con­
stant  watchfulness  and  anxiety  on  your 
part  to  guard  against  losses.  Naturally, 
you  must  have  encountered  some  pe­
culiar 
in  your  business  life. 
Can  you  not  furnish  me—a  reporter—a 
chapter  from  your own  experience  that 
may  prove  interesting,  if  not  valuable, 
to  others?”

incidents 

clocks 

“ Yes,  I  think  I  can,”   my  friend  re­
plied,  with  a  feeble  smile  and  empha­
sizing  the  last  word. 
“ When  a  boy,  I 
had  an  uncle  whose  only  business  was 
and 
cleaning  and  repairing 
watches.  He  kept  no  stock 
in  trade 
and  employed  no  assistant.  Being  often 
in  his  little  shop,  I  was  occasionally 
useful  to  him 
in  many  ways,  always 
watching  him  closely,  so  that,  in  time,
I  found  myself  at  work  as  an apprentice 
—taking  apart  and  cleaning and putting 
together  the  old-time  wooden  clocks 
and,  still 
later  on,  the  watches  which 
came  to  him for repairs.  Scarcely know­
ing  how,  I  became,  in  time,  a  good 
workman  at  the  trade.  Then,  owing  to 
ill  health,  I  gave  up  the  sedentary  life 
and  engaged  to  travel  for  an  agricul­
tural  implement  house.

“ At  that  early  day  railroads  were  few 
in  number,  and  connected  only  the 
principal  cities  of  the  country;  and  I 
was  often  obliged  to  leave  a  train  at 
some  lonely  crossroad  and  travel  as  best
1  could  ten  or  fifteen  miles  to  a  country 
village  for  my  best  customers.

“ One bitter cold  day  the  last  of  No­
vember,  I  stepped  off at  a  way  station 
in  the  country,  about  n   o’clock  at 
night,  twelve  miles  from  the  little  vil­
lage  of  five  or  six  hundred  inhabitants, 
where  business  called  me.  There  was 
no  snow  on  the  frozen  earth,  but  the 
moon  furnished  sufficient  light  to  see 
my  way  and,  buttoning  my  coat  about 
me,  I  struck  out  briskly. 
It  was  rough 
walking  and,  making  slow  progress,  I 
could  hardly  keep  myself  warm ;  but  at
2  a.  m.  I  entered  the  main  street  of  the 
village. 
I 
began  at  once  to  look  for  a  hotel.  Not 
in  sight,  nor  a  person  stirring  on 
one 
the  street  at  that  hour. 
I  was  still 
trudging  along  on  the  narrow  board 
sidewalk,  when  a 
light  from  a  store 
window,  casting 
its  bright  rays  upon 
the walk,  from  beneath  its  nearly-drawn 
curtain,  attracted  my  attention.  Both 
to  enquire  for  a  public  house  and  to 
warm  myself 
if  possible,  I  decided  to 
go  in ;  so,  walking  quickly  to  the  door,
I turned  the  knob  and  stepped  in.

It  was  my  first  visit  there. 

“ At  my  right  hand,  inside  an  open 
railing,  at  the  end  of  a  counter,  a  man 
was  sitting,  with  his  hat  off,  at  a  work 
table  fronting  the  window.  On  this  a 
lamp  was  burning,  and  there  were  also 
a  number  of 
implements, 
three  or  four  watches,  and  several others 
hanging  upon  a  wire  drawn  across  its 
front.  The  man  was  tilted  back  in  his 
chair  in  an  easy  position,  quietly smok­
ing  a  cigar.  Close  behind  him  was  a

jewelers’ 

nail  iron  safe,  with  its  door  open. 
“ Removing  his  cigar,  and  partially

shading  his  eyes  with  his  left  hand  as 
if  to  obtain  a  better  view  of  me,  he 
said,  ‘ Good  evening,  sir.’

“ Returning  his  salutation,  l  began, 
‘ You  are  working  rather  late,  sir.  I  am 
a  stranger 
in  your  village  and,  having 
just  walked  from  the  railway  station  to­
night,  I  am  suffering  with  cold;~so, 
noticing  a  light  in  your  store,  I  decided 
to  stop  and  get  warm—I  hope  I  have 
not  intruded. ’

it. 

is  usually 

“   ‘ Not  in  the  least,’  he  pleasantly  re­
plied;  ‘ have  a  seat  by  the  stove,’  and 
he  motioned  toward 
‘ My  front 
door 
locked  at  this  time  of 
night,’  he  continued,  ‘ and  I  was  rather 
startled when you stepped in so quietly.— 
You  remarked  that  I  am  working 
late. 
No,  I  am  not  here  for  that  purpose— 
only  to  keep  the  store  moderately  warm 
this  unusually  cold  night  and  I  was 
just  placing  my  jewelry  in  the  safe  be­
fore  going  home. ’  Then,  reaching  for 
a  box  of  cigars  near  him,  the  man 
pushed  open  the  wicket,  walked  to  the 
front  door  and  locked 
it,  then  stepped 
back  to  the  stove  and,  seating  himself 
on  the  side  opposite  me,  passed  the box 
toward  me. with the laconic,  ‘ Have one. ’ 
“ I  accepted  the  cigar and,  after light­
ing 
it,  observed:  ‘ You  would  hardly 
feel  safe  to  leave  your  door  unlocked  in 
oqr  large  cities  unless  well  prepared  for 
jeweler 
strange  visitors.  I  myself  am.a 
by  trade,  and  I  know  that  “ Caution 
is 
the  parent  of  safety.

“   ‘ O,  la m   always  well  prepared  for 
trouble,  you  see.  if 
it  comes,’  and  he 
gently  patted  the  handle  of  a  revolver 
which  protruded  from  his breast pocket; 
‘ and  I  have  its  companion  also,  lying 
conveniently  near,’  he  added,  with  a 
smile.  The  man  seemed  wrapped  in 
thought  for  a  few  moments,  then  spoke 
again :  ‘ You  say you area jeweler—with 
whom  did  you  learn  the  business?’

“   ‘ My  uncle,  Lorin  Williams,  of  Co­

lumbus,  Ohio,’  I  answered.

“   ‘ Lorin  Williams,’  the  man repeated 
in  a  tone  of  astonishment;  ‘ and  you  are 
his  nephew— ’  and  he  hesitated  an  in­
stant,  seemingly  as  if  he  had  forgotten 
the  given  name.

“   ‘ James  Williams,’  I  volunteered. 
“ In  a  moment  the  man  had 

jumped 
to  his  feet  and  was  reaching  his  hand 
across  the  stove  toward  me.  * Is  it  pos­
sible, ’  he  exclaimed,  ‘ that  I  meet  little 
Jimmie  Williams  again  after  so  many, 
many  years!’  and  he  grasped  my  hand 
and  shook  it  warmly. 
‘ And  you  surely 
must  remember  me—as  the  little  boy, 
Ren  Clarke,  who  so  often  went  nutting 
I  was  the  elder,  you  remem­
with  you? 
ber?  Well,  well,’  he  added, 
‘ what 
strange  things  will  happen! 
Is  your 
uncle  still  living?’

he 

remarked, 

“   ‘ He  is, ’  I  replied.
“ Suddenly  he  consulted  his  watch 
lock 
and  said,  ‘ Wait  a  moment  while  I 
talk  about 
my  safe,  and  then  we’ll 
sleep.’  He  occupied  probably 
five 
minutes  with  his  work,  then,  approach­
ing  the  stove  again  as  he  buttoned  his 
overcoat, 
familiarly, 
‘ Jimmie,  my  wife  is,  by  this  time,  very 
anxious about  me  and  I  must  go  home. 
Now,  if  you  would  prefer  to  do  so, 
rather  than  crawl  into  a  cold  bed  at  the 
hotel,  you  are  welcome  to  occupy  my 
couch  here  by  the  fire;’  and,  upon  my 
replying,  ‘ All  right, ’ he quickly stepped 
to  the  rear  of  the  room  and  drew  for­
ward  an old-fashioned lounge and placed 
it  between  the  stove  and  the  counter. 
‘ Here  is  the  key  in  the  front  door;  and 
forget  to  lock  it  after  I  leave. 
don’t 
Our  best  hotel 
is  one block  east,  and 
breakfast  will  be  on  its  table  from  7  to 
O,  yes— I  had  nearly  forgotten  to

send  this by  you, ’  and  he  handed  me  a 
small  package;  ‘ don’t  forget  to  give 
this  to  the  landlord,  and  say  that  it  is 
from  Renford  Clarke, ’  and,  with  a  mo­
tion  toward  his hat  and  a  hearty  ‘ Good 
night  and  pleasant  dreams!’  he  hur­
riedly  stepped  out.

“ I  locked  the  door,  leaving  the  key 
in,  and  then  glanced  curiously  over  his 
stock  in  trade.  He  seemed  to  have  a 
little  of  everything  useful  required  by  a 
farming  community,  with many luxuries 
included,  and  I  mentally  said  that  my 
old  friend—whom 
it  severely  taxed  my 
memory  to  recall-had  apparently  done 
well.

*  *  *

“ I  slept  the  sleep  of  the  innocent, 
and  was  aroused  long  after  daylight  by 
a  vigorous  pounding  on  the  door,  and  a 
call  in  a  strange  voice,  ‘ Let  us  in !’

“   ‘ In  a  moment!’  I  cried  out and,

going  to  the  door,  unlocked  and  threw 
it  open,  confronting  the  faces  of  two 
strangers,  the  elder  of  whom  presump­
tuously  demanded  ‘ who  I  was  and  what 
I  was  doing  inside his  store!’

“ Crowding  me  back, 

the  two  men 
stepped 
inside.  The  speaker,  closing 
and  locking  the  door,  took  possession  of 
the  key  and  told  me,  still  in  that  tone 
of  authority,  to  be  seated  by  the  stove, 
while  the  younger  man  proceeded  to  re­
turn  the  lounge  to  its  place  and  then  to 
open  the  store  as  if  for business,  for,  as 
I  said,  the  morning  was  well  advanced.
“   ‘ You  may,  or  may  not,  own  some 
of  these  goods,’  I  cavalierly  said  to  the 
man  who  . first  addressed  me,  and  who' 
was  standing  as  if  to  prevent  my  sud­
den  departure;  ‘ but  I  found  the  pro­
prietor  of  this  store— Mr.'  Clarke— in 
in  the  night,  preparing  to 
here  late 
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I 

family,  and  he  desired  me,  as  we  are 
old  friends,  to  remain  and  occupy  his 
couch  by  the  fire,  instead  of  going  to 
the  hotel. 
look  for  him  here  at  any 
moment,  when  he  will  explain  matters 
to  your  satisfaction !  And  now,  sir, ’  I 
continued, 
is  I  who  desire  to  ask 
who  you  are  that  you  take  such  bold 
possession  of  another’s  property!’ 
It 
was  my  turn  at  the  haughty  act.

‘ it 

“ The'man’s  eyes  were  riveted  upon 
me  as  if  I  were  an  escaped  non  compos 
mentis;  and, 
indeed,  his  next  words 
proved  that  such  he  regarded  me:  ‘ A l­
fred,’  he  yelled,  ‘ this  fellow  is  insane! 
Run  for  the  police!!’

“ The  young  man  was  gone  only  a 
few  moments,  when  he  returned  with  a 
constable,  who  listened  to  my  explana­
tion  of  the  case  and  then 
informed  me 
that  ‘there  was  no  man  in  or  near  the 
village  by the name of  Clarke’—that‘ my 
yarn  would  not  go  down. ’

“ And  I  was  at  once  apprehended  and 
searched.  The  package  I  was  to  deliver 
to  the 
landlord  of  the  hotel  was  taken 
from  me,  opened  in  my  presence,  and 
found  to  contain  a pearl necklace valued 
at  $150,  which* this  self-declared  pro­
prietor  of  the  store  avowed  had  been 
taken  from  his  safe.  An  examination 
of  the  safe  revealed  the  fact  that  it  had 
been  skillfully  opened,  and  that  other 
jewelry,  watches  and  money— in  all  to 
the  value  of  $700—had  disappeared.

'Your  story 

is  too  transparent  for 
belief,’  gibed  the  officer. 
‘ You  are  the 
burglar,  and  will  go  with  m e;  and  you 
will  have  time  to  think  the  matter over, 
acknowledge  your guilt  and  tell  where 
you  have  secreted  the  balance  of  the 
goods. ’

“ Well,”   said  Mr.  Williams,  in  con­
clusion,  “ I  was  tried  for  burglary,  con­
victed  and  sentenced  to  prison  for two 
years.  Just  a  few  days  before  I  was  to 
have  been  incarcerated,  the  sheriff  was 
placed  in  possession  of  a  portion  of  the 
lost  jewelry,  with  an  affidavit  from  the 
real  criminal  exonerating  me  from  any 
crime  whatsoever,  and  confessing  that, 
when  discovered  by  me—a  stranger  in 
the  town—he  conceived  the  idea  of  per­
sonating  the  proprietor of the store,  then 
of  assuming  acquaintance 
in  boyhood, 
and  establishing  me  for  the  real  crimi­
nal,  as,  of  course,  my  own  story  would 
not  be  credited;  but,  as  he  had  now 
been  arrested,  convicted  and  sentenced 
to  prison  for  another  and  a  greater 
crime,  he  had  concluded  to  free  the  in­
nocent  strnager  whom  he had  wronged.
“ He  had  never  known  either  myself 
or  any  of  my  family  or  friends.’ ’

F r a n k.  A.  H ow ig.

Lands  in  Central  Wisconsin 

Are  now  as  desirable  as  any  in  the mar­
ket.  The  lands  particularly  in  the Cen­
tral  and  Northern  part  of  Wisconsin, 
are  being  rapidly  taken  up  by  actual 
settlers.

The  most  salable  are  the  timber  and 
meadow  lands,  now  ranging 
in  price 
from  $6.00  to  $12.00  per acre.  A  few 
months  hence  their  value  will  be greatly 
increased.

For  a  home  or  for 

investment  no 
luckier  chance  in  the  West  has  ever  be­
fore  been  offered.  Now  is  the  time  to 
invest.  No  better  farming  land  exists 
anywhere.  No  greater  results  can  be 
obtained  anywhere.

Schools  and  churches  abound  every­
where.  Nearby  markets 
for  all  farm 
products.  Wisconsin  is  one  of  the  ban­
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information  address  or 
call  upon  W.  E.  Powell,  General Immi­
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further 

Foi 

The  latest  estimate  of  the  Jewish pop­
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500,000,  of  which  140,000  is  credited  to 
New  York.

Injury  to  Trade  Caused  by  Misappre­

hension o f Facts.

From the New York  Sun.

To 

it,  and 

The  cold  demeanor  of  the  haughty 
young  women  in  black  frocks  and  white 
aprons  was  of 
itself  sufficient  to  chill 
ordinary  human  emotions.  Then  there 
seemed  to  be  something  restful  in  the 
long  white  marble  bar,  the  white  mar­
ble  sarcophagus  behind 
the 
nickel-plated  fittings 
from  which  the 
syiups  and  soda  were  drawn.  Alto­
gether,  therefore,  the  soda  water  coun­
ter  was  the  one  peaceful  spot  in  the 
mad  world  of  bargains  and  odd-figure 
prices. 
it  the  flustered  women 
flocked  to  compose  themselves  for a  lit­
tle  while, 
to  reckon  up  the  useless 
things  they  had  bought  and  the  neces­
saries  they  had  forgotten,  and  above  all 
to  make  one  last  despairing  effort  to 
calculate  if  their  change  was  right.

“ Did  you  see  those  cut-glass  bottles 
at  19  cents?"  asked  the  dark  lady,  in  a 
mournful  tone,  as  she  sank wearily upon 
one  of  the  stools  in  front of  the counter. 
“ I  was  dying  to  buy  one,  but  there  was 
such  a  crush  that  I  couldn’t  get  within 
three  rows  of  them. ’ ’

“ Are  you  waited  upon?”   asked  the 
haughty  young  woman  on  the  other  side 
of  the counter,  superciliously.

“ Did  you  ever  try  poking  people’s 
legs  with  an  umbrella  when  you  wanted 
to  get  through  a  crowd?"  asked  the 
light  lady.

“ Are  you  waited  upon?”   asked  the 

haughty  young  woman,  wearily.

“ No,”   replied  the  dark 

never dare  to  do  such  a  thing. ”

lady. 

“ I ’d 

“ Are  you  waited  upon?”   asked  the 

haughty  young  woman,  imperiously.

“ Ob, 

there’s  nothing  daring  about 
it,”   returned  the  light  lady.  “ You  just 
poke  your  umbrella  Detween  the  ankles 
of  the  woman  in  front  of  you,  and  she 
trips  over  it,  turns  to  see  what  it  is  and 
you  slip  in  ahead  of  her  and  look  as 
if 
you  didn’t  know  anything  about  it.”  

“ Are  you  waited  upon?”   asked  the 

haughty  young  woman,  sadly.

“ But  doesn’t  she  get  cross?”   asked 

the  dark  lady.

haughty  young  woman,  firmly.

“ Are  you  waited  upon?”   asked  the 
“ What?  Oh,”   said  the  light  lady. 

“ Give  me  vanilla  ice  cream  soda.”

“ Do  you  always  take  vanilla?”   asked 

the  dark  lady.

woman,  patiently.

“ Two?”   asked  the  haughty  young 

“   ’Most always, ”   answered  the  light 
lady. 
“ Did  you  see  those  odds  and 
ends  of  ribbon  at  ten  cents  a  yard? 
Some  were  actually  worth  a  dollar and 
two  dollars  a  yard.' ’

“ Two?”   asked  the  haughty  young 

woman,  despairingly.

“ And  those  sterling-silver  cuff  but­
tons  at  5  cents  each!”   exclaimed  the 
dark  lady  with  enthusiasm.
woman,  rebell iously.

