Volume  XIV. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JULY  14,1897. 

Number  721

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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.

MUSSELMAN GROCER  CO., Grand  Rapids.

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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- 
stall complete exchanges and 
private  line  systems.  Fac- 
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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It will save  you  ioo percent, on * 
your  investment  by  preserving 
your stock from dust.  You save 
time,  trouble  and  stock.  No 
matter how much  dirt may have 
accumulated on your floor it will 
prevent  the  dust  from  rising 
when  you  sweep.  No  sprink­
ling,  no sawdust, no scrubbing, 
no dust.  Dust  cannot  rise;  but 
curls  up.  Ask more about  it.

BYERLY  BROS.  & CO.,  Manufacturers,  154  Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago.

Notice to the  Grocery Trade

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

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This strictlv  pure  High  Grade  Powder  I  have  re­
duced to retail at the following very low  prices :
Guaranteed  to  comply  with  Pure  Food  Law  in 

9 oz.  15c; 

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1  lb. 25c.

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

O.  A. TURNEY,  Manufacturer,

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EDGARS  SUGAR  HOUSE

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S E N D   Y O U R   MAIL, O R D E R S   TO

W .   H .   EC D G A R   &   S O N ,

D E T R O IT .

Thirty  Long  Years

Of  experience  enable  us  to  excel  all  experimenters  in 
giving  you  the  Best  Goods  for  the  Price  as  is seen in

C L Y D E S D A L E   SO A P

SC H U L T E   S O A P   CO..

Premium given away with Clydesdale Soap  Wrappers.

J. A. MURPHY, General Manager.

The Michigan Mercantile flgencu

FLOWERS, MAY & MOLONEY. Counsel

S P E C IA L   RE PO R TS. 

L A W   A N D   CO LLECTIO N S.

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

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

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

Four Kinds 01 Gouoon books

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

TR AD ESM AN   6 0 M PA N Y,  Grand  Rapids.

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Perfect  Time  Book 
-and  Pay  Roll.

and sell for 75 cents  to  $2. 

Send for sample leaf.

BARLOW BROS.,  f

2   GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.
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for you to show  the 
Michigan  Galvan­
ized  Iron  Was he 
with  r e v e r s ib l 
washboard.  A n y  
kind of wringer  can 
be used.

Write  for  special 
inducements  to  in­
troduce it.

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REED & CO., Eagle, Mich.

every respect.
Detroit,  Mich.
E s ta b lis h e d  1780.

Walter Baker & Go. Ü L

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

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on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

D orchester,  M ass.

Every  Dollar

Invested  In  Tradesman  Company's 
COUPON  BOOKS  will  yield  band 
some returns in saving book-keeping, 
besides the assurance  that no charge 
Is forgotten.  Write

TRADESMAN  COMPANY.  Grand  Rapids

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their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that they are only  trying to  get you  to  aid  their —■S  
new  article. 

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

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Travelers’  Time  Tables.

Muskegon.

doing to Chicago.'

Returning from  Chicago.

CHICAGO
Lv. G. Rapids..8:35am  1:25pm  *6:25pm  *11:31pm 
Ar. Chicago....3:10pm 6:50pm  z:0uam  6:41am 
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  5:15pm  * 9:30pm
At. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:45pm  *  4:00am
Lv. G’d  Rapids..............8:35am  1:25pm  6:25pm
At.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm  5.  5pm  10:45am
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  ...........
Ar.  Petoskey..............  3:45pm  8:00am  .........
Ar Bay View..............  3:55pm  8.10am  ........
Parlor oars  leave  Grand  Rap ds 8:35  a m  and 
1:25 p m ; leave Chicago 5:15 p m.  Sleeping cars 
leave  Grand Rapids *11:30 pm ;  leave Chicago 
*9:30 p m.

P A R L O R   A M D   S L E E P IN G   O A K -  

View.

TRAVERSE  CITY  AMD  BAT  VIEW.

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m; 

C H IC A G O .

sleeper at 11:30 p m.

*Every  day. 

Others week days only.

Gbo. DeHaven, Gen. ral Pass. Agent.

n P T D H I T   Grand Rapids & Western.
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June 20. 1897. 

doing to Detroit.

Returning from Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:30pm  5:3>pm
Ar. Detroit..................  11:40am  5:40pm  10:21pm
Lv. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids........1:00pm  5:20pm  10:56pm
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gbo.  DeHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

EAST. 

(In  effect  May 3,  1897.)

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv-

QRANDTnuik R*l,w‘y Sy8te“
Leave. 
Arrive,
t 6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit  and  East..t 9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and, East........ t 5:07pm
t 3:30pm..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East.. tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am 
* 7:10pm
* 8:35am— Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.-) 3:22pm 
t 5:12pm— Gd. Haven MU. and Chi 
+10:05am
* 7:40pm__Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi__ * 8:15am
+10:00pm........Gd. Haven and MU..........+ 6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No.  15 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

♦Dally. 

WEST

E. H. Hughes, A. G. P. A T. A.
Ben.  F letch er, Trav. Pass. AgL, 
Jab. Campbell, City Pass. Agent!
No. 23 Monroe St.

June a0t

n O A   M n   RaPid8  *   Indiana Railway 

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Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .* 4:15am *10:00pm 
L’rav- C'y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:10pm 
Trav. C’y, Petos. & liar. Sp’gs.t 2:20pm  t  9:10pm
CadiUac...................................+ 5:25pm tll:10am
Petoskey & Mackinaw...........+11:10pm  +  8:30am
Train  leaving  ai  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. has sleeping cars to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati............................................t 7:10am  + 8:25pm
Ft. Wayne............................................ + 2:00pm  + 2:10pm
Kalamazoo........................................... + 7:00pm  + 9:10am
Cincinnati, Louisville A Ind..*10:Upm  * 4:05am
Kalamazoo...........................................+ 8:05pm  X 8:50am
■ :10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
2 ni p.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Fort  Wayne. 
10:15p.m  train  has  sleeping  car to Cincinnati, 
Ind anapolis and Louisville.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING W EST.

Lv G’d Rapids..............+7:35am  +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  B AST,
Lv Milwaukee, Steamer.........  
7:30am
Lv Muskegon..............+8:10am  tll:46am  +4:10pm
Lv Muskegon.. 
...................  % 8:35am  i6:35pm
ArG’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:56pm  6:39pm
Ar G’d Rapids.........................  19:00am  8:00pm
tExcept Snudav.  «Daily 
Steamer leaves Muskegon daily  except  Satur­
day.  Leaves Milwaukee  dally  except  Saturday 
and Snnday.
A. AlmquisT, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. A Tkt. Agt.

c. L. Lockwood,

tSunday only. 

R 1ECORD  OP >

WOOL  PURCHASES
Wool  dealers snouid  proviue  uiemselves  with 
one of-the Tradesman Company’s  Improved Wool 
Records, by means of which an accurate and com­
pact account of every  purchase can  be  kept.  Sent 
postpaid on receipt of $1.3

Tradesman  Company,

Grand  Rapid«.

Volume  XIV.

THe Preferred Bankers 
Life Assurance Co.

Incorporated by

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

Maintains a Guarantee Fund.
Write for details.

Home Office,  Moffat  Bldg.,

F R A N K   E.  ROBSON,  P r e s .
TRU M AN   B.  GOODSPEED,  S k c’ y .

DETROIT,  M ICH.

M ichael  Kolb  &  Son

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  (customers’  expenses  allowed) 
and  he  will  show  you  best  line  of  Kersey  Over­
coats,  strictly all wool,  raw  and  stitch  edge,  at  $5 
and  $7;  prices, fit, quality and make guaranteed.
William Connor will be at Sweet’s  Motel,  Grand 
Rapids,  Friday and Saturday, July 9 and  10,  and  at 
the  Palmer  Ho.use,  Chicago,  room  612,  daily  from 
Monday, July  12  to  Wednesday,  July  21  inclusive.

W e  w ish   to 
esta b lish  
a  branch  of 
our
b u sin ess  in 
e v e ry  
to w n   in 
M ichigan  
w h ere  w e 
a re  not  now  
represented, 

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No

C ap ital

Required.

MEN’ S  SUITS

AND

OVERCOATS 
$4 00  to 
$30.00

WRITE  FOR  INFORMATION.

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1 WHITE CITY TAILORS,
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232-326  ADAMS ST.,

CHICAGO.

COjnjnjlL  CREDIT  CO.,  LIU.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Private Credit Advices.

Collections made  anywhere 

in  the  United  States  and 

Canada.

Save Trouble 
Save  Losses 

Save  Dollars TRfiDESJRRH COUPONS

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  14,1897.

Number  721

TH E  FURNITURE  C IT Y .

Retrospective  Review  by  the  Ablest 

Exponent  of the  Trade.

tendered 

It  affords  the  Tradesman  much  pleas­
ure  to  be  able  to  present  to  its  readers 
a  verbatim  report  of  the  speech  deliv­
ered  by  Mr.  Wm.  Widdicomb  at  the 
banquet 
the  Pan-American 
visitors  last Monday evening,  as follows:
This  day  has  been  given  to  a  very 
rapid  inspection  of  our  furniture  estab­
lishments.  Six  only  of  our  factories 
have  been  seen,  and  while  those  you 
have  visited  are  of  the  best  type,  still 
the  others,  both  small  and  large,  are  as 
complete  in  their  special  lines  as  those 
you  did  see.

intent  has  been  to  show  you  a 
type  of  each  line  of  furniture  manufac­
tured  in  our  city—this  factory  having  a 
special  equipment  for  chamber  furni­
ture,  another  for  the  furnishing  of  the 
dining  room  and  yet  another  being 
adapted  for  the  embellishment  of  the 
reception  and  the  drawing  room ;  thus 
through  all  the  requirements  of 
the 
home,  be  it  a  palace  or  the  dwelling  of 
modest  taste.

The 

The  manufacture,  you  will  notice,  has 
been  specialized 
in  the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids  to  an  exceptional  extent,  and 
through  this  specialization  has  a  high 
degree  of  efficiency  and  perfection  been 
attained,  with  a  corresponding  degree 
of  excellence  in  quality  and  style.

No  better  illustration  of  this  could  be 
had  than  what  is  transpiring  in  this city 
at  the  present  month.  Our  town  is  filled 
with  the  selling  representatives  of  the 
manufacturers of many competing cities, 
who  must  come  here  if  they  expect  to 
meet  the  furniture  buyers  of  the  coun­
try,  who appear  here  to  make  their  pur­
chases  for  the  season ;  and  during  these 
recurring  semi-annual  sales our town has 
grown  to  resemble  the  great  continental 
fairs  of  the  olden  time.  This  is  the 
most  convincing  tribute  to  the  promi­
nent  position  our  city  occupies  in  the 
furniture  trade.

I  will  not  inflict  upon  you  many  sta­
tistics,  yet  figures,  and  figures only,  tell 
the  tale  of  the  success  that  has  been 
achieved  through  the  energy  of  the  men 
who  have  built  up,  not  only  this  busi­
ness,  but  our  beautiful  city  as well ;  and 
Grand  Rapids 
far  and 
wide  for  its  furniture factories and prod­
uct.  We  may  say  with  pardonable 
pride  that,  in  magnitude  and  equip­
ment,  our  factories  are  at  the  head  of 
the  furniture  industry  of  the  world.

is  celebrated 

A  capital directly employed of $7,000,- 
000;  product  of  nearly  $g,000,000; 
wages  paid  to  amount  of  £3,000,000; 
over  7,000  workmen  are  employed,

And  kindred  establishments,as  carpet 
sweepers,  refrigerators  and  other  house­
hold  articles, with  capital  of  nearly three 
quarters  of  a  million.  Product,  $1,000,- 
000;  wages,  $250,000;  workmen,  550.

Our  factories,  in  the  production  ot 
their  goods, purchase  material  of various 
kinds  from  other  establishments  located 
here.  These  employ  large  capital  and 
force  of  workmen  and  swell  our  total 
number  to  sixty  corporations  and  com­
panies, with  a  total  capital of $8,452,000 ; 
annual  product,  $9,836,000;  paying 
wages,  $3,5S5>°°o.  and  employing  8,211 
workmen.
Forty  years  ago  furniture  manufactur­
ing  in  Michigan  was  totally  unknown. 
Perhaps  I  may  say  I  was  the  first travel­
ing  salesman  who  represented  Grand 
Rapids  furniture  outside  the  borders  of 
this  city,  for  in  1859 andi86o  I  was  sent 
to  Grand  Haven  and  to  Milwaukee  to 
solicit  the  sale  of  furniture  manufac- 
tured’in  a  little  factory  then  operated 
by  my  father,  and  did  find  a  market  for 
some  goods.  The  moderate  business

thus  started  was  broken  up  by  the  war 
of  the  rebellion,  for my  father’s  force  of 
workmen  was  but  little more than myself 
and  three  younger  brothers,  who  all  en­
tered  the  army,  and  the  business  died. 
It  could  not  stand  such  a  draft  upon  its 
working  force.  At  about  this  same 
time— perhaps  a  year  or  two  later— Mr. 
Julius  Berkey  commenced  manufactur­
ing 
in  a  very  modest  way,  his  capital 
being  exceeded  only  by  his  modesty. 
He  may  have  had  one  or  two  workmen; 
but,  small  as was  his  beginning,  1 think 
that  to  him  and  the  native  practical 
ingenuity  he  possessed  may  be  ascribed 
the origin  of  the great manufacturing  in­
dustry  of  this  city,  as  I  cannot  think 
that, 
it  would  have 
“ growed.”   The  man,  the  opportunity 
and  the  time  came  together.  The  origi­
nality  displayed  by  Mr.  Berkey,  the  in­
domitable  energy  he threw into  the  busi­
ness,  has  its  monument  in  the  Berkey & 
Gay  Company  of  to-day,  and  a  yet 
greater  evidence  in  the  magnificent  de­
velopment  of  manufacturing  here;  for 
while  corporations  may rise and corpora­
tions  may  fall,  the  furniture  business  of 
Grand  Rapids  will  go  on  forever.

like  Topsy, 

Mr.  C.  C.  Comstock  purchased  the 
Winchester  factory,  and  along  the  same 
lines  that  Mr.  Berkey  was  working  out 
he  built  up  a  manufacturing  business 
which stands,  to-day,  the Nelson,  Matter 
Co.,  a  fine  example  of  manufacturing 
ability.

At  the  close  of  the  war  I  opened  a  lit­
tle  factory  of  one  small  room  in  an  old 
building  on  the  water-power  canal.

From  these 

insignificant  beginnings 
that  I  have  so  briefly  outlined  have 
grown  the  Berkey  &  Gay  Co.,  Nelson, 
Matter  Co.,  Widdicomb  Co., 
and 
with  them  the  Phoenix,  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Chair  Co.,  Luce  Co.,  Oriel  Co.  and 
the  fifty  or  sixty  other establishments 
which  make  the  city  of  Grand  Rapids 
renowned  and  of  which  we  are  so  justly 
proud;  and  certainly  this  self-esteem 
is  made  the  more  gratifying  to ourselves 
in  the  honor  and  delight  we  receive 
in 
welcoming  you,  our  guests,  to-day.

The  furniture 

It  can  accommodate 

industry  of  this  city 
now  holds  a  position,  from  the  experi­
ences  and  successes  of  the  past,that  jus­
tifies  it  in  seeking  the  broader market of 
the  whole  American  continent. 
It  pos­
sesses  the  ability,  the  equipment  and 
facilities. 
itself 
to  the  demands  of  any  market,  and  our 
manufacturers,  through  their  educated 
designers  and  skilled  workmen  and  ma­
chinery,  are  prepared  to  adapt  their 
goods  to  the  taste  of  any country.  They 
are  anxious  to  do  this  with  the  coun­
tries  you,  our  guests,  represent. 
The 
push  and  energy  that  have  built  up  our 
business 
its  present  magnitude 
throughout  every  state  of  this  union 
stand  ready  to  do  the  same good  work 
in  building  up  trade  relations  with  all 
the  American  states.

to 

Some  fifteen  or  more  years ago  a trade 
with  the  Central  and  South  American 
states  was  opened  by  one  or  two  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  manufacturers,  but  the 
extraordinary  heme  demand 
for  our 
goods  during  the  decade  from  1880  to 
1890  exceeded  the  capacity  of  our  facto­
ries  and  the  promising  outlook fora  for­
eign  trade 
in  our  goods,  then  showing 
itself,was  allowed  to  die  away.  To-day, 
we  realize  the  mistake  then  made,  for 
the  stimulus  of  that  extraordinary  home 
demand  expanded  our  manufacturing  to 
a  degree  where  a  foreign  trade  would 
be  very  desirable.

We  purchase  of  you  immense  quanti­
ties  of  your  productions—over  three 
times  the  amount  we  sell  you. 
It  will 
be  conceded  by  both  >ou  and  ourselves 
that  this  disparity  should  not  exist. 
When  I  pass  the great  offices  of  Grace 
&  Co.  and  Flint  &  Co.,  of  New  York— 
who,  seemingly,  control  so  large  a  share

of  the  export  trade— I  am  reminded  that 
such  houses  should  be  found  in  every 
great  manufacturing  center  of 
these 
United  States,  building  up  and  con­
ducting  a  mutual  trade  with  the  great 
Southern  nations  of  America—trade  be­
tween  countries  that,  by  every  tie  of  re­
lationship  and  contiguity,  should  have 
close  business 
intercourse  with  each 
other.  We  are  ycur  best  customers  and 
you  should  be  our  best  customers.

investigation 

I  appreciate  that  this  cannot  be  ac­
in  a  day,  yet  it  is  equally 
complished 
certain  that 
it  will  never  be  consum­
mated  unless  we  follow  up  the  example 
you  are  making  for  us  in  this  your  trip 
cf 
into  the  business ad­
vantages  for  yourselves  to  be  found  in 
these  United  States.  You  are  acquaint­
ing  yourselves  by  personal  examination 
with our business methods and that which 
you  are  doing  must  be  repeated  by  the 
manufacturers  who  would  build  up  an 
export  trade.  We  must  visit  your  land 
and  by  personal contact ascertain further 
what  your  people  consume  and 
then 
produce  it  for  you.

We  can  do  all  this  and  at  a  cost  that 
will  defy  competition  with  the  world. 
In  the  self-confidence  of  the  past,  a  for­
eign  market  was  not  cultivated;  may 
have  seemed  to  some  a  Utopian  dream. 
It  must  be  a  dream  no  longer,  but  be 
made  a  reality  that  shall  give  business 
to  all  our  factories,  set  every  wheel  in 
motion  again ;  hence it  is  to  the  interest 
of  this  community,  and  especially  of 
the business  represented  by  this  gather­
ing,that these  trade  relations  be  fostered 
in  every  legitimate  way;  and,in  its  par­
ticular  line  of  furniture  manufacturing, 
no  city 
in  the  United  States  possesses 
the  facilities  or  surpasses  the  energy  of 
this  good  city  of  Grand  Rapids,  which, 
to-day,  has  the  honor  of  being  your  en­
tertainer.

food  and 

Other great  cities  can  supply you  with 
machinery  and  goods  from  the  metals ; 
yet  others  can  give  you  what you require 
in  manufactured 
clothing. 
This  city  can  furnish  your  homes  and 
offices,  and  can  and  will  cultivate  and 
develop  the  special  lines  and  styles  the 
people  of  your  countries  may  demand.
I  cannot  suppress  my  regret  that  any 
barriers  should  exist  between  the  free 
and  unrestrained  business  relations  of 
the  several  states  of  this  great American 
continent.  For  political  and  economic 
reasons  they  seem  to  have  their  sway ; 
still,  I  am  confident  that  the  broader de­
velopment  of  our  business,  that  can  and 
should be brought about, will  sweep  away 
all  these  restrictions  and  that  the  busi­
ness  between  you  and  ourselves  shall  be 
as  reciprocal  and  fraternal  as  it  exists 
between  the  states  of  our own  union. 
To  set  up  barriers  against  the very busi­
ness  opportunities  we  need 
for  our 
further  expansion  seems  unreasonable, 
and  I  feel  confident  that  our  trade  rela­
tions  will  assume  a  magnitude  that  will 
take  possession  of  the  political  feature 
and 
in  business  we  shall  be  one  grand 
union  of  the  American  continent.
Suggests  Association  Effort in  Direct­

ing  Enforcement.

law ;  also 

Merrill,  July  13— Please  accept  my 
thanks  for  the  energetic  effort  made  by 
in  securing  the  new 
the  Tradesman 
peddling 
in  urging  the  en­
forcement  of  the  measure.  The  law  will 
be  useless  without  enforcement  and  it 
remains  for  merchants  who are  affected 
by  the  evil  to  see that  it  is  enforced.  It 
seems  to me that the  Michigan Hardware 
Association  and  the  Michigan  Retail 
Grocers'  Association  should  take  the 
matter  up  at  the  earliest  opportunity, 
and,  with  the  help  of  your  valuable 
paper,  I  believe  more  could  be  done 
in 
this  way  to  secure  its  enforcement  than 
in  any  other  manner.

J.  H .  W h it n e y .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bicycles

The Bicycle—Past,  Present and  Future. 
Written f o r  the T r a d e s m a n .

All  great  changes  in  the economic and 
industrial  world  necessarily  occur  so 
gradually  that  there  is  no general  reali­
zation  of  their  extent;  and  yet  some 
occur  so  quickly  that  the  mind  is  lost 
in  the  attempt  to  comprehend  the  mag­
nitude.  Of  course,  the  most  prominent 
instance  of  the  kind  suggested  is  the 
coming  of  the  bicycle.  To  the  younger 
generation  it  already  begins  to  seem  as 
though  the  wheel  had  always  been  in 
use,  while  relatively  the 
industry  can 
scarcely  be  said  to  be  more  than  fairly 
begun.

It 

is  yet  but  a  short  time—scarcely 
years—since  the  question  was  debated 
whether  the  wheel  was  a  passing  fad  or 
craze,  or  whether  in  some  form  it  might 
become  a  useful,  permanent  mode of 
locomotion  to  be  generally  adopted. 
It 
is  scarcely  longer  since  it  was  said  that 
the  necessary  cost  of  manufacture  must 
keep  it  a  luxury,  to  be  afforded  only  by 
the  wealthier  classes.  But,  while  the 
price  has  come  down  by  great  jumps  on 
account  of  improvements  in  methods  of 
manufacture,  there  has  been  no  hesita­
tion  on  the  part  of  enough  buyers  to  ab 
sorb  all  the  multiplying  product,  prac­
tically  without  regard  to  cost.

in  price. 

The  years  can  yet  be  counted  on  the 
fingers  since  the  “ safety,”   weighing 
from  fifty  to  sixty  pounds,  with  its 
round  rubber  tire,  was  reduced  from 
$150  to  $ 135 
The  “ high 
grade”  wheel  offered  at  that  price  was 
considered  a  wonderful  piece  of  mech­
anism.  The  ball-bearing  had  been  car­
ried  to  a  high  degree  of  perfection,  but 
it  was  thought  necessary  to  put  a  large 
amount  of  steel  into  all the construction ; 
indeed,  the 
tubing  of  the 
“ modern”   wheel  was  unknown  at  that 
time  as  an  article  of  manufacture.

light  steel 

locomotion  commanded 

The  bicycle  of  ten  years  ago  was  a 
wonderful  machine.  While  it  was  only 
to  be  afforded  by  the  wealthy  or the  lov­
er  of  athletics,  the  perfection  of  its  con­
struction  and  the  astonishing  facility 
it 
the 
gave  to 
greatest  admiration. 
It  was  considered 
almost  too  wonderful  for  belief  that  a 
leg-propelled  machine  could  be  con­
structed  that  should  compete  in  speed 
and  endurance  with  the horse; and, when 
the  “ century”   began  to be talked  about, 
it  was  thought  the  acme  of  human 
achievement  in  that  direction  had  been 
nearly  reached.  That  it  would  ever  be 
possible  to  greatly  exceed  such  a  per­
formance  was  beyond  any  reasonable 
probability.

The  progress  of  the  wheel  during  the 
first  five  years  of  this  decade  seemed  al­
most  beyond  belief.  The  use  of  the 
pneumatic  tire  and  the  production  of 
thin  steel 
tubing  made  possible  the 
lessening  of  the  weight  of  the  machine 
more  than  one-half,  with  a  correspond­
ing  increase  in  its  facility  and  perform­
ance.  The  century  was  still  an  under­
taking  of  some  note,  but  it  was  much 
more  commonly  achieved  by  ladies  than 
had  been  possible  with  men  five  years 
before.  The  price  of  the 
improved 
wheel  had  been  reduced  to $100  and  all 
that  could  be  made  were  readily  sold. 
But,  while 
astonishment  was 
caused  by  the  rapidity  of  its  adoption, 
there  were  scarcely  as  many  hundreds 
of  thousands  in  use  as  there are millions 
now.

great 

The  annual  output  of  the  factories 
about  doubled  from  year  to  year  after 
this  time  and  the  rate  of  progression 
is

BICYCLE  SUNDRIES

EVERYTH IN G  UP  TO  DATE

LAM PS,  TIRES,  PEDALS,

SADDLES,  LOCKS,  BELLS,

ETC.
A D A M S  St  HART.

PUMPS,  CEMENTS, 

WHOLESALE BICYCLES and SUNDRIES.

12 W . Bridge St., Grand  Rapids.

Send for Catalog and Discount Sheets. 

FIGURING  UP.

Feb. ISth.  Mr.  A.  buys  from the  “ agent”   a 
“ Reputation”  bicycle, listed at  S.00.00. 
lie   ¡lays 
cash  and  gets  it  at  $85.00,  “ good  value,  good 
wheel.”
June  15th.  Mr.  B.  an  “ influential”   rider, 
buys same make from  factory  “ for  his  own  use,”  
pays  cash,  and  gets  it   a t $65.00;  better  value, 
same wheel.
Mr.  B.  has  profited  at  the  expense  of  the 
agent and  Mr.  A .  The factory averages a profit. 
The  average  cash  price  on  “ Reputation”   wheel 
was $75.00.  Why  not  put  that  price  on, and  sell 
at one price the entire  season, treat  all alike,  and 
sell an honest bicycle a t an honest price?

NEW  CLIPPERS

are sold at the same price July 15th as  Jan.  15tb. 
We make no excuses.  Our goods  are  the  best  we 
can  make  with  nearly  10 years’  experience.  We 
do  not  discriminate.  One  buyer’s  money  is  as 
good as another’s.  Our net prices are honest; our 
wheels  cost as much  to  make as  those with “ ad­
vertised reputations.”   The equal of  a  Clipper  is 
not sold at the price of a Clipper.

P. 37—97.

yiiuxxi-ßips.

THE CLIPPER  PEOPLE,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The  enquiry 

yet  scarcely  diminished.  While  the 
progress 
in  mechanical  perfection  has 
been  almost  beyond  belief,  there  have 
been  no  such  radical  changes as resulted 
from  the  adoption  of the pneumatic  tire. 
The  most  important  general  changes are 
the  higher  gear,  made  possible  by  more 
perfect  construction,  and  the  lessening 
of  the  cost  of  production,  by  the  adop­
tion  of  automatic  machinery  and  im­
proved  appliances..
interesting 
as  to 
is 
whether  the  wheel 
is  nearing  its  full 
development.  As  to  mechanical perfec­
tion,  it  would  seem  as  though  there 
could  be  little  more  accomplished.  As 
compared  with  the  “ high  grade’ ’of  ten 
years  ago,  it 
is  certainly  a  marvelous 
construction.  To  say  that  the  progress 
in  the possible performance has  doubled 
in  that  time  is  well  within  the  facts—a 
double  century  is  about  as  common  to­
day  as  the  single  one  was  a  decade 
ago.

When 

is  considered  that  there  is 
just'  now  a  reduction 
in  price  by  as 
great  a  step  as  any  which  have  pre­
ceded,  making  the  highest  grades  only 
one  half  the  price  of  those  of  ten  years 
ago,  and  that  there  is  little  diminution 
in  the  rate  of 
increase  in  production 
and  demand,  there  seems  no  indication 
but  that  we  are  still  in  the  beginning  of 
its  development. 
in 
price  opens  the  field  to  a  proportionate­
ly  greater  demand,  which  assures  the 
rapid  absorption  of  all  that can  be made 
for  a  long  time  to  come.  As  to  where 
it  will  end,  speculation  is  lame.  That 
it will not stop before there  is  such  a  de­
in  highways,  and  in  the  re­
velopment 
quirements  of 
individual  progression, 
that  few  except  the  very  poorest  classes 
will  be  content  to  do  without 
it,  seems 
well  within  the  probabilities.

reduction 

The 

it 

Nate.
Illinois  Garnishment  Bill  Now a  Law.
Governor  Tanner,  of 

Illinois,  has 
signed  the  garnishment  bill  and  it 
is 
now  a  law.  The bill  made  a  legal  ex­
from  garnishment  of  $8  a 
emption 
week 
Societies  and  associations  of 
laboring  men  fought  the  bill  and  op­
posed 
They  made  the 
strong  claim  that  a  man  could  not  keep 
much  of  a  family  on  $8  a  week.  The 
bill  got  through  the  last  night  of  the 
session,  while  fifty  representatives  of 
the  State  Grocers’  Association  were  on 
the  floor  working  for  it. 
It  was  bitterly 
contested,  but  received  a  constitutional 
majority  after  a  prolonged  debate.

its  approval. 

The  Explanation  Was  Satisfactory.
“ See  here,  young  man,  I’ll  have  to 

take  you  in.  Your  lantern’s  out.”

“ Hold  on,  officer,  I’ll  explain.  You 
see  I  bought  one  of  these  J52-bi cycle 
suits  this  afternoon,  and  it  burst  on  me 
ten  miles  from  home.  Now,  I’m  trying 
to  get  back  as  quietly as  I  can  in  the 
dark.  You  see  the  necessity  of  it?”

“ That’s  all  right—go  ahead.”

Changed  Their  Tactics.

“ I  don’t  believe  women  sit  around 
and  say  mean  things  about  one  an­
other’s dress  as  much  as  they  used  to. ”
“ They  don’t.  They  ride  around  and 

abuse one  another’s  wheels.”

The  Bicyclist’s  Favorite.

It  is  the  hard  road  the  bicyclist  loves 

to  travel,  because  it  is  easier.

The  more  a  man  boasts  about  the  ac­
complishments  of  his  forefathers,  the 
more  certain 
it  is  that  he  realizes  that 
he  has  no  ability  to  accomplish  any­
thing  himself.

Four  Kinds  of  Coupon  Books

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

DANA  BROWN.

Salient  Features 

in  the  Life  of  the 

Deceased.

Dana  Brown,  the  only  son  of  Doctor 
and  Mrs.  C.  P.  Brown,  of  Spring  Lake, 
died  at  the  family  residence  Friday 
evening,  July  9.  His  last 
illness  was 
but  a  short  one,  as  he  was  taken  sick 
only  on  the  Monday  before  his  death. 
The-disease,  a  complication  of  abdom­
inal  troubles,  was  too  deep-seated  for 
successful_'resistance,  and  although  all 
that  the  best  of  medical  skill  could  ac­
complish  was  done  for  him,  the  brave 
fight  was  useless.  Calmly  and  peace­
fully,  after  hours  of  great  pain,  he  sank 
to  rest,  as  the  soft  twilight  of  a  sum­
mer’s  day  fell  upon  the  portals  of  the 
stricken  home.

Dana  Brown  was  born  at  Hudson, 
Mich.,  January  28,  1871.  Hudson  had

long  been  the  home  of  his  parents,  but 
some months after  the  birth  of  their  son, 
Doctor  Brown  removed  to  Spring  Lake, 
and  here  Dana  was  reared  and  here  he 
spent  the  greater  portion  of  his  short 
life.  His  early  education 
but  useful 
was  acquired 
in  the  public  schools  of 
Spring  Lake  and  this was  supplemented 
by  a  course  in  the  commercial  collegts 
at  Grand  Rapids  and  Ypsilanti.  After 
two  years  spent  at  this  latter  place,  in 
1890  he  went  to  the  West  and  during 
some  fourteen  months  was  engaged  in 
locating  timber  claims  not  far  from  the 
famous  Dalles  of  the  Columbia, 
in 
Washington.  His  father,  in  the  mean­
time,having gone  for  a  year’s  sojourn  at 
Spokane,  Dana 
joined  him  there  and, 
together  with Judge  William  Hensley,  of 
San  Francisco,  they  became  interested 
in  some  promising  mining  claims  in 
the  Okanogan  gold  district,  situated 
about  250  miles  northwest  of  the  city 
of  Spokane.  The  exciting 
life  of  the 
miner  and  the  free  air  of  the  mountains 
possessed  great  attractions  for a  young 
man  of  Dana's  spirit  and  he  plunged 
eagerly 
into  the  work  before  him,  be­
coming  in  a  very  short  time  an  experi­
enced  prospector  and  soon  familiar  with 
the  varied  workings  of  a  mine. 
In  1892 
he  returned  with  his  family  to  Spring 
Lake  and  herp  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Spring  Lake  Clinker  Boat  Manu­
facturing  Co.,  of  which  his  father,  C. 
P.  Brown,  is  the  President.  Two  years 
ago  he  was  made  the  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  this  corporation  and  at  the 
time  of  his'death  had  become  a  mov­
ing  force  in  the  large  and  growing busi­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ness.  With  a  mechanical  turn  of  mind, 
his  quiet  energy  and  careful  attention to 
the  details  of  the  interests  intrusted  to 
his  care  marked  him  for a  successful 
man  of  business,  and  it  is  much  to be 
regretted  that  his  early  death  has  cut  off 
too  soon  what  promised  to  be  a  useful 
career  in  the  world  of  affairs.

The  personality  of  Dana  Brown  was 
an  engaging  and  attractive  one.  Men 
knew  him  but  to  like  him  and his pleas­
ant  face,  with  well-considered  word, 
brought  him  friends  wherever  he  went. 
The  rough  miners  of  the  West  were  as 
strongly  attached 
to  him  as  were  the 
neighbors  and  friends  among  whom  he 
lived  and  died.  Possessing  in  peculiar 
degree  that  quality  which  men  for  want 
of  a better term call  “ tact, ”  he smoothed 
the  rough  places  of  life  and  wrought  out 
his  purposes  so  quietly  that  his  ends 
were  accomplished  often  before  his  as­
sociates  knew  the  object  for  which  he 
had  been  striving.  He  was  full  of  the 
manly  quality,  pluck,  and  it  always  led 
him  to  the  side  of  the  weaker as against 
the  stronger. 
“ Tell  them  I  am ready, ”  
were  his  words  to  the  surgeons who were 
preparing  for  the  operation  which  it 
was  thought  might,  perhaps,  save  his 
life;  and,  with  a  fortitude  like  that  of 
the  wounded  soldier  on  the  field  of  bat­
tle,  he  calmly  waited  for  the  end.  His 
death  was  as  heroic  as  his  life  had  been 
gentle and  kind. 
In  his  home  life  he 
was  tender  and  thoughtful  and  to  him 
home  was  ever  first 
in  his  care.  Be­
tween  father  and  son  there  existed  al­
ways  that  charming  feeling  of  comrade­
ship  which  is  more  than  parental,  and 
to  his  mother  he  was  ever  as  “ the  ap­
ple  of  her  eye.’ ”   To  his  friends  he 
was  the  soul  of  honor and  they  mourn 
him  with  a  grief  that  is  the  surest  test 
of  his  worth.

The  changing  problem  of  life  is  pre­
sented  to  each  and  every  man  for  solu­
tion.  The time  for  its  solving  is  longer 
or  shorter  as  fate  decrees,  but  length  of 
years  is  not  always  given  for  the  work­
ing  out  of  the  question.  What  the  world 
calls  success  is  sometimes  far  from  true 
merit  and  the  rewards  of  fame  are  but 
is 
tawdry.  Often  “ success 
in  the  si­
lences,  though  fame  be 
in  the  song. ”  
That  man  who,  taking  hold  of  the  cir­
cumstances  that  surround  him,  has  pur­
sued  his  ends  to  the  very  last  and  has 
done  faithfully  “ the  duty  which  lies 
nearest  him”   has  given  the  world  an 
example  it  cannot  but  ponder  upon with 
is  never  lived  in 
profit.  Such  a 
W m.  Sa v id g e.
vain. 

life 

Changes  in  the  United  States  Patent 

Laws.

