Volume XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  24,  1897.

Number  740

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Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Frem ont.  Hart, 
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So  CIGARS

SOL'D BY ALL JOBBERS.

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

GR AN D   RAPIDS,  MICH.

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New  S tyles  .  .

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MICHIGAN
TRADESMAN

Does not  carry  the  full  force  of  conviction.  But 
when  a  man  has  tested  a  thing  for  himself,  and 
knows  that  it  is  true—that  it  pays— there  is  no 
longer any room for doubt.  The

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pays its advertisers in a way that  makes  repeaters 
of them.  When they once try  it they  come  again, 
they  stay.  The  circulation  *is  not  based  on  the 
papers printed and circulated helter-skelter, but on 
the number  actually  paid  for  yearly  in  advance. 
Sample, rates  and  the  facts  about  it  sent  free  on 
application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids. 
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Cbm are Others

But none as good as

BtokbjDe Roo flour

Unequalled for whiteness, purity and strength.

BRANDS

SUNLIGHT 
DAISY 

PURITY 
VIENNA 

MORNING  STAR
ELECTRIC

MICHIGAN
DIAMOND

We  manufacture  and  sell  everything  in  the  line  of  Flour,  Feed  and 

Cereal  Foods. 

Inquiries invited.

t l x   O la ls b - D t  R oo  m illin g   g o . ,   H o llan d ,  m ic h .

Dolls, Toys 
aod  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.

Season  1897-98.

On account of moving to our New Build­
ing  (5o x  125  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.  loth 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  BRUNDAQE,

WHOLESALE  DRUGGIST,

32  and  34  Western  Avenue, 

•  Muskegon,  Mich.

Save your yeast labels and tin-foil wrappers

FREE!  SILVERWARE!  FREE!

These goods are extra-plated, of handsome design and are made by one 
of  the  largest  manufacturers  in  the  United  States  and  will  wear  five 
years.  .25 of Onr Yellow Labels, attached to original  tin-foil wrappers  will 
procure one  Silver  Plated Teaspoon,  and  50 of same  will  procure’ one 
Table Spoon,  bork,  Butter  Knife or Sugar Spoon.  For 7c vou 
will  receive  one  silver  Plated  Steel  Table  Knife,  and  for  io a  hand­
some Aluminum Thimble  is giveu.

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 S t.
Grand Rapids Agency, 26  Fountain  S t.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

if You 
Sell Oysters

A t   a   P r o fit

Something to keep them fresh  in  is 
a  necessity.  Our  C A B IN ETS  are 
right  in  D U RA BILITY ,  C O N ­
V E N IE N C E  and  PR IC E.  W rite 
for particulars.
•‘How  to  Keep  Oysters  Fresh” 
sent to any address on request.

Chocolate  Cooler  Co.

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É t ó w i S S s

“ ’2w not in nature to command success, but we'll do more.  Semprontus,  we'll deserve it.' 

M U S T A R D   v e r w u s   S A U C E .

Is the ORIOINAL and GENUINE  Horseradish  Mustard.

Bayle’s  Horseradish  Mustard
■  OR  centuries  the  English  have been known as great mustard-eaters—the greatest in the 

,  er fr,om the Southern races, such as the French, Spanish, Italian, etc 
r ° u d'  i.T h c j 
in that they rank condiments higher than sauces.  True,  they  manufacture and  export 
^ • a bUVi,hey  prefer  i? r  ti eur  own. «?e  condiments,  and  the  greatest  of  all condiments is 
  avera£ e  Englishman  delights  in  having  his  mustard  prepared  for  him  fresh
every  day  ^
1 here seems to be a reason for this  Sauces, although appetizing, are made with drugs and 
are more  or  less  disguised  in  their nature and artificial in their effects.  M ustard, on  the con­
trary,  strengthens  the  natural  tone of the stomach,  increases the flow of the g istric iuice  and 
thereby promotes the general bodily health. 
It is probably on account of this power of giving 
life  to  the  system  ana  enabling  it to throw off unhealthy products that the English in former 
yeare  used  mustard  as  a  medium of purifying the blood in skin diseases and similar ailments. 
nrM .  ®prae tlr" e past we have made quite a study of mustard, its proper preparation and the 
preservation  of  its  qualities.  Our line of mustards is quite complete, and each and all will be 
found to be so put up and  packed as to last for years in perfect condition.
For Sale by
W holesale  and  Retail  Grocers 
Throughout  the  United States.

GEO.  A.  BAYLE,

S O L E   M A K E R ...

S T .  L O U IS .  U .  S .  A. 

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A re  You  Dead 
and  untried  stove  polish  instead  of

to  reason? 

Is  it  reasonable,  or  just  to  yourself,  to  sell  an  unknown 

APPLY  W I T «   D A M P   CLOTH   OR^ 

BR U SH .  POLISH  WITH  ORV^ 

CLOTH OR  BRUSH«.

Enam eliite
The Modem STOVE POLISH

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

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

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  24,1897,

Number  740

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Made to hold  from 27 to  60  names 

and sell  for 75  cents  to  $2. 

Send  for sample leaf.

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Incorporated by100 MICHIGAN

BANKERS

Maintains a Guarantee Fund.
W rite for details.

Home Office,  Moffat Bldg.,

D E T R O IT ,  M IC H .

F R A N K  E.  ROBSON,  P r es.
TR U M A N   B.  G OO D SPEED, S ec’y .

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William  Connor,  Box  346,  Marshall, 
Mich , and  he will  wait  upon  any  retail 
merchant with his full  line of samples.

Rochester,  N.  Y.

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COMEBCIHL  CBE0IT  CO.,  Lid.

Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 

U   J.  STEVENSON,  Manager,

Commeicial  Reports.  Prompt  and 
vigorous attention to collections.

411-412-413  Widdicomb  Building,

R.  J.  CLELAND.  Attorney,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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|  'fancy  Calendars  §
Î The  Tradesman  Company  has  S 
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a large line of Fancy Calenders 
for  1898, to which it invites the  £
inspection of  the  trade.  The  t
Company  is  also  equipped  to  g  
prepare  and execute  anything  5  
in the line of specially designed  jg 
calendars,  either  engraved  or  Ï  
£
printed. 

Death of Secretary Slaght— Candidates 

for  the  Vacancy.

The  death  of  Dell  C.  Slaght,  Secre­
tary  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  came  like  a  thunderclap  and  the 
announcement  was  received  with  deep 
regret  everywhere.  The  death  occurred 
Thursday  and  the  funeral  was  held Sun­
day,  being  attended  by  many  traveling 
men  and  Elks  from  neighboring  cities 
and  towns.  The  Tradesman 
joins  the 
fraternity  in  tendering  sympathy  to  the 
bereaved  wife  and  parents.

The  Finance  Committee  of  the  Board 
of  Directors  will  meet  at  Flint  Friday 
evening  for  the  purpose  of  checking  up 
the  books  and  accounts  of  the  late  Sec­
retary  and  will  then  take  the  books  to 
Lansing,  where  the  regular  meeting  of 
the  Board  will  be  held  the  day  follow­
ing.  The  first  business  will  be  the  se­
lection  of  a  Secretary  protem.,  and  at 
this  writing  it  appears  to  be  generally 
conceded  that  Geo.  F.  Owen  will  be 
named  as  the  most  available  man  to 
take  up  the  year’s  work  where  the  de­
ceased  left  off  and  carry  it  forward  to  a 
successful  completion.  No  man 
is 
probably  more  familiar  with  the  work 
than  Mr.  Owen,  on  account  of  his  hav­
ing  held  the  office  two  years  prior  to 
February  of  this  year,  and  in  view  of 
the  large  amount  of  detail  which 
is 
into  the  month  of 
necessarily  crowded 
December,  it 
is  very  evident  that  an 
experienced  hand  should be  at the helm.
The  death  of  Mr.  Slaght  naturally 
opens  the  way  for  candidates  for  the 
learns 
regular  term  and  the  Tradesman 
in  the  State  is 
that  nearly  every  city 
likely  to  be  represented 
in  the  list. 
Among  those  who  have  already  avowed 
iheir  candidacy  are  J.  VV.  Schram,  De­
troit ;  J.  B.  Heydlauff,  Jackson;  Jas. 
N.  Bradford  and  J.  Henry  Dawley, 
Grand  Rapids.  Others  will  probably 
enter  the  field  between  now  and  the 
date  of  the  convention.  The  Jackson 
and  Detroit  candidates  have been before 
the  Association before,  their biographies 
and  portraits  have  appeared 
in  the 
Tradesman,  and  the  members  have  had 
an  opportunity  of  forming  a  conclusion 
as  to  their  abilities  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  the  office.  The  two  Grand 
Rapids  gentlemen  are  well-known  trav­
eling  men,  both  having  served  the 
lo­
cal  Post 
in  the  capacity  of  chairman. 
Unless  one  or  the  other  pulls out  of  the 
race,  the  matter  will  probably  be  re­
ferred  to  a  general  meeting  of  the mem­
bers  of  the  local  Post,  to  determine  by 
ballot  which  gentleman  shall  have  the 
unanimous  endorsement  of  the  Post. 
Geo.  F.  Owen 
insists  that  he  is  not  a 
candidate  and  avers  that  he  will  never 
ask  a  member  to  vote  for  him  again, 
from  which  his  friends  infer  that,  wnile 
he  will  make  no  effort  to  secure  the 
office,  he  would  not  refuse  it  if  a  ma­
jority  of  the  members  cast  their  votes 
in  his  favor.

What  the  Traveling  Men  Want.

The  Tradesman 

is  frequently  asked, 
What  do  the  traveling  men  want  in  the 
shape  of  a  mileage  book?

Some  traveling  men  are 

like  some 
railway  men  in  that  they  want the earth, 
but  the  needs and  necessities  of  the  av­

erage  traveler  may  be  summarized  in  a 
few  words,  as  follows:

1.  A  book  on  which  baggage  can  be 
checked  without  the  holder  being  com­
pelled  to  secure  an  agent’s  ticket.

2.  A  book  which  shall be  good  on  all 

regular  trains.

3.  A  book  which  shall  be  sold  at  $20 
flat,  with  ample  protection  to  the  rail­
ways 
in  the  shape  of  a  photograph  of 
the  owner  on  the  cover,  or  a  book  sold 
at  $30,  with  a  rebate  of gio  in  case  the 
holder  does  not  permit  anyone  to  use 
the  book  but  himself.

To  the  uninitiated  there  does  not  ap­
pear  to  be  anything  very  unreasonable 
in  these  requests  and  the  Tradesman 
candidly  believes  that,  if  the  traveling 
men  as  a  class  would  unite  in  making a 
request  for  such  a  book  to  the  roads  not 
dominated  by  the  Vanderbilts,  the  re­
quest  would  be  granted  in  a  short  time. 
Possibly,  also,  Vanderbilt  lines  may  be 
made  to  see  in  time  that  traveling  men 
who  obey  the  laws  and  bow  their  heads 
to  the  decisions  of  the  courts  are  en­
titled 
the 
hands  of  corporations  which  are  con­
ducted  on  the  public-be-damned  prin­
ciple.

to  some  consideration  at 

Is  There  an  African  in  the  Woodpile?
The  Tradesman  assumes  that the Cen­
in 
tral  Passenger  Association  acted 
in  promulgating  the  recent 
good  faith 
concessions 
in  the  new  mileage  book. 
That  some  members  of  the  traveling 
fraternity  are  not  of  the  same  opinion  is 
evidenced  by  the  following  communi­
cation  from  a  leading  representative  of 
the  fraternity:

The  “ concession”   recently  promul­
gated  by  the  Central  Passenger Associa­
tion,  by  which  the holder of  a  Klondike 
mileage  book 
is  enabled  to  obtain  a 
ticket  good  on  any  train  up  to  and 
in­
cluding  midnight  of  the  day  following 
the  date  of  purchase,  proves  to  be  a 
nigger  in  the  woodpile,  inasmuch  as 
it 
is  designed  to  entrap  the  holder  of  a 
new  mileage  book  by  preventing  him 
from  bringing  suit  against  a  road which 
leaves  him  isolated  at  some  way  station 
because  the  agent  could  not  get  out  his 
in  time  for  the  train. 
exchange  ticket 
If  the  agent 
isn’t  swift  enough  to  get 
out  his  ticket  for  train  No.  5,  he  can 
take  No.  7 or  No.  11,  without  recourse 
against  the  road  in  a  legal  way.  The 
“ concession”   proves  to  be  one  of  the 
shrewdest  pieces  of  sharp  practice  ever 
devised  by  railway  attorneys. 

S.

Annual  Meeting  of  Post  E.

Grand  Rapids,  Nov.  22— All members 
of  Post  E  are  requested  to  meet  at  Im­
perial  hall  (Wealthy  avenue)  Saturday 
evening,  Nov.  27,  for the  purpose  of  lis­
tening  to  the  report  of  the  committee 
appointed  to  make  arrangements  to  at­
tend  the  annual  convention  of  the  State 
organization  at  Kalamazoo;  also  to  de­
cide  on  who  shall  he  our  officers  for 
1898.  Let  there  be  a  full  attendance!
B.  S.  D a v e n p o r t ,  Chairman,

A  Wonderful  Scheme.

“ They  say  that  Hendricks  has  been 

suffering  from  insomnia.”

“ He  has  been,  but  he's  all  right  now. 

He  has discovered  a  wonderful  cure.”

“ What  is  it?”
‘ He  hires  a  hoy  to  stay  out  in  the 
hall  all  night,rap  on  the door every little 
while,  and 
it’s  time  to 
get  up. ”

that 

yell 

An  Oil  Episode  at  Clare.

Clare,  Nov.  22—Pursuant  to  your  re­
quest,  1  beg  to  offer  you  the  following 
(lata  relative  to  the  rejection  of  the  car­
load  of  oil  consigned  to  G.  W.  Lee, 
Clare,  by  the  Cleveland  Refining  Co.: 
The  car  of  oil  was  d tl iv e r e d   at  Clare 
Oct.  28,  and  on  the  same  date  we  called 
Frank  E.  Withey,  of  Man  stee,  a  De­
puty Oil  Inspector  for  the  State of Mich­
igan.  Withey  tested  the  oil  and claimed 
it  only  tested  116  degrees  Fahrenheit. 
This  was  4  degrees  less  than  the 
legal 
test  and  he  at  once  proceeded  to  con­
demn  the  oil  and  placed  his  rejection 
mark  on  each  and  every  barret.  We 
refused  to  take  his  inspection  as  final 
and  appealed  to  Hon.  T.  R.  Smith,  of 
Lawton,  State  Oil  Inspector.

On  Friday,  Nov.  11,  Mr.  Smith  came 
to  Clare,  accompanied  by  Arthur  L. 
Curiy,  one  of  the  deputies  stationed  at 
Owosso.  They  examined  the  oil  and 
found  it  fully  up  to  the  grade  required 
by  law.  The  State  Inspector  thereupon 
ordered  that  the  rejection  mark  of  Mr. 
Withey  be  removed  and  a  mark  of  ap­
proval  be  placed  on  instead.

We  had  also  sold  a  barrel  of  oil  to 
L.  B.  Lyons,  of  Dover,  an l  Mr.  Wuhey 
exhibited  his  authority  by 
rejecting 
this  barrel  of  oil  without  examination 
and  hy  telling  Mr.  Lyons  that  the  oil 
furnished  by  this  company  was  no  good 
and  that  Mr.  Lyons  could  buy  oil  in 
Clare  that  was  all  right  and  stood  the 
test.  He  did  all  of  this  without  ever 
seeing  the  barrel  of oil  in  question  and 
advised  Mr.  Lyons  to  draw  the  oil  back 
to  Clare.  This  barrel  ot  oil  now  bears 
the  stamp  of  official  approval  and  Mr. 
Lyons  will  have  the  fun  of  drawing  the 
oil  to  his  store a second tim e- a distance 
of  thirteen  miles.  "Mr.  Lyons  is  will­
ing  to  make  oath  to  these  facts  at  any 
time. 
looks  to  me  as  though  this 
man  Withey  does  not  understand  his 
business. 

A .  M .  M c C o y .

It 

On  receipt  of  this communication,  the 
Tradesman 
immediately  wrote  to  the 
State  Oil  Inspector  and  his  Manistee 
Deputy,  asking  for  an  explanation  of 
the  circumstance,  but  up  to  the  hour  of 
going  to  press  neither  gentleman  has 
either  put 
in  an  appearance  in  person 
or  presented  any  explanation  of  the 
circumstance,  although  State  Oil  In­
spector  Smith  telegraphed  from  Lawton 
that  he  was 
for 
Menominee  and  would  call  at  the  office 
and  explain the circumstances connected 
with  the  matter  on  his  return.  The 
Tradesman  therefore withholds comment 
on  the  transaction  until  the  next 
issue; 
and 
if  any  of  the 
Tradesman’s  reader  can  throw  any light 
on  this  or  any  other  transaction  of  a 
similar  character,  statements of the facts 
connected  therewith  will  be  duly  ap­
preciated  and  promptly  investigated.

just  about  to  start 

the  meantime 

in 

Trading  Stamps  a  Fad.

From the New York  M erchants'  Review.

Trading  stamps  which  have  been 
given  out  to  customers,  hut  not  re­
deemed 
in  goods  by  the  enmpanies, 
must  be  paid  for  weekly  or  fortnightly 
by  the  dealers,  notwithstanding 
that 
they  may  never  be  presented  for  re­
demption  to  the  company.

It  is  impossible  to  estimate accurately 
the  percentage  of  stamps  that  for  va­
rious reasons  will  never  be  presented for 
redemption,  but 
is  probably  very 
large,  for  the  public  tires  of  fads,  and 
what  is  the  trading  stamp  scheme  but  a 
fad?

it 

Chicago  is  enforcing  an  ordinance  re­
lighted 

quiring  all  vehicles  to  carry 
lamps  after  dark.

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Dry  Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

The  causes  of  the  present  low  price 
of  cotton,  of  couise,  mav  be  traced  to 
the  very 
large  crop  and  tne  depressed 
State  of  the  market  tor  cotton  goods. 
The  acreage  sown  to  cotton  this  year 
has  been  the  largest  ever  known  in  the 
history  of  the  country.  The  weathei 
has  been  favorable  to  its  growth,  Irosts 
have  held  off,  and  although  the  top 
crop  has  not  been  especially  heavy, 
ow.ng  to 
late  planting,  there  will  un­
questionably  be  a  yield  of  leu  millions 
of  bales,  it  not  more.  Last  year's  crop 
was  eight  and  three-quarters  millioiia, 
while  the  crop  of  the  year  btfoie  was 
slightly  over  twelve  millions.

light,  and  with  the 

Cotton  Goods—The  depressed  condi­
tion  of  the  market  for  cotton  goods  has 
been  sometning  phenomenal,  but  the 
principal  accumulations  of  goods  are  in 
print  cloths,  which  are  in  the  hands  of 
manufacturers  and  close  to  the  raw  ma­
terial.  blocks  in  the  hands  of  retailers 
are 
improvement 
which  is  bound  to  set  in  in  the  general 
movement  of  merchandise,  they  will  be 
found  to  be  none  too  large  to  supply  a 
healthy  demand.  The  situation  abroau 
shows  improvement,  the  threatened 
la­
in  Manchester,  England, 
bor  troubles 
there  art 
having  been  averted,  and 
those  who  are  looking  for  an 
improved 
demand  for  export,  also,  which,  with 
the 
increased  consumption  at  home 
which  is  quite  likely  to  be  witnessed  in 
the  coming  year,  will,  in  the  opinion 
of  many,  result  in  a decided strengthen­
ing  of  cotton  prices.  Even  if  our  ex­
port  trade  continues  no  larger  than  at 
present,  there 
is  no  reason  lor  looking 
for  such  a  decidedly  heavy  accumula­
tion  of  cotton  as  characterized  the year 
1894-1895.

is  not 

Dress  Goods—Local  trading  salesmen 
assert  that  the  cold  w’eather  as  yet  has 
had  but 
little  effect  on  their  business. 
It  has,  however,  helped  the  rttailer,  but 
he 
in  pusition  to  buy  ytt,  am. 
will  not  be  until  more  of  his  own  stock 
has  been  disposed  of.  He  bought  heav­
ily  early  in  the  season,  and  has  not  hao 
very  good  success  until  now.  Anotbtf 
week  or  so  should  see  this  business  re­
flected  in  the  jobbing  trade.

Knit  Goods—The  question  of  price  is 
more  perplexing  than  at  any  time  since 
the  season  opened.  Manufacturers  havt 
been  consuming  their  supply  of  woi  1 
and  wheu  replenishments  are  necessary 
the  prices  asked  for  the  staples  are  oui 
of  propoition,  as  compared  with  the 
prices  they  receive  for  their  product. 
In  some  instances  manufacturers  argue 
that 
it  would  pay  them  better  to  turn 
their orders  down  so  far as  profit  is con­
cerned,  but  the  demand  lor  the  future 
is  to  be  considered,  and  for  this  reason 
manufacturers  are  filling  maturing  ob 
in  the  hopes  that  next  season 
ligations 
will  afford  greater  opportunities 
foi 
profit.

Blankets— Have  found  a  slightly  bet­
ter  business  on  account  of  the  more sea­
sonable  condition  of  the  weather.  The 
demand  has,  however,  been 
for  the 
cheaper  grades,  and  a  good  deal  of  it 
for  colored  goods  of  mixed  cotton  and 
wool  and  those  largely  of  cotton.

feature 

Hosiery— The  particular 

in 
hosiery  departments  during  the  past 
week  has  been  the  increased  demand 
for 
imported  fancy  hosiery.  The  en­
quiry  for goods  has  been  quite  general.
It  does  not  seem  to  be  confined  to any

M ICHIGAN   TRADESM AN

particular  style  or  grade,  unless  it  be 
said  that  there  is  less  attention  paid  to 
me  more  expensive  lines.

The  Dollar  Glove  Must  Go.

Must  the  dollar  kid  glove  go?  Some 
dealeis  declare  that  such  a  state  of 
affairs  must  oe  accepted,  that  the  aol 
iar  glove  ot  last  year  must  become  me 
¿1.25  glove  ot  the  lutuie. 
Ine  4'49- 
ccut  glove 
is  not  so  conspicuous  as 
lonuerly  011  toe  retail  oargam  counters. 
However,  on  a  recent  Sunday  a  Boston 
nun  advertised  its  gloves  in  mis way : 

l o  make  room  lor our new fall open­
ing  we  will,  on  Monday,  offer  at  special 
sale  an  accumulation  ot  small 
anci 
orokeu  assortments  of  kid  and  suede 
gloves, 
lacing,  niousquetane  and 
patent  clasp  effects,  goods  culled  from 
our  own  stock,  and  every  pair  worth 
less  than  $1.  We  cannot  till  man 
not 
orders,  but  maik  them 
lor  quick  sale 
ouly  49 cents  per  pair.

in 

“ bhelb  urne  p.que  gloves,  special  for 
Monday,  ioj dozen  ot  tnese  well-known 
gioves,  made 
liom  the  best  selecteu 
Freuen  kid  skins  by  the  best  maker, 
and  never  betöre  sold  for 
less  than 
¿1  50  per  pair. 
tans,  recs. 
orowns  and  black,  with  Paris  point em- 
oroidery  and  pearl  buttons  to  match 
gloves.  Certainly  the  greatest  bargain 
ever  offered  in  Boston,  tor 551.09.”  

Colors, 

Another  bouse  offers  nothing  under 

¿1,  and  this  is  the  advertisement: 

'Gloves,  borne  of  the  new  colors. 
Duchess, 
gobelin,  scrpolet,  bamboo, 
sjitaii,  biscuit,  russet,  polks,  national, 
.icw  greens,  new  violets,  new  browns, 
new  tans.  Prices,  $1,  551.50,  $2. 
It  is 
very  probable  you  have  for  years  paid 
cLewhere  one  dollar  and  hity  cents  for 
a  giove  that  neither  hts  nor  wears  as 
well  as  our  "m .kado”   pique  aogskin 
gloves.  .  They  come 
in  tan,  brown, 
oavy,  green,  red,  white,  pearl,  black, 
Si.  This  fall’s  impoitatiou  is  even,  il 
possible,  better  than  ever.”

announcement:

A  New  York  house  made  this  simple 
im­
“ We  have  just  received  our  fall 
portation  of  kid  gloves,  and  must  say 
tney  are  better  and  handsomer  than 
ever.  We  make  specal  mention  of  our 
celebrated  Tremont  glove  at  $1  a pair.”  
I11  times  past  this  house  made  offers 
of  gloves  at  the  odd  prices  of  79,  69,  59 
or  49  cents.  Only  the  gi  glove  was 
named  111  this  instance.
1 he  Dry  Goods  Chronicle,  in  com 
“ We  have  listened  to  retail  dry  goods 
friends  of  ours  bewailing  the  tact  thai 
heir  dollar  glove  trade  would  be  de- 
-troyed  by  the  advance  of  prices  from 
>9,  £9  50,  S10  50 and  Sir,  which  made 
■ t  unprofitable  to  sell  the  present  dollar 
ilove  for  less  than  St  25  a  pair.

neutmg  on  the  dollar  glove,  said:

"W e are  disposed  to  believe  that  the 
retailer's  grievance  is  all  in  his  mind, 
and  that  he  has  no  occasion  for  com­
plaint  so  long  as  the  whole  trade  is  sub­
ject  to  the  same  conaitions.  To  a  mat 
ip  a  tree,  it  looks  as  if  there  was  com 
pensatiou  in  the  situation  and consider­
ably  more  profit.

“ In  most communities the schmaschen 
into  the  stead  of  the

glove  will  slip 

lambskin  without  a  perceptible  ripple, 
and  will  return  a  much  better  pruhi. 
Ihe 
lambskin  glove  can,  by  an  tffoit 
ou  the  merchant’s  part,  be  sold  under 
pressure  at  S i.25  a  pair,  and  also  return 
a  better  proht;  and  by  lorce  of  neces- 
s  ty,  the  guarantee,  that  has  for  long 
been  an  unsatisfactory  rider  to  the  dol­
lar glove,  will  be  abolished.

“ We  believe  we  see 

in  this  forced 
recognition  of  values  on  a  different 
basis a  promise  ol  a  more  satisfactory 
condition  in  the  long  run.”

Waterproofing  Leather.

