Volume XIV. 

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  MAY  19,  1897. 

Number 713

Try  Hanselman’s 
Fine  Chocolates 

J
Hanselman  Candy  Co.,

Name  stamped on each piece of the genuine. 

Kalamazoo,  Mich. 

426*428-430  East  Main  Street,

TANGLEFOOT

SEALED

STICKY  FLY  PAPER 

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Put up in  12 oz. glass jars,  in  Lemon,  Vanille,  Chocolate and Rose.  2 doz. jars assorted flovors in a case. 

A  quick seller and a trade winner.

Prepared Cake Frosting

For sale by L E E  &  C A D Y  and W. J. GOULD & CO., Jobbers,  Detroit,  Mich.

M a n u f a c t u r e d   b y   TORGESON,  HAWKINS  CO..  K a l a m a z o o .  M i c h .

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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 
“S6 (note border of ad).
Write for sample.  Manufactured only by

The New York  Biscuit Go.

Grand  Rapids.

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15  Boxes in a Case 
13 cents  per Box 
$1.45  per case

Notice to  the  Gorceru Trade  f

Many  men representing to sell  Elsie  Cheese  are  selling 
other makes  under our name.  Elsie Cheese can  only be 
bought direct  from the  Factory  or  from  the  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids.  Elsie  Cheese  are  all 
stamped  “Michigan  Full  Cream,  Factory  No.  12.”
Elsie Cheese has maintained its high reputation for twenty 
years and is the best selling Cheese on the market.

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH,

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

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

to

Flower
Time

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

LILY WHITE

This is a very white, pure flour, as its name 
implies. 
It  is  a  native  of  Michigan.  At 
the same time it has  become  popular  not 
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.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

A.  O.  W H EE LER , 

Manistee,  Mich.

M.  B.  lÿH E E L E R , 
S.  D. KO PF.

Private  Line 
Phones

W e  have the best at reasonable  prices'. 
When  you  are  ready  to  connect  your 
house and store, office and factory, etc., 
write  us  for  prices  and  information. 
They  are  not  expensive.

M.  5.  Wheeler  &  Go.,

25 Fountain St., Grand Rapids.

J. A. MURPHY, General  Manager.

The Michigan Mercantile Agency

FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel,

SPECIAL  REPORTS. 

LAW  AND  COLLECTIONS.

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

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

N.  B.— Promptness  guaranteed  in  every  way.  A ll  claims  systematically  and  persistently 
ificient  service.  Terms 

handled until collected.  Our facilities are unsurpassed for prompt  and 
and  references furnished on application.

1 HOLLAND 1  Barrels, M I white h e p ,  

,6   50 l   HERRING  ^

Half barrels, full white hoops  3  75

m m m m i

Subject to being  unsold.

Have only 20 barrels and  15 had barrel

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  CO.

GRAND RAPIDS.

Best  Allegan  Flour

Comes from the original

ALLEGAN  ROLLER  MILLS,

. . .  BRAND S . . .

The Famous Festival  Our Purity

Michigan Best Roller 

WM.  J.  POLLARD  &  CO.,

PROPRIETORS.

Store,  Window and
Porch

All Shapes,  Colors and Shades.

Awnings

WIESINGER  AWNING  CO.,  Hfrs.,
Phone 1834.

3  W est  Bridge S t., Grand Rapids, Mich.

The  Best 

is the 
Cheapest

Hale’s Entire Wheat Flour

Recommended by  Health  Food  Experts, and shipped 

as far away as Washington, D. C., is good 

enough for Michigan  people.

Try an order of

Jonathan  Hale  &  Sons,

LYONS,  MICH.

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C O j O «   CREDIT  CO.,  Ltd

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Private Credit Advices.

Collections made  anywhere 

in  the  United  States  and 

Canada.

For  Sale  and  Rent  because  of  Old  Age
New stock of Furniture, now opening,  just  from 
factories,  for  $Soo.  W ill  rent  the  largest,  best- 
equipped furniture store in Kentucky,  three stories 
and basement; large elevator; can  make fair part of 
rent storing; houses,  120x43, surrounded  by largest 
retail and wholesale houses in city.  I  am  74  years 
old; must quit.  Rare opportunity for live furniture 
man.  Rent,  $1,000  for  one  year;  or $900 per year, 
5 years, monthly payments.
Address,  F R A N K   L.  H A LL,  Owensboro,  Ky.

S U S P E N D E R S !

LOOK!  Non-elastic Web shoulder 
pieces.  Best leather sides.  Special 
front  tubes.  Retail  at  25  cents.
Write

GRAHAM  ROYS  & CO.,

FITCH  PLACE,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Prn.npt,  Conservative, Safe.

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Twelve  Dozen  is  a  Gross,  Sir!

A   G r o c = e r ’s

Cost  Book will help you  keep  tab 
on  what  your  goods  COST—“ by 
the  Gross”  or  “ by  the  Dozen.” 
You can then BUY RIGHT.  Send 
for sample leaf and prices.

BARLOW  BROS.,

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GRAND RAPIDS, MlCH. 

TO CLOTHING  MERCHANTS

We still have on hand  a  few  lines  of  Spring  and 
Summer Clothing and some small lots  to  be  closed 
at  sacrifice.  Write  our  Michigan representative, 
WILLIAM  CONNOR,  Box  346,  P.  O.  Marshall, 
Mich., and he will call upon you, and if he  has  not 
what you want, will thank you for looking and you 
will learn something  to  your  advantage  about  our 
coming  Fall and Winter line.  Mail orders promptly 
attended to by

MICHAEL  KOLB  &  SON,

Wholesale Ready Hade Clothing Hanufacturers, 

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Established nearly one-half a century.

tub Preferred Hamers 
Life Assurance do.

Incorporated by

4 / N A   M IC H IG A N  
B A N K E R S

Maintains a Guarantee Fund.
Write for details.

Home Office,  Moffat Bldg.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

F R A N K  E. ROBSON,  P r es.
TRU M A N   B.  GOODSPEED,  S ec’y .

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TRADESMAN COUPONS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  19,1897.

Number  713

Earning  a  Vacation  by  Pushing  Pre- 

mium  Goods.

W ritten fo r the T r ad esm an.

“ Are  you  going  to  take  a  vacation 

this  summer,  Joe?”

“ I  don’t  know  how  I  can,  Ed. 

I 
haven’t  any  money  saved  up  and  vaca­
tions  cost  money,  you  know.’ ’

“ That’s  just  my  fix too,”  replied  Joe. 
“ It’ll  take  all  I  can  scrape  until  the  ist 
of  August  to  get  my  wheel  paid  for  and 
by  that  time  it  will  be  too  late  to  save 
up  for  a  vacation. 
I  guess,  from  pres­
ent  indications,  my  wheel  will  have  to 
take  the  place  of  a  vacation. ”

Joe  Chalmers  and  Ed.  Wright  were 
great  friends.  They  roomed  together, 
worked  behind  the  same  counter  and 
were  to  be  seen  on their wheels together, 
riding  about  the  city  during  the  even­
ing  or  on  Sunday  afternoons. 
They 
were  the  youngest  fellows  in  the  dress 
goods  department  and  both  had  the  fac­
ulty  of  making  some  of  the  veteran 
dress  goods  men  hustle  to  keep  up  with 
them  in  point  of  sales.

Mr.  Fanning, 

the  manager  of  the 
dress  goods  department,  chanced  to 
overhear  the  young  fellows’  conversa­
tion  and,  remembering  that  he  had  once 
been  a  young  fellow  himself,  his  sym­
pathy  was  promptly  enlisted  in  their fa­
vor.  Besides,  he  saw  in  this  wish  of 
the  young  men  for  a  vacation  a  chance 
to  spur  them  to  extra  effort.  He  at  once 
began  to  put  his  theory  into  practice. 
Approaching  M.  Snelly,  the  head  clerk 
at  the  novelty  dress  goods  counter, 
where  the  two  boys  worked,  Mr.  Fan­
ning  said:  “ Snelly,  I  am  going  to put a 
premium  of  5  cents  a  yard  on  all  your 
stuff  that 
is  not  moving.  You  have  a 
great  many  more  shop-worn  goods  than 
there  is  any  need  of  carrying  and  I  feel 
certain  from  a  little  conversation  which 
I  just  now  overheard,  that  the  premium 
of  5  cents  a  yard  will  stimulate  your 
boys  to  unload  the  old  goods;  and,  by 
the  way  Snelly,  it  may  stimulate  your 
own  efforts 
It’s  a 
great  mistake  to  carry  over  those  pro­
nounced  styles  from  one  season  to  the 
other. 
If  I  had  had  charge  here  last 
season,  I  would  have  put  the  knife  into 
that  whole  line  whenever 
it  was  seen 
that  the  sale  of  it  was  slow. 
It  would 
have  brought.  cost  price  then.  At  any 
rate,  we’ll  see  what  you  fellows  can  do 
with 
it  when  you  get  something  extra 
for  trying. ”

in  that  direction. 

Mr.  Fanning  went  through the novelty 
dress  goods  stock  and  marked  a  pre­
mium  sign  on  the  price  ticket  of  each 
slow  seller  and  shopworn  piece of goods.
“ Now,  boys,”   said  he,  “ it  seems  to 
me  that  between  now  and  the  ist  of 
August  both  of  you  should  have  earned 
premiums  enough  to  enable you to spend 
at  least  two  or  three  weeks 
in  the 
mountains. 
If  you  haven’t  I  shall  be 
very  much  disappointed."

‘ ‘ By  Jove!  Ed,  he  must  have  beard 
what  we  were  saying  about  vacation," 
said  Joe  Chalmers,  as  Mr.  Fanning 
went  to  his  desk ;  “ but  he’s  a  dandy, 
anyway,  to  put 
‘ spiffs’  on  those  old 
goods. ’ ’

“ That’s  what  he 

don’t  have  a  vacation 
won’t  be  our  fault.  Gee-whiz! 

is,  Joe;  and  if  we 
it 
five

in  August, 

cents  a  yard  on  this old  beauty  and  I 
have  a  customer  coming  back  after 
seven  yards  of  it  at  3  o’clock. 
It’s  as 
good  as  a  Portland  mine  or an  Ana­
look  to 
conda. 
your  laurels  now  or  we’ll  wrest 
’em 
from  you. ’ ’

Snelly,  you  want  to 

in  favor  of  the 

reached.  Never  did 

The  old,  out-of-date  stuffs—  some  of  it 
had  been  carried  several  seasons—and 
all  goods  marked  " P ’m”   were  placed 
in  a  fixture  together,  in  order  to  be 
any 
handily 
“ P ’m”   line,  as  the  boys  called 
it,  re­
ceive  more  attention.  While  they  were 
not  always  the  first  goods  shown  to  cus­
tomers,  they  were  sure  to  be  brought 
out  and  their  many  merits  dwelt  upon 
before  a  sale  was  completed.  The  argu­
ments,  which  Joe  and  Ed  prepared  and 
delivered 
shopworn 
goods  against  adverse  comment,  were 
remarkable  Their  methods  in present­
ing  the  old  goods  were  distinctly  differ­
ent,  although  both  were  equally  suc­
cessful.  Chalmer’s  training  would  not 
allow  him  to  misrepresent  the  goods, 
while  Wright  believed  that  the  old  saw, 
“ All  things  are  fair  in  love  and  war,”  
applied  to  trade  as  well.  Before  show­
ing  any  of  the  out-of-date goods,  Wright 
displayed  both  tact  and 
judgment  by 
sounding  his  customer  and  finding  out 
just  how  well  posted  she  chanced  to  be 
in  regard  to  styles  and  fabrics. 
If  a 
specially  reduced  price  attracted  her, 
he  brought  out  the  old  goods,  truthfully 
explained  the  reason  of  the  cut in price, 
showed  the  quality  of  the  cloth  by  pull­
ing  a  clipping  of  it  to  pieces;  and,  if 
necessary  to  convince  his  customer  that 
it  was  all  wool,  he  lighted  a  match  and 
applied 
it  to  the threads,  to  show  that 
the  wool  would  only  singe  and  not 
blaze. 
In  fact  he  left  no  stone  unturned 
to  make  the  sale,  and  success  usually 
crowned  his  efforts;  but  his  particular 
delight  was  a  woman,  who did  not  know 
last  year’s  styles  from  this.  Usually, 
such  a  one  left  his  counter  fully  con­
vinced  that  he  was  the  most  obliging 
clerk  she  ever  saw  and  that  she  bad  be­
come  the  possessor  of  one  of  the  new­
est,  most  stylish  and  desirable  dress 
patterns  to  be  had  in  the  city.  For  all 
that,  she  had  paid  full  price  for  it.

Chalmers  always  talked  his  goods  for 
what  they  were,  believing  that  it  paid 
in  the  long  run.  His  straightforward, 
matter-of-fact  way  of  putting  things  al­
ways  won  for  him  his  customer’s  confi­
dence,  so  that  he  was  even  more  suc­
cessful 
line  than 
Wright  was.

in  selling  the  P’m 

It  was  astonishing  to  see  that  line  of 
old  goods  shrink ;  but 
it  was  not  only 
the  old  goods  that  went  out.  The  en­
thusiasm  which  Mr.  Fanning’s  theory 
had  excited  helped  to  make  many  a sale 
on  regular  goods  which,  otherwise, 
might  easily  have  fallen  through.

The  premium  goods  netted  the  boys 
an  average  of  $3  a  week  each  above 
their  regular  salary  and  as  Ed  has  al­
ready  said,  if  they  don’t  get  a  vacation 
in  August,  it  won’t  be  their  fault.

M a c   A l l a n .

Ex-Mayor  Washburne,  of  Chicago, 
has  given  to  the  historical  society  of 
that  city  the  saddle  and  bridle  used  by 
General  Grant during  the  war.

The  Successful  Butcher.

From the  Butchers’ Advocate.

He  is  the  man  who,  in  every  civilized 
land,  provides  mankind  with  the  suste­
nance  which  makes  life  worth  living. 
He  is  a  necessity  that  came  with  civili­
zation ;  he 
is  an  essential  part  of  the 
powers  of  the  world,  adding  to  the 
pleasures  and  caring  for  the  necessities 
of  life.  High  and  low,  rich  and  poor, 
the  honest  and  dishonest  require  and 
must  have  a  living,  and  the  butcher  has 
to  help  provide 
it.  The  clothes  they 
wear  and  the  food  they  require  are  all 
that  a  large  majority  get  in  this  world. 
The  clothing  costs  us,  perhaps  one- 
sixth  as  much  as  the  food,  and  from 
this  fact  we  estimate  the  value  of  the 
butcher as  a  factor  in  their  existence.

The  butcher  in  his  business  is  a  pub­
lic  benefactor.  He  is  an  honest,  cour­
teous,  educated  gentleman.  He  may 
not  be  up  in  Greek  and  Latin,  but he  is 
educated  in  the  ways  of  the  world  and 
its  people.  He 
is  honest  with  his  pa­
trons  and  with  himself.  He  is  courteous 
to  the  poor  as  well  as  to  the  rich,  to  the 
young  and  to  the  aged.  He  is  patriotic, 
public-spirited,  open-hearted  and  gen­
erous.  He 
is  interested  in  the  church, 
the  school,  societies  and  in  business as­
sociations.  He  takes  an  interest  in  all 
for  the  benefit  they  are  to  him  and  for 
the  good  he  may  do  others.  He  is  a 
man  in whose judgment the people  place 
implicit  confidence. 
In  every  town  and 
in  every  community  the  butcher  holds  a 
prominent  place  with  the  people.  He 
is  a  good  man,  because  he  is  honest and 
just 
in  business,  in  the  affairs  of  the 
people  and  in  personal  matters.  He al­
ways  receives  a  friendly  greeting,  be­
cause  he  always  extends  one.  The 
in­
fluence  of  the  butcher  among  bis  people 
is  extensive.  His  influence  in the affairs 
of  the  church,  school,  societies,  asso- 
ciations  and  politics  is  always  exerted 
in  the  line  of  what  he  thinks  is  right. 
He 
is  always  looked  upon  as  a  leader, 
and  in  local  and  national politics his in­
fluence  is  powerful.  Beyond  and  above 
all  else  he  is  the  moderator  of  his  cus­
tomers  and  neighbors. 
If  any  one  is  in 
trouble  they  go  to  the  butcher;  if  they 
desire  advice,  the  butcher  is  the  one  to 
whom  they  apply;  and  if  it  is  informa­
tion  they  desire,  the  butcher’s  educa­
tion  and  good  judgment  furnish  it.

It 

When  President  McKinley  and  Vice- 
President  Hobart  went  to  Philadelphia 
last  Friday  to  attend  the  Washington 
monument  exercises  they  traveled  by 
different  roads. 
is  not  generally 
known 
that  the  President  and  Vice- 
President  of  the  United  States  never 
It  is  one  of  the 
travel  by  rail  together. 
precautionary  measures 
that  hedge 
about the  lives  of  the  two  foremost  men 
in  the  National  Government—the 
idea 
being  that  if  an  accident  upon  the  rail 
should  cause  the  death  of  one  of  the  il­
lustrious  men,  the  other  would  still  be 
It  was  for  this 
spared  to  the  country. 
reason  that  Ex-President  Cleveland 
in­
variably  rode  upon  the  Pennsylvania 
Railroad  when  he  journeyed  from  the 
capital  to  Philadelphia  or  New  York, 
and  Vice-President  Stevenson  traveled 
on  the  Baltimore  &  Ohio.  President 
McKinley  and  Vice-President  Hobart, 
when  they  attended  the  recent  Grant 
celebration 
in  New  York,  followed  the 
same  plan.

A  London  policeman  was  asked  by  a 
coroner  the  other  day  whether  he  had 
taken  any  steps  to  resuscitate  a  man  on 
whom  an 
inquest  was  being  held. 
“ Yes,”   said  the  constable,  “ I  searched 
his  pockets."

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Bicycles

News  and  Gossip of Interest to Dealer 

and  Rider.

Nearly  twenty  years  ago  General 
Grant,  in  enumerating  necessary 
lines 
of  public  improvement,  named  the pub­
lic  schools  and  highways.  Once  when 
he  and  General  Sheridan  were 
in  a 
reminiscent  mood,  the  old  commander 
said  to  “ Little  Phil,”   speaking  of  the 
latter's  famous  ride  to  the  battle  of 
Cdear  Creek:  “ Sheridan,  if  that  battle 
had  taken  place  after  a  prolonged  rain, 
and  there  had  not  been  a  good  pike 
from  Winchester,  you  would  never  have 
been  promoted  to  the  head of the United 
States  Army. 
You  would  not  have 
reached  the  battlefield  to  cheer  your 
men,  and  there  would  have  been  a great 
defeat  for  the  Union  forces  instead  of  a 
great  victory.  That  would  have 
left 
Meade  and  Thomas  a  long  distance 
ahead  of  you  in  the  line  of promotion. ”

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Numbness  and  cramp  in  the  hands, 
due  to  the  vibration  of  the  handlebars, 
so  commonly  suffered  by  riders,  have 
been  the  cause  of  many  inventioi s  and 
expedients  designed  to  obviate  these 
difficulties,  and  now  some  new  style  of 
grips  have  appeared  which  are  said  to 
fill  the  bill  perfectly.  One  pattern  is 
made  of  soft,  spongy  rubber,  and  cov­
ered  with  a  thin  jacket  of  leather.  An­
other  style  is  made  in  the  same manner, 
but  is  open  at  both  ends,  so  that  it  can 
be  slipped  to  any  position  on  the  bars, 
and  accommodate  those  who  like to ride 
with  their  hands  on  top  intsead  of  on 
the  ends.  Still  another  pattern  is  made 
so  that  the  air  circulates  freely  inside 
and,  coming  up 
from  below,  strikes 
the  palm  of  the  hands.
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Membership  in  the  League  of  Amer­
ican  Wheelmen  cannot  be  estimated  by 
the  simple  cash  outlay  neessary  to  be­
come  a  member.  The  cost  is  $2  the  first 
year  and  $i  a  year  thereafter,  but  this 
by  no  means  represents  the  value  re­
ceived.  Some  of  the  more  important 
advantages  may  be  enumerated  as  fol­
lows:  “ A  road  book  giving 
informa­
tion  regarding  all  routes  and  roads  in 
the  state  in  which  you  live,  io  to  30  per 
cent,  reduction  at  good  hotels  through­
out  the  country  when  traveling,  guar­
antee  of  legal  protection  of  your  rights 
as  a  wheelman  and  fifty-two  issues  of  a 
bright  and 
interesting  cycle  paper. 
There  are  101  other  reasons  why  every 
rider  of  a  wheel  should  be  a  member  of 
the  organization,  but  these  appeal  more 
than  the  others  because  of  the direct 
personal  benefit  gained.”   The  mem­
bership  is  growing  at  a  rapid  rate,  and 
this  State  is  making  a  most  remarkable 
showing.

*  

*  

*

Almost  every  day  brings  fresh  con­
verts  to  the  pastime  of  bicycling,  and 
it 
is  highly  diverting  to  hear  the  in­
genious  explanations  of  those  who  had 
pieviously  posed  as  rabid  opponents  of 
the  sport.  An  occasional  one  is  found 
who  has  the  courage  of  his  new  con­
victions  and  openly  avows  his  surrender 
to  the  fascinations  of  the  wheel,  but  the 
majority  of  the  tardy  converts  beat 
about  the  bush  and  patch  up  most trans­
parent  excuses.  Many  of  these  are  vet­
erans  who  had  been  devoted  to  some 
feel 
other  form  of  sport  and  who 
squeamish  about  deserting  the  old 
love 
for  the  new.  A  well-known  athlete  ac­
counts  for  his  recent  investment  in  a 
second-hand  wheel  by  the  fact  that  he 
had  picked  up  a  handle  bar  and  a  sad­
dle as  bargains  and  hated  to  let  them go

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

to  loss.  Another  star  in  another  line 
got  a  present  of  a  pair of  trouser  clips 
and  a  lamp  and  had  to get  a  wheel  to 
make  the  outfit  complete.  Before bi­
cycles  were  ever  heard  of  there  was  an 
old  story  to  the  effect  that  a  rural  miser 
had  secured  some  chimney  pots  so 
cheaply  at  an  auction  that  be  built  a 
house  to  put  them  on.  He  apparently 
has  some  descendants  in  this  vicinity. 
It  is  certain,  however,  that the  wheeling 
ranks  are  being  steadily  reinforced.

*   *   *

The  indecision  of  the  prominent  pro­
fessional  riders  this  season as to whether 
they  will  follow  the  National  Circuit  is 
due  to a  big  change  in  the  racing  cus­
toms.  Riders 
in  the  professional  class 
who  have  been  enabled  to  travel  around 
the  country  and  take  part 
in  all  the 
leading  meets at the  expense  of  manu­
facturers  find  that the  latter are  not  dis­
posed  to  engage  racing  men  this  sea­
son  at  munificent  salaries.  Dealers  will 
readily  furnish  racing  wheels  to  riders 
with  reputations,  but  salaries and  train­
ers  have  been  withdrawn,  and  this 
change  will  keep  some  of  the  fast  men 
on  the  local  circuits  this  year.  This 
change  will  have  a  beneficial  effect  up­
on  racing.  The  various  cracks  will  race 
in  different  sections,  and  when  they 
come  together  at  the  National  meet 
there  will  be  a  true  test  of  their  abili­
ties.  Riders  who  have  commanded  big 
salaries  in  former  years  have  up  to  the 
present  time  been  unable  to  secure  con­
tracts  with  the  manufacturers.  The lat­
ter  have  very  wisely  decided,  in  order 
to  get  the  best  work  out  of  men  using 
their  wheels,  to  remunerate  them  only 
upon  a  percentage  of  victories  or  the 
capture  of  some  big  races.

The  Modern  Maid.

skirts;
experts,

She rides  a  bicycle,  of  course,  in  bloomers  or  in 
A t tennis and  at  golf  alike  she’s  classed  with  the 
She pulls an oar almost as  well  as  her  big  brother
And drivers  a  horse  as  skilfully  as  if  she  were  a 
She knows a  lot,  too—Greek  and  things  that  she 
She paints and plays  the  mandolin,  and  talks  real 
She  dances  like  an  angel  you  know  how  angels 
And  countless  more  accomplishments  her  natural 
She’s most attractive;  in  a  word,  the  very  sort  of 
To  make  a  young  man  crazy  and  set  his  brain 
She even knows, her mother says, just how to keep 
But, bless you!  How that girl will squeal whene’er 

man
has got from  books;
French, and cooks.
dance!—
charms enhance.
girl
a-whirl;
a house;
she sees  a mouse!

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.

Stud ley  &   Jarvis,

Orand Rapids. Mich.

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A  new  terror  threatens  the  cyclist. 

It 
is  asserted  that  bicycling 
injures  the 
power  of  dancing.  People  who  cycle  a 
lot,  according  to a  medical  man,  find  it 
almost  impossible  to  perform  the grace­
ful  movements  required  by  waltzing, 
says  Answers. 
“ Wheeling,”   says  the 
doctor,  “ causes  the  muscular  portion  of 
the  caif  of  the  leg  to bulge  out  consid­
erably  beyond  its  natural  line,  and  any 
cyclist  will  admit  that  after a  ride  of 
ten  or  fifteen  miles  walking  is  irksome. 
The  muscles  that  are brought  into  play 
by  dancing  are  deadened  by  riding  a 
wheel.  The  lightness of  toe  so  neces­
sary 
in  a  waltz  becomes  impossible  to 
the  man  or  woman  who  is continually 
pedaling,  as  the one  set  action contracts 
the  muscles,  and  the  whirling,  twirling 
motion  of  a  dance  can  only  be  per­
formed  in  a  clumsy  fashion.  The  joints 
should  be  free  for  dancing.  Alter  a 
spin  on  a  bicycle  they  are  stiff and 
clogged.  The  continual  bending  over 
the  handles,  too,  makes  the  upright 
posture  used 
in  dancing  painful.  A 
cyclist  who  uses  the  wheel  in  modera­
tion  would  be  very  little affected. 
It  is 
those  persons  who cycle  from  morning 
until  night  that  are  the  sufferers.”

Jamaica  limes  are  said  to  be  small 
and  somewhat  inferior on  account  of  an 
extended  period  of  dry  weather  which 
prevailed  in  the  producing  sections.

guying  a bicycle

from a jobber, a  department  store, or in an auction room, 
is like trying- to catch an eel  in  a  barrel  of  snakes.  You 
m ay  get  the eel,  but  the chances  are you’ll get  snakes. 
It’s worse than a case of  “ heads  we  win, tails  you  lose.” 
If  you  buy  a   Clipper,  you’ll  be  satisfied.  There’s  no 
bicycle  the equal of  a   Clipper,  sold  a t  the  price  of  a 
Clipper.  If you buy a Clipper, you  buy  a   certainty,  you 
get  a   bicycle  which  is  sold  only  through the legitimate 
channels of trade,  by  responsible  dealers  who  pay  cash 
for  what  they  sell,  and  sell  a t  a   profit  which any  fair 
buyer is willing to  pay.  Clippers  are  made  of  the  finest 
materials,  with  the  finest  machinery,  and  by  expert 
workmen, who are under the  instructions  of  an  organiza­
tion with but one aim in its life, “ the most perfect bicycles 
at fair prices *’

The kird  of  bicycles  you  ought to  buy at the  prices 
RAPIDS CYCLE CO. Crand Rapids, Mich.

you ought to pay.

Use Tradesman Company's Bicycle  Contraéis

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

of  the  sign  and  the  illumination  is  un­
der  the  control  of  the  carrier,  who  may 
make  the  sign  dark  or  light  it  up  as  he 
goes  along.  One  of  the  elevated  signs 
carried  by  day—and  by  far  the  greater 
number  of  all  the  signs  that  are  carried 
are  carried  by  day  only— is  in  the  form 
of  a  great  frying  pan  upon  which  is 
painted  the  sign  of  a  restaurant;  the 
big  frying  pan 
is  borne  aloft  by  the 
handle.  Various  other  devices  are  used 
in  elevated  portable  signs  and  various 
materials,  but  the  elevated  signs  most 
commonly  used  are  either  banner  signs 
or  shoulder  signs,  the  ordinary  banner 
signs  being  the  more  common,  though 
the  shoulder  signs  are  increasing.

The  common  banner sign  is  simply  a 
wooden  frame  upon  which 
is  stretched 
a  glazed  white  cloth,  the  sign  being 
painted  upon  that;  by means or a handle 
attached  to  it  the  banner  is  carried  over 
the  shoulder  or  above  the  head.  The 
shoulder  sign  is  held  up  above  the  head 
in  an 
iron  frame  that  is  carired  upon 
the  shoulders.  The  shoulder  pieces  of 
this  frame  bend  down  over  the  should­
ers  of  the  carrier,  front  and  back,  and 
are  held  in  place  by  straps.  This  sign 
is  tolerably  heavy,  but 
leaves  the 
hands  free  and 
is  the  easiest  sign  to 
carry.

it 

The  Bicycle  Sombrero.

From the Chicago Record.

leather-belted, 

There’s  another 

ill  to  be  charged  to 
the  bicycle  in  Chicago.  It  is  the  broad, 
white, 
leather-bound 
sombrero,  which  on  the  few  fine  days 
of  spring  has  seemed  to  dot  the  varie­
gated  millinery  of  State  street  with sug­
gestions  of  cowboys 
It 
has  been  too  early  in  the  wheeling  sea­
son  to  class  the  startling  headgear,  but 
assurance 
is  given  by  milliners  that 
neither  revolvers,  lariats  nor  bucking 
it;  that  as  soon  as 
broncos  go  with 
roads  are  smooth  and  dry 
it  will  asso­
ciate 
itself  with  pneumatic  tires  and 
short  skirts.

in  petticoats. 

The  venturesome  few  who  have  ap­
peared 
in  downtown  streets  under  the 
shadow  of  these  fluttering  brims  of 
white  felt  have  had  clear  pathways 
made  for  them  in  the  crowds.
*  It  has  all  come  about  because  of  the 
inability  of  some  genius  to  perfect  a 
small,  comely  bicycle  cap  which  will 
prevent  freckles  and  sunburn.  There 
are  golf  caps,  jockey  caps,  yachting 
caps,  tennis  caps  and  kindred  headgear 
for  wheelwomen,  but  until  now  there 
has  not  been  a  bicycle  hat.  And  such 
a  hat!

It  is  less  evanescent  than  the  airship, 
but  its  origin  is  about  as  obscure.  The 
manager  of  a  big  millinery  house  in 
State  street  introduced  them  to  the  Chi­
cago  public.

“ One  warm  Sunday 

in  Februaiy  I 
saw  a  woman  wearing  one and  wheeling 
through  Jackson  Park,”   he  said. 
“ It 
as  a  rakish,  catchy  thing,  with  the  brim 
teetering  in  the  wind,  and  we  ordered 
something  of  the  kind  from  an  Eastern 
manufacturer.  We liked  the  effect,  or­
dered  a  good  stock,  and  I  understand 
that  they  are  stopping  clocks  all  over 
town. ”

There  is  no  sham  in  the  make-up  of 
It  is  of  felt, 
this  breezy,  flopping  hat. 
bound  with  genuine  oak-tanned 
ieather 
and  buckled  about  with  a  strap  that 
would  hold  a  bulldog  from  the  trousers 
of  a  tramp.

“ Straw  wouldn’t  do  as a bicycle hat, ”  
explains 
the  hat  man;  “ the  wind 
would  wreck  an  old-fashioned  leghorn 
straw  before  the  first  windy  mile  was 
made.  These  sombreros  tilt  gracefully, 
letting  the  wind  slip  by,  and 
they 
‘ stick’  better.”

WALKING  SIGNS.

Some  of  the  More  Familiar  Among 

From the New York Sun.

Them.

The  walking  sandwich,  the  man  be­
tween  two  billboards  slung  around  the 
neck,  and  hanging,  one 
in  front,  the 
other  behind,  is  not  seen  so  much  as  he 
was.  He  was  the  most  picturesque  of 
all  fhe  walking  sign  carriers,  and  he 
was  at  one  time  the  most  commonly 
seen.  His  decline 
is  doubtless  due 
to  a  belief  that  an  elevated  sign,  one 
carried  above  the  head 
is  of 
greater  utility.  The  sandwich  man  was 
striking  when  you  met  him,  but  in  a 
crowd  you  might  miss  him  altogether; 
the  elevated  sign,  carried  above  the 
heads  of  the  people,  is  expected  to  be 
seen  by  all,  and 
in  one  form  and  an­
other  it  is  now  the  sign  most  commonly 
carried.

line, 

There  are,  however,  still  some  signs 
besides  sandwich  boards  that are carried 
below  the  head  line.  Of  these  the  most 
familiar  is  the  coat  sign,  a  coat  with  a 
sign  painted  upon  it,  worn  by  men  who 
may,  perhaps,  remain  near  the  estab­
lishment  to  which  they  belong,  or  who 
walk  about.  There  is at  least  one  man 
in  New  York  who  has  worn  a  sign  coat 
—a  canvas  coat  in  dry  weather,  a  rub­
ber  coat 
in  wet,  with  the  same  sign 
painted  on  each—daily  for years.  Wear­
ing  a  sign  coat  is  as  much  his  regular- 
occupation  as  writing  is  the  occupation 
of  the  man  who  writes  this  brief  article 
about  signs  that  are  carried.

There  is  another  sign  carried  below 
the  head—the  valise  sign,  which scarce­
ly  comes  within  the  purview  of  this  ar­
ticle,  for  the  reason that  the  carrier  of 
the  valise  sign  is  in  costume,  and  signs 
so  carried  by  men,  whose  curious  out­
fit 
is  relied  upon  to attract  attention, 
form  a  group by themselves.  Still,  per­
haps,  mention  may  be  made  of  the  va­
lise  sign  here. 
is  painted  upon  the 
flat  side  of  an  old-fashioned  alligator 
mouth  valise,  whose  carrier  walks  about 
the  street,  visiting  at  intervals  the  store 
whence  he  comes.  Pausing  there  for  a 
moment  on  the  sidewalk,  he  looks  up 
intently  at  the  sign  over  the  door,  and 
then  enters 
forth  again. 
Presently  he  starts  on  another  round.

in,  sallying 

It 

The 

sign 

Another  form  of  portable  sign  which 
depends  in  a  measure  upon  the  manner 
in  which  it  is  brought  to  the  attention, 
although  its  carriers  are  not  in uniform, 
is  the  painted  block. 
is 
painted  upon  the  sides  of  a  block  of 
wood  of  about  the  shape  and  size  of  a 
small  dress  suit  case,  and  has  a  handle 
at  the  top.  Such  signs,  to  the  number 
of  four or five,  are  carried  by  two  boys, 
who  to  begin  with  set  them  down  upon 
the  curbstone  fifteen  or  twenty 
feet 
apart.  Then  they  begin  moving  the 
blocks,  one at  a  time,  from  rear  to  front 
along  the  curbstone.  The rear  boy  picks 
up  his  block  and  carries  it  along  the 
sidewalk  past  the  other blocks  and  puts 
it  down  upon  the  curbstone  twenty  feet 
ahead  of  the  first  block  and  then  goes 
back  for  another.  On  the  way  to  the 
rear  he  meets  the  other boy  going  to  the 
front  with  a  block  which  he  will  put 
down  in  the  same  manner,  and  so  they 
keep  going;  forever  picking  up  the  last 
block  and  carrying 
it  to  the  front  and 
setting 
it  down  at  the  head,  and  so 
working  along  the  street.

is,  for 

Between  the  signs  carried  below  the 
head  and  those  carried  above  it  there 
are  some  that  are  carried  on  or  about 
the  head.  There 
instance,  the 
tall  hat  sign,  which  the  carrier  wears, 
with  the  sign  painted  upon  it or painted 
upon  something  attached  to  it.  Carried 
at  night 
is  the  electric  hat  sign,  with 
light  from  lamps  fed  by  a  storage  bat­
tery  shining  through 
letters  perforated 
in  a  tall  hat.  The  illumination  can  be 
turned  on  or  off at  the  will  of  the  wear­
er of  the  hat  as  he  walks.  A  day  sign 
carried  about the  head  is  in  the  form  of 
a  transparency,  the  lower  part  of  the 
frame  resting  upon  the  carrier’s  should­
ers.

