Volume XV. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  27,  1897. 

Number  736

: HAND  SLEIGHS  andCH,LDRESEssKs..

Great  Variety 

New  Styles  .  .

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Q.  J  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.,  Mfrs.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

ILLUMINATING  AND  LUBRICATING

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NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH  AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bulk works' at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac,  Big Rap­
ids,  Grand-Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, Allegan, 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart, 
Whitehall, Holland and Fennvllle

Highest Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

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BO R  centuries  the  English  have  been  known  as  great  mustard-eaters— the greatest  in  the 

world.  They  differ from  the  Southern  races,  such  as  the  French,  Spanish.  Italian,  etc., 
in  that  they  rank condiments  higher than  sauces.  True,  thev  manufacture  and  export 

Is the ORIGINAL and GENUINE  Horseradish  Mustard.

sauces,  but  they  prefer  for  their  own  use  condiments,  and  the  greatest  of  all  condiments  is 

mustard.  T he  average  Englishman  delights  in  having  his  mustard  prepared  for  him  fresh 
every  day.

There seems  to be a reason  for  this  Sauces, although appetizing, are made  with drugs  and 
are  more  or  less  disguised  in  their  nature  and  artificial  in  their effects.  Mustard,  on  the con­
trary,  strengthens  the  natural  tone  of the stomach,  increases  the flow  of  the gastric juice,  and 
thereby  promotes  the  general  bodily  health. 
It  is  probably  on  account  of  this  power  of giving 
life  to  the  system  and  enabling  it  to  throw  off  unhealthy  products  that  the  English  in  former- 
years  used  mustard  as  a  medium  of  purifying the  blood'in  skin  diseases and  similar  ailments.
For some  time  past  we have made  quite a  studv  of mustard,  its  proper  preparation  and  the 
preservation  of  its  qualities.  Our  line of mustards  is  quite  complete,  and  each  and  all  will  be 
found  to lie so  put  lip and  packed  as  to  last  for  y e a r s  in  perfect  condition.
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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.

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Historic and  scenic country 
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that have no equal 
in the South, and  the 
shortest journey possible.
You save a hundred miles of 
travel  to the most  important 
Southern cities via the 
Queen  &  Crescent.
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freight  prepaid.

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Detroit.  Mich.

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advertising  for  some  time  for
the  merchants'  trade  without 
knowing  that  the  very  best 
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they stay.  We are  not  in  the
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Oyster  Trade?

The  man  whose oysters  are  the 
freshest  and  best flavored.
Who  loses  other  trade ?

The  man who sells fishy oysters 
diluted  with  ice  to  disgust  his 
customers.

Avoid  such  a  calamity  by 
using  our  Oyster  Cabinets. 
(See cut.)  They  are  lined  with 
copper so you  can  use  salt  with 
the  ice.  They  have  porcelain 
lined  cans.  Send  for circular.

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for particulars.
“ How  to  Keep  Oysters  Fresh”  
sent to any address  on request.

Chocolate  Cooler  Co.,

Grand  Rapids.

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R. J.  CLELAND,  Attorney,

411=412=413 Widdicomb Building,

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FRANKENMUTH.

The  Town  Which  Flows with  Milk and 

Beer.

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in  that 

Standish,  Mich.,  Oct.  26—Franken- 
muth,  Saginaw  county,  enjoys  the  dis­
tinction  of  producing  the  most  cheese 
of  any  village  in  Michigan. 
It  is  situ­
ated 
in  an  excellent  farming  section 
fourteen  miles  from  Saginaw.  The first 
settlers  came  there  in  1845.  There  were 
only  a  few  families  then,  but the  follow­
ing  year  150  people  arrived  and  made 
the  place  their  home. 
In  May,  1895, 
was  celebrated  the  fiftieth  anniversary 
of  the  settlement,  and  a  right  royal  cel­
ebration  it  was. 
It  is  said  that  no  finer 
pine  timber  ever  grew  in  Michigan than 
was  cut  along  the  Cass  River  in  Frank 
enmuth  township.  The  soil  differs  from 
that  of  most  of  the  pine  sections  of  our 
State 
is  heavy,  instead  of 
sandy.  At  the  present  time  nearly  all 
of  the  farmers  have  a  small  piece  of 
woods,  mostly  beech.  The  land  is  level 
and  very  productive  and  is  owned  by 
farmers  who  handle 
intelligently. 
The  farms  are  under  good  cultivation, 
are  well  fenced  and  the  buildings—both 
housse  and  barns—are  of  that  solid, 
well-arranged  type  which  indicates  the 
wealth  and  the  good  judgment  of  the 
owners.  The 
inhabitants  are  all  Ger­
mans  and  a  visit  to  the  place  is  like  a 
trip  to  the  Faderland.  Even  the  chil­
the  German 
dren 
language,  although  English 
is  also 
taught  in  the  public  schools.
In  1884,  .the  Frankenmuth  Cheese 
Co.  was organized,  a  building  erected 
and  the  manufacture  of cheese begun.
George  Parry—now  of  Standish— had 
charge  of  the  cheesemaking  for  seven 
years.  William  Smith  was  his  successor 
and  still  occupies  the  position.  Law­
rence  Hubinger,  as  genial  a  soul  as  one 
will  meet 
in  many  a  day,  has  been 
business  manager  of  the  factory  ever 
since  it  started,  fourteen  years  ago.

in  the  street  use 

it 

In  1886,  Hubinger  Bros,  built  a  fac­
tory  at  the  opposite  end  of  the  village. 
The  company  furnishing  the  machinery 
sent  Robert  Hotten  there  as  maker.  A 
few  weeks  later  Lorenz  Kern,  at present 
the 
landlord  of  the  village  hotel, 
was  installed  as butter and cheesemaker. 
The  factory  now  makes  cheese  in  sum­
mer  and  butter  in  winter.

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In  1892,  the  Gera  Creamery Co.,  three 
and  one-half  miles  north  of  Franken­
muth,  commenced  operations.  N.  E. 
Skelton,  of  Pennsylvania,  was  the  first 
buttermaker  and  still  holds  the  posi­
tion.  The  past  season  the  company  has 
made  an  extension  to  the  building  and 
put  in  machinery  for cheesemaking.

In  March  of  the  present  year  the 
Union  Cheese  Co.  erected  a  fine,  large 
building  three  miles  west  of  the village, 
and  at  once  took  position  as  one  of  the 
large  factories  of  the  State.

Thus  within  four  miles  of  each  other 
are  four  factories  which,  during  the 
season  of  1897,  have  handled  an  aver­
age  of  35,000  pounds  of  milk  daily. 
Each  month  they  pay  out  to the  farmers 
within  a  radius  of  ten  miles  the  sum  of 
$6,000.  The  one  known  as  the  Frank­
enmuth  factory—the  largest  in  the  State 
— made  forty  cheese  a  day  in  June  and 
paid  for  August  milk  alone$2,900.  Last 
year  their  pay  roll  aggregated  $21,000.
It  must  not  be  inferred  that  milk  is 
the  only  article  known  in Frankenmuth. 
The  town  has  a  population  of  about 
500,  and  seven  saloons  and  a  brewery 
dispense  the  liquid  refreshments  which 
are  required  by  the  inhabitants.  Speak­
ing  of  beer  reminds  me  that  the only 
time  the  veracity  of  our  State  Dairy  In­
spector  has  been  directly  called 
in 
question  was  while  on  his  official  trip 
there 
in  1806.  An  old  German  asked 
him  if  he  tested  beer,  too.  On  receiv­

Such 

ing  an  affirmative  answer,  he  replied, 
“ You  are  a  liar ! 
It  takes  a  Dutchman 
to  tell  good  beer!”

is  Frankenmuth—the  leading 
cheese  town  of  Michigan;  the  Germany 
of  America;  the 
land  that  flows  with 
milk  and  béer;  the  home  of  peace  and 
contentment. 

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Fremont  Steadily  Gaining  Ground.
Fremont,  Oct.  26  Although  for  years 
a  constant  reader  of  your  publication,  1 
have  never  seen  any  description  of  Fre­
mont  or  its  surroundings  in  your  col 
umns.

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During  the  four  years  of  depression 
just  passed  there  were  a  number  of 
good  dwellings  built—thirty,  I  think— 
nine  good  store  buildings  (brick) erect 
ed,  street  and 
improvements 
made,  an  electric  light  plant  erected 
and  equipped  by  the  village  and  our 
water  works  system  improved.  We  have 
an  excellent  surrounding  country,  set­
tled  by  a  thrifty  well-doing  people, 
making  a  prosperous  future  for  Fre­
mont  certain.  We  have  also  some  love­
ly 
lakes  scattered  throughout  Newaygo 
county,  hut  the  one  we  are  the  most  in 
terested 
is  called  Fremont  Lake, 
which  is  adjacent  to  the  village.  This 
is  a  body  of  water  one  and  a  half  miles 
wide  by  about  two  miles  long  and,  in 
some  places,  over  100  feet  in  depth,  the 
average  being  about  forty-eight  feet. 
Fishing  is  fine.  Large  pickerel  are  be­
ing  taken  from  the  lake  daily,  averag­
ing  from 
five  to  twelve  pounds  each, 
besides  any  quantity  of  small  fish.  The 
land  surrounding  the  lake  gently  slopes 
to the  water,  being  covered  with  forest 
trees  of  various  kinds,  making  it a  de 
lightful  place  in  summer.  A  few of  nur 
people  have  cottages  there ;  others,  im­
bued  with  a  public  spirit,  are  trying, 
by  means  of  contributions,  to  secure 
thirteen  acres  fronting  on  the  lake for  a 
public  park,  where  those  who  do  not 
own  cottages  may  enjoy  our  beautiful 
surroundings  without  intruding  on  pri­
vate  property.
Liberal,  progressive  people  build  vil­
lages 
into  cities,  while  other  places 
with  good  natural  advantages  are  killed 
by  a  few  close-fisted  individuals who are 
of  no  benefit  to  a  community.

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Wm.  H a r m o n .

Two  Sides  to  the  Question.

From  Shoe and  Leather Facts.

Whatever  the  merits  of  the  case  may 
be,  there  are  probably  two  sides  to  the 
It  would  be  a  great  deal  bet 
question. 
ter  for  these  enterprising  dealers, 
it 
would  seem,  to  place  their  money  in 
the  future  in  something  more  tangible. 
An  equal  percentage  of  their  profits  in­
in  a  regular  advertisement  in  a 
vested 
newspaper  would 
indicate  whether 
their  recent  experience  has  been  pro­
ductive  of 
increased  wisdom  on  their 
part  or  not.

Getting  at  the  Facts.

Fruit  Ridge,  Oct.  25— I  do  not  care 
to  contest  the  matter  of  who  was  the 
real  pioneer in cheesemaking for market 
purposes  in  Michigan.  The  late  Sam­
uel  Horton  commenced,  making  cheese 
in  Fairfield  township,  Lenawee  county, 
in  the  spring  of  1853.  He  started  that 
year  with  a  dairy  of  ten  cows. 
In  1855 
he  enlarged  his  equipment,  and  milked 
thirty  cows  up  to  1862,  when  he  built  a 
factory  and  commenced  manufacturing 
on  the  plan  which  now  prevails.

G e o .  B .  H o r t o n .

it 

Sincere  sympathy  never  wholly  fails, 
but 
is  chiefly  successful  when  it  in­
spires  power and  courage  to hope;  when 
it  awakens  new 
interests  and  leads  to 
some  sort of  vigorous action.

Number  736

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  took  an  upward 
turn  during  the  past  week,  advancing 
3c  per  bushel.  The  receipts  at  initial 
points  in  the  Northwest  have decreased. 
Our  exports  have  been 
large,  having 
been  71,000,000  bushels  since  July  1, 
and  the  visible  has  increased  only  699,- 
000  bushels,  against  2,474,000  bushels 
for  the  corresponding  week 
in  1896. 
Foreigners  were  free  buyers,but  most  of 
the  wheat  went  to  France.  The  grana­
ries  in  this  country  are  not  filling  up  as 
fast  as  was  anticipated  and  with  the 
heaviest 
increase  at  the  close  of  Octo­
ber ; still we must expect  to  see  increases 
until  January  1.  However,  our  visible 
stocks  are  falling  away  below  what  they 
have been^for several years.  The drought, 
which  has  been  only  partially  broken, is 
still  a  great  factor  in  the  wheat  deals, 
especially  as  the  growing  crop  of  win­
ter  wheat  is  looking  very  poor.  How­
ever,  it  is  improving  a  little  in  our own 
State.

The  visible  in  corn  increased  4,500,- 
coo  bushels,  which  caused  a  drooping 
in  that  cereal.  We  need  to  have  more 
The  great  question 
corn  exported. 
arises,  Will 
farmers  sell  corn  at  the 
present  low  prices?  With  cash  corn  at 
24KC  per  bushel  in Chicago,the Western 
farmer  does  not  realize  much  for  his 
corn.

Oats  remain  steady.
Rye  also  firmed  up  and  it 

looks  now 
if  we  would  see  higher  prices  for 

as 
that  cereal.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  35 
cars  of  wheat,  4  cars  of  corn,  11  cars 
of  oats  and  4  cars  of  rye.

Millers  are  paying  88c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A. V o i g t .

it 

Important 

information  reaches 

the 
Tradesman  from  Madison,  Wis.,  to  the 
effect  that  Dr.  Babcock  and  Dr.  Russell 
have  discovered  that  the  ripening  of 
cheese  is not due  to  bacteria  in  the  milk 
product  but  that 
is  caused  by  fer­
ments  in  the  milk.  Ever  since  the  days 
of  Abraham  milk  has  been  curdled  by 
rennet  and  made  into  cheese.  The  ad­
vances  that  bave  been  made  since  have 
been  those  that  have  come  as  the  result 
of  pure  experience.  Within 
recent 
years  many  attempts  have  been  made 
by  scientists  to  explain  these  phenom­
ena. 
It  has  been  the  universal  opinion 
of  scientists  for  years  that  the  ripening 
of  cheese  was  due  to  bacteria  in  the 
milk  product,  and 
investigation  has 
for  the  most  part  been  directed  to  de­
termine  what  kind  of  bacteria  was  the 
cause  of  the  phenomena.  The  discov­
ery  made  by  Drs.  Babcock  and  Russell 
light  on  the  hitherto  un­
throws  much 
satisfactorily 
explained  phenomena, 
and  from  a  scientific  point  of  view  is 
regarded  as  a  discovery  of  fundamental 
importance. 
is  the  first  step  taken 
toward  a  thoroughly  rational  and  satis­
factory  explanation  of  the  changes  in­
volved 
Its 
practical  bearing  cannot  yet  be  seen  in 
full,  but 
it  opens  a  new  avenue  of 
thought,  and  as  such  will  undoubtedly 
exert  a  strong  influence  on  succeeding 
work.

in  the  ripening  of  cheese. 

It 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

D ry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Cottons—The  business  which  has been 
secured  was  largely  in  the  line  of orders 
for  small  quantities  of  staples,  with 
somewhat  larger  quantities  of 
fancy 
goods.  There  was  some  “ shopping” 
noted,  but  buyers  forming  their  judg­
ment  on  the  general  condition  of  cotton 
thought  they  might  secure  greater  con­
cessions  than  were  offered  by  the  trade; 
but,  as  a  rule,  they  were  disappointed. 
Some  slight  cuts  were  noticed,  but 
these  were  offered  on  small  quantities 
and  of  not  the  most  desirable  goods. 
There  was  a  slight  spurt  in  the  order­
ing  of  late  seasonable  goods,  some  buy­
ers  apparently  having  underestimated 
their  wants,  even  when they placed their 
second  orders,  and  were  obliged  to  add 
somewhat  to  their  stocks.

in 

Dress  Goods—The  heavy  buying  re­
corded  up  to  about  ten  days  ago  has 
ceased,  and 
its  place  is  a  period  of 
quietude.  Prices  have  undergone  no 
change  of  consequence  since  our  last 
report.  This  condition  is  one  expected 
by  the 
jobbers  at  this  season  of  the 
year,  and 
in  no  way  shows  a  reaction. 
After  the  early  buying  in  any  season, 
there  are  some  two  weeks  of  a  dull mar­
ket  before  the  balance  of  the  initial  or­
ders  are  placed.  This  period  has  ar­
rived  and 
is  more  noticeable  this  sea­
son  on  account  of  the  number of  un­
usually 
large  orders  that  were  placed 
early,  and  the  unseasonable weather that 
has  recently  prevailed.  Buyers 
laid  in 
a  large  stock  of  fall  dress  goods  and  the 
warm  weather  has  prevented  sales  in 
the  retailers'  hands,  and  they  hesitate 
about  placing  further  orders  for  goods 
until  some  of  this  stock  has  been  re­
moved.

in  stripes  and  dots. 

Knit  Goods— Hosiery  shows  the  best 
condition  of  any  line  of  knit  goods  and 
the  manufacturers  are  bringing  out 
some  particularly  handsome  designs 
in  fancy  half  hose  for  men,  full  fash­
ioned  stockings  for  women,  and  some 
particularly  fine  lines  of  golf  hose. 
In 
this  latter,  the  trade  tends  toward  plain 
goods  with  fancy  tops.  All  the  clan 
plaids  are  shown,  and  some  handsome 
effects 
In  these, 
some  entirely  new  things  are  shown. 
Orders  for  immediate  shipment  of  fall 
goods  continue,  and  in  many  cases  the 
mills  are  sorry  to  see  so  much  of  it. 
The  lines  that  have been  in best demand 
have  secured  as  high  as 20 per  cent,  ad­
vance  over  the  opening  prices,  and  the 
mills  making  them  are  unable  to  keep 
up  with  the  orders.  Where  the  mills 
have  nearly  exhausted  their  stocks  of 
cheap  wools,  they  are  refusing  to  accept 
any  large  orders.  There  is quite  an  air 
of  speculation  becoming  evident  in  the 
market,  and 
it  seems  likely  that  some 
buyers  are  securing  the  goods  for  future 
seasons.  The  tra\eling  men  who  have 
returned  from  the  road  report  that  they 
have  secured  the  biggest  business  that 
they  have  done  for  years,  and  were 
it 
not  for  the  fact  that  prices  are  unsatis­
factory,  they  would  be 
jubilant  over 
their  success.  The  hope  of  the  mar­
ket 
in  next  season  for  fall  goods, 
when,  with  the  increased  cost  of  yarn, 
as  well  as  wool,  prices  will  be  forced 
up,and  when  they  are  forced  up  by  this 
natural  means,  it  will  be  comparatively 
easy  to  make  enough  extra  increases  to 
give  the  manufacturer  a  profit;  1898 
should  see  the  same  prosperity  among 
the  knit  goods  manufacturers  that  1897 
sees  among  the  woolen  manufacturers.

is 

from 

Carpets— Business 

is  now  confined  tc 
occasional  orders 
the  near-by 
trade,  who  are  purchasing  just  enough 
to  piece  out  with  old  stocks  on  hand, 
and  while  the  retailer  realizes  that  he 
will  be  obliged  to  pay  more  for  carpets 
another  season,  there 
is  no  apparent 
effort  on  his  part  to  stock  up.  Trade 
in  general  has  not  improved  to  such  a 
large  extent  as  to  cause  retail  carpet 
merchants  to  purchase  largely  in  antici­
pation  of  requirements.  Prices  have 
advanced  beyond  the  ability  of 
the 
average  consumer  to  pay;  as  a  result, 
the  orders 
in  the  hands  of  most  manu­
facturers  are  nearly  completed,  and they 
are  turning  their  attention  to  the  sam­
ples  for  the  next  season.

Upholstery—The  retail  trade  in  up­
holstery  goods  has  improved  consider­
ably  within  the  past  two  or  three weeks. 
High  class  draperies  are  in  favor  and 
buyers  are  willing  to  pay  a  better  price 
for  goods.  This  is  gratifying  to  the 
seller.

largely  on 

Blankets—Although  the  blanket  mar­
ket  is  decidedly  dull,  there  have  been 
a  few  duplicate  orders  secured,  and 
the  number  has  been  increased  within 
the  last  two  or  three  days.  These  or­
ders  are 
lower  grade 
colored  goods,  on  which  but  small  ad­
vances  have  been  made,  that  is,  about 
5  to  8  per  cent,  on  such  goods  as  con­
tained  cotton  to  a  considerable  extent. 
White  blankets  have  been  almost  en­
tirely  neglected 
in  these  duplicate  or­
ders,  on  account  of  the  larger  advance 
placed  on  them.

the 

Use  of  Good  Judgment  and  Taste  in 

Display.
Written  for the T radesman.

The  successful  advertiser  in  any  line 
of  ordinaiy  competitive  trade  is  the  one 
who  is  “ instant  in  season”   in 
improv­
ing,  and  making,  every  available  op­
portunity  to  bring  into  the  minds  of  as 
many  of  the  people  of  the  community 
as  possible  the  knowledge  that  there  is 
such  a  person  or  institution,  in  connec­
tion  with  the  fact  that  certain  wares 
are  there  furnished.  But to  say  that  suc­
cess  is  always  in  proportion  to  the  ex­
ercise  of  energy  and  ready  persistence 
in  the  heralding  the  name  and  goods  is 
leaving  out  of  the  question  some  im­
portant  elements  of  permanent  success.
In  the  early  days  of  advertising  some 
of  the  most  noted  apostles  of  publicity, 
like  P.  T.  Barnum,  contended  that  suc­
in  direct  proportion  to  the 
cess  was 
noise  used 
in  gaining  the  attention  of 
the  people—not  alone  the  noise  of  sen­
sationalism,  but  that  of 
loud  and  ag­
gressive  display  in  every  possible  place 
and  way,  appropriate  or  inappropriate. 
To  get  talked  about  was  considered  the 
correct  exponent  of  successful  advertis­
ing-

it 

But 

indeed, 

in  the  later  development  of  the 
science 
is  coming  to  be  recognized 
that  there  may  be  too  much  of  a  good 
thing— if, 
inordinate  display 
and  parade  he  called  a  good  thing. 
Other  elements  than  the  aggressive  de­
mand  for  attention  are  assuming  more 
relative  importance  and  ideas  as  to  the 
manner  of  display  most  effective 
in 
gaining  trade  are  becoming  much  mod­
ified. 
is  coming  to  be  recognized 
that  a  consideration  of  fitness,  a  regard 
for  propriety  and  for  that  which 
is  at­
tractive  and  pleasant,  are  more  essen­
tial  than  the  gaining  of  attention  by 
inconsiderate  vociferousness. 
Indeed, 
if  this  were  all  that  was  desirable,  the 
ragged  beggars  who  make  bedlam  in 
many  of  the  semi-barbarous  Oriental

It 

cities  would  be  the  most  effective  ad­
vertisers.

in  visible  display—as 

Inordinate  loudness  and  aggressive­
in  news­
ness 
paper  advertisements, 
in  store  signs, 
printed  stationery,  signboards,  hand­
bills  and  wrapping  paper—are  yet  a 
most  common  fault  and  much  of  the 
effectiveness of  these  means  of publicity 
is  not  only  lost  thereby,  but  in many  in­
stances  the  lack  of  dignity  and  suitabil­
ity  places  the  dealer  in  a  false  light,, 
which  eventually  militates  against  his 
best  custom.  While  this  lack  of  judg­
ment,  in  some  cases,  is  owing  to  wrong 
ideas,  as  suggested  above, 
in  many 
others  it  is  the  result  of  a  lack  of  atten­
tion  on  the  part  of  the  advertiser,  or too 
much  entrusting  of  details  to  others.

The  subject  of  newspaper  display  is 
in  an 
too  long  tor  full  consideration 
article 
like  this,  but  some  of  the  prin­
ciples  which  should  govern  may  be 
briefly  suggested:  Thus,  clearness  is 
of  much  more 
importance  than  large 
display  or  ornamentation. 
If  only  type 
is  used,  the  matter  should  be  adapted 
to  the  space  in  quantity,  and  the  salient 
features  should  be  indicated  by  one  or 
two  prominent  lines—better  one—con­
trasted  with  sufficient  white  paper  to 
force.  Orna­
give 
mental 
If, 
from  the  character  of  the  advertise­
ment,  it  is  desirable  to  give  other  lines 
prominence 
it  should  be 
done  with  the  utmost  care,  to  prevent 
destroying  the  effect  of  the  main  dis­
play. 
If  outline  cuts  are  used,  the  dis­
play  should  be  very  slight,  if  not  left 
out  entirely.  A  strong  design  carefully 
adapted  to  the  distance  at  which  it  is 
to  be  read,  with  the  plainest  letters  and 
plenty  of  room  around  them,  is  much

letters  are  never  suitable. 

it  clearness  and 

in  display, 

ineffective  or  actually 

more  dignified  and  effective  than  any 
ornamentation  or  the  largest  possible 
lettering.  Large,  ornamental  display 
is  just  as  inappropriate 
cn  stationery 
and 
injurious. 
Thus,  an  envelope  will  often  be covered 
with  the  particulars  of  a  business,  leav­
ing 
for  address  and 
stamp.  These  seldom  gain  attention- 
two  or  three  modest  lines  giving  name 
of  dealer  and 
line  of  trade,  with  ad­
dress,  are  much  better,  and  give  a  more 
pleasant  and  dignified 
impression  of 
the  business.

scarcely 

room 

is  an 

And  so,  in  all  the  many  means  of 
gaining  the  public  eye 
and  mind, 
thought  should  be  given  to  suitableness 
and  to  the  leaving  of  a pleasant  impres­
the  printing  of 
sion.  For  example, 
wrapping  paper  in  poster  type 
in  ag­
gressive  colors 
imposition  on 
every  customer  who  carries  away  a 
it  is  resented,  un­
package,  and  often 
consciously  at  least. 
If  such signs must 
be  carried  through  the  streets,  many 
customers  would  prefer  that  a  special 
sandwich  man  should  be  employed  for 
the  purpose.  If  printed  wrapping  paper 
is  used  at  all,  the  lettering  will  be  most 
valuable  when 
it  is  small  and  incon­
spicuous. 

W.  N.  F.

Acorns  are  so  thick  on  Ross  Island, 
land 
in  Portland,  Ore.,  that  owners  of 
little  value  are  buying 
otherwise  of 
hogs,  with  the 
intention  of  fattening 
them  on  the  acorns and marketing them.
There  are  no  undertakers  in  Japan. 
When  a  person  dies  it  is  the  custom  for 
his  nearest  relatives  to  put  him  into  a 
coffin  and  bury  him,  and  the  mourning 
does  not  begin  until  after  burial.

An  honest  man 

is  satisfied  with  the 
approval  of  his  own  conscience,  while 
a  simply  honorable  man  often only looks 
to  the  world  for  his  approval.

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From the New York Sun.

ing  Goods.

chronic 

shoppers. 

Most  of  the  big  department  stores  are 
overrun  with 
A 
chronic  shopper  is  a  woman,  of  course, 
and  she  starts  from  home  early  in  the 
morning,  not  with  her  mind  made  up  to 
buy  anything,  but  just  to  look.  She 
passes  the  entire  day  going  from  place 
to  place,  pricing  goods  and 
looking 
about.  She goes  hpme  late  in  the  after­
noon  all  fagged  out,  telling  everybody 
whom  she  meets  that  shopping 
is  .such 
hard  work,  and  that  she  has  had  a  day 
of  it.  Perhaps  shedosn’t  know  that  the 
people  who  have  waited  on her have had 
a  day  ot  it,  too,  and  that  probably  she 
has  deprived  every  person  who  has 
waited  on  her  of  one  to  five  sales,  ac­
cording  to  the  amount  of  time  she  has 
consumed  in  “ looking.”

Two  women  who  for  years  have  been 
interested  in  the  crusades  made 
in  the 
interest  of  the  shopgirls  decided  to  find 
out,  the  other  day,  how  the  salespeople 
handle  such  shoppers.  One  was  an 
elderly  woman  with  white  hair and  a 
sweet,  motherly  face;  the  other  was  a 
dashing  young  matron  with  love  in  her 
heart  for  all  humanity.  The  couple 
went  from  shop  to  shop,  watching  the 
conduct  of  the  chronic  shoppers  and 
that  of  the  women  who  waited  on  them, 
and  they 
interesting 
things.  First,  they  followed  two  shop­
pers  through  a  big  store.  Chronic  shop­
pers  commonly  “ look”   in  pairs.  One 
of  these  was  a  stout  woman  with  an  ar­
rogant  manner,  and  her  companion  was 
an  angular  creature  with  a  nagging 
voice.  They  made  a  bee  line  for  the 
underwear  department,  closely  followed 
by  the  two  self-constituted  detectives.

learned  many 

“ Muslin  underwear,”   said  the  stout 

woman  to  the  head  of  the department.

“ This  way,  madam,”  was  the answer. 

“ The  counter  to  the  left.”

“ Let  me  see  some  nightgowns  and 
corset  covers, ”   demanded  the  shopper 
of  the  woman  who  came  forward  to 
serve  her.

“ What  size  and  about  what  price 
would  you  like?”  asked the saleswoman. 
Glancing  at  the  handsome  toilets  of  the 
two  women  in  front  of  her,  she  gave the 
saleswoman  next  to  her  a  pleased  look, 
which  said  more  plainly  than  words: 
“ This 
is  a  sure  sale—good  custom­
ers. ’ ’

“ It  doesn’t  matter  about  the  price,”  
“ Show  us  what 

answered  the  shopper. 
you  have. ’ ’

The  saleswoman  began  to  drag  down 
the  big  boxes  from  above  and  to  bring 
out  nightdresses  of  every  cut  and  de­
scription.  She  began  with  those  that 
sell  at  $1  each,  and  finally  displayed 
those  costing  $15  each.  The  two  women 
looked  them  all  over,  pulled  at  the  lace 
collars  and  yokes  and  frills  until  the 
saleswoman  was 
in  nervous  terror  lest 
the  goods  be  pulled  to  pieces,  criticised 
the  work,  and  commented  on  the  styles. 
Then  the  woman  with  the nagging  voice 
calmly  said :

“ We  are  only  looking  to-day.  Now 
show  us  the  corset  covers.  You  adver­
tise  that  it  is  no  trouble to show goods. ”
"Certainly  not,”   answered  the  sales­
woman,  but  with  a  look  of  disappoint­
ment,  and  she  began  to  dig  out  big 
boxes  of  corset  covers  from  under  the 
counter.

“ I should  like  to  see  some  bridal  sets 
of  underwear,”   said  a  prettty  girl  to 
her.

“ I’m  very  sorry,  but  I ’m  busy  just  at 
present, ”   she  answered,  and the  chronic 
shoppers  stared  at  the  person  who  dared 
address  the  saleswoman  waiting  on 
them.  They  passed  another  hour  look­
ing  at  the  corset  covers  and  then  made 
for  the  ready-made  dress  department 
without  so  much  as  thanking  the  sales­
woman.  The  two  detectives  stole  after 
them.

The  shoppers  seated  themselves  and 
looked  at  tailor  suits,  Russian  blouse 
suits,  Eton  suits,  dinner  gowns  and 
fancy  waists  until  their  eyes  must  have 
ached,  and  the  back  of  the  woman  who 
carried these  things  to  and  fro gradually 
grew  bent.  Finally  she  said :  “ Well,  I

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

really  believe  I’ve  shown  you  every­
thing  we  have  down  here,  but  perhaps 
you  could  get  something  in  the 
import­
ing  department  above.”   The  nagging 
voice  answered:  “ Oh,  we  are  just  look­
ing  to-day.  We  don’t  intend  to  buy.”

The  shoppers  went  next  to  the  millin­
ery  and  then  to  the  coat  department. 
After  stopping  for 
lunch,  they  turned 
their  attention  to  smaller  things,  such as 
belts,  stockings,  gloves,  umbrellas,  and 
so  on,  and  finally  decided  to  go  across 
to  Cheap  &  Nogood’s  to  see  what  bar­
gains  they  had  on  that  day.

Meantime  the  crusaders  bad 

run 
across  dozens  of  other  women  who  were 
having  great  piles  of  goods  laid  out  on 
the  counters  before them,  just  to  look  at 
them,  and  they  decided  to  find  out  just 
how  the  salespeople  felt  about  waiting 
on  such  shoppers.

“ 1  should  think  you  would  get  out  of 
all  patience  showing  goods  to  people 
who  have  no 
intention  of  buying,  my 
dear, ”   said  the motherly looking woman 
to  a  girl  who  had  just been  dealing with 
a  particularly  fractious  case.

“ Yes,  I  do  at  times,”   answered  the 
girl  wearily,  “ but  I  wouldn't  dare  show 
it.  Every  year  it  gets  worse  and worse. 
The  shops  are  overrun  with  women  who 
come  just  to  look  and  not  to buy.  Sales­
people  are  requested  to  handle  with  the 
utmost  courtesy  and  consideration  every 
person  who  comes  into  the  store,  and 
that 
is  true  of  all  the  big  stores  in  the 
city.  That  brings  customers  back,  of 
course,  and  the  time  comes  when  they 
are  compelled  to  buy  something.”

'  Is  it  true  that  it  is no trouble to show 

goods?”  asked  the  young  matron.

“ Why,  of  course, 

that  couldn’t  be 
true,”   answered  the  saleswoman  with  a 
smile. 
“ You  saw  me  show  that  woman 
whom  I  was  waiting  on  when  you  came 
in  nearly  every  silk  petticoat 
in  the 
store.  Well,  of  course,  it  was  trouble 
to  take  them  out  of  their  places  and  to 
put  them  back,  especially  when  I  knew 
horn  the  start  that  she  was  looking  only 
for  fun.  For  my  life,  I  don’t  see  how 
women  enjoy  putting  in  their  time  this 
way.  Nine  times  out  of  ten these women 
keep  a  girl  out  of  making  a  sale,  or 
perhaps  a  number  of  sales.  So  she  has 
in  her  book  at  night,  and 
little  money 
she 
it 
may  not  be  her  fault.

is  rated  accordingly,  although 

“ Of  course,  the  salespeople  who  have 
the  biggest  sales  in  their  books  at  night 
are  regarded  as  the  most  efficient  work­
ers,  and  this  advances  their  chances  of 
promotion.  Really,  l  think  if  the  av­
erage  woman  stopped  to  think  or  was 
told  how  a  girl’s  standing  with  her  em­
ployers 
is  affected  by  just  looking,  she 
would  think  twice  before  she  took  up 
our  time  needlessly. 
I’ve  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  people  with  plenty  of 
money  can’t  put 
the 
places  of  those  who  toil  for  the  neces­
saries  of  life. 
it  was  once  brought 
clearly to the minds of the leisure class of 
women  that  we  are  not  only  physically, 
but  mentally  and  materially,  injured  by 
them  when  they  go  on  these  excursions, 
they  might  be  more  considerate.”

themselves 

“ Right,  my  dear,”   said  the  motherly 
woman,  emphatically. 
if  all 
these  club  women  would  discuss  such

“ And 

in 

It 

questions  at  their  meetings  instead  of 
harping  so  much  on  how  to  better  the 
condition  of  the  working  classes  in  a 
general  way,  civilization  would advance 
a  peg  or  two”   and  off  she  and  her 
friend 
interview  another 
saleswoman.

sailed 

to 

“ Of  course,”   said  this  one,  “ there 
are  two  sides  to this question.  “  It is im­
possible  for  a  woman  to  shop  intelli­
gently  offhand.  Suppose  she  wants  to 
put  $100  in  a  coat.  That  is  a good  deal 
of  money,  and  she  does  not  want  to 
spend 
it  for  the  first gioo coat  that  is 
shown  her.  She  wants  to  look  at  a  num­
ber  of  coats  at  that  price,  and  then  she 
wants  to  compare  them  with  gioo  coats 
in  other  shops.  That  is  but  right,  and 
if  a  customer  frankly  states  her  position 
in 
at  the  start,  the  average  saleswoman 
a  well-conducted  store  will  not  deem 
it 
troublesome  to  show  her  every  gioo  coat 
in  stock,  and  will  not  feel  hard  toward 
her  if  she  goes  elsewhere  to  look  before 
buying.  The  class  of  shoppers  who  fag 
us  out  completely  are  those  who come  to 
look  without  the  slightest  idea  of  buy­
ing. 
I  see  crowds  of  women here  every 
day  who  know  more  about everv  depart­
ment  in  this  store,  except  mine,  than  I 
do,  and  I’ve  been  here  ten  years.  They 
come  every  day,  and  go  from  place  to 
place  looking  and  pricing,  pricing  and 
looking.  Some  days  when  I’ve  had  to 
wait  on  a  dozen  such  I  feel  like scream­
ing, 
‘ Have  you  women  nothing  to  do 
at  home?’  But of  course  I  can’t  do  that, 
for  I  must  smile  and  look  pleasant  and 
act  as  if  showing  goods  to  people  who 
didn’t  mean  to  buy  was  the  joy  of  my 
life. ”

“ The  easiest  customers  in  the  world 
to  please, ”   testified  a  third  saleswom­
an,  “ are  the  business  women.  They 
are  almost 
invariably  sure  sales.  A 
business  woman  has  no  time  to run from 
store  to  store  looking  at  goods.  Before 
she  goes  into  a  shop  she  knows  exactly 
what  she  wants  and  about  how much she 
is  going  to  pay  for 
it.  She  generally 
goes  to  a  first  class  house,  because 
early  in  her  business  career  she 
learns 
that  it  pays  to  buy  only  the  best  things. 
Consequently  she  is  suited  usually at the 
first  place  where  she  looks.  Sometimes 
after  I've  had  a  siege  with  chronic 
shoppers  I  almost  wish  that  every  wom­
in  the  world  had  to  work  for  a  liv­
an 
ing,  at  least 
long  enough  to  learn  bow 
to  shop  only  when  she  really  wants  to 
buy  something.  ’

The  crusaders  looked  at  each  other, 
laughed  and  went  to  the silk department 
to  hear  what  the  salesmen  thought  of 
chronic  shoppers.

“ I’m  sure  no  other  department  in  the 
store  has  to  deal  with  so  many  of  them 
as  we  do  right  here,”   said  a  veteran 
“ I ’ve  been  in  the  silk  busi­
salesman. 
ness  for  thirty  years,  and 
in  the  old 
days  such  a  thing  as  a  woman  going  in 
to  a  store  merely  for  the  sake  of 
look 
ing  at  goods  was  unheard  of.  Then  we 
could  keep  our  goods  intact  and  make 
big  sales,  too.  But  nowadays 
it’s pull 
down  and  put  up  from  morning  until 
night,  just  to  accommodate  women  who 
appear  to  think  that  they  bestow  a favor 
on  shopkeepers  by  merely 
looking  at 
their  wares  They  seem  to  me  to  go  in

droves.  Why,  every  day  of  my  life  I 
hear  two,  three,  four,  and  maybe  five 
plan  to  meet  one  another  the  next morn­
ing  early,  to  take 
in  all  of  the  shops. 
The  faces  of  such  shoppers  are  just  as 
familiar 
in  all  of  the  big  department 
stores  as  the  faces  of  employes.  The 
salespeople  know  them  by  sight,  and, 
although 
it  goes  terribly  against  the 
grain,  we  have  to  treat  them  with  the 
same  courtesy  that  we  show  our  best 
customers. 
It  would  never  do  to  offend 
them.  They  make  public  opinion  just 
as  much  as  the  women  who  shop  only 
to  buy,  and  there 
is  such  an  army  of 
them  that 
if  they  once  got  down  on  a 
store,  they  could  almost  cause  it  to  be 
boycotted.  Besides,  a  salesman 
is  a 
machine,  and  he 
is  paid  to  attend  to 
people’s  wants,  to  show  them  goods 
without  questioning  whether  they  want 
to  buy  or  not,  and  we  are  paid  to  do 
this  cheerfully.  Of  course 
is  hard 
to 
lose  the  sale  of  a  $500  bill  of  goods 
because  you  happen  to  be  waiting  on  a 
woman  who  is  shopping  just  to  see  the 
styles.  But  one  has  to  meet  disagree- 
I able  things  in  all  lines  of  trade  and  in 
the  professions  as  well  but;  after  all, 
the  chronic  shopper  class  is  about  the 
most  disagreeable  element  that  we  have 
to  contend  with

“ The  worst  thing  about  them 

is,”  
j he  concluded,  “ that  they  will  not  hurry 
on  Saturday  any  more  than  on  any  other 
day,  and  this  keeps  us  overtime.”

