Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY 26,1897.

Number  714

k   HLWHTS  TO  THE  FBOMT

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

Ju st 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.  Ladies*  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.  W e 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 E E  &   S O N S .

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I   We  Manufacture 
I   Window  Shades

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

Baii-Barnnart-Putman 60..
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It is the general opinion of the trade that  the  prices  on

COFFEE

have about, if not absolutely, reached bottom.  W e  are 
sole  agents  in  this  territory  for  the  celebrated  bulk 
roast coffees of the

WOOLSON  SPICE  CO.

A sk  our  salesman  to  show  you  our  line  of  samples.

MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids.

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Four  Kinds  of  Coupon  Books

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

TRADESMAN COMPANY, Grand  Rapids.

If you are in need of new shades for your  store  front send us the 
measurements and we will send you samples and prices.  VVe 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.
Mail orders receive prompt attention.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer &   Co.,

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.1USTLESS!

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,

is  a  preparation  to  put  on  the 
doors  of  stores.  Don’t  hire  a 
painter—your  boy  can  apply 
it just as well.

DUSTLESS keeps  down  the dust-- 
keeps  it  on  the  floor—keeps  it 
off your stock.  Sweep  as  hard 
as you please-the dust won’t rise. 

DUSTLESS is not sticky—remember that—but it holds the dust down nevertheless. 
DUSTLESS keeps your goods clean and salable.
There’s money in it for you.  Money 
that you  can  feel  in  your  pocket  or 
see in your bank-book.
Send for a free book about it.

one genuine w ithout our label and signature.

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80 Ohio St.,  Chicago,  111.

r a t*  t m * r  u s , Firs, RW  mi Tain

W e carry a stock  of cake tallow for mill  use.

Nos. » a  and 134 Louis St.,  • 

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Grand Rapids.

W .  H .  E D G A R   St  S O N .

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

R E F I N E D   S U G A R S

S Y R U P S   AND  M O L A S S E S  

EX O LU S I VBL/Y

Others may  imitate  our  name  and  goods,  but we 
maintain  our  reputation  Ft  being  FIRST  in  es­
tablishment and  in  QUALITY of products.

Allegan  Roller  Mills

W m .  J.  Pollard  &   Co.,  Props.

Store,  Window  and 
Porch

All  Shapes,  Colors and  Shades. Awnings

WIESINGER  AWNING  GO.,  Hfrs.,

Phone 1834.

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

J. A. MURPHY, G eneral  M anager. 

The Michigan Mercantile flgencu

FLOWERS,  MAY  A  MOLONEY. Counsel.

S P E C I A L   R E P O R T S . 

L A W   A N D   C O L L E C T IO N S .

Represented In every city and county in th e U nited States and Canada.

Main  Office:  Room  110a,  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

N.  B.—Prom ptness  guaranteed  in  every  way.  All  claim s  system atically  and  persistently 
Jicient  service.  Term s 

handled u n til collected.  O ur facilities are unsurpassed for prom pt  and 
and references furnished on application.

Going to Chicago.

Returning from  Chicago.

Travelers* Time  Tables.
CHICAGO “ dW2S
Ry
Lv.  G’d. Rapids...........8:30am  1:25pm  tll:00pm
Ar. Chicago.................   3:00pm 6:50pm  t  6:30am
Lt.Chicago................ 7:20am  5:00pm tll:30pm
Ar. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:30pm t  6:10am
Lv. G’d.  Rapids............ 8:80am 1:25pm  6:25pm
Vr.  G’d. Rapids............ 10:15am  .......... 10:30pm
Lv. G’d Rapids...........  7:20am  5:30pm  ...........
At Manistee...............  12:06pm  10:25pm  ...........
At. Traverse City......  12:40pm 11:10pm  ............
At. Charlevoix...........  3:15pm ...........................
Ar.  Petoekey...............   4:55pm 
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:56
pm. 
Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
sleepers on night trains.
North.  Parlor car on morning train  for  Trav­
erse  City.

Manistee, Traverse City  and  Petoskey.

tiSLOB AND  SLEEPING  CABS.

Muskegon and Pentwater.

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

Others week days only.

Guo. DeHavkn, Gen, ral Pass. Agent.
DETROIT <*rUd R*pids & Westers.

tEvery  day. 

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. Detroit..................  11:40am  5:40pm 10:10pm
Lv. Detroit....................7:35am  1:10pm  6:00pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:S5pm  5:20pm 10:45pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Lv. Grand Rapids........7:00am  1:30pm  5:25pm
Ar. from Lowell......... 12:30pm  5:20pm 
..........
Parlor cars on all trains between  Grand Rap­
ids and Detroit and between Grand Rapids  and 
Saginaw.  Trains ran week days only.

To and from Lowell.

THROUGH  C A B   SUB VICE.

Guo. DbHavuh,  General Pass. Agent

f t P A N I i   Tm ,k M lw iy System 
V I IV A 1 ’  I ß   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv.

(In effect  May 3,  1897.)

WEST

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..t 9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  E ast....  ..t 5:07pm
t  3:30pm..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am 
* 8:35am___Gd. H aven  and  In t.  P ts ....*   7:10pm
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm 
t  5:12pm__Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi... .tlO :05am
* 7:40pm__Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi__ * 8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil..........t  6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
tE x cep t Sunday.

E. H. H u g h e s , A. G. P. & T. A. 
Bin . F l e t c h e b , Trav. Pass. Agt, 
J a b. C a m p b e l l , City Pass. Agent 
No. 23 Monroe St
HDAISin  Rapid»  ft Indiana Railroad
U l y A i l l /  

Sept.  *7.  1896.

*Daily. 

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey <fc Mack., .t 7:45am  t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 2:15pm t 6:30am
Cadillac................................t 5:25pm til:10am
Train  leaving at 7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:15 p.m.  has sleeping  oar to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati......... ...........t 7:10am t  8:25pm
F t Wayne...............................t  2:00pm t  1:56pm
Cincinnati.............................* 7:00pm * 7:25am
7:iua.m.  train  has  parlor  ear  to  Cincinnati, 
7:p0p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

QOtilCI WXBTa

LvG’dRapids..............t7:36am +1:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon. ..............9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon............. t8:10am til :46am t4:00pm
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:90am  12:56pm  5:20pm
A . A u r a u m r , 

tExcept Sunday.  »Daily.
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A T k t A gt

O. L . L o c k w o o d ,

0 OIVG EAST

We  Lead
ALL JOBBERS SELL
norm KNIGHT
IllUlilllllillllliiJ

THE  FAMOUS

AND

TH EY  ARE

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.

Awnings  a n d   Tents

The Coast Line  to MACKINAC

«— TA K E  T H E — »

Best  goods  and  lowest  prices  in  the  State.  All 

work guaranteed.  Send for prices.

CH AS.  A .  COYE,  11  Pearl Street.

New Steel Passenger Steamers
The  Greatest  Perfection  yet attained in 
Boat  Construction—Luxurious  Equipment, 
Artistic  Furnishing,  Decoration  and  Effic­
ient  Service,  insuring  th e  highest degree of
COMFORT,  SPEED  AND  SA FE TY

Four T rips  per W eek  Between

Toledo, Detroit and Mackinac

AND  DULUTH.

DAY  AND  NIGHT  3ERVICE.

PETOSKEY,  “ THE  SOO,”   MARQUETTE 
LOW RATES to Picturesque Mackinac and 
Return, including fleals and Berths.  From 
Cleveland.  $18;  from  Toledo,  $15;  from 
Detroit,  $13.50.
Between Detroit and Cleveland
Connecting  at  Cleveland  w ith  E arliest 
Trains for all points East. South  and  South­
west and at D etroit  for all points  N orth  and 
Northwest.
SundayTrips June, July. August and Sept  Only 
Cleveland, Put-in-Bay ^Toledo
Send for Illustrated  Pam phlet.  Address 
A .  A .  S C H A N T Z ,  a .   a. 
DETRO IT.  MICH.
The oeiroit J Cleveland Steam Nav. Co.

EVERY  DAY BETWEEN

Save Trouble 
Save  Losses 
Save  Dollars TB8DESDIHN  GOOPOHS

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“It’s  as  good  as  Sapolio,”  when  they  try  to  sell  you  Z^S 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they  are  only  trying  to  get  you  to  aid  their  —g  
new  article. 

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W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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Is  it  not  the  Z ^  

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

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Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  26,1897.

Number  714

A  Western  Genius.

Away out W est, in  Kansas,  two  hundred  miles  or 
Some  twenty  miles  from  no  place,  stood  a  little 
And the man who run  the  shanty  fa  Canadian  bv 
1
Just  worked  the  store  and  people  for ail that they 

more,
country store,
birth) 
were worth.

trade
was made;

A   regular  museum,  where  was  kept  for  sale  or 
A   general  stock  of  every  earthly  thing  that  e’er 
Dry goods, bacon, jewelry, molasses, pins and soap,
Sulky plows and parasols, tobacco, silk and rope;
Feathers, flour and sauer kraut and calico and nails,
Buggies,  beans  and  baling  twine  and  needles, 
H e dealt in hogs and cattle and the various kinds of 
And he made every edge to cut, did  this  same  Bob 

knives and pails.
train,
McLain.

Now  Robert  was  a  genius  of  the  most  emphatic 
Just as plain and blunt in manner as any man vou’d 
W as brave and  broad  and  honest  and  had  within 
A s big and warm and soft a heart as could be found 

kind,
find;
his breast
out West.

He  wore  a  pair  of  pantaloons  made  out  of  cot- 
A pair of cowhide boots  outside,  a  hickory  shirt— 
And  one  well-greased  suspender  held  his  panta­
An old wool hat,  turned  up  behind,  projected  o’er 

tonade,
home made,
loons in place,
his face.

But Bob got tired of keeping store, he  hankered for 
A “ quarter ” of rich prairie dirt  would  fit  him like 
And so he struck a granger  who  was  asking  for  a 
And hayseed took the  yardstick, while  Bob  shoul­

a farm—
a charm ;
trade,
dered the spade.

Failure  of  J.  D.  Kinney,  the  Adrian 

Furniture  Dealer.

500  fO
134  10
57  00
  30  75

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

Adrian,  May  25—John  D.  Kinney,  the 
furniture  dealer,  has  uttered  chattel 
mortgages  aggregating  $8,000.  Attor­
ney  Henry  C.  Smith  is  named  as  trus­
tee.  The  mortgages  run  as  follows,  and 
are  preferred  in  the  order  named :
A drian S tate Sayings B an k ..............................$1,285 45
F rank P.  alm onds...............................................  3,500 CO
H enry C.  S m ith ..................................................  
650 00
Mrs. C lara E. K inney 
D orcas W hitney..................................................  
199 99
W.  D.  R andall & Co  .. 
D audt Glass & Crockery Co.............................  
171 00
M ichigan F urniture  C o............. 
 
Fox, Mason F u rn itu re C o................................  
68 30
Morgan F u rn itu re  C o............................... 
83 09
M ann  B ros............................................................ 
A. E. & H. H.  S tover.......................................... 
63 00
Langslow, F ow ler & C o ..................................  
97 50
Buckeye C hair C o............................................... 
37 25
Connersville F u rn itu re Co.............................. 
30 00
41 50
Cron, K ills & C o.................................................. 
Crocker Chair C o .............................................. 
49 31
29 50
Howe Couch  C o................................................... 
Hawood, M orrill C o ..........................................  
75 85
75 85
Jen k s & M uir C o................................................. 
F rancis K arr  .................................................  
Lentz Table Co....................................................  
35 90
L otta Lam b  Co..................................................... 
II 50
M uller & Stark C o.................................................  39 60
30 00
M ichigan Table C o............................................. 
M anning, Bowman & C o..................................  
18 90
12 00
A. C. N orqulst & Co...........................................  
Zeeland F u rn itu re Co 
S. A.  M axwell  &  Co...........................................  
89 50

133  50

28  00

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W e   w is h   to 
e sta b lish  
a   b ran ch   of 
our
b u sin e ss  in 
e v e r y  
to w n   in 
M ich ig a n  
w h ere  w e  
are  not  n ow  
represented.

C a p ita l

R equired.

M EN’S  SUITS

AND

OVERCOATS 
$4.00  to  
$30.00

WRITE  FOR  INFORMATION.

: 
I WHITE CITY TAILORS,
• 

222-226  ADAMS ST.,

CHICAGO.

TO CLOTHING  MERCHANTS

W e still have on hand  a  few  lines  of  Spring  and 
Summer Clothing and some small lots  to  be  closed 
at  sacrifice.  W rite  our  Michigan representative, 
W ILLIAM   CO NN O R ,  Box  346,  P.  O.  Marshall, 
Mich., and he will call upon you, and if he  has  not 
w hat you want, will thank you for looking and you 
will learn something  to  your  advantage  about  our 
coming Fall and W inter line.  Mail orders promptly 
attended to by

M ICH AEL  KOLB  &  SON,

Wholesale Ready Hade Clothing Hanufacturers, 

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Established nearly one-half a century.

TUe Preferred Bankers 
Life Assurance Co.

Incorporated by

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

Maintains a Guarantee Fund.
W rite for details.

Home Office,  M offat  Bldg.,

F R A N K  E. ROBSON,  P res.
TR U M A N   B. G OODSPEED, Sec’y.

D E T R O IT ,  M ICH .

cornrnFRciflL  credit  co.,  u l

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Private Credit Advices.

Collections made  anywhere 

in  the  United  States  and 

Canada.

Prr.ipt, Conservative, Safe.

OHAi»r  .nt, Pres.  W. F r e d  McBain, See.

Save Trouble 
Sava Losses 
Sava Dalian

provement.  He  was  advised  to  begin 
a  course*  of 
instruction  at  the  night 
classes  of^a  business  college  and  there­
by  gain  a .knowledge  which  would  be  of 
direct  benefit  to  him.  The  result  of 
this  interview  was  that  the  young  man 
realized  his  position  as  never  before. 
He  understood  that  he  was  a  factor  in 
the  business,  and  that  his  employer  had 
his  welfare  at  heart and  was  anxious  to 
help  him.

It  gave  him  fresh  courage  and  new 
hopes.  He  acted  on  the  advice  and 
soon  made  rapid  progress  in his studies. 
With  added  knowledge  he  gained  more 
confidence 
in  himself  and  fewer  mis­
takes  were  made by  him.

Had 

It  was  not  long  before  this  clerk  be­
came  one  of  the  most  efficient and faith­
ful  of  his  fellows.

the  opposite 

course  been 
adopted,  as  suggested  by  the  younger 
merchant,  the  clerk  would  have  been 
dismissed,  and  with  that  feeling  in  his 
heart  that  “ nobody  cares  for  me, ’ *  he 
would.no  doubt,have  gone  down  instead 
of  upward  in  life’s  duty.

A  Wall  Paper  Table.

To  find  the  number  of double rolls— 16 
yards—of  paper  necessary  to  cover  the 
walls  of  any  room,  add  the  length  of 
the  room  to the  width.

Div
Div
Div
Div
Div
Div
Div
The

if  a  6  foot  ceiling, 
de  by 6 
de  by  5 
if  a  7  foot  ceiling,
de  by  4^  if  an 8  foot  ceiling, 
de  by  4 
if  a  9  foot  ceiling, 
de  by  3^  if  a  10  foot  ceiling, 
de by  3 
if a  12  foot  ceiling, 
de by  2.5^  if a  14  foot  ceiling, 
above  table 

is  near  enough  for
practical  purposes.  An  allowance  of 
one  roll  can  be  made  for  one  window
and  one  door.

Ou ix.

A  Jack  of  All  Trades.

The  Youth’s  Companion  copies  the 
following  notice  which  appeared recent­
ly  in  a  local  paper  of  a  small  New Eng­
land  town  changing  only  the  name  of 
the  versatile  advertiser:

Notice— I  have  opened  a  shop  on 
Front  Street  and  am  prepared  to  file 
and  set  saws. 
I  carry  a  line  of  Cigars, 
Tobacco  and  Confectionery  and  can fur­
nish  hot  oyster  stews,  boiled  eggs,  etc., 
at  short  notice.  Repairing  Umbrellas 
and  Sewing  Machines,  also  Bottoming 
Chairs.  Shooting  gallery in connection.

J a m e s   F a r n l e y .

Not  at  Home  When  Bill  Called.
Caller— Is  your  father at  home?
Little  Daughter—What  is  your  name, 

Caller—Just  tell  him 

it 

is  his  old 

please?

friend  Bill.

It 

M ONEY  AS  A  PEACEMAKER.
The  charge  that  the  Christian  powers 
of  Europe  have  been  influenced  by mer­
in  favoring  the  Turk 
cenary  motives 
and  maintaining  the 
integrity  of  the 
Ottoman  empire,  has  been  so  often 
made  of  late,both  in  Europe  and  Amer­
ica,  that  the  public  is  compelled  to  be­
lieve  that  there  must  be  some  basis  for 
In  America,  particular­
the  statement. 
ly,  where  we  see  questions  of 
‘ national 
honor”   so  often  measured  by  considera­
tions  of  piofit,  we  are  more  than  pre­
pared  to  give  credence  to  such  stories. 
The  capitalists  and  government  banks 
of  Europe  own  the  bulk  of  Turkish  se­
curities,  both  national  and  private, 
amounting  to  many  hundred  millions  of 
dollars.  The  national  debt  alone 
is 
now  estimated  at  something  like  $800,- 
000,000 and  the  destruction  of  the  Sul­
tan’s  empire  or  its  considerable  reduc­
tion 
in  extent,  or  the  falling  off  of  its 
revenues  would  not  only  depreciate 
Turkish  securities  of  every  kind,  but 
threaten  their  very  existence  as  valuable 
holdings. 
is  but  natural,  as  human 
nature  goes,  even  though  discreditable, 
that  the  owners  of  these  securities  in 
France  and  Germany  and  Austria  and 
Italy  and  Great  Britain  and  Russia, 
powerful  moneyed  men  and corporations 
should  bring  a  decided  pressure  to  bear 
at  all  times  upon  their  respective  gov­
ernments  to  maintain  the  Turk  in  the 
greatest  strength  and  prosperity  pos­
sible.  We  have  on  several  notable  oc­
casions  recently  in this country seen how 
quick  the  stock  exchanges  have  taken 
international 
alarm  at  the  mere  talk  of 
complications  and  cried  out 
in  their 
mercenary  way,“ Peace  at  any  price!”
is  becoming  a  question  if 
the  Wall  and  Lombard 
streets  and 
bourses  of  the  nations,  in  this  extremely 
practical 
commercial  and  utilitarian 
age, rather  than  the  government cabinets 
and  popular  sentiment  and  a  feeling  of 
national  honor,  are  not  now  the  arbiters 
of  the  fate  of  nations  and  the custodians 
of  the  peace  of  the  world.  Those  fine 
impulses  and  that sympathy and delicate 
sense  of  honor  which  once controlled the 
international  policy  of  European  and 
American  peoples  have  given  way 
largely  to  a  sordid  and  cautious  com­
mercial  spirit  which  we  find influencing 
Europe  in  its  attitude  towards  the  Turk 
and 
is  holding  back  the  United  States 
in  its  relations  towards  Cuba and Spain. 
War  i *=;  feared  now  not  so  much  on  ac­
count  of  the  loss  of  life,  but  by  reason 
of 
its  cost  and  depressing  effect  upon 
stocks.

Indeed,  it 

If  this  new  and  businesslike  way  of 
looking  at  things  international  should 
result  in  abolishing  war  altogether  and 
substituting  arbitration,  where  there 
would  be  no  question  of 
inglorious 
back  downs  or  failure  to  respond  to  the 
calls  of  national  duty  and  honor,  let  the 
cost  be  what 
it  might,  it  would  be  a 
step  forward. 
In  the  present  condition 
of  society,  however,  the  sacrifice  of  all 
things  else  for  money  is  as  disreputable 
as  it  is  humiliating,  but  neither  Europe 
nor  America  can  at  present  point  the 
finger of  scorn  at  the other.

An  obstinate  man  does  not  hold  opin­

ions,  but  they hold  him.— Pope.

How  a  Clerk  Was  Encouraged.
A  merchant  was  one  day  discussing 
his  men  with  his  junior  partner,  when 
the  case  of  a  young  man  in  their  em­
ploy  who  was  known  to  be  quite 
igno­
rant  and  seemingly  careless,  came  up. 
The  junior  partner  urged  his  dismissal, 
as  he  believed  it  would be  for the  better 
interests  of  the  firm  were  his  place 
taken  by  one  more  competent.

The  older  man  knowing  more  of 
human  nature,  and  having  more  of  gen­
uine  manliness  in  his  heart,  suggested 
that  he  be  kept  a  while  longer,  and  that 
he  be  encouraged  a  little  and  given  a 
little advice.  The  young  man  was  sent 
for an  and  interview  with  the  head  of 
the bouse  in  his  private  office  had  the 
effect  of  greatly  stimulating  him  to 
further  effort.  He  was  told  plainly,  yet 
kindly,  of  his  faults,  and  now  hard  it 
was  to  endure  them,  and  that  the  wel­
fare  of  the  business  demanded  an  im­

Little  Daughter—Then  I  guess  he 
ain’t  at  home.  I  heard  him  tell  mamma 
if  any  bill  came  he wasn’t  at  home.

The  Calumet  distillery  was  sold  at 
public  auction  last  Tuesday  in Chicago. 
in 
When  the  trust  purchased  the  plant 
1891  the  price  was  $500,000. 
Levy 
Mayer, 
the  American 
Spirits  Company,  is the latest purchaser, 
and  through  him  the  successor  of  the 
whisky  trust  acquires  the  distillery  for 
$250,000.

representing 

Wm.  H,  Allen,  book-keeper  for  the 
Belknap  Wagon  Co.,  has  returned  from 
the  Fast,  where  he  spent  a  fortnight 
in 
visiting  the  scenes  of  his  boyhood.  He 
was  accompanied  by  his  wife.

Dorian  M.  Russell,  chemist  forThum 
Bros.  &  Schmidt,  and  Dr.  J.  C.  Holt 
are  trout  fishing  on  the  Manistee  River.

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Bicycles

News  and  Gossip of Interest to  Dealer 

and  Rider.

The  brief 

Since  the  days  have  “ grown  longer,”  
according  to the  popular  idiom,business 
people  are  getting  some  capital  after­
supper  sport  out  of  their  heels,  and  the 
country  roads  are  thronged  with  cyclists 
every  evening. 
twilight 
hours  are  made  much  of  by  the  busy 
toilers,  who  seem  to  have  the  happy 
knack  of  condensing  the  enjoyment  of 
a  whole  holiday  into  the  limited  leisure 
at  their  disposal.  The  most  attractive 
is  the 
feature  of  these  evening  rides 
sociability  apparent  on  every 
side. 
Brothers,  sisters,  cousins,  comrades  or 
sweethearts,  as  the  case  may  he,  pair 
off  or  form  chatty  groups,  and  the  cares 
and  worries  of  the  day  evaporate  under 
influences  of  a  lively 
the  exhilarating 
spin 
Such
pleasant  parties  are  of  nightly  occur­
rence, but  the  spectacle  is  only  complete 
when  the  all-round  cycling  family  turns 
out.  Then  the  sight  is  not  only  a  treat, 
but  an  object  lesson.  Two  and  three 
generations  are  often 
in 
these  reunions  of  relatives,  and  one 
group  of  four  a  few  evenings  ago  con­
sisted  of  a  silver-haired  great-grand­
father,  his  son,  the  latter’s  daughter, 
and  her  ten-year-old  boy,  all  pedalling 
along  in  a  row  with  mutual  enjoyment. 

in  congenial 

represented 

company. 

*  *  #

Last  Saturday night  twenty-five  young 
men  and  young  girls,  members  of  the 
bicycle  club  connected  with  the  High­
land  Park  Reformed  church,  at  New 
Brunswick,  N.  Y.,  took  a  club  run  to 
Dunellen,  ten  miles  from  home.  They 
were storm-bound  there,  and  could  ob­
tain  but  one  room 
in  the  only  hotel. 
This  room  the  young  giris  engaged. 
They  prepared  to  spend  the  night sleep­
ing  in  relays  of  four  in  the  single bed. 
The  watchers,  tired  of  the  relay  busi­
ness,  made  their  way  to  a  neighboring 
bakeshop,  and  there  passed  the  remain­
der  of  the  night.  The  men  in  the  party 
bunked  as  best  they  could  in  the  wait­
ing-room  at  the  railway  station.  Sun­
day  morning  the  Rev.  Mr.  Van  Dyke’s 
bedraggled  bicycle  club  returned  home 
to 
lectures  and  to 
offer  explanations  for their absence.

listen  to  parental 

*  *  *

The  changes  forever  recurring 

in 
cycles  and  their appurtenances  are  no­
ticeable  each  successive  season  as  the 
makers  put  on  exhibition  their  new 
models.  This  year  the  variety  is  to  be 
found  in  tires  more  than  in  wheels.  A 
prominent  tire  manufacturer  has  said : 
“ A  pneumatic  tire  is  such  an  imperfect 
article  at  the  very  best,  subject  to  so 
much  strain,  and,  although the most del­
icate  part  of  the  equipment  of  a  wheel, 
must  have  the  hardest  use  and  come 
in 
contact  with  the  roughest  roads  when 
sustaining  the  weight  of  the  wheel  and 
rider,  that  the  tire  enjo>ing  the  greatest 
popularity  one  season  must  of  necessity 
be  less  popular  next  season  on  account 
of  having  the  greatest  percentage  of 
riders  and  necessarily  causing  a  greater 
amount  of  trouble than  tires  less ridden. 
Many  riders  do  not  know  what  make  of 
tire  they  are  riding  until they have some 
trouble  with 
If  a  tire  never gives 
trouble  it  simply  does  its  duty  and  gets 
no credit. ”

it! 

♦   *  *

The  bicycle  sundry  business  has 
reached  vast  proportions.  Every  article 
needed  by  the  wheelman,  and  some  that 
he’ll  never  need,  is  the  subject  of  fierce 
competition.  The competition  not  only 
covers  the  manufacturer,  but  extends 
to  the  retail  dealer  as  well.  Bicycle 
sundries  can  be  found  in  all  sorts  of 
unexpected  places.  Some  of  the  dry 
goods  people  make a  specialty  of  them, 
and  there  are  many  other  concerns  that 
carry  them  as  they  would  any  prime 
necessity.  Of  course  all  this  makes 
competition  fast  and 
furious,  at  the 
regular  bicycle  stores.  Here  is  an  il­
lustration  of  the  way  the  thing  some­
times goes:
into 
a  Euclid-ave.  wheel  depot  last  Satur­
day  evening  and  asked  to  look  at  locks. 
He  was  shown  a  lock  and  chain  and  en­
quired  the  price.  The  proprietor  had 
sized  him  up  and  was  determined  to 
make  a  sale,  even  if  he sacrificed profits 
to  do  it.

An  eagle-eyed  customer  walked 

“ Ten  cents,”   he  replied.
A  smile  of  ineffable  contempt  came 
over  the  customer's  classic  features.  He 
held  the  lock  to  the  light  and  viewed  it 
at  every  possible angle.
prietor.

Then  he  handed  it  back  to  the  pro­
"   'Taint  worth  more’n  a  nickel,”   he 

remarked.

The  proprietor  looked  at  him  in  sor­
row.
“ If  I  had  known  with  whom  I  was 
dealing,”   he  plaintively  remarked,  “ 1 
wouldn’t  have  put  up  the  price on  you. 
Here,  take  it  as  a  gift.”

And  the  customer,  with  a  gratified 
smirk  creeping  around  the  corners  of 
his  finely  chiseled  mouth,  pocketed  the 
lock  and  went  out  into  the  night.

Downright  Destitution.

She  was  not  a  woman  who  could  see 
suffering  without  wanting  to  give relief.
“  I  think, ”   she  said  to  her  husband, 
“ that  something  ought  to  be  done  for 
the  Barkers  in  the  next  block. 
I  don’t 
believe  the  neighbors  realize  how  des­
perately  poor  they  are. ’ ’

“ Why,  I  thought  they  were  fairly  well 

off,”   he  answered  in  surprise.

“ Ob,  dear,  no,”  

she  explained. 
“ They  have  to  endure  all  sorts  of  pri­
vations.  Why,  there's  only  one  bicycle 
in  the  family,  and  even  that  is  not  a  ’97 
wheel.”

The  Ruler  of the  World.

“ rules the world;”

“  The hand  that  rocks  the  cradle,”  said  the  poet, 
And once, perhaps, the statement had its worth; 
But to-day we give the medal to the foot that works 
The wheelwoman now rules o’er all the earth.

the pedal;

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» E ^ g p G !
MONAKH

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

of  going 
in  for  it.  Wheelwomen,  like 
wheelmen,  are  always  looking  for  new 
phases  of  wheeling.  They 
like  to at­
tempt  something  novel,  the  more diffi­
cult  the better,and  they  are  finding  both 
elements  in  cycle  polo.
*  *  *

Last  season  there  existed  a  great  deal 
of  diversity  of  opinion  as to  the  relative 
merits  of  the  rough  and  smooth  tread. 
Some  rough  tread  tires  that  were ex­
tremely  popular  in  1896  are  almost  un­
heard  of  in  1897.  On  the  other  hand, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  manufactur­
ers,  who  has  been  a  strong  advocate  of 
the  smooth  tread,  has  recently  put out, 
in 
to  his  old-established 
smooth-tread  tire,  a  tire  with  a  figure  of 
the  fleur-de-lis  raised  at  regular  inter­
vals  on  the  tread,  forming  not  only  an 
attractive,  but  a  very  useful  pattern. 
It 
is  an  ornament  to any  wheel. 
It  is con­
tended  by  the  manufacturer  that  it  does 
away  entirely  with  the  suction  caused 
by  other  rough  treads,  and  does  not  col­
lect,  throw  or  hold  mud.

addition 

Traaed  His  Horse  for  a  Bicycle. 

From  the Lincoln County Leader.

The bicycle  fever  struck  Siletz,  but  it 
did  not  last  long.  Jack  Ross,  an  upper- 
farm  Indian,  traded  his  horse  to  some 
cultus  white  man  for  a  bicycle.  Very 
impatiently  he  waited  for  the  mud  to 
dry  up  so  that  he  could  try  his  new 
steed.  Finally  one  day  last  week  he 
started  out  to  make his  first  trial.  Go­
ing  down  by  the  river  he  selected  a 
nice,  smooth,  grassy  slope.  After  get­
ting  on  and  off a  few  times  in  the  usual 
graceful  manner  of  beginners,  he  was 
in  the  saddle  and 
Anally  firmly  seated 
wabbled  around 
in  great  shape  for a 
time.  But  fate  was after  him. 
In  his 
wabblings  be  happened  to  head  the  ma­
chine  down  hill  toward  the  river.  He 
was delighted  at  the  ease  with  which  he 
ran  the  machine,  and  did  not  notice 
where  he  was  headed  until  he  was  about 
ten  feet  from  the  steep  bluff that  hung 
right  over  the  deep  water of  the  river, 
but  it  was  then  too  late.  He gave a  wild 
yell,  pulled  back  rn  the  handle  bars and

shouted,  “ Whoa!”   but  to  no  avail,  and 
at  the  next  instant  Jack  and  the  wheel 
made  a  graceful  curve  and  plunged  into 
the  deep,  chilly  water  of  the  Siletz 
River,  with  the  wheel  on  top.  Present­
ly  a  very  wet  and  thoroughly  disgusted 
Indian  crawled  out  onto  the  shore,  diag- 
ging  a  bicycle  out  after  him,  and  now 
the  wheel  is  again  for  trade.

Extreme  Case.

“ I  can’t  help 

the  back  seat. 
thing. 

it,”   said  the  man  in 
“ I  can’t  believe in  any­

I  am  a  born  doubter.”

“ Oh,  no,  brother,”   began  the  evan­

gelist.

“ But  I  am.  There  are  times  when 
I  even  have  doubts  as  to  the  superiority 
of  my  bicycle. ”

The  Usual  Way.

the  bicycle.  How  do  you  get  on?

learning  to  ride 
Waggs— So  you  are 
Gaggs—To  tell  the  truth,  I  do  more 

getting  off than  getting  on.

All  on  Account  of the  Wheel.

F rom  th e Cleveland P la in  D ealer.

N o  Departm ent  Store

can sell a  bicycle a t from “$29.99” to  $37.77 if it is finished 
and equipped as Clippers are in Clipper enam el and Clip­
per decorations.  Clipper finish is the result of two years’ 
experimenting-  and  several  thousand  dollars  expense. 
Every coat of  Clipper enamel  is hand  and  w ater  rubbed  by lum iture finishers, who 
have spent a life-time finishing- the finest furniture in the world.  E very transfer used 
is imported from Germany.  Every line of hand decoration is draw n by an expert of 20 
years’ experience.  Every Clipper bicycle turned out is finished a t an expense  3 times 
greater th an  any wheel we know of.  Clipper  equipm ent is the most expensive, and of 
the very highest grade, such as first quality Garford, H u n t or Brown saddles, Baldwin 
chains, G.  & J. tires, Berkey furniture finished, cloth-lined wood rim s,  H u n t’s highest 
grade tool bags, Clipper pedals,  steel  bars  fitted  with  grips  th a t don’t  break easily. 
Equipm ent like this is too expensive for D epartm ent Store cheap wheels.

T he above equipment costs us just $8.91 more th a n  the best used on any D epart­
m ent  store  bicycle  we ever  saw,  and  SI 2x3  more  th a n   th e  worst  we have ever seen. 
Remember this difference in cost is only a small part of the bicycle.  Everything else 
is  in  about  the  sam e  proportion.  A gain  we  say,  there  is  no  bicvcle  th e  equal of a 
Clipper a t the price of a Clipper.

1. p. *6 n. 

“ CLIPPER  PEOPLE,"  Grand  Rapids,  M ichigan.

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The  wheelwomen  of  Gotham  have a 
new  fad. 
It  is  bicycle  polo.  Not  many 
have  had  the  courage  to  try  the  game 
yet,but they are all  talking  about  it,  and 
many  have  announced  their  intention

Daft.

“ Our  cook  is  crazy  about  bicycling. ’ ’ 
“ Does  she  ride  much?”
“ Ride!  She  gets  on  her  wheel  to 

hang  out  the  washing.”

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8

Pertinent  Hints  of  Value  to  Live  M er­

chants.
Wrltten for the T radesman.

public  articles 
in  which  no  one  except 
the  owner  can  discover  any  good  thing.

*  *  *

One  of  the  best  things  I  have  seen 

in 
advertising  recently 
is  the  idea  of  an 
English  merchant.  He  has  what  he 
calls a  Birthday  Book,  made  up trom an­
nouncements  of  births 
in  the  news­
papers.  As  often  as  the 
list  is  suffi­
ciently  large,  he  sends  out  a  circular 
printed  in  type-writer  as  follows:

Madam—As  your  little  daughter’s  (or 
son’s)  birthday 
is  approaching,  and 
thinking  that  probably  you  may  require 
some  present  for  her  in  commemoration 
of  the  event,  we  take  the  liberty  of  en­
closing  a  list  of  our toys,  etc.,  which  we 
think  will  be  suitable,  and  trust  that 
you  will  be  able  to  find  among  them 
something  with  which  she  would  be 
pleased.  Should  you  desire  it,  we  shall 
be  most  happy  to  send  you,  on  receipt 
of  request,  our  full  list,  with  prices,  etc. 
Hoping  to  be  favored  with  your  orders, 
which  shall  receive  our best  and  prompt 
attention,  and  wishing  her  many  happy 
returns  of  the  day,  we  are,  etc.

Such  a  reminder,  coming,  as  it  does, 
from  a  stranger,  is  very  apt  to 
impress 
the  mother  favorably  and  induce  her  to 
patronize  the  house  which  apparently 
keeps-  such  careful  record  of  the  anni­
versary.  The  cost  of  such  advertising 
is  nominal,  and,  in  connection  with  the 
regular  methods,  might  be  made  to pay, 
especially  as  it  is  possible  to  call  atten­
tion  to  other  lines  of  goods  at  the  same 
time,  with  no added  expense.