A  process  for  waterproofing  leather 
has  been  patented  in  Germany.  Dis­
solve  beeswax 
iu  benzine  to  saturation 
and  heat  the  solution  in  a  water bath, 
then  add  about  one-tenth  of  spermacetti 
in  a  melted  stale.  For  use  warm  the 
mass  again  in  a  water  bath  and  apply 
warm  with  a  brush  or a  pencil  to  the 
dry  leather,  which  has  likewise  been 
suitably  warmed.

A  resident  of  Paola,  Kan.,  has  filed, 
iu  Topeka,  a  chattel  mortgage  which 
describes  the  property  as  being  “ one 
mule  colt,  with  curly  hair  and  blue 
eyes. * ’

To  advertise  bis  business,  a  justice 
of  the  peace at Kansas City gives theater 
tickets  to  all  couples  who  come  to  him 
to  be  married.

Deep  Grief.

“ I  never  saw  a  man  so  cut  up  as  old 
Rox  is  over  the  death  ol  his  book-kerp- 
er.  And  yet  you  have  always  said  he 
had  no  heart  and  regarded  his  employes 
as  mere  machines.”

“ I’ll  tell  you  something  on  the  quiet. 
The  book-keeper  was  about  S3 000  be­
hind 
in  his  accounts,  and  olo  Rox  was 
keeping  him  on  and  making  him  work 
it  out  ”

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

W o m a n ’s   W o r ld
Paying  Our  Debts  of  Gratitude  To­

ward  Each  Other.

“ Do  you  know,”   said  the  feminine 
philosopher, 
calmly 
surveying  me 
through  her 
lorgnette,  “ do  you  know 
that  every  year  I  am  more  greatly  im­
pressed  with  the  wisdom  ot  the  Govern­
ment  in  appointing  an  especial  day  lor 
a  National thanksgiving?  The majority 
of  us  have  the  capacity  for  wanting 
more  so  fully  developed  that  it  has  en­
tirely  crowded  out  the  faculty  for  being 
grateful 
lor  what  we  already  possess, 
and  if  the  President  and  the  governors 
of  the  different  states  didn’t  take  it 
upon  themselves  to  annually  remind  us 
of  our  blessings  the  chances  are  we 
would  overlook  the  fact  that  we  had 
anything  at  all  for  which  to  be  thank­
ful. 
It  is  a  grasping  and  covetous  and 
ungrateful  world,  my  dear,  and  next  to 
the  very  young,  the  very  old  and  the 
middle-aged  are  the  most  ungrateful 
creatures  in  it.

“ The  first  cause  of  our  thanklessness 
is  probably  because  none  of  us  feel  that 
we  have  gotten  our  just  deserts.  We 
are  modestly  convinced  that  when  we 
were  created  nature  turned  out a master­
piece  and  that  such  a  jewel  is  worthy of 
an  appropriate 
setting.  Abounding 
health, 
enormous  wealth,  surpassing 
beauty,  the  adulation  of  an  admiring 
universe  are  simply  what  we  had a right 
to  expect,  and  our  disappointment 
in 
not  receiving  these  prize  packages  in 
the  lottery  of  life  only  too  often 
leaves 
us  sour and  disgruntled.

“ True  as  this  is  of  the  world  in  gen­
eral,  it  is  especially  true  of  lovely  wom­
an.  Good  heavens,  haven’t  we  all  had 
experience  with  it,  and  don’t  we  know 
that  thankfulness  has  little  place  in  the 
catalogue  of  her  manifold 
virtues? 
is  nearly  always  a 
Gratitude  with  her 
lively  sense  of  blessing  yet  to  come, 
and  she  can  forget  a  favor  with  the 
same  facility  she  does  her  age,  or  any 
other  unpleasant  fact.  She  is  recklessly 
extravagant 
in  the  way  she  expresses 
her  feelings  on  other  occasions,  but  she 
begrudges  even  the  meager  'thank  you’ 
for  the  seat  the  tired  man  yields  up  to 
her 
in  the  crowded  car,  or  for  any  ol 
the  numberless  kindnesses  which  are 
presented  her  gratuitously  at  every 
turn,  and  which  she  calmly  accepts  as 
no  more  than  her  due.

“ You  often  hear  a  successful  man 
speak  with  gratitude  of  those  who  gave 
him  a  helping  hand  in  the days when he 
was  poor and  struggling.  Do  you  ever 
hear  the  socially  ambitious  woman  ac­
knowledge  her  indebtedness  to the good- 
natured  woman  who  stood  her  social 
sponsor  and  opened  doors  that  before 
had  been  hermetically  closed  to  her? 
On  the  contrary,  does  not  the  woman 
who  has  risen  from  being  cake  cutter at 
the  church  sociable  to  prize-taker  in 
the  progressive  euchre  smart  set  almost 
invariably  kick  down  the  ladder  by 
which  she climbed?  You  may  live  next 
door  to  the  Blank  iamily  for  ten  years. 
You  may  nurse  the  Blank  children 
through  the  measles  and  the  whooping 
cough  and  the  mumps.  You  may 
lend 
Mrs.  Blank  your  patterns  and  baking 
tins  every  week  of  all  that  time and  do 
her  unnumbered 
little  friendly  turns, 
but  if  a  sudden  rise  of  prosperity comes 
her  way  and  she  moves  up  town  into  a 
finer  house  and  a  more 
fashionable 
neighborhood,  ninety-nine  times  out  of 
a  hundred  she  will  leave  all  memory  of 
what  you  have  done  behind  her  as  un­
concernedly  as  she does  her  old  furni­

ture.  Woman’s 
ingratitude  to  woman 
makes  countless  thousands  mourn,  but 
it  doesn’t  surprise  anybody.  We  are 
used  to  it  and  expect  it.

“ In  her  own  peculiar  and  inscrutable 
way,  woman takes  pretty  much  the  same 
attitude  with  heaven. 
If  she  is  happy 
and  successful  she  is  perfectly  ceitain 
she  has  no  one  but  herself  to  thank  for 
that  beatific  state  of  affairs,  and  it  is 
only  when  things  go  wrong  that  she 
holds  Providence  responsible  for 
it. 
That  is  the  reason  she  feels  it  unneces­
sary  and  almost  egotistical  to  take  a 
day  off  for  the  sole  purpose  of rendering 
thanks.  Of  course,  when  you  put  the 
hlunt  question  to  her,  she  is  bound  to 
admit  that  we  all  have  a  great  deal  to 
he  thankful  for  that  things  are not wofse 
off  than  they  are— pretty  much  as  the 
little  girl  wrote  in  her  composition  that 
pins  had  saved  a  great  many  lives  by 
people  not  swallowing  them. 
In  that 
cheerful  frame  of  mind  we  go  to  church 
and  run  through  the  perfunctory  list  ol 
things  we  ought  to  be  grateful  for,  if 
we  are  not,  and  then  go  home  and  eat 
so  much  we  make  ourselves  ill.  And 
the  only  real,  sincere,  heartfelt  thanks­
giving  we  offer  up  during  the  whole day 
is  that  Thanksgiving  doesn’t  come  but 
once  a  year.

“ Now  the  idea  of  making Thanksgiv­
ing  a  kind  of  grand  settling-up  day, 
when  we  balance  our  accounts  witn 
heaven  for  blessings  received, 
is  all 
like  to  add  to  it  a 
right,  but  I  should 
kind  of  personal  annex,  and  make  it  a 
day  on  which  we  should  pay  back  some 
of  the  debts  of  gratitude  we  owe  our 
fellow  men  and  women.  We  give  each 
other  the  greetings  of  the  season  at 
Christmas.  At  New  Year  the  coldest 
heart  must  warm  to  the  kindly 
impulse 
that  makes  us  wish  the  merest  stranger 
‘ a  happy  New  Year.’  Why,  on  Thanks­
giving,  shouldn’t  we  say  to  those  who 
nave  contributed  to  our  happiness  or 
pleasure  or  convenience,  ‘ I  thank  you 
tor  the  friendship  that  has  cheered  me 
or  the 
love  that  has  made  the  world 
bright  and  beautiful  to  me  or  the  serv­
ice  that  has  comforted  me?’

“ Of  course,  we  do  nothing  of  the 
kind. 
It  is  our  amiable  custom  to  take 
ihe  love  and  service  and  sacrifices  of 
those  nearest  and  dearest  to  us 
for 
granted,  and 
if  we  ever  appreciate 
them,  or  notice  them,  or  are  grateful 
for  them,  we  make  no  sign.  Life  is 
hard  enough  for  women,  and  for  none 
harder  or  more 
full  of  unrewarded 
drudgery  than  for  the  woman  who  is the 
wife  of  the  man  of  small  means  and  the 
mother  of  a  large  family.  Her days  are 
tilled  with  labor,  her  heart  is  burdened 
it 
with  care and  anxiety.  Think  what 
would  mean  to  her  it  on 
'thanksgiving 
day  her  husband  and  children  would 
‘ We  count  our 
come  to  her  and  say: 
b.essings  in  nothing  else  so  great  as 
in 
having  you.  For  the  patient  devotion 
that  has  withstood  every  trial,  for  the 
unselfish  love  that  has  watched  over  us 
without  tiring,  for  the  ceaseless 
labor 
that  has  made  us  comfortable,  we  offer 
you  to-day  such  thanks  as  words  are  too 
poor  to  express.'  Now,  just  suppose 
somebody  snould  say  that  to  some  tired 
and  discouraged  woman.  She  may  have 
telt  that  her  life  was  a  perfect  martyr­
dom,  but  wouldn’t 
it  make  her  crown 
ot  thorns  burst 
into  blossoms  of  the 
never-fading  amaranth?

“ And  just  the  same  thing  may  be 
said  about  men. 
1  am  tired  to  death 
of  the  thankless  and  discontented  wom­
an  who  has  a  good  home  and  a  good 
husband,  and  I  would 
like  to  see  her 
rise  up  on  one  day  of  the  year,  at  least, 
and  express  her  gratitude  to  the  Great 
American Man,  whether she holds  a  title 
deed  to  him  as  a  husband  or  merely 
possesses  him 
in  common  with  some 
other  million  women  as  a  fellow-citi-1

inn;  he 

zen. 
In  both  capacities  he  is  an  un­
approachable,  gilt-edged  blessing  for 
which  we  can  never  be  sufficiently 
thankful.  As  a  husband,  he  is  the  un­
complaining  money-making  machine 
who  considers  it  a  privilege  to  toil  to 
support  bis  wife's  extravagance;  he 
is 
contented  to  labor  in  the  hot  cities  all 
summer  that  she  may  wear  forty  differ­
ent  gowns  at  the  seaside  hotel  or  moun­
tain 
is  even  willing  to  stay  at 
home  nights  and  rock  the  baby  while 
she 
is  off  at  her  club  making  a  speech 
on  the  down  trodden  condition  of  wom­
an.  As  a  fellow-citizen,  he  has  gal­
lantly  thrown  open  every  avenue  of  em­
ployment  and  ambition  to  woman  and 
rolled  all  the  obstacles  out  of  the  way 
he  could.  All  we  have  asked  for  we 
have  gotten 
in  the  ways  of  laws  and 
privileges,  and  we  know  very  well  we 
have only  to  sit  down  in  any  consider­
able  number and  cry  for  the  ballot,  and 
it  will  be  presented  to  us  on  a  silver 
salver.  There’s  food  for thankfulness 
in  that,  and  1  should  like  to  know  that
pnnnrinnnnnnnmnnnrrTnnnnnnnmn^
 
“  THANKSGIVING I 

We have 

~

every  American  wife  was  having  a little 
Thanksgiving  service  on  her  own  ac­
count,  and telling  her  husband  just  what 
an  unselfish  old  dear  she  thought  he 
was,  and  how  lucky  she  esteemed  her­
self.

traditional  way 

Now,  I am not saying a  word  against 
the 
of  celebrating 
Thankgiving  by  going  to  church  and 
eating  too  much.  Anybody  can 
feel 
more  grateful  on  a  full  stomach  than  on 
an  empty  one,  and  I  don’t  know  any­
thing  more  calculated  to  softtn  your 
feeling  toward  the  world  than  turkey 
and  cranberry  sauce,  but  I  do  protest 
that  we  are  niggardly  and  churlish  in 
paying  our  debts  of  gratitude  toward 
each  other.  Happiness 
lies  so  often 
in  a  word,  and  we  withhold 

The feminine philosopher stopped,laid 
down  her  lorgnette,  and  looked  out  of 
the  window,  across  the  housetops  to 
where  the  sun  was  setting  and  then  she 
added  softly,  “ and  we  are  not  farthest 
from  God  when  we  are  nearest  to  our 
fellow-man.”  

D o r o t h y   D i x .

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retail  price 
$9.85 
is  our
$16.00. 
jobbing  price 
wholesale 
to  furniture  dealers. 
If 
you  are  not  a  Furniture 
dealer 
remittance 

the 

($9.85)  must  accompany 

your  order.

* 

Description.

stock to prevent w arping and shrinkage.

Made  of  selected  Oak.  nicely  finished  in  Antique  shade.  Panels are made of built up 
W riting  Bed is made of three ply Veneer,  the same as our $50 Desks.
Has a strong, easy running Roll Curtain, canvas lined, and guaranteed dust proof.
The  12 pigeon  holes are nicely arranged for nling letters, memorandums, etc.
There are 2 drawers below the pigeon  holes, for private  papers, also  memorandum hold-
H as long sliding arm rest;  the three  large draw ­
ers lock automatically, when the  roll  top is closed.
Can  be furnished w ith cupboard  In  place  of  draw­
ers  if desired.
Each desk has a  set  of  private  keys,  so  in  case 
one key should  be  locked  inside  the  desk,  or  lost, 
you  can  resort  to  the  duplicate  without  sending
Desk  is  42  inches  long,  30  inches  deep  and  50 
Is  fitted  with  bull  bearing  casters, 
inches  high. 
and guar.tnti ed in every particular.
We handle everything in the  line  of  Office  F ur­
niture,  also  Household  Furniture  of  every  de­
scription.

Send 3 T wo-Cent stamps for Catalogue.

Grand  Rapids  WHOLESALE  Furniture  Company,

Gene m l  Offices,  Pythian  Temple,  Grand  R a p id ^ ^

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

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Owosso—W.  H.  Axford,  meat  dealer, 

has  sold  out  to  A.  J.  Alpin.

De  Wnt—Victor  Clavey  will  shortly 

open  a  hardware  store  here.

Flint—C.  A.  Gay,  ot  Muskegon,  has 

opened  a  confectionery  store.
Feat on— W.  B.  Godfrey, 

jeweler, 

has  removed  to  Mt.  Pleasant,  Tex.

Fostoria—N.  Tompkins has purchased 

the  hardware  stock  ot  Fox  &  Rounds.

Vassar— Fred  Phillips  succeeds Phil 
lips  &  Sturgis  in  the  grocery  business.
Britton—Erwin  Clark,  of  Tecumseb, 
has  opened  a  meat  market  at  this place.
Boyne  Falls—W.  A.  Davoll  and  J. 
Lewis  have  embarked  in  the  meat  bust 
ness.

Suntield—James  Nichols  is  succeeded 
by  Jack  Lunderquist  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Colon— Henry  Palmer  and  Jame> 
Kelley  have  opened  a  tobacco  and cigai 
store.

Hastings—C.  Bowser  &  Son  havt 
in  the  Jones 

opened  a  meat  market 
block.

St.  Louis—Geo.  Mahon  has embarked 
in  toe  merchant  tailoring  business  at 
this  place.

WiUiainston— A.  C.  Karr,  of  Lake 
OJessa,  has  embarked  in  general  trade 
at  this  place.

Sauit  Ste.  Marie— Mrs.  Charlotte 
Claik  has  sold  her  fancy  goods  stock  to 
Fisher  (k  Fen sou.

Summeiton—Wm.  Brownell.of  Green­
ville,  anticipates  opening  a  general 
store  at  this  place.

Jackson—P.  M.  Etchells  has  em­
barked  in  tae  furniture  business  at  113 
South  Jackson  street.

Paw  Paw—Messrs.  Ricabyand  Smith, 
of  bt  Joseph,  are  contemplating  open­
ing  a  drug  store  here.

Jackson— Higgins  &  Fountain  suc­
ceed  Rosa  (Mrs.  Adolph  A .) Jankowsky 
in  the grocery  businesss.

Manistee— W.  E.  Young  succeeds 
in  the  drag,  photo­

Jacob  Hanselman 
graph  and  bicycle  business.

Menominee— Delon  J.  Lahey  contin­
ues  the  grocery  business  formerly  con­
ducted  by  Matheys  &  Lahey.

Montague—The  drug  stock  of  the  late 
Alfred  Allen  is  advertised  to  be  sold  at 
chattel  mortgage  sale  Nov.  24.

Bear  Lake— Mrs.  M.  E.  Collins  has 
removed  her  millinery  and  dry  goods 
stock 
into  the  G.  W.  Hopkins  store 
building.

Thompsonville—C.  O.  Smith  is erect­
ing  a 
large  double  store  building  in 
which  he  will  place a  stock  of  furniture 
and  shoes.

Ithaca— Loucks,-  Rowland  &  Hunter 
will  open  a  bazaar  store  at  Mt.  Pleasant 
about  Dec.  1  as  a  branch  of  the  Ithaca 
Bazaar  Co.

Harbor  Springs— Max  Weiss  has  pur­
chased  a  stock  of  boots  and  shoes,  and 
will  put  up  a  shoe  department  in  Ben 
Segal’s  general  store.

Morenci—E.  W.  Crane  has  taken 
possession  of  the  confectionery  and  no­
tion  stock  of  Chas.  S.  McDuffie  by  vir­
tue  of  a  chattel  mortgage.

Lansing—Jacob  Stahl,  hardware  deal­
er,  gave  as  a  wedding  present  to his son 
a  half  interest  in  his business.  The  firm 
name  will  remain  the  same.

Grand  Haven—Wm.  Goldberg  cele­
brated  the  first  anniversary  of  his estab­
lishment  as  a  merchant  here  by  giving 
a  banquet  to 
ion  of  his  gentlemen 
friends  at  the opera  house.  A  program 
of  toasts and  responses  was  carried  out.

Lansing— Harry  Strong  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  j.  J.  Baird  in  the  hrin  of 
Harry  Strong  &  Co.,  bakers,  and  will 
herealter  conduct  the  business.

Leroy— Frank  Smith  has  invited  the 
cleiks  in  his  storts at  Manton  and  Le­
roy  to  eat  turkey  with  him  at  his  home 
at  this  place  '1 hanksgiviug  day.

Traverse  City—Jas.  Burke,  of  Manis­
tee,  has  leased  a  store 
in  the  Brown 
building,  on  Front  street,  and will carry 
a  line  of  house  furnishing  goods.

Sturgis— E.  Trump  has 

the 
store  in  the  Tracy  block  just vacated  by 
Clapp  &  Bilsborrow  and  will  remove 
ms  dry  goods  stock  to  that  location.

leased 

Lansing— R.  B.  Shank  Ik  Co.  have 
opened  a  candy  and  baked  goods  store 
at  209  Washington  avenue,  noitb,  which 
.s  111  charge  ot  Miss  Miunie  Biruey.

St.  Louis— Bush  &  Buck,  furniture 
dealers,  have  aissoived  partnership, 
Ur.  Buck  retiring.  J.  E.  Bush  wib 
continue  the  business  in  his  own  name.
Shelby—W.  H.  Griffin  has  traded  a 
naif  interest in  his  grocery  stock  to John 
riuney  tor  a  five  acre  lot  south  ot town, 
t h e   new  firm   name  is  Griffin &  Tinney.
Tekonsba—W.  C.  Henry,  of  Batth 
Creek,  who  has  conducted  a  branch 
noot  and  shoe  and  grocery  store  here, 
has  removed  the  stock  to  Battle  Creek.
formerly 
with  the  Hayden  Grocery  Co.,  has 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  504  Pottei 
street  under  the  style of  B.  A.  Searles 
&  Co.

Saginaw— B.  A.  Searles, 

Traverse  City— A.  S.  Fryman  will 
move  bis  shoe  stock 
from  314  East 
Front  street  to  the  store  in  the  Millei 
ouilding  formerly  occupied  by  C.  O. 
bmith.

Vicksburg—C.  E.  Powers  is  erecting 
a  one-story  brick  block,  30x100  feet 
in 
dimensions,  which  he  will  occupy  with 
nis  general  stock  about  the  middle  ol 
December.

Shelby— P.  F.  Ernst  has  sold  the 
stock  of  men’s  furnishing  goods  in  the 
Rankin  House  block  to  L.  E.  Griffin, 
who  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location

Belding—C.  M.  Higby,  for a  number 
of  years  engaged  in  tne jewelry business 
at  this  place,  will  remove  his  stock  ana 
hxtures  to  Lowell,  where  he will embark 
in  the  same  line.

St.  Joseph— H.  M.  Stevens,  formerly 
of  this  city  and  Stevensville,  who  has 
lately  been  engaged  in  the  grocery busi' 
ness 
in  Chicago,  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  this  place.

Calumet---- Alf.  Richards, 

formerly
connected  with  the  Richards  Clothing 
Co.,  Limited,  at  Sauit  Ste.  Marie,  has 
opened  a  men’s  furnishing  goods  store 
in  the  Holman  block.

Harbor  Springs—Will  Kennedy,  who 
has  been  employed 
in  Adams’  meat 
market,  contemplates  removing  to  Pe- 
toskey  and  engaging  in  the  meat  busi­
ness  on  bis  own  account.

Lake  Odessa—The  Day  &  Ensign 
drug  stock  has  been  purchased  by  Jay 
Diamond,  recently  clerk 
lor  Geo.  W. 
Milner,  at  Big  Rapids,  and  formerly  in 
the  employ  of  Muir  &  Co.,  at  Grand 
Rapids.

Lansing—O.  C.  Hoyt,  formerly  of  the 
grocery  firm  of  Hoyt  Bros.,  of  Mason, 
has  purchased  the 
interest  of  E.  J. 
Darling  in  the  firm  of Claik  &  Darling, 
grocers  at  the  corner  of  Saginaw  and 
Pine  streets.

Petoskey— Nathan  E.  Wooton,  who 
has  been  employed  in  the  jewelry  store 
of  Will  Z.  Searle  for  the  past 
two 
years, .has  removed  to  Fenton,  where  he 
will  engage  in  the  same  business  on 
his own  account.

Tekonsba—A.  C.  Kinue  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Edwin  F.  Sinclair,  of 
Homer,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same 
location.  Mr.  Kinne  will 
devote  his  entire  attention  to  the  saleol 
his  patent  meuiciues.

El well— I.  F.  Hilsinger  has  not  sold 
bis  stock  of  general  merchandise  to 
Chas.  Apple,  of  Ohio,  as  stated  last 
week.  He  sold  some  real  estate  to  Mr. 
Apple,  but  has  uo  idea  of  abandoning 
the  sale  of  merchandise.

Lansing— The  firm  of  Rice  &  War- 
dell,  electricians,  has  dissolved  part 
nerahip. 
S.  A.  Rice  will  continue  the 
□uainess  and  C. M.Wardell  has  accepteo 
a  position  with  the  Capitol  Electric 
Engineering  Co.,  at  this  place.
'Remus—Charles  D.  Crandell,  who 
recently  purchased  M.  P.  Gale's  inter­
est 
in  the  general  store  at  Bundy,  ana 
tater  removed  tne  stock  to  Remus,  has 
sold  the stock to Sol. Kitilemau  (brother- 
in-law  to  1.  Netzorg)  and  H.  Rose,  ol 
Big  Rapids.

Freesod—O.  S.  Dean,  the  druggist, 
nas  recently  suffered  tne  loss  ot  both bis 
children—a 
little  giil  of  2j£  years  ana 
a  boy  about  a  year old.  The  former 
died  from  the  effects  of  brain  fever aria 
the 
latter’s  death  was  the  result  of  a 
stomach  trouble.

Detioit—John  E.  Clark,  administrator 
of  the  estate  ot  the 
late  William  P. 
Hutchins,  has  sold  Mr.  Hutchins’  share 
in  the  Greenslade  Oil  Co  to  Andrew 
C.  Hood  and  Thomas  H.  Stevens  for 
$i;,ooo  cash.  Both  Mr.  Hood  and  Mr. 
oteveus  were  associated  in  the  oil  com­
pany  with  Mr.  Hutchins.

living 

Owosso—Osburn &  Sons are  in  receipt 
of  a  letter  fiom  a  lady 
in  New 
York,  who  clerked  for  the  firm  some 
twenty  years  ago,  containing  a  5  cent 
stamp,  which  the  writer  explained  was 
to  replace a  nickel  which  had  been  left 
on  the  counter  through  the  carelessness 
of  one  of  the  other  clerks and  which 
she  appropriated  to  her  own  use.

Marshall—B.  F.  Welch  has  broken 
ground  for  a  two-story  brick  business 
□lock  on  State  street  between  C.  H. 
Thompson’s  store  and  the  Turner build­
ing.  The  structure  is  to  be  up-to-date 
in  every  particular.  The  first  floor  is 
to  be  devoted  to  one  large  store  47x80 
feet,  and  will  be  occupied  by  S.  V.  R. 
Lepper  as  a  dry  goods  establishment.
Menominee---- Benjamin  Lovell,  who
has  bad  charge  ot  the  K.  C.  Co. 's  dry 
goods  and  grocery  store  for  several 
years,  has  severed  his  connection  there­
with  and  will  hereafter  work  for  the 
Smith,  Thorndike  &  Brown  Co.,  ot 
Marinette,  as  traveling  salesman.  His 
territory  will  be  in  Northern  Wisconsin 
and  Michigan.  He  will  continue  to 
reside  in  Menominee.

Detroit—At  the 

last  meeting  of  the 
Retail  Grocers  and  Butchers'  Protective 
Association,  the  advisability  of  taking 
proper  steps  to  incorporate  the  Associa­
tion  was  discussed  at  some  length,  with 
the  result  that  the  question  was  laid  on 
the  table  until  the  next  regular meeting. 
Arrangements  were  perfected  for  the 
Retail  Grocers  and  Butchers’  ball  to  be 
held  at  the  Light  Guard  Armory  Wed­
nesday  evening,  December  15.

local  drug 

Marquette—’Two 

stores 
have  begun  a  patent  medicine  war. 
Each  has  its  plate  glass  windows  cov­
ered  with  signs,  one  announcing  that  it 
will  sell  the  dollar  brands  for  85  cents, 
and  the  other offering  to  do 10 cents bet­
ter.  Quite  a  crowd  took  in  the  humor 
of  the  situation  Saturday  night when the 
painter,  after  finishing  the  85  cent  win­
dow,  marched  straight  down  the  street 
and  began  work on  the  75  cent one.

