Volume X|V.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  8,1897.

Number  729

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E stablished 1780.

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D orchester, M ass.
The O ldest and 

L argest M anufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE

COCOASAND
CHOCOLATES

on th is C ontinent.

No  Chem icals  are  used  in  

th e ir m anufactures.

Trade-Mark, 
T heir  B reakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  n u tritio u s,  a n d   costs  less  th an   one 
ce n t a  cup.

T heir  P rem ium   No.  I  Chocolate, p u t  up  in 
B lue W rappers and Yellow L abels, is th e  best 
plain chocolate in  th e m ark et fo r fam ily use.

T h e ir  G erm an  S w eet  Chocolate  io  good  to 
ea t an d  good  to   d rin k .  I t   is  palatable, n u tri­
tious, and  h e a lth fu l;  a   g reat  favorite  w ith 
children.

B uyers should ask  fo r and be sure  th a t  they 
g et th e  genuine g o o d s. The above trad e-m ark  
is on every package.

W alter  Baker &  Co.  Ltd., 

Dorchester,  Mass.

Travelers’  Tim e  Tables.

Ch ic a g o

Going  to  Chicago.

Muskegon.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv.  G. R apids..8:35am  1:35pm  *6:25pm  *11:30pm 
vr.  C hicago...,3:10pm   6:50pm  2:0uam 
6:49am 
Lv. C hicago................... 7:20am  5:15pm  *  9:30pm
Ar. G’d R apids..............  1:25pm  10:45pm  *  4:00am
Lv. G’d   R apids................ 8:35am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Vr.  G ’d  R apids................   1:25pm  5.15pm  10:45am
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix,  Petoskey  and  Bay 
Lv. G ’d R apids.............  7:30am  11:30pm  5:30pm
Ar. T raverse  C ity.......   12:40pm  5:00am  11:10pm
Ar. C harlevoix............   3:15pm  7:30am 
.............
Ar.  Petoskey................   3:45pm  8:00am  .............
Ar  Bay V iew ................   3:55pm  8:10am  .............
Parlor cars  leave  G rand  R ap ds  8:35  a  m   and 
1:25 p  m ;  leave Chicago 5:15 p m.  Sleeping cars 
leave Chicago 
leave  G rand  R apids  *11:30  p m; 
*9:30 p m.

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.  CHICAOO.

View.

TRAVERSE  CITY  AND  B A Y  VIEW.

P arlor  car  leaves  G rand  R apids  7:30  a  m ; 

sleeper a t 11:30 p m.

♦Every  day. 

O thers w eek days only.

Gbo. D eHavbn, G eneral Pass. A gent.

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

Ju n e  20,  1897

Northern  D iv.  Leave 

Arrive 
T rav.C ’y,P etoskey & M ack...*  7:45am  *10:00pm 
, Petoskey <s. M ack.,  t   2:20pm  t   5 :10r m
t'rav.  l’ j
C a d illa c .......................................+  5:25pm  *11:10am
Petoskev & M ackinaw ......... 
.t i l  :10pm  +  6:30am
T rains  leaving at 7:45 a.m.  and 2:20 p. m. have 
parlor cars, and tra in   leaving a t 11:10   p.  m.  has 
sleeping cars t<  Petoskey  and  M ackinaw.
A rrive
C incinnati..................................... + 7:10am  + «:25tub
Ft. W ayne...................................... + 2:00pm  + 2  10pm
C incinnati, L o u isv ille *  Ind..*10:15pm  *  7:20am 
7:10a.m.  tra in   has  parlor  car  to   C incinnati. 
2 00p.m.  train   has  p«rlor  ca r  to   F ort  W ayne. 
tra in   has  sleeping  car  to  C incinnati, 
10:15p.m 
Indianapolis and  Louisville.

Southern  D iv.  Leave 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

L vG ’d  R apids................ +7:35am +1:00pm  +5:40pm
Lv G’d R apids..............................   +9:00am  J7:00pm
\ r  M uskegon..................  9:00am  2:10did 
7:110cm
A r M uskegon................................  10:25am  8:25pm
Ar M ilwaukee,  S team er.............  4:00am
GOING BAST.
Lv M ilw aukee, Steam er...........  
7:30am
i.v Muskegon................ +8:10am  tll:45am   +4:10pm
Lv M uskegon...............................  4  8:35am  46:35pm
ArG’d R apids...............9:30am  12:55pm 
fi  3>nm
Ar G’d R apids........... 1...............   10:00am  8:00pm
‘Except Snndav.  «Daily 
Steam er leaves M uskegon daily   except  S atur­
day.  Leaves M ilw aukee  daily  except  S aturday 
and Sunday.
A.  A L u q u isr, 

C.  L . L ockw ood,

tS unday only. 

Ticket  Agt.Un.-Sta.  Gen. Pass. & Tkt.  Agt.

CANADIAN ^

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. D etroit..................................t i l  ; 45am  *11:35pm
Ar.  T o ro n to ...............................   8:30pm 
8:15am
Ar. M ontreal................................  7;20am 
8:00pm
Lv.  M ontreal...............................   8:50am 
9:00pm
Lv. T oronto..................................  4:00pm 
7:30am
Ar. D etroit.....................................10:45pm 
2:10pm
D.  McNicoll, Pass.  Traffic Mgr , M ontreal.
E. C.  O viatt, T rav. Pass. Agt., G rand Rapids.

WEST  BOUND.

n P T D filT  Grand Rapids & Western.
I / L  1   K . G I   1   * 

Ju n e  2 7 . 1897.

DULUTH, South Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

Going to Detroit.

Returning from  Detroit.

Lv. G rand  R ap id s..........7:00am  1:30pm  5:35pm
Ar. D etro it....................... 11:40am  5:40pm 10:20pm
Lv. D etro it........................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  G rand  R apids........  1:00pm  5:30pm  10:55pn
Lv.  G R  7:10am 4:30pm  Ar. G R  13:30pm  9:30pt> 
P arlor cars on all tra in s  to  and  from   D etroit 
and Saginaw.  T rains ru n  week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Geo.  DeH aven,  G eneral Pass. Agent.

QR AND ^rUn*t *a,,way System

D etroit and M ilw aukee Div

(In  effect  May  3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
A rrive,
t   6:45am ..Saginaw ,  D etroit  and  E a s t..t  9:55pm
tlü:10am ...........D etroit  and  E a st............t   5:07pm
+  3:30pm ..Saginaw ,  D etroit and  E a st.. +13:45pm 
*10:45pm .. .D etroit, E ast and Canada. ..* 6:35am 
*  8:35am__ Gd.  H aven  and  In t. P ts ....*   7:10pm
tl3:53pm .G d. H aven  and In te rm ed ia te.t  3:22pm 
t  5:12pm— Gd. H aven M il. and C h i__ tl0:05am
* 7:40pm__ Gd. H aven Mil.  and C h i___*  8:15am
+10:00pm.........Gd. H aven  and Mil............+  6:40am
E astw ard—No. 14 has W agner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  W estw ard—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 W agner parlor  car.

W EST

♦Daily. 

tE x cep t Sunday.

E. H.  Hughkh, A. G. P.  & T. A.
B ra. F lbtchbb,  Trav.  Pass. A g t, 
J ab. Cakpbbll, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 33 Monroe St.

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. G rand R apids (G. R.  & L )til:10pm   +7:45am
Lv.  M ackinaw  C ity ....................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ig n ace...............................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. M arie..................   12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. M arquette  ............................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar.  N estoria..................................   5:20pm  12:45am
Ar.  D u lu th ..................................................... 
8:30am
Lv. D u lu th ....................................................   +6:30pm
Ar. N esto ria...................................+il:15am   2:45am
Ar.  M arquette............................. 
1:30pm  4:30am
3:30pm 
Lv.  Sault Ste. M arie................. 
...........
Ar. M ackinaw  City.  ............... 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  H i b b a r d ,  Gen.  Pass.  A gt., M arquette. 
E. C. O viatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., G rand Rapids.

EAST  BOUND.

MINNEAPOLIS,

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. G rand R apids (G.  R. & I ).....................+7:45am
Lv.  M ackinaw  C ity........................................   4:20pm
Ar. G ladstone...................................................  9:50pm
Ar. ht.  P a u l.......................................................  8:45am
Ar. M inneapolis 
.............................................9:30am
EAST BOUND.

Lv. M inneapolis............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. St. P a u l.....................................................   7 :20pm
Ar. G ladstone...............  ............................  .  5:45am
Ar.  Mackinaw  C ity.......................................  1 1 :03am
Ar. Grand  Rapids..........................................  10:00pm
W.  R. C a l l a w a y , Gen. Pass. A g t. M inneapolis. 
E. C.  Ov ia t t , Trav.  Pass.  Agt.,  G rand  R apids

Volume  XV,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER 8,1897.

Number  729

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After over two  months  of 

RESULTS  OF TH E  COAL STRIKES.
idleness  of 
many  thousands  of  the  miners  of  the 
region  which  has 
bituminous  coal 
worked  serious 
injury  to  many  thou­
sands  of  other  workingmen  by  interfer­
ence  with  industries  in  the  deprivation 
of  fuel,  there  is  a  probability,  amount­
ing  almost  to  certainty,  that  the  strike 
will  be  formally  ended  to-day by the  ac­
tion  of  a  delegate  convention  of  the 
miners  concerned,  at  Columbus,  Ohio.
The  length  of  the  struggle  with  the 
paucity  of  its  results  as  compared  with 
the  demands  of  the  miners  is  a  conse­
quence  of  the  mismanagement  of  the 
labor  leaders.  These,  as  usual,  set  the 
mark  at a  recognition  of  the  uniformity 
of  unionism  and  a  rate 
for  mining 
which  conditions  could  not  warrant.  To 
secure  these  the  demand  was  made  that 
all  the  miners  should  strike,  whether 
they  were  receiving  the  rate  asked  for 
or not.  That  the  motive  in  this  man­
agement  was  to  secure  the  advantage  of 
the  miners  in  their  just  demands for  in­
creased  remuneration,  rather  than  the 
advancement  of  unionism  and 
their 
leadership,  may  be  more  than  ques­
tioned.

is 

in  the 

To  those  who  have  watched the  move­
ment  it  would  seem  that  all  the  advan­
tages  that  have  been  gained  might  have 
been  secured  without  so  long  a struggle, 
if  they  could  not  have  been  secured 
without  a  strike  at  all. 
Just  at  the  time 
of  its  beginning  a  general  improvement 
industrial  conditions  was  manifest­
in 
increase  of  wages 
ing 
itself 
everywhere.  There 
little  question 
that  the  mine  operators  stood  ready,  as 
soon  as  the  conditions  would  warrant, 
to  meet  the  reasonable  demands  of  their 
employes.  But  such  a  method  of  secur­
ing  the  advance  would  be  no  advantage 
to  the  labor 
leaders.  To  bring^them-, 
selves  to  the  front  and  make  their  lead­
ership  manifest,  there  must  be a  strike 
as great  as  they  could  manage to secure, 
and  whatever  apparent  advantage might 
be gained  would  redound  to  their  glory. 
This  effect  of  unionism  is  responsible 
for  the  months  of  idleness  and  conse­
quent  suffering  among  the  many  thou­
sands  of  poor  miners,  for  the  disorders 
and  riots  which,  while  small  consider­
ing  the  magnitude  of  the  movement, 
have  cost  some  lives,  and  for  the antag­
onisms  which  have 
lost  many  their 
places  and  caused  the  eviction  of  their 
families.

that 

violence 

in  previous  movements. 

In  the  prosecution  of  this 

strike 
changes  were  made  in  the  methods  of 
the  managers  as  a  result  of  the  experi­
ences 
It  had 
been  found 
operated 
against  the  interests  of  strikers  on  ac­
count  of  enlightened  public  opinion and 
so 
In 
this  regard  the  strike  is  unique—there 
was  never  one  so  great  with  so  little 
destruction  of  life and  property.  But, 
even  with  this  modification,  the  results, 
as  already 
indicated,  show  that  the 
union-managed  strike  is  a  failure.

it  was  discarded  as  a  weapon. 

Like all  other such  strikes,  the  pres­
ent  has  given  the  opportunity  for  the 
apostles  of  radical  social  changes  to 
bring  themselves 
into  prominence.

Thus  we  have  the  attacks  upon  the 
judicial  branch  of  the  Government,  and 
the  ranting  of  Debs  and  his 
ilk.  But 
there  is  likely  to  come  some good out  of 
this  agitation  in  that  the  more  conserv­
ative  labor  leaders  have 
repudiated 
this  feature  of  the  movement  and  the 
division  is  likely  to  do  much toward  se­
curing  the retirement of the red-mouthed 
"reform ers”   to  their  proper station.

FRANCE  AND  RUSSIA.

Now  that  the  enthusiastic  demonstra­
tions  in  France,  on  the  return  of  Presi­
dent  Faure  from  Russia  are  all  over, 
the  French  people  may  be  at  a  loss  to 
discover  exactly  what  they  were  cele­
brating.  There 
is  no  doubt  but  that 
some  sort  of  a  treaty  was  signed  during 
Faure’s  visit  to  St.  Petersburg,  but 
it 
is  likely  that  little  more  than  a  friend­
ly  alliance  was  formed.  Russia  would 
have  nothing  to  lose  by such  a  compact, 
and  might  in  certain contingencies have 
considerable  to  gain.

The  exhibition  of  joy  in  Paris  when 
Faure  returned 
indicated  a  conviction 
on  the  part  of  the  people  that  France 
and  Russia  had  united  against  Ger­
many,  and  that  the  alliance  ultimately 
would  force  the  latter  to  restore  Alsace 
and  Lorraine  to  the  French.  But  the 
emperor  of  Germany  was  in  St.  Peters­
burg  ahead  of  the  French  President,and 
from  all  accounts  his  reception  there 
was of  such  a  character  as to guarantee a 
continuation  of  the  friendly  relations 
between  the  two  empires.  At  any  rate, 
it  appears  to  be  pretty  clear  that  the 
Franco-Russian  treaty 
is  not  an  anti- 
German  compact.

It 

Czar 

is  hinted  that  the  new  treaty  may 
be  aimed  at  ‘Great  Britain,  France 
guaranteeing  to  help  Russia  in  case  of 
trouble  over  the^JaiLtr’s-rtrsrati.c  inter­
ests, 
is  to  stand  by
France 
in .case  it  takes  occasion  to  op­
pose  British  aggrandizement  in  Africa, 
especially  the  permanent  occupation  of 
Eygpt  and  control  of  the  Suez  Canal. 
This  view  of  the  treaty’s  purpose  is 
plausible,  but 
imply  any 
more  offensive  hostility  towards  Great 
Britain  than  that of  vigorous  diplomatic 
protest by  the  allied  nations. 
In  other 
words,  France  and  Russia  will  unite  in 
peaceful  efforts  to  keep  the  British  in 
check 
It  would 
thus  appear  that  there  has  been  no  par­
ticular  occasion  for  the  recent  exhibi­
tion  of  frenzied  joy  by  the  French  peo­
ple. 

in  Asia  and  Africa. 

it  does  not 

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The  assassination  of  the  President  of 
Uruguay  did  not  overthrow  the  Monte­
video  government. 
It  still  asserts  its 
authority  under  a  new  head.  The rebel­
lion  in  the  republic,  however;  is  report­
ed  to  be  steadily  growing,  and  the 
insurgents  will 
chances  are  that  the 
eventually  triumph. 
If  it  would  insure 
a  stable  government  their  victory  might 
be  accepted  as  the  best  thing  that  could 
happen  to  the  country,  but  somehow  the 
people  of  Uruguay  do  not  stand  by  any 
government  long.

The  value  of  the  churches  and  the 
in  this 
is  estimated 

land  on  which  they  are  erected 
country  up  to  July  1,1897, 
at $680,000,000.

A  D A N G E R O U S   D E M A G O G U E .
One  of  the  least  pleasant  features  of 
the  politician’s  career  is  the  necessity 
of  his  making  more  or  less  of  a  study 
of  the  science  of  demagogy.  To  the 
man  of  "lofty  aims  and  high  ideals" 
there  is  something  more  than  unpleas­
ant  in  the  need  lor  watching  every  ex­
pression  and  guarding  every  act to meet 
the  requirements  of  popular  public 
opinion  when  it  involves  that  which 
is 
not 
in  strict  harmony  with  such  ideals 
or consistent  with  other obligations  and 
relations.

These  reflections  are caused  by  an  in­
cident  of  the  recent  meeting  held  in 
this  city  for  the  relief  of  the  suffering 
miners  of  Spring  Valley,  111.  There  is 
no  doubt  of  the  need  of  relief  for  this 
afflicted  town,  but  in  the  according  of 
such  relief  it should not be forgotten that 
the  conditions  obtaining  there  are  the 
direct  result  of  union  management.  But 
in  the  incident  referred  to  the  Member 
of  Congress  from  this  district  found  it 
necessary  to  appeal  to  his esteemed con­
stituents,  the 
labor  unions.  This  he 
did  in  a  long  panegyric  of  unionism  in 
it  has  done 
general,  delineating  what 
for  the  amelioration  of  the 
laboring 
man.  Thus  all  that  has  gone  for  the 
bettering  of  the  conditions  of  labor, 
the  shortening  of  hours, 
raising  of 
wages,  was  dutifully  and  demagogically 
attributed  to  labor  unionism.

But  there  was  something besides labor 
unionism  which  did  not  meet  the  ap­
proval  of  the  eminent  statesman. 
Just 
why  he  should  have  found 
it  pertinent 
to  discuss  the  matter in  connection  with 
his  eulogy  of  unionism  does  not  trans­
pire,  but  care  was  taken  not  to  hold 
unionism  responsible  for 
it.  This  was 
the  matter  of  strikes.  Nowhere  in  his 
deprecation  of  this  phase  of  labor  dis­
turbance,  which  as  instigated  by  union­
ism  is  directly  responsible  for  the  con­
ditions  the  meeting  was  called  to  re­
lieve,  does  he  hint  that  there 
is  any 
possible  relation  beween  strikes  and 
unionism. 
Ignoring  the  fact  that  the 
strike  which  he  condemns  is  the  most 
characteristic  and  common  weapon  of 
unionism,  he  pursues  his  laudations  of 
the  latter,  ending  with  the  following as­
tounding  statement: 
" I   believe  that 
the  time 
is  coming  when  treacherous, 
indeed,  will  be  the  workingman  who  is 
outside  of  the  ranks  of  organized  la­
bor. ”

If  this  quotation  were  an excerpt from 
the  frothings  of  such  apostles of anarchy 
as  Debs  and  Altgeld  it  would  appear  in 
place  and  appropriate.  Coming  from  a 
lawyer  of  such  prestige  as 
corporation 
Mr.  Smith,  there  is  in  it  that  which 
is 
not  far  removed  from  treason  to  his em­
ployers  and  supporters. 
It  strikes  the 
Tradesman  that  there  is  more  than  in­
consistency  in  thus  toadying  to  the  pre­
judices  of  the  elements  which  are  most 
inimical  to  the  best  business  interests— 
especially  for  a  railway  attorney  who 
passes  the  hat  when  he  runs  for  office 
a  d  expects  thé  manufacturers  of  the 
city  to  pay  his  campaign  expenses,  so 
that  he may  draw $5,000 a  year  and  thus 
be  able  to  suhscribe  $50  to  a  fund  for 
the  relief  of  miners  who  are  the  victims 
of  the  walking  delegate.

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like  to  the  rowing  dub  to  make  musde.  There

s

W o m an ’s W o rld

Some  New  Women  Problems.

Just  at  present  a  number  of  amiable 
philanthropists,  who  presumably  have 
no  troubles  of  their  own  to  occupy  their 
minds,  are  unduly  alarmed  about  the 
new  woman  and  her  work.  They  de­
scribe  her  as  a  perfect  monster of indus­
try,  who  works  for  mere  love of  toil  and 
without  regard  to  gain.  They  say  that 
she 
invading  lucrative  fields  of  toil 
and  forcing  men  to  look  out  for  other 
situations.  Some  wiseacres  have  even 
gone  so  far  as  to  attribute  the  recent 
financial  depression  to her machinations 
and  to  say  that  it  was  not  the  tariff  or 
the  silver  question  that  was  at  the  bot­
tom  of  the  hard  times,  but  the  working 
woman.

is 

Nothing  could  be  more  meaningless 
than  a  discussion  of  woman's  right  to 
earn  money.  It  would  be  quite  as  much 
to  the  point  and 
just  as  profitable  to 
debate  her  right  to  breathe.  Woman 
has,  at  least,  a  sort  of step-sister-in-law 
inheritance  in  that  provision  of  the con­
stitution  which  gives  to  every  one  the 
right  to  life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of 
happiness,  and  if  she  chooses  to  pursue 
happiness  down  the  same  path  men 
have  trod,  who  is  to  say  her  nay?

The  bitterest  sting 

in  the  woman 
question 
is  that  there  should  be  any 
question  at  all.  All  that  the  newest 
woman  asks 
is  to  be  regarded  simply 
and  solely  as  a  human  being,  and not as 
a  woman.  The  world  still  clings  with 
persistent  faith  to  the  fallacy  that  a 
woman’s  nature  and  a  man’s  nature  are 
entirely  dissimilar  and  that  the  same 
things  do  not  make  for  happiness  in 
both.  A  man  will  frankly  admit that  he 
couldn’t  and  wouldn’t  put  up  with 
things  that  he  expects  a  woman  to  ac­
tually  enjoy,  and  if  she,  too,  is  dissat­
isfied,  he  feels  aggrieved  and  that  she 
is  unreasonable.  A  man  would  be  a 
dastard  in  his  own  sight  if  he  sat  down 
supinely  and 
let  someone  else  support 
him,  yet  for  the  life  of  him  he  can’t 
see  why  a  woman  rebels  against  grudg­
ing  charity  or  chokes  on  the  bitter 
bread  of  dependence.  A  single  Sun­
day  afternoon’s  care  of  the  children  on 
the  nurse’s  day  out  has  been  known  to 
reduce  an  able-bodied  man  to  the  verge 
of  mental  and  physical  collapse,  yet  he 
can’t  imagine  how  his  wife  could  ever 
long  for  a  respite  from  the  nursery.

The  answer  to  these  conundrums  has 
always  been  "w om an.”   Being  a  wom­
an  explained  any 
supposed  vagary. 
Because  a  woman  was  a  woman  she 
didn’t,  mind  disagreeable  things  and 
had  a  curious  power  of  extracting  en­
joyment  out  of  adverse  conditions;  or 
least  resignation. 
if  not  enjoyment,  at 
Then  one  day 
it  occurred  to  her  that 
there  was  no  virtue  in  being  resigned 
to  a  thing  she  could  change  for  the  bet­
ter  and  she  set  about  altering  condi­
tions.  She  perceived  that  she  was 
just 
as  much  the  heir  of  all  the  ages  as  her 
brother  and  that  he  had  no  monopoly 
on  the  good  things  of  life.  Because  she 
was  a  woman  there  was  no  use  in  her 
groaning  over  being  dependent,  when 
she  might  just  as  well  be  independent. 
Because  she  was  a  woman  there  was  no 
need  for  her  to  lack  the  luxuries  money 
buys,  if  she  was  able  to  earn 
it.  She 
offered  her  labor  in  the  markets  of  the 
world  and 
found  acceptable. 
That  is  the  whole  matter  in  a  nutshell 
and  is  all  there  is  to  it.  Any  effort  to 
drag 
in  an  ethical  question,  any  more 
than  in  a  man’s  work,  is  absurd. 
It  is 
possible  that  many  women  occupy  po-

it  was 

that  some  man  would 

sitious 
have.  So  does  every  other  man  who 
has  anything  worth  having. 
It  may 
be that  some  women  work  who  are  not 
forced  to 
If  every 
man  who  has  a  competency  should  re­
tire  from  business it would  leave  a  great 
many  vacancies  for  poor and  deserving 
youths,  but  there  would  be  a  great 
stringency  in  the  money  market.

it  by  dire  need. 

Perhaps  the  new  woman 

is  yet too 
new  for  the  world  to  realize  that  she 
is 
a  blessing  instead  of  a  misfortune.  All 
revolutions  are  disturbing  at  first,  and 
it  cannot  be  denied  she  has  shaken 
things  up  and  instituted  a  new  order. 
After  awhile,  when  we get  settled  down 
again,  we  shall  realize  that  while  she 
has  not  done  much  for  herself,  she  has 
done  more  for  man.  She  has  forced 
him  upward  and  onward.  She  has  been 
the  pacemaker,  and  he  has had  to  do his 
best  not to  be  outstripped  in  the  race.

longer  any  slur 

One  of  the  things 

for  which  men 
should  be  grateful  to  her  is  that  she  no 
longer  has  to  marry  for a  home  or to  be 
supported.  Many  a  man  has  been  sac­
rificed  to  this  need  or to  a  girl’s  fear  of 
being  called  an  old  maid.  Now  there 
is  no 
in  the  epithet. 
A  woman  may  elect  to  remain  single, 
she  may  come  and  go  as  she  chooses, 
she  may  earn  her  living  like  a  man,and 
spend 
it  as  she  pleases  without  criti­
cism  or  comment.  The  situation  has 
its  own  peculiar  charms,  and  is  oftener 
of  her  choice  than  of  necessity.  The 
very  words  have  ceased  to have the same 
meaning. 
“ An  old  m aid!”   used  to 
mean  a  sour  and  disgruntled  woman 
with  no  home  or  interests  of  her own 
and  a  consequent  desire  to  meddle  in 
everybody  else’s  affairs.  Now,  when 
we  say  of  a  woman,  "S h e  
is  an  old 
m aid,”   we  mean  a  woman  who  is  inde­
pendent  either  through  inherited  prop­
erty  or  her  own  labor;  one  whose  life  is 
full  of  clubs  and  studies  and  interests 
that  keep  her  mind  and  heart  fresh  and 
sweet  and  young.  That  is  not the  kind 
of  woman  who  lays  snares  to  entrap  a 
husband  and  who  prays  “ any  body, 
good  Lord,  anybody.”   On  the  contrary, 
she  is  bard  to  please,  and  the  man  who 
wins  the 
love  of  the  modern  woman, 
who  does  not  have  to  marry  either  for 
a  support  or  a  career,  may  rest  satisfied 
he  is  a  pretty  good  sort,  as  our  English 
cousins  would  say.

Another  blessing  we  owe  to  the  new 
woman  is  the  extinction  of  the brainless 
and  muscleless  dude  who  was  satisfied 
to  sit  all  day  in  a  club  window,  sucking 
the  head  of  a  cane. 
In  the  old  time 
when  women  fainted  at  the  sight  of  a 
mouse  and  nibbled  at  bird’s  wing,  he 
was  a  possibility.  With  the  advent  of 
the  splendidly  athletic  new  woman, 
who  can  come  in  from  a  morning's  stiff 
work  on  the  golf 
links  as  fresh  as-a 
flower,  who  rides  and  walks  and  swims 
and  sails  a  boat,  he  became  an  absurd­
ity  that  was  bound  to  go.  She  chaffed 
him,  she  ridiculed  him,  she  dared  him 
to  feats  of  strength,  and  when  he  fell 
behind  exhausted,  she  mocked  him  as 
not  being  as  much  of  a  man  as  a  wom­
an.  The  bicycle bell  of  the  first  woman 
who  ever  made  a  century  run  sound ed 
the  death  knell  of  the  effeminate  man. 
“ Don’t  you  sometimes  wish  you  were  a 
man,  Miss  Newgirl?”   enquires  the 
young  Mr.  Sissy  of  the  comic  papers, 
and  she  responds: 
“ Why,  yes,  Mr. 
Sissy,  don’t  you?”   and  that  settled  the 
matter.  The  young  Mr.  Sissies  could 
not  stand  to be derided  by the up-to-date 
girl,  and  so  they  betook  themselves  to 
the  golf  links  and  the bicycle  path  and

was  iio  d u d   choice  leit  them.

and 

think, 

incompetency 

Very  much  the  same  thing  may  be 
said  of 
in  other  lines. 
The  new  woman  is  leaving  the  lazy  and 
incompetent  man  no  place  except  the 
loafer  s  bench 
in  the  parks.  She  has 
invaded  his  colleges  and  universities, 
if  he  wants  the  prizes  he  must  put 
and 
in  his  best  work  to  get  them.  She 
is 
in  business  to  stay,  and 
if  he  wants  to 
hold  the  good  places  bis  utmost  efforts 
will  be  none  too  good. 
If  he  wants  to 
be  an  oracle  to  his family  he must really 
read 
for  his  wife  and 
daughters  are  reading  and thinking,too.
It  is  a  narrow  view  that  sees  any dan­
ger  in  the  new  order  of  things. 
In  as­
serting  their  rights  to  achieve such free­
dom  and  comfort  as  thty  may  gain  by 
working  for  money,  women  have  but 
laid  claim  to  the  common  human  right 
to  do  the  best  they  can  for  themselves. 
If  the  new  woman  has  pulled  off  the 
halo  of  glory  that  was  wont  to  surround 
every  masculine  head,  simply  because 
it  was  masculine,  and  smashed 
it,  still 
women  are 
just  as  anxious  to  admire 
and  sit  at  the  feet  of  man  as  they  ever 
were.  The  only  difference  now  is  that 
they  want  to  know  that  what  they  wor­
ship 
is  worth  reverencing.  They  have 
simply  raised  the  standard,  and  their 
very  demand  that  he  shall  be  stronger 
and  wiser  than  they  will  be  the  step­
ping  stone  on  which  the  man  of  the fu­
ture  will  rise  to his highest possibilities.

D o r o t h y   D i x .

It  is  estimated  that  there  is  less  un­
employed  unskilled  labor  in  New  York 
now  than  at  any  time  since 
1892.  The 
city’s  outdoor  poor  department  has  at 
present  but  few  applicants  for work,and 
the  winter  outlook 
is  said  to  be  most 
hopeful.

Association M atters
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

P resident, J . W is l k r ,  M ancelona;  Secretary,  K. 
A.  S to w e,  G rand  R apids;  T reasurer,  J.  F. 
'Pa t m a n ,  Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

P resident,  C u a s.  F .  B o ck,  B attle  Creek;  V ice 
P resident,  H.  W.  We b b e r ,  W est  B a y   C ity ; 
T reasurer,  He n r y  C .  Min n ie ,  Eaton R ap id s.  "

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J o seph K n ig h t ;  Secretary, E. Ma r k s ; 
T reasurer, N.  L.  K o en ig.
R egular M eetings—F irst and th ird  W ednesday 
evenings  of  each  m onth  a t  G erm an Salesm an’s 
H all.

Grand  Rapids Retail Grocers’ Association 
P resident,  E. C. W in c h e s t e r ;  Secretary, H om er 
K l a f ;  T reasurer, J.  G eo.  L eh m a n.
R egular  M eetings—F irst  an d   th ird   T uesdaj 
evenings o f each m onth a t  R etail  G rocers’  Hali. 
over Ë. J.  H errick’s  store.

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

President,  P. F.  T r e a n o r ;  V ice-President, J ohn 
Mc B r a t n ir ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is ;  T reas­
urer,  L o u ie  S c h w e r m e r .
R egular  M eetings—F irst  and  th ird   Tuesday 

evenings of each m onth a t E lk ’s Hall.

Jackson Retail Grocers' Association 

President, G eo.  E.  L e w is ; S ecretary,  W.  H. P o r­

t e r ;  T reasurer, J.  L.  P e t e r m a n n

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

P resident,  F .  B .  J o hnso n;  Secretary,  A .  M. 

D a r l in g ;  T reasu rer,  L .  A .  G i l k e y .

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  M artin  G afney;  Secretary,  E   F. 

C leveland:  T reasurer, Geo.  M. Hoch.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association 

President,  T hos.  T.  B a t e s ;  Secretary,  M.  B . 

Ho l l y ;  T reasurer, C .  A .  Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

President, A. D. W h i p p l e  ; Secretary, G. T. C a m p­

b e l l ;  T reasurer,  W. E.  C o ll in s.

Alpena Business Men’s Association

President.  F.  W.  G il c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association
President, L. J. K a t z ;  Secretary, P h il ip  Hi l b e r ; 

Treasurer. S.  J   Hu p p o r d .

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Winter Wheat Flour

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tried,  always  used.  Sold 
on  the  same  basis  as  best 
patent brands manufactured 
by  Grand  Rapids  Mills.

Balb-Barnhart-Putman  Co.,

Sole  Agents,
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Wm.  Reardon,  Vice-President  Reardon 

Bros.  Mercantile  Co.

Wm.  Reardon  was  born  in  Asphodel 
township,  Peterborough  county,  Ont., 
in 
1849,  living  there  until  he  was  7 
years  of  age,  when  his  parents  removed 
to  Livingston  county,  Mich.,  where  the 
family  resided  for two  years,  when  they 
took  up  their  residence  at  Birch  Run. 
Mr.  Reardon’s  parents  were  born  in 
Ireland,  but  came  to  Canada  as  chil­
dren.  Mr.  Reardon  received  his  edu­
cation  in  the  district  schools  of Saginaw 
county.  At  the  age  of  17,  his  ambition 
to  enter  upon  business  life  led  him  to 
quit  school  and  try  bis  fortune  in  the 
oil  fields  of  Pennsylvania.  After  two 
years  he  returned  to  Michigan and*  with 
the  fruits  of  his  success 
in  the  oil 
country,  went 
into  business  at  Clio  as 
junior  partner  in  the  firm  of  J.  V.  Lons- 
bury  &  Co.,  dealers 
in  general  mer­
chandise.  This  was  in  1866.  The  part­

In 

nership  continued  for  three  years,  when 
Mr.  Reardon  went  to  Midland  and  es­
tablished  the  firm  of  Reardon,  Andrews 
&  Co. 
1873,  Mr.  Reardon  bought 
out  his  partners’  interests  and  took  his 
brother,  Thomas,  into  partnership  un­
der  the  title  of  Reardon  Bros.  For years 
they  conducted  one  of  the  finest  and 
most successful  general  stores  in  that lo­
cality.  In  1895  tbe business  was  merged" 
into  a  stock  company  under  the  style  of 
the  Reardon  Bros.  Mercantile  Co.,  with 
Mr.  Reardon  as  Vice-President,  and 
the  establishment  has  come  to  be  re­
garded  as  one  of  the 
leading  retail 
houses  in  the  Saginaw  Valley.

The  Midland  Woodenware  Co.,  of 
which  Mr.  Reardon  was  President  and 
largest 
Manager,  was  one  of  the 
in 
Northern  Michigan,  and 
contributed 
largely  toward  the  prosperity  of  Mid­
land.  This  business  was  discontinued 
in  1895.

Mr.  Reardon  has  ever  been  a  public- 
spirited  man,  wide  awake  to  the 
inter­
ests  of  his  own  town  and  county.  He 
is  President  of  the  Electric  Light  Co., 
also  of  the  Midland  Milling  Co.  Mr. 
is  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  the 
Reardon 
Third  Regiment,  Uniform 
Rank, 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  is  now  being 
prominently  spoken  of  as  a  candidate 
for  commanding  officer  of  the  State  at 
the  next  election.  He  is  an  ardent  Ma­
son,  belonging  to  Saginaw  Valley  Com 
mandery,  Knights  Templar,  and  Salad- 
in  Temple,  Grand  Rapids,  besides  hav­
ing  passed  to  the  thirty-second  degree.
Mr.  Reardon  has  been  married  over 
twenty-five  years,and has two interesting

young  daughters,  and  a  son  who  is  a 
lawyer  in  Midland.

let 

ignorance, 

Mr.  Reardon  is  one  of  the most genial 
and  courteous  of  men.  He  is  an  unus­
ually  fine  conversationalist,  possessing 
in  a  high  degree  the  ready  wit  and 
quick  repartee  characteristic  of 
the 
is  full  of  faith  in  the 
Irish  race.  He 
future  of  Midland  and  wholly  devoted 
to  its  interests,believing that  it  is  yet  to 
be  one  of  the  principal  towns  of  the 
Saginaw  Valley.  His  motto  is,  “ Busi­
ness  on  business  grounds—the  amplest, 
promptest,  most  cheerful  service  for  the 
least  money. ’ ’  His  platform  is,  “ Live 
and 
live,  fair  play  and  half  the 
road. ’ ’
Jeopardizing  Trade-Mark  Property.
It  is  strange  that  a  very  considerable 
number  of  business  men should,  through 
carelessness  or 
seriously 
jeopardize this species of property.  One 
of  the  greatest  dangers  is  unwittingly  to 
give  an  otherwise  valid  trade-mark  a 
descriptive  significance.  This  occurs 
when  the  trade-mark  is  a  word  which, 
although  it  be  fanciful 
itself,  takes 
on  a  descriptive  value  so  as  directly  to 
convey  a  meaning  descriptive  of  the 
goods,  their  quality,  grade,  nature  or 
character.  This 
likely  to  oc­
cur  when  the  owner  has  different  trade­
marks  for  different  gr ides of  goods 
If 
such  marks  do,  in 
fact,  designate  dif­
ferent  grades  of  goods,  they  have  lost 
their office  as  trade-marks  and  may  be­
come  public  property.  But  this  danger 
may  be  present  with  respect  to  a  sole 
trade  mark,  as  for  example:  The  name 
“ Excelsior”  
ideal  trade-mark, 
yet  there  is  the  fibered  material,  akin 
to  shavings,  which,  as  a  stuffing 
for 
mattresses  and  upholstery, 
is  much 
sought  after,  and  this  material  being 
properly  described  as  “ excelsior,”   the 
name 
is  free  to  the  public.  This  be­
cause  the  originator  failed  to  assert  his 
trade-mark  rights,  and, 
indeed,  gave 
the  descriptive  quality  to  the  name. 
He  should  have  registered  the trade­
mark 
in  the  Patent  Office,  marked  the 
name  “ Tradem ark,”   and  should  not 
have  described  his  goods  merely  as 
“ excelsior. ”

is  most 

is  an 

in 

Another  result  of  not  registering,  but 
relyirg  merely  on  common-law  protec­
tion :  We  have  in  mind  one  or two  not­
able  trade-marks  lost  to  the  originator 
by  failure  to  register. 
It  will  answer  to 
call  one  the  “ Lion”   brand.  The origin­
ator  thought  a  red 
lion  very  proper 
The  trade-mark  was  not  registered,  and 
so  it  came  to  pass  that  ingenious  imita­
tions  in  different  parts  of  our  enterpri­
sing  country  eventually  became  as  nu­
merous  as  the  great  Barnacle family and 
more  discriminating,  until, 
like  old 
country 
inns,  we  had  the  blue  lion  and 
the  white  lion  and  lions  piebald :  lions 
rampant  and 
lions  courant;  lions  pas­
sant  and 
lions couchant  and  their kin­
dred.  To  the  complaint  of  the  origina­
tor,  it  was  asserted  that  his  trade-mark 
was  distinctly  a  red  lion,  and  that  he 
was  trying  to  broaden  it  to  take  in other 
men’s  property.  Testimony  pro  and 
con  was  as  plentiful  as at a  modern  trial 
for  heresy  and  equally  as  determinate. 
The  originator  could  have  cleared  the 
air  had  he  registered  before  others 
adopted  resembling  marks,  and  had  de­
fined  the  one  essential  feature  of  the 
lion,  with  or  without  improvements  on 
nature  and  with  or  without  reference  to 
posture.

Therefore,  register  all  your 

trade­
marks,  register  each  distinct  feature  of 
each  mark 
separately,  and  do  not 
make  a  trade-mark  describe  the  goods 
to  which  it  is  applied,  or  the  object 
is 
defeated.

Some  men  are  always  figuring  on
impossibilities-----butting  their  heads
against  a  brick  wall  just  to  hear  their 
brains  rattle.

I f   our  faults,  as  others  see them,  could 
be  removed,  there  wouldn’t  be  anything 
left  of  us.

If  hours  did  not  bang  heavy,  what 

would  become  of  scandal?

New
Catalogue of

TiQvare
amEnameled 
ware_

just out.  Drop 
us a postal for it.

Wm.  Brununeler & Sons,

M anufacturers  and  Jobbers,

260  S.  Ionia St. 

Grand  Rapids.

This strictlv  pure  High  GniHe  Powder  I  have  i 
duced to retail at the following very low prices: 
Guaranteed  to  comply  with  Pure  Food  l.aw  

fioz.  10c; 

1  lb. 25c.

9 0 Z .  1 sc; 
every respect.

O.  A.  TURNEY,  M anufacturer, 

D etroit,  M ich.

HANDLE

s. c. w.