“ Two?”   asked  the  haughty  young 
“ What?  Oh,“ said  the  light 
lady. 
“ She  wants  to  know  if  you  are  going 
to  take  vanilla,  too.”

“ I  don’t  know,”   replied  the  dark 

lady. 

“ Would  you?”

“ Well,”   continued  the  light 

lady, 
“ whatever  you  do,  go  and  look  at  the 
wash  silks  at  29  cents  a  yard,  from  69.”  
The  haughty  young  woman  stood 

speechless.

“ Well,”   said  the  dark 

lady,  relent­
ing,  “ I  suppose  I  may  as  well  try  it, 
too. ’ ’ ■
“ And,  tell  me,”   went  on  the  light 
lady,  “ do  you  want  any— ”   Then  she 
stopped  suddenly,  as  her  eyes  followed 
those  of  the  dark 
the 
haughty  young  woman  had  moved  away 
to  get  the  soda, the  dark  lady  had looked 
after  her  and  her  eyes  had  lighted  upon 
a  plate  of  fancy  sweet  crackers  on  the 
counter.  The  light 
lady  looked  at  the 
plate  and  then  at  the  dark  lady.  The 
haughty  young  woman  had  her  back 
turned.

lady.  When 

“ Do  you  like  vanilla?”   asked 

the 
light  lady,  loudly,  as she stole a cracker. 
The  haughty  young  woman  turned  sud­
denly.

“ Did  you  say  vanilla?”   she asked. 
“ Yeb, ”   said  the  light  lady,  with  her 
mouth  full  of  crackers,  with  a  guilty 
start.  The haughty  young  woman  turned 
her back  again.

“ There  are  a  great  many  bargains 
lady,  loudly,  as 
here,”   said  the  dark 
she 
turn  stole  a  cracker.  The 
haughty  young  woman  turned  suddenly 
again.

in 

“ Will  you  have  cherries 

in 

your 

soda?”   she asked.

"Nobe, ”   said  the  dark 

lady,  her 
mouth  also full of  cracker,  with  a  guilty 
blush.

it  seemed  to  the 

The  haughty  young  woman  brought 
over the  two  glasses  of  soda,  and  then, 
so 
two  customers, 
looked  first  at  them  and  afterward at  the 
plate  of  crackers,  with  a  peculiar  ex­
pression.  The  two  customers  grew  un­
comfortable.  The  haughty  young woman 
took  up  the  plate  of  crackers  and  pre­
sented  it  to  them.

“ Won't  you  have  some  crackers?”  

she  asked.

fully.

light  lady.

“ No,”   replied  the  dark 

lady,  scorn­

“ I  do  not  care  for  any,”   said  the 

“ There  is  no  charge  for  them,”   the 

haughty  young  woman  urged.

“ The  idea I”  exclaimed the dark lady.
“ I  guess  1  can  pay  for  crackers  when 
I  want  any, ”   retorted  the  light  lady. 
Then  they  swept  out  of  the  store.  The 
young  woman  stared  after  them  with  all 
her  haughtiness  gone.

“ What  ails  them  all?”   she  asked,  in 
bewilderment,  as  the  floorwalker  came 
bustling  up. 
“ There’s  two  more  cus­
tomers  gone  away  mad.”

The  floorwalker  shook  his  head  sadly.
“ Somehow  women  don’t  seem 
to 
catch  onto  the 
idea  of  free  lunch  at  a 
soda  water  counter,”   he  said.  “ 1  don’t 
know  why  so  many  of  them  should  be 
offended  about  it.  Perhaps we  oughtn’t 
to  have  tried  to  establish 
it.  Anyway, 
the  next  time  don’t  offer  them  any 
crackers; 
them 
when  they  think  you’re  not  looking.”

let  them  snoop 

just 

The  inhabitants  of  the  United  States 
consume  more  than  one-half  of  the  qui­
nine  produced 
in  the  world,  and  yet 
people  wonder  where  all  the  dyspepsia 
comes  from.

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TRICKS  OF  THE  TRADE.

Shrewd  Ladies  Cause  Store-keepers 

More  Trouble  than  Shop-lifters. 

From tbe Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

Looking  back  upon  the  month  of  De- 
ceniDer,  or  that  part  ot  it  during  which 
Christmas  shopping  reaches  its  height, 
aiforus  the  managers,  the  tioorwalkers, 
and  the  clerks  connected  with  the  big 
State  street  stores  the  same  pleasure, 
probably,  as the old  veteran derives from 
recounting  his  experiences  on  the  bat­
tle  held.  1’he  recollection  oi  those  busy 
days  is  not  always  pleasant  to  the  long- 
suttering  people  who  tiy  to  serve  both 
the  proprietor  and  the  shopper  at  the 
same  time,  but  there  is  not a  little  sat­
isfaction  in  the  feeling  that  they  have 
gained  an 
increased  knowledge  ot  hu­
man  nature,  ot  its  eccentricities  and  its 
tailings,  and  especially  that  they  have 
fathomed  many 
little  sharp  practices 
tor  beating  the  stores,  although  they 
could  not always  circumvent  them.

bbop-liftmg,  cheating,  and  the  sharp 
but  dishonest  tricks  ot  rehned  and  well- 
to-do  pedple  are  not  confined  to  the 
holiday  season. 
Such  things  are  a 
source  ot  more  or  less  annoyance  to 
shop-keepers  the  year around,  but  when 
the  stores  are  crowded  and  the  desire  ot 
getting  much  tor  little  or  something  for 
nothing  is  most  intense,  as  is  the  case 
Christmas  time,  opportunities  are  most 
abunuant and  temptations are strongest, 
with  the  result  that  the  infractions ot 
law  and  honesty  are  more  numerous 
than  at  any  other  time.

Sbop-lilting  has  been  brought  to  such 
perfection these late days  that it requires 
and  has  produced  a  marvelous  system 
cf  secret  service  to  deal  with  it.  The 
amount  of  goods  carried  out  of  the  de­
partment  stores  during  December  with­
out  the  formality  ot  buying  was  un­
doubtedly  no  mere  bagatelle,  but  mer­
chants  are  quite  positive  in  their  belief 
that  their  losses  from  this  source are 
not 
increasing  to  any  extent,  and  that 
possibly  they  are  on the decrease,  owing 
to  the  alertness  and  efficiency  of  their 
detective  forces.  Old  shop-lifters,  or 
even  those  who  have  been  caught  but 
once  in  the act  of  pilfering,  may as well 
turn  to  other  means  of  gaining  a  liveli­
hood,  for  they  no  sooner  enter a  store 
than  they  are  recognized  and  ordered 
out. 
In  spite  of  all  this,  innocent-look­
ing  maids  continue  to  make  a  comfort­
able  but  precarious  living  by  lugging 
from 
their  capacious 
cloaks,  an  assortment  of  merchandise 
varying  from  a  piece  of  jewelry  to  a 
bolt of  cloth. 
It  is  said  that  one  young 
woman,  through  her  cleverness  as  a 
shop-lifter,  kept  her  father’s  peddler 
wagon  well  stocked.  It  is  also  said  that 
respectable  ladies  have  been  known  to 
slip  a  bit  of  lace  or  ribbon  up  their 
sleeve  or 
into  their  muff,  and  more  ot 
these  have  been  detected  and  made  to 
deliver  up  their  booty  than  the  records 
of  the  police  courts  show.  An  experi­
enced  detective  seldom fails  to  discrim­
inate  rightly  between  a  case  of  this 
kind  and  a  member  of  the  profession, 
and  leniency  is always  shown.

stores,  under 

There are  other  practices  charged  to 
the  female  shopper  that are  less  grave 
than  shop-lifting,  indeed  many  of  them 
are  considered  nothing  more  than  smart 
or  shrewd.  Because all  these  acts  can­
not  be  classed  as  misdemeanors and  the 
perpetrators  are  not  amenable  to  law, 
they  are  all  the  more  vexing  to  store­
keepers.

For  instance,  a  lady  sees a  pattern, 
design  or  combination  of  colors  on  a 
sofa  pillow  perhaps.  She  wants  the  pat­
tern,  but  does  not  care  for  or cannot 
afford  the  pillow.  She  may  simply  ask 
to  see  it  and  give  it  such  a  close  exam­
ination  that  she  can  carry  away  in  her 
memory  what  she  wishes  to  copy.  To 
condenm  that  as  dishonest  might  be 
prudish,  but  when,  as  is  often  done,  the 
bogus  customer  buys  the  article,  takes 
it  home,  makts  use  of  it  as  a  pattern 
and  then  returns  it  with  some  feigned 
complaint,  there  are  reasonable  grounds 
for  objections  from  the  store. 
In  the 
majority  of  cases  the  shopper  gains  her 
point.  To  borrow  some article  “ to show 
to an  invalid  friend,’ ’  or  to  take  some­
thing  home  to  match  before  purchas­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it 

ing,  are  absurd  favors  that  are  'granted 
sparingly,  yet  it  must  be  done  at  times 
or  the  patrons  will  be  offended. 
It  may 
be  well  known  that  this  request  is  only 
a  trick  to  get  the  use  of  the  garment, 
or  whatever  it  may  be,  for  some  special 
occasion.

Women  have  been  known  to  work  to­
gether and  to  deliberately  plan  to  beat 
In  buying  ribbon  one  lady 
the  stores. 
will  take  all  but  a  tew  yards  of  a  bolt 
and  another,  in 
league  with  her,  will 
soon  after discover  the  remaining  piece 
and  demand 
it  at  a  reduced  price  be­
cause 
is  a  remnant,  thus getting  the 
entire  bolt  at  less  than the regular price.
It  is  an  old  trick  to buy handkerchiefs 
or gloves,  requesting  a  pretty  box to put 
them  in,  and  bring  them  back  to  ex­
change  tbe  next  day  minus  the  box.  Of 
course,  the  sale  check  has  no  mention 
of  the  box,  and 
it  is  useless  to  parley 
over the  matter.

There  are  other  schemes  that  cannot 
be  excused  as  simply  “ shrewd”   or 
“ cute,”   and  yet  women  who are  honest 
in  most  matters  are  guilty  of them,  bale 
checks are  manipulated  so  that  a  cheap 
is  exchanged  for an  expensive 
article 
one. 
Correction 
in  accounts  which 
were  run  during  the  busy Christmas sea­
son  are  insisted  upon.  The  merchant 
nas  to  admit  that at  such times mistakes 
are  a  likely  occurrence,  and  he  allows 
himselt  to  be  worsted  in  the  deal  rather 
than  lose  a  customer.

“ Yes,”   said  one  of  the  State  street 
store  managers,  “ we  have  more  diffi­
cult  matters  to  deal  with  than  shop­
In  fact,  1  think  that  profes­
lifting. 
sional  thieving 
is  on  the  decline,  so 
efficient  are  the  private detectives in the 
big  stores.

“ It  bothers  us  more  to  discriminate 
between  the  perfectly  honest  buyer  and 
the  one  who  thinks  it  her  duty  to  bleed 
us  every  chance  she  gets. 
It  is  sur­
prising  what  tricks  women  will  resort 
to  who  would  be  everlastingly  offended 
were  they  told  that  they  are  dishonest. 
Many of them are carried away,no doubt, 
in  the  excitement  of  holiday  buying 
and  do  things  then  that  they  would  hes- 
tiate  long  to  dc  at  other  times.  Some 
of  their  acts  are  nothing  but  downright 
dishonesty,  while  a  great  many  are 
simply 
indomitable  cheek,  but  never­
theless  very annoying  to  us.

“ Stores,  in  a  sense,  are public  places, 
the  counters  and 
but  the  goods  on 
shelves  are  not  public  property. 
is 
awful  the  way  stuff  is  soiled  that  is  al­
lowed  to  be  examined.  Surely 
ladies 
would  not  handle  things  so  carelessly  if 
they  were  their  own.  Our  losses  in  this 
way  are  not  small,  especially  during 
those  few  days  before  Christmas  when 
everyone  seems  to  lose  considerable  of 
their  self-respect  and  more  of  their  re­
spect  for others. ’ ’

It 

One  who  has  faced  the  music  from 
behind  the  counter  said:  “ As  far  as 
interesting  episodes  go,  I  could  write  a 
book  about  my  experiences  last  month. 
It  would  not  need  to  be  overdrawn  in 
tbe  least  to  be  a  revelation  to  many  on 
some  phases  of  human  nature.  To any­
one  who  is  interested  in  character study 
the  life of  a  clerk  is enjoyable,  although 
one  does  get  terribly  provoked  at  fre­
quent  cases  of  monstrous  nerve.

“ We  will  never  cease  being  surprised 
at  some  new  departure  of  the  wily shop­
per,  I  suppose,  but  most  of  the  tricks 
are  known  to  one  who  has  served  trade 
for  years. 
It  requires  great  diplomacy 
at  times  to  handle  these  customers,  and 
it's  delightful  to  fool  them.  Being  held 
accountable  for  everything  we  do,  and 
fearing  to  offend,  often  we  are  helpless 
to  prevent  some  sharp  transaction  that 
we  know  is a  deliberate  plan  to  beat the 
store. ’ ’

One hen  is  equal  to  an  acre  of  land, 
according  to  tbe  calculations  of  a  Cen­
tral  Branch,  Kan.,  farmer,  who  figures 
that,  whereas  the  ground  produces  in  a 
year  twenty  bushels  of  corn  worth  $2, 
the  hen,  which  costs  less  to  take  care 
of,  lays  ten  dozen  eggs  worth  $1.50.

Oysters  and  eggs  in  course of ship­
ment 
in  the  express  car of  a  Santa  Fe 
train  that  was  blocked  by  a  snowdrift 
near  Dodge  City,  Kan.,  served  to  feed 
the  passengers  during  a  ten  hours’  de­
tention.

as 

There  are  few 

Soda  Water—the  American  Beverage. 
C. A. Doty in the Helper.
industries  which  of 
recent  years  have  assumed  greater  pro­
portions  than  the  manufacture  and  dis­
pensing  of  carbonated  beverages.  The 
reason  of  this  is  very  plain :  The  dis­
penser  of  cool,  refreshing  drinks  has 
left  no  means  untried  to  discover  some 
new  and  delicious  drink  to  tempt  the 
weary  and  thirsty.  The  soda  business 
in  some  cities  has  attained  such  large 
proportions 
to  equal  the  finest 
equipped  saloon  business.

There  is  no  business  in  which  a  mer­
chant  can  engage  which  yields  so  large 
a  return  on  the  investment  as  the  dis­
pensing  of  soda  water. 
It  is  a  ladies’ 
drink,  a  gentlemen’s  drink ;  in  fact,  a 
It  has  no  in­
drink  for old  and  young. 
toxicating  properties. 
It  is  a  healthy, 
exhilarating  drink,  ever  popular  with 
all.

The  confectioner  or  baker  must  un­
derstand  that,  to  draw  trade,  bis goods 
should  be  of  the  best.  Fruit  syrups 
should  be  made  from  fruit  juices,  not 
imitations;  and  all  syrups  should  be 
colored  true  to  the  name.  Everything 
about 
the  counter  should  be  clean, 
bright  and  inviting  to  the appetite.  Re­
member,  all  summer  drinks  should  be 
drawn  cold,  and  all  hot  drinks,  hot.

Another  thing:  Don’t  see  how  cheap 
you  can  make  it  and  how  cheap  you can 
sell  it;  but  make  a  good  article  and  get 
a  good  price.  Make  money;  don’t 
throw  your  labor away ;  life is too  short; 
make  the  most  of  it  while  here.  .1  ad­
vocate  selling  soda  water—plain,  at  five 
cents;  with 
ice  cream,  ten  cents;  hot 
soda,  ten  cents  also.  Cold  soda  water 
can  be  sold  the  year  around,  and  hot 
soda  at  least  six  months,  according  to 
location.  We  are  not  all  large  eaters ; 
many  persons,  especially 
ladies,  are 
satisfied  with  a  cup  of  beef  tea  or  clam 
bouillon  and  a  few  wafers  for  lunch, 
while  down  town  shopping.  Remem­
ber the  ladies,  and  cater  principally  to 
them,  as  three-fourths  of  the  confec­
tioners'  and  bakers’  trade  is  from  the 
women.  When  you  once  have  a 
lady

patron,  you  are  sure  to  have  others  in  a 
short  time.  When  one  of  the  fair  sex 
gets  a  good  thingshe  is  not ^contented 
until 'all  her  friends  know  it.

Make  everything  that  you  possibly 
can  yourself.  Commence  with  extracts, 
such  as  vanilla, 
lemon,  orange,  etc. 
Acid  solution,  acid  phosphate,  soda 
foam  and  colors  can  be  made  by  almost 
anyone  who  has  a  good  formula  for  the 
same.  Crushed  fruits  and  fruit  juices 
or  syrups  can  also  be  made  at  home 
in 
season  and  put  away 
for  future  use. 
Don’t  buy  everything  that  comes  along. 
If  you  do,  you,  perhaps,  make  a  small 
profit,  but  you  have  the  satisfaction  of 
knowing  that  every  “ jim  crow”   shop 
along  tbe  street  has  the  same  thing, 
and  you  are  all  advertising  somebody 
else’s  business.  Don’t do  this.  Get  up 
new  drinks  yourself.  Have  a  neat  menu 
printed  with  a  list  of  your  diinks,  hot 
or  cold,  and  have  a  list  different  from 
any  others,  so  your  customers  will  come 
to  your  place  for  certain  drinks  which 
you  alone  have.

Florida’s  Sugar  Possibilities.

