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It  is the general opinion  of the trade that  the  prices

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COFFEE

have about, if not absolutely, reached  bottom.  We are 
sole  agents  in  this  territory  for  the  celebrated  bulk 
roast coffees of the

WOOLSON  SPICE CO.

Ask  our  salesman  to  show  you

line  of  samples.

MUSSELMAN GROCER  CO., Grand Rapids.

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Save your yeast labels and  tin-foil  wrappers

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

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tached to tin-foil  wrappers, to your grocer, with your name and address, 
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Detroit  Agency,  118  Bates S t. 
Grand  Rapids Agency,  26  Fountain  S t. 

Premiums cannot be mailed  under any circumstances.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  10,  1897.

Number  738

p r r r O ^ T T T F O T T T T Y T T Y T i n r

HOUDIt  goods

Season  1897=98.

On  account of moving to our New Build­
ing  (50 x  125  feet—three  floors  and  base­
ment)  we  are  a  little  late  this  year,  but 
c r   New  Line,  especially  adapted  to  the

Drug,  Stationery  and  Bazaar  Trades

will  be  on  exhibition  by  Nov.  ioth in our 
New  Sample  Room,  (25  x  100  feet),  com­
prising  the  m* st  complete  and  attractive 
assortment of

POPULAR  PRICED 
HOLIDAY  AR TICLES
to be seen  in  Michigan.  Give  us a chance 
to  prove this by a personal  visit.  Railroad 
expenses  allowed  up  to  5  per  cent, of your 
purchase  of  Holiday  Goods.  No  cata­
logues.  Correspondence invited.

Our travelers will soon be on their routes 

to solicit  your orders as usual.

FRED  BRUNDAGE,

WHOLESALE  DRUGGIST,

32  and  34  Western  Avenue, 

-  Muskegon,  Mich.

Dolls, Toys 
and  Games 
of every description.

Christmas Cards, 
Booklets,
Calendars, 
and  Novelties.

Albums,
Books,
Photo Frames, 
Medalions,

Leather.  Metal, 
and Celluloid 
Fancy Goods.

Perfumery 
of all
Leading  Makers.

Fancy China 
Bric-a-Brac.

Druggists and 
Stationers’
Sundries,.
School 
Supplies, 
etc., etc.

J U U U U U L

W H Y   N O T   T R Y   T H E M   N O W ?

S c   C I G A R S

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

G.  J.  JOHNSON  CIGAR  CO.,  Mfrs.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

HAND  SLEIGHS  and “

SIks ....

Great  Variety

New  Styles  .  . 

New  Prices.  .

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when  a  man  has  tested  a  thing  for  himself,  and 
knows  that  it  is  true—that  it  pays— there  is  no 
longer any room for doubt.  The
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they  stay.  The  circulation  is  not  based  on  the 
papers printed and circulated  helter-skelter, but on 
the number  actually  paid  for  yearly  in  advance. 
Sample,  rates  and  the  facts  about  it  sent  free  on 
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M U S T A R D

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S A U C E .

Ï.  A.  M URPH Y, General Manager.

FLO W ERS,  M A Y   &  M O LO N EY, Counsel.

Is the ORIGINAL and GENUINE  Horseradish  Mustard.

B a y l e ’s   H o r s e r a d i s h   M u s t a r d
BOR  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,  they  manufacture  and  export 
sauces,  but  they  prefer  for  their  own  use  condiments,  and  the  greatest  of  all  condiments  is 
mustard.  The  average  Englishman  delights  in  having  his  mustard  prepared  for  him  fresh 
every  day. 
«1  I here 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  ton^of the stomach,  increases the flow  of the g  istric juice, and 
thereby  promotes the g en e ra l  bodily health.  It  is probably on account  of this  power of giving 
life  to  the  system  and  enabling  it to throw off u n h ea lth y  produ cts  that the English in former 
years  used  mustard  as  a  medium of purifying the  blood  in  skin  d iseases and  similar ailments.
bor some time  past we have made quite a study of m ustard,  its  proper  preparation and the 
preservation  of  its  q ua lities.  Our line of mustards is quite  complete, and each and  all will  be 
found to be so put up and packed as to last for  years in perfect condition.
For Sale by
Wholesale  and  Retail  Grocers 

SOLE  M A K E R ...

G E O .  A .  B A Y L E ,

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ST.  LOUIS.  U. S.  A.

Special  Reports.

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

Main  Office:  Room  1102  M ajestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

Personal service given all claims.  Judgments cbtained  without expense to subscribers.

E D G A R ’S

30 cents per  gallon, 
freight  prepaid.

H O U S E H O L D

W.  H.  EDGAR  &.  SON, 
Detroit.  Mich.

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ñ  Business  Proposition

You  have  something  to  sell  to  the  merchants. 
You are not at all particular where you sell  it— 
where the orders come from so long as  you  get 
the  money  and  freight  rates  do  not  interfere 
with the delivery of the goods.  You only want 
to  get  before  a  prosperous  people— those  who 
have money with which  to buy— in a direct  and 
forcible  way,  with  an  argument  that  will  turn 
their dollars into your  pocktt. 
Isn’t  that  true? 
Well, just here is where the

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can  help  you. VVe are in the prosperous territory 
with a strong, well-conducted paper that reaches 
the  majority  of all  those  to whom  you  wish  to 
sell within that territory.  You make your busi­
ness  argument—we  will  lay  it  before  our  peo­
ple. 
It  pays  others  to  do this—wouldn’t  it  be 
strange  if it didn’t pay you  also?

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Grocers  who  sell  Oysters  or 
Oyster  Crackers  should 
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Sears’  Saltine  W afers

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T hey  are  the  finest  Oyster 
Crackers  made*  Are  light, 
slightly  salted  or  plain*  Cut 
square*
Show  them  up  and  they 
will  sell  themselves*  Made 
only  by  *  *  *

THE HEW TORE BISCUIT GQIQPflRY,

GRAND  RflPlOS.

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The Modem STOVE POLISH

of  all  the  retail  grocers  in  the  United  States  sell  Enameline. 

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on  which  more  money  is  being  expended  than  on 
any  other  stove  polish  on  earth?  Ninety  per  cent.
It  pays  them  to  do  it.

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J.  CLELAND,  Attorney, 

Volume  XV.
B0PIJQER6IRL  CREDIT  CO.,  LIU.

Commercial  Reports.  Prompt  and 
vigorous attention to collections.

L.  J.  STEVENSON,  Manager,

411-412-413 Widdlcomb Building,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

16 Preferred Banters 
Life Assurance Bo.

Incorporated by 

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Maintains a Guarantee Fund.
Write for details.

H o m e   O ffic e ,  M o ffa t   B ld g .,

DETROIT,  MICH.

FRANK E. ROBSON, P r e s .
TRUMAN  B. GOODSPEED, Skc’y.

If You  Hire Help

You should  use our

Perfect  Time  Book 

— and  Pay Roll.

Made to hold from 27 to  60  names 

and  sell for 75 cents  to  $2. 

Send for sample leaf.

BARLOW  BROS.,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Grocers

Can  reduce  stocks  at 
a  good  profit.  Also 
increase  sales  by  giv­
ing  Street Car Tickets 
free  for  trade  marks 
and  coupons  from  B. 
T.  Babbitt’s  several 
products.

Same  will  be  re­
deemed  at  Spring  & 
Company’s,  Monroe 
Street.  Also  by  B. 
T.  Babbitt’s  Agent, 
who will call for them.

5  Tickets  for  50  “Best”  Soap 

Wrappers.

5  Tickets  for  50  “1776”  Small 
Fronts  (I  Large  **1776”  counts  as  2 
small).

I Ticket  for  Coupons  from  B.  T. 
Babbitt’s  Baking  Powder  equal  to  1 
pound.

Save Trouble 
Save Losses 
Save Dollars

account  of  raising 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION 
The  general  conditions  ot 

industrial 
activity  continue  almost  uniformly  fa­
vorable,  and  local  causes  have  operated 
increase  trade  movement,  as  in  the 
to 
South  on 
fever 
quarantine,  greater  demand  in  the  Mid­
dle  States  and  activity  at  Pacific  ports, 
and  yet  the  speculative  outlook has been j 
decidedly  unfavorable.  This 
is  to  be 
accounted  for  by  occurrences  of  a  tem­
porary  influence,  such  as  the  results  of 
the  New  York  election,  the  death  of 
Pullman, 
in 
the  Cuban  situation,  the  illness  of  Hav- 
emeyer,  etc. 
is  not  strange  that  so 
many  adverse  influences,  following  the 
reaction which had already materialized, 
should  have  made  a  considerable  de­
cline  in  the average.  And 
is  prob­
ably  just  as  well  that  there  should  have 
been  such  a  reaction  to  prevent  too 
rapid  and 
inflation  of 
values.

the  speculative 

too  great  an 

causes 

It 

it 

After  the  unprecedented  rush  of  or­
ders  some  time  ago,  the  iron works have 
enough  to  do,  most  of  them  for  the  rest 
of  the  year  or  longer,  although  orders 
have  of  late  been  fewer. 
In  most  kinds 
of  manufacture  the  works  are  still  so 
far  behind 
their  orders  that  delays 
caused  much  complaint,  and 
further 
orders  have  to  be  declined  unless  deliv­
ery  can  be  deferred.  Considerable  or­
ders  have  come  for  shipbuilding  plates, 
for  rails,  cars  and  other  railway  mate­
rial,  and  for  thin  sheets,  but  the  de­
mand  for  structural  formed  wire  and 
wire  nails  is  seasonably  slacker.  The 
cut  nail  manufacturers  were  unable  to 
maintain 
fixed  prices,  which  have 
dropped  to  1.15  base  at  Pittsburg,  and 
the  increase  of  furnaces  in  blast  makes 
Bessemer  pig  slightly  lower,  notwith­
standing  heavy  purchases.  The  expec­
tation  of  still 
lower  pig  iron  is  met, 
however,  by  the advance  in coke,  which 
is  expected  to  go  higher  January  1, 
and  by  the  evidence that  even  the  in­
creased  output  does  not  much,  if  at  all, 
exceed  the  present  consumption.

the  sign  is  attached  are  not so numerous 
as  they  were  a  few  weeks  ago.  The 
same  sort  of  news  is  coming  in  regard­
ing  the  trading  stamp  signs.  We  who 
are  observant  know  that  the  trading 
stamp  signs  are  rapidly  disappearing 
from  the  store  windows  in  New  York, 
Brooklyn  and  Jersey  City,  which  is  a 
certain  indication  that  business  is  in  a 
better  condition,  and  that  business  men 
have  realized  that  the  stamp  scheme  is 
not  a  Klondike— for  them,  at 
least. 
Over 
in  Jersey  City  the  battle  of  the 
merchants was  short,  and  has  apparently 
landed  the  merchants  victors. 
The 
stamp  companies  now  have  the  goods in 
their  stores  marked  with  the  number  of 
stamps  necessary  to  secure  the  different 
articies,  and  when  one  sees  the  number 
of  dollars  that  must  be  spent  to  secure 
enough  stamps  to  become  owner  of  any­
thing  worth  having,  one  resolves  to give 
up  trying  to  collect  them.  The  stamp 
scheme  was  such  a  good  thing  for the 
companies  who  run  them  that  too  many 
of  them  got  in  the  field.  The  butcher 
handled  the  stamps  of  one company,  the 
grocer  gave  away  stamps  of'  another 
company,  and  the  clothier  gave  his 
customers  the  stamps  of  still  another 
concern.  The  purchaser,  in  nine  cases 
out  of  ten,  did  not  take  the  trouble  to 
investigate,  and  thought  he  was  getting 
the  same  stamps  from  every  retailer. 
These  he  pasted  in  his  book,  and  when 
full  presented  it  for  exchange,  only  to 
be  told  of  his  mistake.  Then  he  gave 
it  up  altogether,  and  wouldn't  take  a 
stamp 
it  were  given  him  without 
making  a  purchase.  As  a  result,  the 
demand  for  stamps  has  almost  died  out. 
Business  at  the  stores of the  stamp  com­
panies  seems  to  be  at  a  standstill 
Young  men  with  long  yellow  hair  look 
out  through  the  glass  doors  at  the  pass­
ing  throng  with  sad  and  longing  faces, 
and  when  persons  with  no  other  object 
than  to  see  the  sights  stop  and 
in 
the  windows  at  the  “ premiums”   and  at 
the stamps,the yellow-haired clerk’s  face 
brightens  up  at  the  attention  being paid 
the  company  and 
in  the  hope  that  the 
gazer  may  be  a  customer.  But  when 
the  eyes  of  the 
looker  have  devoured 
the  entire  contents  of  the  window,  and 
he  has  again  joined  the  throng  ot hurry­
ing  pedestrians,  the  yellow-haired  clerk 
sighs  deeply  and  retreats  behind  the 
“ premium”   lamp  and  other  things.

look 

if 

In  the  wheat  situation  there  has  come 
a  considerable  reaction,  principally  for 
the  reason  that  there  seems  to  have been 
no  real  cause  for the preceding advance. 
Prices  have  declined  about  to  the  point 
before  the  advance,  which  seems  to  be 
near  the  normal.  Movement  at  the  West 
and  for  export  continues  to  be  very 
heavy.

In  the  textile  and  boot  and  shoe  mar­
kets  conservatism  is  the  principal  char­
acteristic.  There  seems  to  be  a  fear 
that  heavy  stocks  and  overproduction 
may  cause  trouble  again  and  this  oper­
ates  to  check  movement  somewhat.

Bank  clearings  continue  heavy.  The 
amount—$1,216,000,000— is  2  per  cent, 
over  the  preceding  week. 
Failures 
were  223,  against  218  for  last  week.

Trading  Stamps  Not  In  Demand. 

From the Sew York Butcher 3 Advocate.

Last  week  we  compared  the  yellow 
fever  to  the  trading  stamp  scheme. 
This  week  we  can  continue  the  com­
parison—and  in  a  satisfactory  way,  too. 
News  comes  from  the  South  that  the 
yellow  fever  is  dying  out.  The  yellow 
signs  which  denote  that a  yellow  fever 
victim  is  suffering  in  the house to which

How  He  Got  a  Drink.

They  are  telling  a  good  story  about 
town  of  a  tall,  lank  young  man  who 
stepped 
into  a grocery  store  not  a  thou­
sand  miles  from  this  city,  where  they 
keep  something  to  drink  as  well  as  eat. 
Peering  about  the  store  a  little,he  spied 
some  cakes.  Said  he  to  the  grocer:
“ Them’s  mighty  fine  cakes.  What’s 
the  least  you’ll  take  for  one  of  ’em.”  

“ Ten  cents,”   replied  the  grocer. 
“ Well,  I  believe  I’ll  take  one 

if 

you’ll  wrap  it  up  right  good.”

The  grocer  wrapped  up  the  cake  and 
handed  it  to  him.  He  looked  thought­
fully  at  him  a  while  and  said:

” 1  don’t  believe  I  want  this  cake, 
after all.  Won’t  you  swap  me  a  drink 
for  it?”
•  “ Yes,”   said  the  grocer,  as  he  took 
back  the  cake  and  handed  him  a  glass 
of  something.

The  young  man  swallowed  the 

liquor 

and  started  off.

“ Hold  on,“ cried  the  grocer,  “ you 

haven’t  paid  me  for  my  dripk.”

“ I  swapped  you  the  cake  for  the 

drink. ”

cake  ”

“ But  you  haven’t  paid  me  for  the 

“ You’ve  got  the  cake.’ ’
This  last  retort  so  nonplussed  the gro­
cer  that  he  stood  and  scratched  his 
puzzled  head,  while  the  young  man 
made good  his  retreat.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  IO,  1897.

Number  738

Another  Fraudulent Collection  Agency.
To  the  long  list  of  fraudulent  collec­
tion  agencies  already  exposed  in  these 
columns  the  Tradesman  adds  this  week 
the  name  of  the  Michigan  Mercantile 
Co.,  which  purports  to  do business from 
South  Bend,  Ind.  The  nominal  mana­
ger  of  the  concern 
is  J.  F.  Gay,  who 
was  formerly 
identified  with  a  Grand 
Rapids  collection  agency,  but  proved to 
be  so  crooked  that  his  services  had  to 
be  dispensed  with.  Mr.  Gay’s  last  ap­
in  Michigan,  so  far  as  the 
pearance 
Tradesman's 
information  goes,  was  at 
Frankfort,  where  he  made  numerous 
collections  which  he  failed  to  turn  over 
to  the  proper  parties,  leaving  suddenly 
on  a  boat  for  Menominee,  apparently 
bound  for  St.  Louis,  Mo.  Mr.  Gay 
hails  originally  from New  Jersey,  where 
he  claims  to  have  conducted  a  collec­
tion  agency  with 
indifferent  success. 
His  relations  with  a  local  agency  were 
exceedingly  discreditable,  including  the 
jumping  of  board  bills  and  other  acts 
equally  reprehensible.  The  Tradesman 
warns 
its  readers  against  having  any­
thing  to  do  with  the  Michigan  Mercan­
tile  Co.  or any  other  concern  with  which 
Gay 
in  any  way  identified,  at  least 
until  he  mends  bis  ways  and  demon­
strates  his  ability  and  disposition  to 
deal  fairly.

is 

Complaints  continue  to  reach 

the 
Tradesman of  the  failure  of  the Sprague 
agency  (Chicago)  to  make  returns  on 
collections  within  a  reasonable  length 
of  time.  The  Tradesman  has  repeated­
ly  warned 
its  patrons  to  give  this  con­
cern  a  wide  berth,  but  many  merchants 
have  been  led  into  executing  contracts 
with  the  wily  solicitors  of  the  agency 
by  reason  of  the  remarkable 
letters  of 
recommendation  written  by  Hon.  S.  M. 
Lemon,  President  of  the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company.  It  appears  to  be  the 
policy  of  the  Sprague  agency  to  treat 
one  house  in  a  town  well,  so  as  to  have 
a  place  of  reference.  Mr.  Lemon  has 
evidently  been  selected  by  the  Sprague 
agency  as  the  headquarters  for  Grand 
Rapids  references,  and  several  people 
have  found  to  their  sorrow  that  the serv­
ice  accorded  Mr.  Lemon,  as commended 
in  the 
letters  above  referred  to,  is  not 
the  same  as  is  given  the  average  sub­
scriber.  Numerous 
instances  of  inex­
cusable  delay  in  making  returns  on  col­
lections  are  on  file  in  the  Tradesman 
office  and  also  several  cases  where  no 
returns  have  ever  been  made  and  no 
attention  whatever  is  paid  to  letters  of 
enquiry.  The  methods  adopted  by  some 
of  the  solicitors  to  secure  paid member­
ships  to  the  agency  are disreputable and 
dishonest,  giving  ground  for  the  belief 
that  the  entire  concern  is  honeycombed 
with  fraud  and  misrepresentation.

One  Kind  of  Klondike.

Jack— That  Miss  Beverly,  to  whom  I 
bowed  just  now,  is  a  regular  Klondike.

Tom—That  so?  Rich?
lack—Yes;  also  cold  and  distant.
Judging  from  the  number  of  “ vic­
tories”   the  British  forces  are  scoring 
against  the  fighting  tribesmen  in  India, 
one  would  think  they  had  secured  a 
second  edition  of  Weyler’s  talented 
typewriter.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Dry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.
Linens---- Considerable  talk 

in 

is  now
heard 
linen  circles  regarding  the 
effect  of  the  lately  passed  tariff  on  the 
price  of  goods  generally.  Manufactur­
ers  on  the  other  side  are  devising  every 
possible  means  to  evade  the  law  by 
m iking  goods  lighter and  changing  the 
counts.  'Ihe  revision  of  the  schedule 
scents  to  be  aimed  especially  at  low eno 
stuff,  but  on  the  other  baud  some  of  the 
higher  grades  are  to  be  materially 
affected.  One  or  two  popular 
table 
damask 
lines  that  have  been  on  tne 
market  tor  some  time  will  not  change 
much,  if  any,  in  price,  as their weight is 
less  than  4^  ounces  to  the  square  yard, 
and  tde  count  is  above  100  to  the  square 
If  damasks  of  this  kind  exceed 
inch. 
the 
these  specifications 
least 
duty  would  be  entirely  different, 
'lo 
escape  these  higher  rates  it  is  necessary 
for  foreign  manufacturers  to  make  a 
careful  study  of  the  present  linen sched­
ule  and  make  goous  accordingly.  On 
union  goods  composed  of  cotton  ana 
linen  trouble  has  also  arisen. 
This 
difficulty  is  overcome  by  using  a  larger 
percentage  of  cotton,  which  brings  such 
union  materials  under  the  provisions 
for  cotton  goods.

in  the 

Ginghams---- After  struggling  along
near  the  end  of  the  dress  goods  proces­
sion  for  several  years,  ginghams  will 
be  among  the  salable  wash  goods  in  the 
spring, 
in  view  of  this  reviving  de­
mand,  manufacturers  are  preparing  a 
more  elaborate  line  than  has  been  seen 
for  a  number  of  years.  All  the  popular 
effects  of  former  seasons,  with  many 
new  creations,  will  be shown.  The  line 
of  zephyr  ginghams  to  retail  at  popular 
prices  will  be  a  triumph  in  the  manu­
facture  of  cotton  goods.  Madras  cloths 
printed  in  gingham  patterns  are  among 
the  new  popular  priced  cloths.

Wash  Goods —Several 

lines  of  wash 
goods  for  spring  are  now  in  the  sample 
stage,  and  reveal  the  general  character 
of  sheer  goods  for  next  season.  On 
printed  diaphanous  cloths  no  material 
change  is  nottd.  The  lappet  idea  has 
been  retained  to  a  certain  extent,  and 
lappets  of  various  weaves  will  enhance 
the  beauty  of  many  new  floral  designs. 
The  popularity  of  all  kinds  of  plaids 
will  be  a  feature  of  the  spring  seasun, 
even  in  wash  goods  lines,  and  samples 
of  elaborate  plaid  organdies  for  entire 
dresses  and  shirt  waist  purposes  will  be 
goods  every  retailer  will  have  occasion 
to  buy.

Hosiery—Salesmen  out  with 

fancy 
hosiery 
lines  for  spring  are  already 
making  a  good  showing  in  point  of  or­
ders.  The  position  of  the  trade  on  the 
fancy  hosiery  question  seems to indicate 
one  of  the  best  seasons  on  record  dur­
ing  the  spring  of  ’98.  The  advance  or­
ders  so  far,  among  the 
large  retail 
trade,  show  that  fine grades  will  be  es­
pecially  good.

Underwear—A  new  underwear article, 
or at  least  an  article  for  the  underwear 
stock,  is  being  placed  on  the  market, 
and  is  meeting  with  considerable  suc­
cess.  This  new  notion  is  a  paper  vest, 
intended  to  be  worn  over  the  underwear 
in  cold  weather.  The  paper  utilized 
in  the  manufacture  of  these  garments  is 
made  of  spruce  fiber,  well  known  as  a 
non-conductor  of  heat.  These  vests  are 
obtainable  both  for  men  and  women, 
and  while  they  are  very  warm,  do  not 
add  materially  to  the  weight  of  the 
clothing.

Gloves—A  decided  glove  novelty  is

being  shown  this  week  for  the  holiday 
trade,  which  will  doubtless  prove  very 
popular.  The  novelty  of  this  line  is 
seen 
in  the  high-colored  back  stitch­
ing.  For  instance,  a  dark  glove  will  be 
garnished  by  bright  red  back  stitching, 
with  welts  and  buttons  to match  Other 
desirable  shaaes  aie  tieated  in  the same 
way.

Notions—Staple  and 

fancy  notions 
continue  to  hold  attention,  and  a  brisk 
ousiness  through  the  mails  is  coming  to 
light  again  this  week.  The  buying  of 
noli nay  goods  has  made  progress  on  all 
aides,  and  market  buyers  have  been 
quite  numerous  all  through  the  whole­
sale  distiict.  As  the  days  go  by  it  be­
comes  evident  that  a  marked  scarcity  ol 
iiiauy  notion  and  holiday  lines  will  se­
riously  handicap  business  during  the 
latter  part  of  the  season.  Some 
im­
porters  are  prone  to  noise  abroad  the 
possible  scarcity  of  certain  lines  every 
season.  This  has  a  tendency  to  cause 
ihe  situation  at  the  present  time  to  be 
looked  upon  lightly  by  buyers,  but  it  is 
well  for  all  people,  especially  smaller 
dealers,  who  have  not  purchased  lines 
of  holiday  goods  to  give  the  matter 
immediate  attention.  Purchases  made 
now  will  be  far  more  satisfactory  than 
later  when  slocks  are  broken.

Japanese  Novelties—Although  many 
•ialable" Japanese  wares  will  eventually 
be  much  higher,  owing to tariff changes, 
prices  for  the  season  at  hand  will  show 
no  material  change  from  those  of 
last 
year.  The  growing  popularity  of  Japan­
ese  and  other  Oriental  wares  has  made 
it  possible  for  dealers  to  import  large 
and  varied 
lines  of  these  goods  with 
impunity.  Fancy  Japanese  baskets  at 
this  season  are  great  stllers  in  all  retail 
fancy  goods  stocks.  The  line  this  sea­
son  is  worthy  special  attention.  China 
and  porcelain 
and  wares  of  Japan 
origin  are  steadily  gaining  popularity, 
both  in  bargain  gcods  and  high-priced 
novelties.  The  season's  best  things  in 
this  line  are  now  on  exhibition  in  sev­
eral  Japanese  departments  about  the 
market. 
these 
goods  will  insure  the  best  results,  as  far 
as  securing  a  good  assortment  is  con­
cerned.

inspection  of 

Early 

Deplorable  Condition  o f  Shopping 

Manners.

allusion 

Turn  where  we  will,  we  find  a  want 
of  manners  in  society;  and  that,  too,  in 
in  the  ranks  of  the 
good  society,  not 
confessedly  uncultivated,  or,  at 
the 
best,  of  the  only  half-cultivated.  You 
come upon these lapses of courtesy every­
in  all  circumstances.  You 
where  and 
write  a  friendly 
letter  on  a  matter of 
business  as  the  root  work,  and  you  get  a 
brief  business  acknowledgment  of  the 
cheque  you  enclosed,  without  a  word  of 
reply—i.ot  even  an 
to  the 
friendliness  of  your  letter.  This  is  from 
one  whom  else  you  know  well  in  society 
and  often  meet.  On  the  other  hand— 
we  will  give  all  their  due—you  have 
charming  letters  from  a  perfect  stranger 
with  whom  you  have  only  a  business 
correspondence—letters  which  go  far  to 
reconcile  you  to  the  boorisbness  of 
others,  and  make  you  reconsider  your 
sweeping  assertion  as  to  the  general 
and  universal  bad  manner  of  us  Ameri­
cans—badness  of  manner  which  in  no 
wise  presupposes  badness  of  heart,  but 
is  just  the  boorishness  which  comes 
from  want  of  thought  and  want  of  im­
agination.  For  to  be  absolutely  well- 
mannered  we  must  have  sympathy, 
keenness  of  perception,  an  imagination 
which  can  transport  ourselves  into  an­
other’s  position— see  with  his eyes,  feel |

with  bis  heart,  lhink  with  his  b rain - 
ana  thus  enable  us  to  realize  all  that  he 
must  ieel  and  suffer  by  what  we  should 
feel  and  suffer  were  we  in  his  place.

We  show  our  bad  manners  in  shops, 
in  hotels,  in  crowds,  as  well  as 
in  the 
more  usual  circumstances  of  society. 
How  few  of  us  show  any  real courtesy to 
shop  assistants,  who  yet  have  to  main­
tain  a  smiling  face  and  an  unruffled  de­
meanor,  insulted  as  they  may  be  half  a 
dozen  times  a  day.  VVe  march  in  with 
the  mr  of  conquerors  annexing  all  that 
pleases  their  fancy.  We  make  our  de 
sires  known  with  short,  sharp  words  of I 
command,  with  never  a  “ please”   to 
soften 
the  verbal  asperity  we  affect. 
We  toss  things  about  the  counter  with  a 
disdain  that  expresses  itself  as  acrimo 
nious-ly  as  if  colors  and  patterns  were 
moral  offenses  which  gave  us  righteous 
cause  for ■  anger  We  give  all  the 
trouf le  we  <an,  without  a  thought  as  to 
the  time  to  be  employed 
in  putting 
awav  the  failures  w e   so  contemptuously 
disiard;  and  then  we  stalk  out  of  tht*

into  a 

shop,  where  we  have  not  expended  a 
shilling,  and  we  carry  our  heads  as  if 
we  were  the 
injured  party,  not  they— 
those  poor  snubbed  and  badgered  shop 
assistants.  This 
is  no  fancy  portrait. 
We  can  see  it  realized  in  good  substan­
tial  flesh  and  blood  any  day  we  like  to 
go 
large  store  and  watch  the 
throng  passing  to  and  fro.  Whether  it 
be  from  pride,  or  shyness,  or  down­
right  boorishness,  it 
is  none  the  less 
reprehensible,  and  he  would  be  a  true 
benefactor  to  his  country  who  should 
substitute  for  our  present  bearing  some­
thing  m  re  gracious  and  more  genial, 
more  couiteous  and  more  considerate.
K a t h a r in e  Co l e .

Useful  Adjunct.

“ I  always 

like  to  have  at  least  one 
boarder  who  is  a  little  slow  about  pay­
ing, “   Mrs.  Hashcroft  admitted  to  her 
dearest  friend. 
“ A  man  of  that  kind, 
especially  a  young  man,  is  always  so 
handy  to  use  up  all  the  chicken  necks, 
the  cold  biscuits,  and  so  on.”

Mackintoshes

New  Lot  Specially  Nice.

See  them  and  you  will have  some 
of  them.  Prices  lower  than  ever.

R U B B E R   G O O D S   O F   A L L   K IN D S .

Studley  &  Barclay,

4  Monroe  Street. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

sometimes  he  is  worth  paying  this price 
for. 
If,  however,  you  are  not  prepared 
to  exchange  a  sweetheart  for a husband, 
imitate  the  example  of  the  Frenchman, 
who  refused  to  marry  the  woman  he 
loved  because  if  he  did  he  would  have 
no  agreeable  place  to  visit.”

If  a  girl 

Then  I  would  recall  to  you  the  fact 
ideal  of  matri­
that  the  very  highest 
mony 
is  a  perfect  partnership  in  the 
duties,  responsibilities  and  perquisites 
of  life.  No  honest  man  has  a  right  to 
marry  a  woman  until  he  has  told  her 
truly  about  his  business 
fully  and 
affairs. 
is  too  frivolous  and 
silly  to  understand  a  plain  business 
proposition,  she  is  certainly  too  idiotic 
to  marry.  We  hear  a  great  deal  about 
extravagant  women  who  ruin  their  hus­
bands.  If  we  could  know  the  other  side 
of  the  story,  we  should  hear  that,  in 
ninety-nine  times  out  of  a  hundred,  the 
husband never confided  in  his  wife,  and 
she  was  in  utter  ignorance  of  what  they 
could  or couldn’t  afford.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  terms  of  the  partnership  bind 
a  woman  to  make  a  home—to  keep  a 
clean  hearth  and  set  well-cooked  food 
before  her  husband  and  make  him  com­
fortable.  If  she  shirks  these  duties,  she 
fails  in  her  part.  Just  remember  that, 
won’t  you?

And  don't  board. 

I  don’t  know  any­
thing  sadder  than  to  read  in  the papers, 
at  the  end  of  the  account  of  a  swell 
wedding,  that  the  happy  couple  have 
“ taken  rooms”   at  Mrs.  So  and-So’s.  Of 
course,  you  think  that  you  and  Tom, 
being  the  first  couple  that  ever  truly, 
unalterably  loved  each  other,  will 
lead 
ideal  existence,  where  bliss  will 
an 
rhyme  forever  with  kiss,  but  when  you 
come  down  to  the  common  everyday 
inevitable  adjustment  of  two 
tacts,  the 
different  lives 
into  a  common  life  is 
bound  to  be  accomplished  with  fric­
tion.  If  you  were  in  the  privacy  of  your 
own  home  you  would  have  a  cry  and 
Tom  would  call  himself  a  brute  and  no 
harm  would  be  done.  But  some  day 
you  come  down  to  dinner  in  your  pretty 
wedding  finery,  with  red  and  swollen 
eyes,  and  the  handsome  star  boarder 
looks  at  you  with  worlds  of  unexpressed 
sympathy  in  his  face,  and you  flirt  a  lit­
tle  with  him  just  because  your  heart 
is 
so  hurt  and  sore  with  Tom,  and  Tom, 
in  anger,  goes  off  for  a  night  with  the 
boys,  and  comes  home  reeking  with  to­
bacco  smoke  and  sodden  with  liquor. 
Ah,  little  sister,  that  way  is  paved  with 
coldness  and  sorrow  and  regret,  and  it 
leads  to  the  divorce  court.  Don’t  take 
it.  Have  a  home  of  your  own,  although 
you  set  up  housekeeping 
in  your  big 
Saratoga  trunk.

is 

in  asking  for 

Insist  from  the  very  start  on  a definite 
allowance  for  youtself  and  the  house­
keeping ;  so shall you  achieve  peace  and 
comfort  and  raise  yourself  from  the  po­
sition  of  a  beggar  to  a  paid  employe. 
It  always  comes  with  a shock of surprise 
to  a  man  to  find  that  his  wife  has  spent 
the  money  he  gave  her,  and  there’s  just 
thirty  times 
less  friction  and  aggrava­
in  getting  money  once  a  month 
tion 
than  there 
it  every 
morning  at  breakfast.  And  don’t  start 
a  bad  precedent  by  telling  how  every 
nickel  of  it  went.  There  are  women 
held  to  such  strict  account  they  have 
actually  to  steal  and  falsify  their  ac­
counts  to  get  the  price  of  a  matinee 
ticket. 
I  have  always  rejoiced  in  the 
story  of  the  young  wife  whose  husband 
presented  her  with  a  nice  morocco 
leather  account  book,  in  which  she  was 
to  enter  every  cent  of  money  on  one 
page,  and  every  single  purchase  on  the 
other.  At  the  end  of the  month  he called 
on  her  to  show  her  book.  She  proudly 
brought  it  forth,  and  on  one  page  was 
written,  “ Received  of  John,  $icxj, “ and 
on  the  other,  “ Spent 
it  all.”   That 
settled 
it.  She  had  made  him  com­
fortable,  and  that  was  all  he  needed  to 
know  and  all  the  details  she  proposed to 
give.

Attend  to  your  own  affairs. 

The 
American  man,  as  a  general  thing, 
has  just  all  he  can  do,  and 
it  is  an 
outrage  for  his  wife  to  afflict  him  with 
the  burdens  of  the  housekeeping.  Man­
age  your  own  servants,  do  your  own 
errands.  When  your  husband  comes 
home,  let  him  find 
it  a  place  of  rest, 
and  don't  meet  him  at  the  door  with  an 
account  of  the  cook  burning  the  soup, 
or the  housemaid  breaking  the  best par­
lor  vase.  Keep  the  pinpricks  to  your­
self.  He  has  plenty  of  troubles  and 
worries  of  his  own.

it 

Don’t  talk  too  much.  Of  course,  be­
ing  a  good  little  girl,  I  take 
it  for 
granted  you  have  no  serious  secrets  to 
conceal,  but 
isn't  necessary  to  tell 
your  husband  everything  you  think, 
in  regard  to  other  peo­
especially 
ple.  Argument 
is  the  death  of  peace 
and  harmony,  and  don’t  get 
into  the 
way  of  discussing  beforehand  every­
thing  you  do.  Half  the  time  it  doesn’t 
make  a  bit  of  difference  one  way  or 
the  other,  but  by  talking 
it  over you 
can  get  up  a  family  squabble.  As  Davy 
Crockett  says,  “ Be  sure  you  are  right, 
then  go  ahead,”   on  your own  respon­
sibility.  And  for  goodness’  sake  use  a 
little  discretion,  and  when  you  want  to 
make  a  suggestion  to  your  husband, 
don’t  preface 
it  with,  “ Mamma  says 
you  ought  to  do  this,”  or,  “ Papa  thinks 
you  ought  to  do  that.”   “ Saw  wood  and

BARGAIN  BEAUTIES

Dakota Pat. 122 
Cavalier  u  129 
Montana u  657 
“  655
Idaho 

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PER  DOZ.

Woman’s World
in  the  Matri­
Carry  Common  Sense 

monial  Cargo.

This  is  the  season  when  people  marry 
and  are  given  away 
in  marriage.  Al­
most  every  mail  brings  me  a  handful  of 
smart,  crisp 
invitations  to  weddings, 
and  1  am  reminded  over  again  of  the 
appropriateness  of  the  simile that likens 
matrimony  to  a  voyage  over an unknown 
sea. 
It  is  a  pretty  idea,  and  we  like  to 
fancy  the  little  fleet  of  white-winged 
boats  setting  sail  in  the  golden  dawn, 
and  putting  out  across  the  harbor bar 
with  all  the  happy  winds  of  youth  and 
hope  blowing  across  their  bow.

Of  course,  we  wish  them  bon  voyage, 
and  predict  that  they  will  do  nothing 
but  cruise  around  the  fortunate  isles  for 
the  next  forty  years  or  so,  but  in  our 
hearts  we  know  that  there  is  bound  to 
come  storm  and  stress  and  tempest,  and 
when  some  of  them  are  towed  back  into 
port  again  with 
lifeless  sails  and  bat­
tered  hulks,  we  are  not  surprised. 
Sometimes  one  thing  brought  about  the 
disaster.  Sometimes  another.  Often- 
est  it  was  caused  by  pure  ignorance  of 
navigation  on  the  part  of  the  skipper. 
A  landlubber  put  out to  sea and  ran  foul 
of  the  first  obstacle  in  the  way.

It 

is  a 
it 

is  a  safe  thing  to  say  that  almost 
lové 
every  American  marriage 
match;  and,  this  being  true, 
is  a 
curious  and  cynical  commentary  on  it 
that  we  lead  the  world  in  the  number  of 
divorces.  American  women  are  the 
most  sentimental  creatures  on  earth, 
and  when  we  marry  it  is  because  we are 
convinced— temporarily,  at 
least—that 
we  cannot  exist  without  the  adored  one. 
We  seldom  take  money  into  considera­
tion  in  the  matter;  position  rarer  still, 
and  suitability  never. 
If  we  love  Tom 
Jones,  or  John  Smith,  that  settles  the 
matter,  and  we  marry  him  expecting  to 
live  happily  ever  after,  as  the  fairy 
“ Love  is  enough,”   we  cry, 
books  say. 
with  the  fatuous  folly  of 
inexperience, 
and  then  some day  we wake up aghast  to 
find  out  that  love  isn’t  enough,  but  that 
it  requires  to  be  ballasted  with  a  lot  of 
other  things  to  meet  the  requirements of 
everyday  life.