CIGARS

F or sale by all first-class jobbers and the

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D O N ' T   G E T   W E T

W hen in w ant of a new  ro  f  or  repairs  you  can  save  money  by  em ploying 
skilled m echanics In this line.  We  h ave  represeutsti ves co verin g  the State o f 
M ichigan regularly,  -n d   if you have a defective roof.  drop  us  a  card  and  w e 
w ill call on you, exam ine your roof and  give  you  an  e-tim a-e  o f  the  cost  o f 
necessary repairs or putting on new  roof.  Rem em ber  th a t we  guarantee  all 
o u r w ork and o u r g u aran tee is good.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

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$  PRACTICAL  ROOFER.», 
GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.  $
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ESTABLISHED  1868. 

Does  Advertising  Pay?

In order to learn the practical results of advertising,  VVE  W IL L  R EFUN'D 
RA ILRO AD   F A R E   to  and  from  Grand  Rapids  to  all  who  come  to  Grand 
Rapids during State Fair week from within a radius of 50  miles  who  purchase 
from us for cash goods to the amount of $10 or over.

Our stock is large and complete in  Feed  and  Ensilage  Cutters,  and  Shred- 
ders,  Horse Powers, Grinders, Sawmills,  Engines, Carriages,  W agons,  Cream 
Separators,  Bicycles  new  and  secondhand,  Harness,  Robes  and  Blankets. 
Special  prices  on  everything  during state  Fair week.  We have no exhibit on 
the fair  grounds, but will have a large show of our own at our store.
ADAMS  &  HART,  12  W.  Bridge  St.

Bring  th is  ad.  w ith   you .

Save your yeast labels and tin-foil  wrappers

FREE!  SILVERWARE!  FREE!

These goods are extra-plated, of handsome design and are made by one 
of  the  largest  manufacturers  in  the  United  States  and  will  wear  five 
years.  25 of Our Yellow Labels, attached to original  tin-foil wrappers, will 
procure one Silver  Plated  TeaSj. 0011,  and  50 of  same  will  procure  one 
of either, Table Spoon,  Fork,  Butter  Knife or Sugar Spoon.  For 75  you 
will  receive  one  Silver  Plated  Steel  Table  Knife,  and  for  10 a  hand­
some Aluminum Thimble is given.

Present  labels,  attached  to tm-foil  wrappers, at our office in this city, 
and  receive  premiums free of any charge in  return;  or  hand  labels, at­
tached to tin-foil wrappers, to your grocer, with your name and address, 
and premiums will be delivered through him the following day,  A

Premiums cannot be mailed  under any circumstances.

D etroit  A gen cy,  118 B ates S t.
Grand  Rapids A gen cy, 26 Fountain  S t.

FLEISC H M A N N   &  CO.

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Caro—Vesta  M.  Watrous  succeeds  A. 
H.  Hankerson  in  the hardware business.
Norway—John  E.  Anderson  succeeds 
Anderson,  Beckstrom  &  Co.  in the  meat 
business.

Fairgrove—Geo.  N.  Aldrich  &  Co. 
succeed  Geo.  N.  Aldrich  in  the  hard­
ware  business.

Reed  City—Mrs.  A.  B.  Slosson  will 
in  the  Slosson 

open  a  millinery  store 
building  Sept.  20.

Thompsonville—C.  O. 

Smith  has 
opened  a  shoe  store  here  as  a  branch  of 
his  Traverse  City  establishment.

Bancroft—R.  Sherman  &  Son  are 
preparing  to  add  a  millinery  stock  to 
their  line  of  general  merchandise.

Thompsonville—Immerman  Bros,  will 
open  a  branch  general  store  at  Sherman 
Sept.  15,  with  Arthur  Platter  as  Mana­
ger.

Edmore—J.  F.  Snyder  has  fitted  up 
the  store  building  recently  vacated  by 
Mrs.  P.  Holmes  and  will  open  a  new 
grocery  store.

St.  Tgnace—L.  Winkelman,  the  dry 
goods  and  clothing  merchant,  and  Miss 
Fannie  Yalomstein  were  married  in De­
troit  last  Wednesday.

Saginaw-----Victor  Widemann, 

for
many  years  with  Morley  Bros.,  has 
taken charge  of  the  retail  department  of 
the  Saginaw  Hardware  Co.

Byron—V.  L.  Stark 

is  having  one 
part  of  the  Bean  block  put  in  shape  for 
a  grocery,  and  will  put 
in  a  stock  of 
groceries  when  completed.

Champion—Thomas  Wallace,  hard­
ware  dealer,  has  been  appointed  post­
master.  He  held  the  office  for  several 
years  until  the  last  administration.

Clio—W.  J.  Gould  &  Co.  and  Edson, 
Moore  &  Co.,  of  Detroit,  have  seized 
Rogers  Brothers’  general  stock  by  vir­
tue  of  a  chattel  mortgage  for  $2,061. 77.
Bancroft—O.  H.  Abart,  who has been 
engaged  in  the  grain  business  for  over 
twenty  years,  has  sold  out  to  John  Mar­
tin,  who  has  already  taken  possession.
Ypsilanti—Mrs.  E .  M.  Daniels  has 
sold  her  millinery  stock  to  Miss  Wil­
liams,  of  Montpelier,  Ohio,  and  Miss 
Ralli,  of  Detroit.  Mrs.  Daniels  ex­
pects  to  go  to  Ludington.

Lansing—Claude  Cady,  who  has  been 
the  efficient  clerk  at  G.  M.  Blakeslee’s 
grocery  store,  has  opened  a  new gro 
eery  store  at  the  cornet  of  Pennsylvania 
avenue  and  May  street.

Lansing—Goodspeed  Bros.  &  Co. ’s 
new  shoe  store  will  be  managed  by 
Stanley  Granger,  who  has  been  em 
ployed  in  the  main  store  of  the  firm  at 
Grand  Rapids  for  several  months.

Edwardsburg—The  office and  fixtures 
of  the  defunct  Citizens’  Bank  have 
been  sold  to  Wm.  Shakespeare,  of  Kal 
amazoo,  for  $1,505.  Mr.  Shakespeare 
contemplates  opening  a  bank  here.

furnishing  goods 

Jackson—E.  C.  Boice  has  purchased 
the 
the 
“ Unique”   store  and  will  begin  busi­
ness  Sept.  15  in  the  Dwight  building. 
The  business  will  be  managed  by  J.  A. 
Boice.

stock 

in 

Holly—The  produce  firm  of  Jossman 
&  Allen.-of  Oxford,  received  a  tele­
gram  fr/n   DetroP,  quoting  the  price 
of  rye  10  cents  per  bushel  higher  than 
the  real  price.  They  locally  purchased 
several  thousand  bushels  at  the  ad­
vanced  price,  and 
is  said  are  now 
preparing  to  sue  the  Western  Union 
Telegraph  Co.

it 

Colored  Extracts  and  Sophisticated 

Mustard  Both  Prohibited.

1? 

Saginaw,  W.  S .,  Sept.  4—Would  you 
kindly  inform  me  through  the  columns 
of  your  valuable  journal  if  extracts  that 
are  artificially  colored  and  so  branded 
legally  offered  for  sale  after 
can  be 
informed  that 
Sept. 
they  are  unsalable.
if  prepared 
mustard,  with  the 
formula  •  plainly 
printed  on  wrapper,  can  be  sold  after 
above  date?

I  have  been 

Also  please 

inform  me 

T h e   a n s w e rin g   o f  a b o v e   in  y o u r  n e x t 
issu e   w o u ld   b e   m u ch   a p p r e c ia t e d   b y  a 
su b sc rib e r. 

D .  M c K e l l a r .

Under  the  heading  of  extracts,  Food 
Commissioner  Grosvenor  rules  as  fol­
lows :

Vanilla  flavoring  must  be  without 
artificial  color  after  September  1,  1897.
Extracts  made  of  more  than  one  prin­
ciple  must  be  labeled  with  the  name  of 
each  principle,  or  else  simply  with  the 
name  of  the  inferior  or adulterant.  For 
example:  An  extract  made  from  va­
nilla  and  tonka  must  be  labeled  E x ­
tract  of  Vanilla  and  Tonka,  or  simply 
Extract  of  Tonka.

The  labeling  of  an  extract  of  vanilla 
and  tonka  as  Extract  of  Vanilla,  or 
Compound  Extract  of  Vanilla  with  the 
per  cent,  of  each  ingredient  contained 
therein,  is  not  proper,  and  will  be  con­
sidered  an  adulteration.

is  understood 

In  all  cases,  it 

that 
when  an  extract  is  labeled  with  two  or 
more  names,  the  type  used  is  to  be  sim­
ilar  in  size  and  the  name  of  any  one  of 
the  articles  used 
is  not  to  be  given 
greater  prominence  than  another.  E x ­
tracts  which  cannot  be  made  from  the 
fruit,  berry,  or bean,  and  must  neces­
sarily  be  made  artificially,  as 
rasp­
berry,  strawberry,  pineapple,  banana, 
etc.,  will  be  allowed  to  be  sold  if  la­
beled  as  “ Artificial  Extract,”   until 
Sept.  1,  1897;  after  that  date  their  sale 
will  be  strictly  prohibited  in  this  State.
finder  the  heading  of  mustard,  the 
Commissioner 
is  equally  explicit,  as 
follows:
Pure  mustard  mixed  with  vinegar and 
spices  may  be  sold  if  labeled”  Prepared 
Mustard”   and  bear  the  name  and  ad­
dress  of 
the  manufacturer,  but  if  any 
substance  or  substances  are  added  to 
it,  such  as  flour,  etc.,  it  will 
cheapen 
be  deemed  adulterated.
Mustard  mixed  with  vinegar,  spices 
and  other  substances  may  be  sold  under 
an  original  or coin  name,  but  the  use 
of  such  names  as  ”  French  Mustard. ”  
“ Mustard  Mixture,”   “ Mustard  Com­
pound,”   or  any  name  in  which  mustard 
is  a  part  thereof,  will  be  considered  a 
violation  of  the  law.

Was  President  of  the  Adrian  Retail 

Grocers’ Association.

In 

In 

Adrian,  Sept.  3—Martin  Gafney  died 
Aug.  31  and  was  buried  yesterday. 
Death  was  caused  by  appendicitis.

five  years. 

Mr.  Gafney  was  born 

in  Saulsville, 
N.  Y .,  in  1834,  his  parents  removing  to 
this  State  fifty-three  years  ago,  and 
settling  in  Palmyra. 
1853  Mr.  Gaf­
ney  opened  a  grocery  store  here,  locat­
ing  on  North  Main  street  and  remained 
there  for  five  years,  after  which  he  built 
a  store  on  Erie  street,  which  he  also 
occupied  for 
1863  he 
in  which  he  did  busi­
built  the  store 
ness  up  to  the  time  of  his  death.
Mr.  Gafney  was  always  known  as  a 
thorough  business  man,  upright  and 
public  spirited.  Always  having  a pleas­
ant  word  for  everyone,  it  is  needless  to 
say  his  presence  will  be  greatly missed.
Mr.  Gafney  leaves a  mother,  brother, 
three  daughters and  two  sons  to  mourn 
his  departure.
California  Navel  Oranges  in  London.
The  arrival  of  the  famous  giant  seed­
less  oranges  from  California  in  London 
this  season  has  created  an  extraordinary 
sensation  in  fruit-trade  circles,  not  only 
on  account  of  the  malformation,  which 
induced  the  growers  to  christen  it  the 
navel  orange,  but because  of  its  mam­
moth  proportions,  luscious  flesh  and  ex­
quisite  flavor.  Directly 
it  came  under 
the  notice  of  auction  buyers  its  reputa­
tion  was  made  at  the  first  bid:

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Leroy—Dr.  G.  R.  Andrews  has  pur-  j 
chased  a  drug  store  at  Hyland  Park,  a 
suburb  of  Detroit.  He  will  employ  a 
pharmacist  to  assist  him,  and  will  prac­
tice  his  profession  in  connection  with 
the  drug  store.

Big  Rapids—John  Dablstrom,  mer­
chant  tailor  at  Upper  Big  Rapids,  re­
cently  died  at  Ann  Arbor,  whither  he 
had  gone  to  consult  physicians  regard- 
ng  a  kidney  disease  which had troubled 
him  for  several  months.

Traverse  City—S.  Cohen,  formerly  of 
in  K al­
this  city,  now  running  a  store 
kaska,  will  move  back  to  this  city  soon 
and  open  up  a  clothing  and  men’s  fur- 
nishing'store  again.  He  will  still  con- 
inue  to  conduct  a  store  in  Kalkaska.
Greenville—N.  •  W.  Daggett 

has 
bought  of  E.  R.  Daggett  the  North 
Greenville  grocery  stock.  E.  R.  Dag­
gett  expects  to  move  to New York State. 
Isaac  Kipp,  of  Carson  City,  will  enter 
nto  partnership  with  N.  W.  Daggett.

Hastings—W.  B.  Powers  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  G.  M.  Marple 
in 
the  firm  of  Burman  &  Marple,  restaur­
ant  and  bakery,  and  the  new  firm  name 
will  be  Burman  &  Powers.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  conducted  at  the  old  stand.
Benton  Harbor—P.  E.  Witherspoon 
interest  of  Elmer 
has  purchased  the 
Lowe 
in  the  drug  and  stationery  stock 
of  Lowe  &  Rouse.  No  change  will  be 
made  in  the  firm  name  at  present.  Mr. 
Lowe  will  undertake  the  study  of  med­
icine.

Owosso—M.  Schulein,  of  the  Boston 
clothing  house,  has  rented  a  store  room 
at  Portland  and  will  put  in  a  stock  of 
goods  there.  Besides  his  Owosso  store,
he  runs  a  business  at  Three  Rivers,  and 
the  Portland  branch  will give  him  three 
stores.

Marquette—Duquette  &  Metz,  cloth­
iers,  will  shortly  dissolve  partnership 
Timothy  Duquette  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name  and  Newman 
A.  Metz  will  remove  to  Hancock,  where 
he  will  embark  in  the  men’s  furnishing 
goods  business  in  a  building  now  being 
erected  for  his  use.

Whitehall—An  inventory  andapprais 
al  are  being  taken  of  the  Lauterberg 
boot  and  shoe  stock  with  a  view  to 
its 
transfer  to  James  Moore,  of  Chippewa 
Lake.  Mr.  Moore  expects  to  buy  the 
stock  and  continue  the  business,  mov 
ing  his  family  here  as  soon  as  the  sea 
son’s  operations  are  done  at  his  mill.

Cheboygan—Kramer & Co.  have found 
their business  increasing  to  such  an  ex 
tent  that  they  have  contracted  with  the 
Cheboygan  Manufacturing  Co.  to  build 
a  balcony  over  the  shelving  and  around 
the  store  to  accommodate  the 
large 
amount  of  stock  necessary  to  meet  the 
increasing  demands  of  their  business: 
Grand  Marais—Hargrave  &  Hill  are 
taking  inventory  of  their  general  stock, 
preparatory  to  a  dissolution  of  partner 
ship.  W.  W.  Hargrave  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  management  of 
Roy  C.  Hill.  They  recently  built  : 
large  addition  to  their  store  and  the  en 
tire  block  will  be  heated  by  steam  thi: 
winter.

Cheboygan—P.  L.  Lapres,  the  cloth 
ier,  recently  advertised  a  tug  of  war  ir 
front  of  his  store  and  500  people  were 
present. 
Judges  were  selected  and  < 
pair  of  pants  was  given  to  the  judges, 
who 
instructed  the  men  to  pull  them 
apart  or  rip  the  seams  if possible.  First 
three  men  on  a  side  tried  it,  then  six 
then  as  many  as  could  get  hold  of  the 
pants,  but 
it  was  impossible  to  tear or 
rip  them  in  any  way.  The entire  street 
was  blocked  by  men  watching  the  con 
test.

tvtanutacturing  Matters.

Harbor  b rin g s —A.  J.  Southard  will 
shortly  resume  operations  at  the  flour- 
ng  mill.
Marquette—The  Lake Superior &  Ish- 
peming  Railway  will  erect a large round 
house  and  machine  shop  here  this  fall.
B liss—Wm.  O’Neill  has  purchased 
603  acres  of  pine  and  cedar  timber  land 
n  Bliss  township  and  will 
lumber  the 
tract  the  coming  winter.  The  tract  was 
owned  by  Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit.

Ludington—The  basket  factory  may 
not  be  rebuilt.  The 
loss  was  $21,900 
and  the  assets,  including  $5,500  insur­
ance,  foot  up  only  $23,000.  A  Chi­
cago  creditor  has  garnisheed  the  in­
surance  money.

Newberry—The  cottages  in  course  of 
construction  at  the  Asylum  are  well  un­
der  way.  There  has  been  nearly  a  quar­
ter of  a  million  appropriated  and  spent 
already.  Every  building  in  use  now  is 
overcrowded  with  patients.

Allegan—A. 

J.  King  has  purchased 
the  plant  and  business  of  the  Mance- 
lona  Electric  Light  &  Power  Co.  and 
will  move  his  family  to  that  place.  He 
was  Superintendent  and  Secretary  of 
the  Edison-Allegan  Electric  Light  & 
Power  Co.

Manistee—The  East  Shore  Manufac­
turing  Co.  is  the  newest  addition  to 
our  manufacturing 
The 
specialty  for  the  present  will  be  boxes 
of  all  kinds,  knock-down.  The  com­
pany  already  has  a  large  contract  for 
Milwaukee  parties.

industries. 

Holland—The  J.  H.  Heinz  Co.  has 
offered  to  add  to 
its  pickling  factory 
in  Holland  an  equipment  for  canning 
tomatoes  and  cauliflower,and has  agreed 
to  employ  over 
100  hands,  if  a  $500 
site  is  donated.  A  vinegar  plant  will 
be  built  early  in  the  spring.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Talk  about  Klon­
dike!  The  Soo  has  one  of  its. own—that 
of  Michippicotten,  Out.,  on  the  north 
shore  of  Lake  Superior,  not  roo  milts 
away.  Everybody  has  gone  wild  over 
About  200  have  already  gone  there 
and  the  very  few  who  have  returned  re­
port  gold  showing  up  well.

Lansing—Harris  E.  Thomas  has  re­
signed  as  Manager  of  the  Lansing 
Boiler  and  Engine  Works,  and  A.  L. 
Clark,  of  Ann  Arbor,  has  been  selected 
as  his  successor.  Mr.  Clark  is  a  grad­
uate  of  the  mechanical  department  of 
the  University,  and 
for  the  past  four 
years  has  been  engaged  as  mechanical 
engineer  at  Kalamazoo  and  Decatur, 
111.

incorporating 

Detroit—Articles 

the 
Bagley  Dress  Stay  Co.  have  been  filed 
in  the  County  Clerk’s  office.  The capi­
tal  stock  is  $10,000,  all  paid 
in.  The 
new  company  will  manufacture  and  sell 
dress  stays  and  other  articles.  The 
stockholders  are  Alley  Bagley,  of  Y psi­
lanti,  996  shares;  George  H.  Paine, 
Harry  C.  Bulkley,  John  M.  Bulkley and 
Frank  B.  Leland,  all  of  Detroit,  one 
share  each.

Muskegon—It  is  estimated  Moorland, 
Egelston  and  Ravenna,  the  banner  pep­
permint  townships of  Muskegon  county, 
will  only  produce  about  16,000  pounds 
of  oil,  against  36,000  pounds  last  year. 
The  price  received  for  the  mint  last 
year  was  $1  and  $1.10   per  pound.  This 
year  the  price  is 90  cents  and  $1.  The 
peppermint  averages  better  in  this  sec­
tion,  it 
in  any  other 
locality  in  the  State.

is  claimed,  than 

A  traveling  man  usually  understands 
how  to  talk  well  and  interest  his  cus­
tomer.  Some  of  them,  however,  work 
their  tongues  overtime.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

b

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  Tuesday 
evening,  Sept.  7,  President  Winchester 
presided.

The  first  feature  of  the  program  was 
an 
interesting  address  by  Wm.  N. 
Rowe,  Manager  of  the  Valley  City  Mill­
ing  Co.,  who  discussed  the  flour  situa­
tion  at  some  length,  assuring  the  mem­
bers  that  the  obnoxious  local  cutter  had 
been  cut  off  until  such  time  as  he would 
agree  to  maintain  the  established  price 
on  city  brands.  He  called  attention  to 
the  annoyance  met  with  from  the  sale 
of  brands  put  up  in  imitation  of 
local 
brands,  and  also  called  attention  to  the 
tacit  understanding  between  the  millers 
and  the  grocers  to  the  effect  that  the 
latter  would  push  the  sale  of  city  makes 
in  preference  to  outside  brands  in  case 
the  millers  would  agree  to  co-operate 
with  the  grocers  in  maintaining  a  uni­
form  price.

Secretary  Klap  asserted  that  the  mil­
lers  were  carrying  out  the  agreement 
more  faithfully  than  the  grocers  were 
themselves.

J.  Geo.  Lehman  stated  that  he  was 
pleased  with  the  success  of  the  system 
and  had  never  seen  anything  adopted 
by  the  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
which  had  caused  so  much  satisfaction 
as  the  present  method  of  selling  flour.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt,  the  millionaire  m il­
ler,  also  addressed  the  meeting  at  some 
length,stating  that  the  millers  had  lived 
up  to  their  agreement  with  the  grocers 
and  that  he  was  very  much  pleased 
with  the  success  attending  the  new 
method.  He  also  called  attention  to 
the  failure  of  some  of  the  dealers  to 
push  the  sale  of  local  brands  as much as 
he  would  like  and  hoped  there would  be 
less  complaint  on  this  score  in  the  fu­
ture.

Mr.  Rowe  called  attention  to  the  rel­
atively 
lower  price  of  winter  wheat 
flour,  as  compared  with  the  price  of 
spring  wheat  flour,  which  would  neces­
sarily  result  to  the  advantage  of  the 
former.
Martin  Schram,  grocer  at  438  Jeffer­
son  avenue,  was  proposed  for  member­
ship  and  the  application  was  accepted.
Homer  Klap  suggested  the  adoption 
of  a button  or badge  to  designate  gro­
cers  on  the  city  market.  The  sugges­
tion  was  approved  by  Messrs.  Dyk, 
Wagner  and  Lehman,  and  the 
latter 
moved  the  appointment  of  a  committee 
to  select  samples  for  presentation  at  the 
next  meeting.  The  chairman  appointed 
as  such  committee  Messrs.  Dyk  and 
Klap.

John  C.  Grebel  presented  the  propo­
sition, through  the  Secretary, for  the  use 
of  the  Association  name  on  a  label 
for 
a  brand  of  cigars.  The  proposition  was 
discussed  at  some 
length  and  finally 
laid  on  the  table.

Election  of  officers,  being  next  in  or­

der,  resulted  as  follows :

President—Frank  J.  Dyk.
Vice-Presidents—Julius  J.  Wagner, A. 
Rascb,  E.  D.  Winchester,  John  J.  Wit­
ters,  A.  Lindemulder.

Secretary—Homer  Klap.
Treasurer—J.  Geo.  Lehman.

in  to 

Status of the  Bean  Market at St. Louis.
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  Sept.  6—There seems 
to  be  a  disposition  on  the  part  of  Mich­
igan  holders  of  beans,  as  well  as  some 
of  the  holders  in  the  larger  markets,  to 
force  the  sale  of  what  they  have  on 
hand  and  clean  up  before  new  beans 
come 
interfere  with  the  sale  of 
the  old.

Speculative  demand  has  let  up  en­
tirely,  and  in  the  absence  of  consump­
tive  demand,  which  seldom 
if  ever 
exists  at  this  season  of  the  year,  and 
with  a  disposition  on  the  part  of  buyers 
to  hold  off  until  they  see  how  low  beans 
will  go,  in  all  probability  there  will  be 
further  declines  in  price.

There  are  a  great  many  more  old 
beans  held  in  Michigan  and  Wisconsin 
idea
than  the  trade  in  general  had  any 

Beans  showed  up  in 

of.  The  high  prices  brought  them  out.
localities  where 
it  was  thought  everything  had  been 
cleaned  out.  We  have  been 
flooded 
with  telegrams  lately  urging  us  to  sell 
beans,  but  we  have  been  forced  to  say 
to  all  of  these  shippers  that  the  buyers 
have  stopped  to  take  a  breathing  spell, 
as  we  predicted  in  our  last  week’s  cir­
cular  that  they  would  most  likely  do 
this  week.  We  have  felt  all  along  that 
the  advance  was  too  sharp  to  be  main­
in  the  absence  of  consumptive 
tained 
demand. 
It  was  the  speculative  de­
mand  that  put  the  price  up,  and  many 
of  the  country  shippers  grasped  the  sit­
uation  and  sold  at  good  round  prices. 
We  are  not 
in  position  to  predict  the 
future.

We  regret  that  the  price  of  beans 
could  not  be  maintained,  but  the  spec­
ulators  who  had  been  forcing  the  price 
up  lost  heart  when  they  found  so  many 
beans  in  sight,  and  are  now  showing  a 
disposition  to  let  the  market  take  care 
of  itself,  and  even 
let  go  at  a  loss  the 
stock  they  had  previously  purchased. 
It  will  seek  its  natural  level  shortly  and 
then  some business  can  be  done.  Buy­
ers  are  fearful  of  further  declines  and, 
therefore,  will  not  take  hold.  This 
is 
natural.  Mil l e r  &  T ea sda le  Co.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—It 

is  the  unexpected  which 
always  happens  and  the  statement  that 
apples  are  a  drug  on  the  market  will 
prove  a  surprise  to  many  people  who 
had  come  to  regard  the  apple  crop  in 
this  vicinity  as  practicallv  a  failure. 
Choice  eating  varieties  command  only 
$1  per bbl.  and  are  sluggish  at  that.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter—Separator  creamery  is  strong 
at  18c  for  tubs  and  20c  for  jars.  Fancy 
dairy  has  advanced  to 
15c  and  is  not 
plenty  even  at  that  price.
Cabbage—$2.50  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower— per  doz.
Celery—io@i5c  per  bunch.
Corn—Green,  5c  doz.
Cucumbers—30c  per  bu.
Eggs—Fancy  candled  command  14c 
for  case  run  and  15c  for  selected  as  to 
size:  The  receipts  are  about  equal  to 
the  demand.
Grapes—Home  grown  Wordens  bring 
i5@2oc  per  8  lb.  baskets.
io@ 
Melons—Watermelons  command 
15c  for best  varieties.  The demand  has 
is 
ceased  to  a  large  extent.  The  same 
true,  to a  lesser  degree,  with  osage  and 
musk  melons,  which  have  declined  to 
50c  per doz.
Onions—The  market  has  declined  to 
35@40c  per  bu.
Peaches—Barnards  command  $¡@ 1.25 
and  Early  Crawfords  range  from  $1.40 
@1.60.  The  hot  weather has  caused the 
fruit  to  ripen  with  a  rush,  which  is 
bad  for  both  grower  and  shipper.

Pears—Clapp’s  Favorite  and  Bartlett 

command  75c  per bu.

Plums—Bradshaws,  Eggs  and  Green 

Gages  fetch 6o@8oc.

Potatoes—Local  buyers  pay  40c  and 
bill  out  at  50c.  The  demand  is  strong 
and  every  indication  points  to  a  season 
of  profit to  both  grower  and  shipper.

Popcorn—50c  per  bu.
Peppers—Green,  75c  per  bu.
Squash—2c  per  lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Virginia  stock  com­
mands  $2.25  per  bbl.  Baltimore  is  in 
good  demand  at $2.

Tomatoes—30(8)400  per bu.
Turnips—25c  per  bu.

The  Commercial  Credit  Co.,  Ltd., 
has  just  issued  its  seventeenth  volume 
of  confidential  information  for  the  use 
of 
its  members.  Besides  containing  a 
list  of  people  who are  not  distinguished 
for  their  rapidity  in  paying  thei 1  bills, 
it  embodies  a  list  of  chattel  mortgages, 
justice  court  and  circuit  court  com­
missioners 
judgments,  probate  court 
proceedings  and  a  synopsis  of  the  laws 
of  Michigan  relating  to  chattel  mort­
gages,  exemptions  and 
limitations  of 
actions. 
is  a  valuable  compilation 
and  should  be  in  the  hands  of  every  re­
tail  merchant  in  the  city.

It 

Ask  Yisner  for  Inducement on Gillies' 

New  York  spice  contest.  Phone  1589.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  anticipated  advance  oc 
cured  on  Tuesday,  when  all  grades  ex­
cept  No.  4  were  marked  up  a  sixpence. 
Refiners  are  now  well  filled  with  orders, 
and  believe  they  will  continue  to  bé  for 
the  next  two  months. 
It  would  not  be 
surprising 
if  they  would  contrive  to 
produce  a  shortage  during  the  canning 
season,  and  such  a  thing  is  very  pos­
sible.

is 

reported 

Tea—An  advance 

in 
Japan  teas  of $2 per  picul  (133  pounds), 
but  it  is  not  much  affecting  the  market 
here,  for  there  will  be  little  further  im­
portation  for  this  country,  except  as 
dealers  here  shall  have  bargains  in  the 
cheaper  grades  of  teas.  Trade  is  light, 
with  no  speculative  interest.

Provisions—Lard  is  about  on the same 
basis  as  a  year ago  and  may  advance 
further,  although  this,  if  it  occurs,  will 
have to  occur  very  soon,  as  the  near-by 
packing  season  is  approaching  and  this 
will  greatly  increase  the  supply  of  lard. 
There  has  been  no  change  in  the  price 
of  meats,  except 
in  the  case  of  large 
hams,  which  have  declined  about  X c 
per  pound.  Picnics  and  small  bams 
have  held  their  own  without  changing 
in  price.  Dried  beef  still  maintains  its 
exorbitant  price.

Fish—There  seems  to  be  no  limit  to 
the  price  which  mackerel  may  reach. 
There  is  no  stock  whatever  down  East, 
and  reports  from  Ireland  aie  for  a  short 
cátch,  with discouraging  prospects.  Cod 
is  very  firm  and  is  moving  better.  Lake 
fish 
is  strong,  and  with  the  approach 
of  the  cool  weather  the  fish  will  be  sold 
fresh  instead  of  salted.  Some  handlers 
of  lake  fish  prophesy  an  advance  of  50 
per  cent.,  although  this 
is  considered 
extreme.  Salmon is  moving  well  at  un­
changed  prices.  Domestic  sardines  are 
very  strong  by  reason  of  the  scarcity  of 
the  fish.

Cheese—The  consumption  of  cheese 
is  at  present  very  large  and  the  quality 
now  and  during  the  entire  summer  has 
ruled  exceptionally  fine.  Much  of  the 
cheese  now  sold  is  branded 
in  accord­
ance  with  the  new  cheese  law,which  act 
as  yet  has  not  had  any  effect  on  the 
market.

The  Grain  Market.

1887. 

The  exports 

1,000,000  bushels  during 

The  wheat  market  during  the  past 
week  took  an  opposite  turn  from  the 
previous  week  and  the 
longs  were  in 
clover.  There  was a  continued  advance 
during  the  entire  week  and  to-day  we 
note  a  still  further  advance  of  5c  per 
bushel  without  a  hitch.  All  this  is 
characteristic  and  has  been  anticipated 
as  the  situation  grew  stronger.  Again 
we find  that  the  visible  decreased  666,- 
000  bushels,  while  last  year  it  increased 
the 
nearly 
same  week,  and  the  visible 
is  now 
smaller  than  it  has  been  since  Septem­
ber, 
from  both 
coasts  during  the  week  were 6,200,000 
yesterday  we  shipped
bushels 
1,200,000  bushels. 
The  question  now 
arises,  with  this  depletion  of  our wheat, 
How  long  will  it  take  to  move all  of  our 
crop  out of  the  country? 
In  case  spec­
ulation  is  more  of  a  factor,  it  will  have 
to  be  watched  sharply.  At  present  we 
are  loading  wheat 
Janeiro, 
France,  Belgium,  Breeman,  Antwerp 
and,  in  fact,  to  almost  every  importing 
point  on  the globe.  Farmers  seem  in­
clined  to  accept  present  prices,  con­
sequently  there 
is  a  free  movement  of 
wheat  from  first  hands.  Reports  from 
the  Northwest  also  show  that  farmers 
are  free  sellers.  The  writer  recently 
from  a  friend  who
received  a 

for  Rio 

letter 

and 

sowed  his  wheat  on  April  27  and  sold 
the  crop  on  Aug.  27.  The  wheat  was 
milled  and  made  into bread on Aug.  28, 
or 
in  four  months  afier  sowing  the 
wheat  he  had  bread  on  his  table  made 
from  this  wheat—rather  quick  time.

Corn  and  oats  remain  stationary.  The 
increased  4,347,000 
in  oats  only  293,000  bush­

in  corn 

visible 
bushels,  but 
els.

T h e  

re c e ip ts   o f  w h eat  d u rin g  

th e 
w ee k   w e re   57  c a rs   o f  w h e at,  11  c a rs   of 
corn  a n d   5  c a rs   o f  oats.

Local  millers  are  paying  90c 

for 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Purely  Personal.

Geo.  Williams  succeeds  the  late  Burt 
Van  Duren  as  house  salesman  for  the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  Mr.  Wil­
liams 
is  a  groceryman  by  inclination 
and  experience  and  will  surely  achieve 
distinction  in  his  new  position.

C.  M.  Drake,  of  the  commission  firm 
of  W.  R.  Brice  &  Co.,  Philadelphia,  is 
spending  a  fortnight’s  vacation  in  this 
State,  whipping  the  streams 
fish 
and  visiting  the  creameries  whose prod­
uct  he handles  in  the  Philadelphia  mar­
ket.

for 

John  Walbrink,  of  the  firm  of  Wal- 
brink  &  Pixley,  general  dealers  at 
Allendale,  was recently  requested  by  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Allendale  to  transport 
a  package  of  religious  papers  to  the 
Kent  county 
jail  for  the  use  of  the 
prisoners  who  were  religiously  inclined. 
He  did  as  requested,  but  his  reception 
at the  jail  was  of  such  a  character  that 
he  is  not  open  for  such  commissions 
in 
the  future.

Aaron  Rodges,  the  veteran  Ravenna 
druggist,  recently  spent  the  Sabbath 
with  J.  H.  Hagy,  specialty salesman  for 
the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.  On 
leaving  the  house,  he  showed  his  ap­
preciation  of  the  hospitality  shown  him 
by  exchanging  hats  with  his  host.  Later 
in  the  day  he  met  a  mishap  by  being 
on  board  the  Major  Watson  when  she 
got  stuck  on  a  bar  in  Reed’s  Lake,  and 
was  compelled  to  wade  ashore  through 
the  mud  in  order to  catch  his  train.
Movements  of  Lake  Superior  Travel­

ers.

Joe  Carrol 

is  again  doing  this  terri­
tory,  selling  shoes  for a  Rochester,  N. 
Y .,  bouse.
F.  S.  McCurdy  (Teness  &  McCurdy) 
is  enjoying  himself  as  only  Fred  can 
do.  He  sells  the  goods  just  the  same.

Sam  Southern  (Henry Disston  & Sons) 
is  again  on  deck,  selling saws  and  nurs­
ing  a  broken  shoulder.  The  accident 
happned  a  month  ago  at  Rhinelander, 
Wis.

M.  F.  Stellwagen 

(manufacturers’ 
agent)  has  left  bis  home 
in  St.  Ignace 
for  a  seven  weeks’  trip  through  North­
ern  Wisconsin.
W.  W.  Wixson  (Fletcher  Hardware 
Co.)  was  called  home  Friday  on  ac­
count  of  the  death  of  his youngest child.

The  vehicle,  wholesale  saddlery  and 
heavy  hardware business  formerly  con­
ducted  under  the  style  of  Brown,  Hall 
&  Co.  will  hereafter be  continued under 
the  name  of  the sole  owner,  Sherwood 
HaH. 

_____

M.  A.  Sanderson,  general  dealer at 
Central  Lake,  has  added  a  line  of  gro­
ceries.  The  Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

W.  H.  G.  Phelps  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Kalkaska.  The  Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.  furnished the  stock.

Clemens  Huxol  succeeds  Fothergill  & 
in  the  foundry  business  at  391 

Huxol 
Scribner  street.

It  is  the  sm a ll  opportunities  that  you 
ric h .

th row   a w a y   th a t  m a k e   o th er  m en  

6

Fruits and  Produce.
Construction  on  One  Feature  of  the 

New  Peddling  Law.

The  following 

letter,  written  to  Cas­
sius  M.  Ely,  Prosecuting  Attorney  of 
Cass  county,  by  Attorney  General  May­
nard,  is  self  explanatory:

Your  favor  of  Aug.  16,  requesting  a 
construction  of  the  hawkers  and  ped­
dlers’ 
law,  at  hand  and  noted.  The 
particular question  upon  which  you  de­
sire  information  is  as  to  whether parties 
acting  as  agents  for  a  clothing  firm 
in 
Chicago,  engaged 
in  soliciting  orders 
for  men’s  ready-made  clothing  by  go­
ing  from  house  to  house—the  orders  to 
be  sent  to  and  filled  in  the  city  of  Chi­
cago—are  subject  to the license required 
to  be  paid  in  the  hawkers  and  peddlers’ 
law  of  1897.  The  consideration  of  this 
naturally  divides  itself  into  two  heads: 
(1)  Are  the  terms  of  the act under ques­
tion  sufficiently  broad  to  extend  to  and 
include  within  the  scope  of  its  opera­
tion  persons  engaged  simply  as  agents 
soliciting  business  for  a  principal  re­
siding  out  of  the  State,  the  business  so­
licited  being  the  purchase  of  articles 
manufactured  outside  of  and  to  be 
brought  into  the  State  after  the  contract 
is  made?  And,  (2),  if  the  persons  of 
that  description  come  within  the  oper­
ation  of  the  act  and  would,  by its terms, 
be  required  to  pay  a  license,  would  not 
the  act  be  unconstitutional,  as  applied 
to  those  persons?

The  first  question 

is  fully  answered 
by  a'glance  at  the  law  under  question. 
Section  one  of  the  law  provides:  ’’ That 
it  shall  not  be  lawful  for  any  person  to 
engage 
in  the  business  of  hawking, 
peddling,  or  pawnbrokerage,  by  going 
about  from  door  to  door  or  from  place 
to  place, or from  any  stand,  cart,  vehicle 
in  any  other  manner  in  the  public 
or 
streets,  highways  or 
in  or  upon  the 
wharves,  docks,  open  places  or  spaces, 
public ’ grounds  or  public  buildings  in 
any  township  in  this  State,  without  first 
having  obtained 
trom  the  township 
board  of  the  township  where  such  busi­
ness  is  to  be  carried  on,  a  license  there­
for. ’ ’

Under this  section  it  is  clear  that  any 
person  engaging 
in  the  business  of 
hawking,  peddling,  or  pawnbrokerage, 
unless  he  comes  within  the  exception 
of  section  eight  of  the  act,  must  obtain 
a  license  therefor.

As  to  the  second  question,  it  is,  in 
my  opinion,  equally  clear  that  the  Leg­
islature  has  not  the  right  to  impose  a 
tax  or  a 
license  fee  upon  agents  who 
are  soliciting  orders  for  firms  residing 
in  another  state,  such  orders  to  be  filled 
by  the 
importation  of  goods  into  this 
State,  on  the  principle  that  no  state  has 
the  right  to 
lay  a  tax  on  inter-state 
commerce  in  any  form,  whether  by  du­
ties  laid  upon  the  transportation  of  the 
subjects  of  that  commerce,  or  on  the 
receipts  derived  from  that transporta­
tion,  or  on  the  occupation  of  the  busi­
ness  of  carrying 
it  on,  for  the  reason 
that  such  taxation  is  a  burden  on  that 
commerce  and  amounts  to  a  regulation 
of  it  which  belongs  solely  to  Congress. 
This  question  has, 
in  numerous  in­
stances,  been  before  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court  and  the  principle  above 
referred  to  was  laid  down  in  the  case  of 
Robbins  vs.  Shelby  Taxing  District, 
120  U.  S.,  489;  and  subsequently  re­
ferred  to  and  upheld  in  the  cases  of:

Asher  vs.  Texas,  128  U.  S.,  129.
Stoutenburgh  vs.  Hennick,  129  U.  S.,

involved  was 

McCall  vs.  California,  131  U.  S.,  105.
Brennan  vs.  Titusville,  153 U.  S.,  289.
The  case  of  Robbins  vs.  Shelby  T ax­
ing  District  was  a  case  in  which  the 
question 
identical  with 
the  one  here  presented.  Robbins  was 
engaged  in the  city  of  Memphis,  Tenn., 
in  the  sale  of  goods  for  a  Cincinnati 
firm,  exhibiting samples  for  the  purpose 
of  effecting  ?s-7cb  sales,  his  employment 
being  that  which  is usually denominated 
as  a  “ drummer.”   This  business  was 
declared  by  the  statute  of  Tennessee  to 
be  a  privilege  for  which  a  license  tax 
was  required.  The  statute'  made  no 
discrimination  between  those  who  rep­
resented  business  houses  out of the State

141.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it  could  not 

and  those  who  represented  like  houses 
within  the  State.  There  was,  therefore, 
no  element  of  discrimination 
in  the 
case ;  but the  conviction  of  Robbins  for 
doing  business  without  taking  out  the 
license  provided  for  by  the  statute  was 
set  aside  by  the  United  States  Supreme 
Court  on  the  ground  that,  whatever  the 
State  might  see  fit to  exact  with  refer­
ence  to  a 
license  tax  upon  those who 
acted  as  drummers  for  bouses  within 
the  State, 
impose  upon 
those  who  acted  as  drummers  for  busi­
ness  houses  outside  the  State,  and  who 
were,  therefore,  engaged  in 
inter-state 
commerce,  any  burden  by  way  of a  li­
cense  tax.  The  opinion  by  Mr.  Justice 
Bradley  is  elaborate and  enters  fully  in­
to  a  discussion  of  the  question,  citing 
many  authorities. 
in  the 
strongest  language  the  exclusive  power 
of  Congress  over  inter-state  commerce; 
and  that  whatever  may be  the  extent  to 
which  the  police  power of  the  State  can 
go,  it  cannot  go  so  far as  to  uphold  any 
regulations  directly  affecting  inter-state 
commerce.