Florida  is  believed  by 

its  adherents 
to  be  capable  of  producing  sugar  in 
quantity  sufficient  to  go  far  toward  sup­
plying  the  domestic  demand  for  that 
product.  A  Florida  paper  tells  of  the 
visit  paid  by  several  Cuban  refugees  to 
a  famous  Florida  sugar  plantation.  The 
Cubans  have  been  engaged 
in  sugar 
culture  on  that  island.  These  gentle­
men  have  unlimited  means,  and  repre­
sent  numerous  families  who  would  be 
likely  to  locate  on  the  farm  should  they 
decide  to  take  hold  here.  On  account 
of  the  high  taxes  required  by  the  gov­
ernment  of  Spain,  and the import duties 
of  the  United  States,  they  think  that 
sugar  can  be grown  more  profitably 
in 
Florida  than  in  Cuba.

In  Penobscot  county,  Me.,  the  fines 
imposed  on  dealers  who  violate  the 
liquor  law  pay  all  the  county  expenses. 
The  fines  are  collected  with  as  much 
regularity  as  if  they  were  licenses.

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new colors and designs.

DRESS  GOODS,  Plaids,  Mixtures,  Coverts,  Plain  and  Fancy 

Weaves at from 7>$  to 42}£c.  per yard.
Be sure and  see our line before buying.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods.

G R A N D  R A P ID S .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

CotnmercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the drip.

President, J a8  F  Hammell, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D. ('.  slaght, Flint;  Treasurer,Chas. McNolty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President. S.  H.  Hast,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 

Chancellor. H.  U.  Marks,  Detroit;  Secretary. 
Edwin Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Geo,  a. Ret-, 
nolds,  Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen, Grand Rapids. 

President, A. F. Peake; Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  Tyler, H.  B.  F air- 
child, Jas. N. Bradford. J  Henry Dawley.Geo. 
J.  Heinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Jos.  Glass  has  gone  on  the  road ior 
Wm,  Reid,  taking  Western  Michigan 
as  his  territory.  He 
intends  to  call  on 
his  customers  every  thirty  days.

There  are  many  hours  with  heavy- 
laden  feet  which  press  upon  the  heart 
of  him  who  is  compelled,  by his  voca­
tion,  to  be  away,  and  often  far away, 
from  home.

Lovers’ purses  are  said  to be tied with 
cobwebs,  but  the  stoutest  purse  strings 
must  yield  to  the  persuasive  business 
tact  of  the  commercial  traveler—that's 
what he  is  employed  for by  the house.

Friends  of  Chas.  B.  Field  will  regret 
to  learn  that  he  suffered  a  second  stroke 
of  paralysis  Monday  evening  and  that 
he  is  still 
in  a  critical  condition,  al­
though  there  is a manifest improvement.
The  material  comforts  of  the  earth  on 
which  we  live  radiate  from  one  center 
—that  of  commerce.  Destroy  the  com 
merce  of  the  world  and  you  would  de­
stroy  its  civilization  and  relegate 
it  to 
the  primitive  condition  of  hopeless  bar­
barism.

If  the  young  women  of  this  country 
would  rush 
into  their  home  laundries 
instead  of  literature,  become  authors  of 
pie  instead  of  poetesses  of  passion,  says 
an  exchange,  there  would  probably  be 
more  married  traveling  men.

There  are  some  men  on  the  road  who 
waste  their  energies  in  the attempt  to 
become 
They 
would  do  much  better  jerking  a  bell 
cord  over a  mule’s back  or  fiddling  on 
a  stick  of  cord  word  with  a bucksaw.

successful 

salesmen. 

There 

is  not  a  commercial  traveler 
who  has  been  on  the  road  for  a  few 
years  who  has  not  been  through  experi­
ences  to paint  the  somber  hue  of  which 
one  would  have  to  dip  his  pen  into very 
dark  shadows.  Let  no one  think  for  a 
moment  that  his  life  is  all  ease and sun­
shine 1

The  traveling  salesman  usually speaks 
from  experience  and  without  prejudice, 
and 
if  be  says  a  hotel  is  not  what  it 
ought  to  be,  or  the  merchants  of  any 
particular  place 
lack  enterprise  and 
judgment  in  the  purchase  of  goods,  it is 
safe  to  wager  that  in  nine  cases  out  of 
ten  he  is  right.

In  selling  goods  on  the  road,  as  in 
every  other  occupation,  it 
is  the  pro­
gressive  man  who  succeeds,  who  makes 
money  for  the  house,  who  is  a  credit  to 
his  calling  and  who 
is  happy.  Above 
all  he  must  be  in  love  with  his  work, 
otherwise  all  the  dry  knowledge  in  the 
world  will  avail  little.

Gilson  K.  Coffee  has  sold  his  grocery 
stock  at  White  Cloud  to J.  C.  Townsend 
and  engaged  to  travel  on  the  road  for 
the.  J.,  P..  Dieter  Co.,  of  Chicago.  .  If

Mr.  Coffee  achieves  the  same  measure 
of  success as  a  traveling  salesman  that 
he  did  as  a  merchant,  some  of  his  com­
petitors  will  have  to  look  well  to  their 
laurels.

Geo.  Hanselman, 

the  Kalamazoo 
confectionery  manufacturer,  has  been 
compelled  to  make  a  change 
in  his 
traveling  force,  owing  to  the  death  of 
Carl  Reinsch,  who represented the house 
in  the  capacity  of  city salesman.  Walter 
Baker,  who  has  traveled  from  Grand 
Haven  for  several  years,  has  been  re­
quested  to  remove  to  Kalamazoo  and oc­
cupy  the  dual  position  of  city  salesman 
and  house  salesman,  and  Mr.  Baker’s 
territory  will  hereafter  be  covered  by  a 
gentleman  whose 
identity  will  be  dis­
closed 
in  the  course  of  a  week  or two. 
Geo.  A.  Sage  and  C.  D.  Waldo will con­
tinue  to  cover  the  trade  of  Northern 
and  Southern  Michigan,  respectively.

A 

certain  newly-fledged 

traveling 
man,  whose  territory  includes  the  East­
ern  part  of  the  State,  got  things  slightly 
mixed,  in  writing  the  first  letter  home 
after  starting  out  on  his 
initial  trip. 
After  describing  to  the  wife  of  his 
bosom  his  new  work— its  trials  and trib­
ulations,  the  luck  he  had  struck,  the 
orders  booked,  etc.—he  ended  up  with 
the  following  honeyed  muddle:  “ And 
now,  darling,  I  will  say  good-bye,  and 
will  state  that  I  have  been  on  the  road a 
week  and  love  you  still. ’ ’  “ Love  her 
still” — “ love her  still?”   What  did  that 
mean?  After  long  cudgeling  of  her 
brains,  she  could  but  arrive  at  the  con­
clusion  that  he  either  meant  he  loved 
her  when  her  tongue  allowed  him  a 
respite,  or—perish  the  thought!—that, 
in  a  few  added  weeks,  it  was  barely 
possible  that  “ there  might  be  others.”
Two  traveling  men  met  on  the  train 
a  few  weeks  ago  and  exchanged  cards. 
One got  off  the  train  and  the  other  went 
on  an  hour  or  more.  To  beguile  the 
weariness  of  travel  he  entered  into  a 
little  flirtation  with  a  dashing  young 
woman  on  the  car.  Finding  it was  get­
ting  a 
little  more  complicated  than  he 
expected,  he  gave  the  woman  the  other 
man’s  card  and 
invited  her  to  write 
him.  She  wrote,  and  the  letter  fell  into 
the  hands  of  the  other  man’s  wife, 
who  had  pertinent  questions  to  ask  her 
husband  when  he  returned  home.  He 
was  simply  floored.  He  couldn’t  under­
stand  it  and  neither could  his  wife,  al­
though  she  thought  she  did. 
It  was  a 
long  time  before  the  husband  could  fig­
ure 
it  out,  and  even  when  he  brought 
the  guilty  man  to  his  home  to  make  the 
necessary  explanation,  his  wife  still  had 
a  lurking  suspicion  that  she  was  being 
fooled.  The  victim  has  quit  exchang­
ing  cards  with  strangers.

Easy  All!

“ Easy «111” rings out the order,
And the muscles cease to strain,
And the swing of oarS in  r> wlocks 
Stops it rhythmical  refrain.
And the sinking heart beats freely. 
And the spent breath comes again.

“ Easy all!”  Oh. joyous mandate 
To the smugglers on  life's flood,
Be it but a passing respite 
For the brain and strength and blood, 
Though far distant be the guerdon, 
Fame or wealth or livelihood.

When the summer sunshine  brightens, 
Grimy street and sullen wall.
From the strips of azure heaven,
Seems to come tfe kindly call:
“ Rest a while, ye weary toilers.
Drop your oars, and easy all I”

He  Paid  the  Penalty.

She—And  did  your  friend  take  the 

doctor's  advice?
He— Certainly.
“ And  did  he  pay  for  it?”
“ Well,  I  should  rather  say he did! 

H e’s dead !” 

.

.

.

Desirability  of  Handling  Standard 

Written for tne Tradesman.

Brands.  '

Standard  brands cost  more  to  buy than 
the  “ just  as  good”   kinds,  but  they  are 
infinitely  cheaper  to  keep  on  hand. 
This  is  especially  true  of  eatables.  We 
have  to  pay  a  pretty  stiff price  for  A.  & 
H.  saleratus,  but  many  successful  gro­
In  this  lo­
cers  handle  no  other  kind. 
impos­
cality,  at  any  rate,  it  is  almost 
sible  to  sell  anything  else,  and  there 
is 
no  especial  advantage  in  having  good 
money  tied  up  in  unsalable  articles.

There  is no  particular  need  of  going 
into  the  matter  of  brands  here.  Every 
merchant  knows  about  what 
is  de­
manded  by  his  trade;  but  the  point  I 
am  making 
is  the advisability  of  con­
fining  one’s  purchases  largely  to  those 
brands  which  are  well  and  favorably 
known  and  which  always have a  fixed 
marketable  value.

The  temptation  to  buy 

something 
which  will  pay  us  5  or  10  per  cent, 
more  profit  is  sometimes  great  and  we 
often  feel  “ sore”   at  the  methods  em­
ployed  by  the  makers  of  goods  which 
we  are  obliged  to  handle;but,  neverthe­
less,  it  is  poor  policy  to keep  and  push 
undesirable  goods  at  the  expense  of 
I  have  had  occasion  sev­
losing  trade. 
eral  times  to  officiate 
in  the  finale  of 
sundry  small  mercantile establishments, 
and  have  invariably  had  trouble  in  fix­
ing  values  on  much  of  the  stock  on 
hand,  for  the  reason  that  so  many  kinds 
of  package  goods  were  of  unknown 
brands  and  doubtful  quality.  A  grocery 
stock  which  inventoried  about $450 had, 
Seven 
among  other  choice  morsels: 
boxes  of  obscure 
fourteen 
varieties  of  baking  powder—five  of 
these  being  scheme  goods; 
thirteen 
kinds  of  soap,  all  but  three  of  which 
were  either  cheap  or  unknown,  and 
nearly  five  sugar  barrels  packed  solid 
with 
in 
packages.  There  was  not  a  pound  of 
sugar  or  pork  or flour or  decent  tea  or 
coffee  in  the  shop.  What  wonder  the 
fellow  failed!  One  should  bear  in  mind 
that  a  community  consumes  only  a 
limited  quantity  of  baking  powder  in  a 
given 
is  hard  to 
force  the  market  with  it ;  and  my  ex­
perience  has  been  such  that  I  regard 
with  suspicion  the  solvency  of  the  re­
tail  grocer  who  loads  down  his  shelves 
with  more  than  six  brands  of  this  ar­
ticle.

low-priced  smoking  tobacco 

length  of  time. 

saleratus, 

It 

I  don’t  know  but 

There  is  no  truer  mercantile  maxim 
“ Goods  well  bought  are  half 
than 
sold.”  
it  would  be 
safe  to  increase  the  size  of  the  fraction. 
Within  a  very  short  time  I  went  over 
the  inventory  of  a  small  grocery,  stock 
to  find  no  less  than  five  items  of  50 cent 
tea  and  several  gross  of  undesirable 
flavoring  extracts,  to  say  nothing  of 
large  quantities  of  prize  baking  powder 
of  different  makes.  The  man  was  un­
able  to  pay  his bills.  How  much  bet­
ter  it  would  have been  had  he  carried 
one  good  brand  of  tea  of  the grade men­
tioned  and say  two  of  baking  powder! 
A  very  few  dozen  bottles  of  flavoring 
extracts  would  have  supplied  his  trade, 
paid  him  a  better  profit  and  allowed 
him  the  use  of  his  money  in  other and 
more  needful  directions.

I  do  not  advocate  the  exclusive  sale 
of  standard  brands,  for  there  are  often 
other goods  which  for  one  reason  or  an­
other are  desirable,  find a ready sale  and 
pay  a  good  profit;  but 
if  the  grocer 
would  be  successful,  he  must  not  handle 
these  to  the  exclusion  of  the  standard 
brands.  When  you  are asked  for  Royal 
baking  powder,  it  is best to  have  it  on

17

hand  and  to  set  it  out  for your  customer 
without  hesitation. 
It  may  then  do  to 
show  something  else  which  you  know  to 
be  desirable  and  which  you  can  guar­
antee  to  be  perfect 
in  quality.  The 
customer  will  often  take  the  cheaper 
article  for  the  saving  in  cost  which  it 
entails,and allow  you  to  make  the larger 
profit;  but  you  may  rest  assured  that 
had  you  only  the  cheaper  brand 
to 
show,  nothing  under  heaven  would  have 
induced  that  man  to  depart  from  his 
wife’s 
instructions  to  buy  the  higher 
priced  goods.

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

The  production  of  amber  in  Germany 
last  year  was  about  440  tons,  or  nearly 
100 tons  more  than  in  the  previous year. 
By  far  the  larger  portion  is  produced by 
the  two  mines  of  Palmnicken 
and 
Kraxtepellan,  while the remainder is ob­
tained  by  dredging  and  searching  along 
the  shores  of  the  Baltic.

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

NEW   REPUBLIC

Reopened Nov.  25.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam beat.

Electric Bells and  Lighting throughout. 

Rates.  $1 50 to $2 00.

Cor. Saginaw and  Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHiNDHETT, Prop

Commercial  House

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.

Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam.

All modern convenienc  s.

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

E. T. PENNOYER. Manager,

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

while  you  take  a  snooze  is 
quickest acquired at

FRED  MARSH’S

barber  shop 
in  Wonderly 
Building,  at  Grand  Rapids.

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

Grand Rapida.

Telephone 881-1 

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a n d   g iv e   c u s to m e r s   g o o d  

s a tis fa c tio n .

or  soda  crackers  with  hot  drinks,  be­
cause  almost  everyone likes  them,  and 
they  like  the  drink  better  if  they  have 
something  to  bite  on.  They  should  be 
served  in  a  very  neat  and  clean  way,  on 
a  dainty  saucer  set  on  the  counter  be­
side  the  drink  The  smaller  pieces  are 
the  better to  serve,  for  each  one  will  be 
picked  up  without  breaking  and  eaten 
in  one  or  two  mouthfuls,  which  saves 
the  crumbs  from  scattering  on  the  floor 
or  any  waste 
in  the  dish.  Your own 
judgment  can  best  tell  you  what  and 
how  much  to  serve  to  vour  customer.

it 

Ladies  while  shopping  often  like  hot 
chocolate  or  cocoa  with  small  cakes  or 
dainties;  and  if  the  proper attention 
is 
given  to  this  part  of  the  trade  it may  be 
made  very  profitable.  You  must  always 
in  mind  that  as  a  rule  people 
keep 
do  not  come 
in  to buy  hot  drinks  be­
cause  they  need  them,  but  because  they 
like  them  and  have  a  chance  to  rest, 
and  your  duty  is  to  make  the drink  as 
attractive  as  possible. 
If  you  have  a 
store  in  the  shopping  locality  or  where 
many  people  pass,  the  greater should be 
the  effort  to  have  them  come  in  your 
place.  A 
large  part  of  the  trade  for 
drinks  is  transient,  and  the  less  you  do 
to  attract  it  the more  you  lose.  The  ex­
pense  of  running  the  store  is  about  the 
same  in  either  case.

One  of  the  principal  reasons  why  hot 
is  because 
drinks  are  not  sold  more 
when  they  were  first 
introduced  they 
were  sold  as  hot  soda  and  made  from 
the  regular  soda  syrups.  Of  course they 
were  not  good,  and  the  blame  fell  on 
the  customers,  who  were  sick  of  it  at 
once.  First  learn  how  to  make  a  good 
drink  before  you  serve  it,  and  you  can 
with  patience  get  the  trade  to  come  for 
it.  Very  often  people  come  in  and  ask 
for  hot  strawberry  or  nectar,  etc.,  but  I 
have  a  separate  list  of hot drinks,  which 
I  refer  to  and  inform  them  that  those 
are  all  the  hot  drinks  we  make.  That 
leaves  no  chance  but  to  change  the  or­
der,  and  you  can  then  make  a  good 
drink,  while  if  you  had  made  what  was 
first  called  for,  it  would  be  very  doubt­
ful.

If  you  serve  five  good  hot  drinks  you 
need  not  make  any  other  kinds.  Let 
those  be  chocolate,  clam  broth,  coffee, 
beef  tea  and  lemonade.  Frequently  a 
hot  egg  drink  will  be  asked  for,  which 
may  he  made  with  any  of  the  above 
flavors.  The  egg  and  flavor  should  be 
thoroughly  shaken  or  beaten  together 
and  strained.  Draw  the  hot  water  on 
quickly,  letting  it  run  near  one  side  to 
the  bottom  of  the  cup,  stirring  with  a 
spoon  at  the  same  time.