Among  the  signs  carried  above  the 
head 
is  an  electric  sign,  which  is  car­
ried  at  night.  It is  in  the  form  of a  thin 
transparency. 
light  shines 
through  transparent  letters  in  the  sides

Electric 

8

3 GREAT  BICYCLES

THE WORLD 
THE HAMILTON 
THE AMERICA

Write  for  Catalogues  and  Prices.  A  few  more  good 
Agents Want« d.  Bicycle Sundries. 
1S97 Catalogue now ready.

ADAMS  &  HART,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

State Distributing Agents.

WHEELS!  WHEELS!  WHEELS!

While you are buying wheels, do not neglect the

GROCERS’  SAFETY

No.  1  Cross  Spring  Delivery  Wagon.

Body, 6  ft  6  in.  Width,  2  ft.  7  in.  Depth,  7  in.  Capacity,  1,000  pounds.  Patent  wheels,  double 

collar, steel axles.  Price,’ $28.

Three Spring  Delivery  Wagon— Made  in  Two  Sizes.

No.  i.  Body,  6  f t   6  in.  Width,  31  in.  Capacity,  600  to  Soo  pounds.  Drop  end  gate.  Price,  $34. 
No.  2.  Body, 7 ft.  Width, 3 ft.  Depth, S in.  Capacity,  1.200 to  1,500 pounds.  Body hardwood.  Price,  $36.

Full  Platform  Spring  Delivery  Wagon.
No.  1.  1  Concord  steel  axles.  \x/z tread  Sarven  patent  wheels.  Oil  tempered  spring, 

and  5
leaf.  Body,  9  ft.  Capacity,  1,500  to  i,~oo  pounds.  Hand  made  and  fully  warranted  drop  tail  gate. 
6
Price, $50. 

V 

1 

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:

IOO, $2;  500, $3;  1,000, $4.

No  bicycle dealer  can afford to  get 
along without this form.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

No.  2  114 Concord steel axles.  1%  tread Sarven  patent  wheels.  Oil  tempered  springs,  1^-5  and  6 

leaf.  Body, 9 ft.  Capacity,  1,800 to 2,500 pounds.  Drop tail gate.  Price,  $55.

Here’« the  wagons and here’s  your prices!  Take your choice I 

Full value in each wagon for the money I

BROWN,  HALL  &  CO.,

Manufacturers of  BUGGIES, WAGONS AND  HARNESS,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

4

Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Harbor  Springs—M.  V.  Barns  has 
opened  a  cigar  and  confectionery  store 
in  the  Cox  block.

Portland— M.  J.  Dean  has  put  in  a 
merchant  tailoring  department,  placing 
it  in  charge  of  J.  W.  Ward.

Grand  Ledge— Hixson  &  Bromley 
succeed  Hixson  &  Epley  in  the  drug, 
grocery  and  bazaar  business.

Saginaw—J.  W.  Ippel,  the  West  Side 
dry  goods  merchant,  has reorganized  his 
baseball  club  for  this  season.

Saginaw— H.  T.  Wilson  asks  permis­
sion  of  the  council  to  sell  goods  at  auc­
tion  without  license,  as  he 
is  suffering 
from  a  paralytic  stroke.

Portland— Ralph  Derby  has purchased 
a  half 
in  the  grocery  stock  of 
P.  M.  Moore.  The  new  firm  will  be 
known  as  Moore  &  Derby.

interest 

Petoskey—Thompson  Bros,  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  W.  A.  Ma­
jor  in  his  Emmet  street  store  and  will 
conduct  the  business  at  the  same  stand.
Lansing—Charles  Piella  has  removed 
his  stock  of  jewelry  from  the  Bennett  & 
Drake  drug  store  to  his  newly  fitted 
quarters,  121  Washington  avenue  north.
Union  City— S.  G.  Newman  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  grocery  and  crockery 
stock  of  Newman  &  Fisk  to  his  part­
ner,  who  will  continue  the  business  un­
der  the  style  of  H.  G.  Fisk.

Saginaw—Louis A.  Goecker,  for  many 
years 
in  the  employ  of  D.  E.  Prall  & 
Co.,  has  severed  his  connection  with 
that  firm  to  assume  the  management  of 
the  factory  of  the  E.  Feige  Desk  Co.

Houghton—Joseph  H.  Hodgsdon  and 
Wm.  B.  Hoar have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  Hodgson  & 
Hoar  to  continue  the  general  merchan­
dise  business  formerly  conducted  by  R. 
M.  Hoar.

Detroit— F.  D.  McAdams, 

for  six 
years  engaged  in  the retail grocery trade 
at  Addison,  is  closing  out  his  stock  and 
in 
will  shortly  engage 
the  wholesale 
eggs,  butter  and 
fruit  business  on 
Greenwood  avenue.

Stanton—W.  H.  Owen, 

formerly  of 
the  firm  of  Hawley  &  Owen,  who  is 
now  engaged  in  the  grocery  business  at 
Lake  Odessa,  will  soon  move  his  stock 
here  ami  form   a  copartnership  with  T. 
S.  K.trl  111  general  trade.

Adrian—John  W.  Gunsolus,  the  flour 
and  feed  dealer, 
is  having  the  old 
wooden  building  on  the  northeast  cor­
ner  of  Main  and  Church  streets  torn 
down,  preparatory  to  erecting  a  band- 
some  two  story  brick  and 
iron  build­
ing.

Saginaw— L.  G.  William  Kohn  has 
uttered  a  chattel  mortgage  to  Adolpheus 
Fixel  as  trustee  for  $5,767.90,  covering 
the  goods  in  his  general  store at  601 and 
603  Gratiot  street,  to  secure  the  claims 
of  thirty  six  creditors.  The  mortgage 
provides  for  a  continuance of  the  busi 
ness.

North  Lansing—Receiver  Stone,  of 
the  Central  Michigan  Savings  Bank, 
has  sold  the  Hart  flouring  mill  here  to 
Senator  Hughes,  of  Barry  county,  who 
has  sold  his  mill  at  Irving  and  will 
make  North  Lansing  his  future  home. 
The  consideration  was $5,000.  Although 
the  mill  has  been  in  the  hands  of  the 
receiver  for  four  years,  he  has  never 
been  able,on  account  of  the  hard  times, 
to  dispose  of 
it.  Some  years  ago  the 
water  power,  upon  which  the  mill  has 
the  first  claim,  was  mortgaged 
for 
the  mortgage  was  paid. 
$19,000  and 
The  machinery  originally  cost  $12,000.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hemlock— William  Pahl’s  general 
store  was  burglarized 
last  Tuesday 
night.  Nine  dollars 
in  cash  and  $150 
worth  of  goods  were  taken.  After  se­
curing  the  booty,  the  thieves  took  a 
handcar  from  the  tool house and escaped 
eastward.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Holland—Walter  Van  Kuren  has 

opened  a  restaurant  on  Eighth  street.

Sodus—G.  Handy  has  established  a 
factory  for  the  manufacture  of  berry 
crates.

Cheboygan— Pelton  &  Reid  are  run­
ning  their  mill  night  and  day,  with  a 
double  crew.

Big  Rapids—C.  W.  Barton  has  sold 
his  millinery  stock  to  Mrs.  Harris,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Cheboygan—Swift  &  Clark  have  re­
ceived  1,500,000  feet  of  logs  from  Carp 
River,  which  will  be  manufactured  at 
their  mill.

Boyne  Falls—C.  F.  Hankey  &  Son 
will  erect  a  grain  elevator  here  and  also 
enlarge  the  capacity  of  their  mill  at 
this  place.

Oskar— Oscar  Eliason  has  contracted 
to  furnish  half  a  million  feet  of  birch, 
oak  and  basswood  lumber  to  Leopold  & 
Austrian,  of  Chicago.

Petoskey—C.  B.  Henika  &  Co.  are 
closing  out  their  furniture  stock  and 
will  devote  their  entire  attention  to  the 
undertaking  business.

Central  Lake—F.  E.  Barry,  formerly 
engaged  in  tbe  manufacture  of  cigars at 
Charlevoix,  has  concluded  to  embark  in 
the  same  business  at  this  place.

Bay  City—Green  &  Braman  have 
begun  running  their  mill  a  day  and  a 
quarter  time.  The  firm  has  a  stock  of 
logs  to  keep  the  mill  running  during 
the  season.

Gaylord—A.  C.  Teer  has  resigned  his 
position  as  clerk  at  F.  A.  Kramer’s 
clothing  and  dry  goods  store,  to  take  a 
position  with  the  Jackson  Sleigh  Co., 
at  Jackson,  as  office  manager.

Plainwell  C.  W.  Machemer  has  pur­
chased  a  half  interest  in  the  leather and 
web  suspender  business  of  Fred  D. 
Havens.  The  new  firm  will  be  known 
as the  Michigan  Suspender  Co.

Cheboygan—The  Cheboygan  Wood 
Turning  Co.  has  leased  the  old  Nelson 
mill  site,  on  the  river  above  the  dam, 
and  will  build  a  new  plant  to  consist  of 
a  dry  kiln,  factory  and  warehouse.

Ludington— Louis  Bockes,  who  has 
been  clerking 
in  the  drug  store  of  Dr. 
Carroll  for  some  time,  has  removed  to 
Frankfort  with  the  avowed  intention  of 
engaging  in  the  drug  business  there.

Saginaw—The  planing  mill of Charles 
Lee,  which  has  been  idle  some  time,  is 
being  fitted  up  for  business,  and  the 
firm  has  work  in  sight  for  it.  The  saw­
mill  on  the  same  premises  will  also  be 
operated  this  season.
Detroit—Articles 

the 
Davis  Rail  Brake  Co.  have  been  filed. 
The  purpose  given  is  the  manufacture 
of  car  brakes,  and  the  equipping  of 
street  and  railway  cars.  The  capital 
stock  is  $1,400,  all  paid  in.

incorporating 

Battle  Creek—The  officers  of  the  Pos- 
tum  Cereal  Co.,  Ltd.,  are  elated  over 
the  decision of Judge Cox, in the  United 
States  Court  at  Rochester,  who  granted 
an  injunction  against  the  Genesee  Pure 
Food  Co.,  of  LeRoy,  N.  Y .,  prohibit­
ing  the  use  of  a  red  seal  trade  mark 
in 
imitation  of.  the  design  used  by  the 
Postum  Cereal  Co.  The  Genesee  Co. 
accepted  the 
injunction  as  final  and 
settled  the  case  by  paying  money  dam­
ages.  Other  suits  will  follow  against 
other  concerns.

Menominee---- The  Edward  Hines
Lumber  Co.,  of  Chicago,  has  purchased
10.000. 000  feet  from  the  Perley  Lowe 
cut  of  the  Witbeck  mill.  This  includes 
all  of  the  rougher grades  to  be  manu­
factured  this  season. 
largest 
sale  of  the  past  two  weeks.

It  is  the 

Saginaw—The  Central  Lumber  Co., 
of  which  Col.  A.  T.  Bliss  is  the  prin­
cipal stockholder,  has  bought  5,000,000 
feet  of  logs 
in  the  Lake  Superior  dis­
trict,  which  are  to  be  rafted  to  the  mill 
here  to  be  manufactured.  The  mill  will 
start  for  the  season  next  week.

Adrian— A .  H.  Bailey,  of  the  Bailey 
&  Walker  Oil  Co.,  of  Detroit,  has  just 
returned  to  Adrian  from  the  East  with 
drilling  outfits  which  will  be  used  in 
developing  promising  oil  fields in Lena­
wee  and  Monroe  counties, where  options 
have  been  secured  upon  6,000 acres  of 
land.

Clare—The  stave  and  heading  plants 
of  C.  W.  Althouse,  at  this  place  and  at 
Ithaca,  will  manufacture  this  season
18.000. 000  staves  and  1,600,000  sets  of 
heading.  The  product  goes  to  New 
York,  Philadelphia,  and  San  Francisco. 
It  requires  35,000  cords  of bolts  to  stock 
the  plant  in  a  single  season.

Traverse  City—’The  Fulghum  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  exhausted  its  season’s 
supply of  logs,  which  consisted  of  550,- 
000  feet  of  custom  work,  and  as  far as is 
known  now  the  sawmill 
is  shut  down 
for  the  summer.  The  only  machinery 
now 
in  motion  at  the  factory  is  in  the 
flooring  department,  which 
is  running 
full  blast  and  furnishes  employment  for 
about  twenty-five  men.

East  Tawas—Tbe  Tawas  Bay  Lum 
ber  Co.  has  been  organized  to  do  busi- 
nesss  here,  with  Temple  Emery  at  the 
head.  The  company  has  purchased  a 
large  store building  here  and  has  leased 
what  is  known  as  the  White  mill  prop­
erty,  and  will  operate  the  mill  this  sea­
son.  The  company  has  5,000,000  feet 
of  logs  already  secured  and  the  mill 
is 
being  repaired  and  put  into  shape  to 
begin  operations.

Benton  Harbor—J.  B.  Graves  has  sold 
his  stock  in  the  Fontaine  Milling  Co. 
to  W.  C.  Cantrell,  who  has  been 
inter - 
ested 
in  the  company  for  the  past  two 
years.  C.  M.  Edick  and  C.  H.  Porter 
have  also  purchased  stock  in  the  com­
pany,  the  former  taking  the  office  of 
President,  while  the  latter  will  serve the 
corporation 
in  the  capacity  of  Vice- 
President.  Mr.  Cantrell  will  continue 
in  the  management  of  the  business.

Ishpeming,  between 

Negaunee—The  Jackson  Iron  Co.  has 
put  some  men  at  work  exploring  for  ore 
on  the  north  side  of  the  county  road 
leading  to 
the 
Lake  Superior  &  Ishpeming  Railway 
line  and  the  hill  opposite  tbe  Anthody 
Powder  Company’s  works. 
is  the 
opinion  of  many,  especially  those  who 
have  worked  at  the  Jackson  mine,  that 
there  is  ore  in  that  hill.  Some  test  pits 
are  being  put  down  but  it  is  likely  that 
a  diamond  drill  will  be  put  at  work 
there  later,  particularly  if  good  indica­
tions  of  ore  are  found.

It 

There 

is  now  going  on  some  legal 
controversy  concerning  a  movable  cam- 
paign  platform.  This  is  a  useful  but 
not  a  new  thing.  A  candidate  that  has 
been  nominated  on  one  platform  often 
does  his  stump-speaking  on  one  that 
is 
quite  different;  and  if  he  is  elected  he 
generally  forgets  both  the  convention 
and  the  campaign 
The 
movable  article  is  useful.

platforms. 

Women'displayed  more  courage  than 

men  at  the  Paris  bazaar  fire.

The airship  appears  to  have gone  up.

The  Church  Was  Never  Built.

A  leading  citizen  once  called  at  the 
office  of  D.  P.  Clay,  when  that  gentle­
man  had  his  headquarters  at  the  foot  of 
Lyon  street,  several  years  ago,  and 
found  Mr.  Clay,  D.  A.  Blodgett  and 
the  late  D.  M.  Benjamin  discussing  the 
plans  of  the  church edifice the Unitarian 
society  contemplated  erecting  at  that 
time  on  the  lots  now  occupied  by  the 
Hartman  wooden  row  on  East  Fulton 
idea 
street.  Mr.  Blodgett  opposed  the 
of  a  steeple  and  frankly  stated  that 
if 
his  objection  was  not  sustained,  he 
would  not  contribute  a  d— d  cent;  Mr. 
Benjamin  objected  to  some other feature 
and  presented  the  same  alternative, 
equally  as  emphatically  stated;  Mr. 
Clay  failed  to  agree  with  the  architect 
in  some  other  respect  and  those  who 
know  him  at  all  are  willing  to  concede 
that  his  alternation  was  expressed  in 
even  stronger  terms  than  had  been  used 
by  the  other  gentlemen.  The  caller 
could  not  repress  the  mirth  which  the 
scene  had  evoked  and  intimated  that  a 
church  erected  under  the  supervision  of 
gentlemen  who  had  such  an  emphatic 
way  of  expressing  themselves  ought  to 
be  a  model  of  its  kind.  Fortunately  or 
unfortunately,  the  edifice  never 
got 
further  than  the  architect’s  drawings.

Retain  Trade  Secrets.

A  merchant’s  good-will 

is  just  as 
necessary  to  his  business  as  is  his  cap­
ital ;  but  it  is  by  no  means  as  well  pro­
tected.  Employes,  however,  do  not  view 
in  the  light  they  should, 
this  matter 
and  therefore  do  not  realize  the 
impor­
tance  of  betraying  trade  secrets.  An 
employe  frequently  does,  upon  entering 
a  new  house,  either 
in  order  to  make 
himself  appear  smart,  or  from  spiteful­
ness  or  thoughtlessness,  impart  business 
secrets  which  are  of  serious  moment  to 
a  former  employer  and which sometimes 
results  in  wrecking  his  business.  What­
ever  the  motive,  no  employe  who 
is 
guilty  of  such  a  thing  is  worthy  to  be 
trusted.  There  is  no  more  justification 
for doing  this  than  there  is  for  stealing 
money,  and,  rest  assured  that  an  em­
ployer  is  pretty  sure  to  size  this  sort  of 
person  up  and  drop  him  when  there 
is 
nothing  more  to  be  acquired.

Al . L.   J O B B E R S   S K 1.I.

THE  FAMOUS

DOTHL KNIGHT

AND

TH E Y A RE

Ten  Cent  Cigars

FOR

5  Cents

It  is  a  pleasure  to  smoke 
them.  They are up-to-date. 
They  are  the  best

5  Cent  Cigars 

ever made in America.  Send 
sample  order  to  any  Grand 
Rapids  jobbing  house.  See 
quotations  in  price  current.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Wm.  E.  Martin  succeeds  John  Wil­
in  the  meat  business  at  661 

kinson 
South  Lafayette  street.

Stiles  &  Phillips  have  closed  out 
their  stock  and  retired  from  the  prod­
uce  and  commission  business.

Ignatz  Skula  has  removed  his  grocery 
stock  from  249  Butterworth  avenue  to 
the  corner  of  Seventh  and  Davis streets.
B.  De  Wolf  will  shortly  open  a  new 
grocery  store  at  Mackinaw  City.  The 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  has  the  order  for 
the  stock.

F.  E.  Prestel,  dry  goods  dealer  at 
Sheridan,  has  added  a  line  of groceries. 
The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
fur­
nished  the  stock.

John  W.  01 in,  formerly  engaged 

Geo.  H.  Kirtland  has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of  B.  Doyle  &  Son  and 
consolidated  it  with  his  general  stock at 
1161  South  Division  street.
.Jno.  Odejewski  has  arranged  to  open 
a  grocery  store  at  the  corner  of  Fifth 
and  Davis  streets.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman  Co.  has  the  order  for  the  stock.
in 
the  meat  business  at 699  South  Division 
street,  has  purchased  the  market  of  E. 
J.  Moore,  at  447  South  Division  street.
John  C.  Becker  has  sold  his grocery 
stock  at  659  South  Lafayette  street  to 
Philip  L.Faulk  and  Levin D.Blackford, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location  under  the  style  of  Faulk 
&  Blackford.

The  net  earnings  of  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Gas  Light  Co.  for  April  amounted 
to  $9,195,  in  comparison  with  $8,138 
during  April  of  last  year.  From  Janu­
ary  1  the  net  earnings  have  increased 
over 6  per  cent,  in  comparison  with  the 
first  four  months  of  1896.

The  Grain  Market.

small,  being 

The  phenomenally  fine  weather,  the 
large  Northwestern  receipts  and  the 
dullness 
in  trade  combined  were  too 
much  to  sustain  prices,  notwithstand­
ing, 
the  visible  decreased  2,125,000 
bushels,  being  600,000  bushes  more 
than  was  anticipated.  The  Argentine 
shipments  were 
only
1.671.000  bushels  during  the  past  six­
teen  weeks,  while  the  shipments  during 
the  corresponding  time  last  year  were
It  is a  mystery  that 
13.250.000 bushels. 
selling 
wheat  should  be  continually 
lower  in  the  face  of  all  these  facts. 
In 
ordinary  times,  with  this  large  decrease 
in  the  visible  it  would  have  advanced 
fully  5c  per  bushel,  especially  as  the 
visible 
is  now  only  29,737,000  bushels, 
against  71,492,000 bushels  on  the  same 
date  in  1893,  when  wheat  was being sold 
at  67c  per  bushel  here.  However,  we 
have  to  take  things  as  they  are  and 
await  developments.  The  receipts  of 
winter  wheat  still  continue  small, 
if 
not  smaller  than  ever,  and  this  is  be­
cause  there  is  none  left  in  the  farmers’ 
granaries.  Even  the  elevators  are being 
cleaned  out  and  the  mills  that  are  run­
ning  find 
it  very  difficult  to get  wheat 
enough  to  keep  the  mills  in  operation. 
Another  thing  makes  matters  still  worse 
— it  will  be  fully  two  months  before new 
wheat  will  be  suitable  for  milling  pur­
poses.  There  are  only  26,000.000  bush­
els  ot  available  wheat  to  day  in  Chi­
cago,  Minneapolis,  Duluth  and  on  the 
lakes.  The balance  will  be  used  locally. 
New  York  has  only  710,000  bushels, 
against  7,000,000  to  10,000,000 bushels

as  a  usual  amount.  The  bears  do  not 
seem  to  be  daunted  in  the  least,  but,  on 
the  contrary,  continue  to  sell.  How­
ever,  they  will  have  to  buy  in  some  day 
and  then  they  will 
is  no 
wheat  to  fill  the  contracts.  Even  after 
the  new  wheat  comes  on  the  market 
it 
will  take  some  time  to  fill  the  empty 
bins  in  the  elevators and  mills,  so  that 
there  will  be  any  to  ship.  The  short 
sellers  seem  fearless,  however.

there 

find 

Com 

is  about  ic  per  bushel  higher 
than  one  week  ago,  but  oats  remain  un­
changed.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were 
not  large,  being  only  28  cars  of  wheat, 
8  cars  of  corn  and  4  cars  of  oats.

Local millers are paving 83c  for wheat 

C.  G.  A.  V o i g t .

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus— Home  grown  has  de­

clined  to  I5@ i8c  per  doz.  bunches.

Beets— 50c  per  doz.  bunches.
Butter— Separator  creamery  is  held  at 
I4@i4>^c.  Dairy grades are  very  plenti­
ful  and  command  only  8@9C  per  lb.  for 
the  best.

Cabbage—85c  per  doz. 

for  Mobile 

stock.

Cucumbers— Home  grown  command 

50c  per  doz.  Southern  fetch  30c.

Eggs—The  market 

is  fairly  steady- 
on  the  basis  of  7@7}4c  on  track.  Cold 
storage  operators  have  ceased  taking 
eggs,  on  account  of  the  deterioration  in 
quality.

Honey—White  clover 

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

Lettuce— Grand  Rapids  forcing  10c 

is 

per  lb.

Onions—Dry  stock  from  Mississippi 
commands $2.25  for  \  bu.  sack.  Green 
fetch  ioc  per  doz.  bunches.

Pieplant— ic  per  lb.
Pineapples—$1.50  per  doz.
Potatoes— New  Bermudas command $4 
per bbl.  Home  grown  are  still  dull  and 
sluggish.

Radishes— 20c  per  doz.  bunches.
Spinach— Home grown  commands  75c 

Squash—Illinois  stock  brings  5c  per 

per bu.

lb.

Strawberries—The  market 

is  higher 
than  a  year ago  by  50c  a  case.  There 
has  been  a  steady  decline  to $2.50  per 
case  and  the  tendency 
is  downward. 
The  movement  is  heavy  and  the  qual­
ity  is  averaging  very  good.  When  ar­
rivals  come  from  points  nearer  home 
the  market  is  expected  to  go  still lower. 
Medium  and  poor  stocks  sell  at  less 
than  quotations,  but  they  are  unsatis­
factory  tor  shipping.

Tomatoes—$2.75  per  crate  of  6 bas­

kets.

Wax  Beans—$2  per  bu.  crate.

The  G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.  sold 
over  a  million  S.  C.  W.  cigars  during 
1896 and,  judging  by  the  enormous 
in­
crease  in  the  demand,  the  sales  will  ag­
gregate  about  2,000,000  this  year. 
In 
spite  of  the  rapid  increase  in  facilities, 
the  demand  keeps  pace  with  the  capac­
ity  of  the  factory,  so  that  the  manufac­
turer 
is  sometimes  compelled  to  ship 
out  goods before  they  are fully seasoned. 
Dealers  are  requested  to  keep  their  sur­
plus  stock 
in  a  dry  place,  so  that  the 
brand  may  be  as  dry  as  possible  when 
taken  by  the  smoker.

Henry  Kronemeyer  and  Miss  Jessie 
Brummeler  have  joined  hands  and  for­
tunes  and  taken  up  their  residence  at 
373  Grandville  avenue.  Mrs.  Krone­
meyer has  been  an  esteemed  employe  of 
the  Commercial  Credit  Co.  for  the  past 
five  years  and  will  continue  in  her  old 
position.

K.  T.  Vanden  Bosch,  manager  of  the 
Enterprise  Clothing  Co.,  at  Grand 
Haven,  will  be  married  this  evening  to 
Miss  Cora  Home,  one  of  the  fairest 
denizens  of  the  Sand  Hill  City.

The  Grocery  Market.

Coffee—No  advances  have  been  made 
in  quotations,  although  they  are  prom­
ised  every  week.  The  large  receipts 
of  Rio  and  Santos  coffee  tend  to  keep 
the  market  down. 
It  is  hard  to  see  how 
the  market  can  go  lower  than  it  now  is. 
The  war  is  still  on  with  the  roasters,but 
as  they  are  still  making  money,  even 
at  the  low  prices  at  which  they  are 
offering  their  products,  it  is  hard  to  say 
when  the  war  will  cease.  As  soon  as 
the  tide  turns 
in  bulk  coffees,  an  ad­
vance 
in  roasted  package  coffees  may 
be  looked  for.  As  the  market  goes 
lower  the  retailers  are  moie careful buy­
ers.  The  reverse  of  this  was  true  at the 
beginning  of  the  decline.  Many  retail­
ers  were  caught  with 
large  stocks  of 
coffee  on  hand  which  they  have  had  to 
use 
in  competition  with  their  neigh­
bors’  lower  priced  goods.
Tea—The  expectation 

that  the  tea 
duty  portion  of  the  tariff  bill  will  pass 
seems  to  be  held  by  many,  although 
there  will  be  strong  opposition  to 
it 
from  the  trade.  The  most  of  the  buy­
ing 
is  being  done  on  this  account. 
High-grade  teas  are  very  firm,  although 
there  has  been  no  further  notable  ad­
vance  during  the  week.  Low  grades 
are  stiffening  up  a  notch  every  day. 
The  consumptive  demand  seems  to  be 
about  as  usual,  although 
jobbers  are 
selling  considerable  tea,  probably  more 
from  speculation  than  anything  else.

Rice— Eastern  markets  are  strong. 
The  crop  of  India  rice  is  larger  than 
usual,  and  the  stocks 
in  hand  for  this 
country  are  larger  by  75,000  tons  than 
last  year,  but  this  excess  will  not  avail 
to  bring  up  stocks  to  normal  conditions 
in  this  country.

in 

Canned  Goods—Reports  from the East 
show  that  cheap  tomatoes  have  been 
pretty  well  cleaned  up  and  the  market 
is  stronger  in  consequence.  There  is  a 
shortage 
lemon  cling  peaches  and 
apricots,  and  an  increased  demand  for 
Southern  peaches.  The  cheaper  grade 
of  apricots  has  been  cleaning  up  at  a 
concession  from  former  asking  price, 
and  the  market  is  firmer because  of 
it. 
The  loss  of  a  cargo  of  14,000  cases  of 
Alaska  salmon  has  made  the  market 
in 
that  fish  firmer 
in  the  East.  Reports 
from  the  Sacramento  River  canneries 
say  that  the  run  of  salmon  thus  far  is 
fair,  but  on  the  Columbia  the  run  is 
light,  owing  to  cold  weather.  When 
the  weather  warms,  it  is  expected  that 
the  run  will  be  good.  A  considerable 
part  of  the  catch  on  the  Columbia  now 
is  going  as  fresh  fish  to consumers East, 
and  sales  are  made  to  canners  at  4c, 
but 
is  expected  that  the  price  will 
drop  soon  to  3^c.  The  prices  of  fu­
tures  are  so  low  that  nothing  above  this 
price  for  fresh  fish  could  be  possible 
and  let  the  canners  out  whole.

it 

is 

low  grades  selling. 

Dried  Fruits— Prune  prices  show  no 
change  and  the  market  is  steady.  The 
small,  some 
demand  for  peaches 
fancy  and 
The 
prices  show  no  change,  but  it  is  gen­
erally  agreed  that  few,  if  any,  peaches 
will  be  carried  over.  Nothing  new 
in 
currants  can  be  reported.  Prices  are 
unchanged  and  the' demand 
is  light. 
Raisins  are  also  in  very  light  demand. 
Some  few  are  selling,  but  price  is  un 
changed.  Apricots are  in  fair  demand 
and  the  supply  is  getting  well  cleaned 
up.  The  price  is  unchanged.

Provisions—The  provision  trade  has 
disclosed  no  striking  feature  during  the 
past  week  and  prices  are  not  much  at 
variance  from  the  position  a  week  ago, 
there  continuing  relatively  more 
of 
in  lard  than  for  meats.  The
weakness 

6

export  clearances  of  product  are  largely 
of  both  lard  and  meats,  and  decidedly 
in  excess  of  the  corresponding  time  last 
.year.

Fish—Cod 

is  practically  unchanged, 
the  market  being  slow,  as  is  usual  at 
this  season.  Lake  fish  are  in  fair  de­
mand,  and  rule  at  unchanged  prices. 
is  lower  and  is  likely  to  go 
Mackerel 
lower.  The  explanation  of  the 
still 
downward  movement 
is  thus  given  by 
John  Pew  &  Son  under  date  of  May  14: 
‘ ‘ The  catch  of  new  mackerel  thus  far  is 
about  six  fold 
increase  over  the  same 
period 
last  year  and  indicates  a  large 
body  of  mackerel  on  our  coast.  When 
they  are  fatter  they  will  be  excellent 
in 
quality;  and  should  the  catch  off  our 
New  England  coast  during  the  summer 
and  fall  months  be  what  is  anticipated 
in  quantity  the  prices  will  rule  reason­
able,  more  so  than 
for  a  number  of 
years,  and  the  trade  will  enjoy  having 
nice  mackerel  once  more,  as  afore­
time.”

Flour  and  Feed.

The  conditions  are  such  that  conser­
vative  buyers  prefer  not  to  carry  heavy 
stocks  of  breadstuffs,  and, 
in  conse­
quence,  the  buying  for  the  past  week 
has  been  of  hand-to-mouth  character. 
The  weather  has  been  universally favor­
able  for  growing  crops  and,  although 
the  present  condition  of  growth  is  fully 
two  weeks  later  than  last  year,  and some 
fields  of  wheat  have  rather  a  pinched, 
yellow  appearance,  the  real  condition 
may  be  better  than  last  year,  when  the 
early  warm  weather  hurried  the  wheat 
plant  forward  so  rapidly  that  it  was 
in 
poor  condition  to  withstand  the  diffi­
culties  of  the  season  to  be  encountered 
later,  and  resulted  in  a  disastrous  fail­
ure.  On  the  whole,  however,  the  con­
ditions  are  favorable  for  a  good,  fair 
crop  of  winter  wheat  in  Michigan  this 
year.

Stocks  of  flour  are  light  at  the  sea­
board  and  at 
interior  points,  but  the 
trade  is  in  a  somewhat  congested  con­
dition  on  account  of  the  manipulator 
playing  football  with  wheat and  the  fact 
that  holders  of  cash  grain  demand  so 
large  a  premium  over  future  delivery, 
that  buyers  of  flour  are  extremely  cau­
tious,  and  the  miller  as  well,  not  know­
ing  what  a  day  may  bring  forth.  Until 
after  harvest  and  the  trade  gets  settled 
down  to  a  working  basis,  we  must  nat­
urally  expect  a  nervous,  excited  mar­
ket;  but 
if  statistics  have  any  value, 
better  prices  should  soon  prevail.

Millstuffs  are  dull,  with  prices  about 
the  same  as  last  week.  Feed  and  meal 
are  nominally  unchanged.

W m.  N .  R o w e .

In  the  death  of  Nelson B.  Clark  Mich­
loses  a  representative  man  and 
igan 
loss  of  a 
Grand  Rapids  suffers  the 
patriotic  citizen.  Embarking 
in  the 
tanbark  business  over twenty  years  ago, 
he gave  that  industry  the  benefit  of  his 
best  thought  and  most  energetic  effort, 
and  much  of  the  remarkable  develop­
ment  of  the  business  was  due  to  his 
shrewdness  and  business  sagacity.  Mr. 
Clark  seldom  had  any  serious  disagree­
ment  with  those  with  whom  he  came  in 
contact,  possessing  to  an unusual degree 
the  happy  faculty  of  smoothing  over  all 
differences  by  the  employment  of  the 
jovial  good  nature  which  appeared  to 
be  always  on  tap  when  he  was  around. 
The  Tradesman 
joins  the  trade  in  ex­
tending 
its  heartfelt  sympathy  to  the 
family  and  friends  of  the  deceased  in 
their  affliction.

Gillies  New  York  Teas.  All  kinds, 
grades  and  prices.  Phone  Visner,  1589.

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

it 

New  York,  May  15— The  week  has 
been  without 
interesting  features  and 
trade  has  not  been  very  active.  But 
matters  might  be  a  good  deal  worse. 
Somebody  said  “ Tariff  on  tea, ”   and 
immediately  the article  was  galvanized 
into  life,  the  price  was  advanced  2@5c 
per  pound,  and  thus  it  is  that  the  tariff 
works,  whether  there  is  a  tariff  or  sim­
ply  a  rumor of  one.  Our  leading  gro­
cery  jobbers  are  doing  a  pretty  good 
trade,  and  practically  all  of  them,  al­
though  still  deploring  the  lack of energy 
displayed  on  the  part  of  buyers,  admit 
that  their  sales  are  ahead  of  last  year by 
a  very  respectable  amount.

injured 

A  call  has  been  issued  to  the  stock­
holders  of  the  American  Grocery  Co  to 
assemble  on  May  22  and  discuss  the 
feasibility  of  closing  out  the  business of 
It  is  alleged  that  its  ene­
the  concern. 
mies  have  so 
its  reputation, 
that  the  best  thing  to  do  is  to  suspend 
operations.  Should  this  be  done,  it will 
ignominious  ending  of  a  won­
be  the 
derful  career.  As 
is  well  known,  this 
is  the  successor  of  the  Thur 
concern 
bers. 
It  has  been  in  existence  less than 
three  years,  but  has  had  a  hard  struggle 
most  of  the  time.  Such  is  life.

Our own  “ Macy”   is  going  to  erect  a 
gigantic  department  store  in  Philadel­
is  said,  just  to  return  John 
phia, 
Wanamaker’s 
into  their  ter 
ritory.  The  war  of  the  giants  in  the 
business  world  is  as  interesting  as  that 
of  Greeks  and  Turks.  Every  day  is 
fraught  with  events  that  are  making 
history,  and  now  we  are  waiting  to  see 
the  outcome  of  the  controversy  against 
Havemeyer  and  Searles  by  the  Govern­
ment.

incursion 

Eight  cents  seems  to  be  the  stopping 
place  for  Rio  No.  7.  The  volume  of 
is  not  excessive. 
business  being  done 
The  market 
is  fairly  steady,  however, 
and  holders  hope  there will be no further 
slump.  The  supply  here  and  afloat 
is 
double  that  of  last  year  and  quotations 
on  the  Exchange  for  futures  are  about 
50  per  cent,  lower  than  twelve  months 
ago.  Mild  coffees  are  decidedly  firm, 
and  this 
is  true  of  all  sorts  of  mi Ids, 
too.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth  I4@i4#c. 
Sales  in  no  one  instance  have  been  very 
large;  but  nevertheless  the  feeling 
is 
one  of  confidence  in  the  outlook.