It  affirms 

Inasmuch  as  the  law  upon  this  ques­
tion  is  well  settled  and  there  can  be  no 
doubt  as  to  the  conclusion  reached,  I 
deem  it  unnecessary  to  extend  this  let­
ter  further. 

F r e d   A.  M a y n a r d , 

Attorney  General.
Chicago’s  New  Ordinance  to  be  Rig­

idly  Enforced.

Chicago,  Sept.  4—The  sale,  or offer 
for  sale,  or  possession  for  sale,  iu  the 
city  of  Chicago,  of  any  fruit,  berries  or 
in  short-weight  packages; 
vegetables 
or 
in  packages  not  distinctly  marked 
with  the  weight  or  measure  of  the  con­
tents  in  pounds,  quarts,  pecks  or  bush­
els,  as the  case  may b e ;  or  packed  so  as 
to  deceive  the  purchaser  as  to  quality, 
whether  by  the  use  of  colored  netting 
or  in  any  other way,  is  prohibited  by  an 
ordinance  of 
the  Common  Council, 
which  became  valid  April  12,  1897.

The  city  authorities  have  been  very 
lenient  in  dealing  with  this  ordinance, 
on  the  representation  of  commission 
merchants  and  handlers  that  its enforce­
ment,  without 
time  for  preparation, 
would  work  hardship  upon  the  shippers 
who  bad  already  secured  their  season’s 
packages. 
Public  opinion,  however, 
now  demands  that  something  shall  be 
done  to  prohibit  the 
future  use  of
“ snide”  
packages-----the  short-quart
berry  boxes  and  the  red  tarlatan  for 
basket  covers.

Accordingly, 

the  Commissioner  of 
Health,  Dr.  Arthur  R.  Reynolds,  called 
a  conference  of  the  representative  fruit 
men  of  South  Water  street  to discuss  the 
ordinance  and  decide  as  to  its  enforce­
ment  with  the  least  embarrassment  and 
annoyance  to  legitimate business,  while 
properly  protecting  the  city  consumer. 
There  were  present  at  this  conference a 
good  representation  of  the  best  men 
in 
the  fruit  business,  some  representative 
fruit  shippers.  Commissioner  Reynolds 
and  Alderman  Charles  F.  Gunther,  the 
author  of  the  ordinance.

The  ordinance  was  read,  section  by 
section,  and  a  full  discussion  had  of  its 
provisions.  The  representatives  of  the 
city  expressed  a  desire  to  protect  the 
best  interests  of  the  city,  without  inter­
fering  in  any  wise  with  trade,  and  were 
disposed  to  so  construe  the  ordinance 
that 
it  should  be  of  the  least  possible 
injury  to  any 
legitimate  grower  or 
dealer.  The  opinion  of  the  officers,  in 
which  the  dealers  generally  concurred, 
was  that,  as  the  berry  season  is  over,  it 
would  be  no  hardship to firmly announce 
that,  from  this 
forward,  honest 
quart  boxes  and  honest  barrels  alone 
must be  used,  and  that  after  September 
1  the  use  of  tarlatan,  to  deceive  the 
purchaser  of  fruit,  must  be  dispensed 
with.  This  will  be  in  time  to  arrange 
matters  so  that  no  hardship  shall  be 
experienced  by  anyone.

time 

We  earnestly  advise  the  discontin­
uance  of  the  use  of  tarlatan  of  any  de­
scription  in  covering  packages  of  fruit, 
the  stopping  the  use  of  "sn id e”   barrels 
and  boxes,  and, 
in  general,  a  strict 
compliance  with  the  ordinance,  believ­
ing  it  will  be  for  the  best  interest  of  all 
concerned. 

G e o .  W.  B a r n e t t .

BARNETT  BROTHERS

• 

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the largest fruit market in  the  United  States, w ith  ample  room,  occupying  the 
entire  nuilding.  W ell  equipped  for  business,  they  are  still  in  the  front  in 

handling all kinds of F R U I T S

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Established

1876

W e  carry  large  stock  Field  Seeds—M edium ,  M am m oth.  A lsyke,  C rim son,  A lfalfa  C lover  Seed*.

T im o th y ,  O rchard  G rass,  Blue G rass.  Redtop  Seeds.

W e buy and sell Beans, Potatoes,  Onions,  Cabbage,  Apples,  Pears,  Plums,  Peaches,  carlots  and  less. 

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

Bushel Baskets ana Covers.

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W holesale Seeds, Potatoes, Beans, Fruits.

SEEDS New  Crop  Timothy.

Medium,  Mammoth  and  Crimson 
clover.  Alsyke,  Alfalfa, etc.  Orchard 
Grass,  Red  Top,  Lawn  Grass.

New Crop Turnip.  Garden  Seeds,  Implements,  Lawn  supplies.

f a  f ^  
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a  lh T JJ   W e are in the market for car lots or less. 

It any  to  sell, send good 
size sample and we will make bid for them.  W e are also buyers of 
If  any  to  offer, kindly  advise  us.
Alsyke Clover  and  Pop  Corn. 

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ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED CO.,  Grand Rapids.

BUTTER
EGGS

Handled  only  on  Commission.

On  Commission  or  bought  on  track.

M.  R.  ALDEN,  98  S.  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids.
Ixiillear <5t T easd ale  Co.

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B e a n s 

Potatoes

601 IsTosrtla TTtiixcL Street, St.  Louis, Mo.

Consignments solicited.  Advances made.

Reference:  American Exchange Bank, St.  Louis.

Harris & Frutchey

Will  buy  EGGS  on  track  at  your  station 
and  can  handle  your  BUTTER  to  good 
advantage.

60  Woodbridge  Street,  W est,  Detroit,  Mich.

Deal Direct with  Fruit  Headquarters

The  most  satisfactory  way  to  do  it  is  to  order  by  Mail, 
Telephone or  Telegraph.

Peaches,  Plums,  Pears,  Apples,  Melons,
Grapes  and  all  Vegetables.

Tvltay. 

VIN K EiTU LD ER   COHPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

Fruits for Canning

Everything  now  plentiful  and  prices 
within  reach  of  everybody.  Never 
finer.  Write  for  prices.

Bunting & Co., Jobbers,

Grand  Rapids.

There  can  be  no  higher  destiny  with­

out  earnest  perseverance.

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to  one  not  aware  of  the  surprisingly 
large  profits  that come  from  such  small 
tradings.  When  an  Italian  in  a  police 
court  the  other  day  said  that  he  had 
made  $60 
in  one  day  in  selling  fruit 
from  a  street  stand,  it  may  well  be  un­
derstood  that  there  are  greater  oppor­
tunities  in  similar occupations  than  one 
would  expect  to  find.  Even these  street 
peddlers  going  from  door  to  door  with 
articles  that  could  be  had  of better qual­
ity  and  at  cheaper  price  elsewhere  are 
among  the  most  prosperous  of their  race 
in  that  part  of  the  city  in  which  they 
live—for  they  are  all  of  one  race  and 
come  from  their  own  quarter  of the city.
New  York  eats  more and better oysters 
than  any  other city  in  the  country.  Be­
tween  4.000  and  5,000  bushels  a  day, 
running  500  oysters  to  the  bushel,  is the 
regular  quantity.  These  are  mostly  the 
high-grade  oysters.  Those  that  aren’t 
quite  so  good  are  shipped  to  the  West, 
hor  a  time  this  shipment  will  reach
20,000  bushels  per day ;  but  within  six 
weeks  or  two  months  the  Western  ap­

7

petite  will  be  satiated  to  such  an  extent 
that  it  will  demand  only  10,000  bushels 
for 
its  daily  food.  Besides  this,  6,000 
barrels  of  bivalves  will  go  abroad  every 
week,  mostly  to  England. 
Formerly 
American  oysters  were  not  regarded 
with  enthusiasm  by  Englishmen.  The 
first  shipload  sent  over  fell 
into  the 
hands  of  the  health  authorities.  The 
health  authorities  sat in solemn conclave 
upon  those oysters  and condemned  them 
to  be  returned  to  the  deep  whence  they 
came.  So  they  were  thrown  overboard. 
More  shiploads  went  over,  some  of 
which  got  past  the  health  authorities 
and 
into  the  hotels  and  restaurants, 
achieving  such  an  instant  and  general 
popularity  that  there  was  a  strenuous 
demand  for  the  American 
shellfish, 
which  has  endured  ever  since.

In  Warren,  Pa.,  the  druggists  propose 
to  close  all  their  stores  except  one on 
Sunday.  Each  of  the  stores  will  have 
Sunday 
in  turn,  while  the  others  will 
give  their  employes a  rest.

cles,  but 
the  season  will  hardly  be 
called  open  until  another  month.  Good 
to  prime  centrifugal, 
i7@ 2ic;  open 
kettle,  good  to  prime,  26@28c.  Syrups 
are  steady.  Prices  are  practically  un­
changed,  but  the  general  tone  is  in  fa­
vor  of  an  advance.  Good  to  prime 
sugar,  15 @ 18c.

In  canned  goods,  dollar  tomatoes  are 
freely  prophesied.  The  whole  market 
is  active  and  brokers  are  urging  sales 
with  great  animation.  The  chances  are 
certainly  in  favor  of  an  advancing  mar­
ket  for  some  time  to  come  and  now  is 
probably  a  good  time  to  buy. 
It  is  a 
' ‘ bull”   market  all  through.  Standard 
Maine  corn 
is  worth  7o@goc  and  the 
market  is  strong.

Dried  fruits  are  strong.  Pacific  Coast 
holders  do  not  seem  at  all  anxious to ac­
cept  the  offers  sent  from  here.  Raisins 
are  in  most  request  and  offers have been 
turned  down.  The  situation,  taken  as 
a  whole,  is  certainly 
in  favor  of  the 
buyer. 
Evaporated  apples  are  very 
firm  and  are  held  at 6%@70  for nice 
goods.
Beans  are  firm  and  ihe  supply  offer­
ing 
large.  Choice  red  kidney, 
$2.2o@2.25;  pea,  choice,  $1.20.  Choice 
marrow,  $1.45.

is  not 

The  butter  market  has  taken  a  down­
ward  turn  and  the  tone 
is  decidedly 
dull.  Sellers  are  willing  to  make  some 
concession  and  are  urging  exporters  to 
come  to  the  rescue.  Fancy  Western,
18c.

The  cheese  market  is—well,  there  is 
no  cheese  market. 
impossible  to 
make  sales  except  at  a  loss,  and  a  good 
deal  of  stock 
is  here  without  a  single 
bid  or  prospect  of  one.  Exporters  are 
doing  nothing  and  the  cold  storage 
warehouses  must be  used  to  a  large  ex­
tent  very  soon.  These  remarks  apply to 
both 
large  and  small  size  State  full 
cream.  A  small  fraction  over 9c  is  the 
top  of  the  market  and  the  outlook  for 
the  future  is  not  very  pleasant  to  con­
template.

The  egg  market  is  dull,  with  strictly 
fresh  near-by  goods  fetching  only  18c 
and  Western  I5@i6c.

It 

is 

One  of  the  curious  sights  in  the  resi­
dence  portion  of  the  city  is  supplied  by 
the  peddlers  who  are  to be seen standing 
at  the  area  doors  of  many  of  the  houses 
in  the  most  expensive  parts  of  the  city. 
They  call  to  see  the  servants,  as  it  is 
plain  that nothing  in  their baskets could 
appeal  to  the  persons  who  live  in  such 
houses.  A  few  small  articles  such  as 
pins,  shoestrings,  and  short  pieces  of 
cheap  cotton  goods  make  up  their  stock 
in  trade.  They  have  nothing  to  offer 
that  could  not be  bought at  a lower price 
in  the  department  stores,  but  they  have 
learned  that 
important  principle  of 
economics  which  says  that  the  propin­
quity  and  convenience  of  an  article 
sometimes  give 
it  a  value  which  # it 
would  never  have  otherwise.  So a great 
many  of  these  peddlers  manage to  make 
a  good  living  in  the  tenement  districts 
as  well  as 
in  the  regiors  where  only 
well-to-do  people 
live.  They  all  lock 
prosperous  and  some  of  them  are  wom­
en,  although  there  is  perhaps  a  major­
ity  of  men  and  boys.  This  means  of 
making  a  living  might  seem  precarious

G O THAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

jammed 

New  York,  Sept.  4—The  Saturday 
half-holidays  have  come  to  an  end  and 
the  stores  are  simply 
from 
morning  until  night;  in fact,  it  is  likely 
that  most  of  them  will  remain  open  all 
day  Monday,  even  though  it  be  a 
legal 
holiday.  There  havfe  been  so  many  bad 
days 
in  the  past  that  merchants  pro­
pose  now  to  make  hay  every  day  they 
can.  Business  holds  remarkably  good 
in  grocery 
the 
steady  influx  of  visiting  merchants  con­
tinues.  The  markets  are  firm  and  there 
seems  to  be  very  little disposition on the 
part  of  buyers  to  shop  around.  They 
take  what  they  want  and  pay  the  price 
and  will  fix  a  rate  accordingly  when 
they  get  home.  A  number  of  merchants 
are  here  from  Michigan,  some of  whom 
are  making  their  first  visit, while  others 
are  here  after an  absence  of many years. 
They  all  like  New  York  as  a  market.

jobbing  circles  and 

There  are 

Huge  stocks  of  coffee  here,  immense 
supplies 
in  sight  on  the  way  and  a  big 
crop  due  next  harvest  all  tend  to  keep 
down  the  price  of  the  cheering  berry. 
Rio  No.  7  is  now  worth  only  6 ^ c  and 
there  is  only  a  common,  everyday  busi­
ness  doing. 
in  store  here 
and  afloat  791,000  bags,  against  520,000 
last  year.  The  estimates  of  some  give 
the  world’s 
increase  during  August  at
90,000  bags.  There 
is  very  little  do­
ing  in  a  speculative  way  and  the  tend­
ency  is  downward.  Mild  grades  have 
been  in  fair  demand  for  the  best  grades 
and  also  for  the  cheaper  sorts;  but 
stocks  are  not 
large  and  no  important 
transactions  have  taken  place.

There 

is  a  little  more  cheerful  feel­
ing  in  tea.  Orders  have  come  to  hand 
which  indicate  light  supplies  in  many 
parts  of  the  country  and  buyers  here 
from  all  directions  have  turned in a very 
decent  amount  of  orders.  At  the  auc­
tion  sales  there  is  a  firmer  tone,  and  in 
some  cases  an  advance  of  a  cent  or 
more  was  made. 
Twelve  hundred 
packages  of  Formosa  was  sold.
Refined  sugar  has  shown  more  activ­
ity  than  for  some  time.  Orders  have 
come  in  freely,  but no  advance  has  been 
made  in  posted  rates.  There  has  been 
a  pretty  good  demand  for  foreign  re­
fined,  which  is  held  at  full  value.

Somewhat  larger  arrivals  of  domestic 
rice  have  taken  place,  but  not  enough 
to  affect  the  general  tone  of  the  market. 
Dealers  are  firmly  holding  to  their  sup­
plies  and  will  part  with  the  same  only 
at  full  rates.  Foreign  sorts  have  ad 
vanced  and  business 
is  not  large,  as 
buyers  seem  to  think  there  has  been  too 
much  of  an  appreciation.  Domestic 
rice,  fair  to  good,  \A&@t7Ac\  prime  to 
choice,  5@5Kc ;  Japan,  4%@5'Ac.
Spices  are  firmer.  This may  be  owing 
to  unfavorable  foreign  advices.  • Prices 
show  no  particular  change  and  would- 
be  purchasers  were  not  over  anxious.

In  molasses  there  is  not  much  doing 
in  a  general  way.  Buyers  and  sellers 
seem  to  be  disagreeing  and  the  market 
has  assumed  a  passive  attitude.  Some 
jobbing  cir­
business  has been done  in 

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Philadelphia,  Pa.

Fourth  National  Bank,

Grand  Rapids.

W.  D.  Hayes, Cashier,

Hastings  National  Bank,

Hastings,  Mich.

D. C. Oakes,  Banker,

Coopersville,  Mich.

R.  H IR T ,

Market  St., Detroit.
Butter and Eggs wanted «£
Will buy same  at  point  of  shipment, 
or  delivered,  in  small  or  large  lots. 
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issue,  therefore,  marks  the  beginning  of 
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its 

With  a 

larger  paid  circulation  than 
that  of  any  other  trade  journal  of  its 
class;  with  a  rapidly 
increasing  sub­
scription  list  and  a  gradually  enlarging 
advertising  patronage;  with  a  positive 
conviction  that  its  field  of  usefulness  is 
constantly  expanding  and  that  its  circle 
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year  with  complacency, 
for 
past  patronage  and  with  every  confi­
dence  in  the  future.

thankful 

T H E   PUBLIC  AND  FRANCHISES.
If  the  policy  which  is  said  to  be  the 
favorite  one  with  Hon.  Seth  Low,  the 
independent  candidate 
for  Mayor  of 
Greater  New  York,  shall  prevail—that 
a  private  corporation  shall  pay  well 
for  a  public  franchise—in  that  event 
influence  must  be  of  very 
the  reflex 
considerable  account 
other 
American  cities  and  add  largely  to  the 
general  popularity  of  the  idea.

all 

in 

The  campaign  in  Greater  New  York 
has  not  been  either  the  beginning  or 
the  most  pronounced  assertion  of  such  a 
doctrine.  Many  municipalities,  at  this 
time,  of  far  less  pretension  than  Great­
er  New  York  are  exacting  fair  pay  for 
the  grant  or  use  of  public  franchises 
and  in  so  doing  are  largely  decreasing 
their  municipal  burdens. 
In  some  in­
stances  taxation  is  being  reduced  to  a 
minimum  until  the  saving  of general 
taxes  by  the  corporation  almost  com­
pensates  for  the  payment  of  the  fran­
chise  fee.  Whatever  the  outcome  may 
be 
in  New  York,  the  general  public 
are  now  widely  awake  to  the  extent  of 
their  losses 
in  the  past  and  sources  of 
income  for  the  future  from  this  fruitful 
field.

There  is  a  general  tendency 

in  this 
country,  in  fact,  to  resort  to  state  so­
cialism,  or  the  operation  by  the  com­
munity  of  all 
its  own  franchises,  but 
the  better  way  for  us,  probably,  would 
be  to  make  these  franchises  valuable  to 
the  p u b l i c - t h r u u g t - a n   annual 
rental  and  continue  to  throw the  diffi­
culties  and  responsibilities  of 
their 
management  upon  private  companies. 4
J

One  thing 

is  certain,  however—the 
public  will  not  longer be  content  to  see 
its  privileges  used  for  the  aggrandize­
ment  of  private 
companies  without 
either  adequate,  cheap  and  courteous 
service,  on  the  ODe  hand,  or  direct 
compensation  to  the  public  treasury,  on 
the  other.  Either  large  rentals  must 
be  paid  when  the  cost  of  service  to  the 
public  is  high  or  indifferent,  or else  the 
service  must  be  so  accommodating  and 
at  such  a 
low  price  that  the  public 
feel  they  could  do  no  better  by  public 
ownership  and  operation  of  the  plants. 
The  present  campaign 
in  New  York 
will  be  watched  with  special  interest 
with  referenece  to  this  very  point.  The 
various  municipalities  of  the  country 
are  becoming  aroused  in  the  premises 
and  it  is  hardly  likely  that  in  any  com­
munity  hereafter  the  “ free 
for  all”  
with  “ any  kind  of  service  to  the  pub­
lic ,”   will  as  a  policy  again  prevail. 
Citizens  owe  a  duty  to  themselves  and 
to  their  posterity  as  well  as  to  capital 
in  their  midst.

LABOR’S  M ISFO R TU N E .

By  his  declaration  in  favor  of  armed 
resistance  to  the  courts  of  the  country, 
applauding  the  Chicago  anarchists  and 
expressing  his  purpose  to  dispossess 
capitalists  of  the  property  “ amassed  at 
the  expense  of  labor,”   Eugene  V.  Debs 
has  alarmed  a  good  many  people  who 
are  fearful  that  such  a  propaganda  will 
precipitate  a  revolution  on  the  part  of 
the  laboring  classes.

The  man  who  talks  open  or  forcible 
resistance  to  the  Government 
in  this 
country  has  rendered  himself  harmless 
except  as  to  any  personal  conduct 
into 
which his  fanaticism  may  lead him.  We 
have  been  taught  from  the  very  begin­
ning  of  our  Government  to  revere  our 
American  systems  and  depend  upon 
the  ballot  to  right  our  wrongs.  The 
idea  of  a  large  standing  army  for  the 
purpose  of  maintaining  our Government 
has  never  been  popular,  nor  has  such  a 
necessity  ever  been  admitted  from  1789 
to  1897.  The  Government  has  lived  and 
lives  to-day  upon  the  conservative  pa­
triotism  of  the  people.

It  has  been  one  of  labor’s  misfor­
tunes  that  men  like  Debs  have  forced 
themselves  to  the  front  as  leaders,  with 
extreme  and  often  dangerous  views, 
that,  while  not  shared  by  any  consider­
able  number of  American  workingmen, 
have  yet  been  made  to  appear as  the 
voice  of  organized  labor  and  caused  an 
judgment  against  the 
unjust  popular 
poor  dupes  who  blindly 
follow  such 
leadership.  The  great  body  of  Ameri­
can 
laborers  do  not  look  upon  capital­
ists  generally  as  robbers  and oppressors, 
but  feel  that  there  is  a  mutuality  of 
in­
terest  and  aims  between  labor  and  cap­
ital.

industrial 

The  sooner  the  conservative  elements 
of  organized 
labor  repudiate  the  ex­
tremists  and  close  the  mouths  of  the 
would-be  leaders  who  talk  “ armed  re­
sistance”   and  violent  methods,  the  bet­
ter  it  will  be  for  the  cause  of  honest  la­
bor  everywhere.  The  great  masses  of 
the  people 
in  all  the  departments  of 
commercial  and 
life  sym­
pathize  with  the  workingman,  but  they 
do  not approve  of  Debsism.  Organiza­
tion, .and  the  peaceful  but  powerful 
method  of  the  ballot  intelligently  ap 
plied  to evils  of  which  labor  complains, 
can  accomplish  revolution,  without  the 
necessity  of  a  resort  to  force. 
In  a 
word,  the  cause  of  labor  is  being  hurt 
by 
its  false  and  self-seeking  friends, 
and  the  best  remedy  is  to  put  only  its 
most  conservative as  well  as 
intelligent 
men  to  the  front

there 

is  a  decided 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITU A TIO N ,
Now  that  the  time  has  come  when  re­
covery  usually  sets  in  after  the  summer 
dulness, 
increase 
noted  on  all  sides  in  the  ratio  of  busi­
ness  improvement. 
Increased  resump­
tion  of  manufacturing  operations  in  all 
lines  has  given  encouragement  as  to 
the  development  of  purchasing  power, 
and  the  merchants  of  the  country  are 
hastening  to  replenish  their  long-run­
down  stocks  at  a  rate  without  precedent 
for  this  time  of  year.

The  stability  of  the  movement  in  the 
direction  of  increased  activity  is  indi­
cated  by  the  steady  upward  movement 
which  continues  in  all  branches  of  the 
stock  market.  Speculative  efforts  are 
made  to  bear  certain  stocks  by  pressure 
of  sales,  but  any  effect  in  this  direction 
is  followed  by  a  prompt  rebound  to  a 
higher  level,  to  be  followed  again  by 
the  steady  advance.

increased 

The  advance 

in  prices  of  iron  and 
steel  products  has  been  quite  general, 
but  as  yet  only 
per  cent,  from  the 
lowest  point;  and,  while  the  demand 
has  greatly 
for  nearly  all 
kinds  of  finished  products,  the  resump­
tion  of  many  works  also  increases  the 
output.  The  expected  settlement  of  the 
coal  miners’  strike  will  remove  an  im­
portant  cause  of  embarrassment in East­
ern  States  and  this  great 
industry  will 
then  stand  on  a  better  footing.

As  might  be  expected,  the  high  av­
erages  in  the  grain  markets  make  them 
very  erratic;  but  the  movement  for  the 
week  has  scored  an  advance of  about 
5  cents  for  wheat,  bringing  it  close  to 
the  mark  set  by  the  advance  two  or 
three  weeks  ago.  Movement  of  this 
cereal  and  other  grains  has  been  phe­
nomenal,  the  limit  being  the  ability  to 
furnish  handling  and  storage  facilities 
and  means  of  transportation.  The  effect 
has  been  to  produce  a  decided  increase 
in  the  rates  for  the  latter,  in  some  cases 
of  lake  transportation  amounting  to  100 
per  cent,  advance.

In  textile  manufactures  there  is  bet­
ter  feeling  than  at  any  time  for  years. 
In  some  cases  prices  have  been  ad­
vanced  beyond  the  market  on  purpose 
to  check  orders  in  the  confidence  that 
there  will  be 
improvement  before  the 
mills  get  out  the  orders  now  under 
way.  The  manufacturers  of  boots  and 
shoes  are  still  receiving  liberal  orders 
for  this  fall,  although  not  enough  to 
keep  all  concerns  at  work  full  time, 
and  shipments  in  August  were  slightly 
smaller than  in  either of  the  three  pre­
vious  years,  although 
in 
1892.  Spring  orders  are  still  held  back 
to  a  large  extent,  as  the  advance  in 
prices,  although  small  compared  with 
the  rise 
leads 
dealers  to  shrink  from  contracts  far 
ahead.

in  hides  and 

larger  than 

leather, 

EXCESSIVE  LEG ISLATIO N.

Governor  Griggs,  of  New  Jersey,  re­
cently  delivered  an  address  on  “ Legis­
lation  and  the  Needs  of Reform  in Law ­
making, ”   which  has  attracted  no  little 
attention.  No  country  enacts  so  many 
laws  as  the  United  States,  because,  in 
addition  to  the  National Congress,  there 
are  the  Legislatures  of  the various states 
to  reckon  with.  The life  of  the  average 
law  passed  in  this  country  is  short,  and 
it  is  a  fact  well  known  that  very  much 
of  the  legislation  got  through  with  an­
nually  consists  of  repealing  in  whole  or 
in  part  laws  previously  enacted.

Although  the  number  of  laws  actually 
enacted  bears but  a  small  proportion  to 
the  number  proposed,  still  a  great  deal 
too  many  are  constantly  added  to the

statute  books.  Out  of  the  14,584 bills 
and  resolutions  introduced  in  the  Fifty- 
fouith  Congress,  only  948,  or  6%  per 
cent  ,  actually  passed.  Even that  num­
ber  was  an  enormous  addition  to  the 
laws  of  the  country.  Fortunately,  the 
legislatures  of  most  of  the  states  do 
not  meet  annually,  nor  do  their sessions 
last  as  long  as  those of  Congress. 
In 
proportion  to  the.tim e  they  sit,  how­
ever,  they  pass  more  laws  than  does 
Congress.

As  a  result  of  this  legislative  activ­
ity,  so many  laws  are  added  to  the  stat­
ute  books  annually  that it  is  difficult  for 
the  legal  fraternity  to  keep  fully  in­
formed  as  to  new  acts.  No 
lawyer 
makes  any  pretense  of  keeping  abreast 
of  the  laws  of  any  state  but  his  own, 
and  to  do  even  that  is  no  easy  task.  As 
a  result  of  this  excessive  legislation, 
many 
laws  are  placed  upon  the  statute 
books  which  should  never  have  been 
put  there;  hence  much  of  the  time  of 
is  occupied  in 
every 
repealing  laws  passed  by 
its  predeces­
sors.

legislative  body 

How  to  remedy  this  propensity  for 
over-legislation  is  a problem  which even 
Governor  Griggs  fails  satisfactorily  to 
solve.  Constitutional  restrictions  may 
prevent  in  some  measure  hasty 
legisla­
tion  by  enforcing  delay;  but  even  the 
constitution  cannot 
limit  the  right  of 
the  people  to  make  laws  through  their 
representatives.  The  people  will  never 
submit  to  have  their  laws made for them 
by  a  body  of  educated  lawmakers—law­
yers,  for  instance—nor  would  it  be  wise 
to  extend  the  veto  power  of  the  Execu­
tive,  nor  subject  the  laws  to  the  revi­
sion  of  the judiciary beyond  the existing 
power  of  the  Supreme  Court  to  deter­
mine  the  constitutionality  of any  partic­
ular act.

The  constant  multiplication  of  laws 
and  the  constant  changes 
in  the  eco­
nomic  laws  of  the  country  are  decided­
ly  demoralizing  to  business. 
It  is  for 
this  reason  that  business  men  dread  the 
sessions  of  Congress  and  the  meetings 
of  the  state 
legislatures,  and  always 
feel  a  relief  when  they  adjourn.

The  people  themselves  are,  of  course, 
mainly  responsible  for  excessive  legis­
lation. 
The  average  American  has 
learned  to  look  to  Congress  or  to  the 
legislatures  for  a  remedy 
for  every 
possible  evil  or  abuse.  The  result  is 
that  the  legislative  bodies  meddle  with 
matters  with  which  prcperly  they  ought 
to  have  no  concern  whatever.  Under 
such  circumstances  it  is  not astonishing 
that  much  of  their  time  is  passed  in 
undoing  work  previously  done.

Mexico’s  determination  to  patronize 
her  home  industries,  on  the ground  that 
her dollars  are  as good  as  gold,  is  the 
biggest  advertisement  she  ever 
sent 
abroad  and  will  develop  her  resources 
quicker  than  all  other  agencies  com­
bined.

injunction 
It  is  now  settled  that  the 
is  the  devil’s  weapon.  A 
judge  in 
West  Virginia  has  enjoined  a  minister 
from  preaching  the gospel.

Florida  is  shipping sponges to Europe 
with  profit.  Turn  about 
is  fair  play. 
Lots  of  sponges  seen  in  American  soci­
ety  have  come  from  abroad.

Cold  customers  like  to  deal  with  a 
It  thaws 

suuny  and  genial  salesman. 
’em  out.

Energy  is  the  only  kindling  that  can 
be depended  on  to  start  the  fire  of  suc­
cess.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

H e w  

B r i c k  

C i g a r s  

W OMAN  AND  W ORK.

Mrs.  Charlotte  Smith,  President  of 
the  Federation  of  Women’s  Clubs,  re­
cently  went before  a  labor  organization 
in  New  York  City  and  argued  that  the 
competition  by  women  with  men  in  the 
various  fields  of  labor  is  caused  by  the 
fact  that  such  large  numbers  of  men  re­
fuse  to  marry  and  support  the  women. 
In  default  of  such  support,  the  women 
are  forced  to  go  out  from  their  homes 
to  work  for  their  own  support. 
In  this 
way  women  have  been  driven  to  invade 
almost  every  field  of 
These 
women,  being wholly dependent  on  their 
own  exertions,  are 
in  no  position  to 
stand  out  for  higher  wages,  but,  being 
at  the  mercy  of  employers,  are  obliged 
to  accept  from  one-third  to  one-half  the 
compensation  ordinarily  paid  to  men 
In  this  way 
for  the  same  sorts  of  work. 
men  are  displaced  by  women  at 
lower 
wages,  and  the  men  so  turned  out  must 
find  employment  in  callings with  which 
they  are  not  familiar,  and  always  at  re­
duced  compensation.

labor. 

Closely  following  Mrs.  Smith  comes 
Mrs.  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who discusses 
the  matter  under  the  heading,  “ Why All 
Men  Should  M arry.”   The  following 
extracts  serve  to  show  the  trend  of  her 
argument:

it 

No  matter  to  what 

independence 
woman  may  arrive  in  the  matter  of  lib­
erty  of  action,  she finds no such pleasure 
outside  of  home  life  as  is  by  nature  and 
custom  open  to  man.  Since  it  is  man’s 
prerogative  to  decide  the  question  of 
his  own  and  of  some  woman’s  life  in 
this  important  matter,  he  who  elects  to 
be  a  bachelor  ought  to  be  ready  and 
willing  to  pay  a  tax  towards  the  sup­
port  of  single  women.  Since  he  refuses 
to  maintain  one  woman  and  receive  the 
value  of  her  affection  and  companion­
ship  in  return,  let  him  aid  in  the  sup­
port  of  many,  with  no  reward  save  his 
own  self-respect.

Woman  was  intended  by  the  Creator 
to  be  supported  by  man.  Everything 
in  the  organization  of  the  two  beings 
indicates  that  fact.  Man  should  earn 
money,  woman  should  use 
in  the 
maintenance  of  the  family.  Man  should 
give  gladly,  woman  receive  gratefully. 
The  child-bearer  should  never  be  the 
wage-earner;  and,  however  the  modern 
woman  may  disdain  the  idea  of  being 
regarded  merely  as  a  child-bearer,  we 
can  never  get  around  the  fact  that  she 
was  intended  by  nature  to  be  the mother 
of  man. 
If  bachelors  deprive  her of the 
privilege  they  should  hasten  to  relieve 
her  of  a  life  of  self-support  or  depend­
ence  in  her  old  age.

Every sane-minded and healthy-bodied 
is  entitled  to  three  children. 
woman 
The  world 
is  maintained  and  society 
exists  by  the  birth  of  children.  Bach­
elors  who  decline  to  become  husbands 
and 
fathers  should  be  taxed  to  supply 
what  might  be  termed  a  “ reparation 
fund.’ ’ 
refused  to 
draw  upon  this  fund  it  could  be  used  in 
the  support  of  homes  for  the  aged  or  in 
the  education  of  orphans.

If  single  women 

The  majority  of  single  men  in  cities 
pay  several  hundred  dollars  a  year  in 
club  dues.  Of  course,  the  dues  are  but 
a  small  portion  of  the  expenses  of  club 
life.  Any  bachelor  who  is  able  to  pay 
$100  in  club  dues  ought  to  be  taxed  $25 
per  annum  for  the  support  of  single 
women  over  40  years  of  age,  besides  a 
separate  tax  for  the  “ reparation  fund.”
No  man  should  be  taxed  until  he  has 
passed  bis  35th  birthday,  because  until 
that  age  a  man  may  be  merely  postpon­
ing  marriage  to  make  himself worthy  of 
it,  but  after  35  he 
liable  to  settle 
down  into  chronic  bachelorhood  unless 
aroused  to  the  necessity  of  action.

No  woman,  unless an 

invalid,  should 
receive  the  benefits  of  the  bachelors’ 
taxation  before  40,  because  many  wom­
en  remain  single  into  their thirties from 
choice,  remembering  that  Cleopatra and 
Helen  of  Troy  were  both  past  that  age 
when  they 
inspired  historic  passions, 
and  many  mothers of successful families 
have  married  for  the  first  time  in  thei-

is 

The  simple  fact 

late  thirties.  But it  is  always  a  tragedy 
when  a  woman  passes  into  her  fourth 
decade  with  no  companion  by  her  side. 
Unless  she  has  some  great  life  work, 
like  Florence  Nightingale  or  Emma 
Willard,her  outlook  is  desolate  and  sad.
is  that  the  woman 
question  and  the  labor  question  are  not 
only  closely  connected 
in  every  way, 
but  they  constitute  two  great  problems 
which  society  must  solve  in  the near  fu­
ture.  The  natural 
law  of  the  sexes  is 
that  they  shall  be  intimately  associated 
and  shall  co-operate 
in  the  labors  of 
life ;  but  the  tendency  of  the  conditiot.s 
that  are  rapidly  forcing themselves upon 
is  to  place  the  sexts  in 
human  society 
competition  and  to  cultivate 
antag­
onism.  This 
is  against  the  order  of 
nature,  and,  while  nature  cannot  be  ex­
tinguished,  it  can  be  modified  and  its 
laws  can  be  turned  from  their  ordinary 
courses.  The  whole  of  human  society 
and  of  human  morals  is  built  upon  cer­
tain  established 
laws  of  association. 
Change  these  laws,  and  what  effect  will 
be  exerted  on  the  entire fabric of society 
is a  most  momentous  matter  for  consid­
eration.

The  census  of 

1890  gives  the  total 
numbers  of persons  in  the  United  States 
at  that  time  employed  in  gainful  occu 
pations  as  22,735,661,  of  which  18,821,- 
099  were  males  and  3,914,571  were  fe­
males.  Of  the  latter,  1,667,698  were  en­
gaged 
in  domestic  service  ordinarily 
considered  appropriate  to  the  sex,  while 
the  balance,  2,246,873,  were  engaged 
in  all  other occupations  as  follows:
Agriculture, fisheries and m ining................   679,533
Professional service,  such as actors,artists,
law, medicine, newspapers, etc................   311,,6S7
Commerce,  navigation and railroads...........  338,421
M anufacturing and mechanical industries.. 1.027,242
T otal..............................................2,246,873
Here  are two  and  one-quarter  million 
of  women  engaged 
in  work  which  in 
i860 was  wholly  performed  by  men,  and 
which  probably  no  woman  dreamed  of 
entering,  and  these numbers  of  women 
mean  just  so  many  men who were driven 
into  other fields  for  a  support,  or  out  of 
employment  into  dissipation,  debauch­
ery  and  trampdom,  and  not  a  few  are 
to-day  burdens  on  their  women.  For­
merly,  when  the  men  went  out  to  work 
and  the  women  kept  the  homes,  each 
industrious  man  could  earn  enough  to 
support  a  wife  and  children  also.  Now, 
with  the  women  at  work  at  lower wages, 
many  of  them  have  to  support  families.
This  amounts  to  the  women becoming 
the  maintainers  of  the  family,  while  the 
men  are  the  recipients  of  that  mainte­
is  a  new  situation,  but  is 
nance.  This 
one  that  claims  prominence. 
It  is  not 
the  result  of  accident,  but  of  growth. 
It 
is 
movement.  Where is the  movement  go­
ing  to  end?  The  time  will  come  when 
women  will  refuse  to  undertake  the  sole 
care  and  maintenance  of  families. 
In 
such  cases  there  will  be  no  families.

is  an  evolution,  and  evolution 

The  beauty,  delicacy  and 

inferior 
strength  of  women  in  civilized  races 
is 
due  to  the  fact  that  they  have  been 
loved,  admired,  cared  for  and  saved 
from  hard 
labor  as  much  as  possible. 
Among  savage  peoples,  the  women  are 
as  powerful  physically  and  as  rugged  in 
constitution  as  are  the  men.  The  wom­
en  perform  all  the  hard  labor,  and  al­
most without  exception  are  ugly. 
If  the 
women  of  civilization  are  to  become 
amazons,  they  will  slowly  revert  to  the 
primitive  type  of  vigor  and  physical 
strength.

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Encampment and  proved  to  be  the  leader,  as 
its merits  met  with  instantaneous  recognition 
by  the  brave  Boys  in  Blue. 
If  you  are  not 
already  handling  “ NEW   BRICKS”  please 
give them a trial.

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The  Retail  Credit  Problem. 

W ritten fo r th e T r a d esm a n .

The  subject  of  credits  is  of  perennial 
interest.  The  kinds  of  business,  loca­
tions  and  surroundings  where  it  is prac­
ticable  to  conduct  a  strictly  cash-over- 
the-counter  business  are  relatively  few. 
The  list  comprises  such  kinds  of  busi­
ness  as  depend  most  upon  location  and 
transient  oi  passing  trade,  where  the 
principal  expense  is  rent,  location  serv­
ing  all  the  purposes  of publicity.  These 
may  be  practically  cash  stores,  but  pro­
gressing  from  these 
in  any  direction 
the  difficulties  of  credits  increase.

