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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER  6,1897.

Number 733

Volume XV.

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Y O U   arc  a  Grocer.
W e  are  interested  in  your  welfare.
W e  want  you  to  succeed.
If  you  don't,  we  can't.
W e  make Flour.
W e  w ant  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.
W e  call  it  " L IL Y   W H IT E ."
It  is  no  trouble to  sell it.
E V E R Y B O D Y  likes it.
W omen  are  particular  about  Flour.
Lily  W hite  pleases  them.
Please  the  women  and  you  get  the  fam­

ily  trade.

It  is  worth  while.
Order  " L IL Y   W H IT E "   Flour  now.
W e  guarantee  it.
Your  money  back  if  you  want  it.

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published value  it.  Ask the  merchants of  Mich­
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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  Teaspoon,  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.

Premiums cannot be mailed  under any  circumstances.

Detroit  Agency,  118 Bates S t.
Grand  Rapids Agency,  26 Fountain  St.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

Four  Kinds of Coupon  Books

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

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

At, wholesale by Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 

and the best jobbers  everywhere  in  the  United  States.

KWILLIAMS  BROS  &  CHARBONNEAU,  Detroit,  Sole Proprietors.
Elgin System of Creameries

It will  pay  vou  to  investigate  our  plans  and  visit  our  factories,  if  vou  are  con­
templating  building a  Creamery  or  Cheese  Factory.  A ll  supplies'furnisned  at 
lowest prices.  Correspondence solicited.

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER 6,  1897.

HAIL  THE  DAY!

For  years  the  Vanderbilt  railway  sys­
in 
tem  has  been  operated  in  this  State 
utter  disregard  of  the  rights  of  the  peo­
ple,  ignoring  the  Legislature  and  defy­
ing  the  courts  of  high  and  low  degree. 
The  wholesome  decision  of  the Supreme 
Court  which  was  handed  down  last  Fri­
day  gives  ground  for  the  belief  that  the 
time 
is  surely  coming  when  the  Van­
derbilt  lines  will  not  only  be  compelled 
to  recede  from  the  insolent position they 
have  assumed  and  maintained for years, 
but  that  they  will  also  be  compelled  to 
place  themselves  on  the  same  basis  as 
the  other  railway 
lines  of  the  State  in 
regard  to  the  acts  of  the  Legislature 
and  the  decisions  of  the  courts. 
It  is 
stated,  on  the  authority  of  the  eminent 
counsel  of  the  Lake  Shore  road,  that 
the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  will 
be  carried  to  the  Federal  Supreme 
Court  for  review,  but  as  it  has  been  the 
universal  custom  of  the  higher  tribunal 
to  refuse  to  reverse  decisions  of  the 
state  courts 
in  matters  pertaining  to 
state  legislation,  it  may  be  taken  for 
granted  that  the  appeal  is  made  simply 
tor  the  purpose  of  gaining  time,  as  no 
good  purpose  can  be  subserved  thereby.
The  Tradesman  has  been  occasionally 
taken  to  task  by  both  friends  and  ene­
it  has  singled  out  the 
mies  because 
Vanderbilt 
lines  for  attack.  The  rea­
son  for  the  Tradesman’s  position  is  that 
the  Vanderbilt  lines  in  the  State 
insist 
that  they  are  protected  by  private  char­
ters  and  exclusive  privileges  not  ac­
corded  other  transportation  companies, 
so  that  they  are  not  amenable  to  the 
laws  of  the  State  and  the  decisions  of 
the  courts.

largely  baseless  when  applied 

In  the  opinion  of  the  Tradesman  the 
constant  agitation  against  corporations 
is 
to 
those  corporations  which  are  organized 
under  the  law  and  hold  themselves  in 
readiness  to  conform  to  the  laws  of  the 
State,  the  acts  of  the  Legislature  and 
the  decisions  of  the  courts.  The  dan­
ger  lies 
in  such  corporations  as  the 
Michigan  Central  and  Lake  Shore  Rail­
roads,  which  assume  to  be  supreme  in 
their  respective  fields,  to  be  above  the 
reach  of  legislatures,  courts  or  people, 
and  which  insolently  ignore any attempt 
on  the  part  of  the  people  or their chosen 
instruments  to  regulate  the  business  of 
the  roads  or  place  them  on  the  same 
basis  as  other  lines  organized  under 
State 
law  and  operating  under  State 
supervision.

The  Grocery  Market.

Provisions— The  demand  for  hams 
has  been  very  fair,  but  the  stock  is  ex­
ceedingly  large  and  every  large  holder 
is  endeavoring  to  clean  out.  Lard  has 
in  sympathy  with  other 
not  changed 
in  extra  good  de­
provisions,  being 
in  lard  is 
mand.  No  further  decline 
likely  until  after  November 
j,  when 
packers  begin  to  kill  heavily.

Rolled  Oats—The  market  is  weaker, 
caused  either  by  a  fight  among  manu­
facturers  or  by  a  decline 
in  demand 
that  has  set  the  manufacturers  to  war 
on  prices.

Tea—While  the  tea  trade  all  over  the 
is  vastly  better  than  it  was  a

country 

few  months  ago,  it  has  not  yet  waked 
up  to 
its  fullest  possibilities,  as  it  is 
expected  to  do  a  little  later  in  the  fall.
Coffee— The  low  price  of  this  article 
has  stimulated  a  good  buying  and  a 
large  consumption.  No  indications  now 
appear  that  the  market  in  Brazils  will 
be  materially  higher  in  the  near  future. 
Up  to  date  the  arrivals  at  Rio  and  San­
tos  of  coffees  from  the 
interior  planta­
tions  is  greater  than that of any previous 
years.

Dried  Fruits— Dried  apples  continue 

high,  and  exporters  are  quoting 
cents  f.  o.  b.  New  York,  and  decline 
to  make  prices  for  future  delivery.  The 
stock  of  apples 
is  very  short  in  this 
country  and  fancy  barrel  apples  are  ad­
vancing  all  the  time.  The  dried  ap­
ple  market  is  sure  to  hold  high  for  the 
entire  year.  Some  fancy  dried  fruits 
from  the  Coast  are  on  this  market,  but 
they  are  held  so  high,  that  there  is 
lit­
tle  call  for  them.  The  great  demand  is 
for  standards  and  choice  stock.  New 
raisins  are  enroute  from  the  Coast  and 
prices  are  higher  than  they  were  a  year 
ago.  There  are  some  new  prunes  on 
the  market.  The  price  of  this 
item 
promises  to  be  higher  than  last  year, 
because  of  the  good  demand  for  the 
larger  sizes  for  the  export  trade.  There 
is  a  good  supply  of  peaches  and  apri­
cots,  and  both  are  selling  at  less  than  a 
year  ago.  Reports  from  the  Eastern 
markets  say  that  Persian  dates  will  be 
much 
in  arrival  this  year  than 
last.  The  shipments  of  Valencia  raisins 
to  this  country  will  be  unusually  small. 
The  first  of  the  new  crop  of currants  has 
arrived 
in  this  country.  The  demand 
is  good  enough  to  hold  the  market  up 
to  about  the  present  figure,  although  the 
market 
is  now  considered  very  high, 
and  the  crop  of  currants  in  Greece  is 
not  light.

later 

Canned  Goods— The  tomato  market 
has  partially  recovered  from  its  recent 
is  stronger  by  2%@$c 
reaction,  and 
than  during  the  week  preceding.  There 
has  been  no  perceptible  demand,  how­
ever,  although  a  few  are  selling.  The 
concensus  of  opinion  is  that  the  market 
from  now  on 
is  liable  to  at  least  hold 
its  own  and  that  further  advances  are 
not  improbable.  Corn  is  rather  dull  at 
unchanged  prices.  Peas  are  quiet  at 
fiom  5@ioc  higher  than 
lowest 
point.  Very  little  is  doing  in  peaches. 
A  few  Californias  are  selling,  but  the 
Eastern  goods are  very  dull.  The  peach 
market  rules  at  unchanged  prices.

the 

Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Gloucester) 
write  the  Tradesman  as  follows:  Up 
to  date  there  has  been  no  improvement 
in  the  mackerel  catch  and  thus  far  it  is 
practically  a  failure.  At  present  there 
is  a  fleet  of  sixty  or  seventy  vessels  at 
Block  Island  and  vicinity  and  here  and 
there-a  vessel  gets  thirty  or  forty  bar­
rels  of  mackerel,  while  in  usual  times 
when  we  had  a  catch  such an occurrence 
would  not  be  noticed.  Besides  the 
above  fleet  there  is  another  small  fleet 
in  the  St.  Lawrence  waters;  but  it  is 
such  a  small  one  it  will  not  count  much 
toward  furnishing  a  supply  to  the trade. 
There  is  a  steady  demand  for  codfish 
and  other  kindred  kinds  and  the  ship­
ments  during  the  month  of  September

Number  733

will  aggregate  a 
large  amount,  an  in­
crease  of  probably  25  per  cent,  or  more 
over  September,  1896,  shipments.  With 
the  small  stock  of  codfish  on  hand,  we 
do  not  look  for  any  material  change 
in 
prices  for  some  time  to  come.  The last 
account  from  the  Grand  Bank  codfish 
fleet  reported  they  had  not  done  as  well 
to  date  as  last  year  for  the  correspond­
ing  time.  Round  shore  herrings  are 
very  scarce  and 
looks  (unless  we 
have  a  sudden  change  in  the  receipts) 
like  a  failure  in  the  fall  catch.  Only 
a  very  few  thus  far  have  been  landed.

it 

Collam  H.  Brown:  “  ‘ Going  on  the 
road,’  in  point  of  morality,  is  full  of 
pitfalls  for  a  young  man.  At  every  step 
he  encounters  opportunities  to  plunge 
into dissipation,and  his  principles  must 
be  of  the  strongest  to  resist  and  shun 
the  manifold  temptations  which  allure 
him  on  every  side,  for  he  is  left  to him­
self  and  very  few  men  can,  in  their 
youthful  days,  be  at  all  times  the  mas­
ter  of  themselves  and  subdue 
their 
passions  and 
inclinations.  For  those 
inclined  to  drink,  the  life  of  the  com- 
mercial  traveler 
is  especially  fraught 
with  danger.  Opportunities  for  indulg­
ing  in  this  pernicious  habit  are  unfor­
tunately  abundant  and  many  a  man  has 
wrecked  his  life  by  excess. 
It  is  not 
my 
intention  to  advocate  the  cause  of 
temperance,  but  when  I  consider  how 
many  commercial 
travelers,  middle- 
aged  men,  drink  to  excess,  I  cannot  too 
much  emphasize  an 
earnest  caution 
against  the  pitiful  habit  of  intemper­
ance.  The  excuse  that  at  times  the  in­
terest  of  the  business  requires  one  to 
take  a  drink  with  this  or  that  customer 
I  emphatically  rebuke.  Customers  who 
tempt  the  drummer  to  drink  are  not 
The  temperate 
generally  desirable. 
customer,  as  well  as 
the 
temperate 
traveler,  is  the  most  to  be  depended  on. 
Another  passion,  equally  abominable 
with  excessive  drinking,  is  gambling. 
The  young  man who  unhappily  does  not 
possess  that  strength  of  character  which 
will  keep  him  away  from  the  gambling 
if  he 
table 
the  road. 
takes  a  position  to  go  on 
Should  his  own  resources  no 
longer 
suffice  as  supplied  for  the  gratification 
of  his  vice,  he  might  easily  yield  to the 
temptation  to  appropriate  his  employ­
er’s  property  to  the  desperate  use  in­
duced  by  his  losses.  Thus 
it  happens 
that  funds  entrusted  to  his  care,  and 
which  ought  to  he  held  sacred  from 
misappropriation,  cease  to  be  so.  With 
the  expectation  of  restoring  dishonestly- 
applied  cash  from  his  winnings,  he 
recklessly  uses  the  money  in  his charge. 
How  often 
that  disgrace 
proves  to  be  his  only  winnings,  and 
shame  and  despair  become  his unavoid­
able  fate. ’ ’

lost  past  redemption 

it  seen 

is 

is 

California  Fruit  in  London.

A  dispatch  from  London  states  that 
within  nine  hours  after  the  docking  at 
Southampton  last  week  of  the  American 
line  steamship  “ St.  Paul,”   4,403  pack­
ages  of  California  fruit  were  delivered 
at  Covent  Garden  Market  in  splendid 
condition,  and  they  were  all  sold  the 
following  morning.

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Calicoes— Printers  are  in  no  position 
to  accept  orders  lor  future  delivery  at 
the  present  time,  with  price  of  print 
cloths  as  it  is  and  the  prospect  of  its 
taking  another  jump  at any time.  There 
is  no  disposition  to  continue  the  manu­
facture  of  the  dark  cloths,  and  machin­
ery  is  being  changed  to  lighter varieties 
as  fast  as  possible.  There 
is  some  ad­
vance  in  these  dark  lines  counted  upon 
as  soon  as  the  spring  season  opens,  as 
the  print  cloths  cannot  be  manufactured 
at  any  less  price  than  at  present,  unless 
is- lowered, 
the  cost  of  raw  material 
which  is  hardly  probable. 
It  seems  to 
be  a  good  time  to  advance  the  prices  of 
these  goods  as  soon  as  the  spring  sea­
son  opens,  for  the  buyers  expect  every­
thing  of  that  kind  now,  and  are  iii  a 
frame  of  mind  to pay what is demanded.
Sheetings— Bleached  sheetings  and 
in  a  trifle  better  demand 
shritings  are 
than  browns,  but  the  business  has  been 
rather  light  and  confined  to  actual  ne­
cessities  of  the  moment.  There  is  no 
spirit  of  speculation,  and  all  seem  will­
ing  to  keep  their  stocks  well  in  hand, 
and  pay  the  advance  when  it  comes, 
rather  than  stock  up  now.

Dress  Goods—Jobbers  who  have
placed  duplicate  orders  for  desirable 
lines  found  the  prices  had  stiffened  to 
such  an  extent  that  they  were  afraid  to 
take  any  at 
those  quotations,  and 
dropped  the  lines  altogether,  selecting 
something  else,  perhaps  much  less  de­
sirable,  that  had  not  been  advanced  as 
sharply.  This  has  happened  in  a  num­
ber  of  cases,  and  only  goes  to  show  the 
futility  of  waiting  to  the  last  moment  to 
place  an  order  when  the  market  condi­
tions  are  as  they  have  been  this  season.
Blankets—The  blanket  departments 
have  been  perhaps  in  the  most  unsatis­
factory  condition  of  any  this  season. 
While  the  sales  have  been  good,  it  has 
been 
impossible  to  secure  satisfactory 
prices.  The  slight  advances  that  have 
been  made 
in  no  way  correspond  with 
the  advances  on  wool,  and  the  manufac­
turers  are  not  very 
jubilant  over this 
season.  They  ail  say,  however,  that  on 
the  opening  of  another  season,  blankets 
will  be  advanced  sharply  from  the  first, 
and  that  they  will  get  prices  that  wiil 
make  up  for  this  season  if  possible.  A 
large  number  of  the  mills  are  already 
sold  up,  although the season  is  supposed 
to  be  far  from  ended.  There  is  no  man­
ufacturer  but  what  says  the  sales  have 
been  perfectly  satisfactory  in  regard  to 
the  quantity  of  the  goods  disposed  of. 
Low  and  medium  grade  blankets  have 
naturally  secured  by  far  the  best  busi­
ness,  but  a  number  of  the  higher  priced 
lines  are  reported  to  have  sold  well. 
The  moment  an  advance  is  asked,  or 
hinted  at,  the  customer  loses  interest, 
and  the  manufacturers  have  been unable 
to  maintain  an  advance  when  they  have 
decided  to  ask  it,  because  many  mills 
have  had  stocks  carried  over  from  past 
seasons  and  sold  them  at  prices  based 
on  the  cost  of  old  stock,  or  stock  that 
was  purchased  at  very  low  prices.

Knit  Goods—Business  was  decidedly 
better,  and  many  more  orders  were 
booked  than  have  been  reported  for  two 
or  three  weeks.  This  is  especially  no­
ticeable  in  goods  for  immediate  deliv­
ery 
in  duplicate  orders.  The  jobbers 
find  that  they  underestimated  either  the 
business  conditions  of  the  country,  or 
the  stocks  which  they  were  expected  to 
replenish,  and  they  have  found  them­
selves  short.  Men’s  underwear,  both

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long. 

shirts  and  drawers,  have  been  among 
the  liveliest  features.  These  are  largely 
in  medium  and  medium 
low  grades. 
In  spring  lines,  business  is  moving  for­
ward  quite  freely.  Reports  from  the 
road  show  that  the  traveling  salesmen 
are  meeting  with  success,  and  their  cus­
tomers  are,  in  most  cases,  quite  ready 
to 
look  at  samples.  The  stocks  of  the 
Western 
jobbers  are  reported  as  quite 
low,  and  they  will  be  placing  heavy  or­
ders  before 
In  fact,  those  that 
have  been  visited  have  already  been 
credited  with  a  very  satisfactory  busi­
ness.  There  have  been  advances  made 
in  a  small  way  on  the  majority  of  the 
spring  lines  that  are  being  opened,  but 
the  matter 
is  not  generally  admitted. 
The  manufacturers  seem  to  be  afraid  to 
say  that  they  have  taken  a  stand  on  a 
basis  of  higher  prices,  but  preferably 
make  the  assertion  that  the  goods  are 
different  from  what  they  were  last  year, 
and  while  this  may  be  so  in  most  cases, 
yet  the  difference  is  frequently  so  slight 
that  the  buyer  cannot  quite  see  it.  This 
does  not  do  the  market,  as  a  whole,  any 
good  whatever,  and 
rather  detri­
mental  than  otherwise  to  the  efforts  that 
are  being  made  to  advance  prices.

is 

Her  First  Check.

“ Speaking  of  the  way  women  do 
business,”  said  Smiley,  as  he  lit  a  fresh 
cigar,  ‘  reminds  me  of  a  story  told  me 
by  an  intimate  friend  of  mine,  a  wid­
is  the  fond  parent  of  a 
ower,  who 
daughter,  now 
in  her  sixteenth  year, 
who  bids  fair  to  develop  into  a  charac­
teristic  business  woman  when  she grows 
up.

“ She  was  staying  with  friends  and 
attending  school  in  a  distant  town  and 
with  the  advent  of  warmer  weather  she 
wrote  her  father  that  she  was  in  urgent 
need  of  funds  to  purchase  a  new  spring 
jacket.  Not  wishing  to  risk  the  cash 
in  the  mails,  he  enclosed 
in  reply  a 
check,  payable  to  her  order,  for  the 
amount  he  thought  she  would  require.

“ A  couple  of  weeks  later  he  went  out 
to  spend  Sunday  with  the  young  lady 
whom  he  was  proud  to  call  daughter. 
After  the  first  greetings  were  over  he 
asked :

W ell,  Bertha,  did  you  get  my  let­

ter  all  right?’

“   ‘ Yes,  papa,’  was  the  reply.

‘ And  was  the  amount  what  you 

Yes,  papa,  and  I  am  ever  so  much 

wanted?’

obliged ;  but— ’

‘ But  what,  dear?’  he  asked  as  she 
paused  and began exploring her pockets.
‘ Well,  I’ve  got  my 
jacket— it’s  a 
real 
lovely  one,  too—and  now,  papa, ’ 
triumphantly  producing  the  carefully 
preserved  check,  'I  wish  you'd  give  me 
the  money  this  calls  for  so  I  can pay  for 
i t !’

‘ Do  you  know  what  she  had  done?' 
concluded  my  friend,  when  he  told  me 
the  story. 
'Well,  sir,  instead  of  using 
the  check  which  1  had  taken  so  much 
pains  to  send  her,  she  had  bought  the 
jacket on  credit and.  carefully  filing  the 
check  away  in  her  pocketbook,  patient 
ly  waited  for  me  to  come  out  and  cash 
it,  so  she  could  square  up  her  indebted­
ness.  She’ll  make  a  business  woman 
yet,  that  girl  will,  and  the  man  who 
transacts  business  with  her  will be very, 
very  weary  before  he  gets  through.  But 
she  can’t  help  it,  poor  little 
innocent! 
That’s  the  woman  of  it.  They  all  do 
business  that  same  way.’  ”

The  last  straw  has  been  added  to  the 
many  trials  of  the  unfortunate  British 
farmer  by  the  importation,  on  a  large 
scale, of  fox  cubs  from  Germany  for  use 
in  the  hunting  field.  The  Teuton  rey- 
nard  is  denounced  as  being  even  more 
vicious  and  predatory  than  his  English 
namesake,  and  in  the  midland  counties 
particularly  the  farmers  are  suffering 
serious  losses  through  his  strongly-de­
veloped  taste  for  English  poultry.

Don’t  forget  the $5  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets  good  5  days.

The  Drug;  Market.

T he  staples  still  have  an  upw ard  ten­

dency.

Opium— Is  very  firm  at  the  advance 

noted  last  week.

Morphine—This  article  has  at 

last 
started  up,  an  advance  of  10c  taking 
place  on  Monday.  This  applies to  both 
P.  &  W.  and  N.  Y.  brands.

Quinine— Has  advanced,  with  an  ex­
cited  market.  Agents  for  foreign  mar­
kets  have  advanced  their  price  2c  per 
oz.  P.  &  W.  has  advanced  3c  per  oz. 
and  N.  Y. 
the  same.  Speculators  in 
New  York  ask  30c  for  quinine  in  large 
packages  for  quantity. 
The  market 
here 
is  advancing  daily,  but  without 
offers,  so  that  25c  is  the  ruling  price to­
day.  These  advances  are  on  account  of 
the  higher  prices  paid  for  bark  and  the 
light  receipts  of  same.

Cinchonidia— Advanced  Friday  3c 

per  oz.

Saccharine---- Manufacturers  recently
reduced  this  article  from  $18  to  $8  per 
lb.  They  have  now  advanced  it  back 
to  the  old  price.

Glycerine—The  market  is  very  firm, 
on  account  of  higher  prices  for  crude. 
One  Western  manufacturer  has  ad­
vanced  his  price  l/2c  per  lb.  It  is  quite 
likely  that  other  manufacturers  will  ad­
vance  very  soon.

Caffeine— This  article  has  declined, 

with  lower  prices  probable.

Essential  Oils—Anise  continues  firm 
at  the  late  advance.  Lemon  grass  has 
again  advanced,  on  account  of  short 
supplies.  Spearmint  and  tansy  are 
in 
full  supply  and  lower.

Golden  Seal—In  very  small  supply. 

The  market  has  advanced.

Cardamom  Seed---- Has 

advanced
abroad  and  higher  prices  are  expected 
here.

Buchu  Leaves— Have  advanced  and 

higher  prices  are  probable.

Turpentine— Has  advanced.

A  hundred  years  ago  excavations  in 
Pompeii  were  made  solely  with  a  view 
to  the  discovery  of  art  and  archaeologi­
cal  treasures,  no  effort  being  made  to 
preserve the  houses.  The  present meth­
od  is  very  different,and  one  of  the latest 
excavations 
is  a  house  in  which  all  the 
interior  arrangements, 
furniture,  wall 
decoration,  etc.,  have  been  preserved 
or  restored.

The  population  of  London  is  now  es­
include  250,000  persons  of 
timated  to 
Irish  and  120.000 of  Scotch  parentage; 
45,000  Asiatics,  Africans  and  Ameri­
cans;  with some  60,000  Germans,  30,000 
French,  15,000  Dutch,  12,000  Poles, 
7,500  Italians  and  5,000  Swiss.

If  you  are  a  mer­
chant and have lost 
money 
to 
handle

trying 

Clothing

write  us  for  infor­
mation how to sup­
ply your customers 
with  new, 
fresh, 
stylish and  well  fit­
ting  garments  at 
satisfactory  prices 
to them  and  profit 
to you.  No capital 
or  experience  re­
quired.

Standard  line  of 
Men’s  Suits  and 
Overcoats, $4.00  to 
$(6.00.

WHITE  CITY  TAILORS,

222-226  ADAMS STREET,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

I  Come  to the  Carnival!  !

W E   cordially  invite  our  country 
customers  to  come  to  Grand 
Rapids to see the Carnival, Oct. 26, 
27,  28  and  29,  and  solicit a call on 
that occasion,  as we shall have our 
winter line open for inspection.

P.Steketee& Sons,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Commercial T ravelers

Gripsack  Brigade.

Commercial  travelers  of  Indianapolis 
have  called  an  indignation  meeting  for 
Saturday  evening  to  protest  against  the 
new 
interchangeable  mileage  book  of 
the  Central  Passenger  Association.

Photographic  mileage  has  proven 
eminently  satisfactory  in  the  case  of  in­
dividual  roads,  the  general  passenger 
agent  of  one  of  the  leading  trans-con­
tinental 
in  the 
in  which  this  system  had 
seven  years 
in  use  on  his  road  there  had  not 
been 
been  a  single 
instance  of  taking  up 
mileage  owing  to  dishonesty  on  the part 
of  users.

lines  admitting  that 

Jackson  Council,  No.  5 7,  United 
Commercial  Travelers,  has  issued  invi­
tations  for  a  series  of  seven 
social 
parties,  to  be  held  one  Saturday  even­
ing  a  month  for  seven  months,  on  the 
following  dates:  Oct.  9;  Nov.  13;  De­
cember  n   ;  Jan.  8;  Feb.  12;  March  12; 
April  9.  Accompanying  the  invitation 
is  a  circular  letter,  announcing  that  an 
incidental  object  of  the  entertainments 
is  to  provide  a  fund  for  the  entertain­
ment  of  the  Grand  Council,  U.  C.  T., 
which  holds  its  annual  meeting  in Jack- 
son  in  May.

The  Tradesman 

The  thanks  of  the  traveling  public 
are  surely  due  Henry  C.  Smith,  of 
Adrian,  for  instituting  the  suit  against 
the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern 
Railroad,  which  was  finally  disposed  cl 
by  the  Michigan  Supreme  Court  last 
week. 
is  not  suffi­
ciently  familiar  with  the  inside  history 
of  the  litigation  to  warrant  the  state­
ment  that  contributions  toward  meeting 
the  expenses  of  the  adjudication  would 
be  acceptable,  but 
if  they  would,  the 
traveling  fraternity  can  be  depended 
upon  to  do  something  handsome  in  the 
premises.  The  victory  is  a  notable  one 
and  the  action  of  Mr.  Smith  deserves 
the  commendation  of  traveling  men 
everywhere.

The  Western  Passenger  Association, 
which  has  been  considering  the  matter 
of  adopting  some  sort  of  interchange­
able  mileage  ticket,  has  decided  to  try 
the  Sebastian  plan,  by  means  of  which 
a  traveling  man  secures  a  permit  to buy 
a  ticket  in  three  parts,  one a stub,  which 
the  ticket  seller  retains,  one  a  coupon, 
which  he  keeps,  and  a third part,  which 
goes  to  the  conductor,  the  traveler  pay­
ing  full  local  fare  rates. 
If  the  traveler 
covers  2,000  miles 
in  a  year  and  pre­
serves  the  coupons  for  same,  he  is  en­
titled  to  a  rebate  of  1  cent  per  mile.  As 
the  average  journey  of  the  traveling 
man  is  eighteen  miles,  he  must  collect 
a  stack  of  150  coupons  before  he  gets  a 
cent  of  rebate,  and  then  he  receives 
is  at  the  rate  of  a  cent  a 
$20,  which 
mile. 
the  railroad  standpoint 
this  is  decidedly  a  good  thing,  as  by  an 
ingenious  system  the  customer is actual­
ly  made  to  do  all  the  book-keeping 
for 
the  parties  selling  the  goods.

From 

Ohio  Merchant:  The  regular  month­
ly  meeting  of  the  Cleveland  Commer­
cial  Travelers’  Association  was  held  at 
the  rooms  of  the  society  and  seventeen 
candidates  were  elected  to  full  member­
ship  and  the  names  of  several  more 
presented  for  future  action.  Strong  res­
olutions  were  adopted  condemning  the 
present  mileage  book  of  the  Central 
Passenger  Association  as  surrounded 
with  too  many  restrictions,  which  have 
proved  to  be  a  great  annoyance  to  the 
craft.  The  ceaseless  and  unanimous 
protests  that  are  being  constantly  sent 
in  to  the  authorities  in  charge  will,  no

doubt,  in  time  tend  to  an  abatement  of 
at  least  the  worst  features.  The  leading 
one,  judging  by  remarks  heard  from  the 
salesmen  who  have  been  traveling  on 
the  book,  is  the  delay  experienced  in 
conferring  with  the  ticket  agent  at  the 
window,  with  the  train  whistling for  the 
station. 
Sixteen  hundred  traveling 
salesmen  belong  to  the  Association,  and 
not  one  has  as  yet  been  heard  to express 
approbation  of  this  modern 
innovation 
in  the  mileage  line.

Before  the  days  of  the 

inter  state 
commerce  law,  the  Michigan  Central 
Railway  discriminated  against  every 
city  and  town 
in  the  State,  so  far as 
freight  rates  are  concerned,  in the  inter­
est  of  Detroit.  The  freight  rate  from 
Grand  Rapids  to  Hastings—32  miles— 
was  the  same  as  the  rate  from  Detroit 
to  Hastings— 138  miles.  The  same  was 
true  of  shipments  from  Hastings  to  out­
side  markets,  the  rates  on  grain  and 
produce  being  the  same 
to  Grand 
Rapids  that  they  were  to Detroit.  Such 
a  system— infamous  in  conception  and 
worse  than  infamous  in  the  manner 
in 
which  it  was  executed— worked  serious 
injury  to  every  shipping  point  in  the 
State  which  happened  to  he  so  unfor­
tunate  as  to  be 
located  solely  on  the 
Vanderbilt  lines,  because 
it  destroyed 
competition  to  a  large  extent  by  divert­
ing  business  almost  exclusively  to  the 
Detroit  market.  The 
inter-state  com-
merce  law  was  a  Godsend,  because  it 
put  an  end  to  unjust  discrimination,  so 
far  as  the  tariff schedules are concerned ;
but  the 
law  has  not  succeeded  in  pre­
venting  the  Vandeibilt  lines  from  con­
tinuing  their  former  policy  by  means of 
covert  agreements  and  the  payment  of 
secrtt  rebates,  which  are  strictly forbid­
den  by  the  law.

it 

Nothing 

is  more  attractive  than  a 
happy,  cbeerul  disposition,  which  may, 
perhaps,  be  regarded  as  the 
infallible 
sign  of  an  amiable  character.  Nature 
alone  can  bestow  this  priceless  gift,  and 
the  man  who  must  study  to  be  gay  and 
jolly  cannot  make  nearly  so  good an  im­
pression  as  be  who 
is  born  with  this 
endowment  of  perpetual  cheerfulness.
But 
is  desirable  sometimes  to  affect 
cheerfulness,  even  when  not  in  the  best 
of  humor.  At  such  times  the  intelli­
gent  reader  of  human  nature  may  not 
fail  to  notice  hidden  anxieties.  He  is, 
however,  the  right  man  to  appreciate 
the  effort  to  conceal  them.  There  are 
some  commercial  travelers  who  almost 
make  a  profession  of  jesting.  Let  it 
suffice  to  say  of  these  people  that  it  is 
beneath  the  dignity  of  a  man  of  good 
sense  to  play  the  buffoon  perpetually. 
Such  clowns  must  not  expect  to  win  the 
respectful  regard  of  those  with  whom 
they  associate.  For  the  traveling  mer­
chant  to  gain  admission  into  a  patron's 
family  by  means  of  some  talent,  as  skill 
in  music,  singing,  or  the  art  of  recita­
tion,  to  visit  his  customer's  club  room, 
his  lodge,  or  society,  if 
invited  to  do 
so,  is  certainly  not  objectionable;  but 
to  entertain  a  crowd  of  clerks  in  the
stores  or  warerooms,  or  waiters  and  at 
tendants  in  hotel  corridors  is  far  from 
being  advisable.  Such  an  excellent  wit, 
ten  to  one,  neglects  his  business  and 
wastes  bis  time,  and  the  probability 
is 
that  the  house  be  represents  will  sooner 
or  later  think  it  wise  to  look  out  for  a 
less  busy  but  more  occupied  man  than 
he.

Don’t  forget  the  $5  Chicago excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets  good  5  days.

Deer 

in  the  Catskills  are  said  to  be 
more  numerous  than  for  the  past  sev­
enty-five  years.

Fourteen Additions  During September.
Flint,  Oct.  4— Fourteen  additions  to 
the  membership  roll  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  have  been  made 
during  the  past  week,  eleven  active and 
three  honorary.  The  active  members 
are  as  follows:

Louis  D.  Hubbard,  Detroit.
Fred  A.  Eldridge,  Flint.
V. .O.  Mitchell,  Detroit.
Perry  Barker,  Grand  Rapids.
J.  L.  V.  Urcb,  Pontiac.
T.  F.  Loftus,  Grand  Rapids.
Edwin  F.  Zander,  Kalamazoo.
S.  E.  Marcott,  De  Pere,  Wis.
Wm.  Finley,  Toledo.
E.  B.  McKay,  Muskegon.
Geo.  S.  Hartom,  Battle  Creek.
The  honorary  members  are  as follows :
R.  F.  G.  Gibbs,  Weidman.
J.  A.  Crawford,  Maple  Rapids.
C.  J.  Gay,  Benton  Harbor.
Three  deaths  have  been  brought  to 
my  attention  during  the  month—J.  B. 
Moorehouse  (No.  2963),  of Indianapolis, 
who  died  Aug.  28;  J.  C.  Myers  (No. 
2962),  of  Grand  Rapids,  who  died  Sept. 
17;  Geo.  H.  Riblet  (No.  2144),  of  Ster­
ling,  who  died  Sept.  27.

D e l l   C.  S l a g h t,  S ec’y.

In  India  the  carpenters  have  an  al­
most  universal  objection  to  sharpening 
their tools.  They  never  set  their  saws, 
and  when  they  get  a  grindstone  they cut 
it  into  pieces  and  use  the  fragments  for 
anything  except  to  put  an edge on chisel 
or  ax.  They  rarely  carry  a  rule,  and 
they  never  try  to  make  a  close-fitting 
joint.

The  shops  of  the  General  Electric 
Company  at  Schenectady  are  overbur­
dened  with  orders.

"Not  Worth 

His  Salt.”

The  dealer  who  sells 
DIAMOND  CRYSTAL 
SALT  never gets  such  a 
reputation.

See Price Current.
DIAMOND  CRYSTAL  SALT  CO.,  Si.  Clair,  fl.ch.

Fanis’  Pancake  Flour 

Fanis’  Seif-Rising  Buckwheat

20 

lb. sacks to a  case. .$3.50

FALLIS  &  CO.,  Toledo,  0.

WM.  R.  TOMPKINS,  Agent,  Detroit,  Mich.

Buiidlno  Paper,  rooiiiiq  Material

VVe are jobbers o f these goods, among  which  are

§  

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

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

Detroit  Office,  Foot  of  3d  Street.

Off  F ° p  FL°T|en<E

W I T H   A   C A R G O   O F

5 o   C I G A R S

S O L D   B Y   A L L   J O B B E R S .

0.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.  Mfrs.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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M  l l GH ÎIÜAIN 

T R A D E S M A N

Around  the  State

4  >v-i  nan 

- 

4 si-chants

Beaverton  — I'  W  Swart  &  Co.  suc­

ceed  Jas.  Page  in  general  trade.

Alpena—C.  N.  vVare  &  Co.  succeed 

Kinsel  Bros,  in  the  drug  business.

Marquette —L.  Grabauer  has  removed 
his  dry  goods  stock  to  the  Mandard 
block.

Beaverton  M cFarland  & Co.  have  re­
to  West 

th eir  general  stuck 

Port  Huron—W.  J.  Mulford  has  em­
in  the  undertaking  business  at 

m oved 
Branch.

barked 
this  place.

Portland—Jack  Walker  h..s  embarked 
in  the bakery and  conlectionery business 
at  this  place.

Ann  Arbor— Klein  &  Theisen  bavt 
opened  a  tailoring  establishment  on 
Williams  street.

Union  City— Prosens  &  Burns,  gro 
cers,  have  dissolved.  Arthur  Prosens 
continues  the  business.

Port  Huron— Geo.  Drought  &  Co. 
have  opened  a  plumbing,  steam and  gas 
fitting  establishment  at  this  place.

Port  Huron— Springer  &  Rose  suc­
ceed  J.  Jacobi  &  Son  in  the  clothing 
and  men’s  furnishing  goods  business.

Grand  Marias— Roy  C.  Hill  stole  a 
march  on  his  friends  by getting married 
without  the  usual  advance  advertising.
Laingsburg— L.  S.  Reed  has  ¡eased 
the  store  building  of  Wm.  Simpson  and 
will  occupy  same  with  a  general  stock.
Kalamazoo—Geo.  Rickman,  Jr.,  has 
purchased  the  watch  and 
jewelry  re­
pairing  department  of  W.  F.  Leavitt  & 
Co.

Marquette—The  Marquette  Dry Goods 
Co.’s  stock  has  been  sold  under  chattel 
mortgage  foreclosure  to  Negaunee  par­
ties.

Barryton— W.  Hurd, 

formerly  of 
Flint,  has  embarked 
in  the  clothing 
and  men’s  furnishing  goods  business  at 
this  place.

Jackson—John  C.  Bader,  hardware 
dealer  at  this  place  and  prominent  in 
business  circles,  died  recently  from  a 
disease  of  the  throat.

Port  Huron— The  Bee  Hive  bazaar 
will  open  a  retail  store  Nov.  i  in  the 
building  formerly  occupied  by  L.  Higer 
&  Son,  on  Huron  avenue.

Harbor  Springs—Foster  &  Burke 
have  added  a  meat  market  to  their 
hardware  business  and  have  placed  W.
C.  Cramer  n  charge  thereof.

Charlotte  Geo.  Blowers,  formerly en­
gaged 
in  ?>  »  meat  business  under  the 
style  of  Mi ten.  M  &  Blowers,  has  opened 
a  meat  market  it.  h**  Heilway  Block.

