Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  11,  1897.

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some kind of Silver Polish?  Do you sell it to them?  Prob 
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class  of  goods;  they don't take  up  much  room  and  don't  % 
spoil on your hands.  W e make Silver  Polish, and  a  good 
one, too. 
If it were not, do you suppose that the M ichigan 
Soldiers' Home would use it?  Quartermaster Hinsdill says 
it's the only polish that they have ever found that will clean 
their aluminum dishes without injury.

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(that's what we call it)  is put up in attractive round wood­
en boxes and makes a showy shelf package.  G ists you $i 
per doz. and retails for  J5c.  80 per cent, profit is  not  bad, 
is it? 
It is packed 3 doz. in a case, but  you  don't  have  to 
buy a full case unless  you want  to.  A ny  Grand  Rapids 
jobber w ill send you whatever quantity you want with your 
next  order,  or  you  can  send  us  the  money  and  we  w ill 
prepay charges.
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Manitowoc  Lakeside  Peas  have 
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canned vegetables this season.  In 
fact,  they  are  now  hard  to  se­
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Price is  advancing  daily.  This 
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Mention where you saw this ad.

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Volume  XIV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  11,  1897.

Number  725

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W holesale Clothing  M anufacturers,

Rochester,  N.  Y.

Established Nearly One-half Century.

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meet him as under  (customers’  expenses  allowed) 
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LOFTY  BUILDINGS.

The  lofty  business  structures  which 
are  met  on  all  sides  in  the  principal 
streets  of  American  cities  are, in respect 
to  the  extreme  pjpularity  into  which 
they  have  grown,  remarkable  examples 
of  the  effect  of  fashion  and  fancy  upon 
the  minds  of  business  men,  the  sort  of 
people  who  would  be  supposed  compar­
atively  free  from  such  influences.

The  first  of  such  buildings  were  sug­
gested  by  the  necessity  of  forcing  the 
high-priced  real  estate  in  business  cen­
ters  of  modern  cities  to  afford  the  larg­
est  rentals  possible. 
It  was  not  always 
easy  to  get  a  sufficient  income  from  or­
dinary  structures  on  shallow  or  narrow 
lots  valued  at  thousands  of  dollars  to 
each  front  foot,  and,  in  order  to  meet 
this  demand,  it  was  proposed  to  con­
struct  buildings  with  a  sufficient  num­
ber  of stories to yield an adequate rental.
Such  buildings  were an  experiment. 
They  were  erected 
in  the  face  of  the 
general  prejudice  against  going  up  to 
unusual  heights  in  houses.  There  is  al­
ways  danger  of  fire,  and  the  risk  to  hu­
man  life  is  aggravated  by  the  loftiness 
of  the  building,  while  the  difficulties  of 
extinguishing  conflagration  are  greatly 
ncreased  by  the  piling  on  of stories.
In  spite  of  such  weighty  objections, 
the  towering  structures  have  proved 
financial  successes,  more  so, 
indeed, 
than  the  necessities  of  business  would 
seem  to  warrant,  since  the  modern  sky- 
parlors  find  tenants  when  the  old-fash­
ioned  houses  go  begging.  A  writer  in 
Scribner’s  mentions  that  one of  the  first 
of  these buildings  erected  in  New  York 
City  was  finished  in  1868,  and  the  man­
ager  let a  suite  on  the  top  floor  for  $850 
a  year.  He  raised  the  rent  the  next 
year  to  $1,250,  and,  thinking  the  limit 
reached 
in  that  figure,  signed  a  con 
tract  for  a  five-year  lease.  Bound  by 
his  agreement,  he  had  to  refuse  offers 
rising  gradually  to  $4,500,  which  he got 
readily  at  the  end  of  the  sixth  year. 
People  became  accustomed  to  the  ele 
vator,  and  now  the  top  stories  of  high 
buildings  bring 
in  more  rent  than  the 
middle  floors.

No  good  reason  can  be  seen  for  this, 
so  far  as  the  tenants  are  concerned,  and 
their  preference  for  the  upper  stories 
seems  to  be  more  the  result  of  some 
psychological  operation  on  the  mind 
and  nervous  system  than  anything  else. 
It  is  true  that  one gets,'  to  a  certain  ex­
tent,  above  the noises  and dust of a city, 
but  this,  after  all,  is  only  a  partial  es­
cape  from  the  dust  and  smoke  of  tall 
chimneys.

Possibly  there  may  be  some  pleasur­
able  effect  derived 
in  going  up  and 
down  rapidly,  on  a  swift-moving  elva- 
tor.  Nevertheless,  the  attractiveness  of 
the  sky  garrets  for  tenants,  where  there 
is  no  advantage  of  cheapness,  is  not 
apparent.

To  the  proprietor,  under  the  circum­
stances,  the advantage  is  obvious.  He 
can  multiply  the  space  he  owns by  pil­
ing  on  stories,  and  so  long  as  there  is  a 
demand  for  his  rooms,  the  more he  has 
is  also  said  that  these 
the  better. 
It 
buildings  are 
favorite 
for 
loans,  and  mortgages  on  them  can  be

security 

negotiated  on  easier  terms  than  are 
given to  almost  any  other  real  estate.

Such  buildings  continue  to  be  in  de­
in  great  favor.  So  long  as 
is  the  case,  they  will  continue  to 

mand  and 
this 
be  built.

consequently 

NEW  FEDERATION  SCHEM E.
The  announcement  that  the  British 
government  has  denounced  the commer­
cial  treaties  existing  with  Germany and 
Belgium,  and  that 
the 
treaties  will  terminate 
in  a  year,  has 
caused  no  little  comment  in  Europe. 
Naturally  enough,  the  German  press 
profess  to  see  in  this  course  adopted  by 
Great  Biitain  an  evidence  of  hostility 
towards  German  trade  interests,  and  the 
strained  relations  which  have  existed 
between  England  and  Germany 
for 
some  time  make  this  view  of  the  matter 
appear  plausible.

treaties 

in  denouncing  the 

In  England  the  action  of  the  govern­
ment 
is 
universally  applauded,  not  because  it  is 
believed  that  the  action  is  taken  as  a 
show  of  hostility  towards  Germany,  but 
because  it  is  understood  that 
it  marks 
the beginning  of  a  movement  in  the  in­
imperial  federation.  By  the 
terest  of 
denunciation  of  commercial 
treaties 
Great  Britain  is able to place herself in a 
position  to  accord  special  privileges  to 
colonial  trade.  A  readjustment  of  the 
commercial  relations  between  the  moth­
er  country  and  her  colonies  is  regarded 
by  all  who  have  studied  the  question  as 
a  necessary  preliminary  to  any  success 
ful  movement 
in  the  direction  of  im­
perial  federation.

There 

is,  therefore,  no  ground  for 
supposing  that  any  hostility 
towards 
Germany  was  behind  the  decision  to 
denounce  the  treaty  with  that  country. 
German  trade 
is  not  likely  to  suffer 
materially  from  the  withdrawal  of  the 
treaty. 
is,  therefore,  probable  that 
as  soon  as  the  situation  is  better  under­
stood  the  resentment  now  felt  in  Ger 
many  will  disappear.

It 

The  course  adopted  by  Great  Britain 

If 

with  respect  to  Germany  should  be 
warning  to  all  other  countries  with 
which  that  country  has 
commercia 
treaties. 
it  should  prove  to  be  true 
that  the  treaties  were  denounced  in  the 
interest  of  imperial  federation,  all  other 
treaties  which  are  calculated  to  prevent 
England  from  according  special  rights 
and  privileges  to  her  colonies  are 
pretty  sure  to  be  also  denounced.

The  whole  matter 

is  especially  im­
portant  as 
indicating  that  Lord  Salis­
bury  has  at 
last  resolved  to  make  an 
earnest  attempt  to  bring  about  some 
measure  of  imperial federation,although 
there 
is  nothing  to  indicate  as  yet  the 
full  scope  of  the  scheme  he has in mind.

The  Grand  Rapids  Boys’  Annual.
Grand  Rapids.  Aug.  11—The  annual 
picnic  of  the  Grand  Rapids  traveling
men  will  be  held  at  Reed’ s  Lake,  Sat­
urday,  Aug.  14.  Take  boat  at  2  p.  m. 
sharp  for  Alger  Park,  where  the  ball 
games  and  other  sports  will  take  place. 
After  the  games,  lunch  will  be  served 
in  the  grove  in  the  rear  of  Ramona  pa­
vilion.  Dancing  in  the  evening  at  the 
Lakeside  Club.  Everybody  is  requested 
to  bring  a  full  lunch  basket.

F .  W.  H a d d e n , 

GENERAL  TRADE  S ITU A TIO N .
The  improvement  noted  in  prices 

in 
most  lines  during  the  past  two  or  three 
weeks  continues  and,  in  addition,  there 
are  several  more  of  the  most 
important. 
—like  some of  the  leading  forms  of iron 
manufacture—in  which  the  tide  of  re­
covery  has  manifestly  set  in.  A  signifi­
cant  feature  of  the  situation  is  the  con- 
inued  advance  and  activity  in the stock 
market.  The  development  of  public 
buying  has  been  such  that  the  volume 
of  business  breaks  the  record  for  sev­
eral  years  past,  and  the  attempt  by 
speculators  and  foreign  sellers  to  make 
a  reaction  resulted  in  absolute  failure. 
An  interesting feature of  the  situation  is 
that  the  demand  covers  all  lines  of 
in­
dustrial  and  transportation  stocks,  in­
dicating  that  the  movement is based up­
on  confidence  in  the  general  situation, 
although  the  rapid  increase  in  earnings 
on  many  of  the  roads gives  a  more  sub­
stantial  assurance.

While  there  had  been  a  decided  in­
crease  noted  in  iron  activity,  the  situa­
tion  was  unsatisfactory 
in  that  prices 
were  at  the  lowest  ever  known ;  so  the 
announcement"  of  an  advance  in  Bes­
semer  pig  and 
in  many  forms of  the 
manufacture  gives  added  assurance  as 
to  the general  situation.  The  demand, 
on  account  of  the  prosecution  of  build­
ing  enterprises,  is  rapidly 
increasing 
and  works  are  hastening  their  summer 
repairs  to  get  into  the  field.  Orders  for 
the  future  are  being  refused  at  present 
prices.

The  notable  features 

in  the  textile 
situation  are  the  development  of  better 
demand  and  prices  in  cotton  goods  as  a 
result  of  restricted  production,  and  the 
continued  activity  and  increasing prices 
in  the  woolen  trade.  The  demand  for 
boots and  shoes  still  continues good, but 
the  increase  in  the  price  of  leather  and 
hides has  not  affected  the  manufactured 
goods.

The  continued  advance  in  wheat  is 
still  an  important  factor  in  the  general 
situation.  The  advance  continues  with­
out  any  real 
interruption,  speculative 
attempts  at  reaction  meeting  almost  in­
stant  recovery.

Business  failures  for  the  week  were 
214—a  considerable  decrease  from  the 
preceding  week.  Bank  clearings  were 
astonishingly large for  the  season,break­
ing  the  record  in  that  regard  for  many 
years.  The  amount  was  $1,142,000,000.

Charged  for  Eating  It.

Once  upon  a  time  a  certain  house 
sent  out  its traveling  men  at  the  begin­
ning  of  the  season  with  many  injunc­
tions  to  keep  sales  up  and  expenses 
down ;  to  sell  wherever  ihey  could,  but 
that  no  expense  for  treating  would  be 
allowed.  By  and  by  the  travelers  came 
in  and  turned 
in  their  orders  to  the 
manager,  who  looked  them  over  and 
complimented  the  travelers  more  than 
he  ever  had  before.  The  morsel  of 
honey  only  covered  the  pill  in  his  next 
request:  Would  they  show  him  their 
expense  accounts?
The  first  man  handed  his  up  and  it 
was  critically  scanned.

' ‘ You  have  got  down  here 50  cents  for 

dinner  at  Smalltown.”

‘ ‘ Yes,  sir.”
“ They  only  charged  you  25  cents  for 
dinner  there. ”

‘ ‘ Y es;  but  it  is  worth  a  quarter  extra 

Chairman  Executive  Committee.

to  eat  such  a  meal. ’ ’

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Clerks’ Corner

Practical  Suggestions  Relative  to  the 

Selection  of  Help.

J.  H.  Selfridge,  General  Manager  of 
Marshall  Field  &  Co.'s  retail  establish­
ment,  recently  gave  a  representative  of 
Shoe  and  Leather  Facts  a  summarized 
statement  of  the  manner  in  which  he 
engages  and  handles  the  help  employed 
by  that  house.

into  the  store  as  a 
“ We  take  a  boy 
cash  boy  when  he 
is  clean-faced  and 
fresh  from  school,’ ’  said  Mr.  Selfridge. 
“ When  sixteen,  if  his  character  and 
capabilities  have  in  the  meantime  indi­
cated  to  us  that  he  is quite  worthy  of 
promotion 
in  some  line,  we  advance 
him  perhaps  to  be  stock  boy.  When  he 
is  about  nineteen,  we assist  him  along 
a  little  further.”

“ Do  you  prefer  city  boys?”
“ N o; the country boy is just as capable 
in  the  store as  the  city  lad.  In my  opin­
ion,  the  number  of  successful  business 
men  in  all  our  large  trade-centers,  that 
is those  who  were country boys formerly, 
is quite  sufficient  to  prove  that  such 
is 
the  case.  1  say  this  because  I  am  sensi­
ble  of  the  considerable  difference  in 
personal  opinion  on  this  point;  but,  as 
already  mentioned,  I  believe  there  is  a 
sufficient  number  of 
instances  at  hand 
where  country  boys  have  proved  them­
selves  thoroughly  as  capable  as  the  city 
boys  in  discharging  responsible  duties 
committed  to  their  care  to  sustain  me 
in  my  belief. ’ ’
“ What  class  of  boys  do  you  generally 
select?”

“ Usually,  those who,  in  my  judgment, 

come  from  the  better  walks  of  life .”
“ Is  there  any  distinction  between  a 
fairly  well-educated  lad  of  humble  par­
ents and  one  of  equal  education,  but  of 
superior  genteel  parentage?”

It 

“ Yes,  there 

is  a  decided  difference, 
and  it  shows  itself  when  the  lad  is about 
is  a  critical  time 
sixteen  years  old. 
for a  boy  when  he 
is  between  sixteen 
and  nineteen.  He  may  be  ever so bright 
when  a 
lad  and  yet,  when  he gets  to 
the age  indicated,  be  will  nine  times  in 
ten  show  the  stamp  of  his  father's  per­
sonal  characteristics,  and,  if  the  father 
be  lazy  and 
intemperate,  the  boy  will 
likewise  have  a  thread  of 
laziness,  and 
will  be  worthless and  intemperate,  and 
will  not  have  the  moral  courage to resist 
temptation,  or  to  say 
‘ No’  when  the 
word  would  have  a  tendency  to  bring 
upon  him  the  ridicule  of  others;  and,  if 
you  were  to  follow  out  this  line  to  its 
logical  conclusion,  I  believe you  would 
find  the  parent’s  physiognomy  pictured 
in  the  son,  too.  This  shows,  of  course, 
how  strong  a  thing  heredity  is,  and, 
certain  it  is,  such  a  lad  should  never go 
behind  a  counter,  for  he  never  would be 
able  to  hold  his  position  with any credit 
to  himself  for  any considerable length of 
time,  and,  under  such  conditions,  he 
would  undoubtedly  be  better  off  with 
the  work  of  a  common  laborer  at  $1.25 
a  day  than  standing  in  a  store.”

stereotyped 

' Is  that  the  only  obstacle  you  have 
found?”
is  the  only  difficulty  I  have 
“ That 
met  with  so fa r;  but  whether  that  can 
be  consideied  in  the  light  of  a  difficulty 
from  my  own  standpoint,  I  am  not  at 
ail  certain. 
I  am  inclined  to  think  it  a 
large  personal  element  that  concerns 
the  employe  more  than  it  does  the  em­
I  haven’t  spoken  about  the 
ployer. 
abuse  of 
the 
certificate 
which  many  employers  are  inclined  to 
give  worthless  boys  and  men  in  their 
service  when  they  leave to take positions 
in  other  houses.  But  this  matter  has 
reached  a  point  with  me  where  I  regard 
the  ‘ recommendation’  as  a  mere  moral 
certificate,  stating  no  more  than  that 
the  holder of  it  is  believed  to  be  ready 
for  the  work  of  some  definite position in 
our  store,  and  as  such 
is  of  little 
worth  to me.  It is worth no more,  in fact, 
than  a signature to  an  ordinary  petition, 
because 
it  doesn’t  enable  anyone  un­
acquainted  with  the  applicant  to  under­
stand  him  as  an  individual.
“ Speaking  about  country  boys,  I  be­
lieve  they  are,  on  general  principles, 
better cleiks  in  a  store  than  city  boys, 
because  their  opportunities  for  acquir­

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ing  a  knowledge  of  the  darker  side  of 
life  in  a  city  haven’t been  so  favorable, 
and  they  generally  make  honest  clerks 
for  that  reason;  although,  of  course, 
here  and  there  will  be  found  some  chaff 
among  a  lot  of  young  men  from  the 
country  that  will  have  to  be  sifted  out. 
But,  when  it  comes  to  the  point  of  ren­
dering  conscientious  duty  day 
in  and 
day  out,  1  believe  the  country 
lad  to 
be  the  peer  of  the town-bred  boy  every 
time.  The  country  boy  is  more  suscep­
immoral  com­
tible  to  the  influence  of 
pany,  however,  and  this 
is  as  it  ought 
to  be,  because  his  experience  before 
entering  the  store  in  the 
large  city 
never  has  been  of  that  character  which 
comes  only  from  contact  with  city 
life 
from  childhood.”
“ Do  you  engage  boys  living  in  the 
country  as  cash  boys?”
“ No;  we  pay,  say,  $2.25  or  £2.50 
per  week  to  cash  boys,  and  that,  of 
course,  is  entirely  inadequate  to  enable 
a  lad  to  board  in  the  city.  We,  there­
fore, never  engage  country  boys  for  such 
minor  positions  as  cash  boys,  and  draw 
our  material 
in  the  rural  districts  only 
from  the  young  men  who  are  capable  of 
becoming  clerks  here.”
Nearly  Profit  Enough  to Satisfy Voigt. 
From the Morning Oregonian.

Talking  of  the  expected 

rush  to 
J.  B.  Montgomery 

Alaska  next  year, 
says:

in 

“ It  reminds  me  of  the  Chili  Flour 
1850.  At  that 
Company's  venture 
time  1  had  a  kinsman,  Mr.  William  G. 
Moorhead,  who  was  United 
States 
Consul  at  Valparaiso,  in  Chili.  His 
consulate,  previous  to  the  rush  of  the 
gold  seekers  for  California,  was  worth 
less  th m  $3,000  a  year.  The  ships  that 
sailed  around  Cape  Horn  all  stopped  at 
Valparaiso  to  take 
in  provisions  and 
water.  The  fees  increased  his  income 
so  that 
it  reached  $25,000  per annum. 
Mr.  Moorhead  was  a  man  of  affairs.  He 
had  been  a  merchant  in  New  York  be­
fore  he  was  a  Consul.  He  saw  his  op­
portunity.  He  consulted  with  Mr. 
Waddington  and  Mr.  Whitehead,  who 
were  English  merchants  in  Valparaiso. 
They  formed  a  company;  each  put 
in 
$25,000  capital.  Mr.  Moorhead  then 
rode  some  hundreds of  miles  down  the 
coast  to  the  flour  mills  at  Conception, 
and  made  a  contract  to  take  all  their 
output  for  $6  per  barrel,  delivered  free 
on  board. 
It  cost $1  more  to  take  it  to 
San  Francisco. 
1873  he  told  me the 
outcome  of  this  venture.
in  California  a  man  came 
Moorhead’s  office  in  San  Francisco.
asked.

“ A  few  days  before  the  first arrival 
into  Mr. 
flour  to  sell?’  he 

“   ’ Have  you  any 

”   ‘ Y es;  a  shipload  of  10,000  barrels, 

In 

which  will  arrive  in  a few  days.’

cargo?'

“   ‘ How  much  do  you  want  for  the 
“   ‘ I  want  $15  per barrel.’
“ To  cut  the  story  short,  Moorhead 
told  me  they  concluded  the  terms  at 
$14.50  per  barrel,  and  without  handling 
the  flour  they  cleared  $75,000  on  the 
first  cargo.
fourteen  months 
Messrs.  Moorhead, Whitehead  and  Wad­
dington  closed  up  the  Chili  Flour  Com­
pany’s  business  with  a  profit  of  $700,- 
000.  Something  like  this  might  be  done 
in  Alaska.  Who  knows?”

“ At  the  end  of 

The  new  standard  postal  card  will  be 
a  trifle  smaller  than  the  card  now  in 
use,  so  that  it can  be  inclosed  in  busi­
ness  envelopes  of  ordinary  size.  The 
new  library  cards  will  be  issued  in  re­
sponse  to  the  general  demand  of  libra­
rians  for a  card  suitable  for indexing by 
card  catalogue.  Two  hundred  and  fifty 
millions  of  these  library  cards  will  be 
pro\ ided  for,  and  one billion,eight  hun­
dred  million  of  the standard  cards.

The  man  who  will  hate  you  most  is 
not  the  man  you  have  hurt  worst,  but 
the  man  who  has  hurt  you.  Your  best 
friend  will  be  the  man  who  has  served 
you, not the man  whom  you  have  served.

If  you  try  to  be  happy  you  can  be, 
but  don't  try  to  be  happier  than  other 
people;  you  frequently  believe  others  to 
be  happier  than  they  are.

all  sound  prosperity  must  rest  under  a 
republican  form  of  government.  All 
classes  seem  to  have  grasped  such  of 
these  truths as are  most vital  at  the pres­
ent  moment.  The  people  have  been 
educated,  though  it  has  nearly  shaken 
our  commercial  structure  to  pieces  to 
do  it.  Now  let  us  see  to  it  that  they 
continue  to  be  educated  in  these  mat­
ters  that  strike  at  the  very  roots  of 
business  life.  Only  by  being  sure  that 
there will be no more ignorant tampering 
with  the  tariff  or with the nation’s  finan­
cial  good  faith  can  the  new  order  of 
things  be  permanent.  Let us  determine 
as  business  men  not  to  forget  these 
things 
in  the  rush  of  the  better  times. 
We  have  suffered  enough;  now  let  us  be 
wise.
But  the duty  of  the  moment  is  to  look 
out  for  a  good  berth  and  a  share  of  the 
cargo  in  the  new  ship  of  prosperity. 
With  a  smooth  sea  and  a  steady  breeze 
astern,  it  will  not  take  long  to  make the 
port.  Pipe  all  bands  on  deck. 
If  you 
are  going  to  be  a  merchant,  be  a  mer­
chant  now.

Get  Ready 

for 
Coming.
From the Dry Goods Reporter.

the  Good  Time 

Now 

An  almost  universal  concensus  of  the 
business  thought  of  the country  points 
to  the  fact  that  we stand on the threshold 
of  a  great  commercial  revival.  In  every 
line  of  trade  and  industry  the  quicken­
ing  blood  of  the new  life  is  felt.  From 
farm,  furnace,  workshop,  store  and  fac­
tory  come  the  cheery  words of  bright 
times  ahead. 
It  is  the  critical  hour  for 
every  able-bodied  business  man  to  be 
on  his  feet,  with  every  energy  alert, 
ready  to  coin  the hard  experiences  of 
the  past 
into  generous  profits  at  the 
mint  of  the  new  prosperity.
The  Alaska  gold  fields have electrified 
adventurous  men  all  over the  country. 
But  the  certainty  of  a  new  era  of  pros­
perity 
just  ahead  for  American  com­
merce  is  a  discovery beside  which  the 
few  shining  millions  of  the  Klondike 
dwindle into  insignificance.  A few  dar­
ing  men  will  risk  all  to  try  their luck  in 
the  arctic  diggings,  and  perhaps  a 
handful  will  return  with  Some  gold 
dust.  But a(  million  levelheaded  men 
will  turn  their capital  and  their 
intel­
lect  to  legitimate  lines  of  trade  under 
the stimulus  of  the  new  era  of  faith  and 
enterprise,  and  the  wealth  they  will  dig 
out  of  the  golden  sands  of  American 
commerce  will  feed  and  clothe  the  na­
tion.

life  through  the 

is  the  time  to  stake  out  your 
claim  in  the  new  gold  field  of  reani­
mated  business.  There  is  no  time  to 
lose.  Every  day  the  boldest  and  the 
wisest  are  pre-empting  some  new  spot. 
The  favored  hour  has  come 
for  the 
young,  untried,  but  brave  young  busi­
ness  man  to  launch  his  little  enterprise 
and  stay  by 
it  until  it grows  to  great­
ness  under  the  stimulus  of  the  richer 
years  at  hand.  Again  the  man  who 
failed,  perhaps  without  having  had  a 
fair  chance,  is  to  have  an  opportunity 
to  try  his  powers  anew  and  prove  that 
be  has  something  in  him.  Struggling 
enterprises  that  have  been  gasping  out 
a  painful 
four 
years  are  to  have  a  chance  to  breathe 
deeply  of  the ozone  that  comes  with  the 
new  era  of  faith  and  confidence.
But  most  of  all  do  the  new opportuni­
ties  stand  beckoning  to  the  sturdy  new 
merchant  who  has  learned  all  the  les­
sons  of  the  hard  times—who  has  fought 
his  fight  and  come  out  a  triumphant 
veteran,  as  the  soldiers  under  Napoleon 
or  Grant  came  forth veterans in warfare, 
although  still  young  in  years,  after their 
repeated  baptisms  of  shot  and  shell. 
It 
is  to  the  merchant  who  has  learned  all 
the new  methods—who  knows  the  secret 
power of  buying  often  in  a near-by mar­
ket,  and  of  availing  himself  of  all  the 
facilities  of  a  great  center—it  is  he  that 
is  most  to  be  envied  in  the  rich  trade 
harvest  at  hand.  Of  such  stuff the great 
houses  of  the  next  generation  will  be 
built.  Men  who  could  wrest  profits  even 
out  of  years  like  those  just  past  need 
not  go  seeking  far-off  gold  diggings 
when  there  will  be  plenty  of  free  gold 
flowing  again  through  the  channels  of 
legitimate  trade.
If  you  are  going  into  business  at  'all, 
If  you  are 
it 

prepare  to  go  into  it now. 
already  in  business,  prepare  to  push 
with  all  your  might.

last 

The  hard  times  are  behind  us  and  the 
good  times  are 
just  ahead.  By  the 
time  the  vast  crops  now  ripening  have 
been  harvested  and  sold  at  the  high 
prices  now  assured,  the  foundation  for 
general  prosperity  will  again  have  been 
laid.  But  while  we  rejoice  in  the  new 
brightness,  the  bitter lessons  of  the  past 
must  not  for  a  moment  be  forgotten. 
The American people have come through 
a  hard  school,  and  they  seem  for  the 
time  to  have  learned  the  cruel  truths 
taught  there.  As  long  as  they  remember 
those  truths  their  new  prosperity  will 
continue. 
forget 
again  the  principles  that  underlie  our 
American 
industries  and  our  whole 
financial  fabric  they  will  have  to  suffer 
and  learn  it  all  over  again.

The  moment  they 

Let  every  business  man,  young or old, 
throw  all  his  energies  confidently  into 
the  present  revival.  But  let  us  build 
our  new  prosperity  upon  the  only  sure 
foundation—a  universal  knowledge  of 
the  great  economic  truths  upon  which

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

DREAMS  OF  DRUM M ERS.

Commercial Travelers  Tell  of Strange 

Nocturnal  Visions.

They  were  commercial  travelers,  sit­
ting  in  the  reading  room  of  a  Pittsburg 
hotel,  and  each  had  been  telling  for  the 
consolation  of  the  others  about  his  diffi­
culty  in  getting  orders.  When  the  cloth­
ing  man  from  Rochester  had  an  op­
portunity  of  speaking  he  said :
“ I  sold  only  one  bill  all  last  week, 
and  that  was  in  a  dream.  What  a  pic­
nic  I  had. 
I  sold  the  worst  stickers  at 
the  highest  prices,  and  the  order  footed 
up  $10,000.  The  porter  called  me,  and 
put  an  end  to  the  beautiful  vision.  Un­
fortunately  the  order  cannot  be shipped, 
for  I  lost  the  duplicate  and  forgot  the 
merchant’s  name,  but  that  dream  made 
me  happy  for  several  days.  Ah,  if  only 
dreams  were  real,  or  life  were  all  a 
dream. ”

*  *  *

A  sigh  went  through  the  group.  The 
clothing  drummer  was  the  envy  of  the 
crowd.  Where  orders  are  so  scarce  it  is 
indeed  something  to  have  dreamed  of 
them.

“ Do  you  believe  in  dreams  coming 
true?”   asked  a  notion  drummer  from 
Oshkosh.

“ No,”   promptly  returned  a  hat  man 
“ They  are  but  the 
im­

from  New  York. 
fabric  of  a  wearied  brain,  and  no 
portance  is  to  be  attached  to  them.”

“ I  am  not  sure  of  that,”   replied  the 
notion  drummer.  “ I  had  a  dream  a  few 
weeks  ago  which  saved  my  life .”

“ Tell  us  about  it.”
“ One evening  I arrived  in Vincennes. 
The  train  was  a  couple  of  hours  late, 
and  I  went  to  bed  thoroughly tired.  The 
bed  was  none  of  the  best,  but  you  know 
the  proverb  about  the  soft  conscience, 
and  before  many  minutes  I  was  safe 
in 
Morpheus’  arms.  I  don’t  know how long 
I slept,  when I suddenly had  a  dream,  or 
rather  a  nightmaie. 
1  thought  I  was 
in  a  cave-in,  that a  ton  of  rock  was  up­
on  me,  and  try  as  I  would  I  could  not 
extricate  myself.  Soon  my  mother  came 
to  the  rescue,  and  with  her  naked  hands 
dug  at  the  rock  and  made a heroic  effort 
to  release  me. 
I  was  powerless  to  help 
her.  Seeing  how  futile  her  efforts  were, 
she  screamed  at  the  top  of  her  voice, 
‘ Help,  help!’  With  that  I  awoke.  So 
natural  her  voice  had  sounded  that  I 
idea  that  there 
became  filled  with  the 
was  some danger. 
I  dressed,  and  went 
downstairs 
into  the  office,  and  went 
to  sleep  on  a  chair.  At  about  4  o’clock 
I  was  awakened  by  a  crash  like  a  min­
iature  earthquake. 
1  hurried  out  to 
learn  the  cause.  The  sewer  running 
under  the -  rear  of  the  hotel  had  caved 
in,  carrying  the  entire  wing  with  it. 
Fortunately  nobody  was  killed,  but  the 
the 
bed  I  had  occupied 
midst  of  the  debris,  and  there 
is  no 
doubt  that  had  I  remained  in  it  I  would 
have  been  buried  under  tons  of  plaster 
and  joists.”

lay  right 

“ That’s  a  rather  queer  experience,”  

in 

said  several  of  the  listeners.

“ Y es,”   assented  the  narrator;  “ but 
the  strangest  part  of  the  story  is this: 
I 
received  a  letter  from  my  mother  two 
days  after,  in  which  she  told  me that 
she  bad  had  a  strange  dream  on  the 
very  night 
She  bad 
dreamed  that  I  was  in  danger  of  being 
crushed to death,  but she had come to my 
rescue,  and  by  calling 
‘ Help,  help!’ 
succeeded  in  bringing  someone  to  save 
me. ”

in  question. 

*  

if  Up

A  traveling  man  from  Troy  took  the 

floor.  Said h e:

“ I  had  a  peculiar  experience  a  few 
days  ago,  which  convinces  me  that 
many  supposed  suicides  are  in  reality 
enacted  during  sleep,  and  that  the  vic­
tims  kill  themselves  unconsciously. 
I 
went  to  bed  in  Ilion,  at  the only  hotel 
of  which  the  town  boasts.  There  was 
an  old-fashioned  chest  of  drawers  in the 
room,  which  attracted  my  attention, 
owing  to  its  resemblance  to one we  have 
at  home.  About  3  o’clock  I  had  a  vivid 
dream. 
I  thought  that  I  was  inspect­
ing  the  chest,  when  it  suddenly  toppled 
over,and  the  drawers  with  all  their con­
tents  fell  upon  me. 
I  tried  to  hold  the 
chest  up,  but it  grew  heavier  with  every 
moment,  and  threatened  to  fell  me  to

the  floor.  Suddenly  I  concluded  that  if 
I  could  make  a  light  I  might  succeed 
in  keeping  the  bureau  erect.  Half 
asleep,  I 
jumped  out  of  bed,  struck  a 
match,  and lighted the gas.  The glaring 
light  woke  me  up,  and  I  realized  that  I 
had  been  dreaming.  Suppose 
instead 
of  lighting  the  gas  I  had  merely  turned 
it  on  in  my  sleep;  I  would  have  been 
found  asphyxiated  in  the  morning,  and 
everyone  would  have 
imagined  me  a 
suicide. 
I  have  no  doubt  that  such  ac­
cidents  are  common.”

“ It  must  be  a  pleasant  sensation  to 
awake  and  find  yourself 
in  heaven, 
without  knowing  how  you  got  there, ”  
remarked  the  clothing  man.
“ I  can  tell  of  a  similar  adventure,”  
interrupted  the  notion  salesman;  “ only 
I was found wandering over the house one 
night  in  a  somnambulistic  state,  flour­
ishing  a  revolver.  How  easily  a  care­
less  movement  on  my  part  might  have 
ended  in  unpremeditated  suicide.”

*  *  *

“ Dreams  have  been  of  undoubted 
advantage  to  me, ”   said an overall sales­
man  from  Louisville.  “ I  used  to  live in 
Norfolk,  Va.,  at  the time  when  the Dis­
mal  Swamp  Lottery  was  at  its  height. 
Every'  man,  woman  and  child 
in  the 
city  used  to  play  policy,  and  good  num­
bers  were  in  great  demand. 
I  confess 
that  1  allowed  myself  to  be  drawn 
into 
the  gambling  craze,  but  never  won  a 
cent.  One  day  I  dreamed  I  went  gal­
loping  over  the  country  on  a  white 
horse.  On  reaching  my  place  of busi­
ness  I  related  the  dream. 
‘ That’s  a 
splendid  dream  for  policy,’ said 
the 
colored  porter. 
‘ You  must  play  7,  45 
‘ Here,’ I  said,  ‘ is  ten  cents. 
and  67.’ 
Go  over  and  play  for  m e!’  By  noon  1 
was  the  lucky  winner  of  twenty  dollars. 
Next  night  1 dreamed I went swimming. 
So  distinct  was  the  dream  that  I  again 
related  it  to  the  porter  in  the  morning. 
‘ That’s  a  fine  dream,’  he  exclaimed. 
‘ You  must  play  13,  17  and  55.’  1  gave
him  ten  cents  and  won  about  twenty 
dollars.  I  began  to  feel  myself  a dream­
er and  seriously  contemplated giving  up 
my 
for  that  of 
dreaming.  For  several  days  I  had  no 
more  visions.  One  day,  however, 
I 
dreamed  that  I  was  in  a  ship  at  sea. 
By  some  unfortunate  oversight  I  forgot 
to  tell  of  it  until  too  late.  The  porter 
told  me  what  lucky  numbers  corres­
ponded  to  my  dream,  and  I  gave  him  a 
dollar  to  play  with.  When  he  arrived 
at  the  policy  shop the books were closed. 
The  numbers  came  out.  but  I  was  not 
in  it.  After  that  my  luck  changed,  and 
I  won  no  more,  but  I  have  since  re­
flected  that  there  is  more in dreams than 
we dream  of  in  our  philosophy.”

legitimate  business 

*  *  *

in  the 

“ I  haven’t  a  shadow  of  a  doubt  that 
dreams  are  true  and  that  they  aie  sent 
to  us  for  some  important  reason,”   said 
an  old  merchant  from  Boston.  “ I  know 
at 
least  that  a  dream  saved  me  a  large 
sum  of  money,  and  perhaps  from  finan­
cial  disaster. 
I  had  a  book-keeper  in 
whom  I  placed implicit confidence.  The 
pay-roll  and  cash  were  left  entirely  in 
his  hands,  and  I  had  no  reason  to  sus­
pect  him 
least.  One  night  I 
dreamed  that a  rat  had  crept  into  the 
larder,  and  was  depleting  it  of  all  there 
was  to  eat.  The  more  I  looked  at  the 
rat  the  more  I  marveled  at  its  likeness 
to  my  book-keeper. 
I  paid  no  atten­
tion  to  the dream,  but  on  the  following 
night  I  dteamed  that  a serpent was  coil­
ing  itself  about  me,  and  feeding  on  my 
vitals.  The  snake,  too,  resembled  my 
book-keeper.  Next  morning  I  told  the 
book-keeper  of  the  curious  occurrence. 
I  saw  him  start  and  grow  pale.  Of  a 
sudden  my  suspicions  were  aroused. 
While  the  man  was  at  dinner,  I  in­
spected  the  books,  and  found  enough 
to  satisfy  me  that  I  was  being  robbed. 
The book-keeper  was  placed  under  ar­
rest.  He  confessed  that he  had  but  just 
begun  his  nefarious  work,  but  had  con­
templated  a  systematic 
in 
robbery, 
which  he had  been  promised  the  assist­
ance of  the  entry  clerk. 
I  cannot  ex­
plain  why  I  should  have  had  such 
dreams,  but  am  sure  they  were  inspired 
bv  a  higher  power.”

