Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  14,  1897.

Number  708

À

The  World  Challenger”

for 

Lasts for years and 
Pays 
Itself 
every  four  to  six 
months.  K e e p s  
fine cut  tobacco  in 
Perfect  S e llin g  
Shape all the time.

Out of  many tes­
timonials  Wr 
just 
give  one  sample 
below:
Messrs.

Devereaux & Duff.
Gentlemen:  You 
ask  us  how  we  like 
your Tobacco Pail Cov­
ers and  Moisteuers, and 
we  say  we  like  them 
just  so  well  that  we 
would  not 
take  five 
dollars  apiece for them 
and have  to do without 
them. 
\Ve use them on 
all our fine cut tobaccos.

Respectfully,

I [all Bros., 
Owosso, Mich.

DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING  AND  LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES  W

Office and  Works,  BUTTER WORTH  AVE.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bulk  works at Grand  Rapids.  Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac. Biir Rap 
Ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, Allegan,
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart.
Whitehall, Holland and  Fennville.

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

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Grand  Rapids, Mich.

N.  B.  CLARK,  Eres. 
W.  D.  WADE,  Vice- 

C. U.  Clark,  Sec’y and 

Pres.

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We  are  now  ready 
to 
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for the  season of 1897-.
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GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
While  the average  of  prices  and  the 
general  volume  of  trade  have  made  an 
unfavorable  showing  on  account  of  the 
speculative  reaction 
in  wheat  and  the 
unfavorable conditions of floods  and  bad 
roads,  there  are  yet an  increase  in  the 
feeling  of  confidence  and  a  disposition 
to  accept  the  new  basis  of  low  values, 
with  an  increase  in  jobbing  activity  at 
points  where  conditions  are  normal, 
that  are,  on  the  whole,  reassuring.  The 
fact  that  railway  securities  have  stood 
the  ordeal  of  the  transmissouri  decision 
not  only  without  a  decline,  but  showing 
a  positive  strengthening,  is  of consider­
able  reassuring  significance.

The  reaction 

in  wheat  in  the  face  of 
strong  bull 
indications  seems  to  show 
that  the  price  has  been  sustained  to  an 
unwarrantable  extent  by  speculative 
interest.  The  decline  of  about  six  cents 
brings  the  quotations  to a  lower basis 
than  at  any  time  since  last  September. 
Western  receipts  are  nearly  equal  to 
those  of  last  year.  Export  movement 
continues  slow.

The  reaction  in  iron  prices  since  the 
new basis  of  values  in  the ore  pool  still 
continue,  until  grey  forge  has  broken 
the  record  by  touching  $8.75  at  Pitts­
burg,  and  Bessemer  is  again  down  to 
$10.  A  number  of  steel  works,  includ­
ing  the  Illinois,  have  been  closed  by 
strikers,  or to  forestall  such  action.

The  advance 

in  wool  seems  to  have 
is  not  signifi­
lessened  sales;  but  this 
cant  as  to  mills,  for  the  reason  that 
most  are  supplied  for  many  months  to 
come.  The  demand  for  women's  dress 
goods  is decidedly  bettei  and  some  real 
improvement  is  noted  in  that  for  men’s 
wear.  Naturally,  the  floods  have  caused 
an  advance  in  cotton  a nd  the  manufac­
ture 
improving,  although  undue 
stocks  are  still  a  disquieting  feature. 
Shipments  of  shoes  from  Boston  are  be­
ginning  to  decline,  on  account  of  the 
continued  high  prices  of  leather,  which 
prevent  manufacturers  from  meeting 
the  ideas  of  the  dealers.

is 

The  general  financial  outlook  as  to 
the  principal  centers  seems  to  continue 
favorable.  There 
is  no  danger  of  an 
undue  demand  for  foreign  settlements 
on  account  of  increased  imports,  which 
some  feared  would  result 
the 
tariff legislation.  Failures for  the  week, 
232,  against  212  for  the  preceding.

from 

It  is  reported  that a  gigantic  consoli­
dation  of  the  oil  interests of  the  world 
has  been  practically  brought  about  by 
the  Standard  Oil  people.  After  pro­
longed  negotiations  with  the  Russian 
magnates,  Nobel  Bros.,  who  control  the 
Black  Sea  output  of  oil,  the  Standard 
Oil  Company,  it 
is  said,  induced  the 
Russians  to become  a  factor  in  a  three- 
cornered  plan  to  divide  the  world’s sup­
ply.  The  Standard  Oil  Company  and 
Cudahy  Bros.,  of the  West,  who  are  the 
Standard  Oil Company's  greatest  rivals, 
completed  the  membership  in  the  pro­
posed  triangular  deal.  Nobel  Bros,  con­
sented  to  “ come  in”   if  Cudahy  Bros, 
could  be 
induced  to  join.  With  this 
understanding  the  Standard  Oil  Com­
pany  made  overtures  to  their Western 
rival,  w ith 
result  still  in  d o u b t

the 

Cudahy  Bros,  recently  acquired  owner­
ship  of  the  Manhattan  Oil  Company, 
which  was  controlled  by  E.  C.  Bene­
dict,  Roswell  P.  Flower,  J.  A.  Billings 
and  others,  and  made  the great  Western 
independent  of  its 
concern  practically 
Eastern  competitor. 
It 
is  understood 
also  that  Cudahy  Bros,  have  withheld 
their answer  pending  action  on  the  part 
of  the  United  States  Pipe  Line  Com­
pany,  the  producers’  association  of  the 
State  of  Pennsylvania,  which  was  not 
invited  into  the  deal.

It  would  be  interesting  to  the ¡¡readers 
of  the  Tradesman  to  know  what  influ­
ence 
the  State  Food  Commissioner 
brought  to  bear  on  the  Tradesman’s  oc­
casional  correspondent  to  secure  her  en­
thusiastic  approval  of  his  plan  to  in­
crease  the  appropriation  voted  his office 
by  the  Legislature  from  $10,000  to 
$18,000  per  year.  Her  plea  for  the  ad­
ditional  money  is  thoroughly 
in  keep­
ing  with  the  traditional  instincts  of  her 
sex  and  Mr.  Grosvenor  has  made  a  ten 
strike 
in  securing  the  support  of  a 
partisan  who  can  write  as  convincingly 
and  talk  as  incessantly  as the lady above 
referred  to.
“ Where 

is  your  clerk?”   asked  the 
dried  apple  purloiner  of  the  general 
storekeeper  as  he  helped  himself  from 
the  oyster  cracker barrel. 
“ He got  too 
fresh  and  l  had to bounce him. ”   "Why, 
I  thought  he  was  a  nice  chap,  what  did 
he  do?”   “ Well,  a 
in  and 
asked  for  a  stove  lifter  and  the  smart 
cuss  handed  her  a  pint  bottle  of  gaso­
line. ”

lady  came 

increase 

The  production  of  aluminum 

is  on 
the 
in  the  United  States,  the 
output  last  year  being  1,300,000 pounds, 
against  goo,000  in  1895,  817,600  in  1894, 
312,000  in  1893  and  168,000  in  1891.  A 
dozen  years  ago  the  metal  cost  nearly $8 
a  pound.  Last  year  the  price  averaged 
only  40 cents  a  pound.

Francis  Murphy's  recent  temperance 
campaign  of  two  months  in  Boston  is 
said  to  have  resulted  in  13,000  signers 
to  the  pledge.  Boston  will  put  itself  to 
temporary  discomfort  as  quick  as  any 
city  in  the  country  to give  a  noted char­
acter a  warm  reception.

The  New  York  woman  who  was  sued 
the  other  day 
for  $10,000  worth  of 
dresses  and  other  “ toggery”   has  en­
lightened  the  world  on  cne  point:  She 
said  with  much  decisiveness  that  a 
gown  is  old  when  it  has  been  worn  five 
times.

At  Norfolk,  Va.,  a  plant  has  been  es­
tablished  with  capacity  for five  tons  of 
peanuts  daily,  for  the  manufacture  of 
peanut  oil,  peanut flour,  and  stock  feed, 
the  estimated  combined yield  represent­
ing  more  than  $400 a  day.

Better  have  an  egg  to-day  than  a 
hen  to-morrow, ’ ’  is  an  old  saying. 
It 
means,  in  other  words,  that  it’s  better 
to  hustle  to  get  your  full  share  of  the 
present  trade  than  to  wait  for  a  boom 
which  may  never come.

The  trade  paper  is  the  organ  of trade, 
as  indispensable  as  the  counter  or  the 
office desk ;  it  broadens  business,  keeps 
it  out  of  ruts,  makes  easier  work  for 
the  workers,  builds  progression,  stimu­
lates  good  fellowship.

“ I  suppose  your daughter  is  just  like 

mine—rather  ride  a  wheel  than  eat.”

“  Not  exactly;  but  she  would  rather 

rid e  a  wheel  tEian  cook. “

CURIOUS  DECISION.
That  was  a  rather  curious  and 

incon­
sistent  decision  by  the  Federal  Court  at 
Toledo,  in  the  Arbuckle-Woolson  fight. 
The  Court  held  that  one  company  could 
buy  the  controlling  stock  in  a  corpora­
tion  for the  express  purpose of hurting a 
rival,  and  not  for  legitimate  business 
purposes,  but  that  the  rival  as  a  stock­
holder had  no  right  to ask  for  relief.

The  Arbuckles, 

it  will  be  remem­
bered,  threatened  to  go  into  the  sugar 
The  Sugar  Trust 
refining  business. 
thereupon  bought 
into  the  Woolson 
Spice  Co.  for  the  purpose  of  waging  a 
coffee  war  against  the  Arbuckles.  The 
latter  also  purchased  stock  in  the  Wool- 
son  Co.  and  sought  to  restrain  the  com­
pany,  under  control  of  the  Sugar  Trust, 
from  cutting  the  price  of  coffee.  The 
Court,  in  refusing  the  injunction,  found 
that  the  Havemeyers  had  bought  the 
stock  to break  down  the  Arbuckle  coffee 
interests  as  a  means  of  keeping  the  lat­
ter  from  competing  with  the  Sugar 
Trust 
It  was 
not  a  bona  fide  purchase  of  stock  in  the 
Woolson  Co.  Yet  the  Court  holds  that 
the  plaintiffs  are  not  asking  for  the 
in­
junction  in  good  faith  and  therefore  re­
fuses  it. 
It  would  look  as  though  good 
law ought  to  protect  the  minority  stock - 
! holder against  the  bad  faith  of  the  ma­
jority  stockholder.  The  former  is  at 
least  entitled  to  protection  when  the  es­
tablishment 
is  being  run  for  an  im­
proper  purpose.

in  the  refining  of  sugar. 

The  interesting  question  to  the public 
is  whether  the  Sugar  Trust  will  be  able 
to  win 
its  fight  by  such  questionable 
means  against  competition,  when  it gets 
into  the  Supreme  Court?  Will  the  lat­
ter  tribunal  allow  this  or any other great 
trust  to  prevent  others  from  entering 
their  particular  field  by  buying  and 
wrecking  other  establishments,  as 
in 
this  case? 
Is  this  not  a  conspiracy 
against  trade?  Of  course,  if  the  Wool- 
son  Spice  Co.  was 
legitimately  reduc­
ing  prices,  no 
interference  would  be 
proper;  but  when  the  facts  show  the 
selfish  and  arbitrary  hand  of  the  Sugar 
Trust  for  the  sole  purpose of  preventing 
Arbuckle  Brothers  from  engaging  in the 
sugar  business,  the  matter becomes  one 
of  wide  public  interest.  There 
is  go­
ing  to  be  no  vigorous  kick,  however,  in 
the  meantime  against  cheaper  coffee.

Got  More  Than  He  Wanted.

Angry  caller  (at  newspaper  office): 
Say,  I  want  that  little  advertisement  I 
gave  you  two  days  ago— “ Wanted,  an 
electric  battery  in  good  working  order”  
—taken  out.

Advertising  clerk:  What  is  the  mat­
ter?  Didn’t  we  put  it  in  the  right  col­
umn?

Angry  caller:  Column  be  dashed! 
The  advertisement  overdid the business. 
My  house  was 
struck  by  lightning 
last  night.

Soap  from  Corn.

*  A  soap  manufacturing  concern  at  Des 
in  the 
Moines, 
la.,  is  experimenting 
manufacture  of  soap  from  corn. 
It  is 
said  the  first  lot  of  cakes  turned  out 
proved  a  success.  The  cakes  resemble 
those  of  castile  soap  except  that  the 
color  is  not  quite  as  dark.  The  soap 
makes  up  compactly,  but  is  light and 
w ill  float.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

B icy cles

News  and  Gossip of Interest  to  Dealer 

and  Rider.

The  records  kept  at  the  Patent  Office 
show  to  what  an  enormous  extent  the 
invention  of  bicycle  improvements  has 
grown  in  this  country.  Since  1876 over 
4,000  patents  relating  to  bicycles  have 
been  granted  by  the  United  States  Pat­
ent  Office,  and  at  least  half  of  these 
have  been  issued  in  the  last  six  years. 
It  now  takes  the  labor  of  eight  expert 
assistant  examiners  to  handle  the  ap­
plications  of  cycle  inventors,  and  even 
with  this  force  there 
is  always  a  big 
batch  of  applications awaiting examina­
tion.  How  fast  this  industry  has  grown 
may  be  judged  from  the  statement  that 
up  to  1876  only  about  300  patents  for 
cycles  had  been 
issued.  There  is  no 
country  in  the  world  that  shows  a  simi­
lar  rate  of  growth  in  this  same  line.

*  *  *

A  correspondent  of  the  Bicycling 
News 
insists  that  new  riders,  in  pur­
chasing  wheels,  pay  too  little  attention 
to  the  proper  adjustment  of  the  ma­
chine,  especially  in  the  matter of  crank 
length,  which  point  he  discusses  at 
some  length  as  follows: 
‘ ‘ Length  of 
crank  should  be  suited  more  to  the 
height,  or  rather  the  length  of  leg  and 
foot  of  a  rider  than  to  the  gear  used;  at 
least  such  is  my  experience.  I  have  re­
cently  been  riding  a.machine  with  7- 
inch  cranks  and  70 gear,  and  could  not 
make  half  the  headway  I  could  on  one 
with  6X->nch  cranks  and  62^  gear  of 
as  nearly  as  possible  the  same  class  and 
weight.  With  the  larger  crank  the  foot 
is  not  only  raised  and  depressed 
inches  more,  but  travels  between  3  and 
4  inches  farther at  each  revolution.  For 
a  short  man  to  have  such  cranks  must 
necessitate  serious  extra  work  to  the 
knee  and  hip 
idea 
would  be  that  for  persons  up  to  5  feet  2 
is  long  enough;  6% 
inches,  6  inches 
inches  up  to  5  feet  6  inches;  6%  inches 
up  to  5  feet 9  inches; 
inches  up  to 
6 feet,  and  7  inches  for  those  who  are 
above  this  height.  I  recently  was  shown 
a  model  of  an  expanding crank ;  but the 
use  of  this  would,  I 
fear,  entail  a 
change  of  the  height  of  the  seat  pillar. 
The  idea  is  a  most  ingenious  one  and 
well  worked  out.  The  crank  varies  half 
an  inch,  so  that  the  rider,  when ascend­
ing  or  descending  steep  hills  or  plug­
ging  against  the  wind,  can  make  the 
best  use  of  his  increased  leverage.”

joints.  My  own 

*  *  *

Women  who  are  chary  of  other fingers 
than  their  own  toying  with  their bi­
cycles,  and  prefer  rather  to  rub  them 
down  and  oil  them  themselves,  need  not 
necessarily  find  the  task  uncleanly,  if 
they  take  the  simple  precaution  to  wear 
gloves  while applying  oil.  A  bicycle, 
to  be  kept  in  good  condition,  should  be 
cleaned  every  time  after  use;  otherwise 
dust  and  grit  are  apt  to  sift  into  the 
bearings  and  wear  them  down.  The 
plated  parts  must  never  be  so  neglected 
that  they  begin  to  rust,  nor  must  mud 
be  allowed  to  cake  on  the  enamel,  for 
in  removing  it  you  will  assuredly  leave 
a  few  scratches.  Beware  of  a superfluity 
of  oil.  A  well-kept  bicycle  only  needs 
to  be  oiled  at  the  end  of  every  hundred 
miles.  A  faint  squeak  will  generally 
tell  you  when  the  oiling  is  necessary.  * 

*  *  *

London  will  soon  have 

finest 
cycling  clubhouse 
in  the  world.  The 
beautiful  mansion  known  as  Sheen 
House  will  be  converted  to  that  pur­
pose.  Since  the  Comte  de  Paris  left  the

the 

old  house  it has  fallen  into  sad  decay, 
but  now  it  will  be  ovehauled  and  the 
“ biker”   will  claim  it  as  his  own.  The 
winter  garden  will  be  converted  into  a 
conservatory;  a  covered  passage  will 
lead  thence  into  the  billiard-room.  The 
main  entrance  is  large,  lofty  and  hand­
some.  On  the  first  floor  will  be women’s 
drawing-rooms  and  boudoirs,  dining 
and  supper-rooms;  on  the  second  floor, 
dressing  and  bedrooms. 
There  are 
numerous  reception,  reading  and  writ­
ing-rooms, 
card- 
rooms.  and  several 
luxurious  bath­
rooms.  The  stables  are  to  be  used  for 
the  storage  of  cycles.  Members  will 
be  able  to  buy  and  hire  cycles at  re­
duced  rates.  The  club,  although  nomi­
nally  a  cycling  club,  will  encourage  all 
the  sports,  football,  cricket,  swimming, 
skating,  tennis,  croquet,  etc.  Portions 
of  the  beautiful  park  will  be  set  aside 
for  flower  shows,  and  possibly  a  stage 
will  be  erected  in  the  open  air,  where 
musical  and  theatrical  entertainments 
will  take  place.

tea,  smoking  and 

Willing  to  Be  Helped  Out.

From the Detroit Free Press.

“ I’m  a  believer  in  the  bicycle,”   de­
clared  a  lawyer  of  prominence  the  other 
day. 
“ In  fact,  I  ride  one  myself  and 
derive  a  great  deal  of  benefit  from  it, 
but  I  know  of  more  than  one  instance 
it  has  led  to  family  dissension.
where 
“ 1  was  called  upon  professionally  the 
other day  by  a  fine-looking,  intelligent, 
nicely-dressed  woman  of  about  35. 
Without  any  tears  or  other  prelimina­
ries  she  stated  that she desired  my serv­
ices  in  procuring  a  divorce.

“   ‘ Upon  what grounds,  madam?’
“   ‘ You  can  give  them  a  technical 
name  after  I  have  told  you  what  they 
are.  No  couple  ever  lived  more hap­
pily  than  did  Fred  and  myself  until  he 
brought  a  tandem  home  for our  joint 
use.  He  thought  it  best  that  we  should 
do  our  wheeling  together,  and  I  agreed 
with  him.  His  thoughtfulness  and  de­
sire  to  be  with  me  were  very  pleasing.’ 
“   ‘  To  be  sure. ’
“   ‘ But  all  my  anticipations  were 
blasted.  He  developed  a  stubbornness 
that  I  never  discovered in his character. 
He  never  proposed  going  where  I 
wanted  to go. 
If  I  had  my  mind  set 
upon  going  to  the  island  he  went  to  the 
boulevard,  and 
if  I  had  a  preference 
for  one  street  he  selected  another. 
It 
often  occurred,  too,  that  when  one  of 
us  was anxious  to go out  the  other  was 
not  in  the  mood. 
I cannot  endure  an­
other  such  season.’

”   ‘ Did  it  ever  occur  to  you,  madam, 
that  it  might  be  wiser to give  up  your 
tandem  than  your  husband?’

“   ‘ Indeed,  I'm  not  going  to  give  up 
the  bicycle  just  because  he  chooses to 
be  a  tyrant. 
I  want you  to  commence 
proceedings.'

“   ‘ Perhaps,  without letting  him  know 
what  you  have  in  mind,  I could  per­
suade  your husband  to  buy  you a  wheel 
of  your  own. ’

“   ‘ Oh,  if  you  only  could !  The  latest 
I’m  sure  he  would;  Fred’s 
I was  confident  you  would 

and  finest. 
so  generous. 
help  me  out.’  ”

What  She  Wanted  Was  in  the  Men’s 

Department.

She  was  rather  a  petite  little  thing 
and  quite  handsomely  dressed,  so  two 
or three  clerks  undertook  to  wait  on  her 
at  once.

“ I  want  to  gain  a  little  information 
in  regard  to  styles  for the  coming  sum­
mer,”   she  explained.

“ Certainly,”   replied  the  clerk  who 
had  succeeded 
in  getting  to  her  first. 
“ I  can  show  you  the 
latest  fashion 
plates,  or  give  you  a  brief  description 
of  some  of  the  principal  novelties,  so 
that  you  may  get  some  sort  of an  idea 
of  what  you  would  like  to  look  at.”

“ That  would  suit  me  exactly,”   she 

returned,  smiling  sweetly.

“ Well,”   he  explained,  determined  to

do  himself  proud,  “ the 
skirt  this  summer  will  be—”

fashionable 

“ The  what!”   she  exclaimed 

in  as­

tonishment.

“ The—the—really  fashionable skirt, 

he  faltered,  wondering  what  could  be 
the trouble.

“ The  skirt!”   she cried. 

“ What  did 

you  think  I  asked  fcr?”

“ Something—er—er—er  for  summer 

wear,”   he  answered  hesitatingly.

“ Of  course,”   she  said.  “ I  didn’t ask 
anything  about  winter  garments,  did 
l?”

“ No-o. ”
“ Well,  then,  what  are  you  talking 
about  skirt  for?  Do  I  look  like  an  old
fogy?”  

. 
I  wouldn  t  intimate 

“ Certainly  not. 

.

such  a  thing  for a  minute.”

“ Then  trot  out  the  fashions  that  I 
asked  for.  What’s  the  latest  thing  in 
bloomers  and  bathing  suits?  Are  they 
to  be  worn  scant  or  full? 
Is a  jockey 
cap  to  be  the  correct  thing  for  road 
wear,  or  must  I  get  a  yachting  cap  and 
put  a.  hatpin 
in  it  so  that  I  can  tell  it 
from  my  brother’s?  Should  I  wear  a 
blouse  waist,  or  may  I  put on  a  man’s 
negligee  shirt  with  a  short  sack  coat 
over  it?”

“ Really,  Miss,  I—er—er—I—you  see, 
this  is  the  ladies’  dress  goods  depart­
ment,  and  1—er

it 

“ Of  course 

is,”   she  interrupted. 
“ It’s  the  ladies’  dress  goods  that  I 
want. 
If  you  don't  think  that’s  what  I 
asked for,  you must  have  kept  your  eyes 
shut all  last  summer.”

“ Well,  the  fact  is,”   he  tried  to  ex­
plain,  “ that  while  we  have  some  of  the 
things  you  want 
in  this  department, 
you will have  to  go  to  the  men’s  depart­
ment  for  most  of  them.”

“ The  men’s  department!”   she  ex­

claimed. 

“ What’s  the  difference?”  

“ Why,  frankly,”   he  replied  in  des­

peration,  “ there  is  mighty  little.”

Then  she  went  away  threatening  to 
report  him  for  not  showing  proper  re­
spect  for  a  lady.

When  a  merchant  knows  his  business 
long  to 

it  does  not  take  the  people 
know  him.

We make a compact contract drawn 
up by one of the ablest attorneys in 
tne country,  which  we are able  to 
furnish at following1 prices:
100, $2;  500, $3;  1,000, $4.50.
No  bicycle dealer can afford to get 
along without this form.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

IF  YOU  ARE

A dealer and thinking of adding a line of  Bicycles 
or a dealer with a line of Bicycles, or a rider  in the 
market, you are

INTERESTED

in knowing what there  is on the market.

We  presume  you  know  something  about  Cy­
cloid,  Keating,  Winton,  Columbus  and  Stormer 
Bicycles. 
It’s certainly worth a cent  (or  postal) to 
get catalogues and  prices.

We  have  a  very  attractive  proposition  to make 

to you.  Spend a cent.

GREAT  BICYCLES

Qrand Rapids. Mich.

Stud ley  &  Jarvis,

THE WORLD 
THE HAMILTON 

THE AMERICA

Write  for  Catalogues  and  Prices.  A  few  more  good 

Agents Want* d.

ADAMS  &  HART,  Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

State Dlstribnti ng Agents.

Gllpper UpM Roadster

to  any  disinterested, unprejudiced, ex­
pert  mechanic,  ask  him  to pull it to 
pieces, examine it  piece  by  piece, test 
it part by  part,  analyze  every  bit of 
steel, compare  every  particle of work­
manship, every inch of finish, and  every article  of equip­
ment, from grips to tires;  and,  if  he can suggest  a  more 
expensive  method of  construction,  which  is  more useful 
or more practical, we’ll embody it in our 1898 wheel at  no 
extra cost.  No machine-made bicycle, turned out in lots 
of over 3,000  need to cost a single dollar more to  produce 
than  the  Clipper  Light  Roadster.  No  machine-made 
$100.00 bicycle is worth  a single cent more than our $80.00 
Clipper.  If it’s worth to you the difference in price 
to say you “ride a $100 wheel,” you  may be right 
in  paying  the  price.  Some $100  bicycles sell in 
auction  rooms  and  Department  Stores  a t  less 
than $30.00.  That’s about what they are worth.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Toronto  boom  caused  a  prostration  of 
trade,  but  it  did  not subsequently gather 
it  up  and  concentrate  and  centralize 
it 
at  the  corner  of  Young  and  Queen 
streets.  Before  the  boom 
there  were 
scores  of  stores 
in  the  city  where  now 
there  are  none.  The  boom  came  with 
its  superfluities  and  when 
it  collapsed 
its  superfluities  collapsed  with  it.  A  re­
construction  on  the  old  basis  followed, 
and  then  the  departmental  store  rose  up 
like  a  giant  octopus with numerous arms 
reaching  out 
in  every  direction,  and 
into 
the  trade  of  the  many  was  drawn 
the  capacious  maw.  Such 
is  the  true 
condition  of  Toronto  to-day,  and  such 
will  be  the  condition  of  any  city  that 
breeds  a  like  monster  of  similar  dimen­
sions within her borders.  E.  A.  Ow en.

Excusable  Ignorance.

The  newly  arrived  stranger  in Atlanta 
started  up  Whitehall  street  in  search  of 
information.  As  told  by  a  local  paper, 
he  encountered  a  tall,  yellow-faced 
in­
dividual  in  a  droopy  coat and soiled tie.
“ My good  sir,”   said  the  stranger,  “ I 
am  in  seai'cb  of  information  concerning 
this  great  State  of  Georgia,  and  feel 
sure  that  you  can  assist  me  very  mate­
rially.  What  is  your population?”  

you  here?”

“ Dunno. ”
“ What  kind  of  school  system  have 
“ Dunno. ”
“ How  about  your  tax  rate?”
“ Dunno. ’ ’
“ Is  your  government  friendly  or  un­
to  manufacturing  corpora­

friendly 
tions?”

* ‘ Dunno. ’ ’
“ Let’s  see—how  does  Georgia  rank 
among  the  other  states  of  the  South  in 
its  agricultural  products?”

‘ ‘ Dunno. ’ ’
“ Ah!  you  do  live  here  then?”
“  Yaas. ”
“ What  do  you  do?”
“ Oh,  I’m 
Legislature. ”

just  a  member  of 

the 

THE  TORONTO  O CTOPU S.

Effect  of the  Department  Store  in the 

Canadian  City.

Written for the T radesman.

in  Canada 

I  recently  attempted  to  give  the  read­
ers  of  the  Tradesman  some  idea  of  the 
manner 
in  which  the  big  Toronto  de­
partment  stores  were  injuring  the  mer­
cantile  interests,  both  wholesale  and  re­
tail,  of  the  entire  province.  The  figures 
quoted 
in  that  article  were  obtained 
from  a  journalist  of  Toronto  and  were 
supposedly  correct.  However,  a  small 
trade  paper  published  in  Toronto  took 
exception  to  the  article  on  account  of 
alleged  statistical  misstatements,  and  in 
reply  attempted  to  show  that  mercantile 
conditions 
in  general,  and 
the  Toronto  department  stores  in  par­
ticular,  were  not  as  bad  as  the  wicked 
Yankee  papers  would  feign  make  out. 
But  does  it  not  seem  just  a little strange 
that  this  paper,  which  caters  to  the  re­
tail  fraternity  of  the  province  for a  cir­
culation  upon  which 
its  real 
support  or  advertising  revenue,  should 
even  attempt  to  apologize  for  the  exist­
ence  of  a  monster  that  is  sapping  the 
life  blood  out  of  every  retail  store  with­
in  a  radius  of  one  hundred  miles  of 
its 
own  office?  It  may  be  the  little  paper  is 
subsidized  by  the  big hydra-headed con­
cerns,  or 
it  may  be  that  the  writer  of 
the  apology  had  his  John  Bull  pride  of 
home  institutions  just  a  little  rattled  by 
the Tradesman’s  publication,  and  aired 
his  sentiments  in  a  sort  of  “ mind  your 
own  business”   mood.  It  is  to  be  hoped 
the  latter  is  the  true  explanation,  as 
it 
furnishes  the  only  possibility  of  an  ex­
cuse.

to  base 

And  now  the  daily  press has  turned 
its  guns  on  the  destroyer of  legitimate 
trade,  the  Toronto  Sun  having  recently 
made  the  following  significant  utter­
ance :

In  the belief  that  departmental  stores 
are  inimical  to  the  interests  of  the  city, 
its  business  men  and  its  property  own­
ers,  the  Star  has  decided  to  devote  its 
columns and  its  influence  to  the  encour­
agement  of  the  class  of  merchants  who 
stick  to  the  usual  method  of  business. 
In  the  upbuilding  and  maintenance  of 
these  smaller  stores  lies  the  prosperity 
of  the  city  and 
its  people.  *  *  * 
While  upholding  the  opponents  of  de­
partmental  stores and  deploring  the  ex­
istence  of  the  latter,  it  would  be  incon­
sistent  in  the  Star  to  accept  the  adver­
tisements  and  money  of  the  depart- 
mentals,  and  to-day,  although  it  means 
a  heavy loss  to  the  Star  in  receipts,  they 
have  been  notified  that  this  paper  will 
in  the  future  decline  to  receive  their 
business.

The  first  demand  made  by  way  of 
checking  the  evil  is  a  system  of  taxa­
tion  that  will  protect  the  people  by 
equalizing  the tax-paying  burden.  The 
departmental  stores  have  revolutionized 
trade  conditions  in  the  city,  and  a  new 
plan  of  taxation  is  demanded  that  will 
be  better  suited  to  the  changed  condi­
tion  of the  tax  payers.  Those  who  are 
responsible  for  this  changed  condition 
are  reaping  the greatest  benefits  there­
by,  and  the  people  demand  that  they 
should  be  made  to  pay  a  proportionate 
share  of  the  city's  expenses.  Accord­
ing  to  the  most  reliable  sources of infor­
mation  as  to  the  present  condition  of 
things,  such  a  change  seems  necessary 
if the  city  expects  to  pay  its  way.

Now  what  are  some  of  the  facts  as  to 
the  evils  brought  about  in  the  city  of 
Toronto  by  the  department  stores?  The 
wholesale  houses are  disappearing,  and 
the  number  of  travelers  employed  is 
continually  growing 
less.  Those  who 
are  employed  are  compelled  to  take 
smaller  salaries,  and  as  a  general  thing

It 

is  only 

each  succeeding  failure  means one more 
empty  warehouse 
in  the  city.  A  de­
pressed  tone  pervades  the  wholesale 
ranks,  and  many  of  them  imagine  they 
might  do  better  in  Montreal,  Ottawa  or 
Quebec.  On  all  the  principal  streets 
stores  may  be  seen  which  were  once 
used  for  the  retailing  of  merchandise 
but  now  are  empty  or  used  as  ware­
houses.  The 
rental  of  stores  as  a 
means  of  income  has, in many localities, 
been  absolutely  wiped  out.  The  busi­
ness  center  has  contracted  until  it  is 
now  confined  to  a  few  blocks,  and  out­
lying  store  property  is  being  converted 
into  tenement  houses.  Although  the 
productiveness  of  this  property has been 
destroyed,  the  taxes  have  not  dimin­
ished,  and 
in  many  cases  total  aban­
donment  would  be  dollars  saved  to  the 
owners. 
in  the  little  trade 
centers  remote  from  the  big  octopus 
center  that  a  reasonably  healthy trade  is 
being  done;  but  even 
in  these  places 
the  trade  has  been  diminished  and 
rentals  have  been  cut  down.  The  num­
ber  of  clerks  and  other employes  en­
gaged  in  the  stores  of  the city have been 
greatly  reduced,  and  those  who  remain 
have  had  their  wages  cut  down. 
It  is 
claimed  that  the  number  of  adults  so 
employed  has  been  reduced  one-half, 
and  rentals  more  than  one-half.  The 
closing  of  these  stores,  and  the  conse­
quent  setting  adrift  of  families  all  over 
the  city  who  were  depending  on  them 
for  a  means  of 
livelihood,  injuriously 
affected  the  bake  shops  and  meat  mar­
kets,  and  they,  too,  have  been  forced 
to  obtain  lower  rentals  or  shut  up  shop. 
Toronto  is  largely  a  commercial  city. 
A  large  proportion  of  her  homes  are 
occupied—or  were,  rather— by  commer­
cial  travelers,  clerks  and  others  em­
ployed  in  the  wholesale  and  retail  mer­
cantile  concerns  of  the  city,  and  it  may 
be  readily  seen  that  both  owners  and 
renters  have  been  injured  beyond  meas­
ure  by  this  gigantic  evil.

Of  course,  there  are  those  who  at­
tribute  all  these  evils  to  the  big Toronto 
boom,  but  they  are  not  found 
in  the 
ranks  of  trade.  No  doubt  more  stores 
were  erected  during  the  boom  than were 
needed,  and 
if  trade  conditions  were 
the  same  as  before  the  boom,  these 
superfluous  stores  would  be  the  only 
empty  ones  in  the  city  The  boom  that 
was  inflated  prices  and  stimulated  ac­
tivity  throughout  the  entire  c ity ;  and 
the  boom  that  is  concentrates 
inflation 
of  property  values  and  mercantile  ac­
tivity  at  the  corner  of  Young  and 
Queen  streets, where  the  great  octopus  is 
located.  Within  a  few  rods  of  this  cor­
ner  rentals are  inflated above high-water 
mark  in  boom  times,  and  this  inflation, 
which  does  not  extend  a  half  block  in 
any  direction  from  the big departmental 
stores,  has  caused  a  corresponding 
shrinkage  of  values  outside  of this small 
center.  The  mercantile 
life  of  the 
city  was  distributed  along  the  business 
streets  and  in  the  numerous  minor trade 
centers  throughout  the  entire  city,  un­
der  the old  condition  of  things.  During 
the  boom  everything  was  inflated  and 
trade  was  active,  and  when  the big bub­
ble  burst,  the  wind  escaped  and  trade 
went  down  to  a  hard-pan  basis,  but  it 
was  distributed  just  as  it  had  always 
been.  Now 
is  different.  A  new 
agency  has  been  at  work  which  has 
gathered  up  this  distributed  trade  and 
concentrated  it  under  one  roof,  leaving 
empty  stores,  ruined  merchants, 
idle 
clerks,  moneyless  tenants  and  crippled 
real  estate  owners  in  its  wake.  Do  you 
say  all  this 
is  only  the  effects  of  the 
boom?  Nonsense.  The  collapse  of  the

it 

8

Not  So  Easy  as  It  Looked.

From the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle.

A  Rochester  woman,  whose  husband 
objected  to  the  bicycle  on  general  prin­
ciples,  went  to  a  riding  academy  in  his 
absence  and  commenced  to take lessons. 
When  the  head  of  the  house  returned 
she  had  become  a  mistress  of  the wheel. 
She  was  much  troubled  as  to  how  she 
would  go  about  telling  her  husband  that 
she  had  learned  to  ride.  She  finally  hit 
upon  a  scheme.

One  afternoon  she  surprised  her  hus­
band  by  asking  him  to  go  to  the  riding 
academy  with  her  and  watch  some  of 
her  friends  learn  to  ride.  He  thought 
it  would  be  rare  fun,  and  so  went 
along.  On  arriving  there  she  surprised 
him  still  more  by  selecting  a  wheel  and 
attempting  to  mount  it.  After  a  num­
ber  of attempts  she  succeeded,  and  rode 
in  a  zig-zag  fashion,  and  her  husband 
began  to  be  afraid  that  she would injure 
herself.  Suddenly  she  straightened  up 
and  sailed  about  in  grand  style,  to  his 
astonishment.

“ Well,  if  it’s as  easy  as  that  to  learn 
to  ride  a  bicycle,  I  guess  I’ll  try  my­
self,”   he  said.

The  next  day  found  her husband  at 
the  riding  academy,  but  he  did  not 
learn  as  readily  as  he  expected. 
In 
fact,  be  had  a  fall  and  sustained  a  bad 
bruise  on  his  forehead.  He  was  taken 
home 
in  a  carriage,  and  his  wife  now 
has  some  compunctions  of  conscience 
as  she  thinks  how  she  deceived  him  re­
garding  the  treacherous  bicycle.

The  Pineapple  Outlook.

The  crop  of  Bahama  pineapples  will 
be  quite  large  this  year  and  of  excel­
lent  quality.  Nothing  has  appeared  to 
give  the  growers 
in  that  country  any 
trouble,  and  they  have  paid  particular 
attention  to  planting  and  cultivation. 
Florida  reports  a  fine  pineapple  crop 
this  year,  although  the  season  will  be  a 
late  one,  owing  to  the  frosts  having  set 
back  the plants.  There  need  be  no  fear 
of  a  pineapple  famine  this  year.

WE  NOW 

MAKE. .   . HARNESS!

All  Styles
For Wholesale Trade

We have jobbed harness many years,  but  could  not  always 

procure satisfactory stock.  Now our “Hand made”  Harness 

is of the very best stock obtainable and we guarantee quality 

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GRAND RAPIDS.

Our  Push

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Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Durand— Dr.  Witherspoon  will  erect 

a  drug  store  building  at  this  place.

Morenci— Leroy  Rorick has purchased 

the  harness  stock  of  L.  S.  Brenner.

Albion—Oharra  &  Elliott  succeed  E. 

J.  Emmons  in  the grocery  business.

Bangor—J.  A.  Sherrod,  of  J.  A.  Sher­

rod  &  Son,  general  dealers,  is  dead.

Riverdale— Lathrop  &  Woodward suc­

ceed  M.  C.  Lathrop  in  general  trade.

White  Cloud— Miles  Roach  succeeds 
Tbos.  Jardine  in  the  grocery  business.
Chesaning—G.  L.  Kinch  has  moved 
his  jewelry  stock  from  Merrill  to  Ches­
aning.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— C.  H.  McBean  suc­
in  the  meat 

ceeds  Newton  &  McBean 
business.

Clarksville—L.  A.  Scoville  has  sold 
his  implement  stock  to  Wear  &  Prosser, 
of  Sebewa.

Hudson— Lorenzo  Barkmas  has  re­
moved  his  grocery  stock  from  Pittsford 
to  this  place.

Reed  City—J.  M.  Springstead  has 
opened  a  new  meat  market.  He  hails 
from  Baldwin.

Mackinaw  City—A.  W.  De  Wolf  will 
in  the 

shortly  open  a  grocery  store 
Marsh  building.

Williamsburg—Chas.  Will  has 

re­
moved  his  hardware  stock  from  Har- 
rietta  to  this  place.

Ishpeming—Chas.  Farm  has 

leased 
the  Carlton  building  and  will  embark 
in  the  bakery  business.

Oshtemo—John  H.  Hobden  is  having 
the  foundation  laid  for  an  extension  to 
his  store  and  warehouse.

Bellevue— R.  C.  Needham  has  pur­
chased  the  Bellevue  bakery  and  will 
run  a  restaurant  in  connection.

Dundee—Smith  &  Miller,  meat  deal­
ers,  have  dissolved.  The  business  will 
be  continued  by  Smith  &  Scott.

Harbor  Springs—Welling  &  Stein 
have  opened  their  new  dry  goods  and 
furnishing  goods  store 
in  the  Clarke 
block.

