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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  17,  1897.

Number  739

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.

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Sole  Manufacturers  of  “LILY  WHITE.” 
“Tbe  flour  the  best  cooks  use.”

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

For Example

Two  merchants  spend,  say  $300  a  year  (more  or 
less) for  advertising.  One pays  his  money  to  news­
papers,  etc.;  the  other  invests  his  money  in useful 
household articles and presents them to his customers, 
also offers them  as an inducement for new ones.  Each 
method  costs  the  same,  hence  one  merchant  can 
make no lower prices than  the  other,  unless  one  can 
increase  the  volume  of  his trade.  Our system will do 
this more  successfully than  any other yet devised.

We  have  no  contracts  that  require  you  to  sign 
away  your  rights,  as  under 
the  “trading  stamp 
scheme.”  We have been  building  Advertising  Spe­
cialties,  at  our  present  location,  for  the  last  eight 
years and our method of doing business shows that we 
give good service, and has built  up  for us a big list  of 
customers,  including  a  large  number  of Tradesman 
readers, many of whom have patronized  us for several 
years.

If you believe  in  Advertising  and  want. the  best 

results for your money, write us.

Order  sent  on  60  days’  trial  subject  to  your 

approval.  We want to send you our new catalogue.

STEBBINS  MANUFACTURING  CO.,

LAKEVIEW,  MICH.

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It is the general opinion of the trade that^the  prices  on

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

WOOLSON  SPICE CO.

A sk   our  salesman  to  show  you  our  line  of  samples.

MUSSELMAN GROCER CO., Grand Rapids.

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are manufactured by us and all  sold on  the same basis,  irrespective 
of  size,  shape  or  denomination. 
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Detroit.  Mich.

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

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

Premiums cannot be mailed  under any circumstances.

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

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

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Worden  Grocer Co.,  Wholesale  Agents.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  17,  1897.

Number  739

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feature 

Perhaps 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION,
The most  notable  characteristic  of  the 
week  has  been  the  continued  demand 
which  is  lessening  stocks  in  many  lines 
notwithstanding  the  tremendous  out­
put. 
is  more 
prominent 
iron  trade  than  any 
other.  Thus  the  output  of  over  213,000 
tons  weekly,  the  greatest  ever  known 
when  prices  were  so  low,  is  exceeded 
by  the  consumption,  which  amounts  to 
218,000  tons.  Perhaps  no  single  fact  is 
more  significant  than  this  of  the general 
improvement 
industrial  condi­
tions  of  the  country.  Then  the  same 
situation 
the  woolen 
goods  trade,  boots  and  shoes  and  in 
other  lines.

is  reported 

in  the 

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The  advance  in  wheat  noted  last week 
met  an  early  reaction  of  about  three 
cents  per  bushel,  to  be  again  followed 
by  a  gain  of  about  the  same. 
It  would 
seem  as  though  the  cereal  were destined 
to 
fluctuate  within  a  comparatively 
narrow  range  for  some  time  to  come. 
Movement  in  both  Western  markets  and 
for  export  continues  very  heavy.  Not 
withstanding  the  Government  report  of
1.900.000. 000  bushels  for  the  corn  crop 
the  price  advanced  1%  cents.

In  the  cotton  goods  trade  the  most 
discouraging  element 
is  the  continued 
low  price  of  the  white  staple,  which  has 
been  quoted  as  low  as  5.87.  The  con­
sequence  of  this 
is  that  sales  are  cur­
tailed  on  account  of  the  disparity  be­
tween  this  price  and  the  prices  of  man­
ufactured  goods,  notwithstanding 
the 
low  as  the  lowest 
latter  are  nearly  as 
record. 
last  when  the  lowest 
prices  were  quoted,  the  price  of  cotton 
was  two  cents  higher  than  now.

In  July 

In  the 

iron  trade,  as  noted,  the  en­
couraging  feature 
is  consumptive  de­
mand.  This  is  accounted  for by  the in­
crease 
in  business,  and  especially  by 
the  increased  earnings  and  traffic  of  the 
railroads.  A  single  order  for  cars  in 
Chicago  comprised  1,000.  Then, 
in­
creased  lake  and  sea  transportation  re­
quires  more  steel  for  ship-building  and 
structural 
forms  are  demanded  for  in­
creasing  city  business.  A  significant 
feature  of  the  situation  is  the  fact  that 
exports  and  imports—which  in  Septem­
ber,  1892,  were  about  equal  at  §2,500,- 
000—this  year  are  $4,935,464  for  the 
former  and  only  $875,557  for  the  latter 
for  the  corresponding  month.

The  price  of  wool  continues  without 
change  and  the  manufacturer  is  turning 
out  more  goods  than  at  any  time  for 
years,  with  orders  ahead  extending  into 
next  year.  The  shipments  of  boots  and 
shoes— 162,623  cases  in  two  weeks—are 
stated  to  be  the  largest  ever  reported, 
according  to  the  Shoe  and  Leather  Re­
porter,  and  exceeded  the  shipments  for 
the  corresponding  weeks  of  1892  by  27 
per  cent.

Since  Monday  of  last  week,  prices  of 
stocks  have  advanced  slowly,  but  the 
strength  shown 
is  not  at  ail  commen­
surate  with  the  general  conditions,  es­
pecially  as  to  railroad  earnings.  Bank 
clearings  for  the  week  were  heavy—
1.347.000. 000--10  per  cent,  more  than 
for  preceding  week.  Failures  were  un­
usually  numerous,  273,  against  223  for 
last  week.

It 

is  said  that  Spain 

is  greatly  in 
need  of  money.  She  has  a  large  family 
to  support,  bills  are  coming 
in  fast, 
and  collection  of  money  due  is  slow; 
and  just  now  Cuba  is  costing  more  than 
she  comes  to 
in  the  way  of  revenue. 
Spain  has  been  trying  to spank her;  but 
Cuba 
is  getting  to  be  a  big  girl  now; 
has  a  new  lover,named  Liberty,  and she 
rebels  against  her  mother’s  tyranny.

The  true 

inwardness  of  the  trading 
stamp  scheme 
is  disclosed  by  a  confi­
dential  circular  sent  out  from  the  head­
quarters  of  one  of  the  organizations,  in 
which 
is  stated  that  the  business  is 
enormously  profitable  because  less  than 
one-fifth  of  the  stamps  paid  for  by  the 
merchant  are  ever  presented 
for  re­
demption  at  the  trading  stamp  store.

it 

Luetgert, 

If  at  first  you  don’t  succeed,  try, 
try  again.”  
the  waiting 
sausagemaker,  says  he  has  been  tried 
enough,  and  he  has  no  sympathy  with 
the  blood-thirsty  district  attorney  who 
wants  to  try  him  again.

The  flags  to  be  hoisted simultaneously 
in  signaling  at  sea  never  exceed  four, 
but  with  eighteen  various  colored  flags 
in  combinations  of  fours  or  less,  78,642 
signals  can  be  given.

Hides,  Pelis  and  Wool.

Hides  are  an  uncertain  product  of  the 
market—not  enough  to  supply  the  de­
mand—and  prices  are  largely  governed 
by  the  condition  of  the  manufacturer 
and  his  disposition  to  anticipate  the 
future  by  obtaining  an  advance  on  his 
product.

Pelts  are 

in  good  demand  at  a  full 
value  as  based  on  the  wool  market,  with 
scarcity  predominating.

Wools  are  unchanged.  Holders  are 
not  free  sellers,  except  as  full  quota­
tions  are  obtained.

There  are  no  weak  spots  in  any  of  the 

above  lines. 

W m .  T.  Hess.

Put  Their  Feet  on  the  Head  of  the 

Serpent.

Port  Huron,  Nov.  15—Yes,  it  is  true 
that  all  Port  Huron  druggists  have  dis­
carded  trading  stamps. 
I  found  them 
a  continual  annoyance.  A  number  of 
my  patrons,  after  having  made  a  pur­
chase,  would  say,  “ Don’t  you  remem­
ber  my  being  in  here  a  couple  of  weeks 
ago?  At  that  time  I  made  a  purchase  of 
goods  and  received  no  stamps.”   This 
thing  got  to  be  a  confounded  nuisance. 
I  found  by  enquiry  that  all  the  other 
druggists  were  bothered  the  same  way. 
We  merely  got  together  and  agreed  to 
stop  giving  these  checks  to  any  one.
C h a s .  F.  H u e b e r .

The  Potato  Yield.

The  Michigan  crop  report for Novem­
ber  has  the  following  to  say  about  po­
tatoes :

Potatoes  are  estimated  to  yield  in  the 
State  64  per  cent,  of  an  average  crop. 
The  estimate  for  the  southern  counties 
is  60.  central,  63,  northern,  85,  and Up­
per  Peninsula,  96  per  cent.

The  Usual  Result.

Plankington—I  understand  that  you 
law  about  that  property 
left  you.  Have  you  a  smart 

had  to  go  to 
that  was 
lawyer?

Bloomfield—You  bet  I  have.  He

•wns  the  property  now.

Purely  Personal.

Corwin  F.  Miller,  of  Wolcottville, 
Ind.,  who  sold  his  drug  stock  a  couple 
of  years  ago,  has  re-engaged in business 
at  the  same  place.

Sidney  F.  Stevens (Foster,  Stevens  & 
Co.) 
left  Monday  night  for  Buffalo, 
whither  he  went  as  a  delegate  to  the an­
nual  convention  of  the  National  Hard­
ware  Jobbers’  Association.  He  was 
accompanied  by  his  wife,  who  will  im­
prove  the  opportunity  to  visit  friends 
at  Rochester,  which  was  her  former 
home.

The  recent  death  of  Prof.  Swensberg 
affords  a  striking  example  of  the  differ­
ence  between  preaching  and  practice. 
For  nearly  thirty  years  the  deceased 
conducted  a  business  college 
in  this 
city  and  daily  impressed  upon  his  stu­
dents  the  necessity  of  accuracy  and 
system 
in  every  department  of  life;  in 
tact,  he  came  to  be  regarded  as  almost 
a  monomaniac  on  the  subject  of  system 
in  all  the  ramifications  of  a  commercial 
career.  Yet  when  he  passed  away  it 
was  several  weeks  before  any  trace  of 
his  private  papers  could  be  found  and 
the  most  diligent  search  has  failed  to 
disclose  the  existence  of a  will  or  any 
writing 
indicating  the  disposition  he 
would  like  to  have  made  of  his  estate. 
His  stocks  and  chattels  have  gradually 
come  to 
in  the  most  deplorable 
stale  of  disorder,  carelessly  shoved  in 
the  pigeon  holes  of  several desks located 
in  different  parts  of  the  city,  like  so 
much  waste  paper  or  unpaid  invoices, 
showing  all  too  plainly that the deceased 
took  no  heed  of  his  own  counsel  and  in­
struction  in the conduct  of  his  own  busi­
ness.

light 

Wm.  J.  Murphy,  junior  member  of 
the  firm  of  Amberg  &  Murphy,  at  Bat­
tle  Creek,  is  about  as  slick  a  business 
man  as  there  is  in  the  State  of  Michi­
gan,  with the  possible  exception  of  Mil­
lionaire  Voigt,  the  Grand  Rapids  mil­
ler.  Some  two  or  three  years  ago  he 
purchased  a  brick  block  in  the  suburbs 
of  Battle  Creek,  which  did  not  prove 
as  profitable  an 
investment  as  he  had 
hoped  would  be  the  case.  Not  being 
able  to  sell  the  property  to  advantage 
and  rental  to  a  good  tenant  being  out  of 
the  question,  he  tendered  the  use  of  the 
premises  to  the  city  as  a  lodging  house 
for  tramps.  As  the  block  happened  to 
be  located 
in  a  residence  district  in 
which  a  large  number  of the houses were 
owned  by  one 
landlord,  a  violent  re­
action  naturally  occurred  and  Mr.  Land­
lord  received  notice  from  several  ten­
ants  that  they  would  vacate  the  prop- 
eity  forthwith,  unless  the  objectionable 
neighbor  was  removed. 
It  so  happened 
that  this  same  landlord  had  wanted  the 
brick  block  owned  by  Mr.  Murphy  for 
several  years,  but  bad  demurred  paying 
the  price  demanded,  in  the  expectation 
that  he  would  be  able  to  buy  it  at  a 
price  which  would  involve  considerable 
loss  to  the  owner.  The  notices  from 
his  tenants  impelled  him  to  make 
im­
mediate  overtures  to  Mr.  Murphy,  with 
the  result  that  the  latter  found  a  pur­
chaser  for  the  block  at  a  price  $500  in 
excess  of  the  price  he  had  been  asking 
for  it  prior  to  its  occupancy  by  the hobo 
wards  of  the  city.

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Cottons—Staple  cottons  show  no  sign 
of  working  into  better  shape  as  yet,  as 
business  in  all  lines  continues  pertunc- 
tory  and  transactions, 
including  any 
volume  of  merchandise  which  has 
been  reported,  have  usually  been  founu 
to  be  at  prices  which  have  been  clearly 
in  iavor  ol  buyers. 
In  brown  sheetings 
aud  drills  purchases have been restricteu 
to  moderate  proportions.  There  is  little 
in  the  way  ol  improvement  in  sight  as 
yet,  although  sellers  are  basing  some 
hopes  upon  the  advent  ot  Cold  weather, 
but  as  yet 
it  h«.s  had  little  effect  u, 
toning  down prevailing disappointments 
arising  from  the  recent  course  business 
has  taken. 
1 hese  conditions  tend  to 
make  the  market  an  easy  one  to  operate 
in  and  buyers  are  not  slow  to  avail 
themselves ot  the advantages which  they 
afford.

Ginghams---- These  goods  present
tempting  conditions  with  the  low  prices 
recorded.  They are  dts  rable  merchan­
dise  and  should  be  snatched  up  by  tin 
enterprising  retail  merchant. 
There 
have  been  fair  sales  for  spring  in  this 
class  of  goods  in  the  low  and  medium 
price  ranges.  Concerning  the  present 
stock  in  the  h  nds  of  the  retailer,  mail 
orders  from  them  have  been  very  light, 
and  there  is  absolutely  but  litile  dupli­
cating.

Printed  Fabrics—Despite  a  wedging 
market,  there  has  been  no  flinching  on 
the  jobbers'  part,  ami  they  s  mply await 
a  better  feeling  coming  iron]  the  retail­
er.  Mail  orders  art  so  light  that  tbeie 
is  a  chance  of  the  lowering  of  prices  in 
such  staple 
lines  as  indigo  blues  ano 
turkey  reds.  Glasgow  tepi rts  a  combi­
nation  of  three 
leading  “ turkey  red" 
firms,  which  has  naturally  caused  much 
comment.  The  gain  is  supposed  to  re­
dound  to  both  the  manufacturéis  and 
their  customers.  Reduction  of  internal 
expense  and  curtailing  competition  are 
to  be  motive  forces  in  producing  bene­
fits.

Hosiery—Cotton  hosiery  knitters  are 
fully  engaged 
in  turning  out  goods  for 
quick  delivery,  although  many  of  them 
have  already  shipped  sample  lines  for 
spring.  Medium  grades 
in  both  full 
lengths  and  half  hose  have  sold  well, 
with  some  manufacturers  reporting  the 
receipt  of  all  the  orders  that  they  can 
conveniently  take  care  of  for  some  time 
to  come.  Under  these 
influences,  ad­
vances  naturally  follow,  and  in  several 
instances  higher  prices  are  being  asken 
ever  those  recordtd  earlier  in  the  sea 
son.  This  feature’ is  liktly  to  be  still 
more  pronounced  in  the  price  situation 
on  heavy-weight  goods  and  manufactur­
ers  express  their  intention  of  following 
up  their  advantages.  Some  large  buy­
ers  are  already  seeking  to  place  con­
tracts  for  spring  goods  at  prices  based 
on  old  quotations,  hut  manufacturers 
display  considerable  caution  as  to  how 
they  accept  such  business,  and 
is 
if  much  success  has  attended 
doubtful 
the  efforts  of 
This, 
however,  tends  to  demonstrate  that  the 
better  posted  buyers  realize  that  higher 
prices  are  among  the  probabilities  and 
are  making  efforts  to  get  under  cover 
while  the  opportunity  lasts.

these  buyers. 

it 

Underwear— Worsted  underwear  man­
ufacturers  express  themsel.es  as  well 
satisfied  with  the  season’s  business  so 
far  as  volume  is  concerned,  but  prices 
will  have  to  show  still  greater  improve­
ment  to  put  business  on  a  profitable 
basis.  The  high  prices  of  yarns,  which

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show  considerable  advance  since 
the 
season  opened,  coupled  with  the  un- 
improvcd condition  m prices,  have made 
the  problem  of  realizing  a  proht  all  the 
more  difficult,  aud  in  order  to  come  out 
ahead  some  manufacturers  have  been 
compelled  to  lower  the  standard  of their 
products,  which  has  given  rise  to  com­
plications  ot  various sorts between buyer 
and  seller.

In 

it  were  offered 

Men’s  Woulens—Manufacturers  are 
perfectly  content,  as  they  hav'e  plenty 
nf  work  to  keep  them  busy  for  the  next 
ninety  days,  and  are  not  at  all  anxious 
to  take  any  more  business  at  present, 
even  although 
them. 
There  are  no  indications  at  all  of  early 
all  openings. 
leading 
manufacturers  say  that  they  will  not 
<-ven  have  their  samples  ready  until late 
in  December  as  they  are  taking  more 
pains  than  usual 
in  getting  out  their 
patterns.  Many  manufacturers  who,  a
couple  of  weeks  ago,  thought  that  they 
would  open  fail  lines  about  the  first ol 
December,  now  say  that  they  will  not, 
under  any 
circumstances,  show  any 
goods  uniil  January  15  or  February  1.

fact, 

the 

general  demand. 

Carpets—Most  mills  are  at  present 
Hastening  the  completion  of  their  sam­
ple  lu es,  ana  during  the  next  week  or 
ten  days  full  lines  for  the  coming  sea­
son  will  be  ready  for  inspection.  Lines 
so  far  completed  show  an  unusually  fine 
display  in  designs  and  they  would  gen­
erally  indicate  that  unusual  efforts  have 
been  put  forth  to  make  the  new  season 
a successful  one  both  in  design,  quality 
and 
As  regards 
prices,  there  stiil  exists  more  or  less 
uncertainty,  but  it  is  generally  conceded 
mat  higher  prices  must  prevail.  This 
is  made  necessary  by  the  increased  cost 
ot  wool  and  yarns.  But  just  how  much 
■ >f  an  advance  the  market  will  stand  is 
st  li  a  difficulty  that  confronts  manu­
facturers  and  which 
is  to  be  decided 
1 tter.  There  are  some  manufacturers 
in  every 
textile 
trades  who  are  disposed  to  accept  large 
contracts  at  the  opening  of  the  season 
at  prices  that  are  barely  profitable, 
chit fly  to  enable  them  to  start  up  their 
idle  machinery,  and  this 
is  now  true 
among  carpet  manufacturers.  Buyers 
are  not  slow  to  take  advantage  ot  such 
opportunities  when  they occur  and  some 
business  of  this  sort  has  already  been 
placed,  but  as  a  rule  these  are  found  to 
ne  small,  unimpoitant  mills  that  have 
little 
influence  upon  the  general  mar­
ket.  Some  ot  the  larger  manufacturing 
concerns  have  announced  advances  on 
iheir  product?,  varying 
per  yard,  to  take  effect  January  15.

line  of  the  various 

from 

Even  the  waterfalls  of  Switzerland 
seem  to  he  run 
in  the  interest of  the 
thrifty  Switzer,  as  they  flow  during  the 
tourist  season  and  strike  in  the  winter, 
when  they  are  little  needed,  and  when 
there  are  no  rich  strangers  to  view  their 
beauties.

A  Silk  Manufacturer’s  Way  of  Creat­

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The  story 

is  told  of  a  manufacturer 
who  when  on  the  verge  of  ruin,  was 
saved  by  the  kindness  of  a great actress. 
This  happened  many  years  ago,  ana 
the  manufacturer  was  one  of  those  in­
dustrious  inhabitants  of  the  old  city  of 
Lyons  whose  life  seems  to  have  been 
devoted  to  the  starting  of  new  styles, 
and  whose  ambition  was  to  keep  ever 
or.  the  move  the  kaleidoscope  ot 
fash­
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had  pinned  his  faith  on  a  certain  style 
and  color and  that  fashion  had  played 
him  false.  The  style  on  which  be  had 
calculated  for  success  failed  to  find  fa­
vor,  and  unless  he  could  create  a  de­
mand,  a  large  stock  which  he  had  pre­
pared  would  be  left  on  his  hands.  Not 
being  rich,  and  having  made  more  of 
the  goods  than  a  wiser  and more experi­
enced  merchant  would  have  permitted 
himself  to  risk  the  non-success  of,  in­
ability  to  sell  meant  financial  ruin  and I

the  shattering  of  the  foundation  of  his 
future  caieer.

A  bright  thought  occurred  to the over­
loaded  merchant.  Calling  on  one  of  the 
stars  i f  the  Haris  stage,  he  explained 
his  embarrassment  and  asked  that,  as 
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once,  and  the  demand  became  so  great 
that  all  of  the  stock  was  sold  at  a  good 
price,  not  only  saving  the  manufacturer 
from  ruin,  but  giving  him  the  nucleus 
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The  Ungallant  Question  of a Woman’s 

Age.

The  very  first  thing  that  the  women’s 
clubs  all  over  the  country  should  do 
this  fall,  after  they  get  reorganized  and 
settle  down  to  business,  is  to  start  a 
popular  subscription  to  build  a  monu­
ment  to  the  Georgia  judge  who  has  just 
fixed  the  legal  boundary  line  of  a  wom­
an’s  youth  at  65  years.  At  first  glance 
such  a  decision  might  not  be  thought  to 
be  of  great  importance. 
It  might  nat­
urally  be  supposed  that  a  woman’s  age 
was  a  three-cornered  secret  between 
herself,her mirror  and  the  family  Bible, 
and  a  matter of  little  interest  to  others, 
but  so  far  from  this  being  the  case  it  is 
a  question  concerning  which  the  world 
has  always  been  frankly  curious.  Men 
have  been  permitted  to  be  young  or 
old,  as  they  pleased.  No  one  has  ex­
pected  them  to  hide  their  honest  bald­
ness,  or  cover  up  their  grizzled  locks 
under  false  frizzes,  or  heroically  main­
tain  the  waist  measure  of  their  youth 
through increasing years and avoidupois. 
It  has  been  felt  that  age  could  not 
wither  or  custom  stale  their  infinite  and 
indestructible  charms.  With  women 
the  case 
is  entirely  altered.  We  are 
still  slaves  to  the  theory  that  a  woman’s 
fascination  depends  altogether  upon  her 
youth  and  that  age 
is  an  offense  for 
which  she  is  personally  responsible.

Of  course,  the  precise  time  at  which 
a  woman  becomes  old  has  always  been 
a  matter  of  debate.  Some  have  held 
that  her  youth  vanished  with  the  evan­
escent  roses  of  girlhood.  Others,  more 
diplomatic,  but  not  less  cruel,  have 
contented  themselves  with  saying  a 
woman  was  as  old  as  she  looked. 
In 
rural  and  unsophisticated  communities 
a  girl  who  is  not  married  when  she 
is 
25  is  stigmatized  as  an  old  maid,  and  is 
thought  to  be  old  at  30—an  age at which 
her  city  sister  begins  to  feel  that  she 
has  just  found  herself,  so  to  speak,  that 
she  has  thrown  off  the  gaucheries  of  the 
schoolroom  and  has  learned  enough  of 
the  game  of  life  to  play  it  with pleasure 
and  profit.  There  has,  however,  been 
no  definite  and  unimpeachable  author­
ity  to  which  a  woman  might  appeal  un­
til  this  Georgia  Daniel  came  to  judg­
ment  and  established 
important 
fact  that  a  woman  is  not  old  until  after 
she  is  65  years  of  age.

the 

The 

lawsuit  out  of  which  this  mo­
mentous  decision  grew  was  an  odd  one, 
in  which  two  unmarried  women,  aged 
42  and  43,  whose  little  farm  had  been 
mortgaged,  made  application  to 
the 
court  for  a  homestead,  on  the  ground 
that  they  were  aged  and  poor.  The 
lawyer  for  the  opposition  quoted  the 
dictionary  definition  of  aged—having 
lived  out  almost  “ the  time  allotted  that 
species  of  being,’ ’  and  he  held  that  if 
one’s  allotted  time  on  earth  was  three 
score  and  ten  she  was  not  aged  until she 
was  at  least  65.  The  judge  decided  in 
accordance  with  this  plea.  The  women 
lost  their  case, but  the  first  legal  bound­
ary  was  fixed  for  the  conservation  of 
youth  for  women.

It 

is  the  evangel  of  a  new  hope.  No 
longer  shall  we  approach  the  thirties 
with  shuddering  dread  and  feel  that  the 
forty  mark 
is,  as  the  good  old  hymn 
says,  the  boundary  line  between  God’s 
mercy  and  despair.  On  the  contrary, 
we  shall  even  go  rejoicing 
into  the 
fifties,  secure  that  we  have  another 
fifteen  years  of  irresponsible  youth  be­
fore  us  in  which  we  can  wear sailor hats 
and  baby  blue  ribbons  if  we  want  to.

MICHIGAN

in 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  this  decision  is 
only 
line  with  the  trend  of  modern 
civilization,  which  gives  to  women  a 
continually 
lengthening  span  of  life. 
Our  grandmother  felt  that  marriage  and 
motherhood  were  the  end  of  life.  She 
accepted  prematurely  the  privileges  of 
age.  A  decent  and  precise  black  silk 
was  her 
ideal  of  a  married  woman’s 
best  gown,  a  church  sociable  as  high  as 
her  aspiration  after amusement  soared. 
For  the  rest,she  was  a  looker-on  in 
life 
while  the  young  people  monopolized  its 
pleasures.  The modern woman feels  that 
marriage  and  motherhood  are  the  real 
beginning  of  her  life.  She  has  no  idea 
of  being  shelved,  but  intends  to  be  her 
husband’s  best  friend  and her children’s 
most  fascinating  companion,  so 
she 
interest  fresh  and  her 
must  keep  her 
heart  young 
in  all  that  is  going  on  in 
this  big,  busy  world.  She  knows  she 
can  no  longer  lay  claim  to  the  freshness 
of  girlhood,  so  it  is  a  matter  of  extreme 
importance  that  she  choose  her  frock 
with  care  and  discretion.  And she  does 
it.  She  belongs  to  classes  and  feeds  her 
mind  on  new  thoughts  continually.  She 
takes  physical  culture  for  fat  and  has 
her  wrinkles  massaged  out,  and 
it 
seems  probable  that  in  another  genera­
tion  the  woman  who  was  contentedly 
and  undisguisedly  old  and  who  strug­
gled  along  at  the  end  of  the  procession 
will  become  as  extinct  as  the  dodo.

After  all,  have  we  not  always  unnec­
essarily  glorified  youth?  We  exploit  it 
as  the  charm  of  charms,  yet  do  not 
immaturity  and 
ignorance  sometimes 
bore,  even  when  set  off  by  a complexion 
of  roses  and  lilies?  Do  scarlet  lips  and 
dewy  eyes  always  make  up  for  lack  of 
comprehension  and  sympathy?  Could 
we  exist  upon  a  steady  diet  of  veal  and 
baby  chickens,  or  even  of debutantes?

little  gray. 

Perhaps  our  having  made  such  a 
fetish  of  youth  in  women  is  a  sin  to  be 
laid  at  the  door  of  the  poets  and  novel­
ists. 
All  heroines  of  romances  are 
young.  Every  woman,  in  a  book,  who 
is  wildly,  unalterably,  unwaveringly 
adored 
is  of  such  tender  years  we  are 
forced  to  the  conclusion  that  only  bread 
and  butter  misses  can  inspire  a  hope­
less  passion.  No  novelist  would  dare 
come  out  and  make  the  flat  assertion 
that  his  heroine  was  30  and  beginning 
to  turn  a 
If  he  did  we 
should  reject  her,  and  refuse  to  have 
her  at  any  price,  for  we  are  joined  un­
to  our  idols.  Of  course,  these  juvenile 
heroines  never act  or  think  or  feel 
like 
any  girls  in  real  life.  The  kind  of  16 
and  18-year-old  girls  we  know—our own 
Mamies,  Nannies,  Susies  and  Sallies— 
are given to the most unromantic giggling 
and  whispering  over  two-penny  secrets, 
while  they  munch chocolate creams with 
their  friends  or  exchange  stick  pins 
with  equally  callow  youths.  They  are 
sure  that  their  hearts  are  broken  if  an­
other  girl  gets  more  favors  than  they  at 
the  german,  and  can  conceive  of  no 
tragedy  deeper  and  darker  than  a  badly 
fitting  gown.  If  there  was  ever  any  girl 
at  14  capable  of  the  deep,  passionate, 
self-abnegating 
love  of  Juliet,  if  there 
was  ever  one  at  18  possessed  of  the 
courage,  the  keen  insight,  the  wit  of  a 
Di  Vernon,  or  the  calm  philosophy  of  a 
Dorothea  Casaubon,  she  was  a  peach 
and  a  wonder,  who  has  no  success  in 
these  prosaic  days.

The  truth  is  the  romancers  have made 
a  combination 
in  books  that  does  not 
exist  in  real  life.  They  have  given  to 
the  beauty  of  youth  the  subtle  charm 
that  belongs  to  middle  age  and  that 
comes  of  the  knowledge  of  life  and  a 
sympathy  that  has  sounded  all 
the

It 

own  consciousness  she  is  still  young. 
The  world  holds  up  a  looking-glass  and 
cries  out,  “ See  your  wrinkles,  observe 
your  gray  hair.  A  woman  is  as  old  as 
she  looks." 
is  this  cruel  and  harsh 
judgment  the  Georgia  judge  has  set 
aside  forever. 
It  does  away  with  the 
ungallant  question  of  a  woman’s  age 
and 
always 
claimed,  her  right  to perpetual  youth.
D o r o t h y   D i x .

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from  her  cheeks. 

depths  and  shoals  of  the  human  heart. 
Many  a  woman  has  felt  that  her  real 
life  began  long  after  the  roses  of  youth 
had  faded 
Time 
and  experience  have  ripened  her  char­
acter,  as 
it  takes  not  only  the  golden 
summer  suns,  but  the  first  sharp  frost  of 
autumn  to  bring  out  all  the  pungent  fla­
vor  of  some  fruit.  She  knows  she  is 
better  worth  loving  than  ever before and 
that  the  love  she  can  give—that  is  the 
perfect  flower  of  all  the  golden  dreams 
of  youth  and  the  answer  to  the  heart’s 
deep  needs  and  tenderness— is  no  more 
to  be  compared  to  the  sentimentality  of 
18  than  is the  mighty  roaring  torrent  to 
a  babbling  brook.  Such  a  woman  is 
not  old,  no  matter  what  the  amount  of 
her  years.  She  can  never  grow  old  as 
long  as  her  affections,  her  interest,  her 
intelligence  keep  the  lamp  of  eternal 
youth  burning  on  the  altar  of her soul.

The  time  at  which  a  woman  grows 
old  and  at  which  the  world  thinks  she 
is  old  have  been  observed  to  greatly 
differ.  Sometimes  she  carries  the  merry- 
heart  of  a  child  with  her  to  the  very 
end,  but 
is  fond  of  gay  colors 
and  amusements,  if  she  wants  to  take 
up  new  studies  or  occupations  after 
society  has  decided  that  she  should  be 
relegated  to  the  chimney  corner,  she 
is 
the  laughing  stock  of  fools.  To  her

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

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Ann  Arhor— Sam  Biutach  has  opened 

a  new  cigar  store.

Mason — Hoyt  &  Son  succeed  Hoyt 

Bros,  in  the  groctry  business.

Elsie—Hamiou  &  Williams,  merchant 

tailors,  have  removed  to  ist.  Johns.

Moddersville— R.  W.Goouwm  has  tn 

gaged  in  general  trade  at  this  place.

JVliulauo— Matthews  Bros,  have  pur­
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St.  Johns—John  Ftirgharr  has  pur 
chased  the  meat  market  of  Frank  Wat­
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Hudson— Kirkup  &  Kest  will* shortly 
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dissolve  partnership 
business.

Elwell— I.  F.  Hilsinger  has  sold  his 
Slock  ot  general  merchandise  to  Chas. 
Apple,  ot  Ohio.

Goodrich— Frank  Haskell  and  Emer> 
Lyons  have  embarked  in  the  meat  Dusi 
ntss  at  this  place.

Ann  Arbor—Aug.  G.  Kiick  has
opened  a  grocery  store  at  206  East 
Washington  strett.

Sanilac  Center—Dr.  J.  S.  Little,  ol 
Downiugtou,  has  embarked  in  the  drug 
business  at  this  place.

Cedar  Spriugs— E.  M.  Smith  has 
in  connection 

opened  a  meat  market 
with  his  grocery  store.

Mears— W.  1.  Compton  has  purchased
interest  in  the  general 

M.  D.  Girard’s 
stock  oi  Compton  &  Girard.

Lansing—A.  Manusas,  of  Jackson, 
will  soon  open  a  confectionery  store  at 
220  Washington  aveuue  south.

Jackson—John  E.  May,  of  Syracuse,
N.  Y.,  has  purchased  Ih e  When  cloth­
ing  stock  ot  W.  S.  Peck  &  Co.

Jackson—Mrs.  A.  A.  Jankowski  has 
sold  her  grocery  stock  at  503  East  Main 
street  to  Fountain  &  Higgins.

Alma— The  Central  Clothing  Co.  ex­
lake  possession  of  the  double 

pects  to 
store  in  the  new  block  by  Nov.  20.

Chelsea— Milton  Augustas  and  Ed. 
formerly  of  Ypsilanti,  have 

Hines, 
opened  a  meat  market  at  this  place.
Grand  Haven— Klaas  Leuninga 

is 
reopening  another  meat  market  at  the 
corner of  Fourth  and  Fuiton  streets.

Henderson— Wm.  Palmer  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware'stock  of  Detwiler 
&  Son,  general  dealers  at  this  place.

Jackson—O.  C.  Leach  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  grocery  stock  at  115  South 
Jackson  street  to  E.  J.  Smith,  formerly 
of  Hillsdale.

Port  Huron—John  E.  Wolfstyn  &  Co. 
have  moved  their  clothing  stock  into 
the  store  builoing  on  Huron  avenue 
formerly  occupied  by  Chas.  Ross.

Breckinridge—C.  A.  Zubler  has  pur­
chased  of  his  brother,  H.  J.  Zubler,  the 
bicycle  and 
jewelry  business  and  will 
continue  the  same  at  the  old  stand.

Ludington— Tbos.  Ford has purchased 
the  meat  market  formerly  owned  by 
Archie  Brown  and  will  continue  same 
in  connection  with  bis  grocery business
Saugatuck—A.  B.  Bosman  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner,  John 
A.  Peters,  in  the  clothing  firm  of  Bos­
man  &  Peters,  and  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Lansing—George  O.  Young,  who  has 
been 
connected  with  Rouser’s  drug 
store  for  several  years,  has  resigned  his 
position  there  as  pharmacist  and  pur­
chased  the  M.  A.  Young  pharmacy.

interest 

Flint— Fred  E.  Ferguson  has  pur­
chased  an 
in  the  East  End 
grocery  store.  The  firm  name  has  here­
tofore  been  Stroh  &  Co.,  but  will  here­
after be known  as Stroh  &  Ferguson.

Durand—Swigert  &  Mead  have  em­
in  the  grocery  business  at  this 

barked 
place.

Petoskey— Barber  &  Son  and  Barber 
&  Sams,  druggists,  have  consolidated 
their  drug  stocks  and  will  continue  the 
ousiness  at  tne  location  of  Barber  & 
Son  under  the  style  of  Barber’s  Phar­
macy.

Traverse  City—John  J.  Brezina,  who 
has  been  located  on  the  corner  of  Union 
and  Seventh  streets,  has  leased  the  east 
in  the  Broscb  block  and  will  be 
»tore 
ready  for  business 
in  his  new  stand 
about  Dec.  1.

Hudson—L.  E.  Carmichael,  who  re­
cently  retired  from  the  firm  of  Car­
michael  &  Totten,  bakers  at  this  place, 
tias  removed  to  Tecumseh,  where  he 
will  embark 
in  the  bakery  business  on 
his  own  account.

located 

Port  Huron—Wm.  S.  Harper  and  A. 
G.  Smith  have  formed  a  copartneiship 
and  engaged  in  the  wholesale  and  retail 
cigar  business.  They  are 
in 
the  old  Mascotte  building,  on  the  cor­
ner  of  Huron  avenue  and  Butler  street.
East  Jordan—C.  S.  Dodge  has  closed 
out  his  stock  of  fruits  and  confection­
ery,  closed  up  his  tailoring  establish­
ment  and  will  go  on  the  road,  taking 
orders  for  a  city  tailoring  house.  He 
will  retain  his  residence  at  East  |ordan.
Ewen— Deer  are  very  numerous  about 
here  and  very  few  hunters  are  after 
them.  Hunters  from  Wisconsin  and 
Lower  Michigan  do  not  get  so  far  away 
lrom  home  as  this  town,  which  accounts 
for  the  excellent  sport  obtainable  by 
local  hunters.

Port  Huron—Moses  Michaels  has  ut­
tered  four  mortgages  on  his  clothing 
stock,  aggregating  §7,831.49, 
in  favor 
of  the  following  creuitors:  Moses  1. 
Scbloss, 
tru-tee,  §2,431.49;  Mrs.  Rosa 
Michaels,  §3,000;  Abram  Weil,  §1,800; 
Carrie  Weil,  §600.

Eaton  Rapids—Roscoe  Smith  has 
taken  a  position  on  the  road  with  Bur- 
gunder  Bros.  &  Co.,  of  Cleveland,  and 
will  sever  his  connection  with  Am- 
dursky's  dry  goods  and  clothing  store 
about  Dec.  I.  His  territory  will  be 
Southern  Michigan.

Lansing—Chas.  C.  Longstreet,  gro­
cer  at  this  place,  has  bten  sued  for 
§1,500  damages  by  the  local  emissary 
ot  the  trading  stamp  scheme.  He  is 
putting  up  a  strong  defense  and  has 
every  assurance  that  he  will  be  able  to 
knock  the  schemers  out  on 
the  first 
round.

Charlotte—Lamb  & 

Spencer  have 
formed  a  copartnership  with  their  head 
clerk,  Chas.  M.  Powers,  for  the  pur­
pose  of  opening  a  general  store  at 
Brookfield.  If  the  branch  establishment 
is  half  as  successful  as  the  parent  in­
stitution,  Mr.  Powers  will  never  have 
occasion  to  regret  his  action  in  form­
ing  an  alliance  with  two  such  royal 
gentlemen.

Port  Huron— About  two  weeks  ago 
Thomas  Brophy,  of  the  shoe  firm  of 
Brophy  Brothers,  lost  the  diamond  set­
ting  from  a  handsome  ring.  He hunted 
for 
it  until  he  was  weary,  but  without 
avail.  One  night  last  week  his  brother 
Charlie  had  a  realistic  dream.  He 
thought  that  he  was  walking  through the 
store and  saw  the  stone  imbedded  in the 
folds  of  a  rug.  He  reached  down  to 
pick  it  up  and  awakened.  The  dream 
made  an 
impression  upon  Mr.  Brophy 
that  he  could not  forget.  In  the morning 
he  made  a  bee  line  for the  store.  On 
entering,he  walked  over  to  the  rug,  and 
there,  where  he  had  seen  the  little  gem 
in  his  dream,  he  found  the  §150  dia­
mond.

Holland— The  new  store  of  W.  C. 
Walsh  has  been 
leased  by  A.  V. 
Loomis,  who  has  moved  to  this  city 
from  Oscoda  and  Au  Sable.  Mr. 
Loomis  is  a  jeweler and  will  continue 
in  the  same  business  here.

Schoolcraft—On account of poor health 
F.  J.  Bauer  has  decided  to  rttire  from 
business,  and  the  repair  shop  which  he 
Has  conducted  since  selling  his  stock  of 
boots  and  shoes  to  Hudson  &  Cairns, 
will  be  conducted  by  his  father,  Jacob 
Bauer,  who  will  take  charge  at  once. 
Mr.  Bauer  will  leave  next  week  fur  La 
Hunta,  Colorado.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Beaverton—Ross  Bros,  are 

cutting 

40,000  shingles  per  day.

Cold water—W.  H.  Scott,  of  Colon, 

has  opened  a  new  harness  shop.

Coldwater— The  Tappan  shoe  factory 
is  now  m  operation,  employing  seventy 
bands.