“ No  doubt  of 

the 
drummer  from  Oshkosh,  who  was  in­

interposed 

*  *  *
it,”  

clined  to  be  philosophical.  “ See  wbat 
an 
important  part  dreams  played  in 
Biblical  times.  The  dreams  of  Jacob, 
of  Pharaoh,  of  Joseph,  influenced  the 
destiny  of  the  Hebrews.  Religion  is  in 
a  measure  dependent  upon  dreams. 
In 
ancient  history  they  were  equally  im­
portant.  Cambyses  married  in  conse­
quence  of  a  dream  and  wars  were  car­
ried  on  in  consequence  of  them.  With 
the  introduction  of  universal  education 
dreaming  became  an  everyday  event, 
and  we attach  less importance  to  it  than 
formerly.  The  brain,  unable  to  suc­
cessfully  master  the  impressions  forced 
upon  it  during  the  day,will  ponder  over 
them  and  seek  to  digest  them  at  night. 
Hence  we  have  become  a race of dream­
ers.  Sometimes,  however,  we  must 
look  to  a  higher  source  for an  explana­
tion  of  our  nocturnal  visions.  There  is 
some  psychic  law,  which—

“ Supper!”  shouted  the  clerk,  and  the 
company  arose  as  one  man  and  made  a 
bee-line  for  the  dining-room.

“ A h ,"sa id   the  man  from  Boston, 
“ dreams  may  be  very  valuable,  but 
there  is  nothing  like  the  waking  reality 
of  a  good  square  m eal!”

Mil to n  Go l d sm it h .

The  Husband  Was  a  Brute.

Wife—We  have  been  married  twelve 
years,  and  not  once  in  that time  have  I 
missed  baking  you  a cake for your birth­
day.  Have  I,  dear?

Hubby—No,  my  pet.  I  can  look  back 
upon  those  cakes  as  milestones  in  my 
life.

Confession  of  a  fault  makes  half 

amends.  Denying  a  fault  doubles  it.

A B SO L U T E

PURE GROUND SPICES, BAKING POWDER, 

BUTCHERS’  SU PPLIES,  ETC.

FOR  THE  TRADE.

THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY,

PHONE  555-

418-410  S.  Division  St.,  Orand  Rapids.

For only one cent you can  have  an  expert 
examine

YOUR  LEAKY

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

H.  M .  REYNOLDS  &   SON,

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

6orbin’$ LiQinnina 
Scissors Sharpener

It  is a daisy.  Quick seller.  Every  lady wants one.  Lasts  a  life­
time.  The only  perfect sharpener made.  Will  sharpen  any  pair 
of shears or scissors in ten seconds.  Made of the finest tempered 
steel, handsomely finished and nickel  plated.
SELLS AT SIGHT because  every  lady  can  see  at  a  glance 
the practical benefit she will derive from this addition to  her work 
basket.  Her scissors will always have a  keen  edge.  Satisfaction 
guaranteed or money refunded.

Put up one dozen on handsome 8x12 easel  card.

$1.50  Per  Dozen.

FOR  SA LE  AT  W HOLESALE  BY

TRADESMAN COMPANY,

GRAND,  RAPIDS,  fllCH.

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Elsie—T.  W.  Snelling  has  opened  a 

cigar and  tobacco  store.

St.  Louis—L.  Bassett  succeeds Bassett 

&  Sias  in  the  grocery  business.

Saginaw—F.  T.  Mayes  succeeds Weil 

&  Mayes  in  the  grocery  business.

Ann  Arbor—Wm.  L.  Bunting  has 

sold  his  grocery  stock  to  John  Burns.

Sutton's  Bay—P.  C.  Goldschmidt  has 
sold  his  drug  stock  to  Marcus  Hoyt,  of 
Rose  City.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—H.  L.  Newton  has 
purchased  the  meat  business  of  Chas. 
H  McBean.

Hancock—Reeves  &  Burnes  have em­
barked  in  the  wholesale  fruit  and  vege­
table  business.

Buchanan—Mrs.  H.  O.  Weaver  has 
repurchased  the  Paris  millinery  store 
of  Mrs.  Blake.

Charlevoix—A.  E.  Webster  has  re­
jewelry  stock  from  Centra! 

moved  his 
Lake  to  this  place.

Lansing—O.  N.  Stone  &  Co.  will 
shortly  remove  their  grocery  stock  to 
305  Washington  avenue.

Elsie—I.  A.  Warner  has  sold  his  dry 
goods,  grocery  and  boot  and  shoe  stock 
to  M.  N.  V an  Deusen,  of  this  place.

Bay  City—Volliere  &  Co.  have  em­
barked 
in  the  grocery  business  at  the 
corner  of  Bolinda  and  Madison  streets.
Berlin—E.  E.  Chapel  has  sold  his 
general  stock to Henry  Shuster,  who will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Battle  Creek—O.  V.  Pratt  will  re­
embark 
in  the  grocery  business  in  his 
building  recently  vacated  by  P.  Gros 
&  Son.

Harbor  Springs—J.  W.  Atcheson  has 
in  the  building  for­
J.  Clarke 

opened  a  bakery 
merly  occupied  by  the  W. 
grocery.

Marshal]—W.  T.  Drake  has  scld  his 
drug  stock  to  J.  E.  Mast  and  A1  Hin- 
denach,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Ionia—Glenn  Webber  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  George  Scott  in  the  boot 
and  shoe  stock  of  Scott  &  Gadd.  The 
style  of  the  new  firm  is Webber & Gadd.
Eaton  Rapids—John  H.  York,  general 
dealer  at  Bellevue,  has  leased  the  Min­
nie  store building  here  and  will  occupy 
it  with  a  dry  goods  stock  about  Sept.  1.
Port  Huron—The  dry  goods  stock  of 
Chas.  Ross  has  been  purchased  by  Ed- 
son,  Moore  &  Co.  at  auction  sale  for 
$2,500.  The  stock  inventoried  $5,400.
Ithaca—M.  R.  Salter has  purchased  a 
halt  interest  in  the  dry  goods  and  boot 
and  shoe  stock  of  Milton  B.  Salter.  The 
new  firm  will  be  known  as  Salter  Bros.
Alma—F.  E.  Pollasky  has  sold  his 
clothing  and  furnishing  goods  stock  to 
the  Central  Clothing  Co.  He  will  con­
tinue  the  shoe business  at  the  same  lo­
cation.

Allegan—The  Marsh,  Dewing  &  Co. 
block,  which  burned  last  March,  is  be­
ing  rebuilt. 
It  will  be  occupied  about 
November  1  by  the  general stock of John
C.  Stein.

Davidson—H.  H.  Prosser,  who  has 
been  the  pharmacist  at  E.  C.  Haynes’ 
drug  store  for  about  a  year  past,  has 
gone  to  Flushing  to  enter  the  employ  of 
J.  E.  Ottaway.

Allegan—The  Glover  Kellogg  estate 
is  rebuilding  one  section  of  the  Chaffee 
block  which  burned  about  a  year  ago. 
It  will  be  two  stories,  with  a  front of 
Waverly  stone,  and  be  occupied  Sept. 
15  by  Benjamin  Moon  with  a  flour  and 
feed  store.

Northville—Dr.  J.  M.  Swift  has  re­
signed  the  position  of  President  of  the 
State  Savings  Bank,  on  account of  con­
tinued  ill  health.  L.  W.  Simmons  has 
been  elected  to  fill  the vacancy.

Carson  City—W.  A.  Gardner  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  Isaac  Kipp  in  the 
dry  goods  and  grocery  stock  of  Gardner 
&  Kipp  and. will  continue  the  business 
in  his  own  name.

interest 

Homer—Edwin  F.  Sinclair  has  sold 
his 
in  the  drug  and  grocery 
stock  of  Sinclair  &  Lee  to  his  partner, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Horace  D.  Lee.

Jackson—J.  G.  Ramsay  has  secured  a 
lease  of  Branch’s  old  bakery  building 
and  will  fit  it  up  for  confectionery  and 
ice  cream  parlors  as  soon  as  the  bakery 
is  removed  to  its  new  quarters.

Saginaw—Henry  C.  Weil  has  retired 
from  the grocery  firm  of  Weil  &  Maves. 
The  remaining  partner will continue  the 
business  at  600  No.  Washington  avenue 
under  the  style  of  Ferdinand  T.  Maves

Big  Rapids—  L.  S.  Pressburg, 

the 
veteran  Hebrew  grocer,  died  Aug.  8  as 
the  result  of  cancer  of  the  stomach. 
Deceased  carried  $4,000  life  insurance. 
The  survivors  are  a  widow  and  two 
sons.

Bay  City—Vantyle  &  Co.  have  re­
moved  their grocery  stock  from  the cor­
ner of  Fulton  and  Litchfield  streets  to 
the corner  of  Fulton  and  Walnut  streets. 
Geo.  Bush  will  occupy  the  former  loca­
tion  with  a  grocery  stock.

Nashville—Harry  R.  Banks  will  re­
tire  from  the general  firm  of  Truman  & 
Banks  Sept.  1,  being  compelled  to  seek 
a  milder  climate  on  account  of  his 
wife’s  health.  The  business  will  be 
continued  at  the  same  location  by  the 
remaining  partner  under  the  style  of 
Sanford  J.  Truman.

Detroit—Owing  to  the advance  in  the 
price  of  wheat,  which  has  increased  the 
price  of  flour,  the  Master  Bakers'  Asso­
ciation  has  decided  to advance the price 
of  bread  1  cent  per  loaf.  The  retail 
price  of  white  bread  is  now  5  cents  per 
pound  loaf  and  8  cents  for  a  two-pound 
loaf,  and  two-pound  loaves  of  rye  and 
half  rye  will  sell  for  7  cents.

Marquette—Joyce  &  Mowick's  dry 
goods stock  was  totally  destroyed  by  fire 
Aug.  3.  The  firm  had  just  finished  tak­
ing  inventory  with  a  view  to  dissolving 
partnership. 
Joyce  was  to  retire  and 
Mowick  intended  continuing  the  busi­
ness.  The  stock  was  valued  at  $12,000, 
and  is  partially  covered  by 
insurance. 
The  damage  to  the building will amount 
to  several  hundred  dollars.

Detroit—Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co. 
instituted  an  action  in  the  Wayne 
have 
Circuit  Court against  the  United  States 
Casualty  Co.,  of  New  York,  to  collect 
$25,000  alleged  to  be  due  on  an  insur­
ance  policy.  The  plaintiff  claims  that 
October  21  last  the  insurance  company 
insured 
it  for  one  year against  loss  by 
the  accidental  discharge  or  leakage  of 
an  automatic  sprinkler  system  that  had 
been  provided  for  the  stores  at  19  to  29 
Larned  street.  The  insurance  limit  was 
$25,000,  the  firm  paying  $250  for  the 
protection  thus  afforded,  the  agreement 
being  that  the 
loss,  if  any,  was  to  be 
made  good  within  ten  days  of  the  re­
ceipt  of  proof  of  it.  When  the  stores 
were  closed  July  4  last, the extraordinary 
heat  set  the  sprinkler  arrangement  in 
operation,  with  the  result  that  the  in­
sured  property  was damaged  to  the  ex­
tent  of  $15,000  Eight  days  later,  it 
is 
claimed,  the  insurance  company  denied 
liability  on  the  ground  that  when  the 
insurance  was  taken  out  there  was  a 
breach  of  one of  the  schedules.

Kalamazoo—Putnam  Bros,  have  sold 
their  drug  stock  to  Walter  W.Briggs 
and  Alva  I.  Ulrich,  who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the same  location  under 
the style  of  Briggs  &  Ulrich.

Detioit—C.  H.  Michell  has  merged 
his  clothing  business 
into  a  stock  com­
pany  under  the  name  of  the  C.  H. 
Michell  Company,  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $100,000,  of which  $80,00c  is  paid  in. 
Mr.  Michell  is  President,  holding  7,365 
shares;  Charles  Mayo,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer,  holding  625  shares;  Flavius 
L.  Brooke,  Vice-President,  holding  10 
shares. 

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Manufacturing  Matters.

Unionville—The  Liken  &  Bach  flour 
mill,  which  has been  idle  for two  years, 
will  soon  be  running  again.

Farnsworth—Goggins  &  Sturgis  made 
their  first  shipment  of  broom  handles 
from  their  mill  last  week.

Mt.  Morris—The  advance 

in  beans 
has  stimulated  Hart  &  Lewis  to  start 
up  their  bean-picking  machines  again.
Casnovia—A.  Norris  &  Son  have  pur­
chased  the  elevator at  Ashland  Station 
and  will  operate  it  in  connection  with 
their elevator  at  this  place.

Charlotte—Will  Rockey  has  engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  an  elastic  mucil­
age, which comes  in  bars and  is designed 
to  take  the  place  of the  liquid  article.

Harbor  Springs—The  Carey  Hoop 
Co.  has  agreed  to  erect  and  operate  a 
stave  mill 
in  consideration  of  the  vil­
lage  deeding  to  the company  the  lot  ly­
ing  just  east  of  its  present  site.

St.  Johns—The  St.  Johns  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  resumed  operations,  after a 
cessation  of  a  month  for  inventory  and 
repairs.  The  stock  of  manufactured 
goods  has  been  pretty  well  cleared  out 
during  this  time.

Boyne  City—W.  H.  White  & Co.  have 
sold  their  sawmill  known  as  the  “ little 
mill”   to  W.  F.  Guerin,  of  Columbus, 
Ohio.  The  purchaser  owns  a  large  tract 
of  hardwood  and  hemlock  near  Boyne 
City  and  will  start  the  mill  Sept.  1  on 
a  six  years'  cut.

Ionia—C.  B.  Derthick  has  bought  the 
T.  L.  Amphlett &  Sons  block  of  $13,000 
stock 
in  the  Ionia  Pottery  Co.  This 
purchase  makes  Mr.  Derthick  the  sec­
ond  largest  stockholder  in  the company, 
the  capital  being  50,000,  and  Mrs.  Bur- 
bans being  the  heaviest  stockholder.

Houghton—The  Isle  Royal  Consoli­
dated  Mining  Co.  has  about  fifty  men 
at  work  and  by  Sept.  1  will  be well  un­
der  way 
its  resurrection  of  three  of 
the  prominent  mines  of  fifty  years  ago. 
Railroads  and  stamp  mills  will be built. 
The  business  outlook  here 
is  much 
brighter.

in 

Northville—The  Northville  Condens­
ing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  cap­
ital  of  $10,000,  with  T.  G.  Richardson 
as  President  and  L.  A.  Babbitt  as  Sec­
retary  and  Treasurer.  The stockholders 
comprise  some  of  Northville’s  most 
prominent  business  men  and  farmers. 
The  work  on  the  new building  will  be 
commenced  next  week.

Muskegon—The  negotiations  which 
have  been  in  progress  several weeks  be­
tween  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  and 
W.  H.  Ogan,  of  Tipton,  Ind.,  relative 
to  the  establishment  of  a  shoe  factory 
here  have  been  declared  off.  Several 
weeks  ago  the  business  was  practically 
settled,  and  the  contracts  all  drawn,  but 
when  they  were  submitted to Mr.  Ogan’s 
associates,  the  provisions  were  claimed 
not  to  be  satisfactory  and  be  tried  to 
get  the  Chamber  of Commerce to change 
them,  but  it  refused.

Detroit—John  C.  Ballew,  associated 
with  Thomas  S.  and Thomas K.  Christie

in  the  Ballew  Hoop  Co.,  has  filed  a  bill 
in  the  Wayne  Circuit  Court  asking 
for 
an  accounting  and  the  appointment  of  a 
receiver  to  wind  up  the  affairs  of  the 
concern  and  dispose  of  the  assets.  He 
charges  his  partners  with  having  man­
aged  the financial  affairs  injudiciously, 
and  with  trying  to  deprive  him  of  his 
just  rights  in  the  premises.  The  part­
nership  has  existed  since  Feb.  27,  1896.
Houghton—Palmer  &  Stone  have  a 
force  of  men  engaged 
in  getting  out 
60,000  feet of  timber  for  the  Isle  Royale 
mine,  which 
is  to  be  delivered  about 
Oct.  1.  Other  contracts  have  also  been 
entered  into  to  furnish cedar  and timber 
to  the  mine. 
subscription  of 
$1,000,000  to  the  company’s  stock  has 
been  made,  of  which  $500,000  is  pay­
able  at  once,  and  the  officers  of  the  Isle 
Royale  Consolidated  Mining  Co.  will 
be  announced  within  a  brief  period.

The 

Calumet—The Calumet &  Hecla  Min­
ing  Co.  is  building  pretty  fences around 
all  its  vacant  property  in  this  city. 
It 
has  begun  active  work  on  four  double 
shafts 
in  the  Osceola  lode  which  par­
allels  the  Conglomerate  vein  at  a  dis­
tance  of  about  1,000  feet. 
It  will  be 
several  years  before  the  new  mine  will 
be  in  operation,  although  paying  rock 
is  found  within  25  feet  ftom the surface. 
The  two  mines  are  so  near  that separate 
machinery  will  not  be  needed.  A  large 
amount  of  the  rock  will  be  trammed  to 
the  Whiting  perpendicular  shaft  to  be 
hoisted.  This  will  give  employment  to 
a 
large  force  of  men  and  will  ensure 
activity  in  business  for  years  to  come. 
late  business  depression 
During  the 
Calumet  has  not  felt 
its  effect  in  the 
least.  Wages  have  remained  the  same 
and  every  month  more  men  have  been 
put  to  work.  The  only  thing  that  has 
hurt  at  all  was  the  influx  of  business 
and  laboring  men  from  other  parts  of 
the  peninsula.

Saginaw 

to  Extend  Open  Arms  to 

Michigan  Merchants.

It 

is 

10—The 

Saginaw,  Aug. 

Saginaw 
wholesale  merchants  will  imitate the  ex­
ample  of  the  merchants  of  larger  cities 
and 
invite  retail  merchants  from  all 
over  this  part  of  Michigan  to  visit  this 
city  on  a  day  set  apart  for  that purpose. 
The  idea  originated  in  New York, which 
city  became  worried  over  the  competi­
tion  of  Chicago  in  the  way  of  wholesale 
trade.  A  few  weeks  ago  the  New  York 
wholesalers  combined and secured cheap 
rates  over  the  railroads  from  all  over 
the  West  and  South.  Then  they  invited 
all  their customers  and  prospective  cus­
tomers  to  go  to  New  York  on  that  date, 
and  it goes  without  saying  that  they  en­
tertained  them  lavishly.

in 

line  with  this  idea  that  the 
Saginaw  wholesalers  are  preparing  to 
secure,  if  possible,  a  day  of  cheap  rates 
to  all  retail  merchants  throughout  the 
State.  They  will  plan  means  of  enter­
taining  their  guests  in  a becoming man­
ner  and  make  the  day  a  gala  occasion. 
The  cheap  rates  will  apply  only  to  mer­
chants  doing  business  and  their  fami­
lies,  if  the  New  York  plan  is  followed, 
although 
it  may  be  made  open  to  the 
public.  Circular  letters  have  been  sent 
to  all  merchants,  asking  for  their  co­
operation.  Committees  will  probably 
soon  be  appointed  to  prepare  for  letting 
the  merchants  know  that  they  will  be 
welcome. 
Invitations  will  be  sent 
broadcast  all  over  the  State,  and the  day 
will  be  made  an  event  which  will  bring 
business  to  Saginaw  merchants,  because 
it  will  reach  the  people  who  want  to 
buy.
The  idea  is  followed  out  quite  exten­
sively  in  the  East,  and  is  a  modification 
of  the  market  day  of  that  section. 
Mayor  Baum's  Wan-i-gas  plan  was  an 
enlargement  of  the  idea,  but  applied  to 
all  instead  of  to  merchants  alone.  The 
date  selected  will  probably  be  in  the 
middle  part  of  September.

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6

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Opening  of the  New  Market.

More  and  more  as  the  market  season 
advances  is the  imperative  need  of  dif­
ferent  and  more  ample  accommodations 
becoming  manifest.  Already  the  space 
available  is  crowded  and  the  fruit  sea­
son  is  scarcely  begun.  One  of  the  no­
ticeable  effects  of  the action  of  the  fruit 
growers,  agreeing  to  open  the  market 
at  4  o’clock,  is  the  later  continuance  of 
the  trading.  This  has  made  a difference 
of  nearly  an  hour,  so  that  purchasers 
may  fare  as  well  who  are  on  the  ground 
at  7  as  formerly  at  6  o’clock.

There  cannot  be  said  to  be  much  en­
thusiasm  among  the  smaller  growers 
over  the  idea  of  the  change  to  the  new 
location.  Under  the  democratic methods 
of  the  village  market,  this  class  has  en­
joyed  a  relative  advantage  in  that  by 
early  occupation  the  most  'insignificant 
loads  could  secure 
the  best  trading 
points.  Naturally,  when 
it  comes  to 
paying  in  proportion  to  the  value  of  the 
location,  this  advantage  will  be  cut  off, 
and  so  such  are  not  enthusiastic  over 
the  change.  Some  seem  to  think  the 
nominal  charge  of  20  cents  per  load  lor 
daily  stands  a  hardship  on  account  of 
the  low  prices  which  have  so  long  pre­
vailed, especially  in  the vegetable  trade. 
But  one,after  expressing  his  opinion  in 
this  manner,stated  that  he  had  just  sold 
two  baskets  of  potatoes  for  a  dollar,  an 
amount  which  would  have  commanded 
half  his  load  last  year.

Alderman  Gibson,  chairman  of  the 
committee and superintendent of the mar­
ket,  furnishes  the  Tradesman  the  fol­
lowing  outline  of  the  proceedings  and 
exercises  attending  the  change  to  the 
new  location  the  first  of  next week.  The 
first  steps  will  be  taken  on  Saturday  of 
this  week,  when  the  stall  spaces  will  be 
sold  at  auction.  Monday  at  1  o'clock 
the  military  companies  of  the  city,  led 
by  Wurzburg’s and the  newsboys’  bands, 
will  parade  and  drill  on  the  market 
streets.  Succeeding this  will  come  more 
appropriate  exercises  in  the  way  of  ad 
dresses  by  a  number  of  representative 
men.  Mayor  Stow  will  preside  and  the 
list  of  speakers,  so  far  as  decided  upon, 
will  include  Hon.  C.  W.  Garfield,  Hon. 
Robert  Graham,  H.  C.  Hogadone,  Pres­
ident  of  the  Fruit  Growers’  Associa­
tion,  City  Attorney  Felker  and,  prob 
ably,  Hon.  Wm.  Alden  Smith. 
It  is 
proposed  to  add  to  the  list  the  name  of 
E.  A.  Moseley,to  represent  the commis­
sion  merchants,  if  he  will  consent  to do 
so.  The  concluding  feature  in  the  pro 
gramme  will  take  place  at  4  o’clock 
Tuesday  morning,  when  business 
commence  in  the  new  location.
The  Produce  Market.

Bananas—The  market 

Apples—Duchess  command  $i.75@  
2.25  per  bbl.  Cooking  stock  fetches 
$ i.40@i.6s.
is  easier,  the 
top  quotations  on  fancy  large  bunches 
is  a  good  supply  of 
being  $2.  There 
fine  fruit,  and  the  movement  iscompar 
atively 
large  considering  the  variety 
of other  fruit  on  the  market.

Beets—30c  per  bu.
Blackberries-----Cultivated  have  ad
vanced  to $1  per  16 qt  case.
Butter—Separator  creamery  is  firm  at 
H'/£c.  Dairy  is  still  coming  in  slowly 
and  extra  fancy  readily  commands  12c

Cabbage—75c  per  doz.
Carrots--50c  per bu.
Cauliflower—$1.50  per  doz.
Celery—15c  per  bunch.
Cheese—The  market has advanced  %c 
on  all  grades  of 
full  cream  cheese. 
There  is a  considerable  activity  on  the 
market  and  there  has  been  some  very 
heavy  buying  during  the  week,  on  ac­
count of  the  advance,  buyers  wishing  to 
protect  themselves  against  further  ad­

laid 

vances,  for  which  reason  large  lots  of 
cheese  have  been 
in.  Shipments I 
of  cheese are generally  light  at this sea­
son,  as  factories  begin  to  hold  their 
August  make  for a  future  and  higher 
market.  This  makes  the  market  scarce 
of  good  cheese  at  present,  and  it  will 
probably  stay  so  until  the  factories  dis­
pose  of  their  August  and  September 
makes,  when  prices  are  apt  to  rule 
steady.

Corn—Green,  6@jc  per  doz.
Cucumbers—25c  per  doz.
Eggs—Fancy  candled  have  advanced 
to  9c,  shippers  finding 
little  difficulty 
in  securing  8c  on  track  for  wheat  eggs.
A  good  demand  and  light  receipts  have 
made  the  market  very  active  during  the 
past  week.  The  receipts  are  falling  off 
rom  day  to  day,  and  nothing  can  stop 
the  upward  tendency of eggs until  prices 
reach  a point  where storage  eggs  can  be 
sold  at  a  profit.  This  will  prevent  a 
very  rapid  advance.  The  stock  of  eggs 
is  heavy,  and  shippers  are 
only  waiting ' for  a  little  better  market 
before  unloading.  This  will  probably 
be  about  September,  when  the  weather 
will  be-  more  favorable  for  marketing 
held  stock.

storage 

Grapes—The 

arrivals  of  Ives  and 
in­
Concords  from  the  South  are  on  the 
and  prices  are  considerably 
crease, 
lower  than  at  last  quotations.
Lemons—The  market  is lower because 
of  the  cooler  weather.  Prices  are  off  5c 
box  on  Messinas  and Californias.  ‘The 
demand  fluctuates  as  the  temperature 
changes.

Melons—Watermelons are-still  in good 
demand  at  15c.  Osage  command  $1.25 
per  doz.  case.  Little  Gems  fetch  6o@ 
70c  per  doz.  basket.
Onions—Dry stock has  declined  to  75c 
per  bu.  Green  has  advanced  to  15c  per 
doz.

Oranges—There  are  few  oranges  now 
on  the  market,  the  assortment  being 
confined  to  the  Med iterranean  sweets 
and  late  Valencias.  No  change 
is  to 
be  noted 
in  price.  The  movement  is 
light.

Peaches—Early  Michigans  command 
$1.25  per bu.  Hale’s  Early  fetch  $1.50. 
The  condition  of  the  crop  continues  to 
improve,  the  weather  being  favorable 
to  the  growth  and  development  of  the 
staple.

into  market 

Peas—Green,  50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—Local  growers  get  5o@6oc 
on  the  Grand  Rapids  market.  The  de­
mand  is  almost  wholly  of  a consumptive 
character,  there  being 
little  shipping 
demand,  on account of  home grown stock 
coming 
in  nearly  all  dis­
tributing  and  consuming markets.  R e­
ports  from  Ohio  and  Indiana  indicate 
that  the  crop 
in  those  States  will  be 
in  size,  inferior  in  quality,  and 
small 
meager 
in  volume,  so  that  Michigan 
will  have  to  be  drawn  on  for supplies  to 
a  very  large  extent.  The  Tradesman 
has  made  a  careful  canvass  of  the  con­
dition  of  the  crop  in  this  State,  result­
ing  in  the  conclusion  that the acreage  is 
only  about  60  per cent,  of  what  it  was 
last  year,  while  the  yield  is  likely  to  be 
considerably  curtailed by the wet spring, 
the  bugs and  the  use  of  too  much  Paris 
green.  Now that  the growers realize that 
the  crop  is  short  and  that  the  price  will 
probably  range  from  25  to  50c  per bu.— 
the  present  outlook  is  for a  40c  market 
— they  are  devoting  much  time  and  at­
tention to  their  potato  fields,  with a view 
to  making  the  yield  as  large,  and  the 
quality  as  fine,  as  possible.  Merchants 
and  shippers  should  caution  growers 
against  using  Paris  green  too  freely,  as 
such  use of  the  poison  is  nearly  as 
in­
jurious  to  the quality  of  the  crop  as  the 
bugs  are  to  the quantity.

Seeds—Timothy 
is 

commands  $i-35@ 
in  fair  demand  at 
1.50.  Medium 
$4- 50@4.75.  Mammoth 
is  very  scarce 
at  $4  75@S-  Alsvke,  $4.qo@5.  Crim­
son,  $2.75@3.  Alfalfa,  $4.25@4.50.

Squash—50c  per bu.
Tomatoes—Home  grown  command  $2 

per  bu.

Turnips—40c  per  bu.
Wax  Beans—75c  per bu.
Whortleberries—Receipts  are  small, 
in  consequence  of  which  the  price holds 
up  well  at $2.50  per bu.  The  quality  is 
fairly  good,  but  the  yield  is  disappoint­
ingly  small.

THE  NEW  MARKET.

Ordinance  Passed  by  Common  Coun­

cil,  Governing  Same.

Section  1.  The  location  of  the  pub­
lic  market  for  said  city  shall  be  and 
is 
hereby  established  on  Island  Number  3 
in  Grand  River,  so-called,  or  upon such 
parts  thereof  as  may  be  necessary  from 
time  to  time,  and  no  public street,  pub­
lic  alley  or  other  public  place  in  said 
city  shall  be  used  for  market  purposes.
Sec.  2.  Said  market  shall  be  open 
for  the  transaction  of  business  from  4 
o’clock  a.  m.  to  S  o’clock  p.  m.  on  each 
week  day,  from  the first  day  of  May  to 
the  first day  of  November  of  each  year; 
and  from  7  o’clock  a.  m.  to  5  o’clock 
p.  m.  from  the  first day  of  November to 
the  first  day  of  May  following.  The 
Common  Council,  however,  may  by  res­
olution  change  said  hours  during  any 
portion  of  the  season  above  named 
it  may  deem  it  advisable  so 
whenever 
to  do.
Sec.  3.  The  Committee  on  Market of 
the  Common  Council,  together  with  the 
superintendent  hereinafter provided  for, 
shall  have  power  to  locate  spaces  or 
stalls  for  the  standing  of  wagons,  and 
shall  number  the  same;  said  spaces  to 
be  used  only  by  persons  paying  for  the 
use  of  the  same,  as  hereinafter  pro­
vided.
Sec.  4.  There  shall  be  a  superinten­
dent of  markets  appointed  by  the  Com­
mon  Council,  who  shall  hold  his  office 
for  a  period  of  one  year  from  and  after 
the  first  Monday  in  May  in  each  year; 
and  the  Common  Council 
is  hereby 
given  power  to  appoint a superintendent 
to  hold  his  office  until  the first  Monday 
in  May  following,  the  salary  of  said 
superintendent  to  be  fixed  at  a  sum  not 
exceeding  $600  per annum,  to  be  paid 
out  of  the  fees  collected  from  persons 
using  the  market,  but  not  to  exceed,  in 
any  event,  the  fees  so  collected.  Said 
superintendent  to  give  his  entire  time 
to  the  duties  pertaining  to  the  proper 
management  of  said  market,and  to  give 
a  bond  in  the sum  of $2,000,  with  suffi­
cient  sureties,  to  be  approved  by  the 
Mayor  of  said  city,  which  bond  shall 
be  conditioned  to  perform  all  the  duties 
relating  to  his  office  and  to  account  for 
and  pay  over  weekly  all  monies  re­
ceived  by  him  to  the  Treasurer of  the 
city  of  Grand  Rapids,  and  to  take  his 
receipt  therefor.  Said  superintendent 
shall  cause  books  to  be  kept  in  proper 
form,  and  to  provide,  under  the  direc­
tion  of  the  Council,  necessary  tickets, 
cards,  stationery  and  other articles  that 
may  be  needed  in  carrying  on  the  mar­
ket.  Said  superintendent,  together  with 
the  Committee  on  Market,  shall  have 
authority  to  designate 
the  necessary 
help  for the  purpose  of  carrying  on  the 
market  and  keeping  the  same  in  proper 
condition,  subject,  however,  to  the  ap­
proval  and  the  fixing  of  compensation 
of  said  help,  by the  Common  Council. 

Sec.  5.  The  Committee on Market and
said  superintendent  shall  establish  and 
charge  the  following  minimum  rates  for 
the  use  of  said  market:  Stalls  by  the 
year,  from  $5  to  $25,  according  to  the 
location  therof;  by  the  week,  $4  to  $10, 
according  to  the  location  thereof;  for 
single  entrance  and  use  of  stall  for 
double  team,  20  cents;  single  team,  15 
cents.  And  said  Committee,  together 
with  the  superintendent,  are  hereby 
authorized  to,  at  any  time,  offer  said 
stalls  for  sale  at  public  auction,  to the 
highest  bidder,  but  not  to  sell  any of 
said  stalls  for  less  than  the  minimum 
price  herein  fixed;  and  the  Common 
Council  shall  have  power,  whenever  in 
its  judgment  it  may  be  advisable  so  to 
do,  to  change the  rates  herein before  es­
tablished.
Sec.  6.  Said  Committee on  Market, 
together  with  the  superintendent,  shall, 
from  time  to  time,  make  such  necessary 
rules  and  regulations  for  the detailed 
workings  and  care of  such  market  as  in 
their  judgment,  may,from  time  to  time, 
be  necessay,  subject,  however,  to  the 
approval  of  the  Common  Council.

Sec.  7.  All  hay,  straw,  fodder  and 
wood  shall  be  sold  by  weight  and  meas­
urement,  and  shall  be  weighed  on  the 
city  scales 
located  in  said  market  and 
measured  under  the  direction  of  said 
superintendent,  and  no  hay,  straw,  fod­

der  or  wood  shall  be  sold  until  the  same 
has  thus  been  weighed  or  measured, 
except baled  hay  and  straw  kept for sale 
in  stores.  A  tee  of  10  cents  shall  be 
charged  for  said  load  so  weighed  or 
measured,  to  be  paid  by  the  owner  of 
the  product  weighed  or  measured,  and 
a  receipt  shall  be given  to  the  owner  of 
such 
load,  stating  that  the  same  has 
been  weighed  or  measured  by  the  su­
perintendent,  as  herein  provided,  to - 
gether  with  such  weight  or  measure­
ment.  No  entrance  fee  shall  be  charged 
for teams  entering  with  products  men­
tioned  in  this  section, but  in  case a  shed 
is  used  by  any  such  team  an  entrance 
fee  of  ten  cents  shall  be  charged.

Sec.  8.  No  person  shall  sublet  or 
transfer  his  space  or  stall  so  rented  to 
such  person  to  any  other  party,  and  no 
person  shall  have  any  use  whatever  of 
any  such  stall  or space  except  the  party 
purchasing  the  same  or his  employes, 
who  may  use  the  same  in  disposing  of 
the  owner’s  products;  and  no  person 
shall  use  any- of  the public streets,  alleys 
or  other  public  places  in  said  city  as 
standing  places  for  teams  or  wagons  for 
the  sale  of fruits,  vegetables,  hay,  straw, 
fodder,  wood  or other  products  usually 
disposed  of  in  market  places.  Nothing 
herein  contained,  however,  shall  pro­
hibit  licensed  hucksters  from  peddling 
from  house  to  house  within  said  city. 
No  person  shall  have a  right  to  use  said 
market  without complying  with  the  pro­
visions  of  this  ordinance  and  with  the 
rules  and  regulations  that  may,  from 
time  to time,  be made  in  relation  to  the 
same, as in  this  ordinance  provided  for.
Sec.  9.  Any  person  or  persons  who 
shall  violate any  of  the  provisions or  re­
quirements  of  this  ordinance,on  convic­
tion  thereof,  shall  be  punished  by  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  $2  or mote  than  $100, 
and* costs  of  prosecution, or by imprison­
ment at  hard  labor  in  the  common 
jail 
of  the  county  of  Kent,  or  in  any  peni­
tentiary,  jail,  workhouse  or  house  of 
correction  in  said  city,  in  the  discretion 
of  the  court  or magistrate before  whom 
the  conviction  may  be  had,  for a  period 
of  not  less  than  five days  nor  more  than 
ninety  days;  and  in  case  such  court  or 
magistrate  shall  only  impose  a  fine  and 
costs,  the  offender  may  be  sentenced  to 
be  imprisoned  at  hard  labor  in  the com­
jail  of  the  county  of  Kent,  or  in 
mon 
any  pentitentiary, 
jail,  workhouse  or 
house  of  correction  of  said  city,  until 
the  payment  ot  such  fine  and  costs,  for 
a  period  of  not  less  than  five  days  nor 
more  than  ninety  days.

Telephone  Topics.

The  Bell  monopoly  has  made  an  un­
conditional  surrender at Detroit,  having 
announced  a  cut  in  rates  on  residence 
phones  to  $24  per  year.  The  present 
rates  are  $50 to  $100  per  year,  depend­
ing  on  the distance  from  the  exchange. 
The  new  schedule  goes  into  effect  Oct. 
1,  but  the  cut  comes  too  late  to  do  the 
Bell  concern  any  good,  as  the  people 
propose  to  stay  by  the  home  company 
which  has  precipitated  the  death-bed 
repentance  of  the  would-be  monoply.

The  announcement  Tuesday  that  the 
Michigan  (Bell)  Telephone  Co.  had 
been  forced  to  mortgage  its property  for 
$750,000 was by  no  means  unexpected, 
as  it has  been  known  for  sometime  that 
the  finances  of  the  corporation  were  at 
a  low  ebb. 
If the  company  succeeds  in 
floating  the  bonds,  the  funds  thus  se­
cured  will  enable 
it  to  tide  over the 
present  emergency,  but  from  present 
indications  the  company  will  need  an­
other  loan,  within  a  few  months quite 
as  badly  as  it  needs  the  present  assist­
ance.

V.  Si as,  formerly  of  the  grocery  firm 
of  Bassett  &  Sias,  at  St.  Louis,  has 
opened  a  new  grocery  store  at 
that 
place.  The  stock  was  furnished  by  the 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.

Ask  Visner  for  Inducement on G illies’ 
| New  York  spice  contest.  Phone  1589.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

6

Fruits and  Produce.
at 
in  Trouble 
Charley  Robinson 

Mackinac  Island.

