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

WOOLSON  SPICE CO.

Ask  our  salesman  to  show  you  our  line  of  samples.

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to  learn  at  how  little  cost  a 
perfect  telephone  line  can 
be  constructed  if  you  write 
us  for  an  estimate.  We  in­
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private  line  i-ystems.  Fac­
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M.  B.  Wheeler  &  Co.,

25  Fountain  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Not  How  Cheap 

But  How  Good

We  warrant  our  make  of wagons  and  consequently 

produce  no cheap or  inferior work.

Buyers  of the  Belknap  make  of  wagons  do  not  find 

it  necessary  to  constantly  repair  and  replace.

Catalogue  on  application.

Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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.

Umbrellas, 
Parasols  and 
Walking
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Special attention given to mail  orders  for  anything 

in our line.

Largest  Assortment in  Michigan.

58 Monroe  St. 

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FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY, Counsel

SPECIAL  REPORTS. 

LAW   AND  COLLECTIONS.

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

Main  Office:  Room  n o a ,  M ajestic  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  dicient service.  Terms 
and references furnished on application.

The  Best

On  Earth

Manufactured by

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Detroit,  Mich.

Premium  given  away  with  Clydesdale 
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be used.

Write  for  special 
inducements  to  in­
troduce it.

REED & CO., Eagle, Mich.

UNSER  S T A R K ...

Comfortable  and  cheap,  non-elastic  web 
and  leather suspenders.

Seven orders in  four months from one dealer.
Will you try them?
GRAHAM  RQYS &  C O .,

PITCH  PLACE, 

-  GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

The  leading  modern  methods  are

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equipped  with  complete  machinery 
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these  methods.  Best results guar­
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Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE 23,  1897.

Number  718

THE  EBB  TIDE.

The  Extreme  Decline—Prospects  of 

Recovery.
Written for the T radesman.

A  considerable  proportion  of 

the 
staple  articles  of  trade  in  this  country 
have,  within  the  past 
few  months  or 
years,  broken  all  records  for  low  prices, 
and  then  many  have  continued  to  de­
until  quotations  are  reached 
cline, 
which  seem  almost 
incredible  even  to 
those  who  are  most  familiar  with  the 
elements  of  cost  of  manufacture.  Nat­
urally,  there  has  been  much  of  specula­
tion  as  to  the  reasons  for  this  unprec­
edented  depression  and  as  to  the  prob­
abilities  of  recovery.

We  wish  to 
establish 
a  branch  of 
our
business  in 
every 
town  in 
Michigan 
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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CHICAGO.

He Preferred Bankers 
Life jissurance Co.

Incorporated by

M ICHIGAN 
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Maintains a Guarantee Fund.
Write for details.

Home Office,  Moffat Bldg.,

F R A N K  E.  ROBSON,  P hes.
TR U M A N   B.  GOODSPEED,  S e c’y .

DETROIT,  MICH.

M ic h a e l  K o lb   &   S o n
Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers,

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Established  Nearly One-half Century.

Write  our  Michigan  representative,  William 
Connor,  Box 346,  Marshall, Mich., to call on you, or 
meet him as under  (cuatomers’  expenses  allowed) 
and  he  will  show  you  best  line  of  Kersey  Over­
coats,  strictly all wool,  raw  and  stitch  edge,  at  $5 
and fe;  prices, lit,  quality and make guaranteed.
William Connor will be at Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich.,  with above samples and a few sum­
mer goods  to  close  at  60  cents  on  the  dollar,  on 
Wednesday and  Thursday, June 30 and July  1,  so 
you can have them for ,th of July trade.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Private Credit Advices.

Collections made  anywhere 

in  the  United  States  and 

Canada.

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TRADESMAN COUPONS

Of  course,  in  a  general  way  the  situ­
ation  is  usually  accounted  for  by  charg­
ing  the  decline  to  the  effects  of  the 
panic  and  the  overproduction  conse­
quent  upon  the  destruction  of  consump­
tive  demand.  There 
is  no  doubt  but 
that  a  great  proportion  of  the  demorali­
zation 
is  thus  correctly  accounted  for; 
but  there  are  a  number  of  other  causes 
which  deserve  consideration.  All  of 
these  have  been  discussed  more  or  less, 
but  to  get  a  comprehensive  idea  of  the 
prospects  it  may  be  well  to  briefly  refer 
to  some  of  them :

Another 

importance 

in  processes 

improvements 

Probably  the  most  potent  depressing 
influence  outside  of  the  one  named  is 
that  of  lessening  the  cost  of  production 
by 
and 
methods.  Considering  how  long  this 
factor  has  been  operative,  there  is  no 
doubt  that  it  greatly  exceeds  any  other 
cause  of  decline  in  its  total effects ;  but, 
as  considered  for  the  time  since  the 
panic,  its  relative 
is  less. 
The  operation  of  this  factor  has  been 
extremely  variable. 
In  some  instances, 
stimulated  by 
increasing  demand,  in­
vention  has  been  so  effective that  prices 
are  lowered  to  a  comparatively  small 
fraction  of  those  prevailing  a  few  years 
ago. 
In  other  cases  the  change  from 
this  reason  may  be  scarcely perceptible.
of ■  depression, 
which  receives  less  of  consideration  as 
a  direct  cause  of  decline,  is  the  compe­
tition  of  other  nations.  The  natural 
demand  for  cheapness  has been met here 
and  there  by  the  cutting  of  the  dikes  of 
tariff  and  other  defenses  against  the 
floods  of  cheap  production 
in  other 
countries,  until  the  great  total of  the  in­
fluence  of  foreign  competition  may  al­
most  dispute  supremacy  with  any  of  the 
others. 
In  some  cases  this  may  have 
seemed  to  conduce  to  the  general  wel­
fare.  Taken  as  a  whole,  however,  its 
general 
influence  in  the  depression  of 
all  prices,  with  the  consequent  lessen­
ing  of  wages  and  consuming  capacity, 
is a  more  serious  result  than  is  warrant­
ed  by  any  benefit  in  facilitating  cheap 
supply.

element 

This  demand  for  cheapness  may  be 
considered  another  cause  of  depression. 
The  very  fact  that  prices  have  been 
falling  has  been  a  continuing  cause  of 
the decline.  There  seems to  have  been 
almost a  mania  for  cheapness—for  de­
manding 
largely 
from  the  simple  fact  that  concessions 
have  become  the  order  of  the  day. 
When  prices  are  fairly  stable  it  is  not

concessions—caused 

difficult  to  effect  sales  at  regular  quota­
tions,  but  when  repeated  concession  is 
the  general  order 
it  is  expected  in  all 
cases.  This  fact  has  given  the  down­
ward  movement  an  impetus  which  has 
carried 
it,  in  a  great  number of  lines, 
far  beyond  any  warrant  in  proper  cost 
of  production  and  distribution,  thus  in­
creasing  the  reduction  of  wages  in these 
and dependent lines  and operating to les­
sen  the  rates  of  transportation.

The  question  of  the  recovery  of prices 
will  depend  upon  the effects of returning 
business  activity  upon  these  and  other 
minor  causes  of  the  depression.  Some 
of  the  factors  may,  at  first  glance,  seem 
to  be  permanent  and  uniformly  opera­
tive,  yet  a  more  careful  study  shows 
them  all  to  be  more  or  less  responsive 
to 
improving  conditions.  The  direct 
effects  of  the  panic  as  an  element  will, 
of  course,  be  the  most  directly  respon 
sive—will  quickly  vanish  under  the  re­
turn  of  confidence,  which 
its  an­
tithesis.

is 

improvement 

The  influence  of improving conditions 
will  be  less  in  its  effects  upon  the  re­
duction  of  cost  by 
in 
processes  and  methods.  But  in  the  de­
cline  the  prevailing  mania  for  cheap 
idea  of  the 
ness,  with  an  exaggerated 
cheapening  effects  of  the  inventions 
in 
the  minds  of  the  producers, 
in  very 
many 
instances  has  carried  the  prices 
far  below  the  correct  basis.  The  tend­
in  the  swing  of  the  pendulum  of 
ency 
activity 
in  the  opposite  direction  wili 
be  to  encourage  a  recovery  to  the proper 
commercial  basis  of  fair  compensation 
and  profits.

With  the  increased  earning  and  con­
sumptive  capacity  of  increasing activity 
lessening  the  undue  demand  for  cheap­
ness  comes  a  disposition  to  properly 
regulate  the 
influx  of  the  products  of 
those  countries  whose  laborers  are  com­
pelled  to  subsist  on  a  small  fraction  of 
that  demanded  by  our  workmen.  The 
influence  of  this  movement  is  being  felt 
in  many  lines  already 
in  slow,  but 
sure,  advances  in  quotations.

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Argentine,  June  17—Taking 

Questions  Involved  in  a  Bank  Failure.
for 
granted  that  the  editor  of  a  trade  jour­
nal  knows  everything—especially  every­
thing  about  commercial 
law—and  also 
that  he 
is  always  willing  and  anxious 
to  impart  the  same,  and  an  abundance 
of  time  to  do  so,  I  take  the  liberty  of 
asking  you  a  couple  of  questions,  which 
I  wish  you  would  answer  through  the 
Tradesman,  as  the  answers  might  be  of 
interest  to  the  trade:

1.  C.  has  a  regular  account  with  a 
bank ;  June  5  C.  hires  $500  of  the  bank 
for  two  months ;  July  5  the  bank  closes 
its  doors  and  goes  into  the  hands  of  a 
receiver,  at  which  time  the  bank  owes
C.  $200 on  regular  account.  When  the 
note  comes  due,  Aug.  5,  can  C.  oblige 
the  bank  to  take  his  commercial deposit 
of  $200  toward  the  payment  of  his  note?
2.  July  1  C.  gives  a  check  on  the 
bank  to  D.  As  the  bank  closed  July  5,
D.  had  bad  time  to  present  the  check
for  payment,  but  had  not  done  so.  Can 
D.  oblige  C.  to  take  back  the  check  or 
repay  the bill  for  which  the  check  was 
given? 
In  other  words,  whose  loss  is  it 
—C .’s  or  D .’s? 

E n q u ir e r .

i. 

In  case  the  facts are  exactly  as 
stated  by  Enquirer,  C.  has  the  right  to 
insist  that  the  $200  on  deposit  in  the 
bank  to  his  credit  be  applied  on  the 
$500  note.  He  cannot  do  this  if  the  note 
is  given  by  a  firm  of  which  he  is  a 
member and  the deposit is  an  individual 
matter;  nor  can  he  insist  on  such  dis­
position  of  the  balance  in  case  the  note 
is  an  individual  matter  and  the  deposit 
is  a  copartnership  affair;  nor  can  he 
apply  the  balance  on  the  note  if  it  is 
an  account  he  has  purchased  subsequent 
to  the  bank  going  into  the  hands  of a 
receiver.

2.  The  Tradesman  is  inclined  to  the 
opinion  that  the  receiver  of  the  bank 
would  refuse  to  recognize  D.  in 
the 
transaction  and  that  C.  must  settle  his 
in  some  other  way. 
obligation  to  D. 
The  supposition 
is,  of  course,  that  the 
amount  to  the  credit  of  C.  will  not  be  a 
total  loss,  as  few  failures  of  banks  oc­
cur  wherein  the  depositors  do  not  re­
ceive  dividends  representing  some  por­
tion  of  their  balances.

That  there 

is  scarcely  to  be  expected. 

is  to  come  an  era  of  the 
high  prices  which  prevailed  a  few years 
ago 
It  is 
not  essential  to  business  activity  and 
general  prosperity  that  there  should  be 
a  return  to  the  old  standards.  The  oper­
ation  of  natural  and  beneficial  causes  in 
reduction  of  cost  must  be  recognized 
and  accepted.  But  there  is  no  question
but  that  the  ebb  has  been  extreme  in 
most  lines  of  production,  which  must 
be  followed  by  a  healthy  recovery which 
will  carry  all  prices  again  to a  fair  liv­
long  this  condition  of 
ing  basis.  How 
activity,  with 
its  opportunities  for  in­
dividual  prosperity  and  establishment 
of  business  stability,  may  continue  none 
may  predict.  That  there  will  again 
come  a  reaction  must  be  expected,  but 
it  is  probable  that  the  ill  effects  will  be 
greatly  modified  by  the  lessons  of  the 
experiences  of  the  past  four  years,  and 
that  the  country  will  have  learned  to 
avoid  many  of  the  more  serious  conse­
quences  of  such  reactions.

W.  N.  F u l l e r .

Sidney  F.  Stevens has located his fam­

ily  at  Highland  Park  for  the  season.

Druggists  Will  Meet  at 
Ledge  Resort.

the  Grand 

The  Executive  Committee  of 

the 
Michigan  State  Pharmaceutical  Society 
met  here  Tuesday  and  decided  to  hold 
the  fourteenth  annual  convention  Aug. 
3,  4  and  5  at  Grand  Ledge 
instead  of 
Lansing.  This  change  was  made  on  ac­
count  of  the  indifference  shown  by  the 
Lansing  druggists  regarding  the  meet­
ing.  The  following  committes were  ap­
pointed :

Reception—A.  W.  Halstead,  Grand 
Ledge;  Dr.  G.  J.  Ward,  St.  Clair;  C. 
N.  Anderson,  F.  F.  Ingram  and  J.  E. 
Davis,  Detroit;  George  McDonald, 
Kalamazoo;  George  Gundrum,  Ionia; 
H.  J.  Brown,  Owosso;  E.  T.  Webb, 
Jackson;  J.  E.  Peck  and  H.  B.  Fair- 
child,  Grand  Rapids.

Entertainment— W.  D.  Church  and 
Charles  Mann,  Detroit;  J.  D.  Muir  and 
F.  E.  Westerfeldt,  Grand  Rapids.

When  the  tide  of  commerce  is  at  its 
flood 
is  the  time  to  hustle.  No  one 
knows  this  better  than  a  traveling  man 
after  his  first  trip.

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Bicycles

is 

Cycling  from  a  Hygienic  Standpoint. 
Written for the Tradesman.

equestrianism 

The  prominent  place  assigned  by  the 
Tradesman  to  the  bicycle  trade  and  the 
discussion  of  topics  of  importance  and 
interest  to  the  multitude  of  bicycle  rid­
ers  who  tead  the  Tradesman would seem 
to  call  for  some  criticism  of  the  abuses 
that  are  creeping 
into  its  general  use 
by  all  ages,  sexes  and  conditions,  from 
the  child  of  8  years  old  to  the  matron  of 
60.  One  of  the  most  dangerous  of  these 
abuses  of  the  fascinating  exercise  upon 
the  wheel  is the  hippodroming character 
this  delightful  pastime  has  assumed. 
For  the  sake  of  speed,  every  law  of 
graceful 
ignored, 
every  line  of  beauty  or graceful  attitude 
is  forgotten  and  the  rider,  in  his  indi­
viduality,as shown  in  the  role  of  scorch­
ing,  as 
it  is  called,  is  a  libel  upon  the 
“ human  form  Divine.”   The  advertis­
ing  cuts  of  celebrated  scorchers  we  see 
in  the  newspapers  are  hideous  carica­
tures,  with  bowed  back  and  rounded 
forward,  and  eyelids 
shoulders  thrown 
turned  up  and  fixed  in 
idiotic  stare, 
worthy  the  role  of  contortionists.  Does 
military  or  gymnastic training recognize 
any  of  this  unnatural  posturing  as  com­
patible  with  the  laws  of  health  or as 
contributing 
in  any  degree  to  manly 
beauty? 
If  this  evil  could  be  confined 
to  that  insignificant  class of professional 
cyclists,  it  might  be  tolerated,  but,  un­
fortunately,  they  are  setting  an  example 
that  our boys  and  youth  are  swift  to  im­
itate.  We see  evidences  of  this  force  of 
example  on  our  streets  every 
day. 
Surely  the  time  has  come  when  parents 
and  guardians  should  take  a  band  in 
applying  a  remedy  for  this  apparent 
evil. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  deprive  the 
boys  and  girls  of  the  delights  of  cy­
cling,  but  they should be  made  to  realize 
the  physical  consequences  sure  to  follow 
the  habits  I  have  described.  With  what 
composure  can  a  parent  reflect  upon  the 
possibility  of  a  naturally 
superbly 
formed  boy  following  a  course  of  train 
ing  for  round  shoulders,  curved  spine, 
pulmonary  chest  and  distorted  vision ! 
Yet  such  cases  may  be  seen  in  every 
place  where  bicycles  are  in  use.  These 
evils  are  all  the  output  of  the  gambling 
contests  and  record-breaking  meetings 
between  professional  sportsmen. 
Bi­
cycling,  rationally indulged  in,  either for 
business  or  pleasure,  is  as  harmless  and 
healthy  exetcise  as  horseback  riding. 
The  speed,  to  ensure  ease and  graceful 
cariiage,  should  never  be  more  than  six 
miles  an  hour.  The  handle  bar  should 
be  raised  high  enough  to  ensure  an 
erect  position  in  the  saddle,  giving  the 
rider  the  same  natural  position he would 
assume 
if  well  mounted  on  horseback. 
We  frequently  meet gentlemen  bicyclists 
of  this  type,  always  to  admire,  and 
listen  to  the  remarks  of  admiration from 
others.  As  a  rule,  lady cyclists are  free 
from  the  ridiculous  abuses  to  which  I 
have  called  attention.  Evidently  their 
native  pride  and  dignity,  as  well  as 
sense  of  propriety  and  appreciation  of 
the  beautiful,  render  them  less  liable  to 
the  errors  I  have  enumerated. 
is 
amusing,  sometimes,  to  see  ladies  and 
gentlemen  cycling  in  pairs.  The  ladies 
sit  erect  in  their  saddles,  models  of  ar­
tistic  grace,  while  their  escorts,  with 
h mdle  bars  lowered,  bend  ungracefully 
over  their  wheels.

It 

W.  S.  H.  Welton.

The  Truth  and  the  Trusts.

Perhaps  the  most  discussed  subject  in 
is  the question  of 
this  republic  to-day 
capitalistic  combination  for  carrying  on

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

business  operations. 
The  agitators, 
taking  advantage  of  the general  interest 
in  this  question,  have  been  quick  to 
take  up  the  cry  that  the  liberties  of  our 
people,  the  resources  of  our  land  and 
the  land 
itself  are  being  acquired  by 
the  few  and  so  utilized  as to  defraud  the 
many  out  of  their  just  and  inalienable 
rights  and  privileges.  Without  taking 
the  trouble  to  acquaint  themselves  with 
the  truth,  many  citizens  of  the  republic 
give  credence  to  the  assertions  of  the 
agitators,  and  out  of  the  falsifications 
by  malicious  propagandists  and  the  ig­
norant  credulity  of  their  followers  have 
arisen  confusion,  perplexity,  discord 
and  conflict.  The  only  way  to  fight 
erroneous  public  opinion 
is  to  meet  it 
with  the  weapons  of  fact  and  figure, 
and  this  is  what  conservative  men  are 
doing.  The  propagandists  of  hatred  of 
capital,of  hostility  to  wealth  in  general, 
and  of  discord  and  conflict  have  laid 
down  the  general  propositions  that  a 
rich  man  is  a  criminal,  that  a  corpora­
tion 
is  a  conspiracy,  and  that,  wher­
ever  a  large  combination  of  capital  is 
employed  in  business,  it  is  employed  to 
rob  the  many  for  the  benefit  of  the  few.
Against  these  vicious  propositions, 
in  the  abstract,  it  may  be  fruitless  to 
tor  opinions  are  not  easy  to 
argue, 
change,  but  there 
is  a  concrete  side  of 
the question  which  must  appeal  to  even 
the  opinionated  ignoramuses  who  have 
been  deluded  by  the  empty  assertions  of 
the  propagandists.  Neglecting  the  slan­
derous  proposition  that  a  rich  man  is 
necessarily  a  criminal,  and  the  equally 
absurd  proposition  that  a  corporation  is 
a  conspiracy,  the  student  of  current 
affairs  may  meet  the  concrete  position 
that  capital 
in  business  is  always  em­
ployed  to  rob  the  many  for  the  benefit 
of  the  few,  with  substantial  proof  of  the 
falsity  of  that  theory.  The  record  of 
market  movement  and  prices 
is  the 
weapon  with  which  the student may  suc­
cessfully  assail  this  pet  theory  of  the 
crank  legislators  and  of the falsification- 
ists  in  general.  What  does  that  record 
show?  Does  it  prove  that  large  combi­
nations  of  capital  have  controlled stand­
ard  articles  of  consumption  and 
in­
creased  the  cost  of  those  articles  to  con­
sumers?  Take  the  most  notable  of  these 
combinations.  The  Standard  Oil  Com­
pany  was  formed  in  1872,  and  it  found 
the  markets  supplied  with  dear  and 
dangerous  illuminating oils.  This com­
pany  employed 
inventors, 
mechanics  and  business  men,  laid  pipe 
lines,  reduced  the  cost  of  package  and 
transportation,  arid  made 
illuminating 
oil  safe. 
In  1872  dangerous  oil  sold  at 
25  cents  a  gallon,  and 
in  1897  it  sells 
for 6 to  8  cents  a  gallon.  So  much  may 
be  said  for  the  one  great  “ trust.”   The 
example of  the on&great “ corporation, ”  
the  American  Sugar  Refining Company, 
is  similar.  This corporation  was  formed 
in  1887. 
It  found  sugar  selling  at  7 
cents  a  pound,  and  in  1897  it  sells  the 
same  grade  of  sugar 
for  4  cents  a 
The  Cottonseed  Oil  Trust, 
pound. 
formed 
in  1884,  has  reduced  the  price 
of  standard  summer  yellow  oil  from  48 
cents  a  gallon  in  1884  to  24  cents  a  gal­
lon  in  1897.

scientists, 

Among other capitalistic combinations 
are  many  that  have  similarly  cheapened 
the  products  which  they  manipulate. 
The  United  States  Rubber  Company, 
formed 
in  1892,  advanced  prices  far 
enough  to  insure  a  profit,  but  outsiders 
have 
The 
United  States  Leather  Company  has 
controlled  since  1892  the  sole  leather 
output  of  the  country,  but  prices  have 
gone  down  until  leather is  selling at  17^

compelled  a  reduction. 

cents  a  pound,  while  the  raw  hides  sell 
i8}4  cents  a  pound.  The  National 
at 
Cordage  Company  smashed  itself  in  its 
attempt  to  smash  others,  and  its  suc­
cessors  are  now  selling  for  6 cents  a 
pound  the  same  product  that  sold  for  10 
cents  a  pound  before  the  original  trust 
was  organized. 
The  Whisky  Trust, 
formed  in  1890,  found  alcohol  selling  at 
$1.44  per  gallon,  including  the  reve­
nue  tax  of  90  cents,  and  to-day  it  is 
selling  at  $1.16  per  proof  gallon,  in­
cluding  the  revenue  tax  of  $1.10.  The 
bituminous  coal  producers  combined  in 
1896,  and  sold  coal  at  $2  tc  $2.10  per 
ton,  and  to-day  it  is  quoted  at  $1.70  per 
ton.  The  antharcite  coal  producers  put 
stove  coal  up  from  $3  to $4.10,  and  after 
one  year  of  combination  they  dissolved, 
and  coal  again  fell  in  price.  The  tele­
graph  companies  have  been  denounced 
They 
as 
formed  a  combination  in  1866. 
In  that 
year 
it  cost  $2.20  to  send  a  ten-word 
message  by  wire  from  New  York  City 
to  Chicago,  and  to-day  it  costs  40  cents. 
They  have  reduced  the  cost  of  such  a 
message  during  thirty  years  proportion­
ately  to  all  parts  of  the  republic.  The 
business  man  in  New  York  finds  his 
ten-word  message  to  St.  Louis  reduced 
from  $2.25  to  40 cents,  to  New  Orleans 
from  $3.25  to 60  cents,  to  St.  Paul  from 
$2.25  to  40  cents,  to  Galveston 
from 
$5.50  to  75  cents,  to  San  Francisco  from 
$7.45  to  $1,  to  Oregon  from  $10  to  $1, 
and  to  the  State  of  Washington from  $12 
to $1.  The  railroads  of  the  country  have 
likewise  reduced  the  charge  of  moving 
a  ton  of  freight  a  mile  from  2.21  cents 
in  1873  to o 84  cent  in  1897.

conspiracies.”  

“ gigantic 

Even  these  achievements,  which  are 
beyond  dispute,  do  not  tell  the  whole 
story.  While  these  trusts, 
firms  and 
corporations  have  so  enormously  re­
duced  costs  to  the  consumers  of  the 
country,  they  have,  on  the  whole, 
in­
creased  the average  of  the  wages  which 
they  pay  to  their  laborers.  According 
to  the  theories  of  the  agitators,  all  these 
combinations  have  robbed  the  people  of 
their  money  and  their  liberty,  but  the

in  general,  fail 

record  shows  that  the  combinations, 
like  business  men 
in 
some  lines  and  succeed  in  others,  that 
they  have,  by  making  use  of  scientific 
economics,reduced  the  cost  of  all  stand­
ard  products  to  consumers,  and  that, 
instead  of  having  robbed  the  people  of 
any  privileges  or  liberties,  they  them­
selves  have  been  subjected  to  restrictive 
legislation  in  the  different  states  and  in 
the  national  council.  Thus  do the plain 
truths  and facts tell  against  the  main  in­
dictment 
in  the  charge  of  the  dema­
gogues  against  the  capitalists  of  the 
land.  An  illustration  of  the  trust  ques­
tion  was  furnished 
in  the  recent  col­
lapse  of  several  conspicuous and  much- 
maligned  combinations  in  the  metal  in­
dustries.  The moment these concerns dis­
solved,  the  prices  of  their products were 
to 
cut,  and  they  were  forced  either 
close  their  establishments  or 
to  cut 
down  the  wages  of  their  laborers enough 
to  cover  the drop in prices.  This,  again, 
was  contrary  to  the  teachings  of  the 
demagogues,  who have  all  along  insisted 
that 
in  “ securing  to  labor  its  just  re­
ward  or  remuneration,”   the  “ first  and 
necessary  step 
is the  squelching  of  the 
capitalist.”  
Indeed,  wherever  and 
whenever  the  demagogic theories collide 
with  the  commercial 
industrial 
facts,  there 
is  a  wreck,  and  it  is  never 
the  fact  that  is  wrecked.

and 

Demagogic  agitation  will  continue  so 
long  as  the  agitators  can  find  men  to ac­
cept  their  falsehoods  as  truths  and  their 
baseless  claims  as  facts,  but  it  seems 
probable  that,  with the  spread  of  a  more 
general  knowledge  of  what  has  been  ac­
complished  by  the great capitalistic con­
cerns,  agitation  must  become  a 
less 
harmful  and  a  less  dangerous  evil  than 
it  has  been. 

A.  B.  Salom.

ivory  was  $3  a  pound. 

Until  a  few  years  ago  the  wholesale 
price  of 
In 
consequence  of  the  opening  up  of  new 
districts 
in  Africa  to  colonization  the 
value  has  fallen 
to  $2.  An  ordinary 
elephant  yields  about  120  pounds  of 
merchantable 

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JANE  CRAGIN.

Are  Cy  and  Jane  Altogether  Happy? 
W ritten fo r the  T badksxan.

Miss  Birkenmayer’s  intention  to  “ go 
home  day  after  to-morrow”   was not  car­
ried  out.  The  announcements  of  the 
engagements,  after  the  congratulations 
were  over,  were  followed  by  such  a 
series  of  functions  as  even  that  hotel 
had  never  before  witnessed ;  and  Miss 
Birkenmayer  was  of  too  much  impor­
tance  to  be  spared  at  a  single  one  of 
them.  To  add  to  the  general  rejoicing, 
Miss  MacDonald’s  minister  put  in  an 
appearance,  was  duly  pronounced  by 
“ the  powers  that  be”   as  “ one  of  the 
best fellows in the world, ’ ’and as prompt­
ly  “ taken 
in  and  done  for”   by  this 
coterie.  Mrs.  Walker  also  joined  her 
husband;  and,  that  Mr.  Smith  might 
not  be  left  out 
in  the  cold,  he  placed 
his  life  and  fortunes,  for  the  time  be­
ing,  in  the  hands  of  Miss  Birkenmayer, 
and,  so  re-enforced,  the  round  of  pleas­
ures  began.

“ The  world  loves  a  lover;”   and,  with 
six  under  the  same  roof—the  minister 
was  not  backward 
in  showing  that  he 
knew  how  to  make  up  for  any  lost  time 
in  that  direction—the  weeks  that  fol­
lowed  were  red-letter  days,  not  only 
in 
the  lives  of  the  lovers  themselves,  but 
in  those  who  were  breathing  there  the 
love-laden  atmosphere. 
There  were 
dinners  and  receptions  and  parties  of 
all  sorts  and  conditions  given 
in  their 
honor.  They  rode  and  they  walked, 
the  center  of  all  eyes;  but,  wherever 
they  were  seen  together,  it  was  Marjory 
Marchland  and  her devoted  swain  that 
seemed  to  find  the  greatest  favor  among 
the admiring  lookers-on.

Aside  from  Miss  Marchland's  great 
beauty  and  the  happiness  which  seemed 
to  envelop  her  like  a  halo,  aside  from 
the hearty  goodwill  which  Cy  had  awak­
ened 
in  everyone  with  whom  he  had 
come  in  contact,  there  still  hung around 
the  two  from  Milltown  the  remnants  of 
a  great  mystery.  Had  there,  or  had 
there  not,  been  between  them  a tenderer 
relation  than  that  which  existed  now? 
Miss  Cragin's  devotion  to  Cy's  comfort 
and  her  evident  joy  at  his  coming,  the 
long  talks,  the  walks  and  the  rides  they 
managed  to  take  together  at  odd  times 
and  occasions  kept  an 
ever-present 
Why?  continually  in  the  foreground  on 
Jane’s  part;  and  Cy,  especially  since 
the  announcement  of  the  engagements 
in  the  little  immediate  circle  of 
inti­
mate  friends,  was  the  subject of constant 
remark.

“ You  needn’t  talk  to  m e!”   said  the 
Chicago  lawyer one  day  with  his  char­
acteristic  straightforwardness;  “ there’s 
a  something  going  on  in  that  fellow’s 
head—or  heart— which  I  don’t  like.  He 
holds  Miss  Marchland  in  his  hand 
like 
a  delicious  Bartlett  pear  which  he  is 
glad  of;  but  he  keeps  his  eyes  on  the 
one  Dr.  Day  has  with  a  yearning  in 
them  I  don’t  like  to  see.  Of  course,  he 
is  all  devotion  to  Miss  Marchland,  and 
she’s  too  much  taken  up  with  him  to 
notice  what  I’m  free  to  confess  may  be 
all 
if 
you’ll  take  the  trouble  to  keep  your eyes 
open,  you’ll 
that  Jane  Cragin 
doesn’t  wink  without  Huxley’s  ‘ making 
a  note  on’t. ’  There’s  something there, 
or  has  been  there,  mark  my  words. ”

imagination  on  my*  part;  but, 

find 

can 

“ I  have  noticed  that  Mr.  Huxley  is 
very  attentive  to  Miss  Cragin,  but  no 
man 
serve  two  mistresses,  any 
more than he can two masters, ’ ’ answered 
Miss  Birkenmayer;  and,  while  all  you 
say  may  be  true  enough,  I  don’t  think 
Miss  Marchland  has  anything  to  com­
plain  of. ”

known.  So,  with  a  joy  in  her  heart  that 
happiness  had  come  to  them  both,  she 
gave  herself  up 
to  the  dreams  and 
fancies  which  came  to  bless  her  by 
night  and  by  day.

To  Cy,  however,  these  did  not  come. 
His  arm  encircled  the  waist  of  the 
handsomest  and 
loveliest  woman  his 
eyes  had  ever  rested  on ;  he  heard  from 
her  lips  the  sweetest  words  that  had 
ever  blessed  his  ears,  but  the  waist  and 
the  lips  were  not  Jane’s  and,  press  them 
as  tenderly  as  he  would,  he  felt,  as  he 
never  dreamed  he  could  feel,  a  misery 
as  helpless  as 
it  was  hopeless.  The 
tendency  of  the  two  ladies  to  be  con­
stantly  with  each  other  only  added  to 
his  trouble. 
It  brought  them  more  and 
more  together  and  at  times  his  suffering 
was  almost  beyond  the  point  of  endur­
ance.  Finally,  he 
induced  Marjory  to 
believe  that  a  one-seated  vehicle  was 
better  for  two  than  a  two  seated  one  for 
if  the  four  were  the  best  of 
four,  even 
friends;  and,  from 
that  time  on,  he 
managed  to  play  fairly  well  the  part  he 
had  chosen.

R ic h a r d   Malcolm  Str o n g.

Sample  Circular  Announcing 
Adoption  of the  Cash  Plan.

the 

B.  P.  Kurtz,  grocer  at  Harriman, 
Tenn.,  announces  his  abandonment  of 
the  credit  system  in  the  following  cir­
cular  letter  to  his  customers:

We  believe  the  time  has  come  when 
all  merchants,  to  do  business  satisfac­
torily  to  themselves  and  their  patrons, 
must  do  it  on  a  strictly  cash  basis.  The 
times  demand 
it,  and  we  take  this 
method  to  announce  to  our  customers 
and  the  public  that  hereafter  we  shall 
sell  goods  for  cash  only.  We  mean  that 
all  goods  must  be  paid  for  when  pur­
chased, either  in  money  or  coupons  from 
the  coupon  books  we  sell.  We  will con­
tinue  to  issue  coupon  books,  because ex­

perience  has  demonstrated  that  coupon 
books  are  so  close  to  cash  that  they  put 
the  credit  transactions  of  a  store  on  a 
cash  basis,  enabling  the  dealer  to  give 
the  customer  the  benefit  of  just  as  close 
prices  as  is  possible  where  cash  is  paid 
over  the  counter  on  the occasion of every 
transaction.  We  keep  the  books  in  de­
nominations  of  $5,  $10  and  $20,  which 
must  be  paid  for  in  advance,  less  a  dis­
count  of  5  per  cent.

As  stated,  we  take  this  stand  because 
the  times  demand 
it,  and  must  insist 
on 
its  strict  observance,  and  we  hope 
you  will  realize  that  it  is  as  much  if  not 
more,  to  your  benefit  as  to  ours  that  we 
do  it.

We  propose  to  keep  our  stock  as  com­
plete  as  the  demands  justify,  with  the 
best  goods  the  market  affords,  and  sell 
them  at  prices  lower  than  ever  sold here 
before,  and  lower  than  we  know  anyone 
who  follows  the  credit  system  can  sell 
them.

We  wish  to  thank  you  for  your patron­
in  the  past  and  assure  you  it  has 
age 
been  appreciated,  as 
it  has  helped  us 
build  up  a  nice  little  business,  and  we 
ask  that  you  give  us  a  share  at  least  of 
your  future  trade.

Don’t  cast  this  aside  now  and  con­
demn  us  for  doing  a  cash  business  but 
look  at  it  fiom  your  side.  Consult  our 
price  list  as  issued  and  watch our adver­
tisements  and  see  who  will  have  the 
gain  in  the  end.

We  will  promptly  deliver  all  orders 
left  at  the  store  to any  part  of  the  city, 
and  where  customers  use  our  coupon 
books  or  request  us  to  do  so,  we  will 
call  each  morning  for  your  ordeis,  and 
will  render  you  every  accommodation 
consistent  with  business.

Burd  P.  Ku r t z.

