Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  21,1897.

Number  709

C H A R L E S   H A N Z E LH A N N

BROOM S  AND  W HISKS

MANUFACTURER  OF

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

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We carry a stock  of cake tallow for mill  use.

Nos.  laa and  ia«  Louts St., 

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Grand Rapids.

“Try It,” 
“ ’T w ill  P a y   You”

To handle

III

Clydesdale Soap

It sells rapidly, yields good  profits,  is well 
advertised.  Manufactured by

SHULTE  SOAP  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

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m orid  Challenger

Tobacco  Pall  Cover  and  Moistener  is  the  onlv  device  ever 
invented for  the purpose for which  it is  designed  that will  com­
pletely  satisfy  all  requirements, and  more  too.  “ There  are 
O thers,”  but none Jmt  ours  that  will  never  be  relegated  to  the 
rubbish  department.  It  is  a  fixture  well  and  stoutly  made  of 
heavy material,  is practically indestructible,  and  the  onlv  fixture 
that is a positive  and  direct  money  saver.  It  is  an  ornament 
and keeps your  tobacco  pails  well  dressed,  tidy,  neat  and  uni­
form all the  time, and as you  do  not  have  to  detach  it  from  the 
pail it  is  always  in  its  place.  It  is  the  only  device  that  does 
its work evenly and  keeps the goods in fresh  attractive  selling 
shape all  th  
time,  and  enables  you  to  sell  every  ounce  and 
pound you buy,  and more too.

We have over  a  hundred written  opinions  of  their  value  as 
an ornam ent,  as  a  convenience,  and  as  a  trade  winner and 
money saver.

The  Oppenheimer  Cigar  Company,  of  Saginaw,  are  using 
sixteen of them and write us that  they  fill all  points  completely, 
and at four times their cost would be cheap.

The  Michigan  price per dozen is nine  dollars, or seventy-five 
cents per cover.  Send us your order direct or  buy  of  any  of  our 
agents or jobbers.

The first  of  May  we  will  have  our  plant  running  and  be 
manufacturing them  ourselves, and will  be  able to turn out from 
one to three hundred  per day, and will also be ready to sell  terri­
tory, cities or states.  The exclusive right  to  sell  in  any  city  or 
state  will be determined by the number of Moisteners the  person 
desiring such  exclusive sale will purchase at his first bill.
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Devereaux &  Duff,

Respectfully, 

Owosso, Mich.

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M.  B.  W H EE LER  
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Manistee,  Mich.

A .  O.  W H EELER ,

Telephones

Electrical Construction 
Electrical Supplies
M.  B.  Wlieeler & Go.,

25 Fountain Street,
Grand  Rapids.

Representing  MISSOURI  TELEPHONE  MFO.  CO.,  St.  Louis,  Mo.

We sell phones for private  lines.
Write for information and catalogues.

Flow er! 
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 
in  Michigan  but  in  several  other 
only 
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., 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Crackers

Pulverize one in your  hand  and  feel  the  grain. 
Taste one and learn the flavor.
The best cracker to  buy  is  the  cracker  which  is 
best.  Grocers who  choose  this  motto  buy  Sey­
mour Crackers.
The quality of your  stock  is  the  main-shaft  of 
your business.
Seymours are all stamped  in the center with  an 
“S” (note border of ad).
Write for sample.  Manufactured only by

The New  York  Biscuit Go.

Grand  Rapids.

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Manitowoc  Lakeside  Peas 
have  sold  the  best  of  any 
line  of  canned  vegetables 
this  season. 
In  fact,  they 
are  now  hard to  secure  and 
will be until new pack.  Price 
is  advancing  daily.  This 
tells the  story.

THE  HURT  LflHDRETH  CO.,

flwnings

Tents,  Flags,  Window Shades,  Water* 
Proof  Horse and Wagon Covers.

Awning" agents  are  now  due—taking  orders  for  de­
livery’  next spring.  When  you  order  an  awning from 
an  agent  you  pay  from  $3  to  $5  too much.  To prove 
this, send size of  your house and we  will send samples 
and  prices.

Haystack and ail kinds of Canvas Covers.

Send for prices and samples.

T.  W illiam s &   Bro.,

Off ce 66a & 664 Northwestern Avenue,

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W e M ake  A w nings
Wiesinger Awning Go., Mlrs.,

Anything  from  a  window  to 
a 50 ft. roller awning.

2 West Bridge St, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Telephone  1834.

The Best Truck 
On  Earth  —

For handling Syrup, Vin* 

egar,  Molasses barrels, etc 

For particulars address

Buys Barrel Truck Co.

7C1  I. hlteo St, MUD RAPIDS.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  APRIL  21,  1897.

Number 709

FUTURE  FORECAST.

Speculative  Activity  Commonly  Re­

garded  as  Prosperity.

in  restoring  prosperity 

Unfortunately,  the  efficiency  of  the 
is 
new  tariff 
conjectural. 
It  may  revive  certain 
branches of home industry now depiessed 
by  foreign  competition,  and  it may  thus 
furnish  labor  with  more  ample  employ­
ment,  but  that 
it  will  go  further  than 
this  and  immediately  increase  the  vol­
ume  of  all  kinds  of  business  it  would 
be  hazardous  to  predict.  Just  so  far  as 
it 
increases  the  demand  for articles  of 
home  production 
it  will  diminish  that 
for  articles  produced  abroad,  and  thus 
the  importer  will  lose  some  of  the  trade 
he  now  possesses.  The  less,  too,  we  buy 
abroad  the  less  we  can  sell  there,  and 
thus  the  exporter  will  have  less  to  do 
and,  of  course,  will  have  his  profits 
lessened.  The  net  addition  to the wealth 
of  the  country  will  consequently  be 
small,  and  as  any  additional  revenue 
resulting  from  increased  duties  will  be 
drawn  from  the  pockets  of  our own  cit­
izens,  the  only  benefit  we  shall  receive 
increase  will  be  exemption 
from  the 
from  further  Government  bond 
issues.
On  the other  hand,  the  moral  effect  of 
industry  under  a  more  protec­
revived 
It 
tive  tariff  will  be  very  considerable. 
is  true,  as  the  free  traders 
insist,  that 
protection  benefits a  comparatively  few 
at  the  expense  of  the  great  mass,  but 
these  few,  as  long  as  they  are  dissatis­
fied,  are  a  cause  of  disturbance  out  of 
all  proportion  to  their  numbers,  and 
when  they  are  contented  and  cheerful 
they  diffuse cheerfulness  in  a  wide  cir­
cle  all  around  them.  The  multitude 
are  not  complaining  of  hard  times. 
They  are  as  well  off as  they  usually  are. 
They  are  reasonably  well 
employed 
and  are  well  paid ;  and  their  expendi­
tures  keep  the  ordinary  industries  of the 
country  going  on  in  the  ordinary  man­
ner.  The  talk  about  millions  of  people 
starving 
idleness,  of  thousands  of 
factories  standing  idle,  and  of  univer­
sally  prevalent  desolation  and  decay,  is 
rhetorical  exaggeration,  indulged  in  by 
men  who  are  more  desirous  of  produc­
ing  an  effect  than  they  are  of  telling the 
truth.

in 

Depression,  as  Gen.  Porter  recently 
said  of  Boston,  is  a  state  of  mind,  and 
like  all  states  of  mind,  it  is  produced 
by  the  contrast  of  present  conditions 
with  those  which  have  been  or  those 
which  are  desired.  While to  a  laboring 
man  earning  $2  a  day,  an  assured  in­
come  of  $3  a  day  seems  great  wealth,  to 
a  man  who  has  enjoyed  the  spending  of 
$100,000 a  year  a  reduction  to  $10,000 is 
poverty.  Dr.  Kane  tells  how  his  sail­
ors,  when  they  came  down  from  the 
Arctic  regions,  where  they  had  passed 
the  winter  in  a  cold  of  40 degrees below 
ther­
zero,  to  Labrador,  where  the 
mometer  marked  10  degrees 
above, 
found  the  temperature  oppressively  hot, 
but  we  here  in  New  York  think  that  10 
degrees  above  zero  is  pretty  wintry. 
It 
is  all  a  matter  of  comparison.  People 
complain  of hard  times,  not  because the 
country  is devastated  by  famine  or  pes 
tilence,  or because  they  suffer  for  want 
of  the  necessaries  of  life,  but because

they  are  not  all  getting  rich  as  fast  as 
they  were  a  few  years  ago.  Our  har­
vests  are good  and  our  exports  of  agri­
cultural  products 
immense;  our  mines 
yield  abundantly;  our  factories  turn  out 
more goods  than  can  be  consumed;  the 
building  of  new  buildings,  here  in  New 
York  at  least,  goes  briskly  on,  the 
streets  are  full  of  vehicles,  foot  passen­
gers,  and  bicycle  riders,  and  bustle  and 
activity,  during  business  hours,  every­
where  prevails.  From a  superficial  view 
of  things  nobody  would  suspect  the  ex­
istence  of  the  commercial  depression 
about  which  so  much  is  said.

is 

lots 

What  really 

lacking,  and  what  it 
is  the  absence  of  which  gives  rise  to 
complaint,  is  a  continually  increasing 
expansion  of  enterprise  like  that  which 
began  with  the  resumption  of  specie 
in  1879,  was  checked  by  the 
payments 
Baring  catastrophe 
in  1890,  and  was 
finally  stopped  by  the  crash  of  1893. 
During  these  fourteen  years  thousands 
of  miles  of  new  railroad  were  built, 
yielding  fabulous  profits  to  the  original 
builders;  new  towns  were  laid  out  by 
the  hundred,  and 
in  them  sold  at 
inflated  prices;  mines  were  opened 
which,  for a  while,  paid  handsome  div­
idends ;  all  sorts  of industrial businesses 
were  turned 
into  stock  companies  and 
their securities marketed at high figures ; 
wages  steadily  advanced  and  everybody 
felt  happy  except  the  farmers and plant­
ers,  whose  products,  under  the  compe­
tition  stimulated  by  the  multiplication 
of  transportation  facilities  by  land  and 
by  water,  declined  in  value.  The  tide 
was  rising,  and  those  who  were  borne 
along  upon 
it  thought,  as  men  at  such 
times  always  think,  that  it  would  go  on 
rising  forever.

Warning  of  the  precariousness  of  this 
feverish  prosperity  came  in  1890,  when 
the  failure  of  the  Barings  in  London 
demonstrated  the  visionary  nature  of 
their  Argentine  speculations,  which,  up 
to  that  time,  had  seemed  to  be 
im­
mensely  profitable.  What  might  have 
been  widespread  ruin  was  averted  in 
Great  Britain  by  the  leading  London 
banks,  headed  by  the  Bank  of  England, 
coming  as  a  body  to  the  rescue  of  the 
Barings,  and,  in  this  country,  by  the 
issue  of  Clearing  House  certificates  and 
by 
the  emission  of  Treasury  notes 
against  the  purchases  of  silver,  under 
to  the  amount  of 
the  Sherman  act, 
$5,000,000  per  month. 
In  Great  Britain 
the  remedy  was  effectual;  here 
it  pro­
duced  only  a  palliation  and  not  a  cure. 
In  1893  the  house  of  cards  which  had 
been  rearing  for  fourteen  years  tumbled 
to  pieces,  securities  held  by  people 
who  thought  them  as  good  as  gold 
proved  to  be  little  better  than  waste 
paper,  and  a  general  rush  was  made  to 
save  what  could  be  saved  from  their 
remains.  The  paroxysm  lasted  only  a 
few  months,  but  its  effect 
in  deterring 
the  public  from  embarking  on  a  fresh 
career of  speculation  has  not  yet  passed 
away.  This  is  what  people  mean  when 
they  talk  of  the  absence  of  prosperity. 
All  the  needful  activities  of  the  country 
indispensable  to 
continue,  everything 
life,  health,  and  comfort 
is  abundant, 
and  the  only  thing lacking  is the excite­
ment,  the  burry,  and  the  whirl  of  the

rapid  progress  in  material  development 
which  prevailed  prior  to  1893.

to 

That  these  past  four years of so-called 
stagnation and  depression  have  not  been 
years  of  absolute  ruin  is  proved  by  the 
abundance  of  capital  now  awaiting 
in­
vestment,  and  by  the  competition  of  its 
owners  for  securities  at  a  constantly 
falling  rate  of 
interest,  of  which  the 
Lake  Shore  and  the  New  York  Central 
railroad  companies  are  taking  advan­
tage  by  offering  only  334  per  cent,  per 
annum  on  the  renewal  of  loans  which 
thirty  years  ago  they  made  at  7  per 
cent.  Unless  there  was  plenty  of  cap­
ital  pressing  upon  the  market  besides 
that  represented  by  the  bonds  now  out 
standing,  the attempt  to  refund  them  at 
y/2  per  cent,  would  be  futile.  The  syn­
dicate  who  have  undertaken  the  opera­
tion  count  upon  the  pressure  of  this 
outside  capital 
force  the  present 
bondholders  to  accept  the  terms  offered 
them,  or,  failing  this,  to  help  them  dis­
pose  of  the  new  bonds  to  new  investors.
Upon  this  same  abundance  of capital, 
more  than  upon  anything  else,  rests  the 
reasonable  expectation  of  that  renewed 
speculative  activity  which  alone  will 
satisfy  the  craving  for  what  is  common­
ly  regarded  as  prosperity.  Whether  dur­
ing  the  four  years  which  have  elapsed 
since  1893  the  losses  sustained  in  that 
year  have  been  sufficienly  forgotten  to 
allow  a  fresh  swarm  of  plausible schem­
ers  to  find  victims,  is  a  question  which 
only  time  can  answer.  What  form  the 
new  craze  will  take,  and  what  will  be 
the 
it,  we  must  also  wait 
and  see. 
Its  coming  will  be  hindered 
by  the  same  cause  as  that which hinders 
the  undertaking  of 
legitimate  enter­
prise,  and  that  is,  the  continued  agita­
tion 
in  favor  of  free  silver,  and  the 
well-grounded  fear  that 
its  partisans 
may  triumph  in  1900.  This  fear damp­
ens  the  courage  of  investors  and  chills 
the  enthusiasm  of  those  who  would 
otherwise 
speculation. 
Until  it  is  finally  dissipated  no  fore­
cast  of  the  fuiure  can  be  made  with 
confidence.—Matthew  Maishall  in  New 
York  Sun.

intensity  of 

embark 

in 

The  Tradesman’s  Circulation. 

State  of  Michigan,  )
County  of  Kent. 

j ss*

follows: 

Henry  Patterson,  being  duly  sworn, 
deposes  and  says  as 
I  am 
pressman  in  the  office  of  the Tradesman 
Company  and  have  charge of  the presses 
and  folding  machine  in  that  establish­
ment.  The  regular  edition  of  the  issue 
of  April  21  comprises  6,500 copies.  And 
further  deponent  saith  not.

H e n r y   P a t t e r s o n .

Sworn  and  subscribed  to  before  me,  a 
in  and  tor  said  county, 

Notary  Public 
this  twenty-first  day of  April,  1897.
Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

H e n r y   B .  F a i r c h i l d , 

Mich. 

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Jesse  Owen,  who  has  been 

identified 
with  the  Valley  City  Milling  Co.  in  the 
capacity  of  head  miller  ever  since  the 
establishment  of  the  business,  thirteen 
years  ago,  sails  from  New  York  May  5 
on  the  St.  Paul  for a  three  months’  tour 
of  Europe.  This 
is  the  first  vacation 
of  any consequence  which  Mr.  Owen has 
taken  for three  years.

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Bicycles

News  and  Gossip of Interest to  Dealer 

and  Rider.

The  announcement  that  A.  A.  Zim­
merman,  the  ex-champion,  who  has 
been 
in  retirement  for  several  years, 
intends  to  return  to  the  track  this  sea­
son  has  aroused  widespread 
interest 
among  racing  men.  Zimmerman,  in  his 
long  career  in  this  country  and  abroad, 
proved  that  under  favorable  conditions 
he  was  without  a  peer.  Since  his  re­
tirement  the  question  of  a  champion 
has  been 
in  dispute.  E.  C.  Bald,  of 
Buffalo,  considered  himself  Zimmer­
man’s  successor  for  one  year,  but  last 
season  the  claims  of  Cooper,  Bald,  and 
others  for  championship  honors  com­
plicated  racing  affairs.
★   *  *

The  attempts  of  the  big  manufactur­
ers  to  maintain  a  standard  scale  of 
prices  for  high  grade  bicycles  this  sea­
son  has  proved  futile.  The  sale  of  me­
dium-priced  wheels  last  year  served  to 
increase the  demand  for  cheap bicycles; 
A  well-known  dealer,  who  is  handling a 
$50 wheel  this  season,  is  unable  to  sup­
ply  the demand.  He  says:  “ The  big 
manufacturers  refused  to  consent  to a 
reduction  in  prices.  The  result  is  that 
local  agents  of  the  various  $100  wheels 
are  compelled  to  cut  prices. 
I  know 
that  prospective  purchasers  can,  with­
out  trouble,  select  any  bicycle  cata­
logued  at $100  for $85  cash,  or  perhaps 
less. ”

*  *  *

Advices  from  England  show  that  bi­
cycles  of  this  country  are  being  sac­
rificed.  Last  year  the  American  mak­
ers,  who  anticipated  a  big  demand, 
sent  over  large  consignments.  A  great 
many  of  the  firms  did  not  consider  the 
demands  of  English  riders,  and  as  a 
consequence  their  wheels  did  not  find  a 
ready  market.  An English  exchange  of 
a  recent  date  says  that  the  American 
wheels  sent over  last  season  are  now be­
ing  sold  at  public  auction  for $10 and 
$15.  The  same  wheels 
in  this  country 
sold  for  $60  and  $75.  The  American 
firms,  however,  who  equipped 
their 
wheels  for  foreign  trade  are  said  to  be 
doing  nicely.

*  *  *

The  American  Cyclist  says:  “ We  re­
cently  saw  a  strange  sight  A  scorcher, 
with  head  down  and  tearing  along  at  a 
great  rate,  was  heading toward Hartford 
on  one  of  its best suburban roads.  About 
ten  feet  behind,  a  young woman,  sitting 
erect  and  looking  happy,  was  holding 
her own  with  the  pacemaker.  How  she 
could  do 
it  seemed  a  mystery  until  it 
was  discovered  that  the  wheelman  was 
towing  the  woman  by  means  of  a  wire 
firmly  fastened  to  each  machine.  If  this 
form  of  idiocy  becomes  popular,  there 
will  be  many  deaths. 
It  is  hardly  pos­
sible  to  conceive  of a  cyclist  in  a  more 
dangerous  position  than  was  this  girl.”

was  usually  possible  to  use  them,  and 
the  old-time  warning  signs  of  "N o   Bot­
tom”   were  not  called into requisition.

But  the  experience  of  the  present sea­
son  disabuses  the 
idea  that  the  im­
proved  conditions  were permanent.  The 
old-time  embargo  has  again  been  put 
into  operation,  with  all 
its  customary 
effectiveness,  giving  the  subject  of  road 
improvement  an  emphasis  which  it  was 
losing  under  the  apparent  change.  This 
is  not  only  the  case  here  in  Michigan, 
but  from  all  parts  of  the  country  come 
reports  of  paralysis  of  local  trade  on 
account  of  impassible  roads.

As  usual,  the  richest agricultural  lo­
calities  are  the  worst  to  suffer.  The 
condition  of  the  roads  in  all  the  prairie 
states  is  past  description.  It  is  reported 
that  in  some  of  the  counties  in  Iowa the 
usual  spring  session  of  the  courts  has 
been  postponed  until  fall  on  account  of 
the  impossibility of  reaching  the  county 
seat.  The  roads  are described  as  con­
tinuous  bogs  of  mud  which  only  sus­
tain 
like  the 
is 
old-fashioned  "stone  boat,”   and 
almost 
to 
make  their  way  to  draw these.  The  un­
usual  quantity  of  rain  which  has  made 
itself  so  manifest  in  the  floods  devasta­
ting  the  Southwest  seems  likely  to  keep 
up  the  yielding  consistency  of  these 
roads  for  an  indefinite  time.

it 
impossible  for  the  horses 

flat-bottomed  vehicles 

A  suggestive  consequence  of  the pres­
ent  conditions 
is  the  contrast  afforded 
by  the  few  roads  throughout  the  country 
which  have  received  such  improvement 
as  makes  them  proof  against  the  effects 
of  frosts  and  rains.  Towns  like  Grand 
Rapids  which  have  radiating systems  of 
improved  roads  are  accessible  to  all 
who  can  reach  such  roads.  The  rest  of 
the  country 
is  as  effectually  excluded 
as  though  removed  an  inaccessible  dis­
tance.  This  condition  is  not  so  definite­
ly  marked,  perhaps,  in  the  sandy  re­
gions  tributary  to  some  of  our gravel 
roads  as  in  other  soils;  but  even  with 
this  mitigation  the 
is  bad 
enough.

situation 

The  lesson  being  taught  by  the  pres­
ent  experience  will  have  its  effect  in 
the  movement  for  better  roads. 
It  will 
emphasize  the  proposition  that  the ordi­
nary  “ road  working”   is  not  road  im­
provement.  Already,  in  several  states, 
the  question  of  collection  of  the  high­
way  tax  in  money  instead  of  work,  and 
of 
intelligent 
supervision,  is  receiving  increased  at­
tention.

its  expenditure  under 

It  has  seemed 

to  those  who  have 
watched  the  progress  of  the  movement 
for  better  roads  that  it  was  distressingly 
slow.  The  task 
is  a  tremendous  one 
which  must  receive  the  co-operation  of 
all.  The  engaging  of  this  co-opeiation 
is the  most  serious  problem.  The  ex­
perience of  the  present  will  tend  to  the 
hastening  of  the  solution. 

N a t e .

Spring  Roads  an  Effective  Object 

Lesson.
Written for the Tradesman.

For  several  years  past  until  the  pres­
ent  the  comparatively  mild  winter  and 
early  springs  had  lessened  the  serious­
ness  of  the  usual  mud  blockade  attend­
ing  the  opening  of  the  season,  until  the 
impression  began  to  obtain  that  the 
matter  had  been  given  more importance 
than  it  deserved.  People  began  to  tell 
bow  it  used  to be  when  there  were  hard 
winters,  and  before  the  roads  weie  so 
much 
it  was  a 
“ gone-by”   reminiscence.  To  be  sure, 
the  roads  were  yet  bad  enough;  but  it j

improved,  as  though 

Wheels  in  His  Head.

W. J. Lampton In New York Snn.
And the man stood before me talking:
“ Verily, verily,” were his  words,
“ I have been by the smooth road,
The great road
Where the wheels are whirling hither  and  yon; 
Where the flowers bloom not,
Yet the  e are many bloomers;
Where there are no trees,
Yet 1 mbs are everywhere;
Where no cattle come,
Yet calves are  many;
Lean calves and fat,
Pretty calves and homely,
Old calves and young;
And stranger than the other strange things 
Was this:
That no calf of all those  calves 
Had more than one leg!”
Then the man ceased  speaking.
And I communed with myself, saying:
“ Verily, the wheels this man thought he saw 
Are in his own head.”
And I plumed myself upon my superior wisdom.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Private  Marks  on  Bicycles.

A  simple device  for  concealing  a  pri­
vate  mark  on  one’s  wheel  is  suggested 
by  the  chief  detective  of  a  wheelmen’s 
insurance  company.  In  the  event  of  the 
loss  of  a  wheel  the  identification of such 
a  mark,  known  only  to  the  rider,  is  in­
disputable  proof  of  ownership.  The 
plan 
is  that  every  owner of  a  bicycle 
should  have  a  private  mark  upon  his 
wheel,  but  so  concealed  that  the  closest 
scrutiny  by  one  who  does  not  know  it 
will  fail  to  discover  it. 
Instead  of  a 
mark  upon  the  saddle  or  saddle  post, 
where  a  thief  would  naturally 
look  for 
it,  he  suggests  that  a  portion  of  the 
enamel,  about  one 
square,  be 
scraped  from  the  frame of  the  machine. 
After all  traces  of  the  enamel  have been 
removed,  apply  a  coating  of  grease  and 
with  a  pointed  piece  of  steel  dipped  in 
carbolic  acid  draw  the  initials  or  pri­
vate  mark  through 
the 
acid  following  the  marking  of  the  steel 
point,  while  the  grease  keeps  it  from 
spreading.  After  allowing  the  acid  to 
eat 
into  the  tubing  the  grease  can  be 
rubbed  off  and  the  mark  or initial shows 
as  plainly  as  if  cut  into  the  steel  frame­
work.  One  coat  of  enamel  will  com­
pletely  hide  all  traces  of  the  mark. 
Should  any  question  as  to  the  owner­
ship  of  the  wheel arise,  the owner could,

the  grease, 

inch 

by  simply  scratching  off  the  enamel 
which  covered  his  mark,  at  once  prove 
his  claim.

A  Good  Observer.

“ Describe  briefly  the  way  a  woman 
gets  off  a  street  car,”   said  the  superin­
tendent  to  the  applicant  for  a  position 
as  conductor.

* * The  wrong  way,' ’  was  the  answer.
“ Correct,”   said  the  superintendent, 
and  the  applicant  was  straightway  en­
gaged. 

____
On  the  Wrong  Side.

Customer  (to  grocer  whose  weights 
have  long  been  under  suspicion)— You 
made  a  mistake  in  that  pound  of  sugar 
I  got  here  last  night.

Grocer— How  so,  sir?
Customer— Don’t  know. 

It  was  over­

weight.

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

GREAT  BICYCLES

THE WORLD 
THE HAMILTON 
THE AMERICA

Write  for  Catalogues  and  Prices.  A  few  more  good 

Agents Want'd.

ADAMS  &  HART,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

State Distributi ng Agents.

LADIES’  CLIPPERS

Are made in two styles, a single tube and a double 
tube frame—in  several colors  and  finishes, calcu­
lated to meet the requirements of those of refined 
and  modest  tastes.  Equipped  with  the  most 
satisfactory ladies’ saddle known  and  fitted  with 
wood  dress  and  aluminum  chain  guards  th at 
guard.

The single tube  Clipper is beyond  a   question 
of doubt the most comfortable, durable and roomy 
mount ever devised for ladies.  The single frame- 
tube allows  more room  for a   perfect mount,  and, 
when mounted, skirts hang straight and graceful. 
This  model  is  more  expensive  to construct  and 
costs  more  than  any  other  style, It is  therefore 
found only in the high grade class.
s f c s J i

ipiD S  (IrCLE
ÍAPÍÜ3 ,

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.

Studley  &  Jarvis,

Qrand Rapids. Mich.

Sampling  In  City  and  Country. 

Stroller In Grocery World.

You  country  grocers  don’t  know  what 
sampling  means.  A  boy  or  a  woman 
takes  a  prune  from  you  and  you  think 
you’re  deeply  injured.  You  want  to  do 
business  in  the  city.  That’s  where  you 
get  the  sampling  habit  worked  on  you.
Several  days  ago  I  went  into one  of 
the  largest  retail  grocery  sores  in  Phil­
1  suppose  that  store  does  as 
adelphia. 
much  business and  of  as  good  a  class  as 
any  one  store  in  Philadelphia. 
It  is  a 
first-class  place  in  every  respect.

I  stood  near  the  door  for  several  min­
utes  and  I  tell  you  frankly  that  I  had 
my  eyes  opened  to  the  sampling  evil. 
I  thought  I  understood  something  about 
it  before,  but  I  never  had.

The  particular  store  I  refer  to  is  a 
great  believer 
in  displaying  goods 
where  people  can  see  them.  The  man­
ager  told  me  this  several  months  ago. 
You  go 
in  there  and  you're  perfectly 
bewildered  by  the  maze  of  goods  all 
about  you.  Piles  of  this  and  that,  open 
boxes  and  barrels,  all  within  easy  reach 
of  any  fingers  that  see  fit  to  grab.

Near  the  door  where  I  stood  was  a 
long  table  covered  with  different  varie­
ties  of  cheese,  all  open.  There  was  the 
regular  New  York 
cheese, 
sweitzer,  pineapple  and  several  others, 
and  as  orders  would  be  given  for one 
sort  or  another,  the  salesmen  would  go 
to  this  table  and  cut  off the  necessary 
piece. 
There  were  several  knives
handy,  and  it  was  a  perfect  paradise  for 
the  sampler  hunting  the  chance  to  get 
his  fill  of  free  cheese.

cream 

As  I  stood  there  an  old  gentleman  en­
tered,  accompanied  by  a  young  lady. 
The  lady  stepped  to  the  counter  and  the 
old  gentleman  strolled  around,  seeking 
what  he  might  devour  Pretty  soon  his 
eye  spied  the  cheese  and  he  made  for 
it  like  a  chicken  after  corn. 
In  order 
that  be  might  do  justice  to the occasion, 
be  carefully  laid  his  packages  down  on 
a  chair.  Then  he  started 
in,  begin­
ning  at  one  end  of  the  table  and cutting 
off  big  chunks  of  every  kind  of  cheese 
displayed.  Once  a  salesman  came  to 
cut  off  a  piece  to  fill  an  order,  and  el­
bowed  the  old  fellow  out  of  the  way. 
The  latter,  with  his  mouth  bulging  with 
cheese,  glared  at  him  like  you’ve  seen 
a  dog  disturbed  at  a  bone.
That  old  man  must  have  eaten  at 
least  half  a  pound  of  cheese.  This  may 
seem 
incredible,  but  you  calculate  the 
aggregate  weight  of  good-sized  chunks 
off  four  or five  cheeses,  and  see  where 
you  are. 

Near  the  cheese  table  was  an  open 
box  of  Sultana  wafers. 
I  counted  six 
women  who  stooped  as  they  passed  and 
cribbed  one  or  two  of these.  One  wom­
an  took  three  and  put  two  in her pocket. 
They  all  did 
it  with  the  utmost  non­
chalance,  as  if  there  was  a "T akeO ne”  
sign  in  sight.

During  the  week  that  preceded  the 
this  store,  the  firm  had 
day  I  was 
been 
introducing  a  special  variety  of 
molasses  candy  of  their  own  make,  and 
on  the  counter  to  the  left  of  the  main 
entrance  was  a  big  tray  of 
it.  Well,  it 
would  have  made  your  eyes  open  to  see 
that  melt  away.  Almost everybody  who 
came 
in  took  a  whack  at  it,  and  one 
little  girl  about  13  years  old,  who  came 
in  with  her  mother,  filled  one  of  the 
biggest  mouths  I  ever saw  so  full  that 
both  cheeks  bulged  out  like  balloons. 
She  must  have  consumed  at  least an 
eighth  of  a  pound.  This  tray  of  candy, 
when  I  left,  was  very  perceptibly  lower 
than  when  I  first  saw  it.  I  don't  believe 
there  was  an  ounce  less  than  a  pound 
taken  while  I  was  there,  and  that  was 
only  ten  minutes.

By  and  by  I  got  to  the  manager,  and 

in 

I  said  to  him :

‘ ‘ My  dear  man,  have  you  any  idea 
how  the  pigs  that  come  to  your  store 
make  free  lunches  from  your  stock?”

He'  looked  at  me  and  smiled,  and 
then  I told  him about  the  old  gentleman 
who  had  gotten  away  with  the  cheese.

‘ ‘ My  boy,”   he  said, 

impressively, 
‘ ‘ sampling 
is  a  necessary  evil  of  the 
retail  grocery  business.  You  can’t  get 
away  from 
it,  no  matter  what  you  do. 
The  people  who  come  to a  grocery  store 
seem  to  look  on  it  as  their  right  to sam­
ple anything  within  reach.  It isn’t their

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

S

right,  but  as  soon  as  you  begin  to  tell 
them  so,  you  make  them  mad,  and there 
goes  their  trade.  Do  you  see?”

“ That’s  logic,”   I  said,  ‘ ‘and  yet  the 
amount  this  store  loses 
in  a  year  by 
sampling  must  be  enormous,  judging 
from  what  I’ve  seen  just  in  this  ten 
minutes. ”

" I t  is  enormous,”   he admitted,  "but 
you  can’t  help  it.  I  used  tc  have  differ­
ent 
ideas  about  sampling,”   he  con­
tinued. 
“ When  I  was  a  clerk  in  a 
country  store  I  used  to  devise  schemes 
to  stop  it.  The  very  first  one  I  put  in 
operation  nearly  got  me discharged,  and 
since  that  I’ve  looked  with  a  more  le 
nient  eye  upon  the  thing.”

“ What  was  the  scheme?”   I  asked.
‘ ‘ Well,  I  had  a  card  printed,”   he 
said,  “ that  I  thought  was  one  of  the 
cleverest  things  I  ever  saw. 
I  had  a 
series  of  little  tables  modeled  after  the 
regular  weights  and  measures 
in  the 
‘ 12  inches  1  foot,’ 
arithmetic,  such  as 
and  so  on.

“ My  tables  read  like  this : 

‘ Twenty 
cakes  make  one  pound, ’ ‘ Twelve  free 
slices  of  cheese  make  one  pound,  which 
sells  for  20  cents, ’  or  whatever  the price 
was.  My  idea  was  that  the  people  who 
were  doing  free  eating  would  be  led  to 
see  by  this  card  how  expensive  the 
practice  was  to  the  store. ”
“ Were  they?”   I  asked.
The  manager  laughed. 

“ Well,  hard­
ly ,”   he  said,  “ at  least  not  in  the  way  I 
expected.  One  day  one  of  the  most 
persistent  samplers  we  had—a  woman— 
was 
in  the  store,  munching  away  on 
some  raisins  she  picked  out  of  a  box. 
Just  after  her  second  handful  I  handed 
her  one  of  these  cards.  She  took  it, 
went  to  all  the  trouble  of  fishing  out  her 
glasses,  and  then  read 
it.  She  wasn’t 
a  fool,  and  she  saw  the  drift  of  it  at 
once.  She  had  left  a  good-sized  order, 
but  she  canceled  it  and  then  stalked  out 
of  the  store.  My  employer  heard  of 
it 
and  gave  me  thé  worst  dressing  down  I 
ever  had. 
It  was  pretty  tough  on  me, 
because  I  had  worked  the  scheme  with 
his  consent,  but  I  had  to  take  the  brunt 
of  it,  all  the  same.  After  that  we  never 
worked  any  more  schemes  to  stop 
sampling.”

As  I  passed  the  cheese  table  on  my 
two  small  boys  who  had 
way  out, 
it  as  a good  thing  were  cheer­
sighted 
fully  reducing  the  cheese  stock,  but  it 
wasn’t  any  of  my  business.

I  go 

Shifting  the  Burdens  of  Business.
An  elderly  gentleman  engaged 

in 
business  for  some  twenty  years  past  in 
New  York  and  its  vicinity,  and  which 
requires  him  to  visit  various  lines  of 
trade,  said  recently:  “ I  find  in  the  last 
few  months  that  I  am  obliged  to  begin 
all  over  again. 
into  a  concern 
with  which  I  have  had  dealings  for 
years,  and  am  surprised  to  find  that  the 
man  with  whom  I  have  been transacting 
my  business  no longer sits  at  the  desk. 
I  ask  for  him  and  am  told  that  he  is  no 
longer  with  the  concern.  Another,  and 
in  many  cases  a  younger,  man 
is  there 
instead. 
is  almost  like  presenting 
my  business  anew.  There  is  a  percep­
tible 
interruption  to  relations  and  an 
immense  amount  of  new  work  to  be 
done  before  I  can  get back  to the  posi­
tion  I  occupied  under  the  old  manage­
ment.  This  I  meet  almost  universally. 
Some  establishments  have  seized  upon 
the  present  opportunity  to  rid  them­
selves  of  dead  wood.  Others  have  hired 
cheaper  help.  Others  have  seen  the  op­
portunity  of  pensioning  men  long  m 
their  employ  and 
superseding  their 
somewhat  old-fogy  management  by  that 
of  younger  men  up  to  date.  Were  I  to 
tell  you  the  number of  cases  in  which 
these  circumstances  come  to  light,  you 
would  be astonished.”

It 

She  Talks  Bargains.

“ I  don’t  see  why  you  object  to  have 

your wife  buy  at  department  stores. ”  

‘ ‘ You  see,  she  does  nothing  but  tell 
me  about  the  bargains  she  gets;  she 
won’t  talk  of anything  else.”

In  1831  there  were  only  five trades and 
professions  open  to  women  in  England. 
To-day  there are  over  15a

And  we  are  distribut­
ing agents  for  the little 
corner  of the  world 
known  as  Western 
Michigan.

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Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Baraga—J.  B.  Crebassa  has  opened  a 

general  store.

Stanton— Harrv  Hempstead will  short­

ly  open  a  confectionery  store.

Grand  Ledge—A.  Clement  Davis  has 
opened  a  shoe  store at  211  North  Bridge 
street.

Alpena— Morris  Cohen  succeeds  J. 
in  the  boot  and  shoe 

Cohen  &  Bro. 
business.

Union  City— Rupright  &  Lipe  suc­
ceed  Hitchcock  &  Rupright  in  the  dry 
goods  business.

Hopkins  Station—Albert  A.  Kemann 
has  removed  to  Petoskev,  where  he  will 
open  a  cigar  factory.

Montgomery— Hull  &  McCuen,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have  dissolved.  E.  S.  Hull 
continues  the  business.

Sturgis—Wm.  Stroud  has  opened  a 
new  grocery  store  under  the  manage­
ment of  E.  C.  Banker.

Zeeland—B.  Hellentbal  has  10,000 
dozen  eggs  in  bis  cold  storage  plant.  It 
has  a  capacity  of  47,000 dozen.

Nashville—H.  L.  VValrath  has sold his 
harness  shop  to  his  brother,  C.  L.  VVal­
rath,  who  has  taken  possession.

Saginaw— Marskey  Bros.  &  Co., 
Limited,  succeed  Marskey  Bros.  &  Co. 
in  the  wholesale  notion  business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Chas.  H.  McBean 
continues  the  meat  business  formerly 
carried  on  by  Newton  &  McBean.

Cadillac—Charles  E.  Pulver's  meat 
market  has  been  equipped  with  a three- 
horse power engine  with  steam  boiler.

South  Ovid— P.  J.  St.  Clair  has 
shipped  his  grocery  stock  to  Bradnor, 
Ohio,  where  he  will  re  engage  in  trade.
Crystal  Falls—The  Crystal  Falls  Pro­
vision  Co.,  not 
incorporated,  succeeds 
John  Fisher  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Ionia—Simpson  &  Peer  have 

leased 
the  store  building  adjoining  their  pres­
ent  location  and  connected  the  two  with 
an  archway.