A  hot  lemonade 

is  one  of  the  finest 
drinks  when  made  right. 
It  should  be 
made  strictly  fresh  from  a  lemon  and, 
besides  being  tart,  should  have  a  strong 
lemon  flavor,  which is  obtained by twist­
ing  one  or  two  pieces  of  the  rind  over 
the  cup  until  the  oil  starts  out.  The 
pieces  may  be  left  in  the  drink.  One 
rule  which  must  always  be  observed,  to 
meet  with  success,  is  to  serve  the  drink

steaming  hot,  not  warm.  The  hot 
water  develops  the  aroma  and  flavor, 
which  add  so  much  to  its  pleasant taste. 
It 
is  a  mistake  to  think  that  you  will 
do  the  best  hot  drink  business  when  the 
is  so  cold  that  people  stay  at 
weather 
home,  but  rather  expect 
it  in  the  fall 
and  spring,  when the  changes  of temper­
ature  come  on  suddenly.  Always  keep 
a  neat  sign 
in  your  window,  “ Hot 
Drinks. ”
March  Meeting  o f 

the  Board  of 

Pharmacy.

Detroit,  Feb.  I— The  Board  of  Phar­
macy  will  hold  a  meeting  for the  exam­
ination  of  candidates 
in  the  Blodgett 
Building,  corner  of  Ottawa  and  Louis 
streets,  Grand  Rapids,  Tuesday  and 
Wednesday,  March  2  and  3,  1897,  com­
mencing  at  9  o’clock  a.  m.,  Tuesday. 
All  candidates  must  be  present  at  that 
hour. 
(Take  the  elevator  to  the  hall.)
Candidates  must  file  their  applica­
tions  with  the  Secretary  one  week  be­
fore  the  examination  and  must  furnish 
affidavits  showing  that  they  have  had 
the  practical  or  college  experience  re­
quired.  Applications  for  examination 
and  blank  forms  for  affidavits  for  prac­
tical  or  college  experience  may  be  ob­
tained  from  the  Secretary.

Other  meetings  will  be  held  during 
the  year  as  follows:  Detroit,  June  28 
and  29;  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  August  (date 
announced 
later);  Lansing,  November 
F.  W.  R.  Pe r r y ,  Sec’y.
2  and  3. 

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The  filler  is  entirely  long  Havana  of  the 
finest  quality—with  selected Sumatra Wrapper.

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Rothschilds, 
4% inch,  65.00  M. 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

D r u g s°= C h e m ic a ls
MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-------- 
Dec. 31,1896
C. A. B ugbee, Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31, 1897
S. E. Park ill, Owosso 
- 
Dec. 31,189-1
F.  W. B. Pebrt, Detroit 
- 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Geo. Gundrum.  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 3i, 1900

President, S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.

Coming  Examination  Sessions—Grand  Rapids, 
•  March  2  and  3;  Star  Island  (Detroit),  June 
28 and 29;  Sanit  Ste.  Marie,  Aug.  ---- ;  Lans­
ing, Nov. 2 and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. Phillips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schboudeb, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Chas. Mann, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. Webber, Cadillac; 
H. G. Colman, Kalamazoo;  Geo.  J.  Ward,  St. 
Clair;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Perry, Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetan i 1 i d— Quiet.
Acids—Boracic  has been  reduced  y ic 

per  pound  by  manufacturers.

Arsenic— Powdered  white,  firm.
Balsams—Copaiba,  active  and  strong. 
Tolu  is  under control  again  and  quota­
tions  are  firmer.

Bismuth  Preparations— Are firmly held 
at  the  advance  noted  last  week  and  the 
tendency  is  toward  still higher prices.

Cacao  Butter—Limited  demand 

for 

bulk  and  feeling  is  quiet.

Cantharides—Prime  Russian  steadily 
in  reduced  supply 

held.  Chinese 
and  stronger.  Enquiry  good.

is 

Cassia  Buds—Spot  values  have  met 
with  a  decided  improvement  under  the 
strengthening 
influences  mentioned  in 
last  issue  and  offers  are  very  sparing. 
Spot  stock  is  not  heavy,  being  smaller 
than  for  some  time  past.

Castor  Oil— Business  is  of  the average 
volume.  Manufacturers’  quotations  are 
ruling  steady.

in  first  hands 

Essential  Oils—General  trading  has 
been 
light  and  principally  of  the  job­
bing  order.  Peppermint,  easier,  lower 
for  all  grades. 
prices  being  named 
Supply 
is  considerably 
larger  than  supposed,  and  recent  offer­
ings  of  round  lots  have  had  a  depress­
ing  tendency. 
firmer. 
Wormseed  is  much  firmer,  due  to  scar­
city.

Citronella 

is 

Flowers—Quotations  are  decidedly 
firm,  owing 
to  the  nearly-exhausted 
condition  of  German  chamomile  abroad 
and  the  continued  scarcity  on  this  side.
Glycerine—Consuming  demand  mod­

erate  at  the  recently  reduced values.

the 

Gums—Asafoetida  is  still  very  active 
and  firm.  Camphor  has  met  with  a  re­
action,  on  account  of  the  better  feeling 
abroad,  both  as  to  crude  and  refined, 
London  cables  announcing  the  latter id. 
impression  prevails 
higher,  and 
generally  that  conflicting 
interests  in 
crude in  Hamburg  have  come  to  a  satis­
factory  understanding.  The  demand  is 
reported  as  excellent  and  many  orders 
have  been  necessarily  turned  down,  in 
some  cases  single  orders  having  been 
divided  between  a  trio  of  sellers.

Juniper  Berries—The  reduced  supply 

of  pure  quality  is  being  firmly  held.

Leaves—-Short  buchu,  active  and  ex­
ceedingly  firm.  All  kinds  of  senna  are 
in  good  demand  and  prices  are  steady. 
Coca  still  slow  ot  sale  and  nominal.

Lycopodium— Demand is  some  better, 
is  no  special  activity  and 

but  there 
holders  are  willing  to  sell.

Mercurial  Preparations—Manufactur­

ers'  prices  are  being  steadily  held.

Opium—Undertone  easy  and  quota­
tions  show  a  further  decline.  Recent 
Smyrna  cables  report  continued  buying 
im­
for American  account,  but  without 

portant  change  in  prices.  The  weak­
ness  here  is  claimed  to be  wholly 
local 
in  character.

Quicksilver— Still  firm.
Quinine—Since  the  decline  noted  last 
week— 3c  per ounce  at  the  hands  of  all 
manufacturers—the  enquiry  for  legiti­
mate  consuming  wants  has  been  but 
moderate;  but  the  speculative  demand 
is  larger  than  has  been  known  for a 
number  of  years,  and  considerable busi­
ness  has  gone  forward  as  to  second 
hands.  This  revival  of  speculative  in­
terest 
is  reported  as  partly  due  to  an 
anticipated  duty  under  the  proposed 
new  tariff,  and  partly  to  the  supposition 
that  existing  prices  cannot be  remuner­
ative  to  manufacturers.

Roots—Nearly  all  varieties  are  tame, 
fluctuations 
in  values  being  unimpor­
tant  in  the  absence of large transactions. 
New  crop  Jamaica  ginger  is  still  arriv­
ing,  the  bulk  of  which 
is  being 
shipped  to  London.  Powdered  gentian 
is higher.

caraway 

Seeds—Dutch 

is  a  trifle 
higher,  in  sympathy  with  the  stronger 
position  abroad.  Coriander,  active  but 
no  change  to  note  in  prices.  All  kinds 
mustard  are  quiet.

Silver,  Nitrate—Business 

is  only  of 
average  volume.  Manufacturers’ prices 
are  being  maintained.

Sponges—Strong  as  to  primary  mar­
kets,  late  advices  from  Key  West  being 
to  the  effect  that  receipts  so  far are very 
light.  No  change  in  regard  to  the  local 
situation,  a  quiet  feeling  being  in  evi­
dence.

Strontia,  Nitratee-----Demand  slow,

market  dull,  quotations  nominal.

Sugar  of  Milk— Powdered,  active  and 

strong.

Vanillin—On  account  of  competition, 
the  market  is  again  depressed,  and  the 
principal  manufacturers across the water 
have 
instructed  their  agents  to  reduce 
the  price.

Hot  Drinks  at  the  Soda  Counter. 

Richard Foy in the Helper.

I  was  told  by  a  man  in  Boston  that 
he  often  went 
into  a  confectionery  or 
bakery  shop  to  get  a  cup  of  hot  coffee. 
If  he  got  it  at  the  soda  fountain  he  had 
to  pay  ten  cents  for  it  and  it  wasn’t  any 
good,  but  when  he  went  back 
in  the 
lunch  room  it  was  served  very  good  for 
five  cents.  The  reason  fcr  this  was 
probably  because  the  stale  coffee  which 
was  left 
in  the  lunch  room  was  used 
to  make  coffee  syrup  and  the  extra 
price  was  for  whipped  cream.  Coffee, 
to  be  good,  must  be  fresh  and  not  too 
sweet.  When  made  from  the  syrup  it is 
most  always  too  sweet,  and  care  should 
be  used  to  avoid  it.  The flavor  for cold 
soda  may  be  all  right  cold,  but  with 
hot  water  the  flavor  should  be  two  cr 
three  times  as  strong  and  not  half  as 
sweet.  The  syrup  will  be  thin  but  of  a 
very  strong  flavor. 
It  will  not  keep 
good  for  more  than  two  or  three  days, 
and  should  be  made  often.  A  very  good 
rule  to  follow 
is  to  take  two  parts  of 
ground  coffee,  one  part  of  sugar  and 
four  parts  of  water.  Cover  it  and  let  it 
stand  over  the  fire  until  it  comes  to  a 
it  boil,  for coffee 
boil,  but  do  not 
then  begins  to  lose  its  flavor.  Keep 
it 
it  stand  until 
tightly  covered  and 
cool  or  warm  and  then  strain. 
In  mak­
ing  the  cup  of  coffee  you  can  use  plenty 
of  this  syrup,  to produce a  strong  flavor, 
without  its  being  ton  sweet.  The  syrup 
should  be  kept  cold,  and  the  water  to 
make-the  drink  very  hot.  The  flavor 
which  has  been  retained  in  the  syrup 
will  now  develop  and  the  drink  will 
taste  good  and  fresh.

let 

let 

If  you  get  a  good  price  for  your 
drinks  you  can  afford  to  serve  whipped 
cream  with  them.  This  may  be  added 
on  top  after  the  drink  has  been  made, 
but  sweet  cream  should  be added  before 
the  water 
is  drawn,  whether  you  use 
whipped  cream  or not.

It  is a  very  good  idea  to  serve  wafers

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

19

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Oil Worm'-eed, Turpentine. 
Declined—Gnm Opium.

Perm

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

Flora

15
2 25
80
50
15
2
-85
7

4©
6
6© 8
12© 14
12® 14

A.UCUUU1H.................
75® 80
Benzoicum, German
Boracic....................
© 15
27@ 39
Carbolicum............
Citricum.................
44® 46
Hydrochlor............
5
3©
Nitrocum...............
8© 10
Oxalicum...............
10© 12
Phosphorium,  dil...
@ 15
45© 50
Salicylicum.............
Sulphuricum........... 1*@ 5
Tannicum.............. 1  40©  1  60
Tartaricum..............
34® 36
Ammonia 
Aqua, 16  deg...........
Aqua. 20  deg...........
Carbon as.................
Chlorldum..............
Aniline
Black...  .  ..............2 on® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80®  1  00
R ed......................... 
45©  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Baccze.
Cube see..........po. 18  13©  15
Jnniperus...............  
6© 
8
Xantnoxylum.........  
25©  30
Balsamum
Copaiba.................. 
75@  80
Pern.  ......................  @260
Terabin, Canada__ 
40@  45
Tolutan...................  
65®  75
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__ 
C assia.................... 
Cinchona Plava...... 
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrtca Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgini.......  
Qnillaia,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras....... po. 18 
IJlmus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Extractum
Glycyrrbiza  Olabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hamatox, 15 lb box. 
Hamat< x  I s .........  
Hamatox, Ms.........  
Hamatox, Ms......... 

18
12
18
30
20
12
10
12
15
24©  25
28©  30
11@  12
13@  14
14©  15
16®  17

Pol la

Arnica.................... 
12©  14
18©  25
Anthemis...............  
Matricaria..............  25©  30
Barosma.................. 
15©  20
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18©  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms................. 
12®  20
Ura Ursi..................  
8©  10
Qummi
@  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@  45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
@  28
Acacia, po...............   60©  80
Aloe, Barb. po.20@2S  14©  18
Aloe, Cape___po.  15  @  12
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40 
©  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55©  60
Assafoetida___po. 30  22©  25
50©  55
Benzoinum............  
Catechu, Is.............. 
®  13
©  14
Catechu, Ms............  
Catechu, Ms............   @  16
C am phora.............. 
42©  48
Euphorblum..po.  35  @ 1 0
Galb&num...............  
©  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65©  70
Guaiacum........po. 35  @  35
Kino...........po. $4.u0  @4 00
Mastic....................  @  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. *3.30@3.50 2 30®  2 35
Shellac.................... 
4*©  6o
Shellac, bleached...  40©  45
Tragacanth............  
50©  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymns,  V. .oz. pkg 
rtagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55©  60
Carbonate, Pat.......  
20©  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20©  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35©  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 25© 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc__ 
30©  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00© 8 25
Anisi.......................  2 2d@  2 30
Auranti  Cortex......   2 00©  2 20
Bergamii.................  2 25©  2 30
75©  80
Cajiputi................... 
Caryophylli............   53©  58
Cedar....................... 
35©  65
Chenopadii..............  @ 400
Clnnamonii.............  2 25©  2 50
Oltronella...............  
3b©  40

35©  65
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i  20©  1  30
Cubebee....................  
90© 
Exechthitos...........  1  20©  1  30
Erigeron.................  1 20© 1 30
Gaultheria..............  l  50© 1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50©  60
Hedeoma.................  1  O'®  1  10
Junipera.................   1  50© 2 00
Lavendula................   90© 
Limonis..................   1 20©  1  40
Mentha Piper.........  1 6o@ 2  20
Mentha Verid.........   2 65® 2  75
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1 90©  2  00
Myrcia,...................   4 00© 4  50
75© 3 00
Olive....................... 
10@  12
Picis  Liquida.........  
©  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
Ricina......... :......... 
99® 1 04
Rosmarlni...............  
@100
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50@ 8 50
Succini..................  
40©  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  00
Santal......................  2 50© 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55©  &(
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
©  65
TIglii.......................  1 40©  1  5'i
Thyme....................  40©  50
Thyme,  opt............  
©  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15©  20
Potassium
15©  18
gi-Bwb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
13© 
15
Bromide............ 
48®  51
CMb.. 
12® 
.................  
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16@  18
Cyanide..................   50©  55
Iodide....................... 2 90© 3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure  27@  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8@ 
10
Potass Nitras........... 
7© 
9
Prussiate................. 
25©  28
Sulphate p o ........... 
15©  18

Radix

12© 

Aconitvm...............  20©  25
Althae.....................   22©  25
Anchusa................. 
15
Ar«m po..................  
©  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana......... po  15  12®  15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15  16@  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  35
©  40 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore,Alba,po.. 
15©  20
Inula, po................. 
is©  20
Ipecac, po...............   1  65©  I  75
Iris plox--- po35@38 
35@  40
Jalapa, pr...............   40©  45
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22©  25
75©  1  00
R bei....................... 
Rhei, cut................. 
©  1  25
Rhei.pv..................  
75©  1  35
Spigelia................... 
35©  38
Sanguinaria...po. 30 
©  28
Serpentaria............   30@  35
Senega....................  40©  45
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M...............  
©  25
Scill*..............po.35 
10©  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
............   @  25
©  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
12@  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25©  27
Semen
Anisum........... po.  15  @  12
Apium  (graveleons) 
13©  15
Bird, Is.................... 
e
4© 
Carui................po. 18  10©  12
Cardamon...............   1  25©  1  75
8© 
Coriandrum............ 
10
Cannabis  Sativa....  3M@ 
4
Cydonium............ .. 
75©  1  00
10©  12
Chenopodium........ 
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 90© 3 00
Faenlculum............  
© 
10
Foenugreek, po.......  
9
7© 
4
Llnl • • •-1.................  2M@ 
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 2M  3M@ 
4
Lobelia..................  
35©  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3M@ 
4
Rapa.......................  4M@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7© 
8
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
n©  
12
Splrltus

dus  po. 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00@ 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00© 2 25
Frum enti...............   1  25©  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  65© 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75© 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90© 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75© 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25© 2 00
Vini Alba...............   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  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
©  1 40
Syrups
©  50
Acacia.................... 
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber.................. 
©  50
Ipecac.................... 
©  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50©  60
Senega.................... 
©  50
Scillte......................  
©  50

1 00

2 00

rtiscellaneous

©  5(
ScillaCo................. 
©  5(
Tolutan..................  
Prunus virg............ 
©  5(
Tinctures
AconitumNapeilisR 
&
5C
AconitumNapellisF 
Aloes......................  
6C
6C
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
5®
Arnica.................... 
Assafoetida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
60
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cant ha rides........... 
75
Capsicum.............. 
50
Cardamon..........  
. 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  ¿0
Castor...................... 
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
50
60
Cinchona Co........... 
Columba................. 
50
Cubeba....................  
50
Cassia Acutifol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
Digitalis................. 
50
Ergot......................  
50
Ferri Chlorldum__ 
35
Gentian..................  
50
60
Gentian Co.............. 
Guiaca.................... 
50
60
Guiaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless.... 
75
Kino........  .............. 
50
Lobelia.................. 
50
Myrrh...................... 
50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated. 
Opii,  deodorized__ 
1  50
Quassia..................  
50
Rhatany..................  
50
Rhei........................  
50
Sanguinaria........... 
50
Serpentaria............ 
50
Stromonium........... 
60
60
Tolutan...................  
Valerian................. 
50
50
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber.................. 
20
dSther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30©  35
-(Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©  38
Alumen..................   2M@ 
3
3© 
Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 
4
Annatto..................  
40©  50
Antimonl,  po........ 
4© 
5
Antimoni etPotassT  55©  60
@  1  40
Antipyrin.............. 
Antifebrin..............  @  15
©  55
Argenti Nitras, oz .. 
Arsenicum...........  
10® 
12
38©  40
Balm Gilead  Bud  . 
Bismuth  S. N.........   1  40©  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@ 9  
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
©  10
Calcium Chlor.,  ms.  @ 
12
©  75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
©  18
Capsid  Fructus. af. 
©  15 
Capsici Fructus, po. 
©  15
Capslci FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
10® 
12 
Carmine, No. 40.... 
© 3 75
Cera Alba, S. & F  ..  50©  55
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
CaBsia Fructus........  @  27
Centrarla................. 
@ 1 0
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform.............  
60©  63
©  1  35 
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  15©  1  30
Chondrus............... 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.AW  20©  25 
Cinchonidine, Germ  15©  22
Cocaine..................   3 55© 3 75
65
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct 
Creosotum..............  
@ 3 5
© 
Creta.............bbl. 75 
2
© 
Creta, prep.............. 
5
Creta, precip........... 
9©  11
Creta, Rubra........... 
© 
8
Crocus.................... 
30©  35
Cudbear
©5©
Cuprt Sulph 
.........  
_
Dextrine................ ] 
10©
75®
Ether Sulph............ 
Emery, all  numbers  @
©
Emery, po................ 
Ergota............ po. 40 
30©
Flake  White........... 
12©
Galla....................... 
©
Gambier.................. 
8©
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
©
Gelatin, French......  
35©
Glassware, flint, box  60,  1<
Less than  box__
9©
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13©
Glycerins................ 
19®
Grana  Paradis!  __  @
Humulus................. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
&
Ilydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati 
Hy d raagUnguen turn
Hydrargyrum.........   @  60
Ichthyobolla, Am...  1 25©  1 50
Indigo.....................  
75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubl........  3 80© 3 90
Iodoform.................  @470
Lupulin...................  @225
Lycopodium...........  60©  55
Macis.......................  65©  75
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia. S. F ........... 
Menthol..