* 

t   *

There  is  an  alarming  tendency  among 
too  many  amateur  advertisement  writ­
ers  to  affect  the  "sm art”   advertisement 
— the  advertisement  which  is  intended 
to  be  funny  or  catchy,  but  falls  within 
the  bounds  of  ludicrousness.  The  ad­
vertisement  should  not  be  made  a  ve­
hicle  for alleged  witticisms  or  literary 
brilliancy,but should  merely  tell  a  plain 
story  in  a  plain  way—a  story  of  values 
and  qualities  which  people  can  under­
stand  and  appreciate. 
If  a  reader  de­
sires  romance,  or  poetry,  or  humor,  or 
essays,  he  turns  to  the  columns  devoted 
to  such  subjects. 
If  he  is in  the  market 
for  a  suit  of  cloths,  a  bouse  and  lot  or 
material  to  build  a  house,  he  turns  to 
the  advertisement  of  such  commodity  as 
he  is  in  need  of.  And  here  he  neither 
expects nor  desires anything but  a plain, 
practical,  truthful  statement  of  facts, 
strictly  pertaining  to  the  article  ad­
vertised.  A  humorous  suggestion 
is 
permissible  and  often  advisable  as  a 
means  of  gaining  attention  to  the  ad­
vertisement,  but  this,  to  be  of  value, 
must  be  only  a  suggestion,  and  not  wan­
der  off  into  the  realm  of  humor or child­
ishness,  to the  exclusion  of  the  matter- 
of-fact  statements  which  are  so  neces­
sary ‘ to  successful  advertising. 
It  is  a 
practical  art,  and,  like  all  other  prac­
ticalities,  is  founded  on  a  basis  of 
theory.  The  one  who  would  achieve 
success  in  advertising  must  recognize 
and  take  advantage  of  the  theoretical 
foundation, 
is  the  directing 
force  of  all  successful  effort  in  advertis­
ing.

for  this 

*  *  *

If  I  have  once,  I  have  a  hundred 
times  in  these  columns  laid  stress on the 
importance  of  the  advertiser  having 
implicit  confidence 
in  the  article  he 
advertises.  And  it  should  not  be  a con­
fidence gained  by  superficial  means,  or 
because  he  is  the  owner  of  the  article. 
There  must  be  a  thorough  knowledge  of 
the  merits,  obtained  by  careful 
inspec­
tion  and  trial— so  thorough,  in  fact,  that 
the advertiser  would  be  willing  to  take 
oath  as  to  the  truth  of  his  statements. 
A  great  many  failures  are  attributed  to 
the  fact  of  endeavoring  to  force  on  the

I  have  just  a  few  words  to  say  to  the 
merchant  who  always  has  a  substitute 
for the  article  asked  for,  if  he  does  not 
happen  to  have  it  in  stock. 
If  a  cus­
tomer  says,  *' I  want  to  buy  a  pound  of 
shingle  nails, ”   and  you  haven’t  got  a 
nail  in  the  store,  don’t  try  to  sell  him  a 
pound  of  carpet  tacks  and  insist  that 
they  are  "just as  good”   for  his  purpose 
as  the  nails.  And  if  he asks  for  a  par­
ticular brand  of  soap,  don’t  try  to  make 
him  believe  that  the  kind  you  have  is 
"just  as  good,”   or  perhaps  better,  for 
his  needs.  Tell  him  plainly  that  you 
don't  keep  it  and  if  you know  who does, 
don’t  be  afraid  you  will  lose  his  trade 
by  telling  him  where  he  can  get  it. 
Everyone  has  his  hobby,and  it  is  a  uni­
versal 
to 
think  they  know  just  what  is  best  for 
their  individual  needs. 
It  may  be  well 
enough  to  tell  him  what  you  have and 
what  its  particular  merits  are,  but  don't 
urge 
it  on  him  as  being  “ just  as 
good.’ ’

characteristic  among  men 

*  *  *

important 

These  are  as 

Too  many  advertisers  neglect  to  give 
prices. 
in 
nearly  all  cases  as  the  description,  and 
they  should  go  together. 
It  is  merely 
an  annoyance  to  read  that  we  can  buy  a 
certain  article  at  such  a  place,  and  be 
unable  to  learn  its  cost  without  going  to 
the  store.  Many  a  customer  is  lost 
in 
this  way,  that  would  be  secured  if  he 
knew  how  much  the  article  sold  for. 
Good  quality,  coupled  with  reasonable 
prices, is  sure  to attract  buyers,but  qual­
ity  stated  alone  loses  half  its  attraction. 
And don’t  make  the  prices  secondary  in 
importance  in  the  advertisement.  Let 
them  stand  out  prominently. 
"Four 
dollars  and  ninety-eight  cents”   for  a 
good  suit  of  clothes 
is  sure  to  induce 
the  reader  to  scan closely the description 
in  order to  find  out  whether  or  no 
is 
a  genuine  bargain.  Pay  more  attention 
to  giving  prominence  to  prices,  and  the 
description  will  be  better able  to  take 
care  of  itself. 

N em o.

it 

The  Young  Man  in  Business.

From Printers’ Ink.

This  is  the  day  of  the  young  man 

in 
business.  You  see  him  everywhere,  oc­
cupying  positions  of  trust  and  responsi­
bility.  At  first  the business  world looked 
askance  at  his  entrance;  but 
it  soon 
learned  that  he  was  an  acquisition. 
Without  a  too great reverence for experi­
ence  or  precedent,  the  young  man  of 
to-day 
is  still  a  safe  and  conservative 
business  man.  He  supplies  an  element 
of  dash  and  enterprise  of  which  older 
men,  no  matter  how  progressive,  are 
incapable.  He 
is  full  of  ideas,  is  al­
ways  ready  to  listen  courteously  to  ad­
vice,  but  makes  a  point  of  following 
only  that  which  seems  good  to  him. 
In 
advertising  circles  the  young  man  is 
especially  prominent  and  ubiquitious. 
At  a  recent  gathering  of  advertisement 
writers 
it  was  discovered  that  the  ma­
jority  of them  were  between  twenty-five 
and  thirty-five  years  of  age.  But  they 
were  all  bright,  progressive  men,  many 
of  them  writing  and  placing  advertis­
ing  involving  the  expenditure  of  thou­
sands  of  dollars  annually.  Verily,  the 
young  man's  star  is  in  the  ascendant.

Making  a  Change.

"H ov  yez  got  any  petroleum?”   she 
the  grocery 

enquired  as  she  entered 
store  early  in  the  morning.
“ Yes,”   replied  the  clerk.
"A re  ye  sure 

it’s  petroleum 

an’ 

nothin’  else?”

"Absolutely  certain.”
"W ell,  yez  kin  give  ten  cents’  worth, 
an’  I  want  it  in  a  hurry.  The  missus 
says  oi’ve  got  to  sthop  usin’  kerosene 
to  shtart  the  fire. ’ ’

RIDDEN  B Y

\ w EI3I<?A’
W O R L D S  
.  H E A V IE S T  
^ P I D E S L

Baby  Bliss
Trass Frame 
flmeffca  Bicycle

on  his

Will  be  in  Grand  Rap­
ids  Saturday  e v e n in g , 
May  29,  and  S u n d a y , 
May  30.  Headquarters, 
Sweet’s  Hotel.
Adams & Hart,
12  W.  Bridge  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

State Agents  America Bicycles,

Not  How  Cheap 

But  How  Good

P  |V A C O

We  warrant  our  make  of wagons  and  consequently 

produce  no cheap or  inferior work.

Buyers  of  the  Belknap  make  of wagons  do  not  find 

it  necessary  to  constantly  repair and  replace.

Catalogue  on  application.

Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  700  Pound  Barrel

can  be  handled  with  per­
fect ease  by

One  Man

And our Barrel Truck.

For further information address

BUYS BARREL  TRUCK  CO.
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

761  E. Pulton SL

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Clare—Jas.  Boyd  succeeds  Mason  & 

Boyd  in  the  grocery  business.

Kent  City—Maynard  Romie  has  sold 

his  meat  market  to  Wm.  Parks.

Belding—J.  T.  Angell  succeeds  An­

gel!  &  Nye  in  the  meat  business.

Saginaw—Dorr  &  Teal  succeed  Dorr 

Bros.  &  Co.  in  the  meat  business.

Moore  Park— F.  M.  Spangler  suc­

ceeds  F.  A.  Pixley  in  general  trade.

Harbor  Springs—N.  A.  Leitch  has 
opened  a  tailor shop  in the Weston stoie.
Port Huron—Lee & Vandenburgh,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved,  A.  Lee  succeed­
ing.

Orange—Harwood  &  Bliss  have  pur­
chased  the general  stock  of  H.  H.  Jor­
dan.

Central  Lake—Wm.  Gardner  has
added  a  line  of  jewelry  to  his grocery 
stock.

Evart— H.  D.  Turner  &  Co.  have 
opened  a  new  meat  market  in  the  Bush 
block.

Lansing— L.  Andrews  has  purchased 
the  news  stand  and  cigar  store  of  Page 
&  Butler.

Nashville—F.  T.  Boise  is  closing  out 
his  hardware  stock,  on  account  of  fail­
ing  health.

St.  Ignace—Cbas.  Eby  has  opened  a 
in  the  corner  store  adjoining 

bakery 
Murray  Bros.

Marion—Chase  &  Runberger  have  re­
moved  their  grocery  stock  to  the  Hewitt 
&  Myers  block.

Frankfort—The  L.  E.  Grisier  Co. 
(Mrs.  E.  E .)  Grisier 

succeeds  M.  B. 
in  general  trade.

Charlotte— F errin  Bros,  have  leased 
the  Jones  elevator  and  will  handle  grain 
as  well  as beans.

Coldwater— Frank  Bonfiglio  &  Co. 
have  opened  a  new  fruit  store.  The  firm 
hails  from  Adrian.

Reed  City—John  Berner,  formerly  of 
Ludington,  has  embarked  in  the  meat 
business  at  this  place.

Tecumseh—John  J.  Orr  continues  the 
drug  business  of  Orr  &  Temple  at  this 
place  and  at  Ridgeway.

Saginaw—C.  J.  Whitney  &  Co.  an­
nounce  that they  will  close  their  branch 
music  store  here June  io.

Ferry— Young  &  Gunn  continue  the 
general  store  business  formerly  con­
ducted  by  I.  M.  Young  &  Co.

Munising—Geo.  B.  Hill has purchased 
the  grocery  and  hardware  stock  of  Geo. 
A.  Smith  and  will  continue  the busi­
ness.

Detroit—Rhynas  &  Childs  are  now 
the  proprietors  of  the  Globe  Steam 
Laundry,  instead  of  Chas.  D.  Childs,  as 
formerly.

Alto— B.  F.  Palmer  has completed the 
deal  for  a  hardware  stock  at  Grand 
Rapids  and  expects  to  move  it  here  in 
about  ten  days.

Ferry— Wm.  E.  Gunn  has  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  general stock of Young 
&  Co.  The  new  firm  will  be  known  as 
Young  &  Gunn.

Chief— I.  W.  Rhodes  has  purchased  a 
store  building  at  Tanner  and  will  re­
move  to  that  place  and  engage  in  gen­
eral  trade  in  the  fall.

Freeport—A.  G.  Gush  has  sold  his 
meat  market  to  Whetford,  Kelley  & 
Simpson,  who  will  continue the business 
at  the  same  location.

Muskegon—Cornelius  T.  Cramer  has 
purchased  an 
in  the  furniture 
stock  of  Geo.  D.  Vanderwerp.  The  new 
firm  will  be  known  as  G.  D.  Vander­
werp  &  Co.

interest 

Muskegon—T.  Klock  &  Co.  have pur­
the  undertaking  business  of 
chased 
Karel  &  Veltman.  They  will  add  wall 
paper,  picture  frames  and  mouldings.

Peacock—David  J.  Peacock,  formerly 
engaged  in  trade  at  Grant  Station,  has 
opened  a  general  store  at  this  place. 
He  is  also  postmaster and express agent.
Ypsilanti —Will  Murdock  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  drug  store  at  Northville 
and  has  accepted  his  old  place  again  as 
book-keeper  for  the  Michigan  Central 
Railway  at  this  place.

West  Bay  City—W.  H.  Weber  who 
conducts  a  hardware  store  here  and  at 
Omer  has  merged  his  store  business  in­
to  a  corporation  under the  style  of  the 
H.  W.  Weber  Hardware  Co.

Traverse  City— Sidney  Purkiss  has 
removed  from  Northport  and  opened  a 
wholesale  and  retail  fresh  fish  market 
on  Bay  street.  Nearly  all  the  fish 
handled  here  are  caught  near Northport.
New  Lothrop— Thos.  Snyder,  who  has 
been  identified  with  the  general  store  of 
Washington  Snyder  for  the  past  two 
years,  has  resigned  his  position  and 
will  engage 
in  the  shoe  business  in 
Saginaw.

in  the  Jackson 

Jackson-----McKeggan  &  Lockwood,
formerly  clerks 
fruit 
house,  have  purchased  the  grocery  stock 
and  fixtures  of  C.  R.  Townsend,  corner 
of  Greenwood  avenue  and  First  street, 
and  will  continue  the  business.

Ypsilanti— Lamb,  Davis  &  Kishlar 
have  leased  the  store  now  occupied  by 
the  Misses  Jenks  and  will  cut  an  arch­
way  through  from  the  rear  of their store, 
thus  making  an  entrance  to  their  store 
on  Congress  and  Huron  streets.

Negaunee— Neis  Majhannu  has  pur­
chased  the  stock  of  goods  Auno  & 
KremkoS  had  taken  from  them  to  sat­
isfy  two  mortgages  which  they  gave 
some  time  ago.  The  creditors  received 
their  accounts  in  full.  The  total  amount 
of  the  three  claims  was  $873.51.

Mears— E.  E.  Kobe  has purchased the 
general  stock  of  R.  T.  Morris  &  Co. 
and  will  enlarge  the  stock  of goods  and 
continue  the  general  store business  in 
the  same  building.  Mr.  Kobe  comes 
well  recommended  from  Hart,  where  he 
was  engaged 
in  business  with  his 
brother.

incorporating 

Detroit—Articles 

the 
Adolph  Enggass Jewelry  Co.  have  been 
filed  with  the  County  Clerk.  The  pur­
pose  is  to  carry  on  a  retail  jewelry  and 
optical  business.  The  capital  stock 
is 
$10,000,  of which  $5,000  is  paid  in.  The 
stockholders  are  Barbara  Enggass,  995 
shares;  Adolph  Enggass,  4  shares,  and 
Morris  H.  Fechheimer,  one  share.

Charlevoix— M.  V.  Cook,  who  has 
been  with  F.  N.  Chapel  and  also  with 
G.  W.  Beaman  as  drug  clerk  during  the 
past  three  or  four  years,  in  partnership 
with  Dr.  R.  B.  Armstrong and Dr.  J.  A. 
Auld,  will  occupy  the  Crouter building 
as  soon  as  it  is  vacated  by  Mr.  Chapel, 
with  a  new  stock  of  drugs.  The  firm 
name  will  be  M.  V.  Cook  &  Co.  Mr. 
Cook  will  have 
immediate  charge  of 
the  business.

Ludington— N.  P.  Christenson,  pro­
prietor  of  the  Big  Store,  has  been  re­
moved  from  the  field  of  activity  by  an 
attack  of  typhoid  pneumonia.  Deceased 
was  born  in  Denmark  forty-seven  years 
ago  and  came  to  this  country  when  29 
years  of  age.  He  has  been  in  the  mer­
cantile  business 
in  this  city  for  seven­
teen  years,  first  in  the  grocery  business 
with  N.  P.  Hansen  in  the  Fourth  ward. 
It  was  there  that  he  met  Mrs.  Christen­
sen, 
then  Miss  Bertha  Hansen,  Mr. 
Hansen’s  niece,  who  was  clerking  for 
them.  They  were  married  in Milwaukee

eleven  years ago.  Five  children  were 
born  to  them,  four  of  whom  are  now 
living.  These  are  all  boys  and  are 
named  respectively  Carl,  Walter,  Arthur 
and  Herbert,  the  eldest  being  only  7
years  of  age. 

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Manufacturing  Matters.

Otsego—Geo.  E.  Clapp  has  begun  the 
manufacture  of  a  preparation  known  as 
the  Ivory  washing  tablet.

Maple  Rapids—W.  J.  Graham  and 
Ed.  Sherman  have  leased  the  grist  mill 
and  will  continue  the business.

Alden— The  Elk  Rapids  Iron  Co.  has 
placed  an  exchange grist  mill  at  Alden 
with  the  R.  W.  Coy  Estate  as  agent.

Mears—J.  D.  Barton 

is  building  a 
wagon  shop  at  this  place  in  which  he 
will  manufacture  and  repair  wagons.

Detroit— The  Old  Sol  Cigar  Co.  has 
removed 
its  factory  from  Flint  to  this 
city,  locating  at  75  Woodward  avenue.
Saginaw—Ferrell,  Prame  &  Osier, 
manufacturers  of grain  and  seed  clean­
ers,  are  succeeded  by  A.  T.  Ferrell  & 
Co.

Alma—C.  L.  Chadwick  has 

invented 
a  roach  bug  powder  which  he  will  place 
on  the  market  under  the  brand  of 
“ Eureka. ”

Detroit—The  style  of 

the  Detroit 
Cigarmakers’  Co-operative  Association, 
Limited,  has been  changed  to  the  Co­
operative  Cigar  Co.  Limited.

Douglas—Devine  &  Durham  have 
their  Climax  machine  in  running  order 
at  Weed’s  factory  and  are  turning  out 
baskets  at  the  rate  of  1,000  per day.

Marquette— Begole  &  Bice  have  sold 
the  lumber  which  they  cut  here  last 
winter,  about  2,000,000  feet,  to  Detroit 
parties  and  made  the  first  shipment  last 
week.

Martin— The  East  Martin  creamery 
has  resumed  operations.  F.  D.  Hard­
ing  and  Wm.  Robertson  are  the  mana­
gers.  Mr.  Coffin  has  been  hired  as  su­
perintendent.

Benton  Harbor— W.  J.  Harper and  M. 
A.  Price  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  the  Columbia  Cigar 
Co.  for  the  purpose  of  embarking  in 
the  manufacture  of  cigars.

It 

is  putting 

Menominee— The  Menominee  River 
Shingle  Co. 
in  something 
new  in  the  way  of  shingle  mill  machin­
is  a  band  mill,  which  works 
ery. 
horizontally  and 
is  used  for  knot  saw­
ing.

Marquette---- Me Burney  &  McCaull
have  sold  their  logs  to  Saginaw  parties 
and  are  now  scaling  them  at  the  mouth 
of  the  Salmon  Trout  River.  The  logs 
will  probably  be  towed  to  Saginaw  for 
manufacture.

logs 

to  bring  down 

Muskegon—The  suit  of  Gow  & Camp­
bell  against  the  Nufer  Cedar  Co.  was 
tried 
in  the  Muskegon  Circuit  Court 
and  a  verdict  for  plaintiffs  was rendered 
by  the  jury  for $1,045.81  and  interest. 
The  contest  will  probably  be  carried  to 
the  Supreme  Court. 
In  May,  1895,  the 
plaintiffs  had  about  3,000,000  feet  of 
hemlock 
from 
Houghton  Lake  to  Evart  and  claimed 
that  they  found  1,500,000  feet  of  logs  in 
the  River belonging to defendants which 
they  had  to  drive  along  with  their  own 
logs  to  avoid  great  delay in getting their 
property  where 
it  could  be  utilized. 
The  logs  of  both  owners  were  destined 
for this  city and  from  here  the  defend­
ant’s  logs  were  rafted  by  way  of  Lake 
Michigan  to  Whitehall.  The  plaintiffs 
sued  to  collect  pay  for  the  cost  of  driv­
ing  the  logs  from  Higgin  Lake.  They 
also  claim  to  have  driven  down  29,640 
feet  of  logs  belonging  to  Hovey  &  Mc­
Cracken  and  360,070  feet  belonging  to 
the  McGraft  Lumber Co.,and  these  con­
cerns  will  also  be asked  to settle.

incorporating 

Detroit—Articles 

the 
Hemmeter Cigar Co.  have been filed with 
the  County  Clerk, 
'lhe  company  re­
moves  from  Saginaw  to  this  city.  The 
capital  stock 
is  $10,000,  all  paid  in. 
The  original  incorporation  was  in  1893.
Standish—An  attempt  was  recently 
made  to  destroy  the  sawmill  of  James 
Norn.  The  fire  had  made  but  little 
headway  when  discovered  and  was  ex­
tinguished  with  but  trifling  damage. 
Evidence  was  plenty  that  the  fire  was 
clearly  of  incendiary  origin.

Allegan—Joseph  Ambler  has  pur­
chased  machinery  for a  woolen-mill  and 
will  move  it  to  Mt.  Pleasant,  where  he 
will  engage 
in  business.  But  one  or 
two  machines  will  be  taken  from  his 
burned  mill  here,  the  remainder  having 
been  damaged  beyond  repair.  He  has 
in  business  here,  al­
been  successful 
though  unfortunate  because  of 
fires, 
having  been  burned  out  four  times.

Coldwater— Local  business  men  to  the 
number  of  forty-six  have  subscribed  for 
stock  to  the  amount  of  $28,000  in  the 
proposed  new  shoe  factory. 
is  un­
derstood  that  the  managers  of  the  busi 
ness  will  take $12,000  stock,  making  the 
total  stock  of  the  corporation  $40,000.

It 

East  Tawas—The  Tawas  Bay  Lumber 
Co.  has  sold  the  Emery block  to  Samuel 
Anker  who  will  occupy  it  with  his  gro­
cery  stock  and  meat  market.  Contrary 
to  previous  announcement  the  Tawas 
Bay  Lumber  Co.  will  confine  its  opera­
tions  to  the  sawmill  business  exclu­
sively.

Alma— Mr.  Isham,  of  Ithaca,  has  pur­
chased  200,000  feet  of  ash 
logs  from 
Gardener,  Peterman  &  Co.  He  will 
build  a  sawmill  somewhere  near .the 
river  and  railroad  track  and  begin  op­
erations  almost  immediately.  The  mill 
will  saw  half-inch  stock  which  will  be 
shipped 
into 
heading.

Ithaca  and  made 

to 

Traverse  City— Benjamin  Boughey, 
an  old  settler  and  enterprising  farmer 
of  Grand  Traverse  county,  has  built  a 
potato  chip  factory  on  his  farm. 
is 
fitted  throughout  with  modern  machin­
ery.  Mr.  Boughey  will  use  potatoes 
from  his  own  farm  and  also  expects  to 
buy  several  thousand  bushels  annually 
of  our  farmers.

It 

Manistee— There 

is  not  nearly  as 
much  hemlock  to  be  sawed  at  this  point 
this  season  as  oidinarily has been turned 
out  for  water  shipment,  and 
it  looks 
now  as  if  there  would  have  to  be  a  raise 
in  that  class  of  stock  when  the  new  cut 
gets  ready  to  be  marketed.  Those  of 
the  mills  that  are  catering  to  the  car 
trade  find  difficulty  in  keeping  sorts  in 
hemlock  that  are  dry  and  fit  to  ship, 
and  some  of  the  yards  have  been  com­
pelled  to  bring  in  long  stuff  from  some 
of  the  railroad  mills  up  the  road  to  fill 
out  orders.  There  has  been  great  diffi­
culty  in  getting  cars.

covering 

Midland— Articles  of 

incorporation 
have  been  filed  with  the  County  Clerk 
by  the  Dow  Process  Bleaching  Powder 
Co.,  capital  $200,000.  The Simon  Kent 
farm,  just  outside  the  city  limits,  has 
been  purchased  and  work  will  be  com­
in  the  immediate  future  upon 
menced 
an  extensive  plant 
75,000 
square  feet.  The  inventor  of  the  Dow 
Process,  Herbert  Dow,  has  also  invent­
ed  and  has  in  successful  operation,  in 
connection  with  the  Midland  Chemical 
Co.,  a  process  of  making  bromine  by 
electricity.  The  new  factory  will  em­
ploy  many  men,  and  will  use  annually 
many  thousands  of  barrels  of 
lime  and 
other  material. 
It  will  prove  a  great 
addition  to  the  other  industries  of  the 
town.

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Ina  Lamoreaux  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  New  Richmond.  The  Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

M  H.  Barber  has  removed  bis  gro­
cery  stock  from  South  Division  street  to 
the  Hartman  row  on  East  Fulton  street.
in 
the  grocery  business  at  Clarion.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company.

Albert  E.  Kemano  has  embarked 

A  case  of  some  interest,  involving  the 
rights  of  the  respective  parties  to  a con­
tract  for  the  conditional  sale  of goods, 
wherein  the  title  to  the  property  sold 
was  retained 
in  the  vendor  until  the 
purchase  price  should  be  fully  paid, 
was  tried  last  week  in  the  Kent  Countv 
Circuit  Court.  The  title  of  the  case 
was  Willis  J.  Perkins  vs.  Louis  Grob- 
bin,  et  al. 
It  appears  that  in  January, 
1893,  Perkins  entered 
into  a  written 
contract  with  the  defendants  for  the sale 
of  a  quantity  of  shingle  mill machinery, 
to  be  put  into  a  mill  located  at  Leland. 
By  the  terms  of  the  contract  the  title  to 
the  machinery  was  to  remain  in Perkins 
until  the  full  payment  of  the  purchase 
price,  amounting  to  $2,600  or  there­
abouts.  A  payment  of  about  $800  was 
made  when  the  contract  was  entered  in­
to  and  the  balance  was  payable  in  three 
installments  during  the  following  sum­
mer,  for  which  defendants  gave  their 
promissory  notes.  The  contract  pro­
vided  that,  in  case  of  default,  Perkins 
should  have  the  right  to  retake  the  ma­
chinery,  and  all  payments  made  were  to 
be  considered  as  compensation  for  the 
use,  wear and  tear  of  the  machinery,  or 
that  he  might  sue  on  the  notes  and  that 
suit  on  the  notes  should  not  be  a  waiver 
of  his  right  to  take  the  property.  There 
was  no  provision  in  the  contract,  how­
ever,  in  case  Perkins  should  take  the 
property,  that  it  should  not  be  a  waiver 
of  his  right  to  sue on  the  notes.  De­
fendants put the  machinery  in  their  mill 
and  ran  it  five  days,  in  1893,  and  sixty 
days  the  year  following,  and  in  Novem­
ber,  default  having  been  made 
in  the 
payment  of  the  notes,  Perkins  retook 
the  machinery.  He  then  sued  on  the 
notes. 
It  was  claimed,  on  the  part  of 
the  defense,  that  Perkins  had  a  choice 
of  one  or two  remedies.  He  could  either 
retake  the  property  or  sue  on  the  notes, 
but  he  could  not  do  both ;  that  having 
taken  the  property  he  had  deprived  the 
defendants  of  the  consideration 
for 
which  the  notes  were  given  and  that 
this act  on  his  part  cancelled  the  notes; 
that  having  elected  to  rescind  the  sale 
by  retaking  the  property,  he  could  not 
afterwards  recover  the  puichase  price 
of  the  thing  sold. 
In  other  words,  that 
he  could  not,  at  the  same  time,  keep his 
property  and  sell 
it  too.  The  Court 
held  with  the  defendants  and  directed  a 
verdict  in  their  favor.

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  has  been  steady 
during  the  past  week.  The  situation 
has  not  changed  to  speak  of  except  that 
it 
is  a  little  stronger  as  we  get  reports 
regarding  the  growing  crop  in  France, 
which  show  that 
it  has  been  damaged 
more  than  was  first  reported,  and  it  is 
now  estimated  that  there  will  be a short­
age  of  100,000,000 bushels  in  that  coun­
try.  The  winter  wheat  in  this  country 
about  holds  its  own,  although  Kansas, 
Pennsylvania,  Kentucky  and  Tennessee 
show  up  a  little  better  than  was  fiist 
anticipated,  but  there 
is  no  improve­
in  Indiana,  Illinois
ment 

in  the  crop 

and  Missouri. 
It  is  too  early  to  count 
anything  on  the  spring  wheat yet.  How­
ever,  the  outlook  at  present 
is  quite 
promising  and,  taking  all  things  into 
consideration,  we  may  look  for  500,000,- 
000 bushels  as  a  crop,  but  this  is  noth­
ing  to  base  lower  prices  on,  especially 
when  we  consider  the  small amount  that 
will  be  left  over  from  last  year  and  the 
shortage  in  France.  While  Argentine, 
India,  Australia  and  a  few  more  minor 
exporting  countries  will  have  none  to 
export,  nearly  all  the  supply  will  have 
to  come  from  Russia  and  the  United 
States.  Our  visible  made  a  fair  de­
crease,  being  1,441,000  bushels,  which 
was  somewhat  less  than was anticipated, 
and  had  it  not  been  for  the  unexpected 
large  arrivals  in  the  Northwest  (Minne­
apolis  and  Duluth)  the  decrease  would 
have  been  much larger.  However,  after 
is  over,  we  may  expect 
the  May  deal 
to  see  less 
fluctuations  and,  conse­
quently,  steadier  markets.

All  things  considered,  the  demand 
for  flour  has  been  very  fair  and  mill 
feed 
is  absorbed  as  fast  as  it  can  be 
made  at  full  price.

After  making  some  spasmodic  efforts 
to  advance,  corn  settled  back  to  exactly 
where  it  was  one  week  ago. 
The  same 
might  be  said  of  oats.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were 
only  moderate,  being  30 cars  of  wheat, 
6  cars  of  corn  and  4  cars  of  oats.

Local  millers are paying 83c for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus—Home grown has advanced 

to  2oc  per  doz.  bunches.

Beets—40c  per  doz.  bunches.
Butter— Separator  creamery  has  de­
clined  to  I3jé@i4c.  Dairy  grades  are 
coming  in  very  plentifully,  being  taken 
on  the  basis  of  8@gc  for  fancy  dairy 
and  6@7c  for  packing  grades.

Cabbage—75c  per  doz.  for Mississippi 

stock.

per  lb.

Cucumbers—Home  grown  command 

50c  per  doz.  Southern  fetch  30c.

Eggs— Handlers  have  advanced  their 
paying  prices  to  8c  on  track.  The mar­
ket  is  lower  East  and  will  probably  go 
off  %c  here  in  the  course  of a  few  days.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  forcing  10c 

Onions—Green  fetch  10c  per  doz. 
bunches.  There  are  four  kinds  of  dry 
stock  in  market—California,  Egyptian, 
Bermuda  and  Misissippi.  The 
latter 
command  $1.10  per  bu.  sack,  while  Cal­
ifornia  and  Egyptian  are 
in  fair  de­
mand  at $2  per  2  bu.  sack.  Bermuda 
are  held  at  $2.75  per  60  lb.  crate.

Peas— Illinois  stock  brings  $1.50  per 

bu.

Pieplant— ic  per lb.
Pineapples—$i.25@i.5o  per  doz.
Potatoes— New  Mississippis command 
$1.30  per  bbl.  Home  grown  are  still 
selling  at  i5@20c,  according  to  quality. 
The  market  is  a  little  stiffer,  but  is  not 
so  encouraging  as  was  anticipated  a few 
weeks  ago.

Radishes—10c  per  doz.  bunches.
Seeds— Medium  clover,  $4.5o@4.75; 
Mammoth  clover,  $4.75@5:  Timothy, 
$i .40@ i .6o ;  Hungarian,  75@8oc;  Com­
mon  or  German  Millet,  6o@70C.

Spinach— Home  grown  commands  35c 

Squash— Illinois  stock  brings  4c  per 

per  bu.

lb.

Strawberries— Illinois  stock  is in plen­
tiful  supply  at  $1.5o@i.75  per  case  of 
24  quarts.  Missouri  berries  are  coming 
in  in  carlots,  commanding  $2  per  case.
Tomatoes—$2.50  per  crate  of  6 bas­

kets.

Wax  Beans—$2  per  bu.  crate.

Invitations  are  out  for  the  marriage 
of  Miss  Minnie  Jenkins,  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oscar  N.  Jenkins,  of 
Portland,  to  Emery  R.  Beal,  the  well- 
known  Ypsilanti  druggist.  The wedding 
will  take  place  in  Portland  Wednesday, 
June  2.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar— While  the 

consumptive  de­
is 
increasing,  being  at  present 
mand 
its  volume  at  the  beginning  of 
double 
April, 
jobbers  are  buying  practically 
nothing,  being  still  stocked  up.  An 
advance  is  not  unlikely  when  they begin 
to  buy.  The  tariff  bill  is  bound  to have 
an  effect,  but  if  the  European  market 
continues  dull,  as it  was  last  week,  there 
will  probably  be  no  advance  until  the 
passage  of  the  tariff  bill  is  so  near  at 
hand  that  the  receipts  of  European 
sugar  will  be  interfered  with.  The  do­
mestic  raw  market  declined 
i - i6c  dur­
ing  the  past  week,  and  no  further  drop 
is  expected,  as  the  receipts  are  falling 
off.

Coffee—The  primary  markets  are 
weak.  Stocks  of  Rios  and  Santos  coffees 
ate  heavy.  This  cbndition  gives  the 
market  a  weak  feeling,  but  prices  are 
now  so  low  that  should  there  begin  to be 
an  appearance  of  a  falling  off  in  arriv­
als  of  coffee  from  the  fields  at  the  ports 
of  Rio  and  Santos,  the  market  would 
certainly  advance.

Cheese—The  market  has  finally  suc­
cumbed  to  the  increased  receipts  of new 
goods.  A  decline  of  yic  from  last  quo­
tations  is  noted.  Full  cream  fancy  stock 
is  quoting  at 
some  special  makes 
selling  at  >£c  above  the  outside  quota­
tion.  There  are  liberal  receipts  of  new 
cheese.

Rice—The  scare  that  sent  Japan  rice 
up  some  time  since  has  so  blown  over 
that  prices  have  again  settled  back  to 
their  old  figure.  The  stocks  of  domes­
tic  rice  are  light,  and  prices  are  still 
high  in  consequence.

Syrups  and  Molasses—The  market has 
the  week. 
been  rather  dull  during 
There  has  been  a  fair  demand 
for 
mixed  syrup  at  unchanged  prices.  The 
market  is  about  steady,  and  no  change 
in  likely.  There 
is  practically  no  de­
for  sugar  syrup  of  any  grade. 
mand 
The  price  is  unchanged,  and  no  fluctua­
tion  is  expected.  Molasses is very  dull, 
and  very  little  business  will  be  done  on 
it  from  this  time  on  until  fall.  Prices 
are  steady.

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Currants  seem 

Dried  Fruits—There  is some improve­
ment 
in  dried  apples  and  raspberries. 
Prunes  are  still  low  and  not  very  lively. 
Raisins  are  dull. 
to 
have  had  their  full  advance.  The  ex­
pectation  of  a good  crop  of  fruit in Cali­
fornia 
is  having  the  effect  to  dull  the 
market  a  little  in  spot  dried  fruits.  On 
the  Coast 
is  reported  that  stocks  of 
dried  fruits  are  almost  exhausted.  The 
stock  of  prunes  on  the  Coast  will  not 
exceed  twenty-five  to  thirty  cars;  but 
about  five  cars  of  peaches  remain,  while 
there  are  practically  no  apricots  left. 
The  stock  of  raisins  on  the  Coast is said 
to  be  chiefly  of  medium  and  low  grade 
stock.  '  Reports  of  drouth  and  winds 
come  from  some  sections  of  California, 
which  reports  are  to  the  effect that much 
of  the  fruit  has  been  blown  from  the 
trees.  Granting  all  this, 
is  very 
probable  that  the  Coast  will  this  season 
raise  the  largest  crop  of  deciduous  fruit 
that  was  ever  produced  there.  Cherries 
are  now  ripening.  There  is  to  be  a  bet­
ter  crop  of  these  than  for  several  years. 
The  last  importations  of  currants for  the 
crop  of  1896  reached  New  York  this 
week,  and  consisted  of  550  tons.  The 
current  year’s  crop  promises  to  be 
small,  and  the  market 
is  expected  to 
hold  up  to  high  figures.

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Oranges— The  market  has  advanced 
25c  a  box  on  navels,  seedlings  and 
Mediterranean  sweets. 
The  demand 
continues  active,  and  a  still  further  ad­
vance  in  the  near  future  is  looked  for.

Supplies  on  the  Coast  are  running  short 
in  some  sizes.

Lemons—The  weather  has  not  been 
just  such  as  would  demand  many 
lem­
ons.  The  market  is  steady  and  the  de­
mand  only  fair.

Provisions—There  is  a  slightly  easier 
feeling  on  everything  in  the  provision 
line.  No  changes  of  any  importance 
are  noted  during  the  week.  Sellers  are 
anxious  to  move  stock  and  will  shade 
is  probably  the 
prices  to  do  so.  Lard 
weakest  of  anything 
in  the  provision 
line.  Pure  lard  is  nearly  as  low as  was 
reached  at  any  time  during  the  present 
year,  being  indeed  nearly  at  the  lowest 
point  reached  for  some  time  back.  The 
low  prices  for  pure  lard  continue  to 
have a  depressing  effect  upon  the  sale 
of  substitutes.

May  Commit  Crime  Without  Criminal 

Intent.

State  Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner 
Grosvenor  can  now  proceed  to  enforce 
the  pure  food 
law  with  vigor,  the  Su­
preme  Court  having  made  a  ruling 
which  makes  that  enactment  a  terror  to 
dealers  who  sell  impure  or  adulterated 
articles  of  food.  This  ruling  was  made 
in  an  unanimous  opinion,  written  by 
Chief  Justice  Long, 
in  the  case  of 
Michael  Snoberger,  who  was  convicted 
by  Circuit  Judge  Kinne  at  Monroe  of 
violating  the  pure  food  law.