“ Outrageous!”  said  the  two crusaders 

it 

as  they  walked  away.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.
Bros, 

City—Smith 

Nessen 

opened  a  new  grocery  store.

have 

Buchanan— Treat  Bros,  succeed  Treat 

&  Redden  in  the  grocery  business.

Charlotte—Potter  &  Co.  have  sold 

their  grocery  stock  to  J.  B.  Hartwell.

Hart—D.  A.  Bergeon,  of  Shelby,  has 
embarked  in  the  harness  business  here.
Mayville— Weinberg  Bros,  have  re­
moved  their  general  stock  to  Memphis.
Vineland—G.  W.  Doane  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  N.  Beard­
sley.
St. 

Joseph—Rimes  &  Hildebrand 
have  opened  a  dry  goods  store  at  this 
place.

Grand  Marais—Frank  P.  Bohn  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock  of  R.  J. 
Teeter.

Sturgis—Wright  Bros,  have purchased 
the  haidware  stock  of  Clapp  &  Bi 11s- 
borrow.

Alpena—W.  E.  Rogers  &  Co.  succeed 
Rogers,  Burdick  &  Co.  in  the  grocery 
business.

Lowell—Dan  T.  Bush  has  embarked 
in  the  bakery  business  in  the  Robertson 
building.

Clare—Geo.  W.  Halstead  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  his  brother,  Elmer 
Halstead.

Brown  City— Miss  L.  B.  Riley  has 
retired  from  the  millinery  business  at 
this  place.

Manistee-----Jas.  McEvoy 

succeeds
Fagan  &  McEvoy  in  the  drug  and  gro­
cery  business.

Bellevue—Mrs.  A.  J.  Bowen  has  pur­
chased  the  millinery  stock  of  the  late 
Mrs.  M.  J.  Perry.

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

barked 
937  Military  street.

Port  Huron— H.  C.  Knill,  Jr.,  has 
in  the  Queen  Anne 

sold  his 
grocery  to  Roy  C.  Knill.

interest 

Durand—L.  C.  Mead  has  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  this  place.  The  stock 
was  purchased  in  Detroit.

Holland—Barkel  Bros.,  meat  dealers, 
have  sold  out  to  Brink  &  Streur,  who 
will  continue  the  business.

Corinne—A.  B.  McArthur  &  Co.  suc­
in  general 

ceed  Culver  &  McArthur 
trade  and  the  cedar  business.

Bay  City—The  People’s Supply Store, 
incorporated,  succeeds  John  K. 

not 
Smialek  in  the  meat  business.

Ransom— Lozier  &  Nichols  are  suc­
ceeded  by  Thos.  Lozier  &  Co.  in  the 
drug  and  boot  and  shoe  busintss.

Ypsilanti—W.  C.  Farrington  and  L. 
E.  Finch  have  purchased  the  laundry 
belonging  to  Louis  W.  Coquillard.

Freeport— A.  Gosch  has  purchased 
the  S.  E.  Albright  store  building  and 
will  shortly  open  a  meat market therein.
Owosso—A.  Byrne has sold his grocery 
stock  to  L.  D.  Wilson,of  St.  Louis,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  this  place.
Moddersville— Chas.  L.  Dolph  has 
moved  his  grocery  stock  from  Temple 
to  this  place.  He  will  also  operate  a 
grist  mill.

Grand  Ledge—Clem.  Davis  is  closing 
out  his  entire  stock  of  boots  and  shoes, 
preparatory  to  engaging 
the  dry 
goods  business.

Coldwater—Snyder  &  Keller  have  sold 
their  grocery  stork  to  C.  F.  Zaph  and 
will  continue  handling  rags  and  pelts, 
the  same  as  heretofore.

in 

East  Jordan —W.  A.  Pickard 

is  put­
ting  in  shelving  in  the  Burdick  build­
ing,  on  State  street,  preparatory  to  re­
ceiving  a  stock  of  groceries.

Remus—Chas.  D.  Crandall  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  M.  P.  Gale, 
at  Bundy,  and  will  remove 
it  to  this 
place  and  re-engage  in  business.

Kalamazoo—Sherman  &  Boss,  former­
ly 
in  the  bazaar  business  at  Benton 
Harbor,  have  removed  their  stock  to 
this  place  and  located on Burdick street.
Clyde—The  general  store  of  Clyde  W. 
Everts,  of  White  Lake, 
three  miles 
east  of  this  place,  has  been  closed  on  a 
chattel  mortgage,  held  by  W.  W.  Baker, 
a  grain  dealer.

Kalamazoo—J.  A.  Hicks  and  John
D.  Johnson,  who  were  engaged  in  the 
paper  business  under  the  style  of  Hicks 
&  Johnson,  have  dissolved  partnership, 
Mr.  Johnson  continuing  the  business.

Detroit— The  H.  R.  Leonard  Furni­
incorporated  with 
ture  Co.  has  been 
§20,000  capital  stock,  $ 12,000  paid  in. 
H.  R.  Leonard  bolds  1,000  shares,  H. 
N.  Leonard  199 and  David  S.  Carter  1 
share.

Portland—Geo.  W.  Wood,  the  photog­
rapher,  has  purchased  the  jewelry  stock 
of  J.  A.  Campbell,  and  will  continue 
the  business  in  connection with his own, 
putting  in  a  full  line  of  jewelry,  clocks 
and  watches.

White  Pigeon— A.  W.  Gardiner,  who 
conducts  a  department  store  at  Sturgis, 
has  purchased 
the  Fair  department 
store  of  John  Hodges,  which  he  will 
continue  as  a  branch  of  his  Sturgis  es­
tablishment.

Nashville—C.  L.  Walrath  has  sold 
his  harness  stock  to  his  brother,  H.  L., 
and  will  hereafter devote  his  entire  at­
tention  to  the  firm  of  Downing  Bros. 
&  Co.,  dealers 
in  farm  products,  of 
which  he  is  a  member.

Traverse  City— W.  S.  Reed,  of  Sault 
Ste.  Marie,  has leased  the  Bartak  build­
ing  at  418  South  Union  street  and 
opened  a  music  store,  handling  the 
Schubert,  Kingsbury and Conover pianos 
and  the  Chicago  cottage  organ.

Stanton— Ferry  Hannifin,  who 

for 
several  years  has  been  employed  as 
salesman  in  Ball  &  Devine’s  store,  has 
resigned  that  situation  and  gone  to  An- 
naconda,  Mont.,  where  a  good  situation 
at  greatly  advanced  salary  is  waiting 
him.

Whitmore  Lake—Lantz  & Taylor have 
engaged  in  general  trade  at  this  place. 
Mr.  Latz  was  for  many  years  employed 
by  the  dry  goods  house  of  Schairer  & 
Mi lien,  of  Ann  Arbor,  and  Mr.  Taylor 
has  long  been  a  respected  citizen of this 
place.

Benton  Harbor— The  merchants  of 
this  city  have  formed  a  pool  to  contest 
the  right of  the  Consolidated  Store Serv­
ice  Co.  to  exact  “ blood  money”   from 
them  for  the  use  of  cash  carrier systems 
alleged  to 
infringe  patents  claimed  to 
be  owned  by  the  Boston  monopoly. 
They  invite  merchants  in  other  parts  of 
the  State  to  join  them  in  the  matter, 
having  the  assurance  of  an  able  patent 
attorney  that  the  claims  of  the  Consoli­
dated  Co.  are  groundless  and  cannot  be 
sustained  in  court.

Corinne—A novel  business  change  oc­
curred  here  last  week,  H.  C.  Culver  re­
tiring  from  the  general  firm  of  Culver 
&  McArthur,  at  this  place;  F.  H. 
Freeman  &  Co.,  at  Gould  City;  Bovee, 
Robinson  &  Co.,  at  Bovee;  and  A.  D. 
Day  &  Co.,  at  Engadine.  New  firms 
have  been  formed  to  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  each  place  under  the  style  of 
A.  B.  McArthur  &  Co.  Mr.  McArthur 
bolds  a  half 
interest  in  each  firm,  the 
other  members  of  the  firm  being John  1. 
Bovee,  Frank  W.  Robinson,  Frank  H. 
Freeman  and  A.  D.  Day.  The  combi­
nation  is  a  strong  one.

Detroit—The  W.  H.  Ellis  Co.  has 
filed  articles  of  association  with  the 
County  Clerk  and  will  carry  on  a  gen­
eral 
tobaccos  and 
smokers'  supplies  upon  a  cash  capital 
of  §15,000.  W.  H.  Ellis 
is  the  owner 
of  1,498  shares,  and  George  W.  Radford 
and  Robert  McDonald  of  qne  each.

in  cigars, 

trade 

Sanilac  Center— The  new  Truman 
Moss  State  Bank  opened  up  for business 
Oct.  19.  The  incorporators  and  direc­
tors  are:  Julia  H.  Mills,  of  Croswell, 
Mich.  ;  Elizabeth  Moss  Mills  Anketell 
and  Thomas  J.  Anketell,  of  Merrill, 
Wis.  ;  John  O’Connor,  of  Croswell  and 
Jeremiah  O’Connor,  of  Carsonville. 
The  officers  are:  Julia  H.  Mills,  late 
of  Detroit,  President;  Elizabeth  Moss 
Mills  Anketell,  Vice-President; Charles 
J.  Oleson, 
late  Cashier  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Merrill,  Wis.,  Cash­
ier. 
is  proposed  to 
erect  a  handsome  new  bank  building.

In  the  spring 

it 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Buchanan—The  style  of  the  Hatch 
Cutlery  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the 
Michigan  Cutlery  Co.

Clayton— Lamb  &  Bales  are  consider­
ing  the  plan  of  locating  a  branch  tooth­
pick  factory  at  Ludington.

Cheboygan—The  Cheboygan  Manu­
facturing  Co.  is  putting  a  new  planer 
and  other  machinery  into  its  plant.

Bay  City—The  South  End  Lumber 
Co.  is  running 
its  plant  on  a  contract 
secured  a  few  days  ago  to  cut  7,000,000 
feet  of  logs  for  other  parties.

Bellaire—Tindle  &  Jackson  have  just 
closed a  deal  for  a  million  and  a  half  of 
elm 
is  to  be 
shipped  to  the  mill  at  this  place.

in  Kalkaska  county. 

It 

Owosso—C.  B.  Radford  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  soda  water  manufactur­
ing  business  of  Radford  &  Co.  to  A.  G. 
Osmer,  who  thus  becomes  sole  proprie­
tor.

Muskegon— Neil  &  Alwines  have  sold 
their  grist  mill  machinery 
to  Geo. 
Wheater,  who  will  remove  it  to  Norton 
and  engage  in  the  flour  and  feed  busi­
ness.

McBain— The  McBain 

creamery, 
which  cost  the  confiding  people  of  this 
vicinity  §3,800,  was  sold  at  auction  the 
other  day  and  brought  §750.  D.  Gould, 
of  Highland,  was  the  purchaser.

Grayling— David  Trotter,  for  fourteen 
years  in  the  employ  of  Sailing,  Hanson 
&  Co.,  has  severed  his  connection  with 
the  firm  and  removed  to  Toledo,  where 
he  will  engage  in  the  lumber  .business.
Cheboygan—Ward  &  McLeod  have 
purchased 
the  Hayes 
shingle  mill  and  the  mill  will  start  as 
early 
in  the  spring  as  possible.  They 
have  stock  on  hand  enough  to 
cut 
15,000,000  shingles.

logs  to  stock 

Fremont— H.  J.  Dudley  has  sold  his 
400  acres  of  timber 
in  Osceola 
county  to  Tustin  parties,  but will handle 
all  the  lumber  cut  from  this  land.  He 
has  also  contracted  for  a  million  shin­
gles  at  Thom psonvi lie.

land 

Walton— Lumsden  &  Ward,  of  Big 
Rapids,  expect  to  put  twelve  hundred 
thousand  feet  of  hardwood  logs  on  the 
cars  here  this  fall  and  winter.  Charles 
McNeil,  of  Cadillac,  expects  to  put  the 
same  amount,  making  over  two  million 
feet.

North  Lansing— Ever  since  he  pur­
chased  the  Hart  mills,  several  months 
ago,  Senator  A.  D.  Hughes  has  had  a 
force  of  men  remodelling  the 
interior 
of  the  mill  and  placing  new  machinery. 
These  improvements  have  now  all  been 
completed  and 
is 
now  one  of  the  best  custom  mills  in  the 
State.

the  establishment 

Plainwell—Robert Richardi has bought 
the  mill  property  in  this  village  known 
as  the  white  mill.  He is  making  repairs 
on  the  building  preparatory  to  running 
it  as  a  feed  mill.  The  power  will  be 
utilized 
in  running  the  electric  light 
plant.

Little  Lake— This  station  on  the  C.  & 
N.  W.  Railway  will  become  quite  an 
important  one,  now  that  it  will  be  the 
junction  of  the  C.  &• N.  W.  and  Munis- 
ing  Railway.  The  latter  will  be  com­
pleted  this  week,  giving  Munising  di­
rect  connections  with  Chicago.

Bay  City—The  sawmill  of  Smalley  & 
Woodworth  has  been  run  day  and  night 
all  the  season.  The  firm  has  purchased 
all  the  ^orway  and  pine logs of  the Hol- 
land-Emery  Lumber  Co.  in  the  river 
and  the  plant  will  continue  to  run  day 
and  night  until  the  end  of  the  year.

Detroit—The  Dunbar  Manufacturing 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $20,000,  of  which  $9,000  is  al­
lowed  for  the  patent  rights  to  certain 
bottles  it  is  proposed  to  produce.  The 
incorporators  are  Clement  A.  Dunbar, 
600  shares;  James  Edgar,  299,  and  Ed­
win  Earle,  1  share.

Petoskey—This  city 

is  experiencing 
a  regular  building  boom  this  fall.  Res­
idences  are  going  up  in  all  parts  of  the 
city.  The  city 
is  also  making  great 
improvement  on  streets  and  sewerage. 
There  are  no  idle  men  here.  Petoskey 
is  certainly  receiving  its  full  share  of 
the  country’s  prosperity.

St.  Louis—Herman  Zubler,  of  Breck- 
enridge,  manufacturer  of 
leather  sus­
penders,  having  outgrown  his  present 
surroundings,  will  remove  to  Saginaw, 
where  he  has  formed  a  partnership  with 
M.  G.  Gardner,  of  the  firm  of  Gardner, 
Peterman  &  Co.,  stave  and  heading 
manufacturers,  for  the  purpose  of  car­
rying  on  the  business  on  a  larger  scale.
Marine  City—S.  Baker  &  Sons  will 
move  their  hoop  factory  from  this  place 
to  Rogers  City.  They  will  add  to  the 
plant  in  its  new  location  a  sawmill  for 
cutting  hemlock  and  hardwood  and  put 
in  a  planing  mill  and  an  electric 
light 
plant  to  furnish 
light  to  Rogers  City. 
Eventually  the  firm  contemplates add­
ing  a  stave  and  heading  mill.  The  re­
moval  has  been  determined  on  because 
of  the  plentiful  supply  of hardwood tim­
ber  in  the  new  location.

has 

Grand  Ledge—Ground 

been 
broken  for  the  new  building  of  the 
Grand  Ledge  Chair  Co.,  which  will  be 
55x80  feet  in  dimensions,  three  stories 
high,  and  adjoin  the  present  factory  on 
the  south.  The  building  now  used  for 
packing  will  be  moved  back.  The  old 
building 
is  greatly  in  need  of  repairs, 
and  the  Chair  Co.  will  expend  a  con­
siderable  sum  on 
laying  new 
floors  and  making  some  changes.  The 
work  of  building  and  repairing  will  be 
pushed 
just  as  rapidly  as  men  and 
money  can  do  it.

that, 

An  Ohio  man,  the  proprietor  of  some 
in  Ohio  and 
dozen  department  stores 
Pennsylvania,  has  brought  suit 
for 
$25,000 against  the  merchants  of  Zanes­
ville.  The  merchant  denounced  the de­
partment  store  man  as  a  fraud  and  im­
postor,  and  requested  the  daily  papers 
not  to  accept  his  advertisements. 
It 
must  have  been  a  hot  time  in  the  old 
town  for  the  newspapers  for  a  few  days.

One  striking  effect  of  the  Luetgert 
murder  trial 
is  the  black  eye  it  has 
given  the  erstwhile  harmless  sausage. 
That  mysterious  edible 
longer 
popular  in  Chicago,  and  those  who  for­
merly  made  its  manufacture  a  profitable 
business  now  sorrowfully  murmur,  “ Our 
occupation  is  gone. ”

is  no 

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Grand  Rapids  Oossip

Doneth  Bros,  have  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Pomona.  The  Worden  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

W.  E.  Cornwell  has  embarked  in  the 
The 
the 

grocery  business  at  Lawrence. 
Worden  Grocer  Co. 
stock.

furnished 

Geo.  Golds  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  M.  A.  Cole  at  367  South 
East  street  and  will  remove  his  grocery 
stock  from  363  South  East  street  to  that 
location,  where  he  will  continue  the 
business.

Edward  C.  Jenkins  has  purchased  the 
in  the 
interest  of  Chas.  H.  Bradford 
grocery  stock  of  Jenkins  &  Bradford 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  22 
West  Bridge  street  under  the  style  of 
Jenkins  &  Co.

The  Grand  Rapids  Cedar  Co.  has pur­
chased  the  Chapman  sawmill  at  Pent- 
water,  which  will  be  torn  down  and  at 
once  moved  to  Petoskey,  where  the 
company  has  enough  cedar  to  keep  it 
running  for  some  time  to  come.

John  S.  Lawrence,  receiver  of  the 
Northern  National  Bank  of  Big Rapids, 
informs  the  Tradesman  that  he  has  not 
disposed  of  the  bank  building  to  H.  M: 
Simons,  of  Franklin,  Ohio,  or  any  other 
proposed  purchaser,  but  that  a  deed  of 
the  property  can  be  obtained  from  him 
at  any  time  on  the  basis  of Si0,000 cash.
The  appraisers  employed  by  the  Pen­
insular  Trust  Co. 
inventory  the  shoe 
stock  of  Michael  Ehrman  at  $6.606.43, 
from  which  goods  to  the  amount  of 
$634.05  have  been  replevined  by  cred­
itors,  leaving  goods  to  the  amount  of 
$5,972.38  still  on  hand.  The  liabilities 
set  forth  in the assignment are $8,584.66. 
The  stock  will  be  sold  at  public  sale 
Nov.  4.

Geo.  H.  Remington  and  Frank  L. 
Orcutt  have  formed  a  copartnership 
under  the  style  of  Remington  &  Orcutt 
and  will  handle  potatoes  and  other 
produce 
in  carlots.  Mr.  Remington 
was  formerly  engaged  in  the  retail  gro­
cery  business 
in  this  city  and  Bangor, 
and  has  also  been  identified  with  the 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  and  Moseley 
Bros.  Mr.  Orcutt  has  been  engaged  in 
the  produce  business  at  Muskegon  and 
Minneapolis  for  the  past  dozen  years.

The  new  peddling 

law,  which  was 
attacked  in  the  Kent  Circuit  Court  last 
week  on  the  ground  that  it  is  invalid, 
was  subsequently  held  unconstitutional 
by  Judge  Adsit.  Prosecuting  Attorney 
insists  that  the  learned  judge 
Rodgers 
is  wrong 
in  his  conclusions,  and  has 
taken  steps  to  appeal  the  matter  to  the 
Supreme  Court,  and  will  press  for  an 
early  hearing,  with  a  view  to  having 
the  matter  definitely  settled  within sixty 
days.  The  chief  ground  on  which  the 
law  was  held 
is  that,  in  the 
opinion  of  Judge  Adsit,  it  provided  for 
two  distinct  objects—the 
licensing  of 
peddlers  and  pawnbrokers. 
the 
original  draft of  the measure.no mention 
was  made  of  pawnbrokers,  but,  in  the 
cathauling 
it  subsequently  received  at 
the  hands  of the  wise  solons  at  Lansing, 
several  additions  were  made  to 
the 
measure  which  were  not  contemplated 
when  the  bill  was  prepared.

invalid 

In 

It  is  barely  possible  that  the  Consoli­
dated  Store  Service  Co.  possesses  valid 
patents  and  that  the various cash  carrier 
systems  now 
in  use  by  merchants  all 
over  the  country  are  infringements  of

such  patents,  but the  methods  adopted 
by  the  attorneys  of.  the  Consolidated 
Store  Service  Co.  are  not  such  as  to 
cause  the  people  to  believe  that  the 
patents  are  either  valid  or  valuable. 
After  beginning  a  suit  against  a  mer­
chant  at  Traverse  City  and  another 
against  a  merchant  at  Benton  Harbor, 
the  attorneys  of  the  company  began 
writing  a  series  of  threatening  letters  to 
users  of  alleged  infringing  devices  with 
a  view  to  forcing  settlement  in  advance 
of  the  adjudication  of  the  patent  in  the 
United  States  Court.  The  usual  course 
to  pursue 
in  such  cases  is  to  first  ob­
tain  a  favorable  decision  and  then  to 
infringers 
go  after 
in  sledge  hammer 
fashion. 
It  is,  of  course,  possible  that 
the  suits  recently  instituted  will  result 
favorably  for  the  plaintiff,  but  the  ac­
tivity  of  the  attorneys  to  effect  settle­
in  advance  of  the  trial  of  the 
ment 
cases  naturally 
leads  to  the  suspicion 
that  the  outcome  in  court  is  not  looked 
forward  to  with  confidence  by  the  attor­
neys  having  the  matter  in  charge.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Northern  Spys  are  about  the 
only  variety  of  winter  fruit  in  market, 
commanding  $2@2.25  per  bbl. 
The 
stock  is  not  strictly  No.  1,  but  is  fair  in 
quality.

Butter— Separator  creamery  is  strong­
ly  held  at  233^0,  with  indications of still 
higher  prices  in  prospect.  Dairy  grades 
are  so  scarce  as  to  be  practically  out  of 
market,  all  arrivals  being  promptly 
taken  on  the  basis  of  about  20c  for 
fancy.

Cabbage—35c  per  doz.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—75c@Si  per  doz.
Celery—8@ ioc  per  bunch.
Cranberries—The  market 

is 

steadv 
and  receipts  are  liberal.  Cape  Cods 
are  coming  freely,  commanding  $6.50 
per  bbl.
Eggs— Local  dealers  pay  I4X C>  case 
count,  holding  at  15c,  case  count,  or  16c 
for  fancy  candled.  Very  few  poor  eggs 
are  now  coming  forward.

Grapes— New  York  Concords  com­

mand  12c  for  8  lb.  baskets.

Honey—The  market 

is  steady,  with 
none  too  much  stock  on  the  market 
White  clover 
is  held  at  12c  and  dark 
buckwheat  at  ioc.

Lemons— New  California  fruit  is  on 
the  market  and 
is  selling  at  the  same 
figures  as  Messinas.  Movement  is  light.
Lettuce— Hot  house  goods  fetch  15c 

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—A  decline  of 

>n  all
grades  of  refined  sugars  was  ordered 
Monday  by  the  refining  company. 
It 
is  supposed  to  have  been  made  to  en­
courage  the  demand  for  sugar,  as  the 
season  for  active  buying  ends  earlier 
than  usual  this  year  on  account  of  the 
scarcity  and  high  price  of  the 
late 
fruits.  The  reduction  in  prices  appar­
ently came  too  late,  as  distributers  have 
already  felt  the  dulness  and  are  content 
with  their  present  light  supplies.  Re­
tailers  as  well  as  wholesalers  have  small 
stocks  on  hand,  while  the  refining  com­
pany  has  quite  large  stocks at all points.
Coffee—The  market  continues  easy 
on  account  of  enormous  receipts  and 
constantly 
increasing  accumulations  at 
primary  markets.  The  flowering  for  the 
new  crop  also  gives  excellent  promise 
of  another  yield  of  liberal  proportions.
Tea—The  scarcity  of  cheap  teas  in 
this  and  other  markets  is  bringing  out 
old  stocks  which  have  been  held  at  va­
rious  points.  Dusts  are  moving  better, 
hut  there  is  little  that  may  be  called  a 
bargain  in  cheap  teas.  The  movement 
is  only  for  immediate  demand,  for there 
is  no  speculative  spirit  in  the market.

Cheese— Michigan  factories  are  gen­
erally  sold  up  pretty  close,  so  that  an 
unusually  small  amount  of  stock  will  be 
in  makers’  hands  on  Nov.  1.  Jobbers 
generally  are  not  well  supplied  with 
Michigan  goods  and  are  beginning  to 
bring 
in  New  York  and  Wisconsin 
makes,  although  the  consumer  does  not 
take  so  kindly  to  Cheddar  goods  as  to 
the  loose,  porous,  spongy  cheese  which 
is  a  characteristic  of  Michigan  facto­
ries.  Michigan makers'generally  resent 
the  action  of  the  State  Board  of  Agri­
culture  in  employing a Wisconsin maker 
as-  instructor  for  the  special  course  in 
cheesemaking  at  the  Agricultural  Col­
lege  this  winter,  on the  ground  that  it  is 
useless  to  teach  cheddar  cheesemaking 
to  makers  who  cannot  find  a  market  for 
cheddar  goods  without  sending  them 
out  of  the  State,  because  the  people  of 
Michigan  have  been  educated  to  take 
Michigan  cheese  and  will  not  purchase 
the  close,  meaty  output  of  other  states 
so  long  as  the  product  of  their  own  fac­
tories  is  available.

per  lb.

Onions— Home  grown  are  still  held 
at  60c.  Spanish  command  $1.75  per 
crate.

Oranges— Not  enough  Jamaicas  are 
on  the  market  to  demand  quotations. 
Mexicans  are  a  little  easier  this  week.
Pears— Keefers  command  $3.50  per 

bbl.

Potatoes—The  market 

is  recovering 
from  the  effects  of  the  recent  warm 
wave,  and  off  and  heated  stock  which 
has  served  to  hold  down  the  price  at 
some  of  the  Southern  markets  has  been 
pretty  well  cleaned  up.  A  good  healthy 
tone  prevails  and,  unless  all  signs  fail, 
the  tendency 
in  prices  will  be  upward 
from  now  on.

Quinces— The  market  is  dull,  jobbers 
holding  their stocks  at  75c  per  bu.,  with 
few  takers.

Squash—ic  per  lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—All  varieties  are  in 
good  demand  and  are  slightly  higher  at 
primary  markets.  Genuine  Jerseys  com­
mand  $3  25,  while Virginias and  Illinois 
are  held  at  $2@2.25.

Tomatoes—Offerings are poor  in  qual­
ity,  but  the  demand  still  continues  and 
jobbers  undertake  to  meet  the  demand 
on  the  basis  of  about  50c  per  bu.

The  reason  why  so  few  marriages  are 
happy 
is  because  young  ladies  spend 
their  time  in  making nets,not in making 
cages.

We  all  pray  for  a  long  life,  but few of 

us  pray  for  a  good  on«.

Dried  Fruits—Dried  apples are strong 
and  higher  and  several  houses  at  this 
market  have  no  supplies  of  either^sun- 
dried  or  evaporated. 
Apricots  are 
steady,  as  are  peaches.  The  stocks  are 
in  good  shape.  Prunes  are  still  low  and 
inclined  to  recover  from  their 
not  yet 
decline. 
In  raisins  'and  prunes  there 
is  not  as  much  spot  stock  in  the  city  as 
usual,  as  the  producers  on  the  West 
Coast  are  not consigning as much as they 
have  hitherto  done.  New  figs  have  ar­
rived  in  this  market.  The first  receipts 
have  been 
in  bad  condition,  in  some 
cases  not  fit  for  satisfactory  handling. 
The  movement  of  dried  fruits  is  rather 
slower  than  expected.  Reports  from  the 
West  have  been  to  the  effect  that  rain 
damage  would  shorten  the  raisin  stock 
enough  to  make  an  advance  necessary. 
Orders  are 
fewer  because  of  the  ad­
shipments  at  opening 
vance,  while 
figures  are  coming 
the  Coast. 
The  market  on  the  Coast  is  reported 
very  firm.  The  output  of  Washington 
prunes  this  season 
is  estimated  at  300 
cars,  and  of  Oregons  at  200  cars,  but, 
as  with  all  Coast  prunes  this  fall,  there 
is  a  shortage  of  the  larger  sizes.

from 

Provisions—No  changes  in  quotations 
are  to  be  noted  this  week,  but  the  un­
usual  condition  of  bacon  selling  at  from 
i@ i K c  above  hams  is  still  continued, 
and  the demand  for  bacon  at  this  price

is almost  unprecedented,  while the trade 
in  hams  is  dull.  It  seems  that  this  con­
dition  could  not  hold  long.  Hams  have 
not  shown  a  tendency  to  advance  since 
May.

Hides,  Pelts  and  Furs.

The  bide  market  of  Michigan  is  well 
sustained  in  advanced  prices,  caused by 
scarcity  and  tariff.  Growers  have  but 
little  stock  and  an  abundance  of  feed, 
and  at  present  are  slow  sellers.  The 
majority  of  farmers have  a revenue from 
good  crops  and  good  prices  and  are  not 
so  anxious  to  sell  stock  off  the  farm  as 
in  the  past  few  years,  when  the  rule 
was  to  sell  anything  that  would  bring 
cash.

Again,  our  city  and  country  markets 
are  well  supplied  with  meats  from  the 
large  slaughtering  points,  which  lessens 
the  take  off  at  home  What  effect  the 
tariff  will  have  on  the  hide  product  is 
still  a  moted  question.  At present  it  has 
helped  advance  prices,  apparently,  but 
many  tanners  claim 
it  will  result  in 
lower  values,  caused  by  bringing  into 
use many  imitations  of  leather  to cheap­
en  their  work.  Present  values  of  leather 
give  tanners  a  good  margin  for tannage, 
especially  in  lighter  stock ;  but  possibly 
not  the  enormous  profits  they  have  had 
in  past  few  years  on  account  of  the  ex­
tremely  low  value of hides.  The demand 
is  good  for  all  grades,  and  a  strong 
market  is  kept  well  cleaned  up.

Pelts  are  high;  in  fact,  pullers  have 
been  paying  more  for  wool  on  the  pelt 
than  it  would  bring  off  the  skin.  This 
has  been  checked  the  past  week,  partly 
from  a  slacking  off  in  the  sales  of  wool. 
Wool  manufacturers  preferred  to  run  on 
their  present  holdings  and  not  buy 
ahead  until  they could get  a  correspond­
ing  advance  on  their  goods.

Wool 

is  held  strong  at  advanced 
prices,  with  good  stocks  on  hand  and 
no  forced  offerings,  holders  believing 
their  stocks  good  property  on  a  mar­
ket  2@3C  below  the  importing  point, 
and  an  advancing  market  abroad,  with 
small  supply  abroad  suitable  for  Amer­
ican  demand.  A 
large  shortage  the 
world  over  will  have  a  tendency  to  ad­
vance  prices  on  this  commodity  and 
stocks  will  be  wanted  when  buying  for 
the  heavy  weight  goods  begins  in  De­
cember  and  January.  There 
is  an  ab­
sence  of  all  speculation,  however,  at 
present.

The  fur  season  is  about  opening,  with 
buyers  making  up  their  lists and feeling 
for  the  fall  demand  to  know  where  to 
base  their  prices.  Dame  Fashion  con­
trols  this  to  quite  an  extent  and,  while 
she  has  issued  her  decree,  we  must  wait 
the  effects  of  promulgating  it  among the 
people. 

W m .  T.  H e s s .

Jackson  Jottings.

Conway  &  Cronin  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  140  West  Main  street,  at 
the  location  formerly  occupied  by  J.  C. 
Norris.  The  store  is  newly  and  neatly 
furnished.  The  stock  was  purchased  in 
Chicago.

Cunningham  &  Waterman  have 
opened  a  new  grocery  store  at  the  cor­
ner  of  Steward  avenue  and  West  Gan- 
sen  street.  The  stock  was  purchased  in 
Detroit.

Lincoln  Bros.,  grocers  at  300  Steward 
avenue,  have  taken  another  brother  into 
partnership  and  have  purchased 
the 
stock  of  groceries  and  fixtures  at  208 
Williams  street. 
They  will  conduct 
both  stores.
Frank  Cook  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  and  fixtures  of  C.  Brown,  at 
the  corner  of  Fourth  and  Franklin 
streets,  and  will  continue  the  business.

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

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Holiday Goods

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goods 
you  can 
carry*

To  the  Trade

We trust  all  that  can  come  to  Grand  Rapids  this  fall  will  call
upon  us  without  fail.  We  have  something  worth  your  visit.  We 
want to show you  the  splendid  improvements  we  have  made  in  our 
¡K»  Wholesale Store, corner Spring and  Fulton streets;  improvements by 
,(uj  which we are able to display  one of  the  most  Complete  Assortments 
m) 
of Merchandise ever shown  in our lines, by which we are able to offer 
our goods at lower prices than  ever  before.

Owing  to  our  entire  stock  arriving  before  the  great  advances 
caused by  the  new  U.  S.  Tariff,  our  prices  on  Holiday  Goods  are 
entirely based  upon  old  values,  so  that  any  purchases  from  us  this 
fall will be a perfectly safe  investment, as  goods  will  probably  never 
be as cheap again.

  W e  want to show  you,  also,  the  following  lines  of  goods  from 

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6

Woman’s World

Not 

The  Art  of  Conversation.
long  ago  I  sat  in  a  big  conven 
tion 
in  Chicago,  and  a  woman  in  the 
back part of  the  house  arose  to  ask  some 
question  in  an  open  discussion  that  was 
following  the  speech.  What  she  said 
importance,  but  the 
was  of  no  great 
tone  of  her  voice  was 
like  spoken 
music,  the  enunciation  was  so  beauti­
fully  clear and  distinct.  I  involuntarily 
turned  my  head  to  see  her.

"She 

is  Miss  Blank,”   said  my  next 
neighbor,  "and  she  is  a  professor of  the 
art  of  conversation.' ’

I  smiled,  too,  for  we  are  not  accus­
tomed  to  thinking  of  conversation  as  an 
accomplishment  that  may  be  acqu'red 
by  the  aid  of  textbook  and  teacher. 
Rather  do  we  incline  to  the  pessimistic 
theory  that  it  comes  by  nature,  and  that 
those  of  us  who  halt  or  stumble  in  our 
speech  must  bear  it  with  meekness  and 
patience,  as  we  would  hay  colored  hair 
or a  snub  nose  or  any  other  misfortune, 
and  thank  heaven 
it  was  pleased  to 
make  us  speaking  animals  at  all.

Yet  what  art  is  more  delightful  than 
that  of  the  fine  conversationalist!  The 
man  or  woman  who  possesses this grace­
ful  accomplishment,  who  knows  what  to 
say  and  how  to  say  it,  has  a  claim  to 
conjure  with.

" I t ’s  not  what 

In  Chevalier’s  song,  the  hero  com­
plains  of  his  friend  that  his  offense  is 
not  in what  he  says,  but  the  wav  he  says 
it. 
'ee  says;  it’s  the 
narsty  way  ’ee  says  it."   And  the  re­
verse  of  this  is  equally  true. 
It  is  not 
always  the  profundity,  or  wit,  or  wis­
dom,  of  what  one  says  that  charms  u s; 
it’s  the  charming  way  he  said 
it.  And 
it  is  a  cheering  and 
inspiring  thought 
that,  after  all,  this  is  merely  an  art  that 
may  be  acquired,  just  as  one  acquired 
the  two-step  or  the  high  handshake  or 
anything  else  that  was  the  fad  of  the 
moment.

it 

is  passing  strange  how 

As  a  matter of  fact,  nature  provides 
us  with  very  few  graces,  and  if  we  want 
accomplishments  we  must  learn  them 
ourselves.  They  are  none  of  her  affair, 
and 
little 
thought  we  have  given  to  acquiring  the 
pleasing  art  of 
talking.  People  go 
through  life  screeching  their  communi­
cations  to  others  in  voices  as  rasping  as 
a  fog  horn,  when  a  little  thought  and 
care  would  enable  them  to  speak  in  a 
soft,  low  voice.  Others  are  poverty- 
stricken  in  the  matter  of  a  vocabulary. 
They  are  bankrupts  in  even  the  small 
change  of  conversation,  yet  there’s  the 
whole  dictionary  of  words  offered  them 
for  their  salvation,  without  money  and 
without  price.  Perhaps  the  day  is  not 
far  distant  when  we  shall  recognize 
these  things  as  the  barbarity  they  are. 
It  is  a  melancholy  fact  that  among  the 
vast  majority  of  people  the  art  of  con­
versation  has  scarcely  risen  beyond  the 
point  of  making  signs  like  a  savage,  or 
like  an  animal.  They  are  un­
grunts 
gracious  and  rude,  even  when  their 
in­
tentions  are  best,  simply  because  they 
don't  know  what  to  say.  Who  has  not 
had  the  pleasure  of  a gift  spoiled,  or 
felt  that  a  really  generous  deed  was  an 
affront  rather  than  a  kindness,  because 
of  the  unfortunate  and 
ill-considered 
speech  that  accompanied 
it?  As  for 
paying  such  people  a  compliment,  it  is 
something  that  only  one  possessed  of 
reckless  courage  would  dare  venture. 
Perhaps  they  are  accomplished  in  every 
other  art  hut  the  art  of  conversation. 
You  are  charmed  with  the  song  they 
they  have
have  sung,  pr 

thp  picture 

painted,  or  the  artistic  beauty  of  their 
house.  Being  appreciative,  you  make 
some  little  honeyed speech expressive  of 
your  pleasure.  Do  they  graciously  and 
gracefully  receive 
it?  Never!  They 
turn  brusquely  upon  you  and  accuse  you 
of  being  a  flatterer. 
I  have  even  heard 
the  recipient  of  a  compliment  deliber­
ately  ask,  "What  do  you  want?"  Just 
think  of  the  coarse  and gratuitous  insult 
conveyed 
It  is  no 
excuse  to  say  they  are  not  meant,  and 
are  merely  the  result  of  not  knowing 
what  to  say.  The  exigencies  of  life 
demand  that  we  shall  find  out  and  com­
mit  to  memory  many  things  we  did  not 
originally  know.

in  such  speeches! 

Chief  among  those  in  need  of the mis­
sionary  services  of  the  professor  of  the 
art  of  conversation  are those who are for­
ever  saying  the  wrong  thing.  There  are 
times  when  a  blunder  is  worse  than  a 
crime.  There  are  those  who  ask the di­
vorced  woman  when  she  last  saw  her 
dear  husband,  and,  when  anything  un­
fortunate  has  happened  in a family,  may 
be  safely  trusted  to  steer  the  conversa­
tion  around  so  as  to  rattle  the  bones  of 
the  skeleton  in  the  closet. 
im­
possible  to  head  them  off;  it  is  useless 
to  try  to  stop  them,  and  probably  total 
amputation  of  the  tongue 
is  the  only 
thing  likely  to  do  them  any  permanent 
good,  or  afford  relief  to society.

is 

It 

Then  there  are  those  utterly  devoid  of 
tact,  and  whose  words  are  bludgeons 
with  which  they  brutally  assail  their 
friends.  You  show  your  new  wheel  to 
such  a  one. 
" I t  is  very  nice, ’ ’ she will 
say,  "and  I  think  you  very  sensible  to 
get  a  cheap  one  instead  of  paying  out  a 
lot  of  money,  as  I  d id ,"  and  you  only 
wish  it  were  permissible  to  strangle  her 
it  is  who  tells  you 
where  she  sits.  She 
your  new  frock 
is  pretty  but  not  be­
coming,  and  praises  your  ingenuity  in 
making  over  your  last  winter’s  bonnet, 
when  you  fondly  fancied  you  had  dis­
guised 
Such 
speeches  are  generally  set  down  to 
malice,  but  are  oftener  the  result  of 
mere  crudeness.  The  speaker  has  sim­
ply  not  learned  the  art  of  conversation 
and  blunders 
into  saying  the  wrong 
thing.

it  beyond  recognition. 