“ On 

long, 

Petoskey,  Aug.  io—As  you  are  prob­
ably  aware,  our  old  friend,  Charley 
located  for  the  summer 
Robinson,  is 
on  Mackinac  Island,  handling  green 
goods  for  Bunting  &  Co.  Last  Thurs­
day,  when  the  Northwest  came  in,  he 
went  aboard  to  sell  onions  to  the  stew 
ard.  Charley  lingered  too 
the 
gang  plank  was  pulled  in  and  the  boat 
was  moving  out. 
In  bis  characteristic 
fashion,  he  rushed  to  the  rail  and  some 
one  said,  “ Jum p.”  
“ Gad,”   he  ex­
claimed,  “ I ’m  no  fish. 
I  can’t  swim. 
Stop  the  boat.  Where’s  the  clerk?”  
That  distinguished  and  pompous 
indi­
vidual  replied,  “ No,  sir,  you  will  have 
to  go  to  Detroit.  We  would  not  stop 
this  boat  for  §500. ”   Charley  replied, 
“ Where’s  the  captain?”  
the 
bridge,  sir, ”  was  the  reply.  Not know­
ing  where  the  bridge  was,  Charley 
jerked  a  porter  off bis  feet  and  yelled, 
‘ Show  me  the  bridge,  quick!”   Charley 
thought  he  could  go  ashore on the bridge 
—that  it was  kept  for  that purpose.  The 
porter’s  pace  being  too  slow,  Charley 
went  ahead,  dragging  the  uniformed 
gentleman  after  him 
Reaching  the 
bridge,  Charley  discovered  that  it  was 
too  short  to  go  ashore on  and  faced  the 
captain,  nervously  fumbling  his  watch 
charm  the  while,  and  said  in  as  stern 
tones  as  he  had  with  him,  being  so 
nervous  they  did  not  show  to  advantage 
(Charley  since  says  he  regrets  he  did 
not  have  his  best  tones  with  him,  but 
had 
left  them  on  shore  drying  with  his 
onions): 
“ I  must  go  ashore  at  once,
for  I  have  onions  on  the  dock that Bunt­
ing  sent  me  and  they  must be  skinped 
before  they  are  fresh  looking  enough  to 
sell.”   The  captain  smiled  down  upon 
him  and  said,  “ Young  man,  I  would 
not  stop  this  boat  for  S500—you  will 
have  to go  to  Detroit. ”  
“ I  don’t  want 
you  to  stop  the  boat,”   replied  Charley, 
“ I  wouldn’t  give  you  500  cents.  Put 
me  in  an  old  boat and  send  me  ashore, 
or  let  me  go  ashore—and  that  you  have 
got to do!”   demanded  Charley.  This  is 
where  hé  used  his  dignity  and  com­
manding  presence  to  advantage.  The 
captain  wilted  and  asked  if  he  had  any 
friends  on  shore  who  would  come  after 
him  if  he  signaled.  Charley  knew  he 
had  friends  while  he  was  on  shore,  but 
whether they  would  prove  friends  when 
ouly  water  was  between  them  or  not  he 
did  not  know,  but  he  answered :  “ Yes, 
sir!”   and  with  much  emphasis.  The 
signal  gun  was  fired  and  four  whistles 
blown—distress 
it  was 
Charley 
in  distress,  not  the boat.  No 
one answered.  The  captain  said,  “ I ’ll 
blow  again,  but  guess  I’ll  have  to  put 
you  off  at  Detroit.”   He  blew.  The 
Algoma came out  and  Charley  was safe. 
Of  course,  they  were  entitled  to  half  the 
salvage,  and  Charley,  to  save  the  half- 
he  has  no  “ better  half”   and  was  unde­
cided  which  to  let  go  to  the  shylocks— 
decided  to  save  both  by  putting  some­
thing  besides  water  between  himself 
and  his  rescuers.  He  has  “ gone  broke”  
and  unless  his  Grand  Rapids  friends 
come  to  his  assistance  at  once,  those 
Island  wolves  will  have  their  half  and 
the  world  will  be  without  a  Charley. 
Will  not  some  Portia  come  to  his  rescue 
at once? 

E y e   Wit n e s s .

signals—but 

Serious  Charges  Against  Chandler 

Reiterated.

From the New York Produce Review.
C.  J.  Chandler  &  Co.  were 

in  busi­
ness  at  Chelsea,  Mich.,  whence  they 
shipped  eegs  on  order  and  on  consign­
ment.  They  were  known  to  their  cus­
tomers—certainly  to  many  of  them—as 
shippers  of  Michigan  eggs.  They  were 
recently  shipping  on  consignment  t< 
about  a  dozen  New  York  commissif n 
firms,  among  whom  were  several  of  the 
largest  and  most  respected  houses in  the 
trade.  Among  these  we  have  not  found 
one  who  ever  received  an  invoice  of 
eggs  from  the Chelsea  house described 
as  being  any other  than  M ichigan stock, 
and  few  of  them  were  aware  of  the  fact 
that  Mr  Chandler’s  firm  was  buying 
eggs  in  the  Far  West  and  having  them

learn,  were 

shipped  to  Chelsea.  The  fact  that  Mr. 
Chandler’s  invoices  were  made  out sim­
ply  as  “ eggs”   does  not by  any  means 
relieve  the  house of  the  moral  responsi­
bility  of  shipping  them  as  “ Michigan”  
goods.  To  buy  goods  in  the  Far  West, 
bring  them  to  a  Michigan  town  and  re­
ship  them  without  definitely  stating  the 
source  whence  they  had  been  secured 
would  certainly  constitute  deception. 
The  evidence  that  this  was  done  lies 
simply 
in  the  facts  that  the  house  did 
buy  eggs  in  the  Far  West and Southwest 
and  had  them  shipped  to  Chelsea,  and 
that,  although  they  shipped  eggs  to  a 
arge  number of  New  York houses,'  some 
of  which  were  of  very  fine quality  and 
some of  very  ordinary  grade,  none,  so 
far  as  we  can 
invoiced 
definitely  as  being  other  than  “ Michi­
gan,”   which  they  were  considered  to  be 
by  reason  of  the  shipping  point.
Other  methods  of  a  questionable char­
acter  are 
laid  to  Mr.  Chandler’s  door 
The  house 
with  absolute  certainty. 
made  drafts  on  New  York  houses 
against  simple  letter  of  advice  and  in 
several  cases  where  the  drafts  had  been 
paid  the  goods  were  never 
received 
here. 
In  some  cases  the  letters  of  ad­
vice  are  said  to  have  contained  railroad 
receipts  for  the  shipment,  yet  the goods 
were  not  received  here,  indicating  that 
the  stock  had  been  diverted  by the ship­
per’s  order  after  the  original  consignee 
had  paid  draft  on  it.  This  method  does 
not  appear  to  have  been  accidental,  for 
it  was  practiced  upon  a  number  of 
houses  at  about  the  same  time.
Notice  to  Lake  Superior  Travelers.
Marquette,  Aug. 

10—The  Lake  Su­
perior  Commercial  Travelers’  Club 
wishes  the  name  and  address  of  every 
traveling  man  coming  regularly  to  the 
Upper  Peninsula.  The  Club  will  give 
its  second  annual  complimentary  recep­
tion  in  September  and  does  not  want  to 
miss  one  of  the  boys  when  the  invita­
tions  are  sent  out.

A.  F.  WixsoN,  Sec’y.
Association M atters
Michigan  Retail Grocere’ Association

President, J. Wislek,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Stowis.  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
T atman, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  Chas.  F.  Bock,  Battle  Creek;  Vice 
President.  H.  W.  Webber,  West  Bay  City; 
Treasurer, Henry C. Minn ie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers' Association 

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Marks; 
Treasurer. N.  I„  Koenig
Regular Mi etings—First and third Wednesday 
evenings  of  each  month  at  German Salesman’s 
Hall.

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
President.  E. C.  Winchester:  Secretary, Homer 
Kl a p.  T reasurer,.).  G eo.  Lehman.
Regular  Meetings—Fir»t  and  tbird  Tuesday 
evenings of each month at  Retail  Grocers' Half, 
over E. J. Herrick's store.

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

President.  P. F. T reanor:  V ice-President. J ohn 
vIcBratnie:  Secretary,  W.  U. Lewis;  Treas­
urer,  Louie S chwekmbr
Regular  Meetings—First  and  third  Tuesday 

evenings of each month at Elk’s Hall.

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association

President, Geo.  E.  Le w is: Secretary,  W. H. Por 
t e r;  Treasurer. J. L.  Petermann

Lansing  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 
Darling;  Treasurer. L.  A. G ilkky.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  Gafney:  Secretary,  E  F. 
Cleveland;  Treasurer, Geo. M. Hoch.
Traverse City  Business Men’s Association 
Holly;  Treasurer, C. A.  Hammond.

President,  T hob.  T.  Bates;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  Wh ip pl e; Secretary, G.T .C amp­

bell:  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena  Business Men’s Association 

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

Partridge.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President. L. J. Katz:  Secretary, Philip Hilbeb 
Treasurer, S. J. Huppobd.

S E E D S

Established

1876

We  carry  large  stock  Field  Seeds-Medlum,  Mammoth,  Alsyke,  Crimson,  Alfalfa  Clover  Seedi. 
We buy and seU Beans, Potatoes,  Onions,  Cabbage,  Apples,  Pears,  Plums,  Peaches,  carlots and  less. 

T im o th y ,  Orchard  Orass,  Blue Grass  Redtop  deeds.

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Peaches—Early Alexanders now in market.  Hale’s and Rivers peaches will soon  follow.

Bushel Baskets and Covers.
Give us your daily orders.

MOSELEY BROS..

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OR AN D  R A P ID S .  M ICH IG AN ,

Wholesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits.

SUMMER  SEEDS

Crimson  Clover,  Alfalfa,  Timothy,  Red  Top,  Orchard  Grass,  Blue  Grass

TURNIP  SEED

Garden  Seeds and  Implements,  Lawn  Supplies.

ALFRED   J.  BROWN  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Good outlet.
Eggs on  commission or bought on track.

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Ship your Butter,  Eggs,  Produce and  Poultry to

H E R M A N N   O .   N A U M A N N   S t  G O .

Who get highest market prices and make prompt returns.

Main Office, 353 Russell St. 

D E T R O I T .  

Branch Store, 799 riich. Ave.

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Special  Attention  to  Fruit  and  Berries  in  Season.

References:  Detroit Savings Bank, or the trade generally.

Correspondence Solicited.

Packing  Butter  in  Any  Shape

I  will buy at place  of shipment  or delivered in  Detroit. 
Correspondence  solicited.

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G R A N D   R A P ID S .

A w ait  the  Merchant  who  offers 
his customers and his  neighbors' 
customers  the
Fresh  and Seasonable
Fruits and Vegetables *

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long  as  the 

as 
weather is hot.

Osage  Melons 
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More plentiful  and 
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Bananas, Oranges, Lemons, Onions, Radishes, Cucumbers, Tomatoes,
New  Potatoes,  Summer  Squash,  Wax  Beans,  New  Peas,  Cabbage.  ■
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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 .  S T U R G IS ,

Allegan,  Mich.

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

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Antiseptic  Fibre  Package  Co..

Lard, Butter, Jelly, Mincemeat, etc.

Manufacturer  of  Packages  for  marketing 
Sealed air tight.
Pay for themselves in securing higher prices.
187-189 Canal St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

- 

see a  real  advance  in  the  present  con­
dition  of  things.  The spice  market  has 
been  an  unprofitable  one,  for  a  long 
time,  or  at  least  the  profits  were  ex­
ceedingly  small.

The  unexpected  happens 

again. 
There  has  been  a  sharp  and  well-sus­
tained  advance  on  some  lines  of  canned 
goods  and  brokers  profess  great  confi­
dence 
in  the  outlook.  Reports  from 
Maine  say  that  the  corn  crop  will  be 
almost  a  total  failure,  and,  of  course, 
this  adds  strength  to  the  market.  To­
matoes,  peas  and  string  beans  have  all 
shown  an  advancing  tendency  and  both 
here  and  in  Baltimore  the  feeling  is one 
of  confidence.

The  demand  for  California raisins has 
been  good  and  the outlook  for  several 
other  articles  in  the  dried  fruit 
is 
certainly  much  brighter  than  a  month 
ago.  Evaporated  fruits  dull  at  the  mo­
ment.
Lemons  are higher  and  in  much  more 
liberal  request.  Oranges  have  rather 
dragged,  and  the  same  is  true  of  other 
foreign  fruits.

line 

There 

There  is  a  lighter supply of  butter and 
the  quality 
is  better,  upon  the  whole, 
than  it  has  been.  The  tone  of  the  mar­
ket  is  stronger,  but  no  perceptible  ad 
vance  has  yet  occurred.  Fifteen  cents 
seems  to  be  the outside  figure  for  best 
Western  creamery.  Aside from  the best 
grades,  the  market  lacks  animation  and 
prices  are  low  and  unprofitable.
is  a  better  feeling  in  cheese 
and  some  sales  are  reported  at  77/&c  for 
full  cream 
large  size  colored  cheese. 
Whites  are  dull  and  holders  are  apt  to 
make  some  concessions 
if  necessary.
Some  Western  eggs  have  sold  at  13c. 
The  market 
is  firm  and  the  supply  is 
not  sufficient  to  more  than  barely  meet 
requirements.

There  is  a  firm  market  for  nearly  all 
sorts  of  beans  and  choice  marrow  are 
well  held  at  $1.3?.  Pea  beans  are  worth 
$1.10  and  more  in  some cases.  Red kid­
ney,  $ i.85@ i.90.

Revenue  Collectors  Cannot  Seize 

Packages  of  Prize  Tobacco.

Detroit,  Aug. 

fine  cut  chewing 

10—Internal  Revenue 
Collector  Phelan  has  received  a  circular 
from  the  Treasury  Department revoking 
a  previous  circular which authorized  the 
seizure  of  all  packages  of  smoking  to­
bacco, 
tobacco  or 
cigarettes  containing prohibited  articles 
or  advertising  any  promise  or  offer  of 
gift  premium,  reward  or  prize.  All 
violations  of  the  paragraph  in  reference 
to  packing  foreign  matter 
inside  of 
statutory  packages  and  marking  or 
printing  offers  of  reward,  etc.,  as  in­
ducements  to  sale  will  be referred to  the 
Department  for  instructions.  The  right 
to  make  seizures  for the  violation  of  the 
provision  will  not be  made until ordered 
by  the  Department.

The  Mean  Thing!

Nell—How  did  you  come  to  get  shoes 

Belle-  I  couldn’t  afford  to get  good 

just  like  mine?

ones,  dear.

,W.nR.  BRICE.

Established  1852.

C.  M.  DRAKE.

W. R. Brice & Co.,

Commission
Merchants

Butter,  Eggs and  Poultry

SPECIAL  NOTICE.
We want 

Live  Poultry 

in

Car  Load 

Lots.

Éf

D. C. Oakes,  Banker,

Coopersville,  Mich.

23 South  Water Street,  Philadelphia,  Pa.

Write  for  Information.

GOTHAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to

Special Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Aug.  7—The  advancing 
tendency  in  wheat  has  something  to  do 
with  the  feeling  among  merchants  this 
week.  Every  day  sees  more  cheerful 
faces  and  every  day  brings  to New York 
a  big  lot  of  buyers.  The  fall  season  is 
setting  in  in  a  satisfactory  manner  and 
everywhere  we  see  evidences  of  more 
business  than  has  been  transacted  for 
many,  many  months  before.

Prices  are  stronger  all  along  the  line 
and  on  some  things  there  has  been  an 
appreciable  advance.  The  weather 
is 
propitious  for  trading  and  it certainly 
seems  as  if  the  fates  were  favoring  us 
this  month.

Refined  sugars  have  been 

The  coffee  market,  of  all  the 

leading 
ones,  is creating about the  least  interest, 
except  that  of  tea.  The  demand  has 
been  almost  altogether  from the big con­
cerns,  the  smaller  roasters  seemingly 
having  supplies  sufficiently  large  to tide 
them  over  for the  present.  On  Thursday 
55,000  bags  arrived—a  record  breaker. 
Rio  No.  7  is  worth  7j^c.  Bids  of  6^ c 
were  cabled  to  Rio,  but  not  accepted. 
Nearly  every 
local  dealer  has  a  large 
stock  of  coffee  and  there  certainly  seem 
no  higher  quotations 
in  sight.  The 
amount 
in  store  and  afloat  aggregates 
687,371  bags,  against 433,377  bags  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  Mild  coffees  are 
quiet  and  the  market 
is  easy.  Good 
is  held  at  I2%c.  East  India 
Cucuta 
growths  have  been  little  sought after.
in  about 
the  usual  request,  but  there  has  been 
an  advance  of  i - i6c  on  some of  the  soft 
grades and  %c  on  others.  Low  grades 
of  foreign  refined  have  been  in  good  re­
quest  and,  in  fact,  all  foreign  refined 
has  met  with  very  good  call.
The  supply  of  domestic  rice  is  said 
to  be  chiefly  in  the  hands  of  one  opera­
tor.  Most  of  the  demand  this  week  has 
seemingly been  for  Japan,  which  is  now 
quotable at 4%c. 
The
bulk  of  the  orders  received  came  from 
interior 
supplies  are 
thought  to  be  light.
Flat,  stale and  unprofitable  is the con­
dition  of  the  tea  market. 
is 
scarcely  a  particle  of  enquiry  for  any 
kind  of  tea  and  those  who  purchased 
large  stocks  a  few  weeks  ago,  on  the 
rise,  must  feel  sick,  indeed. 
It  will 
take  some  time  to, perceptibly  reduce 
the  accumulations  and  meantime  the 
quotations  must  remain  way  down.

jobbers,  and 

There 

Java, 

In  molasses  a  change  for  the  better 
has  set  in.  There  has  been  a  fair  en­
quiry  for  the better  grades,  and  several 
large  orders  have  been  filled  at  full 
rates.  The  grocery  trade  seems  to  be 
waking  to  the  fact  that  fall  is  nearly 
here and  orders  have  come  to hand from 
many  interior  points.  Syrups  are  very 
firm  for  the  better  grades  and  prices 
are  well  sustained.

In  spices  some  trading  has  been  done 
by 
jobbers,  but  there -  is  still  room  for 
improvement.  Some  fair  orders  have 
come  from different  parts  of  the  country 
and  dealers  look  forward  with  a  good 
deal  of  hope  to  the  time  when  we  shall

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Philadelphia,  Pa.

r?  Com  Exchange  National  Bank,
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Grand  Rapids.

Hastings National  Bank,

Hastings,  Mich.

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

tinue  interference,  and  the  employer  is 
slow  to  dispute  it. 
If  there  could  be  a 
positive  ending  of  all 
relations  the 
strike  would  lose  much—if  not  most— 
of  its  power  as  a  weapon.

labor  that 

But,  through  the  arrogation  of  such 
extra-ethical  privileges,  the  strike  is 
made a  most  effective means for further­
ing  the  interests  of  its  advocates. 
It  is 
for  the  reason  that,  under the  cloak  of 
labor,  they  can  thus  encroach  upon  the 
interests  of  others  that  it  has  such  an 
attraction  for  these  leaders. 
It  is  thus 
distinctively  tbe  weapon  of  unionism. 
It  is  one of  the  curious  traits  of  organ­
ized 
it  should  be  so  ready 
with  this  weapon.  Tbe  motto  seems  to 
be,  “ Strike—then  negotiate.”   It  makes 
no  difference  how  serious  the 
interrup­
tion  of  the  business  may  be  to the work­
man  as  well  as  employer,  there  seems  to 
be  the  insane  desire  to  strike.  This 
would  be  unaccountable,  especially  in 
such  cases  as  when  the  presentation  of 
grievances  would  secure  their  removal, 
except  that it  is  only  in  the  strike  that 
the  leader  can  show  his  power,  and  that 
through  it  the  ignorant  rank  and file  are 
taught  that they  may  asseit  their  free­
dom.

By  tbe  acts  of  its  advocates the  strike 
is  made  to  supersede  all  other  rights 
and  obligations—not  only  may  every 
means  be  used  to  prevent  tbe contin­
uance of  the  business,  but  in  its  order­
ing  tbe  most  sacred  business obligations 
may  be  broken  with 
impunity.  Thus, 
in  the  present  contest  the  existence  of 
contracts  has  not  the  slightest  signifi­
cance.  The  rights  of  the  strike  super­
sede  all  others.

MKfflGANlBADESMAN

Devoted to the Best Interests of Business Men

Published at the New Blodgett Building, 

Grand Rapids, by the

T R A D E S M A N   CO M PA N Y

ONE  DOLLAR  A  YEAR,  Payable  in  Advance.

ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION.

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

Entered at the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office  as 

Second Class mail matter.

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

E .  A   STOW E,  E d it o r . 

WEDNESDAY,  -  -  -  AUGUST  II, 1897.

PH IL O S O P H Y   O F  T H E   S T R IK E .
Just  now  when  many  thousands  of  the 
working  men  of  the  coal  regions  are  or­
ganizing  into  armies  and  marching  and 
camping  to  coerce  employers  and  em­
ployes  until  the  complete  stoppage  of 
one of  the  great  industries  shall  be  se­
cured  there  is  a  general  interest  in  the 
subject of  the  strike  as  a  factor  in  labor 
problems.

From  the  standpoint  of 

There  is,  perhaps,  no  subject 

in  the 
consideration  of  which  the  mind  of  the 
reasoner  is  more  apt  to  be influenced  by 
the  point of view—by his  position  in  the 
controversy—than  this  of  the  right  of 
using  the  organized  strike  as  a  means 
of  securing  what  is  termed  the  rights  of 
labor. 
the 
apostle  of  unionism,  the  denial  of  the 
right  of  the  laborer  to  cease  bis  work 
at  any  time  and  under  any  circum­
stances  is  the  assertion  of  an  obligation 
which  he  classes  as  slavery.  On  the 
other  hand, the employers  of  labor  would 
maintain  that  there  exist  an  obligation 
and  mutuality  of  interest  which  should 
secure  a  reasonable  dependence  upon 
the continued  services  of  the  workmen.
Tbe  principle  of  the  strike  in  the  de 
flnition  given  by  the  course  of  its  ad 
vocates  is  something  more  than  the  dis­
continuance  of  service.  If  that  were all, 
its  right  could  hardly  be  denied  in cases 
where  there  existed  no  agreement  for 
continuous  work,  however  much  its  use 
might  be  deprecated  on  account  of  the 
injury 
inflicts  upon  the  interest  of 
the  workmen.  But  there 
is  a claim  that 
the  rights  of  the strikers  in  relation  to 
the  business  do  not  cease  when  work 
is 
discontinued.  For 
instance,  they  may 
insist  that  all  other  workmen  must  join 
in  the  strike and  that  for  an 
indefinite 
time  they  may  guard 
the  premises 
against  the  encroachments  of  other 
workmen  upon  the  places  which,  ac­
cording  to  ordinary  ethics,  they  have 
wholly  forfeited.

it 

The  right  of  workmen  in  the  business 
and  on  the  premises  of  an  employer 
after  he  refuses  to  proceed  with  the 
work  can  only  be  defended  on  prin­
ciples  of  socialism  which  seem  repug­
nant  to  the  general  proposition  that 
every  man  has  exclusive  right  to  his 
own  property.  According  to  the  ordi­
nary  perception  of  property  rights, when 
a  man  discontinues  his  relations  to.  his 
employer,  any  further  encroachment up­
on  tbe  premises  or  meddling  with  the 
enterprise  is  trespass  pure  and  simple. 
is  asserted  the  right  to  con-
Yet  there 

But 

in  the  use  of  this  weapon  there 
exist  no  such  rights  as  these.  As  a  mat­
ter  of  fact,  the  declaration  of  such  a 
strike  is  a  declaration  of  war  relentless 
In  its  prosecution  the  priv­
and  cruel. 
ileges  which  aie  taken 
in  the  way  of 
exceeding  ordinary  rights  are  measures 
of  force,  subject  only  to  the  limitations 
of  public  sentiment,  which  has  become 
so  perverted 
in  the  matter  of  ‘ ‘ labor 
rights”   that  the  limit  is  not  near.

In  the  piosecution  of such  a  war  there 
is  much  .of  strategy  and  generalship. 
The  placating  of  public  opinion  is  one 
of  the  most  serious  problems  for  the 
leaders.  In  the contest which  took  place 
four years  ago,  this  was  not  considered 
and  the  result  was  early  and  ignomin­
ious  defeat.  Since  that  time,  the 
lead­
ers  have  profited  by  the  lessons  of  ex­
perience and  in  the  management  of  the 
present  contest  every  effort 
is  being 
made  to  preserve  an  appearance  of  or­
derliness  and  at  the  same  time  do  all 
possible  to  interfere  with  the  industries 
concerned. 
the  measures  em­
ployed 
in  the  Pullman  strike  are  not 
now  used  is  simply  because  public  sen­
timent  would  mete  out  most  speedy  and 
effectual  retribution.

That 

The  strike  is  the  weapon  of  force. 

If 
it  stopped  at  tbe  discontinuance  of  re­
lations  between  employer  and  employe 
when  by  so  doing  no  obligations are 
violated,  there  could  be  nothing  in  it to 
condemn.  But 
its  ordinary  signifi­
cance  it  is  simply  the  waging  of  a  con­
test  against  all  rights  and  the  measures 
limited  only  by 
of  the  aggressors  are 
their  ability  to 
inflict 
injury  without 
provoking  the direct  interference  of  an 
outraged  public.

in 

The  facilities  for  getting  rich 

in  tbe 
Klondike are  only  surpassed  by  tbe  fa­
cilities  for  starving  or  freezing to death.

About  this  time  next  year  we  will  be 
the  Klondike 

doing  business  with 
widow.

SEA  POWER  AND  CO M M ERCE.
Since  the  world  has had  its  attention 
directed  to  the  possibility  of a  conflict 
between  Japan  and  the  United  States,  it 
is  discovered  that  the  former  power  is 
increasing  its  naval establishment  much 
more  rapidly  than  the  new  American 
navy  is  being  built.  The  Japanese  have 
thirty-one  vessels  in  process  of  con­
struction  in  various  parts  of  tbe  world 
at  this  time  and  already  have  a  large 
number of  modern  ships in commission.
The  most  significant  feature  about 
this  naval  ambition  of  Japan 
is  the 
statement  that  the  increase of  the navy 
is  regarded  as  a  necessary  forerunner  of 
a  great  commercial  development.  Japan 
has  adopted  the  British  idea  and  policy 
in  laying  the  foundations  for  maritime 
greatness.  Tbe  British  gunboat  has 
cleared  the  way  for  the  British  mer­
chant  ship.  When  the  merchant  ship 
has  gone  to  new  ports,  its  civil  and 
even  cordial  reception  has  been  assured 
because  of  the  respect  which  the  power­
ful  naval  flag  of  Great  Britain  has  com­
manded. 
The  Japs  have  promptly 
adopted  this  British  theory  that  the 
first  requisite  to an  enlarged  merchant 
marine  is  a  strong  navy  and  it  is  trade, 
commercial  expansion,  rather than  war, 
that  Japan  is  seeking.

That  we  are  eventually  to  have  a 
struggle  with  Japan  for  the  trade  and 
mastery  of  the  Pacific 
is  becoming 
more  apparent  daily.  We  have  lost  our 
carrying  trade 
in  other  directions  by 
our  foolish  navigation  laws  and  unless 
we  strengthen  ourselves,  from  a  naval 
and  maritime point,  to  the west,  we  will 
soon  find  the  energetic,  ambitious  and 
presently-powerful  Japs  in  control  of 
the broad  Western  Ocean.

Reflections  such  as  these should  spur 
us on  to  the  more  rapid  completion  of 
our naval  programme  and  reconcile  all 
sections  of  the country  to  the  cost.  A 
great  merchant  marine  needs  constant 
protection  and  the successful  flag  on the 
seas,  in  trade  as  in  other  respects,  is 
the  one  that  represents  sea  power and 
commands  universal 
The 
British  people  would  not  tamely  sub­
mit  to  an  appropriation  of  $100,000,000 
a  year  for naval  construction  did  they 
not  know  that  the  English  navy  is  an 
advance  agent  of  English  commercial 
prosperity. 
is  becoming  wise 
in  its  day  and  generation.

respect. 

Japan 

is 

for the  corresponding  month  since  1890, 
when 
it  was  exceeded  by  about  1  per 
cent.,  that  being  the  largest  July  busi­
ness  on  record.  That  this  is  no  tem­
porary  boom 
indicated  by  the  fact 
that  the  ratio of  increase  still continues. 
The  clearings  for  the  first  week  in Aug­
ust exceeded those of the preceding week 
by  10  per  cent.,  and  those of the corres­
ponding  week  of  last  year  by  25  per 
cent. 
It  is  significant  that  the  increase 
is  most  marked  in  the  great  industrial 
centers, Pittsburg taking the  lead  in  this 
regard,  while  the  South  and  West  are 
the  slowest  to  respond  in  this  way  to the 
It  should  be  remem­
improvement. 
indi­
bered  that bank  clearings  are  the 
cations  of  settlements  and  that  the 
im­
proving  conditions  must  have  been  in 
operation  some  time  before  the  effect  is 
thus  shown.  The  assurance  of  abundant 
harvests,  with  good  prices  for  wheat,  is 
stimulating  general  trade  in  the grain 
regions,  but  it  will  take  a little time  for 
that  fact  to  become apparent  in  the  re­
ports of  bank  clearings.

But  so long  as  the  tendency  of  prices 
continued  downward  it  was  difficult  to 
convince  many  that there was  improve­
ment,  for the general  idea  of  good  busi­
ness  usually  carries  with  it  advancing 
prices.  As  these,  for  many  commodi­
ties,  continued 
to  decline  until  all 
records  were  broken,  and  even  then 
showed  little  sign  of  stopping 
in  their 
downward  course,  it  was  hard  to  recog­
nize  that  there  could  be  improvement. 
But  that  there  was  an 
improvement 
even  then  is  proven  by  the  reports  al­
ready  referred  to.  However,  the  later 
reports  show  that  this  element  of  un­
is  finally  eliminated  from  the 
easiness 
situation.  At 
last,  iron,  the  slowest  to 
respond 
in  this  regard,  has  fallen  into 
line,  Bessemer  having  been  advanced 
and  future  orders  at  present  prices  be­
In  many  lines  the  upward 
ing  refused. 
movement  has  been 
in  evidence  for 
some  weeks  and  each  report adds  large­
ly  to  the  number  until  now  there  is 
scarcely  an  important  exception.

One  of the  significant  features  of  the 
situation  is  that wages  have  so  quickly 
responded  to  the  upward  movement. 
These have been  increased  in  many  in­
stances  while  yet  there  was  no  recovery 
in  the  price  of  the  product,  showing  a 
degree of  confidence  on  the  part  of  em­
ployers  that  is  an  assuring  feature.

RETURNING  TIDE  OF  TRADE.
There  is  something  exhilarating  in 
the  heartiness  and  unanimity  with 
which  all,  including  the  most  conserva­
tive,  commercial  reports  join 
in  the 
recognition  of  the 
fact  of  returning 
business  activity.  Even  political  par­
tisanship  and  bias  are  not  able  to main­
tain  a  denial  of  the  proposition  that 
there  is,  for  the  season  of  the year,  an 
unprecedented  general  activity 
in  all 
trade  circles,  although  some  may  find 
comfort  for  their  pessimism  in  the  con­
tinued  scales  of  low  prices;  but  even 
these, 
indications,  seem 
likely  to  meet disappointment.

latest 

from 

The 

increase 

remarkable 

Perhaps  as  good  an  index  of  the  gen­
eral  nature  of  the  improvement  may  be 
found  in  the  statements  of  bank  clear­
ings. 
in 
these  is  not  to  be  accounted  for  by  the 
speculative  activity 
in  the stock  mar­
kets, for, while  these  are  factors,  the pro­
portion  of  increase  is  very  nearly  main­
tained  throughout  the  country.  During 
the  month  of  July  each  week  saw  a  de­
cided  increase  over  the  preceding,  and 
the  ratio  of  increase  is  more than  main­
tained  so  far  for  August.  As  compared 
with  other  years,  July  breaks all  records

The  eleventh  annual  picnic  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion,  which  was  held  at  Reed's  Lake 
last  Thursday,  eclipsed  all  former  pic­
nics 
in  point  of  interest  and  enthusi­
asm.  The  retail  meat  dealers  of  the 
city 
joined  with  the  grocers  in  cele­
brating  the  event and  many  merchants 
in  other  lines  of  trade  improved  the  op­
portunity  to  close  their  doors  and  de­
vote  the  day  to  rest  and  recreation. 
Grocers’  Day  has  come  to be an  event 
of  quite  as  much 
importance  to  the 
grocery  trade as  Christmas  or  Fourth  of 
July,  and  the  dealer who  does  not  close 
his  doors  on  that day  is  regarded  with 
as  much  disfavor as tbe  man  who  would 
keep  open  house  on  Christmas  or  Inde­
pendence  Day.

Don’t  imagine  a  competitor  harmless 
because he  turns  his  back  on  you.  Re­
member  where  the  business  end  of a 
mule or hornet  is  located.

Don’t try  to  right  a  disreputable  com­
petitor  with  his  own  weapons.  Tackle 
him  with  the  sword  of  square  dealing 
and  he’ll  run  every  time.

The only  thing  the  Klondike  will  es­

cape  is  the  ice  trust.

To  the  philanthropist  who 

ROADS  AND  C O N V IC T   PROBLEM.
is  con­
cerned  in  the  solution  of  the  problems 
involved  in  the  care  and  employment  of 
prisoners  the  progress  being  made  by 
the  experiments  in  some  of  the states, 
in  New  York,  seems  distress­
notably 
ingly  slow.  There 
is  so  much  to  hin­
der 
in  the  way  of  popular  prejudice, 
especially as regards industrial  interests, 
it  seems  as  though  no 
that  at  times 
progress  is  being  made.  Yet 
in  a  way 
there  are  developments  in  the  situation 
which  may  lead  to  more  rapid  progress.
Just  now  the  press  is  full  of  accounts 
of  the  deplorable  condition  of  the  con­
victs  in  the  New  York  penitentiaries,as 
a  consequence  of  the  enforced 
idleness 
resulting  from  the  adoption,  a  year  or 
two  ago,  of  the  constitutional  amend­
ment  prohibiting  the  sale  of  prison- 
made  goods  in  the  State.  According  to 
these  reports  the 
increase  of  insanity 
among  these  wards  of  the  State  is  al­
ready  a  matter  of  serious  concern,  and 
there  seems  as  yet  to  be  no  plan  offered 
which  promises  any  considerable  relief. 
The  State  authorities are diligently  can­
vassing  all  the  institutions  of  the  com­
monwealth  to  find  a  place  for  the  prod­
ucts  of  the  prisons. 
The  last and  most 
in 
promising  opening  seems  to  present 
the  supplies 
governments, 
which  would  appear  to  be  qualified  for 
the  consumption  under  the  provision  of 
the  law  which  says  that  such  products 
may  be  supplied  to  any  political  divi­
sion  of  the  State.  The matter is  in  ques­
tion,  however,  on  account  of  another 
provision  which  prohibits  the  disposal 
of  such  products  to any  individual,com­
pany  or  corporation.  The  corporation 
counsel  of  the  city  of  Brooklyn  has  de­
cided  that  city  to  be  a  political  divi­
sion  of  the  State,  and so  entitled  to  sup­
plies ;  but  the  labor  leaders  are  protest­
ing  very  strenuously  against  this  en­
croachment  upon  the  market 
for  the 
products  of  free  labor.

city 

for 

For  some  reason  there  seems  to  be  a 
strange  reluctance  to  the  employment 
of  convicts  upon  public  works. 
In  al 
most  every  locality  in  all the states there 
is  work  which  might  be  done  by  such 
labor  which  in  no  way  would 
interfere 
with  free  industry,but  would simply add 
to  the  sum  of  the  wealth  of  the  com­
munity.  Some  of  the  states  have  done 
something  which  approaches  this 
idea, 
in  the  employment  of  prisoners  in quar­
ries,  the  product  to  be  largely  taken  by 
the  state,  county  and  municipal  insti­
tutions.  These  undertakings  seem  to 
have  been  successful,  and  such  states 
are  fortunate  that  there  is  thus  found  a 
solution  of  the  problem  for  them.  But 
the  conditions  which  make  such  a  solu­
tion  possible are  not  found  in  many  of 
the  states.

The  question  is  forcibly  suggested  as 
to  why  there  is  so  much  of  hesitation  as 
to  the  use of  prisoners  on  public  works, 
especially  that  branch 
in  which  the 
public  wealth  is  most  rapidly  increased 
—the 
improvement  of  highways.  The 
interests  of  free  labor  cannot  object  to 
this  use of  convict  labor,  for  the  task  is 
almost  infinite.  Every  advance  in  the 
work  is a  positive  addition to the wealth 
of  the  community,  which  is  shared  by 
all.

large  appropriations 

In  some of  the  states,  including  New 
York, 
from  the 
proceeds  of  taxation  are being  proposed 
and  made  for  the  experimental building 
of  state  roads. 
It  seems  strangely  in­
consistent  that  a  state  whose prisoners 
are  so  rapidly  becoming  maniacs  for 
want  of  employment  should  thus  tax  the

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

A  Barrel  of  Flour

Branded  like this one

Is  The  Best

That money can  buy.

It' will  make  whiter  bread  and  more  of  it  than  any  other  kind.

Clark=Jewell=Wells  Co.,

Western  Michigan  Agents.

people  for  the  work  most  eminently 
suitable  for  such  prisoners.