Snowberger  admitted  the  selling  of 
adulterated  mustard  to  Carl  Franke,  one 
of Commissioner Grosvenor’s inspectors, 
but  insisted  that  the  mustard  was  pur­
chased  by  him  (Snowberger)  as  a  pure 
article 
in  good  faith,  and  that  he be­
lieved  when  he  sold  it  to  Franke  that  it 
was  pure.  Judge  Kinne  was 
inclined 
to  find  the  accused  not  guilty,  but  in 
order  that  the  law  might  be  tested  he 
convicted  him  under  protest.

Snowberger’s  counsel  contended  that 
it  was  the  intent  of  the  Legislature  to 
provide  by  the  pure  food  act  of  1895 
that  no  person  should  be  convicted  and 
punished  for  selling  adulterated  food  or 
drink  without  it  be  shown  that  he  knew 
the article  to  be  adulterated.

intended 

The  Supreme  Court  bolds  that  the  act 
cannot  be  so  construed,  saying  that  the 
offense  under  the  act  consists  in  selling 
to  be  eaten  or 
an  article 
drunk,  which  is  adulterated. 
It  is  held 
that  section  8,  of  the  act,  shows  con­
clusively  that  the  Legislature  did  not 
intend  to  make  criminal  intent  or guilty 
knowledge  a  necessary 
ingredient  of 
the  offense. 
“ As  a  rule,”   the  court 
says,  “ there  can  be  no  crime  without  a 
criminal  intent,  but  this  rule  is  not uni­
versal.

Flour  and  Feed.

There  has  been  a  fair  trade  on  flour 
the  past  week,  although  the  market  has 
had  a  downward 
There 
seems  to  be  an  usually  good  demand  for 
first-class  low  grades  and  clear flours 
and  at  prices  comparing  very  favorably 
with  the  better grades.

tendency. 

Wheat 

is  beginning  to  move  a  little 
more  freely  from  country  points,  from 
country  elevators  and  from  farmers  pre­
paring  to  handle  the  new  crop,  which 
promises,  so  far,  to be  of  good  propor­
tions.

Millstuffs  continue  dull,  with  veiy  lit­
tle  doing.  The  demand  is  sufficient  to 
absorb  the  output  from  week  to  week. 
Ground 
feed,  meal,  etc.,  continue 
strong,  with  prices  firmer,  in  sympathy 
with  both  corn  and  oats.

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

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Fruits and  Produce.
Effect  of the  Filled  Cheese  Laws. 

From the New York Produce Review.

We  have had  eight  months  in  which to 
test  the  operations  of  the  tilled  cheese 
law,  and 
its  beneficial  effects  upon  our 
home  trade  have  been  marked.  There 
has  been  a  better  Southern  trade  in pure 
cheese  since  September  last  and  many 
of  the  markets  that  were  previously  mo­
nopolized  by  the  spurious  product  have 
discarded  it  when  the  true  character  of 
the  article  was  known.  People  will  not 
eat  cheese  that  has  been  adulterated 
with  lard 
it,  hence  the 
effort  has  been  to  have  the  imitation 
goods  so branded  that  consumers  could 
not  be  deceived.

if  they  know 

Defects  in  the  law  in  this  respect  are 
noticeable.  Manufacturers  put  the brand 
on  the  outer  cloths,  both  sides  and  top, 
but  these  are  easily  removed  and  then 
there is  scarcely  anything  to  distinguish 
it  from  other  cheese.  This  complaint 
comes  from  the  British  markets  even 
more  strongly  than 
it  does  from  our 
home  jobbers.  England  and  other  Euro­
pean  countries  are  legislating  and work­
ing  effectively 
in  the  interest  of  pure 
food  products.  They  are  not  forcing 
imitation  goods  out  of  market  but  in­
sist  that  their  true  character  shall  be 
known  by  everyone  through whose hands 
the articles  pass

W.  A.  McKnight,  of  Liverpool,  is 
now  in  this  country  endeavoring  to  get 
our  Goveinment  officials  more  inter­
ested  in  this  matter,  and  he  is  seeking 
to  have all  the  filled  cheese  that  are  ex­
ported  from  here  cleared  through  our 
custom  houses  as  “ imitation  cheese  ”  
Mr.  McKnight,  representing  the  Liver­
pool  and  Manchester  chambers  of  com­
in  having  filled 
merce,  has  succeeded 
cheese  separated  from  cheese 
in  the 
American  shipment  and  import  table, 
and  the  bill  of  entry  under  date  of  Liv­
erpool  April  28  shows  two  lots  of  409 
boxes  of  ‘ ' imitation’ ’  cheese.  Mr.  Mc­
Knight  says  that  the  filled  cheese  that 
have  been  going  from  this  country  to 
England  have  generally  “ been  sold  by 
retail  vendors  as  cheese,  they  unblush 
ingly  exposing  it  on  their counters with­
out  any  mark  to  distinguish  it from pure 
cheese. ’ ’

We  are  glad  that  Mr.  McKnight  has 
gone  to  Washington  to  lay  this  matter 
before  the  Agricultural  Department. 
Secretary  Wilson 
is  alert  to  the  dairy 
industry  and  he  will  at  once  see  that 
the  spirit  of  the  law  regarding  the  clear 
branding  of  filled  cheese  is  being  evad­
ed ;  and  he  will  also  recognize  the  fact 
that  filled  cheese  has  no  more  right  to 
go  through  the custom  house  as  cheese 
than  oleomargarine has  to  be  shipped  as 
butter. 
It  took  two  years  of  hard  fight­
ing  to  get  the  Government  to  stop  the 
practice  of  shipping  oleomargarine  un­
der  some  other name,  whereby  it  would 
lose 
identity,  or,  rather,  pass  for 
genuine  butter.  The  time  has  come  to 
stop  the  exporting  of  filled  cheese  as 
anything  else  than  an  “ imitation.”

its 

Loss  O ff  on  Eggs.

From the N.  Y. Produce Review.

The  articles  on  this  head  which  we 
have  recently  submitted  on  our editorial 
pages  have  attracted  considerable  at­
tention  from  both  receivers  in New York 
and  shippers  in  the  interior.  Although 
a  careful  study  of  the  subject  has  led  us 
to  the  firm  conviction  that  the  whole 
trade  would  be  benefited  by  a  change  in 
the  system  of  egg  sales  to  “ case  count” 
at  all  seasons,  we  realize  the  fact  that 
the  “ loss  off”   system 
is  so  firmly  en­
grafted  upon  our  market  that 
it  will 
take  much  time  and  constant  agnation 
to  convince  the  trade  that  the  other 
method  is  not  only  the  best,  but  perfect­
ly  practicable.  As  we  are  believers 
in 
progress,  and 
the  truth  that  right 
methods  will  ultimately  prevail,  we 
must  conclude  that  the  realization  of 
case  count  sales  will  some  time  come  to 
this  market.  For  the  logic  of  the  ques­
tion  seems  surely  to  compel  tljis  as  the 
first  step  toward  the  elimination  of  a 
waste 
in  the  egg  industry  which  is  se­
riously  affecting  the  profits  of  the  busi- j 
ness  as  a  whole.

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Good outlet.
Eggs on commission or bought on track.

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The 

Letters  received  at  our  office  from 
shippers  clearly  show  that  they  are all 
anxious to  see  a  “ case  count”   business 
established  here. 
opinion  ex­
pressed  by  receivers  of  eggs,  so  far as 
it  has  been  made  known  to  us,  is  unan­
imously  that  the  change  would  be great­
ly  to  their advantage,  and  that  it  would 
necessitate  the  result  which  we  have 
claimed  for 
it—a  vast  improvement  in 
the  quality  of  stock  sent  here,  and  a 
saving  in  freight  and  bother caused  now 
by  the  shipment  of  useless  eggs.

But  the  receivers  here  are  of  various 
opinions  as  to  the  practicability  of  the 
change 
Some  say  that  the  change  is 
impossible.  And  the  reasons  for  their 
belief  are  interesting.  For  instance,  it 
is  said  by  some  that  the  irregularity 
in 
sales  which  would  surely  result  would 
make 
impossible  to  satisfy  shippers 
who  demand  “ top  values”   for  their 
goods.  That 
that  under  a  case 
count  basis  the  goods  of  many  shippers 
which  are  salable  on  a  “ loss  off”   basis 
at  top  quotations  would,  on  a  case count 
hásis,have  to  go  at  material  concessions 
from  first  price,  and  that  this  would 
cause  great  dissatisfaction  and  much 
shifting  of  consignments.

Now  this  is  undoubtedly  true.  But  it 
is  this  very  necessity  of  selling  defec­
tive  goods  low  on  a  case  count  basis 
which  would  compel  a  closer  grading 
and  a  general  advance  in  the  quality  of 
stock,  and  we  are  satisfied  that  ship­
pers  are  so  very  urgent  in  their  desires 
for  case  count  sales  that  they  would  be 
glad  to  incur  any  necessary  irregularity 
in  prices  which  would  result  from  a 
change 
in  the  present  system  without 
making  unreasonable  demands,  know­
ing  that  the  only  way  to  obtain  top 
prices  would  be  by  packing goods which 
would  prove  comparatievly  free  from 
loss.

is, 

We  are 

it  would  take  only  a 

inclined  to believe  that  if a 
change  to  case  count  sales  could  be  in 
augurated 
few 
weeks  to  adjust  the  trade  to  the  new 
method  and  that  it  would  be satisfactory 
to  many  who  now  consider  it 
impracti­
is  no  class  of trade  more 
cable.  There 
easily  handled  or  more  profitable—both 
to  sellers  and  buyers—than  the  cheap 
Jewish  trade  which 
is  so  important  in 
our  market  as  affording  an  outlet  for the 
lowest  qualities  of  eggs;  and  this  trade 
is  conducted  on  a  case  count  basis. 
Why  cannot  other dealers  adjust  them­
selves  to  the  same  method? 
It  would 
involve  a  closer  inspection  of  purchases 
by  both  buyer  and  seller  but  it  would 
place a  premium  on  perfection  which 
would  compel  a  marked  change  in  the 
quality  of  our  receipts  of  eggs.
The  Secret  of Jollity.

A  fine,  jolly  butcher  is  Leopoldt,  and 
when  you  tell  him  you  want  the best you 
can  go  away  content,  knowing  that  it 
will  come  and  that  the  price  will  be 
fair  and  honest.

“ How  is  it  you  are  always  so  jollyi*”  

the  reporter asked  him.

“ Oh,  I  don’ t  know,  said  Leopoldt, 
laughing  fit  to  kill. 
“ Good conscience, 
perhaps.  Perhaps  it  is  good digestion. ”
It  came 

Just  then  a  voice broke  in. 

from  an  old  colored  woman.

“ Any  help  for  the  poor to-day?”
“ Why.  yes,  Mrs.  Rushmore. 

I  guess 
we’ve got  a  little  something  for  you  to­
day.  And the jolly butcher cut  off  a  big 
chunk  of  beef  and  placed 
in  the 
trembling  hand. 
old  woman 
The 
thanked  him  and  went  out.

it 

“ She 

Oh,  she’s  all  right,”   said  Leopoldt, 
heartily. 
is  a  hard-working 
is  any  work  to  do. 
woman  when  there 
I’ve  known  her  for  years.  Many  of 
them?  God  bless  you,  sir,you  ought  to 
stand  behind  this  counter  for  a  day. 
You’d  get  an  education.  No,  I  don’t 
give  to  every  beggar  that  comes  along, 
but  if  I  know  that  one is worthy—what's 
a  scrap  of  meat  anyway?”

And  that's  why  Leopoldt  is  so  happv 

and  jolly.

An  Apt  Illustration.

Professor— Please  give an  example  of 

actions  speaking  louder  than  words.

Adlet—When  a  man  calls  for  soda 
water  and  accompanies  his  order  with  a 
wink,  sir.

GOTHAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

New 

22—“ Another 
York,  May 
damper  on  business" 
is  the  general 
comment  of  the trade  upon  the action of 
the  Senate  with  respect  to  the  Cuban 
question.  Then  the  tariff  may  consume 
months  and  goodness  knows  what  the 
end  will  be.  For  the  moment,  at  least, 
trading  has  received  somewhat  of  a  set­
back,  and  the  situation,  while  it  might 
be  worse,  is  not  particularly  encourag­
ing.  Prices  are  unsettled  and  for  the 
general  run  of  groceries  are  not  espe­
cially  firm.

The  coffee  deliveries  during  the  week 
were  very  large  and  No.  7  declined  a 
fraction,  closing  at  7ffic.  The  demand 
lacks  spirit.  Few  buyers  are  here  from 
out  of  town  and  the big  roasters  seem  to 
be  about  the  only  ones  who  care  about 
the  market  proceedings,  one  way  or 
the  other.  The  stock  afloat  amounts  to 
735,722  bags,  against 341,726 bags  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  Mild  sorts  are  dull 
and  have  shown  further decline,  good 
Cucuta  now being quoted at  14c ;  Padang 
Interior,  2$@2^ c .  
It  certainly  seems 
as  though  a  point  had  now been  reached 
it  would  pay  to  make 
in  coffee  when 
fairly  liberal  purchases.  Yet, 
if  this 
remark  is  repeated  to  some dealers,  they 
will 
jeer  and  say,  “ We’ve  all  been 
there  before,  .  many  a  tim e.”   Coffee 
ought  to  show  an  excellent  margin  of 
profit,  if  one  may  judge  by  the  retail 
prices  here,  where  Java  is  retailing  at 
35c.

A  calm  has  come  in  teas.  The  great 
rush  to  get  in  a  big  supply  in  anticipa­
tion  of  tariff  changes  lasted  about a fort­
night  by  the  watch.  The  next  rush may 
be  for  a  supply  of  good  broadswords 
and  battle-axes  wherewith  our  stout yeo­
men  may  fight  Spain;  but,  however  this 
may  be,  the  tea  market  at  this  writing 
is  comparatively  quiet.  Of  course,  if 
the  tariff  is  placed  on  teas,  we  shall  see 
another  boom,  but  as  long  as  it  is  only 
“ in  the  a ir,"  we  shall  move  on  as  in 
the  past.  The  recent  advance  probably 
averaged  about  3c  per  pound  and,  as 
yet,  the  rise  is  well  sustained.

For  raw  sugars  the  demand  from  re­
finers  has  been  light  and,  in  fact,  the 
trading  might  be  called  nil.  Some  ac­
tivity  has  been  displayed  in  refined  and 
quite a  good  many  orders  for  granu­
lated  have  been  booked  from  grocers  in 
the  interior.

Good  Japan  rice  meets  with  most  fa­
vor,  but  trading 
in  all  sorts  is  rather 
light,  buyers  seeming  to  be  content 
with  enough  for  daily  wants.

Pepper  is  firm.  With  this  exception, 
the  spice  market  remains  practically 
without  animation.  Scarcely  anything 
has  been  done  in  an  invoice  way  and, 
until  later  in  the  year,  little  business  is 
expected.

Molasses  and  syrups  are dull,  although 
there  has  been  some  demand  for the 
lower grades  of  both.  Quantities  taken, 
however,  are  light  and  no  great  amount 
of  trading  can  be  expected  for  the  next 
three  months.

REFERENCES.

C O R N   E X C H A N G E

N A T IO N A L   B A N K .

PHILADELPHIA,  PA.

F O U R T H   N A T IO N A L   B A N K ,

GRAND  RA PID S,  MICH.

W.  D.  HAYS,  C A S H IE R ,
H A S T I N G S   N A T IO N A L   BANK,

H A ST IN G S,  MICH.

D.  C .  O A K E S .   BANKER,

C O O P E R S V IL L E .  MICH.

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7

Canned  goods  have  met  about  as  dull 
a  period  as  has been  recorded  this  year. 
The  supply  of  fresh  fruits  is  ample  now 
and  the  stuff  in  cans  has  been  laid  up 
on  the  shelves.  General  business,  of 
course,  also  exerts  its  influence,  and  the 
trade  of  canned  goods  languishes  with 
all others.  Some  sales  of  future  peas, 
Baltimore  pack,  have  been  made  at 
ruinously  low  rates,  in  order,  it  is  said, 
to  meet  the  competition  of  New  York 
packers.  These  sales  embrace 
large 
blocks  of  goods  and  it  is  certainly  hard 
to  see  where  the  packer  is  to  make  the 
fraction  of  ic  per  dozen  on  the  bargain.
few  transactions 
worthy  of  note  have  taken  place.  Some 
demand  has  been  shown  for prunes,  but, 
taking  the  market  as  a  whole,  there  is 
little  to  chronicle.  Prices  have  been 
without  change  and  it  is  a  matter  worth 
noting  that  no  decline  has  occurred.  In 
domestic  fruits  there 
is  no  change. 
Evaporated  apples  have  been  selling 
with  a 
first-class 
stock.  Small  fruits  are  dull  and  neg­
lected.

little  activity 

In  dried 

fruits, 

The  demand  for butter  has been  suffi­
cient  to  prevent  any  undue  accumula­
tion  and,  while  prices  remain  about  un­
changed,  there 
is  a  better  feeling  all 
around  and  dealers  are  hopeful  that  the 
market  will  show  no  further  weakness. 
For  the  best  grades  of  Western  cream­
ery,  14c 
is  paid,  and  this  seems  to  be 
about  the  top  of  the  market.

Cheese  is  quiet.  There  is  little  doing 
in  an  export  way  and  dealers  in  do 
mestic  seem  to  have  all  they  can  take 
care  of  at  present.  Small,  full  cream 
is  held  at  io%c.  Large,  gi4c.

The  egg  market  is  well  cleaned  up. 
Low  quotations  prevail,  however,  and  it 
takes  a  choice  article  to  bring  over 
12J^c,  with  Western  ic  lower.

Beans  are  quiet.  The  supply  is  am­
ple  to  meet  all  requirements  and  quota­
tions  are  sustained  with  difficulty.

for 

Italians  Refusing  American  Apples.
The  report  that  the  Italian  govern­
ment  has  forbidden  any  importations  of 
American  apples  is  of  little  moment,  so 
far  as  business 
is  concerned,  as  ship­
ments  of  this  commodity  to  that  coun­
try  are  no  factor  in  commercial  circles. 
The  action,  however,  is  significant,  and 
in  spite  of  the  denial  of  the  fruit  im­
porters,  it  is  unquestionably  a  fact  that 
the  Italian  government 
is  beginning 
thus  early 
in  the  campaign  of  retalia­
tion  because  of  the proposed prohibitive 
duty  of  %  of  a  cent  per  pound  on Sicily 
oranges  and  lemons.

Superiority  of  California  Lemons
The  California 

lemon  is  being  used 
in  the  West  in  preference  to  the  foreign 
lemon.  California  will  have  1,000  car­
loads to  ship  this  season.  The  Califor­
nians  assert  that  their  lemons  are better 
than  the  Sicily  fruit,  because  the  for­
eigner  has  grown  too  adept  in  the  art 
of  mixing  the  first  and  second  grades  of 
his  lemons,  so  that 
is  hard  to  tell 
whether a  box of Sicily lemons is as good 
underneath  as  it  appears  to  be  on  top.

it 

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Will buy same at  point  of  shipment, 
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investigate  our 
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contemplating  building  a  Cieamery  or 
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improvement,  with 

GENERAL  TRADE  S ITU A TIO N .
The  most  notable  characteristic  of  the 
financial  situation  for  some  time  past 
has  been  thè  plethora  of  idle  money  at 
all  the  great  centers,  with  undue  accu­
mulations  at  all 
the  principal  banks 
throughout  the  country,  making  interest 
rates  abnormally  low,  and  funds  gener­
ally  unproductive.  The  later  develop­
ments,  however,  show decided  symptoms 
of 
larger  demand 
for  commercial  loans  from  Eastern  mer­
chants  and  manufacturers,  and  from  the 
region  about  Chicago.  While  mercantile 
reports  from  different  cities  vary  much, 
nearly  all  the  markets  west  of  Pittsburg 
report  a  strong  retail  trade  and  a  rapid 
distribution  of  goods,  which  warrants 
expectation  of  larger  demand  for  manu­
factured  products  in  future.  There 
is 
great  anxiety  to  have  the  Senate  act 
soon,  that  preparations  may  be  made 
for  the  business  of  the  fall,  but  the  vol­
ume  of  transactions is  gradually increas­
ing,  and  whereas  April  showed  a  de­
crease  of  not  quite  io  per  cent.,  com­
pared  with  1892,  the  best  year  thus  far, 
May  shows  for  three  weeks  a  decrease 
of  only  7.7  per  cent.  The  tendency  of 
prices  still  continues  downwaid,  not­
withstanding  the 
idea  that  abundance 
of  money  means  higher  prices.  This  is 
doubtless  accounted  for  by  the  undue 
accumulation  of  unsold  stocks  to  which 
the  stimulation  of  imports  by  tariff  con­
sideration  is  adding  immense quantities 
to  anticipate  future  requirements.  At 
the  present  ratio of  increasing  demand, 
these  conditions  will  not  continue  detri 
for  a  very  great 
mentally  operative 
length  of  time.  The  outflow  of  gold 
is 
much 
less  than  had  been  anticipated, 
being  only  $1,209,000  for  the  week,  with 
the  certainty  that  the  demand  on  crop 
accounts  will  prevent  much  more  from 
going.

The  iron  situation  still  continues  un­
satisfactory  as  to  prices,  but  the  break­
up  of  the  beam  combination  has  stimu­
lated  the  placing  of  structural  contracts. 
The  decline  consequent  on  the  breakup 
was  from  $1.55  to  $1.25.  Prices  of  foun­
dry  iron  have  been  still  further  reduced 
25  cents  at  the  East  and  grey  forge 
is 
down  to  $8.25,  the  lowest  point  ever 
known.

The  feature  of  the  woolen  situation  is 
the  supply  for  a  year's  demands  held 
by  the  mills,  to  which 
importers  are 
striving  to  make  as  great  additions  as 
possible,  on  account  of  the  tariff,  and  a 
new  crop  just  ready  to  be  shorn.  The

demand  must  increase  tremendously  to 
make any  great  improvement  in  prices 
in  the  near  future.  The  price  of  cotton 
bad  been  held  up  to  the  small  advance 
of  a  month  ago,  but  later  developments 
indicate  that  the  flood  situation  is  not 
to  be  much  of  a  factor  in  the  final  reck­
oning  and  the  price  has  declined. 
Leather  and  shoes  have  also  shared  the 
general  tendency  toward  depression 
in 
prices.

Bank  clearings  for  the  week  again 
fell  below  the billion  point  to  $975,000,- 
000,  a  decrease  of  nearly  6  per  cent, 
from  the  preceding.  Failures  were  245 
or 6  less  than  shown  by  last  report.
NEW  FACTOR  IN  THE  PROBLEM.
While  woman  may  not  be  making 
much  headway  in  her  fight  for  political 
preferment,  she 
is  certainly  dividing 
with  the  stronger  sex  the  rewards  of  la­
bor  in  the  business  and  industrial  field. 
A  startling  report  has  just  been 
issued 
from  the  Department  of  Labor at  Wash­
ington  summing  up  the  ascertainable 
figures  relating  to  the  employment  of 
women  and  the  displacement  of  men  by 
women  in  various  money  earning  occu­
pations.

On  this  report  the  Syracuse  Post  has 
made  some  interesting  calculations  and 
finds  that  to  make  the  report 
it  was 
necessary  to  examine  some  1,100  estab­
lishments.  These  establishments  were 
located 
in  thirty  different  states  and  a 
total  of  nearly  95,000  were  found  em­
ployed  and  were  subjected  to  enquiries 
by  the  commission.  The  examination 
was  taken  in  a  certain  week  during  the 
years  1895  or  1896 and  the  results  were 
compared  with  the  state  of  things  in 
one  week  at  least  ten  years  previous.  In 
most  of  the  tables  presented  the  com­
parison  also 
includes  both  males and 
females of  18  years  and  over or  of  under 
18  years.  The  number  of  persons  em­
ployed  in  931  establishments,  of  which 
full  reports  are  secured,  shows a decided 
increase,  of  course,  during  the ten  years 
both 
in  male  and  female  workers,  but 
the  rate  of  increase of  female  workers, 
especially  the  young, 
is  remarkable. 
The  males  over  18  have  increased  63.1 
per  cent,  and  the  males  under  18  80.6 
percent.,  while  the  corresponding  fig­
ures  for  the  femaie  workers  are 66.3 
and  89.1  per  cent. 
In  Michigan  the  fe­
males  under  18 who  have  taken  to  work­
living  have  increased  334.9 
ing  for  a 
per  cent,  and  in  Maryland  the 
increase 
has  been  588.4  per cent. 
In  New  York 
State the  number of  working  boys  under 
18  has 
increased  68  per  cent,  and  of 
working  girls 91  per  cent.

Hard  times 

in  America  have  been 
instrumental  in  forcing  women  out  and 
accomplishing  this  remarkable  change. 
A  few  years  ago  the  chivalric  senti­
ment  of  this  country  was  shocked  at  the 
stones  of  woman's  labors  in  Europe. 
Here  she  was  protected  and  shielded  in 
every 
imaginable  way,  but  now  the 
growth  of  population  and  the close times 
are  driving  females  as  well  as  males 
into  the 
labor  market  and  with  the  re­
sults  above  noted.

Is 

it  not 

The  first  effect  is  almost  to  double  the 
applicants  for  work.  Then,  again,  the 
females  are  working  for  less  wages  than 
the  males. 
likely  that  this 
condition  of  affairs  is  adding  largely  to 
the  present  stagnation  in  the  labor  mar­
ket?  Will  we  not  hereafter  be compelled 
to  provide  for  the  employment  of  new 
thousands?  There 
is  food  here  for  se­
rious  thought,  and  before  we  know  it 
we  may  reach  that  condition  of  redun­
dant  labor  now  experienced  in  Europe. 
Truly  this  is  a  time  when  great  states­
manship  is  demanded  in  America.

TH E   DIAM OND  JUBILEE.

Despite the  ill-natured  opposition  of 
certain  people  the  United  States  is  to 
be  fittingly  represented  at  the  forth com 
ing  celebration  of  Queen  Victoria’s dia­
mond  jubilee—the  sixtieth  anniversary 
of  her  accession  to  the  throne  of  Great 
Britain  and  Ireland. 
In  addition  to our 
Ambassador  at  the  court  of  St.  James 
the  country  will  be  represented  by  Gen­
eral  Miles,  the  commander  general  of 
the army,  and  by  Rear  Admiral  Miller, 
of  the  navy.  General  Miles 
is  now  in 
Thessaly,  studying  the  scenes  of  the  re­
cent  fighting  between  the  Greeks and 
Turks  and  observing  the  organization 
and  equipment  of  the  Turkish  army, 
but he  has  been  ordered  to  proceed  to 
London.  Rear  Admiral  Miller  is  at 
present  on  his  way  across  the  Atlantic 
in  the  splendid  new  armored  cruiser 
Brooklyn,  the  most  perfect  ship  of  the 
new  navy.

It  is  eminently  proper  that  this  coun­
try  should  be  represented  fittingly at  the 
coming  celebration  in  London,  because 
the  celebration 
is  of  the greatest  mo­
ment  to a  country  with  which  we  have 
the  closest  ties,  not  only  in  the  sense 
that  there  exists  a  common  language 
and  similar  institutions  and  traditions, 
but  also 
in  that  we  enjoy  a  large  trade 
and  more  intimate  commercial  inter­
course  with  that  country  than  with  any 
other.

For  any  English-speaking  country  to 
fail  to sympathize  with  the  celebration 
of  the  sixtieth  anniversary  of  the  reign 
of  Queen  Victoria  would  indicate  a  de­
gree  of  indifference  to  the  development 
of  all  the arts  of  civilization  during that 
period,  which  would  be  discreditable. 
During  Queen  Victoria’s 
the 
world  has  advanced  more  than  during 
any  previous  period  of  similar  length, 
and  it  is  undeniable  that  of  all  the 
im­
portant  countries  Great  Britain  and  the 
United  States  have  experienced 
the 
greatest  development.

reign 

Aside  from  the  fact  that  she  is  the 
head  of  the  government  of  a  friendly 
country,  Queen  Victoria,  by  her  many 
womanly  virtues  and  high  personal 
character,  has  won  a  universal  regard 
which  makes  the  recognition  of  her  an­
niversary by  all  foreign  countries a pop­
ular  measure.  Vast  numbers  of  Amer­
icans  will  be  present  in  London  to  wit­
ness  the  jubilee  celebrations,  and  these 
fellow-countrymen  would  certainly  be 
greatly  mortified  were they  to  see  their 
country  not  properly  represented  offi­
cially.

THE  NATIONAL  GUARD.

The  force  known  as  the  National 
Guard  is  in  no  sense  a  national  organi­
zation,  as  there  exists  no 
law  under 
which  the  President  of  the United States 
could  call  this  force  into active  service 
in  time of  war.  The  Guard 
is  a  state 
organization,  pure and  simple,  consist­
ing  of  the  troops  maintained  by  each 
state  to  do 
service,  when  required, 
merely  within  state  limits.  Military 
men,  however,  have  long  discovered 
vast  possibilities  in  the  National  Guard 
as  an  auxiliary  to  the  standing  army, 
and  it  has  become  customary,  even  for 
military  officers,  to  consider 
it  as  the 
first  reserve and  a  part  of  the  country's 
organized  fighting  strength.

The  total  strength  of  the  National 
Guard  is  about  115,000  men,  not  includ­
ing  the  naval  militia,  which  now  num­
bers about  4,000.  This  force  is  organ­
ized 
into  companies,  battalions,  regi­
ments,  brigades  and  divisions,  is  uni­
formed  and 
in  a  measure  armed  and 
equipped.  While  many  of  the  states

maintain  numerous  and  well  equipped 
Guard  organizations,  there 
is  no  con­
necting  link  between  the  forces  of  the 
different  states,  hence  there  is  no basis 
upon  which  the  National  Guard,  as  a 
whole,  could  act  together.

is  the  problem  which 

How  to  organize  the  National  Guard 
as  a  practical  fighting  force  for  the 
country  as  a  whole  without-impairing 
its  efficiency  as  a  purely  state  military 
force 
interests 
many  military  men. 
Some  plan  of 
national  organization  appears  to  be  de­
sired  and  some  steps  have  actually 
been  taken  in  the  way  of  bringing about 
the  realization  of  a  plan.  The  War  De­
partment  has  endeavored,  as  far as  pos­
sible,  to  secure  the  adoption  of  a  com­
mon  army  by  the  militia  of  the  various 
states,  and  there  is  a  well  defined  move­
ment  in  the  direction  of  uniforming  the 
state  forces,  as  far  as  service  dress  is 
concerned, upon  a  common  pattern.  The 
organization  and  discipline 
in  all  the 
states  are  based,  as  nearly  as  possible, 
upon  the  regular  army  regulations,  and 
in  all  such  details  the  ground  work  for 
national  co-operation  is  being  carefully 
laid.

The  managers  of  the  Omaha  Exposi­
is  to  take  place  in  1898, 
tion,  which 
aie  endeavoring  to  have  a  national  mil­
itary  encampment,  and  some  military 
men  have  suggested  that  this  would  be 
a  good  occasion 
to 
mobilize  the  entire  National  Guard. 
They  think  that  by  bringing  a  large 
contingent  of  the  troops  from  all  the 
states  into  one  encampment  the  prac­
ticability  of  utilizing  the  Guard 
for 
national  purposes  could  be  tested.

attempting 

for 

The  plan 

is  probably  worth  trying, 
but  it  would,  of  course,  necessitate  con­
siderable  national  and  state  legislation, 
as  the  expense  of  such  an  undertaking 
would  be great.  There  would  also  be 
practical  difficulties, 
the  way  of 
transportation  and  commissariat,  to  be 
overcome.  Such  a  vast  camp,  to  be  of 
any  practical  value,  would  have  to  be 
under  the  direction  of army  officers  of 
high  rank,  and  rigid  discipline  would 
have  to be  maintained.

in 

The  Tradesman  heartily  commends 
the  appointment  of  Col.  Bennett  as 
Deputy  Dairy  and  Food  Commissioner. 
During  the  time  Mr.  Storrs  served  the 
State  in  the  capacity  of  Food  Commis­
si cner,  Col.  Bennett  was  the  only  man 
connected  with 
the  department  who 
possessed  a  clear  understanding  of  the 
duties  devolving  upon  an  official  ap­
pointed  to  enforce  the  food  laws,  and 
but  for his  energetic  efforts  the  admin­
istration  of  Mr.  Storrs  would  have  been 
more  farcical,  if  possible,  than  proved 
to be  the case.  Col.  Bennett  construed 
the  laws broadly  and  equitably,  and  his 
promotion  from  Inspector  to  Deputy 
Commissioner  will  meet  with  general 
approval.

Not  many  college presidents  in  Amer­
ica  have  the  courage  of  Judge  A.  S. 
Diaper,  who,  upon  the  financial  em­
barrassment  caused  by  the  act  of  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Illinois  State  Univer­
sity,  promptly  came  to  the  relief  of  the 
institution  with  a  personal  loan  of  $50,- 
000.  That  heroic  position  on  his  part 
is  said  to  have  been  the  turning  point 
in  public  confidence.

A  critical  exchange  remarks  that  if 
in  skirmishes 
the  reports  of  the  losses 
and  battles 
in  Cuba  are correct  there 
must  be a  tremendous  lot  of  people  on 
the  island  or else  the  combatants  must 
all  be  like  the proverbial  cat and blessed 
with  nine  lives.

LACK  OF  RESERVE  STOCK.
It  is  certainly  extraordinary  that  with 
so  many of our legislators  in  Washing­
ton  continually  seeking to  create  trouble 
with  foreign  countries,  so  few  of  them 
actually  consider  that any  sort  of  prep­
aration 
is  necessary  to  enter  upon  the 
wars  they  are constantly inviting.  These 
people  either  labor  under  the  delusion 
that  the  country  is  prepared  for  war,  or 
they  live  in  a  fool’s  paradise,  with  the 
belief  that  all  foreign  powers  can  be 
frightened  with  mere  talk.

it 

It 

There  is  probably  no  country  having 
a  million  inhabitants  which  is  so  poorly 
provided  with  arms  and  war  material  as 
the  United  States. 
is  true  that  we' 
have  a  fairly  good  navy,  and  are  mak­
ing  provision  for  a  number  of  heavy 
guns;  but 
is  also  true  that  we  have 
not  a  sufficient  supply  of  modern  mag­
azine  rifles  to  equip  a  small  army corps, 
much  less  supply  the  force  that  it  would 
be  necessary  to  place  in  the  field  should 
trouble  arise  with  any  of  our  neighbors.
The  small  standing  army  of  25,000 
men  has  been  supplied  with 
improved 
magazine  rifles;  but the National Guard, 
consisting  ot  about  112,000  men, 
is 
armed  with  all  sorts  of  obsolete  wea­
pons,  including  old-fashioned. Spring- 
field,  Sharp  and  Remington  rifles.  Of 
course,  there  is  no  reserve  stock  of mod­
ern  rifles  whatever.  The  stock  of  other 
equipments  for  military  purposes 
is 
equally  as  scant  as  that  of  rifles;  hence 
it  would  be  impossible  for  the  United 
States  to  put  a  properly  equipped  army 
in  the  field  at  short  notice.

These  being  the  facts  in  the  case.it  is 
remarkable  that  no  provision  is  made 
by  Congress  to  provide  a  proper and 
reasonable  supply  of  serviceable  arms. 
Now  that  the  army 
is  equipped,  the 
National  Guard  should  be  at  once  sup­
plied  with  a  weapon  suitable  for  all 
modern  requirements  and  a  reserve  sup­
ply  sufficient  to  equip  a quarter of a mil­
lion  men  should  be  accumulated  in  the 
arsenals.  These  measures  ought  to  be 
promptly  taken,  not  as  a  threat  to  any­
body,  but  as  a  wise  precaution  which 
every  other  country  has 
since 
adopted.  Even  Turkey  has  had  a couple 
of  hundred 
thousand  magazine  rifles 
stored  away  for  just  such  an  emergency 
as  has  recently happened.

long 

BEET  SUGAR  IN  EUROPE.

The  new  export  bounty  law  of  Ger­
many,  intsead  of  greatly  benefiting  the 
German  sugar  industry,  has 
injured  it, 
according  to  the  latest  reports,  while  in 
other  parts  of  Europe  the  sugar industry 
has  received  a  serious  setback  because 
of  the  successful  competition  which  the 
German  law  has  made  possible  for  Ger­
man  sugar  over  the  product  of  the  other 
beet-producing  countries.

The  trouble  experienced  in  Germany 
is  due  to  the  increased production which 
the  new  law  has  stimulated.  Owing  to 
this  larger supply,  prices  have  contin­
ued  to  decline,  with  the  result  that, 
even  with  the  increased  bounties,  pro­
ducers  of  beet  sugar  find  no  profit  in 
their  industry.