It  is  a  hard  saying,  but  worthy  of  all 
saying,  that  on  women  depends the hap­
piness-making  of  the  whole  family,  and 
I  for  one  never  go  to  a  wedding  without 
wishing  it  were  my  privilege  to  address 
a  few  words  of  advice  to  the  bride. 
I 
should  like  to say to her:  “ My dear girl,
I  know  you  have  been  preached  to  un­
til  you  are  sick  and  tired  of  it  all. 
They’ve  talked  to  you  about  obedience 
and  duty  and  respect  until  you  could 
say  it  backwards  in  your  sleep,  but  has 
anybody  ever  said  a  word  to  you  about 
carrying  along  a  little  common  sense  in 
the  cargo  you  are  going  to  ship  for  this 
long  voyage?  No? 
I  thought  not,  yet 
a  little  hard,  practical,  everyday  sense 
will  do  more  to  insure  domestic  felicity 
than  a  square  mile  of  illuminated  mot­
toes  of  ‘ God  Bless  Our  Home.’  ”

“ In  the  first  place,I  suppose  you real­
ize  what  you  are  doing  in  getting  mar­
ried?  Matrimony  means,  among  other 
things,  a  few  parties  to  which  you  drag 
a  tired  and  unwilling  man,  instead  of 
being 
joyfully  escorted  to  innumerable 
balls. 
It  means  no  more  beaux ;  oc­
casional  theater  tickets;  buying  your 
own  candy  and  flowers;  few  compli­
ments;  a  peck  on  the  cheek  for  a  kiss, 
and  that,  instead  of  daily  rehearsals  of 
undying  devotion,  you  will  be  expected 
to  take  your  husband’s 
love  on  trust. 
But  you  will  have  lots  of  husband,  and

say  little,”   is  a  good  motto  for  women 
as well  as  diplomats.

Because  you  are  married  gives  you no 
right  to  wear  wrappers  to  breakfast 
If 
and  tell  your  husband  home  truths. 
he  was  worth  catching,  he 
is  worth 
keeping. 
If  he  was  worth  entertaining 
before,  he  is  worth  fascinating  now. 
If 
you  love  him,  don’t  be  afraid  to  show 
him  that  you  do.  A  kiss  may  heal  a 
broken  heart  and  a  caress  give  a  man 
fresh  courage  to  begin  the  battle  with 
the  world  over  again.

for 

Finally,  don’t  expect  too  much  of 
your husband.  Of  course,  it was  a  shock 
when  you  found  out  he  was  merely  mor­
tal  and  could  be  ruffled  by  dinner  being 
late  and  swear  a  blue  streak  when  his 
collar button  rolled  under  the  bureau. 
This  was  not  the  conduct  you  expected 
in  a  demi-god,  but,  my  dear  girl, 
there’s  nothing  like  the  companionship 
of a  cheerful  sinner  who makes mistakes 
and  gets  mad  and  knows  bow  to  make 
allowances 
in  you. 
Jane  Carlyle  set  down  her  opinion  of  a 
man  of  genius  as  a  husband,  and  I  am 
told  by  a  woman  who  is  married  to  a 
saint  that  he  is  the  most  exasperating 
thing  in  the  world.  Take your  husband 
as  you  find  him  and  make  the  best  of 
him,  and  with  all  his  faults  and  whims, 
a  husband 
is  a  handy  thing  to  have 
around  the  house.  For  what  does  the 
good  book  say?  “ There  must  be  hewers 
of  wood  and  drawers  of  water  and  buy­
ers of Easter bonnets. ”   And may heaven 
bless  you,  my  children !

like  frailties 

Dorothy  D ix.

The  human  race  is  divided 

into  two 
classes:  those  who  go  ahead  and  do 
something  and  those  who  sit  down  and 
enquire  why 
it  wasn’t  done  the  other 
way.— Oliver  Wendell  Holmes.

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it 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the  S ta te
Movements  ot  Merchants. 

Albion —John  N.  Flynn  succeeds  the 

Richter  Grocery  Co.

bt.  Charles—E.  C.  Jones  has  opened  a 

grocery  store  at  this  place.

Ashley —Orlando  Luce  succeeds  My 

ron  H.  Mills  in  general  trade.

Hart— W.  Stilt  has  emhaiked  in  the 

grocery  bus  ness  at  this  place.

Marshall  Ward  &  Tiiwmg  succeed 

Ward  Bros,  in  the  clothing  business 

Laingsburg— Leman  S.  Reed  has 

opened  a  grocery  store at  this  place.

Hopkins  Station— Rockwell  Bros.  & 

Wharton  have  opened  a  meat  market.

Oak  Grove  Guy  B  Hos.ev  succeeds 

M.  J.  Hosley  &  Son  in  central  trade.

Brown  City—ChaS  John.-on,  of  Cros 
well,  has  opened  a  meat  market  at  th  s 
place

Milford—Win.  C.  Grier  has  sold  his 
stock  of  hardware  and  stoves  to  F.  B. 
Hatch.

Monroe—Reisig  &  Hoffman  succeeo 
the  plumbing 

in 

Bever  &  Reisig 
business.

Brookfield—Chas.  Powers,  of  Char­
lotte,  will  shortly  open  a  grocery  store 
at  this  place.

I harlotte — Aaron  Losey  has  taken  the 
position  of  prescription  clerk  for  Ur. 
Frank  Merritt.

Dimoudale—A  new  general  store  will 
shortly  be  opened  at  this  place by  Rum- 
sey  &  Shotwell.

Escanaba— Eugene  Lavigne  contem­
plates  embarking  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  in  the  near  future.

Eaton  Rapids—Amos  McKinney  has 
in  connection 

opened  a  meat  market 
with  his  grocery  business.

Union  City— Kinnell  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  book,  stationery  and  mil­
linery  stock  of  D.  p.  White.

Lansing— Wilson  &  Jordan,  dealers 
in  carriages  and  harnesses,  have  openeo 
a  branch  store  at  Laingsburg.

Iron wood—The Prescott  Hardware  Co. 
succeeds  Fred  M.  Prescott 
ingtnera) 
trade  at  this  place  and also at  Bessemer.
Brown  City— W.  Trevithick  and  J. 
Buchanan, 
of  Glencoe,  Ont.,  have 
opened  a  new  merchant  tailoring  estab­
lishment.

Cheboygan—J.  A.  Ramlow has opened 
a  meat  market  in  his  budding  on  State 
street.  Chas  Melancon 
is  manager  ol 
the  business.

Durand— L.  C.  Mead,  who  recently 
opened  a  grocery  store  here,  is  unable 
to  find  a  vacant  house  in  the  town  in 
which  to  locate  his  iamily.

interest 

Boyne  City—Byron  Lyke  has  sold  a 
in  his  meat  market  to 
half 
John  Lewis,  of  Detroit.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Lyke  &  Lewis.

Thompsonville—C.  0. 

Smith  has 
commenced  to  build  a  large double store 
opposite  the  company  store  and  will 
put  in  stocks  of  furniture  and  shoes.

is  being  moved 

Alma— Howard  Willard 

Port  Huron— F.  A.  Weyers  has  closed 
his  grocery  store  on Military street.  The 
stock 
into  a  vacant 
store  in  the Merchants’  Exchange block 
and  Fred 
Wright  iiave  purchased  the  Woodward 
grocery  stock  and  bakery  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Grand  Haven-David  Wright  has  sold 
his  confectiouery  stock  to  Neil  McMil­
lan  and  Herman  Z  Nyland,  who  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Oshtemo—The  grocery  stock  and store 
building  belonging  to  the 
late  Mrs. 
Emily  E.  Stevens  has  been  purchased 
by  Mr.  Kinnie,  who  will  continue  the 
business.

Leslie— Mitchel  Buckingham,  former 
ly  engaged 
in  the  bakery  business  at 
Ovid,  has  formed  a  copartnership  with 
O  D.  Clement  and  established  a bakery 
at  this  place.

Coral—Soules  &  Skeach  have 

just 
completed  a  two-storv  warehouse  with 
stone  basement,  40x80  feet 
in  dimen­
sions,and  are  storing  potatoes and  grain 
and  will  handle  lime,  brick,  cement 
and  seeds.

Jackson— The  Parker  &  Fleming  Co. 
in  con­
has  opened  a  meat  department 
nection  with 
store.  Of 
course,  the  fixtures  and  stock  are  first 
class -  Parker  &  Fleming  never  do  anv- 
ihmg  by  halves.

its  gn eery 

Whitehall— L.  G.  Sweningston,  who 
has  had charge  of  A.  Mears’  mercantile 
business  for  the  past  ten  years,  has  pur­
chased  an  interest  in  the  general  stock 
and  the  firm  name  will  hereafter  be 
Mears  ifc  Sweningston.

Saginaw—King  &  Moore  have  dis­
continued  their  meat  market  and  gro­
cery  store  in  South  Saginaw.  The  fix­
tures  will  be  removed  to  Potter  street 
and  used 
in  the  new  store  ol  King  & 
Sea ties.  The  stock  will  be  transferred 
to  the  old  store  on  Jefferson  avenue.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Detroit—C.  E. 

lurrell  succeeds  F. 
E.  Turrell  as  proprietor  of  the  Detroit 
Pop  Corn  Noveity  Co.

Ithaca— B.  H.  Wells  has  sold 

the 
machinery  and  stock 
the  Ithaca 
foundry  to  Phillip  Tinlin.who  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

in 

Midland—Anderson  Bros.,  manufac­
turers  of  shingles,  have  merged  their 
business 
into  a  corporation  under  the 
same  style  as  heretofore.

Saginaw—The  style  of  Randall  & 
Boyd,  planing  mill  operators  and 
lum- 
Der  dealers,  has  been  changed  to  the 
Booth  &  Boyd  Lumber  Co.

Portland—The  Michigan  Cabinet  and 
Commode  Co.  has  closed  a  deal  with 
L.  E.  Steinman  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  to 
take  the  entire  output  of  the  factory  for 
the  next  fifteen  mouths.

Inttriocben—C.  F.  Reid,  of  Tra verse 
City,  has 
leased  the  Hart  shingle and 
sawmill  plants  and  is  preparing  to  run 
them  both.  When  the  mills start  Mr. 
Reid  will  employ  about  forty  men.

immediately  begin 

Port  Huron— Dr.  A.  L.  McLaren  has 
invented  a  bicycle  brace  suspender  ana 
will 
its  manufac­
ture.  The  doctor  thought  out  his  inven­
tion,  applied  for  a  patent  and  ordered 
his  machinery,  all  within 
thirty-six 
hours.

Owosso—The  Greer  Spoke  Works 
plant  has  been  purchased  by  Joseph  M. 
story,  who  wiil  make  a  number  ot 
changes  and  improvements  in the plant, 
a  larger  bo.ler  having  already  been  put 
in, and  an  addition  is  being  made  to the 
building  used.

Muskegon— The  Lageland  Manufac­
turing  Co.  has  purchased  the  plant 
known  as  the  Standard  Box  Shook  fac­
tory,  at  North  Muskegon,  which  has 
oeen  operated  by  James  Hudson  for 
some  time  past,  and  will  use  it  as  a 
supply  concern 
in  connection  with  its 
present  factory.  Twenty-five  men  are 
furnished  employment  by  the  change.

Jackson—F.  R.  Bassett,  manager  of 
the  Challenge  Churn  Manufacturing 
Co.,  at  Paw  Paw,  has  concluded  negoi- 
ations  with  the  Aspinwall  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  to  make  his  churns 
in  any 
quantity  desired.  The  work  will  com­
mence  as  soon  as  the  machinery  can  be 
removed  here  and  set  up,  and  it  is fully 
expected  that  by  the  end  of  the  first 
year  the  output  will  be  300 churns  per 
day.

Cheboygan— E  A.  Vorce  has 

leased 
the  Langdon  feed  mill  and  will  operate 
it  to  is  full  capacity.

Traverse  City—Smith  Bros.,  Scott 
Woodward  and  Noah  Shattuck  have 
formed  a  copartnership,  to  he  known  as 
the  Smith  Bros  Co.  The  purpose  of  the 
company  is  to  manufacture  lawn  chairs 
and  woodenware  novelties  at  the  plant 
of  the  Shattuck  Manufacturing  Co., 
which  built  a  factory  on  the  bay  shore. 
Mr.  Shattuck  was  a  member  of the com 
pany  mentioned,  which  was  forced  to 
discontinue  business  on  account  of  lack 
of  capital.

Fraudulent  Failure  at  Hancock. 
Hancock,  Nov.  6—Herman  Stark, 
who  has  been  engaged  in  the  elnjniug 
and  men’s  furnishing  goods  busintss  at 
Hancock  the  past  five  years,  failed  to 
open  his  doors  this  morning  and  made 
an  assignment  for  the  "  benefit1  ot  bis 
creditors.  The  assignment  has  the  most 
beaut  ful  appearance  of  being  " a   goon 
thing”   and  snould  result  in  Mr.  Stark 
re-engaging 
in  business  on  a  more  ex­
tensive  scale  and  with  a  larger  capital 
than  heretofore.  The  exact  amount  ot 
Stark  s  liabilities 
is  $11,388 94,  and  it 
is  stated  on  good  authority  tnat  the 
goods  representing  this  amount  have 
nearly  ail  been  received  the  past  lew 
months.  Mr.  Stark  inventoried  his  stock 
Thursday  and  the  best  value  he  coulu 
place  on  it,  together  with  two  old build­
ings-one  at  Cbassell,  the  other at  Port­
age  Entry—was  $2,700.  When  Stark 
saw  he  was  to  face 
‘ the  blow  that  al 
most  killed  father”   he  promptly  deed«-o 
the  property  at  Chassell  to  his  better 
half,  but  the  assignee,  James  lamblyn, 
would  have  nothing  to  do  with  the affair 
under  such  circumstances  and  the  aeed 
was  reverted  to  Stark  and  it  will  figure 
in  the  assets.  The  houses  are  next  to 
valueless  and  the  stock  at  the  store  is 
valued  at  $1,500,  and  the  question  ag­
itating  the  creditors is,  what has become 
of  the  $10 000  worth  of  goods  received 
of  late?

it 

it 

is  now 

Houghton,  Nov.  8—Herman  Stark 

is 
now  conceded  to  be  a  new  star  in  the 
firmament  of  modern 
financiers.  A 
search  for  Stark’s  only  clerk  failed  to 
reveal  him,  and 
learned  be 
went  to  Lake  Linden  Friday,  and  left 
for  Buffalo  on  a 
lumber  barge.  The 
young  man  displayed  a  roll  of  bills  at 
Lake  Linden. 
is  believed  Stark 
It 
didn  t  want  his  lat^  employe  to  stay 
around  Hancock, 
lest  he  should  be 
asked  to  tell  a  few  things  he  might 
happen  to  know,  and  accordingly  ar­
ranged  for  a  p'easure  trip  on  the  steam 
barge.  One  year ago  Stark  inventoried 
his  worldly  possessions,  when  they  are 
said  to  have  footed  up  $10,500,  lree  of 
any  encumbrance.  He  has  bought  goods 
to  fully  this  amount  the  past few months 
is  doubtiul  if  the  stock 
but  to-day 
turned  over  to  "the  assignee 
is  worth 
$1,000.  Mr.  Kahn,  of  Chicago,  one " of 
the  creditors,  arrived  in  Hancock  to­
day  and,  calling  upon  the  assignee, 
asked  it his firm’s  account  was  included 
in  the  statement  of  liabilities.  He  was 
told  that  it  was,  to  the  extent  of  $1,300, 
which  was  for a  bill  of  men’s  clothing 
sold  Sept  6.  Mr.  Kahn  then  proceeded 
to  the  store  to  see  how  much  of  the 
goods  he  shipped  were  still  unsold,  but 
imagine  his  surprise,  when, 
as  he 
;-tated,  he  could  not  find  a  button  that 
had  formerly  belonged  to  him.  Other 
creditors  have  also  appeared  on  the 
scene  and  there  is  some  talk  of criminal 
instituted  against 
proceedings  being 
Stark,  who 
is  believed  to  be  in  Chi­
cago.-  The 
impression  prevails  that 
Stark  has  the  goods  “ planted,”   which 
idea 
is  borne  out  by  the  fact  that  the 
dray  business  from  his  store  is  said  to 
have  been  quite  good  of  late.

“ Cleverly  Conceived  and  Skillfully 

Executed  Swindle.”

A  manufacturing  establishment  in  a 
neighboring  city  recently  asked 
its 
Grand  Rapids  representative  to  prepare 
a  brief  on  the  trading  stamp  scheme. 
The  opinion  furnished  in  pursuance  of 
such  instructions  was  as  follows :

is  that 

Mv  candid  opinion  of  the  trading 
itamp  system 
it  is  one  of  the 
most  cleverly  conceived  and  skillfully 
swindles  1  have  ever  had 
executed 
brought  to  my  attention. 
In  every  case 
the  solicitor  who  secures  the  signature 
of  the  merchant  attempts  to  obscure  the 
real  facts  in  the  case,  making  it  appear 
th.it  he  will  have  to  pay  but  5  per  cent, 
on  the  new  trade  he  set ures  as  the  re­
sult  of  his  adopting  the  trading  stamp 
system.  Later  on  be  finds,  to  his  sor­
row,  that  he 
is  not  only  paying  5  per 
cent,  on  his  new  trade,  but  is compelled 
to  pay  the  same  amount  on  the  old 
trade  secured  by  reason  of  years  of 
persistent  effort. 
1  have  talked  with  a 
oozen  or  fit teen  Grand  Rapids  mer­
chants  who  went  into  the  scheme  when 
it  first arrived  in  town  and  every  one  is 
heartily  sick  of  it,  but  cannot  get  away 
irom  it  because  he  is  bound  by  an  iron­
clad  annual  contiact. 
In  no  case  has  a 
dealer  renewed  his  contract  with  the 
agency,  which 
is  pretty  good  proof,  to 
my  mind,  that 
it 
is  not  a  desirable 
thing  for  the  merchant.

interesting 

What  a  Blind  Merchant  Can  Do.
Buchanan,  Nov.  1— Del Jordan,  dealer 
in  groceries  and  confectioneries  at  this 
place,  can  weigh  correctly  on  the  scales 
any  article,  operate  a  typewriter  as  well 
as  the  average  person,  tell  the  time  of 
day  and  give  the  correct  name  of  any 
piece  of  money  except  bills.  He  selects 
and  buys  all  his  goods  unaided,  save  by 
the  hand  of  Providence.  What  makes 
everything  so 
is  that  Mr. 
Iordan  is  unable  to  distinguish  a  ray  of 
light;  having 
lost  his  eyesight  about 
eleven  years  ago.  While  be  was  work­
ing  in  the  Buchanan  windmill  works  a 
piece  ot  steel  flew  in  Mr.  Jordan’s  left 
eye,  resulting 
in  total  blindness.  He 
has  made  Buchanan  his  home  since 
1863,  arriving  here  when  about 
six 
months  old.  He  was  born  in  Charlotte 
in  Nov.,  1862.  The  first  year  after  los­
ing  his  sight  he  attended  the  State 
School  for  the  Blind,  remaining  three 
years,  during  which  time  he  pursued  a 
literary  course  and 
learned  the  art  of 
both  hammock  and  broommaking.  He 
returned  here  alter  his  school  work  was 
finished  and  has  ever  since  been  en­
gaged  in  business  for  himself.  He  en­
joys  a  growing  trade  and  is  in  every 
it.  Few  are  better 
way  deserving  of 
read  and  able  to  converse  more 
intelli­
gently  upon  almost  any  topic  than  is 
Mr.  Jordan,  and  he  has  the  sympathy 
and  respect  of  the  whole  community.

Result  of  the  Lansing  Session.

The  State  Board,of  Pharmacy  held  an 
examination  session  at  Lansing 
last 
week.  Out  of  fifty  eight  candidates  the 
following  were  granted  certificates: 

Registered  Pharmacists-C.  W.  Blake 
and  Robert  W.  Cockhurn,  of  Kalama­
zoo;  Anton  Deisler,  of  Saginaw;  Rich­
ard  W.  Evans,  of  Flushing;  C.  W. 
Fallas,  of  Cedar  Springs;  C.  Earl  Van 
Avery,  Middleville;  L.  D.  GIast.ford.of 
Cbalton,  Ont.  ;  Truman  G.  Huvt,  of 
Muskegon;  Chas.  Hagadorn,  of  Bay 
City;  john  A.  Miller,  ot  Caledonia;  H. 
T.  Markham,  of  Port  Pluron;  H.  D. 
Phelps,  of  West  Bay  City;  J.  F.  Spin­
ney,  of  Lansing;  Agnes  S.  Rich,  of 
Traverse  City;  S.  L.  Wyman,  of  Wes­
ton ;  G.  A.  Knoak,  of  St.  Joseph.

Assistant  Pharmacists---- Harry  L.
Gibbs,  of  Greenville;  Walter  E.  Turn­
er,  of  Clifford.

Women’s  Shoes  Like  Men’s.

The  demand  for  women's  shoes  made 
over  lasts  shaped 
like  men’s,  which 
sprung  up  a  few  seasons  back,  has  not 
died  out.  On  the  contrary,  manufac­
turers  producing  work  of  this  character 
are  kept  busy. 
It  is  chiefly  confined  to 
the  best grades.

All  One  Sided.

Mrs.  Prye— Tell  me,  dear,  do  you 

ever quarrel  with  your husband?
quarrels  with  me,  the  hateful  thing!

Mrs.  Lamb—Never.  But  he  often

Phone  Visner  for  Gillies  N.  Y.  teas, 

ill  kinds,  grades and  prices.

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Grand  R apids  G ossip

G.  W.  Daud  has  opened  a  grocery 
store at AEtna.  The Ball-Barnhart-Put­
man  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Goossen  Bros,  have  removed  their 
grocery  stock  from  140  Monroe  street  to 
the  Goossen  building  on  Ottawa  street.
in  the 
grocery  business  at  19  Ohio  street  The 
Ball  Barnhart-Putman Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Peter  Veenstra  has  embarked 

F.  E.  Prestel,general  dealer at  Sheri 
dan,  has  opened  a  branch  grocery  store 
at  McBride’s.  The  Clark-Jewell-Welh 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

J.  Frank  Gaskill  has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of  John  Odejewski,  at  185 
Fifth  avenue,  and  removed 
it  to  his 
store,  202  East  Bridge  street.

is  put 

Grand  Rapids  dealers  are 

selling 
butterine  which  has  the  rich  yellow 
color peculiar to factory creamery  butter, 
but  it  is  somewhat  doubtful  whether  the 
Food  Commissioner  can  secure  any con­
victions  for  violation  of  the  State  law 
prohibiting  the  sale  of  colored  butter 
ine.  The  reason  for  this 
is  that  the 
coloring 
into  the  butter,  which 
enters  into  the  composition of butterine. 
so  that  the  manufacturer  of  bogus  but­
ter  will  be  able  to  exhibit  his  formula 
in  court  and  swear  that  no  butter  color 
of  any  kind  or  character  is  used  in  his 
establishment. 
is  a 
clever  one  and  the  Tradesman  very 
much  doubts  whether  a  jury  can  be  se 
cured  which  can  convict  an  apparent 
violator  of  the  law  on  these  grounds.

The  subterfuge 

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Northern  Spvs  are  about  the 
in  market, 
The 
is  not  strictly  No.  1,  but  is  fair 

only  variety  of  winter  fruit 
commanding  $2@2  25  per  bbl. 
stock 
in  quality.

Bananas—The  quotations 

are  not 
changed,  although  the  market  has  an 
easier  feeling.  The  movement  is  fairly 
laree.

Butter— Separator  creamery  has  de 
dined  to  23c.  Dairy  is  coming  in  more 
freely,  commanding  about 20c for fancy.

Cabbage—$3  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$1  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  bunch.
Cranberries—Choice  Cape  Cods  and 
Fancy  Wisconsins  are  now  sold  on  the 
same  basis—$7  50  per  bbl.
Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  15c,  case 
count,  holding  at  16c,  case  count,  or  17c 
for  fancy  candled.
mand  12c  for  8  lb.  baskets.
firm.  White  clover 
dark  buckwheat  at  10c.

Grapes—New  York  Concords 
Honev—The  market 

com­
is  steady  and 
is  held  at  11c  and 

Lemons—The  movement  is  light  and 

prices  are  steady.

Lettuce— Hot  house  goods  fetch  15c 

per  lb.

Onions—White  Globe  and  Red  com­

mand  50c.  Spanish,  S i.75  per  crate.

Oranges—Mexicans  are  as  yet  the 
only  fruit  on  the  market.  They  are 
coming  freelv  but  the  demand  is good 
enough  to  hold  the  market  steady.

Pears—Keefers  command  S3  per  bbl.
Potatoes— While many outside markets 
are  still  glutted  with  stock,  conditions 
have  materially  improved  and  prices— 
40@5oc—are  well  maintained  at  all  the 
local  buying  points 
in  this  State;  in 
fact,  buyers  appear  to  be  banking  on 
higher  prices  and  their  ability  to  se­
cure  cars,  which 
is  now  the  greatest 
obstacle  in  the  way  of  moving  the  crop. 
The  situation  at  St.  Louis 
is  thus  de­
scribed  by  the  Miller-Teasdale  Co.  : 
“ The  movement  is  very  good,  with  the 
arrivals  this  week  heavy  and  mostly  of 
very 
inferiot  quality,  poorly-culled, 
small  and  dirty,  which  sell  low  Fancy, 
bright,  uniform  potatoes,  well-culled 
and  matured,  are  wanted,  and  will  sell

at  full  quotations,  and  a  little  more  if 
really  nice;  but  much  of  the  stock com 
mg  in  is  not  such.  Shippers  must  know 
that  such  poor  quality  of  potatoes  as  are 
being  shipped  is very hard to sell.  Much 
of  the  stock 
is  only  suitable  for  ped­
dlers,  and  they  shake  their  heads  often 
and  will  not  buy.  Shippers  must  cull 
their  stock  more  closely  it  they  expect 
to  get  good  prices.  Ship  your  fancy 
stock 
in  a  car  by  itself,  and  the  poor 
stock  by  itself,  but  never  mix  it  in  the 
hope  of  getting  a  better  price  for  the 
poor. ”

Poultry— Hens  and  spring  chickens 
are  rather  scarce  at  7&8c.  Ducks  are 
in  fair  supply  at  8@ioc.  Turkeys  are 
strong  and  in  active  demand  at  8i^ioc. 
Geese  are  in  moderate  demand  at 8@9'.'.
Quinces—The market  is quiet,  jobbers 
holding  their  stocks  at  75c  per  bu.,  with 
few  takers.

Squash— $1  per  100  lbs.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Genuine Jerseys com 
mand  $4,  while  Virginias  are  held  at 
$2  75.
Game— Dealers  pay  75c@$i  per  doz. 
for  rabbits  and  gi  per  doz.  for  No.  1 
squirrels.

Beans— Have  advanced  again  and  a 
good  demand  prevails.  Prices  may  go 
higher,  but  the  future  is uncertain.  The 
price  is  now  15c  above  the  lowest  price 
on  new  beans.

Concerted  Effort  to  Smother  Unfav­

orable  Comment.

Grand  Rapids,  Nov.  8—There  ap­
pears  to  be  a  disposition  on  the  part  of 
the  citv  press  to  smother  the opinions ol 
all  who  are  not  in  sympathy  with  the 
late  street  disgrace  of  the  Valley  City. 
I  notice  that  the  pulpit  which  endorses 
the  show  has  from  a  halt  to  a  whole 
column  of carnival  utterances published, 
while  the  ministers  who  dare  defend the 
•norals  of  society  by  condemning  the 
affair  set  ab iut  two  inches  of  sarcastic 
ridicule. 
The  writer  expressed  his 
non-endorsement  at  the  anest  of  a  cer­
tain  “ attraction"  which  was  invited  to 
participate 
in  the  late  carnival,  ann 
which  added  to  the  committee’s  coffers, 
m  about  the  following  language,  and 
dropped  his  communication 
into  the 
editorial  basket  of  the  Evening  Press, 
out,  like  other  opinions  of 
its  ilk,  it 
failed  to  get  space :

“ Where  a  city  invites  outside  enter­
tainments  to  add  to  the  attractions  and 
accepts  blood  money  for  privileges,  and 
the  police  are  so  blind  that  they  cannot 
discover  any  objectionable  features  un­
til  the  very  last  hour  of  the  exhibition, 
iloes  it  not  appear  farfetched  to  swoop 
down  upon  one  particular  dive  which 
was  no  more  obnoxious  than  many 
scenes  upon  the  public  streets? 
If  the 
committee  has  run  short  of  funds  to 
defray  the  expenses  of  the  demoralizing 
show  it  should  levy  a  tax  upon  the  en­
tire  city,  inasmuch  as  it  claims  it  was 
an  education  and  of  great 
financial 
worth  to  the  Valley  City.”
The  envelope  should  have  been  a 
warning  from  the  start  No  private 
citizen  dare  use  such  a  design  to  adver­
tise  his  business.  Prison  walls  encircle 
less  obscenity 
those  who  have  sent 
through  the  mails,  but  the 
carnival 
committee  must  have  had  a  “ pull”  
with  Uncle  Samuel  and, 
like  manv 
saloons  and  other  variety  shows,  stood 
in  with  the  fathers. 

G.  D.  Ba l l.

Gaius  W.  Perkins  and  Chas.  F.  Reed, 
President  and  Vice-President  of 
the 
Grand  Rapids  School  Furniture  Co., 
are  spending  a  fortnight 
in  the  New 
England  States  and  in  New  York  City, 
inspecting  the  branch  offices  of  the  cor­
poration.

S.  W.  Peregrine  formerly  manager 

of  the  defunct  Gtand  Rapids  Seating 
Co.,  is  undertaking  to 
interest  Detroit 
capital  in  a  new  corporation  to  engage 
in  the  manufacture  of  school  desks  and 
opera  chairs.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons  offer  Merrimac 
shirting  prints  at  t& c  and  American 
shirting  prints at  3^c,  less. 2  per  cent. 
10 days.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  only  change  this  week  is 
an  advance  of  a  sixpence  in  Nos.  3,  4 
and  5.  The  volume  of  business 
in 
sugars  will  be  comparatively  light  from 
this  time  on  for  about  four months.  The 
period  between  this  and  the  middle  of 
February  is  the  natural  period  of  lowest 
depression  in  sugars.  Reports from  the 
cane  growing  sections  of  the  United 
States  say  that  the  crop,  although 
late, 
promises  to  be  a  good  one.

Tea—The  outlook 

is  for  a  dull  and 
quiet  trade  during  November  and  De­
cember,  with  st me  activity  after  the 
turn  of  the  year.  Prices  are  unchanged, 
and  holders  are  still  refusing  to  make 
any  concessions,  which  would  seem  to 
imply  that  the  market  is  in  good  shape.
Coffee—Since  the  beginning  of  the 
crop  year  there  has  been  received  at 
Rio  and  Santos  5,343.000  bags  of coffee, 
which  means,  if  crop  estimates  are  ac­
curate,  that  five-eighths  of  the  crop  has 
been  received 
less  than  one-half  of 
therefore, 
the  crop  year.  Receipts, 
should  materially  decrease 
in  the  not 
very  far  future,  and  present  prices 
would  seem  to  be  very  safe  for  the 
buyer.  Maracaibo  quotations  have  been 
a  trifle  easier,  due  more,  perhaps,  to 
the  undesirability  of  the  supplies  in 
first hands,  as  first-class  stock  will  read­
ily  bring  full  prices  and  find  prompt 
purchasers.  Java  and  Mocha  are  un­
changed.

in 

Canned  Goods—The  supply  of  toma­
toes 
is  much  larger  than  was  expected 
and  further  declines  are  anticipated  by 
some  holders,  although  on  this  point 
all  are  not  agreed.  Very  few  tomatoes 
will  be  carried  over.  The  corn  market 
is  dull  and  unchanged.  Peas  are  in 
only  small  demand  and  prices  are  un 
changed.  Peaches  are quiet,  especially 
so  far  as  the  Eastern  grades  are  con­
cerned.  A  few  pie  and  seconds  are 
selling,  but 
the  trade  has  generally 
bought  California  standards  and  extra 
standards  to  arrite,  arid  they  are  there 
fore  out  <>f  the  market  for  the  present.
Dried  Fruits— Reports  from  the  Coast 
say  that  raisins  have  suffered  consider­
ably  from  rains  and  that  there  will  be  a 
great  scarcity  of  three  crown  raisins. 
Rumor  has  it  that  some  of  the  packers 
are  mixing  lower grade  raisins  with  the 
three  crown,  and  that  still  others  are 
changing  their  screens  so  that  a  smaller 
raisin  is  being  graded  as  three  crown. 
Prunes  are  unchanged  and  the  sale  of 
these 
is  reported  to  be  considerably 
lighter  this  season  in  this  market  than 
usual.  This  is  not  due  to  a  greater  con­
signment  of  dried  fruits  to  commission 
houses 
in  this  market,  for  this  is  not 
the  case.  It  looks  as  though  there  would 
be  little  of  this  work  done  this  season. 
There 
is  an  advance  in  currants  of  %  
cent.  Low  grade  currants  are  reported 
to  be  very  scarce  in  the  European  mar­
kets,  and  the  currant  market  in  Greece 
is  made  firmer  by  the  better  system  of 
finances  new  instituted  in  that  country.
Provisions—Lard  is  slightly  weaker, 
although  there  has  been  no  further  ac­
tual  decline.  There 
is  still  a  stronger 
universal  tendency  to  sell.  There  has 
been  no  change  in  the  jobbing  price  of 
provisions  during  the  week,  although  in 
first  hands  everything  except  bellies  has 
advanced.

Fish— The  catch 

in  Ireland  is  over, 
and  the  total  catch  is  only  one-third  of 
last  year.  The  quality  of  the  new  Irish 
mackerel  this  year  is  exceedingly  fine. 
The  week’s  receipts  have  been  only 
moderate.  Cod 
in  fair  movement 
at  unchanged  prices. 
in 
moderate  demand,  and  prices  are  un­
changed.

Salmon 

is 

is 

The  Grain  Market.

in  1895  and

The  wheat  market  has  been  of  a 
drooping  character  during 
the  past 
week.  The  exports  were  again  nearly
6.000.  000  bushels  and  the  receipts  were 
equally  as  large,  increasing  the  visible
2.000.  000  bushels,  so  that  we  now  have
in  sight  against
29.000.  000  bushels 
60.000.  000  bushels  at  the  same  time  last 
year,  57,000,000  bushels 
81.000.  000  bushels  in  1894.  The  statis­
tical  position 
in  wheat  is  as  strong  as 
ever,  if  not  stronger;  but.  owing  to  the 
fact  that  cash  wheat  is  fully  as  high  as 
futures,  stocks  are  being  pressed  to 
wheat  centers  and  the  interior  elevators 
in  the  Northwest  are  being  depleted. 
How  long  this  can  last  is  entirely  prob­
lematical.  There  appear  to  be  two 
strong  cliques  in  Chicago,  the  long  and 
short  interests. 
It  remains  to  be  seen 
which  will  be  victorious,  owing  to  the 
uncertain  price  of  wheat.  Flour  buyers 
are  somewhat  timid  just  at  this  mo­
ment.  However,  should  the  wheat  mar­
ket  advance,  there  will  be  a  good  de­
mand  for  flour  at  advanced  prices,  as 
dealers  are  not  overstocked  with  flour 
by  any  means.  We  note  a  decline  of 
2C  per  bushel  from  la-t  week.

Corn  and  oats,  as 

is  usual,  remain 
quiet.  Rye  also  does  not  show  much 
animation

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  75 
cars  of  wheat,  4 cars  of  corn  and  13  cars 
of  oats

Local  millers are paying 86c  for wheat.

C  G.  A. Yol«’).

Flour  a >.a  f- eed.

Flour  markets  for  the  past  week  have 
been  somewhat  demoralized  on  account 
of  the  condition  of  wheat markets  Buy­
ers  and  se.lers  have  been  wide  apart 
in 
their  views,  from  the  fact  that  on  the 
one  hand  buyers  can  apparently  see  but 
one  side,  while  the  seder  or  manufac­
turer  t f  flour,  who  con es  in  close  touch 
with  the  movement  of  wheat  fn m  first 
hands  n iturallv believes  in  higher prices 
is  unwilling  to  follow  the  trend  of 
and 
a  purely  speculative  de pression 
of 
wheat  The  farmers  of  this  country 
are  wide  awake  and  know  full  well  that 
present 
the 
prospective  demand  and  the  outlook  for 
the  growing  winter  wheat  crop,  have 
brought  about  a  condition  such  as  has 
not  existed  for  years,  and  they  are  de­
termined,  as  far  as  possible,  to  profit 
by 
the  movement 
throughout  the  winter  wheat  belt  is very 
light  and  the  price  of  flour 
is  firm,  as 
compared  with  wheat.

it.  As  a  result, 

together  with 

supplies, 

Grand  Rapids  mills  are  all  running 
full  time  and  are  fairly  supplied  with 
orders.

Millstuffs  are 

in  good  demand,  with 
values  well  sustained.  The  movement 
of  feed  and  meal  is  light,  values  tend­
ing  somewhat  lower.

VYm.  N.  R ow e.

Hides,  Pelts  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  is  strong  from  scar­
city.  All  markets  are  already  sold  up 
and  no  supply  is  in  sight  or  to  be  had. 
The  demand 
is  good  at  an  increased 
price.

firm 

from 

Pelts  remain 

the  same 
cause.  Prices  are  fully  above  what  the 
wool  market  will  warrant  and  pullers 
bank  on  an  advance  in  wool  to  make  a 
profit.

There 

is  some  enquiry  for  wool,  but 
it  cannot  be  bought  at  the  old  prices  to 
any  extent,  and  manufacturers  await 
the  sale  of  spring  goods  before  buying 
stock  except  for  immediate  wants.  The 
situation 
is  strong  for  higher  prices, 
nearly  to  imDorting  point.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

s

The  M eat  M arket

Venison  at  a  Cent  a  Pound. 
Norcross (Me.) Correspondence N. Y. Snn.