10©
50®

@ 3 60

©45©

Morphia,S.P.AW...  1  75© : 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C. Co....................  1  65©
Moschus Canton__  @
65®
Myristica, No. 1......  
Nux Vomica. ..po.20  @
Os  Sepia................. 
15®
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co.................... 
©
Picis Liq. N.N.M gel.
doz........................  @ :
Picis Liq., quarts__  @
©
Picis Liq., pints...... 
©
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po.  22 
©
Piper Alba__po. 35 
©
Piix  Bu.rgun...........  @
Plnmbi  Acet........... 
10©
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10©  1 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...  @  1
30©
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
Quassia..................  
8©
Quinia, S. P. A W .. 
2»@
18©
Quinia, S. German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............   22©
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12©
SaccharumLactis pv  24®
Salacin....................3 00® i
Sanguis Draconis... 
40©
Sapo,  W..................  
12©
Sapo, M.................... 
10©
Sapo, G....................  @
Siedlitz  Mixture__  20  ©

@ 34

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............  
©  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................  
©  34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's 
Soda Boras..............  6  ®  8
Soda Boras, po........  6  ©  8
Soda et Potass Tart.  26©  28
Soda,  Carb.............. 
IM@ 
2
3® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
2
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50©  55
Spt'  Myrcia Dom... 
® 0 00
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl. 
® 2 37
Spts. Vini Rect-Mbbl  @2 42 
Spts. Vini Rect.l0gal  @ 2 45
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
© 2 47
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  eubl.........   2M@ 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2©  2M
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28©  30
Theobromse.........   .  42©  45
Vanilla..................   9 00©16 On
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

Whale, winter.........   70 
Lard,  extra.............  40 
Lard, No. 1.............. 
35 

B B L .  G A L .
70
45
40

Linseed, pure  raw..  28 
Linseed,  Dolled......   30 
Neatsfoot, winter sir  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  34 

30
33
70
38
Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  144  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1M  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2M@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
15
Vermilion, English.  70®  75
Green, Paris...........  13M@  19
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5Q@  544
Lead, white............  5m@  5M
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’... ~~i  @  50
White, Paris Amer..  @  1 00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @ 1«)
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

13® 

Varnishes

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

§ Canada 
I Malt 
I Whiskey

Bottled  by  us  from  pure
Canada  Malt  Whiskey
for  Medicinal  Purposes 
In  full  16  ounce 
only. 
bottles.

Price per dozen 
Price per case of 2 dozen

Add  a  case  to  your  next order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

E 
J i r  

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

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

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

Acne.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
*4 lb cans doz........  ........ 
45
4  lb cans doz...................  %
1 
lb cans doz..................   1 50
14 lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
Vi lb cans 3 doz.................  75
1 
lb cans 1 doz.................1 00
Bulk...................................  
10
14 lb cans per doz............   75
Vi lb cans per doz  ...........  1  20
1 
lb can« per doz............ 2  00
14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
Vi lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz case....... 
90

El Purity.

Home.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
Vi lb cans. 4 doz case........ 
1 
14 lb cans.......................... 
Vi lb cans.......................... 
1 

45
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........  160
45
75
1  50

Our Leader.

lb cans.

Peerless.
BASKETS.

Per doz.
Standard Bushel..............  125
Extra Bushel...................  1  75
Market.............................  
30
Vi bushel, bamboo del’ry.  3 50 
% bushel, bamboo del’ry.  4 00 
1  bushel, bamboo del’ry.  5 00 
Diamond Clothes, 30x16...  2 50
Braided Splint, 30x16......  4 00
American...............................70
English....................................80

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

BATH  BRICK.

BLUINO.

CQiffilSSED
& L u i N ( *

PLitnii

BROOrtS.

1 doz. Counter Boxes......  
40
12 doz. Cases, per gro.........  4 50
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................. 
70
Fancy Whisk.....................  
80
Warehouse..............  ...  ..  2 25
Nacre tom, per doz............   2 40
Two doz. in case assorted flav­
ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. 
8s..........................................7
16s  .........................................8
Paraffine................................8

CAKE FROSTING.

CANDLES.

CANNED  OOODS. 
Manitowoc  Peas.

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

CHOCOLATB.

Walter Baker 4t Co.’s.

CLOTHES LINES.

German sw eet........................22
Premium..................................81
Breakfast Cocoa 
.4 2
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jute, TS ft,  per doz....... . 
96

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.

Farina.

Grits.

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

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

Hominy.

Lima Beans.
Dried 
............................
Macearon! and Vermicelli. 
Domestic,  10 lb. box-----
Imported,  25 lb. box..  .. 2 50

Pearl Barley.

3  Be
me

3*4
a
60  Hi

Peas.

Common.........................
Chester..........................
Empire  ..........................

IK
2
2*4
80
Green,  bu.......................
2*4
Split,  per lb....................
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl...... .3 75
.3 25
Monarch,  bbl...............
Monarch.  4   bbl..  ........ .1  75
Private brands, Vi bbl — .1  63 
Quaker, cases................. .3 20
4
German..........................
East  India......................
3*   j «
ji
Cracked, bulk................. • 
3 
j,
24 2 lb packages.............. .2 40

Wheat.

Sago.

^

Fish.
Cod.

K
Georges cured............ @4  H
Georges  genuine.......
@ 4*4  Ç
Georges selected........ @5 
1
Strips or bricks.........  5 @8  Vi

Halibut.

?
r

56

Trout.

Mackerel.

Herring.

Stockfish.

Sardines.

.  2 50
.  1  30
14

B
.  11  00  1
.  4 70  Í
.  1  25  1
.  8 00
.  3 50

10
Chunks..........................
9
Strips.............................
E
Holland white hoops keg. 
60  g
Holland white hoops  bbl.  8 00  4
Norwegian....................
Round 100 lbs...............
Round  40 lbs...............
Scaled............................
No. 1100 lbs..................
No. 1  40 lbs..................
No. 1  10 lbs..................
No. 2 100 lbs..................
No.2  40lbs..................
No.2  10 lbs..................
Family 90 lbs.................
Family 10 lbs.................
Russian kegs.................
No. 1,1001b. bales......... ..  10)4  1
No. 2,100 lb. bales........
..  8V4  S
No. 1100 lbs.................. ..  4 75
63
No. 1 
53
No. 1
Fam
1
100 lbs...........  6 75
40 lbs...........3 00
1  00 33 
10 lbs...........  83
29
8 lbs........... 
69
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.
Jennings 
D.C. Vanilla
2 oz........1  20
3 oz........1  50
4 oz........2 00
6 oz........3 00
No.  8...4 00 
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  4 T.2 40 
D. C. Lemon

10 lbs......................
8 lbs......................
No. 1  No. 2
5 75 
2 60 
73 
61

WhttefUh.

CHEESE.

Acme  .....................   @  10Vi
Amboy................... 10% a   11H
Oold  Medal............  
10%
Ideal........  t...........  @  lOVi
Jersey......................  @  10Vi
Lenawee..................  @  K'Vi
Riverside. 
...........  @  11
bparta....................  @  10
Brick  .....................   @  10Vi
Edam.......................  @ 75
Leiden.....................  @  19
Limburger...............  @  15
Pineapple.............  43  @  85
Sap  Sago  ...............   @  18

5
7

.4 25 
.2 50

Chicory.

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

Bulk 
Red 

CATSUP.
pints.

Columbia, 
Columbia, Vi pints.........
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes...................
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................
Less quantity.................
Pound  packages............
CRBAfl TARTAR.

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F air.........................................17
Good....................................... 18
Prim e..................................... 19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ...............................22

Santos.

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

Mexican and  Guatamala.

Fair  ............................... 
Good  ......................................22
Fancy 
.................................. 24
Maracaibo.

Java.

Prim e..................................... 23
Milled..................................... 24
Interior...............................  .25
Private  Growth...................... 27
Mandehling............................28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  ...................  
 

Mocha.

Roasted.

Clark - J ewell-Well s Co. ’s B rands
Fifth  Avenue.................... 30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 30
Wells’ Mocha and Java-----26
Wells’ Perfection  Java......26
Sancaibo  ............................ 23Vi
Valley City Maracaibo....... 20V4
Ideal  Blend........................17
Leader Blend.....................15
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands 
Quaker Mandehling Java. .31 
Quaker Mocha and Java. ...29
Toko Mocha and Java.......2*
Quaker Golden Santos...... 23
State House Blend.............22

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
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.
Arbnckle.......................  15  00
Jersey.............................  14 50
ncLaughlln’s  XXXX......... 14 50

Extract.
Valley City 14 gross 
. 
Felix Vi gross.............  
Hummel’s foil Vi gross 
Hummel’s tin Vi  gross 

75
1  15
85
1 4£

Knelpp Malt Coffee.

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

4 doz in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle............. 6 75
Crown  .  ..............................6  25
D aisy...................................5 75
Champion  .......................... 4  50
Magnolia 
«4  25
Challenge............................. 3 50
Dime......... ..........................8 36

.........  

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1,000 books, any denom__ 20 00

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1 50
100 boobs, any denom__   2 50
500;books, any denom___11 50
1,000'books, any denom__ 20 00

Universal Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1,000 books, any denom— 20 00

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom—   1  50
10O books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
l,000,books, any denom— 20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .........................  1  00
50 books..........................   2 00
100 books..........................   3 00
250 books..........................  6 25
21
SOObooks.......................... 10 00

Credit Checks.

DRIED FRUITS—DOMESTIC 

Apples.

28

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

California Fruits. 

Apricots.....................11 Vi®
Apricots.......
Blackberries..
Nectarines.
Peaches......................   7V4@ 9
Pears..........................   @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnellee..................
Raspberries................

California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @4)4
80- 90 25 lb boxes.........  @4%
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 5H
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @6
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @ 64
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @7%
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
V4 cent less In bags
Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Crown. 
Debesias..........................  
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown 

1  60 
2 50
3 50
5)4
6)4
7)¿

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls....................... @ 4V4
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ @
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @ 5V4
Cleaned, packages........... @ 6

Peel.

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

Raisins.

Ondura 28 lb boxes.......  @7%
Sultana  1 Crown...........  @ 84
Sultana 2 Crow n.........   @9
Sultana 3 Crown...........  @ 94
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @9%
Sultana 6 Crown...........  @10)4

Souders’

PICKLES.

In  the  world 

for 

the

Barrels, 1,200 count...........3 40
Half bbls, 000 count...........  2 20

Regular
Grade
Lemon

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

Regular
Vanilla.

 

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

2 oz 
4 oz.

.1  50 
.3 00
XX Grade 
Vanilla.

Barrels, 2,400 count...........  4  40
Half bbls, 1,200 count........  2 70

PIPES.

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

48 cans in case.

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

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina bead....................  6)4
Carolina  No. 1..................   5
Carolina  No. 2..................   4Vi
Broken.................................  3

GLUE.

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................  5Vi
Japan.  No.2......................  5
Java, No. 1.........................  4K
T able.........•.......................  5 Vi

per do*, 
65
___ 

UCGAN t
^Flavoring

^UEDt»íll¿RAcí
»DAYT0N.0

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIGO.

JBLLY.

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

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

LYE.

LICORICB.

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

 

MINCE MEAT.

Ideal, 3 doz. in case............

MATCHES.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands,

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

MOLASSES.
New Orleans.

Black................................
F air.................................. 
14
Good................................  
20
Fancy  ...........  ..............
Open Kettle......................25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

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

SAL SODA.

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

1

SEEDS.

A nise.................................  18
Canary, Smyrna..................  4
Caraway............................   10
Cardamon,  M alabar......  80
4
Hemp.  Russian...............  
4)i
Mixed  Bird...................... 
6Vi
Mustard,  white................ 
Poppy  ................................ 
8
Rape................................... 
5
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SNUFP.

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

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.............................   12
Half  bbls.........................  14

Pure Cane.

Fair  ............................ . 
16
Good.................................  20
Choice.......................... 
  25

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

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

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  ............................. 12
Cassia, Batavia...................22
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................20
Cloves, Zanzibar..................15
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.....................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,...................... 40@c0
Pepper, Sing., black. ...10@14 
Pepper, Sing., wbite...,15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage......................................18

SODA.

Boxes.................................. 5V4
KegB, English......................  4%

Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes............ 1  60
Barrels,  PK)  3 lb bags....... 2 75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags........2 50
Batter, 56 lb  bags...............   65
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags...........3 00
Batter, 280 lb  bbls..............2 50
100 3 lb sacks....................... 2 60
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  85
2811-lb sacks..................... 1  70
50  4  lb. cartons...............3 25
115  2141b. sacks.................. 4 00
60  5  lb. sacks.................. 3 75
22 14  lb. sacks...............   3 50
30 10  lb. sacks.................. 3'50
281b. 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 iineu  sacks.  .  60 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
60
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Saginaw.............................  60
Manistee  ............................  60

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common Pine.

Watmw.

STARCH.

Kingsford’s  Corn.

Diamond.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................ex
Kingsford’s Silver Uloss.
40 1-lb packages...................6*4
6-lb boxes  .........................7
64 10c  packages  ...............5 00
128  5c  packages................ 5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
20-lb boxes..........................  5
40-lb  boxes..........................  454
1-lb  packages  ....................  4*4
3-lb  packages.....................   4 v«
6-lb  packages.....................   5X
40 and 50 lb boxes...............
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 2o
Armour’s Woodchuck  __  2  55
Armour’s Kitchen  Brown.  2 00 
Armour's Mottled German  2  10

Single box.................................2 85
5 box lots, delivered...........2 80
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 75
tlAS.  $.  KIRK  8 CO/S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp'd__3 33
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome.........................................3 33
Cabinet....   .........................2 20
Savon............... 
2 5)
Dusky Diamond. 56  oz........ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 58 oz........ 3 00
Blue India............................... 3 00
Kirkoline..................................3 75
Eos................................  ..  3 65
Acme  .................. 
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 box  ’ots  delivered.. 
? 65 

Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

Single box............................ 2 80
6 box lot, delivered............2 75
10 box lot, delivered............2 70
26 box lot, delivered............2 65

bbls. j>ails

Mixed Candv.

Fancy—In Bulk.

Standard................. 
55i@ 7
554@ 7
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......  6  @ 7
7*4@ 854
Cut Loaf................. 
cases
Extra H. H.............. 
@8*4
Boston  Cream........ 
@ 8*4
Competition............ 
@ 6
Standard................. 
@6*4
Leader  ..................  
<@7
Conserve................. 
@ 7
@ 7*4
Royal...................... 
Ribbon.................... 
@ 8*4
Broken  ..................  
@8
Cut  Loaf................. 
@8
@ 8
English Rock......... 
Kindergarten.........  
@ 814
@  9
French  Cream........ 
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Valley Cream.........  
@13
@ 854
Lozenges, plain......  
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@ 8*4
Choc.  Drops...........  11  @14
@12*4
Choc.  Monumentals 
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
@ 7X
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 844
Imperials...............  
@ 8*4
Lemon  Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops__ 
@65
@75
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
Gum  Drops............  
@35
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
@50
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@55
@60
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
@60
Mottoes..................  
@65
Cream  Bar.............. 
@,o
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.  ’

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

@30
@45

Beef.

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......................3*4@  4
Loins.........................  6J*@
Shoulders....  ...........  @ 5
Leaf Lard..................   @5*4
Carcass..................... 6  @7
Spring Lambs............   7  @ 8
Carcass  ....................6  @8

Mutton.

Veal.

Crackers.

5oda.

Batter.

Oyster.

The N. 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. 31b carton...  6*4 
Soda  XXX  .........................  6)4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  644
Soda,  City..........................   7)j
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long island  Wafers.........   11
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX.  ......   6
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  7 
Farina Oyster.  XXX........  6
SWEET  GOODS—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,XXXhomemade  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla.................  g
Imperials............................  8*4
JumDles,  Honey...............   u
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....................... 
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square.................. 
Vanilla  Wafers...............   u
Pecan Wafers.... ...............   16
Fruit Coffee.......................   10
Mixed Picnic.....................  10*4
Cream Jumbles.................  11*4
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   8*4
Chimmle Fadden..............  10
Pineapple Glace................   16

7)4
8*4

Wheat.

gg

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

Local Brands.