Some  fair orders  for granulated  sugar 
have  come  to  hand,  but,  upon  the 
whole,  the  market  lacks  animation  at 
the  moment,  although  the 
is 
looked  to  hopefully.  Raw  sugars  have 
sold  very  slowly  and  refiners  seem  to  be 
resting  or,  rather,  working  up  the  lib­
eral  supplies  they  already  have.

As  mentioned  last  week,  tea has taken 
on  a  new  lease  of  life,  owing  to  the 
tariff  “ bogey,”   and  the  mails  are  full 
of  cards  urging  the  importance  of  “ im­
mediate  purchases”   if  it  is  desired  to 
take  advantage  of  the  “ present  very 
low  rates.”   Nearly  every  sort  of  tea 
has  advanced  and  the  demand  is  active 
for  line  goods.  Everything 
is  lovely 
and  the advance  seems  likely  to  be  fol­
lowed  by  another.

future 

Rice 

is  steady.  Orders  coming  to 
hand  have  been  chiefly  from  the  South 
and  foreign  grades  are  seemingly  in  the 
most  demand.  Prices  are  practically 
unchanged.  A  big  rice  mill  began  op­
erations  in  Brooklyn  this  week,  turning 
out  many  hundred  bags  of  the  finished 
product  every  day,  and  the out-turn  will 
be  increased  in  a  short  time.

Pepper  is  in  a  stronger  position  than 
last  week.  All  sorts  of  spices  are  firmly 
held  and  the  chances  favor  an  advance. 
Cloves  are  in  somewhat  better  request. 
The  rest  of  the  line  is  easy,  and trading 
therein  is  of  an  average  character.'

In  molasses  low  grade  centrifugals 
have  meet  with  a  pretty  good  enquiry 
from  grocers  in  the 
interior,  but,  aside 
from  this, the market  is  quiet  within  the 
former  range  of  prices. 
Syrups  are 
quiet  and  are  selling  at  steady  quota­
tions.
in­
terest  has  taken  place  during  the  week. 
A  shipload  of  canned  salmon  has  gone 
to  the  bottom  of  the  ocean  by  the  burn-

In  canned  goods,  not  a  ripple  of 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it  was  completing 

ing  of a  vessel  on  the  Jersey  coast,  just 
as 
its  long  voyage 
from  the  Pacific  Coast.  This  causes 
considerable 
scarcity,  comparatively, 
yet  there 
is  probably  "enough  too go 
round.”   Tomatoes  are  doing  a  little 
better than  last  week,  and  corn,  too,  is 
getting  out  of  the  deep  ditch  into  which 
it  had  fallen.  Aside  from  a  better  feel­
ing  on  these  two  articles,  there  is  very 
little  of  interest.

Oranges  are  suffering  from  the arrival 
of  large  quantities  of  strawberries  and 
can  be  purchased  at  low  rates  for nice 
fruit.  Lemons  are  selling  more  freely, 
as  the  weather  and  the  circus  create 
demand,  and prices are  higher.  Bananas 
are  also  higher,  the  advance  having 
been  very  considerable.  Pineapples  are 
dull,  as  are  other  sorts  of  foreign  fiuit.
The  butter  market  is  weak  under  in­
in­
creased  accumulations  and  present 
dications  are  not  particularly  full  of 
cheer.  Best  Western  creamery  is  held 
at  15c,  and  if,  by  virtue  of  holding  at 
this  figure,  a  customer 
is  likely  to be 
lost,  then  the  figure declines  a  fraction. 
The  keeping  quality  of  a  great  deal  of 
the  incoming  supplies  has  not been very 
great  and  holders  are  making  great 
efforts  to  work  off  any  such  supply.

Western  eggs  are  worth  about  ioj£c. 
Receipts,  while  not  very  heavy,  are  yet 
large  enough  to  keep  down  prices  and 
the  demand  is  light,  too.

The  cheese  market 

is  about  steady, 
with  full  cream  fetching  about  ioj^c 
and,  if  strictly  choice,  perhaps  ic more. 
Exporters  have  done  a  little better busi­
ness  during  the  week,  but  trading  gen­
erally  is  quiet  in  this  respect.

In  beans, 

the  general  situation 

is 
very  quiet,  and  the  market 
is  easy. 
Choice  marrows  are  worth  $1.15^. 
Choice  pea,  85@87>£c.

Elgin  System  of 
Creameries.

It  will  pay  you  to 

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

R.  E.  STURGIS,

Allegan, Mich.

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

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go.

Dorchester, Mess.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

A N D

on this Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  nsed  in 

their manufactures.

Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritious,  and  costs  less  than  one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate,  put  up  in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.

Their  German  Sw eet  Chocolate  is  good  to 
eat and good  to  drink.  It  is  palatable, nutri­
tious, and  h ealthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.

Buyers should ask for and be sure  that  they 
ret the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
Walter Baker &  Co.  Ltd., 

Dorchester,  Mass.

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Seeds When in want of Seeds for the  farm  or  garden 

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

CLOVER.  TIMOTHY,  ORASS  SEEDS, 
ONION  SETS,  FIELD  PE AS,  ETC.

> 

GARDEN  SEEDS  IN  BULK.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  CO.,  8T O ^ nd1 mme.^hants*

>000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

CLOVER  AND  TIMOTHY.

All kinds of

FIELD  AND  GARDEN  SEEDS. 

Correspondence  solicited.  Your  order  will 

follow,  we  feel  sure.

BEACH,  COOK  &  CO.,

128 to 13a  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 St, Grand Rapids.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

The  V in M iild e r  Company,

JOBBER  OF

Fruits  and  Produce

M A N U FA CTU R E R   OF

"Absolute” Pure Ground Spices, Bating 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  prepared  to 
quote low prices  on  Whole  Spices,  Preservaline,  Sausage  seasoning,
Saltpetre,  Potato Flour, etc.
We also continue  the  Fruit  and  Produce  business  established  and 
successfully  conducted by H e n r y J.  V in k e m u ld e r.

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY,

Successor to Michigan Spice  Co.,

418-420  «.  DIVISION  ST .,  ORANO  RAPIDS.

Citizens Phone 555.

I
GREEN  GOODS...

In  the  eyes  of  the  law  of  Supply  and  Demand  can  now  be 
handled at a good  profit by grocers who receive our daily con­
fidential  price  list.  Drop  us  a  postal  if you want the largest 
assortment.

ALLERTON  &  HAGGSTROM,

JOBBERS  OF  FRUITS  AND  VEGETABLES,

Both Telephones 1248. 

127 Louis Street. 

Grand  Rapids, filch.

Illinois Strawberries Are  now  in

They  are  Fresher  and 
Cheaper.

Onions,  Spinach,  Radishes,  Lettuce,  Cucumbers, 
Tomatoes,  Oranges,  Lemons,  New  Potatoes,  Summer 
Squash,  Fancy  Honey.  All  seasonable  Vegetables.

2 0   &   2 2   O TTA W A   S T ., 
G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

BUNTING  S  GO.

so,000 Poms Duller

Wanted to pack and ship on commission. 
Good outlet.
Eggs on commission or bought on track.

M .   R .

88 S. DIVISION ST..

A L D B N .

GRAND RAPIDS.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

How  the  Dog  Died.

Herr  Oil— Haf  you  heard  dot  dog  of 

mine ate  a  tape  measure  undt  died?

Herr  Kut—I  suppose  he  died  py 

inches,  nicht  var?

Herr  Oil—Abernit;  he  vent  oudt  in 

der alley  und  die  py  der  yard.

7

K

H. Thompson & Co.,

Wholesale

Potato

Commission
Merchants

¡6  and  158 Sooth  Water StM  Chicago.

R e f e r e n c e:

Bank of Commerce, Chicago.

COFFEE

MANUFACTURED

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Kneipp M alt Food Co.
C.  H.  STRUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio,

Agent for Ohio.  Indiana and Michigan.

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MARK

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9 
O  They will pay cash on track at your station for EGGS and BUTTER.
9  Correspondence Solicted.
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to  H arris  &  Frutchey.

DETROIT.

H a r v e y   P.  M il l e r .

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S P E C I A L T Y POTATOES

l u & c e   B r o k e r s .

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P r i a i t   «.araci

BEANS

Consignments solicited.  Advances made.

Reference:  American Exchange Bank, St.  Louis.

6oi  N.  Third  Street,

ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

R. Hirt Jf.t

Market St., Detroit.

Eggs are always in demand with me.
Will buy same at  point  of  shipment, 
or  delivered,  in  small  or  large  lots. 
Write for particulars.

course  unprofitable.  Nothing  argues 
like a  man’s  pocket  book.

When  we  first  tackled  this  subject 
about  a  year  ago  we advocated  a  close 
grading  of  eggs  under  the  present  sys­
tem.  We  still  believe  it  to  be  best,  but 
we  are  now  convinced  that  it  will not be 
obtained  under  a  system  of  “ loss  off”  
selling.  We  are  satisfied  that  it  would 
be  forced  within  two  or  three  mouths by 
a  change  to  “ case  count”   sales  in  the 
summer.

He  Was  a  Judge  of Tea.

A  certain  gentleman, who  is  somewhat 
of  a  gourmet,  discovered  one  day  that 
his  wife  was  giving  him  25  cent  tea  to 
drink.  Although  he  had  never  made 
any  complaints  about  the  quality  of  the 
tea,  no  sooner  did  he  discover  the  price 
than  he  detected  all  sorts  of  shortcom­
ings 
in  the  article  supplied,  and  when 
he  went  down  to  business  that  morning 
he  dropped  into  a  tea  store  and  bought 
a  pound  of  orange  pekoe  at  80 cents 
This  he  carried  home  in  the  night,  and, 
taking  the  opportunity  of  the  kitchen 
being  empty,  he  hunted  around  until  he 
found  the  tea  caddy  nearly  full.  The 
contents  of  this he  threw  away  and  re­
placed 
It 
had  not  been  his  intention  to  say  any­
thing  about  the  substitution,  but  next 
morning  he  could  not  help  referring 
to  the  improved  quality  of the beverage.
this 
“ Don’t  you  no­

it  out  of his  own  package. 

is  something 

like  tea 

“ This 

morning,"  he  said. 
tice  the  difference?"

“ No,  I  don’t,"   said  his  wife. 

“ It 
tastes  to  me  exactly  like  the  tea we have 
been  drinking  for  the  last  month,  and 
so  it  should,  for  it  is  the  same  tea."

The  husband  laughed.
“ That's  just  like  a  woman," he  said. 
“ You  never  know  what  is  good  and 
what 
isn’t  unless  we  tell  you.  Now  I 
could  have  told  you  with  my  eyes  shut 
that  this  tea  is better than  what  we have 
been  drinking. ”

“ Anyway, 

“ It’s  a  pity  you  haven’t  been  drink­
ing  with  your  eyes  shut  all  along,"  re­
torted  the  lady. 
is  the 
same  tea. ’ ’
“ Now  I’ll  just  prove  it  to  you,”   said 
her  husband,  “ how  defective a woman’s 
sense  of  taste  is.  Yesterday  I  bought  a 
pound  of  80  cent  tea,  threw  out  what 
was 
in  the  caddy,  and  put  mine  in  its 
place.  And  to think  you  never  noticed 
the  difference. ”

“ Which  caddy  did  you  empty?"
“ On  the  upper  shelf  of  the  pantry,”  

it 

was  the  reply.

“ I  thought  so,"  said  the  lady,  quiet­
ly. 
“ That  was  some  special  tea  I  keep 
for  special  occasions.  The  caddy  with 
the  cheap  tea  is  in  the cupboard  of  the 
kitchen;  and  this,"  she  added  with  an 
exasperating  smile,  as  she lifted the  tea­
pot,  “ was  made  out  of  the  self-same 
caddy  as 
it  has  been  every  morning. 
What  a  blessing  it  must  be  to  you  to 
possess  such  a  cultivated  taste. 
I  have 
heard  that  tea  tasters get  very  high  sal­
aries.  Now,  whv  don’t  you—"

But  the  gentleman  cut  her  remarks 

short  by  leaving  the  room.

Loss  Off on  Eggs.
Prom the New York Produce Review.

The  Egg  Committee  of  the  New  York 
Mercantile  Exchange  has  enacted  a rule 
that  sales  of  eggs  between  members 
should,  on  and  after  May  io,  involve 
the  element  of  “ loss  off’  unless  other­
wise expressly agreed.  This  is the  sig­
nal  for a  general  reversion  to  the  “ loss 
off”   system  for  the  rest  of  the  season.

Last  week  we  took  occasion  to  ad­
vance  some  arguments  in  favor  of  case 
count  egg  business  the  year  around.  We 
did  not  expect  that  anything  would 
come  of 
it  at  present,  but  the  matter 
has  occasioned  some  discussion  here 
and  there  which  brings  up  some  rather 
interesting  facts.  First,  as  might  nat­
urally  be  expected,  dealers  in  eggs  who 
buy  from  receivers  seem  to  be  chiefly 
opposed  to  any  change  in  the  present 
system  of  selling  off  during  most  of  the 
year.  Second,  we  have  talked  to  but 
very  few  receivers  who  do  not  admit 
that  the  change  to a  case  count  system 
at  all  seasons  would  be  a  great  advan­
tage  to  the  trade,  and  that 
it  would 
produce  the  result  which  we  claimed—a 
finer quality  of  eggs  and  a  saving  in the 
freight  and  expense  of  handling  of 
thousands  of  cases  of  useless  eggs.

is  that  the 

Of  course,  the  first  thought  as  to  this 
effect 
latter  proposition 
might  be  different;  that 
if  shippers 
knew  their  goods  would  be  sold  at  mark 
they  would  be  inclined  to  put  in  every­
thing—good,  bad  and 
indifferent  and 
that  our  receipts  would  grow  poorer  in­
stead  of  better.  We  are  convinced  that 
this  would  not  be  the  result,  because 
if 
buyers  were  compelled  to  take  eggs  at 
mark  they  would  discriminate  so closely 
as  to  quality  that  the  really  fine  eggs— 
those  which  were  properly  graded  as  to 
size and  cleanness and  freshness—would 
be  salable  so  much  higher  than  un­
graded  and  defective  eggs  that  shippers 
would  find  it  greatly to  their  interest  to 
leave  the  defective  eggs  at  home. 
It  is 
very  probable  that  during  the  heated 
term,  and  in  the  fall  when  collections 
are  of  all  ages,  the ungraded  eggs  would 
sell  so  low  that  they  would  be  forced 
out  of  market.  The 
forced  grading 
would  then  give  us  all  the  “ seconds”  
which  could  be  sold  in  cheap  channels 
of  trade  and  the  really  useless  eggs 
would  be  mostly  thrown  out  in the West. 
This  would  have  another  important  and 
salubrious  effect. 
Shippers,  knowing 
that  the  reputation  of their brands would 
have  to  be  kept  on  a  high  plane  in  or­
der  to retain their hold  upon our market, 
would  be  obliged  to  discriminate  more 
in  their  own  purchases.  Poor 
closely 
eggs—bad  or 
stale—would  soon  be 
thrown  back  upon  the  producer.  Poor 
eggs  would  lose  their value  entirely  and 
farmers  would  be  compelled  to  take bet­
ter  care  of their  stock. 
Improvements 
in  methods  of  collecting  would  be  de­
vised  because  their  need  would  become 
imperative  and  the  egg  industry  in gen­
eral  would  get  a  move  in  the  right  di­
rection.

It  is  all  very  well  to talk  of 

improve­
ments  in  egg  production  and  handling; 
they  will  never  be  attained  until  the 
system  of  business  is  so  arranged  as  to 
compel  them  by  making  any  other

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WEDNESDAY,----- MAY 19, 1897.

is  seen 

THE WORLD  IS GETTING  BETTER.
That  the  world,  or,  more  properly, 
human  society  which  makes  up  the 
world  of  human  life  and  work,  is  grow­
ing  better  there  can  be  no question. 
This  fact 
in  the  enormous 
growth  of  charitable  and  humane  work. 
It  extends  to  every  department  of  life 
and  business,  and 
is  carried  on  not 
only  by  vast  united  effort,  but  by  indi­
vidual  exertion  which  embraces  a  great 
majority  of  the  population.  There never 
was 
in  any  age  of  the  world  so  great  a 
number of  hospitals,  of  asylums,  and  of 
other 
institutions  for  the  relief  of  hu­
man  misery  and  the  amelioration  of  hu­
man  suffering,  as 
at  present,  and 
whether  they  are  established  and  con­
ducted  by  national,  state  or  municipal 
governments,  or  by  private  charity  and 
enterprise,  they  all  go  to  testify  to  the 
immense  upgrowth  in  the  people  of  the 
present  age  of  pity,  human  sympathy 
and  loving  kindness  for  the  unfortunate 
and  the  wretched  among  their  fellows.
Then  there  are  the libraries,  the grand 
and  extraordinary  system of free schools, 
and  the  universities  and  colleges  en­
dowed  by  states  or  individuals  which 
have  sprung  up  in  all  parts  of  the coun­
try  to  enlighten  the  dark  places  of  the 
human 
intellect,  and  to  make  war on 
those  twin  relics  of  barbarism  and  foes 
of  progress,  ignorance  and  bigotry.  On 
every  hand  there 
is  seen  this  general 
and  almost  universal  effort  to lift  up  the 
lowly,  to  enlighten  the  ignorant  and  to 
bring  human  beings  into  such  condition 
of 
improvement  and  mental,  spiritual 
and  physical  elevation  as  that  they  may 
be  fitted  for  the  enjoyment  of  the  kin­
ship  which 
is  claimed  for  them.  The 
whole  of  mankind  is  incapable of fulfill­
ing  the  functions  of  brotherhood,  and  if 
there  be  any  such  relationship,  the  pop­
ulation  of  the  earth  must  be  brought  to 
it  through  such  humanizing 
influences 
as  only  charity,  benevolence  and  edu­
cation  can  provide.

This  beneficent  work  is  being  carried 
on  to  a  most  remarkable  degree  and 
it 
is  the  crowning  glory  of  an  age  that  has 
been  characterized  by  the  greatest  ad­
vance 
liberty  and  enlightenment. 
There  could  be  nothing  more  auspi­
cious  for  human  welfare  than  that  the 
Twentieth  Century  should  be  ushered in 
by  a  grand  sunburst  of  spiritual  and  in­
tellectual  illumination qualified by wide­
spread 
love  and  charity  for  one’s  fel­
low-creatures.

in 

In  such  a  state  of  society,  every  in­
is  given  an  opportunity  to 
dividual 
make  the  best  of  his  capacities  and  tal­
ents.  Those  who  can  help  themselves 
are  encouraged  to  do  so.  Those  who 
cannot,  by  reason  of  incapacity,  engage 
in  the  struggle 
unassisted,  will  be 
helped  at  need.  Those  who  refuse  to 
make  any  exertion  will  be  made  to 
suffer  the  just  consequences,  and  those 
who  prefer  to do  evil  will  be  punished 
by  the  firm  and  strong  arm  of  the  law.
The  evidence  that  the  world  is  grow­
ing  better,  that 
ignorance  and  bigotry 
are  being  dispelled,  and  that  love  and 
charity  among  the  human  race  are  hav­
ing  uncommon  growth  and  scope,  is  in­
disputable.  Professions  and  pretensions 
are  being  discredited  and  discarded 
everywhere,  and  people  are  now  judged 
by  their  works,  and  the  enormous  de­
velopment  of  practical  beneficence 
proves  that  good  works are  vastly  more 
the  rule  than  ever  before.  A  man’s 
works  are  the  only  test  by  which  his 
fellows  can  properly  judge  him,  and  the 
wide  growth  of  love  and  charity  among 
men  is  attested  by  the  vast development 
of  practical  beneficence  which  crowns 
the  age.  _____________

PASTERS  ON  SILVER  COINS.
So  many  enquiries  have  been  made 
in  regard  to  the 
legality  of  putting 
“ pasters”   on  silver  dollars  that  the 
Treasury  Department  has 
issued  the 
following  circular:

A  new  way  of  using  the  Government 
coins  for  advertising 
puiposes  was 
brought  to the attention  of  the  Secretary 
of  the  Tieasury  to-day.  In  a  remittance 
from  a  Southern  bank  were  found  a 
number  of  silver  dollars,  on  one  side  of 
which  was  pasted  the  printed  card,  or 
label,  of  a  business  firm.  As  the  paper 
on  which  the  notices  are  printed  is  cut 
a  little  smaller than  the  coin  and  stuck 
on  with  the  most  adhesive  glue,  the  re­
moval  of  the  paper  is  made  with  great 
difficulty.  The  inventor  of  the  scheme 
evidently  counts  on  doing  an  extensive 
business,  as  at  the  bottom  of  the  card  is 
printed  “ Copyrighted, 
i8q2.’ ’  There 
seems  to  be  no  end  to  the  ways  and 
means  used  in  the  effort  to  use  the  coin 
as  an  advertising  medium  and  evade 
the  law.  This  latest  scheme,  if  per­
mitted,would  make  all  such  pieces  sim­
ply  tokens  for  advertising  purposes. 
The  Department  will  not  receive  the 
pieces  so  defaced,  but  will  return  them 
at  the  sender’s  expense  for cleaning; 
otherwise  the  coin  would  have  to be 
specially  treated  by  the  Department  for 
the  removal  of  the  paper  before  it could 
be  reissued.

from 

It  would  seem 

the  reading  of 
the  above  that  unless  Congress  should 
enact  a 
law   regarding  the  pasting  of 
these  coins  the  persons  now  using  the 
coins  for  advertising  purposes  are  Dot 
violatin g  any  law.

Chattanooga  stands as  a  shining  light 
to  all  American  municipalities.  Oct. 
i,  1893,  the  city  bad  a  floating  debt  of 
$75,000,  with  no  outlook  for  paying 
it, 
except  resort  to  increased taxation.  The 
city  authorities  adopted  the  method  of 
retrenchment  instead  of  increased  taxa­
tion.  Headed  by  the  mayor, 
they 
wrought  so  wisely  and  well  that  in  two 
years  they  brought  this  debt  down  to 
$5,000.  They  not only  did  not  increase 
the  tax  rate  meantime,  but  actually  re 
duced  it.  This  story  teaches  that  other 
city  authorities  can  do  likewise  if  they 
are  as  honest  and  shrewd  as  those  of 
Chattanooga.

One  of  the  bank  wreckers  in  New  Or­
leans  has  been  sentenced  to  three  years 
hard  labor  in  the  penitentiary. 
It  will 
be  seen  that  even  a  banker  has  often  to 
work  hard  for his  money.

to 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
The  fact  that  the  general  aggregate 
in  spite 
of  business  continues  so  large 
of  the  continued  decline 
in  prices, 
argues  that  the  quantity  of  goods 
handled 
is  normally  large  and  is  con­
stantly  increasing.  When  it  is  consid­
ered  that  prices  in  1892  averaged  over 
23  per  cent,  more  than  at  present,  it 
will  be  seen  that  the  current  statements 
of  transactions  measured  by  values 
means the  production,  distribution  and 
consumption  of  a  much  greater  quantity 
than  for  a  number  of  years  past.  The 
tendency  of  manufacturing  prices  con­
tinues  in  the  wrong direction,  especially 
as  to  iron  and  textiles.  The  most  un­
favorable 
general 
prices  is  the  tremendous  rush of imports 
to  anticipate  the  new  tariff. 
It  looks  as 
though  this  must  result  in  a  cheapening 
of  such  merchandise  to  an  extent  that 
bodes  no  good  to  our  own manufactures, 
for  a  time,  at  least,  whatever 
it  may 
mean  for  low  prices  to  consumers.

indication  as 

The  movement  of  the  wheat  market 
seems  to  be  in  sympathy  with  the  war 
in  the  East,  although  the  de­
outlook 
is,  perhaps,  not  quite 
cline  this  week 
in 
so  pronounced  as  might  be  expected 
consideration  of  the  situation 
there. 
The general  market  conditions  seem  to 
be  such  as  will  prevent  any  great  de­
cline.

The  iron  and  steel  situation  continues 
very  unsatisfactory  as  to  prices.  The 
failure  in  agreement  between  the  prom­
inent  manufacturers,  as  to  prices  of 
beams  and  other  productions,  has  ope­
rated  to  depress  quotations  still  further 
below  the  figures  which  had  already 
broken  the  records.  The  low  prices  for 
ores  seem 
likely  to  affect  all  lines  of 
iron  and  steel  production 
in  similar 
proportion.

The  situation 

in  textiles  continues 
without  material  change  except  that  the 
price  of  cotton  has  advanced  somewhat 
as  a  consequence  of the lessened produc­
tion,  caused  by  the  Southern 
floods. 
Both  cotton  and  woolen  fabrics continue 
in  poor  demand  and  the  outlook 
is  for 
further  restriction  of  production.

The  demand  for general  merchandise 
is  reported  better  at  many  Western  and 
Southern  points,  although  there  is  still 
complaints  that  the  tendency  continues 
for  hand-to-mouth  orders.

the  billion 

Bank  clearings  for  the  week  slightly 
point  again— 
exceed 
$1,004,000,000—a  decrease,  however, 
of  10  per  cent, 
from  the  preceding 
week.  Failures  are  larger  again—251, 
as  compared  with  228  last  week.

AN  ANTI-BRITISH  ALLIANCE.
The  report  cabled  from  Berlin  to  the 
effect  that  an  agreement  had  been  en­
into  by  Germany,  Russia  and 
tered 
France,  whereby  affairs 
in  Africa  are 
to  be  settled  on  a  distinctly  anti-British 
basis,  evidently  voices  rather  the  hopes 
and  wishes  of  Emperor  William  than 
describes  an  accomplished  fact. 
It  is 
said  that  the  three  continental  powers 
have agreed  among  themselves  to  insist 
upon  the  complete  independence  of  the 
Transvaal,  and  are  prepared  to  offer 
armed  opposition  to  any  British  at­
tempt  at  coercion  in  South  Africa. 
It 
that  the  price  of 
is  also  reported 
is  a  promise  by  the 
France’s  support 
other  powers  to  join  her 
in  a  demand 
for  England’s  withdrawal from Egypt.

There  is  no  reason  whatever  to  doubt 
that  Germany  and  Russia  are  endeavor­
ing  to  create  an  anti-English  feeling, 
and  would  gladly  bring  about  a  conti­
nental  coalition  against  Great  Britain. 
is  not  at all  probable,  however,  that
It 

in  Egypt,  that 

France  has been led  into  any such agree­
ment  as  that  described,  for  several  very 
good  reasons,  the  principal  of  which  is 
the  opposition  of  the  masses  in  France 
to  any  rapprochement  to  Germany  as 
long  as  that  power  retains the conquered 
provinces  of  Alsace  and  Lorraine.  As 
much  as  France  dislikes  the presence of 
the  British 
is  really  a 
small  matter  compared  with  the  pres­
ence  of  Germany 
in  Alsace-Lorraine. 
As  far  as  the  Transvaal  is  concerned, 
France  is  not  likely  to  display  any  con­
cern  whatever,  as  she  has  no  interests 
in  that  part  of  the  world.  The  only 
power  showing  any  concern  at  the  pos­
sible  fate  of  President  Kruger’s  little 
republic,  so-called, 
is  Germany,  even 
Russia  having  no  motive  for  action,  ex­
cept a  general  conflict  of  interests  with 
Great  Britain.

The  prospect  that  England  will  soon 
coerce  the  Boers  is  a  very  bitter  pill  for 
Emperor  William,  and  a  realization  of 
how  utterly  helpless  he  is  to  offer  any 
interference  has,  no  doubt,  goaded  him 
into  proposing  to  the  other  continental 
powers a  coalition  against  the  British. 
The  absence  of  a 
formidable  navy 
would  make  Germany  utterly  hepless  as 
against  England. 
It  is  a  knowedge  of 
this  fact  which  has  been  at  the  bottom 
of  the  frantic  efforts  Emperor  William 
has  recently  made  to  induce  the  Reich­
stag  to authorize  the  building  of  a  num­
ber  of  additional  warships,  and  his  cha­
grin  and  rage  at the  refusal  of  the  legis­
lative  body  to  accede  to  his  wishes  is 
amusing.

France  has  a  very  good  navy,  but  that 
the  French  people  will  submit  to  being 
made  a  catspaw  for  Germany  is  not 
in 
the  least  probable;  hence  Emperor 
William  will  have  to  bear  the  mortifica­
tion  of  witnessing  the  coercion  of  the 
Transvaal,  should  President  Kruger 
prove  obstinate  and  refuse  to  accede  to 
the  demands  of  Great  Britain  as  best  he 
may.  Russia 
is  not  to  be  relied  upon 
for  a  moment,  as  her  policy  is  too  ut­
terly  selfish  to  permit  of  her  aiding any­
body  where  her  own  interests  are  not  at 
stake. 
THE  IMPORTATION  OF  SUGAR.
The  very  heavy  importations  of  sugar 
into  the  United  States  for  some  weeks 
past  show  clearly  that  the  Sugar  Trust 
is  preparing  to  fortify  itself  against  the 
increased  duties  which  are  expected  to 
follow,  whether  the  Senate  bill  or  the 
Dingley  tariff  becomes  law.  One  or 
the  other  of  these  measures,  or  a  com­
bination  of  both,  is  sure  to  pass;  hence 
the  refiners  feel  safe  in  accumulating 
quite  a  year’s  supply  of  raw  sugar.

_____________

imporations 

These  importations  have  been  going 
on  at  all  the  ports  of  the  United  States. 
The  most  serious  feature  of  these  enor­
mous 
is  the  result  which 
they  will  have  on  the  collection  of  rev­
enues  for  the  next  year  or  eighteen 
mouths.  With  so  much  sugar  accumu­
lated  in  advance,  the  imports  are  sure 
to  be  very  small  for a  long  time  after 
the  new  tariff  bill  passes;  hence  the  ex­
pected  increase  in  revenue  will  not  be 
developed  for  some  time.

There  is  very  little  basis  for  the  ex­
pressed  hope  that  the  approach  of  warm 
weather  will  cut  off  the  length  of  the 
speeches  in  the  Senate.  These  old  talk­
ers,  like  old  ball  players,  never  limber 
up  for  their best  work  until  the  weather 
gets  good  and  hot.

The  old  saying  about “ the  hand  that 
rocks  the  cradle  is  the  hand  that  rules 
the  world”   should  be  called  in.  Scien­
tists  say  that  the  baby  should  no 
longer 
be  rocked ;  that  the  motion  disturbs  the 
growth  of  its  brain.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

g

is 

in  progress 

THE  REVOLUTION  IN  BRAZIL.
No  attempt 

is  now  made  to  disguise 
the  fact  that  a  serious  revolutionary 
movement 
in  Brazil. 
What  was  at  first  described  as  an  out­
break  of  religious  fanatics  is  now ad­
mitted  to  be  a  formidable  political  up­
heaval.  The  federal  troops  of  Brazil 
have  been  unable  to  cope  successfully 
with  the  so-called  fanatics,  but  have 
met  with  disastrous  defeats  on  several 
occasions.

As  an  evidence  of  the  grave  character 
of  this  outbreak,  which  originated  ap­
parently 
in  the  province  of  Bahia,  the 
President,  in  his  recent  message  to  the 
Brazilian  Congress,  urges  the  necessity 
for  the  prompt  reorganization  of  the 
army,  so  as  to  put  it  in  a  condition  to 
cope  successfully with the revolutionists. 
This  is  tantamount  to  an  admission  that 
the  Brazilian  army 
is  not  sufficiently 
numerous  nor  properly  equipped to cope 
with  a  serious  uprising.  Since  the  de­
thronement  of  the  Emperor  Dom  Pedro 
the  army  has  been  the  mainstay  of  the 
republic;  in  fact,  it  has  wielded  a  par­
amount 
therefore,  the 
army  has  decayed  it  is  evident  that  the 
republic 
in  strength, 
hence  there  is  grave  reason  for  fearing 
that  the  revolution 
in  progress  may 
prove  serious.

itself  has 

influence. 

lost 

If, 

Brazil 

is  now  suffering  from  serious 
financial  difficulties. 
The  shrinkage 
in  the  price  of  Brazil's  principal  prod­
ucts  has  materially  cut  down  the  reve­
nues,  and  this  fdct,  joined  to  a  general 
lack  of 
administration,  has 
greatly 
impaired  the  credit  of  Brazil 
and  created  a  spirit  of  discontent  which 
makes  the  time  propitious  for  revofu- 
tionary  attempts

thrifty 

It 

largely 

is  a  notorious  fact  that  but  few  of 
the  old-time  public  men  who  won  fame 
and  reputation  under  the  Empire  have 
taken  any  prominent  part 
in  public 
affairs  since  the  advent  of  the  republic. 
the 
These  men  control  very 
wealth  of  the  country,  and  their 
influ­
ence 
is,  without  doubt,  being  secretly 
directed  towards  the  undermining of  the 
existing  regime.  Just  what  form  of  gov­
ernment  they  propose  to  substitute  for 
that  now  prevailing  is  not  so  clear,  but 
it  is  scarcely  probable  that  they  would 
attempt  to  place  the  old  Emperor’s 
daughter on  the  throne, as  she  was  never 
very  popular,  even  during  the  existence 
of  the  monarchy.  A  restoration  of  mon­
archy  in  some  form  will,  no  doubt,  be 
attempted,  but  that a monarchial govern­
ment  can  again  be  made  permanent 
in 
Brazil  is  very  doubtful.

THE  NEW  GUN  BOATS.

During  the  past  few  weeks  several 
new  gunboats,  recently  completed  for 
the  Government,  were  given  their  trial 
trips,  and  in  every  case  they  not  only 
came  up  to  contract  requirements,  but 
gave  great  satisfaction  to  the  naval  ex­
perts  appointed  to  superintend 
their 
trials.

These  new gunboats  are  nine  in  num­
ber,  three  having  a  displacement  each 
of  1,400 tons  and  six  of  only  1,000  tons. 
Five  of  the  boats aie twin-screw vessels, 
with  only  sufficient  sail  power  to  aid 
them  in  a  seaway,  while  the  remaining 
four  boats  are  equipped  with  single 
screws  and  have  large  sail  power,  being 
able  to  make  as  good  time  with  sails 
alone  as  with  steam.  All  the  vessels 
are  so  equipped  as  to  be able  to  cruise 
with  very  small  expenditure of coal,  and 
will  need  docking  but  seldom,  hence 
they  will  prove  very  economical  ships.
Owing  to  the-light  cost  of  maintain­
in  commission,  theii

ing  these  ships 

heavy  armament,considering  their small 
size,  and  their  capacity  for  berthing 
quite  large  crews,  it  is  proposed  to  util­
ize  these  boats  on  foreign  stations,  to 
replace  the  larger  and  costlier  cruisers 
whose  maintenance  proves  a  heavy 
drain  on  the  resources  of  the  Navy  De­
partment,  and  whose  presence  is  more 
necessary  at  home,  where  such  powerful 
vessels  could  be  made  available 
for 
any  call  for  serious  service.

