Volume XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE  16,  1897.

Number 717

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canned vegetables this  season.  In 

cure  and  will  be  until  new  pack.

fact,  they  are  now  hard  to  se­

Manitowoc,  Wis.

Worden  Grocer  Co.,  Agent.

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M. J.  Rogan will  show  above  line  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids, 
Thursday and  Friday, June  17 and  18.  Will be pleased  to  pay expenses 

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Notice to the  Groceru 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 .   D O Y L E  ,  E L S I E .  M I C H .

pebkihs & »ess, t -  Hides, Fin, Wool and Tallow |

We carry a stock of cake tallow for mill  use.

Nos.  i u  and  134  Louis St., 

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Grand Rapids.

|  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.  §

A L L   J O B B E R S   S E L I

THF.  FAMOUS

ROM MIGHT
Mill»

T H E Y   A R E

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.

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

Write  for  special 
inducements  to  in* 
troduce it.

REED & CO., Eagle, Mich.

Cedar*
Chests

Season for these 
goods is just 
beginning.
Made of
Tennessee Red Cedar.
trade only, solicited.

Orders  and  correspondence  from  the  <• 

U. S. RED CEDAR  WORKS, 

2  
Tennessee.  ^

Nashville, 

Not  How  Cheap 

But  How  Good

W e  warrant  our  rpake  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.

J. A. MURPHY, General Manager.

The Michigan Mercantile Agency

FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY. Counsel

S P E C IA L   REPORTS. 

L A W   AN D   COLLECTIONS.

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

Main  Office:  Room  noa,  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

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

W .  H .   E D G A R   St  © O N ,

DETROIT. MICH.

R E F I N E D   S U G A R ©

S Y R U P S   A N D   M O L A S S E S  

E X C L U S I V E L Y

Travelers*  Time  Tables.

C H I C A G O

Going to Chicago.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Muskegon and Pentw ater.

Manistee, Traversa City  and  Petoskey.

Lv.  G’d. Rapids...........8:30am  1:25pm  til :00pm
Ar. Chicago.................  3:00pm 6:50pm  t  6:30am
Lv.Chicago................ 7:30am  5:00pm  tll:S0pm
vr. 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  .........10:80pm
Lv. G’d Rapids............  7:20am  5:30pm  ............
Ar  Manistee...............  12:06pm  10:25pm  ...........
-Vr. Traverse City......   12:40pm 11:10pm 
..
..........
Vr. Charlevoix...........  3:15pm 
.......... 
Vr.  Petoskey................  4:55pm  .....................
Trains arrive from north at 1:00p.m.  and  9:50
pm. 
Chicago.  Parlor cars on afternoon trains and 
deepen on night trains.
North.  Parlor car on morning train  for  Trav­
erse  City.

PARLOR AND  SLIKPIKS CARS.

Others week days only.

Gbo. DbHavbh, General Pass. Agent.

tEvery  day. 

n P T D H l T   Grand Rapids & Western. 
L I C   1  I V V l   I   ,  

May 33. 1897.

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greanville.

Lv. Grand  Rapids___ ..7:00am  1:30pm  5:3>pm
Ar. Detroit.....................11:40am  5:40pm 10:20pm
Lv. Detroit......................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids..........1:00pm  5:20pm 10:55pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Lv.  Grand  Rapids..........7:00am  1:80pm  5:35pm
Ar.  from Lowell......... 1:00pm  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.

THBOUSH  CAB SRBVICR.

Gao. DbHavbx,  General Pass. Agent.

G R A N D Truk Ra,,w#y SjrBle"

Detroit and Milwankee Dlv.

(In  effect  May 3,  1897.)

WBST

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t 6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..t 9:56pm
tl0:10am__...Detroit  and  East.........t 5:07pm
t  3:30pm..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East.. +12:45pm 
*10:45pm... Detroit, East and Canada..
6:35am 
* 8:35am....Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....* 7:10pm 
tl2:63pm.Gd. Haven  andlntermedlate.t 3:22pm 
t  5:12pm  Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi 
110:05am
* 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.
*Daily.  tExeept Sunday.

E. H. Hdshbs, A. G. P. A T. A. 
Bbk. Flbto&bb, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J as. Cabfbbll, City Pass. AgentI 
No. 23 Monroe S t

G R A N D   RtPM* * Indiana Railroad

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey 4c Mack., .t 7:45am t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A 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
Ft. Wayne................................ t 2:00pm t   1:55pm
Cincinnati  ............................. • 7:00pm •  7:25am
7:iuajn.  train  has  parlor  oar  to  Cincinnati. 
7:00p.m. train has sleeping car to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains, 

aonro w e s t .

LvG’d Rapids..............+7:35am  tl :00pm  t6:40pm
Ar Muskegon............... 9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
» o is e   s a s t .
Lv Muskegon.............t8:10am  til :45am  t4:00pm
ArG’dRapids. 
.  ..  9:30am  12:56pm  5:20pm
tExeeptSuc.day.  «Daily.
A. Auiquisr, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt  Agt.

C. L. Lockwood,

S Y S T E M   I S   K I N G

THE  DAYTON

Money-Weight Even Balance.

“Stem  the  tide  of  wastefulness  in 
its  prime,  for  it  is  often  the  small­
est  leak  that  marks  the  path  to 
deluge.

Systematize your business and be­
gin by  adopting  our  Money W eight 
System.

No.  i.  Capacity  28  pounds.
No.  2.  Capacity  12  pounds. 

Your  choice  of  scoop,  sugar  pan  or 
marble  plate  and  agate  or  steel 
bearings.

B U IL D E R S   of  all  kinds  of Fine 
Money  W eight  Scales.  Save  the 
leaks  for  yourself and your order for

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

THK  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Private Credit Advices.

Collections made  anywhere 

in  the  United  States  and 

Canada.

THe Preferred Bankers 
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BANKERS

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DETROIT,  MICH

TO CLOTHING  MERCHANTS

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

MICHAEL  KOLB  &   SON,

Wholesale Ready JTade Clothing ITanufacturers, 

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Established nearly one-half a century.

Mr.  Connor  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 

Rapids, Thursday and Friday, June  17 and  18.

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W e  w ish  to 
establish 
a  branch  of 
our
business  in 
every 
tow n  in 
M ichigan 
where  we 
are  not  now 
represented.

No

Capital

Required.

MEN’S  SUITS 

AND

OVERCOATS 
$4.00 to 
$30.00

WRITE  FOR  INFORMATION.

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223-226  ADAMS ST.,

CHICAGO.

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
Sava Dallar«

Ontario  Retailers  on  the  Warpath.

Written fo r the  T r a d esm a n.

that 

The  retail  merchants  of  Ontario  have 
reached  a  point  where  “ patience  ceases 
to  be  a  virtue.”   They  are  no  longer 
disposed  to  suffer  in  hopeless 
isolation 
while  the  demons  of  centralization  un­
dermine  their business  and  destroy their 
property  interests  as  they  have  those  of 
the  manufacturers  in  the  smaller  trade 
If  they  must  go  down  before 
centers. 
the  great  centralizing  wave 
is 
sweeping  over  the  civilized  world,  it 
will  not  be  until  after a  vigorous  pro­
test  has  been  made  and  every  possible 
means  of  self  defense been  made  use of. 
As  pointed  out  in  a  former  article,  the 
first  essential  step  is  organization,  and 
this  step  the  retailers,  flanked  by  the 
wholesalers,  are  now  taking.  The  fight 
is  on,  and  it  is  the  legitimate  mercan­
tile  interests  of  all  Ontario  vs.  the  one 
great  centralized  aggregation  at  the  cor­
ner  of  Queen and Ycnge streets,Toronto, 
known 
in  trade  centers  as  the  Great 
Octopus.  The  great  departmental  man­
agers have  fastened  their  claws upon  the 
business  of  the  importer  as  well  as upon 
the  wholesaler  and the retailer ;  and they 
are  also  reaching  out  for the  manufac­
turer.  There  is  scarcely  a  rural  home  of 
the  better  class,  in  all  this  great  prov­
ince,  where 
illustrated 
price  catalogue  of  the  big  departmental 
store  may  not  be  found.  They  are  dis­
tributed,  periodically, 
throughout  the 
length  and  breadth  of  the  land  at  a  cost 
of  thousands  of  dollars.  This  pictorial 
mouth-piece  of  the  big  octopus  carries 
a  wonderful  message  to  the  consumer. 
It  appeals  to  his  selfishness  and  every 
other  mean  thing  that 
It 
reasons  with  him,  and  by  cunningly  de­
vised  statements  would  fain  make  him 
believe  that  the  departmental  store  sys­
tem  is  the  angel  Gabriel  referred  to 
in 
the  Bible  as  the  great  trumpeter  that 
was  to  usher  in  the  millennium.

the  massive 

is  in  him. 

The  organizers  have only  been at work 
a  few  days  and  yet  many  Associations 
have  been  effected.  The  large  towns 
will  fall  in  line  first,  but  every  retailer 
at  the  most  isolated  crossroads  will  be 
importuned  to  identify  himself  with  the 
nearest  association.  The  city  of  Ham­
ilton  has  started  to  the  front 
in  full 
force.  It  is  not  a  corporation  movement 
having  a  fixed  constitution  and  by-laws 
similar  to  the  old  B.  M.  A.  of  Michi­
gan,  as  each  Association 
is  at  liberty 
to adopt  as  many  planks  in  its  platform 
as  it  thinks  proper,  and  hence,  no  two 
are  precisely  alike 
in  structure  or  in 
their  avowal  of  objects  sought  after. 
Each  local  organization 
inde­
pendent  body  and  will  be a  law  unto  it­
self.  There  is  no  centralized 
incorpo­
rated  body,  and, 
therefore,  the  local 
bodies  are not subordinate organizations.
Toronto  led  the  movement  under  the 
name  of  “ The  Retail  Merchants’  Asso­
ciation”   and  the  organization  in  Ham- 
lton  styles  itself  “ The  Business  Men’s 
Association”   and 
it  starts  out  with  a 
large  membership  and  the  following  de­
claration  of  principles  to  fight  for:

is  an 

“ To  safeguard  the  interests  of  retail 
merchants  of  the  various  departments  of 
trade-in  Hamilton.

“ To  prevent  misrepresentation  in  ad­

“ To  regulate  the  disposal  of  bank­

vertisements.

rupt  stocks.

“ To  promote  legislation  in  the  direc­
tion  of  securing  an  efficient  Insolvent 
Act,  improvements  in  municipal 
laws, 
reform  the  peddling  and  other  licenses, 
improved  postal  regulations,  and  aboli­
tion  of  the  Division  Court  or the  re­
duction  of  the  expense  of  collection  of 
debts  therein.

“ A  more  rigid  enforcement  of  the 
provisions  of  the  Adulteration  Act,  also 
for the  amendment  of  the  same  wherein 
deficient.

“ To  promote  proper  equalization  of 

taxation  and  insurance  rates.

“ To  secure  closer  friendly  relations 
with  all  trades  and  labor  organizations 
for the  purpose  of  advancing  mutual  in­
terests.

“ To  promote  a  closer  relationship 

in 
good  fellowship  among  retailers,  and  to 
encourage  greater 
interchange  of  com­
merce. ”

At  the  rate  at  which  these  organiza­
tions  are  growing  all  over  the  province 
it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  legislature  will 
soon  see 
its  way  to  the  enactment  of 
such  legislation  as  may  be  necessary  for 
the  protection  of  the  public  against  dis­
honesty  in  business.  A  method  of  tax­
ation  that  will  compel  those  who  are  re­
ceiving  the  lion’s  share  of  trade  profits, 
to  bear  their  proportionate  share  of  the 
common  burdens; 
the  prevention  of 
fraudulent  advertising,  and  such  a  re­
adjustment  of  the  postal  laws  that  will 
do  away  with  the  parcel  post  business 
and  compel  merchants  to  ship 
their 
wares  in  the  ordinary  channels,  are  the 
three  most  important  reforms  which  are 
being  agitated  by  the  trade  at  present. 
Success  in  any  one  would  give  the  de­
partmental  stores  a  black  eye—especial­
ly  the  last  mentioned.  The  mail  order 
department  in  a  big  departmental  store 
is  one  of  its  greatest features.  Hundreds 
of  dollars  worth  of  merchandise 
is 
mailed  every  day  for  distant  points  all 
over  the  country  at  rates  which put com­
petition  on  the  part  of  all  the  regular 
commercial  carriers  entirely  out  of  the 
question.  Shoes,  dry  goods,  hats  and 
caps,  gloves,  hosiery,  jewelry  and,  in 
fact,  any  single  article  not  exceeding 
four  pounds  in  weight,  are  distributed 
all  over  the  country  by  parcel  post. 
If 
the  order does  not  consist  of  a  single ar­
ticle  exceeding  the  weight  limit,  it  is 
put  up 
in  separate  parcels  and  in  this 
way  there  is  no  limit  to  the  quantity  of 
merchandise  which  may  be  sent  to  any 
one  address  through  the  mails.  The  fact 
is  the  big  departmental  store  in Toronto 
is  injuring  the  retail  trade  of  the  entire 
country,  and  the  people,  through  their 
postal  service  are  aiders  and  abettors  in 
the  evil  work.  Agitation  on  the  part  of 
those  directly  concerned,  aided  by  the 
regular  public  carriers,  will  arouse  the 
people  to  a  true  realization  of  the  situa­
tion  and  bring  about  the  needed reform. 
The  local  storekeepers  at  Fort  York,  on 
the  Hudson  Bay,  or  at  any  other  place 
in  this  great  Dominion,  ask  no  favors 
and  receive  none.  They  pay  their  taxes 
and  their  business  is  confined  to  their 
locality  and  they  do  not  possess  the

Number 717

means  of  monopolizing  the  trade  of 
counties  and  provinces.  They  pay  the 
regular  transportation  charges  on  their 
goods  to  the 
legitimate  carriers  of 
merchandise,  and  just  why  the  people’s 
government  should  use  the people’s mail 
bags  for carrying  and  distributing  mer­
chandise  at  a  cent  and  a  half  per ounce, 
or  only  about  one-tenth  what  it  costs 
the  local  dealers  in  these  far-off  isolated 
places,  is  a  something  that  cannot  be 
explained  on  principles  of  justice.  The 
privilege  of  sample  post  is  all  right,  but 
the  parcel  post  system  has  become  an 
evil  since  the  departmental  store  has 
come  into  existence  and  should  be  done 
away  with. 

E .  A .  O w e n .

The  Grain  Market.

little 

The  visible 

Wheat  has  recorded  another  advance 
of  4c  per  bushel  on  spring  and  6c  on 
winter  since  our  last  report.  As  has 
been  often  predicted,  when  the  short  in­
terests  wanted  to  buy  wheat,  they  would 
find  there  was  none  to  be  had,  except  at 
an  advance.  The  small  operators  have, 
probably,  covered  their  trades,  but  the 
larger  ones  are  still  fighting  and  may 
crowd  prices  a  very 
lower— 
eventually  they  will  have to  pay  better 
prices. 
showed  a  de­
crease  of  1,764,000  bushels,  which  was 
fully  500,000 bushels  more  than  was  ex­
pected,  especially  as  the exports  were  of 
a diminutive  character.  The  Northwest­
ern  receipts  have  fallen  off and  from  all 
appearances  we  will  have  a  later  har­
vest  all  over.  States  where  new  wheat 
usually  puts 
in  an  appearance  about 
June  20  will  not  have  new  wheat  this 
year  until  July  15.  The  June  Govern­
ment  crop  report  shows a falling off from 
the  May 
report,  when  a  23,000,000 
bushel  crop  was  expected  in  Michigan 
and  now  only  17,000,000  or  18,000,000 
bushels 
is  looked  for.  All  the  old  re­
serves  have  been  cleaned  up  and  I  ven­
ture  to  say  that  in  this  State  not  2  per 
cent,  will  be  carried  over.  Wheat  is 
very  scarce,  but  it  will  be  seen  that  lo­
cal  millers  are  picking  up  a  little  and 
continue  to  run.

There  is  no  change  in  corn,  notwith­
standing  the  bulls  tried  hard  to  ad­
vance  it.  The  large  amount 
in  sight 
and  the large  increase in the visible were 
too  much  to  permit  of  an  advance.  Oats 
have  receded 
ic  per  bushel  since  one 
week  ago.

The  receipts  duiing  the  week  were 
27  cars  of  wheat,  7  cars  of  corn  and  13 
cars  of  oats—rather  a  small  amount  of 
wheat.

Local  mills  are  paying  78c,  against 

72c  last  week. 

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

It  is  a  matter  of  common  knowledge 
that  Dr.  Chas.  S.  Hazeltine 
is  one  of 
the  “ pillars“   of  St.  Mark’s  church. 
During  the  time  he  was  in  the  employ 
of  Uncle  Sam  in  the  capacity  of  Consul 
at  Milan,  Italy,  C.  G.  A.  Voigt  entered 
the  store  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.  and  asked  his  son  for  the  ad­
dress  of  the  father.  The  request  was 
granted,  whereupon  Mr.  Voigt  asserted 
that  he  proposed  to  write  the  father  and 
acquaint  him  with  the  fact  that  since he 
had  been  abroad,  the  son  had  not  been 
to  church  one  d—□  time.

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Bicycles

News  and  Gossip of Interest to  Dealer 

and  Rider.

thought. 

is  now  among 

This  agitation  for  good  roads  is meet­
ing  the  cordial  indorsement of all public 
men  who  stop  to  give  it  more  than  a 
Ex-Vice-President 
passing 
those  who 
Stevenson 
for 
strongly  commend  the  movement 
better  highways.  He  said 
in  a  recent 
letter:  “ I  am  in  full  sympathy  with  the 
efforts  now  being  made  to  secure  good 
roads  throughout  our  country.  This 
is 
a  living  question.  There  is  little  diffi­
culty 
in  getting  from  one  large  city  to 
another,  or  even  in  crossing  the  conti­
nent,  but  the  important  question  is  how 
to  get  from  the  country  home  to  the 
schoolhouse,  to  the  church,  to  the  mar­
ket.  It  is  a  gratifying  fact  that  this sub­
ject  is  now  undergoing  thorough  discus­
sion  in  many  of  the  states.  The  result 
will  be  beneficial.  Like  other 
impor­
tant  questions,  it  will  work  out  its  own. 
I  agree  with  Governor  Mark­
solution. 
ham  that 
‘ good  roads  mean  advanced 
civilization.'  ”

*  *  *

it 

is  complete 

A  Bloomington,  111.,  correspondent 
recently  described  the  situation  in  that 
vicinity  as  follows:  “ The  embargo  of 
in  Central  Illinois. 
mud 
Farmers  who  have  lived 
in  McLean 
county  more  than  half  a  century  declare 
that  they  have  never  seen  the  roads  so 
utterly 
impassable  as  they  are  now. 
General  stagnation  in  retail  trade  is  the 
result.  Farmers  find 
impossible  to 
come  to  town  in  a  light  vehicle  drawn 
by  four  horses.  Much  of  the  corn  stored 
in  cribs  has  rotted  on  the  cob  and 
crumbles  in  the  sheller.  The  condition 
of  grain 
is  giving  the  farmers  serious 
trouble. ’ ’
Another 

interesting  piece  of  news 
In  a  town 
comes  from  Massachusetts. 
of  about  five  thousand 
inhabitants  in 
that  State  a  dwelling  bouse  was  recently 
burned  to  the  ground  because  the  roads 
were  too  muddy  for  the  fire  department 
to  reach  it. 
Insurance  men  assert  that 
the  town  can  be  held  responsible  for  the 
loss.  There  are  too  many  of  these  mud 
roads  all  through  the  country.  Our 
methods  of  road  building,  as  a  rule,  are 
a  thorough  failure.  Millions  of  road 
taxes  are  spent  in  each  state  every year, 
while  the  roads  themselves  continue  as 
bad  as  ever.  Reforms  are  sadly  needed.

*  *  *

*  *  *

When  a  man  walks  a  mile  it is said he 
takes  on  an  average  2,263  steps,  lifting 
the  weight  of  his  body  with  each  step. 
When  he  rides  a  bicycle  of  the  average 
gear  he  covers  a  mile  with  the  equiva­
lent  of  only  627  steps,  requires  less 
force,  bears  no  burden,  and  covers  the 
same  distance  in  less  than  one-third  the 
time.

*  *  *

The  Kalamazoo  woman  who  was  in 
the  habit  of  sitting  on  a  fence  while  her 
husband  was  learning  to  ride  a  bicycle, 
had 
lots  of  fun  guying  him  until  she 
fell  over  backward.  Only  her  feelings 
were  hurt,  but  she  will  choose  a  safer 
place  to  sit  hereafter.

*  *  *

In  the  last  year  the  L.  A.  W.  has 
grown  from  44.675  members  to  79,720, 
an 
in  twelve 
months,  and  it  still  goes  marching  on.

increase  of  over  35,000 

Slow  Progress 

in  Riding  Due  to  a 

a  Sulky  Wheel.

From  the New York Sun.

The 

lady  disentangled  herself  from 
the  wheel  and  looked  at  it  mournfully, 
reproachfully,  despairingly.  The  pa­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

tient  instructor  stood  meekly  by  holding 
the  machine,  awaiting  her  pleasure.

“ What  can  be  the  matter?”   the  lady 

asked.
instructor  replied,  shaking  his  head.

“ It’s  certainly  mighty  curious,”   the 

“ I’ m  sure  I  don’t  ride  half  so  well  as 
I  did  at  the  last  lesson,”   proceeded  the 
lady.

“ That’s  so,”   admitted  the  candid  in­

“ Nor  quarter  so  well  as  at  the  one 

structor.

before  that. ’ ’

“ No,  m’m. ”
“ At my  second  lesson  I  rode  half  way 
across  the  room  without  your  holding 
the  wheel. * ’

“ You  surely  did.”
“ And  at  the  fourth 

made  a  mount  by  myself. ”

lesson  I  almost 

“ I  seen  you  do  it,”   and  the 

instruc­
tor  tapped  his  fingers  on  the  saddle  by 
way  of  emphasis.

“ And  now,”   pursued  the  lady  in  an 
indignant  tone,  “ I  can’t  ride  two  feet 
without  falling  off.”

The  instructor  lifted  the  bicycle  up 
so  that  it  rested  on  the  front  wheel  and 
kicked  the  pedal  around,  but  said  noth- 
ing.

“ What  can  the  reason  be?”   persisted 

the  lady.

The-  instructor  felt  the  tire  of  the 

rear  wheel,  but  remained  silent.

just 

the 

“ Do  you  suppose  it  could  be  the  fault 

of  the  wheel?”   asked  the  lady.
surprise  overcoming  his  politeness.

“ Hay?”   exclaimed  the  instructor,  his 
“ I  don’t  mean  it that  way,”   the lady 
said  hastily,  with  a  blush.  “ Of  course, 
it’s  really  my  fault,  in  a  way.  because 
I,  and  not  the  wheel,  am 
learning  to 
ride.  But  don't  you  think  that  the wheel 
may  be  misbehaving  and  that  that  may 
have  something  to  do  with  it?”

“ Do  you  mean  that 

it’s  out  of  or­
der?”   asked  the 
instructor,  beginning 
to  poke  around  among  the  joints and 
sprockets.
sulking. ”

lady;  “ only 

“ No,”   said 

enthusiasm. 

“ I  never  heard  of  a  bicycle sulking, ”  
instructor,  unsympathetic­
replied  the 
ally.
“ Didn’t  you?”  returned  the  lady  with 
growing 
then, 
perhaps  I’ve discovered  something  new. 
You  know  that  a  sewing  machine  gets 
sulky  sometimes?  No?  Oh,  of  course 
not,  if  vou’ve  never  used  one.  Well,  it 
does.  Sometimes  it  simply  won’t  work 
right.  Perhaps  the  weather  affects  it. 
Then  it  will  take a  jump  and  run  along 
beautifully  for  davs  and  days. 
It  is 
simply  mischief.  Now  the  first  day  I 
rode  this  bicycle  I  got  along  beautifully 
on  it,  and  wasn't  a  bit  afraid,  and  the 
second 
lesson  was  the  same.  Then  it 
began  to  be  sulky,  and  1  began  to  be 
afraid  of  it,  and  I’ ve  been  getting  more 
and  more  afraid  of  it  ever  since.  Now, 
how  do  you  account  for  that,  if  it  really 
isn’t  the  fault  of  the  bicycle 
in  getting 
sulky  and  frightening  me?  ’

“ Well, 

“ You  got 

tumbled  off,”   said  the 
matter-of-fact  way.

frightened  because  you 
in  a 

instructor 

“ Yes,  said  the  lady,  “ and  why  did  I 
tumble  off?  Because  the  bicycle  was 
sulky  and  began  playing  tricks  on  me. 
Otherwise  I  ought  to  be  making  prog­
ress 
instead  of  falling  back,  as  I  am 
doing.  So,  don’t  you  see,  that  it  really 
is  the  bicycle’s  fault  and  not  mine  that 
I  am  doing  so  badly?”

“ Well,  perhaps  so,”   said  the  instruc­

tor  resignedly.

“ The  wheel  has  had  a  rest,”   said  the 
lady.  “ Perhaps  it  will  be  feeling  better 
now. 
I  will  try  it  again.  But  keep  a 
good  hold  of  it. ”

And  then  she  made another  attempt  to 

master  the  art  of  riding  alone.

Financial  Acumen.

bicycle. ”

is  something  like a 

“ An  allowance 
“ How  so?”
“ A  man  can  put  his  wife  on  it,  but 

he  can’t  make  her  stay  on  it.”

Compromised  the  Case.

“ How's  Ryder  getting  on  with  that 

breach  of  promise  suit?”

“ Compromised  it.”
“ Indeed?”
“ Yes,  he  bought  her  a  wheel.”

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factory  is  one  of  the  10 largest in America.  The 
Clipper people have sold from 200 bicycles in  ’90 to 
nearly 12,000 in  ’97,  with  the  aid  of  but  $1.00  per 
wheel spent in  advertising.  Clippers  are  sold  on 
their merits and through the  free advertising giv­
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ought to pay.

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a stock of furniture  and  crockery  here.  There  are 
only two  furniture  stores  in  the  city  and  one  may 
soon  quit.  The  town  is  growing  rapidly.  We 
have a new railroad and  new factories  are  coming. 
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We make all leather.
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The  Advance  in  Roadbuilding. 

Written for the T r ad esm an.

Much  of  the  more  significant  progress 
in  the  good  roads  movement  has  been 
made  in  the  way  of  education. 
It  has 
needed  the  experience  of  the  past  few 
years  to  demonstrate  how  little  of  prac­
tical  worth  was  really  known  on the sub­
ject.  To  be  sure,  there  was  an  elabor­
ate  science  of  road  building,  based  on 
the  most  careful  engineering,  data,  with 
a  considerable  literature;  but  this  was 
not  widely  known  and  there  was  little 
of  adaptation  to  the  varying  conditions 
of  different  localities.  The  density  of 
the 
ignorance  upon  the  subject  of  the 
portion  of  the  community  most  directly 
concerned,  the  farmers,  with  the  conser­
vatism  natural  to  any question  involving 
outlay  of money and  increase of taxation, 
has  seemed  to  interpose  a  solid  wall  of 
opposition,  which  for  a  time  appeared 
is  still 
to  be 
this 
enough  that 
in 
feature  of  the  situation,  but  there 
is 
sufficient  progress  to  gives  ome glim­
merings  of  hope  of  eventual  success.

insurmountable.  There 
is  discouraging 

Perhaps  as  much  of  practical  progress 
has  been  made  along  the  line of  adapta­
tion  to  localities—the  making  of  easily 
available  materials  to  serve  the  purpose 
of  permanent  improvement  without  re­
gard  to  the  elaborate  formulae  of  the 
text  books.  Thus 
in  many  cases  it  is 
found  that  the  material  of  which  the 
roads  are  naturally  composed,  with  the 
addition  of  a  moderate  quantity  of 
something  that  is  capable  of  being com­
pacted  with  it,  with  suitable  provision 
for  drainage,  is  all  that  is  necessary  to 
secure  sufficiently  premanent 
improve­
ment  with  suitable  care  and  attention  to 
the  prevention  of  the  use  of  destructive 
loads  on  narrow  tires.

It 

The  value  of  the  roller  as  a  road- 
maker  is  coming  to  be  recognized  al­
most  as  a  revelation. 
It  is  being  dis­
covered  that  the  great  cause  of  bad 
roads  in  many  cases  is  the  unnecessary 
destruction  of  the  surface  by  its  pene- 
tiation  with 
loads  supported  by  such 
small  points  that  none  but  the  hardest 
and  thickest  material 
could  support 
is  coming  to  be  recognized 
them. 
that 
is  taken  in  this  regard  a 
suitably  rolled  highway  of  the  most 
commonly  available  materials  may  be 
made  to  serve  every  reasonable  pur­
pose,  and  indeed  will  be  improved  and 
made  more  permanent  by  every 
load 
passing  over  it.  Of  course,  this  cannot 
be  done  where  the  material  is  subjected 
to  long  soaking  in  ponds of water—there 
must  be  drainage,  but  the  expense  of 
securing  this  is  comparatively  small.

if  care 

There  is  also  material  progress  in  the 
appliances  and  apparatus  for  the  more

is  caused 

substantial 
improvement  required  by 
heavier  traffic,  or  where  only  the  more 
elaborate  and costly improvement can  be 
made  available.  Manufacturers  of  roll­
ers,  crushers,  etc.,  are  having  quite  a 
boom  already,  which  promises  to 
in­
crease  rapidly  and  to  an 
indefinite  ex­
tent.  This 
largely  by  the 
consideration  of  the  question  in  state 
legislatures  and  by  the  general  govern­
ment.  Perhaps  the  most  significant  leg­
islative  action  is  that  of  Congress  in the 
provision  for  experimental  roadbuild­
ing  in  connection  with  the  Department 
of  Agriculture.  By  the  act  which  was 
passed  during  the  last session,  provision 
is  made  for  the  Government  to  furnish 
all  machinery and  apparatus  necessary, 
with  suitable 
information  and  super­
vision,  while  the  locality  to  be  bene- 
fitted  must  supply  the  labor.  The  ar­
rangements  are  already  being  carried 
in  some  localities  and  will  be  un­
out 
dertaken 
in  others  as  rapidly  as  may 
be  found  practicable.  This movement  is 
of  considerable significance,not  so much 
on  account  of  the  improved  roads  to  be 
secured  by 
its  direct  work  as  of  the 
demonstration  of  the  most  practicable 
methods  in  the  different 
localities  and 
the  general  instruction  afforded  by  such 
examples.

It  has  seeemd  to  many  that  the  prog­
ress  of  the  movement  for  better  roads  is 
distressingly  slow.  But 
it  must  be  re­
membered  that  the  task  undertaken  is 
of  tremendous  magnitude. 
is  one 
that  must  enlist  the  co-operation  and 
energies  of  the  vast  majority  of  the 
in­
habitants,  urban  and  rural,  of  the  entire 
country.  Considering  this  magnitude, 
and  the  obstacles  to  be  overcome  in  the 
way  of 
ignorance  and  prejudice,  the 
progress  noted  is  certainly  very  encour­
aging- 

W.  N.  F u l l e r .

It 

The  Angel  Voice.

Sunday morning while I’m  dozing 

Late beyond the wonted hour,
Seeking rest from week day strivings 
Stern, which brain and nerve devour,

Comes a ray of human sunshine,
Reaching up on little tip-toes,

Stealing softly to my bed,
Tugging gently at the spread.

“  Papa,  p*se wate up for baby.”
Sounds like angel notes, I  vow,
Followed by the worldly message;
“  Becksus soon  be ready now.

Flinging quickly back the covers, 
Sitting her in bed besiae me - 

Grabbing  up the dimpled dear,
Soft curls  tangled round my ear.

Soon forgotten all my dreamings,
A ll the world’s vain show and pomp, 
Even  breakfast goes unheeded 
In that royal  morning romp.

W hen I sleep my last long slumber,
Is that somewhere I’ll  be wakened 

A ll I ask to seal my bliss 
By an angel voice like this.

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Around the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Niles—Wm.  Vanderlyn  has  opened  a 

new  store  at  this  place.

Bay  City— Forsyth  Bros,  succeed  R. 

A.  Forsyth  in  the  grocery  business.

Holton— Mills  Bros.,  meat  dealers, 
have  dissolved,  F.  E.  Mills succeeding.
Thompsonville— Yarger  Bros,  suc­
in  the  hardware 

ceed  John  A.  Evitts 
business.