Patents..............................  5 00
Second  Patent................. 
4 55
Straight.............................   4 30
Clear...................................  3 cq
Graham  ...............  
 
'  4 30
’ 3 40
Buckwheat................. 
Bye 
................................'  2 65
Subject  to usual  cash 
dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, *$s.........................  4 45
Quaker, Jis........................   4 45
Quaker, Hs.........................  4 45

Spring Wheat Flour. 
Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, *4*.......................  4 75
Ceresota, *45.......................  4 65
Ceresota, *43................." "  4  go
Ball-BarnharFPutman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, *4s................ 4 75
Grand Republic, *Js............ 4  t5
Grand Republic, *4s................. 4 60
Wordeu Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  *4s................... 
Laurel, )4s...........................4  65
Laurel, *43..........................  4 go
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian, *45.......................   4 75
Parisian, )4s............. . .  ..  4  65
Parisian. *4s...........................   4 go

Meal.
Bolted...... .........................  1 50
Granulated....... 
l  75

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__10 75
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.........   9 75
Unbolted Corn Meat........  9 25
Winter Wheat  Bran........... 9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 10 00
Screenings.............................   8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots.............................   04
Less than  car lots...... ..  26

Oats.

Hay.

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

No. 1 Timothy carlots........  9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  ... 11  00

Fruits.
Oranges.

Fancy  Seedlings 

Mexicans  150-176-200  @3 00
Cal. Seedlings.........  2 5U@3 00

Lemons.

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

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

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

@4*4

Calif.......................  @12*4

Almonds, Tarragona..  @12
Almonds, Ivaca.........  @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @12
Brazils new...............   @7*4
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @12
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @lu
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
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......................  @ 454
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Roasted..................   @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4v
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
@ 5*4

Ohio, new...............   @

Roasted  ............ 

Peanuts.

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

Beef.

Tripe.

5
5
454

Casings.

Sausages.

Butterine.

Pigs’ Feet.

Barreled Pork.

Smoked neats.

9*4
9H
9f4
8S4
10*4
5)4
7
5*4
8*4
10*4

follows:
Mess  .............................   8 00
Back  .............................   8 75
Clear back.....................   8 50
Shortcut..  ....................   8  50
Pig..................................  11  50
Bean  .............................  
7 75
Family  ..........................  9 00
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies............................ 
Briskets  ......................... 
Extra shorts................... 
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb average...... 
Hams, 20 lb average...... 
Ham dried beef.............. 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear..................  
California hams............  
Boneless hams...............  
Cooked  ham................... 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
334
Kettle.............................  
5)4
55 lb Tubs......... advance 
*4
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
)4
50 lb T ins......... advance 
)4
20 lb Pails......... advance 
*4
4 75
10 lb Pails......... advance 
44
%
51b Pails......... advance 
3 lb Pails......... advance 
1
Bologna...........  ........... 
5
Liver............................... 
6*4
Frankfort....................... 
6*4
Pork............................... 
6*4
Blood  ...........................  
6
Tongue.......................... 
9
Head  cheese................... 
6*4
Extra  Mess.....................  7 00
Boneless  ........................10 00
Rump.............................  10 00
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
80
)4  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  50
*4  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 80
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
75
14  bbls, 40 lbs..................  1  40
*4  bbls, 80 lbs..................  2 75
is
P ork............................... 
Beef  rounds................... 
3*4
Beef  middles...............  
8
Sheep.............................  
60
Rolls, dairy..................  
10
Solid,  dairy.................... 
9*4
Rolls,  creamery............  
13
Solid,  creamery............  
12*4
Corned beef,  2 lb............2 CO
Corned  beef, 14 lb...........14  00
Roast  beef,  2  lb...........  2 00
Potted  ham,  %a........  
?o
Potted  ham,  *4s...........  1  00
Deviled ham,  *43.........  
60
Deviled ham,  *4s...........  1  00
Potted  tongue Qs...... 
60
Potted  tongue 14s...........  1  00
Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol-
lows:
Hides.
Green......................
Part  cured..............
@  6*4
Full Cured.............. -  6*4@ 7*4 
D ry .........................
.6   @8
Kips,  greeu...........
.  5  @ 6
Kips,  cured............
Calfskins,  green__ •  6*4@ 8
.  6*4® 8
Calfskins, cured__ -  7*i@  9
Deaconskins  .........
.25  @30
Pelts.
Shearlings..............
5@  10
Lambs...............
25@  50
Old  Wool...............
4o@  75
Furs.
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 (JO
Badger....................
26@  50
Cat, W ild...............
10@  25
Cat, House..............
10@  zO
Fisher...................... 3 00® 5 00
Lynx....................... 1  0@ 2 00
Martin, Dark.......... 1  50® 3 OO
Martin, Yellow__
75®  1  50
Otter....................... 4 50© 7 50
Wolf....................... 1  10@ 2 00
Bear................ ....... 7 00@15 10
Beaver.................... 2 00®  6 00
Deerskin, dry. per lb 
15®.  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb
10®  12*4
Wool.
Washed 
...............
Unwashed..............
Tallow....................
Grease Butter.........
Switches  ...............
Ginseng..................
Oils.
Barrels.

.10  @16
.  5  <ai2
.  2  @ 3
.  1  @ 2
-  1*4® 2
.2 50@2 7b

Canned  Meats.

fliscellaneous.

.  5  @  6

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

2 1

Crockery and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

50
*4 gal., per doz.............. 
to 6 gal., per gal........ 
1 
5*4
8 gal., per g a l................. 
6*4
10 gal., per gal.................. 
6*4
12 gal., per gal..................   6*4
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

Churns.

Milkpans.

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

2 
5*4
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

*4 gal. fiat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each  5*4 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

*4 gal. flat or rd  hot.. doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5*4 

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

to 5 gal., per gal......... 

*4 gal., per doz.................   40
*4 gal.,  per doz..................  50
1 
6*4
*4 gal., per doz.................   70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for *4 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
*4 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz.. .1  00 

Sealing Wax.

2

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

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

No. 0 Sun..........................  45
so
No.  1  Sun.......................... 
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No.  1................... 
65
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ............................  50
Climax...............................  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................  1  88
No.  2 Sun...............  
......  2 70
First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
No. 
top,
top,
1 Sun,  crimp 
No. 
2 Sun,  crimp 
No. 
top,
XXX Flint.
0 Snn,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 

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

No. 
No. 
No. 

La  Bastle.

No. 1  Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
d o z ............ ...................   1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  36
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.........1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........  3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  06
No. 2, Flint (80c doz)........  4  70

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 00 
5 gal galv iron with  spoilt.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 6 00
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.  0 Tubular...... ............  4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 0 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lam p.........  3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents........... 
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................  
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1  doz.  each... 
LAMP  WICKS.

45
45
40
1  25
No. 0 per gross................... 
20
No. 1 per gross...................  25
No. 2 per gross...................  88
No. SpergroM.............  
 
58
Mammoth per d o * ......... 
70

. 

Single b o x ......................... 2 65
5 box lots, delivered......... 2 60
10_box;iots,;dellvered..........2 50

Allen B.^Wrisley’s Brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb  bars  ..£  15
Good i heer, bo 1-lb. bars__2 35
Uno, 100 54-lb. bars............. 2 80
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............2 25
Sapolio. kitchen, 3 d o z......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
XXXX  Powdered.................... 4 62
Mould  A..................................4 50
Granulated in bbls...................4 25
Granulated in  bags................. 4 25
Fine Granulated..................... 4 15
Extra Fine Granulated......4 37
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4 37
Diamond Confec.  A........... 4 25
Oonfec. Standard A ................. 4 12
No.  1.......................................4 00
No  2.................................. 4 0
No.  3.......................................4 00
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 A Perrin’s, small.......2 75
Halford,  large......................3 75
Halford small....................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large...... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small.......2 65

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

G. 

J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C.  W....................................35 00
H.  & P. Drug Co.’s brand.
Quintette...............................35 00
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick............................. 35 00

VINEGAR.

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

WICK1NG.

Fresh Fish.

N o. 0, per gross....................  25
No. 1, pergross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, pergross....................  75
Pish and  Oysters
Per lb.
Whitefish...............   @ 
a
T rout.....................   @  8
Black Bass..............  @  10
Halibut..................   ®  12t4
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluetish..................   @  10
Live  Lobster.........   @ 16
Boiled Lobster.......   @ 18
Cod........................   @  10
Haddock.................  @  8
No.  1  Pickerel.......   @  8
Pike.........................  @  7
Smoked White........  @ 8
Red Snapper...........  @  13
Col  River Salmon..  @  13
Mackerel 
..............  @  20

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts...........  @  38
F. J. D. Selects........  @  27
Selects....................  @  22
F. J. D.  Standards..  @  20
Anchors..................  @  18
Standards...............  @  16
Favorite  ................  @  14

Oysters in Bulk.

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

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

a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Experience  of a  Farmer  Who  Turned 
Written for the Tbadksxam.

Storekeeper.

When  Bill  Gillet  had  that  big  front 
room  “ done off”   for the accommodation 
of  the  post  office,  he  builded  wiser  than 
he  knew,  for  the  country  was  fast  set­
tling  up,  and  it  was  not  long  before  he 
found  himself 
in  the  very  midst  of  a 
busy  little  village.

He decided  that a few groceries would 
make  a  profitable  side 
line  and  pay 
much  better  than  stamped  envelopes 
and  postal  cards,  so 
it  happened, 
one  day,  that  the  neighbors  were  sur­
prised  to  see  a  load  of  boxes and barrels 
dumped  off  on  the  post  office  steps. 
It 
was  a  complete  stock  of  groceries,  so 
Bill  told  his  patrons;  but 
it  was  not 
long  before  he  found  his  mistake.  Peo­
ple  have  such  a  faculty  of  wanting 
things,  and  if  it happens  to  be  some­
thing  the  grocer  is  out  of,  those are  not 
wanting  who  are  unkind  enough  to 
make  slurring  remarks about  the 
insti­
tution  and  aver  that  there  is  never  any­
thing  worth  having 
in  the  dog-goned 
shop.

Bill  had  ordered  sugar  and  salt  and 
kerosene oil.  He  had  even  gone so  far 
as  to  buy  a  dozen  cans  of  baking  pow­
der,  with  a  scheme  in  connection.  He 
also  had,  through the advice  of  his  wife, 
laid  in  a  supply  of  brown  laundry  soap 
and  a  box  of  stick  candy.  He  then 
chalked  the  word  “ Groseryes”   on  a 
board,  and  tacked  it  over  his front door.
Bill  sold  eighty-five  cents'  worth  of 
goods  the  first  afternoon  and  began  to 
feel  like  a  business  man.  He  bad  spent 
a  large  sum  of  money  on  his  stock  and 
now  it  was beginning  to  come  back  to 
him.  He  told  Mrs.  Gillet  that  night 
that  he had  made a  mistake  all  along  in 
trying  to  support  the  family  on  that 
dod-gasted  farm,  and  that  he  was  going 
it  the  first  chance  he  had,  put 
to  sell 
the  money 
into  goods  and  then  take 
things  easy.  He  went  to  sleep  and 
dreamed  of  unlimited silver coinage and 
long  rows  of customers,  vying with  each 
other as  to  which  should  be the  first  to 
purchase  his  goods.

When  I  first  visited  Gillet’s  store,  he 
had  been 
in  trade  something  like  four 
years.  Time  had  dealt  kindly  with 
him,  yet  he  seemed  worried  and  un­
easy.  He  was  trying  to  get  the  cork 
out  of  an  empty  catsup  bottle  fora  little 
girl,  and  was  making  poor  headway. 
The  cork  had  been  pushed  down  into 
the  neck  of  the  bottle,  and held  its  posi­
tion  with  stubborn  pertinacity.

“ Letme  take  it  out  while  you  fill  this 
jug  with  vinegar,”   remarked  a  sleepy- 
looking  boy  whose  mother  was  probably 
waiting 
impatiently  for  him  to  come 
home.  Gillet  looked  at  the  boy  a  mo­
ment,  as  if  undecided  what  sort  of  an 
oath  would  best  express  his  contempt 
for  him ;  but,  thinking  better  of  the 
matter,  he gave  the  cork  a  vicious  jab 
with  the  piece  of  wire  he  was  using 
and,  failing  to  dislodge  it,  laid  the  bot­
tle  down  on  the counter  and  started  off 
with  the  jug.

it 

I  was a  little  curious  to  see  how  the 
boy  was going  to  release  the  cork ;  but 
I  was  not  kept  long  in  suspense.  Tak­
ing  a button  hook  out of  his  pocket,  he 
poked 
into  the  neck  of  the bottle, 
shook  the  cork  around  until  the  hook 
caught 
it  just  right,  and  then  drew  it 
out.  When  Gillet  got  back  with  the 
vinegar the  job  was  finished.  He  was 
too  much  piqued  to ask  how  the trick 
had  been  done and  the  boy  took  his  jug 
and  departed.

“ I ’d 

like  two  pounds  of  pearl  tapi­
oca, ”  said  a  customer  who  had  come  in 
while the  jug  was  being  filled.

“ Well,  sir,”   said  Gillet,  “ fact  is,  I 
hain’t  got  none o' that kind o’ seasonin'. 
There’s  so  little  call  fer  it,  it  don’t  pay 
to  ship 
in,  an’  the  season's be’n  so 
tarnal  dry,  the  farmers  hain’t  offered 
none  fer  sale yit. ”

The customer  choked  down  an  incip­

it 

ient  smile and  departed.

“ Beats  all  what  kinds  o’  stuff  folks'll 
ask  fer,”   said  Bill,  as  he groped around 
in  his  pockets  for  his  pipe.  “ Allers 
awantin'  suthin’  er  ruther  what  the’ 
hain’t  no  need  o’  havin’  no  more’n 
nothin’.  Woman  here  to-day  wanted 
two  pound  o’  figs,  an’  jest  about  every 
day  somebody  er  ruther’s  after cheese 
er  this 
’ere  prepared  mustard  er  sar­
dines  er  mixed  candy  er suthin’  I hain’t 
got. 

It  j^s’  makes  me tired.”

“ Why  don’t  you  keep  some  of  those 
in 
in  the  kinds  of  goods  you 

things  then?  There’s  a better  profit 
them  than 
"have  here. ’ ’

“ Well,  sir,  it’s  like  this:  It  hain’t 
Folks  hain’t  no  business 
necessary. 
abuyin’  such 
like  truck.  There’s  no 
sense  in  it.  They’d  a  sight  better  buy 
suthin’  ’t'll  do  'em  some good,  ’cordin’ 
to  my  tell. ’ ’

“ But  if  they  want these things they’re 
bound  to  have  them  and,  if  you  don’t 
keep  them,  some one  else  who  does  will 
sell  them  and  make  the  profit  on  them. 
Then,  it’s  a  good  advertisement  for you 
to  have  those— ”

Just  then  the  sleepy  boy  burst the door 

open  and  exclaimed:

“ Say!  Ma  says  you’ve gotter  pay  her 
fer  sp'ilin’  her  vinegar  jug  aputtin’ 
kar’seue  into  it.  She  put  it  onto  some 
onions  fer  supper  an’  now  we  can’t  eat 
’em  an’  we  hain  t got  no  more  onions, 
neither. ”

Gillet  looked  puzzled  for  a  moment 

and  then  he  blurted  out:

“ It  was  oil  yo’  asked  fer,  yo’  young 

scalawag. 

I  remember  now. ’ ’

“ Didn’t  neither.  I  asked  fer vinegar, 
an’  you  told  me  to  go  West,  you  was 
busy.  Now  you  gotter  gimme  a  new 
jug  an’  some  vinegar.”
“ You’re  a  blamed 

liar!  Yo’  never 
said  vinegar an’  I’ll  kick  you  ou’doors 
ef  you  don’t  shet  up!”

“ Dad’ll  fix  you 

if  you  tetch  me!”  
said  the  boy,  backing  off. 
“ Tetch  me, 
if  ye  dare!  Come  on,  ole  counter 
jumper!  Counter 
jumper!  Counter 
jumper!  Ky  yi,  kee  yee!”  and  the  boy 
executed  a  short  wstr dance  on  the  door­
step.

Gillet  was  pretty  mad,  and  he  started 

after  the  boy  in  good  earnest.

“ I’ll  break  every  bone  in  your  body, 
you  sassy  scoundrel!”   he  exclaimed,  as 
he  shot  out  the  door.

I  watched  the  performance  through  a 
window  for  a  few  minutes;  but,  being 
satisfied  that  the  boy  was  abundantly 
able  to  take  care  of  himself,  I  paid  no 
further  attention  to  the  matter.  Pres­
ently  Gillet  came  back,  purple  as  to 
complexion and  short as  to  breath.  He 
was  much  excited  and  ripped  around  at 
a  great  rate.

After  he  had  quieted  down  a  little  I 

asked:

“ How do you  like keeping  store?”  
“ Don’t  like 

it  at  all. 
didn’t  stick  to the  farm.”

I’m  sorry  I 

“ I  thought  you  owned  the  farm  yet.’ ’ 
“ Well,  I  do,  kinder.  Got  a  plaster 

onto  it,  now,  though.”

“ Then  why  not  sell  off  your  goods, 
pay  the  mortgage  and  go  back  to  your 
old  trade,  if  it  suits  you?”

“ I  would  in  a  minute,  ef  I  could,  but 
I  kinder can't.  Ye  see,  I  gi'n  a  mort­
gage  on  this  ’ere  stock  o’  goods,  too!”