As  fast  as  the  new  gunboats  are  com­
missioned,  it  is  expected  that  a  corres­
ponding  number  of  the  larger  ships will 
be  put  out  of  commission,  and,  after 
being'  thoroughly  repaired,  placed 
in 
the  reserve  fleet,  with  only  sufficient 
crews  on  board  td  keep  their  machinery 
and  armament  in  condition  for 
instant 
use.  The  Department  has  long contem­
plated  the  creation  of  this  reserve  fleet, 
and  the  time  now  seems  to  have  come 
when 
is  possible  to  carry  the  plan 
into  effect.

it 

Greatly  to  the  disgust  of  the  good 
people  of  Brussels,  their 
international 
exhibition,  as  usual,  was  so  far  from 
ready  on  the  day  officially  fixed  for  the 
opening  that  the  latter had  to  be  post­
poned,  and,  under  the  circumstances, 
the  King  and  the  royal  family  were  un­
able  to  take  part 
in  the  ceremonies. 
The  same  thing  has  happened  with 
every  show  of  the  kind  held  in  Belgium 
and  has  invariably  marred  the  success 
of  the  affair.  The  Belgian  government 
has  determined  to  hold  an  international 
colonial  congress  at  Brussels  in  connec­
tion  with  the  exhibition  in  the  middle 
of  July  next  and  has  already  sent  out 
invitations 
foreign  powers. 
Among  the  principal  questions  to  be 
submitted  to  the  congress  by  King  Leo­
pold 
introduction  into 
Africa  of  the  colored  population  of  the 
United  States.

is  that  of  the 

the 

to 

At  the  coming 

jubilee  in  England, 
Queen  Victoria  will  follow  precedent 
by  responding  to  the  salutations  of  her 
loyal  subjects  as  she  passes  along  the 
streets  in  her  state  coach,  drawn  by  six 
cream-colored  horses  gaudily  appareled 
in  a  $5,500  harness.  But  Queen  V ic­
toria  is  not  so  young  as  she  used  to  be, 
and  is  hardly  equal  to  the  task  of  bow­
ing  repeatedly  to  the 
thousands  of 
cheering  subjects  that  will  line  the way. 
It  has  been  necessary,  therefore,  to  re­
sort  to  an  expedient  that  is  worthy  of 
the  ingenuity  of  a  Connecticut  Yankee. 
The  coach  will  be  provided  with  a 
rocking  seat,  which  will  move  auto­
matically.  Of  course,  the  queen  will 
move  with  it,  and  as  she  inclines  for­
ward  she  will  convey  the  impression 
that  she 
is  bowing  her  acknowledg­
ments  of  her  vociferous  greetings.

There 

is  a  rich  and  fertile  field  for 
typewriter  girls 
in  China  and  Japan. 
The 
innovation 
is  a  pleasing  one  and 
has  taken  immensely  with  Chinese  mer­
chants  particularly.  A  number  of Amer­
ican  girls  who  have  gone  there  during 
the  past  year  are  now  reported  married 
or  engaged.  A  Denver  stenographer 
who  left  last  November  writes  that  she 
is  engaged  to  a  Chinese  mandarin. 
Hong  Kong,  Shanghai  and  Yokohama 
are  the  cities  where  the  American wom­
en  catch  on  the  best.

The  suggestion  is  advanced  that  per­
haps  the  ultimate  field  of  acetylene  will 
be 
in  the  lighting  of  lighthouses  and 
on  board  ships.  Its compactness  and  the 
ease  with  which  it  can  be  stowed  away 
in  the  form  of  carbide and  ease  of  gen­
eration  of  the  gas,  together  with  great 
brilliancy,  all  point  to’  its  adaptability 
for  this  purpose.

C b e   f l o u r   t h a t   S e l l s

The  real  value  of any  flour— 
the  profit  either  to  you  or 
to  your  customers— depends 
upon  its  baking  qualities. 
If 
lightest, 
it  will  make  the 
whitest  and  most  nutritious 
bread, it will please your trade.

P i l l s b u r y ’ s   B e s t   f l o u r

It will please your 
does this. 
trade  and  keep you  on  other 
It  is  the  King  of  all 
lines. 
Family  Flours. 
If our sales­
man  does  not  call  on  you, 
write  us  for  quotations  on 
carload  or less quantity.

Clark-Hewell-Wells Co.,

Western micbigan Jtgents,

Grand Rapids.

IO

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Petting the  People
How  the  Merchant  Should  Study  the 

Needs  of  His  Customers.

W ritten fo r the T rad esm an.

Were  I  to  open  a  store  in  a  new  loca­
tion,  the  first  matter  I  should  attend  to 
would  be  that  of  getting  acquainted 
with  the  class  of  trade  I  intended  to 
cater  to,  whether  it  were  dry goods,  gro­
ceries  or  coffins.  There  are  several  rea­
sons  why  this  preliminary  step  is  im­
portant,  and  the  chief  of  these  is  the 
bearing  it  will  have  on  methods  of  ad­
vertising  The  prospective  merchant 
may  profitably  spend  a  month  in  thus 
acquainting  himself  with  the  personal 
peculiarities  of  his  clientele.  He  may 
have  been  satisfactorily  successful  in 
business 
in  his  previous  location,  his 
knowledge  of  the  neighborhood  hav­
ing  put  him  in  position  to  understand 
what  goods  and  what  advertising  would 
best  suit  the  existing conditions ;  but  he 
will  find,  if  he  attempts  to  pursue the 
same  policy  in  Bungtown  he  pursued  in 
Bangtown,  that  social  habits,  natural 
prejudices  and 
instincts  are  entirely 
different,  making what  would  be  consid­
ered  good  advertising  in  the  one  place, 
bad  advertising 
in  the  new  location. 
Such  a  policy  is  a  great  deal  like  feed­
ing  oats  to  a  cat  because  a  horse  likes 
them.  The  merchant  who  knows and 
understands  his  customers  or  the  trade 
he  desires  to  reach,  can  talk  to  them 
profitably  and  understandingly 
in  his 
advertising.

*  *  *

The  Dry  Goods  Economist  well  says 
that  “ the  study  of  the  problems  of  ad­
vertising  is  exceedingly  fascinating. 
It 
is  really  a  study  of  some  of  the  most 
complicated  and  hidden  springs  of  hu­
man  nature,  and  he  who  would  succeed 
as  an  advertiser  is  imperatively called 
upon  to  study  that  great  book,  a  page 
of  which  is  open  to  him  on  the  counte­
nances  and  in  the actions  of  each  man 
and  woman  he  meets. ’ ’  And  the  man 
who  would  be  successful  must  begin  his 
study  of  the  book  of  human nature  when 
he  makes  his  selections  for  salespeople. 
As  the  proprietor  may  not  expect  to 
supply  the  wants  and  study  the  peculi­
arities  of  each  customer,  this  most 
im­
portant  duty  devolves  upon  the  clerk, 
and  selections  must  be  made  of  men 
and  women  who  are,  in  their  turn,'ex­
pert  judges  of  humanity  and  able  to 
find  its  best  side.

*  *  *

To  write  successful  publicity,  it  is 
one  of  the  essentials  to  first  study  the 
matter  from  the  reader's  standpoint. 
“ If 
intended  to  purchase  a  new  spring 
suit,  how  would  such  and  such  a  de­
scription  strike  me,  and  how  would  it 
affect  my  decision  in buying?”   “ Would 
I  consider  such  and  such  statements  as 
over-confident  and  savoring  of  humbug, 
or  would  I  be  convinced  that  the  lan­
guage  of  advertising  conveyed  absolute 
truth?”   Such  questions  as these  should 
be  asked  and  answered,  and  every  pos­
sible  objection 
looked  squarely  in  the 
face  and  either  answered  satisfactorily 
or  removed. 
in  his 
place”   saves  a  great many dollars which 
would  otherwise  be  wasted.  Be  sure 
you  are  properly  primed  and  loaded  be­
fore  you  fire.  Advertising  guns  which 
go  off  “ half  cocked”   never  hit  the 
mark.

“ Putting  yourself 

*  *  *

As  in  everything  else  under  the  sun, 
there  are  extremes  in  advertising,  and 
every 
fact. 
Cheek  by 
jowl,  we  see  the  advertise­
ment  of  the  merchant  who  pays  for a

journal  exemplifies 

this 

large  space  and  uses 
it  simply  as  a 
cheap  sign—name,  location  and  busi­
ness-leaving  it  unchanged  for  months, 
with  that  of  the  man  who  writes  enough 
interest  to 
matter,  most  of  which  is  of 
no one,  to  fill  the  same  space 
in  small 
type.  Simplicity 
is  a  virtue  in  adver­
tising,  but  not  to  the  extent  to  which 
the  first  extremist  carries 
it.  To  in­
terest  people  and  make  your advertising 
pay,  you  must  tell  them  something more 
interesting  than  merely  “ My  name  is 
John  Smith  and  I  sell  shoes  at  Bung- 
town. ”   The  chances  are  very good that 
youi  customers  will  find  out  what  youi 
name  is,  and  if  they  do  not,  it  will  be 
probably  because  they  do  not  care  par­
ticularly to  know. 
If  you  sell  shoes,  the 
shoeless  public  wants  to  know  if  they 
are  just  the  kind  of  shoes  which  will 
best  suit  their  needs  at  prices  which 
are  in  conformity  with  the  wearing  and 
other  qualities  of  the  shoes  as  well  as 
the  pocketbook.  On  the  other  hand, 
while  people  want  to  know  all  these 
points,  they  will  not  devote  their  time 
to a  careful  review  of  what  the  writer 
probably  considers  a  well  written  story 
principally  about  himself,  his goods be­
ing  a  secondary  consideration.  Buyers 
are  not  interested  in  the  personal  char­
acteristics,  etc.,  of  the  merchant  with 
whom  they  deal,  only  so  far  as  these 
may  be  in  the  line  of  honesty  and  cour­
tesy,  and  this  they  will  find  out by  per­
sonal  observation.  You  may  have  sold 
shoes  eighty  years  continuously,  and 
even  be  able  to  state  the  fact  that  you 
little  red-topped, 
were  born  with  a 
copper-toed  shoe 
in  each  hand,  and  if 
this  statement  is  not  made  very  briefly 
and  with  the  purpose  of  convincing  the 
buyer  that  you  are  better  fitted  than 
others  to  select  good  stock,  all  your 
carefully  chosen  verbiage 
in  stating 
these  facts  are worse than wasted.  There 
is  a  sharply-drawn 
line  between  “ too 
much”   and  “ too  little,”   and  the  closer 
the  advertiser  comes  to  this  line,  the 
more  profitable  is  his  advertising.

N e m o .

A  Lieutenant  in  Business.

There 

is  one  point  about  business 
affairs  that  is  quite  frequently neglected 
and  yet  which  is  to  be  approached  with 
a  considerable  degree  of  hesitancy.  Al­
most  every  merchant  insures  his  stock, 
and  his  building  if  he  owns 
it,  against 
loss  by  fire.  He  even  carries  life and 
possibly  accident 
insurance.  But  has 
he  so  arranged  his  affairs  that  in  case 
of  his  demise a  qualified  successor  can 
take  his  place  and  conduct the business, 
preventing  a  closing  out  sale  with  its 
probable  consequent 
loss?  There  are 
not  many  business  men  who  take  this 
precaution,  and  especially among  those 
smaller  merchants  whose  estates  may 
it  the  most.  A  lieutenant  in 
require 
business 
is  as  useful  as 
in  military 
affairs,  and  will  certainly  be  called  up­
on  to  take  command  if  he  continues 
in 
the  service.  Corporations guard  against 
such  contingencies and  in  so  doing  set 
a  strong  example  to 
individuals  and 
firms.

The  Nine  Longest  Words.

Below are  the  nine  longest  words 

in 
language  at  the  present 

the  English 
writing:

Subconstitutionalist.
Incomprehensibility.
Ph i loprogen i ti veness.
Honor ificibilitudinity.
Anthropopbagenenarian.
Disproportionableness.
V eloci pedestrian i st ¡cal.
Transsubstantiationableness.
Proantitransubstantiationist.

Ask the  price;  we’ll  ship the  soap. 
Not  for sale  by department stores.

B i- m a r t - P in  6o„

Grand Rapids, Mieti.

jSmntmmmmmmmnwnmtmmn
^ You Can Sell__—
|  Armour’s 
|  Washing
| 

Powder

2  Packages for 5  Cents.

For  particulars  write  your  jobber,  or  TH E  ARMOUR 

SOAP  WORKS, Chicago.

Armour’s  White  Floating Soap

is a sure seller.  Name is good, quality is good, and price  is  right.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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rs.  Jones 

Home  Made  Catsup

IS
prepared
from
Fresh
Ripe
T  omatoes
and
has a
Peculiarly
Delicious
Flavor

This Catsup has been analyzed by the Chemist of the Ohio Pure Food  Commission  and  found 
to be ABSOLUTELY PURE and in conformity with the rigid Ohio state  laws.

Take no Chances and Sell Mrs. Jones’ Uncolored Catsup.

At wholesale by Ciark-Jewell-Wells Co., Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 

and the best jobbers everywhere in the United States. 

WILLIAMS  BROS.  &  CHARBONEAU,  Detroit,  Sole  Proprietors.

Peddlers  and  Their  Ways.

W ritten fo r the T radesm an.

I  am  not  often  afflicted  with  present­
ments,  but  one  day  as  I  saw  a  vehicle 
attached  to  a  mis-matched  and  disrep­
utable  team  draw  up 
in  front  of  my 
house,  I  knew  in  an  instant  that  some­
thing  of  a  disagreeable  nature  was  like­
ly  to  occur.  My  wife  had  been  frugally 
saving  for  two  years  every  scrap  of 
cloth  that  had  survived  its  usefulness  in 
all  departments  of  household  economy 
except  as  paper  rags;  and  five  flour 
sacks,  solidly  packed,  were  then  await­
ing  the  remorseless  clutch  of 
some 
traveling collector.  As a general  thing,  I 
have  confidence 
in  my  wife’s  business 
qualifications.  She  has  always  shown 
a  remarkable  talent 
in  making  profit­
able  purchases  where 
the  equivalent 
paid  was  spot  cash;  but  here  another 
element  entered 
transaction 
about  to  take  place,  and,  judging  from 
what  I  had  observed  of  previous  deals,
I  feared  that  she  would  in  this  instance 
fail  to  maintain  her  well-earned  repu­
tation.  The  sequel  proved  my  present­
ment  correct.

into  the 

On  being  asked  the  price  he  paid 
for  rags,  the  peddler  replied  briskly 
“ 50  cents  a  hundred  ma’am .”   This 
being  twice  the  amount  usually  offered 
for  waste  paper  collections,  it  seemed 
liberal  enough  and  a  legal  delivery  of 
the  stock  was  thereupon  made.  He 
then  carefully  weighed  each  bag  with  a 
soit  of  antediluvian  apparatus  called 
steelyards.  These were properly  named, 
whether  used  by  either  buyer  or  seller 
—since  they  appear  to  possess a judicial 
instinct  and  invariably  give  the  manip- 
uator  in  all  cases  of  uncertainty  ‘ ‘ the 
benefit  of  the doubt. ”   After  weighing 
and  footing  the  total,  the  verdict  of  the 
scales  as  announced  in  due  form  was  30 
pounds,  and 
judgment  was  accordingly 
rendered  for the  seller  to  the  amount  of 
15  cents,  to  be  paid 
in  tinware.  The 
stock  was  at  once  placed  with  the  mis­
cellaneous  cargo  previously  gathered  on 
the deck  of the  van  and  carefully  mixed 
with  other  packages  of  similar  appear­
ance,  ostensibly  with  a  view  to  secure 
safe  stowage,  but,  perhaps,  also  to  hide 
their  identity  in  case  of  possible  ulter­
ior  complications  in  the  matter  of  final 
settlement.

The  next  proceeding  was  to  deliver 
the  goods.  The  thrifty  dealer brought 
out  for 
inspection  sundry  kitchen  im­
plements  upon  which  he  had  mentally 
made  an  invoice  that  no  insurance com­
pany  would  0.  K.  for  more  than  20  per 
cent  of 
its  face.  They  were  for the 
most  part  of  equal  commercial  value, 
but  the  spoken  price  of  each  usually 
tallied  with  the  verdict  of  the  scales 
whether  more  or  less  in  pounds  avoir­
dupois.  This  was,  no  doubt,  done  to 
save  the  fatigue  of  close  computation, 
as  peddlers  always  seem  to  have  a  hor­
ror  of  vulgar  fractions,  and  prefer  to 
lose(?)  a  profit  rather than  not  have  ex­
changes  of  property  equally  balance. 
The  fertile  brain,  however,  of  my  do­
mestic  purveyor  perceived  that,  admit­
ting  the  price  and  weight  fixed  on  the 
rags  to  be  equitable,  the quid  pro  quo 
offered  must  have  swelled  to  enormous 
proportions.  Her  first  thought  was  to 
annul  the  contract  not  yet  legally  ter­
minated  and  personally  replevin the five 
bags;  but  the  idea  of  trying  to  identify 
them  while  practically 
chancery 
effectually  precluded  that  sort  of  relief. 
She  appealed  to  the  dealer’s  sense  of 
right  to  give  at  least  two  of  the least ex­
pensive  articles  in  stock,  instead  of  one 
—since  that  would  still 
leave  him  a 
profit  of  100  per  cent,  above  the  ordi­

in 

nary  retail  price—but  his  heart and con­
science  were  both  adamant.  At  length, 
advised  by  the  gathering 
crowd  of 
neighbors  that  further diplomatic  effort 
to  reduce  the  price  of  dippers  would  be 
only  a  waste  of  time  and  further  adver­
tise  her  weakness  of  judgment  in  part­
ing  with  goods  before  an  equivalent was 
agreed  on,  she  selected  the  largest  one 
to  be  found  and  retired  to  the  solitude 
of  her own  better  reflections.  There  she 
mentally  registered  a  vow  never  again 
to  spend  dollars  of  valuable  time  in 
carefully  collecting  30  pounds  of  good 
paper  rags  to  be  exchanged  for  5  cents’ 
worth  of  tinware. 
I  believe  that  vow 
has  been  religiously kept, for  often  since 
then,  when  I  have  caught  a  peculiar 
scent  floating 
the  house  and  sug­
gested  fire,  the  following  was  a  common 
explanation:  “ It’s  nothing  but  some 
paper  rags  I  just  threw  into  the  stove  to 
spite  that  old  peddler  and  keep  my 
word  good.”

in 

We  are  both  relieved  somewhat  of  the 
chagrin  naturally  produced  by  such  a 
transaction  by  finding,  through  confes­
sions  made  at  odd  times  by  other  prac­
tical  housekeeping  neighbors,  that  they 
also  were  caught  in  the  same  net  and 
profited  by a  similar  lesson  in  domestic 
economy.  We  wonder  what  the  New 
Woman  would  have  done  in  a  like case; 
but  perhaps  the  New  Woman  neither 
saves  rags  nor  deals  with  the  peddler 
whose  style  of  doing  business has  never 
varied  since  the  first  one  left  his  New 
England  home  to  seek 
fortune  and 
fame 
in  his  peculiar  system  of  ex­
change. 

P e t e r   C.  M e e k .

Personal  Influence  in  Business. 

Scribner’s M agazine.

Few  competitive  businesses  of  any 
sort,  great  or  small,  are  made  success­
ful  without  a  vast  deal  of 
influence 
from  the  personal  and  social  qualities. 
We  contract  a  habit  of  buying our paper 
from  a  particular  newsboy,  simply  be­
cause  his  cheery  voice,  red  cheeks  and 
engaging  quickness  have  attracted  us— 
may  be  unconsciously  on  either  side. 
We  find  it  far easier  to  withstand a book 
agent  or  drummer  or advertising  solici­
tor,  if  he  be bilious-looking,  diffident  or 
awkward,  if  he  possess  no  spark  of 
in­
trinsic  interest,  and  if  we  haven’t  chat­
ted  with  him  in  the  casual  smoking car. 
In  professional  ranks  one  notices  the 
incomparable  advantages  enjoyed by the 
physician,  the  lawyer  and  the  clergy­
man,  who  has  a  good  physique,  an 
im­
posing  presence  and  a  well-selected 
stock  of  stories.

The  Value  of Tact.

From the Chicago Dry Goods Reporter.

Tact 

is  the  silk 

lining  of business 
talent,  and  no  man’s  commercial equip­
ment  is  complete  without  it. 
Its  warp 
and  woof  are  patience and unselfishness.
These  threads  of  character  are  not 
very  common,  and  the  peculiar weave 
of  them  called  tact  is  still  more  rare. 
But  its  value  never  shrinks,  and  scarce­
ly  any  price 
is  too  high  for  the  mer­
chant  to  pay  for  it.  The  more  tact  he 
has  in  his  own  person,  in  his  salesmen 
and 
in  all  those  around  him,  the  more 
certain  is  the merchant of  doing a steady 
and  prosperous  business  at  all  seasons 
and  in  bad  times  or good.

A  night  watchman  in  Portland,  Me., 
who  has  more  ingenuity  than  fidelity, 
has been  caught  in  two  labor-saving  de­
vices.  First,  he  rigged  up  an  arrange­
ment  which  should  push  in  the  buttons 
supposed  to  record  his  hourly  progress 
through  the  mill.  He  was  caught  at 
this,  but  instead  of  discharging  him the 
proprietors  made  him  use a  pedometer 
for his  rounds.  On  the  third  morning 
he  was  found  asleep,  but  the  pedometer 
was so connected  with  some  moving  ap­
paratus  that  it  registered.  The  trouble 
was  he  had  forgotten  it  too  long,  and 
the  dial  showed  209  miles.

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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  se-
cure and will be until  new pack.
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Handfuls  of  Money

Are  made  by  thousands  of  merchants  who  use  our  systems  for handling  transactions  between  clerks 
and  customers  in  their  stores.  Fill  out  and  mail  to  us  the  blanks  below and we will  send  you  a  hand­
somely-illustrated  pamphlet  describing  one  of these  money-making  systems in use in  stores like  yours.

When  our  agent  is  next  in  your  vicinity  he  will call  with sample  registers  and  further  explain  the 
system;  or  if  the  particular  system  we  send  should  not  be  satisfactory,  he  will,  by  aid  of  the  information 
on  the  blanks,  assist  you  in  devising  a  system  suited  to  your  special  needs.

When  the  agent  calls  he  will  supply  you  with  our latest  book on  window  dressing,  and  also  a book 

containing  valuable  hints  to  clerks.

It  is  understood  that  sending  this  information  to  us  places  you  under  no obligation  to  buy.

Address  Department  D,  The  National  Cash  Register  Company,  Dayton,  Ohio,  U.  S.  A.

M ake  map  of  store  below.

Show, by pencil, location of front door, counters, show-windows, 

show-cases, safe, cashiers desk or cash-drawers.

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1.  How many clerks?

2.  Do clerks  receive payments on account?

3.  Do clerks pay out money?

4.  How many cash-drawers?

5.  Do clerks make change?

6.  Are clerks’ sales kept separate?

7.  H ave you a  cashier?

8.  H ave you a bookkeeper?

9.  Have  you a  head clerk or manager?

10.  Do you buy country produce?
11.  H ave you cash boys?

12.  H ave you a cash carrier?

13.  W hat per cent,  of sales on credit?

14.  Are credit sales entered  in a blotter?

15.  Are credit sales entered on  duplicating slips?

16.  Are cash sales recorded as soon as  made?

17.  Do your drivers take orders?

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

JANE  CRAGIN.

Quiet  Game  of Cribbage  in  the  Hotel 

Parlor.

Miss  Cragin’s  threat  to  give  Mr. 
Huxley  her  opinion  upon  certain  devel­
opments  brought  out by  the  supper  was 
not  destined  to  be  early  carried  out. 
There  was  no  early  rising  on  the  part 
of  the  latest  guest  at  the  Alta Vista,  and 
when  later  the  following  day  his  eyes 
were opened  and  he  found that the after­
noon  was  making  its  mark,  he  calmly 
turned  his  pillow  for his  usual  morning 
nap  with  that  additional  sense  of  rest 
which  came  to  him  with  the  knowledge 
of  his  whereabouts  and  that  the  long 
tiresome  journey  was  over  and  that Jane 
was  in  the  next  room.

complexion  and 

The  nap,  however,  was  a  short  one. 
It  began  with  Jane and  a  rich  red  rose, 
which  she  had placed  most unbecoming­
ly 
in  her  hair and  then  the  red  became 
mysteriously  duplicated upon her breast. 
Then,  strangest  of  all,  it  wasn’t  Jane 
any  more  but  a  face  wholly  strange  to 
him,  made  up  of  Miss  MacDonald’s 
bright  eyes  and  Miss  Birkenmayer’s 
delicate 
the  pretty 
mouth  and  chin  of—of— for the  life  of 
him  he  couldn’t  for  a  minute  recall 
Miss  Marchland’s  name.  There  wasn’t 
any  need  of 
In  less  time  than  it 
takes  to  write  it,  the  features  of  ali  ex­
cept  her  own  had  vanished and the same 
lovely  face  which  had  leaned  towards 
him  over  the  table  leaned  towards  him 
now. 
she  was,”   he 
thought,  and  with  the  hope  of  seeing 
her  soon,  he  got  up  and  looked  out  of 
the  window.

“ How  pretty 

it. 

“ Rain !’ ’  He  had  already  lost a day ! 
Worse  than  that  he  felt  that  in  some 
way  he  had  heen  imposed  upon.  From 
indirectly,  he 
Jane’s  letters,  at  least 
had  caught  the 
idea  that  this  was  the 
land  of  eternal  sunshine;  that  never,  in 
the  memory  of  the  oldest inhabitant  had 
it  been  known  to  have  more  than  a 
passing  shower;  that  umbrellas  was  the 
provoking  sign  of  the  offensive  tender­
foot  and  that  rubbers  and  a  mackintosh 
in  the  eyes  of  the  citizens of the Centen­
nial State furnished sufficient grounds for 
a  hanging  bee. 
In  the  face  of  all  this, 
here  was  the  first  day  after  his  arrival  a 
regular  soaker.  Across  the  street  the 
number  of  umbrellas  and  the  ease  in 
carrying  them  showed  that  they  were 
no  novelty ;  and  the  single street-crosser 
who  had  made  the  venture  of 
ignoring 
the  crossing  had  before  his  very  eyes 
gone 
into  the  mud  over  his  ankles. 
That  was  a  pretty  way  to  begin  a  sum­
mer  vacation. 
It  was  going  to be  a  fine 
thing  to  tramp  to  the  Garden  of  the 
Gods  through  the  red  sandstone  soil; 
and  with  mankind’s  usual 
imprecation 
when  his  plans  are  interfered  with  by 
the  weather  he,  “ cross  as  two  sticks," 
found  his  way to  the  dining  room.

He  found  Smith  there,  scolding  the 
waiter  for  not  boiling  his  eggs  hard 
enough;  and with a good  morning, which 
the  lawyer  declared  had  come  right  off 
the  ice  in  the  refrigerator,  the  two  ex­
changed  curses  over  the  weather  and 
were gloomily  going  on  with  the  break­
fast,  when  the  Captain  and  the  Doctor 
came  in.  That  the  Captain  had  had  a 
bad  night  his  face too  plainly  showed. 
Pale  and  spiritless,  he  sank 
into  his 
place,  with  the  evident  feeling  that  life 
was  hardly  worth  the  living.  The  Doc­
tor  was  at  first  disposed  to be philosoph­
ical  in  spite  of  his  discouarging  envi­
ronment ;  but  he,  too,  after  a  glance 
from  face  to face yielded to the influence 
of  the  weather and  ate  in  silence.

This  became  soon  so  impressive  that 
the  New  Englander,  especially  pleased

with  his  steak  and  coffee  and  accus­
tomed  to  a  regulai  rainy  day found him­
self 
inclined  to  be  hilarious  at,  the 
“ glumness”   on  the  faces  before  him. 
He  looked  from  one  to  the  other  to  find 
the  best  place  to  begin;  but  when  his 
eyes  fell  on  the  Captain  he  felt  that 
something  more  than  fun  was  needed. 
“ You  are not quite  equal  to  the  weath­
er,  I  see,  Captain  Walker,  and  if  these 
two  gentlemen  are  not  equal  to  it,  we 
may  possibly  find  a  little  comfort  in  a 
quiet  game of  cribbage out  by  the  win­
dow  where  we  can  hear  the  rain  patter 
on  the  tin  roof  of  the  verandah.  Do  you 
gentlemen want to try  a  hand  at  whist?”
There  was  no  inclination  on  the  part 
of  the  other  two  to  take  advantage of the 
offer;  and  when  the  meal  was  over,  Cy 
slipped  his  strong  hand  under  the  Cap­
tain's  arm  and  led  him  to  a  cosy  corner 
of  the  sun-parlor  where  the  table and 
cards  were  soon  in  place  and  the  game 
began.  The  “ pegging”   was  lively  at 
first,  but  the  rain  on  the  rocf  seemed  to 
be  familiar  music  to both  players  and 
they  often  stopped  the  game  to  listen. 
Then  there  were  thoughts  of  other  roofs 
where  the  same  home  song  was  played 
and  sung  and  by  and  by  the  Captain 
forgot  to  count,  and  then  to  play;  and 
then  from  a  single  remark  about  the 
far-off  home,  he  put  down  the  cards  he 
had  been  half-consciously  holding  and 
told  his  simple  story  of  home  leaving  to 
the  very  end,  Cy  listening  as  if  it  was  a 
part  of  his  own  life  that  was  passing  in 
review.  When  it  was  over,  with  a  smile 
that  told  of  the  passing  away  of a storm, 
more  to  be  dreaded  than  that  which  had 
been  going  on  outside, 
the  Captain 
thanked  his  friend  for  the  game  and the 
cheer  that  came  with 
it  and  left  the 
room.  Conscious  then  for  the  first  time 
that the  deep  seat  in  the  luxurious  bay- 
window  was  occupied,  Cy  looked up and 
found  the  cushions  in  the  possession  of 
Marjorie  Marchland.

“ Are  you  always  so  successful,  Mr. 
Huxley?  Because  in  that  case  I  shall  be 
only  too  glad  of  your  services?  You’ll 
find,  I  fancy,  a  more  obstinate  case 
in 
me. ”

‘ 1 It  depends  on  the  cards, ’ ’  was  the 
answer. 
“ They  didn’t  run  well  for  the 
Captain  and  he  didn’t  seem  to  care 
much  for  the  game. 
If  you’d  like,  I 
should  be  glad  to  have  a  game  with 
you.  Let  me  bring  the  table  to  the 
window,  Miss  Marchland.  Now  just  a 
little  change 
in  the  cushions  and  you 
will  have  the  most  comfortable  seat  im­
aginable.  Allow  m e;”   and  a  few  deft 
turns  of  the  pillows  realized  his  ideal.
“ Thank  you,  that  is  comfortable;  but 
I  can’t  let  you  think  you  deceive  me  in 
that  way.  You  played  a  better  game 
than  cards  with  the  Captain,  Mr.  Hux­
ley,  and  I  wonder  if  you  are  always  so 
successful.  Are  you?”

“ One  does  not  keep  account  of  such 
If,  however,  the  weath­
cases;  I  don’t. 
er doesn't  change  and  you  get  as  blue 
as  the  Captain,  I  shall  be  glad  to  be 
called 
I’ll  be 
magnanimous,  Miss  Marchland,  and 
give  you  the  deal. ”

in  to  prescribe  for  you. 

“ O,  no,  you  won't;  we’ll  cut for deal. 
I  want  no  favors;  and  to  be  told  at  the 
close  of  the  game  that  the  beating  you 
are  going  to  get 
is  due  to  your  mag­
nanimity.  That’s  the  way  brother  Tom 
and  papa  do. ”

So  the game  began  and  soon the storm 
and  the  rainsong  on  the  roof  were  for­
gotten  in  the * * fifteen’two—fifteen four, ’ ’ 
which  the  players  counted  and  pegged 
until  dinner  time,  when  Jane  Cragin 
found  them  still  intensely  interested 
in 
the  game  and  far  more  so  in  each other. 

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

SIXTY  YEARS  AGO.

The  Commercial  Traveler  a  Modern 

Institution.

W ritten for the  T h ad kskan.

through 

In  1840  and  for  some  years  later  the 
season  for  jobbing  business 
in  New 
York  was  confined  to  the  interval  be­
tween  the  opening  of  the  Erie  Canal  for 
the  passage  of  boats,  which  was  usually 
about  the  first  of  May,  and  the  clos­
ing  of  the  season,  about  the  first  of 
November.  During  the  winter  months 
the  drop  curtains  were  seldom  raised. 
Very  few goods  were  ordered  by  West­
ern  merchants,  for  want  of  shipping 
facilities.  Navigation  by  the  Hudson 
River  and  the  Erie  Canal  was  closed 
and  no  system  of 
railroad 
freighting  had  been  perfected.  Each 
separate  railroad  corporation  regulated 
its  own  traffic  and  scale  of 
freight 
charges.  Under  such  a  crude  system, 
subject  to  so  many  transfers  and  so 
much  vexatious  delay, 
cost  of 
freight  by  railroad  on  merchandise  was 
greater  than  would  now  be  charged  by 
express.  During 
this  suspension  of 
active business  the  stores  were regularly 
opened  and  the  book-keeper  was  always 
supposed  to  be  at  his  desk.  The  pro­
prietors  usually  came  in  after  the  mails 
were  received, 
to  dictate  the  corres­
pondence,  after  which  we  saw  no  more 
of  them  until  the  next  day.  The  serv­
ices  of  a  porter  were  usually  dispensed 
with  at  this  season,  the  clerks  making 
their own  arrangements  for  carrying  the 
keys  and 'opening  the  store.  Their  sal­
aries  went  on  just  the  same,  their  spare 
time  being  spent 
their 
friends  or  amusing  themselves  in  any 
other  way  they  might  choose.

in  visiting 

the 

All  this  was  long  before  the  advent  of 
the  Gripsack  Brigade.  The  only  com­
mercial  travelers  were  employed  by 
small 
jobbers  doing  an  exclusive  city 
or  near-by trade,  which  was  usually con­
fined  to  Long  Island,  New  Jersey  and 
some  points  on  the  Hudson  River.  At 
night,  the  streets  devoted  to  the  job­
bing  tiade  were  entirely  deserted.  The 
hotels,  so  crowded  during  the busy  sea­
son,  were  dark  and  cheerless,  showing 
scarcely  a  sign  of  life.  Even  Broad­
way  did  not  exhibit  as  much  life  as  is 
seen  on  Monroe  street  in  Grand  Rapids 
at  the  present  time. 
The  canal  com­
missioners’  notice,  giving  the  time  at 
which  the  Canal  would  be  filled  and  the 
boats  commence  their  regular 
trips, 
soon changed  the  scene  into  one  of great 
activity.  Buyers  poured 
into  the  city 
from  every  direction,  with  the  hope  of 
getting  their  purchases  on  board  the  re­
turn  fleet.  Sometimes  discouraging  de­
lays  occurred  in  consequence  of  the  in­
coming  boats  being  loaded  with  wheat, 
flour,  pork  and  every  variety  of  farm 
produce,  which  had  laid  over  winter  in 
warehouses  along  the 
line  or  in  the 
boats  themselves,  having  been 
frozen 
fast  by  the  early  closing  of  navigation. 
Every  buyer  was  in  a  hurry  and the job­
bing  business 
in  every  department  of 
merchandise  was  strained  to  its  utmost 
tension.  For  eight  weeks  the  faithful 
salesman  got  but  little  sleep.  He  was 
selling  goods  all  day,  at  night  calling 
them  off  to  the  entry  clerk,  then  pack­
ing  and  marking  them  for  shipment, 
which  frequently  carried  him  into  the 
small  hours  of  the  morning. 
In  addi­
tion,  he  was  expected  to  visit  the  hotels 
and 
look  over  the  arrivals  for  old  cus­
tomers,  and  have  an  eye  open  for as 
many  new  ones  as  he  could  find.  This 
rush  continued  about  six  weeks.  Then 
trade  gradually  settled 
into  a  normal 
condition,  until  three  or  four  weeks  be­

fore  the  close  of  navigation,  when  was 
experienced  again  the  same  rush  to buy 
and  ship  goods  before  the  close.