Ann  Arbor—Ottmar  Eberbach,  of 
Eberbach  &  Son,  druggists,  is  able  to 
be behind  the  counter again after a  long 
illness.

Benton  Harbor—Conger Bros.,  of  Kal­
amazoo,  have  rented  the  north  store 
in 
the  Newland  block  and  will  open  a  va­
riety  store.

North  Lansing— Stephen  Gauss  has 
purchased  the  bakery  of  G.  Gutekunst 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Lansing— Charles  Piella  has  rented 
the  stoie  recently  occupied  by  B.  P. 
Richmond  and  will  remove  his  stock  of 
jewelry  to  that  location.

Holland—J.  Elferdink,  Jr.,  has  pur­
chased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of  Dan­
iel  Bertsch  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness at  the  same  location.

Detroit—Jack  Barnes,  who  has  been 
the  manager  of  the  furnishing  depart­
ment  for  R.  H.  Traver,  has  returnetf to 
his  old  home  in  Philadelphia.

Bad Axe—The Saginaw  Hardware  Co. 
has  sold 
its  hardware  stock  here  to 
William  Hawks,  of  Port  Austin,  who 
will  remove  it  to  the  latter  place.

Bay  City—J.  F.  Martin,  formerly pre­
scription  clerk  for  Frank  Teeporten, 
has  embarked  in  the  drug  business  un­
der  the  style  of  J.  F.  Martin  &  Co.

Ann  Arbor—S.  Baumgartner  has  ab­
sconded,  leaving  numerous  creditors  of 
the  Vienna  bakery  and  grocery.  The 
stock  and  fixtures  have  been  seized  by 
Rinsey  &  Seabolt  by  virtue of  a  chattel 
mortgage.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Lansing— J.  L.  Hudson,  of  Detroit, 
has  purchased  the  boot  and  shoe  stock 
of  E.  C.  Jessop  &  Son,  and  will  con­
duct  the  business  thiough  Herbert  E. 
Cross  as  agent.

Portland— Fire 

in  the  grocery  store 
of  Geo.  Seymour  recently  damaged  the 
stock  to  the  extent  of  $200,  fully covered 
by  insurance.

Fennville— Miss  Mary  Billings  and 
Mrs.  C.  H.  Rogers  have  formed  a  co­
partnership  under  the  style  of  Billings 
&  Rogers  and  embarked 
in  the  mil­
linery  business.

St.  Johns—Henry  H.  Tromp has pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  silent  partner 
in  the  shoe  firm  of  George  Woodruff  & 
Co.  The  firm  will  hereafter  be  known 
as  Woodruff  &  Tromp.

Mendon—Geo.  Vernier  &  Son,  who 
were  formerly  engaged  in  the  hardware 
business  at  Lake  Ann  and  South Frank­
fort,  have  removed  both  stocks  to  this 
place,  where  they  will  continue  in  the 
same  business.

Tecumseh—Mr.  Parrish,  formerly  of 
Mt.  Pleasant,  has  purchased  the  Baker 
&  Hall  drug  stock  recently  taken  pos­
session  of  by  Williams,  Davis,  Brooks 
&  Co.  on  a  chattel  mortgage.  Mr.  Par­
rish  will  add  to the  stock.

St.  Johns—W.  W.  Peck,  of  Ionia,  an 
old  clothing  man  of  twenty-five  years’ 
experience,  and  Mr.  Webber,  of  the  old 
firm  of  Webber  &  Wagner,  have  formed 
a  copartnership  and  opened  a new cloth­
ing  store at  17  Clinton  avenue.

Reed  City— Z.  V.  Payne,  who  has 
been  manager  of  H.  Harrington’s  dry 
goods  store  for  the  past  three  and  one- 
half  years,  has  packed  up  the  stock  and 
shipped 
it  to  St.  Louis,  where  Mr. 
Harrington  conducts  a  general  store.

Bridgeton—R.  S.  Shiffert  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  Chas.  Rainouard 
and  John  Sharp,  who  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  Rainouard 
&  Sharp.  Mr.  Shiffert  has  removed  to 
Fennville,  where  he  has  re-engaged  in 
trade.

Boyne  City—A.  T.  Johnson  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Mrs.  M.  A.  Ward, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.  Mr.  Johnson  has  moved 
his  boot  and  shoe  stock  to  Traverse 
City,  where  he  will  re-engage 
in  the 
shoe business.

Corunna—Geo.  C.  Clutterbuck,  of  the 
firm  of  Currie  & Clutterbuck,  will spend 
a  portion  of  his  time  on  the  road  for a 
Pennsylvania  shoe  firm.  The  close  con­
finement  in  the  store  has  become  detri­
mental  to  his  health  and  he  has  hopes 
that  an  occasional  trip  around  the  State 
will  be  beneficial.

Manistee—F.  W.  Cron  has  contracted 
for  the  erection  of  a  three-story  brick 
building  on  the  vacant  lot adjoining  his 
present  place  of business.  The structure 
will  be  26x115  feet 
in  dimensions, 
heated  by  steam  and  lighted  by  elec­
tricity.  The  contract  calls  for the com­
pletion  of the  building  by  Sept.  1.

Benton  Harbor— Robert  Young  and 
Wm.  Harper  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under the  style  of Young &  Harper, 
to  embark 
in  the  merchant  tailoring 
business.  Mr.  Young  was  formerly  en­
gaged 
in  the  same  business  at  South 
Haven  and  East  Saginaw.  Mr.  Harper 
has  been  a  traveling 
for 
twenty  years.

salesman 

Detroit—The  Walsh  Coal  Co.  has filed 
articles  of  association. 
The  capital 
stock  is $10,000,  of which  $5,300  is  paid 
in.  The stockholders  are  Joseph  Walsh, 
Flint,  Mich.,  50 shares;  S.  F.  Walsh, 
Delray,  350  shares;  W.  A.  O’ Hare, 
Flint,  100  shares;  Louis  A.  Grobe, 
Flint,  10 shares,  and  E.  D.  McGowen, 
Delray,  20 shares.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Nunica—Ed.  Brown  has  resumed  op­

erations  at  his  creamery.

Detroit —Jacob  Brown,  President  of 
the  Detroit  Alaska  Knitting  Co.,  is 
dead.

Ovid—The  Clinton  County  Fruit  Co. 
has  made  300  barrels  of  cider  this 
spring.

Edmore—J.  J.  Hatinger  is  arranging 
to  remove  bis  old  shingle  mill  at  Kirby 
Lake  to  Antrim  county,  where  he  has  a 
shingle  timber  run  for  about  five  years.
Niles— A  Chicago  manufacturer  of 
canning  machinery  is  making  prepara­
tions  for  starting  a  canning  factory  at 
this  place.  He expects  to  have  the  fac­
tory  running  full  blast  by  next  fall.

Ludington—The  Cartier  Lumber  Co. 
has  a  force  of  men  at  work  getting 
things  in  shape  and  will  begin  on  the 
season’s  cut  in  about  ten  days.  Mean­
time  the  company  is  shipping  out  lum­
ber at  a  lively  rate.

Muskegon—There  are  more 

logs  in 
the  drive  of  1897  than  there  were  last 
year.  Well-posted 
lumbermen  predict 
that  not  less  than  40,000,000  feet  of  logs 
wiil  come  down  the  river this  year,  to 
be  sliced  up  in  Muskegon  mills.

Bangor— H.  A.  Portman  is  the  lead­
ing  spirit  in  the  organization  of  a  box 
and  basket  factory,  with  an  authorized 
capital  stock  of  $25,000.  The  brick 
building formerly used as  a  foundry  will 
be  utilized  as  a  factory  by  the  new com­
pany.

Trufant—The  L.  C.  Whittier  general 
stock  has been  purchased  by  J.  Hansen 
and  H.  C.  Hansen,  who  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  Hansen 
&  Son.  The  senior  partner  will  devote 
his  entire  attention  to  his  grist  mill, 
while  the  junior  partner  will  look  after 
the  store.

Muskegon---- The  Amazon  Hosiery
Co.’s  factory 
is  running  with  a  large 
force  and  increasing  it  day by day.  The 
palming  department  is  very  busy  and  a 
consignment  of  leather  for  this  depart­
ment  is  being  received  every  other day. 
The  carding  and  spinning  departments 
are  running  night  and  day  and  the 
other  rooms  at  night  as  occasion  re­
quires.

Alamo— Nearly  $5,000  has  been  sub­
scribed  in  support  of  a  creamery  enter­
prise.  A  site  has  been  secured  and  the 
building  will  be  ready  for operation  in­
side  of  sixty  days.  The  plant  complete, 
not  including  the  site,  will  cost  $4,000.
Bronson—The  Monarch  Portland  Ce­
ment  Co.  has  its  side  tracks  all  graded 
and  a  part  of  the  foundation 
laid  for 
its  office  building.  The  contract  for 
building  the  large  factory  buildings, 
70x300  and  70x250  feet 
respectively, 
has  been  let to a  Cleveland  firm,  and the 
terms of  letting  call  for  the  completion 
of  same  within  twenty-five  days.  The 
building  will  be  built  of  iron,  steel  and 
Portland  cement,  being  all  fire-proof.

Lyons—The  buildings  of  the  Ionia 
Sandstone  Co.,  located  between  Lyons 
and  Ionia,  are  completed  and  the  ma­
chinery  is  being placed.  The machinery 
building  is  26x58,  and  the  boiler  room 
25x31.  Power  is  furnished by  a 40-horse 
power  engine,  which  is  in  place.  There 
will  be  four  sashes  of  saws,  with  two 
tracks  under  each  sash,  so  that  dimen­
sion  stone  is  put  on  the  car direct  from 
saw.  The  drills  will  be  operated  by 
compressed  air.  Stone  will  be  handled 
in  the  yard  with  steam  hoists.

Au  Sable— The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sons’ 
extensive  plants  are  now  in  operation, 
the  large  mill  running  night  and  day. 
This  firm  employs  1,000  men  in  round 
num bers  and  the  end  of  th e ir  raw  prod­

uct  is  not  yet  in  sight.  Their  bicycle 
rim  and  guard  factory  is  running  full 
time,  employing  25  men,  as  are  also 
their  tie  and  long  timber  mills,  and  the 
rails  over  their  40  miles  of  railroad  are 
kept  hot  by  the  numerous  trains  bring­
ing 
in  raw  material  for  the  different 
factories.

Jackson—The  George  T.  Smith  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  as­
sociation  with  the  county  clerk.  The 
capital  stock 
is  placed  at  $200,000,  of 
which  57^  per  cent,  is  paid  in.  The 
stockholders  are  DwightS.  Smith,  4,500 
shares;  George  T.  Smith,  4,000  shares, 
and  Henry H.  Smith,  3,000  shares.  The 
object  of  the  company  is  to  manufac­
ture  Hour  and  grain  mill  machinery. 
The  company  is  now  doing  business 
in 
a  building  formerly  occupied  by  the 
defunct  Collins  Manufacturing  Co.

Owosso— D.  R.  Salisbury  will  move 
his  shoe  factory  back  to  this  city  from 
Corunna.  Owosso  contractors have been 
figuring  on  the  job  of  tearing  down  the 
two-story  brick  building  occupied  by 
the  factory  and  erecting  the  same  on  a 
site  now  owned  by  Salisbury.  Last 
summer  Mr.  Salisbury  moved  his  plant 
to  Corunna  and  erected  a  two-story 
brick  building  upon  being  promised  a 
bonus  of  $3,000  by  the  city.  This  he 
never  received,  although  he  claims  to 
have  fully 
lived  up  to  his  part  of  the 
agreement.

is  extending 

Ishpeming—The  Lake  Superior  & 
its 
Ishpeming  Railway 
lines 
in  this  city  to  the  mines  west 
and  south  of  town  and  will  be  in  shape 
to  handle  a  very  large  tonnage  of  ore 
this  season.  The  business  of  both  the 
Duluth,  South  Shore  &  Atlantic  and 
Chicago  &  Northwestern  lines  will  be 
much  reduced  by  the  new  road,  which 
has  the  easiest  grades and  consequently 
the  cheapest  line  to  ship  over of  any 
Lake  Superior  railway  handling  ore. 
Notwithstanding  this 
is  doubtful  if 
the  line  will  prove  a  very  remunerative 
investment  to  its owners—the Cleveland- 
Cliffs  and  Lake  Angeline  mining  com­
panies—as  it  has  cost,  with  equipment, 
$3,500,000—double  the  estimated  cost. 
The  total  income  of  the  iine  can scarce­
ly  exceed  10  per  cent,  of  this  sum  a 
year  and  it  costs  a  great  deal  of  money 
to  operate  a  railroad,  even  when  it  is 
well  built  and  equipped,  with minimum 
grades  and  maximum  capacity.

it 

Bay  City—A  contract  which  means  a 
great  deal  for  this  city  was  entered  into 
a  few  days  ago  between  the  Michigan 
Central  Railway  and  J.  Willis  McGraw. 
The  contract  provides  for  bringing  to 
this  city  about  250,000,000  feet  of  logs 
for  sawing  into  lumber.  The  timber  is 
still  standing  in  Otsego  county  and  will 
be  reached  by  an  extension  of  the  Bag- 
ley  branch  of  the  Michigan  Central. 
The  contract  provides  for  the  construc­
tion  of  about  five  miles  of  the  road  by 
Mr.  McGraw,  who  has  purchased  the 
right  of  way,  the  rails and a locomotive. 
He  will  begin  work  at  once.  The  con­
tract  for  hauling  extends  over  a  period 
of  eight  years.  This  railway  extension 
will  tap  a  section  said  to  be  the  finest 
belt  of  standing  hardwood 
timber  in 
Michigan. 
It  is  composed  of  gray elm, 
basswood,  curly  birch,  ash  and  pine. 
There 
is  a  considerable  quantity  of 
pine,  much  of  it  being  of  the  cork  va­
riety. 
It  was  at  first  the  intention  of 
Mr.  McGraw  to  erect  a  sawmill  in  the 
heart  of  the  timber and  to  ship  the lum­
ber  to  this  city,  but  after  mature  delib­
eration  he  concluded  to  make  the  other 
arrangement.  Several  of  the  local  mill 
firms  are  now  figuring  on  the  sawing 
contract.

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6

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

Davis  &  Nickle  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Mulliken.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company  furnished  the  stock.
John  Kiilean  &  Son  are  stocking  up 
the  store  at  31  East  Bridge  street  as  an 
annex  to  their  present  store  on  the  cor­
ner  of  Kent  and  East  Bridge  streets.

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co.  re­
ports  net  earnings  of  $10,917  for March, 
in  comparison  with  $9,801  in  March, 
increase  of  about  u }4  per 
1896—an 
cent.  The  net  earnings  for  the  first 
three  months  of  this  year  are  over  5 
per  cent,  greater  than  during  the  cor­
responding  period  of  last  year.

O.  L.  Davis  and  C.  L.  Maurer  have 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Davis  &  Maurer and embarked in the 
drug  business  at  Cadillac.  The  Hazel- 
tine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.  Mr.  Davis  was  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Cadillac  for  thirteen 
years,  until  his  stock  was  destroyed  by 
fire.  Mr.  Maurer  was  formerly  a  mem­
ber  of  the  firm  of  M.  V.  Gundrum  & 
Co.,  general  dealers  at  Leroy,  but  for 
the  past  four  years  has  acted  in  the 
capacity  of  prescription  clerk  for  H. 
L.  Van  Vranken,  at  Cadillac. 
The 
new  firm  will  be  temporarily  located 
in  the  old  postoffice  building,  but  will 
remove 
the  new  Wardell  block 
Sept.  1.

to 

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— The  market  sustained a mixed 
decline  Monday  and  a  similar  decline 
Wednesday.  The  condition  of  the mar­
ket  is  a  good  deal  of  a  conundrum.

Coffee—So  long  as  the  exports  from 
Rio  and  Santos  continue  as  large  as  at 
present,  the  market  will  continue  to  be 
weak ;  but  as  soon  as  there  shall  be  a 
d ropp i ng off of rece i pts f rom those po i nts, 
the  market  is  sure  to  rebound.  At  the 
first 
indications  of  a  reduction  of  re­
ceipts  at  Rio  the  market  is  expected  to 
advance  at  least  ic.  There  is  no  change 
in  the  package  coffee  market  this week. 
The  market  is  still  irregular,  and  may 
be  expected  to  decline  at any time.  The 
fact  that  the  market  is  weakened  by  a 
large  supply  of  coffee 
is  back  of  the 
fact  that  the  roasters  have  been  able 
thus  far  to  carry  on  the  war,  and  to  con­
tinue 
the 
present  condition  of  the market is weak, 
yet  dealers  recall  that 
is  stronger 
than 
it  was  about  eight  years  ago,  for 
the  reason  that  there  was  a  million  bags 
more  in  sight,  and  prices  were  higher 
than  now,  while  the  requirements  of  the 
world  are  greater  now  than  then.

indefinitely.  Although 

it 

it 

Canned  Goods—All  kinds  of  vege­
tables  are going  out  rather  more  freely 
than  for  some  time.  There  is  no  change 
in  canned  fruits.  Reports  from  the 
Coast  are  to  the  effect  that  trouble  is 
likely  to  occur over  the  canning  of  Co­
lumbia River salmon,  as it did  last  year. 
The  canners  have  issued  their  schedule 
of  prices  for  the  coming  year,  and  pro­
pose  to  pay  4c  for fish  to  the  fishermen. 
The  fishermen’s  union,  on 
the  other 
hand,  have  held  a  meeting  and  have 
decided  that  they  will  not  fish  for  less 
than  4>£c,  and  a  strike  is 
in  prospect. 
It  does  not  look  as  though  the  fishermen 
would  have  the better of the fight,  as they 
did  not  last  year  hold  the  field  com­
pletely  against  the  packers,  although 
they  forced  them  to  compromise,  yet 
only  after the  better  part  of  the  season 
was  passed.

Tea— No  perceptible  advance 

in  the 
price  of  high-grade  teas  has  occurred

as  yet,  although  they  are  sympathetical­
ly  affected  by  reason  of  the  advance 
in 
the  lower grades.  Holders of  high-grade 
teas  are  not  anxious  to  sell,  and  it  is 
probable  that  sales, 
if  made,  would 
show  a  slight  advance.

Dried  Fruits— Peaches have  been  in  a 
little  more  enquiry  during  the  week,  at 
unchanged  prices.  Prunes  havp  been 
the  best  seller  of  the  whole  line,  and 
while  there  has  been  no  actual  advance 
as  yet,  holders  are  very  firm  in  their 
ideas,  especially  as  regards  the  large 
sizes,  which  are  scarce.  The  two  heav­
iest  months  for  dried-fruit  consumption 
are before  us,  and  nobody  would  be  sur­
prised  to  see  prunes  higher.  Currants 
are  very  quiet,  although  the  market  is 
firm.

Provisions—The  unlooked-for  decline 
in  the  wheat  market  appears  to  have 
had  some 
influence  in  depressing  hog 
products.  The  demand  has  been  well 
up  to  expectations,  and  in  some  chan­
nels  is  showing  an  improving tendency. 
The  export  clearances  are  particularly 
large  of  both  lard  and  meats.  The  sit­
uation  does  not  appear  to  justify  expec­
tations  of  a  declining 
in 
values,  for the  consumption  is  large  at 
current  values.

tendency 

Purely  Personal.

S.  M.  Smyth, 

Christian  Bertsch  has  returned  from 
Boston,  where  he  selected  lines  of  fall 
goods  for the  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.
the  Scottville  potato 
buyer,  predicts  that  potatoes  will  be 
much  higher this  fall  than  for  the  past 
two  years.  He  thinks  the  price  of 
wheat  advancing  will  lead  those  in  the 
Northwest  who  have  of  late  given  at­
tention  to  potato  growing  to  return  to 
that  cereal.  He 
is  also  of  the  opinion 
that  many  who  have  been  growing  po­
tatoes  the  past  two  years  will  abandon 
that  crop  on  account  of  the  low  prices 
that  have  ruled.

Thomas  Friant,  who  was  thrown  from 
his  carriage  a  couple  of  weeks  ago 
while  driving  on  South  Division  street, 
sustaining  painful  injuries  to  one  knee, 
is  recovering  rather  more  rapidly  than 
either  his  physician  or  friends  expected 
would  be  the  case,  due  largely  to  the 
recuperative  capacity  of  a  splendid 
physical  constitution.  Mrs.  Friant  was 
also  thrown  to the ground,  landing under 
a  horse  driven  by  a  reckless  driver, 
but  miraculously  escaped  serious 
in­
jury.

M.  D.  Galloway,  a  prominent  dry 
goods  merchant  of  Albion,  died  April 
7  after  a  short  illness,  aged  37  years. 
For  several  years  he  traveled  through 
the  West  with  a 
line  of  dress  goods. 
About  six  years  ago,  in  order  to  be  with 
his  family,  he  purchased  the  dry  goods 
stock  of  E.  F.  Mills.  Sickness  soon 
first  a 
invaded  his  home, 
daughter,  then  his  wife, 
father  and 
mother—all  during  about  six  months’ 
time. 
This  was  a  severe blow,  from 
which  he  never  rallied, 
in 
death  as  above  stated.  He  leaves  a 
beautiful  daughter,  8  years  old,  quite 
well  provided  for  by  insurance.  Mr. 
Galloway  was  of  a  very  kind  disposi­
tion,  always  looking  to  the  happiness  of 
his  family  and  of  those  in  his  employ.

resulting 

taking 

Cheap  Rates  to  New  York.

On  account  of  the  Grant  monument 
ceremonial  at  New  York  City  April  27, 
the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  will  make 
rate  of  one  fare  and  a  third  to  New 
York  and  return.  Tickets  will  be  sold 
April  23  to  26  inclusive  and  will  be 
valid  to  return  up  to  and  including 
May  4.  For  tickets  and 
information 
apply  to  all  agents  of  the  Grand  Trunk 
railway  system  and  connections,  includ­
ing  the  D.  &  M.  city  office,  23  Monroe 
street.  Jas.  Campbell,  C.  P.  A.

The  Grain  Market.

Wheat  took  an  upward  turn,  as  was 
expected,  and  is now  fully  6c  per bushel 
above  the  prices  of  the  7th  inst.  When 
the  Government  crop  report  came  in, 
showing  only  81  4-10  per  cent,  of  an 
average  winter  crop  (about  300,000,000 
bushel  yield),  some  war  news,  cables 
id.  higher,  another  fair  decrease  in  the 
visible,  the  fact  that  navigation  is  now 
open,  with  10,000,000  bushels 
less  in 
sight  than  on  July  1,  1896—all  tended  to 
influence  higher  prices,  and,  last  but 
not  least,  the  short  sellers  got  scared 
and  bid  high  in  order  to  even  up  their 
sales.  We  think  that  wheat  has  seen 
bottom  and  will  advance  gradually. 
While  wheat  demands  a  fair  price  in 
comparison  with  other  farm  products, 
such  as  corn,  rye,  oats,  buckwheat,  etc., 
we  think  the  scarcity 
is  so  universal 
that  wheat  will  advance  at  least  io@i5c 
per  bushel  before  long.  We  read  that 
is  being  sown 
spring  wheat 
in  the 
Northwest,  but 
in  the  same  paper  we 
read  of  blizzards  and  several  feet  of 
snow 
in  the  same  localities.  We  also 
notice  that  the  Red  River  Valley  is  in­
undated  with  water  and  the  same  is 
true  of  the  Jim  River  country.  Spring 
wheat  should  be  nearly  all  sown  by  this 
time  and  the  State  of  Minnesota  will  be 
called  on  to  furnish  seed,  as  many 
farmers  are  virtually  out  of  it.

There 

is  nothing  to  say  of  corn  and 
oats,  as  the  price  remains  about  the 
same  as  when  our  last  report  was  made.
The  receipts  during  the  week  were  26 
cars  of  wheat,  4  cars  of  corn  and  4  cars 
of  oats— rather  a  small  number  of  cars.
for 

Local  millers  are  paying  82c 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A. V o ig t .

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus—$3.20  per  box  of  2  doz. 

bunches.

Beets— 40c  per  bu.
Butter— Separator  creamery 

is  weak 
at  18c.  Dairy  grades  are  coming  in  so 
plentifully  that  dealers  have  dropped 
their quotations  to  to@i2c.
Cucumbers— Cincinnati 

stock  com­

mands $1.35  per  doz.

Eggs— Local  handlers  have  done  as 
they  predicted  they  would  do and  re­
duced  their  paying  price  to  7J^c  per 
doz.,  exclusive of  freight  to  this  point, 
also  freight  on  return  cases.

Green  Beans—$2  per  %  bu.  box.
Honey— White  clover 

in  fair de­
mand  at  I2@i3c.  Buckwheat  is  not  so 
salable,  bringing  8@ioc,  according  to 
quality  and  condition.

Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  forcing,  10c 

is 

per  lb.

Maple  Syrup—90c  per  gallon.  Sugar 
commands  8@ioc,  according  to quality.
Onions— Dry  are  practically  out  of 
market.  Green  fetch  12c  per  dozen 
bunches.

Parsnips—25c  per bu.
Pieplant— Illinois  stock  commands 

Radishes—Cincinnati  stock,  20c  per 

2}£c  per  lb.

doz.  bunches.

$2.25  per  case  of  24  pints.

Strawberries— Louisiana  stock  brings 
Wax  Beans—$2.40  per  %  bu.  box.

Flour  and  Feed.

There  has  been no  material  change  in 
general  condition  of  the  flour  trade  for 
some  time.  Prices  have  declined  20@ 
25c  per  barrel  during  the  week,  but 
prices  are beginning  to  firm  up  again, 
in  sympathy  with  wheat,  and  will  prob­
ably  be  restored  again  to  the  old  basis 
within  a  few  days.  All  classes  of  buy­
ers 
in  the  larger  markets  seem  to be 
awaiting  the  result  of  the  May  liquida­
in  wheat,  naturally  expecting  the 
tion 
usual  depression 
in  markets  as  a  con­
sequence.  Foreign  trade  is  at  a  stand­
still,  so  far  as  any  new  business  is  con­
cerned,  there being  very  few  enquiries

from 

coming  in,  and  exporters  find  it  useless 
to  send  out  quotations.  What  few  bids 
are  being  submitted 
the  other 
side  are  too  low to  admit  of acceptance.
There  has  been  a  fairly  good  trade  in 
ground  feed,  meal,  etc.,  both  corn  and 
oats  being  scarce,  with  prices  tending 
upward.  Millstuffs  are  still 
in  good 
demand  and  millers  are  not  accumulat­
ing  any  surplus. 

W m.  N.  Rowe.

Detroit  Grocers  to  Take  in  the  Meat 

Dealers.

Detroit,  April  12—At our next meeting 
we  expect  to  add  to  our  membership 
something  over  one  hundred  and  fifty 
from  the  Retail  Butchers'  Association, 
the  retail  meat  dealers  having  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  more  effective  work 
can  be  done  under one organization than 
by  two  separate  associations.
At  our  last  meeting  it  was  decided  to 
ask  each  organization 
in  the  State  to 
send  one  or  more  representatives  to 
Lansing  to  work  in  the  interest  of  our 
exemption  bill.  We  expect  to  move  in 
this  matter  very  soon  and  will  keep  the 
different  associations  posted  as  to  the 
time  of  meeting  at  Lansing.  We  will 
send  a  delegation  from  here,  as  well  as 
an  attorney,  and 
if  our  brother  mer­
chants  can  send  delegates  from  other 
parts  of  the  State  to  represent our  inter­
ests,  we  think  that 
it  would  be  very 
effective  and,  perhaps,  be  the  only  way 
to  secure  the  enactment  of  the  measure.

E.  Ma r k s,  Sec’y.

Marquette— The  base  price  for  1897 
ore  has  been  settled,  the  figures  being 
$2.65  for  Norrie  ore.  At  this figure there 
is  but  little  profit  to  any  but  the  most 
favorably  situated  mines,  but  there  are 
mines  which,  by  reason  of  producing 
ore  of  superior  desirability,  will  com­
mand  a  considerable  premium  over  the 
base  price  for  their  product. 
It  is  cer­
tain  there  will  be  a  heavy  demand  for 
ore  and  that  the  production  will  be 
larger  than  has  ever  been  achieved  in 
any  previous  year.  The  mines  that  can 
make  a  small  margin  of  profit  on  the 
current  figures  can  work  strongly  and 
employ  full  forces,  as  there  will  be  a 
market  for  their  product  in  practically 
unlimited  quantities.  Many  mines 
which  cannot  figure  out  a  profit  at  all 
with  ore  at  $2.65  for  standard  Gogebic 
in  operation 
bessemers  will  continue 
and  will  work  strongly. 
It  costs  a great 
deal  of  money  to  keep  a  large  mine idle 
for  any  length  of  time,  as  the  fixed 
charges  for  pumping,  superintendence 
and  other  things  that  must  be  done  un­
less  the  mine  is  permanently abandoned 
mount  up rapidly,  while  the question  of 
taxation 
is  even  worse  to  face.  The 
closing  down  of  a  mine  for  the  season 
always  means  increased  taxes,  because 
a  certain  proportion  of  the  people  who 
have  depended  on  the  mine  for  their 
daily  bread  are  unable  or  unwilling  to 
secure  work  elsewhere and  they  must be 
fed. 
It  would  cost  very  nearly $100,000 
a  year  to  entirely  close  down  the  Lake 
Superior  or  Cleveland-Cliffs  mines  of 
this  city,  and  fully  as  much, 
if  not 
more,  would  be  required  to  cover  actual 
expenses  for  a  year  of  idleness  by  the 
Norrie  mine  at  Ironwood. 
It  is  bettei 
to  trade  an  old  dollar  for  a  new one than 
it  is  to  let the  old  dollar go and  get  no 
new  one  in  place  of  it.

A  Genuine  Surprise.

Business  Man— I  thought  I’d  surprise 
my  clerks  by  getting  down  to  the  office 
at  the  opening  hour.

Customer—And  did  you?
Business  Man— No;  there  wasn’t  one 

of  them  there.

Gillies'  N.  Y.  Great  Clearance  Tea 

Sale  now  on.  Phone  Visner,  1589.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

It 

New  Yoik,  April 

io—Considering 
the  obstacles  to  business improvement— 
the  uncertainty  regarding  the  tariff  now 
pending  in  the  Senate,  the  decision  ot 
the  Supreme  Court  against 
railroad 
combinations,  and  the  storms  and  floods 
which  have  interrupted  traffic 
in  some 
sections  of  the  country—the  quiet  con­
dition  of  the  situation  is  not  a  surprise. 
Indeed,  for the  next  few  weeks  we  may 
expect  transactions  to  continue  on  a 
moderate  scale. 
is  worthy  of  note, 
however,  as  an  evidence  of  improve­
ment,  that  while  the  decrease  of  busi­
ness  failures  during  the  first  quarter  of 
1897  was  only  about  2  per  cent.,  the 
liabilities  show  a  decrease  of  16  per 
cent.,  the  average  of 
liabilities  being 
smaller  than  in  any  year  siuce  1892.

in  mild  grades 

There has been  a  decline  of  ic  on  No. 
7  Rio  coffee  during  the  week,  the  clos­
ing  price  to-day  being  7>^c.  One  sale 
took  place  at  7c,  cost  and  freight.  The 
movement 
easy. 
Much 
is  manifested  by 
buyers,  notwithstanding  the  low  prices. 
Good  Cucuta  is  quoted  at I4%c,  Mocha, 
2i@ 22C,  with  fancy  held  at  30c  The 
amount  of  Brazil  coffee 
in  store  and 
afloat 
is  681,889  bags,  against  421,341 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.

indifference 

is 

Sales  of  raw  sugar  during  the  week 
have been  moderate.  The  final  passage 
of  the  new  French  bounty  law  has  had 
a  depressing  effect  on  the  foreign  mar­
ket  and  a  sympathetic  influence  here 
Prices  close  unchanged  from  last  week 
For  refined  sugar  the  demand  has  ruled 
slow  at  steady  prices.  Granulated  is 
now  higher  than  it  has  been  since  last 
September.

seriously  disorganize  trade 

In  teas  the  distributive  demand 

is 
slow,  with  prices  steady.  The  recom­
mendations  of  the  Board  of  Experts  ap­
pointed  to  regulate  importations  of  tea 
which  exclude  many  Pingsuey  and  low- 
grade  Oolong  teas,  have  called  forth  a 
protest  from  a  prominent  Japan  firm, 
who  claim  that  the  present  standards 
will 
in 
Japan  tea.
Tariff  legislation  has  stimulated  the 
demand  for  rice,  which  has  been  ac­
tive.  The  duty  under  the  new  bill  will 
be  >£c  higher  and,  as  the  bill  provides 
that 
from  and  after 
April  1,  all goods now entered  within  its 
range,  importers  and  dealers  are  not 
slow  in  taking  chances  to  sell  at  current 
prices.  Southern  markets  are  repotted 
steady.

it  shall  affect, 

The  spice  market  is  quiet,  both  here 
and  abroad,  with  prices  practically  un­
changed.  No  great  activity  is  looked 
for  before  the  first  part  of  next  month, 
when  canal  navigation  opens.

Little 

interest 

Business 

is  not  rushing 

is  manifested  in  the 
molasses  market,  which 
is  firm  on  de­
sirable  open  kettle  and  good  centrifu­
gals.  Syrups  are  dull,  with  prices  rang­
ing  from  8@2oc.
in  canned 
goods  circles.  Buyers  are  indifferent 
and  markets  are  irregular;  and,  take  it 
altogether,  there 
is  nothing  of  interest 
to  record.  Reports of  the  establishment 
of  new  factories  are  still  numerous  and 
many  old  concerns  are  contemplating 
operating  on  a  larger  scale.  The  only 
relief  to  the  monotony  is  the  war among 
the  salmon  packers  on  the  Columbia 
River  which  promises  now  to  demoral­
ize  that  market.
line  of 
dried  fruits  is  slow,  with  stocks  lighter 
than  usual  at  this  time  of  year.  There 
is  a  slight  improvement  in  the  market 
for  California  prunes,  but  not  much  de­
mand  for  California  raisins.
Oranges  and  lemons  are  in  better  re­
quest,  with  supplies  ample.  Pineap­
ples  are  scarce and selling at full figures. 
Bananas  are  in  good  supply  and  cheap.
is  not  very  active  in  butter. 
Receipts  have  been 
light  the  last  few 
days  and  this  has  checked  any  decline 
in  prices.

The  demand  for  the  entire 

The  cheese  situation  is  a  steady  one, 
with  the  supply  of  new  full  cream  mod­
erate  and 
firm  hands.  State  full 
cream  fancy,  I2 tfc .

Trade 

in 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  market  foi  eggs  shows  no  mate­
rial  change.  Arrivals  are  liberal  and 
prices  are 
low.  Some  strictly  fancy 
Northern  are  held  at  g%c,  while  aver­
age  prime  Western  bring  g%c.

Marrow  beans  are  offered  freely  at 
$1.10  for  choice  stock.  Pea  beans  are 
slow,  but  steady  at  85c  fcr  choice.

The  late  P.  T.  Barnum  frequently 
turned  to  his  own  advantage  crowds 
that  he  caused  to  collect  in  front  of  his 
old  museum  by  the  simplest  devices. 
When  business  was  dull  he  would  send 
a  man  out  into  the  street  with 
injunc­
tions  to  carefully lay down several bricks 
at  regular  intervals  on  the  sidewalk 
in 
a  deliberate  and  mysterious  manner, 
and  as  soon  as  he  had  attracted  atten­
tion  he  was  to  pick  them  up  and  walk 
into  the  museum.  Some  of  the  people 
whose  curiosity  had  been  aroused  by 
this  proceeding  invariably  bought  tick­
ets  and  followed  the  bi ¡delayer 
inside. 
There 
is  a  Chinese  laundryman  upon 
Sixth  avenue  who  may  not  have  heard 
of  Barnum,  but  he  has  evolved  a  some­
what  similar  scheme  to  boom  his  busi­
ness.  He  not  only  washes  clothes,  but 
also  sells  Chinese  curios.  Several  weeks 
ago  he  started  to  paint  a  sign  on  his 
front  window. 
The  word  “ laundry”  
was  to  appear  in  big  letters,  and  when 
the  Chinaman  seated  himself 
in  the 
window  and  began  to  paint,  a  gaping 
crowd  collected  outside.  Perhaps  the 
fact  that  the  Chinaman  started  to  paint 
his 
sign  backward,  beginning  with 
the  “  y, ”   may  have  been  the  excuse  for 
it.  At  any  rate,  the  Chinaman  saw  that 
he  had  stumbled  upon  a  good  thing, 
and  after  spending  half  an  hour  in 
painting  the  two  letters  “ r”   and  “ y”  
he  retired  to  the  back  of  his  shop.  Sev­
eral  of  the  spectators  outside  went  in  to 
look  at  his  curios. 
The  Chinaman 
wiped  out  the  two  letters  that  he  had 
painted  that  evening,  and on  the  follow­
ing  afternoon  painted  them  again  for 
the  entertainment  of  the  crowd.  He 
has  been  working  on 
this  sign  ever 
since,  and  it  is  no  nearer  completion. 
The  crowd  that  gathers  each  day  to 
watch  him  has  been  the  envy  of  every 
small  storekeeper  in  the  block.

It  Will  Shrink.

Moses,  Jr.— Fader,  a  shentleman 

in 
der  shop  vants  to  know  if  dat  all-wool 
nonshrinkable  shirt  will  shrink?
Moses,  Sr.— Does  id  fid  him?
Moses,  Jr.  —N o;  id  is  too  big.
Moses,  Sr.— Yah,  id  vill  shrink !

Elgin  System  of 

Creameries.

It  will  pay  you  to 

investigate  our 
plans, and visit  our  factories,  if  you  are 
contemplating  building  a  Creamery  or 
Cheese factory.  All  supplies  furnished 
at lowest prices.  Correspondence so­
licited.

R.  E.  STURGIS,

Allegan,  Mich.

Contractor  and  Builder  of  But­
ter  and  Cheese  Factories,  and 
Dealer in Supplies.

Citizens  ’Phone  555-

The  Vinkemulder Company,

Jo b b e r  o f  F R U I T S   A N D   P R O D U C E .
M a n u f a c tu r e r   o f  “ A B S O L U T E '7 
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Pure Ground Spices, Baking Powder, Etc*

I

We will  continue to put up  Baking  Powder  under Special 
or Private  Labels, and on  which we will  name  very low prices, 
in quantities.
We  make  a  specialty  of  Butchers’ Supplies and are pre­
pared to quote low prices  on Whole  Spices,  Preservaline,  Sau­
sage seasoning,  Saltpetre,  Potato  Flour, etc.

We  also  continue  the  Fruit  and  Produce business estab­
lished and  successfully conducted by  H en r y J. V in k e m u l d e r .

T H E   V I N K E M U L D E R   C O M P A N Y ,  4 Î 8 -4 2 0  S o .  D iv is io n   S t.,

Successor to Michigan Spice Co. 

G r a n d   R a p id s .

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Seeds When in want of Seeds for the farm or garden 

we can supply  them  at  low  prices  consistent 
with  quality.  Don’t  deceive  yourselves  and 
your customers by handling  seeds  of question­
able character.

CLOVER.  TIMOTHY,  GRASS  SEEDS, 
ONION  SETS,  FIELD  PEAS,  ETC.

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GARDEN  SEEDS  IN  BULK. 

CLOVER  AND  TIMOTHY.

All kinds of

FIELD  AND  GARDEN  SEEDS. 

Correspondence  solicited.  Your  order  will 

follow,  we  feel  sure.

BEACH,  COOK  &  CO.,

128 to 132 West Bridge St.

The season for FIELD SEEDS such as CLOVER aDd TIMOTHY Is  now at  hand.  We  are 

prepared to meet market prices.  When ready to buy write us for prices 

or send orders.  Will bill  at market value.

Wholesale Seeds, Beans, Potatoes, 

26*28-30-32 Ottawa SL, Grand Rapids.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

GREEN  VEGETABLES

ONIONS, SPINACH,  RADISHES,  LETTUCE, CUCUMBERS, TOMATOES, etc.

STRAWBERRIES

SW EET  POTATOES,  CAPE  COD  CRANBERRIES,
ORANGES,  LEMONS,  FANCY  HONEY.