Charlotte— Ross  &  Herbst 

succeed 
Herbst  &  Son  in  the  merchant  tailoring 
business.

Ishpeming—The  Arne &  Wacht  cloth­
ing  stock  has  been  seized  on  chattel 
mortgage.

Marine  City—The  Lester  &  Newton 
Drug  Co.  has bought  the  drug  stock  of 
Wm.  E.  Hunt.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Geo.  E.  Blue,  un­
dertaker  and  furniture  dealer,  has  sold 
out  to  Ryan  &  Co.

Montrose---- W.  H.  Y.  Martin,  of
Flushing,  has  opened  a  furniture  and 
undertaking  store  at  this  place.

Watersmeet— Frank  C.  Payne has been 
succeeded  by  Frank  C.  Payne  &  Co. 
in  the  drug  and  grocery  business.

Mt.  Morris— Lee  &  Cady  have  taken 
possession  of  the  drug  stock  of  A.  W. 
McKee  by  virtue  of  a  chattel  mortgage.
Ishpeming—Gus  M.  Loth’s  stock  of 
hardware  has  been  seized  on  a  chattel 
mortgage  held  by  Mrs.  Mary  Robbins.
Saginaw—W.  B.  Moore  has  taken  the 
position  of  head  clerk  for  D.  E.  Prall 
&  Co.,  succeeding  Louis  Goecker,  who 
resigned.

East  Jordan— P.  Walsh  and  John  Wil­
liams  have  formed  a  copartnership  for 
the  purpose  of  embarking  in  the  meat 
business.

Detroit—Cynthia  Meyers,  druggist  at 
448  Dix  avenue,  has sold her  stock  to  C. 
E.  Coffron,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the above  number.

Kalkaska— Robert  Maxwell  has  leased 
a  portion  of  the  store  occupied  by  E. 
M.  Colson  and  will  remove  his  tailor­
ing  business  to  that  location.

Lapeer— Dr.  Frank  E.  Bunting,  of 
Attica,  pleaded  guilty  June  15  to  a 
charge  of  dispensing  drugs  without  be­
ing  registered.  He  was  fined  §25.

Fremont— Ida  Rathbun  has  purchased 
the 
interest  of  C.  R.  Rathbun  in  the 
jewelry  and  stationery  stock  of  Rathbun 
&  Son.  The  new  firm  will  be  known 
as  Rathbun  &  Co.

Brinton— A  new  bank,  to be  called  the 
Agricultural  Bank,  is  being  organized 
at  this  place.  The  concern  will  be  com­
posed  of  P.  P.  Allen  and  other  substan 
tial  men  of  the  town.

intention  of  closing  out 

Ithaca—Crawford  &  Wright  announce 
their 
their 
clothing  and  furnishing  goods  stock  at 
this  place,  having  decided  to  locate  a 
branch  of  their  Flint  establishment  at 
F enton.

Detroit—The  S.  E.  Clark  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association  and will deal 
in  musical 
instruments.  The  capital 
stock  is  $5,000 and  the  incorporators are 
S.  E.  Clark, four shares;  F.  H.  Bamlet, 
one  share,  and  John  West,  of  Clarkston, 
45  shares.

Colon—Charles  Wilkinson, 

senior 
member  of  the  firm  of  Wilkinson  & 
Co.,  druggists  and  grocers,  died  re­
cently.  Mr.  Wilkinson  bad  been  a  res­
ident  of  Colon  over  forty  years.  He  was 
highly  respected  by  the  entire  commu­
nity  for  his  integrity,  his business  qual­
ifications  and  moral  and  social  worth. 
He  held  offices of trust several  years  and 
gave  general  satisfaction.

Ithaca—J.  D.  Loucks  has relinquished 
the  management  of  the  Ithaca  Bazaar 
Co.  for  the  purpose  of  removing  to 
Fenton,  where  he  will  embark 
in  the 
same  business 
in  partnership  with  H. 
H.  Hunter,  of  Lowell.

Hudson—A.  &  D.  Friedman,  who 
have  been  conducting  a  clothing  and 
dry  goods  store  at  Camden  for several 
years  past,  have  decided  to  embark  in 
the  same  business  at  this  place  about 
Aug.  1,  having  leased  the  Wins  block 
for  that  purpose.

Grand  Ledge—Fred  Epley, recently  of 
the  grocery  firm  of  Hixson  &  Epley, 
has  purchased  a  half 
interest  in  a  gro­
cery  stock  at  Mt.  Clemens  and  will  re­
move  to  that  city  with  his  family.  Mr. 
Epley  made  many  friends  here  who  de- 
j plore  his  departure.

Ann  Arbor—John  Boynes,  for  a  long 
time  engaged  with  W.  H.  McIntyre 
in 
the  grocery  business,  has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of  Henry Meuth,  24  De­
troit  street,  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  there 
in  the  future.  Mr.  Meuth 
tetains  possession  of  the  meat  market 
and  will  continue  to  operate  it.

Casnovia—J.  L.  Norris  (A.  Norris  & 
Son),  while  making  a  solution  of  alco­
hol  and  gum  shellac,  had an  explosion, 
seriously  burning  his  left hand,  and  also 
the  week’s  washing. 
The  explosion 
was  caused  by  the  gases  generated  in 
heating  the  mixture  on 
the  kitchen 
stove. 
The  house  narrowly  escaped 
destruction.

Kalamazoo---- Addie  (Mrs.  Charles)
Young  has  sold  her grocery  stock  at  the 
corner  of  Douglass  avenue  and  North 
street  to  E  S.  Brown  and  Bert  Brown, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location  under  the  style  of  Brown 
&  Brown.  E.  S.  Brown  was  formerly 
engaged  in  general  trade  at  Prairieville 
under  the  style  of  Brown  &  Goss.

Detroit—A  year  ago  last  March  John 
P.  Benson,  an  iron  molder,  sent  to  the 
drug  store  of  William  A.  Dohany,  693 
Michigan  avenue,  for  a  strengthening 
plaster.  He  claims  that  he  sent  for  a 
capsicum  plaster,  but  that  he  received 
a  plaster  of  cantharides 
instead,  which 
produced  disastrous  results,  and  that  he 
was  unable  to  work  for  a  long  time. 
He  therefore  sued 
for  $1,000  damages, 
and,  after  a  trial,  which  lasted  nearly  a 
week,  received  a  verdict  of  $500.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—The  name  of  the  Hall  & 
Wolf  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the  H.  H. 
Wolf  Brick  Co.

Montague— Emil  Layman  has  begun 
in  White 

the  manufacture  of  baskets 
River  township.

Charlevoix—Benj.  Pierson  has  leased 
the  Harsha  building  and  will  embark 
in  the  manufacture  of  suspenders.

Saginaw—The  Bliss  Butter  &  Cheese 
its 

Co.,  of  Swan  Creek,  has  reduced 
capital  stock  from  $2,500  to $1,500.

Copemish—The  flour  mill  here  has 
been 
leased  by  G.  E.  Wolfe  and  A. 
Huntington,  who  will  continue  the  busi 
ness.

Kenton— The  Sparrow-Kroll  Lumber 
Co.  has  purchased  a  tract  of  timber 
land 
in  Houghton  county,  the  consid­
eration  being  $17,500.

Montague— Mark  Foster  will  embark 
in  the  manufacture  of  cedar  shingles  at 
the  Stony  Lake  sawmill,  new  machin­
ery  having  been  purchased  for  that  pur­
pose.

Algonac— F.  C.  Folkerts,  for  twenty- 
six  years  in  the  lumber  manufacturing 
business  at  Alpena,  has  removed  to  this 
place,  where  he  will  operate  a  whole­
sale and  retail  business.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grace—The  Grace  Harbor  Lumber 
its  saw­
Co.  is  building  an  addition  to 
mill  at  this  place  and  will  add  a  line  of 
machinery  adapted  to  the  manufacture 
of  all  grades  of  shingles.

Detroit—The  R.  H.  Hall  Brick  Co. 
has  filed  a  $25,000  chattel  mortgage, 
running  to  Catherine  F.  Hinchman. 
It 
secures  a  four  months’  note  and  money 
to  be  loaned  in  future.

Saginaw—The  mill  of  the  Saginaw 
Lumber  &  Salt  Co.  is running  to  its  full 
capacity  and  will  put  out  about  20,000,- 
000  feet  of  lumber  this  season. 
It  had
18.000.  000  feet  of  old  logs  to  commence 
the  season  with.

Ludington---- Rasmussen  &  Loppen-
thien  have  contracted  to  furnish  5,000 
curds  of  hemlock  bark  to  parties  in 
Chicago  or  Milwaukee,  or  both.  The 
bark  is  to  be  shipped  from  Ludington, 
Manistee  and  Buttersville.

Torch  Lake—The  Torch  Lake Shingle 
Co.  has  resumed  operations,  having  re­
built  the  mill  recently  destroyed  by fire. 
The  company  has  contracts  ahead  for
20.000.  000  shingles  and  will  run  night 
and  day  during  most  of  the  summer.

Selma— Marion  P.  Boyd  has 

con­
tracted  to  peel  and  deliver  1,000  cords 
of  hemlock  bark  to  Cobbs  &  Mitchell, 
at  Cadillac.  The  contracts  also  include 
logging  and  delivering  2,000,000  feet  of 
pine  and  hemlock  logs  to  the  same  firm 
next  winter.

Saginaw—John  Welch  and  J.  J.  Flood 
have  formed  a  copartnership,  and  will 
operate  the  Welch  sawmill  under  the 
firm  name  of  Welch  &  Flood.  Mr. 
Flood  has  been  book-keeper  for  Mr. 
Welch  many  years.  The  mill  will prob­
ably  run  steadily  through  the  season.

Detroit—Stilwell  &  Co.  have 

filed 
articles  of  association  for  the  purpose 
of  manufacturing  and  dealing  in  lum­
ber.  The  capital  stock 
is  $5,000,  all 
paid  in.  The  incorporators  are  Rinaldo 
R.  Stilwell,  390  share.s:  Emily  R.  Stil­
well  widow,  10  shares,  and Rasselas  R. 
Stilwell,  100  shares.

Connerville-  The  Montmorency  Shin­
gle  Co.  is  building  a  saw  and  shingle 
mill  on  the  east  branch  of  Black  River, 
two  miles  west  of  this  place,  on  the 
line  of  the  new  extension  of  the  Al­
pena  &  Northern  Railroad.  The  com­
pany  has  purchased  the  cut-over  land 
of  Burrows  &  Rust,  of  Saginaw,  and 
Alger,  Smith  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  and 
proposes  to do  some  sciaping  for  shin­
gle  timber.

Hancock—John  Grifi  is  under  arrest, 
charged  with  stealing  logs.  He  runs  a 
small  mill  at  this  place,  and  the  Nester 
estate  caused  his  arrest,  claiming  he 
was  cutting 
logs  having  their  mark, 
which  broke  away  from  their  boom  on 
Lake  Superior  and  floated  to  the  canal, 
where  Griff  picked  them  up  and  towed 
them  to  his  mill.  Griff  was  arrested  a 
few  years  ago  on  complaint  of  the  same 
parties  for  the  same  offense,  but  was 
discharged  for  lack  of  evidence.

Corunna—At  a  meeting  of  the  Com­
mon  Council  held  June  14,  the  report 
of  the  committee  appointed  to  settle 
with  D.  R.  Salisbury,  the shoe  manufac­
turer,  for  the  bonus  promised  him  was 
adopted  with  only  one  dissenting  vote. 
The  committee  offered  him  as  a  com­
promise  $2,cwo  upon  condition  that  he 
give  the  city  a  first  lien  on  his  manu­
factory  for  five  years  and  that  he  carry 
out  his  agreements.  Mr.  Salisbury's 
inventory  shows  over  $11,000  invested 
in  the  plant,  while  Appraiser  Pingree 
only  reports  $8,000.  The  original  un­
derstanding  was  that  $10,000  must  be 
invested.

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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314

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IjMJR  SALK—WHOLE  OR  HALF  INTEREST 
’  in leading drug and stationery store.  Sales 
about $10,000 per annum.  Present  owner  about 
to  leave  city.  Bargain.  Mrs.  Mary  E.  Farns­
323
worth, Petoskey,  Mich. 
W" AN TED-A LOCATION FOR DKUO STOKE 
in a country  town.  Dan’l  Lynch,  30  Ells­
322
worth Avenue, Grand Rapids. 
PARTIES  WISHING  TO  BUY,  SELL  OK 
exchange  real estate  or  merchandise,  any 
quantities or  description, can  depend  upon  L. 
(J. Townsend, of Jackson,  Mich., for  quick and 
responsible  dealing. 
r|X>  EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK  OF  MER- 
X  cbandise—160 acres  of  good  Northern  Ne­
braska land, five miles from town.  For particu­
lars address F. Opocensky, Niobrara, Neb.  321
ijVIR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
1  cbandise, inventorying  about $4,500, located 
in a thriving town in Central Michigan.  Would 
take a small farm in part payment, if location is 
desirable.  Address  No.  320,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.____________________________320
IrtOR  SALE—GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF  GRO- 
1  ceries,  queensware  and  notions  in  town of 
700.  Good  reasons  for  selling.  Doing  a  nice 
business.  For terms address Lock Box 15, New­
port, lnd. 
ANTED  TO  SELL  OR  TRADE—LARGE 
store building and stock general  merchan­
dise for good  farming lands.  Address  Box 306, 
Wolcottville, lnd. 
Ij'OK  SALE—ONE  100-HORSE POWER SLIDE 
P   valve engine, especially  adapted  to sawmill 
work,  and  fitted  with  a  Nordberg  Automatic 
Governor.  Can be seen running any  week  day 
at Wallin Leather Co.’s tannery,  Grand  Rapids.
313
WANTED—DEALERS  TO  SELL  SILVER 
cleaner.  Anew thing;  does  quick  work; 
10c packages at retail  makes  8  ounces;  sells  it­
self;  good  margins;  sample  free.  W.  Gleason, 
Manistique, Mich. 
IjVJK SALE—CLEAN  STOCK OF  DRUGS, IN- 
1  ventoryii’g about $860, located in  live  town 
of 600 people.  Will sell stock  for  cash  on  basis 
of  present  value.  Address  No. 309, care  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins Drug Co., Grand Rapids. 
I|tOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK  IN  ONE OF THE 
best towns in Michigan, doing a  business of 
*6,1-00 vearly.  Expenses  low.  Reason  for  sell­
ing, other  business.  Inspection  solicited.  Ad­
dress No. 308. care Michigan Tradesman.  308
IftOR  SALE—BAND  SAW,  MILL  MACHIN- 
ery,  lot of lumber carts,  three  show  cases, 
one  fire  ptoof  safe,  lot  of  mammoth  store 
lamps—all at  closing-out  prices.  Address  The 
Converse  Manufacturing  Co.,  Newaygo,  Mich.
306
ifiOR  SALE—JOB  LOT  OF  NEW  AND  SEC- 
1  ondhand  Cash  Registers.  Very  cheap, 
Peck’s,  Standard’s,  etc.  Address  J. N. Biddle, 
302
226 south Clinton St., Chicago. 
ANTED—PARTNER  WITH  $2,000  FOR 
one-half interest  In hardware, stoves and 
tinsbop, plumbing  and  furnace  work  aod  job­
bing, roofing,  etc.  Have  several  good  jobs  on 
hand and a well-established trade;  best location 
In heart of city.  Address Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
Mich. 
298
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 where we  do not now nave any. 
We pay  a  literal commission and  give  satisfac­
tory service  Terms on  application.  American 
Steam Laundry, Olte Brothers, proprietors.  289
I ¡MIR  SALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 
'  merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  tbe  Haskel  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address 
262
No. 262, care M  chigan Tradesman. 
I~¡VIR  SALE  CHEAP—STOCK  OF  SECOND.
’  hand  grocery  fixtures.  Address  Jos.  D- 
Powers, Eaton Rapids, Mich.____________233
Ru b ber  sta m ps  a n d  r u b b e r  t y p e.
160
IjX)R  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
a   farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades- 
man.________________________________ 73
WANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS,
dally.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca. Mich._________________________ 249

Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 

369

311

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED—TINNER  WHO  UNDERSTANDS 
hardware and implement  business; steady 
job  Write full  particulars—age,  qualification, 
etc.—in first  letter.  S.  A.  Howey,  Lake  City, 
Mich. 
319
Sit u a t io n  w a n t ed—by  a  m id d le-
aged gentleman with  twenty  years’  experi­
ence »s buyer and  manager  of  a  general  store, 
now  traveling  Eastern  states,  who  wishes  to 
represent  a  good  house  in  Michigan.  Would 
commence on small  salary.  Best of  references. 
Address No 312, care Michigan Tradesman.  312
Re g is t e r e d   ph a r m a c ist  d esir es  a
situation.  W’ill work for reasonable wages. 
Best  of  references.  Address  Pharmacist,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.__________________ 310
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Grand  Rapids  Oossip

Wm.  Dauser  succeeds  Dauser  & 
in  the  harness  business  at  79 

French 
West  Bridge  street.

F.  L.  Hoff  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  Lansing.  The  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

A.  Gould  has  purchased  the  confec­
tionery  stock  of  Jas.  F.  Haldaman  at 
145  West  Bridge  street.

Thos.  Callahan  has  purchased the gro­
cery  stock  of  Chas.  R.  Young,  corner 
Hall  and  Lafayette  streets.

Peter  Jasper  succeeds  Jasper  &  Call 
in  the  meat  and  grocery  business  at 
the  corner of  Coit  and  Palmer  avenues

Geo.  Nelson  and  Herbert  Savage have 
formed  a  copartnership  under  the  style 
of  Nelson  &  Savage  and  opened  a  wall 
paper  department 
in  connection  with 
Wurzburg’s  department  store.

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co.  re­
ports  net  earnings  of  $8,471  during May, 
against $7,107  during  the  corresponding 
month  last  year.  For  the  five  months 
of  the  fiscal  year  the  net  earnings  have 
increased  over  8  per  cent.

L.  Winternitz,  who  has  about  as many 
friends  to  the  square  inch  as  any  man 
who  ever  catered  to  the  grocery  trade  of 
this  market,  was 
in  town  three  days 
this  week  for  the  purpose  of  assisting 
the  retail  grocers 
in  solving  the bulk 
yeast  problem.  He  addressed  the  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  Tuesday  evening 
and  outlined  a  plan  by  means  of  which 
the  sale  of  bulk  yeast  can  be  curtailed 
to  legitimate  limits and  the  regular  re­
tail  price  restored  in  every  part  of  the 
city.  No  more  welcome  guest  crosses 
the  threshold  of  Grand  Rapids  grocers 
than  Ludwig  Winternitz.

Lester  J.  Rindge  has  purchased  the 
Provin  farm,  comprising  100 acres,  lo­
cated  on  the  Grandville  toll  road,  one- 
half  mile this  side  of  Grandville.  There 
is  but  one  farm  between  this  property 
and  the  famous  Annahdale  farm,  which 
Mr.  Rindge  has  made  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  rural  properties  in  the  State. 
The  effect  of  Mr.  Rindge’s  example 
is 
noted  for  several  miles  along the Grand­
ville  road,  the  tarmers  who  had  gotten 
in  a  rut,  so  to  speak,  appearing  to  vie 
with  each  other 
in  the  effort  to  keep 
pace  with  the  improvements  and  better­
ments 
introduced  and  put  into  execu­
tion  by  Mr.  Rindge.  As  the  result  of 
his  investment  at Annahdale, the country 
for  miles  around  has  taken  on  a  new 
aspect,  farm 
life  having,  apparently, 
become  attractive  to  those  who  had  be­
come  discouraged  over  the  era  of  low 
prices  for  farm  products.

From  present  indications  the  outlook 
is  not  promising  for  an  early  use  of  the 
new  market.  While  the 
improvement 
of  the  market  streets  seems  to  be  mov­
ing  fairly  well,  the  filling  in  of  the  ap­
proach 
is  progressing  at  a  rate  which 
seems  likely  to  require  most  of  the sum­
mer.  Alderman  Gibson,  chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Market,  states  that 
the  delay  in  filling  is  on  account  of  hes­
itation  to  let  the  contract  in  the  hope 
that  the  filling  can  be  done  at  little  ex­
pense  by  the  present  method.  He 
thinks,  however,  that  a  contract  will  be 
necessary. 
the  site 
proper  have  all  been  surveyed  and  the 
gravel 
is  nearing  completion. 
Probably  the  work  is  moving  as  rapid­
ly  as  can  be  expected  where  it  is  kept 
under  the  direction  of  such  a  body.as

streets  on 

filling 

The 

the  Board  of  Public  Works.  While  the 
red  tape  of  such  a  system  may  be  nec­
essary,  it 
is  not  as  conducive  to  rapid 
execution  as  if  placed  in  the  hands  of  a 
competent  contractor.  The  early  morn­
is  growing  apace  on  the 
ing  market 
Ionia  street 
location,  a  considerable 
distance  of  the  street  already  being  oc­
cupied. 
It  seems  probable  that  most  of 
the  fruit  season  will  be  over  before  any 
change  in  location  will  be  made.  Thus 
there  must  be  the  same  hardship  of 
early  arrival  to  claim  position  which 
characterizes  the  village  methods  which 
have  always  prevailed  here.

The  Produce  Market.

to  20c  per doz.  bunches.

Asparagus— Homegrcwn has  declined 
Bananas—The  market 
is  very  steady 
and  trade  is  heavy  in  this  line.  Prices 
are  fairly  steady  at  quoted  prices  and 
stock  is  plentiful  and  of  good  quality.

Beets—30c  per  doz.  bunches.
Butter—Dairy  grades  are  so  good  and 
cheap  that  local  grocers  are  handling 
them  almost  exclusively.  Choice  dairy 
is  sold  down  to  gc,  while  separator 
creamery  is  slow  sale  at  I4@ 15c.

75@8sc  per  doz.  The  quality  is  fair.

Cabbage— Mississippi 
Cauliflower—$1.50  per  doz.
Cherries— Illinois Red  command  $2.25 

stock  brings 

per  bu.

is 

Cheese—The  market 

lower  than 
last  week.  At  the  lower quotations  the 
market  is  still  weak,  with  prospect  of 
going  lower.  The  receipts  of  cheese  are 
all  new  made,  and  there 
is  but  little 
that  can  be  called  strictly  fancy  full 
cream,  because  it  is  still  too  new.

Cucumbers— Home  grown  command 

40c  per doz.  Southern  fetch  25c.

Eggs—Dealers  pay  7%@8c  on  track, 
case  count,reselling  candled  stock  at 9c.
Gooseberries----Illinois  stock  com­

mands $1.25  per  16 qt  crate.

Greens— Beet,  30c  per  bu.  Spinach, 

25c  per  bu.

Lemons—The  welcome  advent  of 
caused  an  ad­

warm  weather  has 
vance  of  50c  per box.

Lettuce—7@8cper  lb.
Melons—Watermelons  and  muskmel 
j ons  are  offered 
in  small  lots,  but  the 
weather  has  been  too  cool  for  the  free 
movement  of  watermelons  and  not  very 
favorable  to  muskmelons.  The  former 
are  selling  at  $3@3-50  per  dozen,  and 
the  latter at  $1.25(^1.50.
Onions—Southern  stock  fetches $1  per 
bu.  ;  Egyptian,  $1.50;  Bermuda,  $2.50. 
Green  are  large  in  size  and  fair in qual­
ity,  commanding  15c  per  doz.  bunches.
Oranges—There  is  a  steady  trade  and 
a  good  supply  in  storage  at  this  point, 
with  some  more  yet  to  come  from  the 
coast.  Prices  are  unchanged,  and  the 
market  promises  no  more  than  steadi­
ness  at  present  quotations.

Peas—Green stock from Illinois fetches 
$1.50  per  bu.  Some  home  grown  stock 
is  coming  in,  but  not  enough  yet  to  cut 
much  of  a  figure.

Pieplant— ic  per  lb.
Pineapples—Floridas  bring  i @$i  25 
per  doz.,  according  to  size  and  quality.
from  Arkansas 
commands  $ i @ i . 10  per  bu.  The  boom 
on  old  stock  has  collapsed,  local  quota­
tions  having  dropped  to  20c  per  bu.

Potatoes— New  stock 

Radishes---- Charter, 

bunches;  China  Rose,  15c.

ioc  per  doz.

Seeds— Medium  clover,  $450(^4.75; 
Mammoth  clover,  $4-75@5;  Timothy, 
$i.4o@ i.6o ;  Hungarian,  75@8oc ;  Com­
mon  or  German  Millet,  6o@70c.

Squash— Illinois  stock,  4c  per  lb.
Strawberries—At  this  writing  home 
grown,  Benton  Harbor  and  Ridgeville 
( Ind.)  command  $ i @ i  15  per  16  qt. 
crate,  but  the  warm  weather  Sunday, 
Monday  and  Tuesday  and  the  thunder 
storms  Wednesday  and  predicted 
for 
Thursday  are  likely  to  force  the  crop 
on  the  market  all 
in  a  heap,  so  that 
the  price  will  probably  drop  to  5o@75c 
before  the  end  of  the  week.

Tomatoes—$1.20  per  crate  of  4  bas­

kets.

Wax  Beans—$2.75  per  bu.

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

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  is  strong  and  ex­
cited, three  advances  having  taken  place 
since  our 
last  report,  with  every  prob­
ability  of  a  still  higher  range  of  values. 
The  market  seems  to  be  strong  enough 
to  warrant  free  buying,  and  the  volume 
of  trade,  not only at  this  point  but  in  all 
quarters  of  the  country,  has  been  very 
good,  and  is  still  bolding  up.

Coffee—The  demand  has  been  gen­
erally  good,  although  there 
is  no  dis­
position  shown  to  buy  ahead  of  require­
ments.  Stocks  are  for  the  most  part 
small.  Maracaibos  are 
firm  and  un­
changed  as  to  price,  with  a  fairly  good 
demand.  No  change  to  note  in  Java, 
and  Mocha 
is  somewhat  higher at  the 
primal  point.

Tea—There  have  been  no  changes 

in 
price  during  the  week,  although  values 
are  firm,  with  future  advances  depend­
ent  upon  the  duty. 
is  pretty  well 
established  that  the  project  to  tax  tea 
has  been  dropped.  Certain  members  of 
the  trade  have  inside 
information  to 
this  effect. 
In  New  York  it  is  said  that 
the  jobbers  have  the  smallest  stock  they 
If retail grocers are 
have  had  for  years. 
as  well  stocked  up 
in  tea  as  they  are 
believed  to  be,  the  abolition  of  the  duty 
project  will  mean  several  weeks  of 
quite,  dull  market.

It 

Rice- -There  is  an  advance  of  J^c 

in 
Japan  rice,  caused  by  the  probability  of 
the  new  tariff  schedule  adding  a  duty  to 
this  article.  The  movement 
in  rice  is 
very  good,  both 
in  this  market  and  in 
the  market 
in  general.  Owing  to  the 
undesirable  quality  of  some of  the  do­
mestic  holdings,  which  are 
in  general 
light,  the  demand  is  now  heavy  on  for­
eign  rice.  Java  seems  to  have  the  most 
attention  in  the  East.

Dried  Fruits—Evaporated  apples  are 
reported  to  be  very  strong.  There  has 
been  a  slight  advance 
in  currants,  ow­
ing  to  the  scarcity  of  stocks  in  this 
country  and  the  East.  Prunes  are  still 
low,  and  raisins,  although  low,  are  con­
sidered  in  a  strong  position.  Stocks  of 
all  kinds  of  dried  fruits  on  the  coast  are 
low  and  prunes  only  are  considered  in 
liberal  supply.

than 

last  year. 

Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Gloucester) 
write  the  Tradesman  as  follows  under 
date  of  June  14:  Up  to date  only  1,424 
barrels  of  salt  mackerel  have  been 
landed  by  the  fleet.  The  catch  off  the 
Cape  shore  has  turned  out  practically  a 
failure,  probably  on  account  of  the 
weather,  which  was  unusually  stormy 
the  past  three  weeks. 
It  is  too  early  in 
the  season  to  form  any  definite  idea 
about  what  the  catch  of  mackerel  will 
be  this  year.  The  fleet  is  much  larger 
than  that  of  1896 and  the 
increase  has 
been  based  upon  the  expectancy  of  a 
larger  catch 
Large 
bodies  of  mackerel  have  been seen along 
our  coast.  There  has  been  a  dearth  in 
the  catch 
for  a  period  from  1886  to 
1897,  eleven  years,  when  only  628,142 
barrels  were  inspected  in Massachusetts, 
a  yearly  average  of  57,000 barrels ; while 
during  the  period  of  thirty-one  years 
fiom  1855  to  1885  over 6,500,000  barrels 
were 
inspected,  making  a  yearly  aver­
age of  212,000 barrels.  This  period  of 
eleven  years  of  dearth  has  allowed  time 
enough  for  large  bodies  of  mackerel  to 
grow  and  increase  to  a  vast amount,  and 
the  only  vital  point  is  to  catch  them,  as 
from  all  the accounts  we  get  they  are  in 
the  ocean. 
In  a  few  weeks  we  ought  to 
know  something  about  the  prospect  off 
our  New  England  coast.  We hope  for  a 
catch  so  as  to  supply  the  trade  with  a 
nice quality  at  reasonable  prices.  Noth­
ing  new 
in  codfish.  Prices  of  whole

5

codfish  and  boneless  are  low  and  the de­
mand  ought  to  increase,  as  money  can 
be  made  in interesting  your  trade in this 
food  product.  Never  was  there  a  time 
in  the  history  of  the  business  when  so 
much  care  was  taken  as  is  now  to  have 
all  fish  shipped  of  nice  quality,  well 
packed,  and  prices  made  at  the  lowest 
limit,  in  some  cases  perhaps  too  low.

Provisions— Prices  appear  to  have 
reached about their lowest level.  Smoked 
meats  are  about  steady,  except  beef 
hams  and  dried  beef,  which  are  still 
tending  upward.  The  supply  is  hardly 
sufficient  to  meet  the  demand  at  pres­
ent  prices.  Lard 
is  ruling  weak  but 
there  is  a  little  steadier  feeling  toward 
the  close  of  the  week.  Sellers are  fairly 
steady  in  their  ideas.  The  demand  for 
compound  lard  and  other  substitutes 
is 
moderate  and  confined  to  special  trade. 
Prices  are  too  near  that  of  pure  lard  to 
make  much  movement.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall,  Tuesday 
evening,  June  14,  Vice-President  Wag­
ner  presided.

John  Witters,  of  the  Committee  on 
Flour,  reported  that  the  city  millers 
were  satisfied  with  the  list  of  grocers 
whose  signatures  had  been  secured  by 
the  Association  and  were  ready  to  put 
the  new  uniform  price  plan  into  opera­
tion  whenever  the  Association was ready 
to  appoint  a  committee  to  meet  the 
millers  and  conclude  the  negotiations. 
Homer  Klap  moved  that  the  report  be 
accepted  and  the Committee discharged.
Frank  J.  Dyk  moved  as  an  amend­
ment  that  the  Committee  continue to  act 
in  conjunction  with  the  Committee  on 
Trade  Interests,  which  was  adopted.

in  readiness 

A  member of  the  Committee  on  Sugar 
reported  that  the  local  grocery  jobbers 
announce  themselves 
to 
put  the  so  called  Minneapolis  plan  in 
force  at  this  market  as  soon  as  the  tariff 
bill  is  finally  settled.
A.  Brink,  of  the  Committee  on Yeast, 
reported  the  result  of  interviews  with  a 
majority  of  the  grocers  handling  bulk 
yeast,  which  was  accepted.

The  Committee  on  Picnic 

asked 
further  time,  so  far  as  the  selection  of  a 
location  is  concerned.  The  request  was 
granted.

H.  J.  Vinkemulder  moved  that  the 
grocery  stores  be  closed  all  day  Mon­
day,  July  5
Homer  Klap  moved  as  an  amendment 
that  the  stores  be  closed  at  10 o’clock 
for  the  remainder  of  the  day,  which 
was  adopted.
The  Secretary  was  requested  to  call 
the  attention  of  the  Board  of  Health  to 
the  unwholesome  fruit  now  being  sold 
on  the  streets  by  some  of  the  peddlers, 
with  a  view  to  securing  a  more  rigid 
inspection,  which  would  result 
in  the 
confiscation  of  any  articles  of  food  not 
considered  wholesome.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

New  Schedule  on  Granulated  Sugar.
The  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  has  promulgated  a  new 
schedule  for  the  saie  of  granulated 
sugai,  as  follows:

cents  per  pound.