Were  cane  sugar  worked  as  economi­
cally  and  as  scientifically  as  beet  sugar 
is  worked  in  Germany,  the  latter  indus­
try  would  not  be able  to  compete  at  all 
with  the  former,  even  with  the  present 
bounties.  Owing  to  the  wasteful  meth­
ods  of  cultivation and manufacture prev­
alent  in  most  cane-producing  countries, 
the  producers of  cane  sugar  are  barely 
able  to  compete  with  the  low-priced 
beet  sugar  which 
is  enabled  to  flood 
the great  markets  of the  world  through 
the  export  bounty  system

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it 

Since 

is  evident  that  the  export 
bounties  are  not  a  success,  even  in  de­
veloping  the  German  sugar  industry,  it 
is  possible  that  the  experiment  of  abol­
ishing  the  bounties  altogether  will  soon 
be tried.  Such  a  course  would  restore 
the  sugar  trade  to  normal  conditions, 
and 
it  would  be  a  wise  course  for  the 
United  States  and  Great  Britain,  the 
great  consumers,  to  hasten  the  event  by 
imposing  countervailing  duties.

In  no 

Statistics  do  not  bear  out  the  asser­
tion  that  machinery  is  deterimental  to 
labor. 
industry,  perhaps,  has 
machinery  been  s6  largely  introduced 
as 
in  the  making  of  shoes.  Yet,  ac­
cording  to  the  figures  of  the  census, 
885,000  people  were  employed  in  this 
industry  in  New  England 
1890, 
against  313,000  in  i860,  while  the  aver­
age  wages  per  capita  have  risen  from 
$246 a  year  to $469.  The  old-fashioned 
shoemaker  who  wants  to  stick  to  his last 
may  do  so ;  but  he 
is  awl  wrong  if  he 
says  machinery  hurts  his  business.  The 
old  man  who  makes  candles  ought  not 
to  kick  against  electricity  that 
is  giv­
ing  employment  to  hundreds  of  thou­
sands  of  men.

in 

it 

At  the  present  price  of  about  32  cents 
a  pound  aluminum  is  cheaper  than  the 
same  bulk  of  copper  or brass.  Yet  100 
pounds  of  brass  or  250  of  copper  are 
sold  to  one  of  aluminum.  Manufactur­
ers  of  the  new  metal  disposed  ot  650 
tons  of 
last  year,  but  they  are  com­
pelled  to  discover  its  novel  uses.  Alum­
inum  has  nearly  dislpaced  nickel  in  the 
arts  and 
in  growing  demand  for 
cooking  utensils,  bicycle  parts,  plates 
for  false  teeth,  handles  for  surgical 
in­
struments,  a  substitute  for  lithographic 
stones,  non-magnetic  electric  apparatus 
and  military  accoutrements. 
Its  light­
ness  renders 
it  peculiarly  suitable  for 
canteens,  buttons  and  belt  plates.

is 

it 

If  it  be  true  that  Theodore  A.  Have- 
meyer’s  fortune  amounts  to  but  $4,000,- 
000,  as  was  announced  recently,  one 
more  instance 
is  added  to  the  list  of 
popular  exaggeration  of  the  wealth  of 
rich  men. 
It  is  probably  not  extrava­
gant  to  say  that  nine-tenths  of  the  mil­
lionaires  who  die  are  reputed  to  be 
worth  from  twice  to  ten  times  what 
it  is a  very 
they  actually  possess,  and 
rare,  indeed,  that  a  wealhty  man 
is 
thought  to  be  poorer  than  he  is.

A  new  article 

in  the  creed  of ad­
vanced  English  vegetarianism  binds the 
members  not  to  use  or  wear  articles 
composed  of  any  substance  involving 
the  death  of  an  animal,  and  they  will, 
like  the  famous  hen,  “ have  to go  bare­
foot”   or  wear  cloth  footgear.  They  will 
also  have  more  or  less  trouble  in  pro­
curing  soap,  gloves and  many  other  ar­
ticles  which  are  now  considered 
indis­
pensable.

It 

A  Polish  chemist  is  said  to  have 

in­
vented  an  anaesthetic  which  volatizes 
rapidly  upon  exposure  to  the  air,  ren­
dering  the  persons  near  unconscious  for 
a  long  time. 
is  calculated  that  in 
warfare  a  bomb  exploded  in  the  midst 
of  the  enemy  would  have  the  effect  of 
putting  the  entire  body  to  sleep.  A  pel­
let  of  the  substance  broken  under  a 
man’s  nose  put  him  to  sleep  for  four 
hours.

Twelve  locomotives  have  just  been 
completed  for  the  Chinese  government 
at  the  Baldwin  Locomotive  Works  at 
Philadelphia.  The  work  was  secured  in 
competition  with 
locomotive 
manufacturing  concerns 
located  in  va­
rious  parts of  the  world

twenty 

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The  Wealthy 
Retired  Grocer

Is  not 
he  who  stuck  to  the  little 
things-
sugar,  kerosene  and  pota-
toes;  who  bought off-stock  because  it 
was  cheap,  or  who  was  content  to 
keep  only  the  bare  necessities  of  his 
Such  grocers  neither 
customers. 
grow  wealthy  nor 
The 
Wealthy  Retired  Grocer  is  the  man 
who educated his trade;  who kept A  i 
goods;  who  tied  to  the  right  sort  of 
specialties;  who  made  his  store  an 
exposition  of  modernness  and  up-to- 
datenes  in  high-class  food  products. 
On  such  a  grocer’s  shelves  is  inva­
riably  found

retire. 

We  solicit  correspondence  with those 
dealers  who  would  like  to  secure  the 
agency  of  the  Best  Flour  and  Best 
Selling  Flour  in  the  market.

Clark=Jewell=Wells  Co

Western  Michigan  Agents,

Grand Rapids.

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M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

industrious 

The  Gentle  Art  of  Making  Enemies.
So  many 

thinkers  who 
have  words  to  spare  and  ink  to  spill 
have  given  us  such  volumes  ot  informa­
tion  upon  the  subject  of  making  friends 
in  business  that  we  should  be pretty well 
posted  in  that  direction,  but  so  far as  I 
am  aware  there  has  been  no  serious  at­
tempt  to  deal  with  “ the  gentle  art  of 
making  enemies.”  
in 
darkness,  we  are  obliged  to go  on  mak­
ing  enemies  without  knowing  exactly 
where  we  are  at—often  making  scores 
without  knowing 
it  and  often,  in  our 
ignorance,  missing 
chances 
for  making  scores  of  others.

Left  groping 

splendid 

*  *  *

This  is  all  wrong.  Our friends  whose 
mission  in  life  is  to  keep  us 
informed 
as  to  what  we  should  do  ought  to  get 
together  and  collect,  collate,  classify 
and  codify  rules  and  regulations  which 
will  enable  us  to  make  business enemies 
in  a  thorough,  regular  and  business-like 
manner. 
In  the  hope  that they  may  be 
stimulated  to  set about  it at  once  I  will 
make  a  few  general  suggestions  that 
seem  to  me  to  be  of  value.  By  the 
words  of  “ business  enemies”   I  do  not 
mean  good,  hearty,  personal  haters. 
They  are  of  little  consequence. 
I  mean 
those  men  and  women  who,  if  properly 
handled,  will  contract  such  a  dislike  for 
a  store  or  its  methods  that  they  will stay 
it  forever  and  do all  they 
away  from 
can  to  keep  other  people  away  from 
it. 

*  *  *

Here  are  a  few  of  the many sure meth­
implanting  and  fostering  this 
ods  of 
feeling 
in  the  breasts  of 
those  who 
might  otherwise  annoy  us  by  dropping 
in  frequently  and  expecting  us  to  serve 
their  trivial  wants. 
If  it  is  not  utterly 
impossible  accomodations 
should  be 
afforded  all  the  loafers  in  your  vicinity. 
Comfortable  chairs  and  benches  in  front 
of  the  store and  inside  should  always  be 
in  readiness.  Smoking  and  chewing 
should  be  encouraged.  A  woman  who 
once  runs  a  gauntlet  of  leering 
loafers 
in  your  store  will  never  forget  it.

*  *  *

If  your  store  has  show  windows  you 
will  be  somewhat  hampered  by  inquisi­
tive  people  who  will  insist  upon  stop­
ping  and  staring  in  them,  but  you  must 
not  be  discouraged.  You  can  easily 
keep  your  windows  dirty  and  unattrac­
if  you  change  them  but  once 
tive  and 
in  three  months  and  make 
it  a  rule 
never  to  have anything  attractive or sea­
sonable 
in  them  the  rude  gapers  will 
soon  get  sick  of  it.  You  will  find  it a 
great  scheme  to  put  the  last  article  of  a 
certain  kind  you  have  in  the  window— 
something  that  won’t  fit  anybody  in 
town—with  ridiculously  low price  on  the 
tag. 
It’s  awfully  funny  to  watch  the 
faces  of  people  who  come  in  to buy  one 
like  it when  they  find  that  that’s the  last 
one  you  have  and  that  it’s  about  seven 
sizes  too  large  for them.
*  *  *

The 

interior  of  your  store  should  al­
ways  be  dark  and  gloomy,  ill-arranged 
and  untidy.  A 
little  careful  thought 
will  enable  you  to  so  arrange  your  stock 
that  people  will  have  to travel  all  over 
your  store  if  they  want  more  than  one 
article.  Always  keep  the  things  for 
which  there  is  the  most  demand farthest 
from  the  door.  Keep  dress goods  in  one 
part  of  the  store,  linings  in  another and 
buttons 
If  possible, 
plan  things  so  that  awkward,  unsightly 
ill-smelling  articles  will  be  where 
or 
everybody  is  obliged  to  come 
in  con­
tact  with  them.  Avoid  soap  and  water, 
paint,  paper and  whitewash,  and  never 
allow  any  of  your  employes  to  dust  any­
thing.

in  still  another. 

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GOODS

If  your  store  is  large  enough  and  you 
it,  engage  a  large 
can  possibly  afford 
and  lordly  man  of  forbidding  aspect  to 
stand  just  inside  the  door.  Make  him 
understand  *that  he  must  frown  all  the 
time—fine  him  if  he  smiles.  He  must 
on  no account  unbend  an  inch  nor  dis­
play  any.  interest 
in  life  other than  to 
glare  at  people  who  come  in  and  stare 
suspiciously  at  everybody  who  goes  out 
with  a  bundle,  as  if  he  suspected  him 
of  stealing  it.  If  anyone asks  him where 
to  find  anything  he  may  reply,  but  he 
must  do  so 
in  a  wearily  supercilious 
manner  and  on  no  account  turn  around 
to  point  the  way.

*  *  *

All  your  employes  and  salespeople 
should  pattern  after  this  man  in  front. 
Fines  should  be  imposed  for  politeness 
and  intelligent  attention.  All  the  clerks 
at  one  counter  should  be  instructed  to 
collect 
in  a  group  at  the  end  of  the 
counter  farthest  from  the  front  of  the 
store  and  converse. 
If a  customer  stops 
at  the  counter  no  attention  should  be 
paid  to  him.  When  he  gets tired  and 
walks  down  to  the  clerks,  they  should 
keep  on  talking  for at  least  three  min­
utes.  When  they  finally  recognize  his 
presence,  they  should  wrangle  awhile  as 
to  who  is  to  wait  upon  him  and  end  up 
by  calling  somebody  from  another  part 
of  the  store.  No  customer  should  be 
shown  what  he  asks  for  until  everything 
he  doesn’t  want  has  been  shown  him 
and  he  positively  refuses  to  buy  a  thing 
he  doesn’t  want.  A  customers’  taste 
and  judgment  should  always  be  flouted 
and  everything  possible  be done to make 
him  feel  that  he  has  no  business  on 
earth.

*  *  *

When  a  lady  calls  to  exchange  some­
thing  the  clerk  should  promptly  assure 
her that  you  never  had  anything in stock 
even  remotely  resembling 
it.  While 
she 
is  doing  this  another  clerk  should 
post the  floorwalker,  who  in  turn  should 
give  the  adjuster  the  tip.  Then  when 
the  matter  is  referred  along  up  the  line, 
the  lady  will  find  everything  all  greased 
for  her  and  can  be  called  a  liar  in  a 
thorough, 
comprehensive  manner. 
There 
is  nothing  like  system  in  such 
matters.  Goods  should  never  be  deliv­
ered  when  promised  and  when  not  too 
much  trouble  the  right  package  should 
left  at  the  wrong  house. 
always  be 
Never  send  anything  for a  customer 
if 
it  and  do  up  packages 
you  can  avoid 
which 
ladies  are  to  carry  with  them  in 
cheap,  rotten  paper  with  your advertise­
ment  on  it  in  big,  black  type.

*  *  *

So  far  as  you  are  personally  con­
cerned,  you  should  be  harder  to  ap­
proach  than  the  Czar.  Keep  locked  up 
aloof  from  everybody,  treat  your  clerks 
as 
if  they  were  cattle  and  never  come 
in  contact  with  your customers  if  you 
can  avoid  it.  When  some  venturesome 
and  persistent  soul  beards  your  den, 
freeze  him  out  by  your  superciliousness 
or  openly  insult  him.  When  you  pass 
through  your  store  look  over  the  heads 
of  everybody  and  notice  no  one.  If  any­
body  speaks  to  you,  growl  unintelligibly 
and  hurry  on.  Always  proceed  on  the 
theory  that  you  are  the only  shingle  on 
the  roof  and  that  there  will  never be any 
others.

♦ 

*  *

These  few  suggestions  are  somewhat 
hurried  and  disjointed,  but  they  will 
serve my  purpose  in  calling  attention  to 
a  fruitful  and  important branch  of  the 
theory  and  practice  of  merchandising, 
and,  I  trust,  be  food  for  thought  and 
investigation.  As a  starter  you  might 
investigate  your  store  a  bit  and  see 
whether or not  you  are  doing  all you can 
to  make  it  unpopular.— Theodore  Ham­
ilton  in  Brains.

They consist of six  thick  circular  sheets  of  green  poisoned  pa­
per three and one-half  inches  in  diameter,  with  red  label.  The 
sheets are used  in  small  saucers,  and  having  no  corners,  are  so 
cleanly, compared with large square sheets  of  CATHARTIC  Fly 
Paper, that carry the poisoned liquor to outer  side  of  dish.  Will 
kill  more  FLIES or ANTS than any poison  made.  A neat counter 
display box, holding three dozen, costs  you  90  cents,  retailing  for 
$1.80.  Each  box  contains  a  coupon,  three  of  which  secure  the 
Ink  Bottle free by mail;  will  never be troubled with thickened ink 
while  using it;  you would  not part with  it for  cost  of  Fly  Buttons. 
Should your jobber fail  to supply your order,  upon  receipt  of  cash 
we  prepay express.

Sold by the leading jobbers of the 
United States.  Order from jobbers.

The  Fly  Button  Co.,

Grocers  as  Advertisement  Writers. 
Stroller In Grocery World.

out.  He  consented,"evidently  flattered. 
Here  it  is :

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

it

Not ^ long  ago  I  saw  in  the  “ Grocery 
World”   a  statement  by  the  editor  that 
the  average grocer  couldn’t  write  good 
advertisements,  and  as  a  rule  hadn’t 
it 
in  him  to  write good  ones.  At  the  time 
I  read  that  I  thought  it  a  pretty  severe 
statement,  but  I’ve been thoroughly con­
verted,  for  I’ve  investigated.  I tell  you, 
this  investigating  can  certainly  change 
a  man’s  ideas  of  things.

As  I  was  riding  out  of  Philadelphia 
on  a  railroad  train  on  Monday morning, 
May  3,  this  statement  about  grocers’ 
deficiencies  as  advertisement  writers 
came  to  mind,  and  it  occurred  to  me  to 
sound  the  grocers  upon  whom  I  called, 
about  their  advertising,  in  order  to  see 
whether  or not  they  were  as  deficient  as 
they  were  made  out  to  be.

The  first  fellow  I  struck  was  a  mid­
dling-sized  grocer 
in  a  town  of  about 
6,500.  There  were  three  papers  in  the 
place—one  daily  and  two  weeklies. 
There  are  fourteen  grocery  stores  in  the 
town,  and  every  reason  why  advertising 
should  be  done.

After  I  had  concluded  my  business, 
we  fell  into  a general  talk,  and  I twisted 
this  around  to  the  subject  of  advertis­
ing-
here,”   I  observed.

“ You’ve  got  your  share of newspapers 

“ Yes,”   he 

replied,  “ and 

they’re 

pretty  good  sheets,  too.”

“ Pretty  good  advertising  mediums?”  

I  asked.

“ Well,  fair,”   he  replied. 

“ I  adver­

tise  in  all  of  them.”

Here  was  just  the  man  I  was 

looking 
for.  He’ll  give  me  the  chance, 
I 
thought,  of  showing  the  editor  of  the 
“ Grocery  World”   that  he  didn't  know 
what  he  was  talking  about  when  he  said 
grocers  couldn’t  write  advertisements.
“ Is  this  a  copy  of  one  of  your  local 
papers?”   I  asked,  picking  up  a  paper 
from  the  counter.

He  said 

it  was,  and  I  began  a  quiet 
search  for  his  advertisement.  By  and 
by  1  found  it,  stuck  way  down  in  a  cor­
ner  of  the  paper,  and  while  the  grocer 
was  waiting  on  some  customers,  cut 
it 
out  Here 
is  exactly  the  same,  ex­
cept  that  the  name  and  address  are 
changed :

it 

John  Sm ith,

Grocer and  Provision  Dealer.

A full line of all groceries and provisions con­
stantly on  hand.  Our  specialty  is  spices  and
coffee.  W e strive to please.  Give us a call.

John  S m ith ,

42 E ast Pearl St., Cornville,  Ind.

Late 

Here  was  a  man  paying  for  this  sort 
of  stuff  in  three  papers. 
I  resolved  to 
postpone  my  arraignment  of  the  editor 
of  the  “ Grocery  World.”

“ I’ve 

in  the  same  afternoon  I  hap­
pened  upon  another  advertiser.  He  was 
a  smaller  grocer,  but  did  business  in  a 
larger  place.  He  seemed  to  be  a  pro­
gressive  man,  and  I  anticipated  some 
good  advertisements  from  him.

lots  about 

After  some  conversation  with  him,  he 
told  me  that  he  advertised  in  both  local 
weeklies.  While  we  were  on  the  sub­
ject  of  advertising,  he  aired  his  views 
in  a  knowing  way  that  led  me  to  be­
lieve  I  had  stumbled  upon  a  man  who 
would  enable  me  to  take  the  wind  right 
out  of  the  “ Grocery World”  man’s sails.
studied  advertising  a  good 
deal,”   he  said,  “ and  I  believe  I've 
learned 
its 
money  wasted  to  advertise  like  most 
grocers  do,  simply 
line  of  gro­
ceries  and  provisions,’  and  all  that  sort 
of  thing.  Give  a  point  to  your  adver­
tising,  I  say.  Attract  people’s  attention 
to  it.  Then  they'll  read  it  and  buy  your 
goods.  Now,  here’s  my  idea.”
counter  and 
brought  out  a 
late  copy  of  the  local 
paper,  and  turned  to  his  advertisement.
“ See  there!”   he  said,  triumphantly. 
“ People’ll  see  that  advertisement  and 
they’ll  read  it. 
I’ve  had  several  peo­
ple  speak  of  it. ”

He  fished  under  the 

I  believe 

looked  at  the  “ ad,”   and  then  im­
pressively  asked  permission  to  cut  it

‘ full 

it. 

I 

If  You  Ask  the  Devil

He will tell you that  I  have  the  best  and  largest 
stock of Groceries in Jonesville,  and  it  will  be  the 
truth, for I have. 
I keep  things that other  stores 
can’t handle because they ain’t got trade enough.

My  Teas  and Coffees  Are 

Bully.

They are at  the top of  the heap, for I  make them 
to be. 
I am  famous for  selling  things  way  down. 
Other stores  fleece you.  Give me  a call and  I will 
please you.

P.  T.  Smith,  Jonesville,  Md.

their 

“ People  have  spoken  about  it,  have 
they?”   I  asked,  when  I  had  read  the 
advertisement  through.

said,  confidently.

“ Oh,  yes,”   he 
Lots  of  ’em !”
“ What  did  they  say?”   I  asked.
“ Said  they’d  seen  it,”   he  answered.
“ Anybody  criticise  it?”
“ Oh,  well,”   he 

naively, 
“ there’s 
lots  of  cranks  in  the  world, 
you  know.  Some  people  object  to  the 
Bible.”

added, 

.Which  gave  me  a  pretty  good  inkling 
of  how  this  advertisement  had  been  re­
ceived  by  the  Jonesville  public.

I  will  say,  however, 

I  see  I  have  only  space  enough  left 
to  relate  my  experience  with  one  more 
grocer. 
that  I 
talked  with  nearly  a  dozen,  and  they  all 
showed  me 
I 
didn’t  see  a  single  good  advertisement 
in  the  lot.

advertisements. 

The  third  man  was  one  of  these smart 
advertisers  that  you’ll  come  across  oc­
casionally.  As  soon  as  I  touched  on  the 
question  of  advertising,  he  eagerly  went 
and  got  a  paper  in  which  he advertised, 
and  proudly  turned  to  the  inside  page. 
There, 
in  an  obscure  corner,  was  a 
4-inch,  single-column  advertisement— 
his.

“ Talkin’  of  good  advertising,”   he 
said,  “ what  d’ye  think  of  that?  That’s 
the  people 
counted  pretty  good  by 
’round  here.  Why,  here’s  old 
‘ Bill’ 
Hinkey  that  comes  in  here  every  night 
—he  said  he  never  seen  a  paper  adver­
tisement  as  slick. 
‘ Shorty’  Murphy 
says  the  same  thing.  You  read  it.”

Well,  I  read  it,  and  as  in  the  second 
case,  I  asked  and  received  permission 
to  cut  it  out  and  take  it  with  me.  Here 
it  is :

S A M  T O O N  E Y ’S T A L E  O F   W O E .

My name is Sam Tooney,
Because I advertise groceries 

Please don’t think me looney 
This way.

My groceries are elegant.
That passers-by do stop and say 

And the stock so complete 
How sweet!

I try to do to my fellow-men 
I give to 1 ach fu'l weight  when 

Just as they do to me,
They deal here.

Oh. come then gentle reader,
Oh. buy yi ur goods of Sam 
For his sea es will never teeter 
Too light.

The  grocer  waited  complacently  until 

I  finished  reading,  when  I  said :

for 

“ Well,  who  but  a  genius  would  ever 
have  thought  of  advertising  groceries  in 
poetry!’ ’

The  poet  smiled.
“ Thank  ye!”   he  said,  modestly. 
“ Them  things  jest  come  to  me.  I  could 
write  poetry  like  that  all  day. 
I  write 
poetry  for all  the  funerals  ’round  here. 
1  have  charged 
it,  and  people 
usuallv  seem  purty  glad  to  pay,  too. 
Oh,  if  I  hadn’t  me  store  I  don’t  know 
what  I  wouldn’t  do.  They  tell  me  these 
writin’  fellers  makes  a  barrel  of money. 
‘ Shorty’  Murphy,  he’s  read  some  o’ 
their  poetry,  an’  he  says  it  ain’t  no  bet­
ter  than mine. ”

“ Not  a  bit,”   I  lied,  “ your  style  re­
minds  me  of  that  of  the  celebrated  Sol­
omon  Whiskers,  of  Podunk,  N.  J. ”

He beamed  all  over  me,  evidently  not 
having  the  pleasure  of  Mr.  Whiskers’ 
acquaintance.
lunatic  who  says 
grocers  can  write  advertisements  has 
me to  fight.

left  The 

Then  I 

Flower 
Time

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

LILY WHITE

This is a very white, pure flour, as its name 
implies. 
It  is  a  native  of  Michigan.  At 
the same time it has  become  popular  not 
only 
in  Michigan  but  in  several  other 
states.  A  great  many 
families  have 
adopted  it as their  family  flour,  and  they 
will have no other.  A great many grocers 
have  it  for  sale  because  these  families 
come after it  time  and  time  again  arid— 
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.

★

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

me New York Biscuit Go.

Grand  Rapids.

£>

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LABOR  OF  LOVE.

Patriotic  Work  Accomplished  by  Ex- 

Congressman  Belknap.

The  period  of  the  civil  war  was  the 
heroic  age  in  the  lives  of  those  who 
participated  in  that  struggle.  To  many 
it  was  the  opportunity  for  the  develop­
ment  of  character  and  the  bringing  out 
of  those  traits  of  self  reliance  which 
the  attainment  of 
have  resulted 
in 
higher  positions 
in  business,  political 
and  social  fields  than  would  have  been 
probable  under  the  ordinary  conditions 
of  civil  life.  Thè  manifestation  of  the 
forward  have 
abilities  thus  brought 
often  been 
in  varied  directions  in the 
same  individual.  A  prominent  example 
of  this 
in  the  career of 
General  Grant,  who  first  came 
into 
prominence  as  a  determined  soldier  of 
wonderful  strategic  judgment ;  then  be­
came  a  statesman, 
to  command  the 
suBrages  of  the  people  for a second term 
as  President ;  then  as  an  author  with  a 
sim plicity
d istin ct  style  of 

is  suggested 

forcible 

which  will  make  his  writings  perma­
nent  among  the  most  valuable  records 
of  the  much-described  contest.

It 

is,  of  course,  natural  that  those 
who  took  prominent  parts  in  the  work 
of  subduing  the  rebellion  should  cherish 
its  incidents  as  of  the  greatest 
interest 
in  their  career.  This  accounts  for  the 
enormous  volume  of  literature which has 
grown  up  during  the  past  dozen  or  fif­
teen  years,  in  which  every  incident  has 
been  described 
in  detail  to  an  extent 
which  would  seem  tedious,  except  that 
it  has  been  received  with  such  an  in­
terest  as  to  warrant  its  continuance.

in 

A  notable  contribution  to  the  litera­
ture  of  the  war,  especially  as  to  Michi­
gan 
interests,  is  the  recent  production 
of  Captain  Chas.  E.  Belknap,  ex-Con- 
gressman  from  this  District, 
the 
story  of  Michigan  at  the  battle of Chick- 
amauga,  Chattanooga  and  Mission 
Ridge. 
It  was  the  fortune  of  Michigan 
to  be  represented  more  prominently 
in 
the  operations  of  the  Army  of  the  Cum­
berland  than 
in  any  other  part  of  the 
South,  and  there  is,  consequently,  more 
of  local 
in  the  story  of  those 
fields  than  of  any  other.  Captain  Bel­
in  those  battles  was  espe-
knap’s  part 

interest 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

cially  prominent  and,  on  account  of  his 
knowledge  of  the  military  movements 
and  situations 
in  and  around  Chatta­
nooga,  he  was  naturally  chosen as chair­
man  of  the  State  Commission  created by 
the  Legislature  for  the  purpose  of  plac­
ing  monuments  and  markers  in  Chicka- 
mauga  Park  to  perpetuate  the  locations 
of  Michigan  soldiers  in  one  of  the  most 
decisive battles  of  the  rebellion.  The 
in  which  he  dis­
acceptable  manner 
charged  this  trust 
is  demonstrated  by 
the  hearty  congratulations  he  received 
from  Governor  Rich  and  other  State 
officers,  who  insist  that  his  Commission 
accomplished  more  with  a  $20,000 ap­
propriation  than-  some  other 
similar 
commissions  have  accomplished  with 
twice  that  amount.  Within  a  week  a 
representative  of  the  Tradesman  has 
visited  the  famous  battlefield  and  her 
commendation  of  the  work  undertaken 
and  carried  forward  by  Mr.  Belknap 
would  make  the  grizzled  veteran  blush 
in  spite  of  himself. 
In  her  opinion, 
Michigan  has  come  nearer to  awarding 
her  heroes  poetic  justice—so  far as  it  is 
possible  to  accomplish  this  result  in 
bronze  and  granite—than  any other State

t.sasasssasHsasaFiasasasasHsasasasasasasasaasa:
fl  Difference of  Opinion

exists  in  regard  to  ' 
which  method  of  i 
advertising 
p a y s ' 
best.  Newspapers 
are  down  on  our  i 
they  I 
method, 
w ant  you 
to  pay  ' 
your cash to them.

as 

Result Is
What tells

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

PO L ISH ED  A N TIQ U E  OAK  PARLOR TABLE.

W e would like to send  you  our  catalogue  of  useful  premiums  and  have  you  make  a  selection.

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

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outfit subject to approval after 60 days’ trial.

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interest 

Captain  Belknap  had  already  attained 
considerable  prominence  as  an  author, 
especially  on  war  topics,  although  his 
literary  ventures  in other directions have 
been  very  successful.  Naturally,  his  ex­
perience 
in  the  work  of  this  Commis­
sion,  added  to  his  personal  knowledge 
of  the  events  as  they  occurred,  with  his 
intense 
in  the  matter,  made 
him  the  hest  fitted  to  record  the  story 
of  his  comrades  and  the  State.  The  re­
sult  ol  his  work  is  a  volume  of  which he 
may  well  be  proud.  With  the  most 
painstaking 
industry  he  has  searched 
all  accessible  records  and,  besides  re­
producing  such  as  are  of  most  vital  in­
terest,  he  has  added  the  story  of  the 
battles 
in  a  manner  which  will  make 
the  work  of  the  utmost  value,  not  only 
to  all  who  participated  in  the  scenes, 
but  to all  who are 
interested—and  who 
is  not?— in  the  story  of  the  heroisms and 
struggles  of  those  who  participated  in 
the  battles  which  gave  the  Union  pos­
session  of  the  most  strategetic  situation 
in  America.

Captain  Belknap  has  prepared  a  most 
valuable  book  which  is  published  by the 
State  in  an  edition  of  only  a  single 
thousand. 
It  is  unfortunate  that  greater 
liberality  could  not  have  been  shown, 
to  place  the  work 
in  the  hands  of  the 
many  thousands  who  have  so great  an 
interest 
in  the  events  it  describes  with 
such  minuteness  and  fidelity.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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♦

JANE  CRAGIN.

Growth  of  the  Shadow  in  the  Back­

ground.

love-song  which 

The  game  of  cribbage  in  the  sun-par­
lor was  only  a  pleasing  prelude  to  the 
delightful 
followed. 
After  the  rubber  was  played,  the  story 
Miss  Marchland  was  reading  came  un­
der  discussion  in  all  its  pros  and  cons— 
an  easy  medium  of  drifting  to  other and 
more 
interesting  topics;  so  that  when 
they  separated,  to  meet  soon  at  dinner, 
both  were  in  a  fair  way  to  believe  that 
Colorado  is  the  most  charming  State 
in 
the  Union  and  that  that  particular  spot 
in  the  State  is  nowhere  to  be  surpassed.
Jane,  in  the  meantime,  was  growing 
just  been  making  a 
uneasy.  Cy  had 
fool  of  himself  at  Milltown  with  that 
Lilian  Willowby  and— what  did  ail  the 
man !—here  he  was  beginning  the  same 
performances 
in  the  Alta  Vista,  right 
before  her  face  and  eyes!  Was he  fool­
ish  enough  to  think  that  this  sudden  at­
tention  to  Miss  M archland  could  in  any 
way  make  any  difference  to  her? 
Couldn’t  he  see  that--well,  that  there 
was  a  difference  and  that  the  old  life  at 
Milltown  couldn't  go  on  as  it  had  been 
going  on ;  and  so  that  all  this  March- 
land  folly  was  utter  nonsense?  She 
-couldn't  have  him  go  on  with  it,  and 
the  very  first  opportunity  which  offered 
improve  to  set  the  man  right 
she  must 
so  far  as  she  was  concerned. 
It  came 
the  next  morning  and  not  by  chance.

invited  to 

The  long  corridor which  separated  the 
apartments  of  Cy  and  Jane  terminated 
in  a  deep  bay  window,  and  the  heavy 
curtains  which  had  been hung across the 
passage  had  made  cne  of  the  cosy  cor­
ners  so  dear  to  the  hearts  of  the  in­
mates.  Here  were  luxurious  sofa  and 
easy  chairs,  and  the  window  itself  with 
its  tempting  cushions 
in­
dolent  repose  even  when  the  room  was 
unoccupied.  With  Jane  Cragin  there 
the  inviting  apartment  was 
irresistible 
—never  more  so  than  on  that  morning. 
A  storm  during  the  night  had  washed 
and  brightened the green-growing things 
outside;  through  the  sweet  summer  air 
the  mountains  lifted  their  white  beads 
high  into  the  sky’s  wonderful  blue;  and 
the  cool  breeze that  came  in  through the 
window,  brought  with  it  the  breath  of 
the blossoms  it  had  kissed  upon its way. 
Close to this  window  that  morning  Jane 
Cragin  was  sitting  with  something 
like 
embroidery  in  her  hands.  From her  own 
room  she  had  brought  the  low  willow 
rocking  chair,  her  special  delight,  and 
at  her  side  on  a 
little  bamboo-stand 
stood  a  vase  with  a  rich  red  rose.  Her 
dress  that  morning  was  of  some  summer 
stuff—white,  with  here  and  there  a 
dainty  sprig  of  blue.  A  bit  of  ribbon 
of  the  same  shade  clung  to  the  gathers 
of  the  garment  at  her  throat  and  a  knot 
of  the  same  silken  sheen  rested  like  a 
butterfly  upon  her  hair.  Behind  her  up­
on  the  wall  hung  a  picture  of  St.  Ce­
cilia;  and 
she 
rocked  and  sewed,  seemed  the  diviner 
of  the  two,  to  the  proprietor of  the Mill 
town  store,  who  stood  that  moment  at 
his  own  door  and  looked  upon the pretty 
picture before  him.

Jane,  humming  as 

“ May  I  come  in,  Jane?”   he  said  at 
length. 
“ I  was  going  down  to  the  ver­
andah  to  spend  the  morning,  or  a  part 
of  it;  but  this  is  much  better  than  it 
is 
down  there,  and  I  can  see  by  the  way 
those  cushions 
in  the  window  are ar­
ranged  that  they  have  been  waiting  for 
— somebody  long  enough.  M y!  what  a 
splendid  rose!  A h!” —he 
inhaled  a 
long  breath  of  its  exquisite odor—“ isn’t 
it  delicious?”

“ No,  Cyrus,  it  is  fragrant;  but  I  can 
never  smell  of  these  American  Beauties 
without  an  almost  irresistible  desire  to 
eat  them,  and  am  inclined  to  think  that 
delicious is  the  best  word after ail.  I am 
glad  you  have  a  book.  Do get  down  in­
to  the  window  as  soon  as  you  can  and 
read  to  me.  You  don’t look comfortable. 
Let  me  pull  this  cushion  up  a  bit— 
there.  .  Isn’t  that  better?  Now,  then, 
we’re  going  to have  the  first  good  talk 
we’ve  had  together  since  you’ve  been 
here,  and  that’s—why,  do  you  know, 
Cyrus  Huxley,  that  you’ve been  here  al­
most  three  weeks?  W ell!  Where  does 
the  time go  to?”   •  The  man’s  lips  shut 
firmly  together  as 
if  they  could  tell 
easily  enough,  if  the  rights,  supposed 
to  belong to  American  citizenship,  were 
allowed  them;  but  he 
industriously 
turned  the  leaves  of  the book,  as  if  un­
certain  where  to  begin,  and  Jane  was 
too  busy  with  her needle and  the thought 
which  possessed  her  to  notice  the  smile 
or  the  eye-sparkle,  always  portentous 
in  Cyrus  H uxley’s 
when 
eyes.

it  gleamed 

“ I’ve  read  this  story  of  Aldrich’s 
time  and  again,”   he  said,  “ and  have 
always  liked 
it;  but,  somehow,  since 
I’ve  been  here  it  seems  to  have  more  of 
a  naturalness  to  it  than  ever  before. ”

“ What  story  is  it?”
“ Marjorie  Daw. 

You’ve  read 

it  a 
thousand  times,  more  or less—everybody 
has.  The  first  time  I  read  it,  I  think  I 
could  have  shut  Aldrich's  wind  off  and 
piously  forgotten  to  let  it  on again.  I’ve 
got  over  that;  but,  do  you  know,  Jane, 
I  think  that  that  story  has 
its  counter­
in  everyday  life—a 
part  pretty  often 
general  wind-up 
in  nothing— in 
love 
I  wonder  if  the  fellow 
affairs,  anyway. 
thought  of  that? 
It’s  a  pretty  name, 
isn’t  it? 
I’ve  always  liked  it;  but  I’ve 
never  happened  to  know  anybody  with 
that  name  until  now.  Did  you  know, 
that  Miss  Marchland’s  name 
is  Mar­
jorie? 
last  night  when 
we  were  coming  home  from  Manitou. 
Marjorie  Marchland. 
I  believe  I  like 
it better  than  I  do  Marjorie  Daw.”