The  will  of  Mrs.  Ellen  B.  French,  of 
Beloit,  Wis.,  bequeaths  $5,000  to  Beloit 
College,  on  condition  that no vivisection 
in  any  of  its 
shall  ever  be  practiced 
departments,  but 
if  the  stipulation  is 
violated,the  trustees  are  to  pay  over  the 
amount  to  the  American  Humane  Edu­
cation  Society  of  Boston.

incGiay Begrlgeratoi  Gold Storage Go.

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MANUFACTURERS  OF

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KEIMDALLVILLE,  INDIANA.

it 

its  counterpart 

“ I  think,”   remarked  Mrs.  Walker, 
“ that  what  Mr.  Smith  refers  to  in  Mr. 
Huxley  has 
in  Miss 
Cragin.  They 
are  both  supremely
happy ;  they  each  know  the  other  is  so, 
and  they  are  simply  exchanging  bliss­
ful  experiences  in  the  eye-glances  they 
are  constantly  giving  each  other. 
It 
seems  to  me  the  most  natural  thing  in 
the  world.  Miss  Cragin  drops  her  fan. 
Mr.  Huxley  picks  it  up  and  presents 
it 
to  her  devotedly  enough—the  man 
couldn't  do 
in  any  other  way  if  he 
tried—but  always,  as  I  think,  with  the 
‘ Here,  Jane,  I  can’t  do  these 
idea, 
things  for  you  much 
longer  and  I’m 
going  to  make  the  most  of  my  oppor­
tunities  while  I  have a chance. ’  That’s 
all  there 
is  to  the  Miss  Cragin  side  of 
the  affair.  Miss  Marchland  doesn’t  lose 
any  attention,  so  far  as  I  can  see.  A 
more  devoted  lover  she  couldn’t ask for ; 
and  a  handsomer  one—well,  it  would 
make  a  disturbance  in  my  family 
if  I 
should  say  what  I  think,  and  I  know 
Mr.  Smith  wouldn’t  sleep  for  several 
nights  if  I  should  say  it. 
It’s  all  due, 
of  course,  to  his  magnificent  health; 
but  a  finer  specimen  of  physical  man­
hood  I  never  saw,  and  I  hope  both  of 
you  two  will  try  to grow  into  just  that 
style  as  your  health  returns. 
I  don’t 
see,  for  my  part,  if  there  ever  has  been 
anything  between  Miss  Cragin  and  Mr. 
Huxley,  how  she  ever  could  take  the 
Doctor.  Oh,  I  give  the  Doctor  every 
point 
in  his  possession;  but,  to  my 
mind,  aside  from  the  question  of  tem­
perament,  Miss  Cragin 
is  making  a 
mistake,  if  she  has  any  choice  in  the 
matter— I  don’t  think  she  has. 
It  may 
be  she  did  have;  but,  from  what  the 
Captain  says  about  that  first  supper,  I 
am  inclined  to  think  that  Miss  March- 
land  has  had 
it  all  her  own  way,  and, 
what 
is  more,  would  have  had  it  even 
if  an  actual  engagement  had  brought 
Mr.  Huxley  to  Colorado  to  see  his  Jane! 
The 
idea,  Miss  Birkenmayer,  of  your 
standing  quietly  by  and  allowing  this 
thing  to  go  on  without  a  single  protest. 
What 
is  as  beautiful  as  Venus 
herself?  And  what  if  she  did  play  the 
part  of  Queen  Dido  with  that  rich  red 
rose,  and  play  the  witches  with  her  at­
titudes  and  the  glances  of  her  eyes? 
The  thrush  has  charms  as  well  as  the 
bluebird,  and  the  later-comer  has  been 
known  to  win  the  favor  that  the  other 
thought  secure.  I’m  not  sure,  if  I  could 
only  get  the  Captain  out  of  the  way, 
but that even now Miss Marchland  would 
find  ‘ Jordan  a  hard  road  to  travel.’  But 
don’t  you  believe  fora minute  that  Miss 
Cragin  would  find  any  encouragement 
with  Mr.  Huxley,  if  she  should  do  her 
level  best. ’ ’

if  she 

If  Cy  could  have  heard  the  opinion 
which  Mrs.  Walker  had  ventilated 
it 
would  have  given  him  the  greatest  sat­
isfaction.  It  was  what  he  hoped  for  and 
what  he  worked  for;  but  the  keener  eye 
of  the  attorney,  strengthened  by  the 
great  liking  he  had  taken  for  the  man, 
had  seen  the  condition  of  things  from 
the  first,  and  was  sorry  for  it.  Jane  was 
wholly  deceived.  At  first,  something 
akin  to  pique  took  possession  of  her, 
when  Cy,  with  a  candor  not  common  to 
him,  had  told  her  so  frankly  of  his  ad­
miration—and 
finally  of  his  love— for 
Marjory;  and  when,  in  the  same  mat- 
ter-of  fact  way,  he  announced  that  mat­
ters  between  him  and  his  lady  love  had 
been  satisfactorily  settled,  it  hurt  her  to 
be  so  summarily  dropped.  She  found 
relief,  however, 
the  thought  that 
there  was  to  be  no  scene,  as  she  had 
feared  there  would  be,  when  her  own 
relations  with  the  Doctor  were  made

in 

This Roll  Top  Butter Refrigerator has two  double  thick  glass  doors  and  one  bev­

eled  French plate  mirror in the center.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Addison—F.  T.  McAdam  has  retiied 

from  the  grocery  business.

Sturgis— Fred  W.  Shoecraft  has  pur­

chased  the  Pierson  cigar  stock.

Roscommon— A.  C.  Sly has purchased 

the  general  stock  of  Jas.  H.  Sly.

Albion— Homer  C.  Blair 

White  &  Beebe  in  the  drug  business.

succeeds 

White  Cloud—Alex.  Roach  succeeds 

Miles  Roach  in  the  grocery  business.

Adrian— Chas.  Dean  succeeds  Man- 
non  Bros,  in  the  confectionery business.
Vanderbilt—Gariepy  &  Maynard  suc­
ceed  Chas.'Gariepy in  the drug business.
Escanaba—Beck  &  Nelson  succeed 
in  the  grocery  busi­

Thorsen  &  Beck 
ness.

Rapids  River— Ed.  Brunell  has  sold 
his  meat 'business  to  Thompson  &  Da- 
mour.

Hopkins  Station— Frank  B.  Watkins 
will  add  a  second story to his brick  store 
building.

Honor— A.  E.  Paradise  has  opened  a 
meat  market  here,  placing Burk  Curtice 
in  charge.

West  Bay  City— H.  A.  Harbeck,  Jr., 
produce  commission  dealer,has removed 
to  Bay  City.

Ironwood—Ellen  (Mrs.  S.  A.,  Jr.,) 
Reid  succeeds  S.  A.  Reid,  Jr.,  in  the 
meat  business.

Battle  Creek— N.  A.  Brown  has  pur­
chased  the  cigar  and  tobacco  stock  of 
A.  K.  Prentice.

White  Pigeon—The  general  store  of
E.  C.  Wheeler  has  been  closed  under
chattel  mortgage.

Dowagiac— Wallace  Trowbridge 

is 
closing  out  his  stock  of groceries  and 
will  return  to  farming.

Ironwood  —  Lawrence  Garaglity,  of 
Darwin  &  Garaglity,  wholesale  and  re­
tail  confectioners,  is  dead.

Albion—Mrs.  A.  A.  Eddy  has  sold 
the  College  Hill  grocery stock to Eugene 
Foote,  a  student,  who  will  continue  the 
business.

Quincy— M.  J.  Ranson  has  purchased 
the  McGiness  stock  of  furniture and  un­
dertaking  goods  and  will  continue  the 
business.

Bay  City—Arthur  Des  Jardins—better 
known  as  the  French  clerk—has  taken  a 
position  behind  the  counter 
for  the 
Mansfield  Grocery  Co

Petoskey—W.  A.  Major  writes  the 
Tradesman  that  the  grocery  stock  re­
cently  disposed  of  by  him  was  his 
suburban  establishment  and  that  he  will 
continue  business,  the  same  as  hereto­
fore,  at  his  down  town  store.

Saginaw— A.  J.  Buckbam,  a  graduate 
of  the  Pharmacy  Department of the Uni­
versity  of  Michigan,  and  formerly  with 
Thum  Bros.  &  Schmidt,  of  Grand  Rap­
ids,  has  taken  a  position 
in  the  pre­
scription  department  at  Loranger  & 
Culver’s  pharmacy.

Adrian— The  dry  goods  stock  of  Met­
calf  &  Co.  has  been  purchased  by Ham- 
bleton  &  Co.,  of  Philadelphia.  Mr. 
Hambleton  will  remove  to  this  city with 
his  family, and permanently  conduct  the 
business  after  the  present  stock  has 
been  reduced  by  special  sale.

Mt.  Clemens— M.  R.  Little  has  sold 
a  half  interest in  his  grocery,  crockery 
and  meat  stock  to  Fred  Epley,  and  the 
firm  will  hereafter be  known  as  Little & 
Epley.  Mr.  Epley  has  rare  judgment 
and  excellent  taste 
in  embellishing  a 
store  and  displaying  the  stock  to  the 
best  advantage  and  will  give  the  people 
of  M t  Clemens  an  opportunity of noting 
the  work  of  a genuine  artist  in  grocery! 
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display. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

North  Adams— S.  A.  Haskell  bid 

Portland— Ionia  county 
located 

in 
the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of  J.  Haskell 
at  chattel  mortgage  sale  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
is  to  have a 
new  town. 
in  Ronald 
township,  near  the  Prairie  Creek  mill, 
and  has  been  named  Johnstown.  The 
residents  of  that  section  will  petition 
for a  postoffice and Wm.  Jones, of Butter­
nut,  will  move  his  general  stock  to  the 
new  town.

is 

It 

McBain— The  McBain  Grocery  Co. 
has  purchased  a  tiact  of  timber  land 
within  a  mile  from  the  village and  be­
gun  peeling  the  hemlock  thereon  with 
a  force  of  40 men.  The  company  has 
also  secured  a  contract  to  peel  the  bark 
on  240  acres  of  land  two  miles  north­
west  of  town,  owned  by  the  Grand 
Rapids  Bark  and  Lumber  Co.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Pembina—Geo.  Harter  &  Son  have 
purchased  the  lumber  business  of  M.  E. 
Harter  &  Son.

Decatur— M.  P.  Maxon  is  considering 
the  advisability  of  removing  his  hoop 
factory  from  Union  City  to  this  place.

Ovid—A.  Behrendt  has  purchased  the 
stock  of  tobacco  of  the  Ovid  Cigar  Co. 
and  opened  a  factory  in  rooms  in  rear 
of  his  store.

Lyons—Jonathan  Hale  &  Sons  are 
putting  in  a  new  9,000  pound  turbine 
wheel,  which  doubles  the  capacity  of 
their  flouring  mill.

Saginaw—The  American  Potato  Flour 
Co.  has  shipped  36,000  pounds  of  flour 
to  New  York,  the  third  shipment  of  a 
like  amount  since  April  9.

Fouch— Henry  J.  Snohr  has  cut  600,- 
000  feet  of  hardwood 
lumber  for  the 
Schomberg  Hardwood  Lumber  Co.  and 
shut  down  his  mill  for  the  season.

Owosso—Byant  &  Co.,  of  Mayville, 
in 
have  decided  to  erect  a  flouring  mill 
this  city  and  have  already  let  the  con­
tract  for  a  75  barrel  mill,  to  be  fitted 
with  the  latest  improved  machinery.

it 

Brooklyn—J.  W.  Blanchard  has  pur­
chased  the  flouring  mill  here and  will 
run 
in  connection  with  his  mill  at 
Jefferson.  A  new  flume  and  waste  gate 
will  be  put  in  and  other 
improvements 
made.

Irving—H.  C.  Strong 

is  now  sole 
owner  of  the  Irving  mill  property  and 
already  has  his  new  feed  mill 
in  place 
and  ready  for  work.  The  entire  mill 
will  be  thoroughly  overhauled  and  some 
new  machinery  added.

Saginaw—The  Feige  Desk  Co.  prop­
erty  has  been  sold  by  Hon.  W.  R.  Burt 
to  the  Welsh  &  Kerry  Manufacturing 
Co.,  of  Reed  City,  and  the  factory  will 
be  utilized  for  the  manufacture  of  hard­
wood  boxes  and  hard  maple  flooring.

West  Branch—The  Chicago  Last  Co. 
is  to  locate  a  factory  at  this  place.  The 
company  has  contracted  for  land  for 
buildings  and  yard,  and  with  W.  W. 
Vaughn  for  timber.  He  is  to  furnish 
the  concern  with  2,000,000  feet  of maple 
annually  for  twenty  years.

Menominee—The  dead  head 

logs 
taken  from  the  channel  of  the  Peshtigo 
River over  a  year ago  and  piled  on  the 
bank  between  that  place and  the  Mari - 
nette  road  bridge  will  be  rolled  into  the 
water  this  week  and  sent  direct  to  the 
mill  to  be  sawed  before they  again  be­
come  water  soaked.  About  1,200,000 
feet  of  these  logs  were taken  out  of  the 
channel,  many  of  them  being  raised 
from  the  bottom  after  the  ice  was  cut, 
and  hauled  ashore.  Most  of  the  logs 
are  of  the  Norway  variety  and  contain  a 
fair grade of  lumber.

Saginaw—The  sawmill  of  Briggs  & 
Cooper,  on  the  west  side,  has  not  been 
operated  this  season.  The  firm  is  run­
ning  a  shingle  and  sawmill  on  the 
Hauptman  branch  of  the  M.  C.  Rail­
way  and  the  product  is  shipped  to  the 
yard  here.  The  firm 
its 
planing  mill  and  is  doing  a  fair  busi­
ness.

is  running 

Saginaw—Gebhart  &  Estabrook 

in­
tended  to  erect  a  planing  mill  on  their 
premises  last  season  in  place  of  the  one 
burned,  but  the  depression  in  the  lum­
ber  trade  caused  them  to  hesitate,  and 
as  yet  no  move  has  been  made,  and 
it 
if  a  new  plant  will  be 
is  not  known 
built.  Mr.  Estabrook 
said  recently 
that  he  should  do nothing until  the  tariff 
question  is  settled.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Bicycle 

Im­
provement  Co.,  Limited,  has  filed  arti­
cles  of  association  with  the  Register  of 
Deeds.  The  capital  stock 
is  $40,000, 
all  paid 
in  by  patents,  and  the  stock­
holders  are  John  T.  Dodge,  $19,900; 
Horace  E.  Dodge,  $19,900;  Michael  J. 
Dee,  $100;  Fred  S.  Evans,  $100.  The 
company  will  deal  in patents concerning 
bicycles and  bicycle  parts.

Ovid—The  company  heretofore known 
as  the  Clinton  County  Fruit  Co.  will  be 
reorganized  in  a  few  days as  The  Clin­
ton  County  Fruit  and  Cider  Co.,  with  a 
capital  of $30,000,  of  which  $15,000  will 
be  put 
in  by  two  Chicago  capitalists. 
The  remaining  $15,000  will  be  divided 
into  $10 shares.  Farmers  may  become 
shareholders  by  signing  contracts  to  de­
liver  apples  the  coming  season  to  the 
amount  of  the  shares  taken.

Cheboygan— Negotiations  are  in prog­
ress  to start  the  sawmill  formerly  owned 
by  the  Whitehall  Lumber  Co. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  a  contract  will  be  closed  to 
saw  10,000,000  feet  of  logs  to be brought 
over  from  Canada,  and  which  would 
have  been  manufactured  in  Canada  had 
the  tariff  been  kept  off  lumber.  The  $2 
duty  will  bring  millions  of  feet  of  logs 
to  Michigan  to  be  manufactured  which 
otherwise  would  be  sawed  on  the  other 
side.

Between  Seedtime  and  Harvest

Is  a  good  opportunity  to  enquire  about 
farming  lands  in  South  Dakota,only  one 
day's  ride  from  Chicago.  Bountiful 
crops  of  Wheat,  Corn,  Barley  and  Flax 
reward  the  tiller  ol  the  soil.  As  a  stock 
and  dairy  country  South  Dakota  leads 
all  the  world.  First-class  farm 
lands 
with  nearby  markets  can  now  be  bought 
at  from  $10,  $12,  $15,  and  upwards, 
per  acre,  and  this  is  the  time  to  invest. 
For  further  particulars  write  to  Geo.  H. 
Heafford,  General  Passenger  Agent, 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Rail 
way,  Old  Colony  Building,  Chicago,  111.

A  Frenchman  has  devised  a  means 
for  converting  grain  into  dough  at  one 
operation  without  milling,  an  invention 
which,  if  the  claims  of  the  originator 
are  verified,  will  not  only  effect a  revo­
in  breadmaking,  but  also  make 
lution 
the  miller's  occupation, 
like  that  of 
Othello,  only  a  memory  of  the  past. 
The grain,  which  is  first  soaked,  enters 
one  end  of  the  machine,  where 
it  is 
crushed  and  disintegrated, 
the  paste 
passing  to  the  kneading  machine  in  the 
other  end  of  the  apparatus,  where  it  is 
aerated  and  kneaded  into  dough  which 
may  be  preserved 
indefinitely  without 
injury.  All  the  nutritive  qualities  of 
the  grain,  the  bran 
included,  are  pre­
served,  and  the  bread  possesses  greater 
nutrition  and  is  more  easily  digested.

The  traveling  men  of  the  country  will 
be  gratified  to  hear  that  a  heavy  tariff 
has  been  placed  on  prunes.  We  hope 
they  will  make  it  prohibitive.

WANTS  COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

321 

■ NYONE  LOOKING  FOR  GOOD  INVE8T- 

ment can hear  of  a  splendid  ready-made 
clothing and  furnishing  goods  business  to  be 
disposed of, situated in  the  great  peach  center 
of  Michigan; only clothing  store  in  the  town; 
doing a very lucrative business on a  small  capi­
tal.  As this is a bona fide, and in  every  way  a 
solvent and  profitable  business, with  excellent 
reasons for  disposal, none  but  principals  need 
apply to Wm. Connor, Box  316.  Marshall, Mich.
3 9
W ANTED—'fO  PUR«  HASE  A  STOCK  OF 
drugs  in  Michigan,  southern  part  pre­
ferred.  Must be well  located.  Address Alva J. 
328
Ulrich, Parkviile, Mich. 
i iM>K  SALE—CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK: 

doing good business;  best location in Grand 
Rapids;  good reason for  selling;  no  exchange. 
Address Hardware,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
325
TAOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
X1  chandlse  and  fixtures; 
inventory  $1,700. 
Address Postmaster, New Salem, Mich. 
r p o   EXCHANGE—A  GOOD  LIVERY  STOCK, 
X  doing a good  business,  for  a  stock  of  gro- 
ct ries.  Address No. 327, care  Michigan  Trades 
3Hi
man. 
II'OR SALE-CHANCE  OF  A  LIFETIME  TO 
1  secure an old-established  grocery  business, 
located  on best business street of Grand Rapids. 
Stock all  clean  and  salable.  Rent  reasonable. 
Wood yard and feed  store  in  connection.  Rea­
son foi selling, owner has other business.  Stock 
and fixtures will inventory $2,500.  Trade mostly 
cash.  Act  quickly, as  owner  will  sell  to  first 
applicant  with  necessary  cash.  Address  No. 
326, care Michigan Tradesman. 
ANTED-A LOCATION FOR DRUG STORE 
in a country  town.  Dan’l  Lynch,  30  Ells­
ARTlEs  WISHING  TO  BUY,  SELL  OR 
exchange  real estate  or  merchandise,  any 
quantities or  description, can  depend  upon  L. 
C. Townsend, of Jackson,  Mich., for  quick and 
responsible  dealing. 
n n o   KXCHANUE  FOR  STOCK  OF  MER- 
X  chandise—160 acres  of  good  Northern  Ne­
braska land, five miles from town.  For particu­
lars address F. Opocensky, Niobrara, Neb.  321
I  ¡'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 

ch tndise, 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
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. 

i i'OR  SALE-GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF  GRO- 

worth Avenue, Grand Rapids. 

f 'OR  SALE—ONE  100-HORSE POWER SLIDE 

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
W ANTED—DEALERS  TO  SELL  SILVER 
cleaner.  Anew  tbing;  does  quick  work; 
10c packages at retail  makes  8  ounces;  sells  it­
self;  good  maigins;  sample  free.  W.  Gleason, 
311
Manistique, Mich. 

I i'OR  sa le—c le a n  stock  o f  d r u g s,  in - 

ventoryii.g about $800, located iii  live  town 
of 600 people.  Will seil stock  for  cash  on  basis 
of  present  value.  Address  No. 309, care  Hazel- 
tine & Perkins Drug Co.. Grand Rapids. 

326

318

317

309

322

Ii'OR  SALE—DRU«  STOCK  IN  ONE OF THE 

best towns in Michigan, doing a  business of 
*6,800 yearly.  Expenses  low.  Reason  for  sell­
ing, other  business.  Inspection  solicited.  Ad­
dress No. 308, care Michigan Tradesman. 
308
Ii'OR  SALE—BAND  SAW,  MILL  MACHIN- 
1  ery,  lot of lumber carts,  three  show  cases, 
one  fire  proof  safe,  lot  of  mammoth  store 
lamps—all at  closing-out  prices.  Address  The 
Converse  Manufacturing  Co.,  Newaygo,  Mich.
___________________________ 306
WANTED—PARTNER  WITH  $2,000  FOR 
one-half interest  in  hardware, stoves  and 
tinshop, plumbing  and  furnuce  work  and  job­
bing, roofing,  etc.  Have  several  good  jobs  on 
hand and a well-established trade;  best location 
in heart of city.  Address Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
M ich. 
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 have any. 
We pay  a  liberal commission and  give  satisfac­
tory service  Terms on  application.  American 
Steam Laundry, Otte Brothers, proprietors.  289
FOR  SALE  OR- TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 
merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  the  Basket  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 
262
Ru b ber  sta m ps  a n d  r u b b er  t y p e.
Will J.  Weller, Muskegon, Mich._____ 160

Ii'OR  EXCHANGE—TWO  KINK  IMPROVED 
X  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
73
WANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS,
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
249
Ithaca. Mich. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

WANTED—TINNER  WHO  UNDERSTANDS 
hardware and implement  business; steady 
job  Write full  particulars—age,  qualification, 
etc.—in first  letter.  S.  A.  Howey,  Lake  City, 
M  ch. 
319
SITUATION  WANTEll—BY  A  MIDDLE- 
k3  aged gentleman with  twenty  years’  experi­
ence as bujer 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

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

Frank  W.  Burns  succeeds  Burns  & 
in  the  meat  business  at  253 

McGowen 
Jefferson  avenue.

P.  Jordan  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  Elgin.  The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

R.  Squire  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  Rockford.  The  stock  was  furnished 
by  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.

Hickey  &  Doueth  will  shortly  open 
a  grocery  store  at  Hannah.  The  Wor­
den  Grocer  Co.  has  the  order  for  the 
stock.

Peter  Semeyn  has  opened  a cigar  and 
confectionery  store  at 253 Plainfield ave­
nue.  The  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

E.  J.  Emmons  has  embarked 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  3x9  South  Division 
street.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

M.  W.  Ryan  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner  of  Spiing  and  Island 
streets.  The  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Com­
pany  furnished  the  stock.

Beech,  Cook  &  Co.  have  sold  their 
elevator  on  West  Bridge  street to Watson 
&  Frost,  who  will  utilize  the  property 
as  a  flour  depot  and  feed  mill.

Wm.  Kale  has  embarked  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  the  corner  of  Gold  and 
West  Fulton  streets.  The  Ball-Barn- 
hart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

C.  E.  Gibson,  whose  grocery  stock 
was  destroyed  during  the  recent  fire  at 
Bloomingdale,  has  resumed  business  at 
that  place.  The  Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer Co.  furnished  the  stock.

H.  S.  Williamson  (Benton  Harbor), 
J.  E.  Arney  (Pana,  111.),  and  H.  D. 
Arnold  (Jones)  have  formed  a  copart­
nership  under  the  style  of  Williamson, 
Arney  &  Co.  and  engaged 
in  the  fruit 
business  at  22  South  Ionia  street.

J.  A.  Damon,  whose  drug  and  gro­
cery  stock  at  Weidman  was  recently 
destroyed  by  fire,  has  resumed  business. 
The  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  fur­
nished  the  drugs  and  the  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman  Co.  supplied  the  groceries.

The  De  Graaf,  Vrieling  &  Co.'s 
plant  on  South  Ionia  street,  which  has 
been 
idle  for  several  years,  has  been 
leased  for  five  years  by  the  Wernicke 
Co.,  manufacturer  of  office  files  and 
book  cases  at  Minneapolis,  which  will 
transfer  its  headquarters  to  this  city 
about  August  1.  The  new 
institution 
will  furnish  employment  to  about  40 
hands  and  will  prove a  welcome  addi­
tion  to  the  manufacturing  interests  of 
this  market.

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus—Home  grown  has  ad­

Bananas—The  market 

vanced  to  25c  per  doz.  bunches.
is 

steady, 
prices  unchanged  and  the  demand  very 
good,  with  abundant  supplies.

Beans—Referring  to  the  market  on 
dry  stock,  the  Miller  &  Teasdale  Co. 
(St.  Louis)  write  the  Tradesman  as  fol­
lows :  There  does  not  seem  to  be  much 
future  to  beans  before  prices  on  the 
coming  crop  are  established.  Some  of 
the  largest  shippers 
in  Michigan  are 
offering  to  sell,  for the latter  part  of  July 
shipment,  choice  handpicked  pea  beans 
at  75c,  delivered  at  East  St.  Louis, 
which  means  between  60  and  64c  at 
Michigan  shipping  points.  These  beans 
are guaranteed  to  be good-keeping stock 
and  of  choice  quality.  You  can  see 
from  this  that  nobody  has  much  con­
in  the  future  market.  There
fidence 

are  a  good  many  beans  yet to be shipped 
out  of  Michigan,  so  we  are  informed. 
The  demand  for  beans  at  the  present 
time 
is  exceedingly  light.  We  would 
not  be  surprised  to  see  beans  sell  for 
less  money  than  the  present  market  in 
the  course  of  a  month  or  six  weeks. 
Liberal  supply,  lack  of  demand  and 
lack  of 
in  beans  have a  tend­
ency  to  cause  a  decline  in  prices.  We 
should 
like  to  be  able  to  speak  more 
encouragingly  of  ihe  prospect,  but  from 
present  indications  we  are  not  justified 
in  doing  so.

interest 

Beets—25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Butter—Separator  creamery  is  slow  at 
14c.  Choice  dairy  fetches  9@xoc,  net­
ting  the  shipper  about  8c.  Those  who 
have cold  storage  are  putting  away  am­
ple  supplies  in  anticipation  of a drought 
later 
in  the  season,  which  would  send 
prices  up  several  cents.

Cabbage— Cairo  stock  in  2  doz.  crates 
commands $1.65.  Mississippi  stock  in  5 
doz.  crates  fetches  $3.50.
Cauliflower—$1  per doz.
Celery— Meager  offerings  of  home 
grown  are coming  in  and  find  ready  sale 
on  the  basis  of  25c  per  doz.  The quality 
is  excellent  and  the  supply  is  expected 
to  be  more  plenty  from  now  on.

Cherries— Home  grown  Sweets  com­
mand  $1  per  crate  of  16 qts.  Red  and 
black  cherries  will  begin  to  come  in  the 
latter  part  of  the  week.

Cheese— The  market  has  sagged  a  lit­
tle  from  last  quotations.  Heavy supplies 
of  spring  make  are  coming,  and  the 
market  has  an  easy  tone  in  almost every 
line.
Cucumbers— Home  grown  are  in  am­

ple  supply  at  30@35c  per  doz.

Eggs—Local  supply  is  large  and  de­
mand 
is  excellent.  Candled  stock  is 
taken  on  basis  of  gc,  so that  the  ship­
per  gets about  8c,  loss  off,  or  7@7%c, 
case  count.
Gooseberries—Practically  without  de­
mand.  Such  meager offerings  as  come 
to  hand  are  slow  sale  at  $1  per  16 qt. 
case.

Greens— Beet,  40c  per  bu.
Lemons—The  market  is  very  firm,  al­
though  quotations  are  not  advanced. 
This  weather  has  the  tendency  to  move 
stock  very  much  faster  than  hitherto. 
An  advance both  in  the  East  and  in this 
market  may  soon  be  looked  for.

Melons—Slow  sale  on  account  of  the 
high  prices  ruling  for  Georgia  stock 
and  the  low  price  of  berries,  which  are 
given  the  preference.

Onions—Southern  stock 

fetches  $1 
large  in  size  and 
per  bu.  Green  are 
fair  in  quality,  commanding  12c  per 
doz.  bunches.

Oianges—The  stocks  in  hand  in  this 
market  are  larger  than  usual  at  this 
season  of  the  year.  This  market  is  not 
likely  to  get  many  more  car  lots  from 
the  coast  this  season.  Prices  are  un­
changed,  except  that  fancy  seedlings 
are  worth  a  little  more.

Peas— Home grown  are  in  ample  sup­
ply  and  brisk  demand  on  basis  of  75c 
per bu.

Pieplant— ic  per  lb.
Pineapples—Havanas  are  sold  as  low 
as  $1  per  doz.  Fancy  Indian  River 
(Florida)  command  $i.40@x.5o.

Potatoes— New  stock  fetches  90c@$i. 

Old  is  in  fair  demand  at  25c  per  bu.

Radishes—Charter, 

10c 
bunches;  China  Rose,  Kc.

per  doz. 

Seeds—Medium  clover,  $4.5o@4.75; 
Mammoth  clover,  $4  75@5;  Timothy, 
Si.40@i.6o ;  Hungarian,  75@8oc;  Com­
mon  or  German  Millet,  6o@7oc.

Squash —Illinois  stock,  4c  per  lb.
Strawberries—Home  grown  are 

in 
their  glory  this  week  and  Thursday  is 
expected  to  be  the  “ big  day”   on  the 
local  market.  Prices  are  from  5o@75c 
per  16 qt.  case,  according  to  quality  of 
stock  which  is  almost  uniformly  excel­
lent,  so  far  as  size 
is  concerned,  al­
though  flavor  is  not  up  to  the  standard, 
on  account  of  the  lack  of 
favorable 
weather.

Tomatoes—$1  per  crate  of  4  baskets.
Turnips—Home  grown  command  25c 

Wax  Beans—$1.25  per  bu.  for  Illinois 

per  doz.

stock.

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

Nearly  twenty  years  ago,  while  living 
in  a  iented  house  on  Clinton  street,  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

It 

the  colored 

Ethics  of the  Fire  Department.
is  commonly  supposed  that  it  is 
the  duty  of  the  Fire  Marshal  to  direct 
the  work  of  the  fire  department 
in  ex­
tinguishing  fires,  but  a 
little  incident 
which  recently  occurred  in  the  vicinity 
of  the  Tradesman  office  tends  to  show 
that  that  official  occasionally  has  other 
duties  to  perform  as  well. 
It  appears 
that,  while  making  bis  usual  rounds 
through  the  Blodgett  building  Sunday 
evening, 
janitor  smelled 
smoke,  discovered  that  the  smoke  came 
from  a  box  containing  paper  clippings 
in 
the  bindery  department  of  the 
Tradesman  office  and  promptly  extin­
guished  the  fire  by  means  of  a  small 
hose  attached  to  a  faucet  over  a  sink. 
In  the  meantime  a  guest  at  the  Eagle 
Hotel  noted  the  reflection  from  the  rear 
windows  of  the  office  and  turned  in  an 
alarm,  although  he  noticed  that  the 
reflection  ceased  before  the  department 
reached  the  building.  Having  extin­
guished  the  fire,  the  janitor  rushed  out 
to  the  front  hall  and  informed  the  Fire 
Marshal,  who  had  reached  the  scene  of 
the  trouble  and  was  superintending  the 
work  of  elevating  the  hose  through  the 
windows  in  the  front  part  of  the  build­
ing,  that  he  must  not  throw  any  water 
on  the  floor,  because  the  fire  was  out 
and  the  w ater  would  do  great  damage. 
insisted  on  having 
The  Fire  Marshal 
his  own  way 
in  the  premises  and  the 
janitor  was  equally  determined  that  be 
should  not,  going  so  far  as  to  block  the 
way  and  attempt  to  pull  back  the  hose 
which  the  firemen  were  dragging  into 
the  office.  The  Fire  Marshal and  janitor 
thereupon  clinched,  with  the  result  that 
the  head  of  the  fire  department  was 
compelled  to  call  for  assistance,  which 
came  in  the  shape  of  two  lusty  firemen, 
who  proceeded  to  demolish  the  janitor 
in  the  most  approved 
fashion.  The 
combatants  were  separated  by  an  occu­
pant  of  the  building,  who  vouched  for 
the  authority  of  the  janitor,  whereupon 
the  firemen  ceased  to  be  pugilists  and 
sought  the  scene  of  the  fire.  Subsequent 
investigation  disclosed  the  fact  that  the 
faithful  janitor  was  enraged  beyond rea­
son  by  the  Fire  Marshal  applying  an 
offensive  term  to  him,  and  those  who 
witnessed  the  fracas  assert  that 
the 
spectacle  of  the  head  of  the  fire  depart­
ment  stopping  to  thrash a janitor instead 
of  proceeding  to  put out  the  fire—on  the 
supposition  that  the  fire  really  existed— 
was  about  as  ludicrous  a  sight as  could 
be  imagined!

♦   $  *

The  Tradesman  concedes 

that  the 
Fire  Marshal  was  right  and  that  the 
janitor was  wrong  in  the  positions  they 
assumed.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  it  is 
asserted  that  the  moment  an  alarm  is 
turned  in,  the building  on  fire  ceases  to 
belong  to  the  owner,  so  far as  the  con­
trol  of  the  property  is  concerned ;  that 
it  passes  into  the  hands  of  the  fire  de­
partment,  and  that  the  word  of  the  head 
of  that  department  is  law,  subject  to  no 
dictation  from  any  source. 
In  extin­
guishing  the  fire  prior  to  the  arrival  of 
the  department,  the  janitor  incurred  the 
displeasure  of  the  firemen,  who  main­
tain  that 
it  is  the  business  of  a  janitor 
to  turn  in  an  alarm  and  direct  the  fire­
men  to  the  fire,  instead  of  usurping  the 
duties  of  the  department  in  putting  the 
fire  out.  This may be  the  correct  theory, 
from  the  standpoint  of  the  fire  depart­
ment,  but  the  writer  has  had  some  ex­
perience  along  these  lines  and  prefers 
to  act  on  his  own judgment,  irrespective 
of  the  pet  theories  of  any  one.

*  *  *

6

writer  was  awakened  one  night  by  the 
crackling  sounds  of  fire 
in  the  base­
ment.  The  fire  was  beyond  the  period 
of 
incipiency,  and,  although  he  could 
have  saved  most  of  the  contents  of  the 
house,  he  started  off  to give an  alarm, 
which  he  succeeded  in  doing.  On  the 
arrival  of  the  department,  it  was  found 
that  there  was  not  sufficient  pressure 
from  the  mains  to  throw  a  stream,  while 
the  steamer  then  assigned  to  the  bill 
district  was  unable  to  get  up  steam  for 
several  minutes,  during  which  time  the 
writer  was  compelled  to  stand  by  and 
see  his  entire  earthly  possessions go  up 
in  smoke— uninsured—while  the  build­
ing  he  foolishly  tried  to save  was  in­
sured  for  much  more  than  its  value! 
Moreover,  the  owner  was  able  to  elude 
the  meshes  of  the  law,  and,  through  the 
connivance  of  the  insurance  agent,  se­
cure  the  payment  of  the  entire  insur­
ance.