One  of  the  most  pressing  questions  of 
prison  management  to-day 
is  the  lack 
of  consideration  for  individual  differ­
ences  in  the  prisoners.  There  is  much 
being  done 
in  the  way  of  improving 
general  conditions,  but  the  convicts  are 
placed  on  the  dead  level  of  prison 
life 
regardless  of  differences  in  character. 
Taking  at  random  a  detail  from  the 
ranks  of  the  convicts, 
there  would 
doubtless  be  found desperate characters, 
which  would  make  the  management of a 
gang  difficult  and  dangerous.  But  it 
would  be  an  easy  matter to  select  the 
more  dangerous  element  for  work inside 
prison  walls,  which 
should  be  made 
arduous  by  long  hours  and  severe  re­
quirements. 
The  better  classes  could 
be  organized  so  as  to  recognize  indi­
vidual  capability  and  the  work  could be 
made  more  healthful  and  attractive  for 
those  who  could  be  kept by  the  least  re­
straint.  Thus  a  premium  could  be  put 
upon  good  behavior,  which  would  re­
duce  the  risk  of  munity to  the  least  sig­
nificance.

created 

The  problem 
it 
initiative 

is  a  hard  one,  for the 
is  so difficult  to  secure 
reason  that 
the 
in  any  given  case.  The 
fact  that  slipshod experiments have been 
tried 
in  some  of  the  Southern  States, 
which  have  proved  failures,  seems  to 
have 
invincible 
prejudice.  And  so  we  go  on  from  year 
to  year,  contriving  some  profitless  task 
to  keep  the  prisoners amused  and quiet, 
while  the  work  most  needed  and  which 
they  can  best  do  either  remains  undone 
or adds  to  the  same  burden  of  taxation 
to  which  their  support  contributes.

an  almost 

The  limit  of  transmission  of  power 
by  electricity  has  not  yet  been  reached. 
Heretofore  the  Ogden-Salt  Lake  City 
plant,  at  which  power 
is  transmitted 
thirty-six  miles,  was,  we  believe,  the 
longest  distance;  but  recently a contract 
has  been  made  by  the  Southern  Califor­
nia  Power  Company  and  the  General 
Electric  Company  to  transmit  power 
eighty  miles.  This  will  be  three  times 
as  long  as  the  above  named. 
It  will 
transmit  four  times  the  power,  and  will 
have  a  line  pressure  three  times as great 
as  the  Niagara  Falls  and  Buffalo  line. 
The  power  station  will  be 
located 
twelve  miles  from  Redlands  and  will 
use  the  water  which  flows  from  the Bear 
Valley  reservoir  through  the  Santa  Ana 
Canon,  which  will  be  conveyed  by 
means  of  canals,  tunnels  and  flumes to 
the  point  of  connection  with  the  steel 
pipe,  and  will  have  a  vertical  fall  of 
750  feet  in  its  entire length of 2,200 feet.

The  Indiana  law  requiring  that  pris­
on-manufactured  goods  brought  into  the 
State  for  sale be  conspicuously  labeled 
“ convict  made”   has  been  declared  un­
constitutional.  The  court holds that the 
law 
interferes  with  the  right  to  con­
tract,  discriminates  against  the goods of 
other  states,  and ’ interferes  with  inter­
state  commerce.

The  uncertainty  of  labor,  or  rathei 
the  certainty  of  strikes,  is  responsible 
for the  invention  of a  great  many labor- 
saving  machines.  A  glass-blowing  ma­
chine 
is  to  be  used  in  Muncie,  Ind., 
where  fruit  jars  are  made,  and  it  is  ex­
pected  to do the  work  of  200 blowers.

Each  person 

in  Chicago  who  is  en­
gaged 
in  a  brokerage  business  of  any 
kind  will  be forced  to  take  out a  license 
and  pay  a  fee  of $25  if  the  ruling  of the 
City  Collector  to  this  effect  shall  be sus­
tained  by  the  Corporation  Counsel.

This  brand  has  always  taken  first  rank 
among  the  direct  importations  of  Japan 
grades  and  we  are  pleased  to  note  that  the 
quality  of this year’s  importation  is fully up 
to  the  usual  high  standard  of  this  brand, 
while  some  of our customers who are expert 
judges  of  tea  insist  that  it  grades  higher 
than  ever  before.  We  propose  handling 
JE W E L L   CHOP  on  small  margins,  the 
same  as  heretofore,  on  the  theory  that  the 
nimble  sixpence  is  better  than  the  idle 
shilling.

Clark“ Jewell “Wells  Co.,

Sole  Owners.

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JANE  CRAGIN.

A  Sad  Catastrophe  Ends  the  Picnic. 
W ritten fo r the  T radesman.

The  roar that  struck  terror  to  all  who 
heard  it  was  a  crash  as  if  the mountains 
had  been  rent  in  twain  and  were  rush­
ing  down  the  Canon.  The  frightened 
horses  crouched  like  startled  cats;  but 
before  they  could  spring,  a  wall  of 
water  black  as  ink  and  towering  twenty 
feet  above  them  engulfed  horses  and 
driver and  swept  them  down  the  seeth­
ing,  death-dealing  gorge.

When  Cy  came  to  himself  he  found 
that  the  flood  had  hurled  him  into  the 
roots  of  an  upturned  tree,  and  so  firmly 
that 
it  required  all  his  strength,  with 
the  force  of  the  rushing  water  still  upon 
him,to  extricate  himself  from  his  peril­
ous  position.  A  deep  gash  had  been 
left  upon  bis  forehead  by  a  sharp  angle 
of  rock  against  which  he  had  been 
dashed,  but  otherwise  he seemed  unin­
jured.

His  first  thought  was  for  the  rest  of 
the  party.  Finding  that  he  could  clear 
himself  from  the  roots,  he  glanced 
around  him  and  saw,  rising  and  falling 
hardly  a  dozen  yards  away,  as 
if  fas­
tened  to  something  below  the surface, 
the  red  rose that  Marjory  had  fastened 
in  her  belt  before  they  had 
left  the 
hotel. 
It  was  a  chance  in  a  thousand, 
but  with  firmly-shut  teeth he swept down 
upon  it.  An  instant  later  and  his  strong 
hand  had  grasped  the  body  that  the cur­
rent  held  against  a  stump,  and  then  the 
two  were  swept  away  together. 
It  was 
struggling  against  hope;  but  he  was  a 
swimmer  and  the  thought 
powerful 
flashed  through  him  that, 
if  he  had 
strength  to  save  but  one,  that one should 
be  Marjory,  and  so  he  would  right  the 
great  wrong  he  had  done  her.

More  by  instinct  than  reason  he  knew 
that,  if  he  could  but  turn  with  his  bur­
den  the  sharp  angle  of  a  projecting 
crag  that  a  little  farther  down  pushed 
its  shoulder  into the  turbulent  waters, 
there  was  a  chance  for 
life;  and,  with 
the  strength  almost  of  despair,  he  bent 
every  energy  to  the  accomplishment  of 
that  purpose.  The  flood  itself  seemed  to 
aid  him  and,  when  he  had  gained  the 
into  the  eddies  be­
point,  pushed  him 
hind 
Then,  with  a  superhuman 
effort,  he  threw  his  remaining  strength 
into  the attempt  to  lift  the  unconscious 
woman  into  a  stunted  cedar  rooted  to 
the  cliff.  He  succeeded,  and  then 
dropped  helplessly  backward 
into  the 
water.

it. 

The  cloudburst,  however,  had  spent 
itself.  The  subsidence of  the  flood  was 
as  sudden  as 
its  rise  had  been,  and 
swirling  water  took  the  spent  swimmer 
its  arms  and  tossed  him  as  a  play­
in 
thing  among 
some  debris,  which 
caught  him  and  held  him  until  the  dan­
ger  was  past.

The  whole  was  the  work  of  minutes. 
An 
instant’s  rest  brought  back  to  Cy 
the  strength  he  needed  now,  if  ever. 
Bruised  and  bleeding,  he  staggered  up 
and  painfully  turned  his  steps  to  the 
rose  which,  as  a  signal  of  distress, 
seemed  to  be  silently  calling  to  him  not 
many  rods away.  Was  she  alive?  The 
thought  added  speed  to  his  faltering 
steps  and,  stumbling,  he  rushed  to  the 
white-clad object  lodged  in  the branches 
of  the  cedar.  He  pushed  back  the  hat 
that a  freak  of  the flood  had  forced  over 
the  face  and  the  pallid  countenance  met 
his  astonished  sight.

“ Jane!”   he exclaimed;  and then, with 
a  voice  which  the  waters  could  not 
drown,  he  called  for  help.  Tenderly 
lifting  the 
in  his

little  limp  form 

M iC m G A N   TRADESMAN

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240  Devonshire  St.,  Boston.

In  recognition  of the generous patronage with which 
we  have  been  favored  by  our  W estern  trade,  and  in  an 
effort  to  meet  the  wishes  of  our  customers  by  placing 
our  samples  within  easy  reach  for  inspection,  we  beg  to 
advise  you  that  we  have  opened  a  W estern  office  for 
the  inspection  of  our  goods  at  the  corner  of  Monroe 
avenue and Cadillac  Square (Room  14,  Ranter building), 
in  the  city of  Detroit.  We  propose  to  keep  on  exhibi­
tion  there  a  complete  line of  Sam ples of our entire stock.
Mr.  M.  J.  Rogan,  our  Western  representative,  will 
be  in  charge  of  our  office  at  Detroit  during  the  months 
of  August,  September  and  October,  and  February, 
March  and  April—the  two  seasons  of  the  year  when  he 
will  not  be  on  the  road—during  which  months  he  will 
take  special  pleasure  in  showing  you  our  fall  and  winter 
styles,  and  our  spring  and  summer  styles  whether  you 
want to  buy or  not.

Do  not  forget  that  Mr.  Rogan  will  be  in  Detroit 
during  the  months  mentioned  and  that  he  will  be 
pleased  to  meet  his  customers  personally,  or  hear  from 
them,  as  well  as  to  extend to  them any  favors  within  his 
power.  Thanking  you  for  past  favors,  and  trusting  that 
you  will  find  it  to  your  advantage  to  remember  us  in  the 
future,  we  are,

Very sincerely yours,

Moore,  Smith  &  Co.
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order. 
Ju st  what  you  want  at  prices  you 
can  afford  to  pay.  Our  salesman  will 
call  if you  wish  it.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

arms,  he  ttied  to  clamber  up  the  steep 
side of  the  Canon  to a spot level enough, 
he  thought,  for  his  precious  burden  to 
lie  on  without danger of slipping or roll­
ing  into  the  still  plunging  current at  the 
bottom  of  the  Canon.

“ Hold  on  down  there!  You  can't  do 
that—stay  just  where  you are!  If  there’s 
any  life  in  her  you’ll  drive  it  out!  Put 
her down !”   and  almost  as  he  stopped 
speaking,  the  man,  Heaven-sent,  Cy 
thought,  had  slipped  down  the  declivity 
to  where  Cy  had  halted, and bent  at once 
to  the  task  before  him.

“ She’s alive!  Here—rub, if you’ve any 
strength  to  rub  w ith;”   and,  with  far 
more  might  than  a  man  just  from  the 
jaws  of  death  would  be  supposed  to 
have,  Cy,  with  a  hope  which  gave  him 
life,  obeyed  the bidding.

“ D ’ye  hear  that?  Reach  me 

that 
brandy.  There!  Take  a  swallow  or two 
yourself.  Now,  then!  it's  only  the  work 
of  a  few  minutes. ”

When  those  minutes  were  over—they 
were  hours  to  Cy—Jane  Cragin  could 
again  be  safely  counted  among  the  liv­
ing.  They  carried  her—Cy  wanted  to 
it  alone—up  the  Canon  side  to  the 
do 
mountain-wagon 
in  which  the  Doctor 
had  started  out on  his  errand  of  mercy 
as  soon  as  the  disaster  had  happened ; 
his  quick  ear  had  heard  Cy’s  call,  and 
he  had  reached  them 
just  in  time  to 
save  her.

The  party  were  soon  warmly  received 
at  a  hospitable  house  in  the  neighbor­
hood  and,  after 
Jane  had  been  kindly 
cared  for,  the doctor turned  to  Cy.

‘  I  don’t  know  who  you  are,  but  I 
know  that,even with constitution  enough 
for  a  dozen  men,  you  can’t  stand  every­
thing ;  and  you  want  to  get  yourself  in­
just  as  quickly  as  you  can. 
to  bed 
You've  had  a  knock 
in  your  forehead 
there  that  would  send  almost  any  other 
man  to  the boneyard.  Everything seems 
to  look  in  your  favor,  though. 
I'll  take 
a  stitch  or two  in  that  ugly  gash  in your 
mansard,  and  call  around  to-morrow  or 
next  dav—and  don’t  you  get  up  until  I 
come.  The  young 
lady  in  there  is  all 
right,  so  don’t  be  worrying  about  her. 
Come  now,  let  me  fix  you  up  as  well  as 
I  can,  and  then  I ’ll  get  out and  find 
some  other  poor  devil  that  this  flood’s 
been  trying  to  put  out  of  the  way.”

With  many a protest  Cy  yielded  to  the 

doctor's  commands.

On  the  following  day  he  and  Jane  re­
turned  to  the  Alta  Vista.  The  first  to 
greet  them  were  Smith  and  Miss  Birk- 
enmayer.  By  a  mistake  which  all  con­
sidered  as  miraculous  the  driver  of  the 
first  wagon  of  picnickers  had  turned  in­
to  Cosey’s  Gulch  where  the road forked ; 
the  driver  of  the  second  wagon  had  fol­
lowed  the  leader,  and,  when  the  cloud­
burst  swept  down  Wilson’s  Canon,  the 
party  were  safe  from  destruction,  sepa­
rated  from  it  aj  they  were  by  a  ridge  of 
the  mounti in

Jane  heard  no  more.  A  glance  at  the 
sympathizing  faces  around  her  told  the 
awful  story  that  the  lips  refused  to  tell 
and  she  sank  unconscious  to  the  floor.
R ic h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g .

A  botanist  insists  that many neglected 
American  weeds  are  good  to  eat.  The 
tender  young  shoots  of  milkweed  are 
said  to  be as  delicate  as asparagus,  with 
similar  valuable  properties.  Pigweed 
is  related  to  beets  and  spinach.  The 
nettle 
is  well  flavored,  although  some­
what  coarse  and  stringy,  which  argues 
that  the donkey  may  be  more  of  an  epi­
is  suggested 
cure  than  is  supposed. 
that  every  weed  has an  honest  value 
if 
it  could  only  be discovered.

It 

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il

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.  I *eople will 
not buy things to eat that do not 
look clean and inviting.
Stop that leak in vour profits! 
Stop it with DUSTLESS!

Learning  the  Bicycle.

Written for the Tradesman.

It  would  seem,  perhaps, 

that  this 
branch  of  bicycle  literature  has  been 
sufficiently  extended,  yet  there  may  be 
some  thoughts  suggested  by  continued 
experience  which  will  not be too thread­
bare  for  repetition. 
It  is  not  my  inten­
tion  to  produce  a  manual  of instruction, 
or even  to  give  anything  in  the  way  of 
assisting  the  novice,  so  much  as  the 
consideration  of  what  it  means  to secure 
complete  mastery  of  the  new  mode of 
locomotion.

Like  the  building  of  Rome,  the learn­
ing  the  bicycle 
is  not  done  in  a  day. 
Those  who  approach  most  nearly  to 
expedition  in acquiring the art  of  riding 
are,  strangely,  the  ones  who  would seem 
to  know  the  least  about  it—the  youngest 
to  make  the  attempt.  Most  children 
acquire  the  ability  to  balance  on  the 
wheel  very  quickly,  while  the  fathers 
and  mothers  in  Israel  can  only  secure 
the  art  by  long-continued  and  patient 
effort,  sometimes  ending  in  discourage­
ment  and  failure. 
Just  how  the  little 
ones  can  do  this  so  quickly  is  not  easy 
to  explain;  but  it  is  probably  their  im­
munity  from  danger 
in  case  of  a  fall 
which  makes  them  bolder  in  their  ven­
tures.

With  people  of  riper  years  the  ability 
to  learn  the  wheel  quickly  is  very  rare, 
and  seems  to  diminish  in  proportion  to 
the  advance 
in  age.  Yet  many  aged 
people  have  learned  the  wheel,  and  are 
learning  every  day,  while  seme  few 
make  the  attempt  unsuccessfully.

But  there  is  more  to  learn  in  dealing 
with  the new  vehicle  than  acquiring  the 
ability  to  maintain  equilibrium.  The 
boys  and  girls  who  seem  to  be  able  to 
ride  at  the  first  effort do  not thereby  se­
cure the  mastery  of  the  wheel,  although 
they  may  learn  so  rapidly  that  the  time 
of  learning  is  very  short.  Such  riders 
are  so  elastic  that  they  quickly  adapt 
themselves  to  the  mobility  of  the  wheel 
and  ride  as  though  all  were one mechan­
ism.  Control 
is  soon  acquired  and, 
with  quick  eye  and  ready motion,  safety 
and  self-reliancce  are  quickly  attained.
But,  if  the  power to  maintain  an  up­
right  position 
is  slow  to  gain  in  later 
years,  as  much  more  slowly  must  com­
plete  control m be  acquired.  There  are 
very  many  who  seem  to  think  that  the 
learning  the  wheel  is  wholly  comprised 
in  the  acquiring  the  ability  to  mount 
it  and  dismount  without 
and  propel 
is  accom­
getting  a  fall.  When  this 
plished,  such  think  there 
is  nothing 
more  to  learn,  and  so  make  no  contin­
ued  regular  effort 
in  the  way  of  prac­
tice.  Thus 
it  often  happens  that  these 
riders  never  secure  a  feeling  of  entire 
freedom  on  the  wheel—they  are  always 
under a  strain  and  the  use soon becomes 
irksome  and  distasteful. 
I  have  talked 
with  several  such,  who  have  said  that, 
after  learning  to  ride  the  wheel.it  made 
them  feel  uneasy  and  nervous—they 
seemed  to  be  afraid  of  running  into  ob­
jects  while  yet  a  great  way  off. 
In 
many  cases  this  injurious  effect  on  the 
rider’s  nerves  has  led  them  to  discard 
the  wheel  as  a  failure.

Now,  th’e  trouble  with  these 

timid 
ones 
is  simply  that  they  have  not  yet 
learned  the  wheel.  To  acquire  the  abil­
ity  to  keep  the  wheel  upright  and  pro­
pel  it  is  only  putting  matters 
in  shape 
so  one  may  begin  to  learn,  although  the 
learning  may  be  mostly  a  matter  of 
practice.  To  learn  the  wheel  success 
fully,  the  practice  must  be  continued, 
in  most  cases,  for  a  long  time.  If  those 
who  think  they  are  failures  as  wheel­
men  because  the  wheel  is  tiresome  will

practice  as  frequently  as  possible—not 
long  at  a  time,  however—they  will  find 
that  the  wheel  will  “ ‘ grow  upon  them”  
and  in  a  few  months  they  will  wonder 
how  they  ever  did  without  it.  But  even 
then  they  will  not  have 
it  learned. 
Those  who  have  taken  up  the  wheel  in 
middle  age  will  require  years  for  its 
complete  mastery.  I myself  have  ridden 
over  seven  years,  and  I  am  still 
learn­
ing.

Most  accidents  caused  by  the  wheel 
are  the  result  of  the  lack  of  complete 
mastery  to  be  gained  by  use.  When 
there 
is  this  complete  mastery,  there 
will  be  no more danger on the wheel than 
in  walking  or  running.  The  accom­
plished rider intuitively  looks ahead  and 
plans  for  any  contingencies  and  so  is 
never  taken  by  surprise.  They  are  only 
novices  who  turn  corners  so  quickly  as 
to  fall,  or  who  slip  on  wet  car  tracks. 
With  complete  mastery  of  the  wheel 
there  seems  to  be even  more  of  co-oper­
ation  between  the  rider  and  the  vehicle 
than  in  equestrianism  between  the  rider 
and  the  horse.  There  seems  to  be  al­
most  a  sentient  response  of  the  steel 
muscles  to  every  motion  of  the  rider. 
When  such  is  the  case,  there  is  a  pleas­
ure  in  the  use  of  the  vyheel  known  to  no 
other  exercise. 

N a t e.

The  Sympathetic  Woman.

After  all,  it 

is  the  truly  sympathetic 
woman  that  is  best  loved.  She 
it  is  to 
whom  we  go  with  sorrows  and 
joys 
alike,  knowing  full  well  that  she  will 
weep  or  rejoice  with  us,  as  the  case 
may  be.  This  requisite  quality  of  sym­
pathy,  which  can  be  expressed  by  the 
one and  felt  by  the  other,  is  difficult  to 
define.  Sometimes  not  a  word  is  spoken 
or  a  glance  exchanged,  but  the  sense of 
perfect  understanding  and  appreciation 
is 
instinctively  alive  and  the comfort 
sought  is  found.  Sympathy  reaches  its 
highest  degree  of  perfection  in  woman ; 
it  in  her,  and  are  bitterly 
we  look  for 
disappointed  when  we  find 
it  not,  as 
the  lack  of 
it  takes  away,  in  a  great 
measure,  her  true  womanliness  and  that 
perfect  femininity that  is so charming to 
the sterner  sex.

True  sympathy  springs from a genuine 
love  of  humanity  and  from  a  heart  that 
is  never  envious  or  jealous  of  the  good 
fortune  of  others.  A  truly  sympathetic 
woman  knows  when  not  to  speak,  and 
there 
that 
means  rest;  but  when  she  does  speak 
she  knows  intuitively  just  what  to  say. 
She  has  long  ago  learned  that  to  all  of 
us  comes  a  time  when  something  should 
be  said,  but  there  never  comes  a  time 
when  everything  should  be  said.

is  very  often  a  silence 

A  truly  sympathetic  woman  has  the 
knack  of  making  others  feel  that  their 
concerns  are  her concerns,  although  they 
tend  but  to  the  football 
field  and  are 
hounded  by  the  smoke  of  the  favorite 
meerschaum,  or  to  Johnnv’s  latest  ill­
ness.  This 
is  an  art  in  itself,  and  its 
reward  tarries  not,  for  such  a  woman  is 
never  without  an  attendant  swain  and 
women  friends  adore  her. 
She  can 
make  any  man  feel  a  very  fine  fellow, 
indeed,  in  his  own  eyes,  and  this 
is  a 
sensation  that  masculinity  never  fails  to 
relish.

In  the  Same  Fix.

Typewriter—I  am  rapid  enough,  and 
understand  business  forms  all  right,  but 
I  must  admit  that  I  cannot  spell.
Business  Man—You  won’t  do,  then, 
I  can’t  spell  either.

even  at  the  price. 

It  is  said  that  there  are  paid  money 
orders  to  the  face  value  of  over  $2.000,- 
000,000  stored  away  in  the  vaults  of  the 
Postoffice  Department  at  Washington.

DUSTLESS is a floor dressing, to be put 
It is not sticky, but it prevents dust from 
One  application  will  keep the dust 
off your ¡»helves for six months.
It is a good deal cheaper to use than 
not to  use  it.  Write  for  a  free 
hook  that  tells  all  about  DUST­
LESS.
None  genuine  without  our  label 

and signature.

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

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MAKING  M ONEY.

The  Man,  Not the  Place, That Achieves 

Success.

The  artist  can  teach  his  pupil  certain 
principles  of  art—the  fundamental  facts 
relating  to  the  mixing  of  colors,  the 
rules  of  perspective  and  other  technical 
details  relating  to  sketching  and  paint­
ing—but  he  cannot  impart  his  genius  to 
the  student.  He  cannot  instruct  in  that 
which  puts  soul 
the  picture. 
Genius  must  pre-exist,  if  the  beginner 
in  the  study  of  art  would  take  his  place 
among  the  masters.

into 

So 

in  respect  to  the  gift  for  money­
making—one  may  be  instructed 
in  the 
principles  of  success,  the  observance  of 
which  will  result 
in  a  moderate  pros­
perity,  but  the  gift  for  attaining  pre­
eminent  success 
is  not  to  be  acquired 
by  the  study  of  examples nor the observ­
ance  of  rules. 

It  is  inborn.

It 

is  a  fact 

in  poverty 

in  every-day  notice 
that  one  man  succeeds  where  another, 
with  the  same  equipment 
in  facilities, 
fails;  and  it  often  is  impossible  to  find 
the  reason  for  the contrary  results of  the 
same  direction  of  effort. 
“ Luck”   is 
often  credited  for the  showing;  but  the 
man  has  more  to  do  with  it  than  any 
favors  of  fortune.  One  patient  struggler 
in  the  midst  of  the 
dies 
boundless  opportunities  afforded 
in  a 
civilized community,  while  a  Jay  Gould 
would  find  some  way  to  make  money  in 
the  Sahara  desert.  Here  and  there,  in 
out-of-the-way  places,  men  are  to-day 
making  fortunes  where  ordinary  mortals 
must  struggle  to  keep  body  and  soul 
together,  simply  because  the 
former 
have  the  money-making  instinct  which 
discovers  opportunities  that  are  not 
visible  to  the  average observer—because 
they  see  the openings  in  the  least  hope­
ful  environment.
instances 

in  our  own  time  and 
country  of  the  rapid  accumulation  of 
wealth  are  not  confined  to  the  Vander­
bilts,  the  Astors  and  the  Rockefellers, 
who  are  specially  distinguished  by  the 
gift  for  money-making;  they  abound  in 
numberless  communities.  But  far  away 
in  the  ends  of  the  earth,  outside  of  the 
pale  of  civilization,  men  have  shown 
marvelous  resources 
in  this  direction 
and  a  consideration  of  a  few  examples 
which  come  to  mind  will  establish  the 
fact  that  money  can  be  made  anywhere 
—when  the  right  sort  of  men  undertake 
it!

The 

Twenty-seven  years  ago  a  young 
physician,  Mathieu  Auguste  Bibeiro, 
despairing  of success in his overcrowded 
profession 
in  Portugal,  picked  out  the 
little 
island  of  St.  Thomas,  not  far 
from  the  African  coast,  in  the  Gulf  of

Guinea,  as a  place  where  he  might  hope 
to  establish  a  practice  among  the  na­
tives.  He 
landed  there  with  money 
enough  to  buy  a  mule  and  three months’ 
provisions;  and,  traveling  mule-back 
through  the  mountains,  he  soon  estab­
lished  a  lucrative  practice.  And  as  he 
journeyed  he  looked—and  thought.

He  observed  the  astonishing  fertility 
of  the  soil  of  the  little  island  and  he 
had  the  perspicacity  to  see  that in  point 
of 
light,  of  humidity,  of  heat,  it  pre­
sented  great  advantages  for the  cultiva­
tion  of  the  cocoa  tree.  He quietly went 
to  work  to  purchase  land, 
investing 
every  dollar  as  rapidly  as  he  could  save 
it.  Land  was  cheap  and  natives  could 
be  hired  for  a  few  pennies  per day  to 
plant  vast  tracts  with  the  young  cocoa 
plants.  He  lived 
in  poverty  that  he 
might  buy  still  more  land  and  plant 
larger  areas.  Every  one  thought  him 
crazy;  but  he  was  a  genius  of  business. 
He  had  correctly  calculated  that  the 
island  furnished  the  exact  conditions 
necessary  to  produce  the  finest  cocoa 
beans  in  the  world—a rich,  well  watered 
soil,  humid  atmosphere,  freedom  from 
cold  winds  and  protection  from  violent 
storms;  and  the  world  soon realized that 
the  little 
island,  which  was  scarcely 
noticed  on  the  map  of  the  world,  was  a 
veritable  gold  mine  to  the  young  doctor 
who  had  the  gift  for  money-making  and 
who  now  counts  his  wealth  by  millions.
The  difference  in  the  faculties  of men 
for  money-making 
is  strikingly  illus­
trated  by  the  news  that  a  number  of 
Canadians  had  to  be  assisted  recently 
to  return  from  Brazil,  whither  they  went 
to  engage  in  coffee-raising,  which  they 
could  not  make  profitable;  whereas  a 
poor  German lad,  Carlos  Schmidt,  with 
his  savings  of  a  few  hundred  dollars, 
landing  at  Rio  Janeiro,  after  devoting 
some time  to  a  study  of  the  coffee  in­
dustry 
its  bearings,  prospered 
amazingly  because  he  possessed  a  posi­
tive  genius  for  discovering  right  open­
ings  and  brought  to  the  development  of 
his 
ideas  the  right  kind  of  money­
making talent.

in  all 

Money  can  be  made  anywhere—when 
it.

the  right  kind  of  a  man  undertakes 

A  Great  Inventor.

great  inventor,  would  you?”

“ You  wouldn’t take  that  man  for  a 
“  No.  Is  he?”
“ He  is.  He  invented  an  excuse  for 
being  out  with  the  boys  that  satisfied 
his  wife,  and  he’s  been  married  seven­
teen  years! ’ ’

The  Meanest  One.

*' What is the meanest man you know?”
“ The  man  who  will  walk  between  a 
bargain  window  and  a  woman  who  is 
feasting  her  eyes  upon  it.”

New  Cheese  Branding Law in Canada.
Prom the London (Ont.) Farmers’ Advocate.

The  bill  passed  at  the  recent  session 
of  the  Dominion  Parliament  requiring 
the  word  “ Canada”   or “ Canadian 
in 
letters  not  less  than  three-quarters  of  an 
inch  high  and  one-quarter  of  an  inch 
wide  to be  stamped  upon  every  box  or 
package  containing  cheese or butter des­
tined  for  export,  and  in  case  of  cheese 
upon  the cheese  itself before being taken 
from  the  factory  where  made,  is  now  a 
law,  having  received  the assent  of  the 
Governor-General  on  June  29.  Factory- 
men  and  creamerymen  should  govern 
themselves accordingly,  as  the  penalty 
for  violation  amounts  to  a  fine  not  ex­
ceeding $25  nor less  than  $5,  with  costs, 
and 
imprisonment  with  or 
without  hard 
labor  for a  term  not  ex­
ceeding  three  months.

in  default 

If  you  recognize  no  higher  logic  than 
the dollar,  you  may  become  a  very  rich 
man,  but  you  will  always  remain  a  very 
poor creature.

The  novel  spectacle  of  a  steamer  be­
ing  stoked  with  banknotes  was  recently 
witnessed  at  a  Mediterranean  port. 
Forty-five  sacks  of  the  apparently  valu­
able  paper  were  tossed  into  the  furnace 
of  the  vessel’s  boiler.  The  notes  were 
canceled  documents  of  the  Bank  of  Al­
giers.

A  novel  method  of  taxing luxuries  for 
the  purpose  of  revenue  has been devised 
by  the  Albertsville  (Ala.)  Methodist 
church.  A  tax  of  $10  each  has  been 
imposed  on  each  member  of  the  con­
gregation  who  chews  tobacco.  The  tax 
is  to go  into  the  coffers  of  the  church.

It  is  said  that  in  Paris  there  is  an  in­
ternational  band  of  bicycle  thieves,  who 
have  warehouses  for  the  storage  and 
sale  of  bicycles  in  all  the  large towns  of 
Europe.

If  you  have  capacity  and  power  you 
cannot  escape  the  responsibility  which 
attaches  to  it.

t

YOU are a Grocer.
W e are interested in your welfare.
We want you to succeed.
If you don't, we can't.
We make Flour.
We want you to sell it.
We believe you can make money at it. 
We make good Flour at a reasonable 

price.

People want that kind of Flour.
W e call it "LILY W HITE."
It is no trouble to sell it.
EVERYBODY likes it.
Women are particular about Flour.
Lily W hite pleases them.
Please the women and you get the fam­

ily trade*

It is worth while.
Order "LILY W HITE" Flour now.
W e guarantee it.
Your money back if you want it.

Valley City Milling Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

Which  Man  Is  the  More to  Be  Envied?
Stroller in Grocery World.

I  have  caught  myself  wondering  dur­
it  pays 
ing  the  last  few  weeks  whether 
to  be  charitable  or not. 
It  is  a  question 
of  getting  tine  respect  or  affection  of 
your  neighbors,  as  against  getting  a 
certain  percentage  of  this world’s goods.
To  illustrate  my  meaning,  I  will  cite 
two  cases:  In  a  small  town which I  have 
visited  at  least  once  in  two  months  for 
fifteen  years,  there  are  two grocers,  both 
of  whom  are  middle-aged  men,  who 
have  been 
in  business  there  for a  term 
of  years  commencing  before  I  started  to 
go  there.
If  you  search  the  country  over  you 
won’t  find  two  men  more  absolutely 
different  than  they  are.  They  are  the 
antipodes  of  each  other  in  every  respect 
—personal  appearance,  personal  traits, 
business  methods—and  also  in  financial 
standing.  The  fact  that  they  are  both 
grocers 
is  about  the  only  point  of  re­
semblance  they  have.
One of  these  grocers  we’ll  call  Smith 
and  the  other  Jones.  Smith  is  a  deacon 
in  the  Baptist  church,  a  member  of 
several  of  the  organizations  in  the  town 
and  a  good  and  valued  citizen,  yet  he 
is  an  in­
has  few  if  any  friends.  He 
tensely  close  man  and  has  never been 
known  to  give  anything 
in  charity. 
Whenever  he  gives  anything  away—but, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  he  never  does  give 
anything  away. 
If  he  allows  anything 
to  leave  the  store  without  a  cash  equiv­
alent,  there  has  to  be  some  equiva­
lent  for 
indirect,  in  the 
case  somewhere.  Nobody  goes  to  Smith 
for  a  contribution  for  a  church  festival. 
No  poor  woman  in  need  of  food  goes  to 
him  for  a 
loaf  of  bread  or an  egg  or 
two.  Smith  has  never  been  known  to  do 
any  such  foolish  things.  Neither  he  nor 
his  wife  would  think  of  calling  at  a 
house  where  a  person  lay  sick,  or of 
sending  around  or  leaving any little  del­
icacies.  Why,  if  Smith were  seen  com­
mitting  any such  indiscretions  the  whole 
town  would  be  aroused  and  his  sanity 
would  at  once  be  questioned.  He  is  a 
cold,  narrow,  uncharitable  man. 
If  a

it,  direct  or 

family  has  lost  its  only  bread-winner by 
death,  and  thev  owe  Smith  a  bill,  the 
fact  of  their  destitute  circumstances 
won't  weigh  in  the  least  with  him.  His 
bill  goes  in,  and  if  it  isn’t  paid  pretty 
soon  he’ll  call  at  the  bouse  and  sternly 
enquire  why.  This 
is  no  romancing. 
I ’ve  known  him  to  do  it.  Everything 
is  straight  cold  business  with  Smith. 
There  must  be  no  sentiment 
in  your 
dealings  with  him.  Like  Shylock,  he 
wants  his  pound  of  flesh,  and  neither 
death  nor  disaster  can  stop  his  efforts  to 
get  it.

in  Smith’s  case. 

Now,  let  us  see  what 

recompenses 
I  said  he 
there  afte 
had  probably  been  in business seventeen 
or  eighteen  years. 
I  happen  to  know 
that  when  he  started  he had nothing.  He 
even  opened  his  store  on  borrowed  cap­
ital.  To-day  Smith  owns  the  store  he 
trades  in,  the  house  he  lives  in  and  six 
or  eight  houses beside. 
In  addition,  he 
is  accredited  with  owning  about  $8,000 
worth  of  Pennsylvania  Railroad  stock, 
which  nets  him  a  comfortable  little  div­
idend  every  few  months.  Smith  is  well 
fixed.  He  has  made  money  by  being 
stingy  and  uncharitable,  but  he  has 
made  it—and  every  cent  out  of  his busi­
ness.

Now,  take  Jones.  As  I  said,  Jones  is 
Smith’s  perfect  opposite.  He 
is  prob­
ably  about  the  same  age—say,  55  years. 
He  has  been  a  grocer  in  that  town  for 
maybe  twenty  years,  and  is 
just  about 
as  well  known  as  Smith.  Yet  he  isn’t 
worth  a  cent.  He  does  a  fair trade, 
probably  75  per  cent,  as  large  as  that 
done  by  Smith,  and  it  would  certainly 
seem  as  if  he  ought  to  have  saved some­
thing  out  of  it.  But  he hasn’t. 
I  know 
that  he  even  has  to hustle at  times  to  get 
the  money he  owes  his  wholesale grocer.
Jones  is  a  born  philanthropist.  He  is 
what  the  flippant  would  call  “ easy.”  
I ’ll  guarantee  that  any  tramp  on  earth 
can  go  into  that  man’s  store,  and  even 
the flimsiest  tale  of  hard  luck  will  elicit 
crackers  and  cheese,  and  often  some­
thing better.  Poor  people  short of money 
go  there  and  get  their  groceries,  and 
[ very  often 
Jones  never  thinks  of  send­

ing  them  a  bill.  They  bless  him  fer­
vently ;but families  are  not  easily raised 
on  naked  blessings.  Not  a  person 
in 
that  town  gets  sick  that  Jones,  if  he 
bears  of it,  doesn’t happen to drop  in “ as 
he  was  passing, ”   to  see  how  they  are. 
More  often  than  not  he carries  a  box  or 
two  of  especially  choice  strawberries, 
or  a  jar  of  jam,  or  something  else  to 
tempt  the sick  appetite.
Jones  is  a  good  fellow—to  everybody 
but  Jones.  His  clothes  never  fit  him 
and  he  always  needs  a  new  suit.  So 
does  his  wife,  as  a  rule.  But  that  makes 
no  difference.  He’s  just  as  happy,  and 
so  is  his  wife.  There  are  no  people 
in 
that town  more  popular  than the Joneses. 
Everybody  likes  them,  and  everybody 
depends  on  them  after  a  fashion.  And 
yet  Smith 
is  worth  probably  $30,000, 
while  Jones  owns  barely  enough  to  keep 
his  head  above  water.
'  Now,  there are the two  cases.  Here’s 
Jones,  with  nothing  to  show  after  a life­
time  of  labor  but  an  always  uncertain 
living  and  hosts  of  friends,  who  are  all 
right  in  their  way,  but  who  are  neither 
bread  nor  butter.
in  that  place,  man  or 
Ask  anybody 
woman,  what  they  think  of  him,  and 
everyone of  them  will  praise  him.  But 
he's  worth  nothing.
Take  Smith,  without  a  real  warm 
friend—a  man  with  neither  charity  nor 
generosity  in  his  nature— a  man  whom 
needy  women  shun  and  church solicitors 
pass  by.  And  yet  he  owns  probably 
$30,000—a  fortune  for  a  country  town.
Which,  after all,  is  to  be  the  more  en­

vied?

An  Ideal  Existence.

He—“ If  you  couldn’t  be  yourself,who 

would  you  rather be?”
She—“ The  man  who  marks  down 
goods 
in  the  dry  goods  store.  What a 
lovely  life  he  must  lead,  always  having 
first choice. ’ ’

The  California  Railroad  Commission 
has  decided  that  a  railroad cannot  make 
its  commutation  rate  less  for  women 
than  for  men.

Some  Things the  Boys Want  to  Know.
Why  don’t  we  have  better hotels  in 

country  towns?

Why  does a  landlord  put  a  billiard 
room  under  the best  rooms  in  the  house 
and  run  it  until  12 a.  m. ?

Why  does’nt  he  open  his  office  at 
least  once  a  day  to  let  the  cigar  smoke 
out?

Why  does  he  put  the bar next  to the 
office  or  reading  room  and  keep  the 
doors  open  between,  thereby  permitting 
the  rubbish  of  the  town  to  be  thrust  up­
on  the  presence  of  his  guests?