Several  statutes  relating  to  the  taking 
out  of  patents  in  this  and  foreign  coun­
tries  were  revised  and  amended  by  the 
Fifty-fourth  Congress.  They  will  go 
into  effect  January  1,  1898.  We  present 
in  this  connection  several  of  the  sec­
tions,  as  amended,  which  bear  upon  the 
subject.  Section  4886 has  been  amend­
ed,  and  it  now  reads  as  follows:

Any  person  who  has  invented  or  dis­
covered  any  new  and  useful  art,  ma­
chine,  manufacture,  or  composition  of 
matter,  or  any  new  and  useful  improve­
ments  thereof,  not  known  or  used  by 
others  in  this  country  before  his 
inven­
tion  or  discovery  thereof,  and  not  pat­
ented  or  described  in  any  printed  pub­
lication  in  this  or  any  foreign  country, 
before  his  invention  or discovery  there­
of,  or  more  than  two  years  prior  to  his 
application,  and  not  in  public  use  or on 
sale 
in  this  country  for  more  than  two 
years  prior  to  his  application,  unless the 
same  is  proved  to  have been abandoned, 
may,  upon  payment  of  the  fees required 
by  lav/,  and  other  due  proceeding  had, 
obtain  a  patent  therefor.

Section  4887.  No  person  otherwise 
entitled  thereto  shall  be  debarred  from 
invention  or 
receiving  a  patent  for  bis 
discovery,  nor  shall  any  patent  be  de­
clared  invalid,  by  reason  of 
its  having 
been  first  patented  or caused  to  be  pat­
ented  by  the  inventor  or  his  legal  repre­
sentatives  or assigns  in  a  foreign  coun­
try,  unless  the  application  for  said  for­
eign  patent  was  filed  more  than  seven 
months  prior  to  the  filing  of  the  appli­
cation  in  this  country,  in  which  case  no 
patent  shall  be  granted  in  this  country.
Section  4894.  All  applications  for 
patents  shall  be  completed  and prepared 
for  examination  within  one  year  after 
the  filing  of  the  application,  and 
in 
default  thereof,  or  upon  failure  of  the 
applicant  to  prosecute  the  same  within 
one  year  after  any  action  therein,  of 
which  notice  shall  have  been  given  to 
the applicant,  they  shall  be  regarded  as 
abandoned  by  the  parties  thereto,  unless 
it  be  shown  to  the  satisfaction  of  the 
Commissioner  of  Patents that  such  delay 
was  unavoidable.
To  section  4921,  which  treats  of  the 
power  of  courts,  vested  with  the  juris­
diction  of  cases  arising  under  the  pat­
ent  laws  to  grant  injunctions,  there  has 
been  added  the  following  sentence:

But  in  any  suit  or  action  brought  for 
the 
infringement  of  any  patent  there 
shall  be  no  recovery  of  profits  or  dam­
ages  for  any 
infringement  committed 
more  than  six  years  before  the  filing  of 
the  bill  of  complaint  or  the  issuing  of 
the  writ  in  such  suit  or action,  and  this 
provision  shall  apply  to  existing  causes 
of  action.

The  amended  sections  which 

take 
effect  the  first  of  next  year  do  not  ap­
ply  to  any  patent  granted  prior  to  that 
time,  nor  to^any  application  filed  prior 
to  said  date,  nor  to  any  patent granted 
on  such  an  application.

The  Height  of  Her  Ambition.

Bertha—What 
ambition,  dear?

is  the  height  of  your 

Marie  (blushing—Ob,  something  be­

tween  five  and  a  half  and  six  feet.

■

UBEROID 
EADY 
OOFING

All  ready  to  lay.  Needs 
no painting for tw o years.

Is odorless, absolutely  waterproof,  will 

resist fire and  the action of acids.

Can  be  used  over  shingles  of  steep 
Will  outlast  tin  or  iron  and  is  very 

roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs.
much cheaper.

Try our pure

ASPHALT PAINT

For coating tin, iron or ready 
roofs.  Write for prices.

H.  M. REYNOLDS & SON,
Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts. 
Detroit Office  Foot of Third St.

Orders  and  correspondence  from  the  ^  

’ trade only, solicited.

f  
|,  Nashville, 

U. S.  RED  CEDAR  W ORKS, 

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Tennessee.  ^

Big  Talk  About  Circulation

Counts  for  little  unless  quality  goes hand  in hand with quan­
tity—Advertisers  are  learning  to  discriminate  in  this matter, 
and  are looking more and  more  into the character  of  circula­
tion.  As a matter of fact

Circulation  is  of  No  Consequence

•):•)•)

Unless it be of a character to reach and  directly  interest  buy-  w j 
ers and consumers of the class of  goods  for  which  the  adver­
tiser is seeking a market.

Advertisers  Care  Nothing 

For  Circulation

That  does  not  reach  and  directly  appeal  to  the  purchasing 
constituency  of  the  class  of  goods  the  advertiser  wishes  to  ffi 
sell—that medium only which can show a  bona f'de circulation 
to buyers should be considered.

The  Michigan  Tradesman 

*

Reaches  more  paid  subscribers  in  Michigan  than  all  other 
trade  journals  combined,  and  is  therefore  able  to  give  its 
patrons better returns than any  other trade  journal  published.

These  Are  Telling  Points

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Girard—J.  H.  Roe  has  removed  his 

general  stock  to  Quincy.

Saranac—J.  T.  Weer  has  removed  his 

clothing  stock  to  St.  Johns.

Detroit—Jos.  Bimberg,  jobber of  leaf 
tobacco,  has  removed  to  Elmira,  N.  Y.
Saginaw— McLean  &  Irving  succeed 
C.  E.  McLean  &  Co.  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

St.  Johns— G.  B.  Porter has  sold  a  half 
in  his  jewelry  stock  to  Walter 

interest 
Emmons.

Negaunee—Joseph  Andrews  will  close 
out  his  shoe  stock  here  and  remove  to 
Butte,  Mont.

Belding— Miss  Edna  Van  Slyke  suc­
in'  the  mil­

ceeds  Mrs.  W.  L.  Jackson 
linery  business.

Charlotte— It  is  Cochrane  &  Co—not 
C.  M.  Cochrane—who  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  this  place.

Lake  City— Wolf  H.  Keidan  has 
announced  his intention  of  retiring  from 
the  dry  goods  and  clothing  business  at 
this  place.

Coldwater— Brown  &  Ball  secured  the 
contract  for  erecting  the  new  brick  fac­
tory  of  the  Tappan  Shoe Co.  Their  bid 
was $9,831.

Mt.  Morris—Frank  A.  Hughes  has 
purchased  the  J.  D.  Bentley  grocery 
stock  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Elk  Rapids—Fred  Sullivan  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  Archie  Couturier 
in  the  meat  market  formerly  conducted 
by  Nash  &  Couturier.

Fort  Huron—Ernest  N.  Akers  has 
filed  three  chattel  mortgages  on  his 
grocery  stock  to  secure  creaitors,  nam­
ing  Geo.  W.  Moore  as  trustee.
Vermontville—O.  M.  Folger  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  meat  market  of  Fol­
ger  &  Mull  to  J.  C.  Topliff.  The  new 
firm  will  be  known  as  Topliff  &  Mull.
Lake  Ann—S.  S.  Burnett  has  erected 
a  new  store  building,  30x40  feet 
in  di­
mensions,  and  expects  to  be  doing busi­
ness  therein  before  the  end  of  the  pres­
ent  week.

East  Jordan—The  Bayliss  brick  yard 
is  now  equipped  with  the  machinery  for 
making  re-pressed  brick,  and  will  have 
a  kiln  of  these  burned  and  on  the  mar­
ket  in  a  few  weeks.

Battle  Creek— W.  C.  Henry  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to Byron  Hobbs, Alfred 
Hobbs and  Hubert  Russell, who will con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
Hobbs  Bros.  &  Russell.

Traverse  City—Arthur  Rosenthal,  who 
has  for  a  long  time  been  employed  as 
salesman  for  Charles  Rosenthal  in  the 
Boston  store,  has  concluded  to  embark 
in  business  on  his  own  account  in  Wis­
consin.

Fremont—W.  Ralph  Wagers  has  re­
tired  lrom  the  firm  of  Skinner  &  Wag­
ers,  buyers  and  shippers  of  produce. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by  the 
remaining  partner  under  the  style  of 
Ned  A.  Skinner.

Cedar  Springs---- Wm.  Black  has
store  building  with 
equipped  his 
acetylene  gas,  making 
it  as  brilliantly 
lighted  at  night  as  it  is  by  day.  Mr. 
Black  is  the  first  merchant  to 
introduce 
the  new  system  of  lighting at  this place.
Owosso—C.  C.  Duff  has  re-purchased 
a  half 
in  the  grocery  stock  of 
Geo.  W.  Detwiler,  who  carried  on  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Duff  &  Detwiler. 
The  deal  involves no  change  in  the  firm 
name,  but  will  give  the  establishment 
the  benefit  of  Mr.  Duff’s experience and 
wide  acquaintance.

interest 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in 

Hastings—Geo.  S.  Tomlinson,  of  the 
firm  of  Bentley,  Tomlinson  &  Rider, 
dealers 
lumber,  lath  and  shingles, 
has  retired  from  the  business.  Gertie 
E.  Bentley  and  Edward  A.  Rider  will 
continue  under  the  style  of  Bentley  & 
Rider.

Ishpeming—A.  L.  Cumpson,  who  has 
had  charge  of  Nelson  Morris  &  Co. ’s 
fresh  meat  business  here  for  the  past 
thirteen  months,  has  resigned,  to  accept 
a  position  he  held  for  a  number  of 
years  with  the  Pittsburgh  Provision Co., 
of  Pittsburgh,  Pa.

Hopkins  Station— Furber  &  Kidder 
have  sold  their  general  stock  to  Noggle 
&  Gordon,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.  Furber  & 
Kidder  will  not  dissolve  partnership, 
but  will  continue  the  banking  business 
recently  established  by  the  firm,  prob­
ably  erecting  a  building  especially 
adapted  for  the  business.

Owosso—C.  E.  Burns  and  J.  C.  Wal­
ton,  of  Howell,  have  been  figuring  for 
several  days  on  securing  desirable prop­
erty  for  the  location  of  an  elevator  in 
this  city.  Owing  to  the  lateness  of  the 
season,  and  the  fact  that  the  time  for 
handling  grain 
is  now  at  hand,  rather 
than  be  delayed  they  have  leased  the 
elevator  on  the  Corunna  road  opposite 
the  Estey  Carriage  Co.,  and  will  put 
it 
in  repair  at  once,  and  begin  business.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Stan wood—Geo.  Smith  has  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  road  and  drain 
tiling.

Manistee— The  logs  of  the  Manistee 
Lumber  Co.  are  beginning  to  come  so 
fast  that  they  cannot  take  care  cf  them 
on  day  run,  and,  having  all  the  booms 
full,  are  compelled  to  start  one  side 
of  the  mill  nights.

Alpena— H.  D.  &  W.  L.  Churchill 
have  purchased  5,000,000  feet  of  Cana­
dian  logs  from  Alger,  Smith  &  Co.  The 
same  firm  is  negotiating  for  more  tim­
ber  and  proposes  to  keep  their  mill  in 
operation  if  possible.

Fisher—The  Northern  Supply  Co.  is 
completing  a  contract  with  the  Rock 
Island  &  Pacific  Railway  to  deliver 
300,000  ties  in  Chicago.  The  ties  were 
all  cut  along  the  line  of  the  Wisconsin 
&  Michigan  Railway.

Wayland— B.  Van  Anrooy  has  merged 
his  general  store  business and  baking 
powder  business 
into  a  stock  company 
under  the  style  of  the  Wayland  Manu­
facturing  Co.  The 
incorporators  are 
B.  Van  Anrooy,  C.  E.  Sherwin  and  N. 
J.  Brown.

St.  Joseph—The  Twin  City  Milling 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
the  County  Clerk.  The  capital  stock  of 
the  company 
is  $25,000 and  the  shares 
are  held  as  follows:  H.  G.  Ensley, 
840;  Clara  L.  Wilkinson,  360;  W.  L. 
Holland,  100;  Hiram  M.  Brown,  300.

Alpena—F.  W.  Gilchrist is getting out 
a  carload  of  hard  maple  flooring  for  di­
rect  shipment  to  Liverpool.  The 
lum­
ber  is  cut  12  feet 
long  and  4  inches 
wide,  kiln  dried,  butted,  bored,  hollow 
backed,  end  matched  and  polished,  and 
is  put  up  in  bundles  of  six  pieces,  each 
bundle  fastened  with  strips  of  tin.

Williamston---- The  Cedarvale  Coal
Mining  and  Brick  Co.  has  been 
incor­
porated  for  the  purpose  of  mining  the 
deposits  of  soft  coal  and  fire  clay  that 
underlie  the  village.  The first  vein  of 
lies  fourteen  feet  underneath  the 
coal 
surface,  averaging 
in 
thickness.  The  second  vein  lies  foity- 
five  feet  below  the  surface, 
ranging 
from  thirty-two 
inches  to  seven  feet  in 
thickness.

inches 

thirty 

Bay  City—The  Michigan  Head  Lin­
ing  and  Hoop  Co.  offers  to  remove  its 
plant  from  Coleman  to this  place,  in  the 
event  of  the  proper  inducements  being 
offered.

Au  Sable—The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sons 
Lumber  Co.  has  decided  to  soon resume 
the  sale  of  its  lumber  exclusively  by  the 
cargo,  instead  of  putting  it  through  the 
company’s  yards,  at  Toledo and Buffalo, 
which  have  been  operated  £or  several 
years.  The  yards  are  being  stocked  this 
season,  but  at  least  the  Toledo  yard  will 
be  closed  out  thss  fall.  This  course 
is 
taken  because  the  lumber  to  be  manu­
factured  will  be  unsuited  to  the  Toledo 
trade.
The  Law  Relating to  the  Sale of  Paris 

Green.

law 

Butternut,  July  13—What  is  the reason 
you  do  not  publish  the 
in  the 
Tradesman  concerning  the  sale  of  Paris 
green. 
It  seems  rather queer  that  every 
four-corners  grocery  store  should  be 
selling  this  article  without even labeling 
same.  No 
longer  ago  than  last  week  I 
its  being 
saw  Paris  green  sold  without 
labeled;  and  I  wish  to  know 
if  it  is 
right  or  legal  for  men  to  spend  nearly 
half  ot  their  lives  studying  and  practic­
ing  a  business  and  then  ailow  some  fel­
low  to  drop  his  plow  handles  and  dish 
out  any  poison  made?  Do  not  be  afraid 
of  losing  a  customer  by  publishing  what 
is  right  in  regard  to  this  matter.

A.  Co n k l in .

The  provision  of  the  pharmacy  law 

above  enquired  about  is  as  follows:

Nothing  in  this  act  shall  apply  to,  or 
in  any  manner  interfere  with,  the  busi­
ness  of  any  practicing  physician  who 
does  not  keep  open  shop  for  retailing, 
dispensing  or  compounding  of  medicine 
and  poison,  or  prevent  him  from  sup­
plying  to  his  patients  such  articles  as 
may  seem  to  him  proper,  nor  with  the 
vending  of  patent  or  proprietary  medi­
cines  by  any  retail  dealer,  who  has  been 
in  such business  three  years or more,  nor 
with .the  selling  by  any  person  of  drugs, 
medicines,  chemicals,  essential  oils  and 
tinctures  which  are  put  up  in  bottles, 
boxes,  packages,  bearing  labels securely 
affixed,  which  labels  shall bear the name 
of  the  pharmacist  or  druggist  putting 
up  the  same,  the  dose  that  may  be  ad­
ministered  to  persons  three  months,  six 
months,  one  year,  three years,  five years, 
ten  years,  fifteen  years,  and  twenty-one 
years  of  age,  and  if  a  poison,  the  name 
or  names  of  the  most common antidotes; 
of  copperas,  borax,  blue  vitriol,  salt­
petre,  pepper,  sulphur,  brimstone,  Paris 
green, 
leaves, 
castor  oil,  sweet  oil,  spirits  of  turpen­
tine,  glycerine,  glauber  salts,  epsom 
salts,  cream  tartar,  bicarbonate  of  soda, 
sugar  of  lead  and  such  acids  as  are used 
in  coloring  and  tanning,  nor  with  the 
selling  of  paregoric,- essence  of  pepper­
mint,  essence  of  ginger,  essence  of  cin­
namon,  hive  syrup,  syrup  of 
ipecac, 
tincture  of  arnica,  syrup  of  tolu,  syrup 
of  squills,  spirits  of  camphor,  number 
six,  sweet  spirits  of  nitre,  laudanum, 
quinine,  and  all  other  preparations  of 
cinchona  bark,  tincture  of  aconite,  and 
tincture  of 
iron,  compound  cathartic 
pills,  or  quinine  pills,  ncr  with  the  ex­
clusively  wholesale  business  of  any 
dealer.

liquorice,  sage,  senna 

A  Lesson  in  German.
She--What  is  dog  in German?
He— Frankfurter,  I  believe.

Ask  Visner  for  Inducement on Gillies’ 
New  York  spice  contest.  Phone  1589.

WANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

IJ'OE SALE—STORE  BUILDING  WITH  RES- 
:  idence rooms in connection—a  fine location 
for millinery and bazaar trade.  Address Box 88, 
Leroy, Osceola Co., Mich. 

342

G ood fa rm  w a n ted in  e x c h a n g e fo r
desirable  income  property.  Kirtland,  1161 
310
South Division St., Grand Rapids. 
AVE  MONEY  MILLINERY  BUSINESS; 
best  location;  lively  town.  Will  se.l,  ex­
change, rent or take  partner;  too  much  respon­
sibility;  will  sacrifice.  Address  Box  548,  St. 
Johns, Mich._________________________ 3*1
W ANTED  TO  SELL  OR  TRADE,  FOR  A 
good  drug  stock  or  boot  and  shoe  and 
men’s furnishing goods, one  of  the  finest  fruit 
farms in Allegan county, one and one-half miles 
from  railroad  station.  Address  J.  Fisher  & 
Son, Hamilton, Mich.__________________331
Drug  stock  and f ix t u r e s fo r sa l e—
Inventorying about $3,000, in. a city of 6,000; 
two other drug stocks;  reason  given  to  intend­
ing  purchaser;  terms  liberal.  Address No. 338, 
care Michigan Tradesman._____________ 338
I|iOR  SALE OR  EXCHANGE  FOR STOCK OF 
Merchandise—Two  vacant  lots  in  Grand 
Rapids.  Address No. 337, care Michigau Trades­
man_____________ __________________ 337
1^08  SALE  CHEAP  FOR  CASH  OR  WILL 
:  Exchange for a  Mixed  Stock  of  Merchan­
dise—One  complete  Perkins  shingle  mill; 
plenty  of  boiler  room;  engine  13x20;  mill  in 
good  condition.  In  connection  with  mill  we 
have  one  Huyatt  &  Smith  hot  blast  dry  kiln. 
Mill will cut rO M per  day;  capacity of  kiln, 3.0 
M.  Morse & Schneider, Seney, Mich. 
336
1|iOR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  OF  DRUGS. 1N- 
1  ventorying about $800, located  in  live  town 
of 600 people.  Address  No. 335,  care  Hazeltme 
& Perkins Drug < o., Grand Rapids.______ 335
i 'OR  SALE—CLEAN NEW STOCK GENERAL 
merchandise,  located  in  brick  building  in 
growing town, surrounded by excellent farming 
country.  Established  trade.  Address  No.  334, 
33*
care Michigan Tradesman. 
SOME  CASH  AND  UNQUESTIONED  SE- 
curity for the remainder will  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,  stock  and 
fixtures  will  inventory  $2,500.  Trade  mostly 
cash.  Owner has  best  of  reasons  for  selling 
and will demonstrate to any bona fide purchaser 
that this is the opportunity  of  a  lifetime.  Ad­
dress No. 326. care Michigan Tradesman. 

336

318

chandise  and  fixtures; 

ARTIES  WASHING  TO  BUY,  SELL ^ R  
exchange  real estate  or  merchandise,  any 
quantities  or  description,  can  depend  upon 
Townsend  &  Morous,  of  Jackson,  Mich.,  for 
quick and responsible  dealing. 
NYONE  LOOKING  FOR  GQOD  INVEsT- 
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 veiy lucrative business on a  small  capi­
tal.  As 1 his 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  3*6.  Marshall, Mich.
329
FOR  SALE—CLEAN  HARDWARE  STOCK;
doing good business;  best location in Grand 
Rapids;  good reason for  selling;  no  exchange. 
Address Hardware,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
325
i flOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
inventory  $1,700. 
Address Postmaster, New Salem, Mich. 
32*
r p o   EXCHANGE—A  GOOD  LIVERX  STOCK, 
X  doing a good  business,  for  a  stock  of  gro­
ceries.  Address No. 327, care  Michigan  Trades­
man_______________________________ 327
IpOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
:  chandise, 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
i '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
Wr ANTED—PARTNER  WITH  $2,000  FOR 
one-half interest  in  hardware, stoves and 
tinshop, plumbing  and  furnace  work  and  job­
bing, roofing,  etc.  Have  several  good  jobs  on 
hand and a well-established trade;  best location 
in heart of city.  Address Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
Mich. 
ANTED—WE  ARE  THE  OLDEST,  LARG- 
est and best laundry in the  city  of  Grand 
Rapids.  We  do  considerable  business  out  of 
town and  want more of it.  We  want  good  live 
agents in towns where we  do not now nave any. 
We pay  a liberal commission and  give  satisfac­
tory service.  Terms on  application.  American 
Steam Laundry, Olte Brothers, proprietors.  289
IP OR  SALE  OR  TRAD E  FOR  STOCK  OF 
merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  the  ilaskel  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address 
262
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 
i y pe
Ru b b e r  stam ps  a n d  k u bber^ 
Will J. Weller, Muskegon.  M ich.____ 160
f lOR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
farms for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care M ichigau Trades­
man. 
XIT ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS,
Tv  daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca. Mich.  _____________  
B11LLEY & ALLGIER, GRAND.RAPIDS, PAT- 
)  ent  Attorneys  and  Practical  Draughtsmen. 
339
Our new Handbook free on application. 

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

298

73

MISCELLANEOUS.

ITUATION  WANTED—AS  BOOK-KEEPER 
or  store  manager  by  middle aged  man  of 
wide  experience  and  best  of  references.  Ad­
dress No. 333, care Michigan  Tradesman.  333

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  during  the  past 
week  has  been  what  might  be  termed  a 
waiting  market.  After  the  Fourth  the 
weather  was  so  extremely  warm  that 
it 
affected  the  grain  trade  and,  as  the  an­
ticipated  July  corner  petered  out,  there 
was  nothing  to  stimulate  prices.  Be­
sides,  harvest  is  on  hand;  in  fact,  there 
has  been  considerable  wheat  cut  south 
of  the  Lake  Shore  Railroad.  Wheat  re­
mained  at  a  low  ebb  until  yesterday, 
when 
it  seemed  to  show  some  life  and 
the  markets  began  to  get  stronger  and 
to-day  we  note  an  advance  of  2c  per 
bushel  from  the  low  point  on  both  cash 
and  futures.  The  visible  showed  a  fair 
decrease,  the  exports  were  good  and  the 
Northwestern  receipts  were  of  a  dimin­
utive  character,  as  compared  with  what 
they  have  been.  The  Government  crop 
report  shows  winter  wheat  to  be  81.2 
and  spring  91.2  of  an  average  crop, 
against  78.5  and  89.6last  month.  How­
ever,  as  that  has  been  discounted, it cuts 
no  figure  with  prices.  Should  the  wet 
weather  hold  off,  Michigan  will  have  a 
fair  crop  of  wheat,  both  as regards  qual­
ity  and  quantity.  We  are  offered  new 
wheat  from  Oklahoma 
and  Kansas 
points,  but  we  prefer  to  wait  for our 
own  crop.

There  has  been  quite  a  flurry  in  corn 
since  our  last  report,  caused  by  the  hot 
weather  in  this  section  and  the  wet 
weather  in  other  sections,  and  the  pros­
pects  now  are  that  there  will  be a reduc­
tion  of  300,000,000  to  400,000,000  bush­
els.

Oats  are  normal,  although  some  better 
last  week,  owing  to  the  fact  that 

than 
the  crop  is  not  looking  as  well.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  as 
follows:  wheat,  26  cars  (rather  sm all); 
corn,  2  cars;  oats,  4  cars.  During  the 
last  six  months  Grand  Rapids  has  re­
ceived  922  cars  of  wheat,  136  cars  of 
corn  and  165  cars  of  oats.

Local  millers are paying 72c for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

The  Produce  Market.

Bananas— High  prices  still  prevail, 
the  demand  being  excellent  and  the 
supply  of  good  fruk  steady.

Beets— 20c  per  doz.  bunches.
Butter—Separator  creamery  is  in  fair 
demand  at  I3^@I4C. 
Fancy  dairy 
fetches  10c,  while  cooking  grades  are 
sold  down  as  low  as  5@6c.

Cabbage— Home  grown  of  excellent 
quality  and  fair  size  is  held  at  7.5c  per 
doz.

Carrots— 15c  per  doz.
Cauliflower—$1  per doz.
Celery— 20c  per  bunch.
Cherries— Red  and  Black  command 
$1.50  per  bu.  at  this  market,  but  some 
outside  buying  points  report  purchases 
on  the  basis  of  $1  per  bu.  The  quality 
is  superb  and  the  appearance  of  the 
fruit  is  fine.
Cheese—Receipts  have  fallen  off  con­
siderably,  and  under  low  prices  the  con­
sumptive  demand 
is  rather  better,  but 
the  market  has  not  yet  felt  the  effect  of 
these  favorable  conditions.  Occasional 
sales  are  made  in  a  jobbing  way  at 
@j£c  off quotations  as  given  this  week.
Currants —4o@5oc  per  crate  of  16  qts.
scarce  and
Cucumbers-----Continue 
high,  considering  the  season  of 
the 
year.  Home  grown  still  hold  at  30@35c 
per  doz.
Eggs— Large  lots  are  arriving  in  bad 
order,  on  account  of 
the  heat,  and 
handlers  have  reduced  their  paying 
price  to  7c  per  doz.,  subject to candling. 
Candled  stock  is  held  at  8c.  The  re­
ceipts  of  eggs  will  begin  to  fall  off  from 
now  on  until  about  .August  1,  when  bet­
ter  quality  and  a  larger  supply  will  de­
velop,  on  account  of  the  hens  getting 
grain  feed  from  harvested  fields.  Up  to

that'date  the general  quality'of  the  re­
ceipts  will  be  poor  and  complaints 
among  the  buyers  will  be  general.

Lemons— Prices 
to 

are  advanced  this 
week,  owing 
the  great  demand 
caused  by  hot  weather.  Large  impor­
tations  at  Eastern  ports  are  noted.

Lettuce—50c  per  bu.
Melons—Georgia  stock 

the 
only  offering,  and  the  market  is  steady 
at  former  figures. 
In  spite  of  Fourth 
of  July  trade,  the  movement  is  but  mod­
for  prices  are  high—20@25c
erate, 
apiece.  Muskmelons  are  not 
in  good 
supply.

is  still 

Onions—Green  are  so  large  that  they 
have  advanced  to  25c  per  doz.  bunches. 
Southern  dry  stock  commands  $1 @ 1.25.
is  steady  and 

Oranges—The  market 
the  movement  moderate.
Peas—4o@5oc  per bu.
Peaches—Some  Illinois  stock  is  com­
it  is  of  so  poor  quality  that  it 
ing,  but 
is  not  fit  for  shipment,  and  goes  to  the 
city  trade.
Potatoes—There  is  not  much  trade  in 
old  potatoes  now.  The  new  stock  is 
good  and  plentiful,  selling 
leadily  at 
65@75c  per  bu.  for  good  sized  stock,  or 
ioc  less  for good  small  sizes.

Radishes—Charter  and  China  Rose 
command  8c.  The  quality  of  both  is 
fine.

Raspberries—Black 

command  $i@ 
1.25  per  16 qt.  crate  and  Red  are  about 
25c  higher.  Both  are  fine  in  quality  and 
excellent  in  appearance,  the  size  being 
larger  than  was  expected  would  be  the 
case  on  account  of  the  fortnight’s  tor­
rid  weather.

Squash—75c  per  box  of  40  lbs.
Tomatoes—$1.20  per  crate  of  4  bas­

Turnips—Home  grown  command  25c 

kets.

per  doz.

Wax  Beans—$1.25© 1.50  per  bu.
Whortleberries—A  few  arrivals  have 
sold  for  $2.50  per  bu.,  but  later  ship­
ments  will  probably  not  fare  as  well. 
The  crop 
is  reported  to  be  large  and 
the quality  fine.

Telephone  Topics.

St.  Joseph—The  change  from  the  Bell 
telephone  system  to  the  phones  of  the 
Twin  City  Telephone  Co.  has  been 
quietly  but  effectually  made  and  the 
Bell  system  has  practically  gone  out  of 
local  business  in  the  two  cities. 
In  the 
stores,  offices  and  residences  generally 
the  Bell  phones  were  disabled,  some 
patrons  disconnecting  the  wires,  others 
putting 
lightning  plugs,  others 
muffling  the  bells  and  some  hanging  the 
receivers  up  out  of  reach.  Some  quaint 
inscriptions  were  put  on  the instruments 
in  some  offices  announcing  the  discon­
tinuance  of  service.

in 

Benton  Harbor— The  Twin  City  Tele­
phone  Co.  will  soon  construct  a  line  to 
Eau  Claire,  where  it  will  connect  with 
the*  line  to  be  built  by  the  Dowagiac 
company.  This  will  give  Benton  Har­
bor  connection  with  Eau  Claire,  Indian 
Lake  and  Dowagiac.  The  Dowagiac 
company  expects  to  construct  another 
line  from  Buchanan  to  Eau  Claire and 
possibly  to  Niles  to  connect  with  the 
Benton  Harbor  exchange.

Northville—Telephone  competition  in 
this  town  promises  to  promote  a  lively 
time.  Heretofore  the  Bell  company  has 
had  a  monopoly.  Until  recently  the 
company  charged  $30  a  year  for its serv­
ice.  When  talk  of  a  new  company  be­
came  strong,  however,  the  price  was 
reduced  to  $24  a  year.  Now  a  local 
company  offers  to  furnish  service  at  $12 
per  year  on  three  year  contracts.

J.  H.  Baily  has  sold his interest in  the 
grocery 
firm  of  Wyngarden  &  Baily. 
The  business  will  be 
continued  by 
Wyngarden  &  Co.  at  the  corner  of  Front 
and  Pearl  streets.

C.  B.  Fitts  has  embarked  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Beulah.  The  Worden 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Lesson  of the  Coal  Strike.

If  the  evolution  of  human  morality 
and  of  the  relations  which human beings 
in  a  state  of  society  bear  each  to  the 
other  not  only  as 
individuals,  but  as 
classes,  had  advanced  in  the  same  pro­
portion  as  human  progress  through  the 
instrumentalities  of  physical  science, 
there  would be  no  need  for  a  great  labor 
strike,  and  no  such  thing  as  a  strike 
would  be  possible.

While  the  advance  of  civilization  in 
all  that  pertains  to 
intellectual  and 
material  progress  has  been  enormous, 
moral  and  ethical  development  has 
moved  but  slowly,  and 
is  still  far  be­
hind. 
The  same  covetousness  and 
greed  and  baste  to  be  rich,  and  over­
weening  selfishness,  and  unscrupulous 
ambition  beset  the  human  race  just  as 
much  as  ever  they  did,  and  one  of  the 
results  of 
it  all  is-that  there  seems  no 
better  way  to  settle  differences  between 
employes 
than  a 
“ strike. ”

employers 

and 

The  great  strike  of  the  coal  miners 
emphasizes  the  backwardness  of  our 
ethical  condition.  A  strike,  like  a  lock­
out,  is a brutal  blow  inflicted,  not  mere­
ly  upon  the  persons at whom  it is aimed, 
but  upon  thousands  and  scores  of  thou­
sands  of  people  who  are  entirely  inno­
cent  of  any  connection  with  the  wrongs 
it  has been  sought  to  avenge.

The  present  strike  of  the  coal  miners 
has  caused  the  stoppage  of  numerous 
and  extensive  iron  mills,  factories  and 
other  industrial  operations  on  the 
land, 
and  of  steamships  and  other  vessels  on 
the  rivers  and  lakes.  None  of  these  fac­
tories  or  ships  can  turn  a  wheel  for  lack 
of  fuel,  and  all  their work-people,  to  the 
number of  many  thousands,  are  driven 
intc 
idleness  and  are  prevented  from 
earning  the  means  of  living,because  the 
coal  miners  have  a  controversy  with  the 
mine  owners.

If  such  a  controversy  only  affected  the 
it,  it  might  be 
immediate  parties  to 
well 
in  some  cases  to  let  them  fight  it 
out;  but  when  the  consequences  are  so 
very  far-reaching,  and  when  so  many 
innocent  people  are  brought  to  deep 
distress  by  it,  there  ought  to  be  some 
just  and  sure  means  of  remedying  the' 
evil  and  of  preventing  the  abuses  that 
grow  out  of  a  labor  strike.

And  the  wonder 

intellectual  position? 

is  that  there  is  not 
some  such  remedy,  when  the  enormous 
advance  of  the  human  race  in  every 
other  sort  of  progress 
is  considered. 
Where  are  the  statesmen?  Where are  the 
lawgivers?  Where  are  the  philanthro­
pists,  and  where  are  the  preachers  of 
righteousness,  that  they  have  not  been 
able  to  bring  man's  moral  and  social 
condition  up  to  the  level  of  his  material 
and 
Is  it  easier 
to  conquer  the  forces  of  nature,  to  chain 
them  to  the  car  of  progress  and  compel 
them  to  reveal  all  their  secrets  and  to 
give  up  all  their 
treasures  than  to 
bring  men  to  regard  each  other,  if  not 
as  brothers,  at  least  as  partners  and 
joint  sharers  in  the  world’s work;  or are 
the  teachers  and  the  preachers  and  the 
statesmen  and  the  philanthropists  less 
able  or  less  faithful  in  their  labors  than 
are  the  chemists,  the  electricians,  the 
engineers  and  the physical philosophers? 
Would  it  not  be  better  to  convert men  to 
the  practice  of  love and  charity,  and  to 
judge  them  by  their  works  and  lives, 
than  to bandy  charges  of  heresy  and  to 
read  them  out  of  the  community  of 
Christians  for  some  alleged  word  or  ex­
pression?

If  human  ethics  are  ever  to  reach  the 
point  where  they  can  stop  a labor strike, 
it  will  be  by  the  establishment  of  so­

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ciety  upon  a  basis  of  charity, 
forbear­
ance  and  equal  justice  to  all.  And  so­
ciety  must come  to  that.  One  day  phi­
lanthropy  and  statesmanship  will  estab­
lish  a  couit  with  power  to  investigate 
and  determine  if  individual  and  corpo­
rate  employers  can  and  should,  with 
justice  to  their  business and their proper 
interests,  raise  the  wages  of  employes. 
And  the  same  court  will  declare  if  such 
business  needs  to  cut  down  wages,  or  to 
reduce  the  hours  of  operation,  or  to 
close  altogether,  and  it  will  adjust  the 
relations  of  employe  and  employer  on 
such  a  basis  of  equity.  The time  is  not 
ripe  for 
justice  and  forbearance  yet. 
There  must  be a season  of  violence,  and 
injustice,  and  persecution  first;  but  the 
better  time  will  come.

F r a n k   S t o w e l l

Chewing  Clerks  Disgusting  to  Cus­

tomers.
Written for th e   T r a d e s m a n .