*  *  *

It  is all  very  well  to  talk  about  fire  to 
a  child  who  has  never  been  burned ;  but 
a  man  who has been  through  the  scourge 
of  fire  and  noted  the  inefficient  work 
sometimes  done  by  the  fire  department 
—and  Grand  Rapids  has  one  of  the  best 
departments 
in  the  country—will  still 
maintain  that the  faithful  colored  man, 
blinded  by  smoke  and  guided  only  by 
a  determination  to  protect  and  preserve 
the  valuable  property  intrusted  to  his 
keeping,  who  quietly  and  quickly  ex­
tinguished  an 
incipient  fire  of  myste­
rious  origin,  did  his  part  quite  as  well 
and  fully  as  effectively  as  the  blustering 
official  who  rushed  up  the  stairs  five 
minutes  later  and  applied  the  offensive 
term  of  “ nigger”   to  the  man  who  had 
thus  usurped  his  authority  and  warned 
the  department  against  the  further  des­
ecration  of  the  building.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  position  of  this  staple 

is 
gradually  growing  stronger  and a  higher 
range  of  values  is  surely  near at hand.

Tea—The  trade  in  teas  is  dull.  This 
is  largely  because the life  that  was  felt a 
few weeks ago,and  was stimulated by the 
tariff agitation,  was  an  unhealthy  one, 
and,  with  the  passing  of  the  possibility 
of  a duty  on  tea,the  interest  in  the trade 
passes.

Coffee—The  market 

is  dull  and 
featureless.  Prices  are  still  low,  and  the 
war  is  promising  no  end  just  yet.

Rice—It 

is  claimed  that  there  is  an 
advance  of  ]i@ xA c 
in  Japan  rice  be­
cause  of  the  proposed  duty  on  that  ar­
ticle.  Trade  in  both  domestic  and  for­
eign  sorts  is  light.

Provisions—The  trade  has  displayed 
much  confidence  in  values,and  the  mar­
ket  has  averaged  ’ higher than  the  pre­
ceding  week  for  leading  articles,  after 
suffering  some  decline  from  the  highest 
points  reached.  The  speculative  inter­
est has been  of  fair  proportions and  the 
shipping  demand  good.  The  supply  of 
hogs  is  maintained  somewhat  above  ex­
pectations,  and the  June  marketings  ap­
pear  likely  to  exceed  the  early  calcula­
tions,  although 
likely  the 
movement  will  be as  large  hereafter  as 
it  has  been.  There  has  been  some 
im­
provement 
in  the  enquiry  for  lard  for 
export.

is  not 

it 

Samuel  Tobey,  the  veteran  business 
man  of  Byron  Center,was  in  town  Tues­
day.  Mr.  Tobey 
is  now  Treasurer  of 
the  Byron  Center  Creamery  Co.  and  is 
giving  that  enterprise  the  benefit  of  his 
best  thought  and  most  painstaking 
efforts.

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Efforts  of  Michigan  Packers  to  Get 

Stock  According  to  Value.

It 

The  following  circular  has  recently 
been  sent  to  Michigan  merchants  by  a 
large  number  of  egg  shippers. 
It  is 
worth reading  by  packers in all sections :
We  sent  you  circulars  some weeks  ago 
it  was  that 
explaining  how  necessary 
eggs,  the  most 
important  product  the 
farmer  produces,  should  come  to  mar­
ket  in  the  best  possible  shape.  We  also 
explained  to  you  and  to  the farmers  that 
it  was  better  for  them 
if  their  eggs 
could  be  properly  cared  for  before  com­
ing  to  us,  and  that  it  would  be  money 
in  their  pockets,  because 
if  we  could 
get  the  eggs  fresh  and  clean,  we  could 
pay  closer  to  the  Eastern  market prices. 
Some  of  the  farmers  have  heeded  our 
suggestions,  but  the  greater  proportion 
of  them  seem  to  be  too  indolent  or  care­
less  of  their  own  interests  to  go  to  a  lit­
tle  trouble  to  make  their  most  valuable 
product  marketable.  As  the  people  to 
whom  we  sell  will  not  buy  the  dirty  and 
small  eggs  of  us,  we  are  compelled  to 
notify  you  that  our  employes  will  now 
pay  you  a  good  price  for  your good eggs 
(clean,  fresh  and  fair  size)  and  a  lower 
price  for  the  dirty,stale  and  small  eggs.
loss 
should  fall  on  you,  as  you  should  buy 
accordingly,and  the  loss  would  then  fall 
only  on  those  who by  their  carelessness 
deserve  it. 
In  order  that  those  who  do 
not  know  how  to  take  care  of  eggs  may 
have  an  opportunity to learn what is nec­
essary,  we  append  below  simple  direc­
tions,  which  you  can  either  tell  to  them 
or  you  can  give  them  a  copy  of  this  cir­
cular :

is  not  necessary  that 

this 

In  order  to  have  your  eggs  fresh, 
gather them  carefully  every  day  and  do 
not  leave  the  nest  egg  in  the  nest  until 
it  gets  old  and  stale. 
It  is  best  to  have 
a  china  nest  egg.
See  that  your  hens  have  fresh,  clean 
nests  frequently  and  put  them  where 
they  will  keep  dry,  as  damp  straw  in  a 
few  moments  stains  the  eggs  beyond 
redemption.
When  your  eggs  are  gathered  go  over 
immediately  and  if  you  find  any 
them 
that  have  got  mud  on  them  from  the 
hens  getting 
into  the  nests  with  dirty 
feet,  or  if  they  have  dirt  on  them  from 
any  other  cause,  you  can  easily  clean 
it  off  with  a  damp  cloth,  hut  you  must 
wipe  them  dry  immediately  or  the  eggs 
will  soon  be  spoiled. 
If  you  wait  un­
til  the  dirt  has  been  on  the  shell  several 
days  it  often  leaves  a  stain  on  the  shell 
which  cannot  be  wiped  off.
Keep  your  eggs,  while  waiting  until 
you  can  market  them,  in  a  cold,  dry 
place  and  never  put  them  in  water,  as 
if  you  do  so  it  penetrates  the  pores  of 
the  shell  and  causes  them  to  spoil  rap­
idly.
Do  not  let  them  get  damp  or  wet from 
any  cause,  as 
it  often  makes  them 
moldy  or  musty,  and  then  they  are  per­
fectly  useless;  if  they  should  get  wet, 
wipe  them  immediately  and  save  them 
as  much  as  you  can.

Don’t  put  your  eggs  in  bran,  sawdust 
or  anything  that  is  dusty  when  you  take 
them  to  market. 
It  makes  dirty  eggs 
of  clean  ones  and  cannot  be  cleaned 
off.  Never  put  them  in  salt. 
It  makes 
poor  eggs  of  them  at  once.
Do  not  hold  your  eggs  long  but  take 
them  to  market  at  least  every  week,  and 
oftener  if  you  can,  and  you  will  always 
have  desirable  eggs  to  sell.

It  may  be  that  you  are busy from  early 
in  the  morning  until  late  at  night  and 
that  you  cannot  see  how  you  can  do  any 
more,  but  you  are  working 
for  what 
money  there  is  in  it,  and  if  you  will  do 
these  things  we  have  suggested  you  will 
find  that 
it  will  pay  you  better  than 
most  of  the  things  you  now  do.

Interesting  Meeting  of 

the  Detroit 

Retail  Grocers’  Association.

Detroit,  June 21—At  the  regular  semi­
monthly  meeting  of  the  Detroit  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  held  June  16, 
the  special  Committee  on  Peddling 
Ordinance  reported  a  very  complicated 
After  the  Common
state  of  affairs. 

iVi ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

license 

license, 

Council  had  passed  the  amendment  to 
the  ordinance and  the  matter  had  been 
placed 
in  the  Mayor’s  hands  for  his 
approval,  the  peddlers  (being  on  the 
alert)  discovered  that  the  law  was  not 
in  effect  until  the  Mayor had  signed  it, 
and  that  by  tendering  the $5  and  de­
manding  a 
the  Clerk  was 
obliged  to  issue  a  license  under  the  old 
ordinance.  While  the  matter  was  in  the 
Mayor's  hands,  unsigned,  about  200 
peddlers  secured  $5  licenses,  but  when 
the  ordinance  was  signed,  a  stop  was 
put  to  their  movement.  It  was  then  dis­
covered  that  no  bonds  had  been filed  for 
any  of  the  licenses  that  had  been  issued 
and  all  were  declared 
invalid  by  the 
Corporation  Counsel.  Out  of  the  200 
who  bad  paid  S5,  only  seventy-six  had 
secured  the  proper 
from  the 
Mayor’s  office.  The  remainder  have 
simply  a  receipt  for  the  money  paid 
to  the  Police  Clerk.  The  next  move  on 
the  part  of  the  peddlers  was  through  an 
attorney  who  had  prepared  a  bond  and 
tendered 
it  for  acceptance  under  the 
old  ordinance,  after  the  new  law  was 
in  force,  the  object  being  to  make  good 
all  the  $5 
licenses  which  had  been  is­
sued.  This  was  promptly  refused  by 
the  Mayor  and  the  matter  will  now  be 
decided  in  court.  The  report  was  ac­
cepted  and  the  Committte  given  further 
time  to  continue  the  work.

The  Committee  appointed  to  visit 
Vail  &  Crane  presented  a report through 
the  Chairman,  D.  R.  Burnham,  who 
had  personally  called  upon  Mr.  Crane 
for a  decided  answer  to  the  request  of 
this  Committee.  Mr.  Crane  stated  that 
he  would  not  patronize  Parker,  Webb  & 
Co.  until  this  difficulty  was  satisfacto­
rily  settled  and  that  he  would  notify 
Parker,  Webb  &  Co.  by 
letter  to  that 
effect.  The  report  was  accepted  and 
the  Committee  discharged.

President  Knight  opened 

Mr.  Koenig  being  called  to  the  chair, 
President  Knight  made  a  strong  argu­
ment 
in  favor  of  securing  the  services 
of  a  competent  person  to  solicit  new 
members,  collect  dues,  and  watch  for 
violations  of  the  peddling  and  market 
ordinances.  This  matter  was  referred 
to  the  Peddling  Ordinance  Committee, 
with  instructions  to  engage  some  one 
and  require  a  bond 
for  the  faithful 
performance  of  his  duty.
On  motion  by  Duncan  King,  Jr.,  a 
committee  was  appointed  to  call  upon 
the  Corporation  Counsel  for  an  opinion 
on  the  milk  ordinance.  Messrs.  King, 
Einfeldt  and  Schneider  were appointed.
the  oil 
question  by  stating  that  he  had  been 
called  upon  by  the  manager  of  the 
Standard  Oil  Co.  in  reference  to  the 
difficulty  now  existing  between  the  oil 
peddlers  and  the  resident  oil  compa­
nies. 
It  appears  from  the statements  of 
this  gentleman  that  the  oil  peddlers’ 
union,  consisting  of  138  members,  who 
have  secured  about  80  per  cent,  of  the 
oil  business  of  the  city,  are  not  satisfied 
and  are  possessed  of  a  very  strong  de­
sire  to  secure  the  entire  oil  trade,  they 
having  called  upon  the  oil  companies 
and  requested  them  to  raise  the  price  to 
grocers  and  dealers  1%  cents  per  gal. 
This  the  oil  companies  refused  to  do. 
The  peddlers,  being  determined 
to 
carry  their  point,  got  their  beads  to­
gether,  and  made  arrangements  to get 
their  supply  from  another  source.  The 
resident  oil 
immediately 
dropped  the  price  of  oil  to  4  cents  per 
gal.  to  enable  the  dealers  to  sell  at  a 
low  figure and protect themselves against 
the  encroachments  of  the  peddlers.
On  motion  of  Mr.  King,  a  committee 
of  three  was  appointed  to  call  upon  the 
three  oil  companies  and  gather  all  the 
information  possible  and  report  at  the 
next  meeting.  The  Chair  appointed  as 
such 
committee  Joseph  Knight,  E. 
Marks  and  L.  De'  Clerq.

companies 

Messrs.  Schneider,  Prue,  Misner, 
EinfeldtJ  and  Koenig  were  appointed  a 
committee  to  arrange  for an  excursion 
and  report  at  the  next  meeting.

E.  Marks,  Sec’y.

Treat  your clerks  as  men  and  human 
beings.  You  don’t  know  bow  much 
they  can  do  and  save  the  employer  they 
respect.

A  man  who 

is  the  picture  of  health 

need  not  get  in  front  of  a  camera.

CLOVER  AND  TIMOTHY.

All kinds of

FIELD  AND  GARDEN  SEEDS.

Correspondence  solicited.  Your  order  will 

follow,  we  feel  sure.

BEACH,  COOK  &  CO.,

128 to 132 West Bridge St.  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 SL, Grand  Rapids.

MOSELEY  BROS.,

SEASONABLE  SEEDS

GARDEN  SEEDS,  IMPLEMENTS,  ETC.

Millets,  Hungarian,  Fodder Corn.

Alfred J.  Brown  Co., Wholesale  Seed  Merchants, 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

We  Are  Getting Plenty

OP  HOME  GROWN  STRAWBERRIES

Write for our prices to you.

BANANAS 

LEMONS 

ORANGES

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

Tomatoes,  New  Potatoes,  Summer  Squash.

ALLERTON  &  HAGGSTROM, Jobbers,

Both Telephones 1248.

■ 27 Louis Street.

Grand  Rapids, fUch.

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.

B U N T IN G   &   CO.,  Jobbers,

20  &  22 Ottawa Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

M .  R .  A L D E N .

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

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

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

The  M e u n ie r   company.

JOBBER  OF

Fruits and Produce

M A N U FA CTU R E R   OF

I “ Absolute”  Pure  Ground  Spices,  Baking  Powder,  Etc.

We will continue to put up Baking Powder under  special  or  private 
labels, and  on which  we will name very low  prices, in quantities.
We  make  a  specialty  of  Butchers*  Supplies  and  are  prepared  to 
quote low prices  on  W hole  Spices,  Preservaline,  Sausage  seasoning, 
Saltpetre,  Potato Flour, etc.
We also continue  the  Fruit  and  Produce  business  established  and 
successfully  conducted by H e n r y J.  V in k e m u ld e r.

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY,

Successor to  Michigan Spice  Co.,

Citizens  Phone $55-

418-420  S.  DIVISION ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

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7

said 

license 

license  or  contrary 

passed 
in  pursuance  thereof,  or  not 
producing  upon  demand  of  any  per­
to 
son 
the  terms  of  any 
that  may 
have  been  granted  to  him  as  a  hawker, 
peddler or  pawnbroker,  shall  be  deemed 
guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and  upon  con­
viction  thereof  before  any  court  of com­
petent  jurisdiction,  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  of  not  more  than  fifty  dollars 
and  costs  of  prosecution,  or  by  impris­
onment 
in  the  county  jail  for  a  period 
not  exceeding  three  months,  or  by  both 
such  fine  and  imprisonment,  in  the  dis­
cretion  of  the  court  before  which  the 
conviction  may  be  had.

Sec.  7.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
supervisor of each  township  in  the  State 
to  see  that  this  act  is  enforced  and  in 
case  of  any  violation  thereof  to  imme­
diately  notify  the  prosecuting  attorney 
of  the  proper  county,  whose  duty 
it 
shall  be  to  take  all  proper  steps  for  the 
prosecution  of  the  offender.

in 

Sec.  8.  Nothing  contained 

this 
act  shall  prevent  any  person  from  sell­
ing  any  meat  or  fish  in  townships  out­
side  of  any  incorporated  city  or village, 
nor  any  nurseryman  from  selling  his 
stock  by  sample  or  otherwise,  nor any 
person,  firm  or  corporation  engaged  in 
the  sale  of  farm  machinery  and  imple­
ments,  nor any  manufacturer,  farmer  or 
mechanic residing 
in  this  State  from 
selling or offering  for  sale  his  work  or 
production  by sample or otherwise,  with­
out license,  nor shall  any  wholesale  mer­
chant,  having  a  regular  place  of  busi­
ness,  be  prevented  by  anything  herein 
contained  from  selling  to  dealers  by 
sample,  without  license;  but  no  mer­
chant  shall  be  allowed  to  peddle,  or  to 
employ  others  to  peddle  goods  not  his 
own  manufacture  without  the  license 
provided  for  in  this chapter.

Sec.  9.  Sections  sixteen  to  twenty- 
five  inclusive  of  chapter  twenty-one  of 
the  revised  statutes  of  eighteen  hundred 
forty-six,  entitled 
‘ ‘ Hawkers  and  ped­
dlers, ”   being  sections  twelve  hundred 
fiftv-seven  to  twelve  hundred  sixty-six 
inclusive  of  Howell’s annotated statutes, 
act  number  two  hundred  four  of  the 
public  acts  of  eighteen  hundred  eighty- 
nine,  being  sections  one  thousand  two 
hundred  and  sixty-six  a  to  one thousand 
two  hundred  sixty-six  e 
inclusive  of 
Howell’s  annotated  statutes;  and  act 
number  one  hundred  thirty-seven  of  the 
public  acts  of  eighteen  hundred  and 
ninety-five  is  hereby  repealed.
This  act  is  ordered  to  take 

immedi­

ate  effect.

Approved  June  2,  1897.
Filed  June  5,  1897.

Justice 

is  the'  last  thing  a  bad  man 

wants  to  see  done.

Every  Dollar

Invested  In  Tradesman  Company’s 
COUPON  BOOKS  will  yield  hand­
some returns in saving book keeping 
besides the assurance  that no charge 
is forgotten.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapid

ship your  Butter and Eggs for  Cash at your station to

H E R M A N N   O .   N A U M A N N   S i  C O .

Main Office, 353 Russell St.

D  E T  R O I T .  

Branch Store, 799 flieh. Ave.

- 4   BOTH  PHONES  1793.  ►

Special  Attention  to  Fruit  and  Berries  in  Season.

Correspondence Solicited.

R e fe r e n c e s :  Detroit Savings Bank,  or the trade generally.

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

M i  lle ^ jr   8 c  T e a s d a l e
SPECIA LTY POTATOES

BEANS

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Consignments solicited.  Advances made. 

Reference:  American  Exchange Bank, St. Louis. 

601  N.  Third  Street,

ST.  LOUIS,  MO*

On  Track

Cold  cash,  hot  cash,  spot  cash  or  any 
kind  of  m oney  we  will  pay  in  highest 
prices  for  B U TT E R   and  E G G S  at  your 
station.  W rite  us.

Harris  &  Frutchey,  Detroit.

R .   H1R

T

,

  J r .,

Market  St., Detroit.
Butter  and  Eggs wanted*^
W ill buy same  at  point  of  shipment, 
or  delivered,  in  small  or  large  lots. 
Write for particulars.

Elgin  System  of 
Creameries.

It  will  pay  you  to 

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

R.  E.  STURGIS,

A llega n ,  M ich.

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

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TOWNSHIP  TAXATION.

Full  Text  of the  New  Peddling  Law.
Section  i.  The  People  of  the  State 
of  Michigan  enact,  That  it  shall  not  be 
lawful  for any  person  to  engage 
in  the 
business  of  hawking,  peddling  or pawn- 
brokerage  by  going  about  fiom  door  to 
door  or  from  place to place,  or  from  any 
stand,  cart,  vehicle  or  in  any  other 
manner  in  the  public  streets,  highways 
or  in  or  upon  the  wharves,  docks,  open 
places  or spaces,  public  grounds or pub­
lic  buildings 
in  any  township  in  this 
State,  without  first having obtained  from 
the  township  board  of  the  township 
where  such  business  is  to  be  carried  on 
a  license  therefor.

Sec.  2. 

It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
township  board  of  every township  of  the 
State,  immediately  after  this  act  shall 
take  effect,  to  fix  the  amount  of  such 
license.

Sec.  3.  The actions  of  the  township 
board  in  fixing  the  amount  of  such 
li­
cense  shall  be  by  resolution,  which shall 
be  spread  at  length  upon  the  records  of 
the  proceedings  of  the  board  and  the 
same  may  be  annulled  or  amended  by 
resolution  of  the  township board  passed 
at  any  subsequent  meeting  thereof  and 
spread  at  length  upon  the  records  of  its 
proceedings:  Provided,  That  such  res­
olutions,  or  any  resolution,  annulling  or 
amending  the  same  shall  not  take  effect 
until  twenty  days  after  a  written  or 
printed  copy  of  the  same  shall  have 
been  posted 
in  five  of  the  most  public 
places  in  the township.  The  person  or 
persons  posting  copies of  any  such  res­
olution  shall  make  and  file  with  the 
township  clerk  proof  by  affidavit  of  the 
fact  of  such  posting.  And  in  all  suits, 
actions and  proceedings  where  the  pas­
sage of  any  such  resolution  by  the town­
ship  board,  or  the  posting  of  copies 
thereof  as  above  provided,  shall  come 
in  question,  a  copy  of  such  resolution, 
and  of  such  affidavit,  certified  under the 
hand  of  the  township  clerk,  shall  be 
prinia  facie  evidence  of  the due passage 
of  such  resolution  and  of  the  posting 
of  copies  thereof.

Sec.  4.  Licenses  granted  under  this 
act  shall  not  be  transferable,  and  shall 
expire  on  the  first  Monday  of  May  next 
after  the  granting  thereof.  Every  per­
son  to  whom  a  license  shall  be  issued 
under  this  act  shall  give,  upon  demand 
of  the  township  clerk,  a  bond  in  the 
sum  of  fifty  dollars  with  two  sufficient 
sureties  to  be  approved  by  the  township 
clerk,  conditioned  that  he  will  carry  on 
said  business 
in  a  quiet  and  orderly 
manner,  and  that  he  will  faithfully  ob­
serve  all  the  laws  of  this  State  and  the 
rules,  regulations  and  ordinances  of  the 
township  or  village  where  his  business 
shall  be  carried  on,  in  relation  to  said 
business.

Sec.  5.  All  sums  received  for  license 
granted  under authority of  this  act  shall 
be  paid  into  the  township  treasury  of 
the  township  granting  the  license,  to 
the  credit  of  the  contingent  fund.
Sec.  6.  Every  person  who  shall  be 
found  traveling  and  trading,  or  solicit­
ing  trade,  contrary  to  the  provisions  of 
this  act,  or  without  the  license  required 
by  any  resolution  of  any  township board

Do you w ant  to  know 

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Write to

Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,

Philadelphia,  Pa.

Fourth  National  Bank,

Grand  Rapids.

W.  D.  Hayes, Cashier,

Hastings National  Bank,

Hastings,  Mich.

W. R. Brice & Co.,

Commission
Merchants

Butter,  Eggs and  Poultry

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S P E C IA L   NOTICE.

N o  doubt  you  w ill  be  visited 
at  this  season  of  the  year  by 
smooth  -  tongued 
numerous 
solicitors,  anxious 
for  your 
business  who  w ill  m ake  all  gs 
kinds  of  prom ises  to  get  your  E® 
goods.  T ak e  our  advice  and  ||! 
look  up  the  reputation  of  the  g® 
house  that  m akes  you  these 
prom ises 
shipping.  | |  
You  will  find  us  rated  F ifty   W, 
to  Seventy-five  thousand  dol-  §$ 
lars,  credit  high,  and  for  45  p  
long  years  we  have  been  one  M 
of  the  leading  solid  houses  of  ^  
M
Philadelphia. 

before 

D. C. Oakes,  Banker,

Coopersville,  Mich.

23  South  W ater Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.

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men.  Correspondents  mast  give  their  full 
names and addresses, not necessarily for  pub­
lication, but as a guarantee of good  faith. 
Subscribers  may  have  the  mailing  address  of 
their papers changed as often as desired.
No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option  of 
the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid. 
Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office  as 

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When writing to any of our Advertisers, please 
say  that  you  saw  the  advertisement  in  the 
Michigan Tradesman.

E.  A.  STOWE,  E ditor. 

WEDNESDAY,  •  -  -  JUNE 23,  1897.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
To  those  who have  studied  the  indus­
trial  conditions  carefully  and  are,  con­
sequently,  prepared  to  accept  the  con­
clusion  that  no  sudden  general  advance 
in  prices  can  be  expected  there  is  much 
of  encouragement  in  the  developments 
of  the  past  week,  which  have  fully  car­
ried  out  the  promise  of  the  preceding 
in­
fortnight.  According  to  all  reports 
creasing  activity  based  on 
improved 
demand  has  been  the  rule  in  most lines, 
and 
in  the  advances  in  price  which 
have  been  made  in  several,  as  cotton 
prints and  iron  ores, there is significance 
in  that  it  marks  recovery  from  the  low­
est  records  of  staples  which  are  consid­
ered  as  barometers  of  the  industrial  sit­
uation.  But  of  more  significance  is  the 
fact  that  there  is constantly  increasing 
activity,  especially 
iron  and  steel 
manufacture  and 
for 
goods  for  fall  trade.

in  the  demand 

in 

In  the  textile  situation  there  is  more 
of  encouragement  than  for  many  months 
past. 
In  spite  of  good  crop  reports  in 
the  South,  cotton  marked  a  positive  ad­
vance  in  price, which  is  to  be  attributed 
to  the  better  feeling 
in  manufacture. 
The  better  demand  for  goods  raised 
print  cloths  a  shade  and  gave  an  im­
petus  to  the  market  for  other  goods; 
and  as  the  takings  of  Northern  spinners 
during  the  crop  year  have  been  nearly 
400,000  bales  less  than  in  i 8q5 ,there  is  a 
feeling  that  reviving  manufacture might 
soon  reduce  stocks  so  low,  prior  to  the 
arrival  of  new  cotton,  as  to  cause  higher 
prices.  There 
increase  in  the 
demand  for  woolen  goods,  which  has 
started  some  more  mills  and  caused 
further  purchases,  although  the  bulk  of 
sales  at  Boston  is  still  of  a  speculative 
character.

is  also 

is 

large  at  Pittsburg 

In  iron  and  steel  the  most 

important 
in  the  demand  for  finished 
change 
products. 
This  extends  through  all 
lines,  from  steel  rails  to  carriage  bolts 
and  wire  nails.  Sales  of  bar  iron  have 
been 
and  have 
amounted  to  150,000  tons  at  Chicago. 
Orders  for  structural  forms  from  several 
of  the  principal  cities  have  been  large. 
As  might  be  expected with this activity, 
there  have  been  some  serious  theaten- 
ings  of 
it  is 
hoped  that  this  will  not  be  permitted  to 
seriously 
interrupt  the  forward  move­
ment.

labor  disturbances,  but 

The  movement  of  wheat,  as  might  be 
expected  at  this  season,  has  been  very 
Prices  during  the  week  were
dull. 

it 

fairly  steady,  the  small  advance  of  the 
early  part  being  lost  at  the  last.

When 

is  taken  into  consideration 
in  prices 
that  the  general  difference 
and 
in  speculative  activity  makes  the 
bank  clearings  of  the  present  represent 
a  relatively  larger  exchange of products, 
The fact  that  the  volume  is  maintained 
at  about  the  highest  preceding the panic 
is  significant.  The  report  for  the  week 
is  $1,054,000,000.  Failures  are  30  less 
than  last  week—226.
INTERNATIONAL  ARBITRATION.
The  good  people  who  hope  to  bring 
about  such  a  condition  of  things  in 
in­
ternational  relations  as  will permanently 
do  away  with  war  have  recently  been 
holding  a  conference,  or  convention,  at 
Lake  Mobonk,  New  York.  The  prin­
cipal  work  of  this  gathering  has  been  to 
rejoice  over  the  stories  that  the  cause  of 
international  arbitration  has  made  dur­
ing  the  past  year  and  to  urge  the  con­
tinuation  of  efforts  to 
induce  public 
men  to  accept  their  plan  of  bringing  all 
civilized  nations 
into  an  agreement  to 
submit  all  disputes  to  arbitration.

The  Association  of  Arbitration  Advo­
cates  are  especially  pleased  with  the 
strong  advocacy  which  the  proposed 
treaty  between  the  United  States  and 
Great  Britain  received  and  they  deplore 
the  fact  that  a  minority  in  the  United 
States  Senate  was  able  to  postpone  for 
a  time  the  full  success  of the movement. 
These  gentlemen  seem  to  forget,  how­
ever, that the  treaty  referred  to  expressly 
stipulated  that  no  dispute  affecting  the 
honor  of  the  two  countries  or  the  rights 
of  the  citizens  of  either  should  be  sub­
jects  for arbitration.  As  wounded  pride 
and  affronts  to  citizens  are  the  most 
prolific  causes  of  international disputes, 
it  does  not  appear  that  the  arbitration 
treaty  would  have  accomplished  so  very 
much,  even  had  it  been  accepted.

It 

The  conference  adopted  an  address 
embodying  the  views  of  those  present. 
The  address  deplores  the 
temporary 
check  to  the  cause  arising  from  the fail­
ure  of  the  Senate  to  ratify  the  proposed 
treaty  with  England,  although  it  recalls 
with  satisfaction  the  majority  vote  of 
the  Senate  in  its  favor,  which,  although 
less  than  two-thirds  required  for  ratifi­
cation,  was  still  large  enough  to  be  en­
couraging. 
is  suggested  that  the 
overwhelming  majority  of  the  country 
should  only  be  stimulated  by  this  tem­
porary  failure  to  more  zealous  activity, 
and  should  urge  the  Executive  to  renew 
the  treaty  with  such  modifications,  if 
any,  as  may  be  approved  in  the  light  of 
the  recent  study  of  the  subject  bv  the 
Senate,  and  to  make  similar  treaties 
with  France,  Germany,  Austria,  Bel­
gium  and  Switzerland. 
The  address 
fittingly  conveys  the  thanks  of  the  con­
ference  to  Ex-President  Cleveland,  Ex- 
Secretary  Olney  and  Sir Julian  Paunce- 
fote  for  their  eminent  services  to  the 
cause  of 
international  arbitration,  and 
to  President  McKinley  and  Secretary 
Sherman  for  their support  of  the  same 
great  cause.

They  are  now 

jumping  on  General 
Lee  because  he  went 
into  a  room  in 
Havana,  where  the  Queen  of  Spain’s 
picture  was  hanging, in his shirt  sleeves. 
Time  was  when  the  queens  of  Spain 
were  not  so  particular.

If  the  traveling  men  of  the  country 
would  only  get  tcgether and  pull  on  one 
string,  railroad  discriminations  against 
them  would  stop  with  the  suddenness  of 
a  fat  man  falling  down  stairs  with  a 
cook  stove.

VICTORIA  AND  THE  JUBILEE.
This  week  marks  the  sixtieth  anni­
versary  of  Queen's  Victoria’s  accession 
to  the  throne  of  Great  Britain  and  Ire­
land  and  the  jubilee  fetes  in  honor  of 
the  event  are  on  a  scale  of  magnificence 
second  to  no  spectacular  celebration 
during  the  century.

From  the  Americas,  Australia,  India, 
Africa,  and  the  islands  of  all  the  seas, 
representatives  of  the  British  Empire 
have  assembled  in  the  British  capital  to 
do  honor  to  the  occasion  and  the  noble 
lady  who  for  more  than  half  a  century 
has  occupied  possibly  the  most  conspic­
uous  station  in  the world.  'Empires and 
kingdoms  have arisen  and  fallen  in  that 
time.  Sovereigns  have  been  elevated 
and  deposed,  republics  have  passed 
through  the  throes  of  revolutions  and 
the  maps  of  every  continent  have been 
changed,  but  years  full  of  honors  and 
respect  have  been  given  to  Victoria, 
and  not  a  convulsion  has  ever  shaken 
the  stability  of  her  throne  or brought 
her  in  unpleasant  conflict  with  her  peo­
ple.  She  has  passed  from  maidenhood 
to.  wifehood,  from  wifehood  to  widow­
hood  since  the  crown  was  placed  upon 
her  head  sixty  years  ago  and  yet  no 
scandal  has  rested  around  her  name. 
The  great 
inventions  of  the  times  and 
stirring  politics  of  the  century  have 
revolutionized  human  society,  but  the 
Queen  of  England  has  remained  serene 
and  unchanged  through  it  all—a  model 
wife,  an  affectionate  mother,  a  pattern 
of  propriety,  an  upright  and 
just  sov­
ereign.

The  perfection  of  the  British  consti­
tution  from 
its  popular  side  of  view 
has  relieved  the  occupant  of  the  throne 
of  the  details  of  political  management. 
The  real  power  rests  no  longer  with 
king  or  queen,  but  with  the  Commons 
and  the  Ministry,  yet  the  influence  of 
the  sovereign  permeates  all  classes  of 
society  and  strongly  affects 
current 
thought  and  politics. 
It  is  in  such  re­
spects  that  the  now  aged  queen  has 
most  directly  exerted  the  influence  of 
her  personality  upon  her  times.  The 
moral  tone  of  the  British  court  and  of 
British  society  has  unquestionably  been 
elevated  during  the  reign  of  Victoria 
and  the  fact  has  been  largely  due  to  her 
own  severe  moral  standards.  Pure  and 
true  womanhood  has  been  rendered 
doubly  attractive  by  its  conspicuous and 
consistent  display  for  sixtv  years  under 
the  fierce  light  that  beats  upon  the  first 
throne of  the  world.  The  domestic  re­
lations  have  been  made  more  beautiful 
by  the  demonstration  of  the  possibility 
of  mutual  esteem  and  affection,  even  in 
the  usually  corrupt  and  oppressive  at­
mosphere  of  hollow-hearted  courts. 
In 
a  word,  the  social  side  of  England  and 
the  world  has  been  elevated  and purified 
by  the  noble  example  of  this  womanly 
Queen  for  more  than  half  a  century.

The  British  would  be  less  than human 
were  they  to  fail  to  celebrate  her dia, 
mond 
jubilee  with  an  enthusiasm  born 
both of love and respect.  The vast growth 
of  the  empire,  its  territorial  extension, 
its 
increased  power,  resources,  popula­
tion  and  wealth ;  its  progress  in  the arts 
and  sciences  and  literature;  its  present 
commanding  position  in  the  world—all 
these  are of  course  matters  of  congratu­
lation  and  rejoicing  during  this  great 
jubilee  occasion,  but,  after  all  and 
above  all,  the  liveliest gratitude  of  the 
British  people  and  the  proudest  emo­
tions  of  the  hour  should  be  stirred  by 
the  reflection  that  for  sixty  years  the 
British  throne  has  been  occupied  by 
one of  the  model  women  of  the  century, 
who  has  kept  the  crown  untarnished

and  the  court  free  from  corruption  or 
scandal  and  against  whose  name  no 
honest  man  has  ever  whispered  an  ugly 
story.