These  difficulties  are  not all  found  in 
the  dealing  with  customers  of  the  most 
moderate  means,  with  whom  the  need 
of  credit  is  the  lack  of  present  funds— 
indeed,  as  a  rule,  the  more  abundantly 
blessed  with  wealth  are  the  ones  who 
like  to  obtain  credit  and  are  slowest 
in 
meeting  such  obligations.  Thus,  many 
of  the  fashionable  stores  in  the  larger 
cities  suffer  as  seriously  on  this  account 
as  the  less  pretentious  enterprises  else­
where.  To  be  sure,  there  is  a  large  and 
honorable  class  of  those  possessed  of 
worldly  goods  who  take  an  interest  and 
pride  in  seeing  that  all  obligations  are 
promptly  met.  These  include  the  ones 
who  have  attained  their  wealth  through 
effort  in  which  the  element  of credit  has 
figured—who  “ know  how 
it  is  them­
selves” —or  those of  the  more  consider­
ate,  who  have  given the subject thought, 
and  on  general  principles  of  rectitude 
and  fair  dealing  are  careful  in  this  re­
gard,  appreciating  that  what  to  them 
would  be  of  little  moment  maybe  of the 
importance  to  some  hapless 
greatest 
tradesman.  There 
is  one  class  of  the 
stores  catering  to  the most fashionable— 
the  most  snobbish—trade,  in  the  great 
cities,  in  which  credit  is  the  rule;  and 
it  may  not  be  considered  a  difficulty. 
These  are  the  ones  where  the  orders  are 
given  without  reference  to  expense, 
where  the  aristocratic  purchaser  does 
not  wish  to  stoop  to  the  petty  details  of 
cost  and  payment.  Such  are  willing  to 
pay  for  the  exemption,  and  the  mer­
chant  charges  to  all,  roundly  and  prop­
erly,  the  loss  and  annoyance  sure  to  be 
caused  by  many.

But,  in  the  vast  sea  of  general  trade, 
considerations  of  credit  are  on  different 
bases.  There 
is  a  pretty  general  idea 
that  very  much  of  it  is  the  result  of  ne­
cessity.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  the  neces­
sity 
is  more  the  result  of  the  idea—the 
result  of  habit  and  of  the almost univer­
sal  laxness  in  matters  of  business. 
It  is 
largely  owing  to  the  fact  that  so  great  a 
proportion  of  the  people  cannot,through 
lack  of  education,  keep  money  and 
spend  it  according  to  need.  It  seems  to 
be  the  only  way  for  such  to  run  into 
debt  and,  under  the  stress  of  knowing 
they  must  pay,  do  so on  receipt  of  their 
income  from  wages  or  elsewhere  as 
quickly  as  possible  lest  it  slip  between 
their  fingers.  This  trait 
is  so  widely
prevalent  that  it  has  created  and  makes 
necessary  the  vast  system  of 
retail 
credits  which  is  the  great  curse  of  trade 
throughout  the  country  to-day.

Thus,  there  is  little  use  in ’  preaching 
the  desirability  of  conducting  business 
on  a  strictly  cash  basis.  Habits  of  sav­
ing,  and  method  in  the  management  of 
finances,  are  matters of education,  which 
cannot  be 
imparted  by  a  dealer  to  his 
patrons;  so,  if  he  takes  a  stand  against 
all  credits,  it  means  the  turning  of  a 
considerable  portion  of  his  trade  to 
those  who  will  meet  the  requirement.

But 

it  by  no  means  follows  that  the 
dealer  must  resign  himself  to  the  pres­
ent  slipshod  methods,  which would show

almost  as  great  a  lack  of  providence  on 
his  part  as  that  which  makes  credit 
necessary  to the  customer. 
In  the  pres­
ent  system—or lack  of  system—there  is 
no  provision  for  the  careful  supervision 
and  limiting  of  accounts,  or  for  the  se­
curing  of  accuracy  in  the  passbook  and 
other  entries.  Thus  it  is  that  there  are 
so  often  large  accounts  which  have  run 
beyond  the  ability  of  payment,  or  mis­
takes  and  disputes  have  crept  in,  to  the 
serious  annoyance  and  loss  of  the  busi­
ness.  These  conditions  may  largely  be 
remedied  by  the  adoption  of  systematic 
methods  of  handling  the  accounts  and 
credits.  Means  should  be  employed  to 
bring  all  unduly  lengthening  accounts 
under  constant  notice,  and  the  wise 
merchant  is  the  one  who  earliest  meets 
the  difficulties  and  determines,  if  even 
in  the  wrong  way,  how  the  matter  is  to 
end.

it 

There  are  comparatively  few  cases  in 
which 
is  not  possible  to  meet  the 
needs  of  those  who  have  not yet  learned 
to  pay  as  they  go  without  the  passbook 
and  the  ledger  with  their  disagreements 
and  annoyances.  Among  these  meth­
ods  may  be  noted  cash  cards  of  varying 
denominations  for  keeping  the  account 
of  the  trade,  on  which  the  transactions 
are 
indicated  by  a  punch,  or  the  nu­
merous  coupon  systems,  in  which  the 
dealer  retains  a  positive  evidence  of the 
amount  of  the indebtedness in such form 
as  to  limit  the  transactions  and  secure 
accurate  settlement.  The  cash  system  is 
the  best.  When  people  have  learned  to 
pay  as  they  go,  it  will  be  universal. 
But  that  millennium  is  not here  yet,and 
until 
it  comes  the  problem  of  mana­
ging  this  greatest hindrance to profitable 
trade  will  continue  to  engage  much  of 
the  attention  which  might  be  better em­
ployed. 

R o s e n s t e i n .

She  Had  Her  Nerve  with  Her.

F rom  the Shiaw asse A m erican.

A  certain  business  man  of  Owosso  re­
cently  met  with  a  case  of  pure  nerve  in 
one of  the  “  gentler”   sex  which  almost 
took  away  his  breath.  A  woman  came 
into  his  store  and  made  a  purchase 
which  amounted  to  just  io  cents.  She 
tendered  a  $5  bill  in  payment,  claiming 
that  was  all  the  money  she  had.  The 
merchant  went after  the  change,  which 
he  handed  to  the  woman,  and  then 
stooped  down  and  picked  up  a  dime 
which had  dropped  from  his  pocket  and 
rolled  under  the  next  counter. 
. The 
woman  asked  him  what  the  coin  was 
and  be  told  her  10 cents.  She  demand­
ed  it,  saying  she  had  dropped 
it.  The 
man  reminded  her  that  she  had  just  a 
few  minutes  before  declared  that  she 
Hid  not  have  any  money  except  the $5 
which  she  produced.  Even  then  her 
nerve  did  not 
she 
didn’t get  the  money.
How  Local  Newspapers  Can  Help 

forsake  her;  but 

Trade.

From  th e T raverse City  H erald.

The  Milwaukee  Clothing  Co.,  which 
secured  a  reduction  of  license  from  the 
council,  has  discontinued  business 
in 
the  Brosch  block  and  left  the  city.  This 
was  one  of  those  concerns  which  could 
not continue  to  do  a  profitable  business 
here because  their  money  could  not  buy 
space  in  the  local  newspapers  to  adver­
tise  their goods  in  competition  with  the 
local  merchants  who  help  support  the 
city  and  its  institutions.

although 

Switzerland, 

she  spends 
only  half  a  million  dollars  yearly  on  her 
army,  can  turn  out  100,000  trained  men 
in  two days  in  case  of  need,  and  has  a 
reserve of  100,000  more and  a landsturm 
of  270,000.  The  army  maneuvers  this 
year  will  be  held  in  the  mountains  of 
the  Engadine.

Oft  the  cloud  that  wraps  the  present 
hour  serves  to  brighten  all  our  future 
days.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

CUSH  TIPE m  DEW  CUSTODIERS

Yes, they are both very de­
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active  merchant  is seeking-, 
and  those  most  successful 
are  using  the  co-operative 
system—giving  their  cus­
tomers  the  benefit  of their 
advertising bill.

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Harvest
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The above cut  shows  our 
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Lakeview,  Mich.

Corbin’s Lightning 
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.
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the practical benefit she will derive from this addition to  her woik 
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SU C C ESS FU L  SALESM EN.

Miss  Rena  Challender,  Representing 

Jennings  &   Smith.

Miss  Rena  Challender  began  her 
career as a  traveling  salesman  two  years 
ago,  when  she  took  out a  line  of  cocoa* 
nut  for  Wetmore  &  Pride,  of  Chicago. 
She  subsequently  traveled  for  the  Mc­
Ginnis  Oyster  Co.  and  Bunte  Bros.  & 
Spoehr,  manufacturing  confectioners  sf 
Chicago.  She has  recently  engaged  to 
carry  the  line  of  Jennings  &  Smith  and 
starts  out  on  her 
initial  trip  for  this 
house  Sept.  20.

Miss  Challender  has  had  a  somewhat 
eventful  career,  considering  her  years, 
and  she  talks  of herself  so  modestly  and 
interestingly  that  the  Tradesman  is  dis­
posed  to  present  the  salient  features  of 
her  life  in  her own  words:

“ I  began 

in  the  business  from 

life  on  a  clearing  in  Lee- 
lanaw  county,  Mich.,  where  I  was  born 
in  1872.  As  my  parents  realized  that  I 
must  fight  the  battle  of  life  alone,  I  was 
apprenticed  at  the  age  of 
14  to  the 
printing  trade in  the  office of  the Luther 
Lance,  where  a  patent 
inside  paper 
was  printed  on  an  old  hand  press.  Here 
I 
learned  the  principles  of  my  chosen 
profession  from  a  thoroughly  competent 
printer,  who  carefully  taught  me  every 
point,  telling  me  I  must  have  experi­
ence 
‘ devil’  to 
editor.  Within  a  few  years  I  could  ‘ set 
a 
the 
paper,  manage  the  press,  pick  up  local 
happenings,  read  proof,  etc.  From  the 
start  I  learned  that  in  my  struggles with 
I  must  not  depend  upon 
the  world 
others,  but 
invariably  act  quickly  and 
with  confidence  in  myself.  I had worked 
at  my  trade  only  one  year  when  the edi­
tor went  on  a  Western  trip  and  left  me 
alone  to get  out  the  paper by myself.  As 
we  bad  only  the  two  outside  pages  to 
print,  it  being  a  patent  inside,  there 
were  only  two  forms  to  make  up.

job’  or  an  advertisement  for 

“ I  shall  never  forget  a  funny  little 
incident  that  happened.  All  went  very 
It  was  an 
nicely  until  press  day  came. 
extremely  hot day  in  August. 
I  had  my 
forms  made  up  and  on  the  press,  and 
had  just  donned  my  press  costume. 
It 
consisted  of  an  old  black  shirt,  a  shirt 
waist  with  one  sleeve  missing  and  the 
other  rolled  up  to  the  shoulder,  and  a 
little  cap,  which  I  wore  to  keep  ink  out 
of  my  hair.  If  my  skirt  had  been  ‘ over­
alls,’  as  I  often  wished,  I  would  not 
have had  my  accident.  Doubtless  the 
new  woman  would  wear  bloomers.

“ We  had  exchanged  the  old  hand 
press  for  a  Liberty  press  that  would 
bold  our  two  pages,  but  we  had  2,800 
impressions  to  run  off  that  hot  day,  and 
I  was  editor, 
‘ boss’  all 
alone.

‘ devil’  and 

“ I  got  my  press  oiled,  my  ink  in  the 
fountain,  and  everything  going  nicely, 
when  I  heard  some  one  in  the  office. 
I 
threw  off  the 
impression  and  left  the 
press  running,  and  as  I  started  to  leave 
in  the  cog  wheel  and 
my  skirt  caught 
got  twisted 
in  such  a  way  that  I  could 
not get  loose. 
1  called,  and  who  should 
come  to  my  assistance  but a  very  nice­
ly  dressed  gentleman  who  represented 
some  paper house!  He  wore  a  very  nice 
light  suit,and in  turning the  press  wheel 
back  to  release  me,  each  time  that  he 
bent over he  rubbed  against  the ink bar­
rel  which  stood  by  the  press;  and  the 
amount  of 
ink  he  rubbed  off  from  the 
barrel  made  his  light  trousers  a  sight  to 
behold.  We  were  a  pair  to  draw  to—I,

I 

entered 
into  competition  with  men. 
Many  difficulties  were  encountered,  but 
they  were  surmounted  by  careful  atten­
tion  to business. 
invariably  received 
my  just  dues  and  wages,  and  was  made 
‘ foreman’  of  the  composing  room  of  the 
afternoon  daily  after  serving  one  year 
at  the  case,  and  was  also  intrusted  with 
the  mechanical  department.  There  were 
in  the  office  four  presses—a  large  cylin­
der,  a  pony  cylinder  and  two  small  job­
bing  presses. 
I  held  this  position  for 
two  years,  and  was  then  sought  out  to 
assume  charge  of  an 
illustrated,  eight- 
page  morning  newspaper,  where  none 
but  women  were  employed. 
1  attended 
to  the  making  up  of  the  paper  and 
acted  as  foreman  of  the  office.

ridiculous 

in  my 
regalia,  and  he 
smeared  with  ink  from  head to foot.  He 
asked  for  gasoline,  and  after  trying  to 
get  off the ink—and making himself look 
a  hundred  per  cent,  worse—left  the 
office,  forgetting  to  state  his  business 
and  muttering  something  about  country 
print  shops. 
I  have  often  wondered  if 
he  ever  thinks  of  his  experience  with 
a  girl  ‘ pressman’  that  smeared him with 
ink.  As  for  me,  my  paper  came  out  all 
right  after  I  got  loose  from  the  press, 
and  my  unknown  friend  unconsciously 
contributed  to  my  advancement  to  the 
unique  distinction  of  forewoman  in  a 
press room.

“ From  this  office  I  went to  a  daily 
in  Manistee,  where  I

newspaper  office 

“ After  I  had  been  a 

full-fledged 
printer  six  years  I  wanted  other  worlds 
to  conquer,, and  procured  a position  as a 
commercial  traveler,  which  I  have  suc­
cessfully  maintained for  two  years  past. 
The  prejudice  I  have  met  with  on  the 
road  has  been  slight  and  hardly  worth 
I  once  in  a  while  meet  a 
mentioning. 
traveling  man  who 
‘ thinks  a  woman 
has  no  business  on  the  road. ’  But  when 
I  ask  him  to  explain  he  can  only  say, 
‘ It  is  no  place  for  her. ’  Yet  that  same 
man  will  step  out  of  his  way  to  assist 
me  in  making  a  sale.

“ In  my  opinion  there  are  few  profes­
sions  or  trades  that  a  woman  cannot  en­
ter,  but  to  maintain  her  position  she 
independent
must  closely • follow  the 

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line. 
It  pains  one  to  notice  that  so  few 
rise  above  a  mere  mediocre  existence 
and  that  many  either  settle  down  to  the 
humdrum  of  a  married  life,  where  they 
live  unhappy,  or  support  their worthless 
husbands  by  their  own  toil.  No  woman 
who  looks  forward  to  the  final  rounding 
out  of  her  life  by  an  alliance  with  one 
of  the  sterner  sex  can  expect  to  reach 
the topmost round  of  success  in  her  pro­
fession or calling ;  but,  if successful,  her 
contact  with  men  will  help  her  to  chose 
a  husband  when  the  times  comes.

“ My  experience  on  the  road  has  not 
been unlike that of other women who have 
embraced  the  calling  of  traveling  sales­
man.  People  that  see  traveling  sales­
ladies  have  some  very  queer 
ideas  and 
imagine  a  great  many  things.  The 
questions  are  always  asked: 
‘ Is  it  not 
awfully  embarrassing  to  call  at  a  place 
of  business  and  show  your  samples?’ 
‘ What do  you  do  when  a  buyer  refuses, 
I  never  think  of  feeling  out  of 
etc.?’ 
my  place  when  calling  on  the  trade. 
It 
is  only  a  matter  of  business. 
I  have 
my  line  of  samples  such  as  my  cus­
tomer  handles,  and  I  know  he  has  to 
line  of  goods  in  stock.  The 
keep  my 
next  thing 
is  to  get  him  interested  in 
my  samples.  Most  naturally  he  will 
say:  ‘ No,  I  do  not  want  anything  in 
your  line to-day.’  Then  I  talk  to  him, 
get  him  to  look  at  my  samples,  and 
when  you  get  a  buyer  interested  enough 
to  look  at  your  samples  you  can,  nine 
times  out  of  ten,  get  some  kind  of  an 
order. 
If  even  a  small  one,  it’s  a start­
er.  Women are  getting  in  the  traveling 
commercial  line  now,  and  it  will  not be 
an  uncommon  thing  after  a  while  to  see 
them  handling  a  great  many  different 
lines.  About  the  only  line  that  will  be 
barred  to  them  will  be  the  liquor  busi­
ness,  as  a  woman  can’t  go  out  and  get 
drunk  with  her  customer  and  sell  him  a 
carload  of beer.

“ I  find,  in  my  experience,  a  great 
many  of  the  commercial  men  are  op­
I  have 
posed  to  our  being  on  the  road. 
had  them  make  this  remark  to  me: 
‘ I 
suppose  when  you  women  take  out  a 
commercial  line  you  do  your  work  for 
less  money  and  cut  your  expense  ac­
count.'  Now  there  is  the  secret  of  the 
whole  prejudiced  feeling. 
It  is  impos­
sible  for  a  woman  to  travel  on  less  than 
a  man.  There  are  many  little  things 
that  take  the  place  of  cigars and similar 
other  treats  that  the  sterner  sex  are 
compelled  to  offer  their  customers.  A 
lady  has  always  more  or  less  tipping  to 
do  for  kindnesses  shown  by  baggage­
men  and  porters,  and  we  stand  the  treat 
to  have  that  free,  independent  feeling. 
No  lady  should  humble  herself  to  any­
one  for  the  sake  of  saving  on  her  ex-

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PICNIC

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

price.

People want that kind of Flour.
We call it "LILY WHITE."
It is no trouble to sell it.
EVERYBODY likes i t  
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. 

—

McGRfly  REFRIGERATOR  AND  GOLD  STORAGE  GO..

Manufacturers of Fine Roll Top Butter and Grocery Refrigerators and Store Fixtures 

CO LD   S T O R A G E   AND  C O O LIN G   RO O M S. 

K E N O A L L V IL L E ,  IND.

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pense  account.  You  must  be  a  good 
business  fellow*  in  a  thorough  business 
way,  and  your  customers  and  contem 
porary  salesmen  will  soon look on  you  as 
a  woman  of  business  and  not  one  of  the 
humble,  please-give-me-an-order, plead 
ing  kind.

“ How  do  I  manage  for  trains?  The 
It  makes  no 
same  as  a  man  would. 
difference  about  the  hour—I  can  always 
get  up  for  my  train  and  have  never 
missed  a  train  or 
lost  a  sample  case 
yet.  My  two  sample  cases  weigh  about 
seventy-five  pounds  and  I  always  carry 
them.  The  busman  or  the  brakeman 
generally  puts  them  on  the  train  for  a 
good  cigar. 
In  most  towns  I  have  a 
boy  carry  them  for  me,  but  if  a  boy  is 
not 
in  sight  and  my  time  is  limited  I 
carry  them  myself.  But  this  does  not 
occur  very  often.

“ The  road  is  about  the  hardest  work 
a  woman  can  do.  There is  the  constant 
strain  of  interviewing  different  people. 
One  must  be  somewhat  of  a  judge  of 
human  nature  here. 
I  can  generally  tell 
how  to  address  my  man  the  moment  I 
It  comes  natural  What  1  say 
see  him. 
to  one  won’t  even  feaze  another. 
I  like 
traveling  very  much  and  enjoy  meeting 
I  do  not  think  people 
business  people. 
are  as  cranky  as  the  outside  world 
im­
I  would  rather  have  a 
agines  them. 
customer  say, 
‘ No*  than  Yes'  at  fiist. 
If  a  person  is  very  easy  and  willing  to 
buy,  I  look  up  his  rating,  for  my  house 
might  object  to  filling  his  order.

‘ One  meets  with  very  queer  people. 
It  is  amusing  to go  to  small  towns  and 
watch  the  people  size  you  up. 
I  have 
had  the  boys.and  even  women  follow me 
into  a  store  and  gather around  to  hear 
what  I  was  saying  and  see  what  I  was 
showing.  They  would  gaze  with  open 
mouth  and  eyes,  and  sometimes  a  cus­
tomer  or  I  would  tell  them  some  yarn 
that  would  send  them  away  discussing 
the  wonderful  thing.  Then  one  meets 
queer  people 
in  business.  One  firm  I 
called  on  I  asked  to  see  the  buyer  and 
the  clerk 
informed  me  he  had  gone 
hunting.  As  it  was  my  last  store  on  the 
way  to  the  train  and  an  hour  before 
train  time,  I  thought  I  would  make  out 
my  orders  there,  and  asked  permission 
of  the  clerk  to  write  at  the desk.  He 
blushed  and  gave  his  consent.  The desk 
was  like  the  common,  ordinary  business 
man’s  desk. 
I  sat  down  to  it  and  wrote 
for  about  twenty  minutes,  when  I  felt 
something  move  under  the  desk. 
I 
pushed  my  stool  back,  and  what  should 
it  be  but  the  poor  buyer,  crouched  there 
to  hide  from  the  ‘ lady  drummer!’  He 
came  out  on  his  hands  and  knees,  look­
ing over his  shoulder at me and  saying as 
he  went  out  the  back  door: 
‘ Send  me 
fifty  cases  of  cocoanut. 
I  won’t  say  a 
word  and  don’t  tell  the  joke.’  Well,  it 
was  too  good  to  keep,  and  I  had  a  good 
lot  of  fun  out  of  it  with  the  boys  on  the 
road,.and I  guess  he  has  had  to  ‘ set  ’em 
up’  more  than  once  on  the  strength  of 
that joke.  There are a  great  many  such 
little  incidents  that happen  that are very 
amusing.

I 

How  do 

spend  my 

leisure 
hours?  Well,  in  various  ways.  I  gener­
ally  carry  some 
light  fancy  work,  of 
which  I  am  very  fond,  and  while  wait- 
ing  for  a  train  in  some  little  lonely  sta­
tion  I  work  on  that.  And  then  often 
one  meets  with  other travelers  who  are 
also  waiting  for  the  train,  and  we  play 
whist,  cinch  or  whatever  game  pleases 
the  crowd. 
Sundays  are  spent  in  writ­
ing  letters  and  reading,  and  it  is  most 
generally  the  dullest  day  of  the  week.
“ I  think  that  traveling  people  have 
more  to  contend  with  than  any  other

class.  Their  road 
is  by  no  means  a 
path  of  roses.  But  a  salesman  or  sales­
lady  must  always  be  cheerful  and  not 
call  on  customers  with  a  cloud  on  the 
brow,  for  it  would  spoil  all. 
If  I  enter 
a  store  and  find  another  salesman  there 
I  leave  the  place  until  he  has  finished, 
as  the  buyer  would  come  to  see  what the 
lady  wanted,  and 
if  I  told  him  I  would 
see  him  when  he  was  at  liberty  his  re­
ply  would  b e : 
‘ l a m  not  busy  now;  I 
can  see  you. ’  Then  I  should  spoil  the 
other  fellow’s  sale  and  could  not  get  the 
whole attention  of  the  buyer  and  would 
spoil  both  sales. 
I  think  commercial 
people  should  treat  each  other  with 
courtesy, and women  should  not take  ad­
vantage  of  a  brother  salesman  on  the 
ground  that  they  are  women. 
I  am  not 
a  woman  suffragist,  but  I  think  if  a 
woman  puts  herself 
in  a  man’s  place 
she  must  do  as  he  would  under  the  cir­
cumstances,  and  not  complain  of  the 
heavy  work.

for  a  humble, 

“ No  woman  should  undertake  to  han­
dle  a  commercial  line  unless  she  has  a 
good,  strong  will  of  her  own  and  lots  of 
pluck, 
complaining 
woman  will  surely  fail  and  spoil  the 
road  for  worthier  sisters. 
I  intend  to 
make  the  road  my  business,  and  do  not 
care  for any  other occupation. 
I  think, 
if  a  woman  works  on  a  true  business 
basis  and  does  not  go  beyond a woman's 
'  mit  and attends  strictly  to business,she 
will  succeed.  A  woman  need  not  be  a 
crank,  but,  as 
‘ the  boys’  say,  ‘a  good 
fellow;’  and  always  gain  the  confidence 
of  your  customers.  By  dealing  squarely 
with  them  you  will  keep  your  trade. 
I 
always  tell  my  customers  exactly  what 
they  are  buying,  and  do  not  exaggerate 
one  mite. 
I  hope  some  day  we  will 
have  enough  women  on  the  road  to 
have  an  association  of our own. ”
Uses  and  Limitations  of  Condensed 

Milk.

1. 

Dr. Charles G. Kerley, of New York, has 
reached  the  following  conclusions as the 
result  of  an  extensive  experience 
in 
treating  the  maladies  of  children :

In  the  artificial feeding of infants, 
always  determine  as  exactly  as  possible 
the  percentages  of  the  food constituents.
is  an  in­
different  substitute  for  mother’s  milk, 
no  matter  what  the  age  of  the  infant 
may  be.

2.  Condensed  milk  alone 

3.  Condensed  milk  alone  should  not 

be given  after  the  third  month.

4.  Condensed  milk, 

fortified,  may 
be  made an  acceptable  diet  for  infants; 
alone,  it  is  a  food  upon  which  a  certain 
number  of  children  exist  until  age  or 
a  changed  condition  allows  of  a  better 
diet;  and  inasmuch  as  there  is  nothing 
to  take 
its  place  among  the  very  poor, 
its  value  to  them  is  inestimable.

One  of  the  projects  to  celebrate  the 
inauguration  of  Greater  New  York  is  a 
great  industrial  fair  in  1900  Circulars 
have  been  sent  to  business  men  advo­
cating  the  scheme,  and  most  of  the  re­
plies  so  far  have  been  favorable.

With  the  assistance  of  the  latest  ma­
chines  a  piece of  leather  can  be  trans­
formed 
into  a  pair  of  boots  in  thirty- 
four  minutes,  in  which  time  it  passes 
through  the  hands  of  sixty-three  people, 
and  through  fifteen  machines.

It  is  said  that  if  the  earth’s  atmos­
phere  were  suddenly  increased  in thick­
ness  to  700  miles  the  sun  could  not  pen­
etrate  it  and  the  earth  would  soon  be 
wrapped  in  ice.

Only  seventy  years  have elapsed since 
the  first  railway  111  the  world  was  fin­
ished.  During that  comparatively  brief 
period  400,000  miles  have  been  con­
structed.

The  devil  is  proud  of  a  grumbler,  no 
matter  whether  he  belongs to a church or 
not.

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*  mad« ln sections and are so  made  with  lap  joints  held  to- 
‘hey are Perfectly air tight, but can be very easily p it up  or  taken

ing r a m !  

fttrnished w ith 

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The  More  We  Have  the  More  We 

Want.

Any  thoughtful  person  who  has  given 
consideration  to  the  condition  of  the 
masses  of  the  population  of  the  world 
most  civilized  countries  knows  that  to 
day  the  workpeople  are  better  off  i„ 
every way  than  ever  they  were before  in 
any  period  of  history

Even  as 

late  as  a  century  ago  the 
lower  classes  of  many  European  coun 
tries  lived  under  conditions  of  extreme 
hardship.  They  were  ground  down  by 
tyrannical  and  arbitrary  governments, 
impoverished  by  taxes 
and  they  were 
which  amounted 
in  many  cases  almost 
to  a  confiscation of  property.  Thenobil 
ity  had  special  rights  and  powers  over 
the  persons  and  possessions  of  the  com 
mon  people,  and 
it  was  the  general 
degradation  into  which  the  French  peo 
into 
pie  were  plunged  that  drove  them 
the  bloody  and 
revolution 
known  as  the  ‘ * Reign  of  Terror. ’

ferocious 

in  the  United  States, 

Since  then  all  has  been  changed.  The 
blessings  of  liberty  aré  now  enjoyed  to 
a  greater or  less  extent  by  the  people  of 
longer 
every  country,  and  there  are  no 
any  slaves 
in 
in  Russia,  while  the 
Brazil,  Cuba  or 
light  of  education  which shines out from 
millions  of  schools  supported  by the  va­
rious  governments  has  had  an  enormous 
effect  in  bettering  the  condition  of  the 
people,  who  now  think  for  themselves 
and  know  for  themselves  where  once 
they  were  dependent  tor 
information 
upon  their  masters,  or  other  privileged 
classes,  and  were  forbidden  to  think  at 
all.

It 

But  the  improvement  in  the condition 
of  the  people  has  not  been  confined  to 
the  acquisition  of  freedom  and  of  edu­
cation. 
is  seen  in  the  lightening  of 
their  labor  by  machinery,  in  the  in­
crease  of  wages,  and  in  the  cheapening 
of  all  the  necessaries  of  life  and of  not 
a  few  of  the  luxuries,  putting  them  in 
the  reach  of  millions  of  persons  of 
classes  to  whom  such  indulgences  were 
impossible  within  a  few  decades.

Some  figures,  drawn  from  actual  sta­
tistical  facts,  showing  the  extraordinary 
progress 
in  material  welfare  made  by 
the  people  of  this  country  and presented 
and  grouped  in  an  article  in  the  Atlan­
tic  Monthly  for  August,  by  Hon.  Carroll 
D.  Wright,  United  States  Commissioner 
of  Labor af  Washington,  are  instructive 
in  this  connection.  A  report  made  to 
the  Senate  of  the  United  States  in  1893, 
by  the  Committee  on  Finance,  gives 
the  course  of  wholesale  prices  and  of 
wages  from 
1840  to  1891,  inclusive,  a 
period  of  fifty-two  years.  The  report 
deals  with  seventeen  great  branches  of 
industry.

taking 

It  shows  that, 

industries—that 

i860  as  the 
standard  at 
100,  rates  of  wages  rose 
from  87.7  in  1840  to  160.7  in  1891  ;  that 
increase  of  60.7  per  cent,  from 
is,  an 
i860,  and  of  73  per  cent,  from 
1840 
Taking  an  average according  to  the im­
is  to 
portance  of  the 
say,  of  each  industry  relative  to  all 
in­
dustries—it  is  found  that  the  gain  from 
1840  to 
1891  was  86  per  cent.  On  the 
other  hand,  the'hours  of  labor  have  been 
reduced  1.4  hours  in  the  same  period  in 
the  daily  average. 
In  some  industries 
the  reduction  of  hours  has  been  much 
greater,  while in  others  it  has  been  less.
is  no  doubt  about  the  increase 
in  wages  for  the  period  mentioned;  but 
if  the  prices  of  all  articles  of  consump­
tion  had  correspondingly  gone up, there­
by 
living,  no 
special  benefit  would  have accrued  to 
the  masses  of  the  people.  They  would

increasing  the  cost  of 

There 

simply  have  been  able  to  live  as  they 
had  done  previously.

in 

But  what  are  the  real  facts?  Accord­
ing  to  the  same  report,  taking  all  arti­
cles  on  a  wholesale  basis  and  as  com 
pared  with  the  standard  of  the  year 
i860,  the  prices  of  223  articles  were  7. 
per  cent,  lower 
1891  than  in  i860, 
and  taking  1840  as  the  standard,  with 
eighty-five  articles  the  difference  was 
3.7  per  cent. 
Examining  prices  of 
articles  on  the  basis  of  consumption, 
leaving  rent  out  of  consideration,  the 
cost  of  living,  without  counting  wages 
is  shown  to  have  been  between  4  and 
per  cent,  less  than  in  i860 j  and,  taking 
in  the  fact  that  wages  have  materially 
increased,  it  is  seen  that  while  the  peo 
pie 
in  this  country  to-day  have  lower 
costs  of 
living  than  ever  before,  they 
earn  higher  wages.

Appealing  still  further  to  the  Com 
missioner’s  figures,  it 
is  seen  that  in 
850  the  average  annual  earnings  of 
each  employe  engaged  in  manufactur 
ing  and  mechanical  pursuits,  including 
in  round 
men,  women  and  children, 
i860,  $289;  in 
numbers  were  $247;  in 
1890, 
870,  $302;  in  1880,  $347,  and  in 
$445-  Here 
in 
crease  in  the  average  annual earnings of 
the  employes  in our great industrial pur 
suits.

is  a  steady,  positive 

In  harmony  with  the  steady  increase 
of  the  earning  power  of  the  people,  and 
with  the  cheapening  of  the  ordinary 
expenses  of  living,  is  the  fact  that  the 
people  live  in  better houses;  they  have 
better  facilities  of  transportation  to  and 
from  their  work;  by  reason  of  better 
systems  of  sanitation  both  on  land  and 
sea,  the  people  are  saved  from  destruc- 
ve  epidemics  of  disease  which  once 
devastated  many  parts  of  the  country 
and  from  which  the  workpeople  and 
their  families  were  unable  to  flee.  This 
freedom  from  frequent  visitations  of 
ickness  to  the  workers  and  their  fami- 
es  is  a  distinct  gain,  since  their  earn­
ings  are  not  so  liable  to  be  swallowed 
up  by  ill  health.

The  enormous  increase and 

improve­
ments  in  the  facilites  for  gaining  edu­
cation,  arid  the  multiplication  and  ex­
traordinary  cheapening  of  books  and 
newspapers,  have  exerted  an  incalcu­
lable  influence  in  raising  the  condition 
of  the  people,  and  the  century  which  is 
about  to  close,  in  respect  to  the  numer 
ous  and  brilliant 
inventions  and  dis 
coveries 
in  mechanism  and  electricity 
and  chemistry,  has done  more  to  lighten 
and  to  dignify 
labor  than  was  ever 
gained 
in  all  the  previous  centuries  of 
the  world’s  existence.

The  obvious  conclusion  to  be  drawn 
from  all  this  amelioration  of  the  condi­
tion  of  the  masses  of  the  people  is  that 
they  should  be  contented  and  happy. 
But  never,  unless  it  was  when  the  peo­
ple  of  the  nations,  groaning  under  Ro­
man  despotism,  were anxiously awaiting 
the  coming  of  the  celestial  King,  whose 
advent  had  long  before been a subject of 
prophecy,  has  there  been  such  popular 
discontent  as  now.

Millions  of  people  in  this  great,  free 
republic  are  so  carried  away  by  this 
dissatisfaction  with  the  existing  state of 
affairs  that  they  want  to  overthrow  the 
entire  political  and  social  system  of  the 
country.  This  is  not  the  expression  of 
a  few  discontented  demagogues,  but  it 
s  proclaimed in hundreds of newspapers 
all  over  the  country,  and  is  the  basis  of 
an  organized  assault  against  the  Gov­
ernment,  having  for  its  object  the  sub­
stitution  of  communism  and  anarchy 
for governmental  restraint  and  law  and 
order.

It 

is  a 

There  seems  no  other  reason  for  such 
an  extraordinary  revolution  in  popular 
feeling  than  that,  having  already  so 
greatly  improved their condition,  people 
can  brook  no  superiority 
in  social  or 
material  position.  They  must  either 
rise  to  the  first  rank  in  wealth  and 
in­
fluence,  or  else  ■ drag  down  all  above 
them. 
laudable  ambition  that 
prompts  men  to  desire  and  seek  to  rise 
to  the  summit.  But  the competition  for 
the  highest  places  is  most  arduous  and 
exacting.
Z  The  more  men  get  the  more  they 
covet.  The  higher  the  position  to  which 
they  rise,  if 
it  be  not  the  highest,  the 
keener  the  rivalry  and  the  more  bitter 
the  disappointment  for  those  who 
lose. 
But  when  millions,  realizing  the  hope­
lessness  of  the'struggle  and  yet are filled 
with  a  sense  of  their  failure,  it  is  not 
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Shoes  and  Leather
Kid  Shoes 

for  Men 

the  Coming 

Spring  Season.

Every  year,  of 

late,  we  have  heard 
more  and  more  of  the  kid  shoe as a 
summer  foot  covering  for  men.  A  few 
seasons  back  when  the  chrome-tanned 
goat  shoe  first  made  its appearance  the 
experiment  was  looked  upon  with  con­
siderable  interest  and  not  without a deal 
of  unfavorable  comment. 
In  short,  it 
was  dubbed  a  freak  of  the  trade,  in 
many  quarters.

This  past  week  I  learned  that  a  well- 
known  and  cautious  manufacturer  of 
men’s  and  boys'  shoes  has  given 
it  as 
his  determination to  use  kid  exclusively 
in  his  colored  lines  the  coming  season 
in  place  of  calf.

Inferring  from  this  that  kid 

is,  in 
this  manufactuier’s 
judgment  at  least, 
no  longer  a  theory,  but  a  condition,  in 
men’s  shoes,  I  hastened  to 
interview 
him,  with  the  object  of  learning  what 
had  impelled  him  to  this  step.

To  my  enquiries  he  said:  “ Yes,  I 
have given  a  great  deal  of  attention  to 
this  subject  of  late  and  I  believe  I  shall 
make  no  mistake  in  confining  myself  to 
kid  in  colors  the  coming  season.

“ The  reason  for  this  departure  is that 
colored  calfskin  has  not  been  satisfac­
tory  with  me.  Reclamations  have  been 
so  great  that  I  have  not  been  able  to 
get  the  profit  out of  the business  that  I 
should. 
I  may  almost  assert  that  not 
more  than  one  out of  six  pairs  of  col­
ored  calf  shoes  wear  satisfactorily.

“ It 

is  not  the  tanners’ fault.  They 
are  doing  the  best  they  can.  They  ac­
knowledge,  however, 
that  the  colored 
calf  does  not  wear as  it  should,  and  the 
proof  of  it  is found  in every shoe store in 
the  land,  in  the  inscription  on  the  wall, 
‘ We  do  not  warrant 
colored  shoes.’ 
Tanners  are  experimenting  constantly 
with  a  view  to  producing  a  colored  calf 
that  will  wear  like  black  calf,  and  some 
of  them  are, 
I  believe,  getting  very 
it  by  improved  and  new  proc­
close  to 
esses.  As 
it  has  been,  and  is  now  in 
most  cases,  the  colored  calfskin  cuts  to 
great disadvantage.  The  first  cut  breaks 
easily.  The  second  cut  is  firm  and  all 
right.  The  third  is  much  poorer.  That 
is,  this 
if  the  cutting  is 
properly  done,  but  usually  the  skin  is 
cut  the  quickest  way  possible.”

is  the  case 

“ Do  you  think  many  manufacturers 
will  follow  the same course as yourself?”  
I  asked.

“ No,”   was  the  reply,  “ I  do  not. 

It 
isn’t every  man  that  wants  kid shoes.  It 
isn’t  every  retailer  who  will  buy  kid 
shoes  for  men.  The  colored  calf  shoe  is 
popular  and  a  good  seller,  but  I  believe 
I  can  do  a  more  satisfactory  business 
on  kid. 
I  believe  I  can  give  better 
wearing  shoes  and  that  consumers  will 
be  better satisfied. 
I  may  be  mistaken. 
Some  seasons  back  I  adopted  kangaroo 
calf  for  my  fine  goods  and  pushed  it. 
To-day  I  don’t  use a  foot  of  kangaroo 
calf. 
It  was  too  light  for  my  trade. 
They  didn’t  get  the  wear  out  of  it  that 
they  wanted  and  consequently  my  kan­
garoo  calf  shoes  are  now  made  from 
stock  considerably  heavier  than  regular 
kangaroo  calf,  which 
for 
women’s  rather  than  men’s  goods.  The 
kangaroo  calf-experiment  was  a  fail­
ure. 
is  quite  possible  the  kid  one 
may  be,  but  I  believe  I  am  right  and 
shall  try  it.”

is  suitable 

It 

‘ ‘ Won’t  chrome  calf  fill  the  bill  as 

well  as  chrome  kid?”   I  ventured.

“ I  don’t  think  so  and  I ’ll  tell  you 
why.  The  chrome  process  of  tannage

shrinks  the  skin  from  7  to 9  per  cent. 
Now  on  goat,  kid  and  sheepskins this  is 
all  right,  because  the  texture  of  these 
skins  is  open  and  loose  and  the  shrink­
ing  benefits  them  by  giving  greater 
firmness.  With  beef  hides  it  is  differ­
ent.  The  entire  run  of  beef  hides  from 
the  calf  to  the  bull  are  of  close,  firm 
texture  and  a  shrinkage  of  7  per  cent, 
almost  closes  the  pores,  making  it  diffi­
cult  for  the  quick  chrome  process  to 
penetrate  thoroughly  into  it.”