Harbor  Springs— .  .  Andre  &  Co  are 
again  in  charge  of  t   t  City  meat  mar­
ket,  Harry  Chamber! 
the  former  pro­
prietor,  having  retired  i  m  business.

Big  Rapids—J.  W.  Mi 
the  clothing  and  furnishin 
S.  I.  G.  store  to  F.  W.  Jew 
consolidated
the  goods  wit
stock.

Munising -Jas.  Gibson
Co. )  spent part  of  the
quettte,  aturnding  the
funeral  of  hi s  father  ttt
Pascoe.

St.  Josepl1  Ray  1
ware  dealer at  this  (.
last  week  to Miss  Elm
Arbor.  The 
gratulations.

Trades««; it

, i  has  sold 
j  oods in the 
•  who  has
regular

Peters  &
ek at  Mar-
ihtxi l   and
Hon.  Peter

'attillon.  hard
married
Hill,,  of Ann
exiends  con­

Hancock— B.  Arne,  of

the firm  of
Arne  &  Wacht, Ishpeming,  has  removed 
to  this  place  and  embarked 
in  the 
men’s  furnishing  goods  business  on 
Quine  stre 

.

Alma---- L.  H.  Hirschkowitz  has
opened  a  dry  goods,  men’s  furnishing 
goods  and  millinery  siore.  Miss  Carrie 
Monroe  will  dave  charge  of  the  miiii 
nery  department

Hancock—N.  A.  Metz,  of  the  cloth­
ing  firm  of  Dukette  &  Metz,  at  Mar­
quette,  has 
leased  the  new  additjon  to 
the  Drittler  block  and  embarked  in  the 
men’s  furnishing  goods  business.

Fennville-  Miss  Carrie  Barron  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  Miss  Belle 
Dutcher  in  the  mihinery  business  of 
Dutcher  &  Barron  and  has  formed  a 
partnership  with  Miss  Florine  Hawley.
Prairieville —Geo.  W  Kern  has  sold 
his  store  building  to  L.  L.  Loveland 
and  will  close  out  his  drug  stock  and 
retire  from  business  here.  Mr.  Love­
land  will  occupy  the  building  with  his 
narness  stuck.

Brutus—J.  J.  P.  Dimling  has  pur 
chased  the  Snyder  store  building,  ad­
joining  his  present  building,  and  will 
connect  the  two  stores  by  means  of  an 
archway.  Mr.  Dimling  will  occupy  the 
Snyder  store  with  a  dry  goods  stock.

Saginaw— Mrs.  J.  Brown,  who  was  for 
many  years  engaged 
in  the  millinery 
business  at  Bay  City,  has  removed  her 
stock  to  this  place  and  opened  parlors 
in  the  store  building  formerly  occupied 
by  the  Excelsior  Clothing  &  Shoe  Co.

Lansing— D.  W.  Morris  has  pur­
chased  of  W.  S.  Griswold  the  build­
ings,  good  will  and  business  of  the 
Lansing  Fuel  Co.  and  will  hereafter 
conduct  the  business  on  a  larger  scale 
than  before.  The  purchaser  hails  from 
Detroit.

Traverse  City—William  Hoolihan, 
formerly  engaged 
in  the  agricultural 
implement  business  at  Empire,  has  re­
moved  to  this  city  and  embarked  in  the 
meat  business,  locating  on  Front  street 
in  the  building  formerly  occupied  by  J. 
C.  Vlack.

Lansing—I.  M.  Buck, 

formerly  as­
sistant  postmaster  at  this  place,  and 
Geo.  Bailey,  for several  years  a  clerk  in 
the  grocery  store  of  O.  N.  Stone,  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  embarked 
in  the  grocery  business  at  319  Washing­
ton  avenue.

Manton—J.  H.  Williams  has  sold  his 
stock  of  groceries  and  store  building  to 
the  Williams  Bros.  Co.,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business.  Mr.  Williams  has 
formed  a  copartnership  with  C.  M. 
Bumps,  and  will  engage 
in  the  hotel 
business  at  Bellaire.

Benton  Harbor— Edgar  Nichols  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  his  partner, 
Perley  W.  Hall,  in  the  drug  business  of 
Hall  &  Nichols  and  will  continue  the
business 
in  his  own  name.  Mr.  Hall 
will  continue  with  Mr.  Nichols  in  the 
capacity  of  registered  pharmacist.

Lansing— At  a  meeting  of  the  Michi­
gan  Bean  Dealers’  Association,  held  at 
Lansing,  Oct.  5,  J.  P.  Wood,  of  Chel­
sea,  was  elected  President  and  W.  F. 
Prescott,  of  Leslie,  Secretary.  From 
reports  made 
is  estimated  that  the 
acreage  this  year  averages  50  per  cent, 
of  the  average,  while  the  yield  is  about 
fifteen  bushels  per  acre.

it 

Mason—The  dry  goods  stocks  former­
ly  owned  by  Homer  Henderson  have 
been  sold  at  chattel  mortgage  sale  by 
W.  L.  Clark, 
trustee.  There  was  a 
stock  here  appraised  at  $7,834.04  and  a 
branch 
at 
$1,927.13.  Both  were  purchased  by  a 
representative  of  Marshall  Field  & 
Company,  the  Mason  stock  at  64  cents 
and  the  Dansville  at  55  cents on the dol­
lar.  The  only  other  bidder  was  Baum- 
ardner  &  Co.,  of  Toledo.

at  Dansville 

appraised 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Pewamo— The  sawmill  belonging  to 
Harry  D.  Woodwortn,  one  mile  soutb 
and  one  mile  west  of  this  place,  was 
burned  Oct.  1.

Hastings—Richard  Messer,  in  com 
pany  with  one  or  two  friends,  will  em­
bark 
in  the  manufacture  of  a  patent 
self-locking  seal,  tor use  on  boxcars  and 
other  places.

Emmet— H.  W.  Cooley  is  putting  the 
finishing  touches  on  his  new  elevator. 
The  building  is  26x40  feet  in  size  and 
has  a  capacity  of  9,000  bushels of grain. 
The  elevator  will  cost  upwards  of 
$2,500.

Beiding—On  the  petition  of  the  Bal 
lou  Basket  Co.  for  a  receiver,  Judge 
Daboll  appointed  E.  E.  Fales  to  as­
sume  the  duties  of  that  position,  he 
being  the  unanimous  choice  of  the 
stockholders.  Business  will  be  contin 
ued  the  same  as  heretofore.

Saginaw—R.  M.  Randall  and  Harry 
T.  Wickes,  President  and  Secretary  of 
the  lumber  and  planing mill corporation 
known  as  Randall  &  Boyd,  have  sold 
their  stock  in  the  corporation  to  Geo. 
H.  Boyd  and  Jas.  H.  Booth,  who  will 
continue  the  business  under  a  corporate 
style  to  be  determined  hereafter.

Jackson— S.  M.  Isbell  &  Co.  and  C. 
C.  Helling  have  purchased  of  Henry 
Hayden  the  old  Phoenix  steam  flour 
mill  lot  on  North  Mechanic  street,  pay­
ing  $8,000  for 
Isbell  &  Co.  will 
construct  thereon  an  extensive  elevator 
for  their  bean  trade  and  Mr.  Helling 
will  erect  a  frost  proof  warehouse  cap­
able  of  holding  one  hundred  carloads  of 
onions,  with  a  cold  storage  for  apples 
and  vegetables.

it. 

idle  for  the  last  four  years. 

Ishpeming—The  Barnum  mine  has 
been 
Its 
immense  stock  pile, which  had  gotten  to 
be  quite  a  landmark  along  the  D .,  S. 
S.  &  A.  Railway,  has  been  removed 
this  year.  At  present  very  little  ore  re­
mains  on  the  surface  of  the  property. 
Operations  will  soon  commence,  when 
the  Barnum  will  resume  its  position  as 
one  of  the  largest  producers  on  the 
Marquette  range. 
It  will  take  two  or 
three  months  to  make  necessary  repairs 
and  to  unwater  the  mine  before  the 
usual  force  of  500  men  will  be  put  to 
work.  Merchants  here  are  feeling  bet­
ter  than  for  a  long  time,  as  the  pros 
large  iron  ore  business  for 
pects  of  a 
1898  are  assured.  This  year,  with 
its 
quiet  business  generally,  has  seen  the 
largest  ore  business 
in  the  history  of 
the  Lake  Superior  territory,  reaching 
the  enormous  output  of  thirteen  million 
tons.

Detroit  Doings.

Detroit,  Oct.  5—The  eight  grocers
and  dealers 
in  dairy  products  whom 
Deputy  Food  Commissioner  Tunnecliffe 
has  charged  with  violating  the  pure 
food  laws  by  selling  colored  oleomarga­
rine  pleaded  not  guilty  and  were  held 
or  examination  October  12,  under  $300 
bail,  their  personal  recognizance  being 
accepted.
Articles  of  incorporation  of  the  Har­
ris  Burglar  and  Fire  Patrol  Telegraph 
Co.  have  been  filed.  The  capital  stock 
is  $50,000.  The  500  shares  of  $100 each 
are  held  as  follows:  Chas.  D  Aaron, 
100;  George  Harris  and  Wm.  Ritchie, 
200  each.

Articles  of  incorporation of  the Stand­
ard  Mutual  Fire  Insurance Co.,  Lim­
ited,  with  general  offices 
in  Detroit, 
have  been  filed.  Most  of  the  incorpora­
tors  are  Republican  politicians  well 
known  throughout  the  State.  They  aie 
H.  H.  Aplin,  Bay  C ity;  Stanley  W. 
Turner,  Detroit;  Wm.  A. 
French, 
Iresque  Isle;  Arthur  Pack,  Oscoda;  J.‘ 
Wight  Giddings,  Cadillac;  Burton 
Parker,  Monroe;  Neil  McAuliffe,  Sag­
inaw;  Keeley  Hill,  Grand  Marais;

Granger  Hill,  Oscoda;  Harry  Parks, 
McKinley.

The  Davidson  Cycle  Co.  has  filed  a 
chattel  mortgage  for  $1,601  upon 
its 
stock  of  store  fixtures  and  bicycle  goods 
stored  with  the  Crescent  Storage  Co. 
ihe  mortgage  runs  to  George  W.  and 
Octavia  Bates,  and  is  to  secure  the pay­
lease  of  the 
ment  of $511,  due  on  the 
store  at  231  Woodward  avenue. 
A 
mortgage  has  also  been  given  to  the 
same  parties  by  Alexander Davidson for 
$510 on  a  stock  of  bicycles.

Several  months  ago DeWitt  J.  Oakley, 
manager  of  the  Detroit  Credit  Clearing 
House,  connected  with  the  Merchants & 
Manufacturers’  Exchange,  was  obliged 
to  lay  off  on  account  of  chronic  stomach 
trouble,  which  became  so  serious  that 
tor  a  time  his 
life  was  despaired  of. 
Mr.  Oakley  is  now  cured,  so  far  as  doc­
tors  and  medicine  are  concerned,  but 
will  not  resume  business  until  next 
spring,  it  being  his  intention  to  recu­
perate this winter in  the  mountains.  Un­
der  these  circumstances  the  position  of 
manager  of  the  Credit  Clearing  House 
has  been  done  away  with.  The  name 
has  been  taken  off  the  door,  and  the 
work  will  be  performed  under  the direc­
tion  of  Walter  S.  Campbell,  Secretary 
and  Actuary  of  the  Exchange

Sloman  &  Groesbeck,  attorneys  for 
the  dissatisfied  members  of  the  Co-op­
erative  Cigar  Co.,  have  filed  a  bill  in 
chancery,  asking  for  the appointment  of 
a  receiver  to  wind  up  the  affairs  of  the 
firm.  The  bill  will  charge  that  six  of 
the  stockholders  have  conspired  with  a 
local  leaf  tobacco  firm  to  freeze  out  the 
other  seventeen  stockholders.
Annual  Meeting  of the  Lake  Superior 

Commercial  Travelers’  Club.

Marquette,  Oct.  4—At 

the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Lake  Superior  Commer­
cial  Travelers’  Club,  held  at  Hotel 
Marquette,  Oct.  3, 
the  following  offi­
cers  were  elected :

President—Will  C.  Brown.
Secretary  and  Treasurer—Albion  F. 

Wixson.

Vice-Presidents—J.  H.  Russell,  Jr., 
Jackson;  F.  H.  Horton,  Menominee; 
W.  R.  Smith,  Escanaba ;  F.  G.  Trus- 
cott,  Marquette ; 
J.  R.  McKeand, 
Houghton ;  John  Powers,  Ishpeming.

Directors—H.  C.  Work,  Escanaba ;
D.  P.  Baldwin,  Marquette;  W,  C.  Mon­
roe,  Flint;  H.  I.  Telling,  Chicago.
The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  mail 
the  following  circular  letter  to  every 
member  of  the  organization :

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Lake 
Superior  Commercial  Travelers’  Club, 
held  at  Hotel  Marquette,  Marquette, 
Oct.  3,  an  amendment  to  the  by-laws 
was  unanimously  adopted,  striking  out 
the  admission  fee  and  making  the  an­
nual  dues  $1  per  year.

This  territory  being 

The  object  of  this  is  to  increase  the 
membership  and  induce  every  commer­
cial  traveler  covering  the  Upper  Penin­
sula to  become  a  member  of  this  Asso­
ciation.
isolated,  and 
our  membership  being  drawn  from  five 
or  six  different  states,  and  no  other  or­
ganization  exerting  any  particular influ­
ence  here,  it  becomes  necessary  for  us 
to  organize  ourselves 
into  an  associa­
tion  that  will  be  recognized  by  other 
traveling  men’s  associations  throughout 
the  country,to which  we  extend  a  hearty 
co-operation.

The  object  of  this  Association  is  to 
protect  the  interest  of  its  members ;  to 
influence  legislation  in  their  behalf ;  to 
cultivate  social  acquaintance,  and  to 
provide  means  whereby  we  may  be  able 
to  meet  for our  social  and  business  ad­
vancement.

It  is  expected  that  every  member  will 
use  his  influence  to  increase  our  mem­
bership.

A l b io n   F.  W ix so n,  Sec’y.

“ Imitation 

is  the  sincerest  form  of 
flattery.’ ’  This  accounts  for  the  efforts 
put  forth  by  a  certain  cigar  manufac­
turer  to  place  on  the  market  a  brand  of 
cigars  calculated  to  deceive  the  dealer 
and  consumer  by 
leading  them  to  be­
lieve  that  it  is  the  genuine  S.  C.  W.

Ask  Visner  for  Inducement on Gillies’ 

New  York  spice  contest.  Phone  1589.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

H.  J.  Sonnema  succeeds  Gerrit  Van 
in  the  grocery  business  at  319 

Anrooy 
Plainfield  avenue.

H.  H.  Olds  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Bendon.  The Lemon &  Wheeler 
Company  furnished  the  stock.

Daniel  Viergever  has  purchased  the 
interest  of  his  son,  Martin  C.,  in  the 
grocery  stock  of  D.  Viergever  &  Son, 
at  157  Clancy  street,  and  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  D 
Viergever.

The  stock  and  fixtures  of  the  defunct 
Grand  Rapids  Paper  Co.  have  been  ap 
praised  at  $1,782.  From  present  ap­
pearances  there  will  not  be  sufficient 
assets  to  pay  the  first mortgage creditors 
anywhere  near  the  face  of  their  claims, 
to  say  nothing  of  the  unfortunates  who 
were  “ secured”   in  the  second  and  third 
mortgages.

Wilhelm  &  Co.  have  leased  a  portion 
of  the  second  floor  of  the  Metropolitan 
block  and  have  transferred  their  upper 
leather  factory  to  that  location.  The 
change  gives  them  more  room  in  which 
to  carry  on  the  manufacture  of  shoes  at 
their  old  location,  and  will  enable  them 
to 
introduce  additional  machinery  and 
considerably  enlarge  their  capacity.

The  Morning  Market.

The  principal  characteristics  as  the 
season  advances  are  the generally  firm 
prices  and  the  freedom  with  which  the 
offerings  move.  The difference  in  feel­
ing  on  the  part  of  the  vendors  from  that 
of  last  year 
is  very  apparent  to  the 
stroller.  The  eager  wistfulness  attend 
ing  a  slow  market  is  entirely  wanting 
this  year.  When  a  price  is  asked  the 
answer  is  given  firmly  and  readily  and 
if  the  buyer  is  inclined  to  demur,  he  is 
met  by  the  expression  of  confidence that 
there  are  enough  who  will  find  it  satis­
factory.  The  common  assertion 
that 
abundant  harvests  are  a  general  bless 
ing  is  hardly  borne  out  by  the  different 
attitudes  of  the  farmers  while  handl  ng 
the  smaller  crop  of  this  season.  Talk­
ing  with  a  representative  peach  grower, 
who 
is  marketing  1,500  bushels  of 
peaches  this  year  as  against  4,000 a 
year ago,  he  expressed  the  greater  sat 
isfaction 
for  this  season’s  business. 
The  price  obtained  this  year  was  given 
as,  on  the  average,  double  that  for the 
more  bountiful  harvest;  and,  while  the 
total  amount  realized  is  less,  the  differ 
ence  is  nearly  made  up  in  the  less  cost 
of  handling  the  smaller  crop.  The 
cost  of  handling  so  large  a  yield  in­
creases  very  rapidly,  as  it  goes  beyond 
the  ability  of  an  ordinary  farm  force; 
and  the  necessity  of  rushing  so  large  an 
amount  quickly 
into  a  slow  market 
makes  the  task  a  formidable  and  costly 
one.

The  conditions  under  which  the  mar­
ket  has  been  operated  this  year  have 
been  more  unfavorable  in  many  regards 
than  are  likely  to  be  in  the  future.  The 
unfinished  condition,  the  prejudice  on 
the  part  of  the  farmer  and  the  torn-up 
approaches  have  offered  as  serious  ob­
stacles,  as  can  well  be  imagined. 
In 
spite  of  these  there  has  been  a  steady 
growth  in  the  favor  of  both  sellers  and 
buyers.  To  be  sure,  there  is  some  bit­
ter  commenting  on  the  part  of  retail 
buyers,  principally  on  account  of  the 
condition  of the  streets,  but  the  grocers 
as  a  rule  have  been  rather  pleased  than 
otherwise  and  most  of  them  think  that 
the  increased  distance on  account  of the

change  will  prove  a  healthy  feature  for 
the  produce  trade.

A  sensible  departure  has been  inaugu­
rated  this  week 
in  the  changing  of  the 
time  of  opening  the  market  from  4  to  5 
o  clock.  Under  the  old  arrangement 
farmers  came 
large  numbers  and 
stood  shivering  for an  hour  or  more  be­
fore  there  was  much  trading.

in 

Work 

is  progressing  rapidly  on  the 
new  horse  sheds  along  the  west  side. 
Superintendent  Gibson  states  that  they 
are  to  be  finished  according  to  the  con­
tract  of  the  builder,  G.  A.  Christ,  not 
later  than  Oct.  20.  There  is  still  some 
filling  to be  done,  but  this  will  be  kept 
out  of  the  way  so  that  the  sheds  will  be 
ready  for  use  at  the  time  named.

The  Grain  Market.

is  moulding 

Lack  of  foreign  demand  gave  the 
market  a  downward  tendency.  The  ex­
ports  were  large,but  the  shipments  were 
from  old  orders.  The receipts were  lib­
eral  in  the  Northwest  and  the  extreme­
ly  dry  weather  was  the  only  thing  that 
sustained  prices.  Had  the  winter  wheat 
belt  been  favored  with 
some  nice 
rains,  prices  would  have  declined  still 
further.  Early  sown  wheat  is  not  grow­
ing  at  all,  while  late  sown  wheat  is  not 
coming  up  and 
in  the 
ground.  An  increase  of  fully  2.000,000 
bushels  was  expected. 
It  fell  short, 
however,  and  the  visible  increased  only 
1,561.000  bushels.  We  may  possibly  see 
another 
increase  during  the  month,  as 
this 
is  the  time  when  large  increases 
are  expected.  The  winter  wheat  re­
ceipts  are  not  large  at  present,  the  rea­
sons  for  which  were  mentioned  in  our 
last  review.  To  sum  the  whole  matter 
up,  the  situation  was  never  so  strong 
for the  agriculturists  to  get  good  prices 
for  their  wheat  as  it  is  now,  providing 
they  are  conservative  sellers  and  do  not 
force  their  wheat  on  the  market  the  way 
they  have  been  doing  in  the  Northwest
The  corn  market  appears  to  be  stub 
born  and  does  not  yield  in  price,  owing 
to  the  extremely  unfavorable  weather 
and  the  fact  that  the  crop  will  be  about 
500.000,000  bushels  less  than  last  year. 
The  visible  made  a  fair  increase,  but, 
with  the  large  amount  already  in  sight, 
the  present  price  is  retained.

Oats  showed  a  decrease,  but  the  price 

remains  the  same  as  last  week.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  41 
cars  of  wheat,  8  cars  of  corn  and  6  cars 
of  oats.

Local  millers  are  paying  86c 

foi 

wheat. 

C  G .  A. V o i g t .

J.  P.  Dimling, 

the  Brutus  eeneral 
dealer,  was  in  town  over  Sunday  for  the
first  tim e  in  three  years.

C.  W.  Dierdorf,  Treasurer  of  the  G. 
J.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.,  has  been  called 
to  Greenton,  Ohio,  by  the  serious  ill­
ness  of  his  mother.
Philip  Graham, 

the  veteran  South 
Division  street  grocer,  has  completed 
his  summer outing  at  Cascade  Springs 
and  resumed  his  residence  in  the  city. 
Mr.  Graham  has  spent  his  winters  in 
Florida  for  several  years,  but  announces 
his 
in  Grand 
Rapids  the  coming  winter,  “ for  a 
change,’ ’  as  he  expresses  it.

intention  of  remaining 

in 

Imitation  is  the last  resort  of  the  scal­
awag,  yet  people  persist  in  getting  up 
labels 
imitation  of  S.  C.  W.,  evi­
dently  acting  on  the assumption  that the 
consumer  can  be  deceived  and  that  the 
dealer  will  be  a  party  to  the  deception.

Don’t  forget  the $5  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  VV.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets good  5  days.

Grand

Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers'  Hall,  Tuesday 
evening,  Oct.  5,  President  Dyk  pre­
sided.

A.  Brink,  chairman  of  the  Executive 
Committee,  recommended  that  the  sal­
ary  of  the  Secretary  be  fixed  at  $200  per 
year,  for  all  services  connected  with the 
office;  also  that  the  salary  of  the  Treas­
urer be  fixed  at  $1  per  year.  The  report 
embodied  the  statement  that  the  books 
and  accounts  of  the  Treasurer  had  been 
found  to  be  correct  and  recommended 
that  a  hearty  vote  of  thanks  be  tendered 
Mr.  Lehman  for  his  loyal  services to the 
Association.  The  report  was  adopted 
and 
the  recommendations  were  con­
curred  in.

The  Committee  on  Button  reported 
that  200  Association  buttons  had  been 
ordered  at  a  cost  of  $20— 10  cents 
apiece.

A.  W.  Rush  moved  that  the  report  be 
accepted  and  that  the  button  be  sold  to 
the  members  at  25  cents  apiece.

Henry  J.  Vinkemulder  moved  as  an 
amendment  that  the  price  be  fixed  at 
15  cents.

The  original  motion  was  adopted  and 
the  Committee  on  Button  was  instructed 
to  dispose  of  the  button  on  arrival  on 
the  basis  established.

On  motion  of  Fred.  VV.  Fuller,  the 
Secretary  was 
instructed  to  write  the 
manufacturers,  requesting  them  not  to 
sell  buttons  of  the  same  design  to  any­
one  but  an  authorized  officer  o f the  As­
sociation.

letter  was  read  from  the  editor  of 
the  American  Grocer,  calling  attention 
to  an  editorial  on 
indefensible  price 
cutting  which  recently  appeared  in  that 
journal,  as  follows:

A 

“ An  evil  common  with  purveyors  of 
food,  and  of  growing  importance,  is  the 
advertising  of  proprietary  and  other 
foods  at  less  than  the  lowest  wholesale 
price  and  often  below  the  cost  of  man­
ufacture.  Generally  the  goods  selected 
are  such  as  are  extensively  advertised, 
and  hence  well  known ;  or  some  leading 
itaple,  such  as  sugar,  flour  or  butter.

“ It 

For 

instance, 

is  claimed  by  those  who  do  this 
sort  of  thing  that  it  is  justifiable,  as  be­
ing  a  very  cheap  and  profitable  method 
if  advertising.  There 
is  an  axiom  in 
aw  that  a  person  has  a  right  to  use  his 
property  as  he  sees  fit.  provided he  does 
not  use  it  to  injure  others  There is  also 
a  quasi  representation  or  false  pre­
tense  involved,  inasmuch  as  cunningly 
worded  advertisements 
that 
suggest 
these  cutters  sell  all  goods  equally 
low 
when,  in  fact,  they  are  simply  baits  to 
draw 
in  the  unwary.  The  principle 
nvolved 
is  one  of  injury  to  the  rights 
if  others. 
there  are 
10,000 grocers  in  New  York  and  Brook­
lyn,  and  double  that  number  wthin 
thirty  miles  of  City  Hall —hardworking, 
honest, 
industrious  dealers,  equitably 
entitled  to  a  fair  profit  for  the  service 
thev  render  their  respective  neighbor­
hoods.  The  law  protects  their  property 
from 
injury  by  reason  of  a  nuisance; 
their  good  name  against  sjander ;  pro 
vides  means  for  the  collection  of  debts; 
guards  their  health  against  unseen  dan­
gers.  Why,  then,  cannot  the  law  be  in­
voked  to  prevent  the  reckless  cutting  of 
prices,  whereby  a  few  work  a  great  loss 
to  these  dealers  and  demoralize  an  en 
tire  trade?
it  not  feasible to  frame  a  statute 
making  it  illegal  for  any  dealer  in  pat­
ented  articles,  or  such  as  are  protected 
by  trade-mark, 
goods 
below  a  minimum  price  to  be  fixed  by 
the  manufacturer  or  owner  of  a  trade 
mark?

to  sell 

such 

“ Is 

“ Men  often  endeavor  to  put an  end 
to  their  life,  claiming  they  have  a  right 
to  do  with  their  person  whatsoever  they 
elect;  but  the  law  says  that  any  attempt 
at  suicide 
is  a  crime,  and  does  so  be­
cause  the  good  of  society  demands  that 
human  life  should  be  sacred,  and  must 
be  protected  under  all  circumstances. 
And  why  cannot  a  law  be  made  which 
will  apply  to  the  cutters,  who  ignore the 
rights  of  the  many  for  the  benefit  of  a 
few  individuals? 
In  this  vicinity  there 
are  perhaps  40,000  merchants  in  the  va­

rious 
lines  of  business  (and  at  least 
200,000  persons  dependent  upon  them 
for  support),  whose  business  is  serious­
injured  by  the  irregular,  if  not  dis­
ly 
honest,  practice  of  a 
few,  who  claim 
they  have  a  right  to  sell  their  merchan­
dise  at  any  price  they  choose;  give  it 
away  if  they  elect. 
It  seems  feasible  to 
devise  some 
legal  protection  against 
such  an  abuse  of  power  as  we  have  out­
lined. 
I his  is  a  live  topic  for  discus­
sion 
in  the  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tions. ’ ’

The  matter  was  made  the  special  or­

der  of  business  at  the  next  meeting.

A  communication  wds  received  from 
the  Director  General  of  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Carnival  of  Fun,  inviting  the  mem­
bers  to  participate 
in  the  parade  in  a 
Inasmuch  as  many  of  the  mem­
body. 
bers  are 
identified  with  the  movement 
in  private  and  public  capacities,  it  was 
deemed  advisable  to  lay  the  communi­
cation  on  the  table.

Secretary  Klap  formally  accepted  a 
re-election  and  thanked  the members for 
the  honor  conferred  upon  him.  He  re­
ported  the  total  receipts  of  his  office 
during  the  past  year  as  $319.21,  during 
which  time  he  has  drawn  fifty-eight  or­
ders  on  the  Treasurer,  amounting  to 
$221.66.  The  report  was  accepted.

A  communication  was  received  from 
the  Secretary  of  the  Duluth  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association,  calling  attention  to 
the  schedule  of  prices  now 
in  force 
among  the  retail  grocery  trade  of  that 
city,  as  follows:

100  lbs  granulated  sugar.  $6.
15  lbs.  granulated  sugar,  $i  ;  7%  lbs., 

50  cents;  3*4  lbs.,  25  cents.
13  lbs.  cut  loaf  sugar,  $1  ; 

cents;  3  lbs.  for  25  cents.

lbs.,  50 

13  lbs.  pulverized  sugar,  $1  ;  tV2  lbs., 

50 cents;  3  lbs.  for  25  cents.

Cut  loaf  and  pulverized  sugar  per  lb., 

10  cents.

18  lbs  brown  sugar.  $ 1:9   lbs.,  50 

cents;  4  lbs.  for  25  cents.

Package  coffee,  per  lb.,  15  cents;  7 

packages.  $1.

r  gal  kerosene  oil,  13  cents.
5  gals,  kerosene  oil  or  over,  and 
less 
One  2  lb.  package  Quaker  Oats,  15 

than  a  barrel,  per  gal.,  12  cents.
cents.

Two  2  lb.  packages  Quaker  Oats,  25

cents.

All  other  brands  package  oats, 

straight.  10  cents.
25  cents.

Rolled  oats,  5  cents  per  lb.  ;  7  lbs.  for 
One  2  lb  package  Pettijohn’s  Break­

fast  Food,  15  cents 

Two  2  lb  packages Pettijohn’s Break­

fast  Food,  25  cents
Jemima's 

straight,  10  cents.
bars  for $i.

Aunt 
Pancake  Flour, 
Santa  Claus  soap,  6  bars,  25  cents ;  25 
Jaxon  soap,  6  bars,  25  cents;  25  bars 

for $1.

Satinet  soap.  7  bars,  25  cents;  28 

bars,  $1;  $3.25  per  box.

While  Lily  soap,  large  size,  7  cents

Gold  Dust  and  all  other  4  lb.  pack­
ages  of  soap  powder,  per  package,  25 
cents.
per  bar,  4  bars  for  25  certs.
T he  m atter  of  leasing  the  A ssociation 
nam e 
to  some  cigar  m anufacturer  for 
use  on  a  brand  of  cigars  was  deferred 
until  the  next  m eeting.

Big  New  York  Grape  Crop.

The  New  York  grape  crop  is  the most 
abundant  that  the  growers  have  known 
in  many  years.  A  week  ago  the  vines 
were  so  heavily  loaded  with  grapes,  and 
the  market  so  low,  that  the  growers  felt 
sure  that  the  fruit  would  rot  r>n  the 
vines,  as  they  could  not  get  enough  to 
pay  for  picking 
it.  The  demand  of 
the  market  and  the  cold  of  the  past 
few  nights  have  improved  the  outlook, 
however,  and  now  the  grape-growers 
are  getting  better  prices,  so  that  they 
will  realize  a  reasonable  profit  on  the 
fruit.

The  effort  to  exploit  a  cigar  which 
shall  participate 
in  the  popularity  of 
the  celebrated  S.  C.  W.  will  prove  fu­
tile,  all  imitations  of  the  brand  thus  far 
placed  on  the  market  having  been  in 
keeping  with  the  poet’s  comparison,

“ A s m oonlight unto sunlight,
As water unto wine.”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

SUC CESSFUL  SALESMEN.

Geo.  W.  McKay,  Representing  A.  E.

Brooks  &   Co.

in  Wright 

George  W.  McKay  was  born  June  24, 
1859, 
township,  Ottawa 
county,  Michigan,  his  ancestors  on  his 
father’s  side  being  descended 
from 
Elkenny  McKay,  who  emigrated  to  this 
country  from  Edinburgh 
in  1725  and 
in  Lenox,  Mass.  The  history 
settled 
of  the  family  is  an  exceptionally 
inter­
esting  one,  the  McKays  having  played 
an 
important  part  in  the  revolutionary 
struggle  and  occupied  many  positions 
of  trust  and  responsibility  in  the  early 
days  of  the  Republic.

Mr.  McKay  attended  district  school 
in  the  township  in  which  he  was  born 
until  18  years  of  age,  when  he  went  to 
Coopersville  and  clerked  in  the  general 
stores  of  E.  O.  Phillips  and  R.  D. 
McNaugbton.  He  then  came  to  Grand 
Rapids  and  drove  a  wagon  a  year  for 
G.  S.  Clark,  selling  teas,  coffees  and

in 

column  of  advertising 
the  daily 
papers.  And  all  for  nothing!  Don’t 
undertake  to  tell  me,  then,  that  this 
same  “ hen”  
is  not  “ an  angel  in  dis­
guise,”   and  that  the  winged  creature  is 
not  often  entertained  unawares!

Not  many  moons  ago,  after  a  violent 
agitation  of  the  front  doorbell  and  the 
usual  civilities  on  the  part  of  the  serv­
ant,  the  shopper,  fresh  from  conflict, 
after  a  hearty  greeting  from  the  lady  of 
the  bouse,  unfolded  her  treasures  and 
the  extended  story  began.

I 

“ Oh!  Such  a  time  as  I’ve  had! 
I’m  simply 
Tired?  No  name  for  it! 
utterly  exhausted! 
just  stopped  to 
rest,  because  I  knew  I  hadn’t  strength 
enough  to  get  home. 
I  don’t  usually 
get  out  Mondays—such  dreadful  women 
take  that  day  for  shopping;  but  I  had 
a  hint  from  one  of  my pets (!)  at  Hoop­
er,  IJp  &  Co.’s  that  they  were  to  get  in 
a  new  line  of  silks  that  were  to  beat 
anything  seen  so  far,  and  I  concluded, 
Monday  or  no  Monday, I  was  just  going 
to  see  them  first.  To  have  that—well, 
industrious  (!)  to  put  it  mildly— Mrs. 
Dinsmaid  overexultant  again 
is  some­
thing  I  couldn’t  live  through  and  ever 
be  happy  after!

6

Clerks’ Corner

An  Angel  in  Disguise.

Written fo r the T r ad esm an.

I  have  been  thinking  over  the  trials 
and  tribulations  of  the  “ hen”   fever, 
and  of its prevalence  among  clerks,  and 
am  led  to  believe  that,  virulent  as  it  is, 
and  dreadful  as  it  is,  it 
is  not  a  wholly 
unmitigated  evil.

I  have  just  had  an  instance  of it.  One 
of  the  worst  samples  of  the  professional 
shopper  lives  in  one  of  the  largest  and 
brownest  of  stone  houses  on  Capitol 
Hill.  She  can  scent  a  baragin  afar  off 
and  the  faintest  of  whiffs  will  cause  her 
to  don  instantly  that  shopping  garb  of 
hers,  so  familiar  to  every  clerk  in  every 
dry  goods  store  in  the  city.  Not  an  ad­
vertisement  in  a  single  city  paper  ever 
escapes  that  eagle  eye.  The  '  Woman’s 
World”   department,  and  Clubdom,  and 
Teas,  and  all  forms  of  womanly  enter­
tainment  may  escape  her;  but  not  this. 
Nor  is  she  confined  to  Monday—Terror 
Day  among  the  clerking 
fraternity; 
but  every  day  finds  her  ready  to  swoop 
down upon—a bargain?  Not at all.  That 
is  quite  another  thing.  She  delights  in 
them  when  she  wants  to  buy ;  but that is 
not  often.  She  simply  wants  to go  for 
her  own  gratification,  and  for  the  same 
reason  see  with  her  own  eyes  the  fine 
things  that  can  be  bought  at  a  small 
price  when  one  wants  to  indulge  in  that 
plebeian  process.

What  her  methods  are  the 

interested 
readers  of  the  Clerk’s  Department  need 
not  be  told.  As  a  sampler  she  has  no 
equal.  Common  goods  have  for  her  no 
attraction,  and  woe  betide  the  clerk 
who  undertakes  to  palm  off  upon  her 
anything 
less  than  the  rarest  and  the 
costliest.

Another  peculiarity  of  the  class,  and 
of  this  particular  specimen  of  it,  is  her 
determination  to  “ take  no  sass. ”   Her 
relations  with  clerks,  her  peremptory 
manner,  and  especially  her  tongue,  fa-1 
mous  for 
its  sharpness,  have  all  pro­
claimed  eternal  war  between  her  and 
them;  and,  when  she  makes  her  ap­
pearance,  it  is,  in  itself,  a  declaration 
of war—“ warto  the  knife  and  the  blade 
to  the  hilt!”   That  she 
is  oftener the 
victor 
is  a  fact  as  humiliating  as  it  is 
unquestioned.  That  she  knows  how  to 
take  every  advantage  of  her  victory  is 
as  readily  conceded;  but  that  this—this 
— er—this  hen(  !)  is  “ an  angel 
in  dis­
guise,”   the  wildest  imagination—cler­
ical  imagination—has,  so  far,  been  un­
able  to  picture.  How?

laces, 

“ Here 

journey  to  “ talk 

From  her  lively  encounter with the ex­
asperated  clerk,  the  professional  sam­
ple-gatherer  always  stops  on  the  home­
ward 
it  over”   with 
“ her  dearest  friend,”   whose  name  is 
legion.  The  finest 
the  richest 
silks,  the  choicest  fabrics  of  all  kinds, 
have  been  noted  and  labeled,  and  the 
samples  are  brought  out  and  displayed 
as  a  proof  of  the  marvelous  stories  nar­
rated. 
is  a  dress  pattern  from 
Hyde  &  Hooper’s  on  Sixteenth  street. 
Isn’t  it  elegant?  Just  look  at  the  figure. 
Examine  the  material.  There’s style  for 
you.  Miss  Van  Staal,  I  had  you  in 
mind  the  moment  I  put  my  eyes  on 
it. 
Just  fancy  yourself  gowned  in  this,  go­
ing  in  to  dinner  at  the  coming event  of 
the  season  with  Mr.  Stuyvesant  Sylves­
ter!”   So,  from  house  to  house  this  free 
advertiser  finds  her  way,  exhibiting 
this  piece  of  goods  here  and  that  one 
there;  and,  when  she  reaches  home  just 
in  time  for  dinner,  she  has  done  more 
good  for  the  house  whose  clerks  she 
has  tormented  than  can  be  done  by  a

high  esteem  by  all  who  know  him  on 
account  of  his  innate  honesty,  his steady 
persistency  and  his  gentlemanly  man­
ners.  No  matter  where  he  may  be,  or 
how  trying  the  circumstances  surround­
ing  him,  he  is  “ always  the  same,”   his 
pleasant  smile  and  perennial  good  na­
ture  never  forsaking  him.