*  The  young  girls  of  this  day  are 
growing  up  into  perfect  savages, ”  com­
plained  a  charming middle  aged woman 
the*other  day ;  "they  can  talk  nothing 
but  a  jargon  about  wheels,  and  golf,  and 
sports,  as  full  of  technicalities  as  an  ex­
pert’s  report  in  a  murder  case.  Polite 
conversation  is  a  game  of  shuttlecock,  a 
quick  give  and’  take  of  airy  nothings, 
and  to  quote  their  own  abominable 
phrase  they  are 
‘ not  in  it.’  When  it 
comes  to  replying  to  anything  that  is  a 
mere  politeness—a facon de parler—they 
are  as  clumsy  and  ill  at  ease  as  a  hob- 
nailed-shod 
a  ballroom. 
Why,  the  other  day  I  said  to  a  young 
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is  not  at 
home  now,  but  you  must  take  pity  on 
an  old  woman’s  loneliness  and  come  to 
see  me. ’  And  what  do  you  think  the 
stupid 
‘ Oh,  but  I 
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If  she  had  been  my 
daughter  I  should  have  provided  her 
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she  memorized  it.”

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of  it;  and  yet  there’s  such  a  golden 
thread  of  the  brightest  fancy  running 
through  the  whole  of  it,  and  binding 
it I 
all  together,  as  one  might  say.  Take 
Portia’s  speech  to  Caliban,  for instance, 
in 
‘ As  You  Want  It;’  or,  what is more 
to  the  point,  Petruchio’s ‘ maiden medi­
tation  fancy  free’  speech  in  ‘ The  Tem­
pest.’ 
It's  positively  delightful;  but, 
when  you  come  down to the real thought, 
it  has  hardly  what  Benedict,  in  ‘ The 
Merchant  of  Venice,’  calls 
local 
habitation  and  a  name.’  ”

‘ a 

*  Still,  don’t  you  think, ”   insinuated 
my  artful  clerk, 
in  sober,  deliberate 
tones,  with  the  sale  of  the  book  as  his 
objective  point,  “ don’t  you  think  that 
there  is  a  naturalness  about  Beatrice  in 
this 
‘ Much  Ado  about  Nothing’  which 
makes  up  for  the  lack  that  you  point 
out?”

A  drooping  of  the  eyelids,  a  deeper 
flush  on  the  pretty  round  cheeks,  a 
slight  lifting  skyward  of  the  “ uptilted”  
nose,  was  the  only  reply  the  clerk  re­
ceived.  Seemingly  oblivious  of  any  re­
proof,  with  perfect 
composure  he 
wrapped  up  deftly  the  “ Much  Obliged 
about  Nothing,”   handed,  with the grace 
of  a  Chesterfield,  the  book  to  the  fair 
purchaser,  received  the  pay  therefor 
with  a  hearty  “ Thank  you,”   bowed 
politely  as  the  ladies  turned  from  the 
counter,  watched  and  waited  until  the 
door  closed  behind  them  and  they  had 
swept  down  the  street,  and  then,  drop­
ping  helplessly  across  the  counter,  he 
laughed  until  his  sides  ached  and  the 
store  fairly  shook  with  his  shouts.

“ How  could  you  do  it?”   I  asked, 

with  admiration  in  look  and  tone.

it  all. 

“ Well,  you  see,  I’m  going  to  sell that 
woman that  set of  Shakespeare  you  have 
been  admiring,  and  I  never  could  have 
it  without  letting  her  think  she 
done 
knows 
I  wanted  to  send  her 
away  believing  that  she  knows  more 
about  books  than  a  circulating 
library. 
It  was  great  fun.  But  it 
And  I  did. 
was  business, 
it 
pays. ’ ’

just  the  same,  and 

The  next  time  I  went  in  there,  “ my 
set”   was  sold to  the  woman  who  ‘ knows 
more  about  books  than  a  circulating 
library,”   by  a  clerk  who  understands 
his  business.

Ric h a r d   M a lco lm   Str o n g.

sheltered  a  wanderer 

thousands  of  dollars  of  money  trying  to 
learn  to  drum  on  the  piano  or  paint 
daisies  on  the  kitchen  sink,  because 
these  come  under  the  head  of  accom­
plishments,  yet  she  will  blurt  out  the 
first  speech  that  pops 
into  her  head, 
because  she  has  never  taken  the  trouble 
to  learn  to  talk  gracefully  and  gracious­
ly. 
In  this  lies  the  difference  between 
the  provincial  and  the  woman  of  the 
world.  One  comes  to  soothe,  the  other 
to  irritate. 
If  your  rooms  are  high  up, 
one  arrives  breathless  and  remarks  on 
the  steepness  of  the  stairs,  the  other 
admires  the  view  from  your  window. 
If  the  weather  is  bad  one  complains un­
til  you  feel  criminal  in  having  dragged 
her  from  home,  the  other  speaks  of  the 
cheer  and  warmth  within  until  you glow 
with  satisfaction  at  the  thought  of  hav­
ing 
from  the 
storm.  If  you  are  sick,  one  tells  of  sud­
den  death,  or  lingering 
illness,  the 
other  brings  health  and  hope  in  words 
of  cheer.  Both  may  have  equally  good 
intentions,  but  one  is  an  artist  and  the 
other  a  miserable  bungler. 
“ It’s  not 
what  ’ee  says;  it's  the way  ’ee  says  it.”
The  professors  of  the  art  of  conversa­
tion  meet  a  long-felt  want.  Let  us  hope 
that  the  day 
is  not  far  distant  when 
their  work  shall  be  apparent  not  only  in 
what  we  say,  but  what  we  leave  unsaid. 
When  the  stories  of  the  bore  shall  be 
lopped  off  and  pruned,  when  family 
anecdotes  will  be  tabooed,  when  one’s 
state  of  health  will  only  be  confided  to 
the  family  doctor,  and  when,  above  all, 
society  will  arise to  the  supernal heights 
of  politeness  and  occasionally 
listen, 
then  will  come  the  millennium,  and  its 
advance  agent  will  be  the  professor  of 
the  art  of  conversation.

D o roth y  D ix .

Schools  in  Stores.

Prom Shoe and Leather Facts.

In  some  of  the  larger  stores  the  com­
mendable  course  has  been  adopted  of 
setting  apart  a  room  where,  at  certain 
periods  of  the  day  the  younger  help 
may  receive  such  elementary  education 
as  is  ordinarily  acquired  in  the  schools. 
Undoubtedly  those  merchants  who  have 
adopted  this  plan  are  deserving  of  high 
commendation  and,  besides  having  the 
satisfaction  of  knowing  that  they  are 
accomplishing  a  philanthropic  end,they 
will  reap  a  reward  in  the  development 
of  a  class  of  help  much  above  the  aver­
age 
in  proficiency  and  ability.  Pre­
sumably  those  branches  are 
taught 
which  will  be  most  conducive  to  their 
work  as  store  assistants. 
In  doing  this 
they  are  better  fitting  these  young  peo­
ple  to  earn  their  living  in  the  vocation 
they  have  chosen  or 
into  which  they 
have  been  forced  by  a  not  always  kind 
fate.

The  Dry  Goods  Economist  said  re­
cently,  in  commenting  on  this  subject, 
that  “ if  we  cannot  have  the  apprentice 
system  there  should  at  least  be provided 
some  means  for  the  business  education 
of  the  younger  employes,  as  well  as 
some  stronger  incentive  for them  to  ap­
ply  themselves  than  the  mere  weekly 
wage.”   It  suggests  that  in  the  develop­
ment  of  a  system  of  classifying  em­
ployes  by  examination  before  a  com­
petent  board 
lies  the  solution  of  this 
problem.

It  will  be  the  dawn  of  a  brighter  era 
in  the  business  world,  however,  when 
the  children  are  sent  back  to  the nurser­
ies  and  the  schools,  and  thus  the  way 
opened  for  the  employment  of  men  and 
women  of  mature  years,  who  are  now  in 
many  instances  out  of  employment. 
It 
is  the  competition  which  is  brought  to 
hear  by  those  who  employ  children  at 
small  salaries  which  is  hardest  for  deal­
ers  who  employ  competent  clerks  of 
mature  years  to  withstand.

Vanity  and  jealousy  always  travel  to­
If 
ill  of  you,  let  your  life 

gether—two  very  selfish  creatures. 
anyone  speaks 
be  such  that  none  will  believe  him.

Let  the  Women  Have  Their  Way. 

Written for the Tradesman.

1  found  out  lately  that  the  “ commer­
cial  hen”  
is  not  confined  to  the  dry 
goods  counter— in  fact,  a  little  episode 
that  occurred 
last  Saturday  convinced 
me  that  the  dry  goods  biped  must  take 
the  second  place  in  the  line,  if  not  the 
third  place.

I  was  sauntering  down  Sixteenth 
street,  when  a  fine  set  of  Shakespeare, 
bound  in  Russia  and  of  that  delightful 
size  which  makes  it  a  joy  to  hold,  at­
tracted  my  attention  in  one  of  the  shop 
windows. 
I  simply  had  to  go  in  and 
dally  with  the  temptation  to  make  the 
volumes  mine. 
in  there 
knows  my  weakness,  so  he  placed  the 
books  where  they  would  do  me  the 
most  damage  and,  leaving  me  to  my 
own  destruction,  went to wait  upon  some 
ladies  who  knew  exactly  what 
they 
wanted  and  were  not  in  the  slightest de­
gree  backward  in  stating  that  fact.

The  clerk 

I  am  much  afraid  that  my  opinion  of 
the  attainments  of  the  average  book­
seller’s  clerk 
is  not  an  exalted  one. 
Compared  with  his  brother  behind  the 
dry  goods  counter,  he  “ isn’t 
in  it.”  
The  dry  goods  man,  if  he  be  a  good 
salesman,  will  give  more  real 
informa­
tion 
in  regard  to  the  goods  he  is  dis­
playing  than  the  customer  has  ever 
dreamed  of knowing ;  and she  leaves  the 
store  with  the  goods  and  at  the  same 
time 
is  convinced  that  she  has  knowl­
edge  enough  to  surprise  the  members 
of  the  half-dozen 
literary  societies  to 
which  she  belongs.  The  book  clerk,  on 
the  other  hand,  usually  stands  dumb. 
He  knows  the  price  and  the  cost  mark ; 
can  tell  the  difference  between  Russian 
leather  and  cloth,  and  the  most  of  them 
can  see  that  the  book  with  pictures 
is, 
and  ought  to  be,  costlier  than  the  one 
not  illustrated.  That 
is  too  often  the 
limit.  The  contents  of  the  book  they 
rarely  know.  The  writer  may  be  “ one 
of  them old  duffers  that  everybody  raves 
over,”   or,  he  may  be  Smith— it  is  all 
the  same. 
In  the  midst  of  books  they 
never  read,  and  to  talk  books  from  a 
literary  stand  they  never  attempt—the 
most  of  them;  it 
is  something  they 
know  nothing  about.

Well,  while  I  was  admiring  my(?) 
dainty  volumes  and  wondering  what 
would  be  said 
if  I  should  send  them 
home,  I  heard  one  of  the  ladies  ask  to 
look  at  a  handsome  copy  of  “   ‘ The 
House  of  the  Many  Gables, ’  by  Thack­
eray. ”   That  was 
interesting  and  I 
edged  a  little  nearer  to  see  how  my 
clerk—this  one 
is  an  exception  to  the 
general  rule—would  take  it.

look  as 

Not  a  muscle  moved.  He  had  a  far­
if  trying  to  remember, 
face, 
regret,  he 

away 
and  then,  with  doubt  on  his 
mingled  with  a 
turned  to  the  shelves  behind  him.

look  of 

is 

“ Here 

‘ The  House  of  Seven 
Gables, ’  a  very  fine  copy—the  last  one 
we  have.  There  has  been  an  unusual 
demand  for  it  the  last  fortnight.  Mrs. 
Fairbrother  took  a  copy  this  afternoon. 
She  has  a  paper  lo  read  before  the—er 
the  swell  club,  you  know— ”

‘ You  mean  the  X.  L .— we  both  be­
long  to  it.  Yes,”   glancing  at  the  title 
page,  “ this  is  the  book  I  wanted— ‘ The 
House  of  the  Seven  Gables. ’  Haw­
thorne  is  such  a  mind  reader!  I’ ll  take 
the  book. 
I’m  going  to  make  a  critical 
study  of  him  this  winter.  What  was  the 
book  you  wanted,  Mrs.  Oliver?  O,  yes; 
show  us,  in  a  paper  covered  volume  for 
use 
‘ Much 
Obliged  about  Nothing,’  by  Rolfe. 
it’s  a  freak;  and  I  think 
Taine  says 
he's  right. 
I  can’t  make head  nor  tail

class,  Shakespeare’s 

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WEDNESDAY.  -  -  •  OCTOBER 27,  1897.

AN  IMPORTANT  STRIKE.

Comparatively  little  has  been  said  in 
the  general  press  in  this  country  about 
the  great  engineering  strike  in  Great 
Britain,although  it  has  been  in  progress 
many  months,  and  bids  fair  to  become 
the  most 
important  and  decisive  iahor 
contest  of  recent  years  in  any  country. 
The  organization  taking  the  lead  in  the 
movement  is,  numerically and financial­
ly,  the  strongest 
in  the  United  King­
dom;  and  from  this  organization  and 
others  may  thousands  of  pounds  sterling 
are  being  collected  and  distributed  to 
the  strikers  every  week.

in  the  way  of 

As  in  this  country,  the  theory  of  arbi­
in 
tration  has  always  been  popular 
Great  Britain,  and 
it  has  been  a  com­
mon  movement  on  the  part  of  strikers, 
in  former  contests,  to  try  to  obtain  the 
important  per­
intervention  of  various 
sonages 
arbitration. 
Until  the  present  instance  these have al­
ways  persistently  refused. 
It  is,  there­
fore,  significant  of  the  seriousness  of the 
situation  that  the  Board  of  Trade, 
its  President,  the  Right  Hon. 
through 
C.  T.  Ritchie,  has  been 
led  to  inter­
vene  to  secure  a  settlement;  and,  al­
though  this  is  the  most  powerful 
insti­
tution  of  the  kind,  its  efforts  promise 
to  be  of  no  avail  with  the  Federated 
Employers.  This  failure  will  go  far 
to  demonstrate  the  proposition,  which 
has always  been  claimed  by  the  Trades­
man,  that  arbitration  through  the  inter­
vention  of  outsiders,  who  can  never  un­
derstand  the  conditions  governing an  in­
dustry  as  do  those  directly  concerned  in 
its  prosecution,  must  always  prove 
im­
practicable.

The  importance  of  this  strike  lies  not 
so  much  in  the  number  concerned  as  in 
the  magnitude  of  the  interests  affected. 
Already  the  industrial and material  wel­
fare  of  the  country 
is  seriously  in­
volved,  for  the  trades  concerned  are 
among  the  most  prominent.  Thus,  in­
dustrial  prosperity,  as  well  as  political 
changes  and  complications,  has  recently 
greatly  stimulated  shipbuilding,  espe­
cially 
in  the  line  of  war  vessels.  Or­
dinarily, the  orders  for these  would  have 
been  placed 
in  British  yards,  but  they 
are  now  going  mostly  to  the  continent. 
Thus,  the 
loss  to  the  British  workmen 
is  absolute  and  irretrievable,  instead  of 
involving  a  postponement  of  operations 
which  may  be  taken  up  again  in  the 
future.

Added  significance  has  recently  been 
liable  to

given  to  this  movement  as 

in 

interests 

sympathetic 

in  this  country  in  the 
affect 
strikes  of 
I rumors  that 
American  machinists  are  under  discus­
sion.  Probability  is  lent  to  such  rumors 
in  the  fact  that  the  organizations  of ma­
largely  made  up  of 
chinists  here  are 
English  workmen. 
In  case  of  such  a 
strike  there  might  be  as  many  as  60,000 
union  machinists  concerned 
this 
country  and  Canada;  but,  while  this 
number  is  small  compared  with  those 
taking  part 
in  the  recent  coal  strikes, 
the 
interests  liable  to  be  affected  are 
much  more  important.
SHOCKING  HUMAN  SACRIFICE.
If  the  dispatches  from  Havana,  as 
sent  out  by  the  Associated  Press  and 
published 
in  the  daily  papers,  do  not 
exaggerate  the  situation  in  that  city and 
is 
the  district  of  San  Julian,  and  there 
no  reason  to  suppose  a  thing  so 
im­
probable,  General  Weyler  must  be  a 
veritable  fiend 
incarnate—a  blot  on 
Spanish  chivalry  and  a  libel  on  civili­
zation.  Under  the 
iron  hoof  of  his 
diabolical  tyranny  the  public  was  pre­
pared  to  hear  the  groans  of  human 
lib­
erty,  but  few  could  conceive  that  his 
brutal  nature  would  assert  itself  to  the 
extent  of  deliberately  starving  to  death, 
in  one  district,  2,500  men,  women  and 
children! 
is  almost  beyond  belief 
that  a  monster  so  bereft  of  humanity— 
so  dead  to  the  sufferings  of  his  fellows, 
so  blind  to  the  tears  and  the  anguish  of 
maid  and  matron  and  mother,  so  indif­
ferent  to  the  appeals  of  helpless  little 
children—could  walk  the  earth  without 
incurring  the  anger  of  Heaven's 
light­
ning  or  exciting  the  vengeance  of  a 
in  the  mysterious  and 
just  God.  But 
inscrutable  ways  of  Providence, 
the 
demon  remains  with  us,  perhaps 
to 
nurse  the  all-consuming  fires  of  remorse 
and  self-hatred  which  must  make  his 
existence  a  hell  here  as  an earnest to the 
eternity  of  torture  destined  for  such  as 
he  in  the  atoning  crucible  of  the  here­
after.

It 

Penned 

in  by  cordons  of  military, 
with  an  impenetrable  wall  of  death  and 
steel  facing  them  on  all  sides,  the  help­
less  victims  of  his  savage  rage  were left 
to  perish  in  their  living  tombs,  as  from 
day  to  day  the  pangs  of  starvation 
wormed  themselves  into  their very vitals 
and  the  raging  tempest  of  fatal  fever 
seared  and  burned 
into  their  souls. 
Destitute  of  nourishment,  with  none  to 
nurse  and  none  to  comfort,  these  hap­
less  unfortunates 
lay  down  and  one  by 
one  their  lives  went  out  as  a  sacrifice  to 
Weyler’s  murderous 
cruelty.  What 
language  can  paint  the  mother’s  woe  as 
she  pressed  to  her  emaciated  bosom  the 
skeleton  form  of  her  weeping  offspring? 
What  words  can  picture  her  sinless 
grief  as  she  heard  the  voice  of  her  dy­
ing  child  calling  for  the  food  she  was 
powerless  to bestow?

The 

slaughter  of  these 

innocents, 
who  were  slowly  put  to  death  without 
even  the  poor  excuse  of  their  being  ac­
tive  participants 
in  the  Cuban  strug­
gle,  will  shock  the  people  of  every 
civilized  country.  Their  heartless  tak­
ing  off  will  awaken  the  eyes of the world 
to  Spanish  methods  of  warfare,  and  for 
the  tears  that  they  silently  shed,  and 
the  untold  agonies  they  endured,a spirit 
of  resentment  and  retaliation  will  soon 
arise  that  will  sweep  the  last  vestige  of 
foreign  misrule  from  our  neighboring 
island  and  secure  for  the  kith  and  kin 
of  the  butchered  five  and  twenty  hun­
dred  the  rights  and  liberties  for  which 
they  were  immolated.

Never  run 

in  debt  unless  you  see  a 

way  to  get  out  again

local  or  temporary  conditions 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION
There  are  a  few  lines  of trade affected 
by 
in 
which  the  situation  is  decidedly  unsat­
isfactory.  Among  these  may  be  noted 
the  low  price  of  cotton  goods  on account 
of  the  persistent  downward  movement 
of  the  price  of  the  raw  staple.  This 
decline 
is  credited  to  the  fact  that  on 
account  of  the  fever  in  Southern  cities 
there 
is  not  the  speculation  in  cotton 
there,  which  usually  tends  to  keep  the 
price  on  a  better basis.  Then  there 
is 
to  be  taken  into  consideration  the  fact 
that  there  has  been  an  unusual  amount 
of  anticipatory  buying  during  the  past 
three  months,  which  has  begun  to  tell 
on  some  lines  in  certain  interior  locali­
ties.

the 

general 

improving  wages. 

Industrial  works  are  still 

But,  aside  from  a  few  such  excep­
tions, 
improvement  has 
been  well  maintained  throughout  the 
country. 
in­
creasing  forces  hi  most  localities,  and 
generally  with 
In 
some 
lines  of  manufacture,  as  the  iron 
trade,  there  is  a  lessening  of  activity on 
account  of  the  hesistancy  of  operators 
to  take  future  orders  at  present  prices. 
Many  of  the  works  are  provided  with 
orders  to  last  into  next  year,  and  such 
are  generally  reluctant  to  enter  orders 
at  present  prices  for  later  delivery.  The 
generally  favorable  conditions,as  affect­
ing  the  transportation  stocks,  are  again 
in  the  Wall  Street  market 
in  evidence 
sufficiently  to  cause  a  general 
improve­
ment 
in  quotations,  although  specula­
tive  movement  has  been  dull.

Production  continues 

There  has  been  another ^advance  in 
the  price  of  Bessemer  pig  iron  at  Pitts­
burg,  although  foundry  grades  remain 
unchanged. 
in 
structural  work  and  for  cars.  The  only 
unfavorable  indication  is  that  the  con­
tinued 
in  production  by  the 
starting  up  of  furnaces  long  out  of  blast 
may  cause  an  overproduction  in  spite 
of  the  enormous  consumption.

increase 

The  decline 

in  wheat  which 

took 
place  early  last  week  was  followed  by  a 
considerable 
the 
movement,  both 
in  primary  markets 
and  for  export,  was  not  heavy.  This 
week  shows  the  tendency in  price down­
ward  again.

advance, 

although 

As  the  speculation 

Light  weights  are  yet 

in  wool  is  about 
over,  the  manufacture  assumes  a  stead­
ier  tone. 
in 
greater  demand  than  the  mills  can  sup­
ply.  Uncertainty  as  to  prices  affects 
the  demand  for  heavier  goods.  The  low 
price  of  cotton  acts  as  a  depressing  fac­
tor  in  the  manufacture  of  its  products, 
bringing  the  quotations 
in  some  lines 
back  to  the  low  level  of  the  era  of  de­
pression. 
In  boots  and  shoes  works 
are  running  to  their  capacity  to  fill 
early  orders  but 
later  business  is  un­
satisfactory.

Bank  clearings  continue  very  heavy, 
although  a  fraction  of  1  per  cent,  less 
than  for  preceding  week.  The  report 
is  $1,306,993,884.  Failures  were  205, 
against  196  for  last  week.

The  traveling  public  will  commend 
the  recent  action  of  Governor  Pingree 
in  going  after  the  Michigan  Central 
and  Lake  Shore  roads with  a  mandamus 
to  compel  them  to  sell  family  mileage 
books,  good  for  the  purchaser and  fam­
ily  for  two  years,  at  $20,  according  to 
the  terms  of  the  law  recently  declared 
valid  by  the  Michigan  Supreme  Court. 
It  is  an  unfortunate  thing  for  Michigan 
that  we  should  have  two  railroads  with­
in  our  borders  which  snap  their  fingers 
at the Legislature, defy  the  courts  of  last 
resort  and  subject  the  traveling  public

to  all  manner  of  annoyances,  without 
restraint  and,  apparently,  without  re­
course.  Anarchist  Debs  was  consigned 
to 
jail  for  six  months  for  defying  the 
mandate  of  a  court  while  in  a  maudlin 
condition,  but  President  Ledyard,  who 
would  scorn  to  drink  at  a  public  bar, 
and  who  has  never  been  known  to  soil 
his  fingers  by  shaking hands with  a  man 
in  humble  circumstances,  defies  the 
courts  daily  and  walks  the  streets  of 
Detroit  without 
fear  of  punishment. 
The  Tradesman  has  always  maintained 
that  any  man  who  seeks  to  broaden  the 
gulf  between  the  rich  and  the  poor—be­
tween  the  arrogant  and  the  humble— is 
not  actuated  by  patriotic  motives,  but 
surely  there  should  be no discrimination 
shown  in  the  punishment  of  lawbreak­
ers,  whether  they  be  anarchists  at  the 
head  of 
irresponsible  organizations  of 
deluded  workingmen  or  silk  stockinged 
aristocrats  who  hold  their  position  by 
virtue  of  the  Vanderbilt  millions.

The  Tradesman 

is  pleased  to  learn 
that  E.  L.  Aderhold  has  been  engaged 
by  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture  as In­
structor  in  the  special  course  in  cheese­
making  which  will  be  maintained at the 
Agricultural  College  this  winter.  Mr. 
Aderhold  has  taught  several  terms  in 
the  Wisconsin  Dairy  School  and  has 
served  that  State  as  cheese  instructor 
for  several  years.  He 
is  an  expert  in 
everything  pertaining  to  cheeemaking 
and  has  a 
lucid  manner  of  expressing 
himseif  which  carries  conviction.

The Government is exercising extraor­
dinary  precautions  to  save  the 
insane 
army  of fortune-hunters who have started 
out  on  their  wild  rush  to  Alaska,  but  all 
the  solicitude  on  earth  can  not  ward  off 
the  fatal  chills  of  that  frigid  region,  nor 
rescue 
its  victims  from  their  suicidal 
march  to  certain  death.  The  only  safe­
guard  is  to  stay  at  home  until  the biting 
blasts  of  winter  give  way  to  the  more 
genial  atmosphere  of  returning  spring.

No  true  friend  of  a  community  will 
disparage  his  own  home.  Speak  up  for 
your  town,  herald 
its  advantages,  and 
never  keep  in  glaring  conspicuosity  the 
shortcomings  of  the  people  or  the  lack 
of  energy  that  should  mark  every  citi­
zen.  Keep  out  of  the  public  press  the 
little  things  that  do  not  tend  to  help  the 
town,  and  by  all  means  give  your  best 
efforts  in  the  upholding  of  all  its  enter­
prises.

The  refusal  of  the  Prince  of  Wales  to 
act  as  an  arbitrator  in  the strike of Eng­
lish  engineers  is  quite  proper.  Wales 
realizes  that  he  knows  no  more  about 
labor  than  the  labor  leaders  and  strike 
agitators  and  candidates  for  office  on 
workingmen’s  tickets  know.  It  is  to  his 
credit  that  he  knows  enough  to  stay 
away  from  things  he  doesn’t  know  any­
thing  about.

Muskegon  has  recently  been  invaded 
by  the  trading  stamp  schemers.  The 
merchants  of  the  Sawdust  City  have  the 
in  their 
sympathy  of  the  Tradesman 
affliction. 
long,  but, 
like  an  epidemic  of  the 
itch,  it  is  a 
trifle  uncomfortable  while  it  lasts.

It  will  not  last 

has 

Massachussetts 

appropriated 
$800,000  to  be  used  in  crystallizing the 
“ good  roads’ ’  idea,  and  it  is  a  pity  the 
example  cannot  be  imitated 
in  Michi­
gan. 
_____________

The  King  of  Corea  has 

just  pro- 
claimed himself Emperor,and any neigh­
boring  monarcbs  who  desire  to  use  him 
for  a  doormat  bad  better  take  notice.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

THE  WAR  IN  INDIA.

The  formidable  character  which  the 
outbreak 
in  India  has  assumed  has 
greatly  surprised  and  alarmed  the  peo­
ple  of  England.  Not  only  have  the 
warlike  tribes  met  the  British  native 
troops  in  a  number  of  engagements  and 
captured  a  few  positions,  but  they  have 
not  hesitated  to  attack  the  British  reg­
ulars  as  well.  It  is  true  that  the  British 
forces  have  made  steady  progress  in 
forcing  back  the  Afridis;  but 
it  has 
been  only  after  severe  fighting  and  at 
the  cost  of  considerable  bloodshed.  A 
number  of  British  officers  and men  have 
been  killed,  and  it  has  been  found  nec­
essary  to  send  considerable  re-enforce­
ments  to  India.

It  is  somewhat  incorrect  to  describe 
the  trouble  now  existing  on  the  Indian 
frontier  as  a  rebellion.  The  tribes  now 
at  war  were  not  British  subjects,  and 
Great  Britain  exercised  no  direct  juris­
diction  over  them. 
It  is  true  that  their 
country  was  within  what  is  known  as 
the  British  sphere  of  influence;  but  to 
all 
intents  and  purposes  they  were  in­
dependent,  and  were  subsidized  by  the 
Indian  government  to  keep  the  caravan 
routes  open.  The  present  outbreak  is 
due  entirely  to  fanaticism  aroused  by 
certain  leaders  of  religious  thought,  and 
particularly  a  certain  Mullah,  known  as 
the  Mad  Mullah  of  Haddah.

Owing  to  the  very  large  number of the 
tribesmen  now  at  war  with  the  Indian 
government,  it  will  be  necessary  to  em­
ploy  fully  30,000  troops  to  subdue  them. 
Of  course,  this  will  be  accomplished 
after  considerable  bloodshed,  with  the 
result  that  Great  Britain  will  add  to  her 
Indian  Empire, 
the  northern 
boundary  to  Hindostán  will  be strength­
ened.

and 

The 

loyal  manner  in  which  some  of 
the  Indian  Princes  of  the  dependent 
states  have  come  to  the  assistance of the 
Indian  government  with  men  and  sup­
plies  shows  that  no  disaffection  exists 
in  India  proper,  and  that  the  fears  of  a 
widespread  rebellion  were  without foun­
dation.  The  war 
in  the 
North,  however,  is  sufficiently  serious  to 
cause  the  British  government  much 
anxiety,  as it  is  now  apparent  that  there 
will  be  much  severe  fighting  before  the 
belligerent  natives  are  subdued.

in  progress 

in  that 
its  lessons, 

A  WARNING  TO  BE  HEEDED.
Despite  the  miserable  failures  which 
have  attended  Spain’s  efforts  to  crush 
in  Cuba,  the  campaign 
the  rebellion 
island  has  not  been 
conducted 
from  a  military 
without 
standpoint.  When  Spain’s 
lack  of 
financial  resources 
is  considered,  it  is 
marvelous  with  what  celerity  and  com­
parative  ease  she  has  transported  to 
Cuba,  a  distance  of  several  thousand 
miles  from  her  shores,  not  far  short  of a 
quarter  of  a  million  men,  with  muni­
tions  of  war  of  all  sorts  needed  to  fully 
equip  this  large  army.

This 

transportation  of  so 

large  a 
military  force,  with 
its  impedimenta, 
is  probably  without  parallel  in  military 
annals.  European  countries  have  sent 
armies  to  distant  points  for  purposes  of 
conquest;  but 
instance  has  so 
large  a  force  as  that  sent  by  Spain  to 
Cuba  been  handled. 
It  should  also  be 
remembered  that,  in  addition  to  the 
troops  sent  to  Cuba,  Spain  has  also 
dispatched  an  army  of 25,000  men  to the 
Philippine  Islands  to  put  down  the 
in­
surrection  there.

in  no 

When 

it  was  deemed  probable,  some 
years  ago,  that  the  United  States  would 
go  to  war  with  Chili,  the  problem  of 
transporting  troops  to  that  distant  point

It 
to  transport

in  for  careful  consideration. 

came 
was  then  admitted  that 
20,000  men  would  prove  a  very  serious 
problem,  and  would  absorb  about  all 
the  tonnage  that  the  country  could  com­
mand. 
In  the  light  of  that  experience, 
the  feat  of  Spain  is  a  noteworthy  one, 
particularly  when  the  fact  is  recalled 
that  she 
is  a  third-rate  power,  and 
bankrupt  at  that.

The  lesson  to  be  learned  is  one  which 
this  country  should  take  to  heart. 
If 
Spain,  in  her  decrepitude,  can  trans­
port  a  quarter  of  a  million  troops  many 
thousand  miles,  it  would  be  equally  as 
easy  for a  first-class  power  to  transport 
double  that  force.  When,  therefore, 
our  rulers  talk  so 
lightly  of  coercing 
European  nations,  they  should  not  for­
get  that 
is  within  the  power  of  any 
one  of  them  to  send  a  very  large  body 
of  troops against us.  In the case of Spain 
this  might  not  prove  so  very  serious  a 
matter,  as  our  fleet  would  be  able  to 
fight  off  any  force  Spain  might  send; 
but  in  the  case  of  Germany,  or  France, 
it  would  be  different,  although  it  would 
be  difficult  even  for  such  powers  to 
land  troops  so  far  away  from  a  base 
of  supplies.

it 

In  the  case  of  England  the  full  sig­
nificance  of  the  ability  to  transport 
troops  as  a  menace  to  our  security  be­
comes  apparent.  Great  Britain  has 
tonnage  enough  to  transport  a  million 
men,  if  need  be.  She  could  pour troops 
into  Canada  in  any  required  numbers, 
and  Canada  herself  could  be  counted  on 
to  furnish  no  insignificant  contingent. 
This  is  the  danger  which  our  Govern­
ment  should  reckon  with,  and  the  facil­
ity  with  which  Spain  has  transported 
large  forces  of  troops  should  serve  as  a 
warning  as  to  what  England  would  be 
able  to  do.

To  meet  an  attack  from  the  direction 
regular 
of  Canada,  we  have  25,000 
It  is  true 
troops  and  118,000  militia. 
that  other  forces  could  be assembled, but 
it  would  take  time  to  drill  and  dis­
cipline  them,  and  even  a 
longer  time 
to  arm  and  equip  them,  as  the  Govern­
ment  has no  surplus  arms  or equipments 
whatever.  It  would  be well if our jingoes 
in  Congress  were  to  waste  less  time  in 
fiery  oratory  and  give  more  attention  to 
problems  of  national  defense.

imply  any 

For  the  first  time  in  its  history  Chi­
cago  is  to  receive  compensation  for  the 
use  of  a  public  street  for switching  pur­
poses.  Hundreds  of  miles  of  switch 
tracks  exist  in  the  city  on  public  prop­
erty,  for  the  use  of  which  not  a  cent  of 
compensation 
is  exacted.  The  change 
does  not 
increase  of  civic 
responsibility  on  the  part  of  the  aider- 
men,  being  rather a  proposition  from  a 
company  desiring  better  switching  fa­
cilities. 
In  return  the  company  offered 
to  pave  the  portion  of  the  street  to be 
used  and  to  pay  the  city  a  rental  of $250 
a  year.  The 
importance  of  the  propo­
sition  consists  in  the  effect  it  may  have 
on  the  broad  question  of  street  fran­
chises.  The  inequity  of  drawing  rental 
from  one  for  what  others  enjoy  free  of 
cost,  while  not  appealing  to  corrupt  al­
dermen,  may  serve  as  a  stimulus  to  the 
indifferent  or  despairing  citizen.

When  Herr  Most 

learned,  since  he 
settled 
in  Buffalo,  that  beer  had  gone 
down  to  $4  a  barrel  in  Chicago,  he  was 
sorry  he  didn’t  select  the  Windy  City 
tor  his  headquarters.

“Evil  to  Him  Who  Evil  Thinks.” 

Written for the  Tradesman.

I  stepped 

into  a  grocery  on  my  way 
home  to-night  to  ask  a  young  fellow 
in 
there  what  sort  of  advice  the  grocery- 
clerking  world  was  suffering  for,  and 
had  hardly  asked  the  question  when  the 
proprietor,  who  was  standing  near 
enough  to  hear 
it,  answered,  “ I  wish 
you,  or  somebody  else,  could  and  would 
make  the  average  clerk  in  any  kind  of 
a  store  understand  that  he’s  watched  by 
a  thousand  eyes  which  he  knows  noth 
ing  of,  and  that  this  is  especially  true 
from  closing  up  at  night  until  opening 
up 
I  don’t  know  of 
anything  more  needed  than  that.”

in  the  morning. 

The  tone  and  the  manner  of  the  gro­
cer  were  full  of  meaning,  and  the  face 
of  Will  Morris,  the  clerk,  flushed  scar­
let.  Of  course,  I  didn’t  see  that;  but  I 
made  up  my  mind  that  the  young  fel­
low  should  find  out  that  he  has  a  friend 
who  can  look  at  things  from  his  side  of 
the  fence  and  who  isn't  afraid  to  state 
things  exactly  as  he  sees  them.  Off  and 
on  for  something  over  six  months,  I 
have  been  exchanging  courtesies  with 
the  young  man,  and  for  a  good  part  of 
that  time  we  have  been  thinking  more 
than  kindly  of  each  other.  One  even­
ing,  to  the  pleasant  surprise  of  both, 
we  found  ourselves wheeling  in the same 
direction,  and  were  not  long  in  finding 
out  that  “ one  touch  of  nature”   which 
“ makes  the  whole  world  kin .”   So  it 
has  not  been  uncommon  for  us,  during 
the  summer,  to  meet  in  the  morning  at 
the  corner  of  Eighteenth  avenue  and 
Washington  street  something  after  sun­
rise,  take  in  the  Park  and  an occasional 
run  out  towards  Mont  Clair  and  then, 
returning, 
in  the  pavilion  and 
wind  up  with  a  cigar,  after  “ the  bite”  
each  found  it  well  enough  to  bring.

rest 

There  is  something  in  the  uneven line 
of  the  Rockies,  when  bathed  by  the 
early  sunshine,  especially  appealing  to 
us  both.  No  morning  has  so  far  found 
them  the  same,  and  so,  while  we  have 
watched  the  light  play  upon  the  peaks, 
and  the  sky  above  them,  there  have 
been  times  when  the  young  man  has 
yielded  to  the  influence  of  the place and 
the  hour  and  has  told  me  enough  of  his 
story  to  enable  me  to  make such  guesses 
as  I  care  to  make  in  regard  to  the  rest. 
So,  when  the  proprietor  said  that  the 
average  clerk  needed  to  know  that  he 
was  the  center  of  a  thousand  eyes  from 
suppertime until  breakfast,  I  knew  what 
he  meant,  and  I  thought 
it  would  do 
him  good  to  let  him  know  that  there are 
two  sides  to  that  question.  So  I  said, 
with  a  tone  as  full  of  meaning  as  his 
had  been,  “ Pretty  poor  business  for  the 
thousand  eyes!  How  much  better  off 
they  would  be  to-day  if  they  had  been 
in  bed  and  asleep  where  they  ought  to 
have  been,  instead  of  squinting  around 
corners  or  skulking  along  in the shadows 
of  the  streets. 
I’ve  noticed  that  that 
kind  of  eye 
is  always  attended  by  a 
tongue,  and  that  both  organs  are  gen­
erally  out  on  the  devil’s  own  business, 
and  also  that  they  transact  a  great  deal 
of  it  in  a  very  short  tim e!”

“ But  an  employer  has  to  protect  him­

self.”

“ By  that  sort  of  thing?”
“ You  don’t  suppose  that  the employer 
is  the  one  who  watches,  do  you?  I’ve 
had  strangers  as  well  as  friends  come  to 
me  and  tell  me  what  my  clerks  were 
about;  and  every  once  in  a  while  this 
one  and  that  one  gives  me  a  hint  of 
what’s  going  on. ”

The  more  time  a  business  man  gives 
to  telling  funny  stories  the  less  time  he 
has  to  give  to  his  business.