6 
4%  pounds  tor  25  cents, 
o  pounds  for  50  cents.
18  pounds  for $1.

Friends  of  Frank  Jewell  (Clark-Jew- 
ell-Wells  Co.)  insist  that  he 
is  train­
ing  to  take  part  in  an  Indian  show.  He 
makes  regular  pilgrimages  every  few 
days  to  the  Little  Manistee  and  returns 
with  a  reddish  brown  complexion which 
is  exceedingly  becoming  to his  peculiar
style  of  beauty.
—

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P.  Steketee  &  Sons  offer  American  % 
Blues  at  4>£c  and  American  Grays  at 
4 #c.

SO,000 Fouls Butter

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

M .  R .  A L D E N ,

9 8   S   D I V I S I O N   S T   .

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

CLOVER  AND  TIMOTHY.

All  kinds of

FIELD   AN D  GAR D EN   SE E D S.

Correspondence  solicited.  Your  order  will 

follow,  we  feel  sure.

BEACH,  COOK & CO.,

■ 28 to 133 West Bridge St.  QRAND  RAPIDS, MICH

The season for FIELD SEEDS such as CLOVER and TIMOTHY is  now at  hand.  We  are 

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

or send orders.  Will bill  at market value.

Wholesale Seeds,  Beans,  Potatoes, 

26-28-30-32 Ottawa S t, Grand  Rapids.

M O SELEY  BROS.,

SEASONABLE  SEEDS

Millets,  Hungarian, Fodder Corn.

GARD EN   SEED S,  IM PLEM EN TS,  ETC.

Alfred J.  Brown Co.,

We Are Getting Plenty

OP  HOME  GROWN  STRAWBERRIES

BAN AN AS 

Write for our prices to you.

LEMONS 

ORANGES

Peas,  Beans, Onions, Spinach, Radishes,  Lettuce,  Cucumbers,

Tomatoes,  New  Potatoes,  Summer  Squash.

ALLERTON  &  HAGGSTROM, Jobbers,

Both Telephones 1248. 

127 Louis Street. 

Grand  Rapids, filch.

Home=Grown  Strawberries

AT  GROWERS’  PRICES.

Bananas,  Oranges,  Lemons,  Onions,  Spinach,  Radishes,  Lettuce,  Cucumbers, 
Tomatoes,  New  Potatoes,  Summer  Squash,  Wax  Beans,  New  Peas,  Cabbage, 
Fancy Honey.  All seasonable  vegetables.

BUNTING  &  CO., Jobbers,

20  &  22 O ttaw a S treet, Grand  R apids, M ich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

Fruits and  Produce.

Shipping  Butter  Properly.

A. B. Antes In New York Produce Review.

It  seems  as  though  everything  con­
nected  with  the  butter  business,  from 
the  cow  to  the  commission  man,  had 
been  written  about  time  and  again,  but 
I  cannot  remember  having  seen  any­
thing  about  shipping,  and,  as  there  is 
a  good  chance  for a  great  many  to 
im­
prove  on  this  score,  I  want  to  make  a 
few  suggestions.

First,  the  packages  should  be  kept 
clean,  as  it  always  helps  the  sale  of  but­
ter.  Sometimes  old  black  tubs  are  used 
that  have  been  stored  in  a  damp  cellar 
until  they  are  moldy 
inside  and  out. 
They  might  better  be  burned,  as  the 
butter  will  get  discolored  and  probably 
have  to  be  shaded  in  price  on  that  ac­
count  far  more  than  enough  to  buy  new 
tubs.

it 

Second,  particular  pains  shou’d  be 
taken  to  mark  the  tubs  neatly.  Every 
shipper  should  use  lampblack  and  tur­
pentine.  A  nickel  package  of  lamp- 
black  and  a  dime’s  worth  of  turpentine 
will  mark  a  thousand  tubs  of  butter. 
Many  use  shoe  blacking  or  “ any  old 
thing’ ’  and  slap  it  on  the  wet  tubs  in  a 
dauby,  nasty  way,  and  by  the  time  the 
butter  gets  to  New  York  the  whole  top 
of  the  tub 
is  smeared  over  and  very 
often 
impossible  to  tell  what  the 
is 
stencil  number  is;  in  which  case  the 
receiver  has  to  do  some  guessing  and 
put  the  tubs  in  the  different  lots that  are 
short.  Or  may  be  at  the  railroad  depot 
they  cannot  tell  the  stencil  number  and 
may  put  a  tub  of  factory 
in  a  lot  of 
creamery.  I  have  seen  it  done,  and  then 
there  is  trouble.  New  York  is  receiving 
from  thirty  thousand  to  fifty  thousand 
packages  of  butter  weekly,  and  it  can 
readily  be  seen  how  important  it  is  to 
have  the  tubs  marked  properly. 
In 
putting  the  stencil  on,  it  is  well  to  have 
a  small  board  .to  rub  the  brush  on  in 
case 
it  gets  too  wet,  otherwise  it  will 
blur.  The  turpentine  and 
lampblack 
mixture  dries  quickly,  will  stand  rub­
bing  like  dry  paint  and  will  not  soften 
when  wet,  while  blacking  and  other 
materials  will  soften  up  every 
time 
water gets  on  them ;  and  they  are  very 
apt  to  get  wet  and  rubbed  in  transit.

Third,  every  shipment  should  be  ad­
vised  or  so  fully  reported  that  the  re­
ceiver  will  know  what  is  coming,  when 
it  started,  etc.  The  receiver  has  his 
advice  book 
in  which  he  enters  each 
shipment  that  he  has  advice  of,  putting 
down  date  of 
shipment,  number  ot 
packages,  the  different  qualities,if there 
be  more  than  one,  etc.  Many  times 
butter comes  in  and  the  receiver  knows 
nothing  of  it  until  the  butter  comes  into 
the  store.  May  be  there  is  a  shortage ; 
often  one  or  more  tubs  are  short  and  the 
receiver  never  knows  it  until  he  hears 
from  the  shipper a  week  or  ten  days 
later.  The  shipper  gets  his  returns  and 
finds  his  account  sales  show  a  shortage, 
then  he  writes  and  wants  to  know  about 
it ;  there 
is  often  more  or  less  corre­
spondence,the  bill  of  lading  and  freight 
bill  are  gotten  together  and  a  claim  is 
put 
in  on  one  end  or  the  other.  May 
be  after  a  month  or  so  the  claim  is  set­
tled  by  the  railroad  company  and  the 
shipper  gets  his  money. 
is  more 
than  probable  that  the  shipper  is  a  co­
operative  creamery  and  the  patrons  are 
kicking  because  of  the  delay  in  paying 
off,  while  if  the  receiver  had  the  bill  of 
lading  he  could  immediately  attach  the 
freight  bill  and  put  in  a  claim.  A  great 
many  commission houses furnish printed 
envelopes  or  postal  cards  for  the  ship­
is  an  easy  matter  to 
per  to  use,  so 
put  the  bill  of 
lading  in  an  envelope 
and  mail  it. 
It 
is  not  absolutely  nec­
essary  to  write  a  letter,  but  it  is  a  good 
plan  to  advise  each  shipment  fully  and 
send  a  bill  of  lading. 
“ It’s  business,’ ’ 
and  will  often  save  a  great  deal  of 
trouble  and  delay.

It 

it 

There 

is  another 

improvement  that 
can  be  made 
in  many  instances,  and 
that  is  in  fastening  the  covers  on.  Tins 
should  be  used;  we  see  a  few  hooks yet, 
but  I  am  glad  to  say  very  few.  Four 
tins  should  be  used,  putting  the first  one 
on  so  that  it  will  come  down  ovei  the

end  of  the  hoop  on  the  cover,  as  that  is 
generally  the  first  to  give  way  on  the 
cover.  When  only  three  tins  are  used, 
if  one  comes  loose  the  leverage  is  so 
great  on  the  other  two  that  they  are  apt 
to  get  loose  also,  where  if  four  are  used 
and  one  gets 
loose  the  leverage  is  in 
favor  of  the  remainder.

grapes 

containing 

To  Regulate  Chicago  Fruit  Packages.
The  section  of  the  Chicago  ordinance 
which  requires  that  all  fruit  packages, 
except  those 
or 
bananas,  shall  contain  quarts,  pecks  or 
bushels,  or  multiples  thereof,  and  that 
the  quantity  of  fruit  contained  shall  be 
stamped  on  the  outside  of  each  pack­
age,  which 
is  about  to  be  enforced  in 
that  city,  has  stirred 
the  dealers  to 
wrath.  All  the  fruit  baskets  and  pack­
ages  that  will  be  used 
in  this  year’s 
trade  were  made  at  least  two  years  ago, 
they  say,  and  to  enforce  the  law  without 
giving  the  commission  men  at  least  a 
year  to  give  warning  to  the  growers  and 
basket  manufacturers would entirely stop 
business.  Retail  grocers  are  said  to  fa­
vor  the  ordinance.

Followed  the  Doctor’s  Instructions.
Mrs.  Pneumoney-----1  11  have 
two
pounds  of  that  sage  cheese,  and  I’ll 
have  a  pound  of  impunity,  too.

Grocer— Marm ?
Mrs.  Pneumoney—One  pound  will  be 
enough,  1  guess.  Dr.  Koddle  says  that 
sage  cheese  can  be eaten with  impunity; 
but  then,  you  know,  i  may  not  like  im­
punity.

Eggs  $2  a  Dozen  in  Alaska.

From the Alaska Miner.

A.  Wolsely,  of Tacoma,  arrived  on  the 
Alki.  He  has  about  three  tons  of  sup­
plies  which  he  is  taking  into  the  Klon- 
dyke,  including  thirteen  cases  of  fresh 
eggs.  He expects  to  realize  $2  a  dozen. 
Last  spring  eggs  brought $1.50  a  dozen 
at  Circle  City  at  a  time  when provisions 
were  comparatively  cheap.

111  H I   EMI

INCLUDES  THE  ITEM

“ Ice  Cream  Lost  or  Wasted.”

The New  Round 
Grand  Rapids 

Ice  Cream  Cabinet

W ill  make  ciphers  of  the 
figures  opposite  this  item.

It  is handsome  and in  keeping  with  Soda  Foun* 
tain surroundings.  Its looks  please customers.  Its 
convenience enables the dispenser to serve custom­
ers  promptly.  Its  economy  in  Ice  and  cream  will 
please  every owner of a fountain.

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

Chocolate  Cooler Co.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

One  Grocer’s  Pride.

Stroller In Grocery World.

Some  men  have*  so  much  pride 

it 
nearly  chokes  them  to  death.  They  are 
so  independent and  hold  up  their  heads 
so  high  they  nearly  break  their  backs.  1 
believe 
in  holding  up  your  head,  and 
being  independent,  as  well  as  anybody, 
but  I  don’t believe  in  going  to  such  an 
extreme  that  you  injure  yourself.

I  don’t  often  call  a  man  a  fool,  still 
more  seldom  do  I  call  a  grocer  a  fool, 
last  week  who 
but  I  ran  across  one 
can’t  be  termed  anything  else. 
If  ever 
there  was  a  fool  on  earth,  that  ¿rocer 
was  one.  He  was  so  much  of  a  fool 
that  1  honestly  believe  his  foolishness 
bad  struck  in  and  made  him  crazy.

The  matter  with  this  grocer  was  his 
pride.  He  just  thought  he  was  as  good 
as  any  man  or  woman  who  walked  the 
streets.  Very  likely  he  was,  but 
if  I 
had  been 
in  his  place  I  wouldn't  have 
used  so  aggressive  a  way  of  letting  peo­
ple  know  it.

I  had  conversed  with  the  grocer  I  re­
fer  to  for  several  minutes  before  I  dis­
covered  his  peculiarity.  While  we  were 
talking  a  very  handsomely  dressed  lady 
rolled  past 
in  a  rubber-tired  carriage. 
She  had  a  liveried  coachman  and  was 
evidently  a  society  woman  of  wealth.

“ Who  is  that  lady?”   I  asked.
“ Her name’s Burley, ”   he said,gruffly.
He  seemed  so  sour  about  it  that  my 

curiosity  was  aroused.

“ You  don’t  seem  very  cordial  about 

it,’ ’  I  said.

“ I  aint,”   he  said. 

“ I  don’t like her. 
She  used  to be  one  of  my  customers.”
“ Did  she  leave  you?”   I  asked,  sup­
posing  I  saw  through  the  grocer’s  dis­
like.

“ No,  she  didn’t, ”  he  said,  with  some 

spirit;  “ I  left  her.’ ’

I  looked  at  him  with  some  surprise.
“ What  do  you  mean?”   I  asked.
“ Just  what  I  say,”   he  said,  “ I  re­
fused  to  sell  her  groceries  any  more. 
That’s  what!”

“ Wasn’t  she  good  pay?”
“ Best  in  the  world.  Paid  every  Mon­
day  morning  regular.  The last  year  she 
deal'  with  me  she bought  over  a  thou­
sand  dollars’  worth  of  stuff.”
“ Why  on  earth  did  you  let  her  go?”  

I  asked.

“ Why  did  I  let  her  go?”   he  repeated. 
“ Why,  because  she  thought  herself  too 
measly  stuck  up  to  speak  to  me  on  the 
street.  That’s  why!”

“ Explain  yourself,”   I  said.
“ There’s  nothing  much  to  explain,”  
he  said. 
“ I  was  walking  along  the 
street  one  day  when  her  carriage  went 
by.  She  saw  me,  for  she  looked  straight 
at  me,  but  she  never  let  on  she  saw  me. 
If  I  ain’t  good 
That  made  me  hot. 
in  the  street,  my 
enough  to  speak  to 
lady,  says 
I  to  myself,  I  ain't  good 
enough  to  buy groceries  of.  So  I  up and 
writes  her  a  note  sayin’  I  shouldn’t  be 
able  to  furnish  her  with 
any  more 
goods.
I  nearly  dropped  dead.  A  thousand 
dollars’  worth  of  trade  lost  because  his 
customer  wouldn’t  speak  to him  on  the 
street!

When  I  recovered  my  breath,  I  said:

H  Do you  w ant  to  know 
|J  all about us?
In 

Write to

!?  Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,

Philadelphia,  Pa.

M  Fourth  National  Bank,
M 

Grand  Rapids.

Sffl  W.  D.  Hayes, Cashier,
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Hastings National  Bank, 

Hastings,  Mich.

D. C. Oakes,  Banker,

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

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“ Well,  what  good  did  that  do  you? 
Did  she  speak  to  you  afterward?” 
“ Tain’t  that,”   he  said,  “ it’s  the 
principle  of  the  thing  I  look  at.  Ain't 
I  as  honest  as  that  woman?  Maybe  I 
don’t  wear as  good  clothes,  but  I’m  just 
as  good!”

“  Do  you  think  the  mere  recognition 
of  that  woman  on  the  street  was  worth 
$i,ooo a  year?”

“ Yes,  sir!”   he  asserted,  “ I  felt  bet­
ter  after  I’d  cut  that  woman  off  than  I 
had  for  years!”

“ Did  she  answer  your 

asked. 
she  didn  t  come  here  no  more.

“ Nope,”   he  answered. 

letter?”  

I 
“ But 

“ No,  sir!”   he  went  on.  “ I  don’t  al­
low  nobody  to  spit  on  me! 
If  I  ain't 
good  enough  to  recognize  I  ain’t  good 
enough  to  do  business  with,  that's all.”  
“ But  you  don’t  hurt  them  when  you 
refuse  to  sell  them  goods,”   1  said. 
“ It’s  yourself  you  hurt.  ’

“ It’s  all  right, ”   he  persisted,  “ I’ll 
I  don't  allow  nobody  to  spit 

stand  it. 
on  me.  Not  me;  no,  sir!”
“ I’ll  tell  you  another 

thing,”   he 
said,  in  a  minute. 
“ There’s  a  family 
up  town  used  to  get  their  goods  here. 
They  used 
to  average  about  $n  a 
week.  One  day  me  boy  was  out  and  I 
went  there  to  deliver  some goods. 
I 
went  to  the  front  door,  and  the  lady, 
when  she  come,  just  opened  the  door, 
and  yelled  out:
“   ‘ Back  door!”   Then  she  slammed 
the  door  in  me  face,  and  me  a-standin’ 
there  on  the  steps.

"   ‘ Well,’  I  says  to  meself,  ‘ me  lady, 
you  don’t  get  no  gcods  from  me,  either 
at  the  baok  door  or  the  front!’  so  I  puts 
the basket  back  in  the  wheelbarrow  and 
brings  it  back  to  the  store.  Well,  they 
sent  their  girl  here  to  see  why  the  goods 
hadn’t  come,  and  I  tell  you  I  sent  that 
girl  home  with  a  flea  in  her  ear. 
I  told 
her  neither  she  nor  her  mistress  could 
buy  groceries  of  me  at  any  price.  Says 
I,  ‘ if  I  ain’t  good  enough  to  go  to  the 
front  door,’  I  says,  ‘ I  ain’t  good  enough 
to  sell  groceries!’  I  says,  and they never 
come  here  again,  either!”
“ And  what  good  did  their  staying 
away  do  you?”   I  asked.  “ Was  it  worth 
$500  a  year  to  do  that?”
“ Yes,  sir!”   he  said.  “ Made  me  feel 
like  a  man!'  he  said. 
“ Why,  if  I’d 
gone  to  that  woman’s  back  door,  like  a 
tramp  after a  bone,  I’d  never  been  able 
to  hold  up  me  head  again.”

“ It  seems  to  me  that  the  kitchen  door 
is  the  place  to  take  goods  like  that, ”   I 
suggested. 
in 
the  kitchen  anyhow.”

“ They  have  to be  taken 

“ It’s  all  right,”   he  said,  “ I  don’t 
think  so. 
I  hold  myself  good  enough  to 
go  to  anybody’s  front  dooi,  goods  or  no 
goods. 
I’m  honest  and  I  pay  me  taxes, 
and  nobody  can  spit  on  me!  That  wom­
an 
insulted  me,  and  I  don't  sell  gro­
ceries  to  anybody  that  insults  me  an’ 
my  family. ”  
don’t  agree  with  me  that  this  grocer 
a  plumb  fool,  hold  up  their  hands.

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in  general 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
Taken  altogether,  there  are,  undoubt­
edly,  more  elements  of  encouragement 
in  the  commercial  outlook 
for 
many  weeks  past.  While  the  price  re­
covery  has  not  been  large 
it  has  been 
manifest  in  many  lines,  and  the  volume 
of  business 
is  steadily  in­
creasing.  A  very  significant  feature  of 
the  situation  is  the  increase  in  railway 
earnings  for  the  month  of  May—about 
5  per  cent,  over  those  of  the  correspond­
ing  month  of  last  year.  Considering 
that  January  and  February  showed  de­
creases  as  compared  with  the  same 
months  of  1896,  and  that  March  and 
April  showed  but  a  slight  gain,  the 
marked  advance  for  May  would  seem 
to 
indicate  that  the  generally  increas­
ing  volume  of  business,  so  much  talked 
about,  is  finally  becoming  manifest.  A 
natural  result  of  the  increased  earnings 
is  a  general  strengthening  in  the  stock 
market,especially  for  railway securities. 
There  seems  to  be  a  broader  tone  in  all 
American  stocks  and  increased  foreign 
demand 
is  becoming  important.  The 
subject  of  most  widespread  encourage­
ment 
is  the  condition  of  the  crops. 
That  there  will  be  an  abundant  general 
harvest  seems  fairly  well  assured ;  and 
yet  there  has  been  an  advance  in  the 
price  of  most  cereals  and  other  products 
except  cotton.

The  strengthening  noted  in  the  price 
of  wheat  last  week  materialized  into  an 
advance  amounting  to  about  4  cents,  to 
be  followed,  however,  by  a  slight  reac­
tion. 
In  view  of  the  favorable  crop  re­
ports  and  the  continued  large  receipts 
the  advance  may  be considered decided­
ly  encouraging.  Corn  and  oats  have 
shared 
in  the  advance.  Southern  re­
ports  of  the  sugar  and  rice  crops  are 
exceptionally  good.

improvement 

At  last  it  may  be  noted  that  there 

is 
a  general 
in  the  textile 
and  dry  goods  situation.  While  cotton 
reacted  from  the  speculative  advance 
caused  by  the  Southern 
floods,  there 
has  been  a  general  strengthening  of- 
.prints.  The  advent  of  warm  weather 
has  brought  a  decided 
increase  of  sea­
sonable  trade  in  all  lines,  while  the  ac­
tivity  in  goods  for  fall  trade  is  decided­
ly  marked.

In  the  iron  and  steel  market  it  would 
seem  as  though  the  tide  of  prices  had 
passed  the  ebb.  There is  a  decided  ad­
vance 
in  Bessemer  at  Pittsburg  and 
is  quoted  slightly  higher.
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But  what 
is  still  more  significant  is  a 
positive  increase  in  demand  for finished 
products,  especially  structural  forms.

The  general  financial  situation  con­
tinues  easy,  the  general  complaint  be­
ing  too  much  money  seeking  employ­
ment. 
Interest  rates  in  many  localities 
are  tending  to  reduction.  The  outflow 
of  gold  on  account  of  European  demand 
seems  to  have  nearly  ceased. 
Bank 
clearings  are  again  above  the  billion 
mark—$1,008,182,516,  an 
increase  of 
12  per  cent,  over  the  preceding  week, 
and  of  7  per  cent,  over  the  correspond­
ing  week  of 
last  year.  Failures  were 
256,  against  197  for  last  week.

look 

BEWARE  OF  DULL  SEASONS.
The  season  of  flies  and  dust  is  the 
time  when  there  is  a  strong  temptation 
to  neglect  the  window  and  showcase.  A 
seedy 
is  the  consequence  of  a  lit­
tle  slackening  of  vigilance  which  is  so 
apt  to  result  from  the  enervation  of 
summer  and  the  slackening  of  active 
trade  demand  consequent  upon 
the 
heated  term.  There 
is  no  time  in  the 
year  when  it  is  excusable  to  show slack­
ness  in  the  care  of  goods  on  display 
in 
showcase,  window,  or  anywhere  else.

It  is  natural  that  method  and  system 
should  slacken  during  dull  seasons,  but 
the  evil  consequences  of  giving  way 
in 
the  slightest  degree  to  this  tendency fol­
low,  for  a  long  time,  into  the  subse 
quent  season  of  activity.  It  is  not  alone 
that  it  is  difficult  to  regain  lost  ground 
in  business  discipline and thoroughness, 
but  to  a  greater  or  less  degree  every 
is  under  the  con­
business  enterprise 
its  clientage  and 
stant  observation  of 
is  quickly  noted  and 
any  slackening 
contrast  made  with  those  who  are 
in­
stant  in  season  and  out  of  season.

Edison  thinks  that  there  will  soon  be 
a  horseless  carriage  on  the  market, 
combining  the  lightness  and  trimness 
of  the  bicycle  and  costing  not  more than 
$100.  There are no insurmountable diffi­
culties  in  the  way.  The thing  is  feasible 
enough,  and  an  army  of  inventors  is  at 
work  upon  it.  When 
it  comes  the  bi­
cycler  will  have  the  choice  of  working 
his  own  passage  or  having  it  worked 
for  him.  Some  of  them  pretend  to  like 
the  former,  but  with  the alternative  in 
reach  the  chances  are  that  they  will  de­
indolent  and  luxurious  pref­
velop  an 
erence  for  the  latter.  The  vehicle 
is 
certainly  on  the  way,  various  in  type 
and  function,  and  Mr.  Edison’s  declara­
tion  that 
it  will  speedily  arrive  is  the 
more  significant  from  the  fact  that  he 
ought  to  know  what  be  is  talking  about.

A  Wisconsin  man  who  had been a mil­
lionaire,  but  was  about  to  lose  his  prop­
erty  for  debt  to  despondent  creditors  in 
the  hard-fisted  East,  induced  his  wife 
to  sue  him  for  divorce on  the grounds 
of  cruelty.  The  divorce  with  alimony 
was  secured,and  he  immediately  turned 
his  property  over  to  her  in  settlement  of 
the  alimony  judgment. 
In  a  few  weeks 
they  were  re-married.

The  sugar 

importations  of  May  beat 
the  record,  having  never  been  equaled 
in  a  single  month.  Their  total  was 
790,324,053  pounds;  their  value  $15,- 
043» 299-  The  sugar  trust  profits  not  so 
much  from  the  differential  in  rates  as 
by  the  delays  in  changing  the  rates.

In  this  time  -of  strikes  and 

laboi 
troubles  it  would  be  a  relief  to  have  the 
jawsmitbs  in  Congress  strike  for  shorter 
hours.

Men  who  blockade  tariff  legislation 
defy  the_  administration  to  make good 
the  promise  of  progress  and  prosperity.

IS  IT  A  WARNING?

The  twelve  months  ending  June  I, 
1897,  have  been  remarkable  in  respect 
to  the  physical  phenomena  that  have 
characterized  them.

In  the  Mississippi  valley  the  most 
extraordinary  flood  on  record  has  been 
experienced. 
The  waters  rose  to  a 
greater  height  than  was  ever  known 
since  the  great  valley  has  been  inhab­
ited  by  white  men.  The introduction to 
the  flood  was  a  serious  drought 
in 
Louisiana  and  Arkansas.

Until  about  June  10  the  Northern 
States  experienced  the  coldest  spring 
and  early  summer  on  record.  For  sev­
eral  weeks  the  temperature  was  but  lit­
tle  above the  freezing  point  and  several 
times  it  sank  below  it.  Frosts  occurred 
in  Michigan  and  all  neighboring  states 
and  the  damage  to  wheat and  garden 
products  was  very  serious.  Crops  were 
killed  in  some  instances,  and  the  farm­
ers  have  resown  wheat and  other  grain. 
For  nine  months  of  the  last  twelve  it 
has  been  necessary  to  keep  fires  in  offi­
ces,  stores  and  houses.  The  oldest  in­
habitant  fails  to  recall  the  equal  of  this.
About  the  first  of  May  earthquake 
shocks  were  felt  over  the  entire  country 
from  the  Mississippi  River to  the  At­
lantic  Ocean,  and  from  the  Great  Lakes 
and  the  St.  Lawrence River to the north­
ern  boundaries  of  the  Gulf  States.  The 
same  sort  of  quakings  were  experienced 
over  the  same  territory  about  the  first 
of  June  instant. 
if  nature 
were  marking  with  extraordinary  con­
vulsions  the  closing  years  of  the  won­
derful  nineteenth  century,and the  usher­
ing  in  of  the  still  more  formidable  and 
fateful  twentieth.  These  physical  dis­
turbances  and  aberrations  may  be  but 
harbingers  of  the  tremendous  convul­
sions  in  the  intellectual,  moral and spir­
itual  worlds  that  are  being  prepared  for 
and  are  to  take  place  at  no  distant  day.

It  looks  as 

legislation. 

BUSINESS  AND  THE  TARIFF.
The  country  is  suffering severely  from 
the  business  depression  which  usually 
accompanies  tariff 
The 
rapid  hurrying 
in  of  foreign  goods to 
escape  the  higher  rates  of  duty  that  are 
expected  has  about  ceased,  as  importers 
have  reached  the  limit  of their resources 
and  have  accumulated  supplies  which 
are  expected  to  last  the  greater  part  of 
a  year.  There  has  ensued  the  usual 
period  of  anxiety  and  uncertainty.  The 
long  delay bn  the  part  of  the  Senate 
in 
taking  up  the  tariff  created  doubts,  and 
as  every  schedule  of  the  bill  is  being 
more  or  less  changed,  all  branches  of 
trade  are  hesitating  and  procrastina­
ting,owing to  the  uncertainty  as  to  what 
duties  will  finally  be  adopted.

Aside  from  the  dullness  which  is 

in­
evitably  the  accompaniment  of  tariff 
agitation,  there are the  bad  effects  upon 
American  industry  which  the  enormous 
importations  of  foreign  goods  are  cer­
tain  to  produce.  The  year’s  supply  of 
so  many  articles  which  have  been 
brought  into  the  country  will  largely  fill 
the  place of  American  productions  and 
manufactures,  and,  as  a  result,  home 
industry  will  suffer  to a considerable  ex­
tent.

Another  serious  result  of the enormous 
importations  will  be  the  effect  upon  the 
revenues.  With  so  much  imported  be­
fore  the  new  tariff  becomes  law,  the 
importations  under  the  new  duties  are 
likely  to  be  small  for  many  months  to 
come.  The  expected  gain  in  revenue 
is,  therefore,  certain  to  be  postponed 
for  some time.

The  disturbance  to  business  which 
tariff  changes  always  produce  makes

all  such  legislation  hateful  to  business 
men.  The  long-drawn-out  debates  and 
frequent  amendments  which  accompany 
the  progress  of  tariff  bills  through  the 
Houses  of  Congress bring trade almost to 
a  standstill,  owing  to  the  uncertainty 
which  is  created  and  the  utter  inability 
of  merchants  to  make calculations ahead 
with  any  safety.

The  Prince  of  Wales  has  just  come  in 
for a  windfall  of  $10,000  in  a  somewhat 
strange  manner.  Sometime ago a  young 
fellow  by  the  name  of  Sydney  de  Bao 
was  staying  down  in  Lizard,  in  Corn­
fancy  to  the 
wall,  when  he  took  a 
daughter of  the  local 
innkeeper,  a  girl 
by  the  name  of  Ruby  Hart.  Being  in 
poor  health  at  the  time,  he informed  her 
that  he  was  going  to  put  her  name down 
for a  legacy  of  $10,000  in  his  will.  He 
added  that,  with  the  object  of  overcom­
ing  her  objections  to 
the 
legacy,  he  would  make  it  payable  to  the 
Duke  of  Cornwall,  that  is  the  Prince  of 
Wales,  if  she  declined  it,  thinking  that 
if  the  matter  was  put  in  that  way  she 
would  accept  the  money  rather  than 
let 
it  go  to  a  stranger. 
In  the  course  of 
time  Mr.  De  Bao  died.  Miss  Hart  has 
declined  to accept  the  legacy for reasons 
which  she  refused  to  state  in  court,  and 
which  are  left  to  the  imagination,  and 
thus  the  legacy  falls  to  the  Prince  of 
Wales,  who  had  never  heard  of  Mr.  De 
Bao  in  his  life  until  cited  as  a  party  to 
the  proceedings  for  the  probation  of  the 
will. 

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receiving 

A  man  in  a  town  just  outside Boston’s 
suburbs 
is  about  to  bring  suit  for  di­
vorce  against  his  wife  upon  novel 
grounds.  They  have  been  married  only 
three  months.  The  wife  in  the  case  is 
an  attractive  woman,  but  she  was 
courted  and  won  by  her  husband- largely 
on  account  of  her  luxuriant  and  beauti­
ful  hair.  His  compliments  were  show­
ered  upon  her  hair  profusely  before  and 
after  marriage.  Now  he  has  discovered 
that  all  but  a  few  straggling  threads  of 
that  hair  were  purchased  in  a  switch. 
It 
is  said  that  he  made  the  discovery 
about  a  week  ago,  and  has  not  been  liv­
ing  with  his  wife  since.

Eloquence  abounds  where  there  are 
crags and  peaks,  regardless of language. 
A  Montana 
legislator,  when  several 
corrections  in  spelling  and  grammar  in 
his  bill  were  called  to  his  attention  by 
the  committee,  said:  “ Why,  you  fel­
lows  have  mucilated 
It  was  the 
same  statesman  who  said,  in  addressing 
a  committee  of  which  he  was  a  mem­
ber:  “ The  muddy  slough  of  politics 
was  the  bowlder  upon  which the law  was 
split 
in  twain  and  fell  in  a  thousand 
pieces  from  the  pedro  of  justice.  Let 
us,  then,  gear  up  our  loins,  that  we  can 
go  forth  with  a  clear  head.”

it!”  

Lord  Wolseley  proposes  to  begin  re­
form  in  the  British  army  by  abolishing 
the  cocked  hat  and  feathers  worn  by 
staff officers.  Years  ago  lots  of  feathery 
fuss  and  foolishness  was  knocked 
into 
a  cocked  hat.  Now 
is  proposed  to 
knock  some  of  it  out.  An  officer  or  a 
soldier,  expected  to  handle  a  sword  or 
gun,  cannot  do  himself  or  his  country 
justice  if  he  has  on his head a ridiculous 
cocked  hat  and  a  mess  of  feathers  to 
think  about  and  take  care  of.

it 

In  fifty  years  of  the  existence  of  sav­
ings  banks  in  Massachusetts  they  have 
had  under  their  control  the  enormous 
sum  of $2,100,000,000.  They  still  con­
trol  upwards  of  $500,000,000  and  yet 
the  entire  loss  to depositors  in  this  half 
century  chargeable  to  fraud,  fault  or 
error  has  been  less  than  $2,000,000.