I  didn’t  until 

Jane  Cragin sat motionless and speech­

R ic h a r d   Ma lco lm   Str o n g.

less. 

When  Marla  Starts  the  Fire.

A t the unholy hour of four,  the  time  when  all  the 
world  should  snore,  I ’m  wakened  by  a  slam ­
ming door,

By my Maria.

She  rises  Phoenix-like  from  bed,  puts  on  a  rig  to 
knock you dead, then in a  moment  she  has  fled

To build the fire.

I  hear  a  rumble  and  a  roar,  like  wrecks  upon  a 
rockbound shore,  then  bang,  down  falls  a  ton 
or more

Of coal for that blamed fire.

I hear a rattle, roar, and slam, a muttered word that 
sounds  like  clam,  she’s  wrestling  with  that 
fiendish pan

Of ashes from the fire.

Then  into  the  cold  world  she  goes,  and  bumps 
against a wind that blows about her from  those 
misfit clothes.

Oh, my, that blasted fire.

The pan of ashes veers about, I hear a  wild,  blood­
the  contents  have  been 

shout; 

curdling 
emptied out,

On my Maria.

She  rises  in  her  fearful  wrath  and  kicks  the  ash 
pan up the path;  then comes the rest, the after- 
math;

She sails in on the fire.

She  works  an  hour  and  maybe  more;  I  hear  the 
contest through the door;  I hear her struggling 
o’er the floor;

A t last she builds the fire.

Then  when  it  blazes  cheerfully,  my  dear  Maria 
steeps the  tea,  and  cooks  the  buckwheats  hot 
for me,

On that old kitchen fire.

N o  sign  of  conflict  in  her  air,  how  calm,  how 
sweet  beyond  compare,  is  my  Maria,  so  dear, 
so fair,

W ho builds the kitchen fire.

An  obstinate  man  does  not hold  opin­

ions,  but  they  hold  him,— Pope,

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.  1.  Body,  6  ft.  6  in.  Width,  31  in.  Capacity,  600  to  800  pounds.  Drop  end  gate.  Price,  $34. 
No.  2.  Body, 7 ft.  Width, 3 ft.  Depth, 8 in.  Capacity,  i;200 to  1,500 pounds.  Body hardwood.  Price, $36.

Full  Platform  Spring  Delivery  Wagon.
1% Concord  steel  axles. 

i% tread  Sarven  patent  wheels.  Oil  tempered  spring,  i %-4 and 5 
leaf.  Body,  9  ft.  Capacity,  1,500  to  i.i'oo  pounds.  Hand  made  and  fully  warranted  drop  tail  gate. 
Price, $50.

No.  1. 

No. a 

iJ i Concord steel axles. 

1%  tread Sarven  patent  wheels.  Oil  tempered  springs,  iJi'S   and  6 

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

Here’s  the  wagons and  here’s  your prices 1  Take  your choice!

Full  value In each  wagon for the money 1

BROWN,  HALL  &  COM

Manufacturers of  BUGGIES, WAGONS AND  HARNESS,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

FIRE  PROOF  ASPHALT 
PAINT  AND  VARNISH

can reach. 

We are offering to the trade the genuine article,  and  at a  price  that all 
.  _
Our paints are suitable for any use where a nice raven black is required. 
Contains no Coal Tar, and will not crack, blister or peel.  Sold In quan­

.  , 

„  

. 

tities to suit purchasers.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

14

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather
Romance  Attending  a  Pair  of  Red 

Morocco  Slippers.
D.  M.  W. in  Boot and Shoe Recorder.

We  sat  in  state,  my  sister  and  I,  up­
on  the  great  green  velvet  cushion,  in 
the  plate-glass  window  of  X .'s  Shoe 
Emporium.

I  felt  very  proud  of  our  position,  for 
we  had  only  just arrived,  and  were  im­
mediately  placed  upon  the seat of honor.
I  could  see how  the  other  shoes  that  oc­
cupied  the  window  along  with  us turned 
aside  with  envy  and  the  tiny  pair  of 
bronze  boots  that  had  been  taken  from 
the  cushion,  in  order  that  we  should 
take  their  place,  turned  a  shade  darker, 
and  actually  refused  to  stand  upon  the 
shelf  at  the  side  of  the  window,  and 
created  such  a  disturbance  by  falling 
over  each  other,  that  the  clerk  with  the 
waxed  moustache bundled  them  uncere­
moniously 
into  a  box  and  shut  them 
safely  in  the glass  case  far  back  in  the 
store  itself.

lust  before  dark  that  evening  while  I 
was  pondering  over  the  jealous  be- 
havior»of  those  silly  bronze  boots,  I  felt 
my  sister  nudge  me  in  the  side.  Look­
ing  up  hastily  I  saw  the  fairest,  sweet­
est  face  gazing  at  us  with  such  a 
look 
of  admiration  and  longing  in  her  lovely 
dark  eyes  that  I  felt  the  silver  buckles 
which  held  my  rosette  in  place  settle 
back  with  a  satisfied  air and  shine  and 
gleam  more  than  ever.

The  owner  of  those  wonderful  eyes 
stood  outside  a 
few  seconds,  looking 
first  at  us  and  then  at  a  small  plush 
purse  she  held  in  one  hand,  while  she 
thoughtfully  turned 
its  contents  over 
with  the  other.  While  our  admirer 
stood  hesitating  as  to whether she sh’ould 
enter  or  not,  the  clerk  turned  on  the 
electric  light  which  hung  just  above  us. 
Then  she  saw  us 
indeed  in  all  our 
beauty.  The temptation  was  great,  and 
like  a  true  daughter  of  Eve  she yielded, 
and  was  soon  standing  before  the  clerk 
enquiring  the  price  of  "that  pair  of  red 
morocco  slippers  in  the  window.”

The  clerk  smiled  broadly,  and  twist­
ing  up  his  moustache  the  while,  soon 
took  us  from  the  window  and  placed  us 
before  her  upon  the  shining  top  of  the 
glass  show-case.

“ What  price  did  you  say?”   she 
asked,  after  turning  me  around  and 
around.
her.

“ Five  dollars  and  a  quarter,”   he  told 

With  a  shake  of  her  head  and  a  sigh, 
she  placed  us  once  more  in  front  of  the 
young  man,  whose  moustache  now  stood 
out  like  horns  in  his  anxiety  to  make  a 
sale,  saying,  “ It  is  too  high  for  me,”  
and picking  up  her  purse  turned  toward 
the  door.

But  the  clerk  was  not  to  be  outdone, 
so  he  placed  himself  beside  her  and 
said:  “ Suppose  you  try  them  on,  and 
if  they  fit,  well,  perhaps  I  could  let 
them  go a  little  cheaper.”

She  glanced  down  at  her  foot,  and 
then  sank  upon  the  horsehair  sofa  with 
a  little  laugh,  as  he  deftly removed  her 
well-worn  shoe  and  slipped  me  in  its 
place. 
I  felt  how  snugly  the  pretty  foot 
rested  against  my  sides,  and  hoped  she 
would  take  us.
“ A  perfect  fit,  miss,  suppose  we  say 

$4- 75- ”
“ Four  seventy-five,”   she  mused,  then 
handing  him  a  bill  said:  “ I  know  it’s 
awfully  extiavagant,  but  they  are  so 
pretty.”   She  soon  had  me  off  and  her 
shoe  replaced.  The  clerk  stood  ready 
to  tie  us  up,  but,  alas,  as  she  was  about 
to  hand  us  across  to  him,  my  sister 
pushed  roughly  against  me,  knocking 
me  from  her  hand  and  sending  me  with 
a  crash  right  through  the  glass  case 
in 
the  midst  of  trunk  straps,  hand-bags, 
etc.  The  poor  child  gave  a  sort  of 
sobbing  cry  when  she  saw  the  ruin  I 
had  wrought.  The  smile  also  faded 
from  the  clerk’s  face,  and  a scowl  slow­
ly  took  its  place  as  he  began,  “ I  am 
sorry,  miss,  but— ”

“ I  know  what  you  would  say,’ ’she 
interrupted,  “ how  much 
is  the  dam­
age?”   and  I  could  see  how  in  spite  of 
herself  the  pale  lips  trembled.

“ About  $4,  I  think.”   Without  a  word

she  shook  the  amount  into  his  willing 
hand,  and  hurriedly  left  the  store.

There  had  been  a  witness  to  this little 
scene,  unnoticed  by  either  the  clerk  or 
the  young  girl,  and  as  we  were about  to 
be  returned  to  the  window,  he  came  for­
ward,  a  tall  blonde  man,  of  about  30 
years  of  age.

“ Here,  sir,”   he  called,  “ I  will  take 

those  slippers.”

Once  more  the  bland  smile  spread 
over  the  face  of  the  clerk  and  the mous­
tache  was  stroked  tenderly,  as  he  has­
tened to wrap us securely  in  tissue  paper 
before  putting  us  in  a  pasteboard  box. 
While  we  were  being  carefully  tied,  I 
heard  the  stranger  enquire:  “ Who  was 
that  pretty  girl  who  smashed  the  case?” 
is  only  Bessie  Dene,  the 
head  girl  at  the  telephone  exchange.” 
“ Ah,  indeed,”   indifferently  returned 
the  elder  man,  “ and  does  she  live  near 
here?”

“ Oh,  she 

“ Only  a  block  above  the  church. 
Send  them,  sir?”   My  new  friend  did 
not  reply,  but,  taking  the  box,  strode 
quickly  through  the  door  and  up  the 
street.  He  walked  about  two  squares,
I  suppose,  when  he  stopped  and  I heard 
the  faint  tinkle  of  a  bell,  then  his  voice 
enquiring  for  “ Miss  Dene.”   “ Yes,”   a 
child’s  voice  said,  “ she  lives  here  and 
has  just  come  in.”
He  transferred  us  to  the  little  hands 
saying:  “ Give  her  this  box  then,  my 
dear,”   and  went  off  in  the  darkness.

How  Bessie  wondered  who  could  have 
sent  us  and  what  a  source  of  joy  we 
were to  her.  Every  day  she  took  us  to 
the  exchange,  “ to  rest  her  feet  in”   she 
would  say,  but  the  othei  girls  said  it 
was  to  make  them  “ green  with  envy.” 
One  day  Bess  was  on  duty with a Miss 
Carson  until  10  o’clock,  when 
they 
would  be  relieved  by  two  of  the  others. 
The  room  where  they  worked  was on the 
third  floor  almost  entirely  cut  off  from 
the  main  building  by  a  hall,  and  had 
but  one  window  on  the  street.  Bessie 
had 
just  answered  a  call  when  the  fire 
alarm  rung  out  loudly  and  we  could  see 
the  lurid  glare  against  the  sky.  “ Look, 
Kate,”   cried  she,  “ what  a  fire  up­
town.”   Kate  Carson  turned  and  her 
face  grew  pallid  with  fear  as  she  said : 
“ Bess,  it  is  near  home,  would you mind 
if  I  go? 
It  will  soon  be  time  for  you  to 
go,  too. ’ ’

“ Run  along  then,  I  guess  I  can  man­
age;  no,  I  am  not  afraid,"and  soon  we 
heard  the  flying  feet  of  Miss  Carson 
dash  down  the  stairs.

We  were  alone  and  no  sound  broke 
the  stillness  for  some  minutes,  when  I 
heard  a  faint  roaring  and  then  smelt 
fire.  Bess  heard  also,  for  she  turned  to 
the  door  which  Kate  had  left  ajar,  and 
then  in  a  voice  freighted  with  horror  I 
heard  her  cry,  “ O  God!”   Well  she 
might,  for  a  sea  of  flame  was  rolling  up 
the  hallway  in  front  of  her,  alone,  away 
up  there  in  that  great building.  To  the 
window  she  flew,  but  all  was  dark— 
everyone  evidently  had  gone  up  town  to 
the  first  fire. 
It  was  useless  to  attempt 
to  reach  the  steps,  for  they  had  caught 
and  were  burning  like  tinder;  to  jump 
from  that  window  would  be  certain 
If I  could  only  save  her,  it  mat­
death. 
tered 
little  about  me,  for  I  was  only  a 
red  morocco  slipper,  while  she,  my 
dear,  dear  mistress,  was  a 
living, 
breathing  soul,  to  be  saved  if  possible.
She  stood  there as  if turned  to  stone, 
watching  the  greedy  flames  creep  near­
er,  nearer.  At 
last  I  heard  a  whistle 
from  the  street  below,  and  the  echo  of 
a  firm  step  upon  the  pavement.  Bess 
never  changed  her  position.  Now  was 
her  chance,  if  she  would  only  go  to  the 
window,  whoever 
it  was  approaching 
may  save  her.  She  tuined  at  length  and 
I  caught,  purposely,  in the  lining  of  her 
skirt,  flinging  her  against  the  window, 
just  in  time,  too,  for  the  tall  figure  of  a 
man  was 
just  about  to  pass.  Far  out 
she  leaned  and  with  all  her strength tore 
me  from  her  foot,  flung  me  out  into  the 
night.  Her  aim  was  good,  for  I  struck 
the  passer-by  upon  the  shoulder.  Stoop­
ing,  he  picked  me  up,  saying  in  tones 
of  great  surprise:  “ The  slipper  I  sent 
Bessie  Dene,”   and  then  I  knew  him.

The  flames  burst  from  the  windows, 
and  he  saw  the  white,  set  face above 
him.

Placing  his  hands  to  his 

lips  he

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Do  you  want  to sell more Shoes?

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and hold the trade for you.  VVe handle everything in the line of footwear.
W e are showing  to-dAy  the  finest  spring  line  in  the  State—all  the 

latest colors and shapes.

can give you some bargains.

See  our  line  of  socks  and  felts  before  placing your fait order.  W e 

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  i  are 25 and 5 per cent,  on Bostons and 25,
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.

Now  that  the  price  is  right  be  sure  you get the 

right  brand.

The Goodyear 
Glove  Rubbers

December  ist  dating.  Don’t  overlook  this.

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

r

State Agents for

r

“The Earth’s Best”

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

Our discount is 25 and 5 off.

Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co

5 and  7  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids,

New Prices on Bu»

LYCOniNO,  35 and 5 off. 
KEYSTONE,  35 and 5 and  10 off.

These  prices  are  for  present  use  and 
also for  fall  orders.  Our  representative 
will  call  on  you  in  due  tim e  w ith  our 
specialties in

Leather  Goods,  Pelt  B oots, 
Lumbermen's  Socks 
.

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

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,

19 South Ionia St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

This  shoe  represents  our  Perfect  F itting  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 &  Hathaway  Co.,

DETROIT, MICH.

M ichigan Shoe Co.,  Detroit, Agents fo r  M ichigan.

shouted:  “ Courage,”   and  dashed  into 
the  burning building.

Safe  in  his  inner  pocket,  I  could  feel 
the  heat  upon  me.  We  soon  reached 
her,  and  snatching  her  up  in  his  arms, 
plunged  down  the  hall,  and  although 
burnt  and  nearly  suffocated  he  brought 
her  safely  to  the  ground.

Once  out  into  the  streets,  she  turned 
and  held  her  trembling  hands  out  to 
him.  He  carried them  to  his  lips,  then 
sent  out  the alarm  again.

Many  times  he came to Bessie’s home, 
but  not  until  she  was  his  promised  wife 
did  he  tell  her  that  he had  sent  the slip­
pers.

How^Bessie  told  everyone  that we  had 
notj  only  saved  her  life,  but  to  us  she 
owed  all  her  future  happiness;  and  how 
she  has  treasured  us  can  be  seen  by  the 
care  bestowed  upon  us.

In  the  pleasure  of  telling  of  the  love 
of  our  little  mistress  for  us,  1  nearly for­
got  to  say  that  Miss  Carson,  in her hurry 
to  leave  that  evening,  accidentally  over­
turned  a  lamp  in  the  lower  hall,  thus 
nearly  causing  Bessie’s  death.  At  the 
time  of  this  story,  there  is  a  younger 
Bess  and  a  sturdy  boy,  who  never  tire 
of  hearing  their  mother  tell  how  her life 
was  saved  by  her  Red  Morocco  Slipper.
Good  Things  Said  by  Up-to-Date

Shoe  Dealers.

These  are  quick  and  decisive  losses. 
in  ship­

We  take  them  to  keep  stocks 
shape.—John  Wanamaker,  Phi la.

You  cannot  be  too  critical  when  you 
buy  your  shoes.  We  encourage  criticism 
from  our  customers.  We  may  know
more  about  the  shoe  business  than  they 
do,  but  the  wearer of  a  shoe  is  the one 
to  be'  satisfied.  We  think  we  have  a 
faultless  stock,  but  if  there  are  faults  in 
the  fit  we  want  to  know  it.—Bee  Hive 
Shoe  Store,  Elizabeth,  N.  J.

Women’s $4  Bourse  shoes  S i.50.  A 
reckless  rush  yesterday.  Only  a  few 
left—hurry 
if  you  want  to  share  the 
greatest  modern  shoe  bargain. 
Soft 
glove  kid  uppers,  fashionably  rounded 
toes,  stylish  heels.— Partridge  &  Rich­
ardson,  Phila.
Do  you  know  a  shoemaker  can  make 
more  money  by  working  on  shoes  for  us 
to  sell  at  $5  than  by  making  shoes  to 
your  order  for $7  or $8? 
It’s  because  of 
steady  work  and  the  saving  of  time he'd 
lose  in  waiting.  Hence,  we  can  and  do 
sell  good  hand-made  shoes  for $5.—John 
Wanamaker,  Phila.

Nearly  two-thirds  of  your  life  is  spent 
in  your  shoes.  They  can’t  look too nice; 
they  can’t  fit  too  w ell;  they  can  cost  too 
in  the  cheapest  market— 
much.  Buy 
that’s  the  way  we  do. 
If  this  is a  good 
rule  to  go  by  (and  we  know  no  better) 
in  buying  five  thousand  pairs  of  shoes, 
is  it  not  a  point  for  you  to  remember  in 
buying  one  pair?— Printers’  Ink.
Not  Equal  to  the  Test.

From the Philadelphia Record.

There  is a  business  man  in  this  town 
who 
is  a  terror  to  stenographers.  His 
amanuensis,  who  has  been  with  him  for 
a 
long  time,  was  recently  taken  sick. 
The  employer  mailed  a  letter  to  a  local 
business  college  to  send  him  a  stenog­
rapher  and  typewriter.  The  business 
man  is  very  particular about  his  vocab 
ulary,  and  wants everything  written  just 
as  he  dictates 
it.  Therefore,  in  order 
to  test the  newcomer’s  accuracy,  he,  in­
stead  of  dictating  an  ordinary  business 
letter,  gave  forth  the  following  at  a  rate 
of  speed  that  would  do  justice  to  a 
stump  speaker:

“ In  promulgating  your  esoteric  cog­
itation  or  articulating  your  superficial 
sentimentalities  and  amicable,  philo­
sophical  or  psychological  observations 
beware  of  platitudinous  ponderosity. 
Let— ”

But  he  got  no  further,  for  the  poor 
amanuensis  broke  his  pencil 
in  the 
effort,  after  which  he  got  up,  wiped  the 
perspiration 
from  his  forehead,  and 
quickly  left  the  office.

It  has  been  decided  by  the  Canadian 
Supreme  Court  that  a  man  or  woman 
who  leaves  Canada to go  to  the  United 
States  for  divorce  without  intending  to 
live there,  afterward  marrying  and  re­
turning  to  Canada,  can  be  prosecuted 
for  bigamy.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

16

How  to  Treat  Clerks.

From the American Druggist.

This 

likewise  a  very  old  one. 

is  a  subject  which,  from 

its 
very  nature,  probably  receives  as  much 
consideration  from  earnest  and  intelli­
gent  minds  as  any  connected  with  the 
profession  of pharmacy.  When  the gen- 
reral  results  of  such  consideration  are 
brought  to  our  notice  it  is  quite  obvious 
that  it  requires  a  treatment  verging  up­
on  the  idealistic  for  its  solution.  The 
fact  that  the  subject  is  under discussion 
is  indubitable  evidence  that  present  re­
lations  between  employer and  clerk  are 
in  many  instances  subject  to 
improve­
ment.  Yet  the  remedy  is  very  simple 
and 
It  was 
formulated  over  1,800  years  ago,  and 
from  its  intrinsic  value  it  has  received 
a  name  that 
instantly  conveys  to  our 
minds  an 
idea  of  great  value.  The 
Golden  Rule  is  an infallible,  guaranteed 
cure  for  all  the  social  ills  that  afflict 
mankind;  and  the  druggist,  from  his 
position  as  a  purveyor  of  cures,  should 
not  neglect  to  make  use  of  this  panacea 
in  the  conduct  of  his  business.  In  treat­
ing  this  subject  it  is  hard  to  dismiss the 
almost  unconscious  inference  that  the 
employer  is  already  perfect  and  is  sim­
ply  going  over the  field  in  quest  of  the 
perfect  clerk.

Although  the  employer  by  reason  ol 
his  position  possesses  a  certain  pres­
tige,  let  us  at  the  outset  apply  our  test 
of  the  golden  rule,  and 
if  he  fails  to 
pass  such  examination  properly  let  us 
in  all  kindness  advise  him  to  get  out  of 
the  drug  business,  or at  least  engage  in 
it  without  the assistance  of  clerks.  Let 
us also  dismiss  from  our  minds  some  of 
the  maxims  which  afflict  our  commer­
cial  world,  and  are  strongly  suggestive 
of  canine  cannibalism.  Let  us  remem­
ber  that  the  theory  of  buying  in  the 
cheapest  market  and -selling  in the dear­
est  may  cause  a  contradiction  of  ideas 
and  prove a  false guide  when  we  come 
to hire  our  help.  The  current 
injunc- 
ions  regarding  the  use  of  good  judg­
ment  in  the purchase  of  goods  should be 
supplemented  by  the  comparative  and 
superlative  terms  better  and  best  in 
choosing  a  man  to  help  us  sell  them. 
I11  one  sense,  one  of  the  greatest  diffi­
culties  confronting  a  man  is  the  selec­
tion  of  a  good  wife.  Perhaps  the  next 
in  importance  is  the  selection of helpers 
to  aid  him  in  gaining  a  livelihood.  As 
above  stated,  the  matter  depends  upon 
the  judgment  exercised 
in  making  a 
selection.  Previous  acquaintance  and 
a  knowledge  of  character and habits  on 
the  part  of  both  parties  should  in  every 
instance  precede  an  engagement.  A 
proprietor  should  have,  or  at  least  make 
an  effort  to  have  a  large  enough  circle 
of 
from 
which  to  procure  his  help  when  wanted. 
The  parents  of  the  bright(?)  boy,  who 
have  heard  that  there  are  big  profits 
in 
the  drug  trade,  should  be  most  politely 
discouraged 
in.  their  attempts  to  keep 
the  boy  out  of  mischief  by  apprenticing 
him  to  the  corner  druggist. 
In this  day 
and  age  the  young  man who has  not  am­
bition  enough  to  raise  himself  above the 
position  of  clerk 
is  not  very  badly 
wanted  in  the  drug  business.

friends  and  acquaintances 

it 

is  believed  that 

The  course  of the apprentice should  be 
one  of  well  defined  progress  and  every 
proprietor  should  recognize  it  as  a  duty 
to  contribute  to  that  progress.  The 
progress  should  be  marked  in  a substan­
tial  manner  by  the  giving  of  such  re­
wards  as  increased  proficiency  reason­
ably  expects.  Assuming  that  a  proper 
selection  of  help  has  been  made,  there 
is  no  danger  in  imparting  a  knowledge 
of  the  financial  details  of  the  business. 
In  fact, 
if  clerks 
were  paid  a  reasonable  salary,  and  were 
given  to  understand  that  a  certain  per­
centage  of  the  increase  in  profits  at  the 
end  of  the  year  were  to  be  paid  to  them 
in  addition  to  such  salary  there  would 
be  corresponding  increase  in  efficiency. 
There  would  then  be  some  justice  in 
holding  them  responsible  for  mistakes, 
breakage,  etc.  The  prevailing  belief 
that  clerks  are  expected  to  participate 
in  the  losses  without  participating  in 
the  profits  would  be  considerably  mod­
ified.

As  regards  rules,there  is  a  real  neces­
sity  for  but  one,  to  which  attention  has 
already  been  called.  The  proprietor

follow 

should  be  prepared  to 
it  and 
should  choose  clerks  who  are  disposed 
to  do  likewise.  Kindness  and  good 
treatment  will  solve  the  problem  and 
render  all  bother  with  petty  rules  en­
tirely  superfluous.

How  to  Win  Trade.

From the Dry Goods Reporter.

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

its  feet 

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

It  Meant  Something.

“ Now,”   said  the  fussy  old  gentle­
man,  putting  one  of  the  biggest  berries 
in  his  mouth  and  picking  up  another, 
“ what  is  the  sense  of  having  that  sign 
read  ‘ fresh  strawberries  for sale?’  Don’t 
you  see  that  ‘ fresh  strawberries’  would 
be  enough?  Don’t  you  suppose  every­
body  knows  they  are  for  sale?”

“ I  dunno,”   answered  the  grocer. 
“ Some  folks  seem  to  think  I’m  givm ’ 
them  away,’ ’ and  then  the  old  gentle­
man  put  the  berry  back  in  the  box.

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IN  TH E   SO UTHLAND.

The  Nashville  Exposition—Interesting 

Character  at  Chattanooga.

it 

Chattanooga,  May  20—Ask  the  aver­
age  woman  what  she  most  wishes  to 
see,  on  the  occasion  of  her  first  visit  to 
Cincinnati,  and  nine  times  out  of  ten 
she  will  insist  that  the  Mecca  which has 
attracted  her,  above  all  things,  to  the 
City  of  the  Amber  Fluid  is  the  Rook- 
wood  Pottery.  Being  the  happy  pos­
sessor  of  several  pieces of  this  eye-de­
lighting  ware,  I  was  naturally  anxious 
to  see  how 
is  made,  from  start  to 
finish. 
I  am  happy  to  say  that all  our 
questions  were answered  in  detail,  and 
we  were  kindly  allowed  to  visit  the 
basement  and  watch  a  large  lump  of un­
interesting  doughy-looking  gray 
clay 
grow,  under  the  deft  hands  of  the  old 
gray-headed  potter,  into  a round  vase  of 
massive  proportions.  When  finished, 
this  same  vase  might  bring  $150!  Our 
time  was  limited,  so  we  tore  ourselves 
away  fiom  all  the loveliness  in  this  un­
pretentious  little building and,  boarding 
a  car,  rode  to  the  “ end  of  the  line.”  
Coming  back,  we  stopped  to  take  in 
the  Water  Tower  going  up  the  elevator 
to  the  top,  where  we  “ looked  over  into 
Kentucky. ’ ’  Then a hasty glimpse of  the 
Art  Musuem,  and  we  are  ready  for 
more  “ Inclines”   and  more  rides  about 
the  city  and  around  the  suburbs.

“ We  will  live and die in Cincinnati!“  
we  exclaimed;  “ not  ‘ over  the  Rhine,’ 
but  in  one  of  the  beautiful  suburbs,  on 
top  of  a  steep  cliff,  will  we  end  our 
days.  Nothing  that  we  shall  see  here­
after can  compare  with  this!”
Then  we had  not  seen  Crow’s  . Nest— 
in  the  midst  of  the  mighty  mountains 
of  Tennessee!  Now,  perish  the  dream 
that  Cincinnati,  however  beautiful, 
however  picturesque,  could  satisfy  our 
souls!  Here  must  we  liv e !  Elsewhere 
is  mere  existence!”

I  had  always  thought  that  nothing 
could  take  the  place,  with  me,  of  the 
ever-changing  waters  around  my  Mich­
igan  home;  but  I  have  transferred  my 
allegiance  to  the  grand  old  mountains 
that  echoed  to  the  roar of  cannon  in  the 
Civil  War.
At  first,  when  we  Wolverines  came 
here,  it  seemed  strange  that  the  inci­
dents  of  those  stirring  times  were  in 
everybody’s  mouth,  that  they  seemed 
as  fresh  as  if  transpiring  but  yesterday; 
but  the  enthusiasm  is  contagious,  and 
if  we  were  to  remain  here  much  longer, 
we  should 
inevitably  become  imbued 
with  the  same  spirit.

I  notice 

The  stay  in  Nashville  was  delightful. 
The  Centennial—what  there  is  of  it— is 
certainly  fine. 
that  people 
speak  of  it  just  a  little  slurringly.  They 
give  vent  to the  remark,  “ Oh,  yes,  it’s 
good—but  nothing  compared  to  the 
World’s  Fair!”   Well,  of  course  the 
quantity  is  not  to  be  considered ; but 
if 
quality  goes  for  anything,  the  exhibits 
compare  favorably  with  similar ones  in 
the  Windy  City’s  Exposition.  The Wol­
verines  are  to  be  congratulated  in  fall­
ing  into  the  hands  of  that  prince  of  en­
tertainers,  Mr.  John  J.  McCann,  who 
presented  us  with  the  keys  of the  city 
and  Exposition  grounds,  cordially  ac­
cording  us  permission  to  “ take  with 
us  everything  we  could  carry  or  roll 
away. ’ ’  From  one  to  two,  he  feasted 
us  royally  in  the  Casino,  and  later  in 
the  day  escorted  us  to  the 6,000 acre 
stock-breeding  farm  of  Gen.  Jackson, 
where  we  were  shown  horse  after  horse 
of  record-breaking  fame,  among  them 
* * Longstreet, ’ ’son of ‘ * Longfellow, ’ ’ and 
“ Black:  Whirlwind,”   which the  General 
admiringly  declared  to  be  “ the  very 
devil!”   And  he  looked  it.

The next  day a  large  party  drove  out 
to  “ The  Hermitage,  ’  and  breathed  the 
in  the  very  room  where  Andrew 
air 
Jackson  breathed  his 
last,  and  with 
quiet  tread  and  hushed  footsteps  we 
wandered  out  into  the  old peony-scented 
garden  and  reverently  stood  under  the 
little  dome 
in  the  corner  under  the 
budding,  shiny-leaved  magnolia  tree 
that  shelters  his 
last  resting  place. 
Who,  in  reading  on  the  tablet,  the  ten­
der tribute  to  his  wife,  could  leave  the 
spot  and  fail  of  inspiration  to  emulate 
her beautiful  example!

“ Befoah  the  wah!”   is  an  expression 
heard  dozens  of  times  a  day  and  from 
as  many  lips.  Everything 
in  time  or 
eternity  seems  to  hinge  on  that  period 
of  their  history.  The  same  was  true  of 
Nashville,  where  we  first  became  ac­
customed  to  the  expression;  and  now 
we  catch  ourselves  falling  into  the  same 
phrase.  A  Northerner can  form  no idea, 
without coming  on  their own  ground,  of 
what  the  war  meant  and  still  means  to 
these  people;  and  when  one  comes  in 
contact  with  the  lazy,  dirty,  shiftless,  ir­
responsible  specimens  of  humanity  that 
represent  the  so-called  “ down-trodden 
race,”   he  can’t  help  thinking  that  the 
cruel  war  was an  utter  failure  so  far  as 
bettering  the  personal  condition  of  “ the 
blacks”   was concerned. 
“ Deed,”   said 
the  knowin’  old  darky  woman  in  the 
Auditorium  at  the  Centennial  Exposi­
tion,  “ I  nevah  knowed  what  ha’d  times 
wuz  till  1  wuz  free.  Aftah  de  wah,  I 
had 
it  good  deal  ha’dah’n  I  evah  did 
befoah.  Wy,  then,  we  had  everyting 
done  foah  us—no  lookin'  out  for ouah- 
selves,  noah  anything  uv  that  soat. 
Now,  I  has  to  see  to  everything  mys 
own  self;  though,' ’  she  added  with  an 
air  of  half  deprecation,  half  conscious 
pride,  “ I  oughtn’t  to  complain— Ise 
pretty  well  fixed. 
I  gits  my  pension  uv 
$36  every  t’ree  munts  fum  de  Guv’ment 
— Ise a  widoe—an’  I  woaks;  I  gits  my 
dollah  an'  a  half  a  day  takin’  caah  of  a 
public  buildin*.  My  folks, ”   she  con­
tinued,  waxing  confidential  and  rolling 
around  her  white-bordered  orbs,  “ I’d 
like  nuthin’  bettah  ’n  foah  me  to  cum 
an’  lib  wid  ’em ;  but  Ise  too  sma't  foah 
I  keeps  my  money  mys  own 
that,  I  is. 
self. 
I  jist  wants  nuff  to  carry  me  true 
an’  give  me  decent  bu’ ial—that’s all  I 
wants.  Read  an’  write?  No’m  can’t 
do  n’  eithah  uv’em.  Oncet I had chance 
t’  leuahn.  A 
lady  I  wuz  wo’kin’  foah 
bought  lot  uv  book's,  an’  sed she’d luahn 
me;  but”   (sighing)  “ she  moved  away. 
An’  so  I  nevah  had  no  moah  chances  to 
luahn  to  read  an’  rite.  How  old?  Oh, 
’bout  fifty-five.  No,  I  don’t  know  ex- 
ac’ly— ’bout  that.”

And  all  the  colored  people  I’ve talked 
with  (and 
l  embrace  every  opportu 
nity)  are  hardly  as  intelligent as this old 
pensioner  Here’s  from  the  nurse  girl 
in  the  family  of  the  postmaster at  the 
line  station  called  Chickamauga,  near 
the  battlefield:

“ What’s  your  name?”
She  told  me  her given  name.
“ How  old  are  you?”
“   ’Bout  sixteen  oah  seventeen.”
“   *  ’ Bout 

sixteen  or 
Don’t  you  know  exactly?”

seventeen! 

“ No’m. ”
“ Why  don’t  you  know?”
“ Dunno, ”   with  a  gleam  of  dazzling 

teeth.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

When  you  told  me  to  spend  one  day 
on  Lookout  Mountain,  I  could  not  un­
derstand  how  we  could  possibly  put  in 
so  much  time  there.  Nevertheless,  I 
got  an  early  start  and  candor compels 
me  to  admit'that  I  did  not  return  to  my 
hotel  until  late  in  the  evening.  On  the 
car going  to  the  foot  of  the  Incline,  our 
party  fell  in  with  an  old  gentleman—W. 
T.  Rogers,  City  Ticket  Agent  of M.  and 
something  or other  R.  R .—who  showed 
us  all  the  points  of 
interest  on  the 
Mountain.  He 
is  a  typical  Southern 
gentleman  of  the  old  school,  whom 
everyone  here  seems  to  know,  and  ac­
costs  as  “ Uncle  Billy. ”   He  says  that 
he  doesn’t  know  everybody  here—he 
“ only  knows  half  the  people  and  the 
other half  know  him .”   He  has  a  story 
or  illustration  for  everything  he  runs 
across,  and 
is one  of  the  kindest  men  I 
ever  m et;  in  fact,  he’s  one  of  the  salt 
of  the  earth. 
I  can’t  understand  the  at­
titude of these  Southern  people  toward 
strangers  from  the  North.  Everyone 
we  meet  seems  bubbling  over  with 
kindness  of  heart  and  gentle  courtesy 
towards  strangers. 
I  said  as  much  to 
“ Uncle  Billy’^and  asked  him  the  rea­
son. 
“ Well,”   said  he,  with  a  twinkle 
in  his  eye,  “ first,  we  of  the  South  are 
naturally  kind  to  our  families  and  to 
our  immediate  friends.  Then  we  take 
especial  pains  to  treat  people  from  the 
North  kindly,  in  order  to  remove  from 
their  minds  the  idea  that  we  may  hold 
a  grudge  against  them  for  coming  down 
here  and  licking  us.”

Then  I  dropped  her.  No  use  trying 
to  get  information  out  of  a  person  who 
didn’t know  why  she  didn’t  know.

The  “ colored  gem’len  and  ladies” 
are  a  souice  of  endless  amusement  to 
me;  both  their  speech  and  appearance 
Every  hour  I  run  across  the  most  side­
splitting  sights,  and  the  people  who  see 
me must  take  me  for a  grinning lunatic. 
Some  of  the  combinations  are  pitiable 
and  yet  so 
ludicrous  at  the  same  time 
that  I  almost  shriek  with  laughter.  Pic­
ture  to  yourself  the  ricketiest  old  racka- 
bones  of  the  gauntest  kind  of  a  mule, 
astride  of  which 
is  a  healthy  young 
darkey  of  about  25.  On  one  side  of  the 
mule  be  presented  no  unusual  appear­
ance,  except  that  the  hand  that  didn’t 
hold  the  rope  bridle  held  outstretched  a 
pail  of  paint!  For  the  life  of  me  I 
couldn’t  help  turning  around;  and  what 
do  you 
’spose  was  on  the  other  side  of 
that beast  of  burden?  Out  at  an  angle 
of  45  deg.  was  sticking  a  wooden  leg 
with  a  round  knob  on  the  end  of 
i t !  I 
shall  see  that  wooden  leg  to  the  end  of 
my  natural  existence.