Alto—Stone  &  Layer  are  erecting  an 
elevator  and  will  handle  grain,  beans 
and  produce.

Port  Huron—R.  M.  Campbell has em­
barked  in  the  manufacture  of  carriage 
bodies  on  a  large  scale.

Grand  Ledge— F.  J.  DeWitt  has  pur­
chased  B.  W.  Courts’  sbiitmaking  outht 
and  will  continue  the  business.

Coldwater— W.  A  Coombs,  who  oper­
ates  a  flour  mill  at  this  place,  recently 
receivtd  an  order  from  Glasgow,  Scot­
land,  fur  sixteen  carloads  of  flour.

Belditig—J.  W.  Provoncbe, 

for  a 
long  lime  foreman  at  the  Welch  Casket 
factory,  at  this  place, 
is  perfecting 
plans  to  establish  a  similar  enterprise 
at  Gowen.

Montague—I.  S.  Calkin has  purchased 
the 
interest  of  the  Geo.  E.  Gardiner 
estate  in  the  firm  of  Gardiner  &  Calkin 
and  is  now  sole  owner  of  the  Montague 
roller  mills.

Covington —This  new  station  on  the 
D.,  S.  S.  &  A.  Railway  will  be  an  im­
portant  one  this  winter  as  a  shipping 
point  of  wood.  Thousands  of  cords  arc 
already  contracted  for.

Bay  City—Green  &  Braman  are  run­
ning  their  m.ll  12J£  hours  daily  and 
have  sold  ti.ooo.oco  feet  of  lumber  dur­
ing  the  last  sixty  days.  They  have  no 
unsold  lumber  on  their  docks.

Charlotte—Wm.  Brakel,  of  Kalama­
zoo,  will  embark  in  the  cigar  manufac­
turing  business 
the  Jacob  Jackie 
building,  associating  with  him  as 
partner  Junior  Smith,  of  Bellevue.

in 

Alpena— There  have  been  shipped 
from  Alpena  this  season  107 931,000 feet 
of  lumber,  8  747,000  shingles,  2,869,000 
lath,  658,830 cedar  posts,  652,830  rail­
way  ties  and  11.948  telegraph  poles.

Traverse  City—The  mill  of  the  Trav­
erse  City  Lumber  Co.  has  been  started 
up  to  cut  out  a  few  hundred  thousand 
feet  of  elm  for  Harrison  Bros.,  lumber 
inspectors  of  this  city,  who  have bought 
up  considerable  elm  in  the  vicinity  of 
Lake  Ann.

Dundee—The  old  paper  mill,  which 
has  been 
iole  for  the  past  five  years, 
was  purchased  last  week  by  Meader  & 
Son,  of  Middleton,  Ohio,  and  work 
commenced  at  once  to  refit  it  for  the 
manufacture  of  straw  board  and  flour 
sack  paper.

Saginaw—The  Welch  &  Carey  Manu 
facturing  Co.,  which 
last  spring  pur­
chased  the  extensive  plant  foimerly  oc­
cupied  by  the  Fiege  Desk  Co.,  has 
placed  some  new  machinery  in  position 
and  will  remove 
its  plant  from  Reed 
City  to  this  city  during  the  holidays.
It  will  manufacture  hardwood  flooring 
and  box  material  and  will  employ 
seventy-five  hands.

Manton— Truman  Bros,  have  leased 
the  Bentley  sawmill,  eight  miles  west 
of  this  place,  and  will  operate  the  mill 
to 
its  full  capacity  in  connection  with 
their  shingle  mill  during  the  winter.

Cadillac— Paul  Johnson  &  Co.  have 
begun  overhauling  their  mill  at  Put­
man’s  Siding,  preparatory  to  renewing 
operations  in  sawing  hardwood  lumber. 
The  lumber  cut  by  the  firm  last  season 
has  nearly  all  been  disposed  of  at  satis­
factory  prices.

Montague—Emil  Lehman  has  pur­
chased  Theodore  Meir’s  interest  in  the 
potato  crate  factory  and  will  continue 
the  business  alone.  Mr.  Lehman  will 
make  some 
in  the  mill 
the  coming  winter  and  saw  hemlock 
lath  for  a  time.

improvements 

Coldwater—A.  L.  Harlow  has  sold  a 
half-interest 
in  his  patent  paper  sack 
holder  to  Charles  Ames,  of  Jackson, 
and  the  two  have  organized  the  Up- 
to-date  Sackholder  Co.,  and  will  begin 
the  manufacture  of  the  holders  at  Jack- 
son  inside  of  a  month.

Gaylord— David  Ward,  who  is  lum­
bering  fifteen  miles  southwest  of  this 
place,  has  sixty-six  men  in  camp.  The 
timber  will  be  cut  on  the  line  of  his 
railroad,and he  will  operate  moderately, 
as  he  is  waiting  for  higher  prices  be­
fore  cutting  extensively.

Jackson— The  Jackson  Light  &  Power 
Co.  reports  net  earnings  for  October  of 
§2,382,  in  comparison  with  §2,269  f°r  a 
similar  period  last  year.  For  the  eight 
months  of 
its  fiscal  year  the  company 
earned  net  $13,713,  an  increase  of  over 
11  per  cent,  for  the same  period in  1896.
Alpena— When  the  sawmill  of  Albert 
Pack  finishes 
its  work  this  season,  it 
will  be  dismantled  and  in  its  place  will 
be  erected  a  large  paper  mill.  Fletcher 
&  Sons  are  also  to  erect  a  large  wood 
pulp  mill  during  the  winter,  which  is 
to  furnish  material  for  the  paper  mill. 
Albert  Pack  will  not  quit  lumbering  at 
Alpena.  He  will  take  out  the  machin­
in  the  mill  to  be  dismantled  and 
ery 
such  of 
it  as  can  be  used  will  be  put 
into  the  Huron  mill,  which  has a supply 
ot  timber  for  six  or  eight  years.

contain  caution 

Detroit— It  has  been  reported  to  the 
Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue  that 
local  manufacturers  of  tobacco  are  dis­
playing  for  advertising  purposes 
in 
their 
show  windows  "dummy  pack­
ages”   resembling  packages  of  smoking 
and  fine-cut  chewing  tobacco.  These 
packages 
labels  as 
well  as  paper  strips  in  semblance  of 
internal  revenue  stamps  denoting  the 
payment  of  tax.  The  Commissioner  has 
made  a  ruling  on  the  matter  in  which 
he  states  that  there  is  no  specific  law 
or  regulation  on  this  subject;  therefore 
the  display  of  these  packages  is  not  in 
contravention  of  the  law,  or  prohibited 
by  any  regulation  or  decision  of  the  de­
partment.  He,  however,  doubts 
the 
propriety  of  using  packages  of this kind 
for  the  purpose  of  advertising  goods. 
He  adds:  “ The  appearance  of  such 
in  show  windows  of  dealers 
packages 
occasions  enquiry  and 
inspection  of 
revenue  officers  on  account  of  their  re­
semblance  to  regular packages,  and  dis­
continuance  of  the  practice  is  advised. 
Where  caution 
labels  have  been  used, 
which  under  the  statute  are  especially 
applicable  to  each  package  containing 
tobacco  or  snuff,  and hence  by  inference 
not  applicable  to  shavings,  sawdust, 
etc.,  manufacturers  are  advised  to  at 
least  omit  the  caution  notice  from  such 
packages.' ’

Phone  Visner for  Gillies  N.  Y.  teas,

all kinds,  grades and prices.

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Qrand  Rapids  Gossip

McIntyre  Bros  are  succeeded by  Mrs. 
Ellen  A.  McIntyre  in  the  cigar business 
at  45  Pearl  street.

J.  P.  Gleason  has  removed his jewelry 
stock  from  Holland  to this city,  locating 
at  223  South  Division  street.

Jos.  Flanders  has  opene  d  a  grocery 
store  at  Charlevoix.  The  Clark-Jewell- 
Wells  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Ulysses  McCollum,  grocer  at  305 
Broadway,  has  sold  his  stock  to  Edwin 
S.  Pew.  formerly  night  clerk  at  the 
Morton  House.

C.  C.  Stocking  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  the  corner  of  Palmer  and  Coit 
avenues.  The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  fur 
nished  the  s ock.

A.  Centilli  and W.  Clines have formed 
a  copartnership  under  the  style  of  Cen­
tilli  &  Clines  and  will  open a meat mar­
ket  about  Nov.  23  at  69  Hovey  street, 
corner  of  Gunnison  street.

Sikkema  &  Mohrhardt,  meat  dealers 
at  561  Cherry  street,  have  purchased 
the  meat  market  of  C'nas  Gildner,  cor 
ner  East  Fulton  and  Lagrave  streets, 
and  will  conduct  both  markets  here­
after.

M.  J.  Vanderveen,  formerly  eneaged 
in  the  grocery  business  on  Madison 
avenue,  has  opened  a  new  store  on West 
Leonard  street  under  the  style  of  the 
Cheap  Cash  Grocery.  The  Olney  & 
Judson  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Geo.  H  Kinland  &  Co.  have  sold 
their  grocery,  meat  and  provision  stock 
at  nói  and  1163  South  Division  street 
to  Hubbard  &  Co.,  who  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location  Kirt- 
land  &  Co.  will  continue  the  dry  goods 
and  notion  business  at  1159  South  Di­
vision  street.

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Light  Co. 
reports  net  earnings 
for  October  of 
$12,917,  in  comparison  with  $11.730  in 
1896.  an 
increase  of  over  to  per  cent. 
For  the  ten  months  of  the  fiscal  year  a 
per  cpnt.  is  shown,  the 
gain  of  over 
net  earnings  amounting 
to  $99.817. 
against  $93,605  last  year.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  at  Retail  Grocers’  Hall  Tuesday 
evening,  Nov.  16,  President  Dyk  pre­
sided.
W.  T.  Newton,  grocer  at  290  Grand - 
ville  avenue,  applied  for  membership 
in  the  Association  and  was  accepted.

Secretary  Klip  presented  a  communi­
cation  from  W.  E.  Godfrey,  Secretary 
of  the  Cleveland  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation,  detailing  the  methods  pursued 
by  the  grocers  of  Cleveland  to  secure 
the  successful  operation  of  the  sugar 
card,  as  follows :

In  the  first  place-the  wholesalers  must 
be  interested.  Thev  must  he  made  to 
see  that 
is  to  their  interest  to  have 
their  customers  make  money  on  the 
goods  they  sell,  thereby  increasing  their 
chances  of  getting  their  own  pay. 
If 
the  matter  is  properly  presented  to  the 
jobbers  they  will  take  such  interest  in  a 
uniform  sugar  card  that  arbitrary  gro­
cers  who  refuse  to  abide  bv  the  same 
will  he  given  to  understand  (as  a  last 
resort)  that  failure  to  comply  with  the 
requirements  of  this  card  price  will 
mean  that  they  cannot  obtain  further 
supplies  of  sugar.  This  ultimatum  as 
last  resort  will  only  have  to  be  ap­
a 
pealed  to 
in  aggravated  cases.  Gen­
erally  speaking,  the  jobbers  and  their 
salesmen  have  sufficient  influence  with 
their  customers  to cause  them,to  desist

it 

is 

from  the  ruinous  practice  of  cutting 
prices  on  a  line  of  goods  so  staple  as 
sugar.

1 he  first  step  for  grocers  to  take  is  to 
organize.  When 
it  can  be  shown  that 
organization  puts  money  into  the  gro­
cers  pockets  the  task  of oigatiization 
is  more  than  hdif  accomplished.  The 
social  features  of  an  association  are  not 
sufficient  to  bind  businessmen together, 
but when  it can be shown  that  if  the  gro­
cers  will  adhere  to  one  selling  price  on 
sugar,  such  as 
lived  up  to  in  this 
citv,  it  means  a  saving  of,  to  the  g>o 
cers  of  Cleveland,  one  hundred  thou­
sand  dollars  a  year,  there  ought  to  be 
little  trouble  in  getting  the  trade 
inter 
ested.

Once  organized,  have  the  President 
of  your  Association  appoint  a  Sugar 
three  members, 
Committee,  say 
wnose  duties 
it  will  he  to  at  all  timer, 
consider  the  situation  carefully,  to  issue 
a  card  by  which  the  different  grades 
shall  be  sold, 
leaving  the  matter  of 
profit  wholly  to  their  judgment,  and 
vest  in  them  absolute  powers  relative  to 
the . sale  of  sugar  and  the  maintenance 
of  the  card  price.

of 

should  be 

When  it  is  reported  that  some  dealer 
is  deviating  from  the  established  price, 
immediately  visited 
he 
either  by  some  member,  or  all 
the 
members,of  the  Sugar  Committee,  or  b\ 
the  chairman  of  the  Grievance  Com­
mittee,  who  will  attempt, 
in  c< ncd 
istory  1 tnguage,  to  show  the  offender 
the  senselessness  of  pursuing  a  policy, 
which,  if  presisted  in  and  ptruntied  to 
go  on  unchei ked,  will  result  in  a  gen­
eral  demoralization  ot  prices  with  no 
one  being  a  gainer,  but,  on  the  con 
trarv,  everyone 
losing  thereby.  Re­
tailers  everywhere  will  have  no  diffi­
culty  in  securing  the  co-operation ot  the 
jobbers  in  the  abatement  of  abuses  and 
the  establishment  of  reform  matters 
it 
they  will  only  get  together  and  outline 
some  definite  plan  of  action;  this  done, 
ihey  must  then  put  aside  petty 
jealous 
ies,  bickerings  and  bad  feelings,and  all 
work  together  like  other  business  men, 
when  an 
infinite  amount  of  good  can 
be  accomplished.

The  communication  was  accepted and 
the  becretary  tequested  to  thank  the 
writer  for  his  courtesy  in  the  matter.

The  Committee  on  Cigar  Franchise 
presented  a  dr<ift  of  agreement  between 
the  Association  and  J.  Grebel  &  bon, 
which  was  accepted.

On  motion  of  J.  Geo.  Lehman,  the 
label  design  presented  by  the  Commit 
tee  was  adop'ed.

F.  L.  Merrill  presented  the  ft llowing 
resolution,  whit b  was  unanimously 
adopted :
Whereas— Proctor  &  Gamble  and 
Fairbanks  soaps  are  sold  by  the  depart­
ment  stores  below  the  regular  wholesale 
prices;  therefore

A  considerable  discussion 

Resolved—That  we  show  our  disap­
proval  of  such  methods  by  handling  as 
little  of  the  brands  manufactured  by  the 
above  named  houses  as  possible.  .
It  was  decided  to  close  the  grocery 
stores  at  10 o’clock  in  the  forenoon  on 
Thanksgiving  Day.
followed 
over  the  visitations  of  the  several  in­
spectors  sent  out  under  the  authority  of 
the  btate  Food  Commissioner. 
It  was 
noted  that  the  instruction  received  from 
in  some 
each 
cases,  conflicted  very  seriously. 
It  wa* 
thought  best,  however,  to  make  the best 
of  the  situation  and  treat  the  inspectots 
courteously,  in  the  belief  that  the  gen­
eral  tendency  is  in  the  right  direction  - 
toward  the  improvement  of  the  charac 
ter  and  wfiolesomeness  of  grocery stocks 
generally.

inspector  varied  and, 

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

Sidnaw— The  D.  M.  Fulmer  Lumber 
Co  ,  of  Florence,  Wis.,  w.ll erect  a  mil 
near  this  place  and manufacture 13,000,- 
000  feet  of  lumber  for  the  Kirby-Dennis 
Co.,  of  Marinette,  and  George  McKin­
ney,  of  Menominee.  The  mill  will  be 
located 
in  the  timber  a  mile  or  more 
from  Sidnaw,  anti  the  Chicago,  Milwau­
kee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  is  putting  in  a 
spur connecting  the  plant  with  the main 
liae,

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  consumptive  demand  is 
quiet  and  the  variations  in  prices  are 
n  t  significant  There  is  some  expec­
tation  that  the  factor  system  of  handling 
sugar  from  the  trust  to  the  jobbers  will 
be  done  away  with  as  soon  as  the  com­
petitive  factories  of  the  Arbuckles  and 
others  get 
is  also 
rumored  that  Claus  Spreckles  will  pull 
out  of  the  American  Sugar  Refineries 
combination,  commonly  known  as  the 
Sugar  Trust,  and  that  the  result  will  be 
a  more  uneven  market  than  has  ruled 
under  the  band  of  the  trust.

inti  operation. 

It 

Tea— Prices  are  steady  and  are  at 
present  very  sati-factory  There  is  no 
<  isposition  whatever  to  shade  on  any­
thing,  although  declines  would  meet 
immediate  takers.  But 
little  trade  in 
tea 
is  expected  until  after  the  first  of 
the  year.  Prices  will  probably  remain 
steady  for  some  time.

Coffee -  No  changes 

is  consequen  ly  very  good. 

in  prices  are  to 
in  the  general  market,  but 
be  noted 
low,  and  the 
values  are  exceedingly 
trade 
It 
now  looks  as  though  values  could  go  no 
lower,  an 1  that  coffees  purchased  at 
present  p'ices  would  be-  good  enough 
property  to  hold.  However,  as  the sup­
ply  is  so  large,there  is  little expectation 
that  advances  will  be  enough  to  mike 
«peculation  in  a  small  way  profitable.

Canned  Goods—Tomatoes  are  easier 
and  offerings  are  being  made at  2j^c 
decline.  There  are  no 
takers,  how­
ever,  and  the  trade  appear  to  believe 
that  the  price  will  drop  still 
lower. 
Corn  is  steady  and  the  demand  is  fair, 
it  unchanged  prices.  Peas  are  in  very 
light  demand.  Stocks  are  not  very 
heavy  and  t'-e  maj  rity  of  the  trade 
have  sufficient  stock  to 1 tst  until spring. 
Prices  are  unchanged.  New  California 
peaches  are  arriving  at  present,  and 
the  early  buyers  are  taking them  which 
takes  them  out  of  the  market  for  the 
time  being.  The  advanced  freight  rates 
have  made  prices  a  little  firmer.

The 

Crackers-----Contrary  to  expectation
and  the  prediction  of  the  Chicago  daily 
papers,  the  fight  between  the  compering 
manufacturers 
is  still  on  and  the  low 
prices  which  have  prevailed  for the past 
eight  months  continue. 
local 
(Wm.  Sears  &  Co  )  factory  of  the  New 
York  Biscuit  Co.  is  in  continuous  oper­
ation  from  7  o’clock  Mondav  morning 
to  12  o’clock  Saturday  night,  without 
intermission  or  stoppage  of  any  kind. 
All  reports  of  a  consolidation  of 
inter­
ests  or  an  agreement  on  prices  are  evi­
dently  based  on  rumor  alone,  giving 
the  unprejudiced  observer  ground  for 
the belief  that  the  war  is  one  of  exter­
mination  along  the  lines  of  the  survival 
of  the  fittest.

is 

Dried  Fruits—The  conditions  affect­
ing  dried  fruits  indicate  that  prices will 
not  generally  be  lower  than  presen’ 
quotations  during  the  present  crop year 
The  price  of  evaporated  apples 
is 
amazingly  high,  and  cannot  be  lower 
during  the  season,  as  but  very 
limited 
amounts  of  apples are  available  for  dry­
ing.  The  raisin  crop 
just  at  the 
harvest,  greatly  damaged  by  a  general 
disastrous  storm  and  prolonged  cold 
weather.  Reports  from  California  say 
one  third  of  the  entire  crop  is  damaged 
by  this  storm,  and  it  will  be  six  weeks 
before  that  saved  can  be  shipped.  The 
raisin  product  of  California  last  year 
was  3,400  carloads  of  ten  tons  each,  all 
of  which  were  sold.  The 
importation 
into  the  United  States  during  the  crop 
year  were  2,193  cars,  making  a  total  of 
5,593  carloads  consumed  by  the  people 
of  this  country  during  the  year,  The

average  yearly  consumption 
is  about 
6.500 carloads.  The  number  of  carloads 
of  California  raisins  in  sight  this  year 
is  not  more  than  2,700,  there  being  a 
loss  of  1,000  carloads 
in  the  recent 
storm.  Under  these  circumstances  the 
holders  of  raisins  are 
inclined  to  de­
mand  higher  prices  The  currant  sea­
son  has  been a  good  one  for  the  Grecian 
peasants  and  currant  farmers.  The  im­
pression  has  gone  abroad  that  the  crop 
is  to  be 
light,  and  this  has  sent  the 
price  up  beyond  last year’s prices.  This 
has  cut  off  the  trade  to  Russia  for  wine 
purposes,  but  Germany  and  Austria  are 
huying  heavily  still  for  this  purpt se. 
Shipments  to  this  country  for  this  crop 
year  to  date  are  6,250  tons  as  against 
5,895  tons  for  the  corresponding  period 
last  year  The  total  shipments  from 
Greece  to  date  are  58,142  tons  as  com­
pared  with  47,892  last  year  to  the  cor­
responding  date.

in  this  country 

Rice—Foreign  stvles  are  in  light sup­
The  arrivals  of 
ply 
new  domestic  have  been  comparatively 
small  and  values  are  well  maintained. 
The  movement  in  this  market  is  light.

Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Gloucester) 
write  the  Tradesman  as  follows:  Up 
to  date  about  12,000 barrels salted  mack­
erel  have  arrived  from  the  American 
fleet,  being  the  total  catch  for  the  \ear, 
excepting  a 
lew  hundred  barrels  now 
on  the  way  home  from  the  Bay  of  St. 
Lawrence.  The  season  opened  well, 
hut  it  closed  a  dismal  failure.  All  the 
mackerel  prophets  are  at  loss  and  can­
not  formulate  any  reason  for 
it.  Some 
of  the  wise  men  say,  “ So  many  seines 
frighten  the  mackerel  so  much  that they 
will  not  come  to  the  surface  so  as  to  be 
seen  and  seined  ”   Against  this  theory 
the  old  mackerel  grounds  and  haunts 
have  been  visited  by vessels  which  have 
not  used  seines  but  fished  in  the  old- 
fashioned  wav  (hooks  and  lines),  throw­
ing  bait  to  toll  them;  and  this  method 
also  proved  a  failure.  Where  have  the 
mackerel  gone,  or  where  do  they  go? 
VVho  can  tell?  There  ought  to  be  many 
in  our  waters,  especially  after  a  period 
of  twelve  years’  dearth,  which has given 
opportunities  for  several  generations  to 
breed  and 
The  price  of 
mackerel  rules  high  on  account  of  the 
lack  of  supply  and  we  do  not  expect 
lower  prices  until  our  catch  of  1898 
appears.  Nine  vessels  have  arrived  on 
their  second  trip 
the  Grand 
Banks,  bringing 
full  fares; 
in  all  only  15,000  quintals.  The  heavy 
gale  on  the  Banks  Oct  17  and  18  inter­
fered  very  much  with  the  fleet  and,  in 
consequence,  the  vessels  will  bring 
home  about  two  thirds  of  a  fare.  The 
price  has  advanced  somewhat  and  we 
lower  prices on 
do  not  look  for  any 
Bank  Cod 
for  some  time  After  this 
month  the  bulk  of  the  fresh  fish  caught 
in  our  North  Atlantic  waters  will  be 
landed  at  this  port.  Gloucester  vessels 
'■ easing  their  trips  to  Boston  and  mak­
ing  Gloucester,  which  is  the  headquar­
ters  of  the  Atlantic  fisheries,  the  point 
of  distribution  and  the  greatest  fishing 
port  of  the  world.

less  than 

increase. 

Provisions—The  market  is very quiet. 
It  is  at  present  in  the  between  seasons, 
and the demand  is verv limited,es lecial- 
ly  in  smoked  meats  Prices  are easy but 
with  no  change  in  the  provision  list  of 
any  importance.  All  potted  and  smoked 
meats and lard, both pure and compound, 
remain  unchanged,  and  the  market 
seems  to  be  on  a  fairly  steady  basis.

from 

Many  stories  are  told  relative  to  the 
illegibility  of  the  penmanship  of  Rufus 
Choate,  the  famous  lawyer. 
is  said 
that  he  once  openly  congratulated  him­
self  on  the  fact  that  “ if  he  failed  to  get 
a  living  at  the  bar,  he  could  still  go  to 
China  and  support  himself  by  his  pen; 
that  is,  by  decorating  tea  cheats. ”

It 

6

ACTUAL  EXPERIENCE

Demonstrates 

the  Undesirability  of 

the  Trading  Stamp.

From the Pittsburg Mercantile Journal.

Some  months  have  now  elapsed  since 
a  number  of  trading  stamp 
institutions 
started  their  scheme  in  operation  in this 
vicinity,  and  there  has  been  time  to 
demonstrate  the  way  the  thing  affects 
a  merchant’s  business.  To  the  mer­
chants  there  is  but  one  point  to  be  con­
s id e r e d —does 
it  pay?  Any  theory 
can  be  bolstered  up  by  argument,  good, 
bad  and 
indifferent.  Facts  are  only 
proven  by  facts.  With  this  point  in 
view  a  representative  of  this  paper 
called  upon  a  number  of  merchants  who 
are  giving  or  who  are  represented  as 
giving  stamps,  and  these  views  are  here 
given  for  the  benetit  of  those  who  are 
being  solicited  by  these stamp  sellers.

A  well-known 

furniture  house  was 

visited.

“  I  want  to  ask  you  how  you  like  the 

trading  stamps?”

‘ ‘ Don’t  know  how  we  like  them.”  
‘ ‘ But  you  use  them,  don’t  you?”
“  No. ”
‘ ‘ You’re  advertised  as  giving  them, 
”  Yes. ”
“ How  does  that  come?”
‘ ‘ Threw 

out—wouldn’t  give 

aren't  you?”

them 
them—no  good.”

“ Will  you  explain?”
‘ ‘ Well,  the  fact  is  we  made  a  contract 
it  is, 
with  the  company,  or  whatever 
and  they  didn’t 
live  up  to  it,  and  we 
took  advantage  and  quit.  We  found 
they  went  right  out  of  our  store and  sola 
the  stamps  to  a  rival  house  which  they 
had  specifically  agreed  not  to  sell  to. 
That  was  the  immediate  reason  for  our 
Stopping.  Other  reasons  were  even 
more  serious.  We  found  that  a  custom­
er  who  had  say  gio  worth  of  stamps 
could  not  go  to  the  store  of  the  stamp 
people  and  select  what  she  wanted  her­
self,  but  the  stamp  people  would  give 
her  something  which  they  told  her  the 
stamps  entitled  her  to.  For  §5  worth  of 
stamps  we  find 
they  give  an  article 
which  we  know  does  not  cost  more  than 
a  dollar  at  any  retail  store,  and  in  very 
many  cases  they  don't  have  to  give 
anything.  We  wouid  have  to  pay  them 
for  all  the  stamps  taken  .by  our  cus­
tomers  and  then  our  customeis  do  not 
get  the  benefit  of  our  loss.  We  are  cer­
tain  that  there’s  nothing  in  the  thing 
lor  the  public,  and  even  more  ceitain 
in 
there’s  nothing 
it  for  us,  but  we 
must  admit 
it 
is  a  good  thing  lor  the 
stamp  company.”

Another  well  known  merchant,  this 

time  a  grocer,  said :

“ I  was  feeling  bad  and  a  smooth 
young  fellow  came 
in  and  I  guess  1 
signed  his  contract  just  to  get  rid  ol 
him.  Then  one  day  two  little  children 
came  in  to  get  5  cent’s  worth  of  some­
thing  and  when  1  had  done  up  their 
packages  they  asked  for trading stamps.
1  hunted  up  the  book  and  gave  them 
each  a  stamp.  But  I  saw  what  a  nui­
sance  it  was going  to  be  right  off,  and  1 
told  my  clerks  not  to  give  any  more  out 
to  anybody.  The  next  person  that  asked 
for  stamps  was  a  woman,  and  when  we 
refused  to  give  them  to  her  she  trotted 
off  down  to  the  stamp  office  and  re­
ported  me.  Next  day  Mr  Stamp  Man 
came  out  to  raise  a  row. 
It  didn’t  last 
long  and  he  took  his  little  book  ano 
went  home. 
I  don’t  believe  in any such 
schemes. 
I have  been  in  business  more 
than  thirty  years  and  1  don’t  intend  to 
give  a 
lot  of  slick  young  men  5  per 
cent,  on  all  the  business  1  have  been 
able  to  build  up  in  that  long  time,  even 
if  they  can  bring  me  25  per  cent,  more 
business,  whicn  they  can’t. 
If  they 
did,  and  I  gave  them  5  per  cent,  on  all 
my  business,  as  I  would 
if  I  took  up 
the  scheme,  for  I  wouldn't  turn  down 
my  old  customers  who  have  given  me 
my  business,  then  I  would  be  giving 
them  25  per  cent,  on  the  new  business 
which  they  brought  me,  and  really  a 
grocer  can’t  give  25  per  cent,  of  his 
business  to  get 
it,  even  when  he  sells 
bis  sugar  below  cost  ”

A  hardware  man  was  called  upon.
‘ ‘ Yes,  I  give  trading  stamps. 

If  I 
didn’t  some  of  my  competitors  would. 
That’s  what  the  solicitor  said.  And  I

from 

think  it  will  be  all  right—fora while,  at 
least.  A  short  time  after  1  started  to 
give  them  a  lady  came  to  my  store  and 
bought  something,  and  she  said,  ‘ Now  I 
came  away 
such-and  such  a 
street,  just  because  you  give  trading 
stamps. 
I  wouldn't  have  come  if  you 
hadu  t. ’  Well,  that was right past several 
lately  I  have  heard 
competitors.  But 
that  some  of  them  have  gotten 
the 
stamps,  too,  so  my  time  is  nearly  up.”
‘ ‘ But  didn’t  you  contract  fora year?”
“  Indeed,  I  didn’t. ”
“ Well,  some  of  the  people do,  don’t 

they?”

Maybe  they  do,  I  didn’t.  Why,  I 
knew  it  was  only  good,  if  good  at  all, 
for  a  little  while.  Only  this  morning  I 
got  a  circular  from  another  stamp  or 
coupon  company,  who  will  redeem  cou­
pons  for  less  than  5  per  cent.,  and  there 
are  no  doubt  lots  of  them,  and  it  would 
only  be  a  short  time  until  everybody 
would  have  them,  and  we'd  all  be  giv­
ing  a 
lot  away  and  getting  nothing 
hack.”

The  frankest  man  of  all  those 

inter­

viewed,  s=* id:

“ I  contracted 

for  the  stamps,  saw 
where  I  had  made  a  mistake,  sent  for 
the  stamp  man,  asked  him  how  much 
he  would  take  to  let  me  out,  paid  the 
price  and  quit.  That’s  my  story.”

Some  of  the  arguments  made  against 
the  stamps  by  those  interviewed  were 
incidentally  repeated 
to  one  of  the 
smaller  merchants  called  upon  and  he 
said:  “ Well,  well,  that’s 
just  what  I 
told  the  agent  when  he  called  upon  me, 
but  somehow  he  made  me  see  it  differ­
ently.  No,  I  can't  afford  to  give  5  per 
cent,  on  all  mv  business  in  order  to  get 
a  little  more,  and  if  I  treat  my  custom­
ers  fairly  I  must  do  so,  mustn’t  I? 
Well,  to  tell  you  the  truth,  I  don’t  be­
lieve  it  is  a  good  thing,  and  I  wish  I 
was  out  of  it. ”

Another  merchant  had  used  it,  thrown 
it  out,  and  didn't  want  any  more  such 
schemes.  His  reasons  were  substantial­
ly  the  same  as  those  given  by  others, 
hut  he  said  a  number  of  merchants  had 
a  meeting  the  night  before  and 
it  had 
been  hinted  that 
the  new  company 
which 
is  sending  circulars  around  the 
cities  is  one  and  the  same  concern  and 
that  they  are  trying  to  work  a  double 
graft  on  the  people  before  the  explosion 
comes  He  had  no  proofs  of  this  but 
he  said  there  were  good  reasons  for  be­
lieving  the  report  was  true.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

special  Correspondence.

the  Market, 

feeling  all  around. 

New  York,  Nov.  13—There 

is  a  bet­
ter  feeiing  this  week  among  jobbers 
here.  Trade  is  quite  active  and,  while 
prices  have  shown  no  especial  appreci­
ation,  they  are  steadv,  and  there  is  a 
confident 
The 
weather  has  been  charming  up  to  date 
and  many  visiting  merchants  are  here, 
l’he  fever  situation  has  greatly 
im­
proved  and  a  large  volume  of  trade  is 
being  done  with  the  South  to  make  up 
for  lost  time.  Some  of  our  large  houses 
are  working  overtime.

is  no 

There 

The  dullest  thing  on  the  entire  list  is 
interest  shown 
coffee. 
whatever. 
Invoice  trading  is  almost  at 
a  standstill  and  in  a  smaller  way  deal­
ers  do  not  seem  to care  whether  “ school 
keeps  or not. 
Supplies  are  so  large 
that  roasters  are  not  taking  any  ahead 
of  current  wants  and  the  price  has  hov­
ered  around  6c,  closing  at  6}ic. 
In 
store  and  afloat  there  are  of  No.  7, 
065,133  bags,  against  674,977  bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  coffees 
are 
in  a  state  of  repose.  Fair  Cucuta 
has  been  sold  at 
East  India  is
dull,  with  Padang  Interior  slow  sale  at 
23K@ 25c.

in 

The  first  three  days of  the  week  the 
sugar market  was  rather  quiet,  but later, 
orders  came 
in  a  very  satisfactory 
manner  from  all  parts.  There  has  been 
a  slight  advance  on  some  of  the  softer 
grades. 
is  quiet. 
Stocks 
in  the  bands  of  importers  are 
not  very  large  and  quotations  are  firmly 
adhered  to.  Granulated  closes  at  5c.

Foreign 

refined 

Quietness  characterizes  the  tea  mar­
ket  and  the  situation  is  not  of  the  most 
hopeful  character. 
The auction  sales 
have  attracted  few  purchasers,  except

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the  usual  ones,  and  no  enthusiasm  has 
been  shown.  Prices  have  not  shown  any 
improvement.

is  quiet.  Not  for  a  long  time 
has  there  been  so  little doing,  but  this 
is  expected  at  this  season.  The  de­
maud  has  been  so  light  at  New Orleans, 
it  is  said,  that  milling  operations  have 
almost  suspended.  Foreign  grades  are 
in  light  supply.

Trading  in  spices  is  a  little  more  ac­
tive,  but  no  advance  has  taken  place  in 
quotations.  Orders  have  been  numer­
ous,  but  for  small  lots.  Stocks  are  now 
where  they  can  be  easily  controlled  and 
dealers  seem  to  be  content.

In  molasses,  supplies of  desirahle  new 
goods  are  not  at  all  burdensome;  in 
fact,  the  demand  has  been  sufficient  to 
keep  the  market  well  cleaned  up  and 
there 
is  a  firm  tone  all  around.  Sales 
have  been  made  within  the  range  of  30 
@32C  for  open-kettle goods. 
yrupsare 
steady,  with  a  fair  enquiry  from  both 
local  and  out-of-town  dealers.

The  canned  goods  market  is  remark­
ably  firm  and,  while  we  have  no  ad­
vances  to  chronicle,  they  are  almost 
sure  to  come  before  the  turn  of  the 
year.  Corn  and  tomatoes  are  especially 
in  request  and  many  packers  are  short 
in  their contracts.  N.  Y.  corn  is  held 
at  70c  at  the  factory,  and  7o@75c  here, 
as  to  brand.  Maryland  is  held  strongly 
at  55@8sc—the 
latter  for  a  fancy  arti­
cle.  Unlabeled  tomatoes  of  high  grade 
have  been 
in  excellent  demand  and 
have  sold  from  $1  up  as  high  as  $1.20.
Evaporated  apples  have  been  in  mote 
liberal  supply  and  the  demand  has 
slackened.  For  smaller  fruits  there  is 
about  the  usual  enquiry.  Raisins,  cit­
ron,  figs,  dates  and  gobds  of  this  char­
acter  are  going  out  at  a  great  rate. 
There  seems  to  be  enough  to  go around, 
however,  and  prices  are  about  as  for­
merly.

We  are  expecting  some 

liberal  re­
ceipts  of  California  oranges  in  time  for 
Thanksgiving.  The  market  is  firm  and 
the 
few  Florida  oranges  coming  to 
hand  are  taken  quickly.  Lemons  are 
selling  well,  if  large  in  size.  They, are 
held  at  $4@4  75  per  box.  Apples  are 
worth  from  $1  50  to  $5  per  bbl.,  the  lat­
ter  for  fancy  Newtown  Pippins,  which 
have  sold  for  even  more.

Best  grades  of  butter  are  in  light sup­
ply  and  are  quickly  taken  at  23c.  The 
demand  for  other  sorts  is  quiet

Small,  colored, 

fancy  cheese  com­
is  quiet. 

mand  Q@9^c.  The  market 
Exporters  are  doing  very  little.

Fresh  Western  eggs  are  held  at  22c. 
The  market  is  very  firm  and  the  supply 
is  not  large  enough.

He  Put  Them  Down.

A   nervous man,  with a nervous w ay,

Stopped  in at a crockery store;

H e  wished to  purchase a  wine glass tray,

A  glass tray,  and  nothing more.

And  when  he d selected a gorgeous one,

A ll colored  in gold and brown,

H e asked  the clerk,  in  his jerky  tone,
If he wouldn’t just “  put it down.**

T he clerk then,  being a business man, 

Foreseeing a larger sale,

A   beautiful  vase to twirl  began,

A   beautiful  vase and  frail.

And as  he discovered,  the nervous chap 

Thought  he handled  it like a clown,

And,  fearing  perhaps he’d  drop it,  cried:
“  Put it down,  my friend,  put it  down.”

T he clerk then took  up some smaller  ware, 

Some saucers and cups most slight,

And flourished  them  recklessly  in  the air,

T o the nervous  man’s aw ful  fright;

A nd  being  worked  up to a feariul state, 
From  the soles of his feet to  his crown,
”  Put  ’em  down,  1  pray,  put ’em down.”

H e danced around and  he begged  the clerk,

A nd obligingly this the clerk but did,

A s  would any clerk  in  town;
H e merely did as  the other  bid,

A nd  he put that crockery down.

But the nervous man  he  fumed and swore,
*  And  he kicked  with  might and  w ill;
But  he  had to pay. thouuh he felt blamed sore, 

For the clerk put them  down 

in  the  bill.

The  Orchard  of  Stars.
Amid  the orchard grass she stood 
And  watched  with childish  glee,

T he big,  bright,  burning apples shower’d 

Like star-falls  from  the tree;

So, when  the autumn  meteors fell,
She cried,  with outspread gown,

“  Oh my,  papa,  look!  isn’t  God 

Just shaking apples down.”

The  mills  of 

justice  not  only  grind 
slowly,  but  they  frequently  grind  up  the 
wrong  people.

REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

Dennis  H.  Bunbury,  the  Veteran  Niles 

Grocer.

Fifty-five  years  ago  Dennis  Henry 
Bunbury made  his  advent  on the world’s 
stage,  and  Niles,  Mich.,  was  the  stage. 
The  exact  date  of  this  important  event 
in  the  life  of  Mr.  Bunbury was April  13, 
1842.  Subsequent  events  have  proven 
that  the  old  superstition  regarding  the 
misfortunes  which  attend  children  born 
upon  the  13th  of  the  month  is  a  fallacy, 
or  that  Fate  especially 
favored  Mr 
Bunbury,for,in  his  own  language,  “ My 
life  has  been  singularly  uneventful  and 
free  of  unusual  or  unhappy  features—no 
very  high  ups  and  no  very  low  downs.”
Mr.  Bunbury's  father,  John  Bunbury, 
was  born 
Ireland.  His  mother, 
whose  name  was  Mary  Martin,  was  of

in 

old  Pennsylvania  Dutch  stock.  From 
each  he  seems  to have inherited the most 
admirable  of  their  national  character­
istics,  so  that  we  have  in  Mr.  Bunbury 
the  ready  wit  and  keen  sense  of  humor, 
the  generous  and  sunny  nature  of  the 
Irishman,  coupled  with  the  sterling 
in­
tegrity,  the  strict 
ideas  of  justice  and 
honor,  the  tendency  to  move  surely  if 
slowly  of  the  Dutch.  His  education 
was  obtained  in  the  village  school,  sup­
plemented  by  a  few  years  at  St.  Mary’s 
College  at  South  Bend,  Ind.  At  the 
age  of  18  he  was  competent  to  become 
a  schoolmaster  himself,  which  vocation 
be  pursued  for  four  years.  He  then 
entered  the  grocery  store  of  J.  &  E. 
Woodruff,  in  Niles,  in  the  capacity  of 
clerk,  where  he  remained 
for  seven 
years  A  desire  to  see  a  bit  of  the
world  tempted  him  to  leave  his  em­
ployer  and  go  to  Des  Moines,  Iowa.  A 
year  there  satisfied  him  that  there  was 
no  place  quite  like  Niles  and  no  busi­
ness  quite  equal  to  the grocery business, 
so 
in  1873  he  returned  and,  forming  a 
copartnership  with  James  K.  O’Brisn, 
opened  a  grocery  and  crockery  store un­
der  the 
firm  name  of  Bunbury  & 
O’ Brien.  Eight  years  of  success  made 
it  possible  for  him  to  buy  the  interest 
of  his  partner  and  continue  the  busi- 
r  ss.  This  he  did  and  the present  house 
jf   D.  H.  Bunbury  was  established. 
Twenty-five  years’  continuous  business 
in  the  same  line  and 
in  exactly  the 
same 
is  no  usual  thing,  and 
even  in  Niles,  which  is  notably  a  place 
of  few  changes,  Mr.  Bunbury  stands 
second 
in  the  matter  of  stability,  bis 
early  employer,  J.  E.  Woodruff,  alone 
excelling  him, 
this  gentleman  having 
been  in  the  grocery  business  for  forty-

location 

four  years,  occupying  the  same  site  in 
Niles  the  entire  time.  The  unqualified 
success  of  these  two  veterans  would 
surely  prove  that

“Not to toe swift K the race.
But t > the true and  faithful.”