DEBS AND HIS  UTOPIA OF LABOR.
Considerable  space  in  the public press 
is  just  now  being  accorded  to  the  gra­
tuitous  advertising  of  the  socialistic 
schemes  of  that  apostle  of  treason  and 
anarchy,  Eugene  V.  Debs.  This  ad­
vertising  enables  this  hero—or  those  for 
whom  he  serv«,  on  account  of  his  re­
cent  notoriety,  as  a  figure  head—to  vic­
timize  a  host  of  poor  dupes  who  may  be 
led  to  contribute  to  the  further  enrich­
ment  of  such  worthies.  The  announce­
ments of  plans  and  intentions  are  made 
in  terms  to  enlist  the  attention  and 
in­
terest  of  the  most  gullible  of  the 
igno­
likely  to  be  caught  in  the 
rant  class 
snares.  The  proposition 
is  made  to 
establish 
in  one  of  the  newer  states— 
Washington,  probably,  on  account  of 
the  socialistic  tendencies  of 
its  consti­
tution—a  colony  governed  by  the  prin­
ciples  of  socialism. 
In  this  paradise 
of 
labor  working  hours  are  to  be  re­
duced  from  fifteen  to  four and  all  prop­
erty 
is  to  be  a  trust  in  which  all  the 
colonists  are  to  be  shareholders.  Cor­
respondence 
is  said  to  have  been  car­
ried  on  with  the  Governor  of  the  State, 
who  is  represented  as  favoring the views 
of  these  reformers.
is  proposed, 

the  carrying  of 
these  plans  into  effect,  to  secure  control 
of  the  State  Government  by  the numbers 
of  the  colonists  and  the  influence  of  the 
socialistic  elements  already  there,  and 
then,  if  necessary,  to  defy  the  military 
authorities  and  the  Supreme  Court  by 
force  of  arms— indeed,  the  declarations 
of  the  purposes  of  these  schemers  are  in 
terms  as  broadlv  treasonable  as  is  likely 
to be  tolerated  in  this  age  of  toleration 
in  speech  which  amounts  to  almost  un­
limited  license  in  that  direction.

in 

It 

It 

indulgence 

Few  of  the  more  intelligent  who  have 
given  the  matter  attention  think,  for  a 
moment,  that  this  precious  syndicate  of 
schemers  seriously  contemplate  the  ac­
tual  establishment  of  such  an  Eden  of 
social  equality. 
is  significant  that 
the  association  of  these  promoters  took 
occasion,  in  the  early  part  of  their  de­
liberations,  to  vote 
liberal  salaries  to 
each  of  the  members.  While  the  ex­
leader of  law-defying  rioters  is probably 
a  most  valuable  card  in  the  hands  of the 
managers  of  this  enterprise  on  account 
of  his  hold  upon  the  great  masses  of  the 
ignorant,  gained  by  his  notoriety,  the 
unfortunate  frequency  with  which  his 
usefulness  continues  to  be  interrupted 
by 
in  the  frisky  cucumber 
would  prevent  his  serving  any  purpose 
involving  actual  performance. 
Indeed, 
this  unfortunate  propensity 
seriously 
interferes  with  the  repeated  appearance 
of  the  martyr hero  on  the  platform  nec­
essary  to  keep  him  before  his  devotees, 
as  illustrated  by  bis  failure  to meet such 
an  appointment  last  Sunday  in Chicago.
is  to  be  deprecated  that  the  press 
of  the  country  will even thus  unwittingly 
itself  to  the  furtherance  of  such 
lend 
swindling  schemes. 
is  enticed  into 
doing  this  by  the  use  of  the  livery  of 
the 
labor 
in 
such 
schemes. 
If  they  can  utilize  their  pres­
tige  in  the  American  Railway  Union  in 
turning  the  remaining  influence  of  that 
ruined  organization  to  such  a  purpose 
and  gain  the  adherence  of  some  of  the 
existing  socialist  bodies  and  then  have 
the  aid  of  the  heedless  press,  there  is 
no  reason  why  such  a  movement  will 
not  yield  a  rich  returns to the promoters.

furtherance  of 

It 

It 

DISREGARD  OF  OBLIGATIONS.
The  British  government  has  refused 
to  reopen  the  question  of  the  protection 
of  seal  life  in  Behring  Sea  or any  phase 
of  the  controversy._connected  with  the 
sea.  This  refusal  is  based  upon  the  un­
satisfactory  outcome  of  the  arbitration 
proceedings  which  decided  against  the 
United  States  in  the  dispute  with  Great 
Britain  over  our  claim 
to  exclusive 
jurisdiction  in  Behring  Sea.

The  treaty  under  which the arbitration 
was  held  expressly  stipulated  that,  in 
the  event  that  the  case  was  decided 
against  the  United  States,  compensation 
would  be  paid  to  the  Canadian  sealers 
for  the  damages 
inflicted  through  the 
seizure  of  their  vessels.  The amount  of 
the  damages  was  to  be  assessed  by  a 
commission.

The  award  of  the  arbitrators  was 
against  the  United  States,  and  our 
liability  to  the  sealers  was  admitted 
by  a  proposition  to  pay  a  lump  sum  to 
Great  Britain  in  settlement.  Although 
the  British  government  promptly  ac­
cepted  this  offer  of  settlement.no  money 
has  ever  been  paid,  and  Congress  has 
to  appropriate  the 
actually 
money.  The  United  States 
is,  there­
fore,  in  default,  and  the  principle  of 
arbitration,  of  which  we  prate so loudly, 
has  been  ignored  by our  refusal  to  abide 
by  the  result  of  an  arbitration  in  which 
we  were  one  of  the  contestants.

refused 

Not  only has  the  United  States refused 
to  pay  the  amount  of  money  awarded  to 
the  sealers,  but 
the  Government  has 
been  actually  shameless  enough  to  ask 
that  the  whole  case  be  reopened  and  the 
award 
revised.  Very  naturally  the 
Biitish  government  has  refused  to  con­
sent  to  this.

The  national  honor  demands  that  this 
award  should  be  promptly  paid.  Had 
Great  Britain  lost  the  case,  and  had  an 
award  been  assessed  against  her,  we 
would  have  long  since 
insisted  upon 
payment.  The  British  government  is 
certainly  right 
in  refusing  to  further 
consider  Behring  Sea  matters  until  we 
pay  the  award  to  the  sealers.

M
H
O
■

GIVE  BUSINESS  A  CHANCE.
Some  good,  and  the  only  good,  which 
can  come  to  this  country  from  the  com­
pletion  by  Congress  of  the  present  tariff 
scheme  will  be  in  the  likelihood  that 
the  business  of  the  country  will  have 
peace  and  quiet  for  a  year  or  two,  per­
haps  for  four  years.

and 

Then 

trade 

There  can  be  no  prosperity  in  busi­
ness  except  through  peace  and  stable 
conditions  of 
industry. 
Whatever causes  anxiety and uncertainty 
in  the  affairs  of  the  people  reacts  in­
juriously  on  business. 
Is  there  a  flood 
in  the  Mississippi  valley  or  a  drought 
in  the  Northwest? 
the  entire 
business  of  the  country 
is  disturbed. 
Merchants 
in  the  stricken  regions  at 
once  suffer  in  credit,and they  are  afraid 
to  buy,  even  if  they  have  cash,  because 
they  do  not  know  whether  or  not  their 
customers  will  be  able to pay.  The man­
ufacturers  in  the  East  and  the importers 
and 
in  the  cities  are  afraid  to 
sell  to  the  affected  districts.  The  rail­
ways  leading 
into  and  through  those 
districts  suffer  not  only  a  great  loss  of 
trade,  but  the  destruction  or  obstruction 
of  their  tracks  and  property  interests. 
Thus 
is  that  a  calamity  which  ap­
pears  to  be  wholly  local  exercises  most 
injurious  effects  upon  business  interests 
throughout  the  land.

jobbers 

But  how  much  more  serious  in  char­
acter  and  amount  is  the damage wrought 
by  causes  which  disturb  and  disorder 
the  vast  business  interests of  the  entire

it 

MICHIGAN TRADESMAN

is 

industry  of  the 
commerce  and  every 
is  seen  in  the 
country.  Such  a  cause 
tariff-tinkering  which 
commenced 
just  as  soon  as a different  political  party 
in  control  of  the  Government. 
comes 
For  the 
last  eight  years  the  curse  of 
tariff-making  has  been  added  to  the 
destructive 
influences  of  the  financial 
panic  of  1893.  First  came  the  Mc­
Kinley  law,enacted  during  the  Harrison 
administration ;  then  the  Wilson 
law 
created  during  the  Cleveland  adminis­
tration ;  now  the  Dingley  law,  with  the 
usual  confusion  and  disorder  incident 
The 
to  the  re-making  of  the  tariff. 
result  is  that  the  commerce  and 
indus­
tries  of  the  country  are  kept  so  con­
stantly  in  a  state  of  disturbance,  and the 
people  are  so  plunged  into  anxiety  and 
overwhelmed  with  uncertainty, 
that 
they  limit  their  affairs  to  transactions 
of  strict  necessity.

This  sort  of  thing  has  been  going  on 
until  the  people  are  well-nigh  desperate 
and  are  begging  only  to  be  let  alone. 
Any  sort  of  tariff,  no  matter  how  objec­
tionable,  is  better  than  incessant  agita­
tion  and  uncertainty,  and  so  the  people 
will  be  thankful  when  Congress  shall 
have  completed  the  tariff,  no  matter 
what  sort  of  a  bill  it  may  be.  Then 
they  can  hope  to  have  a  little  respite 
in  which  to  carry  on  their  business  un­
til  some  other  political  party  shall  get 
possession  of  the  Government  and  be­
gin  again  the  work  of  doctoring  the 
tariff  and  of  plunging  into  confusion 
and  chaos  the  commercial  and  indus­
trial  interests  of  the  United  States.

What  a  godsend  it  would  be  if  Con­
gress  could  only  meet  once  in  ten  years, 
instead  of  every  year,  and  give  the  peo­
ple  an  opportunity  to  revive  and rebuild 
their  prosperity.  The only  way  in  which 
it  can  be  done  is  by  the  establishing  of 
conditions  of  stability  and  peace. 
If 
people  can  be  assured  that  there  will 
be  no  tariff-tinkering,  and  no  foreign 
war,  and  no  domestic  revolution,  for  a 
term  of  years,  they  will  soon  have  a  re­
vival  of  business  activity  and  those  who 
it  in  various 
have  money  will 
undertakings  and 
enterprises  which 
have  been  waiting  so  long  for  a  period 
of  quiet  and  security.

invest 

Next  to  the  satisfaction  involved  in  handling

P ills b u r y ’s   B est  F lo u r

and

Old  F ash io n ed   L ard

is  that  of  being  able  to  give  your  customers  a 
good cigar.

Weyler  would  make  a  great  campaign 
chairman  in  a  popular  election—he  can 
do  more  bluffing  and  lying  on  less  capi­
tal  than  any  man  in  public  life  to-day. 
How  much  longer  will  the  manhood  of 
this  country  stand  Weyler’s  atrocities 
and  his  persecution  of  helpless  Cuban 
women?  Unless  the  people  utter  a  pro­
test  soon,  and  one  that  will  be  heard 
around  the  world,  we  are  not  entitled  to 
be  classed  as  a  Christian  nation.

A  man  of 

science  has  estimated 
that  a  cigarette  smoker  sends  into  the 
air about  4.000,000,000  particles  of  dust 
at  every  puff,  while  another  eminent 
scientist  gives 
it  out  as  his  opinion 
that  the  average  man’s  eyelids  open and 
shut  4,000,000  times 
in  the  space  of  a 
year.

The  latest  argument  against  the  cor­
set  comes  from  Bellaire,  Ohio,  where 
four  young  girls  walking  home  from 
church  were  struck  by  lightning.  Three 
of  them  wore  steel  corsets  and  were 
killed,  while  the 
fourth,  who  dis­
dained  fashion,  was  only  stunned.

The  Connecticut  Legislature  passed at 
its  late  session  a  law  requiring  the  use 
of  such 
inks  only  on  public  records  as 
are  approved  by  the  Secretary  of  State. 
The  law  goes  into  effect  on  July  1,  and 
a  penalty  of  $100  is  provided  for  vio­
lation  of  the act.

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s

New  Brick  Cigar
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,

is  the  best  5c  cigar on  earth.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

S a S H S H 5 H S S 5 H S R S H S a S H 5 H 5 H S B 5 H S c L 5 B 5 H 5 E S H S H S H 5 H S H 5 E S 3 ;

IO

SIXTY  YEARS  AGO.

Sad  Fate  of  an  Old-Time  Business 

Man.
W ritten fo r th e Tradesman.

I d  a former  number  of  the  Tradesman 
I  gave  a  truthful  history of my initiation 
into  the  mysteries  of  the wholesale trade 
in  merchandise.  That  bit  of  personal 
is  so  interwoven  with  that  of  a 
history 
mercantile  companion, 
as  well  as 
trusted  friend,  that  I  make  no  apology 
to  the  readers  of  the  Tradesman  for nar­
rating  his  history,  in  hopes  that  some 
of  the 
incidents  narrated  may  excite 
their  sympathy.

One  of  our  best  country  customers 
was  a  rich  farmer,  for  those  days,living 
a  few  miles  north  of  Canandaigua, 
named  Witter.  There  were  two  sets  of 
children,  eight 
in  all,  the  eldest  and 
only  child  by  the  first  marriage  being 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  They  were 
well  educated,  with  an  air  of  refinement 
that  showed  plainly  in  their  intercourse 
and  conversation.  Although  only  meet­
ing  occasionally,  there  grew  a  bond  of 
friendship  between  the  son,  Frederick 
A.  S.  Witter,  and  myself,  that  I  never 
could  quite  understand.  He  often  joked 
about  his  ‘ ’cumbrous  name,”   as  he  ex­
pressed 
it  himself,  and  what  a  load  it 
would  be  to  carry  through 
In 
many  respects  our  tastes  were  the  oppo­
site. 
in  these 
days  would  be  called  a  dude,  and  was 
a  little  inclined  to  be  proud  of  his  good 
clothes  and  fine  figure.  He  was  very 
fond  of  ladies’  society,  but  the  most 
bashful  young  man  I ever knew.  Some­
times  I  noticed  a  tinge of melancholy  in 
his  moods,  the  cause  of  which  I  did  not 
learn  until  years  after.

In  dress  he  was  what 

life. 

is  up  now?”  

One  day  he  came  into  the  store  alone, 
attired  in  his  best  suit,  white Marseilles 
In  surprise,  I  said, 
vest  and  gloves. 
‘ ‘ Fred,  what 
‘ ‘ Well,”  
said  he,  ‘ ‘ I  have  come  into  town  to  see 
if  I  can’t  get  a  situation  in  some  store. 
Don’t  you  think  you  could  help  me?”   I 
replied,  “ I  will  do  all  I  can,  Fred,  but 
you  will  have  to  shed  those  fine  clothes 
if  you  fill  any  situation  I  may  be  able 
to  help  you  get.”   He  laughed  as  he 
said,  ‘ ‘ I've  got  plenty  of  old  toggery  at 
home  and  am  ready  to  tackle  anything 
that  offers. 
It  can’t  be  dirtier  or  hard­
er  than  farming.”

Luckily,  I  happened  to  know  a  clerk 
in  a  store  who  was  going  to  throw  up 
his  situation  the  first  of  the  month,  on 
account  of 
‘ ‘ the  ceaseless  round  of 
drudgery,”   as  he  expressed  it.  This 
I  explained  and  told  him  plainly  what 
he  would  have  to  meet  should  be  have 
the good  luck  to  secure  the  place.  He 
said  be  was  ready  to  put  up  with  any­
thing  he  could  get  as  an  opening  to 
something  better.

In  the  morning  I  went  to  Mr.  Daniels 
and  told  him  I  had  heard  his  under 
clerk  was  going  to  leave,  asking  if  it 
was  true. 
“ Yes,”   he  replied,  “ the 
work  he  does  is  not  to  his  liking  and  I 
want  to  fill  bis  place  as  soon  as  pos­
sible, ”   asking  me 
if  I  knew  of  any 
young  man  he  could  get.

I  then  told him of my friend.  He  knew 
something  of  the  family  and  expressed 
the  fear  that  Fred  would  be  too  “ tony”  
to  fill  the  bill.  After  I had  narrated  my 
conversation  with  Fred  be  laughingly 
in  the 
said,  “ Well,  being  him  around 
morning  and  I  will  talk  with  him.”  
I 
made  an  appointment  for  ten  o’clock 
the  next  day.

Returning  to  the  store,  I  told  Fred 
what  I  had  done,  with  the  suggestion 
that  he  drive  home  and  change his dress 
suit  for  a  business  suit  that  I  knew  he 
had  because  I  had  sold  him  the  cloth

M iC n iQ A N   TIR A DESMAN

and  trimmings  only  a  short  time before. 
He  followed  my  suggestion  and  came 
back  the  next  morning  in  good  business 
shape.  I  went over  to  Mr.  Daniel’s store 
with  him.  Giving  him  an introduction, 
I  left  him  to  negotiate  for  himself.

He  came  back  about  an  hour  after­
wards  and  showed  me  a  copy of an  iron­
clad  agreement  he  had  signed  binding 
himself  for  a  year  from  the  following 
Monday  morning.  I  had  no  doubt  about 
his  success  in  filling  the  bill  because  I 
knew  him  to  be  too  conscientious  to 
sign  an  agreement  that  he  would  not 
live  up  to  at  any  cost.

This  happened  two  years  previous  to 
the  events  that  changed  my  plans and 
sent  me  to  New  York.  As  I  expected, 
Fred  became  a  favorite  with  his  em­
ployer,  receiving  a  handsome  raise  in 
salary  the  second  year.

formal 

call—a 

Having  completed  my  arrangements 
for  leaving  home,  I  made  the  round  of 
my  friends,  bidding  them  goodbye. 
The  last  call  I  made  was  on  my  com­
panion  and  friend,  Fred,  which  I  in­
tended  should  be  something  more  than 
a 
final  social  visit.
*‘ Well,  Fred,”   said  I,  “ this  is  the  last 
evening  we  shall  have  to  visit  together 
in  some  time. 
I  am  going  to  leave  for 
New  York  Monday. 
‘ ‘ Don’t be too  sure 
of its being the last, ”   he  replied;”   I  am 
going  with  you. 
I  shall  go  out  home 
to-morrow and  bid  my  father  and  step­
mother  and  the  children  goodbye.”  
In 
surprise  I  asked,  “ How  long  since  that 
idea  struck  you?”   “ Ever  since  I  heard 
you  were  going,”   he  replied. 
“ Mr. 
Daniels  doesn’t  like  to  let  me  go,  but 
my  second  year  is  up  and  I  have  made 
up  my  mind  that  I  am  built  for  some­
thing  on  a  larger  scale  than  I can  see  in 
the  future  here.”   ‘ ‘ Have  you  done any­
thing  toward  getting  letters  of  introduc­
“ O,  yes,”   was  his 
tion?”   I  asked. 
answer;  “ I  have  not  been 
idle,  as  you 
will  see  by  looking  at  these,”   throwing 
down  several  letters  of  introduction  and 
recommendation. 
“ I  sha’n’t  get  lost  if 
1  don’t  strike  a  situation  for  a  few 
weeks—you  know  I  have  a  little  money 
that  I  inherited  from  my  mother  that 
will  come  very  handy  for  us both  incase 
of  an  emergency.”

His  determination  that  our  fortunes 
should  net  be  separated  for a  moment 
quite  overcame  me.  This  feeling  was 
soon  changed  to  rejoicing  that  I was  not 
to  be  separated  from  my  companion and 
friend.  We  spent  the  evening  together, 
calling  upon  some  families  among  our 
customers  where  we  had  been  in  the 
habit  of  visiting;  also  on  our  employ­
ers,  Mr.  Gorham  and  Mr.  Daniels.

The  readers of  the  Tradesman  already 
know  the  success  the  writer  met  with 
through  the  kindness  of  friends;  but 
it 
was  several  weeks  before  my companion 
secured  a  situation  to  his  liking.

After  our  letters  of  introduction  had 
been  delivered,  the  next  business  in  or­
der  was  to  secure  a  boarding  place 
where  we  could  enjoy  the  comforts  of a 
home.  Before  leaving  home  we  had 
been  advised  to  stop  at  a  little  hotel 
called  th e ‘ ‘ New  England  House,”   on 
Broadway  opposite  Trinity  Church,  un­
til  we  secured  a  permanent  home.

One  evening  we  were  looking  over 
the  newspapers  with  the  hope  of  finding 
something  to  suit  us  in  the  columns  de­
voted  to  boarding  house  advertisements 
when  my  eye  caught  the  following :

TO  RENT— With  or  without  board, 
in  a  strictly  private  family,  one  large 
room  on  the  second  story  front,  suitable 
for  two  gentlemen  who  desire  the  com­
forts  of  a  home.  No  other  boarders. 
Terms  moderate.  No.  25  Vesey  street, 
west  of  the  Astor  House.  References 
exchanged.

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I  read  it  over,  with the remark,  “ How 
does  that  sound,  Fred?”   “ All  right,”  
he  replied,  “ and,  as  it  is  early  yet  and 
the  distance  only  four blocks  away,  sup­
pose  we  look  it  up  to-night. 
If  we  wait 
until  morning  the  family  may  be  scat­
tered. ’ ’

To  this  I  agreed  and  we  started  at 
once.  We  found  the  family  to  consist  of 
a  widow  lady  with  one  son  and  four 
daughters,  two  of  whom  were  married 
and  still  living  at  home.  One  of  them 
was  the  wife  of  a  lawyer,  the  other of  a 
shipping  and  commission  merchant  do­
ing  business 
in  Broad  street  near the 
battery.  The  young  ladies  were  about 
14  and  17  years  of  age.  They  did  not 
make  their  appeaiance  at  this  visit  but 
we  were 
introduced  to  the  other  mem­
bers  of  the  family.  After  looking  at  the 
room  and  getting  terms  and  exchanging 
references  we  left,  with  the  promise  to 
call  the  following  evening.  When  we 
were  in  the  street  I  asked  Fred  what  he 
thought  of  the  outlook.  He  replied, 
“ Favorably,  if  the  references  back  up 
appearances. ”

Upon 

looking  over  their  reterences 
we  met  a  singular  coincidence.  We 
were  agreeably  surprised  to  find  the 
name  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Stephen  H.  Tyng, 
Rector  of  St.  George’s  Church,  to  whom 
we  had  already  delivered  letters  of  in­
troduction  from  our  former  pastor 
in 
Canandaigua.  The  family  proved  to be 
an  old  one,  well  known  and  respected. 
The  widow,  Mrs.  Banta,  owned  the 
in  which  they  lived,  and 
double  house 
had  a  small 
income besides. 
I  after­
wards  learned  the  pathetic  story  of  her 
life;  but  that  would  be  out  of  place 
here.

As  agreed  upon,  we  called  the  follow­
ing  evening,  and,  finding  the  references 
on  both  sides  satisfactory,  we  literally 
shook  the  dust  of  the  New  England 
House  from  our garments  and  took  pos­
session  of  our  new quarters.  We  were 
presented  to  the  two  young 
ladies,  who 
were  bright,  well-educated,modest  girls. 
The  son,  Weart,  was  a  callow  youth, 
an  art  student,  and  spent  most  of  his 
time  in  the  art  studios.  He  seemed  al­
ways  dreaming,  imitated  the  artist  style 
of  dress  and  parted  his  hair  in  the  mid­
dle.  Of  course,  he  was  his  mother's 
idol.  He  was  named  Weart  after  a  fa­
mous  artist  that  flourished  in  New  York 
about the  date  of  his  birth.

Settled 

in  a  home,  we  resumed 

in 
earnest  the  woik  of  finding  a  situation 
for  Fred.  Here  again  came  in  the kind 
offices  of  my  new  employers,the  Messrs. 
Earle—Brother  Ed  and  Brother  John, 
as  they  called  each  other.  Brother  John 
had  heard  of  a  new  partnership  formed 
for  the  purpose  of  importing  and  job­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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laces,  etc.,  and 
bing  silks,  ribbons, 
introduce  my  friend  to 
volunteered  to 
the  parties,  Messrs.  Stearnes &  Johnson, 
of  Cedar  street.

My  friend  was  successful  in  his ap­
plication,  entering  at  once  upon  his 
duties.  He  remained 
in  their  employ 
two  years.  His  exquisite  taste  and  good 
judgment  they  held 
in  high  esteem, 
they  often  entrusting  him  with  the  re­
sponsibility  of  making  large  purchases. 
Before  the  expiration  of  his  second  year 
in  the  employ  of  Messrs.  Stearnes  & 
Johnson  he  was  offered  a  large  salary  to 
enter  the  employ  of  that  world-known 
firm  of  importers and  jobbers,  John  P. 
Stagg  &  Co.,  of  Pearl  street.  He  con­
sulted  his  present  employers  and  they 
advised  him  to  accept  the  position. 
In 
this  situation  he  remained  until  he  left 
New  York,  netfer  to  return.

I  now  come  to  an  event  in  Fred’s  life 
where  truthful  histoty  is  stranger  than 
fiction.  For  four  years  we  had  contin­
ued  this  quiet  home  life  in  the family of 
Mrs.  Banta  and  the  pleasant  society  of 
her  accomplished  unmarried  daughters, 
who  were  now  grown  to  young  woman­
hood.  The  elder.  Miss  Louisa,  was  a 
blonde  and  very  beautiful,  faultless  in 
figure  and  features. 
I  have  already  de­
scribed  my  friend,  Fred,  as  inclined  to 
be  a  little  vain  of  his  personal  appear­
ance,  and  I  often  used  to  detect  myself 
speculating  upon  the  fine  appearance 
these  two  would  make  standing  together 
at  the  altar;  but  I  could  net  detect  any­
thing 
in  my  friend’s  attentions  to  her 
that  looked  that  way.  On  her  part,  how­
ever,  I  often  saw  undisguised  efforts  to 
say  and  do  that  which  she  knew  would 
please  him  that  told  of  something  more 
than  friendship.  Fred  used to  attend  the 
theater  and  opera  frequently,  but  his 
invitations  always  included  both  the sis­
ters.  One  day,  to  call  him  out,  I  said, 
“ Fred,  I think  Miss Louisa  would  enjoy 
your 
invitations  to  the  opera  better  if 
Miss  Helen  were  left  out  of  the  b ill.”  
‘ ‘ That 
is  the  very  reason  why  I  always 
invite them  both,”   was  his  short  reply.
Things  went  on  about  as  usual  for 
some  months,  but  I  noticed  that  my 
friend  was  constantly  on  his  guard 
against any  attentions  that  would  excite 
hopes 
in  her  heart  that  never  could  be 
realized.  He  never  made  her  any  pres­
ents,  all  his  attentions  being  such as she 
would  expect  from  a  brother.  But  I 
noticed  that  her  mother  treated  Fred 
more  like  a  son  than  an  ordinary  board­
er,  showing  that  she  shared  her  daugh­
ter’s  secret.

Ij  was  with  considerable  interest  and 
some  anxiety  that  I  waited  for  what 
seemed  sure  to  follow;  but  I  did  not 
have  to  wait  long.  The  next  day  being

Sunday,  when  we  were  ogether  in  our 
room  I  noticed 
in  my  friend’s  face  a 
grave,  anxious  look  that  called  for  sym­
pathy. 
1  waited  some  time  for  him  to 
disclose  what  was  weighing  so  heavily 
on  his  mind.  He began  with  the  request 
that,  after  listening  to  what  he  had  to 
say,  I  would  relieve  him  of  a  very  un­
pleasant  duty.  I  readily  gave  my  prom­
ise  and  he  went  on,  his  face  assuming 
a  more  cheerful  look  as  he  proceeded  to 
disclose  a  page 
in  his  history  he  had 
never  before  revealed  to  me :

He  began  by  alluding  to  our  long  and 
intimate  friendship  and  the  four  years 
of  pleasant  home  life  we  had  spent  to­
gether  in  the  Banta  family.  “ You,”   he 
continued,  “ cannot  fail  to  see  that, 
through  no  fault  of  mine,  I  am  placed 
in  an  unpleasant  position  here.  God 
knows  that  I  have  never  given  Miss 
Louisa  any  reason  to  expect  of  me  any­

is  evidently 

thing  beyond  the  sincerest  friendship, 
and  yet  she 
cherishing 
hopes  for  the  future  that  can  never  be 
realized.  In  addition  to  this,  her  mother 
is  cherishing  the  same  delusion.  No 
matter  what  my  real  feelings  towards 
Louisa  are,  there is  a  barrier between  us 
that  can  never  be  passed.”   “ Why?”  
said  I. 
“ You  have  money  and  have 
reached  an  age  to  warrant  you in assum­
ing  family  responsibilities.  What  does 
Louisa  lack  that  you  would  expect  in  a 
life  partner?  She  is  both  beautiful  and 
accomplished” — He  abruptly  stopped 
me  here,  with  the  request  to  say  no 
more. 
“ I  know  that  she  is  everything 
that  I  or any  other  man  could  ask  or 
expect  in  a wife;  but  that  does  not  and 
cannot  close  the  gulf  that yawns between 
us— it  only  widens  it.”   He  saw  that  I 
was looking  puzzled  and perhaps thought 
him  inconsistent,  and  proceeded:  “ Our

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to 

long  friendship  entitles  you 
the 
knowledge  of  an  unfortunate  fact  inj my 
family  history,  and  this  is  what  I  want 
you  to  communicate  to  Louisa  and  her 
mother— it 
is  this  unpleasant  duty  you 
have  so  kindly  promised  to  perform. 
There  runs  in  the  veins  of  our  family 
the  blood  of  hopeless  hereditary 
insan 
ity,  that  has  lingered  there  for genera 
tions.  God  forbid  that I  should  ever  be 
guilty  of  the  crime  of  transmitting  the 
curse  to  others.  Our  parting  after  liv 
ing  so  long  under  the  same  roof  is  a 
great  grief  to  me,  but  1  think  you  will 
give  me  credit  for  discretion 
in  doing 
leave  to-morrow.  My  ar­
so. 
rangements  are  all  made. 
I  am  going 
to  live  in  a  strictly  private  french  fam 
ily  where  only  French  is  spoken,  take 
up  a  course  of  study 
in  the  language, 
and  fit  myself  for  a  trip  to France either 
on  business  or  pleasure—perhaps  both 
I  think  you  had  better  have  an  inter­
view  with  Mrs.  Banta  to-morrow  if  you 
feel  like  it,  as  they  will  be  wondering 
where  I  am. ”

I  shall 

Now  I  fully  recognized  in  my  friend 
a  martyr  to  personal honor and Christian 
duty,  and 
it  added  to  the  esteem  in 
which  I  had  always held  him.

the  tears  were 

In  the  morning  I  requested  an  inter­
view  with  Mrs.  Banta  and  narrated  the 
conversation  Fred  and  I  had  held  the 
previous  evening.  When  I  had  con­
cluded, 
in  her  eyes. 
‘ ‘ Noble  boy!”   she  exclaimed;  ” I  re­
spect  and  love  him  now  more  than  ever 
before.  What  a  sacrifice  to  Christian 
duty  and  to  us  he  has  made. ”  
I  re­
quested  her  to  tell  Louisa  what  I  had 
told  her. 
“ No,”   she  said,  ‘ ‘ there  is  a 
reason  why  she  should  hear  the  story 
from  you.  She  has  too  much  good  sense 
to  make  a  scene.  We  have  both  lived  in 
hopes  that  Fred's  generous  friendship 
would  finally  ripen into a closer relation. 
But  that  is all over now.  I will call her. ” 
Louisa  soon  made  her  appearance,  so 
radiant  with  health  and  beauty  that  I 
dreaded  to  repeat  the  story.  Her  mother 
introduced  the  subject  by  saying  that  1 
had  a  message  to  deliver  to  her  from 
Fred.  At  the  mention  of  his  name  her 
cheeks  flushed,  but  as  she  caught  sight 
of  her  mother’s  face  they  paled  to  the 
whiteness  of  marble. 
I  related  what  I 
had  already  told  her  mother,  and  added 
something  about  Fred’s  exalted  sense  of 
honor. 
I  presume  1  was  quite  incoher­
ent,  as  I  was  aware  of  being  the  most 
excited  of  the  gtoup.  When  I  had  fin­
ished, 
through  her  quiet  tears  and 
trembling  voice  she  replied:  “ Fred  has 
never  given  me  any  reason  to  expect 
anything  from  him  but  the  warmest 
friendship  and  regard;  but  ever  since 
we  first  met  I  have  cherished  the  hope 
that  time  would  work  a  change  of  his 
friendly  sentiment  into  something  much 
dearer  to  my  heart  than  friendship. 
Now,”  she  continued,  “ I  must  ask  you, 
Mr.  Welton,  to  forgive  me  for  having 
given  place  to  the  thought  that  you were 
in  some  way  standing  between  me  and 
my  hopes of  winning  Fred’s  heart.  Tell 
him  that  I  honor  him  as  much  as I  have 
loved  him,  and  that  I  shall  pray  for  him 
that  this  curse  he  dreads  may  be  re­
moved. ’ '

Several  years  after  I  had 

left  New 
York  and  found  a  residence  in  Michi­
gan,  I  returned  there  on  business,  and 
with  pleasure  anticipated  renewing  my 
acquaintance  with  the  Banta  family. 
I 
found  they  had  scattered.  The  mother 
was  dead  and  Louisa  had entered  a  con­
vent  a  few  months  after  the  events  I 
have narrated.

To  return  briefly  to  the  closing history 
of  my  friend, Fred :  Within  a  year  after

he  became  an 
inmate  ""of  the  French 
family  he  had  mastered  the  language 
and  been  sent  to  the  manufacturing  dis­
tricts  of  France  to  purchase  and  solicit 
consignments  of  French  manufactured 
goods  for  his  employers.  A  short  time 
before  I  left  New  York  I  received  a  let­
ter  from  him  mailed  at  Paris,  to  which 
I 
immediately  replied,  telling  him  of 
my  plans  and  giving  him  my  future 
address.  He  continued  making  annual 
visits  to  France  for  several  years,  and 
always  wrote  me  on  his  return  to  New 
York.  The  last  letter  I  received  from 
him  spoke  of  failing  health,  and  that 
he  bad  made  his  last  trip  abroad,  that 
he  was  arranging  his  business  to  return 
to  the  home  of  his  childhood,  that  he 
feared  that  the  impending  evil  he  had 
dreaded  so  long  was  drawing  near. 
1 
replied  to  this  as  cheerfully  as  I  could, 
volunteering  a 
lithe  advice  and  ask­
ing  him  to  remember  me  to  mutual 
friends  if  he  should  meet  them.  To  this 
letter  I  never  received  a  reply.

Ten  or  twelve  years  later  I  visited 
friends 
in  Canandaigua  and,  enquiring 
for  my  friend,  was  told  that,  after  re­
turning  home,  his  health  rapidly  de­
clined,  his  mind  wandered  and  he final­
ly  became  hopelessly 
insane  and  was 
confined  in  the  asylum  at  Canandaigua, 
where  he  died  a  year  later. 
“ What  of 
his  property?”   I  asked.  As I  expected, 
the  reply  was, 
found 
among  his  effects,  executed  two  years 
before  he  returned  home,  giving  all  bis 
property  to  the  convent 
in  New  York 
whose  sacred  cloisters  veiled  his  heart’s 
idol  from  the  world.”

“ A  will  was 

Such  was  the  fate  of a  brilliant  man 
of  business,  a  genial  companion  and 
faithful  friend,  in  whose  character  were 
combined  all  the  elements  to  entitle 
him  to  the  grandest  of  all  earthly  titles 
—a  Christian  gentleman.

W.  S.  H.  Welton.

Owosso,  Mich.

About  Nervy  Patrons.

Tailor— Thought  I’d  met  some  nervy 

people,  but—

Shoemaker— What  now?
Tailor— I’ve  had  to  press  these  trou­
sers  four  times,  and  they  are  not  even 
paid  for.

Shoemaker—That’s  nothing. 

I  went 
to  collect  a  bill  for a  pair  of  shoes  yes­
terday,  and  the  fellow  kicked  me  out 
“ ith  them.