Hancock— It  is  more  than  likely  that 
Henry  Stark  has  made  his  last  appear­
ance 
in  this  section.  Mark,  it  will  be 
remembered,  failed  in  business  at  Han­
cock  a  tew  weeks  ago  with  assets  of 
$2,700  and 
liabilities  of  $13,000.  He 
settled  all  bills  locally,  but  charged  a 
heavy  discount  in  all  his  dealings  with 
outside  firms.  On  his  return  from  Chi­
cago  last  Tuesday,  on  the  petition  of 
the  creditors  represented  by  Dunstan  & 
Hachette,  he  was  cited  to  appear  before 
the  Circuit  Court  and  be examined as to 
his  business  affairs.  While  the  exami­
nation  was  ostensibly  for  the  purpose  of 
ihiowing  more  light  upon  his  business 
transactions,  at 
its  conclusion  his  at­
torney  was  satisfied  that  the  teal  object 
was  to  get  facts  upon  which  to  base 
criminal  action. 
In  this  he  was  right, 
for  within  an  hour a  criminal  warrant 
was  sworn  out  for  Stark's  arrest.  The 
officers  have  thus  far  searched  in  vain 
for  him,  and  his  attorney,  Joe  Hambi- 
izer,  “ fears"  he  has  escaped. 

•

Manufacturing  Matters.

Pttoskey— H.  F.  Manning,  of  Mance- 
lona,  has embarked  in  the  sawmill  busi­
ness.

Vermontville— H.  C.  Zemke  is  erect­
ing  a  feed  mill  opposite  the  Park 
House.

Battle  Creek— Frank  W.  Ward  has 
sold  his  grist  mill  to  his  father,  J.  M. 
Ward,  for  an  alleged  consideration  of' 
$25,000.

Mitchell—The  Bay  View  Cheese  Co. 
has  decided  to  construct  a  subeaithduct 
tor the  purpose  of  ventilating 
its  cur­
ing  room.

Kalamazoo— The  directors  of 

the 
American  Carriage  Co.  have  decided 
to 
from 
$35,000 to $70,000.

the  capital  stock 

increase 

Eutrican—J.  Blindburyand  H.  Ingra­
ham  have  purchased  a  burr  stone  feed 
mill  and  will  soon  have  it  running  at 
the  grist  mill  at  this  place.

Drenthe—John  Meyer  has  erected  a 
large  building,  two  miles  west  of  this 
place,  for the  purpose  of  embarking 
in 
tne  manufacture  of  wooden  shoes.

Cadillac—The  Buffalo-Cad iliac  Tim ­
ber  Co.  has  been  formed  for the purpose 
of  handling  hardwood  timber  and lauds. 
N.  E.  Staples 
leading  spirit  in 
the  enterprise.

is  the 

Ithaca— Philip  Tinlin  has  formed  a 
copartnership  with  Ben.  Lane,  of Clare, 
to  engage 
in  the  foundry  business. 
Mr.  Lane  will  remove  his  machinery 
from  Clare  to  this  place.

Boyne  Falls—Wm.  H.  White  &  Co 
have  sold  their  water  mill  to  Hon.  Wm. 
Mears,  who  will  place  a  stone  founda­
tion  under  the  property  and  make  sev­
eral  other  improvements.

Charlotte—G.  H.  Bond,  of  Jarkson, 
and  C.  S.  Scott,  of  Chester,  have  leased 
the  building  on  Harris  avenue  owned 
by  Geo.  A.  Williams  and  G.  W.  Squier, 
and  will  conduct  a  machine  shop  thete- 
in.

Menominee—The  N.  Ludington  Co. 
its  mill  this  winter  on 
expects  to  run 
in  by  rail.  This  makes 
logs  brought 
three  sawmills  which  will  run  during 
the  winter.  These,with  several  shingle 
mills,  will  give  employment  to  quite  a 
number  of  men.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Lumber  & 
Salt  Co.  reports  50  per  cent,  more 
stock  .moving  than  a  year  ago,  while 
there  has  been  an  increase  in  the  value 
of  common stock  of  $1  a thousand.  This 
concern  has  sold  and  shipped  2,500,000 
feet  since  the  first  of the  present  month. 
The  company  reports  a  big  demand  lor 
mill  culls.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Dell  Lockwood  succeeds  Lockwood  & 
in  the  oyster  business  at  127 

Braun 
Louis  street.

B.  J.  Reynolds  has  purchased  the 
tobacco and  cigar  stock  of  Mohl  &  Van 
Alstine  at  35  Pearl  street.

VVm.  J.  Cox, book  keeper  for the Kort- 
lander  Co.,  has  resigned  his  position 
and  will  engage  in  the  wholesale  liquor 
business  with  VVm.  H.  Murphy  at  16 
North  Spring  street.

The  Peninsular  Trust  Co.  declared  a 
dividend  of  2  per  cent.  Tuesday,  the 
design  being  that  such  a  disbursement 
would  be  ample  to cover  the  taxes  as­
sessed  against  the  stock  during  1897.

The  Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Grocer 
Co.  is  removing 
its  book-keeping  de­
partment  from  the  rear of  the  building, 
where 
it  has  been  located  for  the  past 
half  dozen  years,  to  the  front  of  the 
store,  so  as  to  be  more  convenient to the 
business  office.

in 

M.  D.  Schmucker,  who  has  been  in­
locating  a  large  Menno- 
strumental 
nite  settlement  at  Diamond  Loch,  has 
engaged  in  general  trade  at  that  place. 
The  Musselman  Grocer  Co.  furnished 
the  grocery  stock  and  Voigt,  Herpol- 
sheimer  &  Co  supplied  the  dry  goods.
The  Tradesman  learns  that  J.  F.  Gay, 
who  claims  to  he  doing  business  at 
South  Bend  under  the  style  of the Mich­
igan  Mercantile  Co.,  is  now  working 
in  Marquette  and  vicinity.  The  meth­
ods  pursued  by  this  gentleman  were 
fully  exposed  in  the  Tradesman  of Nov. 
10,  and  anyone  who 
is  favored  with  a 
call  from  him  will  probably  be  money 
ahead 
if  he  gives  him 
cold 
shoulder.  _____ _______

the 

M.  R.  Alden,  who  has  conducted  a 
wholesale  butter  and  egg  business  at  98 
South  Division  street  for  the  past  year, 
informs  the  Tradesman  that  he  is  finan­
cially  embarrassed  by  reason  of  recent 
losses  he  has.sustained  in  Eastern  ship­
ments  of  fall  eggs.  He  announces  his 
intention  of  issuing  a  circular  letter  to 
his  creditors  to-day  or  to-morrow,  giv­
ing  the  exact  figures  in  regard  to th< 
amount  he  owes  and  about  the  amount 
he  expects  to  be  able  to  realize  from 
his  outstanding  accounts  so as  to be able 
to  determine  about  what  percentage  he 
will  be  able  to  distribute  among  his 
shippers  on  a  pro  rata  basis. 
In  the 
meantime  he  has  formed  a  copartner­
ship  with  L.  J.  Cass  and  announces  his 
intention  of  continuing  the  business  at 
the  same  location  under  the  style  of  Al­
den  &  Cass.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Noithern  Spys  command  $3 
per  bhl.  ;  Jonathans.  $5;  Ozatks  (Ark.), 
$4;  Eatrus  (Ark.),  $4.  There  is  a  fair 
stock  in  cold  storage,  hut  prices  are  not 
likely  to  go  below  the  present  quota­
tions,  for  the  reason  that  the  stocks  in 
the  country  are  verv  limited,and  South 
ern  orchards  are  being  drawn  upon  for 
fancy  fiuit  to  go  to  Eastern markets and 
for  export.

Bananas—The  demand  for  Thanks­
giving  time  is  quite  brisk.  This  is  not 
expected  to  last  long.  Prices  are  un­
changed,  although  the  market  would 
have  a  naturally  easier  feeling  were 
it 
not  for  the  Thanksgiving  demand.

creamery 

Butter—Separator 

in 
is 
is 
moderate  demand  at  22c.  Dairy 
coming 
in  more  freely,  commanding 
about  20c  for  extra  fancy  and  18c  for 
fancy.

Cabbage—$3  per  too.
Carrots—35c  per  bu.*
Celery— 15c  per  bunch.

Cranberries—The  market 

is  verv 
steady  and  the  stocks  in  hand  are  con­
siderable. 
is  good. 
Jerseys  command  >7  and  Cape  Cods and 
Wisconsins  fetch  $7  50.

The  movement 

Eggs—There 

is  a  good  demand  for 
strictly  fresh  eggs  and  the  market  is 
firmer  and  stronger,  ranging  from  t7@ 
18c.  Storage  eggs  fetch  I4@t5c.  Within 
the  next  sixty  days  the  stocks  of  salted 
and  held  eggs 
in  the  country  are  ex 
pected  to  be  cleaned  up,  and  fresh  eggs 
will  be  nearer  what  they  purport  to  be.
Game—Dealers  pav  St  per  doz.  for 
rabbits  and  $1.25  per  doz. 
for  No*  1 
squirrels.  Both  are  verv  scarce  and 
hard  to  get,  on  account  of  the  unfavor­
able  weather  for  hunting  which  has 
prevailed  for several weeks.

Grapes—New  York  Catawbas  com­

mand  15c  for  4  lb.  baskets.

is  steady  and 
is  held  at  itc  and 

Honev—The  market 

firm.  White  clover 
dark  buckwheat  at  *oc.
per  Ih.

Lettuce—Hot  house  goods  fetch  15c 

Onions—White  Glohe  and  Red  have 
advanced  to  60c.  Spanish,  $1.75  per 
crate.

Oranges—The  market 
A 

is 
slightlv
lower  on  Mexicans. 
few  cars  of 
Louisianas  are  on  the  market  and  are 
good  in  quality.  The  tariff  is  holding 
the  price of  oranges  rather  higher  than 
would  otherwise  he  the  case,  but  as 
many  or  more of  the Mexicans are going 
into  consumption  this  vear  than  last.

Teasdale 

Potatoes—The  market 

is  stronger
«•verywhere  and  prices  have  advanoed 
f»illv  Sc  during  the  past  week.  Miller 
(St,  Louis)  write  the 
Tradesman  as 
follows: 
' “The  tracks 
here have  been  cleaned up of  potatoes  in 
| a  remarkably'"short  time.  Stork  has 
disappeared— it  is  gone—and  now  huv- 
ers  who  were  slow  to  take  hold  find  thev 
must  pav  higher  prices  or  go  without. 
There  has  been  a  good  healthy  demand 
at  the  late  advance.  The  trade  has  been 
slow  to  concede  that  prices  are  higher, 
but  the  prices  are  higher,  and  rule,  on 
an  average,  5c  higher  this  week  than 
last,  with  verv  light  receipts,  which 
have  decreased  gradually.  Cars  are 
scarce  at  loading  points,  prices  are 
higher  at  Chicago,  and  throughout  the 
East.  South  and  Southeast  thev  are  tak­
ing  potatoes,  all  of  which  has  tended  to 
-elieve  the  surplus  here,  and  at  other 
larger  receiving  markets.  All  has  had 
a  tendency  to  make  a  firm  market  and 
higher  prices.  This  market  has  bn* 
little  stock  on  track,  w-i*b  but 
ir 
sight and prices firm, ru’ ing fully 5c high­
er  than  the  close  of  last  week,  and  we 
predict  a  good  market  this 
coming 
week,  and  think  prices  will  rule  seme 
higher  than  to-dav’s  close.  Shipment' 
arriving  meet  ready  sale  at  good  firm 
prices. ”
Poultry— Hens  and  spring  chickens 
are in  plentiful supply at 7@7 '/&c.  Duck' 
are  in  fair  supply  at  8@ qc.  Turkey«  are 
:n  active  demand  and  scarce at  to®tic. 
Geese  are in moderate demand at q<® toe. 
*  Squash—St  per  100  lhs.  for  Huhbard. 
"Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  command 
*3;  Illinois  Jerseys  fetch $3.75;  genuine 
Jerseys  are held  at  $4.50.

little 

It 

tan  kid. 

Novelty  in  a  Button  Bicycle  Boot.
One  of  the  season’s  novelties 

is  a 
new  button  bicycle boot  that  is a novelty 
in  both  shape  and  material. 
It  is  not 
so  high  as  to  sweat the leg  nor  so  low  ac 
to  chafe  the ankle  and  that  makes  it the 
proper height. 
is  foxed  in  tan  kid 
and  the quarter  is  of  Scotch plaid bound 
all  around  with 
It  will  be 
likely  to  suit  the  fancy  of  the  golf  girl' 
as  well  as  the  riders  who  like  fanev 
colors  quietly  displayed  at just  the  righ* 
elevation.  ‘ ‘ Not  too  high,  but  just  high 
enough.”   The  low  button  bicycle boot 
made  so  as  not  to  chafe  the ankle  is 
popular  with  the  girl  who  has  a  stocky 
leg.  The  thin-limbed  girl  wants  a  ten- 
inch  boot  or higher.  The  button  bicycle 
hoot,  once  fitted  to  the  foot,  looks  very 
trim  and  neat.

Phone  Visner  for  Gillies  N.  Y.  teas,

all  kinds,  grades and  prices.

The  Grocery  Market.

from 

Sugar—The  consumptive  demand  for 
refined  sugar  is  fair.  The  future  of  the 
sugar  market  is  uncertain,  although this 
is  a  poor  season  to  advance. 
The 
world's  visible  supply  of  raw  sugar  is 
1,250.000  tons,  as  against  1.070,000  tons 
reported  last  week.  The  yield  of  beet 
sugar 
the  California  factories 
alone  will  be  this  year  35,000  tons,  and 
will  probably  reach  80.000  tons  next 
vear. 
It  is  reported  as  giving  excellent 
satisfaction.  A  shaking  of  thp  strength 
of  the  market  may  he  the  result  of  the 
establishment  of  the  Arbuckles  and 
other  independent  factories  and  the  end 
of  the  Hawaiian  sugar  treaty.  Only 
about  50,000  tons  of  the  Hawaiian  crop 
will  be  handled  next  year  by  the  Claus 
Spreckles  factories  at  San  Francisco, 
where  he  once  handled  the  entire  crop. 
Of  the  remaining  225,000 tons  150,000 
tons  will  be  placed  on  the  market  hv 
the  California  Beet  Sugar  and  Refining 
Company  and  of  this  qo. ooo  tons  has 
been  sold  to  the  Arbuckles 
factory. 
The  remaining  60,000  tons  will  be  re­
fined  at 
independent  factories  on  the 
Coast.

Tea—There 

is  no  disposition  to  sell 
at  anything  but  full  prices,  and  a!' 
grades,  except  some  undesirable  lot' 
which  always  come  in  at  this  season,ar 
firm.  The  poor  stock  is being  unloaded 
at  low  prices.  Other  prices  are  withoui 
change.  The  consumptive  demand  fo* 
tea  is  fair,  although  at  this  season,  just 
on  the  verge  of  the  winter  holiday,  con 
siderable  dulness 
is  always  expected 
Buyers  are  apt  to  hold  off  until  the  first 
of  the  year,  when  the  trade  is  expected 
to  improve  considerably.

it 

Canned  Goods—Tomatoes  are  still 

ir 
rather a  weak  condition,  although  large 
holders  seem  perfectly  confident  that  a 
1 ittle  later  the  market  will 
take  the 
hoped-for  boom.  At  present  writing, 
nrices  are  easy,  although 
is  not  ex 
pected  that  prices  can  go  a  great  dea 
lower.  The  dulness  of  the  trade  a1 
nresent  is  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that 
jobbers  are  loath  to  stock  up so  near th* 
first  of  the  year.  Prices  will  probabb 
be  somewhat  higher  after  the  tst,  al 
though  how  much  higher  cannot be fore­
told.  Corn  is dull,  at  unchanged  prices. 
Peas  are  dead,  at  ruling  prices.  Th* 
wholesale  demand  for  peaches  is  ven 
small,  as  all  the  future  orders  have  jus1 
come 
fairly  full 
Prices  are  unchanged.

in,  and  stocks  are 

Dried  Fruits— No  changes  in  price« 
are  to  be  noted.  Evaporated apples  ar* 
still  very  high,  so  much  so  as  to  check 
demand  materially.  This  condition  wil 
nrohably  not  be  relieved  this  season. 
Large-sized  prunes  are  reported  scarce 
*n  the  general  market.  New  Persia* 
dates  are  to  arrive  in  this  country  with­
in  a  fortnight.  Reports  from  Fresno 
Cal.,  on  the  raisin  situation  say:  ‘ ‘ Th* 
raisin  situation 
is  a  very  strong  one. 
The  district  has  shipped  up  to  Oct.  2c 
>nly  900  cars.  Since  then  we  have  bar 
rains  and  fogs  and  we  venture  to  sa* 
that  since  the  above  date  not  over  35c 
cars  have been  shipped  from  all  points, 
making  1,250  cars  from  the  State,  a? 
against  2,000  cars  shipped  to  the  cor­
responding  date  last  year. 
In  additior 
to  this  the  crop  will  fall  short  of  last 
vear’s  output  not  less  than  1,200 cars. 
This  is  a  very  conservative  estimate.”
Fish—Boston  and  New  York  have 
made  slight  advances  on  mackerel  and 
the  markets  everywhere  will  probably 
do  so  after  the  holidays  are  over.  A 
further advance  of $2  per  barrel 
is  ex­
pected  before  next  spring.  The  catch 
of the  whole  world  is  estimated  at  only

30  per  cent,  of  la«t  year.  Cod  is  quiet 
but  very  firm,  slight  advances  being 
noted.  Lake  fish  are  very  dull  at  un­
changed  prices.  Salmon  are  moving 
slowly,  and  will  advance  on  account  of 
the  freight  rates.

There 

Provisions—There has  been practical­
in  the  provision  market 
ly  no  change 
during  the  past  week. 
is  a 
slightly  hetter  demand,  and  holders 
feeling  all 
are  manifesting  a  better 
around.  There 
is  no  exoectation  of  a 
decline,  hut  rather an  advance,  in  lard, 
hams,  and, 
the  whole  line, 
»xrept  bellies,  which  have  held  their 
own  because  of  scarcity.  There  has 
been  no  change  in  prices  during  the 
past  week,  although  it is  growing  harder 
to  buy  under  the  market.

in  fact, 

The  Grain. Market.

The  wheat  market  held up remarkably 
well  during  the  past  week.  Exports 
were 6.553,000 bushel«,  which  is  about 
as  large  as  thev  have  been  for  some 
time.  The  receipts  also  confnue  heavy 
and,  were 
it  not  for  the  large  exports, 
our  visible  would  be  growing  immense­
ly,  hut  the  previous  week  our  visi'  le 
increased  only  735,000 bushels,  or about 
half  what  was  expected.  This  steadied 
the  price  very  materially.  The  North­
west  is  rushing  its  wheat  in  and  it  will 
not  be  manv  weeks  until  they  find  the 
end.  We  certainly  cannot  expert  to  he 
“xporting  at  the  present  and  still  not 
«ell  ourselves  short.  Winter  wheat  is 
moving  very  slowly  and  some  country 
lealers  claim  that  two-thirds  of  the 
crop  is  out  of  the  farmers’  hands.  How 
’rue  this  is  we  cannot  say,  but  our  es­
timate  is  that  45  per  cent,  has  heen 
moved  from  first  hands.  Speculation 
in  wheat  is merely  nominal,as  the  longs 
ire  in  a  waiting  mood  and  the  bears  do 
not  want  to add  to  their  lines.

The  flour  trade  is  very  good  and  the 

market  looks  verv  strong  to  us.

Mill  feed  is  looking  up  and  the  mills 

are  sold  ahead  at  present.

In  corn  there  is  no  change,  but  oats 

have  advanced  and  are  strong.

The  receipts  were  hardly  up  to  the 
iverage,  being  30  cars  of  wheat,  2  cars 
if  corn  and  4  cars  of  oats.

Millers  are  paying  86c  for  wheat.

C  G.  A. V oigt.

Hides.  Pehs  and  Wool.

-  Hide  prices  have  weakened  some, 
vhile  the  scarcity  of  hides  continues. 
Values  became  so  strained  that  tamers 
could  see  nothing  but  a  Io«s  in  working 
•hem.  and  leather  prices  would  not  re­
spond.  Substitutes  for  leather  took  the 
"dace  of  the  real  article,  and  it  was  a 
'¡me  of  waiting  to  see  what  the  year 
vould  do  for  them.

Pelts  are  not  plenty  but  there  is  no 
'ccumulation.  Some one  seems  to  want 
them  at  a  price  above  what  the  present 
wool  market  will  warrant.  Buyers  are 
saving  30c  for  wool  on  the  pelt  that will 
Tmmand  only  28c  off.

While  there  are 

light  sales  of  wool, 
there  are  no  weak  spols  and  stocks  are 
trongly  held.  The  London  sales  open 
>n  the  26th,  which  will  indicate the  fu- 
*ure  on  wools. 

Wh.  T.  Hess.

The  Meat  in  the  Cocoanut.

item  from 

The  Tradesman  reprints  the  follow­
last  week’s 

ing  suggestive 
paper:
inwardness  of  the  trading 
The  true 
«tamp  scheme 
is  disclosed  bv  a  confi­
dential  circular sent  out  from'the  head­
quarters  of  one  of  the  organizations,  in 
which 
is  stated  that  the  husiness  is 
enormously  profitable  because  less  than 
one-fifth  of  the  stamps  paid  for  by  the 
for  re­
merchant  are  ever  presented 
demption  at  the  trading  stamp  store.

it 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

How  Country  Merchants  Can  Make 

Satisfactory  Window  Exhibits. 

F rom  the Dry Goods C hronicle.

As  a 

We  appreciate  the  difficulties 

that 
confront  the  country  sure-keeper  when 
he  undertakes  to  make  a  satisfactory 
window  exhibit.  Ideas  fly  away  and  his 
"think  tank”   is  cudgeled 
in  vain  for 
inspiration.

last  resort,  something  must  be 
done.  He  has  recourse  to  the  familiar 
lines 
old  botchery,  and  strings  sundry 
of  twine  criss  cross,  pins  on  a 
few 
things  and  hangs  up  some  stockings 
and  bits  of  stuff  in  general.  The  nearer 
he  gets  to  the  finish  the  more  he  hur­
ries  to  get  through  with  a  disagreeable 
job.

Then,  when  he  calls  it  done,  he  walki 
off  with  scarcely  a  glance  at  his  work. 
He  would  be  ashamed  to  be  seen  criti­
c i s i n g   it.  He  despises  the  "confounded 
window  dressing,"  and  gets  good  and 
cross  over  the  job.

The  average  store-keeper  will  go  in 
and  out  of  his  store a  dozen  times  a  day 
and  scarcely  know  a  thing  that  is  in the 
window.  We  know  there  are  those 
among  our  readers  who  will  contradict 
us  on  this  point,  but that  won’t  alter  the 
general  truth  of  our  statement.  We  are 
glad  they  are  able  to  contradict  it;  it 
proves  them  better  than  the  average.

We  speak  by  the  card  when  we charge 
that  the  average  store-keeper  isn’t  all 
he  should  be,  even  if  he 
is  materially 
ahead  of  the  average  man.  The  aver 
age  man  isn’t  such a tremendous  fellow.
We  feel  it  is  a  waste  of  time  to  try  to 
school  the  average  store-keeper  up  to 
the  level  of  expert  window-dressing. 
We  do  believe,  however,  that  it  should 
be  no  great  task  to  educate  him  up  to 
better  window-dressing  than  he  perpe­
trates  at  present.

The 

first  thing  we  would  suggest  to 
him  as  a  start  toward  better  results 
is, 
don’t  string  a  line  of  any  kind  in  your 
window.  If  you  must  have  a  suspender, 
use  a  strip  of  wood,  curtain  pole  or 
something that won’t  sag  and  something 
that  you  can  drive  pins  in.

The  hest  things  to  use  as  foundation 
for  showing most goods are small wooden 
cases,  large  pasteboard  boxes,  or,  best 
of  all.  the  paper  board  cylinders  that 
we  have  spoken  of  in  this  department 
before.

These  foundations  should  be  neatly 
covered  with  white  or  an  appropriate 
tint.  The  goods  may  then  be  fastened 
with  pins  and  a  few  articles  will  serve 
to  give  the  show  a  massive  effect.

Towels,  handkerchief«,  hosiery,  un­
derwear,  even  laces  tacked  in  a  showy 
manner  over  foundations  of  the  kind 
mentioned,  make  an  effective  and  elab­
orate  display  and  quantities  are  mag 
nified  surprisingly.

Dress  goods,  cloths  or any  soft  stuff, 
even  in  careless  fold«,  drape  gracefully 
over  these  simple  forms,  which,  aside 
from  their  effectiveness,  conform  to  the 
smaller  store-keeper’s  idea  of  economy, 
as  they  are  provided  at  little  or  no  d i­
rect  expense.

It  isn’t  necessary  to  confine  window 
decorations  to  goods  alone.  Where  it 
takes  more  material  than  can  he 
judi­
ciously  spared  from  working stocks,  use 
potted  plants  or  a  handsome  picture  or 
any  appropriate  thing  that  will  add 
grace  to  the  display  and  help  to  fill  up.
It  is  possible  to  group  these 
irrelevant 
things  with  your  goods  in  such  a  happv 
fashion  that  few  people  can  pass  your 
window  without  stopping  to  inspect  it
It  is  because  store-keepers  will  not, 
rather  than  because  they  cannot,  deco­
rate  that  store  windows  continue 
to 
look  commonplace 
is  too  much 
trouhle,  and  they  are  not  looking  for 
trouble.
Successful  in  Whatever  They  Under­

It 

take.

From the W ool Record.