Why  does  he  run  the  house  for  the 
benefit  of  the bar,  instead  of vice versa?
Why  does  the  porter  sweep  the  office 

when  it  is  full  of  guests?

Why  doesn’t  he  sprinkle  when  he 

sweeps?

Why  doesn’t the  waiter  carry  a  clean 

towel  in  place  of  a  dirty  rag?

Why  doesn’t the  chambermaid  spread 
the beds  open  during  the  day  and  let 
the  sheets dry  out?
Why  does  the  clerk  stalk  through  the 
halls  and  wake  every  one up,  instead  of 
silently  calling  his  early  train  guests 
and  letting  the  rest  sleep?
Why  does  he  buy  all  the  3-year-old 
canned  goods  and  the  meanest  soap  he 
can  get?
Why  does  the  landlord  charge  you  the 
same  price  for a  poor meal  or bed as  he 
does  for a  good  one?
Why  don’t  the  landlords take  charge 
of  the baggage  wagons  instead of letting 
outsiders  “ wolf”   their  customers?
money? 
rious. )

Why  don’t  all  hotel  keepers  make 
(Because  some  are  too  penu­
Why  don’t  they  learn  to  keep  a hotel?
Why  do  the  boys  stand  these  things? 

(Because  they  have to.)
How  to  Dispose of a Worthless  Horse.
“ You  durn  old  plug,”   said the farmer 
to  his balky  horse,  “ you  actually  ain’t 
worth  killin'—unless,”   he  added,  after 
second  thought,  “ unless  I  could  manage 
to git  you  killed  by  the  railroad.”

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Flour  is  one  adapted  to  bakers  or  where  a  strong,  sharp  flour  is  wanted. 

Both  flours  are  manufactured  from  the  finest  spring  wheat  grown.

Try  a  sample  car  of our  Flour  and  Feed.

JOHN  H.  EBELING, Green  Bay, Wis.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

keep  good  salesmen.  That’s  one  rea­
son  why  you  rarely  see  cut-price  signs 
up  on  my  store.  That’s  why  there  isn't 
a  bargain  sale  banner  up  there  now. 
That’s  why  I  am  selling  these  $4  shoes 
at $4  instead  of  sacrificing  a  dollar  on 
every  pair.

“ I  tell  you,  there  are  a  great  many 
shoe  merchants to-day  in  the  shadow  of 
the  sheriff  s  red  flag  because  they  have 
been  so  unwise  as  to  save  a  dollar a 
week  on  a  clerk’s  salary.  Where  they 
have  saved  this  one  dollar they have  lost 
ten 
in  accumulated  stock  and  conse­
quent  cut  prices.

They 

appreciate 

“ My  clerks  spare  for  me  the  pruning 
knife.  They  are  satisfied.  They  are 
the 
enthusiastic. 
mutuality  of  our  interests.  So  do  I. 
I 
treat  them  right  and  pay  them  right. 
I 
keep  them  enthused.  There  is no  par­
I  have  given  them  to  under­
tiality. 
stand  thoroughly  that 
their  earning 
power  for  me  is  the  sole basis  for sal­
increase  and  I  scan  their  work 
ary 
closely. 
I  know  what  they  are  doing 
and  how  they  are  doing  it.

‘ ‘ I  find  that  the newest  styles  are  not 
forced  onto  people who would be  just  as 
content  with  older styles.  My  clerks do 
not  figure  on  making  shelf-warmers  that 
I  must  cut  the  price on  and  sell  later 
with  a  P  M,  besides  netting  a  loss  for 
every  pair sold.  On  the  contrary,  they 
know  that  getting  rid  of old stock counts 
heavily  in  favor of  a  salary increase.

instruct  the  clerks  to  push  it. 

* ‘ I  watch  stock  with  a  critical  eye. 
Just  as  soon  as  I  see a  shoe  getting  be­
hind  in  the  race  I  begin  to  push  it  and 
I  ad­
I 
I 
vertise  it. 
I  put  it  in  the  window. 
get  it  out on  the tables  in  the  store. 
I 
let the  people  see  it.  -I don’t wait  until 
it  is  shelf  worn. 
I  keep  things  moving 
and  the  clerks  understand  that  I  am  not 
putting  the shoes out there to  look  at or 
to  fill  up  space,  but  to  sell—and  they 
sell  ’em.

“ I ’ll  tell  you  now that  I  have  found 
that  you  can  spare  the  knife  in  the  shoe 
business 
if  you  keep  things  moving. 
You  can’t  always  do  it,  of  course,  but 
you  can  keep  profits  intact  a  hundred 
per  cent,  better  than  most  dealers  do 
whose chief  aim  seems  to  be  to discover 
an  excuse  for  making  a  cut. 
I  try  to 
avoid  them.
“ To  do 

it,  however,  you  must have 
good  salesmen  and  pay  them  for  what 
they  do.  You must  carry  goods that  are 
worth  every  cent  you  ask  for  them,  and 
always have  just  what you  advertise. 
I 
am  making  my  business  pay  well  on 
this  plan  and  I  know  lots  of bright  fel­
lows  who  can’t  do  it on  the  cut  price 
principle. ” —Gazette.

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Shoes  and- Leather
How  the  Skillful  Salesman  Sold  the 

Four  Dollar  Shoe.

It  is  an  interesting  study to watch dif­
ferent  shoe  salesmen  and  their  different 
methods  of  shoe  selling. 
It  is  a  past­
time  that  amuses  me  and  I  often  in­
dulge  it.

Last  week 

in  a  big  city  store  I  no­

ticed  a  case  that pleased  me.

The  merchant had  been  doing  some 
heavy  advertising  on  a  line  of  $3  shoes 
and  appeared  to  be  pushing  them  hard. 
The  window  was  full  of  them  and  there 
were  placards all  over  the  store  extoll­
ing  their  merits;  in  fact,  no  other  shoe 
was  referred  to.

A  customer entered  and  to  the  clerk 
who  came  forward  stated  that he  had 
seen  the  advertisement  and  wanted  to 
see  the  shoes.

The  salesman  brought  out a  pair  of 
the $3  goods  of  the  desired  size  and  en­
tered  upon  a  plain,  sensible  statement 
of  their  merits.

It  so happened  that  setting  on  top  of 
a  small  show  case  at  the  end  of  the 
settee  was  a  $4  shoe  of  very  handsome 
appearance  and 
in  the  most  natural 
way  in  the  world  the clerk  set the S3 
shoe  alongside 
it  to  show  the  little 
difference between  the  two.

interest 

In  a  smooth  manner  he  centered  the 
customer’s 
in  the  S4  shoe and 
soon  had  the  patron  regarding 
it  with 
a  covetous  eye.  The  clerk  did  it  all 
subtly,  too.  He  didn’t  run  down  the S3 
shoe  or  extoll  the S4  article.  He  con­
fined  himself  to  the S3  shoe,  but  in  such 
a  tactful  way  that  the  buyer’s  mind  was 
led  away  from  it  to  the $4  shoe  and,  to 
make  a  long  story  short,  when  the  cus­
tomer  went  out he  carried  a  pair  of  S4 
shoes  under his  arm  and  a satisfied  look 
on  his  face.

It  looked  to  me  like  first-class  sales­
manship  and  I  mentioned  the  case  to 
the  proprietor.

“ Y es,”   he  answered,  “ Smith 

is  a 
rattling  good  salesman. 
I  have  found 
that  it  pays  to  employ  really good clerks 
rather than  cheap  ones  and  I  pay  them 
according  to  their  earning  power.  My 
clerks  are  well  paid  because  they  are 
worth  a  good  deal  to  me.

“ Take  the  case  you  have  just  cited. 
Now,  that  §4  shoe  is  a  slow  mover. 
It’s  a  good  shoe,  but  somehow $4  has 
become  a  rather  unpopular  price,  owing 
possibly to considerable pushing of S3.50 
lines  in  this  town.

‘ ‘ What  was  I  to  do  with  the  shelf- 
it  to  S3? 
I  know,  but  I 

warmer—sacrifice 
Some  men  would, 
wouldn’t.

it?  Cut 

“ I  have  a  line  of  $3  shoes that  are 
tiptop  goods and  I  determined  to  push 
them  because  they  are  attractive  and 
S3  is  a  drawing  price. 
I  wanted  to  get 
a  crowd  of buyers  if  possible,  a  crowd 
anyway,  and  believed  that  the  $3  shoe 
would  fetch  them  where  the  $4  line 
wouldn’t.

“ I  was  right.  The  people have  been 
coming  and  we  have  been  selling  them 
the $4  shoe  right along.

“ It  would  have  been  a  mistake,  you 
understand,  to  have  advertised  the $3 
shoe 
if  I  had  not  had  it  in  stock  and 
it  was  not what  was  claimed for  it.  but I 
have  it  and  I  have  shown  it  and  talked 
it,  but  always  so  tactfully  that the  cus­
tomer  was  drawn  toward  the $4 shoe, and 
in  the  majority  of  cases the  result has 
been  what  you  have  just  seen.

“ With  cheap  clerks  I  couldn’t have 
It  requires  good  saleseman- 
in  my  store and  I

done this. 
ship  to  sell  goods 

Do  you  sell  Shoes?
Do  you  w ant  to sell more Shoes?

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

latest colors and shapes.

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

can give you some bargains.
stock of their goods, which enables us to fill orders promptly.

We are agents for thaBoston Rubber Shoe Co. and carry a very large 

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  S t, 
Grand Rapids.

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We are showing  the  strongest line of Shoes  ever placed on 

this market by us.

We are just as  emphatic  about  our  Rubber  Line—Wales« 

Goodyear,—none  better.

Big  line  of  Lumbermen’s  Sox.
Grand Rapids Felt Boots are our Hobby.

Herold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

5  and  7  Pearl  S treet, 

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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and you will have gained  the 
friendship  of  the whole  fam­
ily.  To  succeed  in  doing 
this buy your children’s shoes 
from

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

Our  Specialties:

Children’s  5 hoes,

Shoe  Store  Supplies,

Goodyear  Glove  Rubbers.

Kindness  Remembered.

“ John, ”   she  said  thoughtfully,  “ to­
morrow  is  the  birthday  of  that  little 
Jones boy  next  door. ’ ’

‘ ‘ What  of  it?”   he  demanded.
“ Oh,  nothing  much,’ ’  she  replied; 
‘ ‘ only  I  happened  to  recall  that  Mr. 
Jones  gave  our  Willie  a  drum  on  his 
birthday. ”

“ Well,  do  you think  I  feel  under  any 
obligations  to  him  for  that?”   he asked 
“ If  you  do  you  are  mis­
irritably. 
taken. 
If  I  owe  him  anything  it’s  a 
grudge. ’ ’

' * Of  course, ’ *  she  answered  sweetly. 
“ That’s  why  I  thought  that perhaps  you 
might  want  to give the Jones  boy  a  big 
brass  trumpet. ’ ’

“ The  most  resourceful  woman  in  the 
world !”   he  exclaimed  delightedly.  And 
the Jones boy  got the  trumpet.

Generosity  and  good  humor  are  con­

tagious.

527 and 528 
Widdicomb  Bid. 
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

C. U. C LA R K ,  Pres. 
W.  D.  W ADE,  Vice- 

Pres.

M INNIE M .CLARK, 

Sec’y and Treas.

We  are  now  ready 
to 
m ake  contracts  fo r  bark 
for the season of 1897.
Correspondence Solicited.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

RESTRICTIO N  OF  STYLES.

Manufacturers  Should  Sell  Exclusive 

Styles  to  But  One  Merchant 

in  a  Town.

“ Why,  that’s  awfully high ! 

I can get 
identically  the  same  shoe at  Burnham’s 
I 
for  $2.98  and  you  want  $4.  Oh, 
couldn't  pay  that.”

You  recognize  it,  don’t  you?  Sounds 

familiar,  doesn’t  it?

And  what can  you  say?  To  tell  the 
customer  that  he  or she (it’s usually she) 
is  mistaken  is  bad  policy  because  it 
is 
anything  but complimentary.  To  reduce 
the  price 
is  tacit  admission  that  the 
original  figure  was  too  high  and  is  sure 
to  bring  on  a  habit  (in  the  customer)  of 
beating  you  down  on  everything  she 
buys,  believing  that  your  entire  stock 
is  marked  on  the  same  plan.

I  heard  a  retailer answer  this  charge 
the  other  day  by  saying,  with  a  smile, 
“ I ’ve  heard  of  that  shoe  of  Burnham’s 
before,  Mrs.  B.,  and  I  acknowledge 
that  I  was  surprised  because  this  shoe 
costs  me  more  than  $2.98. 
I  examined 
one  of  the $2.98  style  at  Burnham’s  and 
found  that  while  it looks for all the world 
like  this $4  one,  yet  it  is  identically  the 
same  thing  that  1  am  selling  for  $2.75. 
Here 
is  one  of  them.  I  will  guarantee 
it  to  be  equal  to  any  $3  shoe  in  this 
town. ’ '
“ But  I  don’t  see  any  difference  be­

tween  it  and  the $4 one. ”

“ Of  course  you  don’t.  The  difference 
is 
in  the  quality  of  the  material  used 
and 
it  requires  an  expert  to  tell  the 
difference  by  looks.  The  best  one  and 
the  cheaper  are  finished  exactly  alike. 
The  $4  shoe  is  made  from  a  finer  grade 
of  leather.  The  soles  are  lighter,  and 
of  higher-priced 
leather.  The  uppers 
are  from  the  very  best  kidskin,  con­
siderably  more  expensive  than  that used 
in  the $2.75  shoe.  Notice 
inside  here 
and  you  will  see  this  facing  is  silk. 
In 
the $2.75  shoe  it  is  cotton.  The thread, 
too,  in  the  $4  shoe 
is  silk  and  in  the 
other  cotton. 
is,  practically,  the 
difference  between  a  silk  dress  and  a 
cotton  one.”
“ Well,  will  the  $4  shoe  wear  longer 

It 

than  the $2.75?”

“ No.  The  difference  isn’t  of  wear, 
is  a  little 
but  of  ease.  The  $4  shoe 
lighter,  a  little  softer  and  a  little  more 
comfortable  in consequence.  The cheap­
er  shoe  is  made  so  closely  in 
imitation 
of 
it  that  you  can’t  see  the  difference, 
although  it  really  is  heavier  and  stiffen 
It  will,  however,  wear as  long  as  the $4 
one." ’

A  little  more  talk  of  this kind brought 
the  customer  around  to  the  feeling  that 
the  only  place  to  buy  shoes  was  at  the 
store  she  was 
in—and  she  finally  took 
the $4  shoes.

In  the  shoe  trade  a  great  many  cases 
In  shoes there  are 
of  this  sort  happen. 
few  distinctive  styles.  One  man’s  stock 
is  a  pretty  close  duplication  of  an­
other’s.
In  other  lines  this  is  not  so  to as great 
an  extent  and 
in  such 
lines  dealers 
should  insist  011  having  exclusive  sale of 
special  styles  for  his  town.
is 
only  necessary  to  cite  an  experience  of 
two  prominent  city  stores.

To  illustrate  the  reason  for  this 

A  customer  entering  one  house,  which 
we  will  call  B  's,  looked  at  parasols and 
selecting  a -particular  style  made  by 
only  one  manufacturer asked  its  price. 
The  attendant  young  woman  answered, 
“ $ 13-75-”
“ You  surely  mean  without  the  $10 ,”  
said  the  customer.
“ Why,  no,”   responded 
the  sales­
woman,  “ that  is  the  price.”

Then  ensued  a  colloquy  in  which  the 
customer  explained  that  the  selfsame 
parasol  was  on  X .'s  (the  rival  house) 
counters at $4.50.  The  buyer of  the de­
partment  was  called  and  explained  to 
the  customer  that  the  goods  cost  very 
nearly  as  much  as  the  price asked  and 
that  B. 's  were  in  full  control  of  the  ar­
ticle  for  New  York  City.
The  customer  clung to her impressions 
and  went  out.

The  buyer  sent  to  the  rival  concern 
and  bought  the  parasol  at $4.50,  which 
identically  the goods  as 
proved  to  be 
stated  by  the  customer.

it 

The  buyer  was  mad  clear through and 

sent  post  haste  for  the  manufacturer.

This  worthy  when  confronted  with the 
facts  explained  that he  had  closed  a  lot 
of  drummers’  samples  to  the  rival  con­
cern  and  the  fatal  parasol  was among 
them.

“  You  knew  we have  a  stock  of  that 
number  and  have  carried  and  sold  them 
for  you  all  season ;  it  would  have  been 
better  for  you  to  have  burned  that  para­
sol  or given  it  away  than  to  expose  us 
in  such  an  unjust  position.”

The  manufacturer  realized  the  enor­
in  not  burning  that 
fact  the  whole 
it 

mity  of  his  error 
particular  parasol—in 
stock  of  drummers’  samples—as 
burned  his  account  with  that  house.
Good  Things  Said  by  Up-to-Date 

Shoe  Dealers.

•Your  shoes  polished gratis.  No charge 
for  small  repairs.  Deliveries  anywhere 
—any  time.  Mail  orders  given  prompt 
attention.  Your  money  back  when  you 
want  it. — B.  R ich’s 
ons,  Washington,
D.  C.

These  cool,  saucy  ties  have  been  car­
ried  off 
in  the  trunks  of  thousands  of 
summer  girls  to  assist 
in  the  “ good 
times”  of  their  owners.  They’ll  give  an 
added  charm  to  a  moonlight  stroll  along 
the  beach  or to  an  outing  of  a  month  or 
a  day.—P.  T.  Hallahan,  Phila.

We  don’t  sell  all  the  shoes  that  are 
sold  in  Altoona,  even  if  we are  doing  a 
If  we  did,  there 
slashing  big  business. 
would  be  less  complaint about shoes and 
people  would  always  get  their  money’s 
worth.  But  trade’s  drifting  our  way. 
The  constant 
increase  shows  that  the 
people  are  gradually  giving  up  haphaz­
ard  buying  and  are  pinning  their  faith 
to  us.—Johnson’s  Shoe  Palace,  Altoona, 
Pa.

the  most 

Prettiest  shoe 

exacting 
woman  could  conceive.  Rich  black  and 
brown  leathers,  natty  moderation  bull­
dog  toe  (to  be  had  here only)  and,  won­
der  of  wonders,  only  two  dollars  to  pay. 
—Partridge  &  Richardson,  Phila.

Sensible  summer  shoes—peerless  in 
every  particular and  priced at the  lowest 
point.  Every  size  and  shape  and  not 
an  old  style anywhere.—Sharpless Bros., 
Phila.

Sunlight  penetrates  the  sea  to  a  depth 
of  more  than  fifteen  hundred  feet  when 
the  water 
is  perfectly  clear.  Recent 
experiments  made  in  the Mediterranean 
confirmed  this  by  photographic  expo­
sures  at  that depth.  Ordinarily,  sunlight 
at  the  depth  of  165  feet  is  no  stronger 
than  the  light  of  the  full  moon,  while  at 
325  feet  it  is  no  more  than  a  mere  twi­
light.  At  650  feet  the  darkness  is  total 
under  ordinary  circumstances. 
In  some 
parts  of  the  ocean,  where  the  water  is 
of  almost  crystal  clearness, there  are  ex­
ceptions  to  this  rule.  The spotted  corals 
near  Mindoro  in  the  Indian  Ocean  are 
clearly  visible 
from  above,  although 
imbedded  about  170  feet  below  the  sur­
face,  and  the  Caribbean  Sea  is  also  as 
clear as  crystal  and  objects  at  the  bot­
tom  are 
seen  even  at  considerable 
depths.

just  been 

According  to  official  statistics  which 
have 
issued  in  London,  the 
national  debt  during  the  last  five  years 
in  England  shows  an  average  daily  de­
crease  of  nearly  $100,000,  the  exact  fig­
ures  being  ¿£19,488.  During  the  same 
period  the  national  debt  of  the  United 
States  shows  an  average  daily 
increase 
of  more  than  $125,000,  the  exact  figures 
being  ¿£25,275.  France’s  debt increases 
$120,000  daily,  Germany’s  debt  over 
$130,000,  while  that  of  Russia  shows a 
daily  growth  of  not 
less  that $405,000. 
France’s  national  debt  to-day 
is  the 
largest,  heading  the  list,  with  $6,000,- 
000,000.  Russia  comes  next,  then  Great 
Britain  and  then  Germany.

The  editor  of  Garden  and  Forest 
claims  that  the  destruction  of  birds  for 
their  plumage  costs  this country $1,500, - 
000  a  day.  This  is  a  big  millinery  bill.

In  every  school 

in  Paris  there  is  a 
restuarant  where  free  meals  are  served 
to  the  children  who  are  too  poor  to  pay 
for  them.

The  High  Muck-a-Muck.

When the drummer starts out on his favorite route, 
A t the close of the trip he throws down his grip 

And has the best of good luck,
And feels like a High  Muck-a-Muck.

And when he comes back he tells Tom and Jack,
That time and again he drank Mumra’s champagne, 

Of how many dealers he stuck;
And he feels like a High Muck-a-Muck.

His mustache he twirls as he tells of the girls 
How they flirted with him ’till they  made  his  head 

That on him completely are stuck;

swim,

And he feels like a High  Muck-a-Muck.

With a look of suspense he hands in his expense 
But the wily cashier says,  “  Bill, look you here, 

For wine and cigars and such truck;
You have lived like a High  Muck-a-Muck.

“ You surely should know when business is slow 
Your expenses cut down both in country and town; 

You can’t swim in champagne like a  duck;
Don’t act like a High Muck-a  Muck.

Then the drummer replies, with  self-satisfied pride, 
My customers demand it, and you’ve got to stand it; 

“  On your style I can’t say I’m stuck.
You bet I’m a High  Muck-a  Muck!”

LYCOniNG,  25 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 
specialties in

Leather  Goods,  Felt  Boots, 
Lumbermen’s  Socks 
.

. 

. 

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

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,

19 South Ionia St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Manufactured by

E  H.  STARK  &  CO.,  W orcester,  Mass.

Represented  in  Michigan by  A.  B.  CLARK, 
Lawton, Mich., who will promptly  reply  to 
any enquiries concerning the line, or will send 
on'approval sample cases or  pairs, any  sizes, 
any quantities.

If You  Hire Help-

You should use our

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and sell for 75  cents  to  $2.

Send for sample leaf.

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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. 

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“ live 
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LAKEVIEW,  MICH.

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Ontario  Business  Men  Fire Their First 

Gun.
Written for the T radesman.

The  prevailing  opinion  among  busi­
ness  men 
in  Ontario  as  to  the  best 
means  of  fighting  the  department  store 
system  favors  some  plan  of  taxation  as 
being  the  most  effective.  The  associa­
tions  outside  of  Toronto  have  been 
waiting  for  the  parent  association  of 
that  city  to  evolve  a  plan  of  campaign 
and  fire  the  first  gun.  The  advance 
movement  has  been  made  and  the  cam­
paign 
is  now  open.  The  municipal 
committee  appointed  by  the  R.  M.  As­
sociation  of  Toronto  to  investigate  the 
taxation  laws  of  the  city  found  that  the 
city  did  not  possess  sufficient  power 
under  existing  laws  to  tax  departmental 
stores 
in  a  manner  that  would  prove 
effective  in  curing  the  evils  complained 
of.  The  work  of  the  committee  result­
ed  in  a  resolution,  which  was  passed  by 
the  Association unanimously,and which, 
after  a  lengthy  whereas  setting forth  the 
deplorable  condition  of  the  trade  in 
Toronto,  resolved  that the  city  council 
be  requested  to  cause  the  City  Solicitor 
to  prepare  for  submission  to  the  pro­
vincial  government  a  bill  for an  act  to 
confer  power  upon  city  councils  to  tax, 
license  and  regulate  department  stores, 
together  with  such  geneial  provisions as 
may  be  deemed  necessary  to  remove, 
as  far  as  possible,  the  evils  complained 
of.

The  local  associations  all  over  On- 
atrio  are  expected  to  pass  similar  reso­
lutions,  after  which  the  work  of  the new 
campaign  will  be  taken  up  all  along 
the  line.  The  members  of  the  City 
Council  are  in  sympathy  with the move­
ment.  Many  of  them  are  owners  of  city 
mercantile  real  estate  which has  rapidly 
and  continuously  decreased 
in  value 
right  before  their  eyes,  and  self-inter­
est,  therefore,  if  no  higher  considera­
tion,  will  prompt  these  men  to  stand  by 
the business  men  in  their  efforts to crip­
ple  the  arms  of  the  big  octopus.  Hence 
it  is  that,  almost  to  a  man,  the  Council 
is  practically  pledged  to  support  the 
movement. 
is  expected  that  at  the 
next  meeting  of  the Council  instructions 
will  be  given  the assessment department 
for  the  preparation  of  a statement  show­
ing  the  annual  decrease 
in  assessed 
values  of  business  and  store  property  in 
the  city  during  the  last  three  or  four 
years.  This  statement,  when  completed, 
will  reveal  a  sad  state  of  affairs;  and 
it  will  be  seen  that  the  causes  which 
have  led  up  to  it  are  nearly all traceable 
to  the  development  of  the  big  depait- 
ment  store on  the  corner  of  Queen  and 
Yonge  streets.

It 

Many  members  of  the Ontario govern­
ment  have  been 
interviewed  and  all 
have  expressed  themselves  as  being 
fully  convinced  that  something  must  be 
done  by  way  of  provincial  legislation 
to  check  the  growing  evil,  and  that a 
remedial  bill  of  some  sort wiil be passed 
at  the  next  session.  The  secretaries  of 
local  branches  throughout  the  province 
report 
interviews  with  the  parliamen­
tary  representatives  of  their  respective 
constituencies  and  each  and  all  are 
in 
accord  with  the  movement,  assuring 
these  officials  of  their  readiness  to  aid, 
at  the  earliest  opportunity,  in  giving 
effect  to  whatever  legislation  may  be 
necessary  to  check  the  downward  career 
of  communities  which  were  formerly 
centers  of  mercantile  activity,but which 
are  now  simply  “ hanging  on”   in  hopes 
that  relief  will  soon  come.

When  the  cities  are given  the  power 
to  “ tax,  license  and  regulate  depart­
ment  stores,”   the  next  question  will  be.

how  to  apply  it.  The  progressive  tax 
plan,  which  was  a  leading  feature  in 
the  Illinois  bill,  and  for  the applica­
tion  of  which the Minnesota constitution 
is  to  be  amended,  is  not  in  favor  with 
Ontario  business  men.  The  difficulty 
of  classifying  the  separate lines  of  busi­
ness,  and  of  defining  what line  belongs 
to  any  particular branch  of  trade,  puts 
the  stamp  of  impracticability  upon  the 
scheme.  An  amendment  to  the  assess­
ment  laws  which  would  make  “ every­
thing 
in  sight”   subject  to  assessment 
has  been  advocated  by  some as  a  sure 
and  certain  means  of  correcting  the 
evils  complained  of;  but  this  scheme, 
although  practicable,  is  looked  upon  by 
the majority  as  non-effective  in  appli­
cation.  A big store may  advertise a large 
stock  of  merchandise,  but  when  the 
assessor  comes  along  there  may  not  be 
much  “ in  sight”   to  assess.  Assess­
ments  are  made  once  a  year  and  there 
is  no  secret as  to  the time  when they  are 
to  be  made.  The  assessor,  on  his  an­
nual  visits,  would 
invariably  find  the 
big  store  running  at  low-water  mark, 
and  during  the  year  an  amount of  goods 
three  times  greater than  that  found  “ in 
sight”   might  be  turned  over three  or 
four  times.

Many  Toronto  business  men  are  in 
is  known  as  the  “ turn­
favor  of  what 
over”   plan.  This 
is  a  plan  to  tax  a 
merchant  on  the  quantity  of  merchan­
dise  turned  over  during  the  year  in  the 
course  of  trade,  and  at  the  present  time 
it appears  to  be  more  popular  with  On­
tario  business  men  than  any  other of  the 
many  plans  proposed.  While  looking 
to  government  for  a  measure  of  relief 
from  the  great  agencies  of  evil  which 
are  undermining  legitimate  trade—that 
is,  old-time  conditions  of 
trade—too 
many  retailers  are  inclined  to  overlook 
the  fact  that  the  law,  whatever  it 
is  to 
be,  will  bring  all  stores  under  its  pro­
vision  to  “ tax,  license  and  regulate.”  
Law 
is  no  respecter  of  persons  and  no 
law  can  be  made  for  the  regulation  of 
a  very  bad  man’s  conduct  that  will  not 
apply  with  equal  force  to  the  regulation 
of  a  very  good  man’s  conduct. 
In 
laws  for  the  prevention  of  de­
framing 
partment  store  development 
is 
great  danger of  placing  obstacles  in  the 
way  of  mercantile  enterprise  outside  of 
department  stores.  A  plan  of  taxation 
based  on  the  actual  amount  of  business 
turn-over,  provided  there  were  no  diffi­

there 

culties  in  the  way  of  ascertaining  such 
amount,  would,  no  doubt,  cripple  the 
department  stores  and  compel  them'to 
close  out  many  lines  which  yield  small 
profits.  But,  while  it  would  thus  affect 
the department  store,  would  it  not  also 
affect  many  an  enterprising  so-called 
legitimate  business  concern? 
In  these 
days  of  sharp  competition  men are com­
pelled  to  hustle  for  trade.  We  hear 
much  of  “ small  profits  and  quick  re 
turns,”   and  we commend  it  as an up-to- 
date  business  motto;  but  would  not  this 
turn-over  scheme  of  taxation  put a with­
ering  blight  on  all  such  enterprise? 
It 
is all  very  well  for  Jones  who is  running 
a  single-line business  in  the  neighbor­
hood  of  some  big  department  concern 
to  advocate  such  a  scheme  as  a  means 
of  harssing  his  big  rival.  He  pays 
taxes  to  the  tune  of  $200  per annum, 
while  the  big  octopus  manager  pays 
only  §15  taxes  on  a  twenty-foot  space 
devoted  to  a  similar  line  of  goods;  and 
yet  he  turns  over  during  the  year five 
times  the  amount  that  Jones  does.  Un­
der  the-  new  plan  the  big  store  would 
pay  on  that  small  space  five  times  the 
amount  of  taxes  that  Jones  pays  on  his 
fact  that 
store,  notwithstanding 
Jones  might  have 
the 
amount  of  capital  invested  in  that  par­
ticular  line.  This  would  relieve  Jones 
and  force  the  big  store  to  either  drop 
that  particular 
line  or  adopt  less  ob­
jectionable  business  tactics.  But,  sup­
pose  Jones 
is  in  a  town  where  there  is 
no  department  store,  but  he  has  a  com­
petitor  in  the  same  line  whom  we  will 
call  Brown.  They  each  have  $5,000  in­
vested 
is  an  old 
fogy,  doesn’t  believe  in  advertising  and 
is  content  with  whatever  comes  along. 
Jones,  on  the  other  band, 
is  enterpri­
sing  and  progressive.  He  likes a “ nim­
ble  penny”   and  his  object  is  to  secure 
the  greatest  possible  amount  of  daily 
profits  rather  than  the  greatest  possible 
percentage  of  profit.  The  annual  turn­
over 
is  five  times 
greater  in  volume  than  that  of  Brown; 
and,  under  the  new  plan  of  taxation, 
Jones  would  be  compelled  to  pay  five 
times  as  much  taxes  as  Brown  does. 
From  this  standpoint  Jones  would  get  a 
different  view  of  the  turn-over  plan  of 
taxation  and,  when  called  upon  to  pay 
his  tax  bill,  would,  no  doubt,  tell  the 
tax  collector what  he  thought  of  the  new 
plan.

in  business.  Brown 

in  Jones’  business 

times 

three 

the 

Would  not  this  proposed  means  of 
checking  department  store  evils  prove, 
in  effect,  a  tax  on  progressive  business 
activity  and  a  premium  on  old  moss- 
back ism?  What  say  the  readers  of  the 
Tradesman? 
The  Other  Man  Proved  to  be  the 

E .  A.  Ow e n .

Better  Bluffer.

“ While  up  in  Iowa  on  the  last  trip,”  
remarked  a  Detroit  traveler whose name 
is  a  synonym  for  veracity,  “ I  had  an 
odd  experience. 
I  was  a  little  short on 
cash  and 
long  on  transportation,  so  I 
sold  one of  my  mileage books  to  a  big 
strapping  Westerner  who  was  coming 
East. 
I  instructed  him  how  to  use and 
sign  my  name,  and  how  he  must  stick 
to  his  story  if  any  conductor became  too 
inquisitive.

“ 1 

“ The  next  night  I  got  into  a  sleeper 
that  laid  at  the  depot  and  was  sound 
asleep 
long  before  the  train  was  made 
up.  It  was  the  conductor  who  awakened 
me  as  we  were  bowling  along  over  the 
prairie,  asking  me  for  my  name  and 
ticket. 
I  rolled  over  with  a  growl,  dug 
into  my  vest  pocket,  told  him  that  my 
name  was  on  the  ticket  and  then  signed 
it.

“ After  one  glance,  he  said : 

‘ Here, 
young  fellow,  that don’t go. 
I  just  got 
this  name  on  one  mileage  book.  There 
are  not  two  of  you  aboard  this  train, 
and  I ’m  not  going  to  risk  my  neck  by 
pretending  to  haul  two  of  you,  each 
claiming  a  name  like  that. 
If  it  was 
John  Smith  or  even  John  Jones  I  might 
wink  the other  eye,  but this is too clear. ’
insisted  that  I  was  the genuine 
article  and  that  any  other  man  claim­
ing  my  name  was  a  base 
imitation. 
The  conductor  left  me and soon returned 
with 
the  long,  raw-boned  chap  that 
had  bought  transportation  of  me.  He 
lived  right  up  to  the  instructions  I  had 
given  him.  He  didn’t know  me  from  a 
buzzard. 
I  was  a  counterfeit  and  a 
fraud.  He  volunteered  to  throw  me 
through  a  window  while  we  were  going 
thirty-five  miles  an  hour. 
I  had  our 
signatures  compared  with  the  original 
and  his  looked  more  like  it  than  mine 
did.  He  even  accused  me  of  stealing 
the  book  from  him.  The  conductor 
couldn’t  be  induced  to  drop  the  thing, 
and  I  was  forced  to  put  up  my  gold 
watch  to  stay  aboard.  When  we  were 
alone,  the  Westerner  laughed  until 
I 
thought  he’d  throw  the  train  off  the 
track,  and  then  let  me  have  the  cash  to 
redeem  the  watch.  He  got  all  the  sat­
isfaction  he  wanted  in  assuring  me  that 
he  ‘ alus  was  the  cussedest  bluffer  that 
ever  shuffled  a  deck.’ 
I  wouldn’t  have 
felt  safe  if  I  hadn’t  sent  him  back  his 
money. ”

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

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W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

Is  it  not  the 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose —■3 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for other articles.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip.

President, J  as. F. H ammell, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D. C.  Slaght, Flint;  Treasurer, Chas. McNoltt, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  Habt,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  F.  L.  D ay.  Jackson;  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. Valmore, Detroit ;  Grand Treas­
urer, Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci* 

dent Association.

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

President, A. F. P eake, Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  Tyler, H.  B.  F air- 
child, J as. N. Bradford, J. Henry Dawley.Gbo. 
J. Heinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W.  C.  B rown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  Wesson,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

A  surly  employer  kills  a  man’s  trade 

on  the  road.

You  can’t  make  money  unless you  can 

make  mistakes.

A  poor  digestion  is  the cause  of  much 

financial  disaster.

Don’t  try  to  be  charitable  at  the  ex­

pense  of  the  house.

The  smartest  traveling  men  put  a 

padlock  on  their  mouths.

Some  traveling  men  are  busy  only 

when  they  are  busy  talking.

Don’t  spend  too  much  time  “ getting 

ready"  to  do  a  big  business.

If  “ time  is  money”  the  chronic  kick­

er  squanders  fortunes  every year.

The  successful  merchant  always  finds 

time  to  talk  to  the  traveling  man.

It  takes  a  year  to  build  up  what  care­

lessness  can  tear  down  in  an  hour.

Can  you  recall  a  case  of  a  poor  sales­

man  making  a  successful  merchant?

The  best  way  to  understand  human 

nature  is  to  thoroughly  know  yourself.

Let  your  trade  see  that  you  are  dis­
couraged  and  you  discourage your trade 
Merchants  become  suspicious  of  the 
traveling  man  who  always  sells  “ below 
cost. ’ ’

The  world  may  owe  every  man  a  liv­
ing,  but  it  takes  tact  and  energy  to  col­
lect  it.

Some  traveling  men’s  trade  keeps  al­
they 

forward  because 

ways  moving 
push  it.

The  grindstone  of  hard  work  is  the 
best  thing  upon  which  to  sharpen  a  dull 
intellect.

Constant kicking  about  overwork  will 
cause  your  customers  to  give  you  time 
for  a  long  vacation.

Some  men  are  always  talking  about 
economy,  but  never  save  any  money  by 
their own  styles  of  it.

The  Almighty  shows  what  He  thinks 
of  great  riches  by  the  kind  of  people 
He  allows  to get  them.

The  true  value  of  any  article  is  what 
in  the  market,  not  what 

it  will  bring 
your  house  paid  for  it.

Adolph  Krause  (Hirth,  Krause  & 
Co.)  is  spending  a  month  at  the  South 
Shore  resort  on  Black  Lake.

If  money  could  buy brains there would 
be  little  demand  for  them,  as  the  fools 
could  not  be  made  to  realize  their  need 
of  them.

Don’t  stand  around  and  wonder  why 
some  men  succeed  as  salesmen.  Go  to 
work  and  discover  how  they  made  suc­
cess  possible.

Geo.  Manson,  Jr.,  who  formerly  cov­
ered  a  portion  of  Wisconsin  for  Hirth, 
Krause  &  Co.,  has  been  transferred  to 
Michigan,  taking  the  territory  formerly 
covered  by  the  late  }.  D.  Davis.

17

Hotel  Normandie  of  Detroit  Re­

duces Rates.

Determined to continue  catering  to  popular  de­
mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, 
we  reduce  the  rates  on  fifty  rooms  from  $2.50  to 
$2 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3.