Ann  Arbor— Charles  H.  Allmand, 
formerly  of  Jacobs &  Allmand, has  taken 
the  management  of  the  shoe  department 
of  Mack  &  Co.

Greenville— E.  A.  Kemp  has  sold  out 
his 
interest  in  the  book  store  of  Kemp 
&  Edsall  to  his  partner,  Percy  D.  Ed- 
sall,  who  will  continue  the  business.

interest  of  J.  W.  Dudley 

Howard  City— Sid  V.  Bullock  will 
shortly  remove  his  drug  stock  from Tru- 
fant  to  this  place,  locating  in  the  store 
building  adjacent  to  Gibbs’  drug  store.'
Barryton— Preston  W.  Bartlett  has  re­
tired  from  the  firm  of  Skelton  &  Bart­
lett,  general  dealers.  The  business  will 
be  continued  by  the  remaining  partner.
Sparta—S.  Hesseltine  has  purchased 
the 
in  the 
bazaar  establishment  of  Hesseltine  & 
Dudley  and  will  continue  the  business.
Ann  Arbor— Dean  Seabolt  and  Delos 
Davis  have  formed  a  copartnership  for 
carrying  on  the  grocery  business  for­
merly  owned  by  Samuel  Baumgardner.
Alpena—Jos.  Neisse  and  Samuel  St. 
Peter,  bazaar dealers,  have  consolidated 
their  stocks  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Neisse  &  St. 
Peter.

Wayland—J.  C.  Yeakey  has  bought  a 
half  interest  in  the  meat  market  of  H. 
P.  Hudson,  and 
the  firm  name  will 
hereafter  be  known  as  Hudson  & 
Yeakey.

Saginaw—Chas.  L.  Ahlgrin,  who  has 
been  in  the  employ  of  F.  J.  Horner  for 
the  past  four  years,  has  opened  a  meat 
market  on  his  own  account  at  522  Pot­
ter street.

Grand  Ledge—Mitton  &  Counts  have 
dissolved  partnership.  Mr.  Mitton  has 
taken  the  tailoring  department  and  Mr. 
Courts  will  continue the  men’s  furnish­
ing  goods  and  shirt  business.

Hilliards— Frank  Gwizdala’s  general 
stock  was  nearly  all  destroyed  by  fire 
Sunday  morning  while  the  owner  was at 
church.  The  building  was  saved  in  a 
somewhat  damaged  condition.

Petoskey— T.  A.  Price,  formerly  en­
gaged  in  the  meat  and  fruit  business  at 
Kalkaska,  has  purchased  the  store  fix­
tures  and  furniture  of  L.  Pettengill  and 
opened  a  market  at  this  place.

Saugatuck— E.  Sherwood,  of  Allegan, 
will  have  charge  of  Bosman  &  Pieters’ 
clothing  store  here  the  coming  season. 
Jas.  Koning  will  resume  soliciting  for 
Chicago  and  Milwaukee 
commission 
houses.

Paris—J.  L.  Davenport  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  to  W.  M.  San­
ford,  who  will  combine  same  with  his 
grain  and  elevator  business.  Daven­
port  &  Co.  will  continue  in  the  livery 
business.

Byron— Fred  E.  Close  &  Co.  have  let 
the  contract  to  McBride  &  Berry,  of 
Owosso,  to tear down  their  elevator  here 
and  move  it  to  Durand.  The  building 
will  be  refitted  with  new  and  first-class 
machinery.

Caledonia—Geo.  N.  Davis,  who  came 
into  possession  of  the  grain  elevator 
here  by  the  defalcation  of  his  partner, 
John  McQueen,  has  sold  the  property 
to  Manuel  Wilson,  who  will  continue 
the business.

Romeo— The  stockholders  of  the First 
National  Bank  have  voted  to  go  into 
voluntary  liquidation  and 
reorganize 
under the  State  law,  adopting  the  name 
of  the  Romeo  Savings  Bank.  The  re­
organization  takes  place  on  May  1.

Hopkins  Station—S.  B.  Lovall  now 
conducts  three  undertaking  establish­
ments,  having  rooms  at  North  Dorr, 
Wayland  and 
The 
branch  at  Wayland  was opened recently, 
with  Gus  Sooy,  of  that  village,  as  man­
ager.

in  this  village. 

Alma—Chas.  E.  Mahan  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  E.  A.  Bivins  and  Chas. 
.Rhodes,  who  will  continue  the  business 
under  the  style  of  Bivins  &  Rhodes. 
Mr.  Mahan  will  hereafter  devote  his en­
tire  attention  to  his  Elk  Rapids  drug 
store.

Bay  City—The  probable  passage  of 
the  Dingley  bill  has  encouraged  many 
farmers  to  prepare  for  large crops  of 
chicory.  Representatives  of  the  Mich­
igan  Chicory  Co.  have  already  con­
tracted  for  400  acres  to  be  raised  this 
year.  The  proposed  duty 
is  1  cent  a 
pound.

Evart— Hon.  Avery  A.  Smith,  of 
Hillsdale,  has  purchased  the  interest  of 
F.  W.  Elliott  in  the  Evart  Roller  Mills 
and  will  take  possession  as  soon  as  he 
can  close  up  some  business  matters  he 
has  now  in  hand.  Mr.  Smith  will  move 
here  and  give  the  business  his  personal 
attention.

Midland-----The 

suit  brought  here
against  A.  O.  Tumey,  of  Detroit,  for 
selling  adulterated  mustard  was  lost  to 
the  State.  The  judge  charged  the  jury 
that  the 
ignorance  on  the  part  of  the 
wholesaler  as  to  the  condition  of  the 
goods  was  sufficient  to  exonerate  him 
from  blame.

Grand  Marais— Hargrave  &  Hill  are 
enlarging  their already  large  store.  Un­
der the  management  of  R.  C.  Hill,  this 
business  has  developed  into  one  of  the 
largest 
the  county.  Morse  & 
Schneider  are also building an addition, 
in  which  to  put  a  stock  of  drugs  and 
have a meat market.

in 

Detroit— W.  A.  McGraw  has  merged 
his  wholesale  shoe  business  into  a  cor­
poration  under  the  style  of  the  Michi­
gan  Shoe  Co.  The  capital  stock  $100,- 
000,  of  which  §40,000  is  paid  in,  as  fol­
lows:  W.  A.  McGraw,  1.000  shares; 
C.  E.  Locke,  500;  W.  C.  Stoepel,  1;  W. 
B.  Rice,  1,000;  L.  P.  Bartlett,  Jr.,  500; 
E.  S.  Converse,  1,000.

in  hardware  and 

Evart—The  E.  F.  Birdsall  Co.,  deal­
er 
implements,  has 
been  re-incorporated  for  a  period  of 
twenty  years,  David  Wolf  having  sold 
his  stock 
in  the  company  to  the  other 
members  of  the  corporation.  The  new 
company  changes  its  corporate  name  by 
‘ ’ The" 
dropping  the 
in  front  of  the 
name,  making 
it  E.  F.  Birdsall  Co., 
Limited.  Thomas  Harvey  is  Chairman 
of  the  company,  J.  M.  Morley  Treas- 
uier,  and  E.  F.  Birdsall  General  Man­
ager  and  Secretary.

Watervliet—A  business  man  of  this 
place  is  now  a  much  more  firm  believer 
in  the  efficacy  of  newspaper advertising 
than  he  was  previous  to  a  recent experi­
ence.  Having  waited 
in  vain  for  the 
return  of  a  wheelbarrow  loaned  to  some 
forgotten  individual  he  inserted  a  liner 
in  a 
local  paper  asking  the  unknown 
borrower to  return  the  article  forthwith. 
The  same  afternoon  the  paper  was  pub­
lished  five  wheelbarrows  made  their  ap­
pearance  at  his  store,  each  propelled  by 
a  well-known  citizen,  and  five  separate 
apologies  were  made  to  the  astonished 
advertiser  for  not having before returned 
the  missing  vehicle.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Douglas— Frank  Wade  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  Weed  &  Co.  basket  fac­
tory  to  R.  M.  Moore.

Sault  Ste.  Marie— j.  B.  &  R.  C. 
Sweatt  succeed  J.  B.  Sweatt  in  the lum­
ber and  planing  mill  business.

Luther-----Negotiations  with  L.  G.
Steadman,  of  Reed  City,  are 
in  prog­
ress,  looking  to  the  putting  in  of  a grist 
mill  at  this  place.

Saranac—Walter  &  Pool 

succeed 
Shuburgh  &  Pool  in  the  feed  mill  busi­
ness,  H.  A.  Shuburgh  having  sold  his 
half  interest  to  John  M.  Walter.

Lansing— The  local  branch  of  the  U. 
S.  Baking  Co.  will  shortly  discontinue 
manufacturing  goods,  such  goods  as  are 
sold  being  supplied  by  the  Detroit  fac­
tory.

Menominee— Perley,  Lowe  &  Co.,  of 
Chicago,  have  purchased  the  entire  cut 
of  the  H.  Witbeck  Co.  mill,  amounting 
to  35,000,000  feet.  The  consideration 
is $500,000.

Jackson—John  F.  Galster  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  Monitor  Water  Purifier 
Co.  to  C.  H.  Snyder and  Harry  Holton, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  same  style.

Freesoil— Manigold,  Stevens  &  Co. 
lumber  for  the 
have  finished  sawing 
season.  They  will  move  their  mill  to 
town  as  soon  as  possible  and  make 
shingles  during  the  summer.

Portland— Emerson  D.  Verity  has 
leased  the  L.  C.  Wood  building  and 
has  purchased  the  necessary  machinery 
to  embark 
in  the  manufacture  of  the 
Invincible  washing  machine.

Marquette— Iron  ore 

is  moving.  As 
yet  very  little  has  come  down  from  the 
mines.  Nearly  all  the  mines  on  this 
range have  worked  this  winter  and  have 
accumulated  large  stock  piles.

Conway—Austin &  Thomas have  been 
repairing 
shingle  mill,  getting 
ready  for  work  as  soon  as  the  ice  is out, 
so  they  can  bring  their  timber  from 
Pickerel  Lake.  They  will  have  a  cut 
of over four million this summer!

the 

Portland— The Wm.  Love  Lumber  Co. 
has  purchased  240  acres  of  timber  ad­
joining  its  mill  property  near  Mecosta. 
It  now  owns  1,380 acres  and 
is  finding 
a  ready  sale  for  the  cedar.  Mr.  Love 
divides  his  time  between  the  Mecosta 
enterprise  and  bis  Portland  store.

Coloma— The  Kremer  &  Gilson  Fruit 
Package  Co.  has  its  new factory in oper­
ation. 
It  is  a  direct  competitor  of  P. 
C.  Wimer's  basket  factory  and  prices 
on  crates  have  been  cut  from  I2>£  cents 
to  8  cents—and  may  go  still  lower.

Detroit—Articles 

incorporating  the 
Chase  Construction  Co.  have  been  filed. 
is  the  construction  of  elec­
The  object 
tric  railways,  electric 
lighting  plants, 
water  works,  etc.  Capital,  $25,000,  one- 
half  paid 
incorporators  are 
George  E.  Fisher,  Orville  P.  and  Ed­
ward  N.  Chase.

in.  The 

Copemish—The  property  of  the  Co- 
pemish  Roller  Mill  Co.  was  recently 
bid 
in  at  execution  sale  by  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Manistee  for $3,500, 
the  amount  of  the  first  judgment  held 
by  the  Bank  against  the  mill  company, 
the  total  claim  of  the  Bank  being 
$5,620.16,  exclusive  of  costs.

in  dividends 

Rockland— J.  H.  Elmore  and  Frank 
Vanduzen,  of  Green  Bay,  Wis.,  have 
secured  options  on  the  Minnesota  and 
National  copper  mines  at  this  place. 
These are  mass  mines  and  paid  nearly 
$2,000,000 
in  the  early 
days  of  Lake  Superior  mining.  Both 
have  been  idle  for  more  than  ten  years.
Pontiac— The  cereal  mill  project  has 
been  abandoned  on  account  of  the  in­
in  charge  to  raise  the 
ability  of  those 
amount  of 
subscription  required  to 
meet  the  proposition  made  by  the  pro­
moters  of 
the  project.  However, 
Schrock  Bros,  will  go ahead  and  equip 
a  cereal  mill  of  small  capacity,  to make 
three  or  four  different  varieties  of  high 
grade  cereals,  in  place  of  eight  or  ten, 
as  was  intended  in  the  proposed  cereal 
mill.

Muskegon—Owing  to  the  low  prices 
of  manufactured  goods 
in  the  cracker 
line,  the  managers  of  the  United  States 
Baking  Co.  have  decided  to temporarily 
close  the  manufacturing  department  of 
the  Muskegon  branch  of  this  company 
by  the  end  of  this  month.  The  factory 
will  be  continued  as  a  distributing  de­
pot  for  the  same  territory  heretofore 
supplied  from  this  point.  Goods  will 
be 
in  carlots,  mostly 
from  the  bakery  at  Detroit.

shipped  here 

Negaunee— The  Chicago  &  North­
western  Railway  has  secured  an  injunc­
tion  against  the  Lake  Superior  & 
Ishpeming,  restraining  the  new  road 
its  line  to  the  Queen 
from  completing 
mine,  at  this  place,  which  property 
is 
expected  to  forward  most  of  its  produc­
tion  this  season  over  the  Lake  Superior 
&  Ishpeming. 
injunction  will 
probably  be  dissolved  or  the  matter 
otherwise  settled  in  a  short  time  so  that 
no  serious  inconvenience  will  be caused 
either  shipper  or  railroad.

The 

Muskegon—John  Torrent  has  secured 
the  right  to  nearly  all  the  log  marks 
represented  along  Muskegon  River,  ex­
cept  those  owned  by  those  who  are  ac­
tive  operators.  He probably  has  secured 
rights  to  500  such  marks  or  more.  Some 
day  he  may  try  to  raise  the  deadheads 
and  make  lumber  of  them,  for  these 
logs  do  not  rot  when  completely  under 
water.  The  distance  from  this  city  to 
Higgin’s  Lake,  above  Houghton  Lake, 
is  about  350 miles,  and  these  dead  head 
logs  are  found  in  places  all  along. 
It 
is  estimated  that fully  10,000,000  feet  of 
timber can be recovered  in this manner

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6

Grand  Rapids  Qossip
The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  has  sold  a 
new  stock  to  Hansen  &  Son,  at Trufant.
Wattell  &  Baker  succeed  S.  Van  Der 
Meer  &-Co.  in  the  wholesale  and  retail 
flour,  feed,  hay  and  wood  business.

Chas.  W.  Greulich  is  undertaking  to 
interest  a  number  of  business  men  in  a 
project  to  organize  a  corporation  to  em­
bark  in  the  retail  clothing  business.

Thos.  W.  Strahan  will  put  a  new 
front 
in  his  block  at  52  and  54  West 
Bridge  street,  which  he  will  occupy 
after  July  1  with  a  stock  of* clothing.

Isadore  S.  Given,  who  conducts  shoe 
stores  at  Lansing  and  Detroit,  has 
leased  the  vacant  store  at  51  Monroe 
street and will remove  his  Lansing  stock 
to  that  location.

M.  H.  Barber,  formerly  of  Fisher  & 
Barber,  has  purchased  the  grocery stock 
of  C.  M.  House,  at  588  South  Division 
street,  and will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Brown,  Hall  &  Co.  have  leased  the 
new  Godfrey  block,  corner  of  North 
Ionia  and  Louis  streets,  and  will  con­
centrate  the  stocks  on  Pearl  and  South 
Division  streets  at  that  location.

The  Grand  Rapids  Desk  Co.  has  pur­
chased  the  Sproul  &  McGurrin  factory, 
at  South  Grand  Rapids,  and  added  the 
necessary  machinery  to  enable  the  cor­
poration  to  operate  it  as  a  duplicate  of 
its  original  plant.

A.  Van  Hoe  &  Son,  formerly engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Kalamazoo, 
but  for  the  past  three  years  residents  of 
this  city,  have  re-engaged 
in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Kalamazoo.  The  Wor­
den  Grocery  Co  furnished  the  stock.

John  Koster,  of  Spring  Lake,  who  has 
spent  many  years  behind  the  counter 
for  the 
late  J.  B.  Perham  and  other 
merchants  of  this  place,  has  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  at  the  old  Per­
ham  location.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co. 
has  the  order  for  the  stock.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— No  change  has  occurred  since 
April  14.  Considering  the  extensive 
preparation  for  the  manufacture  of  beet 
sugar  in  several  states,  it  seems  that the 
refiners  are  not  certain  of  the  full  con­
trol  of  the  market  for  all  time  to  come. 
However,  the  consumption  of  sugar  is 
so  enormous 
in  this  country  that  the 
for  beet  sugar  manufacture 
plants 
erected  this  season  can  hardly  affect  the 
market  this  year.

Teas—The  Commission  appointed  by 
Congress  to  fix  standard  grades  of  teas 
has  been  appointed,  and  has  done  its 
work  on  grades.  Their grades  are  es­
tablished  on  fusion,  style  and  draw. 
If 
there are any  oil  spots  showing  on  the 
draw,  the  tea 
is  rejected.  The grades 
as  now  established  will  shut  out  the 
greater  part  of  the  cheap  gunpowders, 
the  second,  third  and  fourth  pickings 
of  Japans,  the  low  grade  English  break­
fasts  or  Congos,  and  much  of  the  cheap 
stuff  that  has  hitherto  filled  a  big  place 
in  the  tea  market  in  this  country.  Tea 
inspectors  have  been  appointed  at  New 
York,  Chicago  and  San  Francisco.  The 
new  grading  will  shut  out  so  much  of 
the  cheap  teas  that  prices  next  year 
must  of  necessity  be  higher than  last 
year,  and  teas  now 
in  hand  are  worth 
from  i$  to  25  per  cent,  more  than  they 
are  now  selling  for,  in  the  estimation 
of  some good  judges  of  the  tea  market.

Coffee— Retailers  are  buying 

in  a 
hand-to-mouth  way  and  the  movement 
in  the  total  is  light.  There  is  no  revert­
ing  to  bulk  coffees,  for  the  package 
coffee 
is  still  sold  very  cheap.  Raws 
are  also  very  cheap,  but  are  lower  than 
conditions  seem  to  warrant.  While  the 
Rio  and  Santos  markets  are  as  heavily 
stocked  as  they  are  now,  prices  will  re­
main 
low,  but  as  soon  as  the  supply  at 
those  points  begins  to  wane,  the  mar­
ket  is  certain  to  rise.  Coffees  seem  to 
be  good  property  at  the  present  prices.
Dried  Fruits—Prunes  are  still  very 
low,  but  it  seems  that  they  will advance 
rather  than  go  lower.  Buyers  here  are 
inclined  to  think  that  they  are  a  good 
purchase  at  present  prices.  The  peach 
crop 
is  reported  to  be  well  cleaned  up 
on  the  Coast.  Raisins are holding  their 
own,  being  firm. 
Evaporated  apples 
are  reported  to  be  acting  as  though  an 
advance  were  near  at  hand.  The  price 
of  this  fruit  is  exceptionally  low.

Fish—'Trade  is  hardly  up  to  expecta­
is 
tion,  although  no  great  complaint 
is  expected  that  as  soon  as 
heard. 
It 
the  roads 
improve,  country  trade  will 
pick  up.  No  change  is  to be  noted  in 
the  market  this  week.  The  cod  fishing 
fleets  are  showing  good  success  thus  far 
and  the  arrivals  of  fish  in  Eastern  ports 
are  generally  larger  than  for  the  corres­
ponding  period  of  last  year.

Rice—The  market is still strong at  the 
present  high  prices.  Japan  rice  is  re­
ported  as  advancing,  with  the  expecta­
tion  of  an  increased  duty,  and  domestic 
supplies  are  small.

Provisions—The  provision  trade 

is 
without  new  feature.  Chicago  prices 
have  had  an  improving  tendency  in  a 
general  way,  with  manifestly  consider­
able  confidence  in  the  outlook,  notwith­
standing  the  fact  that  the  period  for  an 
enlarged  marketing  naturally  looked  for 
in  May  is  near at  hand.  Packers  con­
tinue  to  pay  too  high  prices for  hogs,  in 
comparison  with  current  values  of prod­
is  an  unusual  condition  in  the 
uct. 
lower  price  for 
trade  which  shows  a 
lard,  exclusive  of  the  package,  than 
is 
paid  for  an  equal  weight  of  live  hog, 
which  now  prevails.  The  foreign  mar­
kets  continue  to  receive  product 
liber­
ally,  the  clearances  continuing  to  show 
a  large  movement  of  both 
lard  and 
meats.

It 

Flour  and  Feed.

There  has  been  considerable improve­
ment  in  the  flour  market  the  past  week 
and  prices  have  advanced  from  3o@35 
cents  per  barrel,  with  a  fair  volume  of 
business  at  the  advance.  The  change 
in  sentiment  has  been  brought  about  to 
a  great  extent  by  the  serious  outlook 
and  fear of  complication  between  Euro­
pean  countries,  and the sensational news 
from  the  East  has  led  many  dealers  to 
think  that  we  might  have  an advance  in 
breadstuffs  similar  to  that  in  1870,  when 
wheat  sold  from  70.c@S1.30  per  bu.  on 
account  of  the ’ Franco-Prussian  war, 
and  from  $1.26@ 1.76 in  1877  on  account 
of  the  Turko-Russian  war.

Stocks  of  flour  generally  in  Eastern 
markets  are  very  low,  and  we  anticipate 
good  buying  for  the  next  few  weeks.

Millstuffs  are  firm,  with  prices  un­
changed.  Ground 
feed,  meal,  etc., 
continue  in  good  demand  and prices are 
on  the  point  of  further  advance.  Both 
corn  and  oats  are  scarce  and  higher.

W m.  N .  R o w e .

Fred  Budington 

succeeds  G.  L. 
Thomas  as  house  salesman  for  the  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co.  Mr.  Thomas  has 
returned  to  his  former  home  in  Stanton, 
but  will  shortly  take  up  his  residence in 
California.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  Tuesday 
evening,  April  20,  Vice-President Wag­
ner  presided.

Three  applications  were  received 
from  grocers  wishing  to  become  identi­
fied  with  the  Association,  which  were 
accepted,  as  follows:

C.  Hartog,  243  Watson  street.
J.  M.  Strehl,  11  Broadway.
Jacob  Reyngold,  553  North 

Ionia 

street.

The  Secretary  read  a  communication 
from  the  Boston  Fish  Bureau,  request­
ing  the  Association  to  protest  against 
the  enormous 
increase  in  the  tariff  on 
salt  fish,  as  embodied 
in  the  House 
hill.  The  suggestion  was  adopted  and 
the  Secretary  was 
instructed  to  mail 
vigorous  protests  to  Congressman  Smith 
and  Senator  Burrows.

The  following  letter  from  the  Secre­
tary  of  the  Minneapolis  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  was  read :

Our  sugar  card  has been  in  force  for 
over  five  years  and  is  working  perfect­
ly  in  every  way.  Our  method 
is  this : 
We  arrange  with  a  sugar  broker  to  es­
tablish  the  retail  price  on  sugar,  so  that 
no  dealer  or  jobber can  in  any  way 
inr 
fluence  the  card  rate  to  the  detriment 
of  anyone.  We  change  the  card  rate  on 
the  order  of  Mr.  Emerson,  the  broker, 
when  the  market  fluctuates.  We  are  to 
sell  for  $1  what  costs  the  retailer  go 
cents,  he  to  make  10  cents  on  each  dol- 
lat’s  worth  sold.  The  rate  is  fixed  by 
making  the  number of  pounds  even,  no 
fractional  part  being  counted. 
If  sugar 
is  5  cents  a  pound,  the  card  rate  is  18 
pounds  for $1.  If  5#  cents,  the  card 
is 
17  pounds;  if  5.02  cents,  as  at  present, 
it  is  17  pounds,  because  the  fluctuation 
will  necessitate  the  fraction  of  a  pound 
if  taken  as  the  price  nearest  to 90 cents. 
We  send  out  cards  to  the  trade,  as  per 
sample  enclosed,  as  often  as  may  be 
necessary.  We  mail  cards  to  every 
dealer— it  matters  not  whether a  mem­
ber or not—and  all  are  notified  and  all 
keep  prices  alike.  The  agreement  with 
the  jobbers  is  that,  in  case  of  violation 
by  any  one,  they  will  refuse  to  sell  to 
the  cutter  at  any  rate  other  than  the 
regular  retail  card  rate.  This  keeps 
them  within  the  protection  of  the  law 
and,  at  the  same  time,  makes  the cutter 
pay  higher  for  his  sugar.  The  rule  ap­
plies  to  all  alike,  whether  Association 
members  or  not. 
is  zealously  ad­
hered  to  by  every  jobber and  in  but few 
cases  has  the  aid  of  the  jobber been 
necessary.  One  of  our  largest  dealers 
tried  the  experiment  of  cutting,  and 
in 
a  short time  the  grocers  bought  of  him 
exclusively,  as  they  could  procure  sugar 
of  him  at  a  less  price  than at wholesale ; 
but  when  he  tried  to  get  a  new  stock, 
he  was  met  with  the  higher  price,  both 
in  this  city  and  at  St.  Paul.  He  then 
tried  other  markets  and  found  that,  al­
though  he  bought  in 
larger  quantities, 
he  could  not  procure  it  as  cheaply  as 
in his  own  market,  so  he  abandoned  the 
method  and  is  now  one  of  our  most  ar­
dent  supporters.  To-day  there  is  not  a 
cutter  in  the  city. 
It  was a  practice  of 
some  of  our  tea  stores  to  give  a  larger 
quantity  with  a  pound  of  tea  or  baking 
powder,  and  we  adopted  the  rule  of 
making  it  a  violation  of  the  agreement 
to  sell  granulated  sugar  at  any  other 
basis  than  the  card  rate.  This  may 
seem  a  rather  drastic  measure,  but,  aft­
er  the  measure  was  in  force  for  a  time, 
its  benefits  were  so  apparent  that  no one 
objected.  This  plan  places  sugar  where 
it 
is  not  a  football  for  any  scheme  of 
the  cutter,  and  all  alike  reap  the  bene­
fits.
We  also  have  card  rates  on  oil,  gaso­
line,  package  coffee and  city  flour.  All 
are  working  nicely.

It 

The  communication  was  discussed  at 
some  length  and  finally  referred  to  the 
special  committee  having the sugar plan 
under  consideration.
A  letter  was  read  from  S.  M.  Lemon, 
President  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Whole­
sale  Grocers’  Association,  promising 
the  co-operation  of  the  organization  in 
case  the  retail  grocers  decided  to  put 
the  Minneapolis  plan  into  effect.

The  Secretary  reported  103  signatures 
to  the  flour  agreement,  and  nearly  as 
many  to  the  Sunday  closing  petition, 
and  was  instructed  to continue the work, 
with  a  view  to  securing  the  signature 
of  every  grocer  in  the city  to  both  peti­
tions,  if  possible.

Treasurer  Lehman  was  instructed  to 
interview  the  landlord  and  negotiate  a 
new  lease  on  as  favorable  terms as  pos­
sible.

A  member  called  attention  to  the 
trouble  brewing  all  over  the  city  by 
reason  of  the  cut  in  compressed  yeast to 
1  cent  a  cake.

A.  Brink  said  he  undertook  to  meet 
the  cut  by  selling  bulk  yeast,  but  found, 
to  his  sorrow,  that  he  lost  more  by  sell­
ing  bulk  yeast  than  by  selling  15  cents' 
worth  of  tin  foil  yeast  for  12  cents.

Mr.  Lehman  believed  the  Association 
should  appeal  to  the  yeast  companies 
for  relief  and  offered  the  following reso­
lution,  which  was unanimously adopted :
Whereas,  Compressed  yeast  is  sold  in 
some  localities  at  1  cent  a  cake,  thus 
causing  a  loss  of  3  cents  on  eaCh  dozen 
cakes  sold;  therefore

Resolved,  That  the  Secretary  be 

in­
structed  to  bring  the  matter  to  the  at­
tention  of  the  yeast  companies,  with  the 
request  that  the  companies  restore  the 
retail  price  to  2  cents  a  cake  or  reduce 
the  wholesale  price  to 9  cents  a  dozen.
The  Secretary  gave  notice  that  the 
agreement  to  close  at  6130  o’clock,  five 
nights  in  the  week,  expires  by  limita­
tion  May  1.

Mr.  Wagner  objected  to  the  publica­
tion  of  this  notice  in  the  daily  papers, 
because  he  believed  a  good  many  of  the 
grocers,  especially  those  on  the  hill, 
were  so  well  satisfied  over  the 6:30  hour 
that  they  would  continue  to  observe  it 
right  along  through  the  summer.

Mr.  Payne  acquiesced 

in  Mr.  Wag­
ner’s  statement,  asserting  that  the  gro­
cers  on  Cherry  street  are  quite  willing 
to  continue  the  present  schedule.

Treasurer  Lehman  reported  a  balance 
on  hand  of  $250.19,  and  the  meeting ad­
journed.

The  Grain  Market.

regarding 

The  condition  of  the  wheat  market 
was  very  gratifying  to  the  longs  during 
the  past  week.  Wheat  advanced  fully 
ioc  per  bushel  by  the  19th,  which  al­
lowed  Detroit  and  Toledo  May  to nearly 
touch  the  dollar  mark.  However,  there 
were  no  sustaining  influences  to  keep  it 
there  and,  after  the  first  excitement  of 
the  war  news  between  Greece  and  Tur­
key  was  over,  the  market  settled  back 
somewhat.  Even  setting  the  war  news 
aside,  the  home  situation  is  enough  to 
give  strength  to  the  market.  The  re­
ports 
the  growing  winter 
wheat  crop  certainly  show  it  is  not  im­
It  was  generally  understood 
proving. 
that  a 
large  acreage  of  spring  wheat 
would  be  sown,  but  it  is  getting  rather 
late  now  to  put  in  as  much  as  was  first 
expected.  The  exports  are  hardly  up 
to  standard,  but  the  receipts  are  merely 
nominal.  The  visible  showed  a  fair 
decrease,  being  727,000  bushels.  The 
reports  show 
there  were  36,000,000 
bushels  of  wheat  and  400,000  barrels  of 
flour  less  in  the  United  States  and  Can­
ada  on  April  1  than  there  were  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  The  situation  gets 
stronger  and  stronger  every  day  and  be­
fore  another  harvest  we  think  the  pres­
ent  price  of  wheat  will  be  considered 
very  cheap.

Corn  and  oats  have  varied  only  about 
yic  per  bushel  and  we  think  there  will 
not  be  much  change  until  some  of  the 
surplus  has  disappeared.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  31 
cars  of  wheat,  10  cars  of  corn  and  9 
cars of  oats.

Local  millers  are  paying  86c  for 

wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

Gillies'  N.  Y.  Great  Clearance  Tea 

Sale  now  on.  Phone  Visner,  1589.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

17— Business 

New  York,  April 

is 
rather dull.  We are  waiting  for the  in­
flux  of  buyers  that  will  come  to  the 
Grant  monument  celebration. 
It  seems 
a  little  heathenish  that  this  big  city 
must  depend  upon  a  dead  hero  to  bring 
it  a  spurt  of  trade,  but,  of  course,  it  all 
goes.  The  railroads  have  made  rates 
that  are  quite  attractive  and  already 
the  demand  for  rooms 
is  very  large. 
Still  New  York  can accommodate every­
body,  and  the  everyday  resident  will 
see  no  difference  in  the  crowds  that  be­
set  his  path  as  he  homeward  plods  his 
weaiy  way.

it 

One  must  go  back  more  than  ten 
years  before  he  will  find  records  of  Rio 
No.  7  coffee  being  as  low  as  at  present. 
At  the  last  minute  the  position  is one  of 
rather  more  strength,  but  it still remains 
the  fact* that  7#c  is  about  the  correct 
quotation.  The  average  price  during 
i8g6  was  14.6c,  so  we  have  had  a  de­
cline  of  over  50  per  cent.  Of course, 
the  enormous  output  accounts  for the 
decline  apparently;  but,  is  this  really 
the  cause,  or  have  we  been  “ soaked”  
for  a  few years  bv  those  who  control  the 
market  and  whom  competition  has 
forced  to  come  down  from  their  exalted 
position?  Mild  sorts  have  declined, 
too,  and  Mocha  is  steady at 21 j£@22}£c. 
Low  prices  have 
increased  the  con­
sumption  and,  as  coffee  gets  down  to 
the  price  of  "parched  rye  and  barley,”  
there  will  be  a  knock  out  for  certain 
enterprising  home 
is 
in  the  fluid  state,  how­
feared.  Rye 
ever.  will suffer  no  depreciation !

industries, 

There  is  more  doing  in  teas  in  an  in­
voice  way  than  has  been  the  case  for 
some  time. 
jobbing  circles  there 
has  been  a  little  better business  doing 
and  for  good  qualities  the quotations 
have  shown  some  improvement.  The 
off  sorts  go at  any  price  and  it  is  hoped 
will  be  well  cleaned  up  by  May  r,  at 
which  time  the  new  law  goes into effect.
Raw  sugars  are  in  very  light  request; 
in  fact,  one  of  the  larger  refineries  has 
stopped  buying  altogether  for  the  pres­
ent.  Cabled  rates  from  London  are 
lower and  the  general  tone  is  rather  de­
pressed.  Refined  are  in  very  light  de­
mand  and  this,  perhaps,  has  its  influ­
ence on  the  raw  market.  Granulated  is 
quotable  at  4J^c.  Foreign  refined 
is 
easy  and  in  quite  liberal  supply.  Ger­
man  granulated  is  held  at  4^ic.
The  rice  market  remains  practically 
unchanged,  both  for  foreign  and  domes­
tic  sorts.  The  former are  in  seemingly 
the  more  demand.  Supplies  are  ample. 
There 
is  not  a  ripple  of  excitement  in 
spices.  The  little  business  doing  is  by 
jobbers  filling  country  orders.  Pepper 
taking  the 
remains  .fairly  firm,  but, 
whole  market  together,  there 
is  only 
one  word  to  describe  it—nominal.

In 

Molasses  is  slow,  of  course.  Beyond 
a  little  trading  in  low  grades,  there 
is 
practically  nothing  doing  and  we  have 
to  record  a  week  of  laziness.  There 
is 
some  conjecture  as  to  whether  the floods 
will  do  any  great  damage  to  the  Louisi­
ana  crop.  Syrups,  as  well  as  molasses, 
are  in  most  request  for  low  grades  and 
most  of  the  businecs  done  has  been  on 
the  basis  of  something  like  io@i2c.
Canned  goods  offer  few  attractions. 
Business  mopes  and  mopes  and  mopes. 
We  have  to  note  that  an  offer of 60c, 
less  \lA  per  cent,  cash,  was  refused. 
Corn  is  weak  and  supplies  seem  to  be 
very large.  Little  is  doing  in  California 
fruits,  either  spots  or  futures.
Stocks  of  prunes  are  growing  rather 
low  with 
jobbers  and  there  is  fair  en­
quiry.  Aside  from  this  fruit,  the  whole 
market  lacks^  life.  Raisins,  both  for­
eign  and  those  from  the  Pacific  Coast, 
are  hanging  fire  and  can  he  sold  at  only 
extremely  low  figures.  Dates  are  un­
changed ;  figs  are  held  at  the  quotations 
of  the  past  few  weeks.  For fancy  evap­
orated  apples  there  is  a  very  active  en­
for  a  wonder,  and  quotations 
quiry, 
have  advanced 
Small  fruits
are  pretty  well  sold  up.  but  the-e  is  no 
advance  to  note  in  prices 
"Green  fruits— lemons  and  oranges,  es­
pecially—show  a  better  demand  and

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

dealers  feel  quite  encouraged.  Orders 
are  not  large,  but  they  are  numerous 
and,  in  the  aggregate,  show  up  well. 
California  navels  are  25@5oc  higher.

Arrivals  of  butter  are  light  and,  as 
the  demand  has  been  good,  we have  a 
firm  market,  with  best  Western  held  at 
I7@ i8c.  A  good  deal  of  stock  is arriv­
ing  that  will  not  bear  the  closest  in­
spection  and  must  needs  be  sold  for 
what  it  will  bring.  Finest  State  cream­
ery  is  selling  at  the  figures  above  given 
for  Western.

the 

Full  cream  old  cheese  is  worth  12 

and  Wholesale  Grocers.

is  extreme. 
@130,  although  the  latter 
is  coming  in  moderately 
New  cheese 
and  selling  promptly. 
Full  cream, 
ioj^c.  Exporters  are  showing  consid­
erable  activity  and  their  call  is  mostly 
for  large  size.
War  Between  Commission  Merchants 
Detroit,  April  17—From  present  ap­
pearances  there  is  every  prospect  of  a 
lively  row  between  the  wholesale  houses 
of  the  city  on  the one  side  and the com­
mission  merchants  on 
other. 
Trouble  has  been  brewing  between 
these  two  classes  for  a  long  time. 
It 
has  cropped  up  on  several  occasions 
and.  after  a 
little  sparring,  has  again 
dropped  from  public  view.  But  the  root 
of  the  disagreement  has  remained  un­
disturbed  all  the  time  and  one of  the 
occasional  rows  is  again  threatening. 
In  case  it  comes  it  will  in  all  probabil­
ity  take  the  shape  of  a  sugar  war,  the 
trust  against  the  dealers  in Dutch sugar.
The  complaint  made  by  the  produce 
that  the 
commission  merchants 
wholesale  grocers  have  entered 
their 
field  by  handling  butter and  eggs.  This 
is  said  to  be  the  only  city  in  the United 
in  which  the  wholesale  grocers 
States 
sell  butter  and  eggs. 
In  other cities 
when  surb  a  consignment  reaches  the 
wholesaler  it  is at  once  turned  over  to 
a  legitimate  produce  dealer,  who sells  it 
and  collects  a  commission.  Here  the 
wholesaler  sells  and  asks  no  commis­
sion.  These  consignments  come  in  pay­
ment  for groceries  from  country  dealers 
and  the  wholesaler  makes  his  profit  by 
selling  his  wares. 
In  some  cases,  it  is 
said,  he  charges  a  commission,  but such 
are  exceptional.  The  commission  men 
in  this  way  lose  more  than  half the  but­
ter  and  egg  trade.  They  complained, 
but  it  did  no  good.  They  tried  to get 
the  wholesalers  to charge a  commission. 
This  was  agreed  to,  but  it  is  claimed 
that  the  agreement  was  at  once  violated 
and  has  never done  any  good.

is 

Over  a  year  ago,  having  become  tired 
of  the  one-sided  fight,  the  commission 
men  determined  to  retaliate.  They  be­
gan  by  handling  sugar.  As  soon  as  the 
sugar  trust  found  out  what  was going on 
the  supply  was  shut  off,  and  it  became 
impossible  for  any  dealer  excepting  a 
trust  man  to  get  sugar.  Then  the  com­
mission  men  became 
importers,  and 
brought 
in  Dutch  granulated  sugar. 
This  they  have  for  some  time  been  sell­
ing  at  a  nice  profit,  and  still  at  a  frac­
tion  under  trust  prices.
Two  weeks  ago  a  meeting  was  held 
at  which  the  commission  men  were  re­
quested  to  quit  selling  sugar.  They  re­
sponded  with  a  request  that  the  whole­
sale  dealers quit  selling butter and  eggs. 
The  meeting  resulted 
in  nothing  but 
talk.