The  marvelous  history  of  the  Jews, 
comprising  unique  and  picturesque 
characters  and  startling  situations,  con­
stitutes  they most  thrilling tragedy  of  the 
ages.  After  fifty  centuries  of  strangely 
mingled  prosperity  and  adversity,  they 
stand  among  us  to  day  in full possession 
of  all  those  remarkable  traits  and  pow­
ers  that  enabled  them  to  defy  the  Pha­
raohs,  and  with  the  sword  of  Gideon  to

smite  the  Mideanite.  The  most  power­
ful  races  and  nations  have  failed  to 
either assimilate  or  absorb  them.  Orig­
inally  endowed  with  pre-eminent  force 
of  intellect  and  passion,  the  Jew  is  still 
characterized  by  clear  thought  and  pro­
found  feeling.  Love  or  hate  with  him 
must  go  to  extremes.  How  Isaac  of 
York,  in  "Ivanhoe, ”   defies  the  tortures 
as  he  thinks  of  Rebecca!  How  intense 
and  beautiful  the  charity  of  Nathan,  in 
Lessing’s  touching  story!  What  ardent 
devotion 
in  every 
change  of  fortune  the  struggling  soul  of 
Daniel  Deronda  receives  a  new  inspira­
tion !

in  Mordecai,  and 

the  philanthropist,  and 

Until  recent  years  the  Jew  has  been 
regarded  as  the  mere  scheming,  selfish, 
ubiquitous  man  of  trade.  The  world 
is,  however,  beginning  to  take  a  new 
If  he  is  made  a  con­
view  of  the  Jew. 
spicuous  character 
in  novel  or  drama, 
it  is  no  longer  as  Isaac  of  York,  or  Shy- 
lock  of  Venice,  dreadful  in  avarice  and 
in  vengeance,  hut  as  the  student,  the 
artist, 
the 
statesman. 
In  the  past  he  has  been 
placed  in  the  most  unfavorable  position 
?nd  light  of  romparison  wilh other men. 
But 
in  the  blaze  of  the  most  unfriendly 
criticism  he  stands  the  peer  of  any  in 
the  displav  of  those qualities which con­
stitute  human  greatness 
in  all  the 
spheres  of  thought  and  action.  Who 
that  has  ever  studied  the  philosophy  of 
Spinoza  or  read  the  poetry  of  Heine, 
'he  romances  of  Disraeli  and Auerbach, 
the  dramas  of  Michael  Beer,  the  epics 
of  Frank!,  or heard  the  musical  master- 
nieces  of  Mendelssohn.  Ruhenstein, 
Em«t  and  Halevv,  can  speak  slighting­
ly  of  Hebrew  genius!
There  is  scarcely  any  department  of 
human  thought  and  activity  in  which 
the  Jews  have  not  distinguished  them­
selves. 
In  general  literature  they  more 
than  average  with  writers  of  the  same 
class  of  other  nationality. 
It  is  a  very 
remaikable  thing  that  at  the  same  mo­
ment,  the  leader  of  the  Liberal  party  in 
Germany,  the  leader  of  the  Republican 
party 
in  France,  the  leader  of  the  Re­
publican  party  in  Spain,  and  the  leader 
of  the  Conservative  party  in  England 
were  all  Jews.  A  more  extended  sphere 
of  useful  activity 
is  being  opened  to 
this  long  persecub-d  race.  They  became 
great  in  trade  because  forced  out  of  the 
Endowed  for  greatness, 
professions. 
they  must  he  successful 
in  whatever 
they  undertake.  Every  encouragement 
should  be  g  ven  them  to  exercise  their 
wonderful  talents  in  behalf  of  our  com­
mon  civilization.

We  firmly  believe  that  this  divinely 
gifted  people,  who  have  so  inspired  our 
the 
literature,  music  and  drama 
past,  will  vet  be 
in  the  van  of  the 
moral,  mental  and  material  march  of 
the  world’s  progress.

in 

The  Clerk’s  Duty  Is  to  Sell  Goods. 
W rit'en for the T r ad esm an.

"H ave  you  among  your  clerks  one 
who  persistently  tries  to  sell  goods  to  a 
If  so, 
woman  who  is 
just  shopping?’ 
catch  him  at  it  and  bounce  him 
forth­
with. ”

The  above,  as 

far  as  my  memory 
serves  me,  is  a  part  of  the  summing  up 
of  an  article  in  the  Tradesman  of  re­
cent  date.

During  my  fourteen  years  of  experi­
ence  in  the  retail  dry  goods  business,  I 
have  been  fortunate  enough  to  become 
acquainted  with  many  of  the  up-to  date 
business  men  of  the  country. 
I  have 
heard  many  ideas  advanced  as  to  what 
a  salesman's  duty  is;  but  have  never 
yet  heard  any  merchant 
condemn  a 
clerk  for  "persistently  trying  to  sell 
goods  to  the  woman  who  is  ‘ just  shop­
ping.’  ”

The  universally  accepted  idea  among 
large  and  small,  is  that 
retailers,  both 
the  salesman's  plain  duty 
is  to  sell 
goods,  and  the  more  he  sells  the  greater 
the  value  placed  upon  his services.  The 
merchant  expects  his  clerk  to  assume, 
when  a  woman  comes  to  bis  counter  to 
look  at  goods,  that  that  woman 
intends 
to  buy.  With  this  assumption,  the  sales­

man  shows  his  goods,  explains  their 
merits  and  values  and  tells  what  he 
knows  about  their  manufacture. 
In 
short,  by  his  knowledge  of  his  goods, 
his  willingness  to  show  them,  and  his 
politeness  and  tact,  he  has  been  "p er­
sistently trying”   to  sell  his  goods.  Has 
this  persistence  offended  the  shopper? 
No.  On  the  contrary,  it  has  awakened 
in  her  no  little  respect  for  the  clerking 
fraternity,  and has  made  her wonder how 
she  can  get  away  from  so  accommoda­
ting  a  salesman  without  either  hurting 
his  feelings  or buying  his  goods.  She 
had  no 
intention  of  buying  when  she 
went  to  that  counter;  but,  nine  times 
out  of  ten,  treated  as  she  has  been,  she 
will  buy  before  she  leaves  it.

Many  merchants  enquire  into  the  why 
seeing  people 
and  wherefore,  upon 
leave  their  store  without  buying.  The 
clerk  who  has  no  better  excuse  to  offer 
than  "they were‘ just shopping’  ”   would 
soon  be  without  a  position.

While  a  woman  may  come  to  the 
counter and  say,  "Now  I  don’t  intend 
to  buy  to-day,  so  don't  take  down  a  lot 
of  goods, ”  she still expects that  the clerk 
will  take  down  at  least  enough  to  sat­
isfy  her  curiosity.  She 
is  sure  to  be 
disappointed ;  but  she has,  by  her  state­
ment,  knocked  from  under  that  clerk 
his  main  prop  and  stay.  She  would 
have  received  the  best  of  attention  had 
she  simply  asked  to  see  some  goods. 
The  clerk  would  then  have  assumed,  as 
he  has  been  taught  to  do,  that  she  wants 
to  buy,  and  the  shopper  would  then 
have  had  no  complaint  to  make.

Association M atters

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association

President, J .W is l e r ,  M ancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A .  Sto w e,  G rand  R apids;  T reasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatman, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

P resident,  Chas.  F .  Ho ck,  B attle  Creek;  Vice 
•President,  H.  W  W e b b e r ,  W est  Bay  -Citv; 
T reasurer,  Hen r y  C.  Min n ie, E aton  Rapids. *

Detroit  Retail Grocers' Association 

President, J o s s ru  Knight;  S ecretary ,E   Marks, 

221  Greenwood ave:  T reasurer,  N.  L. Koenio.

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association
K l a p ;  T reasurer, J.  G eo.  L ehm an.

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

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

President.  P.  F. T r ea n o r;  V ice-President. J ohn 
Mc B r a t n ie ;  secretary,  W.  II.  L e w is ;  T reas­
u rer, L o u ie S ch w erm er

Jackson  Retail Grocers' Association 

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

t e r ;  T reasurer, J.  L.  P eter m ann

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

Darling;  T reasurer, L. A. G ilkey.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association * 

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

C leveland:  T reasurer, Geo.  M.  Hoch.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association 
Ho l l y ;  T reasurer, C. A.  Ham mond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

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

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

I 

venture  to  say  that,  if  there  is  a 

prosperous  merchant  in  the  country  to­
day  who  wants  to  be  in  the  hands  of  the 
sheriff  twelve  months  from  now,  all  that 
he  has  to  do  is  to  instruct  his  clerks  not 
to  try  to  sell  goods  to  people  who  are 
"  just  shopping. ”  

M a c   A l l a n .

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.

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

T reasurer. S. .1  Hi-epord

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POLLY’S  PERPLEXITIES.

She  Has  Difficulty 
Coffee.
W ritten  for the T rad esm an.

In  Purchasing 

in 

close 

interminable 

‘ ‘ Polly,  dear,”   said  my  husband,  in 
the  wheedling  tone of  voice  I have come 
to  know  so  well  when  the  ax  and  the 
grindstone  are 
proximity, 
“ Polly,  dear,  I  sent  up  all  the  things 
on  that 
list—except  the 
coffee.  Now,  supposing,”   with  a  fur­
little  glance  out  from  under  his 
tive 
lowered 
‘ ‘ you  just  slip  over  on 
your  wheel  to  Blank’s  department  store 
and  get  it,  and  bring  it  over  here  to  the 
it  home  when  1 
office  and  I’ll  bring 
come  at  six. ”

lids, 

I grinned,  and  replied,  in my sweetest 

accents,  "Why,  certainly,  dearie.”

"Now  what  you  laughing  at,  Polly?”  
said  Charlie,  the  faintest  suspicion  of 
a  naughty  little  frown  appearing  be­
tween  his  black  eyebrows.

I  was  afraid  he  would  infer  from  my 
giggling  that  I  had  perpetrated 
the 
rascally  trick  on  him  of  discovering  the 
Geo.  Washington  implement  of destruc­
tion  he  had  not  been  able  to  hide  from 
my  sharp  eyes—a  most  unpardonable 
sin, 
in  the  opinion  of  every  self  re 
specting  husband!  So  I  hastened  to 
control  the  corners  of  my  mouth  and  as­
sume  a  far-away,  wooden  Indian  ex­
pression,  and  assure  him  that 
it  was 
“ Ob,  nothing,”   at  the  same  jime  pull­
ing  down  his  head  behind  the  office 
door and  imprinting  a  kiss  on  the  top 
of 
it—the  head,  not  the  door—and 
whisking  myself  out  of  his  den  in  the 
twinkling  of  an  eye.

In  parenthesis  would  sav  that  Charlie 
and  I  have been  married  just  two  years 
and  he  is getting  used  to  my  eccentrici­
ties  and  has  ceased  to  be  surprised  at 
anything  I  say  or  do  not  say,  and  do  or 
do  not  do.

What  had  excited  my  risibles  was 
this:  One  day  last  summer,  I  witnessed 
one  of  the  funniest  sights  it  has  ever 
been  my  lot  to  encounter.  A  woman  of 
uncertain  winters,  enclosed  within  non­
descript  bicycle  toggery  of  kaleidos­
copic  tendencies,  her  vivid  green  sailor 
hat  set  rakishly  on  top  of  her  shock  of 
iron-gray  hair,  her  saddle  so  much  too 
low  that  her  knees  described  right  an­
gles  with  every  revolution  of  the  ped­
als,  was  flying  down  one  of  the  princi­
pal  streets  at  a  terrific  pace.  A  look  of 
indescribable  agony  overspread  her 
features,  which  could  not  be  set  down 
even  as  “ her  bicycle  face.”   Notwith­
standing  the  woman’s  unhappy  counte­
nance,  passers-by  on  the  walk  could  not 
conceal  a  smile,  while  the  irrepressible 
small  boy  doubled  himself  up  and 
shrieked  with  wicked  laughter.  That 
poor  wheelwoman  had  been  to  market 
and,  deluded  by  the  confident  assur­
ances  of  the  clerk  th at‘ ‘ it  wouldn’t 
come  undone,”   had  tied  a  large  paper 
bag  of  overripe  peaches  onto  her handle 
bars;  and  now,  as  she  scorched  down 
the  street 
in  wild  eagerness  to  escape 
the  awful  public  gaze,  was  sowing  the 
fruit  right  and 
left  without  regard  to 
fitness  of  the  soil  where  it  fell.

So,  when  my  dear  Charlie  suggested 
my  bringing  back  the  coffee  on  my 
wheel,  up  rose  the  vision  of  that  freak 
with  the  peaches,  and  I  caught  mysell 
imagining  the  spectacle  I  should  pre­
sent 
if  I  started  wheeling  down  the 
street  with  my  coffee,  and  the  package 
should  play  a  base  trick  and  cause  me 
unwillingly 
public 
thoroughfare  with  the  ground  product 
of  the  Orient 1

to  pepper 

the 

Shutting  out  of  my  mind  the  embar­
rassing  picture,  I  was  not  loug  in reach­

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

7

Puzzled  to  know  what  the  condition of 
the  mill  could  be  that  it  needed  clean­
ing,  I  awaited  her  return. 
It  seemed 
a 
long  while  before  she  came  back. 
Then she informed me  that  “   ‘ he’  would 
have 
in  five  minutes  and 
would  then  wait  upon  me.”

it  cleaned 

I  imagined  “ him”   bringing  forward 
a  pail  of  water,  snap  and  cloths  and  go 
ing  at  that  innocent-looking  mill  wit! 
vigor  and  determination  to  have 
it 
“ clean,”   and  I  began  to  figure  how 
much  time  would  be  consumed 
in  a 
if  he  had  to  spend  five  minutes 
day 
scrubbing  it  for  each  customer.

The  sunset-haired  girl  lingered  in  m> 
vicinity  and,  my  woman’s  curiositx 
getting  the  better  of  me,  I  asked  her 
“ what  it  had  to  be  cleaned  for?”

“ I’ll  tell  you,”   said  she.  “ It’s  this 
way:  Several  weeks  ago,  a  woman  was 
in  here  and  ordered  two  pounds  of  our 
best  coffee.  The  next  day,  she  broughi 
it  back  and  said  she  couldn’t  use  it-  
that 
it  was  miserable  stuff.  And  sh* 
wouldn't  keep  it.  We  had  to  take  it 
back  and  give  her  some  more. 
Sine* 
‘ he’  won’t  allow  us  to  grind  it- 
then 
‘ he’  grinds 
‘ He’  investi 
gated  the  matter  and  found  that  th* 
clerk  who  waited  on  her  put  her  coffe* 
into the  mill  when  there  was  a  little  o 
the  cheapest  stuff  we  sell 
in  from 
the  last  grinding,  and  that  was  wha 
ailed  her  coffee.”

it  himself. 

left 

Here  she  left  me.
I  waited  what  seemed  to  me  a  rea 
sonable  length  cf  time  for  “ him”   to get 
the  mill  cleaned.  But  he  cameth  not.  1 
walked  up  and  down  the  aisle.  Then  1 
looked  at  the  goods  displayed  in  th* 
show  cases,  until  1  knew  them  by heart. 
Then  I  regarded  the  stream  of  custom­
ers  and  the  clerks  hurrying  to  and  fro 
Becoming  tired  of  that,  I  watched  th* 
little  mite  of  a  cash  girl  as  she  rattled 
the  sepulchral-looking  register. 
Th* 
store  was  cold  and  the  little bird’s claws 
that  did  her  service  as  fingers  looked 
blue  and  pinched.  The  draft  from  th* 
oft-opened  door  chilled  me  even  in  m\ 
thick  winter  jacket,  and  she  huddled 
down  behind  the  pile  of  tea  chests, 
looking  the  personification  of  physical 
discomfort. 
I  fell  to  pondering  on  th* 
wretchedness  of  the  world  in  general, 
with  the  miserable  little  cash  girl  as  a 
particular  instance;  and,  thinking  how 
much  worse  off  was  she  than  I,  I  tried 
to  reason  myself  out  of  my discontent  at 
having  to  wait  so  long  for  “ two  pounds 
of  35  cent  coffee.  Mocha  and  Java, 
mixed  and  ground.”

I  was  roused  from  my  reverie  by  a 

voice  at  my  elbow.

“ Do  you  want  something?”
“ Yes,  two  pounds  of  coffee,  Mocha 

and  Java,  mixed and ground. ”

I  turned  to  look  at  my  questioner. 
She  was  walking  down  the  aisle—look­
ing  for  “ him ,”   I  presumed.  She  never 
came  back.

Once  more  I  was  approached  by a girl 
with  the  same  wornout  query,  which  1 
answered  with  the  same  threadbare  re­
ply,  only  to  be  met  with  the  same  stony 
stare  and  the  same  cold  shoulder.

terrupted  at  last  by  the  appearance  of  a 
brisk-stepping  young  man  wuh  a  de­
lightfully  aleit  air about  him.

'  At  last  ‘ he’  has  come!  ’  I exclaimed 
like  the  old  maid  when 

to  myseif, 
Heaven  sent  her  a  beau.

Did  you  wish something?”   he  asked 

cheerfully.

“ Yes, 

I  wish 

two 
oounds  cf  35  cent  coffee,  Mocha  and 
Java,  mixed  and  ground.”

to  purchase 

I  said  this  with  my  utmost  dignity— 
tnd  the 
internal  wish  that  my  height 
md  my  bicycle  skirt  had  an  added 
hree  inches-and  my  manner must have 
issurned  the  tragic,  for  two  young  chits 
behind  the  counter  tossed  up their heads 
with  a  startled  sniff.

“ Oh.  yes.  yes,’ ’ said  he,  as  if  brought 
suddenly  face  to  face  with  something 
half  forgotten ;  “ you’re  the  young 
lady 
¡hat  wanted  the  coffee  g r o u n d a n d , 
scooping 
it  up,  he  quickly  dumped  it 
into  the  mill—without  the  ghost  of  a 
oovement  toward  the  long-looked-for 
perliminary  cleaning.

At 

last  my  wild  dream  to  he  waited 
sn  was  realized  and  my  purchase  was 
in  my  hands.

I  was  too  disturbed  to  tie  it  to  my 
wheel  and  the  satisfaction  of  clicking 
ny  heels  cn  the  stone  pavement  was nut 
to be  resisted.

The  next  Sunday  morning,  when  I 
»rose  in  my  pew  to  say  the  Creed,  I 
tnconsciously  murmured :

“ Yes,  I  want  two  pounds  of  35  cent 
roffee,  Mocha  and  Java,  mixed  and 
ground!”  

P o l i. y  P e p p e r .

Chili 

is  negotiating  with  a  German 
syndicate  for  the  building  of  railroads 
hrough  its  territory,  the  first  expendi- 
ure  to  be  about  $35  000.000.  Should 
he  plan  carry  it  means  another  influx 
of  German  manufacturers 
in  South 
America.

WHOLE  WHEAT  FLOUR

contains the entire grain of wheat with 
only 
removed. 
Every  pound  of this Hour  represents»  16 
ounces of food value.

the  fibrous  covering 

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

GUARD.  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

Olney 

Michigan trade supplied  by the 

Judson  G rocer  Co.,  G rand  Kapids.

ing  my  destination.  The  place  was  new 
to  me. 
I  had  never  been  in  there  ex­
cept  to  pass  through  it  once,  in  going 
from  one  department  to  another,  so  was 
entirely  at  sea  as  to  where  the  different 
commodities  were  kept.  On  opening 
the  door  what  first  met  my  gaze  was  the 
cigar  counter,  with  the  inevitable  pretty 
girl  behind  it.  She  beamed  on  me  and 
asked,  ‘ ‘ What  did  you  wish?”   Well, 
now!  no  sane  woman  wants  to  tell 
Laughing  Eyes  in  the  cigar  stand  that 
she  wants  coffee. 
It  puts  Sane  Wom­
an  at  a  disadvantage.

I  felt  the  blood  rush  to  my  face,  but 
said,  with  all  the  soberness  at  my  com­
mand,  “ I  want  some  coffee.”  
(Her 
eyes  took  on  a  brighter  sparkle  that 
made  me  call  her,  “ You  wicked 
little 
demon!”   under  my  breath.) 
“ Yes,”  
I  went  on,  “ I  want  some  coffee;  and 
I  don’t  know  where  to  find  it.  Can  you 
tell  me?”

“ Over  there,”   she said,  with a  toss  of 
in  the  direction  of  the 

her  curly  pate 
other side  of the  store.

little  money  and 

With  dignity  I  walked  over  on  the 
other  side, 
to  find  myself  confronted 
with  a  lot  of  hams  and  a  meat  man 
wildly  flinging  them  around,  and  next 
to  these  the  bakery  department  and  a 
tall  girl  waiting  on  three  small-town 
dudes  with 
less 
brains,  who  were  debating  in  a  laugh­
ing  but  shamefaced  way  as  to  the  vari­
ety  of  the  Great  American  Pie  they 
would  invest  in. 
I  watched  Tall  Girl 
deftly  do  up  a  squshy  one  of  the  lemon 
persuasion,  the  meantime  wondering 
where  my  turn  was  coming  in.  She 
seemed  utterly  oblivious 
there 
was  such  a  thing  as  another  possible 
customer,  so  I  sauntered  along  to  a  girl 
standing  at  a  little  distance.

that 

“ I  want  some  coffee,”   I  began.
The  words  were  hardly  out  of  mv 
mouth  before  she  piped  out  in  a  shrill 
voice,  “ This  ain’t  the  place.  It’s  over 
there,”   pointing  toward  the  cigar siren.
“ But,”   said  I,  slightly  exasperated, 
but  striving  not  to  show  mv  vexation, 
‘ I  was  over  there,  and  they  sent  me 
over  here.  Now  von  send  me  back.”

“ W ell,”   she 
anyway.  This 
ment. ”

insisted,  ”   'tain’t  here 
is  the  bakery  depart­

Of  course,  any  one  with  half  an  eye 
could  not but  observe  that  the  looks  of 
the  department  would  indicate  that  she 
spoke  the  truth.  Her  sarcastic  manner 
hut  added  fuel  to  the  flame. 
1  turned 
on  my  heel  without  further  parley  and 
walked  swiftly  to  the  other  side  of  the 
store.  A 
freckle-faced, 
shabbily-dressed  girl  was  walking  down 
the  aisle.  On  seeing  me  pause,  she 
quickly  crossed  over  to  where  I  was 
standing,  and  her  pleasant  smile  was  so 
infectious  that  my  heart  warmed  to  her 
at  once.  Her  voice  was  low  and  sweet, 
as  she  asked  me,  “ How  can  I  serve  you 
this  evening?”

red-headed, 

“ I  want  two  pounds  of  35  cent  coffee, 
it 

Mocha  and  Java  mixed,  and  I  want 
ground.”

“ We  can’t grind  it,”   said  she.
I  glanced  at  the  coffee  mill  near by 
and  wondered  if  my  desire  to  have  my 
purchase  ground  was  preposterous.

“ Well,”   I  observed,  “ I  must  have 
my  coffee  ground;  I  have  no  mill  at 
home.”

“ Oh,  we  can  grind  it,”   she  hastened 
to  add,  “ but  you'll  have  to  wait  a 
while. 
‘ He’  has  to  clean  the  mill  first. 
Wait  a  minute  and  I’ll  go  and  see  how 
long  it’ll  be  before  ‘ he’  can  clean 
it.”  
She  went  the  length  of  the  room  and 
disappeared  behind  a  pile  of 
soap 
boxes.

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Michigan Tradesman.

E.  A .  STOW E,  E d i t o r . 

WEDNESDAY.  •  •  • NOVEMBER 24, 1897.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION
Improving  conditions 

in  various  lo­
calities  of  the  South  and  West  especial­
ly,  as  well  as  a  continued  generally 
healthy  demand  all  over  the  country, 
improved  report  over  recen 
give  an 
weeks.  The  only  notable  exception 
is 
the  continued  dulness  in  the  stock  mar­
kets,  which  has  caused  a  slight  average 
decline.  That  this  dulness  should  con­
tinue  is  remarkable  when  it 
is  consid­
ered  that  nearly  all  the  roads and  indus­
tries  represented  are  making  bttter 
records  than  for  a  long  time  past.  The 
only  explanation  would  seem  to  be  in 
the  probability  that  the  advance  begun 
May 
i  and  continued  steadily  for five 
months  had  carried  prices  beyond  the 
general  level  and  it  is  now  necessary  to 
wait  for other  conditions  to  come  up  to 
the  same  level.
That  there 

is  no  reaction  in  general 
trade  outside  of  stocks  is  sufficiently 
indicated  by  the  fact that bank clearings 
continue  very  heavy 
in  all  localities, 
but  especially  outside  New  York  City. 
The  clearings  for  the  month  have  only 
been  exceeded  by  1.5  per  cent.,  in  1892, 
when  the  highest  record  was  made  on 
account  of  the  great  speculative activity 
in  the  New  York  market.  When  it  is 
considered  that  the  present  has  been  a 
month  of  reaction 
in  that  market,  it 
will  he  seen  that  the  business  through 
out  the  country 
is  beyond  preceding 
records. 
It  is  significant  that  the  earn 
ings  of  railroads  for  the  month,  as  far 
as  reported,  exceed  the  record  for  any 
corresponding  period.

The  features  of  the  principal  grain 
markets  are the slight variation  in prices 
and  the  continued  heavy  movement  in 
all  markets.  The  export  of  wheat  from 
Atlantic  ports  for  the  portion  of  the 
month  now  past 
is  more  than  double 
that  of  the  corresponding  time  last  year 
and  the  outgo  for  last  week  exceeds  all 
for  the  same  length  of  time. 
records 
The  movement  of  corn 
is  relatively 
large

In  the  textile  staples  and fabrics there 
are  the  anomalous  conditions  that  the 
high  price  of  wool  is  operating  to  cut 
down  manufactures  in  some  instances— 
it 
is  more  profitable  to  sell  the  wool— 
while  the  low  price  of  cotton  is  the  de­
moralizing  element  in  the  cotton  trade.
Of  course,  the  injurious  effect  of  too 
high  prices  for  wool  is  not  general  and 
mills are  busy,  many  with  orders  as  far 
in  advance  as  they  care  to  g o ;  but  the 
is  too  high  to  be  com­
price  of  wool 

fortable  considering  the  quotations  rul­
ing  lor  the  manufactured  products.

the 

industries  are 

The  notable  features  of  the 

iron  and 
steel 
increasingly 
heavy  consumption  and  the  further  de­
cline,  probably  speculative,  in  price  of 
grey  forge  and  Bessemer  pig. 
It  seems 
almost  impossible  that  the  low  prices, 
touching  lowest  records,  should continue 
with  the  remarkable 
in  new 
orders.

increase 

is  resulting 

In  the  shoe  and 

leather  trade  the 
heavy  demand 
in  higher 
prices.  All  factories  are  reported  busy, 
mostly  on  rush  orders,  however.  Ship­
ments  from  Boston  continue  unprece­
dentedly  large.