What  a  change  from  then  to  now! 
The  whole  machinery  of  jobbing  goods 
is  transposed. 
Instead  of  the  country 
merchant  visiting  the  New  York  job­
ber,  at  a  considerable  expense  of  time 
and  money,  the  jobber  sends  a  trusted 
representative  to  the  country merchant’s 
store  with  a  full  line  of  samples  of  all 
the goods  he  needs,  often  guaranteeing 
prices,  and  always  selling  the  goods  at 
the  lowest  possible  market  price.  Un­
questionably,  the  present  practice  of 
purchasing  goods  by  samples,  so  gen­
erally  adopted  by  country  dealers,  is 
better  for  both  seller  and  buyer  than  the 
old  method.  The  merchant  has  more 
time  to  consider  what  he  is  doing,  and 
to  compare  what  he  has  on  hand  with 
what  he  needs.  All  the  bustle  and  con­
jobbing  house, 
fusion  of  a  crowded 
where  perhaps  the  salesman 
that  he 
prefers  to  have  wait  on  him  is  busy 
with  another  customer and  he  is  turned 
over  to  a  stranger,  is  avoided.  He  is 
in  his  own  domain,  and  can  compare 
former  purchases  with  the  new  samples 
placed  before  him.  He  has  the  oppor­
tunity  and  time  to  talk  freely  and  con­
fidentially  with  the  salesman  from whom 
he  is  buying,  and 
in  that  way  be  can 
many  times get  better  posted  upon  mat­
ters  pertaining  to  his  business  than  in 
any  other  way.  Commercial  travelers, 
as  a  rule,  are  honorable  men,  who  an­
swer mercantile  questions cheerfully and 
truthfully  as  tar  as  they  are  posted 
themselves. 
impor­
tance  to  them  that  all  the  representa­
tions  they  make  should  meet  the  ap­
proval  of  their  employers  and  win  the 
confidence  of  their  customers;  hence  it 
is  for their  personal  interest  to  be truth­
ful.  On  the  other  hand,  if  the  order 
comes  from  an  old  customer  the  jobber 
fills  it  promptly  and  to  the  letter.  If  the 
goods  ordered  are  not  in  stock,  he  sup­
plies  them  from  outside  purchases.  He 
does  not  substitute  other  goods  or  those 
ordered  unless  it  is  unavoidable.  Better 
to  leave  that  part  of  the  order  unfilled. 
Should  the order  come  from  a  new  cus­
tomer,  after  the  proper  enquiries  as  to 
mercantile  standing,  the  order  is  filled 
with  the  same  promptness  and  fidelity. 
The  salesman  who  fills 
it  knows  just 
where  to  place  his  hand  upon  every 
item  ordered.  There 
is  no  tumbling 
over  of  stock  for  exhibition.  Goods  are 
less  liable  to  get  soiled  or  shopworn. 
All  confusion  is  done  away  with.  The 
jobber  will  be  doing  an  extensive  busi­
ness,  but  his  salesrooms  will  have  an 
air of  quiet  repose.

It  is  of  the  utmost 

These  be  some  of  the  advantages  of 

modern  business  methods.

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

Owosso,  Mich.
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Real  Question  at  Issue.

*...

He  was  pressing,  but  she  hesitated. 
She  had  had  some  experience  and  was 
inclined  to  be  cautious.

“ You  will  be  mine?”   he  exclaimed. 
“ Say  you  will  consent  to  make  me  the 
happiest  of  mortals!”

She  thought  it  sounded  a  good  deal  as 
it  had  been  memorized  from  a  love 

if 
story,  but  she  let  that  pass.

* * Can  you afford to marry? ’ ’ she asked.
He  looked  startled.
“ I’m  sure  I  don’t  know,”   he  an 
“ How  is  your  father  fixed?”

swered. 

An  enterprising  postmaster  of  Put­
nam,  Conn.,  has  adopted  free  mail  de­
livery  at  his  own  expense,  his  office  not 
doing  quite  the  business  necessaiy  to 
secure  this  advantage  from  the  Gov- 
I ernment.

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Shoes  and  Leather
Shoemaker  Joe  and  His  Peculiarities.

“ Shoe Shop by Joe.”

“ Salas Populi Suprema Lex Esto.”

“ The World Made Itself.”

There  are  shoemakers  and  shoemak­
ers.  But  there  are  not  many  shoemak­
ers  who  put  Latin  proverbs  on  the  big 
in  front  of,  or  over 
boots  which  stand 
the  doors  of, 
their  establishments. 
Neither  do  many  shoemakers  place dog­
matic  assertions  as  to  the  origin  of  the 
world  on  their  signs.  When  a  shoe­
maker’s  sign  is  found  adorned  as 
indi­
cated,  it  may safely  be  assumed  that  the 
shoemaker  within  is  somewhat  different 
than  the  ordinary  run  of  his  class,  no 
matter  what  his  reasons  may  have  been 
for  using  Latin  proverbs  to  letter  his 
sign  with.  Still,  for  some  reason  or 
other,  we  are  not  greatly  surprised  when 
we find  a  shoemaker  talking  theology  or 
using  ancient  proverbs,  partly  because 
of  the  fact  that  certain  writers  have  re­
sorted  to  this  trade  tor  important  char­
acters 
in  cases  where  they  have  had 
some  pet  religious  idea  that they wished 
to  air,  and  partly  because  there  seems 
to  be  some  kinship  between  mending 
soles and  mending  souls.

But  there 

is  a big  boot,  perhaps  six 
or  seven  feet  tall,  which  stands  on  the 
roof  of  a  small  establishment  on  one  of 
tie  principal  thoroughfares  of  the  city 
of  Minneapolis,  and  which  is  lettered 
with  the  lines  quoted  above.

law,  except 

What  possible  connection  there  could 
be  between  mending  old  shoes  and  the 
fact  that  the  welfare  of  the  people  was 
the  highest 
in  a  remote 
way,  was  what  aroused  the  curiosity  of 
the  writer.  Of  course,  the  boot  with  its 
Latin  and  its  declaration as to the origin 
of  the  world  was  and  is  intended  to  at­
tract  attention,  but  why  were 
these 
propositions  relating  to  the  two  most 
interesting  questions  concerning  man, 
chosen  for  this  purpose? 
It  only  re­
quired  a  word  or  two  to  set  “ Joe”   go­
ing,  and  the  listener  had only  to fold his 
hands  or  hug  his  knee  and  pull  at  his 
“ coffin  nail”   and  listen.  The  unusual 
character  of  the  sign  had  prepared  the 
enquirer  for  something  original,  and  he 
was  not disappointed.

The  sign  had  a  history  and  had  not 
always  informed  the  public  concerning 
the  origin  of  the  universe  and  the  high­
est  law  which, governs  its  inhabitants. 
On  the  contrary,  its  former  legend  was 
of  a  very  different  tenor  from  one  of 
those  it bears  now.  Not long  ago  it  used 
to  proclaim  to  the  world,  “ In  God  We 
Trust, ”   although,  according to the state­
ment  of 
its  owner,  this  was  almost  the 
exact  opposite  of  the  truth.  How  he 
came  to  use  this  motto,  however,  is  not 
an  uninteresting  tale.

Joe  came  to  this  country  something 
over  twenty  years  ago,  and early  located 
in  Minneapolis,  where he  devoted  him­
self  to  his  trade  as  a  shoemaker  and  to 
his  duty  as  a  prospective  citizen  of  the 
United  States  in  learning  the  English 
language,  being  a  German  by  birth. 
At  this  time  Joe  was  a  regular attendant 
upon  church  services,  and  according  to 
parental  training  a  believer  in  the  doc­
trines  of  the  church  he  attended.  He 
was  also  in  the  employ  of  a  church-goer 
who  had  a  pretty  daughter  in  whom  he 
was  naturally  interested.  This  interest, 
contrary  to  the  accepted  canons  in  such 
cases,  was  not  resented,  but  encour­
aged,  to  the  extent  that  Joe  was  invited 
to  share  his  employer's  pew.  This  he 
declined  to  do,  and  here  the  schism 
began,  and  with  it  Joe’s  inclination  to 
led  to  a  disagree-
skepticism.  For 

it 

ment  between  Joe  and  his  employer, 
which  resulted  in  Joe’s  seeking  employ­
ment  elsewhere  and  to  his  final  aban­
doning  of  his  attendance  upon  church 
services  and  to  his  regarding  matters 
religious  with  some doubt.

Soon  after 

leaving  his  old  employer 
he  opened  a  little  shop  for  himself, 
where  young  men  used  to  gather to  dis­
cuss  questions  ethical and political.  But 
while  they  came  sometimes  to  talk  pol­
itics,  they  did  not  come  often  enough 
with  work  to  suit  him,  and  on  Sunday 
mornings,  when  people  were  passing 
on  their  way  to  church,  a  chance  re­
mark  now  and  then  caught  his  ear,  to 
the  effect  that  this  “ shoemaker  fellow”  
was  not,  as  they  were,  an  attendant  at 
church.  And  so  Joe  set  himself  to  find 
a  way  to  overcome  what  he  regarded  as 
their  prejudice,  and  finally  hit  upon  the 
dea  of  putting  the  motto  “ In  God  We 
Trust”   upon  his  sign,  although  his 
faith  was  certainly  not  much  more  than 
the  size  of  a  mustard  seed,  an  abnor­
mally  small  one  at  that.  Still  his  doubts 
were  evidently  not  regarded  as  a  very 
serious  matter by him ; at  the  most  they 
were  not  as  serious  as  his  business  suc­
cess.

learn 

It  was  several  years  after  this  that 
wind  and  weather  made  a  new  sign  a 
necessity. 
It  was  then  decided  that  the 
efficacy  of  his  old  motto  was  nil,  at 
least  from  a  purely  human’ standpoint 
doubtless  his  patrons  were  onto  the  fact 
that  he  trusted  more  in  his  sign  for suc­
cess  than 
in  any  other  agency.  So  he 
had  resort  to  two  sources  for  new  in 
scriptions.  When  he  came  to  this 
country  he  set  out  with  commendable 
energy  and  originality  to 
the 
language.  His  method  was  decidedly 
unique.  He  purchased  an  abridged 
Webster's  dictionary,  not  an  unusual 
proceeding  at  all,  but  his  manner  of 
using 
it  was.  Beginning  at  the  title 
page,  he  read  it through from beginning 
to  end,  including  the  quotations  and 
proverbs  from  foreign  tongues.  One  of 
these,  “ Salus  Populi,”   etc.,  had  struck 
his  fancy,  and  now,  in  the  constructing 
of  a  new  sign  was  made  to  do  service 
as  an  advertisement  on  a  gigantic  boot 
leg.  Joe  doubtless believes more in  this 
legend  than  in  the  one  he  used  former 
ly.  Possibly  it  was  some  compunction 
on  account  of  his  former 
inconsistency 
that  caused  him  to  add,  “ The  world 
made  itself,”   a  statement  which  he  got 
from  a  Polish  newspaper  long  since.

A  man  with  Joe’s  originality  would 
make  a  success  in  getting  up  startling 
advertisements  and  some  realist  in  fic­
tion  might  find  him 
interesting 
acquaintance  to cultivate.— Minneapolis 
Journal.

an 

Tit  for  Tat.

First  Boy— My  ma  says  I  mustn’t play 
with  you,  because your  father  is  nothing 
but a  shoemaker.

Second  Boy— So’s  your  father  a  shoe­

maker.

First  Boy— Ma  says  he’s  a  manufac­
turer.  He  makes  a  thousand  pairs  to 
your  father’s  one  pair.

Japan 

Second  Boy—Then  he  must  be  a 
thousand  times  worse  than  my  father.  I 
guess  I  won’t  play  with  you  any  more.
is  about  to go  into  the  bounty 
business.  A  bounty 
is  to  be  given  to 
native  exporters  of  raw  silk,  the grant 
to be  made  only  in  cases  where  the  silk 
has  been  reeled  in  the  empire.  There 
is  a  provision  providing  for  a  fine 
in 
every  case  where  it  is  proved  that  the 
grant  has  been  got  by 
fraud.  The 
bounty  in  these  cases  is  to  be  refunded 
and  the  parties  committing  the  fraud 
are  to  be  debarred  from  ever  getting 
the  grant  in  the  future.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

LYCOrtlNG,  as and 5 off. 
KEYSTONE,  as and 5 and  10 off.

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

Leather  Goods,  Pelt  Boots, 
Lumbermen’s  Socks 
.

. 

. 

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

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,

19 South lonin S t.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

This  shoe  represents  our  Perfect  Fitting  Bi­
cycle  Shoe,  made  of  moose tanned stock which is 
soft as kid.  The  soles  are  white tanned  stock and 
made for this kind  of  shoes.  They  are  light,  cool 
and  durable,  and  for  fast  or  slow  riding there are 
no  better  shoes  made.  Every  pair  stamped  with 
our trade mark.

Snedicor &  H athaw ay  Co.,

DETROIT, MICH.

Michigan Shot Co., Dttroti, Agents for Michigan.

0:0:0mm

Do you  sell  Shoes?
Do you  want  to sell more Shoes?

Then buy Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.’s factory line—the line that wiU win 
and hold the trade for you.  We handle everything in the line of footwear.
W e are showing  to-day  the  finest  spring  line  in  the  State—all  the 

t

latest colors and shapes.

ran give you some bargains.

See  our  line  of  socks  and  felts  before  placing your fall order.  We 

W e are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.  and carry a very large 

stock of their goods,  which enables us to fill orders promptly.

Our  discounts  to  October  1 are 35 and 5 per cent,  on Bostons and 35,
5, and  10 per cent, on Bay States.  Our  terms  are  as liberal as those of 
any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.,

12,14 and 16 Pearl St., 
Grand Rapids.

OTOTOTOTOTOTOTOin

Now  that  the  price  is  right  be  sure  you get the 

right  brand.

The Goodyear 
Glove Rubbers

I December  ist  dating.  Don’t  overlook  this.

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

State Agents for

‘The  Earth’s Best”

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

Our discount is 35 and 5 off.

I  Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co.

5 and  7 Pearl  S t., Grand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

The  Family  Tree  of Work.

From Farm Machinery.

1.  These  are  the generations  of  the 
sons  of  Get,  in  the  day  that  men  began 
to  multiply  upon  the  face  of  the  earth.
2.  Work,  the  first  born  of  Necessity 
and  the  grandson  of  Culminating  Cir­
And  Get 
cumstances,  begat  Get. 
journeyed  with  exceedingly  much  speed 
to  a  land  called  There,  and  therefore 
was  it  that  his  brethren  suruamed  him 
Get-There.  And  his  children  called 
themselves  the  sons  and  daughters  of 
Get-There.

called  Get-Through, 

3.  And  Get-There begat  a  son  and 
called  him  Get-To-Work.  This  was  he 
whom  the  children of men surnamed En 
ergy.  They also  called  him  Enterprise, 
and  not  a  few  named  him  Persistent 
Application.
*4-  And  Get-There  begat  a  son  whom 
he 
surnamed 
Prompt  Execution.  And  Get-Through 
was  called  by  the  uncircumcised  “ Aab 
Hustler,”   which,  when 
interpreted, 
means  “ Eli. ”
m  5.  And  Get-Through,  he  also  begat a 
son  and  called him Get-Away,  surnamed 
Get-On,  concerning  whom  the  sons  of 
men  hath  said  “ be  bath  a  move  on 
him. ”
6.  And  Get-Away  begat  a  son  and 
called  him  Get - At-Some-Thing-Else. 
And  this  is  he  that  caused  men  to  won 
der  much.  And  they  surnamed  him 
Genius,  because  they  understood  him 
not.
7.  And  these  are  the  generations of 
the  sons  of  Get,  after  he  had  been  sur­
named  Get-There.
„.8.  Get-There  begat  Get-To-Work. 
And  Get-To  Work  begat  Get-Through. 
And  Get-Through  begat  Get-Away. 
And  Get-Away  begat  Get-At-Some- 
Thing-Else.  All  these  came  forth  out 
of  the  loins  of  Work,  who  was  born  of 
Necessity,  who  was  born  of  Culminat­
ing  Circumstances.
m  9.  And  about  this  time  began  the 
children  of  men  to  build 
for  them­
selves  monuments  of  gold,  and  silver, 
and  brass  and  stone.  And  some  there 
were  who  built  for  themselves  monu­
ments of  wood  filled  with  hay  and  stub­
ble,  but  the  monuments  of  wood  en- 
dureth  not.

10.  And  the  monuments  called  they 
each  by  its  own  name.  And  each  sepa­
rate  monument  bore  a  name.  And  the 
first  called.they  Desire.  And  the  second 
they  called  Ambition.  And  yet  a  third 
was  named  after the  will  of  man,  and 
the  name  of 
it  was  Fame.  And  con­
cerning  this  monument  the  people  were 
wont  to  talk  much,  even  exceeding 
much.  And  they  added  to  these  three, 
yet  four  others,  namely:  Wealth,  Power, 
Knowledge  and  Goodness.  And  the 
seventh  monument  was  made  of  beaten 
gold,  within  and  without  was  it  made 
of gold.  And  the  gold  was  pure  gold, 
like  unto  the  gold  of  Ophir.

11.  Then  began  men  to  amalgamate 
and  to  organize,  and  to  systematize. 
And  then  also  was  it that  men  began  to 
scrutinize  and  analyze.  And 
some 
there  were  who  utilized,  but  some  there 
were  who  criticised.  And  there  was 
heard  about  this  time a great noise  in 
the  land.
12.  And  a  voice  was  heard  like  unto 
the  voice  of  many  smatterers,  saying: 
“ Who  among  the  sons  of  men  is  like 
unto  us?  For  we  have  alone  discerned 
the  freckle  spots  of  history's  scorching 
suns  upon  the  wrinkled  physiognomy  of 
Divine  Revelation.  Listen,  oh  earth 
and  give  ear oh  ye  Heavens 1”

exclaiming 

13.  And  there  was  another  voice,  like 
unto  the  voice  of  the  children  of  De­
spair,  groping  blindly  through  the  dark 
courts  and  dismal  corridors  of  Night, 
and 
voice: 
"Where are  we  at?”   And  there  was a 
dead  calm  of  about  two  centuries  and 
half  a  century.  And  the  afflictions  of 
men  decreased  not,  until  the  sons  of 
those  whose  voice  had  been  as  the voice 
of  many  smatterers,  slept  with  their 
fathers,  even  unto  the  seventh  genera­
tion.

14.  And  then  men  began  to  cogitate. 
And,  behold,  the  sons  of  men  said,  one 
to another,  “ Go  to,  now,  and let us build 
a  city.  And  the  city,”   said  they,  "shall 
be  for  our sons  and  for  ours  sons’  sons, 
that  they  fail  not  wholly  from  off  the

in  a 

loud 

face of the earth. ’ '  And they built a city.
15.  And  the  city  prospered  which 
the  sons  of  men  had  builded,  and,  be­
hold,  the  foundations  thereof  rested  up­
on  the  high  table  lands,  high  up  among 
the  immovable  mountains  of  Unchange­
able  Truth.  And  the  walls  of  the  city 
were  built  of  the gray granite  dug  out 
of  the  everlasting  hills  of  Eternal  Rec­
titude.  And  the  streets of  the  city  were 
paved  with  pure gold  brought  from  the 
Empire  of  the  Sons  of  Righteousness.

16.  Then  began  men  to  love  one  an­
other.  And  there  was  great  joy  in  the 
city.  And  every  green  valley  and  every 
high  mountain,  and  every  nestling  for­
est,  and  every 
retreating  woodland 
breathed  forth  an  atmosphere  of  love, 
and  daily  lifting  up  their  leafy  hands 
toward  heaven’s  highest  throne  they 
were  daily  baptized  with  the  richest 
dews  distilled  in  the  lavatory  of  the 
gods.
Good Things Said by  Up-to-Date Shoe 

Dealers.

If  you  knew  positively  that  for  two 
dollars  and  forty-five  cents  you  could 
buy  a shoe as good in  every  particular  as 
some  people  charge  three  dollars  for, 
would  such  knowledge 
influence  your 
choice,  or  would  you  insist  on  paying 
that  extra  fifty  cents?  We  know  your 
answer,  so  let  us  show  you  our  ladies’ 
special  value  $2.45  shoes.— Hahne  & 
Co.,  Newark,  N.  J.

Ask the cobbler who re-soles your shoes 
why  “ hand-sewed  welts”   make  better 
shoes;  he  can  give  you most  convincing 
reasons.  Our  “ Lenox”   $3  high  boots, 
with  hand-sewed  welts,  are  favorites 
with  women  who  like  to get  wear  and 
style  together.  We  had  special  lasts  de­
signed  for  them,  toes  not  pointed,  yet 
not  so blunt  and  awkward  as  the  “ bull­
dog 
they  have  a  peculiarly  handsome 
style  of  their  own.— Gimel  Bros.,  Phila.
We  are  pushed  for  shelf-room.  To 
secure  the  lowest  possible  prices  we had 
to  buy  many  of  our  shoe  lines  in  quan­
tities  that  can  generally  only  be  used by 
wholesalers.  We  are  compelled  to  in­
crease our  phenomenally  large  output— 
and  we’ll  do  it  by  selling  some  of  our 
lines  for  a  few  days  at  even  less  than 
wholesaler’s  prices.— William  Hahn  & 
Co.,  Washington.

We  are  playing  havoc  with  prices 
this  week,  just  to  make  it  interesting 
for  shoe  buyers  and  competitors.—John­
son’s  Shoe  Palace,  Altoona,  Pa.

is  almost  a  quarter  of  a  century 
since  you  first  bought  Easier oxfords  in 
this  store,  and  ever  since,  with  each  re­
curring  Easter,  you’ve  looked  here  for 
prettier  and  prettier  styles.  And  why 
shouldn’t  you?  This  was  the  standard 
for  other  stores— is  to-day.— P.  T.  Hal- 
lahan  &  Co.,  Phila.

It 

Compare  the  Sales  Daily.

At  the  close  of  every  day’s  business, 
compare  the  sales  with  those  for  the 
same  date  last  year. 
If  they  are  better 
this  year,  it  should  encourage  you  to 
still  greater  efforts. 
If  not  so  good,  it 
should  spur  you  on  to  renewed  efforts  to 
come  out ahead  of  last  year.  No  busi­
It  must  either  ad­
ness  can  stand  still. 
vance  or decline.  A  slight  advance 
is 
cause  tor  encouragement,  for  it  shows 
progress,  even  though  it  may  be  slow. 
A  falling  behind  should  be  regarded  as 
a  danger  signal,  for  it  may  be  the  fore­
runner  of  a  backward  tide,  which,  once 
it  starts 
impossible  to 
stem.  Every  business  man  knows  it  is 
harder  to  build  up  a  business  that is run 
down  than  to  build  up  an  entirely  new 
one.  See  to  it that  yours  does  not  slip 
back.

is  almost 

in, 

The  Sunshine  State 

Is  the  title  of  a  generously  illustrated 
pamphlet  of  sixteen  pages  in  reference 
to  South  Dakota,  the  reading  matter 
in 
which  was  written  by  an  enthusiastic 
South  Dakota  lady— Mrs.  Stella  Hosmer 
Arnold—who  has  been  a  resident  of  the 
Sunshine  State  for  over  ten  years.  A 
copy  will  be  mailed  to  the  address  of 
any  farmer  or  farmer’s  wife,  if  sent  at 
once  to  Harry  Mercer, Michigan Passen­
ger  Agent,  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St. 
Paul  Railway,  7  Fort  street,  W.,  De­
troit,  Mich.

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527 and 528 
Widdlcomb Bid. 
Grand Rapids, Micb.

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

C. U. Clark,  Sec’y and 

Pres.

Treas.

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to 
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for the  season of 1897.
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P O L IS H E D   A N T IQ U E   O A K   P A R L O R   T A B L E .

exists  in  regard  to  ! 
which  method  of 
advertising 
pa y s  
best.  Newspapers 
are  down  on  our 
they 
method,  as 
want  you 
to  pay 
your cash to them.

Result Is 
What tells

If  you  give  your 
customers the bene-  | 
fit of your  advertís-  ! 
ing  bill  they  will 
appreciate 
it;  and  ¡ 
who is any more en­
titled to  it  than  the 
people  who  give 
you their patronage ? 
We will take charge 
of  your  advertising 
and  guarantee  you 
satisfactory  results. 
No  newspaper  will 
do 
this — but  we 
know  what  we  are 
successfully  doing 
for  others  in  your 
line,  we  can  do  for 
you.

We would like to send  you  our  catalogue  of  useful  premiums  and  have  you  make  a  selectic 

Coupons, circulars  and  placards  are  furnished  free.  We  send  the  entire 

outfit subject to approval after 60 days’ trial.

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D ry   G oods

Window  Display  of  Doubtful  Ex­

Written for the T r ad esm an.

pediency.

Our  manager  was  an  awfully  smart 
fellow.  What  he  didn’t  know  about 
running  a  big  dry  goods  store  wasn’t 
worth  knowing.  The  head  clerk  in  any 
department  who  had  ever been  foolish 
enough  to  offer  a  suggestion  to  him  as 
to  the  best  way  to do  this  or to advertise 
that  had  forever  after  been  a  subdued 
and  reticent  man.

Window  display  had  always been  one 
of  his  great  hobbies.  Now.  if  ray ideas 
are  worth  anything,  an  up-to  date  win­
dow  display,  coupled  with  the  right 
kind  of  a  newspaper  advertisement,  is 
a  hummer  and  can’t  be  beat;  but  I 
have  yet  to  discover how  a  Punch  and 
Judy  show  or  a  cage  of  monkeys,  dis­
played 
in  the  best  window  of  a  dry 
goods  store,  helps  to  sell  or  to  advertise 
dress  goods  or  any  of  the  variety  of 
goods  usually  kept 
in  a  store  of  the 
kind.  To  be  sure,  a  cage  of  monkeys 
will  always  attract  attention;  but  of 
what  kind? 
I  have  watched  a  crowd  of 
people  that  blocked  the  sidewalk  and 
hindered  traffic  as  they  stood  gaping  at 
the  monkeys  in  the  window;  and  1  ven­
ture  to  say  that  not  one  of  them  ever 
thought  of  those  monkeys  as  a dry goods 
advertisement  or  as  being  connected 
with  dry  goods  at  all.

Well,  we  bad  had  the  monkeys and  a 
Punch  and  Judy  show  and  a  man  with 
a  trick  bear  and  a  variety  of  other 
things  equally  absurd,  when  Mr.  Know- 
itall,  the  manager,  ordered  the  window 
dresser  to  clear  the  corner  window  of  a 
fine  display  of  new  dress  fabrics  which 
for  two days  had  been  attracting  a  great 
deal  of  attention  and  helping  us  mater­
ially  in  selling  the  same.

“ I’ve got  an  attraction  now  that  will 
make  the  people  wonder,”   said  the 
manager. 

“ It’s  a  regular  corker.”

About  an  hour  later  four  men  entered 
the  store,  carrying  a  stretcher  upon 
which  lay  a  man  who  was  said  to  have 
been  thrown  into  a  hypnotic  sleep  by  a 
professional  who  was  giving exhibitions 
of  his  power  in  the  opera  house.  The 
sleeping  man  was  placed  in  the  window 
in  full  view  of  passers by and  the  un­
usual  spectacle  at  once  attracted  a  large 
crowd  of  curious  people.  A  card  stated 
that  the  man  would  remain 
in  the 
hypnotic  sleep  for  three  days and  nights 
and  would  be  awakened  the  third  night 
at  a  performance  at  the  opera  house. 
Splendid  advertisement  for the  hypno­
tist;  but  where  did  our  firm  come in?

They  did  come  in  for  a  great  deal  of 
adverse  criticism.  We  heard  it  on  all 
sides.  Many  of  our  most  valued  lady 
customers  declared  that  it  was  “ inde­
cent”   to  permit  an  exhibition  of  the 
kind  to  go  on.  Another  said,  “ Why, 
the  very  idea  of a  man,  no  matter  how 
mean,  being  kept  in  that  state  for  such 
a  length  of  time!  I can  scarcely  endure 
in  here,  knowing  that  your 
coming 
proprietor 
is  willing  to  allow  such  a 
thing!”

The  entrance  to  the  window  was  im­
mediately  at  the  end  of  our  counter  and 
behind  it,  and  we  were  pestered  contin­
ually  by  morbidly  curious  people  who 
wanted  to  get  into  the  window  to  look 
closely  at  the  hypnotized  man ;  but  we 
saw  no 
increase  of  business  resulting 
from  the  curiosity  excited.

Now,  I  believe  that,  notwithstanding 
the adverse criticism  which  the  man  in 
the  window  caused  our  firm  to  undergo, 
had  the  manager  taken  the  right  meth­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

od,  a  great  deal  of  this  criticism  would 
have  been  obviated.  The  window  was 
plenty  large  enough  to be  furnished  as 
an  elegant  bedroom;  and 
in  this  way 
carpet,  curtains  and  the  entire  furnish­
ings  of  a  bedroom,  all  of  which  the  firm 
carry  in  stock,  could  have  been  shown 
in  a  pronounced  way.  The  hypnotized 
man,  lying  asleep 
in  bed,  could  then 
have  been  made a  secondary  matter and 
the  house  could  have  then  displayed 
some  of  its  goods  to  advantage.

We  have  never  discovered  whether  it 
was  the  result  of  Mr.  Knowitall’s  last 
window;  but  he  turned  up  missing  a 
day  or  two  after  the  hypnotized  man 
was  awakened. 

M ac A l l a n .

Sop  to  Cerberus.

It  has  become  a  fashion  with  too 
many  of  us  to  condone  with  the  devil 
rather  than  give  him  a  kick.  Bouquets 
in  that  quarter are  more acceptable  than 
broomsticks.  Many  of  our  social  and 
industrial  problems and  burdens  would 
if  we  stopped  their 
starve  to  death 
spoon  diet. 
It  is  that  kind  of  nutrition 
that  keeps  many  of  them  fat  and  kick­
ing.  We  prate  about  the  nuisance,  but 
deny  the  broom.  Perhaps  there  never 
was  a  time  in  the  history  of  man  when 
his  troubles  and  wrongs  were  so  vigor­
ously  denounced  and  so  freely  exposed. 
We  rake  them  out  of  the  mud  and  pull 
them  down  from  the  stars.  Everybody 
has  a  knowledge  of  one  or  more of these 
cobwebs,  in  which  some  of  us  are  flies 
and  some  of  us  are  spiders,  and  every­
body  presumably  has  his  special  broom 
to  assist  in  the  house-cleaning.  If  wag­
ging  the  tongue  and  dipping  pens  in 
ink  could  save  the  world,  the  means  of 
doing  so  are  certainly  on  hand.  So  far 
so  good,  but  talk  is  one  thing  and  prac­
tice  another  thing. 
It  is  one  thing  to 
run  a  wind  mill  and  another  to  grind 
grist.  Nothing  is  so  cheap  as  talk,  and 
nothing  so  deceptive  as  opinion.  What 
we  want  is  less  tongue and more fingers. 
Convictions  as  to  right  or  wrong  are  not 
so  well  defined  or  sharply  cut  as  they 
might  be.  To  tell  the  truth,  we  have 
more  heads 
in  the  world  than  honest 
convictions. 
In  the  matter of opinions, 
we  are  suffering  from  mixed  drinks. 
We  have too  many  of  them.  They  can 
be  had  by  the  dozen  as  eggs  are  at 
Easter.  Some  of  us  are  stocking  up 
with  borrowed  opinions  all  the  time. 
They  are  gratis  and 
innumerable.  We 
hear  and  forget,  and  read  and  go  silly. 
Men  can  be  found  by  the gross who have 
no  convictions  on  anything,  and  are  as 
innocent  of  decision  as  a  jelly  fish  is  of 
bones. 
is  this  vague  and  nebulous 
condition  of  knowing  too  much  or  not 
knowing  enough  that  accounts  for  so 
many  of  our  social  and  industrial  evils, 
continuing  to  punish  us  like  an  angry 
hornet,  and  tap  our  vitality as  a  leech 
does  our  veins.  Hence  the glib  tongue 
and  the  impotent  hand.  What  the  steel- 
tip  on  a  plowshare  is  to  tangled  grass 
and  stubborn  clay,  personal  conviction 
is  to  the  removal  of  wrongs  and the  suc­
cess  of  reforms.  Men  may  be  excited 
by  harangues,  and  their  passions 
let 
loose  by  demagogic  diatribes.  They 
may  be  stirred  up  like  the  lurid  lava  in 
the  thorax  of  Vesuvius,  and  the  growl 
of  discontent  like  that  of  a  lion  in  an 
African  solitude,  but  the  end  thereof, 
so  far  as  practical  reform  goes,  may  be 
practically  nothing, 
intelligent  convic­
tion 
is  the  only  stone  in  the  sling  that 
can  reach  the  forehead  of Goliab.  His­
tory  is  full  of  explosions,  of which  noth­
ing  is  left but  the  wadding.  There 
is 
not an  evil  on  the  face of  the  earth  that

It 

industrial 

has  not  had  a  mob  at  its  heels,  but  the 
force  that  brought 
it  to  its  knees  was 
not  clamour  but  conviction.  When  men 
are  convinced  as  to the  causes  and  na­
ture  of  a  wrong,  the  axe  is  laid  at  the 
root  of  the  tree;  but  when  they  do  noth­
ing  but  lop  the  branches and  fertilize 
the  roots,  the  same  old  evil  continues  to 
work  its  mischief.  When  we  denounce 
strikes  as 
jingoism,  and 
complain  on  the  housetops  our  horror 
of  starving  men  and  silent  mills,  we  do 
well;  but  when  we  provide  a  brass 
band,  public  banquets  and  a  sky  full  of 
caps  for  man  or  men  who  acted  as 
Sachems  for  the  Mohawks  and  congrat­
ulate  jingos  for success  in  opposing  ar­
bitration,  we  practically  blockade  the 
road  of  reform.  When  we  denounce the 
coercion  of  labor  by  capital  and  set 
about  coercing  capital  by  labor,  we  are 
simply  dethroning  one  Czar  to  find  a 
sceptre  for another.  When  we  demand 
a  more  equitable  distribution  of  the 
profits  of  labor  and  the  heritage  of  the 
race  in  common,  our  hands  are  bravely 
held  out  to  regain  a  stolen  sheaf,  but 
when  we 
co-operation  and 
profit  sharing,  and  personally  dodge  our 
boarding  bills,  underpay  the  widow  who 
washes  our  socks,  and  drive  hard  bar­
gains  with  the  man  who  paints  the 
fence,  or  saws  the  wood,  we  are  simply 
putting  lead  into the  wolf  and  milk  into 
its  cubs.  When  we  beat the  tocsin  in  a 
crusade  against  corrupt  aldermen  and 
boodle-hunting  politicians,  and  close 
the  great  comedy  by  voting  for  a  scoun­
drel  who  buys  our  vote  with  a  promise 
of  a  public  plum,  we  are  simply  giving 
sop  to  Cerberus. 
Society  can  never 
right  a  wrong  unless  it  rights  itself. 
It 
is  no  use  killing  cats  so  long  as  we 
suckle  kittens. 

F r e d   Wo  d r o w .

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goods is jnst 
beginning.

Made of
Tennessee Red Cedar 

trade only, solicited.

Orders  and  correspondence  from  the  8 ' 

U. 8 . R ED  CEDAR  W ORKS, 
Tennessee.

Nashville, 

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A w n in g s   an d   T e n ts

Best  goods  and  lowest  prices  in  the  State.  Ail 

work guaranteed.  Send for prices.

CHAS.  A.  COYE,  n   Pearl Street.

for you to show  the 
Michigan  Galvan­
ized  Iron  W ashe 
with  r e v e r s i b l  
washboard.  A n y  
kind of wringer can 
be used.

Write  for  special 
inducements  to  in­
troduce it.

REED & CO., Eagle, Mich.

|   We  Manufacture  ^   1
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If you are in need of new shades for your  store  front send us the 
measurements and  we will send you samples and prices.  We also 
carry  in  stock,  packed  in  dozen  boxes,  a  big  assortment  of  six 
and  seven  foot  shades,  with  and  without  fringe,  mounted  on
spring rollers, to retail at 25 to 50c.
M ail orders receive  prom pt attention.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer &  Co.,  3

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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flLWHTS  TO  THE  FB01T

in our Hosiery department.  The shrewd buyer is sure to get our  prices 
before buying.  And the variety ?  We feet confident of suiting everyone.

Just received a case of  Misses’ Hosiery  in  the  new  Oxblood  shade. 
Ladies’  Seamless  Hosiery  from  45c  per  dozen  up.  You  should  see 
those 75c per doz.  Indies’  Fast  Black  Hosiery.  They  are  worthy  of 
your  inspection.  Just  received  a  new  supply of Tan Hose.  Ladies’ 
and Misses, all sizes.

Socks in all qualities,  from 25c  per doz.  up.  We have the best quali­

ty of 75c per doz. Socks in the market.  We want  you to investigate.

F>.  S T E K E T B B   &   S O N S

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights o! the Grip. 