“ And  how  much  good  it  dots  you, 
I’ll  warrant!”   I  went  on. 
“ Take Will, 
here,  as  an  instance.  He  likes  a  game

of  billiards  once  in  a  while  and  so  do I. 
We  played  last  night  at  the  Albany  un­
til  something  after  ten  o’clock.  Sup­
pose  one  of  those  dear 
friends  of 
yours  (  !)  saw  us  and  should  come  and 
tell  yo 1  about 
it,  with  the  trimmings 
which  are  always  thrown  in.  That  puts 
you  on  your  guard  so  far  as  Will  is  con­
cerned,  and  you  go  around  for  a  day  or 
two  calculating  how  many  games  of 
billiards  you  pay  for  in  the  course  of  a 
year.  That’s  only  one  form  of  amuse­
ment,  and  pretty  soon  you  reason  your­
self  into  the  belief  that  the  boy  is  ruin­
ing  you.  Now,  Mr.  Bostwick,  that’s 
all  wrong.  You  are  not  true  to  yourself 
nor  to  him ;  and  don’t  do  it.

“ Let  me  tell  you  a  story :  I came near 
losing  the  best  friend  I  ever  had  in  just 
I  am  considerably  older than 
that  way. 
he 
is  and  we  were  drawn  to  each  other 
exactly  as  Morris  and  I  have  been.  One 
day,  a  man  whom  I  hardly  knew  came 
to  me  with  a  burdened  mind  and,  after 
a  few  preliminaries,  said: 
‘ I’ve  no­
ticed  you 
lately,  a  number  of  times, 
with  young  Bailey.  Of  course,  you 
know  about  him,  and  you  know  what 
it 
means  to  be  seen  with  him?’  No,  I 
didn’t  and,  like  an  idiot,  said  I  wanted 
to ; and I opened both eyes and ears wide, 
and  it  wasn  t  long  before  they  were  all 
engaged  listening  to  the  fellow’s  dam­
nable  story.

“ Pretty  soon  there  was  a  man  who 
took  it  upon  himself  to  keep  me posted. 
Regularly,  that  scamp  came  to  me and, 
to  my  everlasting  disgrace,  I  listened 
to  him.  One  day,  the  story  was  so 
in­
famous  that  I  couldn’t  believe  it,  and  I 
threatened  to  kick  him  into  the  street  if 
he  ever  dared  to  come  near  me  again. 
Then  I  made  up  my  mind  to  trust what, 
in  my  heart,  I  knew  was  one  of  the  best 
boys  that  ever  trod  the  footstool.  Mark 
that,  Mr.  Bostwick—trusted  him ;  and 
tried  my  best  to  make  him  feel  that  I 
did. 
I  could  make  the  story  longer; 
but  will  simply  say  that  I  didn’t  lose 
my  friend,  although  I  deserved  it.

“ So,  then,  Mr.  Bostwick,  let  me  urge 
you  to  make  friends  of  your  clerks,  to 
trust  them  in  season  and  out  of  season ; 
and,  if  busybodies  come  to  you  with 
what  they  have  seen  and  heard,  give 
them  the  cold  shoulder  or a  kick.  Then 
you  will  not  want  me  or  anybody  else 
to  talk  about  ‘a  thousand  eyes  and  what 
they  have  seen  between  supper  and bed­
time?”

Boys,  wasn’t  that  about  right?

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

lange  wei,  viscous  or 

In  some  of  the  dairy  farms  of  the 
north  of  Holland  there is used  in  cheese­
making 
ropy 
milk,  which  not  only  preserves  the 
cheese,  but  also  gives  it  a  very  delicate 
aroma.  Expert  opinion  on  this  method 
differs,  however,  for  the  science  of  bac­
teriology  has  not  yet  succeeded  in fixing 
the  mucigenic  bacterium,  which  is  the 
agent  of  ropy  milk,  and  the  Dutch  So­
ciety  of  Sciences  at  Harlem  offers  a 
prize  for  the  best  practical  essay  on  the 
subject  based  upon  researches  calcula­
ted  to  throw  light  on  the  properties  of 
this  bacterium,  and to  favor  its  accurate 
and  scientific  use.  The  prize 
is  not  a 
particularly  magnificent  one,  and  con­
sists,  at  the  choice  of  the  author,  of 
either  a  gold  medal  or  the  sum  of  one 
hundred  and  fifty  florins.  Essays  may 
be  written 
in  Dutch,  French,  Latin, 
English,  or  German,  but  German  char­
acters  must  not  be  used.

There  is  no  theory  that  will  work  on 
the  jumping  toothache  like  the dentist’s 
forceps.

IO

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware

prove  that  feature  of  the  business,  whh j 
a  view  to  its  final  elimination.

*  *  *

Too  Much Credit—Manufacturers’  Hy­

pocrisy—Remedy  for  Trade  Evils. 

A nte  Lucem   in  Ame  iean  Artisan.

travelers  engaged 

Seated  in  the  hotel  office  one evening, 
the  conversation  turned  upon collections 
and  credits.  A  wholesaler  and 
two 
commercial 
it. 
in 
One  of  the  commercial  travelers  men­
tioned  a  small  town  of  less than 250 peo­
ple  and  stated  the  leading  firm  had over 
$18,000  outstanding.  The  other  com­
mercial traveler said,  “  Do you know Mr.
-----at  —— ?  Yes.  Well,  M r .------told
me  they  had  $65,000  out  in  notes,  mort­
gages  and book  accounts.”   The  whole­
saler  condemned  it  as  poor  business,  as 
contrary  to  all  business  law,  as  most  in­
jurious  to  the  commercial  well-being  of 
the  country,  and  advanced  the  argument 
that  if  obliged  to  realize  upon  such  as­
sets  they  would  not  bring  25  per  cent, 
of  the face  value,and  that  years  of  labor 
and  business  worry  had  been for naught, 
a  most  truthful  saying.  The  population 
of  the  latter  town  is  less  than  400,  hence 
the  large 
indebtedness  must  rest  upon 
the  farmers.  Both  the  houses  are  good, 
well  rated  and  settle  promptly,  and will, 
no  doubt,  continue to  do  so.  Like  many 
others,  they  have  been  carrying  their 
customers  since  ’92,  hoping  the  clouds 
would  soon  roll  by  and that their patrons 
would  be  enabled  to  liquidate.  Every 
commercial  traveler  hears  much  of  the 
credit  business and  knows  what a  large 
amount  of  the  work 
is  done  upon  the 
promise-to-pay  plan;  he  also  knows 
that  untii  conditions  change  there  will 
be  no 
increase  in  the  volume  of 
business. 
It  will  take  some  time,  under 
the  most  favorable  conditions,  to  bring 
about  a  better  condition  of  affairs; 
hence,  the  high  tide  of  prosperity  will 
not  flood  the  country  in  a  day,  week, 
month  or  year,  and  no  one  need  hug the 
delusion  to  his  breast  and  think  the 
trade  millennium  is  here.  Time  must 
be  given  to  open  up  the  channels,  and 
any  attempt  to  force  the  current  will 
only  result  in  choking  the  flow  and  pre­
vent  a  healthy  reaction.  The  stagnant 
waters  must  first  be  suffered  to  drain 
off,  the  channel  cleaned  of  debris,  ac­
cumulated stocks  worked  off  and  collec­
tions taken  in,  before the  machinery will 
be  ready  for  the  starting.  Over-feed  a 
convalescent  and  you  kill  him.  The 
same  will  result  to  our  trade  industries; 
they  still  need  careful  nursinsr,  and 
now  that  they  are  on  the  road  to  recov­
ery,  let  110  false  booming  kill  them.

large 

^  ÿ  ÿ

One  of  the  greatest  loes  to  the  return 
of  commercial  prosperity  is  the  perni­
cious  system  of  credits  in  everyday  use 
by  manufacturers,  wholesalers  and  re 
tailers,  and  not  one  single  one  who  has 
given  thought  to  the  subject  but  what 
condemns 
it  as  a  vicious  one.  There 
is  not  a  single  good  reason  for  its reten 
tion  in  the  business.  The  retailer  cer­
tainly  does  not  like  the  plan,  but  he  is 
almost  forced  into  it,  as  his  patrons  at 
best  have  cash  only  two  or  three  times 
a  vear,  i.  e.,  the  country  dealers.  Not  5 
per  cent,  of  such  dtalers  could  realize 
75  per  cent,  ol  such  assets  if 
forced  to 
make  collections.  The  whole  number 
of  such  busintss  houses  can  be  charged 
with  carrying  too 
large  a  number  of 
their  customers 
indefinitely;  hence,  to 
a  great  extent,  are  not  warranting  fair 
protection  to  their  creditors. 
¡'here  is 
by  far  too  much  credit  business  all 
around  tor  good,  healthy,  commercial 
prosperity.  Cash  business and cash busi­
ness  only  is  the  true  theory  upon  which 
to  prosecute  trade  in  all 
its  branches. 
When  competition 
is  as  fierce  as  it  is 
to-day,  it 
is  the  only  plan  that  permits 
of  doing  business  on  small  margins  of 
profit. 
retail  merchant  grants 
credit  to  his  customer  when  he  has  no 
ready  cash,  in  the  hope  of  a  growing 
crop.  Moreover,  he 
is  the  only  man 
who  can  and  will  grant  the  consumer 
It  is  to  be  hoped,  for  the  good 
credit. 
individuals  and  business  generally, 
of 
that 
trade  associations 
formed  and  forming  will  make  the  sub­
ject  of  credit  business  one  of  investiga­
tion  and  put  forth  every  effort  to  im-

several 

The 

the 

I  have  before  me  the  printed  copy  < f 
letter  written  by  the  manager  of  a j 

a 
stove  house  to  the  secretary  of  a  busi 
ness  men’s  protective  association,  in 
which  strong 
language  is  used  to  con 
demn  department  and  installment  store 
trading,  and  the  manager  positively  as­
serts:  “ It  has  always  been  the  policy 
of our  establishment  not  to  sell  to  a  sin 
gle  one  of these easy-paying  department 
stores  at  any  price.”  
I  have  also 
gathered  in  some  advertisements  of  that 
class  of  dealers  known  as  department 
stores  and 
installment  houses,  which 
are  handling  and  advertising  the  very 
goods  made  by  this  manager's  concern, 
and  side  by  side  with  the  above  1  have 
placed  that  concern’s  own  advertise­
ment,  advertising  the  dealers  referred 
to  as  their  regular  authorized  agents.  Is 
there  a  more  pernicious  business  act 
than  this?  This  playing  good  Lord  and 
good  devil  is  much  like  the  ancient  be­
fore  Christ  with  his  thirty  pieces  of  sil­
ver.

in 

Two 

invoices 

freights,  etc., 

*  *  *
for  stoves  have  been 
shown  me  of  late,  one  a  city  shipment, 
the  other  to  a  town  adjacent  to  a  city, 
and 
if  the  country  patrons  of  the  house 
knew  the  extra  per  cents,  off,  conces­
sions 
their  counte­
nances  would  wear  all  the  hues  of  the 
rainbow,  and  they  would  be  tempted  to 
break  at 
least  one  of  the  command­
ments.  This  house  pretends  to  be  a 
strictly  one-price  house,  measuring  out 
exact 
its  patrons  and 
are  resorting  to  every  device  known  to 
convince  the  trade  that  such  is  their 
motive  and 
intent,  and  still  they  are 
carving  flesh  and  fish  from  the  same 
joint.

justice  to  all 

*  *  *

There 

is  a  demand  for  reform 

in 
business,  and  when  the  retailer  gets  his 
eyes  opened,  he will  see  a  lot  of  ways  to 
improve  his  business  condition.  Get 
into  line,  go 
into  your  state  organiza­
tion,  affiliate  with  your  business  com­
petitor,  co  operate with  him  on  all  busi­
ness  matters,  exchange  views  and  opin­
ions,  drop all your little,  petty  jealousies 
and  bickerings  (if  you  have  any)  and 
become  a  united  band  or  brotherhood  of 
trade  reformers.  Thus  united,  you  can 
do  a  greater  good  than  all  the  known 
political  reformers  combined.  A twelve- 
months’  active  association  in  the  work 
of  trade  reform  wili  make  you  a  life­
long  enthusiast.  You  can  only  get  pro­
in  your  business  by  protecting 
tection 
one  another. 
is  not 
greater  or  stronger  than  a  multitude.  A 
thousand  people  are  more  potential than 
individual.  Strong,  aggressive  or­
an 
like  the 
ganizations, 
four-fold  cord, 
cannot  be  easily  broken.
*  *  *

individual 

An 

Besides  seeking  reform  on  the  pur­
chase,  sale  and  distribution  of  mercan­
tile  products,  vou  should  try  also  to  im­
prove  the  market  conditions  of  the com 
munity 
in  which  you  live,  making  it 
possible  for  your  iarmer  patrons to  real­
ize  better  prices  at  home  for  their  sur­
plus  products.  You  should  also  strive 
improve  your  town  by  making  it  a 
to 
model  of  ‘ neatness,  building  up 
its 
schools,  churches  and  home  industries. 
Associate  with  your  country  neighbor, 
inculcate  in  him  a  spirit  of  aggressive 
action,  that  the  farms  surrounding  your 
town  may  be  improved  and  beautified, 
thus  adding  to  the  country’s  wealth  and 
prosperity.

Conan  Doyle  tells  a  story  of  a  friend 
of  his  who  had  often  been told that there 
is  a  skeleton  in  the  cupboard  of  every 
household,  no  matter  how  respectable 
that  household  may  b e ;  and  he  deter­
mined  to  put  this  opinion  to  a  practical 
test 
Selecting  for  the  subject  of  his 
experiment  a  venerable  archdeacon  of 
the  church,  against  whom  the  most 
censorious  critic  had  never  breathed  a 
word,  he  went  to  the  nearest  postoffice 
to  the 
and  dispatched 
reverend 
is  dis­
covered ;  fly  at  once. ’ ’  The  archdeacon 
disappeared  and  has  never  been  heard 
of  since.

this  telegram 

gentleman: 

“ All 

Anticipating that hundreds of Michigan 
merchants  will  visit  Grand  Rapids  for 
the first time  during  Carnival  Week  and 
believing  that  this  will  prove  an  excep­
tional  opportunity to show the trade what 
we are manufacturing  in  the tinware line, 
we have  arranged  to  exhibit  samples  of 
our entire  line of  tinware,  enameled  and 
nickel  plated  ware  with  W.  H.  Rouse, 
ground  floor  New  Blodgett  building, cor­
ner Ottawa and  Louis  streets, and  solicit 
a call from every  merchant  who  handles 
these goods either as a staple or specialty.
WM.  BRUMMELER  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Factory,  260  South  Ionia  Street.

“OHIO”

FEED  CUTTERS,

ENSILAGE  CUTTERS, 

FODDER SHREDDERS,

WELL  MADE,  NICELY  FINISHED, 
LIGHT  RUNNING,  STRONG.

Adapted  to  Hay,  Straw  and  Corn-fodder,  and 
suitable  for  parties  keeping  from  one  to  four  or  five 
animals.

Can  be  knocked down  and  packed  for  shipment, 
inch 
thus  securing  lower freight  rate.  Has  one 
knife  and  by  very  simple changes  makes  four  lengths 
of cut.  Write for catalogue and  prices  on full line.

THE  “ OHIO”   PONY  CUTTER

Full  line of Engim 
Cream  Separators,

>s,  Sawmills,  Tread  Powers,  Corn  Huskers,  Hay  Balers, 
Feed  Cookers,  Etc.

ADAMS  &  HART, 

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Grand  Rapids.

i inumimi!»  Oil  heaters I

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DIMENSIONS  NO.  30.

DIMENSIONS  NO.  24.

They  are  made  in  three  sizes,  and, 
being the  lightest  stoves  on  the  market, 
they  are  all  that  their  name  implies. 
They are practically indestructible, being 
made entirely of  polished  steel  plate, to­
gether with burnished brass, and adorned 
with aluminum  plates  where  the  heat  is 
so intense as to tarnish and  discolor other 
metal.  Not one piece of  casting  is  used 
in  their entire construction.

Brass fount— holds  three  quarts.  Brass  burner— 10
inch  circular 
only  14  pounds

Brass  fount--holds  two  quarts.  Brass  burner—S 
inch  circular  wick.  Height  30  inches.  W eight 
only  10  pounds.  The  most  powerful  heater for the 
money.  Price  $5 00

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These are the largest and  handsomest  stoves 
ever  offered  for  the  money.  We  guarantee 
absolute  satisfaction.  Compare  them  with 
others.  Sold  at  one  price  the  world  over.
Write for discount.

Tostcr, Stevens $ Co., Grand Rapids.

DIMENSIONS  NO.  45.
-holds  five  quarts.  Brass  burner-

TAKE  NOTICE

vick.  Height  r. 
W ill  heat a  lar: 
Price  $9.00.

Brass  foun t- 
inch  circular 
only  22  pound

inches.  Weight 
e  suite  of  rooms.

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W ill  heat a lurg 

Price $6.00

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H ardw are  Price  Current.

AUQURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s................................................... 
7Q
Jennings’, genuine 
..  25*10
.  . 
Jennings’, imitation  ...  .  ..........................60*10

...... .  . .  . 

AXES

First quality. S.  B. Bronze.........................  5  00
First quality,  D.  B. Bronze................. 
9 50
First quality. S.  B. S. Steel...............  
"  5 50
First quality. U.  B. Steel...  .................  "   10 50

BARROWS

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

BOLTS
Carriage new list................... 
pi°w ...........................................w

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

60*10
70 to 75
' 50

.

Well,  plain................................................... $325

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin W are.......................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite iron  W are............ .......... new list 40*10
Pots...............................................................60*1
K ettles......................................................... 60*10
Spiders 
.......................................................60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...............................dis 60*10
State  ........................................per  doz. net  2 50
Bright..........................................................  
89
Screw Eyes................................................ 
89
Hook’s....................................................'I 
gQ
Gate Hooks and  Eyes........................... . 1.. 
hi -

WIRE  GOODS

HINGES

LEVELS

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ...............   dis 
ROPES
Sisal, V4 inch and  larger__
Manilla..................................
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels 
Mitre...............

7:;

SHEET  IRON

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

BLOCKS

Ordinary Tackle................................   Q__  

Oa.M Steel 

CROW  BARS

......................................... per lb 

CAPS

79

4

Nos.  15 to 17. 
Nos. 18 to 21 
Nos. 22 to 24 
Nos. 25 to 26
No.  27......
All sheets

com. smooth. 

12 70
2 «0 
3 00
3103  29
over  30  i

com. 
12 40 
2 40

2 63 
2 75 
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PENINSULAR  PREJUDICE.

Why  Michigan  Markets  Are  Discrimi­

nated  Against.

Marquette,  Oct  25—Geographically, 
the  Upper  Peninsula  of  Michigan  is  de­
tached  from  the  Lower  Peninsula.  The 
residents  of  the  Lower  have  but  a  faint 
idea  of  the  Upper—its  business,  its  in­
habitants  or  its  advantages.  The  busi­
ness  interests  of  the  two  are  wide  apart. 
The  Lower  has  its agricultural and man­
ufacturing  interests,  while  mining  and 
lumber are  almost  the  exclusive 
inter­
ests  of  the  Upper.  The  detachment 
geographically  holds  good  in  a  business 
way,  to  a  large  extent,  most  of  the  busi­
ness  being  diverted  from  Lower  Michi­
gan  to  Chicago and  Milwaukee.  There 
are  many  reasons  why  this  state  of 
affairs  exists.  History  records  a  time 
when  nearly  all  the  business  of  the  Up 
per  Peninsula  went  to Detroit.  This was 
before  the  panic  of  1873  and  when  there 
were  no  railroads  connecting 
it  with 
Chicago.  The  panic  was  felt  very  se­
verely  in  the  Upper  Peninsula.  Those 
were  dark  days  for  its  business men and 
copper  and 
iron  stocks  went  begging 
Some  stocks  were  sold  for  the  non-pay­
ment  of  assessments  which  have  since 
commanded  fabulous prices.  Merchants 
became  pressed  for money and extension 
or  assignment  faced  many  who  to-dav 
are 
immensely  wealthy.  Detroit  mer­
chants  were  afraid  that  the  new  mining 
country  was  going  to  the  dogs  and  de­
manded  a  settlement.  Chicago  mer­
chants  paid  personal  visits  to  the  Up 
per  Peninsula  and  solicited  the  transfer 
of  the  accounts  to  Chicago,  where  the 
merchants  would  extend  credit  until 
such  times  as  the  Upper  Peninsula mer­
chants could  pay.  In a surprisingly short 
time  a  Detroit  traveling  man  was  a 
scarce  article.  This  state  of affairs  con­
tinued  for  many  years,  but  within  the 
last  five  years  Detroit  travelers  have 
become  more  numerous  and  several  De­
troit  houses  are  enjoying  a  fine  trade  in 
this  territory.  The  country  is  develop­
ing  fast  and  there  are  a  great  many 
merchants 
in  trade  now  who  were  not 
in  business  during  the  panic  of  1873 
and  who  are.  like  most  all  others,  out 
after  the  business  and  buy  goods  at  the 
right  price,  regardless  of  where  thev 
come  from.  Most  of  the  larger and older 
houses  remember  with  gratitude  the 
accommodation  extended 
in  1873  and 
purchase  the bulk  of  their  goods  in  Chi­
cago.  They  delight  in  telling  a  Detroit 
traveler  that  part  of  Upper  Peninsula 
history,  because 
it  makes  the  traveler 
feel  uncomfortable.

Detroit  merchants  are  very  slow  in 
getting  after  the  Upper Peninsula trade. 
Rail  freights  to  all  points  west  of  Mar­
quette  have  been  for  years  less  from 
Chicago  than  Detroit.  Only  a  year  ago 
was  this  remedied  and  now  the  rate 
is 
is  so 
the  same,  but  the  time  in  transit 
much  longer  that  Chicago  gets  the  or­
ders  for  all  goods  wanted  in  a  hurry. 
Chicago  railroads  run  through  freight 
cars  to  the  iron  and  copper  country  and 
deliver  goods  to  those 
in 
thirty-six  to  forty-eight  hours,  while 
from  Detroit  goods  are  five  to  seven 
days  on  the  way.  Quicker  transit 
is 
sorely  needed  from  Detroit  to  place  her 
upon  an  equality  with  Chicago,  and  the 
Detroit  Merchants  and  Manufacturers’ 
Exchange  stands 
in  its  own  light  if  it 
does  not  correct  the  fault  and  render  as­
sistance  to  Detroit  travelers  where  they 
need  it  the  most.

localities 

In  the  express  business  Detroit  gets 
the  worst  of  it.  The  Western  Express 
Co.  controls  nearlv  all  the  railroads  in 
the  Upper  Peninsula. 
It  has  no  con­
nections  at  the  Straits,  because  of  the 
antagonism  of  the  American  Express 
Co.  on  the  M.  C.  R ’y  and  the  Adams 
Express  Co.  on  the  G.  R.  &  I.  All  ex­
press  business  for  the  iron  and  copper 
country 
leaves  Detroit  by  the  United 
States  Express  Co.,  going  via  Chicago 
and  Champion,  and  at  the 
latter  place 
it  is  transferred  to  the  Western  Express 
Co.  for  distribution.  Express  to  points 
in  the  eastern  end  of  the  Peninsula 
leaves  Detroit  by  the  Canadian  Express 
Co.,  via  Hamilton,  Ont.,  and  Sault 
Ste.  Marie,  before it reaches the Western 
for  distribution. 
In  either  case  the

in 

time  in  transit  is  so  much 
longer  than 
from  Chicago  that  Detroit  gets  very 
little  of  the  express  business.

larger  trade 

Another  reason  why  Detroit  does  not 
the  Upper 
have  a 
Peninsula 
is  because  her  jobbers  and 
manufacturers  do  not  go  after  it.  Too 
many  have  sent  men  there  for a  single 
trip  or  a  single  year  and  expect  profit­
able  returns.  Too  many  more  try  to 
work  the  territory  by  men  who  live  in 
the  Lower  Peninsula.  This  cannot  be 
done  satisfactorily.  The  traveler  should 
live  close  to  his  territory,  and  become 
identified  as  an  Upper  Peninsula  man; 
then  he  will  not  be  figuring on how short 
he  can  cut  his  trip  and  how  soon  he can 
cross  the  Straits.

Detroit  sends  a  bright  lot  of  men  to 
the  Upper  Peninsula  and  many  of  them 
secure  satisfactory  results.  Their  houses 
cannot  appreciate  the  hard  work  done 
in  order  to  make  the  territory  a  profit 
able  one,  nor  can  the  boys  he  encour­
aged  too  much.  They  have  worked 
against  great  odds  for  years  and  are 
still  fighting  an  up-hill  battle.  They 
will  welcome  the  day  when  they  receive 
the  proper  support  from  Detroit  and 
Lower  Michigan  which  will  make  their 
business  battle  one  of  equality.

Ouix.

A  Matrimonial  Magistrate.

E.  C.  Roberts,  justice  of  the  peace  at 
Lapeer,  makes  marrying  his  principal 
business.  His  card  reads  as  follows: 
“ E.  C.  Roberts,  the original  and  only 
exclusively  matrimonial  magistrate. 
Offices  at  the  elevator  of  First  National 
Bank  parlors,  or  wherever  most  con­
venient  to  swains.  Marriages  solem­
nized promptly,  accurately  and eloquent­
ly.  Plain  ceremony,  legal  fee ;  oscula­
tion  extra;  elopements  a 
specialty ; 
night  calls  answered  without  extra 
charge;  consultations  free.  A  fine  line 
of  high-grade  bridesmaids  and  grooms­
men  constantly  on  hand  to  assist  in  the 
services.  N.  B.— My  anti-blusbine  is 
warranted  effective,  and  will  not  injure 
the  most  delicate  complexion.”
Thinks  the  Country  Grocer a  Menace.
Rev.  S.  E.  Ellis,  of  Fairhaven, 
Conn.,  in  an  address  on  ‘ ‘ Child  Train­
ing  and  Church  Fellowship  of  Chil­
dren,”   denounced 
in  strong  terms  the 
bad 
influence  of  the  country  grocery 
store.  “ Too  often  vour  boys  and  girls, ” 
he  said,  “ are  listening  to  the  low  jokes 
and 
impure  conversation  of  older  men, 
who  should  be  ashamed  to talk so among 
is  doubtless  true  that 
themselves.”  
the  loafer  and 
lounger  are  apt  to  in­
dulge  in  conversation  that  is  not  of  the 
highest  order.  But  that  class  isn’t  as 
numerous  as 
it  was  twenty  years  ago. 
The  country-store  loafer isn't as much  in 
evidence  as  then.  There  has  been  an 
mprovement  in  this  respect.

It 

Wanted  the  Wholesale  Price.

“ This 
is  the  room  where  you  issue 
icenses,  ain't  it?”   enquired  the  young 
man,  after  taking  a  leisurely  survey  of 
the  apartment.
Clerk.  ‘ ‘ What  can  1  do  for  you?”

‘ Yes,”   replied  the  Deputy  County 

The  caller  pushed  his  hat  back  on  his 
head,  winked  and  beckoned  him nearer.
‘ it’s  like  this,”   he  said,  in  a  lower 
tone. 
" I   am  going  to  get  married  and 
go  into  the  saloon  business.  How  much 
discount  can  you  give me on the licenses 
if  I  take  ’em  both  out  at  once?”

Trading  Stamps  Unbusinesslike.
At  a  recent  meeting  of  the  Chester, 
(Pa.)  Business  Men’s  Association,  the 
following  resolution  was  unanimously 
adopted:

Whereas,  The  Business  Men’s  Asso­
ciation  believes 
in  businesslike  prin­
ciples—value given  for  value  received— 
therefore  be  it
Resolved,  1 hat  the  company  known 
as  the  Chester  Trading  Stamp  Co.  is 
unbusinesslike  and  a  detriment  to  every 
merchant  in  our  city.
They  have  been 

selling  artificial 
coffee  berries  of 
late  in  France.  Ex­
aminations  showed  that  they  were  made 
of  ash  gum,  dextrine  and  other  mate­
rials  of  a  pleasant  nature.

Musket  ......   .....................................P®*“  

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CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire...........................................  
Central  Fire.  .............................. !.'.!” ! .! " * * »

CHISELS

 

Socket Firmer.................  
an
Socket  Framing..................................................an
Socket Comer......................... 
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Socket Slicks........................  
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DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks.......................  
(;0
Taper and Straight Shank...........................50*  5
Morse’s Taper Shank........................'.‘gg& 5

 

 

 

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
¿0
Corrugated................................................ 
Adjustable..........................!!.!!!!!!!! ! !dis 40*10

30A.-10
' 
25

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, $13;  large, $26........ 
Ives', 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30  .......................  
FILES—New  List

New American.....................................'.  ..  70&10
Nicholsons............................................. 
79
Heller’s Horse Rasps............'.  ",eC*iO
GALVANIZED  IRON

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

28
17

16. 

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and  Level  Co.’s......... .............60*10

KNOBS-New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings... 
. . . .  
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings...........99

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................$16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Lye.....................................$15 00, dis 60*10
“ uu‘ s........................................  118 50, dis 20*10

NAILS

.  . 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  
|  55
Wire nails,  base.......................... 
1  75
. 
20 to 60advance..............................................Base
10 to 16 advance......................."!!.!!!.!!! 
95
»advance................................. 
jq
6 advance  ..................................!!."!!!!!! 
20
4 
advance................................111.1” !!! 
30
3 advance................................ 
11.11! 11! 
45
2 advance  .................................... 111! ..!!  
79
Fine 3 advance.........................!.!!!!!"!".!!" 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................».!!.!.! 11. 
15
Casing  8 advance........................!.!!!!!!" 
25
Casing  6 advance................. . 
1. ..111! 
35
Finish 10 advance  ................................’. 
25
F’inish  8 advance.................... ...I!!!!!!.!. 
35
Finish  6 ad vance...........................I.!...!.!! 
45
Barrel  % advance...............................................gg

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s................ 
Coffee, P. S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies! 11 
Coffee, Landers, F’erry & Clark’s...............  
Coffee, Enterprise....................................... 1. 

49
40
40
39

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin's Genuine.................................  
’ leo&io
Enterprise, self-measuring.......................  
39

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @59
Sciota Bench........................................‘
go
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, firstquaiity......................................    @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, Acme..............................................60*10*10
Common, polished.................................. 
79*  5
Iron and  T inned.................................. 
 
99
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60
PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole * Co.’s, new  list.....................dis  K?*
Kip’s  ...................................... ...............dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................................. dl®  1O&IO
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c lis>. 
70
Blacksmith’! Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c 11* .40*10

No.  is  and  lighter, 
s than 2-10 extra. 

WIRE

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

List  acct. 19, ’86......................................dis
Solid Eyes........................................per ton  20 uo
via, s
60*10
Steel, Game............................................. 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton's 70*10
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
j
Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market..................................!!.. 
75
Coppered  Market..............................         . .70*10
Tinned Market......................................... 92yi
Coppered Spring  Steel......................................   ’' 59
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..................!!!!!  ■> n
Barbed  Fence,  painted.............................” 
f yj
An Sable..................................................dis 40* U
Putnam......   .......................................... dis 
5
j 25
Northwestern....................................................dis 10*10
Baxter's Adjustable, nickeled  ......
Coe’s Genuine..................................
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought
Coe’s Patent, malleable..................
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages  .....................................
Pumps. Cistern................   ............
Screws, New List.............................
Casters, Bed and  Plate..................
Dampers, American.........................
600 pound casks................................   ......
Per pound................................................... 

80
85
50*10*10
50

METALS—Zinc

HORSE  NAILS

WRENCHES

9^

30

SOLDER

79

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

12H
The prices of themany other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, 31.z5.

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........  ............................  5 99
14x20 IC, Charcoal....................................!  5  99
10x14 IX, Charcoal.....................................  9  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   9  99

Each additional X on this grade. $1.50. 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean...........................   6  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............................  10  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Alin way Grade............   4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........... 
9  00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 
.........  11  00
BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX. for  No.  9  Boilers.  ( Per Poun<l

TRADESMAN 
ITEMIZED 
LEDGERS

Size  8  1-2x14—Three  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

GRAND  RAPIDS.

MICH

I GAN  TRADESMAN

came  away,  amid  the  stony  stares  of  the 
whole  outfit  of  ‘ salesmen.’

“ So  here  I  am,  and  I  wish  to  repeat 
my  first  remark,  that it beats the  d evil!”  
My  friend  may  have  exaggerated 
slightly,  but  he  is  a  truthful  man  and  I 
have  seen  about  the  same  thing  myself 
more  than  once,  I  am  sorry  to  say.

Now,  here’s  the  other  story :
Last  night  another  friend  of  mine,  a 
Brooklyn  lady,  imparted  to  me  the 
im­
portant  but  perhaps  not  exclusive  infor­
mation  that  she  was going  to  buy  a win­
ter  coat  pretty  soon. 
“ And,”   she  said, 
decidedly,  “  I ’m going to buy  it  at  Blink 
I  hadn't  any  idea  of  doing 
&  Blank's. 
so,  but  1  was 
in  there  the  other  d a y - 
just  shopping,  you  know—and  1  walked 
through  their  coat  department  just  to 
see  what  they  had.  The  first  thing  I 
knew  there  was  a  man  walking  along 
with  me,  telling  all  about  the  stock. 
I 
don’t  know  where  he  came  from  or  how 
it  happened.  He  was  so  unobtrusive 
and  so  gentlemanly.  He  seemed  to 
know  just  what  I  liked  and  he  had 
it 
down 
in  a  twinkling  and  told  me  all 
about  it.  He  knew  more  about  coats 
than  any  man  I  ever  saw.  He  showed 
me  everything  he  thought  I  would  like 
to  see.  He  turned  coats  inside  out  for 
me  and  told  me  what  was  the  latest 
fashion,  where 
it  was  the  fashion  and 
why 
it  came  to  be  the  fashion.  He 
seemed  to  know  that  I  didn’t  intend 
buying  just  then  but  was  simply  shop­
ping  around.  He  never  said 
‘ buy’ 
once.  He  never  intimated  that  I  might 
then  or 
buy  a  coat, 
thereafter.  He 
didn’t  seem 
to  care  whether  I  ever 
bought  a  coat  or  not.  He  simply  told 
me,  in  the  nicest,  most gentlemanly way 
you  ever  saw,  all  about  the  coats.  Con­
sequently,  I'm  going  there  to  buy  my 
coat;  and  I’m  going  to  buy  it  of  that 
man. 
it  costs  a  little 
more  than  it  would  somewhere else,  I'm 
going  to  buy  my  coat  of  that  man.”

I  don’t  care 

if 

Just  consider  that 

last  statement  a 
moment!  What  are  we  to  think  when  a 
woman  says,  in  all  sincerity,  that  she 
would  buy  something  at  a  certain  store 
even  if  it  cost  more?  Food  for  thought 
in  it.  isn’t  there?

m
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Clerks’  Corner

Two  Kinds  of  Clerks—Which  Kind  Do 

You  Employ?

When  the  political  reporter  writes  up 
the  campaign  speech  of  an  orator  on the 
other  side  of  the  fence,  he  always  calls 
it— if  he  knows his business—“  rambling 
and  discursive.”   Perhaps  that  time- 
honored  phrase  might  be  properly  ap­
plied  to  what  I  want  to  say  this  week, 
but  I  can’t  help  that— I’ ve  simply  got 
io  say 
it.  Two  little  stories,  poured 
into  my  sypmathetic  ear  within  the  last 
twenty-four  hours,  have  wound  me  up. 
So  here  I  go.

into  a  chair,  tried  to 

Yesterday  a  particular  friend  came 
“ Came”   is 
into  my  particular  den. 
in. 
not  the  right  word—he  bounced 
He  was  evidently 
in  a  state  of  mind. 
He  didn't  say  anything  at  first,  so  I 
kept  on  working.  He  jammed  himself 
down 
light  a 
frayed-our  cigar  with  a  toothpick,  sank 
bis  bands  down  deep 
in  his  pockets 
and  thought.  By-and-by  he  burst  out 
with,  “ It  beats  the  devil,  doesn’t  it?”  
I  assured  him  that,  to  be  frank  with 
him,  I  believed 
it  did,  and  kept  on 
working.  Pretty  soon  he  told  me  his 
tale  of  woe.

in. 

I  went  up  to 

Here  it  is:
“ I’ve  just  been  out  to  buy  a  suit  of 
clothes,”   he  said,  “ and  1  didn’t  buy 
’em.  I  wanted  about  a  $20  business  suit 
and  I  went  to  a  store  that  advertises 
that  kind  of  a  suit.  They  have  very 
good  advertisements  from  my  point  of 
view  and  keep  pegging  away  all  the 
time  with  their  seductive  advertising.
I  felt  pretty  good  when  I  went 
I j 
thought  that  I was  going  to  have  a beau­
tiful  time.  Their  advertisements  had 
taught  me  to  expect  a  regular  ‘glad 
hand’  reception. 
the 
men’s  clothing  department  on  an  ele­
vator,  the  guiding  genius  of  which  let 
me  off  with  a  ‘ Ye  who-enter  here-leave- 
all-hope-behind’  sort  of  an  air.  When  I 
in  I  found  a  knot  of  serious  and 
got 
in  a  corner,  dis­
dignified  gentlemen 
cussing  some  evidently  grave  and 
im­
learned  afterward 
portant  subject. 
that  they  were  clerks. 
I  stood  around 
a while,  wondering  how I could  get  away 
without  breaking  up  the  meeting  or 
otherwise  committing  a  breach  of  the 
peace,  and  finally  a  man  tore  himself 
away  and  came  over  to  me.  He  said 
never  a  word,  but  stood  and  looked  me 
calmly 
in  the  eye  with  a  chilling  An­
cient  Mariner  glare.  He  bore  himself 
with  that  unfeazable 
imperturbability 
that  one  rarely  sees  except  m  the  wood­
en  Indian  in  from  of  the  cigar  store.

I 

"Pretty  soon  I  succeeded  in  suggest­
ing,  in  faltering  accents,  that  I  wanted 
a  certain  kind  of  a  suit  of  clothes.  He 
said  nothing,  but  went  away.  Some­
thing  prompted  me  to  follow  him.  My 
intuition  was  not  at  fault.  He  intended 
to  show  me  some  clothing!  But  the 
suit  of  clothes  he  showed  me  bore  to 
the  suit  I  wanted  just  about  the  prover­
bial  resemblance  of  the  hawk  to  the 
handsaw.  He  was  very  weary  after  he j 
had  brought  out  this  suit  and  he  re­
sumed  his  wooden-Indian  attitude  and 
waited. 
I  explained  to  him  that  that 
wasn't  at  all  what  I  asked  to see,  where­
upon,  with  a  pensive  sigh,he  pulled  out 
another  suit  still  farther  away  from  the 
mark  than  the  first.  Then  he  waited 
some  more.

“ Three  or  four  times  I  explained 
what  I  wanted. 
it  was  there. 
But  I  never  touched  him.  He  told  me, 
after a  bit,  what  I  ought  to  have  aqd  I

I  know 

The  moral  to  these  two  little  tales  is 
as  long  as  from  here  to  the  corner  gro­
cery  and  return  and  if  we  don’t  think  it 
over  carefully  we  will  make  a  sad  mis­
take.

them. 

I  am  sorry  that  there  are  so  many 
stores  like  the  one  described  by  my 
friend  who  didn’t  buy  the  suit  of 
clothes.  They surprise  me—I  can't  un­
derstand 
They  are  generally 
kept  by  people  who  believe  that  adver­
tising  doesn’t  pay.  Advertising  never 
can  pay  such  stores.  Good  advertise­
ments  can  bring  a  man  to  the  store 
once,  but  they  can’t  bring  a  man  back 
who  has  found  that  the  store  doesn’t 
live  up  to  its  advertisements.  The  ad­
vertising  of  such  a  store  leaves  about  as 
much  impression  on  the  public  mind  as 
you  do  on  a  river  when  you  stick  your 
finger  in  it  and  then  pull  it  out and look 
for  the  hole.