“ Isn’t  there  enough 

in  the  stock  to 

pay  both  mortgages?”
it. 

“ I  don’t  think 

It’s  like  this: 
There’s  lots owin’  me  an’  1  can’t  git  it, 
an’  the  fellers  I  buy  of  is  pokin’ 
it  to 
me  pretty  hard,  an’  there’s  so  much 
competition  I  can’t  make  nothin’  any­
way,  an’  the  farm’s  kinder  gone  back 
sence  I  left  it,  so’s  't  it’d  take  a  good 
two  year  to git  it  in  shape  ag’ in  ef  the’ 
wa’n’t  that  blamed  rag  ag’in  it. 
I’m 
drove  this  way  an’  that  way,  an’  I can’t 
git  money  enough  to  pay  my  bills. 
If 
I  c ’d  jes’  le’  go  the hull  blamed  thing, 
store,  farm  an’  all,  an’  start 
in  ag  in 
fresh  an’  square  an’  clean  handed,  I’d 
do  it  in  a  holy  minute.  A  man  hain’t 
no business monkeyin’ with storekeepin’ 
unless  he  understands 
it,  an’  yo’  kin 
betcher  sweet  life,  young  feller,  ’t  when 
1  do git  out,  I’ll  stay  out,  now,  hence­
forth  ’n’  forever.  Amen.”

G e o .  L.  T h u rsto n.

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SAP  PAILS  . . .

That will hold Sap

AND

SYRUP  C A N S . .

Which do not Leak.

Our sap pails are full size and 
are  guaranteed  not  to  leak.
They are mad. almost straight, 
flaring  enough  to  pack  con­
veniently.  Our syrup cans are 
double seamed,  both  top  aud 
bottom,  with  packed  screws.
Prices lower than ever.  Send 
for special quotations.

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,
Manufacturers and Jobbers of
Pieced and Stamped Tinware, 
Dealers in Rags, Rubbers and Old Metal,

2c0 S. Ionia St., Grand Rapids.

Telephone 640.

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22,  30,  45,  60  and  90  Gallons

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to  many  as  to  smoothness,  weight 
and finish.  W e are  making special 
low prices, which will  be  quoted up­
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and  what sizes  are wanted.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

MEN  OF  MARK.

W.  N.  Kelley  of the  Firm  of  Kelley & 

Coveil.

Walter  N.  Kelley  was  born  at  May- 
bee,  Monroe  county,  Mich.,  May  4, 
1866,  bis father  being  of  Scotch  descent, 
while  his mother was descended from the 
good,  old-fashioned Dutch  Pennsylvania 
stock.  He  attended  school  until  15 
years  of  age,  when  he 
learned  tele­
graphy  at  Maybee,  subsequently  serving 
the  Wabash  Railway  in  the  capacity  of 
extra  agent  for  about  five  years.  He 
was  then  assigned  to  a  station  at  Whit­
taker,  during  which  time  he  kept  books 
a  year  for J.  A.  Doty  &  Co.,  which  en­
abled  him  to  familiarize  himself  with 
the 
lumber  business.  This  firm  was 
also  conducting  a  lumber-and  charcoal 
business  at  Slights,  and,  receiving  a 
lucrative  offer  to  remove  to  that  place

the  proposition. 

and  take  the  position  of  book-keeper, 
he  accepted 
Four 
months  later he  purchased  a  third  inter­
est 
in  the  business,  and  about  a  year 
afterward  he  and  Mr.  Doty  bought  out 
the  third  partner,  so  that  he  owned  a 
half interest  in  the  business  jointly.  At 
the  end  of  another  year  Mr.  Kelley 
purchased  M.  Doty’s  interest,  when  the 
style  was  changed  to  Walter  N.  Kelley. 
In  i8q2,  one-half  interest 
in  the  busi­
ness  was  purchased  by  Chas.  T.  Covell, 
and  the  firm  name  became  Kelley  & 
Covell.  The  business 
includes  a  saw­
mill,  shingle  mill,  charcoal  plant  and 
general  store.

Mr.  Kelley  was  married 

in  1884  to 
Miss  Nellie  L.  Van  Lieu,  of Whittaker. 
Four  children  now  grace  the  family  cir­
cle-  three  daughters  and  one  son.  The 
family  reside  in  Traverse  City.

Mr.  Kelley 

is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  bodies,  including  the  Knights 
Templar  and  Shrine  degrees.  Aside 
from  this  order,  he  has  never sought any 
affiliation  elsewhere.

Mr.  Kelley  has  a  ten  years’  cut  of 
pine,  hemlock  and  hardwood  timber, 
and 
is  handling  his  business  a  little 
differently  than  some  do  who  are  sim­
ilarly  situated,  inasmuch  as  he  is  work­
ing  up  a  trade  direct with the consumer, 
so  far as  it  is  possible  for  him  to  do  so. 
He attributes  his  position  to  hard  work, 
coupled  with  persistent  effort  along  cer­
tain  well-defined 
lines,  and  those  who 
know  him  best  and  realize  how  hard  he 
has  had  to  struggle  to get  on  his  feet, 
do  not  begrudge  him  the  position he has 
attained.

somtang  bout  fallar  wa’t  bane  lavang 
ba  San  _Creke;  Meastar  Trukee;  ae 
know  das  fallar'long  tame,  an  ha  bane 
Bully  gude  fallar,  a  tal  y o ;  hae  Bane 
Franch  man  an  hae got  wafe  what  bane 
hingane  waman;  val  whan  hae  com  by 
Muskegon  River,  dae  bane  first  cept 
Hingan  wat  Bane  har;  hae  sav  by  mae 
von  tames  mae  an  mac  wafe  bane  farst 
two  whiteman  on  das  River  ba  gar;  an 
ae  tank  hae  bane  tailing  truf;  to  sae 
measter  a  vant  to  sae  ba  you,  ae  koun 
onder  faller,  vat  bane  on  das  River long 
tame  tos  he  bane  yonie  De  Haas;  he 
bane now  kapeing  tavarn  by  Fremont; 
hae bane  lattle  cuss  but hae bane Dutch­
man ;  hae  don’t got  Hingan  woman  for 
wafe;  but  hae got  Dutch  woman,  an  har 
bane  bully  gude  Dutch  woman  a  tal  yo ; 
ae  kno  das  fallar  taventy-fime  yar;  an 
ae  vant  to  sae  samtangs bout dans Dutch 
tavern;  yo  sae  ae  bane  by  das  place 
gude  many  taime  a  tal  y o ;  an  ae  sae 
gude  many  tangs  vot  bane  som  fun  ae 
bat  yo ;  val  ac  sae  by  yo  af  yo,  vant 
gude  blace  to  stop  com  by  yonie  De 
Haas;  ven  yo  got  som  supper  yo  sa 
Yonie,  ae  lake  lattle  fun,  hae  sae  yo 
bot  yo  boots  ae  bane  on  han  to  halp  yo 
out  yo bat;  any  tang  vat  yo  vant,  yost 
sae;  yo  bat  yo  got  aet;  hae  kaping 
salloon  don  salar  an  yo  gatting  gude 
alcohola  tan  cent  drank  yost  so gude  as 
was  ae  bane  tailing  yo  yonie  bane  lattle 
cuss;  yo  bat  das  vas  so ;  but  ven  hae 
got  mad;  ba gol  yo  tank  hae  vugh  ton ; 
hae  don’t  vas  scare  for  notings  ae  sae 
ham 
lick  faller gude  many  tame  whan 
onder  faller  bane  bigger;  yo  bat  yon, 
vas 
in  at,  avery  tame;  ae  kan  tal  yo, 
oil  tham  fallars  vat  travelang  stop  by 
yonies;  von  taime  ae  bane  by yonie;  an 
George  Sampsons an  onder  fallar binam 
Cas  Bradford ;  ha  bane  dare  to ;  yo  kno 
dem  fallar ae  tank;  ae  prove  by  dam 
faller  vat,  ae  sa ;  val faller bane bordang 
by  yonie;  hae  got  wafe  an  ba  gol  hae 
tal  hav  das  hae  goin  to  kill  has,  das 
tann;  hae  scarce  hav  yo  bat;  ae  tank 
hae  bane  jeus  from  das  wafe  cos  das 
traveling  mans bane  roud  or  som  onder 
faller;  val  all  das  night  hae  don’t  was 
lat  har  sleap  bot  kape  har  vake;  yonie 
vas  come  to  kali  fallar arly  in  morniy, 
an  sha  kali  oute  by  yon ;  an  you ;  hae 
rap  on  da  dore,  an  sha  yumping  up 
pratty  quvick  an  open  doar;  yump  out 
in  hall;  yon  hae  ham  das  fallar  an  sae 
hae  cuff  das  stuffing  out  ham  ha  don’t 
ben  have  hassalf  dan  hae  tak  voinans 
vay ;  you  bat  sha bane  glad ;  val  couple 
hours  yon  go  by  has  Roon  Kallang  ham 
by  Brakfast  val  ba  gol  hae  sa  notang; 
yonie  ha  kant  opan  up  da  door  so  ha 
lookang  op  da  transum  ba  gol  hae  sae 
Rope  by  transum  hae  cot  das  Rope  an 
yumping  yeasus  das  fallar  fallan  don  on 
das  floor;  yonie  he  hollar  an  sae  de 
dam  Skunabitch  hae  hang  hesalf  an 
bene  dider as  mackaral  fish ;  val  ba  gol 
Yeorge  Sampson  an  Cas  Bradford  both 
bane  pretty  scare  ae  tal  y o ;  Yeorge  hae 
bane  lokang  for  somvon  to sleepin with ; 
hae  sa  hae  naver  sleepin  lone  in  das 
Hous  Someore;  ae  bat  yo  gude  many 
dings  haupan  by  das  dutch  tavarn woald 
make gude  story  Buke;  yo  bat  yo ;  ae 
got  not  thae  taine;  to  tal  yo  das  story 
al  by  von  taine  som  onder  taine ae  vi 11 
contiue  das  an  tal  yo  Bott  Ed  Frick  an 
Yeorge  Owen  an  Dick,  Skavage  an  som 
onder  faalars  vat  stays  by  thas  Dutch 
Tavern  by  Yonie  De  Haas  and  ae  ta  yo 
hae  ban  a  Yenuine  Yentleman.
Yours  Someonder  taime,

Y o n n ie Y o n so n .

Mill  Iron  Muskegon  River.

Sae  measter ac  bane  read  sam  papar 
wat  yo  bane  prantang  an  ae  tank  hae 
bane  bully gude  papar. 
I  tank  yo  say

Philadelphia  is  being  urged  by  some 
of 
its  citizens  to  acquire  the  block 
burned  over  by  the  recent  fire  and make 
of  it a  public  park

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...

BARROWS 

Railroad..............
Garden...................

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

BUCKETS

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

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

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

BLOCKS

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

CROW  BARS 

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10..........................
G. D......................................

70
.............25410
...........fiOAIO

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

$13 no  14 00

00 ArlO
..  ..  70 to 75 
50

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

............ 70410

70

4

.. per lb 

CARTRIDGES

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

.............50& 5

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

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6 in....................
Corrugated.............................
Adjustable.............................

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

80
80

............  
60
............ 50& 5
............ 504 5

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

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.......................30&10
Ives', 1, SIS; 2, 324; 3, 330.............................  
25

FILES—New  List

New American............................................. 70410
Nicholson's......................................................... 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps................................   .60410
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27........ 
28
List  12 
16.........  
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

13 

14 

Discount,  75

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS-New List

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

70
SO

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................316 00, dis 60&10
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00, dis 60&10
Hunt's.........................................$18 50, dis 20410

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

40
40
40
  30

MOLASSES  OATES

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

MILLS

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base................................................  1 60
Wire nails, base................................................  1 70
30 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance...................'.....................  
us
8 advance...................................................  
10
6 Mdvauce.................................................... 
20
4 ad vance...................................................  
30
3 advance................................................... 
45
2 advance.............................................. 
 
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
go
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance  ..................................... 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85

PLANES

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

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, Acme...............................................60&1Ü&10
Common, polished.................................. 
70& 5

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

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. 

60
60

HAMMERS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware.......................
new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware....................
............ 20&10
Granite Iron  Ware......................
new list 40410
HOLLOW  WARE
Pots..........................................
..............60410
K ettles...............................
..............60410
Spiders  .....................................
............ 60410
HINGES
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3...............................dis 604lo
State..........................................per doz. net  2 50
WIRE  GOODS
Bright...........................................
............   HO
Screw Eyes..........................
80
............  
Hook’s...................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes..............
............  
80
LEVELS

ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s......
Sisal, % Inch and  larger...............
Manilla....... .....................
Steel and Iron...............................
Try and Bevels............
Mitre...........................

SQUARES

SHEET IRON

........dis 
............  
............  
............ 

70
6
9
80

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

com. smooth,  com.
*2 40
2  40
2  go
2  70
2  80
2 90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14..................................... $3 30 
Nos. 15 to 17...................................... 3 30 
Nos. 18 to 21..............................         3 45 
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................   3 55 
Nos. 25 to 26.....................................  3 70 
No.  27..........................................  3 80 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game............................................  
60&10
50
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton's 704104 10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
I  25
Bright Market............................................  
75
Annealed  Market...............................................75
Coppered Market..........................................70410
Tinned Market............................................   62%
Coppered Spring  Steel................................ 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   * 10
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  75
An Sable..................................................dis 4041C
Putnam.............................................................dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genaine.............................................. 
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
6%
6%

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal....................................... $575
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................ 
 
20x14 IX, Charcoal........................................  7 00
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

 

ROOFINO  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean...........................   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal,’ Dean...........................   10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Alla way Grade............   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Alla way Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   1100

BOILER SIZE TIN  PLATE

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

9

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS,

Pay the  highest price  in  cash for

MIXED  RAUS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  flETALS.

fDo?Sffere onapostal  “Any  Old  Thing.”

Eftiu 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 

5 75

6 00

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

Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Association M atters

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President,  Uknky C. Web ta, Detroit;  Vice-Pres­
ident, Chas. F.  Bock,  Battle Creek;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, B en by C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  Thus.  T.  Bates;  secretary,  M.  B. 

President, J. WisLEu,  Maneelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  stowe,  Giand  Uapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
TA t m a n ,  Clare.
Next  Meeting—At  Grand  Uapids,  March 3 and 
4, 1897.
Traverse City Business Men's Association
Holly ;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C.  Winchester:  Secretary, Homer 
Klaf;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each mouth at  Uetail  Grocers’  Hall, 
over E. J. Herrick's store.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

President, A. D.  Whipple; Secretary’, G. T.Camp­

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Byron C. Hill; Secretary, W. H. Por­

ter;  Treasurer, J. F.  Helmer.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

Partridge.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  Johnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

Darling;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilkey.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. Katz:  secretary, Philip Uilber; 
Treasurer, S. J.  Htjfford.

Official  Call  for  the  Winter  Meeting 

of the  M.  R.  G.  A.

Grand  Rapids,  Feb. 

io—The  semi­
annual  convention  of  the  Michigan  Re­
tail  Grocers'  Association  will  oe  held 
in  Pythian  Temple,  Grand  Rapids, 
Wednesday  and  Thursday,  March  3 
and  4,  convening  at  9  o'clock  on  the 
day  hrst  named.  Every  grocer  doing 
business 
in  Michigan  is  invited  to  at­
tend  me  meeting  and  participate  in  the 
proceedings  of  me  convention,  as  mat­
ters  of  great 
importance  to  the  trade 
will  come  up  fur  uiscussion  and  actiun.
Owing  to  the  convention  occurring  at 
the  same  tune  as  the  Democratic  btate 
Convention,  those  who  desire  to  attend 
can  obtain  halt  tare  tickets  at  any  rail­
way  station 
in  Michigan,  good  going 
'Tuesday  and  Wednesday  and  good  re­
turning  Thursday.

It 

is  proposed  to  hold  business  ses­
sions  Wednesday  forenoon and atternuon 
and  Thursday  forenoon.  An  entertain­
ment  leature  will  be  proviued  tor  Wed­
nesday  evening  in  Uie  shape  ot  a  com­
plimentary  banquet,  tendered  by  tne 
Michigan  Tradesman,  to  which  repre­
sentatives  ot  the  jobbing  and  manu­
facturing  interests  ot  the  state  will  also 
be  invited.

Among  the  special  topics  already  as­
signed  tor  presentation  at  the  couven 
tion  are  the  following :
laws  should  be  en­
forced’ ’— Hon.  i£.  N.  Bates,  Moline.

“ How  the  toud 

“  The  exemption  laws  again’ ’— Rob­

ert  Johnson,  Cadillac.

“ Co-operative  buying  among  gro­

cers’ ’— IS.  H.  Beebe,  Big  Rapids.

“ My  experience  in  shipping  produce 
outside  ot  Michigan” —R.  E.  Hewitt, 
Rocktord.

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

“ What  effect  has  the  sale  ot  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  manutacturers” — E. 
Marks,  becretary  Detroit  Retail  Gro­
cers  and  Butchers’  Protective  Associa­
tion.

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

Jackson.

“ Relation  of  wholesale and  retail gro­

cers’ ’— Wm.  Judson,  Grand  Rapids.

Believing  that  our  Association  is  des­
tined  to  accomplish  much  good  for  the 
grocers  of  Michigan,  and  confident  that 
you  will  feel 
like  doing  your  share  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

assist 
in  the  good  work,  we  earnestly 
invite  you  to  be  present  on  the  occasion 
of  our  midwinter  convention.  Come 
one ;  come  all !

Jess  Wis l e r   (Maneelona),  Pres.
E.  A.  S t o w e  (Grand  Rapids),  Sec’y.

Special  Meeting  of the  Jackson  Re­

tail  Grocers’  Association.