“ Well,  I  am  glad,  at  last,  to  have  a 
clerk  to  wait  upon  me  who  is  not  chew­
ing  gum!”   said  a  lady  emphatically  to 
her  friend  as  they  seated  themselves  at 
“ Did  you  ever 
the  trimming  counter. 
see  anything 
like  it  before?  The  man 
at  the  silk  counter  who  waited  upon  us 
had  his  mouth  so  full  of  gum  that  he 
couldn’t  speak  plainly.  Then,  at  the 
lace  counter,  that  pre.tty  young  woman 
who  seems  to  be  head clerk there spoiled 
any  good  impression  which  her  pretty 
face  and  obliging  manners  might 
make  by  actually  chewing  gum  as  if her 
chief  end  in  life  was  to  see  how  rapidly 
she  could  make  her  jaws  move;  but,  to 
cap  everything, 
the  young  man  from 
whom  I  bought  my  gloves  was  chewing 
tobacco ;  and  several times while  he  was 
fitting  them  he  spit  on  the  floor. 
is 
simply  disgusting.  Does  the  manager 
permit  the  chewing  of  gum  and  tobacco 
by  the  employes?”

clerk. 

trimming 

“ He  is  out  of  town  for  a  few  days,”  
“ The 
replied  the 
chewing  of  gum  and  tobacco  is  strictly 
forbidden  during  business  hours and any 
employe  found  doing  so  is  liable  to  dis­
missal;  but,  ‘ When  the  cat’s  away  the 
mice  will  play. ’

It 

Had  the  manager  been  in  the  store, 
these  people  would  never  have  ventured 
to  do  what  they  were  doing.  They  knew 
well  enough  that  they  were  breaking  a 
rule  of  the  house.  They  also  knew  that 
every  right-thinking  person  condemns 
gum  and  tobacco  chewing 
in  public 
places;  but,  aside  from  this,  each of  the 
clerks  whom  these  ladies  mentioned was 
head  clerk 
in  his  or  her  department. 
Now  just  let  the  head  of  a  department 
set  an  example  of  this kind  and  see  how 
quickly  the  under  clerks  will  follow  it. 
is  willing,  the  moment  the 
If  a  clerk 
manager’s  back 
is  turned,  to  break  a 
rule and  do  a  thing  that  is  disgusting  to 
customers,  it  seems  to  me  that  such  a 
clerk  will  bear  watching. 
I  believe  he 
would  be  ready  at  the  first  opportunity 
to  break  a  much  more 
important  rule 
than  that  prohibiting  the  chewing  of 
gum  and  tobacco. 

Mac  A ll a n .

F.  E.  Morley,  doing  business  at  711 
Wealthy  avenue  under  the  style  of  the 
Wealthy  Avenue  Cash  Grocery,  has 
turned  the  stock  over  to  the  Clark-Jew- 
ell-Wells  Co.,  which  has  sold  the  stock- 
to  E.  L.  Boyd,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

J.  Dyk  has  sold  his  millinery  and 
fancy  goods  stock  at  128  West  Leonard 
street  to  Tony  Lommers.

The  First  National  Bank  of  St.  Louis 
is  succeeded  by  the  Gratiot County State 
Bank  of  St.  Louis.

they  cannot  end  in  any  permanent  gain. 
Buyers  pay  a  premium  for  stock  from 
certain  sections  only  because  they  get 
better quality,  and  only  when  they  get 
If  the  goods  are  not  as 
better quality. 
represented  they  generally  send  them 
back  or  else  take  off 
loss  enough  to 
make  them  as  good  as  they  should  be.
We  understand  that  the  bouse  of  C.  J. 
Chandler  &  Co.,  of  Chelsea,  Mich., 
which  recently  failed,  was  in  the  habit 
of  buying  goods  in  Chicago and  in  the 
Southwest 
lots;  we  never 
heard  of  their  shipping  anything  East 
but  “  Michigan”   eggs. 
It does  not look 
as  if  they  had  much  of  a  “ bonanza”   in 
the  business  and  we  should  say  that  the 
attempt  to  deceive  in  this  way 
is  so 
contemptible  and  picayune  that  anyone 
who  indulged  in  it  had  better  fail quick 
and  go  into  the  bunco  business.

in  carload 

American  Apples  in  Hungary.

it 

that 

The  American  apple 

is  carrying  all 
before 
in  Austria-Hungary,  but  the 
supply,  which  may  be  safely  chronicled 
as  enormous,  in  nowise  satisfies  the  de­
mand.  There  was  an  overwhelming  in­
vasion  of  the  fruit 
in  the  European 
market  at  the  beginning  of  last autumn, 
when  the  belief  prevailed 
the 
American  apple  would  last  out  the  win­
ter.  Cargoes,  however, 
continued  to 
arrive  throughout  the  winter,  and  were 
snatched  up  with  all  dispatch.  It  is  now 
anticipated  that  last  year's  crops  will 
continue  to  supply  the  market  until  this 
year’s  crops  arrive.  Austrian  cultiva­
tors  naturally complain,  on  the plea  that, 
although  the  home  produce  of 
last 
autumn  was  extremely  scarce,  they  look 
to  a  plentiful  harvest  this  year,  which, 
owing  to  the 
inferiority  of  the  home 
product,  will  be  unable  to  compete with 
the  superior  American  imports.
Remarkable  Women.

wives.

Thomas—You  and  I  have  remarkable 
Harkins—Do  you  think  so?
Thomas—Yes.  You  know  when  my 
wife  and  I  were  at  your  house,  night 
before  last?  Well,  my  wife  had  on  a 
new  dress, and  she  and  your  wife  talked 
about  it  nearly all  the  evening.

Harkins—I don’t  see anything remark­
able about  that.  It was  the  natural  thing 
for  them  to do.

Thomas—But,  hold  on!  Your  wife 
didn’t  ask  who  made  it,  and  my  wife 
didn’t  tell!

An  old  physician  considers  this  the 
only  safe,  ice  water  to  be  used  during 
the  summer  months:  “ Procure  some 
nice  looking  bottles  which  will  hold 
about  a  quart,  and  fill  them  with  water 
which  has  been  running  for  some  time. 
Water  which  has  run  through  a  filter  at­
tached  to  a  faucet  is  preferable.  Then 
cork  them  tightly  and  place  them  di­
rectly  on  the  ice  for  some  hours  before 
you  need  to  use  them,  turn  them  two  or 
three  times,  so  that  they  will  become 
uniformly  cold,  and  you  will  find  that 
you  can  drink  more  of  this  water  with

6

Fruits  and  Produce.

Dry  and  Watery  Butter.

From the New York Produce Review.

it 

While 

is  very  generally  conceded 
that  the  foreign  butters  exhibited  here 
recently  by  the  Government  were  not 
fair  samples  of  the  product  which  it 
was  sought  to  represent,  a  careful  exam­
ination  of  the  various  lots  brought  out 
some  points  that  may  be  valuable  in the 
further  development  of  the  dairy  indus­
try  of  this  country.
The  most  striking  feature  was the dry, 
waxy  character of the  butter,  especially 
the  Danish  and  Normandy 
samples. 
We  find  that  the  popular  demand  in  the 
British  markets 
is  for  that  class  of 
goods.  They  want  “ fat,”   and  not  light, 
watery  stock,  and  care  less  about the 
very  high,  flashy  flavor  that  so  much  of 
the  trade  on  this  side  of  the  water  de­
sires.  There  is  reason  in  this,  too.  But­
ter can  be  made  to  hold  a  good  deal  of 
water,  or 
it  can  be  worked  very  dry. 
Consumers  who  are  familiar  with  these 
points  naturally  desire  the  purer  goods. 
There 
is  such  a  thing  as  adulterating 
butter  with  water.  For  upward • of  two 
years  past  this  question  has  been  agi­
tated  a  good  deal  in  England  and  dis­
tricts  have enacted certain laws designed 
to  prevent  what  has  often  been  charac­
terized  as  a  fraud.  Numerous  prosecu­
tions  have  been  made  under  these  laws, 
until  those  handling  the  Irish  product 
especially  have  asked  that  Parliament 
pass  upon  the  subject  and  say how much 
water  butter  may  contain  and  still  be 
pure.  The  Danes  have  been  willing  to 
meet  the  demand  for  dry,  rich  stock, 
and  that  is  one  reason  why their product 
is  so  much  in  favor  in  all  of  the  British 
markets.

We  have  noticed  a  gradual 

improve­
ment 
in  the  American  butter  along 
these  lines,  but  there  is  still  room  for 
further  improvement.  And 
if  we  are 
to  cater  more  and  more  to  the  foreign 
trade  there  should  be  a  response  to  that 
need  at  once.  Some  buttermakers  may 
argue  that  it  costs  more  to  work  out  the 
water  and  produce  a  dry  article,  but 
that  must  not  be a  serious  consideration 
if  the  extension  of  the  trade  depends 
upon  it.  Besides,  there  are  evidences 
that  the  home  trade 
is  drifting  more 
that  way.  Heretofore  buyers  have  not 
objected  so  much  to  a  little  sponginess, 
provided  the  flavor  was  quick  and  rosy, 
but  every  season  brings  out  more  buyers 
who  are  looking  for  solid,  waxy  goods, 
something  “ on  which  one  can  chew.”  

it 

The  natural  conditions 

for  making 
butter  in  this  country  are  unsurpassed 
by  any  of  the  great  dairy  countries  of 
the  Old  World,  but  our development  has 
been  so  rapid  and  we  cover  so  wide  a 
territory  that 
is  not  surprising  that 
closer  attention  has  not  been  paid  to 
producing  the  best  possible  qualities. 
We  are  glad  that 
the  Government 
brought  over  these  samples  of  foreign 
butters  so  that  some  comparison  could 
be  made  with  our  stock ;  and  we  hope 
that  the  next  lots  that  come  here  from 
Europe  will  fully  represent  the  com­
mercial  product  of  each  country.

Serious  Charge  Against  a  Michigan 

Shipper.

From the New York Produce Review.

For  some  time  past  we  have  heard  re­
ports  from  members  of  the  trade  here 
that  certain  packers  of  eggs  in  North­
ern  Ohio,  Northern  Indiana  and  Michi­
gan,  taking  advantage  of  the  fact  that 
fresh  eggs 
from  those  sections  often 
command  a  premium  over  those  from 
farther  West,  have  been  buying  eggs in 
the  Far  West  and  Southwest  and  ship­
ping  them  here  as  current  local  collec­
tions.  Last  winter  when  the  writer  was 
in  Chicago  we 
learned  that  Southern 
egg  collectors  were  in  some  cases  buy­
ing  cold  storage  stock  there  and  ship­
ping  it  to  this  market  mixed  with  fresh 
eggs,  calling  the  whole  new  laid.

It  is  quite  common  for  buyers  of  eggs 
from  favorite  localities  to  find eggs  con­
tained  in  the  lot  marked  with  the  name 
of  the  packer  in  some  distant  state.

Possibly  these  schemes  of  deception 
sometimes  result  profitably  to  the  un­
scrupulous  packers.  But 
in  the  main

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

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But de  flavah  am   delicious,”

Says  the  native  Georgian 
this year, owing  to  their  dry 
weather.  Our  first  car  of 
melons  is  here..  They  are 
very  sweet.  Show  the  first 
melons in your city this  year 
and let others follow.

Red and  Black  Raspberries,  Black­
berries,  Cherries,  Currants,  Goose­
berries, Whortleberries.

Our Florida Pineapples from  India  River are the finest in flavor and good keepers.

Bananas, Oranges,  Lemons,  Onions,  Spinach,  Radishes,  Let- 
w Ce’ Cucumbers,  Tomatoes,  New  Potatoes,  Summer  Squash,
Wax  Beans,  New  Peas,  Cabbage.  All  seasonable  vegetables.

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20  &  22 Ottawa Street, Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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JOBBER  OF

Fruits  and  Produce

MANUFACTURER  OF

"Absolute”   Pure  Ground  Spices,  Bakina  Powder,  Etc.

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Successor to Michigan Spice  Co.,

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

GOTHAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.
New  York,  July 

io— Russell  Sage
says  that  we  are  gradually— very  grad­
ually,  indeed—getting  back  to  an  era 
of  prosperity.  Russell  knows  what  he 
is  talking  about,  and  everybody  rejoices 
to  hear  him  talk  as he  does.

Much  activity  is  being  displayed  by 
our  jobbers  as  to  the  excursions  they 
are  endeavoring  to  inaugurate  to  this 
city.  From  all  directions  come  enquir­
ies and  it  is  firmly  believed  that  within 
four  weeks  this  city  will  contain  more 
buyers  than  have  been  here  at  one  time 
for  a  decade.  Quite  a  number  are  here 
now,  but  are  not  doing  much  business, 
preferring  to  rest  a  week  or  so  before 
the  fall  campaign.  By  that  time  the 
troublous  sea  of  politics  will  have 
calmed  down,  the  tariff  will  be  out  of 
the  way  and  everybody  will  go  in  for  a 
long  pull,  a  strong  pull,  and  a  pull  all 
together.

We  have  had  some  very  hot  weather 
and 
it  has  had  a  depressing  effect  on 
the  fruit  trade  and  some  other  lines. 
With  the  thermometer  at  95,  no  one 
is 
able  to  get  up  much  enthusiasm.
There are  about  653,000  bags  of  coffee 
(Rio  No.  7)  in  store  and  afloat,  against 
396,000  bags  at  this  time  last  year. 
This  grade  has  been  offered  freely  at 
7Xc,  but  the  week  has  been  a  very  dull 
one.  Buyers  are  few  and  far  between 
and  sellers  will  shade  prices  if  there­
by  they  can  make  a  sale.  At  the  close 
the  market 
is  without  life.  Stocks  of 
mild  coffees  here  are  large  and  quota­
tions  are  barely  steady.  Jobbers  have 
done  a  fair  amount  of  business,  but 
there  is  yet  room  for  improvement.

Refined  sugar  has  advanced  a fraction 
on  some  of  the  lower grades,  and  for­
eign  has  also  gone  up  y&c.  Granulated 
has  remained  unchanged  and  the  de­
mand  has  been fairly satisfactory.  Sugar 
is  a  good  purchase  at  present  prices, 
both  the  manufactured  article  and  the 
stocks  of  that  designation.

lacks  animation.  Dealers 

Some  offerings  of  new  crop  Formosa 
and  Japan  teas  have  been  made;  but 
very  little  enthusiasm  is  manifest.  Quo­
low  and  altogether the 
tations  remain 
market 
in 
the 
interior  must  be  pretty  well  sup­
plied.  Those  competent  say  they  look 
for  no  immediate  improvement.  Really 
choice  varieties  of  both  Formosas  and 
Japans  are  selling  to  the  fine  trade  at  a 
satisfactory  rate,  but  the  outlook  is  not 
particularly  encouraging, 
taking  the 
market  by  and  large.
The  rice  market  is 

improving  daily 
and  we  shall  soon  .see  the  old  volume 
of  business  being  done.  Orders  come 
in  from  all  sections  in  such  quantity  as 
to  suggest  that  stocks  must  be  very  low. 
Advices  from Southern points are strong, 
foreign  sorts  are  gaining  and  altogether 
dealers  are  not  at  all  unhappy  at  the 
fall  outlook.  Japan  sells  on  an  average 
of  about  4j^c.
With  fairly  large  stocks  and  light  de­
mand,the  spice  market  is  not  especially 
active,  yet  there  is  as  much  business 
going  forward  as  is  usually  the  case  at

Write to

Corn  Exchange National  Bank,

Philadelphia,  Pa.

Fourth  National  Bank,

Grand  Rapids.

W.  D.  Hayes, Cashier,

Hastings National  Bank,

Hastings,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

this  time  of  year.  Jobbers,  especially, 
are  said  to  be  doing  a  fair  business  at 
decent  rates.
Lemons  have  taken  another  jump  and 
the  men  who  had  5,000 or  10,000  boxes 
on  hand  find  themselves  with  a  small 
fortune  more  than  they  had  a  week  ago. 
Extra  choice  Sicily,  300s,  per  box,  $4@ 
4.25  and  from  that  to  $5.25.  Fancy  or­
anges  are  selling  slowly  and  the  market 
is  well  supplied,  so  no  better  rates  are 
looked  for  soon.  Pineapples,  bananas, 
etc.,  are  moving  in  a  rather  more  satis­
factory  manner  than  a  week  ago,  al­
though  no  change  has  been  made  in 
quotations.

Dried  fruits,  raisins,  prunes,  etc., 
in  the  usual  manner  and, 
are  selling 
while  supplies  are  not  especially 
large, 
they  are yet  ample  to  meet  all  calls  and 
prices  are  seemingly  low  enough  to  suit 
anybody.

It 

Except  for  some  little  interest 

in  to­
matoes  and  peas  the  canned  goods  mar­
ket 
is  very  quiet.  Prices  are  low  and 
the  quantity  of  goods  seems  to  be  abun­
dant. 
is  reported  that  a  huge  pack 
of  California  fruits  will  have  to  be  dis­
posed  of  this  season,  as  the  crops  are 
large,and  it  is  likely that low prices  will 
prevail  all  along.  No  change  in  quota­
tions  to  note.
The  hot  weather  is  seriously  affecting 
the  arrivals  of  butter  and  stock  that  is 
all  right  when  it  leaves  the  West  is  all 
wrong  when 
it  gets  here.  For  fancy 
Western  creamery  15c  is  still  the  quota­
tion,  but  the  general  feeling  is  firm  and 
an  advance  of  a  fraction  is  looked  for 
by  some.  The  general  demand  is  good 
for  the  better  sorts  and  at  the  close  of 
the  week  the  tone  is  stronger.

Cheese 

is  dull.  Supplies  are  larger 
than  the  situation  warrants  and  the mar­
ket  is  certainly  dragging.  As with  but­
ter,  arrivals  show  the  effect  of  heat  and 
it  needs  no  very  practiced  eye  to  see 
that  much  stock  will  have  to be  sold  at 
a  low  mark.  Best  State  dairy  is  worth, 
for  large  size,  7^c.  Small,  7#c.

For  eggs the demand  is good.  Arrivals 
of  strictly  desirable  goods  have  shown 
some  falling  off  and,  as  a  result,  an  ad­
vance to  12c  has  taken  place  on  near-by 
stock.  Western  choice,  loss  off,  nc.
is  a  firm  market  for  marrow 
beans  and  pea  and  medium  are  also 
showing  more  activity.  Red  Kidneys 
for  export  have  sold  at  $ 1 . 7 7 Mar­
row,  87J£c@$i. 10;  choice  pea,  85c.

There 

Potatoes  are 

in  plentiful  supply  and 
sell  for $2@2.25 per bbl.  for Long Island. 
Southern,  $i.65@i-75-
Few  new  apples  are  here  that  are  de­
sirable,  the  bulk  of  arrivals  selling  for 
$i@2  per  bbl.  for  North  Carolina  fruit, 
which  is about  all  there  is.

How  an  Unfortunate  Business  Man 

Was  Helped  to  His  Feet.

From the New York Sun.

The  other  day  some  of  the  merchants 
who  have  grown  gray  in  the  pursuit  of 
the  practical  and  material  were  swap­
ping  stories  of  their  experiences.  Said 
one,  now  a  millionaire:
“ While  I  was  still  attending  school 
my  father  was  compelled  to  suspend 
business.  He  and  another  man  owned 
in  New  England  and  a  dry 
a  mill  up 
goods  store 
in  Brooklyn.  My  father 
attended  to  the  mill  and  his  partner  to 
the  retail  business.  One  day  my  father 
learned  that  his  partner  had  absconded, 
after  raising  all  the  money  he  could  on 
the  firm’s  name.  My  father  came  to 
New  York  and  found  that,  after  using 
every  dollar  he  had 
in  the  world  he 
would  still  owe  $300.  He turned  his  as­
sets  over to  his  creditors,  borrowed  the 
$300  necessary  to  pay his creditors dollar 
for  dollar  and  went  to  work  on  a  salary. 
After  several  years  of  hard  work he paid 
back  the  $300  and  was  free  from  debt 
once  more.
“ At  that  time  my  father  was  superin­
tendent  of  a  big  Sunday school in Brook­
lyn.  One  of  the  women  who  took  an 
interest 
in  the  school  was  an  old  maid 
who  had  known  my  father  for  years. 
She  knew  about  his  misfortune  and  was 
determined  that  he  should  be  independ­
ent  again.  So  she  we .*  to  half  a  dozen 
leading  members  of  the  church  and  told 
them  she  wanted  to borrow  some  money 
to  start  father 
in  business again.  All 
responded  cheerfully  and  one  day  my 
father  was  surprised  at  a  visit  from  the 
woman.
is
$1,600,with  which  you  are  going  to  start 
in  business  for  yourself. ’  Naturally, 
my  father  was  startled. 
‘ Lord  bless
you,  M iss-----, ’  he  said,  ‘ I  can’t  take
that.  Besides,  I  do  not  want  to  go  into 
business  again.  I  am  satisfied  as  I  am. ’ 
‘ There  is  the  money,’  she  replied,  ‘ and 
you  are  going 
into  business.  Now, 
don’t  delay  about  it.’  The  old  man  still 
demurred,  but  she 
insisted,  and,  after 
awhile,  she  got  his  consent  to  use  the

“   ‘ M r.------- , ’  she  said, 

‘here 

money.  That  was  the  foundation  of 
our  present  business.  Father  opened  a 
little  dry  goods  store  and  I  left school  to 
help  him.  Two  years  later  father  went 
to  one  of  the  men  who  had  contributed 
toward  his  capital  and  handed  him  the 
S300  he  had  advanced. 
' What’s  that 
for?’  he  asked. 
is  the
‘ Why, 
this 
money  you  gave  Miss---- to  start  me  in
‘ Nonsense,’  said 
business,  said  father. 
he, 
‘ you  don’t  owe  me  anything,  old 
man.  Eliza  came  to  me  and  asked  me 
tor  $300,  and  I  gave  it  to  her. 
If  she 
had  asked  for  $1,000 she would  have  got 
it  just  as  quick. 
I  made  no  record  of 
‘ You  have  got 
it  and  I  don’t  want  it.’ 
to  take 
‘ Now,  please 
don’t ,’  said  he, 
‘ it  will  upset  all  my 
book-keeping.’  Father  insisted,  though, 
and  finally  had  his  way.  Most  of  his 
other  creditors  talked  the same  way,  but 
all  had  to give  in.  Within  a  week  back 
came  the 
letters  asking  father to  give 
the  money  to  the  poor  if  he did not want 
to  use  it  himself. 
I  am  glad  to  say  we 
have  been  able  to  return  some  of  the 
kindness  shown  us  then.’ ’

it,'  said  father. 

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 llegan ,  M ich.

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

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,

Market  St., Detroit.
^B utter  and  Eggs w anted^

W ill buy  same  at  point  of  shipment, 
or  delivered,  in  small  or  large  lots. 
Write  for  particulars.

California  Grape-Growers  Unite.
A  movement  looking  to  the  organiza' 
tion  of  the  wine-growers  of  California 
was  inaugurated  last  week. 
If  the proj­
ect  meets  with  encouragement,  other 
meetings  will  be  held  at  all  of  the  prin­
cipal  towns  of  the  dry-wine  districts. 
The  object 
is  to  give  the  growers  of 
grapes  the  same  cohesion  and  force as 
have  been  secured  by  the  winemakers 
through  their corporation.

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  O O .

Main Office, 353 Russell St. 

D E T R O I T .  

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Correspondence Solicited.

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

R. B rice &  Co.,
Commission 
Merchants 

Butter  Eggs and  Poultry

23  South  Water Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.

S P E C IA L   NOTICE.

No  doubt  you  w ill  be  visited 
at  this  season  of  the  year  by 
smooth  -  tongued 
numerous 
solicitors,  anxious 
for  your 
business  who  w ill  make  all 
kinds  of  prom ises  to  get  your 
goods.  T ake  our  advice  and 
look  up  the  reputation  of  the 
house  that  m akes  you  these 
prom ises 
shipping. 
You  will  find  us  rated  F ifty 
to  Seventy-five  thousand  dol­
lars,  credit  high,  and  for  45 
long  years  we  have  been  one 
of  the  leading  solid  houses  of 
Philadelphia

before 

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fcllGAM AD ESM AN

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WEDNESDAY,------JULY  14,  1897.

BATTLE-SHIPS  CRITICISED.

impression 

It  is  rather  singular  that  most  of  the 
journalistic  comments  on  the 
recent 
great  naval  review  at  Spithead,  in honor 
of  Queen  Victoria's  jubilee,  praise  the 
display  of  cruisers  and  torpedo  boats, 
and  pass  over  the  mammoth battle-ships 
rather  lightly.  Most  writers  seem  to 
have  picked  up  the 
that 
great  doubt  exists  among  naval  experts 
as  to  the  worth  of  the  battle-ships,  and 
that  there 
is  a  growing  tendency  to 
abandon  the  monster  iron-clads  in  fa­
vor  of  the  swift  cruisers  and  formidable 
little  torpedo  craft.  It  is  difficult  to  un­
derstand  how  this  impression could have 
been  produced.  The  display  of  battle­
ships  was  certainly  the  most  formidable 
the  world  ever  saw,  and  nothing  has 
transpired  in  modern  naval  warfare  to 
indicate  that  the  battle-ships  are 
likely 
to  disappoint  the  hopes  of  their advo­
cates.

it 

The  critics  of  the  battle-ships  would 
do  well  to  study  the  details  of  the  battle 
of  the  Yalu,  between  the  Chinese  and 
Japanese  fleets,  during  the  recent  war 
in  the  Far  East.  While 
is  true  that 
the  Japanese  fleet,  which  won  the  vic­
tory,  was  composed  entirely  of  cruisers, 
the  details of  the  fight  show  that  it  was 
the  bad  marksmanship  and  cowardice 
of  the  Chinese  which  permitted  the 
Japanese  cruisers  to  escape  with  mod­
erate  losses.  Those  of  the  Japanese 
ships  which  were  hit  by  a  few  shells 
were  terribly  damaged,  and  the  loss  of 
life  on 
the  Japanese  flagship  from  a 
single  shell  was  appalling. 
In  the 
Chinese fleet  all  the  cruisers  were  either 
destroyed  or  forced  to  beat  a  hasty  re­
little  better 
treat.  They  were  really 
than  slaughter  pens.  On 
the  other 
hand, 
large  Chinese  battle­
ships,  although  exposed  to  the  terrible 
fire  of  the  high-power  guns  possessed 
by  the  Japanese,  suffered  no  irreparable 
damage.  Had  these  two  ships  been 
effectively  handled,  and  had  their  bat­
teries  been  served  as  they  would  have 
been  served  by  European  crews,  the 
Japanese  would  not  have  secured  the 
victory,  and  some  of  their  ships  would 
certainly  have  been  destroyed.

the  two 

AH  the  weight  of  professional  opinion 
appears  to  be  against  the contention that 
the  battle-ships  should  be  superseded 
by  the  cruisers.  Great  Britain  continues 
to  steadily 
increase  her  proportion  of 
heavy  battle-ships,  while  all  the  great 
naval  powers  of  Europe  are  steadily 
adding  to  their  armor-clad  fleets.  Even

in  the  United  States  the  best  naval  au­
thorities  are  convinced  that  the  country 
must  depend  upon  the  battle-ships  for 
actual  fighting.

results 

The  fact  is  that  each  of  the  classes  of 
vessels  displayed  in  the  jubilee  review 
have  their  well-defined  value 
in  all 
plans  of  naval  defense.  While  the  bat­
tle-ships  are  depended  on  to  bear  the 
brunt  of  battle,the  cruisers  are  intended 
to  destroy  or  protect  commerce,  ac­
cording  to  the  interests  affected,  and  to 
act  as  scouts  for  the  heavier  ships.  The 
torpedo  boats  are  expected  to  operate 
against  all  classes  of  an  enemy's  ves­
sels ;  but  their  use 
is  as  yet  mainly 
theoretical,  as  the  tests  in  actual  war  to 
which  they  have  been  subjected  have 
not  developed 
commensurate 
with  the  expectations  of  naval  experts.
THE  BENEFICIARIES  OF STRIKES.
The  great  strike  of  bituminous  coal 
miners  which  began  about  ten  days  ago 
has  developed  until  nearly  or quite 120,- 
000  miners,  located 
in  seven  different 
states,  are  engaged  in  it.  As  naturally 
might  be  expected,  in  many 
localities 
there  is  already  threatened  scarcity  of 
coal,  and  in  some  it  has  become  so  pos­
itive  that  industrial works are compelled 
to  shut  down.  The  holders of  the  supply 
in  some  cases  have  advanced  the  price 
to  about  double  and  the  scarcity  seems 
to  be  less  on  account  of  an  actual 
lack 
of  the  fuel  than  of  the  disposition  of 
the  holders  to  realize  an  advance.  A 
noticeable  feature  of  the  situation  is  the 
continued appearance  of  indifference  on 
the  part  of  a  great  proportion  of  the 
operators,  who  appear  well  satisfied that 
the  price  of  their  product  shall  be  en­
hanced  by  the  general  suspension  of 
production.

in  the  West  Virginia 

Just  now  the  great  contest  is  being 
waged 
fields, 
where  both  operators  and  miners  seem 
bent  on  profiting  to  the  utmost  from  the 
efforts  of  the  strikers  elsewhere.  Re­
membering  the  experience of three years 
ago,  when  a  rich  harvest  was  gathered 
by  the  operators  by  keeping  at  work 
through  the  strike,  which  they  shared 
with  the  employes  to  an extent  sufficient 
to  keep  their  allegiance,  the  mines  are 
now  kept 
in  operation  day  and  night; 
but  a  determined  effort 
is  being  made 
by  the  labor  leaders,  who  are  sending 
all  the  most  capable  organizers to  be ob­
tained  to  that  field,  to  secure  the  help 
of these  miners,  which  seems  to  be  nec­
essary  to success  elsewhere.

Efforts  are  being  made  to  effect  a 
compromise,  but  so  far  they  appear  to 
be  received  with 
indifference  by both 
sides.  The  arbitration  boards  of  several 
of  the  states  concerned  are  holding joint 
sessions  in  Pittsburg 
It  is  very  possi­
ble  that  when  the  strike  has  progressed 
far  enough  to  serve  the  selfish  ends  of 
the  leaders  and  the  operators,  the  work 
of  the  arbitrators  will  have apparent  re­
sults. 
In  the  meantime,  the  rank  and 
file,who  are  the  cat's-paws  in  the  move­
ment,  are  made  to  suffer  in  the  work  of 
raking  out  the  chestnuts,  thus  again  ex­
emplifying  the  proposition  that the  ones 
who  benefit  by  labor  strikes  are  not  the 
strikers.

Small  towns  eager  to  become  cities 
regardless  of  the  increased  expense of 
government  have  had  a  good  example 
set  to  them  by  the  people  of  Johnston, 
R.  I.,  who  rejected  such  a  proposition 
by  a  decisive  vote.

There  are  higher  satisfactions  than 
the  mere  getting  of  money,  and  riches 
cannot  compensate  a  man  for  the  con­
sciousness  of  having  lived  a  dishonor­
able  and  selfish  life.

GENERAL  TRADE  S ITU A TIO N .
Taking  into  consideration  the intense­
ly  heated  term  which  monopolized  most 
attention  throughout  the  country  until 
the  close  of  last  week,  with  the  season­
able  dulness  of  midsummer,  the  fact 
that  there  has  been  considerable  activ­
ity,with  a  tendency  to  increasing  prices 
in  many  lines,  is  significant  of  gener­
ally  improving  conditions. 
In  most  in­
dustrial  lines  the  summer  adjustments 
of  wage  scales  are  either  completed  or 
are 
in  a  further  stage  of  advancement 
than  usual  at  this  season.  The only  im­
portant  exception,  the  coal 
industry,  is 
making  considerable  disturbance,  but 
its  injurious  effects  are  not  likely  to last 
for any  considerable  time.

to 

future 

immediate 

The  fact  that  the  main  changes  in 
tariff  taxes are  known  has  removed  the 
principal  obstacle 
liberal  trade. 
While  merchants  were  uncertain  as  to 
the  changes  to be  made  in the law,  there 
was  a  general  disposition  to  limit  trans­
actions  to  the  smallest  possible  propor­
tions.  Already,  since  il  has  been  cer 
tain  that  the  bill  would  pass  in  prac­
tically  the  shape  in  which  it  has  been 
placed  by  the  Senate,  there  has  been 
quite  a  revival  in  most  lines  of  trade. 
The  dry goods  and  iron 
industries,  two 
of  the  leading  barometers  of  the  busi­
ness  feeling,  have  developed  consider­
able activity,  and  nearly  all  the  manu­
facturing  interests are  manifesting  new 
life.  These  things  indicate  that  people 
feel  more  confidence  in  the  outlook,  and 
are  preparing  to  throw  off the caution 
and  conservatism  which  have  hampered 
enterprise  for  the  past  year  or  more. 
The  tariff discussion  and  changes  hav­
ing  been  gotten  out  of  the  way  during 
the  special  session  now  drawing  to a 
close,  there  will  be  nothing  in  the  long 
session  of  Congress  to begin  in  Decem­
ber  next  which  need  disturb  business 
confidence.  Moreover,  there  is  no  dan­
ger  of  any  further  tariff  changes  for at 
least  two  years  to  come.  Again,  there 
will  be  no  general  elections  to  interfere 
with  business  during  the  coming  fa ll; 
in  fact,  the 
is  un­
commonly  free  from  any  possible  dis­
turbing  influences  of  a  political  nature.
All  the  usual  trade  indications  are 
favorable.  Money  appears  to  be  plenti­
ful  and  cheap  at  all  financial  centers ; 
there  is  a  good  demand  for investments, 
and  current  liquidation  of  speculative 
deals  no  longer  exerts  a  depressing  in­
fluence.  The  grain  crops,  upon  which 
the  prosperity  of  the  country  at  large  so 
greatly  depends,  are  promising  and  the 
harvest  is  now  near  at  hand. 
is  be­
lieved  that  there  will be  a  large  demand 
from  abroad  for  our  grain  this  fall,  a 
fact  which  is  sure  to  keep  prices  fairly 
firm.  While the conditions which seemed 
to  cause  the  outflow  of  gold  to  Europe 
the  movement  has 
are  unchanged, 
ceased  and 
is  thought  no  more  will 
go  out  this  season.  The  stock  market 
continued  to  show that obstinate strength 
which  was  so  noteworthy  for six  weeks, 
and  the  general  average  of  prices  for 
railroad  stocks 
reached  the  highest 
point  touched  since  early  in  May  last 
year.  The  dealings  were  narrow,  and 
after  the  elaborate  effort  to  get  up  an­
other  scare  about  the  currency  and  gold 
exports,  the  strength  shown 
is  signifi­
cant.  Nor 
is  tfie  volume  of  business 
slackening  as  much  as  might  be  ex­
pected  in  midsummer* for  the  daily  av­
erage  of  payments  through  clearing­
in  July  thus  far  has  not  been 
houses 
smaller,  but  slightly 
in 
previous  years—6.5  per cent,  more  than 
in  1896 and  a  fifth  of  1  per  cent,  larger 
than  in  1892.

larger, 

than 

It 

it 

While  the  wheat  movement  has  been 
small  on  account  of  the  season,  the  gen­
eral  statistical  situation  has  been  strong 
and  prices,  which  met  with  a  reaction 
the  last  of  the  week  after  a  consider­
able  rise,  are  again moving  forward  this 
week.  The  crop  reports  indicate  a  sur­
plus  in  this  country  beyond  any  for  sev­
eral  years  past;  but the favorable feature 
for  future  prices 
is  that  the  demand 
from  abroad  promises  to  be  unusually 
large.  Shipments  for  Cape  Town  and 
Australia  are  already  beginning  from 
some  of  the  Pacific  ports.

There  has  been  a  small  advance  in 
cotton,  with  a considerable  buying  from 
Northern  spinners,  but  more  mills  have 
shut  down  on  account  of  large  stock  and 
deferred  demand.  The  improved  fea­
tures  of  the  woolen  goods  market  con­
tinue  and  the  trade  is  considered  in  a 
better  condition  than 
for  some  years 
past.  In  some  purchases  of  spring goods 
an  advance  of  5  per  cent,  has  been  ob­
tained.