The  first  deer of  the  season  offered for 
sale  here  came 
in  on  Oct.  2  and  was 
purchased  by  a  Bangor  hotel  man,  who 
paid  12  cents  a  pound  for  the  dressed 
carcass.  To-day  a  man  may  buy  all  the 
deer  he  wants,  or  all  he  has  money  to 
pay  for,  at  the rate of  I  cent  a  pound,  or 
500  pounds  for  $4.  The  visitor  who 
wants  a  deer  has  no  need  to  go hunting. 
He  can  drop  off  here  at  night,  buy  a 
175-pound  buck,  including  antlers  big 
enough  to  hold  a  dozen  hats  in  the  front 
ball,  and  a  beautiful  soft  skin  that  may­
be  tanned  and  converted 
into  a  $10 
mat,  and  get  the  whole  lot  for  $1  50.

late  dry  spell  has  caused  the 
The 
leaves  to  crackle  under  foot  in 
fallen 
the  woods,  so  that  the  deer  take  alarm 
before  the  hunter  gets  within  gunshot 
of  his  prey,  and  most  of  the  deer  that 
have  been  captured 
lately  have  been 
shot  from  canoes  early  in  the  morning 
or  late  at  night,  when  the  animals  come 
down  to  drink.  The deer's  love-making 
season  begins 
in  November,  at  which 
time  the  bucks  forget  their  shyness  and 
come  out  into  the  clearing,  where  any­
body  may  kill  them  at  short  range. 
Should  the  delayed  autumn  rains  begin 
early  in  November,  the  chances  are that 
100  deer  a  day  will  be  shipped  from 
this  station  all  through  the  month.  In  a 
few  weeks  now  the  weather  will  be  so 
cold  that  carcasses  hung  up  out  of doors 
will  keep  for  an  indefinite  period.  The 
pot  hunters  will  avail  themselves  of  the 
opportunity  and  shoot  and  store  away 
large  quantities  of  venison  for  sale  01 
winter  consumption.

Although  practically  prohibited  by 
law.  the  practice  of  shooting  deer  and 
selling  them  to  visitors  who are  too busy 
or  too  lazy  to  hunt  is 
increasing  every 
year.  After  having  secured  a  deer  and 
disemboweled  it.  the  only  article  neces­
sary  for  its  preservation  is  a  "French­
man’s  shotgun."  which 
is  the  Yankee 
name  for a  sapling  gray  birch.  An  old 
legend  says  that  the  French  would 
have  conquered  the  whole  of  the  North 
American  continent 
if  the  grav  birch 
had  held  out.  With  a  piece  of  string 
and  a  stiff  birch  sapling the  French­
men  could  rig  snares  and  catch  all  the 
rabbits  they  wanted  without  the  use  of 
firearms.  As  far  as  the  birches  ex­
tended  the  French  held  domain.  Where 
the  birches  stopped  the  English  began. 
These  "  Frenchmen's shotguns, ”  having 
served  their  purpose 
in  colonization, 
are  again  doing  service  for  the  pot 
hunters.  The  gray  hirch  is  a  catch  crop 
between 
two  growths  of  evergreens 
When  a  pine wood  has  been  cut  away  or 
burned  by  forest  fires  the  birches  come 
up  and  monopolize  the  land  for a  score 
of  years.  By  the  time  they  are  big 
enough  to  afford  shade  during  the  sum­
mer  the  pine  cones  come  skating  along 
on  the  snowdrifts  and  find  congenial 
seed  beds  among  the  birch  woods 
In 
ten  years  more  the  pines  have  over­
topped  the  birches  and  begun to  kill  out 
the  plants  that  protected  them  in  in 
fancy.  As  deer  feed  on  birch  sprouts 
the  year  around,  preferring  them  to  all 
other  foods,  the best place tor deer shoot 
mg  is  in  a birch  and  pine thicket, where 
the  hardwood  affords  food  and the ever­
greens  give  protection.

Then  he 

Here  the  man  who  shoots  for  profit 
makes  his  camp  and  catches  his  supply 
of  fresh  venison.  As  fast  as  he  kills 
and  dresses  his  deer  he  hitches  the  hind 
legs  of  each  animal  to  a  springy  birch 
sapling  and  sends 
it  aloft  among  the 
dark  pine  boughs,  where  it  may  remain 
frozen  for  months. 
loals 
arounds  the  railroad  stations  and  hangs 
about  the  hotel  piazzas,  telling the  visit­
ing  hunters  mysterious  stories  about 
deer and how  cheap  they  may be had.  If 
the  newcomer  wants  a  deer  regardless 
of  how 
it  is  secured,  a  trade  is  made, 
and  the  resident  visits  his  cold  storage 
lot  to  get  what  is  ordered.  Should  the 
visiter  be  old  fashioned  enough  to  want 
to  kill  his  own  game,  the  resident  turns 
him  over  to  a  friendly  guide  and  gets  a 
liberal  commission 
for  his  services. 
is  a  practice  which  has  gained
This 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in 

late,  and 

greatly  of 
is  largely  respon­
sible  for  the  slaughter  that 
is  annually 
recorded. 
The  wardens  have  made 
many  arrests,  but  the  captured  men 
have  all  been  unable  to  pay  fines  and 
have  run  up  so  heavy  board  bills  while 
confined 
jail  that  the  taxpayers  are 
fighting  mad,  and  several  of  the  local 
justices  have  refused  to  commit  men 
who  could  not  settle  in  cash.  Supported 
by 
local  public  opinion,  the  cold-stor­
age  hunter  is  becoming  a  leading  factor 
in  backwoods  life.  Ten  years  ago  his 
calling  was  unknown.  Now  there  are 
men  who  do  nothing  else.  How  many 
deer  they  kill  in  a  year  is  hard  to  say. 
Last  February  a 
crew  at 
work  on  the  West  Branch  found  forty- 
six  deer  carcasses  hanging  on  a  quarter 
section.  All  of  these  were  left  over and 
could  not be  sold  prior  to  Jan.  1.  How 
many  were  sold  and  shipped  away  be­
fore  the  beginning  of  close  time  nobody 
hut  the  man  who  did  the  killing  knows, 
and  as  there  is  a  fine  of  $40 a  head  for 
every  deer  thus  killed  banging  over 
him,  he  will  not  be  likely  to  tell.

lumbering 

living. 

She  has  gone 

The  Butcher  Girl  o f  San  Francisco.
A  sixteen-year-old  girl  in  San  Fran­
cisco  has  hit  on  a  novel  way  of  earning 
her 
into  the 
butcher  business  and  is  making  a  great 
success  of 
is  Lillie 
Kanitz,  and  her  customers  say  that  it  is 
a  real  pleasure  to  have  a  steak  or  a 
roast cut  off and  served  by  a brown-eyed 
slip  of  a  girl  in  a  spotless  print  gown 
and  apron  instead of  a  man  in  a  spotted 
jacket  and  apron.

it.  Her  name 

Miss  Kanitz’s  father,  Otto  Kanitz, 
conducts  the  Log  Cabin  Market  in  San 
Francisco.  She  is  a  full  partner  in  the 
business  and  her  father’s  only  assistant. 
The  father 
is  as  proud  of  his  daughter 
as  possible.  The  girl  has  so  mastered 
her  trade  that  when  her  father 
is  away 
she  is  left  in  charge  of  the  shop.  She 
runs  it  like  a  veteran,  too,  filling  orders 
from  a  quarter  of  beef  to  a  tidbit  for 
somebody’s  pet  dog.  A  girl  butcher 
might  not  be  expected  to  be  attractive 
in  person  and  manner.  This  one  is. 
She  is  said  to  be  straight  and  lithe  and 
active,  and  the  a’m  that  wields  the 
cleaver  instead  of  a  golf  club  or  tenuis 
racquet  is  prettily  rounded,  with  a  sup­
ple  little  wrist  and  tapering  fingers. 
Miss  Kanitz  has  rosy  cheeks,  brown 
eves  and  hair,  and  dresses  becomingly 
She-  has  a  gentle  manner,  and,  while 
business  life  has  made  her  alert  and 
keen,  it  has  not  taken  away  her  girlish 
modesty  and  simplicity.  Her  parents 
are  industrious  Germans,  who,  by  years 
of  steady  labor  and  frugality,  have  ac­
quired  considerable  property.  The  girl 
butcher and  her  mother  own  city  real 
estate  valued  at  several  thousand  dol­
lars.  This  was  deeded  to  them  by  Mr. 
Kanitz,  but  the  possession  of  it  has  not 
been  a  check to  the  daughter’s  ambition 
to  earn  money  for herself.  She  keeps 
the  books  of  the  firm,  makes  out,  col­
lects,  and  pays  all  bills,  and  delivers 
orders  to  customers  in  their  own  homes. 
Early  any  morning  she 
is  to be  seen 
with  her  horse  and  cart  whisking  brisk­
ly  from  street  to  street.

Miss  Kanitz  was graduated  at  one  of 
the  grammar  schools  two  years ago,  and 
is  a  fine  housekeeper.  She  bought  and 
has  paid  for  out  of  her  own  earnings  a 
piano.  The  first  payment  she  made  on 
it  was $200,  which  she  had  saved  out  of 
commissions  allowed  by  her  father  as  a 
bill  collector.  Mr.  Kanitz  expects  to 
go  to  Dawson  City  next  spring,  leaving 
his  daughter  to  carry  on their joint busi­
ness.

A  deposit  of  marble  has  been  discov­
ered  near  Hermosillo,  Mexico,  which is 
said  not  to  be  inferior  to  the  best  pro­
duced  by  the quarries  of  Carrara.

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Who gets  the  .  .  .
O yster  T ra d e?

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.

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Hard  Times  and  Margins.

W ritten  fo r th e T r ad esm an.

A  natural  consequence  of  the  long  de­
pression 
in  trade  was  the  lowering  of 
prices  to  the  last  limit  possible,  espe­
cially  as  to  primary  markets. 
is 
claimed,  and  perhaps  with  reason,  that 
the  greatest  pressure  was  brought  upon 
the  manufacturer and  that  there  was  a 
greater  yielding  on  his  part  than  either 
circumstances  demanded  or  the  cost  of 
production  warranted.

It 

Undue  competition  and  overanxiety 
for  trade  no  doubt  greatly  reduced  the 
margins  on  which  goods  were  handled 
by  many  retailers;  but  this  was  not  an 
universal  condition  of  that  division  of 
the  trading  world  as  it  seemed  to  be 
in 
In  some  localities  the 
manufacturing. 
in  demanding  fair 
dealers  persisted 
margins,  and  such  got  them. 
Indeed, 
in  some  cases  there  was  taken  into  con- 
sideraton  the  fact  that  lessened  volume 
of  trade  made  better  margins  in  the dis­
tribution  of  goods  a  necessity,  and  so 
margins  were  kept  up  to  a  living  basis. 
This,  of  course,  was  by  no  means  the 
rule,  yet  such 
instances  and  localities 
were  not  uncommon.

But  the  pressure  brouebt  upon  the 
manufacturer  was  such  as  to  bring  the 
selling  prices  in  primary  markets  very 
commonly  below  the  legitimate  cost  of 
production,  and  in  all  cases  of  standard 
products  below  the  possibility  of  profit. 
The  comparative  narrowness  of  the field 
in  these  markets make it possible for the 
pressure  to  be  more  nearly  universal.  A 
retailer  might  lower  his  price  below  the 
fair  margin  and  the  effect  was  only 
lo 
cal;  but,  when  the  prominent  manufac­
turer  of a  standard  article  cut  his  price 
unduly,  the  effect  might  be  as  wide  as 
the  country  in  the  line  concerned.

Every  manufacturer  of  standard  arti­
is  susceptible  to  pressure  in  this 
cles 
direction  from  many  sources. 
In  his 
anxiety  to  keep  his  enterprise  in  oper 
ation  he 
is  willing  to  submit  to tem­
porary  loss,  hoping  for  an  early  turn  in 
the  situation.  Of  course,  he  will  ask  his 
employes  to  share the  loss with him,  and 
so  wages  are  brought  down.  Then,  on 
account  of  the  narrowness  of  the field al­
ready  referred  to,  there  is  the  opportun­
ity  for the  greater  pressure  of  competi­
tion.

While  this  competition  is,  much of  it, 
natural  and  unavoidable,  there  is  some 
which  might  be  met  by  the  exercise  of 
more  firmness  and  discretion  on  the 
part  of  the  sales  managers.  For  in­
stance,  a  very  common  manifestation  of 
the  pressure  for  the  lowering  of  prices 
is  in  the  reports  of  salesmen  as  to  the 
lower  prices  offered  by  others  which  are 
handicapping  their  operations.  These 
salesmen  are  considered  reliable  and 
their  representations  are  too  frequently 
met  by  the  undue  reduction.  Investiga­
tion  will  sometimes  demonstrate  that 
the  salesman  has  exercised  too  much 
credulity—not  a  usual  failing,  however 
— and  that  it  is  a  case  of  untruthfulness 
on  the  part  of  one  not  scrupulous  as  to 
the  means  employed  to  bring  down  the 
price  of  his  purchase.  This  is  only  one 
of  the  many  ways  in  which  the producer 
is  susceptible  to  the  pressure  which 
seems  to  have  had  the  greatest  effect  in 
his  part  of  the  question.

And  so,  as  the  greatest  depression 

is 
in  the  primary  market,  there,  also,  is 
the  slowest  recovery.  As  the purchasing 
power  of  consumers  increases  it  is  not 
difficult  for  the  retailer  to  demand  and 
get a  fair  margin  on  bis  goods.  But 
it 
is  human  nature  to  be  slow  in  the 
exercise  of  corresponding  liberality  by 
the  dealers 
is  the

in  purchasing. 

It 

is  natural 

to  buy  in  the  lowest 
buyer’s  business 
to  continue 
m arket,  and 
it 
the  pressure  on 
the  poor  producer  as 
long  as  possible,  thus  lengthening,  un­
necessary,  his  struggle  w ith  adverse  for­
tune. 

R o s e n s t e in .

The  Merchant  Need  Not  Be  a  Non­

entity.

The  determination  of  the  Board  of 
Police Commissioners  to prevent Sunday 
theaters  was  under  discussion  and  a 
South  Division  street  merchant  assorted 
that the advanced position taken  by Wm 
Judson,  as  President of the Board,  would 
cause  him  the  loss of considerable trade. 
This  opinion  met  with  the  hearty  dis­
sent  of  all  who  constituted  the  group  of 
listeners,  whereupon  the  Division  street 
dealer  continued :  “ Say  what  you  may 
and  think  what  you  please,  the  city 
merchant  cannot  take  and  maintain  ad­
vanced  grounds  on  any  economic  sub­
ject  without  suffering  the  loss  of  trade. 
He  must  truckle  to  every  class,  clique 
and  clan--be  good  lord  and  good  devil 
to  every  committee which  comes  around 
and  tells  him  how  he  must  run  his busi­
ness,  whether 
the 
church,  the  saloon  element  or  the  trades 
union.  The  modern  merchant  cannot 
afford  to  entertain  or  express  opinions 
which  run  counter  to  those  of  his  cus­
tomers;  in  fact,  he  must  be a nonentitv, 
without  opinions  of  his  own  and without 
the  courage  of  expressing  them  if  he 
had  them. ”

it  emanates 

from 

life 

“ Nonsense,”   exclaimed  a 

listener 
who  is  himself  a  merchant  whose  every­
day 
is  a  standing  rebuke  to  the 
statement  that  the  merchant  must  be a 
nonentity.  “ I  have  always  entered  with 
zest  into  every  movement  which  has  for 
its object  the  betterment  of  the  city  and 
the  elevation  of  mankind,  and  instead 
of  causing  me  the  loss  of  trade,  such  a 
course  has  actually  increased  my  sales 
and  augmented  my  profits.  Moreover,
I  can  cite  the  case  of  a  man  who  has 
run  counter  to  every  cherished  opinion 
and  ignored  and  insulted  every  class  in 
the  city  at 
intervals,  yet  at  the  same 
time  his  trade  is  constantly  enlarging 
and  his profits are constantly  increasing 
I  refer  to  a 
leading  merchant,  who 
has  repeatedly  assured  me  that  be  got 
his  start  in  his  mercantile  career  by  be­
ing  boycotted  by  the  trades  unions  and 
manages  to  keep  the  walking  delegates 
in  a  state  of  constant  agitation  by 
handling  every  boycotted  article  he  can 
pick  up  in  the  market.  Nothing  gives 
him  greater  delight  than  to  turn  down 
the  committee  of  some  union  which 
calls  on  him  to  enter  a  silly  protest  of 
some  kind.  He  insults  every  preacher 
who  has  the temerity  to  take  him  to task 
for  some  lapse  of  duty  and  horrifies 
well-meaning 
ladies  who  call  to  inter­
cede  in  behalf  of  some  half-starved  girl 
clerk  by  suggesting  that  she  augment 
her 
income  by  having  a ‘ fellow. ’  He 
treats  his  clerks  worse  than  the  slave 
owner  ever  treated  his  black  chattels 
and  his  policy  toward  his  competitors 
and  the  houses  from  which  he  buys  his 
goods 
is  that  of  the  guerilla  and  the 
cutthroat.  Yet  all  classes  crowd  his  es­
tablishment  from  morning  until  night, 
pay  him  spot  cash  for  his  goods  and 
join in  praising  him  as  the  'poor man's 
friend.’  ”

Cruel  Old  Man.

He—Did  you  tell  your  father  that  I 
would  kill  myself  if I couldn't have you?

She—Yes.
He—What  did  he  say?
She—He  said  that  settled 

couldn ’ t  have me.

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throughout the United  States. 

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E.  A.  S T O W E ,  E d it o r .

WEDNESDAY.----- NOVEMBER  10,  1897.

PECULIAR  VAGARIES  OF  WOMEN.
It  has  been  said  by  psychologists  that 
women  are  creatures  of  impulse  rather 
than  of  principle.  They  act  from  the 
promptings  of  a  mysterious 
interior 
force,  or  they  are 
influenced  by  some 
powerful  sympathy,  rather  than  by  rea­
son  and  argument.

If  this  be  true,  it  is  certain  that  in  a 
great  majority  of  cases their  impulses 
are  noble  and  pure,  and  their  sympa­
thies  are  generous  and  worthily  be­
stowed.  Nevertheless  there  are  excep­
tions.  The  admiration  of  women  for 
all  that 
is  heroic,  lofty  and  grand  in 
human  character 
is  proverbial.  No 
friends  are  so  true,  so  devoted,  so  ready 
to  encounter  all  dangers  and  all  shame, 
to  pass  through  fire  and  flood,  for  those 
they 
love  as  are  women.  Their  con 
stancy,  fortitude  and  devotion  in  such 
cases  have  been  the  highest  theme  of 
the  historian,  the poet  and  the  romancer 
in  every  age  of  the  world.

God’s  best  gift  to  man,  women  alone 
make  life  worth  living  to  many.  Never­
theless  their  extraordinary  impulses and 
profound  sympathies 
lead  them  some­
times 
into  most  remarkable  and  out­
rageous  vagaries,  and  the  world  is  from 
time  to  time  astonished  at  the  erratic 
behavior  of  some  of  the  gentler  sex  in 
the  wayward  and  outiageous  freaks  that 
lead  respectable  and  well-raised females 
into  voluntary  association  with  and  at­
tachment  for  men  of  the  most  infamous 
character  and  surroundings.

The 

A  curious  example  of  that  sort  of sen­
timental  obliquity  is  seen  in the interest 
that  many  women  took  in  Adolph  Luet- 
gert,  the  man  who  was  tried  for  the 
murder  of  his  wife  under  circumstances
of  unusual  atrocity. 
following 
statement  on 
the  subject  has  been 
printed  in  the  Chicago  papers:
Women  who called on  him  in jail..................... 2,385
32
Parcels left him by women  (food)....................  
Jew elry...................................................... .......... 
17
Clothes......................................................... . 
... 
12
Flowers................................................................  101
Total...............................................................  162
. Women at the trial.............................................   232
Letters sent  by women........................................ 1,202
Proposals of m a rria g e.........................................  38
It  is  reported  that  these  proposals  be­
gan  coming  by  mail  almost  as  soon  as 
Luetgert  was  arrested.  One,  from  Vin­
cennes,  Ind.,  was  written  in  very  fair 
verse.  Another,  from  Pocatello,  Idaho, 
to  Luetgert  that  the  writer  had  dreamed 
of  him  every  night  since  May  i.

A  few  of  the  communications  are 
written  in  German,  and  one  came  from 
It  was  from  a  female  whoj
Bremen. 

offered  her  hand  and  her  fortune.  She 
keeps  a  bake  shop.

One  was  from  Memphis,  and proposed 
a  scheme  to  rescue  Luetgert  on  a  cer- 
taiu  day  of  the  trial. 
If  he  favored  the 
plan,  he  was  to  wear  a  white  flower  on 
his  right  lapel.  He  was  to  remain  per­
fectly  supine  whatever  happened,  and 
to  make  no  resistance or  cry  out.  His 
unknown  rescuer  was  to hypnotize the 
court,  jury,  bailiffs  and  spectators  and 
convey  Luetgert  through  the  solid  walls 
to  "the  free  air  and 
liberty  and  me.”  
Luetgert  get  the  white  flower  and  wore 
it  as  be  was  told;  but,  although  he 
waited  “ supinely,”   no  rescue  came.

It  is  not  difficult  to  believe such state­
ments,  because  they  are  but  repetitions 
ot  what  has  happened  in  not  a  few other 
cases,  and  the  only  explanation  is  that 
there  are  female  as  well  as  male  mons­
ters.  But  there  are  the  exceptions which 
prove  the  rule  of  the generally  nobit 
impulses  and  worthy  sympathies  of  the 
softer sex._____________

WALKA  AND  TONKA.

in 

On  Oct.  30,  John  R.  Walka,  a  Creek 
Indian,  was  executed 
the  Indian 
Ferritory  by  shooting.  He  and  another 
member  of  the  tribe,  Jonas  Deer,  were 
rivals  for  the  hand  of  an  Indian  maid­
en,  and  at  a  dance,  where  she  was  pres­
ent,  they  fought 
it  out.  Walka  killed 
Deer  and  married  the  girl.  The  mur­
derer  was  convicted,  sentenced to  death, 
and,  after  the  Indian  fashion,  released 
on  promising  to  appear  for  the  death 
penalty.  Subsequently  he  went  to  Kan­
sas  City  with  an  Indian  ball  team.  He 
could  have  escaped,  but  returned  to  the 
Territory  of  his  own  accord,  that  his 
sentence  might  be  carried  out.

in  Kansas  City,  and 

In  this  same  ball  club  was  another 
murderer,  Walla  Tonka,  a  Choctaw.  He 
was  convicted  of  killing  his  uncle,  a 
deputy  sheriff,  and  was  also  released  on 
his  word.  He  was  to  have  been  exe­
cuted  on  Aug.  6,  but that date conflicted 
with  one  on  which  his  ball  club  was  to 
play 
it  was  ar- 
anged,  through  an  appeal  to  the  su­
preme  council,  to  have  the  execution 
stayed.  Tonka  was  resentenced  to  be 
shot  on  Saturday  last.  Learning  that 
nis 
friends  bad  appealed  to  Chief 
Isparhecher,  the  Choctaw  authorities 
decided  to  carry  out  the  sentence  be­
fore  a  reprieve  could  be  granted.  A c­
cordingly,  the  execution  was  ordered  to 
take  place  Thursday.  Tonka’s  friends, 
however,  lost  no  time,  and  just  before 
midnight  Wednesday  they  were  on  hand 
with  not  only  a  reprieve,  but  also  an 
order  for  a  new  trial.  When  the  con­
demned  man  was  aroused  from  a  sound 
slumber  and  told  the  news,  he  simply 
said: 
“ Maybe  me  play  more  ball
now,”   and  then,  turning  over,  went  to 
sleep  again.  He  will  be  tried  again 
ext  month,  and  it  is  believed  that  he 
will  be  a c q u it f o d .

iu  the  country 
Every  trade  journal 
which  has  participated 
in  the  discus­
sion of  the  trading  stamp  system  has ar­
itself  against  the  scheme.  The 
rayed 
tnde  journals,  as  a  class,  are 
fair 
minded  and  disposed  to  treat  all  ques 
tions  bearing  on  business  without 
prejudice.  The  fact  that  they  are  unan­
imous 
in  condemning  the  scheme  as 
unbusinesslike  and  unprofitable  is  sug­
gestive  to  those  who  have  not  yet  been 
inveigled  by  the  wily  solicitors  of  the 
various  branches  of  the  conspiracy.

Abyssinia’s  social  code  provides  for 
a  fair  chance  to  young  married  couples 
by  forbidding  the  bride’s mother to visit 
her daughter  until  a  year  after  the  mar­
riage.

PROPER  NAVAL  RESERVE.

Now  that  the  navy  of  the  United 
is  assuming  something  like  the 
State 
proportions 
it  should  reach,  although 
much  yet  remains  to  be  done  before  it 
can  be  claimed  that  it  has  attained  per­
fection,  the  naval  authorities  are  be­
ginning  to  concern  themselves  seriously 
as  to  the  reserve forces  upon  which  the 
navy  could  draw  in  time of war. 
In 
order  to  make  our  naval  establishment 
thoroughly  efficient, 
there  must  be  a 
reserve  of  fast-cruising  vessels  to  sup­
plement  the  regular  cruisers  of  the 
fleet.  There  must  also  be  a  good  sup­
ply  of  tonnage  to  be  used  as  transports 
and  troop  ships.  So  much  for  the  ma 
terial  reserve  required. 
In  the  way  of 
personnel,  there  should  not  only  be  a 
sufficient  num ber  ot  men  to  m an  all  the 
available  ships  of  the  fleet,  but  a  liberal 
reserve  to  recruit  where  casualties  may 
occur.

two  classes, 

In  the  way  of  providing  a  reserve  of 
cruising  ships,  Congress  has  taken  the 
proper  steps  by  authorizing  the  enroll­
ment  of  certain  classes  of  large  and  fast 
merchant  steamers.  These  vessels  are 
of 
the  first  comprising 
those  which  have  been  built  under  Gov­
ernment  supervision  and  receive  a  sub­
sidy  for  carrying  the  mails,  and the  sec­
ond  those which  have been accepted  by 
the  Navy  Department  since  their  con­
struction  as  suitable  for  prompt  conver­
sion  into  auxiliary  cruisers  or  trans­
ports. 
In  these  two  classes  have  been 
enrolled  nearly  all  the  larger  steam­
ships  ot  the American merchant marine. 
This  fleet  of  fine  merchant  ships  would 
be  of  great  value  to  the  navy  in  the 
event  of  war,  did  the  proper  facilities 
for  arming  then  exist.  The  last  Con­
gress  authorized  the  construction  of  a 
sufficient  number  of  rapid-fire  guns  to 
arm  half  a  dozen  of  the  auxiliary 
cruisers.  For  the  balance  no  guns  nor 
ammunition  are  provided,  which 
is  a 
matter  that  should  claim  the  prompt  at­
tention  of  Congress  at  its  next  session.
While Congress  has  made  a  beginning 
in  the  way  of  providing  a  material  re­
serve  for  the  fleet,  nothing whatever  has 
been  done 
in  the  way  of  organizing  a 
reserve  of  trained  men  and  officers. 
The  existing  numerical  strength  of  offi­
cers  and  men  in  the  regular  navy  is  far 
from  sufficient  to  properly  man 
the 
ships  actually 
in  commission.  Many 
vessels  have  crews  much  smaller  than 
their  proper  complement,  while  there 
are  barely  enough  officers  for  the  press­
ing  work.  Were  all  the  ships  of  the 
fleet  commissioned  at  once,  there  would 
not  be  enough  men  by  many  thousands 
nor  sufficient  officers  by  many  hundreds 
to  properly  man  the  vessels.  A  reserve 
is,  therefore,  urgently  needed,  not  only 
to  ensure  a  supply  of  men  to  fill  out  the 
ranks  during  war,  but  actually  to  prop­
erly  man  the  fleet  should  it  be  called 
suddenly  into  actual  service.

Great  Britain  has  a  naval  reserve 
force  of  about  2,000 officers  and  25,000 
men.  The  officers  are  chosen  from  the 
officers  of  the  merchant marine,  and  are 
given  a  year’s  training  on  a  regular 
warship,  while  the  men  are  given  from 
one  to  six  months'  training  in  the  reg­
ular  navy  and  then  enrolled  in  the  re­
serve,  with  a  small  annual  grant  from 
the  government.  France  and  Germany 
maintain  a  similar  reserve  system.

In  the  United  States  nothing  has  yet 
been  done  to  form a  naval  reserve force, 
except  the  organization  of  the  naval 
militia  battalions  of  the  various  sea­
board  states.  This  force,  considering 
the  opportunities  that  have  been  ex­
tended  to  it  for  trailing,  will  furnish

is  required,  however. 

excellent  material 
in  both  officers  and 
men  in  time  of  war,  not  only  for  coast 
defense,  but  also  in the case of  the  older 
and  better  trained  battalions  for  filling 
out  the  complement  of  the  sea-going 
fleet.  Something  more  comprehensive 
than  this 
It  is 
understood  that  a  b.ll  will  be  presented 
to  the  next  Congress  providing  for  the 
creation  of  a  naval  reserve,  to consist 
of  the  existing  naval  militia  and  the 
officers  and  men  of  the  merchant  ma­
rine.  The  bill  will  provide  that  such 
officers  as  are  found  properly  equipped 
with  professional  knowledge  are  to  be 
enrolled  as  reserve  officers,  and  afforded 
a  specified  period  of  training  on  board 
ship. 
In  the  case  of  enlisted  men  there 
will  also  be  a  period  of  service  pro­
vided.

Whether  such  a  bill  be  passed  by 
Congress  or  not,  it  is  evident  that  some­
thing  of  the  sort  must  be  done,  as  the 
navy  is  clearly  deficient  in  both  officers 
the  duties  that 
and  men  to  perform 
would  devolve  on 
it 
in  time  of  war. 
is  removed 
The  sooner  this  deficiency 
the  better.

IN  POOR  HANDS.

In  order  that  the  business  men  of 
Grand  Rapids  may  note  the  character 
of  the  men  into  whose  hands 
is  placed 
the  dispensing  of 
funds  now  being 
raised  all  over  the  country  for  the  relief 
of  the  striking  miners  of  Spring Valley, 
the  Tradesman  herewith  submits  a 
clipping  from  a  recent 
issue  of  the 
Spring  Valley  press  showing  the  char­
acter  of  the  men  now  holding  the  reins 
of  office  in  that  c ity :

The  men  who  make  up  Spring  Val­
ley’s  city  administration  are  engaged 
in  the  following  business :

The  Mayor—Saloon  business.
City  Clerk— Saloon  business.
Six  Aldermen— Saloon  business,  one 

of  them  being  a  highway  robber.

One  Policeman— Late  ex-saloonkeep­

er  in  Ladd.

One  Policeman—Agent  for  brewery.
One  Policeman— Abductor  of  young 
men  into  questionable  houses  and  a  no­
torious  liar.

The question  is,  can  we  expect  much 

of  such  a  set  of  officials?

in 

Frank  H.  Gill,  who  has  been  a  lead­
ing  spirit  in  trades  unionism  in  Grand 
Rapids  for  several  years,  having  suc­
ceeded 
living  very  comfortably  on 
the  sweat  of  his  tongue  and  his  ability 
to  foment  dissatisfaction  between  em­
ployer  and  employe,  has decided  to  take 
up  his  residence  at  Los  Angeles,  Cal., 
nominally  on  account  of  his  health,  but 
really  for  the  purpose  of  entering  upon 
a  crusade  to  unionize  the  town  in  the 
interest  of  the  American  Federation  of 
Labor.  The  good  people  of  Los  An­
geles— who  have  thus  far  managed  to 
escape  the  evils  of  trade  unionism  by 
refusing  to  entertain  the  infamous  doc­
trines  of  Debs  and  other  men  of  his  ilk 
—will  find  Mr.  Gill  an  accommodating 
gentleman,  ready  at  any  time  to  act  as 
walking  delegate  or  strike  manager  and 
not  at  all  averse  to  holding  any  office 
within  the  gift  of  the  people,  either ap­
pointive  or  elective.

Specimens of  the  white  Adriatic  fig, 
of  good  size  and  flavor,  have  been 
raised  by  George  Giustin  in  Portland, 
Oregon.  He  has  bad  to  protect  the  fruit 
nights  of  late,  but  says  as  the  trees  be­
come  older  they  are  more  hardy,  and  if 
the  tree  was  fully  grown  the  fruit  would 
ripen  without  protection.  While  it  is 
practicable  for  one  to  sit  under  his  own 
vine  and  fig  tree  in  that  highly  favored 
region, 
is  scarcely  probable  that 
Oregon  will  ever  become  celebrated  for 
the  production  of  figs.

it 

This 

ADVANTAGE  OF  THE  LINGUIST.
is,  above  all,  a  practical  age, 
and  of  the  young  men  who  are  sent  to 
college  one  in  a  thousand  devotes  him­
self  either  to  literature  as  a  career  or  as 
a  means  of  living,  while  others  go 
into 
business  or  the  professions,  which,  al­
though  classed  as  liberal,  are  commonly 
studied  for  the  exclusive  purpose  of 
making money.

the 

living 

Then,  of  each  one  thousand  men  who 
are  educated  in  colleges  and  universi­
ties,  but  one  goes 
into  art  and  litera­
ture.  One  branch  of  learning  which  is 
too  little  attended  to  in  this  country 
is 
languages. 
the  study  of 
Clergymen  and  students  working 
for 
scholarships  devote  themselves  to  the 
dead 
languages;  but  they  seldom  pay 
much  attention  to  any  of  the  living 
tongues  save  their  own.  Probably  they 
learn  enough  to  enable  them  to  read 
French and German ;  but  they  are  en­
tirely  unable  to  speak  them,  and  they 
do  not  need  to  do  so  for  their  purposes 
of  mere  study.

It may  be  said  that  the  purely  literary 
person does not need the modern tongues, 
since  he  can  get  the best foreign thought 
in  translations;  but  in  this  commercial 
age  the  business  man  and  the  traveler 
need  to  know  the  languages  of  the  peo­
ple  with  «horn  he  deals.

The  intimacy  and  complexity  of 

in­
ternational  political  relations,  the  enor­
mous  growth  and  universality  of  com­
merce,  the  vast  numbers  of  people of all 
nations  engaged  in  foreign  travel,  and 
the  practical  benefits  under  these  con­
ditions  to  be  derived  from  a  speaking 
knowledge  of  foreign  languagts  make 
such  an  acquirement  of  special 
im­
portance  to  business  and  professional 
men.

A  writer 

in  Self-Culture,  speaking 
upon  the  desirableness  of  a  knowledge 
of  modern  languages,  says:

Those  of  most  consequence  to  Amer­
icans are  German,  French  and  Spanish. 
Of  these  three  the  first  is  the  most  use­
ful 
in  this  country,  as  the  Germans 
greatly  outnumber  the  foreign-born  citi­
zens  of  any  other  nationality,  and  in 
places  have  managed  to  keep  their  ver­
nacular  on  an  equal  footing  with  Eng­
lish.

French  is  spoken  or  understood  by  all 
educated  Europeans  and,  on  the  Con­
tinent,  at  least,  is  indispensable  to  all 
who  have  any  social  or  literary  preten­
sions.  Thus  it  easily  takes  precedence 
of  German  for  all  the  purposes  of  the 
American traveler and sight  seer through 
the  continent  of  Europe.

Spanish,  as  the  speech  of  nearly  one- 
half  of  the  Western  Hemisphere, 
is 
bound  to  be  some  day  the  medium  for 
the  transaction  of  an  immense  volume 
of  business  in  American  manufactured 
products.  No  business  man  can  afford 
to 
it  if  he  has  any  interest  in 
South  American  trade.

ignore 

The  American  people  of  British 
descent  are  extremely  deficient  in  all 
knowledge  of  the  modern 
languages. 
They  seem  to have  imbibed  the  English 
contempt  for  both  races  and  to  have  in­
herited  or  contracted  a  notion  of  the 
sufficiency  of  their  own  mother  tongue 
for  all  purposes,  and  to  consider  the 
foreigner  who  does  not  speak  English 
as  one  who  does  not  appreciate  his  own 
unfortunate  situation.  Any  such  notion 
is  extremely  foolish  and  absurd.  The 
man  who  can  speak  to all  comers,  to 
each 
in  his  own  tongue,  enjoys  a  great 
advantage.  He  who  is  forced  to  com­
municate  by  signs,  or  to  converse  with 
the  aid  of  an  interpreter,  must  be  con­
tent  with  what  he  can  get.

there 

Probably 

are  physiological 
causes  why  persons  of  the  English  race 
have  naturally  a  poor  facility  for speak­
languages,  although  there
ing  foreign 

have  been  notable  exceptions. 
Pos­
sibly  the  facility  for  learning  to  speak 
foreigns  tongues 
is  more  distinctive 
and  noticeable  among  people  of  the 
Slavic  races  than  in  others.  Russians, 
Poles,  Hungarians,  Bulgarians  and peo­
ple  of  the  other  countries  of  Turkey 
have  presented 
innumerable  examples 
df  pollyglots,  and  even  persons  of  mod­
erate  education  readily  learn  to  speak 
the  tongues  with  which  they  come  in 
association. 
Their  position  between 
the  various  nationalities  of  Europe  and 
Asia  brings  them 
in  frequent  contact 
with  all  races;  but  they  must  possess 
some  special  natural  facilities.

those 

Lovers  of 

very  treacherous 
affairs,  historical  parallels,  will  be  dis­
posed  to  see  in  Spain’s  latest  policy  of 
placating  Cuba  an  analogy  to  the  last 
desperate  shift  to  which  Philip  II.  re­
sorted  in  order  to  retain  his  sovereignty 
over  the  Netherlands. 
After  Alba’s 
rule  of  blood  and  iron  in  the  low  coun­
tries  had  failed  to  break  their spirit, 
he  was  recalled,  as  General  Weyler  is 
now,  and  Alexander  of  Parma  was  sent 
in  his  stead,  He  was  to  detach  the 
Catholic  nobles  from  the  cause  of  the 
rebels,  as  Captain  General  Blanco  is 
now  to  draw  off  the  Cuban  autonomists 
from  the  insurgents.  Parma  won  much 
immediate  success  in  the  new  policy  of 
conciliation,  only  to  fail  miserably  in 
the  end.  This  does  not,  of  course,  prove 
that  General  Blanco  will  meet  the  same 
fate,  but 
it  does  suggest  that  the  same 
difficulties  and  dangers  beset  him.  For 
him  to  come  with  an  olive  branch  in 
one  hand  and  a  sword  in  the  other,  not 
as  alternatives,  but  as  the  contradictory 
things  to  be  put  into  play  at  one  and 
the  same  time,  is  enough  to  make  the 
Cubans 
look  twice  at  their  new  cap­
tain  general.  They  will  be  justified  in 
asking  whether  it  is  peace  or  the sword, 
and  in  refusing  to  believe  that 
it  can 
be  both.  _____________

investigation;  and 
just  been 

importance  of  the 
industry—the  export 

A  year  ago  last  spring  Dr.  A.  Mc- 
Phall,  Professor  of  Pathology  in  Bish­
op’s  College,  Montreal,  was  commis­
sioned  by  the  Dominion  Minister  of 
Marine  and  Fisheries  to  investigate  the 
causes  of  discoloration  of  canned  lob­
lobster 
ster.  The 
canning 
in  1896 
amounting to $2,500,000- warranted such 
an 
the  report 
which  has 
the 
Superintendent  of  Marine  and Fisheries 
the  subject  is  thoroughly  treated.  Dr. 
McPhall  found  the  discoloration  to  be 
due  to  bacteria,  and,  after  elaborate 
experiments,  proved  that  the  bacteria 
could  only  be  destroyed  by  the  applica­
tion  of  heat  to  the  filled  can,  the  use  of 
germicidal fluids  being  out  of  the  ques­
tion.  The  process 
is  simple  enough, 
and  when  adopted  will  save  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  dollars  yearly  to  the 
Canadian  canners.

in 
issued  by 

The  Denver  Republican  says  there  is 
a  man  in  Colorado  who  has  invented  a 
device  whereby  $4  worth  of  gold per  ton 
can  be  extracted from coal.  If the  dealer 
would  deduct  §4  a  ton  from  the  price 
of  coal  to  the  consumer,  the latter  would 
be  willing  to  permit  him  to  keep  all the 
gold  he  might  find.