20 & 22 OTTAWA STREET, 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

BUNTING  &  CO.,

N P W   U F G F T A R I E Q   c e t o ^ ^ s
WlII  VtutI Hullo “ ¿sand we w 11 get

We have also a fresh supply of

and  Sweet  Potatoes.

Oranges,  Lemons,  Figs,  Bananas
STILES  &  PHILLIPS,

Both Telephones  io. 

9  NORTH  IONIA  ST.,  QRAND  RAPIDS.

Strawberries Radishes,  Spinach,  Cauliflower, 

Green  Onions,  Cucumbers,  To­
matoes,  Strawberries,  Sweet  Po­
tatoes,  Bermuda Onions,  Lemons, 
Oranges, Bananas, Asparagus, Let­

tuce,  Parsley,  Green  Peas,  Wax  Beans,  New  Beets,  Vegetable Oysters,

ALLERTON  &  HAOQSTROM,  Jobbers.

Both Telephones 1248.

127 Louis âtreet.

Grand  Rapids, filch.

PLEA  FOR  PURE  FOOD

And  an  Appropriation  of  Eighteen 

Thousand  Dollars.

Lansing,  April  12—Odd,  isn’t  it,  that 
one’s  mind  will  revert  to  the  unusual 
or  ridiculous  associations  one  may  have 
with  persons  or  places-one  proof,  per­
haps, 
that  Schenkel  has  based  his 
theories  of  memory  culture  on  facts 
Who  ever  sees  a  copy  of  the  San Sistine 
Madonna  without 
instantly  remember­
ing  its  caricature— Fairbank’s  cherubs? 
Who ever  sees  Governor  Pingree without 
thinking  of  potatoes?  Neither  can  1 
ever  come  to  Lansing  or hear  the name, 
but  I  think  of  that  old  conundrum  con­
cerning  the  feat  in  surgery  this  city 
is 
said  to  have  performed.  Just  now,  how­
ever,  more  wonderful  things  are 
in 
progress  than  Lansing.  The  Legislature 
is 
in  session;  the  spirit  of  reform  is 
abroad ;  bills  providing  for  all  sorts  of 
things  are  being  presented  and  the 
members  of  both  houses  are  full of busi­
ness.  One  may  easily  recognize  them 
as  they  go  about  with  deep  furrows  in 
their  foreheads,  and a preoccupied man­
ner,  indicating  the  intensity  of  thought 
they  give  the  mighty  questions  they 
must  decide;  or  they  wear  a  deter­
mined,  self-satisfied  air  which  suggests 
that  the  thinking  period  is  past and  the 
decision  made,  whether their  vote  shall 
be  aye or  nay.
How  positively funny  it  is  to  one  out­
side  to  see  the  much  made  of  nothing! 
What  in  conscience’s name can  it matter 
to  the  good  citizens  of  the  common­
wealth  of  Michigan  whether  the  label 
on  a  molasses barrel  be  printed  in 
let­
ters  one 
inch  or  ten  inches  high— in 
fact,  whether  it  be  labeled  at  all?  No 
one 
is  likely  to  mistake  molasses  for 
benzine,  yet  it  is  a  fact  that  this  is  one 
of  the  momentous  questions  over  which 
our  legislators  “ furrow  their  brow.”  
This  question  was  not  only  discussed 
and  haggled  over  by  the  committee, 
but  actually  consumed  the  time  of  the 
House  for  hours  and,  I  believe,  still 
remains  unsettled.

is 

Some  really  important  issues  are  now 
being  considered  by  different  states, 
notably  the  department  store  bill 
in 
Illinois  and  the  passenger  rate  question 
here,  both  surely  of  vital  interest  to  us 
all.  Almost  equally 
important  are  the 
pure  food 
law  enacted  at  the  last  ses­
sion  of  our  Legislature  and  the  amend­
ments  thereto  proposed  at  this  session. 
This  law,  as  it  stands,  has  unquestion­
ably  had  a  salutary  effect  upon  the  food 
products  which  fall  within 
its  scope. 
As  viewed  by  a  “ consumer”  
it  seems 
both  inadequate  and  defective—defect­
ive  because  so  many  essentials  have 
been  overlooked,  and  non-essentials  ex­
aggerated ;  inadequate,  because  a 
law 
has  been  provided  without  the  requi­
sites  for  its  enforcement.  The  present 
Commissioner 
a  practical  man, 
thoroughly  in  sympathy  with  the  spirit 
and  the  letter of  the  law.  He  has,  how­
ever,  neither  the 
funds  nor  working 
force  necessary  to  even  get  at  the  most 
open  and  flagrant  violation  of  the  law. 
Think  of  even  attempting  to  inspect the 
food  products  placed  for  sale  in  this 
great  State,  with  three  men!  Compare 
that  number  with  the  armies  required 
to  sell  them!  The  smallest  jobber 
in 
the  State  has  a  greater  number to  place 
his  merchandise  alone. 
If  the  appro­
priation  asked  for  to  increase  the  force 
is  not  granted,  then  T 
of 
hope  the  m an  who  votes  against  it  will 
have  to  eat  “ filled  cheese”  
(and  I 
don't  care  what  it’s  filled  with)  for  the 
remainder  of  his  days.  Of  course, 
outsiders  always  see  so  clearly  just  how 
easy 
is  to  perform  even  the  hardest 
task,  and  I  confess,  I,  like  Josh  Whit­
comb,  feel  entirely  equal  to “  regulating 
the  hull  darned  thing.”   At  all  events 
I  do  believe 
it  is  our  duty— certainly 
the  duty  of  the  grocer  who  puts  these 
goods  into  the  hands  of  the  consumer— 
to  study,  to  think  and  to  speak  on  this 
pure  food  question.
How  unreasonable  we  are  to  expect 
these  men  to  come down here  to Lansing 
and  within  a  few  days  frame  laws  to 
meet 
requirement  and  cover 
every  point,  and  we  expect  them  to  do 
it  unaided  by  any  real  knowledge  of 
I  will
what  is  essential  or  important! 

inspectors 

every 

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

Baking  powder 

venture  a  guess  that  one-third  of  the 
Committee  having  the  food  questions 
under  advisement  hardly  know 
the 
difference  between  a  prune  and  a  can 
of  salmon.  True,  they  might  be  expect­
ed  to  study  up  on  the  questions  pre­
sented  to  them,  but  whoever  does  what 
is  expected?  Lack  of  time, 
lack  of 
opportunity,  mayhap 
lack  of  interest, 
step  in,  so  that the  only  sure  way  of  se­
curing  good  and  just  legislation  on food 
products  is  to  see  to  it  that  *  our  mem­
ber, ”   at  least,  has  the  benefit  of  our ex­
perience  and  opinions  to  aid  him  in 
framing the law under which we will live.
is  one  of  the  prod­
ucts  not  heretofore  provided  for  by  the 
food  law,  and  a  bill  is  now  before  the 
Committee  which  attempts  to  fix  the 
grade  or  value  of  baking  powder  by 
classification,  based  on  the  acid  prin­
ciple  used—cream  of  tartar,  phosphate 
or  alum—and  stipulates  that  the  label 
give  formula  and  proportions.  This 
baking  powder  question  is  to  me  sim­
ply  amusing.  Answer  to  yourself  this 
question:  What  if  in  the  long  ago  the 
discoverer  of  the  chemical 
formula 
which  he  named  baking  powder  had 
stumbled  upon  alum  or ammonia or lime 
or  phosphate,  instead  of  cream  of  tar­
tar,  and  that  thenceforth  every  fence 
and  tree  had  proclaimed,  “ Pure  Alum 
Baking  Powder,”   or  “ Pure  Ammonia 
Baking  Powder,”   what  would  have 
been  your  ideas  on  the  subject?  Emi­
nent  chemists  tell  us  that  no  more  in­
jurious  thing  can  be  taken  into  the  hu­
man  stomach  than  cream  of  tartar  as 
combined  with  the  sodas 
in  baking 
powder.  Others,  equally  eminent,  rail 
against  alum,  and  so  on  down  the  list; 
hence  all  or  none  may  he  injurious. 
To  me  it  seems  that  the  good  judgment 
of  the  housewife  and  the  price  fix  the 
value  (or  supposed  value)  of  this  arti­
cle.  Every  woman  knows  that  if  she 
wants  a  strictly  pure  cream  of  tartar 
powder  she  pays  50  cents  per  pound. 
When  she  pays  only  25  cents,  she  as 
well  knows  that  she  gets  some  other for­
mula. 
If  she  only  pays  10  cents—well, 
she  gets  all  she  pays  for,  at  any  rate. 
From  no  point  of  view  am  I  able  to  see 
how  the  consumer  and  dealer  are  either 
protected  or  benefited  by  this  new  bill. 
A  certain  class  of  manufacturers  would, 
unquestionably,  be  benefited,  because 
they  would  be able  to  put  upon  the mar­
ket,  at  no  expense  beyond  that  of  the 
ingredients,  copies  of  the 
formulas 
which 
it  has  cost  the  older  manufac­
turers  thousands  of  dollars  and  years  of 
labor  and  experiment  to  evolve.  The 
Minnesota  law,  requiring  printed  for­
mula  on  the 
label,  has,  I  understand, 
been  pronounced  unconstitutional.  A 
ingredients 
law  requiring  wholesome 
only 
if  a 
little  more 
rigid  ones  seem 
in  demand,  provide 
that  the  label  shall  bear  the  name  of  no 
ingredient  not  used;  nor  the  word 
“ pure”   used 
in  conjunction  witn  any 
ingredient  except  such  be  a  fact.  For 
instance,  a  label  reading  “ pure  cream 
tartar  baking  powder’ ’  would  not  be 
lawful 
if  the  smallest  percentage  of 
other  acid  principle  had been  used.

is  enough,  but 

If  we,  the  innocent  consumers,  are  to 
be  protected  alike  from  frauds  on  our 
purses,  as  well  as  our  digestive  ap­
paratus,  why  not 
include  in  the  list  of 
restricted  articles  a  lot  of  other  things 
sold  for  domestic  purposes?  For  in­
stance,  an 
inferior  grade  of  bluing 
means  more  vexation  to  the  soul  of  a 
housewife  than  almost  any  other  one 
thing.  An  article  of  the  best  quality 
can  be  produced  so  cheaply  that  one 
wonders  how  it  pays  a  manufacturer  to 
spend  a  moment  in  finding  substitutes 
or  adulterants;  soaps  which  take  the 
skin  off  our  hands  and  leave  the  dirt 
on;  stove  polish  which  won’t  polish; 
matches  which  won't  strike,  and  a  long 
list  of  humbug  specialties  too  long  to 
undertake.  Really  these  questions  are 
too  grave  to  jest  over.

fish, 

Returning  to  food  products,  one  line 
seemingly  overlooked  by  the  framers 
of  the  Michigan  law  is  tinned or canned 
meats, 
vegetables. 
Deaths  from  metallic  poisoning  are  of 
almost  daily  occurrence,  as  reported 
through  our  papers,  and  it  is no unusual 
thing  to  read  of  entire  families  or  pic­
nic  parties  being  made  sick  by  eating

fruits 

and 

from 

judging 

preserved  foods.  Not  only  should  the 
law  protect  us  from  the  impurities  and 
adulterations  of  foods,  but likewise from 
unhygienic  methods  of  packing;  also 
from  the  danger  of  buying  foods  which 
age  has  rendered  unfit  to  eat. 
I  often 
see  cans  of  food  upon  grocers’  shelves 
which, 
appearances, 
might  have been packed  in  the  '6o’s.  It 
needs  no  chemist  to  tell  us  that  the  tin 
from  these  cans  must  be  almost  if  not 
quite  dissolved 
in  the  liquid  and  that 
the  contents  are  dangerous  in  the  ex­
treme.  The  remedy  is less easily pointed 
out  than  the  fault.  However,  a  system 
of  dating  the  labels  of each year’s pack ; 
the  interdiction  of  tin  cans  of 
inferior 
quality,  or  without  some  coating  or 
vainish  to  prevent  the  action  of the acid 
on  the  tin;  a  limit  as  to  age;  the  pro­
vision  for  regular,  frequent  and  sys­
tematic  inspection ;  the  right  to  confis­
cate all  canned  goods  not  meeting  such 
requirements—all  might  remedy  evils 
which  seem  greater  to  me  than  putting 
a  pinch  of  harmless  tumeric  in  a  ton  of

the 

mustard  or a  bit  of  burnt  sugar  to  color 
a  cask  of  vanilla extract,  because,  while 
the  former  kills, 
latter  merely 
pleases  the  eye  and  does  not  alter  in 
any  degree  the  result.

There  are  so  many  other  things which 
should  be  brought  within  the  jurisdic­
tion  of  the  Pure Food Commissioner and 
his  deputies—so  many  reforms  to  be 
inaugurated  and  executed—that  one 
stands  appalled  at  their  number  and 
their  importance.
The  Boston  Transcript  says:  “ Oft- 
times  the  worst  enemies  of  a  reform  are 
found  among  its  most  earnest  friends, 
because 
they  are  unable  to  move 
slowly.”   I  heed  the  warning  and will be 
satisfied  if  our  present  Legislature  will 
vote  to  the  department  that  little  item 
of  $18,000,  so  that  we  can  have  enough 
inspectors  to  cover  the  ground  once  a 
year,  at  least,  and  protect  the  honest 
manufacturer  who  is  complying with the 
law  from  the  tricky  one  who  takes  his 
chances  after the  inspector  has gone by.

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follows : 

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pressman  in  the  office  of  the Tradesman 
Company  and  have  charge of  the presses 
and  folding  machine  in  that  establish­
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EMPLOYMENT  OF  CO NVICTS.
Something  of  a  sensation  was  caused 
last  week  by  the  discussion  and  tem­
porary  defeat  in  the  Legislature  of  the 
Molster bill,  to  do  away  with  the  com­
petition  of  the  prisons  of  the  State  with 
the  products  of  free  labor.  Among  the 
sensational  features  was  the  defense  of 
the  furniture  industry  of  the  Ionia  Re­
formatory by the  Warden  of  that  institu­
tion,  who  took  occasion  to  turn  the 
tables  upon  the  free labor manufacturers 
by  complaining  that  they  sold  certain 
classes  of  goods  at  prices  below  what he 
could  sell  them  for  when made by prison 
labor.  He  claimed  that  the  furniture 
manufacturing  of  his  institution  is  be­
ing  done  at  a  profit,  and  carried  his  op­
position  of  the  bill  to  such 
length  that 
be  received  considerable  criticism  from 
the  members  of  the  Legislature  for  the 
activity  of  his  partisanship.

That  the  bill  as  introduced  and  urged 
met  a  speedy  defeat  is  not  a  matter of 
wonder and  the  fact of  its  coming again 
to  the  front  in  committee  of  the  whole 
and  being  passed  for  further  consider­
is  no  indication  of  a  serious  in­
ation 
it  shall  become  a  law. 
tention  that 
There  was  attempted,  in 
its  prepara­
tion,  the  embodiment  of  too  many  of 
the  unsolved  questions  of  prison  reform 
for 
it  to  stand  any  chance  of  ultimate 
success;  indeed,  its  failure  on  this  ac­
count 
is  so  manifestly  certain  that  it 
gives  a  strong  presumption  that  it  was 
not  urged  by  its  advocates with  any  real 
expectation  of  success—that  it  was  one 
of  the  movements  designed  to  gain  the 
approbation  of  “ labor’ ’  rather  than  any 
serious  attempt  to  secure  action.  The 
proposition  to  send  out  the  inmates  of 
reformatories  with
the  prisons  and 

“ balls  and  chains’ ’ 
is,  under  present 
conditions,  too  preposterous  for  serious 
consideration.  The  title  of  the  bill 
might  be  saved  for  the  preparation  of 
provisions  which  should  modify  and 
lessen,  or  destroy,  such  competition  en­
tirely,  but  the  ball  and  chain  feature 
cannot  be a  part  of  the  provision.

is  a  serious  one 

The  question  of  the  employment  of 
prisoners 
in  all  the 
states  of  the  Union.  Various  attempts 
have  been,  and  are being,  made to solve 
the  problem,  but  the  solution  seems 
likely  to be a  slow  one.  The  most  no­
table  and  promising  advance  is  that 
made  by  New  York,  in simply  prohibit­
ing  prison  competition,  and  leaving  the 
working  out  of  the  results  of  this  action 
—the  new  conditions  thus  raised—to  be 
met  as  expeiience  and  study  of  the  sub­
ject  may  determine.  As  might  be  ex­
pected,  there  is  some  difficulty  in  keep-, 
ing  the  criminal  wards  of  the  State 
pleasantly  and  profitably  employed,  but 
there  seems  to  be  no  disposition  to  re­
turn  to  the  old  system.

in  the 

Already,  the  discussion  of  the  subject 
has  suggested  some  feasible  plans  for 
the  lessening  of  the  number  needing 
employment 
larger  prisons. 
Thus,  the  counties are  required  to  take 
care  of  their  short-term  convicts  them­
selves.  Under  the  present  system  of 
fees  and  mileage,  in  most  of  the  states, 
there  is a premium put  upon  sending  all 
offenders  to  a  distant  prison.  There 
are  large  numbers 
in  each  of  the  re­
formatories  and  penitentiaries  of  this 
State  who  could  be  cared  for just as well 
by  local  authorities.

In  many  of  the  county  prisons  there 
are  provisions  for  employment  in  the 
direction  of  road 
improvement.  From 
these  there  may  be  developed  means  of 
wider  application. 
There  are  many 
prisoners  who  may  be  safely  used  on 
public  works  without  the ball  and  chain 
accompaniment;  and  there  are possibil­
ities  of  securing  the  willing  compliance 
of  these,  through  rewards  and  the ad­
vantages  to  them  of  such  employment, 
or  the  making  of  the  work  in  the  prison 
itself  more arduous  and  uninviting  than 
that  outside.

is  necessarily 

There  is  certainly  a  great  need in this 
direction  and,  like  all  great  economic 
needs,  a  way  will  develop  to  meet  the 
requirements.  Radical  action  to  meet 
all  the  possible  conditions  of  such ques­
tions 
if 
not  ridiculous.  The  true  friends  of 
prison  and  labor  reform  will  second  all 
efforts  to  stop  the  output  of prison-made 
goods,  even  at  the  expense  of  increased 
cost  to  the  State  of  caring for criminals, 
and  will  then  urge  eveiy  possible means 
of  keeping  the  prisoners  healthily  and 
profitably  employed.

impracticable, 

New  York  and  Greater  Brooklyn  are 
one  city  now,  with  a  big  toll  bridge  be­
tween  them,  and  collects  $2,000,000  toll 
from  her  own  people  for going  about  in 
her  own  village.  This  makes  Greater 
New  .York  a  greater  humbug.  Tolls  on 
public  highways  are  old  style— invented 
to  keep  turnpikes 
in  order—and  have 
no  excuse  for  being  kept  up  within  the 
limits  of a  progressive  city,  where  resi­
dents  paying  taxes  expect  to  be  pro­
vided  with  streets  and  sidewalks  and 
bridges  for  their  use  without  extra 
charge. 

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It  is  published  that  the  Chaplain  of 
the  Oklahoma  Legislature gets  but $1.50 
per day.  Yet  there  is  no  place 
in  the 
country  where  a  greater  responsibility 
rests  upon  a  chaplain,  or  where  the 
straight  and  narrow  path  is  harder to 
travel.

EUROPEAN  ALLIANCES.

The  recent  developments  connected 
with  the  Eastern  question  have  shown 
that  important  changes  were at  work  in 
the  relations  of  the  various  European 
powers  towards  each  other. 
In  the  first 
place,  there  has  been  evident  a  very 
marked  lack  of  harmonious  action  be­
tween  Russia and  France.  These  two 
powers,  heretofore  regarded  as  the  clos­
est  of  allies,  have taken  opposite  sides 
in  several  phases  of  the  negotiations 
connected  with  the  solution  of  the  Cre­
tan  problem.  Russia,  for  instance,  has 
been  a  strong  advocate  of 
coercive 
measures  towards  Greece,  while France, 
on  the  other  hand,  has  rather opposed 
all  propositions  to  deal  harshly  with  the 
little  Hellenic  kingdom.

Considering  that  Italy  forms  part of 
the  “ Triple  Alliance,”   one  would  nat­
urally  expect  to  find  that  country  siding 
with  Austria  and  Germany  in  the  pres­
ent  crisis.  This  has  not  been  the  case, 
however,  as  Italy  has  warmly  seconded 
the  course  adopted  by  France  and Great 
Britain  and  held  aloof  from  Germany 
and  Austria. 
It  is  further  worth  noting 
that  since  the  cordial  interview  held  in 
Paris  between  Lord  Salisbury,  the  Brit­
ish  Premier,  and  M.  Hanotaux,  the 
French  Minister  of  Foreign  Affairs, 
France and  Great  Britain  have acted  in 
harmony  in  all  matters  affecting  Crete 
and  Greece.

All  these  occurrences  would  seem  to 
point to  the  probability  that 
important 
changes  in  the  European  alliances  are 
pending.  Owing  to  the  many  causes 
for disagreement  existing  between Eng­
land  and  France,  it  might  be  unreason­
able  to  look  for  any  alliance  between 
those  two  countries  in  the  near  future, 
but  that  their  relations  are  now  more 
cordial  than  they  have  been  for  some 
time  is  apparent. 
Italy,  ever  since  her 
helpless  financial  and  military  condi­
tion  was demonstrated by the Abyssinian 
disaster,  has  ceased  to  be  an  active 
member  of  the  “ Triple  Alliance,”   and 
it  is  generally  understood  that  when  the 
term  of  the  existing  agreement  expires 
the  arrangement  will  not be  renewed. 
Italy  now  seems  to be gravitating lapid- 
ly  towards  England  and  France,  and 
while  closer  commercial  relations  will 
no  doubt  be  established  with  the  latter 
country,  it  is  probable  that  a  very  close 
understanding  will  be  arrived  at  with 
the  former,  as  far as  military  co-opera­
tion 
in  the  Mediterranean  Sea  is  con­
cerned.  However  weak  Italy  may be 
as  a  land  power,  there 
is  no  denying 
that  she has  a  splendid  navy—a  fact  of 
vastly  more  importance  to  Great Britain 
than  it  could  possibly  be  to  any  other 
power.

From  numerous  signs 

it  is  inferred 
that  the  existing  “ Tuple  Alliance”  
will  be  succeeded  by  an  alliance  of  the 
“ Three  Emperors” —that  is  to  say,  of 
Russia,  Germany  and  Austria.  The em­
perors will  shortly  exchange  visits,  and 
it  is  expected  that  during these reunions 
the  details of  a  new  tripartite  compact 
will  be arranged. 
It  would  be  folly  to 
suppose  that  such  an  alliance  would 
tend  to  promote  peace  in  Europe,  be­
cause  the  manifest  strength  of  such  an 
arrangement  would  be  sure  to  lead  to 
more  or less  friction  between  these great 
military  despotisms  of  Continental 
Europe  and  the  maritime  strength  of 
Great  Britain,  France  and  Italy.

A  combination  of  Russia,  Germany 
and  Austria  would  be  particularly  for­
midable,  as  it  would,  in  all  probability, 
attempt  to  settle  the  Eastern  question 
without  regard  to  Great  Britain  and 
France.  These two  latter powers  could,

of  course,  not  permit any  such  course, 
and  because of  the  common  danger  that 
would  be  faced  they  would  be  forced 
into  a  close,  if  temporary,  alliance.

The  outbreak  of  war  between  Greece 
and Turkey  might  serve  to  fully develop 
all  these  various  changes,  or  at  least 
set  in  active  motion  the  undercurrents 
of  intrigue  and  secret  negotiation,  from 
which  equally  startling  developments 
might  be  expected.

RETROACTIVE  TARIFF.

There  has  been  a  general  feeling  of 
assurance  throughout  the  country  that 
there  could  be  no  elements 
introduced 
into  the  tariff  revision  by  Congress 
which  should  have  a  disquieting  effect 
on  trade.  Consideration  of 
increasing 
rates  would  naturally  stimulate  move­
ment,  as  has  been  manifest  in  several 
lines  during  the  months  of  discussion. 
But  the  attitude  of  the  House  on  the 
question  of  retroactive  duties,  while 
having  no  material  direct  effect,  except 
to 
lessen  the  movement  of  imports  by 
the  introduction  of  uncertainty,  is  such 
that  the  comfortable  assurance  is  being 
decidedly  lessened.  The  proposition  to 
make  the  bill  retroactive  is  so  generally 
considered  unconstitutional  and  absurd 
that  there 
is  considerable  question  as 
to  what  motive  could  prompt  such  a 
proposition.

A  ridiculous  consequence  of  the prop­
is  the  instruction  from  the  de­
osition 
its  collectors  to  take  such 
partment  to 
measures as  will  enable  them  to  collect 
the  new  duties  on  present  imports  when 
the  law  is  passed and becomes operative 
— if  such  should  ever be  the  case.  The 
absurdity  of  one  branch  of  Congress 
calling  upon  a  department  to 
take 
measures  for  the  retroactive  enforce­
ment  of  a  proposed  law  is  so  manifest 
that 
it  may  well  excite question  as  to 
what will  come  next.

The  closing  up  and  seizure  of  the 
effects  of  a  branch  of  a  “ Wall  Street”  
bucket  shop 
in  this  city  gives a  local 
interest to an  episode  which  is  of  wide 
significance  in  its  bearing  upon  fraud­
ulent  speculative  schemes  and  the  gul­
libility  of a  certain  large  element of  the 
general  public.  The  local  concern  in 
question  assumed  to  be  a  branch  of  a 
large  Wall  Street brokerage  firm,  prob­
ably  for  the  purpose  of  entraping  the 
credulous  among  the large  class  of those 
who  seem  to think  that  Wall  Street  op­
erations  mean  sure  profits. 
In  addition 
to  the  influence  of  this  prestige  there 
was  a  skillfully-devised  bait  prepared 
in  the  way  of  so-called  syndicates  oper­
ating  upon  a  positively  “ safe system”  
promising  large  and  sure  returns. 
It  is 
said  that  the  operations  of  this  concern 
had  already  become  very  extensive 
throughout the  country,  and  it  is  prob­
able  that  the  chief  swindlers  had  al­
ready  gathered  a rich  harvest  before  the 
final  collapse,  which  was  doubtless  an 
expected  ending  to  their  career. 
It  has 
been  suggested  that  the  withholding  of 
quotations  by  the  Stock  Exchange 
might lessen  such  enterprises;  but these 
swindles  can  be,  and  are,  carried  on 
without  the  aid  of  any  reliable  quota­
tions.  Probably  there  can be no effective 
remedy  for  such  drafts  upon  the  re­
sources  of  the  simple  until  the  advance 
of  education  and  morality  shall  destroy 
the  so-widely-prevalent  mania  for  such 
The  enforcement  of  the 
gambling. 
criminal  laws  may  be  of  some  avail 
in 
lessening  the damage in  some instances; 
but  in  most  they  are  practically useless, 
as  the  consummation  of  the  swindle 
usually  precedes  the  knowledge  of  its 
fraudulent  character.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  American  mind 

THE  HUMAN  UPGROWTH.
Probably  there  is  nothing  which 

in­
telligent  foreigners  visiting  the  United 
States  regard  with  more  surprise  than 
they  do  the  extraordinary  development 
and  use  of  machinery  and  mechanical 
appliances 
in  the  various  processes  of 
ordinary  industries  which they find here.
is  particularly 
fruitful  of 
inventive  activity,  incited 
thereto  by  the  growing  demand  for  an 
increased  productive  power.  Time  and 
again  strenuous  efforts  have  been  made 
to  secure  a  decrease  of  production  in 
many  staples  in  order,  by  reducing  the 
supply,  to  raise  the  prices;  but  such 
efforts  are  seldom  attended  with  suc­
cess.

inventions.  Adam  Smith, 

The  records  show  that  in  1890 there 
were  registered  at  the  Patent  Office,  in 
Washington,  26,292 
inventions.  This 
was  for  a  single  year.  In  the  same  year 
in  France  there  were  registered  only 
7,634 
the 
once  standard  English  authority  on  po­
litical  economy,  recites  that,  at  the  be­
ginning  of  the  century,  ten expert  work­
men  could  make  by  hand  48,000  daily 
of  that  small  but  indispensable  article, 
the  pin.  To-day,  in  a  single  factory  in 
Massachusetts,  by  means  of  seventy ma­
chines  tended  by  four  men  and  a  boy, 
the  daily  product 
is  7,500,000  pins, 
stuck  in  papers  and  ready  for  use.

At  the  beginning  of  the  century,  iron 
nails  were  made  by  hand,  although  a 
machine  for  making  them  had  been 
patented. 
In  1818  a  pound  of  nails,  ac­
cording  to  size,  cost  18  to  37  cents.  To­
day  a  pound 
is  worth  2  cents  and  the 
production  in  the  United  States  in  1893 
was  about 9,000,000  kegs,  of  100  pounds 
each.  Among  instances  of  the  produc­
tiveness  of  machinery  cited  by  United 
States  Commissioner  of  Labor  Carroll 
D.  Wright  are  the  following :  In  an  ag­
ricultural  implement factory in the West, 
600  laborers  produce  as  much  as  2,145 
before  the  present  machinery.  In  a  gun 
factory,  one  man  used 
to  make  the 
pieces  of  one  gun  a  day,  and  now  three 
men  make  the  parts  of  130  guns.  Ma­
chines  save 80  per  cent,  of  the  labor  in 
the  manufacture  of  women’s  shoes ;  66 
per  cent,  in  the  making  of  men’s shoes. 
Furthermore,  with the McKay  machine, 
a  laborer  can  finish  300 pairs  of  shoes 
where  he  formerly  could  make  five  at 
handwork.  A  few  years  ago  a  manu­
facturer  made  500  dozen  brooms  per 
week  with  seventy  good 
laborers;  he 
now  makes  1,200  dozen  with  nine  la­
borers.  A  cotton  weaver,  with  the 
handloom,  used  sixty  to  eighty  threads 
a  minute;  the  power-loom  uses  180, 
while the  laborer  tends  from  two  to  ten 
looms,  according  to  the  nature  of  the 
product.

Remarking  upon  the  wonderful  ad­
vance 
in  printing  machinery,  a  recent 
writer  remarked :  What  would  the  copy­
ists  of  the  Middle  Ages,  who  wrote, 
perhaps,  hardly  four  pages  an  hour, 
have  thought  if  they  had  been  told  that 
the  day  would  come  when  a  machine 
would  produce  in  an  hour  the  contents 
of  twelve  million  manuscript  pages? 
But,  then,  there 
is  a  demand  for  all 
those  printed  pages,  because  everybody 
to-day  reads.  In the  Middle  Ages  it was 
the  exception  to  find  anybody  who could 
The  reader  of  Sir 
read  and  write. 
Walter  Scott’s 
immortal  romance  of 
“ Ivanhoe”   will  remember  how  igno­
rant,  in  the time  of  Richard  the  Lion, 
not  only  were the  common  people,  but 
also  the  knights and  nobles  of  high  de­
gree.  Few  of  them  could  read  or  write.
There  is a  most  important  question  to 
be asked  in  connection  with  this  ex­

It 

traordinary  growth  of  machinery.  It  is: 
What  effect  has  been  exerted  upon  the 
general  condition  of  the  people?  Are 
the  people  better  or  worse  off?

This  question 

is  answered  by 

is  certain  that  the  enormous  in­
crease  of  production  caused  by  machin­
ery  and  scientific 
invention  has  so 
cheapened  all  articles of consumption as 
to  put  them  in  the  reach  of  all  classes. 
But  what  has  been  the  effect  in  displac­
ing  or  in  giving  opportunities  to  labor?
the 
Commissioner  of  the  Labor  Bureau  of 
New  York. 
In  his  eighth  annual  report 
he  declares  that  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  are  the  countries  which 
own  and  use  the  most  machines.  Com­
pare  the  general  condition  of  laborers 
in  those  countries  with  that  of any coun­
try  whatever  in  the  world  where  ma­
chines  are  unknown,  except  in  the  most 
primitive  forms.  Where is the superior­
ity? 
It  is  almost  a  paradox,  and  yet  it 
is  a  truth,  that  machines  bring  about  a 
much  larger  employment  and 
improve­
ment,  not  only  because  they  increase 
production,  but  because  they  multiply 
the  chances  of  employment  and  greatly 
Jncrease  the  consumption  of  products. 
In  fact,  the  census  of  the  United  States 
shows  that  the  proportion  of  laborers  to 
the  total  number  of  inhabitants  has 
in­
creased 
in  the  same  period  that  the 
machine  has  taken  most  complete  pos­
session  of  manufactures.  From  i860  to 
1890,  while  the  population  of the United 
States  doubled,  the  number  of  persons 
employed 
industry  increased  nearly 
threefold,  and  at  the  same  time  the  me­
chanical  power,  measured  by  horse­
power,  increased  fourfold. 
Inventions 
have  created  new 
industries,  such  as 
photography,  electricity, 
telegraphy, 
electrotyping,  railroading,  manufacture 
of  sewing  machines  and  bicycles,  etc., 
and  have  thus  given 
labor  much 
more  employment  than  they  have  with­
drawn  from  it.

in 

to 

Every  invention  and  discovery  devel­
ops  new  powers  in  man,  places  new  do­
mains  within  his  reach  and  creates 
new  wants  and  needs  to  be  gratified  or 
supplied.  These  open  new  and  vast 
fields  of  industry  which  require  the  la­
bor of  men  and  women.  Life  becomes 
more  complicated,  luxury  grows,  com­
forts are  placed  within  the  reach  of  all, 
and  education  and  the  means  of 
infor­
mation  given  to  every  one  who  will  ac­
cept  them.  Of  course,  there  are  diffi­
culties  and  embarrassments  caused  by 
the  necessity  for  making  new  adjust­
ments.  Men  turned  out  of  one  employ­
ment  must  learn  another.  This  is harder 
upon  the  aged  and  upon  those  of  in­
ferior  capacity;  but  it  is  the  result  of 
natural  conditions  which  must  always 
be  met  at  one  time  or another.

The  human  lot 

is  vastly  improved. 
Slavery  is  extinguished  in  all  civilized 
countries  and  men  are  being  emanci­
pated  from  every  sort  of  domination 
save  the  obligations  of  duty,  honor, 
truth  and  morality.  Every 
individual 
has  an  opportunity  to  do  his  best,  be 
that  much  or  little,  and 
it  is  his  own 
fault  if  he  fail  to  use 
it.  The  human 
condition  is  constantly 
improving,  and 
those  who  fail  to  make  the  most  of  it 
have  only  themselves  to  blame.

The  project  for  the  founding  of  the 
Vermont  Maple  Sugar  Exchange,  which 
was  agitated  during  the  winter,  has 
evidently  been  abandoned  for  the  pres­
ent  and  will  be  of  no  service  during 
It  is  stated  by  one 
the  present  season. 
of  the  movers 
in  the  affair  that  the 
scheme  has  not  been  given  up,  but  will 
be  revived  later  in  the  year.

CON TRACT SYSTEM  PERNICIOUS.
One  of  the  worst  public  abuses  that 
have grown  up  in the cities of the United 
States 
is  the  letting  out  to  contractors 
of  public  work  which  should  be  done 
direct!}  by  the  municipal  authorities.

The  letting  out  of  public  service  to 
contractors  nourishes  and encourages the 
worst  political  evils.  It  creates  a  strong 
temptation  to  corrupt  arrangements  be­
tween  contractors  and  public  officials 
to  gain  for  the  former  undue advantages 
at  the  cost  of  the  community.  The  op­
portunities  thus  presented  for  “ jobs”  
and  “ deals”   form  an  incentive  for unfit 
men  to  seek  public  office.  Then  again, 
contractors for  public  work  are  likely  to 
be  in  politics;  to  have  extensive  politi­
cal  alliances  both  among  voters  and 
with  their  friends, 
the  officials,  and 
thus  exert  a  debasing  influence on  pub­
lic  affairs.

The  public  officials  and  the  contract­
in  such  cases  form  a  coalition  to 
ors 
their 
defraud  the  taxpayers  out  of 
money,  and,  although  the  contracts  may 
have  penalty  clauses  to  enforce  their 
performance,  these  penalties  are  never 
applied;  but,  on  the  contrary,  the  neg­
lect  and  default  of  the  contractors are 
always  excused  by  those  who  should 
enforce  the  contracts.  Some  American 
cities  that  have  abandoned  the  contract 
system  and  are  doing  their  own  work 
have  found  great  benefits 
from  the 
change.  Boston  is  one  of  these.

it 

in 

In 

ago, 

years 

In  two  districts, 

In  a  report  on  the  Boston  public  serv­
is  declared  that  great  improve­
ice 
ments  have  been  obtained. 
the 
street  department  a  change  was  made, 
the  system  of 
two 
sprinkling  the  streets. 
The  contract 
method  was  practically  abandoned,  and 
the  work  was  done  by  the  department 
directly. 
in  1895, 
there  was  a  saving  of  over  36  per  cent, 
by  day  work  over  the  contract  work 
in 
In  one  of  these  districts,  the 
1894. 
South  End,  the  saving  was  50  per  cent. 
Not  only  was  the  cost  less,  but  the work 
was  much  better  done.  A  more  intelli­
gent  class  of  men  was  employed,  and 
.they  were  much  better  paid.  When 
citizens  have  complaints  to  make  they 
can  now  easily  reach  the  public  author­
ities ;  but  contractors  would  pay  little 
heed  to  complaints  and  it  was  not  easy 
in 
to  reach  them. 
Boston,  actual  results  show  that 
the 
cost  of  cleaning  11,418.99 
average 
miles  of  streets  actually 
swept  was 
$15.58  a  mile,  and  that,  notwithstand­
ing  this  low  cost,  which  included  much 
that 
is  charged  to  other  accounts  in 
other  cities,  Boston  paid  higher  wages 
than  any  other  city,  except  New  York.
It  is  said  that  the  two  cleanest  cities 
in  North  America  to-day  are  New  York 
and  Toronto.  New  York  not  only  em­
ploys  and  thus  directs  all 
its  street 
cleaning  and  garbage  dispatch  forces, 
but 
it  has  an  organized  department, 
with  an  adequate  and  properly  adjusted 
equipment  of  horses,  carts,  brooms, 
stables  and  stations,  and 
its 
men  $2  a  day  and  upward  for eight 
hours'  work.

In  street  cleaning 

it  pays 

Toronto,  with  190,000  population,  has 
abandoned  the  contract  system  for  all 
public  service,  and  recent  report  states 
that  the  street  commissioner has,  during 
the  last  seven  years,  entirely  revolution­
ized  the  care  of  the  streets  of  the  city. 
He  has  not  only  organized  the execution 
of  this  work  under  a  distinct  depart­
ment,  but  out  of  the  margin  thus  saved 
from  the  annual  appropriations  for  car­
ing  for  the  streets  he  has  actually  built 
and  equipped  a  modest  but  complete set 
of  workshops,  where  the  entire  con­

9

struction  and  repair  work  of  the depart­
ment 
is  executed.  Not  only  are  the 
sprinklers,  rotary  sweepers,  automatic 
loading  carts  and  snow  scrapers,  each 
after  a  special  pattern  devised  by  the 
commissioner  or  under  his  direction, 
built 
in  these  shops,  but  even  the  har­
nesses  are  made  there,  the  horses  are 
shod  there,  and  it  is  the  truthful  boast 
of  the  commissioner  that  every  article 
of  manufacture  used  by  the  department 
is  produced 
from  the  raw  material  in 
these  shops,  and  in  every  department  it 
is  claimed  that  the  work  is  done  better, 
as  well  as  more  cheaply.

This  will  always  be  the  case  if  honest 
men  are  put  in  office  and  there  are  no 
contracts  to  tempt  them  to  jobbery.