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On  His  Wheel  More.

yet?”

She—“ Have  you  got  your  bicycle 
He—“ Oh,  yes.”
She—“ I  don’t  see  you  on  the  road  as 

much  this  season  as  I  did  last.”

He—“ No,  I’m  on  my  wheel  more 

now. 

I  ride  better,  you  know.”

' Started  in  the  Business.

“ I  think,”   remarked  the  goat,  charg- 
ng  headlong  at  the  small  boy  who  was 
bringing  up  the  rear  of  the  political 
procession,  “ I’ll  do  a  little  business 
in 
the  campaign  buttin’  line  myself!”

A  good  story 

is  told  of  a  Marlboro 
(V t.)  farmer  who  is  in  the  habit  of  en­
tering  a  store  at  Brattleboro  and  sam­
pling  the  confectionery,  to  the  annoy­
ance  of  the  proprietor.  The  other  night 
he  carefully  took  a  gum  drop,  a  cara­
mel,  a  chocolate  drop,  a  wafer,  and  his 
eye  finally  rested  on  a  box  of  moth  mar­
bles,  which  he  also  sampled.  The  pro­
prietor  enjoyed  it  more  than  he  did.

Some  years  ago  Stanley  calculated the 
consumption  of  ivory  at  750,000  pounds 
a  year  in  Europe,  130,000  in  India  and 
75,000  pounds 
in  the  United  States; 
is,  1,000,000  pounds  a  year;  but 
that 
the average  consumption  of  ivory  from 
9  to  1893  was  1,500,000  pounds,  of 
which  America  took  200,00c.

They consist of six  thick  circular  sheets  of  green  poisoned  pa­
per three and one-half  inches  in  diameter,  with  red  label.  The 
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cleanly, compared with large square sheets  of  CATH ARTIC  Fly 
Paper, that carry the  poisoned liquor to outer  side  of  dish.  Will 
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$1.80.  Each  box  contains  a  coupon,  three  of  which  secure  the 
Ink  Bottle free by mail;  will  never be troubled with thickened  ink 
while using it;  you would not part with  it for  cost  of  Fly  Buttons. 
Should  your jobber fail  to supply your order, upon  receipt  of  cash 
we prepay express.

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

The  Fly  Button  Co.,

Maumee, Ohio.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

Did  Not  Forget  to  Attend  to  His 

Business.

“ To  me,”   remarked  a  man  of  more 
or  less  brokerly  appearance 
in  manner 
and  cut  of  clothes,  “ the  advertising 
methods  resorted  to  by  business  men 
all  over  the  country  are  astonishing 
in 
their  intelligence,  stupidity,  ingenuity, 
and  commonplaceness. 
I  mean  by  that 
that,  while  some  of  them  seem  to  be 
satisfied  with  the  money  returns 
of 
the  oldest  chestnuts  in  the  newspapers, 
there  are  others  who  are  advertising 
Columbuses,  never  satisfied  unless  dis­
covering  something  new 
in  the  pro­
motion  of  the  publicity  of  the  wares 
they  have  to  sell. ’ ’

in  advertising 

“ Which  reminds  me,”   said  a  man 
who  looked  like  a  New  England Yankee 
once  removed,  “ that  I  have  been  inter­
ested 
for  many  years, 
and  that  I  have  circumnavigated  the 
United  States  several  times,  advertis­
ing  various  things  from  baking  powder 
to  steam  engines. 
In  these  trips  I  have 
observed  some  things  quite  well  worth 
the  remembering,  but  certainly  the  most 
unusual  bit  of  advertising  I  ever  heard 
of  came  under  my  notice  during  a  trip 
I  made  last  year  through  Northwestern 
Texas.

they  called 

ten  years  old. 

“ In  a  trip  made  there  some  three 
local 
years  previously  I  had  met  a 
character  whom 
‘Colt’ 
Thompson,  and  after  a  talk  with  him 
at  the  hotel  supper  table,  fcr  he boarded 
at  the  best  hotel  in  the  town,  I  found 
that  he  had  come  from  my  native  town 
in  Massachusetts,  and 
that  we  had 
known  each  other  as  boys  there  forty 
years  before,  when  neither  of  us  was 
more  than 
Though 
Thompson  was  a pretty  hard  citizen  and 
had  a  record  only  a  few  Eastern  men 
would  be  proud  of,  he  was a  good  work­
er,  and  as  the  agent  of  an  arms  manu­
facturing  company 
in  the  East,  with  a 
territory  comprising  several  counties, 
he  managed  to  live  well  and  wear  good 
clothes.  Of  course  he  gambled  between 
times  and  did  odd  jobs of various kinds, 
but  the  profits  in  those  lines  were  sim­
ply  used  for  spending  money.  He  had 
shot  several  men  and  was  accustomed  to 
remark  that  he  had  to  do 
it  now  and 
then  in  his  business  to  show  the  merits 
of  the  goods  be  handled,  and  he  always 
said  that  he  would  rather  be  horse­
whipped  than  shoot  a  man  with  any 
other  gun  than  that  made  by  his  firm— 
a  loyalty  that  added  much  to  his  popu­
larity  and  was  a  first-class  advertise­
ment  for  his  weapons.

the  owner 

“ Which  reminds  me  that  Thompson 
was  the - most  enthusiastic  advertiser  I 
ever  saw  and  he  never  let  an  opportu 
nity  escape  that  he  could  use  for  this 
purpose. 
I  saw  him  shoot  a  runaway 
horse  one  afternoon  on  the  main  street 
and  when 
complained, 
Thompson  paid  for  the  animal  and  had 
a  half  column  article  in  all  the  news­
papers  on  his  guns  as  runaway  pre­
ventives.  Another 
time,  about  mid­
night,  he  discovered  a  fire  in  a  store  on 
a  side  street,  and,  instead  of  turning 
in  an  alarm  by  the  usual  shouting,  he 
began  to  shoot  his  gun  as  fast  as  he 
could.  The  noise  soon  had  the  crowd 
out  and  the  papers  next  day  told  all 
about  Thompson’s  guns  as  the  best  fire 
alarms 
in  use.  On  another  occasion 
he  offered  the  preacher  who  was  going 
to  preach  at  a  shot  man’s  funeral  $5°  t° 
help  out  the  salary  fund  if  he  would  say 
that  he  deceased  had  surely  gone  to 
heaven  because  he  had  been  shot  with 
one  of  Thompson’s  guns.

“ But  I  am  digressing.  His  greatest 
idea  was  bis  last  one,  to

advertising 

interesting,  and  he  had 

which  I  am  slowly  but  surely  coming. 
When  I  found  I  was  going  to  be  in 
Thompson’s  neighborhood  again 
last 
year  I  was pleased,  for  1  had  found  him 
very 
insisted 
when  we  parted  that  if  I  ever  came  that 
way  again  I  must  be  sure  and  give  him 
a  chance  to  make  it  pleasant  for  me. 
I 
had  not  beard  from  him  in  the  mean­
time,  and  when  I  got  to  his  town  and 
asked  at  his  old  stopping  place  where 
he  was,  I  was  greatly  pained,  but  not 
greatly  surprised,  to  learn  that  he  had 
died  six  months  previously. 
It  was  not 
necessary  for  me  to  ask  if  he  had  died 
suddenly,  and  I  did  not  ask  the  ques­
tion 
in  that  form,  but  I  did  ask  what 
the  row  was  about,  and  as  the  result  of 
my  enquiries  I  found  that  my  friend 
Thompson  had  been  called  upon  to  act 
in  the  arrest  of  a 
as  a  deputy  sheriff 
couple  of  very  bad  men 
the 
mountains,  who  had  been  ‘ shooting  the 
town  up.'

from 

“ They  were  customers  of  Thompson, 
but  he  did  not  give  guarantees  against 
disorder  with  his  goods,  and  he  was  as 
glad  to  arrest  these  men  as  he  would 
have  been  to  do  any  other  hazardous 
service.  Thompson  became  separated 
from  the  Sheriff  and  posse  about  noon, 
and  no  more  was  seen  of  him  until 
about  5  o’clock  in  the  afternoon,  when 
he  was  discovered  by  the  Sheriff 
lying 
dead  beside  a  big  white  boulder,  and 
not  fifty  feet  away,  stretched 
flat  on 
their  backs,  were the  two  toughs,’  quite 
as  dead  as  Thompson. 
In  the  hands  of 
each  of  the  three  were  revolvers,  and 
it  was  plain  that  the  men  had  died 
game,  although  apparently  the  end  was 
more  sudden  for  the  others  than  for 
Thompson.  This  was  proved  by  the 
fact  that  just  above  him  on  the  white 
surface  of  the  stone  he  had  scrawled 
in 
as  big 
letters  as  he  could  reach,  and 
with  his  finger dipped  in  his  own blood, 
the  words: 
‘ What  else  could  have  hap­
pened  when  all  three  had  Thompsons? 
Call  on  my  successor  before  purchasing 
elsewhere. ’

“ That  evening  after  supper  I  went  to 
the  town  cemetery  to  visit  the  grave  of 
my  schoolmate,  and  on  a  plain  white 
stone  at  his  head  was  this  brief  in­
scription,  placed  there  by  his  friends:

Colt  T hompson.
He Was a Good Man.

Massachusetts  sent him  to Texas 

aDd Texas sent him to glory.

in 

“ Which  struck  me  as  a  pretty  good 
itself,  but  not  com­
advertisement 
parable  from  a  business 
standpoint, 
with  that  other  one  written  on  a  white 
stone  in  the blood  of  a  New  Englander 
among  the  hills  of  Texas.” — N.  Y. 
Sun.

A  Tandem  at  Last.

to  date;

Augustus was a nice young  man,  in  style  quite up 
Considered an authority in  fashions  new  and  late; 
And in the course of time he did  as all  young  men 
He met and loved a charming girl whose name was 

will  do,
Helen  Drew.

Augustus had a wheel,  of  course,  and  often  went 
He thought he was in  Paradise  with  Helen  by  his 
Until  one  day  his  sweetheart  said:  “ As  sure  as 
“  My wheel goes just as  fast  as  yours,  and  mine’s 

to ride;
side.
I’m alive,
a ’95!”

Augustus  nearly  had  a  fit;  how  such  things  must 
This dreadful breach of etiquette  would  haunt him 
And  to  his  love  that  night  he  vowed,  by  all  his 
With her  again  he  would  not  ride  till  she  bought 

amaze!
all  his days!
hopes of heaven,
a ’97-

Both  lovers  lost  their  temper,  and  some  bitter 

He swore she had no feeling,  and  she  wished  that 
But  finally  they  compromised,  forgot  their  words 
Got married,  and  exchanged  their  wheels  for a  ’97 

words were said:
she were  dead;
at random,
tandem.

Sopie  UIerchhnts  Lick  Nerve

When  it  comes  to 
advertising.  They say 
they are afraid it won’t 
pay.

This  class  of  mer­
chants,  however,  are 
constantly  g ro w in g  
less  as  they  become 
acquainted  with  the 
advantages  offered by 
using  The  Co-opera­
tive  System—g iv in g  
the  customer  the  ad­
vertising  expenditure, 
instead of paying it all 
to newspapers and bill 
posters.

We here show cut of 
our  No.  ro  A n tiq u e  
Oak Parlor Table, with 
brass  bead  trimming.
It’s a fine  Premium  and  is  generally  given  with  $25.00  in  trade.  Just 
drop  us  a  postal  to-day  and  we  will send you a Catalogue of useful house­
hold  articles.  We  believe  you  will  give  us a trial order, with which we in­
clude  a  full  supply  of  assorted  coupons,  circulars  and  placards—all  sent 
subject  to approval on 60 days’  trial.

STEBBINS  MANUFACTURING  CO.,

[Mention T radesman]

LAKEVIEW,  MICH.

There are Others”

but  none  but  the  W orld  C h al­
lenger  that  will  never  be  rele­
gated  to  the  rubbish  depart­
ment.

Its  construction  is  scien­

tifically  adapted  to  its  use.

Does  not get out of place, 
it  being  attached  to  the  pail.

T w o  minutes  to  charge  it 

to  last  40  days.

K eeps  fruit  and  tobacco 
clean  and  holds  them  at  par 
in  w eight  all  the  time.

W rite  us  for  particulars.

DEVEREAUX  &  DUFF,

Manufacturers and  Proprietors,

OWOSSO,  M ICH.

M. L.  IZOR & CO.,

- 

CHICAGO.

100  LAKE  S T R E E T . 

Exclusive distributers  for  Illinois,  Iowa,  Nebraska.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather
Many  Feet,  But  More  Shoes.

With  the  seller  of  shoes  the  struggle 
is  confined  chiefly  to  the  matter  of  suit­
ing  the  tastes  and  purses  of  his patrons. 
For  conscience’s  sake  he  will,  now  and 
again,  mildly  suggest  the  advantage  to 
the  shoe  wearer  of  allowing  the  foot 
room  enough  to  lie  comfortably  in  the 
shoe.

With  the  buyer  of  shoes  the  physical 
struggle  between  the  foot  and  the  de­
sired  shoe  is  often  a  serious  affair;  but 
the conflict  of  mind  with  looks and  com­
fort  in  the  various  shoes  under consider­
ation  is  often  greater  than  the  physical 
wrestlings  with  refractory  shoes.

It  is  incontrovertible  that human  feet, 
and,  consequently,  their  artificial  cov­
erings,  bear  close  relations  to  our phys­
ical  comfort  or  discomfort  in  a  far  wid­
er and  more  important  sense  than  that 
of  the  pinching,  crowding  of  toes and I 
chafing  of  the  skin  that  are  sometimes 
inflicted  upon  us  by  our  misguided 
choice  of  footwear.

The  reasons  for  these  far-reaching  in­
juries  to  our  feet  can  only  be  properly 
understood  and  averted  by  some  intelli­
gent  ideas  of  the  function  of these mem­
bers  and  of  animal  motions.

An  anatomist  points  to  that  wonder­
ful  mechanical  construction,  known  to 
most  mechanics,  but  especially  print­
ers,  and  called  the  “ toggle  joint,”   as 
in 
an  illustration  of  certain  movements 
the  lower  extremities  of  man. 
In  the 
• hand  press  this  contrivance  enables  one 
man  to  exert  a  greater  degree  of  power 
than  could  be  obtained  without  its  aid. 
Now,  many  of  the  joints  of  the  human 
body  act  precisely  on  this  rather  eccen­
tric  principle.  Take  for  instance  the 
lower  extremities.  When  we  place  our­
selves  in  a  slightly  stooping  position 
with  the  ankle,  knee  and  hip-joint 
slightly  flexed  we  may,  by 
simply 
straightening  our  joints,  raise  a  weight 
placed  on  the  shoulders  far  heavier than 
in  any  other  manner;  although,  of 
course,  it  will  be  through  a  very  small 
space  comparatively.

Now,  in  a  natural  state—that  is,  bare­
footed—there would  be  but  little 
incon­
venience  at  the  foot,  but  with  short  or 
narrow,  unyielding  shoes covering  them, 
the  feet  could  neither  spread  laterally 
nor  lengthen  slightly 
in  their  natural 
efforts  to  respond  to  the  sinking  of  the 
arches  of  the  feet,  as  they  are  held 
im­
movably  by  their  unyielding  and  close 
coverings.  Therefore,  pain  and  even 
danger  would  attend  such  attempts  in 
ill-adapted  footwear.

Probably  the average  shoe  buyer  will 
never be  induced  to look  into  these mat­
ters ;  but if  there should be  peradventure 
twenty,  ten,  or  even  five  in  a  city  who 
did,  and  who  profited  by 
it,  then,  at 
least,  a  small  percentage  of humanity 
is  difficult  to 
would  be  benefited. 
overestimate  the  importance  of 
intelli­
gent  care  for  the  feet,  and,  therefore, 
the  judicious  adaptation  of  shoes  to  the 
feet.

It 

That  different  uses  for  the  hand  and 
foot  were  designed  is  clearly  manifest 
in  the  fact  shown  by  the  process  of  os­
sification  in  the  two  different  members. 
The  bones  of  the  foot  ossify at an earlier' 
period,  and  advance  more  rapidly 
in 
their  development  than  do  those  of  the 
hand.  This 
is  a  wise  provision  of  na­
ture,  for  very  little  strength  is  required 
in  the  hand  during  the  first  few  years 
of  life,  while  the  feet,  at  the  end  of  a 
year  or  so,  begin  to  find  active  employ­
ment  for  their  functions  in  sustaining

it 

the  body,  and  in  the  act  of  walking.
In  selecting  shoes,  however,  few  peo­
ple  are  at  all  disposed  to  sacrifice  looks 
is  doubtful  if  many 
to  comfort,  and 
of  them  would  even 
if  they  knew  all 
about  “ toggle  joints’ ’  and  the  compara­
tive  development  of  the  osseous  tissue 
in  hands and  feet.  It  is  certain  that  the 
suggestions  of  a  practical,  experienced 
retailer  would  be  helpful  and  profitable 
to  many  shoe  buyers  if  they weie  sought 
or  acted  upon  when  gratuitously offered. 
But  most  of  these  self-confident  people 
don’t  want  suggestions 
that  militate 
against  the  aesthetic  appearance  of  the 
shod  foot,  as  they  view  it.

It  has  been  ever  thus,  and  probably 
will  be  until  the  end  of  time.  So  the 
discomfited  retailer,  of  a  humanitarian 
turn  of  mind,  sighs  as  he  looks  over  his 
assembled  patrons,  of  almost  every  con­
dition 
in  life,  seeking  beauty  in  low  or 
high  grades  among  his  stock,  and  shun­
ning  the  wiser  choice  within  reach,  be­
cause 
it  seems  too generous  in  its  pro­
if  it  will  go on  the  foot  with­
portions 
out  a  tussle,  and  will  not  hug 
like  a 
bear  or a  corset.  The  discouraged  vet­
eran  among  shoes  notes  this  willfulness 
on  the  part  of  his  medley  of clients,  and 
softly  murmurs,  as  he  abandons  all  at­
tempts  at  foot  reform:
“Rich slave to fashion, and poor slave  to pride 
Though never mingling, sitting side by side.”

it  encloses 

A  glance  at  the  modern  shoe  on  pa­
rade  to-day  would  at  first  thought  in­
dicate  a  sort  of  shoe  reform  in  the  mat­
ter  of  size.  But  is  this  really  so?  There 
is  ample  length,  it  is  true,  of  the  slen­
der,  ornamental  front  end.  This  length 
is,  however, 
for  the  foot 
more  apparent  than  real.  True, 
the 
ends  of  the  toes  are  now  free  from  that 
former  sudden  “ short  stop,”   as  the 
ball  player  would  put  it,  but  in  many 
instances  the  wearer  has  defeated  the 
benefits  that  would  otherwise be attained 
by  selecting  shoes  that  do  not  provide 
empty  space  enough  beyond 
the  toe 
width  required  for  a  comfortable flat 
position  of  the  toes  that  fit  the  shoe. 
The  consequence  is,  in  many  cases,  that 
the  old-time  side  pressure  is  still  ex­
erted,  and  the  toes  rise  in  rebellion  and 
overstep  one  ancther  in  their  efforts  to 
escape  lateral  crowding.

But,  quite  apart  from  this  deceptive 
length  of  shoe  for  the  actual  accommo­
dation  of  the  foot,  there  is  still  the  old 
craving  for  a  minimum  size  and  a  close 
hug 
in  the  relations  of  foot  and  shoe. 
This mania  for  small  feet  has  long since 
become  chronic,  and,  like other diseases 
of  long  standing,  it  is  difficult  of  suc­
cessful  treatment;  impossible,  in  fact, 
without  the  hearty  co-operation  of  the 
patients  themselves,  which  seems  diffi­
cult  of  attainment.  Perhaps 
it  must 
now  be  classed  with  the 
incurable  dis­
eases.

Manufacturers,  of  course,  naturally 
lend  their  efforts  to  help  the  wearers  to 
this  desideratum,  and  are  sometimes 
almost  at  their  wits’  end to  produce  this 
small  effect,  even  by  trying  to  procure 
some  new  kind  of  material  that  will  aid 
the  deception 
its  make-up,  and 
render  the  feminine  foot  smaller  in  ap­
pearance.

in 

If  people  will  wear  closely  fitting 
shoes,  manufacturers  might,  for the  best 
interests  of  the  human  race,  unite,  in  a 
small  proportion  at  least,  philanthropy 
with  the 
irrepressible  love  of  gain  by 
adopting  the  most  pliable  materials  for 
stretching  to  the  capacity  of  exacting 
feet.

Shoes,  for  some  misguided  mortals, 
ought  to  be  able  to  stretch,  like  easy 
consciences,  to  meet  the  exigencies  of 
the  owners.

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

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

Leather  Goods,  Pelt  Boots, 
Lumbermen's  Socks 
.

. 

. 

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

19 South Ionia St.,

G rand  R ap id s,  M ich.

SXSXSX*)(SXSXSXg)®(s)®®<SXg)C«J<ia

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’,  3-5;  Youths’,  12-2.  Every 
pair warranted.  Write for prices or send for 
samples on approval.  These shoes keep feet 
dry, look nice and no rubbers are  needed.
SN8DK M   &  HATHAWAY  00.,  Detroit,  Mich.
Also  makers  of  the  celebrated  Driving 
Shoes.  Grain Creedmoors and Cruisers. 

Michigan Shoe Co., Agents for Michigan.

State Agents for

“ The Earth’s Best”

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

Our discount is 25 and 5 off.

HeroId=Bertsch Shoe Co.

5  and  7  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

Now  that  the  price  is  right  be  sure  you get the 

right  brand.

The Goodyear 
Glove  Rubbers

December  1st  dating.  Don’t  overlook  this.

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

f

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

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

latest colors and shapes.

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

can give you some bargains.

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,
S, 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  S t, 
Grand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Creating  Extra  Trade. 

From Shoe and Leather Facts.

The  English  are  a  nation  of  shop­
keepers,  and  the  rest  of  the  world  can 
undoubtedly  learn  a  good  deal  by  care­
fully  studying  their  methods.  Take, 
for  example,  the  present  celebration  of 
the  Queen’s  Jubilee. 
It  would  be  inter­
esting  to  know  just  how much additional 
business  will  be  done  by  British  manu- 
iacturers  and merchants  in consequence. 
All  the  reports  received  are  to  the  effect 
that  English  tradespeople  are  at  present 
enjoying  an 
exceedingly  prosperous 
business  season,  attributable  very  large­
ly  to  the  celebration.  Most  branches  of 
trade  have  been  decidedly  quickened  by 
the  preparations  for  the  festivités, which 
are  to  continue  through  the  month. 
In 
most 
lines  of  furnishings  and  wearing 
apparel  special  Jubilee  articles  have 
been  manufactured,  and  these  are  meet­
ing  with  a  ready  sale  at  prices  which 
bring  a  handsome  profit.  A  big  busi­
ness  has  also  sprung  up  within  a  few 
in  the  manufacture  and  sale  of 
weeks 
souvenirs  of  all  sorts. 
In  designs  they 
include  practically  everything  which  a 
vivid  imagination  can  connect  with  the 
Jubilee.

The  great  occasion  has  also  attracted 
a  very  desirable  class  of  tourists,  who 
spend  money  freely.  Representatives  of 
all  the  powers  of  Europe  will  be  pres­
ent,  and the  many  social  conventions  at­
tending  upon  such  a  gathering  will  add 
to  the  English  tradespeople’s patronage, 
increasing 
it  to  such  an  extent  as  to 
make  John  Bull  chuckle  with  glee  as  he 
feels  the  weight  of  his  purse  rapidly  in­
creasing.

Of  course  the  enthusiasm  of  the  Eng­
lish  tradespeople  over  the  Jubilee  can­
not  be  entirely  attributed  to their loyalty 
or  patriotism,  although  they  are  not 
lacking  in  that  respect.  Their  business 
acumen  is  keen  enough  to  enable  them 
to  perceive that  the opportunity 
is  one 
which  it  behooves  them  to  embrace  to 
its  full  extent.

It  is  worthy  of  note  that  the  extra  de­
mand  is  largely  for what  are  commonly 
classified  as  “ spécialités,’ ’  and 
the 
profits  are  much  larger  in  consequence 
than  they  would  be  for  mere  staples. 
We  have  yet  a  good  deal  to  learn  in this 
country  on  the  subject  of  the  develop­
ment  of  trade,  and  we  cannot  do  better 
than  to  closely  watch  the  methods which 
our  English  cousins  are  finding 
so 
profitable  at  present.

The  Holder  of a  Record.

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

“ Who 

is  that 

lank  party  with  the 

medals?”   asked  the  drummer.

“ That 

is  our  town  champion,”   the 
rural  grocer  explained.  “ Hehas  got  his 
picture 
in  the  papers  more  times  for 
bein’  cured  of  more  different  diseases 
than  any  man  in  the  United  States.”

Their 

loaded  hips, 

shirt  bottoms  combine 

If  women  could  be brought  to  regard 
in
the  question  of  the  fitness  of  shoes 
the  light  of  reason  and  personal  com­
fort,  they  might  be  happy  yet  when 
shod  for  the  street,  and  the  retailer  s 
lot  would  be  less  irksome physically and 
mentally. 
their 
ponderous  and  awkward  sleeves,  their 
painfully  compressed  waists,  and  their 
cumbrous 
to 
render  progression  .slow  and  difficult 
enough  on  the  street  without tight shoes. 
What  would  one  of  our  modern  dressed 
girls  accomplish  in  a  competition  with 
the  Greek  maiden  in  a  foot  race,  such 
as  the  ancients  used  to encourage among 
the  fair  sex  for  the  development  and 
strengthening  of  the  feminine physique? 
With  this  athletic  race,  however,  the 
course  for  the  female  contestants  was 
one-sixth  shorter  than for the men.  With 
us,  under  existing  conditions,the handi­
cap,  in  distance,  could  be  greatly  in­
creased  without  the  least  danger that the 
dress-weighted,  furbelowed,  tightly-shod 
women  would  ever  be  in  at  the  finish  to 
take  a  prize.

There 

is  no  danger  but  that  the  sup­
ply  of  shoes  will  always  equal  and  ex­
ceed  the  demand.  Feet  are  coming  in­
to  the  world  now  at  a  great  rate;  feet 
of  all  shapes  and  that  will  eventually 
stop  growth  anywhere  between  the  Cin­
derella  type  and  the  No.  9,  E  width. 
But  the  manufacturer 
is  watching  out 
for  them,  and  is  having  his  lasts  made 
and  his  patterns  drafted  so  that  none  of 
the  coming  feet  need  go  without  shoes 
unless  they  adopt  the  Kneipp  fad  for 
health.  For  the  grand  army  of  unborn 
feet  there 
is  an  avalanche  of  shoes  in 
prospective,  that  shall  be  poured  out  in 
such  numbers  as  to  provide  changes  to 
the  extent  of  five  or  six  pairs  to  each 
pair  of  feet  the  year  around.

Whether these  coming  feet shall  differ 
much  from  their  predecessors  in  shape, 
whether  the  tastes  of  the  owners  shall 
revolutionize  the  shoe  trade,  or  whether 
they  shall  disport  themselves  in  short 
or  long-toed  footwear,  who  can  tell? 
But  of  one  thing  we  are  reasonably  cer­
tain,  and  that 
is  that  the  shoe  trade 
will  be  able  to  meet  all  the  demands  in 
shapes  and  eccentric  styles.— Boots  and 
Shoes  Weekly.

How  to  Say  It.

There  is  a  large  class  who  delight  to 
shine 
in  newspapers  as  wits  or  poets, 
and  announce  their  wares 
in  second­
hand  jokes  or  in  doggerel  fit  to  set  the 
teeth  of  a  dull  saw  on  edge. 
If  their 
object 
is  notoriety  or  a  laugh,  this  is 
the  way  to  attain  it;  but  if  it  be  busi­
ness,  it  would  seem  better  to  use  the 
language  of  business.  Leave  clowns’ 
jests  to  the  circus,  and  let  sober  men 
speak  as  they  act,  with  directness  and 
decision.  The  fewest  words  that  will 
convey  the  advertiser’s 
ideas  are  the 
right  ones.— Horace  Greeley.

The  German  Emperor  seems  to  be 
determined  to  reign  as  an  autocrat,  if 
possible.  His  latest  method  of  dealing 
with  the representatives  of  his  people  is 
a  curiously  arbitrary  one.  Not  a  very 
long  time  ago  the  Reichstag  refused  to 
vote  the  money  for  an  extension  of  the 
navy,  which  the  kaiser  was  extremely 
anxious  to  effect. 
In  spite  of  this  set­
back  William  went  ahead  and  ordered 
the  new  vessels.  More  recently  a  simi­
lar thing  has  happened,  but  it  is  in  the 
army  this  time.  The  Emperor  desired 
new  cannon  for  the  army,  which  would 
cost  in  the  neighborhood  of  230,000,000 
marks.  The  Reichstag  refused  to  ap­
propriate  the  money,and  again  the  Em­
peror  promptly  placed  the  order.  The 
for  delivery  at 
guns  are  now  ready 
Krupp’s,  and  every  one 
is  wondering 
where  the  money  is to  come  from to  pay 
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Sprague’s Patent

Lawn 6anopl6s and Seats

1 6

C lerk s’  C orn er

How  the  Customer  Came  to  Pay  for 

Written for the T radesman.

the  Shoes.

It  was  almost  closing  time.  The boot 
and  shoe  department,  which  communi­
cated  with  the  dry  goods  department  by 
a  large  arched  doorway,  was altogether 
deserted.  Only  a  few  straggling  custom­
ers  were  to  be  seen  and  these  were,  for 
the  most  part,  at  the  linings  counter. 
1 
just  sold  a  black  Henrietta  cloth 
had 
and  had  taken  my  customer  to  the  lin­
ings  counter.  This  was  exactly  opposite 
the  archway  leading  to  the  boot  and 
shoe  department.  There  was  a  large 
mirror  fixed 
into  the  shelves  directly 
opposite  the  archway,  in  which  a  great 
deal  that  went  on 
in  the  shoe  room 
could  be  plainly  seen  by  anyone  in  the 
linings  department. 
I  sold  the  neces­
sary  linings  and  was  making  out  the 
check  for  them,  when  I  chanced  to 
glance  through  the  archway 
into  the 
above  mentioned  mirror.  As  I  did  so  1 
saw a  rough-looking  man  take  a  pair  of 
men’s  shoes  from  among  a  number  dis­
played  along  the  shelf  base  and  hang 
them  across  his  shoulder by  the  string 
with  which  they  were  tied  together. 
Where  could  the  shoe  salesmen  be? 
I 
asked  my  customer to  excuse  me  a  mo­
ment and  went  directly  to  the  shoe  de­
partment.  Just  as  I  entered,  a  clerk 
came  forward  from  the  rear  of  the  room 
and  asked  the  man  what  he  could  do  tor 
him.

“ Oi  want  to  git  a  pair  uv  rubbers  to 
fit  these  here  shoes,”   said  the  man. 
“ O i’ve  been  all  over  town.thryin’  to  git 
a  pair to  fit  thim  an’  haven’t been  able 
to yit. ”

The  man's  nerve  paralyzed  me  for  a 
moment  and  I  made  up  my  mind  to 
watch  for  further  developments.  The 
clerk  took  the  size  of  the  shoes and  soon 
had  a  pair  of  rubbers  fitted  to  them.  As 
the  man  handed  him  the  money  in  pay­
ment  for  the  rubbers,  the  clerk  asked  if 
he  should  wrap  the  shoes  with  the  rub­
bers,

“ O,  no;  just  lave  the  rubbers  right 
on  the  shoes  an’  O i’ll  carry  thim  over 
me  shoulder.”

“ Tom,”   said  I,  addressing  the  sales­
man,  “ aren’t  we  soke  agents  in town  for 
the  Bannister shoe?”

“ Yes;  why?”
“ Simply  this:  those  are  Bannister 
shoes. 
I  saw  this  man  take  them  from 
among  those  displayed  over  yonder, 
and  I  have  been  waiting  to  see  what  he 
was  going  to do  with  them.”

Tom  ran  his  eye  over  the  shoes  along 
the  base  and  exclaimed,  “ Why,  sure 
enough! 
I  had  eight  pairs  of  shoes on 
that  base  and  there  are  only  seven 
now.' ’

The  man  made  a  move as  if  to get 
out;  but  I  told  him  that  there  was a 
policeman  waiting  just  outside the door, 
so  that  it  wouldn’t  do  him  any  good  to 
run.

“ Y ’ain’t  agoin’  to  have  me  ’rested, 

ate yez?”

“ It  depends  on  how  Mr.  Jarvis  looks 
“ Tom,  go  tell 

at  the  case,”   I  replied. 
Mr.  Jarvis to  step  here.”

The  result  was  that  the  man  paid  for 
the  shoes,  and  was  so  rejoiced  when  he 
found  that  he  was  not  to  be  arrested that 
he  bought  a  pair  of  shoes  for  his  wife 
also.  Upon 
leaving  the  store  he  held 
out his  hand  to  me  and  said:  “ Oi  don’t 
have  wan  bit  uv  ill  will  agin you,  young 
feller;  but  Oi'm  glad  that  it  was  your 
boss  that  had  the  say  about  what  you'd

do  with  me. 
1  know  be  the  look  in 
them  oyes  uv  yours  that  you’d  ‘a ’  sint 
me  to  the  ‘ jug.’  ”  

M a c   A l l a n .

Tokens  for  Labor  Prohibited  Except 

Under  Certain  Conditions.

The  following 

is  the  full  text  of  the 
issuance  of 
new  law  prohibiting  the 
tokens  or  orders 
in  payment  for  labor 
except  where  the  employe  requests  or 
consents  to  such  an  arrangement:

An  act  to  prohibit  any  corporation 
from  selling,  giving,  delivering  or  is­
suing  to  any  person  employed  by  him 
or  it,  in  payment  of  wages  due  tor  la­
bor,  or  as  advances  on  the  wages  of 
labor  not  due,  any  scrip,  order  or  other 
evidence  of 
indebtedness  purpoiting 
to  be  payable  or  redeemable  otherwise 
than  in  money  except  by  consent  of  the 
employe,  and 
to  provide  a  penalty 
therefor.

Section  i.  The  people  of  the  State of 
Michigan  enact,  that  it  shall  be  unlaw­
ful  for  any  corporation  to  sell,  give, 
deliver  or  in  any  manner 
issue,  di­
indirectly,  to  any  person  em­
rectly  or 
ployed  by  him  or 
it,  in  payment  of 
wages  due  for  labor,  or  as  advances  on 
the  wages  of  labor  not  due,  any  scrip, 
token,  order  or  other  evidence  of  in­
debtedness  purporting  to  be  payable  or 
redeemable  otherwise  than 
in  money; 
any  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this 
section  shall  be  punishable  by  a  fine  of 
not  less  than  twenty-five  dollars  nor 
more  than  one  hundred  dollars  or  im­
prisonment  for  not  more  than  thirty 
days  or  both,  such  fine  and  imprison­
ment  in  the  discretion  of  the  court,  and 
any  such  scrip,  token,  order  or  other 
evidence  of  indebtedness  issued  in  vio­
lation  of  the  provisions  of  this  act, 
whatever  its  provisions  as  to  time  or 
manner  of  payment,  shall  be,  in  legal 
effect,  an 
instrument  for  the  uncondi­
tional  payment  of  money  only  on  de­
mand  and  the  amount  thereof  may  be 
collected  in  money  by an  holder  thereof 
in  a  civil  action  against  the  corporation 
selling,  delivering  or  in  any  manner  or 
for  any  purpose  issuing  the  same;  and 
such  holder  may  be  either  the  person  to 
whom  such 
instrument  was  originally 
issued  or  who  acquired  the  same  by 
purchase  and  delivery.
Sec.  2.  Any  scrip, 

token,  order  or 
other  evidence  of 
indebtedness,  issued 
in  violation  of  the  provisions  of  this 
act,  and  presented  by  the  holder  theie- 
of,  shall  be  taken  as  prima  facie  evi­
dence,  in  any  court  of  competent  juris­
diction,  of  the  guilt  or  indebtedness  of 
any  corporation  selling,  giving,  deliv­
ering  or  in  any  manner  issuing  the 
same.