Those  Klondikers  who  bad 

to  eat 
leather  to  keep  from  starving  must have 
been  reminded  of  some  of  the  steaks 
they  were  wont  to  buy  back  home  under 
the  pseudonym  of  tenderloin.

The  chainless  bike  is  good  as  far  as 
is  most  needed  is  a 

it  goes,  but  what 
costless  bicycle.

A  TIMELY  SUGGESTION.

With  the  return  of  business,  every 
man  in  the  world  of trade has been gath- 
ering  things  together—himself  among 
them— ready  to  take  advantage  of  the 
first  good  chance  that  presents  itself. 
Without  doubt,  for  the  next  five  years 
there  will  be  the  busiest  set  of  business 
men  that  this  country  has  ever seen. 
The  days  will  be  too  short  and  too  few 
and  the  nights  will  be  cheated more and 
more  of  the  needed  relaxation  and  rest. 
To  ask  these  eager  men  not  to  give 
themselves  up  to  this  excessive  work 
will  be  labor  lost;  but,  if  a  timely  sug­
gestion  will  prevent  them  from yielding 
to  the  tendency  to  be 
in  a  constant 
hurry,  they  ought  to  have  it.

There,  after  all, 

in  too  m any  in­
stances,  the  real  danger  lies.  Not  a 
man  of  them,  when  the  hard  day’s work 
is  over  but  believes  that  the  weariness 
is  due  to  his  having  done  too  much. 
It 
is  rather  the  result  of  the  hurry  which 
has  been  driving  him  from  the  moment 
the  day’s  work  began.  That  is  the  real 
nerve-breaker.  A  man  can  endure  al­
most  any  amount  of  labor  without  bad 
results  if  he  will  only  work  so  as to save 
his  nerves.  Unsettle  them,  and  the  real 
trouble  begins.  He  frets,  he  worries; 
and  a  year  or  two of  that either kills him 
is  worse,  starts  him  on  that 
or,  what 
journey  which 
long,  lingering,  painful 
is  sure  to 
land  him  in  the  graveyard. 
A  minute's  work  with  a  minute  to  do  it 
in  never  hurts  anybody,  while  an  over­
anxiety  to  do  the  same  work  in  half  the 
time  is  sure  to  lead  to  an early purchase 
of  crape  for  the  front  door.

sinks 

exhausted. 

There  is  such  a  thing,  even 

in  busi­
ness,  as  deliberation  and  he  who  prac­
tices 
it  will  be  as  fresh  after  having 
done  twice  the  work  as  the man  who,  in 
hurrying, 
“ The 
method,  I  have  followed,’ ’ said  a  suc­
cessful  business  man 
to  a  modern 
hustler,  “ has  been  to  make  up  my 
mind,  before  I left  my  bed  in  the  morn­
ing,  what  1  was  going  to  do  during  the 
in  the  order  in 
day  and  then  do 
which  I  had  planned. 
It  may  not  be 
the  best  way  for  everybody,  but  it  has 
proved  so  for  me. 
It  may  leave  me  at 
night  tired  sometimes,  but  never  worn 
out. 
‘ Go  slow  and  you  will  go  far,’  is 
an  old  proverb  which  I  have  tested  and 
found  to  be  true. ’ ’

it 

It 

is  the  baste 

The  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter  is 
this: 
in  business  life 
that  kills.  Let  the  business  man  work 
early  and  late  if  he  must  and  w ill;  but 
let  him  remember  that,  while  the  man 
who  never  hurries  will  be  hale  and 
hearty  at  seventy,  the  hurrier  will  be  in 
his  grave  at  fifty. 
“ A  word  to  the  wise 
is  sufficient. ”

THE  TAKING  OF  CANADA.

Ever  since  Arnold’s  fateful  expedi­
tion  to  the  banks  of  the  St.  Lawrence, 
there  has  been  a  feeling  on  both  sides 
of  that  river  that  some  day  that  Domin­
ion  would  be  a  part  of  the  United 
States. 
In  times  of  war,  and  especially 
in  rumors  of  war,  the  invasion  of  Can­
ada  and  its  subsequent  union  with  “ the 
States”   is  a  favorite  topic;  and  in  the 
piping  times  of  peace,  as  surely  as  the 
year  rolls  around,  the  same  old  subject 
rides  to  the  surface,  floats 
its  accus­
tomed  period  and  placidly  sinks  to  ap­
pear  again  a  twelvemonth  later.

To  judge  from  a  single  expression 
from  “ An  English  Visitor,”   in  the  St. 
James’  Gazette,  London,  affairs  between 
this  country  and  Canada  are  rapidly 
approaching  a  crisis;  for  “ the  most 
popular  thing,  in  the  eyes  of  Canada,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

which  it  is  within  the  power of England 
to  do  would  be  to  administer  to  the 
United  States  a  good  ringing  box  on the 
ears.”   For  reasons  which  need  not  be 
here  considered,  it 
is  safe  to  say  that 
the  box  has  not  yet  been  administered. 
It  will  not  be  administered;  and  any 
attempt,  now  or  later  on,  to  do  so  will 
be  parried  by  the  business man  on  both 
sides  of  the  St.  Lawrence.

It  may  be  true,  in  a  general  way,  that 
there  have  been  times  when  the  box 
would  have  furnished 
infinite  satisfac­
tion  on  both  sides  of  the  stream ;  but 
the taking and the surrender of our north­
ern  neighbor  will  be  accomplished  by 
milder,  surer  and  wiser  measures.  For 
years  the 
importance  of  developing 
trade  with  Canada  has  been  a  matter  of 
concern  with  the  tradesmen  of 
this 
country.  There  has  been,  and  is  now, 
an  equal  concern  on  the  part  of  the 
Canadian  merchant,  and  both  have 
waited  for  some  move  to  be  made  by 
the  respective  governments  to  forward 
interests  so  momentous  to  both. 
these 
They  have  waited 
in  vain,  and  it  re­
mains  for  the  business  world  to  take]the 
matter  into  its  own  hands—to  meet,  to 
get  acquainted,  to  present  plans  con­
cerning  their  common  interests  and dis­
cuss  them,  and,  irrespective of  political 
boundaries,  to  set  up  a  realm  of  their 
own  where  trade  is  the  Chief  Executive 
and  the  obedience  to  whose  laws  will  be 
followed  by  a  prosperity  hitherto  un­
known 
in  both  sections.  That  is  the 
way,  and  the  only  way,  by  which  Can­
ada  will  ever  be  taken.  Nor  will  it  be 
the  first  instance  recorded  in  the  history 
of  trade  where  the  business  man  has 
fought  and  conquered  on  fields  where 
scepters  have  been  hopelessly  lost.

is 

As  a  means  of  getting  the  Turk  out of 
Palestine,  the Jewish plan  of  purchasing 
that  country  is  to  be  commended. 
It  is 
not  likely  that  the  Jews  of  America  will 
emigrate  to  Palestine  in  any  consider­
able  numbers.  It  is  doubtful,  indeed,  if 
the  country  would  ever  be  populated 
largely  by  the  Jewish  race.  The  pro­
posed  purchase 
largely  a  matter of 
sentiment,  and  it  is  a  sentiment  which 
Christians  can  share,  for  Palestine  is 
the  cradle  of  their  religion  as  well  as 
that  of  Judaism.  Both  Christians  and 
Jews  cannot  but  feel  humiliated  at  the 
thought  that  this  historic region  is  dom­
inated  by  the  Turk. 
It  may  be  that 
the  Jews  may  accomplish  what  the  so- 
called  Christian  powers  of  Europe  have 
been  too  indifferent  to attempt,  and  re­
deem  the  Holy  Land  from  the  sway  of 
the  infidel.

A  writer  in  an  American  journal  de­
voted  to  milling  says  Siberia  is  too  cold 
to  compete  with  this  country 
in  the 
production  of  wheat,  and  that  the  open­
ing  of  the  Great Russian Railway across 
Northern  Asia  will  not  lessen  the  de­
mand  on  this  country  for  breadstuffs. 
Siberia  is  unsuited  to  a large production 
of  wheat.  Its  winters  last  eight  months, 
the  area  available  for  wheat  is  compar­
atively  too  small,  and  all  that  is  pro­
duced  will  be  needed  for  home  con­
sumption.  The  Russian  Railway,  for 
the  most  part,  runs  north  of  the  55th 
parallel  of  latitude.

There  are  fifty  manufactories  in  Ger­
many  engaged  in  making  imitation but­
ter.  A  factory  in  Mannheim  is  said  to 
produce  6,000  pounds  of  the  stuff  from 
cocoanuts._____________

The  mân  who  greatly  admires himself 
is  sure  that  he  is  a  worthy  object  of  ad­
miration.

IO

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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

HARRISBURG  LINE 
OF  LADIES  SHOES

HIRTH,  KRAU SE  &  CO.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS,

Correspondence solicited. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

T T T T i r n n n r

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  n.  and  T.  and  y2  D.  S .,all  Solid—a 
good  western shoe at  popular prices.

V\ e  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.

Shoes  and  L eath er

How 

the  Trading  Stamp  Scheme 

Works  with  the  Shoe  Trade.

I  have 
Been  asked
How  the  “ trading  stamp  scheme”  

works.

about  it.

As  I  knew  but  little  about  it  myself, 
I  asked  the  shoe  dealers  to  teil  me 

Some  of  them  have  done  so.
Not  many,
But  enough  of  them  to  give  me  some 
the 

idea  regarding  the  workings  of 
scheme,

And  I  judge  from  the  few  answers  I 

In  Brooklyn,  where  the  company 

is 
endeavoring  to  compel  a  dealer  to  con­
tinue  to give  stamps.

And  the  outcome  is  awaited  with con­

siderable  interest.

The  main disadvantage of  this scheme 
Is  that  the  dealer,
While  giving  his  customers  5  per 

cent,  on  all  transactions.

Has  no  control  over  the  goods  which 

that  5  per  cent,  will  buy.

If  a  customer  goes  to  a  trading  stamp 

store

And  purchases  a  lamp  supposed  to  be 

worth  five  dollars,

And  finds  that  he  could  go  to  a  lamp 
store  and  buy  it  for  a  dollar  and  a  half. 

He  is  dissatisfied,
Not  with  the  supply  companv,
But  with  the  dealer  who  gave  him  the 

have  received

with  shoe  dealers.

That  it  has  to  become  very  popular 

coupons.

The  scheme  is  something  after  this 

wise:

A  dealer 

is  asked  to  buy  stamps, 
which  resemble  postage  stamps,  to  a 
certain  amount.

The  cost  to  him  is  5  per  cent,  of  tht 
denomination  of  value  printed  upon 
them.

That  is,
One  hundred  dollars'  worth  of  stamps 

cost  the  dealer  §5.

Then  these  stamps  are  given  to  his 

customers,

To  the amount  of their cash purchases. 
There  is  a  good  point  there.
If  a  man  wishes  to  give  a premium he 
it  only  to  cash  customers. 

should  give 

But  at  once  we  str.ke a  snag.
What 
tomer?

is  the  definition  of  a  cash  cus­

If  a  man  has  a  running  account  at 

your  store,

And  sends  his  wife  and  children  in 
there  every  time  they  wish  a  pair  ol 
shoes,

And  pays  his  bill  once  a  month,
Or  every  Saturday  night,
It  is  a  question  whether  or  not  be 

is 

a  cash  customer.

Some  people  believe  that  nothing  but 
cash  on  delivery  of  goods  constitutes  a 
cash  customer.

But  as  this  question  has  been  debated 

before,  we  will  let  that  pass.

The  shoe  dealer,
Having  purchased  $100  worth  of 

Begins  paying  out  these  stamps  to his 

stamps  for  §5,

customers.

These  stamps  are  good  to  purchase 
articles  at  the  stores  of the  stamp supply 
company.

At  those  stores,
According  to  all  advices  I  have  re­

ceived,

verware,

prize  stuff.

show.

There  is  a  pretty  large  show  of  sil­

Lamps,  crockery  and  other  tea  store 

They  may  be  job  lots,
But  at  any  rate  they  make  a  good 

When  vour  customer  has  a  lot  of these 

stamps  on  hand,

He  can  go  to  this  store  and  buy  any­

thing  at  the  price  marked  upon  it,

Using  the  stamps  as  payment.
Now  this  seems  a  good  scheme,  on the 

face  of  it,

But 

in  almost  every  case  which  has 

come  to  my  knowledge

There  seems  to  be  a  lot of dissatisfac­

tion.

The company  manages to get a dealer

to  sign  a  contract,

not  carrying  it  out,

And  then,  if  he  finds  any  reason  for 

The  company  sues  him.
A  case  is  now  on  trial,  I  believe,

That  lamp  has  cost  the  shoe  dealer  in 

actual  cash  five  dollars,

Yet  the  customer gets  only  the  value 

of  30  per  cent,  of  it.

The  stamp  supply  company  seems  to 

be  in  the  position 

Of  heads  I  win,  tails  you  lose.
If  a  min  wants  to  give  such  pre­

miums,

It  would  be  much  better  for  him  to 

purchase  his  presents,

And  then  he  could  decide  for  himself 
what  lie  wants  to  give  and  how  much  he 
wants  to  pay  for  it.

He  can  display  it  in  his  own window, 
And  he  won’t  have  to  pay 
it 
six  months  or  a  year  in  advance.

for 

This  stamp  business  is  now  in  a  pe­

culiar  shape in some places.

The  orginator  cf  the  scheme  has  com­

petitors  and  imitators.

And  a  merry  war  is  going  on  between 

him  and  them.

the  scheme,

This  may  work  to  the  advantage  of 

In  compelling  the  stamp  men  to  give 
better  value  for  the  money  they  receive.
But  it  is  hardly  likely  that  any  man 
can  do  as  well  through  tne  stamp  com­
pany

As  he  would  to  order  his  premiums 

direct  and  know  their  value

Figure  out  your  sales  for  a  year.
You  may  sell  twenty thousand  dollars’ 

worth  of  goods.

If  you  give  5  per  cent,  of  that  to  the 

trading  stamp  company,

Their 

income  from  you  will  be  one 

thousand  dollars.

They  are  likeiy  to  make  fully  too  per 

cent,  on  all  their  goods,

And  if  they  pick  them  up  at  auction, 
They  make  a  still  further  profit. 
Judging  from  the  complaints  which  I 

have  had,

It is  probable  that  the  stamp company 
could  make  about  six  hundred  dollars 
out  of  you  in  a  year.

A  thousand  dollars 

is  quite  a  little 

money  to spend  in  advertising,

But  there  are  many  who  believe  that 
presents  given  as  premiums  constitute 
a  good  form  of  advertising.

And  a  thousand  dollars  is  not  a  large 
amount  to  spend  to  get  rid  of  twenty 
thousand  dollars'  worth  of  goods.

Here 

is  a  good  point  which  has  been 

mentioned  by  a  friend  of  mine,
A  bright,  wide-awake  dealer.
He  has  been  giving  premiums,
But  it  suddenly  occurred  to  him  that 
premiums  were  not  getting  him  enough 
new  business  to  pay  their  cost.

The  trouble  is  not  in  putting  out 
money  for  premiums  for  new  business. 

He  was  willing  to  do  that.
But  he  did  not  care  to  put  out  money 

to  keep  his  old  customers.

He  felt  that  he  was  using  them  well,

Giving  them  good  value 

money,

for  their 

And  bad  no  need  to  offer extra  in­

ducements  to  hold  their  trade.

If,  however,  he  gave  premiums  to 

new  people

To  induce  them  to  trade  with  him,
His  regular  customers,  he  felt,
Should  be  treated  fully  as  liberally
And,  if  anything,  more  so.
He  would  willingly  pay  a  thousand 
to  get  twenty-five  thousand 

dollars 
dollars’  worth  of  new business.

He  did  not  feel  justified  in  putting 
out  a  thousand  dollars  to  keep 
the 
twenty-five  thousand  dollars’  worth  of 
trade  which  he  already  had.

This  view  of  the  case  decided  him  to 
give  up  the  premium  business  entirely,
And  he  is  doing  his  advertising  in  a 
way  which  he  thinks  will  bring  in  new 
business,

While  he  continues  to  hold  his  old 
business  by  proper  treatment  of  his cus­
tomers,

And  by  making  his  prices  sufficiently 

low.

The  question  of  giving  presents is one 
open  to  a  good  deal  of  argument  on 
both  sides,

But  if  one  decides  that  he  is  willing 
to  pay  out  money  for  presents  to  in­
duce  trade,

It  certainly  seems  to  be  good  policy
To  buy  his  own  presents,
Rather  than  let  a  stamp  company  buy 

them  for  him.

And  then  charge  outrageous  prices  to 
his  customers  when  they  redeem  the 
stamps.— Geo.  E.  B.  Putnam  in  Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder.

Good  Things  Said  by  Up-to-Date  Shoe 

Dealers.

In  the  schoolroom 

is  where  the  ill- 
fitting  shoe  does  its  worst—while  the 
child  endeavors  to  do  problems 
in 
arithmetic,  the  shoe  pinches;  while  the 
little  one  stands  before  the  blackboard, 
the  shoe  rubs;  when  he  goes  to  or  from 
his  seat  to  "class,”   the  shoe  binds  the 
instep  or  hurts  the  ball  of  the  foot.— 
Johnson’s  Shoe  Palace,  Altoona,  Pa.
“  This  has  been  shoe  show  week  at 
Wanamaker’s—an  exposition  of  leather 
workmanship—the  get-acquainted-davs 
with  the  shoes  for  now  and  winter.  On 
an  average  there  are  two  hundred  and 
twenty-five  thousand  pairs  of  shoes  in 
stock  here—need  to  be,  that  we  may 
have  fair  selling  stocks  of  the  shoes  we 
show.  There 
is  only  one  American 
shoe  business that equals this in  volume, 
while  it  would  likely  take  the  combined 
business  of  any  half  dozen  home  stores 
to  equal  it.  That  counts  for  something 
— it  means  an  outlet  for  such  lots  of 
goods  that  the  shoe  chief  doesn’t  hesi­
tate  to  give  orders  that  keep  makers 
busy  fot  months,  that  scare  dull  times 
awav.—John  Wanamaker,  Phi la.
Right  on  the  heels  of  that  big 

lot  of 
men’s  fine  hand-sewed  shoes  that turned 
all  male  Washington  toward  our  stores 
follows  a  great  agreeable  surprise  for 
the 
ladies.  Through  the  failure .of  a 
Philadelphia  shoe  retailer,  a  Carlisle 
manufacturer  had  left  on  his  hands  the 
stitched-together  uppers  and  linings  of 
a  lot  of  $3  and  §4  shoes,  going  through 
the  works.  The  upper  leather being  of 
the  same  quality  as  that  which 
is  used 
in  our  own  regular  shoes,  we  bought 
these  uppers  and  had  some  made  up  on 
our  own  regular  lasts—at  a  price  which 
only  about  covered  the  cost  of  the  soles 
and  heels.  We  have  not  the  room  to 
hold  this  big  lot  of  goods,  and  will 
therefore  give  you,  from 
to-morrow 
morning on,  a chance  to  buy—as  long  as 
they last—these famous.—William  Hahn 
&  Co ,  Washington,  D.  C.

Nuremberg,  the  great  toymaking  cen­
ter,  has  had  a  banquet  to  celehrate  the 
completion  of  the  300,000th model steam 
engine  by  a  certain  well-known  maker. 
The  same  factory  has  turned  out  more 
than  325,000  magic  lanterns.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Il

agonal  or ■ other  cloth  topping,  is  not 
open  to  this  objection,  but 
is  durable 
and  neat,  being  easily  cleaned,  when 
soiled,  by  an  application  of  gasoline.

lighter  than  will  sell 

In  connection  with  cloth  tops  colored 
shoes  will  be  more  popular  than  ever 
the  coming  season.  East  the  shade that 
is  predicted  to  lead  is  very  light  brown 
—much 
in  the 
West  and  South  Out  this  way  a  light 
chocolate  will  be  the  favo-ed  color,  a 
sort  of  golden  brown  that holds  its color, 
is  not  obtrusive,  but  soft  and  pleasing 
to  the  eye.  The  extreme  dark  colors 
prevailing  last  season  will  not  be  called 
for  to any  extent,  ox-blood  being  about 
out  of  it  and  green,  purple,  etc.,  in  no 
demand  whatever.

It  will  be  observed  that  this  tendency 
toward  simplicity  in  shoe  styles 
is  no­
ticeable  chiefly  in  the  grades  sold  to the 
better  class  of  trade,  not  so  much  in 
cheap  lines. 
In  the  less  costly  varieties 
is  still  a  call  for  gingerbread 
there 
effects  practically  as  strong  as  ever. 
But  the  influence  of  fashion  leaders 
in­
variably  makes  itself  felt  all  along  the 
leads  the  world 
line.  Where  fashion 
foil »ws  and  to-day  fashion 
is  headed 
toward  plainer  styles.

It 

is  for  every  shoe  man  to  help  this 
movement  along--to  dispose  of  his lines 
that  are  overburdened  with  gingerbread 
and  work  toward  plain  goods  that  com­
bine  style  with  service. 
It  is  to  his  ad­
vantage  to  lend  assistance  to  anything 
that  will  simplify  his  stock  and  reduce 
the  proportion  of  profitless  odds  and 
ends  that  collect  every season  as  a result 
of  rapid  and  radical  style  changes.— 
Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

A  fit  of  temper has  very  often  nothing 
to  do  with  the  thing  which  appears  to 
give  rise  to  it.

Patent  Leather  Slippers  Fashionable.
Satin  goods  are  taking  a  back  seat 
among  fashionable  dames  and  damsels, 
yielding  place  to  the  patent 
leather 
slipper  with  French  heel.  The  plain 
patent  leather  slipper  sells  well  in  the 
best  stores;  but  the  favorite  is  provided 
with  a  large  pointed  tongue  piece  and 
is  known  by  a  variety  of  names.  Some 
are  fur  trimmed,  but  only  a  few.

A  prominent  city  retailer  says  he  is 
selling  three  tunes  as  many  black  pat­
ent  leather  slippers  as  he  is  colored  and 
white  satin.  There 
in  this 
freak  of  fashion.  Patent  leather  doesn’t 
soil  like  the  dainty  tinted  goods.

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Tendency  Toward  Simplicity  in  Styles 

of  Women’s  Shoes.

Simplicity  seems  to  be  the  word  that 
best  describes  the  tendency  of  the  times 
in  styles  of  shoes.  From  the  highly  or­
nate  and  much-perforated  styles  of«  late 
seasons  we  appear  to  be  heading  toward 
plainness  and  neatness.

At 

last 

it  seems  that  retailers  have 
become  thoroughly  tired  of 
loading 
their  shelves  up  with  goods  as  variega­
ted  as  women’s  millinery  and  are  of one 
accord  in  buying  fewer  styles  and  those 
more  staple  ones.

It  is  time  that  such  were  the  case.
A  prominent  retailer  handling  only 
women’s  and  children’s  goods  recently 
remarked,  ” 1  have  bought  only  misses’ 
and  chi Idem’s  so  far,  but  those  I  have 
identically  the  same  lines 
selected  are 
as  last  season. 
I  will  take  on  nothing 
new. 
I’ve  had  enough  of  novelties  and 
will  dodge  all  I  can.”

Few  of  the  Eastern  travelers  selling 
to  the  best  city  trade  are  showing  much 
that  is  ornate  or  new.  About  all  of  the 
women’s  samples  there 
is  a  tone  of 
plainness  that  is  pleasing.

Perforations  are  missing.  The  fad 
that  prevailed  for  so  long  of  punching 
holes  everywhere  there  was  room  for 
them 
in  the  trimmings  has  become 
outre  or  passe  or  lapsed  into  some  other 
condition  of  French 
innocuous  desue­
tude.  Tips  and  trimmings  are  plain.

Patent 

leather  trimmings  are  almost 
a  novelty  in  the  best  lines  of  goods  for 
the  winter  as  well  as  for  spring  wear. 
The  day  of  patent  leather  lace  stays  on 
ladies’  shoes,  with  fancy  cutting,  is  not 
past  so  far  as  cheap  goods  are  con­
cerned,  but  on  the  best  grades  little  of 
this  sort  of  work  is  desired. 
It  is  the 
same  way  with  tips. 
Instead  of  patent, 
stock  tips  are  in  favor.  How  long  this 
will  continue  to  be  the  case  is  a  ques­
tion.  On  the  heavy  calf  shoes  that  the 
fashionable  woman  is  sensibly  adopting 
for  winter  wear  the  stock  tip—that  is, 
tip  made  of  the  same  material  as  the 
shoe— is  all  right.  On  a  kid  shoe  it 
looks  well  when  new,  but  scuffs  up 
badly  with  a  little  wear  and  on  this  ac­
count  may  not  prove  as  popular  as  pat­
It  will  not  be  sur­
ent  tips  have  done. 
prising 
supplant 
the 
stock  tips  again  after a  short  time.

if  patent  tips 

The  best  seller  of  the  high-grade 
shoes  of  a  city  retailer  whose  trade 
in­
cludes  many  fashionable  women  is  of 
Box  calf  on  a  broad  Bull  dog  last,  set 
on  a  low,  mannish  heel,  stitched  with 
three  rows  of  brown 
stitching  and 
capped  with  a  straight-across  stock  tip. 
It 
fact,  a  man’s  shoe  in  a  wom­
an’s  size,  severely  plain,  but  neat  and 
stylish.

is,  in 

In  lines  less  mannish  women  who  buy 
the  higher-priced  shoes are  giving  pref­
erence  to  a  plain  kid  shoe,  kid  tipped 
with  one  point  or  plain  foxing,  military 
heel,  Coin  or  Bull-dog  toe,  chaste  and 
neat,  but  unornamented.

in 

This  tendency 

in  the  fine  city  trade 
is  already  having  its  effect  on  the  coun­
try  trade  and  less  gingerbread  is  seen 
on  many  lines  of  spring  samples.

Black  cloth  tops  are  in  some  demand 
for  cold  weather,  but  spring  will  de­
velop  the  cloth  top  trade 
its  full 
measure,  when  the  handsome  designs 
shown  in  colored  goods  will  attract  the 
feminine  customer. 
It  is probable  that 
the  vesting  top  will  work  evil on  many 
dealers,  who  will  attempt  to  handle  it 
in  lines  too  cheap,  with  the  result  that 
the  color  will  rub  off  and  soon  become 
a  dingy,  dirty  hue  that  will  mean 
trouble  for  the  merchant.  The  better 
quality  of  vesting,  queen’s  cloth,  di­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 2

Clerks’  Corner

The  Situation  from  the  Employer’s 

Written for the T r a d e s m a n .

Standpoint.

Just  back  of  my  dining  room,  out  of 
sight  and  sound  of  the  parlor,  is  an 
apartment  which  I  have  “ fixed  up”   as 
a den,  to  which  I  repair  when  the  spirit 
moves  me—or  when  some  other  spirit 
moves  me!—and  I  fain  would  enter  the 
realm  of  rest  and  silence.  1  had  thrown 
myself  into  my easy  chair  and  was read­
ing  with  considerable  satisfaction  my 
own  contribution  to  the  Tradesman  in 
regard  to  the  clerk  “ watched  bv  a thou­
sand  eyes, ’ ’ and was wondering whether, 
on  the  whole,  Bostwick  had  b. en  ben­
efited  by  anything  which  I  had  said, 
when  with  a  preliminary  tap  the  door 
opened  and  Mr.  Bostwick  came 
in. 
There 
is  no  ceremony  in  dendom  and 
the  grocer  was  not  long  in  rinding  an 
attitude  as  comfortable  as  mine,  on  the 
other  side  of  my  blazing  fire.  Of course,
I  knew  what  he  had  come  for  and  1 
hastened  through  the  necessary  prelim­
inaries  with  all  dispatch.  I  passed  him 
my  box  of  Centaurs  and  a 
lighted 
match;  and  in  due  time,  blowing  away 
the  blue,  he  began :

must  not  go. 

“ I’m  afraid  you  didn’t  understand 
me  the  other  day  in  our  talk  about  the 
clerks. 
I’ve  no  objection  to  the  boys 
having  all^the  fun  they  want  after  busi­
ness 
is  over;  but  I  do  think  there  is  a 
limit  beyond  which  they  should  not  go 
In  the  first  place,  fun 
that  takes  the  strength  of  the  young 
man  and  so  unfits  him  for  his  day’s 
work  is  not  to  be  put  up  with.  That’s 
where  I  find  fault  with  Morris. 
I  have 
work  enough  to  keep  him  busy  from 
six 
in  the  morning  until  six  at  night. 
He’s  a  stout,  healthy  young  fellow  who 
ought  to  stand  any  amount  of  work. 
Why,  good  thunder!  when  I  was  at  that 
chap's  age  I  did  the  work  of  two  men 
and  thought  nothing  of  it  and  expected 
to  do  it;  but  the  minute  I  say  anything 
about  coming  down  to  the  store  after 
supper,  he  says 
it’s  all  right;  he  just 
as  lief,  but  of  course  he’ll  expect  to  be 
paid  for  such  extra  work !

‘  Well,  that’s  neither  here  nor  there. 
What  I  m  after  now 
is  the  way  he 
spends  his time.  You  spoke  about  his 
playing  billiards  with  you.  He  doesn’t 
always  play  with  you,  I  can  tell  you 
that,  and  he  doesn’t  always  stop  a  little 
after  ten  o’clock. 
I  venture  to  say  that 
fellow  doesn't  see  the  inside  of  his  own 
room  earlier  than  midnight  oftener  than 
once  a  week. 
I’m  willing  to  bet  ten 
dollars.  Now  I  can’t  have  that;  the  fel­
low  knows  it,  and  yet  let  me  say  a  sin­
gle  word  to  him  about  it  and  he’ll  fly 
off  the  handle  in  a  minute.

“ That’s  a  part  of  what  I  meant  the 
other  day  when  you  were  in  there.  You 
saw  how  red  he  got  in  the  face,  and  1 
expected  more  than  anything  that  he 
would  flare  up.  That 
isn’t  the  worse 
thing  about  him,  though.  He’s  a  boy 
that’s  been  brought  up  to  go  to  church 
and  Sunday  school  and  have  a  whole­
some  respect  for  such  things. 
I’ve  an 
idea  that  he’s  a  church  member;  but  if 
he’s  seen  the  inside  of  a  church  in  over 
a  year  I’ll  miss  my  guess.  A  man  told 
me  within  a  week  -of  course,  you’ll say 
he  d  better  be  minding  his  own  busi­
ness—that  he  saw  him  the  night  before 
carousing  around  the  bar  down  at  that 
swell  saloon  on  Curtis  street  with  three 
others  of  the  same  clique;  and  another 
man  .has  a 
story  that  I  should  be 
ashamed  to  repeat  to  you,  to  the  effect 
that  to  his  certain  knowledge  Morris

was  seen  in  the  most  disreputable  quar­
ter  of  the  town  with  one  of  the  most 
disreputable 
the  city. 
How's  that  for  a  grocer's  clerk  with  a 
salary  of  $4;  a  month?

characters 

in 

longer? 

“ Now,  that’s  all  wrong.  The  boy's 
bright  as  a  dollar.  He  comes  of  a  good 
family  in  the  East— I  know  ’em  well— 
and  if that  boy's  mother knew what kind 
of  a  life  he  is  living  ’twould  kill  her. 
What  I  want  him  to  do,  after  he gets 
through  with  his  day’s  work,  is  to  go  to 
his  room  after  supper  and  stay  there. 
He's  tired  enough  after  I  get  through 
with  him  to  sit  down  and  rest.  When 
I  get  home  I  find  something  worth read 
ing  and  read 
it.  What  s  the  reason 
Will  can't  do  a  little  studying,  now  the 
evenings  are  getting 
I  asked 
him  something  about  a  sum  in  arithme­
tic  the  other  day,  not  a  hard  one  either, 
and  he  was dumb  as  an  oyster—couldn’t 
tell  a  blessed  thing  about  it. 
I  tell  you 
isn't  right.  Something  ought  to 
that 
be  done  about  it. 
If  that  fellow,  smart 
and  bright  as  he  is,  keeps  on  the  way 
he’s  gping,  he’ll 
land  plump  to  the 
devil;  and  I’ll  give  him  less  than  five 
It’s  too  bad ;  but  I 
years  to  do 
can’t  do  anything  about  it. 
I’ve  tried 
it  and  well,  it  isn't  satisfactory.  We 
both  of  us  get  mad  and  that’s  the  end 
of  it. 
I’ve  been  on  the  point  of  ship­
ping  him;  but  at  heart  he’s  a  good, 
likely  fellow  and  I  like  him.  He  isn’t 
lazy;  he’s  got  good,  common  sense; 
and  if  he'd  only  sober  down  and  try  to 
make  something  of  himself,  I'd  do  the 
nandsome  thing  by  him.

it  in ! 

“ Somehow  or other  you’ve  got  on  the 
right  side  of  him,  and  I  believe  you 
can  talk  to  him  if  anybody  can.  Just 
try  it— I  wish  you  would.  That’s  why 
I’ve  come  over—to  ask  you.  You  and 
ne  have  been  together  for  something 
like  six  months  now—yes,  I’m  willing 
o  admit  that  I've  been  onto  you!—and 
you’ve  done  him  a  world  of  good.  You 
can  do  him  more. 
I  only  wish  I  had 
vour  knack; 
to-morrow 
morning.  Here,  take  another  cigar— 
it’s  a  choice  brand—and  tell  me  just 
what  you  think  about  it.  You 
like  the 
boy— I -saw  that  the  other  day.  Now  go 
ahead  and  tell  me  what  you  think  about 
it.’ ’

I'd  begin 

I  felt  the  time  had  come  for  a  ten- 
strike  and  with  the  choice  Cuban  pro­
duction  fairly  started,  I  turned  towards 
my  boy  Will’s 
’ boss”   and  began.  Next 
week  I’ll  tell  you  “ fellers”   what  I 
said. 

Ric h a r d   Malcolm  Str o n g.

Revival  of  an  Old  German  Institution. 
From the Shoe and  Leather Gazette.

Solomon’s  oft-quoted  aphorism  that 
there 
is  nothing  new  under  the  sun 
stands  as  true  to-day  as  when  it was first 
uttered,  centuries  ago.  No  sooner  do 
we  evolve  a  novelty  that  we  flatter  our­
selves 
is  really  new  than  some  icono­
clast  shatters  our  idol  and  we  find  that 
our  new  idea  was  born  before  we  knew 
the  light  of  day.

The  street  fair,  that  novel 

institution 
that  is  creating  enthusiasm  throughout 
the  North,  is  nothing  new. 
It  found 
its  origin  in  Germanv  years  and  years 
ago  and  as  the  “ Yahrmarkt"  has  flour­
ished  for  decades  on  decades 
in  the 
Fatherland.

If  the  street  fair  is  not  new,  it  is  a 
profitable  novelty-and  that  is  the  main 
consideration.

The  street  fair  is  a  great  institution 
for  drawing  crowds  to  town  and  boom­
ing  business  for  a  few  days. 
It  is  only 
temporary,  but  brings  excitement  and 
pleasant  entertainment  with  it.

A  Barrel  of  Flour

Branded  like this  one

Is  The  Best

T h a t  m oney can  buy.

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

Clark=Jewell = Wells  Co.,

W estern  M ichigan  A gen ts.

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

John  Temple  Graves,  of  Georgia,  in 
recent 
lecture  on  “ The  New  Woman 
and  the  Old,”   said:  “ Woman  is  no 
longer a  sentiment;  she  is  a  problem, 
and  it  is  now  our  unhappy  mission  to 
grapple  with  her  or  surrender,  as  I  have 
done. ’ ’

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,

Sole  O w ners.

“ Old  Man”  Not  Necessarily  a  Term 

Written for the  T r ad esm an.

of  Disrespect.

in  a  recent  number  of 

"Hard  to  Grow  Old  Gracefully,”   an 
article 
the 
Tradesman  by  H.  H.  T.,  appeals  di­
rectly  to  my  heart;  but  not  exactly  on 
the  writer’s  side  of  the  argument.  The 
fact  is  simply  this:  The  sou  said,  “ I’ll 
see  if  the  old  man  can  spare  me.”   Was 
that  any  intentional  disrespect  on  the 
part  of  the  young  man?  No.  When  the 
boy  was  born,  the  father  was  30  years 
old,  and  through  all  these  changing 
years  the  interval  of  time  between  their 
ages  has  remained  unchanged.  To  the 
boy  of  10  or  15,  thirty  years  is  a  long 
time,  and  to  him  the  man  who  is  30 
years  his  senior 
is,  to  all  intents  and 
purposes,  an  old  man.  When  the  toy  is 
21,  the  father  is  51  ;  and  I  should  like 
if  a  man  who  is  over  half  a 
to  know 
hundred 
isn't  old!  So,  then,  the  boy 
didn’t  mean  to  imply  that  his  father  is 
superanuated  and  ready  to  be  shelved ; 
but  simply  that,  since  he,  the  boy,  is  a 
young  man,  his  dad  must  be  an  old 
man—thirty  years  older  (!)—that  is  all. 
Let  anybody  else  speak  of  that  same 
father as  old  in  any  disrespectful  sense 
of  the  term  and  the  young  fellow  would 
knock  the  offender  down.  So  much  for 
that.