President, J ab. F. Ham m e ll, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D.  C.  Sla g h t, Flint;  Treasurer,C h as.  McN o l ty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  H a r t,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Mo r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H.  XT.  Ma r k s,  Detroit;  Secretary, 
E dw in Hudson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Gbo.  A.  Rey­
n old s,  Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

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

President, A. F. P e a k e , Jackson :  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  T y l e r , H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h il d , J ab. N. B r a d f o r d , J  H e n r t Da w l e y .G eo. 
J.  He in z e l x a n , C h as. S.  Robinson.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B row n,  Marquette;'Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ix so n,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Wm,  Connor  (Michael  Kolb  &  Son) 
is  spending  the  week  in  Wisconsin,  in­
terviewing  the  trade  at  Milwaukee  and 
La  Crosse.

Wm.  H.  Sigel,  who  recently  engaged 
to  travel  for  the  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co., 
has  been  confined  to  his  home  most  of 
the  time  for  a  fortnight  by  reason  of  a 
severe  heart  trouble.

Chas.  H.  Phillips  has  been  engaged 
by  the  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.  to  cover a 
portion  of  the  city  and  suburban  trade. 
He 
is  posting  up  this  week  and  will 
make  his  initial  visit  to  the  trade  next 
week.

Chas.  G.  Perkins,  Jr.,  has  been  en­
gaged  by  the  N.  K.  Fajrbank  Co.  as 
extra  salesman.  He 
is  putting  in  the 
month  of  May 
in  this  State,  assisting 
Fred.  H.  Ball.  Mr.  Perkins  is  a  son  of 
Capt.  C.  G.  Perkins,  of  Henderson, 
Ky.,  well  known  here  through  his  for­
mer  connection  with  the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.

Wm.  A.  McWilliams  (Clark-Jewell- 
Wells  Co.)  is  the  happy  possessor  of  a 
six-year  old  pacing  horse,  ylcept  Dan, 
which  gives  promise  of  developing  ex­
ceptional  speed  in  the  near  future.  Mac 
insists  that  his  nag  went  so  fast  on  one 
occasion 
shoes 
melted  off  the  cutter  and  his  friends  as 
sert  that  when  he  drives  a  couple  of 
blocks  on  the  avenue  the  momentum 
is 
so  great  that  the buggy  keeps  going  for 
half  an  hour.

last  winter  that  the 

Two  More  Deaths—Hearty  Response 

to  Assessment.

Flint,  May  15— I  have  received  proof 
of  the  death  of  Eliphated  Averill  (No. 
866),  of  Jackson,  who  died  May  4  of 
meningitis.

I  have  also  received  notice  of  the 
death  of  Wm.  Jewett  (No.  3,279),  of 
Detroit.
Eleven  hundred  and  seventy  of  the 
members  have  responded  to  the  call  for 
death  assessment  No.  1  and  each  mail 
brings  in  many  more.

D e l l   C.  S l a g h t ,  Sec’y.

The  Right  Time  to  Marry.
“ When should a drummer marry?” 

With years of care upon  his brow 

I asked a room-mate,
Ana  manners most sedate.

“  In youth, when first he enters 
With hopes built on the future,

Upon his road career,
And heart devoid of fear.

“ Or later on,  when drumming 
Has brought the mind to bear 
Upon the serious side of life,
Its troubles and its care?”
H e  answ ered w ith  a tw inkle 
In  th a t b rig h t eye of h is :
“  T h e tim e fo r him  to m arry,
Is  w hen he quits th e  * biz.* ”

The  pay  of  a  Greek  soldier  is  four 

dollars  per  month,  when  he  gets  it.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

C.  W.  Dierdorf,  Vice-President  of the 

Johnson  Cigar  Co.

Calvin  W.  Dierdorf  was  born  on  a 
farm  in  Summit  county,  Ohio,  Feb.  3, 
1868.  His  parents  were  of  German  de­
scent,  although  born 
in  this  country. 
Shortly  after  birth,  his  parents  removed 
to  Inland,  Ohio,  where  he remained  un­
til  17  years  of  age,  attending  such 
schools  as  the  village  afforded.  He  then 
came  to  Ross,  Mich.,  where  his  brother 
was  a  section  foreman,  spending  a  year 
in  learning  the  trade  of  telegraph  ope­
rator.  For  the  next  three  years  he  was 
employed  by  the  G.  R.  &.  I.  Railroad, 
being  located  at  different  times at Rome 
City,  Kalamazoo  and  Richmond,  Ind. 
At  Kalamazoo  he  occupied  the  position 
of  commercial  and  railroad  operator. 
Receiving  a  more  lucrative  offer  from

the  C.  &  W.  M.,  he  spent  six  months 
as  operator and  agent  at  Avenue  Junc­
tion,  Grand  Rapids,  subsequently  re­
moving  to  Muskegon,  where  he  filled 
the  position  of  night  operator  in  the 
general  offices  for  two  years.  He  was 
then  promoted  to  the  position  of  clerk 
in  the  office  of  the  general  baggage 
agent  at  Detroit  and,  on  the  removal  of 
the  general  offices  to 
this  city,  six 
months  later,  he  continued  in  the  em­
ploy  of  the  D.,  L.  &  N.  in  the  same 
capacity  for  about  three  years.  Believ­
ing  he  could  do  better  than  pounding 
keys,  he  embarked  in  the  retail  cigar 
business  at  265  South  Division  street, 
where  he  remained  in  trade about eight­
een  months,  discontinuing  the  business 
to  enter  the  employ  of  G.  J.  Johnson  as 
city  salesman.  This  position  he  still 
bolds, with  satisfaction  to  all  concerned, 
and,  on  the 
incorporation  of  the  busi­
ness  of  the  company, he  became  a stock­
holder  and  was  elected  a  director,  fill­
ing  the  position  of  Vice-President  and 
Treasure!  of  the  corporation.  He  covers

his  trade  once  a  week  and  is  a  welcome 
visitor  wherever he goes.

initiation.  Mr.  Dierdorf 

Mr.  Dierdorf  is  a  member  of the Elks 
and  is  said  to have  afforded  the  mem­
bers  much  enjoyment  on  the  occasion 
of  his 
is 
somewhat  remarkable  for  the  smallness 
of  his  stature.  Although  he  was  the 
youngest  of  a  family  of  nine,  and  was 
heavier  than  any  of  the  children  at 
birth,  he  has  never  gotten  beyond  46 
inches  in  height,  although  his  brothers 
and  sisters  are  all 
large  people,  one 
brother weighing  upwards of  190 pounds. 
Mr.  Dierdorf  does  not  regard  his  small­
ness  of  size  in  the  light  of  an  affliction, 
and  insists  that  he  derives  as  much  en­
joyment  out  of life  as though he weighed 
a  ton.  He  attributes  his  success  as  a 
salesman  to  the  fact  that  he  keeps  con­
tinually  at  work,  and  claims  that  he 
regularly  sells  more  cigars  to  the  city

trade  than  any  other  man  in  the busi­
ness.  He  is  a  pronounced  bicycle  crank 
and  has  entered  the  road  races  to be 
contested  here  and  at  Kalamazoo  on 
May  31.  He  is  a  universal  favorite  with 
the  ladies  and  deservedly  popular  with 
the  men.

A  Leading  Question.

When  the last order is entered upon the Great Book 
And the last town is made and the  last  excess paid 

That is kept by the angels on high,

And  the last freight is caught on the fly,

And the expense account shows the  proper amount 
And St.  Peter meets you as you get out of the ’bus, 

In keeping with the cost of the trip,
And silently snatches your grip,

And you are let through the door, all weary and sore, 
Tired out with life’s race all up hill,
Will the angel who meets you come up to greet you 
With the remark,  “  We nave just ordered a bill ?**

W ill the rooms be damp and the sheets all wet?
Will we each with one girl be permitted to whirl, 

Can catarrh be contracted in heaven ?
Or, will we be allowed six or seven?

know ,

A ll these th in g s are  of  in terest  to  drum m ers,  you 

And the enquiry respectfully made  is—

“  W ill the boys feel at home in that ¡beautiful  land, 

Or, must they double back^down.to.hades ?”

17

Ths  Peddling  Amendment  Not  Likely 

to  Be  Defeated.

The  Mayer-Belknap  amendment  to 
the  present  peddling  law  still  stands  a 
good  chance  of  being  enacted,  judging 
by  the  following  letter  from  a  leading 
member  of  the  Legislature,  written  un­
der  date  of  May  18 :

conference 

I  think  there 

is  a  first-class  chance 
for  the  bill  to become  a  law  yet.  The 
House,  last  week,  tefused  to concur with 
the 
committee’s  report. 
This  report  you  no  doubt  know  gradu­
ated  the  license  according  to  the  popu­
lation  of  the  townships,  as  follows : 
Townships  of  1,000 population, $5 ;  from 
1,000 to  2,500,  not  less  than  gio  or  over 
$20 ;  above  2,500,  not 
less  than  $15  or 
over S30.  I  think  that  with  proper  man­
agement  the  House  will  concur  this 
week  and  there  will  be  no trouble  in  the 
Senate,  as  last  week  it  only  lacked  six 
votes  to  carry  in  the  House  and  a  good 
many  were  absent  when  the  report came 
up.  Any  influence  that  may be brought 
to  bear  on  House  members  to  accord 
with  the  conference  committee’s  report 
would  have  good  effect.

The  father  of  Senator  Foraker,  of 
Ohio,  was a  farmer  with  eleven  children 
and  very  little  money.  The  boys  all 
did  work  on  the  farm,  and  the  one 
who  was  one  day  to be  Governor and 
Senator  was  taught  to  wash  and  iron,  to 
milk,  cook  and  spin  and  to  pick  geese 
at  the  proper  time  of  year.  His  first 
schooling  was 
in  a  log  cabin,  and  it 
was  there  he  wore  his  famous  coffee- 
sack  trousers,  which  his  mother  pro­
vided  for  him  when  he  had  torn  all 
others  beoynd  recognition.

EAGLE  HOTEL

$1  Per Day. 

GRAND RAPIDS.

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

Good beds.  Superb Table.

J.  K. JOHNSTON, Prop.

THE WIERENGO

E. T. PENNOYER, Manager,

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

COLUMBIAN TRANSFER COMPANY

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

Telephone 381-1 

Grand Rapids.

Commercial  House

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.

Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam.

All modern conveniences.

$2 per day. 

IRA  A.  BEAN,  PfOp.

N E W   R E P U B L I C

Reopened  Nov.  a s.

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.

Young  men  and  women  acquire  the  greatest  inde­
pendence  and  wealth  by  securing  a  course  in  either 
the Business, Shorthand, English or Mechanical  Draw­
ing  departm ents  of  the  Detroit  Business  University, 
11-19 Wilcox St., D etroit.  W. F. Jewell,  P.  R.  Spencer.
Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

Steam Heat.  Excellent Table.  Com­
fortable  Rooms.  H.  D.  and  F.  H. 
IRISH,  Prop*.

1 8

Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  -  Dee. 31,1896 
C. A.  B ttgbee, Traverse  City 
-  Dec. 31,1897
8. E.  P a u k il l, Owosso 
- 
F. W. R.  P e r r y ,  Detroit 
Dec. 31,1898
A. C.  Schum ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31, 1899 
-  Dec. 31,1900
Geo. Gu nd rum ,  Ionia  - 
- 

-------- 
- 

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

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h il l ip s,  Armada.
Secretary, B.  Schrouder,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C h as.  Man n, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac; 
H. G. C o lx an, Kalamazoo;  G eo.  J.  W a r d ,  St. 
C l a ir ;  A.  B.  Ste v en s,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
P e r r y , Detroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid—Quiet  and  unchanged.
Acids—Salicylic  has  been  advanced 
in  price  on  account  of  increased  cost  of 
raw  material.  Tartaric,  quiet  and  un­
changed.

Cacao  Butter—Quiet  but  prices  are 

yet  maintained.

Cassia  Buds— Prices  are  held  firm  on 

account  of  small  supplies.

Castor  Oil— In  fair  demand  for  con­

sumption  with  prices  firm.

Chloral  Hydrate—The  old  prices  are 
the 

still  maintained  notwithstanding 
continued  limited  supply.

Cinchonidia— Quiet,  but  with  prices 

nominally  maintained.

Cocaine— Prices  continue 

firm  al­
though  foreign  markets  are  unsettled 
on  account  of  competition.

Codeine— Advance  is  maintained  al­

though  there  is  no  especial  activity.

Cod  Liver Oil— In  spite  of  improving 
demand  prices  have  declined  on  ac­
count  of  unfavorable  speculative 
in­
fluences.

Cream  Tartar—Quotations  have  not 
been  reduced,  although  influences  have 
been  of  a  depressing  character.

Cubeb  Berries—Quiet  and  steady.
Essential  "  Oils—Anise,  prices  are 
firmer.  Citronella  is  'easier.  Clove 
is 
held  steadily  at  old  quotations.  Sassa­
fras,  steady  although  threatened  by  the 
abundant  supplies  of  natural.  Artificial 
wintergreen 
is  held  firm  on  account  of 
advance  in  salacylic  acid.

Glycerine—Steady  with  fair  demand.
Gums— Camphor 
is  in  healthy  de­
mand,  with  product  mostly  taken  on 
contract  orders.  Asafoetida,  steady  at 
fair  demand.  Tragacanth,  quiet  with 
only  small  jobbing  sales.

Iodine— Quiet,  limited  demand.
Iodoform—Steady  and  unchanged.
Juniper  Berries—Prices  of  the  best 
qualities  are  held  firm  on  account  of 
limited  supply.

Leaves—Short  buchu,  steady  with  fair 
demand.  Senna  is  in  fair  request  with 
the  demand  attracting  foreign  supplies.
Lycopodium— Unchanged,  with  mod­

erately  fair  demand.

Manna—Quiet  with  small  transac­

tions,  although prices  are  maintained.

Menthol—Depressing 

foreign  news 
and  slow  demand  have  had  effect  in 
weaker  conditions.

Morphine---- Supplies 

prices  well  maintained.

limited  and

Opium—Improved  consumption  has 
operated  to  maintain  prices  more  firm­
ly,  all  concessions  being  refused.

Quinine—Fair 

seasonable  demand 
continues  to  hold  prices  steady  at  for­
mer  quotations.

Rochelle  Salts—Quiet  and unchanged.
Roots— Ipecac, 
firm  with  advance 
well  maintained.  Jamaica  ginger  con­
tinues firm.  Jalap  dull  and  quiet.  Sen­
ega  is  in  small  demand  and  on  account

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

of  large  supply  prices  are weak.  Golden 
seal,  firm  on  account  of  small  supply. 
Powdered  Florentine  orris  has  declined 
in  price.

Salicylate  of  Soda— On  account  of  the 
advance  in  price  of  salicylic  acid  quo­
tations  have  been  advanced.

Salicin— Unchanged  with  moderate 

jobbing  demand.

Seeds—Canary  has  been  reduced  on 
account  of  the  restoration  to  the  tariff 
free  list.  Coriander  lower  on  account 
of  the  same  influences.  Mustard  gener­
ally  quiet,  although  California  is  firmer. 
Poppy  is  also  stronger.

Sponges— Firm  for  desirable  grades 
on  account  of  unfavorable  news  from 
the  fishing  fleets.

Sugar  of  Milk— Prices  steady  with 

good  demand.
The  Patent  Medicine  Man’s  Crop—It 

Came  with  a  Rush.

“ It  was  more  than  twenty  years  ago 
that  I  decided  the  thing  was  ready  to 
be  put  on  the  market, ’ ’  said  the  in­
ventor  of  a  compound  that  has  now 
passed  out  of  the  category  of  patent 
medicines  and  become  well  introduced. 
“ The  question  that  bothered  me  was 
how  to  get  the  stuff  before  the  people 
and  make  them  personally  acquainted 
with 
its  qualities  so  that  I  might  find 
out  whether  or  not  my  own  faith  and 
confidence 
in  the  article  was  justified. 
But  how  was  I  to get  it  into  people's 
bands?  That  was  the  question  that  I had 
to  answer. 
I  went  to  the  wholesale 
druggists  and  they  said  it  would  be use­
less  to  put 
it  on  their  shelves,  as  no 
body  would  buy  it. 
I sent  it  to  doctors, 
but  that  did  very  little  toward  getting 
the  article  into  the  hands  of  the  people. 
I  gave  it  away  at  fairs,  and  the  result 
was  that  a  small  portion  of  the  people 
there  got  nearly  all  of  the  stuff,  while 
the  others  went  without  any.  Plainly 
that  would  not  do.  But  I  didn’t  know 
yet  what  I  would  do.

“ After  a  while  it  occurred  to  me  that 
I  would  start  a  man  in  a  buggy  driving 
in  a  certain  direction.  He  was  to  dis­
tribute  the  stuff  to  everybody  he  met  in 
the  road,  and  in  that  way the stuff would 
finally  get  into  the  hands  of  the  people. 
I  was  going  to  have  relays  enough  to 
stretch  a  line  almost  across  the  coun­
try,  and  start  a  man  from  the  West  to 
come  East  through  the  territory  the 
other  man  could  not  reach.  I  was  going 
to  send  the  stuff  on  ahead,  so  that  at 
different  points  on  the  road  the  man 
would  be  supplied  with  enough  to  give 
away.

“ The  fellow  started  on  his 

long  trip 
and  distributed  thousands  of  packages 
of  the  stuff.  Other men  started  in  differ­
ent  directions,  and  there  were  only  a 
few  thinly  populated  and  remote comers 
of  the  country  that  could  not  have  some 
personal  experience  of  my  invention. 
The  men  finished  their  trips  and  I 
waited.  But  no  response  came.  The 
people  whom  I  had  expected  to answer 
with  a  cry  for  what  I  had  given  them 
remained  mute.  A  year  passed  and 
every  cent  of available  capital  had  gone 
into  the  scheme.  Thousands  of  dollars 
had  gone  and  evidently  no  more  had 
been  done  toward  creating  a  demand 
than 
if  the  stuff  had  been  locked  in  a 
closet  and  left  there. 
I  strained  bard, 
but  I  never  could  hear the  voice  of  the 
public  calling  for  my 
invention.  The 
months  were  miseiable  with  suspense 
and  despair  until  suddenly  the  public, 
to  speak  metaphorically,  roared  at  me. 
The  rush  had  started  in  a  way  I  could 
never  understand.”
To  Distinguish  Between  Hydrastis and 

Opium.

The  tinctures  of  hydrastis  and  opium 
resemble  each  other  somewhat  in  odor 
and  a  case  has  recently  occurred  in 
France  where  one  was  dispensed  for 
the other.  Gerock  directs  attention  to 
the  fact  that  hydrastine  and  narcotine 
are  closely  allied  in  chemical  constitu­
tion,  and  in  view  of  this  similarity  and 
of  the  similarity  of  odor  of  the  two 
tinctures,  be  thinks 
that 
some  of  the  volatile constituents of these 
drugs  resemble  each  other  closely.

it  probable 

What  Constitutes a Legal Prescription.
Indianapolis,  Ind.,  May  3—A  deci­
sion  of  great 
importance  to druggists 
was  handed  down  by  the  Appellate 
Court  recently.  A.  H.  Caldwell,  a  Mar­
tinsville  druggist, 
sold  a  quart  of 
whisky  on  a  physician's  prescription 
reading,  “ R.  Whisky,  one  quart, 
for 
medical  use,”   and  was  fined  tor  selling 
intoxicating  liquor  on  Sunday,  but  at­
tempted  to  justify  the  act  on  the ground 
that  he  filled  the  prescription  of  a 
reputable  physician.

The  court  holds  that  the  presentation 
of  a  prescription  that  does  not  request 
that  the  sale  be  made  on  Sunday,  nor 
to  whom  it  shall  be  sold,  nor  the  man­
ner  in  which  the  liquor  shall  be  used, 
is  not  authority  for  selling  on  Sunday, 
and  that  the  burden  of  proof  is  on  the 
druggist  to  show  that  the  liquor  was 
used  for  medical  purposes.

A  resident of Lewiston,  Me.,  refuses to 
pay a tax on his bicycle,  saying  it is worn 
out and  useless.  He  demands  to  know 
of  the  assessors  whether  they  could  tax 
a  man  for  a  dead  horse. 
If  not,  he 
wishes  to  know  why  he  should  pay  for 
a  dead  bicycle  with  a  punctured  wheel.

PATENT  MEDICINES
_____________ PECK  BROS.,  Grand  Rapids.

Order your patent medicines from 

The  Best 

On  Earth

Manufactured by

Schulte  Soap  Co.,

Detroit,  Mich.

Premium  given  away  with  Clydesdale 

Soap Wrappers.

Ì~ S T B R ” 

'Y U M  A ”

The best 5 cent cigars ever made.  Sold by

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

B E S T   S t  R U S S E L L   C O .,  C h i o a o o . 

THE  “ MONITOR.”
Soon  after  our Cigar  Department  was  in­
stituted on its  present  basis,  we  discovered 
a demand for a *30.00 cigar of  better  quality 
than the usual goods at  this  price.  We  met 
this call  with  the  MONITOR,  a  cigar  made 
in the factory which  we  control, and by  the 
advantage  we  enjoy  In  this  respect, we  are 
able  to  offer  the  quality  which  la  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., " “

.“S L “ “'*'

BOSTAflLCAROt •

For only one cent you can  have  an  expert 
examine

YOUR  LEAKY

roof  and  tell  you  why  it  leaks  and  how 
much it will cost to “stop  that  hole.”  We 
have had 28 years’ experience In this  busl 
ness,  and  are  reliable  and  responsible. 
We  have  men  traveling  all  the  time  and 
can send them to  yon on short notice.  All 
kinds of roofs put on and repaired by

H.  M.  REYNOLDS & SON,

G R A N D   R A P ID S   O F F I C E ,  C A M P A U   &   L O U IS . 
D E T R O I T   O F F I C E . F O O T  O F   TH IR D   S T R E E T .

As  photographed^ by  Prof.  Leo  Shiappocasse  at  Chicago,  111.,  April  9,  1897.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Ipecac  Root. 
Declined—Opium, Linseed Oil.

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
12
15

13® 15
6®
8
25® 30

15
2 25
80
50
15
2
35
7

6
4®
6®
8
12® 14
12® 14

60® 65
@ 2 60
40® 45
80® 85

Acidum
Acetlcum..................
8@8 10
80® 85
Benzoicum,  German
Boracic......................
© 15
29® 41
Carbolicum..............
44® 46
Citricum ...................
3®
5
Hydrochlor..............
8@ 10
12® 14
Oxalicum .................
© 15
Phosphorium,  d ii...
45® 50
Salicÿlicum..............
1M@ 5
Sulphuricum............
T annicum ............... 1  40®  1 60
36® 38
Tartaricum...............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg............
Aqua, 20  deg............
Carbones...................
Chloridum...............
Aniline
Black......................... 2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
Brown  ......................
45® 50
R e d ...........................
Yellow...................... 2  50® 3 00
Baccæ.
Cubeæe............po. 18
Juniperus.................
Xantboxylum..........
Balsam um
Copaiba  ...................
Peru.  ........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan.....................
Cortex
Abies,  Canadian__
C assi» ......................
Cinchona Flava.......
Euonymus atropurp
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillala,  gr’d ..........
Sassafras........ po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15,  gr’d
Extractum
24@ 25
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra.
28® 30
Glycyrrhiza,  po.......
Hæmatox, 15 lb box. U@ 12
13® 14
Hæmatox.ls 
..........
14® 15
Hæmatox, Vis..........
16® 17
Hæmatox,  Ms.........
Ferra
Carbonate  Precip...
Citrate and Q uinia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride.......
.Sulphate, com’l .......
Sulphate,  comT,  by
bbl, per cw t..........
Sulphate,  p u r e .......
Flora
A rnica......................
Anthém is.................
M atricaria...............
Folia
Barosma...................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly...................
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and  Vis...................
Ura Ursi....................
Gummi
© 65
Acacia,  1st picked..
Acacia,  2d  picked..
© 45
Acacia.  3d  picked..
© 35
© 28
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
60© 80
Acacia, po.................
14® 18
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28
@ 12
Aloe, C ape__ po.  15
© 30
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40
55® 60
Ammoniac...............
22® 25
Assafcetida__ po. 30
50® 55
B enzoinum .............
@ 13
Catechu, Is...............
@ 14
Catechu, Vis.............
@ 16
Catechu, Ms.............
48® bb
C am phor»...............
@ 10
Euphorbium . . po.  35
@  1 00
Galbanum.................
65® 70
Gamboge  po............
© 35
Guaiacum.......po. 35
@  4  00
Kino............po. *4.u0
© 60
M astic......................
© 40
Myrrh............. po.  45
Opii... po. $3.80@4.00  2 50®  2  60
40® 60
Shellac......................
40® 45
Shellac, bleached...
50® 80
Tragacanto .............
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........ oz. pkg
M ajorum__ oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue............... oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg
Hagnesla.
Calcined, Pat............
Carbonate, P at........
Carbonate, K. A M..
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium.............   3  25®  3 50
Amygdalæ, Dulc__  
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarse .  8 00®  8 25
Anisf.........................  2 10®  2 20
Auranti  Cortex.......  2 00®  2 20
Bergamii...................  2 25®  2 30
Cajfputi....................  
75®  80
Caryophylli.............. 
55®  6J
Cedar.........................  
35®  65
Chenopadli............... 
® 4 0 0
Cinnamonll..............  1 80®  2 00
Oitronella................. 
45®  50

15® 20
18® 25
25® 30
12® 20
8® 10

55® 60
20® 22
20© 25
35® 36

12® 14
18® 25
30® 35

25
20
2b
28
23
25
39
22
25

Conium  Mac............
35® 65
Copaiba.................... 1  10®  1  20
Cubeb».....................
90®  1  00
E xechthitos............ 1  20®  1  30
Erigeron.................. 1  20®  1  30
G aultheria............... 1  50©  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...
©
Gossippii, Sem. gal..
50© 60
Hedeoma.................. 1  00©  1 10
Junipera................... 1  50@ 2 00
Lavendula...............
90© 2 00
Limonis.................... 1  20©  1  40
Mentha  Piper......... 1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.......... 2  65©  2 75
Morrhu®,  gal.......... 1  50©  1 60
Myrcia,..................... 4 00©  4  50
Olive......................
75©  3 00
Picis  Liquida..........
10© 12
Picis Liquida. gal...
© 35
R icin a......................
99®  1  04
Rosmarini................
@  1  00
Ros»,  ounce............ 6  50©  8 50
S uccini....................
40© 45
S abina....................
90©  1  00
Santa]....................... 2  50©  7 00
Sassafras..................
50® 55
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce.
© 65
Tiglfl......................... 1  40©  1  50
Thym e....................
40© 50
Thyme,  opt.............
©  1  60
Theobrom as............
15© 20
Potassium
Bi-Barb......................
15© 18
Bichromate.............
13© 15
Bromide....................
48© 51
Carb.........................
12® 15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c
16® 18
Cyanide....................
50© 55
Iodide....................... 2 65®  2 75
Potassa, Bitart, pure
29© 31
Potassa, Bitart,  com
@ 15
Potass Nitras, opt...
8© 10
Potass Nitras............
9
7®
Prussiate..................
25® 28
Sulphate p o ............
15® 18
Radix
Aconitvm.................
20® 25
A 1th*.......................
22@ 25
A nchusa..................
12® 15
Arum po....................
© 25
C alam us..................
20® 40
Gentiana........ po  15
12© 15
.Glychrrhiza...pv. 15
16® 18
Hydrastis Cana'den .
@ 35
Hydrastis Can., po..
@ 40
Hellebore, Alba, p o ..
15® 20
Inula, po..................
15© 20
Ipecac, po................. 2 00®  2 10
Iris plox.... po35@38
35© 40
Jalapa,  p r.................
40® 45
Maranta,  Ms............
© 35
Podophyllum, no__
22© 25
Rhei  .........................
75©  1  00
Rhei, cu t..................
©  1  25
R hei.pv............
75©  1 35
Spigelia.....................
35® 38
Sanguinaria... po. 40
@ 35
Serpentaria.............
30© 35
Senega......................
40© 45
Simifax,officinalis H
@ 40
Smllax, M.................
© 25
Scill®...............po.35
10© 12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po..................
@ 25
VaIeria‘na.Eng.po.30
@ 25
Valeriana,  German.
15© 20
Zingiber a .................
12© 16
Zingiber j .................
25® 27
Semen
Anisum..........po.  15
© 12
Apium  (graveleons)
13® 15
Bird, Is......................
4©
6
Carui...............po. 18
10® 12
Cardamon................. 1  25®  1  75
Corlandrum.............
8® 10
Cannabis  Sativa__ 3V4® 4
Cydonium.................
75®  1  00
Chenopodium  ........
10® 12
Dipterlx  Odorate... 2  90®  3  00
Foenlculum.............
@ 10
Foenugreek, po........
9
7®
L in i...........................
4
2VÍ©
Linl,  grd__ bbl. 2% 3 Vs®
4
L obelia....................
35© 40
Pharlaris  Canarian.
3Vi@ 4
R apa.........................
5
4M®
Sinapis Albu............
7® 8
Sinapis  Nigra..........
11® 12
Spirltus

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 G alli........   1  75®  6 50
Vini Oporto.............   1  25®  2 00
Vini  Alba.................  1  25®  2 00

Sponges
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool 
carriage.................
@ 2  00
Velvet extra  sheeps’ 
wool, carriage......
@  1 10
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
@ 85
Grass  sheeps’  wool, 
carriage.................
@ 65
Hard, for slate use..
@ 75
Yellow  R e e f,  for 
slate  use...............
@  1 40
Syrups 
A cacia.....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac. 
..........
Ferri Iod..................
Rhei Aram...............
Smllax Officinalis...
Senega......................
Scill»........................

a 50
© 50
@ 50
© 60
@ 50
© 50
50@ 60
© 50
© 50

50
75

10®

fllscellaneous 

@ 
so
so
® 
@  50
60
50
60
60
so
so
60
50
60
50
so
75

Scillæ Co................... 
T olutan.................... 
Prunus virg.............  
Tinctures
Aconitum NapellisR 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes.......................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__  
A rnica...................... 
Assafcetida.............  
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex....... 
Benzoin....................  
Benzoin Co...............  
Barosm a................... 
Cantharides............. 
Capsicum..... 
Cardamon.... 
 
Cardamon  Co..........  
75
Castor.......................  
1  00
Catechu....................  
50
Cinchona..................  
50
60
Cinchona Co............ 
Columba................... 
50
Cubeba...................... 
50
Cassia  Acutlfol....... 
50
50
Cassia Acutlfol Co.. 
50
D igitalis................... 
50
E rgot......................... 
Ferri Chloridum.... 
35
G entian.................... 
50
60
Gentian Co...............  
G uiaca...................... 
50
Guiaca ammon........  
60
50
Hyoscyamus............ 
Iodine........................ 
75
Iodine, colorless__  
75
50
Kino........................... 
Lobelia.....................  
50
50
Myrrh........................  
Nux  Vomica............ 
50
O pii...........................  
75
50
Opii, camphorated.. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.... 
Q uassia....................  
50
Hhatany.................... 
50
Rhei........................... 
50
Sanguinaria............ 
50
50
Serpentaria.............. 
60
Stram onium ............ 
Tolutan.....................  
60
50
V alerian................... 
50
Veratrum V eride... 
20
Zingiber.................... 
Æ ther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
35 
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
A lum en....................   2M@
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
4
Annatto....................  
40®
50
Antimoni,  po.......... 
4®
5 
55®
Antimoni et PotassT
60
A ntipyrin...............
1  40 
Antifebrin  .............
15 
Argent! Nitras, oz .
55 
Arsenicum..............
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud  !
40
Bismuth  S. N.........
1  40®  1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.
9
®  
© 
Calcium Chlor.,  Vis 
10 
® 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  75
Capsid  Fructus, af 
18 
Capsid Fructus, po.
15 
Capsid FructusB.po 
15 
Caryophyllus..po.  15
12 
Carmine, No. 40.......
3 75 
Cera Alba, S. & F . ..
55 
Cera Flava...............
42 
Coccus......................
40 
Cassia Fructus........
33 
® 
Centraria..................
10 
Cetaceum..................
®   45
Chloroform..............
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs
©  1  35 
Chloral Hyd Crst__
1  15®  1  30 
Chondrus..................
20®  25
20®  25
Ctnchonidine.P. A W 
15®  22
Clnchonldine, Germ 
Cocaine....................  3 55®  3 75
Corks, list, dl8.pr.ct
Creosotum..............
Creta.............. bbl. 75
Creta, prep...............
Creta, precip............
Creta,
i Rubra............
Crocus 
Cudbear  ...
Cupri Sulph 
Dextrine.................... 
Ether Sulph.............
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po.................
6 
35 
Ergota............. po. 40 
Flake  W hite............ 
15 
Galla.................
23 
Gambler...........
9 
60 
_
Gelatin, Cooper  .  .. 
Gelatin, French....... 
35®
60
60,  10A10 
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
60
9®
_
Glue,  brown............ 
12 
Glue,  w hite.............  
13®
25 
14®
G lycerina.......... 
20 
@
Grana  Paradisi  __  
15 
25®
Humulus................... 
55 
80 
®
HydraagChlor  Mite 
70 
®
Hydraag Chlor  Cor. 
90 
®
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
1 00 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
45®
55 
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum..........
65
Ichthyobolla, Am.
1  25®  1  50
75®  1  00
Indigo........................ 
Iodine, Resubi........   3  60® 3 70
®  4 20
Iodoform..................  
@ 225
Lupulin....................  
Lycopodium............ 
50®  55
65®  75
Macis 
Liquor  Arse;, et Hy-
@  27
drarg Iod............... 
LiquorPotassArsinlt  . 10®  12
Magnesia,  Sulph__  
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1Vi
Maunia, S. F ............ 
50®  60
M enthol................... 
®  2 40

90 8 

10®
®50®

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

35 
24 
6 
12 

30®
_
12®

_
5®
10®

_  

9®

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

31 
33 
65 
34 

19

34
36
70
40

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian..........  1%  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  1M  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2%  2Vi@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2Vi  2^@3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
American..............  
15
13® 
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
19
Green, P a ris ............  13 Vi® 
16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
13® 
Lead, Red.................  5Vi® 
6
Lead, w hite.............   5Vi® 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’. .. 
@ 
90
@ 100 
White, Pans Amer.. 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
c liff........................ 
@ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

8
3
8
5
8
3

Morphia,S.P.AW...  1  95® 2 20 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co......................  1  85® 2 10
@ 4 0
Moschus Canton__  
Myristica, No. 1....... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica... po.20  @ 
10
18
Os  Sepia..................  
15® 
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co...................... 
®  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.V4 gal.
doz..........................  
@ 200
Picis Liq., quarts.... 
@  1  00
Picis Liq., pints....... 
@  85
PilH ydrarg...po.  80  @ 5 0
Piper N igra... po.  22  @  18
Piper A lba....po.  35  @  30
Piix  Burgun............ 
7
Plumbi  Acet............ 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Py rethrum, boxes H.
@ 125
A P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyre thrum,  pv........  
30®  33
Q uassi».................... 
8® 
10
24®  29
Quinia, S. P. A W .. 
22®  27
Quinia, S.German.. 
Qqinia, N.Y.............  
23©  28
Rubia Tinctorum ... 
12® 
14
26
SaccharumLactis pv  24® 
Saladn......................3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W....................  
14
12®  
Sapo, M...................... 
12
10® 
Sapo, G...................... 
@ 
15
Siedlitz  M ixture....  20  @  22

@ 
10® 

@ 18
Sinapis......................
Sinapis, opt.............
© 30
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Voes.......................
© 34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s
© 34
Soda Boras...............
6  ©
8
Soda Boras, po........
6  ©
8
Soda et Potass Tart.
26© 28
Soda,  Carb...............
2
lVi©
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
3©
5
Soda,  Ash.................
3 Vi©
4
© 2
Soda, Sulphas..........
Spts. Cologne............
© 2 60
50® 55
Spts. Ether  Co........
Sptr  Myrcia Dom... 
@  ° 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.
@  2 42
Spts. Vini Rect. Vi bbl
@  2 47
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
@  2 50
Spts. Vlnl Rect.  5gal
@ 2 52
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40(&  1 45
Sulphur,  Subl..........
3
Sulphur,  Roll.........
2®  2 Vi
Tam arinds...............
8® 10
Terebenth Venice...
28® 30
Theobrom »..............
42® 45
Vanilla...................... 9 00@16 On
Zinc!  Sulph.............
7®
8

Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
2V4®

Oils

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

70 
40
35

Chamois

Sponges

W e  have  a complete 
line  of  all  grades  Sponges 
in  bales;  also  bleached 
in  cases.