Vegetables  Dried  Like  Fruit.

From the San Francisco Call.

important 

A  new  and 

into  existence 

industry  has 
come 
in  Santa  Clara 
county,  which  bids  fair  in  time  to  rival 
the  fruit  drying.  This  is  the  prepara­
tion  of  dried  vegetables  for  the  market, 
which  at  present  is  generally  confined 
to  the  short  seasons  at  the  driers  be­
tween  the  ripening  of  the  different 
fruits.  Just  lately  the  vegetables  have 
been  usurping  the  place of  the  apricots, 
but  they  have  now  already  begun  to 
give  way  in  turn  to  the  prunes.

lively  scene 

On  approaching  a  drier  it  does  not 
take  one  long  to  decide  whether  fruit 
or  vegetables  are  being  prepared,  for 
in  the  latter  case  a  pungent  odor  rushes 
out  to  sting  one’s  eyes  and  crawl  un­
comfortably  up  one’s  nostrils— for  the 
trail  of  onions  is  over  the  land.  Within 
a 
is  presented.  Men  are 
hurrying  to  and  fro,  bearing  trays  and 
boxes,  while  long  rows  of  women  and 
children  sit  busily  peeling  potatoes  and 
carrots,  which, 
the 
onions,  form  at  present  the  staple  prod­
uct.  When  boxes  of  potatoes  and  car­
rots  are  filled,  they  are  poured  into  a 
large  hopper,  and  from  there  fed  to  ma­
chine  with  rotating  knife-blades,  which 
cut  them  up  into  small  slices  a  quarter 
of  an  inch  thick.  The  further  process 
which  the  potatoes  undergo* is  simple, 
and  for  carrots  and  the  other  minor 
vegetables  it  is  practically  the  same.

together  with 

After  being  sliced 

the  tubers  are 
slightly  sulphured 
in  a  chamber  built 
of  wood.  Here  great  discrimination 
must  be  used,  for  if  they  are  sulphured 
too  much  the  potatoes  will  taste  of  the 
fumes;  if  too  little  they  will  not  con­
tain  enough  antiseptic  property,  and 
bacteria  attracted  by  the  starch  will 
develop.  Moreover,  a  little  sulphuring 
is  necessary  to  preserve  the  color  of  the 
vegetables  as  far  as  possible  and  to 
prevent  decay.

looks 

After  this  process  the  potatoes are  not 
in  the  sun,  but  put  into  an 
spread  out 
evaporator.  The  latter 
like  a 
small  Ferris  wheel,  and  is  enclosed  in  a 
sort  of  brick  oven  with  glass  windows. 
Within  this  it  revolves  close  to  hot-air 
pipes  for  a  few  houis.  When  the  mois­
ture  is  sufficiently  evaporated  the  cars 
of  the  wheel  are  emptied  through  the 
windows,  and  their  contents  are  ready 
for  shipment  in  sacks.

When  this  stage  is  reached  the  sliced 
potatoes  resemble  dry  chips,  and 
it 
takes  six  or  seven  pounds  of  the  fresh 
to  make  one  pound  of  the  dried.

By  their  pungency  onions  possess  the 
power of  warding  off  bacteria,  and  are, 
therefore,  only  slightly sulphured  to  pre­
serve  their  color.  They  are  next  evap­
orated  until  one-third  of  the  moisture  is 
expelled,  and  then  placed 
in  trays  in 
the  sun,  just  as  is  done  with  fruit.  The 
drying  process  shrivels  the  onions  so 
much  that 
it  takes  twenty  parts  of  the 
fresh  to  make  one  of  the  dried.  While 
the  onions are  being  cut up the moisture 
coming  from  them  is  very  disagreeable 
and  hard  on  the  eyes  of  the  employes.

When  carrots  are  evaporated  it  takes 
about  nine  parts  of  them  to  make  one 
dried  part.  Perhaps  the  drying  process 
used 
in  the  case^  of  both  carrots  and 
potatoes  might  be  improved  upon  were 
steam  employed.  By using  the  latter  the 
starch 
in  the  potatoes  would  be  partly 
cooked  and  sterilized,  and  after  this  the 
tubers  could  be  evaporated  in  a  cham­
ber  similar  to  the  one  above  described.
In  this  way  the  potatoes  could  be  ria  of 
sulphur,  well  dried,  and  yet  capable  of 
being  quickly  soaked,  and  there  would 
be  no  chance  for  bacteria to  develop.

Other  vegetables  than these mentioned 
are  at  present 
in  process  of  develop­
ment.  So  far  the  industry  has  proved 
very  profitable,  as  evinced  by  the  in­
creased  demand  for  dried  vegetables  all 
over  the  country,  especially  in  the  min- 
tng  regions.

Isn't 

“ Well,  here’s  the  sample. 

it 
splendid?  If  I  had  the  slightest  idea  of 
purchasing  a  gown  so  early  in  the  sea­
son,  this  would  be  the  pattern.  But 
such  a time  as  I had  getting  it!  I  never 
was  talked  to  so  in  all  my  born  days!  I 
can  usually  hold  my  temper,  and  still 
have  my  say,  with  the  best  of 
’em ;  but 
this  fellow  came  very  near  being  too 
much  for  me.  He’s  that  tall  elegant­
looking  young  man  with  the  light  mus­
tache.  Don’t  you  know,  I  pointed  him 
out  to  you  one  day—the  one  with  that 
stylish  blue  serge  and  the  white  vest, 
and  you  remarked  that  his  English  was 
as  elegant  as his  manners?  Well,  that's 
the  one.  You  should  have  heard  him 
to-day!  Whew!  Forget  himself?  Not 
a  bit  of  it— I  only  wish  he  had !  He 
has  the  use  of  short  words  down  to  a 
nicety,  and  the  way  he  stabbed  me 
with  'em  was  a  caution !  He  went  so 
far,  once,  that  I  threatened  tc  report 
him  to  the  senior  member  of  the  firm— 
I’m  well  acquainted  with  him,  you 
know—and  what  did  that  young  jack­
anapes  say  but  that  ‘ I’d  find  him  in 
the  office  in  the  first  story,  and  that 
it 
would  be  easier  to  take  the  elevator!’ 
Did  you  ever!

folds,  you 

There!  What  do  you  think  of  this? 
Isn’t  it  lovely!  When  my  nice  blonde 
it  up  in  that  way  he  has— 
clerk  held 
such  graceful 
know— it 
seemed  to  me  the  very  prettiest  thing  I 
ever  saw  in  my  life!  When  you  trade 
there,  you  must  always  find  that  par­
ticular  clerk  to  wait  on  you.  He  is  such 
a  comfort.  O,  you  needn’t 
that 
way.  He  is'  human  like  the  rest  of  us ; 
and  when  we  go 
in  there  cross  and 
crabbed  and  ugly,  it  isn’t  any  wonder 
that  they  call  us  ’ hens!’ 
I  felt  like  one 
to-day—a  wet  one—and  I  know  I  tried 
his  patience  awfully.  But  I  must  go. 
Let  me  urge  you  to  get  that  pattern  be­
fore  somebody  else  picks  it  up—and  be 
sure  to  trade  with  my  clerk !”

look 

And  “ that  old  hen”  went  on  her  way, 
exhibiting  her  samples  from  house  to 
house  and  praising  “ the  tall  elegant- 
looking  young  man  with 
light 
moustache,  whose  English  is  as  elegant 
as  bis  manners, "while  he— poor  man— 
not  detecting  “ the  angel  in  disguise,”  
was  at  that  very  moment  ejaculating 
unprintable 
things  about  a  certain 
“ cantankerous  old  hen!”

the 

R ic h a r d   M a lc o lm   Str o n g.

spices.  His  next  employment  was  in 
the store of S.  Tyroller,  24 Monroe street, 
where  he  had  charge  of  the  fancy  goods 
department. 
In  the  fall  of  1881  he  had 
his  first  experience  on  the  road,  with  a 
holiday  line  for  Mr.  Tyroller.  He  sub­
sequently 
engaged  with  Putnam  & 
Brooks  as  store  salesman,  handling  city 
orders  and  waiting  on  customers.  From 
this  position  he  was  promoted  to  that  of 
city  salesman,  and  a  year 
later  was 
given  a  regular  route  on  the road,  which 
he  covered  for  six  consecutive  years. 
On  the  dissolution  of  the  firm.  Mr.  Mc­
Kay  became  a  partner  in  the  new  bouse 
of  A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.,  and  for  the 
past  eight  years  has  represented  that 
house  on  the  road,  covering  all  the 
available  towns  north  of  Grand  Rapids 
in  the  Lower  Peninsula,  and St.  Ignace, 
Sault  Ste.  Marie  and  Newberry  in  the 
Upper  Peninsula.

residence 

Mr.  McKay  was  married  May  17, 
1882,  to  Miss  Lillian  Potter,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  who  died  Nov.  23,  1886,  leav­
ing  one  child,  a  boy,  who 
is  now  11  j 
years  of  age.  Mr.  McKay  was  again 
married  Nov.  10,  1888,  to  Miss  Sadie 
Stevens,  of  Joliet,  111.  He  owned  the 
at  65  Packard 
handsome 
several 
street,  where  he  resided  for 
years,  but  has  recently  sold 
it  and  is 
now  sole  owner of  the  “ home  farm”   in 
Wright  township,  Ottawa  county,  where 
he  expects to  make  his permanent home 
in  the  near  future,  but  will  continue  to 
call  on  the  trade  with  a  full  line  of 
goods.  During  his  three  months’  sick­
ness  the  past  summer,the family resided 
at  the  comfortable  home  of  Dennis 
Baker,  on  West  Leonard  street,  but  are 
now  located  for  the  winter  at  the  Park 
Hotel,  Petoskey,  that  being  a  central 
point  in  his  territory.

Mr.  McKay is a communicant of Grace 
Episcopal  church  and  is  affiliated  with 
the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip  and 
in
the  Knights  of  Pythias.  He  is  held 

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Vanilla  Extracts.

These  goods  are  known  to  be  the  highest  quality  in  the  market 
and,  since it  is  of the  utmost  importance  in  making  cakes  and  creams
to  have  the  purest  extracts,  the  reasons  are  obvious  why you  should 
buy Souders’  Extracts.

They  fully comply with  all  the  requirements  of the  new  pure  food 
laws  and  will  not  cause you  any trouble  in  that  regard. 
If you  are not 
familiar with  the goods,  please add  to your next  order a  small  quantify 
of  them  and  you  will,  by  their  use,  become  convinced  of  their  high 
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send  you  the  best  in  the  market.

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and,  as  our local  fruit  crop  was  a partial  failure,  it  will  necessitate  your 
buying more  of these goods than  usual.  This will  not  be  a great  hard­
ship  as the  prices  are low;  in  fact  do not cost  any more  than  if you  put
them  up  yourself.  They  are  packed where  fruit was  plentiful  and, 
therefore,  cheap.

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was  it  not?

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WEDNESDAY.  -  -  -  OCTOBER 6,1897.

leaders 

TRADE  UNIO NS  IN  PO LITIC S .
There  is  a  forcible  illustration'  in  the 
sensational  developments  of the past few 
days  incident  to  the  management  of  the 
local  postoffice  of  the  fact  that  one  of 
the  most  difficult  questions  the  local 
politician  has  to  handle  is  the  proper 
and  safe  treatment  of  the  labor  organi­
zations.  The 
these  make 
themselves  so  conspicuous,  and  make 
themselves  and  their  following  appar­
ently  so  numerous,  that,  when  the  ques­
tion  of  rewards  for  political  service 
come  to  be  considered,these “ exponents 
of  toil’ ’  must  be  early  in  the  list. 
It 
makes  no  difference  what political party 
labor  must  be 
is  concerned,  organized 
leaders  have 
recognized  for  what  these 
done,  or,  more  correctly, 
for  fear  of 
what  they  may  do.

in 

by 

Those  of  the  political  leaders who can 
give  this  aggressive  element  sufficient 
recognition 
carefully  prepared 
eulogies  on  their  “ cause’ ’ and organiza­
tion  without  the  need  of  actual  reward 
in  the  way  of  putting  public  trusts 
into 
unfit  hands  are  fortunate. 
It  is,  doubt­
less,  for  this  reason  that  so  many  g o  
cut  of  their  way  and  stultify  themselves 
by  fulsome  and  insincere praises  of  that 
which  they  secretly  detest. 
such 
only  had  the  perception  to  see that these 
blatant  champions  and  their  following 
are 
in  no  way  real  representations  of 
labor,  they  would  dismiss  them  from 
their  reckonings  as  of  too  little  conse­
quence,  or  consideration.

If 

In  too  many  cases,  however,  the  pol­
itician  who  thinks  he has  profited by the 
services  of  these  “ labor  leaders”   must 
needs  do  more  than  treat  them  to  fine 
speeches.  They  must  he  considered  in 
his  appointments  and  recommendations 
to  office.  Unfortunately,  it  would  be 
hard  to  find  a  class  less  fit  for  places  of 
trust  among  what  are  considered  the  re­
spectable  classes  of  the  community. 
In 
the  ranks  of  labor  the  competent  and 
trustworthy  are  too  busy  with  better 
things  to  afford  to  spend  their  time  as 
organizers,  walking  delegates,  agitators 
and  strike  leaders,  so  this  is  left  to  the 
incompetent,  the  idle,  the  ignorant  and 
the  vicious.  Thus  it  is  that  few strikes 
are  carried  on  where  these  leaders  are 
entrusted  with  funds  without  the  suspi­
cion—or  more 
suspicion—of
defalcation  on  their  part,and  frequently 
they  retire  to  the  prosecution  of  some 
disreputable  business  at  a  distance from 
the  scene  of  their  “ strike."

than 

So,  when  the  politician  has  placed

introduced 

himself  under  obligations  to  recognize 
this  portion  of  his  support, 
in  the  dis­
tribution  of  public  patronage,  there  is 
too  frequently 
into  his  ad­
ministration  an  element  of  annoyance 
and  anxiety,  if  not  of  danger.  Thus  it 
may  be  recalled  that,  in  many  of  the 
“ labor”   appointments  of  recent  years 
in  this  city,  the  incumbent  has  proved 
incompetent,  if  not  worse.  A  recent 
example  is  that  of  a  defaulting  clerk  in 
police  court,  and  others  may  be  readily 
recalled.

As  to  the  merits  of  the  case  in  the 
present  sensation,  little 
is  known  be­
yond  conjecture  on  account  of  the  nat­
ural  reticence  of  the  officials.  The  fact 
that  the  “ labor”   appointe  was  permit­
ted  to  resign  in  the  early  stages  of  the 
investigation  would  naturally  cause  un­
pleasant  suspicions  as  to  the  stealings 
which  had  precipitated  the  investiga­
tion.  That  the  matter 
is  a  source  of 
some  anxiety  to  the  head  of  the  institu­
tion,  who  is  reponsible  for  the  appoint­
ment,  may  he  inferred  by  the  fact  that 
there  are  rumors  of  the  possibility  of 
its  costing  him  his  position. 
It  would 
have  been  better  for  him  to  run  the 
risk  of  incurring  the  displeasure  of  the 
delegates”   rather  than  run  the  risk 
of  ending  his  official  career  in  a  scan­
dal. 

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GENERAL  TRADE  SITU A TIO N  
While all  general  conditions  favor  in­
creasing  activity  and  prices,  there  have 
been,  for  the  past  week,  a  number  of 
local  hindrances  which  have  served  to 
put  a  sufficient  check  upon  trade  move 
ment  to  prevent  its  assuming  the  pro­
portions  of  a boom,  with  the  attendant 
dangers.  Operating 
in  the  way  of  re 
straint,  the  bear  conditions  in  the  stock 
market  have  had  a  healthy  tendency. 
These  seem  to  have  been  caused  by  the 
general  expectation  of  a  reaction  from 
the  long  steady  advance  of  about  four 
months,  aided  by  the  increased  demand 
for  money  for  the  needs  of  crop  move­
ment  in  the 
interior.  Then,  the  quar­
antining  of  considerable  districts  in  the 
South  on  account  of  yellow  fever  affects 
demand  perceptibly  and  the  early  and 
rapid  buying  in  dry  goods  and  clothing 
has  led  to  a  check  in  those  lines.

All  the  elements  controlling  the  stock 
market  seem  to  point  to  an  early  re­
sumption  of  the  advance.  Since  the 
reaction  set  in,  the  movement  has  been 
dull  as  compared  with  the  previous  ac­
tivity;  but  the  fluctuations  have  been 
small,  closing 
last  week  at  about  the 
point 
left  by  the  first  reaction.  This 
week  started  out  with  a  considerable 
improvement,  but 
later  there  is  a  tend­
ency  to  decline  in  some  lines  and Tues­
day  was  decidedly  dull  again,  presumed 
to  be  on  account  of  the  Jewish  holiday.
A  notable  indication  of  the  generally 
healthy  condition 
is  found  in  the  fact 
that  failures  for  the  quarter  have  been 
unusually  few 
in  number  and  of  a 
smaller  average  than  for  a  long  time. 
The  record  for  few  and  small  failures 
is  broken  for  any  quarter  in  five  years 
past  and  for  the  average  per  failure  for 
iwenty-three years.  The  significance  of 
this  is  in  the  fact  that  it  shows  that  the 
financial  wreckage  of  the  years of  panic 
is  fairly  cleared  away.

All  indications  in  the  iron  trades con­
tinue  favorable.  Demand 
is  warrant­
ing  a  steady,  although  slow,  increase  in 
prices,  and  activity 
is  increasing  at  a 
rapid  rate  in  nearly  all  lines.

Thanksgiving  Day 

is  the  next  holi­
day  to  look  forward  to.  There  will  be, 
according  to  present  indications,  a  good 
deal  to  feel  thankful  for  by  that  time.

VALUE  OF  EXPERT  TE S T IM O N Y .
The  Luetgert  murder  trial  in  Chicago 
is  developing  some  curious  information 
as  to  the  value  of  expert  medical  evi­
dence  in  criminal  cases.

The  testimony,  as  printed  in  the  Chi­
cago  papers,  shows  that  the  defense’s 
chief  expert,  Dr.  Walter  H.  Allport, 
mistook  the  thigh  of  a  gorilla  for  the 
thigh  of  a  man  and,  besides  declaring 
that  the  bone  was  human,  gave  his  es­
timate  of  the  height  of  the man to whom 
it  once  belonged.

Dr.  Allport  also  declared  that  a  sesa­
moid  bone  from  the  musk  ox  skeleton 
at  the  Field  Museum  was  the kneecap 
of  a  sheep;  identified  a  human  phalanx 
or  toe  bone  as  a  dog’s  “ dew”  claw,  and 
averred  that  one  collection  of  bones 
handed  him  contained  parts  of the  front 
and  hind  feet  of  a  dog,  when  only  half 
of  the  hind 
foot  of  that  animal  was 
present.

Some  years  ago  a  woman  was  mur­
dered  in  a  New  York  lodging-house  un­
der  circumstances  that  resembled  the 
‘ Jack-the-Ripper, ”  
horrible  crime  of 
so  notorious 
in  London  within  the  de­
cade.  A  man  who  had  been  seen  in  the 
woman's  company  was  arrested.  His 
clothes  were  stained  with  blood.  He 
declared  that  the  stains  came  from  a 
calf  or  other  animal  which  he  had  as­
sisted  in  slaughtering. 
In  the  course  of 
his  trial  the  pathological  experts  were 
put  to  work  on  the  blood-stains.  Some 
of  the  scientists  testified  that  they  were 
the  remains  of  human  blood.  Others 
declared  for  the  blood  of  some other  an­
imal.  The  jury  placed  no  confidence  in 
the  expert  testimony  and  acquitted  the 
prisoner,  who  was  probably  guilty.

When  two  sets  of  experts  swear  hon­
estly  to  such  contrary  and  conflicting 
conclusions  concerning  the  same  facts 
it  is  impossible  to  put  any  faith  in  the 
All 
correctness  of  their  statements. 
cannot  be  right;  then  who 
is  wrong? 
When  contrary  and  conflicting 
judg­
ments  are  honestly  reached  by  different 
parties  from  the  same  facts,  and  when 
those  judgments  are  really  little  more 
than  mere  opinions,  they  are  entitled  to 
no  weight  as  testimony.

If  a  scientist  actually  knows  a  fact 
and  the  conditions  in  which  it  ought  to 
exist,  his  knowledge  may  be  of  value; 
but  when  his  alleged  knowledge  is  real­
ly  nothing  more  than  opinion,  or  con­
jecture,  it  should  not  be  allowed  to 
affect  the  life  or  liberty  of  a  human  be 
ing.

The  circumstances 

in  the  Luetgert 
case  point  strongly  to  the  guilt  of  the 
defendant,  but  there  must  be  other  tes­
timony  than  the  conflicting  conjectures 
of  supposed  experts  to  make  out  a  case 
against  him.

EXPERIM ENTS  IN  C O M M U N IS M .
is  a  great  deal  of  encourage­
There 
ment,  apparently,  for  Eugene  Debs 
in 
the  history  and  prospects  of a Tennessee 
community  founded  upon  his  socialistic 
ideas.  The  precepts  of  Rusk in.  how­
ever,  have  been  drawn  upon  for  the  es­
tablishment  of  the  community  and  the 
results  appear  to  be  bearing  this  great 
English  thinker  out  in  his  views.

The  community  at  New Harmony now 
numbers  213  and  possesses  property 
valued  at  §80,000.  When  it  started  each 
head  of  a  family  put  in  $500  and  the 
increment  represents  what  they  have 
earned  in  the  interval  beyond  their  liv- 
ing  expenses.  The  settlement  lives  as 
a  single  family ;  its  standard  of  values 
is  an  hour’s 
its  home  com­
merce  it  has  no  money  and  needs  none 
—a  certificate  that  labor has  been  per-

labor;  in 

formed  takes  its  place.  A  pound  of  tea 
costs  eleven  hours’  work ;  seventy  hours 
pays  for a  pair  of  shoes;  two  and  a  half 
for  a  pound  of  crackers,  and  so  on. 
Everybody  works  and  all—men  and 
women  alike— receive  the  same  wages. 
They  have  heretofore  worked  ten  hours 
a  day,  but  expect  soon  to  reduce 
it  to 
eight.  They  have  a  kindergarten  and 
adequate  education,  machinery,  music, 
languages  and  a  limited  technology  be­
ing  taught 
in  addition  to  the  regular 
branches.  The  majority  of  the  com­
munists  are  agnostics.  There 
is  no 
church,  but  those  who 
like  can  go  to 
church  outside.

It  is  only  in  rare  instances,  however, 
that  such  unanimity  of  belief  and  such 
harmonious  action  are  to  be  expected. 
The  ordinary  communist  society  finds 
its  equilibrium  disturbed  in  less  than  a 
month  and  the  necessity  for  starting 
over  again  is  at  once  apparent.  Small 
collections  of  citizens,  such  as  this  at 
New  Harmony,  may  for  a  year  or  so 
pass  through  the  crucial  tests  success­
fully,  but  eventually  the  shrewd  men  in 
the  settlement  will  obtain  advantages 
over  the  drones  and  then  a  new arrange­
ment  will  become  a  necessity.

While  this  Tennessee  community  is 
giving  an  excellent 
illustration  of  the 
theory  and  practices  of communism,and 
in  so  far  encouraging  Debs and  other 
theorists 
in  the  same  direction,  it  will 
not  yet  do  to  draw  any  general  conclu­
sions  from  the  experience  of  the  com­
munity,  for  we  know  that  any  day  may 
bring  a  break  in  existing conditions and 
furnish  further  evidence  of  the  futility 
and  folly  of  all  such  undertakings.  It  is 
a  social  experiment,  however,  worthy 
of  comment  and  watchfulness.

It  works  something 

The  Treasury  Department  is  giving 
a  trial  to  a  new  machine  for  sealing 
envelopes.  The  Treasurer’s  office  at 
Washington  the  other  day  had  27,000 in­
terest  checks  to  send  out,  and  it  was  in 
the  sealing  of  the  envelopes  for  these 
that  the  machine  was  given  a  trial. 
If 
the  machine  proves  a  success  it  may 
be  put  into  regular  use  throughout  the 
Department.  The  machine  is  not  com­
plicated. 
like  a 
printing  press.  The  envelopes  are-fed 
into  rollers,  one  of  which  is  moistened 
from  a  small  trough  of  water  through 
which  it  revolves.  A  small  folder  closes 
the  envelope,  which  then passes  through 
two  other  rollers,  and  is  pressed,  falling 
into a  receptacle.  The  machine  is  run 
by  a  small  dynamo,  or  by  a  pedal  like 
a  sewing  machine. 
is  claimed  that 
the  machine  will  seal  250  envelopes  a 
minute  when  the  operator  becomes  ex­
pert.

It 

It 

is  not 

impossible  that  the  much 
more  definite  results  obtained  by  inves­
tigations 
into  the  manufacture  of  the 
vegetable  cheeses  of  China  and  Japan 
will  aid  bacteriologists 
in  their  ex­
tremely  complex  task.  These vegetable 
cheeses  are  made  by  exposing  the  beans 
of the leguminous plant Glycine— termed 
soja-beans—to  bacterial 
fermentations 
in  warm  cellars,either after  preliminary 
decomposition  by  certain  mould-fungi 
or  without  this.  The  processes  vary 
considerably, 
several  different 
kinds  of  bean  cheeses  are  made,  and 
known  by  special  names.

and 

it 

An  honest  fool  has  a  right  to  his  own 
opinions;  but 
is  unfortunate  for  a 
community  where  such  a  man  occupies 
an  official  position—kindly  given  him 
to  keep  him  from  want—and  his  opin­
ions  are  accepted  by  strangers  who  do 
not  know  him,  as  worthy  of  considera­
tion.

A  NATIONAL  O BLIG ATIO N.

The  deliberations  of  the  irrigation 
congress  which  met  at  Lincoln,  Neb., 
last  week  were  of  vital  importance  to 
nearly  two-thirds  of  the  area  of  the 
United  States,  exclusive  of  Alaska,  be­
cause  the  people  residing 
in  the  so- 
called  “ dry  states"  are  dependent  al­
most  altogether  on  the  “ early  and  the 
latter  rains  ’  mentioned  in  Scripture.

The  waters  which  are  to  be  used  for 
the  important  purposes  of  irrigation  are 
to  be  derived  from  the  heavy  snows 
which,  during  the  winter  season,  fall 
throughout  the  mountain  region.  On 
the  approach  of  warm  weather  these 
snows  melt  and  rush  down  in destructive 
floods  upon  the  valleys  below.  They 
raise  the  numerous  streams  and  rivers 
to  dangerous  heights, 
fo r  a  few  weeks 
many  of  them  are  navigable,  but  the 
excess  of  waters  soon  runs off and  leaves 
the  torrents  dry,  or  dwindled  to 
incon­
siderable  streams.

If  this  water  could  be  stored  up  and 
spread  over  the  country  during  the  sea­
son  of  plant  growth,  it  would  convert 
what  is  now  a  desert  into  a vast expanse 
of  farms  and  orchards,  and  make  homes 
and  a  livelihood  for  millions  of  people.
Irrigation  for  agriculture  is  as  old  as 
the  world.  The  Egyptians,  who  are  the 
first  farmers  mentioned  in  history,  used 
it,  and  the  first  white  men  who  set  foot 
in  Mexico  found  it  there. 
It  furnishes 
a  sure  means  of  getting  crops.  Dur 
ing  the  growing  season  the  water  is 
turned  into  the  ditches  every  day,  and, 
when  ripening  time  comes,  it  is  turned 
off,  and  nature  does  the  rest.

In  order  to  secure  proper  diffusion  of 
the  water,  so  as  to  embrace  as  large  a 
territory  as  possible, 
the  rivers  and 
streams  must  be  dammed  before  they 
issue  from  the  mountains,  so  that  vast 
lakes  or  reservoirs  may  be  made  at such 
altitudes  as  will  give  the  water  to  the 
entire  expanse  of  the  plains  up  to  the 
bases  of  the  mountains  themselves.

The  entire  expanse  of  the  dry  region 
is  extremely  fertile,  lacking  only  water. 
Probably  one  million  square  miles  of 
those  lands  needs  irrigation.  Something 
in  the  way  of  providing  water  has  been 
accomplished  by  private  enterprise, 
and  some  by  the  states;  but  vastly  more 
must  be  done  by  the  National  Govern­
ment.  Rivers  which  flow  through  half 
a  score  of  states  have  to  be  dealt  with.
In  many  cases  vast  areas  of  the  land 
where  the  lakes  and  reservoirs  are  to 
be  made  are  owned  by  the  Federal Gov­
ernment,  and  so  this  matter  of  irriga­
tion  on  a  large  scale becomes a  National 
question—as  much  so  as  the  building  of 
levees  on  the  Mississippi  or  the  con­
struction  of  harbors  on 
the  Great 
Lakes.

The  Missouri,  the  Yellowstone, 

the 
Nebraska  or  Platte,  the  Arkansas  and 
the  Red,  all  great  rivers,  taking  their 
rise  from  the  Rocky  Mountain  snows, 
should  be  forced  to  give  their  surplus 
water  to  agriculture,  and,  if  that  were 
accomplished, 
longer 
have  any  floods  to  pour  down  upon  the 
people  of  the  Mississippi  Valley.

they  would  no 

Every  drop  of  the  flood  waters  of 
those  great  rivers  now  runs  to  waste, 
besides  working  havoc  upon  the  people 
and  their  homes  and  industries far down 
in  the  valleys.  Every  drop  of  such 
water could  be  given  to  agriculture,  and 
thereby  made  precious  where  now  it 
is 
a  curse,  pouring  out  death  and  ruin.

When  Armour gets  nicely  started 

in 
the  butter  business,  and  begins  selling 
butter  to  the  people  who  buy  from  the 
jobbers  to  whom  the  Chicago  commis-1

sion  men  have been  selling goods,things 
will  not  be  so  pleasant  on  South  Water 
street  as  they  have  been.  When  Armour 
goes  in,  he  goes 
in  to  cut  the  heart  of 
the  individual  dealer’s  profits  and  get 
the  business.  We  think  it  will  dawn  on 
the  Chicago  commission  trade  before 
long  that  greater  benefits  could  come  to 
it  than  having  Armour  &  Co.  for  com­
petitors.
Opportunity  for  American  Enterprise. 
W ritten  for the T rad esm an

t rom  time  to  time  the American trad- 
ing  world  has  been  charged  with  a  lack 
of  business  enterprise.  For  some  un­
known  reason  the  other  nations  of  the 
earth  always  manage  to  get  in  ahead. 
Our  trade  relations  with  South  America 
are  far  less  than  they  should  be, because 
England  and  Germany,  or  some  other 
foreign  country,  have  slipped 
in  first 
and  the  American  tradesman  and  his 
goods  are  left  out  in  the  cold.  The  con­
sequence 
is  that  the  depression  which 
the  country  has suffered from for the past 
three  or  four  years  has  been  enhanced 
by  this  lack  of  effort  on  the  part  of  our 
business  men.

With  the  present  tide  of  prosperity 
there 
is  no  reason  why  this  weakness 
should  remain  a  reproach;  and.  as  if 
to  aid  in  its  removal,  Central  Africa  in 
every  possible  way  stands  ready  to  en­
courage  the  development  of  trade  with 
the  United  States.  She  wants  now  every 
kind  of  building  material  and  all  sorts 
of  household  goods.  She  is  in  need  of 
textile  goods  of  every  description,  from 
calicoes  to  blankets;  and  she  is  ready 
to  pay  a  good  round  sum  for  just  the 
class  of  manufactured  goods  which  the 
American  market  can  furnish,  especial­
line  of  carpenter’s  tools  and 
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axes;  provided,  of  course,  she 
is  sure 
of  getting  a  durable  article.

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in  respect  to 
China.  During  the  next  few  years  that 
country  will  be  a  buyer  of  all  classes  ol 
machinery  and  especially  of  railway 
materials.  For  railroads  rails  will  be 
wanted,  as  well  as  couplers  and  build­
ing 
iron  for  bridges  and  locomotives. 
The  Chinese  Emperor  has  authorized 
the  purchase  of  six  first-class  battle 
ships,  six  first-class  cruisers,  and  twelve 
torpedo  boats,  and  that  government  is 
going  to  create  a 
loan  of  100,000,000 
taels—about  $150,000,000— a  part  of 
which  will  go  toward  purchasing  the 
vessels. 
Is  any  of  this  enormous  sum 
to  come  into  American  coffers?

It  is  a  question  which  the  American 
business  man  must  answer, for the  whole 
matter  rests  wholly  upon  him.  The 
United  States  Consul  at  Amoy,  China, 
in  a  recent  dispatch,  says  that  the 
Chinese  prefer  American  cotton fabrics, 
spinnings,  flour,  oil,  canned  goods  and 
meats,  even  at  higher  prices  than  other 
importations  can  be  had  for.  This  same 
Consul  says  also:  “ There 
is  a  more 
amicable  feeling  existing  between  the 
natives  and  foreigners  at  Amoy  and 
in 
the  surrounding  country  than  probably 
exists  at  any  other  port  in  China."

it 

It  remains  to  be  seen  whether  these 
chances  will  be  improved  by  our  busi­
ness  men.  Other  nations  are  in  the  field 
and  have  taken  steps  to  secure  there 
a  permanent  foothold.  Enterprise  alone 
is  absent;  and 
is  for  the  Ameri­
can 
to  decide  whether  he  will  take 
measures  to  bring  millions  of  dollars 
annually  to  this  country  from  these  two 
quarters  of  the  earth,  or  will  stand  with 
in  his  pockets  and  let  the 
his  hands 
golden  opportunity  slip 
through  his 
fingers  into  other  and  more  enterprising 
and  so  more  deserving  bands.

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fitting flower to represent  the  State  as 
the  emblem  of  the  commonwealth,  we 
have  concluded  to adopt the apple blos­
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tomatoes  and  three  kinds  of  peas—
Petit  Pois,  Extra  Sifted  Early  June 
and  Standard  Early June.

In  placing  this  line  of  goods  on 
the  market,  we  have  been  actuated 
solely by  a  desire  to  procure  the  best 
and  choicest  stock  which  money  can 
buy;  and, while we presume the demand 
will  be so  heavy  from  those  who  have 
already  put  the  goods in stock  that we 
will  be  unable  to take  on any additional 
customers,  we  shall  continue  to  treat 
all  alike  and  fill  orders  on  the  prin­
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Shoes  and  Leather
in 
“Old  Prices”  a  Misnomer 

the 

Sense  It  Is  Used.

Almost  every  report  of  the  conditions 
prevailing 
in  the  shoe  market  deals  in 
some  manner  with,  or refers  in  some  in­
stance to,  what are  termed “ old prices. ”

is 

What  are  “ old  prices?"
On  this  point  there  appears  to  be  a 
wide  division  of  opinion.  The  whole­
saler 
inclined  to  mean  by  “ old 
prices"  the  prices  prevailing  lately,  up 
to  the  time  of  the  most recent advances ; 
that  is  to  say,  tne  past  season’s  prices. 
He  speaks  of  a  7^  cent  advance  over 
“ old  prices”   with  the  intention  of  con­
impression  that  prices  are 
veying  the 
TYz  cents  higher  than  they  were 
in  the 
spring.

The  retailer  doesn’t  usually  take  it 
this  way.  He  regards  “ old  prices"  as 
referring  to shoes  when  they were cheap­
est— in  1894  when  sole  leather  was  sell­
ing  at  16  cents  and  grain  leather  at  8 
cents.  To  him  "old  prices"  is  an  en­
tirely  different  matter.

As  a  matter  of  actual  business,  "old 
prices"  means  little.  That  is  to  say,  no 
matter  how  high  the  market  goes,  the 
price  to  the  retailer  remains  the  same. 
He  has  been  buying  a  creole  for  a  dol­
lar.  He  was  buying  a  creole  for  a  dol­
lar  in  '94.  He  paid  the  same  price  in 
’95  when  leather  was  running  up  75  per 
cent,  higher  than 
it  was  in  ’94.  To­
day  he  is  paying  a  dollar.  Next  year 
he  will  pay  a  dollar.

What  is  “ old  prices"  to  him?
But  does  the  retailer  imagine  for  a 
moment  that  the  shoe  manufacturer  was 
making  a  tremendous  profit  in 
’94  and 
a  heavy  loss  in  ’95  and 
’96?  Does  he 
believe  that  the  manufacturer  manages 
somehow  to  dodge  the  market’s  ups  and 
downs  and  always  sell  him  the  same 
shoe  for  a  dollar  that  he  had  been  do­
ing  before?

If  he  does,  he  never  was  more  badly 

fooled.

In  1894  the  manufacturer  could  and 
did  make  a  shoe  to  sell  to  the  jobbers 
so  they  could  sell  them  to  the  retailers 
at  95  cents  or  a  dollar  that  was  a  first- 
class  article  in  its  grade.  Leather  was 
very  cheap  and 
it  was  possible  to  put 
into  this  shoe  stock  of  prime quality, 
good  weight 
good 
It  was  a  rattling  good  dol­
throughout. 
lar  shoe— in  fact,  too  good  a  shoe  for 
that  amount  of  money.

thoroughly 

and 

That  shoe  was  described  as  all  solid; 
and  it  was.  The  same  description  ap­
plies  to-day  and  is  equally  true,  but  the 
dollar  shoe  of  ’94  and  the  dollar  shoe  of 
’97  are  two  entirely  different  articles.

The  manufacturer  has  been  forced  to 
make  a  dollar  shoe  as  of  yore  and  with 
leather  advancing  he  has  been  obliged 
to  buy  stock  that  would  fit  the  price  he 
could  pay.  This  hasn’t  meant  No.  1 
stock,  nor  B,  nor  2;  oftentimes  it  has 
meant  bellies  or  any  old 
thing  that 
could  be  painted  up  to  make  a  good ap­
pearance.