Jackson,  Feb.  6—The Jackson  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  has  two  occasions 
each  year  which  are  looked  forward  to 
by 
the  people  of  tbe  city  as  the 
“ events’ ’  oi  the  year.  The  first  is  the 
social  meeting,  held  about  February  1, 
aud  the  other 
is  the  annual  excursion 
and  picnic,  the  second  week  in  August.
Wednesday  evening,  Feb.  3,  was  tbe 
time  decided  upon  tor  the sixth  annual 
social  meeting,  which  was  held  in  A.
O.  U.  W.  hall.  The  number  of  grocers 
and  their  guests  present,  on  a  careful 
estimate,  was  said  to  be  between  300 
and  350. 
is  needless  to  say  that 
everyone  present  enjoyed themselves  the 
whole  evening,  as  has  been  the  case  at 
all  of  the  previous  socials.  The  oc­
casion  was  graced  with  tbe  presence  of 
many  who  do  not  attend  any  other 
events  of  this  kind  during  tbe  year,  and 
also  by  a  considerable  number  who 
make  extra  effort  to  be  in  the  city  in 
order  to  be  present.  Boos’  orchestra 
turnished  the  music.

it 

At  ail  of  our  previous socials,  we have 
included  a  literary  aud  musical  pro­
gram,  but  on  this  occasion 
it  was 
thought  advisabe  to  change  tbe program 
and  give  all  a  chance  to  dance  the 
evening  through.  When  we  have  had  a 
literary  program  on  other  occasions, 
we  have  found  that 
it  occupied  tbe 
greater  part of  the  evening  and  left  lit­
tle  time  for  other  pleasures,  which 
caused  many  to  go  home  without  get­
ting  a  full  measure  of  enjoyment,  un­
less  they  sacrificed  comfort  and  neces­
sary  rest  by  too  long  hours.

Ihe  general  committee  having  the 
matter 
in  charge  were  C.  G.  Hill,  P. 
Casey,  M.  M.  Whitney,  M.  F.  Murray, 
D.  b.  Fleming,  N.  H.  Branch,  J.  F. 
Helmer,  W.  H.  Porter  and  J.  L.  Peter- 
inarin,  these  being  divided 
into  sub­
committees  to  do  the  work  necessary. 
The  previous  experience  of  all  of  the 
committees 
in  this  kind  of  affairs  left 
110  chance  for  a  failure 
in  any  part. 
Messrs.  Fleming,  Branch  and  Hill  at­
tended  to  the  decorations;  and  all 
of  them  are  aitists,  it  is  not  necessary 
to  speak  of  how  well  this  part  of  the 
work  was  done.  The supper  was a  lunch 
ot  coffee,  sandwiches,  cakes  and  rel­
ishes,  served 
in  an  adjoining  hall,  111 
order  that  the  guests,  as  they  felt  dis­
posed,  could  dance  or  eat and  enjoy  all 
me  time,  as  they  saw  fit.  Everyone 
present  testified  to  the  occasion's  being 
a  most  enjoyable  one,  and  some  of  them 
were  anxious  to  know  when  the  next 
“ event  of  the  year"—the  annual  excur­
sion  ot  the  grocers— would  be and where 
it  would  be  held.

W.  H.  Po r t e r ,  Sec’y.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  has  been very dull 
and  weak  during  tbe  past  week.  A  de­
cline  of 
i-i6c  in  domestic  refined  was 
expected,  owing  to a  weakness  in  raws, 
both  here  and  abroad,  but 
it  failed  to 
materialize. 
future 
Dusiness  is  generally  regarded  as  good, 
as  stocks  in  tbe  country  are  small,  and 
the  proposed  addition  of 
duty
will 
influence  buyers  to  make 
purchases  before  it  goes  into  effect.

Tbe  outlook 

likely 

for 

Molasses—Fancy  open  kettles are  out 
of  tbe  market,  although  there  are  lots  ot 
low-grade  open  kettles,  which  are  sell­
ing  at  a  very  low  price.  Centrifugal 
molasses  is  higher  relatively  than  open 
kettle,  and  for  that  reason  is  not  selling 
so  well.

Rice—Advices  from  the  South  note 
that  while the  movement  in  Charleston 
is  somewhat  irregular,  the  aggregate  is 
considerably ahead of the previous week. 
Come  wbat  may,  tbe  outlook  is  for  a 
very 
every  greater

strong  market, 

or  less  indication  contributing  toward 
an  upward  tendency.

Provisions—The  returns  of  stocks  of 
meats  and  lard  indicate  an  enlargement 
of  supplies  since  a  month  ago,  as  a  re­
sult  of  the  liberal  extent  of  packing 
operations.  So  far  as  meats  are  con­
cerned  there  would  be  regarded  little 
significance  in  tbe  showing,  but  tbe  de­
cided  gain  in  an  already  large  stock  of 
lard  in  the  prominent  markets  furnishes 
occasion  for  apprehension  of  unfavor­
able  influence  therefrom  on  the  general 
trade,  unless  there  should  be  a  notable 
change 
in  the  situation  in  the  near  fu­
ture.

The  Produce  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  is  still  in  ample 
supply  at  I2@I3C  and  factory  creamery 
is  slow  sale  at  19c.  Receipts have  fallen 
off  considerably  during  the  past  week— 
probably  due  to the  colder  weather  pre­
vailing  in  all  parts  of  tbe  State.

Cabbage— 5010555c  per doz.,  according 

to  size  and  quality.

Celery— 15c  per  bunch.
Cider—$4  per  bbl.,  including  bbl.
Cranberries— Dealers  hold  Cape  Cods 

at  $1.50  per  bu.  and  $4  per  bbl.

Eggs—Receipts  of  fresh  are  not  so 
liberal  as  they  have  been,  but  they  are 
still  ample  to  meet  the  consumptive  de­
mands  of  the  market.  Handlers  hold 
at  I2@i3c—the  latter  price  for  candled 
stock— but  pickled  and  cold  storage  go 
begging  at  76^8c,  even  when  candled 
stock  is  offered  at  the  latter  figure.

Grapes— Malagas  bring  $6  per  keg  of 

65  lbs.  gross.

Honey— White  clover  is  in  fair  de­
mand  at  I2>£@i3c.  Buckwheat 
is  not 
so  salable,  bringing  8@ioc,  according 
to quality  and  condition.

Lettuce— 15c  per  lb.
Onions— Tne  recent  sharp  advance  is 
well  maintained,  dealers still paying 75c 
for all  offerings  of  choice  stock,  bolding 
in  a  small  way  at  $1  per  bu.
Potatoes— Handlers  pay  13c  for  stock 
in  carlots  on  track. 
In  a  small  way 
dealers  find  no  difficulty  in  obtaining 
25c  per  bu.
light  demand  and  ample 
supply  at  3c  per  lb.

Squash— In 

Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln-dried  Illinois 

are  in  good  demand  at  $ 1.50  per  bbl.

My  Mother’s  Shoe.

When but a child in mischief wild 
Or teased tbe cat, or lost my hat.
What stopped my moukey capers then 
And made me “ point” around the room?

I frolicked on the floor.
Or toddled (o the  door,
W hen held up io my view,
Ab!  ’twas my mother's shoe!

And then, when time had rung Ihe chime 
Of th rteeu years or no,
I talked aloud and  boldly vowed 
To school no more I'd go.
What brought me to my senses  then,
And made me feel so  b ue?
How quick my cboler wilted  w'hen 
My mother raised  her shoe!

Ah!  good old  shoes that mother wore,
Your spanking days are long since o er,
And even now in ilper years 
On childhood s  days  and  scrapes and  fears 

And on me wore them, too!
Yet still  1 th nk of you;
1 love at times to muse 
Of mothers ready  shoes!

An  ordinance  denying  a saloon license 
to  a  person  who  cannot  procure  a  peti­
tion  therefor,  signed  by  a  majority  ot 
the  legal  voters  ot  the  district,  has  been 
sustained  by  the  Illinois Supreme Court.

WANTS  COLUMN.

_______BUSINESS  CHANCES.
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 
25 cents.  Advance payment.

■   rRAoTICAL MAN  W illi CAPITAL  WILL 
find good investment In  a  well-established 
wholesale  grocery  business by  addressing r. F. 
Misner, Agent. Muskegon, Mich. 
203
Rea l  e s t a t e  in   t h is  c it y   w orth
$4 (O'1 to exchange for stuck  of  groceries or 
general merchandise; difference paid iu cash or 
taken  in  mortgages  on  property.  Address W., 
209
care Carrier-rfi, Grand  Rapids. 

206

204

200

W ANTED—A  SMALL  STOCK  OF  GOODS, 
shoes  or  haidware  preferred.  Add>ess 
205
No  205. care Michigan Tradesman. 
Good  o pe n in g   eok  a  m eta l  w o rk er
with some capital.  I offer  the  plant, tools, 
machinery,  catalogues,  good  will,  etc.,  of  the 
Metal Stamping & Spinning Co., for  sale or rent. 
Would retain an  interest  in  the  business  with 
the light  man.  Franklin  B.  Wallin, Treasurer 
Wallin Leather Co., Grand Rapids. 

IJV'K  KALE,  CHEAP—NEW  LAMB  KN1T- 

ti  g  machine  but  little used.  Does  splen­
did  work.  Cost  $60.  Address  Lock  Box  H, 
Laity  Onto. 
r|X* t*EXe RANGE — HEAVY  UAKDWuOD 
X   limber aud fanning  land;  title  pertect, aud 
cash to exchange  for  goods.  Address  208, care 
Michigan Tradesman 

2O8
ARE kPPOKTUNITY FuK SAWYER AND
cabinetmaker.  Mill  and  other  machinery 
set.  Home maiket for product  Timber cheaper 
than ever known.  H. G. Cady, Pine  Bluff,  irk.
210

IT'XCHA »OE FOR LIVERY oTULK-6j ACRES 

J  of  excellent  land  near  LaFontaine,  lud. 
C in lease  it any  time  for  oil  and  gas.  Large 
wells  near  by.  Price,  $6 000.  Aodress  N.  H. 
A inans, 3 ft'd 4 Tower Block. 
1X)K  SaLE-SIO cK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
X1  chandise, including drugs.  Only drug . tore 
iu town,  M  H. Mccoy  E»t.,  Grandville,  Mich. 
________________________________  

f 'OR  SALE  AT A  BARGAIN—A WELL-KEPT 

stock of general merchandise In a veiy good 
town  Address A.  B., Grant Station, Mich.  196 
IjlOK  SALE —STOCK  OF  GROCERIES  IN- 
I  
voicing  abuut  $i,00j,  in  a  live  Michigan 
town.  Good trade, nearly all cash.  Good reasons 
tor-selling.  Address 197, care  Michigan Trades­
man. 

SODA  FOUNTAIN,  LARGE  AND  ELEGANT 

and  for  sale  cheap.  Crozier  Bros.  Double 
»hoe Store, Grand  Rapids. 
194
Ij'OR SALE OR EXCHANGE-FOUR MODERN 
X?  cuttages in good  repair—three  nearly  new, 
all rented—for sale, or will  exchange  for  clean 
stock of dry goods.  Address  Lester  &  Co.,  211 
North Ionia street. Grand Rapids. 
Jj^OK SALE CHEAP—GOOD  60  ACRE  FRUIT 
X?  and grain farm, seven  miles  from  Allegan; 
good  buildings;  dandy  location.  Or  will  ex­
change for a stock  of  dry  goods.  Address  No. 
>85, care Michigan Tradesman. 
.  show cases—metal and wood—in good order, 
$7.50  each,  boxed.  The  Converse  Mfg.  Co., 
Newaygo. Mich. 
Jj'UK SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK OF 
F   merchandise—Forty  acre  farm  near  Hart, 
goou buildings, 900 bearing fru't trees.  Address
■o.  '79. care Michigan Tradesman_______ 1,9
INXcHA AGE.—FOR HERcllAN DISC, or se l l 
JZj  —80 ac  e farm two miles from station,  near 
Workings,  Upper  Michigan;  land  hrst  class. 
Writeior  lull  description.  P. A.  Bredeen,  Es- 
c  naba, Mich. 

17UIR  SALE—SIX  8  FT.  ROUND  FRONT 

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pond with XXX, care  Michigan  Tradesman. 

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SMALL  SHOE  STOCK  W ANTED—CORRES- 
1HAVE 120 ACRES OF  THE  FIaEsT  11AHD- 

wood tiuibere 1 land  in  Northern  Michigan, 
with  some  improvements,  well  watered,  and 
naif a mile from a  beautiful  lake, which  I  de­
sire to  trade for  stock  of  groceries,  buots  and 
shoes  or  clothing.  Address  Box  404  Harbor 
Springs, Mich. 
¿¡'OK S VLE FOR  CASH—STOCK  GROCERIES 
X1  and crockery  invoicing  between  $3,uuu  and 
ai.50u;  good luca.ion;  good choice slock.  Will
sell  cheap.  Good  chance  for  someone.  Ad­
dress D, Carrier No. 4, Battle Creek, Mien.  177 
rpO   EXCHANGE—5S  ACRES  ADJOINING 
X  thriving village iu Gratiot  county  for  mer- 
chanuise.  Address  Lock  Box  27,  Baldwin, 
Mich 

Ru b ber  stam ps  a n d  r u b b e r  t y p e.

Will J. Wel.er, Muskegon, Mich. 

Ij'OR  SALE- AT  A  BARGAIN  THE  WAT- 
r   rous’  urug  stock  and  fixtures,  located  at 
Newaygo.  B  st location aud slock in  the town. 
Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
Ij'OR SALE—IMPROVED  Hu  ACRE  FAKMiN 
X1  Oceana  county;  or  would  exchange  for 
merchandise.  Address  380  Jefferson  Avenue, 
.nuakegou. 
Ij'OH  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
X   farms  for  Btock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
Location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

SALESMEN  WANTED — GOOD  GROCERY 
kJ  salesmen to sell a  rattling  good specialty as 
a side line  Good  salesman make  $ u  and  $ 00 
extra per month.  Write  for  particulars.  State 
ousiuess  and  experience.  Tne  Standard  Ac­
count Co., Elmira, N. Y. 
201
WANTED— POMTluN  BY EcFlClENT, Ex­
perienced stenographer  aud  book-keeper. 
Address. B. C  E., BjX  7, Muskegon, Mich.  203
WANTED —oALESh AN  FOR  PATENT 
medicine  line.  Must  be  good  man  with 
experitnee.  The J. W. Brant  Co., Ltd.,  Albion, 
2u7
M ich. 
W a n te d—a  good  seco n d h a n d  or 
new  two-horse  covered  peddling  wagon. 
Must be a bargain.  Address K. & B„ care Mich­
igan Tradesman.______________________ 199
Wa n te d—situ a tio n  as  c l e r k  
in
clothing,  furnishings  aud  shoe  trade, or 
traveling salesman,  by married man  of  21, with 
s x years’ expeiieuce in  business.  Address  No. 
187, care Michigan Tradesman. 
AN 1 ED- POSITION  AS  BOOK-KEEfER 
or office clerk by a married man of  twelve 
years’ experience in me banking business.  Can 
lumisb best  of  references.  Address  II.  N.  S., 
Box 379. Lakeview, Mich. 
186
W ANTED  TO  CORRESPOND  WITH  SH1P- 
pers of butter and eggs and  other  season­
able produce.  R. Hirt, 36 Market street, Detroit.
961

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Lowest  Prices. . .

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  .  .  .

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

We solicit correspondence in 

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FLOUR, FEED and MILL STUFFS

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

Our celebrated

Thin  Butter  Crackers

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The Mibhioan Mercantile floency

will be trade winners for  the 
merchants  who  know  them.
Christenson Baking Co.,

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FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel.

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J. A. MURPHY, General Manager.

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SPECIAL  REPORTS. 

LAW  AND  COLLECTIONS.

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

Main  Office:  Room  n oa,  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,*  Mich.

N.  B.—Promptness  guaranteed  in  every  way.  A11  claims  systematically  and  persistently 
handled until collected.  Our facilities are unsurpassed for prompt  and  efficient service.  Terms 
and references furnished on application.

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ders  to  us for our superior quality

BARCUS  BROTHERS,  flanufacturers  and  Repairers,  Muskegon.

YOUR
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Profitable  Lines of  Goods  upon 
your counters.  Attractive  lines 
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Haeselman Candy Go.

of Kalamazoo,

are  getting  onto  new  counters 
every day.

i lew   Dale  Frosting

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

Torgcson, Hawkins, Torgeson Go.,

WE PAY  FREIGHT.

KALAnAZOO,  niCH.

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Four  Kinds  of Coupon  Books

are manufactured  by  us  and  all  sold  on  the 
same  basis, irrespective  of  size, shape  or  de­
Free  samples  on  application.
nomination. 

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  g r a n d  r a p id s.
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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 
Best  Equipment 
Most  Complete  Facilities

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

It  is  twenty times  more  sensitive  at  60 cents  per pound  than  at  3  cents  per  pound.  Yet  even  at  3  cents  per  pound  our 
Money Weight  Machines  are  more  sensitive than  pound  and ounce  scales.  Pound  and ounce  scales  give just  as  much  over­
weight  at  3  as  at 60  cents  per pound.,  while  with  our  money weight  system  it  is  impossible  to give  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
cent  overweight.  You  are  giving every  month  enough  overweights  with your  pound  and  ounce  scales  to  pay  for  fitting  your 
store  up  with  our  money  weight  machines. 

It  costs you nothing  to  investigate our  systems.  Write  us.

THE COMPUTING SCALE COMPANY, Dayton, 0., U. S. A.

If so, and  you  are  endeavoring to  get along 
without using our  improved  Coupon  Book 
System, you are  making a most serious mis­
take.  We  were  the  originators of the cou­
pon book  plan  and are the largest manufac­
turers of these books in  the country, having 
special  machinery  for  every  branch  of  the 
business.  Samples free.  Correspondence 
solicited.

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