Many 

large,  well-advertised  and 
seemingly  prosperous  stores  have  clerks 
of  the  wooden-Indian  type.  They  are 
doing  a  good  business,  but  I  don’t  see 
why  they  should.  I  suppose  we  are  get­
ting  so  used  to  the  chilly  glare  of  the 
bumptious  salesman  that  we  don’t  no­
tice 
is  certain, 
though—we  notice  the  other  thing.  We 
notice  proper  courtesy  when  we  find 
it. 
And  that  s  one  of  the  reasons  why  so 
many  old  mercantile 
landmarks  are 
giving  way  to  new  stores  that  spring  up 
in  the  face  of  obstacles
J and  succeed 

it  much.  One  thing 

AS  A   M AN  IS  KNO W N 
BY  THE  COMPANY  HE  KEEPS *  

SO  IS  A Grocer

1

KNO W N  BY
THE  GOODS  HE  SELLS ^

« 

BE  WISE
A N D   CARRY *  
A   LINE  OF

THERE  IS  NO   SURER  W AY  OF  GAINING
THE  PUBLIC  CONFIDENCE  T H A N   BY 
SELLING  THOSE  PROPRIETARY  GOODS 
WHICH  GIVE  THE  GREATEST 
SATISFACTION  j»  jt

Tn these days of keen competition •

Grocers  do  not  place  sufficient  value  on  the  use  of 
their own brains.  They must back their own judg­
ment  and  sell  only  articles  of  sterling  quality  that 
leave them  a  good  profit.  Too  many  allow  them­
selves to become merely distributing machines of arti­
cles that leave no profit.  Such dealers are not desired 
as distributing agents for our

»Em blem   B ra n d *

of  canned  goods,  which  are  meeting  with  hearty 
recognition wherever introduced.

If you come to  the  carnival, you  are  invited  to 

make our establishment your headquarters.

e f a r k - jt w e ll- a k lls   £ « .

«rand  Rapids,  mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Don’t  Be  Too  Certain  the  Clerks  Are 

at  Fault.
Written for the Tradesman.

“ Hexcuse  me,  sir,  but  hi  did  leave 
my  parasol  behind  me  on  your  counter. 
You  remember  me,  don’t  you?  Hi  did 
buy  a  dress  from  you  about  nine o’clock 
this  mornin’. ”

“ Why,  yes,  ma’am,  I  remember  you; 
but  I  haven’t  seen  any  stray  parasol. 
Are  you  sure  you  left  it  here?  You  may 
have  left  it  at  some  of  the  other  coun­
ters. 
I  will  ask  the  other  salesmen 
here ;  some  of  them  may  have  seen  it. ’ ’ 
I  questioned  all  the  clerks  who  were 
in  the  department  at  the  time,  but  none 
of  them  had  seen  the  parasol. 
I  then 
sent  a  boy  to  the  package  desk,  where 
things  found  on  the  counters are  always 
sent;  but  he  came  back  saying  that  it 
was  not  there.  Returning  to  the  wom­
an, I  told  her  the  result  of  my  enquiries.
leave  hit  here. 
Some  of  them  must  have  bit.  Hit  did 
be  a  very  fine  one.  Hi  did  buy  hit 
in 
New  York  ten  years  ago,  an’  hit  cost 
eight  dollars.  Hi  would  not  take  twice 
that  much  for hit. ”

“ Well,  but  hi  did 

“ If  you 

left  it  on  the  counter,  some 
customer  may  have  taken  it.  You  know 
it 
is  an  easy  thing  for  people  to  take 
what  doesn’t  belong  to  them,  especially 
when  there  are  so  many  people  around 
as  there  are  to-day.”

“ Ho,  hi  don’t  think 

for  &  minute 
that  any  of  the  customers  took  hit.  Hi 
think  the  clerks  behind  the  counter  be 
far  apter  to  take  hit.  Hi  think  some 
on  you  have  hit,  an’  hi  will  find  bout 
ere  hi  leave  the  store.  Who  be  the  bead 
man  here?  Hi  will  speak  to  him.”  

“ The  owner 

is  Mr.  Jarvis,  whose 
office  is  on  the  second  floor.  If  you  will 
be  seated  I  will  send  a  boy  and  have 
him  come  down. ”

The  Fleeting  Trade.

From the Dry Goods Economist.

Most  merchants  agree that  it  is  much 
easier  to  make  new  customers  than  it  is 
to  keep  old  ones.

But  why?
Well,  sometimes  the  old  friends  die 
or  move  away.  Then,  no  woman  limits 
herself  to  one  place  to  do  her  trading. 
Some  “ shop”   all  the 
time,  even  for 
needles  and  thread.  At  one  time  they 
may  be  your  customers,  next  week  some 
other  store  owns  them. 
is  human 
nature  to  change,  and  the  last  change  is 
always  the  best— until  we  change  again. 
The  latest  discovery  is  always  the  one 
we  enthuse  over.

It 

Then  again,  some  real  or 

fancied 
slight  or  wrong  may  drive  your  “ old 
reliable”   to  a  competitor,  and 
likewise 
bring  his  customer  to  you.

Still,  there must be  something  radical­
ly  wrong  with  the  store  that  cannot 
boast  of  its  regular clients.  If  customers 
are always  changing,  and  the  merchant 
never sees  the  same  face  twice, a change 
in  his  methods  is  very  necessary.  Treat 
a  man  or  woman  right,  and  they  will 
surely  come  again.

The  up-to-date  merchant  is  bound  to 
prosper,  because  he 
is  sure  to  hold 
most  of  his  trade,  and  equally  certain 
to  attract  new  customers.

Monongalia  county,  W.  Va.,  has  a 
citizen  named  Haymond  Grigg,  with  an 
ambition  so  peculiar  and  unusual  that 
some  people  think  him  crazy. 
For 
many  years  he  has  made  it  a  point  to 
be  the  first  citizen  in  the  county  to  pay 
his  taxes.  About  three  years  ago,  and 
for  the  first  time 
in  his  life,  he  was 
beaten  by  a  swifter  taxpayer,  and  it  al­
most broke  his  heart.

The  philosopher  who  gives  good  ad­
vice,  and  the  harlequin  who  makes  us 
laugh,  and  do  not  get cash  for  it  as  they 
go  along,  will  find  the  world  ready  to 
pay  them  off  in  their  old  age—the  one 
with  cheap  pity,  and  the  other  with 
cold  neglect.

13
Association Matters

Michigan  Retail  Grocers’ Association

President, J.W isler,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Stowe,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J  F 
Tatman, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

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

Detroit  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, J oseph Knight;  Secretary, E. Marks, 

321 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, N. L. Koenig.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association 
K lap ;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  Lehman.

President,  F rank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  Homer 

Saginaw  Mercantile  Association 

President, P. F. T reanor;  Vice-President, J ohn 
McBratn ie;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L ew is;  Treas­
urer,  Louie S chwermer

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

President, Geo. E. Lew is; Secretary,  W.  H. Por­

te r;  Treasurer, J.  L.  Petermann

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  F.  B.  Johnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

Darling;  Treasurer, L. A. Gilk e y.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  Gafney;  Secretary,  E  F 

Cleveland;  Treasurer, Geo.  M.  Hoch.

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

Traverse City  Business Men’s Association 
Holly ;  Treasurer, C. A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  Whipple ; Secretary, G. T. Camp­

bell;  Treasurer, W. E. Collins.

Alpena  Business  Men’s Association

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

P artridge.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat  Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J. Katz;  Secretary, Philip Hilb e r; 

which  are  apparently  insurmountable.
Now,  here’s  a  question  or  two  I  wish 
to  ask  of  every  merchant  who  reads 
these  lines.  How  do  your  clerks  treat 
your  customers?  Do  they  treat  them 
as  if  they  were  a  nuisance  and  ought  to 
be  at  home  attending  to  their  own  busi­
ness?  Do  they  show  goods  with  weary 
reluctance?  Do  they  try  to  tell  people 
what  they  ought  to  buy?  Do  they  try  to 
sell  people goods  they  haven’t  asked  to 
see  and  probably  don’t  want?  Do  they 
try  persistently  to  sell  goods  to  a woman 
who  is  “ just  shopping?”   Do  they  get 
together  and  chat  with  each  other  while 
customers  wait?  Do  they  chew  gum 
and  talk  flippantly  and  saucily?

Honestly,  now,  do  you  really  know 
for  sure  that  none  of  your  clerks  do 
these  things? 
If  you  don’t,  find  out. 
And  when  you  find  an  offender,  bounce 
him  forthwith.

in  and 

Why  can't  we  have  more  stores  like 
that  described  by  my  friend  who 
is 
going  to  buy  a  coat?  Why  can’t we  have 
more  stores  where  a  man  or  woman  can 
go 
look  around  without  being 
solicited  to  buy  and  without  being  ap­
proached  except  by  some polite employe 
who  tells  us,  in  a  courteous  manner,  all 
about  the  goods  without  soliciting  us  to 
buy  or treating  us  as  if  we  had  no  busi­
ness being  on  earth?

T h e o d o r e  H a m ilto n.

The  Proper  Time  to  Sell.

Ohio Correspondence Country Gentleman.

The  price  of  apples  and  potatoes  is 
often  much  higher  during  the  winter 
and  spring  months  than 
in  the  fall, 
when  they  can be  marketed  at  much less 
expense.  If  apples or potatoes  are  stored 
to  await  higher  figures,  there  is  an 
in­
creased  labor and  risk  in  keeping them. 
Then,  too,  there  is  always  more  or  less- 
loss  from  rot  and  other  causes.  When 
any  commodity  not  of  a  perishable  na­
ture  is  at  its  lowest  price,  or  it 
is  rea­
sonable  to  believe  the  lowest  price  has 
been  reached,  is  not  the  time to sell,  for 
a  reaction  has 
in  nearly  all  instances 
shortly  followed.  When  the  price  of 
wool  went  to  the  bottom,  as  it  did  in 
1896,  not  a  few  farmers  who  had  on 
hand  two  clips,  besides  the  one  of  1896, 
became  uneasy  and  sold  their entire col­
lection.  Wool  loses  very  little,  if  any, 
if  properly  packed,  even  if  kept  for two 
or  three  years.

Is  it  not  the  safest,  and  in  the  end the 
way  that  oftenest  pays, to  make  it  a  rule 
to  sell  when  the  products  are  ready  for 
markets,  unless  the  condition  of  the 
markets  points to a decidedly better  near 
future?  Unless  one  has  made  a  careful 
study  of  the  markets  for  some  time,  the 
condition  which  now  exists,  and  which 
many  think  is  still  going  to  be  the same 
for  months,  may  change  in  twenty-four 
hours  more  than  was  thought  possible in 
the  next  six  months.

in  the  winter  or 

In  the  fall,  when  the  majority  of arti­
cles  are  harvested  and  are  ready  for 
market,  the  roads  are  good.  Hauling 
can  be  done  much  easier  and  cheaper. 
Often  the  higher  prices  of  some  com­
late 
modity 
in  the 
spring 
is  due  to  the  condition  of  the 
roads,  which  are  often  at  that  season  of 
the  year  almost  impassable.  The  cost 
of  getting  the  article  to  market  will 
more  than  offset  the advance  in  price 
quite  often.  Good  winter  roads—that 
is,  turnpikes—are  not  to  be  found  in 
all  localities  by  any  means.  Summing 
it  alimp,  the proper  time  to  sell  is  when 
is  ready  for  market,  unless 
the  article 
is  every 
there 
indication  of  advanced 
prices 
in  the  near  future.  Even  then, 
unless  it  is  sifted  to  the  bottom,  we may 
think  that  conditions  exist  which  do 
not.

God  has  been  very  merciful  to  some 
of  us  in  never  letting  money  come  roll­
ing  in  upon  us,  for  the  most  men  are 
carried  off  their  legs  if  they  meet  with 
a  great  wave  of  fortune.  Many  of  us 
would  have  been  bigger  sinners  if  we 
had  been_trusted  with  larger  purses.

The  woman  unwillingly  sat  down  to 
await  Mr.  Jarvis’  coming.  She  was  a 
Welch  woman 
and  her  excitement 
seemed  to  multiply  the  h’s 
in  her 
speech,  for  they  appeared  in  the  most 
unexpected  places. 
just  a  little 
offended  at  the  woman’s  readiness  to 
accuse  the  clerks  for  the  disappearance 
of  the  parasol,  and  took  the  opportunity 
to  tell  her  a  few  plain  facts:

I  felt 

“ I  am 

just  as  sorry  as  I  can  be  that 
you  have  lost  so  valuable  a  parasol,  but 
you  must  surely  know  that  you  have  no 
one  to  blame  but  yourself.  Ycu  can 
hardly  expect  the  clerks,  on  such  a  busy 
day  as  this,  to  be  responsible  for  your 
personal  property  which  you  carelessly 
leave  behind  you.  As  for  the  clerks 
stealing,  we  have  yet  to  find any of them 
guilty  of  such  a  crime;  but  scarcely  a 
week  goes  by  that  we  do  not  have  some 
customer  arrested  for  shoplifting.  Be­
sides,  if,  as  you  say,  you  bought  your 
parasol  ten  years  ago,  I  think  it  safe  to 
say  that  none  of  the  clerks  have  it.”

“ Hi  guess  you  be  right.  Seems  like 
hi  ain’t  just  sure  hi  ieft  hit  here.  May­
be  hi  did 
leave  hit  in  the  shoe  store. 
Come  to  think  of  hit,  hi  believe  hi  did. 
Hi  will  go  up  street  an’  see.”

Ten  minutes 

later,  she  came  back 
with  an  old  parasol  which,  from  my 
point  of  view,  was  not  worth  fifteen 
cents;  but  the  troubled 
look  had  van­
ished  from  her  face,  as  she  came  to  me 
and  said,  “ Hi  did  find  hit  in  the  shoe 
store  just  where  hi  did  leave  hit.”

All  of  which  goes  to  show  that  the 
average  customers  are  too  apt  to  find 
fault  with  the  clerks  when  they  them­
selves are  the  ones  to  blame.

Mac  A ll a n .

The  stronger  the  body,  the  more  it 
obeys ;  the weaker  the  body,  the  more  it 
commands.

Treasurer, S. J.  Hufpord.

m m m m m

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

price.

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

ily trade.

It is worth while.
Order “LILY WHITE" Flour now.
We guarantee it.
Your money back if you want it.

ir

Valley  City Milling  Co*

m m a m m t

Grand Rapids, Mich.

14

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is 

in  great  abundance. 

San  Antonio,  Tex.,  Oct. 

Fruits  and  Produce.
Shipping  Pecan  Nuts  by  the  Carload.
15—Not 
much  is  heard  about  the  pecan  nut,  not 
even  here  in  Southwest  Texas,  where  it 
grows  wild  and,  in  favorable  seasons,  is 
harvested 
The 
pecan  nut  has  always  had  a good market 
value,  but  it  is  only  within  the  past  few 
years  that  shipments  have  been  made 
from  here  to  Eastern  and  Northern mar­
kets.  These  shipments  were  at  first 
small,  but  the  dealers  have  found  the 
profits  so  satisfactory  that  their  scale  of 
buying 
increasing  each  year,  and 
carload  shipments  have  now  become 
It  requires  considerable  cap­
common. 
ital  to  handle  pecans 
lots, 
and  for  this  reason  the  small  dealer  is 
at  a  disadvantage  compared  with  the 
more  wealthy  cotton  broker  who  makes 
pecan  buying  a  side  issue  to  his  regular 
business.  The  profits  are  certain  and 
the  pecan  nuts  are  obtained  with  no 
difficulty.  The  nuts  are  brought  into 
the  city  from  all  parts  of  the  surround­
ing  country  by  small  farmers,  small 
boys,  and  professional  Mexican  pecan 
pickers.  They  are  sold  to  the  local 
dealers  at  low  prices,  the  pickers  being 
satisfied  with  very  reasonable  wages. 
Local  pecan  dealers  not  only  receive the 
nuts  from  the  above-named  sources,  but 
also  buy  large  quantities  from  the  small 
merchants  of  the  little  towns  of  the  sur­
rounding  country.

in  carload 

This  year’s  crop  of  pecans  in  South­
west  Texas  is  the  largest  in many years, 
and  several  million  pounds  of  the  nuts 
will  be  exported  and  shipped  to  the 
markets  of  this  country  before  the  sea­
son  closes.  Before  shipment 
is  made 
from  here  the  nuts  are  run  through  an 
assorting  sieve  and  then  classified  ac­
cording  to  size  and  thickness  of  shell. 
The  soft-shell  pecan  commands  a  much 
higher  price  than  the  hard  shell.  The 
latter  comes  from  a 
long-lived  tree, 
which  also  produces  ir,  more  abundance 
than  the  soft-shell  treé.

finely 

All  the  streams  around  San  Antonio 
are  lined  with  pecan  groves,  and  for 
several  weeks  to  come  thev  will  be 
visited  bv  parties  of  nut hunters.  There 
are  few  households  in  this  citv  in  which 
a  bountiful  store  of  the  nuts for the com­
ing  winter will  not  be  laid  up.  Manv 
poor  Mexican  families  here  make  the 
pecan  kernels  their  primary  article  of 
food  during  the  fall  and  winter  months. 
The  Mexican  housewife  is  an  adept 
at  preparing  the  kernels  as  delicious 
table  dishes.  A  kind  of  flour  is  made 
This  flour 
from  the  dried  kernels. 
makes  a  wholesome, 
flavored 
bread.  The  nuts  are  also  made  into 
delicious  puddings  and  cakes. 
The 
Mexican  pecan  candy  man 
is  an  old 
institution  of  San  Antonio  and  is  well 
remembered  by  tourists  who  visit  this 
city.  This 
is  his  busy  season.  He  is 
now  laying  in  his  stock  of  pecans  and 
letting  them  dry,  so  that  the  work  of 
shelling  them  can  begin  before  the  win­
ter tourist  travel  starts  this  way.  When 
the  nuts  are  thoroughly  dried the kernels 
are  removed  in  halves.  Thev  are  then 
made  to  form  the  principal  part  of a 
most  tempting  and  really  delicious 
candy.  These  Mexican  candy  men  sell 
their  stock  on  the  streets  exclusively, 
the  tourists  and  health-seekers  being 
their  best  patrons.  This  sale  of  pecan 
candy  on  the  streets  is a custom peculiar 
to  San  Antonio. 
It  is  not  to be  seen  in 
any  citv  in  Mexico.

industry 

It  was  started 

The  Mexicans  are  experts  in  remov­
ing  the  kernels  from  the  shell  and  quite 
is  being  built  up  here  in 
an 
that  work. 
in  a  some­
what  interesting  manner.  A  local  con­
fectioner  sent  to  a  friend  in  New  York, 
who  was  also  in  the  confectionery  busi­
ness,  a  few  pounds  of  the  pecan  kernels 
as  a  present.  The  New  York  confec­
tioner  then  sent  an  order  to  his  friend 
here  for  200  pounds  of  the  kernels. 
The  recipient  of  the  order  secured  the 
services  of  a  number  of  Mexicans,  and 
the  desired  quantity  of  pure  meat  ker­
nels was  quickly turned out and shipped. 
This  shipment  led  to  others  and  the  de­
mand  continues  to 
Large 
shipments  of  kernels  are  now  made

increase. 

is 

from  here  every  fall  and  winter  to  New 
York,  Chicago,  St.  Louis,  and  other 
Eastern  and  Northern  cities.  Fancy 
prices  are  obtained  for  the  kernels  from 
the  large  confectionery  houses  and  the 
profits  are  large.  The  labor  employed 
here 
inexpensive.  An  attempt  was 
made  recently  to  remove  the  kernels  by 
means  of  a  machine,  but  it  was  quickly 
found  that  the  Mexicans  performed  the 
work  more  satisfactorily  and  cheaply 
than  the  machine.

The  polishing  of  the pecan  nut  is  also 
a  growing  industry  here.  The nuts  com­
mand  a  trifle  better  price  when  the 
remnants  of  bark  are  removed  and  their 
surface  polished. 
is 
done  by  placing  the  nuts 
in  a  large 
cylinder  which  is  revolved  rapidly.

The  polishing 

The  pecan  tree  flourishes 

in  every 
part  of  Southwest  Texas,  wherever  its 
roots  can  reach  water  or  moisture.  The 
profits 
in  raising  the  nuts  are  so  large 
that  all  the  groves  now  in  existence  are 
being  protected  and  many  orchards  of 
the  trees  have  been  planted  by  farmers 
in  the  past  few  years.  There  is  one 
orchard  of  pecan  trees  of  several  hun­
dred  acres near Brownwood,  Texas.  The 
orchard  has  been  grown  from  the  direct 
planting  of  the  nuts. 
is  now  several 
years  old  and  will  soon  begin  to bear.
Exports  of  Cheese  Growing  Larger.
Already  this  year  the  number  of 
pounds  of  cheese  exported  has  equaled 
the  figures  for  the  whole  of  1896.  Up 
to  the  close  of  last  month,  33,716,204 
pounds  had  been  sent  out,  and  the  ex­
ports  for  August  will  bring  the  eight 
months’  shipment  of  this  year  consider­
the  36,777,291  pounds 
ably  beyond 
shipped  in  1896.  The 
increase  for  the 
first  seven  months  of  this  year  over  the 
same  period  last  year amounts  to  about 
33  per  cent.  Shipments  for  last  month 
are  double  those  of  July,  1896.

It 

Recent  Canadian  reports  show  un­
precedented  exports  of  cheese  to  Great 
Britain.  The  trade  has  been  astonished 
at  the  manner  in  which  Canadian prices 
in  the  face  of 
have  been  maintained 
abnormally  large  exports.  The 
large 
deficit  in  the  English  make  of  last year, 
variously  estimated  at  from  12  to  25  per 
cent.,  has  no  doubt  been  the  pre­
dominant  factor  in  keeping  upvalues.

The  heavy  Canadian  exports  have  ap­
parently  caused  a  deficit  in  the  supply 
of  the  Dominion  provinces. 
Recent 
figures  furnished  by  the  United  States 
Treasury  statistics  show  heavily 
in­
creasing  exports  from  our  northern  bor­
der districts  to  Canada. 
In  July,  1896, 
these  districts  shipped  to  Canadian 
provinces  281,149  pounds,  while 
last 
month  there  was  exported  to  the  same 
provinces  1,328,416  pounds.  During 
the  first  seven  months  of  1896 only  a  lit­
tle  over  half  a  million  pounds  was  sent 
across  the  border,  while  the  correspond­
ing  period  of  the  current  year  shows  an 
exportation  of  2,310,387  pounds.

Either  our  border districts  have  been 
called  upon  to  supply  a Canadian deficit 
due  to  large  exports  from  Canada  to 
Great  Britian,  or  have  been  participat­
ing 
in  the  movement  to  Great  Britain 
by  transportation  through the Dominion. 
In  any  event,  this  will  be  a  great  year 
for  cheese  exports 
the  United 
States.

from 

to  4,273.835, 

American  butter,  also,  is  finding  an 
increased  foreign  demand.  During  last 
month,  the  number  of  pounds  exported 
as  against 
amounted 
2,110,979  for  July,  1896.  The 
increase 
for  the  first  seven  months  of  this  year 
last  year 
over a  corresponding  period 
amounts  to  more  than 
six  million 
pounds.  On  the  other hand,  exports  of 
oleomargarine  have 
fallen  off  from 
3,814,816  pounds  for  the  seven  months 
ended  July,  1896,  to2,  166,983  pounds  for 
the  same  period  of  this  year.  This  de­
crease  is  probably  due,  however,  to  the 
falling  off  in  production  during  the  last 
year.

The  City  of  Mexico  is  to  have  a  dog 
pound,  to  which  all  the  stray  canines 
will  be  brought,  and,  if  not  claimed 
within  three  days,  will  be  killed.  There 
is,  however,  a  utilitarian  side  to  this 
pound.  The  private  owner  intends  to 
make  shoe  blacking  of  the  fat  of  the 
animals.

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

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

187-189 Canal  St.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Potatoes  --  Beaps  —  Opiops

W e are  in  the  market  daily;  buy  and  Sell  Potatoes  and  Beans,  carlots; 
if any to offer,  write or wire,  stating what  you have,  how  soon  can  ship.

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26-28-30-3* Ottawa  St..

Grand  Rapids,  nich.

Established  1876. 

Wholesale Seeds,  Potatoes,  Beans,  Fruits.

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CLOVER
TIMOTHY
ALSYKE

Full  line  of  light  Grass  Seeds,  etc.  Will  buy  or  sell  Beans, Clover Seed,  Alsyke, 
Popcorn car lots or less.  Write  us  .  .  .

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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 

A L F R E D   v j .  B R O W N  
S E E D   O O .

BUTTER
EGGS

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,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MILLER &  TEASDALE  CO.

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE  BROKERS

BEANS 
ONIONS 
601  NORTH  THIRD  ST., 

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POTATOES
CABBAGE

ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

Consignments solicited.  Advances  made.

Reference:  American  Exchange  Bank,  St.  Louis.

Harris & Frutchey

are the only  exclusive  dealers in  BUTTER 
and  EGGS  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 . 
Telephon« 2524.

350  High  St.

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 
Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Oct.  23—There  have  been 
two  disturbing  factors  at  work this week 
that  have  been  rather  against  a  favor­
able  situation  among  grocery  jobbers 
here—the  continued  and  seemingly 
in­
creasing  reports  of  yellow  fever  outh 
the  red-hot  campaign  over  the 
and 
I he  latter  will  soon  be  set­
mayoralty. 
tled  and 
is  hoped  that  the  colder 
weather  may  drive  out  the  fever  mi­
crobes.  Aside  from  these  retarding  in­
fluences,  satisfactory  conditions  pre­
vail.  Prices  are  well  held  and  buyers 
seem  to  realize  that  they  must  pay  a  lit­
tle  more  for  many  things  than  a  year 
ago.

it 

The  exception  proves  the  rule  and 
coffee  buyers  have  a  “ cinch, ”   50  far 
as  price 
is  concerned,  and  we  have  a 
quotation  for  invoice  lots  of  Rio  No.  7 
of  6j£c.  The  stock  afloat  and  here  is 
enormous—almost  900,000  bags—and 
from  Brazil  come  dispatches  of  contin­
ued  heavy  receipts.  If  the  consumption 
of  the  beloved  berry  will  now 
increase 
as  it  ought  to,  the  grocer  may  be  happy 
yet;  but  so  far  the  demand 
is  of  the 
most  ordinary  character.  The  bulk  of 
all  the  coffee  seems  destined  to  go 
into 
the  hands  of  the  few  big  roasters,  and 
others  show  no  anxiety  to  load  up  be­
yond  the  day’s  requirements.  Mild 
coffees  have  been  meeting  with 
the 
usual  request.  Quotations are practically 
unchanged.

The 

The  tea  market  shows  no  improve­
ment  and  nothing  of  interest  has  trans­
pired.  Some 
importers  are  endeavor­
ing  to  have  entry  given 
to  certain 
grades  of  tea  which  have  been  excluded 
by  the  new  law,  not  by  reason  of  quality 
but  because  the  leaves  are  not  up  to a 
importers  claim 
required  size. 
that  much  first-class  tea 
is  thus  ex­
to  their  great  disadvantage. 
cluded, 
Auction  sales  have  been  without  inter­
est,  the  usual  crowd  being  present  and 
manifesting 
in  the  pro­
ceedings.  Of  course,  the  better  sorts  of 
China  and  Japan  sell  well,  and  there  is 
always  a  profit  on  such  goods,  but  they 
form  a  very  small  portion  of  the  total 
consumption.

interest 

little 

it 

The  sugar  market  is  absolutely  with­
out  life  and  both  raw  and  refined  are 
extremely  dull, 
is  thought  that  the 
refineries  will  not  make  any  large  pur­
chases  of  raws  until  after  the  turn of the 
year,  while  for  refined,  the  trade  gen­
erally  seem  to  have  enough  to  last  for 
a while,  and are making light  purchases. 
Foreign  refined,  too,  is  very  quiet,  but 
stocks  are  said  to  be  quite  closely  sold 
up.  Granulated  is  listed  at  5J^c.
■   Trading 
in  rice  has  hardly  been  as 
active  as  last  week,  but  supplies  of  for­
eign  are 
light  and  the  market  is  firm. 
A  few  arrivals  from  Carolina  are  re­
ported  and  a  small  amount  from  New 
Orleans.  For  Java  the  quotation  is  4% 
@4J^c;  Louisiana,  good,  4|^@5c.
In  spices,  the  jobbing  trade  is  rather 
light,  althought  there 
is  a  little  more 
enquiry  for  some  lines  and  pepper  and 
cloves  have  scored  a  trifling  advance. 
The  latter  are  worth  6@6#c  for  Zanzi­
bar  and  gK@ioc  for  Amboyna.
=  Molasses  sales  have  been  few  and  the 
trade seems to be somewhat demoralized.
A  few  sales  of  foreign  have  been  re­
ported  at  steady  prices  and  the  market 
is  pretty  well  cleaned  up.  The  quaran­
tine  South  exerts  an  influence  in  keep­
ing  back  supplies.  Good  to  prime  New 
Orleans,  i7@2ic;  Centrifugal and  open- 
kettle,  good  to  prime,  26@28c.  Syrups 
are  quiet,  but  prices  are  well  adhered 
to.  Good  to  prime  sugar  goods,  I5 @ i8 c .
The  canned  goods  market  remains 
very  firm  but  rather  fewer  transactions 
have  taken  place. 
is  a  little 
easier  tone,  perhaps,  on  Maryland  to­
matoes,  but  otherwise  the  situation  is 
one that gives encouragement all around. 
light  pack  of  apples 
There 
and  corn  in  New  Yoik  State,  the 
latter 
falling  behind  i5@2o  per  cent.  Mary­
land  tomatoes  are  worth  82 *¿@850. 
Good  New  Jersey  brands  are  scarce  and 
held  at  $1.

is  a  very 

There 

Lemons  have  been  in  better  request, 
especially  for  large  sizes,  and  choice

Sicily  are  selling  from  $3@4.50  for  300s 
and,  if  fancy,  $4- 75-  A   large  shipment 
of  Jamaica  oranges 
is  on  the  way  and 
they  will  “ come  in  handy’ ’  at this time. 
Florida  oranges  are  woith  $2.75@4.50. 
Bananas  are  quiet,  but  a  recent  ad­
vance  in  quotations  is  well  maintained. 
Firsts,  per  bunch,  gociggi.

Prunes  and  raisins  are  quiet  and  cur­
rants  are  firm.  Nuts  are  quiet  and 
practically  unchanged,  although  there 
has  been  some  small  advance  in  a  line 
or  two.  Evaporated  apples  are  still  firm 
at 9c  for  desirable  stock,  and  the  supply 
is  very,  very  light.

The  supply  of  best  quality  butter  is 
very  short  and  the  market 
is  firm  at 
23@23%c  for  Western  creamery.  Best 
firsts,  22c.  Aside  from  the  top  grades, 
the  market  is  without  special  interest.

Cheese  exporters  are  doing  a  little 
more  business,but  the  domestic  demand 
is  rather  limited.  Small  full  cream, 
9@9%c.
Eggs  are  firm  and  the  market  is grow­
ing  more  so  daily.  Westren  stock,  17c.
Marrow beans,  ’97 choice,  $i.4o@ 1.45 ; 
’96, Si.32J^@i.35.  The market  is  steady 
and  yet  there  is  room  for  improvement.
The  Apple  Situation  at  Minneapolis. 
From the Northwest Trade.

One  of  the great chemical  cold  storage 
houses  in  this  city  is  now  full of apples. 
No  room  remains  for  more.  The  other 
storage  house  has  none.  There  are  rea­
sons  lor  this  piling  of  apples  in  the  one 
that  do  not  have  to  do  with  any  condi­
tions  of  trade.  This  storage  house  is 
said  now  to  contain  35,000  barrels  of 
apples.  This  might  seem  like  an  over­
load,  but  when  it  is  considered  that  last 
year  both  houses  were  full,  and  that 
every  nook  and  corner  where  apples 
could  be  kept  from  freezing  was  filled 
with  apples,  it  will  be  seen  that  the 
stock  on  hand  is  not  large.  The  quality 
of  the  bulk  of  the  apples  now  being  re­
ceived 
is  not  such  as  to  promise  good 
keeping.  As  with  all  light  crops  of  ap­
ples,  the  bulk  is  of  inferior  quality.

Fancy  apples  are  very  much  wanted, 
and  the  market  for  such  at  present  and 
in  prospect 
is  very  good.  But  many 
dealers  are  holding  off  from  buying 
heavily,  believing  that  prices  on  poor 
stock  will  go  down.  The  call  for  apples 
from  the  country  in  carlots  is  very  lim­
ited.  Last  year  the  demand  was  very 
heavy  at  this  date,  and  until  extreme 
cold  weather  set  in.  This  season  local 
shipments  are  the  rule,  and  the  full  car 
the  exception.

in 

The  greater  part  of  the  apples  re­
ceived  are  Ben  Davis.  Some  estimates 
place  the  percentage  at  three-fourths, 
and  others  at  two-thirds.  Fancy  varie­
light  supply.  There are  so 
ties  are 
few  sweet  apples 
in  the  market  that 
quinces  have  come  to  be  almost  a  drug. 
It  seems  not  to  be  commonly  known 
that  a  quince  with  any  kind  of  apple  is 
a  good  thing.  One  car  of  mixed  fruit, 
partially  apples,  arrived  from  New 
York,  and  was  sold  at  the auction.  But 
this  market  will  not  get  New  York  ap­
ples  this  season  until apples  goto $5  per 
barrel.  One  firm  represented  here  and 
in  Duluth  report  the  arrival  of  1,000 
barrels  of  New  York  applet  at  Duluth, 
and  probably  as  many  more  will  follow.

Pineapple  in  Diphtheria. 

Correspondence Georgia Electric  Journal.

For  three  or  four  years  I  have  been 
hearing  of  the  use  of  pineapple  juice 
for  the  cure  of  diphtheria,  but  thought 
little  of 
it.  Recently,  however,  it  has 
taken  better  shape,  in  the  report  of  a 
case  where  the  child  was  given  up  by 
the  doctor,  and  a  friend  coming  in  re­
marked  that  he  had  known  children  re­
lieved  by  the  pineapple.  The  physician 
in  attendance  said :  “ Get  it  and  try 
it; 
it  can  do  no  harm.’ ’  A  ripe  pineapple 
was  goiten  and  the  juice  expressed  arid 
given  in  teaspoonful  doses  slowly. 
It 
seemed  to  clear  the  throat,  swallowing 
was  easier  and  in  a  few  hours  the  child 
was  sleeping.  Recovery  followed.  The 
pineapple  was  used 
in  a  number  of 
cases  subsequently,  with  success,  in  the 
same  neighborhood,  and 
the  people 
think  it  better  than  medicine.

Never  speak  ill  of  any  one.

D E P O S IT S   A T   P R IN C IP A L   P O IN T S .

Stencils furnished  on application.

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Commission  Merchants  and 
Wholesale  Produce  Dealers

399-40.-403  High  St.,  E. 

Detroit,  Michigan.

Sugars,  Rice, Molasses,  Butter,  Cheese, Eggs,  Poultry.  Foreign  and  Domestic 
I-ruits,  Honey,  Potatoes,  Beans,  Grain,  Wool,  Tallow,  Hides,  Pelts,  etc.

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CONCORD GRAPES

are  closing  the  season 
very  fine.

Hubbard  Squash,  Sweet  Potatoes,  Cape  Cod  Cranberries, 
Spanish  Onions,  Honey,  Lemons,  Oranges  and  Bananas.

Grand  Rapids. 

BUNTING  &  CO.

R.  HIRT, Jr.,

Market St., Detroit.
Butter  and  Eggs  wanted -¿s
Will buy same at  point  of  shipment, 
or  delivered,  in  small  or  large  lots. 
Write for particulars.

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Lockwood  &  Braun

Successors  to 

Allerton  &  Haggstrom.

Sole packers of the Old  Reliable

P.  &   B.  O Y S T E R S

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ase  of  Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde. 

Stroller in Grocery World.

There  are  dozens  of  cases  of  a  dual 
personality—of  cases  where  the  nature 
of  a  man  seems  to'embody  two  groups 
of  elements,  one  strictly  moral  and 
leading  to  an  upright  life,  and  the other 
loose  and  immoral,  and  compelling  to a 
life  of  dissolution  and  violation  of  law.
It  was 
that  of  a  grocer  who  was  an  acquaint­
ance  of  mine,  and  of  my  father  before 
me,  for  nearly  a  decade.  His  death, 
■ which  occurred  several  months  ago,  is 
the  only  reason  why  I  am  willing  to 
publish  his  story  now.

I  knew  exactly  such  a  case. 

There 

is  nothing  sensational  about 
this  case—nothing  of  the  awful  gibber- 
ings  and  the  eerie  revelations  which 
characterized  the  story  of  Jekyll  and 
Hyde.  My  story  is  simply  a  story  of  a 
business  man  who  was 
scrupulously 
honest 
in  one  set  of  his  dealings  and 
unscrupulously  dishonest  in  another set.
This  grocer  was  something  on  the  or­
der  of  the  one  your  correspondent,  Mr. 
R.  A.  Neely,  told  about  in  his  letter  to 
the  “ Exchange”   last  week.  No  man 
stood  higher  in  the  town  than  he;  none 
were  held 
in  greater  respect;  none 
looked upon as a more exemplary citizen. 
He  was  connected  with  the local Baptist 
church,  gave liberally and was  a deacon. 
And  yet  that  grocer  took  delight  in  im­
jobber 
posing  or  slipping  up  on  every 
he  could  possibly  victimize. 
In  his 
dealings  with  jobbers  he  went  beyond 
the  merely  shrewd.  He  was  a  fraud 
pure  and  simple;  but  I’ll  do  him  the 
justice  to  say  that,  in  my  opinion,  he 
never  realized  it.

This grocer  seemed  to  consider  it  his 
duty,  as  a  matter  of  business  acumen, 
to  do  everything  he  could  to  get  ahead 
of  the  wholesaler.  And  he  would  stoop 
to  the  smallest  things! 
In  almost  every 
order  he  got  from  the  jobber  he  would 
put  in  some  sort  of  a  claim,  and  some 
of  his  claims  were  ondecidedly fictitious 
foundations,  too.  But  he  did  a  good 
business  and  paid  his  bills  regularly, 
so  that  many  of  his  claims  were  al­
lowed.

I ’ll  cite  one  of  the  fellow’s  tricks,  to 
show  what  I  mean. 
I  remember  this 
very  well,  indeed.  He  ordered  several 
tubs  of  butter  from  his  jobber,  on  a  de­
clining  market.  Between  the  time  he 
ordered  and  the  time  he got  the  goods, 
although  this 
interval  was  as  small  as 
could  possibly  be,  the  market  declined 
2  cents  a  pound.  The  grocer  put  in  a 
claim  that  the  butter  was  off  in  weight, 
and  I  had  at  the  time  pretty  strong  rea­
son  to  know  that  it  was  made  so.  The 
goods  were  shipped  back,  and  another 
order  at  the  declined  price  given.  Re­
sult,  the  saving  of  2   cents  per  pound.

This  grocer  was  one of  those  who  re­
ligiously  weighed  everything he  bought, 
and  who  went  over  his  bills. 
In  this 
latter  practice  he  was  especially  care­
ful,  and  he  told  me  personally,  one  dav 
about  a  year  ago,  that  he  found errors  in 
the  jobbers’  bills  in  the  proportion  of 
about  1  to  10.

“ Which  way  are  they,  usually?”   I 

asked  at  the  time.

“ Oh,  there's  no  particular  rule  about 
’em,”  he answered.  “ Sometimes they’re

in  my  favor and  sometimes  in  the  other 
fellow’s. ”

“ What  do  you  do  with  thedi?”  

I 

asked.