Another  similar  meeting  was  held 
Monday,  at  which  it  was  intimated  that 
the  trust  would  fight  unless  the  selling 
of  sugar  by  commission  men  came  to 
an  end,  but  the  grocers  were  not  will­
ing  to  stop  the  butter and  egg  business. 
No  agreement  was  reached,  and  a  com­
mittee  was  appointed  to meet yesterday 
and  attempt  to  reach  a  settlement  with­
out  a  fight.  The  committee  met,  but  it 
did  no  good.  All  the  wholesale  grocers 
were  willing  to  give  up  handling  butter 
and  eggs  excepting  three.  The  com­
mission  merchants  would  not  budge 
from  their  position,  and  so  the  matter 
stands.

It  is  said  that a  man  will  immediately 
leave  for  New  York  to  consult  with  thé 
trust  with  the  object  of  inducing  the 
men  at  headquarters  to  stand  the  brunt 
of  the  fight. 
In  the  meantime  several 
commission  men  are  preparing  to  add 
other  grocery  lines  to  their  stocks,  such 
as  coffee  and  canned  goods.

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All kinds of

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Correspondence  solicited.  Your  order  will 

follow,  we  feel  sure.

BEACH,  COOK  &  CO.,

128 to 132 W est Bridge St.  GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH-

The season for FIELD SEEDS such as CLOVER and 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.

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STRAWBERRIES

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

20 & 22 OTTAWA STREET, 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

BUNTING  &   CO.,

VEGETABLES

We have also a fresh supply of

W e  are  headquarters. 
Get our  prices  before  going 
elsewhere  and  we  will  get 
your orders.

Oranges,  Lemons,  Figs,  Bananas 

and  Sweet  Potatoes.

S T IL E S   &   P H IL L IP S ,

Both Telephones  io. 

9  NORTH  IONIA  ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

Strawberries Radishes,  Spinach,  Cauliflower, 

Green  Onions,  Cucumbers,  To­
matoes,  Sweet  Potatoes,  Ber­
muda  Onions,  Lemons,  Oranges, 
Bananas,  Asparagus, 
Lettuce,

Parsley,  Green  Peas,  Wax  Beans,  New  Beets,  Vegetable Oysters.
ALLERTON  &  HAGGSTROM,  Jobbers,

Both Telephones 1248.

127 Louis Street.

Grand  Rapids, Hieb.

Citizens  ’Phone  555.

The  Vinkem ulder  Com pany,

Jobber  of  FRUITS  AND  PRODUCE.
Manufacturer of  "ABSOLUTE"

Pure Ground Spices, Baking Powder, Etc*

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 e n r y  J. V in k e m u l d e r .

THE VINKEMULDER  COMPANY,  4Î8-420 So. Division St„

Successor to Michigan Spice Co. 

G r a n d   R a p id s *

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MILKED  BY  A  PIG.

Peculiar  Discovery  of  a  Vermont 

Farmer.

in 

legal  parlance  as 

All  his  life  Samuel  Patch  has  owned 
and  run  a  farm  on  the  shores  of  Lake 
Morey, 
Fairlee  postoffice,  Vermont, 
and  all  his  life  he  has  kept  a  quiet  and 
well-conducteed  assortment  of 
live 
stock. 
It  remained  for  a  pig  of  this 
year’s growth  to  bring  open  shame upon 
the  Patch  barnyard  bv  a  crime  which  is 
known 
larceny 
from  the  person,  the 
individual  upon 
whom  the  theft  was  committed  being 
the  moolley  cow  Nelly.  The  thief  was 
caught  and  photographed,  red-handed, 
or,  to  be  more accurate,  white-mouthed, 
as  his  greed  had  outrun  his  capacity, 
and  the  picture  is  Exhibit  No.  i  in  the 
Lake  Morey  Animal  Rogues’  Gallery.
instincts  of 
Farmer  Patch,  the  thief  would  never 
have  been  discovered.  For  some  time 
the  cow  in  the  case  was  supposed  to  be 
at  fault,  and  the  small  quantity  of  milk 
to be  derived  from  her  was  laid  to some 
bovine  and  personal  peculiarity  of  her 
own.  She  had  calved  all  right,  the  calf 
had  been  torn  ruthlessly  away 
from 
Nelly  amid  the  lamentations  of  both, 
and  Nelly’s  conti ibution  to  the  species 
had  been directed  into  the  milk  pails  of 
the  Patch  family,  but  very  shortly  the 
decrease  in  milk  became  painfully  no­
ticeable.

But  for  the  detective 

“ Something’s  the  matter  with  that 
cow,”   said  Samuel  Patch  to  his  son 
William. 
like  she  was  going 
dry. ’ ’

“ Looks 

“ Can’t  be  she’s  going  dry  already,” 
said  the  young  man. 
“ Somebody’s 
milking  her before  we  get  up.  That’s 
what’s  the  matter.”

“ Have  to  get  up  mighty  early,”   said 
“ Besides,  she  won’t  stand  any­
if  a 
into  our  place  the  dog 

Patch. 
body  but  me  milking  her,  and 
stranger  came 
would  let  us  know  quick  enough.”

“ Might  be  a  milk  snake,”   suggested 

William,  with  a  grin.

“ Show  me  a milk snake  smart  enough 
to  milk  that  cow  and  he  can  have all 
the  milk  he  wants,”   returned  the  old 
man  scornfully.

Meantime  the  milk  kept  on  disap­
pearing.  Each  morning  when  Farmer 
Patch  went  out  to  milk  he  was  able  to 
get  only  a  small  quantity  from  Nelly, 
who  used  to  be  one  of  the best  givers 
on  the 
The  mystery  spread 
through  the  neighborhood  and  became 
subject  matter  for  theorizing  by  the  vil­
lage  oracles  in  convention  assembled  at 
the  grocery  store.  The  consensus  of 
opinion  was  that  there  was  a  thief  in 
the  case.

farm. 

“ If  there 

is  I’ll  get  him  sooner  or 

later,”   said  Farmer  Patch.

Morning  after  morning  with unfailing 
regularity  the  moolley  cow  was  milked, 
and  morning  after  morning  Farmer 
Patch  scratched  his  head  in  perplexity. 
One  day  he  came  out  to  find  the  ground 
covered  with  a  light  fall  of  snow  that 
immediately  suggested  to  him  certain 
detective  stories  in  which  footsteps  had 
aided  in  the  tracking  of  the  criminals. 
He  went  carefully  all  around  the  fence 
surrounding  the  barnyard 
looking  for 
tracks,  but  found  none  except  such  as 
he  left  behind  him. 
In  the  barnyard 
there  were  plenty  of  tracks,  but  they 
were  all  those  of animals.

“ That  settles  it,”   said he. 

“ There’s 

tramps  in  my  haymow.”

Never  did  a  barn  undergo  a  more 
than  Farmer 
thorough  overhauling 
Patch’s  barn  underwent  at  the  hands 
and  pitchforks  of  himself  and  his  son.

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No  tramp  was  discovered.  This  was 
queer.  The  village  oracles  came  up  as 
an  informal  court  of  enquiry,  sat  on  the 
Patch  cow,  aided  by  the  expert  testi­
mony  in  the  person  of  a  horse  doctor, 
and  decided  that  the  cow  was  all  right, 
but  there  was  something  wrong.  Talk 
about  a  haunted  barnyard was whispered 
across  the  women's  knitting  in  Fairlee. 
They  might  be  talking  of  it  yet 
if 
Farmer  Patch  hadn’t  decided  onemorn- 
ng  to  do  a 
little  practical  detective 
work  of  his  own.  He  got  up  an  hour 
earlier  than  usual,  went  out  to  the  barn­
yard—and  the  mystery  was  solved.

Nelly,  the  cow,  was  standing  peace 
full 
in  the  middle  of  the  yard,  while, 
squatted  on  his  haunches,  the  iat  young 
porker  who  had  adopted  her  for a  moth­
er  was  enjoying  a  warm  breakfast  just 
as  fast  as  he  could  swallow.  He  was  so 
busy  that  he  didn’t  even  hear  the  farm­
er'coming.  Farmer  Patch  pinched  him­
self  to  see 
if  he  was  awake,  and  then 
went  in  the  house and  pinched  his  son 
to  get  him  awake,  too.

“ William,”   he  said,  “ bring  out  your 

camera.  The  thief’s  at  work. ”  

“ Camera!”   cried  William,  jumping 

up. 

“  I’ll  bring  my  gun. ”

“ No,  you  won’t,”   said  his  father. 
You  won’t  need  it.  He  won’t  bother 
us.  Never  mind  your  clothes,  but  hurry 
up.”

So  William  got  his  camera  and  took 

the  picture.

to 

To  add  authority 

“ Better  take  several,  William,”   said 
the  old  man;  “ in  case  anybody  should 
call  you  a  liar  when  you  tell  about  it.”  
the  picture, 
Farmer  Patch  himself  posed  with  milk 
pail  and  stool,  and  the  pig  obligingly 
kept  on  breakfasting  until  he  was  pho­
tographed  from  several  points  of  view. 
These  pictures  are  framed  in  many  a 
parlor 
in  Fairlee  now,  thus  attesting 
the  truth  of  Mr.  Patch’s  statements.

The  pig  himself 

is  pork,  cooked, 
served  and  eaten.  William  wanted  him 
brought  up  and  educated  further,  on 
the  ground  that  a  pig  with  his  intelli­
gence  could  be  taught  to  do almost  any­
thing;  but  the  old  man  vetoed  that.

“ No,  sir,”   said  he. 

“ We’ll  nip  that 
career  of  crime  in  the  bud.  Why,  he’d 
contaminate  the  whole  barnyard  if  we 
let  him  alone.  First  you  know,  he’d 
be  teaching  the  other  pigs  to  find  the 
places  where  the  hens  lay  and  eat  the 
eggs,  or  he’d  be  leading  old  Towser 
astray  by  showing  him  how  to  tap  the 
barrel  and  get  drunk  on  hard  cider. 
No,  sir;  he’s  smart,  but  he’s  crooked. 
We’ll  kill  him  now,  and  I  only hope  the 
other  pigs  won’t  take  after  him .”

They  hadn't  up to last accounts.  Nelly 
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her  pig  didn't  appear,  but  she  soon  got 
over  her  second  bereavement,  and 
is 
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in  the 

industrial 

industries  and 

issue  of  the  Tradesman. 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
With  the  exception  of  the  sensational 
advance 
in  wheat  there  has  been  little 
change  in  the  industrial  situation  since 
the  last 
In 
most  lines  the  bear  tendency  of  prices 
has  prevailed  and  at  the  same  time 
there  has  been  a  steady  increase  in  ac­
tivity  and  confidence  as  to  future  oper­
ations.  The  most  pronounced  down­
ward  tendency  in  prices continues in the 
iron  and  steel 
in  the 
stocks.  Of 
railway  and 
course,  the  decline 
is 
abundantly  accounted  for  by  the  politi­
cal  complications  in  the  E ast;  and  the 
wonder  is  that  the  effect  has  been  so 
slight. 
In all that  were  affected,  except 
sugar  and  Chicago  gas,  the  fall  in  price 
is  only  a  fraction  of  a  dollar  per  share; 
in  these  the  shrinkage  in  value,  was  S2 
per  share.  Something  of  a  sensation 
has  been  made 
in  financial  circles  on 
account  of  the  export  of  gold  which 
seems  likely  to  result  from  the  advance 
in  that  metal 
in  English  exchange. 
While  such  a  movement  would  be  a  de­
cided  benefit  to  this  country  in  the  em­
ployment  of  a  portion  of  the  unneces­
sarily  large  hoard—amounting  to  S154,- 
000,000 
in  the  Treasury,  besides  the 
holdings  of  the  New York barks— which 
has  accumulated  since  the  last  exports 
in  July,  there  was  so  much  apprehen­
sion  as  to  the  outflow  of  gold 
last  year 
is  very  sensitive  and 
that  the  country 
the  suggestion  of 
its  renewal  gains 
quick  attention.

The  prompt  and  material  response  of 
the  wheat  market  to  the  news of  conflict 
between  Greece and  Turkey  is doubtless 
owing  to  the  fact  that  the  supply  in  this 
country,  and  the  world,  is  known  to  be 
smaller  than  for  a  number of years  past. 
While,  under  ordinary  conditions,  the 
use  of  coarser  grains  and  other  food 
stuffs  might  keep  the  price  down,  its 
scarcity  makes  it  peculiarly  susceptible 
to  speculative  influences.  The  total  ad­
vance  on  account  of  the  present  com­
plications  was  about  10c  per  bushel. 
The  late  news,  indicating  that  the  con­
flict 
likely  to  be  short,  has  brought 
down  the  price  a  few  cents  again. 
It 
is  impossible  to  predict  as  to  the  future 
of  the  cereal,  as  such  speculation 
is 
betting  on  the  extent  and  seriousness  of 
the  Eastern  complications.  While  the 
variation 
in  the  prices  of  other  grains 
has  been  relatively  much less,  the move­

is 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bessemer 

ment  has been  in  sympathy  with  wheat.
While  the  demand  for  many  forms  of 
iron  and  steel  manufacture is very large, 
there  has  still  been  a  settling  of  prices 
in  the  raw  materials. 
is 
quoted  at  $9.90  at  Pittsburg and  gray 
forge  at  $8.65.  Prices  in  the  Alabama 
region  are  said  to  be badly demoralized. 
The  demand  for  structural  steel,  ship­
building  materials,  in  nails  and  wire 
and  in  tinning  plates  is  reported  to  be 
nearly  equal  to  production;  but  the 
stocks  on  band  are  the 
largest  ever 
known.

Wool  activity  continues  large  but  the 
outlook  for  manufactures  remains  dull, 
although  on  the  whole  there  is  an  in­
crease 
in  demand  reported.  The  re­
sponse  of  cotton  to  the  unfavorable  out­
look  for  crops  in  the  flooded  regions has 
been  very  slight.  Some  improvement 
is  reported 
in  the  demand  for  cotjon 
goods.  Boots  and  shoes  are  less  active, 
with  decline 
some 
lines.

in  quotations 

There  was  a  decline  of  over  5  per 
cent,  in  bank  clearings  for  the  week,  to 
§958,000,000.  An  encouraging  feature 
was  the  small  number  of  failures,  only 
195,  a  less  number  than  for  any  week 
in  years.  _____________

in 

AN  INEVITABLE  CONFLICT.
The  most  likely  quarter  from  which 
tp  expect  war  that  may 
involve  Great 
Britain  in  trouble  with  other  European 
governments  is  not  the  Eastern  end  of 
the  Mediterranean,but  the Southern por­
tion  of  Africa.  The  British  and  the 
Boers  are  almost  absolutely  sure of com­
ing  together  again.

in 

ignorant  government 

It  will  be  a  mistaken  sympathy  if 

in 
that  conflict  the  sentiment  of  America 
is  in  favor  of  the  Transvaal.  Naturally, 
we  would  sympathize  with  the  weaker 
combatants  and  so  much  has  been 
thoughtlessly  said  by  the  press,  of  Eng­
land's bullying methods in South Africa, 
that  the  commencement  of  the  struggle 
between  Boers  and  British  would  prob­
ably  find  Americans  condemning  Eng­
land  and  sympathizing  with  the  Trans­
vaal.  Yet  England’s  fight  in  South  A f­
rica  is  a  fight  for  progressive  civiliza­
tion.  There 
is  not  a  more  narrow, 
selfish, 
the 
world than  that  of  the  Transvaal.  The 
Boers  allow  no  new  comers  to  acquire 
citizenship,  or  participate 
in  the  con­
trol  of  any public business.  Millions  of 
capital  and  tens  ot  thousands  of  actual 
citizens there  are  without  any  represen­
tation  in  public  councils.  The  lordly 
Boers,  living  chiefly  by  the  hunt,  or by 
rents, nr by the oppression of native labor, 
deny  to  all  Uitlanders  or  immigrants 
every  political  right  except  to  reside  in 
the  country  and  engage  in  business  un­
der  heavy  taxation.
The  Transvaal 

is  filled  with  intelli­
gent  American  and  English  and  French 
immigrants,  who  are  the  business  ele­
ment  of  the  country,  but  no  other nation 
deprives  such  a  class  of  so  many  priv­
ileges  as  must  be  dispensed  with  in  the 
Transvaal. 
indigna­
tion  against  this 
selfish,  pig-headed 
policy  of  the  Boers  that  is  creating 
within  the  Transvaal  itself  a  strong  ally 
for  the  British  when  the  inevitable  con­
flict  comes.  Americans,  when  they  once 
understand  the  true  situation,  will  de­
sire  to  see  their  brethren  in  South  A f­
rica  enfranchised  through  British  con­
quest,  if  necessary.  There  can  be  no 
doubt  of  the  ultimate  issue  of  such  a 
contest.  The  fierce  lords  of  the  Trans­
vaal  are  fine  fighters,  but  the  power of 
England  will  be  too  much  for  them, 
even  though,  as  is  likely,  they  should 
obtain  the active  support  of  Germany.

It  is  the  internal 

MODERN  RUSH.

In  the  development  of  the  New  World 
there  has  seemed  to  be  a  constantly 
in­
creasing  ratio  of  intensity  of  effort  and 
activity,  which  has  made  it  common  at 
any  time  in  its  history  to  designate  the 
current  moment  as  a  time  of  unprece­
dented  hurry  and  progress.  Thus,  it 
has  always  been  customary  to  call  the 
present  the  time  of  modern  rush,  and  it 
is  difficult  to  conceive  that  the appar­
ently  accelerating  ratio  can  continue in­
definitely  into  the  future.

This  principle,  which  reaches 

its 
greatest  intensity  in  the  American  peo­
ple,  seems  to  be  most  active  in  the  An­
glo-Saxon  races. 
In  others  there  is a 
conservatism  which  tends  to  accept  the 
conditions  of  the  present,  and  the  meth­
ods  of  the  past,  as  the  best.  Not  that 
there  is  no  progress  in  such  countries— 
many  of  them  are  wonderfully  pro­
gressive,  borrowing  the 
ideas  of  the 
more original  West  and  applying  them 
with  a  thoroughness  and  method  pro­
ductive  of  even  better  results  than  can 
be  attained 
in  our heedless,  headlong 
rush.

The  development  of  the  English  na­
tion  was  a  series  of  successive  periods 
of  rapid  progress  alternating  with  those 
of  apparent  stagnation,  as  far  as  the  in­
dustrial  condition  of  the  people  was 
concerned.  These  periods  seemed  to 
be  dependent  upon  the  political  and  re­
ligious  complications  and  conditions. 
The  conservatism  of  Jacobitism  and  of 
the  repressive  military  spirit interposed 
pauses  in  the  national  progress,  during 
which  there  was  at  times  actual  retro­
these  elements  were 
gression.  But 
gradually  overcome  by 
the  peculiar 
tendency  to  progressive  enterprise,  un­
til  the  naticn  far  outstripped  the  rest  of 
the  world,  and  bequeathed  to  her  col­
onies  the  traits  which  have  become pre­
eminent  in  American  life.

Living  in  this  whirlwind  of  rush  the 
observer  is  constantly  caused  to  wonder 
what 
is  coming  next,  and  often  he  is 
almost  afraid  of  losing  his  breath  in the 
apparently  mad  progress.  This  is  not 
only  manifest 
in  the  application  of 
newly-discovered  and  wonderful  prin­
ciples  of  science  to  the  ordinary  affairs 
in  the  application  of  ac­
of  life,  but 
industrial  prog­
cepted  methods  in  all 
ress.  The  changes 
in  the  manner  of 
in  all  mechanical  trades, 
doing  work 
for  instance,  are  so  rapid  as  to  be  be­
wildering.

As  would  naturally  be  expected,  the 
principle  of  rush 
in  methods  of  ex­
change  is  especially  active.  The  mer­
chant  of  twenty  years  ago,  could  he 
have  submitted  to a  period  of  Rip  Van 
Winkle  rest,  would  come  upon  the  stage 
of  action  to-day  with  as  great  bewilder­
ment  as  pictured  by  Irving’s  fancy.  In­
deed,  the  methods  of modern  mercantile 
exchange  may  almost  be  said  to  be  the 
creation  of  that  period.

Imagine  such  a  merchant  coming  in­
to  a hustling  country  store and receiving 
the  great  numbers  of  travelers  whose 
visits  are  so  prominent  a  feature  of 
modern  trade.  Twenty  years  ago,  the 
dealer  was  accustomed  to buying a stock 
of  goods  to  meet  the  requirements  of 
his  trade  for  a  considerable  period— 
now,  in  many 
lines  he  can  make  his 
purchases  several  times a month.  Then, 
he  could  sell  goods  which  had  lain  up­
on  his  shelves  for an 
indefinite  tim e - 
now,  he  must  be  constantly  receiving 
them,  and  if  any show  a  tendency  to  re­
main  many  weeks  he  must  contrive 
some  means  of  moving  them  at  any sac­
rifice-.  And  this  is  not  the  only  regard 
in  which  there  has  been similar change.

The  science  of  modern  advertising  is 
not  so  old  as  the  period  in  question; 
and  the  methods  of  distributing  goods
are  equally  new.

Indeed,  there  are  many  who,  if  they 
have  not  been  asleep,  have  not  been 
able  to  keep  up  with  the  requirements 
of  the  rush.  Some  of  these  have  been 
fortunate 
in  getting  the  aid  of  younger 
and  fresher  blood,  while  many  have 
fallen  out  by  the  way  and  sought  other 
avocations.

So the  merchant  of  to-day  represents, 
in  an  eminent  degree,  the  progress  and 
push  of  the  nation.

FIREPROOF  BUILDINGS.

A  great  deal  has  been  written  from 
time  to  time  about  the  processes  of 
making  houses  fireproof ;  hut the actual 
fact,  as  developed  by  experience, 
is 
that  the  term  “ fireproof”   can  only  be 
used  in  a  relative  sense,  and  that  ab­
solute  ability  to  resist  the  heat  and 
stress  of  a  great  conflagration  has  not 
been  attained.

Office  buildings  and  hotels 

in  which 
the  rooms  are  small,  or  have  but  little 
furniture  in  them,  might  be  able  to  re­
sist  the  heat  caused  by  the  burning  of 
the  contents  of  such  a  room,  or,  in other 
words,  a  bed,  a  table,  a  carpet  and  a 
few  chairs,  ora  desk  and  case  of  books, 
might  not  make  a  hot  enough  fire  to 
communicate 
through  partitions  and 
ceilings  when  these  are  made  of  hollow 
bricks or  tiles.  But  when  large  rooms 
in  such  a  building  are  stored  with  great 
bulks  of  combustible  material,  the  fire, 
when  this  material  is  the subject of  con­
is  so  great  as  to  heat  and 
flagration, 
warp 
iron  beams,  pillars  and  lathing, 
and  throw  down  ceilings  and  partition 
walls.

All  stores  and  warehouses  where  the 
rooms  are  of  great  extent  and  are  filled 
with  combustible  material,  when  once 
fired  beyond 
immediate  control,  will 
burn  down,  no  matter  of  what  material 
they  may  be  constructed.  Since  large 
retail  stores  where  extensive  stocks  are 
displayed  require  great  floor  space  open 
to  the  light,  no  style  of  construction 
will  make  them  fireproof.  But  it  is 
easy  enough  to  protect  stocks  in  whole­
sale  stores  and  warehouses,  by  separat­
ing  the  area  into  many  rooms  of  moder­
ate  dimensions, 
the  partitions  being 
made  of  brick  of  sufficient  thickness 
and  the  doors  of  communication  being 
low.

With  such  rooms,  so  made  as  to  be 
separable  by  iron  doors  from  other parts 
of  the  building,  and  capable  of  being 
flooded  with  water  through  pipes  run­
ning  along  the  ceiling,  fire  in  a  great 
storage  house  can  be  confined  to  partic­
ular  localities  and  extinguished  there 
without  inflicting  damage  on  merchan­
dise 
in  other  parts  of  the  building. 
Compartment  warehouses  offer  more 
than  usual  protection  to  their  contents.
In  stores  where  grand  and  extensive 
showrooms  are  required,  no  advantage 
is  gained  from  constructing  them  with 
steel  frames,  while  the  great numbers of 
pillars  required  by  such  modes  of  con­
struction  mar  the  effect  which is desired 
in  such  establishments  of  broad  and 
unobstructed,  brilliantly-lighted  halls, 
while  the 
increased  cost  gives  no  spe­
cial  advantage  of  security.  The  steel- 
frame  system  is  excellent  for lofty hotels 
and  office  buildings,  and 
is  for  them 
specially  designed.

Beware  of  the  man  who 

loves  to 
enumerate  how  many  kinds  of  business 
be  has  been  engaged  in. 
If  he  has  ar­
rived  at  maturity  and  has  not  settled 
his avocation  in  life,  he  will  never have 
one.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

its 

Advices  have  been  received 

THE REVOLUTION  IN  HONDURAS.
from 
Central  America  to  the  effect  that  a
revolution  has broken  out  in  the  Repub­
lic  of  Honduras.  A  revolution 
in  that 
part  of  the  world  is  by  no  means a  rare 
occurrence;  in  fact,  the  present govern­
ment  of  Honduras  owes 
lease  of 
power  to  such  an  outbreak,  which  oc­
curred  something  more  than  two  years 
ago.  Were 
it  not  for  the  fact  that  the 
United  States  enjoys  a  large  trade  with 
Central  America,  very  little  attention 
need  be  paid  to  such  upheavals,  as  they 
mean  nothing  more  than  an  effort  on 
the  part  of  one  set  of  politicians  to 
oust  the  other;  but,  as  this  constant tur­
moil  retards  the  progress  of  that  part  of 
the  world  and  diminishes  its  trade 
im­
portance,  this  country  cannot  afford  to 
be  entirely  indifferent.

The  present  revolution  is  given  addi­
tional 
importance  from  the  fact  that 
Honduras  is  no  longer a  separate repub­
lic,  but  is  one  of  the  component parts of 
the  “ Greater  Republic  of Central Amer­
ica.’ ’  An  outbreak  in  Honduras  may, 
therefore,  involve  Nicaragua and Salva­
dor,  the  other  members  of  the  coalition, 
as  it  is  not  like  the  Central  Americans 
to  permit an  entirely  new  set  of  men  to 
secure  control  in  one  of  the  allied  states 
with  a  possibility  of  overturning  the 
coalition.

It  is  already  reported  that  President 
Bonilla  has  received  proffers  of  aid 
from  the  Presidents  of  Nicaragua  and 
Salvador;  hence 
it  may  be  assumed 
that,  should  the  revolution  prove  a  for­
midable  affair,  it  will  have to cope with 
the  combined  forces  of  the  three  states 
of  the  Greater  Republic. 
President 
Bonilla  will  naturally  hesitate  to call  to 
his  aid  the  Presidents  of  the  other  re­
publics,  for  the  reason  that,  should  the 
discontented  elements  in  the  neighbor­
ing  states  conclude  that  the  Presidents 
are  aiding  each  other  to  perpetuate 
themselves 
in  office,  instead  of  a  local 
outbreak,  there  would  in  all  probability 
soon  be  a general  upheaval  which would 
jeopardize  the  very  existence  of  the 
Greater  Republic.

As  already  stated, these Central  Amer­
ican  revolutions  are  a  great  obstacle 
in 
the  way  of  the  commercial  development 
of  that  part  of  the  world,  and  the  busi­
ness  interests  of  this  country  are  more 
or  less  injured  thereby.  The  creation  of 
the  Greater  Republic  of  Central  Amer­
ica  was  hailed  with  satisfaction  in  this 
country,  because  it  was  hoped  that  such 
a  coalition  promised  to 
insure  more 
stable  government,  and,  consequently, 
greater  security  to  property 
interest, 
with  better  facilities 
for  developing 
commerce.  Should  the  revolution  which 
has  just  commenced  lead  to  the  over­
throw  of  the  combination  of  the  three 
Central  American  republics,  the  busi­
ness  interests  of  this  country  would 
greatly  regret  the  fact,  as  such  an  event 
would  unquestionably  prove  a  long  step 
backward. 

____

THE  KEYNOTE  OF  BUSINESS.
An  interesting  example  of  the  cheap­
ening  of  an  important  domestic  article 
through  increased  production  is  seen  in 
the growth  of  the business  in  petroleum 
and  the  merchantable  oils  made from it.
Like  the  coal  in  the  mine  and  timber 
in  the  forest,  petroleum  is  made  by  na­
ture  to  man’s  hand,  and  has  only  to  be 
taken  out by  human  labor and  mechan­
ical  appliances.  Coal  oil  first  came  in­
to  commerce as  an  important  factor  in 
1861.  The  price  then  was at  least  four 
times  as great as  it  is  to-day.

By  the  introduction  of  improved  me­

chanical  means  for  obtaining and  trans­
porting  the  product,  the  production  has 
enormously  increased,  while  this  indis­
pensable article  of  almost  universal  use 
has been  cheapened  until  it  is placed in 
the  reach  of  everybody.  This  important 
article 
is  exported  to  every  civilized 
country and  the quantity  sent  abroad  in 
1896  was  little  less  than  one  thousand 
million 
gallons,  worth  $65,000,000. 
These  figures  represent  what  was  ex­
ported  only.  Much  more was  consumed 
at  home.

Fortunately  there  is  no  attempt  to  in­
crease  the  price.  The  effort  has  con­
stantly  been  to  increase  the  consump­
tion,  and  this  is  done by cheapening the 
cost  of  production  and  the  price  to  con­
sumers.  When  the  producers  of  grain 
and  cotton  and  other such  necessaries 
shall  learn  the  same  sort  of  worldly wis­
dom,  they  will  cease  to  endeavor  to  cut 
off  production  and  reduce  crops.  They 
will  exert  themselves  to  get  more  bush­
els  and  more  pounds  of  their  products 
out  of  a  given  acreage,  and,  by  cheap­
ening  the  cost  to  consumers,  compete 
successfully  with  the  whole  world.  That 
is  the  secret  of  trade  in  this  age.

This  cheapening 

is  not  secured  by 
cutting  down  the  wages  of  labor,  but  by 
the  introduction  of  improved  processes. 
That  is  the  keynote  of  business  to-day. 
Cutting  down  wages  deprives  the  peo­
ple  of  their ability  to  buy. 
It  matters 
little  how  low  are  prices  if  the  people 
have  no  money  with  which  to  buy.  The 
in  the  cheapening  of  the 
great  secret 
cost  of  production 
im­
proved  processes  and  appliances.

is  to  employ 

annulled  upon 

By  a  decision  rendered  by  Justice 
Beekman,  of  the  New  York  Supreme 
Court,  it  is  decided  that  a  love of candy 
is  not  a  proof  of  lunacy. 
It  was  in  the 
case  of  Amanda  E.  Mackintosh,  who 
wanted  to  have  her  marriage  with  John 
H.  Mackintosh 
the 
ground  that  the  defendant  was  insane  at 
the  time  of  his  marriage.  This  the 
court  denied  her,  although  she averred 
that  one  of  the  symptoms  of  mental 
aberration  of  the  defendant  was  that  he 
used  to  sit alone  for hours  at a  time  be­
fore  his  marriage  eating  candy,  of 
which  he  seemed  to  be  never  able  to 
get  enough.

An  interesting  system  of  electric  rail­
ways  is  being built  in  Genoa.  There is 
no  city 
in  the  world  of  the  size  built 
on  such  a  steep  hillside  as  Genoa,  and 
to overcome  the  sharp  gradients  exist­
ing,  several  spiral  tunnels  have  had  to 
be  pierced 
through 
which  the  electric  cars  rise  from  one 
level  to  another.  The  system  inside  the 
town  will,  when  built,  aggregate  some 
thirty  miles  of  track.

the  hillside, 

in 

The  New  Hampshire  courts have  just 
sustained  a  law  by  which  the  State  is 
entitled  to  any  excess  of  profits  over  10 
per  cent,  earned  by  any  railroad  in  that 
State.  Under the decision  the  State  re­
covers $750,000 from  the  Lawrenceville 
&  Manchester  Railroad.

A  man  who  does  not  like  to  work 
should  never  have  his  feelings  hurt  by 
being  appointed  to  a  public office where 
there  is  work  that  must  be  done.

The  most  hopeless  sort  of  bore  is  the 
man  who  wants  to  talk  on  all  occasions 
without  ever  knowing  what  he  is  talk­
ing  about._____________

The  street  cars  of  San  Francisco  are 
provided  with  a  holder on  the  rear  plat­
form  on  which  two  bicycles  can  be 
hung.

AMERICANS  IN  DRESDEN.

How  They  Amuse  Themselves—A

Glimpse  of  Prager  Strasse.

Written fo r  the T r a d e s m a n .

There  is  a  subtle  charm  about  Dres­
den  which  holds  everybody  under 
its 
spell.  From  the  moment  a  person  gets 
off  the  train,  he  feels  at  home,  and 
is 
never  ready  to  leave.  He  comes  for  two 
days,  andjremains  a  week ;  for  a  week, 
and  it  stretches  out  into  a  month;  for  a 
month,  and  a  year 
is  too  short;  fora 
year  and  he  makes  his  will  and  buys  a 
lot 
in  the  cemetery,  to  ensure  him  so 
good  a  place  should  he  unexpectedly  be 
called  away.  What  is  the  explanation? 
Who  can  tell?

long 

is  a 

Prager  Strasse 

It  cannot  be  the  weather, 

It  cannot  be  the  houses—any  city  can 
boast  of  better.  They  are  old,  they  are 
dirty,  they  are  dilapidated. 
It  cannot 
be  the  streets,  for  they  are  narrow  and 
muddy  and  many  of  them  crooked  and 
ugly. 
for 
the  sun  is  as  scarce as  hens’  teeth.  Ask 
someone  who  is  called  to  America  and 
must  endure  existence 
in  Chicago  or 
New  York,  and  he— but  more  likely  she 
— will  reply:  “ Oh,  Prager Strasse,  and 
Chinese  tea  around  the  corner,  and 
marzipan  on  the  way,  and  the  Art  Gal­
lery,  and  beer  at the  Bruhl  Terrace,  and 
music,  and  excursions,  and  opera,  and 
sausage,  and—but  where  shall  I  stop!”
straight 
street  containing  everything  and 
lead­
ing  everywhere.  At  one  end  it  is  called 
Reich  Stiasse. 
It  cannot  get  such  a 
“ rich”   name  on  account  of  the  Em­
press’  mother  and  sister  having  their 
tiny  little  house on  it,  for  theirs  is  the 
most  unpretentious  in the neighborhood, 
and  would  be  hooted  at  by  Uncle  Sam’s 
butchers  and  bakers. 
It  cannot  be  on 
account  of  the  American  church  close 
by,  for  its good  days  are  ended  and  teas 
and  bazars  must  keep  it  from  going  un­
der.  Yes, 
there  are  some  mansions 
along  the  way;  they  belong  to  pension- 
learned  to  turn  the 
keeps  who  have 
course  of  money  all  in  one  way. 
(For 
the uninitiated,  let me add  a  “ pension”  
is an  uncertain  kind  of  place  where  the 
rich  are  offered  the  privilege of freezing 
and  starving,  while  the  poor are  kicked 
from  the  door).

tar 

sells  Packer's 

But  Prager  Strasse— if  the  handsome 
shops  were  taken  away,  there  would  be 
absolutely  nothing.  All  the  world 
is 
represented  here,  and  so  the 
street 
seems  like  a  vast  panorama.  The  win­
dows  are  filled  with  Meissen  china, 
Russian  bronzes,  Austrian  leather,  Hun­
garian 
jewels,  Paris  gowns,  American 
cranberries.  A  favorite  shop  is  one  of 
the  drug  stores  on  the  left  hand  side. 
It 
soap,  Aunt 
Jemima's  pancake  flour,  shelled  pop­
corn,  Eagle  brand  of  condensed  milk, 
Quaker  rolled  oats,  Alden  dried  ap­
ples,  Dr.  Lyon’s  tooth  powder,  Ken­
tucky  whisky,  and  an  endless  number 
of  etc.’s.  The  leather  store  is  always 
crowded  and  flabby  pocketbooks 
leave 
the  shop. 
It  is  easy  to  speak  of  leather 
as  “ a  useful  material,”   but  where  else 
has 
Is  it 
any  wonder  that  even  men  rave  over 
such  beauty  and  never  leave  the  store 
empty-banded—except  just  after  their 
best  girls  have  said  No?

it  been  made  truly  artistic! 

Not  far  off  is the  Bank,  where  every­
body  deposits  his  money  and  draws  it 
out  at  his  pleasure—or  displeasure. 
The  reading  room  is  furnished  with  the 
leading  American  and  English  news­
papers  and  here  the  English-speaking 
people  meet  to  discuss  the  news—not 
aloud,  for  the  Sabbath  stillness  of  the 
Exchange  extends  even  to  this  far-off

9

nook.  Even  the  typical  Yankee,  who 
runs  things  at  home,  tries  to  step  the 
light  fantastic  toe  with  his  squeaky 
shoes.  Yes,  and  he  attempts  to whisper 
to  an  acquaintance  across  the  table. 
And  even  election  news  is  forgotten  as 
one  hears:

He—Ain’t  it  still  here! 

was  in  my  grandfather’s  vault  back 
Hampshire.