With  the  upper  stock  it  has  been  the 
same  story  and  so  with  every  particle 
of 
It 
has  been  leather all  right,  but  leather of 
what  sort?

leather  entering 

into  the  shoe. 

Still  the  retailer 

paying  "old 
prices. ’ ’  There  has  been  no  advance, 
he  says,  and  believes  it.  To  him  "old 
prices”   means  nothing.

is 

In  dollars  and  cents  the  retailer  is 
paying  no  more  for  a  creole  than he was 
in  ’94,  but  quality  for quality  he  is pay­
ing  an advance  close  to  50  per  cent.

Thus  it  is  that  price  cuts 

little  real

SHOE HE BIB! JIEflTLY

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

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

Our Specialties:

Children’s  Shoes,

Shoe  Store  Supplies,

Goodyear  Glove  Rubbers.

We  Manufacture

Men’s Oil Grain  Creoles  and  Credmeres  in  2  S.  and  T. 
and  y2  D.  S., also  Men’s Oil  Grain  and  Satin Calf in  lace 
and  congress in  2  S.  and  T.  and  y   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

stone—and  Felt  Boots and  Lumbermen’s Socks.

Geo.  H. Reeder &  Co.,

19  South  Ionia  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

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

latest colors and shapes.

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

can give you  some  bargains.

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 25 and  5 per cent,  on Bostons  and  25,
5,  and  10 per cent,  on  Bay States.  Our  terms  are  as  liberal as  those of 
any  agent of the  Boston  Rubber Shoe Co.

Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.,

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

figure  to-day.  John  Smith,  retailer,  sees 
a  shoe  at  Jones,  the  jobber’s,  for  95 
cents.  Over  at  Brown’s  he  finds  another 
at  $1.  Five  cents’  difference  between 
them  doesn’t  show  but  it’s  pretty  sure 
to  be  there.  Shoe  manufacturers  have 
got  this  thing  down  to  a  pretty  uniform 
Oasis  and  different  shoes  at  different 
prices  are 
likely  to  be  proportionately 
different  in  quality.

If  he  wants  to-day  the  same  creole 
in  94  for  $1—that  is, 
that  he  bought 
with  the  same  quality  of  material 
throughout— it 
is  going  to  cost  him  in 
the  neighborhood  of  §1.50. 
It  is  folly 
tor  him  to  expect  differently  and  it  is 
foolish  for  him  to  believe  that  because 
be  is  buying  his  goods  at  “ old  prices” 
is  going  to  get  as  good  stuff  as  he 
be 
did  when 
leather  was  selling  for  half 
what  it  is  now  or  little  more.

The  Yankee  shoemaker  was  never  yet 
accused  of  being  eager  to  beat  himself, 
and  he  doesn't  do  it.  During  the  past 
two  or  three  years  he  hasn’t  made  much 
if  any  money,  along  with  business  men 
in  other  lines,  but  it  has  not  been  be­
cause  he  didn’t  figure  his  shoes  right, 
but  because  business  has  been  so  de­
pressed.  He  hasn't  been  buying  too 
expensive  leather.  He  hasn’t  stuck  to 
No.  1  stock  as  it  skated  up  the  grade. 
As  fast  as 
leather  has  gone  up  he  has 
put  the  price  of  his  goods  to  the  jobber 
up  in  some  degree  and  if he  got  it,  well 
and  good—he  put  in  good  leather. 
If 
he  couldn’t  get  it  he  cut  the  price  and 
took  it  out  of  the  leather.

Here, 

then, 

is  the  "o ld "  and  the 

“ new"  price  side by  side.

The  "new  price"  some  jobbers  are 
bold  enough  to  ask,  and  if  the  retailer 
pays 
it  he  gets  the  old  quality  as  well 
as  the  old  shoe.

If  he  pays  the  "old  price”   he gets 
the  same  old  shoe  in  looks,  with  a qual­
ity  correspondingly  decreased  as leather 
has  advanced.

After  all, 

then,  "old  prices"  means 
im­
little  and  the  merchant  who  fondly 
is  paying  the  price  he  has 
agines  he 
been  paying  for  his  staples 
is.  as  a 
matter  of  fact,  yielding  up  the  full 
amount  of  the  advance  demanded  by- 
higher  leather  prices.—Shoe  and  Leath­
er  Gazette.
Wherein  a  Common  Name  Came 

Handy.
From the Boston  Transcript.

Mr.  Smith  bought  a  ticket  on  the 
Sound  steamer  and  at  the  same  time 
asked  for  a  stateroom.  He  was 
in­
formed  that  all  the  rooms  were  taken. 
This  was  discouraging  to  Smith,  but  a 
happy  thought  struck  him. 
" I   asked 
to  have  a  room  held  for  m e,"  he  said. 
“ Oh!  did  you?"  asked  the ticket seller. 
“ What  name, 
“ Smith." 
After  examining  his  memorandum  the 
ticket  seller  said,  “ Beg  pardon,  sir;  I 
see  there  are  two  rooms  held  for  you, 
Nos.  41  and  42." 
“ I  don’t  understand 
that,"  said  the  other;  “ I  only  wanted 
one  room. 
I’ll  take  42,  if  you  please.” 
So  he  got  his  room,all  because his name 
.was  Smith,  which  shows  that 
is  a 
good  thing  to  have a  name  that  is  some­
what  common.

please?" 

it 

England’s  prison 

authorities  are 
abolishing  the  use  of  the  treadmill  and 
oakum  picking  in  the  penal  institutions 
of  the  United  Kingdom,  and are putting 
convict  labor  to  a  more  profitable  use. 
Army  and  navy  stores,  especially  the 
making  of  garments  and  accoutrements, 
are  now  engaging  the  attention  of  the 
inmates  of Her Majesty's  jails,who  like­
wise  manufacture  the  mailbags  of  the 
postal  department  and  the  shirts,  uni­
forms  and  boots  of  their  arch-enemies, 
the  police.  The  result  is  a  vast  saving 
all  around,  and  an  announcement 
is 
made  that  the  government  has  some  300 
badly-worn  treadmills  for  sale  to  the 
highest  bidder.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MADE  IT   GOOD.

Joke  on  a  Stenographer  Turned 

Against  the Joker. 

Sometimes  a  joke,  conceived  with  de­
liberation  and  executed  with  the  utmost 
care,  rebounds  in  the  most  unexpected 
way.  This  is  the  record  of  such  an  in­
cident,  and  incidentally  the explanation 
of  how  a  well-known  business  man 
lost 
the  services  of  a  stenographer  he  prized 
highly.  The  stenographer 
in  question 
was  a  remarkably  pretty  and  interesting 
girl.  She  was  a  member  of  an  excel 
lent 
family,  and,  when  misfortune 
came,  bravely  set  to  work  to  earn  her 
own  living.  She  was  not  only  pretty, 
but  was  an  expert  operator,  and,  more­
over,  she  was  discreet.  How  much  this 
virtue 
is  prized  in  a  business  office  is 
known  alone  to  those  who  have  occasion 
to  employ  a  stenographer  who  has  the 
happy  faculty  of  saying  the  right  thing 
in  the  right  place,  or  refraining  fr. m 
saying  anything  when  silence 
is  the 
most  desirable  thing.

in 

fellow, 

It  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  such 
a  model  young  woman  should  have  ad­
mirers  in  plenty.  She  treated  all  alike 
with  a  sweet  courtesy  and  maintained 
a  steady  air  of  reserve  and  restraint. 
Among  her  friends,  however,  was  a 
young  insurance  agent  who  was  looked 
upon  by  all  as  the  leader  in  the  race. 
He  was  young,  athletic  and  successful, 
just  the  kind  of  a  man  a  woman 
and 
instinctively 
likes.  He  was  a  big- 
hearted,  sincere,  manly 
and 
there  was  no  doubt  that  he  was  deeply 
and  truly 
love  with  the  girl.  His 
feelings  were  confined  to  the  slight  fa­
vors  and  attentions  a  girl would natural­
ly  expect  from  a  friend.  He  never pro­
tested  love,  and  his  friends  were  unde­
cided.  Some  asserted  that  he  was  only 
dallying  and  would  not  marry  a  stenog 
rapher.  Others  protested  that 
it  made 
no  difference  what  position  the  girl  oc­
cupied,  he  would  marry  her  if  he  loved 
her,  and  they  contended  that  he  didn’t 
have  the  courage  to  propose.  Matters 
in  this  way  for  months 
drifted  along 
The  voung  man’s 
infatuation  became 
the  talk  of  the  neighborhood,  and  he 
joked  about  it,  and  no 
was  frequently 
the 
one  was  more  unremitting 
chaffing  than 
employer 
Finally  this  employer  hit  upon  a  bril­
liant  scheme,  and at  once  set  to  work  to 
carry  it  out.

girl’s 

the 

in 

This 

take  and  understand  a 

idea  of ' his  manifested  itself  a 
few  days 
later  when  friends  of  this 
young  man—those  who  were  supposed 
to 
joke—re 
ceived  a  card  inviting  them  to  attend  a 
wedding,  on  such  a  date,  at  such  a 
church. 
It  was  all  formal  and  regular, 
and  the  names  mentioned  were  those  of 
the  young  man  and  the  stenographer, 
and  the  church  mentioned  was  one  the 
young  woman  attended.  Naturally  the 
joke  got  around  to  the  young  man  in 
question. 
received  the 
cards  saw  the  jest,  but  he  was  furious. 
He  took  one  of  the  cards  in  his  hand 
and  went  to  ihe  girl  and,  without  a 
word,  handed  it  to  her.  She  glanced  at 
it  curiously  and  then  colored  up.

Those  who 

“ Do  you  know  who  is  at  the  bottom 
of  this  outrage?’ ’ he  said  between  his 
clenched  teeth.

She  confessed  that  she  did,  and  said 
that  some  one  had  told  her  that  her  em­
ployer  was  the  originator and  promoter 
of  the  joke.  He  wanted  at  once  to  run 
off  and  throttle  him,  but  she  demurred. 
She  insisted  that  it  would  only  compli­
cate  matters.  He  said  sturdily:

“ No,  sir!  I  am  going  to  get“even. 

I 
will  make  him answer unless—unless’ ’—

Here  he  stammered  helplessly. 
said  quaintly:

She 

“ Unless  what?’ ’
“ Unless—unless’ ’— he  gasped,  des­
perately,  “ you  consent  to  make  it  good. 
Won’t  you  marry  me,  anyway?  We  can 
fool  them  all—and  besides  I  love— have 
always  loved  you—and  always  will, 
and’ ’—

led 

that 

It  was  a  clumsy  proposal,  but  ac­
cepted  with  the  same  sincerity  in which 
it  was  given. 
They  sat  down  and 
it  over,  and  the  result  was  an­
talked 
other  conspiracy 
to  much 
chuckling  and  giggling  on  their  own 
account.  The  young  man  suddenly  dis­
appeared  from  view,  and  his  friends 
heartlessly  laughed  and  said  that  he 
did  not  have  the  “ nerve"  to  stand  the 
"gaff.”  
and  was  keeping  “ under 
cover. ’ ’  The  day  before  the  date  set 
for  the  wedding  by  the  bogus announce­
ment,  the  stenographer  approached  her 
employer  and  said  sweetly :

“ I  am  afraid  that  I  can’t  come  down 
to-morrow. 
I  have  some  things  to  at­
tend  to,  and  you  will  have  to  excuse 
me.”

He  demurred  at  first,  but  finally  con­
sented,  saying,  in  a  boisterous  burst  of 
mirth:

“ Oh,  yes,  you  are  to  be  married  to­
morrow.  Good  enough. 
right. 
Best  wishes,"  and  then  he  went  off 
chuckling.

All 

Early  next  morning 

in  the  church 
mentioned  a  little group  gathered  about 
the  altar,  and  the  minister  pronounced 
the  words  making  the  young 
insurance 
agent  and  the  former  stenographer  man 
and  wife.  The  next  day  the  girl’s 
late 
employer  received  a  neat  little  card 
with  the  formal  announcement  that  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  So-and-So  announced 
the 
marriage  of  their daughter,  Wbat’s-Her- 
Name,  to  Mr.  You-know.  When 
the 
business  man  opened  the  letter  and  saw 
the  card  and  digested  its  contents,  he 
whistled  vehemently  and  muttered : 

“ Well,  I’ll  be  hanged!"

Good  Things  Said  by  Up-to-Date  Shoe 

Dealers.

A  feature 

the 
It  costs  something  to 

in  our  shoe  business  this 
fall  is  our  adoption  in  many  important 
lines  of 
excellent  “ hand  sewed 
welts.”  
intro­
duce  them ;  for  example,  one  regular  S3 
line  is  selling  now  for S2  a  pair.  But 
we  shall  get  it  back  in the end-  because 
we  shall  get  you  back.  A  satisfied  cus­
tomer  is  apt  to  be a  permanent one,  and 
hand-sewed  welt  shoes  are  satisfactory 
shoes  to  wear.—Gimbel  Bros.,  Phi la.

Childrens’  shoe  jubilee.  Jubilee  for 
the  little  ones,  jubilee  for  the  mothers; 
shoes  the  youngsters  can  treat  as  rough­
ly  as  they  like  and  no  complaint;  shoes 
the  mothers  will  pay  for  with  no  com­
plaint;  shoes  we  guarantee  to  the  last 
stitch ;  shoes  that  never  have  been  ex­
celled  for  sturdy wear;  shoes we secured 
at a  ridiculous  price  because  we  took  a 
ridiculously  large  quantity.— Partridge 
&  Richardson,  Phila.

Entrance  to  our  shoe  stocks  is  con­
trolled  by  civil  service  rules.  Prefer­
ments  and  “ pulls"  do  not  count.  Ap­
plicants  have  to  stand  a  rigid  examina­
tion,  and  only  those  that  get  the  highest 
average  are  admitted.  Thus  there  is 
no  guess-work  about  Wanamaker  shoes. 
They  are  honestly  made  of  honest  leath­
ers.  You  can  pin  your  faith  to  them. 
—John  Wanamaker,  N.  Y.

There’s  only  one  way  to  “ cure"  ill- 
fitting  shoes,  that  is—not  to  buy  them. 
Whatever  we  sell  for children’s  wear 
is 
just  as  cajefully  as  any  other 
chosen 
shoes 
in  the  stock.  We  realize  that 
these  little  folk  will  be  men  and  women 
by  and  by,  and  they’ll  continue  to  come 
here 
if  “ the  shoes  papa 
bought  at  Johnson’s  for  m e"  were  easy 
on  the  feet.—Johnson’s  Shoe  Palace, 
Altoona,  Pa.
„  Our  shoes  for  women  are  again  in  the

for  shoes, 

il

Hard  to  Bear  Either  Way.

omy. ’  ”

“ How  I  dislike  the  word 
“ On  what  grounds?”
“ It  is  such  a  queer  thing.  The  world 
condemns  us  if  we  don’t  practice  it  and 
despises  us  if  we  do."

‘ econ­

With  a  view  to  more 

effectually 
stamping  out  rabies  among  dogs,  the 
board  of agriculture of Great  Britain  has 
prohibited  the  landing  of  dogs  in  the 
country  without  a  special  permit.  The 
rule  applies  even  to those animals which 
have  accompanied  their  owners  for  a 
holiday  on  the  continent.
BULLDOG,  OPERA  LAST

ascendancy;  tremendous  fall  business 
in  spite  of  the  lack  of  fall  weather.  A 
shoe  department  like  ours,  with  its  im­
mense  outlet,  is  a  magnet  which  at­
tracts  unusual  opportunities  from every 
where.  We  have  simply  to  skim  the 
cream  of  the  country’s  good  things  and 
set 
it  before  you  in  all  its  richness.— 
Partridge  &  Richardson,  Phila.

is  not 

Manufacturers are beginning to realize 
that  the  home  market 
large 
enough  to  take  all  their  products,  and 
they  are  now  looking beyond  our  bound­
aries.  Six  Pittsburg  firms  engaged  or 
interested 
in  the  manufacture  of  iron 
and  steel  have  clubbed  together  to  es­
tablish  an  agency 
in  London.  That 
great  city 
is  the  principal  business 
center  of  the  world,  and to  it  comes  first 
the  industrial  and  commercial  news  of 
all  countries.  The  London  agency  will 
be  there  to  watch  for  orders  and  op­
portunities  not  in  Great  Britain  merely, 
but  in  India,  Japan  and  South  America 
especially.

in 

lamps 

The  gas 

the  poorer  districts. 

in  London  are  to  be 
made  to  serve  a  double  purpose—that of 
lighting  the  streets  and  providing  hot 
water 
The 
cold  water 
is  put  in  reservoirs  at  the 
bottom  of  the  lamp  posts,  and  is  heated 
by 
chamber 
placed  a  foot  above  the  gas  flame.  The 
whole  concern  is  on  the  “ penny  in  the 
slot"  pattern.  You  put  in  the  coin  and 
the  machine  does  the rest.  Other  cities 
have  taken  to  the  scheme.

steam  generated 

in  a 

The  farmers  are  prosperous,  and  that 
means  good  times  will  work  up  from 
the  right  source  to  insure  permanency 
and  stability.  Activity  among  manu­
facturers  and  wholesalers,  without a  cor­
responding  increased  demand  with  re­
tailers  and  their  customers,simply  leads 
to  stagnation.

Don’t  forget  the $;  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets  good  5  days.

No.  151.  Men’s  Fine  Satin  Calf.  M cKay  Sewed. 
Cylinder  fitted.  Outside  backstay.  Pongola  top. 
Bright raised  eyelets,  smooth  inner  sole,  one  piece 
sole  leather  counter,  solid  heel and  bottom.  Bull­
dog,  Opera,  Coin,  English  or  Boston  cap  toe  or 
Globe.  Glaze  or  French  plain  toe  lasts.  Balls  or 
Congress.  Order  sample  case  and  prove  our  as­
sertion  that  this  is  the  B E S T  shoe  made  for  $i.co. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed.  N ew   samples  now ready. 
To  insure an  early call  and  secure exclusive agency 
address  A.  B.  CLARK  Lawton,  Mich.
E.  H.  STARK  &  CO.,

Worcester,  Mass.

WE  SELL  RUBBERS

We are better fixed to supply your  rubber  demands  than  any 
other jobber.  We “don’t do a thing” but sell  rubbers.  We are the 
only  house  handling nothing but  rubbers,  which sells the goods of 
the  Boston  Rubber  Shoe  Company  and  the  Bay  State  Rubber 
Company.  We have all  kinds and  we have a plenty.  We can  fill 
at once any order, no matter how varied,  no matter how large.

The duck  goods of the  Boston Company are becoming  scarce. 
We have plenty, and can  fill  orders at the old  price if sent at once.

We want your trade.  We do everything to get it.

W.  A.  McGRAW  &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Labels  for  Gasoline  Dealers

The  Law  of  1889.

Every  druggist,  grocer or other person  who  shall  sell  and 
deliver at retail  any gasoline,  benzine  or  naphtha,  without 
having  the  true  name  thereof  and  the  words  “ explosive 
when  mixed  with  air”   plainly  printed  upon a label  securely 
attached to  the  can,  bottle  or  other  vessel  containing  the 
same,  shall be  punished  by a  fine  not  exceeding  one  hun­
dred  dollars.

We are prepared  to furnish labels which enable dealers to comply with  this 

law, on the following  basis:

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5  M ................ ..................50c per M
io   M ................ .................40c per M
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TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

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Woman’s World

The  Mother-in-Law  Question.

“ Tglk  about  questions 

in  which 
women  are  particularly  interested,”   re­
marked  the  young  married  woman  with 
something  that  was  almost  a  groan  of 
despair;  “ in  my  humble  judgment,  no 
other question  is  ' in  it'  with the  stupen­
It  is  a 
dous  relation-in-law  problem. 
conundrum  so  vast  and 
impenetrable 
and  unsolvable  that  most  women  just 
sit  down  helplessly  before  it  and  give  it 
up.

the 

and 

“ Oh,  I  know  all  you  are  going  to say. 
I  have  heard 
‘ gaining  a  new 
mother,  and  another  daughter’  theory 
before,  and,  in my  opinion  it  originated 
with  a  man  who  didn’t  know  any  better 
or  an  old  maid  who  had  never  tried 
it. 
I  have  read  at  least a thousand  novels  in 
which  that  admirable 
cheerful 
theory  was  exploited,  and  yet  in  real 
life  I  don’t  know  a  dozen  women  be­
tween  whom  and  their  mothers  in-law 
there  exists  any  entente  cordiale,  as  a 
diplomat  would  say.  Whose  fault  is  it? 
Both,  of  course.  To  begin  with,  there’s 
inevitable  jealousy  of  two  women 
the 
who  love  the  same  man. 
It  ought  to  be 
a  bond  of  union,  but 
It’s  a 
bone  of  contention.  A  very  tactful  man 
might  strike  a  middle  course  in  which 
he  would  satisfy  the  exigent  affection 
of  his  mother  and  the  unreasoning,  de­
votion  of  his  wife  without  rousing  the 
animosity  of  either  side;  but  that’s  not 
the  way  with  the  dear,  blundering  fel­
low.  Such  an 
idea  as  exercising  the 
slightest  policy  and  discretion  never 
enters  his  head.  With  the  amiable  and 
mistaken 
idea  of  endearing  his  wife 
and  mother  to  each  other  he  holds  up 
each  as  a  model  to  the  other  and  makes 
a  breach  that  nothing  can  span.

it  isn’t. 

”  For  one  thing,  I  don’t  believe  any 
mother  can  ever  help  feeling  that  the 
woman  who  captures  her  son  is  a  de­
signing 
little  minx.  Other  men  may 
fall  in  love  and  get  married of their own 
accord,  but  she  is  sure  poor  Tom  would 
never  have  the  thought  of  such  a  thing 
if  he  hadn’t  been  ‘ led  on.’  She  knows 
the  artful  ways  of  her  sex  and  nothing 
could  convince  her  that  her  son  hasn’t 
fallen  a  victim 
to  the  deep,  dark 
machinations  of  a  regular  Machiavelli 
in  petticoats.  He  may  have  been  so 
frantically  infatuated  with  you  that  you 
actually  had  to  marry  him  to  get  rid  of 
him.  He  may  be  a  blase club man,  who, 
like  Lady  Kew’s  daughter,  is  40  years 
old  and  has  heard  all  there  is  to  tell; 
in  his  mother’s  eyes  he  is  an  un­
but 
sophisticated 
innocent  and  you  have 
If  you  hadn’t,  she  is
taken  him 

in. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

certain, 
in  the  first  place,  he  never 
would  have  married  anybody,  and  in 
the  second,  if  he  did  he  would  have 
married  that  nice,  demure  little  thing 
around  the  corner  or  the  heiress she  had 
picked  out  tor  him.  But  you?  Never! 
Nobody  need  ever  tell  her 
that  he 
wasn’t 
into  that,  and  in  her 
heart  she  regards  him  with  the  same 
pitying  wonder  we  bestow  upon the man 
who  buys  gold  bricks  or  gets  roped  into 
a  confidence  game.

inveigled 

in 

like  Sarah  who 

“ Perhaps  a  woman  never  understands 
why  a  man  falls 
love  with  another 
woman,  anyway.  Certainly  a  mother 
doesn’t.  As  a  general  thing  she can take 
her  daughter’s  point  of  view  enough  to 
see  some  charms 
in  a  son-in  law,  but 
Tom’s  choice  of  a  wife  is always a mys­
tery  to  her.  Then  she  is  lost  in  wonder 
at  the  reason  he  always  picks  out  some­
body  so  unlike  his  sisters.  When  she 
thinks,  before  the  catastrophe  actually 
occurs,  about  the  kind  of a daughter-in- 
law  Tom 
is  likely  to  give  her,  she 
always  has  the  comfortable  conviction 
that  she  will  be  either a  domestic  girl 
like  his  sister  Hannah  or  a  serious- 
minded  girl 
is  a 
Christian  Endeavcrer and  belongs  to  all 
the  alphabetical  societies  within  reach, 
or at  worst,  it  will  be  a  literary one  like 
Caroline,  who  dotes  on  Emerson  and 
reads  Ibsen.  These  are  the 
ideals  of 
feminine  virtues  and  perfections  he  has 
been  brought  up  to  revere  and  she  is 
confident  they  will  prove  a  lamp  to 
guide  his  feet  when  he  goes  a  courting.
“ Fallacious  hope!  Nothing  but  the 
contrariness  of  human  nature  can  ex­
plain  the  fatal  surety  with  which  Tom 
picks  out  a  wife  as  unlike  his  family 
as  he  can  possibly  discover.  They  are 
staid,  serious,  sober-minded.  He  mar­
ries  a  gay  little  butterfly  who thinks that 
the  world  is  made  of sunshine and roses. 
They  could  not  have  less  in  common  or 
understand  her  a  bit 
less  if  she  were 
an  inhabitant  of  the  planet  Mars.  Only 
too  often  they  do  not  think  alike  on  any 
subject,  from  politics  to  pie.  Yet  Tom 
drops  this  alien  into  his  family  circle, 
with  a  masculine  disregard  of  conse­
quences,  and  stands  beaming  on  them 
with  a  beatific  smile  which  says, 
‘ I 
love  you  both. 
to 
Let  that  suffice 
make  you  happy.’  Yes,  if  it  can!

“ Say  what  you  will,  the  situation  is  a 
difficult  one  for  both  parties,  and  it  is 
not  surprising  that  they  so  often  man­
age  to  extract  the  greatest  possible  ag­
gravation  for  the greatest  number out  of 
it.  Nothing  can  exceed  the  trouble  two 
good,  conscientious  women,  trying  to 
do  their  duty,  can  make  for  each  other. 
The  older  woman  disdains  to  use  any 
is  one  of  those  who
tact.  Perhaps  she 

pride  themselves  on  being plain spoken, 
and  she  forgets  that  only  exceeding love 
can  enable  us  to  hear  the  unvarnished 
truth  spoken  of  ourselves.  At  any  rate 
she  is  bent  on  seeing  that  Tom  shall not 
be 
imposed  upon,  if  she  can  help  it. 
She  points  out  your  faults  to  you ;  she 
lectures  you  on  your  extravagance  in 
using  your  best  china  every  day  and 
repeatedly  informs  you  that  in  her  time 
a  respectable  married  woman  could em­
ploy  herself  in  her  own  home  instead  of 
gadding  around  after  women’s  clubs 
and  progressive  euchre.  Of  course, 
there isalwaysan  I-do-this-for-your-good 
air  about  it,  and 
is  anything 
more  maddening  than  that,  I  don't 
know  what  it  is.

if  there 

“ Nor  is  the  fault  altogether  with  the 
mother-in-law.  The  younger woman  is 
generally  too  young  to  have  learned  the 
grace  of  forbearance. 
There  are  a 
thousand places where the older woman’s 
advice  would  be  of  help  and  comfort, 
and  she  should  at  least  have  the  grace 
to  yield  in  many  things,  and  remember, 
as  the  goody,  goody  books  say,  that  her 
mother-in-law  is  her  husband's  mother, 
and  has  many  claims  to  her  considera­
tion.  The  trouble  is  that  the  girl  is  so 
often  spoiled.  She  has  generally  just 
come  from  a  home  where  she  was  a 
petted  darling  and  where  the  world  re­
volved  around  her.  She 
is  not  used  to 
criticism  and 
is  too  quick  to take  of­
fense. 
Above  all,  she  has  not  yet 
learned  to  think  of  Tom  as  anything 
but  an  adoring  slave.  The  very  first 
shock  of  learning  that  marriage  means 
something  sterner  than  mere  lovemak­
ing  comes from  the  unwelcome  hand  of 
his  mothei,  and  she  seldom  takes  much 
trouble  to  soften  the  blow.

“ Of course,  it 

is  natural  for  every 
woman  to  want  to  run  her  own  home  to 
suit  herself. 
It  is  also  equally  natural 
for  a  man’s  mother  to  feel  she  has  a 
right  to  order  her  son’s  affairs.  Very 
often  she  sees 
things  going  wrong, 
things 
illy  done  or  neglected,  things 
she  knows  how  to  do  so  well  and  could 
manage  so  much  better. 
It  is  the  an­
guish  with  which  every  professional 
must  watch  the  blundering  efforts  of 
an  amateur;  but  it  is  a  fatal  mistake  to 
interfere.  Each  of  us  has  a  different 
domestic  problem,  and  we  must  work 
out  our  own  salvation.

“ After  all, 

though,  we  both 

love 
Tom,  and  there  ought  to  be  some  plat­
form  of  mutual  good  will  and  affection 
on  which  we  could  get  together. 
I  am 
thinking  of  calling  a  convention  of 
mothers-in-law  and  daughters-in-law, 
where  we  shall  all  state  our  grievances 
and  try  to  arbitrate  our  troubles. 
I 
shall  suggest,  as  the  first  provision  of

in  our  own  ways.  On 

our  constitution, 
that  the  mothers  re­
nounce  the  error  of  belief  that  we  in­
veigled  their  sons 
into  marrying  us, 
secondly,  that  they  quit  speaking  of  our 
husbands  as  “ poor  Toms,”   and  believ­
ing  they  are  persecuted  martyrs;  third­
ly,  that  they  grant  to  each  and  every 
one  of  us  the  right  to  run  our  own 
homes 
the 
daughter-in  laws’  part,  I shall  formulate 
a  plank  that  shall  pledge  them  to  pa­
tience  with  ways  that  sometimes  seem  a 
little  old-fashioned;  secondly, 
to  re­
member  that  not  even  a  bride  knows 
everything,  although  she  always 
thinks 
she  does;  thirdly,  to  use  their  utmost 
power  of  attraction  to  try  to  really storm 
the  barricades 
that  their  husbaud’s 
mothers  have  erected  in  front  of  their 
hearts. ”

“ What  shall  you  do,”   I  asked  curi­
ously,  as  the  young  married  woman 
ceased  talking,  “ if  your 
convention 
proves  a  failure?”

“ Then,”   she  replied,  “ there  will  be 
it  but  to  marry  men  who 

nothing  for 
are  orphans. ”  

D o r o th y  D ix .

Frank  Admission.

The  prisoner’s  dock  is  not  a  situation 
favorable  to  repartee,  but  on  one  oc­
casion  the  accused  undoubtedly  scored.
“ Why  did  you  manufacture  this  bad 

money?”   the  magistrate  said,  sternly.

“ Cos  I  couldn’t  turn  out  no  better,”  

replied  the  counterfeiter.

in  the 

Many  of  the  so-called  Scotch  plaids 
are  not  tartans  at  all 
literal 
meaning  of  the  word.  There  are  about 
thirty  one  veritable  tartan  plaids  to­
day,  the  cognizance  of  as  many  Scotch 
clans.  Queen  Victoria,  being  a  Stuart, 
wears  the  plaid  of  that  clan.  She  also 
wears  the  “ Victoria”   plaid,  which  is 
the  ground  plaid  of  the  Stuart  tartan. 
Technically, 
is  a  woolen 
cloth,  with  checkers  and  cross  bars  of 
narrow  lines  of  color. 
It  is  said  to  be 
derived  from  the  French,  “ tertaine,”  
signifying  “ linsey  woolsey.”

the  tartan 

Preparations  are  being  made  to  begin 
immediately  on  the 
construction  work 
in  Southern  California. 
Yuma  Canal 
This  will  be  the  greatest 
irrigation 
canal  system  in  the  Southwest.  Water 
will  be  taken  from  the  Colorado  River 
at  a  point  about  twenty-five  miles  north 
of  Yuma,  and  distributed  for  a  distance 
of  fifty  miles  over  a  desert  country. 
Immense  areas  both  north  and  south  of 
Yuma  will  be  reclaimed,  and  about 
100,000 acres  of  the  Algodones  grant 
in 
the  Mexican  State  of  Sonora  will  also 
be  watered.

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If  we  present  a  vulnerable  point  to 
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How  Sam  Brown  Achieved  Success 

Written  for the  T r ad esm an.

in  Business.

“ Whoa,  Lion!  Whoa,  Whitie!  Blast 
these  oxen  anyway!  I  can’t,  for  the  life 
of  me,  see  why  father  traded  off  his 
horses 
for  these  half-wild  creatures. 
Whoa!  you  brutes!”   But  it  was  evident 
that  the  oxen  either  did  not  or  would 
not  know  what  “ Whoa!”   meant,  for 
they  kept  right  on,  although  the  end  of 
the  stubble  field 
in  which  they  were 
plowing  had  been reached.  The animals 
went  straight  for  a  sickly-looking  patch 
of  corn  that  was  trying  to  grow  a  short 
distance  from  the  stubble  field,  the wilt­
ed  half  yellow  stalks  of  which  would 
have  discouraged  anything  except  an 
o x ;  but,  from  the  way  they  began  to 
devour  the  leaves  and  stalks,  it was  evi­
dent  that  they  regarded  it  as  good  fod­
der.

Sam  Brown,  the  boy  who  was  driving 
the  oxen,  tried  to  set  his  plow  deeply 
enough  into  the  earth  to  stop  the  truant 
team ;  but  of  no  use.  The  plow  had  a 
wheel  at  the  end  of  the  beam  that 
gauged  the  depth  of  the  furrow  to  be 
cut  and  would  go  just  so  deep  and  no 
deeper.  Throwing  the  plow  upon  its 
side,  the  boy  tried  to  head  off  his  team, 
whereupon  the  oxen  started to  run, drag­
ging  the  plow  after  them  and  trampling 
and  breaking  down  a  wide  swath 
through  the  corn  patch.

Sam  s  brother,  who  was  plowing  in 
the  stubble  field  with  a  three-horse team 
and  sulky  plow,  now  came  to  his  assis­
tance  and  the  refractory  oxen  were 
thoroughly  whipped  and  driven  back  to 
work.

“ Go  down  to  the  stable,  Sam,”   said 
the  big  brother,  “ and  get  a  half-inch 
picket  rope  long  enough  to  reach  from 
Lion’s  horns  back  to  your  plow handles. 
Then,  when  you  reach  the  end  of  the 
field,  if  they  try  to  run  away,  just  yank 
the  rope  for  all  you’re  worth—you  know 
old  Lion’s  pretty  tender 
the 
horns. 
I'll  watch  your  team  till  you 
get  back.”

about 

“ We’re  poor  enough,  God  knows!”  
exclaimed  the  boy,  tears  of exasperation 
filling  his  eyes;  “ but  I  wish  the  dog- 
goned  things  would  both  die.  They 
ain  t  half  broke  and  father  expects  me 
to  make  ’em  mind,  and  the  only  way  to 
do  that  is  by  sheer  strength,  an’  I  can’t 
use  that 
’cause  I  hain’t  got  it.  Why 
can’t  you  drive  ’em  for a  week  or  so, 
Bill,  an’  let  me  have  the  horses  an’  the 
sulky  plow?”

‘ Sam,”  replied his  brother,  “ if  I  had 
to  drive  them  oxen,  I  wouldn’t  stay  to 
home  twenty-four  hours— I ’d  be  in  Col­

orado  just  as  quick  as  a  freight  train 
Id  take  me.  You  see,  I  was  21  on  my 
last  birthday,  an’  the  old  man  ain’t  a 
askin’  me  to  drive  no  ox  teams.”

The  hopeful 

look  that  had  for  a  mo­
ment  appeared  in  the  boy’s  face  faded 
as  he  asked  his  brother,  “ Why  can’t 
you  drive 
’em  for a  week  or  so?”   and 
the tears  he  had  been  struggling  to  keep 
back  welled  up  again  and,  throwing 
himself  on  the  ground,  he  burst  out  cry­
ing.

“ Nevermind,  Sam,  you wait here  an’ 
I  11  get  the  rope.  Then  you  can  drive 
in  the  lead  with  the  horses  a  while  an' 
I’ll  see  if  them  brutes  can’t  be  made  to 
mind. ”

’cause 

Thus  encouraged, 

the  boy  stopped 
crying  and  sat  up.  As  his  brother  dis­
appeared 
in  the  corn  patch  in  the  di­
rection  of  the  barn,  Sam  exclaimed :  “ I 
wonder 
if  Bill  meant  that  about  goin’ 
away  to  Colorado.  He  couldn’t  have 
the  heart  to  leave  father  just  now  when 
he  needs  his  help  so  much. 
I  mustn’t 
mind  if  the  oxen  do  run  away,  or father 
may  want  Bill  to  drive  ’em,  an’  then 
he’ll  leave;  an’  then— I  don’t  know 
what  we  would  do.  Just  feel  that  hot 
wind,”   he  continued;  “ I  don’t  know 
what’ll  become  of  us  if  that  keeps  on  a 
blowin’,  let  alone 
if  Bill  should  go 
away.  Here’s  this  wheat  that  we’re  a 
plowin’  under 
it  wa’n’t  worth 
cuttin’ ;  dried  right  up  where  it  stood, 
an’  mother  a  prayin’  an’  prayin’  for 
rain.  But  it  didn’t  make  no  difference. 
An'  then  she  took  the  fever,  an’  for 
days  an’  days  she  raved  about  the  dry 
hot  weather,  an’  kep’  a  sayin’,  ‘ O  if  it 
would  only  rain!  O 
it  would  only 
rain!’  At 
it  did  come,  with 
last, 
thunder  an’ 
lightnin’  an’  wind;  but  it 
was  too  late  to  save  mother—or  the 
wheat.  Father  couldn’t  bear  the thought 
of  bury in’  her 
in  that  mean,  weed- 
grown  bury in’  ground  up  at  Hays  City. 
So  Bill  an’  me  dug  a  grave  over  by 
that  cotton  wood  tree  that  stan’s  all  by 
itself.  Father  couldn’t  do  a  thing  to 
help  us,  an’  he  ain’t  done  nothin’ 
sence  but  grieve  about  mother;  an’ 
now,  if  Bill  should  go  a— ”  but here  the 
boy’s  voice  which  had  been  full  of 
tears,  broke  and  he  again  threw  himself 
on  the  grass-choked  ground,  burying 
his  face  in  his  arms  and  giving  way  to 
a  passion  of  sobs.

if 

Sam  was  about  15  years  of age. 