H.  E.  Sto w e.

it 

invaluable 

One  pleasant,  desirable article  of food 
is 
in  fostering  sleep,  and 
that  is  lettuce  salad—not  merely  lettuce 
— lettuce 
is  good—but  the  oil  and  fla­
voring  of  garlic  that  go  to  making  a 
good  salad  of 
increase  greatly  its 
soothing  powers.  The  garlic 
is,  of 
course,  merely  rubbed  on  the  dish,  but 
a  pretty thorough  use  of  it  in  that  way 
helps  the  case  in  several  ways:  it,  like 
its  vegetable  kin,  has  a  definite 
all 
sleep-producing  tendency,  and  then 
it 
makes  a  salad  taste  so  well  that  you  eat 
twice  as  much  of 
it  as  you  otherwise 
would,  and  that  is  a  point  gained.  Be- < 
tendency, 
sides 
most  people’s  stomachs  stand 
in  sore 
need  of  more  salad  than  they  get,  and 
they  profit  in  sleep  by  an  improved  di­
gestion.  Very  stubborn  cases  of 
in­
somnia  are  frequently  cured  by  a  steady 
habit  of  eating  such  a  salad  as  de­
scribed  at  the  evening  meal.

its  express  soporific 

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lower prices  than  any  now  before 
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are  larger  than  ever  before,  and 
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at this season  of  the  year.  We  is­
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CommercialTravelers

Michigan Knights of the Qrlp. 

President, Jas. P. H am m e l l , Lansing ;  Secretary, 
D. C.  Slaght, Flint;  Treasurer, Chas. McNolty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  Hart,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

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

dent Association.

Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand Rapids. 

President,'A. F. P e a k e , Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  T yler,  H.  B.  F air- 
child, Jas. N. Bradford, J   Henry Dawley.Geo. 
J.  Hbinzelman, Chas. S.  Rqrinson.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ix s o n ,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

literary  entertainment 

The  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association  gave  a  delightful  musical 
and 
in  its  new 
club  rooms 
in  the  Merrill  block  (De­
troit) 
last  Saturday  evening.  Many 
members  attended  with  their  families 
and  friends,  and  a  large  delegation  of 
Cleveland  travelintg  men  was present.

injured 

Holland  Tim es:  J.  P.  Oggel, 

the 
traveling  man,  while  in  Detroit  Tues­
day,  was  quite  severely 
in  a 
runaway.  He  was  obliged  to  make  a 
drive  and  secured  a  driver  and  rig. 
The  horse  became  frightened,  broke  the 
bit  and  the  driver  lost  all  control  of  the 
animal.  The  outfit  finally  struck  a  high 
walk,  when  both  occupants  were  thrown 
from  the  buggy.  Mr.  Oggel  had  the 
muscles  of  his  left  shoulder  severely 
wrenched,  his  right  arm  hurt  and  sus­
tained  other bruises. 
It  will  be  several 
days  before  he  is  able  to  resume  work 
on  the  road.

farce. 

is  all 

One  of  the  highest-salaried  traveling 
men  making  Kansas  was  talking  with 
a  Wichita  reporter  the  other  day  of  the 
prohibition 
law  of  Kansas,  and  said: 
" I   make  all  the towns  in  Eastern  Kan­
sas  and  Western  Missouri,  and  I  want 
to  say  that  all  this  talk  of  prohibition 
hurting  business 
I  sell 
more  goods  and  a  better  quality  in 
Kansas  towns  than  I  do in Missouri,  and 
my  patrons  are better  pay.  They  need 
not  tell  me  that  the  people  of  a  town 
have  to  guzzle  beer 
in  order  to  have 
prosperous  business.  When  the  people 
of  a  town  spend  their  money  for  beer, 
they  don’t  have  so  much  to  spend  in my 
line. 
I  don’t  mind  a  glass  of  beer oc­
casionally  but  I  prefer  to  sell  goods  to 
a  man  who  doesn’t  use  it. 
is 
a  great  deal  more apt  to have  the money 
when  pay  day  comes.”

I  find  he 

Saginaw  Evening  News:  The  Clare 
Sentinel,  in  its  last  issue,  says  that 
its 
right  bower  went  fishing  recently  and 
having  taken  a  good  deal  of  bait  along 
saw  what  he  believed  was  the  mythical 
airship.  He  says  that  as  it  came  near 
the  ground  he  noticed  that  it  closely  re­
sembled  the  human  form,  only  its  mo­
tions  were  so  rapid  the  eye  could  not 
follow  them.  At  times  it  would  appear 
to  leave  the  earth  and  sail through space 
at  the  rate  of  about 60  miles  an  hour. 
The  Sentinel  man  hid  behind  a  stump 
it  came  down  the  home  stretch 
and  as 
he  found 
it  was  “ T ip ”   Calkins  with 
his  training  suit  on,  fitting  himself  for 
his  coming  race  with  Seth  Davis,  the 
veteran  traveling  salesman  of  Saginaw, 
for  a  purse  of  $20 on  firemen’s field day, 
June  16.  Mr.  Davis  has  no  cull  lumber 
in  his  composition  and  did  not  feel  any 
tremor  when  he  read  of  the  astonishing 
speed  of  the  Clare  sprinter.  He  says

is  a  grounder  and  never 

he 
leaves 
mother  earth  for  any  air  line  run,  but 
he  has  recently  come  into  possession  of 
the  original  oriental  rug,  mention  of 
which  has been  made  in  that  wonderful 
collection  of  Eastern  tales,  the  Arabian 
Nights,  in  which all  the traveler  against 
time  has  to  do  is  to  sit  down  on the rug, 
wish  himself 
in  any  particular  place, 
and  he  is  there  “ presto  change”   almost 
in  his 
before  the  wish  has  formed 
mind.  Mr.  Davis  believes  he 
is  now 
invincible  and  even  electricity  has  no 
show  with  him.
The  Hotel  Clerk,  from the Standpoint 

of the  Traveling  Salesman.

The  hotel  clerk  is  a  young  man  who 
was  originally  created  to  fill  an  Em­
peror’s throne or adorn a  Dukedom ;  but 
when  he  grew  up  there  were  fewer 
thrones  and  doms  than  there  were  Em­
perors  and  Dukes,  and  he  was  tempo­
rarily  forced  to  take a  position  behind 
a  hotel  register.  His  chief  characteris­
tics  are  dignity  of  bearing,  radiant  gor­
geousness  of  apparel,  haughtiness  of 
jewelry.  His  principal 
manner,  and 
duties  consist 
in  hammering  on 
the 
call-bell,  in  handing  guests  the  wrong 
keys  to  their  rooms,  and 
in  keeping 
toothpicks  on  the  end  of  his  desk. 
When  not  engaged  in  the  performance 
of  these  duties  he  will  condescend to ex­
plain  to  a  guest  that  he  does  not  know 
whether the  northbound  train  leaves  at 
3  p.  m.,  and  if  the  guest  insists  on  en­
ticing  further  information  out  of  him, 
he  will  probably  hand  him  a  last  year’s 
official  guide.

When  a  stranger  arrives  the  hotel 
clerk,  in  a  preoccupied  manner,  turns 
the  register  and  hands  the  stranger  a 
pen—a  pen  that  has  an  impediment  in 
its  legs,  catches  in  the  paper  and  splut­
ters  all  over  yesterday’s  arrivals.  The 
clerk  then  consults  some  pigeon  holes 
and  informs  the  gentleman  that  he  may 
have  room  No.  1,192.  Then  he  talks 
for half  an  hour  with  the  porter and  the 
baggage  man  about  the  trunk  of  the 
gentleman  in  No.  46 having  got  mixed 
with  the  baggage  belonging  to  the  lady 
in  No.  64.  When  he gets  the  matter ar­
ranged,  he  sits down  to  polish  and  ad­
mire  the  long  nail  that  he  is  cultivating 
on  his  little finger,  and  forgets  all  about 
the  gentleman  who  has  rented No.  1,192, 
until  he  is  made  aware  of  his  existence 
by  an 
impatient  tap  on  the  counter. 
With  an  air  of  a  martyr,  and  a  sigh 
that  expresses  the  fact  that  he  considers 
the  whole  traveling  fraternity  his  ene­
mies,  he  says :

“ Oh!  would  you 

like  to  go  to  your 

room?”

There  is  about  as  much  hospitality  in 
his  tone  as  there  is  in  a  bull  dog  when 
somebody  treads  on  his  tail.

No  matter  how  crowded  the  hotel 

is, 
the  clerk  always  finds  one  room  left  for 
the  late  arrival.  When  the  latter  kicks 
it  next  day  when  he  is  leaving 
about 
because 
it  was  on  the  fifth  floor,  and 
was  furnished  with  nothing  but  a  bed, 
a  bar  of  soap  and  a  crack in the ceiling, 
the hotel  clerk  tells  him  that  if  he  had 
been  staying  another  day,  he  could  have 
the  best  room 
in  the  house,  which 
would  be  vacated  after  breakfast  by  a 
gentleman  who  was  leaving  on  the  noon 
train.  To  our  certain  knowledge  the 
gentleman  has  been  leaving  that  “ best 
room 
in  the  house,”   every  to-morrow 
for  the  last  twenty  years.

The  hotel  clerk  has  much  to  try  him, 
and  perhaps  we  would  find  many  ex­
cuses  for  what  we  consider  his  exasper­
ating  peculiarities,  if  we  stood  on  his 
side  of  the  register  a  target  for  the 
grumbling,  fault-finding  public.

Some  of the Troubles of the  Traveler.
W ritten fo r the  T rad esm an.

Traveling  men,  as  a  rule,  are an  even 
tempered  lot.  They  take  matters as  they 
come  and  make  the  best  of  any  bad 
job.  They  meet  with  so  many  annoy­
ances,  it  is  a  wonder that  in  them  has 
not  developed  the  kicking  propensities 
of  the  whole  human  race.

With  the  permission  of  our good-na­
tured  editor,  and  the  indulgence  of  his 
subscribers,  we  will  from  time  to  time 
call  your  attention  to  the  things  that 
make  the  traveler’s 
life  unpleasant, 
hoping  that  some of  the  objects  of  our 
complaint  may  read  these 
lines  and 
come  to  realize  that  many  things  could 
be  done to  add  to  our  comfort.

it 

clinging  hair,  and 

The  first  on  the  list  is  the bum  hotel. 
You  have  all  stopped  at  it.  You  can  tell 
it by  its  outward  appearance,  as  well  as 
by  the  odor that  greets  you  as  you  enter 
the  door.  You  carry  your grips yourself, 
and 
if  lucky  enough  to  find  a  clerk  or 
proprietor  around,  you  register  with  a 
pen  that  will  hardy  make  a  mark,  hav­
ing  dipped 
into  the  mud  in  an  ink 
bottle  that  was  never  washed.  You  re­
pair  to  the  wash  room,  where  hangs 
Tosh  Billings’  towel,  “ thin  but  wet.”  
He  forgot  to  say  ragged  and  dirty.  A l­
though  twenty  men  have  used  it  before 
you,  you  are  the first  to kick.  You heave 
a  sigh  as  you  realize  your  unpleasant 
calling.  The grating  of  the  sandy  soap 
the  dirty  hair  brush,  with  its  assorted 
shades  of 
the 
scraggly  tooth  comb  cause  expressions 
that  would  not  sound  well  here.  Having 
done  so  much,  we  go  into  the  dining 
room  with  one  of  those  appetites  that  a 
dyspeptic  would  sell  his  soul  for.  Even 
then  we  are  unable  to  eat  the sole- 
leather  steak  and  the  ancient  eggs  or 
drink  the  muddy  coffee.  We  smear our 
stale  bread  with  oleo  and  our  pie  is 
often  seasoned  with  hair  oil.  Napkins 
and  table  cloth  should  have been washed 
two  weeks ago.  Knives  and  forks  are 
so  greasy  we  can  hardly  hold  them. 
This  is  the  kind  of  a  50  cent  meal  we 
so  often  get.  A  farmer sits  at  our  table 
and  pays  25  cents  for  the  same.  This 
hotel  charges  traveling  men  $2  a  day, 
and  the  rate  to boarders  is $4  a  week. 
We  go  to  bed  in  a  room  that  never  was 
aired,  with  sheets  seldom  changed  and 
the  other  bedding  never  washed. 
If 
there 
is  a  carpet  upon  the  floor,  it  re­
mains  there  as  long  as  it  will  hold  to­
Invariably,  the  bed  faces  the 
gether. 
In  the  winter  icicles  grow 
window. 
abundantly.  Here 
is  we  catch  the 
grippe,  consumption  and  rheumatism. 
In  summer  we  aie  pestered  by  mosqui­
toes  and  bugs.  We  hear  the  bell  boy 
every  time  he  shows  a  guest  to  a  room. 
He  awakens  the  house  every  time  he 
makes  a  call  in the morning.  He usually 
wears  wooden  shoes,  hits  the bedroom 
door  with  a  sledge  hammer and  with  a 
fog-horn  voice  cries,  “ Six  thirty.”   We 
almost  get  to  sleep  again  when  we are 
aroused  by  that  festive  chambermaid 
who  is  musically  inclined,  with  a  night- 
engale  voice,  singing  as  she  works.  She 
delights  in  pushing  a  lawn  mower  over 
the  carpet  and  tries  every  door  knob  to 
see  what  rooms  have  been  vacated  so 
that  she  may  continue  her  morning  ex­
ercises.  At 
find  no 
water 
in  the  pitcher  and  no  towel  at 
hand,  and,  with  a  smile  on  our  face, 
we  open  the  door  and  stick  our  head out 
into  the  hall,  and  ask  the  handsome 
chambermaid  to  bring  the  needed  arti­
cles. 
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers 
Ellis  B.  Clarke  has  taken  the  terri­
tory  vacated  by  A.  W.  Merrit on  ac­

last,  we  arise, 

Ouix.

it 

count  of  sickness.  Mr.  Clarke  needs no 
introduction  to  traveling  men.  He  man­
aged  the  Bay  Port  House,  at  Bay  Port, 
two  seasons  and  was  proprietor of  the 
Dorr  House,  at  Sand  Beach,  several 
years.  Previous  to  that  he was  in  the 
general  merchandise  business  at  Lex­
ington.
Crane,  the  pill  man  (Fuller  &  Fuller 
Co.,  Chicago)  is  busy  nowadays  selling 
goods and  exhibiting  his  pocket  art gal­
lery.  He  lives  in  Negaunee.

June  24  the  Shriners  will  assemble  at 
Calumet  for  work(?). 
The  travelers 
who  are  members  will  find  it  conven­
ient  to  work  the  Copper  country  that 
week.  They  couldn’t  miss  it.
James  Wilson  (Burnham,  Stoepel  & 
Co.)  is  touring  the  Upper  Peninsula 
with  their  regular  travelers.  Mr.  Wil­
son’s  department  is  furnishings.

W.  R.  Smith  left  Trout  Creek  broke 
—went  fishing—no 
lumber 
jack  with  a  few—swapped  cash  for  fish 
—so  says  L.  J. 

luck—met 

Ouix.

Drummers  at  Jerusalem.

According  to  the  British  consular  re­
ports  just  presented  to  Parliament,  the 
new  railroad  from  Jaffa  to  Jerusalem 
has  proved  a  far  greater  commercial 
success  than  was  anticipated,  even  by 
those  who  were  most  sanguine  about  its 
future. 
It  has  carried  more than  twenty 
thousand  tons  of  merchandise  to  Jeru­
salem  during  the  last  six  months,  and 
has  led  to  the  invasion  of  the  Holy  City 
by  some  eighty  to  one  hundred  drum­
mers,  four  of  whom  were  Americans, 
eight  English  and  about  fifty  German. 
Moreover,  public  works  are  proceeding 
apace  in  Palestine,  and  the  River  Jor­
dan 
is  now  spanned  by  a  handsome 
bridge,  while  steamboats  travel  up  and 
down  the  stream,  and  likewise  traverse 
the  often  stormy  waters  of  the  Sea  of 
Galilee.

A  Traverse  City  correspondent writes : 
The  Park  Place  management  has  been 
fortunate  in  securing  the  services  of  W. 
O.  Holden,  who  is  at  present  in  a  hotel 
at  Holland.  The  fact  has 
just  been 
made  known  and  Mr.  Holden  will  be 
here  about  June  1,  or  as  soon  as  he  can 
arrange  his  affairs  to  make 
it  possible 
for  him  to  return.

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Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

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Drugs--Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1896
-  Dec. 31,1897
Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 3l, 1900

C. A.  B i-gh ee,  Traverse  City 
S.  E.  P a r k il l,  Owosso 
F.  W. R.  P e r r y ,  D etroit 
- 
A. C.  Schum ach er,  A nn  A rbor 
Geo. Gu nd rum ,  Ionia  - 

-------- 
- 

President, S. E. P a r k il l , Owosso.
Secretary, F. W. R. P erry, Detroit.
T reasurer, Geo. Guhdrum, Ionia.

Coining E xam ination Sessions—S tar Island (De­
tro it), Ju n e 28 and  29;  Sauit  Ste.  M arie,  Aug.
----- ;  Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C.  Phillips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schroudkb,  G rand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Chas.  Manx, D etroit.
E xecutive Com m ittee—A.  H. Webber, Cadillac; 
H. G. Colxak, K alam azoo;  Geo.  J.  Ward,  St. 
Clair;  A.  B.  Stevens,  D etroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Perry, D etroit.

The  Drug  Market.

Acetanilid— Quiet  and  nominal,  quo­

tations  unchanged.

Acids—Salicylic  continues  firm.  Tar­
is  tairlv  steady.  No  changes  in 

taric 
other descriptions.

Alcohol—Grain  is  in  fair  demand  at 
unchanged  quotations,  and  the  same 
may  be  said  of  wood.

Alum— In  good  demand  at  former 

prices.

Arsenic—Continues  in  good  demand 

and  prices are  firm.

Balsams—Copaiba  is  in  fair  demand 
is  firm.  Canada 

at  old  prices.  Peru 
fir quiet and  steady.

Beans— Vanilla,  steady  with  good  de­
mand.  Tonka,  quiet  but quotations  un­
changed.

Cassia  Buds—Fair  demand  and  firm 

at old  quotations.

Castor  Oil— Prices  continue  without 

change  with  fair  demand.

Chloral  Hydrate— Firm  with  good  de­

mand  at  old  prices.

Cinchonidia— Small  jobbing  demand 

only  with  prices  steady.

Cocoaine— Supplies  continue  limited 

with  prices  firm  and  unchanged.

Codeine— In  good  demand  with  prices 

firm.

Cod  Liver  Oil—Dull  with  prices tend­

ing  downward.

Colocynth  Apples—Quiet  with  only 

moderate  jobbing  sales.

Cream  Tartar—Quiet  and  steady.
Cubeb  Berries—Dull  with  no  change 

prices.

downward.

Menthol— Dull  with  prices  tending 

Morphine—Continues  firm  but  with 

small  movement.

quotations.

Naphthaline—In  fair  demand  at  old 

Opium— Has  been  more  quiet  but 

prices  are  fairly  maintained.

Quicksilver—Continues 

in  fair  de­

mand  at  old  prices.

in  prices.

easier.

Essential  Oils—Anise 

is 

slightly 

Flowers— American  saffron  is  in  mod­
erate  demand  at  former  prices.  Arnica, 
steady and  unchanged.

Glycerine—Continues  in  fair  demand 

at  former  prices.

Gums—Camphor,  good  demand,  do­
increased  re­

mestic  scarce,  causing 
quest  for  foreign.

Iodine—Resublimed  in steady demand 

at  former  prices.

mer  prices.

Idoform— Movement  moderate  at  for­

Juniper  Berries— Prices  of  prime  are 
held  firm,  with  fair  demand  for  small 
lots.

Leaves—Buchu  stronger  and  active  at 
old  quotations.  Senna,  firm  with  good 
demand.

Lycopodium— Moderate but unchanged 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Quinine—On  account  of  a  consider­
able  advance  in  foreign  markets  prices 
are  strong  and  tending  to  advance.

Rochelle  Salts—Quiet  and unchanged.
Roots— Ipecac,  good  consumptive  de­
mand  and  prices  firm.  Jamaica  ginger 
continues  fairly  strong.  Jalap,  dull and 
easy. 
Senega  quiet  and  depressed. 
Serpentaria  has  declined.  Golden  seal 
is  easier.

Salicin— Prices  unchanged  with  mod­

erate  jobbing  demand.

Seeds—The  general market is reported 
decidedly  dull,  but  prices  have  not  ma­
terially  changed.  Dutch  caraway  has 
been  advanced  on  account  of  scarce 
supply.  California  remains  nominally 
firm  but  with  practically  no  movement.
Seidlitz  Mixture—Dull  but  no  change 

in  prices.

Spermaceti-----Remains  quiet 

steady  at  old  quotations.

and

Sugar  of  Milk—Continues  steady  with 

active  demand.

Another  Side  of the  Ouestion. 

Written for the T radesman.

There  has  been,  of  late,  much  anony­
mous  complaint  flittering  through  the 
press  against  druggists  as  a  class,  and 
the  burden  of  this  wail  has  been  dis­
honest  substitution.  Care 
is  taken  to 
make  no  specific  charges  as  to  persons 
or  firms. 
If  there  had  been  any  actual 
infringement  on  proprietary  rights,  the 
courts  have  stood  open  to  redress  the 
grievance  of  any  one  who  could  prove 
his  case. 
Instead,  however  of  choosing 
the  direct  method  of  protecting their  in­
terests  (if,  indeed,  they  were  at  all 
in 
peril),  they  preferred  to  ventilate  their 
complaint  in  the  papers  and 
insult  the 
intelligence  of  consumers  by  dark bints, 
covert  insinuations  and  officious  advice 
as  to how  to  treat  certain  retailers  in  a 
given  hypothetical  case.  They  have, 
also,  joined  with  other  plaintiffs  in  spe­
cialties  and  amended  their  pleadings  so 
as  to  cover  a  wider  range  of  supposed 
malpractice.  Even  the  publishers  of 
some  city  dailies  appear  to  be  joined 
in  the  general 
issue  before  the  bar  of 
public  opinion,  as  is  shown  by  the  fol­
lowing  extracts;

“ Say  ‘ No’  and  stick  to  it  when  you 
‘ just  as 
are  urged  to  buy  something 
good’  as  the  article  you  asked 
for. 
Please  notify  this  office 
if  any  store­
keeper  or  clerks  in  town  try  to  palm  off 
a  substitute  on  you.”
“ The  publisher  of  this newspaper-will 
be  glad  to  learn  of  any  case  where  an 
is  made  to  give  a  customer  a 
attempt 
susbtitute  for  some  proprietary article of 
established  reputation.”

It  is  not  quite  clear  what  the  publish­
intends  to  do  with  the  information 
er 
in  the  last  paragraph.  The 
solicited 
language  used 
implies  that  he  will  be 
made  happy,  at  least;  but,  outside  of 
the  cash  received  for  the advertisement, 
I  can  see  no  financial  gain  for  him  un­
less  it  may  be  a  share  of  the  damages to 
be  subsequently  collected  by  a  suit  at 
law  from  the  party  offending.  This 
is 
a  fair  surmise,  since  publishers  do  not 
usually 
identify  themselves  with  the 
business  enterprises  of  advertisers. 
It 
is  easier  to  understand  the  design of  the 
latter  class 
such  semi-prejudicial 
efforts  to  bluff,  an  invisible  defendant 
out  of  a  court  which  does  not  claim  to 
have  jurisdiction  in  the  case.  Having 
spent  thousands  of  dollars 
in  advertis­
ing  some  special  brand  of  soap,  starch, 
baking  powder,  disinfecting  compound, 
or  never  failing  cure-all  for  the  ills  that 
afflict  humanity,  and  finding  that  by 
reason  of  a  score  of  competing  products 
already  well  known  and  in  fair demand, 
(their  solicitations  among  retailers are

in 

not  so  prolific  of  orders  as  desired,  they 
look  on  the  dealer  who  does  not  choose 
to  overstock  in  their  favor  as unjust  and 
hostile  to  their  interests.

Were  this  charged  openly  and  man­
fully,  rather  than  hinted  at  in  obscure 
phrases 
intended  to  catch  the  public 
eye,  it  would  be  to  theii  credit. 
It 
may  be  well  for them  to  know  that there 
is  more  than  one  kind  of  substitution 
deserving  censure.  Dealers  by  the 
thousand  can  testify  that  many  pro­
prietors  of  specialties  and  their hustling 
agents,  instead  of  being  without  re­
proach  as  to  acts  they  condemn,  are 
themselves  the  most  persistent  substi- 
tutors,  violating  not  only  business  cour­
tesy,  but  also  using  every  possible  arti­
fice  to  force  retailers  to  purchase  goods 
that  their  local  trade  does  not  demand. 
And  yet,  although  suffering  financially 
by  these  peculiar  methods,  the  latter 
have  never  felt  disposed  to  appeal  to 
the  public 
in  self-defense,  but  have 
kept  on  “ sawing  wood,”   and  attending 
to  the  work  of building  up  a  trade  satis­
factory  to themselves  and  customers.

I  allude  to  a  practice  which,  “ better 
honored  in  the breach  than  the  observ­
ance, ’ ’  has  long  been  a  source  of  worry 
and  loss  to  dealers  in  all  lines  of  trade. 
Often  when  failing  to  secure  an  order 
for  some  new brand  of  staple  goods,  or, 
perhaps,  a  novelty  that  is  deemed  un- 
advisable  to  purchase,  these  hustling 
agents  will  canvass  contiguous  territory, 
either  with  samples  or sell  direct at very 
low  rates  to  all  who  will  buy,  hoping  in 
this  way  to create a  fictitious demand re­
gardless  of  consequences. 
In  many  in­
stances  these  uncommercial  salesmen

boast  to  the  dealer  that  they  will  com­
pel  him  to  purchase,  in  spite  of  his 
better  judgment.  Not  seldom  they  suc­
ceed 
in  producing  a  transient  demand 
that,  when  provided  for,  leaves  the  un­
fortunate  local  trader  an  insignificant 
sum  of  profit  by  reason  of  other  spe­
cialties  constantly  treading  on 
their 
predecessor's  heels.  Thus  dealers  whose 
knowledge  of  the  wants of  their  own  lo­
cal  trade  has  taught  them  to  say  “ No”  
at the  right  time  are  still at the mercy  of 
certain  guerilla  methods 
that  would 
fairly 
in  using  harsher 
measures  of  defense  than  those  of which 
they  are  wrongfully  accused.

justify  them 

Here  comes  in  the  practical  applica­
tion  of  another  paragraph  thoughtlessly 
aimed  at  retailers,  but  which 
is  better 
fitted  to  the  class, above  described,  viz: 
“ No  honest  dealer  will  try  to  sell 
what  he  knows  the  customer  did  not  or­
der  or does  not  want. ’ ’

The  true  ethics  of  legitimate  business 
cannot  be  tarnished  by  obscure  charges 
of  dishonesty  against  a  class  of  men 
who  have  almost  universally  shown 
themselves  loyal  to  the  interests  of  the 
public,  because  a  few  promoters  have 
not  succeeded  in  establishing  a  trade  in 
their  specialties  to  the  extent  they  may 
have  desired. 
In  closing,  it  may  be 
pertinent  to  remind  them  of  a  similar 
case  of  misdirected  effort  as  related  by 
Lincoln,  whose  stories  always  conceal  a 
moral. 
is  about  a  certain  hunter 
who,  after  shooting  many  times  at  a  hy­
pothetical  squirrel 
in  a  tree  top,  with­
out  bringing  down  the  game,  found  the 
real  target  he had  been  firing  at  was  a 
hemipterous  insect  located  on  his  own 
eyebrow. 

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

It 

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THE  “ MONITOR.”
Soon  after  o n r  fig a r  D epartm ent  w as  in- 
stitu  e I on its  present  basis,  we  discovered 
a dem and  for a 830 00 cigar of  b etter  quality 
than the usual  goods at  this  price.  We  m et 
this call  w ith   th e  MONITOR,  a  cigar made 
in th e factory w hich  we  control, and by  the 
advantage  we  enjoy  in  th is  respect, w e  are 
able  to  offer  th e  quality  w hich  is  seldom 
found even as low  as $33 00 per M.  A lthough 
our salesm en have  had sam ples  b u t  a  short 
time, we are receiving daily repeating orders 
for th e goods.
We have in this brand a $30.00 cigar which 
we can recommend in the strongest terms.

Morrisson,  Plummer & Co., wtJleM~1

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

19

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Quinine,  Salicylic  Acid- 
Declined—Cod  Liver Oil.

Morphia,S.P.&W...  1  95® 2 20 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co...................   1  85® 2 10
Moschus Canton__  @  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica... po.20  @  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. *  P.
D. Co............. 
  @100
Picis Liq. N.N.Vi gaJ.
doz........................  @200
Picis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba....po.  35  @  30
Piix  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumb!  Acet..............  10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
*  P. D. Co., doz...  @  1 25
Pyrethrum, pv........ 
30®  33
Quassiae..................  
8®  10
Quinia, S. P. «St W .. 
26®  31
20®  29
Quinia, 8,German.. 
Quinia, N.Y............   24®  29
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  24®  26
Salacin....................  3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®  14
10®  12
Sapo, M.................... 
Sapo, G....................  @  15
Siedlltz  Mixture__20  @ 
22

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............  
@  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes......................  @  34
@ 34
SnuffjScotch,DeVo’s 
Soda Boras................  6 @ 
8
8
Soda Boras, po........  6  @ 
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1V4@ 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash.................   3 Vi©  4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50®  55
SpV  Myrcia Dom...  @ 9 00
Spts. Vmi Rect. bbl.  @ 2 42
Spts. Vlni Rect. Vibbl  @2 47
Spts. Vlni Rect. lOgal  @2 50
Spts. Vlni Rect.  5gal  @ 2 52
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2Vi® 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2V4
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse............   42®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 0o
Zinc! Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

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

BBL.  SAL.
70
45
40

31
33
65
34

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
Linseed,  Dolled......
Nea tsfoot, winter str
Spirits Turpentine..

34
36
70
40
Paints BBL. LB
Red Venetian......... m   2 m
Ochre, yellow Mars.
IK  2 @4
Ochre, yellow  Ber..
IK   2 @3
Putty, commercial.. 2 \  2H@3
Putty, strictly  pure.
2V4  2K@3
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............
13® 15
Vermilion, English.
70® 75
Green, Paris........... 13 Vi® 19
Green,  Peninsular..
13® 16
Lead, Red...............
5Vi@ 6
Lead, white...........
5 Vi® 6
Whiting, white Span
@ 70
Whiting,  gilders’...
@ JO
White, Paris Amer.. 
@ 1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff.....................
@ 1  40
Universal Prepared. 1  00® 1  15

Varnishes]'

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

Chamois

5* ^

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.

)  8@* 10
80® 85
@ 15
29@ 41
44® 46
3@ 5
8® 10
12® 14
@ 15
50© 55
5
Hi®
1  40®  1 60
36® 38

4® 6
6®
8
12® 14
12® 14
2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
45® 50
2 50® 3 00

13© 15
6®
8
25® 30

60® 65
@ 2 60
40® 45
80® 85

24@
28(a,
11®
13®
14®
16®

Addum
Acetlcum.................J
Benzoicum, German
Boracic....................
Carbolicum............
Citricum.................
Hydrochlor.............
Nitrocum...............
Oxalicum...............
Phosphorium,  dll...
Salicylicum.............
Sulphuricum...........
Tannicnm..............
Tartaricum..............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbon as.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline
Black.......................
Brown....................
R ed.........................
Yellow....................
Baccae.
Cubesee...........po. 18
Juniperus...............
Xantnoxylum.........
Balsamum
Copaiba.  ..  ............
Peru........................
Terabin, Canada—
Tolutan...................
Cortex 
Abies,  Canadian —
Cassise....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini.......
Qnillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
UlmuB..  po.  15,  gr’d
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza,  p<f----  
Hæmatox, 15 lb box. 
Hæmatox, Is 
........ 
Hæmatox, Vis.........  
Hæmatox, H*......... 

Perru

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

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

Folia

8®

20
25
30
20
10

Barosma..................  
16®
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly...............  18@
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, 14s
and  14s................. 
12®
Dra Crsi.........................  
Gummi
@  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@  45
Acacia.  2d  picked.. 
Acacia.  3d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
@  28
Acacia, po...............   60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.20@28  14®  18
Aloe, Cape__po. 15 
®  12
Aloe, Socotri. .po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafcetlda__po. 30  22®  25
Bensolnum............ 
50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
Catechu, Vis............   @  14
Catechu, V4s............ 
©  16
Camphoræ.............. 
48®  55
Euphorbium.  po.  35  @  10
Galbanum...............   @  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Guaiacum......po.35 
®  35
Kino...........po. #4.u0  @ 4 00
Mastic....................  @  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii..  po. *3.80®4.00 2 50®  2 60
Shellac.................... 
40®  60
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatori um .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesla.
55®
Calcined, Pat........... 
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®
20®
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalæ, Dulc__ 
30®  50
Amygdalæ, Amarse .  8 00®  8 25
Anisf.......................  2  10® 2 20
Anranti  Cortex......   2 00® 2 20
Bergamii.................  2 25® 2 30
75®  80
Cajfputi................... 
Caryophylli............   5 5®  6J
Cedar....................... 
35®  65
chenopadli..............  @ 400
Cinnamonll.............  1  80® 2 00
Citmnella.  ............. 
45®  50

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15

25
30
12
14
15 
17

15
25
80
50
15

35

14
25
35

Althae..................................

35®  65
10®   1  20 
90®  1  00 
20@  1  30 
20®  1  30 
50®  1  60 
@ 
75
50®  60
on®  1 1 0  
50® 2 00 
90® 2 00 
20®  1  40 
60@ 2 20 
65® 2 75
00®  1 10
00® 4 50
75© 3 00
10® 12
5
35
99@ 1 04
@  1  00
50© 8 50
40® 45
90®  1  00
50® 7 00
50® 55
@ 65
40©  1  50
40@ 50
©  1 60
15® 20

Conium  Mae...........
Copaiba..................   1
Cubebse....................
Exechthitos  ...........  1
Erigeron.................  1
Gaultheria..............  1
Geranium,  ounce... 
Gossippti, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma.................  1
Junipera..................  1
Lavendula..............
Limonis...................  l
Mentha Piper.........  1
Mentha Verid......... 2
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1
Myrcia,....................  4
Olive.......................
Picis  Liquida.........
Picis Liquida, gal...
Ricina....................
Rosmarin!...............
Rosse,  ounce...........  6
Succini..................
Sabina..................
Santal......   .............. 2
Sassafras.................
Sinapis, ess., ounce.
Tiglfl.......................  1
Thyme 
.................
Thyme,  opt............
Theobromas...........
Potassium
Kl-Barb....................
Bichromate  ...........
Bromide..................
Carb.......................
Chlorate..po. 17@19e
Cyanide..................
Iodide......................2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
Potass Nitras, opt...
Potass Nitras...........
Prussiate.................
Sulphate p o ...........
Radix
Aconitvm...............
Anchusa.................
Arum po..................
Calamus.................
Gentiana........po  15
Glychrrhiza.. ,pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po..
Inula, po.................
Ipecac, po............... 2
Iris plox —  po35@38
Jalapa, pr...............
Maranta,  54s...........
Podophyllum, po__
R hei.......................
Rhei, cut.................
Rhei.pv..................
Spigelia...................
Sangui naria... po. 40
Serpentaria............
Senega....................
Similar,officinalis H
Smilax, M...............
Scillae............ .po.35
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a...............
Zingiber j ...............
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
@  12
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®  15
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Carui............ po. 18  10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8®  10
Cannabis  Sativa__  3¡4® 
4
Cydonium............... 
75®  1  00
10®  12
Cnenopodium........ 
Dipterlx  Odorate...  2 90® 3 00
Fcenlculum............   @ 
10
9
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
Lini.........................  2 Vi® 
4
4
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 2V4  3V4@ 
Lobelia..................   35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3V4@ 
4
Rapa.......................  4V4® 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7® 
8
Sinapis Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spiritus

15® 18
13® 15
48® 51
12® 15
16® 18
50® 55
65® 2 75
29® 31
@ 15
8® 10
7® 9
25® 28
15® 18
20® 25
22® 25
12® 15
@ 25
20® 40
12® 15
16® 18
@ 35@ 40
15® 20
15® 20
00© 2 10
35® 40
40® 45@ 35
22® 25
75®  1  00@ 1  25
75®  1 35
35® 38@ 35
30® 35
40® 45@ 40@ 25
10® 12
@ 25
@ 25
15® 20
12® 16
25® 27

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

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

@ 50
@ 50
@ 50
© 60
@ 50
@ 50
50® 60
@ 50
@ 50

niscellaneous 

Scillae Co................. 
©  50
Tolutan..................   @  50
Prunus v irg ..........  @  50
Tinctures
AconitumNapellisR 
60
50
AconitumNapellisF 
Aloes....................... 
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
60
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafcetlda............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
50
Auranti  Cortex...... 
Benzoin................... 
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum.............. 
50
Cardamon.............. 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
Castor.....................  
1 00
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
50
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba................. 
50
Cubeba.................... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol...... 
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
50
Digitalis........................... 
Ergot......, .............. 
50
35
Ferri Chloridum.... 
Gentian..................  
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca.................... 
50
60
Guiacaammon........ 
50
Hyoscyamus........... 
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
50
Kino........................  
50
Lobelia...................  
50
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated.. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.... 
Quassia..................  
50
Rhatany..................  
50
Rhei........................  
50
50
Sanguinaria........... 
Serpentaria............  
50
Stromonium........... 
60
Tolutan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrum Veride... 
50
Zingiber.................. 
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
35
?4@
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
38
Alumen..................   2V4®
3
4 
Alumen, gro’d..po.7 
3®
Annatto................... 
40®
50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4@
5 
60
Antimonl etPotassT  55®
Antipyrin.............. 
@
1  40 
Antifebrin..............  @
15 
55 
Argent! Nitras, oz ..  @
Arsenicum..............  
10®
12 
40 
38®
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®
1  50
9 
CalciumChlor.,  is.. 
®
10 
Calcium Chlor., Vis.  @
12 
Calcium Chlor.,  vts.  @
75 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
©
18 
Capsiei  Fructus, af.  @
15 
Capsici Fructus, po.  @
15 
Capsiei FructusB,po  @
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12 
10®
3 75 
Carmine, No. 40  .. 
@
55 
Cera Alba, S. & F  .. 
50®
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
42 
Coccus....................  
®
40 
33 
Cassia Fructus........  @
Centraria.................  @
10 
Cetaceum................   @
45 
63
Chloroform.............  
60®
Chloroform, squibbs
@  1  35
1  15®  1  30
Chloral Hyd Crst__
Chondrus................
20® 25
20® 25
Cinehonidine,P.& W 
15® 22
Cinchonldine, Germ
Cocaine..................
3 55® 3 75 65
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
@ 35
Creosotum .................
Creta.............bbl. 75
@ 2
Creta, prep..............
@ 5
Creta, precip...........
9® 11
Creta, Rubra...........
@ 8
Crocus....................
30® 35
Cudbear.................
® 24
Cnpri Sulph............
5® 6
Dextrine..................
10® 12
75® 90
Ether Sulph............
Emery, all  numbers
@ 8
Emery, po...............
@ 6
30® 35
Ergota.......... po. 40
12® 15
Flake  White..........
Galla........................
@ 23
Gambier..................
8® 9
Gelatin, Cooper..  ..  @ 6 0
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
Glassware, flint, box  60, 10*10
60
Less  than  box.... 
9®  12
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............ 
13®  25
Glycerina............... 
14®  20
Grana  Paradisi  __  @  15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  80 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  70
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  90 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1 00 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  65
Ichthyobolla, Am...  1  25®  1  50
Indigo...................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin...................  @225
Lycopodium........... 
50®  55
.........  
65©  75
Macis 
Lion«'  Arsen et By-
drarglod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit  10®  12
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
3
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  lVi
Mannia, S. F ........... 
50®  60
Menthol  .................   @340

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLB  OREASE.