The  extremely  low  prices  ruling  for 
iron  ores  have  stimulated  the  movement 
by 
lake  shipments  and  these  have  as­
sumed  a  magnitude  which  indicates  the 
expectation  of  large  business  after  the 
summer  shut-downs  are  over. 
In  many 
works  orders  have  been  so  pressing  that 
they  are  continuing  in  operation 
longer 
than  usual.

Bank  clearings  for  the  week  show  a 
small  increase,  to  $1,071,000,000,  a  gain 
of  8  per  cent,  over  the  corresponding 
week  of  last  year.  Business  failures 
are  reported  at  213,  against  225  for  pre­
ceding  week.

M OROCCO  TO   BE  COERCED.
The  United  States  is  about  to  engage 
in  a  little  exhibition  of  the  wholesome 
application  of  force  for  the  protection 
of  its  citizens,  which  seems  to  be  very 
in  the  Mediterranean. 
sadly  needed 
The  warships 
San  Francisco  and 
Raleigh  have  been  ordered  to  Tangier, 
the  capital  of  Morocco,  for  the  purpose 
of  aiding  the  American  Consul  General 
at  that  place  in  enforcing  a  demand  for 
the  punishment  of  a  native  who  is  ac­
cused  of  maltreating  an  American  citi­
zen.

It  seems  that,  although  the  American 
Consul  General  has  repeatedly  demand­
ed  that  the  culprit  be  punished,  the 
Sultan  has paid  no  attention  whatever  to 
such  demands,  although the  treaty  exist­
ing  between  this  country  and  Morocco 
expressly  provides  for  the  punishment 
of  any  violence  offered  American  citi­
zens.

It  is  hardly  probable  that  any  serious 
trouble  will  grow  out  of  this  incident, 
as  it  is  expected  that,as  soon  as  the Sul­
tan  realizes that  the  United States  is  de­
termined  to  secure  proper  protection  for 
its  citizens,  and 
is  prepaied  to  use 
force,  if  need  be,  to  accomplish  that 
purpose,  he  will  reconsider  his  position 
and  promptly  comply  with  the  demands 
of  the  American  Consul  General.  The 
presence  of  the  two warships is expected 
to  exert  a  very  wholesome  influence.

This 

is  the  proper  way  to  protect 
Americans.  A  mere  demand  made  up­
on  semi-civilized  nations  is  a  waste  of 
it  be backed  up  by  a  rea­
time,  unless 
sonable  show  of  force.  An  object 
les­
son 
is  needed  to  convince  such  petty 
governments  that  the  arm  of  the  United 
States  is 
long  enough  to  reach  them, 
and that there  is  the  determination  back 
of  a  mere  threat  to  actually  punish  any 
injustice  which  may  be 
inflicted  on 
American  citizens.

If  you  throw  mud  you  must  expect 

your  hands  to  get  dirty.

THE  LAW’S  DELAYS.

“ Law  Notes,’ ’  a  Long  Island,  N.  Y., 
publication,  in  remarking  upon  the  ex­
traordinary  facility  for  the  obstruction 
of  justice  furnished  by  the  laws  and  the 
practice  of  the  courts  in  this  country, 
declares  that  a  great  deal  of  the  prompt 
administration  of  justice 
in  England is 
due  to  the  fact  that  there  is  no  court  of 
appeals  in  criminal  cases.

The  remarkable  ease  and  readiness 
with  which  justice  can  be  blocked,  and 
the  enforcement  of  the  laws  obstructed 
through  the  operation  of  the  laws  them­
selves,  are  certainly  responsible  for  the 
epidemic  of  violent  crimes 
in  many 
parts  of  the  country,  and  for  the  undue 
exercise  of  popular  vengeance.

The 

journal  mentioned  above  cites, 
as  a  striking  evidence  of  this  sort  of 
thing, 
the  case  of  Durant,  who  was 
convicted  in  San  Francisco  for  the mur­
der of  Blanche  Lamont  in  1895.  After 
a  trial  of  great  length,  wherein  he  was 
represented  by  able  and  eminent  coun­
sel,  and  which  was  declared  by  the  Su­
preme  Court  of  his  State  to  be  fair  in 
every  particular,  he  was  adjudged  to  be 
guilty  and  sentenced  to  death.  Since 
his  conviction  was  affirmed  by  the  Su­
preme  Court  of  California 
repeated 
efforts  have  been  made  to  procure  a  re­
view  of  the  case  in  the  courts  of  the 
United  States.  These  have  at  last  been 
so  successful  that  Circuit  Judge. Gilbert 
has  granted 
leave  to  appeal  to  the  Su­
preme  Court  at  Washington  from  an  or­
der  of  the  Federal  Court  at  San  Fran­
cisco  denying  an  application  for a  writ 
of  habeas  corpus.  Pending  this  appeal, 
proceedings  for  the  execution  of  the 
prisoner are  stayed,  and  the appeal  can­
not  be  heard  until  the  Supreme  Court 
meets  in  Ootober.

It 

That  sort  of  delay  can  be  kept  up  un­
til  all  the  witnesses  for  the  prosecution 
either  die  in  natural  course  or are  made 
away  with,  or  until  popular  indignation 
against  offenders  has  time  to  cool  down. 
Then  they  can  be  turned  loose  in  some 
quiet  way  which  can  always be provided 
under  the  forms  of  law.

is  not  strange  that  there  are  large 
sections  of  the  country,  not  excepting 
Louisiana,  where  the  criminal  and  po­
lice  laws  are  habitually  violated  with 
impunity,  and  the  violators,  no  matter 
how  serious  and  atrocious  the crime,  are 
able  to  defy  the  authorities. 
In  such 
districts  no  criminal  can  be  punished 
unless 
is  a  popular  uprising 
against  him.  Then  his  punishment  is 
certain,  no  matter  what  the  facts  are.

there 

settled 

PRO TECTIO N OF THE FUR SEALS.
Ever  since  the  award  of  the  Paris  ar­
bitration  tribunal  which 
the 
Behring  Sea  controversy  contrary  to  the 
claims  of  the  United  States,  the  Wash­
ington  Government  has  been  at  work 
endeavoring  tosecure  some  sort  of  an 
agreement  between  the  powers 
interest­
looking  to  the  better  protection  of 
ed 
seal  life.  Although  the  British  govern­
ment  maintained  several  cruisers  in  the 
Behring  Sea  for  two  seasons,  to  aid 
in 
enforcing  the  regulations  adopted  tem­
porarily  for  the  better  preservation  of 
the  seals,  a  stiong  disposition  has  been 
shown  during  the  past  few  years  not 
only  to  refrain  from  taking  any  part 
in 
the  regular  patrol  of  the  sealing  waters, 
but  also  to  place 
in  the  way  of  the 
proper  enforcement  of  the  restrictions 
upon  sealing  which  were  decided  upon 
immediately  after  the  Paris  award  as 
many  obstacles  as  possible.

The  refusal  of  Great  Britain  to  enter 
heartily  into  our  plans  for  the  preservat­
io n   of  the  seals  is  without  doubt  based

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upon  the  delay  experienced in collecting 
the  money  due  the  Canadian  sealers 
whose  vessels  were  seized  prior  to  the 
arbitration  proceedings. 
It  has  been 
hinted  at  very  broadly  that  until  these 
claims  are  paid,  Great  Britain  will  take 
no  active  part  in  protecting  the  seals.

Although  discouraged  at the small suc­
cess  which  has  been attained  in prevent­
ing  the  extermination  of  seal  life 
in 
Behring  Sea,  the  Washington  Govern­
ment  has  not  given  up  attempts  to bring 
about  an  understanding  between  the 
different  governments  having  interests 
in  the  sealing"grounds.  Mr.  John  W. 
Foster,  the  rep resen tat ivej  of  the  State 
Department,  who  is  now  in  Europe  for 
the  purpose  of  negotiating  an  agree­
ment  with  the  powers  interested  on  the 
subject  of  the  protection  of  seals,  an­
nounces  thatjhe  has  reached  a  satisfac­
tory  understanding  with ^Russia,  and 
that  he  will  now  seek  to  arrive  at  some 
sort  of  an  agreement  with Great Britain. 
Japan  has'already  expressed  a  readiness 
to  co-operate  with  us  in  protecting  the 
seals,  so  that  the  only  obstacle  which 
now  remains  to  be  overcome  is  the  dis­
inclination  of  the  English  government 
to  enter  into  any_agreement.

While  it  may  be  seriously  doubted 

if 
the  announcement of  a  satisfactory  ar­
rangement  with  Russia  is  a  diplomatic 
mode  of  procedure  in  approaching  ne­
gotiations^  with  Great  Britain,  still  the 
recent  good  feeling  which  appears  to 
have been established between this  coun­
try  and  our cousins  on  the  other  side  of 
the  Atlantic  may  serve  to  smooth  over 
any  unpleasant  remembrances  which 
in  connection  with 
may  still  remain 
very 
former  negotiations  upon 
troublesome  Behring  Sea  problem. 
It 
is  certainly  to  be  hoped  that  a  speedy 
solution  of  the  sealing  question  may  be 
reached,  as  the  whole  matter  has  been 
a  fruitful  source  of  annoyance and  mis­
understanding  for  more  than  a  decade 
past.

this 

In  exploiting  its  resources  Kansas 

is 
now  directing  attention  to  its  mineral 
deposits  and  their possibilities. 
It  pro­
duces  coal,  building  stone,  zinc,  salt, 
gypsum,  oil,  gas, 
cement,  mineral 
water  and  clay,  the  output  of  all  these 
in  1895  being  worth  about  $5,000,000. 
This  was  triple  the  output  of  1885,  and 
is  regarded  as"promising  much  for  the 
future.  The  State  stands  first  in  the 
production  of gypsum,  its  output  being 
more  than  double  the  combined  product 
of  all  the  other  states,  Michigan  ex­
cepted. 
is  eleventh  among  the  coal- 
producing  states,  eighth  in  oil  produc­
tion  and  fifth  in  gas,  having  an  oil  and 
gas area  of  9,000  square  miles.  Nearly 
a  million  and  a  half  barrels  of  salt 
is 
marketed  annually,  and  about  21,000 
tons  of  zinc.  The  zinc-bearing  ore  is 
very  rich,  the  yield  being  66.2-3  Per 
cent.

It 

Buy a Seller!

Sell a  Winner!

Win  a  Buyer!

IDEAL
cHi£&
Pillsbury  Flour 
Ideal  Cheese 
Old  Fashioned  Lard

A  new  bullet-proof  cloth  was  tried  on 
a  dog  at  the  Chicago  College  of  Dental 
Surgery  the  other  day,  and,  strange  to 
say,  the  dog  survived  the  test,  the  bul­
lets  failing  to  penetrate  the  cloth. 
It  is 
reported  that already  two  presidents  of 
South  American  republics  have  written 
for  samples  of  the  cloth,  and  self-meas­
urement  blanks.  The  cloth  is  to  be tried 
on  a  human  target  next.

the 
they  are  not 

What  is  wanted  by  young  men who are 
summer 
kept  on  salary  during 
actually 
months  when 
needed 
is  a  few  more  half  holidays. 
They  are  overworked.  The  salaries  for 
these  holidays  might  be  profitably given 
to  the  poor  and  willing  fellows  who 
have  no  positions,  in  which  they  can 
earn  money  while anxious  to  work.

Clark=JeweIl=Wells  Co.,

W estern  Michigan  Agents,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Woman’s World

The  Ideal  Hostess.

Opinions  differ  as  to  what  constitutes 
an 
ideal  hostess,  but  according  to  a 
number  of  society  women,  who  were  re­
cently  discussing  the  subject,  here  are 
some  of  the  indispensable  qualities  she 
must  possess:

She  must  make  you  feel 

individually 

that  you  are  the  favored  guest.

She  must  make  you  feel  perfectly  at 

home.

She  must  see  everything,  and  yet 
possess  the  art  of  seeming  to  see  noth­
ing.

She  must  never  look  bored.
She  must  be  able  to  hear  the  same 
story  over  a  hundred  different times,and 
still  be  competent  to  smile  approvingly 
at  the  right  point.

She  must  know  how  to  get  congenial 

people  together.

She  must  know  how  to  keep  discus­
sions  of  religion  and  politics  off  the 
carpet.

She  must  know  how  to  compliment  a 

guest’s  gown.

She  must  never  monopolize  the  con­

She  must  know  how to  let  people  be 

versation.

mistaken.

She  must  be  generous  enough  to  let 
other  people  have  different  opinions 
from  hers.

She  must  never  let anyone be  slighted 

or  overlooked.

She  must  know  when  to  ask  the  ama­
teur  musician  or  elocutionist  to  display 
their  talents.

She  must  never  dress  as  handsomely 

as  her guests.

She  must  be  perfectly  unselfish  about 

her  own  pleasures.

She  must  never  know  fatigue,  but be 
able  to  stand  and  smile,  “ Soglad  to  see 
you.  So  good  of  you  to  come, ’ ’  by  the 
hour.

She  must 

listen  courteously  to  the 

long-winded  talker.

She  must  not  neglect  her  guests,  nor 
yet  give  them  too  much  of  her  society.
She  must  remember  that  nothing  is  so 
tiresome,  so  surely  death  to  all  enjoy­
ment,  as  the  feeling  that  one  is  being 
entertained.

In  a  word,  the  ideal  hostess  must  pos­
sess  patience,  long-suffering  endurance, 
charity.

If  she  has  all  these  she  may  be  re­
warded  by  being  permitted  to  wag  her 
tongue  at  somebody  else's  tea,  when 
some  other  woman  is  the  martyr to  so­
cial  conventions. 

D o roth y  D ix .

What  a  Woman  Can  Do.

The  wonderful  popularity  of  the bi­
cycle  for  the  use  of  women  as  well  as 
for  men  calls  attention  to  the  physical 
powers  of  the  (supposedly)  weaker  sex. 
In  this  connection  the  humorous  pic­
ture  drawn  by  Bob  Burdette,  the  hu­
morist,  is  good  enough,  and  has  perti­
nence  enough  to  be  reproduced  in  its 
entirety.  True,  she  cannot  sharpen  a 
pencil,  and,  outside  of  commercial  cir­
cles,  she  cannot  tie  a  package  to  make 
it  look 
like  anything  save  a  crooked 
cross  section  of  chaos;  but  land  of  mir­
acles !  see  what  she  can  do with a pin !  I 
believe  there  are  some  women  who  can 
pin  a  glass  knob  on  a  door.  She cannot 
walk  so  many  miles  around  a  billiard 
table  with  nothing  to  eat  and  nothing 
(to  speak  of)  to  drink,  but  she  can  walk 
the  floor  all  night  with  a  frettul  baby 
without going  sound asleep  the  first  half 
hour.  She  can  ride  500  miles  without I

going  into  the  smoking  car  to  rest  (and 
get  away  from  the  children).  She  can 
go  to  town  and  do  a  wearisome  day’s 
shopping  and  have  a  good  time  with 
three  or  four  friends  without  drinking 
a  keg  of  beer.  She  can  enjoy  an  even­
ing  visit  without  smoking  a  half  dozen 
cigars.  She  can  endure  the  torturing 
distraction  of  a  houseful  of  children  all 
day,  while  her  husband  cuffs  them  all 
howling  to  bed  before  he has  been  home 
an  hour.  Every  day  she  endures  a  dress 
that  would  make  an  athlete swoon.  She 
will  not,  and  possibly  cannot,  walk  500 
miles  around  a  tan-bark  track,  in  six 
days,  for $5,000,  but  she  can  walk  200 
miles  in  ten hours,  up and down crowded 
aisles  of  a  dry  goods  store  when  there 
is  a  reduction  sale  on.  She  hath  no 
skill  at  fence,  and  knoweth  not  bow  to 
spar,  but  when  she  javelins  a  man  in 
the  ribs,  in  a  Christmas  crowd,  that 
man’s  whole  family  howls. 
is 
afraid  of  a  mouse  and  runs  from  a  cow, 
but  a  book  agent  can’t  scare  her.  She 
is  the  salt  of  the  church,  the  pepper  of 
the  choir,  the  life  of  the  sewing  society 
and  about  all  there  is  of  a  young  ladies' 
school,  or  a  nunnery.

She 

D o roth y  D ix .

if  she 

The  Unwholesomeness of Jealousy.
One  of  the  commonest  kinds  of  a pace 
that  kills  is  jealousy.  A  jealous  woman, 
in  common  with  every  other  creature 
who  dissipates,  if  she  encourages  that 
jealousy,  defeats  her  own  object.  Take 
the  woman  who  by  habit  is  suspiciously 
watchful  of  her husband  and  the  women 
he  meets.  She  fears  these  other  women 
may  usurp  her  place  in  his  admiration, 
respect,  affection,  etc.  And 
is 
unwise,  as  many  jealous  women  are, 
she  thinks and  says  irritating  things  re­
flecting  upon  the  man’s  probity  and  the 
women’s  looks,  tempers  and  characters. 
The  physicians  say  that  the  entertain­
ment  of  jealousy  really  has  a  disorgan­
izing  effect  upon  the  body  and  certainly 
it  is  disturbing  to  the  mind.  A  jealous 
woman,  who  may  have  been  lovely  as  a 
May  morning,  through 
indulgence  of 
her  fears  begins  to  become,  from  the 
moment at  which  she  first  suspects,  the 
very  object  which  will  drive  away  her 
husband’s  regard.  Jealousy  guarantees 
biliousness.  Biliousness  makes bad tem­
per,  cross  words.  These,  too,  are  dis­
turbing  to  the  cook,  and  she  sends  bad 
food  to  the  table.  The  man  can’t  eat  it, 
and  his  business  goes  wrong  all  day.  A 
jealous,  bilious  woman  is  a  bad mother. 
She  upsets  the  children,  and  money  has 
to  be  paid  out  for  medicine  for  them. 
Domestic  jealousy  is  a  pace  that  kills. 
Professional  or  business  jealousy  kills. 
The  woman  who  whispers  a  convenient 
detrimental  word  about  an associate into 
the  ear of  her  patron  or  employer  may 
benefit  for  a  day. 
In  the  end,  he  con­
cludes  that  she  is  untrustworthy.

Women’s  Way.

“ But,”   persisted  the  reformer,  “ you 
must  admit  that  women  have  never 
bought 
legislatures  and  common  coun­
cils  as  men  do. ”

The  man 
laughed  a  hard,  mirthless 
“ No,”   he  gloomily  replied  after  a 
moment;  “ women  just  go  around  pric­
ing  things. ”

laugh.

At  the  China  beet  sugar  factory 

in 
Riverside  county,  Cal.,  work  has  been 
begun  on  what  will  be  the  largest  mill 
in  the  world. 
It  will  be  1,600x40x20 
feet,  and  it  will  hold  enough  salted  beet 
pulp  to  stall-feed  7,000  head  of  cattle. 
It  will  have  the  largest  silo in the world. 
The  pulp  will  be  carried  from  the  fac­
tory  to  the  silo  by  a  motor engine.

Curiously  enough,  neither  in  classics 
nor  in  mathematics  this  year  have  the 
women  students  at  Cambridge  won  a 
place 
It  is  the  first 
for  many  years  that  there  have  not  been 
both  women  wranglers  and  also  first 
classes  in  classics.

in  the  first  class. 

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proved  yourself  to  be  in  mine!”   More 
she  would  have  said  but  the  rushing 
tears  stopped  her  and  she  threw  herself 
sobbing  upon  the  cushions  in  the  win­
dow.

Only  once  had  Cy  made  an  effort  to 
stay  the  storm ;  and,  when  he  found  it 
useless,  he  listened  quietly  until  he  was 
startled  and  stung  by  the  cruel  words  of 
the  offended  woman.  Then,  with  a  com­
posure  hardly  in  keeping  with  what  was 
going  on  within,  he  stood  with  folded 
arms  listening  until  Jane  sank  sobbing 
in  the  window.

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JANE  CRAGIN.

Jane  Is  Obdurate 

nation.
Written for the  T rad esm an.

in  Her  Determi­

I  cannot  tell  you,  Cy,  how  sorry— 
how  very  sorry— I  am  for  you. 
1  did 
not  know— I  could  not  know—that  this 
idea  had  so  taken  possession  of  you  un­
til  now.  Long ago—so  long  ago  it  seems 
to  me  now,  when  you  asked  me  this 
same  question,  I  told you—and I  thought 
you  believed  me—that  such'  a  thing 
never  could  be.  Since  then,  except 
it  has  been  forced  upon  me,  I 
when 
it  no  thought,  and  I  have 
have  given 
supposed  that 
it  was  settled  forever. 
That  I  have  for  you  a  regard,  an  affec­
tion 
if  I  may  call  it  that,  deep,  lasting 
and  unchangeable.  I  shall  not  deny,  for 
I  have  never  tried  to  conceal  it. 
In 
season  and  out  of  season, it  has  been  my 
constant  aim  and  pleasure  to  think  of 
you  and  do  for you,  in  every  possible 
way,  whatever  I  could  to  repay,  so  far 
as  these  things  can  be  repaid,  the  great 
obligations  which  I  gladly  and  freely 
acknowledge.  But,  Cyrus,  I  have  . not 
intentionally  done  these  things  except 
with  the  desire  to  let  you  see how  grate­
ful  I  am  to  you  for  your unlimited kind­
ness  to  me. 
I  can  see  now  how  easy  it 
has  been,  feeling  as  you  do,  for these 
attentions  on  my  part  to  be  misunder­
stood  and—and  misconstrued;  but  I  am 
sure  you  will  not  be  so  unjust  as  to  at­
tribute  them  to  anything  but  the  one 
great  desire  to  make  your  coming  and 
your  stay  here  a  constant  enjoyment. 
You  will  admit  this  much,  won’t  you?”  

“ Why,  yes;  but,  Jane— ”
“ Don’t 

interrupt  me,  Cy. 

If,  after 
all  these  years,  when  I  thought  we  were 
reading  each  other  like  so  many  open 
books,  we  have  been  deceived,  let  us 
understand  each  other  at  last. 
I,  more 
than  anyone  else,  know  that  you  have 
some  of  the  noblest  qualities  a  genuine 
manhood  possesses. 
I  need  not  run 
through  the  long  list. 
I  need  not  say 
that  I  never  expect  to  find  them  again 
so  fairly  embodied;  but,  Cyrus,  do  you 
not  see—do  you  not  know—that,  unless 
all  these  qualities  appeal  to  my  heart, 
they  awaken  in  me  only  a  great admira­
tion  for  them  and  for  you.  The  fault 
must  be  in  me  that  they  do not;  but that 
they  do  not  prevents  me  from  being  to 
you  more  than  the  dear  friend  I  have 
been  trying  to  be  for  so  many  years.

‘ ‘ With  only  this  admiration  you  must 
see  how  your  treatment  of  me  here  has 
shocked  me— I  cannot  reconcile  it  with 
the  great  love  you  say  you  have  for  me. 
Does  great 
love  so  change  all  that  is 
noble  in  a  man  as  to  make  him  forget 
his  honor and,  worse  than  that,  to  make 
him  believe  that  the  object  of  his 
love 
is  equally  forgetful  of  hers?  Since  my 
own  engagement  to  Dr.  Day  and  yours 
to  Miss  Marchland,  I  am  conscious  of 
less  restraint 
in  my  manner  towards 
you,  because  I  have  had  a  right  to  be­
lieve  that  those  pledges  on  your  part 
and  on  mine  were  equally  sacred  to 
both.  In  the  eye  of  Heaven  the wedding 
ring  is  on  my  finger,  as 
is  on  Mar­
jory’s ;  and  yet  her  husband  has  made 
proposals  to  me  to-day  which  he  could 
not  repeat  in  her  presence without hang­
ing  his  head  in  shame,  and  he  has  done 
this 
in  the  belief  that  I  could  be  as 
faithless  to  my  vows  as  he  has  been  to 
the  woman  whom  he  pretends  to  love. 
O,  Cy,  how mistaken I have been  in you !
I  have  believed  you  to  be  the  soul  of 
honor  and  of  all  uprightness,  and  have 
tried,  in  my  daily  living,  to  be  your 
equal  in  these,  only  to  find  that  I  am  as 
base, 
in  your  opinion,  as  you  have

it 

He  waited  until  the  sobs  ceased  and 
then,  with  a  gasp  in  his  voice  he  could 
not  control,  he  said:  “ lane,  I  did  not 
think  that  loving  you  could  ever  be  a 
crime— I  do  not  think  so  now;  and, 
even  if  I  have  sunk  so  low  in  your  es­
teem  as  you  say  I  have,  the  fault  lies 
not  in  the  love,  but  in  the  abuse  of 
it. 
There,  if 
it  be  one,  is  the  crime,  and 
even  you,  my accuser,  shall be  the  judge 
whether  the  temptation  has  not  been  too 
great  for  mere  mankind  to  resist;  and  I 
am  only  that. 
I  need  not  tell  you  when 
my  love  for  you  began,  nor  need  I  tell 
you  how 
it  has  grown  with  my  growth 
and  strengthened  with  my  strength  dur­
ing  all  these  long,  long  years—so  many, 
Jane,  that 
it  wearies  me  to  count  them 
—until 
it  mastered  my  judgment,  my 
•reason—me—and  has  made  me  as  help­
less  as  a  child.  While  there  was  no 
danger  of  losing  you,  it  was  easy  for 
me  to  believe  that sometime—even years 
counted  as  nothing  then—I  should  have 
my  heart’s  desire ;  but,  when  I  saw  all 
that  I  care  for  drifting  away  from  me, 
and  that  somebody  else  could  have  for 
the  asking  what  I  would  go  through  fire 
and  flood  to  have  for  my  very  own,  it 
has been,  it  is—more  than I  can  endure. 
It  is  no  wonder,  when  hope  was  giving 
way  to  despair, 
of 
everything  that  should  have  held  me 
back, I  should  have turned my back upon 
‘ honor and  all  uprightness’  to  make  one 
last  appeal  for  what  God  knows  is  mine 
and  ought  to  be  mine!  This,  Jane,  is 
the  sum  of  my  offending;  and,  even  if 
there  were  more,  I  know  that  your  own 
heart  tells  you  that  for  me  to  have  said 
less,  done  less—yes,  wanted  less—would 
have  been  a  greater  wrong  to  us  both; 
and,  in  spite  of  what  you  have  said,  in 
spite  of  your  vows  and  of  mine,  I  tell 
you,  Jane,  that  love,  like  virtue, 
like 
godliness,  is  never  so  fierce  as  when 
grappling  with  despair.  Where  this  is 
to  end,  God  only  knows;  but,  O,  the 
worthlessness,  the  aimlessness,  of  life 
without  you,  Jane!  And  the 
living,  as 
‘ see  my  happiness 
I  must 
through  another’s  eyes!’ 
Perhaps  1 
have  deserved  this.  Perhaps  my  over­
weaning  conceit  has  needed 
just  this 
humiliation—and  above  all  the  accusa­
tion—of  being  faithless  to  my  vows  and 
believing  you  to  he  as  ‘ base’  as  1.  But 
we  will  leave  that  question  to  the  Read­
er  of  Hearts. 
I  shall  not  fear  His judg­
‘ Greater  love  hath  no  man  than 
ment. 
this, 
life 
for  his  friends;’  and,  Jane,  remember 
that  mine 
is  ready  for  you  when  that 
ime  comes. ”
He  could  go  no  further.  The  glance 

lay  down  his 

that  a  man 

forgetful 

that, 

live, 

to 

at  Jane,  whose  face  was  still  buried 
it  all  the  loving 
the  cushions,  had 
tenderness  that  filled  his  heart  to  over­
flowing ;  and  then,  with  a  sadness  which 
a  man  never  feels  but  once,  he  went  to 
his  own  room.

in 

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

Air  can  now  be  easily  liquified,  but 
according  to  the  American  Machinist, 
the  difficulty  of  putting  it  to  any  prac­
tical  use  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  must  be 
stored  and  transmitted  at  a  temperature 
of  more  than  200 degrees  below  zero.

1 2

M ANISTEE  SALT.

How  It 

Is  Made—Magnitude  of  the 

Industry.

Sylvan  Beach,  July  4— If  any question 
still  exists  as  to  the  exact  location  of 
the  Garden  of  Eden,  I  am now  prepared 
to  settle  it.  Of  course,  it  has  long  been 
conceded  that  somewhere  within  the 
boundaries  of  Michigan 
lay  this  ideal 
spot,  in  which  the  young  couple  whom 
we  call  our  first  parents  set  up  house­
keeping,  but  just  where  has  never  been 
definitely  determined,  Mackinac Island, 
Niles,  Harbor  Point  and  Traverse  City 
each  laying  claim  to  the  honor.  Now, 
however,  all  doubts  are  dispelled,  for  I 
am  ready  to  prove  that  it  was  here  at 
Sylvan  Beach  that  Father  Adam  and 
Mother  Eve  spent  their  honeymoon. 
Certainly,  a  more  romantic  or  pictur­
esque  spot  could  not  be 
imagined. 
Grand  old  Lake  Michigan  washes  the 
beach  upon  the  one  side;  upon  the 
other,  White  Lake  ripples 
in  tender 
curving  lines  of  creamy  spray.  The 
point  of  land lying between the two lakes 
is  about  two  miles  long  and  hardly more 
than  a  quarter  of  a  mile  wide.  This 
point  rises above  Lake  Michigan  some 
seventy  feet  and  declines  gently  to  the 
beach  of  White  Lake.  The  crest  is 
crowned  with  towering  pines, 
through 
whose  glossy  plumes  the  winds  sigh 
softly,  and  on  the  slopes  toward  White 
Lake  wide-spreading  elms  and  beech 
trees  make  long  cool  tunnels  of  living
green.  The  sun 
is  winnowed  through 
the  heavy  foliage  until  it  falls  cool upon 
the  carpet  of  brown  leaves  under  foot. 
As one gazes  out  over  Lake  Michigan 
it  seems  to  melt  away  in  the  far  dis­
tance  and  become  absorbed  in  the  sky. 
Looking  across  the  little  space,one  sees 
White  Lake  glittering  in  the  morning 
sun;  the  green  fields  which 
its 
banks  are tender  and  cool  looking ;  gen­
tle  slopes  rise and  fall  in  the  distance, 
the  perfume  of  thousands  of  wild  flow­
ers  greets  the  nostril;  a  quiet  pervades 
all—a 
friendly  silence—which  seems 
comprehending  and  in  harmony  with all 
the  nobler  aspirations  of  one’s  heart 
In  such  a  spot  one  must leave behind  all 
strife  and  worry and  blind  rushing  after 
hateful  dollars  The  bounteous  peace 
which  Nature  alone  can  give  to  the  hu­
man  heart  takes  possession  of  all  one’s 
faculties  and  one  readily  acquiesces 
in 
the  old  Pagan  belief  that  God  is  the 
soul  and  permeates  all  creation.

line 

To  be  permitted  to  spend  a  few  days 
in  this  ideal  spot  is,indeed.a  privilege, 
and  that  one  of  those  days  should  be 
the  blessed  Sabbath,  and  another  that 
one  almost  as  sacred  to  every  American 
little  vacation  doubly 
heart,  makes  my 
appreciated. 
I  would  have  gladly  de­
voted  every  moment  to  gazing  lazily  out 
over  the  lakes,  but  dear  friends  had 
many  plans  to  crowd  into  my  brief  stay 
all  the  happiness  possible:  a  hop  at 
the  new  hotel,  a  row  up  the old  channel 
after  pond 
lilies,  from  which  we  re­
turned  laden  with  those  most  beautiful 
of  all  flowers;  an  excursion  to  Mich-ill- 
ind-a,  another  resort  a  couple  of  miles 
up  the  beach,  occupied  b y   people  from 
Michigan,  Illinois  and  Indiana,  who

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

have  named  their  summer  resting  place 
in  equal  honor  of  the  three  states,  using 
the abbreviation  of  each,  thus  making  a 
very  pretty  as  well  as  high-sounding 
name,  then, 
last,  a  fishing  trip,from 
which  all  save  myself  came  home  with 
long  strings  of  black  bass  and  perch, 
while  I,who  sacrificed  a  dczen  minnows 
and  poor  worms  beyond  number,  never 
even  got  a  nibble. 
1  was  reminded  of 
the  startling  resemblance  a  fisherman 
bears  to  a  traveling  man—and,  also, 
how  like business  is to  fishing.

to 

unable 

Speaking  of  business,  reminds  me 
also  that 
it  has  many  bright  sides  and 
considerable  profit  outside  the  exact  re­
sults;  and  even  though  one doesn’t catch 
any  fish,  one  may  at  least  learn  how 
others  catch  them,  if  one  takes  advan­
tage  of  opportunities.  Apropos  of  the 
above  wise  remark,  I  want  to  relate  a 
pleasant  and  profitable  experience 1  had 
iast  week,  the  result  of  my  wish  to  see 
how  other  “ fishermen  fished.”  
I  was 
in  Manistee—that  city of which  so  many 
good  things  could  be  said—and  my 
search  for  orders  led  me  to  the  store  of 
Buckley  &  Douglass.  While  waiting  for 
the  buyer,  I 
listened  dreamily  to  the 
throbbing  of  the  great  pumps  which 
draw  the  brine  up  in  the  salt  wells. 
Suddenly  the  thought  came,  How  is  salt 
made?  Here  was an opportunity to learn, 
and  glad  I  am  that  I  took  advantage  of 
it.  My  request  to  be  shown  through 
the'salt  block—just  why  called  block  I 
am 
say—was  graciously 
granted  by  Mr.  Peterson,  who  placed 
at  my  disposal  the  foreman,  who  was 
most  obliging  and  courteous. 
I  had  ex­
ceedingly  vague  ideas  as  to  where  this 
plentiful  and  useful  commodity  came 
from  or  how  it  was  produced.  To  me 
salt  had  always  been  just salt,and dread­
ful  bad 
luck  to  spill,  and  a  thing  into 
which  overly  curious  women were  likely 
to  be  turned",  like  Lot’s  wife.  Then,  in 
my  childhood  I  thought  it  good  to  catch 
birds  with,  my old  nurse  having  told  me 
that,  if  I  could  put  salt  on  the  bird’s 
tail,  I  could  easily  catch  it. 
I  remem­
ber  many  a  long  chase  I’ve  given  the 
birds  with  a  pinch  of  salt  between  my 
fingers.  Now,  however,  I  have  learned 
more  concerning  this  mineral  than  I 
ever  dreamed to know,and  an interesting 
study  it  was. 
I  was  first  shown  the 
pumps  which  draw  the brine  from  the 
wells,  which  are  from  2,000 to  2,010 feet 
in depth,being  driven  for  about  700  feet 
through  sand  and  hardpan.  At  this 
depth  small  pockets  of  oil  and  veins  of 
gas  are  found.  Next,  a  solid  rock  a 
thousand  feet 
in  thickness  must  be 
drilled  through.  No  piping  is  required 
through  the  rock,  which, 
I  presume, 
compensates  in  a  measure  for  the  extra 
labor  required  to  penetrate  it.  Below 
the  rock  is  encountered  what 
is  known 
as  “ caving  rock  ’ ’  which  is  porous  and 
full  of  cracks  and  causes  much  trouble. 
Passing  this, 
is 
salt 
reached.  This  varies  in  thickness  from 
twenty  to  thirty 
is  then 
pumped 
into  the  well  to  wash  out  or 
form  a  pocket.  After  this,  however, 
the  natural  flow  of  water  on  the  sides  of 
the  well  is  sufficient  to  keep  the  pumps 
going  twenty-four  hours  a  day,  pump­
ing  up  a  brine  that  contains  in  solution

the  strata  of 

feet.  Water 

into  pans, 

33  per  cent,  of  salt.  This  brine  is 
pumped 
into  vast  tanks  called  “ set­
tlers,”   some  of  which  will  hold  3,000 
barrels.  From  these  tanks  the  brine 
is 
conveyed 
through  which 
steampipes  are  run,  raising  the  tem­
perature  to  170 degrees.  This  heat  pre­
cipitates  the  salt  to  the bottom  of  the 
pans.  When  full  the  salt  is  drawn  out 
by  great  hoes  in  the hands  of  men  who 
work  stripped  to  the  waist—so 
intense 
the  heat and  heavy  the  task—and  after 
being  taken  from  the  pans  it 
is  loaded 
into  small  cars  and  drawn  to great  stor­
age  bins,  where  it  lays  white and  beau­
tiful  as  snow.  The tank  room  was filled 
with  steam  that  almost  blinded  me,  and 
was so  hot  that  the  perspiration  dripped 
from  every  pore,  strong  with  the  odor 
of  sulphurous  gases.  The  forms  of  a 
hundred  half-naked  men,  flitting  about 
in  the  misty  white  steam,  brandishing 
their  hoes,  which  one  could  imagine  to 
be  the  pitchforks  with  which  the 
la­
borers 
in  hades  are  presumed  to  be 
armed,  made  Dantes’  Inferno  seem  an 
easy  possibility  and  I  was  not  sorry  to 
quit  the  scene,  interesting  as  it  was.