It 
was  evident,from  the  length  of  his  arms 
and  legs  and  the  thinness  of  his  body, 
that  he  had  grown  too  fast;  but  there 
was  something  in  the  boy’s  patient 
lit­
tle  face  that  invited  the  second look and 
made  one  think  that  he  was  worthy  bet­
ter  things  than  farm  drudgery.  His 
father,  who,  several  years  before,  had

in 

been  well  to  do,  had,  with  his  wife  and 
two  boys,moved  from  his  pleasant  home 
in  the  East  and  settled  at  Hays  City, 
Kansas.  There,  as  the  town  was  “ on 
the  boom, ”   he  had  engaged  in town  lots 
and  farm-buying  speculation.  But  the 
drop  came  all  at  once.  All  that  was  left 
to  him  was  the  160-acre  farm  upon 
which,  for  four  years, 
they  had  now 
been trying to retrieve their lost fortunes. 
It  was,  indeed,  a  dreary  enough outlook, 
although  the  outlook  was  better  than  the 
past  with  its  drouth  and  hot  winds  and 
consequent  failure  of  crops,  for  there 
was  the  hope 
it  that  things  would 
mend.  Who  that  has  not  had  the  ex­
perience  can  realize  wfiat  an  intermina­
ble  time  four  years  on  a  farm  in  West­
ern  Kansas,  with  its  loneliness  and  iso­
lation  and  “ hope  deferred  that  maketh 
the  heart  sick,”   must  mean  to  people 
who  have  been  used  to  better  things? 
As  each  year  went  by  and  the  seed  so 
laboriously  planted  brought  no  return, 
it  was  no  small  sacrifice  to  give  up  a 
horse  or  a  cow  to  meet  the  bills  that 
were  constantly  falling due.  Then,  when 
Death  took  from  among  them  the  moth­
er,  who  had  been  their  chief  comfort 
and  hope,  it  was  not  to  be  wondered  at 
that  the  husband  and  father  “ hadn’t 
done  nothin’  sence,”   as  Sam  expressed 
it,  “ but  grieve  about  mother.”

Hearing  his  brother’s  returning  foot­
steps,  Sam  smothered  his  sobs  and tried 
to  dry  his  eyes  on  his  shirt  sleeve.

Now,  I  think  we  can  manage  your 
—Why,  Sam!  you  ain’t  cryin’  yet  be­
cause  the  oxen  ran  away,  are  you?”  

“ N-o, ”   replied  the  boy,  the  tone  of 
kindness  in  his  brother’s voice bringing 
the  lump  back  in  his  throat;  “ I— I  was 
— was  thinkin’  about—about  mother  an’ 
an  what  father  an’  me  would  do  if 
you  went  away  to  Colorado.  You  won’t 
go  an’  leave  us,  will  you,  Bill?”

Of  course  I  won’t—not  right  away 
Bill  replied,  as  he  fastened 
anyhow. 
one  end  of  the  rope  around  Lion’s 
horns.  The  other  end  he  wrapped  two 
or  three  times  around  one  of  the  plow 
handles.

“ I  guess  I  can  bring 

’em  to  time 
now,  Bill.  An’ you  don’t  need  to  bother 
drivin’  ’em.  They’ll  follow  your  plow 
all  right  for  a  while,  I  reckon,  after  the 
ickin’  we’ve  give  ’em.  Git  up  there, 
Lion!  Go  'long,  Whitie!”   With  slow 
unwilling  footsteps  the  stubborn  oxen 
moved  forward  and  the weary work went 
on,  while  the  dust  rising  from  the  dry 
upturned  earth  was  borne  away  by  the 
heavy  hot  wind. 

M a c   A l l a n .

[t o   b e   c o n t i n u e d ]

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Association M atters

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  J. VV is l e r ,  Mancelona ;  Secretary,  E. 
A .  Stow e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J  P 
T atm an,  Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  Ch a s.  F.  B ock,  Battle  Creek;  Vice 
President,  H.  W.  W e b b e r ,  West  Bay  City; 
Treasurer,  Hen r y C.  Min n ie,  Eaton  Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph K n ig h t;  Secretary, E. Ma r k s 
221  Greenwood  ave;  Treasurer,  N.  L. K oenig.  ’

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F r a n k  J.  Dy k :  Secretary,  Homer 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

President,  P.  F.  T r ea n o r:  Vice-President,  J ohn 
Mc B r a t n ie ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is;  Treas­
urer,  L ou ie  S chw erm er

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association

President, G eo.  E.  L ew is ;  Secretary,  W.  H. P or­

t e r ;  Treasurer,  J.  L.  P eterm ann

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  J oh nson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

D a r l in g ;  Treasurer,  L.  A .  G il k e y .

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  G afney;  Secretary,  E   F 

Cleveland;  Treasurer,  Geo.  M.  Hoch.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association 

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

Ho l ly ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

President,  A.  D.  W h ip ple ;  Secretary, G. T. C am p­

b e l l :  Treasurer,  W .  E.  C ollin s.

Alpena  Business Men’B Association 

President,  F .  W.  Gil 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 ilip Hil b e r ; 

Treasurer,  S.  J.  Hu tpor d.

This  strictly  pure  High  Grade  Powder  I  have  re­
duced  to retail at  the  following  very  low  prices: 

<ioz.  10c; 

9 oz.  15c; 

1  lb.  25c.

Guaranteed  to  comply  with  Pure  Food  Law  in 

O.  A.  TURNEY,  Manufacturer,

every respect.
Detroit,  Mich.

Those  who  are  familiar  with  Lakeside  Peas 
fully  appreciate  them  and  know  their  value. 
W e  have  made  the  canning  of  peas  a  scien­
tific  study  and  feel  amply  repaid  by  the  re­
sults  obtained.  They  are  for  sale  by  all 
grocers.  Ask  for  them.

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14

Fruits and  Produce.
It  Looks  to  a  Butterworker  at 
How 

the  Other  End.

I  returned  a few  days  ago  from  a visit 
to'New  York  City,  where  I  spent  some 
time 
in  visiting  different  commission 
houses,  and  will  say  that  I  was  greatly 
surprised  in  regard  to the  way  our  but 
ter  is  handled  there.  Too  much  blame 
is  laid  at  the  commission  man's  door 
Shippers  do  not  realize  the  condition 
their  butter  is  in  when  it  arrives  there 
Now,  to  explain  to  our  shippers  in what 
way  we  are 
it  is  laid  to 
the  men  you  ship  to.

in  fault,  and 

I  will  tell  you  how  I  know  what 

am  saying.  The  day  I  left  for  the  city 
two  of  my  regular  shippers  were  divid 
ing  their  make  with  two  houses.  Thei 
in,  arriving  ; 
shipments  followed  me 
day  later  than  myself. 
I  went  direct  to 
the  house  that  was  handling  their  but 
ter— I  am  a  perfect  stranger  to  them— 
and  saw  them  strip  and  weigh  the  lot. 
and  then  returned  to  see  the  lot weighed 
that  was  consigned  to  my  house.  Now, 
naturally,  one  would  think  the  butter 
would  be  all  the  same  in  weight,  color, 
quality  and 
in  packing,  as  it  all  came 
from  the  same  factory  and  was  made  by 
the  same  man.  But  if  I  had  not  known 
the  number  of  the  plate  before  starting 
I  would  have  said  it  was  two  different 
lots.  Some  was  sour,  some  too  highly 
colored,  some  too  salty,  some  showed 
streaks  and  some  of  the  tubs  were  not 
properly  packed  at  the  bottom,  and 
about  one-third  the  way up  there  would 
be  holes  which  would  hold  over  one 
pound  of  butter.  This  would  cause  one 
house  to  give  better  weight  than  the 
other  while  they  would  be  giving  the 
shipper  his  honest  weight. 
It  would 
cause  the  company  to  believe  that  one 
of  the  houses  was  not  honest. 
I  saw  ; 
mark  of  butter  come  onto  the  floor  of  ; 
neighbor  house  of  mine  and  the  pro 
prietor  invited  me  to  examine  the  but­
ter  as  it  was  turned  out  on  the  scales. 
Some  of 
it  had  a  very  woody  taste, 
while  perhaps  the  next  tub  had  none  at 
all.  This,  I  think,  comes  from  improper 
care 
in  preparing  the  tub  for  its  con­
tents.

There  has  been  enough  said  on  this 
one  subject  to  enable  every  buttermaker 
to  be  well  posted  in  regard  to  packing 
and  preparing  tubs  to  prevent  all  the 
fault  that  they  claim.  I  think the proper 
way  to  prepare  a  tub,  is  to— in  the  first 
place  never  use  a  cheap  tub—get  the 
best  there  is  on  the  market,  then  steam 
each  one  slowly for two or three minutes, 
fill  with  cold  water  and  add  a  good 
handful  of  salt.  Do  this  early  in the day 
while  you  are  churning  and  let  them 
stand  until  the  next  day,  then empty  out 
and  refill  with  water  until  ready  for use. 
Before  filling,  or  lining, 
if  you  use 
parchment  paper,  which  I  think  is  the 
proper  thing  to  do,  rub  the  bottom  and 
sides  well  with  salt.  This will,  I  think, 
prevent  the  woody  taste  and  will  enable 
your  butter  to  strip  freely,  and  not  have 
any  stick  to  the  tubs  w’hile  they  are  be­
ing  weighed.

excuse  to?  They  have  to  maintain  their 
reputation  as a reputable business house, 
and  return  you  good  results  at  all  times, 
knowing  very  well  that  if  they  do  not, 
they  will  not  receive  your  shipments 
long.  I  think  it  is  their  duty  to criticise 
the  condition  of  your  make. 
I  have 
known 
instances  where  the  bouse  has 
written  a  personal  letter  to  the  butter- 
maker,  asking  his  advice  in  regard  to 
some  fault. 
The  buttermaker  would 
laugh  and  say,  “ What  do  they  know 
about  our  goods?  They  never  saw  a 
creamery  in  their  life.”   And  he  would 
cast  his  letter aside  and  the  next  ship­
ment  would  go  to  some  other  house. 
Perhaps  this  will  happen  on  a  good 
market  when  they  have  handled  you 
goods  for  some  time  on  a  low,  sluggish 
market  and  realized  only  a  small  profit 
in  doing  so.  The  next  man  takes  it 
when  he  can  dispose  of  it  on  arrival  at 
a  good  advantage  for  you.  When  the 
market 
is  an  easy  task  to 
sell  good  butter,and  even  if  it  is  a  little 
faulty,  the  buyers  are  not  so  apt  to  find 
fault.  But  if  it  is  dull,  with  any  chance 
to  find  fault,  then  is  the  time  they  will 
do  so.

is  brisk,  it 

I  believe  butter  can  and  ought  to  be 
made  so  it  could  not  be  substituted. 
It 
is  an  article  that  has  been  in  use a  good 
many  years  and  will  remain  a  necessity 
and  command  a  good  price  if  properly 
made.  Now,  let  every  one  who  is  inter 
ested  in  the  dairy  business  stop so much 
kicking  and  put  his  shoulder  to  the 
wheel  of  progress  in  the  manufacture  of 
pure  creamery  butter.  Let  every  owner 
of  a  cow,  who  sends  milk  to  a  factory, 
do  his  utmost  to  help  his  buttermaker. 
The  buttermaker  should  attend  to  his 
work  carefully  and  see  that  there  is 
nothing  left  undone  in  making  and  pre­
paring  his  butter  for  the  market,  and  I 
think  it  would  give  better  prices,  make 
t  more  pleasant  to  do  business,  and 
make better  times  and  better  people.
H.  T.  H and.

Eggs  as  Ammunition.

People  in  the  little  mountain  town  of 
Sbarpsburg,  Ky.,  have  a  peculiar  di­
version  known  as  “ egg throwing. ”   The 
heaviest  battles  occur on Saturday night. 
Jim  Strong 
is  the  captain  of  one  egg- 
throwing  band  and  Bill  Eversole  is  the 
captain  of  the  other.  They  have  about 
twenty  men  each.  Each  man  has  to 
provide  himself  with  a  dozen  eggs  and, 
of  course,  it 
is  to  his  interest  to  buy 
them  where  he  can  get  them  the  cheap­
est.  As  no 
individual  expects  to  be 
struck  by  his  own  eggs,  he  does  not  re­
quire  the  dealer  to  “ candle”   them. 
In 
this  way  the  dealers  in  country  produce 
are  able  to  realize  at  least  cost  price  on 
their  sickest  eggs.
Last  Saturday  night’s  battle  was  a 
glorious  one.  The  moon  was  shining, 
and  the  boys  lined  up  for  the  fray  about 
9  o’clock.  Every  member  of  the  two 
companies  was  present.  The  captains 
did  not  throw,  simply  directing  the 
movements  of  their  men.  Each  had  his 
ull  quota  of  eggs  when  the  battle  be­
gan-  The  first  volley  was  thrown  by 
Strong’s  men  and  six  men  on  the  Ever­
sole  side  were  struck.  Then  the  Ever- 
soles  began  to  throw  eggs  and  at  their 
first  volley  seven  Strong  men  were 
marked  and  one  egg  carried  away  the 
cap  of  Captain  Strong.  Then  the  throw­
ing  became  indiscriminate  and  no  at­
tempt  at  volley  work  was  made.

All  these  remarks  are  the  fault  at 
home  in  the  factory,  as  a  general thing.
I  do  not  say  but  what  there  are  rogues 
as  commission  men,  who take advantage 
of  these  faults,  where  the  butter is fancy 
and  up-to-date,  and  make  complaint 
where 
is  not  necessary.  But  if  you 
are  shipping  to  a  good,  reliable  house, 
you  appoint  it  as  your agent  to  dispose 
of  your  butter  and  get  the best  possible j 
results  for  you.  Now,  do  you  think
they  would  find  fault  where  there  is  no | with  eggs  and  shells. 

The  sport  did  not  cease  until  the  en- 
re  480 eggs  were  thrown.  Nearly  every 
man  had  been  plastered  and  the  cap­
tains  were  regular  omelets  from  head  to 
foot. 
It  was  decided  that  Strong’s  men 
won  the  fight.  The  Eversole  company 
did  the  proper  thing  and  several  bot­
tles  of  a  colorless 
liquid  known  as 
moonshine”   were  passed.  The  most 
casual  observer  along  the  street  next 
morning  could  have  told  there  had  been 
an  egg  battle,  for  the houses,  sidewalks, 
’ —   .— “ “   fences  and  curbstones  were  plastered

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GOTHAM   GOSSIP.
News  from  the  Metropolis—

-Index  to

Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

in 

New  York,  Oct.  2—Recent  advices 
from  Brazil  received  in  this  city 
indi­
cate  that  the  prospects  for  a  big  coffee 
crop  are  again  excellent.  Many  new 
plantations,  it 
is  said,  will  come  into 
bearing  this  season  and  next,  both  in 
the  Rio  and  Santos  districts;  and,  if 
no  disaster  happens,  the  yield  will  be 
huge.  Deliveries  of  coffee 
this 
country  during  September  will  aggre­
gate  about  400(000  bags.  The  amount 
of  coffee 
in  sight  at  the  close  of  the 
month  was  estimated  at  1,700,000  bags, 
increase  of  600,000  bags  during 
an 
September.  The  total  supply 
is  now 
6,000,000  bags.  The  market  here  has 
been  rather  weak.  With  supplies  so 
large,  prices  have  been  hammered down 
until  it  seems  as  though  the  bottom  had 
been  reached ;  but  there  are  those  who 
think we  shall  yet  see  Rio  No.  7  quoted 
at  6c.  To-day’s  price  for  cargo  lots  is 
7%c  and  for- jobbing 
lots,  7^c.  Mild 
coffees  are  about  steady  and  there  has 
been  no  important  change  in  price.

The  demand  for  refined  sugar  has 
been  very  quiet.  Jobbers  seem  to  have 
supplies  sufficient  for  present  wants  and 
maise  few  purchases. 
Advices  from 
abroad  have  had  the  effect  of  making  a 
duller  market  here,  as  the  general  tone 
of  the  dispatches  indicates  a  downward 
tendency.  Foreign granulated  has  been 
in light request and  is quoted at 4.92@5c.
lack  of  animation  in  the 
tea  market.  Oolongs  have  been 
in 
rather  better  demand  than  usual,  but 
orders,  either  from  the 
interior  or  the 
city,  have  been  few  and  far  between.

There 

is  a 

Rice  dealers  have  no  trouble  in  dis­
posing  of  their  holdings;  in  fact,  the 
trouble 
is  to  make  present  supplies go 
around.  The  amount  here  of  foreign  is 
limited  and  supplies  on  the  way  are  not 
at  all  excessive.  Japan 
is  held  at  5c 
and  Java  at  4jic.  Rather  more  rice 
from  domestic  points  is  being  received, 
especially  from  Carolina,  and 
is  taken 
at  once.  Prime  to  choice,  5^@5^c.

Pepper  is  now  controlled by few hands 
and  they  will  probably  force  some  ad­
vance.  The  general  spice  market  is 
quiet  and  few  transactions  are  taking 
place.  More  confidence 
is  felt  in  the 
general  situation,  however,  as  the  sea­
son  advances.

The  butter  market 

is  quiet  and  the 
advancing  tendency  has  been  checked. 
Best  creamery,  2i@22c.  Little  doing  in 
an  export  way.

Cheese 

is  dull  and  few  sales  are  re­
ported.  Full  cream  large  State  is  held 
at  9c.

The  egg  market  is  dull.  Best  West 
ern,  17c.  Much  bad  stock  is  arriving.
changed  in  any  particular.

Beans  are  dull  and  the  market  is  un­

The  Disgrace  of  Labor.

Deacon  in Furniture  News.

I  am  not  arguing  that  every  merchant 
should  be  ready  to  grab  a  mop  and 
clean  out  his  store  every  morning;  or 
that  a  banker  should  fire  his  own  fur­
nace;  or  that  the  wife  of  a  railroad 
president  should  do  her  own  washing. 
When  I  see  the  proprietor  of  a  large 
store  out  on  the  walk  washing  the  win­
dows;  or a  lumber  manufacturer sorting 
scraps  of  boards  about  his  own  yard; 
or  a  corporation  lawyer  slowly pounding 
out  a 
letter  on  a  typewriter,  I  say  to 
myself:  “ That 
is  either  a  big  man  in 
a  small  business,  or  a  small  man  in  a 
big  business."  Such  labor  may  be  a 
disgrace.

A  boy  at  six  dollars  a  week  can  mop 
a  floor  or  clean  a  window  as  well  as  can 
If  your  time  is 
Cornelius  Vanderbilt. 
worth  $6 an  hour,  you  disgrace  yourself 
by  working  at  work  worth  10  cents  an 
hour  that  can  be  done  by  some  10  cent 
laborer.  Great  business  men  learn  to 
distinguish  between  cheap 
labor  and 
valuable  work,  and  to  hire  cheap  help 
for  cheap  labor,  and  reserve  themselves 
for  valuable  work.

Moreover.it  is  the  duty  of  the  wealthy 
man  to  put  his  cheap  work 
into  cheap 
and  worthy hands. 
I think  it  a  disgrace 
to  saw  my  own  wood  when  I  know  that 
the  man  on  our  back  street  is  suffering 
to  saw  wood  at  a  dollar a  cord.  The 
fact  that  I  can  earn  enough  to  pay  for 
sawing  my  winter’s  wood  in  the  time  i 
would  take  me  to  saw  half  a  cord 
in 
creases  the  sense  of  the  disgrace  I  feel 
When  I  need  the  exercise of the sawing 
or  when  I  can  hire  no  man  to  do  it, 
can  saw  wood  with  equanimity  and 
bucksaw.  The  redness  seen  in  my  face 
at  the  time  is  not  the  blush  of confusion 
at  being  caught  at  humbie  labor.

Any  work  that  shows  a  meanness  of 
spirit 
is  degrading  although  it  be  the 
work  of  combining  great  railroad  sys­
tems.  Any  work,  however  mean,  that 
shows  courage  and  energy  is'  ennobling 
although  it  be  the  cleaning  of  a  sewer

Supplies  of  really  desirable  grades  of 
New  Orleans  molasses  are  very  limited 
and  one  must  shop  around  some  to  find 
what  he  wants.  Prices  show  no  change 
and  the  general  situation 
is  about  as 
last  reported.  Open  kettle,  prime  to 
fancy, 
is  held  from  27@3oc.  Syrups 
are  quiet,  with  few  sales  reported.
The  canned  goods  market  is  strong 
all  along  the  line.  Prices  are  firm  and 
the  general  tendency 
is  to  a  higher 
plane.  The  situation  has  improved  so 
that  packers  of  corn  and  tomatoes  are 
said  to  be  buying  back  their  contracts 
and  paying  a  good  premium  for the 
privilege. 
stopped  corn 
packing  in  New  York  and  Maine,  but 
reports  of 
injury  to  tomato  vines  have 
not  yet  come  to  hand.  The  weather,  in 
fact,  is  hot  and  late  tomatoes  will  prob­
ably  all  get  ripe.  Maine  corn  is  wanted 
at  85c  f.  o.  b.  Portland.  Tomatoes  are 
worth  8s@$i,  as  to  brand.  Salmon 
is 
steady  and  a  fair  demand  has  prevailed 
all  the  week.

Frost  has 

Oranges  are  very  firm  and  Jamaicas 
in  original  barrels,  fine  fruit,  have  sold 
for  $6.50  per  bbl.  Florida  oranges 
promise  to  be  in  better  supply  than  was 
anticipated  and  the  fruit  is  exception­
ally  fine.  The  arrivals,  as  yet,  have 
been  small  and  the  price  is  comparable 
to  strawberries  in  December.  Bananas 
are  quiet  and  quotations  are  nominal. 
The  top  price  seems  to  be  about  80c 
per  bunch  for  firsts,  while  the  greater 
part  of  the  year  the  ruling  figure is from 
$I@ I. 12*4.

Dried  fruits  of  all  kinds  have  been 
rather  dull  and  we  have  no  change. 
It 
is  said  that  holders  on  the  Pacific  Coast 
are  becoming  anxious  about  the  non- 
receipt  of  orders  and  might  make  some 
concessions;  still  the  general  tone 
is 
firm  and  cooler  weather  will  probably 
cause  more  firmness.

What  Created  the  Demand.

“  What makes you  buy  that  brand of soap?”

I asked a woman shrewd;

“  Some others  have far larger scope— ”

Their names I  here  reviewed.

“  W hat makes me buy that  brand  of soap?”

The  w Oman  looked  surprised—

And thus she answered my  demand—

“ Because it’s Advertised.”

“ W hy do you  choose that ribbon  fair?”

I asked a little miss;

“ The other stores  had  others  there—

W h y did you ask for this ?”

She gazed at me with  pitying eye,

My  face she criticised,

Then  answered  very simply,  “ W hy,

Because  it’s Advertised.”

“ What makes you always  buy  that  wine?”

I asked a business  friend.

“  It’s  quite a favorite of mine,

“ But why select this  brand?”

He looked astonished and my aim 

He had  not  recognized;

But still  he answered,  just  the same—

“ Because it’s  Advertised.”

And  so you’ll find where’er you go, 

Whatever people buy,

The goods that  have the greatest show,

And on which folks rely,

Are those made  known  through printer’s  ink, 

And,  it may  be  surmised,

Their merit is,  the  people think,

“  Because  they’re  Advertised.”

Chicago  $5   Excursion  October  14—  

Don’t  Miss  This.

Only  chance  this  year  for  you  to  go 
to  Chicago  and  return  for  $5.  Tickets 
good  to  return  until  Oct.  18.  Last  train 
leaves  Chicago  on 
that  date  at  9130 
p.  m. 

G e o .  D e  H a v e n ,  G.  P.  A.

The  British  government 

is  about  to 
spend  $14,000,000  in  the  construction  of 
new  docks  at  Simon’s  Town,  Cape  of 
Good  Hope.  The  docks  will  be  of  suffi­
cient  capacity  to  hold  the  largest 
iron­
clad  afloat.

B U T T E R
E G G S

Handled  only  on  Commission.

On  Commission  or  bought  on  track.
M .  R.  A L D E N ,  98  S.  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids.
Mail  Us  Your Orders

For  Peaches,  Pears, Grapes, and all  kinds of Vegetables.  Cor- 
respond with  us before placing your  order  for your winter sup- 
ply of Onions, Potatoes, Cabbage, Apples, etc.  We  can  furnish 
them in carlots, or less, and shall be pleased to quote you prices.

The  Vinkemulder  Company,
MILLER & TEASDALE CO.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE  BROKERS

BEANS 
ONIONS

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OUR

SPECIALTIES

POTATOES
CABBAGE

601  NORTH  THIRD  ST., 

Consignments solicited.  Advances  made.

Reference:  American  Exchange  Bank,  St.  Louis.

ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

Harris & Frutchey

are the only  exclusive  dealers in  BUTTER 
and  EGOS  in  Detroit.  They  can handle 
your  shipments  to  the  best  advantage  and 
will pay cash for eggs on track at your station.

60  Woodbridge  St.,  W. 

350  High  St.

Telephone  2524.

Wanted

Creamery  Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry,
Apples,  Potatoes,  Onions,  Beans, 
Fruits  of  all  kinds.

Correspondence solicited

Hermann C.  Naumann  &  Co.

MAIN  OFFICE  NOW  AT

33  Woodbridge  Street,  West,  Detroit.

Branch Stores;  353  Russell Street,  opposite Eastern Market.

799 Michigan  Avenue, opposite W estern Market.

flotisepiic  fibre 
Packaoe Go.

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

Pay  for themselves  in  securing higher 
prices.  Always clean and  attractive. 
Furnished  with  your advertisement 
printed  upon  them  Cheaper than packages 
now  used.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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The  Waning  of  Past  Attainments. 

Stroller In Grocery World.

There  was  a  time  when  the  standing 
and  reputation  of  a  grocery  store  were 
measured  by  the  length  of  time 
it  had 
been  in  business.  If  it  was  an  old  store 
and  had  been  in  trade  in  its  town  for  a 
long  term  of  years,  it  was  regarded  as 
a 
landmark,  and  usually  had  an  old- 
established  family  trade  that  stuck  to  it 
through  all  competition and  all  business 
revolutions.

The  same  principle  has  more  or  less 
governed  all  business  enterprises. 
If  a 
newspaper  had  been  in  existence,  say, 
for  seventy-five  years,  even  although 
it 
was  a  little  lumbering  and  slow  now,  it 
still  enjoyed  a  reputation  for  stability, 
dignity  and  respectability  and  got  busi­
ness  where  a  younger  and  better  paper 
couldn’t.

It 

looks  very  much  to  me  as  if  this 
time  was  past.  This 
is  the  day  of  the 
hustler,  regardless  of  age  and  other  ex­
traneous  conditions.  Old  age,  past  re­
spectability  and  all  other  relics  or  at­
tainments  of  past  generations  have  a 
lesser 
in  the  public  eye  in 
this  day  than  they  ever  had  before. 
The  times  demand  present  attainments, 
not  those  which  are  past  and  gone,  or 
those  which  were  achieved  by long-dead 
ancestors.

importance 

Now  that  I  have  relieved  my  mind  a 
little, I ’ll tell what I mean.  Very often in 
my  experience  I’ve  come  across  a  gro­
cery  store  which  is  like  a  long-planted 
rock.  The present proprietor  came  into 
possession  of  it  from  his  father,  and  he 
from  his  father,  and  so  on.  Such  a 
store  never  makes  any  particular  at­
It  never 
tempt  to  meet  competition. 
needs  to. 
it  pleases 
for  goods,  and  what  it  pleases  usually 
means  a  good  profit.  Let  me  tell  you 
that  this  class  of  grocery  stores  is  being 
slowly  but  surely  crowded  to  the  wall.

It  charges  what 

I  got 

into  a  store  like  this  one  day 
last  week. 
is  located  in  a  New  Jer­
sey  town  down  in  the  southern  part  of 
the  State,  and 
is  just  such  a  store  as  I 
describe. 
It  was  established  right  in 
that  town  sixty-three  years  ago.  The 
founder  left 
it  to  his  son,  and  the  son 
left 
it  to  his  son,  who  is  the  present 
proprietor.  The  place  is  old-fashioned 
and  prosperous,  always  had  a  good 
trade,  and  the  people  of  the  place  look 
on  it  as  one  of  their  few  local  features 
—a  store  as  old  and  as  virtuous  as  the 
childhood  of  the  oldest  inhabitant.

It 

I  have  known  the  proprietor  of  this 
place  for  several  months,  although  but 
slightly.  The  other  day  I  got  into  con­
versation  with  him,  and  among  other 
things  I  mentioned  the  cutter. 
I  hap­
pened  to  see,  as  I  passed  down  the 
street,  that  a  new  store  of  the  red-front 
variety  had 
just  opened  its  doors,  and 
had  plastered  its  front  with  the  conven­
tional  “ bargain”   signs.  So  I  said  to 
the  proprietor  of  the  old-time  store:
cutter,  have  you?”

“ You  have  never  run  up* against  the
Oh,  my,  no,”   was  the  easy,  almost 
indifferent,  reply. 
“ The  cutter  can’t 
hurt  this  store.  Why,  this  place  was 
founded  by  my  grandfather  sixty-three 
years  ago ! 
It  came  down  to  my  father 
from  my  grandfather,  and  down  to  me

from  my  father. 
It’s  the  oldest  store  in 
town,  don’t  you  know  that?  We’ve  got 
a  trade  here  whose  fathers  and  mothers 
dealt  here  when  my  father  kept  the 
place.  You  think  they’re  going  to  go 
to  any  of  these  cut-rate  cheap places  for 
their  groceries?  No,  sirree!  Why,  I 
tell  you,  it’s  a  fact  that  I  never  attempt 
to  compete  with  the  other  grocers  here. 
We  all  have  our  own 
trade,  and  it 
sticks  to  us,  and  always  w ill.”

“ Lucky,  lucky  grocer!”   I  exclaimed 
to  myself. 
“ Never  compelled  to  com­
pete—to  cut  profits—never  to  do  any­
thing  but  sell  goods  and  make money.  I 
almost  formed  a  resolution  tq  invite 
everybody  to  go  to  South  Jersey  and 
start  a  grocery  store.

Just  then  the  order  clerk  entered. 

I 
say 
order  clerk,”   by  which  I  mean 
storeboy,  delivery  boy  and  general  fac­
totum.

“ The  new 

is 
a-boomin’, ”   he  observed,  as  he  handed 
the  grocer  the  orders  he  had  gotten.

store  down  here 

‘ Is  it?”   asked  the  grocer,  indiffer­
ently,  as  an  Australian  might  remark  of 
an  outbreak  of  chickenpox  among  the 
Esquimaux  of  Greenland.

“ You  bet!”   replied  the  boy. 

“ Lots 
of  people  in  there.  Last  night  the  place 
was  crowded!  Couldn’t  git  in.  They’re 
sell in’  things  cheap,  all  right.”

“ They  are,  eh?”   observed  the  gro­
“ What  do  you  call 

cer,  skeptically. 
cheap?”

“ Well,”   said  the  boy,  ruminatingly, 
“ this  heie  small  box  of  Royal  bakin’ 
powder  we  git  xo  cents  fur 
they’re 
a-sellin’  at  7. ”

“ They’re  fools,that’s  a ll!”  ejaculated 
im­
the  grocer,  but  still  with  a  note  of 
personality 
in  his  voice,  showing  that 
he  viewed  the  matter  from  a  stand­
point entirely  outside  of  the effect which 
such  a  cut  could- have  on  his  own  sales 
of  baking  powder.

“ They  could 

just  as  well  get  10 
cents,”   continued  the  grocer.  “ Nobody 
demands  a  price  of  7  cents. ”

Well,  put  in  the  boy,  who  was  a 
pretty  shrewd  youth,  “ the  people  are 
a-buyin’  at  the  7  cents  all  right.  When 
I  came  by  there  just  now  I  seen  Miss 
Jackson  in  there  a-buyin’  some  things, 
an’  her  folks  didn’t  give  me  no  order 
this  mornin’ !  She  was  a-buyin’  bakin’ 
powder,  because  I  seen  a  can  of 
it  on 
the  counter 
in  front  of  her  as  I  come 
b y.”

“ Oh,  you  must  be  mistaken,”   said 
the  grocer,  loftily. 
“ Surely  such  peo­
ple  as  Mrs.  Jackson  wouldn’t  be  led  to 
buy  goods  of  such  a  house!”

Well,  that  s  what  I  s’posed  she  was 

in  there  fur,”   persisted  the  boy.

The  grocer  didn’t  say  any  more,  but 
I  could  see  that  his  feelings  had  under­
gone  a  decided  change. 
I  imagine  that 
the  realization  that  his  long  standing, 
his  eminent  respectability,  were,  after 
all,  impotent  against  modern  compe­
tition,  and  that  they  both  must  go 
down,  and  even  had  gone  down,  before 
a  cheap  cut  store  which  sold  10  cent 
baking  powder  at  7,  must  have  been  a 
tremendous  shock. 
if  some 
magic  talisman  to  whom  one  had looked 
for  protection  for  years  finally  proved 
in  the  crisis  against
utterly  worthless 

is  as 

It 

which  its  charms  were  supposed  to 

lie.
The  people  of  this  place  sold  this 
grocer,  swept  aside  all  his  claims  to 
preference,  and  deserted  him,  for  three 
cents!

Ever  Been  to  Chicago?

If  you  have,  you  want  to  go  again. 
If  you  have  not,  you  certainly  ought  to 
go.  To  make 
it  easy  to  do  so,  the  C. 
&  W.  M.  Railway  will  sell  you  a  ticket 
for §5  for  the  round  trip  on  October  14, 
good  to  leave  Chicago  returning  as  late 
as  g 130  p.  m.,  Oct.  18.  That’s  cheap 
enough,  isn’t  it?  You  can’t  spend  $5 
to  better  advantage  at  this  time  of  the 
year.

Tickets  will  be  good  going  only  on 
leaving  Grand  Rapids  at  8:30 

train 
a.  m.  and  1.25  p.  m.

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One  Infallible  Test.

’“ What  do  you  consider  the  most  ab­
solutely  certain  way  to  distinguish toad­
stools  from  mushrooms?”

“ Cook  them,  get  some  other  man  to 
eat  them,  and  then  watch  his  symp­
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Movements  of  Lake  Superior  Travel­

ers.

T.  J.  Gregory  (Phelps,  Brace  &  Co.) 

has  resigned  his  position.

H.*  C.  Work  (Woodward  &  Stone) 
worked  the  Marquette  range  last  week.
F.  H.  Horton  (Pemberthy,  Cook  & 
last 

Co.)  worked  Marquette  county 
week.

F.  G.  Truscott  (Burnham,  Stoepel 
in  Detroit  posting  up  this 

&  Co.)  is 
week.

W.  C.  Brown  (Lake Superior Knitting 
Works)  visited  the  factory  at  Appleton, 
Wis.,  last  week.
W.  R.  Smith 

(Hibbard,  Spencer, 
Bartlett  &  Co.)  did  not  swear  to  the low 
man  at  Manistique.
D.  P.  Baldwin 

(Roundy-Peckham 
last 

Co.)  worked  the  copper  country 
week.

W.  H.  Stevens 

(Williams,  Davis, 
Brooks  &  Co.)  is  with  us  for  a  week  or 
two.

A.  P.  Sim pson 

(M anhard-Joppling 
Co.,  L td .)  works  the  trade  part  of 
the 
tim e ;  the  balance  is spent m anaging the 
business  of  closing  out 
the  stock  of 
hardw are.

J.  H.  Russell,  Jr.,  (I.  T.  &  G.  H. 
Bowman)  Sundayed  in  Marquette.  Bert 
Mves  in  Jackson.

Percy  Teeple  (P.  White  &  Co.) 
spends  all  his  time  on  the  road  in inter­
est  of  the  Northwestern  Mutual  Life  In­
surance  Co.

Lake  Superior  commercial  travelers 
take  considerable  interest 
in  the  new 
interchangeable  mileage  book  in  use  in 
the  Lower Peninsula.  We greet  our  fel­
low  tourists  and  ask  them  to  desert  the 
Lower  Peninsula  with 
its  burdensome 
book  and  join  us  in  the  Upper  Penin­
sula  where  mileage 
is  only  $25  per 
thousand  and  cash  fare  is  only  4  cents  a 
is 
mile.  Our  excess  baggage 
based  upon  4  cents  a  mile. 
In  the 
Lower  Peninsula  travelers are compelled 
to  mix  with  all  sorts  of  passengers,  but 
up  here  passengers  are  divided  into  but 
three 
classes—those  using  mileage, 
those  paying  cash  fare  and  those  who 
travel  on  passes.  The  three  classes  are 
about  evenly  divided. 
If  any  of  the 
travelers  from  below  want  to  travel 
a  paradise,  let  them  come  up  here.

tariff 

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the drip.

President, J a s.F .  Ha m m e ll, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D.  C.  Sla o h t, F lin t;  Treasurer, C h as.  McN o l ty, 
«I ftckson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
Presidents.  H.  Ha r t,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Mo r r is, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Grand  Counselor  F.  L.  D a y .  Jackson;  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V alm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas 
urer, G eo.  A.  R e y n o ld s, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

Treasurer, G eo.  F.  Ow en, Grand Rapids. 

President,'A . F. Pe a k s , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h ild .J a s. N. B r ad fo r d , J. He n r y Da w l e y ,G eo. 
J.  Hein ze lm an,  C h as.  S.  Robinson.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

President,  W.  C.  B rown.  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ix so n,  Marquette.

Wholesome  Decision Affecting the Lake 

Shore  Railroad.

The  Supreme  Court  holds  that the  law 
passed  by  the  Legislature of  1891,  re­
quiring  railroad  companies  in  this State 
to  sell  i.ooo  mile  tickets,  good  for  the
purchaser  and  any  member  of  his  fam
ily,  for $20  each,  is  a  good  law,  and  a 
decree 
it  in  the 
case  of  Henry  C.  Smith  against  the 
Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Rai 
road.

is  entered  enforcing 

The  case  was  tried  in  the  Lenawee 
Circuit,  Judge  Lane 
issuing  an  order 
requiring  the  company  to  sell  the  rela 
tor  a  ticket  under  the  conditions  im­
posed  by  the  law,  and  from  this  order 
the  railroad  company  appealed.