The  city  of  Dresden  owns  a  daily 
paper,  Dresdener  Anzeiger,  which 
was  given  to  it  by 
its  late  proprietor, 
on  the  condition  that  all  profits  arising 
therefrom should  be  spent  upon the pub­
lic  parks.  This  year a  large  playground 
of  nearly  eight  acres  was  purchased 
from  Prince  George,  the  king's  brother 
and  heir  apparent,  and  it  will  be  ready 
for  use  this  summer. 
The  paper  con­
tinues  to  hold  the  respect  of all citizens, 
for  the  trust  has  been  carried  out  in 
its 
broadest  spirit,  and  the  power  has 
never  been  employed  to 
foster  any 
school  of  opinions—social,  political  or 
religious.  ________

Germany  has  now  definitely  given 
notice  to  the  Russian  government  that 
it  will  refrain  from  any  kind  of  repie- 
sentation  at  the  forthcoming  Interna­
tional  Congress  of  Medicine  at Moscow, 
unless  all  restrictions  with  regard  to  the 
passports  of  the  Hebrew  members  of 
the  German  delegation  are  at once with­
drawn. 
insisted  that  the  Jewish 
members  of  the  Congress  shall  receive 
from  the  Muscovite  authorities  iden­
tically  the  same  treatment  as 
their 
Christian  colleagues.

It 

is 

The  Kentucky  Legislature  has  passed 
a  bill  reducing  the  salary  of  the  Assist­
ant  Adjutant  General  to  one  dollar  per 
year.  The  official  should  be  made to 
pay  a  bonus  for  an  office  that  gives him 
a  chance  to  wear  the  uniform of a major 
general  when  be  is  doing  the  work  of  a 
company  clerk.

Alaska's  yield  of  gold  this  year  is 
estimated  at  $10,000,000.  Thirty  years 
ago  Uncle  Sam  paid  over  $7,200,000 
for  the  territory,  so  that  it  seems  that 
he  did  not  make  such  a  bad  speculation 
as  some  of  the  pessimists  of  that  time 
made  out,  at 
least  to  their  own  satis­
faction.  _____________

It  is  said  that  at  least  a  dozen  valu­
including 
able  articles  of  commerce, 
cellulose, 
celluloid,  smokeless  gun­
powder,  lacquer,  roofing  material,  glu­
cose  and  papier-mache  can  be  made 
from  cornstalks,  and  that  they  will  soon 
be  worth  $25  per  acre

Japan 

is  said  to  contemplate  stock 
breeding  on  a  large  scale.  The govern­
ment  proposes  the  founding  of  350 
farms  for  experiments  with 
foreign 
breeds  of  horses  for  cavalry  and  artil­
lery  use.  _____________

“ Peroxide  journalism”  

is  the  latest 
for  the  yellow  kid  papers.  The  name 
is  fitting 
in  that  it  is  as  obnoxious  as 
the  thing  it  represents.

Men  who  would  not  stoop  to  beat  a 
carpet  have been  known  to beat a carpet 
dealer. 

_____________

When  you  hear  a  man  boast  of  being 

shrewd  he  is  next  door  to  silly.

10

F lo u r  an d   Feed

Comparative  Merits  of  Whole  Wheat 

and  Bolted  Flour.

Written fo r the T r ad esm an.

It  may  seem  preposterous  for  me  to 
revert  to  the  past—as  far  back  as  sixty 
years  ago—for  optimistic  comparisons 
with  the  present;  but  at  the  risk of find­
ing  at  least  a  “ corporal’s  guard’ ’  who 
will  agree  with  me,  I  shall  venture  to 
describe  and  solicit  a  verdict  upon 
certain  lines  of  merchandise sold  at that 
and  also  at  the  present  time.

I  aver  that,  sixty  years  ago,  any  arti­
cle  of  merchandise  was  supposed  to  be 
—and  generally  was— intrinsically  all 
that  it  purported  to  be,  while  to-day 
it 
is  “ gilded  and  veneered,”   so  to  speak, 
and  made to  present  a  more  fashionable 
and—perhaps  to  the  eyes  of  this  gener­
ation—a  more  beautiful  appearance. 
The  product  of  to-day.  may  sell  for a 
less  price,  even  were  it  placed  beside 
the  old—as  production  has  cheapened— 
while,  for  all  purposes  intended  except 
to  please the  eye  and  Fashion,  the  older 
is  the  superior. 
It  is  true  that,  in  this 
progressive  age,  “ it  is  other  people’s 
eyes  that  ruin  us.”   We  build,  we 
dress,  we  live,  we  eat  to  please  others 
instead  of  ourselves.

For  our  present  purpose,  we  will 
speak  of  the  several  kinds  of  grain  and 
the  various  uses  of  the  flour  produced 
from  them:

It 

its  own. 

The  wheat  flour  of  to-day  is,  for  all 
inferior  to  that 
purposes  as  food,  so 
made  by  the  grinding 
instead  of  the 
crushing  process  that  no  comparison 
can  be  made  except  an  arbitrary  one. 
The  crushing  or  roller  process  makes  a 
nearly  white,  dry  and  finely-powdered 
flour— more  proper  to  say  meal,  as  the 
particles  do  not  naturally  adhere to each 
other—while  flour  from  the  same  wheat 
ground  by  the  old  process  is  in  color  a 
perceptibly  golden  yellow,  will  easily 
retain  the 
imprint  of  the  hand  under 
pressure,  which  the  former  will  not, 
and  also  has  a  slight  but  clearly  per­
ceptible  moisture  of 
is 
quite  possible  that  by  the  roller  process 
of  making  wheat  flour  the gluten,  which 
constitutes  about  one-eighth  of  it,  is  so 
its  chemical  nature  as  to 
changed 
cause  the  widely-marked  difference 
in 
the  food  prepared  from 
it.  The  same 
flour  is  not  always produced  from  differ­
ent  varieties of wheat,  even  by  the  roller 
process,  and  the  cheapness,  in  the  pro­
duction  of  some  kinds,  may have caused 
their  quite  universal  use,  to  the  gradual 
exclusion  of  most  others;  but 
it  is  a 
fact  that  to-day  there  is  a  growing  sen­
timent  in  the  United  States  demanding 
a  return  to  the  process  of  half  a  century 
ago  for  the  manufacture  of  wheaten 
In  order  to  verify  my  statement, 
flour. 
it 
is  only  necessary  to  converse  with 
those  who  have  once  made  use  of  the 
ground  flour,  in  their  own  cooking  and 
by  their  own  manipulation.

in 

Early 

in  the  40's  the  cracker,  made 
from  wheat  flour,  was  in  universal  de­
mand  as  an  article  of  diet. 
It  was 
found  in  every  grocery  and eating house 
and  upon  every  lunch  counter. 
It  was 
not the chippy,  semi-transparent nothing 
called,  by  courtesy,  a  “ wafer,”   but 
was  a  rich,  crisp,  delicately-browned 
round  biscuit,  made  to  delight  the  pal­
instead  of  the  eye,  and  to  satisfy 
ate 
It  was  truly  a  cracker  in  all 
hunger. 
that  the  word  implies,  and  its  equal 
is 
not  found  in  the  market  to-day.  The 
nearest  approach  to 
is  either  the 
modern  cracknel  or  egg  biscuit,  or  the 
two  of  the  best  now
Boston  biscuit, 

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Flower
Time

is  here.  Winter  flours  are  in  good  de­
mand.  Especially the household favorite,

LILY WHITE

This is a very white, pure flour, as its name 
implies.  It  is  a  native  of  Michigan.  At 
the same time it has  become  popular  not 
only  in  Michigan  but  in  several  other 
states.  A  great  many 
families  have 
adopted  it as their  family  flour,  and  they 
will have no other.  A great many grocers 
have  it  for  sale  because  these  families 
come after it  time  and  time  again  and— 
buy  their  groceries where  they  buy  their 
flour.  A great many grocers who have in­
troduced it in their  town  continue  to  sell 
it  for  the  same  reason.  Do  you  need  a 
trade winner?  We  suggest “Lily White.”

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

*  Grocers’  Refrigerators  ♦

made.  For  many  years,  in  the  long  ago 
past,  the good  housewife  made  her  own 
crackers.

To-day,  I  interviewed  an  old  lady  of 
eighty  years,  enquiring 
if  she  ever 
made her own  crackers.  ‘ ‘ Indeed,T once 
did,”   was  the  answer;  “ and,  if  I  could 
have  the  same  flour,  I  would  try  to 
make  them  now;  but  nowadays  the  way 
is  made  burns  and 
in  which  flour 
crushes  the  life  all  out  of  it,  and neither 
as  good  bread  nor  crackers  can  be made 
from  it  by  any  one.”

It 

in 

transportation. 

No  cracker  nor  cake  designed  for sale 
over  the  counter  should  be  made  in 
square  form,  for  two  reasons:  First, 
owing  to  the  sharp  angles,  they  become 
dry  and  hard  in  one-half  the  time  that 
the  round  one  will.  Second,  they  are 
invariably  badly  broken,  from  the  same 
cause, 
is  not 
unusual  to  find  from  two  to  six  quarts 
of  cracker  bits  when  the  bottom  of  a 
box  or  barrel  of  square  crackers 
is 
reached;  and,  as  a  rule,  this  is  almost a 
total  loss  to  the  merchant.  Still,  aside 
from  the  loss  by  breakage,  it  is  hardly 
to  be  expected  that  the  thin,  pale  and 
tasteless  apology  for  cakes  or  biscuits 
of  to-day  will  retain  either  their  shape 
or  good  qualities  for any length of  time. 
The  great  number of  kinds  of cakes and 
biscuits  made  by  the  large  trust  com­
panies,  from  meal  or flour of  eveiy  eat­
able  variety  of  grain,  and  shipped  to 
every  point  of  the  compass  for  con­
sumption,  tells  of  the  vast  business  in 
this  line,  and  the  age  some  of  this  food 
must  naturally  attain  before  being  con­
sumed.

The  most  serious  mistake  of  the  age, 
in  preparing  material  for  our  bread 
foods  of  every  kind,  is  not  so  much  the 
crushing  or  powdering  process  of  the 
grains  as  the  sifting  out  of  the  most 
nourishing,  nutritious  and 
important 
part  of  the  flour  or  meal,  which  fur­
nishes  health  and  strength  for  both body 
and  brain. 
I  have before  stated  in  the 
Tradesman  that  the  bran  from  oatmeal 
and  wheat  flour  alone  contains  18  per 
cent,  of  gluten. 
In  bolting  the  crushed 
grain,  to  please  the  eye  or a  perverted 
taste,  we  consign 
and 
middlings  a  large  portion  of  this  gluten 
which 
is  so  necessary  for  the  human 
system.

to  the  bran 

this, 

Listen  to 

from  a  celebrated 
chemist:  “ The  whole  meal  or  flour, 
obtained  by  simply  grinding  the  grain, 
is  equally  nutritious  with  the  grain 
it­
self.  By  sifting  out  the  bran,  we  ren­
der  the  meal  less  nutritious,  weight  for 
weight;  and,  when  we  consider  that  the 
bran 
is  often  con­
siderably  more,  than  one-fourth  of  the 
whole  weight  of  the grain,  we  must  see 
that  the  total  separation  of  this  cover­
ing  causes  much  waste  of  wholesome 
human  food.”  

F ra nk  A.  H o w ig .

is  rarely 

less,  and 

The  Moscow  papers  state  that  one  of 
the  principal  firms 
in  Russia  for the 
manufacture  of  church  bells  will  shortly 
send  to  the  Emperor  Menelik  ten splen­
in  strictest 
did  bells,  richly  decorated 
Russian  style.  The  bells  are 
intended 
for the  Abyssinian  churches,  and  cost 
more  than  10,000 roubles,  which  sum  has 
contributed  by  the  friends  of 
been 
in  Moscow.  A  blind  bell­
Abyssinia 
ringer 
is  being  sent  with  the  bells,  in 
order to  teach  the  Abyssinians  to  ring 
their bells 

in  the  Moscow  manner.

Fifty  years  ago  England 

imported 
three  eggs  a  head  for  its  population; 
last  year  it  imported  forty  for  each 
in­
habitant,  the whole number being  1,589,- 
387,000.  Many  come from Russia,  which 
exported  1,500,000,000  eggs  last  year, 
and  more  from  Italy.

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SIXTY  YEARS  AGO.

Kleptomania  Flourished  Then  as  Now. 
Written for the T rad esm an.

There  were  kleptomaniacs 

days.

in  those 

No  profession  or  occupation  of  any 
kind  furnishes  so  good  an  opportunity 
for  the  study  of  human  nature  as  does 
that  of  salesman  in a general retail store. 
I  remember  once  hearing  a 
learned 
and  celebrated 
lawyer  remark  that,  if 
he  had  a  dozen  boys  that  he  intended 
for  the  learned  protessions,  he  should 
not  regard  their  education  complete,  to 
insure  success,  unless  they  had  served 
an  apprenticeship  to  some  form  of  mer­
cantile  life,  either  on  their  own  account 
or  in  the  employ  of  others.  This  theory 
he  afterwards  put  into  practice.  His 
two  sons,  after  graduating  with  honors 
from  Hobart  College,  Geneva,  New 
York,  followed  mercantile  pursuits  for 
four  years,  with  reasonable  success,  but 
finally  drifted  back 
into  the  paternal 
office  and  made  good  lawyers  and  suc­
cessful  politicians.  Their  mercantile 
experience  had  furnished  them  with  a 
knowledge  of  human  nature  that  fitted 
them  for  more  rapid  progress 
in  their 
profession 
they  could  have  ac­
quired  in  any  other  way.

than 

Every  conscientious  salesman  of  ex­
perience  can  recall  the  anxiety  he  has 
felt  when  called  to  wait  upon  customers 
supposed  to  belong  to  the  class  men­
tioned 
in  the  opening  of  this  paper. 
The  necessity  and  impossibility  of  be­
ing  in  two  places  at  the  same  time,  or 
having  eyes  in  the  back  of  their  heads, 
call  for  untiring  vigilance.  Especial­
ly 
is  this  the  case  if the  goods  asked 
for  are  small  and  expensive,  such  as 
laces,  etc.,  that  may 
ribbons,  gloves, 
be  easily  hidden. 
If  articles  of  trifling 
value,  such  as  pins,  needles,  thread, 
etc.,  are  shown,  the  vigilance  must  be 
just  the  same,  but  the  anxiety  is  less. 
The  methods  resorted  to by  these  pil­
ferers  to  conceal  their  plunder  show 
much  ingenuity  and  often  verge  on  the 
ludicrous.  A  case  in  point  came  with­
in  my  own  experience :  A  regular  cus­
tomer,  the  wife  of  a  well-to-do  young 
farmer,  bought  liberality  of  all  kinds  of 
goods  used  in  a  farmer's  family;  but  I 
noticed  that  she  seldom  bought  any  of 
the  little  necessaries  for  making  up  her 
purchases  for  family  use.  She  used  to 
leave  the  store  after  making  her  pur­
chases  of  me,  and  when  she  returned 
she  would  take  out  of  her  pockets  more 
or  less  small  articles  that  were  loose. 
This  aroused  my  suspicions  and  I  de­
termined  to  watch  her  if  chance offered. 
One  day  she  came  in  and  asked  to  be 
shown  some  darning  needles. 
I  set  the 
box  containing  the  needles  in  papers 
marked * * s h a r p s ,“  betweens ’ ’ and * ‘ as­
sorted, ”   as  they  were  designated,  for 
her  to  select  such  as  she  wanted. 
I  no­
ticed  that  she  opened  some  of 
the 
papers.  Just  then  I  was  called  to  the 
other  end  of  the  counter  but,  keeping 
an  eye  on  her  movements,  I  saw  her 
put  needles  into  her  mouth  from  several 
papers  and  carefully  close  the  papers 
again.  Finally,  she  laid  out  half  a 
dozen  darning  needles  of  assorted  sizes 
and  when  I  came  back  she  laid  the 
change  to  pay  for  them  on  the  counter, 
with  the  remark  that  she  “ did  not  need 
took  up  the 
any  of  the  others. ”   .  I 
money  and,  looking  her 
in  the  eye, 
asked  her as  politely  as  I  could,  under 
the  circumstances,  it  she  did  not  in­
tend  to  pay  for  those  she  had  in  her 
mouth.  Her  face  assumed  an  expres­
sion  of  mingled  pain  and  shame  that 
was  almost  ghastly,  as  she  took  them

in  the  habit  of  pilfering 

out  of  her  mouth  and  counted  them, 
with  tears  of  humiliation  in  her  eyes 
that  excited  my  sympathy.  She  had 
smuggled  in  her  mouth  two  dozen !  But 
she  paid  me  for  them,  at  the  same  time 
begging  me  piteously  not  to  expose 
her,  for  her  husband’s  sake  and  that  of 
her  little  family.  She  acknowledged, 
upon  being  questioned,  that  she  had 
been 
in  a 
small  way  for  some  time,  and  that 
there  were  times  when  she  could  not 
resist  the  temptation. 
I  told  her  it  was 
my  duty  to 
inform  my  employer,  un­
less  she  preferred  doing  so  herself,  and 
I  presumed  it  would  go  no  farther.  She 
d'tied  her  eyes  and  asked  if  Mr.  Gor­
ham  was  in  the store.  I  said  Yes  and 
led  the  way  to  the  office.  She  entered ; 
but  what  transpired  there  I never asked. 
She  came  out  a  half  hour  after,  her face 
tear-stained  but  beaming  with  hope 
and  good  resolutions.  Then  I  knew 
that  my  kind  employer, 
instead  of 
harshly  accusing  her,  had  been  pouring 
oil  into  that  wounded  heart.  She  after­
ward  told  me  that  she  not  only  made  a 
full  confession,  but  full  restitution  for 
former  small  thefts of  which  we  knew 
nothing.  She  continued  to  be  a  liberal 
customer  of  the  store  for  years  after  I 
left,  but  was  never  again  suspected  of 
dishonesty.  Evidently,  the  mild  treat­
ment  she  received  worked  a  radical 
cure.

the 

The  fact  that  these  cases  of  klepto­
mania  turn  up  when  and where  least ex­
pected  often  gives 
salesman  a 
startling  surprise. 
I  will  narrate  one 
more  instance  that  came  under  my  own 
observation :  The Easter season  of  1843 
ushered 
in  a  craze  for  cherry  colored 
ribbons. 
They  were  both  satin  and 
taffeta  and  were  worn  in  every  variety 
of  width,  from  the  narrowest  used  for 
trimming  the  leghorn,  poke  or  cottage 
bonnets 
inside  and  out,  to  the  broader 
ones  that  mingled  in  profusion  with  the 
delicate  ruching  encircling  the  neck, 
or  were  used  as  trimming  for  the  rather 
low-necked  dresses  then  in  fashion,  and 
the  broad  sash,  with 
its  flowing  ends, 
that  spanned  the  waist.  So  general was 
the  demand  for  this  particular  shade  of 
red  that  they  became  very 
scarce. 
Among  our best  village  customers  was 
a  wealthy  widow  lady  and  her daughter. 
They  were  connected  by  marriage  with 
the  oldest  and  most  aristocratic families 
in  Western  New  York,  one  member  of 
which  was  then  holding  a  cabinet  office 
in  Washington.  The  daughter  used  to 
do  most  ot  the  shopping. 
She  always 
bought  the  best  we  could  show her.  One 
day  after  I  had  been  waiting  on  her,  I 
missed  a  pair  of  fawn-colored  gloves 
from  the  box  she  had  been  handling, 
worth  at  retail  $2.  No  one  else  had 
been  near  them.  But  the  suspicion  that 
flashed  upon  my  mind  almost  took  my 
breath  away. 
I  tried  to  dispel  it  but, 
like  Hamlet's  ghost, 
it  would  not 
“ down  at  my  bidding.’ ’  Realizing  the 
value  of  their  patronage  and  the  place 
they  held 
in  my  employer’s  esteem,  I 
resolved  not  to  tell  him  just  then  my 
suspicions,  but  to  watch.  A  few  days 
invoice  of 
later,  we  received  a  small 
ribbons,  among 
few 
pieces  of  the  much-coveted  cherry  red. 
The  very  next  day  Mrs.  J.  and  her 
daughter  came  into  the  store  and  made 
some  purchases.  The  daughter  saw  the 
new  box  of  ribbons  and  asked  me  to 
show  them.  I  set  the box  on  the  counter 
only  a  few  feet  from  where  I  was  wait­
ing  on  her  mother. 
I  knew  the  number 
of  pieces  of  each  shade the  box  con­
tained.  When  I  returned  it  to  the  show 
case one  piece  of  cherry  red  ribbon  was

them  being  a 

fancy 

missing! 
In  view  of  the  social  stand­
ing  of  the  parties,  I  made  up  my  mind 
it  was  time  my  employer  took  a  hand 
at  detective  work.  After  they  went 
out  I  went  to  the  office  and  told  my  sus­
picions,  and  my  reasons  for  them,  to 
my  employer.  Surprise  and  doubt  were 
mingled 
in  bis  face  as  he  replied: 
“ Mr.  Welton,  do  you  realize  what  you 
are  telling  me?  You  must  be  mistaken. 
Don’t  tell  a  living  soul  what  you  have 
told  me.  Your  motives,  no  doubt,  are 
the  very  best,  and  I  want  you  to  under­
stand  I  appreciate  them.  But  it  can’t 
be  so!  Your suspicions  shock  m e!’ ’ 
I 
asked  him  to  allow  me  to  call  him  to 
wait  on  her  the  next  time  she  should 
come  in.  He  replied  that  he  should  be 
glad  to do  so.  A  few  days 
later.  Miss 
J.  came  in  again. 
It  happened  that  I 
was  busy  at  the  grocery  counter,  with 
soiled  hands—1  was  making 
some 
changes  in  stock.  Excusing  myself,  I 
called  Mr.  Gorham  from  the  office  to 
attend  her.  She  asked  for  linen  lace 
edgings. 
I  saw,  to  my  satisfaction, 
that  he  was  calling  her  attention  to 
some  new 
laces  just  received, 
and  was  showing  her  articles  that  she 
did  not  call  for,  evidently  to  give  her 
every  opportunity  to  filch  if so disposed. 
left  the  store,  his  voice 
When  she 
trembled  as  he  said: 
‘ ‘ Mr.  Welton, 
your  suspicions  were  well  founded!”  
(mentioning  the  articles  she had carried 
away).  Among  them  was  a  piece  of 
very  narrow  Valenciennes  edging  worth 
75  cents  a  yard.  After closing  the  store 
in  the  evening,  he  called  me  into  the 
office  for  consultation.  He  began  by 
saying: 
‘ ‘ This  is  the  most  embarrass­
ing  situation  I  was  ever  placed  in.  You 
realize  the  importance  of  the  trade  we 
are getting  from  the  circle  in  which  she 
moves,  and  the  social  relations  that 
have  been  so  long cherished between our 
families.  Her  mother  is  a  widow  with 
a  very  high  sense  of  honor.  She  is 
in 
very  delicate  health  and  an  open  ex­
posure  would  kill  her.  Of  course,  this 
can  no  longer  go  on ;  so  what  shall  we 
do? 
in 
the  former  case;  but  he  could  not  see 
his  way  clearly  for  that. 
The  social 
positions  of  the  two  persons  so  widely 
differed,  etc.,  etc. 
It  was  finally  ar­
ranged  that  her  brother-in-law,  who  was 
also  a  merchant,  should  be  taken  into 
our  confidence,  and  his  advice,  being 
an 
fol­
lowed.  Luckily, 
the  mother  was,  by 
that  time,  visiting friends in New York ; 
the  daughter  was  alone  at  home.  Her 
brother-in-law  proposed  that  he  himself 
visit  her at  her  home,  in  company  with 
my  employer,  which  was  immediately 
done.  When  confronted  with  the  evi­
dence  of  her  guilt,  she  made  no  denial; 
and,  when  asked  to  produce  the  goods, 
led  the  way  to  her  room  and  exposed  to 
view a  trunk  filled  with  small  articles 
of  stolen  property—costly  bound  books, 
jewelry,  ribbons,  laces  and  many  ar­
ticles  for  which  she  could  never  have 
found  any  possible  use.  She  gave  the 
name  of  every  man  to  whom  the  prop­
erty  belonged,  and  without  the  faintest 
shadow  of  contrition!  The  property 
was  promptly  returned  to  the  various 
owners,  with  the  earnest  request  that 
secrecy  be  observed. 
I  think  the  dis­
grace  never  reached  her  mother’s  ears. 
The  strangest thing  of  all  was  that  she 
did  not  seem  to  realize  the disgrace that 
hung  over  herself.  She  soon  after  went 
to  New  York,  to  live  with  a  brother; 
but  the  monomainia  grew  upon  her  un­
til  she  was  finally  sent  to  a  private 
asylum. 

I  suggested  the  course  pursued 

interested  person,  should  be 

W.  S.  H.  We l t o n .

Owosso,  Mich.

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Will  make  ciphers  of  the 
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It is handsome and in keeping  with  Soda  Foun 
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convenience enables the dispenser to serve custom­
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please every owner of a fountain.

Made in sizes from 8 to 40 quarts.
Send for Description and prices.

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Protection

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The  Preacher’s  Son.

A  minister  who  used  to  preach  in 
Kalamazoo  had  a 
little  boy.  A  few 
days  before  his  father  left  the  city  to go 
to  his  new  parish  one of  his  neighbors- 
said  to  the  little  boy:
in 

“ So  your  father  is going  to  work 

Detroit,  is  he?”

The little boy  looked  up  wonderingly.
4 4 Oh,  no, ”   he  said.  44 Only  preach.

n

A  Boy’s  Idea  of  Economy.

Little  Dick—“ Papa,  didn’t  you  tell 
mamma  we  must  economize?”

Papa—“ I  did,  my  son.”
Little  Dick—“ Well,  I  was  thinkin’ 
if  you’d  get  me  a  pony  I 

that  mebby 
wouldn’t  wear  out  so  many  shoes. ”

An  Apt  Illustration.

Freddy—What  does 

it  mean,  Papa, 
when  it  says  that all  men  are  born  free 
and  equal?

Papa—It  means,  my  son,  that  for a 

time at  least  we  are  unmarried.

12

D ry  G oods

The  Umbrella  That  Never  Was  Pur­

chased.

Probably  a  respectable  majority  of 
your  readers  never  entertained  a  suspi­
cion  that  not  until  very  recently  has  the 
summer  umbrella 
found  any  favor 
whatever  in  the  eyes  of the proper young 
man  in  the  hustling,  bustling  towns  «f 
Central  California.  For  iack  of  positive 
general  knowledge  I  apply  this  state­
ment  only  to  a  limited  area  but  I  was 
reliably  informed  that  the  same  custom 
then  prevailed  throughout  the  State.

from  among  my 

Late  in  the  spring  of  the  year  1883  I 
got  me  up 
good 
“ sucker”   people  and  followed  the  star 
of  empire  to  the  glowing  golden  West, 
where  I  soon  found  remunerative  em­
ployment 
in  the  office  of  the  leading 
newspaper  in  a  beautiful  little  city  not 
far  from  San  Francisco.  There  was  at 
this  time  certainly  nothing  about  the 
ordinary attire  of  the  average  Easterner 
to  make  him  conspicuous  there.  Even 
the  silk  hat.  although  quite  a  new  in­
novation,  had  been  adopted  by  a  few 
leaders  of  fashion  and  therefore  might 
be  worn  with  a  fair  degree  of  assurance 
that  nothing  would  be  hurled  at  it  more 
material  than  some  of  those  popular 
little queries  showing  an  abnormal 
in­
terest  in  its antecedents.  But umbrellas !
I  shudder  even  now  at  thoughts  of  what 
might  have  befallen  me  had  it  not  been 
for  the 
conditions 
which  enabled  each  and  every  dealer  in 
umbrellas  in  that  thriving  burg  to  dis­
pose  of  his  last  rain-shade  before  the 
summer drouth  relegated  it  to  the  rank 
of  dead  stock.

favorable 

trade 

The  nights  in  that  region  are  almost 
invariably  cool,  but  the  sun  often shines 
fiercely  during  the  day,  and,  as  I  had  to 
walk  several  blocks  on  a  sunny  street 
for  my  noonday  meal,  it  very  naturally 
occurred  to  me  one  scorching  hot  day  a 
few  weeks  after  my  arrival  that  f  must 
have  an  umbrella.  Accordingly,  with 
no thought  of  violating  either  the  writ­
ten  or  unwritten 
law  of  the  land,  I 
stepped 
into  a  store  where  one  would 
expect  to  find  such  an  article  and  inno­
cently  made  my  want  known.

The  polite  clerk  informed  me,  with­
out  the  least  expression  of  regret,  that 
they  bad  closed  out  their  entire  stock 
before  the  end  of  the  rainy  season 
(which  lasted  some  weeks  longer than 
usual  that  year),  and  would  not  re-order 
until  fall.  I  thought  the  fellow  eyed  me 
in  an  unwarranted  manner,  but the truth 
of  the  matter  did  not  penetrate  to  my 
seat  of 
intelligence,  and  so,  although 
somewhat  surprised  at  the  completeness 
of  my  failure  there,  I  went a  short  dis­
tance  up  the  street  and  entered  another 
store,  with  the  most  perfect  confidence 
that  I  would  find  the  desired  commod­
ity. 
Imagine  my  surprise  when  I found 
that  the  prolonged  wet  spell  and  cau­
tious  buying  combined  bad  caused  that 
firm’s  entire  stock  of  umbrellas  to  van­
ish  also.  At  the  third  and  fourth places 
visited  the  same  conditions  prevailed ; 
and  as  my  disappointment became more 
pronounced  the  salesman  would  smile 
sympatbizingly  and  look  at  me  in  away 
that  plainly  said :  “ Poor  fellow!  when 
did  you  escape?  We’re  really  sorry  fcr 
you  but,  of  course,  you’ll  have  to be 
looked  after again."

At  last  I  struck  a  kind-faced  old  fur­
nisher  who  had  once  lived—well,  I  have 
forgotten  now  where  he had 
lived,  it 
may  have  been  Illinois,  or  it  may  have 
it  may  have  been 
been  New  York,  or 
somewhere  else—at  any  rate 
in  his 
younger  days  he  had  occasionally  seen 
men  as  well  as  women  carrying  sun­
shades,  and  so  he  listened  to  my  tale  of 
woe  without  becoming 
least 
alarmed.  His  reply  was  a  heartv  laugh 
followed  by  the  remark:  “ Young  man,

the 

in 

you  may be  thankful  you  didn’t  find  an 
umbrella.  Men  don’t carry  them  here 
except  during  thè  rainy  season. 
If  you 
had  gone  down  the  street  to-day  carry­
ing  one,  people  would  either  have 
thought  you  crazy,  or  guyed  you  out  of 
town  for a  dude.” —Apparel  Gazette.

More  Trouble  at  Yonie  De  Haas’ 

Tavern.
W ritten for the  T r abksm an.

Mill  Iron,  April  4—Aie  tankang  das 
Dutch  Tavarn  baie  Yonie  De Haas bane 
Hodo.  Bae  Yiminy!  aie  skal yump  das 
Tavarn  naxt  taime  aie  baie ba  masalf. 
Somtang  bane  hapan  avary  taime  aie 
stopang  baie  Yonie’s. 
Copal  veaks 
aitar  das  beefstak  trobal,  Meister  Mur­
phy  sa  baie  maie,  “ Yonie,  yo  Sveede, 
Scun  of  aie  gon,  aie  vantyotocom baie 
Yirn  Darling  Grocary  stor das  da.  Aie 
brang  some  Parlass  tobacco  an  over­
hall,  an  von  tang  aie  skal  tal  yo—af  yo 
com  har  gain  an  got  yag  on  lake  lass 
taime,  aie  bat  maie  tan  dollar  yo  yump 
das  yob  pratty  quvick. ”   Yo  saie,  aie 
bane  pratty  scare,  an  aie  com  baie  Yim 
Darling.  Bane  got  maie  lode  on,  an 
yust  tank,  “ Aie  will  yust  com  baie 
Yonie’s  an gat  drank  alcoholla  an  yump 
das  town.”   Das  vas  bout  dree  o’clok, 
p.  m.  Aie  yust  com  abei  tha  offace, 
an  Yonie  saie,  “ Hallo,  Sveede.  Aie 
sae!  Hallo,  Yonie!”   An  haie  vas 
saieang  somtang  baie  mae,  an  a  fallar 
com  baie  Yonie  an  sae  somtang.  Yonie 
sae,  “  Yas,  aie  skal  tal  har.  Yo  com  op 
baie  das  parlar  an  aie  skal  brang  har 
b aieyo.”   Aie  saie,  “ Yonie,  com  baie 
katcban. ’ ’  An  vomans  comang 
long 
wad  Yonie  an  com  baie  parlar.  Aie 
har  loud  talkang,  an  dan,  Yumping 
Yiminy!  aie  har  ciack-bang  thra  taime 
lake  aie  gon,  an  vomans  skramang, 
“ Murder!”   an  avarytang  baine  oxcit- 
mant.  Aie  ron  up  baie  das  parlar,  an 
voman  comang  out  yallang,  an  blud  all 
ovar  bar. 
“ Aie  baine  killed!”   bar 
saie.  Yust  dan,  som  vomans  com  an 
take  har  vay,  an  sand  for  doctar.  Aie 
tank,  “ Aie  skal com  an saie whar Yonie 
an  onder  fallar baie. ”   Aie  find  dem 
baie  das  parlar.  Yonie  got  das  fallai 
on  floor,  an  haie  bane  top  of  haim. 
Haie  say,  “ Lat  mae  go!  Aie  skal  not 
skoot  any  more!”   Yonie,  baie  saie, 
“ Aie  kno  d— m  veil  yo  vont  skoot  no 
more!”   Val,  som  onder  fallar  com  an 
gatang  rope,  tae  das  man  up  tite,  an 
ask  Yonie,  “  Vat was das trobal?”   Haie 
saie: 
“ Das  fallar  wife  yump  him. 
Har gattang  sick  of  har  yob.  Har  vant 
har  com  back,  an  har  say  sha  skal  not. 
Haie  yust  pullang  out  ravolvar,  an saie,
’ Dan tak das !'  an  comance skooting har. 
Yonie,  haie  knockang  haime  down  an 
yump  on  haime  tal  us  fallar  com  on 
halp  haim.”   Baie  Yiminy!  aie  yust 
don’t  wait 
Aie  yust 
yump  on  mai  lode,  an  aie  bat  yoo  aie 
baine baie  camp  in  pratty  gude  burry._ 
Aie  com  back  baie  camp,  an  aie  got  no' 
yag  on. 

Yo n ie  Yonson.

for  alcoholla. 

It  was  discovered in  Spokane,  Wash., 
the  other  day  that  the  new  populist  offi­
cials,  who  took  office  in  January,  have 
been  using  the  county  courthouse  for 
living  apartments  They  pay  no  rent. 
The  building 
is  large,  and  for  some 
time  there  have  bpen  a  number  of  va­
cant  rooms  in  the  upper  storv.  Nine­
teen  people  eat,  sleep  a"d 
live  there, 
including  the  county  superintendent  of 
schools,  deputy 
treasurer  and  others. 
These  officials  claim 
they  have  the 
right  to  use  the  county  courthouse  as  a 
living  place.

A  train  load  of  broom  corn  arrived  in 
Kansas  City  the  other  day,  bound  for 
Onondaga,  N.  Y.,  where 
it  will  be 
made 
into  whisk  brooms.  The  train 
was  made  up  of  twenty handsomely dec­
orated  cars  and  was  said  to  carry  the 
largest  single  shipment  of  broom  corn 
ever  made  from  any  point  in  the  world. 
The  corn  was  grown  near  Sterling, 
Kan.,  and  is a  part  of  a  crop  of  1,600 
tons.

It  is  said  that  Mme.  Sarah  Bernhardt 
has  never  used  wine  or  other  intoxi­
cants,  confining  her  beverages  mostly to 
milk  and  water,  and  that  she  attributes 
largely  to  this  the  remarkable  preserva­
tion  of  her  powers.

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consisting  of  everything  in  the 
Clothing  and  Dry  Goods  lines.  I 
also  own  the  building;  will  either 
sell or rent.  It’s a  Honey-Maker, 
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my  large  interests  East. 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

The  Unfortunate  Experience of a Suc­

cessful  Furniture  Salesman.

Jacob A. Riis in the Century.

I  had  been  working  ail  winter  and 
spring  in  the  western  part  of  New  York 
State,  alternately  at  wood  chopping  and 
at  making  cradles  and  bedsteads,  with 
a  brief 
interval  during  which  I  ran  a 
wheelbarrow  express  from  the  village 
hotel  down  to  the  steamboat  landing  a 
mile  and  a  half  away,  when  I  made  my 
first  and  only  flight  into  business  as  a 
drummer. 
I  still  think  that  it  was  a 
success  in  a  way,  even  if  it  didn’t  work 
out  exactly  right.  But  that  was  not  my 
fault. 
like  a  concern,  anyhow,  that 
can  stand  up  alone  in  times  of  pros­
perity ;  this  couldn’t. 
It  was  an  infant 
industry;  that  was  the  mischief.

I 

It  was  this  way.  A  lot  of  my  fellow- 
workers  in  the  factory  had  hit  upon  the 
idea  of  setting  up  in  business  for  them­
selves  on  the  co-operative  plan.  They 
bad  no  capital,  but  they  hired  a  shop 
with water  power;  wood  was  cheap,  and 
the  oil-country close  at  hand,  with  boom 
towns  springing  up  all  over 
like 
mushrooms. 
They  wanted  beds  and 
tables  and  chairs  down  there,  and  had 
money  to  pay  for  them.  All  that  was 
needed  was  some  one  who  could  talk  to 
go  and  sell  them  the 
then 
enough  could  be  made  to  establish  the 
business  before  the  credit  of  the  con­
cern  gave  out.  They  picked  me  for 
that  job,  and  I,  nothing  loath,  dropped 
ax  and  wheelbarrow,  and  started  out.

things; 

it 

scattering 

storm-wind, 

know  what  kind  of  a  time my employers 
had  when  they  got  that  order next morn­
ing,  but  I  can  guess.  It  seems  that  they 
telegraphed  to  my  customers,  and  re­
ceived  only  copies  of  the  iron-clad  con- 
tiact,  with  assurances  that 
it  was  all 
right—they  had  seen  my  papers.  They 
wired  for  me,  but  no  telegraph  was 
swift  enough  to  keep  up  with  my  prog­
ress  through  that  oil-country.  My  blood 
once  up,  I  swept  through  the region like 
a 
extension 
tables  right  and  left,  until  finally  I  sold 
a  dealer  in  Allegheny  City  a  full  thou­
sand  dollars’  worth  in  one  bill.  When 
that  order  came home  they  gave  it  up. 
it 
They  didn’t  wire  anv  more,  because 
was  no  use.  Not  until  I  brought  up 
in 
Rochester  on  the  Ohio  River  near the 
State  line,  my  last  cent  gone,  and  sent 
back  for  fresh  supplies,  were  they  able 
to  locate  me.  Every  morning  the  mail 
had  mapped  out  my  trail  to  them,  but 
where  I  might  be by  that  time,  out  on 
the  front,  there  was  no  telling.
They  sen.t  me $io,  and  wrote  me  just 
to  come  back,  and  sell  no  more  tables. 
But  I  was  not  to be  balked  in  that  way.
I  laid  out  a  route  which  the  $io  would 
cover, 
little  way,  and 
planted  a  few  score  extension  tables  in 
every  town  I  came  to.  They  were 
just 
as  greedv  for  them  there  as  in  Pennsyl­
vania.  Finally  I  pinched  myself  of  a 
dinner or  two.  and  wound  up  with  a run 
to  the  city  of  Erie  on the lake,  and filled 
that  place  with  tables,  too.  Then  I  went 
home,  feeling  like  a  conqueror.

into  Ohio  a 

I  was  to do  the rest. 