Mr.  Bunbury  was  mariiad  in  1874  to 
Miss  Mary  Hohn,  and  has  four  chil­
dren,  two  girls  and  two  boys.  One  of 
the  sons  and  his  18  year  old  daughter, 
Miss  Mollie,  assist  him 
in  the  store. 
Mr.  Bunbury  has  been  confined  to  his 
house  for  eight  weeks  by  reason  of  an 
old  stomach  trouble  and,  in  the  mean­
time, 
the 
reins  at  the  store,  buying  the  goods, 
paying  the  bills  and  directing  the  de­
tails  like  an  old  hand  at  the  business.

the  daughter  has  assumed 

Mr.  Bunbury 

is  a  Roman  Catholic 
and  his  religion  is  of  that  practical  sort 
which  includes  the  Golden  Rule  among 
its  dogmas. 
“ Kindness  personified" 
is  how  a  lady  customer  describes  him. 
The  traveling  men  will  surely  endorse 
this  description,  for  his  treatment  of  all 
who  call  upon  him  to  sell  goods  is cour­
tesy  itself,  and  when  possible  he  always 
“ hunts  up  an  order.’ ’  As  a  story  teller, 
he  has  no  superior,  and  his  fund  of 
bright  and 
interesting  tales  of  early 
days,  and  amusing  anecdotes  is  inex­
haustible.

The  picture  which  accompanies  this 
sketch  falls  short  of  doing  justice  to  the 
original. 
In  hare  outline  it  is  true  to 
life,  but  to  photograph  the  genial  pres­
ence  of  the  man  or  the  spirit  of  gentle 
kindliness, 
friendly  hand­
clasp,  and  the  hearty  cordiality  which 
pervades  his  personality  is 
impossible. 
The  real  man 
is  not  what  we  see,  but 
what  he  is

firm, 

the 

Small  Cigars  Must  Not  Weigh  Over 

Three  Pounds.

acceptable 

Washington,  Nov.  15— The  Bureau  of 
Internal  Revenue  sends  out  warning  to 
the  cigar  trade  that  small  cigars  com­
monly  known  as  all-tobacco  cigareitts 
will  not be  permitted to  be  sold  it  found 
to  weigh  more  than  three  pounds  per 
thousand,  unless  the  full  cigar  tax  of  $3 
per  thousand  be  paid  thereon.  The 
tax  on  these  small  cigars,  under the  new 
tariff 
law,  is  $1  per  thousand,  and  the 
Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue  has 
found  that  in  a  number  of  cases  manu 
facturers  have  placed  on  the  market  a 
paying 
tolerably 
cigar, 
thereon  only  the  cigarette  tax. 
In  sev­
eral 
instances  where  an  investigation 
has  been  made  manufacturers  have 
claimed  that  the  cigars  were  overweight 
because  they  were  still  damp,  and  in 
each  of  these  cases  the  Commissioner 
has  ordered  the  goods  to  be  dried  and 
re-weighed.  Data  on  file  in  the  Bureau 
show  that  such  goods  will  not  shrink 
more  than  four  ounces  per  thousand  in 
drying  out,  while 
in  several  instances 
the  goods  have  been  found  to  run  at 
least  eight  ounces  overweight. 
The 
Bureau  announces  that  wherever  over­
weight  is  found  to  be  excessive  the  full 
duty  of  S3  per  thousand  will  be  levied 
and  collected.

The  Difference.

W hen  the other fellow  gets rich  it’s luck,

Just blundering luck that  brings  him  gains,

But when  we win  it’s a case of pluck

W ith  intelligent effort and  lots  of brains.

Salt  and—

L im burger cheese are enem ies 
— you  can’ t  blame  the  salt! 
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to  all  foreign  odors. 
T h a t’ s 
one  reason  why  so  many  p eo ­
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WEDNESDAY.------NOVEMBER  17,  1897.

THF  FUTURE  OF  CRETE.

in  European  politics. 

Although  the  difficulties  growing  out 
of  the  war  between  Turkey  and  Greece 
have  heen  settled,  the  cause  which 
led 
up  to  the  war  remains  still  a  disturbing 
factor 
The 
Cretan  problem 
is  still  unsolved,  and 
the  powers  of  Europe  are  still  burdened 
with  the  government  of  the 
island.  Of 
course,  Greece  has  entirely  ceased  to 
have  any  part 
in  the  future  of  Crete, 
but  the  discomfiture  of  Greece  has 
served  to  strengthen  Turkey’s  position.
According  to  the  plan  of settlement 
decided  upon  by  the  powers,  Crete  is  to 
have  an  autonomous  government  under 
Turkish  suzerainty,  with  a  governor  to 
be  appointed  by  the  powers.  There 
is 
to  be  a  foreign  gendarmerie  and  the 
island  is  to  pay  an  annual  tribute  to  the 
Sultan.  So  far  not  a  single  portion  of 
this  plan  of  autonomy  has  been  put 
in 
effect,  and  affairs  remain  in  statu  quo, 
with  the  representatives  of  the  foreign 
powers  still  in  control  of  affairs.

is  a  conflict  of  interests. 

The  first  difficulty  which confronts the 
powers 
is  the  selection  of  a  governor. 
All  the  powers  have  candidates,  so  that 
there 
In  the 
next  place,  a  foreign  governor  is  cer­
tain  to  he  unpopular  with  the  Cretans, 
as  his  presence  will  he  a  constant  re­
minder  that  their  autonomy  is  a  mere 
shadow  of  what  it  reallv  ought  to  he 
in 
their opinion.  Again,  a foreign governor 
is  by  no  means  sure  to  he  accepted  hv 
the  Sultan  of  Tu  key,  who.  at  the  best, 
can  be  counted  on  to  put  e\ erv  possible 
obstacle  in  the  way.  The  Turks,  hav­
ing  defeated  Greece,  are  now  Jess  dis­
posed  to  yield  up  their  rights  in  Crete
than  they  formerly  were.

Another  obstacle 

in  the  way  of  the 
powers  is  the  refusal  of  Turkey  to  with­
draw  her  troops  from  the 
island.  She 
claims,  and  the  powers  are  compelled 
to  admit  the  truth  of  the  claim,  that 
were  the  Turkish  troops  to  he  with­
drawn,  the  Moslem 
inhabitants  of  the 
island  would  he  in  imminent  danger  of 
massacre  The  powers  have  had  prac­
tical  possession  of  Trete  for  more  than 
a  year,  but  they  have  signally  failed  to 
preserve  order;  hence  they  would  he 
unable  to  guarantee  protection  to  the 
Mohammedan  population were the Turk­
ish  garrisons  withdrawn.  This  is  a  se­
rious  problem,  which  must  receive  a 
satisfactory  solution  before  Turkey  can 
be  forced  to  relinquish  Crete.

Still  another  obstacle  to  the putting  in
•ffect  of  th«  proposed  autonomy  is  th«

impossibility  of  compelling  the  pay­
ment  of  the  annual  tribute  to  Turkey 
provided  for.  The  Cretans  will  un­
doubtedly  refuse  to  pay  the  indemnity 
as  soon  as  they  come  in  control,  and, 
as  the  powers  will  be  responsible  for 
the  inauguration  of  autonomy,  they  will 
also  be 
in  duty  bound  to  compel  the 
payment  of  the  tribute. 
It  will,  there­
fore,  be  seen  that  ample  reasons  exist 
why  the  powers  have  not  made  more 
progress  in  reaching  a  final  solution  of 
the  Cretan  question.

in 

THE  CONDITION  OF  BRAZIL.
The  recent  drift  of  affairs 

the 
great  South  American  Republic,  Brazil, 
has  not  been  what  the  friends  of  repub­
lican  government  could  wish.  A  few 
days  ago  there  was  an  attempt  made  by 
soldiers  to  assassinate  the  President  of 
the  Republic,  Senor  Moraes,  and  the 
Minister  of  War,  General  Betancourt, 
was  killed  while  shielding  his  chief. 
It 
is  generally  believed  that  the  at­
tempted  killing  was  the  result  of  a  con­
spiracy  in  some  way  connected  with  the 
revolutionary  movement which  has  been 
in  progress 
in  the  province  of  Bahia 
ind  elsewhere  for  some  time past.  The 
tttempted  assassination  of  the President 
was  speedily  followed  by  a riot in which 
a  number  of  Italians  were  killed.  This 
tet  of  violence  will  reopen  the  trouble 
with  Italy,  that  country  having  experi­
enced  great  difficulty 
in  collecting  an 
indemnity  for  the  killing  of  some  of her 
subjects  on  a  former  occasion.

These  events  serve  to  call  attention  to 
the  condition  of  affairs  in  Brazil  and  to 
the  fact  that  matters  have  been  going 
from  had  to  worse  in  that  country  for 
some  time  past.  Commerce  and  indus­
try,  which,  under  the  old  Emperor,  Don 
in  such  a  prosperous con­
Pedro,  were 
dition,  have  languished.  The  finances 
of  the  country  have  become  hopelessly 
involved,  and  the  currency,  which  at 
ihe  fall  of  the  Empire  was  at  par,  has 
now  depreciated  to  an  alarming  extent. 
As  a  result  of  this  state  of  things,  Bra­
zilian  credit  is  at  a  very  low  ebb.

Added  to  the  political  ills  from which 
Rraztl  is  suffering  is  the  great  decline 
in  the  price  of  coffee.  The  production 
and  export  of  the  coffee  bean  is  the 
country’s  chief 
industry  and  source  of 
revenue,  hence  the  enormous  shrinkage 
in  price  has  impoverished  the  cultiva- 
ors  and  diminished  the  government’s 
revenues.  The  decline 
in  coffee  has 
very  naturally  added  to  the  other  causes 
of  popular  discontent,  and  has  enabled 
the  reactionary  elements  in  Brazil,  that 
are  still  a  very 
important  factor,  to 
promote  discord  and  disaffection.

Although  the  government has succeed­
ed 
in  making  headwav  against  the 
fanatics  in  Bahia  after the  waste of con­
siderable  blood  and  money,the  rebellion 
is  by  no  means  quelled,  while 
is 
known  that  the  disaffection  is  not  con­
fined  to  that  one  province,  but  is  spread 
broadcast  over  the  country,  the  leaders 
merely  waiting  for  a  proper opportunity 
to  inaugurate  a  general  uprising.

it 

All  of  this  is  cause  for  sincere  regret 
in  this  country,  as  it  indicates  that  the 
most  populous,  and  naturally  the  richest 
of  the  South  American  States  enjoys 
but  a  very  meager  share  of  the  benefits 
of  constitutional  government. 
In  fact, 
it  is  apparent  that  popular  government 
is  but  poorly  understood  in  that  part  of 
the  world,  and  is  probably  not  suited  to 
the  needs  of  the  country.  This  is  not  an 
agreeable  fact,  but it  seems  to  be  incon­
testable.  __________ -

A  political  party  worker  is  one  who

trie«  to  work  th«  peopl«.

THE  PUBLIC  LIGHTING  SCHEME.
The  natural  consequence  of  our  city’s 
making  a  success  of  the  public prosecu­
tion  of  municipal  enterprises  would  be 
that  many  others  would  make  attempts 
in  the  same  direction.  So,  when  the 
extensive  advertising  of  the  remarkable 
success  of  Glasgow  began 
to  have 
effect,  very  many  of  the cities and towns 
of  England especially manifested an am­
bition  to  do  likewise.  There  are  in  all 
towns  those  who  stand  ready  to under­
take  almost  any  enterprise  of  which  the 
public  can  be 
induced  to  take  the  re­
sponsibility,  and  such  made diligent use 
of  the  glowing  accounts  of  the  one  city 
which  had  demonstrated  that  the  city 
industries  could  be  profitably  carried on 
by  the  public.  Of  course,  this  was  done 
that  pleasant  and  remunerative  employ­
ment  without  risk  could  be  secured  by 
such  promoters.

important 

In  many  of  these  towns  the  experi­
ments  have  been  carried  on long enough 
to  demonstrate  that  the conditions which 
made  success  possible  in  the  one  Scot­
In  nearly 
tish  town  are  not  universal. 
every 
instance 
it  has  been 
found  that,  where  the  private  enterprise 
had  been  fairly  profitable,  the  change 
caused  a  deficit  instead. 
In  some  cases 
the  experiment 
is  continued  under  the 
persistence  of  the  projectors  with  their 
promises  of  better  showings,  while  in 
others  the  enterprises  are  being  turned 
over  to  private  hands  again.

In  this  country  the  results  of  such  ex­
periments  have  been  similar,  until  it 
would  seem  as  though  there  had  been 
sufficient  data  obtained 
to  prevent 
further  sacrifice  of  public  funds  in  this 
direction.  But  there  are  some  cities 
which  seem  to  be  unable  to  learn  by  the 
example  of  others  when  that  example 
does  not  accord  with  the  ideas of  the 
self-seeking  politicians  who  find  their 
employment  and  profit  in  these  enter­
prises.

A  notable  experiment  in  public  light­
ing  in  this  country  was  the  one  carried 
on  by  Philadelphia.  For  a  time  glow­
ing  accounts  of  the  success  of  this  en­
terprise 
in  the  reduction  of  rates  and 
addition  to  the  public  revenues,  which 
were  mostly  prospective and theoretical, 
however,  afforded  strong  arguments  for 
the  political  hangers-on  and  promoters 
in  other  towns,  in  many  cases  enabling 
them 
secure  popular  approval, 
through  the  ballot,  for  many  similar un­
dertakings.  Now  the  fact  that  Phila­
delphia  has  abandoned  the  system  and 
turned  the  franchise  over  to  a  private 
corporation  does  not  seem to  have  a cor­
responding  influence  in  the  opposite di­
rection.

to 

In  Grand  Rapids  there  have  been  the 
usual  number  of  the  class  of  promoters 
referred  to  to  keep  the  movement  for 
municipal  lighting  in  progress.  Several 
years  ago,  a  vote  was  taken  in  which  a 
small  minority  participated,  which,  as 
would  be  natural,  showed  a  majority  of 
those  whose 
interest  had  been  gained 
in  favor  of  the  project.  On  account  of 
informality  it  was  found  that  legal  ac­
tion  could  not  be  taken  under  this  vote, 
and  so  another was  taken,  with a similar 
representation  and  result,  and  under 
this  the  City  Council  has  sold  bonds 
preparatory  to  taking  up  the  work.

As  the  matter  is  canvassed  more  and 
more,  the  sentiment  is  growing  that  the 
undertaking 
is  a  serious  one  and  will 
prove  a  costly  mistake.  Those  who 
have  watched  the  expression  of  public 
sentiment  have  seen  that  there  is  an  in­
crease  in  the  disapproval of  the  project. 
There  has  been  a  change  in  a  consider- 
abl«  proportion  of  th«  city  preta,  if  not

indifference  and 

in  the  taking  a  stand  against  it,  in  an 
increased 
loss  of  en­
thusiasm.  But  whether  this  sentiment 
will  lake  a  form  to  secure  any  result  in 
hindering  the  experiment  before  it  has 
gone  so  far  as  to  prove  a  serious  injury 
and  loss  is  a  question.

THE  CASE  OF  MRS.  MAYBRICK.
The  case  of  Mrs.  Maybrick.the  unfor­
tunate  American  woman  who  for  eight 
years  has  been  confined 
in  Woking 
prison,  England,  for  the  alleged  murder 
of  her  husband,  appears  to  have  gotten 
into  British  politics,  and  at  last  there 
seems  to  be  some  hope  for  her  release.
Extraordinary  efforts  have  been  made 
by  people  of  nearly  all  lands  to  have 
her  sentence  of  life  imprisonment  can­
celed,  but  up  to  the  present  her  jailers 
have  been  deaf  to  all  appeals.  Queen 
Victoria  has  not  manifested  even  a 
spasm  of  sympathy,  and,  in  spite  of 
the  general  conviction  that  the  woman 
is  innocent  of  the  crime  for  which  she 
is  suffering,  she  is  still  a  convict.

Mrs.  Maybrick  was  originally  con­
demned  to  death,  but  her  sentence  was 
commuted,  for  no  other  reason  than that 
the  authorities— impressed  by  public 
sentiment,  aroused  by  the  palpably  un­
fair  rulings  of  the  trial  judge,  and  the 
evidence  showing  that  the  dead  man 
had  been  a  confirmed  user  of  arsenic— 
became  convinced  that  she  did  not  de­
serve  the  death  penalty,  and  that  there 
was  at 
least  a  reasonable  element  of 
doubt  as  to  her guilt.  British  unwill­
ingness  to  confess  that  British  justice 
can  miscarry  seems  to  be  more  respon­
sible  than  anything  else  for  the  con­
tinued  detention  of  this  unfortunate 
prisoner.  There  was  no  question  that 
her  husband  had  for  years been addicted 
to  the  eating  of  arsenic,  consequently 
it  was  only  natural  that  the  autopsy  dis­
closed  the  presence  of  the  poison.  Be­
sides,  her  trial  was  almost a  legal  farce, 
the  presiding 
judge  being  not  only 
prejudiced  and  unfair,  but  outrageously 
in  bis 
bitter  and  severe  toward  her 
charge  to  the  jury. 
is 
reason  to  believe  that  the  man  was  not 
in  his  right  mind  at  the  time,  for he 
died  soQn afterwards in a lunatic asylum. 
Under  all  the  circumstances  of  the  case 
it 
the  English 
authorities  have  held  out  against the ap­
peals  for  justice  made  in  behalf  of Mrs. 
Maybrick.  One  petition  alone,  ad­
dressed  to  the  Queen,  bore  the  signa­
tures  of  ioo.ooo  women,  but  it  failed  to 
move  Her  Majesty  to  pity.  Even  the 
United  States  Ambassador  has personal­
ly,but  vainly, interceded  for the unhappy 
prisoner,  but  now  that  her  case  has  be­
come  a  semi-political 
issue,  it  is  be­
lieved  and  hoped  that  expediency  will 
soon  effect  what  justice  and  humanity 
have  heretofore  failed  to  bring  about.

Indeed,  there 

strange  that 

seems 

Warriors  who  die  on  the  sanguinary 
field  of  battle 
in  a  good  cause  win 
laurels  imperishable;  the  engineer  who 
stands  by  his  post  and  goes  down  to 
death  with  his  band  on  the  throttle  is 
honored  as  a  brave  man  deserves;  but 
Miss  Miskel,  of  Frankfort,  Ind.,  who 
gave  up  her  young  life of fourteen sunny 
summers  that  her 
friend,  Eva 
Toney,  might  be  saved  from  death  be­
neath  the  wheels  of  a  locomotive,  she— 
well,  she  will  be  given  a  few  brief 
newspaper  paragraphs  and  live  only 
in 
the  heart  of  her  widowed  mother.  Yet 
she  died  as  the  gallant  die.  She  gave 
her  life  to  succor  her  friend  from death, 
and  grander  sacrifice  than  this  does  not 
brighten  the  golden  records,  even  of 
th« angel«  in  heaven.

little 

IM POTENCY  OF  GREECE.

There  never  was,  perhaps,  a  more 
extraordinary  exhibition  of  national 
folly  than  was  the  provocation  of  the 
war  with  Turkey  by  Greece.  Owing  to 
Greece’s  smaller  resources 
in  money 
and  men  than  those  possessed  by  Tur­
key,  there  never  existed  a  chance  of 
success  for  the  former.  An  even  more 
extraordinary  fact  was  the  utter  lack  of 
preparation  for  war  which  the  develop­
ments  that  followed  the  opening  acts  of 
hostility  revealed.  The  Grecian  army 
was  hopelessly  deficient 
in  armament, 
in  commissariat,  in  transportation,  and 
in  medical  and  surgical  supplies. 
Im­
mediately  after  the  first  battle  it  was 
found  that  the  medical  department  was 
without  chloroform,  and  that  amputa­
tions  had 
to  be  performed  without 
anaesthetics.
Everybody 

is  thoroughly 

is  familiar  with  the  in­
glorious  conduct  of  the  campaign  on 
the  part  of  the  Greek  commanders  and 
the  hopeless  rout  of  the  Greek  army  at 
Tirnova.  The  whole  story  is  a  pitiable 
exhibition  of  national 
impotence, 
quickly  following  a  show  of  overween­
ing  pride  and  arrogance.  And  now 
comes  another  chapter 
the  story 
which 
in  keeping  with 
the  whole  serio-comic  agglomeration 
of  events  wich  make  up  the  Greco-Tur- 
kish  war.  According  to  recent  advices 
from  Athens,  it  has  been  discovered 
that  the  torpedoes  issued  to the  torpedo- 
boat  flotilla  were  without  percussion 
caps  or  fulminating  powder  to  explode 
the  charges  with  which 
the  missiles 
were  provided.  This  argues  a  degree 
of  incompetency  and  neglect  on the part 
of  the  naval  authorities  which 
inex­
cusable. 
It  will  be  remembered  that 
the  torpedo-boat  flotilla,  while  com­
manded  by  Prince  George,  of  Greece,
made  a  grand  display  in  Cretan  water, 
threatening  to  sink  any  Turkish  fleet 
that  might  attempt  to 
land  troops  or 
supplies  there,  and  even  disregarding 
the  wishes  of  the  commanders  of  the in­
ternational  fleet  there  assembled.  And 
all  this  time  these  torpedo  boats  would 
have  been  utterly  helpless  had they been 
attacked,  as  the  weapons  with  which 
they  were  provided  were  worse  than 
useless.

in 

is 

After  this  exhibition,  Greece  had 
better  turn  her  sword  into  a  plowshare, 
throw  herself  on  the  mercy  of  the  pow­
ers,  and  abandon  forever  all  pretense  of 
absorbing  Crete  or  any  other  outlying 
territory.  That  she  still  remains  a  na­
tion 
is  due  solely  to  the  firm  interven­
tion  of  the  great  powers.  Without  that 
intervention  Grecian autonomy would be 
now  but  a  memory.

SOUTH  AMERICAN  DREIBUND.
A  report,  purporting  to  emanate  from 
Valparaiso,  Chili,  has  been  published, 
to  the  effect  that  Chili,  Peru and  Argen­
tina have formed  a  compact  for  the  pur­
pose  of  making  war  on  Bolivia  and  di­
viding  up  the  territory  of  that  republic 
So  purely  piratical  a 
among  them. 
scheme  would  seem  highly 
improbable 
were  is  not  for  the  fact  that  highly 
im­
probable  things  are  constantly  happen­
ing 
iu  South  America,  and  that  the 
hostility  existing  between  the  countries 
of  the  West  coast  of  South  America 
is 
proverbial.

There  has  existed  a  dispute  between 
Bolivia  and  Chili  for  some  time,  based 
upon  matters  which  more  or less involve 
Peru.  Bolivia  claims  that  the  revolu­
tionary  party  in  Chili  which  overthrew 
the  Balmacedist  government 
in  1891 
promised,  in  consideration  of  certain 
assistance  rendered  by  Bolivia,  to  give

the 

to  turn 

successful, 

to  that  country,  should  the  revolution 
prove 
provinces  of 
1 acua  and  Arica,  conquered  from  Peru 
during  the  Chili-Peruvian  war.  After 
the  success  of  the revolution,  the Chilian 
government  refused 
the  con­
quered  provinces  over  to  Bolivia,claim­
ing  that 
it  would  be  a  violation  of  the 
treaty  existing  with  Peru,  wberebv  the 
latter  power  has  the  privilege  of  re­
deeming  the  conquered  provinces  by 
the payment  of  a  fixed  indemnity.  The 
dispute  over  this  matter  has  engendered 
bad  blood  between  Chili  and  Bolivia, 
and,  as  Peru  is  vitally  interested  in  the 
future  of  the  conquered  provinces,  she 
is  naturally  not  pleased  with  the  desire 
of  Bolivia  to  possess  the  territory  in 
question.

Not  being  able  to  quiet  Bolivia  in 
any  other  way,  Chili  now  coolly  pro- 
posses  to  conquer  that  republic  and  di­
vide  up  its  territory,  at  least  such  is  the 
project  which 
is  said  to  be  hatching. 
Should,  however,  the  report  prove  true, 
and  Bolivia  call  upon  the  United  States 
for  protection  against  the  rapaciousness 
of  her  neighbors,  would  it  be  the  duty 
of  the  United  States  to 
interfere?  Un­
der  a  strict  interpretation  of  the Monroe 
doctrine,  the  United  States  would  have 
no  right  to  interfere  between  two  Amer­
ican  Republics  should  they  see  fit  to 
engage  in  a  quarrel  and  the 
interven­
tion  of  a  European  power  not be sought. 
As  the  preponderating  power 
in  this 
hemisphere,  however,  is  not  this  coun­
try  morally  bound  to  prevent  the  de­
struction  of  the  autonomy  of  an  Ameri­
can  state  by  means  of  a  conspiracy  en­
tered 
into  by  other  neighboring  states? 
This  is  a  problem  which may well claim 
the  attention  of  our  statesmen  in  Wash­
ington  should  the  reported South  Amer­
ican  coalition  prove  true.

If  we  desire  to  exert a preponderating 
influence  in  the  affairs  of  South  Amer­
ica,  we  would  be  obliged  to  prevent  the 
dividing  up  of  Bolivia,  or  the  destruc­
tion  of  the  autonomy  of  that  country 
should  we  be  appealed  to  by  the  Boliv­
ians.  A  proper  foreign  policy  would 
dictate  that  we  take  an  active 
interest 
in  all  important  political  happenings  in 
this  h em isp h ere,  and  that  we  exert  our 
power  and  influence  to  enforce  respect 
for  our  wishes.  The  great  powers  of 
Europe  would  not  permit  the  annihila­
tion  of  a  small  government  by  another, 
a  fact  which  was  abundantly  shown 
in 
the  recent  war  between  Turkey  and 
Greece;  hence  there 
is  no good  reason 
why  we  should  not  adopt  a  similar 
course.

in  China,  the 

What  with  the  killing  of  German mis­
sionaries 
imprisonment 
of  a  German  subject  in  Hayti,  and  the 
levying  on  a  German  vessel  by  Sheriff 
Tamsen  of  New  York  without  observing 
the  usual  international  formalities,  Em­
peror  William's  diplomatic  represent­
atives  in  various  portions  of  the  globe 
are  kept  fairly  busy  these  days.

State  monopoly  of  matchmaking  does 
not  seem  to 
lead  to  good  results  in 
France.  The  Echo  Francais  prints  a 
letter  from  a  man  who  bought  a  box 
supposed  to  contain  500  matches.  There 
were,  however,  only  434,  and  94  of 
these  were  “ fireproof.”

A  successful  experiment  has  been 
made  in  Paris  with  refuse  molasses  and 
sand  as  material  for  a  pavement.  The 
composition  is  said  to  dry quickly,  and, 
unlike  pitch  or  asphalt,  is  not  affected 
by  the  sun.

Many  smart  ones  mistake  abuse  for 
lands  you  away  below 

sarcasm ;  abuse 
your opponent.

THE  AUSTRIAN  MUDDLE.

For  some  time  past  the  sittings  of 
the  Austrian  Reichsrath  or  Legislative 
Assembly  have  teen  of  such  a  riotous 
character  that  it  has  become  necessary, 
on  a  number  of  occasions,  to  suspend 
the  sitting,  and  the  obstructionists  have 
been  able  on  one  or  two  dates  to  keep 
the  chamber 
in  session  throughout  the 
night.  Owing  to  the  very  meager  re­
ports  of  the  character  of  the  debates, 
but  a  very  imperfect  idea  of  the  cause 
of  the  trouble  has  reached  the  outside 
world,  but  that  something  very  serious 
is  in  progress,  which  may  threaten  the 
stability  of  the  Austrian  government,  is 
very  apparent.

The  opposition  to  the government,  not 
content  with  the  ordinary  forms  of  par­
liamentary  agitation,  have  resorted  to 
abuse  and  riotous  conduct.  Their  ani­
mosity  appears  to  be  aimed  in  particu­
lar  against  the  Premier,  Count  Badeni. 
The  Emperor and  the  government  have 
so  far  maintained  a  firm  front  and  have 
even  threatened  to  suspend  the constitu­
tion  unless  the  malcontents  are  more 
amenable  to  reason.

influence 

Race  antagonisms  appear  to  have  as 
much  to  do  with  the  trouble  as  anything 
The  Germans  have  hitherto 
else. 
wielded  a  controlling 
in  the 
affairs  of  the  Kingdom,  but  the  other 
races  have  constantly 
increased  their 
aggressiveness  until  the  German  su­
premacy  is  now  threatened.  So  serious 
has  the  feud  become  that  it  is  reported 
that  the  Germans  are  threatening 
to 
seek  union  with  Germany.

In  a  monarchy  so  loosely knit together 
as  is  Austria,  with  its  population  com­
posed  of  a  dozen  different  races  of 
widely  differing  opinions  and  past  his­
tory,  so  serious  a  disturbance  as  that 
which  has  taken  place  in  its Legislative 
Assembly  must  be  regarded  as  threaten­
ing  to  the  national  existence. 
The 
personal  popularity  of  the  Emperor  and 
King  can  be  counted  on  to  do  much 
in 
the  way  of  tiding  over  the  emergency, 
but  as  the  Monarch  is now old,  his influ­
ence  may  be  found  waning  at  any  time.
It  is  very  doubtful  if  the  empire  in 
its 
present  shape  would  survive  his  death.

THE  TRAMP  CRIMINALS.

The  tramp  nuisance,  which 

is  the 
social  monstrosity  of  the  present  age,  is 
constantly  being  used 
to  point  false 
standards  of  morals  and  to  adorn  imag­
inary  tales  about  the  rich  getting  richer 
and  the  poor  poorer.

labor 

tramp. 

The  St.  Paul  Globe  has  a  right  esti­
mate  of  the 
It  characterizes 
that  miserable  creature  as,  in  ninety- 
nine  cases  out  of  a hundred,  not  a  work­
ing  man  out  of  employment.  He  is  not 
a  laborer,  he  has  not  been  a  laborer  for 
years,  and 
is  the  thing  that  his 
soul  recoils  from  with  almost  as  abject 
shrinking  as  his  body  knows  at  the  ap­
proach  of  a  bath.  The  tramp  is  a  man 
with whom  idleness has become a chronic 
and 
is  all 
there  is  to  it. 
is  a  disease  as  well 
marked  and  as  deadly  as  dipsomania  or 
the  morphine  habit.  The fellow  who  has 
sunk  to  genuine  trampdom  will  do  any­
thing  and  suffer  anything  as  long  as  he 
is  not  made  to  work.  Dirt  and  idle­
ness  and  a  fair  living  from  the  band  of 
charity  are  dear  to  him.

incurable  disease. 

That 

It 

The  tramp  is  not  merely  an  idle  beg­
gar.  He  is in  almost  every  case a  thief, 
and  is  capable  of  any  and  every  crime 
should 
it  suit  his  purpose  to  commit 
them.  The  remedy  for  this  criminal 
class 
is  not  in  charitable  asylums,  but 
in  laws  in  every  state  requiring  them  to 
work  at  sawing  wood,  breaking  stone

or  laboring  on  the  public  highways.  Set 
every  man  who  applies  for  assistance  at 
these  jobs.  You  will  give  him  all  that 
he  has  any  right  to  ask.  What  he 
claims  is  that  he  is  out  of  work,  hungry 
and  thirsty.  Give  him  employment  as 
a  means  of  satisfying  his  natural  wants. 
If  he  refuses  it,  he  is  a  fraud,  a  loafer 
If  he  accepts  it, 
and  probably  a  thief. 
a  good  act  has  been  performed 
in  suc­
coring  a  worthy  man  in  misfortune,  and 
if  he  rejects 
it  a  chain  gang  is  the 
proper  place  for  him.  No  man  in  any 
state  of  society  who  is  able  to  labor and 
will  not  should  be  permitted  to  live at 
the  expense  of  those  who  work. 
It  is 
the  duty  of  society  to  care  for  all  its 
helpless  members,  but  the  able-bodied 
loafers  make  up  a  criminal  class  that 
should  be  stamped  out  by  the  simple 
measure  of  forcing  them  all  to  work.

T-HE  PART  OF  PRUDENCE.

It  has  always  been  deemed  the  part 
of  prudence  to  prepare  for  war  during 
time  of  peace,  but 
in  the  case  of  this 
country  this  old  adage  has  fallen  into 
disuse.  During  the  two  decades  imme­
diately  following  the  Civil  War  it  did 
look  as  if  there  was  likely  to  be  no dan­
ger  of  trouble  with  foreign  countries, 
but  during  recent  years  complications 
have  multiplied  at  a  rate  which  makes 
foreign  war  a  possiblity  with  which 
people  have  commenced  to  be  familiar. 
While,  however,  it is  generally  admitted 
that  foreign  war  is  possible,  but  little 
is  being  done  in  the  way of preparation.
It  is  true  that  we  have  been  gradually 
accumulating  a  fairly  good  fleet,  and  it 
is  also  true  that  Congress  has  made pro­
vision  for  the  mounting  of  a  number  of 
heavy  guns  to  defend  the  leading  ports, 
but  the  fleet  is  by  no  means  as  large  as 
the  country  needs  and  not  a  third  of  the 
guns  required  have  been  authorized  for 
the  coast  defenses.  The  Government 
has  no  reserve  supply  of  arms,  ammu­
nition  or  equipments,  and  it  would  be 
a  practical  impossibility  to  mobilize  a 
hundred  thousand  men  in  case  of  emer­
gency.

These  are  conditions  which  should 
not  be  permitted  to  continue.  Congress, 
when 
it  meets  next  month,  should 
promptly  take  up  the  consideration  of 
the  problems  which  the  proper  defense 
of  our  borders  and  coast  presents.  The 
navy  should  be  further 
increased,  our 
seacoast  defenses  should  be added  to, 
and  above  all  the  manufacture  of  a  sur­
plus  stock  of  arms  and  equipments 
should  be  authorized.  The  matter  of 
providing  the  proper  reserve  for  both 
army  and  navy  should  also  be  consid­
ered  All  these  problems  cannot  be 
solved  in  a  single  session,  but  a  begin­
ning  must  be  made  some  time,  hence, 
the  sooner  the  work 
is  taken  in  hand 
the  better.

It  has  been  reported  that  in  the  hos­
pitals  for  insane  women  in  the  city  of 
Mexico  so  many  deaths  were occasioned 
by  the  administration  of  narcotics  to 
keep  the  patients  quiet  that  efforts  have 
been  made  by  the  physicians to discover 
some  new  and  safe narcotic which would 
produce  sleep  without  evil  after-effects. 
As  a  result  a  simple  remedy  prepared 
from  the  seeds  of  the  white  zapote  is 
now  being  used  in  the  hospitals,  with 
gratifying  success. 
It  produces  a  tran­
quil  sleep,  and  since  its  use  was  begun 
no  deaths  from  cerebral  congestion have 
occurred.

Chicago  aldermen  cannot  be  accused 
of  being  reformers,  but  one  of  them  has 
introduced  an  ordinance  to  prohibit 
football  playing.

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

Shoes  and  Leather

The  New  Woman  a  Figment  of  tne 

Newspaper  Brain.

Written for the T kaoesman.

Having  a  leisure  afternoon,  the  Seek­
er after  Truth  dropped  into  a  shoestore. 
The  proprietor  was  an  old  friend  and 
a  genial  companion  and,  moreovtr,  toe 
Seeker  had  found  this  store  one  of  his 
richest  fields  of  exploration 
into  the 
mysteries  of  human  nature.  Mr.  Mc­
Gregor  himself,  for this  was  his  friend’s 
name,  having 
this  same 
business  ever  since  the  now  flourishing 
little  city  was  a  small  village,  was  an 
able  guide  and  instructor.

conducted 

It  was  a  rather  busy  afternoon  and 
both  the  proprietor  and  his  assistant- 
were  occupied  for  some  time. 
The 
customers  were  mainly women and girls 
The  Seeker  regarded  with  siient  admi 
ration  the  masteriul  skill  with  which 
Mr.  McGiegor  met  the  varied  wants  of 
his  patrons,  or,  what  is  far  more  diffi 
cult,  when  the  want  was  vague  and 
in­
imperceptibly  to 
definite,  gently  and 
the  buyer,  guided  the  purchase 
into 
channels  of  his  own  direction.

called 

There  were  some  old  customers  to 
whom  he  had  sold  footwear  season  after 
season.  One 
for  a  pair  of 
shoes  “ exactly  like  the  last  ones.”   He 
knew  the  size and  quality  as  well as she. 
They  were  wrapped  up  without  trying 
on  at  all,  and  the  whole  deal  finished  in 
less  time  than  it  takes  to  tell 
it.  Alter 
she  was  gone,  Mr.  McGregor  remarked : 
“ That  woman  never  wants  any  fussing. 
Sooner  the  thing 
is  done,  the  belter  it 
suits  her. ”

In  marked  contrast  was  another old 
patron.  After  trying on some  dozen dif­
ferent  styles  and  being  for  a  long  time 
seemingly  unable  to  come  to  any  de­
cision  at  all,  she  finally  went  on  her 
way  rejoicing,  having  purchased  the 
very  pair  of  shoes  that  this  skillful 
salesman  would  have  selected  for  her 
had  the  matter  been 
left  to  his  judg­
ment  at  the  outset.  He  was  far  too 
wise  to  hasten  the  selection  of  covering 
for  those  small  and  shapely  feet  or  to 
jeopardize  his  prospects  of  future  pat­
ronage  by  too  obvious  and  officious  sug­
gestions.

The  Seeker  did  not  fail  to  note  the 
cordial  greeting,  the  tact  and  courtesy 
extended  to  each 
in  turn,  the  ready 
adaptation  of  manner,  the  gentle,  easy 
chitchat  of  conversation  by  which  each 
customer  was  kept  in  good  humor  and 
spirits.

After  all  customers  had  gone,  the 
Seeker  after  Truth  and  the  shoe  dealer 
fell  into  conversation  upon  the  ways  of 
women.

“ Do  you  find  the  New  Woman  hard 

to  please?“   enquired  the  Seeker.

The  New  Woman?”   murmured  the 
merchant; 
" u m - m - m —m— I  never 
have  been  able  to  see  that  there  is  any 
New  Woman. 
I  regard  her  as  a  mere 
figment  of  the  newspaper  brain.  Ever 
since  I  first  read  of  her,  I  have  looked 
for  her,  wishing  to  make  a  regular  cus­
tomer  of  her, 
if  possible.  Having 
waited  long  and  patiently  and  not  hav­
ing  seen  her,  I  am  ready  to  declare  that 
there  really 
I  do 
not  deny  that  there  are  women  pursuing 
new  fads,  but  they  are  at  heart  the  same 
Old  Woman,  after  all.  The  newspaper 
writers  were  in  sore  need  of  a new topic 
and  they  sprung  upon  us  the  New 
Woman.  Because  women  can  now  go 
anywhere  that  men  can  go,  and  do  any­
thing  that  men  can  do—and  a  lot  that 
men  can't  and  don’t  want  to  do— it

is  no  New  Woman. 

doesn't  follow  that  they  are  the  same 
kind  of  beings.  There  seems  to  be  a 
widely  accepted  theory  that  there  has 
been  a  mighty  evolution  of  womankind, 
the  result  being 
the  so-called  New 
Woman  and  that  she  is  a  creature  al­
together  unlike  her  feminine  predeces­
sors,  and  but  slightly  differentiated 
trom  a  man.  But  you  can’t  handle 
her  case 
like  a  man's,  neither  can  you 
use  any  methods  except  those  which 
have  availed  with  her  old-time  sisters, 
if  you  attempt  any  experiments  your 
belief  in  the  theory  is  soon  shattered.