Bank  clearings 

for  the  week  were 
$1,278,000,000  a  decrease  of  5  per  cent, 
from  the  preceding  week. 
Failures 
were  235,  against  273  for  last  week.

is 

THE  CURRENCY  QUESTION.
While,  fortunately  for  the  welfare  of 
trade,  the  subjects  of  National  finance 
and  currency  reform  have  occupied 
comparatively  little  of  the  public  mind, 
they  are  far  from  having  been  lost sight 
if  by  the  many  who  believe  that  there 
ire  absurdities  and  elements  of  politi 
cal  unceitainty  in  our  currency  system 
«hich  may  at  any time come to  the  front 
as  instruments  of  industrial  demoraliza­
tion.  Thus  the  Mouetarv  Commission 
>vhich  was  appointed  by  the  Indian- 
ipolis  convention  last  winter 
indus­
triously  at  work  on  the  material  which 
it  has  been  accumulating  in  the  way  oi 
recommendations  and  suggestions  pre­
paratory  to  having  a  report  ready  as 
toon  as  possible  after  Congress  meets.
It  seems  to  be  the  general  opinion  of 
those  who  have  submitted  suggestions 
that  all  the  uncertain  elements  should 
be  eliminated 
the  currency  as 
rapidly  as  is  consistent  with  the  avoid- 
ince  of  any 
financial  disturbances. 
Among  these  are  enumerated  the  green­
backs,  legal  tender notes  and  the  Treas­
ury  notes  of  1890. 
It  is  urged  that  as 
long  as  any  of  these  are  subject  to ques­
tion  as  to  manner  of  redemption  the) 
will  be  liable  to  be  the  subject  of  po 
htical  contests.  This  retirement should 
be  compensated  for  bv  the  issue  of  Na­
tional  hank  notes  or other  forms  of  cur­
rency  which  will  h« free  from  any  such 
questions.

from 

The  prominence  given  this  subject 
bv  so  many  of  the  leading  financiers 
makes 
it  highly  probable  that  it  will 
engage  considerable  of  the  attention  of 
Congress.  Fortunately,  the 
industrial 
revival  has  progressed  far  enough  so 
that  there  need  be  little apprehension 
of  any  disturbances  which  will  work  in­
jury,  as  seemed  so  constantly  imminent 
or  actual  during  the  recent  years  of  de­
pression.

It  now  appears  that  among  other  ob­
ligations  Spain  owes  a  large  and  press­
ing  grocery  bill.  That  ought  to  arouse 
considerable  sympathy  for  her  in  the 
breasts  of  thousands  of  Ameiica’s  best 
citizens.  ________ _____

Chicago  anarchists  decorated 

the 
graves  of  the  old  Haymarket  murderers 
the other  day.  How  unfortunate  for the 
dead^anarchists  that  bouquets  were  not 
thrown  at  the  police  in  the  Haymarket 
riot !

Sixty  of  Vassar’s  fair  students  are 
reported  seriously  ill  from  eating  veal. 
Your  Vassar  girl  req lires  good  old  cut­
lets  right  off  the  horn.

People  who  sell  newspapers  on  the 
streets of  Moscow  are  compelled to wear 
a  uniform.

THE  PRISON  LABOR  PROBLEM. 
No  many  months  ago  considerable 
concern  was  manifested  by  the  New 
York  btate  prison  authorities on account 
of  the  insufficient  employment available 
for  keeping  the  inmates  of  the  peniten­
tiaries 
in  a  healthy  mental  condition. 
It  was  reported  at  that  time  that  there 
was  an  alarming 
increase  of  insanity 
on  account  of  the  enforced  idleness,  and 
the 
interest  of  philanthropists  was  en­
listed  in  finding a  remedy  tor the alarm­
ing  situation.  The  cause  of  the  trouble 
was  the  adoption  of  a  constitutional 
enactment  prohibiting  the  disposal  of 
prison  production  in  the  markets  of  the 
State.  Thus  the  only  provision  for  em­
ployment  was  that  the  work  done  by  the 
prisoners  should  be  used  in  the  State 
institutions.  This  law  went  into  opera­
tion  at  the  beginning  of  the  year.

But  the  forthcoming  repoit  of  the 
Superintendent  of  Prisons  indicates that 
the  conditions  have  either  materially 
changed,  or  that  the  alarm  and  rumors 
i'f  increasing  insanity  were  groundless. 
The  present  system,  according  to  this 
report,  furnishes  employment  for  all the 
able  bodied  convicts  in  the  State,  and 
makes  these 
institutions  self  support­
ing.  That 
is,  the  cost  of  the  articles 
necessary  to  be  furnished  by  the  Statr 
under  the  old  system,  which  had  to  be 
purchased  in  the  markets  and  are  now 
made  by  the  convicts, 
represents  an 
amount  sufficient  for  the  support  of  the 
penal  institutions.

This  experiment 

is  being  watched 
with  great  interest  by  many  of  the  other 
states.  Some «labor  organizations  are 
opposing 
it  on  the  ground  that  it  cuts 
off  the  supply  of  state  institutions  from 
the  prerogative of  free  labor.  But there 
is a  philosophical  fitness  in  the employ­
ment  of  misdoers  in  such  public  work, 
it  certainly 
and 
is  better  to  have  the 
state 
institutions  supplied  in  this  way 
than  that  the  output  of  contract-  con­
vict  labor  should  continue  to  he,  as 
it 
long  has  been  in  most  of  the  states,  in­
cluding  Michigan,  an  element  of  de­
moralization  in  many of the  staple  man­
ufactures.  The  present  system,  which 
allows  the  prison  authorities  to  consult 
their  own  tastes  and  inclinations  in  se­
lecting 
industries  to  be  pursued  as 
pleasant  hobbies  or  pushed  as  profitable 
speculations,  is,  in  the  opinion  of  the 
Tradesman,  far  more 
injurious  to  the 
labor 
interests  of  the 
tate  than  would 
result  from  the  supply  of  the  prisons, 
asylums  and  almshouses  with  all  that 
could  be  produced  by  all  the  wards  of 
the  State  who  are  ahle  to  work.

EVENTS  IN  EASTERN  EUROPE. 
Turkey  has  met  with  several  setbacks 
of  late,  which  should  serve  to  convince 
the  Sultan  that  the  recent  victory  over 
little  Greece  has  not  improved  bis  po­
sition  a  particle  with  respect  to  the  rest 
ol  Europe.  The most  important  of  these 
events  has  been  the  demand  for  satis­
faction  made  upon  the Porte by Austria. 
An  Austrian  subject  having  been  mal­
treated by  the  Turkish  officials.the  Aus- 
train  government  demanded  that  the 
offending  officials  be  deposed  and  the 
Austrian  flag  saluted. 
The  Turkish 
government  was  given  three  days  to 
comply  with  the  demands,  and  in  the 
event  of  refusal,  diplomatic  relation; 
were  to  be  broken  off  and  the  town 
where  the 
insult  was  given  was  to  be 
bombarded.

After  delaying  as  long  as  he  deemed 
prudent,the Sultan yielded and  promised 
to  remove  the  offending  officials,  pay  an 
indemnity,  and  otherwise  satisfy  Aus­
trian  demand*,  War  with  Austria  has,

therefore,  been  averted,  and  most  peo­
ple  are  willing  to  believe  that  no  real 
danger  of  war  ever  existed,  as  it  was 
evident  from  the  first  that,  when  hard 
pressed,  the  Sultan  would  yield,  as  he 
is  in  no  position  to  attempt  a  fight  with 
so  great  a  power  as  Austria.

Another  significant  event  of  recent 
occurrence  has  been  the  demand  of  the 
Russian  government  upon  the  Porte  for 
prompt  payment  of  arrears  of  the  Rus­
sian  war  indemnity.  Turkey  contem­
plated  using  the 
indemnity  paid  her 
hy  Greece  for the  rehabilitation  of  the 
Turkish  navy  and  the  fortification of the 
Bosphorus.  Instead,  the  money  will now 
have  to  go  to  Russia. 
It  was  undoubt­
edly  to  prevent  the  strengthening  of  the 
Turkish  fleet  and  of  the  fortification  of 
the  Bosphorus  that  Russia  made  this 
demand  for  the  prompt  payment  of  ar­
rears.

This  action  of  Russia  indicates  very 
clearly  that  the  Czar  is  determined  to 
keep  Turkey  weak  and  to  prevent  her 
recent  victory  from  furnishing  her  the 
means  of 
improving  her  defenses,  or 
even  of  maintaining  a  military  estab­
lishment  on an  effective footing.  Russia 
has  never  relinquished  the  design  of 
eventually  securing  Constantinople,  and 
is  evidently  determined  to  prevent  the 
placing  of  any  additional  obstacle  in 
the  way  of  her  progress 
in  that  direc- 
lion  when  she  considers  the  time  ripe 
for such  a  move.

THE  CAMPAIGN  IN  INDIA.

The  year  1897,  now  well 

in  its  last 
quarter,  has  had  quite  a  warlike  his­
tory. 
It  opened  with  the  rebellions  in 
Cuba  and  the  Philippine  Islands  in  full 
progress,  and  the  trouble  in  Crete  was 
soon  added  to  the  list  of  current  wars. 
The  spring  brought  the  brief  but  excit­
ing  contest  between  Turkey and Greece, 
and  the  summer  the  revolt  in  India  and 
the  campaign  in  the  Egyptian  Soudan. 
By  all  odds,  the most  formidable  contest 
has  been  the  India  revolt,  which  is  still 
giving  the  Indian  Empire  of  Great 
Britain  much  trouble.

Although  the  British  force  in  North­
ern  India 
is  making  sure  progress  in 
the  work  of  putting  down  the  revolt, 
the  opposition  encountered  is  of  a much 
more  stubborn  character  than  was  an­
ticipated.  Although  several  of  the 
in­
surgent  tribes  have  been  compelled  to 
yield  and  make  their  peace  with  the 
India  government,  the  most  formidable 
and  numerous  of  them  all,  namely  the 
“ Afridis, ”   still  holds  out,  and  as  the 
advancing 
the  British 
troops  push  them  close,  they  are making 
a  desperate  struggle.
Reports  of  fights 

in  the  mountain 
passes  are of  daily  occurrence,  and,  as 
the  ground 
is  peculiarly  favorable  to 
the  bushwhacking  tactics  of  the  tribes­
men,  the  losses  suffered  by  the  British 
are  correspondingly  heavy.  The  mortal­
ity  has  been  very  great  among  the  Brit­
ish  officers  serving  in  native  regiments 
and  even  the  European  regiments  have 
met  with  some  very  sharp  resistance.

columns  of 

Indian 

regiments  have 

The  British  Indian  force  assembled 
for  the  campaign 
is  something  more 
than  30,000  men,  including  some  crack 
regiments  of  the  British  line,  as  well  as 
some  of  the  best  native  regiments.  The 
native 
fully 
maiutained  the  high  reputation  for  effi­
ciency  which  they  have  long  enjoyed. 
They  have  fought  side  by  side  with 
the  European 
troops  throughout  the 
campaign,  and  have  acquitted  them­
selves  gallantly 
in  every  fight  The 
year  promises  to  close  with  the  fighting 
in  Northern  India  still  in  progress.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

9

DIVIDING  THE  STATES.

The  extraordinary  growth  of  cities 

is 
the  most  striking  feature  in  the  social 
life  of  the  present  age.  Not  many  de­
cades  ago 
in  this  country  the  people 
showed  a  remarkable  disposition  to  get 
away  from  cities  and  so  they  not  only 
moved  to  the  country  but  they  pushed 
their  way  to  the  vast  unsettled  regions 
of  the  Far  West.  In  that  way they popu­
lated  and  created  great  states  in  the 
outlying  territories  and  even  built  large 
cities  there.

But  the  pioneer  impulse  that  drove  so 
many  thousands  and  hundreds  of  thou­
sands  into  the  wilderness  of  the  moun­
tains  and  the  prairies  is  wearing  out, 
and  the  people  are  docking to the cities, 
which  are  overflowing  their  limits  and 
are  taking 
in  the  towns  and  villages 
that  once  formed  their  suburbs.  The 
growth  of  the  cities  enormously 
in­
creased  their  political  power  in  state 
affairs  and  this  tact  has  aroused  a  deep 
and  widespread  feeling  of  hostility  be­
tween  the  country  people  and  the  city 
people.

This  peculiar  feeling  has been noticed 
in  every  state  where  there  is  a  large 
city,  and  nowhere  is  it  more  noticeable 
than 
in  the  hostile  expressions  in  the 
rural  journals  against  the  cities.  This 
sort  of  hostility  between  country  and 
city  particularly  crops  out  in  political 
state  elections  where  these  are  carried 
by  the  cities  against  the  country.  This 
was  most  notably  the  case  in  the  State 
of  New  York,  where  New  York  City, 
when  it  gave  a  big  majority,  always de­
termined  the  result.  Now  that  the  city 
has  been  vastly  enlarged  by  taking 
in 
all  the  towns  and  cities  that  had  grown 
up  around 
the  power  of  the  new 
metropolis  is  enormously  increased  and 
by  virtue  of  its  great  population  is able, 
where  there  is  any  question  of  conflict 
between  the  city  and  country  districts 
of  the  State,  to  overwhelm  with  its 
im­
mense  vote  the  balance  of  the  State.

it, 

In  this  connection 

it  is  worth  while 
mentioning  that  there 
is  on  hand  a 
proposition  to  divide  the  State  of  New 
York  into  two,  one  to  comprise  the  con­
solidated  city  and  its  suburban  districts 
and  the  other  to  be  composed  of  the 
balance  of  the  State. 
It  has  already 
been  announced  that  one  of the first bills 
to  be  offered 
in  the  New  York  State 
Legislature  will  be  one  to  divide  the 
State.

One  of  the  new  States  is  to  be  known 
as  Manhattan  and  is  to  be  composed  ot 
the  new  consolidated  city  and some  out­
lying 
territory  covering  the  sixteen 
counties  of  New  York,  Kings,  Queens, 
Richmond,  Suffolk,  Westchester,  Or­
ange,  Putnam,  Dutchess,  Columbia, 
Ulster,  Greene,  Rockland,  Albany, 
Rensselaer and  part  of  Schoharie.

The  proposed  State  would  have a pop­
ulation  of  3,902,220,  as  compared  with 
2,631,123,  for  the  twenty-four remaining 
counties.  This  would  make  the  new 
State  of  Manhattan  the second largest  in 
the  Union  in  population,  Pennsylvania 
alone  exceeding  it.  The  State  of  New 
York,  composed  of  the  forty-four  re­
maining  counties,  would  be  the  sixth 
largest  in  the  Union,  exceeded  only 
in 
population  by Pennsylvania,  Manhattan, 
Illinois,  Ohio  and  Missouri.  The  State 
of  Manhattan  would  contain  a  territory 
in 
its  sixteen  counties  of  8,960  square 
miles,  as  compared  with  a  territory 
in 
the  remaining  counties  of  40,493  square 
miles.

If  the  people  of  New York should con 
sent  to  this  division,  Congress  would  be 
asked  to  vote  to  admit  the  new  state 
into  the  Union.  The  remainder  of  New

in 

York,  comprising  the  old  State  of  that 
name,  would  be  still 
the  Union. 
There  is  a  precedent  for  the  division  of 
a  state  in  the  action  which  created West 
Virginia  out  of  the  old  State  of  Vir­
ginia. 
It  was  done  by the people  of  the 
seceding  counties  without  asking  the 
consent  of  the  remaining  people  of  the 
State.

There 

is  one  consideration  in  the  di­
viding  of  a  state  which  is  worth  atten 
tion.  It  is  the  propriety  of  an  equitable 
division  of  the  public  property  and  of 
the  public  debt.  A  lesson  was  learned 
on  this  head  when  the  counties  which 
furnished  the  State  of  West  Virginia 
seceded. 
In  1861  the  debt  of  Virginia 
amounted 
It  was
claimed  that  the  seceding  counties  car­
ried  away  with  them  one-third  of  the 
population  and  territory  of  the  old 
State,  and,  therefore,  the  new  State  was 
bound  for  one-third  of  the  joint  debt. 
The  new  State  of  West  Virginia  re­
pudiated  the  claim  and  up  to  the  pres­
ent  time  there  has  never  been  any  set­
tlement  between  the  two  States.

to  $33,000,000. 

The  debt  of  New  York  is  not  large, 
probably  not  greater  than  $10,000,000  or 
$12,000,000.  The  new  State  would  get, 
in  the  proposed  deal,  the  new State cap- 
itol,  which  cost  probably  $10,000,000  to 
$20,000,000,  and  could  afford  to  assume 
the  entire  debt  in  payment  for  its  share 
of  the  public 
improvements.  At  any 
rate  there  would  be  some  fair  basis  of 
settlement  and  not  an  unseemly  squab­
ble,  followed  by  repudiation,  as  was 
the  case  with  West Virginia.

The  proposed  action 

in  New  York 
foreshadows  what 
is  likely  to  be  very 
common  in  the  history  of  this  country. 
The  great  cities,  resenting  being  op­
posed  and  sat  upon  by  the  country  dis­
tricts,  or  vice  versa,  will  resolve  them­
selves 
into  separate  commonwealths. 
Such  a  policy,  by  largely  increasing the 
number of  political  offices,  will  become 
popular  on  that  account,  if  for  no  other 
reason,  but  it  will  relieve  the  country 
districts  from  political  oppression  by 
the  cities,  or  it  will  relieve  the  cities, 
according  as  one  may  be  able  to  domi­
nate  the  other.

A  soap  company  in  England  was  re­
cently  sued 
for  the  purchase  price, 
amounting  to  upward  of  a  thousand 
dollars,  of  100,000  pincushions,  which 
were  intended  to  be  used  in  part  for the 
purpose  of  advertising  the  company’s 
soap.  Each  pincushion  consisted  of  a 
layer  of 
felt,  enclosed  between  two 
aluminum  discs.  On  one  disc  was  a 
portrait  of  Queen  Victoria,  on  the other 
the  soap  advertisement.  The  defense 
was  that  the  discs  did  not  properly  ad­
here  to  the  felt,  but  the  glue  melted 
in 
the  heat  of  the  pocket  and  the  pin­
cushions  fell  to  pieces.  On  the  other 
hand,  the  plaintiff  proved  that  the  de­
fendants  were  aware  of  this  difficulty  at 
the  outset,  and  that  he  used  the  best 
glue  which  the  market  afforded  for  the 
purpose  Mr.  Justice  Mathew,  before 
whom  the  case  was  tried  without  a jury, 
gave  a  judgment  for  the  plaintiff,  say­
ing  that  the  articles  were  plainly  de­
signed  solely  as  a  medium  of  advertise­
ment,  and  that  no  one  could  have  enter­
tained  the  wild  idea  that  they  would  be 
used  as  pincushions.

In  Germany  when  the  vote  of  the  jury 
is  evenly  divided— that  is,  six  against 
six—the  prisoner  is  acquitted.  A  ver­
dict  of  five  against  seven  leaves the ver­
dict  to  be  decided  by  the  court,  and 
in 
a  vote  of  eight against  four  the  prisoner 
is  convicted.

THF  NATIONAL  DEFENSE.

in 

There are  evidences  that  the  coming 
session  of  Congress  will  have  a  number 
of  projects  before 
it  for  consideration 
for  the  improvement  of  the  national  de­
fenses.  The  efforts  of  the  jingoes  to 
embroil  the  country 
foreign  wars 
have  alarmed  the  business  men  of  the 
great  ports  of  the  country,  who  realize 
that,  unless the defenses  of  the  ports  are 
very  considerably  strengthened,  a  for­
eign  war  might  mean  a  great  destruc­
tion  of  property  or  the  levying  of  an 
immense  ransom  by  an  enterprising 
enemy.  Some  progress  has  been  made 
recently  in  establishing  modern  fortifi­
cations  at  a  number  of  ports,  and  the 
navy  has  been greatly  strengthened ;  but 
it  is  realized  on  all  sides  that  the  coun­
try's  defenses  are  still  far  short  of  what 
they  should  be.  The military authorities 
have  not  been  slow  in  calling  attention 
to  these  deficiencies;  but  heretofore 
they  have  received  no  support  from  the 
business  interests.

Recently  the  New  York  Chamber  of 
calling 
Commerce  passed  resolutions 
upon  Congress  to  authorize  an 
increase 
in  the  artillery  branch  of  the  regular 
army  for  the  purpose of  caring  for  the 
new  fortifications  and  traiuing  skillful 
gunners.  It  is  stated  that  the  New  York 
Board  of  Trade  proposes  to  ask  the  Na­
tional  Board  of  Trade,  which  is  to  meet 
shortly  in  Washington,  to endorse a  plan 
for  the  establishing  of  a  naval  reserve, 
from  which  the  navy  would  be  able  to 
draw  recruits  in  time of war.  There are, 
over  and  above 
these  propositions, 
other  projects  for  the  larger  manufac­
ture  of  arms  and  military  supplies,  so 
that  a  surplus  supply  may  be  available 
should 
it  become  necessary  to  arm  a 
large force  of  men  at  short notice.

shape;  but,  comparing 

Some  of  the  projects  are  not  in  prac­
ticable 
the 
movements  known  to  be  on  foot  with 
the  recommendations  of  the  military 
authorities,  it 
is  safe  to  say  that  Con­
gress  will  be  asked  to  make  provisions 
for  a  very  considerable  amplification  of 
our  present  military  strength. 
In  the 
first  place  there  will  be  a  demand  for 
an  increase  in  the artillery  ot  the  regu­
lar  army,  as  well  as  an  addition  of  two 
companies  to  each  infantry  regiment. 
Some  scheme  for  the  modernizing of  the 
militia 
laws  will  be  introduced,  and  a 
plan  of  a  workable  naval  reserve  can 
also  be  expected.  The  latter  two  prop­
ositions  will  be  based  upon  larger  Gov­
ernment  aid  to  militia,  more  careful 
training,  and  the  enrollment  of  militia 
forces  in  a  regular  national  reserve,  to 
be 
in  time  of  war. 
The  fact  that  the  business  men  of  the 
country  are 
interesting  themselves  in 
these  problems  of  national  defense,  and 
show  a  willingness  to  co  operate  with 
the  military  authorities,  makes 
it  pos 
sible  that  Congress,  after  years  of  neg­
lect  and 
indifference,  may  at  last  be 
persuaded  to  take  practical  steps  to 
properly  provide  for  the  national  de­
fense  not  only 
in  ships  and  guns,  but 
in  trained  fighting  material.

instantly  available 

is  called 

LOTTERIES  AND  SWINDLES. 
Attention 

in  the  report  of 
the  Assistant  Attorney  General  for  the 
Postoffice  Department  to  the  fact  that 
the  operation  of  the  laws  against  lotter­
ies  has  proved  sufficiently  effective  to 
drive  the  business  out  of  existence  in 
this  country. 
is  a  matter  for  con­
gratulation  that  in  the  action  of  the  va­
rious  courts  the  legality  of  the  enact­
ments  was  fully  sustained.

It 

but,  while  this  particular  manner  of 
gratifying  the  gambling  propensities  of

the  great  number  ready to be  victimized 
has  been  made 
impossible,  it  by  no 
means  follows  that  the  spirit  of  such 
gambling  is  dead.  On  the  contrary,  a 
great  number  of  chance  or  lot  enter­
prises  have  sprung  up  in  all  parts of the 
country, whose real  objects  are  disguised 
under  some  business-sounding  designa­
tion  such  as  bond-investment,  mutual- 
investment,  guarantee-stock-investment, 
debenture  companies,  etc.

During  the  panic  the  great 

lessening 
of  the  numbers  of  wage  earners  and  of 
the  amount  of  wages  paid  necessarily 
told  seriously  on  these  enterprises ;  but 
they  were  alive  and  were  enabled  to  in­
crease  on  account  of  the  turning to them 
the  tide  of  patronage  which  had  been 
enjoyed  by  the  lottery  companies.  And 
so,  when  the  revival  in  business  came, 
they  were  on  hand  to  reap  their  share 
of  the  profit.  Thus  the  increase  in  the 
number  of  such  enterprises  has  been 
constant  and  they  are  flourishing  in  the 
more  ignorant  communities almost with­
out  let  or  hindrance. 
It  seems  a  pity 
that  the  general  remedy  for  this  evil, 
education,  cannot be  supplemented  with 
legal  enactments  which  might 
reach 
such  concerns  as  effectually  as  the  lot­
tery  schemers  were  scattered  ty   the 
postal  laws.

is 

Gloucester  is  seeking  to  reclaim  its 
former  glory  and  profit,  principally  the 
latter,  in  the  fisheries  industry. 
It  is  a 
fish  town,  pure  and  simple,  but  while 
hundreds  of  vessels  sail  from  that  port 
in  quest  of  fish,  the  city  gets  little  ben­
efit  from  them.  The Gloucester schoon­
ers  of  the  better  class  are among  the 
finest  fishing  boats 
in  the  world.  To 
build  and  fit  them  costs  $10,000.  Here­
tofore  they  have  come  into  the  port  qf 
Boston  and  sold  their  fare.  They  are 
fitted  out  in  Boston.  Their supplies  for 
the  next  trip  are  bought  in  Boston,  and 
it 
in  Boston  that  the  crews  spend 
their  money.  All  this  means  hundreds 
of  thousands  of  dollars  in  the  course  of 
a  year.  Gloucester  naturally  covets this 
and  to  obtain  it  the  owners  of  vessels  in 
that  town  and  the  fish  dealers  have  con­
solidated,  and  have  decided  that  here­
after  all  of  the  fish  caught  by  vessels 
sailing  out  of  Gloucester  will  be 
landed  at  Gloucester. 
is  estimated 
that  the  scheme  will  mean  the  with­
drawal  from  Boston  of  about  one  hun­
dred  fishing  vessels.  The city  will  con­
tinue  to  be  a  fish  market,  however,  the 
fish  being forwarded there from  Glouces­
ter  by  rail.  Not 
least  of  the 
proposed  advantages  that  will  accrue 
from  the  new  movement  is  the  regula­
tion of  prices  for  fish.  As  the  business 
stands  at  present,  there  is  no association 
that  has  any  control  over  the  business 
and  the  fluctuations  and  cuttings 
in 
prices  have  knocked  out  profits  for  the 
fishermen.

the 

It 

There  have  been  patented  all  kinds 
of  schemes  devised  for  the  purpose  of 
securing  a  bottle  that  cannot  be  refilled 
after  having  once  been  emptied  of  its 
contents.  A  great  deal  of  fraud  is  said 
to  be  perpetrated  by  filling  the  bottles 
of  some  standard  liquor with  an  inferior 
grade  and  palming  it  off  as  the  origi­
nal  bottling.  An 
ingenious  Philadel­
phian  proposes  to  accomplish  this  by 
blowing  a  coin  in  the  body  of  the  glass 
bottle,  and  he  thinks  that  this  will  be 
tempting  enough  to  induce  some  one  to 
break  the  bottle  as  soon  as  it  has  been 
emptied.  _____________

The  Supreme  Court  of  Arkansas  has 
decided  that  a  husband  is  responsible 
for  the  debts  of  bis  wife  contracted  be­
fore  marriage.