An  album  full  of  photographs  of  fur­
niture  and  a  price-list  made  up  my 
equipment. 
I  re­
member,  as  though  it  were  yesterday, 
the  first  storekeeper  I  struck. 
It  was  in 
Titusville.  He  was  a  cross  old  man, 
and  wouldn’t  so  much  as  look  at  my 
pictures;  but  when  I  poked  the book 
under  his  nose  and  it  fell  open  right  at 
the  extension-tables,  he  had  to  in  spite 
of  himself 
I  told  him  the  price  before 
he  could  get  his  eye  off  the  picture,  and 
he  took  another  look.  He  turned  oyer 
the  leaves,  while  my  heart  beat  high 
with  anticipation,  and  by  and  by  he 
came  back  to  the  extension  tables. 
If 
they  were  any  good  he  wouldn’t  mind  a 
dozen  or  so ;  but  he  had  to  hind  me 
down  to  an 
iron-clad  contract  as  to 
price  and  quality,  since  he  had  never 
seen  me  before,  and  didn’t  know  our 
tables. 
I  signed  that  contract— I  would 
just 
cheerfully  have  signed  anything 
it  in  the 
then—and  many  more  like 
three  weeks  that  followed. 
It  was  sin- 
gu’ar  how  suspicious  they  were  of  ex­
tension  tables,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
they  hankered  after  nothing  else, 
that  free-handed  country.  But  then  I 
early  made  up  my  mind  that  that  was 
the  way  of  trade.
There  were  others  in  Titusville  who 
wanted  extension  tables,  and  I  let  them 
I  must  have  sent 
have  them  gladly. 
home  an  order  for  a  hundred that_  night 
before  I  took  the  late  train  for  Oil  City 
so  as  to be  up  and  doing  with  the birds. 
There  it  was  the  same  thing,  and  so 
in 
Pithole  Center,  in  Franklin,  and  all  the 
way  down  the  Allegheny  River.  There 
was  evidently  a  famine  in  extension 
tables.  They  wanted  nothing  else. 
It 
if  no one  slept  or sat  down 
seemed  as 
in  that  country,  but 
just  ate.  But  I 
made  up  my  mind  that  they  probably 
all  kept  boarders,  oil  running  high  in 
those  days  and 
lots  of  people  stream­
ing 
in  from  everywhere.  Before  that 
day  was  at  an  end  I  had  determined  to 
let  the  rest  of  it  go,  and  to throw myself 
on  the  tables  entirely. 
If  tables  they 
wanted,  tables  they  should  have,  if  it 
took  the  last  stick  of  wood  in  Chautau­
qua  county,  with  Cattaraugus thrown  in. 
A  thunder  storm raged while I canvassed 
Oil  Citv,  and  the  lightning  struck  a 
tank.  The  oil  ran  down  the  hill,  and 
set  one  end  of  the  town  on  fire.  But 
it  was  burning  1  sold  extension 
while 
tables 
in  the  other  end,  reasoning  that 
they  would  need  so  many  more  of  them 
when  they  came  to  rebuild. 
There 
must  have  been  something  contagious 
about  my  enthusiasm,  judging  from  the 
way  those  tables  went.
That  night  I  went  to bed  happy  after 
sending  home  a  big  order  for  extension 
iron-clad  contract, 
tables,  all  under 
and  telling  them  to  hurry  them  up. 
I 
I  don’t
slept  the  sleep  of  the  just. 

My  chief  met  me  at  the  depot;  he 
wore  a.look  of  exhaustion.  There  was 
a  crowd  at  the  factory  just  across  the 
canal,  and  a  flag  hung  out  of  the  win­
dow. 
I  felt  that 
it  was  not  a  wholly 
undeserved  honor. 
I  had  done  the  best 
I  could,  and  a  reception  a  little  out  of 
the  usual  would  not  be  unnatural. 
I 
asked  him  what  he  thought  of  it,  and 
he  said  that  it  was  great!

Lots  of  times since  I  have  tried  to re­
call  what  were  my  feelings  when  I 
found  out  that  it  was  the  sheriff’s  flag 
that  hung  out  rtf  the  window. 
I  sup­
pose  that  I  must  have  been  stunned. 
The  concern  had  “ busted.”   Too  much 
extension  table  had  wrecked  it.  Instead 
of  four  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  com 
mission,  I  got  seventy-five  cents,  which 
was 
just  half  of  what  the boss  had  in 
his  pocket.  He  divided  squarely.  And 
that  ended  mv  career as  a  drummer 
along  with  the  firm’s'.

What  was  the  matter?  Why, 

the 
price-list. 
It  seems  that  by  some  mis 
take  the  selling  price of extension tables 
had  been  put  lower  than  the  cost  of 
working  up  the  wood.  Perhaps  that  also 
explained  my  sudden  popularity  with 
the  trade— perhaps;  I  cannot  say  that 
I  like  to  think  of  it  that  way.

How  Six  Grocers  Were  Forced 

Ou

Stroller in Grocery World.

of  Business.

In  a  little  city  about  two  hours' 

ride
from  Philadelphia  there 
is  a  Baptist 
church  which  runs  a  grocery  store, 
through  which  groceries  are  supplied  to 
members  of  the church  at  actual  cost.
Before  this  scheme  started  there  were 
eleven  groceries 
in  this  town,  which 
has  about  4,000  inhabitants.  Now there 
are  but  five  and  two  of  these  are  on  the 
ragged  edge.  As  a  scheme  to  increase 
the  membership  of  the  Baptist  church 
the  idea  is  a  splendid  success;  and  the 
circumstances  surrounding  the 
innova­
tion plainly  demonstrate  the  truth  of  the 
statement  that  the  grocer  who  refuses  to 
co-operate  and  combine  will  be  an  un 
known  quantity  in  a  few  years.
My  first  news  of  the  church  store 
reached  me  through  a  grocer  who  was 
one  of  the  five  still  left. 
I  used  to  go 
to  the  town  every  two  months,  but  dur 
mg  the  last  two  years  I  haven’t been 
there.  As  soon  as  I  got  to  the  place  ’ 
walked  direct  to  what  used  to be  the 
leading  grocery  store  and 
found  the 
building  occupied  by  a  dry  goods  es 
tablishment.  When  I enquired,  I  found 
that  not  only  this,  but  five  more  stores 
had  gone  the  long  road.  Then  I  went 
to  a  store  which  I  knew  still  stood,  and 
it  was  there  that  I  learned  of  the  cause 
of  the  condition.
“ Yes,  I’m  here  yet,  but  I  don’t  know 
i how  long  I  will  be, ”   said  the  grocer,

as  he  answered  my  salutation. 
“ If 
these  infernal Baptists  keep  selling  gro­
ceries  to  eveiybody  in  the  place  I  don’t 
know  what’ll  become  of  me.”

members?”

bership  so  far. ”

“ Does 

it  secure  your  church  any 

“ It’s  more  than  doubled  the  mem­

scheme  been 

“ But  is  an  increase  of  this  sort bene­

“ How  long  has  the 

working?”   I  asked.

“ About  eighteen  months,”   he  an­
swered;  “ eighteen  months  too  long.”  

"How  is  the  thing  done?”   I  asked. 
“ Well,  it’s  simple  enough,”   he  said. 
“ This  minister  thought  he  saw  a  good 
way  of  gettin’  members,  so  he  opened a 
grocery  store,  put  one  of  his  young men 
members 
in  there  and  started  to  sell 
everything  at  flat  cost.  Of  course,  he 
allows  for the  young  fellow’s wages,  but 
that  amounts  to  a  very  small  percentage 
on  selling  two or three hundred people. ”  

“ Do  they  deliver?”
“ Not  small  packages.  Such  things 
barrels  of  molasses  are  carted  and 

the  customer  pays  5  or  to  cents. ”

“ Has  the  scheme  got  any  new  mem­

bers  for the  church?”   I  asked 

response. 

“ Has  it?  Well,  I  guess  so!”  was  the 
“ When  the thing  first  began 
work,  that  church  didn’t have  oyer 
100  members.  Now  it’s  got  250,  if  it’s 
got one. ’ ’
“ Why  couldn’t  the  other  six  grocers 
stay  in  the business?”   I  asked.  “ Looks 
ke  a  mighty  short  time  to  force  five 

good  grocers  out. ’ ’
“ Well,  the  trouble  was  this:  Nearly 
every  one  of  the  stores  that  have 
umped  had  the  balance  of  their  trade 
among  the  Baptists,  and  when  this 
church  store  was  opened,  and  all  these 
Baptists  flocked  to buv  of  it,  why  these 
other  stores  felt  it.  Then  all  of us  have 
felt  it  somewhat..  The  minister  does 
not  seem  to  make  any  particular dis- 
nction  over  the  people  who  want  to 
get  in  the  church.  No  matter  whether 
they  go  simply  to  get  in  on  the  cheap 
groceries  or  not,  they  are  taken  in  all 
right,  and 
is  surprising  how  many 
have  gone  in.  As  I  said,  the  member­
ship  has  nearly  trebled. ”

it 

the 

“ Do they  sell  good  stuff?”   I asked. 
“ Oh,  yes,”   admitted 

grocer, 
rather  reluctantly. 
“ Their  stuff’s  all 
ight. 
It’s  the  sort  of  competition  that 
you  can’t  buck  against.”
Then  I  went  to  see  the  minister  of the 
church.  He  was  a  very  decent  fellow, 
e  of  a  commercial  man  than  a 
clergyman,  however.  The  store  occu­
pied  a  fair-sized  building  two  doors 
from  the  church  and  it  looked  just  like 
other  grocery  stores.  The  young  fellow 
charge  has  a  boy  to  help  him,  and 
he  looks  like  a  real  business  man. 
I 
didn’t  get  to  talk  with  him,  for  the 
store  was  full  when  I  was  there.

ficial?”

“ Well,”   the  minister  answered,  “ if 
we  once  get  them  in  the  church,  we’ll 
have  a  better  chance  of  doing  them 
good  than  if  we  didn’t have them,  won’t 
we?’ ’

‘ * How  about  the  other  grocers  that 
you’ve  crowded  out  of  business?”   I 
asked.

Again  the  clergyman  smiled,  depre- 
“ It’s  all  in  the  way  of  com­
catingly. 
petition,”   he  said. 
“ I  have  always 
believed  a  church  should  be  of  as  much 
benefit  to 
its  members  as  a  lodge or 
any  other  organization ;  in  other  words, 
that  it  should  make  it  of  temporal  ad­
vantage  to belong  as  well  as  spiritual.”
“ It  seems  rather  a  cruel  way  to  com­
pete  with  regular  merchants,”   I  haz­
arded.
“ Not  at  all,”   he  persisted. 
what  everything  is  coming  to.”
“ Do  you  find 

“ It’s 
it  hard  work  to  find 
jobbers  who  will  sell  to  you?”   I  asked.
the 
minister  repeated,  as  if  he  didn’t  ex­
actly  comprehend  me.

“ Do— I—find— it—hard—woik?”  

“ Yes.”
“ Why,  before  the  store  was  hardly 
planned,  I  had  thirteen  salesmen  here, 
each  representing  a  different  house,  all 
after  the  trade.  That’s how hard  I  found 
it.  Why  should  the 
jobbers  refuse  to 
sell  to  us?”
think,”   said  I, 
“ that  they’d  have  the  interests  of  the 
regular  retailers  at heart.”

“ You'd  naturally 

He  sniffed.  “ The 

jobbers  have  at 
heart  only  the  interests  of  those  who 
can  yield  the  most  profit  to  them,”   he 
said.
In  reply  to  further  questions,  he  ex­
plained  the  method  employed  to 
iden­
tify  members  at  the  store.  Each  church 
member  carried  a  caid  signed  with  the 
minister’s  signature,  which  had  to  be 
presented  whenever an  order  was given.
I  would  rather  be  a  laborer  of  the 
streets  than  one  of  the  five  grocers  re­
maining  in  that  town,  watching,  like  a 
drowning  man,  for  the  tide  which 
is 
rising  higher,  higher,  nearly  ready  to 
engulf  them.

There  are  nearly  6,ooo,oco  total  ab­
stainers 
in  Great  Biitain  and  Ireland, 
yet,  notwithstanding  this  fact,  the  con­
sumption  of  liquors  during  1896 exceed­
ed 
the  previous  year  by 
$32,500,000.

that  of 

when  I  had  opened  the  subject.

fortunate  to  find  the  clergyman  in.

idea,”   he  said, 

“ Yes,  sir;  it’s  my 

I  went  on  to  the  parsonage  and  was 

“ Does  it  pay?”   I  asked,  bluntly.
He  smiled. 

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“ Very  well,”   he  said.

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engine,  and,  at  a  depth  of  sixteen  feet, 
•struck  pay  ore,  and  will  have  a  mine 
instead  of  a  well.

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Shoes and Leather

Good  Things Said  by  Up-to-Date Shoe 

We  want  to 

Dealers.
impress  on  your  minds 
that  we  handle  only  reliable  shoes;  that 
we  show  twice  as  many  styles as  any 
two  stores 
in  Louisville,  and  that  our 
prices  are  positively  below  those  of  any 
other  house  or  your  money  refunded 
quick  as  a  flash.— Levy’s,  Louisville.

You  can  count  the  number  of  shades 
of  satin  and  suede  slippers  which  most 
shoe  stores  show  on  the  fingers  of  one 
hand—excepting  the  thumb.  Here  you 
pick  from  dozens—and  if  your  gown 
is 
of  a  shade  which  we  cannot  match  from 
our  stock  we  willingly  make  the  slip­
pers  to  order  from  the  satin  which  you 
supply  or  from  a  sample.  Such  requires 
but  a  few  days,  and  there  is  no  extra 
charge  for  it.— B.  Rich’s  Sons,  Wash­
ington.

We  take  care  to  buy  only  such  shoes 
as  are  well  made  of  good,  honest 
leather,  soft,  easy  and  comfortable,  yet 
stylish,  neat  fitting  and  serviceable,  so 
that  they  make  a  lasting  friend  of  the 
buyer.—G.  F.  Streit,  Altoona,  Pa.

into 

If 
loose  where 

There’s  a  great  deal  in  the  wav a shoe 
is  first  put  on,  and  the  way  the  foot 
it  is  tight  where  it 
settles 
it. 
should  be,  and 
it  should 
be,  there will be very  little  trouble.  We 
make  a  study  of  these  things.—G.  A. 
Johnson  &  Co.,  Manistee,  Mich.
“Spare  your  feelings  the  disagreeable 
task  of  looking  at  a  pair of  ill-fitting 
shoes;  spare  your  feet  the  pain  of wear­
ing  them ;  spare  your  pocket-book  the 
humiliation  of  knowing that  you  robbed 
it.  Our  shoes  look  well,  fit  well,  wear 
well—this  is  the  least  we  could  possibly 
say  about  them.  Come in  and  see  them 
—our  prices  will  do  the  rest.— Printers’ 
Ink.

Sidelights  on  Shoe  Topics.

There  are  going  to  be  some  warm 
times  in  the  rubber  footwear  trade  this 
season  and  some  of  the  oldtime  activity 
may be  looked  for.
An  Englishman  has  invented  a  boot 
and  shoe  cleaning  and  blacking  ma­
chine,  consisting  of  a  series  of  brushes 
mounted  on  an  endless  chain  revolved 
by  hand  or  power around  the  shoe  when 
placed  in  the  framework.
A  neat  combination 

in  serviceable 
footwear  for  misses’  and children’s wear 
is  shown 
in  glove  calf  spring  heels, 
with  black  patent  calf  heel  foxing, 
tip  and  lace  stays,  combining  wear  and 
attractive  selling  qualities  at  popular 
prices.
,  In  bicycle  shoes  the  regulation 
lace 
bal  and 
low  cut  oxford  of  last  season 
appear  to  be  the  most  acceptable  and 
practical  goods  for the  purpose  for both 
sexes,  and  on  these  styles  there  appears 
to  be  no  large  surplus  now  in  sight. 
These  goods  worn  with  golf  leggins  add 
much  to  a  neat  bicycle  costume.  A 
medium”dark  tan  are  the  most  accept­
able.

Despite  the  cry  of  a  firm  leather  mar­
ket,  all  things  point  to  a  weaker one  in 
the  past  two  weeks,  and  shoes  of  the 
medium  and  cheap  grades'* are  being 
sold  as  cheap  as  ever  by  many  shoe 
manufacturers,  and  a  buyer  with  good 
credit  or the  cash  can  go  into  the  Bos­
ton  market  to-day  and  fill  up  on  many 
lines  of  goods  at  prices  as  low  as  any 
that  the  trade  has  experienced  in  the 
past  four  years.

What  is  the  use  of  spending  our  time 
kicking  over  conditions 
in  the  shoe 
trade  and  trying  to  bold  the  people 
back  from  seeking  something  new  in 
footwear?  It 
is  a  well-known  fact  to 
business  men  in  the  trade  that  the  shoe 
manufacturer or  jobber  who  has  some­
thing  new  and attractive to offer  his cus­
tomers  each  season  is  getting  the  trade 
right  along;  and  conditions  never  will 
be  different. 
It  is  the  penalty  we  pay 
for  being  in  business,  and  the  only  sen­
sible  way  out  of  it  is  to  find  the  want 
as  early  as  possible  and  set  ourselves 
courageously  to  work  to  supply  it if pos­
sible.  There  was  a  time  when  coal 
was  delivered  in  wagon  loads,  now  it  is 
time  was 
packed 
when  shoes  were  packed  sixty  pairs 
in

in  bags;  and  the 

a  case  loose,  now  they  come  in  single 
cartons.  We  cannot  change  this,  but 
we  can  make  use  of  the  new  methods  if 
we  wish  to,  for  the  world  moves  on  re­
gardless  of  our  protests,  and  the  mer­
chant  who  moves  with  it  is  the  one  who 
reaps  the  profit.

American  Boots  in  England.

From the London Figaro.

The  remarkable  feature  of  the Ameri­
can  boots,  which  have  now  established 
themselves  among  us,  and  have  evi­
dently  come  to  stay,  is the extraordinary 
flexibility  of  the  leather  of  which  the 
soles  are  made.  These  boots  and  shoes 
are  completed  on  the  wrong  side,  and 
are  afterward  turned 
in  a 
manner  that  must  astonish  some  of  our 
bootmakers,  who  appear  to  think  that 
the  human  foot  should  be  shod 
in  the 
stiffpst  and  most  unyielding.material,  so 
far  as  the  sole  is  concerned.  But  there 
is  one  item  to  be  regretted  with  regard 
to  the  American  form  of  footgear,  and 
that  is  the  very  pointed  toes.

inside  out 

Usefulness  of  the  Jobber.

William Quincy Wales in the Metal Worker.

The  position  of  the  jobber  in  all lines 
of  goods  has  been  much  discussed  of 
late,  especially  the  jobbers  in  hardware 
and  kindred  trades,  as 
it  would  seem 
in  these  lines,  more  particularly, 
that 
the  manufacturer  was  trying  to  reach 
the  consumer  oftener  than 
in  former 
years.  I  can  recollect,  when  I  first  went 
into  the  employ  of  a  jobber  in  sheet 
tin  plates  and  metals,  almost 
iron, 
every  article  was 
imported,  and  the 
consumer  was  obliged  to  go  to  the  im­
porter,  who  was  the  jobber,  to  buy. 
In 
those  days  the  profits  were  large,  and 
stocks  carried  were  much  greater  than 
at  present.  Since  then  everything  has 
changed,  and  the  jobber  is no longer the 
exclusive  handler  of  these articles.  He 
is  in  fear  of  competition  of  other  job­
bers,  also  of  manufacturers,  who  are 
not  content  to  sell  the  jobber,  but  try  to 
sell  the  consumer.  Every  one,  I  think, 
will  admit  the  necessity  of  a  distribu­
ter,  or  some  one  who  can  carry  an  as­
sorted  stock  of  these  goods  with  a  large 
variety  of  sizes  and  qualities.  This 
can  only  be  done  by  the  jobber,  who 
has  a  capital  invested  for  this  special 
purpose.  *  *  *  If  the  consumer  re­
alized  the  cost  of  carrying  a  large  and 
w^ll-assorted  stock  of  goods  in  the  city, 
with  the  necessary  warehouse  expenses, 
the  force  of  clerks  required  for  prompt 
shipments,  also  expenses  of  carting 
in 
delivery  of  goods,  there  would  be  fewer 
complaints  made  about  the  profits  of 
the  jobber.  Then,  again,  there 
is  the 
question  of  credits.  The  manufacturer 
wants  his  money  promptly,  as  he 
is 
obliged  to  pay  cash  for  his  labor  and 
most  always  for  his  material.

into  the 

This  the  average  consumer  is  notable 
to  do,  so  that  the  jobber  occupies  the 
position  not  only  of  warehouseman  but 
banker  for  his  customers,  buying  his 
goods  on 
io  to  30  days  and  trusting 
them  out  from *30  days  to  four,  five  and 
even  six  months. 
I  wonder  how  manv 
manufacturers  would  be  willing  to  sell 
the  consumer  on 
the  same  basis  of 
profit  that  he  does  the  jobber  and  stand 
the  losses  by  “ bad  debts’ ’  that  the  job­
ber  has  to.  This  is  quite  an  important 
item  to  be provided  for,  and  cuts  large­
ly 
jobber’s  profits.  *  *  * 
From  my  standpoint  manufacturers’  in­
terests  are  only  hindered  by  agents  and 
brokers.  When  a  jobber  meets  this  kind 
of  competition  he  is  obliged,  for  self­
protection,  to  buy  lower  than  he  has 
been  buying,  in  order  to  cover  the  cost 
that  he  is  under  in  doing  business,  and 
so  this  cuts  down  the  profit  of  the  man­
ufacturer,  the  latter  having  created  a 
competition  which  reacts  against  him­
self.  From  the  point  of  the  consumer 
there 
is  an  advantage  in  dealing  with 
the  jobber. 
In  case  goods  are  imper­
fect,  or  there  is  any  other  trouble  with 
them,  he  can  make  his  complaint  and 
receive  some  satisfaction,  as  usually 
manufacturers  sell  so  close  they  cannot 
afford  to  make  rebates  or  allowances 
or  even  permit  stock 
to  be  returned 
unless  they  deduct  from  the  credit  a 
percentage to  cover  the  cost of  so doing.

How  to  Unload  Unsalable  Stock.
The  merchant  who  has  not  sufficient 
courage  to  sell  unsalable  goods  at  less 
than  cost  to  get  his  money  out  of  them 
had  better  get  out  of  business,  for  he 
s  only  putting  off  the  evil  day  when 
circumstances  will  force  him  out  at  the 
loss  of  business  and  reputation.  There 
are  other  ways  of  getting  the  money  out 
of  your old  back  numbers:  If  you  don’t 
want  to  sell  them  yourself,  box  them  up 
and  ship  to  the  nearest  auction  house. 
They  will  get  the  money  out  of them for 
you 
inside  of  ten  days  or  two  weeks. 
The  goods  that  may  not  be  salable  in 
your  district  may  be 
in  active  demand 
somewhere  else,  and  in  a  public  auc­
tion  room  where  many  buyers gather 
each  week  are  men  who  are  looking  for 
the  very  goods  you  cannot  find  a  mar­
ket  for  and  who  are  ready  to  pay  a  fair 
price  for  them.  Don’t  be  afraid  to  do 
this,  even  if  your  name  is  on  the  goods. 
is  legitimate,  is  done  by  men  who 
It 
sell  you,  and 
if  there  are  any  of  your 
creditors  disposed  to  offer  objections 
to  your  selling  goods  thus  that  will  not 
sell  otherwise,  the  quicker  you  scratch 
that  firm  off  your  list  the  better ;  they 
are  of  the  old  fogy  class,  who  finally 
lay  down  themselves  and  show  up  about 
25  cents  on  the  dollar  of  tangible assets, 
although  they  may  be  figured  at  face 
value  at  about  $1.50.  Learn .to  grasp 
the  great  truth  in  merchandising,  that 
there  are  no  eggs  in  last  year's  birds’ 
nests. 

Sta n ley  Sta n ton.

It  is  said  that  the  present  department 
store  system  originated  about 
forty 
years  ago  with  the  great  dry  goods  firm 
of  Todd,  Burns  &  Co.,of  Dublin.  When 
A.  T.  Stewart  visited  Ireland  about 
1861  he  examined  the  innovation  close­
ly,  and  began  to  introduce  some  of  the 
features  in  his  New  York  store.

EVERY PAIR 
WARRANTED.

S O L D   O N L Y   B Y   U S

5 ami 7 Pearl Street.

State  Agents  for

W ales-Ooodyear and 
Connecticut  Rubbers.

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MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

BOOTS, SHOES 
AND  RUBBERS

We are now receiving our new spring styles  in  all  the  new  colors 
and toes—the  nobbiest  line  we ever  had.  Yon  should  see  them 
before placing your order.  Our prices are  right  and  we  feel  con­
fident that we can please you.  Agents for the

BOSTON  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

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EXCELLENT  EXAMPLES.

Sample  Advertisements 

from  Boots 

and  Shoes  Weekly.

The  Tradesman  commends the follow­
ing  advertisements  to  its  friends  in  the 
shoe  trade,  because  they embody  the ex­
cellent  features  of  brevity,  crispness  of 
statement  and  seasonableness :

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that anyone  should  puzzle hiR 
head  over  the  question  as  to 
where shoes can be bought best 
and  cheapest.  We  think  we 
have an established  reputation 
for selling good  footwear.  We 
know  we  sell  on  close  mar­
gins.  These  facts  being  self- 
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will  do more  shoe business 
this  year than all  th° other 
shoe  houses  in  Crosstown 
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Fitting,

such  as  we do  here, is plainly much 
to be desired.  Think what it is worth 
to  have  your  feet  feeling  free  and 
easy—free  to  run  or jump or  dance 
as you like!

Faultless fitting is our forte.
Come and see how  we do it.

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YOUR  FEET

and 82.50 in  money—we do  the 
rest for you.  And if we cannot 
show you satisfactory value for 
your money it is not incumbent 
upon you  to buy.  We are here 
to  stay,  and  want  your  trade 
next season as well as this.

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Cheap  Shoes. 1.

;  -are  like- everything  else  cheap. 
They  are  no  good. 
If you  ever 
bought a pair you know this.  An 
extra dollar invested in footwear 
means months of extra  wear and 
continued  satisfaction. 
If you 
are in  a  frame  of  mind  to  buy 
- good, reliable  and  correctly  sty­
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Failed  to  Achieve  Success  as  a  Shoe 

Salesman.

He  had  spent  his  early  days  on  the 
farm,  and  later,  when  his  family moved 
into  the  village,  he  found  employment 
in  the  general  store  as  clerk.  He was  a 
successful  salesman,  and  being  ac­
in  a 
quainted  with  a  man  employed 
New  York  shoe  store,  was 
invited  to 
come  to  the  Eastern  metropolis,  where 
he  was  promised  a  position.

The  Hoosier  was  filled  with  joy  at the 
prospect  and  promptly  accepted 
the 
offer.  He  was  set  to  work  hustling  and 
unpacking  boxes  and  made  generally 
useful.  But  it  was  his  ambition  to  be­
come  a  clerk,  and  with  this  in  view  he 
always  took  pains  to  be  neatly  dressed 
and  respectful 
in  every  way,  hoping 
thereby  to  be  invited,  upon  some  busy 
day,  to  aid 
in  the 
handling  of  customers.

the  other  clerks 

One  day  his  opportunity  came.
He  had  been  very  observant  of  the 
manners  of  the  salesmen  whenever  he 
chanced  to  be  about  the  salesrooms,  and 
upon  one  occasion  noticed  the 
impres­
sion  made  upon  a  woman  with  a  highly 
arched 
instep,  when  the  clerk  who 
waited  upon  her  said,  after  she  had 
made  some  remark  about  being  from 
Kentucky:  “ One  would  know  you  were 
a  Southern  v/oman  by  your  arched  in­
step. ’ ’
The  first  customer  who  was  assigned 
to  the  youth  from  Indiana  was  a  woman 
who  had  once  been  young,  but  was  so 
no  longer.  She was far  from  good  look­
ing  as  to  face  or  figure,  but  really  had 
a  pretty  foot,  and  was  well  aware  of  the 
fact.

“ I  live  in  Chicago,’ ’  she 

informed 
the  clerk,  “ but  I  always  get  my  shoes 
in  New  York. ’ ’

“ Indeed,”   said  the  newly-installed 
clerk,  who  was  somewhat  embarrassed 
by  the  dignity  of  his  new  position. 
Then,  suddenly  vaguely  remembering 
the  compliment  that  had  brought  such 
a  satisfied  smile  to  the  face  of  the 
woman  from  Kentucky,  he  murmured : 
“ One  could  not  fail  to  recognize  that 
you  are a  Chicago  woman.  The  fact  is 
evidenced  by  your  foot.”
“ Sir!”   said  the  customer,  sharply, 
and  without  waiting  for  apologies  she 
gathered  up  her  one  shoe  that  had  been 
removed,  and  poking  her  foot  into  it 
she  hastened  out  of  the  store.  The  next 
day  the  manager  received  a  note  from 
the  customer,  telling  him  what  had  oc­
curred.

The  Hoosier  boy  is  now  engaged  at 
his  old  occupation  in  the  village  store, 
weighing  butter and  measuring  calico.

Value  of  Cash  Customers 

Correspondence Hardware Dealers’  Magazine.

That  the  cash  customer  is  better  ap­
preciated  in  Europe  than 
in  America, 
one  need  only  enquire  of  any  traveled 
man,  or  recount  his  own  experiences.

Go  to  a  grocery,  dry  goods  or  iron 
monger’s  store  anywhere  in  England  to 
make  some ' purchase  and  enquire  the 
price.  You  will  receive  a  polite  an­
swer,  and  then,  if  you  happen  to  have 
credit  at  the  particular  store  and  you 
ask 
to  have  the  article  you  covet 
charged,  you  will  be  politely  told  that 
the  article,  whatever 
it  is,  whether,  a 
half  pound  of  sugar  or  ten  pounds  ol 
nails,  will  be  a tuppence or a thrippence 
more  for  “ booking.”   The  first  named 
price  is  the  cash  price,  since  the  pre­
sumption  always  obtains  that  when 
pi ices  are  asked  the  transaction  is  to 
be  for  cash.

is  true 

in  England  is  for  the 
most  part  true  on  the  Continent  of 
Europe. 
If  books  must  be  kept,  mer­
chants  and  shop-keepers  entertain  a  pet 
theory  that  the  people  for  whom  the 
books  are  kept  should  be  made  to  pay 
the  cost  of  the  same.  Merchants  of  any 
large  city  in  our own  country  can  tell

What 

of  repeatedly  receiving  bills  from  Ger­
man  houses_  and  always  finding  even 
the  cost  of  the  postage  on 
the  bill 
charged 
in  the  account.  Throughout 
Europe,  the  eminently  equitable  plan 
obtains  of_encouraging  a  cash  business 
by  giving  the  cash  customer  an  advan­
tage  over  the  customer  who  pays  his 
bills  but  once  a  month  or  once  in  six 
month,  or  sometimes  not  at  all.

Here  in  free  America  in  retail  estab­
lishments  both  cash  customers 
and 
debit  customers  are  placed  on  nearly 
the  same  footing;  on  the  other  side  the 
debit  customer  pays  a  trifle  more  for 
his  necessities  than  he  ought  to  pay,  in 
order  to  make  up  the  losses  arising 
from  bad  accounts.

There  are  many  people  who  perforce 
of  circumstances  are  compelled  to  pay 
cash  for  everything  they  purchase,  and 
in  the  majority  of  cases  they carry home 
their  purchases  without  the  slightest 
show  of  trouble  to  the  seller.  Why 
should  they  not  be  given  an  advantage 
in  a  cash  price  over  that  purchaser  who 
not  only  has  the  purchase  entered  on 
the  books  of  the  merchant,  but 
in  the 
majority  of  instances  has  it delivered  at 
his  home,  and  the  trouble  is  often  en­
hanced  by  the  merchant  having  to  send 
an  employe  to  the  house  of  the  pur­
chaser  to  secure  his  or  her  order.  To 
maintain  delivery  wagons  and  order 
collectors  and  book-keepers  costs  a  deal 
of  money.

Why  should 

the  cash  customer  be 
made  to  help  pay  for  that  in  which  he 
has  no  part  or  interest? 
If  he  be  his 
own  order  collector,  his  own  deliverer, 
and  he  pays  cash,  why  should  he  not 
have  the  advantage  of  this  condition, 
precisely  as  cash  customers  of  whole­
sale  merchants  have  an  advantage.  The 
rule 
is  scarcely  without  an  exception 
for'the  wholesale  dealer  to  make  a  spe­
cial  rate  to  the  cash  customer.
Why  should  not  the  dollar  or  dollar- 
and-half-a-day  man  be  given  equal  ad­
vantage?  Why  not  defer  to  cash  in 
America  as  European  merchants  defer 
to  it,  since  cash 
in  America  is  worth 
even  more  than  it  is  in  Europe?

Hew Prices on R u »

LYCOniNd,  35 and 5 off. 
KEYSTONE,  35 and 5 and  to off.

These  prices  are  for  present  use  and 
also for  fall  orders.  Our  representative 
will  call  on  you  in  due  time  with  our 
specialties in

Leather  Goods,  Pelt  Boots, 
Lumbermen’s  Socks 
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. 

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and  a  full  line of the above-named  rub­
ber  goods,  and  we hope  to  receive  your 
orders.

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,

19 South Ionia St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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This represents our Boy S’  and  Youths*  Oil 
Grain Water Proof Shoes, made of very best 
stock to wear,  nice  fitting  and good  style; 
size  of  Boys*,  3-5;  Youths*,  12-2.  Every 
pair warranted.  Write for prices or send for 
samples on approval.  These shoes keep feet 
dry, look  nice  and  no rubbers  are needed.

SSEDICOR & HATHAWAY CO., Detroit, Mich. 
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Also  makers  of  the  celebrated  Driving 
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The  rapid  increase  in  the  volume  of  the 
business  of  the  Tradesman  Company 
in  the  making  of  illustrations  and  print­
ing  plates  of  all  kinds  has  rendered  it 
necessary  to  greatly  enlarge  its  facilities 
in  this  department  by  the  addition  of 
the  most  modern  and  complete  machin­
ery  and  apparatus.  These  additions 
will  serve  the  interests  of  the  patrons  of 
that department  in  that  the  high  stand­
ard  of  quality  will  be  more  than  main­
tained,  and  greater  promptness  and  the 
most  reasonable  price,  compatible  with 
best  work  will  be  secured.  Plates 
by  all  the  various  processes  are  made 
complete  on  the  premises  under  the 
careful  supervision  of  the  most  compe­
tent  artists  and  engravers.  Corres­
pondence  will  secure  specimens  or  any 
information  desired.

tradesman Company,

Grand Rapids,

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Clerks’  Corner

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How  the  Ancient  Dress  Pattern  Was 

Sold  as  a  Bargain.

Written for the  T r ad esm an.
“ Say,  Sneily,  how 

long  has 

velure  dress  pattern  been  in  stock? 
looks  rather  antiquated."

“ Let  me 

see,"  mediated  Sneily; 
“ that  was  bought  while  we  were  in  the 
old  store,  the  season  before  we  moved 
up  here,  and  we  moved  in  the  spring  of 
’89.  That  makes  eight  years,  doesn’t it? 
When  that  pattern  was  first  put in stock, 
we  asked  $30  for  it.  We  had  just  as 
good  talent  behind  the  counter  then  as 
we  have  now;  but  somehow  none of  the 
boys  were  able  to  sell 
it.  Well,  we 
brought  it  with  us  to  the  new  store 
and  offered 
it  at $25,  with  a  premium 
of  50 cents  for  the  clerk  who  would  sell 
it.  We  draped  it  onto  a  form  and  dis­
played  it  in  the  window time and again, 
talking 
its  merits  to  every  customer 
whom  we  could  get  to  listen;  but  it 
wasn’t  a  bit  of  use— no  one  would  have 
it.  So  season  after  season  has  gone  by, 
the  velure  dress  pattern  has  decreased 
steadily  in  price,  and  the  premium  for 
selling  it  has  as  steadily  increased  un­
til,  to-day,  the  clerk who  sells  it  for $10 
gets one-fifth  of  that  amount  for  him­
self.  So  there,  young  fellow, 
if  you 
want  to  win  fame,  glory  and  a  two  dol­
lar  bill,  pitch  right  in  and  sell  it."

took  place. 

Joe  Chalmers  had  been promoted from 
the  linings  counter  to  the  novelty  dress 
goods  counter  only  a  few days before the 
above  conversation 
In 
looking  over the  stock  with  a  view  to 
learning  the  prices  of  the 
'different 
lines,  he  had  spied  the  piece  of  old 
velure  tucked 
into  an  out-of-the-way 
corner.  Placing  it  on  the  counter,  he 
had  asked  the  question  which  drew  out 
the  history  of  the  old  dress  pattern.

Sneily's  advice  to  “ pitch  in  and  sell 
the  pattern”   was  not 
lost  on  young 
Chalmers.  The  premium,  to  be  sure, 
was an  object;  but  to  sell  a  dress  pat­
tern  which  so  many  older  and  more  ex­
perienced  men  had  not been  able  to  sell 
would,  most  certainly,  win,  if  not  fame, 
at  least  the  commendation  of  Mr.  Fan­
ning,  the  manager.

Chalmers  made  up  his  mind  that  he 
would  sell  that  pattern.  His  experience 
in  the  linings  department  had  taught 
him  that  it  was  much  more  difficult  to 
sell  goods  that  were  old  and  out  of date, 
although  offered  at  less  than  cost,  than 
those  that  were  new  and  stylish.  He 
knew  that  his  promotion  to  the  dress 
goods  counter  was  a  recognition  of  bis 
ability  as  a  salesman ;  and  to  sell  the 
old  velure  chestnut  would  be  a  feather 
in  his  cap.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  new  dress  goods  clerk  discov­
ered,  after  a  week  had  gone  by,  that 
it 
was  no  use  to  show  that  pattern  to  city 
people,  who  are  always  posted 
in  re­
gard  to  fashionable  fabrics.  He  also 
discovered  that  it  would  be  best  not  to 
recommend 
it  as  new  and  stylish,  but 
rather  to  show  it  on  its  own  merits—an 
A 1  cloth,  offered  cheap  because  it  was 
a  short  pattern  and  a  little  out  of  style, 
would  be  a  much  better  argument  than 
to  represent  it  as  one  of  the  newest  and 
most  stylish  things  in  dress  goods.

Chalmers’  fellow  clerks  had  a good 
deal  of  sport  out  of  his  efforts  to dis­
pose  of  the  old  pattern.  They  named 
it  “ Chalmers’  p et,"an d   teased  him 
about  being  so  anxious  to  win  the  $2 
premium.  They  could  make  him  fight­
ing  mad  by  repeating,  in  his  hearing, 
the  retort  of  an  old  Irish  woman  to 
whom  Chalmers  had  tried  to  sell  the 
pattern:  “ Sure,  me  b ’y,  ef  yez  wuz  ez 
ould  ez  that  pace  uv  driss  guds,  ye’d 
'ave  bether  sinse  than  ter  be  atillin’ 
annywan  that  it’s  new  sthoyle.  Sure, 
an’  it  looks  as  though  it  come  out  uv 
the  arruk!”

Nevertheless.  Chalmers  did  not  give 
up  hope  nor  desist 
in  his  efforts,  al­
though,  after  his  encounter  with  the 
Irish  woman,  he  was  more  careful  about 
what  he  said  before  others  in  praise  of 
the  old  stuff.

The  Christmas  season  was  fast  ap­
proaching  and  many  country  people 
were 
in  the  city  buying  things  for 
Christmas.  Chalmers  felt  that, 
if  he 
was  to  sell  that  pattern  ever,  now  was 
the  time. 
“ If  I  could  only  get hold  of 
some  man  from  the  country  who  did 
not  know  anything  about  styles,  and 
who  wanted  to buy  his  wife  a  dress  for 
Christmas,  I  feel  sure  I  could  make 
him  believe  that  this  old  velure  is  the 
very  thing  he  wants,”   said  he  to  a  fel­
low clerk,  as  he  took  down  the  despised 
thing  from  the  shelf  and  flung  a  yard 
or  two  into  soft  folds  on  the  counter.

“ You  might  as  well  give  it  up,  Chal­
mers,"  replied  his  companion,  “ for 
you  can’t  sell  it.  Nobody,  not  even  a 
rustic,  wants  that  kind  of  goods  nowa­
days. ' ’

“ Well,  that  may  be  true;  but it’s here 
to  be  sold  and—by  gings!  here’s  a  man 
now  who’s  after  a  dress  for  someone. 
I’m  sure. 
I’ll  bet  you  all  I  get  over 
$10  for 
it  that  I’ll  sell  him  the  old 
velure  pattern!’ ’

“ That’s  a  go,”   replied  the  other,  as 
Chamlers  went  forward  to  wait  on  the 
man.

His  surmise  was  correct—the  man did 
want  a  dress  for  a  Christmas  present 
for his  wife.