“ Find  two  tiny  pines  in  their  native 
woods.  Leave  one  to  grow  where  Na­
ture  placed 
it  and  transplant  the  other 
to  field  or  lawn.  When  fifty  years  have 
added  their  successive  circles  of  growth 
to  the  trunk  of  each,  you  find  the  forest- 
grown  one  tall  and  slender,  with  but  a 
tuft  of  branches  at  the  top,  the  open- 
grown  tree 
low-branching  and  symme­
trical—the  one  more  valuable  foi  tim 
her,  the  other  for  shade  or  ornament, 
but  neither  having  lost  in  the  least  the 
essential  characteristics  of  a  pine  tree I 
as  distinguished  from  all  other  kinds  of 
woodland  growth.  Both  have  the  same 
resinous  wood,  both  spread  the  same 
carpet  of  brown  needles  at  their  feet, 
md  both  give  to  the  wind  swishing 
through  their  branches  the  same  mourn­
ful  soughing  cadence.

“ Such 

is  woman.  Superficial  traits 
may  vary  from  time  to  time,  but  the 
essential  quality 
remains  unchanged. 
So  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  learn from 
historical  research,  she  has  been  much 
the  same  ever  since  mankind  inhabited 
this  earth—or  at  least  since  he  left  any 
record  of  his  sojourn  here.  When  the 
Pharaohs  ruled 
in  Egypt  she  was  not 
different  from  what  she  is  to-day.  And 
he  who  could  please  her  in  the  days  of 
Confucius,  or  when  the  Greeks  made 
war  against  Troy,  could,  if  present  in 
the  flesh,  cater  successfully  to  her  mod­
ern  sisters;  and,  reversing  matters,  be 
who  can  fit  a  bicycle  boot  to  the  most 
athletic  and  advanced  of  them  all,  had 
in  the  Augustan  Age,  could 
he  lived 
facility  have  adjusted 
with 
jeweled  sandals  to  the 
feet  of  Cleo­
patra. ”  

N.  N.

equal 

Can’t  Fool  a  Woman  About  a  Shoe. 
From the Boston Traveler.

A  nice  young  man  resolved  the  other 
day  to  present  his  beloved  girl  with  a 
nice  pair  of  shoes.  He  accordingly 
procured  her  measure  and  purchased  a 
S2  50  pair. 
In  order  to  make  the  pres­
ent  appear  more  valuable,  he  marked 
$6  upon  the  soles  of  the  shoes,  and  at 
his  request,  the  shoe  man,  who  was  a 
friend  of  his,  put  a  receipted  bill  for $6 
into  one  of  them.  The  presentation 
was  made  and  the  lovers  were  happy, 
as  lovers  should  be.

But  mark  the  sequel:  The  dear  girl 
examined  the  shoes  in  the  daylight  at d 
was  not  satisfied.  She  was  convinced 
that  her  lover  had  been  cheated 
in  the 
purchase  of  such  a  pair  of  shoes  at  that 
price.  She  decided  to  go  and  change 
the  shoes  and  obtain  a  better  bargain.

The  next  day  she  appeared 

in  the 
shop  and  selected  a  pair  of  shoes,  price 
$4,  and  politely  requested  the  clerk  to 
take  back  the  shoes,  for  which  she  said 
her  husband  bad  paid  $6.  The receipted 
nill  was  produced  in  proof  and  the  boot 
man  found  it  impossible  to  go  “ behind 
the  returns. ’ ’  The  smart  girl took  her $4 
pair  of  shoes  and  obtained  $2  in  money 
and  went  home  happy  and  satisfied. 
The  bootseller  sent  a  bill  for $3.50  to 
the  young  man,  who  promptly  paid  the 
difference,  but  he  thinks  that  girl  a  lit­
tle  too  smart  for  him.

Five  dollars 

is  considered  a  large 
weekly  salary  in  Japan,  and  will  insure 
more  comfort  than  twice  that  sum  in 
more  enlightened  lands.

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

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

Johnnie  says o u rT eit  Goods 

ARE  warm!

HEiLD-BEUTSCH  SHOE  CO.,

S&7  PEARL  STREET.

We  Manufacture

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

W 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  Sooth  Ionia  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

HARRISBURG  LINE 
OF  LADIES  SHOES

HIRTH,  KRAUSE  &  CO.,

MICHIGAN  STATE  AGENTS,

Correspondence solicited. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

tell  the  truth  about  it.  No  one  but  a 
robber  would 
take  a  poor  woman’s 
money  for  such  a  cheat.

And  how  long  will  that merchant exist 
—outside  of  a  city,  where  he  has  a 
wide  field  to  work  for  victims?  How 
long  could  you  hold your own  trade  with 
shoddy  of  this  character?

Vou  buy  and  sell  a  man’s  shoe  as  a 
It  has  a  cheap,  flimsy  sole  at­
welt. 
tached  to  the  shoe  by  a  strip  of 
leather 
sewed  all  the  way  around.  Or  maybe 
the  sole 
is  actually  nailed  on  after  a 
channel  is  raised.  Paper or leatherboard 
counters,  shoddy  heels  and  a  rotten  up­
per  complete  a  shoe  that  in  a  couple  of 
weeks  falls  all  to  pieces.

What 

is  the  consumer  going  to  do 
about  it?  Will  he  remember  that  he 
only  paid  a  dollar  and  a  quarter  for  it 
and  that  he  should  expect  nothing  bet­
ter?

You  know  what  he  will  do.  You 
know  how  many  hours  will  elapse  be­
fore  an  angry  customer  rushes 
in  with 
maledictions  on  the  head  of  the  manu­
facturer  and  on  your own  head  and  with 
a  demand  for  another  pair. 
If  he  fails 
to  get  them  his  future  shoe  purchases 
are  likely  to  be  made  somewhere  else. 
If  he  does  get  them  he  is  pretty  sure  to 
be  sore  on  that  particular  make  and  to 
condemn  it  for  years  to  come.

Is  lying  profitable?
Is 

it  going  to  pay  a  manufacturer  to 
turn  out  goods  whose  chief  feature  is 
shoddy?

A  friend  told  me  some  time  ago  that 
when  he  came  to  St.  Louis  in  i8qi  he 
was  attracted  by  the  advertising  of  a 
certain  store  on  a  special  line  of  shoes 
of  a  good  fair  price,  the  strength  of  the 
advertisements  centering  on  the  dura­
bility  and  wear  of  the  same.

however,  of  which  I  am 
firmly  con­
vinced,  and  that  is  that  the  more  mer­
chants  there  aie  who  turn  thieves  and 
it  will  be  for  the  hon­
liars,  the  better 
est  dealer  who 
is  progressive  and 
shrewd.— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

New  Trick  to  Draw  Trade.

On  a  street  off  one  of  the  main 
thoroughfares  a  plainly  clad  young  man 
stood  gazing  into  the  window  of  a  shoe 
store.  A  messenger  boy,  thinking  the 
object  of  the  young  man’s  attention 
must  be  something worth see>ng,stopped 
and  gazed,  too.  The  pair  were  joined 
by  a  clerk  on  his  way  to 
lunch,  and 
presently  quite  a 
little  crowd  had 
swarmed  up.  There  was  nothing  spe­
cial  to  see,  after  a ll;  just  tiers  of  very 
commonplace  shoes,  with 
labels  an­
nouncing  their  prices.  As  fast  as  the 
people 
it 
wasn't  one  of  those  idiotic  mechanical 
toy  monkeys,  or  a  live  sparrow—the  lat­
ter 
is  a  great  curiosity  in  a  window— 
they  passed  on.  One  or  two,  perhaps, 
went  into  the  shop for further inspection 
of  some  pair of  shoes  that  had  caught 
their  fancy.

in  the  crowd 

found  that 

reached 

The  young  man  waited  until 

the 
crowd  had  quite  melted  away.  Then  he 
strolled  on  to  the  next 
corner.  A 
straggling  group  of  men  turned  past 
him  and  toward  the  shoe  shop.  He 
overtook  them  and  walked briskly ahead 
until  he 
the  window  that 
seemed  to attract him.  There he stopped 
short  and  began  to  gaze  at  the  shoes 
with  an  earnestness  that  was  conspicu­
ous.  Every  one  of  the  crowd  following 
paused 
investigate  the  attraction. 
One  of  them  went  into  the  store  to  look 
further.  The  rest  went  on,  the  young 
man  with  them  as  far as  the  corner.

A  dozen  times  an  hour,  all  through 
that  afternoon,  was  the  performance  re­
peated.  At  6 o’clock  the  youth  himself 
entered  the  store.

“ Everything  satisfactory,  I  hope?’ ’ 
he  said  to  the  well-dressed  man  near 
the  door.

to 

II

“ Quite  so.  Come  again  to-morrow,”  
was  the  answer  And  the  well-dressed 
individual  handed  the  youth  a  large 
white  coin.

Why  They  Were  There.

Miss  Goodwell— How  de  do,  Mr. 
Howland?  By  the  way,  I  saw  you  at 
church  Sunday.

Mr.  Howland—Yes,  I  punctured  my 
tire  Saturday.  What  was  the  matter 
with  your  wheel?

The  things  that  we  are  positively  cer­
tain  of  are  few,  and  very  seldom  in  our 
favor.

BULLDOG,  OPERA  LAST

\ o .  151.  Men’s  Fine  Satin  Call.  M cKav  Newell. 
Cylinder  fitted.  Outside  backstay-.  Pongolu  top. 
Bright raised  eyelets,  smooth  inner  sole,  one  piece 
sole  leather  counter,  solid  heel  and  bottom.  Bull­
dog,  Opera,  Coin,  English  or  Boston  cap  toe  or 
Globe,  Glaze  or  French  plain  toe  lasts.  Balls  or 
C o  gress.  Order  sample  case  and  prove  our  as­
sertion  that  this is  the  B E S T   -hoe  made  lor  } i .o .  
Satisfaction guaranteed.  New  samples  now  ready. 
T o  insure an  early ca  1 and  secure exclusive agency 
address 
E.  H.  STARK  &  CO.,

A.  B.  CLARK  Lawton,  Mich.

Worcester.  Mass.

TENDENCY  OF  TRADE.

Is  It  Toward  a  Lower  Standard  of 

Morality?

A  shoe  manufacturer  who  owns  a 
large  factory,  does  a  good  business  and 
is  accounted  successful,  sat  in  an  arm­
chair  in  his  office,  looked  me  square  in 
the  eye  and  said  in  all  seriousness  and 
with  deliberation:

“ Business 

is  coming  to  that  pass 
where 
its  devotees,  to  hold  their own, 
must  lie  and  steal,  cheat  and  rob,  and 
the  bigger  robbers  they  are  the  more 
successful—God  save  the  mark—will 
they  be. ”

This  manufacturer 

is  generally  re­
ferred  to  as  the  soul  of  honor and  up­
rightness.  He  is  not  a  pessimist,  but  a 
genial,  pleasant  gentleman  with 
few 
complaints  His  goods  have  a  reputa­
tion  for  honesty

If  he  were  alone  in  this  belief  that 
lie  and  steal  to 
business  men  must 
make  money,  the  remark  would  hardly 
merit  attention,  but  he  isn’t.  Hardly  a 
week  passes  that  similar  comment  is 
not  heard  in  some  quarter.

Is  it  true?  Does  it  correctly  indicate 
the  condition? 
Is  business  coming  to 
mean  robbery  and  must  the  business 
man  of  the  future  be  a  liar  and  a  thief?
centuries 
classed  a  merchant  as  the  lowest  in  the 
Is  this  caste  to  be  sanc­
social  scale. 
tioned  by  tradesmen 
in  enlightened 
America?

In  Japan  caste  has 

for 

I  don’t believe  it.
The  other  day  I  visited  a  furniture 
store  with  a  friend.  A  smooth  sales­
man  showed  us  an  elegantly  finished 
bed  room  suit.  He  swore  it  was  solid 
mahogany  and  offered  it  for  $45!  Mar­
veling  at  this  extraordinary  bargain,  I 
pulled  open  a  drawer  and  inspected 
it. 
Across  the  front  of  the  drawer  a  nar­
row  dark  line  proved  the  fellow  a  liar. 
The  mahogany  was  the 
thinnest  of 
veneers.

Now,  according  to  the  theory  of  my 
friend  the  shoe  manufacturer,  this clerk 
should  be  a  gleaming  success.  Within 
an  hour  he  was  convicted  of  fully  a 
dozen 
lies  of  the  first  magnitude—and 
lies  that  he  stuck  to  manfully.

But  do  you  suppose  I  would  buy  a 
dollar’s  worth  from  that  clerk  unless  1 
was  dead  sure  from  my  own  knowledge 
that  I  was  getting  good  goods  at  a  fair 
price?

Do  you  suppose,  if  I  had  bought  that 
suit  believing 
it  to  be  solid  mahogany 
and  had  afterward  discovered  it  to  be 
simply  veneer,  that  I  would  have  had 
any  faith  in  that  store  in  future?

That  store  is  tabooed  so  far  as  I  am 
concerned—and  there  are  thousands  like 
me.

Does  this  mean  that  the  liar  and  the 
thief  is  going  to  be  the  successful  mer­
chant?

Without  a  doubt  the  craze  for  cheap­
ness  and  an 
insane  competition  have 
transformed  many  a  shoe  man  into  a 
liar  almost  against  his  will.

He  has 

imitated  the  furniture  man 
and  put  a  thin  veneer  on  a  cheap  sole, 
or  painted  it  to  represent  oak.  He  has 
put  in  leatherboard  counters  and  inner- 
soles  and  guaranteed  them  solid leather. 
He  has  substituted  sheepskin  that  is 
smooth  and  plump  for  kid  in  quarters 
and  vamps,  with  a  reinforcement  per­
haps  of  cheap 
lining  cemented  to  it 
His 
linings  are  flimsy  stuff  stiffened 
with  starch.  He  has  used  the  cheap­
est  thread  and  the  shoe  throughout  is  a 
lie.

To  sell  such  rubbish  a  man  must 

lie 
like  a  trooper.  He  couldn’t  sell  it  and

He  purchased  a  pair  of  the  shoes  ad 
vertised.  They  were  praised  lavishly 
by  the  salesman.

They  gave  no  satisfaction whatever.
That  was  six  years  ago,  yet  this 
triend  of  mine  remembers 
it  as  if  it 
were  only  last  month.  He  should  have 
permitted  the  merchant  to  make the loss 
good,  but  he  didn’t.

He  was  disgusted,  and  you  couldn’t 
into  that  store  to-day.  He 
drive  him 
says  he  was  cheated. 
Is  this  the  sort 
of  thing  that  proves  the  necessity  of 
lying  and  stealing  in  business?

In  St.  Louis  there 

is  a  shoe  store 
that  is  probably  making  faster  progress 
than  any  other.  Not  ten  days  ago  two 
manufacturers  complained  to  me  that 
this  store  demanded  and  obtained  too 
much  for  its  money.  One said  he  could 
scarcely  make  a  profit.  The  other  said 
he  couldn’t  build  a  better  shoe  for  the 
money  than  the  retailer  bought.

That  store  isn’t  building  trade  by  a 
deceptive  policy,  but  by  giving  good 
values  at  reasonable  prices.

On  any  other  basis  I  thoroughly  be­

lieve  that  store  will  fall  behind.

There  is  an  old  and  trite  saying,  ac­
credited  to  Abraham  Lincoln,  to  the 
effect  that  you  can’t  fool  all  of  the  peo­
ple  all  of  the  time—and  1  believe  it 
is 
true.

My  friend, 

If  you  are  dependent  on  steady  trade 
and  transient  trade  is  of  small  propor­
tions  you  cannot  afford  to  deceive.
the  manufacturer 

first 
quoted,  may  believe  differently,  but  I 
doubt  if  he  does.  The  numerous  peo­
ple  who  tell  you  that  a  man  must  steal 
to  make  money  are  usually  getting 
along  pretty  well  and  living  honest,  as 
the  world  goes.

I  refuse  to  believe  that  merchants  are 
becoming  a  gang  of  swindlers,  thieves, 
robbers and  liars.  There  is  one  thing,  .

You  now  need

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Branded  like this one

the  old 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
then  quickly  to  seek  the 
ment  and 
friendly  shadow  of an adjacent doorway. 
The  old  chap  from  around  the  corner 
was  taking  bis  first  lesson  a  la  wheel. 
Who  his  instructor was,  or  how  long  the 
lesson  had  been  going  on,  I  knew  not; 
but  that  instructor’s  breath  was  coming 
in  short  pants.  As 
fellow 
careened  first  to  one  side  and  then  the 
other,  I  fancied  that  I heard  an  ejacula­
tion  that  sounded  very  like  the  last  part 
of  that  old  Scriptural  quotation,  "H im  
that  doubtetb,  etc.,  etc.,”   and  it wasn’t 
the  old  chap’s  voice  either.  Presently, 
as 
if  to  measure  the  strength  of  the 
wheel,  the  old  man  steered  his  mount 
full  tilt 
into  the  curb,  himself  dis­
mounting  with  a  speed  and  grace  far 
from  the  natural.  At  this  juncture  there 
was  some  more  of  the  above  mentioned 
scripture  quoted,  and  this time it wasn’t 
the  instructor’s  voice.  As  the  old  chap 
limped  painfully  off  in  a  homeward  di­
rection,  there  was  an  unwonted  look  of 
in  his  mein,  due,  I  think,  to 
humility 
last  discovered 
the  fact  that  he  had  at 
that  there 
least  one  thing  about 
which  he  knows  nothing.

is  at 

1 2

Clerks’ Corner

My  Neighbor  Who  Knows  It  All. 

Written fo r  the  T r ad esm an.

There  is  an  old  fellow  just  around  the 
corner  who  has  been  having,  so  he 
thinks,  no  end  of  fun  at  my  expense; 
but  I  have 
in  the  hope  that  my 
time  would  come  and  1  could  "laugh 
last. ’ ’

lived 

feel 

fellow, 

Usually,  at  about  7.30 

in  the  even­
ing,  just  as  I  am  settling  myself  for  a 
quiet,  restful  time,  there  is  a  knock  on 
the  door  and  the  old  chap  waltzes  in. 
Now,  in  deference  to  his  hoary  head,  I, 
being  a  young 
in  duty 
bound  to  give  him  my  one  easy  chair. 
He  takes 
it  as  if  it  were  his  due  and, 
assuming  an  aggravatinely  comfortable 
attitude,  proceeds  to  fill  the  room  with 
cigar  smoke  plus  a  great  deal  of  what 
he  calls  wisdom.  The  old  fellow  has  a 
cure  for  all  the  ills  of  the  clerking  fra­
is  always  ready  to  tell  me 
ternity  and 
what  he  would  have  done 
in  this  or 
that  trying  situation. 
Some  of  his 
theories  are  particularly  amusing,  es­
pecially  as  I  know  that  the  old  codger' 
never  goes  into  a  dry  goods  store  unless 
he  sees  some  very  "special  bargain" 
advertised.

Not  a  great  whiie  ago,  in  the  store 
where  I  earn  my  daily  crust  there  were 
offered  two  pairs  of  suspenders  for  25c. 
The  old  fellow,  passing  the  store,  was 
attracted  by  a  window  display  of  these 
suspenders.  He  came  in  and  bought  a 
quarter’s  worth  and  went  on  his  way 
exulting  in  the  thought  that  he  had  se­
cured  a  bargain.  When  he  came  to  try 
them  on,  however,  he  found  that  one 
pair  had  no  stretch ;  and,  if  there is one 
thing  that  his  suspenders  must  have, 
it  is  "stretch."  The  next  day  he  took 
the  rubberless  suspenders  back  ann 
mildly  asked  the  clerk 
to  exchange 
them.  That  clerk  is  one  of these  around 
whom  there  is  an  atmosphere  of  thirtv 
degrees,  and  he  merely  pointed  to  a 
large  sign  which  read :  “ No  goods  ex­
changed. "   Next to suspenders that don't 
stretch there  is nothing  like  that  kind  of 
treatment  for  making  the  old  chap mad, 
and  the  combination  was  altogether 
more  than  he  could  stand.  As  the clerk 
said,  in  relating  the 
incident  to  me, 
when  in  pity  for  the old fellow's chagrin 
I  got  the  suspenders  exchanged 
for 
him,  "T h e  old  man  hopped  around 
here  like  a  hen  on  a  hot  griddle."

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  since the sus­
pender  episode,  the  old  chap  has  no 
more  balm  for  the  wounded  pride  of the 
clerking  fraternity.  Last  evening,  as 
he  luxuriated  in  my  easy  chair,  he  tried 
to  convince  me  that  the  professional 
shopper  is  "an   angel  in  disguise. "

Ever  since  I  purchased  my  wheel 
early  last  spring  and  in  the  secrecy  of a 
retired  neighborhood  took  my  first  les 
son,  this  old  chap  has  been  dropping 
occasional,  although  unsuccessful  hints 
about  borrowing  it  and learning  to  ride. 
Now,  while  I  have  never  refused,  I 
have  faithfully  recommended  to  him  a 
friend  of  mine  who  makes  a  business  of 
renting  wheels.  I  have  also  maintained 
is  one  of  his 
that  a  man’s  bicycle 
earthly  possessions  that 
is  not,  under 
any  consideration,  to  be  loaned.  Well, 
my  reluctance  to  lend  my  wheel  seemed 
only  to  increase  the  old  codger’s  desire 
to  learn.

in  October, 

One  evening  early 

I 
chanced  to  walk down Eighteenth street, 
which 
is  one  of  our  beautiful  asphalt 
paved  thoroughfares  and  in  the  evening 
always  free  from  traffic,  when  lo !  I  saw 
a  sight  that  caused  me  to  stop  in amaze­

As 

in  the  case  of  the  suspenders,  I 
again  volunteered  to  help  the  old  fellow 
out  of  his  troubles,  and  the  following 
evening  found  me,  in  a  lather  of  per­
spiration,  prancing  up  and down  Eight­
eenth  street  in  a  vain  endeavor  to  keep 
the  old  man  from  smashing  my  wheel 
and  his  other  kneecap. 
I  once  thought 
that  there  is  nothing  more  aggravating 
than  a  "sample  fiend;"  but  I  had  not 
then  undertaken  to  teach  my  old  friend 
to  ride  a  wheel. 
I  never  before  knew
what  wonderful  ability  I  had  in  the  art 
of  swearing. 
I  would  here  say,  so  that 
"all  who  run  may  read,”   if  you  value 
your  good  Christian  reputation,  never 
undertake  to  teach  any  one  who  is  over 
60  how  to  ride  a  wheel.

After  many  and  oft  repeated  efforts 
the  old  chap  succeeded  in  learning  to 
ride,  and 
is  now  the  proud  possessor  of 
a  wheel  of  his  own.  For  some  unex 
plained  reason,  when  he  drops  in  now 
of  an  evening  to occupy  my  easy  chair, 
he  no  longer  wears  that  air  of  calm  su­
periority,  but  treats  me  with  due  defer­
ence. 

Mac  A llan.

Light  Up  the  Store.
From the Chicago Apparel Gazette.

A  dingy  store  makes  dingy  trade.
A  wide  awake  merchant  can  scarcely 
be  extravagant  of  light. 
If  necessary, 
cut  expenses  in  other  directions  and use 
all  the  light  your  facilities  will  permit 
—both 
in  the  windows  and  inside  the 
store.

Nothing  is  more  attractive  at  night 
than  a  brilliantly  lighted  store--it  will 
draw  trade.
Have  your  porter  light  up  the  whole 
store  when  it  becomes  necessary  to  use 
light  in  any  part  of  it.  Do  not  light  a 
burner  here  and  after  a  while  light  an­
other  there  until  you  have  finally  com­
pleted  the  operation  of  illuminating  the 
store.

Economv  in  this  direction 

is  false 
economy—light  the  entire  store  at  once 
and  turn  all  out  at  once,  not  part  at  a 
time—"outshine  any  other  store  in  the 
block,”   if  you  can,  is  good  policy.

Forged  a  Check  to  Buy  a  Bible. 

From the Cincinnati  Commercial Tribune.
Several  days  ago  one  of  the 

local 
hanks  discovered  that  a  check  drawn  in 
favor  of  the  Methodist  Book  Concern, 
which  bad  been  deposited  by 
it  and 
went  through  the  Clearing  House in reg­
ular  form,  was  a  forged  one.  As  the 
check,  however,  was  only  for $5,  instead 
of  sending  it  back  to  the  clearing  bank, 
the  teller  took  it  to  the  Methodist  Book 
Concern  and  told  them  it  was a  forgery. 
After  looking  at 
in  a 
thoughtful  manner,  the  head  of  the  firm 
said  that  the  man  purchased  a  Bible 
with  that  check.

carefully 

it 

Is  The  Best

That money can  buy.

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

CIark=Jewell-Wells Co.,

Western  Michigan  Agents.

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.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.,

Sole  Owners.

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

is

The  Meat  Market
Maine’s  Fresh  Pork  Clubs.

Theie  are  more  than  1,000  fresh  pork 
clubs  in  active  operation  in  Maine  to­
day,  and  some  of  them  have  been  in 
existence  for  over  a  century.  Although 
the  State  Assessors  and  census  enumer­
ators  furnish  no  statistics  bearing  on 
the  subject,  it  is  probable  that  the  total 
membership  of  the  Maine  fresh  pork 
clubs  exceeds  10,000  persons.

individual 

fresh  pork  club 

A  fresh  pork  club  is  organized  and 
maintained  to  distribute  fresh  pork, 
every  member  coming  in  for as  much 
sparerib,  chop,  .or  shoulder  as  he 
is 
willing  to  distribute.  For  obvious  and 
anatomical  reasons  the  membership  of 
any 
is 
limited  to  the  amount  of 
lean  pork 
which  an  average  pig  is  able  to furnish. 
As  the  best  fed  pig  is  not  all  fat,  and  as 
one  family 
is  unable  to  consume  the 
lean  meat  of  a  Wiling  before  it  spoils, 
the  fresh  pork  club  comes  in  and  eats 
the  unsalted  meat, 
thus  saving  the 
expense  of  putting  up  ice  and  buying 
refrigerators.

is 

In  the  absence  of 

The  workings  of  a  fresh  pork  club 
are  easy  to  understand.  An  average 
Maine  pig,  when  fat  enough 
to  kill, 
weighs  about  300  pounds,  and  of  this 
perhaps  fifty  pounds 
in  spareribs, 
chops,  and  other  lean  parts  that  are  un­
fit  to  salt  and  unsuited  for  the  smoke­
house. 
ice  houses 
and  refrigerators  much  of  this  pork 
would  spoil  before  the  family  could  eat 
it,  so  the  fifty  pounds  is  divided 
into 
ten  parcels  of  five  pounds  each,  and 
nine  of  these  are  sent  to  as  many  mem­
bers  of  the  fresh  pork  club,  while  the 
tenth 
It 
is  seldom  that  a  club  contains  more 
than  ten  families,  because  every  addi­
tional  member  divides  the  pork  into 
smaller  parcels.  Applications for mem 
bership  to  the  different  clubs  often  are 
filed  years  in  advance,  and  whenever 
vacancy  occurs  the  new  member is noti­
fied  of  his  election  by  receiving  a  por­
tion  of  the  first  pig  that  is  killed  by  a 
member  of  the  club.  When  the  num­
ber  of  waiting  applicants  reaches  nine 
or  ten  they  are  notified  of  the  fact,  and 
they  organize  as  a  new  club,  with  full 
powers  to  distribute  pork,  choose  new 
members  or  discharge  old  ones.

is  kept  to  be  eaten  at  home. 

last  porker 

The  advantages  to  be  gained  from 
active  membership  in  a  fresh  pork  club 
are  obvious.  The  pig  killing  begins  in 
September  and  continues  at  intervals 
until  Christmas.  The  family  which 
is 
not  a  member  of  a  club  can  have  more 
fresh  pork  than 
it  needs  for  perhaps  a 
week,  and  must  salt  all  the  rest.  By 
joining  a  club  the  same  family  can pro­
long  the  fresh  pork  season  from  the 
time  the  first  member  kills  a  pig  until 
in  the  club  is  salted 
the 
down  for  winter. 
Instead  of  eating 
fresh  pork  once  a  year,  the  club  mem­
bers  can  have  it  ten  times  a  year,  and 
keep  up  the  revels  from  Labor  Day  to 
New  Year’s.  So 
important  have  the 
fresh  pork  clubs  become  in  many  com­
munities  that  weddings,  parties,  and 
many  social  events  are  arranged  so  they 
may  come  off  in  pig-killing  time. 
In 
case  of  birthday  or  wedding  anniver­
saries  one  of  the  club  members  kills 
his  pig  a  few  days  before  the  festival 
in  order  to  supply  the  guests.

Mutton  Sheep.

Sometimes  a  very  fair  article  of  mut­
ton  can  be  obtained  in  our  markets,  but 
it  does  not  often  compare  with  the 
product  of  England  and Canada.  Plenty 
of  sheep  are  marketed  for  mutton,  but 
they  are  mostly  of  breeds  used  for  pro­
ducing  wool,  as  but  few  farmers  take 
any  interest  in  breeding  for  meat.  G. 
W.  Franklin,  in  an  address  before  the 
Iowa  Stock  Breeders’  Association,  goes 
so  far  as  to  say  that  consumers  of  mut­
ton,  by  being  accustomed  to  the  meat 
from  wool  sheep,  have  not  learned  to 
demand  quality.  He  claims  that  the 
most  profitable  sheep 
is  the  one  that 
will  lay  on  the  most  meat  in the shortest 
time,  and  says  farmers  “ should  breed 
for  mutton  and 
let  the  wool  take  care 
of  itself.”

The  Southdown,  while  not  large,  is

Envy  is  not  only  the  meanest  passion 
is  the  most 

of  the  human  heart,  but 
common  one,  too,

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

R.  E.  STURGIS,  General  M anager  of  W estern  Office,  Allegan,  n ich .

one  of  the  hardiest  breeds,  but  the  large 
mutton  breeds  require  more  careful  at­
tention  than  most  of  our  farmers  are 
willing  to  give.  This  is  the  only  ob 
jection  to  them,  and  it  is  not  an  objec 
tion  that  reflects  credit  on  the  farmers 
In  England,  where 
the  climate  L 
soggy  with  moisture,  and 
in  Canada 
much  colder  than  ours,  the  big  mutton 
breeds  are  grown  in  large numbers.  In 
deed,  little  England  has  within  ten mil 
lion  as  many  sheep  as  the  big  United 
States,  and,  dogs  excepted,  the  condi­
tions  for  producing  them  are  much  the 
better  here.

•  The  Man,  the  Wife,  the  Dress.

From  the New York Sun.

A  man  stood  in  the  middle  of  an aisl 
in  a  Broadway  dry  goods  store  one  day 
last  week.  He  looked  disconsolate.  At 
a  nearby  counter  his  wife  was  making 
purchases. 
Suddenly  the  man’s  face 
lighted  up  and  he  took  a  step  forward 
and  extended  his  hand  to  another  man 
who  had  appeared  around  a  counter.

“ Hello!”   he  exclaimed,  “ has  your 

wife  brought  you  to  this,  too?”

“ Yes,”   said  the  other  man.  “ I  told 
her  she  could  have  a  new  dress,  and 
nothing  would  do  but  I  must  come  and 
pick  out  all  the  materials.  She’s  done 
all  the  selecting  so  far  and the only time 
I  made  an  objection  I  got  sat  on.”
“ Say,”   said  the  first  man,  assuming 
a  confidential  air,  “ you’ve been married 
five  years  and  I’ve  been  married  only 
one.  Now  just  tell  me  if  anything  like 
this  ever  happened  to  you.  My  wife 
wanted  a  dress,  a  kind  of  potato  sack 
stuff  which 
is  transparent  enough  to 
make 
it  worth  while  to  put  expensive 
silk  under  it.  She  bought  all  the  ma 
terial  and  a  lot  of  ribbon.  Then  she 
hired  a  dressmaker  and  for  two  days 
they’ve  been  at  it.  This  morning  my 
wife  said  to  me: 
‘ You  must  come 
down  to  the  store with  me  this morning. 
We  underestimated  a  little  on  my  dress 
and  must  get  some  more  ribbon. ’ 
I 
came,  and  the  first  thing  she  did  was  to 
buy  eighty  yards  of  black,  white and 
green  ribbon !  It  took  my  breath  away. 
When  I  recovered  I  said: 
‘ Did  you 
underestimate  that  much?’  Oh,  that’s 
not  all,’  she  said. 
‘ We  must  get  twelve 
yards  more  of  black  braid  and  three 
yards  of  taffeta,’  that’s  silk,  you  know. 
Well,  I  got  into  an  argument  with  her, 
maintaining  that  it  was  impossible  for 
anybody  to  underestimate  eighty  yards 
on  ribbon,  let  alone  the  other  things. 
She  won’t  speak  to  me  now.  She  just 
gave  me  a 
look,  and  said,  ‘ Oh,  you 
needn’t  pay  for  i t ;  mother  will. ’  Now, 
isn’t 
it  absurd  for  anybody  to  say  that 
she  underestimated  eighty  yards  of  rib­
bon?”

“ It  does  seem foolish, ”   said the  other 
man,  “ but  for  heaven’s  sake  when  the 
dress 
is  done  don’t  say  you  can’t 
imagine  where  all  the  ribbon  is.  You 
can  bet  it’s  all  there.”

A  Barnacle  on  Legitimate  Trade. 

From the St. Louis Grocer.

in 

trade. 

increase 

Since  the 

inception  of  the  trading 
stamp  scheme  in St.  Louis,  a  great  deal 
has  been  said  about 
it  pro  and  con. 
We  have  advised  the  retail  trade to fight 
shy  of  the  scheme,  for  the  reason  that  it 
will  reduce  their  net  profits  without  a 
corresponding 
If 
the  retailer  makes  a  contract  with  the 
trading  stamp  company 
it  will  hold 
good,  as  the 
issuance  of  the  stamps  is 
in  violation  of  the  United  States 
not 
in  the  retail  business  are 
law.  Profits 
small  enough 
in  all  conscience,  with­
out  giving  away  a  handsome  percentage 
of  their  profits  to  a  concern  that 
‘ reaps 
where 
it  does  not  sow,”   and  is  purely 
and  simply  a  barnacle  on  the  body  pol­
itic.  Avoid  the  trading  stamp  scheme.

Capacity  Gets  There.

“ What 

is  business  capacity.  Uncle 

Bill?”

“ Business  capacity 

is  having  sense 
enough  to  go  to  the  back  door  when 
people  won’t  answer  a  ring  at  the  front 
door. ’ ’

Hullo!
Written  for the T r ad esm an.

W hen  you see a  man  in  woe 
W alk right up anti  sav  Ilu llo !
Say  “  hullo,”  anti  “  how d’ve  do,
H ow ’s  the world a-using- you ?”

Bring your hand  down  with a whack,
Let it naught  of friendship  lack:
W altz right  up and  don’t  be slow,
Grin, and shake and  sav  “ hullo!”

Is  he clothed  in  rags, oh,  sho!
W alk straight up and sav “ hullo!”

Rags is but -,t cotton  roll 
Just for wrapping  up a soul.
And a soul is  worth a true 
H ale and  hearty  “  how  d'ye do?”

Don’t  wait for the crowd to go;
W alk  right up and  say  “ hullo!”

W hen  big vessels  meet,  they sav,
T hey salute and  sail away.

Just the same are you and  rue—
Lonesome ships upon a sea;

Each one sailing his  own jog 
F or a port beyond  the fog.

Let your speaking trumpet blow ;
Lift  your horn and say  “  hullo!”

Say  “  hullo ”  and  “  how  d’ye do ” — 
Other folks are good  as you.

W ’en  you leave your house of clav 
W andering in the far awav,

W ’en you travel through the strange 
Country t’other side the range,

Then  the soul you’ ve cheered  w ill  know 
W ho you  be,  and say  “ hullo!”

E .  W .  R o w e l l .

Spurt  Advertising.

Spurt  advertising,  like a short-winded 
race  horse,  never  wins  the  race.  Just 
as  well  move  your  store  every  three 
months  as  to  do  spurt  advertising.  Peo­
ple  may  not  need  what  you  sell  just 
now,  but  they  will  sooner  or  later,  and  if 
when  they  do  want 
it  they  don’t  find 
your  advertisement  where  they  first  saw 
it,  they will  naturally  conclude  you  have 
quit  business.  What  a  salesman  is  to 
your  business  just  such  is  your  adver­
tisement.  Each  sells  your goods,  and 
you  cannot  prosper  without  both.

The  Point  of  View.

when  he  borrows  your  money.”

is  what  a  man  pays  you 

“ What  is  interest?”
“ Interest 
“ What  is  usury?”
“ Usury 

is  what  you  have  to  pay  a 

man  when  you  borrow  his  money.”

Association Matters

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J . W is l e u ,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E  
A.  St o w e ,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F 
T a t m a n ,  Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President,  C h a s .  F.  B o c k ,  Battle  Creek;  Vice- 
President,  H.  W.  W e b b e r ,  West  Bay  City ; 
Treasurer,  H e n r y  C.  M in n ie ,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
K l a p

President,  F r a n k  J.  D y k ;  Secretary,  Homed 

Treasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.

Saginaw  Mercantile  Association 

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association

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

t e r ;  Treasurer, J.  L.  Peter m ann

Lansing  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

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

Da 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.  Hammond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  W h ip p l e ;  Secretary, G. T . Camp 

b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E.  C o llin s.

Alpena  Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e.

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

Treasurer. S. J.  Hu ppo r d.

ABSOLUTE

P U R E  GROUND S P IC E S , BAKING PO W D ER 

B U TC H E R S’  S U P P L IE S ,  ETC.

FOR  THE  TRADE.

THE VINKEMULDER COMPANY,

PHONE  555.

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

Elgin  System of Creameries

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

JL

m k

A  MODEL  CREAM ERY  OF  THE  TRUE  SYSTE M

True  Dairy  Supply  Com pany,

303  to  309  Lock  Street, 

. 

Syracuse,  New  York.

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M ICHIG AN  T R A D E S M A N

Fruits  and  Produce.

Reform  Begins  at  Home.

The  Chicago  Grocers’  Criterion  is 
terribly  exercised  over  the  fact 
that 
some  Michigan  fruit  growers  piactice 
deception 
in  preparing  their  fruit  for 
market  and  actually  place  the  large  ap­
ples  and  peaches  on  the  top  of  the 
package.  “  I’m not denyin’  the  women’s 
foolish,”   remarked  Mrs.  Poyser. 
‘ ‘ God 
Almighty  made 
’em  so  to  match  the 
men.”   The  Tradesman  is  not  inclined 
to  deny  the  truth  of  the  charge  against 
Michigan  fruit  growers,  but  insists  that 
it 
is  hardly  consistent  for  a  Chicago 
journal  to  file  a  complaint  of  this  kind, 
when  it  is  remembered  that  a  large part 
of  the  Michigan  fruit  which  finds  an 
outlet  through  the  Chicago  market  is 
picked  and  packed  under the  personal 
direction  and  supervision  of  Chicago 
men. 
If  the  observant  growers  happen 
to  remember  some  of  the  tricks  taught 
them  by  their  Chicago  customers  and 
practice  the  same  tactics  on  purchasers 
of  subsequent  shipments,  it  ill  becomes 
Chicago  men to  complain  ever the exist­
ence  of  a  custom  which  they  themselves 
inaugurated  and  profited  by.

the 

The  Tradesman  recently  had  its  at­
tention  called  to  a  complaint  of  this 
character, 
registered  by  a  Chicago 
house,  investigation  disclosing  the  fact 
that 
fruit  had  been  originally 
shipped  by  the  grower  in  bushel  bas­
kets  and  repacked  in  fifth  bushel  bas­
kets—six  to  the  bushel—by  the  enter­
prising  Chicago  dealer,  who,  when  ac­
cused  of  sel'ing fruit irregularly packed, 
attributed  the  presence  of  the 
large 
fruit  at  the  top  of  the  package  to  the 
craftiness  of  the  farmer  instead  of to the 
chicanery  of  the  dealer  himself.