I  feel  like  I 
in 

She—Oh !  do  you  think  so?
He—Yes,  it  is  the  dullest  place I ever 
struck.  Nobody  understands a word you 
say  to  them,  and  I'm  tired  traveling 
in 
this  kind  of  harness.  You  don’t  know 
a  cheap  place  in  London  where  me  and 
my  wife  can  go?

She—Yes,  and  I  will  be  glad  to  give 
you  the  address;  but  why  do  you  hurry 
from  Dresden?

He— It’s 

lonesomer  here  than  on  a 
in  a  blizzard  five  miles  from  no­
farm 
where ! 
I  can  talk  myself  hoarse  but 
nobody  knows  what  I’m  driving  at. 
Yes,  I’ve  graduated  and  received  my 
diploma  for  foreign  travel.  My  wife 
and  children  can  come  over again,  but I 
never  want  to  stir  from  Colorado  again. 
Why there,  even the beggar  is not deaf!”  
And  the  squeaking  boots  recede  in  the 
distance.

But  the  most  crowded  place  is  Titt- 
mann’s  bookstore.  Here  the  people 
gather  and  never  know  enough  to  go 
home. 
It 
is  the  meeting-place  of 
friends;  it 
is  the  resting-place  of  the 
bookworm,  and  it  is  run  by  a  charming 
woman !  She 
is  quiet,  simple and  re­
tiring  in  manners;  but  everybody  has 
found  out  that  she 
is  a  professor,  a 
librarian  and  an  encyclopedia,  all  in 
one,  and  depends  on  her for everything. 
It  matters  not  in  what  language  or  what 
edition  of  a  book  you  .wish— she  can 
tell  you  all  about  the  book,  all  about  its 
author,  and  the  criticisms  passed  on 
the  book.  And  then—you  never  know 
how—you  learn a little of  Mrs.  Tittmann 
herself:  Her  husband  died  and  she  was 
left  with  a 
little  bookstore  on  her 
Instead  of  selling  it,  she  de­
hands. 
cided 
to  try  to  continue  the  business. 
“ But,”   she  will  continue,  “ you  cannot 
know  what  that  has  meant! 
If  the 
Americans  and  the  English  had  not 
been  so  kind  to  me,  I  do not  know  what 
would  have  become  of  me.”   Yes,  it 
imagine  many  things 
is  not  hard  to 
when  one  has 
lived 
in  .Germany  and 
known  the  low  estimation  held  of  every 
woman!  What  does 
it  not  mean  fora 
woman  to  compete  with  many  men  in 
such  a  country,  where  success  is  almost 
impossible  for  anybody,  and,  what 
is 
more,  to be  acknowledged  by  even  her 
enemies  as  standing  at  the  top  in  the 
book  business!

Nobody  seems  in  a  hurry  in  shopping 
—even  the  American  cannot  run  after 
bargains 
in  Dresden,  so  she  contents 
herself  by  gossiping  away  the  time  at 
her dressmaker’s,  or  while  buying  pho­
tographs  or  linen  in  the  shops.  An  ac­
quaintance  comes  in  the  shop  while  she 
is  looking  over  the  wares,  with  the 
owner  of  the  shop  in  the  midst  of  wait­
ing  on  her.  She  forgets  everything— 
the  gocds  and  the  man  who  is  in  the 
act  of  showing  her  something—and  tells 
a  long  story  about  her  troubles  at  the 
pension,  how  Mrs.  Wheeler’s  little  girl 
has  had  the  measles  and  kept  her 
mother  shut  up  for  nearly  five  weeks, 
how  Hirsch  has  in  some  delightful  new 
Paris  gowns,  how  Mrs.  Price  has not re­
ceived  a  draft  from  home and  so  has 
had  to  put  off  going  to  Italy,  etc.,  etc., 
etc.  An  hour  goes  by, 
then  a  half 
hour,  and  our  lady  looks  up  to  see  the 
hands  of  the  clock  pointing  to  four.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

And  then  she  exclaims:  “ Why,  where 
has  the afternoon gone to !  Four o’clock ! 
and  1  ought  to  be  at  Mrs.  James’  tea 
this  very  minute. 
I’m  sorry,  Herr 
Sinz,  but  I  must  leave  this  moment. 
Lay  aside  those  I  have  chosen  and  I 
will  be 
in  in  the  morning  or  within  a 
day  or  two  to  finish  and  to  settle  with 
you.”   And  he  politely  bows  her  out 
the  door.

Not  more  than  two  or  three  blocks 
from  Prager  Strasse  is  the  Art  Gallery. 
People  may  not  have  heard  of  the  Al­
berti num  or  the  Gruñes  Gewolbe (Green 
Vault) 
in  Dresden,  but  who  has  not 
heard  of  the  Picture  Gallery  and  the 
china!  The  Gallery  is  always  full,  and 
full  of  Americans. 
An  American 
“ gives  himself  away”   every  time  by 
his  pocketbook  and  his tongue— perhaps 
we  had  better  say  “ her  tongue, ”   and 
draw  the  line  there.  The  stranger,  the 
uninitiated, 
is  obvious  at  once.  At 
home  she  has  been  accustomed  always 
to  give  papers  at  the  Club,  lectures  on 
woman  suffrage  and  what  not,  and  it  is 
as  natural  for her  to  strike  an  attitude 
and  expect  everybody  to  listen  as  for 
Bridget  to  stand  with  arms  akimbo 
when  she  declares  her  intention  of  leav­
ing  Monday  morning 
in  the  midst  of 
the  washing  when  the  children are down 
with  the  measles.  She  does  not  begin, 
“ Ladiesand gentlemen !”  but everybody 
stops  to  listen  when  this  voice,  pitched 
high  enough  to  reach  the  top  telephone 
wires,  begins  to  describe her experience 
at  sea.  Why,  after  her  vivid  portrayal, 
everybody  feels  a  little  indisposed  and 
dares  not  remain  any  longer  to  revel  in 
pictures  of  saints,  martyrs,  and  rich 
people  who  liked  to  be “ took”  worship­
ping  the  Holy  Family.

An  American  man  does  not  stand  or 
walk  as  well  as  almost  any  other  na-

tion ;  but  he  knows  before  he  enters  the 
Gallery  what  he  wishes  to  see,  and  he 
sees  it  on  short  order,  buys  a  good  pho­
tograph  of  it  and  enjoys  it forever after­
wards.  A  German  or  a  Frenchman 
hasn’t  the  price;  but  he  has  time  at  his 
disposal,  so he  sits  down before  the  pic­
ture  and  studies  every  line,  and  when 
he  leaves  the  impression  is  so  clear  and 
distinct  that  he  can  describe  the picture 
perfectly  ten  years  afterwards.

It  takes  the  Americans  to  buy  the 
copies  of  the  masterpieces  which  the 
poor  plodding  artists  are  turning  off 
from  time  to  time.  Not  long  ago,  an 
American  stood  before  the  Sistine  Ma­
donna,  and  he  conceived  the  ravishing 
idea  of  buying  a  duplicate  for  his  man­
sion  at  home.  He  called  one  of  the 
gray-haired, 
cadaverous,  stoop-shoul­
dered  copiers  aside  and  said  to  him: 
“ Can  you  make  a  picture  like  that?”

Artist—Yes;  what 

size  would  you 

wish?

Millionaire  (jingling  his  pockets)— 

Oh,  life  size— like  the  one  there.

is  not  possible. 

Artist—But  that 

I 
could  not  get  the  pet mission  from  the 
King  to  make  it  that  size.  You  should 
see  a  smaller  copy  I  have  with  me  at 
home.

Millionaire  (sticking  a  bundle of bills 
in  the  timid,  nervous  gtasp  of  the  hun­
gry  painter)—Oh,  nonsense!  You  can 
work  it  if  you  want  to.  Have  it  ready 
for  me  two  weeks  from  Thursday.

She  may  not  have 

Every  American  woman  swears  by 
Baedeker. 
lived 
among  pictures  at  home,  but  she  is sure 
to  know  a  good  picture  every  time  by 
its  having  a  star  or  double  star  before 
its  name  in  the  list!

The  American  children  seem  bored 
by  the  pictures,  and  their  remarks  take 
I such  a  practical  turn  they  must  have

had  too  much  of  Ingersoll  or too  little 
of  Sunday  school  to appreciate  the  di­
vinity  of  things.

A  Southern  lady  wearing  the  weeds of 
recent  widowhood  stood  with  her  son  of 
seven  or  eight  summers  before  one  of 
Correggio’s  Madonnas.  The  child  was 
restless,  standing  first  on  one  foot,  then 
on  the  other,  and  then  hitching  behind 
as  though  he  wanted  to  get  away  from 
her grasp.  Then  she  spoke  to  him :

“ Just  look  at  this  picture,.  Charlie— 
little  baby  just  like  you  were—the 

a 
Christ  child!”

He  looked  toward  the  picture,  held 
his  breath  for a  moment  as  if  inspired, 
while  an  angelic  expression  stole  over 
his  face,  as  he  audibly  exclaimed:

led  her 

“ Why,  it’s all  neckid,  ain’t  it!” .
The  mother^looked  nervously  behind 
her,  then 
little  son  into  the 
room  appropriated  to  the  Sistine  Ma­
donna.  No  one  who  has  not  been  there 
can  appreciate  the  awful  silence  which 
pervades  the  place. 
is  like  waiting 
for  the  funeral  services  in  the  presence 
of  the  dead;  or  like  the Poets’  Corner at 
Westminster.  The  mother  was  spell­
bound.  But  now  she  scarcely  dared  call 
the  attention  of  the  child  to  the  baby 
or the  cherubs.  He  waited  patiently, 
then  was  heard  all  over  the  room,  the 
piping  voice  asking,  as  he  pointed  to­
ward  the  bishop’s  cap:

It 

“ What’s  that  little  thing  in  the  cor­

ner?”

The  mother,  afraid  to  tarry,  waltzed 
her  young  heir out of  that  Gallery  to  the 
two-step  and  was  never  more  seen.

Across  the  street  from  the  Gallery  is 
the  Opera  House.  Here  are  given  all 
of  Wagner’s  operas  (except  Parsifal) 
and  other  operas  too  numerous  to  men­
tion,  and  given  in  a  masterful  way. 
The  Americans  do  not  waste  their  op­

portunities,  but  go  nearly  every  even­
ing.  They  have  appropriated  the  fourth 
gallery,  where  seats  cost  50  to  60  cents 
apiece;  and  no  German  by  any  mistake 
gets  there.  They  are  heard  to  remark 
that  they  “ wouldn’t  sit  in  such  seats!”  
So  they  sit—at  home 
in  their  high 
straight-backed  chairs  while  the  Amer­
icans  devour  the  sweet  grapes.

The  operas  begin  from  six  to  seven 
in  the  evening  and  close  before  ten, 
which  allows  people  to  go  home  and  eat 
supper  and  get  to  bed 
long  before 
eleven.  Everybody  must  take  off  hat 
and  wraps and  dispose  of  them 
in  the 
cloak-room  before taking  his seat.  Then 
the  opera  glasses  are  pointed  in  every 
direction  to  discover  whether  the  King 
and  Queen  and  the  rest  of  the  nobility 
are  present.  The  King  does  not  go  as 
often  as  people  wish,  but  he  is  inter­
ested  in  the  opera  and  does  everything 
to  encourage 
it—more  even  than  Em­
peror  Wilhelm,  who  has  so  little  leisure 
between  his  travels  to  paint,  compose 
music  and  preach  that  he  does  not  have 
time  to 
people’s 
genius.

appreciate  other 

in 

the  house. 

Of  course,  King  Albert  occupies  the 
best  seats 
And  why 
shouldn't  he  deserve  something  better 
than  50  cents,  when  he  pays $10,000  for 
opera?  The  Empress’  mother  and  sister 
Fedora  are  always  on  hand  to  hear 
everything  worth  hearing.  They  dress 
plainly  and  would  never  be  noticed. 
However,  they  remain  in  their  seats  be­
tween  acts,  and  do  not  indulge  in  the 
ever-present  beer  and  sandwiches,  or 
even  a  breezy  walk  through  the  foyer.

Next  to  the  opera  everybody  attends 
the  Court  Church,  on  Sunday  morning. 
The  best  singers  from  the  opera  take 
part  in  the  service  Sunday  morning  and 
the  music  is  remarkably  fine.  Not  only

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is  every  seat  full,  but  every  nook  and 
corner as  well,  and  people  stand  up  by 
the hour  in  order  to  have  the  opportu­
nity  to  hear  such  music.  King  Albert 
and  Prince  Georg  are  always there,  and 
pay  rapt  attention  to  the  service.  Noth­
ing  but  good  is  said  about  King Albert, 
who  seems  so  kind  and  liberal  in  all 
his  actions.  Prince  Georg  has  been 
heard  to  remark  that  when  he  takes  the 
reins  of  power 
in  his  own  hands,  he 
will  shut  out the  Americans.  He  thinks 
the  Germans  have  no  chance  while  the 
Americans are around—that  they  are be­
ing  crowded  out  of  their  own  town. 
Meanwhile,  American  capital  has  con­
duced  to the  building  of  electric  street­
car  lines,  and  a  remarkably  fine Central 
Railroad 
The  Americans 
have  created  a  demand  for  every  lux­
ury,  and  given  business  to  the  shops, 
while  the  number  of  pension  keepers 
who  live  in  comfort  aud  even  splendor 
through  the  Americans  are too numerous 
to  mention.

Station. 

Last,  but  not  least,  among  the  at­
tractions 
is  the  Bruhl  Terrace.  This 
was  originally  the  garden  of  Count 
Bruhl,  the  minister  of  Augustus  III., 
but  is  now  a  favorite  promenade. 
It 
stands  high,  and  at  its  feet  glides  the 
is  adorned  with  trees 
Elbe  River. 
It 
and  statues  and 
is  picturesque  in  the 
extreme.  At  one  end  of  the  Terrace  is 
the  famous  Cafe  Belvedere.  During 
the  warm  weather  people  gather  here 
for  the  evening;  and  while  they  listen 
to  a  fine  progiam  of  orchestral  music, 
they  sit  around  little  tables  about  the 
door  and  eat  ices,  or  sip  beer  and  wine, 
or  smoke.  Below  are  the  dark  silent 
waters  of  the  Elbe,  reflecting  the  Will- 
o’-the-wisp  lights  along  the  -shore,  and 
shadowed  by  overhanging  trees,  while 
above
‘•Silently one by one, in the Infinite meadows of 
Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of 

heaven,
the angels.”

Z a id a   E .  U d e l l .

Paris,  France.

The  Town  of  Hay.

The town of Hay is far away.
Between ils hills of  green and gray 
Within the quiet town of Hay 
And there by many a shaded  way 

The town of Hay is far;
Its winding meadows  are.
Is many a quiet  glen.
Are homes of quiet m en;

And there are many eyes alway 
That turn with  longing  night  and day, 
Back to the town of Hay.

Within that good old town of Hay 
And no man there pursued his  way 
And none were h'gh and none were  low 
And each would grieve at others’  woe 

There was no pride of birth,
A stranger in the earth.
Of golden hsir or gray,
Down in the town of  Hay.

And many a tired soul  to day,
Mid crowded thousands far away, 
Weeps for the town of Hay.

Forth to a world of  din.
And many walk  therein.
Their restless footste  s stray.
Of that old town of Hay.

A road leads from the town of  Hay 
And winds and wanders far away,
For in the crowds of toil and stress 
Their souls have lost the quietness 
But in some respite of the  fray 
In transient dreams they float away 
Back to the town of Hay.

Old men are in that town of Hay 
Amid its quiet  trees 
Who dream <  f strong sons far away 
Upon the stormy seas.
Old mothers when the twilight dew 
The woodbine lea  e- have  pearled,
Dream of their boys who wander tb  ough 
The widenes. of t*ie  world.

And tears fall in the twil ght gray.
And prayeis go up at cl> se  of day 
In that old town of Hay.

A hillside in the town  of  Hay 
And gathered 'neatb i  s headstones  gray 
And there are tears in di-tant  lands 
And farewells waved from phantom bands 

Is slanting toward the sun,
Are sleepers one by one.
And grief too deep for tears.
Across the gulf of years.

And when they place that headstone gray 
It crushes hearts so far away 
From that old town of  Hay.

Sa x  Walteb  F obs.

TELLING  TRADE  SECRETS.

American  Manufacturers  Too  Liberal 

With  Their  Information.
From the St. Louis Hardware Repo-ter.

in  some 

All  domestic  manufacturers  are  in­
terested 
in  a  movement  leading  to  an 
extension  of  our  foreign  trade.  Our 
opportunities 
for  such  an  extension 
were  never  better  than  they  are  just 
now,  since  we  can  actively  compete 
with  other  countries  who  have  hitherto 
occupied  the  selling  field  almost  ex­
clusively,  and 
instances  we 
have  even  sold  certain  of  our  products 
to  those  countries  from  which  we  have 
previously  bought.  Our  manufacturing 
output  is  very  large,  and  is  also  steadily 
growing,  with  an  excellent  foreign  de­
mand.  Yet  this 
is  one  point  that  the 
manufacturers  have  seemingly  over­
looked.

If  a  foreigner  of  whatever  country 
comes  here  and  desires  to  inspect  any 
one  or  more  of  our  plants  be  is  given 
the  full  opportunity,  providing  he  has 
sufficient 
introduction  or  credentials. 
He  examines  the  plant,  ascertains  the 
methods  of  making,  often  obtains  an 
insight 
into  special  processes  that  are 
supposed  to  be  secret,  receives  a  mass 
of  general 
information  and  returns 
home  prepared  to  tell  his  countrymen 
how  the  Americans  make  their  goods 
and  why  they  are  enabled  to  increase 
their  . opportunities  for 
competition. 
This  imparted  knowledge  is  taken  ad­
vantage  of,  and  the  first  thing  we  know 
is  that  our  foreign  rivals  are  making 
goods  after  our  own  processes  and  de­
signs  and  are  selling  them  at  prices 
with  which  we  cannot  compete.  The 
knowledge  necessary  to  such  competi­
tion  has  been  obtained  through an abuse 
of  courtesy  that  deserves  to  be  rebuked 
and  checked.

it 

The  curious  point  about  this  matter 
is  the  distinction  that  is  made  between 
foreign  and  domestic  competitors. 
If 
one  American  manufacturer  desires  to 
know  how  his  trade  rival  at home makes 
a  certain  line  of  goods,  or  to  ascertain 
some  particular  process,  he  will  as­
suredly  be  met  with  a  rebuff  at  the 
least.  But 
if  a  foreigner  comes  along 
and  asks  for the  same  information,  it  is 
quite  frequently  given  him  with  the 
supposed  belief  that 
is  due  on  ac­
count  of  international  courtesy,  and  that 
the 
information  thus  obtained  will  not 
be  used  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  one 
imparting  it.  Such  courtesy,  however, 
has  been  almost  invariably  abused,  and 
although  the  granting  of  it  may  be  con­
doned  on  social  grounds,  it  cannot  be 
too  severely  condemned  because  of  the 
injury  it  inflicts.

if  we 

The  question  at  issue  is  not  one  for 
the  manufacturers  alone,  although theirs 
is  the  most  direct interest.  The  general 
welfare  of  the  country 
is  concerned. 
We  are  gradually but surely placing our­
selves 
in  a  position  where  we  shall 
become  the  world’s  leading  workshop, 
and 
lose  abroad  any  part  of  the 
gain  we  have  made  and  are  now  mak­
ing,  the  effect  will  be  felt  not  alone  by 
our  manufacturers,  but  by  all  depend­
ent  branches  of  business.  The  giving 
away  of  facts  and  processes  is  based  on 
a  very  liberal  principle,  but  it  is hardly 
the 
in 
information  thus  obtained 
is  used  to 
the  disadvantage  of  the  donors  and  of 
this  country’s  commercial  welfare.

line  with  profit-making  when 

How  to  Win  Trade.

From the Dry Goods Reporter.

themselves? 

“ You’re  got  to  put  yourself  out  at 
times  to  win  trade,”   said  a  clerk. 
“ What’s  the  use  of  saying  that if you’ve 
the  goods  they’ll  sell 
I 
know  better.  Give  me  my  pick  of  the 
clerks  along  the  street,  and  with  ordi­
nary  goods  at  ordinary  prices.  I’ll  agree 
to  put  a  new  store  in  shoes,  clothing  or 
groceries  on 
in  any  city  in  a 
year’s  time.  The  clerks  I  should  select 
are  people  who  have  learned  how  to for­
get  their  own 
likes  and  dislikes  and 
cater  to  the  whims  of  the  people  who 
buy  and  make  those  whims  valuable 
for  their  employers.  A  disagreeable 
salesman  who  feels  it  his  duty  to  con­
sult  his  own  preferences  and  put  for­
ward  his  own  personality  at  all  times  is '

its  feet 

a  bad  man  in  a  store.  He  will  not  only 
lose  sales—he  will  drive  trade  out of the 
store,  never  to  return.  The  clerk  who 
succeeds  needn’t  bow  down  to  a  cus­
tomer  and sacrifice  his  own self-respect, 
but  he  can’t  lord  it  over  purchasers  and 
insist  on  doing  their  buying  for  them, 
and  he  can't  pick  and  choose  custom­
ers  and  deal  pleasantly  with  this  one 
and  be  sharp  and  crabbed  with  one  he 
doesn’t  like. ”

In  Vienna  the  servant  girl  is  not  per- 
mittted  to  climb  out  on  the  window-sill 
to  clean  windows  without  a  safety  belt 
and  rope  attached  to  it.

INCLUDES  THE  ITEM

“ Ice  Cream  Lost  or  Wasted.”

The  New  Round 
Grand  Rapids 

Ice  Cream  Cabinet

W ill  make  ciphers  of  the 
figures  opposite  this  item.

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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Dorchester, Mass.
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Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritious,  and  costs  less  than  one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  t  Chocolate, put  up  in 
Blue W rappers and Yellow Labels, is the  best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  is  good  to 
eat and good  to  drink.  It  is  palatable, nutri­
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children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure  that  they 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

What  the  President  of  the  United  States 

Thinks  About  Our  Enterprise*

• * 

William  McKinley addressed  the Convention of The National 

Cash  Register Company,  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  October  22,  1895.

‘ * It gives me great pleasure, ” he said,  ‘ ‘ to meet you here, and to 
congratulate you upon the splendid enterprise in which you are engaged.
“ I have  known  The  National  Cash  Register  Company  for 
many years. 
I  have known the splendid  progress of that industry in 
the past, and my only wish for you is that the business of this country 
from now on may be such that there will  be a great demand  for your 
cash registers, and that we will be able to register more cash than ever 
before in  the transactions of this state and the country at large.

‘ * What we want,  no  matter  where  we  live  and  no matter  in 
what occupation we may  be engaged,  is the highest  prosperity possi­
ble  for  our  country,  and  whatever  will  secure  such  prosperity,  no 
matter what it may be. ”

What  the  Secretary  of  State  Says 

About  Our  Work»
On  Saturday,  October  24,  1896,  Hon.  John  Sherman  ad­
dressed  the  International  Convention of The National  Cash  Registei 
Company.  He said:

“ It  gives  me  great  pleasure  to  address  an  assembly  of  this 
kind  upon whose  faces  are written  intelligence,  ability and  integrity. 
Our  country is made  greater  by  the  progress and  strength of  its  in­
dustries.  And  among  these  industries none  has a  better  reputation 
for integrity and strength than The National  Cash Register Company.
“ You people are engaged in a very  great work—properly tak­
If the cash is right every­

ing care of their cash for retail merchants. 
thing else will be right.

* ‘ There is plenty of cash in this country,  and if it is well taken 
care of  and  properly  handled the cry of  hard times will  be  heard  no 
longer.”

What  the  Retail  Merchants  of  the  World 

Say About  National  Cash  Registers*
We  are  proud  of  this  indorsement  by  the  president  of  the 
United  States  and  by  the  secretary  of  state,  but  we  are  prouder 
still of the indorsements of our company and of our registers by more 
than one hundred and fourteen thousand retail  merchants throughout 
the civilized world who have purchased registers from us and are now 
using them.

We have testimonials from thousands of these merchants,  and 
to any retailer  who desires we  shall  be  glad  to  sen l copies of  letters 
written  by merchants in his  line of  business who reside in  his  imme­
diate vicinity.

Send  us  your  name,  address,  business,  number  of  clerks  in 
your store, and state whether  or not  you employ a  cashier.  We will 
send  you in  return,  free of  charge,  a  handsomely-printed  description 
of  a cash register system used in stores like yours.  You place  your- 
Address Dept.  D,  The National Cash Register Company,  Dayton,  Ohio.

th e  President of the United Stete».

The  Secretary  of State.

John  Wanamaker.

Twenty  National  Cash Registers in  me in Ma 

Philadelphia Store.

self under no obligation to buy.

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13

JANE  CRAGIN.

The  War  of the  Roses—How  Will  It 

End?
Written for the Tradesman.

It  was  late  when  Mr.  Huxley  said 
good  night  to  his  departing  guests.  His 
idea  had  been,  early  in  the  evening,  to 
measure  swords  with  them.  Now,  he 
was  sure  that  he  had  just  bidden  three 
good  friends  good  night.

Lighting  one of  his  choice  cigars  and 
wheeling  the  easy  chair—Jane’s  fore­
thought—to  the  wide  western  window, 
he  sat  down  and  looked  out  upon  the 
mountains.  Darkness  still 
shrouded 
them,  but  just  above  Pikes  Peak  a  star 
was  shining  and  by  its  dim  light,  by 
and  by,  he  fancied  he  could 
faintly 
trace  the  outline  of  the  summit  Long 
before  that  question  was  settled,  how­
ever,  other  thoughts  and  fancies  came 
crowding  in.  Through  the  mists  of  the 
morning,  stained  a  little  by  the  deep 
blue  which  curled  from  his  lips,  the 
star  forgot  to  shine,  the  mists  them­
selves  that  clung  to  it  were  changed  in­
to  tresses  of  unbound  hair,  where  a  rich 
red  rosQ,  entangled 
luxurious 
meshes,  caught  and  kept  his  admiring 
eyes.  How  beautiful  it  was;  and,  even 
as  he  thought 
it,  the  wind  that  was 
bringing  in  the  morning  upon  its  wings 
brushed  the  dewy  petals  as  it  passed 
and  they  began  slowly  to  unfold.  Was 
he  dreaming?  He  touched  himself  to 
see;  but,  as  he  looked  into  the  expand­
ing  blossom,  the  features  of  the  face  he 
had  gazed  upon  so  long—and  lovingly 
—at  the  supper table  seemed  to  be look­
ing  at  him  from  the  velvet  crimson, 
caught,  he  suspected, 
from  the  deep 
flush  of  the  morning  sky.  His  cigar, 
forgotten 
in  his  fingers,  at  last  went 
out;  his  head  found  rest  upon  the  high 
back  of  the  comfortable  chair,  and  then 
began  a  transformation  scene,  until then 
undreamed  of.

its 

in 

The face and  the  lips  he  hoped  some­
time  to  kiss  began  to  stand  out 
in  'the 
heart  of  the  rose  clearer  and  fairer  than 
ever.  He  even  fancied  that  they  leaned 
towards  him—exactly  as  the  beautiful 
Marjory  Marchland  bad  leaned  towards 
him  a  few  hours  before  with  cheeks 
aglow  and  dark  eyes  aflame,  and  dim­
ples  almost  as  lovely  as  the  parted 
lips 
that  seemed  to  dare  his  own!  Then, 
even  as  he  thought  to  accept  the gra­
cious  challenge,  the  fair  face faded,  and 
the  red  petals  dropped  and  floated 
like 
clouds  along  the  sky.  And  there,  where 
all  this  sweetness  had  been,  fairer  than 
the  rose,  and  brighter  than  the  dawn, 
and  dearer—a  thousand  times  dearer— 
than  all  the  world  beside,  was  the  be­
loved  face  of  Jane  Crag in  as  she  sat  at 
the  car  window  that  morning  when  the 
departing  train  carried  from  Milltown 
all  the  happiness  and  all  the  sunshine 
that  had  ever  blessed  and  gladdened  Cy 
Huxley’s  heart.

He  looked  at  the  picture  longingly 
and—hopelessly?  Was  she  ' ‘ so  near and 
yet  so  far?”   Was  this  vision,  so  often 
seen,  always  to  come  back  to  only  this? 
Was  he  fated  to  look  at  his  happiness 
only  through  another’s  eyes?  What  was 
it—what  did  he  lack  that  this  other man 
possessed?  Not  a  more  loving  heart— 
he  was  very  sure  of  that;  not  a  greater 
devotion—the  years  (so  many  of  them !) 
could  bear  daily  testimony  to  that;  not 
a  constant  desire  to  anticipate  even  a 
fancied  want— it  bad 
long  been  the 
leading  pleasure  of  his  life.  He  had 
done  all  he  could  to  win  her  love;  be 
had  done  it  for  years.  He  could  do  no 
more;  and  if now  she  found  she  would 
not  give  him her heart—the rising threat

died  before  it  reached  his  lips;  but  the 
resolution  which  strangled 
it  left  him 
weak  as  a  child.

‘ ‘ It  may  not  come  to  that, ”   he  said, 
as  he  looked 
in  surprise  at  his  cigar, 
long  gone  out;  ‘ ‘but  then  again,  it may. 
Jane  never  shall  know,  howe/er;  and  I 
can  find  no  greater  happiness,  in  any 
case,  than  in  doing  exactly  that. 
It  fits 
in  everywhere;  even 
if  the  red  rose 
should  bloom  for  me— it  need  not  know 
— it  never  should  know— what  I’ve  re­
solved  upon.  How  bright  she  was  last 
night. 
I  think— I  think  I’d  better go to 
bed! ’ ’

He  suited  the  action  to  the  word; 
and,  when  he  opened  his  eyes  upon  the 
splendor  of  another  Colorado  day,  he 
realized  what  Jane  meant  when  she* 
wrote  him  that  ‘ ‘ it  often  happens  that 
there  isn’t  any  to-morrow.”

*  *  *

It  was  no  more  than  natural  that  Miss 
Birkenmayer  and  Miss  MacDonald, 
whose  rooms  were  next  each  other, 
should go into Miss Birkenmayer’s room, 
which  was  reached  first,  to  talk  over  the 
supper a  little;  and  the  door  was hardly 
closed  behind  them  when  Miss  Mac­
Donald,  throwing  herself  on  the  sofa  in 
an  attitude  of  despair,  exclaimed :

“ * ’Twas ever thus;  from chIMhood’s  hour
I’ve seen my  fondest hopes decay I’

that 

ignominiously  overwhelmed  and 
I’m 
I’m  a  nonentity—a  worth­
humiliated. 
less atom ! 
In the morning  I  flourisheth 
and  groweth  up;  in  the  evening  I  am 
cut  down  and  withereth !  Do,  for  pity’s 
sake,  say  something  to  console  me. 
How  can  you  sit  there  smiling  when the 
whole  world 
is  turned  upside  down? 
Haven’t  you  any  heart  inside  of  you? 
Haven’t  you  something  that  resembles a 
soul,  or are  you  so  lost  in trespasses and 
sin  that  you  can’t  realize  that  what  was 
even  now  in  your  grasp is lost forever?”
“ Don’t,  Miss  MacDonald,  I  implore 
you! 
I  am  only  a  mortal  like the  rest 
of  humanity—a weak,  miserable  mortal! 
I  had  no  hopes—not  an  aspiration  en­
tered  my  breast.  Meekly,  but  deter­
minedly,  I  meant  to  do  what  I  could  to 
help  Mr.  Huxley 
‘ while  the  happy 
hours  away,’  for  Miss  Cragin’s  sake, 
for  I  thought,  you  know, 
she 
thought  that  unless  some  of  us  should 
lend  a  helping  hand  there  would  be  no 
more  drives  and  tete-a-tetes  with  the 
Doctor.  So  I’ve  been  thinking  things 
up  and  writing  ’em  down  for  Mr.  Hux­
ley’s  entertainment;  but  now  all  that 
paper,  and  ink  and  time  are  wasted. 
I’m  sorry  I  wore  my  best  dress,  and  I 
don’t  see  why  I  wasn’t  down  sick  with 
the  headache  to-night,  and  I  know 
just 
as  well  as  I  know  anything  that  the 
sight  of  an  American  Beauty  hereafter 
will  give  me  the  hay-fever!”

in  an  appearance. 

‘ ‘ To  be  honest  about  it,”   Miss  Mac­
Donald 
interrupted,  ‘ ‘ I’m  not  so  sure 
that  Mr.  Huxley  is  only  Miss  Cragin’s 
‘ friend.’ 
I’ve  seen  enough  already  to 
convince  me  that  Miss  Cragin  is  the 
apple  of  his  eye;  and  I’ve  an  idea  that, 
if  Dr.  Day  hadn’t  come  here  this  sum­
mer  and 
love  with  Miss 
Cragin,  Mr.  Huxley  never  would  have 
put 
In  that  case, 
Miss  Birkenmayer,  we  need  nil  des- 
perandum! 
isn’t  a  fighting 
chance for either  of  us ;  but  we  have  the 
advantage  of  her 
in  knowing  this be­
forehand,  and  we’ll  make  the  most  of  it 
and  just  worry  Miss  Marchland’s  life 
out  of  her,  for  she’s  dreaming  of  him 
this  blessed  minute  and  mumbling  the 
second  verse  of  Solomon’s  Songs,  I’ll 
wager  anything. 
It’s  to  be  a  fair  field 
and  no  favor  so  far as  I’m  concerned, 
and  if  I  find  I’m  getting  the  worst  of  it 
I’ll  get  Mr.  Smith  to  help  me.  By  the 
way,  what  a  mistake  it  was  for  that  fel­
low  to become  engaged  before  coming 
out  here!

There 

fallen 

in 

“ ‘Ah!  well for us all some sweet hope lies
Deeply buried from human eyes I’

Good  night. 
I  want  you  to go  with  me 
to  the  greenhouse  to-morrow— I’m  go­
ing  to  engage  for  the  season  every 
American  Beauty  grown  there!  The 
Wars  of  the  Roses  we  read  about  will 
be  nothing  compared  to,this!  Good 
night.”

R ic h a r d   M a l c o l m   St r o n g .

A  Blind  Grocer  Who Makes a Success 

of the  Business.

W ritten for the  T radesman.

In  these  days  of  big  competition  and 
meager  profits,  when  men  in  possession 
of  all  their  faculties  are  put  to  their 
wits’  end  in  devising  ways  and  means 
to  keep  the  flour  barrel  replenished  and 
make  both  ends  meet,  it  is both refresh­
ing  and  encouraging  to  find  a  grocer 
who,  although  totally  blind,  is  conduct­
ing  a  profitable business  which  he  has 
built  up  out  of  absolutely nothing.  Such 
a  man  is  James  Leaney,  of  Pt.  Dover, 
Ont.

Mr.  Leaney 

is a  young  man  and  the 
successful  proprietor of  a fancy grocery, 
confectionery,  bakery  and 
ice  cream 
parlor  business.  When  a  lad  of  io  he 
lost  his  eyesight,  since  which  time  he 
has. been  totally  blind.  He saw  the  Old 
World  as  a  child  sees  it,  but  will  never 
it  as  a  man.  His  parents 
look  upon 
were 
in  poor  circumstances,  but  kind 
friends  sent  him  to  the  Institution  for 
the  Blind,  at  Brantford,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  due  time.  By  the  use  of 
“ pointed print”   he  acquired a  fair  edu­
cation  at  the  Institution. 
In  addition 
to  the  schoolastic  training  received, 
each  pupil 
is  required  to  learn  some 
mechanical  trade  adapted  to  the  blind, 
whereby  he  may  be  enabled  to  earn 
his  own 
living.  Young  Leaney  took 
up  willow  work,  and  after  he  graduated 
returned  to  Pt.  Dover,  where  he  plied 
his  trade for  two  years.  The chairs  and 
other articles  made  by  him  were artistic 
novelties  but  very  expensive.  None 
but  those 
in  easy  circumstances  could 
afford  to  buy  them ;  and  when  they  did 
buy,  the  desire  that  prompted  the  act 
was  to  help  the  poor  blind  boy  rather 
than  any  felt  need  of  the  goods.  Young 
Leaney  knew  this  and,  being ambitious 
and  proud-spirited,  it  galled  him  to  the 
quick.

In  speaking  of  this  experience,  the 
blind  grocer  said: 
‘ ‘ I  could  not  find 
words  that  would  adequately  express the 
state  of  my  feelings  during  that  wretch­
longer  I  worked 
ed  two  years.  The 
at  it  the  more  distasteful  it  became. 
I 
asked  no  unmerited  favors  of  anyone, 
and  I  was  at  a  loss  to  understand  why 
my goods  should  not  sell  in  the  market 
upon  their own  merits  like  other  manu­
factured  products.  The  thought  that 
the  world  had  no  use  for  my wares—that 
they  were  looked  upon  as  mere  novel­
ties and  the  handiwork  of  a  poor  unfor­
tunate  object  of  charity  and  that  people 
bought  them  for  sweet  charity’s  sake— 
made  so  strong  an  impression  upon  me 
that  I  resolved,  at  the  end  of  the  sec­
ond  year,  to quit  it  forever. 
I  was  de­
termined  to  find  some  field  of usefulness 
where  I  might  render  to  society  a  serv­
ice  in  full  of  all  demands  for  all  favors 
received.  Although  blind,  I  had  brains, 
and  I  determined  to  make  them  do 
double  service. 
thought* of  a  little 
candy  shop,  but  did  not  have  so  much 
as a  York  sixpence  to  commence  with. 
I  came  up  here  with  a  friend  blessed 
with  eyes  and,  after 
inspecting  the 
premises  and  planning  for  future  en­
largement  of  the  business,  rented  one 
small  front  room  and  had  it  put 
in 
shape.  My 
laughed  at  my 
bold  undertaking,  but  hoped  I  might 
succeed.  A friend  loaned  me his  name, 
which  enabled  me  to  secure  a  little 
stock  of  confectionery  on  credit  to  start 
with. 
I  paid  this  little  bill  before  it 
fell  due.  This  was  nearly  ten  years ago, 
and  everything  you  see  here  now  is  my 
own  and  fully  paid  for.”

landlady 

I 

Mr.  Leaney  employs a  baker,  a  deliv­
ery  boy  and  a  young  lady  as  clerk.  He

it  to,  and  un- 
keeps  a  horse,  hitches 
it  from,  the  delivery  wagon, 
hitches 
and  takes  exclusive  care  of  it.  Leaving 
out  color,  no  man  can  excel  him  in 
judging  the  good  points  of  a  horse.  He 
has  ventured  out  a  few  times  on  horse­
back,  but  does  not  make a  practice  of 
it.  He  is  an  expert  wheelman,  however, 
as  a  rear  rider  in  a  tandem  team.  He 
carries a  cane  and  can  walk  direct  to 
any  business  place  or  private  residence 
in  town  without  losing  his  bearings; 
in  fact,  to  see him  go  about  the  streets, 
no  stranger  would 
imagine  that  he  is 
totally  blind.  But  it  is  behind  the coun­
ter  where  his  most  marvelous  feats  are 
performed.  He  dresses  neatly,  and 
wears  large  dark  glasses.  A  fluent  talk­
er,  with  the  manners  of  a  gentleman, 
he  impresses  one  as  a  person  of  refine­
ment  and  education.