“ Show  me  sutbin’  thet  hez  a  leettle

red  into  it—my  wife  looks best  in  red. 
The  dress  she  wore  when  we  was  mer- 
ried  was  most  all  red,  an’  I  hain’t  seen 
her hev  nothin’ sence  thet’s  looked  half 
so  nice. ”

Chalmers  displayed  several  pieces  of 
cloth,  from  50  cents  to a  dollar  a  yard, 
just  to  feel  the  size  of  his  prospective 
customer’s  pocketbook. 
It  had  the  de­
sired  effect.

“ I  don’t  mind  payin’  $10  or  $12  fer 
the  dress,  ef  I  see  jest  what  I  think 
she’d  lik e ,"  said  the  man.

forward 

Chalmers  brought 

several 
patterns  at  the  prices  named.  Then  be 
displayed  the  old  velure  pattern,  say­
ing,  as  he  did  so,  that  here  was  a  pat­
tern  which  they  were  offering  at  much 
less  than  the  regular  price,  as 
it  con­
tained  only  five  and  a  half  yards  of 
goods;  “ but,”   he  continued,  “ if  your 
wife  is  not  large,  there  will  be  plenty 
of  cloth 
it  to  make  her  a  dress, 
and— ’ ’

He  got  no  further.
“ Large!”   exclaimed 

farmer. 
“ Sake’s  alive,  young  feller,  she  hain't 
no  bigger’  a  pint o’  cider! 
Thet  is  a 
beauty,  sure  ’nough— just  her color,  too. 
How  much  ye  ask  fer  it?”

the 

in 

“ It’s  worth  $15,  but,  as 

it’s  a  short 

pattern,  I’ll  let  you  have  it  for $12. ”

“ Twelve,  hey?  Say  $11  an’  I’ll  take 

it!”

Chalmers  could  scarcely  conceal  a 
smile  of  delight  as  he  slowly  replied, 
“ Well—as  it’s  for  a  present— I—may  as 
well—be  good  natured  and  let  it  go  at 
your  price. ”

Joe  Chalmers  was  the  proudest  clerk 
in  the  store  that  Saturday  night  when 
the  manager,  handing  him  the  $2 
premium,  said:  “ You  have  done  well, 
Chalmers.  Keep  pegging  away  and 
you’re  sure  to  come  out  on  top  of  the 
heap.”  

M ac  A l l a n.

Points  of  vantage  on  the  route  to  be 
followed  by  the  procession  of  the  Queen 
and  royal  family  on  June  22  are  already 
fetching  enormous  prices.  It  is  said  the 
proprietor of  a  small  private  hotel over­
looking  St.  Paul’s  cathedral  has  let  his 
windows  to  a  speculator  for  ¿2,000,  and 
a  shopkeeper  in  the  fancy  goods  trade, 
with  premises  situated  in  the  center  of 
Ludgate  Circus,  has  refused  the  offer 
of  ^1,000  for  the  hire  of  his  seven  win­
dows. 
It  will  be  the  greatest  window 
show  ever  seen  in  any  city.

The  only  obstacle  to  the  discovery  of 
the  north  pole,  in  the  opinion  of  Lieu­
tenant  Peary,  is  the  absence of $150,000. 
With  this  sum  he  would  establish  a  col­
ony  of  Esquimaux  at  some  point  not 
farther  than  350  miles  from  the  pole, 
and  would  make  this  the  basis  of  his 
future  operations.

How  to  Conduct  a  Credit  Business 

Successfully.
Hustler in San Francisco Grocer.

is 

When  people  come  to  me  for  credit, 
I  begin  by  having  a  thorough  under­
standing  with  them  that 
the  money 
must  be  paid  when  due,  or  their  credit 
stops.  Not  only  that;  I  have  also  an 
understanding  with  them  as  to  whether 
all  of  the  family  are  authorized  to  order 
goods.  This  I  find  to  be  necessary,  as 
I  have  had  cases  of  a  daughter  ordering 
goods  and  the  mother  saying  afterwards 
that  she  had  no  right  to  do  so.

The  worst  collector  imaginable  is  the 
grocer  who 
first 
place,  but  who  afterwards  gets  fright­
ened  and  tries  to  bluff  people  into  pay­
ing  up.  This  is  just  what  people want. 
It  gives  them  an  excuse  for  getting 
angry  and  refusing  to  pay.
1  believe  that  quietly 

insisting  on 
prompt  payment  from  the  very  first  is 
the  only  way  to do  business  where  you 
can’t  trust  the  law  to  help  you.  The 
proof  that  my  method  is  successful 
lies 
m  the  fact  that  I  have  often  had  ac­
counts  paid  by  people  covered  with  at­
tachments.  Why,  I  have  even  collected 
money  from  people  whose  furniture  was 
being  carried  out  of  the  house.

lenient 

in  the 

Emperor  William  says  his  grand­
father  was  “ modestand unpretentious.”  
The  present  Emperor  must  take  after 
his  other  grandfather.

Association Matters

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President, H x n b t C. W e b e r , Detroit; Vice-Pres­
ident, C h as. F.  B ook, Battle Creek;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, He n r y C. Min n ie, Eaton Rapids.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

President, J.W islkb, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatman, Clare.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A. Hammond.
Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E . C. W in c h e st e r;  Secretary, H om er 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  Gxo.  L eh m an.
Regular  Meetings—-First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’ Hall, 
over E. J. Herrick’s store.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D. W h ip ple ; Secretary, G. T. C am p­

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

t e r;  Treasurer, J. F. Hblmbr.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

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. K a t z ;  Secretary, P h il ip Hil b e r ; 

Treasurer, 8. J. Hu pf o r d.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  Gafney;  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cleveland;  Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.

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.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

where  they  can  gratuitously  gather  a 
business  knowledge  that  will  be  of  in­
estimable  value  to  them  afterwards. 
It 
is 
in  this  way  that  the  Germans  have 
opened  up  commercial  relations  in  dis­
tricts  that  were  entirely  monopolized  by 
England  only  a  few  years  ago.  Mr. 
Stern  advises  all  young  Americans  who 
are  about  to  enter  upon  a  commercial 
career  to  study  their  particular  class  of 
trade  abroad  for at  least  one  year,  and 
says 
in  conclusion:  “ To  our  young 
American  man,  with  his  ready  grasp 
of  ideas,  his  energy  and  the 
indefati­
gable  zeal  which  is  a  birthright  with 
most  of  us,  such  a  sojourn  in  foreign 
lands 
is  of  inestimable  value;  in  fact, 
the  education  of  a  young  man  in  these 
days 
is  not  complete  unless  he  has 
spent  some  time  abroad.”

SU CCE SSFU L  SALESMEN.

H.  R.  Radford,  Representing 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.

the 

Harry  R.  Radford  was  born  at  Cli­
max,  May  6,  1873.  He  attended  the 
common  school  of  the  place  until  16 
years  of  age,  when  he  entered  the  E x­
change  Bank  of  W.  C.  Pond,  where  he 
remained  three  years,  when,  receiving 
a  flattering  offer  from  Godsmark,  Du­
rand  &  Co.,  of  Battle  Creek,  he  re­
moved  to  that  place  and  entered  the 
employ  of  that  house  as  book-keeper. 
Three  months  later  he  was  offered  a  po­
sition  as  traveling  salesman 
for  the 
same  house  and  availed  himself  of  the 
opportunity,  starting  out  on  his  new 
career  Feb.  x,  1894,  taking  the  avail­
able  towns  on  the  Grand  Trunk,  Mich­

CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knlghta of the drip. 

President, J as. F. Hammell, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D. C. Slag ht, Flint;  Treasurer, Chas. McNolty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President, S.  H.  H a r t,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Mo r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H.  D.  Ma r k s,  Detroit ;  Secretary, 
Edwin Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  G*o. A. Rey­
nolds,  Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

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

President,rA . F. P e a k e , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  o f  Directors—F.  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h ild , J a s. N. B r a d f o r d , J. H e n r y Da w l e y ,G eo. 
J. Hb in z e l x a n , C h as. S.  R obinson.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B row n,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A . F .  W ixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

A.  M.  Grieve,  city  salesman 

for 
Strong,  Lee  &  Co.  was  recently  mar­
ried  to  Miss  Pierson,  of  Flint.

Fred-  L.  Anderson,  traveling  repre­
sentative  for the  Rogers  Shoe  Co.  (To­
ledo),  has  recently  sold  new  stocks  to 
the  following  dealers :  H.  J.  Hawkins, 
Elsie;  L.  M.  Greenwood,  Muir;  H.  D. 
Bent,  Shepherd.

The  Western  Union  telegraph  service 
is  proverbially  slow  and  unsatisfactory 
all  over  the  country.  A  Grand  Rapids 
furniture  salesman who recently returned 
from  New  England  relates  an 
incident 
tending  to  show  that  the  service 
in 
Maine  is  no  more  satisfactory  than  it  is 
in  Michigan.  He  was  in  the  upper  part 
of  a  county  and  wanted  to  reach another 
town  that  night.  He  telegraphed  the 
hotel  keeper  in  the  latter  place  early  in 
the  day  to  send  a  team  to  the  station for 
him.  When  he  reached  the  station  at 
night  no  team  was  there,  so  he  started 
to  walk  to  the  village,  which  was  quite 
a  little  distance  off.  No  sooner  had  he 
started  than  the  station  agent  said  to 
him:  “ Are  you  going  to  the  village?”  
“ Then  I  wish  you  would  take 
“ Y es." 
a  despatch  up  to  the  hotel. ’ ’ 
It  was 
the  despatch  ordering  the  team.

There 

industrial  products,  and 

is  a  splendid  future  field  for 
the  American  commercial  traveler  in 
foreign  countries  and  this  fact  is  real­
ized  by many  young men  who  have  such 
a  career  in  contemplation.  Great  efforts 
are  being  made all  through  the  United 
States  to  increase  the  exports  of  Amer­
ican 
these 
efforts are  materially  promoted  by  sug­
gestions  received  from  various  United 
States  consular  officers 
in  all  parts  of 
the  world.  Louis  Stern,  United  States 
Commercial  Agent  at  Bamberg,  Ger­
many,  has  made  a  careful  study  of  the 
subject.  One  of  the  essential  qualifi­
cations  of  an  American 
commercial 
traveler  abroad  is  familiarity  with  the 
language  of  the  country  in  which  he  in­
tends  to  operate.  Mr.  Stern  calls  at­
tention  to  the  necessity  that  such  a  man 
should  have  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  branch  of  trade  he  represents,  and 
it  is-above all  necessary  that  he  should 
know  his  competitors ;  know  not  only 
their  weak  but  their  strong  points. 
These  are  points  of  knowledge  that  can 
never be acquired  by  even  the  most  in­
telligent  business  men  through  a  com­
parison  of  samples  and prices;  they can 
only  be  acquired  by  careful  study  on 
the  spot.  He  maintains  that  a  proof 
that  such  facts  are  actual  requirements 
can  be  taken  from  the  fact  that  the 
manufacturers  of  the  mercantile  nations 
of  the  Old World  send  their sons or some 
of  their  most  capable  young  clerks  to 
other  countries  for  at  least  one  year.

The  Successful  Salesman.

From Brains.

The  successful  salesman cultivates his 
memory.  He  learns  and  remembers 
the  names  of  his  customers,  and  greets 
each  of  them  as  he  or  she  enters  the 
store.

is  always 
The  successful  salesman 
polite.  When  customers  are 
irritating 
he  remembers  that  it  is  his  business  to 
sell  goods,  not  to  quarrel.  The  sales­
man  is  as  truly  a  diplomat  as  the  Min­
ister  to  England.

The  successful  salesman  does  not  ask 
too  many  questions.  Few  women  know 
exactly  what  they  want  when  they  come 
into  a  store.  The  successful  salesman 
finds,  in  a  general  way,  what  the  cus­
tomer  wants  to  look  at,  and  then  shows 
a  generous  selection  from  the  stock, 
without  waiting  to  be  asked,  “ Haven’t 
you  anything  else?”

Never  talk  politics  or  religion  with 
your customers.  On  these  two  subjects, 
particularly,  most  people  have  strong 
beliefs  or  prejudices.  They  are  not 
likely  to  think  kindly  of any  one  who 
opposes  them.  He  is a  wise clerk,  more­
over,  who  does  not  allow  himself  to  be 
drawn 
into  a  controversy  of  any  kind. 
Let  him  keep  his  mind  fixed  upon  the 
one  subject  of selling  goods.
In  most  stores women  make  up  more 
than  half  of  the  customers,  and  women, 
more  than  men,  appreciate  the  little 
courtesies  of  life.  No matter how  wise, 
how  rich,  how  poor  or  how  stupid  a 
woman  may  be,  she  likes  to have  the 
door  opened  for  her;  she  likes  to be 
called  by  name and  have a  chair offered 
her ;  and  after  these  little  attentions 
have  been  shown  her  she  is  in  the  best 
possible  humor  to buy.

The  successful  salesman  always  hon­
estly  believes  in  the  goods  he  is selling. 
Unless  a  salesman 
is  sincere  he  can 
never be  a  permanent  success.  One  way 
to  gain  this  sincere  belief  is  to  have  a 
thorough 
knowledge  of  your  goods. 
This  knowledge  is  also  the  first  step  to 
ward  promotion.  Don’t  forget  that  buy­
ers are  chosen  from  the  ranks  of  sales­
men,  and  buyers  must  know  all  about 
the  goods  they  buy.

Siftings  from  the  Saginaws.

C.  S.  Grant  has  taken  a  position  with 
in  his  shoe 

T.  A.  Downs  as  salesman 
stoie.
A.  E.  Tomlinson  &  Son,  of  605  Court 
street  (W.  S .),  will  remove  their  drug 
stock  April  15  to  114  North  Michigan 
avenue.
The  bicyclists  of  the  Saginaws  and 
Bay  Cities  will  build  a  cinder track  be­
tween  the  two  cities,  each  contributing 
half  toward  the  expense.  Midway  be­
tween  the  two  cities  a  beautiful  club 
bouse  will  be  built  to  accommodate  the 
lovers  of  the  wheel.  Many  of  the  most 
enthusiastic  bicyclists  are  business  men 
and  clerks.

Charles  Suley  is  having  a  new  deliv­
ery  wagon  made  that  will  be  a  model  of 
neatness.
E.  L.  Parsons,  of  the  firm  of  Seeley 
&  Parsons,  clothiers,  is  suffering  with 
a  severe  attack  of  la  grippe.

De  Witt  Gage  has  taken  the  position 
of  shipping  clerk  with  the  James  Stew­
art  Co.,  Ltd.

17

little 

in  small  tin  dishes,  mixed  with  a 
powdered  sugar.

If  the  baby  has  a  canker  sore  mouth, 
swabbing  it  with  borax  water  will  cure 
it  and  prevent  further  canker sores,  if 
continued.

Nurses  in  hospitals  now  make  an  all­
healing  salve  by  simply  stirring  borax 
into  vaseline  until  it  becomes  thick.

flannels  will  remain 
Blankets  and 
if  washed  in  plenty  of 
beautifully  soft 
Borax  may 
borax  and  warm  water. 
stand  around,  carelessly 
left  by  a  ser­
vant,  and  not  harm  the  tiniest  baby. 
Ammonia  and  carbolic  acid,  which  can 
do  no  more  in  the  way  of  disinfecting, 
are  terribly  dangerous.

Brushes and  combs,  paints  and 

lino­
leums,  oil  cloths,  silver  and 
laundry 
work  may  be  effectively  cleansed  with 
borax,  and  its  especial  charm  is  that  it 
will  not “  eat”  the hands ¡'in  fact,  borax 
is  used  by  manicures  to"^wbiten,  soften 
and  beautify  the  bands.

real  Ceylon  tea?

He  Was  a  New  Clerk.

L o u ise  M a r k s c h e f f e l .

Lady  Customer:  Are  you  sure  this  is 
Well-informed  Young  Salesman ;  Cer­
is 

I  have  used  it  for twenty-five  years  in 
every  department  of  the  household  and 
it  away  for  Christmas  gifts,  be­
give 
cause  it  is  one of  the  most  exquisite  ar­
ticles  pertaining  to  the  needs  of  home 
or hospital,  workshop  or  laundry.

Commercial House

tainly,  madam.  Mr.  Celyon’s  name 
on  every  package.

Steam Heat.  Excellent Table.  Com­
fortable  Rooms.  H.  D.  and  F.  H. 
IRISH.  Props.

Cutler  House  a t  Grand  Haven.

iron  M ountain,  Mich.

Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam.

All modern conveniences.

$2 per day. 
IRA A.  BEAN,  Prop.
E A G L E   H O T EL

$1 Per Day. 

GRAND RAPIDS.

E q u a l  in  ev ery respect to a $2 house.  E a rg e  room s. 

G ood beds.  S u perb T ab le.

J.  K. JOHNSTON, Prop.

N E W   R E P U B L I C

Reopened  Nov.  35.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1 50  to $3.00.

Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHINDHETT, Prop

igan  Central  and  C.,  J.  &  M.  Railroads 
as  his  territory.  When  Frank  Parmenter 
in  his  resignation  as  traveling 
handed 
representative 
for  the  Clark-Jewell- 
Wells  Co.,  last  fall,  he  was  asked  to 
recommend  his  own  successor  and,  on 
looking  over  the  field,  concluded  to  rec­
ommend  Mr.  Radford,  who  was  ac­
cordingly  engaged  by  the  C.-J.-W.  Co., 
his  engagement  dating  from  Jan.  1.

Mr.  Radford  resides 

in  Kalamazoo, 
having,  recently  removed  to  that  place 
from  Cassopolis,  and  visits  the  trade  on 
the  Kalamazoo  division  of  the  Lake 
line  of  the  Michigan 
Shore,  the  main 
Central,  the  main 
line  of  the  Grand 
Trunk  and  the  C.  &  W.  M.  west  to 
Watervliet.

Toledo,  Ohio,  April 

Enthusiastic  Over the  Merits of Borax.
13—Will  you 
permit  me  to  contribute  to  your  fine 
paper?  My  physician  recently  said: 
“ Tell  all  grocers  it  is  their  duty to keep 
in  stock  powdered  borax  of  the  purest 
quality  and  to  have  printed  slips telling 
its  hundreds  of  uses.”   This knowledge 
he  desires  to  become  widespread,  be­
cause,  as  he  added:  “ Borax  is  a  dis­
infectant,  a  germicide,  an  antiseptic 
and  it  must  supersede  all  the  harmful, 
dangerous  articles  now  in  use.”

If  your drain  is  sour,  borax  dissolved 

in  hot  water  will  sweeten  it.

If  your  kitchen  sink  is  greasy  or sour, 

borax  will  cleanse  it.

If  you  have  cockroaches,  borax  will 
surely  eradicate  them.  Place  it  around

Mr.  Radford  was  married  Oct.  15, 
1895,  to  Miss  Nellie  Adams,  of  Cass­
opolis.  He 
is  a  member  of  Backus 
Lodge,  No.  5<;,.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Cass­
opolis;  Battle  Creek  Lodge,  No.  35,  K. 
of  P.,  and  Bagdad  Temple,  No.  63, 
Dramatic  Order  Knights  of  Khorassan, 
also  of  Battle  Creek.

Mr.  Radford  attributes  his  success  to 
hustle  and  push,  having  achieved  bis 
present  position  without  the  assistance 
of  anything  but  merit  and  hard  work.

THE WIERENGO

E. T. PENNOYER, Manager,

MUSKEGON,  MICHIGAN.
Steam Heat, Electric light and bath rooms. 
Rates, $1.50 and $3.00 per day.

Any  Man

or woman can sell more goods after getting

Tonsorial  Work

at FRED  MARSH’S,

23  Monroe  Street, 

Grand  Rapids.

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

Grand Rapids.

B U S / N E S S

Telephone 381-1 

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Drugs-=Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1896 
C. A.  B u g b e e, Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31, 1897
S. Er P a r k il l ,  O wosso 
-  Dec. 31,1898
- 
P.  W.  B.  P e r r y , Detroit 
A. C. Schum ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Geo. Gu n d bu m ,  Ionia  - 
- 
Dec. 31,1900

------- 
- 

President, S.  E. Pa r k il l , Owosso.
Secretary,  P.  W.  R.  P e r r y ,  Detroit.
Treasurer, G eo.  Gu kd ru m , Ionia.
Coming Examination Sessions—Star Island (De­
troit), June 38 and 29;  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Aug. 
---- ;  Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3.
MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h il l ip s,  Armada.
Secretary, B . Sch bou d eb,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C h ab.  Man n, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A.  H.  W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. C olm ak,  Kalamazoo;  G eo.  J.  W a r d ,  St. 
C l a ir ;  A .  B.  St e v e n s,  Detroit;  P.  W.  R. 
Pe r r y , Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Alcohol— Grain  has  again  advanced.
Balsams—Tolu,  very  scarce  and  firm. 
Peru,  consuming  request  fair  and  de­
mand  steady.

Beans—Vanilla,  easier  in  tone,  due  to 
near  new  crop  of  Mexican,  and  also 
large  receipts  of  Bourbons.  The  ma­
terially  lower  prices  of  vanillin  have re­
sulted 
in  an  increased  consumption  of 
that  article,  and  the  demand  for  beans 
is,  in  consequence,  not  so  urgent.

Cantharides—Consuming  demand  fair 

and  values  maintained.

Cassia  Buds— Market  very 

strong, 
in  light  supply  and  offers 

prime  being 
sparing.

Chloral,  Hydrate—Quotations  steady.
Colocynth  Apples— Market 
is  tend­
ing  lower,  the  result  of  free  arrivals, 
and  values  are  lower.

Cream  Tartar—Trade  demand  fair.
Essential  Oils—Business,  with  both 
buyers  and  sellers,  is  limited  to  actual 
requirements,  on  account  of  the  uncer­
in  regard  to  the 
tainty  that  prevails 
pending  tariff  question. 
Anise  and 
cassia,  both  steady.  Sassafras,  easier. 
Peppermint,  quiet.

Flowers-----German  chamomile,  ex­
ceedingly  scarce. 
American  saffron, 
only  small  sales reported.  Arnica,  de­
mand  fair.

Gums—Camphor 

(domestic), 

firmly 

held.

Juniper  Berries—The  light  supply 

is 

being  firmly  held.

Leaves-----Short  buchu,  quotations
maintained.  The  firmer  feeling  in  coca 
is  also  maintained.

Lycopodium—-Demand  has  subsided 

and  the  market  is  now  tame.

Menthol—Dull.

•  Mercurial  Preparations— Firm.

Morphine—Consuming  demand  has 

been  good  and  prices  are  firm.

Naphthaline— Active  and  firm.
Opium— Business 

in  shipments  has 
been  curtailed  by  the  retroactive  clause 
of  the  tariff  bill,  and  the  situation 
abroad  is  not  particularly  interesting  at 
present.  Local  market  has  been  quiet 
and  tone  easy,  the  available  stock  being 
unusually  large.

Roots—Ipecac,  good  seasonable  de­
mand  is  reported  by  dealers  and  values 
have  been  maintained.  Mexican  sarsa­
parilla,  no  special  demand. 
Jamaica 
is  higher,  the  advance  being 
ginger 
due  to 
lighter  receipts  of  new  crop 
and  further  buying  for  London  account. 
Golden  seal 
is  a  trifle  easier,  while 
mandrake  is  a  trifle  higher.

Seeds—Canary,  stronger,  and  prices 
have  advanced.  Cummin  is  a  fraction 
lower. 
Italian  fennel,  also,  is  lower. 
Mustard,  very  dull.

Sponges—While  the  spot  market  has 
in

ruled  dull,  the  statistical  position  is 

are 

favor  of  holders,  and  quotations  for  all 
desirable  descriptions 
steady. 
Nothing  new 
is  heard  from  primary 
markets.
How  Tomatoes  are  Preserved  in  Italy.
In  eveiy  house  and  cottage'the  pre­
serving  of  tomatoes  is  carried on.  Ter­
races,  balconies,  and  even  the  flat  roofs 
of  the  houses  are  half  covered  with 
plates  containing  the  deep-red 
sub­
stance.  After  gathering,  the  tomatoes 
intended  for  preserving  are  spread  out 
for  some  hours  in  the  sun  until  the  skin 
has  somewhat  shrunk.  They  are  then 
passed  through  a  sieve  so  that  they  may 
be  freed  both  from  seeds  and  skins.  As 
they  contain  a 
large  proportion  of 
water,  the  substance  which  has  been 
passed  through  the  sieve  must  be  hung 
in  bags,  from  which  the  water  exudes, 
and  soon  a  pool  of  dirty-looking  water 
is  formed  beneath  each  bag.  Strange 
to  say,  it  is  in  no  way  tinged  with  red. 
The  mixture  which  remains  in  the  bags 
has  the  consistency  of  a  very  thick 
paste. 
It  is  then  salted,  the  proportion 
being  a  little  less  than  an  ounce  of  salt 
to  a  pound  of  preserve.  The  process 
now  requires  that  it  should  be  spread on 
flat  plates,  exposed  to  the  sun,  and 
stirred  from  time  to  time  with  a wooden 
spoon,  so  that  the  upper  part  may  not 
form  a  crust,  while  underneath  it  re­
mains  soft. 
is  a  picturesque sight 
when  the  women  are  to  be  seen  flitting 
about  on  their  roofs  and  terraces  at­
tending  to  their  deep-red preserve,  their 
colored  handkerchiefs  flung  on 
their 
heads  to  screen  them  from  the  rays  of 
the  burning  sun  when  it is at its fiercest. 
In  the  evening  the  contents  of  the  va­
rious  plates  are  taken  in  and  stirred  up 
together,  for  if  moistened  bv  the  night 
dew  the  whole  would  be  spoiled.  After 
being  exposed  to  the  sun  for  seven  or 
eight  days,  the  same  process  being  re­
peated  each  day,  the  preserve is finished 
and  placed  in  jars  for  winter  use.

It 

His  Irrelevant  Questions.

From the Chicago Post.

She  had  just  returned  from  a  visit  to 
Milwaukee,  and  something  'had  hap­
pened  to  displease  her.

“ The  fact  of  the  matter 

is,”   she 
said,  “ we  get  swindled  in  this town and 
haven’t  sense  enough  to  know  it.”

“ You  must  have  run  across  a  bargain 
somewhere,”   he  suggested,  for  he  knew 
her  failing.

“ Bargain!”   she  exclaimed. 

“ Why,
I  tell  you,  William,  we  don’t  know 
where  to  shop  to  make  money.  Do  you 
remember  the  last  shirt  I  bought  you?”
He  did.  He  would  have  said  he  did 
even 
if  he  didn’t,  but  it  so  happened 
this  time  that  he  did,  for  it  had  given 
him  considerable  trouble 
in  one  way 
and  another. 
“ Well,’ ’ she  exclaimed, 
“ I  paid  just  one  dollar  for  that  shirt  in 
Chicago,  and  I  saw an  exact  duplicate 
of  it  at  a  marked-down  sale  in  Milwau­
kee  for 98  cents. ’ ’

“ Why  didn’t  you  go  on  to  St.  Paul?”  
he  asked  wearily. 
“ Perhaps  you  could 
have  got  the  same  thing  for  93  cents. 
Or  Winnipeg  might  have  given  it  to 
you  for 91.  One  has  to  go  after  bar­
gains,  you  know.”
She  wasn’t  quite  sure  whether  he  was 
making  fun  of  her,  but  she  felt  that  it 
was  possible,  and  refused  to  continue 
the  subject  i.n  consequence.

Havana  Tobacco  Is  High 

Because  the  tobacco  fields  of  Cuba  are 
being  destroyed.  Yet  tne  makers  of 
“ Ouellette’s Havana Smokers”  have de­
cided  not  to  increase  their  price  or  re­
duce  the  quality  of  stock  used  in  their 
manufacture.  Although  roughly  made, 
they  are an expert’s smoke.  George Wil­
son,  repersenting  T.  C.  Ouelette,  of 
Detroit,  is  offering  them  to  the  trade.

More  than  one-third  of  the  population 
of  Switzerland  are  depositors  in the sav­
ings  banks.  There are  557 
institutions 
of  this  description  in  the  country  with 
1,196,549  depositors.

A  Kansas  City  doctor,  who  was  look­
ing  for a  crazy  patient  whom  he  was  to 
lock  up  in  an  insane  asylum,  found  the 
lunatic  serving  on  a  jury  in  the  Circuit 
Court

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Vilest  of  Frauds.

From the Pharmaceutical Era.

There  are  stringent  postoffice  rules 
which,  if  enforced  as  they  should  be, 
would  make  it  impossible  for  a  certain 
class  of  swindlers  to  do  business.  The 
“ lost  manhood,”   “ nervous  debility”  
frauds  thrive  because  they  are  very 
shrewd  in  the  wording  of  their  adver­
tisements,  and  because  the  postoffice 
authorities  and  the  express  companies 
apparently  make  no  attempt  to  get  be­
low  the  surface  and  ascertain  the  true 
character of  the  traffic,  which  is  a  fraud 
and  deception  from  start  to  finish.  It  is 
to  be  wondered,  too,  what  sort  of  con­
science  and moral sense are possessed by 
newspaper  proprietors  (and 
religious 
papers  are  the  worst  of  the  lot)  who 
print  the  lying  advertisements  of  these 
concerns,  and  what  sense  of  respecta­
bility  must  be  that  of  bankers  and  other 
business  men  who  allow  their  names  to 
be  printed  as  references.

etc. 

The 

In  Michigan  the  surveillance  of  these 
fakes  seems  to  be  conspicuous  by  its 
absence,  for  that  State  fosters  a  brood 
of  them,  at  Marshall,  Battle  Creek, 
Delray,  Kalamazoo, 
last 
named  city 
is  cursed  with  one  of  the 
worst  of  them,  who  uses  the  name  of 
Thomas  Slater,  and is particularly nervy 
and  obnoxious  in  his  methods.  He buys 
large  space 
in  the  papers  and  uses  the 
name  of  a  reputable  bank  as  reference, 
apparently  without  protest  of  the  honest 
inhabitants  of  that  fair  city,  whose  duty 
is  and  effort  should  be  to  squelch  the 
disreputable  enterprise  which  is  bring­
ing  such  unenviable  notoriety  upon 
them.  A  description  of  this  man’s 
methods  will  serve  as  a  description  of 
the  many  others  of  the  same  type.

Under  the  heading  “ Free  to  Every 
Man, ”   or  a similar one,  he describes (?) 
symptoms  during  the  years  he  “ rolled 
and  tossed  about  on  the  troubled  sea  of 
sexual  weakness,”   and  offers  to  send 
“ the  method  of  this  wonderful  treat­
ment  free.”   An  answer  to the advertise­
ment  brings  back  a  circular  letter  from 
Slater,  carefully  gotten  up  in 
imitation 
of  a  dictated  and  copied  type-written 
letter,  in  which  he  pretends  to  be  a 
philanthropist,  and  asks  the  recipient 
to  fill,  out  an  enclosed  blank  giving 
symptoms,  and  to  send  it  to  the  Michi­
gan  Medicine  Company  of  Kalamazoo.

The  letter  is  so  suggestive  that 
it  can­
not  be  published  here,  and  the  ques­
tions asked are  of  a  revolting  character.
Up  to  this  point  the  promise  has 
been  that  everything  was  to  be  free,  but 
as  soon  as  the  medicine  people  get  con­
fidential  information  about  the  victim’s 
youthful  errors  and  his  hopes  of  mar­
riage,  they  assume  a  more  domineering 
tone.  All  their  correspondence 
is  run 
off  a  printing  press  by  the  hundred,  but 
in  careful 
imitation  of  one  person’s 
handwriting  or  of  copied  typewriting. 
The circulars are particularly obnoxious, 
describing  in  detail  symptoms  (or  sup­
posed  symptoms)  which  are  shrewdly 
calculated  to  make  the  poor  victim  be­
lieve  he  is  a  sufferer  from  the  most  hor­
rible  diseases  and  to  be  almost  in  ex­
tremis.  After  frightening  them  nearly 
to  death  the  game  is  merely  to  run their 
patients  through  the  mill  by  working 
off  on  them  successive  circulars  until  a 
package  of  medicine  is  sent  C.  O.  D. 
this  course  has  progressed  a 
After 
while,  further  correspondence 
is  con­
ducted,  with  a  view  to  the  patient’s 
taking  supplementary  treatment,  owing 
to  the  interesting and  complicated  char­
acter  of  his  troubles.

It 

is  a  stigma  upon  Kalamazoo  that 
it  should  allow  such  an  institution  to 
exist  within  its  borders;  it  is a disgrace 
to  the  journalism  of  that  city  that  one 
of  its  evening  newspapers  should  print 
the  advertisements  of  the  concern,  and 
it  is  not  to  the  credit  of  the  physicians, 
druggists  and  others  interested  in  med­
icine,  and  the  business  men  generally 
that  they  do  nothing  to  abolish  the 
Michigan  Medicine  Company 
and 
Thomas  Slater.  And,  too,  the  quicker 
the  postoffice 
issues  a  “ fraud  order”  
and  enforces  it  against  the  malodorous 
enterprise  the  better  for  the  morals  of 
that  community  and  the  choice  collec­
tion  of  “ suckers”   reached  by  the  ad­
vertisements.  There  are 
laws  enough 
to  make 
impossible  to  work  the 
scheme  either  through  the  mails  or  the 
express  companies,  if  the  authorities 
were  but  alive  to  their  duties  and  re­
sponsibilities.
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Soon  after  our Hgar  Department  was  in- 
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a demand for a $30 00 cigar of  better quality 
than the usual goods at  this  price.  We  met 
this call  with  the  MONITOR,  a  cigar made 
in the factory which  we control, and by  the 
advantage  we enjoy In  this  respect, we  are 
able  to  offer  the  quality  which  is  seldom 
found even as low as 333 00 per M.  Although 
our salesmen have  had samples  but  a  short 
time, we are receiving daily repeating orders 
for the goods.
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Advanced—Linseed  Oil,  Turpentine,  Oxalic Acid 
Declined—Glycerine.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Addum

Aceticum.................I  8@1
Benzoicum, German  80®
Boraclc....................   @
Carbollcum............. 
29®
Cltrlcum................. 
44®
Hydrochlor............. 
3®
8®
Nitrocum................ 
Oxalicum................  19®
®
Phosphorium,  d ll... 
Salicylicum.............  
45@
lli®
Sulphuricum........... 
Tannicum..............  1  40®
Tartaricum.............. 
36®
Ammonia
Aqna, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas.................  
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.......................   2 00®
Brown....................  
80®
R ed.........................  45®
Yellow....................  2 50®

4®
6®
19®
12®

I  10 
5 10

85 
15 
41 
46 

14
15 
50
5
1  60 
38

6
8
14
14

2 25 
1  00
50
3 00

Baccte.
Cúbese...........po. 18
Juniperus...............
Xanthoxylum.........
Bai samum
Copaiba...................
Peru............... _........
 
Terabln, Canada 
Tolutan...................  
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassias....................
Cinchona Plava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgin!......
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras....... po. 18
IJlmu8. . .po. 15,  gr’d 
Extractum 

13® 15
6®
8
25® 30
60® 65
© 2 60
40®
80®

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

12@
18®

25
30
12
14
15 
17

24©
28®
11©
13®
14®
16®

15 
2 25 
80 
50 
15 
2
35
7

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra 
Glycyrrhlza, po—  
Haematox, 15 lb box
Haematox, I s .........
Haematox, Vis........
Haematox, Q8........
Ferru
Carbonate  Preclp..
Citrate and Quinia.
Citrate Soluble......
Ferrocyanidum Sol
Solut.  Chloride__
Sulphate, com’l ___
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt......
Sulphate, pure  ...
Flora
Arnica....................
Anthemis...............
Matricaria..............
Folia
15®  20
Barosma..................
Cassia Acuttfol, Tin
18@
nevelly................. 
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, ¡^s
and  Vis................. 
12®
8®
Ura Crsi..............  .. 
Gumml
® 65
Acacia,  1st picked..
® 45
Acacia,  2d  picked..
@ 35
Acacia, 3d  picked..
® 28
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
60® 80
Acacia, po...............
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28
14® 18
Aloe, Cape__po.  15
® 12
@ 30
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40
55® 60
Ammoniac..............
AssafcBtlda__po. 30
22® 25
50® 55
Benzolnum............
Catechu, Is..............
® 13
Catechu, Vis............
® 14
Catechu, V£s............
® 16
48® 55
Camphors..............
Euphorbium .. po.  35
® 10
Galbanum...............
@  1 00
65® 70
Gamboge  po...........
@ 35
Guaiacum......po. 35
Kino...........po. *4.u0
@ 4 00
® 60
Mastic....................
@ 40
Myrrh............ po.  45
Opii... po. *3.80®4 00 2 75®  2 8b
Shellac....................
40® 60
40® 45
Shellac, bleached...
Tragacanth ............
50® 80
Herfca
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat..  ... 
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium.............
Amygdalae, Dulc.... 
Amygdalae, Amarae.
Anisi........................
Auranti  Cortex......
Bergamii.................
Cajiputl...................
Caryophylli............
Cedar.......................
Chenopadii..............
Cinnamonll.............
Gltronella...............