“ Then  you  don’t  consider  the  chrome 

process  suitable  to  beef  hides?”  

•

“ Well,  I  won’t  say  that.  The  pure 
chrome  process  I  hold  to  be  better 
adapted  to  goat,  kid  and  sheep  skins 
than  to  calf,  but  I  find  that  tanners  are 
adulterating  or  modifying  the  chrome 
process  to  reduce  the  shrinkage,  and 
some  of  them  are  achieving  very  satis­
factory  results. 
I  have  samples  of  such 
a  stock  which  I  am  going  to  give  a 
thorough  trial  and  I  believe it will prove 
all  that  its  makers  claim .”

“ Then  your  change  to  chrome  kid  is 
practically  an  experiment  and  not  par­
ticularly  significant?”  

I  queried.

“ Yes,  that’s  about  the  way  of  it. 

I 
believe  I  can  make  more  money  out  of 
kid  by  lessening  the  sum  of  reclama­
tions  and  am  going  to  try  it.  Still  I 
believe  there  will  be  more  kid  shoes 
worn  by  men  next  season  than  ever  be­
fore. ’ ’

Referring  the  same  subject  to  a  kid 

man,  I  was  told :

“ There  will  undoubtedly  be  more 
kid  shoes  worn  by  men  next season  than 
in  the  past.  Kid 
is  a  porous  leather 
and  keeps  the  feet  cool  by  admitting 
air  and  giving  ventilation.  Then 
it  is 
soft  and  comfortable.  Men  who  once 
wear a  pair of  chrome  kid  shoes 
learn 
and  appreciate  these  features  for  sum­
mer  wear  and  are  particularly  pleased 
at  the  good  service  given.  The  leather 
has  only  one  drawback—and  that  is 
its 
scuffing  up,  but  this 
is  not  observed 
much  except  on  pointed  toes  and,  with 
toes  growing  broader,  is  not  a  serious 
fault.

“ The  colors  will  not  be  so  numerous 
as  the  present  summer.  A  medium 
brown  will  be  the  favored  shade and ox- 
bloods,  greens,  purples,  etc.,  will  not  be 
in  it  very  extensively. 
Indeed,  I  don’t 
believe  manufacturers  will be so anxious 
to  grab  up  fads  another  year.  Retailers 
find  it  too  easy  a  matter to  fire  back  the 
goods  on  some  pretext  or other. ” —G. 
T.  B.  in  Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

The  Ideal  Clerk.

F rom  th e H ardw are Reporter.

He  has  not  been  discovered.  When 
found, he  will  be  possessed  ot  attributes 
that  will  distinguish  him  from  his  fel­
lows.  He  will  be  neat  and  cleanly  in 
person  and  dress,  courteous  and  pleas­
ant  in  manner,  not  given  to  obsequious­
ness,  but  having  a  dignity  of  manner 
that  distinguishes  the  gentleman  from 
the  cad.  He  will  be  attentive  to  the 
wants  and 
interests  of  customers  and 
employers,  serving  them  both  at  the 
same  time  and  in  the  same  degree.  He 
will  know  the  goods  he  handles,  but 
will  not  know  more  than  the  customers 
about  the  goods  they  want.  He  will  be 
quick,  energetic,  thoughtful,  precise, 
attentive  and  obliging.  He  will  consult 
the  wishes  and  follow  the  instructions 
of  his  employer and  will watch the clock 
at  his  home  more  carefully  than  he 
watches  the  clock  at  the  store.  He  will 
keep  his  goods  in  order,  display  them 
to  the  best  advantage  at  all  times  and 
under all  circumstances.  He  will  work 
for bis  employer as  he  would  for  him­
self,  and  if  he  is  a  man  of  strict  honor 
will  work  even  harder.  Such  will  be 
the  ideal  clerk.  The  trouble  with  dis- 
coveiing  him  now  is  that  when  he  has 
about  reached  this  point of  perfection 
he goes  into  business  for him self.

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in  doing 
this buy your children’s shoes 
from

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Our  Specialties:

Children’s  Shoes,

Shoe  Store  Supplies,

Goodyear  Glove  Rubbers.

We  Manufacture

Men’s Oil Grain  Creoles  and  Credmeres  in  2  S.  and  T. 
and  x/2  D.  S., also  Men’s Oil Grain and  Satin Calf in lace 
and congress in  2  S.  and  T.  and  l/2  D.  S ., all  Solid—a 
good western shoe at  popular prices.

We  also  handle  Snedicor  &  Hathaway Co.’s shoes in 
Oil Grain and  Satin. 
It  will  pay  you  to  order  sample 
cases as they are every one of them a money-getter.  We 
still handle our line of specialties in  Men’s and  Women’s 
shoes.

We still handle the best .rubbers—Lycoming  and  Key­

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W e are agents for the Boston Rubber Shoe Co. and carry a very large 

stock of their goods, which enables us to fill orders promptly.

Our  discounts  to  October i are *5 and 5 per cent, on Bostons and 25,
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would  do  much  more  than  cause a  de­
mand  for  cheese;  it  would  emphasize 
the  fact  that  he  kept  a  variety  of  the 
best  kinds  of  groceries,  and  the  reader 
who  wanted  olives,  macaroni,  beef  ex­
tract  or  caviar  would  be  apt  to  think 
that  this  was 
just  such  a  store  as  he 
would  be able  to  obtain  them  at.

The  shoe  store  that  abandons 

the 
usual  form  of  shoe advertising,  with  its 
technical  descriptions  and 
its  alleged 
reductions,  and  hammers  away  at  the 
one  idea  of  the  best  and  greatest  vari­
ety  in  shoes  at  two  dollars  per  pair  (or 
whatever  the  most  popular  price  might 
be)  would, 
find  the 
change  a  profitable  one.

I  am  satisfied, 

ALL  LEADERS

it  a  vamp  in  proportion  to a 

worn  had 
i l/i  foot.
When 

it  comes  to  extending  the  toes 
of  lasts,  that  can  be  done according  to 
taste;  but  when  it  comes  to  the  shorten­
ing  of  lasts,  you  are  running  up  against 
the  feet  of  people  who  want  comfort 
in 
footwear,  whether  the  shoe  man  makes 
a  dollar  or  not.  If your  shoes  fit  the con­
sumer  properly  they  will  be  worn  and 
the  demand  will  increase;  while,  on the 
other  hand,  if  they  are  not good  fitters 
they  are  given  the  go-by.  Therefore,my 
advice  to  shoe  manufacturers  is  to  go 
slow 
in  regard  to  shortening  up  their 
*a s ts - 

T h o s .  W .  G a r d i n e r .

Pushing  One  Thing.
Wm.  H enry  Beagle in P rinters’ Ink.

“ A  shoemaker  makes  a  good  shoe  be­
cause  he  makes  nothing  else,”   says 
Emerson,  and  the 
idea  may  be  taken 
up  with  advantage  in  almost  any line  of 
business.  A  merchant  tailor  in  a  town 
of  60,000  population  made  some  cas­
socks  for  a  few  local  priests.  Now  he 
is  advertising  himself  in  the  Catholic 
papers  and  by  circulars  to  the  clergy  of 
that  church  as  a  Cassockmaker, ”   and 
sends  hundreds  of  these  garments  all 
over  the  United  States  and  is  kept  busy 
the  year  around.  At  home  he  is  sim­
ply  a  merchant  tailor  doing  a  good 
business,  while  his  out-of-town  custom­
ers  know  him  only  as  a  man  whose  par­
ticular business  is  making  cassocks,and 
who,  making  a  specialty  of  this feature, 
is  enabled  to  supply  a  better  cassock 
and  at  a  lower  price  than  they  can  get 
elsewhere.
Advertisements  too  often  attempt  to 
include  the  entire  range  of  the  store, 
when  an  announcement  calling  atten­
tion  to  some  particular article  or  line 
would  be  much  more  generally  read 
and  productive  of results.  To  illustrate: 
If  a  grocer  had  an  advertisement  on 
cheese,  pointing  out  the  fact  that  he 
not  only  sold  good  American  cheese, 
but  also  Roquefort,  Neufchatel,  Lim- 
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What  a  Last  Maker  Has  to  Say  of 

the  Shortening  of  Lasts.

In  regard  to  the  late  craze  for  short­
ening  lasts,  I  think  it  is  well  that  some 
one  should  bring  the  matter  before  the 
attention  of  shoe manufacturers,  jobbers 
and  retailers.  When the  Twentieth  Cen­
tury  last  was  adopted  and  proved  such a 
costly  failure,  it  was  due  to  the  fact 
that  the  extremists  spoiled  the  fit,  wear 
and  appearance  of  the  shoes  made  after 
that  pattern  and  drove  that  style  out  of 
existence,  resulting 
injury  to  the 
trade  in  general.  What  I  mean  is  this: 
they  carried  the  length  too  far, made the 
lines  from  ball  to  toe  too straight  and 
thin,  thereby  giving 
insufficient  room 
for  the  toes.  Then  again,  many  lasts 
were  made  out  of  the  proportions  gov­
erning  the  feet.  For  instance,  lasts  were 
made  with  the  break  at  the  ball  too 
short  or too  long,  with  draft  too  short 
and  sides  of  last  too  thin.  These  same 
faults  in  a  last  with  the  top  of  the  heel 
too  far 
in  at  the  back  cannot  fit  the 
foot.

in 

Then  there  is  a  ruling  fashion  in  the 
making  of  upper  patterns  which  is  all 
wrong  and  which  had  considerable  to 
do  with  the  long,  slim,  thin-toed  lasts 
becoming  a  failure.  People  do  not have 
feet  like a  jay  bird,  with  the  longest  toe 
behind. 
In  some  cases  the  patterns 
were  cut  with  such  a  crooked  or  curved 
leg  that  the  spreading  of 
heel  and 
the  ankle 
joints  when  the boot  is  but­
toned  or  laced  catches  the  ankle  about 
one and a  half  inches  above the counter. 
Thus  the  foot 
is  forced  forward  from 
one-half  to  a  full  size,  causing  the  shoe 
to  slip  at  the  heel  and  forcing  the toes 
into  the  front  of  the  shoe with  insuffi­
cient  room ;  also 
inclining  the heel  of 
the  boot  to  throw  back,  so 
it  wears 
mostly  at  the  breast  of  the  heel.  This 
caused  the  shank  to  flatten  down.

All  these  things  I  have  seen  in  the 
Twentieth  Century  lasts  and  I  have seen 
some graduated  up  in  length from a size 
4  to  a  6  in  length,  with  a  4  measure­
ment 
in  girth  and  used  for  a  last  with 
two  sizes  extension  toe.

These  things  were  bad.  Are  we  go­
ing  to  create  another  loss  by  shortening 
lasts  without  regard  to  the  proportions 
of  the  foot?  We  have  facts  that  are  in­
disputable  in  regard  to  this  matter  and 
these  are  the  foot  and  the  shoe  that  it 
can  endure.

It 

For  instance,  take a  size  4  last.  The 
foot  that  can  wear that  length will meas­
ure  in  the  size  stick  2%.  This  is  not 
new  or  my  invention. 
is  older  than 
I  am  and  in  all  my  experience  I  have 
found 
it  to  be  correct.  A  2 ^   foot  can 
wear  a  4  shoe  with  just  room  enough,  if 
the  toes  are  of  a  reasonable  thickness. 
Any  old  experienced  shoemaker  will 
bear  me  out  in  this  statement.  There­
fore,  taking  this  for a  basis  of  measure­
ments  for  the  length  of  lasts,  and  just 
coming  from  the  Twentieth  Century 
last,  which  made  the  foot  look  slim  and 
natty,  is 
it  reasonable  to  suppose  that 
the  people,  especially  the  ladies,  are 
going  to  wear  stub  toes?

If  not,  what  then?  Manufacturers  will 
have  to  be  careful  how short  they  are 
going  to  make  their  shoes,  or else  the 
manufacturer  who  does  use  judgment, 
and  is governed  by  a  knowledge  of  how 
to  fit the  feet,  will  get  the  bulk  of  the 
trade  the  coming  season.

Those  manufacturers  who  do not  un­
derstand,  and  cannot  find  a  competent 
person  to  explain  it  to  them,  if  they get 
left  in  a  push  for business  owing  to  not 
having  proper  fitting  shoes,  will  bave 
the  same  old  cry,  * ‘ I  lost  on  long  shoes, 
now  I  have  lost  on  short  shoes. ’ ’  The

last  makers  will  be  blamed,  when  they 
are  their  best  friends. 
If  a  shoe  manu­
facturer  will  go  to  a  last  maker  who  un­
derstands  his  business  and  allow  him 
(the  last  maker)  to  know  a  little  about 
what fits,  he  will  find  that  he  will  se­
cure  proper  fitting  lasts.

Now  the  call  is  for  lasts  one-half  to  a 
size  extension  toe. 
If  you  use  one-half 
extension  it  may  do  to  save  leather,  but 
is  not  enough  to  give  the  foot  the  ap­
pearance  required.  Then,  of  course, 
consumers  will  call  for  a  longer  shoe, 
which  will  necessitate  fitting  the  foot 
t°  a  5  B  instead  of  4  C,  which  means 
that  you  are  selling  from  5  to  9 
instead 
of  4  to  7  to  fit  the  same  foot.

My  experience,  after  carefully  keep­
ing  a  record  of  lasts  made  to fit the feet, 
and 
looking  over  duplicate  orders  for 
sizes  for  lasts,  has  been  that  the average 
woman’s  foot  will  measure  size  3  in  the 
size  stick.  To  fit  the  foot  properly  in 
length  the  last  should  be  s'A  size. 
In 
such  a  shoe  the  foot  will  have  just  room 
enough  and  not look  squatty.  This may 
seem  a  large  shoe  to  some  manufactur­
ers,  but  try 
it,  watch  it,  make  lasts  to 
fit  feet,  then  decide.  You  will  find that 
I  am  right. 
I  base  what  I  say  on  thirty 
years’  experience  at  last  making.

Here 

is  one  way  to  determine  the 
length  of  shoe  for  a  given  foot :  Lift 
the  foot  off  the  floor,  measure  its  length 
in  the  size  stick,  then stand on  size stick 
and  see  the  difference. 
Then  stand 
erect,  mark  around  the  great  toe,  then 
step  forward  with  the  left  foot,  but  do 
not  lift  right  from  floor,  and  before  you 
take  your  weight  off the  right  foot  mark 
around  the  great toe again  and  you  will 
find  that  the  foot  will  advance  and  re­
cede one-quarter  inch  in  walking.  This 
one-quarter  inch  shows  that  the  2y2  foot 
as 
in  a  size  4  shoe advances
and  recedes  one-quarter  inch,  a  fraction 
less  than  a  size  marked  in shoes.  Then 
why  not make  this  a  standard  length  for 
a  4  model  size  and  stick  to 
If  you 
make  lasts  shorter  they must  be  worn  by 
ladies  whose  feet  measure  1, 
to  2, 
which  is  below  the  average  foot.

it  stands 

it? 

Consequently  a  lady  will  tell  a dealer, 
when  he  puts  a  shoe  marked  5  on  her 
foot,  that  she  never  wore  a  5  before  and 
she  will  look  elsewhere  to  find  the  size 
she  has  always  worn. 
I  know  some old 
shoemakers  will  say,  “ I  used  to  make 
shoes by  my  old  size  stick,  which  was 
half a  size  shorter  than  the  stick  in  use 
now,and  they  fitted all right. ”   Retailers 
sold  more  large sizes  then  than  they  do 
now,  to  fit  the  same  feet,  and  they  were 
stub  toes  and  had  bunions  and  corns. 
There 
is  no  argument  about  it.  The 
foot  demands  comfort  and  style and  a 
certain  amount  of 
leather,  measure  it 
whatever  way  you  may.

It 

There  is  another  trouble  brewing  on 
this  same  point. 
is  the  tendency  of 
some 
jobbers  to  demand  of  the  shoe 
manufacturer a  boot  with  just  as  long  a 
vamp  as  the  Twentieth  Century  shoe 
carried  with  two  or  three  sizes  exten­
sion  toe,  and  to  keep  the  toes  of shoes 
looking  as  light  and  as  thin  as  were  the 
extension  toes;  they  demand  a  double 
lining,  a  box  toe,  etc.,  to  make the boot 
strong.

There  is  just  one  place  for  the  vamp 
of  a  shoe,in  my  mind,and  that  is,  make 
any  style of  vamp,  so  long  as  the  seam 
does  not  ride  on  the  joints of  the  foot, 
whether  it  be a  two-incb  or a  four-inch 
vamp.  Putting  a  four-inch  vamp  onto 
a  4  standard  last  closes  the  shoe  so  that 
the  last  cannot  be  pulled  out.  Conse­
quently  the  foot  cannot  be  gotten  into 
the  shoe,  when  the  same  boot could  be

1 6

Clerks’ Corner

The Good  Effects of the Saturday  Half 

Holiday.

W ritten fo r the  T r a d e sm a n .

is  all 

Every 

success. 

For  a  number  of  years  the  Retail  Dry 
Goods  Clerks’  Association,  of  Denver, 
Colorado,  have  made  unceasing  efforts 
to  secure  the  Saturday  half  holiday  dur­
ing  July  and  August.  Until  this  sum­
mer,  however,  their  efforts  have  been 
without 
legitimate 
means  had  been  used  by  the  Associa­
tion  to  secure  the  desired  result.  Sev­
eral  of  the  newspapers  had  espoused 
the  good  cause  and  frequently  articles 
appeared 
in  their  columns  urging  the 
merchants  to  concede  to  the  Associa­
tion’s  request.  Committees  visiting  the 
different  merchants 
in  furtherance  of 
the  scheme  were  always  treated  with 
the  greatest  consideration  and  respect.
Their  arguments  in  favor  of  the  half 
holiday  were  listened  to  with  earnest 
attention  but  were  always  met  with  that 
“ stumper”   of  an  answer,  “ We  shall 
lose  a  great  deal  of  money  by  closing 
our  stores  for  a  half  day  every  week. 
in  favor  of  the 
Your  argument 
clerk.  He 
loses  nothing.  He  is  paid 
for  a  half  day’s  woik  which  he  does  not 
do.  He  spends  the  half  day  in  the  open 
air  amusing  himself  at  our expense,  and 
the  only  result  to  us  is  the  loss  of  a  half 
day’s  trade.  You  can  hardly  blame  us 
if  we  do  not  think  as  you  do  in  regard 
to  this  matter.  You  say  that  Eastern 
long  ago  adopted  the  Saturday 
cities 
half  holiday.  That 
is  all  very  true; 
but  you  must  remember  that  the  condi­
tions 
in  the  Eastern  cities  are  alto­
gether  different  from  the  conditions  in 
Denver.  As  retail  clerks,  you  are  all 
aware  that  we  have  here  a  great  deal  of 
transient  trade,  that  is,  people  who  are 
here  to-day  and  away  to-morrow.  This 
is  especially  true  in  the  summer  time, 
and  particularly  in  July  and  August 
when  the  thousands  of  tourists  from  all 
into  Denver. 
over  the  country  pour 
This 
for  the 
mountains.  Here,  naturally,  are  laid  in 
needed  supplies  for  the  wagoning  and 
camping  parties. 
A  half  day  each 
week  of  this-  trade  we  cannot  afford  to 
lose.  Out  regular  trade  we  know  would 
not  desert  us  because  they  could  easily 
accommodate  themselves  to  the  circum­
stances  of  the  case,  but  the  transient 
trade  would  not  do  so—they  would  nat­
urally  go  farther  down  town  and  buy 
what  they  needed  at  the  smaller  stores 
that  keep  open  Sunday  and  every  other 
day. ’ ’

is  their  starting  point 

It  was a  difficult  matter  to  offset  this 
argument.  Nevertheless,  the  Associa­
tion  did  not despair;  and,  as  each  sum­
mer  season  came  and  went,  they  con­
tinued  to  sow  the  good seed,  the  most  of 
which  seemed  to  fall  by  the  wayside. 
But  some  of  it  was  destined  to  fall upon 
good  ground,  and 
from  this  grew and 
ripened  the  Saturday  half  holiday.

One  of  our  young  and  representative 
business  men,  who  had  always  regarded 
the  movement  as  one  in  the  right  di­
rection,  finally  took  the  matter  in  hand 
and 
in  one  short  week  accomplished 
what  the  Association  had  for  years  been 
trying  to bring  about.

The  result  was  hailed  with  delight  by 
the  army  of  clerks  throughout  the  city. 
A  visit  to  the  parks,  gardens  or  boule­
vards  on  Saturday  afternoons,  where 
picnic  and  wheel  parties of clerks might 
be  seen  by  the  score,  was  convincing 
proof  that  they  were  making  the  most 
of  their  liberty.

What  good  did  the  merchant  get  from

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

it?  He  himself  got  a  half  day  in which 
he  could  lay  aside  the  cares  of  business 
and  wheel  or  drive  in  the  parks  or on 
the  boulevards 
if  he  wished  to  do  so. 
He  had  the  consciousness  that,  through 
his  kindness,  his  employes  were  having 
a  good  time,  were  reveling  in  the  lux­
ury  of  pure  outdoor  air and  exercise, 
weie  reinvigorated  both 
in  mind  and 
body  for  the  work  of  the  coming  week. 
But,  best  of  all,  there  was  a  warm  spot 
in  the  heart  of  every  employe  for  the 
man  who  was  willing  to  grant  them  the 
half holiday.

Did  trade  fall  off  and  did  the  mer­
chants  “ lose  a  great  deal  of  money?”   I 
have waited  until  the  end  of  the  holiday 
season  so  that  I  could  answer  this  ques­
tion.  Every  store  that  closed  reports 
that  their  trade  during  the  two  months 
exceeded  the  trade  of  the  corresponding 
two  months  in  any  previous  year,  and  I 
fully  believe  that  this  increase  of  trade 
is  due  to  the  fact  that  the  half  holiday 
has  not only  made  the  clerks  healthier 
in  body,  but  has  brought  about a health­
ier  state  of  things  between  the  employe 
and  the  employer. 
I  can  state  from 
personal  observation  that  I  have  never 
seen  better  or  more  persevering  sales­
manship  than  that  shown  by  the  young 
men 
in  my  department  since  the  half 
holiday  began.  There 
is  a  heartiness 
and  an  earnestness  in  it  that  never  was 
shown  before. 

Mac  Allan.

The  Promise  of  Prosperity.

If  any  persons  think  that  prosperity 
means  the  sudden  acquisition  of  great 
pecuniary  wealth  and  the  consequent 
ability  to  spend  their 
lives  in  luxury 
and  idleness,  then  very  few  of them will 
ever  realize  what  they  require  to  make 
up  good  times.

lot 

The great  body  of  the  American  peo­
ple  are  more  sensible  and  more  reason­
indulge  in  such  idle and 
able  than  to 
foolish  dreaming.  Man’s 
is  labor. 
He  was  put  here  to  work,  and  by  work 
only  can  he^prove  his  title  to  an  hon­
orable,  useful  member  of  the  commu­
nity  in  which  he  lives.

Employment  at  fair  wages  is  the most 
that  any  reasonable  man  can  claim,  but 
not  all  he  has  a  right  to  strive  for.  He 
is  entitled  to  all  the  wealth  and  honor 
he  can  gain  by  his  honest exertions,  and 
the  whole of  fortune  is  open  to  him 
if 
he  can  but  win  i t ;  but he  must  begin 
with  work.

If,  in  announcing  the arrival  of better 
times  and  the  approach  of  prosperity, 
we  mean  that  the  farmers  have  made 
good  crops,  with  an  extraordinary  de­
mand  for  some  of  their  products  and  a 
fair  trade  in  others,  then  the  announce­
ment  will  not be  denied.

If,  in  stating  the  situation,  attention 
is  called  to  the  fact  that, in  the handling 
of  the  crops  to  supply  active  demands, 
railways  are  moving  loaded  cars  as  fast 
as  they  can, and  are buying  new cars and 
hiring  thousands  of  new  men  to  as­
sist  in  the  operation  of  their traffic,  then 
it  cannot  be  denied  that  some  of  the 
most  unequivocal  signs  of  a  revival  of 
business  are  at  hand

If  it  be  shown  that  every  sort  of  busi­
ness  is  being  enlivened;  that  country 
merchants  are  actively  buying  goods  in 
the  cities,  and  that  various  industrial 
establishments  are  starting  fires  in  fur­
naces  that  have  long  been  closed,  and 
for 
are  employing  people  who  have 
some  time  been  idle,  then  it 
is  appar­
ent  that  there 
is  something  solid  and 
reliable  in  the  talk  heard  on  all  sides  of 
a  revival  of  business  prosperity.

in  trade  and 

The  bank  clearings  in  the  chief  cities 
of  the  country  show  large  gains  over 
those  of  this  time  last  year.  The  com­
mercial  agencies  report 
increased  ac­
tivity 
industries.  The 
European  food  crops  are  largely  defi­
cient,  and  the  European  peoples  are 
drawing  heavily  for  breadstuffs upon the 
United  States.  This  foreign  business 
brings 
into  the  country  much  money 
which  in  an  ordinary  season  would  not 
come  here. 
In  the  meantime  the  ex­
ports  of  cotton  and  petroleum  and  other 
American  products  are  making  a  great 
deal  of  business,  and  the  promise  is 
that  before  the  lapse  of  many  months 
this  vast  country  will  be humming,  like 
a  beehive,  with  busy 
industries  and 
active  investments  that  belong  only  to 
good  times.

The  facts  stated  cannot  be  success­
fully  disputed,  and  they  fill  the  people 
with  well-grounded  hopes,  such  as  have 
not  been  cherished  for  many  months, 
and  they  communicate  to  business  a 
thrill  of  activity  to  which  it  has  long 
been  a  stranger.  These,  to  all  reason­
able  people,  are  the  signs  and  concom­
itants  of  returning  prosperity,  and  they 
mean  a  condition  of  affairs  that  will 
increase,  and  expand,  and  grow,  until 
it  will  flower  out 
into  the  crowning

glory  of  the good  time  which  distinctly 
approaches  a  boom,  but  is  better  than 
any  boom,  because  that  is  the  last  stage 
just  before  the  collapse  and  inevitable 
catastrophe  which  follow  good  times, 
and  comes  at  the  moment  when specula­
tion  is  too  rife,  and  business  too  much 
inflated,  and  times  too  good  to  last.

Years  must  elapse  before  the  next 
financial  panic,  and 
in  the  meantime 
those  years,  constituting  a  season  of 
prosperity  upon  which  the  country  is 
just  entering,  will  be  filled  with  com­
mercial  and  industrial  enterprises  and 
great  business  activity.  These  are  the 
conditions  which  make  prosperity,  and 
there  can  be  no  other  sort. 
It  is  not 
made  by  acts  of  Congress,  nor  by  any 
exercise  of  the  powers  of  the  Govern­
ment,  but  by  the  people  themselves,  in 
the  return  of  confidence  in  themselves 
and  in  the  restoration  of  the  confidence 
of  capital  in  the  people.

This  country  is  going  to  have  a  series 
of  busy,  fruitful  years,  and  they  will 
bring  prosperity  to  those  who  know  how 
to  get  the  best  out  of  the conditions they 
will  create. 

F rank  Sto w ell.

is  tiiB  Law  Moreen
in Your  Township?

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 ioo.

Please  accompany  orders  with 

remittances.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

Grand Rapids.

BONDS,

25 cents per dozen;
$1.50 per 100

|   X h e y   all  say r  

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“It’s  as good as  Sapolio,”  when  they try  to sell  you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell  —3  
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to aid  their —^  
:
z S  
new  article. 
Is it not  the  Z ^  

:
Who  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

:

:

:

:

:

:

:

:

:

:

 

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

President, J  a s. F. Ha m m e l l, Lansing ;  Secretary, 
D.  Ç.  S l a g h t ,  F lin t;  T reasurer, C h a s.  McN o lt t, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  S.  H.  Ha r t ,  D etroit;  Secretary  and 

T reasurer, D.  M o r r is, D etroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

G rand  Counselor,  F.  L.  Day,  Jackson:  G rand 
Secretary,  G.  S. V a lm o r e, D etroit;  G rand Treas­
urer, G eo.  A.  R e y n o l d s, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

T reasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow en, G rand Rapids. 

P resident,"A.  F .  P e a k e , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  o f  D irectors—F .  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h il d , J a s. N . B r a d f o r d , J. H e n r y  D a w l e y .G eo. 
J.  He in z e l m a h , C h a s.  S.  R obinso n.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B row n,  M arquette;  Secretary 
and T reasurer, A. F.  W ix so n,  M arquette.

Another  Salesman  on  Record  on  the 

Ledyard  Monstrosity.

Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  6—In  your  last 
issue  I  notice  an  article  on  the  new 
interchangeable  mileage  book,  written 
by  L.  M.  Mills. 
I  most  heartily  en­
dorse  it.  No  man  is  more  familiar  with 
the  wants of  the  traveling  man  than he.
As  to  my  position  on  this  book,  I 
cannot  see  where  it  can  possibly  be  a 
practical  thing.  While  we  might  sub­
mit  to  placing  in  the hands  of  the  rail­
road  corporation  a  sum  of  several  m il­
lion  dollars  to  help  them  pay  dividends 
or  debts,  there  are  so  many  opportuni­
ties  whereby  we  would  never  get  any 
of 
it  back  that  I  cannot  endorse  the 
scheme.  They  are  the 
judge  and  the 
jury.  Anything  that they  should  see  fit 
to  call  violation  would  certainly  have 
to  go.  Their 
instructions  to  the  con­
ductor  are,  “  Don’t  have any words.  Let 
them  k ick .”   You  quietly submit—that’s 
violation.  No  $10 back.  There  are  so 
many  of  these  loopholes  where  they 
can  take  advantage  and  call  it  violation 
that  I  cannot  see  one  chance  in  twenty 
of  getting  anything  back  for  the  covers 
of  the  book.  Then,  again,  we  have 
many  cases  when  a  traveler  buys  a 
ticket  and  before  it  is  half  used  up,  he 
quits  the  road  or  dies.  Then  he  cannot 
use  the  balance.  Who  is  the  sufferer  in 
this  case? 
If  the  man  is  dead,  he  can­
not  sign  his  name  for a  new book,  so 
cannot  get  pay  for  the  old  covers.  This 
is  an 
important  feature.  We  must  all 
die.  Who  gets  the  last  rake-off?  This 
should  be  called  the  endless  chain  in­
terchangeable  book,  because 
it  goes 
on  forever.
•  As  regards  getting  our $10  back  when 
the  mileage 
is  used  up,  the  general 
opinion  is  that  we  can  exchange  the  old 
covers  at  any  ticket  office.  This  is  not 
the  case.  We  must  put  up  another  $30 
and 
leave  the  covers  with  the  station 
agent  for  him  to  send  for  us,  or send 
them  ourselves  to  the  Commissioner. 
After due  time,  we  get  our  $10  back ; 
that  is,  provided  we  have  not  violated. 
The  Commissioner  scrutinizes  the  sig­
natures  on  the  original  stub,  then  on 
all  of  the  different  pieces  of  coupons, 
and  still  further  on  the  ticket  that  we 
give  the  conductor,as  we  must  sign  that 
or  violate.  So  the  chance  seem  to  be 
ninety-eight  to  one  that  we  are  not  en­
titled  to  anything  back.  Of  course, 
we  are  all  the  time  being  educated  to 
a_ great  system ;  but  I  am  afraid  by  the 
time  we  get  educated,  we  won’t  have 
anything  left  to  buy  tickets  with.

As  to  the  exchange  part  of  the  ticket, 
there are  quite  a  number  of the books in 
the  hands  of  the  travelers  already.  And 
they  tell  me  that 
in  no  instance  have 
they  been  able  to  get  the  coupons  ex­
changed  for  a  ticket  in  less  than  four 
minutes,  and 
in  a  number  of  cases  it 
has  been  from  twelve  to  fifteen. 
I won­
der  how 
it  will  work  here  in  Grand 
Rapids  on  a  Monday  morning?  Usually 
there  are  from  seventy-five  to  200  trav­
eling  men  leaving here on  the trains that 
leave  between  7  o’clock  and  7 145.  Of 
that  number,  take 
100  for  illustration ; 
They  want  tickets  for ninety  different 
towns.  Are  those  ticket  sellers familiar 
stations
enough  with 

the  different 

I  think  not. 

throughout  the  Central  Traffic  Associa­
tion  to  enable  them  to tear  out  mileage 
correctly  without  first  examining  a rail­
way  guide? 
This  all 
takes  time  and  I  prophesy  that  quite  a 
portion  of  that  100  would  be  obliged  to 
this 
take  the  afternoon  train.  Now, 
ticket  is  issued  for train  No.  4. 
I  un­
derstand  that  the  ticket  reads  for this 
train  only.  We  must  take  this  train, 
even  if  it  is  gone. 
If  not,  we  violate. 
Now,  I  think  if  the  traveling  man  can 
be  induced  to  go  down to the  station  the 
night  before  and  get  in  line,  he  will  no 
doubt  catch  train  No.  4.

Again,  a  change  of  route 

is  made 
every  day  by  some of  the  bovs.  They 
find  out,  after  getting  off  the  train  at 
the  destination  of  the  ticket,  that  their 
customer  is  out of  town.  They  find 
it 
out  the  last  minute—too  late  to  get  the 
ticket  required.  The  result  is,  wait  for 
afternoon  train,  pay 3  cent  cash  fare,  or 
violate.  Now,  it  is  a  noted  fact  that at 
two-thjrds  of  the  stations  the 
ticket 
agent  is  out  helping  load  or  unload bag­
gage or express or attending to other train 
duties.  To  _ get  him  in  and  work  on  a 
ticket  for  six  to  ten  minutes  would 
cause  a  delay  of  the  train,  which  would 
cause a  discharge  of  the  conductor,  as 
his  orders  are  to  make  his  time  card 
and  all  connections.  Our  houses  em­
ploy  us  to  get  orders—not  lay  around 
country  depots  trying  to  educate  ticket 
agents  how to  tear  out  mileage. 
is 
orders  they  want  and  to  get  them  means 
making  several  towns  a  day. 
It  is  ab­
solutely  necessary  to  make  every  train 
each  way.  Our  customers  are  often 
busy  and  we  cannot  get  their attention 
until  nearly  or  quite  train  time.  To 
get  their  order  we  must have  the  last 
minute,  which  makes 
it  impossible  to 
get  to  the  station  in  time  to  get  the  re­
quired  permit.  This  forces  us  to  get 
on  the  train  and  pay  a  3-cent  cash  fare, 
while  we  have  in  our  pocket  a  ticket 
which  has  cost  us  3  cents  a  mile.  We 
must  put  up  the cash  or  violate. 
I  can­
not  but  call  this  injustice.

It 

These  circumstances  are  bound  to 
exist. 
I  am  not-  trying  to  tell  any 
fairy  tales,  but  quoting  what  does  hap­
pen  with  some  of  us  every  day. 
I  can­
not  possibly  see  how  this  book  can  be 
practical  and  I  have  yet  to  find  the  first 
railroad  man  but  who  agrees  with  me. 
Of  course,  I  have  not  run  up  against 
any  of  the  general  managers. 
Prob­
ably  if  I  had  they  would  have  told  me 
that  they  know  better  what  we  want 
than  we know  ourselves.

if 

One  other  pleasant  feature  is,  when 
junction  points, 
we  change  roads  at 
we  have  the  privilege  of  calling  on  the 
ticket  agent  again  and  getting  his  per­
mit  to  ride  over his  line.  This  will  be 
it  gives  us  exercise, 
very  pleasant,  as 
and  especially 
it  is  about  2  o’clock 
in  the  morning  and  we are  enjoying  a 
good  sleep  in  a  sleeping  car.  We  can 
get  up  and  air  ourselves  and  get  needed 
exercise.
I  believe  that a  book  could  be  gotten 
up  and  sold  for $20,  with  a  photograph 
attached  to  the  cover,  and  that  a  circle 
could  be  punched  out  half  on  the  cover 
and  half  on  the  photo  that  would  throw 
all  the  safeguards  around  the  book  that 
would  be  required.  All  the  railroad 
managers ask  or claim  to  ask  is  a  safe­
guard  against  their  side  partners,  the 
scalpers,  and  I  think  the  photograph 
would  cover  it all.
I  might  go  on  and  enumerate  the 
different  phases  where  this  book  is  ab­
solutely  unjust,  but  I  cannot  ask  you 
to  devote  a  whole  paper  to  cover the 
subject. 
I  think  that  I  have  pointed 
out  briefly  some  of  the  principal  ob­
noxious  features  which  are  sure  to  show 
up  every  day  in  the  year,  and  that  I 
voice  the  sentiment  of  nearly  or quite 
every  traveling  man.

G e o .  F .  O w e n .

When  your heart  is  bigger  than  your 
head  you  don’t  need  a  pocketbook.
In  other  words,  be  generous  but  don’t 
slop  over.

It  is  almost  an  impossibility  to  con­
vince  some  men  who  have  inherited 
money  that  they  haven’t 
inherited 
brains.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Perry  Barker  (A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.) 
was  laid  up  'last  week  by  an  attack  of 
tonsillitis.

Profitable  trade,  like  profitable  crops, 
requires  cultivating.  Only  weeds  grow 
spontaneously.

It  is  the  little  provocations  we  resent 
most  bitterly.  The  great  evils  we al­
low  to  walk  on  us.

When  a  man  fully  realizes  that  he  is 
doing  poor business,  he  at  once  begins 
to  do  a  good  business.

Don’t  brag  too  much  on  securing  a 
It  might  drive  an  old 

new  customer. 
patron  to a  competitor.

Experience  sold  at  diamond  prices 
would  be  cheap—but  then  no man would 
buy  a  secondhand  article.

A  trade 

journal  speaks  of  ” a  whole­
jobbing  house.”   Why  not  men­

sale 
tion  sweet  candy  or dirty  mud?

Manners 

indicate  breeding;  actions 
you  are 

reveal  your  character,  and 
judged  by  the  company  you  keep.

We  may  not agree  with  a  man’s  poli­
tics  or  religion,  but  we  never  question 
his 
ideas  on  finance  when  he  pays  his 
bills.

Don’t  trust  any  man  who  sees  nothing 
but  good,  or the  man  who  sees  nothing 
but  evil  or  who  is  indifferent  to  every­
thing.

An  honest  reputation  obtained  by 
doing  your  duty  may  be  neither  bril­
liant  nor  startling,  but  it 
is  conducive 
to  happiness.

When  your  expense  account  grows 
bigger  each  year  it  is  best  to  make  an 
inventory  of  your  friends  and  lop  off a 
certain  class.

A  good  name  is a  good  thing  to  have 
on  St.  Peter’s  ledger,  but  in  this  world 
it 
is  a  good  thing  to  have  a  bank  ac­
count behind  it.

The  sympathy  of  the  fraternity  will 
go  out  to  B.  A.  Beneker  (Spring  & 
Company),  whose  little  daughter  was 
killed  by  a  street  car  accident 
last 
Monday.

Wm.  Boughton  (C.  E.  Smith  Shoe 
Co. ),  who  has  been  confined  for  some 
weeks  at  Butterworth  hospital,  was  able 
to be  out  yesterday.  His  condition 
is 
much 
improved,  although  he  is  still 
very  weak.

The  Michigan  Spice  Co.  was  given  a 
judgment  against  Geo.  W.  Sevey for $15 
and  costs  last  Saturday  as  the  culmina­
tion  of  a  controversy  resulting  from  *the 
retirement  of  the  Spice  Co.  from  busi­
ness.  Mr.  Sevey  was  given  30 days’  no­
tice  to quit,  in  accordance  with  a  pre­
vious  arrangement,  and  was  paid  bis 
salary  for  that  length  of  time,  although 
he  found  employment  with  Jennings  & 
Smith  within  two  weeks.  Although  Mr. 
Sevey  lived  at  home  during  that  Time, 
he  insisted  on  his  expenses  being  paid 
and  withheld  collections  to  cover  this 
claim.  The  Spice  Co.  sued 
for  the 
amount  thus  withheld  and  recovered 
judgment,  as  above  stated.

A  Plymouth  correspondent  of the  De­
troit  Tribune  writes  that  paper as  fol­
lows :  Traveling  men  who  stop  off  here 
say  that  the  members  of  the  fraternity 
are  giving  the  new 
interchangeable 
mileage  book  a  frost. 
It  has  been  re­
ferred  to  as  the Ledyard monstrosity and 
a  scheme  to  create  a  sinking  fund. 
There  is  a  large  amount of  red  tape  at­
tached  to  the  little  book,  which  is  an­
noying  to  the  average  knight  of  the 
grip.  Many  think  the  railroads  have 
kept  poor  faith  with  them,  and  that  the 
is  a  poor fulfill­
present  arrangement 
ment  of  promises  made 
last  winter 
when  the  State  Association was  about  to 
appeal  to the  Legislature for a  ticket.