His  place  of  business,  and  everything 
in  it,  is bright,  clean  and  orderly.  He 
is  attentive  to  customers  and  very quick 
in  his  movements.  To  see  him  weigh 
out  and  tie  up  goods  and  make  change, 
and  hear  him  discuss  the  merits  of this, 
that  or  the  other  article,  any  spectator 
ignorant  of  the  facts  would  wager  any 
sum  that  he  can  see  as  well  as  anybody. 
Of  course,  everything  must  be  kept 
strictly  in  its  place;  and  it  is only when 
.things  get  a  little  mixed  during  a  busy 
time  that  he  has  any  occasion to enquire 
of  an  employe  the  whereabouts  of  any 
particular  thing.

it 

During  the  summer  season,  American 
excursion  parties  frequently  visit  Pt. 
Dover.  When  these  occur,  Mr.  Leaney 
employs  extra  help,  not  only  because 
his  business  is  unusually  brisk  on  these 
occasions,  but  because  toughs  have  fre­
quently  attempted  to  beat  him  in  mak­
ing  change  by  taking  advantage  of  his 
blindness.

In  the  handling  of  coin  he  is  an  ex­
pert  and  abundantly  able  to  take  care of 
himself,  but  in  receiving  bank  notes  he 
is  compelled  to  rely  almost  entirely  on 
the  honesty  of  his  customers.  I  say  ‘ ‘ al­
most  entirely, ”   because 
is  a  fact 
that  he  can  distinguish,  in  a  measure, 
between  the  denominational  values  of 
bank  bills.  I  bad  heard  of  his  ability  to 
do  this,  and  I  subjected  him  to  a  test. 
Placing  a $10,  a $5  and  a  $1  note  on  the 
counter,  I  asked  him  to  distinguish  be­
tween  them.  The $10 note  was  new  and 
crisp  and  he  ventured  no  opinion  on  it. 
The  $5  note  was  old,  crumpled  and 
considerably  worn,  and  after  a  careful 
examination  he  said  he  thought  it  was a 
five.  The  $1  note  was  also  crumpled 
and  much  worn,  and  the blind  man  said 
it  was  a  small  bill,  but  whether  a  one 
or a  two  he  could  not  say.  He  said  he 
would  have  risked  the  five  from  the 
hands  of  a  stranger,  but  that  the  ten 
might  be  a  one  or  a  fifty  for all  he could 
tell.  He  said  it  is pretty much all guess­
work,  but  that,  where  notes  are  old  and 
much  worn,  he  seldom  fails  to  distin 
guish  between  bills  of  a  high  denomi­
national  value  and  those  of  a  low  value.
Mr.  Leaney  frequently  visits Toronto, 
and  can  make  his  way  about  the  city  as 
easily  as  anybody.

This  blind  young  grocer  started  in 
business  less  than  ten  years  ago  with 
absolutely  nothing.  To-day  he  is  worth 
at  least  $i,ooo!  And,  what 
is  most 
praiseworthy,  he  has  been  the  sole  sup­
port  of  an  invalid  widowed  mother  for 
the  last  five  years.  He  has  done  all 
this;  and  yet  there  are  young  men  in 
the  full  enjoyment  of  every  God-given 
faculty  who  whine  because  they  think 
the  world  has  no  use  for  them.  Shame 
on  all  such  ungratefuls!

E .  A .  O w e n .

Vittoria,  Ont.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

14

EXTRA  DISCOUNT.

Ingenious  Scheme  of the  Joseph  Ban- 

igan  Rubber  Co.

Prom the India Rubber World.

The  first  price  list  issued  for the  new 
season  was  that  of  the  Joseph  Banigan 
Rubber  Co.  While  regarded  with  in­
terest,  it  failed  to  gtatify  the  curiosity 
of  the  trade  respecting  prices  for  the 
year,  since  the  company  had  not,  at 
the  time  of 
issuing  the  list,  decided 
upon  their  discounts  to  the  jobber nor to 
the  retailer.  But  by  placing  their  gross 
prices  on  an  average  of  about  8  per 
cent,  higher  than  those  of  the  old  com­
panies,  it  was  evident that the Banigans 
had  sought  an  advantage  through  antic­
ipating  the  desire  of  many  retailers  for 
a  larger  margin  between  the  list and net 
prices.  The  list  is arranged  in the usual 
style  of  shoe  lists,  contains  about  as 
many  items  as  the  lists  of  the  old  com­
panies,  and  is  brightened  by  the  use  of 
two  colors  in  printing.
The  list  prices  for  rubber  boots  and 
shoes  for  the  new  season  are  the  same 
that  have  been  in  effect  since  April 
i,
1893,  with  the  exception  of  a  few  slight 
changes  made  in  various  years.  Prior 
to the  date  mentioned  there  had  been no 
changes  in  list  prices  for  several  years 
In  the  tables  which  follow  are given, 
for  purposes  of  comparison,  the  prices 
in  effect  previous  to  April  1,  1893,  and 
those  which  have  since  been  quoted  by 
all  companies. 
It  is  necessary,  also,  to 
note  the  discounts  quoted for the various 
years,  which  were  on  first grade  goods:-

OLD  LIST.

Season  iSgo-91  ............................................... 38@6%
Season  1891-92................................................. 45©5%
Season  1892-93................................................. 
50%

NEW  LIST.

Seasons  1893-94—1895-96......................................20%
Season  1896-97............: ....................................... 15%
Season  1897-98......................................................25 %
It  w ill  b e   seen  from   th ese  figures  th a t 
to  1893,  p ric e s   w ere  fa llin g   ra p -

p rio r 

idly,  through  the  increasing  discounts, 
until,  in  the.last  season,  retailers  were 
supplied  at  one-half  the  list  prices.  At 
that  time  the  lists  were  materially  re­
vised,  in  the  direction  of  lower  retail 
prices,  but  with  such  a  decrease  in  dis­
counts  as  to  put  up  the  factory  prices. 
In  the  accompanying  tabular  statements 
are  shown  not  only  the  old  and  new  list 
prices,  but  also  the  net  selling  prices 
(to  retailers)  in  1890—before  the  heavy 
cutting  began;  in  1892—the  year  before 
the  United  States  Rubber  Co.  became 
active;  in  1893—the  first  year  of  the 
new  regime; 
just 
past;  and  1897—the  season  now  open 
ing.  The  reader  will  thus  be  able  to 
trace  declines  and  advances 
in  net 
prices  on  most  of  the  important  lines  of 
goods.

in  1896—the  year 

It  should  be  mentioned  that  the  net 
prices  given  for  the  opening  season 
will  be  quoted  only  to  October  1,  1897 
at  which  time  there  will  be  a  slight  ad 
vance  from  the  withdrawal  of  the  5.per 
cent,  discount.

The  figures in the  accompanying table 
show  that  the  average  net  selling  prices 
of  common  boots 
in  1892  were  lower 
in  1890  by  13  per  cent.  The  net 
than 
prices  of  1893  were  higher  than  in  1890 
by  10  per  cent.,  which  had  increased  by 
1896  to  16  per  cent.  The  average  prices 
at  the  prevailing  discounts  are  3  per 
cent,  less  than  in  1890.

As  for  overshoes,  the  average  for  1892 
was  13  per  cent,  less  than  in  1890.  The 
in  1893  were  8  per  cent,  higher 
prices 
and  in  1896  16  per  cent,  higher  than 
in 
1890.  The  present  prices  are  about 
per  cent,  higher  than  those  of  1890.

The 

items  of 

lumbermen’s  and  wool 

in  the  table  averaged 

goods  quoted 
per  cent,  less  in  1892  than  in  1890,  and 
3  per  cent,  higher  in  1893.  In  1896  they 
averaged  9  per  cent,  higher,  and  this 
year  they  are  9  per  cent,  lower,  than  in 
1890.

S l'M M A R Y   O F  A V ER A G E S— A L L   LINES.

Prices in 1892  less than in 1890 by  4 per cent
Prices in 1893 more than in 1S90 by  7 per cent.
Prices in 1896 more than in 1890 by 14 per cent.
Prices in 1897  less than in 1890 by  4 per cent. 

! 

Old
List

OVERSH OES.
1890
38*6
Per
Cent.

.S92 
5° 
Per 
Cent
$1  10 $  64 $  55
3§
28
33
*5
40
33
2C
2S
22
2° 
45
38
48
33
28
22
20  I

75
55
65
§°
80
5Ò
55
44
40
90
75
95
55
44
40

43
32
38
29
38
29
32
25
24
53
43
55
3»
32
25
24

j

New
List

189320
Per
Cent
$  90 i   72
60
48
a  50
36
40
50
40
3*
70
50
44
,  55
32'
*  45
36
45
28
35
24
3°
60
75
60
48
60
48
32
40
36
45
2S
35
24
3°

1896
•5
1  Per 
Cent.

Î  77
5*
43
43
34
60
47
38
38
.3°
26
64
51
34
38
30
20

_____  

Men’s  heavy......................
Boys* heavy  ...  .................
Youths*  h eavy.................
Women’s heavv............... .
Misses* heavy.'..................
Men’s sandals  ..................
Boys’  sandals....................
Youths* sandals.................
Women *s  san dal s .............
Misses*  sandals.................
Children’s  sandals.......
Men’s,  self-acting.............
Boys* self-acting...............
Men’s footholds  ...............
Women’s  footholds..........
W  omen’s  croquets............
Misses*  croquets...............
Children’s  croquets...........

[“ -4 5  in  1S93;  ¿—40 in  1893I.

COMMON  BOOTS.

STYLES.

Old
List

Men’s hip.......................................
Men’s  Storm  King-.........................
Men’s  knee.........
Men’s short................... 
Bovs*  hip..............
Boys’ Storm King__
Bovs*  short..............
Youths’  Storm  King.......................... 
Youths’  short...................... 
Women’s  fleece-lined__
Misses’  fleece-lined.........
Children’s  fleece-lined...

............!  $5  60
............;  4  5°
1  I £
............1  T
............1  4  20
|  ^  JO
|

............!  2  40
2  00
............ 
I  60
............... 

1S90 
38 *  6 
Per 
Cent.

$*  26 
2  62 
2  62
2  67 
2  44
1  97

I  40 
I  17
83

New
List

$2  80
$4  50
4  00
2  25
2  25  1a  3  25 
0300 
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W OO L  GOODS  A N D   LU M BER M EN ’S.

STYLES.

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He  who  attempts  to  throw  his  moral 
obligations  off  onto  society  is  a  moral 
tramp.  A  moral  stoneyard  should  be 
kept  for  the  employment  of  such  as  he.
“ He  who  would  have  friends  must 
show  himself 
friends 
made  for  revenue  only  are  not  the  stuff 
revenue  is  made  from.

friendly;”   but 

Since  the  year  1880  the  Paris  police 
authorities  have  arrested  as  many  as 
29,000  children  who  were  being  trained 
for  begging  and  vice.

Cheap  Rates  to  New  Ycrk.

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 
including 
valid  to  return  up  to  and 
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  yield  of  maple  sugar  and  syrup 
in  Vermont  is  reported  to  be  the  largest 
on  record,  and  dealers  are  offering  only 
5  cents  a  pound  for  the  best  sugar,  and 
40 cents  a  gallon  for  syrup.

A  strip  of  land  to  extend  the  Liver­
pool  Stock  Exchange  was  recently  pur­
chased  at  the  rate  of  $5,000,000  per 
acre.

The  man  who  says  the  right  thing 
cannot  be  done  is  a  shining  example  of 
a  good  man  gone  wrong.

A  nugget  of  platinum,  weighing 
in 
nearly  two  pounds,  is  on  exhibition 
is  believed  to  be  the 
New  York.  This 
largest  nugget  ever  discovered, 
the 
metal  being  usually  found  in  very  small 
grains..

Miscellaneous  Chat.
King  Leopold,  of  Belgium, 

is  said 
to  be  very  fond  of  going  about 
in­
cognito.  Whenever  he  finds  it  possible 
be  goes  to  England  unaccompanied,and 
strolls  around  the  street  like any humble 
tourist.

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MANUFACTURERS AND JOBBERS OF

 

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AND  RUBBERS

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

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Place your orders with our boys on the road.  Call on us when in the city.

Our discount is 25 and 5 off.

Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co.

5  and  7  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

Practical  Talk  on  Advertising  a  Shoe 

Store.

The  spring  and  summer  styles of foot­
wear  are  now  in  every  shoe  store  from 
ocean  to  ocean—and  thousands  of  re­
tailers  are giving huge chunks of thought 
as  to  how  the  shoe  advertising  can  best 
be  done.

in  all 

Of  course,  there  are  varieties  of ways, 
as  there  are 
lines  of  business. 
Some  shoe  dealers  come  out once a week 
with  a  double  half  column  splurge  on 
shoes,  with  a  dozen  or  twenty  items. 
Some  think  the  daily  presentation  of  a 
leader,  illustrated  with  an  exact  cut  of 
the  shoe  and  with  a  full  description  of 
its  merits  and  price,  is  about the proper 
caper.  Some  advertise tri-weekly—some 
bi-weekly—some  weekly  after  this 
idea 
and  then  come  out  strong  four  or  five 
times  a  year  with  a  good-sized  adver­
tisement  covering  several  lines.

In  my  experience  I  have  found  that 
the 
idea  of  advertising  a  single  drive 
in  shoes  is  an  excellent  one.  The  av­
erage  shoe  store  cannot  afford  to  adver­
tise  heavily,  as  do  bigger  stores  in other 
lines;  but  there 
is  no  reason  why  its 
advertising  cannot  be  continual  and 
profitable.  A  daily  space  in  the 
local 
paper  of  about  four  inches  is  not  an  ex­
travagant  outlay  for  some  shoe  concerns 
where  shoe  competition  is  pretty  keen 
and  the  town’s  population  fairly  good 
sized.  The  advertisement  should  be 
changed 
successive 
story  should  tell  of  a  new  shoe  bargain 
in  an 
interesting  manner—or  an  old 
shoe  value  dished  up  in  new  form.

constantly—each 

In  Sunday’s  advertisement  take,  say, 
men’s  russet 
leather  shoes  of  the  Lon­
don  toe  variety.  Get  a  cut,  write  a 
catch-line  or  two,  then  sail  in  on  your 
description  of 
this  particular  shoe. 
Display  the  name  of  the  shoe  and  its 
price ;  let the  rest  of  the  body  be in pica 
or  nonpareil  lower  case.  Have  a  para­
graph  at  the  bottom,  about  an 
inch 
deep,  set 
in  gen­
eral  about  the  completeness  of  your 
stock,  the  universal 
lowness  in  price, 
etc.

in  agate,  speaking 

Monday,  come  out  with  another  story 
on  another  shoe.  Let  us  suppose  it  is 
a  woman’s  dongola  patent 
leather 
tipped  button  shoe.  Let  the  same  idea 
on  set-up  and  general  arrangement  pre­
vail  here  as 
in  yesterday’s  advertise­
ment.  Tuesday  you  could  speak  of 
men's  bicycle  shoes,  and  so  on  all 
through  the  week,  giving  your  readers 
fresh  advertisements  on  fresh  subjects 
daily. 
If  you  can’t  catch  a  buyer on 
Monday’s  advertisement,  you  may  with 
Thursday’s  attempt.  At  any  rate,  by  a 
succession  of  advertisements  on  every 
shoe  subject,  you  are 
in  the 
course  of  the  week  to cover almost  every 
shoe  desired ; and this sort of advertising 
if 
intelligently  and  persistently 
fol­
lowed,  with  occasional  splurges 
at 
“ clearance  sale’ ’  times,  will  bring  you 
in  lots  of  trade.

likely 

If  you  think  you  can’t  afford  to  come 
out  daily,  then  come  out  bi-weekly  or 
tri-weekly;  only  when  you  do  advertise, 
do  so  in a clean-cut and definite manner, 
as  outlined  above.

I  am  moved  to  make  this  remark  by 
an  examination  this  afternoon  of  a 
dozen  small  town  papers  from  a  dozen 
points 
in  the  Union.  There  wasn’t  a 
good  shoe  advertisement  in  the  whole 
dozen  papers.  Strange,  but  true. 
I  re 
marked  so  to  an  Illinois  merchant  who 
happened  to be  in  my  office.

“ Oh,  well,”   he  said,  “ these  shoe 
dealers  don’t  seem  to  care.  They’ve 
advertising  contracts  with  their  local 
papers  which  they  must  live  up  to  some

way  or  other  and  if  the  spaces  are  filled 
with  any  other  sort  of  advertising,  as 
long  as  it’s  advertising  that’s  all  that’s 
necessary  in  their  estimation.

He  further  thought  that  much  of  this 
advertising  was  supposed  to  be  done  by 
the  book-keepers  or  clerks,  who  were 
kept  busy  enough  with  other  duties  and 
who  naturally  did  not  give  the  adver­
tising  the  attention  it  deserved.

There’re  sinners 

in  this  respect  in 
every  branch  of  the  business,  and  if 
they  fall  at  the  trade  wayside,  one  of 
the  great reasons,  if not the greatest,  will 
be  the  very  poor  advertising  they  put 
forth.

I  noted  one  space  in  particular. 

It 
occupied  six  inches  altogether  and  im­
parted  the  startling 
information  that 
Dash,  Dash  &  Co. 's  stock  of  shoes  was 
the  best 
in  the  town  and  that  their 
prices  were  way  down.  Rather a  vague 
and  hazy  way  of  shoe  advertising—to 
put  it  mildly.  To  put 
it  more  justly, 
it  was  an 
idiotic  waste  of  good  space. 
It  sprawled  all  over  six  valuable  inches 
and  said  nothing.

a 

As  advertising  manager  for  various 
concerns,  I  found  the  plan  of  adveitis- 
ing  a  single  shoe  value  at  a  time  very 
good.  Chas.  A.  Estes,  of  Denver,  was 
and  is  yet,  a  very  intelligent advertiser. 
In  writing  his  shoe  advertisements  I 
followed  the  single-item  idea every day. 
On  the other  hand,  such  successful  shoe 
concerns  as  the  Massachusetts Shoe Co., 
of  Boston,  comes  out  with  a  broadside 
of  twenty  or thirty  items  very  frequent­
ly. 
It  pays  them,  because  they’ve been 
doing  it  for  years;  but  it  doesn't  neces­
sarily  follow  that  a  daily  small  adver­
tisement  on 
special  shoe  value 
wouldn’t  pay  them  better.  Alfred  J. 
Cammeyer,  of  New  York,  is  certainly 
a  good  shoe  advertiser,  and  I  notice 
that  he is  generally  satisfied  with  speak­
ing  of  one good  shoe  value  at  one  time.
As  long  as  you  have  an  advertising 
contract  with  a  paper  see  that  your  ad­
is  filled  with  the  best 
vertising  space 
sort  of  advertising. 
the 
amount  of  space  you  use  that  counts— it 
is  rather  what  you  say  and  how  you  say 
it.  Every  week  brings  you  a  budget 
of  hints  on  good  shoe  advertising;  you 
ought  to  gain  some  benefit  from  them. 
And  if  you  don’t  feel  that  you  can  do 
your  advertising  justice,  get  somebody 
who 
in 
Brains.
How an Insulting Clerk Can Kill Trade. 
From the Boot and Shoe Recorder.

can.—J.  Angus  McDonald 

is  not 

It 

A  chain  is  no  stronger  than  its  weak­

est  link.

Theories  are all  right,  but  facts  some­

times  refute them.

You  may  make  all  sorts  of  rules  for 

the  conduction  of  your business.

But  one  of  your clerks  can  do  more 

damage  by  breaking  these  rules
Than  you  can  undo  in  a  year.
Take  the  question  of  returning  goods.
Let  me give  you  a  little  instance.
There  is  a  grocery  store  very  near the 

railroad  station.

I  pass  it  twice  a  day.
The  proprietor  usually  keeps  his  win­

dows  attractively  dressed,

And  frequently  has 

in  them  some­
thing  in  the  way  of  a  tempting bargain.
Not  a  great  while  ago  it  was  pineap­

ple  cheeses.

I  went  in  and  bought  one.
Before  any  great  amount  of  it  had 
been  eaten,  it became  entirely  too  live­
ly  to  stand  still  in  the  cheese  dish.
While  I  like  cheese,  1  object  to  mag- 
I  took  that  cheese back.
I  suppose  some  of the  live  stock  may 

gots.

have  gotten  away.

The  only  way  to  have  held  them 
in  a  sealed 

would  have  been  to  put 
package.

When  I  returned  it  to  the  clerk,  I told 
it 

When  I  called  at  night,  the  clerk 

him  I  would  come  in  and  see  about 
on  my  way  to  the  train  at  night.
practically  called  me  a  liar.
in  the  cheese.

He  also  said  there  was  no  live  stuck 
He  also  averred  that  they  had  never 

before  had  any  complaints.

I  asked  him 

if  he  proposed  to  give 
me  a  new  cheese  for  it,  and  he  referred 
me  to  the  proprietor.

The  proprietor  “ had  never  heard  any 

complaints  regarding  the  cheese.”
Could  not  find  any  skippers  in  it.
And  as  his  clerk  had  done,  practical­

ly  called  me  a  liar.

The  fact  that  there  were  holes  in  the 
bottom  of  the  cheese  where  probably the 
worms  got  in,  and  a  big  hole  in  the  top 
where  they  were  probably  scooped  out 
by  the  ingenious  young  clerk  after I had 
left,  seemed  to  have  no  weight  with 
him.

He  simply 

intimated  that  I  was  a 
swindler,  and,  while  he  did  not  say  so, 
implied  it.
Now  I  go  by  that  grocery  store  twice 
a  day,  but 
instead  of  calling  in  there 
and  buying  something  three  or  four 
times  a  week,  I go  by  without  stopping.
He  frequently  has  tempting  bargains 

in  his  windows.

But  they  don’t  tempt  me.
There’s  another  grocer  next  door.
It’s  just  as  handy  to  trade  with  him.

Probably  few  Americans  even  have 
any  conception  of  the  immense  number 
of  oysters  shipped  to  England,  which 
is  the  sole  market  for  American  bi­
valves,  as  France  rears  her  own,  and 
the  German  duty  of  $16  per  barrel  is 
rather  too  steep  to  allow  any  margin  for 
profit.  Hundreds of  thousands  of  barrels 
are  received  yearly  in  England,  many 
of  which  are  transplanted 
lor  a  few 
months,  when  they  are  taken  u p   for  the 
summer  trade.  Norfolk,  Baltimore  and 
other  points  ship  large  quantities,  and 
the  Connecticut  trade  is  also  large,  one 
firm  alone  shipping  about  40,000 barrels 
yearly.

This represents our Boys’  and  Youths’  Oil 
“ ]  Grain Water Proof Shoes, made of very best 
■ J*  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.

SKKDICOR  &  HATHAWAY  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Also  makers  of  the  celebrated  Driving 
Shoes.  Grain Creedmoors and Cruisers. 
H EROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  CO.,  of 
and Rapids, Agents.

LYCOniNG,  35 and 5 off.
KEYSTONE,  25 and 5 and  10 off.

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

Leather  Goods,  Pelt  Boots, 
Lumbermen’s  Socks 
.

. 

. 

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

Qeo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,

19 South Ionia St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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527 and 528 
Wlddicomb Bid. 
Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

C. U.  Clark, Sec’y and 

Pres.
Treas.

We  are  now 
to 
ready 
make  contracts  for  bark 
for the  season of 1897.
Correspondence Solicited.

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Correspondence  Solicited. 

16

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

D ry   Goods
the  “Pieter”  Sold 

How 

Goods.
W ritten for the  T r a d e s m a n .

the  Dress 

“ Be  you  agivin’  away  them  there  oil 
paintin’s  yit  with  every  five  dollars’ 
wuth?”

I  seen  your  advertisement 

“ Yes,  ma’am .”
“ Well,  I  want  ter  buy  me  a  new 
dress,  an’^I  want  it  all  wool,  an’  1 don’t 
want  it  ter  cost  over  five  dollars,  linin’s 
an’  all. 
in 
the  paper  yesterday,  an’  I  made  up  my 
mind,  so  long  ez  I  wanted  a  dress,  I’d 
better  come  ter  this  here  store an’  git 
it.  The  paper  says  you  don’t  charge 
nothin’  fer  the  picter—but  they  ain’t 
reel  oil  paintin’s,  be  they?”

“ Oh,  yes,  they  are  oil  paintings  sure 
enough.  That  is  one  of  them  hanging 
right  up  there.”

“ Law  sakes!  You  don’t  say  so! 
Well  now,  thet— is—fine!  Do  you  give 
frame  an’  all  jest  like  that?”

“ Oh,  no;  we  only  give  you  the  pic­
ture.  The  frame  we  offer  at  the  small 
sum  of  a  dollar  and  a  half.  Now,  if 
you  will  be  seated,  I’ll  show  you  some 
of  the  best  values  in  dress  goods  that 
are  to  be  seen  in  the  city.  Do you fancy 
black  or  some  bright  color?”

“ Oh,  law  no! 

I  don’t  want  no bright 
color.  A  neighbor  o’  mine  got  a  nice 
dark  brown  dress  last  week.  She  only 
paid  50  cents  a  yard  for  it,  an’  it’s  one 
o’  them  there  hifalutin’  Paris goods, 
too.  She  said 
it  was  a  reel  drop  dee 
tay. ”

“ Oh,  yes!  Here  is  a  real  drap  d’ete 

in  dark  brown,  at  that  price.”

“ I  declare,  I  b’lieve  thet’s  the  same 
piece  she  got  hern  off  frum!  Law! 
won’t  she  be  mad  though,  when  she 
sees  me  with  a  dress  on  jest  like  hern. 
You  hain’t  got  thet  kind  o’  goods  jest 
a  leetle  mite  expensiver,  hev  you?”  

“ Yes,  here  is  the  same  kind  of  cloth, 
and  exactly  the  same  color,  at  75  cents 
a  yard.”

“ How  much  o’ 

thet’ll 

it  take  ter 

make  a  dress?”

you  a  dress.”

come  ter?”

“ I  think  six  yards  of  it  would  make 

“ Six  yards?  How  much  does  thet 

“ Only  four  dollars  and  a  half.”
“ Ob,  land! 

I  won’t  hev  nothin’  left 
ter git  the  linin’s  with ;  but I would like 
awful  to  hev  a  dress  thet  wuz  jest  a 
leetle  mite  nicer’n  thet  neighbor  o’ 
mine.  You  don’t  think  I  could  git a 
dress  out o’  five  yard?”

“ No,  I  am  sure  you  couldn’t.  You 
see,  the  cloth 
is  only  forty-two  inches 
wide,  and  we  sell  six  full  yards  for a 
dress,  although  they  are  making 
the 
sleeves  much  smaller  now. ’ ’

jest  put 

“ Well,  I’ll 

let  you  cut  me  off  six 
yards  o’  the  75  cent  one.  Don’t  you 
tell  enny  one,  but  I’ll 
in  a 
cheaper  linin’.  They  don’t  nobody  see 
the  linin’,  ennyhow,  you  know,  an’  I 
want  to  hev  the  sat’sfaction  o’  hevin’  a 
nicer  dress’n  Mrs.  Simpson—she’s  the 
neighbor  I  wuz  jest  atellin’  you  about. 
She  didn’t  git  no  paintin’  with  hern, 
neither.  Gracious  me!  Won’t  she be 
jest  grass  green  with  envy  when  she 
sees  my  dress—an’  thet  picter!  Do 
you  know,  I’ve  be’n  a  wantin’  a  reel 
oil  paintin'  ever  sence  I  sent  them 
there  Star  soap  wrappers,  thet  I  saved 
up,  back  to  the  factory,  an'  they  sent 
me  the  beautifullest  bamboo  eazaal with 
brass  knobs  onto  it  thet  you  ever  see.”  
“ Indeed!  It  was  fortunate  that  you 
happened  to  see  our  advertisement. 
Now,  if  you  will  step  down  to  the  lin­

ings  counter  I’ll  see  that  you  get  what 
you  want.  Then  we  will  go  up  on  the 
second  floor  where  the  artist  is  at  work, 
and  you  can  select  the  picture  you 
like 
best  from  the  samples  shown,  and  he 
will  paint  it  for you  while you  wait.”

“ Dear  me! 

I  hain’t  no  time  to be 
waitin'  round  here.  Can’t  I  pick  my 
picter  out  an’  come  in  an'  git  it  in  a 
day  or two?”
“ Oh,  this 

lightning  artist—he 
can  turn  out  a  picture  every  five  min­
utes. ’ ’

is  a 

“ You  don’t  say  so!  Well  now,  thet's 
Wuth  seein’.  How  much  does  .the  hull 
bill  come  ter?  Six  dollars?,, Well,  it’s 
jest  a  leetle  more’n  I'd  thought  o’  pay­
in’ ;  but,  so  long  ez 
it’s  nicer’n  Mrs. 
Simpson’s,  I don’t mind payin’ the extry 
dollar.  Now,  young  man,  you  may 
show  me  where  the  picters  is. 
I  kin 
git  the  package  when  I  come  back.— 
Well,  ef  thet  don’t  beat  all  git out!”  
exclaimed  the  woman,  as  she  seated 
herself  comfortably  to  watch  the  artist 
paint  the  picture  which  she  had  se­
lected.

The  work  was  done  with  lightning 
speed  and  a  whitewash  brush—the  most 
surprising  thing  being  that  they  could 
be  called  pictures at  all.  Still  the  fact 
is that  they  brought  us  a  certain amount 
of  trade  which  we  would  not  otherwise 
have  had.  The  artist  was  a 
little  less 
than  five  minutes  in  painting  the  pic­
ture  for  my  customer,  who  was  so  well 
pleased  with  it  that  it  was  an  easy  mat­
ter  to  sell  her  a  gilt  frame  for  it  at  a 
dollar and  a  half.

“ Just  the  thing !”   said  I. 

“ The  gilt 
frame  will  match  the brass  knobs  on the 
bamboo  easel  so  nicely.”

“ Thet’s  so— I hedn’tthought  o’  thet. 
But  land  sakes!  There!  take  your  dol­
lar  and  a  half  an’ 
let  me  git out o’ 
here,  or  I  won’t  hev  a  cent  left  to  bless
m’self  with!”   and  with  an  awkward 
bow  she  sidled  out  of  the  door.

M a c   A l l a n .

The  Grocer No Match for the  Farmer.
A  farmer  came  into  a-village  grocery 
in  one  of  our  Western  States  and  ex­
hibited  to  an  admiring  crowd  an  enor­
mous  egg  about  six  inches  long.  He 
bad 
it  packed  in  cotton,  and  wouldn’t 
allow  anybody  to  handle  it  for  fear  of 
breaking  the phenomenon.  The grocery- 
man  examined  it  with  the  rest,  and  in­
tending  to  chaff  the  countryman,  said :
“ Pshaw!  I’ve  something  in  the  egg 

line  that  can  beat  that.”

“ I’ll  bet  you  $5  you  haven’t,”   said 

the  countryman.
and 
brought  out a  wire  egg-beater.

“ Take  it  up,”   said  the  groceryman; 
the  epunter  he 

going  behind 

“ There’s  something 

that  will  beat 
reaching  for  the  stakes.

in  the  egg  line 
it,  I  guess,”   said  he, 

“ Hold  on  there!”   said  the  farmer; 
“ let’s  see  you  beat  it, ’ ’and he handed it 
to  the grocer.

The  latter  held  out  hisTiand  for  it, 
but  dropped  it  in  surprise  on  the  coun­
ter,  where  it  broke  two  soup  plates  and 
a  platter.  It  was  of  iron,  painted  white.
“ Some  folks  think  they  are  tarna­
tion  cute,”   muttered  the  farmer,  “ but 
‘taint  no  use  bucking  against 
solid 
facts. ’ ’

It  Sounded  Natural.

Station  Master—You shouldn’t smoke, 

Traveler—That 

is  what  my  friends 

sir.

say.

Station  Master-----But  you  mustn’t

Traveler— So  my  doctor tells  me.
Station  Master-----But  you  shan’t

Traveler—Ah!  that 

is  just  what  my 

smoke,  sir.

smoke,  sir.

wife  tells  me.

There  are  374  female  blacksmiths 

Germany.

in 

A  Boy’s  Questions.

I have a little boy of six 
Who sets me quite a task,
And often puts me in a fix 
By questions th at he’ll ask.
“ What holds the moon up in the sky?
Where does the sunshine go?
Why does my baby brother cry?”
Are things he wants to  know.

“ Where does the gas go when put out?” 
The question filled my mind  with  doubt— 
“ If all the good people that die,”
Why don’t they go up in the sky 

He asked me yesterday.
I wondered what to say!
Says he, “ in heaven are crowned,
Instead of in the ground?”

“ Who lights the stars up every night 
And turns them out  at dawn?
What makes the snow so very  white?
Where is the new year born?
Why have all negroes curly  hair?
What makes their skin so black?
What makes a wheel go round, and where 
Do old ducks get their quack?”

“ Why can’t we see the wind at all?
These and such questions da'ly fall 
He’s most embarrassing, at times, 
Tet, when upon my knee he climbs,

W hat makes the water wet?”
From the wee lips of my pet.
Interrogating me,
I'm  happy as can be 1

Druggists  in  this  country are laughing 
considerably  over  the  fact.that  the  Ger­
mans  have  just  discovered  the  avail­
ability  of  percolation  in  the preparation 
of  tinctures.  The  same  process  that has 
been  used  by  American  pharmacists  for 
the  past  fifteen  or twenty  years  has  re­
cently  been  described  in  German  phar­
maceutical  journals  at  great  length  and 
bailed  as  a  wonderful  discovery,  the 
fact  that  the  process  has  been  so  long 
used  here  being  totally  ignored.

It  has  been  given  out  that  a  cotton 
mill 
is  to  be  erected  at -Depew,  the 
manufacturing  town  near  Buffalo,  N. 
Y.,  operating  1,280 
looms  or  40,000 
spindles.  The  mill  building  will  be  185 
feet  wide  and  660  feet  long,  will  manu­
facture  cotton  cloth  of  all  kinds,  and 
will  give  employment  to  350 women and 
50  men.  The  entire  cost  of  the  plant 
will  be  in  the  neighborhood  of $550,000.

SE SH 5 a S 2 S E 5 ESBSH 5 a 5 ES2

A   business established for nearly 
ao years;  best location in  the  city.
We  do  business  for cash only;  our 
annual  sales  between  $50,000  and 
$60,000.  A  good, clean, stable stock, 
consisting  of  everything 
in  the 
Clothing  and  Dry  Goods  lines.  I 
also  own  the  building;  wiU  either 
sell or rent.  It’s a  Honey-Maker, 
but compelled to leave on account of 
my 
For 
interests  East. 
further particulars, address

large 

Kassel  Oshinsky,

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Marquette,  Mich.
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Mackintoshes, 
Rubber  Coats, 

An  assortm ent 
that  will  please  you.

Umbrellas,  Parasols.
Voiqt, Herpolsbeiroer &  Co.

WHOLESALE  DRY GOODS, 
GRAND  RAPIDS, A\ICH.

V  c a a g g i

Complete 
Satisfaction

W ill be had in dealing with our notion  department.  Here  you  will  find  a 
large assortment  of  everything  that  belongs  to  a  complete  notion  stock.
Hairpins, Beits, Ribbons, Pins, Embroideries, Laces, Buttons,  Mitts, 
Perfumery,  Soaps,  Stationery,  Jew elry,  Buckles,  Elastic,  Braids, 
and a thousand and one articles too numerous to be mentioned.
Our line of Ties in Tecks, band bows and strings at $2.25 a dozen are leaders.
Need any hosiery?  Look  at  our  immense stock before buying.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,

Grand  Rapids, Micb.

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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights o! the Qrip. 

President, Jab. F. Hammell, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D.  C.  Slaght, F lint;  Treasurer, Chas. McNolty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President, S.  H.  H abt,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Mo r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H .  U .  M a r k s ,  Detroit;  Secretary, 
Edwin Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Gko.  A.  Rey­
nolds,  Saginaw,
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand Rapids. 

President,"A. F. Peak e, Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  o f  Directors—F.  M.  T yle r, H.  B.  F air- 
child, Jas. N. B radford, J. Henry Daw lby.Geo. 
J. Heinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Chas.  J.  Morse,  of  Hartford,  is  now 
representing  Willson  Bros.,  of  Edger- 
ton,  Wis.,  in  Southern  Michigan.

The  Grand  Rapids  Cycle  Co.  has  es­
tablished  permanent  headquarters  for 
the  Empire  State  at  Rochester,  with  W. 
J.  Loomis  in  charge.

D.  F.  Cochrane,  son  of  H.  F.  Coch­
rane,  the  grocer at  Big  Rapids,  is  trav­
eling  in  the  northern  part  of  the  Lower 
Peninsula  for  Willson  Bros.,  of  Edger- 
ton,  Wis.

A.  W.  Gammer,  of  Coloma,  State 
agent  for  Michigan  for  Willson  Bros., 
manufacturing  pharmacists,  will  travel 
in  Western  Wisconsin  and  Iowa  this 
season,  commencing  May  I.

F.  L.  Souter,  traveling  salesman  for 
the  Walsb-De  Roo  Milling  Co.  (Hol­
land),  was  severely  burned  on  the  face 
by  being  thrown  against  a  stove  by  a 
collision,  while  on  a  C.  &  W.  M.  train 
a  few  days  ago.