My  kind  guide  next  conducted  me 
to  the  cooper  shop,  where  things  looked 
more  everyday  but  were  hardly  less  in­
teresting.  Here  are  made  the  2,000 
barrels  daily  necessary  to  pack  the 
product  of  this  block.  The  staves  and 
heads  are  also  made  here,  the  hoops 
only  being  procured  elsewhere. 

in 

salt 

concerning 

Emerging  from 

the  cooper  shop  and
looking  back  over  this  mammoth  plant 
which  covers  nearly  two  acres,  1  felt 
how 
little  I  knew  and  how  much  there 
was  yet  to  learn,  and  I  determined  to 
master every  salt  well  in  Manistee,  so  I 
took  a  car  to  Eastlake, where are  located 
the  five  wells  of  the  R.  G.  Peters  Salt  & 
Lumber  Co.  This  block 
is  said  to be 
the  largest  in  the  world,  covering  over 
two  acres,  employing  nearly  or  quite 
1,000  men  in  the  (lifferent  departments 
ot  the  business.  Mr.  Henry  W.  Carey, 
the  Secretaty  and  Treasurer  of  the  com­
pany,  gave  me  much  interesting 
infor­
mation 
in  general. 
Among  other  facts,  he  stated  as  his 
opinion  that  the  salt  strata  underlying 
Manistee  was  the  bed  of  an  old  ocean 
which  existed 
some  pre-historic 
time.  He  also  explained  the different 
processes  of  making  salt and  gave  me 
some  statistics  as  to  the  amount  of  salt 
produced 
The  grainer 
process 
is  that  I  have  described,  only 
that  I  was  told,  butter  or cotton  seed  oil 
is  spread  over  the  surface  of  the  brine 
to  break  the  coating  and  precipitate  the 
salt  faster,  this  making 
it  finer.  The 
more  slowly 
it  is  made  the  coarser the 
grain  or  crystal..  This  process  is  more 
costly,  as  it  requires  more  steam,  hence 
many of the blocks are putting in vacuum 
pans,  in  which 
it  only  requires  125  to 
130  degrees  of  heat  to  precipitate  the 
salt,  while  in  the  open  grainer  pan  it 
requires  170 degrees.  This  vacuum  pan 
is  difficult  of  description  to  one  not 
learned  in  mechanics. 
It  looks  to be  a 
great  iron  drum,  in  which  the  brine  is 
kept  in  constant  agitation  and  the salt is 
precipitated  into a hopper  in  the  bottom 
of  it.  Through  this  buckets  on  an  end­
less  chain  arrangement  run,  carrying

in  Manistee. 

the  salt  directly to  the  storage bins,  thus 
saving  labor  as  well  as  steam.

The  solar process  consists  in  exposing 
the  brine 
in  the  sun  in  bright  weather 
and  keeping  the  vats  closed  during 
rainy  weather.  This  process  is  not  used 
in  Michigan  at  all,  except 
in  Saginaw 
county  by  two companies.

Worthington  D.  Hooker,  in  his  Min­
“ Salt  is 
eralogy  and  Geology,  says: 
composed  of  chlorine  and  sodium,  two 
elements  which  never  appear  uncom­
bined.”   This mineral is very  thoroughly 
in  the  earth,  mostly,  however, 
diffused 
in 
solution,  nearly  one-thirtieth  of 
all  the  water  in  the  seas  being  common 
salt,  especially  Salt  Lake  and  the  Dead 
and  Caspian Seas.  One-fifth of the  water 
of  Salt  Lake 
is  pure  salt  and  the  pro­
portion  is  even  greater  in  the  waters  of 
the  Dead  Sea.

In  Poland,  Hungary,  Sicily  and  Swit­
zerland  there  are  many  salt  mines where 
the  solid  mineral  is  found.  The  exten­
sive  mines  at  Cracow  are celebrated  for 
their  magnitude,  and 
below 
the  surfaces  chapels  and  halls  are  made 
from  the  salt,  the  pillars  and  altars 
being  hewn  from  the  salt,  which,  when 
illuminated,  must  present  a  magnificent 
appearance. 
In  Northern  Africa  there 
are  hills of  salt.

away 

In  America  most  of  the  salt  is  pro­
cured  from  wells,  the  salt 
lying  too 
deep  to be  mined.  The  states  produ­
cing  salt  are  Illinois,  Louisiana,  Texas, 
New  York,  Ohio,  Kansas  and Michigan. 
Our  State  ranks  second 
in  the  amount 
produced,  the  output  of  1895-96 being 
3,343,395  barrels,  valued  at  $1,048,251, 
while  New  York’s  output  was 6,832,331, 
Thus 
valued  at  $1,943,398. 
it  would 
appear  that  Michigan  salt  averages  a 
higher  grade  than  any 
in  the  United 
States,  as  our  income  is  proportionately 
greater than  New  York.
The  principal  exports  of  salt  pass 
through  the  port  of  San  Francisco  to 
Central  America,  Mexico,  the  Hawaiian 
Islands,  Japan  and  Asiatic  Russia.  The 
leading 
imports  come  from  Italy  and 
England.  These,  however,  have  shown 
a  steady  decrease since 1881,  remarkably 
noticeable  in  the  imports  of  refined salt, 
due  in  a  great  measure  to  the 
improve­
ments  recently  inaugurated  in  the  man­
ufacture  of  table  and  dairy  salt  by 
American  producers,  which have  placed 
the  domestic  product  on  a  line  if  not 
ahead  of  the  salt  of  foreign  makers. 
This  fact  is  now  recognized  by  most  of 
the  leading  dairymen,  and  the 
idea 
which  the  Thurbers  and  other  Eastern 
jobbers  tried to  promulgate—that  no  salt 
save  English  was  fit  for  butter— is  prov­
en  a  fallacy.  Salt  was  placed  upon  the 
free  list 
in  1894.  The  act  provided, 
however,  that  while  the  salt  was  free, 
when  shipped  in  bags  or  other  package, 
the  covering  should  pay  duty;  also  that 
salt  imported from  countries  imposing  a 
duty  on  salt  should  likewise  pay  a  duty 
on  that  which  they  sent  us.

In  looking  over  the  enormous  amount 
of  salt  produced,  and  considering  the 
small  amount  I  consume,  I  was  filled 
with  wonder as  to what becomes of it all. 
The  R.  G.  Peters  Salt  &  Lumber  Co. 
alone  produces  2,000  barrels  per  day; 
like  amount;
Buckley  &  Douglass  a 

T H E   “ P E E R L E S S ”

IS  T H E   B E S T

G EO R G E  L.  MOODY.

D E A L E R   IN

BBii

Fancy  Family  Groceries,  Teas  and  Coffees,

N.  W. Corner Washington and  M arket Sts.

FOLDING BATH TUB CO.,

Marshall.  Mich.

I H e te v o tm r g ,  tp a ., 

j„n e 24, ’97.

w .  . ,   ^ am conhdent that the sum invested in these pieces of furniture  was weU expended. 
Wishing yon much success, and hoping to hear from you again lam

Respectfully

RGE L.  MOODY.

FOLDING B A T H  TUBOO., p a t e n t e e s   a n d  s o l e   m a n u f a c t u r e r s .  M A R S H A L , MICH.

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Louis  Sands  from  his  six  wells produces 
as  much,  Manistee  alone  having  put  out 
1,416,709 barrels  per  annum. 
In  reply 
to  my  enquiry  as  to  the  uses  to  which 
salt  is  put,  aside  from  the  ordinary,  I 
was  told  that  large  quantities  are  used 
in  curing  hides  and  skins  and  in  mak­
ing  glass,  and  the  encyclopaedia  gives 
about  twenty  different  uses,  which  I was 
unable  to  look  up.  One  gentleman  to 
whom  I  propounded the question assured 
me  that 
is  used  for 
money,  so  one  need  not  be  surprised  to 
hear  of  “ free  salt”   becoming  an  issue 
at  some  of  their  elections  over  there.
E mma  L.  A l l e n .

in  Abyssinia  salt 

How  a  Good  Deed  Was  Rewarded 

after  Many  Days.

Written for the T r ad esm an.

“ I  want  a  sack  of  flour  and  I  want  to 

pay  the  money  for  it.”

1  knew 

it  was  a  woman’s  voice,  but 
my  head  was  inside  of  a  nearly  empty 
cracker  barrel,  from  which  I  was  at­
tempting  to  All  a  paper  bag. 
I  raised 
up  and  glanced  toward  the speaker.  She 
was  plainly  dressed  and  a  weary,  care­
worn  expression  was noticeable upon her 
face. 
I  knew  the  woman,  who  was  a 
widow  with  one  child  and  resided  in the 
village.  She  had  been  a  customer  of 
ours  for  a  year  or  more,  not  always  pay­
ing  spot cash,  however,  but  was  nearly 
square  on  the  ledger  at  that  time.

I  was  only  a  boy  in  my  teens,  and 
had  been  told  by  my  employer  not  to 
credit  her  “ if  I  could  possibly  avoid 
it.”   It  was  somewhat  doubtful just  what 
those  last  words  meant,  as  I  did  oc­
casionally  exercise  my  personal  judg­
ment  in  the  matter  of  credits,  and  thus 
far had  never  been  censured  for  it.

“ How  much  flour will  you  have,  Mrs. 

Jones?”  I  asked.

“ As  I  will  carry 

it  home  myself, 
twenty-five  pounds  will  answer  at  pres­
ent, ”   was  the  reply.

I  placed  on  the  counter a  sack  and 
the  woman  at  once  threw  it  over  her 
shoulder  and  started  toward  the  door.

“ I  thought  you  said  you  wanted  to 
pay  the  money  for  that  flour?”   I  called 
out.

“ I  do  want  to  pay  it— never  was  more 
anxious  to  pay  for  anything  in  all  my 
life—but  the  truth  is  I  have  no  money 
to-day  and  you  will  have  to  charge  it  to 
me  this  time. ”

“ You  know  we  are  not  giving  any 
credit  now,  Mrs.  Jones,”   I  said  kindly.
* * I  know  that, ’ *  the  woman  answered, 
as  she  removed  the  bag 
from  her 
shoulder  and  placed 
it  on  the  floor, 
while  her  eyes  were  suffused  with  tears, 
“ but  there 
is  just  this  about  it— my 
child  and  I,  without  food  any  longer, 
will  starve  to  death,  and  I  must  have  a 
sack  of  flour,  and  you  must  give  me 
credit,  or  I  will  steal  the flour!”

Did  she  ever  pay  for 

“ I  would  not  like  to hear of  your  do­
ing  that,  Mrs.  Jones.”  I answered,  “ and 
therefore  you  may  take the  flour home. ”
it?  Listen, 
while  I  tell  you  what  occurred :  I made 
the  debit  entry  of  that flour to  myself 
instead  of  the  woman,  that  I  might 
avoid  blame  for  disobeying  orders,  and 
a  few  weeks  afterward  found  that  the 
woman  had  received  a  letter  from  the 
postoffice,  and  then  almost  immediately 
disappeared,  no  one  knew  where.

I  was  the  victim  of  misplaced  confi­
I  paid  for  the  flour  when  I 

dence! 
settled  with  my  employer.

*   *  

*

Sixteen  years  more  were added  to  my 
length  of 
life  and,  with  the  money  1 
had  earned  and  saved,  together  with 
$1,500  bequeathed  me  by  a  near rela­
tive,  I  found  myself  sole  proprietor  of  a 
dry  goods  store 
in  a  distant  state. 
Times  were good,  prices  of  everything

inflated  and  all  kinds  of^business  pros­
perous. 
I  was  doing  well.  But  youth 
is  apt  to  be  overconfident  and  grasping. 
I  was  in  haste to  amass  wealth  and  had 
drawn  upon  my  good  name  and  credit 
to  the  farthest  limit,  packing  my  store 
with  goods  at  their  highest  tide,  when 
suddenly,  and  almost  without  warning 
to  the  financial  world, 
the  markets 
changed  and  everything  tended  down­
ward,  daily  sales  fell  to  one-third  the 
former  amount,  and  within  the  short 
space  of  six  months  I  could  not  obtain 
more  than  40  per  cent,  of  the  original 
cost  of  my  stock. 
I  was  practically 
bankrupt  unless  relief  came  from  some 
unexpected  quarter. 
Providentially,  it 
came.

*  *  *
is  Fletcher,  and  you 
formerly  were  from  Mapleton,  Vermont, 
were  you  not?”   asked  a  bronzed  and 
bearded  middle-aged  man  whom  I  rec­
ognized  as  an  occasional  cash  customer 
for  two  or  three  months  back.

“ Your  name 

“ You  are  right,”   I  answered,  smil­
ingly;  “ and  I  have  also  learned  that 
yours  is  Jones,  although  our  acquaint­
ance  is  only  a  business  one.”

The  man  had  turned  toward  the  front 
door  and  was  beckoning  to  a  lady  to 
come  in.  Under any other circumstances
I  should  not  have  recognized  the  lady 
as  mv  customer of  years ago,  now  rich­
ly  but  plainly  attired,  and  evidently 
much  agitated  by  conflicting  emotions, 
as  her  husband  said,  “ Mr.  Fletcher,  al­
low  me  to 
introduce  you  to my  wife, 
Mrs.  Jones.  We  are  indebted  to  you  for 
her  life  and  that of  our  child  years  ago 
when  I  was  in  Australia  and  she  a  resi­
dent  of  Mapleton  and  a 
supposed 
widow.  Fortune  favcred  me afld  to-day 
I  am  an 
independent  capitalist.  We 
have  learned  of  your  present  financial 
straits,  and  beg  you  to  accept  our  check 
for $5,000,  which  we  hope  will  tide  you 
over  and  cause  you 
remain  our 
neighbor  and  friend  the  balance  of  our 
lives.  We  shall  not  even  miss  this—to 
us—trifling  sum  of  money,  and  may God 
bless  you  for  befriending  the  starving 
and  fatherless!”

to 

I  was  the  guest  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jones  and  their  daughter—now  a  young 
lady—that evening,  and  will  say  that  I 
signed  a  note  of  hand  drawn  by  Mr. 
Jones  for  the  sum  of  $5,000,  without  in­
terest,  payable  to  bis  lawful  heirs  sixty 
years  after  date!  Verily  a  good  act 
brings  its  own  reward.

F r a n k  A.  H ow ig.

A  French  paper tells of  a  tradesman 
who  wrote  to  one  of  his  customers  as 
follows:  “  I  am  able  to offer you  cloth 
like  the  enclosed  sample at nine  francs 
the  meter. 
In  case  I  do  not  hear from 
you  I  shall  conclude  that you  wish  to 
pay  only  eight  francs. 
In  order to  lose 
no  time,  I  accept  the  last-mentioned 
price. ”

A  Western  hotel  keeper  had  added the 
following  to  the  usual  rules  and  regula­
tions  found  in  hotel  rooms:  “ No  mur­
dering  or suicide  allowed  in  this  room. 
Guests  breaking  this  rule  will  be  re­
quested  to 
leave.  All  dying  strictly 
forbidden  on  these  premises.”

It  is  safe  to  assume  that  the  dealer 
who  cannot get  enough  profit  out  of  his 
trade  journal  to  pay  him  for the  sub­
scription  price,  is  unable  to  get  enough 
profit  out  of  the  goods  he buys  to  pay 
him  to  remain  in  business.

The  only  people  who  never seem  to 
get hold  of  anything  valuable  are  those 
who  take  things  as  they  come  and  those 
who  accept  things  as  they find  them.

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 Und 

it  necessary  to constantly  repair and  replace.

Catalogue  on  application.

Belknap  Wagon  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Manitowoc  Lakeside  Peas  have 

sold 

the  best  of  any  line  of 

canned vegetables this  season.  In 

fact,  they  are  now  hard  to  se­

cure  and  will  be until  new  pack.

Price  is  advancing  daily.  T his 

tells  the story.

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Manitowoc,  Wis.

Worden  Grocer  Co., Agent.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Shoes  and  Leather
Pertinent  Points  for  Shoe  Dealers. 
Calf  shoes  promise  great  things  this 
coming  winter  in  the  ladies’  trade.  The 
innovation  has  proved  a  decided  suc­
cess.

Indications  favor  higher  prices  on 
soft-soles.  This  is  due  partly  to  tariff 
and  partly  to  scarcity  in  the  India  stock 
so  largely  used  in  these  goods.

Said  a  shoe  salesman,  “ One  reason 
why  oxfords  are  not  being  sold  more 
this  season 
is  that  there  are  so  many 
handsome  patterns  of  colored  high  cut 
shoes  on  the  market  that  women  are 
attracted  by  their beauty  and  prefer  the 
high  shoe  on  that account. ’ ’

A  device  designed  to  prevent  the 
tongue  of  low  cut  shoes  from  slipping 
down  has  been  brought  out. 
It  consists 
of a  curved  bar  which  is  fastened across 
the  top  of  the  tongue  and  which  is  pro­
vided  with  two  eyelet  holes  through 
which  the  laces  are  run  before  being 
run  through  the  top  two  eyelets  in  the 
shoe.

One  of  the best  improvements  in  shoe 
dressings  this  year  is  the  change  in 
in­
gredients  which  makes  the  brown 
cleaner $a  stain  as  well  as  a  cleaner, 
which  serves  the  purpose  of  helping  the 
leather to  hold  its  color  uniformly  and 
is  especially  commendable  because 
it 
hides  scuffed  spots,  making  them  uni­
form  with  the  rest  of  the  shoe.

Spring heel  bicycle  boots  are  the  lat­
est.  A  good  many  of  the  bicycle  boots 
made  heretofore  have  been  equipped 
with  heels  out  of  all  keeping  with  the 
character and  uses  of  this  style  of  foot­
gear.  A  high  heel  is  out  of  place  on  a 
bicycle  boot  and  a  spring  heel  would 
seem  far  more  sensible,  as  it  is  lighter 
in  the  way.  However,  it  is  a 
and  not 
if  lady  riders  will  prefer  the 
question 
spring  heel, 
its  appearance  being 
against  it.

About  the  only  thing  that  will  draw 
trade  at  this  time  of  the  year  is  a mark­
down  sale  and  this  plan  is  being pushed 
by  a  large  majority  of  retail  merchants.
It 
is  the  most  commendable  plan  to 
work  off  hot  weather  stock  while the 
weather  will  admit  of  it  and  to  make 
the  price  right  so  that 
it  will  move. 
But  it  is  of  prime  importance  that  the 
stock  be  what  it  is  claimed,  otherwise 
the  merchant’s  reputation  will  be 
in­
jured  in  direct  ratio  as  his  pocketbook 
fattens.

Builders  of  shoe  machinery  complain 
bitterly of  the  way  foreign  houses  steal 
the 
ideas  of  American  shoe  machinery 
inventors.  American  shoe  machinery 
men  say  that  even  when  they  are  pro­
tected  by  patents  they  can  sell but a  few 
machines 
in  foreign  markets,  for  they 
are  at  once  duplicated  by  foreign  ma­
chinists,  who  use  the  purchased  ma­
chines  as  patterns.  Of  course,  with  the 
more  expensive  machines,  which  war­
rant  the  expense  of  a  foreign  agent  to 
watch  for  infringements, 
the  case  is 
different  and  a business  profitable  to the 
American  builder  is  done.

A  good  many  slow  moving  shoes are 
hustled  along  these  days  by  the  PM 
plan,  which  consists 
in  offering  cash 
premiums  to  the  clerks  for  selling  the 
stickers.  The  average  clerk  will  sell  the 
newest  goods  in  preference  to  the  oldest 
when  there  is  no  necessity  for it,and  the 
bonus  offered  on  the  slow  movers  is a 
successful 
in  the  way  of 
turning  his  attention  to  the  stock  that 
has  been 
in  store  for  some  time  and  is 
gradually  slipping  out  of  style.  There 
are a  vast  number  of  people  who  care

inducement 

little  or  nothing  for  style  and  who  are 
equally  well  satisfied  with  old  as  with 
new  goods. 
It  only  requires  attention 
on  the  clerk’s  part  to  keep  the  slow 
movers going.

Now  that  the  Fourth  of  July  is  past, it 
is  high  time  to  push  out  the  summer 
goods  that  will  soon  be  unseasonable.  It 
looks  now  as  if  ox-bloods  would  not  be 
in  favor  another  summer and  it 
is  ad­
visable  to  clean  out  the  stocks  of  these 
goods  by  fall,  except 
in  the. heavier 
weights  which  are  suitable  for  winter 
trade.  The  tendency  seems  to  be  to­
ward  a  lighter  tan,  in  medium  toes,  and 
goods  of  this  description  will  be  staple 
next  year.  The  chocolates  will  sell  to 
some  extent,  and  piobably  the  dealer 
who  is  obliged  to  carry  over a  stock  of 
them,  in  the  toes  now  prevailing,  will 
lose  nothing  more  than  the  use  of  his 
money.  However,  it  is  good  business 
to  push  out  the  light-weight  stock  now, 
in  preparation  for  the  season  that  is 
about  to  commence.  Clearing  sales  are 
always  popular  at  this  time,  and  the 
merchant  without  one 
is  not going  to 
do  all 
the  business  that  he  might.— 
Gazette.
Had  the  Advantage  of  Coming  Last.
A  local  traveling  man  was  explaining 
to  a  group  of  interested 
listeners  how 
one  of  his  inventive  friends  had  hit  up­
on  a  scheme to catch  fish.

it 

“ He  has  fixed  up  an  incandescent 
electric  light,”   remarked  the  drummer, 
“ which  can  be  made  to  bum  under 
water.  At  night  he  goes  out  to  Reed’s 
Lake,  sinks  his  electric  light  to  the  bot­
tom  and  turns  on  a  storage  battery  cur­
rent.  The  whole  bottom  of  the  lake be­
comes  distinctly  visible  around 
the 
light.  The  fish  swim  up  to  the  lamp 
and 
is  an  easy  matter  to  hook  them 
with  an  ordinary  line,  using  no  bait  at 
all.  All  the  angler  has  to  do  is  to  pick 
out  the  fish  he  wants,  sink  the  hook 
under  him,  give a  jerk  and  pull  him  in.
It  is  great  sport.  And  it  is  particularly 
advantageous,  too,  because 
it  enables 
the  angler  to  fish  for  just  the  game  he 
wants. 
is  after bass  he  pulls  up 
nothing  but  bass.  If  he  prefers  pickerel 
he  catches  nothing  but  pickerel.  And 
he  is  also  able  to  choose  the  size  of  the 
fish  he hooks.  Great scheme,  isn’t  it?”  
“ And  all  this  happens  at  Reed’s 
Lake?”   enquired  a  sad-eyed  drummer 
from  Toledo.

If  he 

Yes,  sir,”   said  the  local  salesman.
It  is  going  on  there  now  every night.”
That accounts for it then, ’ ’  remarked 
the  Toledo  man. 
“ I  spent  Sunday  at 
the  Morton  House  and  went  out  to 
Reed’s  Lake  myself.  Had  pretty  fair 
luck.  And,  do  you  know,  every  blamed 
bass  we  caught  had  on  a  pair of  blue 
goggles!”

Silently  but  suddenly  the  local  drum­
mer  led  a  small  procession  to an adjoin­
ing  wet  goods  dispensary.

A  Fellow  Feeling.

“ My  brethren,”   said  the  minister, 
“ you don’t  know  how  happy  you  would 
be 
if  you  only  had  a  fellow  feeling  in 
your  bosom. ’ ’

Humph, ’ ’  said one of his hearers,  *‘ I 
had  a  fellow  feeling  in  my  bosom 
last 
night,  and  I’ve  got  no  diamond  pin this 
morning. ”

A  Canadian  sea  captain  has  invented 
an  apparatus  with  which  he  thinks 
whales  can  be  killed  by  electric  shock. 
A  harpoon  is  fixed  at  the  end  of  a  long 
metallic  cable,  properly 
insulated,  ana 
which  serves  in  place of  the  usual  rope. 
Through  this  cable  an  electric  current 
j of  10,000  volts  is  to  be  sent  by  means  of 
| a  dynamo  carried  in  the  whaleboat.

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

Then buy Rindge, Kalmbach & Co.’s factory line—the line that will win 
and hold the trade for you.  We handle everything™ the lineof 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,
5, and  10 per cent, on  Bay States.  Our  terms  are  as liberal as those of 
any agent of the Boston Rubber Shoe Co.

Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.,

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

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Grand  Rapids Felt Boots are our Hobby.

Herold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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right  brand.

The Goodyear 
Glove  Rubbers

December  1st  dating.  Don’t  overlook  this.

Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.,

G rand  Rapids,  Mich.

New Prices on M ers

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

These  prices  are  for  present  use  and 
also for  fall  orders.  Our  representative 
will call  on  you  In  due  time  with  our 
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chief  business  had  been  permanently 
injured  by  the  first  transaction.  Peo­
ple  had  lost  confidence  in  his judgment, 
if  not  in  his  truthfulness  though,  as  a 
matter of fact,  there had been no untruth­
fulness 
in  the  original  announcement; 
it  was  a  case  where  less  than  the  truth 
was  a  deception.

The  evil  effect  on  that  unfortunate 
handkerchief  department  was  manifest 
for  two  seasons  afterwards.  Very  likely 
it’s  operative  now.

It  not  only  pays  to  be  truthful 

in 
storekeeping  statements,  but  it  pays  to 
look  out  for  the  real 
interest  of  your 
customers.

Let  “ bargains”   be  real  bargains.
I  know  two  stores  in  ‘New  York  that 
have  a  high  reputation  for  that  very 
thing.  If  either  of  them  says  “ women’s 
coats  at  $5  that  have  been  $10,”   those 
who  know  the  stores  know  that  the state­
ment 
is  not  only  true  in  letter  but  ¡11 
spirit.  They  know  that  those  coats  were 
$10  at  the  last  mark  before  they  were 
made

It  is  a  too  common  thing  to  claim  re­
ductions  such  as  this, when  as  a  matter 
of  fact  the  $10  period 
in  the  coat's 
career  was  a  sesaon  before  and  when

The  Fitting  of Shoes.

H. P.  Ebbs in Shoe and Leather Gazette.

Few  clerks  there  are  who  fit  shoes 
properly.  Nine  out  of  ten  take  a  cus­
tomer  in  hand,  remove  his  shoes,  ascer­
tain  their  size and  width  and  bring  him 
another  pair of  the  same  proportions.  It 
is  a  matter  of  no  importance  to  them 
whether  or  not  the  previous  pair  fitted 
in  even  so  much  as  a  passable  manner. 
They  assume  that  the  customer  was  sat­
isfied  and  that  the  same  size  and  width 
will  satisfy  him  again.

This  is  all  wrong.
The  clerk  should  study  the  customer’s 
foot  and  the  style  of  shoe  it  is  proposed 
to  purchase.  Because  the  customer  has 
been  wearing  an  8  D is no argument that 
an  8  D 
is  what  he  will  require  in  an­
other  pair. 
It  all  depends  on  the  shape 
of  the  shoe.

A  shoe  may  have  a  comparatively 
wide  toe  and  still  require  fitting  much 
longer  than  most  clerks  would  fit  it. 
If 
the  toe 
is  cut  off  abruptly  at  the  outer 
side  of  the  foot,  for  instance,  it  will 
stand  as  great  length  as  is  needed  for  a 
Needle  toe.  The  average  clerk,  how­
ever,  would  fit  this  shoe  short  and  cause 
unnecessary  trouble  for  the  customer.

Shoes  that  are  too  short  for  the  wearer 
cause  one-half  of  the  complaint  that 
is 
made  against  the  comfort and  eveu  the 
wear  thereof.  A  short  shoe  requires 
breaking  in  that  is  positively  terrifying 
to  the  man  or  woman  with  tender  teet. 
To  secure  comfort  a  shoe  must  have 
is  an 
plenty  of  length,  although  there 
extreme 
that 
must  not be overlooked.

in  this  particular  also 

The  clerk  who 

is  a  good  fitter  of 
shoes  can  fit  any  foot  that  is  not  ab­
normal,  in  any  style  of  shoe  desired. 
He  will  allow  ample  length  as  the  first 
and 
foremost  point  to  be  considered. 
He  will  fit  the  shoe  across  the  instep 
snugly  to  prevent  wrinkling  and  shuck­
ing  of  the  shoe  after  the  leather  has 
shaped  itself  to  the  foot.  He  will  allow 
plenty  of  width  at  the  ball  in  order  that 
the  movement  of  the  foot  may  not  be 
impeded. 
important 
points  to  be  considered  in  correct fitting 
and  any  clerk  who  will  follow  them 
in­
telligently  will  find  his  customers  more 
satisfied  and  pleased  with  the  goods 
they  buy  than  they  have  been  in  the 
past.

These  are  the 

I  am  aware  in  the  majority  of  country 
stores  the  salesman  has  little  opportu­
nity  for  exercising  his  talent 
in  the 
direction  of  fitting.  The  stock  is  com­
posed  almost  wholly  of  the  broadest 
widths  and  accurate  fitting  is  absolutely 
impossible. 
is  an  oppor­
tunity  for  giving  the  customer  plenty 
of  length,  adding  tbereb'y  to  the  com­
fort  of  the  shoe  and  the  satisfaction  of 
the  purchaser.

Still,  there 

A  few  days  ago,  I  waited  on  a  cus­
tomer  who  had  always  worn  8  EE.  For 
forty-five  minutes  I  tried  to  induce  him 
to  allow  me  to  fit  him  with  a 
D ;  the 
attempt  was  unsuccessful  and  the  cus­
tomer  left  the  store with what he wanted. 
Two  days  later  he  was  back  again  and 
he  said  to  me,  “ Young  man,  you  were 
right;  this  8  EE  was  not what I wanted ; 
now  wrap  me  up  a  pair of 
D ’s  and 
I  will  test  your  statement  thoroughly.”  
To-day  be  was  in  again  and  he  said  he 
never 
in  all  his  life  had  purchased  a 
pair  of  shoes  that gave  him  the  satisfac­
tion  and  comfort  at  the  first  wearing 
that  the 9^  D ’s  d id ;  yet  for  years  this 
man  bad  been  wearing  a  shoe  too  short 
and  too  broad  until  he  believed  that 
nothing  else  would  fit  him.
Not  long  ago,  a  gentleman  came  into 
our  store  complaining  that  he  had  great 
in  new  shoes  and 
difficulty  breaking 
asked why it  was. 
I  looked  at  bis  shoes 
and  told  him  that  the  trouble  was  that 
they  were  too  short.  He  ridiculed  the 
idea,  but by  spending  considerable  time 
with  him,  explaining  matters  to  his 
satisfaction,  I  finally  convinced  him 
that  there  might  be  something  in  my 
argument  and  sold  him  a  longer and 
narrower  pair  than  he  had  ever worn be­
fore.  Not  long  after  he  bought  the  first 
pair,  be  came 
in  for  a  second,  saying 
that  the  shoes  were  so  comfortable  and 
such  a  splendid  fit  that  he  wanted  an­
other  pair  just  like  them.  That  man 
had  been  clumping  around  in  shoes  too 
short  for  him  until  he  did  not know

what  a  really  well-fitting  shoe  would 
feel  like.

I  thoroughly  believe  that  the  shoe 
merchant  who  employs 
inexperienced 
clerks,  thereby  saving  the  difference  in 
salary  between  a  good  clerk  and  a cheap 
one,  adopts  an  expensive  policy. 
I  be­
lieve  that  good  fitting—correct  fitting— 
is  one  of  the  best  drawing  cards  that  an 
up-to  date  shoe  store  can  possess. 
If  a 
man  or  woman  gets  a  shoe  that  is  com­
fortable,  he  or  she  is  bound  to  return  to 
that  merchant  for  future  pairs. 
It  will 
pay  the  merchant,  then,to  employ  sales­
men  who  understand  thoroughly  the  art 
of  fitting  and  make  this  as  strong  a 
feature  of  his  business  as  quality  or 
style.
Let  Bargains  Be  Bargains—Necessity 

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of  Truthfulness.

The  bargain  buyer  does  not  forget 
where  she  bought  the  cheap  thing,  even 
if  she  forgets  what  she  paid  for  it.

That 

is  one  of  the  most  important 
things  for  the  retail  storekeeper  to  bear 
in  mind. 
It  is  not  easy  to  overstate  the 
drawing  power  of  “ bargain  merchan­
dise.”   Women,  especially,  will  travel 
miles,  wait  patiently  and  often  exert 
themselves  very  much  physically  to  get 
at  a  counter  of  underpriced  things.

I  have  nothing  but  words  of  endorse­
ment  for  the  bargain  idea  in  storekeep­
ing.  Used  with  judgment,  it  may  be  a 
source  of  great  advantage  to  the  busi­
ness.

The  danger  comes 

in  selling  things 
that  are  below  the  grade  that  a  store 
ought  to  sell—that  customers  ought  to 
buy.  The  more  successful  establish­
ments  are  very  careful  not  to  cross  this 
line.  Of  course,  they  do  get  across  it 
sometimes;  if  not  with  large  lots,  cer­
tainly  with  small  ones.  But  no  wide­
awake,  worldly-wise  merchant  who  ex­
pected  to  remain 
in  business  at 
the  same  stand  would  knowingly  permit 
mean  goods  to  be  sold,  no  matter  how 
little  the  price.

long 

The  point  of  my  opening  remark  is 
right  here:  if  the  goods  bought  proved 
to  be  of  improper quality,  or  unsatisfac­
tory  in  any  way,  the  thing  that  will  rest 
in  the  purchaser’s  mind  is  simply  that 
‘ ‘ I  bought  those  gloves  of  Box  &  Box. ’ ’ 
Nine  times  in  ten  she  won’t  remember 
that  she  paid  an  absurdly small price for 
the  shoes,  for 
if  they 
were  to  wear  well  the  money-paid  part 
will  not  be  the  one  that  clings  to  her 
memory. 
If  the  merchant  will  never 
lose  sight  of  the  fact  that  goods  sold 
will  always  be  recalled  as  from  his 
store,  he  will  have  one  of  the  best  pos­
sible  danger  signals  up.

instance.  Even 

I  recall  an  instance  where a great store 
made  a  great  hit  for  a  little  time  by 
selling  “ linen  handkerchiefs”   at  five 
cents  each.  The  advertising  announce­
ment  told  of  them  as  “ large  size  and 
ever  thread  pure  linen.”   The  adver­
tising  was  true.  They  were  pure  linen. 
They  were  of  large  size.  But  they  were 
coarse,  loosely  woven,  all  askew  as  to 
shape  and  so  flimsy  that  when  the starch 
in  them  had  once  been  washed  out  no 
one  would  think  of  buying  them.  Now 
the  prominence  of  the  store,  and  a  cer­
tain  finish  which  these  handkerchiefs 
bad,  caused  them  to  go  off  with  a  rush. 
The  merchant  thought  be  bad  made  a 
great  hit.  When  I  heard of what  he  had 
done,  I  told  him  that  he  had  made  a 
grievous  mistake.  He  would  not  see  it 
that  way;  he  insisted  that  it  was  “ good 
advertising.”  
it  was  very 
bad  advertising.  He  persisted 
in  his 
opinion  ar.d succeeded in getting another 
large  lot  of  these  practically  worthless 
goods.  They  went  very slowly; some  of 
them  did  not  go  at  all.  His  other  qual­
ities  went  slowly.  His  whole  handker­

I  told  him 

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the  price  had  been  at  §8,  $7  and  $6 
successively. 
“ Originally  $10”   would 
not  be  so  bad. 
I’ve  gone  that  far  my­
self—but  never  with  much  cheerfulness. 
The  plain  truth  is  much  better.