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place. 
It  is  devastating  the lowlands  of 
the  Mississippi  valley  at  the  very  time 
when  the  dry  plains  of  Montana,  Wyom­
ing,  the  Dakotas,  Nebraska,  Kansas, 
Colorado  and  other  Western  States  are 
suffering  for  it.  There 
is  not  a  drop 
too  much  water  between  the  Rocky 
Mountains and  the  Aileghanies,  if  only 
could  be  properly  distributed.  So 
If  it  could 
with  the  unemployed  labor. 
it 
is  most 
be  distributed 
just  where 
needed,  and 
individual  were 
competent  to  play  his  part,  there  would 
be  no  excess  of  labor.

if  every 

Under  this  view  it  is  held  that  if  the 
unemployed  were  able  to  discover  what 
callings  are  deficiently  supplied,  and 
they  were  competent  to  enter  them,  un­
employment  could  not  exist  except  in  a 
few  rare  and  special  cases,  and with  the 
abolition  of  unemployment,  the  compe- 
ition  of  the  unemployed  would  be  re­
moved,  and  any  approach  to  starvation 
wages  would  become 
impossible.  The 
great  object,  therefore,  must  be  to  dis­
cover  a  means  whereby 
it  may  be 
promptly  known  what  callings  there  are 
which  from  time  to  time  are  under­
manned,  and,  secondly,  how  can  the  un­
employed  be  instructed  in  them.

is 

Of  course,  what  is  stated  above  refers 
only  to  average  times,  and  not  to  the 
conditions  when  all  business 
is  tem­
porarily  prostrated  and  paralyzed  by 
some  sudden  panic  or  other catastrophe.
It  is  a  common  mistake  among  those 
who  have  never  had  any  experience  in 
the  matter  to  suppose  that  an  unem­
ployed  man  can  obtain  employment  in 
another  calling  than  to which he  proper­
ly  belongs.  This 
impracticable  for 
most  men,  because  they  are  trained  in 
a  particular  business  and  have  no  ex­
in  any  other;  but  there  are 
perience 
some 
intelligent  and  clever  men  who 
have  learned  several  trades  and  are 
competent  in  each.  They  are  the  ex­
ceptions,  however.  The  number  of  per­
sons  who,  having  been  thrown  out  of 
employment  in  skilled  labor,  have  been 
compelled  to  resort  to  unskilled  labor  is 
so  great  that  the  various  forms  of  un­
skilled  labor  have  become  overcrowded 
callings. 
It  is  also  true  that  those  who 
employ  skilled  labor,  and  who  find  the 
supply  of  the  class  of  labor  they  require 
insufficient  to  meet  their  demand,  may, 
if  they  think  fit,  employ  one  who  is  not 
skilled  and  teach  him  the  business;  but 
this 
is  rarely  done  at  all,  and,  when 
done,  is  done  only  for  beginners  who 
are  to  be  brought  up  in  that  business  or 
in  a  particular  interest.

It  has  already  organized  an 

The  only  remedy  for  the  lack  of  dis­
tribution  of  laborers  must  be  in 
intelli­
gence  offices  established  by  the  Govern­
ment. 
im­
in  providing  statistics 
portant  service 
of  labor  and  wages.  This 
is  very  val­
uable ;  but  there  must  be  added  to  it  a 
service  which  will  keep  posted upon  the 
supply  of  laborers  at  every  important 
point,  and  any  excess  or  deficiency  at 
any  point  made  known  at  once.  Then, 
if  the  laborers  can  be  transferred  to  the 
places  where  they  are  needed,  most  im­
portant  results  would  be  secured.

PROBLEM  OF THE  UNEMPLOYED.
The  question  of  the  unemployed  is  a 
very  important  one  in  the  consideration 
of  the  labor  problem.  Why  are  there 
any  unemployed  workers 
in  a  world 
which,  although  men  have  been  delving 
in  it  for  ages,  is  still  ¡largely  undevel­
oped?  There  are > cities  to  be  built, 
roads  and  railways  to  be  constructed, 
rivers  to  be 
improved  and  canals  and 
other  waterways  to  be  excavated  for  the 
uses  of  commerce.  There  are  mines  and 
quarries  to  be  opened,  forests  to  be  cut 
down  and  made  into  lumber;  there  are 
millions  of  acres  of  land  to  be  brought 
under  cultivation,  and  there 
is  a  con­
stantly  increasing  population  to  be  fed, 
clothed  and  cared  for.  There  is  no  end 
of  the  work  that  is  to  be  done.  Then 
why  should  there  be  any  unemployed 
labor?

inventions. 

The  reasons  for  such  a  state  of  things 
It  will  be  worth  while  to 
are  various. 
consider  some  of  them. 
It  is  common 
to  charge  any  apparent  excess  of  labor 
to  machinery  and  new 
It 
is  true  that  machines  deprive  some men 
of 
labor  by  taking  their  places;  but 
every  machine  has  furnished  employ­
ment  for  many  more  than  it  displaced. 
The  trouble  about  machinery  is  that, 
while 
industries  and 
makes  work  for  many  more  than  it  has 
turned  out,  the  displaced  men  are  at  a 
great  disadvantage  when  they are driven 
out  of  the  only  sort  of  labor  that  they 
understand  and  are  too  old  or  too un pro­
gressive  to  learn  something  else.

it  creates  new 

It  is  a  serious  business  when  a  body 
of  skilled  laborers  find  their  trade  de­
stroyed  or  superseded  by  some mechani­
cal  appliance  or  new  discovery  by 
which  the  work  once  done  by  them  by 
manual  labor  and  skill  is now performed 
by  fingers  of  steel  and  muscles  of  brass. 
It  may  have  taken  years  of  practice  for 
those  men  to  perfect themselves  in  their 
trade  or  profession,  and,  when 
it  no 
longer  offers  them  the  means  of  earn­
ing  a  living,  they  find  themselves  in  a 
pitiful  condition.  These  men,  when 
they  are  old  and  dependent  on  their 
labors  are  the  greatest  sufferers  from 
the  introduction  of  machinery,  which  is 
to  the  great  masses  a  special  benefit.

it 

Thus 

is  possible  for  many  men  to 
be  without  employment  when  there  is 
an  actual  demand  for the  services  of  a 
greater  number.  Some  writers  bold  that 
there  cannot  be  such  a  thing  as  a  gen 
eral  overcrowding  of  all  callings;  or,  in 
other  words,  there  cannot  be  a  general 
oversupply  of  labor power.  Any possible 
increase  of  population  must 
increase 
the  number  of  consumers  as  much  as 
that  of  the  producers,  and,  by  conse 
quence,  increase  the  amount  of  work  as 
it 
increases  the  number  of  workers. 
The  result  is  that  there  must necessarily 
be  callings  which  are undermanned,  and 
which,  therefore,  afford  an  opening  to 
the  unemployed,  if  competent  to  do  the 
particular  kind  of  work  which  these 
callings  require.
is  true 

in  general  terms;  but, 
while  there 
is  no  surplus  of  laborers, 
so  far  as  the  entire  industrial  system  of 
the  country  is  concerned,  there  may  be 
a  great  excess  of  supply  at  some  places 
while  there  is  a  deficiency  at  others  and 
there  is  no  way  of  securing  at  the  right 
time  an  immediate  distribution  so  as  to 
provide  for  all.  Just  at  this  moment 
there  are  millions  of  acres  of  arid  lands 
in  the  United  States  which  lack  only 
proper  application  of  water  to  make 
them  admirably  fruitful  and  thoroughly 
adapted  to  the  uses  of  a  large  popula 
tion.  There 
is  an  abundance  of  water 
in  the  country,  but  it  is  in  the  wrong

This 

An  important  ruling  has  been  made 
recently  by  the  Postoffice  Department. 
The  walking  delegate  of  a 
labor  union 
in  St.  Louis  mailed  a  letter  having  on 
its  envelope  a  colored  poster  requesting 
the  receiver  to  boycott  a  well-known 
firm. 
The  postoffice  authorities  de­
cided  that  the  letter  was  a  violation  of 
the  Federal  law  prohibiting  the  sending 
through  the  mails  of  matter  designed  to 
reflect  injuriously  upon  the  character  or 
conduct  of  another.  The  boycott  is  an 
instrument  of  alien  origin  and  none  but 
sneaks  and  blackmailers  resort  to  such 
methods.

MICHIGAN AGENTS

10

W oman’s World

Keeping  Step  With  Time.

lines  of  piteous  protest 

I  have  in  mind  now  a  woman  in  mid­
dle  life  who  has  fought  time  so  bitterly 
and  struggled  so  desperately  to  keep 
young  that  the  tremendous  effort  has 
dug 
in  her 
cheeks  and  quenched  every  spark  of 
youth  in  her  eyes.  This woman’s  back, 
with  its  view  of  modishly  cut  skirt,  tips 
of  shining  high  heels  and  wide,  stylish 
hat,  looks  as  young  as  she  could  desire. 
But,  oh,  that  face,  with 
its  chemical 
bloom  and 
sallow  cheeks,  showing 
plainly  through  the  pink  and  white 
veneering,  and  every  wrinkle  revealing 
itself  in  the  light  of  the  honest  sun!

It  is  both  sad  and  ridiculous  to  reflect 
that  this  elaborately  built  structure  is 
one  consummate  sham,  and  to  picture 
the  agony  of  this  woman,  if  by  fire  or 
flood  she  should  suddenly  be  divorced 
from  her  laboratory,  and  be  compelled 
to  face  the  world 
in  her  true  colors. 
The  world  watches  the  poor  farce  with 
amusement,  or  indifference,  or  disgust, 
as  the  case  may  be,  and  nobody  is  de­
ceived  by  it.  Human  beauty  is  too  del­
icate  and  elusive  a  thing  to  be  copied 
by  a  mere  daub.  This  woman  has  idle 
bands,  an  empty  head  and  a  sad  heart. 
All  her  faculties  are  centered  on  the 
vain  effort  to  keep  something  which  she 
has  long  since  lost.  She  is  clinging  to 
a  vanishing  remnant  of  her  youth,  and 
letting  slip  by  the  countless  interests 
and  benefits,  the  dignity  and  peace 
which  belong  to  the  middle  period  of a 
well-spent  life.

I  know  another  woman  who 

is  no 
longer  young,  but  who  turns  no  linger 
ing  backward  glance  at  the  past  There

M i C H t Q A N   TRADESMAN

is  no  pretense  whatever about  her ap­
pearance.  no  dreadful  contrast  of  color, 
no  effort  to  seem  other  than  she  really 
is.  There  are  lines  in  her  face,  too,  but 
somehow  they  suggest  wisdom,  experi­
ence,  real 
life—as  though  she  had  an 
interesting  story  to  tell  of  the  way  by 
which  she  had  come  No  peevish  re­
bellious  tears  for  the  loss  of  youth  have 
dimmed  the  spark  of  her  kindly  brown 
eyes  which  look so  shrewdly  and  humor­
ously  at  the  world.  Her  life 
is  full  of 
varied  interests.  She  is  fond  of  young 
people  and  merry  with  them,  but  she 
loes  not  try  to  copy  the  complexion, 
manner  and  dress  which  belong  to  the 
period  of  sweet  and  twenty.  She  is  ex­
tracting  every  bit  of  sweetness  she  can 
out  of  life  and  keeping  step  with  time.
is  the 
wiser  and  happier?  One  spends  her 
life  in  a  torment  of  vain  regret  for  her 
departed  youth.  The  other  accepts  the 
inevitable 
serenely  and  without  a 
thought  of  disguise,  making  the most  of 
her  experience  as  she  calmly  views  the 
passing  procession  of  years  and  finding 
so  much  to 
interest  her  in  the  present 
that  he  has  no  time  to  either  regret  the 
past  or  dread  the  future.

Which  of  these*  two  women 

Ca r r ' e  E a r l e  G a r r e t t.
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Over  and  Over  Again.
Over and over again,

No matter which way I turn,
I always find in the book of life 
Some lesson I have to learn.
I must take my turn at the mill,
I must grind out the golden grain;
I must  work at my task with a resolute will, 

Over and over again.

Over and over again 
And over and over again 
Once doing will not suffice,
And a blessing failing us once or twice 

The brook the meadow flows,
The ponderous wind-wheel goes.
Though doing be not in vain;
May come if we try again.

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Mother’s  Work  Ends  Not  With  Day.

Setting tables, washing dishes,
Dusting books and sewing buttons, 

Sweeping rooms ana making bread,
Smoothing now a curly head.

Making,  mending little garments,
In a mother’s deftest style,—
Washing little hands and faces 

Planning something all the while.

Darning stockings, telling stories 
Searching for lost gloves and ’kerchiefs, 

To the group about her knee;
Nobody can find but she.

Trimming lamps, or hearing lessons,
Tired feet and  busy fingers,

Putting this and that in place,—
Giving home its nameless grace.

Solving some domestic problem,
(When the way and means seem  wanting), 

As a housewife only can,
With a skill  unknown to man.

Folding tiny hands together,—
Teaching infant lips to pray,
Singing cradle hymns so softly,—
Mother’s work ends not with day.

L u c y  R a n d o l p h   F l e m in g .

Cooking  According  to  Science.
Give me a spoon of oleo, ma,
And the sodium alkali,
For I’m going to bake a pie, mamma,
I’m going to bake a pie.
For John  will be hungry and tired, ma, 
And his tissues will  decompose;
So give me a gramme of phosphate 
And the carbon and cellulose.

Now give me a chunk of caseine, ma,
To shorten the thermic fat;
And hand me the oxygen  bottle, ma,
And look at the thermostat;
And if the electric oven’s cold 
Just turn it on half an ohm,
For I want to have supper ready 
A s soon as John comes home.

Now pass me the neutral dope, mamma, 
But give me the sterilized  water  first, 
And the phosphate, too, for now I think, 
And John will need more  phosphate food 

Ana rotate the mixing machine,
And the oleomargarine;
The new typewriter's quit,
To help his brain a bit
What  Is  True  Economy.

That  success  in  business  depends  up­
on  economy 
is  well  under 
stood.  But  the  point  is,  is  economy,  as 
generally  recognized,  really  saving? 
Is

in  details 

the  man  who  writes  bis  communications 
on  the 
inside  of  old  envelopes  really 
economical?  No,  for  he  loses  far  more, 
by  this  method  of  what  he  considers 
saving,  than  be  ever  gains.  Ask  the 
opinion  of  the  recipient  of  these  scrap- 
basket  communications  and 
it  will  be 
found  that  nine  times  in  ten  it  is  not 
favorable.  Then,  again,  where  does  the 
economy  come  in  in  spending  fifteen  or 
twenty  minutes  untying  parcels  in  order 
to  save  a  few  pieces  o f twine  and  wrap­
ping  paper  when  cutting  the  wrappers 
could  be  accomplished  in  less  than  one- 
half  the  time,  thus  allowing  the  remain­
der  to  be  put  to  far  more  profitable  use? 
It  used  to  be  quite  the  thing  when  sum­
ming  up 
the  perfections  of  divers 
wealthy  men  to  recount  among  their vir­
tues  their  habits  of  economy,  which they 
had  practiced  from  youth  up,  and  the 
admonition  was  duly 
impressed  upon 
the  minds  of  the  rising  generation  that 
if  when  they  entered  business  life  they 
indulged 
in  petty  economies  of  all 
kinds,  in  the  course  of  time  their  names 
would  be  sure  to  be  enrolled  on  the  list 
of  millionaires. 
Investigation  would 
usually  show  that  the  practicers of these 
petty  economies  succeeded  not  because 
of  them  but  in  spite  of  them.  Business 
men in  these  days,  however,  stand slight 
chance  of  becoming  millionaires  by  the 
practice  of  petty  economies  to  the  ex­
clusion  of  liberal  saving.

Sending  Verbal  Messages.

Be  cautious 

in  sending  verbal  mes­

Do  not  send  any  word  of 

importance 

Do  not  trust  any  business  to  incompe­

sages.

by  errand-boys.

tent  messengers.

Do  not  send  any  word  by  an  errand- 
boy  to  persons  with  whom  you  are  not 
intimately  associated,  unless  he  is  ex­
ceptionally  intelligent  and  also  civil 
in 
his  manners.  The  simplest  message,  if 
conveyed  uncouthly  or  with the omission 
of  words  of  civility,  will  be  very  apt  to 
give  offense.

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JANE  CRAGIN.

Cy  Huxley’s  Disclosure  Ends  in  the 

Climax.
“ I  never  liked  the 

idea  of  fooling 
with  Lilian  Willowby  and  I  never 
thought 
it  would  go  to  such  lengths  as 
the  whole  foolish  business  went.  1  sim­
ply  wanted  to  know 
if  I  could  make 
you  feel  a  little—er—disturbed  by know­
ing  that  I  was  ‘ carrying  on’  with  the 
foolish  thing  and  I  knew  there  were 
any  number  of  gossippers  just  ready  to 
help  me  on  with  the  business  if  they 
only  had  a  chance.  So  I  gave  it  to  ’em ; 
and  I  never  mailed  any  letteis  with  so 
much  satisfaction  as  I  did  the  dozen  or 
so  that  told  you  all  about  it. 
I  felt  a 
good  deal  better  about  that  than  I  did 
about  what  came  from  this  end  of  the 
line.  At  first,  it  seemed  as  if  you  had 
taken  that  way  to  pay  me  off;  and  1 
didn't  blame  you.  Then  when  I  heard 
in  so  many  different  ways  that  it  was  a 
great  deal  more  than  a  paying off, I  con­
cluded  I’d  come  out  and  see  for  myself.
I  have  tried  to  be  sensible  about  it  and 
think  I  have been. 
I  said  to  myself, 
it’s  all  right.  Jane’s  never  been  away 
from  home  much  nor  had  a  chance  to 
see  many,  and  it’s  too  much  like  taking 
a  mean  advantage  of  her  to  expect  that 
she’s  going  to  jump  at  the  first  offer. 
Let  her  go  ahead  and  I'll  help  her,  I 
says  to  myself,  and  then  if  she  says  yes 
to  me,  the  yes’ll  be  worth  something; 
but  I  was  sure all  the  time,  you  know, 
that  you’d  say  yes;  and  when  it  seemed 
that  there  was  a  chance  of  your  saying 
anything  else  I  was  all  of  a  shiver.

“ Well,  you  know,  I  didn’t  like  that; 
and  I  says  to  myself, 
‘ See  here,  old 
man,  that’s  no  way.  This  thing’s  go­
ing  to  be  right  on  the  square.  You’re 
either  going  to go  in  with  the  other  fel­
lows  on  your  merits  or  else  you’re go­
ing  to  keep  out  of  it;  and  you’re  going 
to  do  it  man  fashion.  You’re  not  going 
in,  begging  for  odds  and you  want  to  go 
in  before  it  will  do  you  up  if  you  don’t 
win.’  So  I 
looked  the  thing  squarely 
in  the  face,  said  yes  to  myself  and 
started. 
I  hadn't  been  here  twenty-four 
hours  before  I  could  see  how  the  land 
lay.  Then  I  was  glad  I  came  before 
I’d 
I 
thought  at  first  there  was  something 
wrong  about  me—that  I  was  lacking 
in 
some way  from  having  lived  up  in Mill- 
town,  and  I  began  to  get  a  hustle  on 
myself. 
I  found,  though,  that  Smith 
liked  me  and  that  Capt.  had  put  me 
down a  good  fellow,  and  then  I  began  to 
size  myself  up  with  the  Doctor.  I guess, 
Jane,  that  I  wanted  to  strangle  him  at 
first;  but  the  more  I  saw  of  him the bet­
liked  him,  and  the  more  I  was
ter  I 

‘ got  sot,’  as  old  Pelsy  says. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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convinced  that  he  wasn’t  to blame  any 
way.  He  can’t  help  it  that  his  eyes  are 
black  and  his  face  handsome,  any  more 
than  I  can  help  being  white-livered  and 
homely,  so  there  isn’t  any  use  in  quar­
reling  with  him. 
It’s  one  of  them 
things  that  you  can’t  account  for.  It’s 
so  and  that’s  all  there  is  to  it.

looked  at  him 

“ Well,  when  I  saw  how  the  cat  was 
going  to  jump,  I thought I’d  like  to  look 
the  animal  over.  If  you'd  made  up  your 
mind  that  you  didn’t  want  the  best  fel­
low  in  all  creation  there  wasn’t  any  rea­
son  why  you  shouldn’t  have  the  next 
best;  so  1 
from  that 
standpoint.  There  ain’t no doubt  about 
the  Doctor,  Jane.  He’s  a  thoroughbred 
from  the  word  go,  and  when  I  saw  that 
he'd  taken  a  sort  of  fancy  to  me,  I  let 
him  see  that  I  had  to  him ;  and  that 
made  it  easy  for  me  to  see  his  insides, 
so  to  speak.  Good  feller—good  feller 
clear  through ;  and  when  he  found  that 
he  could  trust  me,  he  sort  o’  kept  me 
posted  on  how  things  are  going  between 
you  two,  and  I’ve  kind  o’  encouraged 
him,  you  know,  because  I’m 
interested 
in  both  of  you.

“ There’s  where  my  girls  come  in. 
When  I  saw  that  you  were  provided  for,
I  couldn’t  see  any  reason  why  I  should 
be  left  out  in  the  cold  and  when  I spoke 
to  Marjory  about  it,  she  expressed  her­
self  as  feeling  the  same  way.  So  we’ve 
been  getting  more  and more acquainted ; 
and  after the  Doctor  told  me  yesteiday 
what  he  said  to  you  the  evening  before 
and  what  you  said  to  him,  I  told  him  he 
was  the  luckiest  fellow 
in  the  whole 
world  and  that  I  envied  him  more  than 
anybody  I  could  just  then  name.  The 
more  I  thought  about 
it  and  how  lone­
some  I  was  going  to  be  going  home  to 
Milltown  alone,  1  made  up  my  mind  I 
wouldn’t  do  it.  So  last  night  Marjory 
and  I  went  over  to  Manitou  for  our  con­
stitutional  and  on  the  way  home  I  put 
my  arm  around  her  just  as  I  saw  the 
Doctor  put  his  around  you;  and  when 
she  put  up  her  dimpled 
the 
shadows  make  such  a  fuss  over— well, 
pretty  close  to  mine— I  just  asked  her  if 
she  wouldn’t  go  home  with  me  to  stay. 
I  didn't  say  it  in  just  those  words,  but 
that  was  the  substance  of 
it  and  what 
she  said  amounted  to  yes;  and  we  went 
through  about  the  same  expressions  of 
approval  as  you  and  the  Doctor  did— I 
judge!  Anyway,  I  got  my  ear  pretty 
close  to  her  red  lips  to  hear  the slightest 
whisper,  and  when  I  found  they  told me 
all  I  wanted  to  hear—well,  those  lips 
then  belonged  to  me  and  I  just  kissed 
them  all  the  way  home!

chin 

“ I  suppose  you  are  wondering  what 
I’m  going  to  do  with  Miss  Mac  Donald 
I’m  not  going
and  Miss  Birkenmayer. 

to  do anything.  Everything  is  done  al­
ready.  After  that 
famous  driver  of 
horses  had  brought  me  to  the  verge  of 
believing  that— we  won’t  go  inio  details 
just  here,  and  it  won't  make  any partic­
ular  difference  what  I  was  ready  to  be­
lieve—she  managed  to  tell  me  that  she 
expected  her  minister  along  to  make 
one  of  a  party  home;  and  little  Miss 
Birkenmayer,  without  a  single quiver in 
her  voice,  told  me that she is going home 
day  after  to-morrow. 
I’ve  been  mis­
in  that  g irl;  I  thought  she  had  a 
taken 
heart 
in  her  body.  She’s  quiet  and 
‘ still  waters  run  deep,’  but  I’m  afraid 
she’s  too  deep  for  me.  Anyway  that 
fair  vestal  of  the  West  goes  home‘ in 
maiden  meditation  fancy  free, ’  so  far 
as  I  am  concerned.  So  now,  Jane,  I 
think  congratulations  are  in  order,  and 
because  I  have  saved  you the embarrass­
ment  of  your  telling  me  all  about  you

and  the  Doctor,  I think  you  ought  to  put 
down  that  work  you’ve  been  fussing 
over  and  come  right  here  and  give  me 
a  good  hearty  smack  as  if  you  meant  i t ; 
so  I  can  go  and  tell  Marjory  and  have 
the  fun  of  making  somebody  jealous 
once 
in  my  life  after  all  my  efforts  in 
that  direction !  Come along.' ’

And  Jane  Cragin,  without  a  sinlge 
word  for  once 
in  her  life,  did  just  as 
Cyrus  Huxley  told  her  to  do.  He  held 
her  in  his  arms  a  great  deal  longer  than 
the  exigencies  of  the  case  seemed  to  re­
quire,  and  when  he  finally  let  her go  his 
face  was  colorless  and  his  lips  com­
pressed ;  but  Jane  was  too  happy  to take 
note  of  such  things  and  let  him  think 
that,  next  to  her  Doctor,  Cy  Huxley 
was  the best  fellow  in  all  the  world.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

25  in  25  Stores.

He  Wouldn't  Try  to  Do  Business 

Without  One.

Mr.  T.  P.  Hunter owns  twenty-five  re­

tail  grocery  stores  in  Philadelphia,  and 

uses  a  National  Cash  Register  in  each  of 

them.

In a  recent letter to  us  he  says:

“ About  three  years  ago  my  attention 

was  called  to  your  No.  79  National  Cash 

Register.  Becoming interested,  I placed an

Joseph Jefferson.

The  Famous  Actor  Looked Abou: 

Our  Factory  and  Said:

“  This  is  the greatest  institution  I  ever 

saw in  my  life.  You have  combined here 

utility  and  philanthropy. 

You  make 

money,  and  you  make  happiness  at  the 

same  time.  To  conduct  a great business, 

which  stretches out all over the world,  and 

to  practice,  at the same time,  the  practical 

gospel of  good will  to  men  is  about  as  far

Factory of The  National Cash  Register Company.

Big  Facts.

W h y  T h e  N ational  Cash  Register Com­

pany  Can  Manufacture  and  Sell 

Cheaper  T h a n   A n y   Other.

It employs  1,400  people.

Its  factories  cover  eight  and  one-half 

acres  of  floor space.

It  makes  nothing  but  cash  and  auto­

graphic  registers.

Its  rights  are  protected by 335  patents.

It  has  131  offices  in  all  parts  of  the 

world.

MU.  JOSEPH JEFFERSON.

MR.  THOS.  P.  HUNTER.

as  any one  can go  until  we  get wings.

“ The  system  which  you  sell  to  retail 

It  makes  90  different  styles  and  kinds 

of cash registers.

order  for one machine.  Receiving  perfec 

satisfaction  from  this,  I  ordered  fifteen 

merchants  reaches  its  highest  perfection 

It has  sold  over  117,000 cash  registers.

more,  and subsequently ordered nine addi­

in  your  own  plant.

tional,  making  twenty-five,  the  number  I 

“ Panics  do  not  hurt  people  who  run 

Its registers are used  all  over the world.

now have  in use  in  my  stores.

their business as you do.  The atmosphere 

of  your  establishment  stimulates  industry 

and  good  feeling.  When hard  times come 

It  received  2,046  orders  for  registers

in April,  1897.

“  By  the  use  of  the  registers  I  am  able 

to  tell  at  a  glance  how  trade  is  running 

in  each  store,  whether business  is  increas­

and  it is difficult  to make sales,  people  like 

It  inspected  1,902  registers  in  April, 

ing or decreasing,  and  which  of my  clerks 

yours  simply  work  enough  harder to  make 

1897.

I  should  like  to  take  a  little 
up  for  it. 
part in the work  you are doing, ” concluded 

Mr.  Jefferson,  “ and when  I  come  to  Day- 

ton  again  I  should  be  glad  to  give  your 

It  shipped  1,886  registers  in  April, 

1897.

It is  doing  more  business  in  1897  than 

people  a  free lecture.”

ever before  in  its  history.

are  making  the  sales.

“ I  would  not  attempt  to  run  one  of 
my  stores  without  your  No.  79  National 

Cash  Register.”

If you  will  send  us your  name,  address,  business,  number  of  clerks  you  employ,  percentage of  business 
done  on  credit,  and  state  whether  or  not  you  employ  a  cashier,  we  will  send  you  in  return,  free  of  charge, 
a  handsomely-printed  description  of  a  cash  register  system  for  use  in  stores  like  yours!  The  National 
Cash  Register  Company,  Department D,  Dayton,  Ohio.

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POLICE  REGULATION.

Judge  Grove  Takes  Issue  With  Judge 

Haggerty.

In  the  matter 

The  Tradesman  of 

last  week  an­
nounced  the  result  of  the appeal  taken 
by  Richard  Brummeller from  the  Police 
Court  to  the  Kent  Circuit  Court  as  the 
result  of  an  adverse  verdict on  a  charge 
of  buying  goods  from  a  minor  without 
the  written  permission  of  the  parents  or 
guardian. 
in  question 
the  boy  presented  a  written  order, which 
subsequent  investigation  proved  to  be 
forged,  although  the  Brummellers  took 
extra  precaution  to  establish  its  valid­
ity  before  closing  the  deal  with  the boy. 
Mr.  Brummeller  was  arrested  at  the  in­
stance  of  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  and 
was  convicted 
in  Police  Court  as  the 
result  of  the  charge  of  Judge  Haggerty, 
who  held  that  the  statute  on  which  Mr. 
Brummeller  was  arrested  was  a  police 
regulation,  under  which  a  man  may  be 
found  guilty  of an  offense  in the absence 
of  criminal 
intent.  Mr.  Brummeller 
very  properly  took  an  appeal  to  the  Cir­
cuit  Court  and  Judge  Grove  took  issue 
with  Judge  Haggerty  on  the  question  of 
intent,  holding  that  the  statute  was  not 
a  police  regulation  and  that  it  would  be 
necessary  to  prove  criminal 
intent  or 
wilful  carelessness  in  order  to  convict. 
Acting  on  this  charge,  the  jury  prompt­
ly  brought  in  a  veidict  of  not  guilty.  As 
this  is  the  first  time  that  the  statute  has 
been  passed  upon  by  a  circuit  judge 
in 
this  State,  the  Tradesman  deems  the 
matter  of  sufficient  interest  to  warrant 
the  publication  of  the  Judge’s  charge, 
including  some  preliminary  remarks  by 
both  Judge  and  Prosecuting  Officer,  as 
follows:

to 

In  regard 

Judge  Grove: 

this 
statute,  I  do  not  think  that  it  is  any  or­
nament  to  the  statue  books  of  this State, 
considering  the  manner  in  which  it  is 
If  the  statute  prohibited  the 
drawn. 
purchasing 
from  minors  altogether, 
without  any  regard  to  consent,  it  might 
have  some  useful  purpose,  but,  as 
it 
stands,  it  may  be  an  instrument  of  op­
pression ;  it  may  be  an  instrument  of 
promoting  crime  in  the  very worst form, 
and  the  chances  are  that  it  would  be  so 
much  oftener  than  it  would  be of utility. 
Now,  if  all  that  a  junk  dealer  has  to  do 
is  to  get  the  written  consent  of  parents, 
to  purchase  of  minors,parents  or  guard­
ians,  the  statute  permits  him  to  be  in 
collusion  with  criminals.