Now,  then,  Mr.  H.  H.  T.  needn’t un­
dertake  to tell me  that  the  man he writes 
about  never  thought  of  being looked  up­
on  as  old  until  the  boy,  John,  called 
him  ’ ’ the  old  man.”   That  thought  has 
been  agitating  his  gray  matter  off  and 
on  for  years.  Ever  since  he  pulled  the 
first  ominous  white  hair  from  his 
whiskers,  he  has  been  haunted  by  the 
same  dreadful  idea;  and  it  seems  to  me 
a  significant  fact  that  so  many  men 
in 
the  neighborhood  of  45  shave  all  but 
the  moustache  so  long  as  that  capillary 
ornament  of  the  upper 
lip  shows  no 
sign  of  “ the  sere  and  yellow  leaf;” 
and,  when  a  man  of  that  age  makes  a 
clean  sweep  with  the  razor,  it  may  be 
put  down  as  a  fact  which  he  had  better 
not  be  questioned  about  that  he  does 
it 
—well,  because!

it;  and 

The  most  trying  trouble  which  most 
men  encounter 
in  fighting old  age  re­
lates  to  the  eyes.  Spectacles?  Perish 
the  thought!  They  quarrel  with  the 
newspaper.  Somehow  there  is  no  com­
fort  reading 
it  is  amusing  as 
well  as  noticeable  that  about  this  time 
they  are  too  busy  to  read  anything  but 
the  headlines!  Woe  to  the  man,  woman 
or  child  who  hints  at  glasses;  but when, 
some  day, 
the  knowing  wife  of  his 
bosom  wonders 
if  eyeglasses  wouldn’t 
be  becoming  to  him,  “ just  to  please 
her”   he  gets  himself  the  most  stylish 
pair  he  can  find,  and  so  makes  a  sacri­
fice  of  himself  “ just  to  satisfy  a  foolish 
whim  of  his  w ife!”   One  friend  of 
mine  who  has  passed  “ the  Great  D i­
vide,”   when  asked  the  other  day  why 
he  wears  the  wide-toed  shoe  in  place 
of  the  London  peg,  instead  of  saying 
that  he  is  too  old  for  that  sort  of  non­
sense,  with  an  expression  of  wisdom  on 
his  sly  old  face  insisted  that  the  wide 
toe  is  the  prevailing  style  in  the  East, 
is  his  ground  of  prefer­
and  that  that 
ence;  while  another 
is  indulging  with 
all  his  might  and  main  his  fondness 
for  red,  and  daily  appears  in  a  splen­
dor  of  neckwear  which  many  a  younger 
man  would  not  dare  to  put  on.

The  fault  to  be  found  in  all  this  lies 
in  the  evident  “ make-believe.”   We 
are  all  growing  old;  but  so  many  of  us 
forget  that  the  thing  has  been  going  on 
ever  since  we  were  born.  The  trouble 
seems  to  lie  in  the  fact  that  we  are  not

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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A sso ciatio n  M atters

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J.W islek, Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Sto w e,  Grand  Kapids;  Treasurer,  J   F 
T atm an, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C h a s.  F.  Bock,  Battle  Creek:  Vice 
President,  H.  W.  W e b b e r ,  West  Bay  City; 
Treasurer,  He n r y C.  Min n ie,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J oseph K n io h t;  Secretary, E. Ma r k s, 

221  Greenwood ave:  Treasurer,  N.  L.  K oenig.

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.

President,  F r a n k   J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  H omer 

Saginaw Mercantile Association 

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

Fanis’  Self-Rising  Buckwheat

Fains’  Pancake  Floor 
80 5 lb. sacks to a case.. $3.50
PALUS & CO., Toledo, 0.

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

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

t e r ;  Treasurer, J.  L.  P etbr m ann

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  F.  B.  J oh n so n;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  Martin  Gafney;  Secretary,  E  F. 

Cleveland;  Treasurer,  Geo.  M.  Hoch.
Traverse City Business Men’s Association
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer, C.  A .  Ham mond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

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

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

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

Treasurer.  S.  J.  Hu ffo r d.

For  Sale  by  Leading  Jobbers.

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That  is  PU R E   is  the  kind  we  offer you 
at  prices  that  are  reasonable.
We  sell  buckwheat  that  has  the good old- 
fashioned  buckwheat  taste.  We  do  not 
adulterate it in any way,  shape or manner. 
We  believe that when people ask for buck­
wheat  they  want  buckwheat,  and  it  is  for 
the  class  of  people  who  know  what  they 
want  that  we  make  this  buckwheat.
We  believe  it  will  please  any  lover of  the 
genuine  article.
We  would  like  to  have  your  order  and 
shall  take  pleasure  in  quoting  you  close 
prices  on  any  quantity.

V a lley  C ity  M illing  Com pany,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Sole  Manufacturers  of  “LILY  WHITE.” 
“The  floor  the  best  cooks  use.”

quite  ready  to  give  up  at  our age  what 
by 
consent  belongs  to  an 
earlier  one.

common 

After  all,  “ old  man”   is  a  term  not 
necessarily  offensive.  My  17-year-old 
Bob  often  calls  me  that;  but,  with  his 
arm  around  my  neck,  it 
is  so  much 
music  to  my  years.  Mac,  with  his  wis­
dom  and  experience  (!)—he 
is  25 — 
would  hardly  be  the  dear  fellow  he  is 
without  his  always  hearty  “ Hello,  old 
man!”   And  when  Lawrence,  9  years 
his  senior,  puts  his  arm  across  my 
shoulders  and  says,  in  his  earnestness, 
“ Now  see  here,  old  man!”   does  any­
that  I 
body  suppose,  for  a  moment, 
would 
commonplace 
“ father?”   Not  I.  The  words  mean 
much  to  them—much  more  to  m e;  and 
nothing  would  so  shock  either  of  us  as 
the  thought  that  in  them  lurks  anything 
unfilial  or  anything  that  hints  at  dis­
respect.

change 

to 

it 

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

Why  He  Succeeded  Where  Others 

Failed.

Correspondence Trade Magazine.

I  had  a  long  and  very  interesting con­
versation  with  a  candy  man  the  other 
day—a  nervous,  energetic,  thoroughly 
wideawake  and therefore successful mer­
chant. 
interview,  but 
I  can’t  help  repeating  some  things  he 
said  to  m e:

It  was  a  private 

“ I  was  standing  before  a  large  candy 
in  Philadelphia  some  time  ago, 

store 
when  two  ladies  paused  at  the  door.

‘ Come  in,’  said  one  of  them,  ‘ and 

let’s  get  some  candy. ’

‘ No,’  replied  the  other,  ‘ just  come 
along  to  my  store.  Let  us  get  the  candy 
there. ’

“ I  wanted  to  see  what  kind  of  a  store 
had  pleased  the  lady  so  much,  and  fol­
lowed  them  to  it. 
I  looked  it  all  over, 
bought  some  candy  myself,  and  think  I 
got  some  ideas  for  my  own  business.

“ I  get  a  great  many  ideas  by  stand­
ing  on  the  pavement 
in  front  of  my 
store,  looking 
into  the  show  window, 
and  listening  to  what  people  say  as they 
come  out  of  the  store.  That is  the  time 
that  they  express  an  unbiased  opinion.
If  they  find  fault  with  the  goods  or  the 
store  or  their  treatment,  I  am  pretty 
sure  to  hear  it,  and  thus  ascertain  what 
faults  are  to  be  corrected.  When  they 
are  pleased,  1  discover  just  what 
is 
right.

“ When  I  entered  business  I  began 
using  a  certain  brand  of  chocolate. 
It 
is  a  first-class  article  and  commands  a 
high  price,  but  people 
like  it,  and  I 
have  continued  to  use  it  and  shall  do 
so.  Not 
long  ago  a  salesman  tried  to 
persuade  me  to  use  another  brand.  He 
it  w  s  just  as  good  and  far 
said  that 
cheaper.  Not  selling  me  any,  he  offered 
to  let  me  have  a  lot  gratis  as  a  sample, 
but  I  declined  even  that  proposition.

‘ You  won’t  even  let  me  give 

it  to 

you?’  he  asked.

‘ No,’  was  my  answer;  ‘ the  choco­
late  that  I  am  using  has  carried  me 
through  from  a  very  small  beginning  to 
the  present,  and  I’m  going  to  stand  by

It 

“ Whenever  I  go  to  the  metropolis  I 
try  to  take  two  or  three  of  my  clerks 
with  me.  We  go 
into  the  retail  candy 
stores,  buy  and  ask  prices,  keep  our 
ears  and  eyes  wide  open,  and  then  talk 
experiences  over  and  compare 
our 
notes. 
is  wonderful  how  much  good 
it  does  them,  and  I  find  that  it  pays 
me  richly 
effi­
ciency.”

increasing 

their 

In  speaking  of  the  necessity  of  honest 
dealing.of reliable goods  and  thoroughly 
unbending  integrity  throughout  all  the 
transactions  of a  mercantile  career,  he 
uttered  this  sentence,  which  is  worthy  a 
place  among  the  axioms  of  the  day :

“ I  can  afford  to  lose  a  sale,  but  not  a 

in 

customer. ’ ’

How  many  merchants  there  are  who 
have  made  a  sale  netting  them,  per­
haps.  a  dime,  and  because  of  the  poor 
quality  of  the  goods  have  lost  a  custom­
er  that  might  have been worth hundreds, 
perhaps  thousands,  of  dollars  to  them !

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

14

F r u i t s   a n d   P r o d u c e .

Judge  McMahon  Holds  the  Oleomar­

garine  Law  Constitutional.

Detroit,  Nov.  6—On  October  15  a 
written  complaint  was laid before Police 
Justice  Sellers,  charging  a  dealer  with 
selling  an  imitation  of  yellow  butter 
in 
violation  of  the  law.  The  justice  re­
fused  to  entertain  the  complaint  on  va­
rious  grounds,  and  State  Dairy  and 
Food  Commissioner  Grosvenor  applied 
to  the  Wayne  Circuit  Court  for  a  man­
damus  to  compel  the  police  justices  to 
receive  such  complaints.  The  case was 
argued  several  days  ago  before  Judge 
McMahon,  who  delivered  a  decision 
granting 
yesterday, 
the  mandamus 
prayed  for. 
In  a  clear  and  thorough 
opinion,  the  court  showed  that  the  rea­
sons  given  by  the  police  justice  for  re­
fusing  to  issue a warrant were untenable.
“ This  is a  case of  great  public  inter­
est,”  said  Judge  McMahon  in  his  opin­
ion,  “ and  I  regret  exceedingly  that  I 
lacked  time  and  opportunity  to  spend 
several  days  upon  it. 
In  his  answer  to 
the  petition  for  a  mandamus,  Justice 
Sellers  gives  several  reasons  for  his  re­
fusal  to  entertain  such  complaints.  One 
of  these  is  that  the  complaint 
in  ques­
tion  was  not  made by  the  commissioner 
himself,  as  required  by  law.  Another 
is  that  the  act  is  unconstitutional,  be­
cause 
it  embraces  more  than  one  ob­
ject.  and,  still  another,  that  the  act 
is 
class  legislation.

“ The  intent  of  the  act  was  to  prevent 
deception  and  fraud  in  the  manufacture 
and  sale  of 
imitation  butter.  Justice 
Sellers  holds  that  all  such  complaints 
must  be  made  by  the  commissioner  in 
person.  This  opinion  is  evidently  de­
rived  from  another  legislative  act,  fix­
ing  the  duties  of the commissioner.  The 
act  we  are  considering  nowhere  indi­
cates  that  complaints  can  be  made  by 
any one e’se.  Without express legislation 
to  prevent  it,  every  citizen  can  exercise 
the  fundamental  right  to  make  com­
plaints  against  public  evils.  It is doubt­
ful  if  even  the  legislature  can take awav 
this  right. 
It  is  not  claimed  that  ordi­
nary  citizens  cannot  make  complaint« 
for  violations  of  the  liquor  laws.  The 
dairy  and  food  commissioner  has  a  verv 
wide  territorv  to  '00k  after,  and  it would 
be  an  impossibility  for  him  personally 
to  cover  it  all.

“ As  to  the  contention  that  the  act 

is 
unconstitutional. 
I  cannot  appreciate 
the  force  of  the  objection,  because  I 
have  been  unable  to  find  that  it  em­
braces  more  than  one  object.  That  ob­
ject  is  plainlv  to  prevent  fraud  and  de­
in  the  sale  of  imitation  butter
ception 
“ The  same  is  true  as to the contention 
that  the  complaint  did  not  charge  that 
the  article  sold 
looked  like  imitation 
I  have  been  unable  to 
yellow  hutter. 
find  that  the  act  requires  the 
insertion 
of  any  such  charge  in  complaints.

“ The  contention  that  the  act  is  class 
legislation  is  somewhat  ambiguous.  Tt 
is  not  the  province  of  courts  to  criticise 
legislatures.  Their occupation  of  their 
is  exclusive.  Courts  cannot 
own  field 
legislate. 
If  thev  pass  acts  that  are  re­
garded  as  oppressive,  courts  have  noth 
ing  whatever to  do  with  it.  There  is  no 
doubt  that 
legislatures  should  not  on- 
press  any  legitimate  business,  that  they 
should  not  pass  acts  to  help  but'er  pro­
ducers  to  the injury of the manufacturers 
of  other  pure  foods,  but  the  act  we  are 
considering  does  not  do  that. 
It  was 
framed  for  the  sole  purpose  of  prevent­
ing  deception  and  fraud.  This the  State 
has  a  perfect  right  to  do. 
It  has  been 
so  decided  manv  times  by  the  courts, 
and  is  so  well  established  as  to  be  be­
yond  controversy.

“ The  Supreme  Courts  of  Massachu­
setts  and  the  United  States  have  passed 
on  an  act  precisely  like  the  one  under 
consideration,  even  to  punctuation,  de­
claring 
it  to  be  constitutional.  TTieir 
opinions  should  carry  more  weight  than 
those  of  a  police  justice,  or  of  this 
court.  There 
is  no  question  that  the 
State  has  a  perfect  right  to  prevent  de­
in  food  products,  even  though 
ception 
they  may  be  wholesome. 
There  are 
many  people  who  would  not  buy  or  use 
oleomargarine,  or  imitation  butter,  un­

der  any  circumstances,  if  they  knew  it, 
and  they  have  a  right  to  protection. 
If 
some  one  is  incidentally  injured  in  en­
forcing  this  act  for  the general  good, 
there  is  no  redress.  Some  burdens  may 
be  imposed,  but  it  is  in  the  exercise  of 
a  large  State  policy,  and  they  must  be 
borne. ’ ’

High  Price  for  Ditto.
From the Lewiston Evening Journal.

This 

What 

is  the  power  of a  ditto  mark? 
A  nice  housekeeper  in  this  city  knows 
more  about  it  than  she  did  once.

is  the  time  of  year  when  mus­
tard,  cloves,  cassia,  bell  peppers,  vin­
egar,  and  the  other  fixings  that  go  with 
cucumbers,  celery,  etc.,  are  seething 
in  the  pot  and  the  pickle  jar  is yawning 
with  open  mouth  to  receive  them.  A 
good  recipe  for  mixed  pickles  or chow- 
chow  is  at  a premium  just  now.

The 

lady  referred  to above  had  a  re­
cipe  for  chowchow  which  ran  some­
thing 
like  this:  Cauliflower,  3  heads; 
button  onions,  2  quarts;  small  cucum­
bers,  2  quarts;  bell  peppers,  6;  celery 
seed,  1  ounce;  white  mustard  seed,  1 
ounce;  curcuma  seed,  1  ounce,  and  so 
on.

Now  everything  went  well  until  she 
asked  her  grocery  man  to  bring  these 
materials  to  her.  He said  he  got  every­
thing  all  right  until  he  struck  curcuma 
seed.  The  druggist,  when  he  got  the 
rest  of  the  things,  said  he  didn’t  keep 
curcuma  seeds. 
“ Never  mind,”   said 
she,“ I’ll  get  those  myself  the  next  time 
I  go  uptown. ’ ’
Accordingly,  she  soon  called  on  a 
seeds, 
leading  druggist  for  curcuma 
nne  ounce,  holding  the  recipe 
in  her 
hand  and  reading  from  it.  He  blandly 
said  he  never  had  a  call  for  them  be­
fore,  but  would  order  some  and  have 
in  a  day  or two.  She  waited  a 
them 
proper  length  of  time  and  then  called 
again.  The  druggist  referred  to his  hill 
and  read  a  footnote  which  said:  “ None 
in  this  city.  Will  try  Boston.”   Bos­
ton  could  not  furnish  them,  but  would 
trv  New  York.  New  York  responded. 
“ Can’t  find.  Would  probably  cost  $1 
or  more  an  ounce,  if  obtainable.”
Not  long  after,  her  husband  dropped 
Into  another drug  store one evening,  and 
the  conversation  was  running  on  theex- 
Densiveness  of  some  kinds  of  drugs, 
and  he  joined  in  with  a  bit  of his wife’s 
experience  on  curcuma  seeds. 
The 
druggist  listened 
intently  to  the  yarn 
and  said  quietly,  “ There  must  be  some 
mistake  about  this-  it  is  not  curcuma 
seeds  that  you  want— it 
is  curcuma, 
I  sell  lots  of  it  every 
ground  curcuma. 
dav  for coloring  chowchow  yellow.”

“ I  don’t  care,”   said  he,  “ the  recipe 

reads:

Celery s°ed. one ounce.
Curcuma “ 

“

it  a  dozen  times,  and 

“ T’ve  read 
if 
'hose  ditto  marks  don’t  call for curcuma 
seed,  then  I  don’t  know  how  to  read 
English. ”

So  the  pursuit  of curcuma  seed  was 
dropped,  and  he  carried  home  some 
ground  curcuma,  and  his  wife  made  the 
chowchow  and  it  was  lovelv.

Now the  point  of  this  is  that  the  cur­
cuma  root  is  the  part used. 
It  grows  in 
China,  Japan,  Ceylon  and  East  India 
"nuntries  in  general,  and  is  an 
ingre­
dient  in  the  famous  “ currv  powder"  of 
the  Orient.  When 
is  dried  it  has  a 
»aste  like  ginger  root,  and  is  consumed 
in  great  quantities  by  the  natives  of  the 
countries where it grows,as  a condiment. 
It  is  perfectly  harmless  and  is  used  en­
tirely  in  this  country  to  give  the  bright 
vellow  color to  chowchow  and  pickles in 
general.
is  a  tuberous  plant  and  is  wholly 
propagated  from  the  root,  which  makes 
it  unnecessary  to  save  the  seed,  which 
are  few  and  entirely  useless.  This  is 
why  they  would  cost  $1  an  ounce  if  they 
could  be  obtained!

It 

it 

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butter  on  South  Water  street  at  present, 
and  on  this  account  little  opposition  to 
them  is  heard  from  that  quarter.  The 
time  may  come,  however,  when  the  but­
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with  so  much  favor  upon  this  great 
monopoly,  whose  success  depends  large­
ly  on  its  ability  to  cut  out  middlemen 
and  crash  individual  enterprise.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

¡5

ON  THE  OTHER  SIDE.

How  American  Butter  Is  Regarded  in 

Europe.

a  halt. 

Boston,  Mass.,  Nov.  5—The  foreign 
butter  markets  are  not  altogether  satis­
factory,  with 
little  or  no  prospects  of 
further  business  with  them,  especially 
so 
in  our  better grades.  For  a  while 
say  during  July,  August  and  part  o 
September,  business  was  very  satisfac 
tory  and  profitable  to  exporters  A; 
long  as  prices  this  side  kept  below 
ib 
cents  for  finest  goods,  foreign  markets 
stood  up  under  rather  liberal  shipments 
from  America  and  Canada,  but  abov 
this  price  all  English  markets  cried
During  June  and  Julv,  wher 
price  was  15  cents  as  top  in  New  York, 
prices  in  all  the  principal  English  mar' 
kcts  ranged  from  eighty-three to  eighty 
five  per  cwt.,  (equal  to  18X cents Amer 
ican  money  per  pound), 
l’hese  prices 
were  for  boxes  of  the  very  finest  de 
scription  of  creamery.  Tubs,  of  cor 
responding  quality,  sold,  on  an  average, 
fully  a  cent  a  pound  below  boxes  and 
were  very  difficult  of  sale.  The  preju 
dice  against  the  tub  with  jobbers  is  be 
coming,  if  anything,  more  pronounced 
than  ever.  However,  it  must  be  borne 
in  mind  that  this  prejudice  does  not 
exist  on  the  part  of  consumers  and  it  is 
safe  to  say  that  a  great  many  pounds  of 
our  finest  butter  that  has  been  sen 
across  th  s  season 
in  tubs  has  been 
consumed  by  Her  Majesty’s  subjects 
under  the  delusion  that  they were relish­
ing  a  first  or  second  grade  of  Danish, 
as  the  stripped  condition  of  our  fifty  or 
sixty  pound  tub,  on  the  slab,  presents 
the  exact  appearance  (in  shape)  of  that 
of  the  Danish  cask  after  it  has  been 
cut  down  from  sales  below  its  center. 
The  plunder 
in  American  butter  this 
season has  been  great  to  the  jobbers  and 
retailers  in  England,  and  what  makes  it 
so  annoying  is  to know that  our butter  is 
consumed  with  the  consumers  perfectly 
ignorant  of  the  deception  and  cupidity 
of  the  purveyors.

It 

A  large  proportion  of this year’s  ship­
ments  to  Great  Britain  has  been  sold  at 
intrinsic  value 
several  cents  below  its 
in  comparison  with  butters  from  other 
countries. 
is  true,  this  is  owing  to 
so  much  of  the  lower  grades  of  Ameri­
can  butler  having  been  shipped 
iu 
years  past,  which  gave  our  butter  a  bad 
reputation. 
In  time  this  will  wear  off, 
but  I  am  commencing  to  think,  serious­
ly,  if  it  will  not  be  better  for  us  to  re­
vive  the  old  firkin,  made  to  the  same 
dimensions  as  the  Kiel  cask  (firkin), 
and  enter  the  field  as  direct  competitors 
with  the  Danes;  for  1  am  satisfied  we 
make 
just  as  fine  butter  as  is  made  in 
Denmark,  Sweden,  or any  other  country 
in  the  world.  True,  the  percentage  of 
our  make  of  such 
is  very  small  com­
pared  to  the  Danish.  I,  as  well  as other 
shippers,  have  sent,  this season,  several 
lots  of  butter  that,  on  the  trier (with  the 
box  and 
its  contents  out  of  sight),  no 
judge  in  England  could  tell  what  coun­
try  the butter  came  from,  and were equal 
to any  Danish,  Australian  or  Canadian, 
but  sold  as  job  lots  because  they  were 
American  product.

I  have  often  thought  what  a field there 
is  for a  man  like  Phil  Armour  to  open 
in  the 
up  American  provision  shops 
larger  cities  of  England,  selling  only 
American  produce, 
cheese, 
canned  goods  and  hog  products.  There 
it,  be­
would  be  barrels  of  money  in 
cause,  as  I  have  said, 
there 
is  no 
prejudice  on  the  part of British consum­
ers.  They  are  always  willing  to  pay  a 
good  price  for  a  good  article.

butter, 

For  the  past  month,  all  markets  the 
other  side  (Great  Britain  as  well  as 
Continental)  have  ruled  very  dull  and 
liftless.  Prices  were  forced  up  on  Dan­
ish  until 
it  passed  the  retail  shilling 
cut,  which  was  one  step  towards  re­
stricting  the  free  sale  of  that  butter, 
and  then  finest  American  was  forced  up 
to  94  to  96  per cent.,  or  say  20^  and 
21  cents  per  pound,  our  money,  which 
made  American  butter  out  of  joint  for 
the  shilling  (24^  cents)  cut,  thus  caus 
ing  the  first  step 
in  the  restriction  of 
its  sale. 
The  consequence  was  that 
free  shipments  from  here  and  Canada, 
amounting  some  weeks  to  as  high  as 
42,000  packages,  caused  large  accumu­
lations  in  their  current  arrivals.  This, 
coupled  with  rather  liberal  supplies  (?) 
of  cold  storage  stocks  of  summer-made 
Irish,  Continental  good  and  old  Aus­
tralian,  gave  all  markets  over  to  buyers 
entirely,  so that  prices  have  almost  been 
nominal  for  the  last  two  weeks.  Danish 
has  fallen  10  to  12  percent,  from  its 
highest  point,  but  American  has  not 
suffered so severely ;  the decline has  only 
been  a  matter  of  about  4  to 6  per  cent, 
from  top  price  and  latest  cable  advices 
would 
indicate  that  American  butter 
could  be  sold  quite  freely  at  90  to  94 
per  cent,  (equal  to  i9Kto  20%  cents  per 
pound),  for  finest  fresh  in  boxes,  with 
tubs  at  about a cent a pound  less.  These 
prices,  it  will  be  seen,  bring their  pres­
ent  stocks  of  finest  descriptions 
of 
American  butter  into  line  for  the  sbil- 
ing  cut  and  there  is  no  doubt  but  what 
the  sale  would  be  quite  liberal  at  these 
it  will  be  seen  at 
prices.  However, 
once  that  prices 
in  our home  markets 
are  so  much  above  these  that  it  pre­
cludes  the  possibility  of  any  further 
shipments,  at  the  moment,  of  our  finest 
grades,  and  I very much  doubt,  with  the 
conditions  prevailing  this  side  and  the 
heavy  shrinkage 
in  the  make,  that  we 
will  ship  any  more  of  our better de­
scriptions  of  butter the  balance  of  the 
season.  Medium  grades  of  butter  have 
been  the  most  difficult  of  sale  in  all 
foreign  markets  and  this  condition  has 
been  practically  the  same 
in  all  our 
markets  here.  There  is  also  exactly  the 
same  condition 
in  Europe  as  on  this 
side  in  the  lower  grades.  They  are  very 
scarce  and 
latest  cable  advices  give  a 
good  demand  for  finest  June  ladles  at 
prices  netting  13  to  13^  cents  in  New 
York  or  Boston.

To  my  way  of looking  at  foreign  mar­
kets,  I  am  of  the  opinion  that  they  are 
on  the  eve  of  a better condition of things 
and  while 
is  hardly  probable  there 
will  be  much,  if  any,  advance  in  price,
't  is  quite  probable  they  will  have  an 
mproved  demand,  and  this 
in  conse­
quence  of  the  stoppage  of  shipments 
from  this  side. 
It  must  not  be  forgot­

it 

light  and 

ten  that  the  first  arrivals  of  the  new 
make  of  Australian  will  reach  the  Lon­
in  the  course  of  the  next 
don  market 
fortnight.  True,-the  first  shipments are 
very 
it  is  hardly  likely  they 
will  have  any  arrivals  in  London  dur­
ing  November  that  will  average  above 
3,000  or  4,000  packages  a  week.  Eng­
lish  advices  claim  their 
latest  news 
from  Australia  would  indicate  perfect 
conditions  for  the  make,  and  that  coun­
try  expects  to  ship  fully  as  much  as  she 
did 
last  season.  My  private  advices 
from  Australia  would  indicate  like  con­
ditions  to  what  English  advices  claim, 
so  far as  weather  is  concerned,  but there 
is  a  difference  of  opinion  as  to  the 
amount  of  shipments  this  season.  They 
lost  a  great  many  of  their  cattle,  as 
they  did  of  their  sheep,  through  the 
severe  drought  during  March,  April  and 
May,  and  from  having  to  replenish 
these  lost  cows,  there  will  not  be  as 
many  cows  giving  their  milk  to  cream­
eries  as  last  year.

Prices  now  are  moderate  in  Great

In  closing,  I  would 

Britain  for  all  grades  of  butter;  in fact, 
the  English  markets  to-day  are  the  low­
est  markets  in  the  world.
like  to  call  the 
attention  of  creamervmen  to  the  fact 
that  American  creamery  butter, 
this 
its  reputation  some- 
summer,  has  had 
injured  by  the  appearance  of 
mold  through  improperly  treated  pack­
ages,  so  many  having  packed  their  but­
ter  in  the  boxes  as  well  as  tubs  with­
the 
out  soaking  them, 
parchment  paper alone.  This 
is  a  se­
rious  mistake,  as  well  as  using  so  many 
inferior  tubs  as  have  been  used this sea­
son. 
The  very  best  packages  only 
should  be  used  and,  box  or  tuh,  should 
be  thoroughly  soaked  in  brine  and  well 
rubbed  with  salt  before  putting 
in  the 
paper  linihg.  What  is  better  still  is  to 
paraffine  the  boxes  or  tubs,  not  only  the 
inside  of  the  packages,  but  the  lids  as 
well,  so  that  no  portion  of  the  wood  that 
comes 
in  contact  with  the  butter  can 
give  off  a  woody  flavor.

relying  upon 

G e o .  A.  C o c h r a n e .

ANCHOR  BRAND

Will  please your customers and  make  you  money.
Popular prices prevail.  . Ask  for quotations.

F.  d.  D E TTE N TH A LE R ,

117-119  M O N R O E   S T R E E T ,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

Cape  Cod  Cranberries

Very bright;  good sellers;  crop short.
Will probably advance in price.

Hubbard  Squash,  Sweet  Potatoes,  Red  and  Yellow  Onions,  Spanish 
Onions,  Quinces,  Kiefer  Pears,  Honey,  Lemons,  Oranges,  Bananas.

BUNTING  &   CO,  Grand  Rapids.

R .   H I R T ,   J r . ,

Market St., Detroit.

*£ Butter and Eggs  wanted
W ill buy same at  point  of  shipment, 
or  delivered,  in  small  or  large  lots. 
Write for particulars.

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entire  bunding.  W ell  equipped  for  business,  they  are  still  in  the  trout  in 

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G O TH A M   GOSSIP.

News  fro m   the  M etropolis— Index  to 

Special  Correspondence.

the  M arket.

New  York,  Nov.  6—There  seems  to 
be  a  little  lull  in  trading among the job 
bing  grocers  of  this  city,  with  the  ex 
ception  of  certain 
lines  which  might 
properly  be  classed  as  holiday  staples. 
Perhaps  this  is  natural  as the year draws 
to  a  close  and  merchants  seek  to  reduce 
stocks  as  closely  as  possible  without 
crippling  themselves.  The  serious 
ill­
ness  of  H.  O.  Havemeyer  has  had  its 
effect  on  the  sugar  market,  but  only  so 
far  as  the  sale  of  stock  is  concerned. 
The  staple  itself  probably  would  not  be 
influenced,  one  way  or  the  other,  by  the 
death  of  any  officer of  the  Trust.

invoice,  and  6^c 

The  coffee  market  has  had  another 
slump  and  No.  7  Rio  is  now  quotable 
at  5^@6c, 
in  a 
smaller  way. 
It  is  cabled  that  receipts 
at  Rio  and  Santos  during  this  month 
will  be  over  1,000,000  bags,  while  in 
store  and  float  there  are  now  about  930, - 
000 bags,  against  666,945  bags  last  year. 
Some  fine  Mocha  coffee  has  been  put 
on  the  market  here—the  real  simon- 
pure  article  from  Arabia— which  will 
make  friends  among  those  who  love  a 
mild  coffee. 
It  is  worth,  in  such  quan­
tities  as  retailers generally buy,  2o@22c, 
and  can  be  sold  at  a  good  profit.  Other 
mild  coffees  can  be  said  to  be  rather in­
active  and  the  demand  is  light.  Prices 
have  held  their  own  and  this  is  one 
favorable  sign.

In  sugar,  quite  a  good  manv  orders 
have  come to  hand,  but  mostly  for  small 
quantities,  indicating  a  disposition  to 
buy  for  only  present  wants.  Foreign 
refined 
is  dull  and  seems  to  have  lost 
something  of  its  popularity.  The  vis­
ible  supply  of  raw  sugar  is  1,070,000 
tons,  which  is  an  increase  of  about  250,- 
000  tons  over  the  same  time  last  year.

There  is  no  animation  to  the  tea  mar­
ket.  A  few  desultory  orders  have  come 
to  hand  for  small  quantities and  interior 
dealers  seem  to  have  sufficient  supplies 
to  carry  them  over  the  year.

Rice  prices  are  very  firm.  The  Japan 
is  reported  short  a  million  tons, 
crop 
which 
is  fifteen  times  as  much  as  the 
entire  crop  of  this  country  and  this  will 
have  some 
future. 
Burmah  has  a  huge  crop.  Domestic 
is 
fairly  steady,  with  offerings  not  exces­
sive.

influence  on 

the 

Spices  are  dull  and 

inactive.  There 
is,  perhaps,  a 
little  more  enquiry  for 
one  or  two  articles,  but,  as  a  whole,  the 
condition  of affairs is not  one  that  is  full 
of  encouragement.  Orders  are  for  the 
smallest  quantities  and  out-of-town 
dealers  seem  to  have  stopped  buying al­
most  altogether.

The  molasses  market 

is  steady  and 
quotations  are  quite  firmly  adhered  to, 
especially  tor  the  better  sorts.  Good  to 
prime  centrifugal  is quotable at  I7@ 2ic. 
Good  to  prime  open  kettle,  26@28c.

for  something 

In  syrups,  both  sellers  and  buyers  are 
apparently  waiting 
to 
turn up.  No  interest  is  shown  and sales 
have  been  of  very  moderate  proportion.
In  canned  goods,  the  general  run  of 
prices  remains  unchanged.  The  market 
is  comparatively  quiet  and  brokers have 
been  more  busily  engaged  in  making 
deliveries  than  worrying  about  new 
sales.  Competent judges  have  expressed 
the  opinion  that  we  have  seen  about  the 
“ top  of  the  market”   and  that  until  the 
close  of  the  year  the  situation  will  be 
pretty  much  unchanged.  Tomatoes  are 
steady  and  New  Jersey  brands  are  firm 
at $1;  Maryland,  82 ^@850.

Domestic  dried 

fruits  are  steady. 
Evaporated  apples  have  been  in  light 
request  and  are  worth  8K@9C.  Rasp 
i3^ @ uc. 
berries, 
Raisins,  dates, 
prunes, 
figs,  citron  and  that  class  of 
goods  are  steady  and  there  has  been  a 
very  satisfactory  trade  all the week.  Of 
course,^Thanksgiving  accounts  for  this 
“ spurt”   but  it  makes  “ things  lively”  
and  that’s good.

The  butter  market  is  almost  exactly 
where 
it  was  a  week  ago,  with  best 
Western  at  23,^0.  The  demand  is  rather 
light  and  the  supply  ample,  seemingly.
is  dull,  decidedly  so.  En­
quiry  is  almost  nil  and  dealers  are  sim­

Cheese 

ply  waiting.  Large  size  full  cream, 
fancy  Sept.,  8}£c.

Supplies  of  eggs  are  running  light 
and,  with  a  good  demand,  the  market 
has  hardened.  For  best .Western  2o@22c 
is  quoted.  Eggs  are  eggs,  now.

Peas  are  steady.  Marrows  are  held 

in  a  jobbing  way  at  $i.32j^@i.35.
,  Offerings  of  honey  are  liberal  and 
is  rather  quiet. 
the  demand 
Fancy 
white  clover 
is  worth  12c  for  comb; 
buckwheat,  8@gc.

Potatoes  are  worth  from  $1.75^2.40 

per  bbl.— 180  lbs.

Apples  bring  high  prices  and  many 
are going  into  storage  for  still  further 
appreciation.  The  range  is  from  $2  to 
$4.

Progress  o f the  War  Against  Chicago 

Department  Stores.

Chicago,  Nov.  8—War  has  been  de­
clared  against  Chicago’s  great  depart­
ment  stores  by  the  smaller  traders  of the 
city.  The  department  stores,  they  say, 
threaten  to  ruin every small  merchant  ii 
Chicago  by  a  system  of  selling  at  cu. 
rates,  the  concentration  of  many lines  of 
business  under  one  roof,  and  the  reduc­
tion  thereby  of  the  cost  of  operating  the 
stores.  Some-  of  the  larger  stores  ii 
Chicago  have  from  sixty  to  150  depart 
ments,  and  customers  may  buy  in  them 
almost  anything  from  a  diamond  neck­
lace  to  a  ton  of  coal.  They  operate 
groceries,  meat  markets,  banks,  barber 
shops,  dental  offices,  and  sell  dogs 
birds,  bicycles,  horses  and  harness 
they  make  photographs,  give  music  les 
sons  and  run  employment 
agencies 
where  domestic  and  other  help  may  be 
obtained.  In fact, there is no industry un 
known  to  the Chicago department stores 
Their  “ bargain  days”   have  caused  the 
small  retailers  countless  heartaches,  and 
as 
“ uptown”   merchants  have 
watched  their  customers  go  by  for the 
bargain  counters, 
that 
something  must  be  done.

they  decided 

the 

With  this end  in  view  they  formed  the 
Cook  County  Business  Men’s  Protective 
Association,  and  branches  were  organ- 
zed  in  the  three  large  divisions  of  the 
ity.  The  membership  swelled  to about 
,000.  The  Association  tried 
to  stop 
the  department  store  evil  by  legisla 
tion.  A  bill  was  prepared,  the  pro 
isions  of  which  were  that  no  man,  or 
irm,  should  conduct  more  than  one  line 
of  business  under  one  roof  and  within 
It  graded  the  art  of  mer­
four  walls. 
chandising 
into  about  sixty  groups. 
Grocers  were  to  be  allowed  to  sell  some 
articles  which  did  not  strictly  come  un­
der  the  head  of  groceries.  Butchers 
were  to  have  similar  small  privileges, 
but  they  were  not  to  go  beyond  certain 
limits.

Under  the  provisions  of  this  bill  such 
firms  as  Siegel.  Cooper  &  Co.,  the Fair, 
and  A.  M.  Rothschild  &  Co.  would 
have  to  pay  about  $150,000 to  $160,000 
annually 
in  license  fees,  besides  going 
to  the  enormous  expense  of  erecting 
partition  walls  to  enclose  each  branch 
of  their business.  A  mass  meeting  was 
held  by the  small  merchants  and  a  com­
mittee  of  300  was  appointed,  which 
made  a  trip  to  Springfield,  headed  by  a 
brass  band.  At  Springfield  the  com­
mittee  was  left  in  the  cold,  for  the  Leg­
islature  refused  to  pass  the  bill.

liquors 

Two  ordinances  were  then  prepared 
and  presented  to the City Council,  which 
passed  them.  The  ordinances  prohibit 
the  sale  of  meats  and  provisions  and 
wines  and 
in  the  same  estab­
lishment 
in  which  dry  goods  and 
kindred  articles  are  sold.  Warrants  for 
the  offending  department  store  proprie­
tors  will  be  forthcoming  shortly,  the 
traders  say. 
It  is  intended  to  push  the 
matter to  the  Supreme  Court.  Commit­
tees  will  be  appointed who  will  go about 
among  the  establishments  of  alleged 
transgressors  of  the  recently  enacted  or­
dinance  and  gather  evidence  against 
them.  These  same  committees  will  then 
appear 
in  the  courts  as  prosecuting 
witnesses.  The  fine  for  the  non-observ­
ance  of  the  measures  has  been  set  at 
In  case  of  conviction 
from  $25  to $200. 
the  Association  will 
lay  claim  to  half 
the  amount  of  the  fine,  the  other  part 
reverting  to  the  city  treasury.