Judge  Montgomery  wrote  the  ma.u 
opinion  in  the  case,  which  was  signed 
by  Justices  Long  and  Moore.  Justices 
Hooker  and  Grant  wrote  dissenting 
opinions.  The 
law  provides  that  the 
mileage  tickets  stall  be good  on  lines 
of  railroads  plying  partly  within  and 
partly  without  the  State,  and  the  con­
tention  of  the  railroad  company  was 
that  this  provision  affects 
inter-state 
commerce  and  is  therefore  unconstitu 
tional.  Justice  Montgomery  says,  how 
ever,  that  this  contention  cannot  be  al 
lowed  for  the  reason  that  the  statute, 
fairly  construed,  was  intended  to 
limit 
the  use  of  the  mileage  ticket  to  the 
State  of  Michigan. 
It  fixes  the  price 
of  the  ticket—not  exceeding  $20  in  the 
Lower  Peninsula  and  $25  in  the  Uppe 
Peninsula.  The  Court  says  that,  while 
the  language  is  not  very  apt,  it  was  the 
clear 
intention  that  a  ticket,  the  price 
of  which  was  $20,  should  be  used  only 
in  the  Lower  Peninsula,  and  one,  thé 
price  of  which  was  $25,  could  be  used 
only 
in  the  Upper  Peninsula,  and  that 
neither  could  be  used  beyond  the  limits 
of  the  State.

A  second  contention  urged  by the rail­
road  company  was  that  the  law  is  in 
conflict  with  the  charter  of  the company 
which  was  granted  prior  to  the  amend­
ment  to  the  constitution  reserving  the 
right  to  alter or  amend  charters  of  cor­
porations,  and  that  it  therefore  impairs 
the  obligation  of  contracts.

of 

The  opinion  of  Justice Montgomery  is 
exhaustive  upon  this  feature  of the case, 
the  conclusion  reached  being  that  the 
consolidation 
the  old  Michigan 
Southern  Railway  Co.  with  the Northern 
Indiana  Railroad  Co.  and  other  com­
panies  in  Ohio,  Pennsylvania  and  New 
York,  amounted  to  the  organization  of 
a  new  corporation  subject  to  the  pro­
visions  of  the  constitution  and  the  act 
UJ1C^er  w.^Ick  was  reorganized.  Upon 
this  point  the  Court  says:  “ The  com­
panies  at  present  forming  the  respond­
ent  derived  rights  under  the  law  per­
mitting  a 
consolidation,  and,  while 
there  may  be  difficulty  in  subjecting  so 
much  of  the  property  of the consolidated 
company  as  lies  without  the  State to our 
jurisdiction,  or  in  controlling  the  trans­
actions  of  the  corporation  itself  without 
the  State,  or 
in  fixing  taxation  upon  a 
basis  which  rests  upon  its  earnings  out- 
k  6 
not  apparent  why 
the  company,  as  to  its  exercise  of  cor­
porate  functions  within  the  State,  is not 
subject  to the  terms  of  the  act  authoriz-1

^tate*  ** 

ing 
its  consolidation  as  limited  by  the 
! constitutional  provision  in  force  at  the 
time,  or  why 
is  not  subject  to  local 
legislation. ”

it 

The  third  and  fourth  contentions  of 
the  company,  that  the  act  is unconstitu­
it  attempts  to  compel 
tional  because 
into  contracts  for 
companies  to  enter 
two  years  and 
is  thus  an  invasion  of 
the  right  to  the  use  of  property,  and 
that  the act  is  in  conflict  with  the  con­
stitution,  which  limits  the  power  of  the 
Legislature  to  fixing 
the  maximum 
rates  to  be  charged,  are  both  disposed 
of  by  the  opinion. 
It  was  argued  that 
the  Legislature  of  1891,  having  fixed 
the  maximum  rate  at  3  cents  as  to  cer­
tain  roads  earning  less  than  $2,000  per 
mile,  and  2y2  cents  and  2  cents  re­
spectively  for  roads  earning  more  than 
exhausted 
$2,000  per  mile, 
its  power  to  provide  for  a 
less  rate 
where  mileage  books  are  used.  Judge 
Montgomery  declares  that 
the  term 
maximum  rate,  as  used  in  the  constitu­
tional  provision,  means  the  maximum 
rate  which  the  company  is  permitted  to 
charge  under  a  given  set  of  circum­
stances.  Attention  is  called  to  the  fact 
that  the  Legislature permits all railroads 
to  charge  3  cents  per  mile  for a  dis­
tance  not  exceeding  five  miles,  and  it 
■ s  said  that  in  fixing  this  rate  the  Leg- 
slature  fixed  the  maximum  rate  for  that 
particular  service  only.

thus 

The  chief  argument  of  the  railroad 
invalid 
company  was  that  the  statute  is 
because  it  requires  the  company  to  en­
ter  into  a  contract  for  two  years  for  the 
transportation  of  passengers,  and 
is, 
therefore, withdrawing from the company 
the  right  to  manage  its  own  property.
,,  *  I*  may  be  said,’ ’  says  the  opinion, 
that  every  attempt  to  fix  rates  of  toll 
or  rates  for  the  carriage  of  passengers 
or  transportation  of  property  to  some 
extent  involves  an  interference  with  the 
management  and  control  of  its  property 
by  the  railroad  company.  Having 
in 
mind  the  common  method  of  conduct- 
ing  railroad  business  at  the  present 
day,  the  court  can  take  judicial  notice 
of  the  fact  that  nearly  every  railroad  in 
this  State  does  issue—and  did,  prior  to 
the  enactment  of  this  law,  issue—mile­
age  books  of  one  thousand  mile  tickets. 
The  conditions  were  not  precisely  the 
same,  but  they  were  contracts good  for 
one  year  and  issued  at  a  reduced  rate, 
so  that  usual  conduct  of  business  timé 
contracts  for  the  transportation  of  pas­
sengers  is  made. 
In  fact,  it  would  be 
difficult  to  think  of  a  method  of  con­
ducting  a  railroad  business  which  did 
not 
involve  a  contract  good  for  some 
length  of  time.

“ I  confess  I  cannot  share  the  appre­
hension  that  such  a  regulation  as  the 
one  here  involved  will  deprive  the  com­
pany  of  the  management  of  its  busi­
ness.  Would  anyone  contend  that  the 
Legislature  has  not  the  power  to require 
railroad  companies  to  keep  on  sale  at 
their  stations  tickets  of  any  kind?  The 
compulsory  requirement  of  this  act  may 
indeed  be  denounced  as  an  attempt  to 
conduct  the  business  of  the  company, 
but  I  apprehend  that  extended  argu­
ment 
is  not  necessary  to  defend  the 
right  of  the  Legislature  to  make  such 
requirement.

“ My  conclusions  are  that  the  regula- 
ion  is  not  unconstitutional  as  applied 
to  roads  within  the  control  of  the Legis­
lature,  and  that  the  respondent  road,  by 
its  consolidation—formed  as  it  is  by  a 
consolidation  under  an  act  passed  since 
the  adoption  of  the  constitution  reserv­
ing  the  power  to  alter,  amend  or  repeal 
— is  subject  to  the  general  control  of the 
Legislature  and  that  the  judgment  of 
the  Circuit  Court  should  be  affirmed.”
The  effect  of  this  decision  is  evident- 
not  only  to  compel  the  Lake  Shore  & 
ichigan  Southern  Railway  Company 
sell  mileage  tickets  under  the  condi- 
ons 
imposed  by  the  Legislature  of 
891,  but  it  places  the  road  within  the 
power  of  the  Legislature  in  regard  to 
taxation  and  other  regulations, 
from 
which  it  has  always  been  claimed  to  be 
exempt  by  reason  of  its  original  char­
ter.

Don  t  forget  the $5  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets good  5  days.

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The  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers 
Association  has  called  a  meeting  for 
Saturday  evening  to  discuss  the  new 
interchangeable  mileage  book.

Geo.  H.  Riblet,  for  many  years  a 
well-known  Michigan  traveling  sales­
man,  died  at  Sterling,  Sept.  26,  from 
Addison’s  disease  of  the  kidneys.  Mr. 
Riblet  was  affiliated  with  all  of  the 
traveling  men’s  societies  of  the  State, 
carrying  an  aggregate  of  $14,000  life 
nsu ranee.
Burt  R.  Stevens, 

for  several  years 
employed  in  the  shoe  store  of  Wm.  M. 
Palmer,  at  Jackson, has  taken  a  position 
as  traveling  salesman  for  Upham  Bros. 
&  Co.,  of  Stoughton,  Mass.,  manufac­
turers  of  men’s  shoes.  His territory  in­
cludes  Michigan,  Wisconsin,  Indiana, 
Ohio,  Minnesota,  Pennsylvania,  New 
Jersey  and  Delaware.

Wm.  Boughton  (C.  E.  Smith  Shoe 
Co.)  is  again  on  the  warpath,  having 
gone  to  Detroit  early  in  the  week  to  se­
cure  his  samples  of  spring  goods.  Mr. 
Boughton’s  many 
friends  among  the 
trade  will  be  glad  to  learn  that the oper­
ation  to  which  he  recently  submitted  at 
Butterworth  hospital  has  resulted  in  his 
complete  recovery.

Chas.  S.  Robinson  has  been  called  to 
Aurora,  N.  Y.,  by  the  death  of  his 
father.  As  Charley 
is  an  only  child 
and  his  father  leaves  an  estate  of  con­
siderable  magnitude,  it  is  not  unlikely 
that  he  will  he  impelled  to  leave  Grand 
Rapids  and  take  up  his  residence  in the 
Empire  State.  Such  a  change  would  oc­
casion  general  regret  among  Charley’s 
friends,  who  have  come  to  regard  him 
high  by.'reason  of  his  joviality  and 
large-heartedness.

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AND  FREIGHT  WAGONS
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Grand Rapids.

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of

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It often  occurs  that traveling  salesmen  find  photo- 
■ aphs  of  such  articles  as  are  too  large  to carry 
c° nvenience.  The  engraving  department 
°1 the  tradesman  Company  is  prepared  to  furnish 
such p hotographs of the best quality on  short notice.

TKe  Hew  Griswold Goose

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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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  best  accommodations  for  the 
rates charged.

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been  made  to  include even  such  lines  of 
business  as  were  limited  to  a  specially 
trained  and  prescribed  class  of  men.

tradesman  and 

Naturally  the  druggist  was  not  over 
looked,  and  his  business  has  ultimately 
been  more  or  less  incorporated  into  the 
vast  commercial  mosaic  whose  prime 
and  far-reaching  principle  was  monop 
oly.  The  small 
the 
skilled  artisan  were  apparently  to  be  as 
far  as  possible  engulfed,  and  business 
interests  controlled  by  a  fortunate  few. 
The  public  was  gradually  educated  to 
look  for  much  in  return  for a  little;  to 
be  bargain-hunters. 
But  experience 
proved  them  not  always  bargain  finders 
nor  wise buyers.  Where the department 
store  has  a  drug  department  whose 
wares  are  offered  at  seductive  prices,  it 
would  seem  that  bargains  in  eye  salves, 
bald  head  applications,  kidney,  liver 
and  consumption  cure,  hive  syrup,  Ro­
chelle  salts  or  similar articles  must  be 
a  poor  investment when  made  upon  the 
basis  of  probable  need  and  to  take  ad­
vantage  of  attractive  prices.  Does  it 
pay  to  buy  what  you  do  not  want, 
particularly  such  things  as  these?  The 
claim  can  hardly  be  made  that  these 
goods  are  dealt 
in  by  the  department 
store  for  any  higher  purpose  than  to 
attract,  or  for  simple  profit. 
Conse­
quently  the  question  arises,  can  the  de­
partment  store  afford  for  these  purposes 
to  provide  a 
trained,  skilled  and 
licensed  druggist  and  sell  drugs  alto­
gether  reliable,  in  conformity  to  phar­
macy  laws,  and  for  prices  much  below 
the  retail  druggist’s  small  profit? 
It 
would  most  decidedly  seem  not,  and 
that  the  outcome  must  be  a  low-salaried 
and  incompetent  salesman,  or an  adul­
teration  and  sophistication  detrimental 
to all  dealers’  interests  and  hazardous  to 
the  public.

It 

coffins,  houses  and  horses,  a  detective 
and  a  doctor,  a  blacksmith  and  a  den­
tist,  conduct  a  theater  and  a  crematory, 
druggists  better  all  be  candidates  for 
the  latter at  once. 
is  not  to  be  won­
dered  at  that  the  pharmacist  should  re­
bel  against  the  losses  he  has  suffered  at 
the  hand  of  the  department  store.  His 
relation  to  the  public,  his  high  and 
responsible  position  as  a  conservator  of
public  health,  and  the  careful,  arduous 
training  he  is  compelled  to  undergo  to 
fit  him  for  his  professional 
career 
would  naturally  seem  to  make  him  ex­
empt  from  such  absorption.

so 

His  is  a  profession  in  which  there are 
irksome  exactions  and  scarcely 
many 
in 
any  compensatory  returns.  He  has 
the  past  been 
upon 
by  grievous  legislation,  by  the  compe­
tition  of  illegitimate  rivals,  and  a  most 
unreasonable  popular  misapprehension 
as  to  his  financial  returns,  that  his  lot 
has  been  in  many  respects  quite  an  un­
enviable  one.

preyed 

He  is  too  preoccupied  with  the  very 
exacting  duties  and  responsibilities  of 
his  calling  to  resort  to  defensive  com­
mercial  methods.  He  is  too  conserva- 
ive  and  self-respecting  to  resort  to  re­
tail'ative  measures.

Because  of  the  high  character  of  his 
calling, 
the  obligations  placed  upon 
im,  and  the  unselfish  devotion  he  so 
constantly  manifests  to  the  general 
in­
terests  of  the  community  in  which  he 
is  located,  he  should  be  so  protected, 
encouraged  and  supported  by  proper 
legislation  as  to  aid  him  in  his  high 
purposes,  and  to  ensure  to  him 
the 
meager  financial  and  other  returns  it 
may  be  possible  for  his  vocation  to 
afford  him.  And  it  is  only  by  strict  and 
considerate  legislative  enactment  that 
he  may  hope  to  secure  the  recognition 
and  protection  which  are  his due.

To  hasten  that  end  it  is  incumbent 
upon  every  druggist  to  associate  him­
self  with  his  fellows, 
formulate  his 
claims,and  intelligently co-operate  with 
adopted  measures.  Union  will  give  him 
power.  He  will  receive  favorable  rec­
ognition  and  secure  satisfactory  legisla­
tion  and  the  enforcement  of  pharmacy 
laws. 

A l b e r t   H.  B r u n d a g e .

If  the  department  store  is  to  be  the 
drug  store,  and  to  be  in  fact  every other 
kind  of  a  store,  or  to  supply  all  the 
commodities,  conveniences  or  necessi­
ties  of  life,  it  is  high  time  the  druggist 
took  note  of  the  fact,  and  ordered  his 
flairs  accordingly. 
If  the  department 
store 
is  ultimately  to  supply  the  com­
munity  with  drugs,  cheese  and  wagons, 
utlery  and  coal,  meat  and  monuments, 
molasses  and  microscopes,  carpets  and

1M A S T E R ” 

Y U M A "

more  cannot  study  together,  they should, 
if  possible,  meet  frequently  and  quiz 
each  other, 
take  notes  of  questions 
which  they  cannot  answer  and 
look 
them  up  when  at  leisure;  or,  one  may 
prepare  a  set  of  questions  for  the  other, 
and,  having  compiled  the  set,  he  will 
be  very  apt  to  be  able  to  answer  them. 
If  you  are  obliged  to  study  alone,  you 
will  find 
it  great  help  to  write  down 
questions  as  they  occur  to  you,  the  an­
swers  to  which  you  may  look  up  at  your 
leisure.

Do  not  try  to  commit  to  memory  the 
exact  words  of  the  text-books,  but  be 
able  to  explain  in  your  own  words  the 
subject  as  you  understand  it. 
It  shows 
the  complete  comprehension  of  the  sub­
ject,  and  not  simply  a  parrot-like  repe­
tition  of  someone  else's  definition.

When  you  come  up  for  examination, 
first  of  all  read  carefully  every  question 
before  any  attempt  is  made  at  answer; 
give  your  undivided  attention  to  every 
question  until 
is  answered  in  full. 
Do  not  crowd  any  more  words  into 
ine,  nor  any  more  lines  onto  a  sheet 
than  there  is  room  for. 
In  short,  write 
legibly,  and  keep  your  paper  neat  and 
tidy.

it 

To  receive a  crowdedly-written paper, 
nterlined  and  marked,  written  on  both 
sides  of  the  sheet,  diity,  so  that  the 
writing  is  scarcely  legible,  is  very  an 
noying  to  an  examiner,  and  to  write 1  
dozen  or  more  lines  altogether  foreign 
in  answer  to  a  question  is  sufficient  to 
try  the  endurance  of  a  saint,  to  say 
nothing  of  that  of  an  ordinary  mortal. 
Go about  your  work  carefully  and  with 
deliberation.  Work 
and 
thoroughly;  do  not  become  excited,  for 
in  your  excitement  you  will  make  state­
ments  which  you  mav  regret  in  your 
cooler  moments. 
If,  in  the  oral  portion 
of  the  examination  questions  are  pro 
pounded  to  you  with  which  you  are  not 
familiar,  do not hesitate  to  acknowledge 
this  fact,  but  do  not  try  to  convey  fa­
miliarity  with  subjects  of  which  you 
know  nothing. 

L.  A.  Harding

carefully 

The

Department  Store 

Druggist.

jyid 

the 

As  civilization  has  advanced,  and 
human  wants  have  become  more  diver­
sified  and  exacting,  so  that 
inhabitants 
of  large  cities  particularly  have  de­
manded  that  the  whole  world’s  products 
of  cultivation  and  manufacture,  and  all 
its  other  sources  of  supply,  shall  be 
placed  at  their 
immediate  and  most 
convenient  disposal,  with  the  most  ad­
vantageous  display  of  variety,  and  at 
the  lowest  possible  price,  old  business 
methods  have  to  a  certain  extent  been 
revolutionized  and  departures,  both 
startling  and  extensive,  have  been 
inaugurated.

Some  ingenious  mind  conceived  the 
idea  of  placing  many  classes  of  the 
world’s  products  in  many  varieties  in 
a 
location  as  central  as  possible  to  a 
given  community.

The  outcome  of  this  conception  was 
that  modern  "Vanity  Fair”   known  as 
the  Department  Store.

18
Drugs-=Chem icals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term  expires 
S. E. P a k k i i a ,  O wosso 
Dec. 31, 1897 
F. W. R. P e r r y ,  Detroit 
Dec. 31,1898 
A. C.  Schum ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Dec. 31,1899 
Geo. Gu n d r cm ,  Ionia  - 
D«*C. 31, 1900 
L.  E .  R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
- 
Dec. 31, 1901

President, F. W. R.  P e r r y , Detroit.
Secretary, G eo. G u ndrum, Ionia.
Treasurer, A.  C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor.
and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

Coming Examination  Session—Lansing.  Nov. 2 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac. 
Secretary—C h a s.  Man n .  Detroit 
Treasurer—J ohn D. M u ir , Grand Rapids.

How  to  Prepare  for  Board  Exam­

inations-

At  the  present  time,  when  so  many 
try  to  pass  the  various  State  Board  of 
Pharmacy  examinations,  and  so  few  of 
them  succeed,  the  question  as  to  how  to 
prepare  for  such  examinations  is  one  of 
the  greatest  importance  to  the  average 
unregistered  druggist,  whether  he  be  a 
proprietor  or  clerk.  The  desire  to  be­
come  registered  is  ever  predominating 
in  the  average  druggist,  and  rightly  so. 
This  desire  is  increased  as  the  demand 
for  the  unregistered  clerk  decreases.

A  systematic  course  of  study  should 
at  all  times  be  strictly  adhered  to.  The 
United  States  Pharmacopoeia  should  be 
taken  as  the  guide.  When  beginning 
to  study  do  not  try  to  commit to memory 
all  about  each  and  every  article or prep­
aration  separately;  the  best  results  are 
classifying 
obtained  by 
them  and 
studying  them 
in  classes.  Much  may 
be  learned  from  a  single  preparation 
that  equally  applies  to  the  entire  class. 
Notice  the  general  characteristics  of a 
class  and  note  the  exceptions,  if  there 
are  any  to  to be  noted;  or  if  special 
precautions  are  to  be  observed  in  their 
manufacture, 
take  note  of  this  also. 
Much  may  be  learned  in  this  way  by 
but  very  little  study.

Take,for  instance,  the liniments :  note 
that  there  are  only  nine  official  and 
may be  divided  as  follows :  Those made 
by  simple  solution—belladonna,  chloro­
form,  soft  soap  and  compound  mustard 
liniments. 
Those  made  by  solution 
with  heat—camphor, 
turpentine  and 
soap  liniments—and  thirdly,  those made 
by  saponification—ammonia  and  lime 
liniments.

Take,  again,  the dilute acids.  Do not 
try  to  remember  that  the  dilute  nitric 
acid  is  io  per  cent.,  the  dilute  muriatic 
acid  is  io  per  cent.,  and  so  on,  but  re­
member  that  they  are  all  io  per  cent., 
excepting  the  dilute  acetic  acid,  which 
is  6  per  cent.,  and  the  dilute  hydro­
cynic  acid,  which  is  2  per  cent.

Again,  regarding  the  solubility  of  the 
various  substances,  take,  for 
instance, 
the  chlorides.  As  a  class  they  are  all 
soluble,  excepting  those  of  lead,  silver 
and  mercury  (ous).  The  same  applies 
to  the  solubility  of  the 
carbonates, 
where  all  the  carbonates  are 
insoluble, 
excepting  those  of  the  alkali  metals,  as 
sodium,  potassium, 
lithium  and  am­
monium.

Note  that  by  this  method  you  may 
be  able  to  learn  many  facts by very little 
study.  You  may  also  note  that  the 
acidum  chromicum  and  the  acidum  ar- 
senosum  are  not  acids,  but  only  acid 
oxides.  Also  note  that  the  acidum  car- 
bolicum  is  not  an  acid,  but  a  hydrate, 
and  you  should  be  able  to  give  good 
definitions  for  each  one  of  these  classes 
of  compounds.  No  one  should  study 
alone,if  it  can  be  avoided;  the  stimulus 
afforded  by  companionship  aids  greatly 
to  arrive  at  the  desired  end. 
If  two  or

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As  such  an  institution’s  influence  and 
its  power  to  draw  trade  were  more  and 
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to  widen 
its 
profits  by  incorporating classes of goods, 
or  lines  of  business,  much 
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viously  been  associated.  With  this  ex­
pansion  of  the  centralizing  tendency  in 
trade  and  effort  to  secure  all  the  advan­
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want  created  by  an  ingenious  and  at­
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leaves,  Morphine,  Quinine.

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Acidnm
Acetlcum.................
Benzoicum,  German
Boraclc......
Carbolicum
Citricum.................  
Hvdrochlor
Nitrocum. 
Oxalicum................ 
Phosphorium,  dll
Salicylicum.........
Sulphuricum.  ...
Tannicnm.........  
Tartaricnm.............. 
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg...........
Aqua, 20 deg...........
Carbonas.................
Chloridum..............
Aniline
Black.......................
Brown....................
R ed.........................
Yellow....................
Baccse.
Cubesee...........po. 18
Juniperus................
Xantnoxylum.........
Balsamum
Copaiba...................
Peru.........................
Terabin, Canada 
 
Tolutan...................  
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Casslse....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Quillala,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmu8...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Haematox, 15 lb box. 
Hsematox, I s ........... 
Hsmatox, Ms.........  
Hsematox, Ms.........  

Perm

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride......  
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt......... 
Sulphate,  p u re ......
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15@  20
Theobromas........... 
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
15«,
Bichromate__
Bromide...........m®
Carb.............. 
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
Cyanide................... 
Iodide......................
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  coin 
Potass Nitras, opt.
Pntoco XTilimn
Potass Nitras 
Prussiate........
Sulphate po  ..  ......  

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Morphia, S.P.A W ...  2 05® 2 30 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
G- 9°  . 
..........  2 05® 2 25
Moschus Canton__   @  40
65®  80
Myristica  No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.20  @ 
10
G s Sepia... 
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15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
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doz........................
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[ PlcisLlq.,quarts....
@  1  00 
Plcls Llq., pints......
85 
@ 
PilHydrarg...po.  80 
@  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22
@  18 
Piper Alba__po.  35
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Pilx  Burgun...........
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Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  l  20 
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Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30®  33
Quassise..................  
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26®  36
Quinia, S. German.. 
S ^ n ia  N.Y............  
35®  40
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12®  14
18®  20
SaccharumLactis pv 
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Spts. ViniRect-Mbbl 
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Spts.  VIni Rect,10gal  @ 2 50
Spts. Vinl Rect.  5gal  @ 2 52
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Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   214® 
3
Sulphur  Roll........ 
2®  214
Tamarinds.............. 
g® 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromse............   42®  45
Vanilla... 
............   9 00®16 0o
Zinci  Sulph............  
3

36 
Linseed, pure  raw.. 
Linseed, boiled......   38 
66 
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits Turpentine.. 
36 
Paints  b b l . 

41
43
70
42

American..........

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

l b
Hi 2  m  
1M  2  @4 
Hi  2  @3 
2*  2M@3 
2K 2*@3
13® 
15
70®  75
13M®  19 
13®  16
5M@ 
6
5M@ 
6@  70

@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

Whale, winter.
Lard,  extra__
Lard, No. 1......

BBL.  SAL.
70
70 
45
40 
35 
40

No. 1 Turp Coach...  1  io@  1  20
Extra  Tnrp............   j  60®  1  70
Coach Body............ 2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum ....  1  00®  1  io 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

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 

Mirrors 

Soaps 

Combs 
Powder Puffs

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

Shaving Brushes 

Fountain and  Fam ily Syringes 

Tweezers 

Key Rings 

Cork Screws 

Razors 

Razor  Strops

Violin,  Guitar and  Banjo Strings 

Atomizers

Suspensory Bandages 
Toilet and  Bath Sponges

And  many other articles  too  numerous 

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

M in e  & m ins Drue go.

Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

1  00

Sclllse Co.................
Tolntan............  
’"
Prunus virg............
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls B 
Aconitum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh..!!
Arnica...................
Assafoetlda  . .... .... 
Atrope  Belladonna
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin.................’
Benzoin Co......
Barosma............
Cantharides ....! ” ."
Capsicum............ ’
Cardamon........ . ’
Cardamon  Co......'.
Castor....................
Catechu......... * ’ ”  ”
Cinchona...........
Cinchona Co.
Columba..............
Cu beba.............
Cassia Acutifoi!!!."! 
Cassia Acutifol Co
Digitalis.........
Ergot............
Ferri Chloridum!!!
Gentian............
’
.
Gentian C o
Guiaca............;;;;
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus........
Iodine...................
Iodine, colorless
Kino..................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh........... .
Nux Vomica...
Opii......................"
Opil, camphorated! 
Opii,  deodorized..
Quassia.................
Rhatany.  .
Rhei...:..........
Sanguinaria .
Serpentaria......... !
Stromonium ...
Tolutan........... Y.’.Y.
Valerian.........
Veratrum Veride! 
Zingiber.........
niscellaneous 
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F 
:
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F
Alumen.................  2
Alumen, gro’d’.  po. 7
Annatto..........._ 
,
Antlmonl,  po! !
Antimoni etPotassT
40@
Antipyrin..............
@
Antirebrin....
@
Argent! Nitras,’02 " 
Arsenicum. ...
10®
Balm Gilead  Bud
Bismuth  S. N.........
Calcium Chlor.,  is 
Calcium Chlor., Ms.
Calcium Chlor.,  ws. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus, af 
Capsici Fructus, po 
Capsici FructusB,p0 
Caryophylius..po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40 
Cera Alba, S. 4 P   "
50®
Cera Flava........... 
40®
Coccus....................
Cassia Fructus. ! 
®
Centraria............... "   @
Cetaceum.............Ü"  @
Chloroform........!!”   60®
^bloroform.squibbs  @ 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  50®  1  60
Chondrus................  20®  25
Cinchomdine,P.&W  20®  25 
Çinchonidine, Germ 
“
15®  221
Cocaine........ 
05® 3 25 
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct 
70
Creosotum.
Greta..............bbl.’75
Creta, prep............
Creta, precip.........
Creta, Rubra. ...!!"
Crocus...........
18®
Cudbear......
5®
Cupnsuipb. !!!!!!." 
Dextrine............ 
ifta
Ether Sulph........Ü! 
75®
(£&
^mery, all  numbers 
Rfnery, po................  @
gjgotaT......... po. 40 
30®
Flake  White........... 
12®
Gslla........................  @
Gambler.................. 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper.. . .   @
Gelatin, French...!!  35®
Glassware, flint, box  60, 10&10 
Less  than  box.... 
60
Glue,  brown........... 
9®
13®
Glue, white............  
Glycerina........ 
74®
@
Grana  Paradis! 
Humulus................. 
25®
Hydraag chlor  Mite  @ 
Hydraag Chlor  Cor.  @ 
@  70
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
@  901
Hydraag Ammoniati 
@   1  00 
45®  551
HydraagUnguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
@  65
Ichthyobolla, Am..
75
75®  1  00
ïn£ig0- 
................. 
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @ 420
................  @225
Lupulin 
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
Macis 
............  
«¡2,  75
Liquor Arsen et hj-
drarglod.............   @  25
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10® 
12 
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2® 
3
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  im
Mannia, S. F ........... 
50®  80
Menthol................ 
a  2 40

3

 

is® 

Folia

Arnica.................... 
12® 
1
Anthemis...............  
18®  2
Matricaria..............  30®  3
Barosma..................   30®  %
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................  
a
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  3«
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms.................  
12@  2i
OraUrsi.  ................ 
8® 
11
Gumml
®  6!
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@  4i
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
@  3i
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
@  2i
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
Acacia, po...............  
60®  8(
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12® 
11
IS
Aloe, Cape .... po. 15  @ 
3c
Aloe, Socotrl..po. 40  ® 
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafoetlda— po. 30  25®  28
Benzolnum............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is.............. 
® 
13
Catechu, Ms............   @ 
14
Catechu, Ms............   @ 
16
Camphor®.............. 
48®  =5
E uphorbi um.. po.  36  @ 1 0
Galbanum...............  
®  1  00
Gamboge  po...........  65®  70
Guaiacum......po. 35  @ 
35
g in o ......... po.*3.U)  @3  00
Mastic....................   @  60
@ 4 0
........  .po.  45 
Opli.. .po. #4.00@4.20 2 85®  2  95
Shellac.................... 
2S@  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
so® 
-

Herba
Ab8inthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumVoz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
flagnesla.
Calcined, Pat.........
Carbonate, Pat__ !!”
Carbonate, K. & M! ’
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum

55®
20®
20®
35®

Absinthium...........•  3 2Mi  3 vi
A m y p d & A S ia m I s o o ls i 

c a j W 1;;;;;;........
- ¿ r Phylli........" •  

a

  6?

ciSSneua11'.: ;: : :; ;: 1  « I 2 «

@
10®

35®  38
30@
35®

@15®
low
12@
25®

dus,  po............

fPiKen»................... 
Sanguinaria... po. 40
Serpentaria.........
Senega.................]
Similax.officinaiis H
Smilax, M............
Scillae.............p a 35
Symplocarpus, Foeti- 
Valeriana,Eng. po [30 
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
Zingiber j ...............  
Semen
Anisum......... po.  15  @
13®
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is...................  
  40?
C»™1..............PO-18 
10®
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1
Coriandrum......
Cannabis  Satlva
Cvdonium......... 75® 
100
Cnenopodium........ 
¡o®  u
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
Foeniculum............   @  M
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
j‘llì}’ugTà........bbl- 3 
^   4M
Lobelia..................  
35^
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4M
Sinapis Albu........... 
7® 
8
Slnapis Nigra.........  
n@ 
12
Spirltus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00@ 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti..............  1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
¿uniperis Co...........  1  75© 3 50
Saacharum N. E__   1  90® 2  10
Spt  Vini Galli........  1  75® 6  50
............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00
-Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
Nassau sheeps  wool
Velvet extra sheeps’
Extra yellow sheeps’ 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
Hard, for slate use..  @ 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac. 
..........
Ferri Iod......   .......
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Scillae................  
,.

carriage...............   2 50® 2  75
carnage 
......   @  2 00
wool, carriage......  @  1  25
wool,  carriage....  @ 100
carriage  ..............  @  1  00
75
1  40

50®
&

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

G R O C E R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T '.

they are prepared just before going to  press and  are  an  accurate index  of the  local  market. 

,  The  prices  quoted  in  this  list  are  for the trade only,  in  such  quantities as  are usually purchased  by retail 
dealers, 
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.

AXLB QRBA5B.

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

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

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

M lb cans doz................... 
14 lb cans doz................... 
1 

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

Acne.

W lb cans 3 doz................. 
*  lb cans 3 doz................. 
1 
Bulk.................................... 

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

Bl Parity.

H lb cans per doz............  
75
14 lb cans per doz  ..........   1  20
lb cans per doz............   2  00
1 

Home.

35
55
90

H lb cans 4 doz case........ 
14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
lb cans 2 doz case  ......  

EZ3 3 2 .IB

14 lb can«, 4 doz case......  
14 lb cans. 4 doz case........ 
1 

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

Jersey Cream.

1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. ca  s, ’ er doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  
85

M lb cans.................... 
A ib ca:«fc......................... 
1 

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

Peerless.

1 lb. cans

BATH  BRICK.

.70
V-  »riean
Sngiish....................................80

BLUING.

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 
40
3 doz. wooden boxes__ __  1 20

BROOilS.

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

CANDLES.

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

CANNED GOODS, 
rianltowoc  Pees.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside B. J ....................l  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  2* 
Lakeside  Gem  Ex.  lifted.  1  4- 
Extra Sifted Early June__1  75

CHEESE.
Acm e......................  @  u
Amboy.................... 
(&  H
Byron......................  @  1054
Elsie.......................  @  11
Gem.........................   @  1154
Gold  Medal............
Hartford..................   @  11
W eal.......................   @  11
Jersey  .....................  @  11
Lenawee.................  @  1054
Riverside.................  @ 11
Sparta....................   @  10«
Brick.......................  @  10
Edam.......................  @  75
LeWen....................   @  is
Limburger..............  @  10
Pineapple................ 43  @  85
Sap  Sago.................  @  18

CMOCOLATB.

Walter Baker ft Co.'a.

German Sweet...... 
23
Premium..................................12
Breakfast Cocoa 
................ 44

 

CONDENSED  MILK.
4 doz in cas
Gall Borden  Eagle..............6 '
Crown.................................. 6 !
Daisy....................................5 :

CLOTHES LINES.

fiotton, 40 ft, per  doz  ......  1  00
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz........  1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz...........1 60
Cotton. 88 ft, per  do*........  1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz......... 
80
Jot«. 78 ft,  oe-  dot.. 
«

Chicory.

Bulk
Red

COCOA SHBLLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
254
Less quantity.................  
8
Pound  packages............   _  4

CRBAfl TARTAR.

5  and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradoaman Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  I
100 books, any denom__  2 !
500 books, any denom 
11
.,000 bookB, any denom 
20 1
Economic Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  !
100 books, any denom__2 !
500 books, any denom__11  ^
1,000 books, any denom__ 20 00

Greco.
Rio.

Fair  ....................................... 10
Good....................................... 12
Prim e......................................13
Golden  ...................................14
Peaberry  ................................15

Santos.

Fair  ....................................... i<
Good  ........................... 
  15
Prim e....................................  16
Peaberry  ................................17

 

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

Fair  .....................................   16
Good  .......................... 
17
Fancy 
..................................is
Maracaibo.
................................. 30
................................   2t

■Prime 
Milled 

Jnvi.

Prívete  G row th....................   22
Msndehling..........................  24

Im itation.............................   92
Arabian  ................................24

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne..................... 28
Jewell's  Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Morba and Java.....24
Wells’ Perfection  Java......24
^eoeatbo 
.......  . . . . . _23
Breakfast B’end...............   20
Valley City Maracaibo....... 18t4
Tdeal  Blend.........................13
Leader Blend......................13

Package.

for 

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  yonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he pnrehases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package.  In  60  lb. 
cases the list Is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price In full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  
it  00
Jersey.............................   n   on
’TcLaughlln’s  XXXX........tl  00

Extract.

Valley City 14 gross......  
Felix 14 gross................. 
Hummel's foil H gross... 
Hnmmel's tin %  gross  .. 

76
1  15
86
1  43

CAT5UP.

Columbia, 
pints.............. 2 25
Columbia, 14 pints.............. 1  25

CLOTHES PINS.

6  gross boxes..., 

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

Universal Grade.
50 books, any denom..
100 books, any denom__   2 50
500 books, any denom___11 50
1,000 books, any denom___20 00

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1 50
100 books, any denom___ 2 50
500 books, any denom___11 50
l,000jbookB, any denom___20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1  00
50 books...........................  2 00
lOObooks...........................  3 00
250 books...........................   c 25
500 books............................10 00
1000 books............................17 50

Credit Checks.

Apples.

California Pralts.

500, any one denom’n .........3 00
1000, any one denom’n .........5 00
2000, any one denom’n .........8 Of
Steel  punch.......................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOflESTIC 
Sundrled.......................   @454
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 6% 
Apricots......................   9 @10
Blackberries...............
Nectarines..................   6 @
Peaches.......................  714@ 9
Pears..............................8 @
Pitted Cherries...........
Pmnnelles...................12
Raspberries................
100-120 25 ib boxes.........  @
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   @ 514
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   @6
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @654
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   @ 7
40 - 50 26 lb boxes.......   @
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
54 cent less In 50 lb cases

Californio Prnnos.

Raisins.

London Layers 2 crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 5 Crown.
Dehesias.......................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 8 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

1  60 

554
654
754

Peel.