The popular rate of 50 cents per meal, established 
when the  Normandie  was first opened,  continues.
Change of rates will in no way affect the quality, 
and our constant aim in the future will be, as in the 
past, to  furnish  the  b e s t   accommodations  for the 
rates charged.

C arr  &  Reeve.

Tie  Hew  Griswold House

Has NOT reduced its rates 
but has  100 of the

Newest  Rooms  in  Detroit

at  $2.00  per  day.  Meals 
Fifty  cents.  Rooms  with 
bath and parlor $2.50 to  $3.
Most  popular  moderate 
priced hotel in  Michigan.

Postal & Morey,

D e t r o i t ,   M i o h .

NEW   CITY  HOTEL

HOLLAND,  MICH.

We pledge the  Commercial Travelers of 

Michigan oar best efforts.

Rates $2.00. 

B. 0. PHILLIPS, Mgr.

COLUMBIAN TRUFER COMPANY

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

Telephone 381-1 

Grand Rapids.

Commercial  House

Iron  Mountain,  Mich.

Lighted by Electricity, Heated by Steam.

All modern conveniences.

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

Reopened  Nov.  35.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1.50 to $2.00.

Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHTNDHETT, Prop.

Y oung  m en   an d   w om en  a c q u ire   th e   g re a te s t  Inde­
pendence  a n d   w e alth   b y   sec u rin g   a   co u rse  in   e ith e r 
th e  B usiness, S h o rth an d , E nglish  o r M echanical  D raw ­
in g   d e p a rtm e n ts  of  th e   D e tro it  B usiness  U n iv ersity , 
11-1» W ilcox S t., D e tro it.  W . F. Jew ell,  P.  K.  Spencer.

HOTEL  NEFF

FRANK  NEFF,  Propr.

GRAND LEDGE, MICH.

Rates, $1.00. 
One block east of depot.
HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT, Prop.

' W h i t n e y   H o u s e

Best  Hotel  in  Plainwell,  Mich.  Only  house  in 
town holding contract with Travelers’ Educational 
Association of America.
C h a s .   Eg. W h i t n e y ,  F J r - o p ■
Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

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

Northern  Hotel,

J.  L.  Kitzmlller,  Prop.

Cor. Grove and Lafayette Sts.,  Greenville, Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN 
Serious  Charge  Against 
Harbor  Hotel.

the  Lake 

If all  our  failings  could pass in review 
before  us  we  would  be  forced  to  admit 
that  we  had  never  been  properly 
intro­
duced  to  ourselves.

To  some  men  adverse  circumstances 
are  the  anvils  upon  which  their  deter­
mination  to  “ get  there’ ’  and  their  abil­
ity  are  welded  together  inseparably.

Hal  A.  Montgomery  (Rindge,  Kalm- 
bach  &  Co.)  is  taking  a  week’s  respite 
at  Bay  View  and  Charlevoix.  He  is 
accompanied  by  his  pretty  little  wife.

While  you  are  “ talking”   to  convince 
people  that  you  amount  to  something 
the  other  fellow  is  “ working”   for  the 
same  purpose,  and  he  gets  there  first.

There 

in  being  honest 
is  no  virtue 
when  no  one trusts  you. 
It 
is  the man 
who  is  trusted  much  and tempted much, 
and  yet  stands  firm,  who  is  really  hon­
est.

C.  G.  Austin,  a  New  York  traveling 
salesman,  lost $170  from  his  pocket, last 
Tuesday  evening  while  attending  the 
open  air gospel  meeting  in  front  of  the 
Detroit  city  hall.  He  thinks  his pocket 
was picked.

O.  D.  Price,  formerly  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business at  220  Plainfield  ave­
nue,  has  engaged  to  travel 
for  the 
Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.  in West­
ern  Michigan.  He  will  make  Grand 
Rapids  headquarters.

The  report  that  Geo.  D.  Wilcox  (T.
H.  Hinchman  &  Sons)  contemplates 
organizing  an  expedition  to  the  Klon­
dike  is  indignantly  denied  by  that  gen­
tleman.  The  Detroit  News  gave  cur­
rency  to  the  report,  greatly  to  George’s 
disgust.

It 

is  now  announced  that the  initial 
issue  of  the  new  interchangeable  mile­
age  book,  which  was  promised  for Aug. 
i,  and  was  subsequently delayed fo Aug. 
15,  has  been  again  postponed  to  Sept.
I.  The  Tradesman  predicts  that  the 
book  will  never  see  daylight and  hopes, 
for  the good  of  the  railroads,that  it  will 
be  consigned  to  everlasting  oblivion. 
The  book 
is  all  right,  with  the  excep­
tion  of  the  provision  compelling  the 
holder  to  exchange  the  proper  number 
of  mileage  strips  for  a  ticket  covering 
the  distance  proposed  to  be  traveled. 
This  feature  is  likely  to  be  so  unpopu­
lar  that  no  traveling  man  will  accept 
the  book  under any  circumstances.  The 
Tradesman  has  reason  to  believe  that 
the  Grand  Trunk  system  will  positively 
decline  to  go  into  the  deal  on  the  pro­
posed  plan,  in  which  case  the  book 
will,  of course, be withheld. 
In  view  of 
the  strained  relations  between  the  rail­
roads  and  the  people,  and  the  critical 
attitude  of  several  state  legislatures,  the 
Tradesman 
is  of  the  opinion  that  the 
railroads  are  treading  on  dangerous 
ground 
foist  on  the 
traveling  fraternity  a  book  containing 
so  obnoxious  a  provision  as  the  ex­
change  system  would  prove  to  be.  The 
traveling  men  of  Michigan  have  shown 
their  friendship  toward  the  railroads  by 
using  their  influence  against 
inimical 
legislation,  but  they  cannot  be  expected 
to  kiss  the  hand  that  smites.

in  attempting  to 

Muskegon,  Aug.  9—Having  occasion 
to  spend  Sunday  at  the  Occidental,  and 
hearing  much  of  the  hotel  conducted 
bv  Edward  R.  Swett  at  Lake  Harbor,  I 
chartered  a  wheel  yesterday  for  the pur­
pose  of  taking  a  ride  and  obtaining  a 
dinner  at  that  resort. 
I  got the  ride  all 
right,  being  surprised  to  find  an  excel­
lent  wheel  path  every  foot  of  the  dis­
tance,  which  the cyclometer  showed  to 
be  nearly  nine  miles.  The  path  took 
me out  Terrace  street through Muskegon 
Heights,  thence  crosslots  through  oak 
grubs  and  natural  wild  flowers  to  Mona 
Lake,  which  I  followed  to  the  so-called 
float bridge,  whence  I  pursued  the  path 
at  a  right  angle  about  three  miles.  The 
hotel  and  grounds  looked  very  inviting 
and  I  flattered  myself  that  I  had  a  good 
dinner 
in  prospect.  When the  dining 
room  door  opened,  however,  I  readily 
saw  that  I  had  made  a  mistake to  leave 
the  certainty  of  the  Occidental  for  the 
uncertainty  of  the  Lake Harbor. 
I  have 
been 
in  tight  places  before,  and  have 
about  as  much  patience  as  any  man  I 
know  of,  but  when  it comes  to  waiting 
an  hour  and  three-quarters  for some­
thing to  eat,  without  result,  and  then  be 
compelled  to  give  up  75  cents  for  some­
thing  I  didn’t  get,  I  believe  patience 
ceases  to  be  a  virtue  and  that  it  is  my 
duty  to  notify  the  traveling  men  who 
read  the  Gripsack  Brigade  page  of  the 
Tradesman—and  those  who  don’t  have 
sympathy—that  the  Lake 
my  hearty 
Harbor  hotel 
is  a  good  place  to  avoid 
unless  they  hanker after being  buncoed 
in  the  most  approved  fashion. 
I  am 
assured  that  on  week  days  the  service 
is  better  and  that  the  meats  and  pastry 
are  cooked  in  a  manner  fit  for  the stom­
ach  of  a  human  being;  but  as  the  test 
of  a  landlord  is  his ability  to  care  for  a 
crowd,  Landlord  Swett stands convicted, 
in  my  eyes,  of  one  of  the most  flagrant 
acts  of  flimflamming  of  which  1  have 
ever  been  the  victim.
On  my  return  to  the  city,  I  took’ one 
of  the  little  boats to  the  head  of  Mona 
Lake,  whence  I  wheeled  into  town  on 
the  cycle  path  which  leads  from  Mus­
kegon  to  Grand  Haven. 
like 
congratulating  the  Muskegon  boys  on 
the  enterprise  they  have  shown  and  the 
good  judgment  they  have  used  in  creat­
ing  and  maintaining  such  excellent 
paths. 
I  propose  to  put  in  several  Sun­
days  at  Muskegon  before  snow flies,  and 
expect  to  cover  the  Lake  Harbor  route 
frequently,  but  I  shall  never  again  trust 
myself  to  the  tender  mercies  of  Land­
lord  Swett  and  his  gold  brick  extortion 
shop. 
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers.
F.  Y.  Horton  (Pemberthy,  Cook  & 
is  doing  the  Mar­

Co.,  Menominee) 
quette  range.
Will  C.  Brown  (Lake  Superior  Knit­
ting  Works)  expects  to  go  to  Seattle, 
Wash.,  soon.  Says those  Klondike gold 
seekers  need  warm  socks  and  mittens. 
He’s  got  ’em.
Alex  Stevenson  (Buhl,  Sons  &  Co.) 
travels  part  of  each  week  and  spends 
the  remainder  at  Menominee,  where  he 
is  agent  for  his  firm,  which  operates 
a  large  hardware  business  there.'
H.  O.  McMain  (Ordear,  Wells & Co.) 
is  exceedingly  anxious  just  now,'  trying 
to  sell  goods  on  the  road  with  the  ex­
pectation  of  receiving  a  telegram  any 
minute  from  Mrs.  McMain,  who  is  seri­
ously ill.
Big  Rapids  Loses  Two  Veteran  Mer­

V e r it a s.

I  feel 

chants.

Lively  for  an  Old  Boy

Albion,  Aug.  10—The  following  new 
stocks'have  recently  been  sold  by  Wm. 
Averill,  who  travels  for  Geo.  Hume  & 
Co.,  of  Muskegon;

Martin  Vanderveen,  New  Era.
C.  A.  Robinson,  Rothbury.
Fisher  &  Harris,  Stetson.
Frank  V.  Jones,  Walling.
M.  Alvards,  Pomona.
“ Little  B illy,”   as  he 

is  familiarly 
called,  lives  in  Muskegon  and  has  trav­
eled  for  several  years.  He  is  quite  an 
old  man,  yet  can  dance  a  clog  with  the 
best of  them. 

F.  H.  Cla y.

Big  Rapids,  Aug.  10—N.  H.  Beebe 
and  family  are  soon  to  leave  Big  Rap­
ids,  with  Ann  Arbor-as  the  objective 
point.  Mrs.  Beebe  has  rented  a  house 
there  and  will  remove  the  family  about 
Sept.  1. 
In  the  meantime  Mr.  Beebe 
will  proceed  to  close  out  his  grocery 
stock,  and  join  the  family  at  Ann Arbor 
as  soon  as  possible.

Another  business  house 

is  about  to 
close  up  and  move  away. 
Thomas 
Skelton,  who  has  been  in  the  clothing 
business  a  dozen  years  or  more,  has 
concluded  to  move  to Coldwater,  having 
already  leased  a  store at  that  place.  He 
will  make  the  change  about  Sept.  1.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18  ■
Drugs-=Chem icals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1897
S. E. P a r k h x, Owosso 
-  Dec. 31,1898
- 
F. W. R. Perry, Detroit 
-  Dec. 31, 1899 
A. C. Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor 
- 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
-  Dec. 31,1900
L. E. R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 

-------  
- 

President, F. W. R.  P e r sy, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. Gtjndbuh, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 

Coming Examination Sessions—Saul t Ste. Marie, 

Aug. 24 and 25;  Lansing, Nov. 2 and 3. 
MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. Webber, Cadillac. 
Secretary—Chas. Mann, Detroit 
Treasurer—J ohn D.  Muir, Grand Rapids.

Too  Many  Deaths  Bring About a  Loss 

of  Confidence.
M. Quad in American Druggist.

There  were  about  a  hundred  miners 
of  us  at  Gravel  Flats,  when  a  stranger 
came  along  one  day  and  hired  some 
Chinamen  to  put  him  up  a  shanty,  and 
then  hung  out  a  sign  o f:
J.  FORD,

Phys.,  Surg.,  Doc.

He  was  the  first doctor at  the  Flats. 
We  had  had  a  death  or two,  and  there 
were  two  sick  men  lying  in  their  tents 
at  the time.  We  rather  liked  the  idea 
of  a  doctor  coming  among  us,  as 
it 
helped  to  dignify  the  camp,  but  old  Joe 
Hurly,  who  had  been  elected  as  “ gen­
eral  boss,”   felt  it his  duty  to  call  upon 
the  man  and  say:
“ Look  yere,  stranger,  ar’  ye  willin’ 
to  answer  a  few  questions  about  yer- 
self?”
,  “ Oh,  certainly,”   was  the  prompt  re­
ply.
“ Ye  claim  to  be  a  reg’lar  doctor, 
do  ye?”

“ I  do,  sir. 

I  am  a  graduate  of  six 
different  colleges,  and  I  have  practiced 
for ten  years  in  Illinois.”
“ That  orter  pass,”   said  old  Joe,  who 
didn’t know  whether a  doctor graduated 
from  a  college  or a  wood-yard.

“ Got a  stock  of  medicines  with  ve?”
“ Enough  to  last  for  a  year,  sir.  Here 
—try  my  elixir,  for  general  lassitude. 
It’s  my  own  compound,, and  it  works 
like  a  charm. ”
He  handed  Joe  a  pint  bottle  of  good 
whisky,  with a  little  wintergreen  rubbed 
on  the cork  to  get  up  an odor, and,  after 
taking  a  swig,  the  old  man  smiled  all 
over his  wrinkled  face,  and  said :

“ I  don’t  know  nutbin’  ’bout  medi­
cines,  ’cept  calomel  and  ointments,  but 
if  I  was  dyin’  that  elixir 
I  believe 
would  draw  me  back  from  the  grave. 
I 
reckon  ye  kin  go  right  ahead  and  do 
bizness.  I  thought at  first  that  ye  looked 
like  a  man  who’d  run  a  sawmill  or driv 
a  six-mewl  team,  but  I  see  I  was  mis­
took en. ”
What old  Joe  thought  and  said  settled 
it  for the  rest  of  us,  although  we  didn’t 
accept  the newcomer  quite as  literally 
as  he  did.  The  fact  was,  he  looked 
more  like  a  teamster  than  a  doctor,  and 
his  looks  were  against him  from  top  to 
bottom.  One  of  the  sick  men  was 
named  Bill  Carling.  He had  chills  and 
fever  and  had  got  down  rather  weak. 
He  sent  for  the  “ Phys.,  Surg.  and 
Doc.’ ’ and  three  or  four  miners  were 
assembled  to  bear  the  diagnosis.  The 
doctor  looked  as  dignified  as  a  clam  as 
he  sat  down  and  counted  B ill’s  pulse 
by  an  old  silver  watch  which  hadn’t 
ticked  for  months,  and,  after  finding 
it 
anywhere  from  ioo  to  500,  he  asked  for 
sight  of  tongue.  Bill  stuck  it out  for  a 
survey,  and  with  a  solemn  shake  of  the 
head  the  doctor  said :

“ My  man,  you  may  be  beyond  the 
reach  of  human  skill,  but I ’ll try  to  save 
you.  You  are  on  the  verge  of  the  grave. 
Your  lungs  and 
liver  have  all  run  to­
gether and  got  mixed up, while  your gall 
has  busted  and  overflowed  your  heart.”
That  scared  Bill  half  to  death,  and  he 
began  to  weep,but after  taking  one dose 
of  that  elixir  he  recovered  his  nerve. 
He  was  given  six  doses  a  day  for  a 
week, with  perhaps  quinine  added,  and 
at  the  end  of  that  time  he  was  able  to

It  was 

be  out. 
looked  upon  as  a 
miraculous  cure.  The  doctor  said  he 
caught  the  case 
If  he  had 
been  ten  seconds  later  he  never  could 
have  untangled  the  liver  from  the  lungs 
and  got  that  busted  gall  into  working 
order  again.

just  right. 

His  next  case  was 

that  of  Sam 
Adam,  who  had  nothing  more serious 
than  a  bilious  attack,  and  wouldn’t have 
been  laid  up  beyond  thirty-six  hours 
if 
there  had  been  no  doctor to  send  for.

Sam’s pulse  was  counted,  his  tongue 
inspected  and  his  eye-lids  turned  back, 
and  Doctor  Ford  solemnly  said :

“ It's  a  case  of  what  we  call  febris 
I  may 
finitus,  or  water  on  the  brain. 
possibly  save  you,  but  had  you  waited 
five  seconds  longer  before  calling  me, 
your  clavicle  would  have  been  driven 
through  your  diaphragm  and  produced 
a  mortal  fatality. ”
He  didn’t  have  any  more  of  the 
elixir,  having  consumed  it himself,  and 
whether  he  dosed  Sam  with  antimony 
or  corn-salve  we  never  knew.  What­
ever  it  was,  it  killed  the  miner  in  about 
three  days,  and  the  doctor got  out  of  it 
by  explaining:
“ He  was  beyond  saving.  He  had 
inherited  febris  finitus  from 
probably 
his  parents,  and  working  with 
the 
shovel  and  pick  had  gradually  pushed 
the  ventricle  against 
the  pulmonary 
pylorus  until  the  heart’s  action  was 
Stopped. ’ ’

We  accepted  the  explanation,  and  he 
was  next  called  in  to  see  a miner named 
Dobbs.  The  man  had  a  touch  of  rheu­
matic  fever,  but  his  case  was  diagnosed 
as  a  “ transcendent  case  of  the  cartoid 
artery  threatening  to  interrupt the work­
ings  of  the  lateral  tibia,”   and  he  was 
dosed  accordingly.  As  near as  we could 
learn,  the  dose  was  made  up  of  rosin, 
black  pepper  and  bacon  grease,  and 
perhaps  the  fever  killed  Dobbs  instead 
of  the  medicine.  At  any  rate,  he  died 
in  a  couple  of  weeks,  and  the  doctor 
said  all  the  doctors  in  Chicago  could 
not  have  saved  him.  Two  other  min­
ers  were  taken 
ill,  treated  and  sent  to 
their  long  homes  within  the  next  fort­
night,and  then  we  began  to  have  doubts 
of  the  skill  of  Doctor  Ford.  He  was 
treating  Tom  Holden 
for  what  he 
diagnosed  as  a  “ redundant  considera­
tion  of  the  liver,”   and  Tom  was  grow­
ing  steadily  worse,  when  old  Joe  Hurly 
put  up a  job.  He  was  as  healthy  as  a 
whale  and  as  hard  as  flints,  but  he  went 
to  bed  and  sent  for  the  doctor,  and  the 
doctor said  to  him :

“ I  can  save  you,  but  it  will  be a close 
call. 
I  find  that  the  auricle  has  a  tend­
ency  to  crowd  the  cartilage,  and  the 
is  moving  over  to  replace 
cerebullum 
the  sciatic  plexus. 
It  will  be  a  month 
before  you  can  be out  again.”

But  it  wasn’t. 

It  wasn’t  more  than  a 
minute  before  he  was  up  and  out and 
his  boot  was  striking  the  “ Phys.,  Surg. 
and  Doc.”   where  it  would  do  the  most 
good.  The  fellow  went  without  pro­
test,  and  he  went  at  his  best  speed,  and 
when  we  came  to  overhaul  his  traps  we 
found  his  remaining  stock  of  medicines 
to  consist  of  two  ounces  of  Epsom  salts 
and  a  bottle  of  hair-dye.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—The  market  is  firm,  but there 
in  the article.  Prices 

is  little  doing 
remain  the  same  as  last  week.

Morphine—The  same  may  be  said  of 

this  article  as  of  opium.

Quinine—Domestic  as well as  foreign 
manufacturers  have  all  advanced  their 
prices.  The  advance  on  N.  Y.  during 
the  last  week  has  been  4c,  while  P.  & 
W.  have  advanced 
their  production 
only  2c,  so  that  the  price 
is  now  the 
same  for  both  brands.

Acids—There  are  no changes  to  note 

this  week.

Balsams—Copaiba  is  ruling  steady  at 

former  prices.  Tolu  has  declined.

Essential  Oils—Anise has  further  ad­
vanced  and  the  market 
strong. 
Cassia  is  firmer,  but  as  yet  unchanged.
Linseed  Oil—This  article  has  ad­
vanced  again,  on  account  of  a  higher 
market  for seed.

is 

The  Language  of  Prescriptions,  from 

the  Physician’s  Standpoint.

language  called,  by 

Here,  in  America,  very  few  of  us  are 
classical  scholars,  and,  frequently,  the 
language  of  our  prescriptions  is  some­
thing  appalling.  One  can  readily  dem­
onstrate  this 
in  a  few  minutes  by  a 
glance  over  the  files  of  his  nearest  drug 
store.  Campbell  says,  “ In  the  United 
States  prescriptions are  usually  written 
courtesy, 
in  a 
Latin,  although  we  doubt  very  much 
if 
Horace  or Cicero  would ever suspect that 
the conglomerations of  abbreviated med­
ical  terms  which  are  sent  to  our drug 
stores  are  specimens  of  his  native 
tongue.”   Chief  among  our faults  is  the 
use  of  incorrect  Latin  word  endings. 
There  is  no  excuse  for  not  using  correct 
Latin  terminations,  the  more  especially 
when  we  remember  that  from  a  dozen 
to  a  score  of  drugs  about  cover the field 
of  everyday  practice. 
By  memory, 
pure,  simple  and  unaided,  the  endings 
of  these may  be  mastered;  but the  prin­
ciples  of  Latin  case  endings  are  so 
simple  and  so  few  that  they  may  be 
readily  learned  in  a  couple  of  hours  by 
any  one  with  brains enough to memorize 
the  branches  of  the  seventh  cranial 
nerve  in  the  same  time.  A  favorite  sin 
against  terminology 
is  abbreviation. 
Like  the giave,  it  hides  our  ignorance. 
It  cuts  off  mistakes 
in  terminology,  of 
course;  they  “ die  a  hornin’. ”   Abbre­
viations  are  generally 
inadmissible, 
and  always  so  with  the chief  word  of 
the  drug  name.  They  are  aesthetically 
objectionable,  but  the  vital  objection 
lies  in  the  fact  that  mistakes  may easily 
be  made 
in  the  filling  of  them—mis­
takes  always  fatal  to  the  intended  ther­
apeutic  result,  and  often  to  life.  As 
examples:  Acid.  Hydro,  may  be  hy­
drocyanic  acid,  hydrochloric  acid  or 
hydrobromic  acid;  hydr.  chlor.  may 
be  hydrate  of  chloral  or corrosive  subli­
mate;  sulph.  stands  for  sulphur,  sul­
phate,  sulphite  or  sulphide.  These  ex­
amples  may  be  multiplied  almost  in­
definitely. 
It  has  been  held  by  the 
courts  that,  on  a  fatal  “ accident”   fol­
lowing  this  kind  of  prescribing,  the 
physician  and  druggist  are  equally 
guilty  of  manslaughter.

Again,  there  is  the  error of  barbarism 
of  language—the  mixing  of  two  or more 
in  the  same  term  or  formula. 
tongues 
Stick  to  one 
language;  do  not  write 
“ Chininsulphatis”   to  keep  your  patient 
from  knowing  that  he  takes  quinine, 
and  then  finish  with  “ Extracti  gen- 
tianae. ”  
It  constitutes  a  barbarism  as

grievous  as  those  for  which  Pitou  felt 
the chastising  cat-o-nine-tails,  and  re­
ceived  the  final  dismissal  by the  erudite 
Abbe  Fortier,  as  related  by  Dumas 
in 
“ Taking  the  Bastile.”

is 

When  using  a  simple 

When  using  ad.  only,  the 

ingredient 
is  in  the accusative  case,  but  when  us­
ing  q.  s.  ad.,  it 
in  the genitive;  a 
common  error  under  this  head  is  the 
use  of  aquae  ad.  instead  of  aquam  ad.
in 
which  the  ingredient  is  not  weighed  or 
measured,  but  counted,  use the  accusa­
tive  case.  Thus:  R  Pilulas  phosphori, 
not  R  Pilularum  phosphori,  nor,  as  is 
more 
frequently  written,  R  Pilulae 
phosphori.

formula, 

A  strict  adherence  to  the  rules  of 
grammar  dictates  that  only  the 
first 
word  in  a  drug  name  shall  be  begun  by 
a  capital  letter, but the custom  has been 
to  begin  each  word  by  a  capital.  How­
ever,  the  tendency  of  the  best  writers 
of  the  day  is  to  follow  the  grammatical 
rule,  rather than  the custom.

While  not  directly  pertaining  to  the 
subject  under  discussion,  I  cannot  re­
frain  from  saying,  write  legibly.  If  you 
cannot  write,print;  it  you  cannot  print, 
you  may  follow  the  method  of  a  certain 
very  learned  (?)  M.  D.,  have  your  pre­
scriptions  printed 
in  advance—a  ma­
chine-made  practice,so to  speak.  Often, 
on  seeing  prescriptions,  not  one  word 
of  which  I  could  read,  far  less 
legible 
than  a  baby’s  first  crude scrawl,  I  have 
been  forced  to believe  that  pharmacists 
are blessed  with  a  special  sense,  aside 
from  sight,by which they  decipher  these 
alleged  characters.

These hasty  and illy-arranged remarks 
were  inspired  by  the  inspection  of  the 
files  of  several  drug  stores 
in  a  city 
where  they  boast  of  being  fin-de-siecle 
in  medical  matters,  in  the  company  of 
a  medical  friend,  educated  in  England 
and  on  the  Continent.  His astonishment 
at  and  opinion  of our  laxity  in  this  re­
spect  may  well  be  imagined.  We should 
not  forget  that,  as  “ The  apparel  oft 
proclaims  the  man,”   so the prescription 
oft  proclaims  the  physician.
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Morphia, S.P.A W ... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1......
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os  Sepia......... .
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
Picis Liq. N.N.Hgal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80 
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Piix  Burgun.. 
Plumbi  Acet.. 
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H 
& P. D. Co., doz.
Pyrethrum,  pv__
Quassias..................
Quinia, S. P. & W. 
Quinia, S. German
Quinia, N.Y.........
Rubia Tinctorum. 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin...................
Sanguis Draconls..
Sapo,  W.................
Sapo, M..................
Sapo, G..................
Siedlitz  Mixture...

1  95®
2 20
1  85® 
2  10 
40 
@ 
80 
65® 
@ 15®
10 
18
@  1 00
@ 2 00 
@  1  00 
@  85
@  50
@  18 
@  30
10® 
12 
1  10®
1  20
1  25 
33 
10 33 
31 
33 
14 
20 
3  10 
50 
14 
12
@  15
22

8® 
28® 
22® 
28® 
12® 
18® 
3 00® 
40® 
12® 
10®
20  @ 

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............  @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Voes.....................   @  34
Snuff,Scotch.DeVo’s  @  34
9
Soda Boras..............  7  @ 
9
Soda Boras, po........  7  @ 
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb..............  1H@ 
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
5
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3H@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
SpV  Myrcia Dom...  @  9 00 
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.  @ 2 42
Spts. Vini Rect.Hbbl  @2 47
Spts. Vini Rect.l0gal  @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 52 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2%@ 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2%
Tamarinds.............. 
8®  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobfomse............   42®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

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

BBL.  OAL.
70
45
40

19

Linseed, pure  raw.. 
32 
Linseed, boiled......   34 
Neatsfoot, winter str'  65 
Spirits Turpentine.. 

35
37
70
30  %

LB

Paints  BBL. 
1*  2 
®4
IK 2 
IK 2 
2K 2H@3 
2H  2K®3
13®
15 
75 
13H® 
19
16 
13® 
5H@ 
6 
5 H@
6
70 
@  70
@  1 00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

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 Amer.. 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................
Universal Prepared.
Varnishes

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

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Oil  Anise,  Quinine,  Linseed Oil. 
Declined—

Actdum

Aceticum.................$ 
6@l  8
Benzoicum, German  70®  75
Boracic....................  @  15
Carbolicum............   39®  41
Citricum................. 
40®  43
Hydrochlor............  
3® 
5
8®  10
Nitroeum...............  
Oxalicum...............  
13®  14
®  15
Phosphorium,  dil... 
Salicylicum............. 
60®  65
Sulphuricum...........  1K@ 
5
Tannicum..............  1  35®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
36®  38
Ammonia
4® 
6
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 30 deg........... 
6® 
8
Carbonas................. 
12®  14
Chloridum.............. 
13®  14
Aniline
Black.......................  3 00® 2 25
Brown....................  80® 1 00
B ed.........................  45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Baccae.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
13@  15
Juniperus...............  
0© 
8
Xantnoxylum.........   25®  30
Balsamum
55 
Copaiba...................  50®
2 40 
Peru.........................
40®  45
Terabin, Canada—
75®  80
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 

Glycyrrhiza Glabra
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hsematox, 15 lb box.
Hsematox, I s ........... 
Hsematox, H s.........  
Hsematox, 14».........  

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

24®
28®
11©
13®
14®
.16®

15 
2 25 
75 
40 
15 
2
50

Arnica.................... 
13®
18@
Anthémis...............  
Matricaria..............  30®

Folia

Barosma..................  
15®
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, Hs
13®
and  Ha................. 
Ura Ursi..................  
8®
Cummi 
65 
Acacia,  1st picked..
45
Acacia, 2d  picked..
@
15 
Acacia, 3d  picked..
©
28 
Acacia, sifted sorts.
®60®
80 
Acacia, po...............
12®
14 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20
©
Aloe, Cape__po. 15 
12 
30 
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40  @
60 
Ammoniac.............. 
55®
28 
Assafoetida__po. 30 
25®
55
50®
Benzolnum............  
13
Catechu, Is.............. 
®
14
Catechu, Hs............  
®
16 
Catechu, Ha............
55
48®
Camphorse....  —
__ 
Euphorbium..po.  35
10 
@  1 00 
Galbanum...............
65®
Gamboge  po...........
@  35
Guaiacum......po. 35
@ 3 00 
Kino...........po. *3.1)0
60 
-  
Mastic....................
40 
_
Myrrh............ po.  45 
Opii.. .po. S3.80@4.00 2 50® 2 60
60 35 
Shellac.................... 
25®
45 
Shellac, bleached... 
40®
80
Tragacanth............  
50®
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum — oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
Eue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesla.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. A M..
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............  3
Amygdalse, Dulc__
Amygdalae, Amarse.  8
Anisí.........................2
Auranti  Cortex...... 2
Bergami!.................  2
Cajlputi...................
Caryophylli............
Cedar.......................
Chenopadii............
Cinnamoni!............   1
Oltronella.  .............

25® 3 50 
30®  50
00®  8 25 
40® 2 
00®   2  20 
40® 2 50 
75®  80
55®  6
35®  65
@ 4 00 
75®  1  90 
0®  45

55®
20®
20©
35®

35®  50
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   1  10®  1  20
Cubebse......................  
90® 
Exechthitos..........   1  00@  1 10
Erigeron.................  1  00®  1 10
Gaultheria..............  1  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  10® 2 25
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1  00®  1 10
Myrcia,...................   4  00® 4 50
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
10©  12
Picis  Liquida......... 
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
R icina.................... 
99® 1 04
Rosmarini...............  
® 100
Rosse,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  00
Santal......................  2  50© 7 00
Sassafras................. 
50®  55
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.......................  1  40®  1 50
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®  18
Bichromate  ........... 
13@  15
Bromide..................  48®  51
Carb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16©  18
Cyanide..................  
35@  40
Iodide.....................   2  60®  2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  26®  28
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
20®  25
Prussiate................. 
Sulphate po  ..  ...... 
15®  18

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20®  25
Althse.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus................. 
20@  40
Gentiana........po.  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza...pv. 15  16®  18
®  35
Hydrastis Canaden . 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  40
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15®  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   2 00® 2  10
Iris plox....po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po__ 
22®  25
R bei....................... 
75®  l  oo
Rhei, cut.................  @125
Rhei.pv..................  
75@  1  35
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria...po. 40  @  35
Serpen tari a ............   30®  35
Senega.................... 
35®  40
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Scillse............po.35 
10@  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
12®  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25©  27
Semen
Anisum.........po.  15 
@  12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Carui.............po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Sativa__  3%@ 
4
Cydonium...............  
75®  1  00
10®  12
Cfaenopodium........ 
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00®  2 20
Fcenlculum............   @ 
io
9
Foenugreek, po........ 
7® 
Lini.........................  2V4@ 
4
4
Lini,  grd.... bbl. 2H  3H@ 
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian.  3%@ 
4
Rapa.......................  4H@ 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7@ 
8
Sinapis Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spiritus

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   @  2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @  1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  1 00
Hard, for slate use..  @  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
®  1 40
Syrups

Acacia....................  @  50
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................  @  50
Ipecac 
@  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
Smilax Officinalis...  50®  60
Senega............ 
  @  50
@ 5 0
S cill»...........  

.........  

 

1  00

niscellaneous

Scillse Co.................  @  50
Tolutan......... ........  @  50
Prunus virg............   @  50
Tinctures
Aconitum NapellisR 
60
Aconitum N apellis F 
50
Aloes.,....................  
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
60
Arnica.................... 
50
50
Assafoetida............  
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
Benzoin................... 
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
75
Cantharides........... 
Capsicum..............  
50
Cardamon.............. 
75
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
Castor.....................  
1  00
50
Catechu................... 
Cinchona................. 
50
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba................. 
50
Cubeba.................... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol...... 
50
Cassia Acutifol Co  . 
Digitalis................. 
50
50
Ergot......................  
Ferri Chloridum__ 
35
Gentian..................  
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca.................... 
50
Guiaca ammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
75
Iodine...................... 
Iodine, colorless__ 
75
Kino........................  
50
50
Lobelia...................  
50
Myrrh......................  
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opii......................... 
75
Opii, camphorated.. 
50
1  50
Opii,  deodorized.... 
50
Quassia................... 
Rhatany.................. 
50
50
Rhei......................... 
50
Sanguinaria........... 
Serpentaria............  
50
Stramonium........... 
60
Tolutan.................. 
60
Valerian................. 
50
50
Veratrum Veride... 
Zingiber.................. 
20
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
Either, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2H& 
8
3® 
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
Annatto...................  40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimoni etPotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@140
...........  @  15
Antifebrin 
Argenti Nitras, oz ..  @  50
Arsenicum..............  
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Bud  ..  38®  40
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor., Hs. 
@ 
10
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  75
Capsici  Fructus, af. 
@  15
©  15
Capsici Fructus, po. 
Capsici FructusB.'po  @  15
10®  12
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40__   @ 3 00
50®
Cera Alba, S. *  F  .. 
Cera Flava.............. 
40@
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  33
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum................   @  45
Chloroform............. 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @ 1 2 ! 
Chloral H ydCrst...  1  50®  1  60
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  20®  25
Cinchonidine, Germ  15®  22
Cocaine..................   3 05® 3 25
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
Creosotum..............   @  35
Creta............ bbl. 75 
@  2
Creta, prep..............  @
9®  11
Greta, precip........... 
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus.................... 
23®  23
Cudbear.................  @  24
Cupri Sulph............  
5®
Dextrine.................. 
10®
Ether Sulph............ 
75®  90
Emery, all  numbers 
® 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
Ergota..........po. 40  30®  35
12®
Flake  White........... 
©  23
Galla........................ 
8® 
Gambier.................. 
9
Gelatin, Cooper.. . .   @ 6 0
35®  60
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box  60,  10&10
Less than  box__ 
60
9®  12
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycerina...............  
14®  20
Grana  Paradisi  __  @  15
Humulus................. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @ 8 0
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @ 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  90 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  00 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........  @  65
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
65®  7i
Indigo.....................  
75® 1  00
Iodine, Resubi.......   .? 60® 3 7
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin...................  @225
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
Macis 
65®  75
Liquor  Arse- et Hy­
dra rg Tod......."__   @  25
LiquorPotassArsiiiit  10®  12
Magnesia. Sulph__ 
3
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1 Vi
Mannia, S. F  .........  
50®  60
Menthol  .................  @240

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

M in e  & Perkins 

Druo 6o.
Sundry  Department

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

Perfumes 

Soaps 

Combs 

Mirrors 

Powder Puffs

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

Shaving Brushes 

Fountain and  Family Syringes 

Tweezers 

Key  Rings 

Cork Screws 

Razors 

Razor  Strops

Violin,  Guitar and  Banjo Strings 

Atomizers

Suspensory Bandages 
Toilet and  Bath Sponges

And  many other  articles  too  numerous 

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

ra tin e  & Perkins Drug go.

Grand Rapids. Mien.

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

G R O C E R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T .
The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only, in such quantities as are usually purchased by retail

possible to^gfve^ucSatiOTS suitabl?for\fl0conditionsSof^urchase) 
those  w ho' h iie  To"rgCc“ dni f  10Subim bUeishaSre earn^tlyrequested to point oufany errors or omissions, as it is 
our aim to  make this  feature of the greatest possible use to  dealers.

frjy ^ l^ e r *than

• 

AXLE  CREASE.
doz.
Aurora........................55
Castor Oil...................60
Diamond.................... 50
Frazer’s ..................... 75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
ftica, tin boxes...........75
Paragon......................55

gross 
6 00 
7 00 
4 00 
9  00 
9 00 
9 00 
6  00

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

M lb cans doz..................  
¡4 lb cans doz..................  
1 

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

Acme.

M lb cans 3 doz................. 
¡4 lb cans 3 doz................. 
1 
Bulk...................................  

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

El Purity.

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

M lb cans 4 doz case........ 
£  lb cans 4 doz case.......  
lb cans 2 doz case  ...... 

35
55
90

lb cans, 4 doz case...... 
45
% lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
85
lb cans, 2 doz case.......   1 60
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.

v  lb cans..........................  45
14 lb cans.......................... 
75
1 
lb cans..........................  1  50

Peerless.