Cornelius  Crawford  (Hazeltine  &  Per­
kins  Drug  Co.)  is  again  the  owner of  a 
drug  stock,  having  purchased  the  Bunn 
&  Poel  stock,  at  Kalamazoo,  which  be 
will  conduct  until  he  runs  across  an 
acceptable  purchaser.

Thomas  Macleod, who traveled twenty- 
six  consecutive  yeais  for  H.  P.  Bald­
win  &  Co.,  has  taken  the  agency  for 
this  State  for  the  Blocher  Manufactur­
ing  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  and will  shortly  cali 
on  the  trade  with  a  line  of  men’s,  boys’ 
and  youths'  shoes  suitable  for  the  fall 
and  winter  trade.  Mr.  Macleod  has 
hosts  of  friends  among  the  trade  who 
will  rejoice  with  him  over  his  new  con­
nection.
Indignant  Protest  Against a  Too Com­

mon  Habit.

I  am 

Grand  Rapids,  April  20—I  have  just 
closed  the  door  after  a  collector  who 
was  sent  to  this  office  for a  small  bill. 
This  gentleman  (?)  came 
in  with  a 
cigar 
in  his  band,  smoked  it  until  the 
whole  room  was  scented  with  its  fumes 
and,  without  apology  or  excuse,  held  it 
under  my  nose  while  he  signed  a  re­
ceipt. 
intensely  annoyed  by  the 
odor  of  tobacco.  My  lungs  are  not 
strong  and  tobacco  smoke  acts  as  a 
powerful 
irritant;  but,  because  I  work 
in  an  office  and  am  paid  for  my  work,  I 
am  treated 
like  any  poor  drab  on  the 
street. 
If  this  were  the  only  instance  of 
such  treatment,  I  should  try  to  submit 
to  the 
indignity  without  protest,  but  I 
have  endured  this  same  form  of incivil­
ity  so  often  that  I  am  moved  to 
indig­
nant  protest. 
I  read  your  excellent 
journal  every  week  and  see  so  many 
much-needed  reforms  mentioned  and 
urged  that  I  am  anxious  to  have  you 
take  up  this  matter and  mention  it  vig­
orously,  as  you  do  other  things.

is  a  small  army  of  working 
women  in  this  city,  of  which army quite 
a  part 
in  business  offices. 
There  are  to  be  met  many  women  who,

is  found 

There 

from  motives  of  necessity  or  economy 
or  preference,  keep  books  and  do  type­
writing  work  for  their  husbands,  fathers 
or brothers.  These  men  are  frequently 
men  of  wealth  and 
influence.  Their 
trade  is  valued  and  drummed  by  these 
fools,  who  do  not  know  enough  to  real­
ize  that  an  insult  to  a  man’s  wife  is  an 
insult  to  him  and  that  to  smoke  in  a 
lady’s  presence  is  a  discourtesy  nearly 
amounting  to insult.  There are hundreds 
of  drummers  who  owe  the  loss  of  valu­
able  orders  to  the  resentment  they  have 
inspired  in  the  minds  of  those  women 
whose  presence  they  have  disregarded 
and  whose  claim  upon  their courtesy 
they  have  disallowed. 
In  view  of  this 
fact—and  it  is  one  I  have  no  doubt  you 
can  easily  satisfy  yourself—1  hope  you 
will  protest  against  the 
spirit  that 
prompts,  and  the  employer  who  allows, 
such  a  practice.

One  word  more: 

I  suppose  the  fact 
is  that  women  who  enter  upon  a  busi­
ness  life  are  supposed  to  be  treated  like 
men. 
I  am  charitable  enough  to  keep 
this  in  mind,  but  I  think  you  will agree 
with  me  in  the  statement  that  this  mat­
ter  of  simple  courtesy 
is  one  which 
should  apply  to  everybody.  There  are 
men  who  do  not  smoke  and  to  whom 
the  odor  of  tobacco  is  as  offensive  as  to 
any  woman,  and  the  courtesy  I  ask  for 
my  own  sex 
is  really  as  much  due  to 
non-smokers,  whether  men  or  women. 
In  other  words,  the permission  to  smoke 
should  be  asked,  and  as  little  exception 
taken  to  a  refusal  as  there  would  be 
taken  to  the  refusal  to  allow  asafoetida 
to be  sprinkled  liberally  over  the  cloth­
ing  of  each  transient  passer-by.

A n g e l in e .

Short  Sayings  of Great  Men.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt  has a  widespread rep­
utation  for the  bluntness  with  which  he 
expresses  himself.  Sometimes  his  state­
ments are so  emphatic  that  he  even  sur­
prises  himself.  Not  long  ago  he  at­
tended  a  meeting  of  the  vestrymen  of 
St.  Mark’s  church,  of  which  organiza­
tion  he  is  a  devoted  adherent.  Always 
prompt  in  keeping  his engagements,  he 
was  manifestly  annoyed  over  the  non- 
appearance  of  the beloved  rector of  the 
parish.  Glancing  at his  watch,  he  im­
patiently  expressed  himself  somewhat 
irreverently  as follows :  “  Eight o’clock ! 
Well!  W ell!  Where  in  h—1  is  Camp­
bell  Fair?”

*  *  *

In  the  days  when D.  P.  Clay  was  “ on 
deck,”   financially  speaking,  he  was 
asked  by  the  late  J.  W.  Converse  to 
state  how  much  he  owed.  The  reply 
was  thoroughly  characteristic  of  the 
man:  “ Don’t  ask  me,  Mr.  Converse. 
You’ll  feel  a  good  deal  better  if  you 
don’t  know. ”

*  *  *

Hon.  T.  J.  O’Brien  was  once  placed 
in  a  position  where  it  was  necessary  for 
him  to  employ  legal  talent.  On  receiv­
ing  the  invoice  for services  in  the  case, 
he  laconically  expressed  himself:  “ I’d 
ten  times  rather  be  a 
lawyer  than  a 
client. ”
*  *  *

Henry  Idema  became  Vice-President 
of  the  Kent  County  Savings  Bank,  and 
assumed  an  active  position  in  the  man­
agement  of  the 
institution  just before 
the  panic  of  1893  broke  with all its fury. 
During  the  exasperating  days  of  the 
panicky  August,  when  the  daily  with­
drawals  of  deposits  produced  a  condi­
tion  of  involuntary  liquidation,  neces­
sitating  the  calling  of  loans  all  along 
the  line,  Mr.  Idema  looked  as  haggard 
as  a  ghost;  in  fact,  his  condition caused 
much  uneasiness  among  his  friends. 
“ The  directors  wanted  a  good  man  to 
place  their  surplus  money, ”   remarked 
Mr.  Idema;  “ now 
they  want  a  ten 
times  better  man  to  get  it  back.”

*  *  *

“ Why  don't  you  buy  the  latest  cyclo­
pedia?”   asked  a  leading  citizen  of  Mr. 
Malaprop  the  other  day. 
“ Best  reason 
in  the  world,”   was  the  reply;  “ I  never 
could  learn  to  ride  the  thing.”

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

J.  H.  Dawley,  Representing  Hansel- 

man  Candy  Co.

J.  Henry  Dawley  was  born  at  Kel- 
loggsville,  Kent  county,  January  4, 
1861.  When  8  years  old  his  parents  re­
moved  to  Athens,  where  he  remained 
about  six  years,  when  he  went  to  work 
on  a  farm  near  Sherwood,  where  he  re­
mained  about  three  years.  He  then 
came  to  Grand  Rapids  and  secured  em­
ployment  with the then firm of Putnam & 
Brooks. 
It  appears  that  he  was  origin­
ally  engaged  to  assist  during  a  rush  of 
business  one  Friday  evening.  He  put 
in  an  appearance  the  next  morning  and 
worked  during  the  day.  He  did  the 
same  the  next  week.  When  pay  day 
came  he  was  asked  his  name  and  how 
much  salary  he  expected  to  receive.

The  New  and  Old.

Who is it joins a suffrage club.
And clatters ’round with great hubbub,
Who prates upon the marriage state,
And dwells on mighty problems great?
Who talks of Huxley, Spencer,  Kant,
And teaches sister, cousin, aunt.
The reason why that they should vote,
And many learned books can quote?
Who lectures,  reasons, argues, lights 
For her own and all her sisters’ rights?
Who writes in French and thinks in  Greek, 
And several languages can speak?
Who advocates the  Malthas plan 
For the non-continuance of m an;
Who baits her husband till he swears,
Nor mends the clothing that he tears?
Why the smart New  Woman!

who starts the early morning fire,
And gets the coffee we desire;
Who fries our eggs and broils our steak, 
And gingham wears just for love’s  sake? 
Who sews our shirts and mends our  clothes 
And darns the rents within our hose;
Who bakes us bread and makes us pies, 
Who warms our slippers, buys our ties,
Who makes us fathers, and who shares 
Our lot of trials,  troubles, cares?
Who only speaks her mother tongue,
But sings the sweetest songs e’er sung;
Who nurses us when we are  111,
Then helps us pay the doctor's bill?
Who is our best and greatest joy 
Who calls us still her “ good old boy?’ ’

Why the dear Old Woman!

Movements of Lake Superior Travelers.
H.  O.  McMain  (Pemberthy,  Cook  & 
Co.)  is  house  hunting  at  Marquettte. 
He  has  been  living  at  De  Pere,  Wis.

“ Lobster  finish”   Draper  is  doing  the 
copper  country.  He  sells  cigars  from 
$10 to $100.

Will  C.  Brown  (Lake  Superior  Knit­
ting  Works)  is  circulating  stale  jokes 
on  a  newly-married 
friend. 
There  is  no  truth  in  them.

traveler 

J.  R.  McKeand  (Bodden Packing Co.) 
will  move  from  Marquette  to  Houghton.

Prosperity  and  promptness  go hand  in 

hand.

Commercial  House

Iron Mountain, Mich.

Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam.

All modern conveniences.

$2 per day. 
IRA  A.  BEAN,  Prop.
EAGLE  HOTEL

$1 Per Day. 

GRAND RAPIDS.

Equal in every respect to a $2 house.  Large rooms. 

Good beds.  Superb Table.

J.  K.  JOHNSTON, Prop.

N E W   R E P U B L IC

Reopened  Nov.  25.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1 50 to $2.00.

Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHINDHETT,  Prop

E. T. PENNOYER, Manager,

MUSKEGON, MICHIGAN.
THE WIERENGO
ßOLUMBIRK TRANSFER COMPANY

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

CARRIAGES,  BAGGAGE 
AND  FR EIG H T  W AGONS
15  and 17 North Waterloo St.,

Young1  m en  and  wom en  acquire  the  g reatest  inde­
pendence  and  w ealth  by  securing  a  course  in  eith er 
the Business, Shorthand. E nglish or M echanical  Draw­
in g   departm ents  o f  the  D etroit  Business  U niversity, 
11-19 W ilcox St., D etroit.  W. F. J ew ell,  P.  R.  Spencer.

Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

Steam Heat.  Excellent Table.  Com

His  reply  was  that  he  expected  to  re­
ceive  all  he  was  worth,  and  he  was 
in  on  the basis  of  $6  per  week. 
started 
He  continued 
in  the  employ  of  the 
house  without  interruption,  being  pro­
moted  from  time  to  time,  until  he  was 
finally  placed  in  charge  of  the  city  or­
ders,  after  which  he  acted  as  city  sales­
man  for  a  couple  of  years,  and 
in  1884 
he  was  assigned  a  territory  outside  the 
city,  including  the  available  towns  on 
the  D.  &  M.,  Michigan  Central and D ., 
H.  &  M.  Railways.  On  the  dissolution 
of  the  firm 
in  1889,  he  transferred  his 
allegiance  to  A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.,  with 
whom  he  was  connected  until  March, 
1897,  when  he  accepted  a  more  flatter­
ing  offer  from  the  Hanselman  Candy 
Co.,  of  Kalamazoo.

Mr.  Dawley  was  married  July  24, 
1881,  to  Miss  Kate  L.  Blodgett,  who 
had  been 
identified  with  Putnam  & 
Brooks  for  many  years  in  the  capacity 
of  cashier.  They  reside  at  136  Jeffer­
son  avenue,  but  own  a  home  of  their 
own  on  North  Lafayette  street.

Mr.  Dawley 

is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  including  the  Uni­
formed  Rank,  having  occupied  all  the 
chairs  in  Lily  Lodge  and  also  held  im­
portant  offices  in  the  Grand  Lodge.  He 
is  also  identified  with  the  Masonic  or­
der,  the  National Union and the Knights 
and  Ladies  of  Security.  He  was  an 
early  member  of  the  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  GrFp,  having  always  taken  a 
prominent  part  in  the  work  of  the  local 
Post,  which  he  has  served  in  the  capac­
ities  of  Secretary  and  Chairman.  He  is 
a  quiet  and  effective  worker,  no  matter 
whether  serving  on  a  committee,  acting 
as  presiding  officer  or  carrying his grips 
among  the  trade,  and  is  universally  es­
teemed  by  those  who  come  to  know  him 
well  and  appreciate bis  many  excellent 
qualities.

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Drugs—Chemicals

, 

- 

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1896
-  Dec. 31, 1897'
Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
-  Dec. 3i, 1900

C. A.  B tjgbee,  Traverse  City 
S. E.  Parkill, Owosso 
- 
P. W. R. Pebby, Detroit 
A. C.  S c h u m a c h e r ,  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Gtjndrum,  Ionia  - 
- 

President, S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, P. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Coming Examination Sessions—Star Island (De­
troit). June 28 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. Sc h r o u d e r ,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C h a s .  M a n n , Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. Colmar, Kalamazoo;  G e o .  J.  Ward,  St. 
Cla ir;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Perry, Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Acids—General  market  firm  as  to  un­
dertone,  particularly  as  regards  all  va­
rieties  likely  to  be  affected  by  the  pro­
posed  changes 
in  the  tariff,  but  busi­
ness  is  mostly  of  the  jobbing  order  and 
a  quiet  feeling  is  manifest.

Alcohol— Grain,  again  higher.
Arsenic— Powdered  white,  quiet,  but 

holders  are  not anxious  to  sell.

Balsams---- Copaiba,  demand 

fairly
good,  but  the  market  is  still  in  a  more 
or  less  unsettled  condition  and  prices 
are  irregular.  Peru,  consuming  request 
limited,  quotations  steady.

Beans—Tonka,  dull.
Cacao  Butter— No  important  change 

to  note.

Cantharides—Business not  very  brisk, 

but  holders  entertain  firm  views.

C hloral,  H y d ra te —Jo b b in g  

e n q u iry  

fa ir,  o fferings  lim ite d .

Cocaine—Tone  of  the  market  strong 

and  holders  are  offering  sparingly.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Market  fairly  steady 

for  principal  brands  of  Lofoten.

Colocynth  Apples— Market  fairly  ac­

tive  at  the late  decline.

Essential  Oils— Citronella,  a 

trifle 

easier.  Copaiba,  lower.

Flowers— German  chamomile,  stock 
is  practically  exhausted  and  dealers 
await  advices  concerning  new  crop.

Glycerine—With  competition  keen, 

the  market  is  unsettled  and  irregular.

Gums—Asafoetida,  movement 

fair. 
Camphor,  seasonably  active  and  firm, 
spot  stocks  being  light.

to 

L a n o lin —Q u o tatio n s  h av e  b een   a d ­
th e 

v an ced   15c  p e r  p o und,  ow ing 
pro p o sed   in c re a se   in  d uty.
Leaves—Short  buchu, 

consumptive 
demand  fairly  active  and  prices  are 
steady. 
Senna,  all  varieties  moving 
freely,  with  quotations  firm. 
Coca, 
quiet,  but  values  are  maintained.

Lycopodium— Light  demand,  with 
feeling  easy  and  some  pressure  to  sell.

Manna—General  market  quiet.
Menthol— Market  dull,  tone  easy.
Mercurial  Preparations—Consumptive 
demand  fair as  to  moderate  quantities, 
but  no  change  in  prices.

Opium—Very  quiet  and  values  have 

again  declined.

Orange  Peel— Market  lifeless.
Quicksilver— Report  has  it  that  there 
is  a  continued  steady  movement,  but 
quotations  are  somewhat  easier,  due  to 
competition  between  holders.

Rochelle  Salts—No  abatement  of  the 
firm  views  of  holders,  with  an  average 
business  going  forward,  and  values  are 
well  maintained.

Roots—Jalap,  dull and  nominal.  Mex­
ican  sarsaparilla,  inactive  but  reason­
ably  steady.  Jamaica  ginger,  active 
and  firm.  Bloodroot,  in  limited  supply 
and  firm.  Mandrake,  scarce  and  strong.

Seeds—Dutch  caraway,  easier, 

Salic in—Values  steady,  but  trade 

is 
reported  as  of  a  light  jobbing character.
the 
reason  being  the  lower  prices  for  new 
crop  for  shipment.  Coriander,  move­
ment  free  and  quotations  firmer.  Rus­
sian  hemp 
is  a  shade  easier.  Celery, 
rather  active  and  steady.  Sunflower 
is 
slightly  firmer.

Seidlitz  Mixture-----Movement 

fair,

values  firm.

Silver,  Nitrate—Old  prices  are  gov­

erning  the  small  wants  of  consumers.

Spermaceti— Demand 

is  reported  as 

moderate,  and  prices  are  unchanged.

Sponges—Spot  trading  fair,  with  no 
disposition  to  force  business,  and  good 
varieties  are  firm  at  full  former  prices.
How  Not  to  Open  the  Soda  Water 

Season.

It  was  about  this  time  of  the  year, 
and  the  proprietor of  the  store  decided 
to  celebrate  the  opening  of  the  soda 
water  season  with  a  day  of  free  soda  to 
all.  The  invitation  was  announced 
in 
the  daily  newspapers  and  placards  in 
the  show  windows  invited  whomsoever 
would  to  come  and  drink  freely. 
In 
order  to  simplify  matters  and  prevent 
the  expense  from  reaching  too  high  a 
figure,  all  applicants  for  free  soda  were 
restricted 
in  their  choice  of  syrups  to 
lemon,  vanilla  and  sarsaparilla.  Every­
thing  in  the  store  was  made  spick  and 
span  beforehand,  because  the  proprietor 
wished  to  create  a  favorable  impression 
upon  the  possible  new  customers  who 
were  expected  to  be  drawn  to  the  store 
in  swarms.'

just 

The  store  was  crowded. 

Instead  of 
good  customers  with  evidences of wealth 
about  them,  however,  the  applicants 
were  for  the  most  part  not  a  desirable 
class.  Many  of  them  were  boys  of  the 
mischievous  age,  and  the  way  these  lit­
tle  shavers  increased  and multiplied un­
influence  of  the  good  cheer 
der  the 
would  have  astonished  the  ancients. 
It 
seemed  at  all  hours  of  the  day  as  if 
school  had 
let  out,  and  the  little 
rascals  were  the  most  daring  and  un­
scrupulous repeaters.  Two of them would 
go  out,  walk  around  the  corner,  ex­
change  caps  and  jackets  and  come  in 
again  for  more.  As  they  might  be  the 
sons  of  prospective  customers  living 
in 
the  neighborhood,  it  was  a delicate mat­
ter  to  refuse  them  unless  one  were  abso­
lutely  certain  they  had  been  served  be­
fore,  and  the  crowd  of  children  was  so 
large  that 
it  was  easier  to give them 
the  soda  to  get  rid  of  them  than  to  put 
them  out.

Old  customers  who would have entered 
the  store  drew back  and  went  elsewhere 
at  sight  of  the  crowd  around  the  soda 
fountain,  and  as  the  day  wore on  the 
appearance  of  the  store  began  to  suffer. 
The  vicinity  of  the  soda  counter  looked 
like  a  Turkish  bath,  so  much  water  had 
been  spilled 
in  that  vicinity,  and  the 
linen  of  the  attendants  at  the  fountain 
had  lost  its  freshness.

In  my  opinion,  coupons  for  free  soda 
any  time  during  one  week  after  the 
opening  day  are  preferable  to a free-for- 
all  crush  during  a  few  hours  of  one day. 
An  advertisement  inserted  in  the 
local 
paper  with  a  coupon  to  be  cut  from  the 
paper  is  a  very  good  scheme 
in  many 
localities.  The  very  best  way,  how­
issue  handsomely  printed 
ever,  is  to 
cards  of 
invitation  to  a  select  list  of 
customers  or  persons  desired  as  custom­
ers,  which  may  be  distributed  by  mail 
or by  uniformed  messenger  and  will en­
title  the  recipient  to  a  glass  of  soda 
water  of  any  flavor  free  on  application.

J.  A.  Sangston.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

RANDOM  REFLECTIONS.

Believe  with  all  your  heart  in  the 
good  and  the  true  being  stronger  than 
e v il;  no matter  how  often  you  have  seen 
the  latter  triumph,  its  victory  is  always 
short-lived.

*  *  *

Hopeless  drudgery  over  distasteful 
work  has  caused  the  poverty of millions, 
when  a  cheerful  word  and  hopeful 
thought  would  have  brought  peace  and 
plenty  to  thousands  of  them.

4c  ♦  ♦

The  law  of  compensation  equalizes 
pleasures  and  pain.  The  laborer  gets 
fresh  air  free,  while  the  rich  man  pays 
for  i t ;  the  poor  man  has  good  health, 
which  the  rich  man’s  money  cannot 
buy.

*  *  *

You  are  just  as  wise  as  any  man  who 
comprehends  the  same  subject.  The 
teacher 
is  no  wiser  than  the  pupil  who 
grasps  bis  ideas as  rapidly  as  they  are 
is  only  a  suggester  to 
advanced.  He 
such  a  pupil.
*  *  *

A  soft  hand  may  appear  well  below 
a  linen  cuff,  but 
in  the  majority  of 
cases,  it  denotes  a  lazy  possessor.  They 
are  sometimes  the  planners  of  gigantic 
enterprises,  but  they  never  place  the 
stones  that  build  them.
*  *  *

stimulant, 

The  best  tonic  on  earth,  and  the  most 
healthful 
is  cheerfulness, 
courage,  faith;  let  every  business  man 
try  the  recipe  and  be  will  not  care 
whether  the  money  basis  be  silver  or 
gold ;  business  will  go  on  just  the  same 
for  him.

*  *  *

A  past  due  debt  hanging  over a man’s 
head  is  the  mark  of  Cain  on  his  finan­
cial  career.  So  long  as  he  can  keep 
his  debts  in  front  of  him  he  can  hustle 
to  meet  them.  When  they  get behind, 
and  are  attacking  him,  their  comrades 
are  still 
in  front,  and  the  victim,  rat­
tled,  falls  to  the  ground.

Promptness  in  attending  to  notes  and 
accounts  at  or  before  maturity  is  the 
one  well-nigh  universal  measurement  of 
quality.  A  renewal  attended  to  in  ad­
vance  of  maturity  often  produces  better 
feeling  than  payment  may  a  few  days 
too  late.

*  *  *

When  you  study  man,  let  that  man  be 
yourself;  then 
it  will  not  take  long  to 
understand  others,  if  you  can  allow  for 
the  difference  in  temperament  and  en­
vironment.  For  a  man who knows noth­
ing  about  himself  to  pretend  to  know 
others  is  arrant  nonsense.
*  *  * *

Never  tell  your  purpose  to  another. 
is  then  your  own  no  longer.  Work 
It 
it  out,  for  in  the  telling  of  it,  you 
lose 
half  your  strength  to  execute  it.  Some 
men  pass  through  life  telling their plans 
to  other  people. 
If  they  would  settle 
upon  one  good  plan  and  execute  it,  they 
might  become  useful  citizens.

*  *  *

If  business  men  would  reflect  that un­
der  the  depressing 
influence  of  fear, 
jealousy  and  selfishness  the  amount  of 
air  consumed 
in  a  given  time  is  less­
ened  from  25  to  50  per  cent.,  while  un­
der  the  exhilarating  effects  of  hope  and 
faith  the  respiration  is  increaed  corres­
pondingly, 
know  what 
thought  to  keep  uppermost  in  the  mind. 

they  would 

*  *  *

The  great  trouble  with  humanity  is 
they  want  some  one  to  do  the  laborious 
tasks  for  them,  not  knowing  that  labor 
develops  them.  The  boy  who  in  school 
got  another  boy  to  “ do  his  sums”   did 
not  know  if  they  were  correct,  but  had 
to  take  the  other  boy’s  word  for 
it. 
Later 
in  life  he  finds  he  saved  himself 
trouble  as  a  boy,  to  reap  a  harvest  of 
double  trouble  in  manhood.
PATENT  MEDICINES
Order your patent medicines from

PECK  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

F

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The best 5 cent cigars ever made.  Sold by

Represented in  Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids.

B E S T   &   R U S S E L L   C O   C h i c a g o . 

T H E   F A M O U S

5  C E N T   C I G A R .

Sold by all jobbers.  Manufactured by

G.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

ENTIRE  BUILDING,  15  CANAL  STREET. 

§

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THE  “ MONITOR.”
Soon  after  our  cigar  Department  was  in­
stituted on its  present  basis,  we  discovered 
a demand for a $30.00cigar 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 $33 00 per M.  Although 
our salesmen have  had samples  but  a  short 
time, we are receiving daily repeating orders 
for the goods.
We have in this brand a $30.00  cigar which 
we can recommend in the strongest terms.

Morrisson, Plummer & Co., Wholesale  Druggists,  Chicago. 

1 jJj   Cigar  Department.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced— Bloodroot.
Declined—Gum  Opium,  Oil  Copaiba,  Alcohol,  Linseed  Oil,  Glycerine.

Addum
Aceti cum................
Benzoicum,  German 
Boradc..........

Hvdrochlor. 
N ltrocum ...
Phosphorium,  dll.
Sulphuricum.

Aqua, 16  deg. 
Aqua, 20  deg. 
Carbonas.......

#  8®« 10
t  80® 85
@ 15
29® 41
44® 46
5
3®
8® 10
12® 14
@ 15
45® 50
5
IX©
1  40®  1 60
36® 38

6
4®
6@ 8
12@ 14
12® 14

Aniline
Black.........................   2 00® 2 25
B row n...................... 
80®  1  00
R e d ...........................  
45®  50
Yellow......................  2 50® 3 00
Baccte.
Cube see............po. 18 
Juniperus................. 
Xanthoxylum..........  
Balsamum
Copaiba..................... 
Peru........................... 
Terabin, Canada__  
Tolutan.....................  
Cortex

60®  65
@ 260
40®  45
80®  85

13® 
15
8
6®  
25®  30

Abies, C anadian.... 
Casslse......................  
Cinchona Flava....... 
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgini........  
Quillaia,  gr’d ..........
Sassafras........ po. 18 
Ulm us.. .po.  15,  gr’d 
Extrnctum
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po....... 
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
Hsematox, I s ............... 
Hsematox, Vis 
Hsematox, Xs

P erm

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Q uinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........  
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride....... 
Sulphate, com’l ....... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cw t.......... 
Sulphate,  p u r e ....... 

Flora

A rnica...................... 
Anthem is................. 
M atricaria............. 
Folia

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15

24®  25
28®
11@
13®
14®
16®

15
2 25
80
50
15
2
35
7

12® 
14
18®  25
30®  35

15®  20
18@  25
25®  30
12®  20
8® 
10

Barosma....................  
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................... 
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 
Salvia officinalis, 54s
and  Vis................... 
Ura Ursi....................  
Gumml
@  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@  45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
@  28
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po................. 
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28  14® 
18
Aloe, C ape__ po.  15 
12
@ 
Aloe, Soeotri..po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac............... 
55®  60
22®  25
Assafoetlda__ po. 30 
50®  55
B enzolnum .............. 
13
Catechu, Is...............  
@ 
Catechu, Vis.............  
14
@ 
Catechu, V4s.............  
16
@ 
Camphorse ............... 
„
Euphorbium..po.  35  @ 1 0
Galbanum................. 
@ 100
65®  70
Gamboge  po............ 
Guaiacum.......po. 35 
@  35
@ 4 00
Kino............po. #4.u0 
M astic...................... 
©   60
Myrrh............. po.  45 
@ 4 0
Opii.. .po. *3.60@3.80  2 50®  2  60
40®  60
Shellac...................... 
Shellac, bleached... 
40@  45
T ragacanth.............  
50®  80

Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz.  pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........ oz. pkg 
M ajorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
Rue................oz. pkg 
TauacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  Y. .oz. pkg 
iTagnesla.
Calcined, Pat............ 
55@ 
60
Carbonate, P at........  
20@  22
20®  25
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum

Absinthium.............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalse, Dulc.... 
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarse .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi...........................2  10@ 
Auranti  Cortex.......  2  00® 2 20
Bergamii...................  2  25® 
Cajiputi....................  
75®  80
65®  6j
Caryophylli.............. 
Cedar......................... 
35®  65
Cbenopadii............... 
@ 400
Obnam onii..............  1  80®  2 00
C tr  nella.  .............. 
45®  50

2 20
2 30

35®  65
Conium Mac............ 
Copaiba....................  i  10@  1  20
90®  1  00
Cubebse...................... 
E xechthitos............  1  20®  1  30
Erigeron..................   1  20®  1  30
G aultheria...............  1  50®  1  60
75
Geranium,  ounce...  © 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50©  60
Hedeoma...?............l  o ®   1  10
Junipera...................  I  50® 2 00
9n@ 2  00
Lavendula............... 
Limonis....................  1  20®  1  40
Mentha  Piper.........  1  60®  2  20
Mentha Verid..........2 6f@ 2  75
Morrhuse,  gal..........  1  50®  1  60
Myrcia,.....................   4 00® 4  50
Olive......................... 
75® 3 00
Picis  Liquida.......... 
10® 
12
@  35
Picis Liquida, g al... 
R icin a...................... 
99®  1  04
@  1  00
Rosmarin!................  
Rosse,  ounce............  6 50@ 8 50
Succini....................  
40®  45
90®  1  00
Sabina....................  
Santal........................  2 50®  7 00
Sassafras..................  
50®  55
@  65
Slnapis, ess.,  ounce. 
Tiglii.........................  1  40®  1  50
40®  50
Thyme 
................... 
Thyme,  opt.............  
@  l  60
Theobrom as............ 
15®  20
Potassium
15® 
18
Bi-Barb...................... 
13® 
Bichromate  ............ 
15
48®  51
Bromide.................... 
Carb......................... 
12® 
15
Chlorate., po. 17@19c  16® 
18
Cyanide.................... 
50®  55
Iodide........................  2 90®  3 00
Potassa, Bitart, pure  29®  31
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
8® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
7® 
Potass Nitras............ 
9
Prussiate..................  
25©  28
Sulphate p o ............ 
i5@ 
18

Radix

20®  25
Aconitvm................. 
Althae.......................  
22©  25
A nchusa..................  
12® 
15
Arum po.................... 
@  25
C alam us..................  
20®  40
12®  15
Gentiana........ po  15 
16® 
18
Glychrrhiza...pv. 15 
®  35
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  40
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15®  20
Inula, po..................  
15®  20
Ipecac, po.................  l  65®  I  75
Iris plox— po35@38  35®  40
40®  45
Jalapa, p r................. 
Maranta,  V^s............ 
®  35
22®  25
Podophyllum, po__  
R h e i.........................  
75®  1  00
@  1  25
Rhel, cut..................  
75®  1  35
R hei.pv.................... 
Sptgelia..................... 
35®  38
®   35
Sanguinaria...po. 40 
Serpentaria.............  
30®  35
40®  45
Senega...................... 
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M................. 
©  25
10®  12
Scillae............. po.35 
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po..................  
@  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
15@  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ................. 
16
12® 
Zingiber j ................. 
25®  27
Semen

Anisum..........po.  15 
@  12
13@ 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
6
Bird, is...................... 
4® 
Carui.............. po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon.................  1  25©  1  75
8® 
Coriandrum.............  
10
Cannabis  Sativa__   3V4@ 
4
75®  1  00
Cydonium................  
Cnenopodium  ........  
12
10® 
Diptenx  Odorate...  2  90®  3 00
10
Foenlculum.............  
@ 
7® 
9
Foenugreek, po........  
U n i...........................  2V4@ 
4
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 2%  3V4@ 
4
35®  40
L obelia.................... 
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3V£@ 
4
5
..  4V4@ 
R apa................... 
8
Sinapis Albu............ 
7® 
11® 
Slnapis  Nigra.......... 
12
Spiritus

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage.................  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
@ 2 00
carriage................. 
Velvet extra  sheeps’
@  1  10
wool, carriage......  
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  
@  85
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................. 
@  65
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  use...............  
Syrups
A cacia...................... 
Auranti Cortes........  
Zingiber.................... 
Ipecac. 
..........  
Ferri Iod..................  
Rhei Arom............... 
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega...................... 
Beilis......................... 

@  50
@  50
@  50
©   60
@  50
@  50
@  50
@ 5 0

@  1  40

Hiscellaneous

@  50
S cillsC o..................  
@  50
T olutan....................  
Prunus virg.............  
@  50
Tinctures
60
Aconitum NapellisR 
50
Aconitum N apellis F 
Aloes.........................  
60
Aloes and Myrrh__  
60
A rnica...................... 
50
50
Assafcetida.............  
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex......  
50
60
Benzoin....................  
Benzoin Co............... 
50
50
Barosm a................... 
75
Cantharides.............  
50
Capsicum................  
75
Cardamon......... 
. 
75
Cardamon  Co..........  
1 00
Castor.......................  
50
Catechu.................... 
50
Cinchona..................  
60
Cinchona Co............ 
50
Columba................... 
Cubeba...................... 
50
Cassia  Acutifol....... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
50
D igitalis..................  
50
E rgot......................... 
35
Ferri C hloridum .... 
G entian....................  
50
Gentian Co...............  
60
50
G uiaca...................... 
60
Guiacaammon........  
50
Hyoscyamus............ 
75
Iodine........................ 
Iodine, colorless__  
75
50
Kino........................... 
50
Lobelia..................... 
50
Myrrh........................  
Nux  Vomica............ 
50
75
O pii........................... 
50
Onii, cam phorated.. 
I  50
Opii,  deodorized 
 
Q uassia.................... 
50
50
Rhatany.................... 
50
Rhei........................... 
Sanguinaria............ 
50
Serpentaria.............. 
*0
60
Stromonium............ 
Tolutan.....................  
60
50
V alerian................... 
50
Veratrum V eride... 
Zingiber.................... 
20
¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 3F  30®  35
¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 4 F  34®  38
2V4@ 
Alumen................... 
3
4
Alumen, gro’d..po. 7 
3® 
Annatto.................... 
40®  50
Antimonl,  po.......... 
4® 
5
55®  60
Antimoni et PotassT
A ntipyrin...............
@  1  40 
A ntifebrin...............
@  15
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
@  55
Arsenicum................
12 
10®  
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bud...
1  40®  1  50 
Bismuth  S. N..........
@ 
9
Calcium Chlor.,  is..
Calcium Chlor.,  V4s.
10 @ 
@  
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis. 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  75
Capsici  Fructus, a f.
@ 
18 
Capsici Fructus,  po.
@  15
@  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus..po. 15
10®  
12 
Carmine, No. 40.......
@  3 75 
50®  55
Cera Alba, S. & F ...
Cera Flava...............
40®  42
Coccus......................
40
33 
Cassia Fructus.........
Centraría..................  
10 45 
Cetaceum.................. 
63 
Chloroform..............  
1  35
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst__   1  15®  1  30
Chondrus.................. 
20®  25
Cinchonidine,P.&W  20®  25 
15®  22
Cinchonidine, Germ 
Cocaine....................  3 55®  3 75
65
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct
® 35
Creosotum................
2
Creta..............bbl. 75
©
Creta, prep...............
5
&
9® 11
Creta, precip............
8
_
Creta, Rubra............ 
©
30® 35
Crocus...................... 
30®
C udbear.........
@ 24
6
5®
_
Cupri S u lp h ...____  
10® 12
10®
Dextrine.................... 
75© 90
Ether Sulph.............
8
Emery, all  numbers
©
@ 6
Emery, po.................
30® 35
Ergota........... po. 40
12® 16
Flake  W hite............
Galla..........................
© 23
8®
Gambier....................
9
@ 60
Gelatin, Cooper___
35® 60
Gelatin, French.......
60. 10&10
Glassware, flint, box
60
Less  than  box__
9® 12
Glue,  brown............
13® 25
13®
Glue,  w hite.............. 
13® 13
G lycerina................. 
13®
© 15
Grana  Paradisi  __  
@
llum ulus..................  
25®
25® 55
© 80
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
© 70
Hydraag Chlor  Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub'm.
© 90
@  1 00
Hydraag Ammoniati 
45® 55
HydraagF nguentum
Hydrargyrum..........
© 65
Icbthyobolla, A m ...
25®  1 50
Indigo.......................
75®  1  00
Iodine,. Resubi........
80® 3 90
@  4 70
Iodoform..................
_
Lupulin..................... 
@ 2 25
50® 55
Lycopodium............ 
50®
Macis 
65® 75
Liquor  Arse- et Ey-
drarg Iod...............
® 27
LiquorPotassArsinit  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph__  
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1V4
Mannia, S. F ............ 
50®  60
Menthol....................  
@ 3 00

“ 
@
®
®
60@
®

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@ 75

50® 60

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Morphia, S.P.&W... 1  95® 2 20 Slnapis......................
© 18
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
Sinapis, opt.............
© 30
C.  Co...................... 1  85® 2  10 Snuff, Maccaboy.De
© 40
Moschus Canton__
Voes.......................
© 34
Myristica, No. 1.......
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s
© 34
Nux Vomica...po.20
© 10 Soda Boras...............
6  ©
8
Os  Sepia..................
15® 18 Soda Boras, po........
6  @ 8
Soda et Potass Tart.
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
26® 28
D. Co......................
& 1  00 Soda,  Carb...............
1H@ 2
Picis Liq. N.N.Vigal.
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
3©
5
doz..........................
@ 2 00 Soda,  Ash.................
3Vj@ 4
Picis Liq.. quarts__
2
@ 1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
©
Picis Liq., pints......
©  2 60
© 85 Spts. Cologne............
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80
50® 55
© 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
@  000
© 18 SpV  Myrcia Dorn...
Piper Nigra...po.  22
@  2 4*
Piper Alba__ po.  35
© 30 Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
@ 7 Spts. Vini Rect. V4 bbl
@ 2 47
Piix  Burgun............
10® 12 Spts. Vini RecLlOgal
Plumbi  Acet............
@ 2 50
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10® 120 Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
@ 2 57
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
45
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Strychnia, Crystal... 
©
3
Pyrethrum,  pv........
30®
Sulphur,  Sub!..........
8© 10 Sulphur,  Roll.........
Quassiae....................
2®   2%
8® 10
26® 31 Tamarinds...............
Quinia, S. P. & W..
Quinia, S. Germ an.. 20® 29 Terebenth Venice...
28® 30
Quinia, N.Y.............
42® 45
24® 29 Theobromse.............
12® 14 Vanilla.................... 9  OOC&10 On
Rubia Tinctorum...
8
24® 26 Zinci  Sulph.............
SaccharumLactis pv
7®
Salacin...................... 3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis...
40® 50
12® 14
Sapo,  W ....................
10® 12 Whale, winter..........
Sapo, M......................
SajK), G......................
@ 15 Lard,  ex tra.............
Siedlitz  M ixture.... 20  @ 22 Lard, No. 1...............

Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days.
1  40®  1 
2H@

1  25 
33

70
40

Oils

70
40
35

Linseed,pure  raw .. 
Linseed,  Dolled....... 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

32 
34 
65 
34 

19

35
37
70
40

Paints  b b l . 

l b

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

Hi  2  @8 
1*   2  @4 
IX  2  @3 
2M  2V4@3 
2V4  2*@3
15 
13® 
70® 
75 
19
13V4® 
16 
13® 
6 
5V4@ 
6
5 Vi® 
70 
@
10 
@  1 00
f@  1  40 
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 u m ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

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Specialties

2  50

Special Vanilla Flavoring.......................... p. lb.  $0  50
i  25
Strictly Pure Extract Vanilla**....................... p. lb.
1  00 
Strictly Pure Extract Vanilla*................... p. lb.
75 
Soluble  Extract Lemon.................................... p. lb.
75 
Soluble Extract Orange.............................   p. lb.
65
Belfast Ginger Ale Extract Soluble...........p. lb.
2  00
Harry Root Beer Extract........p. lb. 35;  p. gall.
75
Acid Phosphates.............  .......................p. gall.
Gum or Soda Foam................. p. lb. 25;  p. gall.
1  75
3  00
Wild Cherry Phosphates.........p. lb. 40;  p. gall.
Fruit Acid....................................................   p. lb.
50
Pepsin Cordial................................................... p. lb.
50
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.

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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 
It is im­
dealers.  They are prepared just before going to press and are an accurate index of the local market. 
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.

AXLB  OREASE.
doz. 
......55
Aurora..................
Castor O il............ .......60
Diamond............. .......50
Frazer’s ............... .......75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... .......70
Paragon............... .  ...55

gross 
6 00
7 00
5 50
9 00
9 00
8 25
6 00

Acme.

Absolute.

El P arity.

BAKING  POWDER.
45
lb cans doz................ 
54 
H lb cans doz....................  
85
lb cans doz....................  1  50
1 
% lb cans 3 doz..................  
45
V4 lb cans 3 doz..................  
75
lb cans 1 doz..................   1 00
1 
Bulk......................................  
10
)4 lb cans per doz.............  
75
V4 lb cans per doz  ............  1  20
lb cans per doz..............2  00
1 
14 lb cans 4 doz case........  
35
55
% lb cans 4 doz case........  
lb cans 2 doz c a s e ....... 
90
P E H K 4 S H I
ji 1 b cans, 4 doz case....... 
45
Vi lb cans. 4 doz case........  
85
lb cans, 2 doz case.........1 60
1 
w lb cans............................. 
45
Vk lb cans............................. 
75
lb cans............................   1 50
1 
1 lb. cans  ........................... 
85

Our Leader.

Home.

Peerless.
BASKETS.

Per doz
Standard Bushel...............   1  25
Extra Bushel.....................  1  75
Market................................  
30
Vi bushel, bamboo del’ry.  3  50 
ii bushel, bamboo del'ry.  4  00 
1  bushel, bamboo del'ry.  5 00 
Diamond Clothes, 30x16...  2 50
Braided Splint, 30x16.......  4 00

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

BATH  BRICK.

A m erican..................................TO
English.......................................80

BLUINO.

C0 « D

BROOftS.

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 
40
3 doz. wooden boxes.......... 1 20
So. 1 Carpet.........................   1  90
So. 2 Carpet.........................  1  75
No. 3 C arpet........................  1  50
No. 4 Carpet.........................  1  15
Parlor G em ......................... 2  00
Common W hisk................... 
70
Fancy W hisk..  ................... 
80
Warehouse...........................2 25
Nacretoin, per doz..............2  25
Two doz. in case assorted flav­
ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. 
8s............................................. 7
1 6 s............................................8
Paraffine..................................8

CAKE FROSTING.

CANDLES.

CANNED  GOODS, 
rianltowoc  Peas.

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

CLOTHES LINES.

W alter Baker & Co.’a.

CHOCOLATB.
German Sw eet............ 
22
Premium.....................................31
Breakfast  C ocoa.....................42
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz..........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz.......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz.......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 f t  per  doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz..............  80
Jute, 72 f t   per dos...............  96

 

CHEESE.
Acme  ...........................  @ 
\m b o y .........................  
® 
B yro n ...,.....................  ©  
E lsie.............................  @ 
Gold  Medal..................... 
Id eal............................. 
  ©
Jersey...........................   ©
Lenawee.......................  @ 
Riverside...................... 
© 
Sparta........................  
  @
B ric k ...........................   @ 
Edam............................  
©  
Leiden........................... 
© 
Llmburger....................  © 
Pineapple................  43  ©  85
Sap  Sago...................... 
© 

 

Bulk 
Red 

Chicory.

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

CATSUP.

5
7

11

COUPON  BOOKS.
11
11V4
11V4
12

‘# 3335^ ,

lU f

Tradesman Grade.

11
11
10V4
75
50 books, any denom__   1  50
19
100 books, any denom__   2 50
15
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 bookB, any denom__ 20 00
18
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.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes.... 

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

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

45

2Vi
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Oreen.
Rio.

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

Santos.

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

 

Mexican  and  Ouatamala.

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

 

Maracaibo.

P rim e.........................................23
Milled....................................  ..24
In terio r......................................25
Private  Growth........................27
Mandehling...............................28

Java.

Mocha.

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

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue.......................30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__30
Wells’ Mocha and Java---- 25V4
Wells’  Perfection  Java......25V4
Sancaibo...............................23
Valley City Maracaibo....... 20
Ideal  Blend..........................16
Leader  Blend.......................13V4
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands
Quaker Arabian Mocha......31
Quaker Mandehling Java. .31
Quaker Mocha and Java_29
Toko Mocha and Java........26
Quaker Golden Santos.......23
State House Blend..............21
Quaker Golden Rio............ 20

Package.

for 

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package. 
In  60  lb. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in full cases.
A rbuckle.........................  13  00
Jersey................................  13 00
rtcLaughlln’s  XXXX.......... 13 00

Extract.

75
Valley City V4 gross  . 
.. 
Felix Vs gross................. 
1  15
85
Hummel’s foil V4 gross 
14,
Hummel’s tin V4  gross  . 
Knelpp Malt Coffee.
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  0 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9 
CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz In case.
Gail Borden  Eagle...............6 75
C row n.....................................6 25
D aisy .......................................5 75
Champion  ............................. 4  50
Magnolia 
............................ .4 25
Challenge................................ 3 50
D im e........................................3-35

Universal Orade.

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 Orade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from S10 down.

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

Credit Checks.

Apples.

California Fruits.

Sundrled.........................   ©  2V4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  4
Apricots.........................  9 ©10V4
Blackberries................
Nectarines....................  6 ©
Peaches.........................  7V4©  9
Pears.......  ...................  8  ©
Pitted Cherries............
Prunnelles.................... 12
Raspberries..................
100-120 25 lb boxes..........  ©  3%
90-100 25 lb boxes..........  ©  414
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..........  ©  4=54
TO-80 25 lb boxes..........  ©  5Ji
60 - 70 25 lb boxes..........  @6
50 - 60 25 lb boxes..........  © 614
40-50 25 lb boxes..........  @ 7
30 - 40 25 lb boxes..........  ©
14 cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

Raisins.

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

1  55
2 50
s -so
5 
5=4 
6V4 

FOREIGN.
C urrants.

Peel.

Patras bbls...........................© 4%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases..........© 2%
Cleaned, bulk  ...................©   S
Cleaned, packages.............© G14
Citron American 101b bx  ©14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ©12 
Orange American 101b bx  ©12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes........6&©  8
Sultana  1 Crown............  ©  814
Sultana 2 C ro w n ..........  ©   9
Sultana 3 Crown............  ©  914
Sultana  4 Crown............  ©  9=4
Sultans  5 Crown 
©1PK

Raisins.

FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot.

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

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
B u lk ...................................... 
3
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ......... 2 00

Farina.
Orlts.
Hominy.

Barrels  ...............................2 25
Flake, 501b.  drum s......... 1  00

. 

314

Lima  Beans.
........................ 

Peas.

Pearl Barley.

Dried 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........   60
Imported,  25 lb. box....... 2 50
Common.............................  
IX
C hester..............................  
2
E m p ire..............................  
214
Green,  b u .............................  80
Split,  p e rlb ........................ 
214
Rolled Avena,  bbl..........3 30
Monarch,  bbl..................... 2 80
Monarch,  14  bbl.................1 55
Private brands,  bbl........2 75
Private brands, !4bbl........ 1 50
Quaker, cases..................... 3 20
G erm an..................   ......... 
4
East  India.......................... 
3V4
Clacked, bulk....................   8
24 2 lb packages.................2 40

Rolled  Oats.

W heat.

Sago.

Fish.
Cod.

Herring.

riackerel.

©  4 
©  414 
© 514

Georges cured.............
Georges  genuine........
Georges selected........
Strips or bricks........  5
Halibut.
Chunks.............................
Strips................................
60 
Holland white hoops keg 
7  50
Holland white hoops  bb
Norwegian......................
Round 100 lbs....................   2 50
Round  40 lbs....................   1  30
Scaled.................................. 
13
No. n o o ib s .......................   11  00
No. 1  40 lbs........................  4 70
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  25
No. 2 100 lbs........................  8 00
No. 2  40lbs............... .....  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs........................ 
95
Family 90 lbs.............
Family 10 lb s.............
Sardines.
Stockfish.

Russian kegs...................... 
56
No. 1 ,1001b. bales.............   1014
No. 2,100 lb. bales............. 
814
No. 1  100 lbs........................  5  00
No. 1  40 lbs.......................   2 5
«5
No. 1  10 lbs. 
No. 1  8 lbs.
55

..........  

Tront

W htteflsh.

100 lb s.... ....  6 75
40 lbs — ....  3  00
10 lb s.... .... 
83
31
8 lbs — . . .. 
69
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

No. 1 No. 2
5 25
2  40
68
57

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz........1  20 
2 oz........  75
3 oz.......X  50 
3 oz.......1  00
4 oz.......1  40
4 oz.......2 00 
6 oz.......2 00
6 oz.......3.10 
No.  8  4 00 No.  8. .  2 40
No. 10.  .6  00 
No. 10. . .4  00
No. 2 T.  80
2 T.l 25 
No. 
No. 3 T.l  35
No. 
3 T.2 00 
No. 4 T.l  5o
No 
4 T.2 40 
Sage........................................   15
H ops.......................................  15
Madras, a  lb  boxes..............  55
S.  F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  boxes__   50
151b  palls..............................   30
17 lb  palls..............................   34
30 lb  palls..............................   60
Condensed, 2  doz  ...............1  20
Condensed,  4  doz.................2 25

INDIGO.

HERBS.

JBLLY.

LYE.

Souders’.
Best  In  the  world 
money

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz........1 20
4 oz........2 40

** OXGANr
F lavoring

t
ftoYAl  A “

e

(.DAYTON.Oj

OLUE.

.1  50 
.3 00

.1  75 
.3 50

Jackson Liquid, 1 oz 
Jackson Liquid. 2 oz 
Jackson Liquid. 3 oz..

per doz. 
65
.... 
.... 
98
1  30

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont's.

K egs............................................ 4 25
Half Kegs....................................2 40
Quarter Kegs...............................1 35
1 lb  cans................................  30
V4  lb  cans..............................   18
K egs............................................ 4 00
Half Kegs................................... 2 25
Quarter  Kegs............................. 1 25
1 lb  cans................................  34
..8 00
K egs........ .........................
.4  25
Half Kegs.........................
Quarter Kegs....................
..2 25
1 lb cans............................
45
. 
Pure................................... ...  30
C alabria........................... ...  25
Sicily.................................
..  14
Root................................... ...  10
MINCE  MEAT.
Ideal, 3 doz. in case........ ...2  25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9  sulphur.................. .  1  65
Anchor  Parlor................. ...1  70
No. 2  Home...................... ... 1  10
Export  Parlor................. ...4  00

HATCHES.

LICORICE.

nOLASSES.
New Orleans.
11
Black.  ..............................
F a ir...................................
14
20
G ood.................................
Fancy  ............  ...............
24
Open K ettle...................... ■ 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra.

PIPES.

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

48 cans In case.

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

POTASH.

PICKLES.
/"tedium .

Barrels, 1,200 c o u n t......... ..  3  40
Half bbls, 600 count......... ..  2 20
Barrels, 2,400 count......... ..  4  40
Half bbls,  1,200 count— ..  2 70

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head.................
..  6VÍ
5
Carolina  No. 1.................
Carolina  No. 2................. ■ 
4V4
3
Broken..............................
Japan,  No. 1....................
5V4
Japan.  No. 2.................... . 
5
Java, No. 1........................ • •
Table  .............................. ■ ■  5*
A n ise................................ .  13
4
Canary, Smyrna...............
Caraw ay........................... .  10
Cardamon,  Malabar  — .  80
Hemp,  Russian...............
4
Mixed  B ird...................... • 
*%
Mustard,  w hite............... ■ 
6V4
8
Poppy  ..............................
5
R ape..................................
20
Cuttle Bone

SEEDS.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60  lbs. in  box.

Church’s ........................... ...3  3t,
Deiand’s ........................... ...3  15
Dwight’s  ......................... ...3  30
Taylor’s ............................. ...3  00
.1  10
Granulated, bbls............
Granulated,  100 lb cases .1  50
Lump, bbls........................
1
Lump, 1451b kegs............... 1  10

SAL SODA.

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
2811-lb sacks..............................1 70

W orcester.

50  4  lb.  cartons......................3 25
115  2V41b. sacks..........................4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks..........................3 75
22 14  lb. sacks.................  .3 50
3010  lb. sacks..........................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks..................   32
56 
lb. linen sacks...............  60
Bulk in barrels...........................2 50

W arsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

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

56-lb dairy In linen  sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock.

Common Fine.

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

SNUFF.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Oround in Bulk.

Allspice  ................................   9
Cassia, China in m ats.......... 10
Cassia, Batavia in bund__ 20
Cassia, Saigou in rolls........ 32
Cloves,  Amboyna..................15
Cloves, Zanzibar...................  9
Mace,  Batavia.......................60
Nutmegs, fancy.....................60
Nutmegs, No.  1.....................50
Nutmegs, No.  2.....................45
Pepper, Singapore, black...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite.. .12
Pepper,  shot.......................... 10
Allspice  .................................12
Cassia, B atavia.....................22
Cassia,  Saigou.......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna..........  .. .20
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 15
Ginger,  African................... 15
Ginger,  Cochin.....................20
Ginger,  Jam aica...................22
Mace,  Batavia...................... 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................... 25
N utm egs,........................ 40@?0
Pepper, Sing., black ....10©14 
Pepper, Sing., w hite.... 15©18
Pepper, Cayenne............17©20
Sage........................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels................................  12
Half  bbls...........................  14
Fair  ...................................   16
Good...................................   20
C hoice...................  ..........   25
Boxes....................................... 5 Vi
Kegs, English.......................   444

SODA.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.

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

SOAP.

Single box....................................2 85
box lots, delivered........2 80
5 
10 box lots, delivered..........  2 75

ÜA8.S.  KIRK  X 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 In d ia .................................. 3 00
Kirkoline.....................................3 75
E o s..........................................3  65

21

Lautz Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

* cme, 70 1 lb. cakes.

Acme, 60 1 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 lots
10 box lots 
...........................2 85
25 box lots............................   2  80
One box free with 5;  two boxes 
free  with  10;  five  boxes  free 
with 25.
Single box............................ 2 85
5 box lots.............................. 2  75
10 box lots............................... 2 70
25 box lots.............................. 2  65
Single box............................ 2 85
5 box lots...............................2 75
10 box lots...............................2  70
25 box lots.............................. 2  65

Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 lbs.

Acme, 5 cent size.

Marseilles White.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box............................
5 box lots  ........................... 5 65
10 box lots........................... 5 60
25 box lots  ........................... 5 50
Single box............................. 4 00
5 box lots............................ 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
Int«. delf'Tivrpd...........? 65
25 
Schulte’s  Family.......................2 75
Clydesdale........ .................... 2  85
No T ax.........................................2 50
German Mottled.........................1 85
Electro.........................................3 25
Oleine, w hite..............................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.

 

 

Allen  B. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Single box  ... 
2  65
5 box lots, delivered................ 2 60
10 box lots, delivered............2 50
Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..2  20 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars— 3  75
Uno, 100 %-lb. bars...............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............. 2  25
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z .......2 40
Sapolio, hand. 3 d o z ............2  40

Scouring.

STARCH.

Kingsford’a  Corn.

40 1-lb packages....................   6
201 lb packages....................   6*
Kingsford’s  Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages....................   6*
6-lb  boxes  ...........................7
64 10c’ packages  ................ 5  00
128  5c  packages.................. 5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5  00 
20-lb boxes...............................4*
40-lb  boxes.............................  4îi

Common  Corn.

Diamond.

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages............... .......  4
3-lb  packages............... .......  4
6-lb  packages............... .......  4*
40 and 50 lb boxes........ .......  2*
B arrels......................... .......  2*

STOVE POLISH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy

Mixed Candv

Fancy -  In Bulk.

bbls.  pails
5 It© 7
5&@  7
6  @ 7
7*@ 8*
cases
© 8*
© 8*
©  6
@ 6*
@ 7
© 7
© 7*
@
©  8
© 8
© 8
@ 8*
©  9
@10
@13
©  9
©  9
11  @14
@12*
@ 5
©  7*
@ 8 Vs
© 8*
©50
@50
@60
@65
@75
@30
@75
@50
©55
@55
@55
@65
@o0
©50
80  @90
60  ©80
@90
@60
©55

Standard..................
Standard H.  H ........
Standard Twist.......
Cut  Loaf..................
Extra H. H...............
Boston  Cream........
Competition.............
Standard..................
Leader  ....................
Conserve..................
R oyal.......................
Ribbon......................
Broken  ....................
Cut  Loaf..................
English  Rock..........
Kindergarten..........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan...............
Valley Cream..........
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops............
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops.............
Moss  Drops.............
Sour Drops...............
Im perials.................
Lemon  Drops..........
Sour  Drops.............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate  Drops  ...
H. M. Choc.  Drops..
Gum  Drops.............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed.
Im perials.................
Mottoes....................
Cream  Bar...............
Molasses B a r ..........
Hand Made Creams.
Plain  Creams..........
Decorated Cream s..
String Rock.............
Burnt Almonds.......1 25  ©
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No.  1 wrapped, 2  lb.
b oxes....................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ....................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ...................

Fancy—In  s  lb.  Boxes.

©30
@45

F r e s h   M e a t s .

Beef.

Fore quarters............ .  5  @ 6
Hind  quarters.......... •  7*@ 9
Loins  No.  3............... .  9  @14
Ribs...........................
.  9  @12
Rounds  ...................... 6  @ 6*
Chucks..................
4  ©  5
Plates  .......................
@ 4
Pork.
Dressed......................
@ 5
L o in s.........................
©  7*
Shoulders..................
© 6
Leaf Lard.................. .  5*@ 8
Mutton.
Carcass 
..........  ....... .  7  ©  9
Spring Lambs..........
.  9  @10
Veal.
Carcass
5  @  6%

Crackers.

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

as follows:
Seymour XXX....................   4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  4)
Family XXX........................  4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  4*
Salted XXX.........................   4
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  41/ 
Soda  XXX  .........................   4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__   4*
Soda,  City.................
Zephyrette.................
10
Long Island  W afers..........  u
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10
Square Oyster, XXX.  .......  4
Sq. Oys. XXX, X  lb  carton.  5
Farina Oyster,  XXX..........   4
SWEET  GOODS-Bozes.
A nim als..............................   9
Bent’s Cold W ater.............   13
Belle R ose...........................   6
Cocoanut Taffy...................  9
Coffee Cakes........................  8
Frosted Honey...................... 10
Graham Crackers  ..............  6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  V anilla..................   7
Im perials.............................  6
JumDles,  Honey.................  10
Molasses  Cakes...................  6
Marshmaliow  ....................   12
Marshmallow  Creams.......  13
Pretzels,  hand  m a d e .......  6
Pretzelettes, LittleGerman  6
Sugar  Cake.........................   6
Sultanas....................  
  10
Sears’ Lnnch........................  6
Sears’ Zephyrette.................10
Vanilla  Square................. 
7
Vanilla  W afers.................  12
Pecan W afers........................ 12
Fruit Coffee..........................  9
Mixed P icnic......................   10
Boston Ginger  Nuts...........   6
Chimmie F adden...............   9
Pineapple Glace...................   it

 

W heat.

86

Wheat...................................
W inter  W heat  Flour.

Local  Brands.

Spring  W heat  Flour.

P aten ts................................ 5  15
Second  Patent.................... 4  65
Straight..............................
4  45
Clear.................................... 4  ; 0
Graham 
.........................
4  25
Buckw heat......................... 3  40
R y e ........................  ..........
2  65
Subject  to  usual  cash dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  * s ......................... 4  60
Quaker, * s .......................... 4  60
Quaker, * s.......................... 4  60
Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s  Best ;as............ 4  80
Pillsbury’s  Best * s ............ 4  70
Pillsbury's best * s ............ 4  60
Pillsbury’s Bakers Pat. * s 4  50
Pillsbury's Bakers  Pat.  140s 4  50
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic,  * s .......... 4  80
Grand Republic, iis........
4  70
Grand Republic, * s .......... 4  65
Lemon A  Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian,  * s ....................... 4  80
Parisian, Qs.......................
4  70
Parisian.  * s..................... . 4  65
4  80
Ceresota, Q s......................
4  70
Ceresota, * s ......................
4  65
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  * s .......................... 4  80
Laurel,  Q s.........................
4  70
Laurel, * s .........................
4  65
B olted................................
1  50
G ranulated.......................
1  75
Feed and  Millstuffs.
St. Car Feed, screened  ...
il  75
N o. 1 Corn and  Oats........ .10 75
Unbolted Corn  Meal........ 10 25
Winter Wheat  Bran...  . .11  00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .11  50
Screenings......................... .  8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co.
quotes as follows;
Car  lots.............................. .  26
Less than  car  lots............ .  28
Car  lots.............................. •  20*
Carlots, clipped.............. . .  23
Less than  car  lots............ .  25
No. 1 Timothy carlots__ .  9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots  . .11  00

Olney <fc Judson ’s Brand.

New Corn.

Meal.

Oats.

hay.

’ 

Med’t  Sweets.

Fruits.
Oranges.
Seedlings
96-112 .........................   2  00@2 25
@2 25
250..............................
@2 50
126  ............................
150-176-200  ...............
@2  75
Navels.
@3 25
96  .............................
Messinas.
@3 00
Fancy  200s...............
Valencias.
@4  50
Cases of 420.............
Lemons.
©2 50
Strictly choice  360s..
@3 00
Strictly choice 300s..
@3 00
Fancy 360s...............
@3 50
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Bananas.
Medium  bunches... 1  25 @1  50
Large bunches........ 1  75 @2 00
Figs, Choice  Layers
10 ib .......................
Figs,  New  Smyrna
14 and 20 lb boxes.
Figs,  Naturals 
in
30 ib. bags,.............
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
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
&  S
@ 6
©  6
@  4H

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Almonds, Tarragona.. @12
Almonds, Ivaca.......... @11
Almonds,  California,
soft  shelled............. @12
Brazils new.................
©  7*
Filberts  ...................... @10
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12*
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. ©10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
C alif......................... @12
Table Nuts,  fancy.... @11
Table Nuts,  choice... @10
Pecans,  Med................ @
Pecans, Ex. Large — @10
Pecans,  Jumbos......... @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new.................
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks @3  75
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
©  7
S uns.........................
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
© 7
Roasted....................
Choice, H. P., Extras. @ 4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
@  6
Roasted  ..................

@

4 

Provisions.

Crockery  and

Swift  &  Company quote  as

Smoked  Heats.

2
5 
3
5 
10 
2
9*  C
9*
8\
11*   V
6*
7

follows:
Barreled  Pork.
8  75
Mess 
.........................
Back  ...........................
9  75
Dlear  back.................. ... 
9  50  L
Shortcut...................... ... 
9 25
Pig................................ ...  12  50
Bean  ........................... ...  8  50  1
Family  ........................
9 50 
i
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies.................*  ....
Briskets  ...................... ... 
Extra  shorts...............
Hams,  12 lb  average
Hams,  14 lb  average
Hams,  161b  average..
Hams, 20 lb  average..
Ham dried beef.......... ... 
Shoulders  (N.  Y. cut) ■  • 
Bacon,  clear...............
California  ham s.........
Boneless ham s............
Cooked  ham ............... ... 
In Tierces.
Compound..................
K ettle...........................
55 lb Tubs..........advance 
80 lb Tubs..........advance 
50 lb T in s..........advance 
20 lb Pails..........advance 
10 lb Pails..........advance 
5 lb Pails..........advance 
3 lb Pails..........advance 
Sausages.
B ologna....................
Liver...........................
Frankfort...................
P o rk ...........................
Blood  .......................
Tongue  ......................
Head  cheese.............. .... 

10*
3% 
5 U
*
*  
,
*
*   J
*
%
1
1
5 
6*   1
6*
6*
6
9
6*

Lards. 

)

Beef.

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

50

jal., per doz............... 

1 to 6 gal., per gal............... 
5*
8 gal.,  per g a l....................  6*
per gal......................   6*
per gal......................   6*
meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
meat-tubs, per gal..  10

Milkpans.

1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each 
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
__ nl. flat or rd. hot., doz.  65
1 gal.  flat or rd. hot., each 

5* 

60
5*

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

gal., per doz...................  40
gal., per doz...................   50
to 5 gal., per gal..............  6*

Tomato Jugs.

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

Sealing Wax. 

in package, per lb...  2
LAMP  BURNERS.

... 

Tripe.

... 10 00

Boneless  ...................
R um p......................... ....  10 00
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits. 15 lbs.................
80
*   bbls, 40 lbs............ __   1  50
*   bbls, 80 lbB............ ...  2  80
Kits,  15 lbs.................
75
*   bbls, 40 lbs............ ....  1  40
*   bbls. 80 lbs............ ....  2  75
Casings.
P o rk ........................... .... 
18
Beef  rounds..............
8
Beef  middles............
60
S heep.........................
Butterine.
10
Rolls,  dairy...............
Solid,  dairy............
9*
Rolls,  cream ery....... ... 
13
12*
Solid,  cream ery.......
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2  1b... ....  2 00
Corned  beef, 14  lb... ..  .14  00
Roast  beef,  2  1b... ....  2 00
60
.... 
Potted  ham,  *s.
....  1  00
Potted  bam,  * s ..
Deviled ham,  *s.
.... 
60
....  1  00
Deviled bam,  * s..
60
Potted  tongue * s  .
....  1  00
Potted  tongue * s ..
Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-
lows:
Hides.
.  5  @  6
G reen........................
©  6*
Part  cured...............
•  6*@  7*
Full Cured...............
.  6  @ 8
D ry ...........................
.  5  @ 6
Kips,  green............
.  6*@  7*
Kips,  cured........   ..
Calfskins,  green__ ■  5*@  7
Calfskins, cured__ .  6*@  8
Deaconskins  ..........
.25  @30
Pelts.
5© 
10
Shearlings...............
25©  50
L am bs......................
60©  90
Old  Wool.................
Furs.
30©  90
M in k ........................
30©  80
Coon..........................
30©  70
Skunk.................  ..
Muskrats, spring— 12©  17
S@ 
13
Muskrats, winter ...
80©  1  25
Red Fox....................
30@  70
Gray Fox..................
Cross Fox  ............... 2 5' @  5 00
25©  50
Badger......................
10©  25
Cat, W ild.................
Cat, House............... .  10© 
zO
.3  00@ 5  00
Fisher......................
Lynx......................... .1  0@ 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  t O
Beaver....................... .2 00© 6 00
Deerskin, dry. per lb.  15@  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb  10©  12*
................. .10  @16
Washed 
Unwashed............... ..  5  @12
Tallow ...................... ..2   © 2M
Grease Butter.......... ..  1  @ 2
Switches  ................. . ■  1*@ 2
Ginseng.................... . .2 50@2 7b

Hiscellaneous.

Wool.

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  .......................  
©11*
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 8*
W W Michigan............  @8
High Test H eadlight..  © 7
D.,S. Gas......................  @8
Deo. N ap th a............... 
© 7*
C ylinder......................25  @36
Engine.........................11  @21
Black, w inter..............  @ 8

No.  2  Sun. 
Tubular...
Security, No. 2....................  
85
Nntmeg  ..............................  
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. 
No. 
No. 

wrapped and  labeled_  2  10
wrapped and  labeled_  2  25
wrapped and  labeled_  3  25

crimp  top,
crimp 
top,
crimp  top,

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

First  Quality.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

XXX Flint.
crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled__2 55
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2  75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No.  1  Snn,  wrapped  and
labeled.............................. 3  70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................   4  70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled.............................. 4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps.............. 
80

La  Bastie.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  .........  ........................  1  25
No. 2 Snn,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ...................................   150
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........1  60

Rochester.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........   3  50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  06
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)____  4  70

Electric.

■ OIL  CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  .......  4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)------   4  40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  Ou 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  0 00
5 gal Tilting cans...............   9  00
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas  ...  9 00

Pump  Cans

5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule.................10  50
5 gal Home Rule.....  .........12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King...............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular....................  4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular...............6  50
No. 13 Tubular Dash..........6  30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__   7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp  ..........  3  75

LANTERNS.

LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents............  
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box  15 cents............ 
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5  doz.
each,  bbl 35......................  
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1  doz.  each... 
LAMP  WICKS.

No. 0 per gross..................... 
No. 1 per gross..................... 
No. 2 per gross..................... 
No. 3 per gross..................... 
Mammoth per  dO S........... 

. 

45
45
40
1  25
20
25
38
58
70

SUdAR.

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
C ubes..................................... 4 75
Powdered  ............................ 4 75
XXXX  Powdered..............  .4 88
Mould  A................................ 4  75
Granulated in bbls................4  80
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.  1..................................... 4  25
No  2..................................... 4 25
No.  3..................................... 4 25
No.  4 ..................................... 4  19
No.  5.......................................... 4 13
No.  6..................................... 4  06
No.  7.......................................... 4 00
No.  8.......................................... 3 88
No.  9.......................................... 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 & Perrin’s,  large....... 4  75
Lea & Perrin’s, sm all.......2 75
Halford,  large........................3 75
Ilaiford 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, 4% in ....... 58 00
Governor Yates, 4“£ in ....... 65 00
Governor Yates, 5* in ..  . .70 00
Monitor..................................... 30 00
Q uintette..................................35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

WICKINa.

VINEGAR.

Fresh Fish.

S. C. W ..................................35 00
Leroux Cider............................10
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain — 10 
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain.  ..12
No.O, pergross..........  .........  25
No. 1, per gross......................  30
No. 2, pergross......................  40
No. 3. per gross......................  75
Fish  and  Oysters
Per lb. 
@  9
@  8 
©  10 
©  12*  
@  4
©  10 
©  17 
©  19 
<i
©  10 
C
©  8 
i
©   7
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©  6 
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©   7
(
©  13 
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©  13 
(
©  20
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40 
(
30 
<
25 
(
20
(
(
(
Oysters in Bulk.

W hitefish.................
T ro u t.......................
Black Bass...............
H alibut....................
Ciscoes or H erring..
Bluefish....................
Live  Lobster..........
Boiled Lobster........  
C o d ........................... 
Haddock..................  
No.  1  Pickerel........  
Pike........................... 
Smoked W hite........  
Red Snapper............ 
Col  River  Salmon.. 
Mackerel 
............... 
F. H. Counts............ 
F. J. D. Selects........  
Selects...................... 
F. J. D.  Standards.. 
Anchors.................... 
Standards................. 
2  00 
Counts......................
1  60 
Extra Selects............
Mediums..................
1  10 
1  25 
Clams  ......................
1  25
Shrimps.................... 
Shell Goods.
Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25@1  50
Clams,  per  100..........   90© I  00

Oysters in Cans.

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Hardware

The  Hardware  Market.

General  Hardware— Somewhat 

im­
proved  trade  is  generally  reported  as  a 
natural  result  of  the  coming  of  spring, 
and  it  is  hoped  that  continued  pleasant 
weather,  with  the  revival  now 
inaugu­
rated,  will  continue.  This  improvement 
is  not general  in  all  parts  of  the  coun­
try,  consequently  it  has  no  special  effect 
upon  the 
increased  demand  for goods 
of  the  manufacturers,  and  we  fail  to 
find  any  tendency  toward  advancing 
prices,  except  those  that  are  controlled 
by  combinations  or  agreements.  The 
general  action  of  the  trade  is  to  be  con­
servative 
in  their  purchasing,  buying 
only  from  week  to  week  the  quantity  of 
goods  necessary  to  conduct  their  busi­
ness.  There  is  a  feeling  amongst the 
retail  trade  in  certain  sections  that  the 
volume  of  business  this  spring  will  be 
better  than  a  year  ago and  that  when 
fall  comes  general  business  will  be  nor­
mal.

Wire  Nails—The  firm  price  spoken 
about  in  our  market  report  of  last  week 
still  continues  and  manufacturers  are 
not  disposed  at  present  to  make  any 
concessions  in  prices.  The  high  water 
that  has  prevailed 
in  the  Pittsburgh 
district  and  the  strike  that  has  been  on 
at  the  Cleveland  factory  cause  but  little 
effect  upon  the  market.  The  demand 
still  continues  good  and  factories  are 
quite  slow  in  filling  orders. 
is  not 
believed  that  there  will  be  any  material 
advance  in  price and  there  is  no change 
to  note  in  the  general  market.

It 

Barbed  Wire— There  is a  fair but  not 
heavy  demand  for  barbed  wire.  The 
mills  are  kept  busy  in  executing  orders 
now  in.  In some  instances  orders placed 
in  winter  for  early  spring  shipment 
have  not  yet  been  filled,  but  the  facto­
ries  generally  promise  to  have  all  back 
orders  on  their  books  cleaned  up  by 
May  i.  While  there 
is  no  indication 
of  any  lower  prices  being  made,  it  is 
not  believed  at  the  present  time  that 
any  higher  prices  will  prevail  during 
the  remainder  of  the  season.

Window  Glass— The  American  win­
dow  glass  situation  remains  unchanged, 
the  same  condition  prevailing  as  for- 
some  weeks  past.  While  the  demand 
is  not  large,  there 
is  a  belief  that  the 
Association  will  advance  prices  May 
i 
5  per  cent.,  and  with  the  prospect  of  an 
early  closing  down  of  all  glass  factories 
in  June,  it  is  believed  and  hoped  that 
this  advance  can  be  fully maintained.

Reports  from  other  markets  are as fol­

lows :

Chicago:  The  advancing  season  has 
brought  better  orders  for  shelf  hard­
ware  and  seasonable  goods.  The  vol­
ume  of  business,  however,  is  not  espe­
cially  great  or  satisfactory  to  jobbing 
interests ;  but the  outlook  grows  steadily 
more  encouraging.
Omaha:  There 

is  no  extraordinary 
demand  for goods.  A  fairly  satisfactory 
business,  so far as  volume  is concerned, 
has  been  enjoyed.

San  Francisco:  The  volume  of  trade 
at  present  exceeds  that  of  last  year at 
this  same  time.  The  farming  prospect 
never  was  better  and  conditions  indi­
cate a  good  spring  business.
shows 

improve­
ment 
in  the  amount  of  general  hard­
ware  that  is  specified  for  by dealers  and 
the  volume  is  all  that  could  be expected 
and  as  large as  is  usual  at  this  time  of 
the  year.

Cleveland:  Trade 

Louisville:  Trade 

is  only  fair,  and 
in  this  section  is  affected  largely  by  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

floods,  which  now  cover  a  large area  of 
territory  tiibutary  to  this  market.

QUICK  MEAL 

QUICK  MEAL 

« U C K  M EAL A Household Word-

QUICK  MEAL

Secure the agency  for  the  best  Gasoline 
and  Blue  Flame  Stove  made  on  earth. 
400,000  now  in  use.  The  Blue  Flame 
Kerosene  Stoves  are  a  success.  They 
are  built  with  brass  tanks  and  burners, 
also  aluminum  chimneys,  with  a  simple 
wick  adjustment. 
The  Quick  Meal 
Gasoline  Stove is  known the  world  over 
as the  Best.  For Beauty,  Durability and 
Service,  they have  no equal.  Write  for 
catalogue and  discount.  Mention ad.

Yanneryeeq & Witman,

State  Agents,

Awnings  a n d   Tents

Best  goods  and  lowest  prices  in  the  State.  All 

work guaranteed.  Send for  prices.

CHAS.  A.  COYE,  11  Pearl Street.

106 Monroe SL 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

P h o n e   3 8 6 .

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
Save Dellars

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procure satisfactory stock.  Now our “Hand made”  Harness 

is of the very best stock obtainable and we guarantee quality 

of material and workmanship  to  be  SECOND  TO  NONE.

Trial  Orders from  Dealers  solicited.
Send for Catalogues  and  Price  Lists.

5 —  Jobbers of 
^   Carriages and 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Implements.

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Portland,  Oregon:  Owing 

the 
heavy  spring  rains,  trade  has  suffered 
very  much.  Collections  show  a  satis­
factory  improvement.

to 

New  Orleans:  Business  is  very  quiet 
in  this  section  and  we  do  not  look  for 
any 
improvement  for  several  months, 
owing  to  the  enormous  floods  flowing 
out  of  the  Mississippi  all  over  the coun­
try.