Ma n ley  M.  G il l a m .

Persuasive  Arguments.

There’s  nothing 

like  putting  a  man 
in  a  good  humor  and  then  reasoning 
with  him ,”   said  the 
improvident  citi­
zen. 
“ That  bill  collector  was  inclined 
to  doubt  that  times  are  as  hard  with 
me  as  I  represented.  But  I  easily  con­
vinced  him. ”

“ How?”
“ Gave  him  a  10  cent  cigar and  told 
him  to  put  three or  four  in  his pocket. ”

The  Retort  Sufficient.

“ Well,  little  chap,”   said  the  stranger 
in  the  family,  picking  up  one  of  the 
children,  “ what  are  you  going  to be 
when  you’re  a  man?”
.  “ Nuffin’, ”   said  the  child.
stranger.

“ Nothing?  Why  so?”   asked 

“ Because, ”   said  the  child,  “ I’m  a 

the 

little girl. ”

You  know  business  always  picks  up 
“ after  the  Fourth.”   This  year  isn’t 
going  to  be  any  exception.

Represented in 
Michigan by

II.  B.  M .

Mon, men.,

who will 
promptly  reply 
to any enquiries 
concerning the 
goods  manufac­
tured by this 
company at 
W orcester, Mass.

527 and 528 
Widdicomb  Bid. 
Orand  Rapids, Mich.

C. U. CLARK,  Pres. 
W.  D.  W ADE,  Vice- 

Pres.

MINNIE M. CLARK, 

Sec’y and Treas.

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

Profits

A  grocer’s profits are notoriously 
small.  In  the  course  of  a year 
he  loses  a  great  deal of  money 
because  of  dust.  Dust  makes 
groceries unsalable.  People will 
not buy things to eat that do not 
look clean and  inviting.
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16

Clerks’ Corner

Politeness  Must Come from the  Heart. 
Written for the T radesm an.

I  had  a  little  fun  the  other  night. 

I 
had  just  finished  reading  MacAllan's 
article  in  a  late  number  of  the  Trades­
man,  “ The  Lady  with  the  Empty 
Purse;”   and,  concluding  that  I  had  a 
point  against  the  clerking  fraternity  in 
general—I  wish  there  were  only  one— 
and  against  my  young  friend  over  the 
way 
in  particular,  1  slipped  the  paper 
in  my  pocket  and  sauntered  over  there 
the  next  Blue  Monday  evening  to  hear 
the  usual  tirade  against  the  day's  cus­
tomers and  then,  for  a  wind-up,  to bring 
out  some  of  my  condensed  wisdom. 
This  has  to  be  done  with  the  utmost  of 
care.  Not  that  the  wisdom  or  its author 
is  not  treated  with  due  respect,  but 
there  are  times  when  too  much  of  either 
proves  a  superfluous  quantity,  and  Blue 
Monday  night 
is  sure  to  be  one  of  the 
times.

I  had  chosen  my  time  well.  My  en­
trance  was  greeted  with  silence—a  sure 
sign  that  the  barnyard  of  trade  had been 
filled  all  day  with  the  most exasperating 
of  superannuated hens who had “ quirked 
at”   and  pecked  my  clerk  until  human 
endurance  could  stand  no  more,  not 
even  a  drop  of  wisdom  however adroitly 
brought  forward.  The  very  puff at  the 
cigar  was  ominous; 
that  I  was  not 
offered  one,  more  so;  but  I  was  pre­
pared  for  “ a  little  thing  like  that”   and 
lighted  a  better  one  and  was  soon  ready 
to  begin.

“ Mighty  fine 

idea  MacAllan  winds 
up  his  last  article  with: 
‘ Boys  behind 
the  counter,  never  be  curt  or  indifferent 
with  any  one. 
It  doesn’t  pay.'  Seen 
it?”

“ D ’ye  know,  I’m  beginning  to  get 
onto  that  feller.  He  may  be  behind  the 
counter  all  right  enough,  but  I’ll  bet 
five  dollars  there  is  a  screw  loose  some­
where.  Either  he  doesn’t  know  what  a 
genuine  ‘ hen-day’  is,  or  else  the  hen  in 
his  locality  is  a  different  sort of breed. ”
“ What  is  there  about  the  article  you 
I  had  made  up  my  mind  it 
I’d  like  to  shake 

don’t  like? 
was  one of  his  best. 
hands  with  him  anyway.”

“ Why,  his  never  being  rude  because 
‘ it  doesn’t  pay.’  That’s  a  mighty  poor 
reason  for  being  polite,”   my  young 
clerk sniffed. 
“ Now just hear that!  As 
if  there  could  be  any  other  reason  for  a 
man  behind  the  counter  to  be  eternally 
on  his  best  behavior!  This  doing  the 
grand  polite  from  morning  till  night 
month  in  and  month  out  is  pretty  tire­
some  work,  especially  with  people  you 
may  never  see again  and  pray  with  all 
your  might  and  main  you  never  may. 
Do  you  know,  I  think  I’d  like  to  be  an 
undertaker  for  about  three  months  in 
the  year!  It must  be  a  mighty  consoling 
thing  to  turn  the  last screw  tight  and  fill 
up  the  bottom  of  holes  six  by  two  and 
six  feet  down  with  shop-bluffers  and 
sample-gatherers.  Of  course,  the  under­
taker  is  the  very  last  man  anybody 
wants  anything  to  do  with ;  but,  many 
and  many  a  time  he  must go  to  sleep 
feeling  that  he  is  a  public  benefactor!”
“ What  has  being  behind  the  counter 
to  do  with  a  sham  politeness?  A  clerk 
is  a  man  no  matter on  which  side  of  the 
counter;  and  manhood,  wherever 
is, 
is  the  genuine  thing  only  when  it  is 
genuine  from  principle.  Here  is  a  cus­
tomer  whose  very  appearance,  let  alone 
manner, 
‘ a  haughty, 
stuck-up  thing. ’  She  orders  the  clerk 
about  as  if  she  were  a  slave  owner  and 
he one of  her  ’niggahs. ’  His  first 
im­

proclaims  her 

it 

pulse  is  to give  a  Roland  for  an  Oliver 
at  every  opportunity;  but  policy  whis­
pers  in^his  ear,  ‘ Careful,  boy,  careful; 
you  want  to  sell  her a  dress;  and,  for 
the  sake  of  the pecuniary profit,better be
polite  to her. ’  So  the clerk thinks d---- n
in  capital  letters,  shuts  his  teeth,  sells 
his  goods  and  confirms  his  reputation  of 
being  a  first-class  salesman.  That's  all 
right,  I  suppose,  from  the  trade  stand­
point?”

“ You  bet 

it’s  all  right!  And 

the 
clerk  gets  even  with  her by  letting  out 
the  d—ns  after  she  has  gone. 
I’ve been 
at  it  since 6  o’clock ;  and,  if  you  don’t 
mind,  I’d  like  to  unburden  myself  of 
some  five  hundred  more  before  I  can 
settle  down  to  a  peaceful  evening. 
‘D—n !’  What  a  comfort:!  Now  go 
on  with  that  funny  idea  of  being  ‘ polite 
from  principle!’  ”

“ There  is  little  to  go  on  with.  This 
mercenary  politeness  is  politeness  only 
in  name;  and  what  I  want  of  the  clerk, 
in  common  with  the  rest  of  humanity, 
is  to  have  his  politeness  come  from  the 
heart. 
I  am  willing,  at the  start,  for  a 
clerk  to  assume  this  virtue  if  he  have  it 
not;  but,  when 
is  once  assumed,  I 
want  him  to  make  it  so  thoroughly  his 
own  that  he  will,  finally,  be  polite  to  his 
rudest  customer  because  he  has  suc­
ceeded  in  cultivating  his  heart  to  be 
polite.  Then— ”   *

it 

is  a  mere  matter  of  business. 

“ You  needn’t  go  on.  That  old  straw 
has  been  threshed  over  time  and  again 
by  your  sort  of  folks  until  nothing  is  to 
be gained  by  it.  A clerk  is  no different 
from  the  rest  of  humanity.  He  will  be 
polite  if  it  is  for  his  interest to  be  so— 
it 
It  is 
the  same  principle which controls affairs 
in  the  office,  and  you  can't  expect  the 
water  to  rise  higher than  the  fountain. 
Politeness  from  principle 
is  all  well 
enough 
in  theory—business  theory,  if 
you  please;  but  a  sassy,  impudent  wom­
an,  old  or  young,  is  a  condition  and 
must  be  treated  as  the  exigences  of  the 
occasion  demand.”

to  stop 

Then  he 

invited  me  to  “ get  down 
from  my  perch,”  
“ talking 
through  my  hat,”   and  to  “ take  a  class 
in  Sunday  School,”   none  of  which  I 
propose  to  do;  but,  conditions  to  the 
contrary,  it  is  the  heart  only  which  can 
lead  to  the genuine  politeness,  and  the 
clerk  who  depends  upon  that  will  find 
that  that  is  the  only  politeness which,  in 
the  long  run,  ever  pays.

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D. C.  Sla g h t, Flint;  Treasurer, C has.  McN olty 
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Chancellor, H.  U.  Marks,  Detroit;  Secretary 
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your  route  selling  the  same  line,  but 
there are  a  hundred  behind  you.

Don’t  allow  jealousy  of  your  competi 
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The  traveling  man  who 

is  always 
hunting  up  somebody’s  record  would 
run  like  a  scared  dog  if confronted  with 
his  own.

P.  M.  Van  Drezer  (Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.)  is  erecting  a  new  residence 
at  Saranac,  which 
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is  pronounced 

S.  L.  Wells  has  resigned  bis  position 
as  traveling  salesman 
John  M. 
Locke  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  to  assume the 
management  of  a  dry  goods  store  at 
Watervliet  owned  by  Enders  &  Young, 
of  Benton  Harbor.

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Frank  H.  Manchester,  traveling  rep­
resentative  for  Godsmark,  Durand  & 
Co.,  of  Battle  Creek,  was  married  last 
week  to  Miss  Mabel  Parker,  an  esti­
mable  young  lady  of  Battle Creek.  The 
happy  couple  will  reside  at  436  Maple 
street.

W.  J.  Luck,  the  well-known  Adrian 
traveling  man,  has  just  pulled  through 
a  severe  two  weeks’  illness that was due, 
indirectly,  to  a  confounded  cat.  The 
cantankerous  feline  fell  down  a  well, 
and  in  letting  his  son  down  to  pull  the 
cat  out,  Mr.  Luck  strained  himself  to 
such  an  extent  that  serious  complica­
tions  resulted.  The  cat’s  health  was  not 
affected  in  the  least.

Hillsdale  Leader:  Mark  Grant,a  trav­
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in  Hillsdale, 
while  stopping  in  Covington,  Ky.,  one 
day  last  week,  went to  the  postoffice and 
was  handed  three  letters  from  his  Mich­
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read  of  the  death  of  his  grandmother; 
the  second  told  of  the  burning  of  his 
home,  and 
the 
death  of  his  only  child.

the  third  announced 

Wm.  Canham,  Jr.,  son  of  Wm.  Can- 
ham,  the  Port  Huron  commission  mer­
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heard  from 
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father’s  establishment,  and  the  last  or­
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Clair.  Since  then  no  word  has  been  re­
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is  much  distressed  over  the 
family 
affair.  The  missing  man 
is  about  26 
years  of  age  and  has  a  wife  and  one 
child  residing  at  Port  Huron.

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GRAND  RAPIDS.

When  you  become  enamored  of  the 
sound  of  your  own  voice,  you  are  usual­
ly  kept  too  busy  to  do  much  profitable 
thinking.

Governor  Black,  of  New  York,  has 
signed  the  bill  under  which  commercial 
travelers  and  others whom  business  calls 
frequently  away  from  home,  may  go  to 
the  board  of  elections,  or  other  places 
corresponding  thereto,  and  have  their 
names  registered,  between  July  1  and 
the  day  prior  to  the  first  day  of  registra­
tion.  The  name  is  then  certified  to  the 
registrars 
the  districts,  and  the 
same  is  put  on  the  list.
Notice  of the  Existence  of the  New 

in 

Peddling  Law.

From  all  over  the  State  come  reports 
indicating  that  the  township  boards  are 
awake  to  the  desirability  of  giving  the 
new  law  enacted  by  the  last  Legislature 
—transferring  the  taxing  of  peddlers 
from  the  State  to  the  township— intelli­
gent 
interpretation  and  energetic  en­
forcement.  Unfortunately,  only  a  small 
portion  of  the  township  officers  have  as 
yet  received  copies  of  the 
law  and, 
judging  by  the  following  letter,  written 
to  the  Tradesman  by  the  Deputy  Attor­
ney-General, no  very  effective  effort  will 
be  made  by  the  State  officers  to  get  cop­
ies  of  the  law 
into  the  hands  of  the 
township  officers  in  advance  of  the  reg­
ular  publication  of  the  public  acts, 
which  will  occur this  fall:

Lansing,  July  10— In  reply  to  yours  of 
July  8,  will  say  that  there  is  no  express 
provision  in  the  hawkers  and  peddlers’ 
act  which  provides  for  the  notification 
of  the  township  officers  of  the  law  and 
its  provisions.  However,  as  soon  as  the 
laws  are  printed  by  the  Secretary  of 
State,  they  will  be  distributed  among 
the different  public  officials,  in  accord­
ance  with 
law,  and  they  will  receive 
notice  in  that  way.  The  only  mistake 
in  giving  the  law 
that  was  made  was 
mmediate  effect. 
If  the  law  had  not 
been  given  immediate  effect  but  taken 
the  usual  ninety  days’  time,  it  would 
have  been  printed  and  circulated  before 
into  effect,  and  then  this  diffi­
it  went 
culty  would  not  have  arisen. 
I  have 
suggested  to  the  Deputy  "tate  Treasurer 
that  a  copy  of  the  same  be  sent  to  every 
township  clerk  and  supervisor 
in  the 
State. 

H e n r y   E.  C h a s e ,

Deputy  Attorney-General.
In  the  meantime,  the  Tradesman  had 
had  prepaied  by  its attorney blank forms 
for  the  license  and  the bond,  which  it 
will  cheerfully  furnish  gratuitously  on 
application.

Shopping.

Past samples of the latest styles 
She makes her way along- the aisles,
And often, backward turning, smiles;
From room to room, from place to place,
’Mid hats, and gowns, and  furs, and lace,
The endless labyrinth I trace,

With heart astir,

Following her.

I take small interest, I confess,
In taffetas, and even less 
In chiffons, but I acquiesce 
For, since the fates have let me win 
Her heart, there’s romance even  in 
The spool of silk or humble pin 

And sympathize;

That Dolly buys.

I sagely say,  “ I am afraid
This will not wear,”  or,  "T hat brocade
Is almost certain, dear, to fade;”
If, handling thus the fabrics shown,
Sometimes her fingers touched your own_
If Dolly,  trusting you alone,

And so would you 

Should ask you to!

Oh,  busy throng that past us moves,
Pricing the ribbons and the gloves,
You cannot see the troop of loves 
Who hide among the rolls of lace,
Who peer from counter and from case,
And make Arcadia of the place 

With laughing eyes 

Where Dolly buys!

Maine  has  abolished  days  of  grace, 
the  law  to  that  end  going  into  effect 
July  1.

OUR  FOREIGN  POLICY.

All  the nations  of  the  earth  that  have 
become  great  and  powerful  have  done 
so  through  conquest  or  the  control of  the 
commerce  of  foreign  nations.  In  earlier 
times  the  conquest  and  plundering  of 
foreign  peoples  were  the  means  adopted 
for the aggrandizement  of nations.  They 
were  pursued  by  Rome,  afterwards  by 
Spain  and  England.  Rome  conquered 
and  plundered  the  nations  of  the  Old 
World.  Spain  did  likewise  to  the coun­
tries  of  the  New.  England  adopted  that 
policy  towards  India;  but,  happening 
to  pass  from  the  age  of  conquest  to  that 
of  commerce,  England  became  foremost 
in  colonizing  and  trading  with  all  sorts 
of  foreign  peoples  and,  as  a  result  of 
this  policy,  is  the  richest  nation  on  the 
globe.

The  American  people, 

indifferent 
either  to  any  system  of  colonizing  or  of 
trading  abroad,  have  abandoned  both  to 
other  nations,  and  chiefly  to  England. 
The  Americans  prefer  to  concentrate 
their  energies  at  home.  When  they  re­
sort  to  war  it  is  with  their  own  people. 
When 
it  comes  to  the  acquisition  of 
money,  the  every  dream  and  the  every 
scheme  of  the  American  people  is  to 
get  money,  each  out  of  the  others  of  his 
fellow-citizens—and  not  a  few  propose, 
by  the  use  of  some  sort  of  magic  or 
other,  to  create  money  out  of  nothing; 
but  no  active  effort 
is  made  to  bring 
money 
into  the  country,  although  the 
chief  business  of  the  Americans  seems 
to be,  as  soon  as  they  can  get  hold  of 
their  countrymen’s  money,  to  spend  it 
in  foreign  countries.

This  sort  of  thing  seems  to  embody 
the  real  American  idea,  which,  unfortu­
nately,  meets  the  views  of  a  great  body 
of  the  American  people. 
It  is  astound­
ing  to  foreigners  and  to  those intelligent 
Americans  who  have  resided  abroad 
long  enough  to  understand  the  effect  of 
the  remarkable  commercial  policy  that 
has  for  so  long  characterized  the  Amer­
ican  people.  The  abandonment  of  the 
vast  carrying  trade  of  the  United  States 
to  foreign  ships  is  one  of  the  strangest 
facts  of  modern  commerce;  but  it  is  a 
part  of  the  American  policy,  and,  when 
that 
its  remarkable 
manifestations  are  made  plain  and  sim­
ple  enough.

is  understood,  all 

These  peculiar  notions  appear  most 
strange  to  Americans who reside abroad. 
They  see  the  enormous  competition  for 
the  control  of  the  commerce  of  the 
world  wholly abandoned  by  their  coun­
trymen  at  home,  and  they  are  amazed 
that,  in  an  age  when  the  chief  object  is 
to  acquire  wealth,  the  Americans should 
confine  themselves  to  the  policy  of 
swapping  jackknives  at  home,  while  all 
the  other  nations  are  struggling  for  do­
minion  over the  world’s  commerce.

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 
it  is 
one  end  of  the  machine,  where 
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  Smyrna  crop  of  opium  is  esti­

mated  at  over  10,000 cases.

He  that  wins by  wrong  doing 

a  loser.

is  still 

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Drugs-=Chem icals

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- 

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31, 1897
S. E. P a r k il l,  Owosso 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1898
F. W. K.  Pe r r y , Detroit 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor 
Geo.  Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1900
L. E. R eyn o ld s, St.  Joseph  - 
-  Dec. 31,1901

President, F. W. R.  P e r r y , Detroit.
Secretary, G eo.  Gundrum, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schum acher, Ann Arbor. 
Aug. 24 and 25;  Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL 

Coming Examination Sessions—Sault Ste. Marie, 

- 
- 

ASSOCIATION.

President, G. C. P h illips,  Armada.
Secretary, B. Schrouder,  Grand Rapids. 
Treasurer, C has.  Ma n n, Detroit.
.executive Committee—A.  H.  W e b b e r , Cadillac: 
H. G.  Colman, Kalamazoo;  G eo.  J.  Wa r d ,  St. 
C l a ir ;  A.  B.  Steven s,  Detroit;  F.  W.  R. 
Pe r r y, Detroit'

Push  the  Sale  of  Soda.
U. G. Manning in American Druggist.

the 

Push  your  soda.
There  is  little  use  in  selling  soda  un­
its  adver­

less  you  avail  yourself  of  all 
tising  power.
Good  soda  is  a  good  advertisement, 
and  no  one  any  longer  doubts  it,  except 
the  man  who  has  never  made  good soda.
It  is  easy  for  you  to  tell  whether  your 
beverages  are  as  good  or  better  than 
your  neighbor’s—watch 
crowd. 
There  is  usually  one  man  in  every  town 
who  has  mere  than  his  apparent  share 
of the  soda  business,  and  he  has 
it  be­
cause  he  deserves  it,  or  because  he  has 
attracted  trade  by  right  advertising,  or 
because  both  service  and  advertising 
have  brought  his  fountain  into  favor.

If  you  deserve  the  trade  and  want  it 
you  can  have  it.  Soda  advertising  is 
easy.  Ail  you  have  to  do  is  to  tell  all 
about  the  little  details  of  your  service. 
If  you  make  good  soda  there  is plenty to 
say.

Tell  about  your  drinks,  your  foun­
tain,  the  ice,  syrups,  fruits,  etc.  Have 
special  drinks,  and  push  them.  Tell 
people  how  much  you  sell,  what  custom­
ers  say,  how  much  your 
trade  has 
grown,  and  what  has  made  it  grow.

Change  your  newspaper  advertise­
ments  just  as  often  as  you  can,  and  put 
live,  vital,  everyday  facts  into  them.

Use  window  signs,  and  change  them 
every  day.  Have  a  booklet  or  folder  at 
the  fountain  that  will  call  attention  to 
all  the  features  of  your  service  that  de­
serve  being  told  of,  and  in  the  booklet 
have  a  list  of  all your beverages,together 
with  prices.  Distribute  the  booklet  over 
your town  several  times  during  the  sea­
son.

Booklet,  signs,  newspaper  advertise­
is  a  formula  that  seldom 

ments—this 
needs  changing  in  soda  advertising.

The  Drug  Market.
is  very 

There 

little  change  in  the 
market  this  week.  The  passage  of  the 
tariff bill  by  the  Senate  did not influence 
the  market.

Opium—Very  firm  and  a  trifle higher. 
There  will  be  a  very  large  crop  this 
year and  no  scarcity.

Morphine— Is  as  yet unchanged.  The 

market  is quiet.

Beans—Tonka  are  firm.  The  tariff 
bill  places  a  duty  of  50c  per  lb.  on 
them.  Vanilla  are  firm  and  will  be 
higher  under the  new  tariff.

Oils—Anise 

is  advancing  and  higher 
prices  are 
for.  Bergamot  is 
higher  under  light  stocks  and  good  de­
mand.

looked 

There  will  probably be  a  good  many 
changes  by  our  next  issue,  as  the  tariff 
bill  will  doubtless  be  completed  by  that 
time.

Double  Taxation  of Spirits.

Judge  Grosscup,  in  the  United  States 
Circuit  Court  at  Chicago,  has  rendered 
an  important  decision  on  the  subject  of 
the  taxation  of  spirits  extracted  from 
the  wood  of  old  barrels.  A  year ago 
Corning  &  Co.,  of  Peoria,  invented  a 
process  of  extracting  from  old  whisky 
and  spirit  barrels  all  of  the  spirits  that 
had  soaked 
into  the  wood.  From  an

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ordinary  barrel,  from  one  to  two  gallons 
of  spirits  were  extracted  without  injury 
to  the  wood.  The  Collector  of  Internal 
Revenue  attempted  to  enforce  the  col­
lection  of  the  tax  of $1.10 a  gallon.  On 
an  appeal  to  Judge  Grosscup  he  held 
that  there  were  no  regulations  of  the law 
by  which  any  such  tax  could  be  en­
forced,  by  reason  of  the  fact  that  the 
spirits  paid  their  full  tax  when  placed 
in  the  barrels.

Canaigre  Cultivation  in  California.
California  papers  say  that  nearly  two 
thousand  acres  of  Canaigre  will  be  in 
cultivation  on  the  big  plantations  of  the 
Anglo-American  Canaigre  Company, 
near  Rialto,  in  San  Bernardo  county. 
This  is  a  native  plant  of  the  dock  fam­
ily.  whose  roots  are  rich  in  tannin,  and 
it  is  expected  that  8,000  acres  will  be 
planted  at  the  beginning  of  the  next 
year.  The  plant  is  indigenous  to  many 
parts  of  the  State,  and  wild  roots  are 
gathered,  planted  in  rows  and  cultivated 
like  sweet  potatoes. 
It  is  said  that  tan­
ning  with  Canaigre  can  be  done  much 
more  rapidly  than  with  other  material, 
and  requires  only  days  where  weeks  and 
months  are  needed  with  barks.

A  Peculiar  Compound.

A  German  chemist  is  responsible  for 
introduction  of  a  compound  which 
the 
liquifies  with  cold  and  solidifies  with 
heat. 
It  does  not  remain  solid  after 
heating,  but  becomes  liquid  again  as  it 
cools. 
It  consists  of  equal  parts  of  car­
bolic  acid,  camphor  and  saponine,  with 
a  small  proportion  of  oil  of  turpentine.

New  Use  for  Fly  Paper.

From the Lockport (N. Y.) Journal

A  Main  street  grocer  who  uses  Tan­
glefoot  to  catch  flies  opened  his  store 
this  morning  and  found  a  couple  of 
sheets  of 
it  rolled  up  on  the  floor  and 
within  them  was  a  large  rat,  which  had 
gotten  fast  in  the  paper  and  was  unable 
to  loosen  itself.

Tbç  output  of  otto  of  rose  this  year  is 
estimated  at  63,000  Turkish  ounces.  Up 
to  a  month  ago  a  very  large  crop  was 
expected.  The  recent  rains  and  storms 
have,  however,  materially 
reduced 
same.  A  Bulgarian  correspondent writes 
under  date  of  June  11 :  “ The  otto  of 
rose  distilling  season  commenced  the 
last  week  in  May  under  most  favorable 
conditions. 
In  the  beginning  every­
thing  was  going  in  favor  of  a  very  rich 
crop,  but  within  the  last  two  weeks  the 
abundant  rains  which  have  fallen  every 
day  have  damaged  the  rose  trees,  so 
that,  instead of  a rich crop,  we shall  only 
have  one  of  about  20  per  cent,  less  than 
last  year’s.  Taking 
into  consideration 
the  very  large  crop  of  old  otto  of  rose 
which  remains  in  the  hands  of  export­
ers  and  distillers 
in  the  different  vil­
lages  of  the  rose  valley,  we  are almost 
sure  we  will  have  almost  the same quan­
tity  of  otto  to  dispose  of  as  last  year. 
In  about  a  week  the  distillation  will  be 
over,and full  information  about  the  crop 
will  be  forthcom ing.”

it  continues  (as 

A  London  correspondent  states  that 
the  demand  for  citric  acid  is  so  great 
just  now  that,  if 
it 
probably  will  during  the summer),  there 
will  be  much  difficulty 
in  executing 
orders,  irrespective  of  price.  There  are 
two  tartaric  acidmakers  left 
in  Eng­
land. 
In  France  there  are  far  fewer 
now  than  there  were  twenty  years  ago, 
although  their  total  production has prob­
ably  remained  about  the  same.

"When  a  London  patent  medicine deal­
er  was  sued  for  a  newspaper advertising 
bill  he  pleaded  that  he  was  heavily  in 
debt,  and  could  not  possibly  pay  the 
claim. 
It  appeared,  however,  that  his 
shop  was  on  the  route  of  the  jubilee 
procession,  and  his  plea  of  poverty  was 
ruled  out.

According  to  the  report  of  the  British 
Consul,  the  entire  bismuth  industry  of 
Bolivia 
in  the  hands  of  one  firm, 
which  has  been  acting  in  concert  with 
European  producers  for  the  purpose  of 
establishing  a  monopoly.

is 

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

R.  P.  Bigelow,  the  Veteran  Traveling 

Salesman  of  Owosso.

Rolla  P.  Bigelow,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born 
in  Ellisburg,  N.  Y., 
Feb.  27,  1849.  When  about  4  years  of 
age  he  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Ypsilanti,  Mich.  Here  he  received  his 
early  education 
in  the  city  schools, 
working  during  vacations  on  the  farm 
with  his  father,  thus  making  his  first 
teachings  practical  as  well  as  useful. 
While  still  a  youth  he  acquired  those 
habits  of  patient 
industry  and  perse­
verance  which  have  ever  since  marked 
his  business  career.

I

sons  and 

children—three 

In  1871,  Mr.  Bigelow  entered 

When  21  years  of  age,  he  was  mar­
ried  to  Miss  Lottie  H.  Pratt,  of Fenton, 
who,  with  a  bright  and  happy  family  of 
four 
one 
daughter—graces  the  circle  of  one  of 
the  coziest  homes  in  the  city  of  Owosso.
into 
copartnership  with  Wm.  H.  Easterly,  of 
Ypsilanti,  and  engaged 
in  the  grocery 
business,  which  proved  a  financial  suc­
cess.  On  account  of  failing  health, 
however,  he  was  again  compelled  to 
seek  out-door  employment,  and  after 
closing  out  his  interests  in  the  mercan­
tile  line, 
engaged  with  C.  H.  Ben­
nett,  of  Plymouth,  to  sell  fanning  mills. 
Here,  again,  as  a  salesman  his  tact  was 
many  times  put  to  the  severest  test  and 
he  justly  earned  the  title  of  hustler.

In  1880  Mr.  Bigelow  entered  the  em­
ploy  of  C.  W.  Inslee  &  Co.,  wholesale 
grocers  of  Detroit,  and  made  the  ac­
quaintance  of  the grocery  trade  in  Cen­
tral  Michigan.  He  remained  with  this 
firm  several  years,  resigning  this  posi­
tion  to  accept  a  similar  one  with  Ber­
dan  &  Co.,  of  Toledo,  continuing,  in 
their  employ  until  August,  1895,  since 
which  time  he  has  acted  as  general 
agent  in  the  State  of  Michigan  for  the 
Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.  He has 
enjoyed  a  very  pleasant  and  successful 
business  thus  far,  employing  at  present 
four  men  in  various  parts  of  the  State, 
who  are  meeting  with  good  success  in 
placing  large  numbers  of  the scales with 
the trade.

Mr.  Bigelow  has been  for  many  years 
a  prominent  Knight  Templar  and  has 
always  been  a  supporter of  the  Republi­
can  party,  believing 
in  the  McKinley 
promised  prosperity.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  Knights  of  the  Grip,  at  present 
holding  the  office of  Chairman  of  Post 
O,  Owosso,  and  Vice-President  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  for  the 
Eighth  Congressional  District.

Mr.  Bigelow  is a  man  of  sterling 

in­
tegrity  and uprightness—one whose word 
is  considered  as good  as  his  note  in  any 
business transaction.  His  heart  beats in 
unison  with  the  traveling  fraternity,  he 
entering  with  zest  into  all  matters  of  in­
terest  pertaining  to  the  drummer's  life. 
He  enjoys  a  good  joke  immensely,  es­
laugh 
pecially.  when  the 
is  on  “ the 
other  fellow.”   He 
is  one  of  the  oldest 
and  best-known  commercial  men  in  the 
State. 

____ ^

An  English 

judge  has  decided  that 
false  teeth  do  not  come  under  the  head 
of  “ necessaries.”   He  probably  has 
never  tried  to  eat  corn  on  the  cob  with 
bare  gums.

It’s  no  use  moving,  if  you  don’t know 
what  your move  is;  you’d  better  by  far 
keep  still.

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Advanced—Linseed  Oil.
Declined—Oil Cassia, Turpentine, Oil Citronella.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Acidum
Aceticum.................
Benzolcum, German 
Boracic.........

Hydrochlor . 
Nitrocum .  .
Phosphorium,  dii.
Sulpnuricum.

Ammonia 

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

Black.. 
Brown 
Red  ...

Baccæ.
Cubeæe...........po. 18
Juniperus................
Xantnoxylum.........

Peru........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassise....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini.......
Quillaia,  gr'd.........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum 

Qlycyrrhlza  Glabra
Hæmatox, 15 ib box
Hæmatox, I s ........... 
Hæmatox, V4s.

8  8®$  10
80® 85
© 15
29® 41
40® 42
3® 5
8@ 10
12© 14
© 15
50® 55
13£@ 5
1  40®  1  60
36® 38
4® 6
6® 8
12@ 14
12® 14
2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
45® 50
2 50® 3 00

13® 15
6® 8
25® 30,
60® 65
@ 2  60
40® 45
80® 85

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15

24® 25
28® 30
11@ 12
13® 14
13®
14© 15
16® 17

Ferru

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

15 
2 25
80
50
15
2
A5
7
12@ 14
18® 25
30® 35
15® 20 1
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
18® 25
25® 30
Cassia Acutifol,Alx. 
Salvia officinalis, V4s
12® 20
and V4s.................
Ura Urei..................
8® 10 ¡
Gummi
@ 65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
© 45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
@ 35
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
© 28
Acacia, sifted sorts.
60® 80
Aloe, Barb. po.20©28
14© 18
© 12
Aloe, Cape__po. 15
© 30
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40
55® 60  C
Assafcetida__po. 30 
_
22® 25  l
Benzoinum............  
50®
Catechu, Is.............. 
®
Catechu, Vis............   @
Catechu, &s............  
®
48®
Camphor»..............
Euphorbium..po.  35
Galbanum..............
65@
Gamboge  po........... 
Guaiacum......po. 35  @
Kino...........po. ®4.o0  @
4 00 
60 
Mastic.................... 
®
40
Myrrh............ po. 45
Opii.. .po. 83.80®4.00 2 50®  2 60
Shellac.................... 
40®  60
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba
25
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
20
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
25
28
Majorum__oz. pkg 
23
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
25
Mentha Yir.. oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
39
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
22
Thymus,  Y..OZ. pkg 
25
riagnesla.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
20®  25
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

55
13
14 
16 
55 
10
®  1 00 

70 
35 

Oleum

Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalse, Dulc....  30®  50
Amygdalae, Amar* .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi.........................2  10®  2 20
Auranti  Cortex......   2 00®  2 
Bergami!.................  2 25®  2 
75®  80
Cajiputi..................  
Caryophylli............   55®  6J
Cedar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadil.............   @ 4 00
Clnnamonii.............  l  75®  1 90
40®  45
Oltronella.  ..  , 

35®  65
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i  io®  l  20
Cubebæ................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthitos...........   l  20® 1  30
Erigeron..................  1  20®  1  30
Gaultheria..............   l  50® 1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal..  50®  60
Hedeoma..................  1  on®  1  10
Junipera..................   1  50® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90© 2  00
Limonis 
................  1  20®  1  40
Mentha  Piper.........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   2 65© 2 75
Morrhuæ,  gal.........   1  00®  1  10
Myrcta....................   4 00® 4 50
2.  .Y ;- - v - ........... 
75@ 3 00
Pieis  Liquida.  ...... 
10®  12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
Bhîina....................  99® 1 04
Rosmarini...............  @  1 00
Rosæ,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succmi..................   40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  oo
§antaJ ...........-,.........  2 50© 7 00
¡sassafras................. 
5o@  55
(&  65
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
TigRi.......................  1  40®  1 50
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............  
®  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15@  20
Potassium
15®  18
gî-Barb.................... 
Bichromate............ 
i3@ 
15
Bromide..................  48®  51
12®  15
Garb....................... 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
50@  55
Iodide.....................   2 65® 2 75
Potassa, Bitart, pure  29®  31
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8® 
10
Potass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
Prussiate................. 
25®  28
Sulphate p o ........... 
15® 
18

Radix

12® 

Aconitvm...............   20®  25
Aithæ.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................. 
15
Arum po..................  @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana........po  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza  .. pv. 15  16®  18
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  35
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  40 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
......................   2  00®   2  10
T  ,  - 
po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   40®  45
Maranta,  j£s........... 
®  35
urn, po.... 
22®  25
........................... 75® 1 00
................  @  1 25
........................... 75® 1 35
........................... 35® 38
®  35
■ia... po. 40 
35 
45 
40

‘  

@
©
10©

dus,  po.

Semen 
...po.  15

®15@

13®
4®
10®

3V4®
henopodium........ 
io® 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 90® 3 00
Foeniculum............   @ 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7®
U n i.........................  2V4®
U ni,  grd....bbl. 2V4  3V4©
Lobelia..................   35®
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3V4@
Rapa.........................  4 ¡4®
Sinapis Albu........... 
7®
Sinapis Nigra.........  
n@
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 go
Saacharum N. E__  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  7g@ 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...............
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
20
Auranti Cortes........
30
Zingiber..................
Ipecac- 
.........
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
.1
SClllflB............. 