If  the  Criterion  will  pardon  the  sug­
its 
gestion,  the  Tradesman  admonishes 
Chicago  contemporary  to  inaugurate  a 
crusade  against  the  dozens  of  fraudu­
lent  and  dishonest  commission  houses 
in  the  Windy  City  which are continually 
soliciting  consignments  from  Michigan 
shippers  by  offering  to  pay  to per  cent, 
more  than  the  goods  are  actually  worth 
—a practice  which  is  quite  as  reprehen­
sible,  by  the  way,  as  the  awful  sin  of 
placing  the  big  fruit  on  the  top  of  the 
package.  True  reform  begins  at  home, 
and 
if  the  time  ever  comes  when  the 
Criterion  shall  have  done  for  Chicago 
what  the  Tradesman  has  done  for Grand 
Rapids—exposed  and  driven  out  of 
business  the  dishonest  produce  dealers 
—the  Tradesman  will  cheerfully  join 
the  Criteiion  in  a  crusade  to  put  an  end 
to 
represensible  practice— intro­
duced  in  Michigan  by  Chicago  dealers 
— of  skillfully  exploiting  the 
choice 
apples  at  the  top  of  the  basket.

the 

Farmers  as  Cheese  Exporters. 

From  the Montreal Trade Bulletin.

After  the  many  failures  that  have 
been  experienced  by farmers attempting 
to  run  the  whole  business  of  the  Gran­
ger  societies  about  eighteen  or  twenty 
years  ago  down  to  the  present  time,  one 
w o u ld   naturally  suppose  that  the  re­
peated  adverse  results  arising 
there­
from 
in  pecuniary  sense  would  have 
deterred  them  from  going  beyond  their 
legitimate  sphere  by  trying  to  do  the 
middleman’s  business  as  well  as  their 
own.  The  latest 
instance  of  farmers 
talking  about  starting 
in  the  export 
trade,  refers  to  some  of  the  members  of 
the  Frontenac  Cheese  Board,  who,  mad­
dened  at  the  chance  thev  lost  by  refus­
ing  the  good  prices  offered  them  some 
time  ago,  have  determined  to  ship  the 
cheese on their  own  account  to  the  Eng­
lish  market,  and 
is  understood  that 
their  representative  was  in  the  city  last 
week  xaaking  financial arrangements  to

it 

for  marketing 

have  them  shipped  past  the  regular 
in  order  to  get  the 
commission  houses 
benefit  of  that  part  of  the  business. 
If 
farmers  had  experienced  a  poor  season 
and  were  driven  to  their  wits’  ends 
in 
order  to  realize  a  profit  on  their cheese 
industry,  we  could  have  better  under­
stood  their  present  efforts  as  a  desper­
ate  resort  to  enter  into  the  business  of 
the  middlemen  and  shippers;  but  the 
is  that  farmers  never  had  a  more 
fact 
prosperous  year 
their 
cheese  than  during  the  present  one, 
prices  from  the  beginning  of  the  season 
having  been  exceptionally  good,  and 
when 
in  addition  it  is  considered  that 
the  production  this  year  has  increased 
about  33  per cent.,  producers  should  be 
the  last  to  grumble  at  the  recent  reduc­
tion  in  prices,  which  still  show  them  a 
fair  profit.  Regarding  the  cheese  which 
the  Frontenac  farmers  intend  shipping, 
we  hope  they  will  do  well,  and  show 
good  returns;  but  we  think  we  are  not 
exaggerating 
in  saying  that  it  will  be 
about  the  first  consignment  of  cheese  on 
grangers’  account  that  ever  paid ;  while 
on  the  other  hand,  the  fact  of  farmers’ 
shipping  cheese  on  their own  account 
outside  of  the  regular  channels,  will  be 
apt  to  give  a  false  impression  of  the 
situation  on  this  side,  as 
it  will  nat­
urally  be 
inferred  by  English  buyers 
that  if  Canadian  farmers  are  commenc­
ing  to  ship  cheese  on  their  own  ac­
count,  it 
is  because  they  cannot  find  a 
market  at  any  price,  and  the 
inference 
will  be  that  stocks  here  are  much  heav­
ier  than  they  actually  are. 
It  is  to  be 
hoped,  however,  that  the  reported  ship­
ment  of  about 
i, 600  boxes  on  factory- 
men’s  account  will  not  have  the  bad 
effect  on  the  other  side  which  some  fear 
will  he  produced  when  it  gets  to its des­
tination  and  is known generally through­
out  the  trade  there.
Largest  Apple  Orchard  in  the  World.
Geo.  M.  Noble,  Vice-President  of  the 
in  Topeka, 

largest  financial  institution 
recently  remarked  to  a  reporter:
“ The  largest  apple  orchard 

in  the 
world  is  in  Kansas. 
It  comprises  1,300 
in  a  single  season  the  crop 
acres,  and 
of  apples  has  brought the  owner $40,000. 
Kansas  people  are  beginning  to  get  a 
large  revenue  from  such  by-products  of 
the  land.  A  few  years  ago  there  was 
little  or  no  money  made  from  a  source 
that  now  brings  in  millions—the  dairy 
and  poultry  business.  Th^se  industries 
are  now  conducted  on  scientific  prin­
ciples,  and  are  being  taken  hold  of  by 
college-bred  men  with  special  training. 
The  State  is  enjoving  an  era  of  wonder­
ful  prosperity.  The  stories  in  the  press 
of  the  rush  of  farmers  to  pay  off  mort­
gages  have  not  been  exaggerated.  The 
farmers  have  money  to  cancel  their 
debts  and  are  getting  free  of  incum­
brances  on  their  property.”

is  now 
in  bouillon 

Microbes  Used  in  Making  Butter.
The  culture  of  the  micrococus  for  use 
commercially 
in  creameries 
in  specially- 
propagated 
for 
constructed  flasks.  When  ready 
shipment  the  culture 
is  transferred  to 
sterilized  bottles  under  aseptic  condi­
tions  and  hermetically  sealed  by  means 
of  sterilized  corks  and  melted  paraffine. 
Put  up  in  this  way,  the  culture may  be 
kept  for  an  indefinite  time  without  dan­
ger  of  infection  by  any  other  organism. 
Experiments  made  on  a  commercial 
scale  show  that  cream  ripened  with  the 
aid  of  fresh,  pure  cultures  of  these  or­
ganisms  produces  generally  better  but­
ter  than  the  same  cream  ripened  in  the 
usual  way.  The  new  species  has  the 
butyri-aroma- 
name  of  micrococus 
faciens,  and 
its  extensive  use  is  pre­
dicted  in  the  near  future.

The  number  of  Chinese  in  San  Fran­
cisco 
is  about  20,000,  including  2,500 
women.  Of  these  women  about  1,500 
are  slaves  in  the  fullest  sense  of  the 
word,  being  sold  at  from  $150 to  $3,500 
each,  according  to  age  and  looks.

A  “ humane”   police  club  has  been 
placed  on  the  market  by  a  New  York 
It  remains  to  be  seen  what  the 
firm. 
effect  humane 01  otherwise  will  be when 
placed  oa  the  cranium  of  a  breaker of 
the  law.

BUTTER
EGGS

Handled  only  on  Commission.

On  Commission  or  bought  on  track.
M.  R.  ALD EN ,  98  S.  Division  St.,  Grand  Rapids.

All  kinds  of

V E G E T A B L E S

Cranberries
Grapes
Celery
Onions
Apples
MILLER &  TEASDALE  CO.

The Vinkemulder Company,

Ask  for  prices  upon  carlots  or  less.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

FRUIT  AND  PRODUCE  BROKERS

BEANS 
ONIONS 

o u r  

s p e c ia l t ie s  

POTATOES
CABBAGE

601  NORTH  THIRD  ST., 

ST.  LOUIS,  MO.

Consignments solicited.  Advances made. 

Reference:  American  Exchange  Bank,  St.  Louis.

Harris & Frutchey

are the only  exclusive  dealers in  BUTTER 
and  EQG5   in  Detroit.  They  can  handle 
your  shipments  to  the  be*t  advantage  and 
will pay cash for eggs on track at your station.

60  Woodbridge  St.,  W . 

350  High  St.

Telephone 2524.

Potatoes  --  Beaps  --  Opiops

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

M H Q C I   C   V   P   P   n   Q  
  T  D   n   V   0 . s 

U O C

L C

a6-a8.30.3a Ottawa St.

tirand  Rapids,  ftich.

Established  1876. 

W holesale Seeds,  Potatoes, Beans,  Fruits.

S

E

E D

S

BEST  GRADES.  AND 
PRICES  ALWAYS  RIGHT.

CLOVER
TIMOTHY
ALSYKE

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

, 4 . . .   ,6 
Qrand  Rapids,  Michigan. 

D ivisi«.s ,.. 

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

M ise D tiG   Fibre 
Package  g o .
M anufacturer  of
Packages for marketing
Lard,  Butter,  Jelly, 
Mincemeat,  etc.

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

187-189  Canal  St
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

1 6

THE  BANANA.

How  and  Where  It  Is  Grown  and 

Gathered.

Fiom the Grocery World.

Prior  to  the  Cuban  war  nearly  all  of 
the  bananas  which  came  to  the  United 
In 
States  were  the  product  of  Cuba. 
days  of  peace  Cuba 
alone  sent  us
2.000.  000  bunches  of  bananas  yearly. 
So  extensive  was  the  industry  of  that 
island,  indeed,  that  Cuba  was becoming 
practically  given  over  to  banana-grow­
ing,  and  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dol­
lars  of  American  money  went  there 
every  year  in  return  for  the  fruit.  Cu­
ban  bananas  continued  to  come  during 
1895,  but  after  that  the  trade  had  to  be 
abandoned  because  of  the  revolution­
ary  complications.

At  present  absolutely  no  bananas 
come  to  this  country  from  Cuba.  The 
industry  has  been  taken  up  where  Cuba 
left  off  by  others  of  the  West  India 
group,  notably  Jamaica  and  Porto Rico. 
The  business  paid  the  Cuban  planters 
so  well  that  nearly  everybody  went  into 
it 
in  the  other  islands  named,  as  well 
as  in  Mexico  and  Central  America,  and 
increase  in  the  supply  has  seemed 
this 
increase  in 
to  cause  a  corresponding 
the  American  demand. 
It 
is  probable 
that  the  consumption  of  bananas  in  the 
United  States  for  1897  will  be  between
15.000.  000  and  20, 000,000  bunches,  of 
which  Jamaica  alone  sent  4, 000, 000.

The  banana  is  a  very  healthful  fruit, 
and 
is  recommended  by  physicians 
everywhere.  Where  several  years  ago  it 
was  only  eaten  in  the  natural  state,  to­
day  it  is  cooked  and  variously  prepared 
in  several  ways,  and  has  come  to  be one 
of  the  standard  foods  for  the  table.

A  visit  to  the  banana-growing  and 
shipping  districts  of  Jamaica  is  a  very 
interesting  experience.  The  boats  en­
gaged  in  the  industry  are  coasting  ves­
sels  which  can  anchor 
immediately 
alongside  the  wharves  of the island,  and 
the  fruit  is  loaded  directly  upon  them. 
Most  of 
from  20,000  to 
30,000  bunches  every  trip,  which  means 
probably  from  2,000,000  to  4, 000,000 
bananas.  The  boats  are  both  loaded 
and  unloaded  with  the  greatest  possible 
quickness,  as  there 
is  no  more  perish­
able  fruit  than  the  banana,  and  a  few 
hours  lost  may  mean  the  destruction  of 
an  entire  cargo.

them  carry 

On  the  days  when  the  ships  are  being 
loaded  the  bananas  pour  into  the  wharf 
in  comparatively  small  quantities  from 
all  of  the  surrounding  sections.  They 
are  brought  by  the  natives  in  carts  of 
unique  construction,  often  hauled  by 
cattle.  The  few  bunches  which  each 
cart  brings  are  bustled  over  the  vessel’s 
side  into  the  hold,  and  are  packed  away 
there  in  compact  rows.  When  a  vesssel 
secures  an 
insufficient  quantity  of 
bananas  at  any  one  wharf,  she  sails 
along  the  coast  until  sufficient  fruit  is 
obtained.  When  this  is  done  the  fruit 
is  loaded  by  rafts,  which  pole  from  the 
shore  to  the  ship.
This  process 

is  continued  until  the 
vessels  are  loaded  to  the  batches.  When 
the  storage  space  is  exhausted  the  ship 
gets  under  way  and  makes  the  very  best

possible  time  to  her American  destina­
tion. 
The  boats,  considering  their 
primitive  character,  can  make  very  fair 
time,  and  can  unload  at  either  Phila­
delphia  or  New  York  within  six  days 
alter  the  fruit  is  cut,  making  the  actual 
trip 
in  three  or  four  days.  Several 
American firms also  run  a  line  of  steam­
ers,  and  these  bring  bananas  directly  to 
Philadelphia  and  New  York.

loading  of 

The  actual 

the  regular 
banana  vessels 
is  a  very  systematic 
business.  As  each  string  of  the  fruit  is 
brought  on  deck 
is  classed  and 
counted  and  assorted  with  the particular 
lot  to  which  its  quality  entitles  it.  The 
counters  sit  beside  thé  rail  and  operate 
little  automatic  machines  which  regis­
ter  the  exact  number  of  bunches  put  in­
to  each  load,  so  that  an  accurate  tally 
is  constantly  kept  of  the  contents  of  the 
ship.

it 

As  a  rule,  bananas  from  these  islands 
are  picked  green,  and  many  of  them 
reach  the  Philadelphia  and  New  York 
markets  in  that condition,  being allowed 
to  ripen  in  the  storing  rooms  of  the job­
If  the  fruit  were  picked  ripe  it 
bers. 
would  be  past  hope  by  the  time 
it 
reached  the  markets. 
The  artificial 
ripening  affects  the  flavor  to  some  ex­
tent.
In  the  banana’s  own  country  this fruit 
is  of  great  importance  besides  its  uses 
as  a  fruit.  The  dried 
leaves  are  used 
as  packing  material,  and  the 
fresh 
leaves  are  used  to  shade  young  coffee 
seedlings 
The 
leaves  have  a  medical  use  also, 
young 
being  used  for  dressing  blisters, 
for 
which  their  soft  smoothness  admirably 
adapts  them.  The  ash  of  the  leaves, 
when  burned,  makes  a  very  good  soap 
substitute,  and  a  solution  of  the  ash 
makes  a  very  good  salt,  at  a  pinch. 
Cigarette  wrappers  are  often  made  from 
the leaves  and  the  juice  is  rich  in  tan­
nin.

in  the  nursery  beds. 

Some  bananas,  chiefly  of  the  red  va­
in  Lower  California, 

riety,  are  grown 
but  not  at  a  profit  to  the  grower.

An  Attack  of  the  Entire  Line.

A  man  who  had  read  advertisements 
of  a  gas  attachment  guaranteed  to  save 
50  per  cent,  and  make  no  dirt  went  to 
the  office  of  the  gas  company  and 
bought  the  thing.  The  man  who  took 
the  money  said  the  article  would  go  up 
the  next  day.  The  purchaser  waited 
four  days.  Then  he  wrote  something 
on  a  postal  card  and  mailed 
it.  Then 
he  waited  two  days.  After  this  he  wrote 
a  letter.  No  answer.  Then  he  wrote 
another  and  this  is  the  way the envelope 
was  addressed :

For the President,

V ice  President,
Secretary,
Treasurer, 
Book-keeper,
Cashier or 
Clerk of the 

J

> Gas Company.

The  next  day  the  article  was  deliv­
ered.  An  hour after  an  inspector called 
to  see 
if  the  article  had  been  properly 
placed.  The  same  day  another  employe 
called  to  ask  if  the  inspector  had  been 
there.  The  next  day  the  company  sent 
a  letter  asking  if  the  work  was  satisfac­
tory.

Convicted  and  Fined  for  Using  Trad­

ing  Stamps.

to  determine  the  constitutionality  of  the 
law.

is  unlawful, 

Washington Correspondence Chicago Record.

For  several  months  a  new  system  of 
trading  has  been  in  vogue  in  Washing­
ton,  known  as  “ the  stamp  plan.’ !  A 
customer  going 
into  a  store  which  be­
longs  to  the  association  is  given  a  10 
cent  stamp  with  every  dollar’s  worth  of 
merchandise  purchased.  That  stamp  is 
accepted 
in  payment  for  other  mer­
chandise  purchased  at  a  central  agency 
conducted  by  the  manager  of  the  asso­
ciation.  This  system  has  become  quite 
popular,  but  has  been  complained  of  by 
merchants  who  have  not  adopted  it,  and 
at  their 
instigation  the  authorities  ar­
rested  the  manager  and  one  of  the  most 
prominent  merchants 
town  on  the 
charge  of  conducting  a  gift  enterprise 
in  violation  of  an  act  of  Congress.  The 
defendants  were  convicted  and 
fined 
SSioo  each,  but  their  attorney  gave  no­
tice  of  an  appeal,  and  they  were  re­
leased  upon  bonds  of  $500  until  a  test 
case  may  be  carried  to  the  upper  courts
BARN ETT  BROTH ERS

The  counsel  for  the  stamp  company 
argued  that  the  offering  of  a  premium 
equally  to  all  customers  is  not  a  viola­
tion  of  the  law,  because  the  element  of 
chance  does  not  enter  into  the  trans­
action—the  merchant  simply  gives  the 
customer  a  discount  or  a  rebate  upon 
the  purchase  price.  He  holds  that  if 
the  stamp  system 
the 
Rochdale  system  and  all  other  co-oper­
ative  enterprises  are  equally  so,  and 
that  tea  merchants and  others  who  give 
away  china  and  glassware and  chromos 
are  guilty  of  a  violation of the law.  Sev­
eral  soap  companies  and  cigar  dealers 
offer  premiums  for  patronage 
in  the 
same  manner.  The  stamp  system  is  in 
in  several  other  cities,  and  the 
use 
manager  claims 
legality  has  never 
before  been  questioned. 
It  will  be  sev­
eral  months  before,  the  Court  of  Ap­
peals  can  hear  the  case,  but  the  de­
cision  will  be  a  matter  of  general  in­
terest.

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M ERCHAN DISING   IN  JAPAN.

Trade  Carried  on  Under  Control  of 

Guilds  or  Associations.

Clay MacCauley in Commercial Bulletin.

If,  tor  example,  a  family 

For  trade  organizations  in  their  per­
fected  form  Americans  may 
look  to 
Japan.  All  trades  are  ruled  by  guilds. 
The  origin  of  these  guilds  is  of  such 
ancient  date  that  one  cannot  fix  the 
time.  For  many  centuries  it  has  been 
the  practice 
in  Japan  to  pass  a  trade 
from  father  to  son.  Whatever  trade  the 
father  followed  the  son  naturally  took 
up.  So  it  came  about  that  that  particu­
lar  line  of  work  became  the  particular 
privilege  of  that  family.  This  was  the 
custom  when  the  nation  was  under  the 
old  feudal  system  and  each  province  or 
feudal  dependency  was  a  nation  of  it­
self. 
in  a 
province  were  potters,  any  man  in  that 
province  not  of  that  family  and  wish­
ing  to  be  a  potter  would  have  to  be 
adopted  by  that  family,  taking  the  fam­
ily  name  and  dropping  his own.  There 
is  now  a  noted  family  of  artists,  the 
Kanos,  who  for  generations  have  been 
at  the  top  in  Japanese  art.  But  it  must 
not  be  understood  that  these  are  a  suc­
cession  of 
is, 
rather,  that  the  elder  Kano  artists  have 
favorite  pupils  and  so  not 
adopted 
blood,  but  skill  has  determined 
the 
make-up  of  the  family;  and  no  one  not 
familiar  with  their  customs  has  any 
idea  of  the  extent  to  which  this  matter 
of  adoption  is  carried  nor  yet  the  effect 
it  has  upon  trade.

fathers  and  sons. 

It 

rigorously  boycotted. 

The  guild,  arising  from  this  ancient 
custom,  has  come  to  be  a  close  corpora­
tion  of  such  power  as  to control all  busi­
ness.  For  example,  if  a  man  wishes  to 
start  in  the  drug  business 
independent­
ly,  without  joining  the  druggists’ guiid, 
he  will  find  himself  unable  in  the 
first 
place  to  buy  goods  with  which  to  stock 
his  store. 
If  any  concern  is  so  reckless 
as  to  sell  him,  whether  that  concern  be 
a  native  or  a  foreign  house,  it  will  be 
most 
Foreign 
merchants  have  come  to  exercise  great 
care  about  this  matter.  Two  or  three 
such  concerns  have  been  made  exam­
ples  of  by  these  native  guilds.  One,  a 
concern  backed  by  the  Rothschilds,  at­
tempted  to  fight  the  guilds,  but  it  made 
no  headway.  At  last 
it  had  to  com­
promise  and  submit  to  the  demands  of 
the  native  organizations. 
The  effect 
of  these  guilds  on  trade  is  not  such  as 
to  hamper 
The 
kingdom 
is  so  shut  up  that  the  guilds 
conserve  trade  and  keep  it  within  old 
channels  and  at  an  even  gait.

trade  disastrously. 

Manufacturing, wholesaling and retail 
ing  there  differ  much  from  ours.  There 
are  no  great  factories  as  here,  except 
that 
in  recent  years  the  demand  for 
white  cotton  cloth  has  led  to  the  estab­
lishment  of  some  cotton  factories.  But 
the  manufacture  of  silk,  for  example, 
is  carried  on  throughout a whole village. 
Every  house  in  the  village is an  integral 
part  of  the  factory,  the  family  living 
and  spinning  or  weaving  in  its  own  lit­
tle  house.  Goods  are  not  sold  from 
manufacturers  through 
jobbers,  but  d i­
rect  to  retailers  or, 
in  some  cases, 
through small wholesale distributers.

The  Japanese  have  peculiar 

ideas 
about  prices.  One  can  often  buy  at  re­
tail  for  less  than  at  wholesale.  The 
merchant  who 
is  willing  to  sell  a sin­
gle  article  for a  certain  sum  argues  that 
if  you  want  a  half  dozen  or  a  hundred 
you  want  them  more  than  you  do  the 
one,  and,  therefore,  he  can  get  more 
out  of  you.  In  the ordinary  retail  shops, 
or  in  the  night  fairs,  the  merchants  al­
ways  ask  you  a  higher  price  than  they 
expect  to  get. 
The  difference  they 
settle  by  dickering.  At  the  night  fairs 
the  merchant  will  ask  about  ten  times 
the  amount  he  will  finally  take.

The  merchant  of  Old  Japan  was  a 
peddler  and  carried  his  wares  about  to 
his  customers.  Old  Japan  still  com­
prises  almost  all  the’ kingdom  outside 
the  larger  cities.  One  will  still  see  the 
traveling  merchant  in all country places. 
\et  even  in  Old  Japan  shops for the sale 
of  vegetables,  rice,  fish  and  such  foods 
are  common.

In  New  Japan,  which  is  but  about  a 
quarter  of  a  century  old  and  exists  side 
by  side  with  the  old,  will  be  found

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

bazaars,  which  are  in  a  way  the  equiv­
alent  of  the  department  store.  These 
are  large  buildings  in  which  are numer 
ous  stalls,each rented by a  man  handling 
one  line  of  goods.  This  stall  may  be 
only  a  sample  room,  the  merchant  who 
rents 
it  having  his  stock  of  goods  in  a 
warehouse at  a  distance  from the bazaar. 
In  these  bazaars  prices  are  fixed  by 
agreement  and  they  do  not  vary.  Some 
the  larger  stores  also  have  the  “ one- 
price”   system.

Caste  has  cut  much  figure  with  trade 
in  Japan.  Up  to  twenty-five  or  thirty 
years  ago  the  castes  in  the  country  ran 
like  this:

the 

imperial  blood;  (3) 

(i )  The  imperial  fam ily;  (2)  nobles 
of 
feudal 
barons;  (4)  soldiers;  (5)  farmers;  (6) 
artisans;  (7)  merchants;  (8)  skin  deal­
ers  and  scavengers.  This 
latter  class 
were  not  considered  a  social  class,  be­
ing  counted  outside  the  pale  of  society. 
This  class  is  called  the  “ eta,“ meaning 
outcasts  or  pariahs.  Merchants,  then, 
were  the  lowest  class  recognized 
in  so­
ciety.  This  graduation  is  being  broken 
by  the  New  Japan,  but 
it  must  be  re­
membered  that  New  Japan is but a small 
fraction  of  the  total  population  of  the 
kingdom.
There 

is  no  such  thing  as  a  credit 
system  in  the  general  business in Japan. 
The  merchant  may  trust  you  for  an  hour 
or  two,  or  until  to-morrow;  but  when 
you  come  you  must  come  with  the  coin. 
They  do  not  want  a  bank  check  nor  any 
kind  of  paper.  Hard  cash  is  what  they 
want  to  see  in  exchange  for their goods. 
One  may  have  to  carry  a  cumbersome 
bag  of  money  about  with  him 
if  be 
wants  to  do  much  shopping.  Out  in  the 
country  the  old  brass  coins  are  still 
used  to  some  extent,  but  silver  currency 
on  a  decimal  system 
is  the  national 
currency.  The  first  of  this  month  the 
nation  went  upon  a  gold  basis.  They 
will  now  use  gold  and  government  bank 
notes,  while  silver  will  be  used  only  as 
token  money.  Bank  checks  are  coming 
into  use 
in  a  very  limited  way  in  the 
larger  cities.

Got  the  Wrong  Number.

Words  Whose  Meanings  Vary.

it 

it 

Of  special 

interest  to  the  exporting 
merchants  of  the  United  States  is  the 
compilation  recently  issued  by  the State 
Department  of  the  weights  and  meas­
ures  of  foreign  countries.  All  the 
in­
formation  given 
is  valuable  and  some 
is  decidedly  curious.  Thus,  the 
of 
word  “ barrel”  
in  Spain,  used  alone, 
means  100  pounds  of  raisins;  but  in 
Malta 
is  the  official  customs  term 
for  11.4  gallons.

The  word  “ candy”  

in  India  means 
500  pounds  in  Madras  and  529  pounds 
in  Bombay. 
In  the  Spanish  language 
“ pie”   means  a  measure  equal  to  nine- 
tenths  of  the  English  foot.  On  the  other 
hand,  a  person  calling  for  a  “ sho, ”  
pronounced  “ shoe,”   in  Japan  receives 
one  and  six-tenths  quarts  of  something.
In  Germany  the  word  “ last”   refers  to 
tons  or  4,400  pounds  Eng­
two  metric 
in  England  it  stands  for  2y2 
lish ;  but 
bushels  of  dry  malt. 
“ Dun”   is  Japan­
ese  for  one  inch  and  “ li”   Chinese  for 
2,115  feet.

In  Palestine  “  rottle”  means 6 pounds, 
but  only  5J4  pounds  in  the  neighboring 
“ Seer”   is  Indian  for  1 
country,  Syria. 
pound  and  13  ounces. 
“ Salm”   is  Mal­
tese  for  490  pounds  and  “ poud”   Rus­
sian  for  36  pounds

A  “ catty”   in  China,  Japan  and  Java 
means  1 %  pounds  but 
in  Sumatra  it 
means  nearly  twice  that  weight. 
The 
word  “ covau”   is  Sarawak  for 3  pounds 
and  Siamese  for  2 }/2  pounds.

The  Spanish  word 

“ fanega”   has 
probably  the  most  diversified  meaning 
in  the  list.  Standard  Spanish 
of  any 
dictionaries  describe 
it  as  a  common 
unit  of  dry  measure,  nearly  equivalent 
to  the  English  bushel,  and  so  in  truth  it 
in  Spain,  but  in  Chili  it  means  2l/2 
is 
in  Uruguay  3.88  bushels,  in 
bushels, 
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Venezuela  and  Central  America 
In  Colombia  the  word  has,  for 
bushels. 
its  original 
the  most  part,  retained 
meaning,  but 
locally  the  usage  varies; 
thus,  on  the  West Coast,  a  fanega  of  salt 
is  n o  pounds  and  in  El  Choco  a  fanega 
of  corn  is  only  32  pounds.  Here it  may 
be  parenthetically  remarked 
that  the |

Thus 

Spanish  language  abounds  in  words of  a 
metaphorical  meaning. 
from 
“ fanega”   a  bushel 
is  derived  “ fane- 
gada”   a  small  farm  and  “ a  fanegadas”  
abundance  or  plenty.  A  farmer  asked 
about  his  crops  would  reply,  in  case  the 
yield  was abundant,  ‘ ‘ a fanegadas, ’ ’ and 
it  would  be  equally  proper  to  say  of  a 
man  who  had  money  to  burn,  “ plata  a 
fanegadas, ”  meaning that he had bushels 
of  money.

“ Arroba”  

is  a  measure  of  weight 
meaning  32Jj  pounds  in  Brazil  and 25^ 
pounds  throughout  the  rest  ot  South 
America.  “ Arshure”   is  a  Russian  yard 
of  28  English  inches.  Most  European 
countries  have  adopted  the  metric  sys­
tem  and  metres;  kilos  and  litres  are  in 
common  use,  but  some  queer  names  of 
widely  different  meanings  still  linger 
in  Denmark  and  Sweden.  For example, 
“ tonde”   in  Denmark  means  3.94  bush 
els,  while “ tunna”   in Sweden  means \'/2 
bushels.  Again,  “ tondland”  
in  Den­
mark  means  1.36  acres,  while  “ tunn- 
land”   in  Sweden  means  1.22  acres.

A  Berlin  genius  has  asked  a  conces­
sion  from  the  municipality  for  a  novel 
automatic  machine.  His  idea  is  to  es­
tablish  at  various  points  penny-in-tbe- 
slot  machines  by  which  bicycles  may 
be  attached  to  a  chain,  so  that  they can­
not  be  lost  or  stolen  when  left  for  a  few 
moments.

Found at Last

Gongdon’s  Cider  Saver 
and  Fruit  Preservative 
Compound

Guaranteed to keep your cider  and  fruits  pure  and 
sweet without changing their flavor  or  color.  N o 
salicylic acid  or ingredients  injurious  to  the health. 
Send for circulars to manufacturers.

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P E N T W A T E R ,   MICHIGAN.

A  young  woman  who  lives  at  No.  17 
Blank  street  left  an  order  at a downtown 
grocery  and  when  the  time  for  the  de­
livery  wagon  to  appear  had  passed  she 
grew  anxious  and  hastened  to  the  near­
est  telephone.

Perhaps  in  her  nervousness  she  spoke 
indistinctly  to  the  exchange girl.  Any­
way  this  is  the  conversation  which  en­
sued :

“ Hello!  Why  didn’t  you  send  your 

wagon  to  No.  17  Blank  street?’ ’

“ Wait  a  moment—Hello!  I  don’t  find 
any  such  street  on  our  order  book. 
What’s  the  name  of  the  party?”
“ The  name  is  Wigglesworth. 

I  gave 

the  order  myself.”

“ That’s  funny.  Old  person  or  young 

person?”

‘  Young  person. ”
“ What  style  did  you  order?”
“ What  style?  Why,  I  ordered  a  lot 
of  things  and  you  promised they’d come 
up  on  the  first  wagon.”

“ Say,  I  guess  you’ve  made  a  mis­

take.”

yours. ”

to?”

“ No,  I  haven’t. 

The  mistake 

is 

“ Who  do  you  think  you’re  talking 

“ Why,  to  Simpson—the  grocer.”
‘  No,  you’re  not.  You’re  talking  to 

Thompson,  the  undertaker.”  

Br-r-r-r-r-and  the  bell  rang  off.

The  Widow  Was  All  Right.

“ I  want  you  to  take  a  couple  o’ 
chances  on  a  poor  widow's  cookstove— 
50  cents  a ticket. ”

“ But  what's  the  poor  widow  going  to 

do  without  her  cookstove?”

“ Oh,  she’s  moved  into  a  house  where 

they  have  a  gas  range. ”

He  Got  a  Fit.

Customer---- You  guaranteed  a 

fit,

didn’t  you?

Tailor—I  did.
Customer—Well, 

fit  about 
these  clothes  was  the  one  my  wife  had 
when  she  saw  'em. 

the  only 

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WHOLESALE  GROCERS  and

COMMISSION  MERCHANTS

399-401-403  HICH  ST.  EAST., 

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DETROIT,  MICHIGAN.

CHEESE,  BUTTER  and  EGOS.

Lon g Distance Telephone 4772. 

Hermann C. Naumann & Co.

Consignments  wanted.

ARE  AT  ALL  TIMES  IN  THE  MARKET  FOR

F R E S H   E G G S ,   B U T T E R   B E A N S ,

A P P L E S ,   O N I O N S ,   P O T A T O E S ,

B A G A S ,   P O U L T R Y ,   G A M E ,  E T C .

Write  for  Particulars. 

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WHOLESALE COMMISSION MERCHANTS

161 5 .  Water St  , Chicago.

BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY,  FRUITS  AND  VEGETABLES

Oar  Lots: 

POTATOES,  APPLES,  BEANS,  ONIONS

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

Bankers:  Merchants  Nantional Bank,  Chicago.

Write for Tage and 8tencile.  Mention  this Paper when Writing.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President, J a s. F  Ham m ell, Lansing;  Secretary, 
D.  C.  Sla g h t, F lin t;  Treasurer,C h as.  McN o l ty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  S.  H.  Ha r t,  Detroit:  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Mo r r is, Detroit.

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

dent Association.

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

President,*A .  F .  Pe a k e , Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  o f  Directors—F.  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 b y ,G eo. 
J.  Hein ze lm an, C h as. S.  R obinson.

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

They  Asked  for  Bread—and  Got  a 

Stone.

The  Central  Passenger  Association 
has  modified  the  conditions  governing 
the  use  of  the  1,000  mile 
interchange­
able  ticket  so  as  to  simplify  the  ticket 
considerably. 
Commissioner  Donald 
has  sent  out  notices  to  that  effect  of 
which  the  following  is  an  extract:

The  contracts  of  the  mileage and  ex­
change  tickets  have  been  so  amended 
as  not  to  require  the  user’s  signature 
in  the  presence  of  the  ticket  agent 
thereby  enabling  the  holder  to  affix  his 
signature  to  the  mileage  strip  at  such 
time  and  under  such  circumstances  as 
best  meets  his  convenience  to  arrange 
through  the  services  of  a  messenger  or 
hotel  porter  to  procure  tickets  and  bag­
gage  checks 
in  advance  of  arrival  at 
station.

limiting 

The  condition 

exchange 
tickets  to  a  specified  term  is  dispensed 
with.  The  amended  form  will  be  valid 
to  begin  a  continuous  passage  to  desti­
nation  by  any  train  on  date  issued  as 
indicated  by  office  stamps  on  reverse  of 
ticket  or  by  any  train  up  to  and  in­
cluding  midnight  of  the  day  following 
such  date.

The  concessions  above  granted  were 
never  asked  for  by  the  traveling  men 
and  aré 
in  the  nature  of  an  insult  in­
stead  of  a  concession.  All  the  boys 
have  asked  for  is  a  book  which  shall  be 
good  on  the  trains  and  anything  short 
of  this  will  never  be  satisfactory  to  the 
rank  and  file  of  the  traveling  frater­
nity.  As  repeatedly  stated  by 
the 
Tradesman,  the  traveling  men  are  will­
ing  that  the  railroads  should  protect 
themselves 
in  every  possible  manner— 
by  the  use  of  a  photograph  on  the  cov­
ers;  by  adding  $io  to  the  price  of  the 
book  to  keep  it  out  of  the  bands  of  the 
scalpers;  by  scrutinizing  the  signature 
as  rigidly  as  desirable—anything  ex­
cept  the  condition  of  the  present  book 
which  necessitates  a  busy  man  taking 
the  time  to  get  the  necessary  ticket  of 
the  ticket  agent.

Under  existing  conditions,  a  very 
small  percentage  of  the  traveling  men 
are using the new book where they cannot 
possibly  avoid  it,  as they  prefer  to  carry 
separate  mileage  books, 
the  same  as 
before.  Of  course,  the  arbitrary  action 
of  the  Michigan  Central  agd Lake Shore 
roads,  in  withdrawing  the  old  books 
from  sale,  compels  many  of  the  boys  to 
carry  the  new  mileage  book  when  they 
travel  over  either  of  these  roads. 

“

It  is  intimated  that  the  railroads  real­
ize  that  something  must  be  done  to mol­
lify  the  Michigan  traveling  men  and 
that,rather  than  submit  to  a  special  ses­
sion  of  the  Legislature,  they  will  make 
an  arrangement  with  the  Central  Pas- j 
senger  Association  by  which  the  use  of 
the  present  book  will  be  abolished,  so 
far  as  Michigan  is  concerned,  and  in­

stead  thereof  a  book  will  be  sold  for 
either  $20  or $30,  with  the  photograph 
of  the  purchaser  on  the  cover,  good  on 
the  trains,  but  good  only  on  the  rail­
roads  of  Michigan.  This  book  would 
meet  with  the  hearty  approval  of  the 
traveling  fraternity,  and  the  Trades­
man  sincerely  hopes  that  the  Michigan 
roads  will  see  their  way  clear  to  adopt 
this  expedient  with  as 
little  delay  as 
possible.  Unless  they  do  so,  they  will 
be  compelled  to  face  the  misfortune  of 
a  special  session  of  the  Legislature, 
called  by  the  Governor  for  the  purpose 
of 
inaugurating  a  flat  2  cent  rate  on  all 
lines  in  the  Lower  Peninsula.
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers.
(Forman-Bassett - 
Hatch  Co.) 
is  again  with  us.  Tom 
brought  his  bass  voice  along  with  him.
H.  E.  Biel  (Jno.  Pretzlaff  Hardware 
last 
Selden  White  (Henry W.  King &  Co.) 
will  become  a  benedict  this  week—an­
other  example  of  the  wiles  of  the  trav­
eler  and  how  he  catches  the  belles. 
This  time  it  is  an  Ishpeming  lady.

Co. )  worked  east  of  Marquette 
week.

Thos.  L.  Hilton 

J.  W.  Richards  (Wm.  Bingham  Co.) 

is  at  work  in  the  copper  country.

Will  C.  Brown,  President  of  the  Lake 
Superior  Commercial  Travelers’  Club, 
has  been  circulating  stories  detrimental 
to  the  honesty  of  the  Treasurer,  telling 
how  the  Treasurer  used 
the  Club’s 
funds  to  purchase  last  winter’s coal,  get 
married  last  April,  and,  again,  to  take 
a  summer’s  vacation.  The  Treasurer 
confesses  to  all  this,  but  swears  that  the 
President,  in  his  official  capacity  as 
auditor  of  accounts,  has agreed to  O.  K. 
any 
item  charged  against  the  Club, 
provided  the  Treasurer  “ divvys”   the 
balance. 
“ What  could  the  poor  Treas­
urer  do?”

Lake  Superior  has  one  traveler  who 
is  spoken  of  very  often,  but  not  in  flat­
tering  terms.  He  was  never  known  to 
buy  a  newspaper—always  borrows  or 
asks  a  neighbor  for half;  carries  more 
pocket 
lunches  and  buys  more  cheese 
and  crackers  than  any  forty  other  men 
on  the  road.  At  one  time  he  was  sell­
ing  a  special  brand  of  canned  peaches 
to  a  Marquette  grocer.  The  can  was 
opened  and  sampled  and,  when  the  or­
der  was  written  down, 
the  can  was 
offered  to  the  grocer  for  15  cents.  An­
other  time  he  offered  a  bagful  of  as­
sorted  dried  fruit  that  had  been  carried 
as  samples  to  his  landlady  at  5  cents  a 
pound.  Still  he  holds  his 
job,  does 
business  and  makes  money;  or,  rather, 
saves  money  by  his  miserly  ways.
Detroit  Travelers  Suggest  Another 

Form  of  Mileage  Book.

Detroit,  Nov.  15—At  the  last  regular 
meeting  of  Post  C,  Michigan  Knights 
of  the  Grip,  the  following  resolution 
was  unanimously  adopted :

Resolved— That  while  we give  credit 
to  the  good 
intentions  of  the  Central 
Passenger  Association  to  give  to  the 
traveling  public  a  convenient  and  satis­
factory  interchangeable  mileage  book, 
yet  we,  members  of  this  Association, 
composed  of  active  traveling  men,  re­
spectfully  beg  to  point  out  to  the  Cen­
tral  Passenger  Association,  that 
from 
their  point  of  view,  there  are  many  evi­
dent  shortcomings  to  the  conditions  un­
der  which  the  present  interchangeable 
mileage book  is  sold  and  which this As­
sociation  sincerely  trusts  that  the  Cen­
tral  Passenger  Association  will 
find 
that  it  is  to their,  as  well  as  to  our,  in­
terests  to  have  modified ;  and  to  that 
end  we  respectfully  suggest  that  the 
following  modifications would meet  with 
the  hearty  approval  of  this  Association, 
believing  such  modifications  would con­
serve  the  interests  of  the  railway  com­
panies  as  well  as  protect  our  own :

The  absolute  withdrawal  of  the  pres­
ent 
interchangeable  mileage  book  and 
the  substitution  therefor of  a  mileage 
book  of  1,000,  2,000 or  2,500  miles,  sold 
outright  at  2c  per  mile,  such  mileage 
book  to  have  pasted  thereon  a  photo­
graph  of  the  original  purchaser  and, 
if  presented  by  any  other  than  such 
original  purchaser,  such  mileage  to  be 
forfeited  to  the  Central  Passenger  As­
sociation. 