FOREIGN.
Currants.
Patras bbls.................
Vostizzas 50 lb cases..
Cleaned, bulk  ...........
Cleaned, packages__

■& 654 
•@ 654
•@ 854
Citron American 10 lb bx 
@14 
Lemon American 10 lb bx 
@12 
Orange American 101b bx
@12
Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  @854
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  @
Sultana 3 Crown........   @12
Sultana 4 Crown.........  n
Sultana  K Crown....... .  @
Sultana 6ÿ3rown.........   @

Raisins.

Farina.

FA RIN A C EO U S  GOODS.

.. 

Peas.

Sago.

Grits.

Beans.

Wheat.

Hominy.

g  24 1 lb.  packages.........
..175
k  Bulk, per 100  lbs.........
..3  50
g 
n  Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s__ ..2 40
g  Bulk in 100 lb. bags...... ..3 40
0 
g  Barrels  .......................
..2 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums...... ..1  00
Dried Lima  ................
3*
Medium Hand  Picked.. ..1  10
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box.  .
..  60
Imported,  25 lb. box..
..2 50
Pearl Barley.
Common.....  ..............
..  2 40
Chester.......................
..  2 50
Empire  ......................... ..  2  75

@ 4H
@ 5M
@   ej¿
  5 @  7*4
10
9
80

1 
1  Green,  bu...................... ..  90
Split,  per lb.................
2
D 
Rolled  Oats.
0  Rolled Avena,  bbl__ ...4 f0
0  Monarch,  bbl...............
.3 60
0  Monarch.  54  bbl........... ..2 05
Private brands,  bbl... .  3 50
Private brands, Vi bbl... ..2 00
)  Quaker, cases............... . .3 20
)  German......................... ..  354
0  East  India....................
3
Cracked, bulk..............
3Q
24 2 lb packages............ ..2 50
Ftsh.
Cod.
Georges cured. . . . . . . .
Georges  genuine. . . . .
Georges selected. . . . .
Strips or bricks. . . . . .
Halibut.
Chnnks...........................
Strips...............................
Holland white hoops keg
Holland white hoops  bbl
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs.................
Round  40 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . .
Scaled. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mess IN) lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mess  40 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mess  10 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Mess  8  lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
N o.  l luu ibs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 1  40 lbs. . . . . . . . . .  
. ..
No. 1  10 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 1  8 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 2 100 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 2  40 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 2  10 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 2  8 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Russian kegs. . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 1100 ibs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 1  40 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 1  10 lbs. . . . . . . . . . . . . .
No. 1  8 lbs...... .............
No. 1 No. 2
100 lbs__ ....  6 00 5 00
1  90 
40 lbs__ ....  2 70
2 30
1  06 
10 lbs....
65
34
8 lbs__ .... 
63
55
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

16 no
6 70
1  75
1  43
14  50
6  1 1
1  60
1  30
1  75
4  60
1  22
1  OO
55
4 00
1  9j
47

¿ardíaos.
Trout

Whltotish.

Hacke rei.

Herring.

Sondera*.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

1  50 
3 00

1  75 
3 50

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

........................... 4 00
Kegs 
Half Kegs...........................2  25
Quarter Kegs......................1  25
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
54 lb. cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ................................... 4 25
Half Kegs...........................2  40
Quarter Kegs......................1  35
1 lb. cans......... ....................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

Kegs....................................8  00
Half Kegs........................... 4  25
Quarter Kegs......................2  25
1 lb. cans..............................  45

LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   so
Calabria  .............................   25
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10

MASON  FRUIT JARS. 

Pints, 1 doz. box, per gross  4 25 
Quarts, 1 d’z. box, per gr’ss  4  50 
Half gal.  1 d’z. b’x, p’r gr’ss 6 00 
Fruit Jar Rubbers, p’r gr’ss  25 
Mason Caps only  per gross 2 25 

Glass Cover Fruit Jars. 
“The Best’’ Fruit Keeper. 

Pints, 1 doz  box, per gross 5 50
Suarts, 1 d'z. box. per gr’ss 5 75 
alf gal. 1 d’z b’x, p’r gr’ss 7 75
Ideal, 3 doz. in case............2  25

MINCE MBAT.

HATCHES.

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

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

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

 
Half-barrels 2c extra.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216......   .............  1  60
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
65
Cob, No. 3..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
2oz.......1  20 
3 Oz....... 1  50 
4oz.......2 00 
6oz.......3 00 
No.  8  4 00 
No. 10.  .6 00 
No.  2T.125 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No  4 T.2 40 

D. C. Lemon
2 oz........   75
3oz.........1  00
4 oz.........140
6oz........ 2 00
No.  8...2 40
No. 10. ..4 00
No.  2T.  80
No.  3 T.l  35
No.  4 T.l  5«
.....................................   15

HERBS.

INDIQO.

JBLLY.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes............   55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
16 lb  palls......................... 
40
30 lb pails.................  
’  75
Condensed, 2 d o t ..............1 20
Condensed, 4 doz............... 2 26

LYE.

PICKLES.
(Tedium.

Small.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  5 00
Half bbls, 600 count...........  3 CO

Barrels, 2,400 connt...........  6 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count........  3 50

RICB.

•  Domestic.

¿u
Carolina head................ 
Carolina  No. 1...................... 5*
Carolina  No. 2.............. 
’  444
Broken...................................gs^

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1.................  
gv
Japan.  No. 2.....................    g3
Java, fancy head............ .  6
Java, No. 1................. 
5
Table............................... "   5*4

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

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

SAL SODA.

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

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks............................ 2 00
60 5-lb sacks........................1  80
28 10-lb sacks........................... 1 65

Worcester.

50  4  lb.  cartons................3 25
115  2141b. sacks................... 4 00
60  5  lb. sacks................... 3  75
22 14  lb. sacks.................  3 50
3010  lb. sacks................... 350
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.................... 2 50

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

56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Solar Rock.

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

Common.

Granulated  Pine.................   75
Medium  Fine......................  85

5BBDS.

A nise................................. 
jg
Canary, Smyrna..................   4
Caraway............................   10
Cardamon,  M alabar......   80
Hemp,  Russian................  4
Mixed  Bird......................  414
Mustard,  white.........  
6tt
Poppy  ................................   8
Rape...................................  
g
Cuttle Bone................ 
20

SNUFF.

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

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

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

Pure Ground In Bulk.

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

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pure Cana.

Barrels...
Half  bbls

Fair  ......
Good......
Choice  ...

SODA.
Boxes  ...
Kegs,-English.........

26
....  22

16
20
28

RU

.......4«

SOAP.
•Jndry.
Js Brands.

Arir., 

Armour's  fam ily..............  %  50
Armour’s  Laundry...........  3 30
Armour's White, 100s........  6 25
Armour’s White, 50s........... 3 2d
Armour's Woodchuck...... 2 50
Armour’s Kitchen  Brown.  2  00 
Armour's Mottled German  2 25

r r

Single box............................2 7!
5 box lots, delivered..........2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65
JUS. S. KIRK S CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp'd....3 33 
American Family, uuwrp’d.3 27
Dome....................................3 33
Cabinet..............................” 2 20
Savon.................................. ,2 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6 oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz... .3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb.............3  00
Kirkoline............................. 3 75
Bos.......................................3  «5
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single  box...........................2  80
5 box lots........................... 2  75
10 box lots........................... 2  70
25 box lots........................... 2  60
Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

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

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
Uno, 100 5Si-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d oz...... 2 40
Sapolio, hand. 3 doz...........2 40

Scouring.

Washing Powder.

SUGAR.

 

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
ireight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf 
........5 75
Domino................................’ ” 5 6j
Cubes.................................5 3a
Powdered  .......................... 5 33
XXXX  Powdered............   5 50
Mould  A.............................538
Granulated in bbls............ 5  13
Granulated in  bags........... 5  13
Fine Granulated................5 1j
Kxtra Fine Granulated...... 5  2j
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .0 25
Diamond  Confec.  A........  5  1>
Oonfec. Standard A.........   5  uO
No. 
1.......... 
..4  8a
No 
2....................................  4 88
No.  3......................................4 fc8
No.  4  ................................. 488
No.  5......................................4 81
No.  6......................................4 76
No.  7......................................4 69
No.  8...........................   4  66
No.  9......................................4 44
No.  10..................................4 38
No.  11..................................43,
No.  12................................   4 25
No.  13..................................4  19
No.  14..................................4 06
No.  15..................................3 00
No.  16..................................3 94

 

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large.......4 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small.......2 75
Halford,  large...................... 3 75
Halford small....................... 2 25
Salad Dressing, large.......4 55
Salad Dressing, small.......2 65

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick..............................35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s b’d.
Governor Yates, 4*4 in.......58 00
Governor Yates, 4%, in.......65 00
Governor Yates, 554 in.......70 00
Monitor.................................. 30 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

Quintette............................... 35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

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

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................  Ox
Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1-lb packages...................  654
8-lb boxes  .........................7

Diamond.

Common Corn.

64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c  packages.................5 00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00 
20 1 lb  packages..................  454
40 1 lb  packages..................  4M
20 lb. boxes..........................  4
401b. boxes.........................   2%
1-lb  packages......................  4)4
3-lb  packages......................  4*4
6-lb  packages  ....................   44:
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
..............  2%
Barrels 

Common Gloss.

STOVE POLISH.

8.C. W...............................35 00

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

CIGAR

VINEdAR.

WICKINO.

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

Malt White Wine...................  7
Pure  Cider.............................   8

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

Fresh Fish.

Per lb. 
%  9
»  8 
Ì   10 
Î  15 
Ì  4 
&  10 
I  16 
18 
@
10 8 
9

Whiteflsh................
T rout......................
Black Bass..............
Halibut...................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluefish..................
Live Lobster.........
Boiled Lobster........
Cod.........................
Haddock.................
No.  1  Pickerel........
Pike.........................
Smoked White........
Red Snapper...........
Col  River Salmon.. 
Mackerel 
..............

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts...........  ©
F. J. D. Selects........  @  27
Selects....................  ©  23
F. J. D. Standards..  @ 22
Anchors..................  @  20
Standards...............   © 
lg
Favorites...............   ©  16

Oystars in Bulk

F.  H. Counts...........  @1  75
Extra Selects.........   @i  60
fcelects....................  @1  30
Alienor Standards..  @120
St  ndards...............   @1  pi
Clams.....................   @1  25

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

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per  100... 
Clams,  per  100...

.1  25@1  50 
.  9ü©î  or

standard...........
Standard H.  H.. 
Standard Twist. 
Cut Loaf........
Jumbo, 32 lb  ...
Extra H. H......
Boston  Cream.

bbls.  pails 
6)4@  7)4 
8)2@ 7)4 
6  (a,  8 
@ 814 
cases 
@ 6}4
<© 814 
@

Mixed Candv.

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

@ 7 
@  7)4 
@   8 ©  8 
@   854 
@®  8V4 
45 
@  9 
@ 9 
© to
@113

@ 9 
@  9 
<¡»14 
@12 
@   6 
45  8 @  9 
45 9

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........  11
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops..............
Imperials..............’

Fancy—In  3  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon Drops.........
Sour  Drops............
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops__
A, B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain__
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials...............
Mottoes...............
Cream  Bar......
Molasses B a r__
Hand Made Creams.  80
Plain  Creams.........   60
Decorated Creams
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25
Wlntergreen Berries
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes ...................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  ib.
boxes...................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes...............

Fruits.
Oranges. 

Choice Naples.

160s
200s.
Rodis.
200 Fancy................
Lemons. 
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy  360s..............
Ex.Fancy  300s........
Ex.  Rodl 360s.........
Bananas.

Medium bunches...1  25 
Large bunches........1  75

@50 
@50 
@60 
@60 
@75 
@30 
@75 
@50 
@50 
@50 
@50 
@55 
@o0 @50 
@1  Oj 
@90 
@90 
@60 
@ 
@60

@30
@45

@4  50 
@5 00

@3 50 
@3 50 
@4  uO 
@4 50 
@6  00

@1  50 
@2  00

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

10 ib Californias... 
Figs,  New  Smyrnas
12 lb boxes.........
Figs,  Naturals  in
30 lb. bags,............
Dates, Fards in 10 lb
boxes.................
Dates, Fards in 601b
cases  ..............
Dates,Persians, H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  ........

Nuts.

@  12
@  15
@ 6
@ 8
@ 6
@ 5)4
@

Almonds, Tarragona..  @3
Almonds, Ivaca.........  ©11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new...............   @ 8)4
Filberts  ....................  @10
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1.  @10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @12
Table Nuts,  fancy....  @13
Table Nuts,  choice...  @12
Pecans, Med...............  @10
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @12
Pecans, Jumbos........   ©14
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 50

Ohio, new...............   ©

Peanuts. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns 
f ancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras

@  4

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Wheat.

Wheat.................................  g5

Winter  Wheat Flour. 

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

Local Brands.
Patents.......................  
5 50
Second  Patent.....” .........5 wi
Straight.........................4 so
Clear............................. 
|  40
Graham  ..........................  4
Buckwheat......  
Ry e --......................3 ..
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad 
ditioual.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  54s........................  4 go
Quaker, * s ........................  4 ^
Quaker, 54s........................  4 go
Guard, Fairfield & Co’s Brand.
W hole Wheat I-16s............  5 20

Spring  Wheat Floor, 

5

Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s Best 54s...........  5 70
EfJJab'iry’s Best 54s...........  5 60
Pillsbury s Best s,a...........  5 50
Pillsbury s  Best 54s paper .  5  50 
PulsDury s Best * s paper..  5 5u 
Ball-Barahart Putman's Brand
Grand Republic,  54s...... 
Grand Republic, Qs..  . . . ”  5 55
Grand Republic, 54s...........5 «5
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
5$s..................  5 65
Gold Medal j£s.................   5
Gold Medal * s ...........” 
545
Parisian, * s .................... .’. 5  c5
Parisian, Qe.........................5 55
Parisian. Hs.........................    45
Ceresota, *48........................    65
Ceresota, q s................  
5  55
Ceresota, Vis......... 545
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand
Laurel, * s .........................  5 S5
Laurel, Qs.............. 
=
Laurel, * s ..............." " I ”
Bolted...............................  
Granulated...... 2 00

Olney A Judson’s Brand

Meal.

j 7c

Feed and Mllletuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 14 40
tt°L1 .CoP  and  Oats..........13 50
unbolted Com Meal..........13 00
Winter Wheat  Bran...  .  11  00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .L» 00 
Screenings..............................10 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:
Car  lots.............................   3i
Less than  car lots...........\  34
Car  lots................... 
j 4
Carlots, clipped.. . . " . . 3 3
Less than  car  lots......... .1  28

New Corn.

Oats.

•Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

 

10

4%
%
%

Sausages.

Barreled Pork.

follows:
Mess
9  50
Rack  .............................   12 «j
Clear  back
lo 50
Shortcut...................... 
Pig
„ - 
 
14 50
pean  .............................  
9  50
family  ..........................  9  50
Dry Salt Meats.
Bellies.................... .....  
«u
Briskets 
Extra shorts............... . .
Smoked neats.
Hams, 12 lb average  ...
Hams, 14 lb  average
Hams, 16 Id  average......  
_ m
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
gw
Ham dried be e f............  
15
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
«
Bacon,  clear........  ...... g
©9
California hams.........
Boneless hams............". 
8)4
Cooked ham..................    tx
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound__
Kettle...........
55 lb Tubs__ ..advance
801b Tubs....
. .advance
501b T ins...... ..advance
20 lb Palls...... .. advance
10 lb Palls...... ..advance
5 lb Palls...... .. advance
%
3 lb Pails...... .. advance
1
Bologna........
5
Liver..............
Frankfort......
7
P ork..............
Blood  ......
5
Tongue  .........
9
Head  cheese..
6)4
Extra  Mess....................   9 00
Boneless  .................... 
12 
Rump.......................... . .12 00
_  
Plga’ Peat.
Kits. 15 lbs................. 
go
X  bbls, 40 lbs...........  "   1  50
H  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 80
Kits, 15 lbs........................  
75
X  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  40
)4  bbls, 80 lbs........................2 75
_ 
Casings.
jg
P ork....................... 
 
Beef  rounds........4
12U
Beef  middles.............. 
Sheep......................................go
_  „  
Rolls,  dairy................... 
Solid, dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery........14
Solid,  creamery.........  
„ 
Canned Manta.
Corned beef,  f ib .... 
2 10
Corned  beef, 14 lb..........14  00
Roast  beaf,  2  lb........... 3 Ao
Potted  ham,  v s .........   go
Potted  ham, 
)4*........]  1  00
Deviled ham,  x •.........   60
Deviled ham,  *4s..............   1 00
Potted  tongue  54 s.........  
go
Potted  tongue Hs.........   1  00

,  Butterlne.

u
jqw
13^4

Tripe.

Beef.

. 

 

21

Crockery  and 

•  Glassware.

50
5) 4
6) 4
6)4

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

)4 gal., per doz.................
1 to 6 gal., per gal...........
8 gal., per g a l.................
10 gal., per gal..................
12 gal., per gal..................
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
| 20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal.. 

Churns.

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

10
5)485
)4 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.
60
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each 
5)4
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
H gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5)4 

Milkpans.

Stewpans.

Jugs.

)4 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  85 
1 *»L fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
X gal., per doz..................
)4 gal., per doz..................
1 to 5 gal., per gal............

40
50
6)4
70
20
30
Preserve Jars and Covers.
)4 gal., stone cover, dos...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 

)4 gal., per dos.................
1 gal., each......................
Corks for )4 gal., per doz..
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..

Tomato Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

00

45
so
75

First  Quality.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun................ 
no.  1  sun....................... ;; 
No.  2 Sun................. 
Tubular......................59
Securi ty, No. 1........65
Security, No. 2................. 
85
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
Climax...............................  j  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 do*.
No.  0 Sun.........................  1  75
no.  2 sun....................;;;;  2 ?o
No.  0 Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0 Sun,  orimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2 Sun,  crimp 

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

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

top,
top,
top,

Hay.

No. 1 Timothycarlots........  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lota__ 10 00

Crackers.
N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

5oda.

Oyster.

Batter.

as follows:
Seymour XXX.........  
4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  4*
Family XXX......................  4”
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  4*4
Salted XXX.......................  4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  4V4
„  , 
Soda  XXX  .......................   4
4%
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton.. 
Soda,  City.............. 
5
Zephyrette................9
Long Island  Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10 
Square Oyster, XXX.........   4*4
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  5*4 
Farina Oyster,  YYY.........   4
SWEET  00005—Boxes.
Animals......................... 
9
Bent's Cold Water__ 13
Belle Rose.........................  6
Cocoanut Taflfy......... ’. ” 
g
Coffee Cakes....................]  g
Frosted Honey.................\  10
Graham Crackers  ............   6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps,XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................   g
JumDles,  Honey................  10
Molasses Cakes.................  6
Marshmallow  ...................  12
Marshmallow  Creams......   13
Pretzels,  hand m ad e......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................  6
Sultanas............................  jo
Sears’Lunch..............” . ”  6
Vanilla  Square................ 
7
Vanilla  Wafers...............   12
Pecan Wafers....................   12
Mixed Picnic....................   10
Cream Jumbles............... .  HV4
Boston Ginger Nuts..........  6
Ohimnjie Fadden 
.........   9
Pineapple Glace.......  .....  2
Penny Cakes 
...............   g
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  13
Belle Isle Picnic..............  10

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................  g  © 714
Fora quarters............ 5  ©  8
Hind  quarters...........  7  © 9
Loins  No.  S................  9  ©12
Rlbs  -...........................8  @12
Rounds......................  6)4©  714
Chucks.
........ 
4  0  5*
Plates
..............  @  3
Perk.
Dressed......................  @ 5)4
L oins.........................  @ 8)4
Shoulders...................  ©  g
Leaf Lard.................... 5)4©  g
Carcass........................g  © 7
Spring Lambs............ 8  ©9
.  8  ©   9
Carcass 

Mutton.

Vaal.

Hides.

Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green...................  ...  7  @ 8
Part  cured.................  ©  sh
Full Cured.................  7£©  8R
..............................9  ©11
Kips,  green................  7  @  8
Kips,  cured..................8  @  9
Calfskins,  green........  7H@  9
Calfskins, cured........9  @10*4
Deaconskins  .............25  ©30
Shearlings........ ...... 
5© 30
Lambs.............. ......   40© 90
Old  Wool......
......  60© 90

P elts

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ..................
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
W W Michigan...........  © g
Diamond White.........  © 7
D-i 8- Gas....................  @g
Deo. N aptha..............  @7)4
Cylinder................... 25  @36
Engine  .....................11  ©21
B   « ok. w in t e r ................ 
©   g

©11)4 
@ 8)4

La  Bastta.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   j  25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
d o z .................. 
j  50
  
No. 1 Crimp,per d o z'..” ”  1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per do*......... 1  60

 

Rochester.

Electric.

OILCANS. 

Pump  Cans

No. 1, Lime  (66c do*)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c do*). . . . .   4  06
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c do*)  ...  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)____  4 40
Do*.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv Iron with spout.  3 50 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4  75 
3 gal galv Iron with faucet  4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  8 00
6 gal galv iron  Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00
6 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56
3 gal Home Rule.... 
...... 10  50
5 gal Home Rule................13 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular...................4  25
No.  IB   Tubular...!........  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........   3 75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,

each, box 10 cents...........  45
each, box  15  cents..........  45
each, bbl 35':....................   40
cases 1 doz. each............   1 25

LANTERNS.

LAMP  WICKS.

No. 0 per gross...................  20
No  1 per gross................... 
25
No. 2 per gross  .................  
38
No. 3 per gross................... 
58
Mammoth........................... 
70

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

22

Hardware

How  to  Succeed 

in  the  Hardware 

Business.

When  you  go 

into  business go  in  to 
win;  not  for  your  health,  but  to  make 
some  money.

Don’t be  afiaid  to  work  at  least  until 
you  get  the  ball  rolling;  then  don’t  stop 
but  keep  kicking  it  on.

You  must  have  capital  enough  to  buy 
a  stock,  be  it  large  or  small,  for  spot 
cash.

Locate,  if  possible,  in a county seat or 
a 
town.  Get  a 
live  manufacturing 
good  location  in  the  town  regardless  of 
rent.  Go  where  you  find  plenty  of  peo­
ple  and  not  at  a  country  cross  road.

Do  not  buy  goods  on  time.  Credit 
has  made  more  financial  wrecks  than all 
other  causes  combined.

Discount  all  bills;  you  can  live  on I 
your  discounts.  Never  permit  a  draft  to 
enter  your  store.

Sell  for  cash  only,  under  all  circum­

stances.

Always  keep  your  stock  fully  insured. 
Attend  strictly  to  business.  Never be 
in  a  saloon,  especially  during 

found 
business  hours.

See  that  your  clerks  are  courteous and 
of  good  moral  habits.  Pay  them  living 
wages  and  they  will  take  a  deeper 
in­
terest  in  your  business.

In  your  buying  do  not  tie  to  any  one 
firm,  be  they  the  cheapest  store 
in 
America.  Be  independent.  Buy  most­
ly  from  factory  and  commission  .men. 
When you can  pick  up  assignees’ stocks, 
do  so.  Go  to  New  York  and  Philadel­
phia  occasionally;  attend  the  auction 
sales. 
If  possible,  have  a  resident  New 
York  buyer  or  join  a  syndicate.  Buy 
from  the  markets  of  the  world  wherever 
and  whatever  you  can  buy  at  a  bargain. 

Advertise,  advertise,  advertise.
Use  your  city  and  your  county  papers 
as  regular  as  you  eat  your  meals,  the 
year around.

Put  out  posters  or  hand  bills  every 
month  or  six  weeks,  pay  days,  show 
days,  at  fairs,  etc.

Quote  prices  on  everything.
Fill  your  window  full  of  notions.
Mark  every  article  with  large  printed 
cards  that  can  be  seen  across  the  street.
in  the  store  in 

Mark  every  article 

plain  figures.

Change  your  windows  two  times  each 
week,  or  at  least once every week.  Have 
every  article  you  advertise,  and  sell 
it 
at  the  price  you  advertise  or  below.

When  you  get  a  bargain  give  one. 
Never  kill  the  goose  that 

lays  the 

If  you  can  sell  goods  at  20  or  25  per 

golden  egg.

cent,  do  so.

Find  what  it  costs  you  to  do  business. 
Do  not attempt  to  sell  all  goods  at  a 

uniform  price.

Find  at  what  per  cent,  you  can  turn 
your  goods  the  oftenest  during  the  year 
and  realize  a  living  profit  on  each  turn.
Always  treat  traveling  men  courteous­

ly,  even  if  you  do  not  buy  of  them.

Keep  a  quotation  book  and  record  all 

prices.

Study  your  patrons1  wants.
Sell  everything  you  have  a  demand 
for  and  especially  keep  full  stock  of  all 
staple  goods.

Have  your  clerks  keep  a  record  of 
every  article  called  for  in  your  various 
departments.  Copy  these  wants  and 
study  them  carefully.

Use  your  judgment  as  much  as  pos­

sible  and  do  your own  buying.

Consult  your  clerks  as  to  your custom­

ers’  wants,  whims,  etc.

Get  what  your  trade  demands.
Have  goods  arriving  at  your  store 

every  day  of  the  year.

Guarantee  every  article  you  sell.
Refund  the  money  or  exchange  the 
goods  as  cheerfully  as  you  sold  the  ar­
ticle.

Do  not  allow your  clerks  to argue  with 
or  insult  a  customer;  they  are  your  best 
advertisers.

Interest  the  children  and  mothers.
Treat  the  smallest  child  as  you  would 

a  grown-up  son.

Never  take  the  advantage  of  any  one. 
Observe  the  golden  rule  not  from  policy 
but  from  a  deep-seated  conviction  of 
your  soul  as  to  opposition 
in  business, 
leaders,  etc.

Use  your  judgment;  what  will  work 
in  one  town  or  case  will  fail  in  another.
Do  not  get  scared  if  your  neighbor 
merchant  talks  about  you  and  says  vile 
things  and  persecutes  you.  Rejoice  and 
keep  mum.  Saw  wood  and  appear  to 
like  it.

Treat  your  enemies  like gentlemen ;  it 
is  only  a  lack  of  good  horse  sense  that 
causes  their  actions.  You  will  never 
make  much  of  a  success  in anything un­
til  you  get  people  to  talking  about  you. 
— Hardware  Dealers’  Magazine.
Customer  Lost  Through  Being  Too 

Liberal  with  Samples.

From the Chicago Times-Herald.

“ Mamma  gets  tired  so  easily.  Now 
that  we  have  her  safely  seated,  let’s 
look  around  a 
little  b it,’ ’ said  Miss 
Brown.

“ With  pleasure,’ ’  replied  Mr.  Smith, 
in  the  department  store,  but 

who  was 
not  as  happy  as  he  looked.

“ I  suppose  all  men detest shopping?”
“ I  guess  you  never  asked  them  to 

shop  with  you. ”

“ That’s  ingenious,  Mr.  Smith.  That 
would  be  a  good  way  to  ascertain 
whether  they  do  or  not,  wouldn’t  it? 
But  I  haven’t  the  heart  to  dissect  a 
plausible  argument,  especially when  it’s 
offered  in  that  spirit.”

‘ Miss  Brown,  you  are  a  cynic.  You 
are making  me  ashamed  of  my  real  sen­
timents.’

“ Do  tell  me  how.”
“ You  laugh  at  everything  that’s  seri­

ous,  and  my  sentiments  are  serious.”

“ Now,  Mr.  Smith,  you  must  stop. 
This  wouldn’t  be  shopping  at all  if  we 
talked  coherently.  You  seem  so  mel­
ancholy.  They  say  that  dyspepsia  gives 
people  that  kind  of  thoughts,  but  I 
think  that  that  kind  of  thoughts  give 
people  dyspepsia.  You  should  avoid 
them,  Mr.  Smith.  Try  to  be  like  me.
I  never  do  anything  that  would  be  like­
ly  to  give  me  dyspepsia.  But  let’s  get 
to  business.  I've  been  trying  for a  long 
time  to  discover  something  new  in  food 
that  papa  would  like.  Here  are  sam­
ples  of  twenty-five novelties.  Don’t  they 
look 
just  exquisite!  And  aren’t  the 
girls  that  give  them  out  just too daintily 
got  up  for  anything!  Just  smell  that 
tomato  soup !  Mr.  Smith,  we  must  try 
some  of  that  tomato  soup.”

“ Er—ah—of  course,  if  I  were  you  I 
should  certainly  sample  it. 
If  l  were 
intrusted  tacitly,  as you are,  withacom- 
missjon from a dear relative,  I should de­
termine  the  merits  of  every  new  brand 
of  tomato  soup  or  die.  But,  as  it  is,  my 
physician  says  that  I  must  confine  my­
self  absolutely  to  verm icelli.”

“ That  was  simply  delicious.  You’ll 
never  know  how  much  you  missed  by 
not  tasting  it,  Mr.  Smith. 
I  shall  cer­
tainly  have  to  order  two  cans  of  that. 
And  now  that  you  didn’t  take the  soup 
you  surely  can’t  refuse  to  try  some  of 
those  little  pickles.  Aren’t  they  the 
cutest  things  you  ever  saw?  Do  try 
one.  No?  Mr.  Smith,  you’re  a  martyr. 
Just  ^  look 
those  vanilla  wafers. 
They’re  made  out  of  that  new  kind  of 
cereal.  Don’t  they  look  as  though  they 
would  melt  before  they  could  be  swal­
lowed?  And they’re  just  as  good  as  they 
look, 
too.  Really,  I  must  have  an­
other.  O h!  and  there's  some  of  that 
cheese  they’re  all  talking  about.  Have

at 

It 
you  tried  that  cheese,  Mr.  Smith? 
I 
has  set  the  epicures  wild,  you  know. 
don’t  see  how  you  can  be  so  mean. 
I 
don’t  believe  you’ve  taken  a  bite  of  one 
thing  except  the  graham  wafers.  Do 
in 
look  at  those  doughnuts  swimming 
that  amber-colored  grease. 
It’s  abso­
lutely  the  newest  thing  out,  entirely 
vegetable—made  from  beets,  I  believe. 
I  declare  they  taste  just  too  good  for 
anything ! 
I  must  have  a  memorandum 
of  that.  And  here  are  those  new  pre­
serves  which  Alice  Miller  told  me about 
—an  entirely  new  system,  you  know. 
Dear!  Would  you  imagine  they’d  give 
such a  quantity  away  as a sample?  Why, 
did  you  ever  think  of  it,  Mr.  Smith,one 
could  almost 
lunch  here  for  nothing. 
I’m  beginning  to—there,  that  girl  wants 
us  to  try  some  American  olives.  And 
here’s  a  new  sort  of  pickled  ham.  Isn't 
it  wonderful  how  they  give  samples  of 
everything?”

“ Now  that  there  seems  to  be  nothing 
else  to  eat  in  sight,  it  just  occurs  to  me 
that  you've  had  nothing  to  drink.  Come 
with  me 
instantly  and  we’ll  get  some 
soda  water.”

“ Really,  Mr.  Smith,  that’s  very  kind 
of  you,  indeed,  and  I  shall  avail  my­
self  of  it.  I’ll  take some  ice  cream  soda 
with  fruit  flavors,  raspberry  and  pine­
apple  mixed. ”

“ This  store  certainly  ought  to  sell  a 
great  deal,  they  are  so  generous  with 
their  samples,”   said  Mr.  Smith  as 
they  sipped  the  soda.

“ Oh,  it  pays  them  to  be  so.”
Three  days 

later,  on  Mr.  Brown’s

veranda,  Mr.  Smith  asked:  “ Well,Miss 
Brown,  have  you  bought  any  of  those 
goods  you  tried  when  we  were  down 
town?”

“ I  guess  not!”   she  replied. 

“ How 
could  you  expect  me  to  when  the  sam­
ples  made  me  so  sick?”

Don’t  forget  the $5  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets  good  5  days.

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers,

260 S.  Ionia St. 

Grand  Rapids.

PIEftED  TINWflRF

Special prices lor one week

5 quart  Flaring  Pails...
.. $  66 per dozen
io quart  Flaring  P a ils...
90 per dozen
14 quart  Flaring  Pails_ ...  1  44 per dozen
1  quart  Covered  Pails...
30 per dozen
2 quart Covered  P a ils...
48 per dozen
3  quart Covered  Pails..
69 per  dozen
4 quart Covered  Pails..
86 per dozen
<•  quart  Covered  P a ils... ...  1  16 per dozen
4  quart  Oil  Cans............ ...  1  20 per dozen
1  pint  Measures.............
36 per dozen
1  quart  Measures..........
46 per dozen

... 

2 quart  Measures.........

i  quart Coffee  P o t.......
2  quart  Coffee  P o t.......
3 quart  Coffee  P o t.......
4 quart Coffee  P o t.......
2  quart  Dippers............
No.  S  Steamers__
No. 9  Steamers.............
No.  S Tea  K ettles..........
N o. 9 Tea K ettles..........

...$ Si  per dozen
fo7e

9n 

58  per dozen
76 per dozen

86 per dozen
. ..   I 00  per  dozen
48  per  dozen
/Vi npr doze'
. ..   I 80 per dozen
. . .   2 40 per dozen

Less  5  per  cent, discount for cash with order. All
goods warranted  to  be  perfect.  Send  in  your  or­
ders at once, as  we  shall  withdraw  these  prices  in 
one  week.

FOS TER ,  S TEV EN S   &  60.,  Grand  Rapids,  Micii.

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

W rite  for  new  catalog.

BROWN  &  SEHLER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

Petting the  People

Some  Features  of  Bicycle Advertising. 
Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

into 

During  the  past  two  or  three  years 
the  advertising  of  bicycles  has taken the 
lead,  in  quantity  and  elaborateness  of 
work  done.  Catalogues  have  been  put 
out  by  all  the  leading  manufacturers 
and  many  of  the  smaller 
concerns 
which  are  a  miracle  of  modern  typo­
graphic  and  illustrative  art.  The  finest 
papers  procurable  have  been  used  and 
the  profusion  of  high  art  illustrations 
and  beautiful  colors  in  inks  have  made 
them  more  than  notable.  The  same 
elaborateness  has  entered,  so 
far  as 
possible, 
the  other  channels  of 
publicity,  such  as  magazine  advertise­
ments,  booklets,  etc. 
But,  notwith­
standing  all  this  profuse  display  and 
lavish  expenditure  of  money,  careful 
advertising  observers  claim  that  the  bi­
cycle  people  are  not  up  to  date  in  their 
methods—that there are  not  adequate  re­
sults  for  money 
In  looking 
through  any  of  the  leading  magazines, 
where the  bicycle  advertisements  are  all 
in  a  bunch,  the  close  resemblance  be­
tween  them 
is  noticeable  at  a  glance. 
The  pictures,  of  course,  vary;  but, 
when  read,  one 
is  led  to  think  they 
were  all  written  by  the  same  person 
and  that  person  not  particularly  bright. 
There  are  no  definite  claims  made. 
The  bicycle  advertisements  are  alto­
gether  too  much  like  most  of  the  kodak 
advertisements,  which  say,  ‘ ‘ Best  cam­
era  on  earth.  Takes  a  picture  size  of 
above,  3 ^ x 3 ^ .”

invested. 

There  is  altogether  too  much  smoke 
about  bicycle  advertising  and  not 
enough  fire.  Instead of fixing upon some 
particular  features  which  are  claimed 
to  be  superior— features  which  are  in­
corporated  into  the  machine  to  make  it 
desirable—and  telling  the  public  in  a 
few  forcible,  plain  words  why 
these 
features  make  the  wheel  better  than 
others,  the  money  of  the  advertisers  has 
been  expended  for  fancy  cuts  and  fan­
cier  phrases  which  are  productive  of  no 
lasting  results.

The  pictures  are  all  right.  This  is 
the  “ picture  age”   and 
illustrations 
serve  as  a  sauce.  But  the  bicycle  folk, 
generally,  have  made  their  pudding 
from  the  picture  and  feebly  tickled  the 
buying  palate  with  empty  phrases  for 
sauce.

It  is  no  longer  necessary  for  advertis­
ing  space  to  be  devoted  to  convincing 
people  that  they  should  buy  and  ride 
bicycles.  Every  one  knows  that  the  bi­
cycle 
is  an  established  vehicle.  What 
the  buyer  wants  to  know 
is  “ what”  
wheel  he  should  ride,  and  “ why”   he 
should  buy  that  particular make.  Points 
of  durability,  convenience  in  all  ways, 
ease  of  operation,  beauty  of  finish  and 
economy,  should  be  brought out strongly 
and  convincingly,  and,  if  supplemented 
by  a  good  cut,  so  much  the  better.  But 
these  first  and  all  the  time.

It  is  astonishing  to  note  the ignorance 
among  bicycle  riders  of  the  little  things 
which  go  to  make  up  a  perfect  ma­
chine.  They  know  that  their  mounts 
propel  easily  or  otherwise,  are  reliable 
or  otherwise,  and  this  is  as  far  as  they 
get.  This 
is  a  lack  of  education,  and 
is  not  the  fault  of  the  riders  but  of  the 
dealers,  who, 
instead  of  enlightening 
them 
in  their  advertising  text,  have 
shown  them  pretty  pictures,  and  said, 
“ We  know  our  wheel 
is  a  good  one, 
therefore  you  should  buy  it.”

If  I  owned  a  bicycle  factory  and 
wanted  to advertise  my  wheels  so  as  to

sell  them,  I  should  tell  people  that  the 
cones  and  balls  are  covered  by an easily 
removed  dust-proof cap  which  allows  of 
direct  access  for  oiling  and  absolutely 
keeps  the  parts  free  from  all  dirt  and 
I  should  tell  them  about  my  new 
dust. 
rigid  crank,  which 
it  is  absolutely  im­
possible  to  bend  out  of  shape  and  which 
will  not  break. 
I  should tell them,  in a 
simple,  direct  way,  all 
the 
sprockets,  tubing,  chain,  seat-post  and 
every  possible  point,  no  matter  how 
small,  on  which  superiority  could  be 
based.  This 
is  what  buyers  want  to 
know. 
im­
portance  to  the  great  mass  of  bicycle 
riders  whether  Tom,  Dick  and  Harry 
won  all  events  on  a  particular  wheel 
as  it  is  whether  that  particular  wheel  is 
just  exactly  what  they  want  to  ride.