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

85

BATH  BRICK. 

American .

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz 
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz.........I  60
Cotton. 80 ft, per  doz.........1  80
Jute, 66 ft.  per  doz 
Jute. 72 ft.  VP'  rto’.1
Chicory.

Bulk 
Red

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

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
pints.............4 25
Columbia, 14 pints............ 2 50

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags....................... 
Less quantity................. 
Pound packages............  
CREAI1  TARTAR.

214
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F air........................................ 1®
Good.......................................12
Prim e......................................
Golden  .................................. 14
Peaberry  ............................... 15

Santos.
„..14
Fair  .......................
Good  .....................................
Prime.....................................16
Peaberry  ............................... i7

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

Fair  .......................................I®
Good  ..................................... 17
Fancy 
.................................. 18
Maracaibo.

Prime...... ...............................20
Milled..................................... 21

Tradesman Grade.
50 books, any denom. 
100 books, any denom. 
560 books, any denom. 
1,000 books, any denom.
Economic  Grade.
50 books, any denom.. 
100 books, any denom.. 
500 books, any denom.. 
l,o6o books, any denom..

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

Universal Grade.

50 books, any denom—   1  50 
100 books, any denom —   2 50 
500 books,'any denom.... 11  50
1.000 books,rany denom— 20 00

Superior Grade.

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

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from #10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
20books......................... 
1  00
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books...............................  3 00
250 books............................C 2>
500 books............................... 10 00
1060 books............................... 17 50

cqssssd

6^1 doz. pasteboard Boxes...  40

3 doz. wooden boxes.........   1 20

BROOnS.

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

CANDLES.

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

CANNED  GOODS, 
flanitowoc  Peas.

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

CHEESE.

Acme  ..............
Amboy............
Byron..............
Elsie................
Gem.................
Gold  Medal—
Ideal...............
Jersey..............
Lenawee..........
Riverside.........
Sparta..............
Brick................
Edam...............
Leiden.............
Limburger.......
Pineapple.........
Sap Sago.........

@  7%
8VS.
7V4
8
9
814
8*
854
8
9
75
18
15
85
18

.43  © 
©

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

German Sweet.......................22
........81
Premium...........
.......42
Breakfast Cocoa.

Java.
Interior.................................. 20
Private  Growth......
Mandehllng............
Mocha.

Im itation..................
Arabian  ................................24
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue...... 
......... 28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha ... .28
Wells’ Mocha and Java......2554
Wells’ Perfection Java...... 2554
Sancaibo.............................23
Valley City Maracaibo....... 1854
Ideal  Blend.........................14
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.............1754
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
ncLaughiln’s  XXXX........11  50
75 
1  15
1  43

Extract.
Valley City 54 gross  .
Felix 54 gross............
Hummel’s foil 54 gross 
Hummel's tin 54  gross 

Package.

Kneipp Malt Coffee.

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

4 doz In case.
Gall Borden  Eagle............6  75
Crown................................625
Daisy................................. 5  75
Champion  .......................... 4 50
Magnolia...........................4  25
Challenge........................... 3  50
Dime.................................. 8  85

Credit Checks.

500, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
1060, any one denom’n ......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................  75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnESTIC 

Apples.

Snndried.......................  @ 254
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  1

California Fruit».

Apricots.....................  9  @10
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  6  ©
Peaches......................   754© 9
Pears......   .................  8  ©
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles................   12
Raspberries................
California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes......... © 3%
90-100 25 lb boxes......... ©  4
80 - 90 25 lb boxes......... ©  4M
70 - 80 25 lh boxes......... ©  5
60 - 70 25 lb boxes......... © 5H
50 - 60 25 lb boxes......... © 6*4
40 - 50 25 lb boxes......... © V
30 - 40 25 lb boxes......... ©
M cent less in 50 lb cases

Raisins.

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

1 50
1 £0
2 75
4V4
5
5K

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls...................... • @ 5%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... .© 5%
Cleaned, bulk  ............... .© 6M
Cleaned, packages.......... •@ 7M

Peel.

Citron American 101b bx  @14 
Lemon American 10lb bx  @12 
Orange American 101b bx  @12

Raisins.

Ondura 28 lb boxes.......754© 8
Sultana  1 Crown.................. @
Sultana 2 Crown..........  @ 9M
Sultana 8 Crown..........9&@
Sultana 4 Crown.................. @
Sultana 6 Crown.........   12©

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

Church’s ..............................3 30
Deiand’s ..............................3  15
Dwight’s ..............................3 30
Taylor’s................................3 00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............1  10
Granulated,  100 lb cases.. 1  50
Lamp, bbls................  
1
Lump, 1451b kegs..............1  10

 

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 66
Butter, 280 lb  bbls...................2 50

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks............................ 2 60
66 5-lb sacks.............................1 85
2811-lb sacks..........................1 70

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons....................3 25
115  2541b. sacks........................4 00
66  5  lb. sacks....................... 3 75
22 14  lb. sacks....................... 3 50
30 10  lb. sacks........................3 50
lb. linen sacks................   32
lb. linen sacks.................  60

Bulk in barrels........................ 2 50

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

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

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

 

21

Common Fine.

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

SEEDS.

  10

A nise...............................   13
Canary, Smyrna...............  
4
Caraway..........................   10
Cardamon,  M alabar......   80
Hemp.  Russian...............   4
454
Mixed  Bird...................... 
654
Mustard,  white................ 
Poppy  .............................  
8
5
Rape................................  
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SNUFP.

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

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  .............................   9
Cassia, China in mats..........10
Cassia, Batavia in bund__ 20
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................15
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................60
Nutmegs, fancy................  .60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................50
Nutmegs, No.  2...................45
Pepper, Singapore, black...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12 
Pepper,  shot........................10

Pare Ground In Bulk.

Allspice  ..............................12
Cassia, Batavia...................22
Cassia,  Saigon..  ................35
Cloves, Amboyna................20
Cloves, Zanzibar..................15
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................20
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 22
Mace,  Batavia.....  .............70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, Trieste................. 25
Nutmegs,......................40@50
Pepper, Sing., black — 10@14
Pepper, Sing., white__ 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne........... 17@20
Sage......................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels.............................   20
Half  bbls.........................  22

Pure Cone.

Fair  ................................   16
Good................................   20
Choice.............................   25

SODA.

Boxes..................................554
Kegs,^English......................4£

Grits.

Beans.

Parina.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
B ulk................................   3
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s...........2 00
Barrels  ............................2  25
Flake, 501b.  drums...........1 00
Dried L im a....................  
3
Medium Hand Picked—   90 
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
D omestic,  10 lb. b o x .........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box.........2 50
Common...........................  1 90
Chester............................  2 CO
Em pire............................  2 20
Green,  bu.........................  80
Split,  per lb......................  2
Rolled Avena,  bbl....... 3 50
Monarch,  bbl..................3  25
Monarch,  %  bbl.............1  75
Private brands, 
bbl....3  00
Private brands, Hbbl.....1  62
Quaker, cases................. 3  20
German............................  3V4
3
East  India....................... 
Cracked, bulk................... 
3
24 2 lb packages..............2 40

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

Souder*’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 

Best 
money.

in  the 

GLUE.

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

Fish.

Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

rtackerel.

Georges cured............  @ 354
Georges  genuine.......   @ 4
Georges selected........  © 5
Strips or bricks......... 5  ©  8
Chunks................................  
Strips.................................... 
60 
Holland white hoops ke$ 
7 50
Holland white hoops bb.
Norwegian.................... 
......
Round 100 lbs...................  2 50
Round  40 lbs..................   1 30
Scaled..................................  
Mess ino lbs......................  11 50
Mess  46 lbs......................  4 90
Mess  10 lbs. —.................   1  30
Mess  8 lbs......................  1 07
No. 1100 lbs......................  9 75
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 20
No. 1  10 lbs......................  113
No. 1  8 lbs...................... 
93
No. 2 100 lbs......................  8 00
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 50
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
95
Russian kegs.................... 
55
No. 1,1001b. bales............
No. 2 ,1001b. bales............
No. 1100 lbs......................  4 00
No. 1  40 lbs......................  1  ?3
No. 1  10 lbs..............
No. 1  8 lbs..............
Whlteflsh.

Sardines.
Stockfish.

Trout.

No. 1 No. 2 Fam
1  75
100 lbs.... ....  6 40
1  00
....  2 85
40 lbs  ..
33
10 lbs__ .... 
79
30
8 lbs__ .... 
66
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

5 00
2 30
65
55

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ....................................4 00
Half Kegs.................................2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cahs.............................   30
5£ lb. cans..............................  18
Kegs  ................................... 4  25
Half Kegs......................  ...2 40
Quarter Kegs............................1 35
10
1 lb. cans...............................  34
9
Kegs......................................... 8 00
Half Kegs......   ...................4 25
I Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
1 lb. cans.............................   45

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

LICORICB.

13
Pure................................ •••  80
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily.....................................   14
Root..................................  
MASON FRUIT JARS. 

 

Pints, 1 doz. box, per  gross 4 75 
parts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 00 
_alf gal. 1 d’z. b’x, p’r gr’ss 7 00 
Fruit Jar Rubbers, p’r gr’ss  25 
Mason Caps only, per gross 2 25 

Glass Cover Fruit Jars.
‘The Best” Fruit Keeper. 
Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross 5 50 
Quarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss 5 
Half gal. 1 d’z b’x, p’r gr’ss 7

MINCB MEAT.

Ideal, 3 doz. in case............. 2 25

riATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor.....................1 70
No. 2  Home......................... 1  10
Export  Parlor.....................4 00

riOLAASBS.
New Orleans.

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

 
Half-barrels 2c extra 

PIPES.

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

65

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

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

Jennings

Small

PICKLES, 
riedlum.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  3
Half bbls, 600 count...............   2 40

Barrels, 2,400 count...............   4 75
Half bbls, 1,200 count 

D. C. Lemon
D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz..
2 oz.......1 20
3 oz.
3oz....... 1  50
.1  00 
.1  40 
4 oz..
4 oz.......2 00
6 oz.. 
6 oz.......3 30
.2  00 
.2 40 
No.  8. 
No.  8  4 00
.4 00
No. 10.
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No.  4 T.l 5o
No  4 T.2 40
Sage.....................................  1#
Hops....................................  15
Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5rlb boxes__  50
15 lb  palls............................  50
Japan,  No. 1......................  554
30 lb  pails............................  83
Japan.  N o .2 ..„ ...............   5
4*
- 
Condensed, 8 d o # ............ 1  20  Java, No. 1
Condensed, 4 do#............  .2 25 1 Table..................................   &?4

Carolina head....................  654
Carolina  No. 1..................   5
Carolina  No. 2..................   454
Broken...............................  3

Domestic.

Imported.

JBLLY.

HERBS

INDIGO.

RICE.

LYB.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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 o0 
Armour’s Mottled German  2  40

R.. / « » F a i L   J A 1

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

X CO.’S 5

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 % lb.................3 00
Kirkoline................................. 3 75
Eos...................................... 3 65
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

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.

 

 

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

Allen B.  Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 34-lb. bars............. 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 06

Scouring.

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

Washing Powder.

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

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................654
Kingslord’s Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages...................6%
6-lb boxes..........................7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

20-lb boxes............................  454
40-lb  boxes 
.  441

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages......................  4
3-lb  packages......................  4
6-lb  packages.....................   4V4
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   254
Barrels  ...............................  254

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to hisshipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf..................................5 63
Domino....................................5 50
Cubes...................................... 5 2’
Powdered  .......................... 5 25
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 38
Mould  A..................................5 25
Granulated in bbls...................5 00
Granulated in  bags................. 5 00
Fine Granulated......................5 00
Extra Fine Granulated......5  13
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5  13
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5 00
Confec. Standard A..................4 8s
No. 
1 .......................................4 75
No  2.......................................4 7j
No.  3.......................................4 75
No.  4.......................................4 75
No.  5.......................................4 l9
No.  6.......................................4 62
No.  7.......................................4 50
No.  8.......................................4 44
No.  9.......................................4 38
No.  10...................................... 4 31
No.  11.......................................4 25
No.  12.......................................4 13
No.  13.......................................4 06
No.  14.......................................3 9*
No.  15.......................................3 88
No.  16...................................... 3 81

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

Quintette............................... 35 00

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick............................. 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.
Governor Yates, 454 in.......58 00
Governor Yates, 4% in.......65 00
Governor Tates, 5J4 in......7(100
Monitor..................................30 00

G. J. JohnsonCigarCo.’sbrand.mS. C. W........................ 

H. Van Tcngeren's Brand.

35  00

CI GA R

Star Green..............................35 00

Miscellaneous Brands.

American Queen..»............... 35 00
Mallory...................................35 00
Michigan................................ 35 00
Royal Knight....................35 00
Sub Rosa.................................35 00

VINEQAR.

Leroux Cider..........................10
Robinson’s Cider, 40 grain... .10 
Robinson’s Cider, 50 grain.  ..12

WICKING.

N o. 0, per gross....................  25
No. 1, per gross....................  30
No. 2, per gross....................  40
No. 3, per gross....................  75
Fish and  Oysters

Whitefish...............
@ 8
T rout.....................
@ 8
Black Bass.............. @ 10
Halibut..................
@ 14
Ciscoes or Herring.. @ 4
Bluefish.................. @ 10
Live Lobster.........
@ 18
Boiled Lobster........ @ 20
Cod......................... @ 10
Haddock.................
'  @ 8
No.  1  Pickerel........
& 8
Pike......................... @ 7
Smoked White........ @ 8
Red Snapper........... @ 10
Col  River  Salmon..
©
Mackerel 
..............
© 1254

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts........... @ 40

Shell  Goods.

Oysters, per  100  ........1  25@1
nn2 <
i'

i nn 

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Standard................. 
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......  
Cut Loaf................. 
Jumbo, 321b  .......... 
Extra H. H.............. 
Boston  Cream........ 

bbls.  pails
654@ 754
054® 7
6  @ 8
@ 8J4
cases
@654
@854
@

Mixed Candv.

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

@ 654
@ 7
@ 754
@ 754
@754
@
@
@  8
@
@ 854
@ 9
@10
@13

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
@ 9
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 9
11  @14
Choc.  Drops........... 
Choc.  Monumentals  @12
Gum  Drops............  
@ 5
Moss  Drops............  
@ 754
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 854
Imperials...............  
@854

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........  
@50
Sour  Drops............  
@50
Peppermint Drops..  @60
Chocolate Drops__ 
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@75
Gum  Drops............ 
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops  @50
Lozenges,  plain__ 
@50
Lozenges,  printed..  @50
Imperials...............  
@50
Mottoes..................  
@55
Cream Bar.............. 
@¿0
Molasses Bar  .........  
@50
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90
Plain  Creams.........   60  @80
Decorated Creams.. 
@90
String Rock............  
@60
Burnt Almonds......125  @
Wintergreen Berries 
@55
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes..................  
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes............   ... 
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  .................

@30
@45

Choice Naples.

Fruits.
Oranges.
160s..................... . 
200s...................  .  .. 
Rodis.
160 Imperials..........  
200 Fancy................ 
St. Michaels.
150-176-200............... 
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s.............. 
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Bananas.

@3 50
@3 To
@4 50
@5 00
@4  50

'  @4 00
@4 35
@4 50
@5 00

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 
@
@12
@ 6
@ 8
@ 6

Figs, Choice  Layers
101b.....................  
Figs,  New  Smyrna
14 lb boxes...........  
Figs,  Naturals  in
30 lb. bags,............ 
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes................... 
Dates, Fards in 601b
cases  ..................  
Dates,Persians,H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new  @ 554
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb 
'  cases  ................... 

@ 4

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @1254
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @
Brazils new................  @754
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @1254
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1 .  @10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @12
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @11
Table Nuts,  choice...  @10
Pecans, Med......... 
@
Pecans, Ex. Large__  @10
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............   @
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
•Roasted..................   @.7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4
Choice. H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  .................  @6

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

77

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

Spring  Wheat  Flour.

Local Brands.
Patents..........................
4 65
Second  Patent.................. 4 25
Straight............................ 4  05
Clear................................
Graham  ......................
4 09
Buckwheat.................
3 40
R ye.................................. 2 65
Subject  to  usual  cash dis-
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad-
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 54s........................ 4 35
Quaker, 5is ...................... 4 ôo
Quaker, 54s...................... 4  35
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s  Best 54s........
5 lo
Pillsbury’s Best Ms........... 5 ( 0
Pillsbury’s Best vis........... 4 90
Pillsbury’s Best %s paper.. 4 90
Pillsbury’s Best ms paper.. 4 90
Ball-Barnhart-Putmans Brand.
Grand Republic. Ms.......... 5 CO
Grand Republic, Ms.......... 4 90
Grand Republic, 54s........... 4 80
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal 54s............
5 00
Gold Medal Ms.........
4 90
Gold Medal %s...........
4 80
Parisian, 54s..................
5 00
Parisian, 54s..........
4 90
Parisian. 54s.............
4  80
Ceresota, 54s .............
Ceresota, Ms............
Ceresota, 54s............
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 54s...........
Laurel, Ms............
Laurel, 54s.........

Olney & Judson ’s Brand.

5 00
4 90
4 80
5  00
4  90
4 80

1  50
1  75

Meal.
Bolted...................
Granulated............... .

Feed and Millstuffs.
St. Car Feed, screened  ...
No. 1 Corn and  Oats......... 12 50
Unbolted Corn Meal........ 12 00
Winter Wheat  Bran...
9 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. 10 00
Screenings...........
9 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co.
quotes as follows:

New Corn.
Car  lots...............
Less than  car lots__
Oats.
Car  lots..................
Cariots, clipped..........
Less than  car lots__

Hay.

30£
32"

22%
2454

No. 1 Timothy carlots......
9 50
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots... 10 50

Crackers.

Butter.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX..................   4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  454
Family XXX......................  4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  454
Salted XXX.......................   4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  454 
Soda  XXX  .......................   4
Soda XXX, 3 lb  carton__  454
Soda,  City.........................  5
Zephyrette......................       9
Long Island Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10

Soda.

Oyster.

Square Oyster, XXX.........   454
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb  carton.  554 
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   4
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold Water............   13
Belle Rose.........................  6
Cocoanut Taffy.................  8
Coffee Cakes...................     8
Frosted Honey..................   10
Graham Crackers  ............   6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps,XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Saps,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................   6
Jumbles,  Honey...............   10
Molasses Cakes.................  6
Marshmallow  ...................  12
Marshmallow  Creams......  13
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......   6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................  6
  10
Sultanas................... 
Sears’ Lunch......................  6
Vanilla  Square...............  
7
Vanilla  Wafers...............   12
Pecan Wafers.... ...............  12
Mixed Picnic..  ................  10
Cream Jumbles.................  1154
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   6
Chimmie Fadden..............  9
Pineapple Glace................   12
Penny Cakes......................  6
Marshmallow Walnuts__  13
Belle Isle Picnic................. 10

 

Swift  &  Company  quote  as

Lards.  In Tierces.

follows:
Barreled Pork
Mess  ..........................
9 00
Back  ..........................
9 50
Clear back......  ......... .. 
9 75
Shortcut..  .................
9 ¿5
.  12 50
Pig...............................
Bean  .......................... .. 
8 50
Family  .......................
9 00
Dry Salt  Meats
Bellies.........................
654
Briskets  .  ..................
6
Extra shorts...............
5M
Smoked  Heats
Hams, 12 lb  average  ..
10
Hams, 14 lb  average 
.
9X
Hams,  10 Id  average...
954
Hams, 20 lb  average...
9
Ham dried beef........... ■ 
1654
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
r
Bacon,  clear...............
California hams.........
75Í
Boneless hams............
854
Cooked  ham...............
11
Compound...................
3*
Kettle..........................
55 lb Tubs.........advance 
54
30 lb Tubs......... advance  M
50 lb T ins......... advance  M
54
20 lb Pails......... advance 
10 lb Pails......... advance 
3£
5 lb Palls......... advance 
%
1
3 lb Pails.........advance 
Sausages.
Bologna.....................
5
Liver...........................
654
Frankfort....................
654
Pork...........................
654
Blood  ........................
6
Tongue .......................
9
Head  cheese...............
654
Extra  Mess................. ..  7 00
Boneless  .................... ..10 00
Rump.......................... ..10 50
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs..................
80
5i   bbls, 40 lbs.............. ..  1  50
54  bbls, 80 lbs.............. ..  2 80
Kits, 15 lbs..................
M  bbls, 40 lbs.............. ..  1  40
54  bbls, 80 lbs..............
Pork............................
Beef  rounds...............
Beef  middles............
Sheep.........................
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy.................
Solid, daily...............
Rolls,  creamery.........
Solid,  creamery........
Canned  Meats
Corned beef,  2 lb__ ..  2 00
Corned beef, 14  lb__ . .13 50
Roast  beef,  2 lb__ ..  2 00
Potted  ham,  Ms__
60
Potted  ham,  54s__ ..  1 00
Deviled ham,  Ms__
60
Deviled ham,  54s__ ..  1 00
Potted  tongue Ms__
60
Potted  tongue 54s__ ..  100

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

.. 

18
4
954
60

10
13
1254

F r e s h   M e a t s .

Beef.

Carcass...................... 554® 7
Fore quarters............ 4V4@  6
Hind  quarters........... 754®  854
Loins  No.  3............... 9  @12
Ribs............................ 8  @12
Rounds  .....................
Chucks.................
4  @ 5
Plates  ....................... @ 3
Pork.
Dressed.....................
@  454
Loins........................
@ 7
Shoulders..................
@  6
Leaf Lard.................. 554@  8
Mutton.
Carcass..................... 7  @ 9
Spring Lambs............ 9  @10
Carcass  ................... 7  @754

Veal.

H i d e s   a n d   P e l t s .

Pelts.

Hides.

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol-

lows:
Green......................... 6  @  7
Part  cured................. @ 754
Full Cured................. 7&@  8*
D ry............................ 8  @ 9
Kips,  green............... 6  @ 7
Kips,  cured............... 7*@  89i
Calfskins,  green........ 654@ 8
Calfskins, cured........ 85k@10
Deaconskius  ............ 25  @30
Shearlings...............
Lambs.....................
Old  Wool...............
Oils.
Barrels.

5@  3(
25®  6C
6U@  90

Eocene  ......................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 854
WW Michigan...........  @8
High Test Headlight..  @ 7
D., S. Gas....................  @8
Deo. Naptha..............  @754
Cylinder...................25  @36
Engine......................11  @21
Black, winter.............  @ 8

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
5i gal., per doz.................  50
1 
to 6 gal., per gal........ 
554
8 gal., per g a l................. 
654
10 gal., per gal.................. 
654
12 gal., per gal..................
654
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

Churns.

to 6 gal., per gal...,

2 
554
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Milkpans.

54 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each  554 
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

54 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  554 

60

Stewpans.

Jugs.

54 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz.............
40
54 gal., per doz............
50
1 to 5 gal., per gal........
654
Tomato Jugs.
70
54 gal., per doz............
1 gal., each.................
Corks for 54 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..
30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
54 gal., stone cover, doz...
1 gal., stone cover, doz...’ 

00

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. In package, per lb... 
LAMP  BURNERS.
No. 0  Sun.................... . . . .  
45
No.  1  Sun.................. ......  
50
No.  2  Sun.................. ...... 
75
Tubular..................... ......  
50
Security, No.  1__
65
...... 
Security, No. 2........... . . . .  
85
Nutmeg  .................... . . . .  
50
Climax....................... ......  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEY5—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................  1  88
No.  2  Sun..........................  2 70
No.  0 Sun, 
No.  1 Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

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

top,
top,
top,

First  Quality.
crimp 
crimp 
crimp 
XXX Flint.
crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

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

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

La  Bastie.

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 spont.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spont.  4 00 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  5 00 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 6
5 gal Tilting cans..............  9
5 gal galv iron Nacefas__  9

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LANTERNS.

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

LAMP  WICKS.

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No. 1 per gross...................
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Hardware

Plea  for  a  Summer  Vacation—Ethics 

of  Honesty  and  Lying.

A. N. Oldman in Hardware.

it 

The  man  who  fails  to  take a  vacation 
does  an 
injustice  to  himself,  his  fam­
ily,  his  employes,  his  country  and  his 
God.

This  may  seem  a  little  strong  lan­
guage  coming  from  one  whose  hair 
is 
silvered  with  the  frosts  of  many  winters 
in  a  hardware  store,  and  whose  feet,  if 
not  in  the  grave,  are  standing  upon  the 
edges  thereof;  but 
is  out  of  this  old 
age,  and  the  experiences  which  it  has 
gained  for him,  that  he feels  justified in 
making  as  strong  a  statement as  that 
contained  in  the  above.
When  I  was  a  boy,  those  in  the  mer­
cantile  class  did  not  know  what a  set 
vacation  was.  Where  I  served  as  a 
clerk,  we opened  the  store  at  7  o'clock 
in  the  morning  and  kept  it  open  until 
q  o’clock  at  night,  three  hundred  and 
sixty-five  days  of  the  year,  with  the 
exception  of  Sundays;  and  the  old  man 
for  whom  1  worked  would  have  run  her 
right  open  all  day  Sabbath  if  the  com­
munity  had  approved  of  such  procedure 
and  had  come  to  buy.  When  a  town 
was  filled  with  strangers  and  merry­
makers,  on  the  Fourth  of  July  and  other 
days  of 
jubilee,  we  boys  were  kept 
back  of  the  counter  from  morning  until 
mgdt,  and  a  request  for  the  closing  of 
the  store  on  such  occasions  would  have 
been  almost  equivalent  to  handing 
in 
our  resignation. 
1  believe  we  did  shut 
up  on  Christmas  day,  but  not  on 
Thanksgiving  or  New  Years.

If  one  of  the  boys  wished  a  day  off 
once  or  twice  a  year  for  some  special 
occasion,  such  as  a  picnic  or the  burial 
of  a  grandmother,  he  could  sometimes 
obtain  it,  provided  he  stood  high  in  the 
graces  of  the  old  man.  The  person  who 
bad  been  filled  with  a  sufficient  amount 
of  hardihood  and  desperate  courage  to 
have  suggested  two  weeks’  vacation  to 
each  of the  employes  during the summer 
mouths,  would  have  been 
looked  upon 
as  a  spendthrift  or one  in  whose  bead 
more  wheels  had  been  generated  than 
were  necessary  for  the  proper  origina­
tion  and  propulsion  of  his  ideas.

I  have  three  clerks 

in  my  store,  in 
addition  to  a  young  lady  book-keeper 
and  stenographer,  and  I  wish  to  tell you 
merchants  that  1  would  regard  it  as  a 
piece  of  almighty  poor  business  policy 
if  I  did  not  give  each  one  of  these a 
full  two  weeks’  vacation  each  year.

In  the  first  place,  I  see  that  they  earn 
it during  the  remaining  fifty  weeks. 
In 
the  second  place,  1  get  more  good  value 
out  of  them 
in  the  course  of  the  year 
than  I  could  if  their  noses  were  kept  to 
the  grindstone  during  the  whole  period. 
In  the  third  place,  no  man  has  a  right, 
morally,  religiously,  economically  or 
patriotically,  to cheat  a  fellow  being  out 
of  that  which  is  his  natural  due;  and  1 
believe  that, in  the  economy  of  this  uni­
verse,  God  as  much 
intended  that the 
hardware  clerk  should  have  a  period  of 
bountiful  rest  in  the  country,  among  the 
trees  and  flowers  and  the  thousand  and 
one  attractions  that  a  man  meets  when 
away  from  brick  and  mortar,  as  he  in­
tended  that  the  flowers,  and  the  trees, 
and  the  birds,  and  the  running  brooks 
and  good  fishing  should  be  scattered 
promiscuously  through  this  broad 
land 
of  ours,  with  an  invitation  to  man  to  go 
forth  and  enjoy  them.
I  always  take  two  weeks’  vacation 
myself,  and  am  the better  man  because 
of  it.  Sometimes  my  family  go  with 
me  and  sometimes  I  go alone,  but  in 
either  case  I  come  home  invigorated 
and  with  a  better  opinion  of  things  in 
general,  a  warmer  side  toward  human­
ity,  a  more  comprehensive  grasp  of 
my  business,  with  more  kindness  and 
love  toward  my  immediate  associates, 
and  a  fuller,broader  comprehension  and 
understanding  of  my  duties  as  an  em­
ployer,  a 
father,  a  citizen,  a  Christian 
and  a  man.

*  *  *

Once  I  was  young  and  now  I  am  old, 
yet  have  I  not  seen  the  righteous  for­
saken,  nor his  seed  begging bread.

The  above 

is  not  an  exact  quotation

is  me  Law  Enrorcea
In Your  Townsfiip?

Under the new  law  the  operations 
of  country  peddlers  can  be  con­
siderably curtailed—in some  cases 
abolished altogether—by the  ener­
getic  enforcement  of  the  statute. 
It  is  the  duty  of  the  merchant  to 
see that the township board  of  his 
township  enforces  the  law.  The 
Tradesman has had  drafted  by  its 
attorney blank licenses and  bonds, 
which  it is  prepared  to  furnish  on 
the following terms:
LICENSES,

10 cents per dozen;
75 cents per 100.

BONDS,

25 cents per dozen;
$■ .50 per 100

Please  accompany  orders  with 

remittances.

TRADESM AN  COMPANY,

Grand Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

from  the  Scripture,  in  all  probability, 
but 
is  as  near  as  memory  will  permit 
me  to  recall 
it.  The  sentiment  is  all 
there,  however.
There  never  was  a  truer  truism—if 
the  expression  may  be  used—than  the 
old  saw,  Honesty  is  the  best  policy.

I  admit  that  it  does not occupy  the 
highest  moral  grounds. 
It  does  not  say 
that  one  shall  do  right  because  it  is 
It  does  not  say  that  one  shall 
right. 
render  his  neighbor full  due because 
it 
is  Christian—Christ-like—to  do  so. 
It 
does  not  touch  the  higher  plane  of  pure 
morality  at  all. 
It  simply  says  that one 
shall  be honest because  it  pays,  because 
it  is  politic  to  do  that which  is  fair  and 
right
And  it  does  pay.  The truth  of  this  is 
proved  by  the  history  of  every  honest 
man,  and  by  the  history  of  every  dis­
honest  man.

I  do  not  say  that  all  honest  men  do 
well  in  business,  and  all  dishonest  men 
fail.  Not  by  a  long  shot.  There  are 
honest  men in  the  almshouse;  there are 
thieves  who  live  on  velvet  and  eat  from 
silverware.

But  when  all  things  are  weighed  and 
measured;  when  the  balance  is  struck 
all  around;  when  the  average  of  men’s 
lives  is  made,  you  will  find  that  it  pays 
one  to  do  that  which  is  right,  in  busi­
ness  matters,  as  in  all  others.  The  as­
sets  of  good  character  and  a  clear  con­
science  is  the  best  holding  one can have 
at  the  end  of  life.

♦  *  *

Troubles  of  the  Drug  Clerk.
There are cares and stipulations 
To the various occupations,
But for woes and tribulations 
He is under  obligations 
To refrain from objurgations 
Tho* the limit of his patience 

You must try the drug clerk’s lot. 

Be exhausted on the spot.

He is noted for urbanity 
But seldom for  profanity,
Altho* his equanimity 
Is often sorely tried.
A ll questions whose inanity 
Would drive you to insanity 
He answers without vanity,
Tho* possibly with pride.

Tho’ not much in society,
He’s the acme of  propriety,
And in spite of all anxiety,
He manages to woo.
In life he likes variety,
He’s noted for sobriety,
But never for his piety,
A  fact that is not new.

Oh, the drug clerks of all nations! 
Listen to their lamentations,
And hear them out with  patience 
i f  you’re sick upon a  Sunday,
Please wait until next Monday,
And give, Oh, give them one day 

Ere they go.

To recuperate and grow.

Shorter hours he’s agitating,
And he’s eloquent in stating,
That there’s no use in debating,
For shorter hours must come.
He just won’t work ’till ’leven, 
Though he lose all chance of  heaven; 
After ten his warning’s given,
“  You must go elsewhere for gum.”

If  you  must  lie,  do  it  artistically.
A  business  lie  may  be  a  pretty  thing 

to  look  at,  but  unsafe  to  handle.

I  know  a  lot of  them.

Is  a  business  lie  ever  justifiable?  I 
like  to  hear  from  some of  the 
would 
experts. 
If  you  lie to  a  customer,  and  the  clerk 
knows  it,  hasn't  the  clerk  a  warrant  for 
falsifying  to  you?
“ Dad 
licks  me  when  I  tell  a  lie. 
I  want  to 
grow  up  so  I  will  have  a  right  to  tell 
lies—same  as  he  does.”

I  know  a  youngster  who  said : 

Can  a  man  be  a  good  deacon  in  a 
church,  and  at  the  same  time  a  good 
salesman?

Where  does  the  lie  come  in  between 
business  diplomacy  and  outright  false­
hood?

A  great  deal  may  be  said  about  the 
advantages  of  always  telling  the  truth. 
Can  anything  be  said  on  the  other  side?

The  Only  Attempt  to  Bribe  the  Su­

preme  Court.
From, the Topeka State Capital.

Justice  Brewer  of  the  Supreme  Court, 
who  was 
in  Kansas  City  recently,  told 
this:  “ Several  years  ago  a  cigarmaker 
in  Washington  named  Scott  got  up  a 
brand  of  cigars  which  he  called  the 
‘ Supreme  Court.’  The 
labels  on  the 
inside  of  the  boxes  were  pictures  of  the 
entire  court,  and  the  cigar  was  a  good 
one.  I  know  this,  because  one day  each 
of  the  Justices  received  two  boxes  of 
them  with  the  compliments  of  Mr. 
Scott.  Nothing was  thought  of  this  fact 
at  the  time,  and  it  was  taken  as  a  slight 
courtesy 
in  return  for  the  use  of  our 
pictures.  But  several  weeks 
later  we 
learned  that  the  cigars  had  been  sent 
to  soothe  our anger.  One  of  the  clerks 
bad  gone  to  Scott  and  told  him  that  the 
members  of  the  court  were  very  much 
provoked  at  him,  and  intended  prose­
cuting  him  for  taking  such 
liberties 
with  their  pictures.  Scott  was  fright­
ened,  and  he  hit  upon  the  idea  of  brib­
ing  the  Justices,  and  I  suppose  he 
thought  he  succeeded,  for  he  was  never 
prosecuted,  nor  had  such  a  thing  been 
thought  o f.”

The  world  owes  all 

its  onward  im­

pulses  to  men  who are  pessimists.

A  man  with  a  savage  front arms every 

man  against  him.

Wise  men  make  more  opportunities 

than  they  find.

He  has  hard  work  who  has  nothing  to 

do.

Boasters  are cousins  to  liars.

This  is  our  FRUIT  AND  D ELIVER Y  WAGON.  Furnished  with  Fruit 
Racks  when  desired.  The  B est  is  none  too  good. 
See  this  and  our 
complete  line  of  hand  made  Harness,  Carriages,  etc.

W rite  for  new  catalog.

BROWN  &  SEHLER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

New  Orleans—There  is  certainly  an 
improvement  in  the  general  situation. 
Orders  are  coming  in  very  freely  for  all 
classes  of  goods.

Annual  Outing of the Jackson  Grocers.
Jackson,  Aug.  10—The Jackson Retail 
Grocers’  Association  gave  their  sixth 
annual  excursion  on  Aug.  5.  Lake  Erie 
Park  was  the  place  selected  for  the 
event  and  the  C.,  J.  &  M.  Railway  the 
route.  The  success  in  point  of  numbers 
was,  to  say  the  least,  a  surprise  to  the 
committees  and  also  to the  railway com­
pany.  Twenty-five coaches  in  two  trains 
were  required  to  carry  the  people  and 
there  was  no  room  to  spare.  Trains  left 
Jackson  at  7  and  7130 a.  m.,  arriving 
in  Toledo  at  10  and  10:30.  A  long 
train  of  electric  street  cars  was  in  wait­
ing  on  the  arrival  of  each  train,  which 
took  our  people  to  Lake  Erie  Park  in  a 
very  short  time.  Upon  the  arrival  at 
the  Park  and  casino,  we  found  a  splen­
did  place  to  pass  a  day  in  pleasure  and 
amusement—the  cool  grove,  with  tables 
for  picnickers;  the  mammoth  casino 
building,  with  its  three  floors,  built  on 
piles  several  hundred  feet  from  shore 
out  in  the  b ay;  a  theater,  with  a  seating 
capacity  of  3,000  or  more;  the  scenic 
railway,  its  tunnel  pictures  and  the  ex­
hilarating  ride,  and,  above  all  to  a 
great  many  of  our guests,  the  view  out 
on  Maumee  Bay  from  the  piazza  of  the 
casino  was  most  enjoyed.  Vessels  of 
all  sizes  and  kinds  were  passing  in  the 
•Bay  all  of  the  time.  Schooners  under 
full  sail, lake  steamers,  excursion  steam­
launches,  sailboats,  the  Govern­
ers, 
ment  buoys,  the 
lighthouses  and  the 
range  lights  for  the  harbor—all  were  a 
treat  for  a  large  portion  of  our  people 
who  were  not  familiar  with  such  sights. 
Directly  across  the  Bay  is  located  an­
other  pleasure  resort  on  Presque  Island, 
and  still  farther  in  the  same  direction 
we  could  see  a  dozen  high-towering 
derricks,  which 
indicate  the  location 
|,of  the  newly-discovered  oil  fields.

After  dinner, 

the  concert  by 

the 
casino  band  and  the  entertainment  in 
the  casino  theater,  the  greater  part  of 
the  people  went to  the  city  and  passed 
the time  seeing  the  sights  and riding on 
the  long  electric  lines.  Many  went  via 
the  Perrysburg  and  Maumee  line— 
twenty-two  miles—to  see 
the  sights 
along  the  Maumee  River  and  at  the 
suburban  towns  on  the  route,  and  near­
ly  all  took  the  belt 
lines,  which  run 
through 
the  business  and  residence 
parts  of  Toledo.