“ Well,”   he  said,  and  I  remember  his 
chuckle  well,  “ when  they’re  in  my  fa­
vor  I  say  nothing,  and'  when  they’re 
against  me  I  kick.  ’

“ You’re  one-sided,”   I  observed.
“ Oh,  well,  it’s  business,”   he  said, 
nonchalantly,  and  this  one  answer  of 
four  words gives  a  splendid  idea  of  the 
man’  whole  idea  about  such  thing.

fixed  up,  is  right 

Another  trick  I  once  knew  this  grocer 
to  play,  although  I  believe  this  was 
afterward 
in  line. 
One  season  when  the  prospects  for  the 
corn  crop  were  very  poor,  he  bought  a 
great  big  block  of  canned  corn. 
It  was 
a  very  indiscreet  purchase,  because  the 
season  was  too  early  when  the  grocer 
bought  to  tell  definitely  what  the  pros­
pects  were.  A 
later  the  growers 
had  a  spell  of  splendid  weather, and  the 
corn  crop  bobbed  up  serenely  almost  as 
if  nothing  had  happened.

little 

Well,  the grocer  was  left high and dry. 
He  had  bought  at  a  stiff  price,  made 
firmer  because  of  the  short-crop  pros­
pects,  and  after  the  crop  materialized, 
the  price  declined.  He  was  not  only 
loaded  up  with  about  ten  times  the 
amount  of  corn  he  could  use,  but  it  was 
bought  at  a  higher  price  than  he  could 
have  bought  later.

What  did  he  do?  He  refused  to  pay 
for  the  corn,  transferred  every  cent’s 
worth  of  property  he  had  to  his  wife 
and  dared  the  jobber  to  sue  him.  The 
jobber couldn’t  do  anything,  for  the  law 
forbidding  the  fraudulent  conveyance 
of  property  had  not  then  been  passed, 
and  the  retailer  laughed  in  bis sleeve.

So  much for the  Mr.  Hyde  side  of  this 

grocer.  Now  for  the  Dr.  Jekyll  side.

The  Dr.  Jekyll  side  came  to  light 
through  this  grocer’s  treatment  of  his 
customers.  He  was  the  most  painfully 
scrupulous  man  regarding  his  dealings 
with  his  trade  I  ever  knew.  I’ve  known 
him  to  discharge  a  clerk  simply  be­
latter,  ignorantly,  sold  one 
cause  the 
bad  egg 
in  a  dozen.  Every  customer 
that  man  had  got  the  very  fullest weight 
and  measure,  the  very  finest  quality, 
the  most  scrupulously  clean  goods I ever 
saw.  His  reputation  for  these  things 
was  magnificent,  and  in  them  he  was  as 
delicately  conscientious  as  he  was  cal­
lous  in  his  relations  with  jobbers.

Every  article  sold  out  of  that  store 
was  first  tested  by  the  grocer  himself. 
When  he  said  a  thing  was  good  be knew 
what  he  was  talking  about.  No  sales­
man  with  a  “ special  drive”  
in  old 
prunes  or  reprocessed  goods  of  any 
kind  could  ever  hope  to  get  rid  of  them 
at  his  store.  He  was  faithful  to  his 
customers  at  every  point.  He  served 
them  as  scrupulously  as  he  served  him­
self.

This  is  the  true  story  of  a  grocer  who 
possessed  a  veritable  dual  personality. 
In  his  composition  there  were  two  ele­
just  as  clearly  de­
ments  and  motives 
fined  and  separated  as 
in  the  case  of 
Dr.  Jekyll  and  Mr.  Hyde.  Only  the  lat­
is  a  clever  piece  of  fiction, 
ter  story 
and  the  one  I  have  told 
is  taken  from 
life.

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Honey  Helps  Digestion.

it 

it  on  their  tables. 

Much  of  the  difficulties  which  people 
indigestion  would  be  re­
suffer  from 
if  honey  were  more  generally 
moved 
eaten 
than 
is,  says  an  exchange. 
Cheap  as  this  sweet  has  lately  become, 
we  are  surprised  that  people  do not have 
more  of 
In  combi­
nation  with  starchy  foods  like  bread, 
honey  enables  them  to  be digested much 
better  than  is  possible  with  other  more 
common  combinations  of  flour,  sugar 
and  butter  made  into  cake.  These  are 
all  carbonaceous,  and,  because,  of  the 
fact,  hard  to  digest.  Honey 
is  also  a 
sweet  carbon,  but 
is  the  nectar  of 
flowers  partially  mixed  with  gastric 
juices  by  the  bee  which  gathered  it. 
The  honey  is,  therefore,  a  sweet  that  is 
partially  prepared  for  digestion,  and  to 
that  extent  relieves  the  labor  of  the 
stomach.

it 

It  will  be  objected  that  honey is found 
very  hard  to  digest  by  many  people. 
But  this 
is  usually  either because  the 
honey  is  eaten  with  the  comb,  which  is 
almost 
indigestible,  or  the  person  thus 
suffering  from  the  dislike  of  this  sweet 
has,  at  some  time 
in  his  or  her  life, 
eaten  far  too  much,  and  thus  created  a 
dislike  that  did  not  originally  exist. 
Strained  honey  eaten  moderately  with 
whole  wheat  or  graham  bread 
is  not 
likely  to 
injure  any  normal  stomach. 
The  very  white  bread  made  from  starch 
only  of  wheat  flour  is  not  so  good  and 
should  be  eaten 
in  moderation.  Both 
the  honey  and  flour are  exclusively  car­
bonaceous,  and  although  the  honey  is  a 
help  to  digestion,  it  may  not  be  suffi­
cient  heip  for  so  big  a  task. 
In  the 
graham  or  whole  wheat bread the nitrog­
enous  parts  of  the  wheat,  the  gluten 
and  germ,  are  preserved.  They  give 
strength,  which  the  white  wheat  flour 
will  not,  and  thus  enable  all  the  bodily 
organs  to  perform  their  work.  Excel­
lent  as  honey 
it  cannot  furnish 
strength  directly,  although  it  will  do  so 
if  eaten  with  such  nitrogenous  food  as 
the  system  requires  and  which 
the 
honey  helps  to  digest.
Pharmacy  a  Profession  for  Women.
Thomas  J.  Macmahan,  a  trustee  of 
the  New  York  College  of  Pharmacy,  is 
the  author  of  the  following  sentiment 
regarding  the  much-discussed  subject 
of  “ Women  in  Pharmacy.”   Speaking 
to a  reporter,  he  said :

is, 

“ I  am  inclined  to  think that eventual­
ly  the  retail  drug  trade  will  pass  into 
the  control  of  women. 
is  a  business 
in  many  respects  suited  to  intelligent, 
wide-awake  women,and  they  seem  tobe 
developing  a  taste  for  it.”

It 

This  was  apropos  of  the  increased 
number  of  female  students  which  at­
tended  the  classes 
last  year.  A  still 
larger  number  is  looked  for  this  year, 
and  in  anticipation  of  this,  the  accom­
modations 
for  women  have  been  en­
larged  and  the  “ women’s  room’ ’  has 
been  changed  from  the  contracted  space 
on  the  ground 
to  commodious 
and  comfortable  quarters  adjacent  to 
the  lecture  hall. 
But  what  will  pro­
spective  male  students  think  of  this 
declaration  of  Trustee  Macmahan?  Will 
they  take  it  to  mean  that  the  N.  Y.  C. 
P.  is  to  be  turned  into a pharmaceutical 
Vassar  or a  Wellesley?  Or  will  they  re­
gard  it  simply  as  a  new  idea  in  adver­
tising?  Mr.  Macmahan 
to 
explain  himself?

invited 

floor 

is 

includes  at 

The  telephone  industry  in  Sweden  is 
a  government  monopoly,  and  is  as  com­
plete  almost  as  the  postal  system.  The 
entire  network 
present
27.000 
instruments,  distributed  over 
about  600  stations,  while  the  population 
is  about  5,000,000.  There are  only  about 
100  cities,  leaving  about  500  stations  for 
villages  and  towns.  With  few  excep­
tions,  every  city  in  the  country 
is  con­
nected  telephonically  with  every  other, 
and  there 
is  scarcely  a  railroad  town, 
or  even  a  factory,  which  cannot  com­
municate  with  any  other  in  the  country.
The  orange  crop  for  the  coming  sea­
son  in  California  is  conservatively  esti­
mated  at  from  7,000  to  8,000  carloads, 
as  against  5,000  carloads  last  year  As 
300  boxes  are  required  to  fill  a  car,  this 
means  an 
increase  of  from  600,000  to
900.000 boxes  of  fruit.

A  farmer 

in  the  Shenandoah  valley 
has  contracted  to  sell  his  4,000  barrels 
of  apples  to  a  London  firm  for  $5.50  a 
barrel.  The  variety  is  the Albemarle,  or 
old  Newton  pippin,  which  is  considered 
the  choicest  of  all  apples  in  England.

A  Florida  paper  says  the  tobacco crop 
in  that  State  this  year  will  bring  $10,- 
000,000,  in  addition  to  which  there  will 
be  300,000  crates  of  pineapples,  to  say 
nothing  of  vegetables,  melons,  turpen­
tine,  lumber  and  oranges.

A  proposed  ordinance  in  Terre  Haute 
to  limit  the  speed  of  street  cars  was  de­
feated  by  the  clever  scheme  of the street 
railway  company  in running  its  cars  for 
a  few  days  on  the  proposed  slow  transit 
schedule.

Monuments  are  a  necessity  to  most 
people;  the  really  great  and  good  don’t 
need  them.

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Michigan  Knights of the  Grip. 

President, J as. P. Hammell, Lansing;  Secretary 
D. C. Slaght, Flint;  Treasurer, Ciias. McNolty! 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  Hart,  Detroit;  Secretary  an 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United  Commercial  Travelers of Michigan. 
Grand  Counselor,  F.  L.  Da y,  Jackson:  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V almore, Detroit;  Grand Treas 
urer, Geo.  A. Reynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Mutual  Accl 
President, A. F . Peake, Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  T yler, H.  B.  F air 
child,Jas. N. B radford, J. Henry Da w ley.Geo, 
J.  Heinzklman, Chas. S.  Robinson.

Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen, Grand Rapids 

dent Association.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

Capt.  Frank  Conlon  (Price  Baking 
Powder  Co.)  sold  $8,000  worth  of  bak 
ing  powder  to  the  Stone-Ordean-Wells 
Co.,  at  Duluth,  last  week,  it  being-the 
largest  sale  he  ever  made  at  one  time 
to  one  house.

The  Adams  and  United  States  Ex 
press  Companies  have  agreed  to  a  rate 
of  20  per  cent,  off  on  ali  commercia 
travelers’  baggage  between  the seaboard 
and  points  west  of  the  Ohio  River,  to 
apply  on  all  packages  of  samples  o; 
merchandise,  whether packed  in  trunks, 
cases  or  bundles,  when  shipped  to  an 
accredited 
traveling  salesman  or  re 
turned  by  him  and  plainly  marked 
“ Samples  for  Traveling  Salesmen.’ ’

Henry  Marshall  (President  Pittsburg 
in  Mercantile  Journal: 
C.  T.  P.  A.) 
There  are  five  cases  in  court  now  to  my 
knowledge  where  travelers  have  suits 
against  railroad  companies  for  being 
put  off.  Every  traveler  knows  how,  in 
towns  where  stores  are  near  the  stations 
that  they  attempt  to  work  up  to  a  very 
few  minutes  of  train  time.  They  try  to 
“ do’ ’  a  town  between  trains  often. 
It 
has  been  their  practice  to  do  so  for 
years.  Sometimes 
in  closing  an  order 
they  are  left.barely  time  to  rush  to  the 
depot  and  jump  on  a  moving  train. 
These  five  cases  happened  in  some  such 
way  as  this:  The  travelers had  no  time 
to  go  to  the  ticket  office.  On  the  train 
the  conductors  refused  to  accept  the 
coupons.  The  travelers  refused  to  pay, 
and  they  were  put  off  the  train.  They, 
of  course,  entered  suit.  One 
lawyer, 
who  was  given  one  case,  said  he  would 
like  to  have  all  we  could  give  him. 
There  will  be  a  test  one  of  these  days, 
and  we  will  know  better  where  we  are 
at. 
In  the  meantime  we  will  have  the 
satisfaction  of  knowing  that  conductors 
and  station  agents  are  getting  good  and 
tired  of  the  thing. 
In  one  of  the  cases, 
resulting 
in  a  suit,  the  traveler  pre­
sented  his  book,  but  the  agent  got  rat­
tled  and  couldn’t  fix  up  the  ticket.  He 
told  the  traveler  to  get  on  the  train  and 
he  (the  agent)  would  tell  the  conductor 
to  take  the  coupon.  The  conductor  re­
fused,  and  the  passenger  was  ejected. 
The  boys  invariably  make  it  necessary 
for  the  trainmen  to  use  force. 
It  has 
happened  frequently  that  trains  were 
held  while  the  ticket  agent  labored  and 
sweat,  comparing  signatures  and  fixing 
out  tickets.  A  Western  train  out  of 
Cleveland  a  few  days  ago  was  held  an 
hour  and  a  half  while  a  small  army  of 
drummers  stood 
line  getting  their 
tickets.  Of  course,  it  didn’t  just  hap­
pen  that  so  many  were  on  hand  just  at 
that  time—every  drummer 
in  the  city 
who  was  going  that  way  on  that  day was 
notified  to  take  that  particular  train,

in 

They  defied  the  conductor  to  go  without 
them.  He  didn’t  go.  This  was  done 
just  to  show  what  a  nuisance the scheme 
is,  and  while  it  was  purposely  exagger­
ated,  it  goes  to  show  what  could  happen 
any  time.  Travelers  are  not  supposed 
to  go  to  the  station  hours  before  train 
time—they  don’t  make  their  living  that 
way.  If  they  are  there 
in  reasonable 
time  they  are  likely  to  be  held  back 
until,  by  the  time  they  get  their  ticket 
they  haven’t  time  to  check  their  bag 
gage.  An  official  of  one  of  the  com 
panies,  being  asked  whether,  in  such  ; 
case,  when 
it  was  no  fault  of  the  trav 
eler,  the  train  would  be  held,  answered 
' Most  certainly  not. ’  So  there  we  are 
They  place  great  restrictions  and  in 
convenience  upon  us,  and  refuse  us  am 
redress.  The  boys  are  perfectly  justified 
in  making  object  lessons  like  they  did 
in  Cleveland.  One  of our boys  went  up 
to  a  window  and  asked  for  a  ticket 
The  agent  stamped  a  regular  ticket 
and 
in  the  meantime  the  purchase 
fished  out  his  mileage  book.  Then  the 
agent  was  mad.  The  drummer  told  him 
be  should  have  asked  how  the  ticket 
was  to  be  paid  for. 
I  don’t  approve  of 
carrying  the  thing  so  far.  We  want  the 
sympathy  of  the  public,  and  we  con 
stantly  caution  the  hot-headed  of  the 
boys  to  do nothing  rash.  But  in  every 
honest  way  we  will  fight  this  ticket 
and  create  sentiment  against  it.  We 
believe  we  will  win  out,  and  the  big, 
bulky  and  inconvenient,  and  generally 
undesirable,  red-tape,  smothered scheme 
will  be  abandoned.

Changes  In  Rules—Recent  Additions 

to  Membership.

Marquette,  Oct.  25—At  a  meeting  of 
the  members  of  the  Lake Superior Com­
mercial  Travelers’  Club,  held  Oct.  24, 
the  following  amendments  to  the  by­
laws  were  adopted:

All  officers  and  members  of  com­
mittees  must  be  active commercial trav­
elers.

Ballots  may  be  cast  by  mail  when 

ordered  by  the  Board  of  Directors.

The  Secretary  was 

instructed  to  is­
leather-bound  vest 
sue  Jan.  1,  1898,  a 
pocketbook,  containing 
the  by-laws 
and  the  names  of  all  members,  their 
address  and 
the  houses  represented. 
This  new  directory  will  be  a  very  valu­
able  one  for  commercial  travelers’  and 
will  contain  from  200  to  300  names, 
with  addresses.  Space  will  be  reserved 
for  the  mention  of  hotels,  bus  and  bag­
gage  lines  in  the  Upper  Peninsula.

Committees  were  appointed  to  adjust 
excessive  bus  and  baggage  charges  in 
two  complained-of  towns.

Vice-President  Horton  was 

the 
chair  and  passed  around  a  very  good 
brand  of  cigars  in  return  for  the  com­
pliment.

Among  the  new  members  of  the  Club 

in 

are  the  following:

J.  W.  Richards,  Duluth,  representing 

Wm.  Bingham  Co.,  Cleveland.

H.  A.  Home,  Milwaukee,  representi­
ng  Delaney  Oil  &  Grease Co.,  Milwau­
kee.

B.  L.  Hibbard,  Milwaukee,  represent­

ing  Cary  Safe  Co..  Buffalo.

E.  L.  Griggs,  Saginaw,  E.  S.,  repre­

senting  Peerless  Mfg.  Co.,  Detroit.

M.  W.  McNally,  New  Richmond, 
representing  New  Richmond 

Wis., 
Roller  Mill  Co.

the  H.  J.  Heinz  Co.,  Pttsburgh.

A.  A  Milne,  Chicago,  representing 
S.  A.  Erickson,  Austin,  111.,  repre­
senting  Edson  Keith  &  Co.,  Chicago.
John  Powers,  Ishpeming,  representing 
Franklyn  McVeigh  &  Co.,  Chicago.
W.  M.  Blankenheim ,  Milwaukee,  rep­
resenting  A.  Weigell,  Milwaukee.
A.  C.  Cole,  Chicago, 
representing 
Heath  &  Milligan  Mfg.  Co.,  Chicago.
E.  J.  Hart,  Yonkers,  N.  Y .t  repre­
senting  American  Silver  Truss  Co., 
Yonkers,  N.  Y.

B.  W.  Sweet,  Bay  City,  representing 

Globe  Tobacco  Co.,  Detroit.

J.  N.  Mackin,  Rochester,  Mich., 
representing  Henry  Disston  &  Sons, 
Philadelphia.

A lbion  F.  Wixson,  Sec’y.

Selling  Goods  Under  Difficulties 

Maine.

in 

“  If  you're  going  to  do  business  in 
Maine  this  year,’ ’  observed  the  drum­
mer  with  the  whiskers,  “ you've  got  to 
make  up  your  mind  to  take  things  easy. 
Now  there  was  a  country 
I 
tackled 
last  week.  He’s  as  good  as 
gold,  a  deacon  of  the  church,  and  a 
man  who  does  a  business  as  steady  as 
this  river,  but  he  didn’t  want  to  buy  a 
thing,  so  he  said.

trader 

“ Now  I  knew  he  ought  to  stock  up. 
I  could  see  he  was  getting  low  on  a 
good  many  things,  but  the  bad  weather 
made  him  feel  discouraged,  that  was 
all.

“ I  wanted  a  big  order  from  the  old 
fellow  the  worst  way. 
I had  been  doing 
a  mighty  poor  business,  and  wanted  to 
send 
in  at  least  one  big  order  to  make 
the  boss  feel  better.  I  knew  the  deacon 
ought  to  have  some  goods,  but  I  didn’t 
know  how  to  get  at  him.

“ I  looked  about  a  bit,  and  happened 
checker 
to  see  back  of  his  desk  a 
board.  Now  I’m  up  on  checkers. 
I 
know  that  game  and  don’t  you  forget  it. 
The  sight  of  that  board  brightened  me 
up,  and  I  said,  ’ Do  you  play  checkers, 
deacon?’

“ The  old  man  biightened  up  at  that 
and  said  he  did  a  little  with  the  boys. 
You  see  he  didn’t  want  to  come  right 
out  and  own  up  that  be  was  the  cham­
pion  of  his  town,  as  in  fact  he  was  and 
is,  but  he  was  willing  to  put  his  time 
against  mine  and  down  we  sat  and 
started 
in  on  what  proved  to  be  ; 
mighty  long  game.

looked 

“ Folks  came  in.  but the deacon didn’_ 
mind  them 
in  the  least,  and  they  got 
too  interested  in  the  game  to  remembe 
what  they  came  to  the  store  after.  One 
in  and  said  to  a  man 
woman 
‘ Silas,  where  on  earth 
is  that  coffee? 
and  the  deacon  got  up  reluctantly  and 
weighed  out  two  pounds  of  coffee, 
really  think  he  and  the  rest  of  the  men 
thought  it  came  in  at  the  wrong  time, 
and  the  man  who  bought  the  coffet 
showed  that  he  had  the  same  feeling 
himself. 
interrupting  pretty 
serious  business,  I  tell  you.  for  thedea 
con  hadn't  calculated  more  than  fifteen 
minutes  on  his  next  move,  when  that 
woman  wanted  Silas to  get  the  coffee.
The  deacon  won  the  first  game,  hut 
I  got  the  second.  By  that  time  every 
man  Jack  of  them  ali  saw  that  I  was  a 
pretty  good  player,  and  they  all  waited 
for  the  third  game.

It  was 

t  was  a  long  game,  but  the  deacon 
I  tell  you,  I  think  now, 
won  at  last. 
and  I  always  shall  think,  I  could  have 
got  it;  but  I  knew 
it  wouldn’t  be  the 
proper  caper,  from  a  business  point  of 
view.  Talk  of  the  early  martyrs.  What 
did  they  know  about  trouble?  They 
never  gave  a  Congregationalist  deacon 
the  rubber  game  of  checkers,  with  half 
a  township  looking  on,  and  all  for  the 
sake  of  business.

The  deacon  was  mighty 

tickled. 
He  crowed 
in  a  quiet  w ay;  and  the 
men  in  the  store  showed  that  they  were 
pleased.  They  didn’t  want  to  have  a 
drummer  from  Boston  beat  their  cham­
pion  checker  player.

“ The  deacon  was  a  good  fellow  in his 
way,  and  he  said,  ‘ By  gosh,  I  haven’t 
played  so  close  a  game  as  that  for  nigh 
into  thirty  years;’  and  then  he  looked 
over  his  stock  again.

He  said  he  guessed  after all  he  did 
want  to  place  a  small  order  with  me.  It 
stood  to  nature,  he  added,  that  this  sort 
if  weather  would  soon  be  over,  and  if 
wasn’t  he  guessed  the  goods  would 
look  well  in  the  store.
' Then  we  went  at  it  in  good  earnest, 
told  the  deacon  what  was  the  gospel 
ruth,  that  he  was  the  hardest  man  to 
beat  I'd  tackled  for  months,  and  that 
made  him  feel  well.  Now  this  is  the 
ong  and  the  short  of  it,  that  I  got  the 
big  order  I  was  fishing  for. 
I  had  to 
shade  things  here  and  there  a bit,for the 
Jeacon 
is  a  close  buyer,  but  I  got  my 
order,  and  the  boss  felt  so  well  over  it 
that  he  sent  me  a  note  of  thanks.

Now,  George, 

just  as  I  said 
in,  if  you  want  to  do 
in  Maine  this  year  you’ve 

when  I  started 
business 
ot  to  take  things  mighty  easy.’ ’
'' I  guess  you’re  about right, ’ ’ said the 
other  drummer,  the  drummer  withjhe

it’s 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

IT

it 

insist 

look  and  the  air  of  a  country 
faraway 
minister  on  his  way  to  a  funeral.  “ But 
it’s  wearing  on  a  man  to  talk  against 
the  prohibitory  law  in  Portland,  where 
they  all 
is  ruining  business, 
and  to  talk  in  its  favor  and  against  the 
barley  crop  when  you  happen  to  strike 
a  country  dealer  who  is  all  for  prohibi­
tion,  and  who  don’t  care  a  durn  for 
business  outside  of  his  own  store.’’

“ That’s  so,’ ’  assented  the  first  drum­
mer,  as  he  pulled  at  his  whiskers  in  a 
thoughhtful  way.

-  •   ■

Robs  the  Retailer  Instead  of the Con­

♦

sumer.
From the St.  Louis Grocer.

it 

in 

Retail  grocers  and  other  tradesmen 
can  stamp  out  the  nefarious  trading 
stamp  scheme  by  letting 
it  severely 
is  absolutely  nothing 
There 
alone. 
commendable 
from  a  business 
point  of  view.  Considering  the  experi­
ence  that  most  retailers  have  passed 
in  the  way  of  prize  schemes, 
through 
in  the  cigar  line,  with  a 
especially 
magnificent  premium  thrown 
in  with 
every  thousand,  it  is  a  wonder  that  the 
retail  dealers  do  not  take  a  tumble  to 
such 
The  trading 
stamp  scheme  is  very  seductive  in  that 
it  plans  to  rob  the  retailer  instead  of 
robbing  the  consumer on  a  partnership 
basis.  Nothing 
like  legitimate  busi­
ness  with  value  for  value  received.

sharp  practices. 

Strong  men 

have  wishes.

have  wills;  weak  men

HOTEL WHITCOMB

A. VINCENT. Prop.

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH. 

W h i t n e y   H o u s e

Best  Hotel  in  Plainwell,  Mich.  Only  house  in 
town  holding contract  with  Travelers’  Educational 
Association  of America.
C f a a e s .   ED.  W TI t ï t m <

Cutler  House  at  Orand  Haven.

Steam Heat.  Excellent Table.  Com­
fortable  Rooms.  H.  D.  and  F.  H. 
IRISH.  Props.

PHONE:490.  J  Cak ai

N E W   R E PU B L IC

Reopened  Nov.  as.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1.50 to $2.00.

Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHINDHETT. Prop.

me  Hew  Griswold  House

Has  NOT reduced its rates 
but has  100 of the

Newest  Rooms  in  Detroit

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

P o sta l
D e tr * c

& Morey,

M i o h .

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 
hen  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.

Carr & Reeve.

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Drugs==Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
--------  
-  Dec. 31,1897
S. E. Pabkill, Owosso 
- 
-  Dec. 31, 1898
F.  W. R. Perrt, Detroit  - 
-  Dec. 31,1899 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Gundruk,  Ionia  - 
- 
-  Dec. 3i, 1900
L. E. Rktnolds, St.  Joseph 
- 
-  Dec. 31,1901

President, F. W. R.  Perrt, Detroit.
Secretary,  Geo.  Gundrum, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

Coming  Examination  Session—Lansing,  Nov. 2 

ASSOCIATION.

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

The  Doctor  with  a  Gun.

M. Quad in American Druggist.

We  had  210  miners  on  the  list  at 
Pleasant Hill and,  although  one  dropped 
off  occasionally,  a  stranger  always  ar­
rived  to  fill  the  vacancy  and  keep  the 
list  to  its  full  figure.  One  day  it  was 
proposed  that  every  miner  chip  in  50 
cents  per  week  and  make  up  a  fixed 
salary  to  support  a  doctor,  an 
idea  fa­
later 
vorably  received  by  all.  A  week 
a  disciple  of  Esculapius 
came 
into 
camp  with  his  satchel.  He  was  a man 
about  forty  years  of  age,  and  had  been 
tramping  the  country  in  search  of  a job. 
He  was  a  tough-looking  pill,  but 
in 
those  far-back  days  no  one  was 
judged 
by  his  rags  and  tatters  or  the  condition 
of  his  boots.  After  getting  a  bite  to 
eat  he  announced  his  profession and  his 
errand,  and  a  committee  was  appointed 
to  talk  with  him  with  a  view  of  secur­
ing  his  services.  Jim  Davis  was  the 
spokesman  of  the  committee,  and  he 
led  off  with:

“ Stranger,  thar  ain’t  but  leetle  to be 
said—not  at  this  time.  Do  ye  know  yer 
bizness  as  a  doctor?”

“ Is  thar’  any  critter  yere  as  says  I 
don’t?”   demanded  the  doctor,  as  his 
right  hand  went  back  for his  gun.

That  action  was  counted  in  his  favor. 
We  had  had  three  or  four  doctors within 
the  year,  but  they  had  been  meek  and 
lowly  in  spirit,  and  none  of  them  had 
even  carried  a  gun.

“ We  want  somebody  who  kin  tell  a 
broken  leg  from  a  case  of  typhoid  fe­
ver,”   continued  Jim,  “ and  if  ye ar’  the 
man  the  job  is  open.  The  last  critter 
took  a  skip  bekase  he  treated  Tom  Bar­
ium  fur  dyspepsia  instead  of  a  broken 
rib.  Should  ye  make  any  sich  mistake 
as  that— ”

“ I  never  make  medical  or  surgical 
interrupted  the  new 

blunders, ”   stiffly 
doctor,  as  his  hand  went  back  again.

“ Ar’  ye a  sensitive  kuss?”
“ As  to  my  purfeshun—yes.  Ye  kin 
joke  and play with me from mornin’  'till 
night,  and  I  won’t  git  mad,  but  bewar’ 
of  jokin'  about  my  purfeshun.  As  the 
doctor  of  the  camp  I  must  be  respected 
and  my  orders  obeyed.  Any  critter  as 
goes  around  savin’  that  I  don’t  know 
my  bizness  will  bev  to  apologize  or— ”
And  the  stranger  drew  his  revolver 
from  its  holster  and  looked  around  him 
for  a  human  target.  The  committee  ad­
mired  his  action.  He  was  a  doctor 
with  sand.  He  was  proud  of  his  pro­
fession  and  would  fight  for 
it.  The 
next  day  he  entered  upon  his  “  job, ”  
and  word  went  around  the  camp  that 
we  had  a  fighting  doctor and  that  there 
was  to  be  no  fooling  with  him.  He  had 
a  shantv by  himself,  and  he  said  he had 
in  his  satchel  all  necessary 
with  him 
drugs  and  surgical  instruments. 
It  was 
a  week  before  he  had  a  case.  Then 
Abe  Johnson  had  an  attack  of  bilious 
colic.  That  is,  a  dozen  of  us  had  pro­
nounced 
the 
doctor  arrived  and  felt  of  his  pulse  and 
looked  at  his  tongue  and  said  it  was 
the  beginning  of  a  serious  case  of 
dropsy.  As  he  said  it,  his  hand  went 
back  to  his  gun,  and  he  looked  around 
him  and 
for  protestations. 
There  were  none,  and  he  ordered  that 
Abe  should  be  stood  on his  head  for five 
minutes  to  let  the  blood  leave  his  feet, 
and  then  stripped  of  all  his  clothes  and 
then  wrapped  in a water-soaked blanket. 
The  water  was  ice  cold  at  the  time,  and 
it  took  four  of  us  to  get  the blanket 
around  the  yelling  and  struggling  Abe

colic,  when 

it  bilious 

listened 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

and  keep  it  there  for  an  hour.  The  cure 
was  complete.  There  are  things  which 
even  bilious  colic  has  to give  in  to,  and 
the  way  we  treated  Abe  would  have 
scared  the  yellow  fever out  of  camp  in 
a  hurry.

This  remarkable  cure  of  “ dropsy”  
was  one  for  the  new  doctor,  but  he 
didn’t  come  out  quite  so  well  with  his 
next case,  which was  that  of  Joe  Single- 
ton.  Joe  complained  of  pains 
in  his 
head,  a 
terrible  backache  and  a  dry 
throat,  and  the  doctor  said  it  was  a  case 
of  catarrh  of  the  stomach.  He  had  his 
hand  on  the  butt  of  his  pistol  as  he 
looked  around  to  see  who  differed  with 
him,  but  nobody  opposed  his  diagnosis. 
He 
left  a  powder,  to  be  given  every 
thirty  minutes,  and  the  half-dozen  of 
us  who  tasted  it  were  sure  it  was  noth­
ing  but ginger.  At  the  end  of  two  days 
the  patient  was  worse,  and  the  doctor 
bled  him  and  also  raised  a  blister on 
his  back.  When  those  things  had  no 
effect  be  raised  a  blister on  the  stomach 
and  ordered  the  patient  to  drink  two 
quarts  of  hot  water.  Nothing  availed, 
however,  and  at  the  end  of  ten  days  Joe 
expired.  There  was  no  question  but 
what  the  Lord  had  removed him  in spite 
of  all  that  medical  science  could  do. 
There  might  have  been,  but  the  doctor 
said 
it  was  so,  and  he  said  it  while 
toying  with  his  gun,  and  it  seemed  best 
to  let  him  have  bis  wav.

A  few  days  later  old  Tom  Hastings 
fell  over  the  rocks  and  broke  his  collar­
bone.  The  doctor  was  sent  for,  and  be 
felt  of  Tom’s  pulse  and  looked  at  his 
tongue  and  dallied  with  the collar-bone, 
and  by  and  by  he  said:

“ You  had  a  fall,  but  your  collar-bone 
is  only  bruised.  What  ails  you  is  or­
ganic  weakness  of  the  heart,  and  if  you 
don’t  do  exactly  as  I  tell  you,  you’ll  be 
a  dead  man  in  a  week. ”

“ But  he  can’t  raise  bis  arm,  and  that 
shows  a  broken  collar-bone,”   protested 
Tom’s  chum.

“ Does  it!”   demanded  the  doctor,  as 
“ I  don’t  think  it 
he  felt  for  his  gun. 
does. 
is  anyone  here  who 
wants  to  pick  me  up  on  my  diagnosis, 
why— !”

If  there 

That  was  enough.  He  was  not  picked 
up.  He  dosed  Tom  with  some  of  that 
ginger,  ordered  starvation  diet  and 
blistered  the  soles  of  his  feet  to  draw 
the  blood  from  his  heart.  After  four 
days  of  this  treatment  Tom’s chum  took 
him  over  the  mountain  to  Silver  City, 
and  there  a  doctor  fixed  him  up.  It was 
all  in  the  collar-bone.  The  Silver  City 
doctor  didn’t  go  back  on  the profession, 
however.  He  explained 
the 
symptoms  pointed  so  strongly  to  heart 
disease  that 
it  was  only  by luck  and 
chance  that  he  caught  onto the  collar­
bone.

that  all 

Our  doctor  suffered  somewhat 

in  his 
reputation  now  and  then,  but  he  had 
been  with  us  six  weeks,  and  was  carry­
ing  things  with  a  stiff  hand,  when  Pete 
Harper  was  struck  by  a  flying  stone and 
had  his  skull  fractured.  He  was  lying 
unconscious when  the  doctor arrived and 
as  nobody  spoke  of  the 
fracture  the 
medico  felt  him  over  and  finally  ob­
served

“ This 

is  a  case  of  eleptic  fits,  and 
some  of  you  hold  his  arms  while  I 
bleed  him. ”

“ Cuss  yer  fits,  but  he’s  bin  hit  in  the 

head !” _ shouted  Pete’s  chum.

“ This  is  a  case  of  eleptic  fits,”   con­
tinued  the  doctor,  as  he  reached  for  his 
gun,  “ and  I  am  prepared to— ”

So  were  a  dozen  of  the  miners!  They 
raised  a  yell  and  rushed  him.  The  first 
move  of  the  doctor  was  to  throw  his gun 
away,  and  the  second  to  take  to  his 
heels,  and  although  he  was  pursued  for 
a  mile  he  could  not  be  overtaken.  We 
found  about  fifty  blue-mass  pills  in  his 
satchel  and  distributed  them  around  as 
far  as  they  would  go,  and  the  half 
pound  of  ginger  was  made  into  tea,  fla­
vored  with  whisky,  and  was  drunk  in 
honor  of  the  Glorious  Fourth.

God  bides  some  ideal  in  every  human 
soul.  At  some  time  in  our  life  we  feel 
a  trembling,  fearful  longing  to  do  some 
good  thing.  Life finds  its  noblest  spring 
of  excellence  in  this  hidden  impulse  to 
do our  best.

Dietetic  Value  of  Fruit. 

American Grocer.

A  celebrated  French  physician,  Doc­
tor  Dupoury,  divides  fruit 
into  five 
classes,  each  of  which  possesses  a  spe­
cial  hygienic  value— the  acid, 
the 
sweet,  the  astringent,  the  oily  and  the 
mealy.  To the first,  including  cherries, 
strawberries,  raspberries,  gooseberries, 
peaches,  apples, 
lemons  and  oranges, 
he  accords  great  merit.  Cherries,  how­
ever,  he  prohibits  entirely  to 
those 
affected  with  neuralgia  of  the  stomach. 
Strawberries  and  raspberries  he  recom­
mends  warmly  to  those  of  bilious, 
plethoric  and  gouty  temperament,  and 
denies  them  to  those  in  whom  diabetes 
is  present  or  suspected.  Of  the  sweet 
fruits  he  considers  that  plums  are  of 
special  hygienic  value,  and  even  a  pre­
ventive 
in  gout  and  articular  rheuma­
tism.  To the  grape  he  accords  the  very 
first  place.  As  this 
is  the  season  for 
that  fruit,  his  remarks  thereon  are  par­
ticularly  applicable.

He 

is  called  the  grape  cure. 

is  an  ardent  advocate  of  what  in 
Europe 
In 
this  cure  grapes  for  several  days  form 
the  exclusive  aliment. 
The  patient 
commences  with  the  consumption  of 
from  one  to  two  pounds  daily,  with  a 
gradual  increase  to  eight  to  ten  pounds. 
After  a  few  days  of  this  diet  a  marked 
in  the  general  health  is 
improvement 
noticeable. 
The  appetite 
improves, 
the  digestion  becomes  easy,  and  rapid 
and  increased  capacity  to  withstand  the 
fatigue  of  outdoor  exercise 
is  notice­
able.  The  grape  cure  is  particularly 
recommended  to  the  anaemic,  dyspeptic 
and  consumptive, 
in  diseases  of  the 
liver  and  gout.

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  very  few  changes  to  note 

this  week.

Opium,  morphine  and  quinine  are  all

unchanged,  and  lack  of  demand  makes 
the  market  quiet.  The 
import  cost  of 
opium  to-day  would  be  $2.85.

Balsams—Copaiba 

is 

changed  prices. 
firm.  Tolu  is  firmer  and  advancing.

Balsam  fir 

firm  at  un­
is  very 

Essential  Oils—Cassia  is  firm,  with­
out  change  in  price.  Sassafras  is  again 
advanced  and  is  very  firm.

Roots—Golden  seal  is  very  firm  at the 
present  high  price.  There  is  very  little 
to  be  had.  Lady’s  slipper  is  also  scarce 
and  high.  Senega  is advancing.

Seeds—Cardamoms  are  higher  abroad 
and  have  advanced 
this  market. 
California  yellow  mustard .  is  in  small 
supply  and  is  very  firm.

in 

Personally  Acquainted.

Slobbs : 

I’ve  heard  that  Beelzebub 
walks  the  earth  in  the  form  of a woman.

Henpeck : 
Slobbs:  Why?
Henpeck : 

I  believe  that.

I  married  her.

Teaspout—Why  are  you  so  angry  at 

the  doctor?

Mrs.  Teaspout—When  I  told  him  I 
bad  a  terrible  tired  feeling  he  told  me 
to  show  him  my  tongue.

There  isn’t  a  cheaper  creature  in  all 
creation  than  the  man  who  is  trying  to 
live  on  the  reputation  of  money  that  he 
has  squandered  foolishly.

THUM  BROS.  &  SCHM IDT, 

Analytical  and  Consulting  Chemists,

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

Special attention  given  to Water,  Bark and 

Urine Analysis.

M A S T E R ”
V U M A ”

The best 5 cent cigars ever made.  Sold by

Represented in Michigan by J. A. GONZALEZ, Grand Rapids.

B E S T   St  R U S S E L L   CO.,  C hicago. 

€l Puritano

finest 10cligaron earth

Couchas 
Bouquetts 
Perfectos 
Cabinets 1-40 (5J¿ in.)  $70.00

1-20 
1-40 
1-20 

$55.00
$5S.oo
$60.00

B.  J.  REYNOLDS,

Grand  Rapids. 

BATEHAN  &  FOX,

Bay  City.

JOHNSON  &  FOSTER, 
Detroit.

MILTON  KERNS,

Manufacturer,

No.  52  9th  Street, 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.

Distributers for  Michigan.

f  THE ONLY  WAY...

To learn the  real value of a trade  or class paper 
is to find out how  the  men in whose interest it is 
published value it.  Ask the merchants of  Mich­
igan what they think of the .  .  .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Linseed  Oil,  German  Quinine.* 
Declined—Turpentine.