It 

Prosecuting  Attorney  Rodgers: 

is 
in  the  same  language  as  the  liquor  law.
The  Court:  No,  it  is  not the  language 
of  the  liquor  law,  and  neither 
is  the 
statute  designed  for  any  such  purpose 
liquor  law  is  designed.  Now, 
as  the 
everybody  knows  that 
in  every  large 
community  there  are  people—and this is 
not  intended  as  any  reflection  upon  the 
parents  of  this  child,  because  I  do  not 
think  they  are  of  that  class—who  en­
courage  their  childern  to  steal;  who  are 
glad  to  have  their  children  steal  and  to 
profit  by  it. 
If  a  man  of  that  class 
should  go  and  file  his  written  consent 
with  a  junk  dealer  that  he  might  buy  of 
his  children,  why,  then  he  could  buy, 
and  buy  from  common  thieves.  This 
statute  might  be  of  some  utility  if  it 
absolutely  prohibited  purchasing  from 
it  would  be  safer—a  great 
minors,  and 
deal;  but  I  do  not 
intend  to  declare 
without  the  verdict  of  a  jury  that  a  man 
charged  with  a  commission  of an offense 
is  to  be  held  guilty  where  the  evidence 
shows  that  he  exercised  diligence,  due 
diligence,  or  necessary  diligence,  the 
utmost  that  any  prudent  business  man 
would  exercise,  to  determine  whether 
or  not  he  was  complying  with  the  law, 
and  then,  on  account  of  a  forgery,  on 
account  of  somebody  else  being  a  crim­
inal,  he  has  been  deceived. 
I  do  not 
intend  to  hold,  as  a  matter  of  law,  that 
such  a  person  shall  be  convicted  of 
crime.  Under  the  testimony  this  clerk, 
as  well  as  one  member  of  the  firm,  ap­
pears  to  have  used  diligence. 
If  they 
acted  in  good  faith,  with  the  amount  of

care  they  did  exercise,'then  the"jury 
ought  to  say  they  are  not  guilty;  but  it 
ought  to  be  left  for  the  jury  to  say  in 
this  case  whether  or  not  they  did  act  in 
It  does  not  seem to  me  that 
good  faith. 
the  statute  ever 
intended  to  put  the 
burden  and  duty  upon  a  purchaser  to  go 
and  ascertain  to  a  positive  certainty  by 
interviewing  the  parent  himself whether 
there  was  a  consent  or  not,  or  to  send 
for  the  parents  to  come  to  bis  store. 
There  would  not  be  any  occasion  for 
dealing  with  boys  if  you  have  to get  the 
parents  there  anyway  or  go  to  them. 
There  would  not  be  any  occasion  for 
making  exceptional  provisions  under 
which  a  man  might  deal  with  a  boy,  if 
he  cannot  deal  with  him  after  all  with­
out  going  and  dealing  with  his  parent.
I  do  not  believe  this  statute  was  in­
tended  to  make  a  man  guilty  if  he  was 
deceived  under  such  circumstances,  but 
I  will  submit 
it  to  the  jury  to  say 
whether  or  not  they  exercised  good faith 
in  this  matter,  whether  they  honestly 
belie\ed  that  the  boy  had  what  he  pre­
tended  to  have,  the  consent  of  his  par­
ents  in  writing.
Mr.  Rodgers: 

I  stated  to  the  Court 
that  this  statute  is  in  the  same  language 
as  the  liquor  statute and  the  Court  said 
it  was  not. 
I  did  not  mean  by  that 
wholly.  I  meant by that  that it permitted 
the dealer in liquors to sell  to  minors  up­
on  a  written  order  of  the  parents.  The 
liquor  statute  does  not  prohibit the  sell­
ing  to  minors,  and  this  statute  does  not 
prohibit  a  junk  dealer  from  buying,  but 
permits  him  to  buy  on  a  written  order, 
as  I  said.

The  Court:  The  liquor  statute  in  that 
respect  opens  the  door  to  fraud  in  the 
It  ought  not  to 
commission  of  crime. 
be  in  that  form. 
It  ought  to  prohibit 
the  sale  to  minors  altogether.  Of course, 
if  we  take  the  statutes  as  they  are,  in 
administering  justice  under the statutes, 
we  cught  not  to  lose  sight  of  the  right 
of  every  citizen  to his  personal  liberty, 
bis  right  to  make  contracts,  his  right  to 
carry  on  a  trade  within  the  restrictions 
of  the  law.  And  where  there  is  not  any 
intent  to  commit  any  crime—and  not 
only  no  intent,  but  the  exercise  of  due 
care and  caution  to  keep  within  the  law 
— it  would  be  monstrous,  I  think,  on the 
part  of  the  Court  to  suffer a  conviction, 
whether  it  be  technically  tiue  or  not 
that  the  statute 
intended  to  eliminate 
from  the  elements  of  the  offense  the 
question  of  intent.

Assistant  Prosecuting  Attorney  Cor­
win :  I  will  say,  it 
is  not  because  we 
want  to  prosecute  Mr.  Brummeller,  but 
it  is  to get  a  construction  of  this  law ; 
and  your  Honor  speaks of certain classes 
of  people  who  would  gladly  give  their 
children  a  written  order to  go  and  sell 
stuff  and  then 
let  them  steal  all  they 
have  a  mind  to.  We have another  statute 
that  steps  in  to  interfere  with  their buy­
ing  stolen  property,  knowing 
it  to  be 
stolen.

The  Court:  That 

is  all  very  true. 
And  I  mention  that  as  bearing  on  the 
legislative  intent. 
If  the  act  is  to  re­
ceive  that  strict  construction  that  you 
put  upon  it,  if  the  Legislature  intended 
that,  then  they  intended  to  make  a  law 
that  would  be  open  to  that  criticism.

Mr.  Corwin : 

I  would  ask your Honor 
how  you  would  distinguish  between  the 
pure  food  law  and  this.

and 

The  Court:  One 

is  strictly a  police 
regulation  and  the  other  is  not. 
I  am 
aware  the  decisions  that  where  a  law  is 
creates  an 
merely  prohibitory 
offense  which  does  not  exist  at  the  com­
mon  law,  the  question  of 
intent 
is  a 
statutory  question.  At  the  same  time 
there  are  other  considerations  to  govern 
in  the  administration  of  justice.  Here 
is  a  man  who  never  knew  anything 
about  this  transaction.  He  had  no  con­
it  and  was  en­
nection  whatever  with 
tirely 
is  charged 
with  the  commission  of  an  offense  be­
cause  a  clerk  of  some  other body,  name­
ly, the  partnership, which  the  statute says 
makes  the  principal  guilty,  made  the 
purchase.  This clerk of  the  firm  of  Wm. 
Brummeler  &  Sons  made  the  purchase. 
One  member  of  the  firm,  not  this  re­
spondent,  was  consulted  in  regard  to  it, 
and  they  conferred  together  and  came 
to  the  conclusion  that  it  was  all  right. 
He  had  the  boy  write  and  tested  him,

ignorant  of 

it.  He 

and  questioned  him,  and  compared  the 
writing  with  the  paper that  he  said  was 
his  father’s—they  did  all  that—and  then 
neither  the  clerk  nor the  member  of  the 
firm  who  participated  is  charged  with 
the  offense ;  but  one  who  was  not  there 
at  all  and  had  no  knowledge  of  it  at  all 
is  charged. 
I  would  not  turn  the  case 
on  that—that 
is  not  the question  coun­
sel  desires  to  have  passed  upon  in  this 
proceeding—but  I  should  hold the  same, 
if  the  older  Mr.  Brummeler,  who  was 
consulted  by  the  clerk,  was  the  one  here 
charged. 
I  should  submit  the  question 
to  the  jury  to  say:  Did  he exercise due 
and  proper  care  to  determine  whether 
or  not  he  had  the  written  consent  of  the 
parents and  did  he  act  in  good faith and 
did  he  really  believe  that  he  had  that 
If  he  did  he  is guilty  of  no 
consent? 
If  be  did  not,  he  is.  That  is 
crime. 
what  I  should  say  to  the  jury. 
If  you 
want  to  argue  the  case to  the jury on that 
line,  well  and  good.

CHARGE  TO  THE  JURY.

I  submit  the  case  to  you,  gentlemen 
of  the  jury,  because  you  have been pres­
ent  and 
in  hearing  of  what  I  have  al­
ready  said  to  counsel,  therefote  it  is  not 
necessary  for  me  to  repeat  anything 
further. 
I  submit  the  case  to  you  to 
determine  whether  or  not  the  clerk  of 
Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons  and  the  other 
Brummeler,  who  advised  with  him,  ex­
ercised  due  and  proper  care  and  dili­
gence  to  ascertain  whether  they  had  the 
written  consent  of  the  parents  of  this 
boy  and  whether they  honestly  believed 
that  they  did  have  such  consent,  and 
whether  they  acted  in  good  faith ;  and 
if  you  find  that  they  did  exercise  such 
due  and  proper  care  as  business  men 
would  be  compelled  to  use  under  such 
circumstances  (and  under  a  law  of  this 
kind  I  am  not  prepared  to  say  that  it 
would  be  more  than  ordinary  care)  and 
you  further  find  that  they acted  in  good 
faith,  honestly  believing  that  the  boy 
had  the  consent  of his  father,  and  that 
the  writing  was  genuine,  then  you 
should  acquit  him.  The  law  presumes 
the  respondent 
is 
proven  guilty  by  evidence,  facts  and 
circumstances  that  establish  his  guilt 
beyond  a  reasonable  doubt. 
If  you  find 
that  he  did  not,  or  that  the  members  of 
the  firm,  clerk  and  the  other  member  of 
the  firm,  did  not  exercise  due  and 
proper  care,  did  not  act  in  good  faith, 
did  not  have  sufficient  evidence  upon 
which  a  reasonable  man  would  act  in 
coming  to  a  conclusion  that  the boy had 
the  written  consent  of  his  parents,  then 
you  may  convict  him.  Otherwise,  vou 
should  bring 
‘ ‘ not 
guilty.”

innocent  until  he 

in  a  verdict  of 

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A  scientist  has  discovered  that  light 
may  be  procured  from  sugar.  He  has 
succeeded  in  taking  several photographs 
by  the  light  supplied  by  sugar  only. 
The  sugar  was  first  exposed  to  a  direct 
sunlight  for  two  hours,  and  then  placed 
in  a  dark  room. 
Immediately  on  being 
placed 
the  darkness  the  sunlight 
stored  in  the  sugar  began  to glow,  faint­
ly  at  first,  but  quite  brightly  after  a  few 
minutes.  After  about  twenty  minutes, 
during  which  time 
the  photographs 
were  taken,  the  light  began  to  die away, 
and  gradually  went  out.  The  photo­
graphs  taken  by  sugar-light  are  quite 
distinct,  although  not  as  clear  as  an 
ordmarv  photograph.  The 
scientist 
who  made  this  discovery  declares  that, 
by  exposing  a  sack  of  sugar  to  strone 
sunlight 
light 
could  be  procured  from  it  to  illumine  a 
small  house  for  the  same  period.

for  two  hours,  enough 

A  curious  lawsuit  will  soon  be  tried 
in  Dutchess  county,  N.  Y.  Some  time 
ago  a  man  and  his  wife  could  not  agree 
on  a  name  for  their  infant  son,  and  the 
mother  decided  to  settle  the question 
according  to  her  wishes  by  having  the 
child  baptized  one  dav  while  the  father 
was  absent.  The  father  has  now  sued 
the  clergyman  for  damages.

. 

1 

•“ ♦  

...... .

Modern  Commercial  Credit.

Credit  has  existed  among  men  from 
the  earliest  period  of  which  we  have 
any  record.  The  pimitive  man  who 
owned  a  weapon  and 
it  to  his 
fellow  hunter  extended  a  credit  and 
doubtless  received  a  share  of  the  spoils 
of  the  chase,  in  return  for  its  use.

loaned 

As  man  rose  from  a  condition  of  bar­
barism  and  became  civilized,  material 
wealth  was  accumulated,  and 
in  one 
form  or  another  it  was  loaned  on  a 
credit  for  a  profit.  The 
inscriptions 
on  bricks  and  other  objects  excavated 
in  the  valley  of  the  Euphrates  (perhaps 
the  scene  of  man's  earliest  civilization) 
evidence  that  thousands  of  years  before 
the  Christian  era  transactions  were  en­
tered  into  and  credits  granted  in  much 
the  same  manner as  obtains  at  the  pres­
ent  day,  but  the  laws  exacted  were  sole­
ly  for  the advantage  of  the  creditor;  he 
made  them  and  they  were,  of  course,  in 
the  interest  of  his  class;  under them  the 
poor  debtor  could  be  sold  into  slavery 
to  satisfy  obligations  contracted  and un­
paid.  When  Rome  held  sway  the  law 
pressed  most  heavily  upon  the  debtor 
and  created  conditions  which  ultimate- 
I ly  led  to  her  downfall.

Under  the 
laws 

influence  of  the  modern 
spirit, 
imposing 
imprisonment 
upon  the  honest  debtor  have  been  grad­
ually abrogated  and  are  not  likely  to  be 
re-enacted,  although  even 
in  our  own 
time  imprisonment  for  debt  has existed, 
and  many  relics  of  such  harsh  laws  are 
yet  retained  on  the  statute books of some 
of our  states.

In 

The  old 

latter  years  the  modern 

idea  of 
credit  and  a  proper  understanding  of 
the  true  relation  of  the  creditor  to  the 
debtor are  gradually  extending  over the 
civilized  world. 
laws  are 
changed.  The  creditor  no  longer  owns 
the  debtor  in  law  or  in  fact;  he  grants 
a  credit  with  a  view  to  profit,  exercises 
judgment  as  to  the  character,  ability 
and  means of  the  debtor,  his  prospects 
for  success,  calculates  on  a  certain  per­
centage  of  loss,  and  really  enters  into  a 
partnership,  electing  to  share 
in  the 
success  or  failure  of  the debtor.

No other construction than  this  can  be 
placed  upon  the  relations  of  the creditor 
to  the debtor  in  these  days;  the  former 
shares  in  the  good  or bad  fortune  of  the 
latter,  and  so  well 
is  that  fact  recog 
nized  that  at  all  times  the  creditor,  in 
the  event  of  disaster,  willingly  if  not 
cheerfully,  consents  to  a  cancelling  of 
obligations  for  a  percentage  of the debt, 
when  a  square'exhibit  is  presented.

is  that  which 

All  that  a  creditor  has  a  right  to  ask 
is  that  there  shall  be  no  fraudulent  con­
version  by  the  debtor  of  bis  assets,  that 
if  through  misfortune  or bad  judgment 
failure  ensues,  the  assets  may  be  fairly 
apportioned  among  all  who  have  a  gen­
uine  interest;  moreover,  if  this  view  is 
not  expressed  or  formulated  by the cred­
itor,  it 
is  latent  in  his 
mind,  for  it  is  difficult  to  find  record  of 
an  instance  where  creditors  have  been 
brought  together  to  consider  the  affairs 
of  an  honest  insolvent  debtor  in  which 
a  majority  have  not  cheerfully  voted  to 
accept  a  dividend  that  would  still  leave 
the  debtor  some  means  of  re-establish­
ing  his  business  and  an  opportunity  to 
prosecute 
it  to  a  more  successful  con­
clusion,  thus recognizing  a  tacit  if  not  a 
legal  partnership  in  his  gains  or  losses.

C h a s .  B i g g s .

Hens  are  used  in  China  to  hatch  fish. 
is  placed  in  an  egg-shell, 
The  spawn 
which 
is  hermetically  sealed,  and  the 
poor deluded  hen  sits  on  it  with  mater­
nal  hopes.  After  a  few  days  the  egg­
shell  is  removed,  and  the  spawn,  which 
has  been  warmed  into  life,  is  emptied 
into a  shallow  pool.

Reports  from  all  the  tobacco  raising 
districts  in  Mexico  show  that  the  short­
age  of  the  tobacco  crop  is  much  greater 
than  was  supposed,  and  in  consequence 
the  price  has  advanced  again.  It  is  ex­
pected  that 
leaf  tobacco  will  go  still 
higher,  as  foreign  orders are being  con­
stantly  received.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes and  Leather

The  Up-to-Date  Repair  Shop.

The  modern  repair shop,  or the  while- 
you-wait  shop  for  mending  shoes,  like 
men,  are  subjects  of  circumstances. 
They  are,  also,  a  forced  necessity. 
Fifteen  years  ago the  trade  of  shoemak­
ing  was  very  profitable.  Custom-made 
shoes  were  worn  bv  most  men who cared 
to  pay  more  than  five  dollars  for a  good 
pair of  shoes.  But  the  time  was  not  far 
distant  when  good  custom  shops  were  to 
receive  their  deathblow  from  the  facto­
ries.  They  began  to  fill  up  with  mod­
ern  machinery  The  men  became  more 
perfect 
in  their  work,  and,  in  conse­
quence,  the  factories  began  to  turn  out 
shoes  that  could  be  sold  for  five  dollars 
a  pair  that  would  equal  in workmanship 
and  material  any  custom-made shoe  that 
would  cost  seven  or  eight  dollars.  The 
public 
sensibly  argued  thus: 
“ Why  pay  seven  or  eight  dollars  for  a 
article  that  can  be  bought  for  five  dol­
lars?”   Thus it was  that  the  patronage  of 
the  old  style  custom  shop  began  to 
dwindle.  The 
journeyman  shoemaker 
had  to  look  elsewhere  for  employment 
As  a  matter  of  course  he  had  to  go  to 
the  factory  for  it.

very 

In  a  few  years  the  tide again changed. 
Factories  became  too  numerous,  times 
became  hard  and  the  outcome  is  that 
few  positions  in  the  factories  are  worth 
having  or  are  to be  had  at  all.  Hence 
the  birth  of  the  modern  repair  shop.

What  is  first  required  in  starting  this 
kind  of  a  business  is  to  find  a  good  and 
desirable  location.  A  good  location  for 
this  kind  of  a  shop  is  in  a thriving town 
or  city,  not  less  than  fifteen  thousand 
population.  Get  a  room  on  a  principal 
street,  no  matter as  to  light— if  you  get 
the work  artificial  light  can  be  used.  To 
make  a  comfortable  repair  shop  the 
room  should  be  15x30 or  40 feet,  which 
would  be  ample  room  for ten  or  twelve 
men  and  necessary  machinery.  A  small 
part  of  the  room  near  the  door  should 
be  spaced  off,  with  oil  cloth  on  the floor 
and  a  few  chairs  placed  there  for  the 
accommodation  of 
customers  while 
waiting  for  their  shoes.

Then  advertise  the  business  well 
Give  the  sign  painter  employment,  for 
it  will  bring  in  good  returns.  Make 
plain  to the  public  that  you  can do work 
cheaply  and  quickly,  and  also  do  better 
work  than  with  old  methods.

Keep  your  prices  before  the  eyes of 
every  one  who  passes  your  place  of 
business,  and  it  will  cause  many  a  cus 
tomer  to  come  in  and  ask:  “ Are  these 
shoes  worth  mending?”   The  modern 
shoemaker  will  say:  “ Certainly,  just 
take  a  seat  and  we  will  have  them ready 
for  you  in  a  few  minutes.”   The  signs 
in  front  of  the  shop  should  be  changed 
occasionally  so  as  to  keep  them  attrac 
tive.

It 

I  have  never  used  a  solidity  repairing 
outfit,  but  of  all  other  jacks  I  have  used 
or  seen  used,  would  prefer  the  crispi 
jack. 
is  light,  easy  to  handle  and 
strong.  The  shoe  can  be  easily  and 
quickly  adjusted  on  it,  and  if  properly 
put  up  it  is  very  solid. 
In  connection 
with  this 
it  is  necessary  to have 
three  sets  of  ladies’  lasts and  three  sets 
of  men’s  lasts,  narrow,  medium  and 
wide  toes,  two  sets  of  misses’ and child­
ren’s  lasts,  narrow  and  wide  toe. 
Iron 
bottom  lasts  are  the  best  as  they  can  be 
used  for  either  nailed  or  McKay  sewed 
work.

jack 

Next  is  the  McKay  sole  sewing  ma­
chine. 
impossible  to  get 
along  without  it  as  I  find  it  the  major­

is  nearly 

It 

ity  of  customers  do  not  want  their  soles 
nailed  on.  The  heaviest or lightest  soles 
can  be  sewed  with  this  machine.  The 
best  machine  is the  regular McKay  with 
In  connection 
Stanley  horn  and  waxer. 
is  used  the  McKay 
with  this  machine 
channeling  machine. 
It  is  used  to  cut 
the  channel  in  the  out  sole  in  which  to 
sew  the  seam.

Every  shop  of  this  kind  should  be 
supplied  with  an  18  or  20-inch  splitting 
machine.  This  machine 
is  used  for 
splitting  upper  or  sole  leather  to  the 
desired 
shop  also 
should  be  supplied  with  an  18  or 20- 
inch  rolling  machine. 
It has  taken  the 
place of  the  cobbler’s stone,  or  lap iron, 
so  much  used  by  the  old-time  shoemak­
ers.

thickness. 

This 

Heel  dies  are  also  used  in  this  shop. 
Top  lifts  can  be  cut  to  much  better  ad­
vantage  and  with  less  waste  of  leather. 
The  heel  die 
is  a  great  saver  of  time 
and  knives,  as  the  die  cuts  the  lift  the 
desired  shape.  There  should  be  two 
sizes  for  ladies’  and  two  sizes  for  men’s 
heels.

Now  comes  the 

indispensable  patch 
and  rip  machine.  There  are  several 
makes 
in  the  market.  The  Bradbury 
linger  and  Politype  are  the  principal 
ones.  The  Politype  according  to  my
dea  has  many  points  about 
it  that 
makes 
it  the  best  machine  of  its  kind 
.n  the  market,  although  I  have  a  Brad­
bury  with  which  I  have  sewed  in  more 
than  three  hundred  pairs  of gores within 
the  past  four  months.

The  lasts  should  be kept  in  pairs  up­
on  racks,  so  they  can  be  easily  found 
when  needed  for  use.

The  tools—of  course  there are many of 
them  that  are  used  in  the  repairing  of 
shoes—are  as  follows:  Hammer,  knives, 
edge  planes,  heel  shaves,  edge 
irons, 
heel  burnisher,  large file,  16  in.,  revolv- 
ng  nail  stand,  pinchers,  nippers,  feath­
er  knife,  boot  trees,  shoe  stretchers, 
punches  and  eyelet  sets,  sewing  and 
pegging  awls.

In half soling ladies’ turned shoes I use 
the same kind of a  turning post as is used 
in  the  factories  and  have  it  bolted to the 
table.

In  order to  keep  run  of  the  work  that 
comes 
in,  I  put  a  ticket  on  the  shoes 
with  the  customer’s  name,  what  is to be 
done  and  when  and  the  amount  of 
charges.

In  conclusion  will  have  a  few  words 
to  say  about  the  loafer  and  the  cash  sys­
tem.  The  loafer  is  a  fixture  of  the  old- 
time  shop,  but  the  modern shoe menders 
should  have  no  room  for  him.

This  business  should  be  run  strictly 
upon  a  cash  basis. 
It  is  true  some  will 
ask  for  credit,  but  the  rich  and  the  poor 
should  be  refused  alike.  Some  will  be 
offended,  but after  they  think  the  matter 
over  and  learn  that  they  are  getting 
their  work  done  cheaper  than  ever  be­
fore  they  will  come back  and  you  will 
have  no  more  trouble  with  them. 
I  find 
the  cash  system  works  better  than  the 
credit  system.  If  a  man owes you he will 
in  nearly  every  case  pass  along  on  the 
other  side  of  the  street,  and  when  he 
wants  bis  shoes  mended  again  he  will 
go  to  some  one  else. 
If  the  same  man 
does  not  owe  you  he  will  continue  to 
have his  work  done  by  you. 
In  the  first 
case  you  lose  what  the  man  owes  you 
and  bis  trade;  in  the  second  case  it  is 
just  the  contrary,  you  lose  nothing.— 
W.  C.  Thomas 
in  Boot  and  Shoe  Re­
corder. 

____ _________

An  autograph  manuscript  of  a  speech 
by  President  Lincoln  at  Baltimore  in 
1864,  sold  at  a  New  York  auction  the 
other day  for $425.

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

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

Leather  Goods,  Felt  Boots, 
Lumbermen’s  Socks 
.

. 

. 

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

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,

■ 9 South Ionia S t.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

OOTOTQTO.O.Q

This represents our Boys’  and  Youths’ Oil 
Grain  Water Proof Shoes, made of very best 
stock  to  wear,  nice  fitting  and  good  style; 
size  of  Boys’,  3‘S.  Youths’,  12-3.  Every 
pair warranted.  Write for prices or send for 
samples on approval.  These shoes keep feet 
dry, look nice and no rubbers are  needed.
SNEDICOK & HATHAWAY UO., Detroit, Mich.
Also  makers  of  the  celebrated  Driving 
Shoes.  Grain Creedmoors and Cruisers.
*   HEROI.D  BERTSCH   SHOE  CO.,  of 
X   Grand Rapids, Agents.

S ta te  A gen ts  for

“ The Earth’s Best”

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

Our discount is 35 and 5 off.

Herold=Bertsch Shoe Co.

5 and 7  Pearl St., Grand  Rapids.

J

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.

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

Then buy Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.’s factory line—the line that will win 
and hold the trade for you.  We handle everything in the line of footwear.
We 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 fall  order.  We 

We 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.. 
Qrand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

16

The  New  Cannibalism.

it 

It 

There  was  a  time  when  a  stranded 
sailor  or  a  fat  missionary  was  a  choice 
delicacy  for  barbarians.  The  human 
cutlet  was  a  luxury  and  was  disposed  of 
without  asking  grace  or  experiencing 
the  colic.  There  are  certain  dark  cor­
ners  yet  to  be  fcund  on  the  planet where 
man  flesh 
is  preferred  to  mutton,  but 
on  such  depraved  appetites  civilization 
takes  summary  vengeance. 
is  true 
that  men  are  to  be  found  who read books 
and  wear  shoes,  who  chew  off  the  tails 
fixed  price  of 
of  little  dogs  at  the 
twenty-five  cents,  and 
in  free  fights  do 
the  same  with  human  noses  and  ears, 
but  we  draw  the  line  against  stews  or 
steaks  made  of  babies  and 
adults. 
There  are,  however,  more  ways  of  mak­
ing  veal  of  human  kind  than  by cooking 
it  in  a  pot  or  pan.  Men  fatten  on  each 
other  without  the  use  of  a  knife  and 
fork,  and  one  needs  not  to  be  put  on  a 
plate  to  make  a  dinner  for  some  of  his 
fellow-citizens.  There  is  nothing  car­
mine 
in  the  process  or  suggestive  of 
cannibalism,  as  a  Samoan  would  ut der- 
it,  but 
stand 
is  a  fact  nevertheless. 
There 
is  a  deal  of  flesh  crowding  the 
modern  coat  that  has  come  from  other 
men’s  bones. 
It  has  not  been  carved 
therefrom,  but 
it  has  been  secured  by 
other  means.  An  octopus  never  bites 
what  he  absorbs,  but  he  makes  a  bone- 
rack  of  his  victim  just  the  same.  When 
one  man  defrauds  another  of  his  rights, 
his  property  or  his  means  of  paying  for 
his  bread  and  butter,  he  is  adding  to 
his  own  avoirdupois  what  should  be  on 
another  man’s  bones.  When  a  merchant 
or  manufacturer  sacrifices  living  profits 
to  close  out  a  competitor  and  to  support 
his  folly  reduces  the  wage  of  the  labor 
he  employes,  he  repeats  the  cannibal 
act.  A  coat  sold  under  cost  means  a 
tailor  with  more  to  do  than  to  eat,  and 
a  shirt  sold  on  the  same  plan  means  a 
seamstress  that  has  to  squeeze  a  teapot 
or a  cup  of  tea  or  to  get  a 
loan  on  a 
sewing  machine  to  pay  her  rent.  Nor 
is  this  process  limited  to  any  particular 
set  of  people  or  class  of  society. 
is 
general  and  epidemic.  Owning  a  mill 
or  a mine,or  nothing  but  a wheelbarrow, 
makes  no  difference  in  the  appetite  of 
man-eating.  Sinners  in  this  matter are 
not  lined  up  in  that  way.  Dirt  is never 
particular  as  to  where  it  settles. 
It  is  a 
popular  but  elusive  idea  that  the  human 
buzzard  always  roosts  on  one  particular 
branch  of  the  tree. 
It  is  not so.  There
are  as  many  modern  man-eaters  at  one 
end  of  the  social  ladder as  at  the  other. 
There  is  no  class  distinction  in  the  vice 
that,  like  a  canker,  is  eating  out  the 
heart  of  society.  We  prey  on  each  other 
as  one  parasite  makes  a  lunch  of  an­
other.  Take  the  modern  craze  for  bar- 
gain-driving  as  an  example.  Cheapness 
is  a  goddess.  Bargains  are as  honey  to 
the  mouth  and  wine  to  the  lip.  Some­
thing  for  nothing  is  a  greater  prize  than 
a  cluster  of  bays  at  an  Olympian  game. 
A  necktie  at  less  than  cost is as precious 
as  the  necklace  of  Cleopatra.  A  house 
and 
lot  at  half  their  value  has  pearly 
gates  and  a  heavenly  charm.  A farm  on 
the  same  conditions 
is  a  land  of  milk 
and  honey.  For  such  bargains  as  these 
we  hunger,  thirst  and  pray.  Everything 
and  anything  from  a  napkin  to  a  rug,  a 
package  of  pins  to  a  gasoline  stove,  and 
from  a  mouse  trap  to  a  piano— if 
is 
to  be  had  for  a  fraction  of  its  original 
cost—would  empty  Noah’s  ark  on  a  wet 
day.  Behind  all  this 
is  the  spectral 
procession  of  under-paid,  under-fed  and 
helpless  labor—a  banquet  on  one  side 
and  bones  on  the  other—and  the average 
man  rubs  bis  hands  over  his  shrewdness

It 

it 

and  good  fortune  in  getting  his  tanned 
boots  at  half  price,  a  cigar  at  a 
sheriff’s  sale,  a  mine  from  a  bankrupt, 
or a  machine  that  is  practically  given 
away.  Out  of  this  chaos  and  the  dust 
that  is  blinding  us  and  turning  our  eyes 
from  the  real  causes,  we devise all  sorts 
of  schemes  and  reforms  to  protect  our­
selves  from  results  and,  while  asking 
for  soap,  continue  to  manufacture  mud 
pies.  So  long  as  this  avarice  is  rotting 
the  public  bone,  we  shall  carry  on  the 
grim  tragedy  of  the  new  cannibalism.
F r e d   W o o d r o w .

Good  Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe 

Dealers.

it 

If  the  maker  wishes  to  lose,  for  a 
time,  one-third,  in  order  to 
introduce 
these  hand-sewed  welt  shoes,  it’s  your 
gain;  and  ours,  too,  because  we  know 
their  value.— Gimbel  Bros.,  Phila.

and 

Tradition 

All  that  you  expect  to  find  in  shoes 
and  brains  besides. 
isn’t 
enough,  custom  isn’t  enough;  the  work­
men  who  have  to  do  with  our shoes  put 
thought—brains— into  them as well.  You 
find 
in  the  neat  shapes,  in  the  per­
fect  finish,  in  the  wear,  comfort,  in  the 
durability— in  everything  that  makes  a 
shoe  delightful 
serviceable.— 
French,  Sbriner  &  Urner,  N.  Y.

child  will  “ grow 

A  great  mistake  is often  made  of buy­
ing  children's  shoes  of  such  a  size  that 
the 
them. 
There 
is  neither  sense  nor  economy  in 
sucb  a  policy.  Perfect  fitting  shoes  is 
what  your  child  should  have  and  a  per­
fect  fit  is  what  your child  will  get if you 
buy  the  shoes  from  us.— Wheaton’s, 
East  Orange,  N.  J.

into”  

Three  dollar  shoes  at  $1.50—no,  that 
isn’t  exactly  the  fact.  They  were  $3 
shoes  until  wider  toes  outstripped  them 
in  favor.  And  they’re  just  as  good  for 
outing  wear  as ever.—John  Wanamaker, 
Phila.

Too  many  shoes.  This 

is  what  the 
shoe  buyer  says.  Judging  from  his stock 
he 
is  right.  And  now  that  he  is  be­
wailing  his  lot  he  insists  upon  selling 
at  less  than  cost.  Some  day  there’ll  be 
an  end  to  such  business,  as  there  is  no 
fun  in  losing  money.— Sharpless  Bros., 
Phila.

Good  Form.

“ Do  you  really  wear  a  corset  through 

necessity?”   she  asked.

“ Oh,  no,”   the  other  girl  replied, 

“ simply  as  a  matter  of  form  ”

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athletic,  sporty  woman  to  the  old-fash­
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Dry Goods

The  Lady  With  the  Empty  Purse. 

Written for the T r ad esm an.