IO

Shoes  and  Leather

M ICHIGAN   TRADESM AN

We  believe  the  boy—and 
if you look  over  our  line  of 
Warm  Goods,  you  ■will  be­
lieve  u.«, 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 r f ç lt  Goods 

ARE  warrn!

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE  GO.,

5 & 7  PEARL STREET.

< ?

We  Manufacture

Men’s Oil  Grain  Creoles  and  Credmeres  in  2  S.  and  T. 
and  D.  S., also  Men’s Oil  Grain and  Satin  Calf  in  lace 
and  congress 111  2  :s.  and  T.  and 
D.  S., all  Solid—a 
good  western shoe at  popular prices.

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

We still  handle the best- rubbers— Lycoming  and  Key­

stone—and  Felt Boots and  Lumbermen’s Socks.

Geo.  H.  Reeder &  Co.,

19  South  Ionia  Street,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C H ILD REN ’S   5 H O ES!

T H E   L IT T L E   S I B E R I A N .

1  to 4 . 

S atin  quilled, 

s o f t S ole.

f u r   t r im m e d .

$6.00  per  Dozen.

H IR T H ,  K R A U S E  &  CO .

GRAND  RAPIDS.

j Rindge,  Kalmbach  &  Co.,

12,14,16  Pearl  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

*  

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Boots  and  Shoes

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

How  a  Shoe  Dealer  Came  to  Make 

an  Assignment.
Well,  I've  busted  at  last.
You’ve  perhaps  wondered  why  I  have 

been  silent  so  long. 

I ’ve  been  busy.

Falling  in  business  is  a  work  of  time 

and  sometimes  it  is  a  work  of  art.

With  me,  honestly  and  truly,  I  cross 
my  heart  and  hope  to  die,  it  has  been 
simply  a  work  of  time  and  times,  ano 
not  at  all  a  work  of  art.

I  didn’t  mean  to  do 

i t ;  honest,  1 
didn't.  When  Lacely  &  Buttongon 
failed  everybody  said  that  “ they  faileo 
to  make  money,’ ’  and,  like  everybod> 
too;  but  now  that 
else,  1  thought  so, 
I’ve  been  through  the  mill— well, 
I 
don’t  know.  Mine  was  honest,  any­
how.

I  thought  that  I  was  doing  prett> 
well,  \ou  see,  right  along  at  first. 
1 
kept  a  strict  account  of  everything  in 
the  way  of  expense  for  quite  a  while, 
and  every  month  showed  up  a  nice  lit 
tie  profit,  and  I  got 
lax  on  the  profii 
and 
loss  account.  We  didn’t  mean  ti 
trust  a  cent  to  anybody,  not  a  si ugh 
cent,  but  when  Mrs.  Ingot,  the banker's 
wife,  came 
in  without  her  purse  for  a 
pair  of  shoes,  I  was  tickled  to  death  to 
sell  her,  and  I  just  put  a slip in the cash 
drawer  and 
it  was  paid  all  right,  oi 
course.  Iu  fact,  old  Ingot  himself  camt 
in  and  got  a  pair  of  fine  boots—hi 
won't  wear anything  else—and  the  three 
little  Ingots  were  shod,  and  when  the 
maid  came  in  with  the  little  tots  I  solo 
her  a  pair  of  slippers,  and  by  the  timt 
it  was  deemed  advisable  to  send 
in  a 
bill  old  Ingot  had  to  come  down  with 
something  like  $24.

Of  course,  he  paid  it  without  a  mum 
ble,  and  the  credit  trade  didn't  look  so 
awful  as  it  did.

You  see,  1  was  pretty  anxious  to  d< 
in  the  country  vil­
business.  Trade 
lages  isn’t  transient  like  it  is  in  thecit 
ies,  at  least  not  to  so  large  an  extent.

Customers 

in  the  country  are  likely 
to  have  a  “ place  to  trade’ ’  and  stick  to 
it  more  than  they  are  in  the  city,  and  1 
hated  to  see  a  new  customer  come  in 
and  go  out  without  buying.

After  the  Ingot  episode  the grocer’s 
wife  came  in.  Jim  Lettuce  isn’t as  rich 
as  the  banker,  but  he  does  a  rattling 
good  business,  and  when  Mrs.  Lettuce 
took  a  pair  of  shoes  with  thirty-three 
and  one-third  per  cent, 
in  them,  and 
said  that  Jim  would  hand  it  in,  I didn’t 
have  a  word  to  say.

Jim  didn’t  hand  it  in,  but  he  paid  all 
right  when  we  sent  a  boy  around  with 
a  bill  after  a  reasonable  time  hao 
elapsed.

The  next  break  over  was  with  a  well- 
known  farmer,  who  was  a  little  short 
about  tax-time,  but  I  knew  that  he  was 
peifectly  good;  and  then  a  man  who 
woiks 
in  the  foundry  wanted  a  pair of 
boots  from  Monday  until  Saturday.  1 
hesitated,  but  he  said  he  couldn't  go  to 
woik  without  them,  so  I  said  to  myself, 
it’s  only  $2.50,  anyway. 
I’ll  chance  it. 
He  came  in  promptly on  Saturday  even­
ing  and  paid  the $2.50  and  paid  cash 
for  a  pair  of  baby's  shoes  besides.  The 
next  week 
it  seemed  perfectly  safe  to 
let  him  have  a  pair  of  shoes  for his wife 
and  one  for  his  oldest  girl,  and  from 
that  he  became  a  regular  customer  until 
he  owed  $38  65  and  stopped  coming 
around.  When  I  dun  him  he  says  that 
he's  had  hard 
in  his 
family,  and  been  out  of  work  half  the 
time,  but  will  pay  as  soon  as  he gets  on 
his  feet  again.

luck—sickness 

From  that 

it  was  a  short  jump  to 
trusting  hired  men  and  everybody  that 
told  good,  plausible  stories,  and— well, 
the  assignee  says  there's  $1,260.62  on 
the  books  to  go 
in  assets.  He  don't 
know  how  much  of  it’s  good.

1  bad  pretty 

light  capital  to  begin 
with,  you  remember,  and  1  resolved  to 
ony  very  carefully,  indeed,  and  size  up 
often. 
I  was  surprised  at  what  a  nice 
stock  of goods  I  put  in  on  the  start  and 
paid  cash  for.  This  sizing-up  business 
isn’t  what 
it’s  humped  up  *to  be, 
tnough.  After  the  opening  day  we 
iound  that  we  were  out  of  3,  3^  or 
■1  the  paltry  three  dozen  blucfier 
lace 
lor  ladies  that  we  had  bought,  and 
•vhich  were  then  popular.  We  sent  a 
sizing  order  to  the  manufacturer  and 
got  the  goods in  just  six  weeks.  Mean- 
ime  we  bad  to  have  something  to  sell 
m  those  sizes,  and  alter  we  had  lost  a 
dozen  sales  we  made  a  hurried  trip  to 
ifie  city  and  put 
jobbers’ 
iluchers  in  the  line.  Next  time  we  put 
n  a  new  line  we  bought  more  heavily, 
md  the  stock  got  away  from  us after tht 
nrst  year,  so  that  it  inventoried  $5,800, 
instead  of  the  $3,000  we  had 
intended.
1  don’t  know  whatever  got  into  my 
lead  that 
it  would  be a  good  thing  to 
>uild  a  bouse,  but  1  did,  and  first  thing 
1  knew  trade  dropped  and  I  got  al!  tien 
jp.  By-and-by  1  had  to  let  bills  run 
ifieir  full  sixty  and  ninety  days,  and tht 
fourth  month 
jobbers’  bills  began  to 
iook  good  to  me.  Then  I  found  that  a 
was  a  nice  plan  to  give notes to balance, 
md  after  the 
inventory  this  spring  1 
iigured  up  like  this :

in -  some 

ASSETS.

Goods on  hand 
Accounts, 
Lash, 
- 
- 
Fixtures, 

-

-

-

-

- 
-
- 
-

-
- 
-

-

- 
-

$5,800
1,260
- 
51
no

 

 

LIA B IL IT IE S.

Votes  outstanding,
Open  accounts,  -
O u rro w e d   m o n e y , 

-

$7,221

$3,600
2,150
1,000

$6  750.
I  didn’t  figure  in  the  new  bouse,  be­
cause  after  1  got  the  foundations  nicely 
started  I  mortgaged  it  for  about  what  it 
would  sell  for  to-day  to  gttf  funds  to 
pay  a  note  that  was  about  coming  due, 
and,unless they  should  strike  oil  or  gold 
or  something  on  the  premises,  I  don’t 
expect anything  there.

Some  of  my  biggest  notes  which  had 
been  twice  extended  were  coming  due. 
I  could  renew  them  all  right—1  knew 
that;  but  this  would  only  delay  the end.
It  would  be  three  days  before  the 
notes  would  be  presented,  and  1  did  the 
only  correct  thing  to  do  under  the  cir­
cumstances. 

I  went  fishing.

I  didn’t  catch  any  fish.  Maybe  some 
got  on  my  hook,  I  don’t  know,  but  1 
laid  on  my back  and  looked  up  into  the 
sky  and  wished  a  lot  of  things.

I  wished  I’d  never  been  born,  first. 
That’s  the  regular  thing  for  a  man  to 
wish  when  he  is  especially  blue.  Then 
I  wished  I  were  a  bird  and  could  fly  to 
hellengone  away  from  all  the  trouble. 
Between  each  wish  I  wished  with  in­
creasing  emphasis  that  I ’d  never  gone 
into  business  at  all.  «

Then  I  wished  that  I  was  back  clerk­
ing  for  Laster,  without  a  care  beyond 
Saturday  night,  and  drawing  my 
little 
old  $12  per,  and  paying  $4  25  for  my 
board  and  depositing  something  in  the 
Savings  and  Loan  Association  every 
week,  besides  having  a  little  for a  good 
time once  in  a  while.

Those  old  days  that  I  used  to  think, 
sometimes,  were  pretty  hard  seemed 
so good  to me  thee,  so awfully,  intense-

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

ly  good  and  happy, 
cried.

that  I  actually 

I  wished  that  I  hadn’t  borrowed  that 
Si.ooo  of  good,  confiding  old  Mrs. 
Green  to  put  into  the  business.

I  could  see  what  the  end  would  be 
plain  enougtj. 
I  was  all  tied  up  and 
the  enterprise  was  all  gone  out  of  me, 
and  there  didn't  seem  to  be  a  ghost  of 
a  way  out. 
I  didn’t  owe  a  cent  to  any­
body  in  the  place,  except  a  little  back 
salary  to  the  boy  who  works  for  me.

I  was  tolerably  certain  that  I  could 
renew  the  notes  that  were  just  coming 
due,  give  paper  for  the  open  accounts, 
and  wiggle  along 
for  six  or  seven 
months  longer,  but  I  just  made  up  mv 
mind  that  I  wouldn’t  do  it. 
If  I  did. 
my  failure  would  be  about  three  times 
as  bad.

I  wound  my  line  right  up  and  started 
for  home  with  my  mind  made  up. 
There  was  no  use 
in  dallying  along. 
The  thing  might  as  well  be  ended  right 
away.

I  would  make  an  assignment  for  the 
benefit  of  mv  creditors  and  make  dear 
old  Mrs.  Green  a  preferred  creditor.

All  of  the  way  home  I  tried  to  think 

of  a  good  man  for assignee.

I  thought  of  every  lawyer  in  business 
in  town,  but,  some  way,  none  of  them 
seemed  to  be  just  the  sort  of  men  1 
would  want  to  surrender  my  affairs  to 
entirely  for  the  benefit  of  mv  creditors.
The  regular,  professional  assignee  of 
the  town,  old  Ben  Smart,  who  was  up 
to  every  known  trick  in  the  failure  line 
that  was  possible,  occurred  to  me;  hut 
I  wasn’t  up  to  anv  tricks.  All  that  I 
wanted  was  to  end  the  matter  up  as 
quickly  as  I  could.

Over  and  over again  as  T  considered, 
the  name  of  the  old  man  Laster  oc­
curred,  but  I  couldn’t  have  him ;  it 
wou’dn’t  seem  right,  exactly,  to  assign 
to  a  man  who  was  practically  a  com 
petitor 
in  business,  but  over  and  over 
again 
it  occurred  to  me  how  kind  thp 
old  fellow  had  always  been  to  me and 
of  how  scrupulously  honest  he  was.

I  hadn't  been  into  the  old  man’s store 
since  we  had  a  little  run  on  prices  and 
the  oM  man  had got thp better of me,  but 
I  couldn’t  help  but  remember  what  he 
said  to  me  when  I  left  his  emplov  to 
start  out  for  mvself:  “ I  hope  you'll  do 
well.  Fitem;  you’ve  been  a  good  hov 
for  me,  but  vou'll  have  to  go  careful  or 
your  capital. ”

I  didn’t 

intend  to  at  all.  but  when  T 
got  onto  Main  street  I  walked  straight 
into  Laster’s  store.

The  old  man  was  back  in  his  little 
glass-partitioned  office  reading  a  news­
paper.

“ Good  morning,  Mr.  Laster,’ ’  I said.
The  old  man  looked  up  and  I  could 
see  that  he  was  a  good  deal  surprised  to 
see  me.  We  hadn’t  been  very  neigh 
borly  for a  long  time.

“ I  came  for  a 

little  assistance,”   1 
continued  hurriedly,  and 
it  didn’t  en­
courage  me  much  to  see  that  be  didn’t 
seem  to  appear  very  enthusiasticallv 
cordial  in  his  manner  when  I  said  that
He  told  me  afterward  that  he  had  an 
idea  that  I  was  going  to  ask  him  for  a 
loan  and  he  felt  that  he  would  have  to 
refuse  me.  He 
is  a  shrewd  old  fellow 
and  he  had  been  watching  my  business 
and  from  knowing  the  backing  1  had 
at  the  start  he  was  able  to  form  a  prettv 
accurate 
idea  of  the  way  things  were 
running.

“ Well,  what  can  I  do  for  you?”   he 
queried  in  that  hard,  metallic  voice  of 
his,  which  I  had  often  heard  him  use 
when  cross-questioning  candidates  for 
credit. -

I  simply  turned  to  the  desk  and jotted 
down  the  statement  which  occurs earlier 
in  this  letter  and  handed  the  bit  of 
paper to  the  old  man.

“ What  would  you  advise  me  to  do?”  

I  asked.

Mr.  Laster  looked  at  the  figures  for 

quite  a  long  time.

Finally  he  said  in  a  more kindly tone, 

“ How’s  trade  running?”

“ Pretty  light.”   I  answered.
“ How  much  last  year?”
“ Only  $6.500,”   I  answered  honestly. 
“ Expenses  average?”
“ About  $5  a  dav  for  300  days  a  year, 

all  told,”   I  answered.

“ Then  it  is  quite  evident  that  von 
running behind,  your  credit business has 
tied  up  most  of  vour own  money,  and 
the  prosoects  are  not  very  bright.  What 
had  you  thought  of  doing?”

“ I’d  thought  of  assigning.”
“ I  don't  know  hut  that  would  be 
best.”   said  the  old  man  kindly  after  he 
had  mused  for  a  while  ovpr  the  subject, 
“ if  vou  can  find  an  honest assignee. ”  

“ I’d 

like  to  have  you  for  assignee, 

Mr.  Laster,”   I  said.

The  old  man  was  apparently  touched. 

He  hadn’t  expected  it.

‘ ‘ I  don't  know  anybody  I’d  rather 
turn  my  business  over  to  than  you,”   I 
continued;  “ in  fact,  I  don’t  know  any­
body  else  so  well  as  1  do  vou—that  is, 
I  mean  about  being  straight  and  honest 
and  all  that,  and  I  wish  you’d  act  for 
me. ”

The  old  man  was  all  struck  in a heap. 
He  had  to  clear  his  throat  several  times 
before  he  could  talk  at  all.

“ It  will  look  sort  of  funnv,”   he  said, 
finally,  “ to  assign  to  a  rival  dealer  who 
hasn't  anv  sort  of  a  claim  on  you.”

“ I  don’t  care  if  it  does,"  I  said.  “ I 
won’t  be  a  rival  much  longpr,  I  guess, 
nid  I  don’t  believe  T  ever  was  so  much 
of  a  rival  as  I  thought  that  I  was.”  

Well,  to  make  a 

long  s'orv  sH r er, 

the  old  man  consented,  finally,  and 
went  over  and  paid  up  the  clerk  and 
one  or two  little  local  debts.

Mr.  Laster  and  I  went  up  to  his  old 
attorney  a  little  later  in  the  day  and  be­
fore  night  the  assignment  was  all  drawn 
up.  ready  for  signing  it  in ihe morning 
Nobodv  on  the  street  or  in  the  village 
had  the  least  inkling  of  what  was  com­
ing.  It  had  been  intended  that  the  store 
should  not  open  in  the  morning,  hut  as 
the  Coun*v  Clerk’s  office  didn’t  open 
until  9 o’clock  it  was  deemed  best  to be 
on  the  safe  side  to  keep  open  until  the 
document  was  recorded.

Half  a  dozen  of  my  acquaintances 
in  the  store  when  Laster  and  the 

were 
lawyer came  in.

I  tell  you,  it  ground  to  have  to  tell 
them  that  they’d  have  to  get  out  be­
cause  I'd  busted.  They  thought  that  I 
was 
joking  at  first,  hut  I  had  to  insist. 
The  gang  went  out  won-  erirglv,  the 
loors  were  locked,  the  curtains  were 
pulled  down,  and  the  business  of  I 
Fitem,  shoe  dealer,  was  in  the  hands  of 
an  assignee.

Old  man  Laster  knew  just  what  to do 
in 
He’s  been  an  assignee  several  times 
bis  life,  and  they  do  say  that  he  made 
an  assignment  himself  once  early  in  his 
business  career,  or  else  he  was  attached 
or  something  like  that. 
I  never  asked 
him  about  it.

He  made  a  break  for the  cash drawer, 
secured  the  $8  92  which 
it  contained 
and  made  a  note  of  it.  Then  he  took 
possession  of  the  books,  glanced  them 
over  hurriedly,  smiling  occasionally  as 
he  came  across  the  name  of  a  familiar 
dead-beat,  and 
in  twenty  minutes  he 
and  I  and  the  little  clerk  were  hustling 
at  the  inventory.

I’ll  tell  you  more  about  it  when  more 

happens.
Here 

is  the  account  which  appeared 
in  the  afternoon  daily  newspaper  pub­
lished  in  a  nearby  city  that  same  after­
noon :

BOOT  BUSINESS  BUSTED.

Shoe  Dealer  at  Lasterville  Pulls  Down 

the  Blinds.

Lasterville,  N.  Y.,  Oct.  30—The  peo­
ple  of  Lasterville  were  greatly surprised 
•his  morning  to  learn  of  the  disastrous 
failure  of  I.  Fitem,  the  boot  and  shoe 
dealer  and  one  of  the  leading  business 
men  of  this  place.

The  assignment  was  made  to  A.  Las­
ter,  who  is  also  a  local  shoe  dealer,  and 
was  filed 
in  the  Countv  Clerk’ s  office 
promptly  on  the  stroke  of  nine.
"The  document  shows  only  one  pref­
erence—to  Mrs.  Goodan  Green 
for 
$1.000.  The  exact  amount  of  assets  and 
liabilities 
is  not  as  yet  known,  but  the 
assignee  said  to  your  correspondent  to­
day  that  it  was  hoped  that  it  would  be 
possible to pay  the  creditors in full.  The 
causes  of  the  failure  are  supposed  to  be 
«low  trade  and  slower  collections.  Your 
correspondent  has  it  on  good  authority 
that  there  are  several  large  notes  in  a 
local  bank  which  would  have  come  due 
in  a  dav  or  so,  which  probably  had  a 
good  deal  to  do  with  the  date  of  the  as­
signment.

What  makes  me  the  maddest  is  that 
one  or  two  fellows  who  have  met  me  on 
the  street  since,  instead  of  tendering  a 
little  honest  sympathy  and  wishing  me 
well,  have  winked  slyly  with  a  very 
knowing  air  and  slapped  me  on  the 
hack  and  said  that  they  guessed  I  knew 
what  I  was  about.  Now,  what  do  you 
suppose  they  meant?— I.  Fitem  in  Boots 
and  Shoes  Weekly.

Creates  No  New  Demand.

From  Boots and Shoes  Weekly.

The  trading  stamp  is  not  a new thing, 
but  it  is  becoming  a  new  worry  to  more 
and  more  retailers  in  all  lines,  as  it 
is 
being  pushed  with  new  vigor  and  into 
new  territory.  The  great  cause  for  dis­
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while  it  may  draw  trade  from  one  mer­
chant  to  another,  it  creates  no  new  de­
mand  and  saps  the  profits  of 
legitimate 
business.

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Clerks’  Corner

A  Piece  o f  the  Other  Side. 

W ritten  fo r th e T rad esm an.

“ Now,friend  Bostwick.you have  come 
over  here  as  a  business  man  to  talk 
business.  You  don’t  waste  any  words 
and  you  don’t  expect  me  to;  and  I’m 
going  to  cut  what  I  have  to  say  just  as 
short  as  I  can. 
I can’t  follow  you  point 
by  point  and  I  don’t  want  to,  and  I 
think  I  can  strike  the  root  of  most  oi 
the  different  things  you're  complaining 
of  by  the  simple  statement  that  at  your 
age,  between  5°  and  60,  you  have  ac­
tually  forgotten  that  you  were  ever  22, 
W ill’s  age;  and,  what  is  more,  forgot­
ten  what  you  used  to  do at  that  age.

“ He’s  stout  and  healthy,  as  you  say. 
He  works  from  six  in  the  morning  un­
til  six  at  night  except  on  Saturday, 
when  I  know  that  he  doesn’t get through 
until  after  ten.  Now,  then,  strong  as  hr 
is,  there 
is  one  day  in  the  week  when 
he  does,  as  you  used  to  do,  the  work  ol 
two  m en;  and  I  guess  he  doesn’t  grum­
ble  about  it  and  ask  to  be  paid  for  ex­
tra  work.

“ I  needn’t  tell  you  that  that  is  all  thr 
work  he  ought  to  do  and  I  don't  think 
you’ll  be  greatly  offended  if  I  tell  you 
that  an  invitation  to  come  down  to  tht- 
store  after  supper  to  work  for  an  houi 
or  two  isn't  anything  to  be  proud  of.  It 
you  did  it  when  you  were  22  and  didn’t 
get  any  extra  pay  for 
it,  I  can  tel 
pretty  nearly  exactly  what  you  calleo 
your  employer!  I  can  remember  enough 
of  my  boyhood  to  recall  the  fact  that, 
after  I  had  been  sawing  wood  all  day 
Saturday, 
there  would  have  been  a 
lively  rebellion  if  1  had  been  invited  tc 
saw  an  hour  or  two after  supper.

“ After  the  day’s  work  is  done,  you 
think  the  boy 
is  tired  enough  to  go 
home  and  go  to  bed  or  take  a  book  or 
a  paper,  as  you  do,  and  rest  in  his  easy 
chair and  read. 
I  wonder  if  he  has  at, 
easy  chair  in  his  room—has  be?"

“ I  don’t  know.”
“ I’ll  bet  you  don’t. 

I’ll  wager  any­
thing  you  don’t  know  even  where  he 
lives.  Do  you?”

MICHÌQAN  TRADESMAN

should  judge  that  he  may  have  taken 
glass  of  beer  in  there—and  so  have  you 
—O,  yes,  Mr.  Bostwick,  I’m  onto  you 
But,  when  anybody tells  you  again  that 
Will  Morris  was  drunk,  or  anywhere 
near  it,  just  kindly  say  that  it’s  a  lie 
I’ll  vouch  for  him  on  that  every  time.

force 

“ Now  for  the  unmentionable  subject 
1  have  an  idea  that  I  shall  offend  you 
out  that's  your  lookout.  Still,  I  should 
like  to  have  you  tell me if you ever knew 
a  set  of  clerks  very  badly  off  in  that  di 
rection  who  did  not  follow  the  example 
set  them  in  the  office.  Write  down  the 
names  of  any  ten  large  firms  in  this city 
whose  clerking 
is  disreputably 
known,  and  then  tell  me  if  the  heads  of 
hose  houses  are  not  men  of  the  same 
lisreputable  chaiacter. 
I  have  an  idea 
th  t  you  will  not  find  a  single  exception 
to  the  rule.  Now  then,  on  that  ground 
tod  for  that  reason,  you  needn't  worry 
tny  more  over  Morris;  and,  as  regards 
what  any  man  has  told  ‘ to  his  certain 
<nowledge’  about  seeing  Will  on  bad 
■ streets  with  bad  company,  put  it  down 
is  an  instance  of  defective  eyesight, 
im  positive  the  statement  is  untrue.

“ I  have  one  or  two  other points which 
l  want  to  talk  to  you  about  but  I  can’ 
lo  it  now.  Come 
in  a  week  from  to 
tight  and  I’ll  finish  what  I  have  begun 
to  say. ’ ’

The  man  went  away  with  an  “ All 
rigbt,  I  w ill;”   and  I  have  an  idea  that 
ie ’11  do  a 
little  thinking  before  I  see 
aim  again.

R i c h a r d   M a l c o l m   S t r o n g .

An  Oft-Repeated  Lesson.

Notwithstanding  the  many 

terrible 
lessons  civilized  countries have received 
when  making  war  on  savage  peoples, 
they  still  will  persist  in underestimating 
the  fighting  qualities  of  such  peoples, 
with  the  result  that  every  now and  then 
historians  have  to  chronicle  one  of those 
terrible  disasters  which  shame  civiliza- 
ion  and  bring  discredit  upon  military 
:ommandets.  The  British,  more  than 
ithers,  have  had  experiences  of  this 
ort,  and  yet  they  have  not  profited  ap­
parently  in  the  least.

“ No.”
“ There’s  a  hint  for  you  which  you’d 
better  follow  up.  Now  about  this  play 
I  don’t  know  any  harder 
business. 
work  than  digging  potatoes  all  day. 
Il 
you’ve  ever  tried 
it  you  know  what  1 
mean.  Many  a  time  after  a  long  day  ol 
that  work  on  the  farm,  I  have  walked 
three  miles  to  the  village  to  get  the 
mail;  or,  if  I  could  coax  one  of  the 
hired  men  to  play  ball  if  it  was 
light 
enough  to  see  the  ball,  I  have  indulged 
in  that  pastime  without  thinking  of  an 
easy  chair  or  anything  that  looked  like 
a  book  or  paper.  You  did  the  same 
thing  at  that  time  of  your  life.