The  Association  already  has a sponsor 
in  the office  of  the Corporation  Counsel,

Found at L a st-^

Gonodon’s Cider Saver 
and  Fruit  Preservative 
Compound

Guaranteed to keep your cider  and  fruits  pure  and 
sweet  without changing their flavor  or  color.  No 
salicylic acid or ingredients injurious to the health. 
Send for circulars to manufacturers.

J.  L.  Gonodon  &  Go.

P E N T W A T E R ,  M IC H IG A N .

WHOLE  WHEAT  FLOUR

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

it 

and 
is  the  intention  to  engage  the 
services  of  a  lawyer  to  work  in  co-oper­
ation  with  him.  No  suits  have  been 
begun  as  yet  against  the  department 
store  proprietors,  although  the  ordinan­
ces  are  violated 
in  every  department 
store  daily.

It 

is 

intended  to  organize  in  wards 
and  make  the  branches  of  the  Cook 
County  Business  Men’s  Protective  As­
sociation  a  powerful  factor 
in  politics 
and  in  shaping  legislation.  The  Exec­
utive  Council  will  appoint  one  member 
of  the  Association  to  serve  as  the  di­
rector  for  each  of  the  following  pur­
poses:  Organization,  publicity,  adul­
terations,  child 
labor,  trade  and  labor 
relations,  relations  to  the  professions, 
taxation,  restrictive 
en­
forcement  of  laws,  and  political  action. 
Members  of  the  organization  will  co­
operate 
in  competition  with  the  big 
stores;  they  will  have  “ bargain  days”  
and  advertise 
in  the  newspapers,  and 
will  make  war  against  food  adultera­
tion,  and  will  try  to  secure  the  enforce 
ment  of statutes and ordinances designed 
to  “ protect  the  lives  and  health  of  the 
public  against  the  monopolies  and  mis­
representations  of 
department 
stores. ’ ’

legislation, 

the 

Meantime  the  department  stores  con­
tinue 
in  their  violations  of  the  ordi­
nances,  which  they  declare  “ won’t  hold 
water. ’ '

A  man 

in  Paris  finds  a  profitable 
business 
in  collecting  bad  debts  by 
stopping  at  the  debtor’s  with  a  wagon, 
are  these 
around  the  top  of  which 
words: 
in 
front  of  bouses  of  people  who  will  not 
pay 
their  debts.”   Everybody,  and 
particularly  business  people,  dread  this 
man’s  buggy  so  much  that  they  pay 
promptly.

“ This  buggy  only  stops 

One  ol  the  important  officials  of  the 
German  court 
is  said  to  be  the  “ im­
perial  pants  stretcher.”   As  the  emperor 
has  over  100  pairs  of  trousers,  and 
changes  them  with considerable regular­
ity,  the  position 
is  far  from  being  an 
honorary  one.

It contains  all  the  elements  required 
to  build  up  the  daily  wastes  of  the 
human system.  Bread  made from  it is 
easily assimilated;  is highly  nutritious 
and is most palatable.
Every  grocer should have it in stock. 
Manufactured by....

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

Michigan trade supplied  by the 

Olney  & Judson  Grocer Co., Grand Rapids.

COYNE  BROTHERS
WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS 

161 S. Water St., Chicago.

BUTTER,  EGGS.  POULTRY,  FRUITS  AND  VEGETABLES

Car Lots:  POTATOES, APPLES, BEANS, ONIONS

References:  W .  M.  Hoyt  Co.,  Wholesale  Grocers, 
Chicago.  W . J. Quan  &  Co.,  Wholesale  Grocer,  Chi­
cago.  Bradstreet and  Dun’s Agencies.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

President, J a s. P   H am m e ll, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D. C.  Sla g h t, Flint;  Treasurer,C h as.  McN o l ty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  H a r t ,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. M o r r is ,  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

dent Association.

Grand  Counselor,  P.  L.  D a y .  Jackson;  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V a lm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, G eo.  A .  R e y n o ld s, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mntnal  Acci­
President,'A. P. P e a k e , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—P.  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  F a ir - 
c h ild , J a s. N. B r a d fo r d . J. He n r y Da w l e y ,G eo. 
J. Hein ze lm an, C h as. S.  R obinson.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B row n,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A.  P .  W ixson,  Marquette.

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

Plea  for  Better  Hotel  Service  by  a 

Traveler’s  Wife.

Written for the  T rad esm an.

took 

interested 

in  the  Tradesman,  which 

Though  I  am  not  a  commercial  trav­
eler,  I  am  the  wife  of  one—and  am 
therefore  interested 
in  whatever  tends 
to  promote  the  happiness  and  comfort 
of  the  men  who  spend  their  days,  and 
often  the  nights  (or  the  best  part  of 
them)  traveling  about  the  country,  not 
for  pleasure,  ah  no!  although  I  hope 
they  are  all  wise  enough  to  gather  all 
the  pleasure  (honorable)  possible  along 
the  rough  and  well-beaten  track  their 
weary  feet  travel  daily.  So  I  have 
in  all  that  has  been 
been 
written 
I 
always  read,  about 
“ those  mileage 
books, ’ ’  and  do  Dot  wonder  at  the  ob­
jections  to  them. 
I  know  one  man  who 
bought  one  a  few  days  ago  because  he 
could  not  get  any  other  mileage  book, 
and  word  came  back  the  first  day  out 
that 
it  took  thirty  minutes  for  the  sta­
tion  agent  to  make  out  four  tickets  for 
as  many  men,  who 
the  seven 
o’clock  train  Monday  morning—and 
expect  to  hear  more  about  it  Saturday.
There  are  other  things  to  make  life 
miserable  for  the  traveler  which  cannot 
be  avoided,  but  must  be  endured  pa­
tiently,  or  otherwise,  according  to  the 
disposition  of  the  sufferer,  chief  of 
which  are  cold  hotels  and  poor  coffee. 
You  are  all  familiar  with  the  hotel  pro­
prietor  who,  for  reasons  best  known  to 
himself,  takes  down  every  stove  in  the 
house,  or  lets  all  the  fires  go  out  the 
first  pleasant  days  in  the  spring,  and  no 
matter  how  cold  and  gloomy  the  days 
that  come  after  (and  they  are  sure  to 
come),  no  fire 
is  kindled  to  warm  and 
cheer  the weary  travelers  far from home, 
and  dependent  on  the  hotels,  to  whom 
they  pay  a  good  price 
for  whatever 
comfort  they  have as  they  go  about  the 
country.  And 
let  me  remind  them 
that,  to  be  comfortable,  a  man  must  be 
warmed  as  well  as  fed.  How  they  en­
dure 
it  themselves  is  a  question  never 
answered.  Not  only  are  the  fires allowed 
to  go  out  in  the  spring,  but  some  hotel- 
keepers  pursue  the  same  course  in  the 
fall,  put  off  building  fires  as  long  as 
possible,  until  a  man  has  to  wear  his 
overcoat  while  he  eats,  I  am  told,  and 
often,  when  they  have  a  fire 
in  the 
office,  the  dining  room  will  have  a  zero 
temperature. 
I  wonder  some  of  them 
(the  hotel  men)  do  not  get  pneumonia 
themselves;  if  they  do,  let  us  hope  it 
will  prove  a  dreadful  w.arning  to  the 
rest  of  the  fraternity.  They  certainly 
need  something  to  awaken  them  to  a 
sense  of  their  duty  to  the  men  who  are 
their  best  customers.

Another  grievance,  and  a  serious 
one,  is  the  poor,  yes,  vilo,  coffee  that  so

the  only  thing 

many  of  the  hotels  and  restaurants serve 
their  guests.  To  call  it  coffee  is  really 
an  insult  to  the  genuine  article. 
I  can­
not  understand  why, when  all  the  rest  of 
the  menu 
is  at  most  hotels  excellent, 
well cooked, of good variety, the coffee (?) 
should  be 
lacking 
I  have  tried  it 
strength  and  goodness. 
myself and know  just  bow  wretched  they 
it  at  some  places.  Surely  good 
make 
coffee 
is  easy  to  make 
if  you  buy  a 
good  article 
in  the  first  place—much 
easier  to  make  than  good  pies,  and  a 
hotel  that  would  not  think  of  giving  a 
man  bad  meat  or  potatoes  should  be 
just  as  particular  about  the  coffee.

From  the  bottom  of  my  heart  I  felt 
sorry  for  my  husband  when,  seated  at 
his  own  table,he  said,  “ How  I  wish  the 
hotels  would  give  us  coffee  like  this. ”  
Think  of  having-delicious  coffee  served 
with  cream  at  home  one  or  two  days 
in 
the  week,  and  the  rest  of  the  days  the 
dreadful  stuff  called  coffee,  above  men­
tioned.  Is  it  not  enough  to  make  a  man 
homesick  and  indignant! 
I  believe,  if 
the  traveling  men  would  join  forces  and 
demand  a  reform  in  this  respect,  they 
would  get 
is  worth  trying  any 
way.  And  here  is  hoping  they  will  be 
successful. 

it. 

It 

S.

And  Still  They  Come.

Marquette,  Nov.  8—The following  are 
the  most  recent  additions  to  the  mem­
bership  list  of  the  Lake  Superior  Com­
mercial  Travelers’  Club:

Samuel  Swenson,  Marquette,  with 

Wm.  Larsen  &  Co.,  Green  Bay,  Wis.

Willis  Peak,  Mt.  Pleasant,with  Gray, 

Toynton  &  Fox,  Detroit.

Albert  Sternfeld,  Chicago,  with  Reiss 

Bros.  &  Co.,  Chicago.

W.  W.  Hargrave,  Seney,  with  Har­

grave  Bros.  &  Co.,  Seney.

J.  E.  Kelso,  Grand  Marais,  with 

Eddy  Land  Co.,  Toledo.

L.  D.  Packer,  Saginaw,  E.  S.,  with 

C.  Elliott  &  Co.,  Detroit.

Wm.  Rennie,  Detroit,  with  Boydell 

Bros.,  Detroit.

SU CCE SSFU L  SALESMEN.

Fred  G.  Hooper,  Representing  J.  H.

Copas  &  Sons.

Frederick  G.  Hooper  was  born  with­
in  the  sound  of  Bowbells,  London,  Oct. 
24,  1853.  His  mother  was  of  German 
birth,  being  a  native  of  Frankfort-on- 
the-Main.  His  father  was  a  graduate 
of  Oxford  University  and  was  ordained 
as  a  minister,  but  subsequently,  on  his 
emigration  to  America 
in  1859,  prac­
ticed  medicine  instead  of  following  the 
career  originally  selected  for him.  The 
family  resided  two  years  at  Owen 
Sound,  Ont.,  when  they  removed  to 
Cleveland,  where  they  remained  until 
the  close  of  the  war,  when they removed 
to  Bay  City.  Frederick  attended  the 
public  schools  of  the  latter  city  until  he 
had  finished  the  eleventh  grade,  when 
he  entered  his  father’s  office  and  stud­
ied  medicine  for  a  couple  of  years. 
Forming  a  dislike  to  the  practice  of 
medicine,  he  concluded  to  embrace  the 
following  of  the  commercial  traveler, 
and  for  eight  years  he  covered  North­
ern  Michigan  for  F.  H.  Blackman  & 
Co.,  merchant  tailors  of  Bay City.  His 
friends  then  prevailed  upon  him  to  re­
tire  from  the  road  and  he  purchased  a 
stock  of  cows  and  embarked  in the dairy 
business  at  Bay  City  on  his  own  ac­
count.  Two  years’  experience  was  suffi­
cient  to  satisfy  his  ambition  in  this  di­
rection,  when  he  engaged  to  travel  in 
Northern  Michigan  for  the  confection­
ery  house  of  Jas.  S.  Smart,  Jr.,  of  Sag­
inaw.  On  the  failure  of  that  house,  two 
and  one-half  years 
latter,  he  engaged 
with  the  Wells-Stone  Mercantile  Co.  as 
city  salesman,  which  position  he  occu­
pied  for  two  years.  For  the  next  five 
years  he  covered  Northern  and  Western 
Michigan  for  the  Jas.  Stewart  Co.,  and 
eighteen  months  ago  he  signed  with  J. 
H.  Copas  &  Sons,  of  Owosso,  to  cover 
the  retail  trade  of  Northern  and  West­
ern  Michigan.

Mr.  Hooper  was  married 

in  1883  to 
Miss  Linnie  Sinclair,  who  was  a daugh­
ter  of  the  first  white  child  born 
in  Bay 
county.  Mrs.  Hooper  died  February 
18,  1895, 
leaving  four  daughters,  who 
now  range  from  5  to  13  years  of  age. 
The  family  reside  in  Owosso.

Mr.  Hooper  is a member  of  the  Mich­
igan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  K.  P.  Lodge 
No.  23,  of  Bay  City,  and  F.  &  A.  M., 
No.  129,  of  the  same  city.  He  is  also 
a  member  of  the  Baptist  church  of  Sag­
inaw.

Few  men  have  met  more  discourage­
ments  than  Mr.  Hooper  and  fewer  still 
have  proven  themselves  equal  to  the 
emergency.  Twice  within  three  years 
Mr.  Hooper  was  burred  out  of  house 
and  home  at  Saginaw,  the  second  loss 
occurring  at  the  time  of  the  great  con­
flagration  at  that  place.  The  excite­
incident  to  the  conflagration  re­
ment 
sulted 
in  his  wife’s  decline  and  death 
about  a  year  afterward.  Being 
left 
with  four  small  children  and  with  no 
immediate  relatives  available  to  take 
the  mother’s  place,  he  faced  the  situa­
tion 
in  man  fashion  and  has  not  only 
kept  the  family  together,  but  has  pro­
vided  for  them 
in  a  manner  that  has 
won  for  him  the  respect  and  admiration 
of  bis  associates  and  acquaintances.
Mr.  Hooper  is  an  aggressive  worker, 
having  the  natural  bull-dog  tenacity  of 
the  typical  Englishman.  To  this  fact 
he  attributes  his  success  on  the  road 
and  his  ability  to  stay  up  under  the  try­
ing  situations 
in  which  he  has  been 
placed  by  fire  and  death.

Our  children  will  remember our deeds 
long  after  they  have  forgotten  our  ad­
vice.

Clock  Ticks  for  Insomnia. 

Prom the Washington Star.

“ For  several  years,”   said  a  commer­
cial  traveler,  “ I  had  never  been  away 
from  home  over  night,  when  I  got  my 
present  position,  and  was  compelled  to 
travel  about  a  great  deal.  At  first  I 
found 
it  extremely  difficult  to  go  to 
sleep  nights. 
I  stopped  at  the  best 
hotels  and  usually  had  fine  rooms  and 
good  beds, but  there  seemed  to  be  some­
thing  the  matter.

“ One  day  I  mentioned  the  fact  to  a 
friend,  who  said,  ‘ Get  a  clock.’ 
I  al­
ways  have  a  clock  in  my  room  at  home, 
and  I  am  accustomed  to  the  sound  of 
its  ticking.  It  is  curious  how  silent  and 
strange  a  room  may  seem  without 
it. 
That  was  what  I  wanted,  a  clock,  and 
I  bought  one.  Now,  when  I  go  to  my 
room  in  a  hotel,  usually  the  first  thing  I 
do 
is  to  put  my  clock  on  the  mantel­
piece  or  table. 
It  ticks  away  bravely, 
a  friendly  and  familiar  sound,  and  I  go 
to  sleep  without  any  trouble  whatever.’ ’

He  who  wants  to  cheat  and  can’t 

is 
no  better  than  he  who  wants  to  cheat 
and  can.

Hotel  Normandie  of  Detroit  Re­

duces Rates.

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

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

Carr &  Reeve.

me  Hew  M o ld   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 
3  priced hotel  in  Michigan.

P o s t a l   8 c   M o r e y ,

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

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
n  F IR E ?

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^  J.W .C h a m p l i s ,  Pres._  W. F r ed McB a in , Sec. 4

Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 

NEW  REPUBLIC

Reopened Nov.  35.

FINEST  HOTEL IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1.30  to $2.00.

Cor. Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHINDHETT, Prop.

H O T E L   W H IT C O M B

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT, Prop.

Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

Steam Heat.  Excellent Table.  Com­
fortable  Rooms.  H.  D.  and  F.  H. 
IRISH.  Props.__________________
THE  W HITNEY  HOUSE

Rates  $1.00  to  $1.25  per  day.  Complete  Sanitary 
Improvements.  Electric  Lights.  Good  Livery 
in connection.  State Line Telephone.

Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plain well, Mich.

T. 

L.  Hilton,  Detroit,  with  Forman- 

Bassett-Hatch  Co.,  Cleveland.

Lewis  Cass  Bradford,  Holland,  with 

E.  B.  Millar  &  Co.,  Chicago.

Arthur  McMillan,  Soo,  with  Ferguson 

Hardware  Co.,  Soo.

M.  S.  Brown,  Saginaw,  E.  S.,  with 
Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co.,  Grand 
Rapids.

W.  J.  Dillon,  Detroit,  with  Standart 

Bros.,  Detroit.

C.  J.  Byrns,  Ishpeming,  with Wiscon­
sin  Land  &  Lumber  Co.,  Hermansville.

Judge  J.  H.  Steere,  Soo.
F.  C.  Comstock,  Escanaba,  with 
Roundy,  Peckham  &  Co.,  Milwaukee.
C.  E.  Riddle,  Gladstone,  with  Brad­
P.  A.  Jacobson,  Soo,  with  Armour 

ley,  Watkins  &  Co.,  Minneapolis.
Packing  Co.,  St.  Paul.

A.  F.  Underwood,  Menominee.
M.  J.  Brooks,  Ishpeming,  with  Swift 

&  Co.,  Chicago.

W.  R.  Jenkins,  Madison,  with  Hub­

bard  Milling  Co.,  Mankato,  Minn.

S.  P.  McIntyre,  Chicago,  with  Rich­
ardson  &  Norcross  Co.,  Janesville,  Wis.
Claude  V.  Seeber,  Houghton,  with 
Roack,  Seeber  &  Co.,  Houghton.

A.  F.  W ix so n,  Sec’y.

Important  Meeting  of  Post  E.

Grand  Rapids,  Nov.  8 —All »members 
of  Post  E  are  requested  to  meet  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel,  Saturday  evening,  Nov. 
13,  for  the  purpose  of  making  arrange­
ments  to  attend  the annual convention of 
the  State  organization  at  Kalamazoo; 
also  to  decide  on  the  dates  for  our 
monthly  social  parties  during  the  win­
ter  months.  Let  there  be  a  full  attend­
ance !  B.  S.  D a v en po r t,  Chairman.

H.  M.  Harrington,  of  St.  Clair,  has 
taken  a  position  on  the  road  for  the 
wholesale  grocery  house  of  J.  W.  Bene­
dict,  of  Port  Huron.  He  has  been  for 
some  years  associated  with the Diamond 
Crystal  Salt Co.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

label.  The  lithographers  are  the  worst 
offenders 
in  this  respect,  as  their  work 
is  usually,  if  not  always,  overloaded 
with  misplaced  ornaments.  Plainness, 
almost  to  severity,  gives 
far  b e tte r  
esthetic  results,  and  restriction  to  plain­
ness  does  not  imply  a  limit  as to origin­
ality  of  design.

Keeping 

in  mind  the  value  of  the 
package  as  an  advertising  medium,  it 
is  evident  that  it  should  have  as  much 
individuality  as  can  be  given 
it.  The 
chief  field  for  this  is  the  label,  and,  of 
course,  this  means  that  its  various  sizes 
should  be of  uniform  design,  the  firm 
name  printed  in  a  uniform  type,  and  it 
is  a  decided  advantage  that 
it  should 
bear  a  device  or  trade-mark  which  will 
readily  identify  it  as  having  been  sent 
out  by  So-and-So.  To  avoid  crowding 
the  label  this  device  may  be  printed  as 
a  background  in  an  ink  of  lighter  color 
—a  pale  blue  or  a  carmine,  for  instance 
— the  remainder  of  the  print  being  in 
black.

With  these  hints  we  must  leave  the 
matter,  with  renewed  urgement  that  the 
pharmacist  look  to  his  package. 
It 
should  afford  him gratification  to have it 
neat  and  attractive;  and  when  so  it  will 
help  to  put  money  in  his  purse.

The  Drug  Market.

Staples  are  all  firm  hut  unchanged.
Opium—While the price is unchanged, 

the  market  may  be  called  strong.

Morphine—This  article 

is 
demand  at  unchanged  prices.

in  good 

Q uinine-At  the  bark  sale  in  Amster­
dam,  higher  prices  were  paid,  but  this 
has  not yet  affected  the price of quinine.
Balsam  Copaiba— Is  advancing  and  is 

very  firm,  stocks  being  concentrated.

Roots—Blood  root 

is  getting  scarce 
again and  prices  are  higher.  This  may 
he  said  of  gentian  and  mandrake.

Balm  of  Gilead  Buds—These  are  very 

scarce  and  the  price  has  advanced.

Essential  Oils—Anise  is  again declin- 
ng,  on  account  of  full  stocks  Berga­
mot 
is  weak  and  lower.  Cassia  has 
declined.  Lavender will be  much  higher 
ater  on,  owing  to  short  crop.  Oil lemon 
s  declining.  The  crop 
is  said  to  be 
very  large.

Happy  Outcome  of  a  Meeting  at  the 

State  Association.

increased 

they  opened.  He 

The  very  nature  of  our  calling  is  one 
calculated  to  make  us  narrow-minded, 
from  the  smallness  of  our  transactions. 
We  find  here  a  man  who  has  been  in 
business  for  the  past  twenty-five  years. 
A  block  above,  on  the  same  street,  is 
one  who  has  been  in  the  same  location 
for  the  past  fifteen  years,  and  one  block 
below  is  another  who  has  been  there  for 
ten  years.  Our  friend  of  twenty  odd 
years  did  not  call  upon  his  new  neigh:; 
bors  when 
is  not 
acquainted  with  them,  and  for  all  these 
years  he  has  scowled  when  either  has 
been  mentioned.  He  has  to  himself 
(and,  in  fact,  mentioned 
it  to  others) 
felt  all  the  time  that  both  were  inter­
lopers,  whose  only  object  was  to  make 
life  one  constant  drudge  for  him,  for­
getting  that  the  population  of  their 
town  had 
in  the  time  men­
tioned  at  the  rate  of  about  500  per  year, 
and  that  there  was  plenty  of  room  for 
them  all,  also  forgetting  that  each  of 
these  parties  had  as  much  capital  in­
vested  as  he,  and  was,  perhaps,  just  as 
good  a  pharmacist  and  man 
the 
[community.  There  was  no  fellowship 
between  them;  each  kept  to  himself. 
The  time  came  when  our  friend  was 
induced  to  attend  a  meeting of  the State 
Association.  He  was  astonished  at  the 
number  of  druggists  who  assembled, 
and  could  hardly  believe 
that  there 
were  so  many  in  the  State.  His  friend, 
the  popular  salesman  for  the  enterpris­
ing  firm  of  Ketchum  &  Cheatem,  took 
introduce  him  to 
particular  pains  to 
many  of  the  members.  He 
stayed 
through  the  meeting,  enjoyed  his  out­
ing.  and  went  home  the  better  for his 
contact  with  something  besides  the  four 
walls  of  his  old  store.

in 

His  friend,  the  salesman,  was  asked 
to  make  him  acquainted  with  a  fine- 
looking  man  who  was  standing  at  the 
opposite  side  of  the  room.  He  smiled, 
and  did  so, 
introducing  him  as  Mr. 
lones. 
In  the  course  of  conversation 
he  learned  that  his  new  friend  was from 
Lonelyville  (his  own  town).  His  sur­
prise  can  be 
imagined.  Further  con­
versation  developed  that  his  new  friend 
was  the  man  who  had  done  business

within  a  block  of  him  for  fifteen  years. 
He  apologized  for  his  past  neglect,  and 
they  decided  to  begin  life  anew  on  the 
friendly  basis. 
They  called  on  Mr. 
Brown  (the  neighbor of ten years’  stand­
ing)  when  they  returned  home,  and  be­
fore  the  time  for  the  next  meeting came 
around  they  had  his  application 
for 
membership,  also  one  from  each  of  the 
other  three  druggists  doing  business 
in 
the  same  place.  From  that  time  on  they 
were as  one  family.

E d w a r d   A .  S a y r e .

Deplorable  Lack  of  Confidence. 

again!  Never!”

“ I’ll  never  buy  candy  at  that  store 
“ Why,  what’s the matter?”
“ You  know  they  have  the  candies  on 
in  front  and  the  scales  on 

the  counter 
the  shelf  back  of  the  counter?’ ’

“ Yes.”
“ Well, 

they  have 

looking  glasses 
back  of  the  scales,  so  that  when  the girl 
turns  around  to  weigh  five  cents’  worth 
of  candy  she  can  watch  you  to  see 
whether  you 
take  anything  off  the 
counter or  not. ”

THUM  BROS.  &  SCHMIDT,

Analytical  and  Consulting  Chemists,

84  CANAL  ST..
GRANO  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

Special attention  Riven  to Water,  Bark and 

Urine Analysis.

Manufactured  by

H. VAN T0N0EREN,  Holland,  Mich.

For Sale by All Jobbers.

18

Drugs°=Chemicals

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

S.  E .  P a r k i l l ,  O w o ss o  
P. W. S.  P e r r y .  Detroit 
A. C. Schumacher. Ann  Arbor 
G e o .  G u n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L .  E. R e y n o l d s ,  St.  Joseph

President, P. W. R. Perry, Detroit 
Secretary, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 
and 3.
MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

Coming  Examination  Session—Lansing,  Nov. 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A .  H.  W e b b e r ,  Cadillac. 
Secretary—C h as.  Man n .  Detroit.
T reasu rer—J ohn D.  M u ir , G rand R apids.

The  Esthetics  of  Packages.

He  must  be  a  slovenly  dispenser 

in 
deed  who  does  not  have  some  apprecia 
tion  of  neatness  as  exhibited 
in  the 
parcel,  box,  or  bottle  made  ready  for 
his  shelves  or  for  the  hands  of  his  cus 
tomers.  One  of  the  things  which  the 
“ apprentice”   is  early  taught  to  do  in 
well-regulated  drug  store  is  to  fold,  tie. 
label,  and  wrap  properly;  to  use  paper 
of  the  right  size  and  texture;  to  avoi 
a  too  plentiful  amount  of  string;  to  put 
only  enough  paste  on  the  label;  to  put 
the  label 
in  the  proper  position  and 
have  it  “ s t r a ig h t t o   do  all  and  sin 
gular  those  things  which  will  produce  i 
handsome  package.

it 

As  the  package  which  goes  out  to  tbi 
is  one  of  the  pharmacist*! 
is  worthy  of 

customer 
best  advertisements, 
more  care  as  to  appearance  than 
sometimes  receives.  One  who  is  in  the 
habit  of  taking  what  comes  to  him  in 
the  way  of  box,  bottle,  or  label may find 
it  to his  profit  as  well  as  satisfaction  to 
turn  over  well  in  his  mind  the  question 
whether  he  is  having  those  which  mav 
produce  the  best  general  impression  a: 
to  neatness  and  tastefulness  on  the  pub 
lie  mind ;  to consider  whether the  stvles 
and  methods  of  bis  boyhood  days  met 
those  of  the  present  time.  When  this 
mental  operation  begins,  let  him,  if  he 
is 
in  doubt  as  to  his  esthetic  ability, 
seek  aid  in  arriving  at  a  conclusion.

The  form  of  a  bottle  or  box  does  not 
admit  of  successful  variation  outside  of 
limited  lines.  Years  ago  we  had  a  col­
ogne  bottle  supposed  to  represent  a 
“ cathedral.”   another  in  the  shape  of  a 
shoe,  another  faintly  representing  an 
old-time  musical  instrument,  and so  on : 
but  these  have  gradually  gone  out  of 
fashion,  and  we have  in  general  use  but 
few  bottles  which  depart  from  simple 
and  graceful  outlines.

But  we  still  have  to  choose  between 
the  oval,  the  round,  and  the  square,  and 
between  variations 
in  the  proportions 
exhibited  in  these  forms.  These  vari­
ations  are  often  important  from  an  es­
thetic  standpoint  and  should  be  consid­
ered  in  the  choice  of  a  bottle.  The  bot­
tle  itself  may  be  too  long  or  too  short, 
and  the  same  may  be  said  of  the  neck; 
the  finish  of  the  lip  is  also  a  matter  for 
consideration.

The  box,  while  coming  under  the 
same  limitations  of  form  as  the  bottle, 
is  manifestly  susceptible  of  some  va­
riety  as  to  material  and  much  as  to 
color,  so  we  have  here  a  wider  field  for 
choice.

The  label  is  usually  the  weakest point 
in  the  esthetics  of  the  drug  package. 
There  is  opportunity  here  for  more  art 
and  more  originality  than  in  either  the 
bottle  or  the  box,  but  it  unfortunately 
often  goes  unimproved.

Many,  perhaps  most,  printers  have 
very 
ideas  as  to  what  con­
stitutes  an  appropriate  and  artistic

indefinite 

Rubber  Goods  and  Iniquity.

A  Danish  missinnarv  has  been  mak- 
n?  some  startling  revelations  concern- 
ng  the  rubber  trade  of  the  Upper 
Congo.  He  savs  that  the  white  man 
wants  India  rubber,  and  is  in  a  hurrv  to 
he  rich,  and  to  terrify  the  black  into 
rendering  the  utmost  possible  amount 
of 
labor,  the  rubber  gatherers  whose 
quantity  falls  below  a  certain weight are 
either  shot  or  deprived  of  their  hands. 
Rows  of  hands  stuck  on  trees,  or  heaps 
of  them  forwarded  in  haskets  to  Euro- 
Dean  officers,  or  to  native  sergeants  un­
der  their  command,  serve  as  an  object 
lesson  to  all.  Rubber  gathering 
is  a 
slow  and  difficult  task,  and  whole  vil­
lages  are  depopulated 
in  order  that 
their 
and 
children,  may  he  sent  on  the  search. 
Companies  of  black  troops,  organized 
hy  white  officers,  impress  the  villagers 
into  this  new  species  of  slavery,  and 
the  reverend  gentleman  declares  he  has 
seen  forty-five  villages  burnt  down  and 
two  abandoned 
rubber 
trouble. 
If  these  statements  are  reli­
able,  the amount of  iniquity  represented 
by  a  stock  of  rubber  goods  must  be 
alarming.

inhabitants,  men,  women 

through 

the 

Aunt  Milly  Smith,  a  negro  woman  of 
Georgia,  not  long  since  went  to  hear 
Sam  Jones  preach.  Soon  afterwards  she 
met  the  evangelist,  and  said:  “ Marse 
you 
Jones,  I  shorely 
preach. 
you’se 
everybody’s  preacher.  An’  I ’ll  tell  yer, 
honey,  you  preach  more  like  a  nigger 
den  any  white  man  I  eber  seen. ”

I  certainly  do, 

love  to  hear 

for 

r “ M A S T E R ”
“Y U M A ”

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1-20 
Conchas 
$58.00
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1-20 
Perfectos 
S'io.oo
1-40 (5% in.) $70.00
Cabinets 

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Grand  Rapids. 

BATEHAN  &  FOX,

B ay  C ity.

JOHNSON  &  FOSTER,
Detroit.

Distributers for Michigan.

M ILTON  K E R N S,

No.  sa  9th  Street, 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.

Manufacturer,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Morphia, S.P.A W ...  2 05® 
2 30
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
2 30 
C. Co....................  2 05®
Moschus Canton__ 
®
40 
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®
80 
Nux Vomica... po.20 
®
10 
Os  Sepia................. 
15®
18
Pepsin Saac, H. A P.
D. Co....................
®  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.54 gal.
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...........
Plumbi  Acet...........
12 
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
A P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassias..................
Quinia, S. P. A W.
Quinia, S. German
3
Quinia, N.Y............  
3?@
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®
___
SaccharumLactis pv 
18®
Salacin....................  3 00®
Sanguis Draconis... 
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

10®

SA L E   PR IC E   CU RREN T.

90® 

Conium  Mac......... 
35®  50
Copaiba...................  i  10®  1  20
Cubebae....................... 
90® 
Exechthitos...........  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................  l  00®  1  10
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  on®  1  io
Junipera.................   1 50® 2 00
Lavendula................  
Limonis...................  1 20®  1  40
Mentha Piper.........  1  60@ 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   l  90@ 2 00
Morrhuse,  gal.........   l  oo@  1  10
Myrcia,....................  4 00® 4  50
Olive.......................  
75® 3 00
Picis  Liquida........  
10®  12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
R icina....................  i 03® 1 08
R08marini...............   @  1  00
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1  00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.........  ...........  1  40®  1  50
Thyme.................... 
40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®  18
Bichromate............  
13@ 
15
Bromide..................  
48®  51
Carb.......................  
12®  15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16©  18
Cyanide................... 
35®  40
Iodide......................  2 60® 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras........... 
7@ 
9
Prussiate................. 
20®  25
Sulphate po  ........... 
15®  18

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20®  25
Althse...................... 
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
Gentiana........po.  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza. ..pv. 15  16®  18 
Hydrastis Canaden .  @  70
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  75
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
15©
20 
Inula, po................. 
15®
20 
Ipecac, po...............   2 00®
10 40 
Iris plox--- po35®38 
35©
Jalapa,  pr................ 
25©
30 
Maranta,  &s........... 
Oh
35
Podophyllum, po,
22®  25
Rhei  .................
75®  1  00 
Rhei, cut...  ......
@  1  25 
Rhei, pv
75®  1  35 
35®
Spigelia................... 
38 
im  
Sanguinaria. ..po. 15
13 
®
Serpentaria............   30®
35 
Senega.
45 
40®
Simiiax,officinalis H 
40
«
Smilax, M...............
@ 25
10® 12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................
® 25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
® 25
Valeriana,  German.
15® 20
12® 16
25® 27

Semen
Anisum......... po.  15

Coriandrum........
Cannabis  Sativa. 
Cvdonium...........

@ 12
13® 15
4® 6
10® 12
25®  1  75
8® 10
4® 4*4
75®  1  00
10® 12
00® 2 20
Foeniculum .
® 10
7® 9
L ini........................
3® 4
Lini,  grd........bbl. 3
4® 4*4
35® 40
4®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
Rapa ■•••••  ............   4*4®
Sinapis Albu........... 
7®
Sinapis Nigra.........  
11®
Spiritus

2  00

2 50
2 25
1  50
3 50 
2  10 
6 50 
2  00 
2  00

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00®
Frum enti..................l  25@
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  65@
Juniperis Co...........  1  75®
Saacharum N. E __  1  90®
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75@
Vini Oporto............   1  25®
Vini Alba...............   1  25®

2  75 
2  00 
1  25 
1  00 
1  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2  50®
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  @
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__  @
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
®
carriage................ 
Hard, for slate use.. 
®
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
@  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes__
Zingiber...............
Ipecac. 
........
Ferri Iod..............
Rhei Arom...........
Smilax Officinalis.
Senega..............
Seill®.............

50 
50 
®
50 
®  60 
@  50
®  50

50®

1  00

2 00

niscellaneous 

Scillæ Co.................  @
Tolutan...................  @
Prunus virg..  ........  @
Tinctures 
Aconltum N a pel 1 is R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma......... .
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
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...................
Rhatany..................
Rhei........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium_____
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride ...
Zingiber..................
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2*4®
Alumen,gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto................... 
40®
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
Antipyrin.............. 
@
Antifebrin..............  @
Argenti Nitras, oz ..  @
Arsenicum............... 
10®
38®
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
Bismuth  S. N.........   1  40®
Calcium Chlor.,  is.. 
®
Calcium Chlor., *4s.  @
Calcium Chlor.,  a s. 
®
Cantharides, Rus.po  @ 
Capsici Fructus, af.  @
Capsici Fructus, po. 
®
Capsici FructusB,po  @ 
Cary ophyllus. .po.  15  10®
Carmine, No. 40......   @
Cera Alba, S. A F  .. 
50®
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
Coccus....................  
®
Cassia Fructus........  @
Centraría.................  @
Cetaceum................   @
Chloroform.............  
60®
Chloroform, squibbs  @
Chloral Hyd Crst__  150®
Chondrus................  
20®
Cinchonidine.P.&W  25® 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®
Cocaine..................   3 05®
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum............. 
®
Creta............. bbl. 75 -  ®
Creta, prep.. 
_
Creta, preelp.........  
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus.................... 
18®
Cudbear................. 
®
Cupri Sulph............
5®
Dextrine..................
10®
Ether Sulph............
75®
Emery, all  numbers
Emery, po___ ____
Ergota............ po. 40
Flake  White...Vi...
Galla........................
Gambier..................
Gelatin,Cooper..  .. 
Gelatin, French...... 
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white............  
13®
J4@
Glycerina...............  
Grana  Paradis!  __  
®
25®
Humulus................. 
® 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @ 
<a 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagU nguentum
45®
Hydrargyrum.........
®65®
Ichthyobolla, Am...
Indigo......................
75®
Iodine, Resubi......
60®
Iodoform.................
Lupulin.  ................
Lycopodium........... 
Macis 
.........  
Liquor  Arse:, et Hy­
dra rg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia, S. F ...........
Menthol  ,.  .............

8®
_
35®

30®

50®

4C
65

10®

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

50 
5 
50 
1  40 
15 
50 
12 
40 
1  50
9 
10 
12 
75 
15 
15 
15 
12
3 00 
55 
42 
40 
33
10 
45 
63
1  25 
1  60
25 
35 
30 
3 25 
70 
35 
2
5 
11
8
20
24
6 
12 
90
8
6
35
15
23
9
60
60
70
60
1225 
20 
15 
55 
80 
70 
90
1  00 
55 
55 
75 
1  00
3 70
4 20
2 25 
45 
75
25 
12 
3 
154 
60 
2 75

'ass

8
75
15
41
43
5
10
14
15
65
5
40
40

6
8
14
14

25
00
50
00

15
8
30
55
40
45
80
18
12
18
30
20
12
14
12
15

25
30
12
14
15
17

15
25
75
40
15
2
50
7

14
25
35

30
25
30
20
10

65
45
æ>
28
80
14
12
30
60
28
55
13
14
16
55
10
00
70
35
:  00
60
40
i 95
35
45
80

25
2025
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

50
50
25
3.
20
50
90
70
65
75
90
50

Sinapis.................... 
©  18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
®  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
Soda Boras..............  7  ® 
9
9
Soda Boras, po........  7  ® 
Soda et Potass Tart.  26®  28
Soda,  Carb..............  154® 
2
5
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
Soda, Ash...............   3*4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @ * 00 
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.  @ 2 40
© 2  45
Spts. Vini Rect.*4 bbl 
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal 
© 2  48
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
® 2 50 
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40©  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........  2*4® 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2*4
8®  10
Tamarinds.............. 
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
42®  45
Theobromse............  
Vanilla...................  9 00@16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

19

38
40
70
40

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

35 
37 
65 
35 
Paints  BBL. 