J.  W.  Schram,  Sec’y.

Gripsack  Brigade.

John  Cooper,  formerly  Western  Mich­
igan  salesman  for the  Schulte  Soap Co., 
of  Detroit,  has  engaged  to  cover  North­
ern  Wisconsin  for  the  Wolverine  Soap 
Co.,  of  Portland.

The  next  meeting  of  the  Board  of  D i­
rectors  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  will  be  held  at  Lansing,  Nov.  29. 
It  was  originally  intended  to  hold  this 
meeting  at  St.  Johns,  but  President 
Hammell  has  deemed 
it  desirable  to 
change  the  location  of  the  meeting.

At  a  meeting  of  Post  E,  held  at 
Sweet’s  Hotel  Saturday  evening,  Chair­
man  Davenport  appointed  Geo.  F. 
Owen,  E.  A.  Stowe,  J.  Henry  Dawley, 
Manley  Jones  and  Jas.  N.  Bradford  as 
a  committee  to  undertake  the  work  of 
preparation  for  the  Kalamazoo  conven­
tion. 
It  was  decided  to  hold  a series of 
social  parties  during  the  winter,  prob­
ably  in  Imperial  hall,  the  first  event  of 
the  series  to  occur  on  the  evening  of 
Nov.  27.

The  Kalamazoo  traveling  men  are 
actively  engaged  in  completing  prepa­
rations  for  the  annual  convention  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of the  Grip,  which  is 
to  be  held  at  that  place  on  Tuesday 
and  Wednesday,  Dec.  28  and  29.  The 
meetings  of  the  Association  will  be 
held 
in  the  City  Hall,  the  banquet  on 
Tuesday  evening  and  the  ball  on  Wed­
nesday  evening  being  held  in  the Acad­
emy  of  Music,  which  will  be  especially 
equipped  for  the  purpose  by  means  of 
a  temporary  floor  put 
in  at  large  ex­
pense  over  the  chairs.  Business  meet­
ings  will  be  held  at  2  o’clock  Tuesday 
afternoon  and  9  o’clock  Wednesday 
morning,  the  election  of  officers  occur­
ring  at  2  o’clock  Wednesday  afternoon. 
It  is  intended  to  provide  special  enter­
tainment  for  the  ladies  accompanying 
those  who  attend  the  convention,  in  the 
shape  of  a  musical  or  literary  entertain­
ment  Wednesday  afternoon.  A  Recep­
tion  Committee  of  twenty-five 
ladies 
and  gentlemen  has  been  appointed  to 
undertake  the  work  of  entertainment. 
Unless  all  signs  fail, 
the  Kalamazoo 
meeting  will  be  one  of  the  largest,  in 
point  of  attendance,  ever  held  by  the 
organization.

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  was  very  narrow 
during  the  past  week  and  trading  in 
wheat  centers  was  very 
light.  Both 
spring  and  winter  cash  wheat  was 
strong  and  held  very  firm,  owing  to  the 
small  amount  of  contract  wheat  held 
in 
Chicago  and  the  large  short  contracts 
which  are  out.  The  short  interests  are 
making  great  efforts  to 
increase  the 
amount  of  wheat  in  Chicago  elevators 
and  have  done  so  to  the  extent  of  about 
800,000  bushels  during  the  past  week.
It  is  reported  that  all  the  wheat  held 
in  Duluth  has  been  sold  to  go  to  Chi­
cago  and  for  export.  Another  peculiar 
thing  that  attracts  the  attention  of  the 
dealers  is  the  high  prices  in  the  West. 
The  St.  Louis  price  on  No.-2  red  is 
96c,  the  Kansas  City  is  about  the  same, 
while  the  New  York  price  is  only 96^c. 
The  world’s  shipments  were 
large,  be­
ing  9,222,000  bushels,  of  which America 
furnished  5,446,000  bushels—about  the 
same  as  she  furnished 
the  previous 
week.  The  receipts  were  heavy  and 
our  visible  increased  3,000,000  bushels. 
It  is  not  surprising  that  our  receipts are 
large  when  we  stop  to  consider that cash 
wheat 
is  above  futures,  thus  keeping 
the  Northwestern elevators drained.  The 
farmers  are  also  fairly  free  sellers. 
It 
is  our  opinion  that  the  situation  is  as 
strong  as  ever;  and,  if  the  exports  con­

tinue  large,  it  will  not  be  many  weeks 
before  the  shortage  will  be  felt.  The 
receipts  in this market  were  light,which 
is  probably  due  to  the  poor  roads,  more 
than  to the  price.

Coarse  grains,  as 

is  usual,  remain 
stationary.  Owing  to  the  large  amount 
of  corn  on  hand,  it  cannot  be  brought 
out  of  its  low  rut.  The  same  is  true  of 
oats.

The  flour  trade  holds  up  on account of 
the  small  stocks  and  dealers  must  buy 
at  least  for  their  present  wants.

The  receipts  were 

light  during  the 
past  week,  being  49  cars  of  wheat,  2 
cars  of  corn  and  8  cars  of oats.

Millers  are  paying  85c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A. V oigt.

Lansing— The  D.,  G.  R.  &  W.  grain 
elevator,  which  has  stood 
idle  for  a 
number  of  years,  except  an  occasional 
opening  for  a  short  time,  will  soon  be 
operated  permanently.  Robert  Langen- 
backer,  who  has  bad  two  years’  experi­
ence 
in  the  management  of  the  North 
Lansing  elevator,  which  employs  about 
thirty  hands,  will  be  the  propiietor  of 
the  new  institution,  which  will  bear  the 
name  of  the  Michigan  Grain  Co.,  with 
ample  financial  backing.

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  WHITNEY  HOUSE

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

Chas. E.  Whitney* Prop.,  Plainwell, Mich.

N EW   REPU BLIC

Reopened  Nov.  25.

FINEST  HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and Lighting throughout. 

Rates,  $1.50  to  $2.00.

Cor.  Saginaw and Fourth Sts.

GEO.  H.  SCHINDHETT,  Prop.
Hotel  Normandie  of  Detroit  Re* 

duces Rates.

Determined  to continue  catering  to  popular  de 
tnand 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.

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

Carr &  Reeve.

THe  New  Griswold  noose

Has  NOT reduced its rates 
but has  100 of the

Newest  Rooms  in  Detroit

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

P o s t a l   Sc  M o r e y ,

D e t r o i t ,   M i c l n .

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

D rugs—Chem  icals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 31,  1897
-  Dec. 31,  1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
-  D -c. Si, 1900
-  Dec. 31,1901

.......  
S.  E.  P a r k il l , Owosso 
- 
F.  W.  R.  Pe r r y .  Detroit 
A. C. Sch u m ach er.  Ann  Arbor 
- 
Ge o. Gundrum.  Ionia 
- 
L.  E.  R e y n o ld s, St.  Joseph 
- 

- 

President, F.  W.  R.  P e r r y ,  Detroit
Secretary, G e o .  G u n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C.  S c h u m a c h e r .  Ann Arbor.

Examination  Sessions.

Detroit—Tuesday, Jan . 4 and  5.
Grand Rapids—March 1  and 2.
Star Island—Jun e 27and 28.
Marquette—About S-pt.  1.
Lansing—Nov.  1  and 2.

All meetings will  begin  at  9  o'clock  a. m. ex­
cept the Star Island meeting,  which  begins  at 8 
o'clock p. m.

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. Webb e r,  Cadillac.
Secretary—G b a s .  M a n n ,  Detroit
Treasurer—J o h n  D.  Muir, Grand Rapids.

Medical  Treatment  o f  Toothache.
Very  few  toothaches  are 

incapable 
of  permanent  relief  without  extraction 
of  the  tooth.  That  operation 
is  often 
the  most  desirable  way  of  procuring  re­
lief,  but  it  is  very  rarelv  the  only  way, 
and,  on  the  other  hand,  it  is  only  too 
common  to  find  that  neuralgic  pain  per­
sists  after  the  extraction  of  tooth  after 
tooth.  A  toothache  which  is “ scotched”  
by  appropriate  means  often  ceases  per­
manently.  To  attack  a  pain  of  this 
kind  by  a  mere  narcotic,  such  as  opium 
or  morphine,  seems  to  me rather clumsv 
therapeutics,  and  we  can  usually  find 
much  more  suitable  methods.  Alcohol 
in  any  form  is  still  more  objectionable.
The  pain  of  a  hollow  tooth  may  gen­
erally  be  entirely  removed  by 
inserting 
in  it  a  pledget  of  cotton  wool  soaked  in 
a  mixture  of  equal  parts  of  carbolic 
acid  and  water.  A  pledget  of  dry  wool 
should  be  placed  over  the  carbolized 
wool  to  retain  the  acid.  T h e   a ch in g  
usually  ceases 
in  a  few  minutes,  bul 
may  recur  after  a  few  hours,  to be again 
relieved  on  a  reapplication  of  the  car­
bolic  acid.  A very few repetitions  com­
monly  suffice  to  make  the  cure  perma­
nent.  But  the  hollow  tooth  should  be 
stopped  if  possible  afterwards.

Persons  who  have  been  for  some  time 
deprived  of  a  proper allowance of sleep 
from  any  cause,  are  very  liable  to  be 
painfully  reminded  of  the  existence  of 
any  bad  teeth  which  they  may  happen 
to  possess  by  an  attack  of  dental  neu­
ralgia. 
If  this  is  not  soon  relieved  bv 
appropriate  means  it  tends  to  aggravate 
itself  by  still  further 
and  perpetuate 
depriving  the  patient  of  sleep. 
I  have 
found  the  following  prescription  very 
useful  in  such  cases:

Quinine sulphate......... ...........   2 grains
Hyilrohromic acid...................  15 minims
Tincture gelsemium....... .. 
is; minims
drachms
Syrup......................................... 1 
W ater........................................  
1  ounce

Thrice daily.

I  have  seen  a  raging  toothache  com­
in  a  few  minutes  by  a 
in 
is  a  somewhat  uncer­

pletely  relieved 
single  dose  of  two  grains  of  exalgin 
solution,  but 
tain  remedy.

it 

There 

is  a  kind  of  toothache  which 
comes  on  a  while  after  taking  food, 
when  the  contents  of  the  stomach  are 
naturally  acid.  This  is  often  relieved 
with  quite  astonishing  rapidity  by  the 
administration  of  an  alkali.  The  best 
way  is  to  give  a  Seidlitz  powder,  minus 
about  a  quarter  of  the  acid,  so  leaving 
an  excess  of  alkali.  In  a  typical  case  of 
this  kind  the pain ceases instantaneously 
—almost  as  soon  as  the  effervescing 
draught  is  swallowed.

But  of  all  medical  remedies  for  tooth­
ache  I  know  of  none  which  is  so  suc­
I  be­
cessful  as  salicylate  of  sodium. 

it 

in 

Even 

is  especially  useful 

lieve 
in  those 
cases  where  the  pain  is  started  by “ tak­
ing  cold.”  
the  condition 
which 
is  called  by  dentists  “ perios­
titis,”   where  the  carious  tooth  becomes 
slightly  loosened,  and  projects  beyond 
its  neighbors,  and  is  exquisitely  tender 
when  eating  is  attempted,  I  have  often 
known  sodium  salicylate  to  be  com­
pletely  and  permanently  successful.  A 
dose  of  fifteen  grains  will  usually  re­
lieve  the  pain  very  promptly,  and  if 
this  is  repeated  every  four  hours  the  in­
flammation  may  entirely  subside,  leav­
ing,  of  course,  a carious tooth  to  be  dis 
posed  of  according  to  circumstances. 
The  addition  of  belladonna  is  often  ad­
vantageous.  Fifteen  grains  of  sodium 
salicylate  with  fifteen minims of tincture 
of  belladonna  will  often  procure  re­
freshing  sleep 
instead  of  a  night  of 
agony. 

F r e d e r i c k   C .  C o l e y ,  M .  D.

A  Preventible  Leak.

Prof.  D.  M.  R.  Culbreth  is compelled 
to  believe  that  the  majority  of  his 
neighbors  prepare  Seidlitz  powers  by 
measure,  and  that  either  their measures 
are slightly  out  of  true  or  the  making  is 
entrusted  to  novices,  or  to  the  careless, 
indifferent 
individual  with  mind  pre­
occupied  when  applying  pressure.

It 

is  possible  that  the  heads  of  stores 
consider  such  work  trivial,  but  I  am 
convinced  that  if  it  only  received  more 
of  our  attention  it  would  be  to  us  time 
well  spent  and  money  well  saved. 
If 
we  are  to  adhere  to  the  measure,  let  us 
it 
see  that 
is  accurate,  and  that  those 
who  use 
it  understand  the  amount  of 
pressure for the requisite  weight,  an  apt 
ness  easily  acquired  by  weighing differ­
ent  portions  from  time  to  time. 
It  is 
well,  also,  to  keep  an  account  of  the 
vield,  in  number,  from  each  batch,  as 
this  is  alwavs  a  check  to  the  work,  and 
a  satisfaction  to  anv  business  man.  We 
must  not  lose  sight  of  the  fact  that 
atmospheric  conditions  affect,  to  some 
slight  degree,  the  yield  by  measure, 
even  although  the  pressure  be  the same. 
Thus  in  dry  or  hot  weather  the  chemic­
als  pack  more 
looselv,  giving  more 
Dowders  from  a  specified  weight;  on 
damp,  murky,  or  cold  days  the  mate 
rials  admit  of  closer  packing,  yielding 
a  less  number.  Therefore,  to  obtain  the 
best  results  make  powders  when  the  air 
is  dry  and  temperature  high ;  but,  bet­
ter  jet,  accommodate  the  pressure  to 
the  weather  so  that  the  correct  uniform 
number  will  always  be  procured  from 
an  original  given  weight.

None  of  twelve  druggists  whose  pow­
ders  Professor  Culbreth  examined  used 
exactly  the  same  style  of wrapper.  Most 
of  them  were  in  envelopes,  all  differing 
in  size,  and  some  wrapped  and  sealed 
in  white  Seidlitz  paper  having  on  the 
face  the  requisite  printed  matter. 
I am 
convinced  that  the  envelope -is best,  and 
that 
it  should  be  abundantly  large,  to 
avoid  cramping  or  pressure,  hence  cak­
ing  of  contents;  also  that  the  blue  and 
white  papers  should  be  of  good  size, 
and  that  very  little  pressure  he  applied 
with  tbq spatula  to  give  flatness,  inas­
much  as  these  only  serve  to  cause  cak­
ing,  and  consequently,  in  the  mind  of 
the  purchaser,  an  idea  of age,  staleness, 
and  deterioration.

Five  Meetings  During  1898.

Ionia,  Nov.  12— Examination  sessions 
of  the  Michigan  Board  of  Pharmacy 
will  be  held  during  1898  as  follows:

Detroit— Tuesday,  Jan.  4  and  5.
Grand  Rapids—  March  1  and  2.
Star  Island—June  27  and  28.
Marquette— About  Sept.  1.
Lansing—Nov.  1  and  2.
All  meetings  will  begin  at  9  o’clock 
a.  m.  except  the  Star  Island  meeting, 
which  begins  at  8  o’clock  p.  m.

Geo. .G undrum,  Sec’y.

Bogus  Barbadoes  Aloes.

It 

A  perusal  of  the  lists  of  nearly  all  the 
wholesale  drug  houses  shows  that  they 
still  quote  Barbadoes  aloes. 
is  well 
known,  however, 
that  no  Barbadoes 
aloes  has  been  brought  into  England  or 
into  this  country  for  a  number  of  years 
We  have  received  a 
letter  from  this 
country’s  representative  at  Barbadoes, 
which  reads  as  follows:

“ At  one  period  a  considerable  export 
trade  was  done  in  this  colony  in  aloes, 
but  eventually  that  product,  like  every 
other  minor  industry  here,  was  com­
pelled  to  give  way  to  the  sugar  cane. 
For  many  years  the  exportation  has 
ceased,  and  only  in  very  rare  instances 
are  aloes  now  collected  here.”

Would  it  not  be  well  to  stop this prac­
tice  of  selling  Curacoa  aloes  under  the 
name  of  Barbadoes,  and  sell  them  for 
what  they  really  are ;  that  is,  Curacoa 
aloes,  especially  as 
the  price  of  the 
Curacoa  aloes  is  about  one-third  of  the 
price  asked  for  the  spurious,  so-called 
Barbadoes?  This  practice  of  selling 
Curacoa  aloes  for  Barbadoes  aloes  is  of 
the  same  character  as  selling  St.  Vin­
cent  arrowroot  for  genuine  Bermuda, 
and  obtaining,  in  this  way,  three  times 
the  cost  of  the  article.  These  practices 
seem  to  become  so  fixed  by 
long  habit 
that  many  of  the  trade  do  not  consider 
them  dishonest,  but  a  little  considera­
tion  shows  them  to  be  so.

Howard  B.  F rench.

The  Drug  Market.

The  changes  are few and unimportant.
Acids—Carbolic  is  firm  and the prices 
of  1897  will  he  about  the  same  in  1898.
is  strong  and 
importations  are  small.  The  price  is 
advancing.

Balsams—The  market 

Cocaine—This  article  has  advanced 
25c.  Agreed  prices  with  the  manufac­
turer  are $3.30  in  ounces,  with  the usual 
advance  for  smaller  packages.

Essential  O ils—Anise  and  cassia  are 

tending  lower.

Opium,  Morphine— Both  are  firm  but 

unchanged.

Quinine—N .  Y.  has  been  reduced  2c, 

making  it  the  same  price  as  foreign.

Golden  Seal—As  supplies  come 

into 

market,  the  price  is  lower.

Vanilla  Beans— Have  been  advanced 
10  per  cent.,  as  the  Government  claims 
10  per  cent.vduty,  on  account  of  being 
“ improved  by  manufacturer.”   This 
duty  is  being  paid  under  protest.

What  a  man  gets  of  this world’s goods 
by  accident  he  is  very  apt  to  lose  in  the 
same  way.

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Detroit.

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MILTON  KERNS,

Manufacturer,

No.  5a  9th  Street, 

Pittsburgh,  Pa.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced— Balsam  Copaiba,  Cocaine. 
Declined— N .  Y .  Quinine,  Golden  Seal.

Acidum

6@8 
70® 
@  
29® 
40® 
3®
8® 
12® 
@  
60®  

Acetlcum................... S 
8
75
Benzoicum,  German 
Boraclc........................ 
15
41
Carbollcum............... 
42
Cltricum .................... 
Hydrochlor............... 
N itrocum .................. 
10
14
Oxalicum .................. 
Phosphorium,  d ii... 
15
Salicylicum...............  
65
Sulpnuricum.............  1  _
Tannicu m .................  1 25®  1  40
Tartarieum................ 
40
Ammonia
Aqua,  16  deg............. 
Aqua, 20 deg............. 
Carbon as.................... 
Chloridum......... •___ 
Aniline

4® 
6® 
12® 
12® 

6
8
14
14

38® 

Black...  .  ................   2  00®  2  25
B ro w n .......................  
80®  1  00
R e d ............................. 
50
45® 
Yellow . 
..................   2 50®  3  00

Bacca:.
Cubesee............po.  18 
Junlperus.................. 
Xanthoxylum........... 
Baisamum
Copaiba...  ............... 
Peru............................. 
Terabln, Canada__  
Tolutan....................... 

Cortex

Abies,  Canadian__  
C a ssi» ........................ 
Cinch ana Flava.......  
Euonymus  atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunns V irgini......... 
Quillaia,  gr'd........... 
Sassafras.........po. 18 
Ulmus.. .po.  15,  gr'd 
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza,  po.......  
Haematox, 15 lb box 
Haematox, Is
Haematox, V4s........... 
Haematox, 
........... 
Ferru
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and Quinia. 
Citrate Soluble.........
Ferrocyanidum  Sol.
Solut.  Chloride.......
Sulphate,  com’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cw t...........
Sulphate,  pure  .......
Flora

A rnica......
Anthem is..
M atricaria................  

Folia

13® 
6® 
25® 

15
8
30

55® 
40® 
75® 

60
@   2  40
45
80

18
12
18
30
20
12
14
12
15

25
30

24® 
24® 
28® 
28® 
11® 
13®
14®
16®

:

12®
18@
30®

30

®
®

60®
12®

28®
18®
25® 
12®
8®

Barosma...................... 
Cassia Acntifol, Tin-
nevelly.................... 
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.
Salvia officinalis, ¡as
and  V4s....................  
U raU rsi...................... 
Gummi
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
65
45
Acacia,  2d  picked..
35
Acacia,  3d  picked..
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
28
Acacia, po..................
80
14
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20
12
Aloe, C ape__ po.  15
30
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40
60
Ammoniac................  
55®
25®
Assafcstida__ po. 30 
28
55
50®
Benzoinum ............... 
Catechu, Is................  
®
13
14 
Catechu, Vis..............  
®
®
Catechu, Vis..............  
16
Cam phors................  
48®
10 
®
Suphorbium. .po. 35 
1  00 70 
®
G albanum ......., ......... 
65®
Gamboge  po............. 
35 
Guaiacum...... po.  35 
®
Kino.............po.  $3.u0 
®
3  00 
60 
®
M astic........................ 
@
Myrrh.............. po.  45 
40
O pii.. .po. #4.00®4.20  2 85®  2  95
Shellac.......................  
35
25®  
40®  45
Shellac,  bleach ed ... 
Tragacanth..............  
50® 
80

Herba

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz.  pkg 
Lobelia.........oz. pkg  • 
M ajorum__ oz.  pkg 
Mentha Pip. .oz.  pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz.  pkg 
Rue.................oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz.  pkg 
Thymus,  V ..oz. pkg 
ilagnesla.
Calcined, P a t ........... 
Carbonate, Pat......... 
Carbonate, K.  A M .. 
Carbonate, Jennings 

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

60
22
25
36

55® 
20® 
20® 
35® 

Oleum

30® 

Absinthium...............  3  25®  3  50
Amygdalae, D u lc.... 
50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8  00®  8  25
Anisl...........................   2 25®  2 3 '
Auranti  Cortex.......   2 00®  2  20
Bergamt!....................  2 40®  2  50
90
Cajiputi...................... 
7u
Caryophylli............... 
''ed ar..........................  
65
Chenopadli................ 
@ 2 7 5
Cinnamonil...............  1  80®  1  90
C’tTonella................ 
50

85® 
65® 
35®  

45® 

@  
50® 

35®  
Conium  Mac............. 
50
Copaiba......................  1  lo@  1  20
Cubebae.......................  
90®  1  00
E xech th itos.............  l  00®   1  10
Erigeron....................  1  00©   1  10
G aultheria................  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce... 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
60
Hedeoma....................  1  00®   1  10
Ju n íp era...................  I  50®  2  00
Lavendula................  
90® 2  00
Limonis......................  1  20®  1  40
Mentha  Piper...........  1  60©  2 20
Mentha Vérid...........  1  90®  2 00
Morrhuae,  gal...........  1  OU®  1  10
Myrcia,.......................  4  00®  4  50
O l i v e ...................... 
75@   3  00
Piéis  Liquida........... 
io@ 
12
@   35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
R ic in a .......................   1  03®  1  08
®   1  00
Rosmarini.................. 
Ros»,  ounce............   6  50@  8  50
S u c cin l...................:. 
40®  45
Sabin a...................... 
90®  1  00
Santal.......  
...............  2  50®  7  00
Sassafras.................... 
55®   60
65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
®  
T iglii...........................  1  40®  1  50
40® 
Thym e.......................  
50
Thyme,  opt..............  
@   1  60
Theobromas............  
15®   20
Potassium
15®
BJ-Carb..........................  
Bichromate 
13®
................ 
48®
Bromide........................ 
Carb...............................  
i2@
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
16®
35®
Cyanide...................... 
Iodide.........................   2  60®
28® 
Potassa,  Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
@  
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®
Potass Nitras............. 
7®
Prussiate....................... 
20@
Sulphate  p o ............. 
15®

18 
15 
51 
15 
18 
40 
2  65 
30 
15 
10 
9
18

Radix
Aconitvm................  
20®
25 
A lth » .........................  
22®
25 
lo@
Anchusa.................... 
12 
Arum po.....................  
@
25 
20®
Calam us.................... 
40 
Gentiana.........po.  15 
12®
15 
16®
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
18 
@
Hydrastis Canaden. 
65 
@
Hydrastis Can.,  po.. 
70 
Hellebore,Alba, po.. 
15®
20 
Inula, po.................... 
15®
20 
Ipecac, po..................2 oo@
2  10 
Iris plox —  po35@38 
35®
40 
Jalapa,  pr..................  
25®
30 A5 
Maranta,  Vis............. 
®
„
Podophyllum, po...! 
22®  
25
R R e t........................... 
75®  1  00
@ 1 2 5
Rhei, cu t...................  
Rhel.pv...................... 
75®   1  35
Spigelia......................  
35®  
“
®
Sanguinaria... po. 15 
Serpentaria............... 
30@
Senega.......................  
40®
@
Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax,  M.................. 
@
10®
Snillae.................po.35 
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po....................
@
V aleriana.Eng.po .36
@
Valeriana,  German.  _^
15®
Zingiber a .................. 
¡2®
Zingiber j .................. 
25®

 

Semen
Anisum...........po.  15
@ 
12 
Apium  (graveleons)
15
13® 
Bird,  Is........................
4® 
6
Carui............... po.
12 
10®  
Cardamon...........
1  25®  1  75 
Coriandrum.......
8®  
10 
Cannabis  Sativa
4®  4 ¡4
Cvdonium.................. 
75®  1*05
Chenopodium  ......... 
10®  
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 00®   2  20
®  
Foenlculum............... 
10
7®  
Fcenugreek, po......... 
9
3®
R}nJ ■ 
4®
Lini,  grd.........bbl. 3 
L o b elia...................... 
35®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®
R apa...........................  4H@
7®
Sinapis Albu............  
Sinapis  Nigra........... 
n @
Spiritus

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00@  2  50 
Frumenti,  D. F.  R ..  2 00®  2 25
Fru m enti.......  
.. . .   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O.  T ..  1  65®  2  00
Juniperis Co............   1  75®   3  50
Saacharum  N.  E __   1  90®  2  10
Spt.  Vini  G alli.........  1  75®  6  50
Vini Oporto...............  l  25® 2  00
Vini  Alba..................  1  25® 2  00

 

2  00 
1  25
1  00
©  1  00 
@  
75
@   1  40

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage..................2 50®  2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage..................
Velvet extra  sheeps’
wool, carriage.......
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage..................
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f ,  for 
slate  use................
Syrups
A cacia.......................
Auranti Cortes.........
Zingiber.....................
Ipecac 
...........
Ferri Iod....................
Rhei Arom................
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega.......................
Setliip,.

50®9

Scill» Co.................... 
T olutan...................... 
Prunus virg............... 
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes...........................
Aloes and Myrrh__
A rn ica.......................
A ssafcetida..............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex.......
Benzoin......................
Benzoin Co................
Barosm a....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum................
Cardamon................
Cardamon  Co...........
Castor.........................
Catechu......................
Cinchona....................
Cinchona Co............
Columba....................
Cubeba......... .............
Cassia  Acutifol.......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis  ....................
Ergot..........................
Ferri Chloridum__
G entian......................
Gentian Co..............
G uiaca......................
Guiaca ammon.........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine.........................
Iodine, colorless.!..
Kino............................
Lobelia............... "  [ ’
Myrrh..................... ’ ’ \
Nux  Vomica.........
O pii.............................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia......................
Rhatany.........
Rhei......................;;;;
Sanguinaria.............
Serpentaria..............
Stramonium  ...  __
Tolutan......................
V alerian ..................*
Veratrum Veride ...
Zingiber.....................

®
@
@

1  00
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50
75 
50 
50 
50 
50
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 20
35 
38
3
4 
50
5 
50
1  40 
15 
50 
12 
40
1  40®  1  50 
9
10 
12 
75 
15 
15

®  
@

iliscelianeous 

©   3  00
55

-dither, Spts. Nit. 3 F  
30® 
.«Ether, Spts.  NU.-4 F   34®
Alumen......................  2M@
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
Annatto...................... 
40®
4@
Antimonl,  po.......  
40®
Antimoni etPotassT 
@
Antlpyrin............... 
Antifebrin  .  ............. 
®
Argenti Nitras, oz  .. 
@
Arsenicum...............  
10®
Balm Gilead  Bud
Bismuth  S.  N.........
Calcium Chior.,  is!
Calcium Chior.,  Vis.
Calcium Chior.,  j¿s 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus, a f.
@
Capsici Fructus,  po.
Capsici FructusB.po 
10®
Caryophyllus.po.  15 
Carmine, No. 40....... 
50® 
Cera Alba,  S. A F . .. 
40®
Cera  Flava................. 
Pnnniio 
a
Coccus
@
Cassia Fructus..!.’.’! 
Centraria.................... 
@
Cetaceum............... !! 
@
Chloroform............60® 
63
@   1  25 
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral H ydC rst....  1  50®  1  60
Chondrus................... 
20®  
25
Cinchonidine, P. & w  25®  35 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®  
30 
Cocaine.....................   3  30®  3 50
Corks, list, dis.pr.et. 
®
Creosotum....
Creta............... bbl.'75
@
Creta, prep............. 
9®
Creta, preclp............  
Creta, Rubra__  
®
Crocus............................. 18®
@
C udbear.................... 
5®
Cuprisuiph...........;; 
10®
Dextrine................   .] 
Ether Sulph............ . 
75®
®
Emery, all  numbers 
Emery, po................  
®
30®
Ergota.............. po. 40 
Flake  W hite......... 
12®
Galla............................ 
®
Gambler..................... 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper..  ! 
®
Gelatin, French.......  
35®
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
9®
Glue,  brown............. 
I3@
Glue,  white..............  
14®
G lycerina.................. 
®
Gran a  Paradlsi  .... 
Humulus..................  
25®
@  
Hydraag Chior  Mite 
@  
Hydraag Chior  Cor. 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
@  
@  
Hydraag Ammonlatl 
HydraagUnguentum  45®
Hydrargyrum........... 
<a
Ichthyobolla, A m ...
65®
Indigo.........................
Iodine, Resnbi.......
Iodoform...................
Lupulin......................
Lycopodium............
Maeis 
Liquor  Arsen et ¿ j -
drarg Iod................
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia,  Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ............. 
Menthol

10®
2®
_  
50®
@   2  75

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

M orphia,S.P.AW ...  2  05®  2  30 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
C.  Co........................  2 05®  2  30
Moschus Canton__  
@   40
80
65® 
Myristica, No. 1.......  
Nux Vomica. ..po.20 
@  
10
Os  Sepia.................... 
15® 
18
Pepsin  Saac, H. A P.
Co.......................  
@   1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Vigal.
@ 2   00
doz............................ 
Picis Liq., q u arts.... 
@   1  00
Picis Liq., pints....... 
@   85
50
@  
Pll Hydrarg... po.  80 
Piper N igra... po.  22  @ 1 8
30
@  
Piper A lba....po.  35 
Piix  Burgun............. 
@  
7
Plumbi  Acet............. 
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
@ 1 2 5
A P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv......... 
30®  33
10
8®  
Q uassia...................... 
42
37@  
Quinia, S.  P. A W .. 
40
30® 
Quinia, S.Germ an.. 
QUinia, N .Y..............  
3*@ 
40
Rnbia Tinctorum ... 
12®  
14
18®  20
SaccharnmLactis pv 
Salacin........................3  00©   3  10
Sanguis Draconis. .. 
40® 
50
Sapo,  W ...................... 
14
12®  
Sapo, M.......................  
io@ 
12
Sapo,  G........................ 
@  
15
Siedlitz  M ixture__   20  @  
22

19

35 
37 
65 
35 

38
40
70
40

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

Paints  BBL.  LB

Sinapis.......................  
@  
is
Sinapis, opt..............  
@   30
Snuff,  Maccaboy,De
Voes.........................  
®   34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
@  34
Soda Boras................   7  @  
9
Soda Boras, po.........  7  @  
9
26® 
Soda et Potass Tart. 
28
Soda,  Carb................  
lvi®  
2
3®  
Soda,  Bi-Carb........... 
5
4
Soda,  Ash..................  3Vi® 
Soda, Sulphas........... 
@  
2
Spts. Cologne............  
@   2  80
55
Spts.  Ether  Co......... 
50® 
Spt  Myrcia Dom ... 
@   0 00
@   2  40
Spts.  Vini  Reet. bbl. 
Spts.  Vini Rect.Hbbl  @ 2   45
Spts.  Vini Rect.lOgal 
©   2  48
@  2  50
Spts. Vini Reet.  5gal 
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Sub!...........  2Vi® 
3
2®   2Vi
Sulphur,  R oll......... 
8®  
Tamarinds................  
10
Terebenth V enice... 
28® 
30
42®   45
Theobrom®............... 
V anilla.......................  9  00@16 On
Zinci  Sulph............... 
7® 
8

Red  Venetian...........
Ochre, yellow Mars.
Ochre, yellow  Ber..
Putty, commercial..
Putty, strictly  pure.
Vermilion,  P r im e
American...............
Vermilion,  English.
Green, P a ris.............
Green,  Peninsular..
Lead,  Red..................
Lead, w hite..............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting,  gilders’...
White, Paris Am er..
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
c liff......................r.
Universal Prepared.

.Varnishes])

Oils

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

BBL.  SAL.
70
45
40

70 
40 
35 

No.  1 Turp Coach
Extra  Turp.........
Coach Body.........
No.  1  Turp F u m .. 
Extra Turk Damar
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp 

1  10®   1  29
1  60®  1  70
2  75®  3 00 
1  00®  1  10 
1  55®  1  60
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Second  Year  250,000.
Third  Year  350,000.

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

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.

CHOCOLATE. 

CONDENSED  MIl K.

F A R IN A C E O U S   O O O D S .

Soudera*.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew.

24  1  lb.  packages...........
Bulk, t>er 10J  lbs...........

..1  75 
B
..3E 0  m

Farina.

Grits.

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s . ...
..2  40
Bulk In  10J lb. bags....... ..3  40

Hominy.

Barrels  ...........................
..2  25
Flake, 50 lb.  drums__ ..1  00

Beans.

.. 
3 4
..1  00
Macearon! and  Vermicelli.
..  60
..2  50

Pried  Lima
Medium  Hand  Picked.
Domestic,  101b.  b o x ...
Imported,  25 lb. b o x ..
Pearl Barley.
Common..........................
C h ester...........................
E m p ire...........................

..  2  ¿0
..  2  Bu
..  2  75

Peas.

.. 

Î0
2 

Green,  bn ........................
Split,  per lb ....................
Rolled  Oats.
Rolled  A vena,  bbl__ .  .3  60
..1 7 5
Monarch.  4   bbl...........
..3   15
Private brands,  bbl..
..1  70
Private brands,  4 b b l..
.  3 20
Quaker,  cases 
.............
Huron,  cases..................
..1  75 

3

Sago.

G erm an........................... ... 
East  India..................
Wheat.

Cracked, bulk................ ■ ■■ 
s x
24 2 lb packages............. ...2   50 

Fish. 

Cod.

Georges cured.............. 
0   J X
Georges  genuine......... 
0   54
0   f  x
Georges selected......... 
Strips or  bricks...........  5  © 7 4

Halibut.

Chunks.................................. 
Strips..................................... 

10
9

 

H errin*.

Holland white hnnns. hhl.  ' 0 °5 
Tb Ua"d  White hoop 4  bh’,  5  =0 
TT'1  snd  white hoop.  te e . 
72 
Holland white h^op mchs 
80
Norwegian...........................  11  on
Round 100 lb s......................  3  40
Round  40 lb s......................  1  60
Scaled....................................  
18

Tackerel.

Mess  ico  ibs  ........................  16 no
Mess  40 ihs 
......................  «70
Mess  lO lh s.........................   1  75
Mess  8  lbs.........................   1  47
No. 1  ion lbs.........................   14  50
No. 1  40 l b s ......................   6  1'
Mo. 1 
lOlhs.........................   1  60
No.  1 
8 lbs..........................  1  wi
No. 2 100 lbs.........................   1 ’  <0
No. 2  40 lbs.........................   4  31
»>1. 2  inthq.........................   1  15
No. 2  8 lbs.......................... 
95

Sardines.

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

56

Trout

*  50
No. 1  100 lbs.........................  
No.  1  «O lbs.......................   2  1
lO lhs... 
No. 1 
................  
61
No. 1 
8 l b s .......................  
61

Wblteflsh.

No. 1  No. 2  F*tt,
100 lb s______   6  no 
5  00 
2  0 1
40 lbs 
2 3U  1  3 •
.........   2 70 
10 lb s............  
35
65 
75 
8 lb s............. 
31
55 
63 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

doz
2 oz.........  75
4 oz..........1  50

Regular
Vanilla.

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

.1  50 
.3 00

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GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle - Dupont’s.

K
11
8 4   ^
u
3 

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

g 
I
*
Keg*...........................................g  no
Half  Kegs................................. 4  25
Quarter Kegs...........................2
1 lb. cans..................................   45

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s

HERBS.

INDIGO.

Sage............................................  15
H ops..........................................  15
Madras, 5  lb  boxes...............  55
8.  F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  boxes__   50
15 lb  palls.................................  <0
30 lb  pails.................................  73

JE L L Y .

LYB.
Condensed,  2  dos  ................. 1  20
Condensed  1  An» 
..........2  ¡f

LICORICE.

Pure............................................  80
C alabria..................................   25
Sicily.........................................   14
Root............................................  10

MINCE  MEAT.

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

HATCHES.

Diamond  Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9  sulphur................................1 65
Anchor  Parlor..............................1 70
No. 2  Home................................... 1 10
Export  Parlor..............................4 00

nO LA SSBS.
New Orleans.

11
B lack ...................................... 
14
F a ir ........................................ 
G ood......................................  
20
94
Fancy 
............................... 
Open  K ettle..........................25035

Half-barrels 2c extra.

P1PB5.

Clay, No.  216  ........................  1 7
Clay, T.  D.  full count......... 
*=
Cob, No. 3 ............................... 
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s ......................................  4 Ofi
PennaSalt  Co.’s .......................   3 Of

PICKLES.
riedium.

Barrels,  1,200 count.............  5  50
Half bbls, 600 count.............  3  30

Small.

Barrels, 2,400  count...........  0  7--
Half bbls,  1,200 count.........   4  00

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head.......................   64
Carolina  No. 1  ....................  5
Carolina  No. 2......................   4V4
Broken....................................   SX

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1..........................  5>4
-inpan.  No. 2 .......................... 
l x
Java, fancy  head................   6
Jav a, No. 1 ...........................  5
Table...... ............... n:  ....  BX

Jennings*.

Ob Vanii.a
.1 20
2 oz.
..1 50
3 oz.
.2 UO
4 oz.
.3 .10
6 oz.
No. 8 1 00
No.  110. 6 00
No. 2 T .l 25
No. 3 T.2 (10
Mo 4 2X2 40

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.
75
...1 00
3 oz.
4 oz.
...1 40
...2 uu
6 oz..
No. 8...2 40
No. 10 .4 00
No. 2T. 81)
No. 3 T.l 35
No. 4 T.l «0

AXLE  OREASE.

doz.  gross
Aurora............................55 
6  00
Castor O il......................60 
700
4  00
Diamond........................50 
F razer's.......................  .75  9 00
9 00
rXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
nica.  tin  boxes............ 75 
9  0»
Paragon..........................55 
6  00

BAKINQ  POWDER.

Absolute.

U lb cans doz...................... 
& lb cans doz...................... 
1 

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

Acne.

X lb cans 3 doz...................  
X  lb cans 3 doz.................... 
1 
Bulk.......................................... 

45
75
lb cans 1 doz..  ................. 100
10

El Purity.

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

Home.

X lb cans 4 doz case.... 
X  lb cans 4 doz case.... 
lb cans 2 doz case  ...

. 
.. 

35 
55 
90

1
45
.. 
85 
..  1  60

..  2  00 
..  1  25 
.. 
85

X lb cans, 4 doz case__
4  lb cans. 4 doz case__
lb cans. 2 doz case__
1 
Jersey Cream.
1 lb.  cans, per doz............
9 oz.  ca  s, ’ eT doz............
6 oz. cans, per doz............

Our Leader.

8i

lb cans., 
lb cane, 
lb cans.

Welter Baker â t Co.'s.
German Sw eet...................... 
.  23
Premium....................................... ?4
Breakfast  Cocoa........................‘ 6

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
lute. 60 ft.  per  dos  ... 
80
Jnte. 72 ft.  pc'-  do*„ 
if
Chicory.