Philadelphia:  Trade  continues  about 
the  same,  without  any  diminution  01 
large  increase.

the  whole  has 
in  the  past  two 

St.  P a u l:  T rad e  on 
im proved  considerably 
weeks.
The  Omnipresent  American  Peanut. 
From the Washington Star.

“ The  peanut  as  an  article  of  com­
merce  and  consumption, ”   said  Judge 
Christiancy,  of  the  Pension  Office,  “ is 
something  enormous,  and  a  great  deal 
more  so  than  those  who  have  not  had 
the  opportunity  to  examine  into  it  have 
the  slightest  idea  of. 
I  don't  desire  to 
deluge  you  with  statistics,  but  my  ex­
amination  and  that  of  others  who  have 
had  better  facilities  satisfy  me  that  the 
peanut  ranks  second  to  anything  else 
used  as  a  fruit.  The  banana  ranks  first. 
By  this  I  do  not  confine  myself  to  this 
country  alone. 
I  refer  to  the  consump­
tion  throughout  the  world.  We  are 
shipping  peanuts  to-day  to  every  part 
of  the  world,  and 
in  Paris,  London, 
throughout  Italy  and  Germany and Eng­
land,  have  already  got  the  African  pea­
nut  on  the  run,  and  are  going  to  make 
it  run  very  fast  before  we  get  through. 
The  peanut  we  ship  does  not  compare, 
however,  with  the  nut  that 
is  sold  in 
our own  country,  but  it  has  secured  the 
market  from  the  African  peanut,  which, 
only  a  few  years  ago,  was  the  only  nut 
which  was  sold  in  Europe. 
In  the  zoos 
of  Europe  to-day  the  children  are  feed­
ing  American  peanuts  to  the  animals, 
as  well  as  eating  them—the  peanuts,  I 
mean—themselves. ’ ’

It  takes  72,000  tons  of  paper  to  make 
in  the  United 

the  postal  cards  used 
Kingdom  each  year.

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,  ORAND RAPIDS, 

Pay  the  highest  price  in  cash for 

MIXED  RAGS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  flE TA L S.

Send us a list of what you have  and  we  will  quote 

you our best prices thereon.

«  IT IIS  INSECTS

T h e   v a l u e   o f   a l l   w o r k   o r   a c t i o n   m u s t   b e  

m e a s u r e d   b y   t h e   u l t i m a t e   r e s u lt .

S  

Now  is  the  time  for  Barrel  and 
Bucket  Spray  Pumps.  Write  for
circular and prices.

—S

There  has  been  sold  through  the  seed  dealers 
considerably over five million pounds of S l u g  S h o t. 
Unless S l u g  S h o t had proved  a  useful  and  valua­
ble  article  for  common use, no amount of advertis­
ing  could  have  developed  the trade or held it   AS 
a general  Insecticide it stands  unrivalled.
For pamphlet address,

HAMMOND S SUM SHOT WORKS,

BENJAMIN  HAMMOND. 

F la h k l l l - o n - t h e - H u d s o n ,   N .  Y .

Foster,  Stevens & Co.,  3
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Grand  Rapids. 

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‘ Why,  you  goose,’  said  he,  ‘ where 
have  you  lived 1 
It’s  a  tapering  strap 
six  to  eight  feet  long,  and  an  inch  and 
a  half  wide,  cut  from  a  side  of  stout 
leather,  with  either  a  strong  buckle  or 
snap  strongly  attached  at  the  larger 
end,  and  may  be  carried  in  the  pocket 
or  carriage  and  fastened  quickly  to  the 
bridle  bit of  a  horse  when  you  want  to 
hitch  him  a  moment. 
It  probably  took 
its  name  a  long  way  back  when  rum 
was  the  chief  liquor  drunk,  and  this 
strap  was  the  most  convenient  article  to 
use  while  halting  a  moment  at  a  coun­
try  hotel  or dram  shop  for  the  favorite 
tipple.  But  why  do  you  ask?’

led  him  by  the  coat 
For  answer  I 
button  along  the 
line  of  trunks  and 
packages,  and  at  length,  indicating  a 
certain  trunk,  said, 
‘ Would  you  call 
these  “ rum straps”  buckled around each 
end  of  this?’

‘ They  certainly  are,  and  nearly 

new  ones at  that,’  he  replied.

‘ Don’t  ask  me  why,’  said  I,  'but 
I’m  going  to  bid  on  that  trunk,  and 
take  my  chances;  and  you  keep  quiet 
while  I  am  bidding,  unless  I  give  you a 
signal  to  speak. 
I'll  explain  it  all  to­
night. ’

“ The  bidding  soon  began;  but  it  was 
some  time  before  the  trunk  I  was  going 
to  bid  on  was  reached. 
In  the  mean­
time,  Hayden  had  one  small  satchel 
knocked  down  to  him  at $1.50.  Several 
persons  lifted  and  examined the exterior 
of  ‘ my  trunk,’  as  I  called  it  to  myself, 
but,  finding 
it  comparatively  light and 
a  rather  cheap-looking  affair,  the  bid­
ding  was  started  by  some  one at  $1. 
I 
raised  the  bid  fifty  cents;  then  it  went 
rapidly  half  a  dozen  more,  twenty-five 
cents  at  a  time,  and  at  last  I  cried  out, 
Five  fifty!’
“ The  auctioneer’s  hammer  fell— so 
quickly,  in  fact,  that  it  raised  a  laugh, 
as  all  eyes  turned  toward  m e;  and  one 
party said,  ‘ That  man  is  sold,as  well  as 
the  trunk.'  But  the  fact  was  I  took  all 
the  chances  on  those  ‘ rum straps’—why, 
will  appear  later.

“ Hayden  and  1  then  called  a delivery 
wagon,  and  sent  our  purchases  home. 
That  evening,  I  said  to  Hayden,  ‘ Lis­
ten  while  I 
read  to  you  this  notice, 
which  I  cut  from  a  newspaper  after  1 
had  seen 
in  at  least  a  dozen  issues, 
thinking  it  might  sometime  prove  use 
ful:

it 

$400  REW ARD !

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND BITS

Snell’s ................................................................ 
70
Jennings’, genuine  .........................................25*10
Jennings’, Im itation....................................... 60*10

AXES

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

BARROWS

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

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

60*10 
70 to 75 
50

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

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST 

Cast Loose  Pin, figured.................................70&10
Wrought  Narrow.
.75*10

Ordinary Tackle.

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

.. per lb

CAPS

ly’s  1-10.................................................perm
ick’s C. F ............................................. per m
.  1)......................................................... per m
lusket....................................................per m

CARTRIDGES

Rim  F ire ..........................................................50&  5
entrai  F ire.................  ..................................25*  5

Socket Firm er... 
Socket  Framing. 
Socket  Com er... 
Socket  Slicks__

CHISELS
.......................................... 
..........................................  
..........................................  
DRILLS

80
80
80
80

Morse’s Bit Stocks.......................................... 
60
aper and Straight Shank............................. 50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank......................................50*  5

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in ..............................doz.net 
55
1  25
Corrugated..................................................  
Adjustable.................................................. dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark’s small, 118;  large, *26..........................30*10
Ives', 1, *18;  2, *24; 3, *30................................ 
25

PILES—New  List

New A m erican................................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s .......................................................  
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................... 6C*iO

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

28
17

Discount, 75. to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s........................ 60*16

KNOBS-New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye........................................*16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye........................................*15 00, dis  60*10
Hunt's............................................  #18 50, dis  20*10

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ....................................... 
Coffee, P. 8. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry *  Clark's................. 
Coffee, Enterprise............................................ 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

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

Lucky  Find  in  Auctioneered  Baggage. 
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

“ Have  you  secured  an  option  yet  on 
that  forty  acres  of  land 
in  Arkansas?” 
asked  my  friend  Hildreth  of  a  young 
man  who  shook  hands  with  him  one 
autumn  afternoon  in  San  Francisco.

“ I  have,”   was  the  reply,  “ and  I 

came  direct  from  there  last  week.”

“ At  what  price  and  time?”   enquired 

Hildreth.

on  it?”

“ Nine  hundred  dollars  and 

thirty 

days,”   was  the  laconic  reply.

“ How  many  pecan  trees  did  you  find 

“ Not  so  many  as  I  had  hoped—405  in 
one  ten-acre  field;  but  they  are 
first 
class  in  growth  and  quality  of  fruit  and 
all  are  in  full  bearing.  The  nuts  from 
these  would  pay  a  fair  interest  on  the 
money  until  we  get  mote  trees  in  bear­
ing.  But  the  most  important  question, 
Hildreth,  is  that  I  cannot  raise  my  por­
tion  of  the  money. 
I  have  only  $200, 
and  I  think  you  told  me  you  could  only 
spare $300.  Of  course,  I  would  like  to 
take  it  with  you,  as  I  consider  it  a  bar­
gain  for  us,  it  being  fine  bottom  laud 
near  the  river;  and  next  spring  we  can 
plant  another  field  and  do  all  the  work 
ourselves. ’ ’

“ Well,  Hayden,  I  might  spare  $400 
to  invest  in  this  business,  making  $600 
between  us,  and  then  couldn’t  we  mort­
gage  the  property  for the  balance?”

“ I  hadn’t  thought  of  that,”   replied 
Hayden,  brightening  at  the'suggestion ; 
“ but  I’ll  talk  with  you  again  this 
evening,”   and,  with  a  wave  of  the 
hand,  he  walked  off  down  Market  street 
toward  the  wharf.

Having  business  at  San  Jose,  fifty 
miles  distant  by  rail,  I  did  not  again 
see  my  friend  Hildreth,  after  bidding 
him  goodbye  as  I  boarded  the  train 
soon  after,  until  the  following  week, 
when,  as  soon  as  we  were  alone,  he drew 
a  chair  near  mine  and  smilingly  said : 
“ Let  me  tell  you,  Frank,  of  my good 
fortune.  Hayden  and  I  are  to  take  the 
Arkansas  land,  and  this 
is  the  way  it 
all  happened :

“ You 

remember,  Hayden 

started 
down  toward  the  wharf  the  day  you  left 
for  San  Jose?  Well,  that  evening  he 
told  me  he  had  wandered  through  the 
overland  railway  baggage  office  down 
there,  and  learned  that  a  sale  of  stray 
or  unclaimed  baggage  and  packages 
would  take  place  there  the  next  day. 
You  know  at  certain  times  the  com­
pany  gives  notice  that  all  stray baggage 
and  unclaimed  parcels,  having  been 
advertised  a  certain length  of  time,  will 
be  sold  to  the  highest  bidder,  just as  re­
ceived  at  the  office.  You  may  handle 
the  trunks  or  packages,  but  are  not  al­
lowed  to  open  them.  Generally  there 
are  few  prizes  among  these  old  traps, 
although  one  usually obtains his money’s 
worth  if  he  doesn’t  bid  too  high.

“ Hayden  and  I  were  on  hand  in 
good  time,  the  next  day,  and  wandered 
through  the  long  lines of trunks,  satchels 
and  packages,  to  look  them over.  Sud­
denly,  I 
found  myself  examining  a 
small  trunk  with  more  than  usual  in­
terest,  and  for  the  time  was  in  such  a 
brown  study  over  it  as  to  forget  every­
thing  else.  Then,  finding Hayden stand­
ing  near  me,  I  asked  him  to  excuse  me 
a  moment;  and  away  I  went,  making 
good  time  to  my  room  on  Mission 
street. 
I  had  remembered  a  newspaper 
advertisement  I  had  clipped  from  some 
daily  and  placed 
in  a  small  drawer 
more  than  a  month  previous,  and  I  was 
after  it.

“ Returning  to  the  office,  I  said  to my 
friend,»‘ Tell  me  what  a  “ rum  strap”  
is. ’

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS-

HOLLOW  WARB

Stamped Tin Ware...........................new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware.........................................20*10
Granite Iron  W are...........................new list 40*10
Pots..................................................................... 60*10
K ettles...............................................................60*10
S piders................................................ 
60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...................................dis 60*10
S tate...........................................perd o z.n et  2 50
80
B right................................................................ 
80
Screw Eyes........................................................ 
Hook’s................................................................ 
80
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.....................................  
80

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

LEVELS

70
5Vi
9V4
80

ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s .................. dis 
Sisal, V4 inch and larger.................................. 
Manilla..............................................................  
Steel and Iron..................................................
Try and Bevels.................................................
M itre.................................................................
com. smooth.

SHEET  IRON

SQUARES

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

com. 
C2  40 
2 40 
2 80 
2  70 
2 80 
2  90
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

Nos. 10 to 14...................................... *3 30
Nos. 15 to 17.  ....................................3  30
Nos. 18 to 21........................................ 3 45
Nos. 22 to 24......................................   3 55
Nos. 25 to 26......................................  3 70
No.  27..............................................   3 80
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86..........................................dis
Solid Eyes............................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game..........................................  ... 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton's 70*10* 10
Mouse, choker................................per 
doz 15
Mouse, delusion...........................per doz 
1  25
Bright Market................................................. 
75
Annealed  Market............................................ 
75
Coppered  Market..............................................70*10
Tinned Market.................................................  62*
Coppered Spring  Steel...................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized...........................  2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted..................................  1  70
An Sable...................................................... dis 40&1C
Putnam ........................................................ dis 
5
Northwestern..............................................dis 10*10
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled...................... 
30
50
Coe’s Genuine..................................................  
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, w ro u g h t..................... 80
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable.................................. 
Bird  Cages................................................. 
50
Pumps, Cistern.......................................... 
80
85
Screws, New List....................................... 
Casters, Bed and  Plate..............................50*10*10
Dampers, American.................................. 
50
600 pound casks...............................................   6q
Per pound.........................................................   6J|

MISCELLANEOUS 

METALS—Zinc

HbRSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

,

SOLDER

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal................................................. #6 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................................  5 75
20x14 IX. Charcoal.......................  

Each additional X on this grade, 11.25.

7  00

 

 

TIN—Allaway Orade

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

Each additional X on this grade, #1.50.

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.....................................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D e an ...................................  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..............................   10  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...................  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...................  5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............ 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...................  11 00

9  00

BOILER  SIZB  TIN  PLATB

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Bdllers, I 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, ! per pound.

9

G .  R.  IXX  D A IRY   P A IL .

Write  for  quotations  and  monthly  illustrated 

Catalogue.

W n.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

Manufacturers and jobbers of 
Pieced and Stamped  Tinware. 

j 6o  S. Ionia St. 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich] 

T elephone  6 4 0

Will  be  paid  for  the  recovery,  in  good 
condition,  of  a  large  gilt-edged  family 
Bible,  which  was  lost 
in  transit  from 
Boston,  Mass.,  to  St.  Joseph,  Missouri, 
about  one  year  ago.  The  Bible  con 
tains  a  family  record  of the  births,  mar 
iiages  and  deaths  of  the  Seth  Barlow 
family  of  South  Amherst,  Mass.,  and 
must  be  found  before  the  large  estate 
can  be  settled.  The  book  was  well 
packed  in  a  trunk  26  inches  long,  and 
18 
in  width  and  depth,  which 
was  securely  locked,  with  a  new  rum 
strap  tightly  buckled  around  each  end 
The  above  reward  will  be  paid 
in  cash 
for  the  Bible  alone,  if  intact,  and  no 
questions  asked.  Address,  Executor 
Seth  Barlow  Estate,  South  Amherst, 
Mass.

inches 

“ Upon  opening  the  trunk,”   contin 
ued  Hildreth,  “ I  found  the  Bible,  as 
described,  safely  deposited  about  in  the 
center,  between  two  suits  of  men 
clothing;  and  you  may  imagine  it  took 
only  a  brief  period  of  time to communi 
cate  with  South  Amherst  and  exchange 
the  valuable  book  for  a  draft  of  $400

“ Of  course,  we  purchased  that  pecan 
farm  of  forty  acres,  paying  the  $900 
cash,  and  I  held  the 
interest 
This  was  many  years  ago,  but  we  still 
hold  the  property,  and  most  of  it  is  to 
day  a  forest  of  pecan  trees;  and the sale 
of  the  fruit  each  year  has  given  us  both 
a  good  living.”   F rank.  A.  Howig.

larger 

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base....................................................   1 65
Wire nails, base....................................................   1 75
20 to 60 advance................................. 
10 to 16 advance.............................................. 
8 advance........................................................  
6 
advance.................................................... 
4 advance........................................................  
3 advance........................................................ 
2 advance...................................................  
Fine 3 advance............................................... 
Casing 10 advance........................................... 
Casing  8 advance........................................... 
Casing  6 advance........................................... 
Finish 10 advance  ........................................ 
Finish  8 advance...........................................  
Finish  6 advance...........................................  
Barrel  %  advance.............................................. 

Base
05
10
20
30
45
70
50
15
25
35
25
35
45
85

 

PLANES

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

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, Acme...................................................60*10*10
Common, polished..................................... 

70*

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

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

60
60

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

Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

May dole & Co.’s, new  list............  ........ dis  33V4
Kip’s  ..........................................................dis 
25
j Yerkes & Plumb’s......................................dis 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel....................30c list 
70
I Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10

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Out  from  the  Yoke  of  the  Bell  Mo­

nopoly.

It 

in  the  country. 

Ithaca—J.  Lee  Potts  and  Dr.  J.  Car­
penter  have  conceived  and  carried  into 
execution  one  of  the  most  unique  tele­
phone  systems 
is 
known  as  the  Gratiot  County  Telephone 
Co.,  with  headquarters  and an exchange 
at  Ithaca. 
It also  has  exchanges at  St. 
Louis  and  Alma. 
It  already  has  160 
telephones  in  use and the number is con­
stantly  increasing.  Nearly every  prom­
inent  business  man  in  the  county  is  in­
terested  as  a  stockholder,  consequently 
is  interested  in  the  success  of  the  enter­
prise.  Each  subscriber at  $12  a  year  is 
entitled  to  all  telephone  service  by  this 
system,  in  the  county,  without  addi­
tional  expense.  The  State  manager  of 
the  Bell  concern  recently  decided  to  in­
augurate  a  cut  in  rates  to  drive  the  new 
system  out  of  business,  but  when  he 
asked  his  local  manager  how  much  of  a 
cut  would  have  to  be  made  in  order  to 
accomplish  that  feat,  he  was 
informed 
that  there  was  no  use,  as  nearly  every 
business  man 
in  the  county  who  could 
afford  a  telephone  was  already  a  stock­
holder  of  the  new  company  and  finan­
cially 
its  success.  The 
company 
is  organized  under  the  State 
law,  is  connected  with  the  Crowley  ex­
change  at  St.  Johns,  and  can  make 
connections  with  the  most  of  the  inde­
pendent  exchanges 
in  Western  Michi­
gan,  so that  the  people of Gratiot county 
are  much  better  served  than  they  ever 
were  by  the  Bell  concern  and  at  less 
than  half  the  cost.

interested 

in 

Detroit—The  Detroit  Telephone  Co. 
recently  attached  some  of  its  guy  wires 
to  poles  belonging  to .the  Michigan 
Telephone  Co.,  upon  request  from  the 
Board of  Public  Works,  in  order  that  it 
would  not  be  necessary  to  put  any  more 
poles  in  the  street  than  are absolutely 
necessary.  The  Michigan  Telephone 
Co.  objected  strenuously  to  the  Detroit 
company  using 
its  poles,  and  now  the 
Board  of.Public  Works  says  the  Michi­
gan  company  must  submit  or  the  Board 
will  order all  the  Bell  poles  down.

Dowagiac---- The 

independent  tele­
phone  exchange 
is  an  assured  fact,  a 
large  force of  men  being  at  work  on  the 
construction.  The  new  company  has 
captured  practically  all  of  the  subscrib­
ers  of  the  Bell  exchange,  having  agreed 
to  furnish  superior  service  at  halt  the 
price.  The  promoters  of  the  enterprise 
are  Fred  E.  Lee,  general  manager of 
the  Round  Oak  Stove  Works,  and  Prof. 
Wm.  T.  Heddon,  an  able  electrician, 
both  of  whom  reside  in  Dowagiac.  The 
new  company  has  connected  with  the 
Cassopolis  telephone  exchange,  which 
has  100  subscribers,  and  the  rate  is  10 
cents  for  five  minutes’  conversation—a 
reduction  of  60  per  cent,  from  the  Bell 
tariff.

Manistee—The  Home  Telephone  Co. 
has  nearly  completed  arrangements  for 
the  installing  of  the  new  telephone  ex­
change.  The  poles  have  been  purchased 
and  the  work  of  construction  will  com­
mence  in  a  few  days. 
If  no  great  ob­
stacles  are  encountered,  it  is  expected 
that  the  exchange  will  be  in  operation 
by  July  1.

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus—Louisiana 

stock,  $1.50 

per  doz.  bunches.

per  doz.  bunches.

Beets—Old,  40c  per  bu.  New,  50c 

Butter—Separator  creamery 

is  weak 
at  17c.  Dairy  grades  are  coming  in  so 
plentifully  that  dealers  have  dropped 
their  quotations  to  io@i2c.

Cucumbers—Cincinnati  stock 

com­

mands  Si.25  per  doz.

Eggs— Shipments  are  not  coming 
quite  so  freely  as  they  have  been,  prob­
ably  due  to  the  consumptive  home  de­
mand  incident  to  the  Easter  season. 
Local  handlers  pay 
on  track  at
near-by  points  and  7@7%c  at  more  dis­
tant  points.

Green  Beans—Si-75  per bu.  box.
Honey— White  clover  is 

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

Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  forcing  io@ 

12c  per  lb.

Maple  Syrup—75c  per  gallon.  Sugar

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

bunches.

2j^c  per  lb.

doz.  bunches.

commands 8@qc,  according to quality.

Onions— Green  fetch  12c  per  dozen 

Parsnips—25c  per  bu.
Pieplant— Illinois 

stock 

commands 

Radishes—Cincinnati  stock,  20c  per

Strawberries—The.,  market 

is  very 
firm  on  good  stock,  fancy  stock  selling 
at  prices  a  little  in  advance  of  the  quo­
last  week—$2.50  per  case  of 
tations  of 
24  pints  Among  the  receips  there  is a 
large  peicentage  of  damaged  fruit,  and 
much  that  shows  signs  of  rains  in  the 
helds.  Sour  fruit,  immature,  and  sandy 
stock  sells  at 
.The 
stocks  of  berries  are  not  up  to  those  of 
the  average  year.

irregular  figures. 

Wax  Beans—$3  per  bu.  box.

Acknowledgment  from  the  Ladies  of

a  Worthy  Charity.

Grand  Rapids,  April  20—The  ladies 
of  the  Ottawa  Street  Free  Kindergarten 
wish  to  extend  their  thanks  to  the  gen­
erous  people  who  so kindly  helped  to 
make  their  “ Advertising  Sale”   a  suc­
cess.  The  manufacturers  who  liberally 
responded  to  our  circular  letter  were  as 
follows:

Plymouth  Rock  Gelatine  Co.
Sears  &  Nichols.
The  H-O  Company.
American  Malted  Meat  Co.
Postum  Cereal  Co.,  Ltd.
Battle  Creek  Sanitarium  Health  Food 

J.  W.  Beardsley’s  Sons.
New  York  Condensed  Milk  Co.
Swift  &  Company.
Walsh-De  Roo  Milling  Co.
American  Cereal  Co.
Rumford  Chemical  Works.
Lorenz  Bros.  Macaroni  Co.
Raworth,  Schodde  &  Co.
Armour  &  Co.
Royce  Flavoring  Extract  Co.
The  following  people of  our city  also 

rendered  us  valuable  assistance:

Musselman  Grocer  Co.
Hastings  &  Remington.
New  York  Biscuit  Co.
Jas.  Boer,  Agent  Ralston  Health Food 

Co.

Co.

Grand  Rapids  Brush  Co.
Harris  Paper Co.
E.  J.  Herrick.
J.  C.  Wenham.
1.  C.  Levi.
Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co.
Citizens  Telephone  Co.

M r s .  A.  D.  B a k e r ,  Sec’y.

Jackson  Jottings.

E.  E.  Holley,  recently  from  Los  An­
geles,  Cal.,  has  purchased  the  grocery 
stock  and  fixtures  of  Mrs.  Geo.  Stiles, 
312  West  Trail  street,  and  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Eugene  Harris,  formerly  engaged 

in 
trade  at  Horton,  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  P.  M.  Etchel],  309  West 
Trail  street,  and  will  continue  the busi­
ness  at  the  same  place.

“ The  Unique”   is  a  new store recently 
It 

started 
in  the  Allen  Bennett  block. 
deals  in  ladies’  and  children’s  wear.

telephone 

independent 

line, 
which  has  been  granted  a  charter,  ap­
pears  to  be  an  assured  fact.  The  num­
ber of  contracts  taken  already  far  out­
number  the  connections  of the Bell com­
pany  at  any  time.  The  business  men 
appreciate  the  efforts  of  the  new  com­
pany,  having  been  so  long  at  the  mercy 
of  the  Bell  sharks  that  it  is  a  relief  to 
get  even  good  promises.  We anticipate 
more  than  that  in  this  case.

The 

Bottle  Up  Your  Knowledge.

From the Dry Goods Economist.

steam, 

like 
it 

Knowledge, 
chiefly  when 

is  useful 
is  out  of  sight,  com- 
ressed  and  held  down.  Displayed 
nowledge,  like  exhaust  steam,  drives 
no  machinery.  Bottle  up  your knowl­
edge,  manufacturéis,  merchants,  buy­
ers  and  salesmen,  and  go  to  work  pry­
ing  up  the  safety  valve on  some  other 
fellow’s  boiler.  Then  you  will  get a 
chance  to  learn  something.  But  your 
own  knowledge  “ blowing  off”   only 
raises  a  cloud  to obscure  your  vision.

How  the  Boy  Went  Wrong.

I’ve gut a letter, parson,  from  my  son away out 
An' my  ol’ heart  is  heavy  as  an  anvil  in  my 
To think the  boy  whose  futur’  I  had  once  so 
Should wander from  the  path  0’ right  an’ come 
I  told  him  when  he  left  us  only  three  short 
He’d find himself a-plowin’ in a  mighty crooked 
He’d miss his father’s counsels, and his mother’s 
But he said the farm was hateful, an’ he guessed 

w est.
breast.
proudly  planned
to sich an end!
years ago
row—
prayers,  too,
he’d have to go.

I know thar's big temptation for  a  youngster  in 
Bat  I  believed  our  Billy  had  the  courage  to 
An’  when  he  left  I  warned  him  o’  the  ever- 
That lie like  hidden  serpents  in  life's  pathway 
But Bill he promised  faithful  to  be  keerful  an' 
He’d build a reputation th a t’d make  us  mighty 
But it seems as  how  my  counsel  sort  o’  faded 
An’ now the boy’s in trouble o’ the very wustest 

the West,
resist.
waitin’ snares
everywheres.
allowed
proud.
from his mind,
kind!

His letters came so seldom  that  I  somehow sort 
That Billy was  a  tram pin'  on  a  mighty  rocky 
But never once imagined that he would bow my 
An’ in the d u st’d waller his ol’ daddy’s honored 
He writes  from  out  in  Denver,  an’  the  story’s 
I just can’t tell his mother;  it’ll crush  her  poor 
An’ so I reckoned,  parson,  you  might  break the 
Bill’s in the Legislatur’, but he doesn't say what 

o’ knowed
road,
head in shame,
name.
mighty short;
01’ heart;
news to her—
fur.

Ishpeming— A  considerable  outcry 

is 
being  made  by  the  local  papers  paying 
attention  to  mining  matters  over  the 
alleged  bad  faith  and  general  rascality 
of  the  Rockefeller  interests,  and  appar­
ently  a  determined  effort  is  being  made 
to  saddle  the  responsibility  for  the  re­
duction  in  ore  prices  upon  the Standard 
Oil  magnate.  The  cold  facts  do  not 
bear  out  the  assertions  made  regarding 
Mr.  Rockefeller’s  responsibility  for  all 
the  unpleasant  features  of  the  Lake  Su­
perior ore  trade.  The  Rockefeller  in­
terests  were  among  those  that  held  out 
staunchly for  a  base  price  of $2.90 a  ton 
for this  season’s  deliveries  of  standard 
Gogebic  bessemers,  and  the  responsi­
bility  for  the  present  price  of  $2.65  a 
ton  rests  elsewhere.  Neither  do  the 
charges  of  bad  faith  which  are  freely 
made against  him  appear  to  be  backed 
by  any  substantial  evidence.  Mr.  Rock­
efeller  is  a  mighty  unpleasant  competi­
tor  to  have  in  the  field,  but  in  his  busi­
ness  dealings  whatever  promises he may 
make  are  kept  to  the  letter.  The  re­
duction 
in  ore  prices  to  the  figure  that 
has  been  set  for  this  season  may  be  set 
down  as  an  attempt  to  squeeze  the 
Rockefeller-Carnegie 
and, 
while  it  will  squeeze  all  the  profit  out of 
Mr.  Carnegie’s  mines,  still  there  will 
be  left  a  handsome  revenue  from  the 
Rockefeller  interests.  The  Rockefeller 
interests  in  Lake  Superior  mines,  espe­
cially  on  the  Mesaba,  are  so  fortified 
that  there 
is  nothing  that  can  compel 
them  to  run  at  a  loss.  There  is  no  other 
concern  anywhere  which  can  lay  down 
ore  for  so  little  money  on  Lake  Erie  or 
Lake  Michigan  docks  as  can  the  mines 
of  the  Consolidated  company,  taking 
also 
into  account  the  Bessemer  fleet  of 
lake  ore  carriers,  which  is  the  personal 
property  of  J.  D.  Rockefeller.

interests, 

First  we  are  told  that  Gomez 

is 
‘ ‘ about  to  sue  for  peace, ’ ’  and  the  next 
day  we  learn  that  Spain  is  ready  for  a 
truce,  and  between  the  conflicting  re­
ports  the  public 
is  constantly  kept  in 
doubt  as  to  the  true  condition  of affairs. 
There 
is  one  thing  certain  about  the 
situation—neither  side  is  by any [means 
spoiling  for a  fight.

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 
25 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

. 

265

I ¡■'OR  SALE-DRUG STOCK.  HAS BEEN RUN 

four years;  everything  new and  late in bot­
tles and cases;  inventories $900;  located in cen­
tra]  VanBuren  county.  Address  No.  270,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
270
Fo r   s a l e —b e s t   p a y in g   r e t a il   b a k -
ery in Grand  Rapids;  rent  cheap:  good  es­
tablished  business;  good  location  for  lunch 
counter.  Scribner  Bros., 67  Lyon street, Grand 
269
Rapids. 
SODA  FOUNTAIN — LARGE,  ELEGANT, 
complete  outfit—for  sale  cheap.  Crozier 
268
Bros.  Grand Rapids. 
I NOR  SALE—A  CLEAN  STOCK  OF  HARD- 
'  ware in one of  the  best  farming  communi­
ties  in  Michigan;  stock,  $3,000;  annual  sales, 
$12.000;  average profit, 37 per cent.  Nothing but 
cash  or  good  Bhort  time  paper  will  buy  this 
stock.  Reason  for  selling,  engaged  In  other 
business.  Address  No.  267,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
267
TO  EXCHANGE—A  FARM  OR  A  HOUSE 
and lot in this city for a  stock  of  merchan- 
dlse.  E. R. Reed, 115 Ottawa, Grand Rapids.  266
JNOR  SALE—CHOICE  DRUG  STOCK  AND 

fixtures,  located  on  best  business  street  of 
Kalamazoo.  Stock and fixtures inventory about 
$2,000.  Will  sell  on  reasonable  terms,  but  am 
not open  for  trades.  Cornelius  Crawford,  161 
Paris avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
rp O   EXCHANGE—A  GOOD  320  ACRE  FARM 
A   in Northern Nebraska  for  a  stock  of  mer­
chandise.  For  further  particulars  address  F. 
Opocensky, Niobrara, Neb. 
263
W ANTED-TO EXCHANGE GOOD BELDING 
real  estate  for  stock  of  merchandise  or 
good improved  stock  farm.  Address  Box  605, 
Belding, Mich. 
260
Fo r 
s a l e   c h e a p —g r o c e r y  
s t o r e
fixtures—complete  outfit.  Must  be  sold. 
Address D. B. Rogers, Saranac, Mich, 
259
I NOR REN T- CORN ER 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
FUR  SALE  UR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  UF 
merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  the  Haskel  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address 
282
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 

f riOR  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.  255
FOR SALE-COMPLETE  SET  OF  TINNERS’ 
tools, all in good order.  Address E. E. Whit­
253
more, Mason, Mich. 
ONLY  THREE  MORE  OF  THOSE  8  FOOT 
round  front  show  cases  left;  price,  $7.50 
each.  Converse  Manufacturing  Co.,  Newaygo, 
257
Mich. 
WANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca. Mich. 
H e r e   is   a   s n a p —a   n a t io n a l   c a s h
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. 
1NOR  SALE—THE  WHITNEY  DRUG  STOCK 

1  and  fixtures at  Plalnwell.  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. 

229

249

. 

voicing  about  $1,200,  in  a  live  Michigan 
city;  good trade;  nearly all cash.  Good reasons 
for selling.  Address Box 165, Big Rapids.  238

I NOR  SALE----STOCK  OF  GROCERIES,  1N-
I NOR  SALE  CHEAP—STOCK  OF  SECOND.
hand  grocery  fixtures.  Address  Jos.  D- 
233
Powers, Eaton Rapids,  Mich. 
R u b b e r   s t a m p s  a n d   r u b b e r   t y p e .
Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 
160
Fo r   s a l e —a t   a   b a r g a in   t h e   w a t -
rous’  drug  stock  and  fixtures,  located  at 
Newaygo.  Best location and stock in  the town. 
Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
136
litOR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
■C  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
73
man. 
Re g is t e r e d -  p h a r m a c is t   d e s ir e s   a 
situation.  Ten  years’  experience;  strictly 
temperate and no tobacco;  references furnished. 
Middle  aged.  Address  Box  114,  Woodland, 
Mich. 
264
W ANTED—SITUATION  AS  SALESMAN  IN 
dry goods  or  general store;  five  years’ ex­
perience.  A1  references.  Address No. 247, care 
247
Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—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
231
gan Tradesman. 
W ANTED-----SEVERAL  MICHIGAN  CEN-
tral  mileage  books.  Address,  stating 
price. Vindex, care Michigan Tradesman.  869

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CHICAGO“ “

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Going  to Chicago.

Returning from  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentwoter.

Lv.  G’d. R apids............8:30am  1:25pm tlLOOpm
Ar. Chicago...................   3:00pm 6:50pm  t   6:30anr
Lv.Chicago.....................7:20am 5:00pm tll:30pn
Ar. G’d Rapids.............1:25pm  10:30pm  t   6:10ait
Lv. G’d.  Rapids............. 8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............. 10:15am  ...........10:30pm
Lv. G’d Rapids............  7:20am  5:30pm  ............
Ar Manistee................   12:05pm  10:25pm  ............
Ar. Traverse  City.......  12:40pm 11:10pm 
Ar. Charlevoix............  3:15pm 
.........................
Ar.  Petoskey.................  4:55pm  ...........  .........
p.m.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoakey.

Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:55 

...

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPIN G  CARS.

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

sleepers on night trains.
erse  City.

tSvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Geo. DeHavbn, General Pass. Agent.

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Grand Rapids & Western.

2  Packages for 5  Cents.

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. Grand  Rapids.........7:00am  1:30pm 5:25pm
Ar. D etroit..................... 11:40am  5:40pm 10:10pm
Lv. D etroit......................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.

Ta and from Lowell.

THROUGH  CAB SERVICE.

Geo.  D e H a v e n ,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank Railway System 

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

Eastward.

tNo. 14 

tNo. 16 

tNo. 18  »No. 81 
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  1:57am
Ar.  OW0880__ 9:00am  1:10pm  6:03pm  3:25pm'
.  ......  8:00pm  6:40am
Ar.E.Saginawl0:50am 
Ar. W.Bay C’yll:30am 
............  8:35pm  7:15am
Ar. F lin t........ 10:06am 
............  7:06pm  5:40am
Ar. Pt. Huron. 12:05pm 
............  6:50pm  7:30pm
Ar. Pontiac..  10.-53am  2:87pm  8:25pm  6:10am
Ar.  Detroit...11:50am  3:55pm  9:25pm  8:05am 

Westward.

For G’d Haven and Interm ediate PtS....  7:00am 
For G’d Haven and Intermediate Pts.. ..12:53pm 
For G’d Haven and Intermediate P ts....  5:12pm 
tDaily except Sunday.  »Dally.  Trains arrive
from the east, 6:35a.m.,  12:45p.m.,  5:07p.m.,  9:55 
the  west, 10:05a.m.
>.m.  Trains  arrive  from 
0:15p.m.
:22p.m.,  10:15p.m.
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.

E. H.  H u g h e s ,  A. G. P. A T. A.,
Chicago.
Bin .  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. SB Monroe St

A DA  w n   frpM* & Indiana Railroad
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Sept,  vj,  1896.

Northern  Dlv.

Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack., .t 7:45am  t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack., .t 2:15pm t   6:30am
C«diii»u».......................................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  oar to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.

Southern  Dlv.

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

Muskegon Trains. 

going west.

Lv G’d Rapids................ t7:36am tl:00pm  t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon....................9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon.............. t8:10am  tll:45am  t4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids.............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
a  A lmquist, 

tE xcept Sunday.  »Dally. 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A T k t Agt.

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COFFEES

ROASTED  BY

W OOLSON   S P IC E   CO.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

Don’t  let others  deceive  you  by  telling  you  they  have  the  same  goods. 

We  carry  their  entire  line.

MUSSELMAN 
GROCER  CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS.

Our  Push

»•-SEEING  and  HAVING-»»

Seeing the  Dayton  Money Weight  Scales,  their  quickness and profit-  ¡1 
increasing power and money-saving ability, is but to 
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that you must have it to get your full profits;  to out-distance your competitors.

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

REALIZE

HAVE  YOU  SEEN  THEM?

TIME IS MONEY 

LIFE  IS SHORT

And  Rapid  Transportation  is 
a  Necessity. . . . . .

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.

|   Ebeling’s Flour is the  Best  Bread Maker 
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Ebeling’s Flour Brings Big Margins 

Ebeling’s Flour is a Quick Seller 

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Write for Particulars.

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A s  told  by  -<

The  People 
The  Retailer 
The  Jobber

JOHN  H.  E B E LIN G ,  Green  Bay,  W is.  %