3 25® 3 50 
30®  50
8 00®  8 25 
2  10®  2 20 
2 00® 2 20 
2 25® 2 30 
75®  80
55®  60
35®  65
@ 4  00 
1  80® 2 00 
45®  50

55®
20@
20®
35®

35®
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i 30®  1
Cubebae...................  
90®  1
Exechthitos...........  l 20®  1
Erigeron.................  1 20®  1
Gaultheria..............  1 50®  1
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50©
Hedeoma.................  1 Of®  1
Junipera.................   1 50©  2
Lavendula.............. 
on® 2
Limonis..................   1 20®  1
Mentha Piper........  1 60@  2
Mentha Yerid......... 2  65©  2
Morrhuae,  gal.........  ! 50®  1
Myrcia,...................   4 00®  4
Olive.....................  
75® 3
Plcis  Liquida......... 
lo@
Plcis Liquida, gal...  @
B icina....................  99®  1
Rosmarini.............. 
@ 1
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50©  8
Succini..................   40®
Sabina..................  
90®  1
Santal......................2  50®  7
Sassafras.................  50®
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @
Tiglil.......................  1 40®  1
Thyme.................... 
40@
Thyme,  opt............  @  1
Theobromas........... 
15®
Potassium
Bi-Barb.................... 
15®
13®
Bichromate  ........... 
Bromide..................   43©
12®
Carb....................... 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16@
Cyanide..................  
50©
Iodide..................... 2  90®  3
Potassa, Bitart, pure  29@ 
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
Potass Nitras, opt..
8®
Potass Nitras.........
7@
Prussiate...............
25©
Sulphate p o .........
15®
Radix
Aconitvm...............  
20®
22©
Althae.....................  
Anchusa................. 
12®
Arum po..................  
®
Calamus................. 
20®
Gentiana........po  15 
12@
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden .  @
Hydrastis Can., po..  @
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
I5@
Inula, po................. 
15®
Ipecac, po...............   1 65®  I
Iris plox —  po35@38  35@
Jalapa, pr...............  
40@
Maranta,  54s...........  @
Podophyllum, po....  22®
75®  1
R h e i....................... 
Rhei, cut................. 
@ 1
Rhei, pv..................  
75®  1
35®
Spigelia................... 
Sanguinarla... po. 30  @
Serpentaria............  
30®
Senega....................  40®
®
Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax, M...............   @
Scillae............ po.35 
10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
®
dus,  po................. 
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @
15®
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
ia@
Zingiber j ...............  
25®
Semen
Anisum......... po.  15 
©
13®
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, is.................... 
4®
Carui............. po. 18 
10®
Cardamon...............  1 25®  1
8®
Coriandrum............ 
Cannabis  Sativa.  ..  3V4@
Cvdonium............... 
7S@  1
Cfaenopodium  ........ 
io@
Dipterlx  Odorate...  2 90® 3
Foenlculum............   @
Foenugreek, po.......  
7®
LinI...................  ...  2Vi®
Linl,  grd.... bbl. 2V4  3V4@
Lobelia..................   35©
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3VJ®
Rapa................... ..  4 Vi®
Sinapis Albu........... 
7®
Sinapis Nigra.........  
11®
Spiritus

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00© 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00© 
Frumenti 
------
25® 
Juniperis Co. O. '
1  65® 
Juni peris Co......
1  75® 
Saacharum N. E. 
1  90® 
Spt. Vini Galli...
1  75® 
Vini Oporto........
1  25® 
Vini  Alba...........
1  25®

75
00
10
85
65
75
1  40

carriage............... 2 50®
carriage...............   @
wool, carriage......  @
wool,  carriage__  @
carriage...............   @
®

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
Nassau sheeps  wool
Velvet extra sheeps’
Extra yellow sheeps’
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia.................... 
®  50
Auranti Cortes........ 
®  50
Zingiber..................  @  50
Ipecac. 
.........  
@  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega.................... 
®  50
Sclllae......................  
©  50

riiscellaneous 

ScillaeCo.................
50 
Tolutan..................
50 
Prunus virg............
50
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
60 
Aconitum Napellis F
50 
Aloes.......................
60 
Aloes and Myrrh__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafcetida............
50 
Atrope  Belladonna.
60 
Auranti  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin..................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
Cantharides...........
75 
Capsicum...........
50 
Cardamon............
75 
Cardamon  Co......
75 
Castor...............
1  00 
Catechu...............
50 
Cinchona..............
50 
Cinchona Co........
60 
Columba..............
50 
Cubeba.................
50 
Cassia Acutifol...
50 
Cassia Acutifol Co
50 
Digitalis..............
50 
Ergot...................
50 
Ferri Chloridum..
35 
Gentian...............
50 
Gentian Co...........
60 
Guiaca.................
50 
Guiaca ammon....
60 
Hyoscyamus........
50 
Iodine..................
75 
Iodine, colorless..
75 
Kino.....................
50 
Lobelia................
50 
Myrrh...................
50 
Nux Vomica........
50 
Opii.....................
75 
Ooii, camphorated 
50 
Opii,  deodorized..
1  50 
Quassia......
50 
Rhatany.  ...
50 
Rhei............
50 
Sanguinaria 
50 
Serpentaria .
*0 
Stramonium
60 
Tolutan.......
60 
Valerian__
50 
Veratrum Veride.
50 
Zingiber...............
20
¿Ether. Spts. Nit.3F  30® 
35 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
Alumen..................   2Q@
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
4 
Annatto.....................  40®
50
Antimoni,  po.........
4®
5 
55®
Antimoni efPotassT
60
Antipyrin..............
1  40 
Antifebrin............
15 
Argenti Nitras, oz .
55 
Arsenicum.............
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud  .
40
Bismuth  S. N........
1  40®  1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
9
® 
Calcium Chlor., V4s 
® 
10 
Calcium Chlor.,  ^s 
® 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  75
Capsici  Fructus, af.
18 
Capsici Fructus, po.
15 
Capsici FructusB.po 
15 
@
10®
Caryophyllus..po. 15
12
Carmine, No. 40......
_  3 75 
Cera Alba, S. & F ...
50®  55
Cera Flava..............
40®  42
Coccus..................
©  40
Cassia Fructus__
@  33
Centrarla.................
® 
10 
Cetaceum................
®  45
Chloroform.............
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs
®  1  35 
1  15®  1  30
_
Chloral Hyd Crst__ 
Chondrus................  20®  25
Clnchonidine.P.&W  20®  25 
Cinchonidine, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   3 55® 3 75
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct
65 
Creosotum..............
35 
Creta.............bbl. 75
2
Greta, prep..............
5 
@
Creta, preclp...........
11
Creta, Rubra........... 
_
8 35 
Crocus.................... 
30®
Cudbear................. 
©
24
Cupri Sulph............
5®
6 
Dextrine..................
10®
12 
Ether Sulph......... ..
75®
90
Emery, all  numbers
®
8 
Emery, po..............
6 35 
Ergota......... po. 40
■ __   30®
Flake  White........... 
12®
15 
Galla.
23 
@ 
Gambier.
9
8® 
Gelatin, Cooper..
...... 
_   60
9
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__
60 
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
12 25 
13®
Glue, white............  
Glycerina...............  
15®
20 15 
Grana  Paradis!  __ 
®
25®
Humulus................. 
55 
® 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
80 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @ 
@  70
© 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
@  90
Hydraag Ammoniati 
@ 1 00 
45®  55
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
@  6V 
Ichthyobolla, Am...
1  25®  1  50
75®  1  00
Indigo.....................  
Iodine, Resubi........  3 80® 3 90
Iodoform.................  @470
Lupulin...................  @ 2 25
Lycopodium...........  50®  55
Macis 
65®  75
......... 
Liquor  Arsetietlij-
drarg lod.............  
®  27
LiquorPotassArsinit
10®
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia. S. F  .........
Menthol.........  
....

@300

50®

10®

Morphia,S.P.&W...  1  95® 2 20 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  1  85® 2 10
Moschus Canton__  @  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica.  ,po,20  @  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................  @  1  OO
Picis LIq. N.N.Vigal.
doz........................  @ 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts....  @ 100
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
PllHydrarg...po.  80  @ 5 0
18
Piper Nigra...po.  22 
@  30
Piper Alba....po.  35 
Pilx  Burgun........... 
j® 
7
Plumb!  Acet........... 
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10® 1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
@ 1 25
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30®  33
Quassise..................  
8® 
10
Quinia, S. P. & W .. 
26®  31
20®  29
Quinia, S.German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............   24®  29
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
24®  26
SaccharumLactis pv 
Salacin....................  3 00® 3 10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W..................  
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
10®  12
Sapo, G....................  @  15
Siedlitz  Mixture....  20  @  22

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes......................  @  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  6  @  8
Soda Boras, po........  6  @  8
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1%@ 
2
3® 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
5
Soda, Ash...............   3Vi®
Soda, Sulphas. 
@
Spts. Cologne.
@ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt'  Myrcia Dorn...  @  9 00
Spts. Vini Reet, bbl.  @ 2 37
Spts. Vini Rect-Vibbl  @ 2 42
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @2 45
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 47
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45 
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2Vi@  3
Sulphur,  Roll........
2® 2V4
Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Terebenth Venice..
28® 30
Theobromae.........   ,
42® 45
Vanilla..................
9 00@16 On
Zinci  Sulph............
7®
8
Oils

Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 

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

BBL.
70
40
35

GAL.
70
45
40

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
33 
Linseed,  Dolled......   35 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
35 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

19

36
38
70
40

Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........  
2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1M  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
lx   2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2J4 2V4@3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2V4  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13V£@  19
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13®  16
Lead, Red...............   5V4®  6
Lead, white............  5 Vi®  6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
■Whiting,  gilders’... 
10
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

© 

Varnishes

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

Soda  fountain 
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Special Vanilla  Flavoring.......................... p. lb.
Strictly  Pure Extract Vanilla**................. p. lb.
Strictly Pure Extract Vanilla*................... p. lb.
Soluble  Extract Lemon...............................p. lb.
Soluble Extract Orange............................  p. lb.
Belfast Ginger Ale Extract Soluble.......... p. lb.
Harry Root Beer Extract........p. lb. 35;  p. gall.
Acid  Phosphates...........   .................... p. gall.
Gum or Soda  Foam................. p. lb. 25;  p. gall.
Wild Cherry Phosphates.........p. lb. 40;  p. gall.
Fruit Acid...................................................  p. lb.
Pepsin Cordial............................................. p. lb.
Fruit Coloring, improved for Syrup....................
....... ............................................p. lb. 35;  p. gall.
Hance Bros.  &  White Fruit Juices....................
Hance Bros.  &.  White Concentrated  Syrups...
................................................................... P- gall.
Hance Bros.  &  White  Chocolate.......................
McKesson  &  Robbins  Fruit Juices.....................
J.  Hungerford Smith Concentrated  Fruit  Syrup
Scully’s Rock Candy Syrup................................
Fountain  Syrups, all flavors, ready for use........
...............................................................;..p. gall.

Í
Grand lapida, mien.

$0  50 
1 25
1  00
75
75
65
2  00
75
1  75
3  00
50
50

2  50

i  75

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

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

... 

Grits.

Farina.

FARINACE0U5  GOODS.
B ulk....................
3
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s ... ...2 00
Hominy.
Barrels  ......................
...2 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums... ...1  00
Lima  Beans.
Dried 
.....................
34
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
...  60
Domestic,  10 lb. box.
Imported,  25 lb. box.. ...2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common....................
1*
Chester.....................
...  2
Empire  .....................
...  24
Green,  bu..................
...  80
Split,  per lb...............
... 
2H
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl.. .. .3 30
Monarch,  bbl.  .......
.  .2 80
...1  55
Monarch.  4   bbl........
Private brands,  bbl. ...2 75
Private brands, 4 bbl. ...1  50
Quaker, cases.........
...3 20
Sago.
...  4
German................
East  India........
...  34
Wheat.
Cracked, bulk......... ....  3
24 2 lb packages....... ....2 40

Peas.

Pish.
Cod.

• 

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured......... @  4
Georges genuine...... @ 44
Georges selected.....
@  54
Strips or bricks......... 5  @ 8
Halibut.
Chunks................................ 
Strips................................ 
9
Holland white hoops keg 
60 
Holland white hoops  bbl  7 50
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs..................   2 50
Round  40 lbs..................   1  30
Scaled..................................  
No. 1100 lbs.....................   11  00
No. 1  40 lbs.
4 70 
1  2b 
No. 1  10 lbs.
No. 2 100 lbs 
8  00 
3 50 
No. 2  40 lbs.
95
No. 2  10 lbs 
Family 90 lbs 
Family 10 lbs
Russian kegs..
No.  1,1001b.  bales 
N<>  2  1001b  bales 
Trout
No. 1 100  ->»
No. 1  to ibs 
.  . 
No. 1  ni U*
No. 1  8 lbs

.Sardines 
Stockfish 

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

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

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
>4 lb cans doz..................  
45
85
4 lb cans doz................... 
lb cans doz...................  1  50
1 
45
14 lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
4  lb cans 3 doz................. 
1 
lb cans 1 doz.................  1 00
Bulk...................................   X0
M lb cans per doz............   75
4  lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
lb cans per doz.............2  00
1 
14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
14 lb cans 4 doz  case......  
55
90
lb cans 2 doz  c a se ..... 

El Purity.

Home.

JAXON

Our Leader.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
V4 lb cans, 4 doz case____ 
1 
M lb cans.......................... 
4  lb cans.......................... 
I 
1 lb. c a n s......................... 

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

Peerless.
BASKET5 .

Per doz
Standard Bnshel..............  125
Extra Bushel...................  1  75
Market.............................. 
30
4  bnshel, bamboo del’ry.  3 50 
44 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.

BLUING.

C O N S E N S U )

BROOflS.

B l u i M ( j

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes...  40
3 doz. wooden boxes.........   1 20
ao. 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 2b
Nacretoin, per doz............   2 25
Two doz. In case assorted flav­
ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. 
8s.......................................... 7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine...............................8

CAKE FROSTING.

CANDLES.

CANNED  GOODS, 
rianitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   1  00
Lakeside B.  J .........................  1 30
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng___1  40
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  66 

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sweet....................... 22
Premium..................................31
Breakfast  Cocoa 
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dcz..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz..........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz..........1  60 I
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz..........1  80
Jnte, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80 I
date, 72 ft,  per doz.............   96

. 42

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 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom 
It  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.

Credit Checks.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books,tany denom 
20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .........................  1  00
50 books...........................  2 00
100 books...........................  3 00
250 books...........................  6 25
500 books............................10 00
1000 books...........................17 60
500, any one denom’n ......3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......5 00
2000, any one denom’n ........ 8 00
Steel punch....................... 
75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOnESTIC 
Sundried.......................   @ 24
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 4
Apricots......................  9 @104
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................  6 @
Peaches.....................  74@  9
Pears.............................8 @
Pitted Cherries.........
Prunnelies.................  12
Raspberries................
California  Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes. 
@ 3%
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @ 44
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @444
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 54
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @6
50-6025 lb boxes.........  @ 64
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @7
30 - 40 25 lb boxes___  @
4  cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Crown.
Dehesias.......................
Loose Mnscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

1 60
2 50
3 25
5
6 
7

FOREIGN.
Currants.

444

Peel.

Patras bbls.......................
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........
Cleaned, bulk  .................@ 6
Cleaned, packages........... @ 64
Citron American 101b bx  @14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  @12 
Orange American lOIbhx  @12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes.....   64@ 8
Sultana  1 Crown...........  @ 84
Sultana 2 Crow n.........  @9
Sultana 3 Crown...........  @ 94
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @ 94
Sultana  R Crown 
@1cjj

Raisins.

FLY PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

CHEESE.

Acme  .....................   @  104
Amboy........... 
@  1114
Gold  Medal............  
114
Ideal.......................   @
Jersey......................  @
Lenawee.................   @  12
Riverside.............. 
@
sparta....................   @
Brick 
....................  @  104
Edam......................   @ 75
Leiden.....................  @  19
Limburger...........  
@  15
Pineapple....... 
43  @  85
Sap Sago.......  
@ 18

Chicory.

6
7

pints............. 4 25
........ 2 50
45

Bulk 
Red 

.. 
CATSUP.
Columbia, 
Columbia, 4  pints 
5 gross boxes 

CLOTHES  PINS.
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags....................... 
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............ 
CRBAfl TARTAR. 

2%
3
4

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

 

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F air.........................................17
Good.......................................18
Prime......................................19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ...............................22

Santos.

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

Mexican and  Guatamala.

Java.

Mocha.

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

Roasted.

Prim e..................................... 23
Milled..................................... 24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth......................27
Mandehllng............................ 28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28
Clark-Jewell-WellsCo.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue..................... 30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__30
Wells’ Mocha and Java......254
Wells’ Perfection Java......254
Sancaibo 
......................23
Valley City Maracaibo. 
...20
Ideal  Blend........................ 164
Leader Blend..................... 14
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands
Quaker Arabian Mocha......31
Quaker Mandehllng Java. .31 
Quaker Mocha and Java. ...29
Toko Mocha and Java........26
Quaker Golden Santos....... 23
State House Blend..............22
Quaker Golden Rio............ 20

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you 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.
Arbuekle.......................  13 00
Jersey.............................   13 CO
ncLaaghlln’«  XXXX........ 13  00

Extract.
Valley City 4  gross 
Felix 4   gross...............  
Hummel’s foil 4  gross 
Hummel’s tin 4   gross 

Kneipp Malt Coffee.

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

75
1  15
85
i  43

4 doz in case.
6 75

Gail Borden  Eagle........ 
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
...........................4 25
Magnolia 
Challenge................................. 3 50
Dime................................... 3  35

Regular, per box............... 
30
Regular, case of 10 boxes..  2 55
Re.ular, 5 case lots...........  2 50
Regular, 10 case lots.........   2 40
Little, per box.......... .'.___ 
13
Little, case of 15 boxes......  1  45
Little, 10 case lots..............  1 40
Holders, per box of 50.......   75

Black................................ 
11
14
Fair  ................................  
Good................................  
20
Fancy  ............  
24
Open Kettle......................25@35

 
Half-barrels 2c extra.

104
84
5 00 
2 5 
t5 
55
No. 1  No. 2 Fam
48 cans in case.
1  60
100 lbs
95 Babbitt’s....................... . 
40 lbs
31 Penna Salt  Co.’s
10 lbs.. ...... 
8 lbs  .
29
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

..  6 75  5 25
..  3 00  2 40
68
57

PICKLES.
nedlum.

POTASH.

PIPES.

83 
69 

Clay, No.  216...........................  1 70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 8..........................   1

65

4  00
...  3 00

Barrels, 1,%X) count...... ...  3 40
Half bbls, 600 count...........  2 20
Barrels, 2,400 count...........  4 40
Half bbls, 1,200 count........  2 70

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

.. 

.... 

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

Carolina head....................  64
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2  .................  44
Broken 
3
Imported.
Japan,  No. 1...........
5*
6
... 
Japan.  No. 2 
Java, No. 1....................... 
4
Table 
5
............  
SEEDS.
A nise............................... 
ir
Canary, Smyrna  —
4
Caraway.................
10
Cardamon,  Malabar
81
Hemp,  Russian.......
4
Mixed  Bird.............
4464
Mustard,  white  ......
8
Poppy  ............................. 
Rape................................ 
5
Cuttle Bone. 
20

. 

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .............................3 3L
Deiand’s .............................3  15
Dwight’s .............................3 30
Taylor’s ...............................3 00
Grannlated. bbls..............1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls....................... 
1
Lamp, 1461b kegs..............1  10

SAL SODA.

Jennings*.

D.C. Vanina 
D. C. Lemon
2 oz.........1 20 
2  oz .  ...  75
3 oz........ 1  50 
3  oz.  .100
4 oz........2 00 
4  o z ......1  40
6 oz........3 .10 
.  2  00
6  oz.. 
No.  8  4 00 
No.  8. .  2 40
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  10 
.4 00
2 T.l 25 
No. 
No. 
2 T. 80
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  3 T.l 35
No 
4 T.2 40 
No  4 T 1 5,,
Sage.................. ................  
lb
Hops...................................   15
Madras, ò  lb  boxes............  56
S.  K., 2. 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
15 lb  pails............................  30
17 lb  pails............................  34
SO lb  palls............................  60
Condensed, 2 doz  ............. 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz...............2 25

INDIGO.

HERBS.

JBLLV.

LYB.

Sondera*.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemondoz
2 oz........  75
4 oz........1  50

GLUE.

per doz.
Jackson Liquid, 1 oz......... 
65
Jackson Liquid, 2 oz.........  
98
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz......... 1  30

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs...................................4 25
Half Kegs...........................2 40
Quarter Kegs...................... 1  35
1 lb  cans.............................   30
4   lb cans............................  18
Kegs...................................4 00
Half Kegs...........................2 25
Quarter  Kegs.....................1  25
1 lb  cans.............................   34
10
Kegs...................................8 00
Half Kegs...........................4.25
Quarter Kegs...................... 2 25
1 lb cans...............................  45
UCORICB.
Pure.....................................  30
Calabria 
............................  25
Sicily......  ..........................   14
13
Root.....................................  10
Ideal, 3 doz. in case.  ..  __2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

MINCB MEAT.

riATCHBS.

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

rtOLA5SBS.
New Orleans.

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes..............1 50
Barrels,  100  3 lb bags.........2 75
Barrels.  40  7 lb bags.........2 40
Butter. 28 lb. bags...............  30
Butter, 56 lb  bags................  60
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags...........3 00
Butter, 280 lb  bbls..............2 50

Common Grades«

100 3 lb sacks.........................2 60
60 5-lb sacks.........................1 85
28 11-lb sacks....................... 1 70

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons................ 3 25
115  241b. sacks....................4 00
60  5  lb. sacks....................3 75
22 14  lb. sacks...............   3 50
30 10  lb. sacks....................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks................   32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.....................2 50

56-lb dairy In drill bags......  30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......  15

56-lb dairy In iinen sacks.  .  60 

56-lb dairy in linen sacks.  .  60 

Solar Rock.

Common Fine.

56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Saginaw.............................   70
Manistee  ............................  70
Scotch, in bladders............   37
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee, In jars  __   43

SNUFF.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pare Ground In Balk.

Allspice  .............................   9
Cassia, China in mats........  10
CasBia, Batavia in bund...  30
Cassia, Saigon In rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................60
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................10
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12
Pepper,  shot........................10
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@'0
Pepper, Sing., black__ 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white__15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage......................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pare Cane

Barrels.............................   12
Half  bbls.........................  14
Fair  ................................   16
Good................................   20
Choice.............................   2R
Boxes..................................   54
Regs. English  ....................  44

SODA.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.

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

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.................................2 85
5 box lots, delivered...........2 80
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 75
JAS.  S.  KIRK  8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp'd__3 33
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome.........................................3 33
Cabinet.....................................2 25
Savon........................................ 2 50
Dusky Diamond. 56 oz........ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 58  oz........ 3 00
Blue India................................3 00
Kirkoline............................3 75
Bos........................................... 3 65

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

eme, 70 1 lb. cakes.

Acme, 601 lb  cakes.

Single box..........................3 43
5 box lots...........................  3 35
10 box lots........................... 3 28
25 box lots............................3 23
Single box..........................  3 00
5 box 'ots............................2 90
.........................2 85
10 box lots 
2.) b •x lots  ..........................2 80
One box free with 
two boxes 
free  with  10;  five  boxes  free 
w th 2"'.
Single box..............
........  2 85
5 box lot«................ .........2 75
In box lots................
........2 70

Acme, 5 cent size.

Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 lbs.

S ngle box...............
........2 85
5 box lots................ ......... 2 75
10 box ’ots................
.......   2 70
25 box lots................

Marseilles White.

§
3
So a p

109 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box..........................  5 75
5 box lots  .......................... 5  65
10 box lots........................   5  60
25 box lots  ........................   5 50
Single box..........................   4 00
5 box lots...i ......................3  90
10 box lots..........................  3  85
25 box lots...... ..................   3  80

100 cakes, 5 cent size.

Henry Passolt’s Brand.

 

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

Single box............................. 2 85
5 box lots, delivered...........2 80
10 box lots,  delivered...........2 75
95 >'('1  lots. 
8 65
Schulte’s  Family..................... 2 75
Clydesdale.........................  2  85
No Tax.....................................2 50
German Mottled....................    1 85
Electro......................................3 25
Oleine, white  ..................... 2 55

Thompson A Chute’s Brand.

Single box................................ 2 80
5 box lot, delivered................2 75
10 box lot, delivered........... 2 70
25 box lot. delivered........... 2 65
Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

SUGAR.

No. 4, 3 doz in case............  4  50
No. 6, 3 doz in case..........  7 20
Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf.............................. 5 13
Domino................................5 00
Cubes...................................4 75
Powdered  .......................... 4  75
XXXX  Powdered.................4 88
Mould  A.............................. 4 75
Granulated in bbls...............4 50
Granulated in  bags..............4 50
Fine Granulated.................. 4 50
Extra Fine Granulated....... 4 63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4  63
Diamond  Confec.  A............4 50
Confec. Standard A..............4 38
No.
.4
No 
.4 25 
No.
.4 25 
No.
.4  19 
No.
.4  13 
No.
.4 06 
No.
4 On 
No.
.3 88 
No.
.3 75
No.  10.......................................3 63
No.  11.......................................3 50
No.  12.................................   3 38
No.  13...................................... 3 31
No.  14.......................................3 25
No.  15.......................................3 19
No.  16.................................  3 13
Lea A Perrin’s,  large..... 4  75
Lea A Perrin’s, small..... 2  75
Halford,  'arge................3  75
Halford small................. 2  25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4  55
Salad Dressing, small.... .2 65

TABLE  SAUCES.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick.............................35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s  b’d.
Governor Yates, 414 in...... 58 00
Governor Yates, 4% in.......65 00
Governor Yates, 514 in___ 70 00
Monitor..................................30 00
Quintette...............................35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

WICKING.

VINEGAR.

Fresh Fish.

S. C.  W...............................35 00
Leroux Cider..........................10
Bobinson’s Cider, 40 grain... .10 
Robinson’s Cider. 50 grain.  . .12 
No. 0, per gross....................  25
No. 1, per gross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, per gross....................  75
.2 65 Fish and  Oysters
.2 60
Per lb.
.2 50
@ 9
Whitefish...............
s.
@ 8
.2  20 T rout.....................
@ 10
3  75 Black Bass..............
R 50 Halibut..................
@ 12*
2 25 Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
@ 10
Bluefish..................
@ 17
2 40 Live Lobster.........
2 40 Boiled Lobster........ @ 19
@ 10
Cod........................
Haddock..............
@ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @ 8
Pike......................... @ 7
Smoked W’hite........ @ 8
Red Snapper........... @ 13
Col  River Salmon.. @ 13
.............. @ 20
Mackerel 
F. H. Counts........... @ 40
F. J. D. Selects........ @ 30
@ 25
Selects........_ ......
F, J. O*  Standards.. 
@
A no hois..................
@
Standards.........
6
@
«54
Counts....................
6*4 Extra Selects...........
Selects.....................
7
Mediums.................
5 00 Baltimore Standards
5 00 Clams  ....................
5 00 Shrimps..................
5
4M

2 00
1  60
1  40
1  10
95
1  25
@ 1  25
25É
il  50 
il  00
00«

Shell  Goods.
Oysters, per  100......... 1
Clams,  per  100.........

Oysters in Bulk.

Oysters in Cans

Scouring.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

Common  Corn.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Common Gloss.

i  lb   p a c k a g e s ................................4 ^
3-lb  packages.....................   4%
6-lb  packages.....................   5*4
...........  2=k
10 and 50 lb boxes 
Barrel«

STOVE POLISH.

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

_  

Mixed Candv.

Fancy-In Bulk.

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  55i@  7
Standard H.  H.......  
534®  7
Standard Twist......  6  @  7
Cut Loaf.................  7*@  814
cases
_  
Extra H. H.............. 
@814
Boston  Cream........ 
@ 814
@ e
Competition............ 
Standard................. 
@ 614
Leader  ..................  
@ 7
Conserve................. 
@ 7
Royal.....................  
@714
@
Ribbon.................... 
Broken  ..................  
@8
Cut  Loaf................. 
@  a
English Rock......... 
@  8
@ 814
Kindergarten......... 
French  Cream.......  
@9
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Valley Cream......... 
@13
Lozenges, plain...... 
@9
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 9
Choc.  Drops...........  11  @14
Choc.  Monumentals  @1214
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
@ 714
Moss  Drops............ 
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 8*4
Imperials...............  
@814
Lemon Drops......... 
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops  ... 
@65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............ 
@30
Licorice D rops.......  
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@55
@55
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials............... 
@55
Mottoes.................. 
@65
Cream  Bar.............. 
@¿0
Molasses B a r......... 
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........  60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock.......... 
@60
Burnt Almonds......125  @
Wintergreen Berries  @55
Caramels.
No. I wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................
Fresh  Meats.

Fancy—In  g  lb.  Boxes.

@30
@45

Beef.

Carcass....................... 614@ 754
Forequarters............   5  @6
Hind  quarters...........  714@ 9
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @14
Ribs........................... 9  @12
Rounds.....................   6  @614
Chucks................. 
4  @5
Plates  .......................  @4
Pork.
Dressed.....................   @ 5
Loins........................   @714
Shoulders..................   @  b
Leaf Lard.................... 514@  8
Carcass.....................g  @8
Spring Lambs............ 8  @ 9
Carcass 

..;  5  @ 614

Mutton.

Veal.

Crackers.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

as follows:
Seymour XXX..................   4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  414
Family XXX......................  4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  4J4
Salted XXX.......................  4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  414 
Soda  XXX  .......................   4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  414
Soda,  City.........................  5
Zephyrette..........................  10
Long Island Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10
Square Oyster, XXX.........   4
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb carton.  5
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   4
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold Water.............   13
Belle Rose.........................  6
Cocoanut Taffy.................  9
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey...................  10
Graham Crackers  ............   6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................   6
JumDles,  Honey................. 10
Moliisses Cakes.................  6
Marshmallow  ....................  12
Marshmallow  Creams......   13
Pretzels,  hand m ad e......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................  6
Sultanas........................  
Sears’ Lunch......................  6
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square................ 
7
Vanilla  Wafers...............   12
Pecan Wafers...................... 12
Fruit Coffee.......................   9
Mixed Picnic.....................   10
Cream Jumbles .................   1154
Boston Ginger Nuts..........  6
Chimmie Fadden..............  9
Pineapple Glace.................  12

 

  10

G r a i n s  a n d  F e e d s t u f f s

Wheat.

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

Winter Wheat Flour.

Local Brands.

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

Patents....................
..  4 80
Second  Patent............... . .  4 30
Straight..................
.  410
Clear.................
..  3 70
Graham 
..  4 00
Buckwheat.................
...  3 40
Rye..................
.  2 65
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis-
count.
Flour in bbls.. 25c per bbl. ad-
ditioual.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, )4s.................... ..  4  35
Quaker, 54s..................... ..  4 35
Quaker, *s...................
..  4  35

Spring Wheat Flour.
Olney A Judson ’s Brand.

Ceresota, 44s.................
..  4 40
Ceresota, * s .........
.  4 30
Ceresota, 44s................
.  4 25
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic. 44s........ ..  4 40
Grand Republic, 4¿s........
.  4  30
Grand Republic, * s........ ..  4  25
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  %b...............
.  4  40
Laurel, 44s ............
.  4 30
Laurel, 44s ..............
.  4 25
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian,  44s.................
.  4  40
Parisian, 44s..........
.  4 30
Parisian. 44s...........
.  4  25
Meal.
Bolted..................
.  1  50
Granulated.................
..  175
Feed and Millstuffs
St. Car Feed, screened  ..
.1175
No. 1 Com and  Oats......
Unbolted Corn Meal......
.10 0u
Winter Wheat  Bran...  .
.11  00
Winter Wheat Middlings ..11  50
Screenings..............
.  8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co.
quotes as follows:

Oats.

New Corn.
Car  lots....................
..  26
Less than  car lots.........
.  28
Car  lots..........................
20*4
Carlots, clipped.............
.  23
Less than  car lots.........
.  25
No. 1 Timothy cariots__
9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  . .11  00

Hay.

F r u i t s .
Oranges.

California Seedlings.

California Navels.

Valencias in Cases

96-112.......................  2 (J0@2 25
126-150-176-200.........
@2 50
96  .................
112.................
126  ..  .....................
150-176-200  .............
420s..........................
Lemons.
Strictly choice 36Us..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s..............
Ex. Fancy  300s.......
Bananas.

@3 35
@3 65
@3 75
@4 GO
@2 50
@3 00
@3 00
@3 50
A  definite  price  Is  hard  to
uame, as it varies according  to
size  of  bunch  and  quality  of
fruit.
Medium bunches... 1  25 @1  50
Large bunches........1  75 @2 00
Figs, Choice  Layers
101b.....................
Figs,  New  Smyrna
14 and 20 lb boxes.
Figs,  Naturals 
in
30 ib. bags,............
Dates, Fards in 10 Ib
boxes..................
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................
Dates, Persians, H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  ..................
Nuts.

@10
@12
@ 6
@ 8
@ 6
@ 6
@ 4*

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Almonds, Tarragona.. @12
Almonds, Ivaca......... @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
@12
Brazils new............... @  7*4
Filberts  .................... @10
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12*
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. @10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif....................... @12
Table Nuts,  fancy__ @11
Table Nuts,  choice... @10
Pei aus, Med............... @
Pecans, Ex. Large__ @10
Pecans, Jumbos........ @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............
@
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks @3 75
Butternuts  per  bu__ @  50
Black Walnuts per bu @  50
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
Suns....................... @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Roasted..................
@  7
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4
Choice. H. P., Extras,
Roasted  ................. @ 6

Peanuts.

10*

.... 

Swift  A  Company  quote  as

5U
*
m
m
*
ii
%
1

5*
5*
10
93í
9*
85Ü
11M
6
7

Barreled Pork.
.................... __  

.... 
Dry Salt  Meats.
---- 

follows:
8 50
Mess 
Back  ..................... __   9 50
Clear back  ............ —   10 00
Shortcut.................
9 25
Pig.......................... __   13 00
Beau  ......................
8 50
Family  ..................
9 50
Bellies....................
Briskets  .................
Extra shorts...........
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average .... 
Hams, 14 lb  average
Hams, 16 Id  average
Hams, 20 lb  average
Ham dried beef....... .... 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear.........
California hams__
Boneless hams.........
Cooked  ham............ .... 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...............
Kettle.......................
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
80 lb Tubs......... advance 
50 lb T ins......... advance 
20 lb Palls......... advance 
10 lb Pails......... advance 
5 lb Pails......... advance 
3 lb Pails......... advance 
Sausages.
Bologna.................
Liver.......................
Frankfort.................
P ork.......................
Blood  ....................
Tongue  ..................
Head  cheese...........
Beef.
Extra  Mess............
Boneless  ................
Rump......................
Pigs’ Feet
Kits. 15 lbs..............
J4  bbls, 40 lbs.........
*   bbls, 80 lbs.........
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs..............
H  bbls, 40 lbs.........
*   bbls, 80 lbs.........
Casings.
Pork.......................
Beef  rounds...........
Beef  middles.........
Sheep......................
Butterlne
Rolls, dairy............
Solid, dairy............
Rolls,  creamery__ .... 
Solid,  creamery__
Corned  beef,  2 lb..
Corned  beef, 14  lb..
Roast  beef,  2 1b..
Potted  ham,  Ms.
Potted  ham,  *s..
Deviled ham,  Ms..
Deviled ham.  *s..
Potted  tongue Ms..
Potted  tongue * s..

10
9*
13
12*
....  2 00
..  .14 00
....  2 00
60
... . 
....  1  00
.... 
60
....  1  00
.... 
60
....  1  00

6*
6*
6
9
6*
....  7 00
....10 00
....  1000
---- 
80
...  2 80

....  1  40
....  2 75
18
.... 
3*
8
60

Canned  Meats.

----

H i d e s   a n d

P e l t s .
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol-

lows:
Hides.
Green......................
.  5  @  6
Part  cured..............
@  6*
Full Cured..............
.  6*@ 7*
D ry .........................
.  6  @ 8
Kips,  green...........
.  5  @ 6
Kips,  cured............
•  6*@ 8
Calfskins,  green__ .  6*4@ 8
Calfskins, cured__ .  7*@ 9
Deaconskins  .........
.25  @30
Pelts.
Shearlings..............
5@  10
Lambs....................
25@  50
Old  Wool................. 6U@  90
Furs.
Mink......................... 30@  90
Coon..............  ........
30@ "  80
Skunk.....................
30@  70
Muskrats, spring......
12@  17
Muskrats, w inter__
S@  13
Red Fox...................
80@  1  25
Gray Fox................
30®  70
Cross Fox  ............... 2 5* @ 5 00
25@  50
Badger.....................
Cat, W ild.................
10®  25
10®  *0
Cat, House...............
Fisher...................... 3 00® 5 00
Lynx......................... 1  O’® 2 00
Martin, Dark............ 1  50® 3 00
Martin, Yellow........ 75©  1  50
Otter......................... 4  50® 7 50
W olf........................ 1  10@ 2 00
Bear  ....................... 7 00® 15 *0
Beaver...................... 2  00®  6 00
Deerskin, dry, per lb
15@  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb
10®  12*
Wool.
Washed 
...............
.10  @16
Unwashed............... .  5  @12
Tallow....................
.  2  @  2%
Grease Butter........... .  1  @ 2
Switches  ................. .  i* @   2
Ginseng.................... .2 50@2 75

Hiscellaneous.

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ..................
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdl
W W Michigan........
High Test Headlight
D., S. Gas.................
Deo. Naptha...........
Cylinder.................
Engine  ...................
Black, winter...........

@11*
@ 8*
@ 8
@7
@  8
@ 7*
.25  @36
.11  @21
@  8

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

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

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

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

Churns.

Milkpans.

*  gal- flat or rd. bot., doz.  60
1  gal. fiat or rd. bot., each  5% 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

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

Stewpans.

*  gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10
M gal., per doz.................   40
*  gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   6*4

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

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

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2

LAMP BURNERS.

No. 0 Sun..........................   45
No.  1  Sun.......................... 
50
No. 2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular............................. 
50
65
Security, No. 1................... 
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
Climax...............................  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun.........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun........  ...............  1  88
No.  2 Sun..........................  2 70
No.  0  Sun, 
No.  1  Sun, 
No.  2  Sun, 

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

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
crimp  top,

First  Quality.

XXX Flint.

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

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

La  Baatie.

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

Rochester.

Electric.

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

OIL  CANS. 

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.  OTubnl&r...... ............  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.t4  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........   3 75
LANTERN OLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents...........  
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................   40
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1  doz.  each__   ...  1  25
No. 0 per gross....  ...........   20
No. 1 per gross...................   25
No. 2 per grow...................  38
N 0. 3 per gross...................  58
Mammoth per doz.............  TO

LAMP  WICKS.

22

IMITATING  MEN.

Wherein Women Should  Emulate  Their 

Example.

One  of  tbe  reproaches  brought against 
the  new  woman  is  that  she  tries  to  imi­
tate  man.  This 
is  regarded  as  a  mon­
strous  accusation,  although 
is  hard 
to  see  why,  unless  man  is  regarded  as 
good  enough  to  copyright,  and  any 
in­
fringement  on  the  patent  is  resented.

it 

Of course,  there is a  prejudice against 
imitations,  and  it  cannot 
all  kinds  of 
be  said  the  new  woman’s  understudy  of 
the  masculine  role  has  been  a  distin­
guished  success.  Some  of  them  have 
thought  that  the hideous and abominable 
bloomer  was  a  satisfactory  alias  for  the 
convenient  trouser.  Others,  in  their 
efforts  to  be  manly,  have  overlooked the 
importance 
gentlemanly. 
These  were  the  inevitable  results  of  ex­
perimenting  with  a  new  thing. 
It  has 
taken  man  several  thousand  years  to 
reach  the  stage  of  perfection  he  now en­
joys,  and  it  was  not  to  be  expected  that 
woman  could  dash  off  a  satisfactory 
copy  at  a  moment's  notice.

of  being 

For  my  part  I  iove  the  men,  God 
bless  'em!  as  Kate  Field  used  to  say, 
and  while  I  don’t  desire  to  become  an 
imitation  man  myself,  or  to  see  my  sis­
ters  making  masculine  caricatures  of 
themselves  by  adopting  trousers  and 
short  hair  and  what  they  fondly  believe 
to  be  a  masculine  swagger,  still  I  think 
there's  any  number of  things  in  which 
we  may  become  gainers  by  imitating 
our  husbands  and  brothers.

One of  the  first things,  I  think,  is that 
like  to  see  women  adopt  the 
I  should 
towards  each 
same  rational  attitude 
other  that  men  dp  to  other  men. 
It 
man’s  inhumanity  to  man  makes  count­
less  thousands  mourn,  as 
it  has  been 
said  to,  woman's  offishness  to  woman 
makes  countless  millions  tired.  Talk 
about  the  caste  prejudices  among  the 
Brahmins and  the  Parsees ! 
It sinks in­
to 
innocuous  desuetude  before  the 
haughty  glare  with  which  some  totally 
insignificant  woman  will  regard  some 
entirely  unoffending  other  woman. 
There  is  nothing  more  absurd  than  the 
unfounded  suspicion  with  which  women 
regard  those  of  their  sex  who  are  not 
on  their visiting  list.

In  nothing 

is  this  exclusiveness  of 
women  so  noticeable  as  in  traveling.  A 
man  who  goes  on  a  railroad  journey 
will  while away  the  time 
in  conversa­
tion  with  the  other  men  he  meets. 
Often  these  chance  acquaintances  de­
velop  into  friends  or  valuable'  business 
connections,  and  at  the  least a  man  has 
gained  information,  or  has  passed  the 
time  agreeably.  Not  so  the  women 
along.  They  have  sat  up  in  frozen  si­
lence,  glared  at  each  other  over the  tops 
of  their  books,  and  probably  formed  the 
most desperate  estimates  of  each other’s 
characters. 
I  know  one  woman  who 
proudly  boasts  that  she  made  the  en­
tire  trip  to  Vancouver  and never opened 
her  lips  to  anyone  but  the  employes  of 
the  railroad  and  hotels.  Think  of  all 
the  pleasant  companionship  she  must 
have  missed.  But,  truth  to  tell,  it  takes 
a  brave  woman  to  risk  the  snub  she 
is 
apt  to  get 
if  she  addresses  a  fellow 
woman  traveler  to  whom  she  has  no  let­
ter of  introduction.

Not  long  ago  I  made a  railway  jour­
ney  of  a  couple  of  days  with  a  most 
charming-looking  woman  occupying 
the  section  before  me.  For  two  whole 
days  I  gazed  in  admiration  at  her  fine 
and intelligent  face,  and  wished  I  knew 
her,  for  I  am  one  of  those  who  love 
the  sound  of  the  human  voice,  and  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

men  have  tbe  best  of  things  in  this 
world,  and  we  have  learned  to  avoid, 
as  we  would  the  plague,  things  espe­
cially  prepared  for  women,  when a  mas­
culine  substitute  may  be  had.  Short- 
shanked  collar  buttons  that  come  un­
done  at  every  critical  moment,  hair 
brushes  that  are  in  a  continual  state  of 
moulting  bristles,  are  thought  to  be 
good  enough  for  women. 
If  you  have  a 
necktie  that  doesn’t  look  like  you  have

made 
it  yourself,  you  must  wheedle  it 
out  of  some  man.  Towels  as  big  as  a 
postage  stamp  are  considered  sufficient 
for  a  woman,  whiie 
if  you  want  big, 
generous  ones,  the  clerk  will  tell  you 
that  they  are  gentlemen’s  size. 
It  is 
against  these  invidious  distinctions that 
we  want  to  protest  in  the  good  strong 
English  men  call  kicking.