B u lk .................................. 
Red 

5
7

COCOA SHBLLS.
20 lb  bags...........................  
Less  quantity.................... 
Pound  packages............... 
CREAIT  TARTAR.

2 4
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Oreen.
Rio.

F a ir .........  ....................................tfl
Good.............................................. 12
P rim e............................................ 13
ßol den  .........................................14
Peaberry  ..................................... 15

Santos.

1*
Fair  ................................ 
G«v>d  ............................... 
  15
P rim e..........................................  16
Peaberry  ...................................  17

 

 

Mexican  and  Quatamala.

45 
76 
1  50

F air  . 
Rood 
Fancy

1«
17
I*

Peerless.

1 lb. c a n s .............................  

85

BATH  BRICK.

Am erican.....................................70
English.......................................... 80

BLUINO.

CÇPÜ ISED

6 L u i M G

1  doz.  pasteboard  B oxes... 
40
3 doz. wooden  boxes...........1  20

BROOJ1 5 .
No. 1 Carpet..................
No. 2 Carpet..................
No. 8 Carpet..................
No. 4 Carpet..................
Parlor G em ..................
Common  Whisk...........
Fancy Whisk................
Warehouse....................
CANDLES.
8s ....................................
16s  ..................................
Paraffine........................

1  90
1  75
1  50
1  15
2  00
70
80
2  25

..7
.8
..8

CANNED  OOODS.
fieni to woe  Pena.

Lakeside  Marrowfat..
95
Lakeside E.  J ..............
1  '5
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng.... 1  2
L tVm IiI p  fipni  F!x.  "»I 'ted. 1  4
Extra Sifted  Early Ju n e ... .1  75

Maracaibo.

2*
PtItup  ............... . 
MlUed......................................   .  21

Jotra.

TntérlfiT............................   fO
Prlvptp Hrowth................... f2
Man deh ling................................. 24

Mocha.

Im itatio n ..................................   92
Arabian  ......................................24

Roasted.

........

.......  

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
T**lfth 
.TowpII’«  Arsblan M ncha...  2®
TT^Ib’ Vophu and  .Tuva........?4
Wpii«'  Perfection  Ja v a ........94
QonfioOyt 
.............. 9?
B rea k fa st  B’end.................... 2d
v^PevCMtv Maracaibo.
Tdesl  Blerri!..............................13
Leader  Blend.......................... 12

. 

Package.

for 

freight 

Below  are  «riven  New  York 
price«  on  paekave  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local 
from 
New  York  to  vonr  shipping 
point, giving yon credit  on  the 
invoice 
the  amount  of 
freight  hnver  nav«  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purché ses 
to his shinpipw point, includine 
weight  of  package.  Tn  an  Vh. 
cases the list is 10c  per  100  lbs 
above the price In full cases.
A rbuckle.............  
  11  0°
Jersey..................................   P   on
IcLanghllfi'a  XXXX........11 On

 

C H E E S E .

A cm e.........................
Amboy.......................
Bvrou.........................
E ls ie ...........................
Gem  ...........................
Gold  Medal...............
Hartford.....................
Herkimer...................
Id e a l...........................
Jersey  .......................
Lenaw ee....................
Riverside....................
S p a rta ........................
B rick ...........................
Edam..........................
Leiden........................
Li m burger................
Pineapple................... 43
Sap  Sago».-........

114
l'K
11
114
124
il
12

0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
@ 11V4
12
0
11
0
12
0
11
0
© 10
75
18
10
85
0 18

Extract.

Valley City X  g ro ss.......  
»ellx  X  gross  .............. 
Hummel’s foil  X gross... 
Hummel’s tin  X  gross... 

75
1  ff
Pf
1  4?

CATSUP.

Colombia,  pints............. 2 0°
Columbia, X pints............. 1 25

CLOTHES  PINS.

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

COUQH  DROPS.

C. B.  Brand.

« 5  wot packages ..........  

loo

4 doz in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle............   6  75
C row n............................................6 25
D aisy......................................   5  75
Champion  .............................   4  5i
4  *•
Magnolia 
Challenge....................................... 3 35
Dime  .  ...................................... 3  •'6

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COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 hooks, 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 books, any denom___  1  50
100 honks, any denom__   2  50
500 books  any d en om ....It  50
1.000 books,  any denom__ 20  00

Universal Grade.

50 books, any denom ....  150
100 books, any denom__   2  50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00

Superior Grade.

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

Coupon  Pass Books,

Can be made to represent any 

denomination from $10 down.

20 books  ...........................  
l  00
50 books....................................   2 00
100 books  .............................   3  00
250 books....................................  C 25
500 books.....................................10 00
1000books.......................... ...17  50

Credit  Checks.

500, any one denom’n ....... 8  00
1000, any one denom’n ....... 5  00
2000.  any one denom’n .......   8  00
Steel  punch...........................  
75
DRIBD  FRUITS—DOITBSTIC 

Apples.

5 4
0  8

Sun dried......................  0  
Evaporated 50 lb boxes. 
California  Fruit*.

Apricots..........................7 X 3  8X
Blackberries..................
N ectarines.................... 
Peaches............................  8  0  9
Pears...............  
 
Pitted Cherries.............
Prunnelles......................12
Raspberries...................

0
8  0

 

California  Prunes.

100-120 25 lb boxes...........  ©   ?X
90-100 25 lb boxes...........  0   4M
80 - 90 25 lb boxes...........  0   5 x
70 - 80 25 lb boxes...........
R0 - 70 25 lb boxes...........  0   6 4
50 - 60 25 lb boxes...........  0   6M
40 - 50 25 lb boxes..........   0   7X
0
30 - 40 25 lb boxes 
X   cent less In 50 lb cases

. 

Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 4 Crown. 
Dehesias 
.............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Musc»tels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 

1  50 
2  00
5 
6 
7

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Patras bbls............................0   fiv
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.........0   64
Cleaned, bulk  .....................0   8
Cleaned, packages.............0   84

Peel.

Citron American 101b  bx  014 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  012 
Orange American 101b bx  012

Raisins.

Ondura 28 ib Duxes.......8  0   84
Sultana  1 Crown........... 
Sultana  2 Crown  .........  
Sultana a Crown...........  
Sultana  4 Crown........... 
Qtl1tA.TT0  <* PTOWTI 
Sultan« 6 Crown........... 
Sultana package......... 

0
0
011
0
. . . .   ^
(^’2
014

SALERATUS.

Packed 60  lbs. In  box.

Church’s ..................................3  30
Deiand’s .................................3  t5
Dwight’s ..................................3  30
Taylor’s ....................................8  00

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls................   75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  9>
Lump, bbls 
........................  75
Lump.  1451b kegs  ..............   ¿5

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks............................. 1 70
60 5-lb sacks.............................1 55
28 10 lb sacks...........................1 45

Worcester.

lb.  cartons...................3 25
50  4 
115  241b.  sacks....................... 4 00
lb. sacks.......................3 75
60  5 
22 14 
lb.  sacks..................  3  50
30 10 
lb.  sacks....................... 3 50
28 lb.  linen sacks...................   32
56 lb. linen  sacks....................  60
Bulk in barrels........................ 2 50

Warsaw.

">6-lb dairy In drill  bags.......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags.......   15

Ashton.

56-lb dairy In  linen  sacks...  60

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in  linen  sack s...  60 

Solar  Rock.

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

Common.

Granulated  “'lue....................  7’
Medium  F in e..........................  83

SEEDS.

A n ise................................
Canary. Smyrna..............
Caraw ay...........................
Cardamon,  Malabar  ...
Ce ery............................... .
Hemp.  Russian..............
Mixed  Bird.....................
Mustard,  white..............
Poppy  ...............................
R ap e..................................
Cuttle Bone.....................

SNUPP.

Scotch,  In bladders.......
Maccaboy,  In jars...........
French  Rappee, In  Jars

S P I C E S .

Whole Sifted.

9
38
6
11
34
5
<4

87
35
48

Allspice  ....................; ............. 10
Cassia, China In mats...........  2
Cassia,  Batavia in  band__ ib
Cassia, Saigon in rolls.........32
Cloves,  Amboyna...................10
Cloves, Zanzibar....................  9
Mace,  Batavia  .......................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................... 60
Nutmegs, No.  1...................... 50
Nutmegs, No.  2.......................45
Pepper, Singapore, black .. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, w h ite.. .12 
Pepper,  shot............................ 10

Pure  around In Balk.

Allspice  ................................... 12
Cassia,  B atav ia...................... 22
Cassia,  Saigon..  ................... 35
Cloves,  Amboyna.................. 20
Cloves, Zanzibar.....................15
Ginger,  A frican.....................15
Ginger,  Cochin...................... 20
Ginger,  Ja m a ic a ..................22
Mace,  Batavia....... ................to
Mustard. Eug. and Trieste. .20
Mustard, T rieste.....................25
Nutmegs............................ 40©  0
Pepper. Sing , b lack ___10© u
Pepper.  Sing.,  w hite__ 15018
Pepper, Cayenne.............17020
Sage.............................................18

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels...........................
Half  bb ls.....................
Pure Cane.
Fair  ............................. .
Good...............................
C h oice...........................

SODA.

Boxes 
...........................
Kegs, English...........

16
18

16.
20
26

64
4«

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

Single box.................................2
Single box.................................2
3  box  lots,  delivered............ 2  70
5  box  lots,  delivered............ 2  70
10 box lots, delivered..........  2  05
10 box lots, delivered..........  2  05

JftS.  S.  KIRK  8 CO.'S SfiANBS.

American  Family, w rpd....3  33 
A m erican  Family,  un w rp 'd.3  27
Home......................................... 3  33
Cani net........................................... 2 20
Savon  ........................................2  50
Dusky  Diamond  50  0  oz__2  10
Dusky  Diamond. 50 .3  oz__3  00
Blue India,  100 %  lb.................... 3 00
Kirkoline....................................... 3 75
E o s 
3 iS
One  box  American  Family 
free  with  five

. 

. 

Schulte Soap Co.'s Brand.

100 C a kes, 75  bs.

Single  box.........
......... ...2   80
5 b ix  lots................
.  2  75
9  ?I1
10 box  lots  ..............
25 box  lo t s ............... .............  2  60
Wolverine Soap Co.'s  Brands.

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

 

Allen  B.  Wrlsley’s  Brands. 

Old Country. 80 1-lb  bars  . .2  "5
Good  <  henf. 6n l  ib.  bars__ 3  75
Uuo,  100 4i-lb.  bars................2  50
Doll,  100 10-oz.  bars.............. 2  05

Scouring.

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

Washing PowdT

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

STARCH.

Ktngsioru’s  vorn.

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

Kingsford’s  Silver  Gloss.

40 1-lb packages........................ 6V4
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 
40  1 lb  packages
201b.  noses.......
40 lb.  boxes.......

Common Gloss.

1-lb  packages....................  .  4 44
3-lb  packages.......................   4 a
6-lb  packages  ......................  4\
40 and 50 lb boxes..................  3
Babels 

...........................
STOVE  POLISH.

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York
prices on  sugars,  to  which  the
wholesale dealer adds the local
ireight from New  kork to your
shipping  point,  giving  you
credit  ou  tne  invoice  tor  me
amount  of  freigUt  buyer  pays
from  the  market  in  which  he
purchases toil is shipping point,
including  2U  pounds  for  the
weight oi the  barrel.
Cut  Loaf................
..5  63
Domino..............
. .5 4*0
Cubes....................
.. .5 1»
Powdered  ................
...5   Is
XXXX  Powdered.............
.5  25
Mould  A................
5  «5
. .5  Oo
Granulated in bbls...........
Granulated in  bags.........
. .5  00
Fine Granulated...............
. .5  ou
Extra  Fine Granulated..
. .5  1
Extra Coarse Granulated . .5  i
Diamond  Confec.  A ...
. .5  00
Confec. Standard A .........
.  4  8
No.  1.........................
4  6z
No  2......................
. .4  o<
No.  3...........................
4  63
No.  4  ......................
No.  5..................
No.  6.......................
No.  7 ....................
No.  9..............................
No.  10..............
No.  11.......................
No.  12...............................
No.  13.........................
No.  14.........................
No.  15...........
No.  16.................................

. .4  44
.  4  38
..4  0
.  4  13
. .4  uö
.  4 ou
^  3  94
. .<»  »4
..3  88
..3  81

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large__ 4  75
Lea A  Perrin's, sm all__ 2 75
Halford,  arge.................. 3  75
Halford small.................... 2 25
Salad  Dressing,  large__ 4  55
Salad  Dressing, sm all__ 2  65

TOBACCOS.

Cigar*.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s  brand. 
New  B rick.............................35 00

H. & P.  Drug Co.’s brand. 

Q uintette...............................35  00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

s. C. W...............................35 00

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine......................   7
Pure  Ciaer..................................   8

WICKI.NG.

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

Fish  and  Oysters

Fresh  Fish.

W hitefish..................
T ro u t.........................
Black  Bass................
H alibut.....................
Ciscoes or Herring..
Bluetish......................
Live  Lobster...........
Boiled Lobster.........
r o d .............................
Haddock....................
No.  1  Pickerel.........
Pike.............................
Smoked  W hite.........
Red Snapper.............
Col  River  salm on..
Mackerel 
................

Oysters In Cans

F.  H.  Counts.............
F  J.  D. Seb cts.........
Selects ........................
F  J   D.  standards..
Ai cbors.....................
Siandar is..................
Favorites..................

Oysters  in  Bulk

F  H  Con  ts............. 
Extra  Selects...........
selects........................
Ane inr Standards..
St  ndards..................
Clams.........................

Shell  Goods.

Per lb.
9
©
8
© 10
© 15
4
©
© iu
© 16
© 18
© 10
8
©
9
©
7
©
9
©
© 12
© 15
© 18

© 35
© 27
© 22
2 *
© 18
16
© 14

@1  75
(ft 50
@1 23
(ill 10
©1 uo
©1 25

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

Oysters,  per  100...........1  25@1  5°
.  .  SUOI  OL
Clams,  per  100  . 

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
6%@ 7H
ey*© ?*/,
6  ©  8

@
cases
© 6*4
©   ay*
©

Mixed Candv.

Competition..............  
Standard.................... 
Conserve.................... 
R oyal.........................  
Ribbon........................ 
Broken  .....................  
Cut  Loaf.................... 
English  Kock........... 
Kindergarten........... 
French  Cream......... 
Dandy Pan................ 
Valley Cream........... 

© 6 4
©   7
7%
©   7,;
©   8y*
©   ay*
©   at*
©   8
©   84
@   b>*
©lu
@13

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain.......  
Lozeuges,  printed.. 
Choc.  Drops............. 
Choc.  Mouumeutals 
Gum  Drops............... 
Moss  Drops..............  
Sour Drops................  
Im perials.................. 

©   9
© 9
11  ©14
@12
@ 6
(¡j  8
© « 4
©   8*

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon  Drops........... 
@50
sour  Drops............... 
©50
©6U
Peppermint  Drops.. 
©t>j
Chocolate Drops  ... 
©75
H.  M. Choc.  Drops.. 
Gum  Drops..............  
©¿0
Licorice Drops......... 
©75
©50
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain__  
© 5u
Lozenges,  printed.. 
©50
Im perials.................. 
©50
Mottoes...................... 
©55
Cream  B ar................ 
©,.(j
Molasses B a r ........... 
© 5u
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©1  0j
Plain  Creams...........  60  © 9u
Decorated Creams.. 
© 9u
String Hock............... 
©00
Burnt Almonds....... 125  ©
Wiutergreen Berries 
© 6j
Caramels.
No.  1  wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  ......................
No.  1  wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes  ....................
No. 2 wrapped,  2  lb. 
b o x e s ...........

©30
©45

Fruits.
Orange*.

Fancy  Mexicans.

176s  ...........
zoos................................
20o Fancy............

Rodis.

Lemons. 
Strictly choice  360s.. 
Strictly choice  3uus..
Faucy  360s ...............
Kx.Faucv  300s.........
Ex.  Rodi  360s...........
Bananas. 

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

©1
© 2

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

Choice, 101b coxes.. 
Extra  chui< e,  14  lb
bo xes  ......................
Fancy,  l2 lb  boxes.. 
Faucy,  50 lo boxes., 
im p eria l  M ikaUus, 13
ib .u rea ..................
Pulled, 6lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags...
Dates.

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fard,  in  61  ib  cases 
Persians,  11.  >1. B.,60
lb cases,  new.........
Sairs.  Lb in   c a s e s __

©
<U,4  50 
©5  00

@3  25 
©3  25 
©4  uU 
©4  5*1 
©5  UO

© 10
© 12
© 13
© 14
© 11
© 15
6
<(£

8
6

©
©
©
©   41*4

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  ©13
Almonds,  lvaca...........  ©11
Almonds,  California,
©15
soft  shelled............... 
Brazils new.................. 
©   8*4
Filberts  .......................  
©lo
Wamuts,  Grenobles  ..  ©13
Walnuts,  Calif  No.  1.  @ u
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
C a lif...........................  @12
©12
Table Nuts,  fancy__  
Table N uts,  choice...  ©10
Pe<aus,  Med.................  
@ 8
Pecans,  Ex.  L arge....  ©10
Pecans,  J  umbos..........  ©12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
@1  75
Ohio,  new.................. 
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  ©4  50

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................... 
Choice, H. P„  Extras 
Choice.  H.  P.,  Extras,

©   6*4
@   6’4
©   4

Roasted  ...............  ©554

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as

W heat.

Wheat........................ .............  
W inter  Wheat  Flour. 

85

Local Brands.

P aten ts............................  5  50
Second  Patent................ 5  10
Straight...........................   4  bu
Clear.................................   4  40
Graham  .................................  4  70
Buckw heat......................4  „5
Rye  ........................................   3  5u
Subject  to  usual  cash dis­
count.
Flour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Quaker,  Ms......................  4 5 ,
Quaker,  Qs......................  4 5 .,
Quaker,  y*s.......................  4  Oo
Guaid,  Fairfield  & C o ’s Brand.
Wuuie  VVfieali-i6s ........  5 2u

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell  Weils Co.'s Brand.
Pillsbury’s  Best  Ms.............  5  55
Pliiabury'a  Best Ms.............  5  ,0
l’iHsouiy 's neat  -.,s.............  5  3
Piilsbuiy's Best  M*  papir .  5  .5 
PLlsuury’s Best 
paper.. 5  .5
Ball-Baruhart-Putmau's Brand.
Grand  Republic,  Ms............ 5  55
Grand Republic,  Ms............ 5  ,5
Grand Republic,  Ms.............5  35
Lemon &  Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold  Medal  y*s....................     5  65
Gold  Medal  R s ..................   o  gj
  5  45
Goad  Medal  Ms.............. 
Parisian,  Ms..........................  a  60
Parisian,  Ms............ 
...  5  o*
Parisian.  Ms...........................  &  4rf

Gluey  &. Jud son’s Brand.

Ceresota,  Ms..........................  5  95
Leresotiii, 
............... 
   5  n5
..........................  0  4^
Ceresuta, 

 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Laurel,  Ms............................... 5  0,
Laurel, Ms..........................’  5  a5
Laurel, >*s.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  5*3

Meal.

B o lted ....................................   1  75
G ranulated...........................  2  00

Feed and  Millstuffs.

St.  Car F’eed.  screened__ 14  0 i
No.  I  Corn and  Gats...........13  uo
Unbolted Corn  Meal...........12  ..0
Winter  U beat  B ran ...  .  11  Oo
V\ inter Wheat  Middlings.  1,  ou
Screenings..............................10  ou
The  G.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 

quules> a» follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots................................28
Less than  car  lots...........  3 ,

Car  lots................................23
Carluts, clipped................  25
Less tnan  car  lots............28

Oats.

Hay.

No.  1  Timothycarlots.........  9  00
No.  1  l'mioiuy.  too lots  ...lu   ou

Crackers.

The N.  Y.  Biscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follows :

Butter.

Seymour X X X ......................  4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  4%
Family X X X .........................   4
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  4%
Salted  XXX  .........................   4
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton ...  4M 
Soda  X X X   ...........................   4
soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__   4*4
Soda,  City.............................   5
Zephyrette.............................   9
Long lsiand  Wafers...........  9
L. 1.  Wafers,  1 lb carton  ..  10 

.Soda.

Oyster.

Square Oyster, X X X .  .......   4*4
Sq. Gys. XXX.  I  lb  carton.  5m 
Farina Gyster,  X X X ...........  4
SW EET  GOODS—Boxes.
A nim als.................................  9
Bent's Cold W ater...............  13
Belle  Rose.............................  6
Cocoauut  Taffy....................  8
Coffee Cakes.........................   8
Frosted  Honey......................  10
Graham Crackers  ...............  6
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city ...  5 
Gin. sops,XXX home made  5 
Gin. Sups, XXX scalloped..  5
Ginger  Vanilla  ..................   7
Im perials...............................  ¿
Jumóles,  Honey..................   10
Molasses  Cakes....................  6
Marshmallow  ......................  12
Marshmallow  Creams.......   13
Pretzels,  hand  m a d e.......   6
Pretzelettes, Little German  6
Sugar  Cake...........................   6
Sultanas.................................  10
Sears’ Lunch.........................   6
Vanilla  Square..................  
7
Vanilla  W afers..................   12
Pecan  W afers.......................   12
Mixed  P icn ic........................  10
Cream Ju m b les.....................  11%
Boston Gluger  Nuts............   6
. . . . . . .   9
Pineapple Glace...................   2
Pen 11 v Cake. 
..................  6
Marshmallow  Walnuts__   13
Belle Isle Picnic..................   10

9  50
11  bll
lo  .5
.. 
..  10  1 0
14  50
to  5u
9  OU

Barreled  Pork.

follows:
Mess 
.............................
Back 
.............................
Clear  back....................
¡Snortcut..  ..................
F ig ..................................
Bean  ...........................
fam ily  .........................

.. 
Dry Salt  Meats.

B ellies...........................
Briskets  ......................
Extra  shorts................

Smoked  Heats.

flams,  12 lb  average  .
Hams,  14 lb  average
Hams,  16 lb  average..
Hams,  2U lb  average...
Ham dried b e e f.........
snouiders  (N.  Y. cut)
Bacon,  clear................
Cain orma  hams.........
Boneless hams............
Cooked  ham................

Lards. 

In Tierces.

Compound...............
Kettie...........................
00 lb Tubs...........advance 
au lb Tubs...........advance 
ou ib  t i n s ...........advance 
M ib Palis...........advance 
10 lb Palls...........advance 
510 Pails...........advance 
3 lb Pails...........advance 

.. 

1a
o

53k
6M
9
9
8M
8
15
6*
6
8M
11

7
»

4
5K
m
j*
34
y*
j*
j*
1

Sausages.

.........

B o log n a.........................
Liver................................
Frankfort......................
P o rk ...............................
Blood 
Tongue  ...........................
Head  cheese..................

5
6M
7
6
9
6*
Beef.
Extra  Mess.................... ..  9  0J
Boneless  ................
..12  00
Rum p.............................
. .12 50
Pigs’  Feet.
Kits,  15  lbs......................
80
>4  bbis, 40 lbs................ ..  1  bo
M  bbls, so lbs................ ..  2  80

Tripe.

.. 

.. 

.. 

16
10

Kits, 15 lbs....................
75
M  bbls, 40 lbs................ ..  1  40
M  bbls, ao lbs................ ..  2  75
Casings.
P o rk .............................
Beef  rounds..................
Beef  middles................
Sh eep .........................
Butterlne.
Rolls,  dairy.........
solid,  dairy..................
Hulls,  cream ery...........
solid,  cream ery...........
Canned  Meats

Corned  beef,  2  lb ....... ..  2  10
Corned  beef,  14  lb....... . .14  U0
Huasl  beef,  2  lb ....... ..  2  „0
Potted  ham,  Ms.......
00
Potted  ham,  Ms....... ..  1  UO
Deviled ham,  34s .......
60
Dev iied bam,  yas __ ..  1  00
Potted  tongue Ms.......
60
Potted  tongue y*s....... ..  1  uo

60

10
9?*
14
13m

Fresh  Meats.

Beel.

C arcass......................... 5M@  7*4
Fore quarters...............
(ßjö
Hind  quarters............. 7  ©   9
Loins  JNo.  3.............,
)  ©12
Ribs...........................
i  ©12
Rounds......................
unueks.........................
ILL  5
4 
Plates  ...........................
©   3

Pork.

Veal.

Mutton.

©   5
©   &M

Dressed.........................
L o in s...........................
Shoulders......................
Leal Lard...................... 5M©
C arcass......................... 6  ©   7
spring Lam bs...
8  ©   9
Ofj/roass
6  ©   8
hides  and  Pelts.
Perkins  <Sz  Hess  pay as  fol-

lows:
G reen............................. 7  ©   8
Part  c u re d ...:.............
©   8 Vi
Full Cured....................
*M©   9 *
Dry  ................................ 9  ©11
Kips,  green.................. 7  ©   8
Kips,  cured.................. 4M©  S*M
Calfskins,  green......... 7M@  9
Calfskins,  cured.........
1  ©105*
Deacouskins  ...............25  ©30

Hides.

Pelts.

Shearlings..................
Lam bs.........................
old  Wool

5® 
30
4(1©  1  IK)
6>*3>  1  Oo

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ........................
©1U4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt
©   8H
W  W Michigan............
©   8
Diamond  W h.te..........
©   7
D., S. Gas.......................
©   8
Deo.  Naptha  ...
©   744
Cylinder........................25  ©36
Engine  ..........................n   ©21
lack, winter...........
© 8

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butter*.

5*4

H gal., per doz....................  50
1  to 6 gal.,  per gal............. 
8 gal.,  per g a l....................... 
614
10 gal., per gal........................ 
6*4
12 gal.,  per g al........................   6*4
15 gal.  meat-tubs,  per gal..  8 
2u gal.  meat-tubs,  per gal..  8 
25 gal.  meat-tubs,  per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs,  per gal..  10 

2 to 6 gal., per gal.......   ... 
5*4
Churu  Dashers,  per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

V4  gal.  flat or  rd.  hot., doz.  60 
1 gal.  flat or rd.  boi., each 
Fine Glazed Milkpans.

V4  gal.  flat or rd.  bot., doz.  65 
1 gal.  flat or rd.  bot., each 

514 

514 

Stewpans.

14 gal.  fireproof,  bail, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof,  bail, doz.l  10 

Jugz.

M gal., per doz....................   40
14 gal.  per doz  ...................   50
1  to 5 gal.,  per gal............... 

614

Tomato Jugz.

14 gal., per doz....................   70
1  gal., each.........................  
7
Corks  for 14 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1  gal.,  per doz..  30 
Preserve Ja rs and Cover*.
14 gal.,  stone cover, d o *...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 

Sealing Wax.

2

5 lbs.  In  package,  per lb... 
LAMP  BURNERS.

No.  0  Sun............................... 
45
No.  1  Sun............................... 
50
No.  2  Sun............................... 
75
Tubular..................................  
50
Security,  No.  1...................... 
65
Security,  No. 2...................... 
85
go
Nutmeg  ................................. 
Climax....................................  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0  Sun...............................  1  75
No.  1  Sun...............................  1  88
.No.  2  Sun.................................2  70

F irst  Quality.

No. 
wrapped and  labeled__   2  10
No. 
^wrapped and  labeled  ...  2  25 
No. 
wrapped and  labeled....  3  25 

crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

0 San, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

XXX  Flint.
crimp 
crimp 
crimp 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 sun, 

wrapped  and  labeled__   2 55
wrapped and  labeled.  . . 2   75 
wrapped  and  labeled  ...  3  75 

top,
top,
top,

CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No.  1  sun,  wrapped  and
labeled...................................3  70
No  2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled...................................4  70
No.  2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled...................................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
80
for Globe Lam os............... 

La  Bastla.

No. 1  San.  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.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)......... 3  50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c do*)__ _  4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c  doz)......... 4  70

Electric.

OIL  CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ..........4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz).........  4  40
Doz.
1  gal  tin cans  with  spout..  1  25
1  gal galv iron with  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  <5 
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 

Pump  Cana

5 gal  Rapid  steady  stream.  9  00 
5 gal  Eureka non-overflow  10  50
3 gal  Home  Rule.................. 10  50
5 gal  Home R u le ....,......... 12  00
5 gal  Pirate  King................   9  50

LANTERNS.

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  L am p ...........3  75

LANTERN  GLOBES.
No  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each. box  1U cen ■ s............. 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases2 doz.
each,  box  10  cents...........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bblBSdoz.
each.  bbl 35........................ 
40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull's  eye,
cases 1 doz. each...............  1  25

LAMP  W ICKS.

No. 0 per gross......................  
No.  1  per gross........... .......... 
No. 2  per g ro ss.................... 
No. 3 per grosz......................  
Mammoth.................. m........ 

20
25
38
68
jg

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

H ardw are
The  Chainless  Wheel.

Written for the  Tradesman.

For  a  number  ot  years  the  bicycle has 
gradually  approached  an  ideal  in  form 
and  construction  which  seemed  to  pre­
clude the  material  changes  necessary  to 
give  a  distinct  type  for  the  new  season, 
so 
it  became  necessary  to  make  some 
radical  departure  to  meet  the  demand 
for  novelty  and  to  give  a  higher  grade 
for  an  advanced  price.  The  weakest 
point,  in  popular  prejudice,  if  not  in 
mechanical  principles,  seemed  to  be 
the  chain,  so attention has  been  directed 
to  the  superseding  of  this  means  of 
driving  by  something  which 
should 
meet  the  needs  of  the trade.

For  many  years bicycle manufacturers 
and  inventors  have  been  experimenting 
with  the  chainless  wheel.  Among  the 
many  devices  which  have  been  used  for 
transmitting  the  power  to  the  driving 
wheel  the  one  which  would  be  most 
naturally  suggested  by  a  mechanic— the 
bevel  gear  and  shaft—seems  to  be  the 
method  most  generally 
successful. 
Hosts  of  clumsy  contrivances  of  lever 
and  ratchets,  segment  gears,  etc.,  have 
been  tried,  to  be  quickly discarded,  and 
the  choice  seems  now  to  be  narrowed 
down  to  the  first  and  simplest  idea.

in 

Ingenuity 

The  French  inventors  and  manufac­
turers  were  among  the  first,  and  most 
persistent,  to  experiment  with  chainless 
wheels. 
that  country 
seems  to  have  been  more  active in novel 
and  radical  departures 
in  wheel  con­
struction  than  in  any  other,  but  few  of 
these  contrivances  have  any  perma­
nence.  But  the  idea  of  the  bevel  gear 
and  shaft  has  been  adopted  by  a  num­
ber  of  American  experimenters  during 
past  years  and  a  number  of  such  wheels 
were  built;  but,  while  there  seemed  to 
be  no  reason  why  they  were  not  prac­
tical,  they  did  not  meet  with  any  great 
demand.

But,  to  meet  the  needs  of  a  ’98  wheel, 
about  a  dozen  of  the  prominent  makers 
in  this  country  are  taking  up  the  chain­
less  idea.  The  Columbia  people  made 
a  great  strike  by  surrounding 
their 
operations  with  the  utmost  mystery  un­
til  they  had  awakened  a  wide  curiosity 
and  then  contriving  to  come  out  with 
the  announcement  simultaneously  all 
over  the  country.  The  amount  of  free 
advertising  they  were  enabled  to  get  by 
this  management  was  tremendous.

The  chainless  wheel  comes  to  supply 
a  need  of  trade  and  popular  taste  more 
than  to  meet  any  real  deficiency  in  the 
present  means  of  driving  the  bicycle. 
The  chain 
is  as  nearly  correct  in  me­
chanical  principles,  and  as  durable  and 
permanent,  as  any  device  likely  to  be 
used. 
It  may  be  that  the  chainless  fad 
may  meet  some success the coming year, 
but  I  predict  that  the  chain 
in  bicycle 
construction  is  destined  to  many  years 
of  life befoie  it  is  superseded.  Na te.

The  Arrangement  and  Care of Goods. 
Written fo r  the  T rad esm an.

In  the  series  of  articles  on  hardware 
store  management,  to  which  this  is  an 
introduction,  it 
is  the  intention  to  give 
such  practical  hints  as  have  been  sug­
gested by a somewhat lengthy experience 
in  the  care  and  vending  of  what  is  con­
sidered  the  most  substantial and durable 
class  of  merchandise  which  contributes 
to  the  convenience  and  welfare  of  mod­
ern  civilization.

The  hardware  store  is  not  generally  a 
place  of  great  popular  interest,  for  the 
reason  that  many  of  its  wares  are  the

this  product  and  in  some  instances  job­
bers  who are  loaded  with  old  contracts 
are  getting  a 
little  impatient  and  are 
disposed  to  deviate  from  the  market 
prices  in  order  to  secure  liberal  orders. 
Prices  asked  by manufacturers,however, 
are not  materially  changed,  although 
it 
is  believed  a  slight  deduction  of  5c 
could  be  obtained  for  good  orders.  The 
regular  market  prices,  however,  range 
from  $1.70(8)1.75  from  stock,  while $1.50 
for  mill  shipments  seems  to  be  the  go­
ing  price.  Unless  something  unforeseen 
happens,  it  is  not  believed  any  further 
advances  will  be  made  during  the  fall 
and  winter  months.

Barbed  W ire— But 

little  moving  at 
this  time  of  the  year  and  no  change  is 
being  made  in  the  price.

of 

resumption 

Window  Glass—Still  continues  very 
imme­
scarce,  with  no  prospects  of  the 
the  factories. 
diate 
Stocks  are  very  much  broken 
in  all 
parts  of  the  country  and  some  sizes  are 
impossible  to  get  at  any  figure.  Present 
quotations  are  on  a  basis  of 60  and  10 
per  cent,  by  the  box,  with  an  advance 
of  10  per  cent,  by  the 
It  is  be­
lieved  a  still  further  advance  will  soon 
be  made by  all  glass  jobbers.

light. 

Shot—Owing  to  a  decline  in  the price 
of  pig  lead  and  the  sharp  competition 
between 
the

certain  manufacturers, 

least 
inviting,  and  the  natural  accom­
paniments  of  much  of  the  trade  are 
gloomy  and  repellant. 
It  may  be  pos­
sible  that  there  is,  in  some  cases,  more 
of  this  characteristic  than  is  actually 
necessary ;  and,  if  any  of  the  sugges­
tions  which  may  be  given  shall  tend  to 
lessen  the  dinginess  and  increase  the 
interest  and  attractiveness,  the  series 
will  not  have  been  prepared  in  vain.

It 

is  a  natural  conclusion  that  the 
hardware  store 
is  favored  above  other 
lines  of  trade  in  that  its  wares  are  less 
susceptible to deterioration  either  by  the 
perishable  character  of  the  goods  or  by 
changing  styles.  And  yet  there  are 
enemies  which  may  quickly  work  sad 
havoc  with  many  of  the  wares,  and  the 
merchant  who 
is  not  watchful  to  keep 
up  with  the  times 
in  styles  and  im­
proved  patterns,  who  does  not  keep  his 
shelves  clear  of  obsolete  and  out-of- 
date  accumulations,  will  soon  find  that 
there 
is  a  perishable  element  even  in 
hardware.  Changes  of  styles  may  not 
be  as  radical  and  regular  as 
in  the 
milliner’s  line,  for 
instance,  but  they 
are  frequent  enough  to  require  the  ex­
ercise  of  constant  diligence.  The  temp­
is  the  greater  that 
tation  to  neglect 
many  goods  seem  to  need 
little  atten­
tion ;  but  the  contrast  between  a  stock 
which  is  kept  under  constant  inspection 
and  attention  and  one  where  neglect, 
at  least  of  some  lines;  is  the  rule  is 
sufficient  to  warrant  the  better  policy.

The  early hardware  store,  as  remem­
bered  by  those  who  have been  longest 
in  the business,  was quite  different  from 
that  of  to-day.  The  needs  of  advancing 
civilization  have  multiplied  the  number 
of  articles  as  greatly  as  in  any  other 
line  of  trade.  At  that  time  the  matter 
of  arrangement  and  classification  was 
comparatively  simple  and 
there  was 
little  difficulty  in  keeping everything  in 
sight  or 
in  mind,  so  that  it  could  be 
instantly  produced  at  the  call  of  the 
customer.  But 
store 
there  must  be  the  most  careful  arrange­
ment  and  classification,  and  the  most 
elaborate  provision  of  samples and lists, 
to  make  place  for  the hosts  of  patterns 
and  new 
inventions  which  have  been 
constantly  coming  into  the  trade  during 
recent  years.

in  the  modern 

It  is  my  intention,  in  future  articles, 
to  give  such  practical  suggestions  as  to 
the  arrangement  and  display  of  goods, 
with  illustrations  of many  of the devices 
which  have  been  found  by  use  to  be 
the  most  efficient and  suitable,  as  will 
be  of  the  most  service  in  planning  for 
the  arrangement  of  new  stock  or  for  the 
improvement  of  those  which  may  be 
susceptible  to  the  aid  of suggestions.
J.  M e s s e r s c h m i d t .

The  Hardware  Market.

The  market  shows  but  little  change 
in  its  general  features  since our  last  re­
port. 
In  this  section  of  Michigan  trade 
keeps  up  remarkably  well  and  dealers 
are  finding 
it  quite  important  to  keep 
their  stock  well  assorted,  as  the  de­
mand  in  their  respective  neighborhoods 
gives  promise  of  being  maintained  dur­
remaining 
ing 
fall  and  winter 
the 
In  regard  to  prices  on  staple 
months. 
goods, 
little 
change,  as  manufacturers  are  not  dis­
posed  to  alter  the  present 
existing 
prices,  believing 
it  better  to  wait  until 
the  first  of  the  year when  they  find  out 
just  where  they  stand.  It  is  believed  in 
many 
instances  that  goods  will  not  be 
any  cheaper,  while  combinations  and 
agreements  will  cause  advances  in  cer­
tain  lines.

there  seems  to  be  but 

Wire  Nails— Prices  are  fairly  firm  on

price  on  shot  has  declined  the  past 
week  and  is  now  being  quoted  at  $1.20 
for  drop  shot  for  desirable  orders.

Rope—Both  manilla  and  sisal  rope 
are  very  firm  and  have advanced  in  the 
last ten  days  from  j4 @ic  per  pound.

The  C lerk’s  Influence.

One  reason  why  there are  not  more 
button  shoes  sold' ’ ’  remarked  a  shoe 
clerk,  “ is  that  clerks  don’t  try  to  sell 
them.  Now  we  sell  as  many  button 
in 
the  best  grades  as  in  the  cheaper,  but 
we  only  sell  them  when  they  are  called 
for.

“ Let  a 

lady  come 

in  for  a  pair of 
shoes  and  the  clerk  will  show  her 
lace 
every  time  if  she  doesn’t  designate  but­
ton.  Always  being  shown 
the 
women  buy  them;  of  course  consider­
ing  them  the  only  proper thing.

lace, 

“ Let  the  traveling  men  show  button 
goods  and  talk  them  as  the  newest  and 
retailers  will  follow  suit.  Once  button 
boots  are  on  the  shelves  as 
leaders, 
clerks  will  begin  to  show  them  again 
and,  behold,  the  button  boot  is  a  fa v o r ­
ite  once  more. ’ ’

W rite for prices. 

’Phone 1357.

T H O M A S   O U N N   & ,  S O N S ,

WHOLESALE

Hardware  Specialties,  Belting,

Engineers,  Machinists and 

Factory Supplies

9 3   PEARL S T R E E T . 

G R A N D   R A P I D S .

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

TINWARE,
ENAMELED  WARE  and 
NICKEL  PLATED  WARE.
Factory  and  Salesrooms,  260  South  Ionia  Street

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

We have made and 
this  for  years 
sold 
and  it is  the only per­
fect stove  of  its  kind 
that  is  made.

Write  for  prices.

FOSTER, STEVENS & 60.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Foolishness  of  Scheme  Features— Ne 

cessity  of  Experience.

Ante Lucem in American Artisan.

For  the  first  time  in  some  six  months 
I  ran  up  against  a  traveler  triend,  and 
in  speaking  of  business  he  told  me  he 
was  working  a  new  scheme  with  hi 
baking  powder  and  spice  business.  On 
yes!  said  be,  we  must  be  continually 
inventing  some  new  scheme  to  catch the 
trade.  Everybody 
into  tht 
scheme  features,  cigars,  dry  goods,  and 
you  must  come  down  to  a  scheme  if  you 
want  to  sell  your  plows,  harrows,  etc.

is  going 

Now 

is  that  not  a  beautiful  idea  of 
business, 
that  you  must  have  a  fake 
scheme  to  sell  goods?  Cheap  cigars, 
cheap  baking  powders  and  spices  may 
be  able  to  work  a  fake  business,  but  to 
think  an  honest,  square  business  must 
be  put  upon  a  gambling  basis.  Think 
of  a  man  going  out  to  sell  stoves  and 
giving  with  each  stove  50  pounds  of 
coal  or  half  a  cord  of  wood,  the  dry 
goods  salesman  a  box  of  cigars  with 
every  bolt  of  cloth,  or  a  five  dollar  gold 
piece  with  every  silk  dress  pattern. 
Who 
is  there  so  foolish  as  not  to  know 
there  is  fraud  and  cheating  behind 
it 
all?  1 he  worst  lunatic  would  know  that 
much.