It  isn’t  of  nearly  so  much 

about 

Bicycle  manufacturers  have  arrived at 
a  point  where  cost  of  production  must 
be  more  carefully  watched  in  order  to 
meet  the  increasing  demands  for  “ just 
as  good”   bicycles  at  less  cost.  To  re­
main  in  the  field,  this  demand  must  be 
met,  because  people  are  not  going  to 
pay  sixty,  seventy  or  eighty  dollars  for 
item  of  cost 
bicycles  any  more.  The 
in  advertising  has  hitherto  been  of 
less 
importance.  The  main  point  to  be  at­
tained  has  seemed  to  be  beauty of work. 
Now,  however, 
the  time  has  arrived 
when  every  expense  must  be  carefully 
guarded  in  order  to  meet  competition, 
and  advertising  money  must  be  put  in­
to  the  best  material  and  medium  pos­
sible,  in  order to  make  it  an  investment 
and  not  a  luxury. 

N emo.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND BITS
Snell’s..................................   ...................... 
Jennings’, genuine............................
Jennings’, imitation  . ..  

7(
.................25&ÍÓ
...............60&10

..........

First Quality, 
First Quality, 
First Quality. 
First Quality,

Railroad......

AXES

S. B. Bronze.........
D. B. Bronze.........
S. B. 8 .  Steel........
D. B. Steel............

BARROWS

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

Well,  plain...

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured... 
Wrought Narrow...................

Ordinary Tackle__

BLOCKS

............   5 00
............   9 50
............   5 5U
.............  10 50

.............« 3 25

............... 70&10
...............70&10

Cast Steel.  ...

CROW  BARS

CAPS

Ely’s  MO........
Hick’sC. F ........................................... 
Musket............................  

.. per lb 

_____
perm 
m 

70

4

55
en

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire.  .. 
.
Central  Fire..

CHISELS

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

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks.................
Taper and Straight Shank......
Morse’s Taper Shank..............
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6 in....................
Corrugated............................
Adjustable............................. .

50& 5

80
80
80
80

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

60 
50dt  5 
50&  5

doz. net 
50
1  25
........ 
........dis40&10

Getting  in  on  the  Ground  Floor. 
Capt.  Jas.  Bradford  says that  a  Swede 
came  into  a  lawyer’s  office  one  day  and 
asked:

“ Is  hare  ben  lawyer’s  place?”
“ Yes;  I ’m  a  lawyer.”
“ Well,  Maister  Lawyer,  I tank  I  skall 

have  a  paper  made.”

“ What  kind  of  a  paper do you want?”  
“ Well,  I 
tank  I  skall  have  mort­
gage.  You  see,  I  buv  me  piece  of 
land  from  Nels  Petersen,  and  1  want 
mortgage  on  it.”

Ob,  no.  You  don’t  want  mortgage; 

what  you  want  is  a  deed. ”

No,  Maister;  I  tank  I  want  mort­
gage.  You  see,  I  buy  me  two  pieces 
land  before,  and  I  got  deed  for  dem, 
and 
’nother  faller  come  along  with 
mortgage  and  tak  the  land ;  so  I  tank  I 
better get  mortgage  this  time. ”
New  Postal  Ruling  on  Mailing  Cards.
A  recent  ruling  of  the  postal  depart­
ment  at  Washington  is  to  the  effect  that 
the  use  that  is  being  made  of  mailing 
cards  for  the  purpose  of  sending  signed 
receipts  for goods  or  money  and  as  or­
ders  for  goods  renders  them  first-class 
matter.  Postmasters  have  received  in­
structions  to  the  effect that printed mail­
ing  cards  so  prepared  that  by  attaching 
a  signature  they  are  thereby  converted 
into  receipts,  or 
into  orders  upon  the 
addressee  for  some  article  or articles 
furnished  by  him,  and  when  so  signed 
become  personal  communications,  are 
liable  to  letter  postage.

Pursued  by  the  Octopus. 

“ Here’s  some  more  of  the  horrible 
work  of  them  blamed  monopolists,”  
said  Farmer  Hayricks,  as  he  hung  his 
coat  over  the  foot  of  the  bed.

“ Goodness,  where?”   asked  his  wife. 
‘ Don’t 
“ Here’s  a  sign  what  says, 
blow  out  the  gas. ’ 
I  s’pose  they  make 
these  folks  burn  it  all  night,  so’s  to  run 
up  their  bills  on  ’em.  Gosh,  I  don’t 
know  what  this  country’s  cornin’ to!”
A  statistician  has  figured  out  that 

all  the  apples  raised 
last  year  had  been 
among  the 
would  have  had  two  barrels.

if 
in  this  country 
evenly  divided 
inhabitants,  every  person 

Don’t  forget  the $5  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets  good  5  days.

EXPANSIVE  BITS 

Clark's small, $18;  large, $26 
Ives’, 1, «18; 2, «24; 3, «30............
FILES—New  List
New American....................................
Nicholson’s..................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps...............

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

14 

13 

15 

Discount, re,to 75-10

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

GAUGES

KNOBS—New List

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

MATTOCKS

30&10
25

. 70&10 
70
.ec&io

28
17

60&10

70
80

NAILS

Adze Eye............................. .......*16 00, dis  60&10
Hunt Eye.....................................«15 oo, <us 60&10
Hunts...... ...................................*18 50, dis 20&10

Advance over base, on  both Steel  and Wire.

Steel nails, base....................... ;..................  1 ’05
Wire nails, base....................................’ * ” *  1 75
20 to 60advance............................................. Base
10 to 16 advance..................................................yg
8 advance.......................................................... yj
6 advance................................................ 
<¡0
4 advance.......................................................... 30
3 advance..........................................................45
2 advance..........................................................7b
Fine 3 advance................................................... 50
Casing 10 advance.......................  
” , 
15
Casing  8advance..............................................25
Casing  6 advance.............................. *..*.*. 
35
Finish 10advance  .............................................35
Finish  8 advance............................. ........ 
35
Finish  6 advance...................................' *" 
45
Barrel % advance...............................................80
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s..........................  
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies!!! 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's................ 
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 

MILLS

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60&10
Stebbin’s Genuine....  ..............................Ü60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring........................ 
  30

PLANES

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

PANi

Fry, Acme...............................................60&10&10
Common, polished.................................. 
70& 5
Iron and  Tinned........................................  
go
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

RIVETS

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list.......................dis  3" Vs
Kip’s  ...................................................... dfc 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................................... di« tO&lO
Mason'8 Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c lis>. 
70
Blacksmith’■> Solid Cast Steel Band 30c 11*  <0A’0

"  

3

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware......  ............... new list 75&10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20&10
Granite Iron  Ware........................ new list 40&10
Pots.
■ 60&1
K ettles............................................:::::::::6o&io
Spiders......................................................... eo&lO
„  
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...........................................dis 60&10
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50
go
Bright......................................................... 
80
Screw Eyes................................................... 
Hook’s................................................... 
 
  go
Gate Hooks and Eyes......... . 
80
LEVELS
ROPES

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...........................dis 70
Sisal, Vi inch and  larger.................... 
Manilla...................................... 
„ 
Steel and Iron........................................
Try and Bevels........................
M itre......................................

SQUARES

„   , 

514

 

SHEET  IRON

„ .  

com. smooth,  com.

__ 
Nos. 10 to 14...................................*2  70 
Nos. lo to 17...................................  2  70 
Nos. 18 to 21...................................  2  80 
Nos. 22 to 24.................................. 300 
Nos. 25 to 26.................................  3  10 
No.  27..........................................   3  20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... (jjg

All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

«2 40
2 40
2 45
2 65
2 75

2 55

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

 

WIRE

TRAPS

Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 00
Steel, Game......................................... 
60&10
Oneida Community, Newhonse’s .........  
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70&10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
125
Bright Market.......................................... 
75
Annealed  Market............................. .V  
75
Coppered Market............................. . . . . .’  70&10
Tinned Market..........................................
Coppered Spring  Steel....................................... 50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ............. !.!!.” !  2 05
Barbed  Fence,  painted.............................  ’  f 70
Au Sable............................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam............................................................. dis 5
Northwestern....................................................dis 10A10
WRENCHES 
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 
30 
Coe’s Genuine
50 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought 
80 
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
80
Bird  Cages  ...........................................  
go
80
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
85
Screws, New List...................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................ ’ 50&10&10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
600 ponnd casks...........................................  
g^
Per pound....................................................    g2

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

SOLDER

V4@H............................................................  12%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal...................................   «575
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................  575
20x14 IX. Charcoal.........................  ...........   7 ¿0

Each additional X on this grade, 11.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   5 00
10x14 IX, Charcoal.... ........................... .. 
g no
14x20 IX, Charcoal....................................”  g  oq
Each additional X on this grade, *1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............ ...............  g 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 50
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX. for  No.  9  Boilers! f Per Pound.. 

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

9

.

TRADESMAN
ITEMIZED
LEDGERS

Size  8  1*2x14— Th.*ee  Columns.

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

voices.....................................   *2 00

TRADESMAN COMPANY

g r a n d   r a p id s.

M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

the  agent  came 

ment.  Time  began  to  pass  and  no  agent 
came.  At  6:45  it  was  still  closed—only 
leaving  time,  and 
five  minutes  before 
no  breakfast. 
The  atmosphere  was 
blue.  On  the  arrival  of  the  train,  I 
caught  sight  of  the  conductor  and  asked 
him  what  I  should  do.  He  said  to  get 
on  the  train. 
I  asked  him  if  he  would 
give  me  an  indemnifying  bond to insure 
me  against  a  loss  of  my $10  that  I  had 
tied  up  in  this  cover.  He  said  no. 
I 
informed  him  that  I  was  going  to  board 
the  train,  that  I  would  not  allow  him  to 
take  any  mileage  from  my  nice  new 
book  unless  he  gave  me  the  required 
bond,and  that  I  certainly  would  not  pay 
a  cash  fare  after  buying  this  new  book 
Just  then 
in  sight 
which  was  a  great  relief  to  both  of  us.
I  got  the  required  change  ticket,  and 
then  another  unfortunate  presented  one 
of  these  new  books  and  the  train  had 
to  wait  for  him.  The  train  pulled  out 
only  twenty  minutes late,but that doesn' 
make  any  difference  if  we  will  only  use 
the  new  book.  Last  week  I  was 
Frankfort.  At  that  point  there  is  on 
one  railroad,  the  Ann  Arbor.  There 
are  two  villages,  under  separate  govern 
ment— Frankfort  and  South  Frankfort. 
When  you  go  to  Frankfort  you  will  find 
that  the  train  will  take  you  to  the  sta 
tion  on  the  south  side  of  Betsy  Bay. 
There  you  will  find  a  ferryboat  which 
will  take  you  over  to  Frankfort  for  five 
cents.  At South  Frankfort  there  is  what 
they  call  the  umbrella  station. 
It  is  . 
flag  station  one  mile  east  of  the  regu 
lar  station  that  they  call  Frankfort. 
There 
is  only  one  train  a  day  on  the 
Ann  Arbor,  north  of  Mt.  Pleasant,  so 
f  you  do  not  get  your  business done  be 
ween  7  p.  m.  and  10 a.  m.,  making 
both  towns,  you  are  stalled  for twenty 
our  hours 
in  South 
Frankfort  and  just  got  through  with  m7 
work  when  I  discovered  I  only  had  five 
minutes  to  go  to  the  umbrella  station. 
There 
is  no  agent  there,  so  I  thought 
the  conductor  could  take  up  mymileag 
and  issue a  train  ticket,  but,  to  my  as 
tonishment,  when  I  presented  my  new 
book,  he  informed  me  that  I  was  liable 
to 
I  told  him  I 
wanted  to  go  to  Thompsonville  and  did 
not  have  time  to  walk  a  mile  to  the 
other depot.  So  I  paid  a  cash  fare  to 
Benzonia,  30  cents,  where 
I  went  into 
the  station 
to  get  a  ticket  for  m ileage 
to  Thompsonville.  Here  the  agent  i 
agent,  baggagemaster  and 
express 
agent.  He  was  busy  out  at  the  train,  I 
nformed  the  conductor,  who  kindly 
aited  for  me  and  lost ten minutes’time 
for  the  agent  to  issue  me  a  train  ticket, 
could  relate  several  other  instances  of 
ke  nature,  but  the  hour  is  late  and  I 
ill  need  a  little  rest  and  sleep 
in  or- 
er  to  be  able  to  wrestle  with  this • new 
book  to-morrow.  F r e d   G.  H o o p e r .

lose  the  $10  rebate. 

I  was 

longer. 

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—There 

is  a  wider  range  in 
prices,  but  no  actual  change  in the mar­
ket.  Choice  fruit  of  high  color  is  in 
better  demand  than  ever,and  brings  full 
ouside  quotations,  while 
small 
green  (and  even  choice  fruit  lacking 
in  the  desirable  rich  red  color)  were 
dragging  and  lower.  Pr-ices  range  from 
§2@3  per  bbl.

the 

in 

Butter—The  market  retains  the  firm 
tone  noted 
last  report,  but  trade  is 
very  quiet.  Buyers  are  reluctant  to 
pay  the  recent  advance  in  prices,  but 
supplies  of  fancy  creamery  are  very 
small  and  there  is  no  disposition  on  the 
part  of  holders  to  sell  this  class  of  stock 
below  22c.  Fancy  dairy  is  so  scarce  as 
to  be  practically  out  of  market.

Cabbage—$2.50  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower— 75c@g1.25  per  doz.
Celery— I2@i5c  per  bunch.
Cranberries— Home  grown  stock 

is 
fairly  plenty  at  gi.5o@2  per  bu.  Cape 
Cod  has  declined  to  g5@6  per  bbl.

Eggs— Dull  on  account  of  poor  qual­
ity  of  receipts  generally—“ fresh  gath­
laid.”  
ered,  perhaps,  but  not  fresh 
Dealers  pay 
common 
candled  stock  at  13c  and  fancy  candled 
at  14c.

12c,  holding 

Grapes— Delawares 

lb.  baskets 
and  Niagaras  in  8  lb.  baskets  have  ad­
vanced  to  g i . 5 0   per  doz.  Concords  and 
Wordens 
lb.  baskets  letch  Si  per 
doz.

in  8 

in  4 

Honey— White  clover  commands  10c. 
Onions— Home  grown  have  declined 
to  35c  per  bu.  Spanish  in  50  lb.  crates 
fetch  g2.

Peaches—Smocks  are  about  the  only 
variety  now  coming  forward,  command­
ing  gi.25@i.6o  per  bu.  The  quality  is 
fair.

Pears—gi@ 1.25  per  bu.
Potatoes—Distributing  markets  have 
declined 
io@i5c,  on  account  of  large 
receipts,  unseasonable  weather  and  yel­
low  fever quarantine  in the South.  Local 
buyers  continue  to  pay  45c  in  the  belief 
that  outside  markets  will  soon  revive. 

Peppers—Green,  75c  per  bu.
Quinces—gi  per  bu.
Squash— ic  per  lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Genuine  Jerseys have 
declined  to  $3.25  per  bbl.  Baltimores 
and  Virginias  have  advanced 
to  §2.10 
^2.25  per  bbl.

Tomatoes—40c  per  bu.
White  Beans— Dull  and  lower,  with 
prices  tending  down  and  the  general 
impression  that  they  will go  lower.  The 
latest  reports  from  around  the  State 
in­
dicate  that  the  new  crop  promises  much 
better, 
in  amount  and  quality,  than 
anticipated ;  that  the  quality  is  superior 
to  that  for  several  seasons  past—all  of 
which  tends  to  depress  the  market  for 
the 
last  year’s  crop  still  held,  and  the 
uolders  willing  to  make  liberal  conces- 

New  Scheme  to 

Increase  the  Con­

ons  to  effect  sales.

Sugar  from  Potatoes.

An  extensive  economic 

revolution 
is  in  sight,  if  the  claims  of  Dr.  Prinzen 
Gerlings,  of  London,  Eng.,  turn  out  to 
be  what  the  Doctor  asserts  they  are. 
He  is  a  government  official  of  Java,  and 
formerly  professor  of  chemistry  at  the 
University  of  Amsterdam.  He  an­
nounces  the  discovery  of  a  simple 
method  of  converting  potato  starch  into 
sugar.  He  has  lodged  a  description  of 
the  method  with  the  French  Academy 
of  Sciences,  so  as  to  secure  priority  for 
his  invention,  although  he  is  not  ready 
to  make  the  details  public.

WANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

' 

410

40j

404

4og

li'OR  SALE—STOCK  I)I{Y  GOODS AND GRO- 
1  
ceries,  invoicing  about  $4,000;  good room; 
di-count for cash; population 2,500; good reasons 
for  selling.  Address  Lock  Box  325,  Chicago, 
Huron Co., Ohio. 
Y \r ANTED—A  BUYER  FOR  A  L IG H T  
leather tannery  a most  completed,  cheap 
pi wer;  cheap ia  or.  Would make a big paying 
nvestme  t for right party  Reason for selling, 
death  of  proprietor.  Address  Carl  Junge,  J r , 
M uskegon, Mich. 
Drug stock  a n d  f ix t u r e s  fo r  sa le
Having sold my drug store will sell the bal 
ance of  the  stock  and  fixtures  at  a  very  low 
figure  any  time  within  the  next  sixty  days. 
None of  the  stock  or  fixtures  over  two  years 
old.  Write for teuns.  Geo.  VV.  Kern,  Prairie 
ville, Barry County, ML h. 
408
W A N T E L —AN EX PER1ENCED SALESMAN 
» v 
to  hai die  fine  line  lubricating  oils  and 
greases,  side  line  or  exclusiveiv.  crown  Oil 
Co., Cleveland,  Ohio. 
-,06
l^OR SALE,  iH i; VP  FOR CASH—N ATIONAL 
X  Cash Register valued  at  $225.  Address  No.
w
405, care Michigan Tradesman.
405
JANTED— BUTTER  AND  EGGS.  IF  YOU 
want good pric  s and quick  returns  w  ite 
us.  Lunn A Strong, Toledo, Ohio 
402
ifOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—A  CLEAN 
drug stock,  invoicing  $2,500.  in  one  of  the 
best cities in  Michigan;  no cutting:  o n a p a 'iig  
basis;  go  d thing for lii e man.  Address Drugs, 
ca’e Michigan Tradesman. 
U'OK SALE—GROCERY AND NOTION STOCK 
X  and  double  store  building  in  one  of  the 
liveliest towns of Northern Iowa;  doing strictly 
cash  business.  Will  be  sold  separately  if  de­
sired, with or  without  buildings.  Address W.. 
Tenth St.. Mason City, Ia. 
T^OR SALE - SMALL  DRUG  STOCK,  1NVOIC- 
lug about $700, in best town for size in Mich­
X 
'S*};11 ;  doing $60 to  $75  per  week  business;  rent, 
$100  per  year;  best  location  in  town;  best  of 
reasons for selling.  Address Lock Box 50, Lake 
Odessa, Mich. 
rr O   RENT-  THE  FINEST  STORE  AND  THE 
X  best location for a first-class shoe,  clothing 
or furniture or carpet store:  size 25x100:  lighted 
by  gas  or  electricity;  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 
Parties in search of a good  location  should  not 
overlook this chance.  Apply to E. Trump, Bat 
tie Cieek, Mich. 
TjM.)R  SALE—STOCK  GENERAL  MEKCHAN- 
X   dise and building  in  railroad  town  of  400; 
best farming country  in Central  Michigan :  pos­
itively no trades.  Address  No.  39(5,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
U ’oR  SALE — GROCERY  AND  BAKERY 
X   stock, also  meat  business  in  connection  if 
wanted, in  live  ciiy  of  7.000  inhabitants;  best 
location;  business  conducted  on  strictly  cash 
sysiem;  in fact, best of  the  kind  in  Michigan. 
Address No. 395, care Michigan Tradesman.  395 
YXTANTED — FIRST-CLASS^ BUTTER  FOR
n .,;iw iaPllArad£   CashPaid-  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
p  ^.SALE-JUDGMENT FOR $8.08 AGAINST 
real  estate  agent  in  the 
lower  Block.  Tradesman  Company,  Grand 
RapidS. 
Y   OK  EXCHANGE —A  WELL-ASSORTED 
X  drug stock that  will  inventory  $1,200  for  a 
stock of  groceries.  Address  John  Cooper,  340 
V\ oodworth avenue, Grand Rapids, Mich  366 
PX>R  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK  GROCERIES 
X  and  crockery,  enjoying  cream  of  trade  in 
best growing city in  Michigan.  Lake  port  and 
center  of  fruit  belt  Patronage  mostly  cash. 
" en*> 
Per  month,  with  terminable  lease. 
Stock and fixtures will inventory $3,500,  but  can 
be  reduced.  Reason  for  selling,  owner  has 
other  business  which  must  be  attended  to. 
Business established five years and made money 
A»fiwer quick if  you  expect  to  se 
cure thm bargain.  Address  No. 358,  care  Mich- 
igan Tradesman. 
l^OR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades
W A S T E R « »   CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
Hhkcad M&h. WritC  f°r  PriCeS-  P-  W’  Br°f9n-

397

39,5

350

401

go.,

381

2 4

W ORSE  AND  WORSE.

Familiarity  with the  New  Book  Breeds 

Contempt

Reed  City,  Oct.  4— In  reading  the 
Tradesman  of  Sept.  2q,  I  notice  an  ar­
ticle  concerning  Mr.  Moeller’s  attitud 
toward  the  traveling  men  in  regard  t~ 
the  new  mileage  book. 
I  was  indeed 
surprised  at  what  he  said  to  the  Trades­
man.  He  claims 
the  Saginaw 
Globe,  through  the  cunningness  and 
scheming  of  a  reporter  to 
injure  hi 
name  and  reputation  with  the  frater 
nity,  misquoted  him  and  the  article 
referred  to  was  unauthorized  and  mis­
leading,  inasmuch  as 
it  attributed  to 
him  statements  he  never  uttered  and 
ascribed  to  him  sentiments  which  he 
never  entertained.

that 

I 

in  question), 

I  am  very  much  surprised  that  Mr. 
Moeller  should  place  himself  on  record 
in  that  way,  for  he  certainly  did  en­
tertain  those  sentiments  and  make  those 
statements. 
If  Mr.  Moeller  will  reflect 
a  moment,  he  will  remember  that  on 
Saturday  afternoon.  Sept.  4,  he  was  on 
passenger  train  No.  8  and,  when  thr 
train  pulled  up  to  the  station  at  Clare 
he  alighted  from  the  parlor  car  (thL 
was  the  week  before  the  Saginaw  Globe 
published  the  article 
had 
just  purchased  a  thousand  mil_ 
family  book  at  the  office  and,  knowing 
Mr.  Moeller  for  a  great  many  years  and 
always  having  been  on  very  friendly 
terms  with  him,  we  naturally  entered 
into  a  conversation  and  talked  of  the 
new  book. 
informed  him  that  I  had 
just  purchased  a  family  book,  that 
wanted  to  buy  one  of  the  new  books 
but,after  reading  the  conditions,though 
it  would  be  burdensome  to  the  boys, 
besides  the  chances  of 
losing  the $10 
rebate  were  very  good,  and  1  did  not 
want  one  of  them  until  1  had  consulted 
my  firm.  He  said:  “ You  had  a  com 
mittee,  and  we  asked  your  committee 
to  tell  us  what  kind  of  a  book  they 
wanted  and  you  have  got  just  what  they 
wanted.  Now  you  are  kicking.”  
I  re­
plied  that  if  the  present  book  was  what 
the  committee  wanted,  I  did  not  think 
the traveling men wanted  the committee. 
At  this point  Mr.  Moeller got  warm  un­
der  the  collar and retorted by saying that 
the  only  traveling  men  who  found  fault 
with 
the  book  were  a  lot  of  dishonest 
travelers  who  bought  scalpers’  m ileage 
at  2%c  and  charged  their  firms  with  a 
full  3c fare. 
I denounced  that statement 
as  an 
insult  to  the  fraternity  and  as­
serted  that  a  man  would  be  a big chump 
to  pay  2%c  when  he  could  buy  trans­
portation  tor  2c  per  mile. 
I  have  been 
a  commercial  traveler  for  over  twenty 
years,  constantly  engaged  in  that  busi­
ness,  and  never  bought  mileage  from 
a  scalper.  Where  a  man  is  traveling  on 
a  salary  and  does  any  amount  of  travel­
ing,  I  do  not  think  there  is  a  firm  of 
any  prominence  who  would  allow  a 
traveling  man  to  make  a  practice  of 
charging  up  a  3c  fare  when  they  can 
procure  transportation for one-third  less. 
Mr.  Moeller  can  only  put  himself  right 
with  the  boys by  being  manly,  acknowl- 
edging  his  mistake  and  apologizing  for 
the  gross 
insult.  Traveling  men  are 
just  as  quick  to  forgive  a  mistake  as 
they  are  to  resent  an 
I  have 
since  been  foolish  enough  to  purchase 
one  of  those  infernal  new  books  and  am 
sorry  for  it.  After  consulting  my  firm,
J.  H.  Copas  &  Sons,  pork  packers  of 
Owosso,  we  decided  to  try  the  new 
book,  and  here  is  where  I  made  a  mis­
take. 
I  have  had  my  temper  wrought 
to  a  high  pitch  by  the  pesky  thing,  and 
if  a  man  wants  to  be  good  and  refrain 
from  using  heavy 
language,  I  would 
advise  him  not  to  buy  one  of  them.  At 
a  certain  town  up  North,  the  train  is 
scheduled  to  leave  at  6 ¡50  a.  m.  On  the 
ticket  window  is  a  sign  which 
informs 
the  public  that  the  ticket  office  will  be 
open  30  minutes  before  the  departure  of 
trains.  Having  the  new  book  and  no 
other  book  good  over  that  particular 
road,  I  left  a  call  for  5 145  at  mv  hotel. 
Breakfast  is  called  at  6:30. 
I  settled 
my  hotel  bill  and  was  to  come  back  to 
breakfast  after  getting  mv  train  ticket 
in  exchange  for  coupons  out  of  my 
in­
fernal  book. 
I  went  to  the  station  and 
at  6 :2o  expected  to  see  the  ticket  office 
open,  but  I  was  doomed  to  disappoint­

insult. 

sumption  of  Lemons.

Consumption  of  lemons  can  be  large- 
„  increased  by  a  plan  suggested  by  a 
correspondent  of  a  New York fruit-trade 
paper,  who 
is  either  an  enthusiast  on 
the  value  of  the  lemon  or  who  becomes 
sarcastic  because  others  write  so  much 
of 
its  uses.  He  says:  “ We  call  upon 
10,000,000  individuals  to  use  one  lemon 
each  per  day,  which  would  insure  the 
sale  annually  of  10,000,000  boxes  of  this 
delicious  citrus  fruit,  which  has  tne  im­
mense  advantage  over  other  fruits  in 
the  use  it  can  be  put  to :  as  a  beverage 
in  hot  and  cold  water,  with  or  without 
sugar;  plain  without  any  water;  a  little 
alcohol,  if  recommended  by  the  doctor; 
wines  of  all  kinds;  on  oysters,  in  their 
season ;  as  an  addition  to  the  lettuce or 
tomato  salad;  and,  in  fact, 
in  nearly 
every  style;  and  a 
lemon  per  diem 
would  not 
large  amount  of 
involve  a 
expenditure.

Permanganate  of  potash 

is  highly 
recommended  by  Dr.  Scheele  of  New 
Jersey  as  a  solution  of  the  mosquito 
problem.  He  has  killed  every  germ 
in 
a  1,000-gallon  tank  of  water  by  drop­
ping  in  a  small  pinch,  and  he  believes 
that  by  the  use  of  the  chemical the State 
can  rid  every  swamp  of  the  embryo 
pests  and  wipe  the  mosquito  off  the face 
of  the  earth.

How  They  Prosecute  in  England.
A  confectioner  was  recently  prose- 
uted  in  England for  selling  adulterated 
chocolate  cigarettes.  An  excise  officer 
stated  that  he  visited  the  defendant’s 
¡hop  and  purchased  two-pennyworth  of 
chocolate  cigarettes,  divided  them 
into 
three  parts,  and  had  sent  one  to  the 
public  analyst,  whose  certificate  of 
analysis  he  submitted,  showing 
that 
they  were  adulterated.  The  defendant 
claimed  that  she  purchased  the  cig­
arettes  from  a  traveler,  who  told  her 
that  they  were  chocolate.  The  court 
would  not  accept  the  excuse,  and  she 
was  accordingly  fined.

There  Were  Others.
M y   en ga gem en t is  broken ;

I  hardly can  bear it.

The cause of the trouble,

My girl  had  a parrot.

When  my arms  were around  her,

M y thought  love  upon,
That bird  would forever 

Cry  out,  “  Stop  that, John!”

But what  should that matter?

I’ll tell you  anon:

Perhaps you’ll  remember,

M y name isn’t  Tohn!

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

pR E E-O U R   NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
Cffiey  &  Allgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
uratid  Rapids. M:ch. 

339

Don’t  forget  the $5  Chicago  excursion 
via  C.  &  W.  M.  Railway  October  14. 
Tickets  good  5  days.

MISCELLANEOUS.

W  ^ » - ^ I T I O N   BY  REGISTERED 
fv   pharmacist.  Can  furnish  best  of  refer-
G = R a % rM

Uggl8t’  264  CM8

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

DETROIT, Qrand Rapids & Western.

(Join* to Detroit.

liY. Grand  Kaplds....... 7:00am  1:30pm  5;35pi:
Ar. Detroit.................   11:40am  5:40pm  10:20pm

Returning; from  Detroit.

Ly. Detroit  ................ 8:00am  1:10pm  8:10rn
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......   1:00pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. G R 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9-30. „ 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Gao.  DeHavbn,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee Div.

(In effect  October 3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
+  6:45am.  Saginaw,  Detroit  and  East..t 9:55pm
tlO :10am......... Detroit  and  East........ + 5:07pm
t 3:30pm  Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.  Detroit. East and Canada. ..* o:35am 
* 7:00am— Gd. Haven  and  Iut. Pts  . ..*10:15pm 
112:53pm.Gd. Haven  and iutermediate.t  3:22pm 
t  5:12pm —  Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi  ... tlO :05am
+10:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

*Daily. 

WEST

E. H.  Hushes, A. G. P. & T. A.
Ben.  P le tc h e k, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J a s. C a m p b e l l, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St.

CHICAGO

Going to Chicago.

Returning from  Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............... 8:30am  1:25pm  *ll:31pm
Ar.  Chicago.................. 3:10pm 6:50pm  6:40am
Lv.Chicago................ 7:20am  5:15pm  *  9:3ojm
Ar.G’dRapids............  1:25pm  10:3>pm  * 6:2)am
Lv. G’d  Rapids..............  8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm.........   10:10am
Lv. G’d  Rapids..........................  7:30am  5:;i0pm
Ar. Traverse  C ity ...................  12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar. Charlevoix........................  
3:15pm..........
Ar.  Petoskey.............................  3:45pm...........

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

Muskegon.

PARLOR AND  SLEEPING  CARS.  CHICAGO. 

Parlor  cars  leave  Grand  Rapids  1:25  p  m; 
leave  Chicago  5:15  p m.  Sleeping  cars  leave 
Grand  Rapids  *11:30 pm;  leave  Chicago  *9:30 
pm.

t r a v e r se  c it y   an d  b a y   v ie w .

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m 
Ge o . D b Ha v e n , General Pass. Agent.

Others week days only.

•Every  day. 

flDAlMIi  Rapids &  lndlan*  Railway

Jun e  s o ,  1807.

I I S

111

H

Northern Div.  Leave  Arrlvt 
Trav. C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  + 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A Mack...+ 2:30pm  t 0:3’am
Cadillac................................... +5:25pm +11:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving at 2:30 p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati............................... t 7:10am  + 8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................+ 2:00pm  + 2:10pm
Cincinnati................................* 7:00pm  * 7:25am
< :10 a. m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati. 
2:00 p.m .  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOINS WEST.

LvG’d  Rapids............. +7:35am  +1:00pm +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..................9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon............. +8:10am +U:45am  +4:03pm
ArG’dRaplds............9:30am  12:55pm  5:23pm
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

tExcept Sunday.  «Daily.

so n s BAST.

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

DULUTH, South Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L)tll:10pm  17:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace.........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.................  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette.........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria............................   5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth...................................  
8:30am
Lv. Dulnth.............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............................  +11:15am  2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
Ar. Marquette....................... 
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm 
.........
Ar. Mackinaw City............... 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  H i b b a r d ,  Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

E A S T   BOUND.

v... 

CANADIAN““

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( w h o le  w h eat  f l o u r !gold  gold  gold

EA ST  BOUND.

Lv. Detroit..............................Til;45am  *11:35pm
Ar.  Toronto...........................  8:30pm 
8:15am
Ar. Montreal..  .....................    7;20am 
8:00pm

contains  the entire grain  of wheat  with 
only  the  fibrous  covering  removed. 
Every  pound  of this flour  represents  16 
ounces of food value.

W EST  BOUND.

Lv.  Montreal......   ................  -8:50am 
Lv. Toronto............................  4:00pm 
Ar. Detroit 
............................ 10:45pm 

9:0!>pm
7:30am
2:10pm
D. McNicol , Pass. Traffic Mgr , Montreal.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

W h ere  Is  It?

In  THE  KLONDIKE 

and  PERU 
and  CALIFORNIA 
and  JOHANNESBURG 
and  THE  KOOTENAI  DISTRICT

W h ere are  th ese  places?

MINNEAPOLIS,a

y t

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R.  & I )................. +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................................   4:20pm
Ar. Gladstone.......................... „...............9:50pm
Ar. st. Paul..................................... 
8:45am
Ar. Minneapolis 
....................................  9:30am
EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Minneapolis............................
30pm 
Ar. St. Paul....................................
20pm 
Ar. Gladstone.................................
45am 
Ar. Mackinaw City.......................
Ojain 
Ar. Grand Rapids..........................
00pm
W.  R. C a l l a w a y , Gen. Pass. Agt
—   B P  ! ______ polis
— 
E. C. Ov ia t t , Trav.  Pass.  A gt.,  Grand  Rapids.

11  : 
10: 
M i unea1

Rand.  McNallu  &  Go.’s

Maps or Atlases

Alaska  Pocket Maps, 
- 
Venezuela Pocket Maps, 
Kootenai Pocket Maps, 
- 
South Africa Pocket Maps, 
- 
California Pocket Maps,  - 
So. California  (Mining District) 

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50c
25c
75c
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50c

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citem ents  occur,  post y o u rself  in tellig en tly?

T h e  T w e n tie th   C en tu ry  A tla s  contains  *117  m aps. 
E v e r y   state,  territo ry ,  im portant cities and  fore ign  
countries.  A l l  fo r $3.  W e il  bound  in  clo th .  N o  
ex cu se fo r lack  o f g eo g ra p h ica l  kn ow led ge.

I f  th is a tla s  is  not  la rg e  en ou gh ,  send  for  sp ecial 
circu la r  o f  our  “ U n iversa l”   ($5— $3.50)  or  o f  our 
Indexed  A tla s   o f the  W o rld   (2  v o l.,  $18.50— $28.50).

RAND,  McNALLY  &  co.,

160-174  Adams St. 

C H IC A G O ,  ILL.

It contains  all  the  elements  required 
to  build  up  the  daily  wastes  of  the 
human  system.  Bread  made from  it is 
easily assimilated;  is  highly  nutritious 
and  is  most  palatable.

Every  grocer should  have  it  in  stock. 

Manufactured  b y....

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

Michigan  trade supplied  by the 

Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co.,. Grand Rapids.

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
3av« Dollars

GREETING :

IDI)

I m i t a t

tljc  Uniteti  States  of  America,

To

K O C H ,   your  o l e f k s ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
«=* l © S l x i © n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 

holding  through  or  under  you,

it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

Horn, (iljcrcforc, we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you 
,  ider  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  von  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which 
false  or  m isleading  manner.

is  not  C om plainant’s  said  m anufacture,  and 

from 

in  an y  w ay  using 

the  word  “ S A P O L I O ”   In  any 

Htfitaeas,

[ s e a l ]

ROWLAND  COX,

Con&lainants  Solicitor

The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

O tri

A  Profit Telling, A  Poods Marking 
And  a Money Weight System

W ith them  you can easily find  your profits for each day, 
each week, or each  month.

The  Profit  Telling  and Goods Marking Systems are sent free 
to  all  our  patrons  who  request  them,  provided  the  request 
contain  the  kind and number of  our  scale,  about  how  long  it 
has  been  used,  about  what  condition  it  now  is  in,  and  how 
your customers  like it.

Our  motto is:  “The  more  profits  we  can  help  make  for 

our patrons,  the  more  they  will  patronize  us.”

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton, Ohio.

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W

Surprised

At  the  way  orders  are  coming  our  way  these 
days.  W e  are  just  closing  our  eighth  year 
making  Advertising  Specialties,  and  each 
year  our  books  have  shown  a  good  increase 
in  business.  The  only  reason  we  can  see 
why  is  because  we  give  good  service.  Many 
of  our  best  customers  are merchants who have 
been  buying  of  us  since  the  first  year  we com­
menced  business.  W e  are  now  better 
equipped  than  ever  to  help  you  sell  Dry 
Goods,  Groceries,  General  Merchandise,  etc.
W e  have  just  issued  a

Dew  Catalogue

and  will  send  you  one  for  the  asking  if  you 
mention  Tradesman.

$teM>in$ manufacturing Co.,  Cakeview,  micln,

Helpers  in  Advertising.

The  Stimpson 
Computing  Scale

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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.

Agents of other companies would 
not have to spend  most  all  of  their 
time  trying  to  convince  the  trade 
that  our  scale  was  no  good  if  the 
Stimpson did  not  possess  the  most 
points  of merit. 
*
ve ask  is  an  opportunity  to  show you the  Scale  and  a  chance  to  convince you  that 

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

I   The  Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,
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m

ELKHART,  IND.

Represented  in  Eastern Michigan  by 

R.  P.  B IG E L O W ,

Owosso.

Represented  in  Western  Michigan  by 

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

Grand  Rapids.  Telephone  No.  ,66.