The  first  train,  leaving  Toldeo  at  7 ¡30 
p.  m.,  carried 
its  full  complement  of 
tired  but  happy  people,  arriving 
in 
Jackson  a  little  after  11  o’clock.  The 
second  train 
left  the  city  at  10:30 and 
arrived  at  Jackson  about  2  o'clock  in 
the  morning.

The  accommodations  at  the  Park  and 
casino  were  ample  to  accommodate  a 
much 
larger  crowd  than  we had.  The 
various  committees  of  the  Association 
did  their  work  faithfully  and  well,  and 
to  this  fact  may  be  attributed  the  suc­
cess  of  the occasion.

from 

A  very  pleasant  feature  of  the  day 
was  the  courtesy  received 
the 
hands  of  the  Jackson  Grocery  Co., 
which  provided  large  tanks  of lemonade 
for  each  car and  furnished  boys  to  dis­
tribute  it  to all  the  people.  Coming  as 
a  surprise  to  every  one, 
it  was  the 
more  appreciated.  The railway manage­
ment  was  all  that could be expected  and 
the officials  of  the  C.,  J.  &  M.  Railway 
have  our hearty  thanks.
The  sixth  annual  excursion  was  one 
of  the  very  best,  if  not  the  best,  of  the 
series,  and  we  feel  that  the grocers have 
maintained  their  reputation  of  having 
the 
largest  and  most  enjoyable  excur­
sions  ever  run  out of  this  city.  In  point 
of  numbers  this  excursion 
is  nearly 
equal  to  any  we have  ever  given.

W.  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.

The  Hardware  Market.

Owing  to  the general  quiet  prevailing 
in  trade  during  this  time  of  the  year, 
it  did  not  seem  necessary  to present any 
extended  review  of  the  hardware market 
during  the  past  two  weeks.  At  the 
present  time,  however,  there  seems  to 
be  quite a  marked  increase  in  the  vol­
ume  of  business  in  nearly  all  lines  and 
dealers  manifest  a  general  disposition 
to  buy  with  much  more  freedom,  and 
they  are  anticipating  their  wants  in 
many  lines  for  the  fall  trade.  We  deem 
this  a  wise  action  on  their  part,  as  fig­
ures  have  reached  such  a  low  point  that 
it  is  impossible  for  them  to  recede  any 
further and  even a slight  increase  in  the 
demand  for  goods  will  cause an advance 
on  all  lines  of  staple  hardware.  Cer­
tainly  the  prospects  for  the  coming  fall 
trade  are  very  encouraging  in  all  parts 
of  Michigan,  as  well  as  in  the  general 
markets  of  the  country.  This will  create 
a  large  demand 
for  goods  and  higher 
prices  will  rule,  beyond  a  doubt.  At 
the  present  time,  however,  we  have  few 
changes  to  note,  as  manufacturers  are 
adopting  the  waiting  course  and  are 
watching  the  markets  very  closely.

Wire  Nails—The  price  at  present  is 
stationary  and  a  general  feeling  of  ner­
vousness  pervades  the  entire  trade  and 
an  advance  is  expected  to  occur  at  any 
moment.  Dealers,  however,  are  slow 
to  take  advantage  of  the  present  prices 
and  orders  are  coming  in  in  only  mod­
erate  quantities.

Barbed  Wire—The  demand  at  this 
time  of  the  year  is  very light  and  prices 
remain  stationary.

Window  Glass—Owing  to  the  closing 
down  of  all  factories,  which  will  con­
tinue  through 
July  and  August  and 
probably 
into  the  month  of  September, 
and  the  fact  that  stocks  on  hand  are  not 
as  large  as  a  year  ago,  added  to  which 
is  the 
increased  duty  that  was  placed 
on  glass,  an  advance  has  already  been 
made  of  5  per cent.,  and  it  is  believed 
that  by  the  middle  of  August  it  will  be 
found  necessary  to  make  another ad­
vance.  Even at  the  present  time  certain 
sizes  are 
impossible  to  be  had  at  the 
market  price  and  dealers  are  paying 
from  15 to  20  percent,  advance to  secure 
them.  The  present  price  on  regular 
is  70  per  cent,  by  the  box  and  an 
size 
advance  of 
10  per  cent,  when  sold  by 
the  light.

Reports  from other markets  are  as  fol­

lows :

Chicago—August opens  with  a  rush  of 
orders  for  shelf  hardware.  These  orders 
are  not  so  much  larger  than  they  have 
been  but  much  more  plentiful.

St.  Louis—Business 

better  and  prices  are  certainly 
ing.

is  considerably 
improv­

Cleveland—Trade  has  been  unusually 
good  for  this  time  of  the  year.  The 
usual  midsummer  dulness  has  been 
much 
for  several 
years  past.

less  apparent  than 

Baltimore—Since  July  1  we  have  seen 
a  decided  improvement,  if  not  in  trade 
itself,  at  least 
in  the  conditions  which 
lead  up  to business.

San  Francisco—Trade  is  fairly  good, 
building  hardware  being  more  active 
than  for  some time.

Portland,  Oregon—Trade  for  the  past 
few  weeks  has  held  up  to  the  average 
of  the  month  previous  and,  from  pres­
ent  appearances,  is 
likely  to  maintain 
itself  at  that  rate  for some  time.

Philadelphia—There 

is  a  daily  im­
provement  in  trade  and  a great  increase 
in  mail  orders.  Collections  are  fair. 
The  situation  is  such  as  to  imply  con­
fidence  in  a  good  business  for  the  fall.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUQURS  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............................................ $12 00  14 00
Garden................................................   net  30 00

BOLTS

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

BUCKETS

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

BLOCKS

Ordinary Tackle.......................
CROW  BARS 
Cast Steel....................................

CAPS

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

$ 3 25

70&10
.70*10

70

4

65
55
35 
60

.. per lb 

per m 
per m 
perm 
per m 

.50& 5 
.25* 5

CHISELS

Socket Firmer.............................................. 
Socket Framing........................................... 
Socket Comer....................................................... ’ go
Socket  Slicks........................................................’ go

so
go

DRILLS

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

ELBOWS

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

55
1 25

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........................30*10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3,  $30...........................  
25

 

H0 U5B  FURNISHING  GOODS

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware......  .  .  ......... new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron Ware.........................new list 40*10
Pots............................................................... 60*10
K ettles......................................................... 60*10
Spiders......................................... 
60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3.........   ....................dis 80*10
State.........................................per doz. net  2 50
Bright................. 
80
80
Screw Eyes..................................................  
Hook’s.......................................................... 
80
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes.................................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis 
70
Sisal, V4 inch and  larger 
5%
....................... 
Manilla........................................................  
8
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.........................
Try and Bevels.....................
Mitre......................................

LEVELS

ROPES

80

 

 

SHEET  IRON

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter, 

com. smooth. com.
$2 40
2 40
2 60
2 70
2 80
2 90
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...................................
Annealed  Market.............................
Coppered Market.............................
Tinned Market.................................
Coppered Spring  Steel.....................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..............
Barbed  Fence,  painted....................
An Sable...........................................
Putnam....  
...................................
Northwestern...................................
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.........
Coe’s Genuine...................................
Coe's Patent Agricultural, wrought 
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages.....................................
Pumps, Cistern..............................
Screws, New List...........................
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................
Dampers, American.......................
600 pound casks.............................
6%
Per pound......................................
6»
V4@V4...................................................... .  12%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.

75
.  . .70*10
----  62%
50
....  205 
....  1  70
dis 40&1C 
dis 
5 
dis 10*10
30
50
80
80
50
80
85
50*10*10
50

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

SOLDER

TIN—Melyn Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal.........................  
5  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   5  00
10x14 IX, Charcoal......................................  6 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   6  00

Bach 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 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade..............  9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............  1100

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATB 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Böllers,) ___ 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, ( per P°nnd- • • 

,

9

PILES—New  List

New American.............................................70&10
Nicholson’s................................................... 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................  
6C&10

 

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

28
17

15 
GAUGES

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

KNOBS-New List

70
80

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

 

MILLS

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

40
40
40
30

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

RIVETS

PANS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list............................ .-.dis 33%
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

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons,

Manufacturers  and  Jobbers,

260  S.  Ionia  St. 

G rand  R apids.

M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

24

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  European  market  has 
been  fairly  steady  during  the  week, 
with  domestic  raws  about  the  same. 
The  Trust 
is  at  present buying  no  raw 
sugar  whatever.  The  consumptive  de­
mand  for  refined  sugar 
is  good,  and 
will  soon  reach its  height. 
There  have 
been  two  advances  in  the  price  of  sugar 
during  the  week,  and the  market  is  very 
strong.  There 
is  a  fairly  good demand 
for  soft  sugars  and  advances  are  ex­
pected,  in  these  grades  especially,  al­
most  any  day.

received 

Tea—Advices 

from  both 
China  and  Japan  during  the  week  in­
dicate  an  advance  all  along  the  line. 
There  are  two  reasons  for  th is:  One 
is  the  apparently  universal  belief  that 
the coming  fall  will  witness  a  boom 
in 
tea,  and  the  other the  fact  that  the  pure 
tea  law  will  exclude  considerable  stock, 
and  thus  reduce  the  supply.  Most Japan 
teas are holding  to an advance of several 
cents  per  pound.  The  market  generally 
seems  in  rather  better  shape.

It 

is 

Coffee—Prices  continue  low, but busi­
ness 
large  in  volume.  The  greater 
part  of  the  demand  is  for  the  package 
goods  and  the  call  for  bulk  goods  is 
correspondingly  light. 
is  estimated 
July  the 
that  during  the  month  of 
in­
world’s  visible  supply  of  coffee  has 
creased  300,000  bags.  This 
is  almost 
wholly  in  Brazils. 
It  is hardly probable 
that  the  market  will  go  higher  for  some 
time  to  come,  although  the  market 
in 
Rio  and  Santos  has  been  showing  some 
great  strength  this  week.

Rice—The  market 

is  advancing. 
Japan  rice  is  Ij^c  higher  than last  week 
and  domestic  rice has  risen 
in  sympa­
thy.

Syrups—The glucose  trust  has boosted 
corn  syrup  up  another  notch,  ostensibly 
on  account  of  the  shortage of coal, which 
has  compelled  all  the  factories  to  shut 
down  for  the  present.  The  advance 
has been  followed  by  the  jelly manufac­
turers,  who 
intimate  that  still  higher 
prices  may  be  looked  for  in  the  near fu­
ture.

Provisions—There  has  been  a  slight 
advance  in  everything  in  the  provision 
line,  pickled  and  smoked  meats  being 
especially  active.  D ried  beef  continues 
scarce,  most  jobbers  being out  of  stock. 
There  is  hardly  enough  fully-cured  beef 
hams  on  the  market  to  supply  the  trade 
at  present  price.  Lard  has  gained 
j£c  per  pound  from  the  lowest  point 
There  is  a  considerably  better  demand 
for  compound 
lard,  on  account  of  the 
advance  in  pure.

Beans—Hand  picked stock  has  moved 
upward,in-line  with  the  tendency  of  the 
times,  offers  to  local  holders  having  ad­
vanced  from  65c  three  weeks  ago  to  85c 
at  the  present  time. 
It  is  generally  be­
lieved  that  the  market  will  go  to  Si  be­
fore  Sept.  1,and  that  the price will go to 
$1.25  before  the  end  of  September.

The  Grain  Market.

in  disclosing 

Wheat advanced  steadily  during  the 
past  week.  To  be  sure, it had  some  set­
backs,  but  closed  fully  3c  higher  than 
one  week  ago.  While  the  receipts  have 
been  extraordinarily  large,  the  exports 
have  kept  pace  with  them,  so  that,when 
the  reports  came 
the 
amount in sight, they showed  there  was  a 
decrease  of 
164,000  bushels,  when  a 
small 
increase  had  been  expected. 
Cables  came  in  higher  each  day  and,  of 
course,  had  a  noticeable  effect  on  the 
market.  While 
in  all  probability  our 
crop  will  exceed  the  amount  reported 
by  the  various  statisticians,  still 
it 
seems  as  though  this  country  is  looked

upon  as  the  only  country  from  which 
foreigners  can  get  their  supplies. 
It  is 
reported  that  Russia  has  issued a  ukase 
prohibiting  the  exporting  of  wheat. 
However,  we  would  not  want  to  take 
any  stock  in  that  just at 'present. 
It  is 
a  known  fact,  however,  that  she  has  a 
short  ciop  of  wheat  this  year.  At  pres­
ent  it  looks  as  though  prices  might  ex­
perience  quite  an  advance  from  where 
they  now  stand.  However,  we  hope  it 
will  not  result  as  it did  last  year,  when 
prices  went  skyward  and  then  settled 
back  about  25c  per  bushel.  There  are  a 
great  many  among  the  traders who think 
the  present  prices  are  altogether  too 
high.  Should  the  foreigners  continue 
to  take  our  wheat  the  way  they  have 
been  taking  it  for  the  past  few  months, 
it  will  be  only  a  short  time  until  they 
will  have  every  available  bushel. 
It 
has  been  reported  that  every  bushel  of 
the  visible  has  been  sold.  The  mills 
and  elevators  are  gradually  filling  up 
with  wheat,  and  from  now  on  it  will 
find 
its  way  to  grain  centers  like  De­
troit,  Toledo,  Buffalo  and  Chicago  for 
storage. 
the  exports  cease, 
there  will  probably  be  a  sharp  decline 
in  prices,  which  we  hope  will  not  be 
the  case,  for  the  good  of  the  country. 
We  think  the  more  good  buyers  we  can 
have  at  good  prices,  the  more  it  will 
help  us  out  just  at  present.

Should 

There  is  not  much  to  say  about  corn. 
If  anything,  it  is  a  little  lower  than  one 
week  ago.  The  same 
is  true  of  oats 
Both  corn  and  oats  showed a respectable 
increase  and  there 
is  more  of  both 
cereals  in  sight  than  there  has  been  for 
a  number  of  years  and  the  demand  for 
both  grains  is  falling  off.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were 
very  heavy,  being  85  cars  of  wheat,  9 
cars  of  corn  and  11  cars  of  oats.

Local  millers  are  paying  77c 

for

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Nashville,  Aug.  9 —The 

wheat. 
The Traveling Men’sShowatNashville.
traveling 
men’s  show,  which  was  held  here  last 
Thursday  evening,  was one  of  the  most 
enjoyable  entertainments  ever  given 
in 
the town.
The  street  parade  was  a  special  fea­
ture,  being  of  a  new and  novel  nature. 
It  was  headed  by  Geo.  A.  Hartorn, 
m aster  of  cerem onies,  followed  by  the 
Nashville  cornet  band,  then  a  hand­
somely  decorated  omnibus  containing 
the  Chloride  of  Lime  Quartette,  E.  C. 
Adams  of  South  Bend,  Tnd.,  occupying 
the  upper  deck  and  mystifying  the 
crowds  with  some  very clever  sleight  of 
hand  tricks.  Following  this  came  E. 
Rosenbaum  and  Frank  Newton  in  their 
coon  and  Dutch  makeups,  who  kept  the 
crowd 
in  good  humor  with  their  funny 
antics.  Following  this  came  fifty  com­
mercial  travelers  in  line,  making a very 
effective  display  with 
their  white 
plugs  and  linen  dusters,  bearing  ban­
ners  with  mottoes  cf  a  very  comical  na­
ture.  A  pair  of  yellow  kids  following 
next 
line  also  kept  the  people  good 
natured  with  their  funny  work.  -Last 
but  not  least,  came  a  typical  Irishman 
mounted  on  a  jackass,  which  created all 
kinds  of  sport  and  plenty  of  laughter 
from  the  crowds  which  thronged  the 
streets.  The  jack  bore  a  blanket,  with 
the 
“ Not
Romeo  but  Brutus’ ’  and 
There  are 
Others. ”
At  the  evening  entertainment. Prof. 
E.  C.  Adams  captivated the  whole  town 
and  held  them  spellbound  with  his won­
derful 
sleight  of  hand  performances. 
We  consider  him  one  of  the  best  the 
country  can  produce.  The  Bohemian 
Quartette—composed  of  Perry  Barker, 
Geo.  A.  Murphy,  E.  A.  Rush  and  Jas. 
F yfe —took  like  wildfire.  Their  equal 
has  never been  heard  in  Nashville  and 
we  sincerely  hope  that  we  may  have 
them  with  us  again  in  the  near  future. 
Grand  Rapids  ought  to  be  proud  of 
possessing  such  excellent  talent.  The

inscriptions: 

following 

in 

music  rendered  by  C.  D.  Waldo’s  man­
dolin  club  was also  very  highly  appre­
ciated.  Ed.  Rosenbaum’s  coon 
spe­
cialties  were  received  with  great  ap­
plause.  The  selection  rendered  by  Miss 
Leona  G.  Comfort,  of  this  place,  was 
very  fine  and  was  highly  applauded,  as 
was  also  the  duet  rendered  by  Misses 
Ida  Burgman  and  Cora  Cooper.  The 
jack-in-the-box  trick  by  Ben  Hickox 
was  a  very  clever  piece  of work and  was 
loudly  applauded.  Roscoe  and  Newton 
introduced  a  very  pleasing musical  spe­
cialty,  which  was  well  received. 
It 
was  simply 
immense.  The  entertain­
ment was  an  entire  success from  start  to 
finish  and  much  credit 
is  due  G.  H. 
Hackett  and  P.  H.  Brumm,  whose  un­
tiring  efforts  made  the  affair  so enjoy­
able.

After  the  entertainment,  the boys  re­
tired  to  Odd  Fellows’  Hall,  where  they 
were  brought  up  face  to  face  with  a 
most  bounteous  banquet,  which  was 
served  by  the  Daughters  of  Rebecca. 
Too  much  praise  cannot  be  given  the 
ladies  for  their  efforts.  Take  it  all  in 
all.  the  boys  had  a  time  that  will  not 
soon  be  forgotten.  The  citizens  were 
more  than  pleased  with  the boys’  enter­
tainment  and  there  will  always  be  a 
warm  place 
in  their  hearts  for  them 
and  we  trust  that  the  time  will  not  be 
distant  when  they  will  again be with  us.

O n -L o o k e r .

Purety  Personal.

M.  J.  Clark  left  for  Duluth  Tuesday: 
He  expects  to be  absent  about  a  week.
Sumner  M.  Wells  (Clark-Jewell-Wells 
Co.)  is  putting  in  a fortnight's  vacation 
at  Highland  Park.

Food  Commissioner  Grosvenor  has 
appointed  Lincoln  Moore,  of  Pontiac, 
cheese and  creamery  inspector.

Miss 

Irene 

Sweet,  assistant  book­
keeper  for  the  Clark  Jewell-Wells  Co., 
is  spending  a  two  weeks’  vacation  with 
friends  at  Big  Bapids.

J.  Geo.  Lehman  has  leased  the  Mc­
Cormick  cottage,  at  Macatawa  Park, 
and  will  spend  a  portion  of  his  time 
during  August  at  that  resort.

A.  K.  Wheeler,  Treasurer  of 

the 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company,  is  spend­
ing  a  fortnight  at  Boston,  Portland  and 
Bar  Harbor.  He  is  accompanied  by  his 
family.

Lester  J.  Rindge  (Rindge,  Kalmbach 
&  Co.)  is spending the  month  of  August 
at  the  Algonquin-  Hotel,  St.  Andrews, 
New  Brunswick.  He 
is  accompanied 
by  his  daughter.

W.  B.  Young,  wholesale  dealer 

in 
butter  and  eggs,  recently  at  40  South 
Division  street,  Grand  Rapids,  and 
formerly  at  Charlotte  and  Greenville,  is 
now  located  at  109  South  Church  street, 
Kalamazoo.

firm  of  Huntoon  &  Van  Sickle,  grocers 
and  produce  shippers  at  Carson  City, 
was  in  town  last  Thursday  for  the  pur­
pose  of  participating 
in  the  grocers’ 
picnic  at  Reed’s  Lake.

John  E.  Thurkow,  the  Morley  general 
dealer  and  produce  shipper,  was 
in 
town  Monday.  He 
is  paying  35  cents 
for  rye  this  season,as  against  22  cents a 
year  ago—a  condition  of  the  market 
that  is  greatly  appreciated  by  the grow­
ers.

Chas.  E.  Belknap.  President  of the 
Belknap  Wagon  Co., 
is  spending  a 
month  in  the  Northwest  calling  on  the 
customers  of  his  corporation.  The  ob­
jective  point 
is  Spokane  Falls,  but he 
may  extend  the  trip  to  include  Tacoma 
and  Seattle.

Big  Rapids—The  Michigan  Cigar 
Co.  has  purchased  the  two  cigar  stores 
of  F.  E.  Bushman,  at  South  Bend, 
Ind.,  and  will  continue  business  at both 
locations,  Mr.  Vandenburg  managing 
the  stores  at  South  Bend 
and  Mr. 
O’Beck  looking  after  the  manufactur­
ing  business  at  this  place.

E. 

B.  Huntoon,  senior  member  of  the 

W ANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

drug stock that  will  inventory  $1,200  for  a 
stock of  groceries.  Add ref s  John  Cooper,  340 
Woodworth avenue. Grand Rapids, Mich.  366

IpOR  EXCHANGE —A  WELL-ASSORTED 
IpOK  SALE—MEAT  MARKET  DOING  A 

•  cash business.  Will sell < heap for cash.  I. 
Frankford, Insurance and Real Estate,  53  West 
Bridge Street.  Phone 1236. 
r p o   TRADE - A GOOD FARM, STOCK, TOOLS 
_L  and crops for a stock of goods.  Wm. Neilan, 
Ferry, Oceana Co., Mich._______________ 365
r p o  EXCHANGE—160 A<  RES OF  HEAVIEST 
JL  hardwood timber  land  in  Michigan,  finely 
located, clear title, for  stock  goods.  If  differ­
ence will pay  cash.  Address  Z.  V.  Payne,  St. 
Louis, Gratiot Co , Mich.  __  

367

364

362

359

363

Ha r d w a r e  a n d  t in sh o p  a t  co rn er
of  West  Leonard  and  Scribner  streets, 
Grand Rapids, for sale  at  a  bargain.  Invoices 
about $1,500.  Established ten  years.  See me at 
once.  G. A. Richards. 
368
W ANTED—MEDIUM  SIZED  STOCK  OF 
clean merchandise in good town;  will pay 
cash.  Address, Wanted, 211 North  Ionia  street. 
Grand Rapids.________________________360
IpOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK 
INVOICING 
about $700.  Best location  n Northern Mich­
igan.  Address  Drugs,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
tpOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 

1  chandise in  a  good  location  in  a  growing 
town.  Good  business.  Will  rent  building. 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  For  further 
particulars inquire of  or write  to  I.  J.  Wigent, 
Watervliet, Mich. 

IpOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS,  FUR- 

■  nishing  goods  and  shoes.  Will  invoice 
about *4.200.  Rent,  $5.00  per  month  residence 
attached.  Bargain for some  one.  Address  No. 
363. cate Michigan Tradesman. 
\11ILL  SELL  MY  FOUR  DEPART >iEN 1' 
TV  stores of general  merchandise, as  I  must 
retire  from  business.  Here  is  a  fortune  for 
somebody. 
Julius  H.  Levinson,  Petoskey, 
Mich. 

I NOR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  GROCERIES 

1  and  crockery,  enjoying  cream  of  trade  in 
best growing city in  Michigan.  Lake  port  and 
center  of  fruit  belt  Patronage  mostly  cash. 
Rent,  $50  per  month,  with  terminable  lease. 
Stock and fixtures will Inventory $3,500, but  can 
be  reduced.  Reason  for  selling,  owner  has 
other  business  which  must  be  attended  to. 
Business established five years and made money 
every year,  Answer quick if  you  expect  to  se­
cure this bargain.  Andress  No. 358,  care  Mich­
igan T r a d e s m a n .__________________ 3 8

I7»OR  SALE  CHEAP—ONE  1897  COUNTER 

Dayton computing scale;  one  Vermont  pat­
tern  counter  Howe  scale;  one  Fairbanks plat­
form counter scale;  one Buffalo platform  coun­
ter scale.  Address S. S.,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
Tj«OR  SALE—CLEAN NEW STOCK GENERAL 
JL  merchandise,  located  in  brick  building in 
growing town, surrounded by excellent farming 
country.  Established  trade.  Address  No.  334, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

I>ARTIEs  WISHING  TO  BUY,  SELL  OR 

exchange  real estate  or  merchandise,  any 
quantities  or  description,  can  depend  upon 
Townsend  &  Morous,  of  Jackson,  Mich.,-  for 
quick and responsible  dealing.__________ 318
f ->OR  S A L E —ONE  lOO-HORSE  PO W ER S L ID E  
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

350

353

334

one-half interest  in  hardware, stoves and 
tinshop, plumbing  and  furnace  work  aud  job­
bing, roofing,  etc.  Have  several  good  jobs  on 

■ANTED—PARTNER  WITH  $2.000  FOR 
hand and a well-established trade;  best location 
in heart of city.  Address Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
Mich. 
298
W 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 have any. 
We pay  a  liberal commission and  give  satisfac­
tory service.  Terms on  application.  American 
Steam Laundry, Otte Brotheis, proprietors.  289

ITlOR  STALE  OR  TRADE  FOR  STOCK  OF 

'  merchandise—180  acres  of  choice  timber 
land  on  Section  2  of  the  Haskel  land  grant, 
Buchanan county, Virginia;  title o. k.  Address 
No. 262, care Michigan Tradesman. 

IyUBBER  STAMPS  AND  RUBBER  TYPE. 

Will J. Weller, Muskegon, Mich. 

IiX)R  EXCHANGE—TWrO  FINE  IMPROVED 
-L  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
73
W ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
249
Ithaca. Mich. 

262
160

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

ÏI3REE-OÜR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
1  ents.  Cilley  &  A’lgier,  Patent  Attor  eys, 
339
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

W ANTED—ACTIVE  SALESMAN  TO  REP- 
resent to  dealers  and  consumers  a  well- 
advertised and  meritorious  soap  in  and  about 
Kent comity.  Address  No.  352,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
\TOUNG  MAN,  COMPETENT  BOOK-KEEP- 
X  er, understands  double entry,  desires  posi­
tion.  Best  of  references  furnished.  Address 
W., care Michigan Tradesman. 

347

352

QUEEN  &  CRESCENT

During  the  Tennessee  Centennial 
and  International  Exposition at Nash­
ville,  Tenn.,  a  low  rate  special  tariff 
has  been  established  for  the  sale  of 
tickets from Cincinnati  and  other ter­
minal  points on the Queen & Crescent 
Route.
Tickets are on  sale  daily  until  fur­
ther  notice  to  Chattanooga  at  $6.75 
one way or $7.20  round  trip from Cin­
cinnati,  the  round  trip  tickets  being 
good seven days  to  return;  other tick­
ets,  with  longer  return  limit,  at  $9.90 
and at $13.50 for the round trip.
These  rates  enable  the  public  to 
visit  Nashville  and  other  Southern 
points  at  rates  never  before  offered. 
Vestibuled trains of the finest classare 
at  the  disposal  of the  passengers, af­
fording a  most  pleasant  trip, and  en­
abling one to visit the very  interesting 
scenery and  important  battle-grounds 
in  and  about  Chattanooga,  Lookout 
Mountain and Chickamauga  National 
Military  Park.  Tickets  to  Nashville 
to visit  the  Centennial  can  be  repur­
chased at Chattanooga  for $3.40 round 
trip.  Ask  your ticket agent for tickets 
via Cincinnati  and  the Q.  &  C.  Route 
South, or write to  W. C. RINEARSON,
Gen’l Pass. Agent, Cincinnati.

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

T H E  FAMOUS

I B I I I I

T H E Y  A R E

T en   C e n t  C ig a rs

FOR

5  C e n ts

It  is  a  pleasure  to  smoke 
them.  T h ey are up-to-date. 
T h ey  are  the  best

5 Cent Cigars

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

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. £!L

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of
mE,MHMDE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

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

9 07..  15c; 

'i oz.  io c ; 

1  lb.  25c.

every respect.

9 .  A.  TURNEY,  Manufacturer,

Detroit,  Mich.

r * .The  Leader  of  all  Bond  Papers
M ade from New R ag Stock, 
F ree 
from  A dulteration, 
Perfectly  Sized,  Long  Fiber

Magna Charta 

Bond

A paper that will withstand 
the ravages of Time.

Carried  in  stock  in  all  the 
standard sizes and weights by

For Sale at  Public  Auction:
‘The plant of the McBain Creamery Co., at McBain, 
Mich.,  on  the  ist  day  of October,  1897. 
Cost 
$3,600.  Good as new.  Run only two months.  W ill 
sell building  and  machinery  separately  if  desired. 
Terms,  10%  cash  day  of  sale,  balance  60  days  if 
desired.  Full particulars by addressing

J.  O.  PA C K A R D ,  Sec’y.

Vogel  Center,  Mich.

Every  Dollar

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

PETOSKEY  and
MACKINAC 
EXCURSION

CHICAGO and West Michigan R’y 

June 27,1897.

Q .  R .   &   I.

The Annual Ten-Day Excursion to North­
ern  Michigan  via  the  Grand  Rapids  & 
Indiana R ’y will be run on Tuesday, Aug. 
24.  Tickets  will  be  sold  from  Grand 
Rapids at rate  of  $4.00  round  trip  to  Pe- 
toskey or  Traverse  City,  and  $5.00  round 
trip  to  Mackinac.  Tickets  to  Mackinac 
will admit stop off at Petoskey either going 
or returning.  Tickets  will  be  sold 
for 
trains  leaving  at  7.45  a.  m.  and 2.20 p. m. 
Good returning until Sept.  2.  For  further 
information  apply  to  G.  R.  &  I.  ticket 
agents or

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD,

G.  P.  &  T.  A.

$4.00
and
$5-oo

Aug.
24th.

SHIP  YOUR  FREIGHT 
AND  TRAVEL  via the

CHICAGO

AND  ALL  POINTS  W EST.

Leave F1USKEG0 N at 6:oo p.  m. 
Leave GRAND HAVEN at 9.00 p.  m. 
Dally, arriving in  CHICAGO the  follow­
ing  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 
W.  D.  R o s i e ,  Agent  Goodrich  Line, 
Muskegon, or N. R o b b i n s , J r ., Grand 
Haven.

H.  A .  BONN,  Gen’ l  Pass.  Agent, 

CHICAGO.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

n C T D A I T   Grand Rapids & Western. 
U n  I K U I 1 < 

June 37.1897.

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........ 7:00am  1:30pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit.................  11:40am  5:40pm  10:20pm
Lv. Detroit.................... 8:00am  1:10pm  0:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......  1:00pm  5:20pm  10:55pn
Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30p»r 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gao.  D b Ha v e n ,  General Pass; Agent.

H P   A N I Ì   Tn,Bk R*,lway Sy8tem

1 19   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect  May 3,  1897.)

WEST

EAST. 

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

•Daily. 

E. H. H c g h es, A. G. P. & T. A.
B e n .  F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J a b. C a m p b e l l , City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St.

Going  to  Chicago.

 

Muskegon.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv. G. Rapids..8:35am  l:2apui  *6:25pm *ll:30pm
\ r.  Chicago__ 3:l>)pni  0  50i in 
:0uam  6:40am
>v. Chicago................7:20am  5:15pm * 9:30pm
tr  G’d Rapids 
1:25pm  10:4  pm  * 4:00am
Lv  G’d  Rapids............. 8:35am  1:25pm  6:25pm
*r  G'd  Rapids...  . ..  ..  1:25pm  5.  5pm 10:45am 
Traverse  City,  Chnrlevoix. Petoskey  and  Bay 
-v. G'd Rapids...........  7:30am  1’:30pm  5:30pm
Vr. Traverse City......  12:40pm  5 00am  11:10pm
\r.  Charlevoix...  . 
...... .
\r.  Petoskey.............   3:45pm  8:C0am  ...........
Vi  Bay View......  
3:55pm  8:10am  ...........
Parlor cars  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.

.  1:15pm  ":30am 

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPIN'H  C A R - 

CHICAGO.

View.

TRA V ERSE  CITY  AND  BAY  VIEW .

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m; 

sleeper at 11:30 p m.

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

Geo. DbUavbn, Gen- ra. Pass. Agent.

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

June  ao,  1897.

t 8:25pm
t  2:10pm
t  9:10am
i  8:50am

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...* 4:15am *10:00pm 
irav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 7:45am  t  5:10pm 
Trav. C’y, Petos. &Har. Sp’gs.t 2:20pm t  9:10pm
Cadillac...................................t 5:25pm tll:10am
Petoskey <Sc Mackinaw..  .r.  .+11:10pm t   0:30am 
Train  leaving  at  7:45  a.m.  has  parlor  car  to 
Petoskey and  Mackinaw.
Train leaving at 2:20 p.m. has parlor car to Pe­
toskey, Bay View and Harbor Springs.
Train leaving at 11:16 p.m. bas sleeping cars to 
Petoskey and Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati............................... +  7:10am 
Ft. Wayne................................+  2:00pm 
Kalamazoo...............................t   7:00pm 
Cincinnati, Louisville & Ipd..* 10:15pm  * 4:05am
Kalamazoo.............................. t  8:06pm 
7:10a.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Cincinnati. 
2 00p.m.  train  has  parlor  car  to  Fort  Wayne. 
10:15p.m  train  has  sleeping  car to Cincinnati, 
Indianapolis and Louisville.

Muskegon Trains.

SOINS WEST.

LvG’d Rapids..............+7:35 am  +1:00pm +5:40pm
Lv G’d Rapids.........................   ¿9:00am  77:00pm
Ar Muskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:00pm
Ar Muskegon...........................  10:25am  8:25pm
Ar Milwaukee, Steamer...........  4:00am
eon>e e a st .
Lv Milwaukee, Steamer.........  
7:30am
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  tll:45am  +4:10pm
L v  Muskegon.......................... i 8:35am  76:35pm
ArG'd Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5:3)pm
Ar G’d Rapids......................... 
t y :00am  8:00pm
tBxcept Sunday.  «Daily.  ¿Sunday only. 
Steamer leaves Muskegon daily except  Satur­
day.  Leaves Milwaukee  dally  except  Saturday 
and Sunday.
a .  A l x q u ib t, 
Ticket Agt.Un. Sta.  Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt.

C. L.  L ockwood,

CANADIAN p“"'c

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Detroit.............................. +11:45am  *11:35pm
Ar.  Toronto...........................   8:30pm 
8:15am
Ar.  Montreal.......................'__   7 ;20am 
8:00pm
Lv. Montreal..........................  8:50am  9:00pm
Lv. Toronto............................   4:00pm 
7:30am
Ar. Detroit................................ 10:45pm  2:10pm
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

W EST  BOUND.

DULUTH, South Shore and Atlantic

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)+11:10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace.........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette.........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth............................................. 
8:30am
Lv. Duluth............................................   +6:30pm
A t. Nestoria............................ +11:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette....................... 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  3:30pm 
...
Ar. Mackinaw City...............   8:40pm  11:00am
G. W. H ib b a r d , Gen. Pass. Agt., Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

EAST  BOUND.

MINNEAPOLIS, S t Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie Railway.

W EST  BOUND.
+7:45am 
Lv. Grand Rapids (G-  R. & I )..
4:20pm 
Lv. Mackinaw City...................
9:50pm 
Ar. Gladstone...........................
8:45am 
Ar. &t. Paul...............................
>  9:30am
Ar. Minneapolis.......................
EAST BOUND.
+6:30pm 
Lv. Minneapolis.......................
7:20pm 
Ar. St. Paul...............................
5:45am
Ar. Gladstone...........................
Ar. Mackinaw City................................   11:00am
Ar. Grand Rapids...................................   10:00pm
W. R. C a l l a w a y , Gen. Pass. Agt-, Minneapolis. 
E. C. O v i a t t , Trav. Pass.  Agt., Grand Rapids.

KEY  TO  THE  MONEY-WEIGHT  SYSTEM
ALL  the:  figures  represent  money

fl STSTEPI OF WJIKIJIIJIB YODQ PBOFITS

a#

It  is  the  Money-Weight  Scale  System 
made  at  Dayton,  Ohio,  by  The  Comput­
ing  Scale  Company.

It  has  simplified  weighing systems  and 
is  a  source  of  profit  to  a  merchant  and 
pleasure  to  his  customers.

These  Profit-saving  Systems  are  em­
bodied  in  scales  of  different  sizes  and 
kinds,  to  suit all  your  needs.

We  are  always  pleased  to receive an in­
vitation  to  personally  call  upon  or  write 
you  more  information.  Tell  us  on  a 
postal  card  whether  we  can  write  or  call 
upon  you.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

The  Stim pson 
Com puting  Scale 

| 
I

¡jM% 

Simplicity,  accuracy,  weight  and 
Value  shown  by  the  movement  of 
one poise. 

‘

It  is  the  acme  of  perfection  and  IJwS 

not excelled in beauty and finish.

We have no trolley or tramway to  rxci 

handle.

We  have  no  cylinder  to  turn  for 

inks 

each price per pound.

We  do  not  follow,  but  lead  all  UyA 

competitors.

We  do  not  have  a  substitute  to 

meet competition. 

gjS
We do not indulge in  undignified  gwg 
to  rjvsr] 

and  unbusinesslike  methods 
make sales—we sell Stimpson scales 
on their merits. 

af/f

Agents of other companies would 

not have to spend  most  all  of  their  IBJS 
(time  trying  to  convince  the  trade  /njgj 
' that  our  scale  was  no  good  if  the  rsvy
Stimpson did  not  possess  the  most  IBJ 
ggp
points of merit. 
fn\j*

All we ask 

is an opportunity  to  show you the Scale  and  a  chance to convince you that 

our  claims  are  facts.  Write us and give us the opportunity.

m
The  Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,  1
I

ELKHART,  IN K 

Represented in  Eastern Michigan by 

R.  P.  BIG ELO W ,

Represented  in  Western  Michigan by 
Grand Rapids.  Telephone No. ¿66,

C.  L.  S E N S E N E Y ,

NAPHTHA AND  GASOLINES

Office and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Bulk worksat’Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon, Manistee, Cadillac,  Big Rap­
ids,  G.and  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludlngton, Allegan 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart, 
Whitehall, Holland and Fennvllle

Highest Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon and  Gasoline  Barrels.