50®

1  40

a
g
g

50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20
35
38

niscellaneous 

ScillffiCo......... ;___ 
Tolutan..................  
Prunus virg............  
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.........................
Aloes and Myrrh....
Arnica....................
Assafcetida..........  ’
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co.........
Barosma.................
Cantharides......... "
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..........
Cardamon  Co__ I..
Castor.....................
Catechu..................!
Cinchona................]
Cinchona Co......... I
Columba.................
Cubeba..................!
Cassia  Acutifol...!!
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum....
Gentian..................
Gentian Co........!!!
Guiaca................ !!
Guiaca ammon.......
Hyoscyamus.........!
Iodine.....................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
Lobelia..............;;;;
Myrrh................!.!!
Nnx Vomica...... .!
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized....
Quassia..................
Rhatany.........
Rhei...................... ;;
Sanguinaria........Ü
Serpentaria............
Stromonium........Ü
Tolutan...................
Valerian............... .
Veratrum Veride.!! 
Zingiber..................
-Alther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
A2ther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   2M&
3®
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
Annatto..................
40®  50
Antimoni,  no..!!!! 
4® 
5
Antimoni et PotassT
55®  60
Antipyrin..............
@  1  40
Antifebrin .  .........
© 15
Argenti Nitras, oz !
© 55
Arsenicum..............
10® 12
Balm Gilead  Bud  !!
38® 40
Bismuth  S. N........
40®  1  50
CalciumChlor.,  is!! 
9
©
Calcium Chlor., Vis 
© 10
Calcium Chlor.,  j¿s 
© 12
Cantharides, Rus.po 
© 75
Capsici  Fructus, af 
© 18
Capsici Fructus, po 
© 15
Capsici FructusB.po 
© 15
10® 12
Caryophyllus.-po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40  ..
® 3 75
Cera Alba, S. A F
50® 55
40® 42
Coccus.................... 
®  40
Cassia Fructus....!!  @  33
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum...............  
  @  45
Chloroform..........!! 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  35 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  15®  1  30
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchonidine.P.AW  20®  25 
Cinchonidine, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   3 55® 3 75
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
65
f  
■ i l  
Creosotum...
®  35
Creta.............bbi.75
® 
2 
Creta, prep............
5
@ 
Creta, precip.........!
9®  11
Creta
8 
Crocus........!!!!!!! 
25®
30 
Cudbear..............,! 
®
24 
5®
Cupri Sulph......... . 
6 
Dextrine.................. 
io®
12 90
Ether Sulph........... 
75®
Emery, all  numbers  @
Emery, po.............. 
1»
Ergota............po. 40
30®  35
12®
Flake  White........... 
M l  
15 
-
Galla......................  
23 
Gambier............. ü
9 
Gelatin, Cooper..  *
60
Gelatin, French....!  35® 
■  60 
Glassware, flint, box 
f‘
60,  10&10 
Less  than  box__
60 
Glue,  brown.........  
_
9®  12
13®
Glue, white............  
25
14®  20
Glycerins...............  
Grana  Paradisi  .... 
® 
15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
®  80
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  70
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  90 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1 00 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  @  65
Ichthyobolla, Am...  1 25®  1  50
Indigo.....................  
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi.......   3 60® 3 70
Iodoform................. 
® 420
Lupulin.  ................ 
@ 2 25
Lycopodium........... 
50®  55
Macis 
75
Liquor  Arse- et t / -
drarg Iod.............
27 
LiquorPotassArstnit 
10®
12 
Magnesia, Sulph....
2®
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
„„  1V4
Mannia, S. F ...........
50®  60
Menthol  .................
® 8 40

>, Rubra.

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

Morphia, S.P.A W...  1  95® 2 20 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co...  ..............  1  85® 2 10
Moschus Canton__  @  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica... po.20 
@ 10
is
Os  Sepia................. 
15® 
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................  @  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Vi gal.
d«« -;....................  @ 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts....  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80 
©  50
Piper Nigra...po.  22  @ 1 8
Piper Alba— po.  35  @  30
Piix  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
io® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30®  33
Quassias..................  
8® 
10
Quinia, S. P. A W .. 
26®  31
Quinia, S.German..  20®  29
Quinia, N.Y............   24®  29
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14 
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin....................3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis...  40®  50
Sapo,  W..................  
12® 
14
Sapo, M.................... 
10® 
12
Sapo, G....................  @ 
15
Siedlitz  Mixture__ 20  ® 
22

©
®
@
®6  @ 
6  @ 
26® 
1V4® 
3® 
3V4®
50® 2 60
I

Sinapis....................
Sinapis, opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Voes.....................
Snuff,Scotch.De Vo’s
Soda Boras..............
Soda Boras, po........
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda, Carb.............
Soda, Bi-Carb.........
Soda, Ash...............
Soda, Sulphas.........
Spts. Cologne..........
Spts. Ether Co........
SpV  Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.  @2
Spts. ViniRect.Vibbl  @ 2 
Spts. ViniRect.lOgal  @  2
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @  2
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1
Sulphur,  Subl.........  2V4@
Sulphur,  Roll__
2®  2V4 
Tamarinds...........
8®  
10 
Terebenth Venice.
28®  30
Theobromae.........  
... 
_
42®  45
Vanilla..................   9 00® 16 On
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

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

GAL.70
45

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

29
31
65
33

1 9

32
34
70
40

Red Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow Mars.
Ochre, yellow  Ber..
Putty, commercial..
Putty, strictly  pure.
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............
Vermilion, English.
Green, Paris...........
Green,  Peninsular..
Lead, Red...............
Lead, white...........
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’...
White, Paris A uer..
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff..................   .
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

BBL.
LB
i x   2 m
I3Í  2 ©4
144  2 ©3
2 *   2V4@3
2V6  2 *@ 3
13® 15
70® 75
13V4® 19
13® 16
5V4® 6
6
© 70
© 10@  1 00
©  1 40
i;oo@  1 15

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

to ltin e  &  Perkins 

Drue  60.
Sundru 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 iln e  & Perkins Drug Go.

brand Rapids, Mich.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLE GREASB.
Aurora...............
..... 55
Castor Oil...........
....60
Diamond............
....50
Frazer’s .............. ...... 75
IX L Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes...
.75
Paragon..............
...55

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

ft lb cans doz........' ........  
ft lb cans doz..................  
1 

45
85
lb cans doz.................   1  50

Acme.

ft lb cans 3 doz................  
ft lb cans 3 doz................. 
1 
Balk...................................  

45
75
lb cans 1 doz................  1  00
10

El Purity.

ft lb cans per doz............   75
ft lb cans per doz  ...........  1  20
1 
lb cans per doz............ 2  00

Home.

ft lb cans 4 doz case........  35
ft lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz case.......  
90
JAXON
ft lb cans, 4 doz case 
45
 
ft lb cans, 4 doz case.......  
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........   160
1 

Jersey Cream.

1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz............. 
85

Our Leader.

ft lb cans.......................... 
ft lb cans.......................... 
l 

lb cans...............................  1 50

45
75

Peerless.

1 lb. cans  ......................... 

85

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUINO.

cojm m D
(   P F A D p V *

B l u i n G
1 doz.  pasteboard Boxes... 
40
doz. wooden boxes.....  1 20
3 

BROOflS.

So. 1 Carpet............................  1 90
No. 2 Carpet............................  1 75
No. 3 Carpet.......................    1 50
No. 4 Carpet........................  l 15
Parlor Gem............................  2 00
Common Whisk................. 
70
Fancy Whisk.....................  
80
Warehouse............ ............  2 25

CANDLES.

1  00 

1  30 
1  40 
1  65

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

CANNED OOODS. 
ilanitowoc  Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat.........
Lakeside B.  J ....................
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng.... 
Lakeside, Gem, Ex. Sifted.

CHEESE.

Acme..........
Amboy........
Byron.........
Elsie...........
Gem............
Gold  Medal.
Ideal...........
@
Jersey.........
Lenawee..  .. 
<3 
Riverside.
@ 
Sparta.........
@ 
Brick...........
@ 
Edam..........
&  
Leiden.........
&
_ 
Llmbnrger.
@
Pineapple...............  43  @
Sap Sago.................  @

CHOCOLATE. 

Walter Baker A Co.’«.
German Sweet....................
Premium..............................
Breakfast Cocoa.................

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, 80 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jute. 72 ft,  per  (lor.. 
95
Chicory.

Bulk
Red

CATSUP.

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

CLOTHES PINS.

5 gross boxes.......................... 40

COCOA SHELLS.

20 lb  bags...........
Less quantity__
Pound  packages.

CREAfl TARTAR.

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

COFFEE.

Qreen.
Rio.

F air.........................................17
Good.......................................18
Prime..................................... 19
Golden  .................................. 20
Peaberry  ............................... 22

Santos.

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

Mexican  and  Quatamala.

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

Prim e..................................... 23
Milled..................................... 24

Java.

Interior.................................. 25
Private  Growth......................27
Mandehllng............................ 28

Im itation............................... 25
Arabian  .................................28

Mocha.

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co. "s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Mocha and Java___ 25ft
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 25ft
Sancaibo...............   ...........23
Valley City Maracaibo........18ft
Ideal  Blend.........................15
Leader  Blend..................... 12
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.............17ft
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.......................  11  50
Jersey.............................   11  50
ncLaughlin’s  XXXX.........11 50

Package.

Extract.

Valley City ft gross...... 
Felix ft  gross................  
Hummel’s foil ft gross  .. 
HummeJ’s tin ft  gross  .. 
Knelpp Malt Coffee.

75
1  15
gj 
1  47

1 lb. packages,  50 lb. cases  9 
1 lb. packages, 100 lb. cases  9
CONDENSED  MILK.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

T radesman Grade.
50 books, any denom__
100 books, any denom__
500 books, any denom__
[,000 books, any denom__

Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom__
100 books, any denom__
500 books, anv denom__

Universal Grade.

500 books, any denom.
Superior Grade. 
50 books, any denom.

Coupon Pass Books,

Apples.

Credit Checks.

denomination from 810 down.

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—DOilBSTIC 
Sundried.......................  @  2ft
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 4 
Apricots......................  9 @10ft
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................   6 @
Peaches........................ 7ft@ 9
Pears......   .................  8  @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles...................12
Raspberries................
California Prunes.
100-12G 25 lb boxes.........  @  3ft
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @ 3ft
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @4
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4ft
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4ft
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @ 5ft
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @ 7ft
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
ft cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Fruits.

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
4ft
5ft
6ft

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

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

Raisins.

FLY PAPER.
Tanglefoot.

Regular, per box...............   30
Regular, case of 10 boxes..  2 55
Regular, 5 case lots...........2 50
Regular, 10 case lots.........   2 40
Little, per box...................  
13
Little, case of 15 boxes......  1  45
Little, 10 case lots.............   1  40
Holders, per.box of 50.......   75 1

• 

Peas.

Sago.

3
.  2  40

3
..2 00

Farina.
Grits.
Hominy.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
B ulk...........................
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s ....
Barrels  .......................
..2   25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums__ . 1   00
Lima Beans.
.....................   .
Dried 
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box. -.
..  60
Imported,  25 lb. box..
..2  50
Pearl Barley.
Common.............. .......
1ft
Chester.......................
.. 
2
Em pire....................... ■ • 
2ft
Green,  bu....................
..  80
Split,  per lb.................
.. 
2ft
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl__ ...3  50
Monarch,  bbl..............
.3  25
Monarch,  ft  bbl.........
..1  75
Private brands,  bbl.. .  3  00
Private brands, ft bbl.. ..1   62
Quaker, cases..............
-.3  20
German.......................
4
East  India...............
3ft
Wheat.
Cracked, bulk..............
24 2 lb packages...........
Pish.
Cod.
Georges cured............
Georges genuine.......
Georges selected........
Strips or bricks......... 5
Chunks...........................
Strips..............................
Holland white hoops keg 
Holland white hoops  bbl.  7 50
Norwegian............
Round 100 lbs..................   2 50
Round  40 lbs...................  1 30
Scaled............................... 
13
Mess 100 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
No. 2  10 lbs.................... 
85
Russian kegs.................... 
55
No. 1,1001b. bales............
No. 2,1001b. bales...........
No. 1100 lbs......................  4 00
No. 1  40 lbs.
1  93 
No. 1  10 lbs................
55 
No. 1  8 lbs................
47
Whltefish.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

100 lbs__ ....  6 40
40 lbs__ ....  2 85
10 lbs.... .... 
79
8 lbs__ .... 
86

FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

No. 1 No. 2
5 00
2 30
65
55

ITackerel.

Herring.

Halibut.

Trout.

@ 3ft 
@ i  @ 5

Jennings’.

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.......1  20
2 oz.......  75
3oz....... 1  50
3 oz....... 1  00
4 oz.......2 00
4 oz....... 1  40
6 oz.......3 <X)
60Z........ 2  00
No.  8  4 00
No.  8  .  2 40 
No. 10.  .6 00 
No. 10 . .  4 00 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  4 T.l  5q
No  4 T.2 40
Sage.....................................  16
Hops...................................  
is
Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   56
8. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
151b  palls............................  30
171b  palls............................  34
30 lb  palls............................  55
Condensed, 2 dos  ..............1 20
Condensed, 4 doz...... ........ 2 25

INDIGO.

HERBS.

JELLY.

LYE.

Souders’.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

Regular 
Vanilla.

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

GLUB.

. 

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

 

Eagle  Duck—Dupont’s.

Choke  Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs...................................4  25
Half Kegs..........................  2 40
Quarter Kegs.......................1  35
1 lb  cans.............................  30
ft  lb  cans............................  18
Kegs...................................4 00
Half Kegs........................... 2 25
Quarter  Kegs.....................l 25
1 lb  cans.................. 
34
Kegs  .... 
.......................... 8 00
Half Kegs............................4 25
Quarter Kegs....................... 2 25
llbcans...............................  45
Pure.....................................  80
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 MEAT.

flATCHBS.

LICORICE.

ITOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black.  ............................. 
11
J4
F air.................................. 
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

PIPBS.

48 cans In case.

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

POTASH.

PICKLES.
riedlum.

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

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

SEEDS.

Imported.

Carolina head....................  6ft
Carolina  No. 1  .................  5
Carolina  No. 2..................   4ft
Broken...............................  3
Japan,  No. 1......................  5ft
Japan.  No. 2.... ................  5
Java, No. 1.........................  4ft
Table..................................  5ft
A nise...............................  18
Canary, Smyrna................  4
Caraway..........................  10
Cardamon,  Malabar......  80
Hemp,  Russian...............   4
Mixed  Bird......................  4ft
Mustard,  white...............  
6ft
Poppy  .............................  
8
Rape................................  
5
le Bone......................  20
Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

SALERATUS.

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

SAL SODA.

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes..............1 50
Barrels,  100  3 lb bags.........2 75
Barrels.  40  7 lb bags.........2 40
Butter, 28 lb. bags...............  30
Butter, 56 lb  bags................  60
Butter, 20  14 lb bags............3 00
Butter, 2801b  bbls...............2 50

Common Grades.

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

Worcester.

Warsaw.

50  4 
lb. cartons............. 3 25
115  2ftlb. Backs..................4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks.................3 75
lb. sacks.................350
22 14 
30 10 
lb. sacks.................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks................   32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.....................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags......  30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......  15
56-lb dairy In iinen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Saginaw.............................   70
Manistee  ............................  70
Scotch, In bladders............   37
Maccaboy, in Jars...............   35
French Rappee, in jars......  43

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common Fine.

SNUFF.

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Pore Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  .............................   9
Cassia, China in mats..........10
Cassia, Batavia in bnnd__ 20
Cassia, Saigon In rolls........ 32
Cloves, Amboyna................15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................60
Nntmegs, 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@E0
Pepper, Sing., black__ 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white.... 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage.................................... is

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cans.

Barrels.............................   12
Half  bbls....................... 
14
Fair  ...............................   16
Good................................   20
Choice.............................  25
Boxes..................................  5ft
Kegs, English.....................   4^

SODA.

SOAP.
Laundry.

Armour’s Brands.

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

SOAP.

JAXON

Single box.................................2 75
box lots, delivered.......2 70
5 
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65

JUS. 8. KIRK 5 CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome........................................ 3 33
Cabinet.....................................2 20
Savon........................................2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6  oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Blue India, 100 ft lb................. 3 00
Kirkoline..................................3 75
Eos...................................... 3  65
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Lautz  Bros. &  Co.’s Brands.

STOVE POLISH.

Acme, 70 1 lb. cakes.

Acme, 601 lb  cakes.

Single box............................3 43
'5 box lots..........................  3 35
10 box lots............................3 28
25 box lots..........................  3 23
Single box..........................  3 00
5 box lots..........................  2 90
10 box lots 
.........................2 85
25 box lots..........................  2  80
One box free with 5;  two boxes 
free  with  10;  five  boxes  free 
with 25.
Single box..........................  2 85
5 box lots..........................  2  75
10 box lots............................2  70
25 box lots............................2 65
Single box............................2  65
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.

_ S O A P

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.

 

wS/

100 cakes, 75 lbs.
Single box......................
..2 85
5 box lots.......................
..2 80
10 box lots  ...................... ..2 75
25 box lots.......................
.  2 65
Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Single b o x ...........................2 65
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 60
10 box lots, delivered.  ........2 50
Old Country, 80 1-lb  bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 3i-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 do z......2 40
Sapolio. hand, 3 doz...........2 40

Scouring.

Washing Powder.

SUGAR.

No. 4, 3 doz in case............  4  50
No. 6, 3 doz in case............7 20
Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  In  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf...............................5 50
Domlnp................................5 38
Cubes................................... 5 13
Powdered  .......................... 5  13
XX XX  Powdered.................5 38
Mould  A...............................5 13
Granulated in bbls............... 4 88
Granulated in  bags..............4 88
Pine Granulated...................4 88
Extra Fine Granulated..... 5 00
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 00
Diamond  Confec.  A.......... 4 88
Confec. Standard A..............4 75
No.  1.................................... 4 63
No  2.................................... 4 63
No.  3.................................... 4 63
No.  4 ...................................4 63
No.  5.................................... 4 56
No.  6.................................... 4 50
No.  7.................................... 4 31
No.  8.................................... 4 25
No.  9.................................... 4 19
No.  10.................................... 4 06
No.  11............................  ...3 94
No.  12.................................... 3 88
No.  13.................................... 3 75
No.  14.................................... 3 63
No.  15.................................... 3 50
No.  16.....................................3 44
Lea & Perrin’s,  large....... 4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small....... 2 75
Halford,  large..................3 75
Halford small................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large....... 4 55
Salad Dressing, small....... 2 65

TABLE  SAUCES.

TOBACCOS.

Cigar«.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

" AS. C. W..................................35 00

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

C I G A R

WICKINa.

VINEGAR.

Fresh Fish.

Miscellaneous Brands.

Star Green..........................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
Fish and  Oysters
Per lb.
Whitefish...............
@ 8
T rout......................
@ 7
Black Bass..............
@ 10
Halibut..................
@ 14
Ciscoes or Herring..
@ 4
Bluefish..................
@ 10
Live Lobster.........
@ 18
Boiled Lobster........
@ 19
Cod........................
@ 10
Haddock.................
@ 8
No.  1  Pickerel__.*.
@ 7
Pike.........................
$
6
Smoked White........
@ 7
5
Red Snapper...........
10
Col  River  Salmon..
@
Mackerel 
..............
@ 1214
F. H. Counts...........
@ 40
Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@i  50
Glams,  per  100 .........   90@l  00

Oysters in Cans.
Shell Goods.

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

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages..................   6
su 1 iu 
...................o>4
Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1-lb packages.......... ........  614
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..................
414
40 |h  hotPS
4V
Common Gloss.
1-lb  packages.............. ......  4
3-lb  packages.............. ......  4
.  6-lb  packages.............. ......  414
40 and 50 lb boxes........ ......  214
.Barrels  .................... .......   214

Candies.
Stick Candy.

bbls.  pails
Standard................. 
5A@ 7
5%@  7
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......  6  @ 7
Cut Loaf................. 
@ 8
cases
_  
Extra H. H.............. 
@814
Boston  Cream........ 
@

_  

Mixed Candv.

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

@ 6
@ 654
@ 7
@ 7
@ 7
@
@
@ 8
@
@ 8*4
@ 8)4
@10
@13

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain...... 
@814
@ 8I4
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops...........  11  @14
Choc.  Monumentals 
@12
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
@ 7%
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 8*4
Im perials.............  
@ 8)4

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
@60
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops__ 
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............  
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
@50
A. B. Licorice Drops 
@50
Lozenges,  plain.... 
@50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
Imperials...............  
@50
Mottoes..................  
@55
Cream Bar.............. 
@50
Molasses B a r.........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 125  @
Wlntergreen Berries 
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes................... 
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
„boxes......   .........  
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes..................

@30
@45

Fruits.
Oranges.

Med’t Sweets.

150-176^200 
Messinas.
Fancy  200s.............. 
Choice 200s.............  
St. Michaels.
2008.......................... 
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s.............. 
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Bananas.

@3 1)
@3 75
@3 50

@4 50

@5 00
@5 00
@4 50
@e 00

Medium  bunches... 1  25  @1  50 
Large bunches........1  75  @2 00

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.
@
@12
@e
@8
@ 6
@ 514
<a 4

Figs. Choice  Layers
10 lb 
Figs,  New  Smyrna 
14 and 20 lb boxes. 
Figs,  Naturals  in
30 lb. bags,............ 
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes..................  
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ................... 
Dates,Persians,H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ................... 

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @1214
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @
Brazils new...............   @  714
Filberts  ....................  @iu
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @1214
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.,
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50

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

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  ....;..........  @ g

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

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

78

Local Brands.

Patents.............................  4 40
Second  Patent..................   4 00
Straight............................  3 80
Clear..................................3  40
Graham  ........................... 3  75
Buckwheat.....................   3 40
R ye..................................  a 65
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 14s........................  4 20
Quaker, J4s........................  4 20
Quaker, 14s......  ...............   4 20

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best 14s...........  4 50
Pillsbury’s Best 14s...........  4  40
Pillsbury’s Best V^s...........  4 30
Piilsbury’s Best 14s paper..  4 30 
Pillsbury’s Best * s paper..  4 30 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman's Brand.
Grand Republic, 14s..........   4  60
Grand Republic, 54s..........  4  50
Grand Republic, 14s............4  40
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Parisian,  14s.......................  4 60
Parisian, 14s......................... 4 50
Parisian. 14s.......................[ 4 40

Olney <fe Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, 14s.......................  4 60
Ceresota, 14s.....................” 4 50
Ceresota, l£s.................   ”   4 40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 14s.............  
  4  60
Laurel, 14s ..........................  4 50
Laurel, 14s..........................  4 40

 

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

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened___12 50
No. 1 Com and  Oats...........11 50
Unbolted Corn Meal...........11 00
Winter Wheat  Bran............9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings..  9 50
Screenings..........................  8 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots.............................  28
Less than  car lots........... ” 30

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................. 23
Carlots, clipped................  24U
Less than  car lots.........  27

No. I Timothy carlots......  10 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots___ 11 50

Crackers.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:

Butter.

Seymour XXX....................   4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  414
Family XXX.......................   4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  4‘A
Salted XXX.......................   4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  414 
Soda  XXX  .......................  4 yt
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton... 
5
Soda,  City.........................  544
Zephyrette.........................  10
Long Island  Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10

Soda.

Oyster.

Square Oyster, XXX.  ......   414
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  514
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   414

SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold Water............   13
Belle Rose.........................  6
Cocoanut Taffy.................  9
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey..................   10
Graham Crackers  ............   654
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Sops,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................  614
Jumoles,  Honey...............   10
Molasses  Cakes.................  614
Marshmallow  ..................   12
Marshmallow  Creams......   13
Pretzels,  hand  made  ......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................  614
Sultanas............................  10
Sears’ Lunch......................  614
Sears’ Zephyrette................10
Vanilla  Square...............  
7
Vanilla  Wafers...............   12
Pecan Wafers....................  12
Fruit Coffee.......................   9
Mixed Picnic....................   10
Cream Jumbles..................  1114
Boston Ginger Nuts.........,  6
Chimmie Fadden..............  9
Pineapple Glace................   12
Penny Cakes................  
  6

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

5

614

614
11

514
454

10
9%
914

Barreled Pork.

12  00

follows:
Mess  .............................   8 00
Back  .............................   9 00
Clear  back.....................   8 50
Shortcut..  .....................  8 25
Pig.
Bean  ...  .......................  8 00
Family  ..........................  8 50
Dry Sait Meats.
Bellies...................... 
Briskets  .  ...................... 
Extra shorts............. 
Smoked neats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb average...... 
Hams, 20 lb  average. 
8Ji
Ham dried beef........ 
14H
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear............ 6¡¿@714
California  hams........614@7
Boneless hams
Cooked  ham..................
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound......................
Kettle.............................
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
5 lb Pails..........advance
31b Pails.........advance
Sausages.
Bologna.........................
Liver
„  
614
....................  
Frankfort....................... 
614
P o rk ..............................  
614
Blood  ...........................  
6
Tongue.......................... 
9
Head  cheese..................  
614
Extra  Mess........................   7 00
Boneless  .......................  9 50
Rump..................................10 00
Kits, 15 lbs
80
14  bbls, 40 lbs...............  1 50
14  bblq, 80 lbs...............  2 80
Kits, 15 lbs.....................  
75
14  bbls, 40 lbs...............  1 40
14  bbls, 80 lbs...............  2 75
Pork............................... 
|8
Beef  rounds................... 
314
Beef  middles................. 
8
Sheep.............................  
60
Rolls, dairy..................  
Solid, dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  
Corned beef,  2 lb............2 15
Corned beef, 14  lb...........14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb............2 15
Potted  ham, 
14s.........   60
Potted  ham,  14s..........  1 00
14s.........   60
Deviled ham, 
Deviled ham, 
14s..........  1 00
Potted  tongue 14s.........  
60
Potted  tongue 14s..........   1 00

Canned Meats.

Pigs’ Feet.

Butterine.

10
914
13
1214

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass........................... .  •  514® 7
Fore quarters........ . . .   414® 6
Hind  quarters...... ■ ■  7  @814
Loins  No.  3__
...  9  @12
Ribs....................... . 
.  8  @12
Rounds................. . .   ■  614© 714
Chucks.................
Plates  ....................
@3
Pork.
Dressed.................
@414
Loins....................
@6
Shoulders..............
@514
Leaf Lard.............. . . .   514@ 8
Mutton
Carcass........................... . . .   7  @9
Spring Lambs............. . . .   9  @10
Carcass  ......................... . . . 7   @8

Veal.

Hides  and Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess pay  as  fol-

lows:
Hides.
Green.............................. •  •  514@  ”14
Part  cured....................
@  7
Full Cured....................
. . .   7  @8
T»rv
Kips,  green.................
. . . 6   @7
Kips,  cured.................
. . .   614© 8
Calfskins,  green. . .
. . .   614® 8
Calfskins, cured. . .
. . .   714®  9
Deaconskins  ............. ...25  @30
Pelts.
Shearlings.................... . .  
Lambs...............   .
Old  Wool..............
Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ....................
@1114
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
@  614 @ 8 
W W Michigan.........
High Test Headlight.
@ 7 
D., S. Gas..................
@ 8 
_
Deo. N aptha............  
@ 714
Cylinder................... 25  @36
Engine...................... 11  @21
Black, winter............   @8

5@  10
60@  90

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
14 gal., per doz.................  50
514
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
614
8 gal., per g a l................. 
10 gal., per gal.......... ....... 
614
12 gal., per gal..................  614
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

2 to 6 gal., per gal......   ... 
514
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Cburns.

Milkpans.

14 gal. fiat or rd. bot., doz.  60 
1 gal. fiat or rd. bot., each  514 
14 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  514 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Stewpans.

14 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
14 gal., per doz.................   40
¡4 gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
614

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

14 gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for 14 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
14 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing Wax.

First  Quality.

LAMP  BURNERS.

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

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

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

top,
top,
top,

La  Bastle.

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

Rochester.

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

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

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

Pump  Cans 

LANTERNS.

5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule............10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King__...__   9 50
No.  0 Tubular...... 
........  4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........  3 75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,

each, box 10 cents...........  45
each, box 15 cents.........   45
each, bbl 35!....................  40
cases 1 doz. each............   1  25
20
25
38
53
70

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

LAMP  WICKS.

22

Hardware

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade,  as  is  usual  at  this  time 
of  the  year,  is  very  quiet,  as  jobbing 
houses  as  well  as  factories  have  the  ma­
jority  of  their  traveling  men  away  on 
their  summer  vacations,  and 
in  the 
smaller  towns  farmers  are  busy  with 
their  crops,  so  the  volume  of  business  is 
very  light.  There 
is  but  little  change 
to  note  in  prices,  as  few  of  the  factories 
seem  disposed  to  make  any  advances  at 
the  present  time  and  they  certainly  do 
not  feel 
like  making  any  decline,  as 
they  claim  values  have  reached  the  bot­
tom  notch.  We  should  not  be  surprised, 
if  the  present  strike  in  the  coal  regions 
continues  any  length  of  time,  to  find 
that  it  produces  more or  less  effect  up­
on iron and steel products and all kindred 
goods  that  are  made  from  them. 
If 
factories are compelled  to  close down on 
account  of  lack  of  fuel,  it  certainly  will 
produce  a  scarcity 
in  many  lines  of 
goods. 
is  not  believed,  however, 
that  the  strike  will  continue  for  any 
lengthened  period.

It 

Wire  Nails— The  demand  continues 
very  light  and  prices  remain 
quite 
firm,  although  anyone  desiring  to  place 
a  large  contract  could,  no  doubt,  secure 
concessions  from  the 
ruling  market 
rates.  Jobbers,  however,  are  not  mak­
ing  any  special  change  from  stock, 
while  they  might  be  disposed  to  quote 
lower  prices if  shipped  direct from mill.
Barbed  Wire— Very  little  moving  and 

no  change to note  in  price.

Rope—The  demand  for  certain  sizes 
of  rope  which  is  used in the construction 
of haying  tools  has  been  quite  large  and 
it  has been  quite  difficult  for  jobbers  to 
keep  fully  supplied,  as  a  scarcity  in  all 
markets  has  been  quite  general.  Not­
withstanding  this  great  demand,  how­
ever,  there  has been  no  material  change 
in  prices,  and  rope,  if  anything,  con­
tinues  weak.

Window  Glass—All  window  glass  fac­
tories  are  at  present  closed  down  and 
will  remain  so  for  from  two  to  four 
months. 
It  is  believed  that  stocks  are 
not  as  large  as  last  year  and  that  it  is 
but  a  question  of  time  before  certain 
sizes  will  be  very  scarce  and  prices  will 
be  advanced,  even  from  the  present  fig­
ure.

Files—All  manufacturers  of  files  have 
adopted  a  new  list  which  was  to  take 
effect July  i.  The discount  remains  the 
same  as  before,  but,  with  the  changes 
that  are  made  in  the  list,  it  averages  an 
advance 
in  files  of  about  io  per cent. 
As  soon  as  jobbers  secure  a  supply  of 
the  new  list  they  will  supply  any  and 
all  of  their  trade  with  them  that  desire.
Hay  Tools—There  has  been  a  great 
in  this 
scarcity 
snaths, 
line,  especially 
cradles  and  rakes,  and 
jobbers  and 
dealers  have  been  obliged  to  pick  these 
goods  up  wherever  they  could  find  them 
and 
advanced 
in  order  to  get  them.  General 
prices 
crops 
in  this  part  of  Michigan  seem  to 
be  very  large,  which  has  accounted  for 
the  great  demand  for  all  kinds  of  hand 
tools.  This  scarcity  will  continue  until 
the  season’s  trade  is  over.

in  almost  everything 
scythes, 

in  many  cases  paid 

in 

The  Dictionary  on  Nails.

From Hardware.

What  can  be  said  about  a  nail?  The 
new  “ Century  Dictionary,’ ’ whose  re­
marks  on  saws  we  discussed  in  the  is­
sue  last  preceding,  manages  to devote 
nearly  two  pages  to  this  little  article  of 
the  hardware  trade,and things connected 
with  it.  The  first  definition  is  devoted 
to  the  fingers  and  toes  of  humanity,with

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ance  to  his  work,  and  that  he  was  finan­
cially  injured  by  being  deprived  of 
its 
use.  The  sheriff  returned  the  wheel  and 
paid the  costs.  If  this  decision  is  found 
to  be good  law,  after  passing  the  ordeal 
of  the  higher  courts,  it  is going  to  put a 
check  upon  the  indiscriminate sale  of 
bicycles  to  unscrupulous  persons  who 
are  liable  to  leaye  their  merchant’s bills 
unpaid  and  use  their  earnings  to  pro­
tect  their  bicycles  from  legal  process. 
They  can  now  pay  their  grocery  bills 
and  snap  their fingers  in  the  face  of  bi­
cycle  dealers  and  coolly  enquire,  What 
they  are going  to  do  about  it?  The  in­
stallment  plan  adopted  by  the  dealers in 
wheels 
is  working  untold  mischief  to 
the  credit  trade  in  other  lines  of  busi­
ness.  Wage  earners  who  have  long  re­
lied  upon  the  grocer  or  clothing  dealer 
for  credit  from  week  to  week  or  month 
to  month  are  often  coaxed  into  buying 
wheels  for their  wives  or daughters,  and 
then 
leave  their  bills  for  family  ne­
cessities  either  unpaid  or  only  partly 
paid.  They  don’t  seem  to  realize  that 
they  are 
impairing  their  own  credit 
and,  perhaps,  distressing  their  best 
friends.  A  case  in  point  recently  came 
under  the  writer’s  notice:  A  young 
man  with  a  small  family,  enjoying  a 
fair  salary,  who  was 
in  the  habit  of 
paying  monthly  for  his  supply  of  family

groceries,  had  the  cheek  to  tell  his  gro­
cer  that  he  could  not  pay  his  monthly 
bill  because  he  was  obliged  to  pay 
in­
stallments  on  two  bicycles  used  by  him­
self  and  wife,  at  the  same  time  asking 
for a  full  month’s  credit  besides.  The 
grocer  politely  told  him  that  his  line  of 
credit  was  full-until  the  last  month’s 
bill  was  paid,  giving  as  a  reason  the 
conclusion  that  he  would  be  no  better 
able  to  pay  when  his  next  bicycle  in­
stallments  came  due  than  he  was  then. 
If  every  merchant  would  adopt  the same 
course,  it  would,  in  a  measure,  put  a 
check  upon  the  unbusinesslike  method 
of  selling  bicycles  or any  other  property 
on  the  installment  plan  under 
ironclad 
contracts,  drawn  for  the express  purpose 
of  giving  the  holders  of  such  contracts 
a  preference  over  other 
classes  of 
creditors. 

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

Owosso,  Mich.

Nerves  that  never  relax,  eyes 

that 
never  flinch,  thoughts  that  never  wan­
der,  are  the  harbingers  of  victory.

WM.  BRUMMELER &  SONS,  GRAND  RAPIDS,

Pay  the  highest  price  in  cash for 

M IX E D   RAGS,
RUBBER  BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
OLD  IRON  AND  flE TA LS .

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

you our best prices thereon.

BROWN  St  SEH LER ,

M F R S .

O F H A R N E S S O F  ALL 

K IN D S

For W h o lesale T rade.

\   J>

Send for Special Catalogue. 