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.

Carr  &  Reeve.

Tie  New  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.

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Rates $2.00. 

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M I C H I G A N  

T R A D E S M A N

cial  courses of pharmaceutical education 
compulsory.  College  courses  extending 
over  four years  are  required  as  a  prepa­
ration  for  the  practice  of  medicine  in 
our own  country,  and  six-year  courses 
in  medicine  are  already  being  proposed 
in  such  a  way  as  to  warrant  the  belief 
that  they  will  soon  be  introduced.

We  pharmacists  claim  that  our  pro­
fession  is  coequal  with  the  profession of 
medicine,  that  pharmacy  is  a  scientific 
calling,  that  the  pharmacist 
is  a  peg 
higher  up  than  the grocer or coal-dealer; 
but  unless  this  claim  is  pure  burlesque 
it 
is  high  time  to  demand  that  a  re­
spectable  course  of  college  training  for 
the  practice  of  pharmacy  shall  be  made 
obligatory  as  a  prerequisite  for  the 
is­
suance  of  a 
license  to  practice  phar­
macy. 

O s c a r   O l d b e r g .

Official  Cold  Cream  Criticised.

Since  the  last  revision  of  the  United 
States  Pharmacopoeia,  many complaints 
have  been  made  by  physicians  as  to  the 
deterioration  of  ointments  of  metallic 
oxides and  other  medicinal  substances, 
when  made  with  unguentum aquae rosae 
as  the  unction  vehicle.  The  cause  of 
these  rapid  changes  is  the  admixture  of 
a  small  per  cent,  of  borax,  which  has 
been  added  because  of 
its  saponifying 
the  oil  of  almond  partially,  and  there­
by  holding  the  rosewater  in  suspension 
all  the  more  readily.  My  experience 
with  both  formulas  has  led  me  to  the 
firm  conviction  that  the  change  to  the 
use  of  borax  was  a  very  unwise  one,  for 
many  reasons.  The  first  objection  is 
il­
lustrated  in  a  series  of  ointments  of  va­
in  daily  use,  and  the 
rious  mercurials 
results  are,  on 
inspection,  obvious. 
These  preparations  were  made  on  May 
io,  1897,  and  in  all  cases  one  would  be 
unable  to  recognize  the  mixtures.  The 
preparation  of  ointment  of  yellow  oxide 
of  mercury  is particularly objectionable, 
and  its  unsightliness  is  not  the  least  of 
its  failings.  This ointment  is  frequent­
ly  ordered  by  physicians  for  use  in  the 
eye,  and  when  made  with  official  cold 
cream  is  totally  unfit  for  use  because  of 
the  terribly  irritating  properties  of  the 
reduction  product. 
is  a  ques­
tion  as  to  whether  the  change  from 
the  Pharmacopoeia  of 
1880  was  not 
made 
in  deference  to  a  demand  from 
those  who  are  simply  unwilling  to  work 
hard 
in  an  effort  to  get  a  good  or  fit 
preparation.  There  is  no  difficulty  in 
making  a  good  and  sightly  mixture  by 
the  old  process  when  worked  right  and 
long  enough. 
It  would  be  much  better 
to  drop  the  preparation  entirely  from 
the  Pharmacopoeia  than  to  continue  it 
and  make 
it  necessary  for  us  to  keep 
both  preparations  in  stock,  for  the  rea­
sons given  before. 

F .  B .  S t e d e m .

It 

Substituting  Brine  for  Blood  in  Laud­

anum  Poisoning.

F rom  the P hiiadelphia Times.

‘ ‘ With  his  respiration  but  five  in  five 

minutes  we  saved  him .”

The  speaker  was  Dr.  Albert D.  Black­
burn,  chief  of  the  medical  staff  at  the 
Presbyterian  Hospital.  The  man  re­
ferred  to  had  been  brought  there  by  the 
patrol  wagon  several  weeks  ago  nearly 
dead 
from  the  effects  of  a  quantity  of 
laudanum  which  he  had  swallowed  with 
suicidal  intent,  but  who  now,  thanks  to 
the  sudden  thought,  or,  more  likely, 
the  inspiration  which  seized  Dr.  Black­
burn,  when  all  the  usual  methods  were 
failing  to  restore 
consciousness  and 
death  seemed  but  a  moment  to  linger, 
is  mighty  glad  that  the  breath  of  life 
still  lingers  in  his  breast.

‘ ‘ For  hours  we  worked  with  him ,”  
continued  the  doctor. 
“ We  applied  the 
stomach  pump,  but  the  blood  had  ab­
sorbed  the  poison.  We  tried other meth­
ods.  We  worked  assiduously,  almost 
frantically.  Reluctantly we  were  forced 
to  acknowledge  that  we  could  get  no  re­
sults,  for  the  patient  sank 
lower  and 
lower.  We  were  at  our  wits’  ends.

“ Suddenly  this  line  of  thought  struck 
me:  That  man’s  respiration  is  but  five 
in  five  minutes;  he  is  practically  dead. 
The  stomach  pump  will  do  no  good,  for 
the  blood  has  absorbed  the  poison  and 
is  pregnant  with  it.  The  only  way  to 
get  it  out  of  the  system  is  to  bleed  him, 
to  deprive  him  of  the  very  essence  of 
life,  in  order  to  give  him  life!  Then  I 
is  largely  a  saline  solu­
thought  blood 
tion ;  we  can  prepare  a 
like  solution 
with  the  proportions  the  same  and  in­
ject  this  into  the  body  to  take  the  place 
of  the  poison-filled  blood.  The  body 
will  do  the  rest;  it  will  assimilate  the 
solution  and  make  it  blood.

The  chance  was  a  desperate  one, 
but  the  circumstances  called  for  it.  So 
we  bled  the  man,  and  the  two  pints 
which  we  let  out  were  as  black  as 
ink, 
so  pregnant  with  the  poison  was  it. 
Quickly  we 
injected  an  equal  quantity 
of  the  saline  solution;  then  with  our 
anxiety  at  a  high  tension  we  stood 
around  to  watch  and  await  results.

Once  we  thought we detected a si ight 
increase  of  respiration,  but  we  dare 
not  trust  too  much.  A  few  minutes  later 
we  were  sure  of  it.  Slowly  the  respira­
tion  began  to  rise  and  slowly  but  surely 
the  organs  began  to  once  more  resume 
their  functions.  Still  we  watched,  fear­
ing  a  relapse.  None  came.

“ Then,  at 

last,  the  man  was  out  of 
danger.  He  stayed  under  our  care  for 
a  few  days,  and  when  we  sent  him  away 
he  had  totally  recovered  from  the effects

Cuban Hand

of  the  poison  which  he  had  put  into  his 
system.  To-day he  is  a  hale  and  hearty 
man. ”

least,  several 

It  is  highly  probable  that  this  meth­
od  of  overcoming  poison  is  a  novel one. 
No  one  seems  to  know  of  any  like  in­
stance^  At 
reputable 
physicians  of  this  city,  when  seen  yes­
terday,  said  that  no  case  of  a  similar 
nature  had  ever  come  under  their  no­
tice,  nor  were  they  aware  that  such  a 
method  had  ever  been  applied  with suc­
cess  before.  However  that  may  be,  the 
method is undoubtedly an efficacious one, 
and  will  probably  be  the  means  of  sav­
ing  the  lives  of  many  people  who  have 
swallowed  deadly  poisons  accidentally 
or  with  a  desire  “ to  take  arms  against 
a  sea  of  troubles,  and  by  opposing  end 
them. ”

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  no  very  important  changes 
to  note  this  week  in  the  drug  line,  al­
though  the  tendency  of  prices  is  up­
ward.

Opium—The  market  has  advanced 
but  different  holders  in  New  York  are 
quite  wide  apart 
in  their  views.  We 
expect  to  see  much  higher  prices  with­
in  the  next  thirty  days.

Morphine—This  article  is  as  yet  un­

Quinine—Is  firm  at  prices  noted 

last 

changed.

week.

Seeds—Canary  has  advanced  and,  as 
the  crop 
is  not  as  large as  estimated, 
still  higher  prices  are looked for.  Hemp 
has  also  advanced  and 
is  very  firm. 
California  yellow  mustard,  on  account 
of  light  stocks,  is  higher.

Linseed  Oil—On  account  of 

lower 
market  for  seed,  this  article  has  de­
clined.

Turpentine—This  article  has  ad­

vanced.

A  wise  man  should  have  money  in 

his  head,  not  in  his  heart.

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MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1897
Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31, 1899 
Dec. 3l,  1900
-  Dec. 31,  1901

S.  E.  Park il l . Owosso 
P.  W.  R.  P e r r y ,  D etroit 
A. C.  S c h u m a c h e r .  Ann  A rbor 
G e o .  G d n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L.  E. R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
- 

-------- 
- 

- 
- 

- 

President, P. W.  R.  P e r r y , D etroit.
Secretary, G eo.  G u n d r u m , Ionia.
T reasurer, A. C. S c h u m a c h er, A nn Arbor. 
an d  3.
MICHIGAN  ST A T E  PHARMACEUTICAL 

Com ing  E xam ination  Session—Lansing,  Nov. 

ASSOCIATION.

P resident—A.  H.  W e b b e r ,  Cadillac.
Secretary—C h a r .  M a n n .  D etroit.
T reasurer—J ohn D.  M u i r ,  G rand Rapids.

Why  College  Education  in  Pharmacy 

Should  be  Made  Compulsory.

Proper  pharmaceutical  education  is  a 
necessary  preparation  for  the  intelli 
gent  and  safe  practice  of  pharmacy 
Such  pharmaceutical  education  cannot 
be  acquired  by  the  mere  reading  of 
books  or  picked  up  in  the  drug  stores. 
It  requires  systematic  courses  of  in 
struction 
in  well-equipped  schools  un 
der  the  direction  of  competent  teach 
ers.  It  must, include  practical  work,  or, 
in  other  words,  laboratory  courses,  in 
structural  botany,  pharmacognosy,  mi 
croscopy,  chemistry,  and  pharmacy. 
It 
demands  a  thorough  study  of  the  Phar 
macopoeia  such  as  is  quite 
impractic 
able  without  the  aid  of  the  facilities 
afforded  by  a  well-conducted  pharma 
ceutical  school.  The 
intelligent  inter 
pretation  and  application  of  the  de 
scriptions,  standards,  directions,  proc 
esses  and  tests  of  the  Pharmacopoeia 
cannot  possibly  be  acquired  m any other 
way.  The  time  necessary  to  the  real 
mastery  of  the  Pharmacopoeia  cannot 
be  taken 
in  the  store  during  business 
hours ;  the work cannot  be  accomplished 
without  the  help  of  a  thoroughly  com 
petent  teacher  whose  duty  it  is  to  ex 
plain  and  illustrate  and  to  suggest  and 
answer  questions;  and  the  right  use  of 
the  lessons  learned  can  be  acquired only 
by  continued  and  repeated  laboratory 
exercises,  such  as  are  not  at  all  prac­
ticable  in  the  store.

Ability  to  answer  the  State  Board’s 
questions  may  be  acquired  by  cram­
ming.  There  is  no  way  by  which  cram 
ming  can  be  prevented;  but  uninter­
rupted  work  at  a  good  pharmaceutica 
school  employing  methods  of instruction 
which  develop  all  the  mental  faculties, 
train  the  senses,  and  afford  sufficient 
exercise  for  mind,  eye  and  hand,  to  in­
culcate  right  judgment,  correct  observa­
tion,  and  skillful  execution,  must  take 
the  place  of  cramming.

The statement is repeated ad nauseam, 
by  men  of  untrained  minds,  that 
it 
makes  no  difference  how  or  where  a 
man  acquires  his  knowledge  if  he  only 
has 
it,  and  that  an  examination  is  all 
that  is  necessary  to  determine  whether 
he  possesses  it  or  not.  This 
is  utterly 
untrue,  however  plausible  it  may  sound.
The  final  examinations  are  the  least 
important  portion  of  a  college  course; 
the  regular  daily  mental  exercise,  prop­
erly  directed,  and  the  habits  and  meth­
ods  of  work  acquired  at  the  college  are 
its  most  valuable  features,  and  these 
can  never be gained  otherwise  than  by 
systematic  courses 
impossible  outside 
of  the  college  walls.  Nothing  can  take 
the  place  of  the  college  course,  except 
individual 
instruction  given  by  pre­
ceptors  such  as  cannot  be  found  in  the 
shops,  and  under  conditions  such  as  do 
not  exist  anywhere  except  in  the  col­
leges.

The  laws  of  all  countries  except  Eng­
land  and  the  United  States  make  spe­

Nine  Out  o f Twenty.

Ionia,  Sept.  1—The  Michigan  Board 
of  Pharmacy  held  a  special  meeting  at 
Sault  Ste.  Marie,  August  24  and  25. 
Nineteen  candidates  appeared  for  reg­
istered  pharmacist’s  certificates  and one 
applied  for  assistant  registered  pharma­
cist’s  certificate.  The  successful  can­
didates  were  as  follows :

PHARMACISTS.
A.  J.  Bellaire,  Gladstone.
Lewis  H.  Cooper,  Fowlerville.
William  J.  Dablke,  St.  Joseph.
John  W.  Lutes,  Richmond.
William  A.  Reid,  Sault  Ste.  Marie.
Carl  V.  Richardson,  Carson  City.
Raymond  C.  Smith,  Homer.
Otto  Swanton,  Edenville.

ASSISTANT.

Arthur G.  Bailey,  Sault  Ste.  Marie.
The  next  meeting  will  be  held  at 

Lapsing,  November 2 and  3.

G eo.  Gundrum,  Sec’y.

M ILTON  K E R N S,

M anufacturer,

No.  52  9th  Street, 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.

M ASTER” 
YUM A”

The best 5 cent cigars ever made.  Sold by

R epresented in  M ichigan by J . A. GONZALEZ, G rand Rapids.

B E S T   &   R U S S E L L  C O . .   C h i c a g o . 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W H O L E S A L E   PR IC E  CU R R EN T

A dvanced
D eclined—

C.  Co....................

M orphia, S.P.& W ... 
M orphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
M oschus C anton....
Myristica, No. 1.......
Nux V om ica... po.20
Os  Sepia....................
Pepsin  Saac, H. & p.
D. Co........................
Picis Liq. N.N.*4 gal.
doz............................
Picis Liq., q u arts__
P icis Liq., pints.......
P il H y d rarg .. .po.  80 
P iper N ig ra .. .po.  22
Piper  A lba__ po.  35
P iix   B u rg u n .............
Plnm bi  A cet.............
P ulvis Ipecac et Opii 
P yrethrum , boxes H. 
& P.  D. Co., d o z ...
Pyrethrum ,  p v .........
Q uassise......................
Q uinia, S. P. & W .. 
Q uinia, S. G erm an ..
Q uinia, N .Y ..............
R ubia T in cto ru m ... 
Saccharum Lactis pv
S alacin........................
Sanguis D raeonis...
Sapo,  W ......................
Sapo, M.......................
Sapo, G........................
Siedlitz  M ixture__

>  2  20

15®

1 00

8®

S inapis............................  
@ is
Sinapis,  o p t..............  
@ 
30
Snuff, M accaboy.De
Voes......................... 
@ 
34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
@ 
34
Soda B oras................   7  @ 
9
Soda Boras, p o .........  7  ®  
9
26®  
Soda et Potass T art. 
28
Soda,  C arb................ 
154®  
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb........... 
3®  
5
Soda,  A sh..................  354®  
4
Soda, S ulphas........... 
@ 
2
Spts. Cologne............  
@ 2  60
Spts.  E ther  C o......... 
50® 
55
@  0  00
SpV  M yrcia D om ... 
@  2  46 
Spts. V ini Reet. bbl. 
@ 2   51
Spts. ViniRect.*4bbl 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal 
@ 2  5t 
Spts. V ini Rect.  5gal 
@  2 56 
Less 5c gal.  cash  10 days. 
Strychnia, C rystal...  1  40@  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl...........  254®  
3
Sulphur,  R oll.........  
2®   2*4
T am arin d s................  
8®  
10
T erebenth V enice... 
28® 
30
42®   45
Theobrom ® ........ . 
. 
V anilla.......................  9 00@16 On
Zinci  S ulph............... 
7®  
8

* 

Oils

W hale, w inter........... 
Lard,  e x tra ............... 
Lard, No.  1................  

B B L .  G AL.
70
45
40

70 
40 
35 

Linseed, pure  raw .. 
Linseed,  b o iled .......  
N eatsfoot, w inter s tr 
Spirits T u rp en tin e.. 

40 
43 
65 
33 

43
46
70
40

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red  V enetian ........... 
13^  2  @£
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
154  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  B er.. 
I34  2  @3 
P utty, com m ercial..  2*4  2*4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2*4  2J|£@3 
V erm ilion,  P r i m e
15
A m erican................ 
13® 
70® 
V erm ilion, E nglish. 
75
19
Green, P a r is .............  13*4® 
lg
Green,  P eninsular.. 
13® 
Lead, R ed..................   5*4©  
g
g
Lead, w h ite ..............   5*4®  
@ 
W hiting, w hite Span 
70
W hiting,  gilders’... 
@ 
10'
W hite, Paris A m er.. 
@ 1 0 0
W hiting, P aris  Eng.
„ c l i f f .........................  
@  1  40
Universal P repared.  1  00®   1  15

[V arnishes

No.  1 T urp C o ach ...  1  10®  1  20
E x tra  T u rp ..............   1  60®  1  70
Coach B ody..............   2  75© 3  00
No.  1 T urp  F ilm ....  1  00®  1  10 
E xtra T urk  D am ar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lT urp 
75

70® 

20  @

flazeltine & Perkins 

Drug  60.
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 

Sh avin g  Brushes 

Fountain  and  Fam ily Syringes 

Tweezers 

Key  Rings 

Cork  Screw s 

Razors 

Razor  Strops

Violin,  Guitar and  Banjo  Strings 

Atomizers

Suspensory  Bandages 
Toilet and  Bath  Sponges

And  many  other articles  too  numerous 

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

M in e  & Perkins Drug bo.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

\  2
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f i ]

A cetieum ....................J
6@*
8
Benzoicum ,  G erman
70® 75
Boraclc........................
@ 15
C arbolicum ...............
29® 41
C itricu m ....................
4C® 42
H y d ro ch lo r...............
3®
5
N itro c u m ..................
8®
10
O x alicu m ..................
12®
14
Phosphorium .  d il...
@ 15
Salicylicum ...............
60® 65
Sulpfiurieum .............
1 &@ 5
T a n n ie u m ................  1 25®  1  40
T artaricum ................
38® 40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16  d eg .............
Aqua, 20  d e g ....,__
Carbonas....................
C hloridum ................
A niline

4@ 6
6®
8
12®
14
12®
14

00®  2  25
80®  1  00
45® 
50
2 50®  3 00

13® 
6®  
35® 

15
8
30

50® 
40@ 
75® 

{B
@  2 40
45
80

24@
28®
1 1©
13®
14®
16®

15 
2  35

Black...........................2
B ro w n ........................ 
R e d .............................  
Y ellow .................. 
Baccae.
Cubesee............ po.  18 
Ju n ip e ru s..................  
X anthoxylum ........... 
B alsam um
C opaiba......................  
P eru............................. 
T erabin, C anada__  
T o lntan....................... 

C ortex
Abies,  C anadian __
C assiae.......................
C inchona F la v a .......
Euonym us  atropnrp 
M yrlca  C erifera, po.
P runus V irgin!.........
Q nillaia,  g r’d ...........
S assafras__ ..po. 18
U lm us...po.  15,  g r’d- 
E xtractum  

G lycyrrhiza  G labra.
G lycyrrhiza.  p o .......
Hsematox. 15 lb box.
Hsematox, Is 
...........
Hsematox, *4s........... 
Hsematox, 
........... 
P erm

Carbonate  P recip ...
C itrate and  Q u in ia ..
C itrate Soluble.........
Ferrocyanidum  Sol.
Solnt.  C hloride.......
Sulphate,  eom’l .......
S ulphate,  com’l,  by
Sulphate,  p u r e .......
F lora

and 

12®
18®
30®

15®
IS®
25®
12®
8®

A rnica 
A nthem is 
M atricaria 

......................
.............
...............
Folia
Barosm a.....................
Cassia A cutifol, Tin-
neveily....................
Cassia A cutifol,A lx.
Salvia officinalis, 34s 
....................
U ra Ursi.  ..................
Gummi
@*
A cacia,  1st picked.. 
Acacia,  2d  p ick ed .. 
®
©
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
A cacia, sifted  sorts.
@60@
Acacia, po..................
12®
Aloe, Barb. po.lS®20
Aloe, C a p e ___ po.  15  @
Aloe, S ocotri.. po. 40 
@
A m m oniac..... 
55®
A ssafcetida___ po. 30  25®
B en z o ln u m ... 
50®
Catechu,  Is.
Catechu,  54s..............  
@
C atechu,  14s..............  
@
48®
Camphorse ................ 
©
E u p h o rb iu m ..po.  35 
@
G albanum ..................  
65®
Gamboge  p o ............. 
G uaiacum .......po. 35 
®
®   3 00
K ino.............po. I3.u0 
M a s tic ........................ 
60
©  
M yrrh.............. po.  45 
40
@ 
O pii.. .po. $3.80@4.00  2 60®  2  70
35
25® 
S hellac.......................  
Shellac, b leach ed ... 
45
40® 
T ra g a c a n th ..............  
50® 
80

H erba

A bsinthium ..oz.  pkg 
Eupatorium  .oz. pkg 
Lobelia.........oz. pkg 
M ajorum __ oz.  pkg 
M entha Pip..oz.  pkg 
M entha V ir..oz. pkg 
R u e.................oz.  pkg 
Tanacetum V  oz.  pkg 
Thym us,  V ..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, P a t ........... 
C arbonate, P a t......... 
Carbonate,  K.  &  M .. 
Carbonate, Jen n in g s 

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

55® 
20®  
20@ 
35@ 

Oleum

30@ 

A bsinthium ..............   3  25®  3  50
Amygdalae, D ule__  
50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00®  8  25
A nisi...........................   2  40® 2  0
A uranti  C ortex.......   2  00®  2 20
B ergam ii....................  2  40® 2 50
75®  80
C ajip n ti...................... 
C ary o p h y lli..............  
5 s®  6j
....................  
35® 
65
Chenopadii................ 
@  4  00
C innam onii...............  1  75a   1 on
G ttronella.  ............... 
0®  
45

35® 

90® 

90® 

®  
50® 

Conium   M ac............. 
50
C opaiba......................  i   io@  1  20
Cubebae..........................  
E x e c h th ito s .............  1  00®   1  10
E rig e ro n ....................  1  00®   1  10
G a u lth e ria ................   1  50®  1  60
G eranium ,  o u n c e ... 
75
Gossippii, Sem. g a l.. 
60
H edeom a....................  1  on©  1  10
Ju n ip era.....................  1  50® 2 00
L a v en d u la...................  
L im onis......................  1  20®  1  40
M entha  P ip er...........  1  GO®  2  20
M entha V erid ...........2  10©  2  25
Morrhuae,  g a l...........  1  00®   1  10
M yrcia,.......................   4 00®  4  50
O liv e .......................... 
75®  3  00
Picis  L iquida........... 
10®  
12
@ 
Picis Liquida, g a l... 
35
R ic in a .......................  
99®   1  04
R osm arini.................. 
®   1  00
Rosae,  o u n ce.............  6  50®  8  50
S u c d n i...................... 
40®  45
90®  1  00
S a b in a ...................... 
S an ta l.........................   2  50®  7  00
S assafras.................... 
50®  
55
65
@ 
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
T iglii...........................  1  40®  1  50
50
40® 
T h y m e .......................  
Thym e,  o p t............... 
@  1  60
T heobrom as............  
15®  
20
P otassium
B tC arb .......................  
18
B ichrom ate..............  
15
51
Brom ide.....................  
15
Garb...........................  
C hlorate..po. 17@19c 
18
40
C yanide...................... 
Iodide............................2 60®  2  65
30
Potassa, B itart, p ure 
Potassa, B itart,  com 
15
Potass N itras, o p t... 
10
Potass N itras............. 
9
P ru ssiate.................... 
25
S ulphate  po  ............. 
18

15® 
13@ 
48® 
12@ 
16@ 
35® 
28® 
®  
8@ 
7@ 
20®  
15® 

Radix

20®
22®
10®
©
20@
12®
16®

A conitvm ......... ........  
A lthse.........................  
A nchusa
Arum po.....................
C ala m u s....................
G entiana.........po.  15
G ly ch rrh iza.. .pv. 15 
H ydrastjs C an a d en .
H ydrastis Can., p o ..
H ellebore, Alba, p o ..  _^  
_
15®
Inula, p o .................... 
20
15®  
Ipecac, p o ..................  2  00®  2  10
35® 
Iris p lo x .... po35@38 
40
Jalapa,  p r..................  
30
25® 
M aranta,  14s .......
@22@
Podophyllum , po.
g h e i ................... 
R hei, cut 
R hei,pv.
spigeiia............;;; 
S anguinaria... po. 40 
S erp en taria............. 
S en eg a...............  —
Sim ilax,officinalis H
Smilax,  M..................
Scillae................po.35
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  p o ....................
V aleriana,E ng. po '36 
V aleriana,  G erm an.
Zingiber a .......... 
10®
Z ingiber j .......... 
25®

1  00
1  25 
’5®  1  35 
35®
88 
©
35 
30®
35 
35@
40 
40 
©10@
25 
12

@15®

75®  

Sem en

A nisum
PO.  15
© 
12 
Apium  (graveleons)
15
13® 
Bird,  Is.......................
4® 
6
C arp i................po.  18
10®  
12 
Dardamon..................
1  25®  1  75 
Joriandrum ............
8®  
10 
Cannabis  S ativa__
4®  4 H 
Cydonium .................. 
vam
5®  1  00
io®
C h en o p o d iu m ....... ; 
I  
12
D iptenx  O dorate...  2  00®  2  20
xo
@ 
F cenieulum ............... 
Fcenugreek, p o ......... 
7®  
9
L in i............................. 
3®  
4
Lini,  g rd .........bbl. 3 
4®  4%
40
o2be!ia , ' X ............... 
35® 
4®, 4%
P harlaris  C anarian. 
g a p a . . . . . . . ..............   4H@ 
5
Sinapis A lbu............. 
7®  
g
Sinapis  N igra........... 
11®  
12
S piritus

F rum enti, W.  D. Co.  2 00®  2 50 
F rum enti,  D. F.  R ..  2  00®  2  25
F ru m e n ti.....................1  25@  1  50
Ju n ip eris  Co.  O. T ..  1  65® 2  00
Ju n ip eris C o............   1  75®   3  50
Saacharum   N.  E ....  1  90®  2  10
Spt  V ini G alli.........  I  75©  6  50
\  m i O porto...............  1  25®  2  00
V ini  A lba..................   1  25®  2 00

Sponges 
F lo rid a sheeps’ wool
ca rriag e.................... 2  50®  2  75
N assau sheeps  wool
ca rriag e.................. 
@  2 00
Velvet ex tra  sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
@  1  25
E x tra yellow sheeps’ 
@ 1  00
wool,  c a rria g e .... 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriag e.................. 
@  1 00
@  75
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f ,  fo r 
slate  u se................  
®   1  40
S yrups
A c a c ia ....................
A uranti C ortes__
Z ingiber..................
Ipecac. 
.........
F erri Io d ................
Rhei  A rom ............
Sm ilax Officinalis
S en eg a..................
S c ili» ,..,.,  ... 

@
@>0©

.

1  00

2  00

Scillae C o ...
T o ln ta n ....
P ru n u s v irg ............... 
T inctures 
A eonitum  N apellis R 
Aeon ¡turn N apellis F
A loes...........................
Aloes and M yrrh___
A rn ic a ........................
A ssafc etid a..............
A trope  B elladonna.
A u ran ti  C ortex.......
B enzoin......................
Benzoin Co................
B aro sm a....................
C antharides.............
C ap sicu m ................
C ardam on.................
Cardam on  C o__ !!".
C astor.........................
C atechu......................
C inchona....................
C inchona Co........
C olnm ba....................
Cubeba....................
Cassia  A c u tifo l.....
Cassia A cutifol Co  .
D ig ita lis..................
E rg o t.........................‘
F erri C hloridum __
G e n tian ......................
G entian Co.............
G u ia c a ....................
G niaca am m on.........
H yoscyam us............
Io d in e........................ ’
Iodine, colorless__
K ino.........  ................
L obelia............... "  ]
M yrrh......................
N nx V om ica...........]
O p ii.............................
Opii, cam phorated.
Opii,  d eodorized....
Q u assia......................
R hatany.....................’
R hei......................
S anguinaria  .  . . . . . .
S erp en taria..............1
S tro m o n iu m .........
T olutan......................
V a le ria n ....................
V eratrum  V erid e..! 
Z ingiber.....................

®  
@ 
4
©  

50
50
50

1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20

n isce lla n eo u s 

1

8..
£s.
is .
po
a f.
po.
po
15

AEther, Spts.  N it. 3 F  
30® 
35
34®
-E ther, Spts.  N it. 4 F  
38
A lum en......................  2*4©
3
3®
A lumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4 
40®
A nnatto...................... 
50
A ntim oni,  po ........... 
4<a
A ntim oni etP otassT  
40® 
50
A n tip y rtn ..
A ntifebrin  .
15
@ 
.. © 50
A rsenicum ............
10®
12
Balm G ilead  Bud 
38© 40
Bism uth  S.  N.  ..
1  40® 50
@ 9
@ 10
@ 12
@ 75
@ 15
15
©
@ 15
10©
12
Carm ine, Ño. 40  . 
©   3 00
Cera Alba,  S.  & F
50® 55
Cera  F lav a...........
40® 42
C occus..................
© 40
C a ssig F ru c tu s...
© 33
® 
C entrarla....................
10 
Cetaceum ............... ”
®  
45
C hloroform ...........
63
60@ 
Chloroform , squibbs
@  1  25 
Chloral Hyd C rst__
1  50®  1  60 
C hondrus.................
20®  25
C inchonidine.P.A  W 
25
20® 
C inchonidine, Germ
15® 
22
C ocaine.....................   3 05®  3 25
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
C reosotnm .......... 
@ 
35
C reta............... bbl. 75 
2
®  
Creta, p re p ................ 
@ 
5
Creta, precip............  
9®  
11
Creta, R u b ra............. 
®  
8
C ro cu s.......................  
is®  
20
C u d b e a r..............  
@ 
24
Cupri S ulph..............  
5® 
6
D extrine..................... 
10®  
12
E ther S ulph..............  
90
75® 
Em ery, all  num bers 
@ 
8
Em ery, po .................. 
g
@ 
35
E rgota.............. po. 40 
30® 
15
F lake  W h ite............. 
12® 
G alla............................ 
23
@ 
G am bier..................... 
9
8®  
G elatin, C ooper..  .. 
@ 6 0
60
G elatin, F re n c h .......  
35® 
Glassware,  flint, box  60,  10&10 
60
Less  th a n   b o x .... 
Glue,  brow n............  
9® 
12
Glue,  w h ite ..............  
25
13® 
G ly ce rin a.................. 
J4@ 
20
G rana  P aradisi  __  
©  
15
H um ulus.................... 
55
25® 
H ydraag Chlor  Mite 
@  80
H ydraag Chlor  Cor. 
@  70
©   90
H ydraag Ox R ub’m . 
H ydraag A m m oniati ©   1  00
45®   55
H ydraagU nguentum  
H ydrargyrum ........... 
65
@ 
Ichthyoboila, A m ... 
65®  7b
Indigo.........................  
75®  1  00
Iodine, R esubl.........  3  60®  3  70
Iodoform .................... 
@ 4 20
L upulin.  ..................  
@ 2   25
L ycopodium ............  
45
Macis 
..............  
75
L iquor  Arsen et Hy­
dra rg Io d ................
25 
12 
LiquorPotassA rsinit 
10®
2®
M agnesia,  S u lp h ....
3
_   1% 
M agnesia, Sulph,bbl
M annia. S. F   .......   .
50® 
60
© 2 40
Menthol  ..

40® 
65® 

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

... 

CHEESE.
A cm e.................. ....... 
© 10
A m boy............... .......  @ 10
B yron.................. .......  @ 9%
E lsie ...........................  @ 10
G em ....................
© 10%
Gold  M edal.......
@ 9%
H a rtfo rd ............
I d e a l.................. .. 
9%
©
. 
Je rsey .........................  
© 10
L.enawee............ ....... 
9
©
R iverside..  __ .......   @ 10
S parta................ .
@ 9%
B ric k .. .■............. -----   @ 9
E dam .................. .. 
..  @ 75
Leiden................ .......   @ IS
Lim burger_____....... 
© 15
Pineapple.......... .......43  © 85
Sap  Sago........... ....... 
© 18

CATSUP.

p in ts ....................4 25
Colum bia, 
Colum bia, %  p in ts ....................2 50

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross b o x e s ............................. 40

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz in case.
G all B orden  E ag le................... 6 75
Crown  .  ....................................6  25
D a is y .............................................. 5 75
Cham pion  ............................... 4  50
M agnolia 
................................4  25
C hallenge.................................3  50
D im e ................................................3 35

COUPON  BOOKS.

3%

G rits.

B eans.

F arin a.

H om iny.

P earl B arley.

FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1  lb.  packages...........
. .1 7 5
B ulk, ner 100  lb s ............. ..3  50
W alsh-DeRoo  C o .'s....
..2  40
B ulk in 100 lb.  b ag s....... ..3   40
B arrels  ............................. ..2   25
F lake, 50 lb.  d ru m s....... ..1  00
D ried  Lim a  ..................... .. 
M edium  H and  P icked.. ..1  10
M acearon! and V erm icelli.
D om estic,  101b.  b o x __ ..  60
Im ported,  25 lb.  b o x ..  . ..2  50
Com m on.................   ....... ..  2 CO
C h e s te r............................. ..  2  10
E m pire  ............................. ..  2  3J
Green,  b u ......................... ..  SO
Split,  per lb ...................... .. 
2
Rolled  O ats.
R olled A vena, 
.4  75
b b l. . .
M onarch,  b b l ....: .........
.4  45
M onarch.  %  b b l............. ..2  »>
P rivate brands, 
b b l... . .4  25
P rivate brands,  % b b l... . .2  25
Q uaker,  cases.................. .  3  20
G erm an .............................
E ast  In d ia ........................
C racked, b u lk ..................
24 2 lb packages............... . .2  50

3 %
3
3X

W heat.

Sago.

P eas.

Fish.
Cod.
Georges cured .......
@  4 
Georges  genuine..
©   5% 
©   5%
Georges selected .. 
_
S trips or  b ric k s...........5  ©   7%

C hunks.................................. 
S trip s..................................... 

10
9

 

H alibut.

H erring.

riackerel.

H olland w hite hoops keg. 
70 
H olland w hite hoops  bbl.  8  50
N orw egian...........................
R ound 100 lb s ......................
R ound  40 lb s ......................
S caled....................................
Mess 100 lb s ..........................  14  50
Mess  40 lb s .........................   6  10
Mess  10 lb s ..........................  1  60
Mess  8 lb s ..........................  1  30
No. 1100 lb s .........................   12 75
No. 1  40 lb s ..........................  5  4)
No. 1  10 lb s ........................ 
143
No. 1  8 lb s ..........................  1  16
No. 2100 lb s ..........................  10  75
No. 2  40 lb s ..........................  4  §0
No. 2  10 lb s ..........................  122
1  00
No. 2  8 lbs.

S ardines.
R ussian keg s..............

Trout

No. 1  100 lb s...............
No. 1  40 lb s ................
No.  1 
lO lbe.................
No. 1  8 lb s ................
Wh Relish.

100 l b s . . . ....  6  (Ml
40lbs  ... .. . .   2 70
10 l b s . . . ___ 
75
8 lb s ---- ___ 
63
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

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

4  00 
1  9J 
55

Jen n in g s’.

D. C.  Lemon
D.C. V anilla 
2oz........ 1  20
2 oz........   75
3 oz.........1  50
3 oz.........1  00
4 oz........ 2  00
4 oz.........1  40
6 oz........ 3  00
6 oz........ 2  00
No.  8 
4  00
No.  8 ...2  40 
No.  10.  .6  00 
No.  10...4  00 
No.  2 T .l  25 
No.  2 T .  80 
No.  3 T.2  00 
No.  3 T .l  35 
No.  4 T .l  5¿
No  4 T.2  40
Sage............................................  15
H o p s..........................................  15
M adras, 5  lb  boxes...............  55
S.  F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  b oxes__   50
15 lb  p a lls.................................  45
30 lb  p a lls.................................  75
Condensed, 2  doz  ................1  20
Condensed,  4  d o s ..................2 25

INDIGO.

HBRBS.

JB L L Y .

LYB .

S onders’.

Oval bottle,  w ith  corkscrew .
the

in   th e 

w orld 

fo r 

Best 
money.

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—D upont’s.

Kegs
.4 00
H alf Kegs
Q uarter K egs..........................1  25
1 lb. ca h s...................................  30
% lb. c a n s .................................  18

Choke Bore—D upont’s.

Kegs  .........................................4  25
H alf K egs................................2  40
Q uarter K egs..........................1  35
1 lb. ca n s..............................  
  34

Eagle Duck—D upont’s .

K egs..........................................8  00
H alf K egs........  ...................... 4  25
Q uarter K egs......................... 2  25
1 lb. ca n s...................................  45

LICORICE.

P u re ........................... 
30
C alabria  ..................................   25
S icily..........................................  H
R oot............................................  10

 

MASON  FRUIT  JA R S. 

PintR,  1 doz. box, per  gross  4  75 
Q uarts,  1  d ’z. box, per gr'ss  5  00 
H alf gal.  1 d ’z. b’x, p’r  gr’ss  7 CO 
F ru it J a r Rubbers, p’r  g r’ss 
25 
Mason Caps only  per gross  2  25 
G lass Cover F ru it Jars. 
“T he B est” F ru it Keeper. 

Pints,  1  doz  box, per gross  5  50 
Q uarts,  1 d ’z. box, per gr’ss  5  75 
H alf gal.  1 d ’z b’x, p’r gr’ss  7  75

MINCB M EAT.

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

nA TCH BS.

D iam ond M atch Co.’s brands.
N o. 9  su lp h u r.........................1  85
A nchor  P a rlo r.......................1  70
No. 2  H om e.............................1  10
E xport  P a rlo r....................... 4 00

J10LA5SBS.
New O rleans.

B lack.  ..................................  
11
F a i r ........................................ 
14
20
G o o d ......................................  
24
F ancy 
................................. 
Open K ettle.......................... 25@35

H alf-barrels 2c extra.

P IPB 5.

Clay, No.  216................ . 
Clay, T.  D.  fu ll co u n t......... 
Cob, No. 3............................... 

1  6)
65
85

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

B abbitt’s ...............................  4  00
P en n a S a lt  Co.’s ................  3  00

PICKLBS.
riedlum .

B arrels, 1,200 co u n t.............  4  00
H alf bbls, 600 co u n t.............  2  50

Sm all.

Barrels, 2,400 c o u n t.............  5  00
H alf bbls,  1,200 co u n t.........  3  00

RICB.

D om estic.

C arolina h e a d .....  
...............  6%
C arolina  No.  1......................  5
C arolina  No. 2......................  4%
B roken....................................   3

Im ported.

Jap an ,  No. 1..........................  5%
Japan,  No. 2 ..........................  5
Jav a, No. 1.............................   5
T ab le........................................  5%

SALBRATUS.

P acked 60 lbs. In  box.

C hurch’s .........................................3 3c
D eland’s .........................................3 15
D w ight’s .........................................3 30
Taylor’s .......................................... 3 00

SAL SODA.

G ranulated, b b ls................1  10
G ranulated,  100 lb cases. .1  50
Lum p, b b ls .......................... 
1
Lum p, 1451b k eg s................1  10

SALT.

Diam ond  C rystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes.....................1 50
B arrels,  100  3 lb  bag s..........2  75
Barrels,  40  7 lb bags..........2  40
B utter, 28 lb. bags..................
B utter, 561b  bagB..................
B utter, 20  14 lb  b a g s ............. 3
B utter, 280 lb   b b ls.................2

S

S

g

g

Common G rades.