Aurora...............
....60
Castor Oil...........
Diamond............
....50
Frazer’s .............. ......75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... ......70
...55
Paragon..............

doz. gross 
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acme.

ii lb cans doz...................  45
% lb cans doz...................  85
1 
lb cans doz...................  1 50
W lb cans 3 doz.................  45
% lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk...................................  
10
14 lb cans per doz............   75
% lb cans per doz  ...........  1  20
1 
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
% lb cans 4 doz case........  35
% lb cans 4 doz case........  55
90

lb cans 2 doz case  ......  

El Purity.

Home.

JAXON

Our Leader.

% lb cans, 4 doz case......  
% lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
1 
W lb cans..........................  
% lb cans..........................  
1 
1 lb. c a n s......................... 

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

Peerless.
BASKETS.

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

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

 

BLUINd.

C o n d e n s e d

B L u i t f C

BROOnS.

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes...  40
3 doz. wooden boxes..........  1 20
So. 1 Carpet.......................  1  90
No. 2 Carpet.......................  1  75
No. 3 Carpet.......................  1  50
No. 4 Carpet.......................  1  15
Parlor Gem........................  2 00
Common Whisk................. 
70
Fancy Whisk.....................  
80
Warehouse...............................2 25
Nacretoin, per doz...................2 25
ors—lemon, vanilla and rose. 
8s..........................................7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine................... 
8

Two doz. in case assorted flav­

CAKE FROSTINd.

CANDLB8.

 
CANNED GOODS, 
flanitowoc  Peas.

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

CHOCOLATE.

. 

Walter Baker ft Co.’s.

CLOTHES LINES.

German Sweet........................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, 7%ft,  per doz«........  96

CHEESE.

Acme  .....................   @  10
Amboy...................  @  10
Byron....................   @  9%
Elsie.......................  @  10
Gold  Medal............  
9%
Ideal.......................  @  10
Jersey......................  @  '9M
Lenawee..................  @
Riverside.................  @  10
Sparta....................   @
Brick.......................  @  10%
Edam.......................  @ 75
Leiden.....................  @  19
Limburger...............  @  15
Pineapple..............   43  @  85
Sap Sago.................  @  18

Chicory.

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

Bulk 
Red 

5
7

CATSUP.
Columbia, 
Columbia, % pints 

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

CLOTHES PINS.

6 gross boxes..........................40

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

2%
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Green.
RIo.

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

Santos.

 

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

Mexican  and Guatomala.

Java.

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

Mocha.

Prime..................................... 28
Milled....................................24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth......................27
Mandehllng............................ 28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......  
......... 30
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__30
Wells’ Mocha and Java___25%
Wells’ Perfection Java......25%
Sancaibo  ..  .......................23
Valley City Maracaibo....... 20
Ideal  Blend........................ 16
Leader  Blend..................... 13
Worden Grocer Co.’s BrandB
Quaker Arabian Mocha......31
Quaker Mandehllng Java. .SO 
Quaker Mocha and Java....29
Toko Mocha and Java 
. .26
Quaker Golden Santos.......22
State House Blend..............20
Quaker Golden Rio............19

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package.  In  60  lb. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  12 00
Jersey.............................  12 00
ricLaughlln’s  XXXX......... 12 00
Extract.
75
Valley City % gross 
Felix % gross...............  
i  15
Hummel’s foil % gross 
85
Hummel’s tin %  gross.. 
I 4f
Knelpp Malt Coffee.
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9 
CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden Eagle............... 6 75
Crown................................. 6 25
D aisy...................................5 75
Champion  .......................... 4 50
Magnolia 
.......................... 4 25
Challenge........... ................ 3 50
Dime....................................3.85

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denOm__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Economic  Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

gSiiiiiijg

Universal Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1,000 books, any denom__20 00

Superior Grade.

 

Credit Checks.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

50 books, any denom__   1 50
100 books, any denom___ 2 50
500 books, any denom___11 50
l,000;books,'any denom__ 20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books................. 
  1  00
50 books...........................  2 00
100 books...........................  3 00
250 books...........................  C 25
500 books........................... 10 00
1000 books........................... 17 50
500, any one denom’n ......3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch....................... 
75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOHBSTIC 
Sundrled.......................  @2%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 4 
Apricots....................   9  @10%
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................  6 @
Peaches......................   7%@  9
Pears.............................8 @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................   12
Raspberries................
California Pranas.
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @3%
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @3%
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @4%
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4M
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @5%
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @ 7%
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.  ......  @
% ,"ent less in 50 lb cases 

California Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

1 55 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
2 50
London Layers 5 Crown. 
Dehesias..........................  
3 25
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  4%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  5%
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown  6

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Patras bbls...................... @ 5%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ @ 5%
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @ 6%
Cleaned, packages........... @ 7
Citron American 10 lb  bx  @14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12 
Orange American 101b bx  @12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes.......  @
Sultana  1 Crown...........  @
Sultana 2 Crow n.........   @8
Sultana 3 Crown...........  @
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @
Sultana  5 Crown 
@

Raisins.

FLY 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

3%

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
Farina.
B ulk.......................... .... 
3
Grits.
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s... ....2 00
Hominy.
...2 25
Barrels  ......................
...1  00
Flake, 50 lb.  drums...
Lima Beans.
Dried 
......................
.... 
Macearon! and Yermlcelll.
...  60
Domestic,  101b. box.
...2 50
Imported,  25 lb. box..
Pearl Barley.
Common....................
1M
... 
Chester.....................
...  2
Em pire......................
...  2%
Green,  bu...................
...  80
... 
Split,  per lb...............
Rolled  Oats.
..  .3 30
Rolled Avena,  bbl..
Monarch,  bbl............
.  .2 80
Monarch.  %  bbl........
...1  55
Private brands,  bbl. ...2 ’75
...1  50
Private brands, %bbl.
Quaker, cases............
...3 20
... 
German.....................
4
East  India...............
...  3%
Wheat.
Cracked, bulk............ .... 
8
24 2 lb packages......... ....2 40

Sago.

Peas.

2%

Fish.
Cod.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured............ @  3%
Georges  genuine.......
@ 4
Georges selected.......
@ 5
Strips or bricks......... 5  @ 8
Halibut.
Chunks................................  
Strips................................  
9
Holland white hoops keg 
60 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  7 50
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 50
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled..................................  
No. 1 100 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 lbs....................
Russian kegs.................... 
No. 1,1001b. bales............
No. 2,100 lb. bales............
No. 1100 lbs......................  4 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 03
No. 1  10 lbs 
..................  
56
No. 1  8 l b s .................... 
49
No. 1 No. 2 Fam
100 lbs.... ....  6 25
1  85
5 00
1 05
40lbs  ... ....  2 80
2 30
65 1  34
10 lbs.... .... 
78
8 lb s... .... 
30
55
65
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

Whlteflzh.

Trout.

56

Jennings’ .

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.......  75
2oz.......1 20
3 oz.  ...’.1  00
3 oz....... 1  50
4 oz.......1  40
4 oz.......2 00
6 oz.......2 00
6 oz.......3 00
No.  8.. .2 40 
No.  8  4 00
No. 10.. .4 00 
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T.l  fio
No  4 T.2 40
Sage.....................................  15
Hops....................................  15
Madras, á  lb  boxes............  56
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
15 lb  palls............................  30
171b  pails............................  34
30 lb pails............................  60
Condensed, 2 d o z ............. 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz...............2 25

INDIGO.

HERBS.

JBLLY.

LYE.

Bonders’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world  for 

Best 
money.

Jackson Liquid, 1 oz
Jackson Liquid, 2 oz.........  
98
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz.........   1  30

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs...................................4 25
Half Kegs...........................2 40
Quarter Kegs...................... 1  35
1 lb  cans.............................   30
%  lb cans............................  18
Kegs...................................4 00
Half Kegs...........................2 25
Quarter  Kegs.....................1 26
1 lb  cans..........................  .  34
10
Kegs .... 
.......................... 8 00
Half Kegs...........................4 26
Quarter Kegs...................... 2 25
lib  cans...............................  45
Pure.....................................  30
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily...................................   14
13
Root.....................................   10
Ideal, 3 doz. in case........... 2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

MINCE MBAT.

nATCHBS.

LICORICE.

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

nOLASSES.
Now Orleans.

Black................................ 
11
14
F air..................................  
Good.............................  
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
PennaSalt  Co.’s......................8 00

POTASH.

PICKLES.
rtedlum.

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

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head....................  6%
Carolina  No. 1...................   5
Carolina  No. 2..................   4%
Broken...............................  3
Japan,  No. 1......................  5%
Japan.  No. 2......................  5
Java, No. 1.........................  4*
Table  ................................   5%
A nise...............................  18
Canary, Smyrna................  4
Caraway..........................   10
Cardamon,  M alabar......  80
Hemp,  Russian...............   4
Mixed  Bird......................  4%
Mustard,  white...............  
6%
Poppy  .............................  
8
Rape................................  
6
Cuttle Bone........ 
.....  20

SEEDS.

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .............................3 8t
Deiand’s .............................3  15
Dwight’s .............................3 30
Taylor’s.............................. 3 00
Granulated, bbls............. 1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lump, bbls.......................  
1
Lump, 1451b kegs............. 1  10

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes..............1 50
Barrels,  ino  3 lb bags.........2 75
Barrels.  40  7 lb bags.........2 40
Butter, 28 lb. bags...............  30
Butter, 56 lb  bags...............   60
Butter, 20  14 lb  bags............ 3 00
Butter, 2801b  bbls...............2 50

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks.........................2 60
60 5-lb sacks.........................1 85
2811-lb sacks....................... 1 70

Worcester.

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

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

56-lb dairy In iinen sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

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

Common Fine.

Saginaw.............................   70
Manistee 
..........................   70
SNUFF.

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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground in Bulk.

Allspice  .............................   9
Cassia, China in mats........  10
Cassia, Batavia In bund...  20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................60
Nutmegs, fancy................  .60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot........................10
Allspice  ..............................12
Cassia, Batavia...................22
Cassia,  Saigon................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna................20
Cloves, Zanzibar..................15
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.....................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,......................40@£0
Pepper, Sing., black.... 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white__15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage......................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels.............................   12
Half  bblB.........................  14
Fair  ................................   16
Good................................   20
Choice.............................   25
Boxes....................................5%
Kegs, English......................  4M

SODA.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.

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

SOAP.

m s s s m

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

Lana  Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

 

Acme. 70 1 lb. cakes.

Acme, 601 lb  cakes.

Single box............................3 43
5 box lots..........................  3 35
10 box lots............................ 3 28
25 box lots........ 
3 23
Single box............................3 00
5 box lots............................2  90
10 box lots 
.........................2 85
25 box lots..........................  2 80
One box free with 5;  two boxes 
free  with  10;  five  boxes  free 
with 25.
Single box..........................  2 85
5 box lots............................2
10 box lots............................ 2 70
25 box lots............................2  66
Single box............................2 85
5 box lots............................S
10 box lots..........................  2 70
25 box lots............................2 65

Acorn, 120 cakes, 7-i lbs.

Acme, 5 cent size.

Marseilles White.

So a p

109 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box  ........................  5 75
5 box lots  ........................  5  65
10 box lots 
.....................   5  60
25 box lots 
.........................5 50
Single box..........................   4  00
5 box lots  ........................   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.......
Clydesdale......   ........
...... 2 85
No Tax.......................
...... 2 50
German Mottled......
.......1  85
Electro....................... ....... 3 25
Oleine, white  ............ ....... 2 55

Thompson A Chute's Brand.

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages.....................   4
3-lb  packages.....................   4
6-lb  packages  .................. !  4ft
10 and 50 lb boxes...............   2ft
’turréis 
2ft

STOVE POLISH.

No. 4, 3 doz in case............  4  50
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
Cubes................................... 4 75
Powdered  .......................... 4  75
XXXX  Powdered.................4 88
Mould  A...............................4 75
Granulated in bbls............... 4 50
Granulated in  bags..............4 50
Fine Granulated.................. 4 50
Extra Fine Granulated..... 4 63
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4 63
Diamond  Confec.  A..........4 50
Confec. Standard A..............4 38
No.  1................................... 4 2a
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 A Perrin’s, small.......2 75
Halford,  large..................3 75
Halford small................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large....... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small.......2 65

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-JeweU-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick........................... 35 00
Morrison, Plummer A Co.’s  b’d.
Governor Yates, 4ft in.......58 00
Governor Yates, 4ft in .......65 00
Governor Yates, 5ft in___ 70 00
Monitor................................30 00
Quintette.............................35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. A P. Drug Co.’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, delivered........... 2 50
Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars  . .2  20
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 ft -lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 25

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 do z...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand. 3 doz...........2 40

STARCH.

Kingsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................6
20 1 lb packages...................  654
Kingsford’s  Silver  Glose.
40 1-lb packages...................  6ft
6-lb boxes..........................7
64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 

Diamond.

Common  Corn.
 

20-lb boxes.............. 
4ft
40-lb boxes.......................... 4if

 

WICKING.

VINEGAR.

Fresh Fish.

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 
N o. 0, per gross....................   25
No. 1, per gross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, per gross....................  75
Fish and  Oysters
Per lb. 
@  8 
@  7
©  10 
@  12ft 
@  4
©  12 
@  15 
@  17 
@  10 @  8 
@  7
©  6 
©  7
&  13
20

Whitefish...............
T rout.....................
Black Bass..............
Halibut..................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod.........................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River  Salmon..
Mackerel 
..............
F. H. Counts...........
F. J. D. Selects........
Anchors..................
Standards...............
Shell Goods.
OTBters, per  100......... 1
Clams,  par  100.........

Oysters In Cans,

25@1  50 
9001 00

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

___  

Mixed Candv.

Fancy-In Bulk.

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

bbls.  pails
Standard................. 
5ft@ 7
5ft@ 7
Standard H.  H.......  
Standard Twist......  6  @ 7
Cut Loaf................. 
7ft@ 8ft
cases
_
Extra H.H.............. 
© 8ft
Boston  Cream........ 
@ 8ft
Competition............ 
© t>
Standard................. 
@ eft
Leader  ..................  
@ 7
Conserve................. 
@ 7
©  7ft
Royal.....................  
©
Ribbon__\  ............ 
Broken  ..................  
© 8
Cut  Loaf................. 
©  «
English Rock......... 
@ 8
Kindergarten.........  
©   aft
© 9
French  Cream........ 
Dandy Pan.............  
@10
Valley Cream.........  
©13
Lozenges, plain...... 
©  9
Lozenges,  printed.. 
© 9
Choc.  Drops...........  11  ©14
Choc.  Monumentals 
©12ft
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
© 714
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
© gft
Imperials...............  
@ Sft
Lemon Drops.........  
©50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops__ 
©65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
@50
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@55
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@55
Imperials...............  
©55
Mottoes..................  
@65
Cream Bar.............. 
@o0
Molasses B a r......... 
©50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
©go
String Rock............  
Burnt Almonds...... 125  ©
Wintergreen Berries 
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
„boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .  ..............
Fresh  Meats.
.  0 @ 7
.  5 @ 6
•  7ft@  9
.11 @14
.  9 @12
.  7 @  7ft
4 @ 5
@ 4

Beef.
Carcass...............
Forequarters............   5
Hind  quarters...........  7
Loins  No.  3...............  it
Ribs.................
Rounds  ...........
Chucks............
Plates  ............
Dressed...
Loins......
Shoulders. 
5ft@ 
Leaf Lard.
5ft@ 8
Carcass..................... 7  @ 9
Spring Lambs............ 9  ©10
Carcass

@30
@45

Mutton.

Pork.

Veal.

6ft

Crackers.

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

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

 

W heat.

W heat.........  ......................... 
W in ter  W heat  F lour. 

83

Local  Brands.

P a te n ts ..................................  5  00
Second  P a te n t.....................   4  50
S traig h t................................   4 30
C lear.......................................   4 00
G raham  
...............................4  00
B u ck w h eat...........................  3  40
........................................  2  65

Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
F lour in  bbls., 25c per bbi. a d­

count.
ditional.

W orden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Quaker,  fts ............................  4  40
Q uaker,  f ts ...........................   4  40
Q uaker,  fts............................   4  40

S pring  W heat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell  Wells Co.’s Brand.
P illsbury’s  Best fts ...........  4  60
P illsbury’s  Best f ts ............   4  50
P illsbury's B est fts .............  4  40
P illsbury’s Best  fts paper .  4  40 
P illsbury’s Best  fts paper..  4  40 
B all-B arnhart-Putm an's Brand.
G rand Republic,  fts............ 4  60
G rand Republic, fts............ 4  50
G rand Republic,  fts.............4  40
Lemon A W heeler Co.’s  B rand.
Parisian,  fts ......................  
4  65
P arisian, fts..........................   4  55
Parisian,  fts.........................!  4  45

Olney A J u d so n 's  Brand.

Ceresota,  f ts ..........................  4  85
Ceresota,  f ts .................  . . . .  4  75
Ceresota, f ts .......... 
4  65

W orden Grocer Co.’s B rand.

Laurel,  f ts ..................................   4 65
Laurel,  f ts ..................................   4 55
Laurel, f ts ..................... . . "   4  45
B o lte d ..........................................  j 50
G ra n u la te d ..................! ! .  1  75

M eal.

Feed and  M illstuffs.

St. Car Feed, s c re e n e d __ 12  50
No.  1 Corn and  O ats............11  =0
U nbolted Corn  M eal............11  00
W inter W heat  B ra n ............. 9  00
W inter W heat M iddlings.. 10 00 
Screenings..................................   8 00

The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 

New Corn.

quotes as follow s:
Car  lo ts..................................  28
Less than  ca r  lo ts............   30ft
Car  lo ts..................................   24
Carlots, clipped...................   26
Less th a n   car  lo ts ...............  27
No. 1 Tim othy ca rlo ts.......   11  00
No.  1 Tim othy, ton lots  ... 12 00

O ats.

H ay.

Med’t  Sweets.

@2 re
©2 50
@3 50
@3 25

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Fruits.
Oranges.
Seedlings
96-112......................
250..........................
150-176-200...........
126..........................
150-176-200  ..............
Navels.
9 6 .......................
@3 75
126.......................
@4 00
Messinas.
Fancy  200s..............
@4 00
Valencias.
Cases of 420__
@6 00
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 ib. bags,............
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes..................
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ....  ...........
Dates,Persians.H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  ..................
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
Brazils new...............
Filberts  ....................
Walnuts, Grenobles.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
Table Nuts,  fancy__
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med...............
Pecans, Ex. Large....
Pecans, Jumbos........
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras, 
Roasted  .................

@12
@11
@12 
@ 7ft 
@10 
@ 12ft 
@10
@12
@11
@10
@
@10

@10
@12
@ 6
@ 8
@ 6
@ 6
@ 4ft

@4 00 
@ 7

@ 6

Provisions,

Sausages.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

Barreled Pork.

Smoked fleats.

follows:
Mess  .............................  
8 50
Back  .............................   9 25
Clear back...............  9 25
Shortcut.........................  900
Pig.......................................  12 50
Bean  ................................ 
8 50
Family  .............................  9 50
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies............................ 
5 u
Briskets  ......................... 
5
Extra shorts................... 
5
Hams, 121b average  ___  
10
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
9ft
Hams, 16 lb  average. 
9ft
Hams, 20 lb  average. 
8ft
Ham dried beef........ 
13ft
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
6ft
Bacon,  clear...................... 
7
California hams.............. 6ft@7
Boneless hams.......... 
8ft
Cooked  ham.....................  
11
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...
Kettle...........
55 lb Tubs__ .. .advance
80 lb Tubs__ ...advance
50 lb T ins__ ...advance
20lb Pails.... ...advance
10lb Pails.... ...advance
5 lb Pails__ ...advance
3 lb Pails.... .. .advance
Bologna
Liver.
6ft
Frankfort....................... 
6ft
Pork
6 *
Blood  ............................ 
Tongue...................... 
9
Head  cheese................. 
6ft
Extra  Mess........................   7 00
Boneless  .......................  9 50
Rump..................................  9 50
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
ft  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 50
ft  bbls, 80 lbs.....................   2 80
Kits. 15 lbs...................... 
ft  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 40
ft  bbls, 80 lbs.....................   2 75
P ork...................  
 
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles...............  
Sheep.............................  
Rolls,'dairy................... 
10
Solid, dairy.................... 
9ft
Rolls,  creamery............  
13
Solid,  creamery.........   . 
12ft
Corned  beef,  2 lb........... 2  15
Corned  beef, 14  lb..........14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2  15
Potted  ham,  fts...........  
80
fts.........   1  00
Potted  ham, 
Deviled ham, 
fts.
60 
fts........
Deviled ham, 
1  00 
Potted  tongue fts........
60 
Potted  tongue fts........
1  00

Canned  Meats.

18
3ft
8
60

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

80

75

 

H i d e s   a n d

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

lows:
Hides.
Green...................
Part  cured............
@ 6ft
Full Cured............
• •  6ft®  7ft
D ry ....................... ...6   © 8
Kips,  green........... ...  5  @6
Kips,  cured...........
Calfskins,  green... • ■  6ft@  7ft
..  5ft© 7
Calfskins, cured... ...  6ft@ 8
Deaconskins  ........
..25  @30
Pelts.
Shearlings............
. 
5©  10
Lambs...............   .
.  25©  50
Old  Woo!..............
.  60©  90
Furs.
Mink......................
.  30®  90
Coc u ......................
.  30©  80
Skunk.................... ..  30©  70
Muskrats, spring...
.  12©  17
Muskrats, winter..
8©  13
. 
Red Fox................
.  80©  1  25
Gray Fox...............
30©  70
Cross F o x ............
.2 50@ 5 00
Cat, W ild..............
.  10©  25
Cat, House............ ..  10©  20
Fisher.................... -.3 00© 5 OO
Lynx......................
.1  or© 2 00
Martin, Dark.........
.1 50© 3 00
Martin, Yellow__
75©  1  50
Otter......................
.4  50© 7 50
W olf......................
. 1  C0@ 2 00
Bear...................... ..7 00©15 00
Beaver................... ..2 00© 6 OO
Deerskin, dry, per lb.  15@  25 
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb.  10©  12ft
Wool.
Washed 
..............
-.10  @18
Unwashed...........
...  5  (3U4
Tallow..................
. .. 2   @ 2ft
Grease Butter........
..  1  @ 2
Switches  ..............
..  Ift@ 2 
Ginseng.................
..2 50@2 75
Oils.
Barrels.

fliscellaneous.

Eocene  ......................  @11 ft
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @  8ft
W W Michigan...........  @8
High Test Headlight..  @ 7
D., S. Gas....................  @8
Deo. N aptha..............  @ 7ft
Cylinder....................25  @36
Engine.......................11  @21
Black, winter.............  @  8

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON STONEWARE. 

Butters.

ft gal., per doz.................  50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5ft
8 gal., per g a l.................  6ft
10 gal., per gal.......... ....... 
6ft
12 gal., per gal..................   6ft
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10J3 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
5ft
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

ft gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5ft 

Fine Glazed Milkpans. 

ft gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot., each  Sft 

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

ft gal., per doz.................   40
ft gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   6ft

Tomato Jugs.

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

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Sun............................     45
No.  I  Sun............................. 
50
No. 2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular................................ 
50
Security, No. 1.....................  
65
Security, No. 2................  85
Nutmeg  ......................  ...  50
Climax...............................  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  88
No.  2  Sun............... ..........   2 70
No.  0 Sun, 
No.  1 Sun, 
No.  2. 

wrapped and  labeled__  2  10
wrapped and  labeled....  2 25 
wrapped and  labeled....  3  25 

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
Sun, crimp top,

First  Quality.

XXX Flint.

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

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

La  Bastle.

doz 
Io.  2 doz

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS.

.  4 40 
Doz.

Pump  Cans

LANTERNS.

___  .Tub., glass fount....  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C

LANTERN GLOBBSi 
Io. 0 Tubular, cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
Io. 0 Tubular, cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents...........  45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5  doz.
each,  bbl 35....................   40
No. 0  Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1  doz.  each.........   1  25
No. 0 per gross...................  20
No. 1 per gross...................  25
No. 2 per gross................... 
38
No. 3 per gross................... 
58
70
Mammoth per  doa........... . 

LAMP  WICKS.

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Hardware

The  Hardware  Market.

In  general  trade  there  continues  to  be 
a  fair  movement  of  goods  in  a  small 
way,  dealers  feeling  the  necessity  of 
keeping  their  stock  fully assorted  in  or­
der  to  always  supply  the  demand,  how­
ever  small.  There  is  no 
improvement 
to  note  in  prices  on  the  majority  of  the 
different  lines  of hardware.

is 
it 

Wire  Nails—The nail  market  at  pres­
in  rather an  unsettled  condition 
ent 
is  hard  to  tell  just  what the  fu­
and 
ture  will  bring  forth.  There 
is  every 
indication  existing  that  arrangements 
are being  made  with  the  manufacturers 
of  wire  rod,  which,  if  successful,  will 
control  that  branch  of  the  business,  and 
the  effect  that 
it  will  have  upon  wire 
nails,  staples,  barbed  and  plain  wire 
of  all  kinds  will  be  quite marked.  Man­
ufacturers  at  the  present  time  are  re­
fusing  to quote  prices  on  either  nails  or 
wire,  but 
is  believed  that  in  a  few 
days  the  condition  will  be  definitely 
settled  and  that  jobbers  will  know  at 
what  price  they  will  be  able  to  sell. 
It 
is  believed  that  an  advance  has  already 
taken  place  and,  in  fact, 
in 
sympathy  with  this  movement  are  al­
ready  declining  to  quote  prices  within 
ioc  per  cwt.  as  low  as  a  week  ago. 
It 
would  be  wise  for  retailers,  if  they  have 
good  stock  of  nails,  not  to  give  them 
away  at  cut  prices.

jobbers 

it 

Barbed  Wire— In  sypmathy  with  nails 
and  other  conditions  concerning  the 
wire  rod  pool  now  being  formed,  all 
prices  have  bee»  withdrawn  and  it  will 
be  several  days  before  jobbers  will  be 
able  to  make  any  definite  prices  on mill 
shipments.  Prices  from  stock  at  pres­
ent  remain  as  quoted  in  our  last  report, 
but  may  change  at  any  moment.

Window  Glass—The  advance  that  was 
i  has  by 
made  by  manufacturers  May 
this  time  reached .the  jobbers  and  they 
have  found  it  necessary  to advance their 
prices  accordingly.  The  discount  at 
present 
is  70  and  5  per  cent,  in  box 
lots,  10  per  cent,  extra  by  the  light.

Bar  Iron—Bar  iron  continues  weak, 
with  little  prospect  of  any  immediate 
improvement.

Reports  from  other  markets  are  as 

follows:

Chicago—Shelf  hardware  jobbers  re­
port  a  fair demand,  but  the  volume  of 
business  is  not  yet  up  to  what  it  should 
be.

St.  Louis—The 

jobbing  trade  report 
a  satisfactory  improvement  in  the  de­
mand  for  nearly  all  classes  of  goods. 
Seasonable  lines  are  selling  very  freely.
Cleveland—There  has been  no  partic­
ular  change  in  trade  conditions  since 
our  last  report.  Orders  still  ccontinue 
numerous,  but  are  small.  As  an  ex­
ample,  in  April  we  received  312  more 
orders  from  our  traveling  men  than  they 
sent  in  during  April,  1896,  but  the  total 
did  not  amount  to  as  much  in  dollars 
and  cents.  This all  means  more  work, 
more  expense and  less  profit.

Boston—Conditions  of  trade 

in  New 
England  are  not  unlike  those  prevailing 
throughout  the  country  except that our 
lands  are  not  flooded  and  heavy  rains 
upon  our  bard  roads  do  not  make  them 
impassable.  Customers  have  not  much 
ready  money  and  remittances  have  been 
slow  all  spring.

Philadelphia— If we  were  to  name  any 
change 
in  trade  conditions  during  the 
past  week,  we  would  say  it  was  on  the 
side  of  improvement.

St.  Paul—General  business  for  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

past  month  has  shown  much  improve­
ment and  bids  fair  to  continue.

Portland,  Oregon— Trade 

for  May 
opened  up  in  very  fair  shape,  showing 
increased  volume  in  all  lines.

San  Francisco—A  moderate  business 

is  now being  done  in  all  lines.

New  Orleans— Business 

is  still  very 

quiet  in  this  section.

Louisville—It 

is  pleasant  to  report 
quite an  improved consuming movement 
in  the  staple lines.

Omaha— Increased  business  has  been 
the  ruling  feature  of  trade  the  first  half 
of  May.  A  cheerful  tone  characterizes 
the  reports  received  from  the  interior 
and  prospects are  generally  reported  as 
bright  and  encouraging.
Description  of  a  Unique  Hardware 

Store.
Correspondence Hardware.

While  traveling  in  Missouri,  I  passed 
through,  in  the  southwestern  part  of 
it, 
a  small  settlement  called  Doylesville,  in 
which,  seeing  a  little  store  with  evi­
dences  of  hardware  decorating  its  win­
dow,  the  panes  of  which 
looked  as 
though  they  hadn't  been  washed  since 
“ befo'  de  wah,"  I  dropped  in  upon 
the  occupant,  who  looked,  as  he aroused 
himself  from  a  doze  he  was  indulging 
in,  very  much  like  Rip  Van  Winkle, 
shaking  the  twenty  years’  collection  of 
dust  of  ages  from  bis  dilapidated  gar­
ments.

slowly 

He  did  not  arise,  but  permitted me  to 
get  to  his  chair  or  rather,  stool,  and 
state  my  requirements.  On  my  way 
there,  I  took  in  the  limited  contents  of 
the  little  establishment,  and  it  struck 
me  as  being  the  oddest  collection  of 
general  store goods  I  had  ever  seen  dis­
played,  from  the  fact  that  each  and 
every  .article  I  saw  looked  as  though  it 
ahd  been  there  for  years  and  years,  and 
in  all  that  time  had  not  received  any 
attention  from  a  dusting  brush  or  other 
appliance  to  freshen  up  its  appearance.
As  I  was  only  interested  in  the  stock 
I  was  most  familiar  with,  hardware,  I 
thought  I  would  develop  a  possible 
want,  and  said:  “ I’d  like  to get  some 
nails!”   “ What  size?’ ’ 
“ Tenpenny!”  
knowing,  if  he  bad  any  at  all,  that  size 
“ How  many?”   1 
would  be  a  leader. 
‘ ‘a  pound  would  be  enough,”  
said: 
and  using  his  hand  for  a  nail  claw,  he 
dug  out 
from  a  keg  under  his  little 
counter— in  which  1  could  see  a  few 
brass  headed  nails  made a  yard  meas­
ure,  with  variations  on  the  inside  edge 
—he  dropped 
into  a  rickety 
“ Hatch”   scale,  almost  as  much  cob­
webs  and  similar  dirt  as  he  did  nails, 
as  far  as  quantity  was  concerned,  and  of 
all  the  rusty  looking  nails  I  had  ever 
looked  at,  his  were  the  worst;  had  it 
been  a  keg  rescued  from  a  salt  water 
bath  they  couldn’t  have  looked 
in  a 
deeper and  more  disconsolate  condition 
of  rust. 
I  asked  the  price  upon  receiv­
ing  them,  and  when  1  was  told  “ twenty 
cents  a  pound,”   my  curiosity  was 
piqued  to  know  what  infernal  nail  trust 
stimulated  this  unheard-of  tariff 
for 
“ A in’t  that  pretty 
ten-penny  nails. 
steep?”   I  queried  colloquially. 
“ Wall, 
no,”   he  said. 
“ Never  sold  them  for 
any  less!”   “ How  long  have  you  run 
this  store?”   “ Since  1863,  but  trade  has 
been  durn  light  since  about  a couple  of 
years  after I started.  Why, would  you be- 
lieve 
last  keg  of  ten- 
penny  nails  I  bought  way back  in  1864 ; 
they  cost  $9 a  keg  then,  and  I  don’t  get 
my  money  back  at  20  cents  a  pound.  I 
laid 
in  a  pretty  heavy  stock  of  goods 
for  this  place  that  year,  and  they  seem 
to  have 
lasted  ever  since;  when  I  tell 
people  what  they’re  worth,  they  walk 
right  out  of  the  store,  and  say  every­
thing  is  ten  times  too  high ;  that I ought 
to  go  to  St.  Louis  and  get  posted ;  but 
what’s  the  good  of  my  spending  my 
money  for  that,  I  can’t  afford  to  sell  my 
goods  less  than  cost. ’ ’

it,  that’s  the 

I  told  him  I  should  imagine his prices 
were  greatly  at  variance  with  goods  that 
could  be  bought  now,  but  he  “ wasn’t 
going  to  sell 
less  than  cost.  Why,  I 
paid  two  dollars  apiece  for  them  hand 
saws,  and  a  dollar  apiece  for  monkey I

wrenches,”   which  were  10  inches  long. 
“ They  tell  me  they  can  buy  them  box­
wood  rules  for  ten  cents  anywhere,  but 
mine  cost  twenty-nine  cents,  and  they 
wuz  the  cheapest  they  had. ’ ’  I  asked 
the  price  of  Sbme  4x4  cast  butts  I  saw 
on  his  shelves;  he  said  they  had  “ cost 
him  forty  cents  a  pair.”  
I  really  felt 
sorry  for  the old  man,  nobody  came  to 
his  store;  everybody  there  went  to  a 
neighboring  town  some  twelve  miles 
away,  for  any  accumulation  of  wants 
which  had  developed  among  the  forty 
or  fifty  inhabitants,  who  knew  his  pe­
culiarities  and  didn’t  come  near  him 
unless  the  case  was  an  extremely  urgent 
one.