Acidum

4®
6®
12®
12®

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

Aceticum.................I  6@$
Benzoicum, German  70®
Boracic....................   @
Carbolicum.............  29©
Cltricum................. 
4G@
3©
Hydrochlor............. 
Nltrocum...............  
8©
13®
Oxalicum...............  
Phosphorium,  dii...  @
Salicylicum............. 
60®
IM@
Sulphuricum........... 
Tanni cum ..............  1  25©  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®
40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbon as................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.....................
Brown..................
R ed.......................
Yellow...................
Bare*.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
Juniperus................ 
Xanthoxylum.........  
Balsam um
Copaiba.  ................. 
Peru........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
C assia....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
Quill ala,  gr’d.........
Sassafras........po. 18
tJlmus...po. 15,  gr’d 
Extractum 
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
H*matox, 15 lb box. 
Hsematox, I s ........... 
Haematox, Ms.........  
Hsematox, Ms......... 

24@
28®
11©
13©
14©  15
16®  1?

50®
@ 2 40 
40®  45
5©  80

13®
6®
25®

Ferru

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

Flora

Folia

Arnica  ......
Anthemis..
Matricaria.............. 

Barosma..................  
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly.................  
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, M8
and Ms................. 
Dra Ursi..................  
Gumml

15
.  2 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

12®
18®
30®

28®
18®
25®  30
12®  20
8®  10

Acacia,  1st picked..  @ 6 5
Acacia,  2d  picked..  @  45
Acacia, 3d  picked..  @  35
Acacia, sifted sorts.  @  28
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape__po. 15  @  12
Aloe, Socotri..po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafoetida__po. 30 
25®  28
Benzolnum............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is..............  @  13
Catechu, Ms............  @  14
Catechu, Ms............  @  16
Camphor*.............. 
48®  55
Eupnorbium.. po.  35 
©  10
Galbanum...............   @ 100
Gamboge  po........... 
65©  70
Guaiacum......po. 35 
©  35
Kino...........po. 83. uO  @ 3 00
M astic....................  @  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. 84.00@4.20  2 85®  2 9'
Shellac.................... 
25©  3i
Shellac, bleached...  40©  4;
Tragacanth............  
50®  8(
Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Bue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
llagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20©
20®
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®

60

36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc.... 
30@  50
Amygdalae, Amara .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi.......................   2  ,0® 
Auranti  Cortex......   2  00© 2 20
Bergami!.................  2  40© 
85®  90
Cajiputi................... 
Caryophylli............   65®  70
"edar....................... 
35©  65
Chenopadii.............. 
© 3 75
Cinnamonii.............  1  90® 
40®  45
C’troQella. 

2 60
2 50

2 00

Conium  Mac...........  35®  50
Copaiba..................   i  10®  i  20
Cubebse.................... 
90®  1  00
Exechthitos  ..........   l  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  l oo®  1 10
Gaultheria..............   l 50©  1 60
Geranium,  ounce... 
75
Gossippü, Sem. gal..  50@  60
Hedeoma.................   1  oo®  1 10
Junipera..................   1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2  00
Limonis...................  l 20®  1  40
Mentha Piper..........  l  60©  2 20
Mentha Verid..........  1  90® 2 00
Morrhuse,  gal..........   1 00®  1 10
Myrcia......................  4 oo© 4 50
Clive....................... 
75© 3  00
Picis  Liquida......... 
10® 
1
@  35
Pieis Liquida, gal. .. 
Ricm a.....................  1  03® 1 08
Rosmarini...............  
@100
Bosse,  ounce............  6 50@ 8 50
Succini..................  
40©  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1 00
Santal...... ...............  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
@  65
Smapis, ess., ounce. 
Tiglii.......................  1  40® 1  50
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............  
©  1 60
Theobromas........... 
15©  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®
18 
13®
Bichromate............  
15 
Bromide..................   43®
51 
Carb.......................  
12©
15 
Chlorate.. po. 17®19c  16®
18 
Cyanide................... 
a5@
40 
Iodide........................2  60©
65 
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28©
30 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
©
15 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®
10
Potass Nitras
9
................. 
„  
Prussiate................. 
20©  25
Sulphate po  ...........  
15®  18

Radix

Aconitvm............... 
20®  25
Althæ...................... 
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
io@ 
10®
12
Arum po.
Calamus................. 
20©
Gentiana.........po.  15 
12©
Glychrrh iza... pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden .  @
1» 
Hydrastis Can., po 
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
^
15©  20
Inula, po................. 
is®
Ipecac, po...............   2 00© 2  10
Iris plox —  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta  Ms........... 
©  35
Podophyllum, po__  22©  25
5ije?  •••;................. 
75®  100
Rhei, cut................. 
@ 125
Rhei.pv..................  
75©  1  35
35@  38
Spigelia................... 
Sanguinaria...po. 40  @  35
Serpentaria............  
30®
35 
Senega.................... 
40©
45 
Similax,officinalis H  @
40 
Smilax, M...............   @
25 
Scili*..............po.35 
10@
12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................
@  25
Valeriana,Eng. po.3Ò 
®  25
Valeriana,  German.
15©  20
12®
Zingiber a...............  
16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®
Semen
Ani sum...........po.  15 
©  12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
gird. Is.................. 
6
10©  12
Gami............... po. 18 
Cardamon...............   1  25® 1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
10
Cannabis  Saliva__ 
4©  4M
Cydonium...............  
75®  1  00
io© 
Chenopodium__ 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
® 
Foeniculum............  
10
Foenugreek.po........ 
7® 
9
3® 
H ni — j ................. 
4
4® 4M
Lini,  grd..........bbl. 3 
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4©  4M
Rapa 
5
............   4M© 
SinapisAlbu........... 
s
7® 
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spiritus

  4® 

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............  
@ 2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps’ 
wool,  carriage.... 
©  1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  1 00
© 
Hard, for slate use.. 
75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use.............. 
©  1 40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac- 
.........
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Scill*.......  . . . .  
..

■
©
@
©50©
®

<g
<1

niscellaneous 

Scill* Co................. 
Tolutan................... 
Prunus vlrg............
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellis R 
Aeohitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechn...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot.....................
Ferri Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless.. !.
Kino........................
Lobelia................ .
Myrrh.................. * ]
Nux  Vomica.........
Opii........................’
Opii, camphorated..
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia...................
Khatany............... .
Rhei.....................  "
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
Tolutan...................’
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride ...
Zingiber..................
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30© 
•Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©
Alumen...................  2M@
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3©
Annatto...................  40©
Antimoni,  po........ 
4©
Antimoni et PotassT  40©
Antipyrin.............. 
@
@
Antirebrin............ 
©
Argenti Nitras, oz .. 
Arsenicum...........  
10©
38©
Balm Gilead  Bud 
Bismuth  S. N........  1  40©
Calcium Chlor.,  Is.. 
© 
Calcium Chlor., Ms. 
©
Calcium Chlor.,  M8-
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus, af 
Capsfcl Fructus, po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
Caryophyllus..po. 15
Carmine, No. 40__
Cera Alba, S. A p ’ ..
Cera Flava..............
Coccus.................
Cassia Fructus........
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum..............”
Chloroform.............
60©
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1 50©
Chondrus............... 
20©
Cinchonidine,P.&W  25©  35 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22©  30
Cocaine..................   3 05©  3 25
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
nn
Creosotum........ 
©
Creta................ bbi.’rë  ©
Creta, prep.............. 
©
Creta, precip........... 
9©
Creta, Rubra.........  
©
Crocus.................... 
is©
Cudbear................. 
©
CupriSulph............. ..  5©
Dextrine.................. 
10©
75©
Ether Sulph........... 
®
Emery, all  numbers 
Emery, po.............. 
@
30©
Ergota............ po. 40 
Flake  White........... 
12©
Galla......................  
@
Gambier............. 8©
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
©
Gelatin, French...... 
35©
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box....
9©
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13©
Glycerina............  
14©
©
Grana  Paradisi  .... 
Humulus................. 
25®
© 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor. 
© 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
© 
Hydraag Ammoniatl  @  1 
HydraagUnguentum  45©
Hydrargyrum.........  
©
Ichthyobolla, Am...  65©  75
Indigo.....................  
75©  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60©  —
®
Iodoform................. 
©
Lupnlin.  ................ 
Lycopodium........... 
40©
65«,
Macis.................... 
Liquor Arsen et ¿y-
drarglod.............  
®
10© 
LiquorPotassArsinlt 
2©
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
© 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ...........  SO®
® 2 75
Mentbq].

10©
50©

®

@ 3 00 

Morphia, S.P.& W ...  2 05© 2 30 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................2 05© 2 30
Moschus Canton__
© 40
Myristica, No. 1......
65© 80
Nux Vomica... po.20
© 10
15© 18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co............... *...
@  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgai.
doz........................
© 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts__
®  1 00
Picis Liq., pints......
© 85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
© 50
Piper Nigra... po.  22
© 18
Piper Alba__po.  35
© 30
Pilx  Burgun...........
@ 7
Plumbi  Acet...........
10©
12 
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10© 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassi*..................
Quinia, S. P. & W ..
37®
Quinia, S. German..
30®
Quinia, N.Y............  
37©
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12©
S&ccharumLactis pv  18©
Salacin.................... 3 00©
Sanguis Draconls... 
40©
Sapo,  W................... 
12®
Sapo, M.................... 
10©
Sapo, G....................   @
Siedlitz  Mixture 
  20  ©

1  25 
33 
10 
42 
40 
42 
14 
20 
3  10 
50
14 
12
15 
22

1  20

Slnapis....................  @ 
is
Slnapis, opt............  
®  30
Snuff, Maccaboy.De
Voes.....................  
©  34
©  34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
Soda Boras..............  7  @ 
9
Soda Boras, po........  7  @ 
9
Soda et Potass Tart.  26©  28
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
im@ 
3© 
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3M® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50©  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom... 
© 0 00
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.  @ 2 42
Spt8.ViniRect.Mbbl  @ 2 47
Spts. ViniRect.lOgal  @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
© 2 52 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40©  1  45
Sulphur,  Snbl.........   2M@ 
3
2©  2M
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
Tamarinds.............. 
8© 
10
Terebenth Venice... 
28©  30
Theobrom*............   42©  45
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

BBL.  SAL.
70
70 
Whale, winter......... 
Lard,  extra............   40 
45
Lard, No. 1.............. 
35 
40

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

35
37
65
36

19

38
40
70
40

Paints BBL.

LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  @4
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1M  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
\ \   2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly pure.  2M 2M@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  13M®  19
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red...............   5M@ 
6
Lead, white............  5M@ 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gliders’. . .  @  30
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
r® 1  40
cliff...................... 
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes]’

No. l’,Turp Coach...  1  10®  1 20
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp F um ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

THERE WILL 
BE A jt^ i

Time

In Grand Rapids

^ ^ ^ O c t o b e r   2 6 - 2 7 - 2 8 - 2 9  

D A Y  AND  NIGHT

Our  customers  and  j*  

friends  are  invited  to 

make  our  office  their 

headquarters.  All  our 

travelers  will  be  on  ¿fi 
hand  to  entertain  you.

We  will  take  care  of 
your  umbrellas,  over­
coats,  bundles  and 

babies,  so  you  will  be 

free 

to  help  make  it 
jt,

J6, 

jt, 

hotter. 

HAZELTINE  &   PERKINS 

DRUG  CO.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

G R O CER Y P R IC E  C U R R E N T .

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

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora........................55 
Castor Oil................... 60 
Diamond.....................50 
Frazer's ......................75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
ntca, tin boxes...........75 
Paragon...................... 55 

doz.  gross
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
600

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

it lb cans doz.................. 
£  lb cans doz................... 
1 

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

Acme.

it lb cans 3 doz................  
54 lb cans 3 doz................. 
1 
Bulk.................................... 

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

El Purity.

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

Home.

it lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
54 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz case  ......  
90
JAÌCQN
it lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
54 lb cans. 4 doz case____ 
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60
1 

Jersey Cream.

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

Our Leader.

it lb cans..........................  
54 lb can&......................... 
1 

45
75
lb cana.........................  l  50

Peerless.

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

85

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUING.

C Ç p lS g D
S S c

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

BROOnS.

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

CANDLES.

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

CANNED  GOODS, 
llanltowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........   95
Lakeside E.  J ....................   1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  21 
Lakeside  Gem. Ex. Sifted,  t  45 
Extra Sifted Early Jane__1  75

CHEESE.

Acm e.............. ......   @ 1154
Amboy............
@ 1154
Byron.....................  @ 11
Elsie................ ......  @ 1154
Gem................. ......   @ 1154
Gold  Medal...
105Í
Hartford.......... .......  @ 1154
Ideal.......................   @ 11
Jersey  ..............----   @ 12
Lenawee.......... ......  @ 1054
Riverside..........
11
Sparta....................  @ 1054
Brick................
10
Edam................ ----   @ 75
Leiden..............----   @ 18
Limbureer....... ......  @ 10
Pineapple................43  @ 85
Sap  Sago........... ....  @ 18

CHOCOLATE. 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.
German Sweet................... 
23
Premium..................................34
Breakfast  Cocoa................ ..45

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  dcz........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......  1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz......  1 80
Jute. 60 ft.  per  Jos........... 
80
Jme  72 ft.  per  do*.. 
of
.. 

Chicory.

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

Bulk 
Red 

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

5
7

254
3
4

CREAn  TARTAR.

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

I F air.........................................10
I Good................................ 
12
i Prim e......................................13
Golden  ...................................14
Peaberry  ................................15

Santos.

Fair  ........................................14
Good  ........................... 
15
“Prime......................................16
Peaberry  ................................17

 

Mexican  and  Guatamata.

Fair  ....................................... 16
Good  ......................... 
17
...................................lg
Fancy 
Maracaibo.

 

Prim e......... .................... 
20
Milled......................................21

Java.

Interior...................................20
Private  Growth...................... 22
Mandehllng............................ 24

Mocha.

Im itation...............................22
Arabian  ............................. ..24

Roasted.

Clark Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......
..28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha ..28
Wells’  Mocha and Java... ..24
Weils’ Perfection  Java... . .24
SiiTiralho......
..23
Breakfast  B’end.........
.  20
Valley City Maracaibo.  .. ..1854
Ideal  Blend...........
..13
Leader  Blend................... ..12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package.  In  60  lb. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs. 
above the price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   11  on
Jersey......   ..................... 
it  00
flcLaughlln’s  XXXX........11  00

Extract.

Valley City ft gross......  
Felix 54  gross.................  
Hummel’s foil 54 gross... 
Hummel’s tin 54  gross... 

75
1  15
85
1  48

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
plntV.TT7.~T.! 2 on 
Columbia, 54 pints.............. 1  10

CLOTHES  PINS.

5 gross boxes..., 

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

354

Grits.

Beans.

Farina.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.........   . .1  75
Bulk, Der 100 lbs............ .3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s........ .2 40
Bulk in 100 lb. bags........ .3 40
Barrels  .......................... .2 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums........ .1  00
Dried Lima  ...................
Medium Hand  Picked... .1  00
Macearon! and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box...... .  60
Imported.  25 lb. box..  .. .2 50
Common......................... .  2 40
Chester.......................... .  2 50
Empire  .......................... .  2  75
Green,  bu....................... .  90
2
Split,  per lb................  ..
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled Avena,  bbl......
.3 60
Monarch,  bbl...............
.3 25
Monarch.  54  bbl............ .1  75
Private brands,  bbl.... .3  15
Private brands, 54bbl.... .1  70
Quaker, cases.  .............. .3 20
Huron, cases................... . 1  75
German..........................
East  India......................
Cracked, bulk.................
24 2 lb packages.............. .2 50

Wheat.

3
354

Aago.

Peas.

Fish.
Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured............ @ 454
Georges genuine........ @  554
Georges selected........ @ 6«
Strips or bricks......... 5 @  754
Chunks............................
10
Strips................................  
9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  12 00 
Holland white hoop 54 bbl  6 50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
85
Holland white hoop mchs 
95
Norwegian.......................   11 On
Round 100 lbs...................  2 90
Round  40 lbs...................  1  25
Scaled............................... 
15
Mess 100 lbs......................  16 00
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 70
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  75
Mess  8 lbs...........  ........  1  43
No. 1 IOO lbs......................  14  50
No. 1  40 lbs.....................   6  10
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  60
No. 1  8 lbs......................   1  30
No. 2 100 lbs......................  10 CO
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 30
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  15
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
95
Aardlnei.
55
Rnsslankegs...........
Trout
No. 1 100 lbs............
4 00
No. 1  40 lbs............
1  9j
No. 1  10 lbs............
55
No. 1  8 lbs......   ...
47
Whlteflsb
No. 1  No. 2 Fam
100 lbs...........  6 00
5 00
1  90
40 lbs  .........   2 70
1  06
2 30
10 lbs........... 
75
65
34
55 rai 31
8 lbs........... 
63
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

CONDENSED  MILK.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
IOO books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom.... 20 00

Economic  Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Universal Grade.

50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom__   2 50
500 books, any denom 
11  50
1.000 books, any.dedom 
20 00
Superior Grade.
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 down.

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

Credit  Checks.

500, any one denom’n ......   3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......  5 00
2000, any one denom’n ......   8 00
Steel punch..................... 
75

DRIED  FRUITS—DOnESTIC 
Sundrled.......................   @454
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 754

Apples.

California Fruits.

Apricots.....................   854@
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   @
Peaches........................   8 @9
Pears..........................   8  @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles...................12
Raspberries................

California Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes.........   @
90-100 25 lb boxes..........  @ 5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes..........  @ 554
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   @6
60 - 70 25 lb boxes..........   @ 654
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   @ 7
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  @
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   @
it cent less In 50 lb cases

Raisins.

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

1  50 
2 00
5
6
7

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls.......................@614
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........@ 6%
Cleaned, bulk  ................. @  7%
Cleaned, packages...........@ 8it

reel.

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

Raisins.

Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  @814
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  @
Sultana ¿Crown.........   @11
Sultana 4 Crown.........  
a
S u lta n a   R C r o w n .............  @
Sultana 6 C row n.......  ©12

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
D. C. Lemon
2 oz.. 
2 oz
.1  20 
3oz.
.1  50 
3 oz........1  00
4 oz..
4oz....... 1  40
.2  00 
6 oz.. 
.3 .10 
6 oz....... 2 00
No. 
4 00 
No.  8. ..2 40 
No. 10.
No. 10...4 00 
.6  00
No.  2 T.l 25 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3T.2 00 
No.  3 T.l  35 
No  4 T.2 40
No.  4 T.l  5q
Sage.....................................   15
Hops....................................  15
Madras, 5  lb  boxes.............  55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
JBLLY.
15 lb palls............................   40
801b palls............. 
  76

INDIGO.

HERBS.

 

 

Souders’ .
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.doz
2 oz........  75
4 oz........ 1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz........ 1  20
4 oz........ 2 40
XX  Orade 
Lemon.

2oz........ 1 50
4 oz____ 3 00
XX  Orade 
Vanilla.

2 oz........ 1  75
4oz........3 50

M
A o y a l   M
^«DÏlE,g AcT ‘
„DAYT0N.0
BM— M—

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs  .................................... 4 00
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......... ; ..........................  80
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 CO 
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.

riATCHBS.

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

ilOLAASES.
New Orleans.

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

 
Half-barrels 2c extra.

PIPBA.

Clay, No.  216......................
Clay, T. D. fullconnt........
Cob, No. 3..........................

POTAAH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s............................
Penna Salt  Co.’s ...............

PICKLEA.
riedlum.

Barrels, 1,200 count...........
Half bbls, 600 count...........

Small.

Barrels, 2,400 connt.........
Half bbls, 1,200 connt........

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina bead....................
Carolina  No. 1..................
Carolina  No. 2...................
Broken...............................

Imported.
Japan,  No. 1.............
Japan.  No. 2.............
Java, fancy head__
Java, No. 1................
Table.........................

1  70 
65 
85

4  00 
3 00

5  25 
3  13

6 25 
3 63

5
554

SALERATUA. 

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

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

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases ..  90
Lump, bbls.......................   76
Lump, 1451b kegs..............  85

• 

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

100 31b sacks....................... 1  70
60 5-lb sacks...... :...............l 55
2810-lb sacks..................... 1  45

Worcester.

lb. cartons..............3 25
50  4 
115  2541b. sacks...................4 00
lb. sacks..................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks................. 3 50
30 10 
lb. sacks..................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels....................2 50

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in iinen sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock.

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

Common.

Granulated  Fine.................   77
Medium  Fine......................  83

AEEDS.
A nise......................
Canary, Smyrna......
Caraway.................
Cardamon,  Malabar
Celery.....................
Hemp.  Russian......
Mixed  Bird............
Mustard,  white......
Poppy  ....................
Rape......................
Cuttle Bone............
SNUFF.

3
8
61
11
3*
4*
5
*54454

20

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

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ............................   10
Cassia, China in mats......... 12
Cassia, Batavia in  bund__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........32
Cloves, Amboyna................ 10
Cloves, Zanzibar............... !  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................60
Nutmegs, No.  1...............   .50
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 10 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12 
Pepper,  shot........................10

Pure Ground In Balk.

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., w hite.... 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage...................................... is

SYRUPS
Corn.

Barrels...............................   17
Half  bbls...... ....................  19

Pare Cane.

Fair  ................................. 
ie
Good.................................  20
Cbolce.............................   25

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  &54
Kegs,-English......................  434

SOAP.
'  andry.

A n r„ ’ "s Brands.

Armour's hamily..............
Armour’s  Laundry...........
Armour’s White, 100s........
Armour’s White, 50s.........
Armour's Woodchuck......
Armour’s Kitchen  Brown. 
Armour’s Mottled German

r’v -

Sin gle b o x ........................................2 75
5 box lots, delivered...........2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65

American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp'd.3 27
Dome.........................................3 33
Cabinet..................................... 2 go
Savon........................................ 2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6  oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 3 oz__ 3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb................. 3 00
K irk o lin e .........................................3 75
Eos.......................................3  <¡5
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.
&acT

—

/ * f ~ - .......... ...

......  WVj'/

m\NW\\ \ grasaatr.
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, 80 1-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3 75
TTno, 100 •!£-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.

.-B ___ _

fa.

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

STARCH.

Kingsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................  6)

Diamond.

Common  Corn.

Kingsford’s  Sliver  Gloss.
i0 l-lb packages.................
6)4
6-lb  boxes......................... 7
64 10c  packages  .............. 5 00
128  5c  packages............... 5 00
3210c and 645c packages.. 5 00
201 lb. packages................
4)4
40 1 lb. packages................
424
20 lb. boxes........................
4
40 lb. boxes........................
33Ü
l-lb  packages....................
4M
3-lb  packages....................
4Q
6-lb  packages....................
40 and 50 lb boxes.  ...........
3
Barrels  .............................. 2*

Common Gloss.

STOVE POLISH.

No. 4, 3 doz In case, gross..  4150 
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross..1 7 20

A

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf............. .......5  63
Domino..........................  
5 50
Cubes.........................” ” ” 5 13
Powdered  .......................... 5  19
XXXX  Powdered............   5 25
Mould  A............................5 25
Granulated in bbls. . .  . . . . ..5 00
Granulated in  bags............5 00
Fine Granulated..............  5 to
Extra Fine Granulated...... 5  11
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 13
Diamond  Confec.  A..........5 00
Confec. Standard A__ 
4  83
No.  1...........  .................... 475
No  2................................... 4 75
No.  3.......................... ” ”  '4  69
No.  4 ..................................4 63
No.  5................................... 4 56
No.  6..................................   4 50
No.  7................................... 4 44
No.  8................................... 4 38
No.  9................................... 4 3i
No.  10................................... 4 25
No.  11................................... 4 19
No.  12................................... 4 13
No.  13................................... 4 06
No.  14................................... 4 00
No.  15....................................3 94
No.  16....................................3 88

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 60

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick........................... 35 00
Morrison, Plummer & Co.’s  b’d.
Governor Yates, 454 In.......58 00
Governor Yates, 4S£ in.......65 00
Governor Yates, 534 in.......70 00
Monitor................................ 30 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

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

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

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

I
1

CIG AR

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

VINEGAR.

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

WICKING.

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.
Whitefish...................  @ 9
1 ro u t.........................  @ 8
Black Bass.................   @ 10
Halibut......................  © 15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefish......................  @ 10
Live Lobster.........  
©  16
Boiled Lobster........  © 
ia
Cod............................   © 10
Haddock....................   @ s
No.  1  Pickerel........  ©  9
Pike............................  © 7
Smoked White........  @  8
Red Snapper........... 
eh  12
Col  River  Salmon.
@  15 
Mackerel 
............
®  18

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts...........
@  32
F. J. D. Selects........ @  27
@  23
F. J. D. Standards.. ©  22
Anchors..................
@  20
Standards........
@  18
Favorites...............
@  16

Oysters  in  Bulk

F.  H. Counts...........
Extra Selects.........
@1  60
Selects .................... @1 30
Anchor Standards.. @1  20
St  ndards...............
@110
Clams...................... @1  25

Shell  Goods
Oysters, per  100........ 1  25©1  50
Clams,  per  100......
90©1  00

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstulfs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

Barreled  Pork.

foUows:
9 50
M ess
Back  .............................   12 50
Clear  back...................
10 50 
Short cut..............
10 25 
Pig...............................:
14 50 
Bean  ............................
9 50 
Family  ........................
9 50
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
6
Briskets  .......................
Extra shorts.................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 121b  average  ...
... 
Hams, 14 lb  average 
Hams, 16 lb  average......  
Hams, 20 lb  average......  
Ham dried beef.............. 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear.................8  @9
California  bams................ 
Boneless hams................... 
Cooked  bam................... 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...
Kettle...........
55 lb Tubs__ .. .advance
801b Tubs.... ...advance
50 lb T ins__ ...advance
20lb Palls.... ...advance
10lb Pails.... ...advance
5 lb Pails__ ...advance
3 lb Palls__ ... advance
Bologna...................... 
Liver............................... 
Frankfort...  
7
P o rk ..............................” 
Blood  ............................ 
Tongue............................ 
Head  cheese................... 

5
6*4
6)4
6
9
6)4

Sausages.

914
y
8*4
8
1554
6-%
8Q
8)i

11

Beef.

Tripe.

Pigs’ Feet.

Extra  Mess...........................  9 00
Boneless  ......................  12 00
Rump...........................;.i2 00
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
80
H  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 50
)4  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 80
Kits, 15 lbs... ........... 
75
54  bbls, 40 lbs..................; 1  40
)4  bbls, 80 lbs......................  2 75
Pork................... *.........  
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles................. 
Sheep.............................  
Rolls,  dairy..................  
Solid,  dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  

u
1054
14
13)4

16
454
12
60

Butterine.

Casings.

Canned  Meats.

Corned  beef,  2 lb........... 2 10
Corned beef, 14 lb..........14  00
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2 10
Potted  ham, 
..........   80
)|s..............  1 00
Potted  ham, 
Deviled ham, 
*4s........ 
60
)4s..............  1 00
Deviled ham, 
Potted  tongue 54s.........  
60
Potted  tongue )4s..............   1 00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Veal.

Mutton.

Carcass......................5)4© 7)4
Fore quarters..............5  ©  6
Hind  quarters............  7 © 9
Loins  No.  3.................  9 @12
g11»8  -.......................8  @12
Rounds......................  6)4©  7)4
...  4  @ 5
Chucks............... 
Plates  .......................  © 3
Pork.
Dressed......................  @ 5)4
L oins.........................  © 8
Shoulders...................  @ 6
Leaf Lard...................  6  @
Carcass....................... 6  @ 7
Spring Lambs..............8  ©  9
Carcass  .........   ........  8  @9
Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­
lows:
Green.........................7  @8
Part  cured.................  @8)4
Full Cured......   ........  754© 8M
D ry .............................. 9 © a
Kips,  green................   7 @ 8
Kips,  cured.................. 8 @  9
Calfskins,  green........  7)4© 9
Calfskins, cured........  9  @10)4
Deaconskins  .............25  @30
Shearlings........ ...... 
5© 30
Lambs.............. ......   40© 90
Old  Wool........
......  60© 90
______ O ils.
Barrels.

Hides.

Pelts

Eocene  ......................  @11)4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 8)4
W W Michigan...........  @8
Diamond White.........  © 7
D., S. Gas....................  © 8
Deo. N aptha..............  @7)4
Cylinder................... 25  @36
Engine...................... 11  ©21
Black, winter............   © 8

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

)4 gal., per doz.................  50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
554
8 gal., per g a l....................  6)4
10 gal., per gal.....................  6)4
12 gal., per gal.....................  6)4
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
5)4
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

)4 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  0)4 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

14 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5)4 
)4 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10 

Stewpans.

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

X gal., per doz..................  40
)4 gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
6)4
)4 gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for )4 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
K gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2

LAMP  BURNERS.

 

First  Quality.

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

No.  0 Sun..........................  
45
No.  1  Sun..........................  
50
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. 1....................  65
Security, No. 2..................’  85
Nutmeg  ....................... 
50
Climax....................................  x 50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...............................  1 75
No.  1  Sun.......................... ; 1  88
No.  2 Sun..........................   2 70
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
top,
wrapped and  labeled....  3 7b 
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.................................  3 70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled..............................    70
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled..............................    88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lamps............  
80

top,
top,
top,

La  Baatie.

Electric.

Rochester.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)____4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)____  4 40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1 25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv Iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  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
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9  00 
5 gal Eureka non overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule___  ___ 10 50
5 gal Home Rule.........’.... 12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  OTubular......... .........4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... e 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__   7*00
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  L am p.........   3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No. OTubular,  cases2 doz.
aa
each, box  15  cents.......... 
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 6 doz.
each, bbl 35]....................
40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1 doz. each............   1 25
No. 0 per gross................... 
20
No. 1 per gross................... 
25
No. 2 per gross  .................  
38
No. 3 per gross...................  58
Mammoth........................... 
70

LAMP  WICKS.

LANTBRNS.

Wheat.

Wheat.................................  88

Winter  Wheat Flour. 

Local Brands.

P atents............................   5 59
Second  Patent...........5 99
Straight.......................... . ’  4 go
Clear..................................4 40
Graham  ......... !................  4  7*
Buckwheat..............’.  ”   4
• ;............. .................   3 50
Subject 
to usual  cash  dis­
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

count.
ditional.

Spring  Wheat Flour. 

Quaker, %s........................  4  60
Quaker, Qs........................  4 60
Quaker, &s........................   45
Guard, Fairfield & Co.’s Brand.
Whole Wheat 1-I6s............  520
Clark-Jewell-WeUs Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best %s...........  5 55
PiUsbury’s Best Qs...........  5 45
Pilisbury ’s best vss...........  5 35
Pillsbury’s Best )gs paper..  5  35 
Piilsbury’s Best * s paper..  5  35 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, %s...........5 55
Grand Republic, J4s...........5 45
Grand Republic, ¿4s...........5 35
Lemon <fc Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal )£s..................  5  55
Gold Medal ....................... ...  45
Gold Medal ¡4s.............. ’ 
5 35
Parisian,  )*s......................   5  55
Parisian, *is.........................5 45
Parisian. 44s.......................  5  35

Oiney A Judson’s Brand. 

Ceresota, 
5  no
Ceresota, }£s........................5  59
Ceresota, }4s......................   5  40
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 
.........................  5 55
Laurel, Qs.........................  5 «5
Laurel, * s .........................   5 35
Bolted..........................  
j  75
Granulated..........g go

Meal.

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened ...  14 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats......... 13 00
Unbolted Corn Meal......... 12 o0
Winter Wheat  Bran__  11  0G
Winter Wheat Middlings, ,1a 00
Screenings......................... xo 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
Quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots............................... 28V4
Less than  car lots...... 32

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................. 24
Cariots, clipped.................  26
Less than  car lots............ 28

No. 1 Timothy cariots........  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots.... 10 00

Crackers.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  4)4
Family XXX......................  4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  4)4
Salted XXX.......................   4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  4)4 
Soda  XXX  .......................   4
Soda XXX, 31b carton__   4)4
Soda,  City.........................  5
Zephyrette................. 9
Long Island  Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  10
Square Oyster, XXX.........   4%
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  5)4 
Farina Oyster, XXX.........   4
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold Water__ . . . . .  13
Belle Rose.........................  e
Cocoanut Taffy..............’.  8
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey...................  10
Graham Crackers  ............   6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Saps,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................   6
Jumbles,  Honey................  10
Molasses  Cakes.................  6
Marshmallow  ...................  12
Marshmallow  Creams__!  13
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................   6
Sultanas............................  10
Sears’ Lunch............... ... ’  6
Vanilla  Square.....................7
Vanilla  Wafers................  12
Pecan Wafers....................  12
Mixed Picnic....................   10
Cream Jumbles.................  11)4
Boston Ginger Nuts...........  6
Chi minie Fadden..............  9
Pineapple Glace................   12
Penny Cakes......................  6
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  13
| belle Isle Picnic................  10

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

bbls.  pails 
6)4@  7)4 
614® 714 
6  @ 8 
@ 8)4 
cases 
@ 6H 
® 814 
®

Mixed Candv.

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

Fancy-In Bulk.

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

@ 8 

®   8 
@ 814 
@
@ 814 
©©  9 
© 9 
@10 
@13

@ 9 
@ 9 
@14 
@12 
@   6 @ 8 © 9 
@ 9

Fancy—In  5  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 Bar  .........
Hanu Made Creams.  80
Plain  Creams.........   60
Decorated Creams..
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25
Wintergreen 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. Rodi 360s.........
Bananas.

Figs, Choice  Layers
10 ib Califoriiias... 
Figs,  Kew  Smyinas
12 lb boxes...........
Figs,  Naturals  In
30 lb. bags,............
Dates, Fards in 101b
boxes.................
Dates, Fards in 60 lb
cases  ..............
Dates, Persians.H.M.
B., 60 lb cases, new 
Dates,  Sairs  60  lb
cases  ............

Nuts.

@50 
©50 
©60 
©60 
@75 
@30 
@75 
@50 
@50 
©50 
©50 
©55 
©a0 
@50 
©1  0J 
@90 
@90 
©60 
@©60

@30
@45

@4 50 
@5 00

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

@  10
@  12
@ 6
@ 8
@ 6
@ 5)4
@

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Almonds, Tarragona..  @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @15
Brazils new...............   ©  8K
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.,
Ohio, new.  ................  @1 75
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @3 75

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  © 7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @ 4
Choice. H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  .................  @  e

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

22

Shoes  and  Leather
Modus  Operandi  of an  Exclusive  Re­

pairing  Establishment.

Our  establishment  consists  of  a  store 
in  the  rear, 
in  front  and  two  rooms 
making  three 
large  work 
light  and 
rooms.  The  machinery  is  in  the  front 
room  or  store,  while the  two  other  rooms 
are  for the  bench  men. 
In  the  store  is 
a  large  counter,  which  also  serves  for  a 
work  bench. 
In this  part  also  are  a  roll 
top  desk  and  a  combination safe.  These 
latter  we  consider  necessary,  if  you  are 
doing  a  first-class  business.

When  we  take  in  a  pair  of shoes—and 
we  do  nothing  but  repairing— we  take 
the  customer’s  name  and  address,  and 
tag  the  work  with name—address—when 
wanted— what  is  to  be  done.

Then  they  are  taken  back  and  we 
mark  the  pattern  for  the  soles.  The 
heels  we  die  out  and  always  have ready, 
both  under  lifts  and  top  lifts.  We  never 
patch  or  piece  heels. 
It  makes  a  bad 
job  always,  so  we  use  new  lifts.

The  heels  are  being  put  on  while  the 
soles  are  cut  from  the  side.  They  are 
wet  and  run  through  a  power  splitter 
and  a  power  roller,  and  then  sent  in  to 
the  soler,  who  nails  them  across  the 
shanks  and  rounds  them  up. 
If  they 
are  hand-sewed  he  cuts  the  channel  by 
hand. 
If  they  are  McKay-sewed,  he 
cuts  them  by  a  McKay  channeler.

If  they  are  hand-sewed,  they  go  to  the 
bench  man, who sews  and  cements  them, 
then  gives  them  to  a  trimmer  who  beats 
the  channel  down,  trims  the  heels  with 
a  shaver  by  hand,  and  trims  the  soles 
on  a  Buzzell  Edge  Trimmer.

The  shoes  are  then  set in a drying-box 
fqr  a  short  time,  then  they  are  taken  by 
a  boy  who  smooths  the  heels  and shanks 
on  a  heel  scouring  machine  and 
inks 
them  with  ' ‘ New  Method  Ink.”

Then  they  are  taken  to  a  workman 
who  sets  the  edges  with  a  Union  Edge 
setter  and  burnishes  the  heels  on  a  New 
Method  finishing  shaft  composed  of 
felt  wheels  and  bristle  brushes.  The 
soles  and  heels  are  then  buffed  on  a 
buffing  machine,  the  shank  polished  on 
a  New  Method  shaft.  Next,  a  boy  puts 
in  new  linings,  examines them  for  rips, 
loose  buttons,  etc.

If  there  are  any  rips  they  are  sewed 
up  on  the  Bradbury  machine. 
If  any 
buttons  are  off  or  loose,  they  are  put  on 
with  a  foot  power  Peninsular  machine. 
Then  the  shoes  are  polished,  wrapped 
up,  and  delivered  in  our  own  wagon  to 
the  owner  in  about  one  or two  hours 
from  the  time  they  are  received  for 
mending.

Here  are  some  hints  for  the  modern 

repairer:

The  only  way  to  get  good  results  is  to 
have  lasts  the  same  shape  the  shoes 
were  made  on.

Have  punches,  eyelet  and  hook  setters 

for brass  and  agatine  work.

Have  plenty  of  patching  leather of 

all  colors  to  match  shoes.

Always  use  the  best  stock  in  repair­

ing.

Do good  work.
Charge  reasonable  prices.
Buy  for  cash  and  don’t  give  credit.
And  success  is  yours  in  the  repairing 
business.— E.  V.  Shivers  in  Boot  and 
Shoe  Recorder.

Advertising  the  Repair  Shop.

A.  B.  Greenwood,  shoe  dealer at New 
Haven,  Conn.,  has  issued  a  neat  book­
let  containing  a  model  appeal  to  the 
public  which  may  be  of  benefit  to  some 
of  the  Tradesman’s  readers  who  con­

template  getting  out  a similar announce­
ment :

How  much  satisfaction  did  you  ever 
get  from  the  average  cobbler?  Hasn’t 
he  disappointed  you  more  times  than 
he  has  pleased  you?  Hasn’t  your  ex­
perience  been  that  ordinary  cobblers 
are  about  as  inartistic  workmen  as  you 
ever  saw?

The  trouble  with  most  cobblers 

is 
that they  use  cheap  leather  in repairing. 
They  stretch  shoes  all  out  of  shape. 
Their  work  lacks  finish.  They  are  no­
toriously  slow.  Their  promises  are  sel­
dom  kept.  If  they  say,“ Your  shoes  will 
be  ready to-morrow,”   you  feel  in  your 
bones  that  they  will  not  be  ready  to- J 
morrow. 
If  they  are  ready  the  day 
after  to-morrow, you  are  lucky.

We  want  the  people  of  New  Haven  to 
know  that  we  are  the  most  particular 
shoe  repairers 
in  New  England.  We 
attend  to  this  branch  of  our business 
with  just  as  much  care  as  we  do  to  the 
selling  of  shoes.  We  are  just  as  anxious 
to  get  your  repairing  as  we  are  to  have 
you  buy  our  shoes.

Art  can  be  shown  in  anything.  There 
is  art  in  repairing  shoes.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  it  requires  far  more  skill  to  re­
store  worn  shoes  to  a  perfect  condition 
than  to  make  a  new  pair  out  of new ma­
terials.