100 3 lb sack s............................2
60 5-lb sacks............................ 1
2811-lb sack s.......................... 1

 

S
&
3

W orcester.

ì

8 

lb.  ca rto n s.................3
50  4 
115  2%lb. sacks...................... 4
lb.  sacks..................... 3
60  5 
22 14 
lb.  sacks.................  3
30 10 
lb. sacks..................... 3
28 lb.  linen sack s...................
56 lb. linen sack s....................  60
Bulk in b arrels............................. 2 50

S
g

g
l

8
:

g

W arsaw .

56-lb d airy in d rill bags.......   30
28-lb dairy in d rill bag s.......   15

A shton.

56-lb dairy in  lin en   sack s...  60 

H iggins.

56-lb dairy In linen  s a c k s...  60 

S olar  Rock.

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

Com m on.

G ranulated  F in e.......   .........  65
M edium  F in e ..........................  75

SBBDS.

A n is e ..................................... 
18
Canary, S m yrna..................  
4
C a ra w a y ............................... 
10
C ardam on,  M a la b a r.......   80
Hemp,  R u ssian ................  
4
4%
M ixed  B ird .......................... 
M ustard,  w h ite ............... 
6%
Poppy  ................................... 
g
R a p e ......................................  
5
C uttle B one..........................  20

SNUFF.

Scotch,  in b lad d ers...............  37
M accaboy, In ja rs ..................   35
F rench Rappee, In  ja rs .......   43

SPICES.
W hole Sifted.

A llspice  ...................................  9
Cassia, C hina in m a ts...........10
Cassia, B atavia in   b a n d __ 20
Cassia, Saigon in rollB.........32
Cloves,  A m boyna................... 15
Cloves, Z an zib ar....................  9
Mace,  B atav ia................ 
60
N utm egs, fan cy .......................60
N utm egs, No.  1 ...................... 50
N utm egs, No.  2...................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, b la c k ...  9 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite. .1 2  
P epper,  s h o t............................ 10

P a re   G round In B ulk.

A llspice  ....................................12
Cassia, B a ta v ia ......................22
Cassia,  Saigon........................ 35
Cloves,  A m boyna...................20
Cloves, Z anzibar.....................15
G inger,  A frican .....................15
G inger,  C ochin................ 
20
G inger,  J a m a ic a .....................22
Mace,  B atav ia........................70
M ustard, Eng. and T rieste . .20
M ustard, T rieste.....................25
N u tm e g s,......................... 40©’0
Pepper, Sing., b la c k .. . .  10@14
Pepper, Sing., w h ite __ 15©18
Pepper, C ayenne.............17@20
Sage.............................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

B arrels.......................... 
H alf  b b ls....... ............  
P u re Cone.

22@23
24@25

F a ir  ......................................  
16
G o o d ......................................   20
C h o ic e ...................................  25

SODA.

B o x es.......................................... 5%
Kegs,‘E n g lish ..........................  4g

CHOCOLATE.

W alter B aker & Co.’s
G erman S w e et......................
Prem ium ..................................
B reakfast  C ocoa..................

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  d o z.........
.Cotton, 50 ft, per  d o z.........
Cotton, 60 ft, per  d o z .........
Cotton, 70 ft, p er  doz  .......
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz  ___
Ju te. 60 ft.  per  doz 
.........
Ju te. 72 ft.  per  do*„
C hicory.

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

Bulk 
Red 

COCOA SH ELLS.
20 lb   bag s..... ...................... 
Less  q u a n tity .................... 
Pound  packages............... 
CREA n  TARTAR.

5 and 10 lb. w ooden boxes. .30-35

COFFEE.

G reen.
Rio.

P a i r ................................................10
G o o d ..............................................12
P rim e ............................................ 13
Golden  .......................................14
Peaberry  ..................................... 15

S an to s.
i t
F a ir  ........................... 
Good  ...............................  
15
16
P rim e ............................  
Peaberry  ..................................... 17

 

 

 

M exican  and  G uatam ala.

F a ir  ............................................  16
Good  ..........................................  17
.........................................18
F ancy 
Maracaibo.

P rim e ............................................ 20
M illed........................................ \ 2i

In te rio r........................................ 20
P rivate  G row th..........................22
M andehling................................. 24

Im ita tio n .....................................22
A rabian  .......................................24

Ja v a .

M ocha.

Roasted.

Clark-Jew ell-W ells Co.’s B rands
F ifth   A venue........................ 28
Jew ell’s A rabian M ocha__28
W ells’ M ocha an d  Ja v a ...... 25*4
W eils’  P erfection  J a v a ...... 25%
S an caib o ................................. 23
V alley City M aracaibo........18%
Ideal  B lend............................14
Leader  B len d ........................12
W orden G rocer Co.’s B rands
Q uaker A rabian M ocha.__28
Q uaker M andehling Ja v a . .30 
Q uaker Mocha and J a v a ....27
Toko M ocha and Ja v a ........ 24
Q uaker G olden  Santos__   .18-
S tate H ouse B lend............... 16%
Q uaker G olden R io..............16

P ackage.

for 

Below  are  given  N ew   York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
th e  w holesale  dealer 
w hich 
adds  th e   local  freig h t 
from  
New  York  to  yo u r  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
th e  am ount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from   th e 
m arket  in  w hich  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
w eight  of  package. 
In  60  lb. 
cases th e list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in fu ll cases.
A rb u c k le ...........................   11  00
Jersey ...................................  11  00
flcL au g h lln ’s  XXXX.........11  00

E x tra c t.

T radesm an Grade.

50 books, any denom __   1  50
100 books, any d en o m __   2  50
500 books, any d enom __ 11  50
1.000 books, any d enom __ 20 00

Economic  G rade.

50 books, any denom ___  1  50
100 books, any d enom __   2  50
500 books, any d enom __ 11  50
1.000 books, any d en o m __ 20  00

.1  oo 
.1  20 
1  40 
.1  60 
1  80 
80

5
7

214
3
4

U niversal G rade.

50 books, any denom ___  150
100 books,  any denom ___  2  50
500 books, any denom ___11  50
1,000 books, any d en o m __ 20  00

S uperior G rade.

50 books,  any den o m __   1  50
100 books, any d enom __ 2  50
500 books, any den o m __ 11  50
1,000.books, any d enom __ 20  00

Coupon  P ass Books,

denom ination from  §10 dow n.

Can be m ade to represent any 
20 books...........................
. 
1  00 
50 books...........................
..  2  00
100 books  ......................... ..  3  00
250 books..........................
..  C  25
500 books........................... ..10   00
1000 books........................... ..17 50

C redit  Checks.
500, any one denom ’n . .
1000, any one denom ’n . .
2000, any one denom ’n ..
Steel  p u n c h ........................
DRIED  FRUITS—DOflESTlC
S u n d rled .........................   @  3%
E vaporated 50 lb boxes  5  @  6 

..  3 00
..  5  00
..  8  00
75

A pples.

C alifornia  F ru its.

A pricots.........................  9 @10
B lackberries.................
N ectarin es....................  6  ©
Peaches...........................  7%@  9
P e a rs.......   ....................   8  @
P itted C herries.............
P runnelles.....................12
R aspberries...................

C alifornia  P ru n es.

100-120 25 lb boxes..............  @  3%
90-100 25 lb boxes..............  ©   4
80 - 90 25 lb  boxes..............  ©   4%
70 - 80 25 lb  boxes..............  ©   5
60 - 70 25 lb  boxes..............  ©   5%
50 - 60 25 lb boxes...........  @ 6%
40-50 25 lb  boxes...........  @ 7
30 - 40 25 lb  boxes...........  ©
X  cent less In 50 lb  cases 

R aisins.

London Layers 2 crown- 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Crown.
D eh eslas...........................
Loose M uscatels 2 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 3 Crown 
Loose  M uscatels 4 Crown

4% 
5*

FOREIGN.
C u rran ts.

P atras b b ls...........................©  6
Yostizzas 50 lb cases.........©   6%
Cleaned, bulk  .................... @  7%
C leaned, packages.............©  8

Peel.

Citron A m erican 10 lb  bx  ©14 
Lemon A m erican 10 lb bx  @12 
O range A m erican 101b bx  @12 

Raisins.

O ndura 28 lb boxes.......  @ 8%
S altana  1 C row n...........  @
S ultana  2 C row n...........  @  9%
S ultana  8 C row n...........  @10*4
S ultana  4 C row n...........   ©
S ultana  R C row n...........  
4211%
S ultana 6 C row n...........   ©12

AXLE  GREASE.

A urora.................... ...... 55
Castor O il............. .......60
D iam ond............... . . . /.so
.75
F razer’s ................
IX L G olden, tin  boxes 75
n ica,  tin b o x e s... .......75
P aragon................ .  ...55

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

BAKINd  POWDER.

A bsolute.

~X lb cans d o z .............. ....... 
% lb cans d oz...............-----  
1 

45
85
lb cans d oz............... . . . .   1  50

Acme.

X  lb cans 3 doz................... 
% lb cans 3 doz................... 
1 
B ulk......................................... 

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

X lb cans, 6 doz c a s e ....... 
% lb cans, 4 doz c a se ... ... 
1 
5 
6 oz Eng.  T um blers......... ... 

38
66
lb cans, 2 doz c a -e __ ...  1  00
lb cans. 1 doz ca se__ ...  5  00
85

El P u rity .

X  lb  cans per d o z........... .. 
75
% lb cans per doz  ......... ..  12 0
1 
lb  cans per d oz........... ..  2  00

Home.

X  lb  cans 4 doz c a se __
%  lb cans 4 doz ca se__ .. 
lb cans 2 doz case  ... .. 

35
55
90

X  lb  cans, 4 doz case 
% lb  cans, 4 doz case 
lb  cans, 2 doz case 
1 
Jersey  Cream .

 
 

 

45
85
1  60

1 lb. cans, per d o z.................  2  00
9 oz. cans, ver doz................   1  25
6 oz. cans, per d oz...............  
85

O ur L eader.

X  lb  cans............................... 
% lb  ca n s..............................  
l 

45
75
lb cans................................  1  50

P eerless.

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

85

BATH  BRICK.

A m erican .....................................70
.English.......................................... 80

BLUING.

CfflfiSHSD

s s e

1 doz. pasteboard B o x es... 
40
3 doz. w ooden  boxes...........  1  20

BROOOS.

So. 1 C arpet.................................  l 90
No. 2 C arpet................................... 1 75
No. 3 C arpet.....................   ..  1  50
No. 4 C arpet...........................  1  15
P arlor G e m .................................  2 00
Common W hisk....................  
70
Fancy W hisk.........................  
80
W arehouse.............................   2 25

CANDLES.

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

CANNED  GOODS, 
rianitow oc  Peas.

L akeside M arrow fat...........  1  00
L akeside E.  J ........................  1  30
L akeside, Cham, o f E n g ....  1  40 
Lakeside, Gem, E x . Sifted.  1  65

Valley City % g ro s s .......  
F elix  %  gross.................... 
H um m el’s fo il % gross... 
Hoxnmel’8 tin  %  g ro ss... 

75
1  15
85
I  43

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
S tick  C andy.

SOAP.

' 

t f  d ry .

Arn- , ’  s Brands.

A rm our’s  l-im lly .............  2  70
A rm our’s  L au n d ry ............   3  25
A rm our’s W hite, loos.........  6  25
A rm our’s W hite, 50s............. 3  20
A rm our’s W oodchuck....... 2  55
A rm our’s K itchen  Brown.  2  oO 
A rm our's M ottled  G erm an  2  40

3SE1

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

A m erican Fam ily, w rp’d ....3   33 
A m erican Fam ily, unw rp’d.3  21
D om e..........................................3  33
C abinet......................................2  20
S avon......................................... 2  50
D usky D iam ond, 50 6  oz__ 2  10
DuBky Diamond, 50 8  o z__ 3  00
B lue India, 100 % lb ...............3  00
K irkoline.................................. 3
E o s .....................................  
.  3  65
One  box  A m erican  Fam ily 
free w ith five.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  w hich  the 
w holesale dealer adds th e local 
freight from  N ew  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  th e  invoice  fo r  the 
am ount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from   th e  m arket  in  w hich  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
w eight o f the barrel.
C ut  L o af..................................5  69
D om ino............................. 
5  56
c u b e s .................................31
Pow dered  ............................... 5  3i
XXXX  P ow dered......... 
5  41
Mould  A .....................................5 31
G ranulated in bbls...................5 06
G ranulated in   bags.................5 06
F ine G ran u lated ...................... 5 08
E x tra F ine G ranulated ....... 5  la
E xtra Coarse G ran u lated ... 5  19
Diam ond  Confec.  A .............5  06
Confec.  Standard A ................. 4 94
No. 
4  31
No  2.........................................4 81
No.  3 ......................................... 4 31
No.  4  .......................................4  75
No.  5......................................... 4 75
No.  6: .....................................   4 19
No.  7 ....................................... 4 63
No.  8.......................................  4 50
No.  9.......................................  4 44
No.  10................................;::;:4   38
No.  1 1 ......................................... 4 3,
No.  12............................... 
4  2a
No.  13.................................... " 4  13
No.  14..........................................  06
N°- 
3  00
No.  16........................................... 3 94

1 ...............  

 

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single  b o x ..................................... 2 80
5 box lo ts.................................2
10 box lo ts......................................2 70
25 box lo ts.................................2  60
W olverine Soap .Co.’s Brands.

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & P errin ’s,  la rg e. 
Lea A P errin ’s, sm all.
H alford,  la rg e............
H alford sm all..............
Salad D ressing, large. 
Salad Dressing, sm all.

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

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

A llen B. W risley’s  Brands. 

Old Country, 80 1-lb.  bars  . .2  75 
Good Cheer, 601-lb.  b a rs ... .3  75
Uno,  100 9a-lb. b ars................ 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  b a rs...............2 05

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z ....... 2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 d o z .............2  40

W ashing P ow der.

TOBACCOS.

C igars.

Clark-Jewell-W ells Co.’s brand. 
New  B rick.............................. 35 oo

Morrison,  Plum m er & Co.’s  b’d.
G overnor Y ates, 4M in .........58 00
Governor Yates, 4 \  in .........65 00
G overnor Yates, 5M i n . . 
..70 00
M onitor....................................30 00

H. & P. D rug Co.’s brand. 

Q u in te tte ................................ 35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C.  W .................................... 35  00

H. V an Tongeren’s Brand.

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

STARCH.

Kingsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages......................   6
20 1 lb packages...................... 654
K ingsford’s   S ilv e r  Gloss.

401-lb packages...................... 6M
6-lb  boxes............................... 7

D iam ond.

64 10c  packages  ..................5  00
128  5c  packages....................5  00
32 10c an d  64 5c packages.. .5  00 

Common  Corn.

201 lb.  packages.....................  4%
401 lb.  packages.....................  4U
20 1b.  boxes..............................  4
401b.  b o x es..............................  3$£

Common Gloas.

1-lb  packages.........................   454
3-lb  packages.........................   454
6-lb  packages.........................   4j¿
40 and 50 lb boxes..................   3
B arrels  ....................................   234

STOVE POLISH.

C IG A R

S tar G reen.............................35  00

VINEGAR.

Malt W hite W ine......................   7
P ure  C ider..................................   8

W ICKINa.

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

Fish  and  Oysters

F resh F ish.

W hitefish.
Black B ass...............
H a lib u t....................
Ciscoes or H erring.
B luefish....................
L ive  Lobster...........
Boiled Lobster.......
C o d ...........................
H addock..................
No.  1  P ickerel.......
P ik e...........................
Smoked W hite.......
Red S napper...........
Col  R iver  Salm on. 
M ackerel 
...............

F.  H. C ounts.
S ele cts...........
S tan d ard s....

P er lb.
© 9
9
©
© 10
© 15
© 4
© 10
© 18
© 20
© 10
©
8
@ 8
© 7
© 8
©
10
©
© 12M

© 38
© 32
@ 25

N o. 4, 3 doz in  case, gross..  4  50 
N o. 6,3  doz in  case, g ro ss..  7 20

Shell  Goode.

Oysters, per  100  ......... 1  25@1  50
Clams,  per  100 
. . . .   90@i  oo

S tan d a rd .................... 
S tandard H.  H ......... 
S tandard T w ist.......  
C ut L o af....................
Jum bo, 321b  ...
E x tr a it. H .......
Boston  Cream.

bbls.  pails
654©  754
6M@ 7
6  ~  ~
©   8 
@  8 
cases 
@  6}4 
@  »M 
©

M ixed C andv.

Com petition..............
S tan d ard ....................
L eader  ......................
Conserve.................. ..
R o y a l.......................].
R ibbon.......   .............’
B roken  ......................
Cut  L oaf..................!
English  R ock...........
K in d erg arten ...........
F rench  C ream .........
D andy P a n ................
Valley C ream ..  . . . .

@  6 Hi
@  7 
@ 7 M 
@  7 M 
©   7Hs 
©
©
©   8 
©
©   8M 
@  9
©19
©13

F a n c y -In  B ulk.

Lozenges, p la in .......  
@  9
@ 9
Lozenges,  p rin ted .. 
Choc.  D rops.............  n   @14
Choc.  M onum entals 
@12
Gum  D rops..............  
@ 5
@  714
Moss  D rops........... 
Sour D rops................ 
@  8M
Im p e rials.................. 
@  8M

F ancy—in  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lem on  D rops...........
Sour  D rops...............
Pepperm int D rops.. 
Chocolate Drops  ...
H. M. Choc. D rops..
Gum  D rops..............
Licorice D rops....... .
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  p la in .... 
Lozenges,  p rin ted ..
Im p e rials...............
M ottoes................
Cream   B a r.......
Molasses B a r ...........
H and Made Cream s.  80
P lain  C ream s...........  60
D ecorated Creams
String R ock..............
B u rn t A lm onds....... 1  25
W inteigreen Berries
C aram els.
N o. 1 w rapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ......................
No. 1  w rapped, 3  ib!
b o x e s ....................
No. 2 w rapped, 2  lb. 
b o x e s ..............

©50
©50
©60
© 60
©75
©30
@75
©50
©50
@50
©50
©55
©50
@50
@90
©80
@90
©60
©
©55

©45

Fruits.
O ranges.

Choice N aples. 

. . .  
16 0 s .............
200s....................;***■
, 
Rodis.
160 Im perials............
200 F an cy ...................
Lem ons. 
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s..
F ancy 360s.............
E x.F ancy  300s.........
Ex.  R o d i................

B ananas.

M edium  b u n c h e s...l  25 
Large bunches.........1  75

F oreign Dried  F ru its. 

Figs,  Choice  Layers
10 1b ..................
Figs,  New  Smyrna
14 lb  boxes.............
Figs,  N aturals 
in
30 lb. bags...............
D ates, F ards in  10 ib
b o x e s....................
Dates, F ards in 60 lb
cases  ......................
D ates,Persians,il.M .
B., 60 lb cases, new 
D ates,  Sairs  60  lb 
cases  ...........

©
@4  50
@4  50 
©5  00

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

@1  50 
@2  00

©

©   6

5M

@12M

soft  sh elled ..............   @

Nuts.
A lmonds, T arragona..
Almonds, Iv aca...........  @ n
Alm onds,  C alifornia,
B razils n ew ..................  @ 8
F ilberts  .......................
@10
W alnuts, G renobles.. 
© 12M
W alnuts,  C alif No.  1 . 
@10
W alnuts,  soft  shelled 
@12 
Table N uts,  fan cy  
  @ 11
1
Table N uts,  c h o ic e ...  ©lfl
Pecans, Med...............      @{9
Pecans, E x. L arg e__
@12
Pecans,  Jum bos..........
@ 11
H ickory  N uts per bu.,
Cocoanuts,  fu ll  sacks  @3  50

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

C alif

P ean u ts.

Suns.  ©   7

Fancy,  H.  P., 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
R oasted..........  @ 7
Choice, H. P., E xtras.  @  4
Choice, H. P.,  E xtras,
Boasted  ................  @  e

4g
75

go

85

Provisions.

Sw ift  &  Company  quote  as 

B arreled  P ork.

follow s:
.................... 
Mess 
Back 
.............
Clear  b a c k ...........
S h o rtc u t...............
P ig .............................
Bean  ................
Fam ily  ..............

D ry S alt  M eats.

B ellie s.............
B riskets  .  ..
E x tra  sh o rts.......

Sm oked  H eats.
Hams,  12 lb  average  __
...
Hams,  14 lb  average 
Hams,  16 lb  average.......
Hams, 20 lb  average.......
H am dried b e e f................
Shoulders  (N.  Y. c u t).  .
Bacon,  cle a r.................... 8
C alifornia  h am s.........!.. 
Boneless ham s..................
Cooked  h am .................... 
In  Tierces.
Com pound........................ 
K ettle................................"
55 lb T u b s............advance
801b T ubs...........advance
50 lb T in s ............advance
20 lb P ails............advance
10 }h P ails............advance
o lb P ails............advance
3 lb P ails............advance

L ards. 

S ausages.
B o lo g n a ....................
L iver.............................
F ra n k fo rt...............
P o r k .................................
Blood 
T o n g u e ....................
H ead  cheese...............

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

a o i
1 ¡

10  75
14  50
9  50
7
7

10

©9
, /
7M
n

4

6M

Beef.
E x tra  M ess........................   8 50
Boneless  ............. 
xi  99
E u m p ................................... 11  00

P ig s ’ F eet.

, 

Tripe.

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

K its, 15  lb s.........................  
80
M  bbls, 40 lb s .....................  1 59
M  bbls, 80 lb s.....................  2 80
_  
K its. 15 lb s ... 
75
M  bbls, 40 lb s.....................   1 49
M  bbls, 80 lb s.....................  2 75
D 
C asings.
Beef  ro u n d s___... .*
Beef  m id d les.............
S h e e p ...........................
B u tterin e.
Rolls,  d a iry ................
Solid,  dairy.
Rolls,  c re a m e ry ............... 
Solid,  c re a m e ry .............’ 

18

13
i2M

Canned  M eats.

2  10
C orned  beef,  2  1 b ... 
Corned  beef,  14  lb ...........14  00
R oast  beef,  2  lb 
2  iO 
P otted  ham ,  Ms 
60 
P otted  ham ,  Ms 
1  00 
D eviled ham ,  ms 
60 
Deviled ham ,  Ms 
1  00 
Potted  tongue  Ms 
60 
Potted  tongue Ms.
1  00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

C a rc a ss ......................
Fore q u arte rs...........
H ind  q u arters.........
Loins  No.  3...............
R ibs___’. ...................!
R o u n d s .................... !
C hucks...........
P lates  .............

P ork.

D ressed........................
L o in s .........................
Shoulders...........
L eaf L a rd .............
C a rc a ss ............
Spriug L am bs..

M utton. 

Carcass 

Veal.
................

.  6  @  7M
•  5  ©   6
•  7M@  9 
.  9  @12
•  8  @12
•  6M@  7)4 
4  @  5

©   5 
©   8 
©   6M 
■  5M@  8
•  6  @  7

4©  8

Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:

Hides.

P art  cu red .................... 
©   8M
Full C ured....................  8M@  9m
D r y ................................   9  @ 11
Kips,  g reen .................. 6M@  7
^ 1i? v 9 u re d ..................   8yi@l0
Calfskins,  g reen .........  7M@  9
C alfskins,  cu red ........  9  ©10M
D eaconskins  ..............25  @30
S h earlin g s..................
L a m b s ...........
Old  W ool....................
Oils.
B arrels. 
Eocene  ...............
XXX W .W .M ich.Hdlt 
W  W M ichigan...
D iam ond  W hite.......
D., S. Gas.  ...........
Deo. N a p th a ..............
c y lin d e r .........
e n g in e ..................

©  .8*4 
©   8 
@  7

5© 
25© 
60© 

30 
60 
90

•  @ 7M  
25  ©36 
.11  ©21 
.. 
©   8

\» c k , w in te r............

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

B u tters,

M gal., per d oz....................  go
1 to 6 gal., per g a l............. 
8 gal., per g a l ....................... 
10 gal., per g a l........................ 
12 gal., per g al........................  
la gal.  m eat-tubs, per gal.. 
8 
20 gal. m eat-tubs, per gal.. 
8 
25 gal. m eat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. m eat-tubs,  per gal..  10 

5*4
6M
e k
6M

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

C hurns.

M ilkpans.

M gal. flat or rd.  bot., doz.
1 gal.  flat or rd.  bot., each 
F ine Olazed M ilkpans 
M gal. flat or rd.  bot., doz.
1 gal.  flat or rd.  bot., each 

60
5M

65
5M

Stew pans.

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

Ju g s.

M gal., per doz.....................  40
M gal.,  per d oz.....................  go
1 to 5 gal.,  per g a l............... 

6M

Tom ato Ju g s.

M gal., per doz....................  70
1 g a l..e a c h .........................  
7
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks fo r  1 gal., per doz..  30 

P reserve J a rs  and Covers.
M gal., stone cover, d o z...  7g
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing W ax.

2

5 lbs.  in package, per lb ... 
LAM P  BURNERS.

go

No.  0  S un ............................... 
No.  1  S u n .............................;; 
No.  2  S un.................................. 
T u b u lar.................................. 
Security,  No.  1___  
65
’"  
Security, No. 2.................. 
go
N utm eg  ............................” ! 
C lim ax....................................   j  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
P er box o f 6 doz.
„  
No.  0  S u n /............................   j  75
No.  1  S un.................... 
1  aa
No.  2  S un............................. !! 2 70

F irs t  Q uality.

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

w rapped and  labeled__   2  10
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  2  25 
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  3  25 

crim p  top,
crim p 
top,
crim p  top,

XXX F lin t.

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

w rapped and  la b e le d ....  2  55 
w rapped and  labeled.  ..  2  75 
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  3  7g 

crim p  top,
crim p  top,
crim e  top,

CHIMNEYS—P earl  Top.

labeled...................................3  79
labeled...................................4  79
labeled............ ..............  
4  gg

No.  1  Sun,  w rapped  and
No.  2  Sun,  w rapped  and
No. 2 Hinge,  w rapped  and
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  B ulb,”
for Globe Lam ps............... 

80

La  B astle.

doz  ......................................  1  25

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

R ochester.

No.  1, Lime  (65c d oz)......... 3  50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c d o z)......... 4  00
No. 2, F lin t (80c  d o z)......... 4  70

E lectric.

OIL  CANS. 

No. 2, Lim e  (70c doz)  .......   4  00
No. 2, F lin t  (80c doz).........  4  40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans w ith  sp o u t..  1  25
1 gal galv iron w ith  spout,  l  65
2 gal galv iron w ith  spout.  2  87
3 gal galv  iron w ith spout.  3  50 
5 gal galv iron w ith  spout.  4  75 
3 gal galv Iron w ith  faucet  4  75 
5 gal galv iron w ith  faucet  5  25
5 gal T ilting ca n s................   8  00
5 gal galv iron  N acefas  ...  9 00

Pum p  Cans

5 gal R apid steady stream .  9  00 
5 gal E ureka non-overflow 10  56
3 gal Home R u le..... .............10  50
5 gal Home R u le........................ 12 00
5 gal  P irate  K ing......................  9 go

LANTERNS.

No.  O T ubular...........................   4 25
No. 
I B   T u b u la r...!.........   6  50
No. 13 T ubular D ash............. 6  30
No.  1 Tub., glass fo u n t__   7  00
No.  12 T ubular, side lam p. 14  00 
No.  3 Street  L a m p ...........  3  75

LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  O Tubular,  caaes 1 doz.
4g
each, box 10 cents............. 
No.  O Tubular,  cases2 doz.
each, box  15  cen ts........... 
4g
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls  5 doz.
each, bbl 35!...................... 
40
No. 0 T ubular,  b u ll’s  eye,
cases 1 doz. each...............  1  25

LAM P  W ICKS.

No. 0 per gross...................... 
No. 1 per gross.....................  
No. 2 per gross  ....................  
No. 3 per gross......................  
M am m oth....................  

20
25
38
58
70

W heat.

W heat.

90

W in ter  W h eat  F lour. 

Local Brands.
P a te n ts ...........................  
5  50
Second  P a te n t....... !............5  99
s tra ig h t............................. 4  gu
U lear............................................  40
G raham   .......................  
4  7o
B u c k w h e a t.........! ! ..............  < « 1
S ubject  to   usual  cash  dis­
F lo u r in  bbls., 25c p er bbl. ad­

count.
ditional.

W orden G rocer Co.’s B rand.

Q uaker,  Ms............................  5  00
Q uaker,  m s............................  5  Ou
Q uaker,  His.............................  5  00

S pring  W heat  F lour. 

Clark-Jewell-W ells Co.’s B rand.
P iilsbury’s  Best Ms.............  6  05
Pulsbury s  Best Ms.........  
5  95
P iilsbury’s B est  v«s.............  5  85
P illsbuiy-s Best 
paper..  5  85 
P ulsbury s Best j*s paper..  5  85 
B all-B arnhart-Putm an’s Brand.
G rand Republic, Ms.-................. 5 90
G rand R epublic, Ms........... .  5  mi
G rand Republic,  Ms...............5  70
Lemon A W heeler Co.’s  B rand.
Gold M edal  Ms.................. 
«  00
Gold Medal  Ms......... .! ........  g  on
Gold M edal  Ms... 
"  "  5 80
Parisian,  Ms............ V.V.'  6  Oo
Parisian, Ms.............................5  90
P arisian.  Ms...........................  5  80

Olney A J u d s o n ’s B rand.

 

Ceresota,  Ms...............  
6  00
5  C,
Ceresota, Ms.............. 
Ceresota, Ms............................ 5  £
W orden Grocer Co.’s B rand.
Laurel,  Ms...........................   6  00
Laurel,  M s................  
5 9 .
Laurel,  Ms....................” ."!  5  «¡J

17 5  
2  00

M eal.
B o lte d ......................
G ranulated

Feed and  M illstuffs.

St.  Car Feed, screened  ...  14  50
No.  1 Corn and  O ats...........13 50
U nbolted Corn M eal....... .’.13  00
W inter W heat  B ran __ _  .11  00
W inter W heat M iddlings..Is  00 
Screenings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   49  99
„ T h e   O.  E  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follow s:

New Corn.

Car  lo ts.............................
33H
Less th a n   c a r  lo ts!... .." " '  39 

Car  lo ts .................................  22V
Carlots, clip p ed .......... ."".  *>52
Less th an   car  lo ts __  
27

O ats.

H ay.

No.  1 T im othy ca rlo ts.......   9  00
No. 1 Tim othy, ton lo ts.... 10  00

Crackers.

The N. Y.  B iscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follow s:

B u tter.
Seym our X X X .......  
4
Seym our XXX, 3 lb.  carton  4M 
Fam ily X X X .... 
4
fa m ily  XXX, 3 lb  c a r t o n ! 4 M
Salted X X X ...........................   4
Salted XXX. 3 lb c a rto n ...  4M 

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ...........................   4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  c a rto n __   414
Soda,  C ity .................. 
5
Z ephyrette................ .. 
9
Long Island  W afers...........  9
L. 1 . W afers,  1 lb  carton  ..  10

O yster.

Square Oyster, X X X ...........  4%
Sq. Oys. XXX,  l  lb  carton.  5M 
F arin a Oyster,  XYY...........  4
SW EET  GOODS—Boxes.
A n im a ls .................................  9
B ent’s Cold W ater........ 
13
Belle R o se.................... 
jj
Cocoanut  Taffy............ . 
8
Coffee C akes......................"   g
Frosted H oney.................!  ’  10
G raham  C rackers___ ! " ! !   g
G inger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
G inger Snaps, XXX  c ity ...  5 
Gin. Sups,XXX hom e m ade  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  5
G inger  V anilla....................  7
im p e ria ls........................ ” "   g
Jum bles,  H oney.....................10
Molasses  Cakes...................     6
M arshm allow   ..................."   12
M arshm allow   C ream s!!!!!  13
Pretzels,  hand  m a d e .......   6
Pretzelettes, Little G erm an  6
Sugar  C ake...........................  6
S u lta n a s...................... 
  49
S ears'L u n ch .............! ..! ...  6
V anilla  Square............. 
7
V anilla  W a fe rs............!!.  12
Pecan W afers.................. 
12
M ixed P ic n ic .....................”   10
Cream J u m b le s .............. "
Boston G inger  N uts.......6
Ohimmie  F adden 
....... 
9
Pineapple Glace........   . . . "   12
P enny C akes.........................   g
M arshm allow   W a ln u ts..!.  13 
Belle Isle P icnic.................!  10

 

22

D o w n e d   O ld   N ico tin e .

in  before 

“ Did  I  ever  tell  you  why  I  swore  off 
smoking?”   asked  a  veteran  traveling 
man,  as  the  younger  members  of  the 
party  lighted  up  their  weeds  and  settled 
back  for an  after-diDner  smoke. 
“ No? 
Well,  I ’ll  amuse  myself  with  a  recital 
of  my  troubles,  while  you  fellows  are 
busy  trying  to  make  chimneys  of  your­
selves. 
I  think  I  must  have  had  a.he­
reditary  desire  to  smoke.  Anyhow,  I 
started 
I  had  reached  my 
teens,  borrowing  my  respected  parent’s 
old  briar  pipe  and  burning up his strong 
tobacco  out  in  a  secluded  corner  of  the 
old  barn.  Of  course,  I  was  discovered 
and  read  a  severe  lecture  on  the  danger 
to  a  boy's  health  from  the  nicotine. 
Of  course,  I  promised  not  to  do  it 
again,  but  somehow  in  my  childish  way 
I  figured  out  that  my  health  was as good 
as  my  dad’s  and  that  if  he  could  stand 
it  I  could,  bo  I  kept  on  sub  rosa.  One 
day,  when  1  dropped  a  match  and  near­
ly  burned  the  barn  down,  I  did  get  a 
fright  and 
let  the  weed  alone  for  a 
couple  of  weeks,  but  it  was  not  long be­
fore  I  was  soon  at  it  again.  The  older 
I  grew  the  more  I  smoked,  and  between 
pipe,  cigar  and  chewing  tobacco, 
I 
managed  to  keep  using  tobacco pretty 
last  thing  before  I 
continually.  The 
went  to  bed 
in  the  evening  I  would 
drop  a  little  chunk  of  juicy  plug  in  my 
mouth  and  roll off to pleasant dreams.  If 
I  did  not  find  it  there  in  the  morning  it 
did  not  make  much  difference.  For a 
long  time  I  did  not  realize how  strongly 
the  tobacco  habit  was becoming fixed  on 
me. 
I  always  flattered  myself  with  the 
belief  that  I  could  quit  whenever  I 
wanted  to.  One  bright  summer  day  1 
planned  to  go  out  with  a  friend to spend 
the  day  shooting 
in  the  country  about 
fifteen  miles  from  town.  My friend  did 
not  smoke. 
In  the  morning  when  we 
were  starting,  out  I  carefully  provided 
a  big  pouchtul  of  tobacco,  a  handful  of 
cigars,  a  pipe,  and  a  generous  hunk  of 
chewing.  These  I  did  up  in  a  bundle 
and  dropped 
in  the  rear  of  the  buggy 
with  the  guns. 
I  had  a  little  plug  in 
my  pocket,  and  this  kept  me  pretty 
busy  until  we  reached 
shooting 
ground.  The  first  thing  I  did  was  to 
look  for  my 
‘ supplies.’  You  can  im­
agine  my  horroi  and  dismay  to  find 
them  gone.  The  bundle  had 
been 
jolted  out  of  the  buggy  on  the  way  out. 
It  was  then  that  I  realized  what  an  im­
portant  part  of  my  existence  tobacco 
long  I  suffered 
had  become.  All  day 
I  could  do  no 
the  tortures  of  Tantalus. 
shooting ;  I  was  too  nervous  for  that. 
I 
could  do  nothing  but  speculate  on  the 
possibility  of  getting  tobacco  to  satisfy 
my  longings. 
If  there  had  been  a  place 
within  five  or  six  miles  where  I  could 
get  some  I  would  have  cheerfully  gone. 
But  there  was  not.  My  fiiend  could 
not  understand  my  sufferings,  but  he 
could  see  that  I  was  suffering.  He  tried 
to  get  me  interested  in  other  things 
in 
vain.  Finally,  I  proposed  that  we  go 
back  to  town  early  in  the  afternoon.  He 
good-naturedly 
gmd  we 
started.  My  one  idea  when  we  started 
back  was  to  get  to  some  place  where  I 
could  get  a  cigar  as  quickly as possible. 
But  I  never  smoked  the  cigar  I  wanted 
so badly. 
I  have  never  smoked  it  yet. 
Somehow  the  scales  fell  from  my  eyes 
before  I  reached  town  and  I  saw  my­
self  wearing  all  the  galling  chains  of 
abject  slavery  to  a foolish habit.  I  made 
a  declaration  to  myself  then  and  there.
I  said,  ‘ Nicotine,  old  boy,  you  11  never 
have  a  chance  to  torture  me  this  way 
again. ’  He  never  did. 
It  was  the 
greatest  battle  of  my  life.  The  enemy 
did  not  die  until  he  reached  the  last 
ditch,  but  I  beat  him .”

consented, 

the 

The  Cartridge  Trust.

From  th e  St. P aul T rade Journal.

requiring 

The  use  of  breech-loading  rifles  and 
pistols 
copper  and  brass 
shells  for  their  cartridges  has  greatly 
increased  the  ability  of  the  soldier  and 
huntsman  to  shoot  quickly  and  with 
effect,  and  has  given  them  ammunition 
easily  carried  and  not apt  to  be  injured 
by  dampness,  or  even 
long-continued 
immersion  in  water;  and the use of  such 
ammunition  has  become  world  wide, 
and  has  amassed  large  fortunes  for  the 
concerns  which  control its  manufacture.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

In  this  country,  however,  this 

indus­
try  has  become  a  strong  monopoly,  and 
it  would  seem  one  which  demands  an 
outrageous  price  for  its  commodities. 
The  list  price  for  long  cartridges,  such 
as  are  used  for  sporting  and  military 
rifles,  is  about  $30  per  thousand,  and 
the  profits  made  by  the  jobber  and  re­
tailer are  very  small  and  closely  calcu­
lated.  About  the  very  best  the  jobber 
can  do 
is  somewhere  between  $26  and 
$27  per  thousand  cartridges.

When,  however,  these  cartridges  are 
sold  to  the  national  and  state  govern­
ments,  these  prices  are  very  nearly  cut 
in  half,  and the  big  contracts  made  with 
foreign  governments  are  on  a basis  con­
siderably  lower.

This  condition  of  things  exists  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  copper,  lead,  gun­
powder,  fulminate  of  silver  and  other 
materials  have depreciated in price from 
33  to  50  per  cent,  since  the  manufac­
ture  became  established,  and  wages 
have  been  almost  equally  reduced,  and 
skilled  hand  labor  replaced  by  marvel­
ously  ingenious  and  wonderfully  effect­
ive  machinery. 
It  is  safe  to  estimate 
that a  thousand  cartridges  to-day  do  not 
cost  more  than  one-half  as  much  to 
make  as  they  did  in  the  eighties,  and 
yet  there  has been  no  material reduction 
in  the  price.

Once 

in  a  while  an  "  independent”  
concern  starts  in  to  make  cartridges,but 
the  few  which  have  started  have  soon 
closed,  it  is  said,  through  the  purchase 
of  the  plant  by  the established concerns.
It  is  certain  that  this  pool of cartridge 
manufacturers 
is  one  of  the  strongest 
and  relatively  most  profitable  of  all  ex­
isting  combinations.
Effect  of 

the  New  Ordinance  on 

Chicago  Shippers.

Chicago,  Sept.  6—The  provisions  of 
the  ordinance  are  severe  on  fraudulent 
packing,  but  the  representations  of  the 
commission  merchants  had  a good effect 
with  the  Commissioner  and  the result  is 
satisfactory.  The  chief  offenders  were 
snide  dealers  who  repack  fruit  and  thus 
defraud  dealers  by  destroying  the  de­
mand  for  their  good fruit.  Already there 
have  been  a  great  many  commendations 
of  the  move,  and,  as  far  as  heard  from, 
Michigan  shippers  who  pack  honestly 
are  heartily 
in  favor  of  the  move,  as 
they  feel  that  at  present  every  one,  hon­
est  or  otherwise,  is  accused  of  dishonest 
practices.