“ Without  doubt  the  trying  time  in 
every  young  fellow’s  life  is  after he gets 
through  his  work.  Then  he  is  free  and 
he  wants  fun  of  some  sort.  You  want  to 
go  a  trifle  slow,  however,  about  Will’s 
late  hours.  How  I  know  doesn’t  matter; 
but  he  goes  to  bed  oftener  before  eleven 
o’clock  than  after  that  hour.  He doesn’t 
always  play  billiards;  but,  when he  gets 
at  it,  like  the  rest  of  us  he  plays  until 
he  gets  tired.  The  game  costs  him,  on 
an  average,  about  75  cents  a  month— 
not  a  big  sum,  as  you  must  admit. 
How?  By  being  a  good  player—have  a 
game  with  him  and  you’ll  find  out.

“ Do  you  know,  Mr.  Bostwick, 

I 
don’t 
like  at  all  what  you  said  about 
Will's  being  at  that  swell  saloon.  He 
may  have  been 
in  there;  but  I  think 
I
you  will  admit  thatjhat’s  no  crime. 

A  few  days  ago  a  reconnoitering force 
was  set  forward  by  one  of  the  punitive 
columns  now  operating 
in  Northern 
India.  As  so  frequently  happens,  the 
force  was  too  small  to  cope  with  a  sav- 
tge  and  determined  enemy  attacking  in 
numbers.  As  a  result,  there  was  a  re- 
reat,  skillfully  conducted  it  is  true,  but 
it  cost  the  lives  of 
itill  disastrous,  as 
many  brave  men. 
In  addition  to  the 
losses 
in  killed  and  wounded  suffered 
by  the  main  body  ol  the  reconnoitering 
force,  a  small  detachment  of  fifteen 
men  and  one  officer  belonging  to  one  of 
the  British 
line  regiments  became  de­
tached  and  were  massacred  to  a  man, 
fter  a  heroic resistance.  A similar fate 
overtook  a  party  of  thirty-five  soldiers 
tnd  a  native  officer  belonging  to  a  Sikh 
regiment.

After  this  terrible  lesson,  it  is  to  be 
hoped  that  the  British  commanders  will 
he  more  prudent  and  not  undertake  to 
fight  with  a  handful  of  men  the  hordes 
f  barbarous  and  fierce  tribesmen  who 
have  on  many  occasions  demonstrated 
themselves  to  be  among  the  bravest 
fighters  in  Asia.

It  is  charged  that  the  French  are  sell- 
ng  as  “ native  tapioca”  an article made 
from  potatoes,  chalk,  plaster  and  pipe­
clay.  As  none  of  the  stuff  is  said  to  be 
exported,  any 
internal 
economy  must  be  confined  to  the  people 
of  France.

injury  to  the 

This lard  is what its name implies and  is guaranteed  to be  absolutely  pure.

'BEST I
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"ECONOMY  IS  WEALTH ”

It is also an economical  flour from the fact that  it will yield  50  to  60  loaves 
more p c   barrel than  any Winter  Wheat  I lour.  For  this  reason,  and  be­
cause it makes a handsome loaf of bread, all  first-class  grocers  prefer  it  to 
any other flour.

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

13

The  Woman  Who  Succeeds. 

W ritten fo r the  T rad esm an.

The  other  day  when  I  was  in  Berlin, 
I  said  to  Frl.  Dr.  Liburtius,  who  was 
attending  me  in  an  illness,  “ Your nape 
will  become  famous  and  be  handed 
down  to  posterity. ”

She 

is  one  of  six  or  seven  women 
doctors 
in  all  Germany,  and  has been 
practicing  more  than  twenty  years  in 
Berlin,  although  she  was  forced  to  seek 
her  medical  education  in  Zurich.  No 
one  ever  hears  through  her  of  the  diffi­
culties  she  has  encountered  all  these 
years,  and 
it  was  told  me  quite  by 
chance  by  people  not  of  her  household.
Not  only  has  popular  feeling  been 
against  her  (for  the  German  women, 
good  obliging  creatures,  think  exactly 
as  their  fathers,  brothers,  husbands  or 
lovers),  but  the  doctors  themselves  had 
no  mercy  and  left  no  stone  unturned 
in. 
order  to  discover  some  wrong  diagnosis 
of  a  case,  or  a  mistreatment  of  a  frac­
ture— in 
fact,  anything  to  prove  her 
inability  to  do  such  work,  and  thus  be 
able  to  point  a  moral  or adorn  a  tale 
for  the  good  of  all  womankind.  But 
success  did  not  attend  their  efforts  and 
they  were  foiced  to  leave  her  in  peace. 
Her  patients  have  continued  to  increase 
until  now  she  can  scarcely  attend  to  her 
practice.  Everybody  knows  how  pa­
tients  must  make  an  appointment  two 
or  three  days  in  advance  or  wait several 
hours 
in  order  to  see  her.  Yet  to-day 
she  is  not  publicly  recognized  by  the 
medical  profession,  although  the  most 
distinguished  physicians  do  not  find 
it 
beneath  their  dignity  to  consult  with 
her  secretly  about  their  most.critical 
cases.

Knowing  all  this,  the  sweetness  and 
humility  of  her  reply  to  my  remark 
" I   don’t 
came  with  double 
force: 
know.  All  I  care  about 
is  to  do  my 
duty. ”

Yet  are  not  her  words  the  keynote 
of  all  success  for  man  or  for  woman?  Is 
it  the  trumpeters  or  the  brave  fighting 
men  who  win  the  battle?  Just  so,  among 
women  who  opened  new  paths  to  her 
sisters,  the  woman  who  proclaimed  the 
possibilities  of  women  from  the  chim­
ney-tops  or  the  silent  one  who  did  the 
work  destiny  sent  her with the thorough­
ness  and  conscientiousness  of  a  man 
who  feels  it  bis  bounden  duty  to  suc­
ceed.

Within  the  past  fifty  years  there  has 
been  a  complete  change  in  the  position 
woman  holds 
in  the  industrial  system. 
Then  a  woman  was  of  no  account  if  she 
did  not  marry  and  have  children,  and 
was  an  old  maid  at  twenty-five  and  an 
object  of  ridicule  and  derision.  In  fact, 
there  was  no  place  for  her  in  society  or 
out  of 
it,  so  that  she  was  willing  to 
make any  sacrifices  in  order to  become 
a  wife. 
If  to  the  “ unappropriated 
blessings"  or the  widows  without  means 
the  question  of  a  livelihood  were  neces­
sary  to  be  considered,  there  were  only 
five  cr  six  occupations  open  to  them.

How  changed 

is  all  that.  Now  a 
woman  can  do  anything  for  which  she 
has  a  taste  and  she 
is  educated  with 
the  idea  of  taking  care  of  herself— un­
less,  perchance,  she  finds  the  man  with­
out  whom  life  would  be  miserable. 
In 
fact,  she 
is  so  thoroughly  prepared  to 
go  her  way  alone  that  she  considers  the 
pros  and  cons  of  married 
life  from 
Alpha  to  Omega  before  she  is  ready  to 
join  her  fate  with  that  of  the  best  man 
in  all  the  world.

To  the  present  generation,  the  radical 
change  seems  to  have  been  brought 
about 
in  a  night.  Yesterday,  woman 
was  helpless  and  dependent.  To-day,

is  at 

she 
is  capable  and  independent.  But 
facts  go  to  prove  that  the  change  has 
been  more  gradual  than 
first 
realized,  and  have  been  due  to  causes 
witfi which  women  had  nothing  to  do. 
War  has  been  the  most  potent  cause 
in 
all  civilized  countries.  The  Civil  War 
in  the  United  States  has  made  the 
American  women  the  most  advanced  of 
the  fin  de  seicle.

The  first  dull  rumblings  of  that  war 
did  not  portend  to  many  people  any­
thing  except  a 
light  storm.  Men  left 
farm,  shop,  or  counting-room  fully  be­
lieving  they  would  shortly  return  to 
mother,  wife  and  babies.  What  more 
natural  than  that  they  should  leave their 
business 
in  charge  of  wife,  mother or 
daughter,  as  there  was  no  man  at  home 
to  help  them  out  of  the  difficulty,  es­
pecially  as  the  experiment  had  proved 
successful  on  other occasions  when  they 
had  been  called  away  unexpectedly  for 
a  few days  on  business?  But  everybody 
knows  how  the  weary  war  dragged 
into 
years.  Many  men  would  never  return 
home  and  every  able-bodied  man  was 
expected  to  do  his  duty,  his whole  duty, 
for  his  country.  All  woman’s  strength, 
fortitude  and  ability  were  needed  in 
those  days  and  she  proved  herself  as  by 
magic  -equal  to  the  emergency.  Not 
only  was  she  called  upon  to  relinquish 
the  one  she  loved  best  in  all  the  world, 
and  better  than  the  world,  but  often­
times  was  she  left  with  slender  means 
and  a  precarious  business  to  support 
herself  and  children.  The  best  in  her 
nature  could  not  help  being  developed. 
What  she  didn’t  know  she  must  learn. 
There  is  no  panacea  for  heartache 
like 
work—work  that  must  be done thorough­
ly  and  conscientiously  and  to  the  min­
ute,  not  one  day  but  six  days  out  of 
every  seven.  Perhaps  that  accounts  for 
her  success;  for  the  heartaches  were 
heavy  enough  to  accomplish  any  feats. 
In  this  way  many  new  occupations  were 
opened  to  women.

When  peace  reigned  once  more,  busi­
ness and  trade  were  resumed  on  a  much 
larger  scale;  but  no  longer  were  there 
men  enough  to  fill  places  of  honor,  and 
women,  when  capable,  were  called  to 
fill  places  of  trust.  This  encouraged 
other  women  to  fit  themselves  for  the 
work  they  wished  to  do.  From  that 
time  women  have  not 
looked  behind 
and  are  making  themselves  every  day 
more 
in  the  business 
world.

indispensable 

These  were  the  first  steps 

in  her 
progress.  No  woman  who  had  lived 
through  those  stirring  times  could  ever 
become  a  doll  or  a  child again,any more 
than  an  apple  goes  back  to  a  blossom. 
She  had  tested  her  strength  and  felt  her 
dormant  abilities  awakening  within 
her.  The  pendulum,  once  set 
in  mo­
tion,  must  swing  to  the  other  angle  of 
it  reaches  its  equilib­
the  arc  before 
rium.  Women  no 
longer  feel  helpless 
but  wish  to  attend  to  their  private 
affairs and learn  the  best methods of pro­
cedure  from  one  who  has  their  interests 
at  heart.  No  longer  are  women  kept 
ignorant  of  their  husbands’  affairs,  but 
take  a  lively  interest  in  them  and  hus­
band  and  wife  have  more  than  ever  in 
common. 
If  a  woman  is  left  alone  she 
understands  what 
is  to  be  done  and 
makes  fewer  mistakes.

The  women  who silently buckled down 
and  succeeded  broke  the  paths  for  the 
generation  of  to-day;  yet  their  lot  in 
many  ways  is  no  easier,  for  the  methods 
of  business  have  become  more  compli­
cated  and  the  competition  grows severer 
every  day.  She  has  no  chance  for  nap­
ping,  for  half-doing,  but  she  must

4‘Be up and doing,
W ith a  heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to  w ait."

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

London,‘ England,

Peerless  Card

Manufactured and Guaranteed

Strictly  Pure

BY

S w ift   $   C o .,  C h ic a g o .

The largest manufacturers of lard in the world.

Read  Their  Guarantee

Chicago, Nov*  17,  1897* 

Olney & Judson Grocer Co*,

Grand Rapids*

Referring to the question of the 
purity of your  * «Peerless*1  lard,  we 
hereby wish to state and guarantee 
to you that the lard we have shipped 
you in the past under that brand has 
been  pure  lard;  that  the  lard  we  are 
shipping you now as Peerless lard is 
pure lard,  and as long as we continue 
to ship you Peerless lard it will be 
100 per cent* pure lard*

Yours Resp’y,

SWIFT & CO.,

By W* B* Albright,

Manager Lard Department*

The “Peerless” Lard is sold only by

Olney  $ Judson  Grocer Co.

G ra n d   R a p id s.

The largest jobbers in Western Michigan.

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Fruits  and  Produce.
The  Commission  Merchant  a  Neces­

sity.

In  some 

in  other 

indispensable. 

instances  the  offices  of  the 
local  buyer  may  be  dispensed  with ;  in 
others  they  are 
The 
commission  merchant  must  be  regarded 
as  a  necessity.  He 
is  the  agent  of  the 
shipper  or  producer,  representing  him 
and  acting  for him  in  the  large  markets 
at  far  less  cost  to  the  shipper  than 
would  be  attendant  on  the  latter’s  com­
ing  to the  city  to  market  his  own wares.
As  a  class,  commission  merchants  do 
not  stand  high;  but,  divested  of  all 
prejudice,  the  fact  is  that  commission 
merchants  ate  no  better  and  no  worse 
than  their  fellows 
lines  of 
trade.  While  no  doubt  there  are  some 
who are neither honest  nor reliable,  still, 
unless  we  are  prepared  to  believe  that 
the  majority  of  men  are lacking  in these 
respects,  we  must  be  prepared  to  admit 
that  the  majority  of  the  commission 
merchants  are  both  honest  and  reliable
It  is  to  the  interest  of  the  commission 
merchant  to  secure  the  highest  prices 
for  the  goods  consigned  to  him,  because 
his  compensation  consists  of  a  percent 
age  on  the  selling  price.  The  names  of 
reliable 
are 
easily  obtained,  and  they  are  always 
ready  to  explain  their  method  of  doing 
business  and  render  every  assistance  to 
the 
inexperienced  shipper.  They  are 
generally  divided 
classes: 
Butter,  cheese,  and  egg  handlers;  fruit 
and  vegetable  dealers;  poultry  and 
game  handlers;  and  specialists.  Most 
commission  merchants  will  handle  any­
thing,  but  prefer  consignments  in  their 
lines.  Many  have  ac­
own  particular 
quired  reputations 
in  special  lines,  so 
that  one  merchant  may  be  known  as 
headquarters  for  potatoes,  another  for 
honey,  another  for  imported  fruits,  an­
other  for  wool,  and  so  on.  Extensive 
shippers  usually  acquaint  themselves 
with  the specialties of various merchants 
and  ship  to  each  his  specialty.

commission  merchants 

into  four 

is 

A  few  words as  to  the  dishonest  com­
mission  merchant  will  not  be  amiss. 
Like  every  other  legitimate  business, 
the  commission  business  has 
its  im 
postors,  and  as  they  are sometimes diffi­
cult  to  detect,  for a  time  at  least,  thev 
have  done  serious  injury  to  legitimate 
commission  men.  Before  consigning 
goods  to  an  unknown  commission  mer 
chant  the  shipper  should  always  require 
references  Nor 
it  safe  to  content 
oneself  with  the  fact  that  the  merchant 
offers  as  references  a  number  of  well- 
known  names,  as  this 
is  often  done 
without  the  knowledge  of  the  persons 
named.  Write  to  the  persons  referred 
to  and  satisfy  yourself  of  the  reliability 
of  the  merchant before  shipping  to him, 
and  then  you  may  rest  assured  that  your 
goods  will  bring  the  best  prices  their 
condition  and  that  of  the market  afford.
Beware  of  being  tempted  by  market 
quotations  a  little  higher  than  those sent 
you  by  your  regular  merchant.  High 
quotations  are  the  favorite bait  of  the 
impostor.

There  is  also  a  legal  point  which  it is 
well  to  bear  in  mind. 
In  most,  if  not 
all,  states,  when a commission merchant 
receives  goods  on  consignment  he  be­
comes  the  shipper’s agent,  and  any  at­
tempt  to  defraud  his  principal  is  a  fel­
ony  punishable by fine or imprisonment, 
or both.  Not  so 
if  he  buys  the goods 
outright,  promising  to  pay  for  them  a 
stated  price.  In  the latter  case  the  ship­
per’s  only  recourse,  in  case  he  fails  to 
receive  the  contract  price,  is  a  civil

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

suit,  resulting 
in  a  judgment  usually 
worth  no  more  than  the  paper  it  is writ­
ten  on.  For  this  reason  dishonest  mer­
chants  frequently  offer  to  buy  outright. 
Too  great  care  cannot  be  exercised 
in 
this  respect.  When  a  direct  sale  is 
made,  except  to  a  well  known  house  of 
good  reputation,  the  safest  method  of 
procedure 
is  for  the  shipper  to  con­
sign the goods  to  his  own  order,  making 
draft  through  bank  or  express  companv, 
and  attaching  to  it  the  bill  of  lading re­
ceived  from 
company, 
properly  indorsed.  The  bank  or  express 
company  will  then  present  the  draft and 
surrender  the  hill  of  lading  onlvon pay­
ment,  so  that  the  commission  merchant 
cannot  obtain  the  goods  until  he  has 
paid  for  them. 

G e o   G .  H i l l .

the  railroad 

Lagging  Cheese  Market  at  Utica.
Utica,  N.  Y.,  Nov.  22—No  change 
whatever  took  place  in  the  cheese  mar­
ket  last  week,  the  tone  remaining  dull 
and  stupid,  and  trade  being  as  quiet  as 
before.  There 
is  absolutely  nothing  to 
stimulate  transactions  or  to  give  an  ap- 
oearance  of  animation  to  the  market; 
Exporters  seem  willing  to take  a  mod­
erate  amount  of  stock  when  they can  get 
what  they  want  at  their  own  prices,  but 
dealers  have  very  little  to  say  about 
those  prices  and  are  only  too  glad  to 
make  a  sale  that will  let them  out  whole 
when  they  own  the  cheese.  So  much 
stock  was  consigned,  however,  last week 
that  they  were  sure  of  a  commission  on 
that,  and  this  had  to  make  up  for  their 
losses  on  cheese  previously  bought.

in  particular, 

The  fall  cheese,  and 

But  while  buyers  have  had  a  hard 
time  this  fall,  it 
is  to  be  remembered 
that  cheese  dairymen  have  also  suffered 
severely. 
the 
make  of  September 
is 
the  stock  upon  which  they  confidently 
rely  to  bring  up  the  average  of  the  rest 
of  the  season. 
This  year,  however, 
September  cheese  has  been  about  the 
dullest  of  the  season,  with a falling  mar 
ket  throughout  the  period  of  its  sale 
with  prices  only  sustained  where  thev 
are  by  the  fact  that  so  many  goods  have 
been  held  back  and not pressed  for  sale 
For  those  who  have  let  their  cheese  go 
forward  this  has  been  a  fortunate  thing 
as  there  is  little  doubt  that  prices would 
have  fallen  still  lower  if all  the  Septem­
ber  make  had  been  nut  upon  the  mar 
ket.  Whether  it  will  result  as favorably 
for  those  who  have  yet  to  dispose  of 
that  make  remains  an  open  question 
for  the  present.  Quotations 
in  New 
York  stand  at  8c  for  large sized Septem 
bers,  8#c  for  large  sized  Octobers,  qj^c 
for small  Septembers  and  8|^c  for  small 
Octobers.

The  great  difficulty  among  salesmen 
to-day  was  to  find  a  buyer  who  would 
buy.  Only  those  buvers  who  had  orders 
were  willing  to  nav  a  price,  and  when 
the  orders  were  filled  thev  stopped  buy 
If  you  wanted  them  to 
mg  altogether. 
take  the  cheese  on  commission 
thev 
would  promise  to  do  the  best  they  could 
for  you,  hut  the  market  was  too  uncer­
tain  and  too  well  stocked  already  for 
them  to  take  chances  on  re  selling.

These  are  the  tactics  of  buyers  and 
jobbers  and  exporters  and  home  traders 
this  fall. 
It  means  that  the  factories 
must  take  the  chances  of  carrying  over 
or  selling  for  what  the  market  will 
bring.  Heretofore  the  other  fellows 
have  taken  these  chances,  and  some 
times  they  have  succeeded  in  making  a 
good  thing,  although  quite  as  often  they 
have  got  caught.  But  the  make  this 
vear  is  so  enormous, in  comparison  with 
the  consumptive  demand,  that  no  one 
has  nerve  enough  to  attempt  to  sus'ain 
'he  market.  Advices  from  the  other 
side  are  to  the  effect  that  stocks  now  in 
London.  Liverpool,  Bristol,  Glasgow 
^nd  a  few  other  points  amount  to  fullv 
600,000 boxes.  Even  the  bold  Britisher 
exhibits  some  nervousness  at  the  pros­
pect  and  refuses  to  go  ahead  unless  he 
can  get  stock  at  his  own  price.

Our  factories  are  closing  now rsfpidly. 
The  recent  cold  snap  has  caused  a 
heavy  shrinkage  in  the  milk  yield,  and 
the  low  prices  of  cheese  give  no encour­
agement  to  either  patrons  or  factory- 
men  to  go  ahead.  Even  the  largest  es­
tablishments  will  close  before 
this 
mouth  is over.

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Manufacturers  of  packages 
for  marketing  Lard,  Jelly, 
Mincemeat,  Candy,  Coffee, 
Cereals,  etc.  Fay  tor  them­
selves 
in  securing  higher 
prices.  Always clean and at­
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Cheaper  than  packages  now 
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MILLER & TEASDALE  CO.

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Harris & Frutchey

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

. 

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Grapes
Celery
Onions
Apples
Potatoes  -   Beaps  -   Opiops

The Vinkemulder Company,

Ask  for  prices  upon  carlots  or  less.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W e are in the market  daily;  buy  and  Sell  Potatoes  and  Beans,  carlots; 
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4 ÖL

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GOTH AM   G O SS IP .

News  from  the  M etropolis— Index  to 

.  Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Nov.  20— During the  week 
the  volume  of  trading  has  been  to  a 
large  extent  in  holiday  goods.  Business 
has  been  good  and  some  of  our  leading 
houses  have  worked  hard  to  keep  up 
with  orders. 
I here  are  a  good  many 
visitors  here  and,  between  the  horse 
show  and  buying  goods,  they  have  left 
a  good  deal  df  money.

Coffee  has  hung  fire  and  very  little 
interest  has  been  displayed. 
It  is  the 
settled  belief  that  for  a  long  time  we 
shall  have  very  low  prices  and  dealers 
do  not  seem  to  he  anxious  to  stork  up 
beyond 
immediate  needs.  Rio  No.  7 
has  fallen  off  a  fraction  and  closes' at 
6jic.  The  supply 
large  and  shows 
the  total  stock  here  and  afloat  to  be 
922,000  bags,  against 673,000  bags 
last 
year.

is 

is 

There  is  something  doing  in  the  bet­
ter  grades  of  teas  and  perhaps  a  little 
better  feeling  all  around,  but  the  mar­
ket  has  still  much  room  for  improve­
ment  and,  while  dealers  hope  for  better 
things  alter  the  turn  of  the  year,  they 
give  no  reason  for  their  hope,  and 
probably  the  wish 
father  to  the 
thought

For  refined  sugar  there  was  for  sev­
eral  days  a  good  demand.  At  the  close 
there 
less  activity,  but  prices  are 
firmly  adhered  to  and  the  situation  is 
encouraging.  Foreign  refined  has  been 
in 
light  supply  and  the  demand  has 
been  moderate.  Granulated  is  listed  at 
5C-
pectations,  so  far  as  demand 
cerned,  and 

have  supplies  sufficient for  immediate 

The  rice  market  is  hardly  up  to  ex­
is  con­
to 

interior  dealers  seem 

Ih isistru e  of  both  domestic 
wants. 
is  worth  5@5%c 
and  foreign.  Japan 
and  prime  to  choice  domestic  is  held  at

is 

the  spice  market 

is  in  good  condi­
tion.  There  has  been  quite  an  active 
demand  and  orders  have  come  from 
neaily  every  part of  the  country  Large 
lots  were  not  wanted,  save  at  some  con­
cession,  which  was  not  teadily  grant.d

Receipts  of  open  kettle  molasses have 
been 
large  and  prices  are  somewhat 
weakened.  The  range  is  from  21  to  28c. 
with  strictly  fancy  2@30  higher.  Good 
to  prime  centrifugal,  I 7 @ 2 ic .  Of  syrup 
there 
is  a  comparatively  small  supply 
and  quotations  for  nice  goods  are  firm. 
Prime  to  fancy  sugar  goods  are  worth 
l6@ 22C.

In  canned  goods,  there 

is  some  im­
provement  over  last  week.  The  demand 
continues  good  for  unlaheled 
tins  of 
tomatoes  which  can  be  labeled  to  suit 
purchaser.  Tomatoes  are  firm  within 
the  range  of  S i@1.20 -the  latter,  of 
course,  for  an  extra  article.  Corn  is  in 
request  at  90@g5c  for  Maine,  f.  o.  b. 
Portland.  California  fruits  of  extra 
quality  are  going  out  well  and  prices 
is  sure  to 
are  firm.  The  tomato  pack 
prove  much  smaller  than 
last  year,  as 
is  evidenced  by  figures  compiled  by  the 
American  Grocer  this  week.

Oranges  and  lemons  are  selling  freely j 
and  the 
few  Florida  oranges  which 
come  are  snapped  up  before  arrival. 
California  oranges  are  selling  well. 
Lemons  of 
large  size  are  sought  for. 
Fresh  fruits  of  all  kinds  are  wanted  at 
good  prices,  if  the  quality  is  desirable. 
The  streets  are  full  of  large  pears which 
are  entirely  tasteless— probably from  the 
Pacific  Coast.

Dried  fruits  are  meeting  with  a  bet­
ter  demand  at  the  moment,  probably  for 
1 hanksgiving.  Raisins are very active.
Butter  is  steady,  with  strictly  fancy 
still  held  at  23c,  at  which  figure 
it  has 
remained  for  over  a  fortnight.  Other 
grades  aie  in  limited  request,  although 
the  tone  is  rather  firmer  than  last  week.
Choice  Western  eggs  command  22c; 
is  a  demand 
that 
lor 
grades  not  quite  up  to  the  market  there 
is  a  fair  outlet.

near-by,  25@26c.  There 

is  hard  to  meet,  and  even 

Cheese 

is  dull  and  the  market  is 
weak.  The  supply 
is  more  than  suffi­
cient  and  little  is  being  done  in  an  ex 
port  way.  Small  size,  full  cream,  g%c.