At  the  bead  of  our  Repairing  Depart­
ment  is  a  man  who  puts  care  and  con­
scientiousness  and  skill  into  his  work. 
The  men  who  work  under  him  are  paid 
good  wages.  They  hold  their  positions 
on  merit.  They  cannot  work 
in  this 
place  a  minute  if  they  are  careless.

We  use  the  best  leather  that  can  be 
bought  with  money.  We  preserve  a 
shoe’s  shape.  We  restore 
lost  looks. 
We  do  work  that  lasts.  A shoe  repaired 
by  Greenwood  will  last  longer  and  pre­
sent  a  better  appearance  than  a  shoe 
repaired  by  anybody else.  We  hide  shoe 
wounds  and  cover  up  all  the  scars.

It  is  easy  to  employ  us.  Just  send  us 
a  postal  card  telling  us  to  call.  Never 
mind  whether  the  job  is  big  or  little. 
Never  mind  whether  it  is  a  20 cent  job 
or  a  $1.25  job.  We  want 
it  and  will 
call  for 
it  free.  We  will  do  the  work 
artistically  and  well  We  will  deliver 
it  without  charge.  We  will  be  punctual 
and  prompt.  You  can  depend  upon  us. 
What  we  say  is  what  we  will  do.

We  do  not  work  quite  so  cheaply  as 
Italian  cobblers.  We  do  not  want  the 
work  of  those  who  are  satisfied  with 
that  kind  of  repairing.

The  claim  we  make  is  this:  Our  re­
pairing 
repairing.  Our 
prices  are  the  lowest  you  can  find  in  a 
first-class  shop.

is  the  best 

We  ask  your  trade,  and  we  shall  en­
deavor  to  merit  it  by  deserving  to  merit 
it.

Makes  Shoes  for  Gentlemen.

A . prominent  Eastern  manufacturer 
who 
is  frequently  referred  to  as  a  lead­
ing  maker of  strictly  fine shoes is quoted 
as  saying,  in  reply  to  a  complaint  of 
poor  wear,  that  he 
‘ ‘ makes  shoes  for 
gentlemen. ’ ’

The  shoe  dealer  who  tries  to  run  his 
business  on  this  plan  won’t  last  long. 
Strange  as 
it  may  seem  to  this  manu­
facturer,  there  are  men  who  consider 
themselves  gentlemen  whose  income 
is 
not  so  large  that  they  can  afford  to be 
indifferent  as  to  the  service  given  by 
their  footwear.

If  a  gentleman  is  judged  by  his  abil­
ity  to  buy  new  shoes  it  is  certainly  a 
distinction  of  fools.

Assignee’s  Sale.

On  Thursday,  Nov.  4,  at  10  o’clock 
a.  m.,  the  Peninsular  Trust  Company, 
assignee,  will  sell  at  auction  the  stock 
of  boots  and  shoes  of  Michael  Ebrman, 
at  69  Canal  street.

The  stock  will  be  sold  as  a  whole  or 
in  job  lots,  as  may  seem  expedient  at 
time of  sale.

This  will  afford  some  shoe  man  a 
good  opportunity  to  pick  up  a  stock  at 
a  bargain.

The  world 

is  full  of  sublime  truths, 
and  yet  most  people  spend  their  time 
hunting  after  vapid  curiosities.

The  green  shoe  is  a back number.

P i t   and  Quality 
Are  the  two essential 
Features  combined  in  the  .

HARRISBURG  LINE 
OF  LADIES  SHOES

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS,

Correspondence solicited. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We  believe  the  boy— and 
if you  look  over  our  line  of 
Warm  Goods,  you  will  be­
lieve  us,  too.

Our  general  line  of  Foot­
wear  never  was  stronger  in 
the  history  of  our  business, 
“ and these are our busy days.”

HEROLD-DEUTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

5  &  7  PEARL  STREET.

fays our relt  Goods 

ARE  warm!

We  Manufacture

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Fixity  of  Prices  in  Shoes. 

From Shoe and Leather Facts.

For  the  first  time 

in  a  good  many 
years,  buyers  cannot  dictate  the  prices 
of  goods.  Those  who  have  been  ac­
customed  to  go  to  markets,  or  in  con­
ferring  with  salesmen  to  make  offers  at 
considerable  concessions  and  have  them 
accepted,  are  now  experiencing  the 
novel  and  not  altogether  pleasant  sensa­
tion  incident  to  having  their  offers  re­
fused.  The  first  few  times  they  are 
willing  to  have  the  order  cancelled,  and 
feel  somewhat  indignant  with  the  man­
ufacturer  or  wholesaler  who  will  not 
shade  his  prices,  but  the  growing  need 
for  supplies  and  more  mature  delibera­
tion  speedily  effect  a  sufficient  change 
of  mind  so  that  they  are  willing  to  pay 
the  price  asked.

All  this  does  not  by  any  means  indi­
cate,  as  some  might  imagine,  that  the 
buyer  occupies  any  less  desirable  posi­
tion  than  he  has  heretofore.-  Quite  the 
contrary.  The  same  process  ot  beating 
down,  which  buyers  have  been  able  to 
practice  successfully  with  manufactur­
ers,  they  in  turn  have  had  to  suffer  from 
their  customers,  whether  they  were  re­
tailers  or  the  buying  public  in  general. 
It  was  the  natural  incident  of  a  falling 
market,  and  the  one  who  was  able  to 
buy supplies  at  a  big  concession  was  by 
no  means  certain  that  before  be  would 
be  able  to  turn  them 
into  cash  they 
would  not  be  dear  in  comparison  with 
the  prices  then  prevailing,  and  that  he 
would  have  to  make  even  more  radical 
concessions  to  his  customers.  With 
greater  firmness  in  the  one  case  it  will 
also  be  possible  in  the  other,  and  thus 
the  benefit  will  be  felt  in  all  the  various 
branches  of  industry.

Of  course,  it  goes without saying,  it  is 
always  the  duty  of  a  shrewd  buyer  to 
purchase  goods  at  the  lowest  possible 
prices  consistent  with  the  qualities  he 
needs  to  meet  his  requirements.  As  a 
consequence,  therefore,  some  will  still, 
under  the  most  firm  market,  buy  the 
same  supplies  cheaper  than  others.

The  effect  of  advancing  prices  has 
bfien  to  temporarily  hold  back  trade,  so 
that  a  good  many  have  had  occasion  to 
wonder  if  the  good  times  so  widely 
heralded  have  arrived  or  are  even  on 
the  way.  The  advent  of  a  new  season 
and  colder  weather will give  an  impetus 
to  many  lines  of  business,  including,  of 
course,  the  shoe  and  leather  trade. 
It 
is  only  reasonable  to  expect  that  the  ad­
vancing  season  will 
largely  augment 
trade,  especially  as  the  differences  be­
tween  buyers  and  sellers  as  to  prices are 
settled  upon  something like a permanent 
and  equitable  basis.

The  Hardware  Market.

General  trade  continues  in  about  the 
same  condition  as  reported  in  our  last 
week’s  article.  Trade  keeps  along  in 
an  even  way, 
the  average  dealer  not 
manifesting  any  special  desire  to  buy 
much more than  he  needs,  it  being  hard 
work  for  him  to  realize  that  in  some 
lines  of  goods  it  is  quite  difficult  to  get 
a  sufficient  supply  to  take  care  of  the 
demand  now 
in 
prices  are  but  few  and  manufacturers 
and 
jobbers  are  generally  manifesting 
a  disposition  to  maintain  the  advances 
that  have  recently  taken  place.

existing.  Changes 

Wire  Nails—There 

is  no  change  to 
note 
in  prices,  as  all  the  mills  at  the 
present  time  are  sold  ahead  and  jobbers 
find  a  great  deal  of  difficulty  in  getting 
their  orders  filled  with  any  degree  of 
promptness.  Stocks  are 
the 
hands  of  jobbers  and  it  is  believed  that 
it  will  be  at  least  thirty  days  before  the 
mills  catch  up  sufficiently  on  their  or­
ders  to  enable the  jobbers  to  keep  their 
stocks  fully  assorted  and  be  able  to  fill 
pick-up  orders  with  promptness.

low 

in 

Barbed  and  Painted  Wire—There  is 
no  change  in  price  by  the  manufactur­
ers,  but  in  sympathy  with  the  advances 
recently  made, 
in­
stances  have  made  an  advance  in  their 
prices  to  correspond  with  the  factory.

in  many 

jobbers 

We  quote  at  present  painted  barbed 
wire  from  stock  $1.80,  No.  9  plain 
$1.60,  with  an  advance  of  30c  extra  for 
galvanizing.

Gas  Pipe—A  change  has  been  made 
in  the  discount  ruling  on  pipe,  which 
makes  an  advance  of  between  7
to  10 
per  cent.  We  quote  as  follows :

pipe 

pipe 

iX   inch  and  smaller,  70
\'/2 

inch  and  larger,  75

Black 
per  cent
Black 
per  cent

per  cent.

Galvanized  1%  inch  and  smaller,  65 
Galvanized  \ l/2  inch  and  larger,  67 X 
inch  P.  &  R.,  65  per 
Galvanized  2 

per  cent.

cent.

Shovels,  Spades  and  Scoops—The  re­
cent  advances  made  by  the  shovel  man­
ufacturers  extended  to  the  entire  line 
of  scoop  shovels,  which  averages  an  ad­
vance  of  about  $1  a  dozen  on  the  entire 
line.  We  quote  No.  5  polished  scoop 
$7-5°  Per  dozen.  Dealers  who  are  fa­
miliar  with  this  line  can  form  an  idea 
of  the  average  advance  on  other  sizes.

Window  Glass—The  factories  are  still 
shut  down,  stocks  are  becoming  lower 
and  sizes  scarcer,  and  prices  have  an 
advancing  tendency.

Cordage—The  demand  for  rope  con­
tinues  fair  and  prices  seem  to  be  firmly 
held.

Reports  from  other  markets  are  as 

follows:

Chicago:  Trade  continues 

condition.

in  good 

St.  Louis:  Trade 

is  fair  in  certain 
sections  of  the  West,  but  in  the  South  it 
is  affected  by  the  yellow  fever  scourge.
Cleveland :  The  extreme  dry  weather 
that  we  have  been  experiencing 
for 
some  time  is  having  its  effect  upon  the 
trade.

Boston :  Thus  far business this month 
has  not  the  “ snap”   and  “ go”   it  had  in 
the  early  part  of  September.
Louisville:  The  yellow 

fever  and 
continued  draught are having their effect 
upon  business  in  this  part  of  the  coun­
try.

San  Francisco:  Business  is  good 

in 

this  section  of  the  country.

Philadelphia:  Orders  have  been  fair 
indica­
for  this  season  of  the  year  and 
tions  point  toward  continued  activity 
during  the  following  months.

Omaha:  To  sum 

it  all  up  in  a  few 
words,  the  whole  trade  situation  is  in 
a  most  satisfactory  condition.

Portland,  Ore.  : 

Trade  continues 
good  and  collections  have  been  a  great 
improvement  over the  past.

Homeseekers’  Excursions.

The  season  of  the  year  has  arrived 
when  a  trip  to  the  South  will  well  re­
pay  the  visitor.  To  accommodate  resi­
dents  of  the  North  who  may  wish  to 
make  the  trip,  either  for  pleasure  or 
with  a  view  of  locating,  the  Louisville 
&  Nashville  Railroad  Company  will  on 
the  first  and  third  Tuesdays  of  Novem­
ber  and  December  run  excursions  to 
points 
in  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  Ala­
bama,  Mississippi,  Georgia  and  Flor­
ida.  Tickets  will  be  good  on  regular 
trains  of  these  dates,  starting  from 
Cincinnati,  Louisville,  Evansville  and 
St.  Louis,  will  be  sold  at  about  one 
fare  for  the  round  trip,  and  will  be 
good  for  return  within  twenty-one  days 
from  date  of  sale.  T ickets'w ill  allow 
stop-over  at  different  points  on 
the 
south-bound  trip. 
If  your  local  ticket 
agent  cannot  quote  you  rates  for  these 
excursions,  write  C.  P.  Atmore,  General 
Passenger  Agent,  Louisville,  Ky.

An  hour’s 

industry  will  do  more  to 
produce  cheerfulness,  suppress  evil  hu­
mors,  and  retrieve  your  affairs  than  a 
month’s  mourning.

The  devil’s  traps  are  always  baited 

with  pleasures  of  some  kind.

Good  Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe 

Dealers.

The  shoe  offerings—of  course, they are 
sensational.  We  mean  them  to  be.  We 
want  you  to  realize  that  this  shoe  store 
is  to  be  a  shoe  store  of  yours— 
of  ours 
run 
in  your  interest,  too.  Some  of  the 
most  winsome  things  are  still  in supply. 
— Wanamaker  &  Brown,  Phi la.

They’re  coming  in  fast—so  fast  Drex 
L.  Sbooman  has  all  he  can  do  to  get 
them  placed-on  our shelves—many  new 
lines  added  to  our already  large  line  of 
ladies’  shoes—two  new  ones  just  added 
to  the  $3  shoes—one  is  a  heavy  kid, 
with  heavy  extension  sole,  in  the  new 
round  toe—the  other has  a  medium sole, 
in  narrow  coin  toe—these  are  the  fin­
est  appearing  shoes  we  have  ever  been 
able  to  price  as  low  as  §3—and  we  will 
guarantee  them  to  outwear  any  two  pair 
of  the  ordinary $3  shoes.— Drexel  Shoe 
Co.,  Omaha,  Neb.

The  capacity  of  the  shoe  department 
is  daily taxed to the last  point  of  elastic­
ity.  These  shoes  are  the  masterpieces 
of  the  best  shoemakers 
in  the  whole 
world— Philadelphians.  The  hides  of 
tender  Brazilian  kids  tanned  to  strength 
and  beauty  by  incomparable  Philadel­
phia  tanners,  fashiond  by  Philadelphia 
shoe  artists.  The  shoes  simply  can’t 
help  lasting,  and looking well every  sec­
ond  of  time  they  are  worn.—Partridge 
&  Richardson,  Phila.

It  is  only  a  store  that  can  keep  hun­
dreds  of  worthy  men  employed 
in  dull 
times  that  can  give  you  good  $4  shoes 
at  $2.60  a  pair.—John  Wanamaker, 
N.  Y.

This 

is  what  we  propose.  You  can 
tell  how  much  better our  shoes  are  than 
the  “ general  run”   by  a  simple  glance; 
but  a  glance  is  not  enough.  Come  into 
the  store,  pick  up  any  pair of shoes,  ex­
amine  quality,  make  and  fit.  Then  look 
at  the  style—the  little  touches  here  and 
there  that  put  the  subtle  mark of fashion 
into  shoes.  You  will  find style, elegance, 
comfort  and 
satisfaction,  everything 
desirable,  and 
if  you  want  shoes  you 
will  get  them  here.— George  F.  Streit, 
Altoona,  Pa.

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Another  so-called  co-operative  exper­
iment  has  failed,  this  time 
in  Paris, 
where 
it  was  inaugurated  about  a  year 
ago.  Forty  of  those  who  were  dazzled 
by  the  movement  have  requested  their 
old  employers  to  give  them  work  at 
even  very  small  wages.  The  trouble 
with  co-operative  movements  seems  to 
be  that  they  don’t  co-operate  very  long. 
It  takes  brains  to  make  a  success  of  a 
business  venture  these  days,  and  the 
fellow  who  is  supplied with the requisite 
amount  doesn't  need  to  join  fortunes 
with  those  who  are  mere  agitators  and 
theorists.

Of  two  evils  choose—neither.

BULLDOG,  OPERA  LAST

No.  151.  Men’s  Fine  Satin  Calf.  M cK ay  Sewed. 
Cylinder  fitted.  Outside  backstay.  Dongola  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  $1.50. 
Satisfaction guaranteed.  New  samples  now  ready. 
To  insure an  early  call  and  secure exclusive agency 
address 
E.  H.  STARK  &  CO.,

A.  B.  CLARK,  Lawton,  Mich.

Worcester,  Mass.

Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.

12,14,16  Pearl  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots  and  Shoes

Our  Lines  and  Prices  for fall are right.  W e carry 
a  full 
line  of  Warm  Goods— Felt  Boots  and 
Socks;  also,  Boston  and  Bay  State  rubber goods. 
Your business  is solicited.

Buy  Your  Shoes
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where  you  can  buy 
money.

A  NEW   JOBBING  HOUSE

the  best  for  the  least 

with  New  Stock,  New  Styles,  Cash  Prices, 
and  near  enough  for  you  to  get  goods  within 
twenty-four  hours  after  you  order  them.

K  

Think  what  that  means:  we carry the stock 

you  order  as  you  need  goods.

MICHIGAN SHOE COMPANY, Detroit, Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Business  Items  from  the  Saginaws.
.Saginaw,  Oct.  26— A n o th e r   n e w  
i n ­
dustry,  which  may  employ  a  goodly 
number  of  workmen  during  the  coming 
winter,  will  probably  be  started  in  this 
city  during  the  next  month.  This  will 
be  a  bicycle  factory,  under  the  manage­
ment  of  George  W.  Emendorfer,  the 
well-known  salesman  and  maker  of 
wheels.  Arrangements  for  the  establish­
ment  of  the  factory  are  not  yet  com­
pleted  but  it  is  practically  certain  that 
such  a  factory  will  be  started,  with 
headquarters  at  first  in  the  Power  block 
on  Tilden  street.

Bliss  & Van Auken recently purchased 
1,250,000  feet  of  white  pine  strips  from 
Cheboygan  parties  to  supply their trade. 
The  lumber  will  be  shipped  here  by 
water.  Notwithstanding  the 
fact  that 
their  sawmill  has  been  running  night 
and  day  for  some  time,  and  that  they 
carried  a  large  stock  of  lumber  over last 
winter,  their  trade  is  such  as  to  make it 
necessary  for  them  to  ship  in  lumber  in 
order  that  they  may  meet  the demand.
The  Freud  Milling  Co.  has  com­
menced  buying  potatoes  and  will  start 
its  factory  making  potato  flour  about 
November  1.  The  factory  would doubt­
less  have  been  running  before  this  but 
for  the  company’s  belief  that  the  pres­
ent  price  of  potatoes  was  higher  than 
would  be  maintained  when  the  fall  crop 
was  on  the  market.  The  potato  crop 
in  this  locality  is  light,  but  in  the coun­
try  from  which  this  concern  expects  to 
draw  the  crop  is  fairly  good.

Wm.  Barie  &  Son  have,  leased  the 
Aldine  building  on  South  Baum  street, 
to  provide  needed  additional  room  for 
their  wholesale  department.  This  move 
is  made  necessary  by  the  increase  in 
their  jobbing  trade.

VVickes  Bros,  have  consummated  the 
purchase  of  the  Pack,  Woods  &  Co. 
sawmill  plant,  at  Oscoda,  and  in  a  few 
days  a  gang  of  men  will  be  sent  to  that 
place  to  take  down  some  of  the  smaller 
machinery  for  removal  to Saginaw.  The 
greater  part  will,  however,  be  allowed 
to  remain  where  it  is  until  next .season. 
Besides  the  gang  sawmill,  there  is  on 
the  premises  a  lath  mill,  stave  machin­
ery,  complete  fire  protection  with  five 
miles  of  pipe,  and  two  and  one-half 
miles  of  tramway  tracks.  The  water 
pipes  and  the  tramways  will  not  be  re­
moved  until  the 
lumber  now  on  the 
premises  belonging  to  Pack,  Woods  & 
Co.  has  been  sold.

Miss  Rose  Fixel,  who  for  the  past 
eight  years  has  been  in  the  employ  of 
the  Hoyt  Dry  Goods  Co.,  has  returned 
from  Cleveland  to  accept  a  position 
with  Wm.  Barie  &  Son.

Isaac  Bearinger,  for  many  years  one 
of  the  best  known  lumbermen  in  this 
section,  has  practically  retired  from  the 
lumbering  business  .which  has  been 
carried  on  under  the  firm  name  of  Sib­
ley  &  Bearinger.  The  firm 
is  to  be 
dissolved  and  the  vast  property  of  the 
concern  divided  up. 
It  is  said  the  firm 
will  this  week  divide  property  worth 
$3,000,000.  Mr.  Sibley 
is  to  take  the 
lumbering  business,  which  is  located  in 
West  Virginia  and  Minnesota,  and  pays 
all  the  obligations  of  the  firm.  Mr. 
Bearinger takes  real  estate  in  Saginaw 
and  other  property  in  the  shape  of  se­
curities.  The  mining  interest  in  Min­
nesota,  which 
is  being  operated  by 
parties  who  pay  royalties  to  Sibley  & 
Bearinger,  will  not  be  included  in  the 
division  but  is  to  be  held  jointly,  each 
one  receiving  his  proportion  of  the 
royalties.  Mr.  Bearinger  will  spend 
the  winter  in  Japan.

The  whole  ten  acres  was  in  s u c h   a   c o n ­
d it io n   h e   d e c id e d   to  plow  th e m   all  u p  
and  resow.  As  an  experiment  he  left  an 
acre,  to  which  he  gave  a  dressing  of 
300  pounds  of  refuse  salt.  Three  days 
afterward  he  gave  the  same acre another 
300  pounds  of  refuse  salt.  The  result 
was  that  on  that  acre  he  had  a  good 
yield  of  oats,  and  had  he only  known  he 
might  have  saved  the  whole  ten  acres. 
Salt  for  such  purposes  is simply  invalu­
able.
Women’s Christian  Temperance  Union 

Convention.

The  Canadian  convention  will  take 
place  at  Toronto,  October  20  to  22,  and 
the  World’s  convention  will  be  held  at 
Toronto  immediately  after the Canadian 
convention,  Ocotber  23  to  26.

For  this  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway 
System  has  made  a  rate  of  one  fare  and 
a  third  on  the  certificate  plan,  from  all 
points  on 
its  lines  west  of  the  Detroit 
and  St.  Clair  Rivers,  and these rates  are 
also  made  from  all  points  in  Centra 
Passenger  Association  territory  via  the 
Grand  Trunk  Railway.  Tickets and cer­
tificates  may  be  had  of  any  agent  of  the 
Grand  Trunk  Railway  System  and  con­
necting  lines.

is 

From  Oct.  27  to  Nov.  5  the  National 
convention  will  take  place  at  Buffalo, 
N.  Y.,  for  which  a  rate  of  one  fare  and 
a  third  on  the  certificate  plan  is  also 
made.

Attendants  to  these conventions should 
in  mind  that  the  Grand  Trunk 
bear 
Railway  System 
three 
trains  daily  to  Toronto,  with  Pullman 
parlor  cars  on  day  trains  and  Pullman 
sleepers  on  night  trains,  and  is  the only 
line  running  the  celebrated  Pullman 
sleepers  via  the  Lehigh  Valley  Road 
to  Buffalo.

running 

For  further  information  and  reserva­
tion  of  berths,  apply  to  any  agent  of  the 
Grand  Trunk  Railway  System,  or  to  C. 
A.  Justin,  Acting  C.  P.  A.,  23  Monroe 
St.,  Grand  Rapids
From  the  Great  Lakes  to  Colorado.
1,069  miles  in  less than  33 hours  in  an 
electric-lighted sleeping car, from Chica­
go to  Denver,  over the Omaha Short Line 
of  the  Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul 
Railway  and  the  Rock  Island  Route, 
via  Lincoln,  Nebraska.

Time  annihilates  space,  and 
“ mighty  easy  ridin’  ”   on  the  cars.

Ticket  offices,  95  Adams  street  and  at 
Union  Passenger  Station,  Canal  and 
Adams  streets,  Chicago.  Train  starts 
every  night  at  10  o’clock.  Don’t  get 
left.
New  Hardware  Establishment  in  the 

is 

it 

Field.

Green  Bay,  Wis.,  Oct.  26—The  Got- 
fredson  Hardware  Co.  is  about  ready  to 
occupy  its  new  building  and  launch  in­
to  the  wholesale  business  exclusively. 
W.  E. Morehouse,  who  has  represented 
the  Wm.  Frankfurth  Hardware  Co. 
(Milwaukee)  for  the 
last  eight  years, 
will  take  the  management  of  the  new 
concern.  Mr.  Morehouse is  well  known 
to  the  hardware  people  of  Michigan, 
having  been  in  business  at  Romeo  for 
years.

In  ten  years  the  school  attendance 

in 
Buffalo  has  more  than  doubled, although 
the  population  has  not  increased  in  any 
such  proportion.

Never  borrow 

avoid  it.

if  you  can  possibly 

Salt  as  an  Insecticide.

is  not 

The  use  of  salt  as  an  insecticide,  or 
vermin  destroyer, 
sufficiently 
known  amongst  the farming community. 
Maqy  a  farmer  has  lost  dollars  and  dol­
lars,  simply  because  he  did  not  know 
what  virtue  there  is  in  salt.  How  many 
times  has  a  farmer  ploughed  up  acres 
of  a  crop  attacked  by  some  worm  or 
caterpillar,  and  re-sown  the 
land,  all 
because  he  did  not know  that  salt  would 
have  killed  the  worm  and  improved  his 
crop.  Last  year  a  case  was  reported 
through  the  press,  and  vouched  for  as 
correct.  A  farmer  had  a  ten  acre  field 
of  oats  attacked  by  the  army  worm.

Valuable flanufacturing  Plant

FOR  SALE  AT

A  BARGAIN

The  entire  plant  of  a  concern  engaged  in  the 
manufacture  of  agricultural  implements,  having 
excellent  location  in  Grand  Kapids,  Mich.,  con­
sisting  of  nearly  900  feet  frontage  of  land,  with 
buildings  and  complete  outfit  ox  machinery,  and 
tools  required  in  the  business.  A lso  stock  of  im­
plements  on  hand,  if  desired,  and  patterns  for 
foundry  use.  An  excellent  opportunity  is  hereby 
offered  to  any  desiring  to  engage  in  this  or  any 
other manufacturing  business.

For further particulars address

WILLIAM  McBAIN,

433 Mich. Trust Bldg., Grand Rapids, filch.

W ANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

yu> K  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK OF HARDWARE 
X 1 
in A1  shape and fu ll set  tin n er’s  tools;  best 
town  in  M ichigan  and  best  farm ing  country  in 
the State.  E xcellent  chance  to   engage  in   the 
hardw are  business; 
reason  fo r  selling,  other 
A ddress  No.  417,  care  M ichigan 
business 
Tradesm an. 

417

 

 

4 is

414

412

410

415

LOCATION  FOR DRUG STORE.  W RITE 
a t  once  to  No. 415, care M ichigan  T rades­
m an. 
T  ARGE  STORE  BUILDING  AN!)  GENERAL 
J - i   stock of m erchandise  to  exchange fo r good 
farm ing lands.  A ddress  Lock  Box 254, W olcott 
ville.  Ind. 

i j'OK R EN T—OWING TO DEATH, THE  BEST 

equipped  hardw are  store  in  M ichigan;  old 
established  stand;  good  location  in  one  of  the 
best  farm ing  and  m a nufacturing  tow ns;  low 
rent.  A ddress  No.  418,  care  M ichigan  T rades­
m an. 
V ITO U LD   EXCHANGE  FOR  OTHER  GOODS 
t t  or real estate stock of old and new  cloaks, 
inventorying $600.  A.  Lustfield.  C rystal  Falls, 
Mich. 
TpO R  SALE—FIRST-CLASS  FU LL  ROLLER 
X   m ill,  100  barrel  capacity,  located  at  Pen 
w ick,  ou S tanton  branch of 1)., G. R.  &  W. R. K. 
F o r fu ll  particulars  address J.  E. Carroll,  L ans­
ing. 
V \7A N T E D —GOOD  DRY  BEECH  AND  MA­
TT  pie  16-iuch block wood,  not less th a n   tw o 
thirds  hard  m aple.  Price  on  cars at shipping 
point.  A.  Hyde. 800 M adison  Ave., G rand  Rap-
ids,  Mich.______  
\ \ T  ANTE J —AiT EX PE KI EN c ED SAITESM A X 
TT 
to  ha.  die  fine,  line  lubricating  oils  and 
greases,  side  line  or  exclusively.  Crown  Oil 
Co.,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
TXT ANTED—BUTTER  AND  EGGS. 
IF   YOU 
T T  w ant good  p ric ts and quick  returns  w  ite 
us.  Lim n  &  Strong, Toledo, O hio 
TJ'OR SA LE-SM A LL  DRUG  STOCK,  INVOIC- 
X   iug about 1700.  in  best tow n  for size in M ich­
ig an ;  doing }60 to  $75  per  w eek  business;  rent, 
$100  per  year:  best  location  in  tow n;  best  of 
reasons for selling.  A ddress Lock  Box 60,  Lake 
Odessa,  Mich. 
\ \ T  ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
TT 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond w ith 
C aulkett &  Co., T raverse City,  Mich. 
IfiOIt  EXCHANGE — A  W ELL-ASSORTED 
f lO E   EXCHANGE—TWO  F IN E   IMPROVED 

drug stock th a t  w ill  inventory  $1.200  for  a 
stock  of  groceries.  A ddress  Jo h n   Cooper,  340 
W oodworth  avenue,  G rand  Rapids,  Mich.  366

farm s  fo r  stock  of  m erchandise;  splendid 
location.  A ddress No. 73. care Michigan T rades­
m an. 
TSTA N TED —1,000  CASES 
FRESH  EGGS, 
tv  daily.  W rite  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brow n, 
Ithaca. Mich. 

402

381

349

401

411

.00

73

• 

'  

PATEN T  SOLICITORS.

tf'REE—OUR  N EW   HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
ents.  Cilley  &   A’lgier,  P atent  A ttorneys, 
339

G rand R apids. Mich. 

Much 
Better 
Than 
Trading 
Stamps.

B. T. Babbitt will give his patrons 
free  street  car  tickets  for  trade­
marks and coupons given  with  his 
various  products.
I  Ticket  for  10 BEST SOAP Trade­

marks.

1  Ticket  for  10  1776  SOAP  POW­

DER  Trade-marks.

1  Ticket  for  Coupons  equal  to I lb. 

B.  T.  BABBITT’S  BAKING 

POWDER.

T rade-marks and Coupons will be 
redeemed  by  Spring  &  Co.,  Mon­
roe street.

Grocers  receiving  these  trade­
marks will  be  called  upon  regular­
ly by the local  agent  of  B. T.  Bab­
bitt, who will  redeem  the  same  at 
full  value.

TRADESMAN 
ITEMIZED
LEDGERS 

m

Size  8  1-2x14— Three Columns.

2 Q uires,  160 pages.................... $2 00
3 Q uires, 240 p ag es..  .................2  50
4 Q uires, 320 pages......................3  00
5 Quires, 400 pages......................  3  50
6 Quires, 480 pages...................... 4  00
Invoice  Record  or Bill  Book.
80 D ouble Pages, R egisters  2,880  In­

voices............................................  *2.00

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.

doing to Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids......7:00am  1:30pm  5:3jpm
Ar. Detroit.................  11:40am  5:40pm  10:20pm

Returning from  Detroit.

Ly . D etroit.... 
........8:00am  1:10pm  S:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......   1:00pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw. Alma and  dreenville.

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

Gao.  DkHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank  Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee Div.

(In effect  October 3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive
t  6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit  and  East..t  9:55pm
tl0:10am-------Detroit  and  East........ + 5:07pm
+ 3:30pm. .Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..+12:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am 
* 7:00am— Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....*10:15pm 
112:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.+  3:22pm 
t   5:12pm.... Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi.... +10:05am
tlO :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.
♦Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST

E. H.  Hushes, A. G. P. &T. A.
B kn. F le tc he r, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
Jab. Campbell, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am  + 5:15pm 
t’rav. c ’y, Petoskey & Mack...+ 2:30pm  t 6:35am
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................................+ 7:10am  + 8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................ + 2:00pm + 2:10pm
Cincinnati................................ * 7:00pm * 7:25am
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2 00 p. m.  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

CO IN S  W EST.

LvG’d  Rapids..............+7:35am +1:00pm  +5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:C5pm
LvMuskegon..............+8:10am  +ll:45am  +4:0Jpm
ArG’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5:2)pm

sours EAST.

tExcept Sunday.  «Daily.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

MINNEAPOLIS, 

^

west  bound.

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

Lv. Minneapolis.....................................   +6:30pm
Ar. St. Paul.............................................   7:20pm
Ar. Gladstone.........................................   5:45am
Ar. Mackinaw City.................................  11:00am
Ar. Grand Rapids..................... 
10:00pm
W. R. Callaway, Gen. Pass. Agt-, Minneapolis. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass.  Agt., Grand  Rapids.

 

A B S O L U T E

PURE GROUND SPICES, BAKING POWDER 

BUTCHERS’  SUPPLIES,  ETC. 

fo r  t h e  t r a d e .

THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY,

PHONE  555-

418-430  S.  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

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”   plainlv  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:

1  M .........................................75 C
5  M .................................. 50c per  M
10  M .................................. 40c per M
20  M .................................. 35c  per M
50  M .................................. 30c  per  M

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

C H I C A G O - “

^ 8'

DULUTH, South  Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

Going  to Chicago.

Muskegon.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............... 8:30am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
Ar.  Chicago...................3:10pm 6:50pm 
6:40am
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  5:15pm *  9:30pm
•Ar. G’dRapids............1:25pm  10:35pm  * 6:20am
Lv. G’d  Rapids..............  8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm.........   10:10am
Lv. G’d  Rapids..................... 
  7:30am  5:30pm
Ar. Traverse  C ity ...................  12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Charlevoix......................... 
Ar.  Petoskey.............................   3:45pm.........!.
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.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

PARLOR  AND  BLEBPINe  CARS.  CHICASO.

3:15pm.......

TR A V E R SE   C IT Y   AN D   B A Y   VIEW .

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m. 
Geo. DeHaven, General Pass. Agent.

Others week days only.

*Bvery  day. 

CANADIAN ^

«Ü f

EAST  BOUND.

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

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Montreal...........................  8:50am  9:00pm
Lv. Toronto.............................  4:00pm  7:30am
Ar. Detroit.................................10:45pm  2:10pm
D. McNicoll, Pass. Traffic Mgr., Montreal.
B. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L)til:10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace..........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sanlt Ste. Marie..............  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth.............................................  
8:30am

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth.............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria..........................   +11:15am  2:45am
Ar.  Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  3:30pm 
..........
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  Hibbard, Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

The Profit

in  selling  DIAMOND 
C R Y S T A L   S A L T   in­
cludes the  new  custom­
ers  it  brings  to  your 
door.
See Price Current.
DIAMOND  CRYSTAL  SALT  CO.,  S t   Clair,  Mich.

Elgin  System of Creameries

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

A  MODEL  CREAMERY  OF THE  TRUE  SYSTEM

True  Dairy Supply Company,

303  to 309  Lock  Street, 

Syracuse,  New  York.

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

R.  E.  STURQIS,  General  Manager of  Western  Office,  Allegan,  nich.

Merchants  should  sell  popular  goods;  goods  that  their  customers  know  all  about; 
That

their  clerks  don’t  have 

spend  precious 

talking  up. 

time 

that 

to 

goods 

F | \ a m e i i i ? e
O. L .P R E S C O T T  8c  C9.
N   E. w   - V O R  kX.  N . V.  U. S . A.  ^
. 

is  what

E nam eiiite

The Modem STOVE POLISH

expended  yearly  to  educate  the  public  in  regard  to  Enameline. 
dollars  into  the  pockets  of dealers  who  handle  it

IS. Hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars  is  being 
It  puts 

It  sells  on  sight. 

The  Stimpson 
Computing  Scale

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

It  is  the  acme  of  perfection  and 

not  excelled  in  beauty and  finish.

W e  have  no trolley or tramway to 

handle.

W e   have  no  cylinder  to  turn  for 

each  price  per  pound.

W e  do  not  follow,  but  lead  all 

competitors.

W e  do  not  have  a  substitute  to 

meet  competition.

W e do not indulge  in  undignified 
and  unbusinesslike  methods 
to 
make sales— w e   se ll Stimpson scales 
on  their merits.

A gents 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.

A ll  we ask  is  an  opportunity  to  show you  the  Scale  and  a  chance to  convince  you  that 

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

The  Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,

ELKHART,  IND.

Represented  in  Rastern 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.  2<S6.

Don’t  (jo  to  Klondike

to better your finan­
It’s 
cial  condition. 
not  necessary. 
If 
you  strike  the  key- 
no t e  to  profitable

business will  thrive 
and  prosper  where 
you  are.  W e  are

ADVERTISING
SPECIALISTS

Our  whole  study  is 
to  bring  merchant 
a n d   customer  to­
gether  on  a  mutual 
and  s a t i s f a c t o r y  
basis.

Advertising  must  be  done  if ever you  succeed;  then 
why  not  give your customers  the benefit  of this expend­
iture ?

The  above  cut  shows  another  of  our  Cash  Trade 
PremiumSi  An  elegant  polished  antique  Toilet  Case 
for  gentlemen. 
Its  usefulness  is  evident  at  a  glance, 
having  apartments  for  collars,  cuffs,  neckwear,  per­
fumes,  jewelry,  handkerchiefs,  gloves,  shaving  mug, 
razor strop,  brush  and  comb,  etc.  It also  makes  a com­
plete  Medicine Cabinet.  The door at  the  top  has  lock 
and  key  which  also  locks  the  lower  lid  when  closed.
If  desired  we  furnish  either  plain  or  bevel  mirror for 
the  door, size  io  x  10 inches.  Tw o  mirrors  can  be  put 
in  the  door,  if wanted,  one  facing  inside  and  one  out- 
-side.  The  lid  shown  at  the bottom  is  12 x  14^  inches, 
and  when  raised  upright,  closes  the  lower  part  of  the  cabinet,  and  the  outside  is  handsomely  carved 
Oval  head  screws are furnished  for fastening to  the  wall.  Our New Catalogue is now  ready.  Would  you 
like one?

height 38  in., width ie  in.,  depth 7Yi in.

STEBB1NS  MANUFACTURING  CO.

LAKEVIEW,  MICH.

M e n t i o n   T r a d e s m a n  

Omaha  Retail  Grocers’  Association

a*

Office  of  the  Secretary,

Corner  Park  Avenue  and  Leavenworth  Street. 

Telephone  1759.

&

C.  R.  C O U R TN EY,  PRESIDENT

H.  J.  H U G H E S ,  VICE-PRESIDENT 

o .  j .   W ILD E,  J r .,  T r e a s u r e r  

E.  T .  JO H N S O N ,  S e c r e t a r y

B O A R D   O F   D IR E C T O R S

W M .  FLEMING 
A.  PETER SO N  
A.  GLADSTO NE 
W .  J.  H U N TER  
FRED  B RU N IN G  
W M .  G EN TLEM AN

J.  M .  JO H N SO N
E.  D.  EVANS 
C H A S .  HANLEY 
R.  A.  LENHART
F.  A.  JO N ES 
GEO.  F.  M U N R O

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Resolutions Passed by the Retail Grocers’ Association of Ontaba, neb.

R E S O L V E D — That, 

in  view  of  careful  consideration  and  the  practical  knowledge  of  our 
members,  we  recognize  the  Dayton  Computing  Scale  as  being  of  material  benefit  to  the  retail 
grocers  at  large,  for  the  following  reasons:

Its  extreme  accuracy.
It  places  a  check  on  all  goods  weighed.

xst. 
2nd. 
3rd.  That  we  believe  the  dollar  and  cent  system  to  be  far  more  convenient  and  safer than  the 

pound  and  ounce  system.

It  takes  the  place  of  a  living  auditor  and  prevents  errors  and  mistakes.
It  cleans  up  a  great  leakage  in  the  retail  grocery  business.

4th. 
5th. 
W e  believe  it  to  be  to  the  interest  of  all  retail  grocers  to  carefully  investigate  this  system.
Therefore,  the  secretary  is  hereby  instructed  to  furnish  a  copy  of  these  resolutions  to our lead­

ing  Grocery  Journals  for  publication. 

(Signed) 

E.  T.  JO H N SO N ,  Secretary.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  COMPANY,  Dayton,  Ohio.