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

LB
IX 2  m
IX  2  @4 
IX  2  @3 
2H  2*4@3 
2*4 2X@3
15 
75 
19
16 
6 
6
70 
70 
1 00
1  40 
1  15

70®
1314®
13®
5*4©
5*4®

¿¿Varnishes]]

Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard, extra............
Lard, No. 1..............

BBL.
70
40
35

8  AL.

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

Quotations

Chicago
Style

F or quantities
you do not
buy.

Price charged
foryour usual
wants.

Epsom  Salts,  io  barrels.......................

i|c  

. . .......... 2  to  3c

Arnica  Flowers,  bale.......... ..............

8c 

. . ...........12  to  15c

Boracic  Acid,  b bl...............................

IOC 

.  . ...........14  to  15c

Chlorate  Potash,  k e g ........................ IO^C 

.  . .......... 14  to  15c

German  Chamomile,  bale................

19c 

. . .......... 25  to  28c

Tin.  Senna Leaves (ordinary),  bales

8c 

. . .......... 12  to  15c

Sulphite  Soda,  b bl.............................

3¿c 

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

5  to  7c

Glycerine,  28  deg.,  500  lb s.............. ii£ c 

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

Glycerine,  30  deg.,  50  lb s................

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

I2C

13c

Do  you  see  the  “ Concealed  African?”   Quota­
tions  for  quantities  and quality you do not buy may 
take  your  order  from  us  once. 
Prices  charged 
should  not  hold  your  trade.

Box  and  Cartage  Free.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

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

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

BAKING  POWDER.

34 lb cans doz................... 
A lb cans doz................... 
1 

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

Acme.

34 lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
34 lb cans 3 doz.................  75
1 
lb cans 1 doz.................  I 00
Bulk...................................  
10

El Parity.

34 lb cans per doz.............  75
34 lb cans per d o z ............  1 20
lb cans per doz.............. 2  00
1 

Home.

34 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
34 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
lb cans 2 doz case........ 

35
55
90
1 ? »
45
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60

34 lb cans, 4 doz case...... . 
34 lb cans. 4 doz case........ 
1 

Jersey Cream.

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

Oar Leader.

34 lb cans..........................  
34 lb can&......................... 
l 

45
76
lb cans..........................  1  50

Peerless.

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

85

BATH  BRICK.

American................................TO
English.............................. ....80

BLUING.

C O N D E N S E )

&LuifslG

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

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

CANDLES.

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

CANNED  OOODS. 
rianltowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside B.  J ....................  1  15
Lakeside, Cham. of Eng....  1  2, 
Lakeside  Gem. Ex. lifted.  1  4s 
Extra Sifted Early Jan e....l  75

CHEESE.

Acm e......................  @  1144
Amboy....................  ©  11
Byron......................  ©  u
Elsie.......................   ©  1134
Gem.........................  @  12
Gold  Medal............   @  u
Herkimer................  @
W eal.......................   @  1134
Jersey  ....................   ©  12
Lenawee.................  @  l |
Riverside.................  ©  1134
Sparta....................   ©  11
Brick.......................  @  10
Edam.......................  @  75
Leiden....................   @  jg
Limburger..............  @  10
Pineapple................ 43  @  85
8a»o.................  ©  18

CHOCOLATB.

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  doz__ 
80
Jute  72 ft.  ppr  do«..
Chicory.

Bnlk
Red

COCOA SHELLS.

201b  bags...........
Less quantity__
Pound  packages.

CRBAfl  TARTAR.

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

COFFEE.

Oreen.
Rio.

F a ir.........................................10
Good....................................... 1
Prim e......................................13
Golden  ...................................14
Peaberry  ................................15

Santos.

Fair  .....................................   1
Good  ....................................  1
Prim e....................................  lfi
Peaberry  ...............................
Mexican  and  Guatamela.
Fair  .....................................
Good  .....................................
Fancy 
.................................

TMmp..............................
Milled..................... 
 

 

21

Java.

Tutevior..................... 
fO
Private  Growth...................... F2
Mandehllng............................ 24

 

 

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

Roasted.

Cl ark-Jewell-Well s Co.’s B ran ds
Eift5  Avenue......  
....  28
Jewell’s  Arshian Mocha...  28
Wells’ 'MV.pha and Java___94
wpiis’ Perfection  Java...... 94
Goneofhn 
......  .......  9$
Breakfast  B’end...............   20
Vaiiprcifv Maracaibo........IB34
Ideal  Blend......... ...............13
Leader Blend.................."!l2

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  vonr  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  bnyer  pavs  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  0«
Jersey.............................  
]i  on
rtcLaaghlin’a  XXXX........u   oo

Extract.

Valley City 34 gross......  
Felix 34 gross................. 
Hummel’s foil 34 gross... 
Hommel’s tin 34  gross... 

75
l  if
85
I  48

CATSUP.

Colombia, 
pint«.............. 2 on
Colombia, 34 pint«.............. 1  10

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COUQH  DROPS.

C. B. Brand.

40 6 cent package»...........  1  00

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 36

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman 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

Economic  Grade.

50 hooks, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2  50
500 books, any denom__II  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 denom__20 00

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
10n books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from CIO down.

Can be made to represent any 
20 books  .......................   1  00 I
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
3000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................  
75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOnESTIC 
Sundried......................   ©  534
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @ 8

Apples.

California Fruits.

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

California Pranas.

100-120-25 lb boxes.........  © 934
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @ 4¥
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   @534
TO - 80 25 lb boxes.........   @ FH4
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........   @  634
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   @ 634
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ©  734
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  @
34 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 

I  50 
2 00
5
6
7

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls.......................@ 6A4
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......©  0%
Cleaned, bulk  ................. © 8
Cleaned, packages.......... © 834

Peel.

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

Raisins.

On dura 28 lb boxes......8  © 834
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 3 Crown.........   @11
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
3 nit An ft  R CimwYl........  ®
Sultana 6 Crown.........   ® 12
Sultana package.........   @14

334

Grits.

Beans.

Purina.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

FA RIN A C EO U S  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages......... . .175
Balk, per 100 lbs............ .3 50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s........ .2 40
Balk in 100 lb. bags........ .3 40
Barrels  .......................... .2 25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums........ .1  00
Dried Lima  ...................
Medium Hand  Picked... 1  00
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
60
Domestic,  101b. box......
Imported,  25 lb. box..  .. 2 50
2 40
Common.............. ..........
Chester..........................
2 50
2  75
Em pire..........................
80
Green,  bn.......................
2
Split,  per lb...............   ..
Rolled Avena,  bbl....... .3 60
Monarch,  bbl................ 3  -5
Monarch.  34  bbl............ 1  75
Private brands,  bbl__ 3  15
Private brands, Vi bbl__ 1  70
Quaker, cases................. 3 20
Huron, cases................... 1  75
German..........................
East  India......................
Cracked, bulk.................
24 2 lb packages.............. 2 50

Rolled  Oats.

3\4
3
?34

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

F i s h .
Cod.

Georges cured............
©  434
Georges  genuine........
© SM
Georges selected........
©  f*4
Strips or bricks.........   5 @  734
Chunks...........................
10
9
Strips...............................

Halibut.

HprHfiR.

Holland white honn«. hhl
0 «5
Holland white hoop 34 bh
5  *0
H 1!  and wh*te hnop.  tpe
7*2
Hoi and white h^op mchs 
80
Norwegian......................  11  on
Round 100 lbs..................   3 40
Round  40 lbs...................  1  60
Scaled............................... 
18

riackerel.

Mess IN) lbs  ..............  ...  16on
...................  6  70
Mess  40 lbs 
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  73
Mess 
8  lbs...................   141
Au. I luu i d s......................  14  50
No. 1  40 lbs.....................   6  It
No. 1  10 lbs...................... 
•  60
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2 100 lbs......................  I  • 0
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  3l
No. 2  lOlhs......................  1  15
No. 2 
95

8 lbs...................  

Aardlnas.

56

Russian kegs......   ........... 

Trent
No. 1 100 lb s ....................   4 00
No. 1  4o lbs  ........ 
......   19
No. 1 
65

81ba................. 

No. 1 

10 lbs................... 

47

Whltsflsh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam 
100 lbs  .........   6 no
5 00 
1  90 
40 lbs 
1  06 
..  2 70  2 30
10 lbs. 
34 
8 lbs.
31
FLAVORINQ  EXTRACTS.

Souders*.
in  the  world 

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew, 
the 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle— Dupont’s.

Kegs 
............................ 4  00
Half Kegs  ........................... 2  25
quarter Kegs.........................1 2:
1  lb. c -hs..............................  30
34 lb  cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ....................................4  25
Htlf Kegs............................. 2 40
Quarter Kegs.........................1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  31

 

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Keg«.... .  ............................ 8  no
Half Kegs..............................4 25
Quarter Kegs........................2 t
I lb. cans..............................  45
Sage............... 
15
Hops....................................  15
Madras, 5  lb  boxes.............  55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes___  50
16 lb  palls............................   ao
30 lb  pails  ...........................  73
LYB.
Condensed, 2 dos  ..............l  20
'londensed  *  <lo* 
........2 25
Pure.....................................   80
Calabria..............................  26
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10

LICORICE.

JBLLY.

MINCE MEAT.

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

ilATCHBS.

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

ilOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

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

Half-barrels 2c extra.

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216......................  1  7
Clay, T. D. full count........  6s
85
Cob, No. 3........................... 

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ..............................4  00
Penna 8alt  Co.’s ...............   8  00

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  5 50
Half bbls, 600 count...........  3  25

Barrels, 2,400 coant.........   6 FO
Half bbls, 1,200 count........  3 75

PICKLES.
rtedlom.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

SALERATU5.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

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

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  9)
Lamp, bbls.  ....................   75
Lump, 1451b kegs..............  gg

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

g
3i
S
8
8
8
S

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks....................... 1
60 5-lb sacks....................... 1
28 10-lb sacks......................1

Worcester.

lb.  cartons...............3
50  4 
115  2341b. sacks................... 4
lb. sacks..................3
60  5 
22 14 
lb. sacks..............  3  50
30 10 
lb. sacks................... 3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   flo
Bulk In barrels.................... 2 50

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

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

56-lb dairy in iinen  sacks...  60 

56-lb dairy in linen  sacks...  60 

Solar  Rock.

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

Common.

Granulated  sine...... ..........   7’
Medium  Fine......................  83

SEEDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3
Caraway..........................   8
Gardamon,  Malabar  ......  6
Ceery...............................   u
Hemp.  Russian.............. 
314
Mixed  Bird......................
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  .............................. 
»34
Rape.................................  434
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SNUPP.

Scotch, In bladders............   87
Maccaboy, in jars.................   35
French Ranpee, In jars......   43

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ............................   10
Cassia, China In mats.........12
Cassia, Batavia In bund__25
Cassia. Saigon in rolls........82
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................... 36
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@*0
Pepper, Sing , black__ 10@14
Pepper, Sing., w hite.... 15@18
Pepper, Cayenne...........17@20
Sage...................................... 18

SYRUPS 

Corn.

Jennings*.

D. C. Vanilla 
2 oz....... 1 20 
3 oz.......... 1 50 
4 oz..........2 00 
6 oz..........3 00 
No.  8 
4 00 
No. 10. 
.6 00 
No.  2T.126 
No.  8 T.2 00 
NO  4 T.2 40 

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.......  75
3 oz.........1 00
4 oz.........1 40
6 oz........ 2 00
No.  8...2 40
No. 10...4 00
No.  2T.  80
No.  8 T.l  86
No.  4T.1«0

Carolina head....................   634
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  434
Broken...............................  834

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................  534
Japan.  No. 2......................  534
Java, fancy b rad..............  6
Java, No. 1........................  5
M ile ..................................   534

Barrels...............................   16
Half  bbls..........................   18

Pare Cane.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................634
KegsiEngllsh...  ................  444

Single box............................ 2 75
5 box lots, delivered.........  2 70
10 box lots, delivsied.........  2 65
JUS.  S.  KiRK  S  GO 'S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp'd....3 33 
American Family, nnwrp’d.3 27
Dome....................................3  33
Cabinet................................ 2 20
Savon................................... 2 50
Dusky Diamond  50 6  oz__2  10
Dusky  Diamond. 50 W  oz  ..  3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb.............3  00
Kirkoline............................. 3 7s
Eos 
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.

.......... 

.. 

3

. 

Schulte Soap Co.’b Brand.

Single box......................... 2 80
5 box lo ts ........* 
2 75
10 box lots  ........................   ¿ 7"
25 box lots__  
2 60
Wolverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

.........................2 65
Single box 
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 che^r, 601-lb. bars__3 75
TJno, 100 )£-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

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

Washing Powder.

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

STARCH.

Kingston!’»  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................6)4

Klngsford'a Silver  Olosa.
40 1-lb packages...................  6 H
6-lb boxes.......................... 7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

20 1 lb  packages..................  4)4
40 1 lb  packages.................   4 \
20 lb. boxes..........................  4
401b. boxes..........................  3%

Common Gloss.

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

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

63

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, 
iucludiug  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf.................... ........5
Domino..............
...... 5
Cubes...........
Powdered  .................
..  5
XXXX  Powdered......
......5
Mould  A............
...... 5
Granulated in bbls...................5 00
Granulated in  bags.............5
Fine Granulated..................5
Extra Fine Granulated.......5
1
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .6
1
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5
U0
Confec. Standard A.........   4
8
No.
6
Vo 
.4 6 
No.
.4  63 
No.
.4 56 
No.
.4 5 
No.
.4  38 
No.
.4 3
>io.  9.............................   4  9
No.  10................................   4  13
No.  11..................................4  uo
No.  12................................ 4 ou
No.  13..................................3 94
No.  14..................................4 88
No.  16..................................3 75

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

bbls.  pails
Standard.................  6)4© 7)4
Standard H.  H........ 
by*®» 7)4
Standard Twist......   6  4» 8
@
Cut Loaf................. 
Jumbo, 321b  .......... 
@*6)4
Extra H. H.............. 
© a *
Boston  Cream........ 
@

Mixed Candv.

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

©  6 y, © 7 

© 714 
© 7 yt 
©   8y*
© 8)4 
©  ov* 
© 8 
© 8>4 
© 8* 
©to 
©13

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
© 9
Lozenges,  printed.. 
©9
Choc.  Drops...........  11  ©u
Choc.  Monumentals  ©12
© 6
Gum  Drops............  
© a
Moss  Drops............  
Sour Drops.............. 
© 8)4
Imperials................ 
©  8»4

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

TOBACCOS.

Cigar«.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand. 
New  Brick........................35 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. 

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

VINEOAR.

Malt White Wine...................  7
Pure  Cider.............................   §

WICKINQ.

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

Fish  and  O ysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish................  @  9
T rout......................  ©  8
Black Bass..............  ©  10
Halibut...................  ©  15
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluetish...................  @  10
Live  Lobster.........   @  16
Boiled Lobster........  @  18
c o d .........................  ©  10
Haddock.................  ©  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  9
Pike.........................  ©  7
Smoked White........  @  9
Ked Snapper...........  ©  12
Col  River Salmon..  ©  J5
Mackerel 
..............  ©  18

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts...........  ©  35
F. J. D. Sehcts........  ©  27
Selects....................   @  21
F  J  D. standards..  ©  22
Anchors..................  @  20
Standards...............   ©  18
Favorites...............   ©  16

Oysters  In  Bulk

F  H  Coil’ ts...........  @1  75
Extra Selects.........   ©1  60
selects....................   ©1  30
suenor Standards..  ©110
St  udards...............   ©1  up
Clams......................  ©1  25

Shell  floods.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25©i  50
Clams,  per  100 
.  .  90©.  0(

Lemon  Drops.........  
Sour  Drops............  
Peppermint Drops.. 
Cnocolate Drops__ 
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  piaiu__
Lozenges,  printed..
imperials...............
Mottoes.................
Cream Bar...... . . . . .
Molasses Bar  .........
Hand 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  ii>.
boxes ...................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ................

F ru its.
Oranges.

Fancy Mexicans. 

176s  ............
200s.........
^  
200 Fancy............

Rodis. 

Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly cboice 300s..
Fancy 360s...........
Ex.Fancy 300s__
Ex.  Rodi 360s.........
Bananas.
Medi um buncbes... ] 
Large bunches........

Figs.

Choice, 10 lb boxes..
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy, 12 lb  boxes.. 
Fancy, 50 lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb ooxes...............
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  In  bags...
Dates.

@50
©50
©60
©60
©30 
©75 
©50 
©50 
©50 
©50 
©55 
&M 
©50 
©1  01 
©90 
©90 
©60 
@ ©60

©30
©45

©

@5 00

@3 50 
©3 50 
@4 uO 
@4 50 
©5 00

© 10
© 12
© 13
© 14

@ 14© 15© 6

25
75

@1  50 
@2 00

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

@ 8
@ 6
©
@

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Farda  in  60 ib  cases 
Persians, H.  >1. B.,60
ib cases, iiew........
Sfrirs,  colo cases__
N uts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
©13
Almonds, Ivaca.........
@11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
@15 
Brazils new...............
© 8V4 
Filberts  ....................
@lu 
Walnuts, Grenobles .. 
@13 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
@10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@12
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@12@lu
Table Nuts,  choice..
Pei aus, Med...............  @9
Pecans, Ex. Large
@10
Pecans, jumbos.......  @12
Hickory  N uts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............
Cocoauuts,  full  sacks 
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.
Fancy.  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................
Choice, H. P., Extras.
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,

©  6H
@  6 l4 
@  4
Boasted  .................  ©  5 ¡4

@1  75 
@4  00

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
G ra in s  a n d  Fe e d s tu ffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

Wheat.................................  86

Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

.................... ....  ’  4

Patents..............................   5 50
Second  Patent........... ...*  5 tO
Straight............................  4 60
Clear.................................. ... 40
Graham 
Buckwheat.................... "  4 *5
K ye..................................  3 so
Subject  to usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  )£s........................  4  6u
(Quaker, Qs........................  4 6j
Quaker, y*s........................ 4  go
Guard, Fairfield & Co’s Brand.
MUuie Wheat  I-16S..........  5 20

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best %s...........5  i5
Piilsbury’s  Best yjs...........5 3o
Pills bury’s nest  v,s...........  5 2.
Piilsbuiy's Best y*s paper .  5  z5 
Piilsoury’s Best * s paper..  5  25 
Ball-Barnhart-Putmau’s Brand.
Grand Republic, Hs.......... 5 g&
Grand Republic, )*s...........5 55
Grand Republic,  y*s...........5  *5
Lemou & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal 
..................  5  6a
Gold Medal )4s....................5  00
Gold Medal )4s.............  5 45
Parisian,  y*s — ...........  
  0  65
Parisian, yje.........................5 j ,
Parisian. y*s.........................5  4a

Olney <fe Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, ygs......................   5  gg
Ceresota, 
s............  ,  5 gg
Ceresota, )4S..  .............  g 4a
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Laurel, %s.........................  5  65
Laurel, J*s.........................  5 g5
Laurel, y4s.........................   5  to
Bolted...............................  1  75
Granulated............ .!!.!!.  2 00

Meal.

Feed and MIHstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 14 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats......... 13 uo
Unbolted Corn Meal......... 12 „0
Winter Wheat  Bran......... 11  00
Winter Wheat Middlings, .la 00
Screenings..........................10 00
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:

New Corn.
Car  lots............................. 27J4
Less than  car lots... 
..  3j

Oats.

Hay.

Car  lots............................. 2254
Carlots, clipped.................  24
Less than car lots............ 27

No. 1 Timothy carlots........  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__10 00

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

9 50 
11  ¡.0 
lu ».5 
lU 26 
14 50 
¿5
5U
9 go

9

Barreled Pork.

follows:
Mess  ........
Back  ........
Clear  back.
Short cut..
Pig.
Bean  .............................  
Family
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
Briskets  .......................
Extra shorts.................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  ....
...
Hams, 14 lb  average 
Hams, 161b  average.....
Hams, 20 lb  average......  
s '
Ham dried beef  ............ 
15
shoulders  (N.  Y. cut).  . 
6%
Bacon,  clear.................8  @9
California hams............  
6
Boneless hams...............  
854
u
Cooked  ham................... 
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound................  
4%
Kettle..............................
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
So lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
10 lb Pails..........advance
5 lb Pails..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance
Sausages.
Bologna.......................  
5
Uiver.........................  
Frankfort.......................  
7
P ork.............................. . 
6)4
Blood  ............................  
6
Tongue................................. 9
Head  cheese............. 
Extra  Mess.........................  9 00
Boneless  ......................  12 00
Hump..................................12 00
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
H  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 5u
)4  bbls, 80 lbs.....................   2 80
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
M  bbls, 40 lbs......................  1 40
)4  bbls, 80 lbs....................... 2 75
Casings.
P ork...................*.......... 
Beef  rounds.............  
Beef  middles................. 
Sheep........................ 
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy................... 
Solid, dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery.........  
Canned  Meats.

16
4)4
12
go
n
10^4
14
13)4

Pigs’ Feet.

Tripe.

Beef.

6)4

6)4

80

75

Corned  beef,  2 lb........... 2 10
Corned  beef, 14  lb..........14 00
Roast  beef,  2 lb........... 2 a0
Potted  bam,  34s 
60 
)4s 
Potted  ham, 
1  00 
Deviled ham, 
¡4 a 
60 
Deviled ham, 
)4s 
1  00 
Potted  tongue j^s 
60 
Potted  tongue )4s
1  00

Crackers.

Soda.

Butter.

Oyster.

The N. Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows:
Seymour XXX...................  4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  4)4
Family XXX......................  4
Family XXX, 31b  carton..  4)4
Salted XXX.......................  4
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  4)4 
Soda  XXX  .......................   4
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  414
Soda,  City.........................  5
Zephyrette.........................  9
Long Island Wafers.........   9
L. I. Wafers, lib  carton  ..  10
Square Oyster, XXX.........   414
Sq. Oys. XXX, 1  lb carton.  5¡4 
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   4
SWEET  Q00D5—Boxes.
Animals............................  9
Bent’s Cold Water............  13
Belle Rose .. .■....................   6
Cocoannt Taffy...... •.........   8
Coffee Cakes......................  8
Frosted Honey...................  10
Graham Crackers  ............   6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  5 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla.................  7
Imperials..........................   6
Jumoles,  Honey...............   10
Molasses  Cakes.................  6
Marshmallow  ...................  12
Marshmallow  Creams......   13
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake.......................   6
 
Sultanas.................... 
10
Sears'Lunch......................  6
Vanilla  Square................ 
7
Vanilla  Wafers...............   12
Pecan W afers..................   12
Mixed Picnic....................   10
Cream Jumbles.................  1154
Boston Ginger  Nuts..........   6
...........  9
Chimmip P'niiden 
Pineapple Glace.................  12
Pennv Cakes 
...............   6
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  13
Belle Isle Picnic..................10

Fresh  M eats.

Beef.

Carcass...... .............. 5)4© 7)4
Forequarters............ 5  ©  6
Hind  quarters...........  7  © 9
Loins  No.  3................9  @12
5 ibs  -......................  .  8  ©12
6)4© 7)4
Hounds..................  ej4©  7%
C hucks...................4  @5
4 © 5
Plates  .......................   @3
© 3
Pork.
Dressed............... .
© 5)4
Loins...................
©
Shoulders............
© 5)4
Leaf Lard.............~  e
6 ©
Mutton.
Carcass....................
6 © 7
Spring Lambs...........
8 © 9
Veal.
Carcass  ...............
8 © 9

Hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  <£c  Hess pay  as  fol-
lows:
Hides.
Green..................
...  7  ©  8
Part  cured...........
@ 8)4
Full Cured...........
...  8)4© 9*
D ry......................
...  9  @11
Kips,  green........... ...  T  ©  8
Kips,  cured...........
Calfskins,  green... •  8)4©  9M
• ••  7)4© 9
Calfskins, cured... ...  9  @lu>4
Deaconskins  ......
.. .25  ©30
Pelts.
Shearlings...........
Lambs.................
Old  Wool

5©  30
..  40©  1  UO
611©  1  Ou

Oils.
Barrels.

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

21

Crockery  and

G lassw are.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

)4 gal., per doz.................  50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5)4
8 gal.,  per g a l.................  6)4
10 gal., per gal.................. 
6)4
12 gal., per g a l.................  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)485
Churn Dashers,  per doz... 
60
5)4
)4 gal. fiat or rd. hot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5)4 

)4 gal. flat or rd.  hot., doz.
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each 
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Milkpans.

Churns.

Stewpans.

)4 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 

Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

Tomato Jugs.

H 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.
)4 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
No. 0 Sun.......................  ..  45
No.  1  Sun.........................”  50
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No. i .............. ..."  65
Security, No. 2................. 1."  85
Nutmeg  ..................... 
50
Climax...............................  1 50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common. 
_  
For box of 6 doz.
No. 0 Sun..........................   1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  gg
No.  8 Sun..........................   2 70

LAMP  BURNERS.

 

First  Quality.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun,  crimp  top,
1 Sun,  crimp  top,
2 sun,  crimp  top,

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

XXX Flint.

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

La  Bastie.

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

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans

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................la 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular..................   4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular................6  50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1-Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp.14  0C 
No.  3 Street  Lamp  . 
3  75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box lOcen-s...........  45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases2 doz.
each,  box  15  cents.........  
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5 doz.
each, bbl 35.................... 
40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull's  eye,
cases 1 doz. each............   1 25
No. 0 per gross................... 
20
25
No.  1 per gross................. 
No. 2 per gross  ............        38
No. 3 per gross...................  68
Mammoth........................... 
70

LAMP  WICKS.

LANTERNS.

22

Hardware

Mutual  Relations  of  Retailer  and  Cus­

tomer— Prison  Goods. 

Ante-Lucem in American Artisan.

The  strong  relationship  that  actually 
exists  between  the  country  retail  mer­
chant  and  his  patron,  particulaily  the 
farmer,  is  a  far  more  important  factor 
to  the  commercial  life  and  well-being 
of  our  country  than  the  casual  observer 
realizes  or 
is  willing  to  admit.  The 
existing  attachment  and  the  utter  im­
possibility  of  their  divorcement  are 
things  that  force  themselves  stronger 
and  stronger  upon  the  mind  of  the 
earnest  advocate  of  trade  reform,  as  he 
studies  more  and  more  into  the  ques­
tions  involved.

The  one  factor  (farmer)  is  the  pro­
ducer,  the  provider  for  the  whole  coun­
try,  the  world.  He  tills  the  soil,  he 
ploughs,  he  sows,  he  reaps,  and  from 
God’s  earth  (given  to  man)  he  raises 
the  essentials  to  support  life,  the  food­
giving  products.  While  he  farms  for 
a  livelihood,  he  expects  also  a  profit. 
As  he  toils  by  day  he  forgets  or  does 
not  realize  the  God-given  mission  he  is 
performing.  Let  all  the  farmers  cease 
to  be  producers  and  there  would  come 
destitution,  starvation  and  ruin.

the 

intended 

While  the  farmer  is  hard  at  work  per­
forming 
labor  of  his 
Creator,  the  country  retail  merchant 
stands  hard  by  as  the  strong reserve fac­
tor,  supporting  the  producer  from  his 
accumulated  stock  of  stores,  gathered 
for  hjs  (the  producer’s)  wants  as  neces­
sities  may  require.  These  the producer 
gets  largely  upon  the  promise-to-pay 
plan,  the  merchant  having  full  faith  in 
a  possible  growing  crop  and  the  farm­
er's  honesty.  There  is  but  one  man  to 
whom  the  farmer  can  go  for  credits. 
There 
is  but  one  man  who  can  grant 
those  favors  of  credit,  that  is  the  retail 
merchant.

Crush  out  the  retail  merchant  or  let 
him  cease  to  perform  his  part  of  the 
great  work,  and  down  would  go  the 
store-houses  of  supplies,  and  half  the 
producer’s  time  would  be  lost in an end­
less  chase  for  the  things  so  needful  for 
the  every-day  prosecution  of  his  work 
and  living,  things  he  cannot  manufac­
ture  nor  produce.  With  the  retail  mer­
chant  gone,  where 
is  the  one  to  grant 
the  credits  from  month  to  month,  and 
year  to  year?  Surely  he 
is  not  among 
the  wholesalers,  manufacturers  or  cata­
loguers.  The  loss  from  the  field of mer­
chandising  of  the  retail merchant  would 
be  a  grievous  one,  entailing 
loss  to 
every  industrial  enterprise  of  the world.
The  retail  merchant  is  the  foundation 
of  all  the  commercial  superstructures; 
upon  him  rests  all  the  prosperity  of  the 
wholesaler,  the manufacturer.  Pull down 
or  undermine  the  foundation  wall,  and 
the superstructure falls.  The clientage of 
the  retail  merchant 
is  but  the  footing 
stones  of  the  supporting wall.  You  can­
not  remove  him,  or  down  come 
in  a 
crash  all  the  dependencies.

That  the  patron  of  the  retail  mer­
chant  must  go  to  him  (the  retail  mer­
chant)  to  sell  his  few  pounds  of  butter 
or  dozen  eggs,  that  the  producer  must 
go  to  his  country  village  for  his  mail, 
to  get  his  horses  shod,  to  consult  his 
doctor,  and  a hundred other little things, 
to  say  that  these  are  all  the  reasons,  the 
essential  reasons,  why  the  producer 
should  patronize  his  home  dealer 
is  to 
shut  one’s  eyes  to  the  important  facts 
and  turn  a  deaf  ear  to  the  mighty  ap­
peal  of  a  country’s  cause.  To  say  that 
the  retail  merchant  is  satisfied  when  he 
has  secured  control  of  his  customers’ 
patronage,  to  say  that  protection  must 
be  granted  the  retail  merchant  for  the 
attainment  of  that  purpose,  is  but  to 
champion  an  ignoble,  selfish  cause.

It  is  not  the  forwarding  of  the  selfish 
is  not  the  specific  better­
interest,  it 
ment  of  either  the  retail  merchant  or 
his  client’s  cause.as  it  is the serving the 
best 
interests  of  all  the  people  of  our 
common  country  and  the  upbuilding  of 
a  country  alike  unto  none  other  known. 
That  is  the  prime  object,  and  we  must 
begin  at  the  root  of  the  evil,  the  foun­
dation  of  the  superstructure,  strengthen 
the  walls,  cut  off  the  leeches  sapping

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is 

become 

stronger 

and  mining  its  strength.  He  who  has 
an  ambition  no  greater  than  his  own 
selfish  interests  can  be  measured  in  two 
words,  selfish  ingrate.

There  is  absolutely  no  dissolution,  no 
possible  divorcement  of  the  commercial 
interests  of  the  retail  merchant  and  his 
patrons.  The  confederation  of  interests 
must 
and  more 
thoroughly  cemented.  The  correction 
of  the  little  things  will  aid  in  a  just 
settlement  of  the  larger  and  more  im­
portant  measures  demanding  changes  if 
our general  commercial  prosperity  shall 
advance.  The  real 
issue  is  our  coun­
try,  not  individuals.  I  have  at  all  times 
studiously  avoided  mention  of  names, 
individuals  or  firms  (1),  because  I  have 
no  quarrel  with  anyone;  (2),  because  1 
do  not  seek  to  in  any  wise  antagonize 
anyone’s  position  or  business;  (3),  be­
cause  only  those  who  are  violators  will 
feel  the  thrust;  (4),  because  those  who 
feel  the  lash  may  give  to  the  questions 
involved  that  serious  thought  commen­
surate  with  the 
subject,  and  upon 
calm  reflection  do  those  things  they 
ought  to  do  and  so  essential  to  advance 
our  internal  commercial  interests.

There  has  been  no  further  action,  so 
far  as  I  know,  relative  to  the  sale  of 
stoves  to  exclusive  furniture  houses  and 
installment  dealers.  There  is,  however, 
a  movement  on  foot  to  bring  before the 
Minnesota  Hardware  Association  at 
its 
first  annual  meeting  the  subject  of  com­
missioning  stoves,  prison-made  goods, 
and the sale of new stoves to  second-hand 
dealers.

introduced,  at 

The  sale  of  stoves  on  the consignment 
plan  (stock  orders)  and  its  introduction 
to  the  trade 
liable  to  prove  one  of 
the  most  disastrous  features  of  the  stove 
business  ever 
least  ten 
times  worse  than  sales  to  exclusive  fur­
niture  dealers  and  easy-payment houses, 
for  the  only 
injury  resulting  from  the 
latter  class  of  sales  is  in  a  cutting  of 
prices.  The  commission  or  consign­
ment  plan  is  the  equivalent  of  furnish­
ing  capital  for  another  to  do  business 
upon  without  interest  or  risk,  and  puts 
a  dealer  selling  the  same  line  of  goods 
in  an  adjoining  town  hors  de  combat 
at  once.  This  is  a  most  proper  question 
for  the  consideration  of  the  National 
Association  of  Stove  Manufacturers. 
Once  you  open  the  door  to  consignment 
business  and  soon  the  entire  field  will 
be  covered,  resulting 
in  the  most  de­
moralizing  condition  imaginable.

There  is  nothing  more  vicious  or  re­
pulsive  to  an  honest  American  than  the 
sale  of  prison-made  goods,  falling  most 
heavily  upon  free  labor  and  dealing  a 
menacing  blow  to  all  free  American  in­
dustries.  Some  states  have  prohibited 
the  employment  of  convict  labor  as  a 
most 
injurious  thing  to  honest  toil. 
There  are,  however,  a  few  grasping, 
greedy  manufacturers  who  still  buy con­
vict  labor  to  make  goods  to  sell  to  hon­
It  is  simply  impossiblle  to 
est  people. 
describe  the  wrong, 
injury,  the 
damnable  nefariousness  of  the  sale  of 
prison  goods.

Second-hand  dealers  are  largely  the 
buyers  of  prison  goods,  and 
largely 
through  ignorance of where made.  Other 
sales  of  new  goods  that  go to the second­
hand  dealers  are  from  the  small  manu­
facturer  or  jobber.  No  representative 
stove  house  will  sell  new  goods  to  these 
second-hand  dealers,  and 
it  will  be 
quite  an  easy  matter  to  work  reforms  in 
that  direction.  The  organized  dealers 
of  Ohio,  Indiana,  Michigan  and  Wis­
consin,  as  well  as  states  where the retail 
hardware  trade  have  organized,  should 
take  cognizance  of  these  things and pre­
pare  for drastic  measures.

the 

Chainless  Bicycles.

Eleven  of  the  leading  bicycle  houses 
have  decided  to  manufacture  chainless 
bicycles  for  next  season,  so  that  the 
prospects  of  a 
large  turn-out  of  this 
type  of  bicycle  are  encouraging.  The 
advent  of  the  chainless 
in  1898  will 
mark  the  reduction 
in  price  of  chain 
wheels.  There  is  considerable  specula­
tion  regarding  the  price  at  which  the 
chainless  wheel  will  be 
It  is 
thought  that  firms  will  sell  chainless  bi­
cycles  next  season  at  either  $100  or 
$125.  These  figures  indicate  the  highest 
figures  now  in  contemplation.

listed. 

Wm.  Brummeler &  Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of
TINWARE,
ENAMELED  WARE  and 
NICKEL  PLATED  WARE.
Factory  and  Salesrooms,  260  South  Ionia  Street#

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Electric  Oil  Heating  Stoves!
3*

They are built like a stove;  have  perfect combustion;  hot air flues;  water reservoir 
in burner;  removable reservoir;  and have all the improvements that make  the  onlv 
perfect Oil Heating- Stove made.  We guarantee  them  to  work  perfectly.  Thev 
are no experiment;  this is the fifth year we have sold them. 
" 
No.  5  Electric  Oil  Heating  Stoves, 
No.  35  Electric  Oil  Heating  S«oves, 
No.  i6  E ectric  Oil  Heating  ctoves. 
No.  17  Electric  Oil  Heating  Stoves, 
No.  3a  Electric  Oil  Heating  Stoves, 
No.  34  Elec* rie  Oil  Heating  Stoves.
O ur  Sp e c ia l   O f f e r :  We  will  allow  a  Cash  Dis­
count of 5  per cent,  on all  orders for  Electric  Oil  Stoves 
before  Dec.  i.

$4.ao
4.80 
5-40 
6.00 
7.20
7.80

a?
e
S*
c

' 

Write for Catalogue.

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

This  handsome  Heater,  diameter  body  n   inches,

O nly  $8.00

Delivered  any  R.  R.  Station  in  Michigan. 

L ess  5  per  cent.,  cash  with  order.

W e  have  other  sizes.  Send  for  descriptive  circular.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.

G rand  R apids,  M ich.

MICHIGAN

23

Effect  of  Department  Stores  on  thé 

Hardware  Trade.

From the Hardware Dealers' Magazine.

Charles  W.  Bullard,  President  of  the 
Bullard  &  Gormully  t_o.,  of  Chicago,  is 
a  gentleman  who  has  been 
identified 
with  the  hardware  trade  of  the  Western 
metropolis  lor  the  past  thirty-two  years, 
and  has  been  for  twelve  years connecteu 
with  the  Bullard  &  Gormully  Co.  By 
reason  of  such  a  long  and  continuous 
association  Mr.  Builaru  is  naturally 
in 
a  position  to  speak  as  one  with  author­
ity  on  many  subjects  of  interest  to  the 
retail  hardware  trade.

In  a  recent  interview  lie  was  asked : 

What  is  your  opinion  regarding  the 
effect  of  department  store  Competition 
upon  retail  merchants?”

in  drawing  away 

He  replied :
” 1  consider  department  stores  not 
only  disturbing  factors  but  disastrous 
ones  as  well.  While  they  seldom,  il 
ever,  succeed 
from 
regular  hardware  dealers  any  appre­
ciable  amount  of  custom,  still their lalse 
and  misleading  advertisements  are  useo 
by  purchasers  to  hammer  down  prices. 
It  is  easy  enough  to  explain  away  the 
claims  the  department  stores  make  in 
the  daily  papers,  but  their  quotations, 
although  not  redounding  to  their  own 
benefit, serve to  depress  market  prices.” 
“ Have  dealers  tried  to  meet  depart­
ment  store  competition  by  advertising 
in  newspapers?”

Not  generally—some  spasmodic  at­
tempts  have  been  made  but  1  think they 
yielded  small  results.  Hardware  is  es­
sentially  a  catalogue  line  and  requires 
little  publicity  of  that  sort.  Quality  and 
pi ice  are  the  main  considerations.”  

“ Are  the  competitive  attacks  of  de­
partment  stores  along  the  lines  of  fine 
hardware  or  upon  cheaper  grades?”  