Jobbers of

Carriages,
Wagons,
Etc__ __

West Bridge St.,

G R A N D  R A PID S.

which  we  have  little  to  do  in  this  con­
nection— unless,  for  the  benefit  of  care­
less  clerks,  we  make  a  quotation  from 
the ancient  Babees  Book,  where is  found 
the  valuable  advice  to  all who wait upon 
customers: 

‘ * Pare  clene  thy  nailes.r’

In  the  hardware  line,  the  nail  is  de­
fined  as  “ a  pin  or  slender piece of metal 
used  for  driving  through  or  into  wood 
or  other  material 
for  the  purpose  of 
holding  separate  pieces  together,  or  left 
projecting  that  things  may  be  hung  on. 
Nails  usually  taper  to  "a  point  (often 
blunt),  are  flattened  transversely  at  the 
larger  end  (the  head),  and  are  rectan­
gular  or  round  in  section.  Very  large 
and  heavy  nails  are  called  spikes;  and 
a  small  and  thin  nail,  with  a  head  but 
slightly  defined, 
called  a  brad. 
There  are  three  leading  distinctions  of 
iron  nails  as  respects  the  mode  of  man­
ufacture— wrought,  cut,  and  cast.  Nails 
are  said  to  be  seven-pound  nails,  eight- 
pound  nails,  etc.,  according  as  1,000 
of  the  variety  in  question  weigh  seven 
pounds  or  eight  pounds,  etc.,  hence 
such  phrases  as  six-penny,  eight-penny, 
and  ten-penny  nails,  in  which  penny,  it 
is  said,  retains 
its  old  meaning  of 
pound  weight. ’ '
To  nail  a  thing  is  to  fix  or fasten  with 
a  nail  or  nails;  to  drive  nails 
into  for 
the  purpose  of  fastening  or  securing, 
such  as  to  nail  up  a  box,  to  nail  a  shelf 
to  the  wall,  to  nail  down  the  hatches, 
etc.,  to  stud  with nails.  Figuratively,  to 
nail  a  thing  is  to  pin  it  down  and  hold 
it  fast,  such  as  to  nail  a  bargain  or  se­
cure  by  prompt  action. 
It  was  Burns 
who  said :

is 

“ Ev n ministers, they ha’e been kenn’d,
A  rojising whid at times to vend,

In holy rapture,
A n’  n a il’t wi’  Scripture.”

Passing 

into  the  colloquial,  to  “ nail 
to  the  counter”   is  to  put a  counterfeit 
coin  out  of  circulation  by  fastening  it 
with  a  nail  to  the  counter  of  a  shop; 
hence,  figuratively,  to  expose  as false.

Other  definitions  referring  to  the  nail 
are  nailer,  one  who  nails,  who  makes 
nails  or  who  sells  them,  while  a  female 
nailmaker  is  referred  to  by  Hugh Miller 
as  a  naileress.  A  nailery 
is  described 
as  an  establishment  where  nails  are 
is  the  head  of  a 
made.  A  nail  head 
nail,  and  anything 
is  said  to  be  nail­
headed  when  so  shaped  as  to  resemble 
the  head  of  a  nail.

A  nailing-machine  is  one  for  forcing 
or  driving  nails  into  place;  in  carpen­
try,  a  feeding-tube  for  the  nails,  con­
nected  with  a  plunger  or  reciprocating 
hammer;  in  shoe-making,  a  power-ma­
chine  closely  allied  to  the  shoe-pegger, 
used  to  drive  small  metallic  nails  or 
brads  into  the  soles of  shoes.
The  nail-machine  is  a  power-machine 
for  making  nails,  spikes,  brads,  or 
tacks.

A  nail-maker  is  one  who  makes nails; 
a  nailer;  a  person  connected  in  any 
capacity  in  the  manufacture  of  nails.

A  nail-plate  is  plate  of  metal rolled  to 
the  proper  thickness  for  cutting  into 
nails.

A  nail-rod  is a  strip  split  or  cut  from 
an  iron  plate,  to  be  made  into  wrought 
nails.  A  nail-selector  is  a  machine,  or 
an  attachment  to  a  nail  machine,  for 
automatically  throwing  out  headless  or 
otherwise 
ill-formed  nails  and  slivers.
A  countersunk  nail  is  one  having  a 
cone-shaped  head,  like  that  of  a  screw; 
a  cut  nail,  one  made  by  a nail-machine, 
as  distinguished 
from  a  wrought  or 
forged  nail.

“ On  the  nail”   means  on  the  spot;  at 
once; 
immediately;  without  delay  or 
postponement;  as,  to  pay  money  on  the 
nail.  This  phrase  is  said  to  have origi­
nated  from  the  custom  of  making  pay­
ments,  in  the  exchange at  Bristol,  Eng­
land,  and  elsewhere,  on  the  top  of  a 
pillar  called  “ the  nail.”

Bicycle  Sales  on  the  Installment  Plan. 
Written for the  T radksxan.

Justice  Stevenson,  of  Flint,  has  de­
cided  that  a  replevin  suit  to  recover  a 
bicycle  sold  on  the  installment  plan  for 
payments  past  due  under  an 
ironclad 
contract 
is  no  good,  upon  the  ground 
that  a  bicycle  is  exempted  property  un­
der  the  Michigan  statute, 
the  owner 
proving  that  the  wheel  was  a  convey­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Relation  of  the  Hardware  Trade  to 

the  Bicycle  Business.*

it 

Is 

That  I  should  be  called  upon  to  tell 
you  what  I  know about  the bicycle  is  no 
small  surprise  to  me,  and  cannot  be  ex­
plained  away  unless 
is  that  I  am 
often  taken  for—and  frequently  called 
by  the  same  name  as—the  part that  the 
pedal  and  axle  are  attached  to. 
If  this 
is  the  part—and  I  believe  it  is—that 
makes  the  wheel  go  round,  and  we  as 
hardwaremen  are the legitimate handlers 
of  them,  let  us  look  at  the  future  in 
store  for  us.

it  not  a  fact  that  the  wheel  has 
never  been  handled  by  the manufacturer 
and  jobber  to  the  interest  of  the  hard­
ware  trade,  or to  the  seeking  of  the  es­
tablishing  of  a  trade  that  is  to be  some­
thing  for a  future  business,  the  same— 
as  a  matter  of  comparison—as  we  take 
up  a  line  of  stoves?  Run  them,  stay  by 
them,  sell  them.  This 
is  the  history 
of  the  stove  business,  but  it  is  not  so 
with  the  bicycle,  for  we  all  know  that 
any  man,  woman  or  child  can  send  off 
and  buy  a  wheel  as  cheap  as  any  of  us, 
and  then,  as  a  matter  of accommodation 
to  us,  tell  everybody  the  cost  of  same. 
Has  this  not  bad  much  to  do  with  the 
reduction 
in  price,  and  is  it  not  a  fact 
that  the  profit  on  the  wheel business  will 
soon  be  brought  to  the  level  of  other 
goods?  Then,  in  my  opinion,  is  when 
the  hardware  dealers  will  be  drummed 
and  bored  to  death  with  the  manufac­
turer and  jobber,  to  handle  their  partic­
ular  line  and  make,  and  for an  order  of 
from  ten  to fifty  will  give  us  exclusive 
sale and,  possibly,  make  as  low  a  price 
to  us  as  they  would  to  the  party  out­
side  on  one  wheel.

Even 

I  am  led  to  believe  that  the  only  way 
wheels  - can  be  handled,  and  do 
it 
safely, will  be  with a  stock  not  to  exceed 
five  wheels,  and  this  number  only in  the 
early  season,  and  then  with  samples  oi 
each  kind  only  on  the  floor.

.1  am  looking  forward  to the time when 
the  exchange  business  will  be  aban­
doned,  and  it  surely will.  The exchang­
ing  of  the coal  stove  will  be  no  compar­
ison. 
though  we  oftentimes 
wonder  how  some  people  are  able  to 
own  a  wheel,  we  will  be  surprised  to 
find  that  they  will  be  the  first to  have 
the  new  ones.

With  the  decline 

in  price,  are  not 
these  things  noticeable?  The  maniac- 
turers  withdrawing  their  racing  teams, 
cutting  down  their advertising  schemes, 
and,  m  fact,  placing  everything  where 
the  local  dealer  can  do all  he  cares  to, 
to  sell  his  particular  make of  wheel; 
and 
is 
it  not  plain  that  it  has  never 
in  construction  that  the  cost  of 
been 
bicycles  were  so  high?  And  is  it  not 
also  a  fact  that,  with  these high  costs 
removed,  the  manufacturer  has  still  a 
handsome  profit?  Yet  what  amount  of 
sympathy  do  they  show  to  the  retailer 
when  he  is  obliged  to  meet  the  prices 
he  sometimes  has  to  of  the butcher, 
the  baker  and  undertaker?  And  now 
the  pawnbrokers  are  entering  the  field, 
and  this  simply  means  the  demoralizing 
of  the  bicycle  business.

Another  pleasant  feature  that  is al­
ready  making  its  appearance  is  the sell­
ing  of  bicycles  by  our  local  railroad 
station  agents,  and  selling  them  at  first 
the  freight  charges 
cost,  with 
added. 
I  suggest  that,  when  an  agent 
has  not  enough  to  do  to be  kept  busy  by 
the  company,  without  soliciting  busi­
ness  outside, 
it  divide  up  his  time 
at  some  other  station,  and,  if  that  does 
not  keep  him  employed,  give  him  one 
more  station.

just 

Has  the  thought  ever  occurred  to  you 
that  never  has  a  craze  been  taken  up 
with  so  universally  as  the  use  and 
necessity  of  the bicycle  and  the  appar­
ent  accommodation  given  the  users  of 
them!  Go  in  any  city  you  like and  you 
will  see  the  same  familiar  signs:  “ Ice 
Cream— 10  Cents”  — “ Wind  Free”  — 
“ Hold  you 
for  Nothing” — “ Pump 
Yourself’4—and  such  like.  Already  in 
the  construction  of  large buildings  are 
separate  rooms  being  provided  for  the 
keeping  of  the bicycle,  and  now  racks 
are  being  constructed  to  accommodate 
as  many  as  twenty  or more  wheels.
* Paper read at  annual  convention of the Mich­
igan Hardware  Association  by H. W.  Weber, 
or West Bay City.

Is 

Imagine  my  surprise,  upon  coming  to 
my  place  of  business  the  other  day  to 
find  that  a  rural 
friend  had  quietly 
taken  possession  of  my  frontage  and 
had  placed  his 
little  bundle  of  hay 
back  of  the  rack,  with  the  oxen  peace­
fully  enjoying  their  midday  meal  with­
out  being  tied,  and  feeling  perfectly  at 
home.  Upon  another  occasion  I  was 
called  to  the  front  to  answer  the  enquiry 
of  an  intelligent  looking 
individual  as 
to  the  price  of  a  front  for a  dog  house, 
he  having  seen  one  in  front  of  an empty 
dry  goods  case  with  the  side  off. 
it 
not  laughable  the  uses  some  people  put 
some  things  to?

In  strict  confidence,  I  am  going  to 
take  my  fellow  hardware  dealers  into  a 
secret  scheme  of  mine,  with  this  obli­
gation  on  your  part,  to  say  nothing  of 
it,  and  as  this  may  never  appear  in 
print,  “ the  world  will  be  ours,”   and  as 
this is not a “  wind affair, ’ ’ will submit it 
to  you.  My 
invention,  as  the  patent 
right  man  says,  is the  construction  of  an 
outer casing  with  a  flap-tight  opening, 
the  casing  to  be 
filled  with  dried 
sponges,  dried  apples,  or  corn,  and  the 
same  to  be  packed  and  driven  as  close 
together as  is  possible,  and  after  this  is 
done,  pump  full  of  water;  wait until  the 
tire  fills,  jump  on  and  ride  away,  and 
if,  peradventure,  you  puncture  your tire, 
you  can  find  it  at  once,  and  patch  it,  or 
if  on  a  dusty  country  road,  you  can 
sprinkle  the  road  ahead  of  ybu,  and 
make  wheeling  a  pleasure.  If the  casing 
is  filled  with  corn,  there  need  be  no 
long  time  between  drinks,  and 
for  a 
chaser—tell  the  Government.
Now  let  us,  if  you  please,  separate  a 
bicycle  and  put 
it  together  after  this 
manner.  Let  us  frame  our  business* re­
lations,  one  to  another,  as  our 
interests 
are  identical,  and 
in  such  a  way  as  to 
rim-ember  a  competitor’s  welfare  as 
well  as  our  own,  and  we  will  never 
handle,  bar-ring  reliable  makes,  any 
wheel  sold  by  others  than  the  legitimate 
trade, 
and  we  will  bawl,  bearing 
such  information  to  the  people  continu­
ing 
same,  and  we 
will  willingly  fork  over  any  reasonable 
amount  to  promote  this  object,  and  if 
spoke  unto  upon  this  subject,  we  will 
not saddle  the  buiden  upon  our  neigh­
bor,  but  will  pedal  our  own  canoe,  and 
let  us  never  tire  in well-doing ;  and may 
the  meetings  of  this  Association  forge  a 
chain  never  to  be  broken  and  finally, 
after  this  life,  may  we  have  a  double 
front  crown  and  a  diamond  frame  of 
mind.

supply 

the 

to 

Collapse  of  the  New  Door  Trust.
The  Western  Door  Company,  which 
promised  to  embrace 
the  prominent 
sash,  door  and  blind  factories  of  the 
Mississippi  Valley,  and  for  which  arti­
cles  of  incorporation  were  recently  filed 
at  Springfield,  has  collapsed.  The  com­
pany,  which  represented  the  consolida­
tion  of  seven  lumber  manufacturing  in­
dustries,  had  been 
incorporated  under 
the laws  of  Illinois,  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $1,000,000,  all  of  which  had  been 
subscribed. 
The  plan  was  severely 
criticised  by  the  public  as  another 
gigantic  trust.  The  manufacturers  say 
they  were  accused  of  conspiring  to  re­
duce  the  wages  of  their  workmen  and 
advance  prices.  The  result  was  that 
one  by  one  the  leading  members  of 
the  combine  withdrew,  and  hence  the 
collapse.

Many  a  man  works  his  way  up  from 
in  order  to give  his  son  a 

the  bottom 
chance  to  play  his  way  down.

Bay Yiew Rates:

Tickets will be sold via  the  Grand 
Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway  to  Bay 
View and  return  July  12  to  22,  good 
returning  until  August  21,  at  one 
fare for round trip from all  Michigan 
points.  Send for  illustrated descrip­
tive matter  to

C .  L .  Lockw ood,

o.  P.  & T.  A..

Grand Rapids, Mich.

CHISELS

DRILLS

ELBOWS

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

BARROWS

Railroad  ..'......................................... 112 00  14 00
Garden...............  ...............................  net  30 00

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

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

BUCKETS

60*10 
70 to 75

.......... $ 3 25

BUTTS,  CAST
Oast Loose  Pin, figured............
Wrought Narrow........................... ..............70*10
............ 70*10

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

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS 

Cast Steel............................
CAPS

Ely’s  1-10...................................
Hick S C.  F ................................... .. 
n   T-v 
Musket................................

............................ ^

.  .  npr m  

..per lb 

70

4

55

CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire.........................................
Central  Fire.......................

. . . .  
............. 5

.. -50&  5 

Socket Firmer................. 
Socket Framing............................. 
 
Socket Comer.................  : ............... ....... 
Socket  SUcks........................................" ' ’ 

 

 

go
go
go
go

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

Com. 4 piece, 6 in........................... doz. net 
Corrugated........................................... 
Adjustable*.........................................,'dis 40*10

55
j  25

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26 ................. 
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30............................ 

30*10
25

FILES—New  List

New American.........................................   70*10
Nicholson’s............................................  
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps................................   .CC&iO

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

28
17

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

70
go

MATTOCKS

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

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

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

MILLS

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

MOLASSES  OATES

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

PLANES

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

PANS

Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished.................................  
70*  5
60
Iron and  Tinned  ........................................ 
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
¿0

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 V4c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HINGES

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron  Ware........................ new list 40*10
HOLLOW  WARE
Pots............................................  
.....60*10
Kettles  ......................................................... 60*10
Spiders.........................................................60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3.........  ....................dis 60*10
State.........................................perdoz.net  2 50
Bright................. 
80
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s..........................................................  
80
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
ROPES
Sisal, V4 inch and  larger........
Manilla..  ...............................
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.........................
Try and Bevels.....................
M itre......................................

WIRB  GOODS

5J48

 

 

SHEET  IRON

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

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

Nos. 10 to 14................................... $3 30 
Nos. 15 to 17.  ................................  3 30 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................   3 45 
Nos. 22 to 24 ...................................  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
50
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s 70*10*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market...................................
75
Annealed  Market...............................
70*10 
Coppered  Market................................
Tinned Market................................
62 Vi 
Coppered Spring  Steel....................
50 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ............
205 
Barbed  Fence,  painted...................
1  70
Au Sable...........................................
.dis 40*1C 
Putnam............................................
dis 
5 
N orthwestern...................................
dis 10*10
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled.......
30
Coe’s Genuine................................. .
50
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought 
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable..................
80
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages...................................
50
Pumps. Cistern..............................
80
Screws, New List............................
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................
50*10*10
Dampers, American.........................
50
600 pound casks.............................
Per pound......................................

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

6*

SOLDER

ti@ K...........................................................  12V4
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
14x201C, Charcoal......................................  5  75
20x14 IX, Charcoal...........................................  7 00

Each additional X on this grade, 11.25.

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, f per P°und - ■ • 

0
9

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

40
40
40
30

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.

»60  S. Ionia St. 

- 

Grand Rapids, Mlcb

Telephone  6 * 0

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PIGGISH  PEDDLERS.

Detroit  Oil  Hawkers  Claim the  Earth.
Detroit,  July  12—At  the  regular  semi­
monthly  meeting  of  the  Detroit  Retail 
Grocers’  Association,  held  July  7,  the 
special  Committee  on  Peddling  Ordi­
nance  reported  that  a  case  had  been 
decided 
in  the  chancery  court  which 
compels  the  Mayor  to  accept  the  bonds 
now  being  offered  for  all  the  §5  licenses 
taken  out  previous  to  the  enactment  of 
the  new  ordinance. 
The  Committee 
has  been  informed  that  it  is  the  inten­
tion  of  Assistant  Corporation  Counsel 
Joslyn  to  take  the  matter to the  Supreme 
Court, _but  has  not  been  advised  as  to 
what  steps  have  been  taken  by  that gen­
tleman. 
It  is  the opinion  of  this  Com­
mittee  that  the  Common Council will not 
interfere  with  the  present  ordinance,  no 
matter what  may  be  done  with  the  bond 
cases.

This  same  Committee,  to  whom  was 
referred  the  matter  of  securing  a  solici­
tor  tor  the Association,  reported  having 
had  several applications tor the position, 
one  of  which  the  Committee  was  care­
fully  considering,  the  applicant  being 
possessed  of  all  qualifications  necessary 
tor such  work.  A  final  decision  will  be 
reached  and  a  report  presented  at  the 
next  meeting.

The  special  Committee  on  the  Milk 
Ordinance  reported  having  .gathered 
some 
information  on  the  subject,  and 
in  its  judgment  it  would  not  be  advis­
able  to  disturb  the  ordinance  at present. 
The dealers  have  all  paid  their  licenses 
for one  year,  and  there  would  be  noth­
ing  to  gam  by  taking  the  matter  up. 
The  Committee  recommended  that  a 
petition  be  presented  to  the  Common 
Council  sometime  during  the  year  to 
amend  the  ordinance,  which  could  be 
accomplished  without  difficulty.  The 
reports  were  accepted  and  the  commit­
tee  was  relieved  from  any  further  work 
on  the  milk  ordinance.
^The  Committee  on  Oil  made  a  report 
of  their  investigations  as  follows:
Your  Committee  first  called  upon  the 
oil  peddlers’  union,  having  been  re­
quested  to  do  so  by  some  of  the  officers 
of  the  union.  After  listening  carefully 
to  their  side  of  the question,  their  ob­
ject  was  brought  out:  They desired  the 
company  to  supply  them  with  oil  laid 
down  on  track  in  tank  cars,  they  to  do 
their  own  hauling  from  these  cars  and 
thereby  cut  off  the  cost  of  handling  by 
the  company.  They  would  also  make 
these  cars  strictly  union,  so  that  none 
but  union  peddlers  could  get  supplied, 
and  by  this  means  they  hoped  to compel 
all  oil  peddlers  to  join  the  union.  Your 
Committee  next  visited  the  oil  com­
panies  and  had  an  interview  with  Mr. 
Foster,  the  Manager of  the  Standard Oil 
Co.,  who  did  not  favor the  demand  of 
the  peddlers.  Mr.  F oster stated,  as  one 
reason  that his  company  had  refused  the 
demands  of  the  peddlers,  that  in  all 
their experience with  these men they had 
found  them  to  be  an  uncertain  quantity. 
They  are  here  to-day  and  somewhere 
else at  another  time.  Mr.  Foster  called 
the  attention  of  the  Committee  to  the 
fact  that  there  had  been  a  good  profit  in 
oil  at  all  times,  and  he  considered  that 
the  peddlers  bad  no grievance,  and were 
acting  from  selfish  motives  altogether. 
He  also  referred  to  the  investments  of 
his company,  representing  many  thou­
sands  of  dollars,  which  he  claimed  the 
right  to  protect.  To  grant  the  request 
of  the  peddlers  would  be  to  reduce  the 
earning  capacity  of  a  large  portion  of 
this  capital,  as  well  as  take  away  the 
employment  of  many  workmen.  The 
company  now  furnishing  oil in tank cars 
to  the  peddlers 
is  a  foreign  corpora­
tion,  with  not  a  dollar  invested  in  De­
troit.  The  Greenslade  Oil  Co.  took  the 
same  view  of  the  matter  as  did  the 
Standard  Co.,  and  your  Committee  is of 
the  opinion  that  the  oil  companies,  fig­
uring  from  a  business  standpoint,  acted 
wisely.  The  report  was  accepted,  and 
the  Committee  instructed  to again  visit 
the  oil  companies  and  endeavor  to  do 
away  with  all  rebates  from  stand  wag­
ons,  making  one  price  to  all.

The  Committee on Excursion  reported 
having  made  arrangements  for  an  ex­
cursion  to  Lashmoo  Park  by the Steamer 
Greyhound  on  Aug.  18.  The  report  was

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

accepted  and  the  following  committees 
appointed:

Floor  and  Music— Prue,  Einfeldt, 

Harrison,  Reise  and  Ketz.

Refreshments—Schneider,  King,  Mis- 

ner,  Marks  and  McPharlan.

Games—Koenig,  De  Clerq,  Villerot, 

Mattheai  and  Grewe.

nig  and  Prue.

Prizes— King,  Villerot,  Frink,  Koe­
The  meeting  then  adjourned.

E.  Marks,  Sec’y.

Jackson  Grocers  To  Go  To  Lake 

Erie  Park.

'   Jackson,  July  12—At  the  meeting  of 
the  Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion,  held  July  6,  the  principal  matter 
under  discussion  was  the  annual  excur­
sion  and  picnic.  The general committee 
recommended  the  selection  of  the  resort 
at  Clark  Lake.  Pending  action, 
the 
General  Passenger  Agent  of  the  C.,  J. 
&  M.  Railway  and  the  Commeicial 
Agent  of  the  L.  S.  &  M.  S.  Railway 
were  invited  to  attend  the  meeting,  for 
the  purpose  of  stating  the  inducements 
they  could  offer  to  the  different  points. 
After  the  conference  and  ensuing  dis­
cussion, 
their 
leave.  Motion  was  made  that  action  be 
deferred,  and  it  was  resolved  to  hold  an 
adjourned  meeting  on  Friday  evening, 
July 9.

the  railway  men  took 

The  President appointed  the  follow­

ing  standing  committees  for  the  year:
Legg  and  J.  H.  Fuller.

Trade  Interests—I.  N.  Branch,  B.  D. 

Entertainment— M.  M.  Whitney,  M. 
J.  Cummings,  J.  F.  Helmer  and  H. 
Warner.

Transportation— D.  S.  Fleming,C.  G. 
Hill,  B.  G.  Champlin,  Paul  Haefner 
and  H.  H.  Neesley.

Auditing—B.  G.  Champlin,  L.  Pelton 
and  H.  C.  Eddy.
Retiring  Treasurer  J.  F.  Helmer 
made  a  final  report  of  the  business  of 
his  office  and,  on  motion,  was 
in­
structed  to  surrender  the  books,  papers 
and  funds 
in  his  possession  to  J.  L. 
Petermann,  his  successor  in  office.
The  adjourned  meeting  was  called  to 
order  last  Friday  evening  by  President 
Lewis,  who  announced  that  the  meet­
ing  was  held  for  the  purpose  of  settling 
the  question  of 
location  for  the  sixth 
annual  outing. 
It  was  announced  that 
several  persons  were  in  waiting to speak 
for  the  different  points and,  on  motion, 
Messrs.  Branch,  Murray  and  Champlin 
were  appointed  a  committee  to  intro­
duce  the  visitors.  Upon  their  return, 
they  presented  T.  C.  M.  Schindler,  of 
the  C.,  J.  &  M.  Railway;  Mr.  Lester, 
of  the  Lake  Erie  Park  and  Casino;  F. 
C.  Badgley  and  R.  Tawse,  of  the  Clark 
Lake  Boat  Co.,  and  W.  W.  Howard,  of 
the  L.  S,  &  M.  S.  Railway.

After  discussion  and  descriptions  of 
the  merits  of  the  various  resorts,  the 
visitors  retired  and  a  vote  was  taken  on 
all  of  the  resorts  that  had  been  consid­
ered,  with  the  result  that  Lake  Erie 
Park  and  Casino  was  selected  as  the 
place  and  the  C.,  J.  &  M,  Railway  as 
the  route.

The  chairman  of  the  general  com­
mittee  called  a  meeting  for  Monday, 
July  12,  to  select  the  date  and  lay  out 
the  work  of  the  several  committees.

W .  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.

Believes  Peddling  Will  Be  Curtailed.
Coral,  July  13— Will  you  please  send 
me a  few  blank  forms  for  peddlers’ 
li­
cense,  also  bonds,  as  1  see  you  very 
generously  offer  to  do  in  the last Trades­
man. 
I  have  read  in  the  Tradesman all 
you  have  said  about  the  peddling  nui­
sance  and  think  you  have  had  a  good 
deal  to  do  with  getting  the  present 
law 
enacted. 
1  think  the  peddler  will  not 
trouble  us  much  now  since  the  new  law, 
as  there  has  not  been  a  license asked 
for  in  our town. 

J.  S.  N e w e l l .

Coffee— Prices  are  generally  low,  and 
inclina­
the  market  does  not  show  any 
tion  toward  an  advance  on  Brazils.  The 
milder grades  of  coffee  are firm,  and  the 
supply 
is  not  large.  The  war  between 
the  roasters  of  coffee  is  still  on,  and  the 
condition  of  the  current  crop  of  Brazils 
is  encouraging  to  such  a  fight,for  prices 
are  low  and  the  market  is  rather over­
stocked.

Preparations  for  the  Druggists’  Con­

vention  at  Grand  Ledge.

Secretary  Schrouder  has  returned from 
Grand  Ledge,  where  the  fourteenth  an­
nual  convention  of  the  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association  will  be held 
Aug.  3,  4  and  5,  and  says  the  druggists 
of  that  place  will  greet  the  Michigan 
druggists  with  open  arms.

The  meetings  will  be  held  in  the par­
lors  of  the  Island  House.  The  hotel 
is 
beautifully  situated  on  the  largest  of 
the  famous  Seven  Islands.  Mr.  Mudge, 
the  proprietor,  has  made a  rate  that  will 
be  very acceptable for the visitors—$1.50 
per  day—and  he  says  that,  if  he  cannot 
accommodate  all  who  come,  he  will 
arrange  with  the  two  other  hotels,  so 
that  first-class  accommodations  will  be 
assured  to  all  who  go.
A.  B.  Schumacher, 

the  local  Secre­
tary,  and  A.  O.  Halstead  have  appoint­
ed  Messrs.  W.  F.  Griffith,  L.  M.  Mills, 
Geo.  Wilcox  and  Charles  Hurd  to  act  as 
a  special  committee  to  meet  the  visit­
ing  druggists  at  the  trains  as  they  ar­
rive  and  escort  them  to  their  hotels. 
The  druggists  of  Grand  Ledge  have 
also  arranged  to  have  a  business  men's 
picnic  on  Wednesday,  Aug.  4.  This 
means  a  heap  of  fun,  for  the  town  will 
be  in  gala  attire  and  the  afternoon  will 
be  given  up.  to  games  and  festivity. 
This 
is  the  same  afternoon  that  the 
druggists  of  the  Michigan  State  Phar­
maceutical Association have  their  carni­
val  of games and  contests,  to  wind  up 
with  an  apothecaries'  grand  ball  in  the 
evening.

The  first  business  session  of  the  con­
vention  will  be  called  at  2 o’clock Tues­
day  afternoon  and  will  be  opened  with 
an  address  of  welcome  by  Mayor  Do­
herty,  to  which  H.  J.  Brown,  of  Ann 
Arbor,  will  respond. 
is  requested 
that  all  who  expect  to  attend  the  con­
vention, whether  members  of  the  Michi­
gan  State  Pharmaceutical Association  or 
not,  be  on  hand  by  noon  of  the  first 
meeting  day.
Attention 

called  to  the  prizes 
offered  for  papers,  as  published  in  the 
last  week’s  issue  of  the  Tradesman.

It 

is 

Every  pharmacist 

is  urged  to  bring 
along  his  views  in  written  form,  so  they 
may  be  published 
in  the  annual  pro­
ceedings.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  to  consider and  decide  upon  a  lo­
cation  for  the  eleventh  annual  picnic, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  Tuesday 
evening, July  13,  Vice-President Wagner 
presided.
The  Committee  on  Location  recom­
mended  Reed’s  Lake  as  the  place  of 
picnic,  which  was  unanimously  con­
curred  in.

A  communication  was  presented  from 
the  H.  J.  Heinz  Co.,  volunteering  to 
furnish  badges  for  the  event,  which  was 
accepted  with  thanks.

A  communication  was  also  presented 
from  the  New  York  Biscuit  Co.,  offer­
ing  to  furnish  25,000  handbills  announc­
ing  the  fact  that  the  grocery  stores 
would  be  closed  all  day  Aug.  5,  which 
was  accepted  with  thanks.

Homer  Klap  offered  the  .following 
resolution,  which  was  unanimously 
adopted :
Resolved—That  the  retail  meat  deal­
ers  of  the  city  be  invited  to  join  with 
the  retail  grocers 
in  celebrating  the 
eleventh  anniversary  picnic  of  the  Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association,  to  be  held  at 
Reed’s  Lake,  Aug.  5.

Resolved—That  all  meat  dealers  and 
their  clerks  be  eligible  to  participate  in 
the  games  and  contests, the  same  as  gro­
cers  and  grocery  clerks.

President  Winchester  was  unable to 
be  present,  but  sent  a  communication

to  the  Association,making  the  following 
appointments:

Sports— Fred.  W.  Fuller,  John  Wit­

ters,  Jesse  Valentine.
C.  W.  Mulholland,  Cornelius  Salie.

Badges—John  Smyth,  E.  A.  Kernen, 

Programme—J.  Geo.  Lehman,  A. 

Brink,  Frank  Dyk.

kill,  E.  C.  Jenkins.

Judges— B.  S.  Harris,  J.  Frank  Gas- 
The  report  was  approved  and  the 
committees  instructed  to  enter  upon  an 
energetic  campaign  of  preparation.
meeting  adjourned.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

The  Grocery  Market.

It 

There 

Sugar—The  whole  line  of  refined  sug­
ars  advanced  %c 
last  Thursday,  and 
further  advances  are  in  the  immediate 
prospect. 
is  not  expected  now  that 
these  advances  will  aggregate  more 
than  %c,  which  will  carry  granulated 
to  5c,  where  it  is  expected  to  settle  for 
the  summer. 
is  talked  of  an 
added  tax  on  refined  sugars  made  out  of 
raws  brought 
into  the  country  during 
the  incubation  of  the  tariff  law. 
If  this 
is  done,  the  price  of  sugars  is  likely  to 
be  increased  to  the  customer;  and  al­
though  perhaps  not  the  full  cent  per 
pound  of  the  tax,  yet  it  will  tend  to  put 
the  price  up.  There 
is  in  this  country 
more  raw  sugars  to-day  than  ever  before 
at  one  time  in  the  history  of  the  coun­
try.  This  was  done  to  avoid  the  added 
tax  on  raws,  the  Trust  washing  both 
hands  by  the  operation—making  money 
on  these  importations  of  raws  and  rais­
ing  the  duty  on  granulated  sugars  to 
keep  out  foreign  granulated.

Tea—The  importers  who  were  certain 
of  a  tax  of  ioc  per  pound  on  teas  gave 
their  factories 
in  Japan  license  to  buy 
at  4j£c  above  first  limits,  expecting  to 
make  the  remainder  of  the  ioc  as  so 
much  clear gain.  On the strength  of  this 
hope  they  have  brought  to  this  country 
more  tea  than  is  needed  for  an  average 
year’s  consumption,  and  that  at  a  figure 
higher  than  might  have  been  paid  had 
not  the  tariff  rumor  ran  the  market  up. 
There  were  many  importers  who  did not 
buy  at  these  prices,  being  either  skep­
tical  of  the  tariff  passing,  or  not  in  po­
sition  to  raise  their  limits,  or  who  had 
bought  before  the  talk  of  an  increased 
duty  came  up.  The  grocery  jobbers  of 
this  market  are  among  the  more  fortu­
nate  buyers,and  will be  able  to  sell  their 
teas  at  prices  such  as  would  have  pre­
vailed  had  not  the  tariff  scare  come 
about.  The  trade  in  tea  in  this  market 
now  is  fair.

Canned  Goods~No  fluctuation  in  to­
matoes  is  looked  for  in  the  near  future. 
Corn 
is  unchanged,  the  demand  being 
only  moderate  and  the  price unchanged. 
There 
is  some  enquiry  for  corn  at  a 
shaded  price,  but  this  is  not  to be  had. 
The  demand  for  peas  is  not  very  satis­
factory.  Jobbers  are  in  a  waiting  mood, 
and  it  has  paid  them  to  wait,  for  while 
the  most  of  the  standard  brands  have  as 
yet  not  declined,  several  packers  have 
made  prices  under  the  market.  This 
may  affect  the  whole  market  a  little 
later.

Fish—The  demand  for  mackerel  is 
very  good.  The  fact  that  the  American 
catch  has  been  so  small,  and  that  the 
few  fish  caught  have  been  sold  mostly 
fresh,  has  stimulated  the  demand  for 
winter-packed  mackerel,  and 
the 
present  business 
increases,  the  supply 
will  probably  be  well  cleaned  up.  The 
is  slightly  stronger,  and  ad­
market 
vances  are  expected.  Cod 
is  selling  to 
a  slight  extent and  the  market  is  firm. 
New  lake  fish  are  in  the  market  and  the 
quality  is  very  good.  Prices  have  ad­
vanced  %c  per  pound,  as  the  stock  is 
not  plentiful.  Salmon 
is  moving  well 
at  unchanged  prices..

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in  buying  W a sh   Goods  now  is

The  Prices  are  Lower

Som e  lines  not  being  com plete,  a  general  re­
duction  has  been  made  to  clean  them all  out.

P .  Steketee & Sons,

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are good  sellers.
Mail orders filled promptly.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.

WHOLESAlE  DRV  GOODS,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Contain  all  the  good  qualities  of  a  rapid 
seller,  with  strong points  reinforced.

Write  for samples.

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What  weighs  the  goods  sold? 

“ Selling  your  goods.” 

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money— that  make  yourself and clerks  as  careful in weighing  as  when  changing 
money.  Opr  Moneyweight  Scales  are  also  the  finest  pound  and  ounce  scales 
made,  but  to weigh  in  money  is  far  the  more  profit  saving.

Yours  for  moneyweight  and  profit  saving,

The Computing Scale Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

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Leave GRAND HAVEN at 9.00 p.  m. 
Daily  except  Saturday,  arriving 
in 
CHICAGO the following morning  in  time 
for the outgoing trains.

THIS IS THE SHORT LINE TO CHICAGO

Passengers should see that their tick­

ets read via this popular line.

Through  tickets  to  all  points  via 
Chicago  can  be  had  of all  agents on 
D., G.  H.  &  M.,  C.  &  W.  M.  R’y,  T., 
S. &  M.  R’y, G.  R.  &  I.  R.  R..  and of 
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Muskegon, orN.  R o b b i n s , Jr., Grand 
Haven.

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FOR

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

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Home  Made  Catsup

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

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

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

At wholesale by ClaricJewell-Weils Co., Ball-Barnhart-Pntman  Co.,  Grand  RepidE, 

and the best jobbers everywhere in the United  States. 

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