Sec.  3.  Any  person  selling,  giving, 
delivering  or  in  any  manner  issuing 
said  scrip,  token,  order  or  other  evi­
dence  of  indebtedness  in  behalf  of  any 
corporation 
in  violation  of  the  provi­
sions  of  the  preceding  sections  shall  be 
the  defendant  to  the  criminal  action, 
and  the  corporation  shall  be  held  as  de­
fendant  to  the  civil  action.  Provided, 
that  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall  not 
apply,  when  any  employe  shall  volun­
tarily  request  or  consent  to  receive 
scrip,  tokens  or  orders  upon  any person, 
company  or  corporation  in  payment,  or 
part  payment,  of  wages  due,  or  to  be­
come  due,  to  such  employe.

Sec.  4.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  in 
any  manner contravening  the  provisions 
of  this  act  are  hereby  repealed.

Approved  May  29,  1897.

The  purchaser 

A  clerk  in  a  hardware  store  in  Balti­
more  recently  had  an  experience  which 
may  serve  as  a  warning  to  other  sales­
men.  He  sold  a  customer  $5  worth  of 
tools,  received  a  $10  bill  and  gave  $5  in 
change. 
in  his 
pockets  and  said  he  had  change  and 
would  take  back  his  bill  and  pay  in  sil­
ver.  The  clerk  gave  him  the  bill  and 
received  back  his  change,  which  the 
purchaser  gave as  the  price  of  the tools. 
The  flim-flammer  then  walked  hurriedly 
out,  and  some  time  later  the  clerk  be­
gan  to  realize  that  he  had  lost  $5  worth 
of  tools.

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F L A G S

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b u n tin g  F la g s 3 to 30 fe e t;  a ll-w o o l stand ard  bun tin g  F la g s  3  to 30 feet. 
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CommercialTravelers

Michigan  Knights o! the Grip. 

President, J ab. F. H ammell, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D. C.  Slag ht, Flint;  Treasflrer, Chas. McNoltt, 
Jackson.'
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President, S.  H.  H art,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United  Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Chancellor, H.  U.  Marks,  Detroit;  Secretary, 
E dwin H udson,  Flint;  Treasurer,  Geo.  A.  Rey­
nolds,  Saginaw.
Michigan  Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent  Association.

Treasurer, Geo.  F. Ow en, Grand Rapids. 

President, A. F. P eake, Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  Tyler, H.  B.  F air- 
child, J ab. N. Bradford, J. H enry Dawley.Geo. 
J. Heinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

If  busy  law  builders,diamond-studded 
walking  delegates  and  other  economic 
quacks  would  take  a  “ lay-off,”   the 
commercial  travelers  would  book  more 
orders.

The  money  that  union  labor  has  ex­
pended  for  wind  during  the  past  ten 
years  would  buy  bread  enough  to  feed 
an  army  like  Grant’s  for  forty  years.

Don’t  sit 

in  a  hotel  chair  and  snivel 
because  your  competitor  sells  more 
goods  than  you  do.  Shuck  you  ulster 
and  hustle  and  make  your  business  a 
nickel-plated  stem-winder  success.

Leon  F.  Titus,  who  has  been assistant 
paying  and  receiving  teller 
the 
Traverse  City  State  Bank  for  the  past 
four  years,  has  taken  the  position  of 
teller 
in  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Traverse  City.

in 

Ira  Sell,  who  was  connected  with  the 
egg house  of T.  W.  Brown,at Ithaca,died 
June  13  as  the  result  of  a  sudden  attack 
of  heart  disease.  Mr.  Sell  bad  made 
many  friends  among  the  trade  who  will 
regret  to  learn  of  his  untimely  demise.
We  see  each  year  a  statement  of  the 
earnings  of  the  Pullman  company  and 
it  has  become  a  sort  of  chestnut;  but 
a  statement  of  how  much 
its  porters 
knock  out  of  the  traveling  men  with  a 
whisk  broom  would  be  interesting  read­
ing.

In  choosing  our  representatives 

in 
Congress  and  our  state  legislatures,  we 
consider  politics  too  much  and  business 
too  little.  We  send  men  to  our  legisla­
tive halls  whose  judgment  we  would  not 
accept  in  a  calf  trade.  Why  not  send 
a  few  “ drummers”   to  Congress?

Nearly  all  traveling  salesmen’s  pay  is 
to-day  placed  upon  a  commission  basis, 
but  the  salesman  doesn't  always  get 
what  his  labor  entitles  him  to.  Many 
orders go  to  his  house  on  account  of  his 
earnest  work  for  which  he  never  re­
ceives  credit.  This  is  all  wrong.  The 
more  wealth 
labor  creates  the  more  it 
should  enjoy.

Hudson  Gazette:  A.  C.  Adams,  trav­
eling  salesman  for a  South  Bend  crock­
ery  house,  who  comes  quite  frequently 
is  one  of  the  cleverest 
to  Hudson, 
sleight-of-hand  men 
in  the  country. 
Adams 
is  continually  devising  new 
tricks  and  does  all  his  work  in  plain 
sight  without  mechanical  aids.  He 
particularly  delights  to  mystify  crowds 
about  a  store  or  hotel  with  clever  man­
ipulation  of  coin,  handkerchiefs,  etc. 
If  he  chose  to  go  on  the  stage  his  repu­
tation  would  soon  rival  Herman  or  Kel- 
lar.  Adams  has  already  been  in  de­
mand  for  public  performances  at  Ad­
rian,  Tecumseh  and  other  places,  and 
gave  a  fine  parlor exhibition  recently  in 
this  city.

Geo.  A.  Sage  (Hanselman Candy Co.) 
has  shaved  the  upper  portion  of  his face 
and  caused  his  beard  to  be  trimmed  to 
resemble  the  French  style.  The  change 
in  his  appearance  is  so  remarkable  that 
bis  best  friends  pass  him  by  on  the 
street,  while  his  customers  decline  to 
pay  him  any  money  on  account  until  he 
presents  credentials  from  the  house  to 
the  effect  that  he  is  the  same  man  who 
has  been  calling  on  them  for  the  past 
half  dozen  years.
Thirty  years 

in  the  lumber  business 
has  given  Joseph  Schneider,  who  rep­
resents  Bliss  &  Van  Auken,  of  Sagi­
naw, 
in  Ohio,  an  experience  which 
makes  him  very  valuable  to his concern. 
Mr.  Schneider  has  been  with  Bliss  & 
Van  Auken  for  the  last  foui  years  and 
makes  his  headquarters  at  Toledo.  He 
was  born  at  Detroit,  May  10,  1853,  and 
entered  the  lumber  business 
in  that 
city  in  1866.  For  a  time  he  was  with 
Jerome  Eddy  at  Flint,  but  conducted  a 
business  on  his  own  account  from  1874 
to  1879.  Then  he  managed  the  retail 
department  of  Lindsay  &  Gamble,  at 
Detroit,  and 
in  the  same 
capacity  for  Charles  Kohn.at  Nashville, 
Tenn.  From  there  he  went  with  the  La 
Crosse  Lumber  Co.,  at  Louisiana,  Mo., 
and  left  that  concern  to  travel  for Bliss 
&  Van  Auken.

later  acted 

interment. 

C.  W.  Sparling,  a  midget  formerly 
well  known 
in  this  city  through  his 
work as traveling salesman for the former 
firm  of  Eaton  &  Christenson,  died  week 
before  last  at  Kansas  City,  which  city 
deceased  had  recently  made  headquar­
ters  while  traveling  for  a  Dowagiac 
firm.  The  body  was taken  to  Kingsley 
for 
The  high  esteem  in 
which  deceased  was  held  by his Western 
friends 
is  shown  in  the  following  clip­
ping  taken  from  the  Kansas  City  Times 
of  June  14:  “ The  funeral  of  C.  W. 
Sparling,  the  tiny  traveling  man  who 
died 
last  week,  took  place  yesterday 
afternoon.  A  procession  of  carriages 
three  blocks  in  length followed the white 
hearse  to  Elmwood  cemetery. 
At  3 
o’clock  the  Knighs  of  the  Maccabees, 
of  which  order  the  deceased  was a mem­
ber,  conducted  services  according to  the 
ritual  of  the  order  at  Wagner’s  under­
taking» rooms.  Sparling  was  called  by 
his  brother  knights 
‘ the  Mascott,’  and 
they  turned  out  in  force  to  give  him  an 
honorable  burial.  A  band  of  sixty-five 
pieces  preceded  the  carriages.”
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers
Harry  Bribing  (A.  Krolick  &  Co.)  is 
now  doing  the  trade  for  the  one  hun­
dredth  time.  Harry  would  be  O.  K.  if 
he  paid  election  bets.

W.  J.  Dillon  (Standart  Bros.)  was  at 

the  Soo  last  week,  doing  business.
W.  F.  Mitchell,  manufacturers’ agent, 
is  out  now  on  his  first  trip.  He  was 
lately  manager  for  M.  Church  &  Co., 
at  the  Soo.

F. 

Co.)  is  now  a  kodak  fiend—a 
dition.

R.  W.  Ballentine  (Peninsular  Stove 
late  ad­
The  directors  of  the  Lake  Superior 
Travelers’  Club  will  meet  June  27  to 
name  the  date  of  their  second  annual 
complimentary  party  to  their  trade.
A.  F.  Wixson  (Fletcher  Hardware 
Co.)  goes  to  Detroit  next  week.  Will 
take  a  vacation  and  see  the  sights. 
Mrs.  Wixson  accompanies  him
expects  Mrs.  McC.  to  spend  the  sum­
mer  with  him,  with  headquarters  at 
Marquette.  He  can  get  “ home”   every 
Sunday  then.
The  club  house  at  Grand  Marais  is 
indeed  a  pleasant  place  for  a  traveler' 
to  spend  an  evening.  The  active  mem­
bers  do  their  utmost  to  entertain  us  and 
are  ever  on  the  lookout  for  another  ap­
plication 
for  honorary  membership 
from  the  visiting  travelers.  About  fifty 
travelers  belong  now. 

Ouix.

S.  McCurdy  (Jenness  &  McCurdy) 

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade  keeps  up  remarkably 
well,  considering  the  early  approach  of 
July  1,  at  which  time  we usually look for 
a  dropping  off 
in  the  volume  of  busi­
ness.  Country  dealers  report  a  fair 
in  all 
trade 
lines  and,  as  their  stocks 
are  usually 
low,  mail  orders  continue 
with a good deal of frequency and are well 
assorted  in  character. 
In  general  prices 
of  hardware  we  have  little  to  say,  as 
manufacturers  are  not  disposed  at  this 
time  of  the  year  to  make  any  changes. 
There 
in  some  localities,  however, 
and  on  certain  lines  of  goods  consider­
able  talk  of  trouble  with  men,  owing  to 
anticipated  reductions  in  wages,  which 
are to  take  place  after  July  1. 
It  is  be­
lieved  in  many  lines  that  the  workmen 
will  resist  this  reduction,  which  may 
result  in  closing  down  various  mills, 
which  will,  no  doubt,  have  a  tendency 
to  cause  a  slight  stiffening  in  prices 
in 
lines  of  goods  affected  by  any  continued 
shut-down  that  may  occur.

is 

in 

in 

some 

is  no 

Wire  Nails—There 

special 
change  to  note 
in  the  price  of  wire 
nails,  although  the  tendency  at  present 
writing 
is  downward,  notwithstanding 
the  fact  that  manufacturers  are  doing 
all  they  can  to  prevent  any  lower  prices 
being  made.  Jobbers  are  not  disposed 
to  buy  freely,  as  they  do  not  feel  that 
speculation  at  the  present  time  is  war­
ranted  by the conditions existing.  Prices 
remain  without  change 
jobbers’ 
hands,  although  direct  shipments  from 
mill  are  shaded 
instances, 
quantity  governing  the  price  as  well  as 
date  of  shipment.  From  stock  the  mar­
ket  remains  as  quoted  in  our last  report.
Barbed  W ire— Notwithstanding  the 
fact  that  at  this  time  of  the  year  the 
consumption  of  barbed  wire  is supposed 
.to be  very  moderate,  the  demand  keeps 
In  sympathy  with 
up  remarkably  well. 
wire  rods,  the  tendency  of  prices 
is 
is  believed  by  those 
downward,  and 
who  are conversant  with  existing  condi­
tions  governing  the  manufacture of  wire 
that  prices  will  be  but  a  trifle  lower,  if 
any.  We  find,  however,  that  any  one 
so  disposed  could  place  a  liberal  order 
for  immediate  shipment  and  the  market 
price  would  be  shaded,  but  no  one  at 
the  present  time  is  disposed  to  buy  be­
yond  his  immediate  wants.  Prices  from 
stock  remain  as  per  our  last  quotation.
Window  Glass—The  demand  for  win­
dow  glass  is  remarkably  good.  Prices 
are  firm  and  jobbers,  as  well  as  manu­
facturers,  of  glass,  can  see  no  reason  at 
the  present  time  why  any  concession  in 
prices  should  be  made. 
is  believed 
that  the  present  discount  will  be  firmly 
held  and  that  it  is  only  a  short  time  be­
fore 
it  will  be  necessary  to  make  an­
other  slight advance.

It 

it 

Rope—There 

is  no  change  to  note 
in  the  price  of  cordage  of  any  kind. 
The  demand  for  same  continues in mod­
erate  quantities.

Reports  from  other  markets  are  as 

follows:

Chicago:  Owing  to  the  hot  weather
that  has  prevailed  during  the past week, 
the  demand  for  seasonable  goods  has 
been  very  satisfactory.  The  outlook 
continues  extremely  encouraging.

St.  Louis:  The  prices  in  most  lines 
are  well  maintained  and  the  volume  of 
business  for  the  first  half  of  the  year 
bids  fair  to  show  considerable 
increase 
over  the  same  period  of  last  year.

improved 

Cleveland :  Trade  in  this  section  has 
very  much 
in  the  past  two 
weeks.  Customers  seem  to  be  buying 
more  freely— much  longer  orders  and 
in  quantity—showing  that  they
larger 

are "having  better  trade.  Collections 
are  very  much  better  than  last  month.

Louisville:  Prices  continue  moder­
ately  low,  except  a  slight  advance  in 
sheets,  which  indicates  full  order books 
rather  than  anything  else.

New  Orleans:  There  is  no  particular 
in  the  general  situation, 

improvement 
which  is  quiet.

San  Francisco:  Spring  trade  is  about 
over  and  has  been  about  the  same as last 
year.  The  prospect  looks  good  for  fu­
ture  business.

Boston :  General  trade  is  not  as  good 
as  this  time  cf  the  year  should  warrant, 
but,  on  the  whole,  it 
is  by  no  means 
discouraging.

St.  Paul:  Trade  has  been  affected 
some  by  the  unseasonable  cold  weathers 
which  continued  until  June  10,  but, 
upon  the  whole, 
there  has  been  no 
ground  for  complaint.  Collections  are 
as  good  as  usual  at  this  season.

The  Macaroni  Was  Empty.

“ Didn’t  the  grocer  send  the  maca­
roni?”   enquired  the  mistress,  arrang­
ing  for  the  dinner.
“ Yis,  mum,”   replied  the  cook;  “ but 
Ivery  wan  of  thim 

Oi  sint 
it  back. 
sums  was  impty. ”

The  system  of  vertical  handwriting 
adopted  by  the  school  boards  of  many of 
the  larger  cities  is  held  to  have  scored 
a  triumph  in  Boston  already  in  turning 
out  pupils  who  write  rapidly  and  leg­
ibly,  the  two  prime  qualifications 
in 
chirography.  The  paramount  virtue  in 
handwriting 
is  legibility.  No  matter 
how  pretty  and  artistic  handwriting 
it  cannot  be  read  easily  it 
maybe,  if 
falls  short  of  its  purpose.  This 
is  se­
in  a  conspicuous  degree  in  the 
cured 
vertical  system,  while  a  majority  of 
pupils  add  to 
it  both  symmetry  and 
grace.  With  such  results  it  will  not  b& 
necessary  for  graduates  of  the  public 
schools  to  take a  course  in  penmanship 
after  they  have  entered  a  store  or  office, 
as  they  have  frequently  been  required 
to  do  in  cities that boast of the thorough­
ness and  efficiency  of  their public school 
methods.

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Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  SI 50  to $2.00.

Cor. Saginaw and  Fourth Sts.

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th e  B usiness. S h o rth an d . E nglish  o r M echanical  D raw ­
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State for $1.00  per day.  San itary cond itions 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

and  malpractices  that  have  discredited 
the  reform  in  Ohio,  much  good  may  re­
sult.  Had  the  statute  itself  been  framed 
with  a  better  regard  for the  rights  of 
honest  dealers  and  with  a  clearer  pur­
pose  to  attack  only  the guilty  manufac­
turer,  including  his  local  and  distribut­
ing  allies,  the 
interest  of  the  public 
would  be  more  efficiently  served  and  its 
enforcement  reflect  honor  on  the  State.
However,  should  the  spirit  shown  so 
far  by  the  officer  charged  with 
its  exe­
cution  be  shared  by  his  deputies,  much 
of 
its  unjust  harshness  may  be  miti­
Indeed,  the  result  may  be  the 
gated. 
time  to 
improve  the  quality  of  food 
products  now  over-competing  for  as­
cendency. 
Perhaps  consumers,  also, 
may  be  educated  up  to  a  standard  of 
taste  that  shall  enable  them  to  enjoy 
what 
is  purest  and  best  and  always be 
willing  to  pay  what  the best  is  worth.
P e t e r   C.  M e e k .

Trade 

The  Drug  Market.
in  this  line  is  very  good,  es­
pecially  so  in  insecticides.  There  seem 
to  be  more  potato  bugs  than  ever  and 
Paris  green  is  in  large  demand.

Opium—This  article  remains  in  the 
same  position  as  noted  in  our  last  re­
port.

Quinine— Is  very  firm  and  in  fairly

good  demand.  Manufacturers  are  sell­
ing  sparingly.

Essential  Oils— Cajiput  has  advanced 
and  the  prospects  are  for higher  prices. 
Other  oils  are  steady.

Gelatin—Has  again  advanced;  owing 

to  scarcity.

Gum  Assafoetida— Is  firmer  and  an 

advance  is  probable.

Camphor— Is  unchanged,  but  is  very 
firm.  Camphor  refiners  are  not  able  to 
fill  their  orders  under  ten  days  after 
receiving  them.

Quick  Silver— Is  very  firm  and  has 
advanced.  Mercurials  have  not as  yet 
been  affected,  but  an  advance 
is  prob­
able.

Linseed  Oil— Is  very  dull  and  lower, 

although  there  is  an  active  demand.

A  politician  finds  vindication  about 

the  time  he  is buried.

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

Analytical  and  Consulting  Chemists,

8 4   C A N A L   S T ..
G R A N D   R A P ID 8 ,  M IC H . 

Special attention  given to Water, Bark and 

Urine Analysis.

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

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D ru gs-= C h em icais
MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
C. A. B tjgbee, Traverse City 
-  Dec. 31,1896 
S. E. P arkill, Owosso 
-  Dec. 31,1897
Dec. 31, 1898 
F.  W.  R.  Peb b t, Detroit 
Dec. 31, 1899 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1900
Geo. Gtjndbum,  Ionia  - 

____ 
- 

President, S. E. Parkill, Owosso.
Secretary, F. W. R. P eb b t, Detroit.
T reasurer, Geo. Gundbum, Ionia.
Coming Examination Sessions—Star Island (De­
troit), June 38 and 29;  Sanit  Ste.  Mane,  Aug.
---- ;  Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h illips,  A rmada.
Secretary, B. Schboudbb, Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, Chas. Mann. Detroit.
Executive Committee—A. H. Webber, Cadillac; 
H. G. Colmah, Kalamazoo;  Geo.  J.  waeb,  8t. 
Cl a ir;  A.  B.  Stevens,  Detroit;  F.  W.  K. 
Peb b t, Detroit. 
_____

Vicarious  Sacrifice— A  New 

Remedy.
W ritten fo r the Tradesman.

Legal

in  his 

It  is  interesting  to  watch  the  develop­
ment  of  the  human  mind  in  matters that 
pertain  to  moral,  sanitary  and  economic 
reforms.  An  illustration  of  the  first 
is 
seen  in  a  law  to  prevent  the  purchase  of 
cigarettes  by  minors,  which  the  good 
sense  of  our  highest  executive  officer 
(who  is  himself  an  extremist  in  theory 
and  unbalanced 
judgment  on 
some  questions  of  public  interest)  felt 
impelled  to  crush  with  a  timely  veto. 
As  to  the  second  reform,  a  late  judicial 
interpretation  of  a  certain 
law,  if  en­
forced  strictly  by  the  agents  appointed 
for  its  execution,  will  inaugurate  a  new 
departure  in  commercial  jurisprudence. 
Perhaps  if  followed  to inevitable results, 
it  may  return  to  perplex  and  confound 
its  supporters.  Since  our  code  of  laws 
have  been  stretched  to  cover  acts  that 
in  themselves  are  tree  from  evil  intent, 
under  the  plea  that  society needs protec­
tion  from  every  possible  form  of  human 
selfishness  or  lack  of  forethough  for  the 
comfort  of  others,  no  one  in active bus 
ness 
is  safe  from  the  attack  of  some 
legal  penalty  that  may  lie  in  ambush for 
him.

in  suits  at  law. 

Justice  has  been  universally  repre­
sented  as  a  figure  of  impartial  mien, 
holding  up  a  pair  of  scales  with  which 
to  weigh  evidence  between  opposing 
parties 
It  is  the  boast 
of  our  judicial  system  that  in  the  trial 
of  a  criminal,  no  matter  how  clear  the 
evidence  against  him  may  be  or  how­
ever 
revolting  may  be  the  offense 
charged,  the  least  flaw  in  the  regularity 
of  the  proceedings  may  turn  the  scale 
in  his  favor.  Only  a  few  years  ago  a 
noted  tough  was  arraigned  for  felony, 
tried  fairly  and  sentenced  to  years  of 
imprisonment.  Having  many  friends 
of  his 
interested  in  his  case,  they 
crowded  the  courtroom  to  overflowing at 
the  trial.  The  judge,  for  wise  sanitary 
reasons,  issued  an  order  that  no  more 
spectators  should  be  admitted  than  the 
room  could  safely  accommodate. 
In 
due  time  an  appeal  was  taken  by  coun­
sel  to  the  Supreme  Court  on  the  plea 
that his  client  had  been  debarred  from 
a  fair,  open  trial,  as  conceded 
in  the 
bill  of  rights  because  of  this  order  of 
the  judge,  although  every  other  priv­
ilege  sanctioned  by  precedent  had  been 
allowed.  He  secured  a  reversal  of  the 
sentence  and  an  order  for  a  rehearing 
upon  this  preposterous  claim.

ilk 

Very  lately  a  respectable  grocer  was 
arrested  and  held  to  answer  a  complaint 
under  the  State  pure  food  law  in  that 
he  had  sold  a quantity  of  mustard  be­
low  the  legal  standard  of  strength.  Had 
it  been  French  mustard,  reduced  with 
saccharine  and  other  depressing  ingred­
ients,  making  it  a  travesty  on  the  name 
and  too  weak  to  stand  alone,  he  would

have been  exempt  from  prosecution  un­
der  the  statute;  but  it  happened  to be 
the  powdered  kind  that  comes  within 
the  limit  of  official  investigation.  The 
defense  was  that  he bought  the  article 
from  a  reliable  house  in  good  faith  as 
pure and  sold  it  without  change  in  like 
good  faith.  The  Circuit  Judge,  in  har­
mony  with  usual  precedent,  was  dis­
posed  to  accept  this  explanation,  since 
jt  was  not  disputed;  but,  to  make  a  test 
case,  he  decided  to  instruct  for  convic­
tion  and  allow  an  appeal  to  the  highest 
court.  That  court  sustained  the  first 
judgment  on  the  ground  that  the makers 
of  the  law  intended  to  punish  the  seller 
of  such  goods,  however  good  and  honest 
may  have been  his  character  or  intent.
The  moral of  this  is that  it  is better  to 
be  a  criminal  of  high  degree  than  the 
innocent  violator  of  a  statute  that  allows 
none  of  the  safeguards  usually  thrown 
around  the  wilful  and  persistent  trans­
gressor,  although  he  may  be  a  red- 
handed  murderei.  While  the  purpose 
of  a  pure  food  law 
is  conceded  to be 
just  and  really  necessary  to  the  public 
welfare,  in  the  present  era  of  fraud  and 
excessive  competition  among  manufac­
turers,  no  man  can  truly  maintain  that 
the  moral  status  of  the  grocer  alluded  to 
was  different  from  that  of  his  customer 
who  in  equal  good  faith  bought  and 
took  home  the  unlawful  compound  to 
be  used  by  the  members  of  his  family.
How  easy  it  would  be  for  the  legisla­
tors  to  have  embodied  in  the  statute  a 
provision  by  which  an  honest  dealer 
could  be  as  well  protected  as  pawn­
brokers  are,  who,  without  evil  knowl­
edge  or 
intent,  receive  stolen  goods  in 
pledge.  Such  classes  are  never  pun­
ished,  unless  they  refuse  to  deliver  the 
goods  or  try  to  shield  a  guilty  customer, 
although  the  presumption  of  wrong 
in­
tent 
is  far  greater  in  their  case  on  ac­
count  of  the  bad  characters  with  whom 
they  often  have  to  deal.  Why  should 
not  grocers  and  druggists  also  who  may 
unwittingly  transgress  the  letter  of  the 
law  have  an  equal  chance  to  show where 
the  guilt  lies,  so  that  the  real  offender 
could,  either  by 
loss  of  trade  if  a  non­
resident  of  the  State  or  by  direct  prose­
cution 
if  otherwise,  be  made  to  suffer 
for his  misdeeds?

It  may  be  argued  that  legislators  can­
in  favor  of  special 
not  discriminate 
cases  where 
it  is  essential  to  cover  the 
broadest  range  in  eradicating fraudulent 
practices  that  effect  the  entire  commun­
ity,  and,  besides,  the  grade  of  offense 
involves  only  a  fine and,  unless persisted 
in,  no  loss  of  reputation;  but  both 
law 
and  judicial  rulings  now discriminate in 
favor  of  the  worst  criminals,  many  of 
whom  escape  justice  while the taxpayers 
are  mulcted  in  thousands  to  gratify  the 
whims  of  counsel,  and  make  no  protest. 
Why  should  not  offenders  against  the 
pure  food 
law  come  under  the  same 
liberal  construction,  instead  of  being 
treated  with  specially  vindictive  meth­
ods?

I  am  convinced  that  the  quality  of 
food  products  receives less consideration 
from  the  great  mass  of  consumers  than 
quantity  and  price ;  hence they  have  not 
initiated  this  movement  for  legal  re­
form  by  petitions,  as 
is  usual  when 
there  is  a  long-felt  want  to  be  gratified. 
Their  attitude  on  this  question  shows  a 
pathetic  neutrality. 
It  is  only  through 
public  spirited 
leaders,  such  as  scien­
tific,  professional  and  business  men  that 
such  movements  for  the  general  welfare 
are  pioneered,  carried  past  the  danger­
ous  ordeal  of  legislative  debate  and  put 
into  practical  operation. 
If  its  execu­
tion  can  be  kept  free  from  the  blunders

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—
Declined—Linseed  Oil.

Acidum
Acetlcom.................I
Benzoicum, German
Bor&cic....................
Carbolicum............
Citricum.................... 
Hvdrochlor —
Nitrocum........
Oxalicum..................  
Phosphorium,  dll
Salicylicum............. 
Sulpnuricum.
Tannicum......
Tartaricum................  
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg..
Carbonas........
Chlorldum................  

1  8@S 10
80® 85
@ 15
29® 41
40® 42
40®
3® 5
8® 10
12® 14
12®
@ 15
50® 55
50®
5
IX®
1  40®  1  60
36® 38
36®
4® 6
4®
6® 8
12® 14
12® 14
12®

Aniline

Black.......................  2 00® 2 25
Brown....................  80® 1  00
B ed.........................  45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00

Bacoe.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
Juniperus...............
Xantnoxylum.........
Balaam um

13®  15
25®

Copaiba...................  60®  65
Peru.........................  @260
Terabin, Canada__ 
40®  45
Tolutan...................... 
80®  85
Cortex 
Abies, Canadian—
Cassise....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgin!.......
Quill ala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
TTlinus.. .po. 15,  gr’d 
Extractum 
24®  25
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.
30
Glycyrrhlza, po...... 
28®
Hsematox, 15 lb box.  U@
Hsematox, I s ........... 
13®
Hsematox, 14s.........  
14®
16®
Hsematox,

Ferro

Carbonate Precip.. - 
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate, p u re ......
Plora
Arnica....................
12®
Anthemis...............  
18®
Matricaria..............  30®

Folia

Barosma..................  
15®
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18@  25
Cassia Acutifol ,Alx.  25®  “
Salvia officinalis, V4s
and V4s................. 
12®  20
Ura Ursi..................  
8®  10
Gummi
@  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@  45
Acacia, 2d  picked.. 
@  35
Acacia, 3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
@  28
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.20®28  14®  18
Aloe, Cape__po. 15  @  12
Aloe, SocotrL.po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafoetlda__po. 30  22®  25
Benaoinum............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
Catechu, Vis............  @  14
Catechu, fcs............  @  16
Camphor».............. 
48®  55
Eupnorblum..po.  35  @ 1 0
Galbanum...............   @100
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Guaiacum......po. 35  @ 3 5
Kino...........po. 84.o0  @ 4 00
Mastic....................  @  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. 83.80®4.00 2 45® 2 55
Shellac.................... 
40® 
60
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat____ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. A M..
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum

Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalse, Dulc....  30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarse .  8 00® 8 25
Anisi.........................2  10® 
Aurantl  Cortex......   2  00® 2 20
Bergamii.................  2  25® 
Cajfputi..................  
75®  80
Caryophylli............   55®  60
Cedar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli..............  @ 4 00
Cinnamonli.............  1  80® 
Oitronella...............  
45®  50

2 20
2 30

2 00

00® 4 50

75
50®  60

on®  1 10
50® 2 00
20®  1 40

35®  65
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i  io®  1  20
Cubebse......................  
90® 
Exechthitos...........  1  20®  1  30
Erigeron.................  1 
20®  1 30
Gaultheria.............   1 
50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma.................  l 
Juni pera.................  I 
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonis..................   1 
Mentha Piper.........  1  60© 2 20
Mentha Verid......... 2  65® 2 75
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1  0ü@  l  10
Myrcia,...................   4 
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
10®  12
Picis  Liquida......... 
Picis Liquida, gal...  @ 3 5
Ricina.................... 
99® 1 04
Rosmarini...............  @  l  00
Rosse,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Buccini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90@  1  00
Santal.....................   2 
Sassafras.................  50®  55
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
TIglii.......................  1 
40@  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Barb.................... 
15@  18
13@  15
Bichromate  ........... 
Bromide..................   48®  51
Carb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16©  18
Cyanide..................   50@  55
Iodide.....................   2 
Potassa, Bitart, pure  29@  31
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @  15
8©  10
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass Nitras........... 
9
7@ 
Prussiate.................  25©  28
Sulphate po  ........... 
15©  18

40®  1 50

50® 7 00

65® 2 75

Radix

20©  25
Aconitvm............... 
Althse.....................   22©  25
Anchusa................. 
12©  15
Arum po.................. 
©  25
Calamus................. 
20©  40
Gentiana........po  15 
12©  15
Glychrrhiza...pv. 15  16@  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  35
©  40
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15©  20
Inula, po................. 
15©  20
Ipecac, po...............   2 00© 2  10
Irisplox— po35@38  &5@  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
40©  45
Maranta,  Qs...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po__ 
22@  25
75®  1  00
R hei....................... 
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhei, pv..................  
75®  1  35
Spigelia................... 
35©  38
Sanguinaria...po. 40  @  35
Serpentaria............   30@  35
Senega.................... 
40@  45
©  40
Similax, officinalis H 
Smilax, M...............  
©  25
Scillae............po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
©  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
15@  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ............... 
12©  16
Zingiber ]...............  
25©  27
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
@  12
13©  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4© 
6
10®  12
Carui.............po. 18 
Cardamon...............  1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8© 
lo
Cannabis  Sativa__  3V¿® 
4
Cydonium............... 
75©  1  00
Cnenopodium........ 
10©  12
Dipterlx  Odorate...  2 90® 3 00
Fceniculum............  @  10
9
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
L ini........................   2V4@ 
4
4
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 2%  3V4@ 
Lobelia.................. 
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3Vi@ 
4
Rapa.......................  4V4© 
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
Juniperis Co...........  1  75@ 3 50
Saacnarum 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 sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @  85
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  65
Hard, for slate use.. 
®  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1  40

Syrups
Acacia....................  @  50
Auranti Cortes.......  
®  50
Zingiber..................  @  50
Ipecac. 
.........  
@  60
Ferri Iod................. 
©  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50©  60
Senega....................  @  50
Scili»......................   @  50

1  00

niscellaneous

@  50
@  50
@  50

Scillæ Co.................
Tolutan..................
Prunus virg..  ........
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor.....................
1  00 
Catechu..................
50 
Cinchona.................
50 
Cinchona Co...........
60 
Columba.................
50 
Cubeba....................
50 
Cassia Acutifol......
50 
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
50 
Digitalis.................
50 
Ergot......................
50 
Ferri Chloridum....
35 
Gentian..................
50 
Gentian Co..............
60 
Guiaca....................
50 
Guiaca ammon.......
60 
Hyoscyamus...........
50 
Iodine............ ........
75 
75 
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
50 
Lobelia...................
50 
Myrrh......................
50 
Nux Vomica...........
50 
Opii........................
75 
50 
Opii, camphorated.. 
I  50 
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia. 
50 
Rh
hatany...............
50 
Rhei.....................
50 
50 
Sanguinaria........
50 
Serpentaria.........
60 
Stromonium........
Tolutan................
60 
Valerian..............
50 
50 
Veratrum Veride.
Zingiber...............
20
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F  30®  35
?4@  38
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alumen..................   2V4® 
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3® 
4
Annatto..................  
40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........
55@
Antimoni et PotassT
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin..............
Argenti Nitras, oz ..
Arsenicum..............
10©
38©
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..
Bismuth  S. N.........1  40©  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is..  @ 
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor., V4s.
10 
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  v<s. 
12 @  75
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  18 
Capsici  Fructus, af.
@  15
Capsici Fructus, po.
15 
Capsici FructusB,po 
10©
Caryophyllus..po. 15
12 
3 75
Carmine, No. 40__
@50©
Cera Alba, S. & F ...
40®  42
Cera Flava.............. 
Coccus.................... 
©  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  33
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum................  @  45
Chloroform............. 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35
Chloral Hyd Crst__  1  15®  1  30
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.i W 
20®  25 
Cinchonidine, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   3 55® 3 75
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct. 
65
CreosoQim..............   @  35
Creta.............bbl. 75  @  2
5
Creta, prep..............  @ 
9®  11
Creta, precip........... 
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus.................... 
25®  30
Cudbear................. 
©  24
5©
Cupri Sulph............  
Dextrine.................. 
10©  12
Ether Sulph............ 
75©  90
Emery, all  numbers  @
Emery, po...............   @
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
60
Less than'box__ 
Glue,  brown........... 
9®  12
Glue,  white............ 
13®  25
14®  20
Glycerina...............  
Grana  Paradisi  __  @  15
Humulus................. 
25©  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  80
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  90
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  00 
HydraagUnguentum  45©  55
Hydrargyrum.........  @  65
Ichthyooolla, Am...  1  25©  1  50
Indigo.....................  
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3  60© 3
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin.........
Lycopodium...........  50®  55
.  .........  
Macis 
65©  75
Liquor  Arse- et Ry-
drarg Iod.............   @  27
LiquorPotassArsinit  10®  12
3
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1V4
Mannia, S.  F ........... 
50®  60
Menthol.................   @240

Morphia, S.P.& W... 1  95® 2 20 Sinapis....................
@  18
Morphia,  S.N.Y.O..&
Sinapis, opt............
@  30
C.  Co.................... 1  85® 2 10 Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Moschus Canton__
@ 40 Voes.....................
@  34
Myristica, No. 1......
65® 80 Snuff,Sco tch.DeVo’s
@  34
Nüx Vomica.. .po.20
@ 10 Soda Boras.............. 6  @ 
8
Os  Sepia.................
15® 18 Soda Boras, po........ 6  @ 
8
Pepsin  Saac, H. & P.
Soda et Potass Tart.
26@  28
D. Co....................
@  1  00 Soda,  Carb..............
2
t%@ 
Picis Liq. N.N.V4»al.
Soda, Bi-Carb.........
5
3® 
doz........................
@ 2 00 Soda, Ash...............
3%@ 
4
Picis Liq., quarts__
@  1  00 Soda, Sulphas.........
@ 
2
Picis Liq., pints......
@ 85 Spts. Cologne...........
@ 2 00
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 @ 50 Spts. Ether Co........
50®  55
PiperNigra...po.  22 @ 18 Spi/  Myrcia Dom...
@  ° 00
Piper Alba__po.  35
@ 30 Spts. Vfni Rect. bbl.
© 2 42
Piix  Burgun...........
@ 7 Spts. ViniRect.V4bbl
@ 2 47
Plumbi  Aeet...........
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal
© 2 50
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 1  10©  1  20 Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal
@ 2 52
Py rethrum, boxes II.
& P. D. Co., doz...
@  1  25 Strychnia, Crystal... 1  40®  1  45
30® 33 Sulphur,  SubI.........
Pyrethrum,  pv.......
3
Quassias..................
8© 10 Sulphur,  Roll........
2®  2 %
Quinia, S. P. & W ..
26@ 31 Tamarinds..............
8®  10
Quinia, S. German..
20® 29 Terebenth Venice...
28®  30
Quinia, N.Y............
24® 29 Theobromse............
42®  45
Rubia Tinctorum...
12® 14 Vanilla................... 9 00@16 Oo
SaccharumLactis pv
18® 20 Zinci  Sulph............
7® 
8
Salacin.................... 3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Dracouls...
40® 50
Oils
Sapo,  W..................
12® 14
Sapo, M....................
10® 12 Whale, winter.........
Sapo, G....................
@ 15
Siedlitz  Mixture  ... 20  @ 22 Lard, No. 1..............