“ Most  emphatically  upon  the  cheaper 
grades.  This  is  the  point  of  danger, 
because  they  advertise  to  sell  the  best 
and  nine  times  out  of  ten  deliver an  in­
ferior  quality  or  a  cleverly  disguised 
imitation.  From  personal  experience  1 
can  say  that  they  handle  very few stand­
ard  trade-marked  goods  and  these  few 
are  uniformly  quoted  much  higher  than 
the  prices  asked  by  regular  dealers.”  

“ Wherein  does  the  remedy  lie?”  
“ Partly 
in 

in  the  dealer  himself  and 
partly 
fre­
legislation.  We  very 
quently  have  people  come  to  us  who  are 
not  disposed  to  trade  with  department 
stores,  but  who  seem  to  think  that  we 
are  robbing  them  when  we  ask  a  rea­
sonable  price  for  a  first-class  article.  A 
little  explanation  generally  convinces 
them  that  we  are  fair  and  just;  or,  it 
they  are  not  amenable  to  reason  and  do 
join  the  department  store  army  we often 
find  them  returning  to  us  later  on  and 
paying  our  prices  without  quibble.”

“ In  what  manner  can  legislation  reg­

ulate  department  stores?”

“ I  can  best  illustrate  that  by  an  ex­
ample  in  point.  Some  weeks  ago  one 
of  these  establishments  adveitised  wire 
nails—all  sizes—at  a  cent  a  pound. 
Builders,  contractors,  mechanics,  and 
men  of  family  elbowed  each  other in the 
crowd  which  gathered  to take advantage 
of  this  exceptional  offer.  Their  surprise 
and  disgust  may  be 
imagined  when 
they  discovered  that  only  five  pounds  of 
nails  would  be  sold  to  any  one  person. 
Now,  that  was  deception  pure  and  sim­
ple.  Laws  can  and  should  be  enacted  to 
compel  these  stores  to  make  good  their 
asseitions and  punish  them  severely  for 
deceiving  the  public  through  false  and 
misleading  statements. 
1  believe  that 
department  stores  are  legitimate  enter­
prises. 
I  do  not  entertain  anarchistic 
ideas  regarding  them,  as  do  many  mer­
chants;  but  I  maintain  that  in  competi­
tion  they  should  act  honorably,  or,  it 
they  will  not,  the  power  of  the  Jaw 
should  be 
invoked  to  enforce  square 
dealing.”

The  Cnainless  Bicycle.

Every  since  the  first  safety  bicycle 
was  built  manufacturers  and 
inventors 
have  been  trying  to  do  away  with  the 
link  belt,  commonly called the “ chain, ”  
used  to  transmit  motion  to  the  driving 
wheel. 
for 
granted  from  the  very  first that the chain 
was a  mere  makeshift,  to  be  used  only

It  seemed  to  be  taken 

until  something  better  was  invented  to 
take 
its  place.  While  bicyclemakers 
were  experimenting  with  other  driving 
devices,  hundreds  of  thousands  of  bi­
cycles  with  chains  were  made,  sold  and 
used.  Occasionally  some  make  of  wheel 
with  a  substitute  for  the  chain  was 
brought  out,  but  the  “ makeshift”   held 
its  own.  The  chain  was  a  nuisance,  in 
that 
it  collected  dust  and  gravel,  re­
quired  constai t  attention  and  frequently 
bioke.  Nevertheless,  it  was  the  best 
method  of  transmitting motion or power, 
and  wheel  people  accepted 
i t . as  the 
only  practical  device.

Now  the  chainless  bicycle  has  ap­
peared  as  a  competitor  of  the  common 
wheel.  Recently 
two  bicycles,  with 
oevel  gears,  were  brought  to  Chicago, 
and  in  a  lew  hours  the  bicyclers  of  the 
city  were  divided into  two factions,  one 
standing  for  the  chain,  and  the  other 
for  the  "coffee-m ill”   gear.  The  ad­
vocates  of  the  bevel  gear,  accepting  the 
claims  of  the  manufacturer  as authorita­
tive,  hailed 
it  as  the  long-looked-for 
improvement  which  is  to  do  away  with 
chains  altogether.  The  friends  of  the 
old  favorite  regarded  the  bevel  gear 
with  suspicion,  called 
it  a  fad,  and 
refused  to  concede  that  the  “ coffee 
mill”   was  an  improvement.  It  will  be 
well  for  both  factions  to  withhold  judg­
ment  until  the  new  gear  has  been  lainy 
tested.

The  bevel  gear  uses  beveled  cog­
wheels.  with  a  shaft,  to  transmit  mo 
lion  from  the  crank  to the  driving wheel 
of  the  bicycle.  The  gearing  must  be 
placed  in  the  machine  with  perfect  ex­
actness.  The  front  and  rear  axles  with 
their  gear  attachments  should  lie  pre­
cisely 
in  the  same  plane  and  exactly 
parallel  with  each  other.  Any  failure 
to  do  this  will  result  in  strain  and  un­
satisfactory  work.  The  frame  construc­
tion  must  be  so  rigid  that  there  will  be 
no  spring  or  yield  under  the  strain. 
These  are  the  conditions,  admitted  to 
be  such  by  the  makers  of  the  chainless 
wheel,  which must  be  secured and main­
tained  in  order  that  the  bevel  gear  will 
be  a  success.  The  makers  say  that  all 
these  conditions  and  requirements  have 
been  met,  although  the  weight  of  the 
wheel  had  to  be  increased.

The  claim  is  made  that  with the bevel 
gear  there  is  no  “ back-lash,”   no  dirt, 
no  fear  of  broken  driving  mechanism, 
perfect 
lubrication  and  positive  and 
instantaneous  action  at  all  times.  But 
it  is  still  a  question  whether  the  rough- 
and-ready  riding  of  the  ordinary  bi­
cycler  will  not  so  strain  the  frame  as  to 
disturb  the  exactness  of  position  which 
seems  to  be  essential  to  the  easy  opera­
tion  of  the  bevel  gear.  However,  the 
bevel  gear at  last  is  here,  and  the  ver­
dict  of  approval  or  disapproval  will 
show  whether  the  sanguine  manufactur­
ers  made  a  paying 
investment  when 
they  put  8150,000  into  experiments  and 
machinery.  The  bevel  gear  wheel  will 
cost  $125;  according  to  wbeelmakers, 
twenty-four  out  of  twenty-five  chain 
wheels  next  year  will  sell  for 850 or less. 
This  difference  will  have  the  effect  of 
giving  the  intangible  attribute familiar­
ly  known  as  “ swellness”   to  the  chain- 
Itss  wheel,  at  any  rate.

The  Rascal  Won.

“ What’s  the  price  of  these  gloves?”  

she  asked.

“ A  dollar  and  seventy-five  cents,”  
said  the  clerk;  “ but  I ’m  afraid  we 
haven’t  any  small  enough  lor  you.  We 
can  order  an  extra  small  size,  how­
ever. ”

Ob,  these  will  do. 

I’ll  take  three 

pairs. ”

The  postmaster  general  of  Paris  has, 
according  to  recent  advices,  prepared 
a  bill  for  the  gradual  adoption  of  motor 
cars  and  omnibuses  by  the  postoffice 
for  the  use  of  carriers  in  the  delivery  of 
the  mail.

’Phone 1357.

Write for prices. 

THOMAS  DUNN  &   S O N S.

WHOLESALE

Hardware  Specialties,  Belting,

Engineers,  Machinists and 

Factory Supplies.

»3 PBABL8TRBBT. 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

AUdURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s..........................................
Jennings’, genuine  ... .......7.7.77.7.........25*10
Jennings’, imitation...............................  "«Milo

AXES

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.........................  5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...............  
y  =,
h irst Quality, s. B. S. Steel.............. 
'  ‘ ‘  5 go
First Quality, l>. B. Steel.........................'.  jq gy

' 

BARROWS

Kail road  .............................................#12  qo  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00

BOLTS

Stove .• • ......i....,,.,.,, 
... 
gfl&10
Carriage new list..  __ .7 7 .7 7 .7 .......   70 to 75
Plow...........................................
BUCKETS

Well,  plain...... ........................................... { 3 25

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured............   .. 
70*10
Wrought Narrow..............................7777..70*10

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

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS

CAPS

.per lb

perm 
per m 
per m 

55 
35
60

.50* 5 
.25* 5

Cast Steel.

g. o. 
Musket.

Rim Fire.  .. 
Central  Fire.

CARTRIDGES

CHISELS

Socket Firmer... 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket  Slicks__

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks.............. 
60
Taper and Straight Shank.........7.77........... 50&  5
Morse’s Taper Shank..........................7 7 .. 50* 5

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
i0
Corrugated..............................................  
.05
Adjustable.............................................. dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS 
Clark’s small, *18;  large, *26........ 
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, *24; 3, *30....................... .7.7 

30*10
25

FILES—New  List
New American..........................  
70*10
Nicholson’s.................................7 7 7 '!'  " 
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps........... .7777*. 7 . . .  eC&iO

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

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

. 

28
17

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 80&10

KNOBS—New List

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

70
so

MATTOCKS

NAILS

Adze Eye.....................................#16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00, dis  60*10
Uunt s......................................... ..  50, dis 20*10

.. 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire

Steel nails, base............................... 
j'gg
Wire nails, base..........................7 " ....7 7   1  75
30 to 60 advance....................... 7 7 7 7 7   "   Base
10 to 16 advance............... ..* ..7 7 7 7 7 7 ' 
05
8 advance................................. 7 7 . 7 7 ." 
10
6 advance.......................................................... 20
4 advance.................................7 7 7 .7 * * 7  
30
3 advance.................................7 7 7 7 7 . 
45
70
2 advance................................... 7 7 7 " . 7  
50
Fine 3 advance........................'..7 7 7 7 7 7  
15
Casing 10 advance............................7 7 7 7 . 
Casing  8advance..........................7 7 7 7 7  
25
Casing  6 advance........................... 777.77 
35
Finish 10 advance...................  
7 7 "  
85
Finish  8 advance....................... .7 7 7 7 7 . 
35
Finish  6advance...........................7.77.77 
45
Barrel % advance.........................7 "...........  
85

 

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s..........................  
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Mall’eabies!!! 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark's................ 
Coffee, Enterprise....................................... 7 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine............................... 77760&10
Enterprise, self-measuring...................  .... 
30

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench.............................................. 7  
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.................. 7 7 !  @50
Bench, first quality....................................... ’  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............ 
60

PANS

Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
70*  5
Common, polished.................................. 
ron and  Tinned  ........................................  
60
60
Copper Rivets and Bars..............................7. 

RIVETS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

‘A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
‘B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 
Broken packages %c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list....................... dis  SS;*
Hip’s  ...................................................... dit 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s.....................................di« u)*10
Mason's Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c lip. 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c 11» .40*10

HOUSE  PURN1SHINO  GOODS

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

HOLLOW  WARE

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20*10
Granite Iron  Ware........................ new ii’s't 40*10
Pot8.
.60*1
^e.tj leB..........................................7 7.' eo& 10
R id e rs......................................................... 60*10
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3.................................. dis 60*10
State......................................... perdoz.net  2 50
Bright................................................ 
go
Screw Eyes............................................. .77.  80
Hook’s......................................................... 
80
Gate Hooks and Eyes................ .7777.77  80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s...................dis  70
Sisal, 54 Inch and  larger.................... 
514
Manilla.......................................................7!  8
Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels 
Mitre...............

SQUARES

LEVELS

ROPES

SHEET  IRON

 

„ .   „  

com. smooth,  com.
#2 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

„  
Nos. 10 to 14....................................#2 7J 
Nos. 15 to 17............... 
2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21...............................  2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24...............................7  3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26..................................  310 
No.  27 ..........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
_  
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dig

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

70&10

WIRE

TRAPS

Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00
Steel. Game.................................... 
«n^n.
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s __
50
Oneida Community, Hawley *  Norton’s
Mouse, choker........................... per doz
15 
Mouse, delusion.........................per doz
1  25
Bright Market..........................
75
Annealed  Market..........................
Coppered  Market....................
?rurin
Tinned Market................................  
estll
Coppered Spring  Steel..........................
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .........
....  210 
Barbed  Fence,  painted................
....  1  80
HORSE  NAILS
An Sable........................................
dis 40&1C 
Putnam...................................
dis 
5 
Northwestern...............................
dis 10*10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
30
Coe’s Genuine..............................................  
50
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  ......... 
80
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 
so
Bird  Cages............................................. 
50
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
go
gg
Screws, New L ist..................................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
go
600 pound casks...........................................  
gv
Per pound....................................................

MISCELLANEOUS

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

a & a ............................................................  12%
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................# g  7g
14x201C, Charcoal......................................   g  rg
20x14 IX. Charcoal...................... 
700

Each additional X on this grade, #1.25.

 

 

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................   g 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................  
g no
10x14 IX, Charcoal.................. 
6  00
14x20 EX, Charcoal.......................................  6  00

 
Each additional X on this grade, (1.50. 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............................  6  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Alla way Grade............   4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Alla way Grado............   5  50
20x281C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00
.
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I ___ 
14x56 IX. for No.  9  Boilers! f Per P°und--• 
9

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 

TRADESMAN 
ITEMIZED 
LEDGERS

Wl

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.

2 4

MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

Telephone  Situation  in  Lansing,  Sagi-I 

naw  and  Flint.

Lansing,  Nov.  9—The  State line serv­
ice  between  this  city  and  Grand  Rapids 
is  steadily  improving,  and  many  users 
have  pronounced  it  better  than  the  Bell 
company.  An  incident  related  by  Man­
ager  f .   B.  Johnson,  of  the  Lansing 
Telephone  Co.,  will  please  Grand  Rap­
ids 
jobbers.  A  druggist  here  went  to 
the  Bell  office  to  call up a Detroit whole­
sale  house  to  order  some  goods  in  a 
hurry.  The  rate  to  Detroit  was  55 
cents.  He  considered  it  too  much,  went 
back  to  his  store,  called  up  a  Grand 
Rapids  jobber,  much  cheaper  rate,  got 
excellent  service,  goods  came  at  once, 
quality  and  prices  “ more  than  satisfac­
tory,’ ’ and now he  buys in Grand  Rapids 
rather  than  Detroit—difference  in  tele­
phone  rates  helps.

Another  “ independent”   phone  has 
been  put  in  the  Capitol,  in  the  Auditor 
General’s  office.  Manager  Johnson  of 
the  new  exchange  here  says  business  is 
growing  steadily  and  nicely.  He  is  pre­
paring  to  enlarge  his  switchboard,  and 
paint,  paper  and  generally  improve  his 
office.  His  company 
is  paying  2  per 
cent,  quarterly  dividends.  He  expects 
the  new  State  line  from  Detroit  in  a 
very  short  time,  which  will  connect  the 
independent  in  Grand  Rapids  and  De­
troit.

Saginaw,  Nov.  9—The  Valley  Tele­
phone  Co.  is  making  very  satisfactory 
progress  in  the  cities  in  this  region.  In 
West  Bay  City  the  external  work  is 
practically  done  and  all  the  inside  wir­
ing.  Switchboard  and  phones  for  this 
town  will  go  to  place  soon.  Central 
office  will  be  over  Babo  &  Edin- 
Dorough’s  store. 
In  B ay  City  the  con­
duits  are  finished.  Most  of  the  inside 
wiring  is  completed.  Some  cables  are 
“ drawn  in”   and  work  goes  well.  The 
Central  here  will  be 
in  the  Phoenix 
block. 
In  Saginaw,  E  S.,  the  con­
duits  will soon  be  finished,  when  setting 
of  poles  will  follow.  Here,  too,  inside 
wiring  is  well  begun. 
In  this  city  the 
Central  will  be  in  the  Eddy  building. 
Hon.  Orren  Bump,  President  of  the 
Old  Second  National  Bank  of  Bay  City, 
Treasurer  of  the  company,  states  that 
several  quite  large  blocks  of  stock, 
several  thousands  of  dollars  lots,  have 
recently  been  taken.  The  company  al­
ready  has  some  300  stockholders,  the 
general  plan  and  purpose  being  almost 
precisely  like  the  Citizens  Co.  of  Grand 
Rapids.  This  company  has  franchises 
in  Flint,  Midland,  Mt.  Pleasant 
also 
and  smaller  towns,  and 
is  plainly  a 
general  State  line  or  toll  line  system  of 
connections, 
it  will  connect  with  the 
“ thumb” —as  Tuscola,  Huron  and  San­
ilac  counties  are  called— system,  and 
with  Alpena.  The  company  and 
its 
patrons  are  anxious  for  a  speedy  com­
pletion  of  the  link  from St.  Louis,  Grat­
iot  county,  here,  so  as  to  connect  with 
Grand  Rapids. 

It’s  coming  soon.

Flint  Nov.  9—At  last  Flint  is  to  have 
a  new  telephone  company  with  lower 
rates  and  better  service  is  promised. 
Toll  line  service  to  “ all  the  rest  of  the 
world”   is  said  to  be  close  at  hand,  too, 
via  Detroit,  Lansing and  Grand  Rapids, 
with  full  metallic systems  at much  lower 
rates.  There  was  something  of  a  strug­
gle  over  the  situation,  two  weeks  ago, 
the  Detroit  -Mate  Line  Co.  securing  a 
franchise  of  the  Common  Council,  but 
the  Valley  Telephone  Co.,  of  Saginaw, 
Bay  City,  etc.,  appeared  promptly  on 
the  scene  with  men  and  material  and 
began  to  build  under  the  terms  of  a 
prior  ordinance granted  to J.  H.  McFar- 
lan,  of  this  city,  and  others,  and  now 
seems_ likely  to  have  no  interference 
in 
this  field.  Last  night  the  resolution 
which  was  presented  to  affect  the Valley 
Co. ’s  ordinance  was  unanimously  re­
scinded,  and  the  city  arranged  for a full 
supply  of  phones  with  the  Valley  Co. 
The  work  of  setting  poles,  putting  in 
inside  wiring,  etc.,  is  well  advanced, 
and 
is  hoped  to  open  the  Exchange 
here  by  Jan.  1.  The  Bell  Co.  attempted 
to  save  some  of  its  business  by reducing 
rates  to  $24  and $18—the new company’s 
rates—and  getting signatures  on  a  “ pe­
tition”   asking  for  the  reduction  and  in­
dicating  a  probable  continuance of serv­
ice 
if  reduction  be  granted,  all  next 
It  was  a  shrewd  move,  and  was
year. 

it 

quite  numerously  signed—the  Bell  Co. 
has  had  a  few  more  than  200  phones 
here.  Many  detected  what  they  called 
a  “ scheme”   in  it  and  refused  to  sign, 
saying  frankly  they  wanted  to  go  to  a 
new  company  as  soon  as  possible—they 
“ had  no  love  for  the  Bell.”   Others 
declare  the  document  was  distinctly  de­
clared  not  to  he  binding,  and  they  will 
ignore  it.  Others  have  ordered  their 
signatures  erased. 
It  was  intended  to 
cripple  the  new  company,  but  prompt 
action  of  the  Valley  Co.’s  friends  de­
feated 
for  Flint’s  business 
men  are  shrewd  and  loyal  to  home  in­
terests.  The  new  Exchange  here  is  to 
be  over  the  First  National Bank.  Flint 
is  anxious  for  a  connection  with  the 
new  exchanges 
in  Detroit  and  Grand 
Rapids,  for  that  means  all  the  balance 
of  the  country  pretty  soon.

its  plan, 

The  Purchasing  Power  of  Money. 

Written fo r the T r ad esm an.

The  less  the  amount  of  money  in  cir­
culation  among  the  masses  of people the 
more  valuable  it  becomes.  Its  purchas­
ing  power  increases  in  a  direct  ratio  to 
its  scarcity.  Thus, if  crops  of  all  kinds 
are  abundant  and  money 
is  scarce, 
every  producer  in  want  of  a little money 
is  willing  to  pay  more  for  it,  and  rela­
tively  the  price  of  produce  falls. 
If 
money  is  plenty  in  everyone’s  pocket 
the  community  consume  more  goods  of 
every  description,  and  also  of  the  better 
qualities  produced,  while  prices  then 
tend  upward  and  money  is  said  to  be 
cheap,  or,  rather,  its  purchasing  power 
is  less.

During  the  first  quarter  of  this  cen­
tury  money  was  scarce  and  food  was 
cheap.  Very 
little  gold  or  silver  was 
then  produced  on  this  continent  and  the 
price  of  food  on  the  whole  remained 
nearly  stationary  from  year  to  year, 
wheat  and  potatoes—the 
two  great 
staples—bringing  $1  per  bushel 
for 
the  first  and  twenty-five  cents per bushel 
for  the  second,  if  produced  anywhere 
in  the  Eastern  and  a  few  of  the  Middle 
States,  and  these  were  the  standard  by 
which  other  farm  products  were  valued. 
Nearly  every  person  is  better satisfied 
to pay  high  prices,  if labor  and  its prod­
ucts  are  equal,  than  otherwise.

it 

The  late  discoveries  of gold  in various 
places  on  the  globe  will  have a tendency 
to  cheapen  that  metal,  and  will  do  more 
toward  giving  the  world  a  gold standard 
than  all  essays,  lectures,  or  legislation 
upon  that  subject. 
It  will  be  remem­
bered  that,  during  the  late  discussion 
of  a  bimetallic  standard  for  the  world, 
one  of  the  strongest  arguments  was  that 
there  was  not  sufficient  gold  in  exist­
ence  to  admit  of  any  other.  Possibly 
that  difficulty 
is  to  be  overcome  in  the 
near future,and the  writer  hopes  it  may. 
Certain 
is  that  the  great  number  of 
tons  of  that  precious  metal  which  is 
sure  to  be  placed  upon  the  world’s  mar­
kets  must  tend  toward  cheapening  it, 
and  therefore  make 
it  possible  for  a 
single  standard  of  value  for  the  world. 
Both  the  natural  and  artificial  wants  of 
mankind  have  really  increased  beyond 
the ability  of  persons  in  ordinary  cir­
cumstances  to  supply.  But  a  compen­
sating  balance  is  found  in  the  inventive 
genius  of the age to cheapen those wants, 
making  it  possible  for  the  day laborer to 
procure  more  and  better  food  and  cloth­
ing  for  even  less  money  than  formerly. 
Agricultural  products  are  quadrupled 
by  the  aid  of  machinery  and  science 
has  apparently  perfected  their  quality 
and  beauty. 
In seme  parts  of  the  world 
the  purchasing  power  of  money  is  still 
greater  than  ours  and  one  may live com­
fortably  on  a  sum  which  would  seem 
trifling  in  America. 
In  the  present  age 
it  is  not  our  real  necessities  which  cost 
us  the  greatest  amount  of  effort  or  cash,

in  which 

improvements 

but,  disguise 
it  as  we  may,  it  is  our 
cultivated  or  artificial  wants.  These 
cost  us  fully  double  the  amount  of  the 
real,  and 
if  they  tend  to  our  happiness 
—which  is  doubtful—they  also  cause  us 
much  suffering.  There  seems  only  one 
way  to  rid  ourselves  of  this  expense, 
and  that  is  a  fraternal  co-operative  so­
ciety  of  both  sexes.  This  would strangle 
the  hydra-headed  monster—artificial 
want—forever.  Who  will 
immortalize 
themselves  by  taking  the  initial  steps 
in  this  organization?  The  present  may 
properly  be  called  a  highly 
intellectual 
age, 
in  all 
fabrics,  in  every  art  and  every  mechan­
ical  and  agricultural  device,  are rapidly 
being  made.  Automatic  machinery  not 
only  accomplishes  the  labor  of hundreds 
of  men,  but  produces  every  article  as 
nearly 
is  possible.  Even  the 
propelling  power  is  cheapened  as  never 
before.  The  pound  of  nails  we  paid 
10  cents  for,  half  a  century  ago,  are 
in 
no  way  comparable  to  the  stronger,  bet­
ter,  and  really  beautiful,  round  steel 
nails  we  pay  2]/2  or  3  cents  a  pound  for 
to-day.  A  friend  said  to  me,  “ There 
are 
actually  more  and  better  nails 
wasted  to-day  than  were  then  used.”  
Saving  is  now  almost  an  obselete  word 
and  the  definition  of  extravagance  has 
doubled 
in 
daily  use  have  seemingly  attained  the 
very  acme  of  perfection ;  and  yet  time 
may  refute  the  assertion,  for  there  are 
no  bounds  to  improvement.

in  power.  Many  articles 

like  as 

F r a n k  A.  H o w ig.

The  Show  Case  and  the  Window. 
Correspondence Hardware Dealers’  Magazine.

W A N T S   COLUM N.

A d v ertisem en ts  w ill  be  in serted   under  th is 
head  for  tw o   cen ts  a  w ord  th e   fir s t  insertion 
and  one  cen t  a  w ord  for  each  subseq uen t  in­
sertio n .  No ad vertisem en ts tak en  for le ss th an  
25 cen ts.  A d van ce  p aym en t.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

421

HYSICIAN  WANlEu—GOOD  LOCATION; 
first-class farming community.  For  partic­
ulars address Box A, Burnip’s Corners, Mich.
424
IT'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—STORE  AND 
dwelling  combined, at  McCord  Station,  on 
D., G.  It.  &  W.  R. ft.;  good  well  In  house:  cis­
tern, new horse barn, etc.  Store  finished  ready 
for  goods.  An  excellent  point  for  business. 
Price,  $700—a  bargain.  Address  Dr.  L.  E. Has- 
kin, McCord, Mich. 
ANTED—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS  OR 
general  merchandise  for  Northern  In­
diana, Illinois and Iowa improved farms.  Have 
buyers  for  general  stores,  and  stores  for  sale. 
Address No. 419, care Michigan Tradesman.  419
il'OR SALE—CLEAN STOCK OF HARDWARE 
in A1 shape and full set  tinner’s  tools;  best 
town in  Michigan  and  best  farming  country  in 
the State.  Excellent chance  to  engage  iu  the 
hardware  business;  reason  for  selling,  other 
business.  Address  No.  417,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
417
il'OR RENT—OWING TO DEATH, THE  BEST 
equipped  hardware  store  in  Michigan;  old 
established  stand;  good  location  iu  one  of  the 
best  farming  and  manufacturing  towns;  low 
rent.  Address  No.  418,  care  Michigan  Trades 
man. 
\ y  ANTED— GOOD  DRY  BEECH  AND  MA- 
v V  pie 16-iuch block wood, not less than  two- 
thirds  hard  maple.  Price  on  cars at shipping 
point.  A. Hyde, 860 Madison  Ave., G-and  Rap­
ids,  Mich. 
VST ANTED—BUTTER  ANITegGS.  IF~YOU 
» v  want good prices and quick  returns  w  ite 
us.  Lunn <& Strong, Toledo, Ohio 
\ \ T  ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
"   retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
IpOR  EXCHANGE—A  WELL ASSORTED 
drug stock that  wi 1  invemorv  $1,200  for  a 
stock of  groceries.  Addre>s  J o h n   <Ji  o p e r ,  340 
Woodworth avenue. Grand Rapids  Mich  366 
IAOR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
-»-  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
TI7ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
t t  daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca. Mich. 

402

349

381

411

ns

73

The  most  attractive  store  is  the  one 
where  all  the  goods  are  in  show  cases 
on  the  counter  or  behind  glass  doors. 
The  druggist  and  contectioner  fully  ap­
preciate  this  and  the  arrangement  of 
their  wares  therein  is  usually  very  at­
tractive. 
If  the  hardware  dealer  con­
siders  a  show  case  necessary  at  all,  he 
usually  covers  the  bottom  of 
it  with 
green  baize  and  promiscuously  scatters 
over 
it  most  of  his  stock  of  pocket 
knives,  razors  and  carving  sets.  But 
even 
in  the  hardware  store  the  show 
case  may  be  made a  1 ‘ thing of beauty. ’ ’ 
Halfway  between  the  top  and  the  bot­
tom  of  the  show  case  suspend  a  glass 
shelf.  Cover  the  bottom  of  the  case 
and  the  top  of  the  shelf  with  yellow 
crepe  paper  or  cotton  crepe.  Procure 
some  glass  dishes,  not 
less  than  five 
inches  in  length,  and  of  any  convenient 
shape,  but  have  them  all  alike.  Polish 
the  glass  until  every  particle  of 
it 
shines.  Place  these  on  the  bottom  of 
the  case  in  uniform  order and  fill  each 
one  neatly with  some  class  of  goods  car­
ried  in  stock.

the 

Have  neatly  printed  price  tags  on 
each  article.  On  the  shelf  place  the 
cutlery.  Put 
it  in  so  as  to  form  a  dia­
mond  or  heart,  or  some  other  fancy  fig­
ure,  or  put  light  handled  knives  in  one 
group  and  dark  handled  in  another,  or 
better  still  put those  of  a  price together. 
Whatever  you  put  in  the  case  put  it 
in 
in  anything  but  a  haphazard  manner.

A good  advertising  show  window  may 
be  made  by  building  back  a  platform 
from 
lower  part  of  the  window. 
This  platform  should  be  raised  several 
inches  at  the  rear,  so  as  to  give  a  good 
slant  toward the street.  Cover  the  boards 
neatly  with  red  crepe  tissue  paper.  On 
this  ground  work  of  tissue  paper  use 
tacks,  nails or any  similar  small  articles 
carried 
in  stock  to  form  letters.  Let 
the  words  thus  worked  out  tell  some 
story  to  the  passerby. 
It  may  be  win­
ter  season  and  the  tacks  might  be  made 
to  tell  that  the  advertiser  had  skates 
from  50  cents  to  $2  per  pair,  or  that 
sleds  are  from  50  cents  upward.  The 
advertisement  should  be  changed  at 
least weekly,  so  that  people  would  come 
to 
in  at  the  window  to  see  what 
bargains  are  offered.  The  bright  steel 
of  the  tacks  against  the  background  of 
red  paper  makes  a  charming contrast.

look 

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

U'RKE-OCR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT 
J?  ents  Ciiley  &  A’lgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 
339

MISCELLANEOUS.

\ \ 7  ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
f i   pharmacist.  Best of references furnished. 
Address No. 427,care Michigan Tradesman.  427 
iy A N T E D —AFTER  DECEMBER  1 
r-Oal- 
* » 
tion  by  experienced  shoe  salesman in re­
tail store.  Have had  twelve  years’  experience. 
Can  furnish  best  of references.  Address  No. 
428, care Michigan Tradesman. 
X \T ANTED—SALESMEN  WHO  VISIT  GRO- 
”   cers  and  creameries  to  handle  good  side 
line  on  liveral  commission.  Address  No.  425, 
care Michigan  Tradesman. 
V lf ANTED  —  REGISTERED 
ASSISTANT 
v v  pharmacist.  Address  Lock  Box  50,  Lake 
Odtssa,  Mich 
VyANTED—SITUATION  AS  SALESMAN  IN 
vV  dry goods or  general store;  five years’ ex­
perience;  A!  references.  Address  No. .22, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

-.25

428

433

436

W i l l i a m   C o n n o r  “ we'“ . ’!
Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Thursday 
and  Friday,  November  11  and  12  for  the 
last time with winter samples from KOLB 
&  SONS,  of  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  Whole­
sale  Ready  Made  Clothing  Manufactur­
ers.  All jobs will be closed at a sacrifice.
Customers’  expenses  allowed,  or  Mr. 
Connor  will  wait  upon  any  retail  mer­
chant with his samples  if  you  write  him 
at  his permanent  address,  Box  346, Mar­
shall,  Mich.

THE  O RIGINAL

THE  B E S T

THE  ONLY

PETTIJOHrS  BREAKFAST  FOOD

Has the “ Bear** trade-mark on every  package. 
All Grand Rapids jobbers have fresh-made stock.

T r a v e le r s ’  T im e   T a b le s .

CANADIAN p“ "kR*"w*'-

DETROIT. Grand Rapids & Westers.

doing to Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids......  7:00am  1:30pm  5:35pir
Ar. Detroit.................  11:40am  5:40pm ^0:20pxr

Returning from  Detroit.

Ly. Detroit...................  8 00am  1:10pm  6:10pir
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......  1:00pm  5:20pm  10:55pir

Saginaw,  Alma and  Greenville.

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

Geo.  DeHaven.  General  Pass. Agent.

f l O A   V f n   Trunk Railway System
^  IV aV I  y mJ   Detroit and Milwaukee D1y

(In  effect  October 3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am.  Saginaw,  Detroit  and  East..t 9:55pm
tlU:10am......... Detroit  and  East.........t 5:07pm
t 3:30pm  .Saginaw,  Detroit and  East.. +12:45pm 
*10:45pm..  Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35aw
* 7:00am....Gd.  Haven  and  Int. Pts  ...*10:I5nm 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Interm ediate.t  3:22pm 
t   5:12pm....Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi....tlO:05am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No.  15 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

•Daily. 

E. H.  H u sh e s, A. G. P. & T. A. 
B en.  F le tc h e r, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J a s. Ca m p b e l l, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Detroit..............................til;45am  *11:35pm
Ar.  Toronto...........................  8:3Dpm 
8:15am
Ar. Montreal..........................  7;20am 
8:00pm

W EST  BOUND.

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

9:00pm
7:30am
2:10pm
D. McNicoli, Pass. Traffic Mgr . Montreal.
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids.

DULUTH, South  Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)+11:10pm  +7:45am
Lv.  Mackinaw City.................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace.........................  9:0 »am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie...............   12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:  0pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth............................................. 
8:30am

EA ST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth.............................................  76:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............................ 711:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette..............:.......  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste.  Marie...............  
.........
3:30pm 
Ar. Mackinaw Cliy................  8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  H i b b a r d .  Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass  Agt., Grand Rapids

T R A V E L

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F.  &  P.  M.  R.  R.

CHICAGO

A N D   S T E A M S H I P   L I N E S  

T O   A L L   P O I N T S   IN  M I C H I G A N

H.  F.  M O E L L E R ,   a .  g .  p .  a .

i Are you Goino

South?
Then  make
the trip over the famous 
Queen  &  Crescent Route.
Historic and scenic country 
en  route,  vestibuled trains 
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. 
Write for information to 
T
W. C.  Rinearsori,  Gen’l  Pass’r Agent,  X
Cincinnati, O. 
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oeranh  of  Lookout  Mountain  and  J
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Going to Chicago.

Muskegon.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv.  G.  Rapids................ 8:30am  1:25pm  *ll:30pir
Ar.  Chicago..................3:lopm 6:50pm  6:40an
Lv. Chicago................ 7:20am  5:15pm * 9:30pn
Ar. G’d Rapids............  1:25pm  10:3.pm  * 6:20an
Lv. G’d  Rapids..............  8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pn
Ar.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm..........  10:10ao
Lv. G’d  Rapids.........................  7:30am  5:0pm
Ar. Traverse  C ity ...................  12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Charlevoix...............  
3:15pm............
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 
p m.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPIN G   CARS.  CHICAGO.

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

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

Others week days only.

•Every  day. 

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

June  to,  1897.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 2 3’>pm  t 6 3 am
Cadillac....................................t 5:25pm +11:15am
Train leaving at 7:15 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving  at 2:30 p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrivt
Cincinnati..................... 
t  7:10am  t 8:25pn
Ft. Wayne................................7 2:00pm t  2-IOpc
Cincinnati............................... * 7:00pm  * 7:25m
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2 00 p.m .  train  has porlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Train*.

SOINS WEST.

Lv G’d  Rapids.............t7:35am  +1:00pm t5:40pir
Ar Muskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am +4:01pn
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5:2)pir

some bast.

tExcept Snnday.  »Daily.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

MINNEAPOLIS,

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)..................t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................................... 4:20pm
Ar. Gladstone....................... 
9:50pm
Ar. SL Paul...............................................  8:45am
Ar. Minneapolis........................................9:30am

 

EAST  BOUND.
 

Lv. Minneapolis.............  
76:30pm
A r. St. Paul.............................................   7:20pm
Ar. Gladstone............  ........................  .  5:45am
Ar. Mackinaw City.................................  11:0  am
Ar. Grand Rapids...................  ..............   10:00pm
W.  R. Callaw ay, Gen. Pass. Agt., Minneapolis. 
E . C .  O v i a t t , Trav. Pass.  Agt., Grand  Rapids.

 

Don’t  Qo  to  Klondike

to better your finan - 
cial  condition.  It’s 
not  necessary. 
If 
you  strike  the  key- 
n o t e  to  profitable 
a d v e r t i s i n g  your 
business will  thrive 
and  prosper  where 
you  are.  We  are

SPECIALISTS

Our  whole  study  is 
to  bring  merchant 
an 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 
Premiums.  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 10 x  to inches.  Two  mirrors  can  be  put 
in the door,  if wanted, one  facing  inside  and  one  out­
side.  The  lid  shown  at the bottom is  13 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 36 in.,  width te  in.,  depth 7 A   in.

STE B B IN S  MANUFACTURING  CO.

M e n t io n  T radesm an

LAKEVIEW,  MICH.

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.

|  They all say ~ 

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“It’s  as good as  Sapolio,”   when  they  try  to sell you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that  they are  only  trying  to get  you  to  aid  their :=3! 
new  article.

W ho  urges you  to  keep  S ap olio? 

 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi-  ^ 3  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose  —3  
very  presence creates  a  demand  for other articles.

Is  it  not  the ^

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.

We  have no trolley or tramway to 

handle.

We  have  no  cylinder  to  turn  for 

each  price per pound.

We  do  not  follow,  but  lead  all 

competitors.

We  do  not  have  a  substitute  to 

meet  competition.

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

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH  AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Bulk  workB''at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac,_Blg  Rap­
ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, Allegan, 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart, 
Whitehall,  Holland and FennviUe

Highest Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

Agents of other companies would 
not have to spend  most  all  ot  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  Stim pson  Com puting  S ca le  Co.,

ELKHART,  IND.

Represented  in  EasterrnMichiganJby 

R.  P. lBIGELOW ,

Owosso.

Represented  in  Western MichiganDy. 

C.  L.  SE N SE N E Y ,

Grand  Rapids.  Telephone  No.  ¿66.

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Have  Confidence

In  knowing  you  are  not  purchasing  cheap  and  inferior 
imitations.

These  curves  are  on  all  original  platform  Computing and Money Weight  scales 
made  by  us,  and  you  well  know  that  all  the  scales  we  make  are  leaders  in fineness, 
sensitiveness,  durability  and  profit  saving  powers.

Sixteen  different  sizes  and  kinds  for  all  uses,  and  all  are  of  our  celebrated 

Computing and  Money  Weight  kinds.

Recommended  by  over  35,000  merchants  in  this  country  alone.  We  were 
first  to  make  and  sell  practical  Computing  scales,  and  have  established  the  market 
and  demand  for said  scales.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Dayton,  Ohio.

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