It  was  bargain  day.  The  store  was 
thronged  with  customers.  The  high- 
toned  city  lady  might  be  seen  elbow  to 
elbow  with  the  hard-worked  country 
woman  as they  inspected  the  goods  dis­
played  on  the  counters,  each  anxious  to 
be  waited  on  first.  The  city  lady  fully 
believed  that  she  should  have  attention 
first  because  she  was a  city  lady.  The 
country  woman 
in 
givin’  way  no  how  jest  because  some­
body  else  had  on  a  silk  dress  an’  acted 
like  they  wus  better’n  other  folks.’ ’

“ didn’t  believe 

Little  bits  of  byplay  of 

this  and 
other  kinds  were  not 
infrequent  and 
afforded  the  clerks  behind  the  counter 
who  were  at  all  observant  not a  little 
amusement. 
It  also  called  for tact and 
patience  on  the  part  of  the  clerks to 
deal  successfully  with  the many peculiar 
people  which  a  well-written  bargain  ad­
vertisement  brings to the  store.  There 
is  a  class  of  women—as  a  rule  they  are 
city  women—who  are  seldom  if  ever 
known  to  buy  anything,  no  matter how 
cheap 
it  may  be,  yet  they  watch  the 
papers  for  this  or  that  advertisement 
with  a  great  deal  of  interest.  Dozens  of 
them  come  to  the  store  on  bargain  days 
and  never  at  any  other  time.  This  class 
of  women  will  be  sure  to  have  the news­
paper  which  has  your  advertisement  in 
it  along  with  her.  She  elbows  her  way 
to  the  counter,  in  all  probability  crowd­
ing  aside  some  one  who  intends  to  buy. 
Usually  she  carries the newspaper folded 
so  tnat  she  can  conveniently  refer  to the 
advertisement.  Securing  a  clerk’s  at­
tention,  she  asks,  referring  to  the ad­
vertisement,  to  see  “ that  fifty-four  inch 
storm  serge  at  69c. ’ ’  A  customer  on  her 
right, upon  whom  the clerk has expended 
time,  talk  and  energy,  is  just  upon  the 
point  of  deciding  to  have  a  dress  of this 
same  goods.  She  waits  to  hear  what  the 
new  comer  will  say  in  regard  to  it.  The 
shopper critically examines the cloth and 
asks  the  clerk 
if  it  is  really  fifty-four 
inches  wide.  Then 
in  a  tone  which 
leads  you  to  believe  that  she  very  much 
doubts  the  truthfulness  of  your  state­
ment,  she  enquires  the  price  at  which 
the  goods  usually  sell.  He  replies  that 
the  regular  price  is  85  cents,  whereupon 
the  shopper  merely  mutters  “ Indeed!”  
and  leaves  the  counter.  That  “ indeed”  
was  the  death  knell,  so  far  as  the  almost 
finished  sale  to  the  other  customer  was 
concerned.  I  think  I  heard  a  smothered 
cuss  word  as  that  clerk  turned  to  wait 
upon  someone  else.  Just  at  the  time, 
however,  I  was  busily  engaged  in  show­
ing  to a  lady  and  her  daughter  a  line  of 
high-class 
dress  patterns. 
When  they  came  to  the  counter  the 
elder 
lady  said  that  she  must  have 
something  very  fine. 
“ I  don’t  care  to 
see  anything  under  $30  a  pattern.”  
After  a  half  hour’s  work  I finally showed 
them  a  dress  pattern  which  both 
liked. 
Their  manner  had  made  me  feel  that 
they  really  intended  to buy. 
I  had  ex­
erted  myself  to  the  best  of  my  ability 
and  was  greatly  disappointed  when  the 
elder  lady  thanked  me  very  graciously 
and  said  that  she  would  not  decide  just 
then,  but  would  come 
later  in  the 
day.

novelty 

in 

After  they  had  gone,  I  found  among 
the  goods  which  I  had  been  showing 
them  a  shopping  bag.  The  bag  con­
tained  a  purse  and  a  handkerchief.  The 
purse  contained  a  hairpin,  a  2  cent 
postage  stamp  and  a  5  cent  piece.  The 
shopping  bag  has  never been  called  for.

My  next  customer  was  a  Swede  work­
ing  girl  whom  I  had  never  seen  before, 
so  far as  my  memory  served me,  but  she 
had  declined  to  be  waited  upon  by  any 
of  the  other  boys,  saying  that  she  would 
wait  until  I  was  at  leisure.  How  I  wish 
everybody  was  as  easily  pleased  as  that 
girl  was !  She seemed to have unbounded 
confidence  in  what  I  said  and  in  fifteen 
minutes  I  sold  her  as  many  dollars’ 
worth  of  dress  goods.  When  the  sale 
was  concluded  I  asked  her  why  she 
waited  for  me  to  serve  her.

“ Mrs.  Stewart,  my  missus,  told  me to 
be  sure and  buy  my  dress  from  the  tall 
man  with  glasses. 
‘ You  can  always  de­
pend  on  what  he  says’  says  she.  So 
that’s  why  I  waited  for you.”

I  mention  the  above  instances because 
of  what  I  want  to  say  now.  The  pro­
fessional shopper with the  newspaper  ad­
vertisement  in  her  hand  spoiled  a  sale; 
but  that 
is  a  small  matter  compared 
with  the  damage  she  could  do  if  the 
salesman  had  treated  her  as  she  really 
deserved.  Snub  her,  slight  her or  treat 
her  with 
indifference  and  she  at  once 
begins  to  use  her  influence  against  you 
and  the  store 
in  which  you  are  em­
ployed.  There  are  plenty  of  people  on 
the  order  of  “ the  lady  of  the  empty 
purse,”   but  it  seldom  happens  that  the 
salesman  finds  them  out.

I  remember  Mrs.  Stewart  who  recom­
mended  the  Swede girl  to  buy  from  me 
as  the  most  aggravating  of  customers; 
but  long  ago,  when  my  old  employer 
took  me  out  of  the  wrapping  desk  and 
gave  me  a  place  behind  the  counter  he 
said:  “ Never  lose  your  temper,  Mac. 
The  harder  your  customers  are 
to 
please,  the  more  you  must  aim  to please 
them. ”

I  have  never  forgotten  his  advice. 
By  means  of  it  I  made  a  good  impres­
sion  on  Mrs.  Stewart,  as  well  as  making 
a  good  sale;  but  I  never  for a  moment 
dreamed  that  that  good 
impression 
would  react  in  the  shape  of  a  $15  sale to 
a  Swede  domestic.  So,  boys  behind 
the  counter,  never be  curt  or  indifferent 
with  anyone. 

It  doesn’t  pay.

M ac  A l l a n .

The  Guatemala  Coffee  Industry.
The  raising  of  coffee  is  the  most 

im­
portant  industry  of  Guatemala,  owing 
principally  to  the  climate  of  the  coun­
try  and  the  character of  the  labor  to  be 
obtained.  The 
laborers  are  Indians, 
who  are  naturally  quiet  and 
inoffensive 
and  excellent  workers  in  fields.  Nearly 
all  of  the  coffee  raised  in  Guatemala  is 
shipped  to  Europe,  although  some  of  it 
is  sold  in  this  country.  The  quality 
is 
considered  very  good,  and 
is  fre­
quently  sold  for  Java  and  Mocha.  The 
trouble  between  Arbuckle  and  Have- 
meyer,  which  has  resulted 
in  several 
reductions 
in  the  price  of  coffee,  has 
done  much  to  unsettle  the  trade  of  late, 
but 
it  will  not  permanently  affect  the 
industry.  The  output  of  coffee  from 
Guatemala 
is  about  600,000  bags  an­
nually.

it 

Not  Alone  in  Their  Impatience.

From the Chicago Record.

“ Those  who  find  fault  with  the  slow 
return  of  prosperity  are  like  most  sick 
people. ”

“ How’s  that?”
“ Well,  sick  people  may  take  ten 
years  to  accumulate  a  disease,  but  they 
always  expect  the  doctor to  cure  them  in 
a  week. ’ ’

Reduced  to  Extremities.

From the Indianapolis Journal.

“ One  time,”   said  the  traveled  board­
er,  “ I  got  snowed 
the  Rocky 
Mountains,  and  the  only  thing  seven  of 
us  had  for two  days  to  sustain  life  was 
a  half  barrel of pickled pigs’  feet.

“ You  were,  indeed,”   said  the  Cheer­

in  on 

ful  Idiot,  “ reduced  to  extremities.”

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Commercial T ray elers

Michigan  Knights of the Qrip.

President, Jas. P. Hammell, 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,  Geo.  A.  Rey­
nolds,  Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, Geo.  F. Owen, Grand Rapids. 

President,"A. F. Peake, Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  Tyler,  H.  B.  Fair- 
child, Jas. N. B radford, J. Henry Dawley.Geo. 
J. Heinzelxan, Chas. S.  Robinson.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

A commercial traveler in  love  with  his 
is  a  double-distilled,  copper- 

work 
riveted  success.

Commercial  and  personal  honor  are 
very  closely  allied.  The  average  com­
mercial  traveler  of  to-day  has  both.

Do  you  always  get  credit  for  the  mail 
in  from  your  territory? 
it  would  pay  you  to 

orders  that  go 
Don’t  you  think 
keep  tab  on  them?

In  the  old  days  the  traveling  man 
who  could  play  the  best  game  of  poker, 
take  the  biggest  drink  of  red  liquor  and 
tell  the  best  yarn  was  considered  the 
crack-a-jack  of  the  road. 
It’s  different 
now.

The  post  mortem  on  the  remains  of 
J.  D.  Davis,  the  Grand  Rapids  travel­
ing  man  who  died  suddenly  at  Kala­
mazoo,  showed  that  death  was  due  to 
heart  disease.  The  remains  were  buried 
at  Kalamazoo  Monday.

If  the  young  girls  of  this  country 
would  oftener  break  into  a  laundry  in­
stead  of  literature,  and  become  authors 
of  pie 
instead  of  poetesses  of  passion 
there  would  be  more  married  commer­
cial  travelers.  Don’t  you  think?

If  the  business  men  of  this  country 
ever  hope  to  extend  our  trade  with  for­
eign  countries,  they  will  have  to  see  to 
it  that  business  men  are  sent  as  consuls 
to  foreign  ports  and  that  ward  heelers 
and  political  wire  workers  are relegated 
to the  rear  and  not  given  those positions 
as  rewards  for  party  work.  Every  ap­
pointment  to  a  consulship  so  far  has 
been  of  the  latter  kind.  Not  a  single 
commercial  traveler  has  been  given 
that  kind  of  place. 
It  is  not  because 
there  are  no  good  Republicans  in  their 
ranks.  There  are  plenty  of  them  and 
we  believe  one,  at  least,  in  this  State 
has  filed  his  application  for  such  a posi­
tion. 
should  bestir 
themselves  and  see  that  they  are  given 
representation  among 
this  country’s 
consuls.
Prepared  tor  the  Worst—The  Hotel 

“ boys”  

The 

That  Didn’t  Burn.

From the Chicago Record.

“ Do  you  believe  that  we  are  some­
times  forewarned  of  great  dangers?” 
asked  the  commercial  traveler. 
“ Did 
you  ever  have— what  you call  it— premo­
nitions?  Well,  I  was  premonished  the 
other night. 
I  had  to  put  up  at  a  junc­
tion  hotel,  and  they  sent  me  clear  up  to 
the  top  of  the  building  into  one  of those 
rooms  with  a  slanted  ceiling.  You  know 
the  kind.  You  pay  for  the  room,  and 
the  roof  occupies  it.

“ There  was  one  window. 

I  looked 
out  of  the  window  and  it  seemed  to  be 
at  least  sixty  feet  down  to  the  ground. 
It  was  a  wooden  building,  and  an  old 
one,  understand?  While  I  was  looking 
out  of  the  window  a  freight  train  went 
by,  and  the  engine  threw  out  a  million 
sparks.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

17

‘ Well,’  I  says  to'myself,  ‘ I"can  see 
my  finish  right  now."  There’ll  be  forty 
trains  going  by  on  these  two  roads  to 
it's  a  four-to-one  shot  that 
night,  and 
this  hotel 
is  going  to  catch  fire.’ 
I 
looked  out again.  There  wasn’t  any  fire 
escape,  and  they  didn't  have  any  rope 
in  the  room.  You  see,  in  a  good  many 
places  like  that  they  have a  big  coil  of 
rope  in  one  corner  and  a  sign  that  says: 
In  case  of  fire,  take  hold  of  the  rope 
and  jump.’  A  man  reads  that  sign  and 
then  he  can’t  sleep  all  night.

“  Well,  I 

looked  out  of  the  window 
again,  and  a  switch  engine  pulled  past 
and  shot  out  a  lot  of  live  cinders  as  big 
as  your  fist.  That  settled  it. 
I  went, 
over  to  the  bed  and  found  it  had  two 
sheets. 
I  took  out  my  pencil  and  fig­
ured  that  I  could  tear  each  sheet 
into 
four.strips  and,  allowing  for  the  knots, 
each  sheet  would  make  about  twenty- 
four  feet  of  fire  escape,  although,  of 
course, there would  be  some  waste  where 
I  would  have  to  tie  it  to  the  bed. 
I 
figured  that  I  could  push  the  bed  over 
to  the  window,  fasten  one  end  of  my 
rope  to  the  head  board  and  play  out 
about  forty-five  feet. 
I  had  it  all  fixed 
—some  water  all  ready  in  the  bowl,  so 
as  to  dampen  the  knots  and  pull  them 
hard.  Of  course  1  still  had  some  dis­
tance  to  fall  after  I  got  to  the  end  of my 
rope,  but  that  was  all  right.  You  know, 
as  soon  as  I  had  my  rope  fixed  I  was 
going  to  drop  the  mattress, so  as  to  have 
something  to  fall  on.

* * 1  took  my  card  case,  watch,  monev, 
and  keys  and  tied  them  in  a  handker­
chief,  which  I  very  carefully  placed  on 
the  window  sill,  so  that  it  would  not  be 
overlooked  in  the  hurry  of  getting away. 
There  didn’t  seem  to  be  anything  else 
that  I  could  do  until  the  alarm  was 
given,  so  I  turned 
in  and  fell  asleep 
right  away.  I  wasn’t  worrying,  because 
I  was  ready,  no  matter  what  happened.
I  had  been  asleep  about  three  minutes, 
it  seemed 
somebody 
pounded  at  my  door  and  told  me  to  get 
up—that  it  was  7  o’clock.  I  got  up  and 
dressed,  and  you  can  imagine  how  bad­
ly  I  was  disappointed.  Oh,  I  was  sore. 
But,  say,  suppose  the  hotel  had  caught 
fire!  Wouldn’t  that  have  been  a  star 
stoi y ? ”

to  me,  when 

Don’ts  for  Drummers.

Don’t  come  into  a  store trying  to  sell 
It 

goods  with  a  cigar  in  your  mouth. 
isn’t  businesslike.

Don’t  come 

into  the  store  chewing 

gum  or  tobacco.  It  doesn’t  look  nice.

Don’t  be  fresh  with  the  salesladies, 
even  though  you  happend  to  have  sold 
them  goods  before;  you 
lose  their  re­
spect.

Don’t  shake  hands.  There  is  no  need 
for  this,  and  a  man  doesn’t  care  to 
shake  hands  every  time  a  commercial 
man  wants  to  sell  him  goods.

Don’t  under  any  circumstances  ask  a 
buyer  out  for a  drink  or  a  dinner. 
It 
isn’t  right;  and  the  man  who  employs 
buyers  would  not  encourage  this  under 
any  condition.

Don’t  pull  out  your  order  book  and 
say  you  sold  Mr.  Wanamaker  so  much, 
and  Stern  Bros,  so  many.  The  average 
buyer doesn’t  care  a  rap  what  you  sold 
the  other  fellow.

Don’t  show  your  temper  when  the 
buyer  tells  you  he  cannot use  your  goods 
this  time.  It  is  bad  taste and  may  cause 
you  to  lose  a  second  attempt  to  show 
your  samples.

Don’t  tell  a  buyer  he  ought  to  buy  a 
dozen  of  this  and  a  dozen  of  that  when 
he  gives  you  an  order  for  a  half-dozen. 
He  knows  what  he  needs  better  than 
you  do.

Don’t  accept  a small order sneeringly : 
remember  “ From  small  acorns  large 
trees  grow. ’ ’

Don’t  make  a  buyer  feel  as 

if  you 
knew 
It  makes 
him  feel  sore  against  you,  and  you  will 
be  the  loser.

it  all,  and  he  didn’t. 

Don’t  ever  bring  another  drummer  in 
the  store  to  introduce  him  to  the  buyer. 
is  a  presumption  that  the  buyer 
This 
doesn’t  relish.
Don’t  ever  tell  a  buyer  you  just  came 
all  the  way  from  New  York  to  see  him 
and  sell  him  goods.  This  doesn’t  go 
nowadays.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

C.  F.  Ballard,  Representing  the  New 

York  Biscuit  Co.

Chas.  F.  Ballard  was  born at Georgia, 
Vt.,  March  16,  1845.  His  father  and 
mother  were  both  Vermonters,  the  latter 
being  of  English  antecedents.  On  the 
death  of  the  father,  which  occurred  in 
1849*  the  family  removed  to  Ypsilanti, 
where  Charles  attended  school  until 
8  years  of  age,  when  be  hired  out  to 
a  farmer  near  Ypsilanti,  with  whom  he 
remained  three  years.  He  then  went  to
live  with  his  uncle,  Grove  Saunders, 
and  from  that  time  on  he  has  called 
that  place  home.  July  22,  1862,  he  en­
listed 
in  the  20th  Michigan  Infantry, 
which  company  was  raised  and  cap­
tained  by  General  Cutcheon,  of  this 
city.  He  was  sick  and  in  the  hospital 
most  of  the  time  for  eighteen  months, 
but  was 
in  active  service  during  the

i
next  year  in  the  battle  of  the Wilderness 
and  at  Spottsylvania  and  Petersburgh. 
He  was  never injured  in  battle,  attribut­
ing  his  good  fortune  to  the  tact  that  he 
was  “ too  thin  to  get  hit.’ ’  He  was 
mustered  out  at  Washington  and  dis­
charged  at  Jackson,  when  he  went  back 
to  his  uncle’s  farm  for a  year.  He  then 
engaged  with  Philo  Ferrier,  of  Ypsilan­
ti,  to  sell  milk  safes  on  the  road,  travel­
ing  by  wagon.  He  followed  this  occu­
pation  two  years,  when  he  engaged  with 
Bennett  &  Courtright,  of  Norwalk, 
Ohio,  to  handle  their  line  of  milk safes, 
cider  mills,  fanning  mills  and  wheel­
barrows.  He  followed  this  occupation 
three  years,  covering  every  town 
in 
Northern  Ohio,  when  he  arranged  with 
Sampson,  Clark  &  Co.,  of  Elyria, 
Ohio,  to  handle  their  line  of  confec­
tionery  and  tobacco.  A  year  later  he 
returned  to  his  first  love,  forming  an  al­
liance  with  C.  H.  Bennett,of  Plymouth, 
whose fanning  mills  he  sold  for a couple 
of  years.  Failing-health  and  a  desire 
to  see  more  of  the  country  influenced 
him  to  remove  to  Texas,  where  he  sold 
lightning  rods  five  years  for  Cole  Bios., 
of  Sherman,  Tex.,  during  which  time 
he  insists  that  he  handled lightning  rods 
on  a  legitimate  plan,  not  taking  notes 
and,  in  no  case,  duping  or  swindling 
his customers,as  was the case in the more 
favored 
the  North.  He 
then  sold  lamps  and  calendar clocks five 
years  on  his  own  account,  at  the  end 
of  which  time  he  returned  to  Michigan, 
locating  at  Charlotte.  For  the  next  two 
years  he  traveled  for  his  old  employer, 
Mr.  Bennett,  of  Plymouth.  Receiving 
a 
lucrative  offer  from  the  Champion

localities 

in 

Machine  Co.,  he  represented  that  con 
cern  one  year,  when  be  embraced  an 
opportunity  to  sell  crackers  for  the  ®e- 
troit  Cracker  Co.  He  covered  the  trade 
of  Central  Michigan  for  this  concern 
four  years,  removing  to  Lansing  in  the 
meantime.  Seven  years  ago  he  decided 
to  transfer his  allegiance  from  the  De­
troit 
institution  to  Wm.  Sears  &  Co., 
since  which  time  he  has  covered  the 
retail  trade  of  this  territory  regularly 
for  the  New  York  Biscuit  Co.

Mr.  Ballard  was  married  at  Kosse, 
Lincoln  county,  Texas,  to  Miss  Ellen 
Parnplin,  and  is  the  father  of  one child, 
a  boy,  Grove  F.,  now  21  years  of  age, 
who  attended  school  at  Charlotte  and 
Assumption  College  at  Sandwich,  Ont., 
.entering  the  navy  as  an  apprentice  at 
the  age  of  14.  He 
located  at 
Newport and  contemplates  fitting  him­
self  for  the  position  of gunner.

is  now 

14.  He 

Mr.  Ballard 

is  a  charter  member of 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip, 
bolding  certificate  No. 
is  a 
member  of  Gauntlett  Lodge,  No.  4, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  at  Lansing,  and  has 
recently  been initiated  into the mysteries 
of  the  Knights  of  Kborrassen,  being  a 
member  of  Islam  Temple,  No.  59,  of 
Saginaw.
*  Mr.  Ballard  attributes  his  success  to 
hard  work  and  to  the  fact  that  he  has 
always  been  temperate  in  his  habits and 
persistent  in  his  efforts.  He  claims  no 
especial  ability  along  any  particular 
line,  and  believes  his 
acquaintance 
with  the  farmer,  received  during  th,e 
time  be  was  on  the  road  with  lines  of 
milk  safes  and  lightning  rods,  especial­
ly,  fitted  him  for  his  more  recent  work 
in  the  mercantile  line.  When  he  enters 
the  store of  the  merchant  he  has just one 
man  to  deal  with,  but  when  he  ap­
proached  a  farmer  for  the  purpose  of 
selling  him  a  fanning  mill,  he  had  the 
whole  family  to  contend  with  and  must 
be  prepared  to  meet  the  objections  of 
any  and  every  member  of  the  house­
hold.  He  insists  that  the  man  who  can 
do  this  and  come  out  with  flying  colors, 
can  handle  any  mercantile  line  sec- 
cessfullly,  no  matter  how  difficult 
it 
may  be  to  master  the  details  connected 
therewith.

ttlbitney Rouse Plainwell, Mich.^ 

Best  house in town and as g-ood as any in the 
State for $1.00 per day.  Sanitary conditions 
are complete.  Long* distance telephone*

**

Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

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

C A R R IA G E S ,  B A G G A G E  
A N D   F R E IG H T   W A G O N S
15 and 17 North Waterloo St., 

Grand Rapids.

Telephone 381-1 

Commercial  House

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.

Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam,

All modern conveniences.

$2 per day. 
IRA  A.  BEAN,  Prop.
NEW  REPUBLIC

Reopened Nov.  35.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN BAY  CITY.

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  SI. 50 to $2.®.

Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCEINDHETT, Prop.

Steam beat,

Young  men  and  women  acquire  the  greatest  Inde­
pendence and  wealth  by  securing  a course  in either 
the business. Shorthand, English or Mechanical  Draw­
ing  departments  of  the  Detroit  Business  University, 
11-19 Wilcox St., Detroit.  W. F. Jewell, P.  R. Spencer.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

PATENT  MEDICINES
Order your patent medicines from

PECK  BROS.,  Qraod  Rapids.

Improved  Liquor  and  Poison  Record.
Our combined Liquor and Poison  Record  should 
be on the showcase  of  every  retail  druggist  in  the 
State.  Sent  postpaid  on  receipt  of  $1.
TR A D ESM AN   CO M PAN Y,. Grand  Rapids.

¡" M A S T E R  

Y U M A ”

The best 5 cent cigars ever made.  Sold by

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

BEST S t  RUSSELL CO., C h ic a g o . 

“ That 

is  what  I  have  always  be­
lean  passen­
lieved, ”   rejoined  the  tall, 
ger,  yawning  drearily,  “ until  lately.  I 
learned  how  to  get  rid  of  the  trouble­
some  feeling  the  other  day,  and  I’ve 
felt  ever  since  like  telling  everybody 
else  how  to  do  it.  The  cure  is  easy,  it 
costs  hardly  anything,  and  it’s  in  every­
body’s  reach.”

is  the  cure?”   enquired  the 

“ What 

other,  becoming  interested.

“ It 

is  simply  a  little  mixture  I  man­
ufacture  myself,”   said  the  tall,  slim 
man 
indifferently,  “ from  a  number  of 
ingredients  that  I  don’t  remember  the 
names  of.  By  the  way,”   he  exclaimed, 
as 
if  an  idea  had  suddenly  occurred  to 
him,  1  I  think  I  have  a bottle  01  two  in 
the  giip-sack. ”

He  opened  a  large  valise  and 

looked 

in  it  carelessly.
“ Well,  I  declare!”   he  said  in  suprise, 
“ here  are  quite a  number of them.  Here 
are  a  few  recommendations  that  some 
of  my  friends  have  insisted  on  giving 
me.  This  medicine,  as  you  will  see  by 
reading  the  directions  on  the  label,  is 
guaranteed  to  cure  the  worst  case  of 
lame  back,  sore  throat,  neuralgia,  lum­
bago,  nervous  headache,  biliousness, 
sprains, 
complaint, 
burns,  scalds,  ingrowing  toe-nails,  and 
all  affections  of  the  lungs  or  wind-pipe 
that  flesh 
In  pint  bottles, 
with  full  directions  accompanying each, 
and  a  lithograph  of  the  manufacturer.”
And  before  he  let  up  on  that  unhappy 
fat  passenger,  he  had  sold  him  fourteen 
bottles  of  spring  fever  remedy  at  $1  a 
bottle.

is  heir  to. 

bruises, 

liver 

18

Drugs-=Chemicals

- 

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Ter m expires 
—
-  Dee. 31,1896 
C. A. Busbbb, Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31,1897
S. E.  Park ill, Owosso 
-  Dec. 31,1898
P. W. R. Perry, Detroit 
- 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann  Arbor 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Geo. Gumdbum,  Ionia  - 
Dec. 31,1900

President, S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, F. W. R. Perry, Detroit.
Treasurer, Geo. Gumdrum, Ionia.
Coming Examination Sessions—Star Island (De­
troit), June 28 and 29;  Sault  Ste.  Marie,  Aug.
---- ;  Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C.  P h illips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schrouber, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Chas. Man s, Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. Webber, Cadillac; 
H. G. Oolkan, Kalamazoo;  Geo.  J.  Ward,  St. 
Clair;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Perry, Detroit.

Trade 

The  Drug  Market.
is  fair  for  this  season  of  the 
year  and  can  be  said  to be  a  little better 
than  at  the  same  period 
last  year. 
Values  on  nearly  all  articles  are  steady 
and  there  are  very  few  changes  to  note.
Opium—One  of  the  peculiar  features 
of  the  market 
is  opium.  The  House 
tariff  bill  provides  for  a  duty  of  $i  per 
pound  on  this  article  and  the  Senate 
has  agreed  to  this  rate.  Notwithstand­
ing  this,  the  market 
is  very  quiet  in 
New  York.  There  seems  to  be  no  effort 
to  sell,  but  any  one  can  buy  at  the  pres­
ent  low  price.  As  the  tariff  bill  will 
probably  be  passed  within  a  month,  and 
an  advance  to  at 
least  $3  will  take 
place,  it  would  seem  as  though  the ar­
ticle  should  be higher  now.

Quinine—There  is  nothing  new in  the 
situation  of  this  article.  The  tendency 
of  prices  is  upward,  yet  it  may  be  some 
time  before  the  market  advances.

Norweigan  Cod  Liver  Oil—Very  low, 
but  as  there  is  a  large  output  this  sea­
son,  it  may  remain  about  the  present 
price  during  the  year,  although  some 
holders  in  New  York  look  for  advances.
Borax—There  will  be  an  increased 
duty  on  this  article,  but,  as  yet  there 
has  been  only  a  small  advance.

Gelatin—As  noted  last  week,  the  scar­
city  of  this  article  has  advanced  the 
price  and  higher  values  are  looked  for.
is  a  large  de­
mand  and  prices  are  firm.  A  further 
advance  would  not  surprise  any  one.

Carbolic  Acid—There 

Morphine—Is  unchanged,  but  there  is 
no  question  of  an  advance  in  price  as 
soon  as  the  tariff bill  is  passed.

Hellebore  Root-----Out  of  market.
Powdered  is  held  firmly.  The  season
for  the  sale  of  this  article  is  about over.
Sugar  of  Milk— Manufacturers  of  this 
article  have  lowered  their  prices  tor  all 
brands.

Linseed  Oil— Has  declined  ic per gal. 
A  steady  price  is  looked  for  from  now 
on,  as  the  demand  for  consumption  is 
good.

A  Disciple  of  Loisette.

Excited  Customer---- “ Say-----1  want
some  medicine,  and  I  want  it  quick, 
too!  But  for  the  life  of  me  I  can’t  tell 
what  the  name  is!”
Disgusted  Clerk—“ Well,  how on  earth 
I  can’t 

it,  then? 

do  you  expect to  get 
help  you!”

Excited  Customer—“ Yes,  you  can, 
too.  What's  the  name  of  that  bay  on 
the  lower  part  qf  Lake  Erie—eh?”  

Disgusted  Clerk—“ Do  you  mean  Put­

in-Bay?”

Excited Customer—“ That’s it.  That’s 
it!  And  what’s  the  name  of  the  old 
fellow  that  put  in  there  once,  you know? 
Celebrated  character,  you  know?’ 

Disgusted  Clerk—“ Are  you  talking 

about  Commodore  Perry?”

Excited  Customer— “ Good! 

I’ve  got 
it.  That’s  what  I  want.  Gimme  ten 
cents’  worth  of  paregoric!”

The  difference  between  the  retailer 
who  sits  in  his  store  and  waits  for  the 
public  to  find  him  out  without  his  tell­
ing  them  what  he  has  and  where  his 
place  of  business  is  and  the  retailer who 
advertises  constantly  and  rests  content 
after  a  busy  day,  is  all  the  way  from 
$1,000 to $500,000 a  year.

TH U M   B R O S .  &  S C H M ID T . 

Analytical  and  Consulting  Chemists,

8 4   CANAL  S T ..
8RANO  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

Special attention  given to Water,  Bark and 

Urine Analysis.

This  is  C.  W . D ie r d o r f,  the famous “ S. C. W . Giant,** who came in first at the great Grand 

Rapids road race.

The  “ S.  C.  W.** cigars,  like the people who sell them, are always First in all competition.
A ll first-class jobbers have them.

G.  J.  JOHNSON CIGAR  CO.,  Mnfrs.,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Sold  Him  Fourteen  Bottles.

The  two  passengers  had  traveled  sev­
eral  hours  in  the  same  seat  and  had  be­
gun  to  feel  acquainted.

“ I  am  a  little  ashamed  to  confess, ”  
said  the  tall,  thin  man,  with  a  languid 
smile,  “ that  the  ailment  known  as 
spring  fever  has  always  been  a  genuine 
complaint  in  my  case.  It  isn’t  laziness, 
either.  At  this  time  of  year  I  have  gen­
erally  experienced  a  feeling  of  lassitude 
that  makes  any  kind  of  exertion  posi­
tively  painful. ”

“ I  know  exactly  how 

it  feels,”   re­
plied  the  short,  fat  passenger,  with  a 
dull  gleam  of  sympathy  in  his  eyes  and 
an  expansive  yawn. 
“ It  comes  on  you 
in  spite  of all  you  can  do.  It's  the  most 
languor. 
depressing 
I've  been  suffer­
ing  from 
it  all  the  morning.  And  the 
worst  thing  about  it  is  that  you  can’t  do 
anything  to  relieve  it.  You  have  to  let 
it  take 
It  won’t  leave  you 
its  course. 
until  it  gets  ready.”

The  Best 

On  Earth

fittili ip

Manufactured  by

Schulte  Soap Co.,

Kneipp Malt Food Co.