Less 5c gal. cash 10 days.
2H@ 

70 
35 

70
40

19

I, pure  ra

Linseed,  boiled......   30
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
34

Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian......... 
13£  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars, 
lit  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
lit  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2*4 2V4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V4  2it©3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13V4®  19
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red...............   5%@ 
6
Lead, white...........  5V4® 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  X) 
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1_00@  1  15

Varnishes

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

Hazeltine & Perkins 

Drue 6o.
Sundry Department

We  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.

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50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1,000  books, any denom_20 00

Superior Grade.

Credit Checks.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from $10 down.

50 books, any denom__   1 50
100 books, any denom___ 2 50
500 books, any denom___11 50
l,000J3ooks,’any denom ___ 20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books....................... .  1  00
50 books....................... ..  2 00
100 books....................... ..  3 00
250 books......................
..  C 25
500 books....................... ..10 00
1000 books....................... ..17 50
500, any one denom’n... ..  3 00
1000, any one denom’n .. ..  5 00
2000, any one denom’n .. ..  8 00
Steel punch..................
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnESTIC
Sundrled.......................  @ 244
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  4 
Apricots......................   9 @1044
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................  6 @
Peaches......................   744@ 9
Pears............................. 8 @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles...................12
Raspberries................
California Prunes.
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  @344
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @3%
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 444
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @ 44i
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   @544
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @744
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.......  @
44 cent less In 50 lb cases 

California Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

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

1 55 
2 50
3 25
4 \
544
644

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Patras bbls...................... @ 544
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases....... @ 594
Cleaned, bulk  .................@ 644
Cleaned, packages.......... @ 7
Citron American 101b 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...........  @
Sultan»  R Crown  ......   @

Raisins.

FLY PAPER. 
Tanglefoot.

CHEESE.

Acme.................
714 
Amboy..............
794 
@
Byron.................
794 
Elsie.................
@  894
Gem.................
@  894 
Gold  Medal......
794 
Ideal.................
@  794 
@  7
Jersey............... .
Lenawee.................   @
Riverside................   @  8
Springdale.............  @  7
Brick......................  @  9
Edam......................   @ 75
Leiden.....................  @  18
Limburger...............  @  15
Pineapple................43  @  85

Bulk 
Red

......

Chicory.

5
7

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
....4 25
Columbia, 94 pints...... ......2 50

pints......
CLOTHES PINS

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

5 gross boxes.... 

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.... ...............
Less quantity..............
Pound packages.........

294
3
4

CRBAft TARTAR. 

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

 

 

Java.

Mocha.

Santos.

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

F air........................................ 17
Good.......................................18
Prim e..................................... 19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ...............................22
Fair  .......................................19
Good  ..................................... 20
Prime..................................... 22
Peaberry  ...............................23
Fair  ....................  
21
Good  .......................  
22
Fancy 
.................................. 24
Maracaibo.
Prime..................................... 23
Milled..................................... 24
Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth......................27
Mandehllng............................ 28
Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue...... 
...........28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Mocha and Java......2594
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 2594
Sancaibo.............................23
Valley City Maracaibo........1894
I Ideal  Blend........................ 16
| Leader Blend....................13
|  Worden Grocer Co.’s Brands
Quaker Arabian Mocha......31
Quaker Mandehllng Java. .30 
Quaker Mocha and Java. ...28
Toko Mocha and Java........25
Quaker Golden Santos.......21
State House Blend..............19
Quaker Golden Rio.............1794
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local freight  from
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice  for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which he purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package.  In  60  lb. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  12 00
Jersey.............................  12 00
ncLaughlin’s XXXX.........12  00
Extract.
75 
Valley City 44 gross  .
Felix 44 gross............
1  15 
Hummel’s foil 44 gross 
86 
Hummel’s tin 44  gross 
!  43
1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9
CONDENSED  MILK.

Kneipp Malt Coffee.

Package.

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora................. ..... 55
Castor OH........... ......60
Diamond............ ......50
Frazer’s .............. ......75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes...
Paragon.............. .  ...56

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

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
lb cans doz..................  
45
94 lb cans doz..................  
85
1 
lb cans doz.................   1 50
94 lb cans 3 doz.................  45
94 lb cans 3 doz.................  75
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk................................... 
10

Acme.

El Purity.

94 lb cans per doz............  
75
94 lb cans per doz  ...........   1 20
lb cans per doz............ 2 00
1 
94 lb eans 4 doz case........ 
35
55
94 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
lb cans 2 doz case  ...... 
90

Home.

JAX0N

Our Leader.

54 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
94 lb cans, 4 doz case...  ..  85
lb cans, 2 doz case........  1 60
1 
X lb cans.......................... 
45
94 lb cans..........................  75
l 
lb cans..........................  1  50
1 lb. cans  .........................  %

Peerless.
BASKETS.

Iron strapped, 50c extra. 

Per doz.
Standard Bushel..............  1  25
Extra Bushel...................  175
Market.............................  
30
94 bushel, bamboo del’ry.  3 50 
\  bushel, bamboo del’ry.  4 00 
1  bushel, bamboo del’ry.  5 00 
Diamond Clothes, 30x16...  2 50
Braided Splint, 30x16......   4 00
American...............................70
English....................................80

i<5 EARr>;

CONBIMSED

BATH  BRICK.

BLUING.

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

BRoons.

No. 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
8s..................................... ...7
16s  ................................... ...8
Paraffine........................... ...8

CANDLES.

CANNED  GOODS.
flanitowoc  Peas.

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

CHOCOLATB.

 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

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
..  96
Jute, 71 ft,  per  doz.. 

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.......   76

Pearl Barley.

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

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
B ulk................................ 
3
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s.........2 00
Barrels  ............................2 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums.........1  00
Dried 
344
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box--------  60
Imported,  25 lb. box....... 2 50
Common........................... 
194
Chester............................  2
Em pire............................  244
Green,  bn..........................   80
Split,  per lb...................... 
244
Rolled Avena,  bbl........3 40
Monarch,  bbl..................3  00
Monarch,  44  bbl............. 1  65
Private brands,  bbl......2 90
Private brands, 44bbl......1  60
Quaker, cases..................3  20
German...........................  
4
344
East  India....................... 
Cracked, bulk..................  
3
24 2 lb packages.............. 2  40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

Fish.
Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured............  @344
Georges  genuine.......   @4
Georges selected.......   @5
Strips or bricks.........  5  @  8
Chunks................................ 
9
Strips................................ 
Holland white hoops keg. 
60 
Holland white hoops bbl.  7 50
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs..................   2 50
Round  40 lbs..................   1  30
Scaled.................................  
Mess ico lbs.....................   10 50
Mess  40 lbs.....................   4 50
Mess  10 lbs.....................   1  20
Mess  8 lbs.....................   1  00
No. 1100 lbs.....................   9 50
No. 1  40 lbs.....................   4  10
No. 1  10 lbs.....................   110
No. 1  8 lbs  .................... 
91
No. 2 100 lbs......................  7 00
No. 2  40 lbs.....................   3  10
85
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
Russian kegs.................... 
55
No. 1,1001b. bales............
No. 2,  100 lb  bales...........
No. 1 100  b»....................  4 00
No. 1  40 lbs..................  
1 91
No. 1  •() lbs 
55
.............. 
47
No. 1  8 lbs 
... 
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 40  5 00  1  75
........  2 85  2 30  1 00
40 lbs 
10 lbs........... 
33
8 lbs  ......... 
30
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

Whlteflzh.

Trout.

65 
55 

79 
66 

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......140
6oz......2 00
6oz........ 3 00 
No.  8...2 40
No.  8  4 00 
No. 10.. .4 00
No. 10.  .6  00 
No.  2 T.  80
2 T.l 25 
No. 
No. 3 T.l  35
No. 
3 T.2 00 
No 
No. 4 T.l  5q
4 T.2 40 
Sage.....................................  15
Hops...................................   15
Madras, a lb  boxes............   55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
15 lb palls............................  30
17 lb  palls............................  34
30 lb palls............................  55
Condensed, 2 doz  .'............ 1  20
Condensed, 4  doz............... 2 26

1NDIOO.

HERBS.

JBLLY.

LYB.

Soudera’.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

GLUE.

per doz.
Jackson Liquid, 1 oz......... 
65
Jackson Liquid, 8 oz.........  
98
Jackson Liquid, 3 oz.........   1  30

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’z.

Kegs........................................ 4 25
Half Kegs.................................2 40
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 35
1 lb  cans.............................   30
94  lb cans............................  18
Kegs.........................................4 00
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter  Kegs...........................1 25
10
1 lb  cans................. ........  .  34
Kegs........................................ 8 00
Half Kegs.................................4 25
Quarter Kegs............................2 25
lib  cans...............................  46
Pure.....................................  80
18
Calabria.............................  25
Sicily...................................   14
Root.....................................  10
Ideal, 3 doz. in case.............2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor Parlor.....................1 70
No. 2  Home..........................1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 00

MINCB MBAT.

LICORICE.

nATCHBS.

riOLAASBS.
New Orleans.

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

Half-barrels 2c extra.

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

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s..............................4 00
Penna8alt  Co.’s................. 3 00

POTASH.

PIPES.

PICKLES, 
rtedlum.

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

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Imported.

Carolina head....................  694
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2..................   4%
Broken...............................  3
Japan,  No. 1......................  594
Japan.  No. 2.....................   5
Java, No. 1 .........................
Table..................................  594
A nise...............................  IS
Canary, Smyrna...............   4
Caraway..........................  10
Cardamon,  Malabar......  80
Hemp,  Russian...............   4
Mixed  Bird......................  494
Mustard,  white.........   ...  694
Poppy  .............................  
8
5
Rape................................ 
Cuttle Bone.....................   20

SBBDS.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s .............................3 3C
Deland’s .............................3  15
Dwight’s .............................3  30
Taylor’s .............................. 3 00
Granulated, bbls..............1  10
Granulated,  100 lb caseB.. 1  50
Lump, bbls....................... 
1
Lump, 1451b kegs..............1  10

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Common Grades.

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
100 3 lb sacks........................ 2 60
60 5-lb sacks....................... 1  85
2811-lb sacks.............  
1  70
Worcester.
50  4 
lb. cartons..............3 25
115  2941b.  sacks................. 4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks................. 3 75
22 14 
lb. sacks................. 3 50
3010 
lb. sacks................. 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks................   32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.................... 2 50

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

Warsaw.

Ashton.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Higgins.
Solar Rock.

Common Pine.

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

SNUFP.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  .............................   9
Cassia, China In mats......... 10
Cassia, Batavia in band__20
Cassia, Saigon In rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................60
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot........................10
Allspice  ..............................12
Cassia, Batavia...................22
Cassia,  Saigon.....................35
Cloves,  Amboyna................20
Cloves, Zanzibar..................15
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.................... 70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,......................40@50
Pepper, Sing., black.... 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white__15@18
Pepper, Cayenne............17@20
Sage.....................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cane.

Barrels.............................   12
Half  bbls........................  14
Fair  ................................   16
Good................................  20
Choice.............................  25
Boxes....................................594
Kegs, English.......................  44£

SODA.

SOAP.
Laundry- 

Armour’s Brands.

SOAP.

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 
JA X O N
Single box.................................2 75
5  box lots, delivered.......2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65
JAS. 3. KIRK 8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome........................................ 3 33
Cabinet.....................................2 25
Savon........................................2 50
Dusky Diamond, 56 oz........ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 58  oz........ 3 00
Blue India............................... 3 00
Kirkollne..................................3 75
Eos........................................... 3 65

Lautz  Bros. &  Co.’s Brands.

Acme, 70 1 lb. cakes.

Acme, 601 lb  cakes.

Single box............................s 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  85
5 box lots............................2 75
10 box lots.............. 
  2 70
25 box lots............................2 65

Acorn, 120 cakes, 75 lbs.

Acme, 5 cent size.

 

Marseilles White.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box..........................  5 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
Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

Single box  ... 
..................2 65
5 box lots, delivered..........2 60
10 box lots, delivered...........2 50

Allen B. Wri8ley’8 Brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars  . .2 75 
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 5S£-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz......2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz...........2 40

Washing Powder.

100 12 oz pkgs.....................  3 50

STARCH.

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages.....................   4
3-lb  packages.....................   4
6-lb  packages.....................   4*4
10 and 50 lb boxes...............   2M
barrels 
.........................   214

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf..................................5 38
Domino................................... 5 25
Cubes...................................... 5 00
Powdered  .......................... 5 00
XXXX  Powdered............   .5  2a
Mould  A..................................5 00
Granulated in bbls...................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 7a
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 13
No.  10...................................... 4 00
No.  11....... 
No.  12...................................... 3 81
No.  13...................................... 3 39
No.  14.......................................3 56
No.  15...................................... 3 44
No.  16...................................... 3 38

3 88

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large 
Lea & Perrin's, small
Halford,  large.........
Halford small.........
Salad Dressing, large 
Salad Dressing, small 
TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

.. .4 75
::.3 75 
.. .2 25 
...4  55 
...2 65

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick............................. 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.
Governor Yates, 4%  in..... 58 00
Governor Yates, 4%,  in..... 65 00
Governor Yates, 534  in__ 70 00
Monitor..................................30 00
Quintette...............................35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’sbrand.

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 
No. 0, per gross....................  25
No. 1, pergross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No.3,pergross....................  75

VINEGAR.

WICK1NG.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Standard................. 
Standard H.  H.......  
Standard Twist...... 
Cut Loaf.................
Extra H. H..............
Boston  Cream........

bbls pails
5. © 7
5M@ 7
6 @ 7
© 8cases
© 8M
©

Mixed Candv.

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

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

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozeuges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops........... 
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops..............
Imperials...... .........

© SM
© SM
11 @14
@13
@ 5
© 7M
@  SM
© SM

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
Lozeuges,  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 ©so
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  .................

@30
@45

F r u i t s .
Oranges.
Seedlings
96-112......................
250............................
150-176-200...............

Med’t Sweets.

126..........................
150-176-200  ..............
Messinas.
Fancy  200s..............

St. Michaels.

300s..........................
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s..............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Bananas.

©
©
@3 50

@3 25
@3 50

@3 50

@4  50
@3 50
@3 50
@4 00
@4 50

Foreign Dried  Fruits.
©
©12
© 6
© 8
@ 6
@ 5M
© 4M

Medium  bunches... 1  25 @1  50
Large bunches........1  75 @2 00
Figs, Choice  Layers
10 1b.....................
Figs,  New  Smyrna
14 and 30 lb boxes.
Figs,  Naturals  in
30 lb. bags,............
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes..................
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..................
Dates,Persians,H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  ..................
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
©12M
Almonds, Ivaca.........
@11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............ ©
Brazils new...............
©  <M
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 50
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. @ 6M
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Choice, H. P., Extras.
© 4
Choice. H. P.,  Extras,
a 5M
Roasted  .................

Peanuts.

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

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

78

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

Spring  Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best %a...........  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 <fc Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian, Ms......................   4  60
Parisian, Ms.........................4 50
Parisian. Ms.......................  4  40

Olney *  Judson’s Brand.

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

Meal.

Bolted...............................  1  50
Granulated.......................  1  75

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 12 50
No. 1 Corn and Oats..........11  ?0
Unbolted Com 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............   30

  27M

 

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................... 22M
Cariots, clipped................   24
Less than  car  lots............   27

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

Sausages.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as
follows:
Barreled Pork.
Mess  .............................
8 00
Back  .............................
9 00
9 00,
Jlear back.....................
8 50
Shortcut.........................
12 50
Pig..................................
Bean  .............................
8 00
Family  ..........................
8 50
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies............................
5M
Briskets  .........................
5
Extra shorts...................
4 \
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __
10
...
Hams, 14 lb average 
9ÎÎ
Hams,  161b  average......
9M
Hams, 20 lb  average......
Ham dried beef.............. UM
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  .
6M
Bacon,  clear..................
California  hams............ 6M@7
Boneless hams...............
SM
11
Cooked  ham..................
Lards.  In Tierces
Compound......................
3X
Kettle.............................
4 \
55 lb Tubs.........advance
M
30 lb Tubs.........advance
M
50 lb T ins.........advance
M
20 lb Pails......... advance
M
10 lb Palls......... advance
X
5 lb Palls......... advance
%
3 lb Pails.........advance
1
Bologna...........  ...........
5
Liver...............................
Frankfort.......................
0%
Pork..............................
6H
Blood  ...........................
6
Tongue ..........................
9
Head  cheese.  ...............
6M
Extra  Mess.................... 7 00
Rump............................. 9 50
Kits, 15 lbs......................
80
H  bbls, 40 lbs................. 1  50
M  bbls, 80 lbs................ 2 80
Kits, 15 lbs.....................
75
J4  bbls, 40 lbs................. 1  40
%  bbls, 80 lbs................. 2 75
P ork...............................
18
Beef  rounds...................
Beef  middles.................
8
Sheep.............................
60
Rolls, dairy..................
Solid, dairy....................
Rolls,  creamery............
Solid,  creamery............
Canned  Meats.
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
Devi) ed ham,  Ms........ 1  00
Potted  tongue Ms.........
60
Potted  tougue Ms......... 1  00

Pigs’ Feet.

10
9M
13
12M

Butterine.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Crackers.

TheN.Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:

Butter.

Seymour XXX..................   4M
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  cartou  5
Family XXX......................  4M
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  5
Salted XXX.......................  4M
Salted XXX, 31b carton...  5

Soda.

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

Oyster.

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

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold Water............   13
Belle R o s e ......................  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
JumDles,  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

 

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Fore quarters........... .  5  @ 6
Hind  quarters......... .7   ©  8M
Loins  No.  3.............. .10  @12
Ribs......................... ■  9  @12
Rounds.................... -7   © 7M
Chucks.................... •  4  @ 5
© 3
Plates  ....................
Pork.
Dressed...................
©  4M
Loins.....................
@ 6
Shoulders................
©  5M
Leaf Lard................ ..  5M@  8
Mutton.
Carcass.................. ..  7  @ 9
Spriug Lambs......... ..  9  @10
Carcass  ................. ..  6  @7

Veal.

H i d e s   a n d

P e l t s .

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

lows:
Hides.
.5   ©  6
Green......................
Part  cured..............
©  6M
Full Cured.........
•  6%@  7%,
.6   @8
D ry .........................
Kips,  green............
.  5  © 6
Kips,  cured............
.  6M@  8
Calfskins,  green__ .  5H@ 7
Calfskins, cured__ •  7  @  8 Va
.25  @30
Deaconskins  .........
Pelts.
Shearlings..............
Lambs....................
Old  Woo!...............

5© 
10
25©  50
60©  90

O i l s .
Barrels.
Eocene  ..................
©UM
© 8M
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt 
W W Michigan........
@8
© 7
High Test Headlight
D„ S. Gas.................
© 8
Deo. N aptha...........
@ 7M
Cylinder................. ..25  @36
Engine....................
.11  @21
©  8
Black, winter.........

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

Butters.

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

Churns.

2 to 6 gal., per gal......  ... 
5M
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5M 

Milkpans.

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

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

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

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

40
50
8M
70
20
30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l 00 

M gal., per doz................
1 gal., each......................
Corks for M gal., per doz.. 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..

Sealing Wax.

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

2

top,
top,
top,

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

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

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

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 86
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............  
80
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ........  ......................  1  25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..  . . .   1  60 
No. 1, Lime  (65g doz)........  3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........  4 70

La  Bastia.

Rochester.

Blectrlc.

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 
I 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 OLOBBS.
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
20
25
38
58
70

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

LAMP  WICKS.

Fish and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
@ 8
Whitefish...............
<A 7
T rout.....................
Black Bass..............
(A 10
Halibut..................
<A 12m
<A 4
Ciscoes or Herring.
(A 12
Bluefish..................
(A 17
Live Lobster.........
(A 19
Boiled Lobster........
<A 10
Cod........................
Haddock.................
<A 8
<A 7
No.  1  Pickerel........
(A 6
Pike.........................
(A 7
Smoked White........
<A 13
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon..
<A
© 15
Mackerel 
..............
F. H. Counts........... @ 40
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@l  50
Clams,  per  100.......  90O100

Oysters In Cans
Shell Goods.

Klngsford’a  Corn.

40 1-lb packages..................   6
20 1 lb packages..................   6m
Klngsford’a Sliver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages...................  6%
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  boxes..........................  444

22

H a rd w a re

Facts  and  Incidents  Pertinent  to  the 

Hardware  Trade.

A. N. Oldman in Hardware.

I  had  a  call  the  other day from a sales­
man  who  proved  to be  the  worst  speci­
men  of  an  indigo  bag  I  ever  saw.  Blue! 
That  was  no  name  for  it.

He  left  a  dull,  leaden  hue 

in  the 

whole  neighborhood.

Did  he  sell  me  any  goods?
He  did  not.
He  said  the  country  was  going  to  the 
devil.  He  cursed  McKinley  and  his 
administration.  He  was  for  free  silver, 
free 
lunches—anything
different  from  the  things  that  are.  He 
ran  the  whole  country  down  from  Maine 
to  Texas—and  when  he  got  me  into  his 
frame  of  mind,  he  pulled  out  his  sam­
ples  and,  with  a  sigh,  set  out  to  sell  me 
a  bill  of  goods.

trade, 

free 

I  said  to  him:  “ Young  man,  why 
should  I  take  on  any  more  of  a  load, 
when  the  whole  outfit  is  going  to smash? 
I  feel  more  like  shutting  up  shop,  pay­
ing  a  cent  on  the  dollar,  and  going 
in­
to  politics. ’ ’

Even  then  he  blamed  the  country, 
rather  than  himself,  because  he  did 
not  make a  sale.

Don’t  send  me any  more  boys  of  his 
like  a  sales­
build,  Mr.  New  York. 
man  who  comes  in  with  a  smile,  a  new 
story,  a  fund  of  heartiness—such fellows 
as J.  E.  Sleight,  George  B.  Main,  How­
ard  Beach,  Hariy  Hopkins,  E.  Bertram 
Pike,  or Joe  Limeburner.

God  bless  them,  and  their  whole  con­
nection.  They  are  traveling  sunbeams. 

I 

*  *  *

It  doesn’t  do  for anyone,  especially 
one  who 
is  selling  goods,  to  tell  all  he 
feels  and  knows.  Something  should  be 
kept  in  reservation. 
I  have a  grandson 
who  illustrates  the  point.

A  man  drove  up  to  the  store  the  other 
“ I  hear 

day,  and  hailed  me  with: 
your  son  has  a  boss to  sell?’ ’

“ Yes,”   said  I,  “ he  has  a  fine  little 

bay  mare he  would  part  with.”

“ Fetch  her out,”   said  he.
We  went  back  to  the  barn,  followed 
by  five-year  Jim,  my  grandson.  The 
mare  was  brought  out,  and  the  visitor 
was  quite  taken  with  her.  He  asked 
her age,  looked  her over,  found  out  the 
selling  price,  and  then  asked,  “ Any 
bad  habits?”

4  No,”   said  I  promptly.
Young  Jim  stood  with  his  hands  in 
his  pockets,  his  legs  apart,  bis  hat  on 
one  side.  As  I  answered,  he  looked  up, 
and  in  a  shrill  voice,  exclaimed:

“ She  balks!”
“ She  does,  sonny?”   said  the  man. 
“ That’s  a  good  boy,  always  tell  the 
truth.’ ’

“ The kid  don’t  know  what  he  is  talk­
“ Sometimes  she 
ing  about,“ said  I. 
shies,  and  that’s  what  he  means.”  
Young  America  turned  an  indignant 
eye  on  me. 
“ Now,  grandpa,  you  know 
she  does.  Didn't  dad build  a  fire  under 
her to  make  her go?”

and  gave  him  a  nickel.

The  stranger  patted  him  on  the  head, 
“ You  don’t  want  her?”   I  said.
“ No,  I  don’t  think  I  do.”
I  said  nothing  to  the boy.  He  will 
know  more  when  he  is  older.

*  *  *

There  is  a  painter  in  our town  who  is 
not  very  bright,  but  who  occasionally 
stumbles  on  the  right  thing.  The  other 
day  the  General,  whose  past  is  shady  in 
spots,  was  holding  forth  at  a  great  rate, 
on  the  porch  of  my  store.

“ Paint,  Thomas,”   said  he,  “ is  a 
great  hider  of  weak  spots.  It  covers  the 
rust,  evens  up  the  rough  places,  fills  the 
cracks  and  knot  holes,  makes  the  old 
look  new,  and  hides the  blemishes  from 
the  human  eye. 
like  this, 
Thomas,  you  are a  deceiver,  and  yet  a 
necessary  evil.”

In  work 

“ Yes,  General,”  said Thomas,  slowly, 
“ don’t  you  want  me  to go over your rep­
utation?”

*  *  *

Here are  some  maxims  for  clerks  that 
I  have  studied  out,  in  a  long  course  of 
business:

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Never  do  to-day  what  you  can  shove 

off on  a  fellow  clerk  to-morrow.

Keep  at  the  back  end  of  the  store  as 
much  as  possible,  so  that  the other  boys 
will  have  to  wait  on  customers.

Always  keep  a  novel  under  the  coun­
ter  to  catch  up  when  the  old  man  is 
out.

Keep  your  eye  out  for a  soft  snap.
Don’t  do  any  more  work  than  you  are 

paid  to  do.

Be  the  last  one  to  come  in  the  morn­

ing  and  the  first  to  leave at  night.
scribed  duties.

Don’t  do  a  thing  outside  of  your  pre­

Find  fault  with  your  place and salary.
Show  up  the  weak  points  of  your  es­
other 
Be  as  snappy  with  customers  as  you 

tablishment  to  the  clerks 
houses.

of 

dare.

Tell  your  fellow  clerks  all  the  things 

you  hear against  the  boss.

Threaten  to  leave  whenever  fault  is 

found  with  you.

Believe  that  the  world  owes  you  a 

living  and  act  on  that belief.

If  the  above  rules  are  strictly  fol­
lowed,  you  will  be out  looking  for a  job 
in  about  thirty  days  from  date.

*  *  *

There  is  a  member  of  the  Hardware 
Club  who 
is  young  in  years  but  is  al­
ready  the  active  managing  head  of  a 
large  retail  and  wholesale  hardware  es­
tablishment.  He  was  relating  an  ex­
perience,  the  other  day:  “ I  was  stand­
ing  near  two  clerks,  who  did  not  see 
me.  The  younger  asked  the other— who 
was  ten  years  older  than  myself— in 
regard  to  a  special  discount.  Said  he 
in  answer,  ‘ I  don’t  know.  Ask  the  old 
man. ’

“ Was  I  offended?  Not  much. 

“ I  wondered  whom  he  could  mean. 
The  clerk  seemed  to  know,  for  he  put 
straight  to  the  office,  and  asked  for  me.
It  was 
the  proudest  moment  of  my  life.  No 
man  is  ever  ’ the  old  man’  about a store, 
unless  he 
It 
means  power, 
appreciation,  respect. 
When  a  man  of  my  age  earns  that  title, 
he  ought  to  feel  happy  enough  to go  out 
and  throw  roses at  himself.”

is  respected  and  liked. 

*  *  *

“ Speaking  of  preachers,”   said  an­
other  member  of  the  Club,  “ remindsme 
of  the  colored  pastor  who  met  one  of his 
deacons  going  home  at  midnight  with  a 
bag  of  chickens on  his  back.  Said  he, 
sternly 
’ Deacon  Jones,  where  you  git 
dem  hens?’  ”

“ I  stole  em.”
“ Yes,  but  where  you  stole  em?  :
“ What’s  dat  to  you?”
“ Brudder  Jones,  is  you  so  mean  dat 
you  won’t  put  you  poor old  pastah  on?”  

*  *  *

“ When  I  was  out  West,”   said  the 
maker of  tools,  “ a young man  registered 
at  the  hotel,  and  set  in  to  make  things 
lively.  The  first  night,  he played  poker 
with  the  landlord,  and  cleaned  him  out; 
the  next  night,  he  came  home  drunk, 
and  whipped  the  cabman;  the  third 
night,  he  went  up  and  down  the  halls, 
singing  at  the  top  of  his  voice,  and 
daring  the  chambermaids  to  come  out 
and  embrace  him. 
In  the  morning, 
they  asked  for  the  key  of  his  room,  and 
gave  him  his  bill.  He  looked  it  over, 
and  then  said,  with  surprised  pathos, 
‘ Don’t  you  make  any  discount  to  min­
isters?’  ”
Advantage  of  the  Tanaem  over  the 

Single  Wheel.

From the Rochester Times.

The  sociable  element in cycling prom­
ises  to  play  an  important  part  among 
the  pleasure-seeking  bicyclists  this  sea­
son.  Tandems  seem  to  be  in  great  de­
mand  among  riders  who  can  boast  of 
“ best  girls,”   and  every  other  combina­
tion  which  leads  to  propinquity  of  the 
sexes  is  having a  fair  trial.  So  far  the 
tandem  seems  to  have  secured  the  larg­
est  following,  but  there  is  some  differ­
ence  of  opinion  as  to  how  the  riders 
should  be  seated.  A  veteran  of<he  road 
ventures  the  following  opinion:

“ In  one  thing,  at  least,  it  has  been 
definitely  settled  that  lovely woman shall 
take  a  back  seat.  We  have  been  a  long 
time  coming  to  this  conclusion,  for  up 
to  the  end  of  last  season  the  woman  was

in  front. 

placed 
In  this  position  she 
had  the  full  benefit  of  the head wind and 
also  obstructed  the  view  of  the  real  con­
troller  of  the  machine.  This  form  of 
cycling  should  become very fashionable. 
The  vast 
increase  of  power  which  a 
properly  constructed  double  machine 
gives  to  its  riders  must,  sooner or  later, 
be  fully  recognized  by  those  who  have 
hitherto gone  in  for  two  safeties to every 
pair. ”

The  reasons  advanced  in  favor  of tan­
dem  combinations  are  that  the  woman 
is  free  from  the  care  which  follows 
in 
the  wake  of  the  single  rider,  and  that 
she  has  nothing  to  trouble  her  except  to 
stick  on  when  the  pace  becomes  fast. 
It  is  also  argued  that  the  man  in  front, 
when  he  feels  fit,  can  go  as  fast  as  he 
pleases  without  fear  of  leaving  his com­
panion  behind;  that  greater  distances

can  be  covered 
in  the  same  time and 
with  more  comfort,  and  that  by  such  an 
arrangement  there  are  only  two  tires  in­
stead  of  four  exposed  to  puncture.  The 
tandem  advocate  winds  up  by  saying 
that  the  “ swing”   which  a  pair  attains 
at  a  fast  pace  is  a  pleasure  unknown  to 
the  rider  of  a  single  machine.

Laws  do  not  protect  a  man’s  life  and 
laws  are  not  en­

property  where  the 
forced.

WM. BRUMMELER & SONS,  GRAND RAPIDS, 

Pay  th e   h ig h e s t  price  In  CRsh  for 

MIXED  RADS.
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  HETALS.

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

you our best prices thereon.

B R O W N   lu ,  S E H L E R

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

HARNESS  OF  ALL  KINDS.

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

to 

Send for our New  Cat­
alogue  before  ordering 
elsewhere.

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When in want of a new  roof  or  repairs  yon  can  save  money  bv  employing
skilled mechanics In this line.  We have representatives covering the State of
Michigan regularly,  -nd if you have a defective roof,  drop us  a card  and we
will call on you, examine your roof and  give  you  an  estimate  of the  cost of
necessary repairs or putting on new  roof.  Remember  that we  guarantee  alt
our work and our guarantee Is good.

H. M.  REYNOLDS & SON,

PRACTICAL  ROOFERS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ESTABLISHED  1868.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

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

Railroad............................................ 812 00  14 00
Garden................................................   net  30 00

BARROWS

BOLTS

Stove......................................................  GO&IO
Carriage new list...................................   70 to 75
Plow....................................................... 
50

Well,  plain................................................... 8325

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

BLOCKS

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

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

 

 

CAPS

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

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire...............................................  
. ..50*  5
Central  Fire................................................25* 5

70

4

65
55
35
60

Socket Firmer.............................................. 
Socket Framing........................................... 
Socket Corner.............................................. 
Socket Slicks............................................... 