One  of  our  shippers  who  has  been 
shipping  to  us  steadily  for  twenty-five 
years  said  to  us: 
“ It  is  just  what  we 
want.  We  are  tired  of  being  called 
frauds  for  the  benefit  of 
curbstone 
swindlers and dishonest packers. ”   Some 
fry  so-called  commission  mer­
small 
chants  are  trying  to  create  the 
impres­
sion  that  the  committee  appointed  by 
the  dealers  themselves  had  procured  the 
passage  of  the  ordinance;  .while  the 
fact  is,  they  exerted  all  their 
influence 
to  modify  the  harshness  of  its  provi­
sions,  and  collectively  and  individually 
worked  hard  to  extend  the  time,  so  that 
all  should  have  a  chance  to  get  ready ; 
but  there  are  always  some  ready  to  find 
fault.

The  only  objection  reported 

is  from 
those  who  want  to  use  tarlatan  to  palm 
off  inferior fruit  as  good. 
It will  not  be 
long  before  fruit  covered 
in  the  old 
way  will  be  looked  on  with  suspicion 
of  being  stuffed,  both 
in  the  city  and 
country.

“ Honest  dealings  and  honest dollars”  
is  the  motto  in  the  fruit  business,  and 
to  that  no  one  can  object.

B a r n e t t   B r o s .

No  More  Trade-Mark  Frauds.

The  Treasury  Department  is  making 
active  preparations  to  rigidly  enforce 
the  provisions  of  Section 
II  of  the 
Dingley  tariff  act,  which  was  carefully 
drawn  for  the  purpose  of  preventing  the 
importation  of  goods  under  counterfeit 
ed  domestic  trade-marks,  etc.  All  laws 
heretofore  passed  have  proven  of  little 
effect  for  this  purpose,  but  the  Depart­
ment  feels  confident  that  the present law 
will  protect  American  manufacturers  in 
their  property  rights 
in  their  trade­
marks,  and  in  order  to  promptly  put  the 
provision 
instructions  have 
been  sent  to  officers  of  the  custom  serv­
ice  throughout the  country.

into  force 

Elgin  System  of Cream eries

It will pay you to investigate  our  plans  and  visit  our  factories,  if  you  are  con­
templating building a Creamery or  Cheese  Factory.  All  supplies  furnished  at 
lowest prices.  Correspondence solicited.

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303  to 309  Lock Street, 

Syracuse,  New  York.

Contractors  and  Builders  of  Butter  and  Cheese  Factories,  M anufacturers 
and Dealers in Supplies.  Or  write

R.  E.  STURGIS,  General  Manager of  Western  Office,  Allegan,  flich.

I Corn Hooks

The  Brooks Corn  Hook.
The Carver Corn  Hook.
The  W.  C.  &  Co.  No.  i  bright. 
The W.  C.  &  Co.  No.  2  blued.

Get  in  your orders  now  and  be  ready  when  the  de-  ^  
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Racks  when  desired.  The  Best  is  none  too  good.  See  this  and  our 
complete  line  of  hand  made  Harness,  Carriages,  etc.

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The  Street  Traffic  Problem. 

W ritten fo r the  T r a d esm a n .

One  of  the  most  urgent  mechanical 
and  economic  problems  pressing  for  so­
lution  to-day  is  that  of  self-propelling 
vehicles.  The  rapid  increase  of  street 
traffic 
in  the  great  cities  is  coming  to 
make  the  condition 
in  all  of  them  al­
most  intolerable.  All  are  fam iliar  with 
the  resemblance  to  pandemonium  which 
is  now  the  principal  characteristic  of 
every  city  street  sustaining  any  consid­
erable  traffic.  The  barbarous  use  and 
treatment  of  draught  animals 
in  any 
such  street 
is  repugnant  to  all  refined 
sensibilities  and  a  blot  upon  our  civili­
zation.
The 

injury  wrought  by  the  present 
methods  of  street  traffic  is  manifest  in 
many ways.  Aside from  the  resemblance 
to  bedlam,  which  makes  the  threading 
of  one’s  way  by  any  means  through  the 
confusion  a  serious  and  hazardous  task, 
there  is,  in  the  present  method,  tremen­
dous  waste  of  time  and  energy.  Thus, 
the  regulation  of  speed  in  the  moving 
of  all  vehicles  is  the pace  of the slowest. 
Stand  and  watch  the  movement  of  the 
processions  which  are making noise  and 
confusion  enough  for  breakneck  speed 
and  note  how  painfully  slow and labored 
is  actual  progress.  The  manifest  ex­
penditure  of  energy  is  always  sufficient 
for  many  times  the  work  accomplished, 
on  account of  the  necessarily  rough  con­
dition  of  the  streets,  with  the  need  of 
provision  to  move  the 
in  the 
roughest  and  steepest  places.

loads 

It  has  long  been  recognized  as  a  duty 
to  the  refinements  of  civilization  that 
everything 
in  municipal  management 
repugnant  to  the  finer  sensibilities  shall 
be  as  quickly  and  effectually  removed 
as  possible.  The  only  exception  to  this 
rule  is  in  the  treatment  of  the  accumu­
lations  of  mud  and  other  filth  in  the 
streets.  In  this  regard  the  throngs  mov­
ing  upon  all  our great  city  highways are 
The 
long  suffering, 
material  deposited 
is 
either  secured  to  its  place,  or  to  what­
ever 
it  may  come  in  contact  with,  by 
being  converted 
into  a  plastic  mortar, 
or  it  is  a  source  of  contamination  and 
disease  by  being  converted 
into dust 
and  propelled  by  what  should  be  the 
health-giving  breeze.

if  not  patient. 

in  the  streets 

Now,the  general  progress  of economic 
science  has  gone  beyond  what  warrants 
this  situation.  Methods  of  building 
streets  and  providing  for the  transit  of 
passengers  and  freight  through  them 
have  advanced  to  a  point  which  should 
work  a  decided  modification of the pres­
ent  unbearable  conditions. 
But  the 
conservatism  of  habit  must  necessarily 
operate  to  hinder  the  application  of 
these,  as  of  all,  radical  economic  im­
provements.  But,  while  there  seems  to 
be  so  little  accomplished  in  remedying 
the  situation—while, 
indeed,  the  con­
tinued 
increase  of  traffic  is  more  than 
balancing  the  improvements  and  mak­
ing  confusion  worse  confounded—yet 
there  is  to  come  the  amelioration  of  the 
present  conditions.  The  problem  has 
not  been  given  u p ;  and,  while  so  little 
is  said  of 
it  that  many  are  becoming 
discouraged,  quiet  but  rapid  strides  are 
being  made  toward  a  practical  and 
effectual  solution. 
In  one  direction  the 
progress  is  being  made  in  the  improve­
ment  and  cheapening  of  impermiable 
and  smooth  pavements,  in  another and 
more  radical  in  the  preparation  for  do­
ing  away  with  animal  traffic.  This  lat­
ter  question  is  most  complicated,  for  it 
not  only  involves great  change  of  habit, 
but  there  must  be  a  new  education 
in

the  management  of  mechanical 
of  animal  power.

Just  now  there  seems  to  be  the  great­
est  progress  in  the  development  of  me­
chanically  driven  vehicles 
in  France 
and  England.  Thus,  accounts  are  fre­
quent  of  automotor  road  races  in  the 
former  country,  in  which  the  entries 
are  numerous  and  the  races  successful. 
In  England  still  greater  progress  has 
been  made  in  the direction of systematic 
use  of  the  new  vehicles.  We  read  that 
a  company  has  just  placed  a dozen elec­
trical  cabs  on  the  streets  of  London. 
These  are  similar  in  appearance  to  an 
ordinary  cab,  run with  accumulators  un­
derneath,  have  rubber  tires  and  are 
lighted  by  electricity.  They  are  re­
ported  as  giving  every 
satisfaction. 
When  it  is  considered  how  difficult  the 
use  of  such  vehicles  must  be,  in  the 
present  conditions,  it  will  be  manifest 
that,  with  the  confusion  removed,  there 
would  be  no  doubt  of  their  practicabil- 
ity.

As  in  other  mechanical  inventions  of 
this  character,  the  European  countries 
for a  time  seem  to  take  the  lead,  and no 
doubt  history  will  be  repeated  when 
Yankee  genius  comes  fairly 
into  oper­
ation. 
Improvement  will  then  come 
with  a rush,  our streets  will  quickly  feel 
the  change  and  the  perfected  apparatus 
will  be  sent  to  displace  the  cruder  ex­
periments  which  are  now  marking  the 
progress  of  the  movement  in  Old  World 
cities. 

Na te.

Obscuration  of the  Merchant.

From  th e In d u stria l W orld.

One  of  the  recent  tendencies  of  the 
times,  active  now  for  several  years,  is 
the  avoidance  of  the  middleman 
in 
commerce.  The 
individual  consumer 
buys  from  the  general  supply  house  and 
ignores  the  retail  merchant.  The  re­
tail  merchant 
ignores  the  wholesale 
dealer and  buys  direct  from  the  manu­
facturer.

Production  had  exceeded  supply  and 
the  manufacturer,  hoping  to  dispose  of 
his  surplus  product,  opened  negotia­
tions  directly  with  the  retail  dealer. 
The  supply  house,  noting  the  enforced 
economies  of  the  people,  advertised 
cheap  goods  and  built  up  a  trade.

The  continuance  of  these  methods 

is 
doubtful.  The  retail  merchants,  suffer­
ing  from  the  effects  of 
supply 
houses  and  the  department  stores,  are 
organizing  all  over  the  country  for  self­
protection  and  co-operation.  Within 
several  months  hardware  associations 
have  been  organized 
in  three  or  four 
Western  States  and 
the  formation  of 
similar  organizations  in  other  states  is 
under discussion.

the 

Recognizing  the  evil  consequences  to 
himself  of  the  tabooing  of  the  middle­
man,  the  retail  dealer,  to  be  consistent, 
must  recognize  the  wholesale  merchant, 
and  cease buying from the manufacturer. 
The  latter  must  discover  that,by  selling 
directly  to  the  retailer,he  has  not  in  the 
general  aggregate  added  a  pound  to  the 
consumption  of  goods, but  only  confused 
previous  methods  of  doing  business.
If  it  were  to  permanently  cheapen  the 
cost  of  goods  to  the  ultimate  consumer, 
there  would  be  great  difficulty  in  cor­
recting  the 
it  does 
not  so  cheapen  the  cost  of  the  same 
class of goods  is the  verdict  which  many 
buyers  are  reaching.  It is  therefore  very 
likely  that  most  phases  of  the  short  cut 
channel  are  only  temporary  and  that 
the  current  of  trade  will,  with the return 
of  normal  business  conditions,  resume 
its  old  course.

innovation.  That 

The  occupation  of  the  merchant  or 
in  no  danger  of  extinction  or 
trader 
serious  impairment.  The needs  of  peo­
ple  are  multiplying.  Buying  must  be­
come  more  general. 
It  only  remains 
for the  trade,  both  wholesale  and  retail, 
to  watch  existing  tendencies  and  make 
adaptations  accordingly.  Organizations 
comprise  one  of  the  methods  by  which 
this  may  be  accomplished,  and  organi­
zations  are  being  created  to  meet  the 
emergency.

is 

AUGURS  AND  BITS
 

Snell’s ........................................ 
70
Jen n in g s’, genuine  ............................................25*10
Jen n in g s’, im itation  ...  ................................... 60*10

 

AX ES

F irst Q uality. S. B. B ro n ze...............................  5 00
F irst Q uality,  D.  B. B ronze...............................  9 50
F irst Q uality. S.  B.  S.  S teel...............................   5 50
F irst Q uality, D. B.  S te e l..................................  10 50

BARROWS

R a ilro a d .................................................... *12  00  14  00
G arden.........................................................  net  30 00

BOLTS

S to v e...............................................................  
60*10
Carriage new  list........... .............................   70 to 75
P low ................................................................. 
50

W ell,  p la in ...........................................................* 3  25

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured................ 
70*10
W rought  N arro w .................................................70*10

O rdinary Tackle................................ 

BLOCKS

 

 

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10........................................ 
........per m 
H ick’s C. F .  ............................................. per m 
G. D ...............................................................p e rm  
M usket......................................................... p e rm  

70

4

65
55
35
60

CARTRIDGES

Rim   F ire................................................................. 50*  5
C entral  F ire .......................................................... 25&  5

CHISELS

Socket F irm er......................................................  
Socket  F ram ing..................................................  
Socket  C om er......................................................  
Socket  S licks........................................................ 

80
80
80
80

DRILLS

Morse's B it S to ck s.............................................  
60
T aper and S traight Shank.................................50*   5
Morse’s T aper S hank....................................... .50*   5

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in .................................doz.  n et 
55
C orrugated......................................................  
i  25
A djustable........................................................dis 40&10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

C lark’s sm all, *18;  large, *26............................30*10
Ives’, 1, #18; 2, #24; 3, #30  ................................. 
25

PILES—New  List

New A m erican ..................................................... 70* 10
N icholson’s ............................................................ 
70
H eller’s Horse R asps.......................................... eC&iO

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

15 

28
17

D iscount, 75 to 75-10

GAUGES

Stanley R ule and Level  Co.’s .......................... 60&10

KNOBS—New List

Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings........................ 
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings....................  

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.................................. ........ #16 00, dis  60*10
H unt Eye.......................................... *15  00, dis  60*10
H unt’s................................................*18  50, dis  20*10

NAILS

A dvance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base......................................  .........  
l  65
W ire nails,  base...................................................  175
20 to 60 ad v an ce...................................................  Base
10 to 16 ad vance.................................................  
06
8 ad v an ce....................................................  
10
 
6 ad v ance............................................................  
20
4 ad v an ce............................................................  
30
45
3 a d v a n c e ...................................... 
 
70
2 a d v a n c e ............................................................ 
F ine 3 advance..................................................  
50
Casing 10 ad vance..............................................  
15
Casing  8 ad vance___: ...................................... 
25
Casing  6 advance..............................................  
35
F inish 10 a d v a n c e ...........................................  
85
35
F inish  8 advance............................................... 
F inish  6 advance............................................... 
45
Barrel  %  ad vance.................................................  
85

 

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s .......................................... 
Coffee, P.  S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  M alleables... 
Coffee, Landers, F erry & C lark's..................  
Coffee, E nterprise...............................................  

40
40
40
30

M OLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s P a tte rn ................................................. 60*10
Stebbin’s G en u in e...... ........................................60*10
E nterprise, self-m easuring.............................  
30

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fa n c y ......................................  @50
Sciota B e n c h ........................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.............................  @50
Bench, first q u ality .............................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s w ood..............  
60

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, A cm e.......................................................60*10*10
Common, polished........................................ 
70*  5

Iron and  T i n n e d ...............................................  
Copper Rivets and B urs....................................  

60
60

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

M aydole & Co.’s, new   list.....................................dis 33%
Kip’s  ............................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes & Plum b’s .....................................................dis 40*10
70
M ason’s Solid Cast Steel..................... 30c list 
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel H and 30c list 40*19

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

instead 

Hardware  Price  Current.

HOUSE  FURNISHINQ  GOODS

Stam ped T in W are.............................new  list 75*10
Japan n ed  T in W are............................................20*10
G ranite Iron  W are.............................new  list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARB

P ots..........................................................................60*1
K e ttle s ................................................................... 60*10
S p id e rs...................................................................60*10

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ......................................dis 60*10
S tate................................................ per  doz.  net  2  50

HINOES

WIRE  GOODS

B rig h t....................................................................  
Screw E yes............................................................ 
Hook’s....................................................................  
G ate Hooks and E yes......................... : ............  

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis 

LEV ELS

Sisal, % inch and  la rg er..................................  
M anilla..................................................................  

ROPES

SQUARES

Steel and iro n ...................................................... 
Try and Bevels  ...  ...........................................
M itre ......................................................................

80
80
80
80

70

5%
8

80

SH EET  IRON

com. smooth

com.
Nos. 10 to  14...................................... .#3  30
#2 40
Nos. 15 to  17......................................
3  30
2  40
Nos. 18 to 21....................................
3  45
2  60
Nos. 22 to  24.....................................
3 55
2  70
Nos. 25 to  26......................................
3  70
2  80
No.  2 7 ...............................................
3  80
2  90
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter, 
over  30 inches
w ide n ot less th a n  2-10 extra.

L ist  a c c t  19, ’86.............................................dis

SAND  PAPER

Solid E yes...............................................per ton  20 00

SASH  WEIGHTS

TRAPS

Steel, Game....................................................  
O neida Com m unity, N ew house’s ........... 
O neida Com m unity, Hawley *  N orton's 70*10
Mouse, choker................................per doz 
Mouse, delusion.............................per doz 

60*10
50
15
1  25

WIRB
B right M arket.........................
A nnealed  M arket..................
Coppered  M arket....................
T inned M arket........................
Coppered Spring  Steel.........
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  . 
Barbed  Fence,  p ain ted .......

75 
75 
70*10 
62% 
50 
2 05 
1  70

HORSE  NAILS

Au Sable......................................................................dis 40&1C
P u tn am ............... 
N orthw estern.............................................................dis 10*10

dis 

5

 

WRENCHES

B axter’s A djustable, nickeled  ...................... 
Coe’s G enuine...................................................... 
Coe’s P atent  A gricultural, w rought  ........... 
Coe’s Patent, m alleable....................................  

30
50
80
80

MISCELLANEOUS
 

50
B ird  Cages.............................................. 
Pum ps, C istern...................  
80
85
Screws, New List.........................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate................................50*10*10
Dampers, A m erican....................................  
50

 

 

MET A L S—Zinc

600 pound casks................................................... 
Per p o und.............................................................  

6%
6%

SOLDER

%@%....................................................... 
12%
The prices of the m any o th e rq u alitieso f solder 
in the m arket indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  com position.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal..............................................# 5  75
14x20 IC, C h arc o al....................................... 
 
20x14 IX, C h arc o al...............................................  7 00
Each additional X on this grade, (1.25.

 

5 75

TIN—Allaway  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, *1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, D ean....................................   5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D e a n .............  ...................  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, D ean...................................   10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, A llaw ay G rade.................  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal,  Allaway G rade.................  5 50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, A llaway G rade.................  9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, A llaw ay G rade...............  1100

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  B d llers,) 
14x56 IX. fo r  No.  9  Boilers,  f per Pound 

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Size 8  1*2x14— Three  Columns.

2 Q uires, 160 pages......................#2  00
3 Q uires, 240 pages.....................   2  50
4 Quires, 320 pages......................  3  00
5 Quires, 400 pages......................  3  50
6 Q uires, 480 pages......................4  00
Invoice Record or Bill Book.
80 Double Pages, Registers  2,880  in ­

voices............................................ #2-00

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

and  had  the  mournful  but  dignihed  sat 
isfaction  of  seeing  their  trade  dwindle 
and  the cutter’s  grow.

The  young  man  Harry  was  the  old 
man  Jones'  sole  heir,  and  as  he  was 
well  fixed  when  he  died,  the  people  of 
the  place 
looked  on  Harry,  who  was 
about  25  years  old,  as  being quite  a  rich 
man.  When  the  old  man’s  will  was 
read,  there  arose 
in  that  place  a  tidal 
wave  of  discusison  which  for  the  time 
engulfed  every  other  subject.  A  num­
ber  who  saw  the 
inevitable  trend  of 
affairs  pitied  the  young  fellow,  while 
a  great  many  gloried  in  the  old  man's 
sturdy  adherence,  even 
in  death, 
to 
his  ideas  of  right  while  in  the  flesh.

Not  to  keep  you  in  suspense,  the  will 
left  everything  to  his  son  Harry,  pro­
vided  that  the  rate  of  profit  which  the 
old  man  had  established  should 
every  case  be  maintained,  and  that  no 
attempt  should  be  made  to  follow  the 
cutter’s  moves. 
I  understood  from  an­
other grocer  of  the  place  that  the  net 
in  and  year 
profit  of  that  store,  year 
out,  was  fully  20  per  cent.  The  will 
provided  for  a  couple  of 
executors, 
or  quondam  guardians,  to  whom  the 
books  of  the  store  should  be  shown  once 
in  six  months. 
that 
unless  the  young  man  was  willing  to 
take  the  bequest  with  this  condition, 
he  was  to  have $1,000,  and  the  balance 
of  the  estate  should  go  to  other  rela­
tives.  The  old  man  was  so  fearful  lest 
the  business  he  had  builded  should  de­
generate  from  the  high  plane  where  he 
had  placed  it  to  the  low  level  of  a  cut 
store,  that  he  took  this  radical  method 
of  providing  against  it.

It  also  provided 

Do  you  wonder  that  that  young  fel­
low  is  perplexed?  That  he  is  worried? 
On  the  one  side 
is  the  certainty  that 
sooner  or  later,  and  probably  soon,  the 
scale  of  grocery  prices 
in  that  town 
must  be  scaled  down,  and  that  when 
that  time  comes  none  of  those  grocers 
will  be  netting  anything  like  20  per 
cent.  When  there  are  six  or  seven  deal­
ers  in  a  town,  and  one  far  undersells  all 
the  others,  someth in g s  got  to  drop, 
that’s  sure.  The  chances  are  that  inside 
of  a  year  not  a  single  grocer  in  that 
place  will  be netting  20  per  cent,  profit, 
although  I  happen  to  know  that,  before 
the  cutter  made  his  appearance  there, 
the  average  net  margin  was  more  than 
that.

So  that,  if  the  young  man  fulfills  the 
conditions  of  his  father’s  will,  which 
he  must do  to  get  the  property,  he  will 
be  absolutely  out of  the  run  of  compe­
tition  with  the  other grocers  there,  and 
the  business  will  gradually  disintegrate 
and  go  to  pieces.
On  the  other  hand,  if  he  meets  the 
general  range  of  prices—although  he 
imply  can’t  do  that,  for  such  a  course 
would  mean  the  forfeiture  of  the  prop­
erty.  The  will  provided  that,  before 
the  deeds  should  be  turned  over  to  the 
son,  he should  make sworn  affidavit  that 
he  would  fulfill  all  the  conditions  of  the 
bequest.  Now,  in  such  a  case  as  this, 
my  friend,  what  would  you  do?

American  Cotton  by  American  Work 

men  for  the  People  of  America
The  following  from  the  St.  Louis  Dry 
Goods  Reporter  of  August  28,  relative 
to  the  Merrick  Thread  Company  and 
their  relationship  to the  retail merchan 
and  consumer,  is  so  true  and  forceful 
that  we  publish  the  article  entire. 
It 
should  be  read  by  every retail merchant 
This  spirit  of  true  Americanism  wi 
be  appreciated  and  receive  the  substan 
tial  support  that  their  independent  pol 
icy  m erits:

for 

The  manufacture  of  thread 

fam 
ily  use 
in  the  United  States,  with  the 
exception  of  the  Merrick  (and  possibly 
one  other  company)  is  virtually 
in  the 
hands  of  a  combination  controlled  by 
foreign  capital.  The  Merrick  Thread 
Co.  have  steadily  refused  to  co-operate 
in  any  combination,  and  by  so  doing 
have  been  a  most disturbing  element  ii 
the  purposes  of  the  thread  combine 
They  have,  by  their  competition,  on 
more  than  one  occasion,  compelled  the 
combination  to  reduce  the  price  of thei 
product,  and  thus  put  money 
in  the 
pocket  of  the  retailer.  Were 
it  not  for 
the  independent  course  pursued  by  the 
Merrick  Thread  Company,  is  it  not  fai 
to  suppose  that  this  combination  of 
European  capital  would  have  extorted 
from  the  American  consumer a  much 
larger  price  for  thread,  which  is  a  ne 
cessity 
in  the  poor  man’s  cottage  and 
the  palatial  home  of  the  wealthy?  That 
the  thread  manufactured  by  the Merrick 
Company  is  superior  in  quality  to  that 
manufactured  by  the  combination 
sufficiently  attested  by  the 
fact  that 
manufacturers  use  the  Merrick  almost 
exclusively,  notwithstanding  the  com­
bination  threads  cost  less  made 
for 
manufacturing  purposes.

The  Merrick  Thread  Company,  while 
standing  as  a  barrier  to  protect  the 
American  public  from  the extortion that 
would  otherwise  be  exacted  by 
the 
thread  combination,  have also  made 
it 
possible  for  the  retail  merchant  to  real­
ize  a  fair  profit  from  handling  their 
product.  As  manufacturers, 
they  go 
directly  to  the  retail  merchant,  the  re 
tail  merchant, 
therefore,  securing  all 
the  profit.

that  their  thread  can 

When  these  prominent  features  are 
considered—that  the  Merrick  Thread 
Company  are  connected  with  no  com­
bination,  are  purely  an  American  enter­
prise, that their  make  of  thread  is equal, 
if  not  superior, to  that  made  by the com­
bination, 
be 
handled  by  the  retailer  with  a  larger 
profit—it  ought  not  to  require  much  re­
flection  on  the  part  of  the  dealer  to  de­
termine  where  he  should  place  his 
thread  orders,  purely  as  a  matter  of 
business 
judgment,  regardless  of  the 
feeling  which  inmost  of us, in a spirit  of 
sympathetic  spontaneity,  goes  out  to 
those  who  seem  to  be  standing  in  their 
business  methods  for  the interests  of  the 
American  public.  The  Western  agency 
of  the  Merrick  Thread  Company  is  at 
, 77’ I79 and  181  Fifth  Ave.,  Chicago.

In   e a ch   e y e   o f  th e  co m m on   h ou se 
fly 
lere  a re   a bo u t  4,000  fa c e ts .  T h e y   a re  
so  m in u te   th at  th ey   ca n   o n ly  b e d e tec te d  
u n d e r  th e  m ic ro sc o p e .

After  partaking  of  ginger beer,  ap­
ples,  nuts,  chocolate,  thiee  bottles  of 
nger ale,  and  some  sherbet  and  water 
at  a  picnic,  and  then  putting  away  bis 
regular  tea  at  home,  a  nine-year-old 
London  boy  complained  of  a pain  in  his 
inside.  The  Coroner  next  day  called  it 
gastro-enteritisis.

Cinématographes  seem  to  be  decided- 
dangerous.  A  fire  broke  out  in  a 
Paris  theater  from  one  recently,  pro- 
ucing  a  panic,  as  the audience remem­
bered  that  the  machine  was  the  cause 
the  charity  bazaar  tragedy.

24

Between  the  Devil  and  the  Deep  Sea 
Stroller In G rocery W orld.

in  sight 

Down  in  Southwestern  Pennsylvan 
where  the  West  Virginia  borderland 
is  a  sorely-perplexed 
almost 
young  grocer.  He  can’t  work 
in  the 
daytime  for  thinking  of  the  dilemma  be 
is  in,  and  he  can’t  sleep  at  nights  for 
the  same  reason.  He  is  tied  hand  and 
foot,  and  I  shall  be  very much surprised 
if  1  hear  in  a  year that  he  is  still  1 
business.

When  I  heard  of  the  position  th 
in,  I  vowed  that 

young  fellow  was 
was  the  most  curious, without exception 
that  I  had  ever  heard.
The  young  grocer  whom  I  refer to  i 
the  son  of  the  pioneer  grocer  in  th 
Southwestern  Pennsylvania  town.  The 
father,  whose  name  I  shall  call  Jones, 
went  there  at  least  fifty  years  ago,  when 
the  town  was  a  mere  village,  and  when 
there  wasn’t  but  one  other grocery  store 
for  five  miles.  He  saw  the  place  grow 
up  around  him,  and  take  on  the  habili­
ments  of  a good-sized,  thriving,  bustling 
country  town.

And  as  the  town  grew,  the  business 
and  the  income  of  Mr.  Jones grew  with 
it,  until  when  he  rounded  out  a  long 
and  busy 
life  of  75  years,  and  came 
down  to  his  deathbed,  he  was  worth  the 
best grocery  business  in  town,  yielding 
at  least  $4,000  a  year,  and  about $75, 
000  besides.  The  old  gentleman  Jones 
was  one  of  the  leading  men  of  the  town 
—church  trustee,  school 
trustee  and 
holder  of  various  local  offices.  He  had 
a  boy—the  son  of  his  old  age—born 
when  he  was  about  50  years  old.  Thi 
boy  was  the  sole  heir.  Had  he  not 
existed,  the  old  man’s  property  would 
have  gone  to  a 
lot  of  nephews  and 
nieces.

Only  a  few  months  before  old  Mr 
Jones  breathed  his  last,  there  came  to 
that  town what  is known  as  a cutter.  For 
the  cutter the  place  was  virgin  ground 
It  had  never  known  anything  like  him 
before.  The  dealers  there  had  pursued 
the  even  tenor  of  their  ways  tor  year 
after  year,  handling  a  fair line of goods, 
as  country  stocks  go,  and  being  accus 
tomed  to  charge  a  good  price  for  them, 
The  most  of .them  were  well-to-do  from 
the  revenues  of  their  stores.  Old  man 
Jones’  store,  in  particular,  was  one  of 
the  modern  old-fashioned  sort. 
It 
wasn’t  an  old-fogy  store  at  all,  but  one 
of  those  places  where  a  good 
stiff 
profit 
is  charged  on  everything  and 
where  the  people are  willing  to  pay  it.
the 
cutter,  and  the  town  went  wild.  He 
did  the  usual  sensational 
cut-price 
trade,  painted  his  store  in  gaudy  colors 
and  used  cheap,  flimsy  circulars  cov­
ered  with  fake  bargains.

Into  this  peaceful  scene  burst 

The  other  grocers  of  the  place  held 
a  meeting  one  week  after  the  cutter 
started  in  business  to  see  what  should 
be  done.  All  of  them  had  lost  some 
trade  by  the  cutter,  for  he  was  under 
selling  them  and  not  half  trying.  For 
instance,  where  they  were  getting  6 
cents  a  pound  for  granulated  sugar,  he 
sold  it  for  5  cents,  and  even  then  got 
a  fraction  of  a  cent  more  profit  than 
he  did 
I  forgot  to 
state  that  this  cutter  had  several  branch 
stores 
in  the  western  portion  of  the 
State.

in  other  places. 

The  meeting  devised  nothing  by  way 
of  remedy,  for  there  was  nothing  to  de­
vise.  The  only  way  to  meet  such  com­
petition  was  to  meet the  cutter’s  prices, 
and  these  grocers,  accustomed  all  their 
lives  to  the  uninterrupted  serenity  of 
velvet  profits,  refused  stubbornly 
to 
abate  their  margins  one 
jot  or  one 
tittle.  My  old  friend  Jones  was  espe­
cially  bitter against  the  methods  of  the 
cutter. 
Jones  was  a  grocer  of  the  old 
school.  He  kept  a  good  grade of  stuff 
and  thought  he  had  a  right  to  his  profit.
So  he  averred  that  he  would  close  his 
place  before  he  would  meet  the  cut gro­
cer’s  prices.

Things  went  along  this  way  for  a 
few  months,  when  the  old  man  died. 
By  that  time  the  grocery  business  in 
that  town  had  reached  a  critical  crisis. 
One  or  two  of  the  old  grocers,  seeing 
their  trade  slipping  away,  inaugurated 
cut  prices,  and  met  every  one  of  the 
cutter’s  moves.  The  major  number, 
however,  stuck  to  their  high  prices,

England’s  readiness  for  war  is  shown 
by  the  fact  that  the  British  troops  in 
Crete  have 
just  been  supplied  with 
straw  for  bedding,  the  War  Office  hav­
ing  taken  only  four  months and  a  half 

provide  for  it.
A 

law  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts 
prohibits  towns  from  offering  more  than 
$500 as  a  reward  for  the  arrest  and  con­
viction  of  a  murderer.

The  assessed  valuation  of  Wyoming 
increase  of $300,000 as  com­

shows  an 
pared  with  last  year.

W A N T S   COLUMN.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

R  A.  W ohlfarth, A berdeen, So.  Da.

20 acres under cultivation;  *4 per acre 

p rairie land in Brown county, South D ak o ta- 
Address 

voicing about *1,800.  B estlocat'on and only 
exclusive shoe store in tow n of 2,4oO inhabitants. 
A ddress No. 391, care M ichigan Tradesm an,  a9i

FOK  SA LE-BO O T  AND  SHOE  STOCK  IN 
I ¡'OR  SALE—160  ACRES  OF  GOOD  ROLLING 
I  ¡TOR  SALE—SECONDHAND  SCALES,  __

380 
RE-
paired  and  w arranted,  a t  very  low  prices; 
we tak e secondhand scales in trad e w hen parties 
w ant  scales  of  larger  capacity,  etc.  A ddress 
stan d a rd  Scale & F ix tu re Co , St Louis, Mo.  385
LX )R  SALE-G OO D   CLEAN  STOCK  O FG RO - 
-*-  ceries and notions in country v illag e;  doing 
a  nice  business;  can  leave  postoffice  w ith  p u r­
chaser.  Reason  for  sei ting,  poor  h ealth .  Ad- 
d ress G.  W . Tow nsend,  W atson,  Mich. 

W ANTED—MY EGG AND BUTTER TABLES 

are now  com pleted.  Saves  time, figuring; 
neatly   printed.  O rder  booked,  price  50 cents. 
Cash  m ust  accom pany  order.  G.  M.  Adams, 
Plym outh, Mich. 

387

390

„  

WANTED
BUTTER  FOR
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond w ith
------- spond
„  
C aulkett & Co., T raverse City,  Mich. 
381
I ¡TOR SALE—JUDGMENT FOR *8.08 AGAINST 

Miles  H. Wiiians,  real  estate  agent  in  the

FIRST-CLASS
„ ----- 

Tradesman  Company,

Tower  Block 
Rapid
U 'O R   EXCHANGE — A  W ELL-ASSORTED 
A   dru g  stock th a t  w ill  inventory  $1,200  for  a 
stock of  groceries.  A ddress  Jo h n   Cooper,  340 
W oodworth avenue,  G rand  Rapids. Mich.  366
AMIR  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  GROCERIES 
A   an d   crockery,  enjoying  cream   o f  tra d e  in 
best grow ing city in   M ichigan.  Lake  p o rt  and 
cen ter  of  fru it  belt.  P atronage  mostly  cash. 
R ent,  *50  per  m onth,  w ith  term inable  lease. 
Stock and fixtures w ill inventory *3,500,  but  can 
be  reduced.  R eason  fo r  selling,  ow ner  has 
other  business  w hich  m ust  be  attended 
to. 
B usiness established five years and m ade money 
every year,  A nsw er quick if  you  expect  to  se­
cure th is bargain.  A ddress  No.  358,  care  Mich- 
igan Tradesm an. 

358

I pOR  SALE—ONE  100-HORSE  POW ER SLIDE 

valve engine, especially  adapted  to saw m ill 
work,  and  fitted  w ith  a  N ordberg  A utom atic 
Governor.  Can be seen ru n n in g  any  week  day 
at W allin L eather Co.’s  tannery,  G rand  Rapids. 

__________________ *___________________ 313

W ANTED—PARTNER  W ITH   $2,000  FOR 

on e-h alf interest  in  hardw are, stoves  and 
tinshop, plum bing  and  fu rn ace  w ork  and  job­
bing,  roofing,  etc.  H ave  several  good  jobs  on 
hand and a  w ell-established tra d e;  best location 
in h e a rt of city.  A ddress Box  522,  Big  Rapids, 
Mich. 

I  OWN  SEVERAL

in  Ringgold and U nion counties

GOOD  FARMS  LOCATED
Jnion counties, Iowa.  The
best grazing country in   th e w orld—rig h t  in  the 
m idst  of  th e  celebrated  Blue  G rass  region  of 
Southern Iow a.  All have  No.  1  good  soil  and 
ca n ’t  be  beat  for  g rain   and  stock  raising. 
1 
•vant to trade any  or  all  of  these  farm s  for  a 
rell  established  store.  W rite  a t  once.  A.  O. 
Ingram ,  M ount Ayr,  Iowa. 

998

__ 

373

farm s  fo r  stock  of  m erchandise;  splendid 
location.  A ddress No. 73, care M ichigan T rades­
m an. 
I I 7  AN TED—1,000  CASES 
Ithaca, Mich. 

FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  W rite  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 

73

249

ents.  Cilley  &  A 'lgier,  P atent 

PATENT  SOLICITORS.
i ftR E B -O U R   NEW   HANDBOOK 
MISCELLANEOUS.

G rand  Rapids, Mich.

ON  PAT 
A ttorneys, 

339

T IT 'A N T E D —SITUATION  BY  AN  EXPERI- 
v t  enced m an as salesm an or m anager of gen­
eral m erchandise or grocery business.  R eferen­
ces  the  best.  A ddress  No.  • 89,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an. 

3§9

ANTED—POSITION 

IN  GROCERY  OR 
TV  general  sto re;  tw elve  years’  experience; 
qest of references;  capable o f filling any position 
of tru st.  C.  W estmore, N orvell,  Mich. 

W ANTED—POSITION  BY  MALE STENOG- 

rap h er  ow ning  typew riter;  experienced 
and accurate.  A ddress Box 566,  G rand  Rapids.

388

375

Antiseptic  fibre 
Package go.

Manufacturer of 
Packages for marketing 
Lard,  Butter,  Jelly, 
Mincemeat,  etc.

P ay   for  the m selv e s  in  securing  h ig h e r 
prices.  A lw ays  clean  and  a ttra c tiv e . 
F urnished  w ith   y o u r  ad v ertisem en t 
p rinted  upon  th e m   C heaper th a n  packages 
now   used.

187-189 Canal  St.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

T H E   D AYTO N

M ONEY» W E IG H T  S C A L E

B match on your Profits«
Bid a fine Scale Combined

W E IG H S   AND  H A N D LES  GOODS

as accurately as jnoney can be changed:

It is the  Money Weight  Scale  System, made only 

by T he Computing Scale Company, Dayton, Ohio.

18 different sizes and kinds of fine scales.
Prices  from  $15.00  up,  according  to  finish  and 

capacity.

W eighing in pounds and ounces is the  cause  of  as 

much loss to merchants as selling for credit.

W e want to show you  how  our  scale  system will 
help you to make more money out of your business.

Write us for proofs.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio. 

I

Mrs.  Jones’ 

Home  Made  Catsup

2«
at

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

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

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

At wholesale by Clark-Jeweli-Wells Co., Ball-Barn ha rt-Putman  Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 

and the best jobbers everywhere in the United  States. 

y   W ILLIAM S  BROS.  &  CHARBONNEAU,  D etro it,  Sole P ro p rieto rs.

feSSsr 

©sèsia

m

| 
§

The  Stimpson 
Computing Scale 

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

It  is  the  acme  of  perfection  and 

not excelled in beauty and finish.

W e have no trolley or tramway to 

handle.

W e  have  no  cylinder  to  turn  for 

each price per pound.

W e  do  not  follow,  but  lead  all 

competitors.

W e  do  not  have  a  substitute  to 

meet competition.

W e do not indulge in  undignified 
and  unbusinesslike  methods 
to 
make sales—we sell Stimpson scales 
on-their merits.

A gents of other companies would 
not have to spend  most  all  ot  their 
lime  trying  to  convince  the  trade 
that  our  scale  was  no  good  if  the 
Stimpson did  not  possess  the  most 
points of merit.

All we ask  is  an  opportunity  to  show you the Scale  and  a  chance to convince you that 
ur  claims  are  facts.  W rite us and give us the opportunity.

The  Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,

ELKHART,  IND.

IJjA  Represented in  Eastern M ichigan by 
SB 
1

R.  P.  BIG ELO W ,

Owosso.

Represented in  W estern  Michigan by 

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

Grand Rapids.  Telephone No.  266.

The Cream  of  Wheat  for  Bakers

^ 

Cannot  be  excelled. 
It  is  a  perfect  flour  manufactured 
from  spring  wheat,  in  which  the  following  points  are
prominently  retained: 
Strength,  color,  water  absorp­
tion,  amount  and  quality  of bread.

The  Cream  of Wheat  for  Grocers

& 

It  is  a  scientific  blend  of  the  finest 
Is  a  trade  winner. 
Dakota  and  Minnesota  hard  spring  wheats  and  is  un- 
equaled  for  family  bread  baking.  You  should  handle
this  flour;  it  is  a  trade  winner.  Splendid  advertising 
matter  furnished.

The  Cream  of  Wheat

• 

H as  for  the  past  fifteen  years  been  sold  on  the  market 
and  each  year  has  seen  a  steady  increase in its  sales. 
It
is  the most profitable  spring  wheat  flour  for  bakers, job­
bers  and wholesale and  retail  grocers  to  handle.

The  Cream  of  Wheat

Is milled in  a  strictly  modern  500  barrel  roller  process 
mill,  in  which  only  the  latest  improved  machinery  and 
highest  skilled  labor  are  employed.  Each  and  every 
sack  or  barrel  comes  to you fully guaranteed and is made 
with  the  aim  of  pleasing  a  class  of  bakery  and  family 
trade  that  are  satisfied  with  none  but  the  best.  Write 
for  prices  and  samples.

JOHN  H. EBELING,  Green  Bay,  Wis.