C.  H.  STRUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio,

Agent for Ohio, Indian* and Michigan,

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. LZ!L

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

SALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

35®  65
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i  io@  i  so
Cubeb».................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthitos...........  1  20®  1  30
Erigeron.................  1  20®  1  30
Gaultheria..............  l  SO® 1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  on®  1  10
Junlpera.................   1  so® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonis..................   l  20®  i  40
Mentha  Piper.........  l  60® 2 20
Mentha Yerid......... 2  65® 2 75
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1  oo@  1  10
Myrcia,...................   4 00® 4 50
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
Picis  Liqnida......... 
10® 
12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
Ricina.................... 
99® 1 04
®  1  00
Rosmarin!............... 
Rosse,  onnce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  00
Santal....................... 2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  50®  55
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.......................  1  40®  1  50
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
15®  18
Bi-Barb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
13® 
15
Bromide..................  
48®  51
garb....................... 
13® 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................   50®  55
Iodide....................... 2 65® 2 75
Potassa, Bitart, pure  29®  31
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8@ 
10
Potass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
Prussiate.................  25®  28
Sulphate p o ........... 
15©  18

Radix

20®  25
Aconitvm...............  
Alth®.....................   33®  35
Anchusa................. 
13® 
15
Arum po..................  @  35
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana....... po  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza...pv. 15  16®  18
®  35
Hydrastis Canaden . 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  40
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   2 00® 2  10
Iris plox —  po35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
40®  45
Maranta,  14s...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
75®  1  00
R bel....................... 
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhei.pv..................  
75®  1  35
Spigena...................  35®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po. 40  @  35
Serpentaria............   30®  35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
®  40
Simllax,officinalis H 
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Scillae............ po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
15©  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
Anisnm.........po.  15 
@  12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
10®  12
Carui.............po. 18 
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Sativa....  3H@ 
4
Cvdonium............... 
75®  1  00
Cnenopodium........ 
io@  12
Diptenx  Odorate
T' ,~
---- -— H 
I  90® 3 00
Fcenlculum........
~ 
10
Poenugreek, po...
7®
Lini.................... 
_  _
2K@
Lini,  grd.... bbl. 2*4  3H@
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3*4® 
4
Rapa.......................  4K@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7® 
8
Sinapis Nigra......... 
11®  12
Spiritus 

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............
@ 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
@  1 10
Extra yellow sneeps’
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....................
ScillSB.........................

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

10
85
15
41
42
5
10
14
15
55
5
60
38

6
8
14
14

: 25
00
50
i 00

15
8
30

65
60
45
85

18
1218
30
20
12
12
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17
15
: 25
80
50
15
2
35
7

14
25
35

20
25
30
20
10
65
45
35
28
80
18
12
30
60
25
55
13
14
16
55
10
00
70
35
00
60
40
55
60
45
80

25
2025
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

50
50
25
20
2030
80
6j
65
00
0050

ntscellaneous

Scillae Co.................  @  50
Tolutan...................  @  50
Prunus v irg ..........  @  50
Tinctures
Aconitum N apellis R 
60
50
Aconitum NapellisF 
Aloes.......................  
60
60
Aloes and Myrrh__  
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafcetida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
50
Auranti  Cortex...... 
Benzoin..................  
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum...........  . 
50
Cardamon............... 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  00
Castor.....................  
Catechu................... 
50
Cinchona................. 
50
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba................. 
50
Cubeba.................... 
50
Cassia Acutlfol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
Digitalis................. 
50
Ergot......................  
50
Ferri Chloridum.... 
35
Gentian..................  
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca.................... 
so
Guiacaammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless__  
75
Kino........................  
50
so
Lobelia...................  
Myrrh......................  
50
Nux  Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated.. 
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.... 
Quassia...... ........... 
50
Rhatany..................  
50
Rhei........................  
50
Sanguinaria........... 
50
Serpentaria............ 
50
Stromonium........... 
60
Tolutan...................  
60
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrum Veride... 
50
Zingiber..................  
20
ASther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30®  35
ASther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2M® 
3
A1 umen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3® 
4
Annatto..................   40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antlmoni et PotassT  55®  60
Antipyrin.............. 
@140
Antifebrin..............  @ 
15
Argenti Nitras, oz .. 
©  55
Arsenicum..............  
10® 
12
Bairn Gilead  Bud...  38®  40
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is..  @ 
9
Calcium Chlor., V4s.  @ 
10 
Calcium Chlor., Ms.  @  12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75
Capsici  Fructus, af.  @  18
Capsici Fructus, po.  @ 1 5  
©  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus.po.  15 
10® 
12 
@ 3 75
Carmine, No. 40  ... 
Cera Alba, S. A F  ..  50®  55
Cera Flava.............. 
40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  33
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform............. 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  15®  1  30 
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.&W  20®  25 
Cinchonldlne, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   3 55® 3 75
65
Corks, list, di8.pr.ct. 
Creosotum............. 
@  35
@  2
Creta.............bbl. 75 
5
© 
Creta, prep.............. 
9®  11
Creta, preclp........... 
Creta, Rubra........... 
© 
8
Crocus.................... 
25®  30
Cudbear.................  @  24
CupriSulph............  
5® 
6
10®  12
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............  
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers 
® 
8
Emery, po...............  
® 
6
Ergota.......... po. 40  30®  35
12®  15
Flake  White........... 
Galla........................ 
©  23
Gambier.................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin, Cooper___  @  60
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less  than  box__  
60
9®  12
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycerina...............  
u@  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........  a 60® 3 ',0
Iodoform................. 
® 420
  © 2 25
Lupulin.................. 
Lycopodium...........  50®  55 <
Macis 
............  
65®  75
Liquor  Arse- et h j-
drarg Iod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArslnlt  10® 
12 
3
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1%
Mannia, S. F ........... 
50®  60
Menthol.................  
© 2 40

I  Morphia, S.P.& W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
1  C. Co............. .
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica. ..po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pilx  Burgun...........
Plumbi  Acet...........
PuIvIb Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassiae..................
wuinia, S. P. & W. . 
Quinia, S. German..
Qtdnia, N.Y............
Rubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin....................
Sanguis Draconls...
Sapo,  W..................
Sapo, M....................
Sapo, G....................
Siedlitz  Mixture....

1  95® 2 20
1  85® 2 10 
@  40
65®  80
@ 
10 
15®  18
@ 1 00
® 2 00 
@  1  00 
@  85
@  50
©  18 
®  30
7
@ 
12 
10®  
1  10®   1  20
@  1  25 
30®  33
8®  
10 
26®  31
20®  29
21®  29
12®  14
18®  20 
3 00® 3 10 
40®  50
12®  14
10®  
12 
@  15
20  @  22

Sinapis....................  @ 
18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
Voes......................  @  34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
©  34
Soda Boras..............  6  @  8
Soda Boras, po........  6  @  8
Soda et Potass Tart.  26®  28
Soda,  Carb..............  154® 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash................  354®
Soda, Sulphas 
© 
2 
Spts. Cologne.
® 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........  50®  55
Spt*  Myrcia Dom...  @ * 00
® 2 42 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
® 2 47 
Spts. Vini Rect Vibbl 
Spts. Vini Rect.l0gal 
® 2 50 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
® 2 52 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1 40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2H® 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2%
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromae............   42®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00®16 On
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

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

1 9

82
34
70
40

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
29 
Linseed, boiled......   31 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  34 
Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red Venetian.........   Hi  2  @3
Ochre, yellow Mars,  144  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber..  Hi  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2%  2*4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2H  2M@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13*4®  19
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red...............   5*4® 
6
Lead, white............  5*4® 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders ... 
©  10
White, Paris Amer..  @  1 00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1.00®  1  15

Varnishss

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

M in e  & Perkins 

Drug  60.
Sundry Department

W e  invite  examination  of  our  remodeled  and 
handsome  sundry  department  now  in  charge  of 
Mr.  J.  H.  Hagy.  We  display  in  sample  show 
cases  complete  lines  of  the  following  goods.

Perfumes 

Soaps 

Combs 

Mirrors 

Powder Puffs

Tooth,  Nail,  Hair, Cloth, Infant, Bath, and 

Shaving Brushes 

Fountain and  Family Syringes 

Tweezers 

Key Rings 

Cork Screws 

Razors 

Razor  Strops

Violin,  Guitar and  Banjo Strings 

Atomizers

Suspensory Bandages 
Toilet and  Bath Sponges

And  many  other  articles  too  numerous 

to mention.  Goods are up to date and prices right.

M in e  & Perkins Drug Go.

brand Rapids, Mich.

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MI C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

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

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

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
»4 lb cans doz..................  
45
Vi lb cans doz................... 
85
1 
lb cans doz..................   1  50
J4 lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
H lb cans 3 doz.................  75
1 
lb cans 1 doz.................  1 00
Bulk...................................  
10
J4 lb cans per doz............   75
V4 lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
1 
lb cans per doz.............2  00

El Purity.

Home.

14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
Vi lb cans 4 doz case........ 
lb cans 2 doz c a se ...... 

J A X Q N

35
55
90

V4 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
Vi lb cans. 4 doz case____ 
1 

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

Our Leader.

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

Peerless.

BASKETS.

BATH  BRICK.

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

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

COjffifflacD
e f e i e

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes...  40
3 doz. wooden boxes......... 1 20

BLUING.

BROOflS.

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

CANDLES.

8s..........................................7
16s  .........................................8
Paraffine................................8

CANNED GOODS, 
rianitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   1  00
Lakeside B.  J ....................   130
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng___1 40
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.  1  65

CHOCOLATB.

Waiter Baker A Co.'a.

German Sweet........................22
Premium..................................31
Breakfast Cocoa.....................42

CLOTHES LINES.

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, 72 ft,  per doz~ 
......   96

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade. 
50 books, any denom... 
100 books, any denom... 
500 books, any denom...
1.000 books, any denom...
Economic Grade. 
50 books, any denom... 
100 books, any denom... 
500 books, any denom...
1.000 books, any denom...

.  1  50 
.  2 50 
.11  50 
.20  00

.  1  50 
.  2 50 
• It  50 
.20  00

Universal Grade.

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

Superior Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from $10 down.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books,'any denom 
20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books....................
.  1  00
50 books....................
..  2 00
100 books....................
..  3 00
250 books....................
..  C 25
500 books....................
..10 00
..17 50
1000 books....................
Credit Checks
..  3 00
500, any one denom’n.
1000, any one denom’n .
.  5 00
..  8 00
2000, any one denom’n .
Steel punch.................
75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOITBSTIC
Sundried..................... @ 2V4
@  4
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. 
California  Fruits.
Apricots..................... 9 @10Vi
Blackberries...............
Nectarines................. 6 @
Peaches...................... 7V4@  9
Pears.......................... 8 @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................12
Raspberries................
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @ 3V4
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @ 354
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4Vi
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @  4 %
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @ 5V4
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @ 7 Vi
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
14 cent less In 50 lb cases 

Apples.

Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown.  1  55
London Layers 5 Crown. 
2  50
Dehesias....................... 
3 25
4%
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
5)4
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
6V4

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Patras bbls.......................@  5 Vi
Vostizzas 50 lb cases....... @  5%
Cleaned, bulk  .................@ 6Vi
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 Crown.........   @8
Sultana 3 Crown...........  @
Sultana 4 Crown...........  @
Sultana  5 Grown.......   @

Raisins.

PLY PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

CHEESE.

@  8 
@  SVi
@  8 Vi
@  8 Vi

Acme  ...............
Amboy..............
Byron................
Elsie.................
Gem.................
Gold  Medal......
Ideal.................
Jersey...............
Lenawee...........
Riverside........
Springdale......
@  9
Brick.................
Edam.................
Leiden.....................  @  18
Llmburger.............   @  15
Pineapple................ 43  @  85
Sap  Sago.................  @  18

Bulk  ............... .......... 
Red 

6
7

Chicory.

CATSUP.

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

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes..... 

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

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

2V4
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

 

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Roasted.

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

F air.........................................17
Good.......................................18
Prime......................................19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ............................... 22
Fair  .......................................19
Good  ..........................  
20
Prime..................................... 22
Peaberry  ............................... 23
Fair  ............. 
21
Good  ........................  
22
Fancy 
.................................. 24
Maracaibo.
Prim e......   ............................ 23
Milled.................................  ..24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth...................... 27
Mandehling............................ 28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................%
Clark-Jewell-WellsCa’sBrands
Fifth  Avenue.....................28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Mocha and Java---- 25Vi
Wells’ Perfection  Java......25Vi
Sancaibo.............................23
ValleyCity Maracaibo.......18Vi
Ideal  Blend........................16
Leader  Blend.....................13
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands
Quaker Arabian Mocha......31
Quaker Mandehling Java. .30 
Quaker Mocha and Java. ...28
Toko Mocha and Java....... 25
Quaker Golden Santos.......21
State House Blend............. 19
Quaker Golden Rio............IT Vi
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
ncLaughlln’s  XXXX......... 12 00
75
Valley City Vi gross...... 
Felix Vi gross................. 
1  15
Hummel’s foil Vi gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin Vi grogs... 
1 43
Knelpp Malt Coffee.
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases 9
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases 9
CONDENSED  MILK.

Package.

Extract.

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

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

3V4

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

Macearon! and Vermicelli.
..  60
..2 50
.. 
IX
..  2
..  2V4
..  80

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
3
B ulk............................
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s — ..2 00
..2 25
Barrels  .......................
Flake, 50 lb.  drums — ..X  00
Lima  Beans.
Dried 
.....................
Domestic,  10 lb. box.  .
Imported,  25 lb. box..
Pearl Barley.
Common......................
Chester.......................
Empire  .......................
Green,  bu....................
Split,  per lb.................
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl__ ...3 40
.3 00
Monarch,  bbl..............
..1  65
Monarch.  V4  bbl.........
..2 90
Private brands,  bbl..
Private brands, Vi bbl..
..1  60
Quaker, cases..............
..3 20
4
German.......................
East  India...............
3V4
Wheat.
Cracked, bulk..............
3
..2 40
24 2 lb packages...........

Sago.

Peas.

2)4

.. 

Herring.

Halibut.

riackerel.

Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured......
@  3 Vi 
Georges  genuine..
@ 4
Georges selected........ 
<®  r>
Strips or bricks.........   5  @ 8
Chunks................................  
Strips................................  
9
Holland white hoops keg. 
60 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  7 50
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 60
Round  40 lbs................     130
Scaled..................................  
No. 1100 lbs......................  10 50
No. 1  40lb s...................   4 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  120
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 ,1001b. bales............
No. 1100 lbs......................  4 25
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 00
No. 1  10 lbs.................... 
58
8 lbs..................... 
No. 1 
49
No. 1 No. 2
5 00
2 30
65
55

100 lbs.... ....  6 25
.. ....  2 80
40 lbs 
10 lbs__ .... 
78
8 lbs — .... 
65
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

W hlteflsh.

Trent.

56

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz...........1 20 
2oz.......  75
3 oz....... 1  00
3 oz...........1 50 
4 oz..........2 00 
4 oz....... 1 40
6oz.......2 00
6oz.......... 3 .10 
No. 8...2 40
4 00 
No.  8 
No. 10. ..4 00
.6 00 
No. 10. 
No. 2 T.  80
2 T.l 25 
No. 
No. 3 T.l  35
No. 
3 T.2 00 
No. 4 T.l  6o
No 
4 T.2 40 
Sage.....................................  15
Hops...................................   16
Madras, 5  lb  boxes.........   .  55
8. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
15 lb  palls............................  30
17 lb pails............................  34
30 lb  palls............................  60
Condensed, 2 doz  ..............1  20
Condensed, 4  doz................2 25

INDIOO.

HERBS.

JBLLY.

LYB.

Souders’.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

dos
2 oz........  75
4 oz........1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

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

...1  50 
2oz. 
...3 00
4 oz.
XX Grade 
Vanilla.

2 os. 
4oz.

.1  75 
.3 50
per doz.
Jackson Liquid, 1 oz.........  
65
Jackson Liquid, 2 oz.........  
98
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz.........   1  30

GLUE.

OUNPOWDER.
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
Vi  lb cans............................  18
Kegs................................... 4 00
Half Kegs........................... 2 25
Quarter  Kegs..................... 1  25
lib   cans....................... ..  .  34
10
K e n ...................................8 00
Half Kegs........................... 4 25
Quarter Kegs.......................2 25
llbcans...................... 
  45
LICORICE.
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10
Ideal, 3 doz. in case............2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

MINCB MBAT.

HATCHBS.

 

13

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

riOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

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

Half-barrels 2n extra.

PIPES.

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

65

48 cans in case.

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

POTASH.

PICKLBS.
fledlum.

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.

RICB.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina bead....................  6)4
Carolina  No. 1..................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4V4
Broken...............................  3
Japan,  No. 1......................  5Vi
Japan.  No. 2......................  5
Java, No. 1.........................  * X
Table..................................  5 Vi
A nise...............................  13
Canary, Smyrna...............   4
Caraway..........................   10
Cardamon,  M alabar......   80
Hemp,  Russian...............  
4
Mixed  Bird......................  4Vi
Mustard,  white.........   ... 
6Vi
Poppy  .............................   8
Rape................................  
5
Cattle Bone......................  20

SBBDS.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .............................8 30
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.

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

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

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons................3 25
115  2Vilb. 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 linen sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

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

Common Pine.

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

SNUFP.

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

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, Zansibar..................15
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.....................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,......................40@50
Pepper, Sing., black__ 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white__15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage....................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cano.

Barrels.............................   12
Half  bbls.........................  14
Fair  ................................   16
Good................................  20
Choice.............................   25
Boxes..................................   5V4
Kegs, English......................  444

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 oO 
Armour’s Mottled German 2 40 

SOAP.

J A X O N

Single box.................................2 75
5 box lots, delivered...........2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65
JA 3.8.  KIRK  8 C0.’8 BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome.........................................3 33
Cabinet.....................................2 25
Savon........................................ 2 50
Dusky Diamond, 56  oz........ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 58 oz........ 3 00
Blue India................................3 00
Kirkoline..................................8 75
Eos............................................3 65

Lautz  Bros. & Co.’s Brands.

Acme, 701 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 75
10 box lots............................ 2 70
25 box lots...... .................... 2 65
Single box............................2  S5
5 box lots............................ 2 75
10 box lots...............  
2 70
25 box lots.................... 
..  2 65

Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 lbs.

Acme, 5 cent size.

 

Marseilles White.mmSoap

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

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

100 cakes, 5 cent size.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

Schulte’s  Family................. 2 75
Clydesdale........................... 2 85
No Tax................................. 2 50
German Mottled................... 1 85
Electro..................................3 25
Oleine, white....................... 2 55
Thompson & Chute's Brand.

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

Single box  ...    ................ 2%
5 box lots, delivered..........2 60
10 box lots, delivered.......... 2 50

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars— 3 75
Uno, 100 5£-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

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

Scouring.

STARCH

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages.....................   4
3-lb  packages.....................   4
6-lb  packages  ....................  4M
M) and 50 lb boxes..............  2M
tarrels 
:>M

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUOAR.

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 38
Domino...............................5 25
Cubes.................................. 5 00
Powdered  .......................... 5  13
XXXX  Powdered..............  .5 25
Mould  A..............................5 00
Granulated inbbls.............. 4 75
Granulated in  bags................. 4 75
Fine Granulated................. 4 75
Extra Fine Granulated......4 88
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .4 88
Diamond Confec.  A........... 4 75
Confec. Standard A................. 4 63
No.  1.......................................4 50
No  2.......................................4 50
No.  3.......................................4 50
No.  4  .................................4  50
No.  5.......................................4 44
No.  6......... ;...................... 4  38
No.  7  .................................4  25
No.  8.......................................4 19
No.  9.......................................4 06
No.  10.......................................3 88
No.  11.......................................3 88
No.  12...................................... 3 81
No.  13.......................................3 32
No.  14.......................................3 56
No.  15...................................... 3 44
No.  16.......................................3 37

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-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick............................. 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.
Governor Yates, 4M in......58 00
Governor Yates, 4% in......65 00
Governor Yates, 5)4 in......70 00
Monitor.................................. 30 00
Quintette............................... 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

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, pergross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, pergross....................  75

VINEGAR.

W1CKING.

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Stick  Candy.

bbls.  pails

Standard................. 
5*@ 7
5M@ 7
Standard H.  H___  
Standard Twist......  6 @ 7
Cut Loaf.................
@ 8
cases
Extra H. H..............
@ 8M
Boston  Cream........
©

Mixed Candv.

Competition...........
Standard.................
Leader  ..................
Conserve.................
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken  ..................
Cut Loaf.................
English Rock.........
Kindergarten.........
French  Cream........
Dandy Pan..............
Valley Cream.........

© 6
© 6M
© 7
© 7
© 7
@
©
@ 8
©
@ 8M
© 8M
@10
@13

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
@ 8M
Choc.  Drops...........  11 @14
Choc.  Mouumentals
@12
Gum  Drops............
@ 5
Moss  Drops............
@ ?M
Sour Drops..............
@ 8M
Imperials...............
© 8M

Fancy—in  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........
@50
Sour  Drops............
@50
Peppermint Drops..
@60
Chocolate Drops__
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops..
@75
Gum  Drops............
@30
Licorice Drops........
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops
@50
Lozenges,  plain__
@50
Lozenges,  printed..
@50
Imperials...............
@50
Mottoes..................
@55
Cream  Bar............ .
@50
Molasses B a r.........
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80 @90
Plain  Creams.........  60 @80
Decorated Creams..
@90
String Rock............
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25 ©
Wintergreen Berries
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes ..................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ..................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  .................
F r u its .
Oranges.
Seedlings
96-112.......................
250............................
150-176-200...............

©30
@45

Med’t  Sweets.

126  ...........................
150-176-200  ..............
Messinas.
Fancy  200s..............
Sorrentos.
200s..........................
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s..............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Bananas.

©
@
@3 50

@3 25
@3 50

@3 50

@3 50
@3 00
@3 25
@3 50
@3 75

Foreign Dried  Fruits.
@
@12
@  6
@ 8

Medium bunches... 1  25 @1  50
Large bunches........1  75 @2 00
Figs, Choice  Layers
101b.....................
Figs,  New  Smyrna
14 and 20 lb boxes.
Figs,  Naturals 
in
30 lb. bags,............
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes...................
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
casés  ..................
Dates, Persians, II. M.
B., 60 lb cases, new
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  ..................

© 5M
© 4M

N u ts .
Almonds, Tarragona..
©12M
Almonds, Ivaca.........
@11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
©
Brazils new...............
Filberts  ....................
@10
Walnuts, Grenobles..
©12M
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. @10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@12
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@11
Table Nuts,  choice...
@10
Pecans, Med...............
©
Pecans, Ex. Large__
@10
Pecans, Jumbos........
@12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............
©
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks @3 75
Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice. H. P.,  Extras, 
Boasted  . _ ..............

@ 6M
@  6M @ 4
0  5M

Grains and Feedstuffs

P ro v isio n s.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 
oUows:

Barreled Pork.

78

Wheat.

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

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 4 60
Second  Patent.................. 4 25
Straight............................ 4 05
Clear.................................. 3 70
Graham  ............................ 4 00
Buckwheat.....................
3 40
R ye..................
2 65
Subject  to  usual  cash dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Ms........................ 4  20
Quaker, Ms....................... 4 20
Quaker, Ms......  ............... 4  20
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms........... 4 60
Pillsbury’s Best Ms........... 4 50
Pillsbury’s Best Ms........... 4 40
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.. 4 40
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.. 4 40
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, Ms.......... 4 60
Grand Republic. Ms.......... 4  50
Grand Republic, Ms.......... 4  40
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian, Ms.......
4  50
Parisian, Ms....................
4  40
Parisian. Ms................
4 30

Spring Wheat Flour.

Oiney A Judson ’s Brand.

Ceresota, Ms....................
4  60
Ceresota, Ms...................... 4  50
Ceresota. Ms................
4  40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms...............
Laurel, Ms.................
Laurel, Ms...................

4  60
4  oü
4  40

Meal.

Bolted.......................
Granulated.................

1  50
1  75

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened  ... 12 50
No. 1 Com and  Oats......... 11  ?0
Unbolted Corn Meal......... 11  00
Winter Wheat  Bran......... 9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 9 50
Screenings.....................
8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill Co.
quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots............
Less than  car lots........... 28M

Car  lots.........................
2214
Carlots, clipped................ 24
Less than  car  lots........... 27

Oats.

Hay.

No. 1 Tlmothycarlots...... 10 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots... 12 00

C ra c k e rs .

TheN.Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:

Butter.

Seymour XXX...................  4M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  5
Family XXX......................  4M
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5
Salted XXX.......................   4M
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  5

Soda.

Soda  XXX  .......................   4M
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  5
Soda,  City.........................  sm
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long Island  Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10

Oyster.

Square Oyster, XXX.........   4M
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb  carton.  5M 
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   4M

SWEET  GOODS-Bozes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold.Water............   13
Belle Rose .".......................   6
Cocoanut Taffy.................  9
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey..................   10
Graham Crackers  ............   6M
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  5M 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5M 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made  5M 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  5M
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................   6M
Jumoles,  Honey................  10
Molasses Cakes.................  6M
Marshmallow  ...................  12
Marshmallow  Creams......  13
Pretzels,  hand  made  ......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................  6M
Sultanas............................  10
Sears’ Lunch......................  6M
Sears’ Zephyrette............... 10
Vanilla  Square...............  
7
Vanilla  Wafers...............   12
Pecan Wafers....................   12
Fruit Coffee.......................   9
Mixed Picnic....................  10
Cream Jumbles.................  11M
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   6
Chimmie Fadden..............  9
Pineapple Glace................   12

9 00 
12 50 
8 50

5M

10
924
9*
8%
13m
6M
6M@7
8M
11
3* 
5M 
M 
M 
H 
M 
\  
%

Dry Salt  Meats.

Smoked fleats.

Lards, 
.’ompound...
i lb Tubs.........advance
• lb Tubs......... advance

10 lb Pails..........advance
5 lb Pails..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance

Sausages.

Frankfort.
Blood
Head  cheese................... 

6M
Mess.......................  7 00

Beef.

 

Tripe.

Casings.

Boneless  .......................  9 so
  9 50
Rump..................... 
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
80
)4  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  50
M  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 80
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
75
)4  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 40
M  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 75
Pork............................... 
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles................. 
Sheep.............................  
Rolls, dairy................... 
Solid,  dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  
Corned beef,  2 lb........... 2  15
Corned  beef, 14  lb......   .14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2  15
Potted  ham,  Ms.........   60
Potted  ham,  Ms.........   1  00
Deviled ham,  Ms.........   60
Deviled ham,  Ms.........   1  00
Potted  tongue q s.........  
60
Potted  tongue Ms.........   1  00

Canned  Meats.

Butte rine.

10
914
13
12M

is
3M
8
60

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.
Carcass................. ...6   © 7
Fore quarters........
..  5  @ 6
Hind  quarters...... ■ ■  7M@  9
Loins  No.  3........... ...It  @14
Ribs.......................
-  9  @12
Rounds_
Chucks.................
4  @ 5
Plates  ..................
@4
Pork.
Dressed.................
©4M
Loins....................
@6
Shoulders..............
Leaf Lard..............
..  5M@  8
Mutton
Carcass................. ...  7  @9
Spring Lambs........
..  9  @10
Veal.
Carcass  ...............
..  6  @7

. . . 5  @6

Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess pay  as  fol-

lows:
Hides.
Green..................
Part  cured............
@ 6M
Full Cured............ ...  6M@ 7M
D ry ....................... ...  6  @8
Kips,  green...........
Kips,  cured...........
Calfskins,  green... ...  6M@ 7M
...  5M@ 7
Calfskins, cured... . . . 7   @  8M
Deaconskins  ........ ...25  @30
Shearlings............ .. 
5@  1C
Lambs................... ..  25@  5C
Old  Wool.............. ..  60@  9C

Pelts.

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ......................
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
W W Michigan...........
High Test Headlight..
D., S. Gas....................
Deo. N aptha..............
Cylinder...................25
Engine...................... 11
Black, w inter..............

@11M 
© 8M 
@ 8

@ 7M @36 
@21 0 8

2 1

C ro c k e ry   a n d

G la s s w a re .

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
M gal., per doz.................  50
1 
to 6 gal., per gal........ 
8 gal., per g a l.................
10 gal., per gal..................
12  gal., per gal..............
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 

5M
6M
8M
6M
8
8
10
10

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

5M
85

Churns.

Mllkpans.

M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 
Fine Glazed Mllkpans.

60
5M
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 

Stewpans.

M gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
X gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 

Jugs.

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

6M

Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..I  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

First  Quality.

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

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

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

top,
top,
top,

La  Bastie.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ......................  1 25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................  1 50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..  __   160

Rochester.

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

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

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

Pump  Cans

LANTERNS.

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

.
No. 0 per gross...................
No. 1 per gross...................
No. 2 per gross............
No. 3 per gross...................
Mammoth per  doi............

20
25
38
5870

F is h   a n d   O y s te rs

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...............   @  8
T rout......................  ©  7
Black Bass..............  ©  10
Halibut....'............   ©  12 M
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluetish..................   @  12
Live Lobster.........  
©  15
Boiled Lobster........  @  17
Cod.........................  ©  10
Haddock.................  ©  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  7
Pike..-.....................   ©  6
Smoked White........  @ 7
Red Snapper...........  @  13
Col  River Salmon..  @
Mackerel 
..............  @  15
F. H. Counts...........  @ 40
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
Oiams,  per 100.......   9001 00

Oysters In Cans.

Shell Goods.

Klngtford’z  Corn.

40 1-lb packages..................   6
20 1 lb packages.................... 6)4
Klngsford’s Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages.....................6M
6-lb  boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

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

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Hardware

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade  keeps  up  fairly  well. 
Stocks  being  light  necessitate  the  deal­
ers  ordering  otten. 
In  prices  there  is 
no  change  to  note.  All  the  mills  are 
preparing  for  their close  down  and  are 
not  disposed  to  make  any  concessions 
in  order  to  secure  business.  On  some 
lines,  such  as  tin  plate, pressed  tinware, 
cutlery  and  a  few other goods which  will 
be  affected  by  the  new  tariff  bill— when 
it  is  passed—a  much  firmer  tone  is  no­
ticed  and,  in  many  cases,  advances  are 
being  made.

Wire  Nails—The demand  is only  fair, 
both  from  stock  and  mill.  Prices  re­
main  as  quoted 
in  our  last  report  and 
at  present  they  do  not  seem  to  be  very 
firm.  There  is  still  some  talk  of  efforts 
being  made  to  advance  prices,  but  it  is 
too  indefinite  to  warrant  any  one’s  buy­
ing  beyond  their  immediate wants.

Barbed  Wire—The  demand  keeps  up 
remarkably  well 
for  this  time  of  the 
year.  Prices  are  stationary,  with  no  in­
dications  of  any  immediate  change.

Rope—The  demand  is  good.  Prices 

are  firm  both  at  mill  and  from  stock.

Window  Glass— The  demand  for  the 
more  common  sizes  is  very  good.  All 
factories  will  soon  close  down  and  with 
the  new  tariff  bill  passed,  prices,  no 
doubt,  will  advance  io@20  per  cent. 
It 
is  believed  that glass  is  a  good purchase 
at  the  present  price  of 
io  and  5  per 
cent,  discount  by  the box.

New  Use  for  Tin  Scrap.

From the Philadelphia Record.

A  two-horse  load  of  tin  clippings  was 
being  transferred  to  the  rear  basement 
of  a  prominent  hotel.  It  had  come  from 
a  can  factory,  and  the  narrow  curling 
strips  had  become  so  twisted  and  inter­
twined  as  to  form  a  conglomerate  mass 
that  was  moved  with  the  greatest  diffi­
culty  by  two  sturdy  fellows  with  stable 
forks.  A  bystander  who  was  curious 
enough  to  enquire  what  use  a  swell  ho­
tel  had  for  such  truck  was  answered  by 
an  attache  of  the  house: 
‘ 'We  use  it 
for the  rats;  I  mean the big grey  fellows 
with  whiskers.  The  hotel  rat  is  bigger, 
bolder  and  wiser  than  any  other  rat. 
He  laughs  at  traps,  fattens  on  poison, 
and  the  killing  or chasing  of  dogs,  cats 
and  ferrets  is  his  pet  diversion.  Even 
when  energetic  measures  have  rid  us 
of  the  pests  they  are  with  us  again 
in 
augmented  force  within  a  day  or  two. 
They  will  tunnel  through  almost  any­
thing  for  incredible  distances. 
is 
their  boring  ability  that  has given  us  so 
much  trouble  hitherto.  No  matter how 
we  closed  up  their  passageways  the 
routes  were  promptly  reopened.  Filling 
the  holes  with  broken  glass  was  consid­
ered  a  good  scheme  until  we  found that, 
with  marvelous  patience,  they  removed 
the  glass  piece  by  piece.  But  we  think 
we’ve  got  them  now.  With  this  tangled- 
up  tin  we  construct a  sort  of abatis,  cov­
ering  all  places  where  the  beasts  are 
likely  to  enter  our  cellars.  They  can’t 
get  through 
it, 
and  they  can’t  carry  it away  as  they  do 
broken  bottles  for,  when  Mr.  Rat  takes 
hold  of  a  single  strip  of  the  tin  be  finds 
it  an 
inseparable  part  of  a  net-work 
weighing  many  pounds.’ ’

it.  They  can’t  chew 

It 

Commercial  Use  of Garnets.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.