80
80
80
80

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

CHISELS

DRILLS

ELBOWS

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

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark's small, 818;  large, 826........................30*10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, 824; 3, $30............................ 
25

PILES—New  List

New American...........................................  70&10
Nicholson’s....................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................CCAiO
GALVANIZED  IRON

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

13 

14 

28
17

 

 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................816 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...........................................  1  75
20 to 60 advaftice...........................................  Base
10 to 16 advance.........................................  
05
8 advance...................................................  
10
6 advance..................................... 
 
20
4 advance...................................................  
30
45
3 advance...................-............................... 
70
2 advance............................................... 
50
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
25
Casing  8 advance....................................... 
Casing  6 advance....................................... 
35
Finish 10 advance  ....................................  
85
Finish  8 advance.......................................  
35
Finish  6 ad vance.......................................  
45
Barrel % advance.........................................   85

 

MILLS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HINGES

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware........................ new list 75&10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron  Ware........................ new list 40*10
Pots............................................................... 60*10
K ettles.........................................................60*10
Spiders  ........................................................60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3...............................  dis 60*10
State.........................................per doz. net  2 50
80
Bright.......................................................... 
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook's.......................................................... 
80
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, % inch and  larger............................. 
5%
Manilla........................................................  
8
Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels 
Mitre...............

LEVELS
ROPES

WIRE  GOODS

SQUARES

SHEET  IRON

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

com. smooth,  com.
82 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80
2 90
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

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

METALS-ZInc

HORSE NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

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

TIN—Melyn Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

 

ROOFING  PLATES

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

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, ] per pouna '"  

„OIlnd 

□
“

Effect  of  Legislation  on  the  Produc­

tion  of Native  Sugar.
Matthew Marshall in New York Sun.

Visitors 

the  ports 

invention  and 

The  effect of  legislation 

in  France,  and  decorated 

it  dissolved  more  readily 

in  stimulat­
ing 
industry  was  never 
more  strikingly  shown  than  it  has  been 
in  respect  of  this  very article  of  sugar. 
At  the  beginning  of  this  century  the 
sugar  obtained  from  the  sugar  cane  was 
the  only  kind  known  to  commerce. 
Chemists  had  succeeded  in  getting,  at 
great  expense,  small  quantities  of 
it 
from  other sources,  among  them  beets, 
or,  as the  English  call  them,  beet  roots; 
but  commercially  their  discoveries  were 
of  no 
importance.  When,  however, 
about  the  year  1810,  the  blockade  by 
Great  Britain,  in 
its  contest  with  Na­
poleon  Bonaparte,  of 
of 
Europe,  cut  off  the  continent  from  sup­
plying 
itself  with  sugar  from  foreign 
countries,  the  attention  of  speculators 
was  turned  to  the  beet,  and  with  so 
much  success  that  Bonaparte  publicly 
visited  the  first  large  beet  sugar  factory 
erected 
its 
superintendent,  as  a  public  benefactor, 
with  the  cross  of  the  Legion  of  Honor. 
The  peace  of  1815  was  a  serious  blow  to 
the  infant  industry,  but  those  who  had 
embarked  in  it  were  not  discouraged, 
and  by  dint of  ingenuity  and  economy 
succeeded 
in  maintaining  themselves 
against  the  competition  of  cane  sugar 
imported  from  abroad. 
to 
France,  forty  or  fifty  years  ago,  will  re­
member  the  surprise  with  which  they 
regarded 
the  peculiarly  fine-grained 
white  sugar,  in  little  oblong  cakes,  the 
size  and  shape  of  dominoes,  which  was 
served  them  with  their 
coffee,  and 
which,  they  were  told,  was  made  from 
beets. 
It  did  not seem  to  have  as  much 
sweetening  power as  refined  cane  sugar, 
in  the 
but 
its  intended  pur­
coffee,  and  answered 
pose  very  well.  An 
imitation  of 
it, 
called  “ domino”   sugar,  is  even  now 
made  and  sold  in  this  country,  and  is 
largely  consumed.
Germany  followed  France,  at  a  few 
years’  distance,  in  raising  sugar beets 
and  extracting  sugar  from  them.  For 
revenue  purposes  the  Government  laid 
a  tax  upon  the  raw  beets,  but,  to  en­
courage  the  export  of  the  sugar  made 
from  them,  it allowed  a  drawback  upon 
it  calculated  upon  the  assumption  that 
11  tons  of  beets  would  yield  a  ton  of 
sugar.  By  carefully  selecting  seed,  the 
amount  of  sugar 
in­
creased,  and  by  the  adoption  of  the 
diffusion  process  of  extracting the juice, 
in  which  warm watei'was passed through 
the  beets,  after  they  were  reduced  to 
pulp, 
in 
presses,  a  larger  quantity  of  saccharine 
matter  was  obtained,  and  thus  8'4  tons 
of  beets  were  made  to  yield  a  ton  of 
sugar,  with  the  result  that  the  rebate 
allowed  as  on  11  tons  gave,  practically, 
to 
the  manufacturer  a  considerable 
bounty,  for  which,  in  1892,  was  substi­
tuted  a  cash  bounty,  the  tax  on  the  roots 
being  abolished.  Austria  and  France 
also  pay  a  bounty  on  sugar  produced 
within  their  limits,  so  that  in  all  these 
countries 
it  costs  the  home  consumer 
more  for  his  sugar  than  it  does  the  for­
eign  buyer.  Many  efforts  have  been 
made  to  abolish,  by treaty,  these  oppres­
sive  and  embarrassing  bounties,  but 
hitherto  without  success;  and  the  ad­
justment  of  our  tariff to  meet  the  diffi­
culties  they  create  is  a  perplexing prob­
lem.
the 
artificial  stimulus  of  beet  sugar  produc­
tion  may  be,  it  has  so  far  been  effectual 
that  of  7,000,000 tons  of  the  world’s  an­
nual  crop  4,300,000  tons  now  come  from 
beets,  and  only  2,700,000  tons  from  the 
cane.  Germany’s 
share  of  the  beet 
product  is about  1,750,000  tons,  that  of 
France 600,000  tons,  and  that  of  Austria 
750,00  tons,  the  rest  being  contributed 
by  Russia,  Belgium,  Holland,  and other 
countries.  These  figures,  however, 
it 
must  be  observed,  are  not  strictly  cor­
rect,  the  statistics  accessible  not  being 
brought  down  to  the  latest  dates,  but 
they  are  nearly  enough  so  to  illustrate 
the  subject.  The  nation’s  consumption 
of  sugar  being  2,000,000  tons  annually, 
costing  last  year  $90,000,000  to 
import, 
the  question  whether  we.  cannot  our­
selves  produce  at  least  a  part  of  what

instead  of  squeezing  them 

However  faulty, 

in  the  root  was 

in  principle, 

it 

in 

we  need  of  it  becomes  one  of  great  in­
terest.

The  agricultural  exports  of  this  coun­
try  have  hitherto  been  chiefly  the  prod­
uct  of  the  simplest  and 
least  skilled 
labor.  Our  wheat,  for  example,  is  cul­
tivated  with  so  little  care  that  while, 
in  Great  Britain,  with  a  much  less  ad­
vantageous  climate  and  natural  soil,  the 
average  yield  per  acre 
is  33  bushels, 
with  us 
is  less  than  15  bushels,  and 
in  raising  Indian  corn,  tobacco,  pork, 
beef,  butter,  cheese,  and  other  articles 
we  have  aimed  rather  at  getting  the 
greatest  quantity  for  the  labor  expended 
than  at  improving 
its  quality.  Wages 
have been  high  and  land  cheap,  and  our 
farmers  and  planters  for  a  long  while 
did  well, 
in  spite  of  their  slovenly 
methods,  but  of  late  years  the  condi­
Ihdia,  Argentina, 
tions  have  changed. 
and  Australia 
successfully  compete 
with us  in growing  cheap wheat,  the beef 
and  mutton  from  Australia  take  the 
market  away  from  ours,  we  send  abroad 
great  quantities  of  butter,  cheese,  lard, 
and  pork,  but  our  epicures 
import  the 
finer  kinds.  The  consequence  has  been 
that  in  a  glutted  market,  and  the  lower 
prices  that  result  from  it,  our  agricul­
turists  suffer,  and  complain  that  their 
calling  has  ceased  to  be  profitable,  but 
they  have  the  remedy 
their  own 
hands.  They  must,  either  by  improved 
processes 
improve  the  quality  of  their 
goods,  or  else,  by  the  employment  of 
machinery, 
they  must  cheapen  their 
cost.  If  both  these  expedients  fail,  they 
must  turn  their  attention  to  the  produc­
tion  of  articles  for  which  they  can  find 
an  ample  market  at  home,  and  one  in 
which  they  have  their  foreign  competi­
tors  at a  disadvantage  which  cannot  be 
overcome. 
If  sugar  with  a  protective 
duty,  can  be  profitably  raised  in  Louis­
iana  from  cane,  possibly 
it  can  be 
raised  with  profit 
in  other  states  from 
beets.
is  certain :  the  excess  of 
any  crop  of  which  the quantity produced 
in  this  country 
that 
which  can  be  consumed  here  must  be 
marketed  abroad,and  the  price  obtained 
abroad  necessarily  fixes  that  which  can 
be  obtained  at  home.  So  long  as  we go 
on  raising  more  cotton,  tobacco,  wheat, 
corn,  beef,  pork,  lard,  butter and cheese 
than  can  be  sold  to  our  own  citizens  the 
prices  that  we  can  get  for  the  whole 
cannot  exceed  the  price  we  get  for  the 
part  we  are  compelled  to  export  in order 
to  sell 
it  at  all.  No  protective  duty 
can  raise  its  value  in  the  market,  be­
cause  the  market  is  beyond  the  reach  of 
any  protection  our  laws  can  give.  On 
the  other hand,  an  article  like  sugar,  of 
which  we  cannot  possibly,  for  years  to 
come,  produce  as  much  as  we  consume, 
so  that  we  shall  have  none  to  export, 
can  be  protected,  until  under  the  stim­
ulus of  protection  we  increase  the  prod­
uct  beyond  our  own  needs,  and  have  a 
surplus  over.

is  greater  than 

One  thing 

Another  thing,  too,  that  the  agricul­
turists  of  this  country  should  bear  in 
mind  is  that  they  are  not  the  only  citi­
zens  who  suffer  from  the 
low  prices 
caused  by  a  production  in  excess  of  the 
needs  of  home  consumers.  The  coal 
miners,  the  iron  miners,  the  steel  rail- 
makers,  and  the  cotton  manufacturers 
are  likewise  unable  to  sell  as  much  as 
they  are  able  to  produce,  and' those  with 
whom  the  cost  of  production  is  above 
the  limit  of  price  obtainable  for  their 
product  have  had  to  stop  work.  The 
farmers  and  the  planters  in  this  respect 
are  no  worse  off  than  are  the  miners 
and  the  manufacturers.  They have  out­
run  the  needs  of  the  world  and  they 
must  either  remain  partially 
idle,  or 
they  must  find  new  kinds  of  employ 
ment  in  supplying  wants  now  supplied 
by  the  foreigner.

A  R hym ester  in  J a il.

A  prisoner  in  a  county  jail  wrote  the 
in  chalk  on  the  door  of  his 

following 
ce ll:

He was a genial, smiling man,
And drank his whisky plain,
But since he signed the temperance pledge 
He never smiled again.

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

G.  R.  IX X   D A I R Y   P A I L .

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

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, firstquality......................................   ©50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
PANS
Fry, Acme........................ 
60*10*10
Common, polished.................................  
70* 5
60
Iron and Tinned........................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs...........!.................. 
60

RIVETS

 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages %c per pound  extra.

HAMMERS

Some  merchants  try  to  find  an  excuse 
for  poor  business,  others  try  to  find  a 
remedy—and  usually  succeed.  What  do 
you  do?

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

Write  for  quotations  and  monthly  illustrated 

Catalogue.

W fl.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,

Manufacturers and jobbers of 
Pieced and Stamped Tinware. 

a6o  S. Ionia St. 

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Grand Rapids, Mich 

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  June  21— Hawaiian  annex 
ation  and 
its  probable  effect  on  the 
sugar  trust  was  the  theme  for discussion 
among  the  trade  and  nearly  everybody 
else  here  last  week.  What  effect  will  the 
pauper  labor  have  on the “ enlightened 
laborers  who  are  working  in  the  Brook 
lyn  refineries  at  a  dollar  a  day?  But 
there  will  be  time  enough  to  grappl 
with  these  questions  when  the  time  ar 
rives. 
It  is  evident  that  there  is  going 
to  be  some  very  determined  opposition 
to  the  treaty  in  the  Senate,  and  the  end 
is  not  yet.

is 

Business  is  better.  Buyers  are  here 
in  goodly  number and.some  of  ouqjjob 
bing houses  are  having  all  they  can take 
care  of.  The  demand 
is  not  so  much 
for  any  one  thing,  but  the  aggregate 
shows  up  handsomely.
The  coffee  market 

in  about  the 
same  condition  as  last  week,  with  Rio 
No.  7  closing  at  7>6c.  There 
is  not 
in  an  invoice  way.  The 
much  doing 
bulls  have 
rather  a  hard  time.  The 
bears  say  we  shall  soon  see  the  visible 
supply  over  800,000  bags  again  and they 
are  looking  for  no  advance  in  the  near 
In  store  and  afloat  there  are 
future. 
In  mild  sorts  little 
about  759,000  bags. 
is  doing 
in  the  way  of  cargo  lots,  but 
there  have  been  a  good  many  small  or 
ders.  The  ship  Philadelphia  came  in 
Thursday  with  10,500  bags  of  West  In­
dia  sorts.  Quotations  are  nominally 
the  same.  One  of  the  old  sugar  refin 
eries  in  Brooklyn  is  undergoing  exten­
sive  overhauling  and,  it  is  said,  will  be 
put  into  the  service  of  the  Havemeyers 
as  a  coffee  roasting  establishment.

Prices  of  refined  sugar,  both  foreign 
and  domestic,  are  held  with  a  good  de­
gree  of  steadiness,  although  the  demand 
during  the  week  has  been  hardly  up  to 
the  usual  run  and  the  supply  has  now 
overtaken  the  demand;  at  least,  there 
is  no  waiting  for  orders  to  be  filled. 
Dealers 
in  foreign  refined  do  not  seem 
anxious  to  take  orders  for  large  lots  and 
are holding  on  with  confidence as  to  fu­
ture  prices.

Theie  is  absolutely  nothing  doing 

in 
the  tea  market.  This  applies  both  to 
invoice  and  smaller  lots.  Trices  are, 
perhaps,  3c 
lower  on  an  average  than 
they were  a  month  ago,  but  dealings are 
only  for quantities  as  wanted  every day. 
is  every  conceivable  range  of 
There 
prices. 
If  one  sort  is  in  better  request 
than  another,  it  is  Japans.

The  rice  market  is  fairly  firm  and 
sales  are  making  on  a  basis  of  former 
quotations.  The  tariff  question  still  dis­
turbs  the  market  somewhat,  but,  as  a 
rule,  there  is  very  little  dickering  over 
rates.  Buyers  take  what  they  want,  pay 
the  price  asked,and  dealers  are  not  urg­
ing  sales.  Foreign  grades,  which  have 
recently  shown  some  advance,  still  re­
main  firm  at  last  quotations.

is  moving  along 

Nothing  is  doing  in  spices  in  invoice 
lots.  Business 
in  a 
dull  and  solemn  manner  and  every­
body 
is  waiting  for  a  better  time  later 
on.  Pepper 
is  the  firmest  article  on 
the  entire  list,  but  buyers  are  not,  seem­
ingly,anxious to  take a  supply  far  ahead 
of  daily  requirements.

In  molasses  a  pretty  fair business  has 
been  transacted  by  some  firms  with  out- 
of-town  grocers,  but,  as  a  rule,  the  mar­
ket  is  not  more  active  than  usual  at  this 
period  of  the  year.  Choice  grades  of 
open  kettle  are  most  sought  for.  Syrups 
are going  out  in  about  the  usual  quanti­
ties.  A  few  sales  for  export  to  Great 
Britain  are  reported,  but  there  is  not 
enough  business  to  create any  enthu­
siasm.  Prime  to  fancy  sugar  syrup  re­
mains  as  last  quoted— i5@igc.

In  canned  goods,  a  good  business  has 
been  done  by  some  and  with  others  the 
cry 
is  of  continued  dulness.  Goods 
that  are  strictly  “ up  to  the  scratch”  
are  not  lacking  for  buyers,  but  there  is 
a  vast  assortment  of  unknown 
labels 
wasting  their  sweetness  on  the  desert 
air.  There 
is  a  very  wide  range  of 
quality  and  price—peas,  for  instance, 
being  quotable  from  47%c  to $1.60,  with 
all  fractions  between.  Tomatoes  are 
held  at  65 @950,  the  latter,  of  course,

being  for  fine  goods.  Corn  averages 
about  60c  for  N.  Y.  labels  and  Maine 
5c  higher.

Dried  fruits  are  dull.  Stocks  of  Cal 

fornia  goods  are  pretty  well  cleaned  up 
and  the  new  season  promises  well.
Strictly  fancy  Western  creamery  but 
It  must  bear 
ter  has  been  sold  at  15c. 
close 
inspection  to  fetch  this  figure, 
Some  butter goes  abroad  this  week,  but 
foreign  trade  is  not  especially  encoura 
ging  as  yet.

is  a  better  demand  for  large 
full  cream  cheese,  which  now  bring 
8}4c.  Small  size  are  less  active  and 
are  held  at  7%@7%c.
Receipts  of  eggs  are  ample,  but  the 
demand  is  quiet.  Near-by 
fresh,  13c 
Western,  n@ nj£c.

There 

Beans  are  quiet,  with  choice  pea  held 
at  85@87J^c.  Choice  marrow,  $i.i5@ 
i .i 7'/2.
The  bargains  in^traw  hats  this season 
are  not  confined  so  much  as  they  for 
merly  were  to  the  peddlers’  wagons 
the  streets.  There  was  an  outbreak  of 
straw  hat  stores all  over  the  city  about 
month  ago  and  these  have  become  the 
scenes  of  the  bargains.  The  buildings 
occupied  by  these  stores  appear  to  be  to 
let  and  their  possession  by  the  hat  sell 
ers  to  be  merely  temporary.  The  stores 
are  scattered  about  every  part  of  the 
town  and  evidently  the  promoters  of 
this  new  departure  believe  that bargains 
are  as  much  appreciated  in  one  part  of 
the  town  as  the  other.  One  of  the 
respects 
in  which  the  English  makers 
of  straw  hats  have  deferred  to the Amer 
can  taste 
is  very  noticeable  this  year, 
Until  straw  hats  become  good  style 
for  town  wear  in  England  the  hats 
im 
ported  to  this  country  were  heavy 
things  lined  with  a  band  of  white  flan­
nel,  which  of  all  available  materials 
seemed  the  least  to  the  purpose.  But 
the  English  makers  were  not  averse  to 
learning  something  from  the  hats  that 
went  over  from  this  country,  and  the 
leather  hat  band  has  become 
polished 
an 
in  London  as  much  ap­
preciated  as  it  is  here.  The  opening  of 
the  season  as  usual  brought  out  a  num­
ber  of 
lurid  hat  bands,  but  they  are 
probably  incidental  only  to  the early  en 
thusiasm  which  makes  a  man  feel  as 
if 
he  wants  the  most  complete  summer- 
ike  outfit  that  he  can  get  when  the 
first  warm  weather  comes.  The  Squad­
ron  A  hat  bands  of  blue  and  yellow  rib­
bon  pervade  the  town,  and 
from  the 
frequency  of  their appearnace  one would 
suppose  that  body 
included  a  great 
many  more  members  than  it really does, 
n  some  neighborhoods  the  troop  rib­
bons  are  particularly  conspicuous,  and 
four  of  them  outside  of  the  stage  door 
of  the  Casino  one  night  last  week  were 
plainly  distinguishable  even  in  a  group 
of  heads  covered  with  towering  feathers 
and  luxuriant  flowers.

institution 

The  Grain  Market.

remains 

It  is  an  exceptionally  hard  task  to  say 
anything  of  interest  regarding  the  con­
dition  of  the  wheat  market  during  the 
past  week. 
It  was  certainly  very  dull 
and  if  we  were  gifted  in  the  use  of  pro­
fane  language  (which  the  editor  of  this 
paper  tries  to  make  out  we  are),  we 
would  certainly  be  tempted  to  make 
good  use  of  it.  To  make  a  long  story 
short,  wheat 
in  statu  quo. 
There  were  only  some  very  light  fluc­
tuations.  St.  Louis  has  received  a  car 
of  new  wheat  and,  had  the  wet  weather 
not  set  in  at  Oklahoma when  the harvest 
was  at  its  height,  which retarded  thresh­
ing,  we  think  there  would  have  been 
more  shipped  in.  Baltimore  also  re­
ceived  a  very  nice  car  of  new  wheat 
»from  Virginia  on  the  21st.  Wheat  in 
this  section  is  heading  out  and  it 
looks 
more  favorable  for a  good  harvest  than 
it  did  last  year.  The  millers  of  Grand 
Rapids  have  been  making  strong  ap 
peals  to  the  farmers  during  the  last 
three  months  to  have  them  cut  the  rye 
out  of  the  wheat,  as  there  seems  to  be 
more  than  the  usual  amount of rye in the 
wheat  this  year,  which  is  probably  due 
to  the  large  amount  of  rye  grown  in 
Michigan  during  the  past  three  years 
The  laughable  thing  about  it  is,  the  De 
troit  Board  of  Trade  men  claim  the 
credit  for  this  being  done.  We  note  an 
article in one of the Detroit market letters 
which  reads  as  follows:  “ Our  agitation 
of  the  rye  in  wheat  question  has  been 
productive  of  good  results,  as  farmers 
in  many  parts  of  the  State  have  profited 
by  our  advice  and  are  cutting  the  rye 
out.”   This  beats  all,  and  the  use-oi 
some  strong  adjectives  would  certainly 
be  admissible 
If  our  Christian  friend 
of  the  Tradesman  happened  to  hear  of 
anything  of  this  kind,  he  would  prob 
ably  blubber  over  with  choice  epithets 
but,  as  we  are  always  meek,  we  will  let 
the  Detroit  Board  of  Trade  men  bom 
bast  to  their  hearts’  content.  Spring 
wheat  is  also  coming  along  very  nicely 
and  it  looks  now  as  though  (barring  all 
accidents)  we  would  have  515,000,000 
bushels  in  the  United  States.  The  vis- 
ble  made  another  large  decrease  ol 
1,013,000  bushels,  against 600,000  bush­
els  for  the  corresponding  week last year, 
leaving  20,473,000  bushels  insight.  The 
following  shows  the  amount  of oats,  corn 
and  wheat 
in  sight  at  about  the  same 
date  during  the  last  four  years:

saved  by  the  exercise  of  a  little  care 
during  the  next  thirty  days  to  cut  the 
clusters  of  rye  out  of  the  wheat  fields.

Michigan  millers  require  the  best 
grade  of  perfectly  clean  wheat  in  order 
to  produce  flour  of  as  fine  a  quality  as 
they  have  been  making  the  past  ten 
years  or  more.  Michigan 
first  grade 
flours  are 
justly  celebrated  in  the  most 
discriminating  markets,  both  at  home 
and 
in  foreign  countries.  This  repu­
tation  cannot  be  maintained  except  by 
the  use  of  first-class  grain.  Wheat 
mixed  with  rye  brings  only  a  low  price 
in  any  market.  Farmers  cannot  spend 
a  little  time  to  better  advantage  than  to 
go  through  the  wheat-fields  in  the  early 
part  of  June  and  cut  the  rye  out  clean, 
it  might  also  be  mentioned  that  letting 
rye  remain  in  wheat  will  sooner  or  later 
deteriorate  the  wheat  by  the  wheat  run­
ning  into  rye,  making  a  mongrel  wheat. 
Where  at  present  Michigan  has  such  a 
good  name  for  its  good  quality  of  wheat 
as  well  as  flour,  it  can  soon  be  ruined  if 
this 
in  the  wheat  is 
persisted  in.

letting  "rye  grow 
*  *  *

is  shown  that  Michigan  wheat 

Local  millers  are  much  interested 

in 
the  decided action taken by the Farmers’ 
Club  of  Hopkins  and  Monterey  Town­
ships,  Allegan  county,  relative  to  buy­
ing  Michigan  flour of  Michigan millers. 
In  a  recent  discussion  of  the  subject, 
it 
is 
quoted  11  cents  above  spring  wheat,  yet 
the  millers  from  the  spring wheat region 
ship  flour  into  the  State and  retail  it  at 
40c  per  barrel  more  than  winter  wheat 
larger  return  to 
flour,  thus 
the  middlemen. 
is  shown  that  this 
spring  wheat  flour  directly  injures  the 
farmer  who  has  wheat  to  market,  and 
the  following  boycott  was  declared  on 
all  merchants  who  keep  other 
than 
Michigan  wheat  flour  for  sale:

insuring  a 

It 

Whereas,  The  sale  of  flour  manufac­
tured  from  the  spring  wheat  of  Western 
States 
is  detrimental  to  the  best  inter­
ests  of  the  Michigan  wheat  grower,  and,
Whereas,  Certain  merchants  and  deal­
ers  are  offering  for  sale  the  products  of 
Western  mills 
in  direct  opposition  to 
our  best  interests,  and  by  so  doing  are 
injuring  our  home  market  and  causing 
greater  loss  to  the  wheat  grower  and  to 
business  interests  generally;  therefore, 
be  it  further

Resolved,  That  we,  the  undersigned 
citizens  and  friends  of  the farmer,  agree 
to  pledge  our  support  and  patronage  to 
those  merchants  alone  who  sell  the prod­
ucts  of  our own  mills  and  the  flour  from 
our  Michigan  wheat,  and to  protect  each 
others’  interests  as  far  as  possible.

Flour  and  Feed.

O A T S

C O R N

Heman  Barlow 

16.278.000
9.095.000
9.499.000
7.175.000

W H E A T
i  19,  *97,  20,473,000 
une 20,  ‘96,  48,841,000 
• 221  ’q5j 46,224,000 
une 23,  ’94, 56,956,000

10,130,000
11,105,000
8,615,000
2>535iQoo
Coarse  grains  ruled  about  the  same, 
they  were  affected  by  the  same  in­
fluences  as  affected  wheat.  The  market 
on  both  corn  and  oats  is  very  dull  and 
we  would  not  be  surprised  to  see  lower 
rices  on^  these  grains,  as  the  outlook 
for  a  fine  harvest  is  very  flattering.

is  a  very  good  man 
and  a  very  good  father;  but  the  best  of 
men  and  the  best  of  fathers  occasionally 
make  mistakes,  as  the  following  aptly 
llustrates:  Heman’s  pretty  daughter, 
Miss  Julia,  affectionately  known  among 
her  friends  by  the  sobriquet  of  “ Toot,”  
ras  recently  taking  a  fond  adieu  of  her 
paternal  relative,  preparatory  to  a  trip 
to  Chicago  via  boat  from  Holland.  Bar- 
low  Pere  was  giving  her  an  unlimited 
quantity  of  excellent  advice  such  as 
fathers  know  so  well  to bestow.  The 
last  good  bye  was  said,  the  last  loving 
iss  exchanged,  and  Heman  gracefully 
umped  off  the  train  just  as  the  signal 
sounded.  Duty  done,  and  the  train 
rapidly  pulling  out,  what  was  his  sur­
prise  and  consternation  to  behold  the 
form  of  his  daughter  swiftly  springing 
from  the  rear  platform  to  the  ground. 
Cause:  Heman's  advice  was  all  right, 
but—he  had 
forgotten  his  daughter’s 
During  the  past  two  or  three  years 
valise  (without  which  the  Chicago  visit 
there  has  been  considerable  trouble  in 
could  not  be  made)  and  left  it  gently 
this  State  caused  by  rye  getting  mixed 
reposing  in  the  baggage  room !  Heman 
in  the  wheat.  A  large quantity  of  wheat 
says  he  afterward  hired  C.  G.  A.  Voigt 
that  would  otherwise  be  of  fine  quality 
to  say  a  few  words  for  him  that  would 
is  utterly  ruined  for  milling  purposes 
express  the  chagrin  he  felt  at  the  de-
by  the  rye  that 
is  mixed  through  the 
nouement,  and  that  C.  G.  A.  proved I grain,  and  many  a  dollar  is  lost  to  the 
himself  amply  adequate  to the situation,  jfafarmers  that  might  easily  and readily be |

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  33 
cars  of  wheat,  6  cars  of  corn  and  7  cars 
of  oats.  Local  millers  are  paying  78c 
for  wheat.  The  demand 
is 
much  better  than  it  has  been.

Among  the  methods  adopted  by  Voigt 
&  Co.  to  influence  the  growers  to  elim- 
nate  the  rye  from  their  wheat  fields was 
the  gratuitous  circulation  of 
several 
thousand  circulars  reading  as  follows: 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

for  flour 

During  the  past  fortnight  the  busi­
ness  transacted  has  been  of  a  hand-to- 
in  flour. 
mouth  character,  particularly 
The  same  conditions  seem 
likely  to 
follow  until  a  better and  more  definite 
knowledge  can  be  obtained  of  the  out­
come  of  the  growing  crop  and  the  prob­
able  effect  upon  the  market.  There 
is 
wide  difference  in  the  consensus  of 
opinion  as  expressed  in  the  sale  of  op­
tions,  as  future  months  would  indicate 
that,  on  the  part  of  speculators,  at  least, 
there 
is  a  belief  in  lower  prices.  On 
the other hand, stocks are now abnormally 
low  at  home and  abroad,  so  that  every­
thing  offered  for  the  first  few  weeks  will 
go  rapidly  into  consumption.  The  grain 
centers  are  practically  bare  of  wheat, 
which  elevators  are  anxious  to  carry  for 
the  charges,  that  their  business  may  be 
profitable.  There 
is  likely,  therefore, 
to  be  the  same  spirited  bidding  for  the 
new  wheat  when 
it  begins  to  move at 
what  may  be  considered  fair  values. 
Choice  old  winter  wheat  flour  is  becom­
ing  very  scarce  and  values  are  well 
maintained.

Millstuffs  are  steady.  Feed  and  meal 

are  unchanged,  with  a  light demand.
W m.  N.  R ow e.

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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.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Travelers’  Time  Tables.
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Going to Chicago.

Muskegon.

Returning from  Chicago.

Lv. G. Rapids..8:35am  l:25piu  *6:25pm  *U:3)pn 
Ar. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm  *:<j. am  6:40an 
Lv. Chicago................  7:80am  5:15pm  » 9:30pn.
Ar. G’d Rapids............1:85pm  10:4.pm  * 4:03an
Lv. G’d  Rapids..............8:35am  1:85pm  6:85pm
At.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm  5.  5pm  10:45a~
Traverse  City.  Charlevoix. Petoskey  and  Bay 
Lv. G’d Rapids...........  7:30am  11:30pm  5:30pm
Ar. Traverse City......  12:40pm 5:00am  11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix...........  3:15pm 
'.:30am
At.  Petoskey..............  3:45pm  8:00am 
Ar Bay View................  3:55pm  8:loam 

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Parlor cars  leave  Grand  Rap ds 8:35 a m  and 
1:85 p m ; leave Chicago 5:15 p m.  Sleeping cars 
leave  Grand  Rapids  *11:30  pm;  leave Chicago 
*9:30 pm.

parlo r  an d  sleepin g  cars.  Chicago. 

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T R A V E R S E   C U T   A N D   B A Y   V X S W .

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m; 

sleeper at 11:30 pm.

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.
G*o. D eIIa v e n , General Pass. Agent.
n P T D fllT   ^ rand R*pld* & Western.
I / L < l l \ y l l t  

June so. 1897. 

Going to Detroit.

Returning from Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:30pm  6:3>pn
Ar. Detroit....................11:40am  5:40ipm  10:2)pn
Lv. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:00pm  5:80pm  10:55pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:80pm  Ar. G R 18:80pm  9:30pw 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gno.  DeHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

i i n   A  M | \   Trunk Railway System

U   Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv
(In effect  May 3,  1897.)

WBST

EAST. 

Arrive,
Leave. 
t  6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit  and  Bast..t 9:56pm 
tl0:10am-------Detroit  and  East......... + 5:07pm
t  3:30pm. .Saginaw,  Detroit and  East.  t  18:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am 
* 8:35am....Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....* 7:10pm 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm 
t  5:12pm— Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi 
tlO :05am
* 7:40pm.... Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi.... * 8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven and Mil..........t  6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
»Daily.  (-Except Sunday.

June 30,  1897.

E. H. H u g h e s ,  A. G. P. & T. A.
Ben.  F le tch e r, Trav. Pass. Agt, 
J ab. Ca m pb e ll, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 33 Monroe St.
f i D A M n   ^apids  *   Indiana  Railway
v I l y A l l I /  
Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arm» 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...* 4:15am  *10:00pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey a Mack., .t 7:45am  t  6:10>>il 
Trav. C’y, Petos. & liar. Sp’gs.t 2:30pm t  9: lop a
Cadillac...................................t 5:85pm +11:10am
Petoskey & Mackinaw...........til :10pm  t  6:30am
Train  leaving at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey  and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:20 p.m. has parlor car to Pe­
toskey, Bay View and Harbor Springs.
Train leaving at 11:16 p.m. nas sleeping ears to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...........................................t  7:10am t  8:25po.
Ft. Wayne............................................+ 2:00pm t  2:10pm
Kalamazoo........................................... t 7:00pm  + 9:10am
Cluolnnati, Louisville* Ind..*10  1  pm  * 4:05am 
Kalamazoo.......................................... i 8:05pm  i 8:50am
■ :10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
2 00p.m.  train  has  p»rlor  car  to  Fort  Wayne. 
10:15p.m  train  has  sleeping  car to Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis and Louisville.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

LvG’d Rapids..............t7:35am +1:00pm +5:40pm
Lv G’d Rapids..........................  ¿9:00am  ;7:00pm
Ar Muskegon............... 9:00am  2:10pm  7:00, m
Ar Muskegon...........................  10:25am  8:25pm
Ar Milwaukee, Steamer...........  4:00am
GOING EAST.
Lv Milwaukee, Steamer.........  
7:30am
Lv Muskegon............. +8:10am  +11:45am  +4:10pm
Lv Muskegon.......................... ¿  8:35am  ¿6:35pm
ArG’d Rapids............9:30am  )2:56pm  5:31pm
Ar G’d Rapids........................   1) :00am  8:00pm
tBxcept Sunday.  *Daily  ¿Sunday only. 
Steamer leaves Muskegon daily except  Satur­
day.  Leaves Milwaukee  daily  except  Saturday 
and Sunday.
a.. Almquist, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt.

C. L.  Lockwood,

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

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapids.

Best  goods  and  lowest  prices  in  the  State.  A ll 

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CHAS.  A.  COYE,  11  Pearl Street.

I  HAVE  FOR  SALE

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. 
A  better site could not be found.

HENRY  C.  SMITH,  Trustee,

ADRIAN,  MICH.

H.  STRUEBE,  Sandusky,  Ohio,
Agent for Ohio, Indiana and Michigan.

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