The  old  fellow  only  realizes  that  he 
cannot  sell  goods  less  than  cost  and  live 
on  any  profits,  so  he  is  waiting  for  ad­
vanced  fluctuations  that  will  put him  in

in  his  stock 

the  swim  once  more.  A  good  many 
things 
if  he  tried  to  sell 
them  would  be  found  valueless,  but  be 
“ has  them  on  hand.”   He  will  prob­
ably  join  the  great  majority  some  day, 
leaving  no  successor,  for he  said  he  did 
not  know  “ no  chick  nor child”  of which 
to  make an  heir to  his  possessions.

Friendship  that  flames  goes  out  in  a 

flash.

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS,

Pay  the  highest  price  in  cash for 

M IX E D   RAGS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  flE T A L S .

Send us a list of w hat you have  and  we  will  quote 

you our best prices thereon.

Carriages,
Road  Wagons, 
Surries,  and 
harness  of  all 
kinds.
AH  kinds  Spray 
Pumps for barrels 
and buckets.
BROWN  &  SEHLER 1  w h o l e s a l e r s ,

► 
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■ •^ ww^wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

I Try  Han sel man’s 
Pine  Chocolates

Name stamped on each piece of the genuine. 

Hanselman  Candy  Co.,

K alam azoo,  M ich. 

426*428*430  E ast  M ain  Street,

♦
♦

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s........................... 
70
Jennings’, genuine  .....................................25*10
Jennings’, imitation...... ............................. 80*10

 

AXES

First Quality. S. B. Bronze.........................  5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.........................  9 50
First Quality. S. B. 8. Steel........................   5 50
First Quality. D. B. Steel............................  10 50

BARROWS

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

BOLTS

Stove...................................................... 
60*10
Carriage new list...................................   70 to 75
Plow.......................................................  
go

Well,  plain...............................  .................#3 25

BUCKETS

HOU5B  FURNISHING aOODS-

Stamped Tin Ware............ ............new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40*10
HOLLOW  WARE
Pots...............................................
.60*10
Kettles..........................................
.60*10
Spiders.........................................
60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2, 3...............................dis 60*10
State......................................... perdoz.net  2 50
Bright..........................................................  
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook's..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
80

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

LEVELS

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
ROPES
Sisal, $$ Inch and  larger........
Manilla...................................
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.........................
Try and Bevels......................
M itre......................................

70

5148

80

dis

WIRE

TRAPS

SHEET  IRONcom. 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 ...................................  3 56 
Nos. 25 to 26...................................   3 70 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 80 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
SAND  PAPER 
List  acct. 19, ’86..........................
SASH  WEIGHTS
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................  
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70*10*10
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market.............................
Annealed  Market.......................
Coppered  Market........................
Tinned Market............................
Coppered Spring  Steel..............
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ........
Barbed  Fence,  painted..............
HORSE  NAILS
Au Sable......................................
Putnam........................................
Northwestern............................. .
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled........
Coe’s Genuine...................................
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought
Coe’s Patent, malleable..................
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages........................................
Pumps, Cistern.................................
Screws, New List..............................
Casters, Bed and  Plate.....................
Dampers, American..........................
600 pound casks................................
Per pound.........................................

... 
75
75
.  ..70*10 
. . .   62V4 50
....  205 
....  170
dls40*lC 
5
dis 
dis 10*10
30
50
80
80
50
80
85
50*10*10
50
654
6*
V4@H...........................................................   12V4
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

... 
.... 

---- 

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal....................................... #575
14x20 IC, Charcoal................... 
.............   5  75
20x14 EX, Charcoal................... 
.............   7 00

Each additional X on this grade, Sl.£>.

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, C h arc o al..............................................   5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal...................................  
10x14 IX, Charcoal........................................  6 00
14x20 EX, Charcoal............................  

Each additional X on this grade, #1.50.

 

 

  5 00

6 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............   1100

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE

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

9

G.  R.  IXX  D AIRY   P A IL .

Muriatic  Acid  as  Baking  Powder.
Big  Rapids,  May  25—In  the  Michi­
gan  Tradesman  of  May  12  I  read  with 
much 
interest  “ A  commercial  conun­
drum—Who  will  solve  it?”   by  Peter  C. 
Meek. 
In  concluding,  he  says:  “ It  is 
to  be  hoped  that  some  expert  professor 
will  throw  some  light  on  this  dark  mys­
tery  and  restore  normal  conditions.”

While  the  writer 

is  not  an  ‘ ‘ expert 
to 
professor,”   he  may  yet  be  able 
briefly  furnish  additional 
light  upon 
this  seemingly  mysterious subject.  Mr. 
Meek  devotes  more  time  and  space  to 
the  mysterious  compounds  known  as 
baking  powders  than  to  any  other  sin­
gle  article and  he  says:  “ Between  the 
dearest  and  cheapest  of  these,  what 
awful  probabilities  hover as  to  the  na­
ture  of  the  ingredients!”

interest 

The  writer 

is  not  a  manufacturer  of 
any  baking  powder,  neither  has  he  a 
in  any,  except  the 
farthing’s 
small  quantity  consumed  in  his  family; 
therefore  he  will  not  be  accused  of  mer­
cenary  motives  in  writing  this  article. 
As  to  the  very  numerous  ingredients 
which  are  said  to  constitute  many  bak­
ing  powders  placed  on  sale,  many  of 
them 
if  used,  would  subvert  the  very 
purpose  intended,  by  ruining  the  sale of 
the  article  at  once  One  article  of  this 
kind  is  alum. 
It  is  incompatible  with 
alkalies  and  carbonates,  and  with  bi­
tartrate  of  potash  (cream  of  tartar),  and 
none  but  the  most  ignorant  would  use  it 
for  this  purpose  at  all.  Two  ingredients 
ouly  are  necessary  for  the  base  of a good 
baking  powder—an  acid  and  an  alkali, 
triturated  with  sufficient  corn  starch  or 
wheaten  flour  to  preserve  their  strength 
and  energy  until  required  for  use,  the 
proportions  of  each  being  kept  in  view 
while giving  directions  for  use.  These 
ingredients,  with  heat  and  moisture, 
form  and  set  fiee  carbonic  acid  gas, 
which,  in  seeking  to  escape  from  the 
glutinous  dough,  causes 
it  to  rise and 
become  somewhat  porous,  while still  ad­
ditional  heat  cooks  and  hardens  the 
mass 
in  that  form.  Thus  our  grand­
mothers  used  the  carbonate  of  potash— 
then  known  as  pearlash—made 
from 
wood  ashes  for  the  alkali,  and  a  quan­
tity  of  sour  milk  for the  harmless  acid 
which,  in  fact,  caused  the  effervescence 
and  set  free  the  carbonic  acid,  as  our 
baking  powder  now  does.  Only  the 
requisite  proportions  of  acid  and  alkali 
for a  certain  amount  of  flour  is  neces­
sary.  All  other  substances—except  the 
flour  or  starch—are  added,  it  at  all,  to 
cheapen  the  product  and afford a greater 
profit  to  the  manufacturer.  Most  of  the 
great  “ hue  and  cry”   about  poisonous 
baking  powders  is the  veriest  bosh  and 
emanates  from  rival  manufacturers  as 
excellent  advertisements. 
That  there 
are  worthless  baking  powders  is certain, 
but  there  are  plenty  of  good  ones  and 
these  are  not always  high  in  price.

One  very 

important  factor  must be 
considered  in  the  cheapening  process of 
every  article  of  commerce,  and  that  is 
the  genius  and 
inventive  spirit  of  the 
age  in  which  we  live.  This  question  is 
constantly  uppermost 
in  the  inventive 
mind:  “ If one  certain  article  will  pro­
duce  a  certain  effect,  will  not  some 
cheaper  article  produce  the  same effect? 
and,  if  so,  may 
it  not  be  safely  and 
healthfully  used?

Fifty-eight  years  ago  I  became ac­
quainted  with  an  English  physician 
in 
Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  was  often  in­
vited  to  dine  with  him  and  his  family.
I  cannot  remember  that  such  an  article 
as  baking  powder  was  then  in  use.  The 
pearlash,  or  saleratus  with  sour  milk, 
and  the  hop  yeast  from  the  breweries 
constituted  the  leaven  for  our bread  and 
cakes  of  that  period,  yet  here  was  my 
friend,  the  Englishman,  using  chemi­
cally  pure  muriatic  acid  (spirit  of  sea 
salt)  with  his  alkali  for  raising  the 
bread  eaten  by  his  own  family,  and  be­
it  to  be  very  superior  and 
lieving 
healthful. 
I  had  been  taught  that muri­
atic  acid  was a  corrosive  poison.  This, 
in  fact,  was  true;  yet  largely  diluted 
it  was  used  as  a  medicine, 
with  water 
and  a  tonic  and  refrigerant;  in 
low 
forms  of  fever  it  was  taken  internally  in 
10  to  20 drop  doses in gruel.  Here,  then, 
was  a  mineral  acid,  formed  by  the  ac­
tion  of  sulphuric  acid  upon  sea  salt 
which,  combined  with  an  alakli,  made

I  remember 
a  new  kind  of  salt  rising. 
the  lightness  and 
sweetness  of  that 
bread,  and  the  light  tinge  of  yellow 
color  it  caused. 
I  believe  that  a  series 
of  experiments  with  this  acid  would 
have  proven 
it  equal,  if  not  superior, 
to  the  cream  of  tartar  held  in  solution 
in  the  juice  of  the  grape  and  at  the 
same  time 
it  would  be  50  per  cent.— 
possibly  a  hundred—cheaper.

We  have  all  of  us  paid  too  much  for 
baking  powder.  May 
it  not  be  that 
science  is  moving  to  conquer?  and  may 
this  not  be  the  resurrection  in  a  new 
form  of  the  “ spirit  of  salt, ”   and  also 
may  it  not  be  the  “ mystery  worthy  the 
investigation  of  an  expert”   which  Mr. 
Meek  is  seeking?

F r a n k  A.  H o w ig .

Beware  of  Ruts  in  Business.

A  rut,  Webster  says,  is  a  furrow  worn 
it  not  be  well  to 
by  a  wheel.  Would 
add  “ and  commonly  made  by  man  for 
the  purpose  of  hindering  his  progress?”
Ruts  are  bad  and  (more  is  the  pity) 
so  many  people  seem  to  find  comfort  in 
them  that  they  follow  them  throughout 
an  entire  career. 
If  we  are  to  attain 
our  end,  make  our  task  successful,  we 
must  leave  the  ruts,  not  stick  to  them. 
It  seems  to  be  a  weakness of the average 
man  to get  into  ruts  easily  and  to  stick 
to  them  tenaciously.  Herein  lies one of 
the  greatest  reasons  why  the  average 
man 
it  is  pro­
verbial  that  nine  out  of  every  ten fail.

is  not  successful,  for 

It 

is  an  easy  matter  to  get  into  a  rut 
and  very  difficult  to  vacate 
it.  We 
must  be  conscious  of  the  rut  before  we 
can  leave  it.  In  many  instances  what  is 
to-day  a  rut  was,  when  adopted,  a  per­
fect  method ;  but  the  times  and  condi­
tions  have  changed,  and  the  method, 
instead  of  progressing  and  changing  as 
well,  kept  on  in  its  methodical  uniform 
way  and  became  a  rut,  and  thus,  seeing 
everything  moving  as  it  has  been  wont 
to  move 
in  a  way  we  know  was  right 
when  we  started,  we  fail  to  alter  it.

This  is  an  era  of  up-to-date  methods, 
and  movements  of  ten  or  twenty  years 
ago  are  out-of-date  ruts. 
If  we  stick 
to  them  we  are  lost.  Ten  years  ago,  if 
you  hadn’t  on  hand  just  what  your  cus­
tomer  wanted,  he’d  take  the  nearest  you 
had ;  to-day  he’ll  get  just  what  he wants 
from  your  neighbor.  Any  kind  of  a 
store  would  do  a  dozen  years  ago;  to­
day 
it  must  be  well  furnished,  well 
kept,  and  inhabited  by  bright,  courteous 
salesmen,  or  the  best  class  of  patrons 
will  not  enter  it.  Ten  years  ago,  a  sim­
ple  announcement  in  a  local  paper  was 
all  the  advertising  a  retailer  felt  called 
upon  to  do;  to-day  he  takes  more 
space,  spends  time  writing  advertise­
ments  that  are  attractive  and  that  will 
sell  goods,  and 
in  every  way  possible 
endeavors  to  make, the  advertising  end 
of  his  business  remunerative.  The  up- 
to-date  retailer  does  this.  He  knows'a 
rut  when  he  sees  it  and  avoids  it.

A  short  time  ago  a large manufacturer 
who  feared  the  presence  of  ruts,  also 
inability  to  distinguish  them,  in­
his 
vited  a  friend  to 
inspect  his  factory. 
The  friend  had  little  knowledge  of  the 
shoe  business  and  only  that 
interest 
which  the  well-trained  mind  takes  in 
any  subject.  But  as  the  manufacturer 
explained  his various methods the fiiend 
was  quick  to  see  faults  and  offer  sug­
gestions.  The  manufacturer  now  claims 
that  this 
interview  pointed  out  to  him 
ruts,  the elimination  of  which has saved 
him $100 a  week.  Perhaps  you  can’t  see 
the  ruts  you’re  running  in.  Ask  some 
friend-some  one  who  won’t 
to 
please  you—how  your  store  looks,  how 
it  compares  with  other  stores,  how  you 
can  improve,and  he  will  probably  point 
out  a  rut  or  two  that  leaving  will  make 
money  for  you.

lie 

Philadelphia 

is  to  have  a  plant  for 
the  purification  of  drinking  water  by 
electrolysis.  Ozone  is  to  be  generated 
by  a  special  plan.  The  action  of  ozone 
upon  the 
impurities  of  the  liquid  is  to 
immediately  oxidize  them,  thereby  aid­
ing  in  the  decomposition  of  the  impuri­
thus 
ties  by  the  electrolytic  action, 
freeing  the  liquid  from  the 
impurities, 
and  at  the  same  time  clarifying  and 
discolorizing  the  same.

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

BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle.......................
CROW  BARS

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

CAPS

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

CHISELS

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

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS

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

70*10
.75*10

70

4

..per lb

..per m 65
..per m 55
. .per m
35
..per m
60

.50* 5 
.25* 5

80
80
80
80

60 
50* 5 
50* 5

doz. net 
55
1  25
........ 
....... dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark’s small, 818;  large, $26........................30*10
Ives’, 1, #18: 2, $24; 3, 830.............................  
25
New American............................................. 70*10
Nicholson’s.......................................  
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................KC&tO

FILES—New  List

 

 

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

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

28
17

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

MILLS

40
40
40
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...........................................  1  eg
Wire nails, base...........................................  1  75
20 to 60 advance...........................................  Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance...................................................  
10
6 advance...................................................  
20
4 advance...................................................  
30
3 advance................................................... 
45
2 advance.................................................. 
70
50
Fine 3 advance.................................   .  ... 
Casing 10 advance....................................... 
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance..................................... 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85

PLANES

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

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

PANS

RIVETS

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

60
60

PATBNT  PLANISHED  IRON

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

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

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

Write  for  quotations  and  monthly  illustrated 

Catalogue.

Wn.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

Manufacturers and jobbers of 
Pieced and Stamped Tinware. 

a6o  S. Ionia St. 

• 

Grand Rapids, Mich!

T elep h o n e  6 4 0

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TH E   LAST  W ORD.

Miss  Rogers  Claims  the  Prerogative 

of Womankind.

Copemish,  May  25— Having  read  and 
carefully  considered  the  reply  of  my 
protest,  both  reply  and  protest  being 
published 
in  the  Tradesman  of  May  12 
under  the  heading  of  “ Is  He a  Gro 
cer?”  
I  cannot  feel  that  my  objection 
has been  met  nor  that  it  is  established 
beyond  question  that  Mr.  Conklin  is 
retail grocer.  Only  one  position  did 
take  in  that  protest  from  which  I  would 
now  care  to  recede  in  the  least  and  that 
in  the  few  lines  at  the  close  i 
was 
which  I  touched  somewhat  lightly  upon 
there  being  but  two  on  the  committee. 
Had  the  third  member  been  chosen,  he 
might  have 
insisted,  first  of  all,  that 
competitors  show  their  right  to  entry 
in  the  contest.  Besides,  a committee of 
three  judges  was  “ nominated 
in  the 
bond. ’ ’

Now,  it  is  but  reasonable  to  suppose 
that  the  National  Cash  Register  Co. 
having  the  matter  entirely  under thei 
own  control,  made  the  terms  of  thei 
offer  exactly  as  they  wanted  them  and 
so  as  to  admit  exactly  the  class  of  com 
petitors  they  wished  to  enter  the  con 
test.  And  plainly  the  Cash  Register  Co 
had  the  right  to  reject any  essay  that 
did  not  comply  with  the  conditions  of 
the  offer  or  that  was  submitted  by  a 
person  not  qualified  to  enter  the  contest 
by  the  terms  of  the  offer.  Had  no  es 
say been  submitted  that  complied  with 
all  the  conditions,  then  they  could  have 
claimed 
from  their  contract 
without  making  any  award  whatever.
competitors  also  had  certain 
rights,  although  I  must  say  that  these 
seem  to  have  been  lost  sight of.

release 

The 

To  admit  retired  grocers,  or  persons 

who  had  at  some  time  been  engaged 
i 
the  grocery  business  but  had  ceased  to 
be  so  engaged,  would  make  the  number 
of  possible  competitors  greater  by 
heavy  percentage.  So  I  hold  that  th 
was an  infringement  on  the  rights  of the 
competitors.

Not  less  important  was  it  that  no  one 
possessing  a  higher degree of proficiency 
than  a  competitor,  by  the  terms  of  the 
offer,  should  be  allowed  to  enter  the 
contest. 
In  a  race  of  three-year-olds, 
would  the  owners  and  backers  of  three- 
year-olds  admit  a  five-year-old  or  a 
seven-year-old  on  the  track?  And  would 
their  objection  be  silenced  by  an  assur­
ance  that  the  older horses  had  attained 
their  proficiency  by  actual  practice  on 
the  track  and  that  what  was  desired  was 
a  display of  the  greatest  possible speed?
Now,  if  the  National  Cash  Register 
Co.  wanted  retired  grocers  or  retired 
merchants  of  any  kind  in  the  contest, 
they  should  have  said  so  in  the  offer  or, 
if  they  wished  a  special  and  enlarged 
meaning  of  the  expression,  retail  gro­
cer,  that  should  have  been  mentioned 
also;  but  in  the  absence of  such  speci­
fications,  I  hold  that,  according  to  the 
laws  of  language,the  ordinary  and  usual 
meaning  of  a  word  or  expression  ob- 
some 
tains-^-not 
special  or  applied 
meaning. 
If  I  agree  to  furnish  a  man 
a  barrel  of  apples,  he  will  not  expect 
dried  apples,  or 
if  chestnuts,  I  cannot 
substitute  horse-chestnuts.

According  to  the  Tradesman  of  May 
12  “ the  fact  that  one  has,  at  some  time 
in  his  life  carried  on  or attempted  to 
carry  on  that  line  of  trade  should  not 
constitute  him  a  grocer. ”   And  in  the 
issue  of  May  5  of  the  same  journal  it  is 
stated  that  Mr.  Conklin  “ is  giving  his 
time  wholly  to  real  estate  matters  and 
renting  and  caring 
farms.”  
How  is  it  that  he  continues  to  be a  gro 
cer,  when  other  people  under  the  same 
circumstances  would  not  be  retail  gro­
cers?  Why  make fish  of  one  and  fowl 
of another?

for  his 

I  would  refer  the  Tradesman  to  the 
opening  of  the article by Julius Schuster, 
of  Kalamazoo,  published  in  the  issue  of 
March  10:  “ It  is  obvious that  the  sub­
ject,  “ Thirty  Years a  Grocer,”   implies 
having  been  actually  and  actively  en­
gaged 
in  that  branch  of  business  for 
that  length  of  time. ”   And  also  please 
note  that  that  able article  is  termed  a 
valedictory  and 
is  spoken  of  as  Mr. 
Schuster’s  “ Valedictory  as  a  Grocer”  
in  the  Purely  Personal  mention.

I  have  qo  personal  acquaintance  with 
Mr.  Conklin  nor  his  business  affairs 
but  having  read  carefully  the  biograph­
in  the 
ical  sketch  of  him  published 
Tradesman,  it,seems  to  me  that 
in  his 
case  merchandising  has  been  one  phase 
in  the  evolution  of  a  man  who  is  now 
capitalist  and  an  investor— in  a  certain 
sense,  a  farmer ;  but  to  call  him  a  gro 
cer,  from  anything  I  can  learn  concern­
ing  him,  is  as  clumsy  and  incorrect  a 
use  of  language  as  to  confound  a  lusty 
barnyard  chanticleer  with  an  unbatched 
egg. 
Does  the giving  of  an  award  to  Mr. 
Conklin  release  the  National  Cash  Reg­
ister  Co.  from  their  obligation  to  give  a 
prize  of $25  and  a  diploma  for  the  best 
essay  by  a  retail  grocer  on  the  assigned 
subject? 

E l l a   M.  R o g f r s.
The  Department  Store  in  Rhyme.

.  .

From the Omaha Trade Exhibit.
W e are the people.

And we*ll tell you somethin? more,
W e are on to all the tricks of trade;
W e run a department store.

W e are the people.

And if you think there’s any doubt,
Just step into our mammoth store 
And we’ll show you all about.

W e are the people.
W e can sell you  anything 
From a mammoth hippopotamus 
To a jay bird on the wing.

W e are the people.
W e monopolize the trade;
In any line of merchandise 
W e have everything that’s made.

W e are the people.

W e sell dry goods, boots and shoes, 
Clothing, groceries, hardware,
Meats, ana all that people use.

W e are the people.

W e know how to catch the fish.
We bait our hooks the proper way 
And catch them as we wish.

W e are the people.
W e subsidize the press;
They touch the button, as it were,
Our clerks  do all the rest.
W e are the people.

W e make specialties, you know,
Of “ fire  sales ” and “ shipwrecked ” goods 
And our schemes are not so slow.

W e are the people.

Then what matter, by the by,
If we scorch our goods, or salt ’em down,
So we do it on the sly ?

W e are the people.

We go on the Barnum plan 
That the world is full of suckers 
And we catch them when we can.

W e are the people.

W e know it is a sin,
But if we didn’t catch the fools 
Someone else would run ’em in.

W e are the people.

W e force small stores to fail,
W e take ’em in and sell ’em out;
W e are the department whale.

W e are the people.

W e empty buildings by the score,
W e paralyze all real estate 
Except around our store.
W e are the people.
In child labor we excel;
W e employ many females, too,
W ho are on the road to —well!

W e are the people.

And we do just as we please.
And every time that we take snuff 
The public has to sneeze.
A  Meritorious  Measure.

The  Adams  general 

insolvency  bill 
passed  the  House  of  Representatives 
May  18 by  a  narrow margin of .two votes. 
Representatives  Edgar  Bricker  and 
Donovan  attacked  the  bill  and  Repre­
sentatives  Adams  and  Graham  fought 
for  it.  When  the  end  of  the  roll  call 
had  been  reached,  there  was  still  one 
vote  shy  of  enough.  The  announcement 
of  this  fact  caused  three  representatives 
to  flop  and  the  bill  passed  by  a  vote  of 
53  to  27. 
It  is  built  on  the  lines  of  the 
Torry  bill,  and  is  practically  the  same 
measure  that  was before  the  Legislature 
two  years  ago.

A  farmer  of  Clare  county  has  found 
increase  the  egg-laying 
that  he  can 
abilities  of  his  hens  by  feeding  to  them 
old  newspapers  torn  to  bits  and  soaked 
in  sour  milk  until  the  whole  becomes  a 
pulp.  The  hens,  it 
is  said,  like  the 
new  food  and  the  inventor  expects  to 
see  almost  any  day  one  of  the  freak 
papers  come  out  with  the  picture  of  a 
hen  that  sets  type.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Beaten  by  a  Drumm.

if  deep-toned  musical 

It's  generally  the  man  that  beats  the 
drum,  but  a  West  Owosso  butcher  en­
joys  the  enviable  distinction  of  being 
beaten  by  a  Drumm.  Not  one  of  the 
useful, 
instru­
ments  used 
in  a  brass  band,  but  a  fel­
low-mortal  with  that  high-sounding cog­
nomen.  Drumm  came  from a neighbor­
ing  town  and  bought  the  butcher’s  meat 
market,  promising  to  pay  for  it  out  of 
the  sales.  He  of  the  resounding  title 
stayed  three  weeks,  without  paying  a 
cent  for anything,  and  then  left  between 
two  days.  When  the  butcher  came  to 
take 
inventory  he  found  a  very  slim 
stock  of  meats,  no  money  in  the  till,and 
three  weeks’ rent  to  pay.  The  story  got 
out,  and  Owosso  people  figure  that,  as 
the  Drumm  beat  the  butcher,  the  butch­
er  couldn’t  beat  a drum,  not  to  say  any­
thing  else.  Drumm  is  quite  proficient 
at  beating  as  he  beat  the  butcher,  and 
also  when  matters  come  to  a  crisis,  to 
beat  a  retreat;  which  shows  him  rather 
an  accomplished  Drumm.  The  butcher 
thinks  it  isn’t  such  a  snap  to  be  beaten, 
and  says  it  does  beat  all  that  he  had  to 
be  beat  by  a  Drumm.  When  they  men­
tion  deadbeats,  nowadays,  the  butcher 
gets  red  as  a  beet,  and  changes  the  sub­
ject  to  policemen’s beats.
Again  in  the  Hands  ot  the  Governor.
Lansing,  May  25— This  morning  we 
passed  the  hawkers  and peddlers bill,  as 
amended,  and  had 
it  given  immediate 
effect,  so  it will become a  law  as  soon  as 
the  Governor  signs  it.

The  bill,  as  amended,  calls  for  a  flat 
$5  fee  in  towns  of  less  than  i,oco  popu­
lation;  in  townships  of  1,000  and  not 
over  2,500 population,  not  less than  $10 
or  more  than  $20;  in  townships  whose 
population  exceeds  2,500,  not  less  than 
$15  or  more  than  $30.  We  also  injected 
a  clause  to the  effect  that  the  peddler 
must  show  his  license  on  demand  of any 
person. 

S.  W.  Ma y e r.

C.  E.  Blakely,  the  Mancelona  drug­
gist,  was  recently  married  to  Miss Della 
Fleet.  The  Tradesman  extends  con­
gratulations.

Association Matters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. Wisi.br, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Stowr,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatman, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President, Henry C. Weber, Detroit; Vice-Pres­
ident.  Chas. F. Bock,  Battle Creek;  Secretary 
Treasurer, Henry C. Minnie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, Joseph Knight;  Secretary, E.  Marks; 
Treasurer, N. L. Koenig.
Regular Meetings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of  each  month  at German Salesman’s 
Hall.

Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
President,  E. C. Winchester;  Secretary, Homer 
K i.Ai'.  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  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 reanor;  Vice-President, John 
McBkatnic;  Secretary,  W.  H  Lew is;  Treas­
urer, L ouie  Schwermeh.
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 

evenings of each month at Elk’s Hall.

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

te r;  Treasurer, J.  F.  Hblmer.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Darling;  Treasurer, L.  A. Gilkey.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  Gafney;  Secretary,  E  F. 

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

President,  Thos.-T .  Ba tes;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D. Whipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp­

bell;  Treasurer, W. E.  Collins.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

Partridge.

WANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  Inserted  under  this 
head for two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion 
and  one cent a  word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
a5 cents.  Advance payment.

BUSINESS  CH ANCES.

305

and warehouse.

For  r e n t-
BRICK  HARDWARE  STORE 
Owing to sickness a chance 
in  a  lifetime  to  step  into  an  oid-estanlished 
business in one of the best towns and best  fitted 
up  hardware  stores  in  Miehigm.  Low  rent. 
A. S. Mitchell, Nashville, Mich. 
W ILL GIVE  100  CENTS  ON  THE  DOLLAR 
for stock of merchandise  in  excnange  for 
good  piece  of  real  estate.  Address  Box  93, 
Memphis, Mich. 
IT'OR  SALE—JOB  LOT  OF  NEW  AND  SEC 
Il’OR  RENT—LARGE  STORE  IN  NO  1  Lo­

'  ondhand  Cash  Registers.  Very  cheap, 
Peck’s,  Standard’s,  etc.  Address  J. N. Biddle, 
226 South Clinton St., Chicago.

lines: 
Boots and  shoes, clothing, house  furnishing  or 
hardware.  Call,  phone  (317)  or  address  B.  S. 
Harris, 525 South Division St., Grand Rapids.
___________303_
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.  Addiess No. 
300
300  care Michigan Tradesman. 

cation  for  any  of  the  following 

301

295

294

296

■ ILLAGE  LOTs  IN  GOOD  TOWNS IN TEN,- 

nessee and  Missouri  and  farming  land  in 
Crawfoid county, Mich., to  exchange  for  news­
paper outfit  Address  Lock  Box  132,  St.  Louis, 
Mich. 
W , ANTED—TO  TRADE  16u  ACRES  OF 
tt 
land in Grand Traverse county, four miles 
from  good  town  on  railroad,  for  drug  Btock. 
Address Lock Box 23, Central Lake, Mich.  297 
ANTED—PARTNER  WITH  $2,000*  FOR 
ulie-half interest  in  hardware, stoves and 
tinshop, plumbing  anJ  furnace  work  aud  job­
bing. ro  fi. g.  etc.  Have  several  good  jobs  on 
hand and a well-established trade;  best location 
in heart of city.  Address Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
Mich. 
T O   KENT—THE  WHOLE  OR  A  PART  OF 
X  ground  floor and  basement,  68x100,  lu  the 
Sp:on block, co;ner  Lyon and  Kent  street;  fine 
place for large  grocery  and  market, restaurant 
or  beer  saloon. 
John  C.  Dunton,  76  Ottawa 
street. 
WANTED-WE  ARE THE  OLDEST, LARG- 
est and best laundry in the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids  We  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. 
W’e pay  a  liberal commission and  give  satisfac­
tory service  Terms on application.  American 
Steam Laundry, Oite Brothers, proprietors.  289
W ANTED  TCT EXCHANGE—CHOICE  RES- 
idence in Charlotte for stock  of  merchan­
dise.  Cash for difference, if any.  Address Box 
277
643, Charlotte. Mich. 
IflOR  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 
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 
I?OR  SALE- 
THE  WHITNEY  DRUG  STOCK 
.  and  fixtures at  Plainwell.
i at  Plainwell.  Stock will inven­
tory $1,000 to $1,200;  fixtures are first-class;  rent 
low;  terms,  small  cash  payment,  long time  on 
balance.  Address F. E. Bushman,  South  Bend, 
Ind., or apply to  E.  J.  Anderson,  at  Plainwell, 
who Is agent and has the keys to store. 
229
IT'OR  SALE  CHEAP—STOCK  OF  SECOND.
hand  grocery  fixtures.  Address  Jos.  D- 
233
Powers, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
Ru b b e r  sta m ps  a n d  r u b b e r
TYPE.
Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich.
160
tflOR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
X   farms for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- 
man. 
73
W ANTED—1,000  CASES 
FRESH 
F.  W. EGGS,
daily.  Write  for  prices. 
Brown,
Ithaca, Mich.
249

262

306

M ISCELLANEOUS.
house. —  po sitio n  w it h  

W ANTED 
jo b b in g
Five years’ experience with whole­
sale  grocery  as  shipper,  biller  and  traveling 
salesman.  Address  R,  96  Jefferson  avenue. 
Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
OUNG MAN  OF EIGHT  YEARS’  RYPERT- 
ence desires  situation  as  clerk  in  grocery 
or  general  store.  Excellent  references.  Ad- 
dresB A. Collins, Bad Axe, Mich. 
301
W ANTED—SITUATION AS  BOOK-KEEPER 
by a young  man  of  25.  Thoroughly  com­
petent and can make  himself  generally  useful 
In  an  office.  Best  of  references.  Ten  years’ 
business  experience.  Address  W„ care  Michi- 
gau Tradesman. 
¿3t
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

. 

DECORD  OP j*
V   WOOL  PURCHASES
Wool  dealers  should  provide  themselves  with 
one of the Tradesman Company’s  Improved  Wool 
Records, by means of which an accurate  and  com­
pact account of every  purchase  can  be  kept  Sent 
postpaid on receipt of $1.

Grand Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. Kate;  Secretary, Philip Hil b e r ; 

Treasurer, S. J. Hufpobd.

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapid«.

“ Ice  Cream  Lost  or  Wasted.”

W in

for you to show  the 
Michigan  Galvan­
ized  Iron  Washe 
with  r e v e r s i b 1 
washboard.  A n y  
kind of w ringer can 
be used.

W rite  for  special 
inducements  to  in­
troduce it.

REED & CO., Eagle, Mich.

The  New  Round 
Grand  Rapids 

Ice  Cream  Cabinet

W ill  make  ciphers  of  the 
figures  opposite  this  item.

It is handsome and in  keeping  w ith  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 sices from 8 to 40 quarts.
Send for Description and prices.

Chocolate  Cooler Co.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Kneipp M a lt F ood Co.

BY

C.  H .  STRUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio, 

Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

“There  are  Others”

But  none  but  the  World 
Challenger that will never 
be  relegated  to  the  rub­
bish  department.

We  have 

the  patent 
covering every device that 
rests  on  the  top  of  the 
pail  and  all  persons  are 
warned  against  infringe­
ment.— N.  B.

The  construction  of the 
World Challenger is scien­
tifically  adapted  to  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  de­
signed  and  is  as  good  for  Dried  Fruits  and  Raisins 
as  it  is  for  Tobacco.  You  do  not  have  to  detach  the 
cover  to  serve  a  customer.  Therefore  your  goods 
are  always  covered  and  always  held at  par.

Devereaux  &  Duff,  Owosso.  Mich.

Manufacturers  and  Owners  of  the  Patent.

DIAMOND
CRYSTAL
SALT

m akes  trade— keeps  trade—  
w ill  do  the  sam e  for  you.

See Price Current.

DIAMOND  CRYSTAL  SALT  C.,  St.  Clair,  Mich.

The  value  of  a ll  w ork  or  action  m ust  be 

measured  b y   the  ultim ate  result.

There  has  been  sold  through  the  seed  dealers 
considerably over five million pounds of Slug S hot. 
Unless Slug Shot had proved  a  useful  and  valua­
ble  article  for common use, no amount of advertis­
ing  could  have  developed  the trade or held it.  A s 
a general  Insecticide it stands  unrivalled.
F or pamphlet address,

HAMMOND'S SLUG SHOT WORKS,

B EN JA M IN   H AM M OND. 

FIshkill-on-the-H ndson,  N.  Y.

S l o w t o w n ,  May 3,  1897.

T r a d e s m a n   C o m p a n y ,  Grand Rapids:

G e n t l e m e n —You need not take the trouble  to  send  me  any  more  circulars 
about coupon  books.  I  don’t  like  the  system.  Coupon  books  won’t  wait  on  cus­
tomers.  Coupon  books  won’t  deliver  goods.  Cbupon  books  won’t  collect  them­
selves.  What I want is a system so easy that  I will have nothing to do but entertain 
traveling  men  while  the  customers do the rest—wait on themselves and make their 
own change.  When you get up a system of this kind to amount to something  I will 
adopt  it,  but  until  you  do  you  might  as  well  save  your  postage.

WM.  EASY.

SaSHSH5E5H5ESaSHSH5E S ^  
144  is  Twelve  Dozen,  Sir! 
pi
Twelve  Dozen  is  a  Gross,  Sir!

A  Groc-er’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.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 
iaSHSHSHSHSHSHSBScIHaSi

Do Too Sell SDspenders ?

We make all leather.
Also a non elastic web  on the same plan 
Improved.  You lose nothing to try.
Graham  Roys  &  Co.,

Fitch  Place,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For  the  want  of  a  nail

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 quick and light weighing. 
Capacity, 28 lbs; finish, enamel witL 
nickel trimmings; agate or 
steel bearings.

THE  COMPUTING 
SCALE  COMPANY,

DAVTON,  OHIO. WEIOHS  AND  HANDLES  GOODS

as accurately as money can be changed,

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

E n a m e liit e
TheModem STOVE POLISH
proves  that  dealers are  friendly  to  it,  and that consumers will  accept 
substitute  for  E N A M E L I N E .  W hy?  Because  it’s  THE BEST!

M. B.  W H E E L E R . 
S. D. K O PF.

A.  O.  W H E E L E R , 
Manistee,  Mich.

Private  Line 
Phones

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

M.  B.  Wheeler & Go.,

25 Fountain  St., Grand Rapid«.

Notice to the  Grocery Trade

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.

M.  S. DOYLE, BLSIB .  MICH.