“ The  average  man,  I  presume,  im­
agines  that  garnets  are  used  in  our  line 
of  business  exclusively,”   remarked  a 
State  street 
jeweler  the  other  day, 
“ whereas  in  fact  the  jewelry  trade  cuts 
a  small  figure  in  the  garnet  industry.

“ About  3,000 tons  of garnets  are  used 
every  year 
in  this  country  for  making 
sandpaper.  A  very  small  proportion  of 
the  garnets  have any  value  to  the  lapi­
dary,  and  the  best  are  only  semi-prec­
ious  stones.  The  costliest  come  from 
the  Adirondack  regions  and  from  Dela­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ware  county,  Penn.  Up 
in  Alaska, 
near the  town  of  Wrangel,  is  a  veritable 
garnet  mountain,  and  a  corporation  has 
recently  been  organized  to  develop 
it. 
The  Alaska  garnets  are  said  to  be  un­
usually  fine. ’ ’
Annual  Meeting of the  Michigan  Hard­

ware  Association.

Eaton  Rapids,  June  15— The  second 
annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan  Hard­
ware  Association  will  be  held  at  Battle 
Creek  on  Wednesday  and  Thursday, 
July  14  and  15,  1897.  Every  hardware 
dealer  in  the  State  is  cordially 
invited 
to attend.

An  excellent  program  has  been  ar­
ranged  and  papers  of  importance  to  the 
hardware  trade  will  be  read  by  some  of 
the  leading  dealers 
in  the  State.  Ar­
range  if  possible  to attend  this meeting.
Please  notify  as  soon  as  possible  C. 
F.  Bock,  of  Battle  Creek,  or  H.  C. 
Minnie,  of  Eaton  Rapids,  if  you  can 
go,  as  it  is  quite  desirable,  of  course, 
for  the  Entertainment  Committee  to 
know  about  how  many  will  be  in attend­
ance. 

H.  C.  M in n ie ,  Sec’y.

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.

761  E.  Fulton  SL

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Insurance  of  Dogs.

From the Chicago Tribune.

A  novel  insurance  company  has  been 
is already  doing  a  large 
organized  and 
in  this  city 
insuring  dogs 
business 
against 
loss,  stealing  or  impounding. 
This  is  done by  registering  the dog with 
this company,  with  its  full  description, 
and  receiving  a  tag  to  be  worn  with  the 
city  license  tag.

in  such  a  place. 

The company  has  a man at each pound 
to  release  any  dog  bearing  such  a  tag 
and  return  it  immediately  to the  owner. 
This  is  a  great advantage,  as  dogs  often 
contract  diseases 
It 
also  saves  both  dog  and  owner  much 
misery,  anxiety  and  trouble, 
to  say 
nothing  of  the  expense  and  tiresome 
traveling  and  red  tape which  are nec­
essary to  rescue a  dog  from  the  pound.
A  French  scientist,  M.  Garchey,  has 
discovered  a  method  of  utilizing  the 
waste  glass  accumulated  at  factories. 
He  grinds  the  glass  to  powder,  which 
is  put  into a  metallic  mold  and 
intro­
duced  into two  furnaces 
in  succession. 
The  first  furnace anneals  and  deritrifies 
the  mass.  The  mold  is then  passed  in­
to  the  second  furnace,  which  is  heated 
to  a  very  high  temperature.  When  the 
mold  is  drawn  from  this  second  furnace 
it  is  ready  to  be  pressed 
into  different 
shapes  for  building  purposes.  This  dis­
covery  will  not  only  relieve the  diffi­
culty  with  which  glassblowers have  bad 
to  deal 
in  getting  rid  of  their  refuse, 
but  will  be  a  source  of  profit.  The  pot­
teries  have a  similar  elephant  on  their 
bands,  but  no  solution  has been  arrived 
at  in  their cases,beyond  using the refuse 
for  the  making of railway embankments.

Great  Britain 

imported  nearly $90,- 
000,000  worth  of  butter  and  oleomarga­
rine  during  the  year  1896,  as  compared 
with  $60,000,000  ten  years ago.  The  in­
crease  is  entirely  in  butter,  the  imports 
of  oleomargarine  showing  a  large  de­
crease  during  the  period  mentioned.

WM. BRUMMELER &  SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS,

Pay  the  highest price  in  cash for

MIXED  RAGS,
R U B B E R   B O O T S   A N D   S H O E S , 
O L D   IR O N   A N D   n E T A L S .

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

you our best prices thereon.

TO 

DETROIT. 

ORAND 
TRUNK 
RAILWAY
sy st e m  
EXCURSION.

D.  &  M.

DIVISION.

Sunday, June 20,  1897.

ROUND  TRIP ONLY  $1.85.
This popular excursion train will leave
the  D.  &  M. depot at...............6.40 a. m.
Arrive Detroit.......................... 11.40 a. m.
Return, leave Detroit..............   6.30 p. m.
Bicycles  and  baby  carriages  carried 

free on this train.

For  particulars  call  at  D.  &  M. depot 

or city office, 23  Monroe street.

J a m es  Ca m p b e l l, City Agent.

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Mutual  Cooperation

should  exist  between 
every merchant  and  his 
customers.  Every live, 
active,  up-to-date  mer­
chant figures on  spend­
ing  a  certain  per  cent, 
of his sales for  increas­
ing  his  business.  He 
knows exactly what his 
profits  are  and  how 
much  he  can  safely  set 
aside 
for  advertising 
purposes.  He  knows 
that  a  credit  business 
brings  many  bad  ac­
counts,  and  that  prices 
must  be  kept  high 
enough  to  offset 
this 
loss,  which  his  good 
customers  have  to  pay.

This foci is wrong! 
« M i l l  H it II

Give  your  customers 
the  benefit  of  your  ad­
vertising  bill — t h a t’s  1 
mutual  co-operation I 
Set  aside, say  3,  4  or  5 
per  cent,  of  your  sales  - 
for  advertising.  Give  ^  
every  cash 
customer  , 
coupons  to  the  amount 
of his purchase.  When 
he has accumulated  the 
required amount present 
him with a fine piece  of 
oak 
furniture — some­
thing that will be an ad. 
for you in years to come.
5uch Inducements will  bring  you  in  new  custom ers,  and  do  away  with  bad  accounts,  all  of 
which you save.  If interested, send for catalogue and mention the Tradesman.

A N T IQ U E   O A K   B O O K   C A S E .

STEBBINS MANUFACTURING  CO,  Lakeview, Mich.

meet bills  with,  buy  this  or  that,  go  on 
excursions,  join  big  secret  societies  and 
then  they  get  hot  because  a  house  won’t 
grant  them  more  time.  Of  course,  some 
men  are  all  right  and  are  honestly  hard 
up;  but  a  house  must  make  rules  and 
can’t  stop  to  look  up  all  the  facts  sur­
rounding  the  case.  They  draw  a  line 
and  all  are  treated  alike. 
If  all  houses 
followed  this  principle  there  would  be 
fewer  failures  than  there  are,  that's 
dead sure”   And  the  tall  man  pulled  out 
a  cigar,  lighted  it,  and  left  the group.

The  tall  passenger said  nothing ;  the 
man  with  specs  on  was  doing  some  fig­
uring  in  his  next  week's  expense  book, 
and  the  bald-headed  man  commenced to 
write  a  letter  to  the  corresponding  clerk 
that  was  to be  full  of  dashes  and  excla­
mation  points.

The  Warmth  of  Paper.

Glanders— It 

is  said  that  paper  can 
be  used  effectively  in  keeping  a  person 
warm.
Gazlay—That  is  very  true.  1  remem­
ber  a  thirty-day  note  of  mine  once  kept 
me  in  a  sweat  foi  a  month.
G.  R.  IXX  DAIRY  PAIL.

Write  for  quotations  and  monthly  illustrated

Catalogue.

W it.  BRUM M ELER  &   SONS, 

Manufacturers and Jobbers of 
Pieced and Stamped Tinware. 

a6o  S. Ionia St. 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mich

Telephone  440

House.

Inconsiderate  Letters  Written  by  the 

From the National Harness Review.

Bang !  Smash!!
Everybody  in  the  hotel  office 

looked 
up.  One  nervous  little  man  with  a  red 
nose and  weak  eyes  regretfully  looked 
at  a  big  blot  on  the  carefully-written 
page  before  him. 
Another  nervous 
creature  picked  up  his  eye-glasses  from 
the  floor  and  looked  reproachfully  at  the 
bald-headed  man  who  had  just  thrown 
his  brand-new  grip  onto  the  floor  with 
such  a  crash.

man.

“ What's  the  matter?"  asked  the  fat 
That  dad- 
“ Matter?  Everything. 
blamed  house  of  mine  has  just  been 
writing  some  love  letters  to  my  trade 
here—that's what’s  the matter!”   snarled 
the  bald-headed  man.

“ Love  letters!”
“ Well,  they  may  think  they  are;  I 
don’t—my  trade  don’t.  These  blamed 
critters  at  home,  sitting 
in  their  nice 
easy  chairs  in  the  office,  doing  nothing 
but  opening  orders  all  day,  seem  to 
think  that  the  world  revolves  about 
them.  They  think  there  is  no  other 
firm  in  existence  but  their  own.”
“ My,  my!  but  you’re  warm!”
“ Who  wouldn’t  be?  Here  is  the  best 
customer  I’ve  got  on  the  territory  just 
lost  forever. ’ ’

is  what  he  got: 

“ How’s that?”
“ Well,  he  sent  in  for  some goods  last 
week.  The goods  fell  short  so  many  in 
a  package.  Of  course,  he  wrote  in  and 
complained,  and  for  consolation  he  re­
ceived  the  answer: 
'You  certainly  are 
mistaken.  We  don’t  pack  goods  short. 
We  have  full  confidence  in  our  packers. 
Sdne  mistake  of  yours,’  etc.  Nice, 
ain’t  it?  Called  him  a  liar  and  insinu­
ated  that  he  was  a  thief.  Of  course,  he 
is  hot.  Next  man  I  called  on  has 
bought  of  us  exclusively  for  six  years. 
Always  paid  one  hundred  cents  on  the 
dollar.  Trade  is  a  little  quiet  just  now 
and  he  has  been  doing  a  little  building 
and  repairing;  so,  feeling  that  his  buy­
ing  all  bis  goods  of  us  warranted  him, 
he  asked  for  an  extension  of thirty days. 
This 
‘ Our terms  are 
strictly  thirty  days.  Your  bill  is  past 
due  now.  Please  remit  at once  and  save 
further  trouble. ’  He  is  hot,  too.  I  don’t 
blame  him  a  bit.  Oh,  life  on  the  road 
is  a  bed  of  roses— in  your  mind.”
is  bad,”   said  the  man 
“ Well,  that 
w ith  specs  on. 
“ Of  course,  these  peo­
ple  in  the home  office  don’t  understand 
the  fact  that  its  hard  work  to  sell  goods 
without 
letters 
make.  They  receive  and  open  a  good 
many  orders  every  day  and  sometimes 
forget  that  other  houses  are  only  too 
willing  to  grant  favors  which  they  re­
fuse.  The  worst  of  it  is  that  the  travel­
ing  man  gets  the  blame  from both sides. 
The  trade  think  he  is  to  blame  for  the 
house’s  refusal  to  listen  to  their  com­
plaints  and  the  house  thinks  the  sales­
man 
is  to  blame  because  he  can’t  hold 
his  trade.  Nine  times  out  of  ten  the 
customer  never  answers  such letters and, 
consequently,  the  house  that  thinks  they 
have  simply  written  a  business  letter 
doesn’t  know  of  the  storm  that  has  been 
raised. ”
in  the  tall  passenger, 
“ and  the  customers  who  generally  feel 
so  aggrieved  at  such  letters  as  these feel 
that  the  few  hundred  dollars  a  year  they 
spend  with  a  firm 
is  what  made  that 
firm  progress.  So  they  feel  hot because 
their  trade 
is  not  appreciated.  The 
firm,  in  a  majority  of  cases,  don’t  ever 
think  of  what  a  customer has  bought. 
They  simply  look  at  his  request  of  to­
day. 

If  I  was  the  head  of  a  firm—

the  pull-backs  such 

“ Y es,”   put 

“ Come  off !”   said  the  fat  man.  “ You 
fellows  are  one-sided. 
If  you  people 
sat  in  an  office  year  in  and  year  out  and 
received  on  an  average  ten  letters  a 
day,  making  some 
'fool  kick’  about 
something,  or  asking  for  ‘ extension  of 
tim e,’  and  knew  that  half  of  these kicks 
were  from  chronic  kickers  who 
lay 
awake  nights  studying  how  to get  a  re­
bate,  or  that  you  had  certain  notes  to 
pay  and  had  calculated  on  every  bill 
that  was  due  and  coming  to  you,  you, 
too,  might  get  hot  under  the  collar  and 
write  sharp  letters.  There  is  too  much 
of  this  extension  business  anyhow. 
Men,  instead  of  laying  up  money  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware  Price  Current.

CHISELS

DRILLS

ELBOWS

AUQURS AND  BIT5
 

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

 

AXES

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

BARROWS

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

BOLTS

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

Well,  plain..................................................( 3 25

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

BLOCKS

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

Cast Steel.............................................. per lb 

CROW  BARS

70

4

CAPS

65
Ely’s  1-10...................................... 
Hick’s C. F ........................................... per m  55
G. D...................................................... per m  35
Musket................................................. perm  60

perm 

CARTRIDGES

Rim F ire .....................................................50& 5
Central  Fire................................................ 25& 5

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

80
80
80
80

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

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

EXPANSIVE  BITS

FILES—New  List

Clark's small, $18;  large, $26........................30&10
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, $24; 3, *30.............................  
25
New American............................................. 70&10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................CC&iO
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27.........  
28
List  12 
16.......  
17

GALVANIZED  IRON

13 

14 

Discount, 75. to 75-10

15 
aAUOES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s.................... 60&16
70
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 
80

KNOBS—New List

. 

MATTOCKS

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

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

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

2 3

40
40
40
30

MILLS

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

MOLASSES  OATES

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

PLANES

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

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, Acme...............................................60&10&10
Common, polished.................................  
70& 5
60
Iron and Tinned........................................  
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list................................dis 33%
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................................. dis 40&10
70
Mason's Solid Cast Steel..................30c list 
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c list 40*10 
Stamped Tin Ware......  ............... new list 75&10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40*10
HOLLOW  WARE
.60&10
Pots................................................
.60*10
K ettles..........................................
.60*10
Spiders.........................................
HINGES
............   dis 60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3..............
per doz. net  2 50
State......................................
Bright..........................................................  
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
80
80
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, Vi Inch and larger............................. 
5%
Manilla...... ..................................................  8
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.........................
Try and Bevels......................
M itre......................................

LEVELS
ROPBS

WIRE  GOODS

80

SHEET  IRON

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14,................................. $3 30
Nos. 15 to 17. ...............................  3  30
Nos. 18 to 21.
Nos. 22 to 24. ................................ 3 55
Nos. 25 to 26..................................   3 70
No.  27....... .................................   3 80
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis
Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel, Game............................................ 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
O n eida C om m unity, H aw ley & N orton ’s 7 0 *1 0 *1 0
M ouse, ch ok er....................................p e r doz 
15
12 5
M ouse, d e lu sio n ................................p e r d oz 
Bright Market................................. 
75
Annealed  Market........................................  
75
Coppered Market..........................................70&10
Tinned Market..............................................   62 Vi
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..........................   2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted.................................  X 70
An Sable........................................................... dis 40&1C
Putnam................................................... dis 
Northwestern....................................................dis 10*10
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..........................

30
50
80
80
50
80
85
50*10*10
50

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

WIRB

5

 

BROWN  &  SEHLER,

M A N U F A C T U R E R S   O F

HARNESS  OF  ALL  KINDS.

Jobber o f - - ^ o i

Umbrellas, 
Parasols  and 
Walking 
Canes. 

-

Special attention given to mail  orders  for  anything 

in our line.

Largest  Assortment  in  Michigan.

58 Monroe  St. 

• 

Grand  Rapids.

From  choice  selected 
stock  and  honest  work­
manship,  for  wholesale 
trade.  Satisfaction guar­
to 
anteed 
customers. 
Jobbers 
of  Carriages, 
Road  Wagons,  Surries, 
Im p le m e n ts ,  S p r a y  
Pumps, etc.

Send for our New  Cat­
alogue  before  ordering 
elsewhere.

W est  Bridge  Street,

Grand  Rapids.

MI C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

24

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  June  11— This  week  New 
York  is  partially  given  over  to  showing 
some  of  our  South  American  brethren 
why  they  “ should  buy  in  New  York.”  
Of  course, it  is  not put  in  so  may  words, 
nor  do  we  say  more  than  necessary 
about  the  tariff  preventing  trade  be­
tween  their  countries  and  this  one;  but 
anyway,  they  are  having  a  good  time 
and  Will  doubtless  return  to  tell  their 
compatriots  that  the  Eagle  is  a  better 
bird  than  the  condor  of  the  Andes.

Business?  Pretty  good.  Now  that  it 
is  pretty  definitely  settled  as  to  what 
the  tariff  will  be,  our  merchants  are 
drawing  long  breaths,  buckling  up  their 
armor and  preparing  to  make  up  for the 
losses  they  have  sustained  during  all 
these  years.  They  talk  in  a  more  cheer­
ful  tone  and,  altogether,  appear  to  be 
gaining  ground  right  along.

Coffee  has  held  steadily  during  the 
week  and  closes  at  7^ c,  for  Rio  No.  7. 
The  receipts  of  the  article  at  Brazilian 
ports  are  reported  as  showing  some 
falling  off,  and  this,  perhaps,  accounts 
for  the  firmer  feeling  here. 
In  a  job­
bing  way  trade  is  no  more  active  than 
it  has  been  and  no  changes  have  taken 
place  worthy  of  note.  The  total  supply 
of  Brazil  coffee  visible  for  this  country 
aggregates  746,3^0  bags,  against  358,000 
bags  at  the  salhe  time 
last  year.  A 
little  more  trading  has  been  done  in 
mild  sorts  and 
is  fairly 
steady.  No  change  to  note  in  quota­
tions.

the  market 

Holders  of  raw  sugars  appear  to  be 
clinging  with  tenacity  to  their  stocks, 
evidently  anticipating  tariff 
changes 
that  will  give  them  an  extra  profit.  A 
cargo sold  on  Thursday  at  3c  for  89  test 
Muscovado  and  3%c  fer  96  test  cen­
In  refined  there  has  been  an 
trifugal. 
advance  of  %c,  except 
in  the  case  of 
and  confectioners 
coarse  granulated 
granulated. 
The  demand  has  been 
pretty  good  and  some  refineries  are  said 
to  be  oversold. 
Imported  sugar  has 
been  meeting  with  satisfactory  enquiry 
and  importers  seem  to  be  satisfied  with 
the  trend  of affairs.

i@2c 

The  dealers  who  marked  up  their  teas 
a  few  cents  and  have  been  making  a 
good  thing  because 
someone  whis­
pered  “ tariff”   will now  probably  make 
“ great 
reductions”   again.  Meanime 
trade  is  dull  and  buyers  are  few  and  far 
between.  A  decline  of 
is  re­
ported  on  general  sales.

The  rice  market  is  firm  and  some  or­
ders  at  former  rates  have  been  turned 
down,  pending  an  expected  rise  in  the 
quotations  should  the tariff be increased. 
Still  there  is  no  sign  of  holding  to  any 
extent  for  the  “ expected,”   and  dealers 
seem  to  think  that  it  “ is  the unexpected 
which  happens. ”   Choice  to  fancy  do­
mestic,  53^@6c ;  Japan,

Not a  ripple  of  excitement has  broken 
the  usual  monotony  of  the  spice  market 
during  the  week.  Sales  are  of  an  every­
day  character and,  while  holders  show 
no  anxiety  to  press  sales,  buyers,  on  the 
other  hand,  do  not  seem  to  care  whether 
they  do  anything  or  not.  No  changes 
have been  reported  in  quotations.

Not  much 

is  doing  in  molasses,  the 
little  that 
is  going  forward  being  in  a 
jobbing  way.  Most  of  the  demand  is 
for a  high  grade  of  open  kettle,  ranging 
around  30c. 
This  price  secures  a 
fancy  article,  of  which  there  is  no  very 
great  accumulation 
this  market. 
Centrifugals  are  slow,  with sales  limited 
to  low  grades.  Syrups  are  dull,  with 
prime  to  fancy  sugar  goods  bringing 
from  i5@2oc.

in 

In  caaned  goods the  new  pack  of  peas 
shows  quality  that  is  probably  equal  to 
that  of  any  previous  season,  but  compe­
tition  has  forced  the  price  down  until 
the  quotation  of  former  years  is a  mar­
vel.  Standard  Early  Junes  are  quoted 
in  Baltimore,  new  pack,  at  65c,  with 
extra  standard  at  70c.  The  decline  has 
gone  on  steadily  from  $1.10  in  1891. 
For  75c  a  full  standard  article  can  be 
bought  in  this  market.  Tomatoes  are 
worth  62@ 650  for  Maryland,  and  a 
large  block  of  Delaware  goods  is offered 
there at  57%c.  Corn  ranges  from  4o@

it 

50c,  and  the  former  quotation, 
is 
said,  will  buy  plenty  of  good  corn 
Upon  the  whole  the  week  shows  some 
improvement  in  demand,  but  conditions 
are  not  very  satisfactory.

Lemons  are  25@5oc  per  box  higher, 
is  no  great  activity. 
although  there 
Oranges  are  dull,  but  the  market 
is 
steady  and  holders  seem  to  look  for a 
better  condition  soon.  California  or­
anges  are  selling  from  $3@4  per box 
and  for  fancy  stock  up  to  $5.  Bananas 
are  dull  and  are  held  at  $ i . io@ i .37J^.
In butter  the  demand  is  not  very  ac­
tive.  Supplies  have  been  free  and  at 
the  moment  the  market  is  somewhat  un­
settled.  Strictly  “ gilt-edge”   creamery 
is  held  at  15c,  although  this  is  shaded, 
if  necessary.  Very 
little  speculation 
seems  to  be  going  on.  Export  trade  is 
quiet.
improvement 
in  demand 
in  cheese  this  week  from 
exporters  and  the  market  may  be  called 
firm.  Full  cream,  large  size,  is  worth 
8 # c .

There  has  been  a  little 

Eggs,  best  Western,  are  worth  about 
lie,  although 
some  fancy  Michigan 
stock  has  sold  at  slightly  better  figures. 
Arrivals  contain  quite  a  large  propor­
tion  of  stock  that 
is  “ lacking  in  the 
elements  of  freshness.”

Beans  are  quiet.  This  applies  to all 
kinds.  Choice  pea  beans  are  worth  85 
@87j£c.  Marrow,  good  to  choice,  $1. ic 
@ 1. 17% .
Necessity  of  Frankness  in  Extending 

or  Declining  Credit.

Written fo r  the  T rad esm an.

Indeed,  it 

There  is  no  other  part  of  the  work  of 
the  dealer  which 
involves  so  much  of 
timidity  and  hesitating  diplomacy  as 
the  matter  of  credits,  especially  that  of 
individuals. 
is  astonishing 
the  degree  of  timidity,  amounting  to 
actual  cowardice,  which  is  manifested 
by  many  when  they  come  to  deal  with 
this  subject. 
In  all  others  of  the  prob­
lems  and  contests  of  trade,  he  may  be  a 
very  hero;  but  there  is  a  cowardly  sink­
in  the  heart  of  the  average  mer­
ing 
chant  when  he 
is  called  upon  to  face 
the  matter  of  extending  or  declining 
credit.  He  is  instantly  thrown  into  the 
greatest  perturbation  and  becomes  as 
diffident,  bashful  and  hesitating  as  the 
veriest  schoolboy.

It  is  difficult  to  analyze  the reasons for 
this  condition.  A  number  of  elements, 
doubtless,  contribute,  among  which 
is 
the  natural  development  of  the  bump 
of  approbativeness—the  natural  desire 
to  stand  well  in  the  estimation  of  those 
with  whom  we  are  associated  and  es­
pecially  those  who  sustain  the  relation 
of  customers. 
is  the  laudable  ambi­
tion  of  every  merchant  to  secure  and 
hold  as  many  good  customers  as  pos­
sible.  This  anxiety  naturally  tends  to 
increase  the  embarrassment  attending 
the  introduction  of  questions  as  to  per­
sonal  affairs  involved  in  the  matter  of 
individual  credits,  and,  as  to  that,  it  is 
much  the  same  with  all  credits.

It 

There 

is,  probably,  no  part  of  the 
merchant’s  experience  in  which  there 
is  more  of  the  effort  at  resolution  and 
determination  than 
in  this  matter  of 
credits;  and  there  certainly  is  no  part 
in  which  so  many  resolves  are  so  sadly 
broken.  As  he  studies  over  his  list  of 
slow-paying  customers,  grading 
from 
those  who  may  be  reasonably  expected 
to  pay  sometime  to  those  who  must  be 
charged  to  profit  and 
loss,  how  many 
times  he  resolves  that  a  speedy  end 
shall  be  put  to  the  practice,  which  con­
tributes  to 
increase.  Such  resolu­
tions  are  firmly  maintained  until  he  is 
again  met by  the  necessity  of  enforcing 
them,  when,  alas!  his  courage  fails  and 
another  is  added  to  increase  the  burden 
of  anxiety and  unrest.

its 

It 

is  interesting  to  conjecture  the 
in  many 
study  and  planning  given 
cases  to  obtain  information  on  which  to

base  credits. 
In  some  of  the  cities  the 
endeavors  to  find  out  the  responsibility 
of  customers  whose  accounts  seem  in 
danger  of  undue  growth  amount  almost 
to  a  detective  system.  Agents  are  sent 
to  interview  any  who  may  be 
likely  to 
know  of  the  affairs 
in  question,  and  it 
is  said  that  sometimes  the  largest  and 
richest  houses  will  condescend  to  ob­
tain 
janitors  and 
trades-people  who  may  have  a  chance 
for  observation.  Of  course,  there  are 
■ growing  up  in  most  cities  credit  agen­
cies  which  are  of  great  value  in  this 
direction,  but 
some  will  not  bring 
themselves  to  depend  on  these;  and 
they  are  yet 
lacking  in  smaller  towns 
and  country.

information 

from 

It  would  seem  that  the  first  requisite 
in  the  meeting  of  this  question  is  the 
formation  of  a  fixed  purpose  on  the  part 
of  the  merchant—that  he  will  determine 
to  bring  all  such  matters  to  the  test  of 
business  and  common  sense.  Now  there 
is  no  reason  why  there  should not  be  the 
utmost  frankness  and  freedom 
in  the 
discussion  of  these  things  with  the  cus­
tomer concerned.  If  the  dealer  does  not 
know  fully  as  to  the  situation  it  is  his 
business  to  find  out,  and  few  customers 
worth  having  will  take  offense  at  the 
candid,  frank  discussion  of  the  subject, 
and  it  is  better to  run  the  risk  of  losing 
this  few  than  to  hazard  one’s  business 
stability  by  undue  credits.

It 

is  not  that  the  word  of  the  would- 
be  customer  is  to  be  taken  in  the  mat­
ter,  but  he  may  give  the  information  as 
to  probable  resources  and  other  matters 
on  which  a  decision  may  be  based ;  or 
n  the  lack of such reasonable assurance, 
the  discussion,  with  all  freedom  and 
frankness,  will  determine  the  matter 
adversely  to  the  wishes  of  the  custom­
er,  a  result  much  to  be  preferred  to  a

bad  debt,  even  though  he  may  be dis­
pleased  by  it.

careful,  conservative 

In  the  making  of  decisions  of  this 
kind  there  is  needed  the  exercise  of  the 
most 
common 
sense.  While 
the  general  character 
and  appearance  of  the  customer  may 
have  some  value  there  is  more  depend­
ence  to  be  placed  on  other  circum­
stances. 
If  the  purchase  seems  to  be  in 
the  nature  of  a  luxury  to  one  in  his  sit­
uation,  for  instance,  it  is  always  safest 
to  insist  on  payment.  And so  any  other 
indications  must  be  taken  into  the  con­
sideration.

The  merchant  has  the  longest  lease 
of  happy  life  who  adheres  strictly  to  the 
cash  system 
in  all  his  transactions, 
either  of  debit  or  credit.  But  when 
there  are  situations  where  another  sys­
tem 
is  necessary,  its  evils  may  be  re­
duced  to  the  minimum  by  a  frank, 
manly  common  sense  which  will  never 
hesitate  on  any  considerations  of  false 
sentiment  as  to  the  feelings  and  esti­
mation  of  any  concerned. 

R a d ix .

To  Prepare  the  Programme.

At  the  request  of  President  Webber, 
Secretary  Schrouder  has  requested  the 
Executive  Committee  of  the  Michigan 
State  Pharmaceutical  Association  to 
meet  at  the  Livingston  Hotel  (Grand 
Rapids)  at  2  o’clock,  Tuesday,  June 
22,  for  the  purpose  of  completing  the 
arrangements 
and  preparing  a  pro­
gramme  tor  the  annual  convention  to 
be  held  at  Lansing  in  August.

Baron  Krupp,  the  great  ironmaster  of 
Germany,  carries  evidence  of  the  trade 
with  him  when  he  goes  calling.  His 
cards  are  made  of  iron,  rolled  so  thin 
that  they  are  said  to  be  a  great  success 
for  social  use.

CULL MP YOUR WIFE 

by telephone from your store: 

|

—5

YOU WILL BE SUPISEDI

to  learn  at  how  little  cost  a 
perfect  telephone  line  can 
be  constructed  if  you  write 
us  for  an  estimate.  We  in­
stall complete exchanges and 
private  line  systems.  Fac­
tory systems right in our line.

M.  B.  Wheeler  &  Co.,

25  Fountain  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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straw  Board.  Buiiflino  Paper,  Roofing  H ia tt

We are jobbers of these goods, among which are

Tarred Board, Rosin Sized Sheathing, W. C. Oiled Sheathing, 
Tarred Pelt, Roofing Pitch, Coal Tar,
Rosin, Asphalt Paints, Elastic Cement,
Ready Roofing, Carpet Lining, Mineral Wool.

Qualities the best and  prices the lowest.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS & SON, Grand  Rapids,  flich.

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144  is  Twelve  Dozen,  Sir! 
Twelve  Dozen  is  a  Gross,  Sir!

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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. 
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Awnings  and  Tents

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Best  goods  and  lowest  prices  in  the  State.  All 

work guaranteed.  Send for prices.

CHAS.  A.  COYE,  n   Pearl Street.

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.

Mrs.  Jones’ 

Home  Made  Catsup

is
prepared 
from 
Fresh 
Ripe
Tomatoes 
and 
has a 
Peculiarly 
Delicious 
Flavor

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

Take do Chances and Sell Mrs. .{ones’ Uncolored Catsup.

At wholesale by Clark-Jewell-WelU Co., Ball-Barahart-Putniaii  Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 

and the best jobbers everywhere in the United States. 

WILLIAMS  BROS.  & CHARBONNEAU,  Detroit,  Sole Proprietors.

Three Spring Delivery Wagon— Made  in  Two  Sizes.

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

Full  Platform  Spring  Delivery  Wagon.

No.  I. 

1%  Concord  steel  axles. 

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

No.  3 

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 tail gate.  Price, $55.

Here’s  the  wagons and here’s your prices t  Take your choice!

Full value in each wagon for the money!

BROWN,  HALL  &  CO.,

Manufacturers of  BUGGIES, WAGONS AND  HARNESS,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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PATENTED  MAY 2,1803. 
IMPROVED  MARCH 17, l«S7

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But  none  but  the  World 
Challenger that will  never 
be  relegated  to  the  rub­
bish  department.  Lasts 
forever  and  pays  for itself
every  four  to  six  months.
Submerged  in water  for  a 
few  minutes,  it holds from 
30  to  40  days.  Never gets 
off the  pail.  Always  in  its 
place.  Keeps  the  goods 
fresh  and clean,  and holds 
them  at  par  in  weight  all 
the  time.

Michigan  Price, per  doz.,  $9,  F.  O.  B.  Owosso.

Special  Price  in  100 and  1,000 lots,  with  guarantee of territory.
Write  us  for  particulars,  or  send  us  your  orders.

Devereaux &  Duff,

nanufacturers  and Sole Proprietors of the Patent.

Owosso,  flich.

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at  rock  bottom  prices  for 
the  best  quality goods,  fire- 
crackers,  etc.  We  make 
a  specialty of  city  displays.

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Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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FIREWORKS

None  better,  none  cheaper  than  the  varied  assortments  offered  by  us.  Net  price  list 

mailed  upon  request. 

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO., Grand  Rapids.