A ll  numbers  of  Chamois 
at  attractive  prices

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

AXLE  GREASE.
doz.  gross
6 00
Aurora..........................55 
Castor Oil.................... 60 
7 00
400
Diamond......................50 
Frazer’s .....................   .75  9 00
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
rtica, tin boxes........... 70 
9 00
Paragon........................55 
6 00

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
it lb cans doz.................... 
45
85
44 lb cans doz....................  
lb cans doz....................  1  50
1 
u  lb cans 3 doz..................  
45
44 lb cans 3 doz.................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz..................  1  00
1 
Bulk......................................  
10
lb cans per doz.............. 
75
44 lb cans per d o z ............1  20
lb cans per doz..............2  00
1 
it lb cans 4 doz case........  
35
44 lb cans 4 doz case........  
55
lb cans 2 doz c a s e ....... 
90

El Purity.

Home.

it lb cans, 4 doz case....... 
44 lb cans, 4 doz case........  
1 

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

Our Leader.

it lb cans............................  
it lb cans............................  
l 
1 lb. c a n s ..........................  

45
75
lb cans............................   1  50
  85

Peerless.
BASKETS.

Per doz.
Standard Bnsbel...............   125
Extra Bushel.....................  1  75
Market................................  
30
44 bushel, bamboo del’ry.  3  50 
M bushel, bamboo del’ry.  4 00 
1  bnshel, bamboo del’ry.  5 00 
Diamond Clothes, 30x16...  2 50
Braided Splint, 30x16 .......  4 00

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

BATH  BRICK.

American..................................70
English.......................................80

BLUINQ.

C O P I E D

BROOnS.

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 
40
3 doz. wooden boxes...........  1 20
.Vo. 1 Carpet.........................   1  90
No. 2 Carpet.........................  1  75
No. 3 Carpet.........................   1  50
No. 4 Carpet...... ..................   1  15
Parlor G em ..........................  2 00
Common Whisk................... 
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
16s  ............................................8
Paraffine..................................8

CAKE FROSTINO.

CANDLES.

CANNED  GOODS, 
ilanitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside M arrowfat..........  1  00
Lakeside E.  J ......................  130
Lakeside, Cham, of E ng....  1  40 
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  65 

CHOCOLATE.

W alter Baker & Co.'s.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sw eet.........................22
Premium.................................. 31
Breakfast Cocoa....... 
42
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz.......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz.......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz.......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz.......... 1  60
Cotton. 80 ft, per  doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz..............  80
Jute, 78ft,  per  d o z ..........  96

CHEESE.

@  10 
Acme  ..........
Amboy........
@  1044 
@  10 
Byron..........
E lsie............
@  1044 9*
Gold  Medal.
@  10 
Id eal............
Jersey..........
@  1044 
Lenawee..  .. 
@
Riverside..
@  1014 
Sparta..........
@
Brick............
@ 10i4 
@ 7 5  
Edam...........
@  19 
Leiden..........
@  15
Limburger.
Pineapple................   43  @  85
Sap  Sago..................   @  18

Bulk 
Red 

Chicory.

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

.......... 

CATSUP.

5
7

Columbia, 
pints...............4  25
Columbia,  44 pints  ............ 2 50

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes.... 

............... 40

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

2ft
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  Guatamala.

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

Maracaibo.

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

Interio r......................................25
Private  Growth......................
Mandehllng...............................28

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Im itatio n .................................. 25
Arabian  ....................................28
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue....................... 30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__ 30
Wells’ Mocha and Java...... 2554
Wells’  Perfection  Java.......2554
Sancaibo  .............................. 23
Valley City Maracaibo........20
Ideal  Blend.......... : .............. 16
Leader  Blend....................... 1354
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands
Quaker Arabian Mocha...... 31
Quaker Mandehllng Java. .31 
Quaker Mocha and Java. ...29
Toko Mocha and Java........ 26
Quaker Golden Santos........23
State House Blend...............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 rbnckle.........................   12 00
Jersey................................  12 00
rtcLoughlln’s  XXXX........ 12  00
Valley City 44  gross_ 
75
i  15
Felix  54  gross................. 
Hummel's foil  54 gross 
85
Hummei’s tin  54  gross  .. 
1  43
Koeipp Malt Coffee.
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9

Extract.

CONDENSED  MILK

4 doz in case.
Gall 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

COUPON  BOOKS.

jSÊÊÊ^SSL-

m

Tradesman Grade.

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

Economic  Grade.

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

Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom ...
100 books, any denom ...
500 books, any denom ...
1,000 

1  50
2 50 
.11  50
books, any denom_20 00
Superior Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

.  50 books, any denom__   150
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.............................  
l 00
50 books..................................  2 00
100 books..................................  3 00
250 books..................................  C 25
500 books.................................. 10 00
1000 books.................................. 17 50

denomination from $10 down.

Credit Checks.

Apples.

California  Prnlta.

500, any one denom’n .......3 00
1000, any one denom’n .......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n .......8 00
Steel  punch.........................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnESTIC 
Sundrled.........................   ©  244
Evaporated 50 lb  boxes.  ©  4 
Apricots........................  9 @1044
Blackberries................
Nectarines....................  6 @
Peaches.........................  744®  9
Pears................................8 @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles...................   12
Raspberries..................
100-120 25 lb boxes..........  @344
90-100 25 lb boxes........  @  3%
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..........  @444
70 - 80 25 lb boxes..........  @ 5
60 - 70 25 lb boxes..........  @544
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.
@ 6
40 - 50 25 lb boxes 
@  744
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.
44 rent less In 50 lb cases 

California  Prunes.

Raisins.

Lt-ndon Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Crown.
Dehesias............... .,........
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

1  55
2 50
3  25 
5
514
644

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Patras bbls.........................@ 544
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ @  5%
Cleaned, bulk  ...................©   644
Cleaned, packages............© 7
Citron American 10 lb  bx  @14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  @12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  @1? 
Ondura 28 lb boxes....... 6%@  8
Sultana  1 Crown............  @844
Sultana 2 C ro w n ..........  @ 9
Sultana 3 Crown............  @944
Sultana 4 Crown............  @954
Sultana 5 Crown

Raisins.

PLY PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

Regular, per box................. 
30
Regular, case of 10 boxes..  2 55
Regular, 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

Grits.

Farina.

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s ...

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

FARINACEOUS OOODS.
3
. . .  
...2 00
...2 25
. . . 1   00
344
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
. . .   60
...2 50

Hominy.
Barrels  ......................................
Flake, 50 lb.  drum s.. .
Lima  Beans.
Dried 
........................
Domestic,  10 lb.  bo x .
Imported,  25 lb.  b o x . .
Pearl Barley.
Common..........................
C h ester.......................
E m p ire........................

Green,  bu....................
Split,  per lb .................
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  b b l. .
Monarch,  bbl......................
Monarch.  44  bbl..............
Private brands,  bbl.
Private brands,  44bbl.
Quaker,  cases......................

1 M
. . .  
...  2
...  244
...  80
...  2*
. .   .3 30
.  .2 80
...1  55
...2 75
...1 50
...3 20
4
844
3
Cracked, bulk ......................
24 2 lb packages................. ....2 40

Sago.
Germ an .............................. 
. .
East  India............................

W heat.

Peas.

. . .  
. . .  

. . . .  

Fish.
Cod.

Georges  cured.................... @ 344
Georges  gennlne............. @ 4
@  5
Georges selected..............
Strips or  bricks................ 5  <@ 8
Chunks...................................  
Strips...................................  

Halibut.

9

Herring.

Holland white hoops keg. 
60
Holland white hoops  bbl.  7  50
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs....................   2 50
Round  40 lbs....................  1  30
Scaled.....................................  

riackerel.

No. 1100 lbs........................  10 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................  4 50
No. 1  10 lbs........................  1  20
No. 2 100 lbs........................  7 00
No. 2  40 lbs........................  3  10
No. 2  10 lbs......................  
85
Family 90 lbs......................
Family 10 IbB.....................

66

Sardines.
Stockfish.

Trout.

Russian kegs...................... 
No. 1 ,1001b. bales.............
No. 2,100 lb. bales.............
No. 1100 lbs........................  4  25
No. 1  40 lbs........................  2 00
No. 1  10 lbs...................... 
58
No. 1 
8 lbs......  .............. 
49
No. 1 No. 2 Fam
100 lb s ... ....  6 25
1  85
5  00
40lbs  ... ....  2  80
1  05
2 30
10 lbs__ .... 
65' !  34
78
8 lbs  .  .
65
-  30
55
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Whltoflsh.

Jennings’ .

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz..
2 oz
75
1  20
3 oz.
1  50
3 oz
.1  00 
4 oz..
4 oz..
.1  40 
2 00
6 oz.. 
3 .X)
6 oz...
.2  00 
No.  8 
.2 40 
No.  8. 
4 00 
No.  10.
No. 10 
.4 00
6  00
No.  2 T.1 25 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  35
No.  3 T.2 00
No  4 T.2  40 
No. 4 T.l  5n
Sage.................................. ....  15
H ops................................ ....  15
Madras, 5  lb  boxes....... ....  55
S.  F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  boxes ....  50
15 lb  palls........................ ....  30
17 lb  pall«........................ ....  34
30 lb  palis........................ ....  60
Condensed, 2  d o z ........ ....1   20
Condensed, 4  d o z ...,.......... 2 26

INDIGO.

HERBS.

JBLLY.

LYE.

Souders’ .
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks...........................2 60
60 5-lb sacks........................... 1 86
2811-lb sacks......................... 1 70

W orcester.

lb.  cartons.................3 25
50  4 
115  2441b. sacks......................4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks.....................3 75
lb. sacks.................   3  50
2214 
3010 
lb. sacks.....................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks....................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.......... ..........  60
Bulk In barrels.......................2 50

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

W arsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

dLUB.

per doz.
Jackson Liqnld, 1 oz.......... 
65
Jackson Liquid, 2 oz..........  
98
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz..........   1 30
GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

 

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

K egs.......................................4 25
Half Kegs.............................. 2 40
Quarter Kegs......................... 1  35.
1 lb  cans................................   30
44  lb  cans..............................   18
K egs............................  
Half Kegs....................................2 25
Quarter  Kegs..............................1 25
1 lb  cans................................   34
10
K egs............................................ 8 00
Half Kegs....................................4 25
Quarter Kegs...............................2 25
llb c a n s ..................................  45
Pure.........................................  30
C alab ria................................  26
Sicily.......................................  14
Boot................................... 
  10
Ideal, 3 doz. in case...................2 25

MINCB  MEAT.

LICORICE.

18

flATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9  sulphur..............................1 05
Anchor  Parlor............................1 70
No. 2  Home................................. 1 10
Export  Parlor............................4 00

riOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black.  ................................ 
ll
F a ir.....................................  
14
G ood...................................  
20
24
Fancy  ................................ 
Open Kettle........................25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra.

PIPES.

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

65

48 cans In case.

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

POTASH.

PICKLES.
rtedlnm.

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

Small.

56:lb dairy In linen  sacks...  00 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

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

Common Pine.

S aginaw ..................................  70
Manistee  ................................   70

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladdere..............  37
Maccaboy, in Jars.................  35
4 00
French Rappee, In  ja rs.......  43

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground In Balk.

Allspice  ................................   9  •
Cassia, China in m ats..........10
Cassia, Batavia in b and__ 20
Cassia, Saigon 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,  Saigon.......................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................. 20
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 15
Ginger,  African................... 16
Ginger,  Cochin.....................20
Ginger,  Jam aica...................22
Mace,  Batavia...................... 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste...................25
N utm egs,........................ 40@f0
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......................................   544
Kegs, English.........................  4 \

SODA.

RICB.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head......................  644
Carolina  No. 1  ...................  5
Carolina  No. 2....................   444
Broken.................................   3
Japan,  No. 1.......................   54*
Japan.  No. 2........................  5
Java, No. 1...........................   4M
Table  ...................................   544
A n ise..................................  18
Canary, Smyrna................. 
4
Caraw ay.............................  10
Cardamon,  M alabar.......  80
4
Hemp.  Russian................. 
Mixed  Bird........................ 
444
Mustard,  w hite................. 
644
Poppy  ...................1...........  
8
R ap e...................................  
5
Cattle Bone........................  20

SBBDS.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s ................................3 30
Deiand’s ................................3  15
Dwight’s ................................3  30
Taylor’s ..................................3 00
Granulated, bbls............... 1  10
Granulated,  1001b cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls.........................  
1
Lamp, 1451b kegs............... 1  10

SAL SODA.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.

Armour's  Fam ily...............  2 70
Armour’s  Laundry............  3  25
Armour’s White, 100s........   6 25
Armour's White, 50s..........   3 20
Armour's W oodchuck__ 2 55
Armour’s Kitchen  Brown.  2 oO 
Armour’s Mottled German  2 40 

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box....................................2 85
box lots, delivered....... 2 80
5 
10 box lots, delivered..........  2 75
JA3.  S.  KIRK  S GO/8 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

Lauta Bros. & Co.’s Bianda.

Acme, 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
SiDgle box............................   3  00
5 box lots.............................. 2  90
10 box lots 
...........................2  85
25 box lo ts.............................. 2  80
One box free with 5;  two boxes 
free  w ith  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 l o t s . ...........................2  65

Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 lbs.

Acme, 5 cent size.

Marseilles White.

109 cakes, 75 lbs,

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

100 cakes, 5 cent size.

Schulte Soap Co.'s Brand.

Schulte’s  Family.......................2 75
C ly d e s d a le .........................................2 85
N o T a x ................................................ 2 50
German  Mottled  ...................1  85
Electro.........................................3 25
Oleine, white  ....................... 2  55

Thompson & 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.

Single b o x ............................. 2 65
5 box lots,  delivered...........2 60
10 box lots,  delivergd...........2 50

Allen B.  Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2  20
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars__ 3  75
Uno,  100 94-lb. bars...............2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  bars............. 2 25

Scouring.

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

STARCH.

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages.......................   4
3-lb  packages.......................   4
6-lb  packages  ......................  4%
♦0 and 50 lb boxes.................  2V4
Barrels 
2^4

STOVE POLISH.

No. 4, 3 doz in case.............  4  50
No. 4, 3 doz in case.............  4  50
No. 6, 3 doz in case.............7 -20
No. 6, 3 doz in case.............7 -20

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf..................................... 5 13
Domino.......................................5 00
C ubes.......................................... 4 75
Powdered  .............................4  75
XXXX  Powdered...............  .4 88
Mould  A..................................... 4 75
Granulated in bbls.....................4 50
Granulated in  bags...................4 50
Fine Granulated........................4 50
Extra Fine Granulated....... 4  63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4  63
Diamond  Confec.  A............ 4 50
Confec. Standard A...................4 38
No.  1............ 
4  25
No  2.......................................... 4 25
No.  3.......................................... 4 25
No.  4  ....................................4  19
No.  5.......................................... 4 13
No.  6.......................................... 4 00
No.  7 .........................................3 94
No.  8.......................................... 3 88
No.  9.......................................... 3 75
No.  10.......................................... 3 69
No.  11.......................................... 3 63
No.  12.......................................... 3 50
No.  13.......................................... 3 38
No.  14.......................................... 3 25
No.  15...........................................3 19
No.  16................  

3  13

 

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick................................ 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s  b’d.
Governor Yates, 454 in ....... 58 00
Governor Yates, 49£ in ....... 65 00
Governor Yates, 5J4 in ___ 70 00
M onitor..................................... 30 00
Q uintette............................ 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

VINEGAR.

Miscellaneous Brands.

S. C. W .......................................35 00
American Queen......................35 00
Mallory...................................... 35 00
Michigan................................... 35 00
Royal Knight............................35 00
Sub Rosa....................................35 00
Leroux Cider............................10
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain... .10 
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain.  . .12 
No. 0, per gross......................  25
No. 1, per gross......................  30
No. 2, per gross......................  40
No. 3,pergross......................  75
Pish  and  Oysters

WICKING.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Mixed Candv.

Fancy—In Bulk.

Fancy—In  5  lb. Boxes.

bbls.  pails
534© 7
5%@ 7
6  © 7
7)4© 8)4
cases
©  8)4
©  8)4
@  6
©  6)4
©  7
©  7
©  7)4
©
©  8
@  8
@  8
©  8)4
©  9
@10
@13
©  9
©  9
11  @14
@12)4
@ 5
@ 7)4
©  8)4
©50
@50
©60
@65
@7f.
@30
@75
@50
@55
©55
©55
©65
©50
©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....................
B roken....................
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 Creams..
String Rock.............
Burnt Almonds....... 25  ©
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes....................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ....................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ...................
Fresh  Meats.
Beef.
Carcass....................
.  6  @ 7
Fore quarters..........
.  5  @  6
Hind  quarters........ ■  7)4©  9
Loins  No.  3..............
.10  @11
Ribs...........................
.  9  @12
R ounds....................
6)4©  7
Chucks..................
4  @ 5
© 4
Plates  ......................
Pork.
Dressed....................
Loins  ........................
.  6)4©
Shoulders................. ■  594©
Leaf Lard.................
.  5)4©  8
Mutton.
C arcass....................
.  7  © 9
Spring Lambs...
.  9  @10
Carcass 
.  5  @  6)4

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

@30
@45

Veal.

C r a c k e r s .

Soda.

B atter.

Oyster.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX....................   4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  454
Family XXX........................  4
Family XXX,’ 3 lb  carton..  454
Salted XXX.........................   4
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  454 
Soda  XXX  .........................   4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__   454
Soda,  City...........................  5
Zephyrette...........................  10
Long Island  W afers..........   9
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10 
Square Oyster, XXX..........  4
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb  carton.  5
Farina Oyster,  XXX..........   4
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
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
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX homemade  5 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  5 
Ginger  Vanilla  .................  7
Im perials...............................  6
Jumoles,  Honey..................  10
Molasses  Cakes..................   6
Marshmallow  .....................   12
Marshmallow  Creams.......  13
Pretzels,  hand  m a d e .......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.........................   6
Sultanas................................  10
Sears’ Lunch........................  6
Sears’  Zephyrette.................10
Vanilla  Square................. 
7
Vanilla  W afers..................  12
Pecan W afers.......................  12
Fruit Coffee..........................  9
Mixed Picnic..... .................   10
Cream Jum bles..................   H 54
Boston Ginger  Nuts............  6
Chimmie Fadden...............   9
Pineapple Glace...................  12

Wheat.

Wheat........ ...................... 83
W inter  W heat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

P aten ts................................  5  00
Second  Patent....................  4  50
Straight..............................   4 30
C le ar...,..............................   4 00
Graham  ..............................4  00
B uckw heat.........................  3  40
Bye  .....................................   2 65
Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 54s ........ 
4  40
Quaker, 54s ..........................  4  40
Quaker, 54s..........................   4  40

 

Spring  W heat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s ............  4  70
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s............  4  60
Pillsbury’s Best 14s ............  4  50
Pillsbury's Best 54s paper .  4 50 
Pillsbury’s Best  )*s paper..  4 50 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand.
Grand Republic,  54s............. 4  75
Grand Republic, 54s............. 4  65
Grand Republic, 54s............. 4  55
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian, 54s.............................   4 75
Parisian, 54s................................4 65
Parisian. 54s..............................  4 55
Ceresota, 54s .............................   4 85
Ceresota, 54s.............................   4 75
Ceresota, 54s .............................   4 05
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  54s ................................  4 65
Laurel, 54s ................................   4 55
Laurel, 54s .................................  4 45
B olted.......................................  1 50
G ranulated...............................  1 75

Oiney & Judson’s Brand.

Meal.

Feed and Millstuffs.

Oats.

New Corn.

Med’t  Sweets.

Hay.

The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 

St. Car Feed, screened  .... 12 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats...........11  00
Onbolted Corn Meal...........10  50
W inter Wheat  B ran............ 9  00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 10 00
Screenings................................   8 00
quotes as follows:
Car  lots................................   2754
Less than  car  lots.............  30
Car  lots................................23
Carlots, clipped..................  25
Less than  car  lots............   2fi
No. 1 Timothy carlots.......  11  00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots 
12  00
Fruits.
Oranges.
Seedlings
96-112.........................
250..............................
150-176-200..................
126.............................
150-176-200  ...............
Navels.
96  ...........................
126..............................
Messinas.
Fancy  200s...............
Valencias.
Cases of 420.............
Lemons.
Strictly choice  360s..
@3 00
Strictly choice 300s..
©3 25
Fancy  360s...............
©3  50
Ex.Fancy  300s........
@4 00
Bananas.
Medium  bunches... 1  25 @1  50
Large bunches........ 1  75 @2  00
Figs, Choice  Layers
10 lb .......................  
Figs,  New  Smyrna 
14 and 20 lb boxes. 
Figs,  Naturals 
in
30 lb. 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  .................... ..........©  454

@2 75
@2 50
@3 50
©3 25
@3 75
@3 75
@4 00
@4 00
@6 00

©10
©12
@ 6
©  8
@ 6
© 6

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @12
Almonds, Ivaca..........  @11
Almonds,  California,
soft  shelled.............   @12
Brazils new .................  @754
Filberts  ......................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @1254
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,  Jum bos.........  @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @4  00
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Game
S uns.........................   @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted....................  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  ..................   @ 6

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

Peanuts.

Provisions.

 

Swift  &  Company  quote  as

Sausages.

8  75
9  50
9 25
9 00
12  50
8 50
9 50
5)4
5
5

394
5)4
54
¡4
54
54
34
%
1
 
654
654
654
0
9
654

follows:
Barreled  Pork.
Mess  ................................
Back  ................................
Clear  back.......................
S hortcut...........................
Pig.....................................
Bean  .... ...........................
Family  ............................
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..............................
Briskets  ...........................
Extra  shorts__ ,.............
Smoked  neats.
Hams,  12 lb  average  __
10
...
Hams,  14 lb  average 
9%
Hams,  16 Id  average.......
9)4
Hams, 20 lb  average.......
894
Ham dried b e e f .............
13)4
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
6)4
Bacon,  clear....................
7
California  ham s.............. 6)4@7
Boneless hams.................
8*4
Cooked  ham ....................
11
Lards.  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 
B ologna........................  
Liver.................................. 
Frankfort.........................  
P o rk ....................... 
 
Blood  .................................. 
T ongue................................  
Head  cheese....................  
Extra  Mess.......................  7 00
Boneless  .........................   9  50
R um p................................   9 50
Kits, 15 lbs........................ 
80
H  bbls, 40 lbs....................  1 5u
54  bbls, 80 lbs...................   2 80
Kits, 15 lbs........................ 
75
54  bbls, 40 lbs....................  1 40
54  bbls, 80 lbs...................   2 75
P o rk .................................. 
is
Beef  rounds..................... 
354
Beef  middles..................  
8
60
S heep................................  
Rolls,  dairy........................  
10
Solid,  dairy...................... 
954
Rolls,  cream ery............ 
13
Solid,  cream ery.............. 
1254
Corned  beef,  2  lb .............2 15
Corned  beef, 14  lb ............14 00
Roast  beef,  2  lb .............2 15
60
Potted  ham,  54s ...........  
Potted  ham,  54s...........  1 00
Deviled ham,  54s............ 
60
Deviled ham,  54s ............  100
Potted  tongue 54s ..........  
60
Potted  tongue 54s ...........  1 00
Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

Canned  Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Furs.

Pelts.

Hides.

lows:
G reen............................  454© 554
Part  cured...................  @654
Full Cured....................  654© 754
D ry .............................. 6  @ 8
Kips,  green.................5  ©  6
Kips,  cured.................654©  754
Calfskins,  green........   554© 7
Calfskins, cured........   654© 8
Deacouskins  ..............25  ©30
Shearlings.................... 
5©  10
L am bs........................  25©  50
Old  Wool..................   60®  90
Mink...........................  30© 
90
Co  :  ...........................   30©  80
Skunk.........................   30©  70
Muskrats, spring.......  12© 
17
Muskrats, w in ter__  
13
8© 
Red F ox....................   80©  1  25
Gray Fox....................  30©  70
Cross Fox  ................. 2 5h@ 5  00
Badger.......................   25©  50
Cat, W ild ..................   10©  25
Cat, House.................  10©  20
Fisher............. 
  3 00© 5  00
Lynx.............................1  0T@ 2 00
Martin, Dark.............. 1  50© 3 00
Martin, Yellow........   75©  1  50
Otter.............................4  50© 7 50
W olf............................ 1  00©  2 00
B ear.............................7 00© 15 00
Beaver......................... 2 00© 6 00
Deerskin, dry, per lb.  15©  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb.  10©  1254
Washed 
.....................10  @18
Unw ashed...................   5 @14
Tallow ..........................  2 @  2Ji
Grease B utter...............  1 @ 2
Switches  .....................   154© 2
Ginseng........................2 50@2 75

ftiscellaneous.

Wool.

 

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ........................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt 
©   854
W W Michigan............  @ 8
High Test H eadlight..  © 7
D., S. Gas......................  @ 8
Deo. N ap th a ...............  @  754
Cylinder......................25  @36
E ngine.........................11  ©21
Black, w inter..............  ©  8

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON STONEWARE. 

Butters.

54 gal., per doz..................   50
1 to 6 gal., per gal............ 
5*4
654
" 8 gal., per g a l................... 
10 gal., per gal........... ........ 
654
12 gal., per gal.................... 
654
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  S 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 
8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 - 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

Churns.

■2 to 6 gal., per gal.............  
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85

554

Milkpans.

54 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  554 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.
54 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 

554 

Stewpans.

54 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
I gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 

Jugs.

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

654

Tomato Jugs.

54 gal., per doz...................  70
1 gal., each........................ 
7
Corks for 54 gal., per doz..  20 
5
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
54 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 

Sealing Wax.

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

2

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

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

crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

First  Quality.

top,
top,
top,

XXX Flint.
crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

No.  0 Sun, 
No.  1» Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

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

La  Bastie.

 

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

 

Rochester.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........ 3  50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)____  4  70

Electric.

OIL  CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  .......  4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........   4  40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  X  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  4  00 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5  00
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  6 00
5 gal Tilting cans...............   9  06
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas  ...  9 00 

Pump  Cans

LANTERNS.

5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9  00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule................. 10  50
5 gal Home Rule.................12  00
5 gal  Pirate  King...............  9  50
No.  OTubular....................  4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular...  .........6  50
No. 13 Tubular Dash..........6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount 
  7  00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp  ..........  3  75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No. 0 Tubular, cases 1  doz.
each, box 10 cents............ 
46
No. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
. each, box 15 cents............ 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5  doz.
each,  bbl 35......................  
40
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1  doz.  each..........  1  25

LAM P  WICKS.

No. 0 per gross....................  
No. 1 per gross....................  
No. 2 per grow ....................  
No. 3 per gross....................  
Mammoth per  doz.............. 

20
25
89
58
70

Fresh Fish.
Per lb.
W hitefish................. 
©  8
T ro u t.......................   @  7
Black Bass............... 
©  10
H alibut....................  ©  12>4
Ciscoes or H erring.. 
©  4
Bluefish.................... 
©   12
©  15
Live Lobster.......... 
Boiled Lobster........  
©  17
C od........................... 
©  10
Haddock..................   ©   8
No.  1  Pickerel........  
©   7
Pike.-..........................  ©  6
Smoked W hite........   ©   7
Red Snapper............  ©   13
Col  River  Salmon..  ©
Mackerel 
©  20
...............  
©  40
F. H. Counts............ 
F. J. D. Selects........  
©  30
Anchors.................... 
©
Standards................. 
©
Oysters, per  100.......... 1  25©l  50
Clams,  par  100..........   90©l  00

Oysters in Cans.

Shell Goods.

Klngaford’a  Corn.

40 1-lb packages....................   6
20 1 lb packages....................   OH

Kingston!’«  Silver  Qloss.
40 1-lb packages.......................0%
6-lb boxes.............................7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ................ 5 00
128  5c  packages..................5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 

Common  Corn.

20-lb boxes.............................  4%
40-lb boxes............  ..............  4M

22

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

H a rd w a re
The  Hardware  Market.

Conditions  of  business  remain  with­
out  any  material  change.  General  trade 
in  the  small  towns  seems *to  be  in  fairly 
good  condition  and  both  mail  orders 
and  orders  received  by  traveling  men 
are  numerous  and  in  fairly  good quanti­
ties.  The  demand  for  staple  and  sea­
sonable  goods  continues  brisk  and, 
while  there  is  no  difficulty  in  filling  all 
orders  with  a  fair  degree  of  prompt­
ness,  in  certain 
lines  there  is  more  or 
less  delay.  Prices,  as  a  general  thing, 
on  various  lines  of  hardware  remain 
without  any  material  change,  and  it 
is 
not  believed  that  goods  will  be  either 
higher  or  lower  during  the  remainder 
of  the  spring  business.  While  the  re­
tail  trade are  disposed  to  buy  all  that  is 
necessary,  there  is  an  entire absence  of 
speculation,  both  on  their part  and  on 
that  of  the  jobber.  Collections  remain 
only  fairly good  and  dealers  are  pursu­
ing  a  more  conservative policy,  refusing 
to  give  as  extended  credit as  has  been 
ruling  in  the  past.

Wire  Nails—Wire  nails  continue  in 
good  demand,  with  the  consuming trade 
as  well  as  with  the  dealer.  As  a  gen­
eral  thing,  factories  are  shipping  with 
more  promptness  than  has  ruled  in  the 
past  and,  while  lower  prices  are  not 
being  quoted  by  the  mills,  it is believed 
that  no  higher  prices  will  be  ruling  and 
that  the  market  is  not  in  as  firm  a  con­
dition  as  manufacturers  would 
like. 
There  is  no  change  in  the  market price, 
as  quoted  in  trade  reports,  and  it  is  de­
sired  by  all  manufacturers  as  well  as 
dealers  to  hold  the  price  where  it  now 
exists.

Barbed  Wire— The  demand for barbed 
and  plain  wire  keeps  up  wonderfully. 
The  mills  have  not  yet  caught  up  with 
their  orders,  so  they  are  not  giving  im­
mediate  shipment  on  receipt  of  new 
business,  although  but  very  little  delay 
is  experienced  in  getting  present  orders 
filled. 
It  is  believed  that  the  demand 
will  soon  drop  off,  as  farmers  will  all 
be  busy  at  other  work  and  will  not  be 
in  shape  to  use  any  wire  for the present. 
Prices  remain  as  quoted  in  our  market 
report  of  last  week  and  there  is  no indi­
cation  of  any  immediate  change.

Cordage—There  has  been  a  slight 
falling  off  of  orders  received  by  the 
manufacturers  during  the  past  week. 
The  demand  with  the  small  trade  con­
tinues  as  before,  and  there  is  no  change 
to  note  in  the  price.  We  find,  however, 
by  reviewing  the  Eastern  markets  that 
there 
lower 
price,  although  no  quotation 
is  made 
without order  in  hand.

tendency  to 

is  a  slight 

Binder  Twine—The  not  very  favor­
able  crop  report  from  different  sections 
of  the  country  does  not  encourage  the 
placing  of 
large  orders  for  binding 
twine.  Buyers  are  still  slow about  plac­
ing  their  orders.  There  is  no  immedi­
ate  prospect  of  any  change  in  prices.

Window  Glass—The  advance  that  was 
made  by  the  mills  May 
i 
is  firmly 
in  window 
maintained,  but 
jobbers 
glass  have  not  yet  begun  to  feel  the 
effect  of  this  advance,  as  there  does  not 
seem  to  be  any  harmony  of  action 
among  them,  in  consequence  of  which 
they  have  not  yet  made  an advance.  We 
find,  however  that  they  are  not  disposed 
to  cut  prices  and  are  maintaining a uni­
form  discount.
Mary  Ellen  Lease  and  the  Traveling 

Man.

From the Topeka State Journal.
Mrs.  Mary  E.  Lease 

last  night 
boarded  the  Santa  Fe  train  here  for 
Atchison,  where  she  had  a  lectuie date. 
She  found  the  car  crowded,  the  only va­

cant  seat  being  by  the  side  of  a  Chi­
cago  traveling  man.  Of  course,  the 
traveling  man  moved  his  big  grips  and 
made  room  for  her.  This  brought  from 
the  “ uncrowned  queen  of  the  Kansas 
prairies’ ’  a  “ thank  you”   and  a  pleas­
ant  smile.

ice  thus  broken,  the  traveling 
man  proceeded  to  make  himself  agree­
able.  One  word  brought  on  another, 
and  the  traveling  man  soon  had  got  far 
enough  along  in  the  conversation  to  ask 
Mrs.  Lease  where  she  lived.

The 

“ At  Wichita,”   she  replied.
“ Ah!  Wichita,”   said  the  traveling 
“ I  suppose  you  know  the famous 

man. 
Mary  Ellen?”

“ I  know  her quite  well.”
“ She’s a  great  old  girl;  I’d 

like  to 

meet  her.”

The  traveling  man 

There  was  a  merry  twinkle  in  Mrs. 
Lease’s  eye.  She  saw  some  fun  ahead.
continued:  “ I 
learned  a  good  deal  about  Mrs.  Lease 
through  a  Topeka  friend  of  mine  who 
was  her  attorney— Hagan,  Eugene  Ha­
gan—that’s  my friend’s name—defended 
her  the  time  Lewelling  tried  to  remove 
her  from  the  Board  of  Charities.  Ha­
gan  said  she  was  a  great  fighter,  but 
notwithstanding  her  reputation  as  a 
crank  was  a  very  easy  client  to  get 
along  with.  Hagan  said  she  paid  his 
fee  of  $500  without  a  question,  and  he 
thought  she  would  have  paid  $1,000  just 
as  willingly.  She  is  the  first  woman  I 
ever  heard  of  who  wouldn’t  quarrel 
about  a  bill,  that  is,  if  she  had  to  pay 
it  herself.”

Mrs.  Lease  beamed  upon the traveling 
man,  and  said  she  had  heard  the  sub­
ject  of  the  chat  was  that  kind  of  a 
woman.

“ What  sort  of  a  family  has  she?”  

asked  the  traveling  man.

man?”

“ She  has  a  number  of  very bright 
children,  Mrs.  Lease replied,  “ two  boys 
and  a  girl.  The  elder  boy  is  grown.

“ Is  her  husband  living?”
“ Yes;  he  is  a  druggist.”
“ He  must  be  a  queer  kind  of  a 
“ Why?”
“ Well,  Mrs.  Lease  is bright  and  fa­
mous  and  all  that,  but  she 
is  such  a 
curiosity  that  I  should  think  a  man 
would  hate  to  live  with  her.”
lip. 

.“ He  has 
managed  to  stand  it  a good while—near­
ly  a  quarter of  a century, ”   she  said. 
“ There’s  no  accounting  for  tastes  in 
this  world,”   the  traveling  man 
re­
marked.

Mrs.  Lease  bit  her 

W.  F.  Guthrie,  the  Atchison attorney, 
who  was  sitting  across  the aisle  and had 
heard  the  conversation,  could  contain 
himself  no  longer,  so  he  roared.  Then 
Mrs.  Lease  laughed  and  handed  the 
traveling  man  her  card.

“  Nortonville!”   the  brakeman  called 
“ I  must  get  off  here,”   said  the  trav­
eling  man,  and,  grabbing  his  grips, 
made  a  dash  for  the  door.  He  left  the 
train  at  Nortonville,  but  the  conductor 
said  his  ticket  read  St.  Joseph.

out.

Asheville,  the  Attractive.