Then  think  of  the  restaurants  that 
cater  exclusively  to  women.  No  one

h

HAS  NO  EQUAL  AS  TO  CONSTRUCTION,  DURABILITY 
AND  BEAUTY.  EVERY  STOVE  A  WINNER.

whom  silence 
is  the  abomination  of 
desolation.  She  gave  no  sign  that  she 
returned  my  desire  for  acquaintance, 
and  as  my  rashness  in  making advances 
has  frequently  recoiled  upon  my  unfor­
tunate  head,  I  said  nothing,  either. 
If 
we  were  men, 
I  thought  sadly,  we 
should  have  been  acquainted  in  fifteen 
minutes.  She  would  have  told  me  all 
about  her  family  and  occupation,  and 
whether  she  was  married  or  only  in 
love,  and  I  should  have  returned  her 
confidences  with  similar  interesting  de­
tails  about  myself,  and  we  should  have 
enjoyed  ourselves, 
instead,  of  sitting 
here  like  two  dummies,  just  because 
we are  women.  At last  an  accident  hap­
pened  to  her  frock,  and I  supplied  from 
my  own  store  a  safety  pin  at  a  time 
when  safety  pins  were  worth 
their 
weight  in  gold  to  her.  That  will  fetch 
her  sure,  I  thought.  She  thanked  me, 
and  then  petrified  again  into  silence. 
Every  now  and  then  I  still  meet  her, 
face  to  face,  on  Canal  street. 
If  we 
were  men  we  would  stop  and  shake 
hands,  and  I  should  say,  ‘ * Hello,  old 
chap,  did  that  safety  pin  hold?”   and 
we  would  both  laugh  and  have  a  chat. 
But,  being  women,  we  don’t  do  that. 
Instead,  we  stiffen  up  when  we  meet, 
and  she  sights  at  the  top  of  the  Morris 
building,  while  I  become  absorbed  in 
the  trolley  wire,  and  so  we  pass  each 
other • by,  because  a  silly  custom  has 
decreed  that  the  wayfaring  woman  is  a 
fool  if  she  inclines  to  any  sort  of  gra­
ciousness  to  a  sister  woman  she  doesn’t 
know.

T h e   Q u ick  M eals  are  b u ilt w ith   B ra ss  B u rn ers  (n ever  ru st),  B ra ss  T a n k s  (n ev er le a k ),  A lum in um  
C h im n eys  (cannot corrod e). 
It lig h ts,  burns and can  be  put out  w ith o u t sm ell, 
sm oke or soot.  T h e  con stru ction   o f the  burner  is  sim ple and  can  be  taken  apart  in  one  m inute.  T h e  
w ic k  ad justm ent  is  v e ry  ea sy  and  the  g en e ral construction  o f  th e sto ve  e x ce lls a ll o th er m akes and  w ill 
prove a  la stin g  hom e com fort.  W rite  fo r ca ta lo gu e,  m en tioning  advertisem ent.

It  is  a  p erfect  success. 

VANDERVEEN  &  WITMAN,

M ichigan  Agts.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

in  hammering 

Another  thing  in  which  women  might 
imitate  men  to advantage  is 
in  taking 
themselves  less  seriously.  The  woman 
who  does anything  out  of  the  common 
always  feels  that  she  is  a  Christopher 
Columbus  who  has  just  discovered  her­
self.  And  the  worst  part  of  it  is  that 
she  can  never  rest  until  she  calls  on  the 
world  to  come  and  see  this  marvelous 
thing. 
”  Behold, ”   she  shouts  from  the 
housetop,  ” 1  am  the great  and  original 
woman  carpenter!  I  have  driven  a  nail. 
is  not  straight,  and  I  mashed  my 
It 
it  in,  but  that’s 
finger 
nothing. 
I  am  a  woman,  and  I  have 
demonstrated  a  woman’s  right  to  the 
carpentering  sphere  and  to  drive  nails 
if  she  wants  to.  My  picture  will  be 
printed  in  the  paper,  and  the  women’s 
clubs  will  give  me  receptions,  for  great 
and  admirable 
is  the  new  woman.”  
Now,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  work  is  the 
one  sexless  thing  in  the  universe. 
It  is 
good  or  bad,  independent  of  whether 
it  was  performed  by  a man  or a  woman, 
and  when  a  woman  claims  for  what  she 
has  done  that 
it  is  good,  for  woman's 
work,  she  has  damned 
faint 
praise.  Perhaps  it  is  because  men  have 
been 
longer  at  work  in  broader  fields 
that  they  never  make  this  mistake. 
When  a  man  has  to  sew  on  his  buttons 
you  never  hear  of  him  triumphantly
flaunting  the  achievement 
in  the  face 
of  the  world,  and  announcing  that  he 
has  gained  an  entrance  into a  sphere 
hitherto  occupied  by  oppressive woman. 
He  would  never  consider  that  he  was 
working  out  the  manifest  destiny  of  his 
sex  by  sewing  on  a  patch,  or that  darn­
ing  his  socks  entitled  him  to a  recep­
tion  from  the  poker club,  or any especial 
consideration  from  the  press. 
Instead, 
if  he  called  attention  to  it,  he knows 
very  well  he  would  be  considered  a 
blooming 
idiot.  Woman’s  work  will 
have  gained  in  dignity  and  worth  when 
it  ceases  to  be  woman’s  work  and  is 
only  good  work.

it  with 

Those  of  us  who  have  cut  the  wisdom 
teeth  of  experience have  found  out  that

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 3

 

9

it 

thin 

itself 

wanting  a  real  good  dinner,  and capable 
of  judging  of  what  a  good  dinner  con­
sists,  would  any  more go  to  them  than 
he  would  go  to a  haberdashery  store  to 
buy  a  gatling gun.  They are symphonies 
in  pies  and  studies  in  cream  puffs. 
If 
a  good,  honest,  thick  steak  should  by 
accident  find 
in  such  a  place  it 
would  throw  the  establishment  into  hys­
teria,  and  a 
juicy  mutton  chop  would 
turn  over  and  expire  of  chagrin  at  be­
ing  caught  in  such company.  Of course, 
such  places  supply  the  things  for  which 
they  have  a  demand.  Women  eat  such 
stuff;  they  gorge  themselves  on  pies 
and 
steaks  and  stringy  chops 
sometimes  because  they  don't  know  a 
good  thing  when  they  see  it,  but  mostly 
because 
is  cheap.  The  last  thing  a 
man  economizes  on 
is  food;  the  first 
thing  a  woman  feels  she  can  do  without 
is  something  good  to  eat.  A  woman 
will  pay  $25  for an  Easter  bonnet  that 
consists  of  a  rose  and  an  aigrette  with­
out  turning  a  hair,  and  shudder at  the 
extravagance  of  giving  50  cents  for  a 
good  lunch.  A  man  knows  that  good 
food,  eaten  at  the  right  time,  means 
strength  and  health  and  ability  to  do 
good  work,  and  this  is  one  of  the  first 
things  that  the  new  woman  who  means 
to  compete  with  men  in  business  and 
the  professions  will  have  to  lay to heart. 
Gigantic  financial 
transactions  were 
never  erected  on  the  basis  of  an  omelet 
souffle  or floated  on  ice  cream and cake.
in  the  example 
business  so  long  themselves,  it  is  hard 
for  them  to  realize  thdt  men  have  in 
many  ways a  much  broader outlook  and 
a  truer  sympathy  than  women  have. 
Men  know  how  to  forget  as  well  as  for­
give.  They  know  how  to  talk  a  dis­
agreeable  thing  over  and  then  let  it 
drop.  A  woman  can  never  resist  drag­
ging  it  up  again.  Men  can  do  you  a 
favor  and  never  mention 
it  again. 
Women  feel  that  they  have  established 
a  claim  to  gratitude  on  you.  Men  at­
tend  more  to  their  own  affairs  and 
less 
to  their  neighbors'.  They  are  less  crit­
ical.  They  judge  people  less  by  their 
clothes.  These  are  all  virtues  which 
the  bachelor  girl  might  well  copy  from 
her  gentlemanly  brother.

Women  have  been 

D o roth y  D ix .

The  Hardware  Market.

With  the  coming  of  spring  it  is  no­
ticeable  that  there 
is  more  business 
moving.  Since  April  1  trade  has  been 
much  better  than  for  any  month  this 
year. 
It  is  astonishing  how  quick busi­
ness  revives  with  the  first  pleasant 
weather,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  this 
revival  will  continue  and  that  we  may 
be  on  the  eve  of  a  large  volume  of busi­
ness.  Many  lines  of  hardware  continue 
low  and  irregular  in  price,  and notwith­
standing  the  marked  revival  of business 
in  this  section  of th*e  country,  the  whole 
tendency  seems  to  be  downward,  not 
only  on  all  grades  of  shelf  hardware  but 
in 
Some 
lines,  however,  are  so  low  that  manu­
facturers  find  it  impossible  to make  any 
concessions  in  price,  even  to  secure  an 
order.  Collections  are fairly  good.

iron  and  heavy  hardware. 

Wire  Nails—There  continues  to  be  a 
good  aemand  for  wire  nails  and  the 
capacity  of  the  manufacturers  is  nearly 
taxed  to  meet  the  demand.  Notwith­
standing  a  strike  in  one  or  two  mills, 
and  the  inability  of  some  to  run  on  ac­
count  of  the  floods  in  their  vicinity,  the 
few  mills  which  are.  running  are  en­
abled  to  keep  the  market  fairly  well 
supplied.  The  price  of  nails,  however, 
is  firm  and  it  is  impossible  for  jobbers 
to  place  orders  within  10c  a  keg  as  low

as  they  did  in  January  or  February. 
Whether  this  advance  will  be  main­
tained  is  a  question  depending  on when 
the  mills  now  closed  begin  to run,  but it 
is  believed  that  during  the  remainder 
of  the  spring,  prices  will  remain  fairly 
firm.  Jobbers  have  made  no  special 
changes  in  their  prices  from  stock,  but 
direct  shipments  from  mill  are  very 
firm  at  $1.5031.45  rates,  depending  up­
on  the  size  of  the  order.

Barbed  Wire-----Notwithstanding  the
mills  are  unable  to  fill  orders for prompt 
shipments  on  barbed  and  smooth  wire, 
they  report  a  decided  lessening  in  or­
ders,  and  when  they  get  the  orders  now 
on  their  books  filled,  they  are  wonder­
ing  where  new  business is  corning from. 
Prices  are  not  as  firm  as  they  have been 
and  orders  can  be  placed  with  both 
jobbers  at  5@ioc  per  cwt. 
mills  and 
cheaper  than  they  could  during 
the 
month  of  March.

Augers  and  Bits—The  combination 
recently  existing  between  all  manufac­
turers  of  these  lines  of  goods  is  becom­
ing  somewhat  demoralized  and  prices 
are  not  maintained  with  any  degree  of 
firmness.

Screws--The  market  still  continues 
in  an  unsettled  condition.  Some  of  the 
manufacturers  are  making  extremely 
low  prices,  which  are  duplicated 
in 
many  cases  by  the  jobber.  There  seems 
to  be  but  little  doubt  that,  at  the  ex­
treme  prices  now  current,  screws  are 
selling  at  considerably 
less  than  cost, 
notwithstanding  which  the  trade  mani­
fest  but  little  disposition  to  place  large 
orders  for  future  shipment.

Poultry  Netting  and  Wire  Cloth— 
These  lines  of  goods  are,  as  usual  at 
this  time  of  the  season,  moving  quite 
freely  and  extremely  low  prices  are 
current.  Some  of  the  jobbing  trade  are 
disposing  of  the  goods  at  a  very  close 
margin  between  cost  and  selling  price 
and  the  market  is  in  a  very demoralized 
condition.

Rope—The  past  week  has  seen  im­
provement  in  the  demand  for  rope,  al­
though  the  trade  is  backward  in placing 
orders.  Stocks  throughout  the  country 
are  reported  as  light  and  prices  are  not 
satisfactory  to  manufacturers.  Wool 
twine  is  sold  at  5%@6c  per  lb.  in 
less 
than  carloads.

Window  Glass—The  past  week  has 
developed  no  special  new  feature  in  the 
glass  market.  Consumption  continues 
light,  the  demand  not  being 
large 
enough  to  make  much  of  an  impression 
upon  the  jobbers’  stocks,  which  are  not 
heavy.  There 
is  a  disposition,  how­
ever,  to  hold  prices  firm,  as  it  is  be­
lieved  that,  with  the  early  closing  down 
of  the  factories  and  the  tariff  agitation, 
the  price  on  glass  will  soon  be  higher 
rather  than  lower.

G .  R.  IXX  D A I R Y   P A I L .

Write  for  quotations  and  monthly  illustrated 

Catalogue.

Wft.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

Manufacturers and jobbers of 
Pieced and Stamped  Tinware.

160  S. Ionia St. 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Telephone  6 4 0 .

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

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

AXES

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

BARROWS

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

BOLTS

60410
Stove...................................................... 
Carriage new list...................................   70 to 75
Plow....................................................... 
so

Well,  plain.................................................. *325

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured.............................. 70&10
Wrought Narrow.........................................75410

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

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

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

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

70

4

65 
55 
35
60

.. per lb 

per m 
perm 
per m 
per m 

...504  5 
■.. 25& 5

80
80
80
80

60 
.504 5 
504  5

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

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

 

30410
25

PILES—New  List

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

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60416
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80

KNOBS—New List

28
17

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................#16 00, dis 60410
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00, dis 60410
Hunt's........................................  *18 50, dis 20410
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s...................................  
40
40
Coffee, P. S. 4 W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry 4  Clark’s...............  
40
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 
30

MILLS

MOLASSES  GATES

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

NAILS

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  1  65
Wire nails, base...........................................  1  75
30 to 60 advance........................ 
Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance...................................................  
10
20
6 advance....................................  
 
4 ad vance...................................................  
30
45
3 advance................................................... 
70
2 advance................................................... 
50
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance..................................  
25
Casing  6 advance..................................  
35
Finish 10 advance..............................  
25
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
Finish  6 ad vance........................................ 
45
Barrel  % advance.......................................... 
85

 

PLANES

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

PANS

Fry, Acme...............................................60410410
704  5
Common, polished.................................. 
Iron and  Tinned........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

RIVETS

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 V4c per pound  extra. 

HOUSE  PURNISHINO  OOODS<

H1NOBS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware............   ......... new list 75&10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20410
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40410
Pots................................................................60410
K ettles......................................................... 60410
Spiders......................................................... 60410
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3...............................  dis 60410
State...  ................................... per doz. net  2  50
Bright..........................................................  
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook's.......................................................... 
80
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, Vi inch and  larger.........   ...................  
6
Manilla........................................ 
 
Steel and Iron..............................................  
Try and Bevels............................................
Mitre............................................................

WIRE  GOODS

SQUARES

LEVELS

ROPES

80

SHEET  IRAN

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIQHTS

com. smooth,  com.
12 40
2  40
2 60
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............................................  
60410
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton’s 70410410
Mouse, choker............................per doz  - 
15
Mouse, delnsion.....................  per doz 
1  25
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market........................................ 
75
Coppered Market....................................... ..70410
Tinned Market............................................   62V4
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........................   2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted...............................  1  70
Au Sable........................................................... dis 4041C
Putnam............................................................. dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10410
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled  .......
Coe’s Genuine...................................
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages.......................................
Pumps, Cistern....... .’. .......................
Screws, New List..............................
Casters, Bed and  Plate.....................
Dampers, American..........................
600 pound casks................................
Per pound.........................................

30
50
80 
80
50
80
85
50410410
50
....  6* 
... 
6*

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

.... 

SOLDER

Vi@V4...........................................................   12V4
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................  ...... #5 75
14x201C, Charcoal...................... 
...........  5  75
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......................................   6  00

Each additional X on this grade, *1.50.

ROOFING  PLATES

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

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Bdtlers, I 
„onnd 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f *** pouna 

9
v

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS,

Pay  the  highest  price  in  cash for

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

Send  us a lis t o f w h a t you  h a ve   and  w e   w ill  quote 

you  our best  prices thereon.

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

the  assurance 

charge 

is 

HAMMERS

Maydole 4  Co.’s, new  list.............................. dis 33H
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
Yerkes 4  Plumb’s............................................. dis 40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’« Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40410

Tradesman Company,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

24

Modern  Ideas  Gone  Mad.

Stroller in Grocery  World.

There’s a  grocer  not  far  from  Phila­
delphia  who  has  simply  gone  mad  on 
improvements.  There’s  no  other  name 
fo rjt  but  madness.  He’s  wasted  quite 
a  pile  of  money  on  things  he  ought 
never to  have  put  in  his  place.

To  begin  with,  this  grocer’s  store is a 
small  affair,.probably  not^over  thirty 
feet  long  and.half  as  wide.  . That  is  to 
say,  the  regular  working  room  is  only 
about  that^size.  There 
is  a  room  back 
where  he  keeps  oil  and  molasses  and 
such,  but  that  can’t  be  considered  as 
part  of  the  store  proper.

cash-register 

The  grocer  has  simply  been  nuts  for 
every 
salesman,  every 
cash-carrier  salesman,  and  every  other 
salesman  who  had  anything  like  those 
things  to  sell.  To  start  with,  at  the 
front  and  back  of  his  room  are  two  very 
large  arc  electric  lights—the  sort  you 
in  Philadelphia  streets —great  big 
see 
like  a  locomotive 
concerns  that 
headlight  would 
I  don’t 
know  what  he  pays  for  them,  but  the 
sum's  not  small,  I'll  warrant  that.  This 
is  the first  thing  he’s gone  wrong  on.  In 
his  desire  to  be  strictly  modern  he’s 
overdone  it.  Three  or  four  good-sized 
incandescent  lights  would  have  done  a 
good  deal  better  than  his  arcs.

in  a  parlor. 

look 

lights, 

Then  beside  these  arc 

this 
grocer  operates  a  cash  register,  a  cash 
carrier,  and  a  cashier,  and  all  in  a  lit­
tle  place  15x30  feet,  and  with  all  this, 
the  man’s  shelves  lock  dingy  and  neg­
It  *is  as  if  he  had  worn  a  great 
lected. 
big  diamond 
in  a  dirty  shirt.  The 
cashier  doesn’t  cost  him  as  much  as  she 
might,  for  she’s  his  wite.

This  progressive  grocer  has  probably 
taken  pattern  from  some  of  the  large 
city  stores  in  the  location  of his cashier, 
for  he’s  fixed  up  a 
little  cubby-hole 
about  half  way  between  the  front  and 
the  back  of  the  store. 
It’s  way  up 
near  the  ceiling,  which  isn’t the highest 
in  the  world,  and  there  the  unfortunate 
femaie  sits  perched  all  day.  When  she 
wants  a  drink  of  water  her  husband 
hands  it  up  to  her.  The  ceiling  is  so 
low,  and  the  cubby-hole  so high, that the 
wife  has  to  be  constantly  on  the  lookout 
about  slamming  her  head  against  the 
roof.  She  has  to  sit  crouched  up,  to 
avoid  this,  and  even  this doesn’t  do, for 
twice  while  I  was  in  the  store  she  made 
an  involuntary  movement  and  bumped 
her  head  so  hard  that  you  could  hear 
it 
all  over  the  place.

Toward  the  front  of  the  store,  where 
everybody  can  see  it,  is  the  cash  regis­
ter.  Why  the cashier  doesn’t  sit  behind 
it,  I’m  unable  to  tell.  The  cash  car­
rier,  on  account  of  the  shortness  of  the 
store,  only  has  about  eight  feet  to  run, 
and  it  leads  to  the  cashier’s  cubby-hole 
instead  of  the  cash  register.

When  I  went  in  the  place  there  were 
no  customers,  and  1  amused  myself  by 
wondering  how  under  heaven  this  com­
bination  would  operate.  Pretty  soon  a 
customer  entered  and  I-saw.

in 

The  purchase  was  for  15  cents.  As 
soon  as  the  grocer  had  the  15  cents  in 
his  hand  be  reached  up and  got  the cash 
carrier’s  box,  put  the  money 
it, 
wrote  the  number  on  a  slip  of  paper, 
put  that  in,  too,  sent  the  whole  thing 
whizzing  to  the  cashier,  at  the  same 
time  calling  out  in  a  stentorian  voice 
that  could  have  been  heard  too  feet, 
“ Fifteen.”  
in  a 
whisper  his  wife  could  have  beard  it all 
right,  but  of  course  he  had  to  do  like 
the  big  city  stores.

If  he  had  spoken 

After  he  had  called  out  the  sum,  and 
the  cashier  had  piped  back  “ Fifteen,”  
so  as  to  show  she  heard  it— it’s  a  won­
der  she  wasn’t  deafened—the  grocer 
went  to  the  cash  register  and  rang  up 
15  cents.

There  was  a  clear  waste  of  several 
moves. 
If  the  grocer  had  simply  had 
the  cashier  seated  behind  the  cash  reg­
ister,  and  had  sent  the  15  cents  to  her, 
allowing  her  to  ring  it  up  on  the  regis­
ter  and  deposit 
in  there,  he  would 
have  saved  the  trouble  of  having  a  sep­
arate  cash  carrier  system  to  the  cubby­
hole,  and  he  would  have  saved  his 
wife’s  head  a  good  many  bumps. 
It 
was  all  poppycock  to  yawp out “ Fifteen 
cents,”   ana  for  the  wife  to  pipe  back

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

idea 

the  echo.  The  slip  enclosed  with  the 
money  showed  what  the  sum  was.
When  I  got  the  grocer’s  ear  1  had  a 
little  general  conversation  with  him, 
and  said  a  few  pleasant  words  about 
his  wife  helping  him,  and  so  on. 
I felt 
sorry  about  her  poor  whacked  head. 
The grocer  seemed  to appreciate  it.

“ Oh,  yes;  my  wife  helps  me  a  good 
deal. 
Ib is  store  wouldn’t  be  half  as 
up  to  date  if  it  wasn’t  fur  her.”   And 
he  looked  around  with  manifest  pride.

“ Is  that  so?”   I  said.
“ Yes.  This  whole 

is  hers— 
this  cash-register  and  cash-carrier  busi­
ness.  She  had  it  fixed  up  according  to 
her  ideas.  Ain’t  it  fine?  You  see 
it’s 
so  easy  to  operate.  All  I  do  is  to  write 
the  money  on  a  slip  and  call  it  out  to 
Mandy,  and  she  says  back  that  she’s 
got  it.  Then  I  slips  the  thing  into  the 
cash  carrier  and  make  a  record  on  the 
cash  register.  Then,  you  see,  when 
night  comes,  if  my  wife’s  cash  tallies 
with  the  amount  marked  up  on  the 
register,  and  with  the  little yellow slips, 
I  know  I ’m  all  right,  see?”

I  like  to  see  a  man  believe 

1  saw  all  right,  and  I  could  have  de­
stroyed  that  man’s  belief in the simplic­
ity  of  his  system 
in  ten  words,  but  I 
didn’t. 
in 
his  wife—believe  that  whatever she does 
is  perfection. 
I  couldn’t  bring  mysell 
to  destroy  that  faith  on  the  grocer’s 
part,  so  I  nodded  admiringly  and  kept 
still.  But  what  a  fool  he  was!

The  Season  and  Demand  for  Duck

From the New York Sun.

Eggs-

in 

The  duck  eggs  produced 

this 
country  amount,  probably,  to  less  than 
one-half  of  1  per cent,  of  the  total  egg 
production.  Still  there  are  sold  in  the 
course  of  the  season  a  great  many  thou­
is  brief, 
sand  duck  eggs.  The  season 
lasting  practically  only 
about  two 
months,  from  March  1  to  May  1.  The 
large  proportion  of  the  eggs  come  in 
the  first  forty-five  days  of  that  period. 
Among  the  wholesale  egg  dealers  of 
New  York  there  are  only  three  or  four 
that  handle  duck  eggs  largely.

laigely  from 

About  two-thirds  of  the  duck  eggs 
brought  to  this  market  come  from  the 
shores  of  Chesapeake  B ay;  the  rest 
mainly  from  Virginia  and  from  New 
Orleans.  Duck  eggs  sold  in  the  West 
the  South. 
come  more 
Baltimore  eggs,  which 
include  eggs 
from  along  the Chesapeake  Bay,  are  the 
best.  Such  eggs  bring  at  wholesale  5 
to  8  cents  a  dozen  more  than  eggs  from 
farther  South.  At  retail  duck  eggs  sell 
for about  twice  as  much  as  hen’s  eggs. 
Weight  for  weight  they  sell  for  about 
the  same,  the  duck  eggs  being  so  much 
larger.  They  are  used  for  the  same 
They  are 
purposes  as  hens’  eggs. 
bought  mainly  by  people  of 
foreign 
is  a  market  for all  the 
birth.  There 
duck  eggs  produced.

Weird  Advertisement  for  a  Wheel. 

From the  Philadelphia Record.

A  grewsome  advertisement  of  bicycle 
is  displayed  in  a  window  of  a 
fixtures 
store  on  Market  street.  A  bicycle  is 
in  the  window,  and  upon  it 
rigged  up 
sits  a  skeleton  scorcher. 
The  bony 
fingers  clutch  the  handle  bars  and  the 
fleshless  feet  are  firmly fixed  to  the  ped­
als.  The  skull  is  fitted  with  a  powerful 
electric  lamp,  and  the 
light  gleams 
very  weirdly  through  the  hollow  sockets 
where  the  eyes  had  once  been.  An 
electric  motor  supplies  the  power  which 
drives  the  wheels  around,  and  the  leg 
bones  rattle  up  and  down  rapidly  and 
the  jawbone  moves  regularly  as  though 
the  skeleton  were  busily  chewing  gum.

His  Credit  Was  Good.

is 

“ How 

it  that  you  are  always  in 
debt?  You  should  be ashamed  of  your­
self. ’ ’

“ Come  now,  don’t  be  too  hard  on  a 
in 

fellow. 
You  would,  perhaps,  be 
debt,  too  if  you  were  in  my  place.”

“ What  place?”
“ Able  to get  credit.”

Grand  Haven—Thomas  Kirby’s  Sons 
have  sold  the  sawmill  machinery  at  the 
old  Kirby  shipyard  to a  Cleveland ship­
building  firm.

His  Wife  Was  Worried.

Mrs.  Meek—Of  course  I  am  worried. 
As  a  dutiful  wife  I  can’t  help  feeling 
so;  for  I  am  sure  that  my  husband  is 
from  me,  and  1 
keeping  something 
shan’t  be  content  until  I  know  what 
it 
is.
Mrs.  Freak :  My  husband  is  keeping 
something  from  me,  too,  and  1  am  wor­
ried  because  I  know  what  it  is.

Mrs.  M eek: 
Mrs.  Freak: 

Indeed,  what  is  it?
It’s  money.

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under this 
head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion 
and  one cent a word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
»5 cents.  Advance payment.____________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

n n O MAUE  BY  BUYING  ho u se  and 
A»UUU  lot 137 Jefferson avenue, two  doors 
south of Cherry street.  House contains 9 rooms, 
bath room,  coal  furnace,  etc.  I  will  sell  this 
$1,000 below its value.  If not sold in  two wteks 
will rent It. 
I.  C.  Levi,  Star  Clothing  House, 
Grand Rapids. 
261
W ANTED- TO EXCHANGE GOOD BELDING 
real  estate  for  stock  of  merchandise  or 
good improved  stock  farm.  Address  Box  605; 
Beldlng, Mich. 
260
For sa le c h ea p- grocery  sto re  and
fixtures—complete  outfit.  Must  be  sold. 
259
Address D.  E  Rogers, Saranac, Mich. 
ITtOR RENT- CORNER STORE IN PRINCIPAL 
’  street;  occupied for seventeen years;  newly 
refitted;  one of best locations in city  for  drugs 
or groceries.  Low  rent  if  taken  Immediately. 
Address Lock Box 181, Petoskey, Mich. 
258
FOR  SALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 
merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  the  Ilaskel  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address 
262
No. 262, care M’chigan  I radesman. 
TO  EXCHANGE—AN  IMPROVED  80  ACRE 
farm  for stock of groceries.  Address  E. R. 
Reed, 115 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids, Mich.  256
IrtOR SALE—FIRST CLASS  MEAT MARKET, 
'  next door to H. J. Vinkemulker; good trade; 
elegant location.  Reason for selling, have other 
business  E  J.  Moore, Grand Rapids. Mich.  256 
rp O  EXCHANGE—HAR  «WARE  STOCK  FOR 
X  city  or  farm  property.  Address  1409 East 
Main St., Jackson, Mich. 
jtOR SALE—COMPLETE  SET  OF  TINNERS’ 
tools, all in good order.  Address E. E. Whit­

254

more, Mason, Mich. 

253

229

ONLY  THREE  MORE  OF  THOSE  8  FOOT 
round  front  show  cases  left;  price,  $7.50 
each.  Converse  Manufacturing  Co.,  Newaygo, 
Mich. 
257
W ANTED—1,000  CASES a  FRESH  EGG>,
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
249
Ithaca. Mich. 
H er e  is  a  s n a p—a  n a tio n a l  cash
Register, also Mosler safe, for sale  at a bar­
gain and on easy terms.  Address  E. L. Doherty 
242
& Co., 50 Howard street, Detroit, Mich. 
f 'OR  SALE—THE  WHITNEY DRUG  STOCK 

and  fixtures at  Plainwell.  Stock will inven­
tory $1,000 to $1,200;  fixtures are first-class;  rent 
low;  terms,  small  cash  payment,  long time  on 
balance.  Address F. E. Bushman,  South  Bend, 
Ind., or apply to  E.  J.  Anderson,  at  Plainwell, 
who is agent and has the keys to store. 

’  voicing  about  $1,200,  in  a  live  Michigan 
city;  good trade;  nearly all cash.  Good reasons 
for selling.  Address Box 165, Big Rapids.  2%

17IOR  SALE----STOCK  OF  GROCERIES,  IN-
i fOR  SALE—BUILDING  AND  STOCK  DRY 

1  goods,  shoes  and  groceries.  Center  small 
town;  splendid  farming  section;  strictly  cash 
business; nearest town ten miles; finely finished 
living rooms above;  stock  run  two  years.  Ad­
dress No. 235, care Michigan  Tradesman.  235
For  sa l e  c h e a p—stock  o f  seco n d.
hand  grocery  fixtures.  Address  Jos.  D- 
233
Powers. Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
PRACTICAL  MAN WITH CAPITAL  WILL 
find good investment in  a  well-established 
wholesale  grocery  business by  addressing P. P. 
Mlsner, Agent, Muskegon, Mich. 
203
For sa le or ex ch a n g e- fo u r m odern
cottages in good  repair—three  nearly  new, 
all rented—for sale, or will  exchange  for  clean 
stock of dry goods.  Address  Lester  &  Co.,  211 
194
North Ionia street, Grand Rapids. 
UBBER  STAMPS  AND  RUBBER  TYPE. 
160
Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 

IJ'OR  SALE—AT  A  BARGAIN  THE  WAT- 

’  rous’  drug  stock  and  fixtures,  located  at 
Newaygo.  Best location and stock in  the town. 
Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
ti'OR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
"   farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care M ichigan Trades­
man._______________________ 

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MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED—SITUATION  AS  SALESMAN  IN 
dry goods or general store;  five years’ex­
perience.  A1  references.  Address No. 247, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED—SITUATION AS  BOOK-KEEPER 
by a young  man  of  25.  Thoroughly  com­
petent and can make  himself  generally  useful 
in  an  office.  Best  of  references.  Ten  years’ 
business  experience.  Address  W., care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
23<
W ANTED---- SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN-
tral  mileage  books  Address,  stating 
price, Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman.  869

247

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Many men engage in business with  the  idea  that  ad­
vertising will  bring  success;  and  because  those  who 
have the opportunity of prating about the necessity of 
advertising have done it so persistently, the generality 
of the people have come  to  believe  what  they  say  is 
true.  But great  danger  and  frequent  disaster  result 
from this idea, much the same as it does when  people 
have learned that a stimulant is necessary  to  tone  up 
the system, and they consequently take “medicine” as 
some take advertising—without knowing the good from 
the bad.  The result is sick men—bad business.* When 
men  purchase a  pound  of  meat,  they  do  not  expect 
fifteen ounces of gristle;  and when they  place  an  ad­
vertisement in a paper which  claims  a  large  circula­
tion, only to find, later on, 4hat the results are  unsatis­
factory, because the paper is sent out gratuitously and 
its boasted circulation is mainly confined  to the  waste 
baskets of the people who  receive  it,  they  either  dis­
continue advertising altogether or mend their methods 
and transfer their patronage to  a  medium  having  an 
actual paid circulation, in which event the  Michigan 
Tradesman receives an order, because it reaches  reg­
ularly more paid subscribers in Michigan and Indiana 
than all other trade papers combined.

Rote Affidavit of Circulation 
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Travelers* Time  Tables.

CHICAGO “*w“  Tí£‘ *’

Going to Chicago.

Returning  Irani  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentwater.

Ly.  O’d. Rapids...........8:30am  1:25pm tll:00pir
A.r. Chicago.................  8:00pm 6:50pm  t 6:30ait
Lv. Chicago................ 7:80am  5:00pm til:SOpn
Ar. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:30pm t 6:10am
Ly. G'd.  Rapids............ 8:30am 1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............ 10:15am  ..........10:30pn
Ly. G’d Rapids...........  7:20am  5:30pm  ...........
Ar Manistee...............  12:05pm  10:25pm  ..........
Ar. Traverse City......  12:40pm 11:10pm  ..........
Ar. Charlevoix...........  3:15pm 
......................
Ar.  Petoskey..............  4:55pm 
.....................
p.m.

Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  0:56 

Manistee. Traverse City  and  Petoskey.

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CABS.

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

sleepers on night trains.
erse  City.

tRvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Geo. D e Ha v b n , General Pass. Agent.

DETROIT, Grand Rapids & Western.

Going to Detroit.

Retaining from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

To and from Lowell.

TH BO U SH   C A B  BBBVICX.

Gno. DbHavbx,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

Eastward.

tNo. 14  tNo. 16  tNo. 18  »No. & 
Lv. G’d Rapids.6:45am  10:10am  3:30pm  10:45pm
Ar.  Ionia........7:40am  11:17am  4:34pm  12:30am
Ar.  St. Johns..8:25am  12:10pm  5:23pm  i:57an
Ar.  Owosso__9:00am  1:10pm  6:03pm  3:25pm
Ar.E.SaglnawlO:50am 
  .........  8:00pm  6:40am
Ar. W.Bay C’yll :30am  ..........   8:35pm  7:15am
Ar. Flint........10:05am  ...........   7:05pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:05pm 
...........  9:50pm  7:30pm
Ar. Pontiac.. .10.-53am  2:57pm  8:25pm  6:10am 
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.. ..12:53pn 
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts....  5:12pm 
tDaily except Sunday.  *Daily.  Trains arrivt 
from the east, 6:35a.m.,  12:45p.m.,  5:07p.m.,  9:56
:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.

r.m.  Trains  arrive  from  the  west, 10:05a.m. 

E. H. H u s h e s ,  A. G. P. & T. A.,
Chicago
B e n .  F l e t c h e r .  Trav. Pass. Agt, 
J as. C a m p b e l l ,  City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

GRAND Rapids  & Indiana  Railroad

Sept.  37,  1896.

Northern  Dlv.

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

Southern  Dlv.

Leave  Arrivt
Cincinnati................................t  7:10am t  8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................t  2:00pm t  1:56pm
Cincinnati  ......................7:00pm * 7:25am
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  ear  to  Cincinnati 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

(JOINS W EST.

LvG’dRapids............... t7:35am tl:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..................9:00am 2:10pm  7:06pm
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am t4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pm
A. Alkquist, 

tKxcept Sunday.  »Daily.
Ticket Agt.Cn. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt.

C. L.  Lockwood,

s o m e   b a s t .

Every  Dollar

Invested  in  Tradesman  Company’s 
COUPON  BOOKS  win  yield  hand 
.  some returns in s a v i n g  book-keeping, 
besides the assurance that no charge 
la forgotten.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

Awnings  and  Tents

We  Make  flwning
Wlesinger M g  Go., Mirs,

Anything  from  a  window  to 
50 ft. roller awning.

2 West  Bridge  S t, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

T elep h o n e  1824.

The Best Truck 
On  Earth_—.

For handling  Syrup, Vin­

egar,  Molasses barrels, etc. 

For particulars address

Buys  Barrel  Truck Co.

7(1  K.  Fulton S t, GRAND  RAPID!

All flavors.  Ready for immediate use.  Simply 
requires beating.  Always  reliable and absolute­
ly pure.  All jobbers have it.  ¡Manufactured by

6ake Frosting
Awnings

Torgeson-Hawkiiis Go., Kalamazoo, Mich.

Tents,  Flags,  Window  Shades,  W ater- 
Proof  H orse  and  Wagon  Covers.

A w n in g   ag e n ts  are  n ow   due— ta k in g   orders  for  d e­
liv ery   n ext  sp rin g.  W h en   you   order  an  a w n in g   from  
an  a g e n t  you   pay  from   $3  to  $5  too  m uch.  T o   prove 
th is,  send size o f  yo u r  house and  w e   w ill  send  sam ples 
and  prices.

Haystack and ail  kinds  of Canvas Covers.

Sen d fo r  p rices and sam ples.

T.  Williams &  Bro.,

Offce 66s & 664 Northwestern Avenue,

C H IC A G O .

B e st  g o o d s  and  lo w e st  p rices  in  th e  State.  All 

w o rk  gua ran teed .  Sen d  fo r  prices.

C H A S .  A .  C O Y E ,  11  P e a rl  S tr e e t.

The  Leader  of  all  Bond  Papers

Magna Charta 

Made from New Rag Stock,
F ree 
from  Adulteration, 
Perfectly Sized,  Long  Fiber

Bond

A paper that will withstand 
the ravages of Time.

Carried  in  stock  in  all  the 
standard sizes and weights by

M i l  C O M

Manufacturer's  Agent,

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

Sell  the  People 
What  They  Want

A  liquid  glue 
or  cement  al­
ways  r e a d y  
for  use.
Does  not  dry 
down.
Does  not 

mould  or

spoil.

IT  STICKS

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“Its  as  good  as  Sapolio,”  when  they  try  to  sell  you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they  are  only t trying  to  get you  to  aid  their —g  
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new  article. 

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W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi- —3  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for other articles.

fimiummumummmiumuK

A ny  dealer  knows  that  a  Stove  Polish  which  other  manufacturers
try  to  imitate  is  the  Polish  for  him  to 
sell.  The  enormous  sale  of

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POLISH  WITH

The Modem STOVE POLISH
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proves  that  dealers are  friendly  to  it,  and that consumers will  accept no 
substitute  for  E N A M E L IN E .  Why?  Because  it’s  THE BEST!

w S E E I N Q   and  H AVIN G ^»

Seeing the  Dayton  Money  Weight  Scales,  their  quickness  and  profit-  If 
increasing power and  money-saving ability,  is but to 
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REALIZE

HAVE  YOU  SEEN  THEM?

that you  must have  it to  get your full  profits;  to  out-distance your competitors.

THE COMPUTING SCALE CO., Dayton, Ohio,  U.  S.  A.

halftone  engraving

mood  Engraving 

Photo  Engraving

.  .  .  A ll  kinds  of  . 

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^ENGRAVING^

In  best  manner,  at shortest  notice,  from  the  Engraving
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Department of the

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY

With the  latest  and  most  improved appliances and machinery  for the produc­
tion  of Illustrations and  Printing  Plates,  by all  the  leading processes,  complete 
on  the  premises, 
its facilities for the prompt production of the  best  work  are 
second to none  in  the  State.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids,  flieh.