Why  should  not  everything  that  de­
stroys  our  commercial  health  and lnebe 
prohibited?  Vide  department  stores 
and  catalogue  houses.  They  are  the 
two  greatest  curses,  the  infamous  bar 
nacles  clinging  to  the  great  ship  of 
in­
ternal  commerce,  and  unless  scraped  ofl 
must  eventually  swamp  the  craft  ere 
it 
reaches  mid-channel.

The  fallacy  of  any  man’s  going  into 
business  just  because  he  has  money 
is 
illustrated  in  a  hundred  cases  in  every 
state  in  the  Union.  A  glaring  case  of 
this  kind  came  to  my  notice  but  a  short 
time  age.  A  man  who  had  for  years 
been  engaged 
in  farming  and  dair\ 
business  with  success,  gathering  several 
hundred  acres 
into  cultivated  farms, 
started 
in  the  haroware  trade  in  a  town 
where  there  were  five  goood  stores  and 
stocks.

The  man  has 

lived  more  than  fifty 
years,  spending  his  whole  life  in  agri­
cultural  pursuits,  and  knows  as  little 
about  commercial  pursuits  as  it  is  pos­
sible  for  one  to  know,  yet  men  come 
along  and  sell  him  hardware,  stoves, 
farm  utensils,  all  because  he  has  got 
money  and  can  pay  his  bills.  This  may 
be  business,  but  it  looks  more  like  com­
mercial  carelessness  and  blankety-blank 
foolishness.
Another  case  in  Minnesota.  A  mid­
dle-aged  farmer  came  into town,  bought 
an 
interest  in  a  hardware  store,  and  at 
once  became  buyer and  business  man­
ager.  At  one  bound,  from  the  plow  he 
became  a  full-fledged  hardware  man, 
knowing  all  the  intricacies  of  the  busi­
ness,  and  yet 
it  was  not  likely  that  he 
had  ever  done  up  a  pound  of  nails. 
He's  out  of  business  now.

Even  these  things  are  questions  of  vi­
tal  importance  to  the  commercial  indus­
tries  of  our  country,  and  the  regular  re­
tailer  who  has  served  his  apprentice­
ship  has  a  right  to  question  the  selling 
and  starting  of  such  people  in  business.
It  may  not  particularly  injure  them  or 
their  business,  but 
injure  the 
commercial  body,  and 
it  is  as  much  a 
man's*bounden  duty  to  protect  the cause 
from  which  he  lives  as  to  protect  his 
own  personal  property.

it  does 

Which  Is  Your  Way?

Here  is  a  striking  difference  between 
two  hardware  merchants  located  in  a 
prosperous  town 
in  Wisconsin.  The 
writer  passed  by  a  man  with  a  dent 
in 
his  hat  and  entered  a  hardware  store  to 
find 
it  without  a  single  clerk ;  in  fact, 
the premises  were  deserted.  Expecting 
to  discover  some  person  in  the  rear,  the 
lone  occupant  passed  on  to  the  tin  and 
repair  shop,  which  he  also  found  to  be 
deserted.  The  shears,  soldering 
irons 
and  crimpers  were  resting  in  silence. 
The  lone  occupant  retraced  his  steps  to 
the  stock  room,  and  began  to  study  the 
silence  of  the  hammer  and  the  saw  and 
other articles  of  hardware,  and  had  be­
come  deeply  engaged  in  making  a  gen­
eral  survey  of  the  premises 
in  unmo­
lested  thought,  when a  young  apprentice

CH

entered  and  without  recognition  quietly 
passed 
into  the  workshop,  leaving  the 
sole  occupant  again  to  pursue  his  medi­
in  ironmongery.  Alter  having 
tations 
scanned  the  stock  of’shelf  goods,  and 
monkeyed”   with  a  new  washing  ma­
chine  until 
it  became  “ out  of  joint,”  
the  lone  occupant  had  just  turned  to  in­
spect  a 
line  of  stoves,  when  the  man 
with  the  dent  in  his  hat,  the  proprietor 
entered,  oblivious  of  the  presence  of 
visitor.  A  mutual  salutation  which  fol 
towed  revealed  to  the  edification  of  th 
lone  occupant  that  politics  had  been 
the  absorbing  element  of  the  hardware 
man’s  time  on  the  sidewalk  for  more 
than  half  an  hour,  while  his  business 
bided  his  return.  Now,  had  the  lone 
occupant  been  a  prospective  purchaser 
of  a  paper  of  tacks  or  a  ton  of  iron,  pa 
lienee  would  have  long  since  ceased  to 
be  a  virtue;  at  least,  that  was  the 
im 
pression  left  on  the  writer’s  mind  as  he 
walked  to  another  hardware  store  in  th. 
next  block. 
In  store  No.  2,  clerks  were 
busy  dusting  and  arranging  stock  be 
tween  sales,  while  the  proprietor  had 
his  own  shoulder  to  the  wheel  and  was 
eagerly  looking  after  customers  as  they 
came  in.  He sold  one  plane,  one  stove 
one  hot  water  boiler,  two  Covert  snaps 
two  cents’  worth  of  nails  and  collected 
51. 7S  f ° r  a  Disston  saw  in  less  than  an 
hour,  all  the  while  jollying  his  custom 
ers  in  a  cheerful,  good-natured  manner, 
as  if  each  and  every  one  were  a  $100 
order.  His  store  was  not  so  very  much 
larger  than  the  first  one  described  but 
presented  an  air  of  business,  where  a 
purchaser  meaning  business  and  pos­
sessing  the  money  lelt  at  home  in  mak 
ing  his  purchases.  He  feels  in  such  a 
house  that  it  is  there  for  his  benefit  and 
convenience  and  he gives  it  his  patron­
age cheerfully.  The  clerks  felt  the  pros 
perity  of  the  house  also,  wore  bright 
laces,  and  worked 
in  unison  with  the 
business  spirit  surrounding  them.  Thu 
dealer  cleared  §3,000  last  season,  not 
withstanding  the  bad  year.  Really,  it 
rtquires  less  space  to  describe  a  busy 
hardwareman  than  it  does  an  idle  one.

F A T A L   IN   T I M E .

Unprotected  Steam  Pipes  Will  Cause 

Ignition  to  Wood.

It 

is 

The  question  has  been  much  dis­
cussed  as  to  the  liability  of steam  pipes 
ignition  of  wood  with  which 
to  cause 
they  come 
in  contact.  That  such  lia­
bility 
largely  a  matter  of  time  is 
obvious  from  the  fact  that  it  takes  a 
very  high  temperature  to  ignite  wood 
immediately,as  when  it  is  set  on  fire  by 
contact  with  flame;  a  temperature  of 
some  400  to 600 degrees Fahrenheit is re­
quired  to  char  wood  within  a reasonably 
short  time,  and  these  temperatures  are 
above  those  of  ordinary  steam. 
is  a 
frequently  observed  fact,  however,  that 
wooden  lagging  applied  to  steam  pipes 
and  engine  cylinders  becomes  charred 
after a  long  exposure  to  the  heat  even 
at  these 
In  a 
paper  read  before  the  Federated  Insti­
tute  of  Mining  Engineers  by  A.  L. 
Stevenson,  authorities  are  cited  show­
ing  that  the  lower  temperature  at  which 
charcoal 
its 
power of absorption and the more readily 
it  is  combustible.— New  York  Sun.

is  produced  the  greater 

temperatures. 

lower 

The  above  article  treats  only  of  the 
danger  from  fire  caused  by  unpiotected 
steam  or  heating  pipes.

In  addition,  a  saving  can  be  made  of 
about  25  per  cent,  in  fuel,  as  the  steam 
will  be  delivered  where  used  at  almost 
the  same  temperature  as  when  it  left 
the  boiler.

Realizing  this,  the  Board  of  Educa­
tion  has  had  the  steam  pipes  in  all  the 
schoolhouses 
in  this  city  covered  by 
us,  and  the  results are  even  more  than 
In  addition  to  the  school 
anticipated. 
houses,  we  have  covered  pipes 
in  a 
large  number  of  houses  and  factories, 
among  others,  Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper 
Co.,  Edison  Light  Co.,  Wallin  Leather 
Co.,  etc.

Now  is  the  time  of  the  year  to  attend 

to  this. 

S t u d l e y   &  B a r c l a y , 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Hardware  Price  Current.

Snell’s . .. 
Jennings 
Jennings

AUGURS  AND  BITS

70
genuine  ........................................25*10
imitation.................................. 6/UAilu

AXES

5  no
First Quality, S.  B. Bronze...................... 
9
M rst  Q uality,  D.  B.  B ro iize...........  
First quality. s.  B. S.  steel................YYYY”  5  5U
First quality, D. B. ¡Steel........................   10 5u

BARROWS

G a i d e i d ...............................................................*12  00  14  00
oaraen.....................................................   net  30 00

BOLTS

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

60*10 

70 to

Well,  plain........................................................... ..

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin,  figured........................ 
70*10
Wrought Narrow....................................... !" ." .i 0*10

BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle........................

Cast Steel.

CROW  BARS

Ely’s  1-10........................................ 
H io k * a c .F .....................................

CAPS

CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire. 
Central  Fire.

CHISELS

Socket Firmer.
Socket  Frarni ng..................” '
Socket  Corner.........................
socket  Slicks................

.per lb

Der m

• 50&  5 
.25*  5

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks........
Taper and Straight Shank.  .
Morse’s Taper Snank................................ 

"

.

.

.........=50*°^
50*  5

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in ................................ doz. net 
¿0
corrugated....................................................
Adjustable......................................................dig 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark's small, * 1S;  large, $20. 
Ives’,  1, $18;  2, *24;  3, *30

FILES—New  List

New Am erican...........................
Nicholson's.......................
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................... . .  6C<s: j0

.304:10

0&IU
70

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

GALVANIZED 
is 

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

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

OAUQES

KNOBS—New List

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

• 60&10

70
so

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye........................................... *16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye........................................... #15  00, dis  60*10

unt s......................................................  

  50, 

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire
Steel nails,  base................................  
j'gg
j
..........  
' 
W irenails,  base......................’ ’
‘ ’ ’
r «sp
20 to 60 advance.................................. 
^
10 to  16 advance......................... ........................ 
b advance.................................. 10
6 advance............................................... 
go
’ ... 
4 advance..................................7 .7 .!!" 
......... 
30
3 advance................................................................... 45
2 advance................................. ! . ! . ! ! ! ! !  
70
Fine 3 advance......................... . ! ! ! ! . ! ! ! ! ! !  
50
Casing 10 advance............................. 7 .!!.!.!."  
15
Casing  8 advance............................. ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !  
25
Casing  6 advance.............................. 
35
fin ish   10 ad v an ce.............................! . ! . ! ! ! ! !  
35
finish  8 advance.......... .......................... ”  ”  
L
finish  6 advance....................... . . . ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !  
45
Barrel  % advance......................... . . ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! . .  
85

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s .................. 
40
Joffee, P.  S.  & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  M alleabies!.'! 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s..................  
Coffee, Enterprise...........................................' 

40
40
gn

MOLASSES  GATES

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

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy............................... 
Sciota B en ch .....................................” ” ” ”  
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.....  
@50
"  
Bench, first quality............................. 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood.. . ' 7 7  

<8i50
gg
jagg
(¡0

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, Acme ....................................................... 60*10*10
Common, polished.................................. . 
70&  5

Iron and  T in n e d ......................................  
Copper Rivets and Burs................. ! . ! ! . . . .  
PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

go

go

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

Broken packages  He  per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list......................... dis  3V*.
Kip’s  .................  
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s...........................’¿je  10&1O
Mason s Solid Cast Steel..................... 30c list. 
70
Blacksmith s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c 11a .40A18

 

23

HOUSE  PURN1SHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin  Ware.......   ..................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware........................ 
20*10
Granite Iron  Ware.............................new Ust 40*10
_  
£ ? !? ;.......................................................................... ..
K ettles...........................................................  

HOLLOW  WARE

...60*10

HINGES

W IRE  GOODS

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2 ,3 ......................................dis 60*10
stete................................................ p erd os.n et  2  50
Bright..................... 
an
an
Screw Eyes............................... 
Hook’s............................................................................S,
Gate Hooks and Eyes...............!! .
so
„ 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis 

LEVELS

70

 
.

 

.

 

.

.

.

ROPES

Sisal,  H inch and  larger.................. 
Manilla................................................ 
a. 
Steel and Iron....................................
Try and B e v e ls ............................. ....................
M itre................................................... ..!7 .'!.‘ .‘.

SQUARES

, 

, 

su
8

SH EET  IRON

 

 

 

„  

.. 

in . 

SAND  PAPER

SASH  WEIGHTS

com. smooth,  com.
K 4 0
2  40
2  45
2  55
2  65
2  75
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

„  
Nos.  10 to  14........................................|2  7) 
Nos.  la to 17........................................  2 70 
Nos.  18 to 21....................................  
2  80 
Nos. 22 to 24.................................... !!  3  00 
Nos. 25 to 26........................................  3  10 
No.  2 7 .................  
3  20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
. ,  
List  acct.  19, ’86.............................................(jjg
n 
Solid Eyes...............................................per ton  20  00
Steel, Game..................................................  
60*lu
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ..... .. 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker................................ per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion.............................per doz 
1  25
Bright Market................................................. 
75
Annealed  Market.......................................................75
Coppered  Market....................................  
70*10
Tinned Market................................................ 
  ggw
go
Coppered Spring  Steel...............................”  
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ......................"**
Barbed  Fence,  painted................................ [[ 
j  gj

TRAPS

WIRB

HORSE  NAILS

An Sable.........................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam.................................................... 
5
Northwestern......................................" .‘.'"d is 10*10

jjg  

WRENCHES

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.......................  
30
Coe’s Genuine.................................................. ” 
50
80
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  ........... 
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................................gg

MISCELLANEOUS
gg
Bird  C ag es....................................... 
Pumps, Cistern............................................ 
gg
Screws, New List.........................................  
gg
Casters,  Bed and  Plate................................50*10*10
Dampers, American....................................  
gg

 

600 pound  casks................................................... 
gw
Per pound................................................................... g2

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

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

i2 ji
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................................  
14x20 1C, Charcoal.............................. ..... 
"  
dis  20*10
20x14 IX. Charcoal.................................... 7  gg
Each additional X on this grade, *1.25!

* 5 7 5
5  75

TIN—Allaway  Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.................................... 
5  gg
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................  
  5  gg
10x14 IX, Charcoal......................................* * * *  g  ng
14x20 IX, Charcoal................................................. g  gg

Each additional X on this grade, *1.50.

 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal,  Dean..................................  5  gg
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean ............................!!  g  gg
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean................................      10  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...............  4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal,  Allaway Grade...............  5  go
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Alla way Grade...............  9  gg
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............  H  00

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATB

14x56 IX , for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX. for  No.  9  Boilers. per pound...

TRADESMAN 
ITEMIZED 
LEDGERS

Size  8  1*2x 14— Thi*ee  Columns.

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

voices............................................  J2 00

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.

24

The  Queen’s  Jubilee  Presents. 

Written fo r  the T r ad esm an.

An  Englishman,  to-day,  is  nauseated 
by the word “ Jubilee, ”  and,  if  an unsus­
pecting  stranger utters unconsciously the 
expression,  “ Queen’s  Jubilee,”   John 
Bull  makes  a  bee  line  for  another  part 
of  the  house.

Nevertheless,  there  was  a  grand  rush, 
the  first  day,  to  see  the  Queen’s  pres­
ents  displayed 
in  the  North  Galleries 
of  the  Imperial  Institute,  and the  public 
invited  from  October  i8to inspect  them. 
In  fact,  there  were  policemen  stationed 
all  along  the  halls  to preserve order,  and 
to  keep  the  crowd  moving,  for  it  is  a 
great  temptation  to  beauty-lovers  to stop 
and  more  than  glance  at  such  treasures.
Especially  near  the  entrance  was 
there  a  continual  pushing,  craning  of 
necks  and  elbowing,  for  it  was  in  that 
vicinity  that  the  presents  from  the 
im­
mediate  family  and 
royal  household 
were  arranged.

The  place  of  honor  was  assigned  to 
the  gift  of  H.  R.  H.,  the  Prince  of 
Wales,  a 
life-sized  portrait  of  himself 
and  the  Duke  of  Connaught,  painted  by 
Edouard  Détaillé,the  famous  war artist. 
They  are  represented  as  splendidly 
mounted  on  horseback, 
the  former  in 
the  costume  of  field  marshal,  the  latter 
as  a  general,  while  the  background 
shows  a  bit  of  Aldershot  pines  and 
plain,  and  a  company  of  Highlanders 
passing  by.  The  likeness  of  each  noted 
person  is  considered  excellent,  but  the 
artist  was  especially  happy  in  getting  a 
characteristic  expression  of  the  Crown 
Prince.

Next  to  the  picture  is  a  rich  bit  of 
coloring  in  the  form  of  a  large  Axmin- 
ster  carpet  or  rug  presented  by  T.  R. 
H. ’s,  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Teck 
and  family,  and  some  sixty  counties 
represented  by  Lady  Secretaries  of  the 
British  Silk  Association.

Near these  are  two  or  three  cases  con­
taining  the  gifts  of  Her  Majesty’s  im­
mediate  family.  There  is  a  crysopranse 
paperweight  with  1S37,  V.  R.  I.,  1897, 
a  crown  and  XXVI.  in  diamonds  and 
other  precious  stones  from  Her Majesty, 
the  Empress  Frederick.  Not  far  off 
is 
an  exquisitely  wrought  necklet  of  dia­
mond  fetter  links  with  a  crown  and 
1837-1897  also  set  in  diamonds.  Vying 
in  magnificence 
is  a  diamond  broach 
composed  of  one  large  stone  and  twelve 
smaller  ones,  given  by  the  Princess  of 
Wales,  Duke  and  Duchess  of  York, 
Duke  and  Duchess  of  Fyfe,  Princess 
Victoria, 
and  Prince  and  Princess 
Charles.

In  a  case  of  its  own,  high  above  the 
jewels  so  that 
it  can  be  plainly  seen 
over  the  heads  of  spectators,  is  a  large 
silver  gilt  vase,  with  a  figure  of  Bri­
tannia  on  the  lid,  and  bearing  the  fol­
lowing  inscription:

Presented to our Beloved Grandmother, 

Q U E E N   V IC T O R I A , 

by her Grandchildren

William, Augusta Victoria, Henry, Irène, Bernert, 

Charlotte, Adolphus,  Victoria,  Frederick 

Charles,  Margaret.

22 June,  1897.

It  is  suggested  that  the  vase  was  de­
signed  by  no  less  a  personage  than  the 
Kaiser  William  himself.

Nothing  is  richer  than  the  gift  of  the 
Czar  and  Czarina,  a  broach  with  a 
pendant  heart  open,  and  in  the  center 
of  which 
is  the  number  sixty  in  Sla­
vonic.  On  the  top  is  a  cabochon  sap­
phire,  besides  which  there  are 
two 
priceless  sapphire  drops.

imagination 

To  the  bookworm  nothing  appeals  to 
the 
like  the  gold  book- 
cover  with  V.  R.  I.,  a  crown,  1837, 
June  20,  1897,  set 
in  diamonds,  rubies 
and  emeralds.

it 

It 

is  easy  to 

imagine  how  pleased 
Queen  Victoria  must  have  been  with 
these  artistic  and  intrinsically  valuable 
gifts,  but 
is  doubtful  whether  the 
mother’s  heart  within  her  was  moved 
by  anything  more  than  the  gift  of  the 
Countess  Erbacb,  Princess  of  Batten- 
berg—just  a  simple  table  cover  of  satin 
and  plush  worked 
in  a  design  of  soft 
old  pinks,  which  any  woman  might 
have.

In  this  case 

Even  the  servants,  591 

in  number, 
vied  with  royalty 
itself  in  presenting 
Her  Majesty  with  the  greatest  treasure 
procurable. 
it  took  the 
form  of  a  bracelet  an  inch  wide.  The 
the  rose,  shamrock, 
design 
thistle  and 
lotus,  to  symbolize  the  va­
rious  nationalities  of  the  domestic  staff, 
and 
is  carried  out  in  diamonds,  sap­
phires,  rubies,  emeralds  and  pearls.

includes 

linger 

When  one  has  seen  these  things  one 
has  scarcely  begun  on  the  collection, 
which  seems  to  contain  everything  un­
der  the  sun.  There  are  endless  num­
bers  of  pictures,  books,  screens,  clocks, 
fans,  parasols,  canes  and  cabinets  of 
the  choicest  design.  Next  to  the  arti­
cles  already  mentioned, 
the  visitors 
seem  to 
longest  before  a  gold 
frame  thickly  studded  with  magnificent 
diamonds  and  turquoises,  and  contain­
ing  the  photograph  of  the  donor,  the 
Shah  of  Persia.  Also  an  object  of  the 
greatest  admiration  and  wonder 
is  a 
screen  sent  by  the  Emperor  of  Japan. 
It  is  composed  of  four  panels  on  which 
seems  to  be  painted a tumultuous stream 
rushing  over  rocks  and  through  wood­
land and  meadow,  but  in  reality  the  de­
sign 
finest  of 
silks.

is  embroidered 

the 

in 

One  is  struck  by  the  number  of  gifts 
the  Emperor  of  China  deemed  it  fitting 
to  send ;  and  the  Chinese  Embassador 
is  only  one  step  behind  in  the  number, 
richness  and  variety  of  his  gifts. 
In 
fact,  there  seems  to  be  enough  from 
China  alone  to  fit  up  a  good-sized 
museum.

The 

Yet  royalty alone  has  not  contributed 
to  this  great  collection.  Even  the  poor­
est  working  man  and  woman  have 
realized  that  it  is  more  blessed  to  give 
than  to  receive  and  contributed  their 
mite. 
framed  photograph  of 
twenty-four  working  girls  from  Bow was 
just  as  graciously  received  as  the  ves­
sels  of  gold  and  silver  and  is  counted 
among  the  Queen’s  treasures.  A11  em­
broidered  satin  bedquilt  from  the  mem­
bers  of  the  Gentlewoman’s  Self-aid  So­
ciety,  Edinburg,  is  so  beautiful  that  it 
ought  to  be  kept  under  glass  as  a  work 
of  art.  Also  to  be  enumerated  in  this 
list  is  an  embroidered blue satin cushion 
from  the  Lady  Assistants  at  Herbert’s 
Supply  Stores,  Eton.

Besides  the  above  articles  mentioned 
there  are  plenty  of  practical  things,  like 
two  bicycles,  a  watch,  three  boxes  of 
ribbons,  a  hundred  yards  of  flannel, 
etc.,  etc.

Is  there  anything 

left  for  heart  to 
wish?  Every  nation,  every  land,  has 
its  share,  its  full  share,except— 
done 
the  United  States!  What 
is  the  matter 
with  Uncle  Sam?  Did  he  feel  he  had 
nothing  worthy  of  the  Queen,  or,  good 
practical  son,  did  he  send  on  a  supply 
of  Chicago  beef  and  Minnesota  flour 
and  Wisconsin  cheese,  which  were 
gratefully  received  and,  as  the  larder 
was  empty,  doubly  appreciated  by  her 
Majesty!  Whatever  the  reason,  there  is 
nothing  exhibited 
the  United 
States  aside  from  a  hand-painted  cup 
and  saucer  from  a  New  York  City 
lady 
except  a  few  addresses.  A  long  line 
of  cases  contains  all  the addresses which

from 

Queen  Victoria  received,more  than  four 
hundred 
in  number.  Every  society  in 
the  world  seems  to  be  represented.  The 
addresses  themselves  are,  many  of 
them,  pieces  of  art.  They  are  often 
quaintly  worded  and  written  or  printed 
in 
letters  on  parchment. 
Many  of  these  testimonials  are  enclosed 
in  rich  caskets  of  gold,  silver,  rare 
woods  or artistic  leather.

illuminated 

Z a id a   E.  U d e l l .

London,  England.

The  Produce  Market.

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

Bananas— The  market 

is  well  sup­

plied,  but  prices  are  still  fairly  high.

Beans— The  market  is  slightly weaker 
and  prices  are  a  little  lower  than a week 
ago.

Butter— Separator 

is 
moderate  demand  at  23c.  Dairy 
coming 
about  20c  for  fancy.  __

in 
is 
in  more  freely,  commanding 

creamery 

Cabbage—S3  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.

^Cauliflower—Si  per  doz. 

'm  ****•”’*

Celery— 15c  per  bunch.  _  „ 
,  .  "
Cranberries—Choice  Cape  Cods^and 
Fancy  Wisconsins  command  $7.2 5 per 
bbl.

Eggs— The  market  is  very  firm.  Re­
ceipts  of  fresh  eggs  are  very  light  and 
the  market  stronger  and  higher,  local 
handlers  paying  16c,  case  count,  and 
holding  at  17c,  case  count,  and  18c  for 
fancy  candled.  Theie 
is  apt  to  be  a 
in  the  receipts  of  fresh  eggs 
shortage 
from  now  on  until  the  middle  of  De­
cember  at  least.

Grapes— New  York  Concords  com­

mand  12c  for  8  lb.  baskets.

Honey— The  market 

is  steady  and 
is  held  at  11c  and 

firm.  White  clover 
dark  buckwheat  at  10c.
Lemons— Fruit  of small  size is in good 
supply,  but  the  large  sizes  are about  out 
of  the  market.  Prices  are  unchanged 
and  movement  is  light.

Lettuce—Hot  house  goods  fetch  15c 

per  lb.

Onions—Wihte  Globe  and  Red  com­

mand  50c.  Spanish,  §1.75  per  crate.

Oranges—The  receipts  of  Mexicans 
continue  to  be  liberal  and  of  good  qual­
ity,  while  the  demand  is  very  good  for 
this  season  of  the  year.  California  fruit 
is  expected  in  about  the  1st  of  Decem­
ber.

is  very  brisk  now  to  get 

Pears— Keefers  command  $3  per  bbl.
Potatoes—The  turning  point  has  evi­
dently  come,  due  primarily to the strong 
demand  from  the  South  incident  to  the 
resumption  of  business  as  a  result of the 
removal  of  quarantine  restrictions.  The 
demand 
in 
stocks  before  the  weather  shall  be  so 
cold  that  the  extra  expense  of  heating 
cars  shall  be 
incurred,  and  paying 
prices  are  gradually  moving  upward.
Poultry — Hens  and  spring  chickens 
are  in  good demand at 7J4 @8j£c.  Ducks 
are 
in  fair  supply  at  g@ioc.  Turkeys 
are  strong  and 
in  active  demand  at 
9@ioc.  Geese  are  in  moderate demand 
at  8@gc.

Quinces— The  market 

is  quiet,  job­
bers  holding  their  stocks at  75c  perbu., 
with  few  takers.

Squash—$1  per  100  lbs.  for  Hubbard.
Sweet  Potatoes—Genuine Jerseys com­
mand  §4,  while  Virginias  are  held  at
75-
Game— Dealers  pay  $1  per  doz.  for 
rabbits  and  $1.20  per  doz.  for  No.  1 
squirrels.  Both  have  been  scarce  and 
hard  to  get,  on  account  of  the  unfavor­
able  hunting  weather.

Doubtful  Benefits  of the  Carnival. 

From the Vermontville Echo.

The  Michigan  Tradesman speaks very 
intelligently  on  the  doubtful  benefits 
of  such  public  demonstrations  as  the 
“ carnival  of  fun”   or  street  fairs  or  any 
great  public  occasions  which  bring 
monstrous  crowds  onto  the  streets. 
It 
claims,  and  with  sound  truth,  that  the 
legitimate  business  men  who  have  do­
nated 
liberally  for  the  expense  of  pre­
paring  the  carnival  receive no  adequate

M I C H I G A N   TRADESMAN

benefits  from  the  crowds  who  come  to 
have  fun  and  not  to  buy  goods.  The 
hotels,  restaurants  and  booths  where 
eatables  and  drinkables  are  dispensed 
and  the  saloons  are  the  principal  bene­
ficiaries  of  these  public occasions,  while 
much  that 
is  objectionable  will  creep 
in,  notwithstanding  the  utmost  vigi­
lance  of police  and  management.  What­
ever  money  is  spent  on  such  occasions 
draws 
just  so  much  from  the  small 
towns  and  surrounding  country  which 
ought  to be  kept  at  home, and  thus  they 
may  result 
in  more  harm  than  good 
when  the  general  public  is  taken  into 
consideration.  There  seems  to  be  a  dis­
position  on  the  part  of  the  dealers  in 
large  cities  to  devise  every  means  in 
their  power  to  draw  customers  away 
from  their  heme  dealers  and  take  the 
money  away  from  home.  There  may 
be  instances  where  persons  gain  by  go­
ing  to  the  large  cities  to  trade,  but  in 
the 
is  more  loss  than 
gain. 

long  run  there 

_________

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

439

ANTED.  CHEAP  FOR  CAsH-OROCEKY 
or general stock.  Address,  with  full  par­
ticulars,  W.  H. Gilbert,  109 Ottawa Street, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 

IN TEREST 

tf'OR  SALE-ON E-H ALF 

IN 
well-selected  stock  of  groceries  aud  crock­
ery.  Will sell right if sold at once.  Other busi­
ness  is  reason  for  selling.  Address  F.,  Lock 
Box 2. Portland,  M  ch. 

I ¡'OR  SALE—RESIDENCE  AND  MARKET 

attached,  tools  and  wagons,  located  in  the 
hustling town of Oak  Grove, on  the  Ann  Ar  or 
Railroad, seven miles to nearest market.  A  bar- 
gain for some one. Address E. I)  Dickerson. 4 1  
U 'O R  EXCHANGE — PRODUCTIVE  d T Y  
-C  property and cash for  dry  goods  or  general 
merchandise.  Address  L.  &  Co.,  Rockford, 
Mich., Box 7. 

430

443

421

HYS1CIAN  WAN 1 El*—GOOD  LOCATION, 
first-class farming community.  For  partic­

ulars address Box A,  Buruip’s Corners, Mich.
424

I ¡'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—STORE  AND 

dwelling  combined, at  McCord  Station,  on 
D., G.  R.  &  W.  R. R .;  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.__________  
VVT ANTED—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS  OK 
” v  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 
fj'O R  SALE—CLEAN  STOCK OF HARDWARE 
T  
in A1 shape aud  full set  tinner’s  tools;  best 
town in Michigan  and  best  farming  country  in 
the State.  Excellent  chance  to  engage  in  the 
hardware  business;  reason  for  selling,  other 
business  Address  No.  417,  care  Mich gan 
Trade-man. 
T x t T nT e d T ^ o oIT IJ r y ^ b e e c h   a n d- m a- 
t v  pie  16-iuch  block wood,  not less than  two- 
thirds  hard  maple.  Price  on  cars at shipping 
point.  A. Hyde, 800 Madison  Ave., Giand  Rap­
ids,  Mich. 
Y *7A N TE D —BUTTER  AND  EGGS. 
IF   YOU 
"  »  want good  prices and quick  returns  w  ite 
us.  Luun A Strong, Toledo, Ohio 
YtT-ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
> *   retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City,  Mich. 
T j'O R   EXCHANGE -  A ~ WELL-ASSORTED 
A1  drag stock  that  wi  1  inventory  $1,200  for  a 
stock  of  groceries.  Address  John  Cooper,  340 
Woodworth avenue, Grand Rapids.  Mich.  366 
li'O R   EXCHANGE—TWO  FIN E  IMPROVED 
A  
farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
\ \ r  ANTED—1,000  CASES 
EG os, 
vv  daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca. Mich. 
li'O K  SALK—J UDGMENT FOR *8 08 AoAlN>T 
a   Niles H. Winans.  real  estate  agent  in  the 
Tower  Block.  Tradesman  Company,  Grand 
Rapids 

FRESH 

38!

349

381

4f2

417

411

73

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

JT'RKE—OUR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT 
A   ents.  Ciiley  &  AUgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

339

MISCELLANEOUS.

\ I 7  ANTED—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
T t  pharmacist.  Best of references furnished. 
Address No. 427, care Michigan Tradesman,  427 
V y  ANTED—AFTER DECEMBER  1 
rO-1
tion  by  experienced  shoe  salesman in re­
v ” 
tail store.  Have  had  twelve  years’  experience. 
Can  furnish  best  of  references.  Address  No. 
428, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
T/17 ANTED  —  REGISTERED 
ASSISTANT 
TV  pharmacist.  Address  Lock  Box  50,  Lake 
Odessa,  Mich. 

■ ANTED^SITUATION  AS  SALESMAN  IN 

dry goods or  general store;  five years’ ex­
perience;  A1  references.  Address  No.  422, care 

Michigan Tradesman. 

422

436

428

Travelers*  Time  Tables. CANADIAN Pacific Railway.

S E N D U S   A

EAST  BOUND.

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

W EST  BOUND.

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

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

Photograph  of  your
jVlother-ip-Law

DETROIT,Qrand Rapids & Western.

June 37,1897.

Going to Detroit.

Lv.  Grand  Rapids.........7:00am  1:30pm  5:35pm
At. D etroit....................  11:40am  5:40pm  10:20pm

Returning from  Detroit.

L y .  Detroit......................8:00am  1:10pm  8:10pm
A.r.  Grand  Rapids.......   1:00pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Ly. GR7:10am 4:20pm   Ar.  G R  12:20pm  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and'Saginaw-  Trains run week days only.

G e o .  De Havbn,  General Pass. Agent.

HR ANIÌ  ^nn,lc 
^ a i V / a l   y mJ   Detroit and Milwaukee Diy.

System

(In  effect  October  3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t   6 :45am..Saginaw,  Detroit  and  E a st..t  9:55pm
tl0:10am -------- Detroit  and  E ast..........t   5:07pm
t   3:30pm. .Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..tl2:45pm  
*10:45pm..  Detroit,  East and Canada.. .*  6:35am 

WEST

*  7:00am —  Gd.  Haven  and  Int.  Pts. ...*10:15r>m 
tl2:53pm.Gd.  Haven  and Intermediate.t  3:22pm
t  5:12pm —  Gd. Haven Mil. and CM 
+10:05am
tlO :00pm......... Gd. Haven  and Mil.............................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No.  15  Wagner parlor car.

♦Daily. 

tExcept Sunday.

E. H. H u sh e s,  A. G. P.  & T. A. 
B e n . F b etc h e b, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J ab. Ca m p b e l l, City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

CHICAGO and West Michigan R’y

Sept.  26,  1897.

Going to  Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids..................8:30am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
Ar.  Chicago......................3:10pm  6:50pm 
6:40am

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv. Chicago...................  7:20am  5:15pm  *  9:30pm
Ar. G’dRapids..............  1:25pm  10:35pm  *  6:20am

Muskegon.

Lv.  G’d  Rapids................8:30am  1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d Rapids................   1:25pm ..........  10:10am

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

Lv. G’d  Rapids...............................  7:30am  5 :30pm
Ar. Traverse  City  ......................  12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Charlevoix............................. 
3:15pm ............
Ar.  Petoskey.............. ...................  3:45pm .............

PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS.  CHICAGO.

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

TRAVERSE  CITY  AND  BAT  VIEW.

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m. 
G e o .  D e H a v s n ,  General Pass. Agent.

Others week days only.

♦Every  day. 

HDAMH  Rapids  &  Indiana Railway
U l y A l t l /  

Jane  ao,  1897.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y ,Petoskey & M ack.. .t  7:45am  t   5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey <Sc M ack., .t 2:30pm  t  6:35am
Cadillac......................................... t  5:25pm tll:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car,  and 
train  leaving  at  2:30  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arriv>
Cincinnati................................... t   7:10am  t   S:25pi-
Ft. Wayne........................... s___ t   2:00pm  t   2:10pn
Cincinnati....................................*  7:00pm  *  7:25am
7 :10 a. m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2:00 p.  m.  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7 :00 p. m.  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOING  W EST.

Lv G’d  Rapids..............17:35am  tl :00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon.................. 9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
LvMu8kegon................ t8:10am  tll:45am   t4:03pn
Ar G’d Rapids...............9:30am  12:55pm  5:2)pir

GOING  E A ST.

tExcept Sunday.  »Daily.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

D U LUT H  Sooth Shore and At,ant,c

Railway*

J 

WEST  BOUND.

Lv.  Grand  Rapids (G.  R.  & I.)til:10pm   t7:45am
Lv.  Mackinaw City....................  7:35am 
4:20pm
Ar.  St  Ignace.............................  9:0Jam 
5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie.................  12:20pm 
9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  ...........................   2 :50pm  10:ffipm
Ar.  Nestoria....................... 
5:20pm  12:45am
Ar.  Duluth....................................................  
8:30am

 

EAST  BOUND.

t6:30pm
Lv.  Duluth.................................................... 
Ar. Nestoria...........................   .  t 11:15am 
2:45am
4:30am
Ar.  Marquette...........................  
1:30pm 
...........
Lv. Sault Ste.  Marie................. 
3:30pm 
8:40pm  11:00am
Ar.  Mackinaw Ciiy..................  
G.  W.  H i b b a r d ,  Gen. Pass. Agt.  Marquette. 
E. C.  Oviatt,  Trav.  Pass.  Agt.,  Grand Rapids

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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.
W rite for information to
W .  C.  Rinearson,  Gen’l  Pass’r Agent,
Cincinnati,  O.
Send 10 cents for fine A rt Colored Lith-
ograph  of  Lookout  Mountain  and
Chickamauga.

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go, t l

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

OR  T H E   B A B Y

Y O U R   P E T   D O G  

Y O U R   S T O R E   F R O N T  
T H E   O L D   H O R S E  

T H A T   S T R I N G   O F   F I S H

(You  didn’t  catch)

Y O U R   O W N   " P H Y S . "

YOU

ARE  NOTHING 
NOW-A- DAYS 

IF  YOU 
ARE  NOT 
ORIGINAL.  •

A N Y T H I N G  

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You would like to  hand  out  to your friends 
or customers on January  1st.  We will  re­
produce it and  get  you  up  a  Calendar with 
an  individuality  that  won’t  need  a  trade­
mark or a patent.

WE ALSO  HAVE  A VARIETY  OF  DE­
SIGNS  IN  STOCK  WHICH  WE  CAN 
FURNISH  ON  IMMEDIATE  NOTICE.

Don’t Hang Fireï 
Talk flow!

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y *

G etters-up  of  Original  Printing.

WHOLE  WHEAT  FLOUR I

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

Fallís’ Pascale Floor

Fallís’  Self-Rising  Buckwheat

20 5 lb. sacks to a case.. $3.50

FALLIS  &  CO.,  Toledo,  0 .

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

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

Manufactured b y . .. .

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

Michigan trade supplied by the 

Olney & Judson Grocer Co., Grand Rapids.

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MINNEAPOLIS,

W EST  BOUND.

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

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

on this Continent.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 

their manufactures.

Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  nutritious,  and costs  less  than  one 
cent a cup.

Their  Premium  No.  1  Chocolate,  put  up  in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the  best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.

Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  L   good  to 
eat and good  to  drink.  It  is  palatable, nutri­
tious, and  healthful;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure  that  they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
Walter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.,

Dorchester,  Mass.

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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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Season  1897=98.

On account of moving to our New Build­
ing  (50x125  feet— three  floors  and  base­
ment)  we  are  a  little  late  this  year,  but 
our  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  most  complete  and  attractive 
assortment of

POPULAR  PRICED 
HOLIDAY  ARTICLES
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.

The  Stimpson 
Computing  Scale

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

It  is  the  acme  of  perfection  and 

not excelled in  beauty and finish.

W e  have no trolley or tramway to 

handle.

W e   have  no  cylinder  to  turn  for 

each  price per pound.

W e  do  not  follow ,  but  lead  all 

competitors.

W e   do  not  have  a  substitute  to 

meet  competition.

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

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

C i T

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

our  claims  are  facts.  W rite us and give us the opportunity.

The  Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,

¡ELKHART.'IND.’

Represented in  Eastern M ichigan'by 

R .  P .3B IG E L O W  
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Owosso.

Represented  in  W estern  M tchigandy. 

C.  L.  SEN SEN EY ,

Grand  Rapids.  Telephone  No.  266.

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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.