The  sun  has  never  shown  upon  a  spot 
fairer  than  the  Asheville,  North  Caro­
lina,  country.  The  climatic  advantages 
and  the  beautiful  scenery  of  Asheville 
have  won  for that  section  of  our country 
that  enviable  name,  “ The  Land  of  the 
Sky.”   So  attractive 
is  Asheville  that 
Mr.  Vanderbilt  has  chosen  it,  above  all 
others,  as  the  place  for  his  magnificent 
new  chateau,  costing  many  millions  of 
dollars.  The  elegant  tourist  hotels  at 
Asheville  and  Hot  Springs,  N.  C.,  are 
open  the  year around.
The  line  to  this  “ Land  of the Sky”   is 
the  Southern  Railway.  Wm.  H.  Tay- 
loe,  Assistant  General  Passenger  Agent, 
Louisville,  Ky., 
furnishes  handsome 
souvenir  books  of  the  country.  The 
Asheville  country 
is  reached  through 
Cincinnati  or  Louisville on conveniently 
arranged  schedules  via  Queen  &  Cres­
cent  and  Southern  Railway.

An  article  of  no  small  importance  in 
Germany  is  tobacco  juice,  derived prin­
cipally  from  Virginia  and  Kentucky  to­
bacco,  and used  to a  considerable  extent 
for the  manufacture  of  chewing  tobacco 
in  Bavaria.

A  700 Pound  Barrel

can  be  handled  with  per­
fect ease  by

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

S.  T.  Bowen,  Representing  John  G.

Miller  &  Co.

Stephen  T.  Bowen  was  born  Oct.  20, 
1849,  a*  Albany,  N.  Y .,  where  his 
father  was  professor  of  the  musical  and 
grammar  departments  of  the  State  Nor­
mal  School.  His 
antecedents  were 
Yankee  on  both  sides,  his  father  being 
of  Welsh  extraction.  When  he  was  6 
years  of  age,  the  family  removed  to 
Hopkinton,  la.,  where  his  father  en­
gaged 
Two  years 
later  the 
to  Sand 
Springs,  '  la.,  where  his  father  re-en­
gaged 
time
Stephen  attended  the  district  school  of 
the place,supplementing his  work  in  the 
local  school  by  a  couple  of  terms  at  the 
Chicago  University,  at the  end  of  which 
time  he  was  compelled  to  return  home

in  trade.  During 

in  general  trade. 

family  removed 

this 

on  account  of  failing  health.  At  the  age 
of  18  years  he  embarked 
in  general 
trade  at  Sand  Springs  in  partnership- 
with  his  cousin  under  the  style  of  Bow­
en  & Tuttle.  Three  years  later  he  sold 
his 
interest  to  his  partner  and  con­
in  agricultural  pur­
cluded  to  embark 
suits.  After 
remaining  on  a  farm 
eighteen  months,  he  accepted  a  posi­
tion  as  clothing  salesman  for  Clement, 
Morton  &  Co.—afterwards  Clement, 
Bane  &  Co.— with  whom  he  remained 
twenty-five  years,  covering  the  State  of 
Michigan.  A  few  weeks  ago,  he  re­
ceived  a  more  lucrative  offer  from  John 
G.  Miller  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  and  de­
cided  to  cast  his  fortunes  with  that 
house,  although  retaining  the  good  will 
and  friendship  of  his  former employers. 
He  now  covers  the  States  of  Michigan, 
Ohio,  Indiana  and  Illinois,  but  will  pay 
especial  attention  to  the  trade  of  this 
State,  having  engaged  two  assistants  to 
look  after  the  trade  in  the  more  remote 
portions  of  his  territory  which  he  will 
be  unable  to  attend  to  in  person.

Mr.  Bowen  was  married  when  22 
years  of  age  to  Miss  Mary  Pope,  of 
Sand  Springs,  and  has  four  children, 
two  boys  and  two  girls,  the  oldest  boy, 
now  23  years  old,  being  a  music  teacher 
and  piano  tuner  in  Chicago.

Mr.  Bowen 

is  a  member  of  the  Illi­
nois  Commercial  Traveling  Men’s  As­
sociation,  a  charter  member  of  the 
Northwestern  Traveling  Men’s  Associa­
tion  and  belongs  to  the  Iowa  Traveling 
Men’s  Association  and  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip.  He  is  a  member 
of  Hyde  Park  Baptist  Church,  of  Chi­
cago,  and  resides  at  5406  Kimbark 
avenue,  Hyde  Park.

Mr.  Bowen  refers  to  himself  as  a 
plain,  everyday  traveling  man,  having 
no  business 
interests  aside  from  those 
connected  with  his  position.  He  at­
tributes  his  success  to  pluck,  energy, 
perseverence  and  hard  work,  and  those 
who  know  him  best  are  frank to concede 
that—aside  from  his  penchant  for  job 
lots  -he 
is  entitled  to  much  credit  for 
the  energetic  manner  in  which  he  has 
worked  his  way  to  tlje  front  rank.

Not  in  Stock.

Floor  Walker—She  complains 

you  didn’t  show  her  common  civility.

Salesman— I  showed  her  everything 

that 

in  my  department,  sir.

,WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS 

Pay  the  highest  price  in  cash for 

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

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

you our best prices thereon.

a  •  i 

QUICK  HEAL 

**m  Quick ini

ai 

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QUICK MEAL

WCR 

A Household  Word-

QUICK M E A L

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.

Mmm & Witman,

State  Agents,

106  Monroe  St. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich

Phone  386.

SLUG  SHOT  KILLS

The  value  of all  work  or  action  must  be 

measured  by  the  ultimate  result.

There  has  been  sold  through  the  seed  dealers 
considerably over five million pounds of S lu g S h ot. 
Unless S lu g S hot 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,

BENJAMIN  HAMMOND. 

HAMMOND’S  SLUG SHOT WORKS,

FI.hklH -on-the-H qd.on,  N.  T.

HOUSB  FURNISHING  OOODS-

HOLLOW  WARB

Stamped Tin Ware...........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware........................................ 20*10
Granite Iron W are...........................new list 40*10
Pots..................................................................... 60&10
K ettles......................................................... 
60*10
Spiders................................................ 
60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...................................dis 60*10
State.............................................perd o z.n et  2 50
80
B right..........  ................................................... 
80
Screw Eyes........................................................ 
Hook’B................................................................ 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes..................................... 
80

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

LEVELS

ROPBS

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................. dis 
Sisal, Vi inch and larger................................. 
Manilla.............................................................. 
Steel and Iron................................................... 
Try and BevelB...............................................
M i t r e ..............................................................

SQUARES

70
g;<
8
80

SHEET  IRON

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

com. smooth. com.
$2  40
2  40
2 60
2 70
2  80
2  90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

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

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal...........................................$575
14x20 IC, Charcoal...........................................  5 75
20x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................  7 00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Allaway  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

 

 

5 00

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean................................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean ..............................   6  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean................................   10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...............  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...............  5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...............  9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.. .7........   11 00

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Bdilers, I 
14x66 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f per P°und • •• 

d 

B
8

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

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUOURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s ................................................................ 
70
Jennings’, genuine.......................................... 25&10
Jennings’, im itation....................................... 60&10

AXES

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

BARROWS

R ailroad.................................................812 00  14 00
Garden.....................................................  net  30 00

BOLTS

Stove........................................................... 
60&10
Carriage new list.......................................  70 to 75
Plow............................................................  
50

Well,  plain.......................................................$3  25

BUCKETS

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

 

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

BLOCKS

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

CROW  BARS
 

per lb 

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10.................................................perm  
Hick’s C. F ...............................................per m 
G. D............................ 
per m 
Musket......................................................per m 

70

4

65
55
35
60

CARTRIDOES

Rim  Fire........................................................... 50&  5
Central  F ire.................................................... 2g&  g

CHISELS

Socket Firmer................................................... 
Socket  Fram ing............................................... 
Socket Comer................................................... 
Socket  Slicks.................................................... 

80
80
80
80

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks.......................................... 
60
Taper 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, $18;  large, 826..........................30&10
Ives’, 1, 818; 2, 824; 3, $30................................ 
25

FILES—New  List

New A m erican...............................................   TO&IO
Nicholson’s........................................................ 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................... 6C<ki0

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

15 

28
17

Discount, 75 to 75-10

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 ....................... 
40
 
40
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's..........................40
Coffee, Enterprise............................................ 
30

 

MOLASSES  GATES

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

NAILS

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...................................... 
165
Wire nails, base.......... 
................................  1  75
20 to 60 advance...............................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.............................................. 
05
8 ad vance........................................................  
10
20
6 advance......................................... 
 
4 advance........................................................  
30
45
3 advance.......................................................  
70
2 advance........................................................ 
50
Fine 3 advance...................................... 
 
15
Casing 10 advance........................................... 
Casing  8 advance........................................... 
25
Casing  6 advance........................................... 
35
Finish 10 ad v an ce........................................ 
25
35
Finish  8 advance...........................................  
Finish  6 advance...........................................  
45
Barrel  % advance.............................................. 
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&  5

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

60
60

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list.........................dis  33 V4
Kip’s  ........................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s ..................................................dis 40*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel....................30c Ust 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10

Write  for  quotations  and  monthly  illustrated 

Catalogue.

W fl.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

Manufacturers and jobbers of 
Pieced and Stamped  Tinware. 

a6o  S . Ionia S t. 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mlch|

Telephone  4 4 0

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Association Matters
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. W is l k b ,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Sto w e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  P. 
T atm an, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President, H e n b y C.  W e b e b , Detroit; Vice-Pres­
ident, C h as. P.  B o ck,  Battle Creek;  Secretary- 
Treasurer, He n b y C.  Min n ie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit  Retail Grocers’  Association

President, J oseph K n ig h t;  Secretary, E.  Ma r k s; 
Treasurer, N. L.  K oenig.
Regular Meetings—First and third Wednesday 
.  evenings  of  each  month  at  German Salesman's 

Hall.

Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C. W in ch e ste r;  Secretary, Ho m e s 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehman.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall, 
over E. J. Herrick’s  store.

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

President, P. F. T e e am or;  Vice-President, J ohn 
McB r a t n ie ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is;  Treas­
urer, L ou ie S c h w erm er.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 

evenings of each month at Elk’s Hall.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, B yb o n C. H ell; Secretary, W. H. Pos­

t e r ;  Treasurer, J. F. H elm e b.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

D a r l in g ;  Treasurer, L . A .  G il k e y .

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  Gafney;  Secretary,  E  F. 

Cleveland;  Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer, C. A .  Hammond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E.  C ollins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. K a t z ;  Secretary, P h ilip Hil b e r ;
•  Treasurer. S. J.  Huffobd.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

further 

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  Tuesday  evening,  May  18,  Presi­
dent  Winchester  presided.

Chairman  Winchester  of  the  Com­
mittee  on  Flour,  reported  progress  and 
asked  for 
time,  which  was 
granted.

Chairman  Harris,  of  the  Committee 
on  Sugar,  presented  a  similar  report, 
which  took  the  same  course.

Chairman  Lehman,  of  the  Committee 
on  Licenses,  reported  the  result  of  the 
work  undertaken  by  the  Committee  be­
fore  the  License  Committee  of the Com­
mon  Council  and  also  before  the  Com­
mon  Council.  The  report  was  accepted 
and  the  Committee  discharged,  with 
thanks.

Chairman  Wagner,  of  the  Committee 
on  Yeast,  reported  the  result  of  an 
in­
terview  with  M.  C.  Goossen  on  the mat­
ter of  suppressing  the sale  of bulk yeast. 
Mr.  Goossen  treated  the  Committee 
very  courteously,  but  declined  to  dis­
continue  the  sale  of  bulk  stock,  his 
ideas  on  the  subject  being  succinctly 
stated 
in  the  following  letter,  written 
Secretary  Klap  under date  of  April  27, 
but  not  mailed  until  a  couple  of  weeks 
later :

I  have  your  letter  written  to  A.  P. 
Callahan,  Chicago,  regarding  the  reso­
lution  taken  by  the  grocers,  to-wit: 
That  we  restore  yeast  to  2  cents  per 
cake  or  reduce  the  wholesale  price  to  9 
cents  per  dozen.

In  reply  will  say  that  this  is  a  matter 
which  rests  entirely  with  the  retailer. 
You  can  never  stop  a  man  from  selling 
less  than  cost,  if  he  wants  to;  and 
should  we  reduce  the  price  to 9  cents,  it 
would  be  less  than  the  cost of  produc­
tion  and  putting  same  on  the  market. 
We  trust  you  will  persuade the  wayward 
grocers  to  sell  at the  established  price 
—2  cents.

A  communication  was  read  from  the 
Vienna  Yeast  Co.,  pledging  the  co-op­
eration  of that  company  in  any  move­
ment  having  for  its  object  the  restora­
tion  of  a  healthy  condition  of  the  yeast

M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

market.  Accepted  and  placed  on  file.
The  following  letter  from  L.  Winter- 
nitz,  Auditor  .of  Fleischmann  &  Co., 
was  presented  by  the  Secretary:
Cincinnati,  May  11—I  am  very  much 
pleased  to  note  that  the  members  of  the 
Retail Grocers’ Association  have,at last, 
taken  the  yeast  question  under  consid­
eration  and  that  they  are  coming  to 
their  senses  in  regard  to  the  discontin­
uance  of  the  sale  of  bulk  yeast  and  that 
they  do  not  wish  to  be  ruled  by  one 
man,  who  agitates  the  subject  only  for 
his  own  benefit. 
I  have  traveled  a  good 
deal  East  and  West  and  find  that  in 
cities  where  the  grocers  unite  their 
efforts  they  all  meet  with  success and 
make  fair  profits.  Remember  Minne­
apolis  and  other  associations.  There 
is  only  one  way  to  retail  yeast,  and  that 
is  put  up  in  tin  foil  packages.  It  is  the 
cheapest  and  easiest  way  and  gives  the 
dealer  the  best  margin.
If  the  Committee  can  prevail  upon 
Messrs.  Goossen,  Stryker,  Hannink  and 
a  few  others,  I  think  the  sale  of  bulk 
yeast  can  easily  be  stopped. 
It  is  in 
Mr.  Goossen’s  power  now.  Mr.  Calla­
han  has  been  approached,  but  we  could 
do  nothing  with  him.  As  soon  as  the 
bulk  sale 
is  stopped,  we  can  regulate 
our  sales,  in  that  we  will  sell  only  to 
such  parties  as  will  agree  to  maintain 
the  2  cent  retail  price  and  secure  the 
profit  for  the  dealer.

J.  Geo.  Lehman  offered  the  following 
unanimously 

resolution,  which  was 
adopted:

Whereas—It  is  universally  conceded 
that  the  cut  in  the  price of  compressed 
yeast  is  due  entirely  to  the  sale  of  bulk 
yeast;  and
that  no 
contract  exists  between  A.  P.  Callahan 
and  the  Grocers’  Associate  Yeast  Co.  ; 
and

Whereas—We  are  satisfied 

Whereas— It 

is  within  the  power  of 
the  other  yeast  companies  catering  to 
the  Grand  Rapids  trade  to  put  an  end, 
once  for all,  to  the  sale  of  yeast  at  less 
than  cost;  therefore

Resolved—That  we  call  upon  said 
companies  to  restore  the  price  to  2 
cents  a  cake 
in  all  parts  of  the  city, 
expressly  pledging  our  support  to  those 
companies  which  show  their  interest  in 
the  trade  by  taking  prompt  action  in 
assisting  us  in  this  emergency.

J.  J.  Wagner  moved 

that  marked 
copies  of  the  Tradesman  be  sent  to each 
of  the  yeast  companies  catering  to  the 
Grand  Rapids  trade,  so  that  they  may 
be  kept 
infoimed  of  the  action  of  the 
Association  on  this  subject.  Adopted.
Frank  J.  Dyk  offered  the  following 
resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted:

Whereas—The  sale  of  the  package 
is  conducive  to  both 

with'the  fruit 
health  and  convenience;  therefore

Resolved—That  we  reaffirm  our belief 
in  the  rule  adopted  by  the  Association 
several  years  ago,  prohibiting  the  re­
turn  of  berry  packages  to  growers. 

Fred  W.  Fuller  suggested  that  the 
members  of  the  Association  take  pains 
to  communicate  with  those  grocers  who 
are  not  members  and  acquaint  them  of 
the  action  of  the  Association  on  these 
points.

J

Mr.  Lehman  moved  that  the  resolu­
tion  be  printed  on  a  postal  card  and 
mailed  to  every  grocer  in  the  city,  but 
it  was  subsequently  decided  to 
include 
the  resolution  on  the  next  sugar  card  is­
sued  by  the Secretary.

The  Secretary  presented  the  following 

communication:

Grand  Rapids,  May  5— We  notice  by 
reading  the  minutes  of  the  Association 
in  the  Tradesman  that  you  are  adopting 
card  prices  on  several  staple  articles 
and  wish  to  say  that  if  the  Association 
would  make a  card  price  on  kerosene, 
we  will  stand  ready  at  all  times to assist 
you 
in  securing  same,  and  we  hope 
that  the  Association  will  take 
some 
action  in  regard  thereto.

S c o f i e l d ,  S h u r m e r   &   T e a g l e .
The  Secretary  stated  that  about  the 
same  time  the  letter  was  received  he 
had  a  call  from  W.  H.  Isom,  of  the 
Standard  Oil  Co.,  making  substantially 
the  same  proposition,  although  there 
was  apparently  no  connection  between 
the  two  communications.  The  commu- j

nication  was  accepted  and  placed  on 
file,  with  manifestations  of  approval.

Ajnember  called  attention  to  the  fact 
that  a  certain  local  wholesale  grocer had 
sold  a  pound  of  coffee  and  a  mopstick 
to  a  consumer  who  was  in  no  way  con­
nected  with  the  house,  whereupon  Mr. 
Dyk  moved  that  the  members 
take 
steps  to  ascertain  which  jobbers  are  re­
tailing  goods  and  report  the  result  at 
the  next  meeting,  which  was  adopted.
On  motion  of  H.  J.  Vinkemulder,  it 
was  decided  to  clpse  the grocery  stoies 
at  12  o’clock  May  31.

B.  S.  Harris  presented  the  following 

resolution,  which  was  adopted :

Resolved— That  the  thanks  of  this As­
sociation  be  tendered  the  License  Com­
mittee  for  the  energetic  and  effective 
manner  in  which 
it  entered  upon  the 
work  entrusted  to  it  at  the  last  meeting 
and  the  success  attending  its  efforts.

Mr.  Lehman,  of  the  Committee  on 
Rooms,  recommended  that the  Secretary 
draw  a  check  in  favor  of  E.  J.  Herrick 
for  S5  per  quarter,  beginning  May  1, 
so 
long  as  the  Association  remains  in 
its  present quarters.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.
Annual Meeting of the  Michigan Whole­

sale  Grocers’  Association.

Detroit,  May  17—The  annual  meeting 
of  the  Michigan  Wholesale  Grocers’ As­
sociation  was  held  at  the  Morton House, 
Grand  Rapids,  Tuesday,  May  11.

Several  important  changes  were  made 
in  the  by-laws.  The  Executive  and 
Sugar  Committees  were  done  away  with 
and  the  Board  of  Directors  will 
in  fu­
ture  have  charge of  all  matters  affecting 
the  work  of  the  Association.  Commit­
tees  on  Membership,  Arbitration, Trans­
portation  and  Legislation  were  elected. 
More  severe  penalties  were  adopted  for 
punishing  members  and  their  salesmen 
for  any  violation  of  the  Rules  of  Prac­
tice  or  cutting  or  rebating  on  any  goods 
which  are  sold  on  the  equality  or  con­
tract  plan.  Great 
interest  was  mani­
fested  by  the  members  present;  and 
several  excellent  letters  were  received 
from  prominent  officials  of  other asso­
ciations.  The  following  officers  were 
elected  for  the  ensuing  year:

President—Amos S.  Musselman, Grand 

Rapids.

Detroit.

First  Vice-President— W.  H.  Brace, 

Second  Vice  President—J.  W.  Sy­

mons,  Saginaw.

Treasurer—Gilbert  VV.  Lee,  Detroit,. 
¡^Secretary— H.  P.  Sanger,  Detroit.
Directors—Wm.  Judson,  Grand  Rap­
ids;  Sumner  M.  Wells,  Grand  Rapids; 
W.  C.  Phipps,  Saginaw;  James  Edgar, 
Detroit;  George  Hume,  Muskegon.

Committees  were  selected  as  follows:
Arbitration— S.  M.  Lemon,  Grand 
Rapids;  J.  L.  Douglass,  Jackson ;  J.  S. 
Smart,  Saginaw;  John Robson,  Lansing ; 
W.  J.  Gould,  Detroit.

Legislative-----Amos  -S.  Musselman,
Grand  Rapids;  W.  J.  Gould,  Detroit; 
W.  C.  Phipps,  Saginaw;  S.  M.  Lemon, 
Grand  Rapids;  John  Walsh,  West  Bay 
City.

Membership—O.  A.  Ball,  Grand  Rap­
ids;  Herbert  Montague,  Traverse  City; 
Ira  Z.  Mason,  Adrian.

Transportation—C.  Elliott,  Detroit; 
A.  E.  Worden,  Grand Rapids;  John  R. 
Price,  Benton  Harbor;  VV.  1.  Brother- 
ton,  Bay  City;  F.  J.  Dixon,  Port  Hu­
ron. 

H.  P.  S a n g e r ,  Sec’y.

Washington:  Pater  Patriae.

High over all whom might or mind made great. 

Yielding the conqueror’s crown  to harder  hearts, 
Exalted not by politicians’ arts,

Yet with a will to meet and master fate,
And skill to rule a young,  divided state,

Greater by what was not than what was done, 
Alone on  history’s height stands  Washington;
And teeming time shall not bring forth his mate.
For only he of men, on earth was sent 
In all the might of mind’s integrity;

Ne’er as  in  him  truth, strength  and  wisdom 

blent:

And that his glory might eternal be,

A   boundless country is his monument,

A  mighty nation his posterity.

R ic h a r d   G r a n t  W h ite.

Did  the  Work  All  Right.
Uncle Bill never blowed out the gas 
But he knocked it flat 
With his old slouch hat,

When up to the city he came,

An’ it got thar jest the same!

B U S IN E S S   C H A N C E S .

ILL  HEALTH  OF  OWNER  COMPELS  SALE 

of largest and best located stock drugs,  books 
and wall paper  In a  thriving  town In  southern 
Michigan.  Inventory about $4,000.  Address No. 
300, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ILLAGE  LOTS  IN  GOOD  TOWNS IN TEN- 
nessee  and  Missouri  and  farming  land  in 
Crawford county, Mich., to  exchange  for  news­
paper outfit  Address  Lock  Box  132,  St.  Louis, 
Mich. 
ANTED—TO  TRADE  Ho  ACRES  OF 
land in Grand Traverse county, four miles 
from  good  town  on  railroad,  for  drug  stock. 
Address Lock Box 23, Central Lake,  Mien.  297 

300

294

298

299

A N TE D -PARTNER  WITH  #2,000  FOR 
one-half interest  in  hardware, stoves  and 
tinshop, plumbing  and  furnace  work  and  job­
bing, roofing,  etc.  Have  several  good  jobs  on 
hand and a well-established trade;  best location 
in heart of city.  Address Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
Mich. 
OR  SALE—CHEAP,  COMPLETE  OUTFIT 
of  grocery  fixtures.  Call  or  address  J  
Courville, 425 East Eighth  street, Traverse  City, 
Mich. 
r p o   RENT—THE  WHOLE  OR  A  PART  OF 
X   ground  floor  and  basement,  68x100,  in  the 
Spoon block, comer  Lyon  and  Kent  street;  fine 
place for large  grocery  and  market, restaurant 
or  beer  saloon. 
John  C.  Dunton,  76  Ottawa 
street. 
I F  WANT  TO  SELL  ALL  OR  PART  YOUR 
stock  write  Jeter,  the  salesman,  now  at 
Ravenna,  Ohio. 
UMBER  MILL  FOR  SALE—LOCATED  OV 
cotton  belt  railroad,  ample  water  facili­
ties, 1,832 acres heavy timber, 60 per  cent,  white 
oak,  improved  band  mill,  gang  edger,  planer, 
dry kiln, etc., etc., 30,000 feet daily capacity,  for 
sale at an exceptional bargain on easy terms, no 
better  opportunity  in  the  State.  Refer  to Mer­
chants  &  Planters  Bank.  Address H. G- Cady, 
Pine  Bluff,  Ark. 

292

296

291

286

WANTED—WE  ARE  THE  OLDEST,  LARG- 

est and best laundry in the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids.  W’e  do  considerable  business  out  of 
town and  want more of it.  We  want  good  live 
agents in towns wher” we  do not now have any. 
We pay  a  liberal commission and  give  satisfac­
tory service.  Terms  on  application.  American 
Steam Laundry, Oite Brothers, proprietors.  289
W ANTED—A  PARTNER  WiTH  *1,500  CAP- 
ital  to  take  one-half  interest  in  my  real 
estate  and loan business, and to  look  after  the 
office business.  Address L.  C. Townsend, Jack 
290
son, Mich. 
I7K)R SALE—DRUG STOCK.  HAS BEEN RUN 
four years;  everything new and late  in  bot­
tles and cases;  inventories $900;  located  in  cen­
tral  VanBuren county.  Address  No.  231,  care 
281
Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED-SECONDHAND  OUTFIT  FOR 
cheese factoiy, with the exception of boiler 
and  engine.  Sena  full  particulars  and  quote 
lowest  prices,  including  a  statement  as  to  the 
length  of  time  machinery  material  has  been 
used.  L. S.  Hills, Irving, Mich. 
TETANTED  TO  EXCHANGE—CHOICE  RES- 
vv 
idenee in Charlotte for stock  of  merchan­
dise.  Cash for difference, if  any.  Address Box 
643, Charlotte, Mich. 
■
  RARE  CHANCE—GLOVE  AND  MITTEN 
machinery for sale.  Plant donated  to right 
party.  Address Lock Drawer 42, Mendon, Mich.
______________________________________ 273
r p o   EXCHANGE—A  FARM  OR  A  HOUSE 
X   and lot in this city for a  stock  of  merchan- 
dise.  E. R. Reed, 115 Ottawa, Grand Rapids.  266
Ii'OR  SALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 
merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  the  Haskel  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address 
262
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Ir«OR  SALE—THE  WHITNEY  DRUG  STOCK 
and  fixtures at  Plainwell.  Stock will inven­
tory $1,000 to $1,200;  fixtures are first-class;  rent 
low;  terms,  small  cash  payment,  long  time  on 
balance.  Address F.  E. Bushman,  South  Bend, 
Ind., or apply to  E.  J.  Anderson,  at  Plainwell, 
who is agent and has the keys 
ir»OR  SALE  CHEAP—STOCK  OF  SECOND.
hand  grocery  fixtures.  Address  Jos.  D- 
233
Powers,  Eaton Rapids,  Mich. 
Ru 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
|DOR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
X  
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
ANTED—1,000  CASES 
FRESH  EGGS,
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 

to store. 

277

229

73

Ithaca, Mich._________________ 

249

M IS C E L L A N E O U S .

231

W ANTED—SITUATION AS  BOOK-KEEPER 
by a young  man  of  25.  Thoroughly  com- 
peteut and can make  himself  generally  useful 
in  an  office.  Best  of  references.  Ten  years’ 
business  experience.  Address  W., care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—POSITION  OF  RESPONSIBIL- 
ity  and  trust  by  a  young  man  with  18 
years’ office experience, book-keeper  and expert 
accountant.  Best of references furnished.  Ad­
dress Manager, care Michigan Tradesman.  295

WANTED—STEADY  POSITION  BY  FIRST- 

class  job  and  newspaper  printer  having 
twelve  years’  experience.  Not  afraid  of  work. 
Good references.  Address  Wm.  D.  Turner,  128 
West Bridge Street, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
283
W ANTED—POSITION  BY  EXPERT  A c ­
countant.  Books opened, closed, balanced, 
or  any  work  In  accounting promptly and satis­
factorily attended to.  Twenty years’ experience 
in  and  about  Chicago.  Address  W.  R.  Allen, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
287
■ GENTS  MAKING  *60  PER  WEEK  INTKO- 
ducing our new Patent Chemical  Ink  Eras­
ing Pencil.  Sells at sight.  Everybody  wants it. 
Particulars  free.  If looking for  profitable  busi­
ness write at once.  Monroe Eraser Manufactur­
ing Co., X, 54, La Crosse,  WIs. 
271.

Travelers’  Time  Tables.
CHICAGO *"iW“ M,kr ' '

doing  to  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentwater.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoslcey.

Lv.  G’d. R apids...........8:30am  1:25pm  +ll:00pm
Ar. Chicago....................  3:00pm 6:50pm t  6:30am
Lv. Chicago..................  7:20am  5:00pm tll:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids.............  1:25pm  10:30pm  t  6:10am
Ly. G’d.  Baplds............. 8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d. Rapids............. 10:15am  ........... 10:30pm
L y. G ’d  R a p id s ..............  7:20am   5:30pm   ...............
A r  M a n is te e .....................  12:05pm 10:25pm  ..............
Ar. Traverse City.......  12:40pm  11:10pm  ............
Ar. Charlevoix...... . 
.........................
Ar.  Petoskey.................  4:55pm  .........................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:55
pm . 
Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
sleepers on night trains.
North.  Parlor car on morning train  for  Trav­
erse  City.

FARLOB  AND  SLEEPING  CABS.

3:15pm 

tBvery  day. 

Others week days only.

Geo. DbHaven, General Pass. Agent.

DETROIT, Grand Rapids & Western.

doing to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids......... 7:00am  1:30pm 5:25pm
Ar. Detroit......................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 R7:10am 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 
.........

Saginaw, Alm a and  Greenville.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH  CAR SKRVICB.

Parlor  cars  on ail trains  between  Grand  Rap­
ids and Detroit and between Grand  Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains run  week days only.

Qbo.  Db Ha v e n ,  General Pass. Agent.

EAST. 

(In  effect  May 3,  1897.)

/ i n   A  V j n   Trank Railway System
VA M w a b I   v 1/   Detroit and Milwaukee Div
Arrive.
Leave. 
+ 6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit  and  E a st..t  9:55pm
+10:10am__ ...D etroit  and  East..........+ 5:07pm
+  3:30pm..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East.. +12:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am 
* 8:35am....Gd.  Haven  and  Int. P ts....*   7:10pm 
+12:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate. +  3:22pm 
+  5:12pm  Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi 
+10:05am
*  7:40pm  Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi 
* 8:15am
+10:00pm.........Gd. Haven  and Mil...........+ 6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor  car.
tExcept Sunday.

»Daily. 

WEST

E. H. H u sh e s, A. G. P. & T. A.
B e n .  F l e t c h e r ,  Trav. Pass. Agt, 
J a s.  Ca m pb e ll, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

GRAND Rapids  & Indiana Railroad

Sept.  37,  1896.

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A M ack...+ 7:45am  +  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack... + 2:15pm  + 6:30am
Cadillac.......................................+ 5:25pm +ll:10am
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  car to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati.................................+ 7:10am  +  8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................. + 2:00pm  t   1:56pm
C incinnati..................................* 7:00pm  * 7 :25am
'>:iua.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
7:00p.m. train has sleepingcarto Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOINS WEST.

LvG’dR aplds...............+7:35am +l:00pm +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon................   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon............... +8:10am  tll:45am  +4:00pm
ArG’dR apids..............9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
A. A lm q u ist, 

tRxcept Sunday.  *Daily.
Ticket Agt.On. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tki  Av*.

C.  L.  L ockw ood,

SOINS BAST.

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 
tain surroundings.  Its looks please customers.  Its 
convenience enables the dispenser to serve custom­
ers  promptly.  Its  economy  in  ice  and  cream  will 
please  every owner of a fountain.

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

Chocolate  Cooler Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

EVERY  PIECE  W ARRANTED
Heavy  Enameled 
Granite  Iron  Ware

Diamond  “ A”  Assortment

Containing

9 in.  Pie  Plates................................ @$  80 
X  doz. 
X  doz. 
10  in.  Pie Plates...............................  @ 
96 
X  doz.  2 qt  Milk  Pans...................  ...........@  1  30 
1  75 
X  doz.  4 qt.  Milk  Pans.................................@ 
X  doz.  1  qt.  Pudding  Pans.............................@ 
1  20 
1  50 
X  doz.  2 qt.  Pudding  Pans............................ @ 
X  doz.  3 qt.  Pudding  Pans.............................@ 
1  68 
1-12 doz.  10 qt.  Dish  Pans..................................@  3  85 
1-12 doz.  14 qt.  Dish  Pans.  ...............................@  4  75 
X  doz.  4 qt.  Preserving  Kettles..........   ....... (a  2  55 
X  doz.  5 qt.  Preserving  Kettles.....................@  2  90 
X  doz.  6 qt.  Perserving  Kettles.....................(a,  3  30 
X  doz. iX  qt- Lip  Sauce  Pans.........................(a 
1  40 
X  doz.  2 qt.  Lip Sauce  Pans*.......................@ 
1  50 
X  doz.  3 qt.  Lip Sauce  Pans........................@  2  20 
@  2  75 

1-  6 doz.  No.  o Tea  Pots.........................  

X  doz.  No.  10 Tea  Pots.................................... 3  10 
1-  6 doz.  No  15  Coffee  Pots................................@  3  10 
X  doz  No. 25  Coffee  Pots.............................. @  3  45 
1-12 doz.  No. 70 Tea  Kettles.......  ....................@  6  25 
1-12  doz.  No. 80 Tea Kettles.........................  @  7  05 
X  doz. No. 28  Wash  Basins...........................  @ 
1  75 
X  doz.  No. 30 Wash Basins............................ . @  200 
85 
X  doz.  No.  o Straight Seamless Cups.......... @ 
X  doz.  12 in.  Basting Spoons.......................... @ 
90 
1  20 
X  doz.  No.  8 Cup  Dippers.......................... @ 
X  doz. No.  60 Soap  Dish................................@ 
1  20 
1-  6 doz.  No.  H2 Windsor Dippers....................@  2  20 
98 

X  doz. 9 in.  Deep Jellies................................. @ 

Less  10 Per Cent  Discount 

Box and  cartage 00. 

40
48
33
44
30
37
42
32
40
64
73
82
35
38
55
46
78
52
86
52
59
87
1  00
43
45
60
30
37
49
$15  17
1  52
$13  65

This elegant  line  of  Enameled  Steel  Mottled  Granite  Iron 
Ware is known  in every household  in  the  land.  Nothing  new 
about  it  but  the  price,  which  is  now  brought  down  within 
the  leach  of  every  purse. 
Special  points—absolute  purity 
and  popular  shapes.  Almost  at  the  price  of common tinware. 
We  save  you  10  per  cent,  by  ordering  in  assorted  packages. 
Mail  orders  direct.

li.  L eon ard   &   S o n s,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

TIME IS MONEY 
LIFE IS SHORT

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

To  secure  the  most prompt delivery of goods at the least ex­
penditure  of  time  and  money  it  is  essential  that  the  mer­
chant  have  a  delivery  wagon  of  the  right  sort.  We  make 
‘ust 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.

Am erica’s  Finest 

Hard  Spring  W heat  Flour

Ebeling’s 

Cream of Wheat

The  Great  Bread  Producer.

Made  at  Green  Bay,' Wis.

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the  shoe was  lost.

For  the  want  of  a  shoe

the  horse  was  lost.

For  the  want  of  a  horse

the  leader  was  lost.

For  the  want  of a leader

the  battle  was  lost.

Our  Money Weight  Scales are the  B E S T  Scales 

for a merchant.  W e make all  kinds; 

write us  before buying.

For  the  want  of good  scales

much  trade  is  lost.

For  the  want  of  Dayton  scales

much  profit  is  lost.

For  the  want  of  profit

the  store  is  lost.

For  the  want  of  a  store

the  merchant  is  lost.

THE  DAYTON

MONEY-WEIGHT SCALE

THE  DAYTON

Money-Weight Even Balance.

For qnick and light weighing. 
Capacity, 28 lb s; finish, enamel with 
nickel trim m ings; agate or 
steel bearings.

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SCALE  COMPANY,

DAYTON,  OlilO. WEIGHS  AND  HANDLES  GOODS

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