Making  Export  C heese  in  Ohio. 

Jo h n  G ould  In  H oard's D airym an

An 

innovation 

Ih e  W. B. 

is 
it 
it  will  be  found  out, 
logic  of  events,  that  it  is 
to  make  full  cream 

in  cheesemaking 
being  made  in  Ohio  this  season,  and 
is  possible  that 
by  the  hard 
more  profitable 
cheese  than  a  light  skim. 
straight  Co.,  this  season, 
is  running 
nine  factories  in  the  production  of  ex­
port  Cheddar cheese,  and the firm  is con­
signing  them  to  England  direct,  mak 
ing  the  deep,  70  pound  Cheddar  form, 
working  the  curds  down  dry,  by  pack­
ing  and  the  like,  to  get  the  solid  body 
demanded  for  the  best markets in Liver­
pool.  The  making  is  superintended  by 
W.  E.  Hurd,  a  Jefferson  county,  N.  Y., 
man,  though  long  in  Ohio,  and  late  the 
.State  Inspector  of  the  Dairy  Commis­
sioner’s  office.  The  result  of  this  ven­
ture  will  be  awaited  with 
interest,  and 
it  may  be  possible  that  one  may  be  able 
to  repoit  that  good  may  yet  come  out  of 
Nazareth.

in  coagulation.  He 

One  of  the  large  makers  of cheese was 
lately  defending  his  practice  of  skim­
ming  about  a  pound  of  butter  from  70 
pounds  of  the  night’s  milk  and  adding 
the  all  new  milk  of  the  next  morning  to 
it  on  the ground  that  the  cream,once  up 
on  milk,  could  not  be  worked  back  and 
caught 
insisted 
that  the  escape  of  fat  in  the  whey  ol 
the  mixed  milk  was  more  than  he  was 
taking with  the scoops.and  then clinched 
his  argument  bv  saying  that  he  pur­
chased  his  cheese  grease 
from  New 
York  State,  the  whey  oil  coming  from 
the  full  cream  factories  of  that  prov­
ince.  He  was  sure  that  the  oil  did  not 
come  from  the  tilled  cheese  factories  of 
the  West.  A  good  many  other  factories 
in  the  State  are  now  making full creams 
this  season,  a  thing  it  is  to  be  hoped 
they  will  continue  another year,  and,  in 
addition,  have  a  goodly  number of  new 
converts  to accompany  them.

Switzerland's  monopoly  of  the  alcohol 
trade  for  1898  is  estimated  to  be  worth 
about  6  760,000  francs  clear  profit.

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

turing  Association.  This  Association 
is  now  conducting  the  business  of 
cbeesemaking  at  the  same  location.
„ .After the first factory had demonstrated 
the 
factory  plan  of 
cheesemaking,  other factories  sprung  up 
in  various  parts  of  the  country. 
In

success  of  the 

This  position  George  Williams  held 
until  1870,  when  he  declined  a  re-elec 
tion  and  was  succeeded  by  ex-Governor 
Seymour.  The  other  officers  elected  at 
this  convention  were:  Vice-President, 
Seth  Miller,  Lewis  county;  Second 
Vice-President,  David  Hamlin,  Jeffer­

FACTORY  CHEESE.

Beginning  and  Development  o f  the 

Great  Industry.

To  Jesse  Williams  belongs  the  honor 
of  having  made  the  first  factory  cheese 
from  sweet  milk.  Mr.  Williams 
in­
herited  from  his  father  ioo acres of land 
situated 
in  the  town  of  Rome,  about 
two  miles  north  of  Ridge  Mills,  N.  Y. 
The  elder  Williams  was  one  of  four 
brothers,  all  of  whom  served  in  the  war 
of  the  revolution.  Mr.  Williams  did 
garrison  duty  at  Fort  Stanwix.  Jesse 
Williams  was  born  in  1798,  near  Ridge 
Mills.  He  died  in  the  autumn  of  1864, 
the  year  in  which  the  first  cheese  fac­
tory  association  was  formed.

endeavored 

to  contract 

About  the  year  1834,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Jesse  Williams  conceived  the  plan  for 
making  cheese,  which  they 
thought 
would  produce  a better revenue  and  pro­
vide a  more  steady  market  for  the prod­
uct  of  the  dairies  under  their  control. 
After  several  attempts,  which  resulted 
in  apparent  failure,  they  finally  pro­
duced  an  article  of  cheese  which  was 
satisfactory 
to  themselves  and,  also, 
won  praise  from  their  neighbors.  Out­
interested, 
side  parties  soon  became 
and 
for  the 
cheese  product of Mr.  Williams’ dairies.
In  1850,  others  began  to make  cheese, 
but  Mr.  Williams  had  so  learned  the 
art  that  his  product  always  brought  a 
much  better  price  than  the  product  of 
others.  George  Williams,  son  of  Jesse, 
made  the  attempt  without  great success. 
In  1851,  Jesse  Wiliams  contracted  the 
whole  of  the  season’s  output  at  7  cents 
per  pound.  Looking  to  the  success  of 
his  son,  George,  he  asked  the  contract­
ors 
to  take  his  son’s  product,  also. 
This  the  contractors  agreed  to  do  on 
condition  that  the  father  should  guar­
antee  the  quality  of  the  whole.  To  this 
the  son  objected,  fearing  that  his  father 
might  lose  by  the  transaction. 
The 
matter  was  finally  arranged  by  the  son 
taking  the  milk  from  his  dairy  to  his 
father's,  who  made  cheese  from 
the 
whole.  This  plan  proved  a  success, 
and  soon  the  query  arose: 
If  Mr.  Wil­
liams  could  make  cheese  from  the  milk 
of  two  dairies,  why  not  from  the  prod­
uct  of  all  the  dairies  in  the  neighbor­
hood  by  adding  sufficiently  large  facil­
ities?

The  feasibility  of  this  soon  became 
apparent  to  Mr.  Williams,  who  entered 
into  contracts  with  dairymen  to  supply 
him  with  the  milk  from  300  or  400 
cows.  His  sons,  George  and  DeWitt 
Williams,  were  taken 
into  partnership 
and  plans  were  made  for  the  erection 
of  suitable  buildings  for  the  manufac­
ture  and  curing  of  cheese.  Two  build­
ings  were  soon  erected,  one  for  making 
and  the  other  for  curing  cheese.  The 
former  has  been  torn  down;  the  latter 
is  still  standing,  as  shown 
in  the  ac­
companying  illustration.

Cheesemaking  by  his  factory  system 
was  begun  on  May  10,  1851.  At  first 
four  cheese  were  made  daily,  each 
weighing  150  pounds.  Later  the  size 
was  reduced  to  100  pounds.

During  the  first  season  the  milk  from 
360  cows  was  used.  The  patronage, 
however,  increased  until  the  milk  from 
more  than  600 cows  was  used:  At  first 
a  fixed  price  was  paid  dairymen  for 
their  milk,  but  dissatisfaction  regard­
ing  the  price  paid  finally  led  to  the 
commission  system,  which  is  now  com­
mon.

In  1865  the  factory  and  patronage 
were  sold  to  a  stock  company  and  the 
business  was  thereafter conducted under 
the  name  of  the  Rome  Cheese  Manufac-

January,  1864,  Hon.  George  Williams 
and  the  late  General  R.  U.  Sherman,  of 
New  Hartford,  called a  meeting  of  those 
who  were 
in  the  industry. 
The  meeting  was  held  in  the courthouse 
at  Rome.  This  meeting,  held  January 
6,  1864,  was  attended  by  about  100

interested 

son  county;  Third  Vice-President,  L. 
Fish,  Herkimer  county;  Fourth  Vice- 
President,  George  E.  Morse,  Madison 
county;  Fifth  Vice-President,  Moses 
Kinney,  Cortland county;  Secretary,  W. 
H.  Comstock,  Utica;  Treasurer,  L.  R. 
Lyon,  Lewis  county.  Thus  was  formed

The old  dry  house  for  cheese,  constructed  in  1851  and  still  standing.

persons,  of  whom  fifty  were  interested 
in  dairying.  The  matter  of cheesemak­
ing  was  thoroughly  discussed  and  a  res­
olution  was  passed  providing  for  the 
appointment  of  a  committee  of  five  to 
prepare  a  petition  to  the  State  Legisla­
ture  for  the  enactment  of  a  law  for  the

the  organization  mentioned  above  as 
the  Rome  Cheese  Manufacturing  As­
sociation.  The  present  plant  is  located 
but  a  few  feet  from  the  spot  where  the 
original  factory  stood.  About  five  years 
ago  H.  L.  Ann is,  of  Rome,  and  D. 
Crowell,  of  Ridge  Mills,  purchased  the

,£The  first  cheese  vat  and  boiler  used  in  the  first  cheese  factory  in  the  world.

punishment  of  any  one  guilty  of  adul­
teration  of  milk.  Colonel  Seth  Miller, 
of  Lewis  county,  was  chairman  of  this 
meeting.

An  adjournment  was  taken  to  the  fol­
lowing  day.  The  convention  then  met 
and  formed  a  permanent  organization. 
Jesse  Williams,  who  was  present,  was 
tendered  the  position  of  President of the 
convention,  but  declined  the  honor  and 
George  Williams  was  named  instead.

entire  stock  of  the  Association  and  be­
came  sole  owners.

A  line  of  steamers  is  to be established 
next  June  between  Japan  and  South 
American  ports.  A  company  has  been 
formed  with  Japanese capital amounting 
to  $15,000,000,  and  the  vessels  will  take 
two  routes,  one  across  the  Pacific  to 
Peru,  Chili  and  around  Cape  Horn  to 
Montevideo.  The  other  route  will  be 
via  Suez,  London,  Rio  and  Buenos 
Ayres.

Poor
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It  Is  poor  economy  to 
handle  cheap  flour. 
It 
is  never  reliable.  You 
cannot guarantee it.  You 
do not know  whether  it 
will make good  bread or 
not. 
If  it  should  not 
make  good  bread — and 
poor flour never  does — 
your  customer  w ill  be 
displeased and avoid you 
afterwards. 
You  can 
guarantee.  . .

“ Lily W hite” Flour

W e authorize you  to  do 
so. 
It makes good bread 
every  time.  One  sack 
sold  to*day  w ’ll  bring 
customers for tw o  sacks 
later  on.  Order  some 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Commercial T ray elers

Michigan  Knights ot the Qrip. 

President, J  as. F  Ham m e ll. Lansing ;  Secretary, 
D.  C.  S la o h t,  F lin t;  T reasurer, C h as. McN o l ty, 
Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  H a r t,  D etroit;  Secretary  and 

T reasurer, D. Mo r r is, D etroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

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

dent Association.

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

President, A. F .  Pe a k s , Jackson:  Secretary and 
Board  o f  D irectors—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   H en r y Da w l e y .G eo. 
J.  Hbin zb lm an,  C h as.  S.  R obinson.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W.  C.  B rown,  M arquette;  Secretary 
and T reasurer. A . F .  W ixson,  M arquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Schuyler  Smith  has  engaged  to  travel 
in  Ohio  and  Indiana  for  the  Belding 
Shoe  Co.

The  commercial  travelers  of  Canada 
are  registering  a  complaint  in  relation 
to  the  transportation  of  sample  bag­
gage,  and  are  asking  for  reduced  rates.
is  reported  that  the  Central  Pas­
senger  Association  will  probably  put  on 
an  interchangeable  5,000  mile book with 
the  objectionable  features  complained 
of  by  traveling  men eliminated.

It 

Stephen  T.  Bowen  (John  G.  Miller  & 
Co.),  who  has  been  laid  up  with  rheu­
matism  for three  months,  has  succeeded 
in  securing  relief  by  taking  the  mud 
baths at  Indiana  Mineral  Springs,  Ind., 
and  expects  to  start  out  with  his  spring 
line  about  Nov.  2q.

Capt.  Jas.  N.  Bradford  (Olney  & Jud- 
son  Grocer  Co.)  was  made happy  last 
week  by  the  receipt  of a  notice  that  he 
had  been  granted  a  pension  of  $6  per 
month,  dating  back  six  years,  because 
of  physical  disabilities  sustained  while 
in  the  employ  of  Uncle  Sam  during  the 
rebellion.

The  Southern  Pacific  Railway  and the 
commercial 
travelers  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  are  having  troublous  times  to­
gether  just  now,  owing  to  alleged  dis­
crimination,  rates  being  made  by  the 
Southern  Pacific  even 
lower  than  the 
rates  which  can  be  obtained  by  the  use 
of  mileage  books.

An  amendment  to  the  by-laws  will  be 
offered  at  the  next  meeting  of  the Mich­
igan  Commercial  Travelers’  Associa­
tion  providing  for  the  abolition  of  the 
club  rooms  now  maintained  in  Detroit. 
The  movement  originated  among  mem­
bers  of  tbe  organization  who  reside  out­
side  of  Detroit  and  who  have  no  oppor­
tunity  to  visit  the  rooms  except  on  Sun­
day,  when  they  are  closed.

It 

is  reported  that  John  A.  Hoffman, 
of  Kalamazoo,  will  be  the  unanimous 
choice  of 
the  Kalamazoo  traveling 
men  for  the  presidency  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip.  Mr.  Hoffman  is 
a  genial  gentleman,  possessed  of  re­
markable executive ability,  and the trav­
eling  men  of  Michigan  need  have  no 
hesitation 
in  entrusting  the  destiny  of 
their organization  to  his  care.

J.  E.  Gimperling,  representing  the 
Milton  Coal  Co.,  of  Wellston,  Ohio,  is 
in  town  for a  few  days  in  the interest  of 
the  United  Commercial  Travelers, 
which  already  has  local  branches  in  a 
half  dozen  Michigan  cities.  He reports 
somewhat 
this 
field,  due  to  tbe large  number of policies 
held  by  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men  in 
the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers' 
Mutual  Accident  Association.

indifferent  success 

in 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

It  was  an  act  of  uncommon  kindness 
for  the  Central  Passenger  Association to 
change  its  mileage  book  so  that  a  trav- 
ling  man  may  send  his  servant  to  the 
station  in  advance  of  the  departure  of 
his  train  for the  purpose  of  getting  his 
baggage  checked.  All  simon  pure trav­
eling  men  are  accompanied 
in  their 
rounds  by  servants  in 
least, 
that  appears  to  be  the  supposition  of 
the  Central  Passenger  Association 
in 
promulgating  a  rule  of  this  kind.

livery;  at 

Three  traveling  men  compared  notes 
last  week  and  found  that 
at  Lansing 
they  had  succeeded 
in  diverting  eigh­
teen  carloads  of  freight  from  the  Mich­
igan  Central  to  the  Grand  Trunk  within 
If  three  men  can 
a  space  of  six  days. 
divert  eighteen  carloads  of 
freight, 
what  can  three  thousand  men—all  actu­
ated  by  the  same  spirit  and  smarting 
under  the  same  injustice—accomplish? 
The  problem  is  a  pertinent  one  and  the 
Tradesman  refers  it  to  President  Led- 
yard,  with  the  suggestion  that  he  work 
it  out  by  the most approved  method  and 
furnish  the  result  for  publication  in  the 
next  issue  of  the  Tradesman.

The  traveling  men  are  having  no  end 
of  fun  nowadays  recounting  the  laugh­
able  experience  of  W.  A.  Major,  the 
Petoskey  grocer,  on  the  occasion  of  a 
recent  hunting  trip.  It  appears  that  the 
paity  consisted  of  three  sportsmen,  two 
of  whom  went  up  a  hill  to  scare  the 
game,  while  Major  was  stationed  on  the 
runway  for  the  purpose  of  bagging  the 
game.  Within  a  few minutes two  hand­
some  specimens  of  the deer family came 
rushing  down  the  path,  and  Major 
pulled  his  trigger  three  times,  without 
result,  although  the  deer  passed  by  so 
close  to  him  that  he  ought  to  have 
Investigation 
brought  them  both down. 
disclosed  the  fact  that  he  had 
inserted 
his  cartridges  in  the  magazine  instead 
of  the  barrel.  Mr.  Major  feels  so  cba- 
grinned  over  his  mistake  that  he  now 
sets  up  the  cigars  on  the  least  provoca­
tion.

Michigan  traveling  men  want  an  in­
terchangeable  mileage  book  which  shall 
be  good  on  the  trains  of  all  Michigan 
roads.  They  never  asked  for  a  book 
which 
is  good  on  forty  roads.  They 
were  promised  a.“ satisfactory  mileage 
book”   by  President  Ledyard  and  Gen­
eral  Manager  Heald  if  they  would  stay 
away  from  the  last  Legislature.  They 
accepted  the  proposition  and  did  as 
they  agreed.  Now  they  find  they  have 
been  flimflammed  in  the  most  approved 
fashion.  They  are  compelled  to  buy 
two  separate  mileage books,  in  order to 
travel  over  Mr.  Heald’s  system  and,  in 
case  they  are  so  unfortunate  as  to  have 
trade  on  the Vanderbilt  lines which can­
not  be  covered  by  cross  roads,  they  are 
compelled  to  pay  cash  fares  or  submit 
to the  indignity  of  purchasing a mileage 
book  which 
is  the  epitome  of  incon­
venience.

M.  S.  Brown  (Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.)  has  resumed  his  route  after 
a  fortnight’s  hunting  expedition  in-  the 
Upper  Peninsula.  The  Sault  Ste.  Marie 
News  thus  refers  to an  exciting  experi­
ence  which  happened  during  the  time 
Mr.  Brown  and  his  friends  were 
in 
camp:  “ Mr.  Brown  was  treed  by  a 
wounded  buck  the  other  day.  He  shot 
and  supposed  he  had  killed  it,  as  the 
deer dropped  as  if  dead.  On  his  going 
up  to  the  buck,  it  arose  to  its  feet  and 
made  for  him.  Mr.  Brown,  considering 
discretion 
the  better  part  of  valor, 
dropped  his  gun  and  climbed  a  tree 
with  all  dispatch.  After  reaching  a 
place  of  safety,  he  turned  to  survey  his 
enemy  and  discovered,  much  to  bis  joy,

that  the  deer  had  keeled  over  and  was 
in 
its  death  throes.  Mr.  Brown  will 
not  forget  the  experience  and  neither 
will  his  friends. ”

Ionia  Standard:  Will  A.  Rindge,  the 
genial  shoe  salesman, met  with  a  narrow 
escape  from  death Wednesday.  He  was 
making  the  smaller  points  between 
Pewamo  and  Saranac  with  a  fine  team 
of  sorrels  which  he  hired  at  Pewamo. 
He  stopped  in  Ionia  that  night  and  put 
out  the  next  morning  for  Orange.  When 
near  the  Kelsey  farm,  on  the  Bellevue 
road,  the  king-bolt  came  out,  and  the 
horses  started  on  a  run,  with  the  two 
front  wheels.  They  continued  at  break­
neck  speed  until  they  reached  Tre- 
mayne’s  Corners,  where 
they  were 
brought  to  a  stop,  and  one  of  the  span 
dropped  dead 
instantly  upon  halting. 
The  horses  passed  a  number  of  farm 
teams  coming  to Ionia,  but the  runaways 
were  going  at  such  wild  speed  that 
they  were  invariably given a clear track. 
Will  and  the  driver were  left  behind 
in 
the  vehicle,  greatly  to  their  peace  and 
happiness.

An  amendment  will  be  presented  to 
the  Kalamazoo convention  of  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  providing  for 
a  change  in  the  present  method  of  vot­
ing  for  officers  of  the  organization,  so 
that  every  member  may  be  allowed  to 
express  his  preference,  whether  he  at­
tends  the  convention  or  not.  The prop­
osition 
involves  the  mailing  of  a  blank 
ballot  to  each  member  along  with  the 
invitation  to  the  convention,  which  the 
recipient 
is  expected  to  fill  out  at  his 
leisure  and  mail  in  a  special  sealed  en­
velope  to  the  President  of  the  organiza­
tion  any  time  in  advance  of  the conven­
tion,  the  ballots  so  received  to  be  taken 
to  the  convention  and  placed 
in  the 
custody  of  tellers  appointed  by  the  con­
vention,  who  will  open  the  envelopes, 
canvass  the  votes  and  announce  the  re­
sult  at  the  concluding  session  of  the 
convention.  A  plan  similar  to  this  is 
now  in  use  by  the  Michigan  division  of 
the  L.  A.  W.  and  is  said  to  meet  with 
the  hearty  approval  of the members gen­
erally.  The Tradesman  sees  everything 
to  commend  and  nothing  to  condemn 
in  the  proposed  change  and  trusts  it 
will  be  given  careful  consideration  by 
the  convention.

Open  Letter  to  Henry  B.  Ledyard.
You  made  a  definite  bargain  with  the 
traveling  men  of  Michigan  by  which 
you  agreed  to give  them  a  satisfactory 
mileage  book  inside  of  ninety  days,  in 
consideration  of  their  keeping 
their 
bands  out  of  the  Legislature.  They  did 
as  they  agreed,  but  you  took  eight 
months  and  then  gave  them  a  book 
which 
is  far  from  satisfactory  and  now 
you  decline  to  make  your  word  good. 
You  aver  that  traveling  men  are  windy 
fellows,  which  may  be  true,  but  there  is 
one  virtue  possessed  by  the  average 
traveling  man  which  you  can  afford  to 
emulate— the  virtue  of  veracity.  With­
in  a  week  you  have  been  waited  on  by 
Senators  McMillan  and  Burrows  and 
plainly  told  that  you  were  courting 
trouble  by  reason  of  your  refusal  to obey 
the  State  law  relative  to  the  issuance  of 
family  mileage. 
You  spurned  their 
advice  and  intimated  that  you could run 
your own  business  without  the 
interfer­
ence  of  United  States  Senators  or  the 
legislative  sessions of Governor Pingree. 
Nero  fiddled  while  Rome  was  burning, 
and  you  sit 
in  your  luxurious  office, 
apparently  unmindful of the awful whirl­
wind  of  prejudice  and  opposition  you 
are  creating. 
You  apparently  forget 
that  the  band  that  makes  can  unmake—

n

that  the  people  who  create  corporations 
can  unmake  them  as  well ;  that  there  is 
a  limit  to  human  endurance  and  a 
line 
of  oppression  and  duplicity  beyond 
which  the  people  will  not  permit  you 
to go. 
I  commend  you,  Mr.  Ledyard, 
to  the  careful  and  prayerful  study  of 
that  portion  of  the  Scripture  which 
warns  us  that pride goeth before destruc­
tion  and  a  haughty  spirit  before  a  fall.

C olored  C ube  S ugar  in  England.
A  Liverpool  grocery  house  has 

intro­
duced  a  novelty  in  decorative  sugar that 
may  be  of  interest  to  grocers. 
It  con­
sists  of  cubes  of  loaf  sugar  tinted  with 
various  shades  of  colors that are claimed 
to  be  harmless.  These  are  very  effect­
ive 
in  window  dressing,  and,  as  the 
shades  are  not  too  pronounced,  they 
contrast  very  prettily  with  tbe  ordinary 
sugar.  The  sugar 
is  guaranteed  to  be 
the  real  product  of  the  cane,  and  the 
novelty  promises  to  become  popular 
among  certain  classes  of  retailers.

The  United  Kingdom  imported  flax 
last  year  to  the  amount  of  $12,625.000. 
Ireland  seems  to  be  producing  less  of 
the  raw  material  every  year,  although 
it 
is  well  known  that  the  best  flax  in 
the  world  can  be  grown  in  Ulster.  The 
decrease  in  cultivation 
is  ascribed  to 
the  emigration  of  the  best  class  of  flax 
growers.

Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

Steam Heat.  E xcellent Table.  Com­
fortable  Rooms.  H.  D.  an d   F.  H. 
IRISH.  Props.

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

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH. 

A. VINCENT, Prop.

THE  W HITNEY  HOUSE

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

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

NEW  REPUBLIC

Reopened  Nov.  i j ,

FINEST HOTEL  IN  BAY  CITY.

Steam heat,

Electric Bells and L ighting throughout. 

Rates,  *1 50  to  $2.00.

Cor. Saginaw  and  F ourth Sts.

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

duces Rates.

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

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

Carr &  Reeve.

He  Hew  Griswoie  House

Has NOT reduced its rates 
but has  100 of the

Newest  Rooms  in  Detroit

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

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P resident, F. W  R.  P erry, Detroit.
Secretary, G eo. Gundkcsi.  Ionia.
T reasurer,  A. C.  Sch u m ach er.  Ann Arbor.

E xam ination  S  ss ons.

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o'clock  p.  m.

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ASSOCIATION.

P resident—A. H. W ebber. Ciad'llac.
Secretary—C ha*.  Mann.  D etroit
T reasurer—J o h n   D.  Mu ir, G rand Rapids.

Brains  Are  Always  at  Par.

Few  pharmacists  seem  to  realize  how 
much  money 
is  to  be  made  by  doing: 
expert  work  as  a  part  of  their  daily 
business.  -  Examinations  of  blood,  of 
urine,  and  of  sputum  are  supposed  to 
be  common  in  the  practice  of  all  physi 
cians.  But,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  very 
few  have  the  technical  training  or  the 
time  to  do  the  laboratory  work  required 
to  make  careful  tests.  Men  with  large 
practices,  and  a  reputation  for  thorough 
work,  employ  others  to do  this for them : 
but  the  vast  majority  of  physicians  do 
not  take  advantage  of  these  latter  steps 
in  science,  because  the  expense  and 
trouble  of  sending  material  to  estab 
lished  bureaus  of  well-known  experts 
deducts  too  much  from  their  fees.

A  few  of  the  more  advanced  pharma­
cists  have  recognized  that  a  need exists, 
and  have  quietly  formed  a  local connec­
tion  and  established  a  reputation  for 
good  work,  so  that  the  physicians  of 
their  neighborhoods  are  beginning  to 
turn  them  material  which  otherwise 
would  not  be  examined  were  it  not  that 
the  pharmacist  had  made  it  easily  pos­
sible  to  do  so.

there 

Undoubtedly 

is  an  opening 
along  this  line.  Analyses  and  tests  pav 
well,  very  w ell;  and  if  only  there  were 
enough  of  them 
it  would  more  than 
recompense  the  pharmacist  to  emplov 
men  with  the  higher  technical  and 
scientific  training,  which  the  more  ad 
vanced  courses  of  study  include.  Like 
many  new  things  which  we  never  knew 
we  needed  until  the  need  was  filled, 
when  we  wondered  how  we  got  along 
without  them,  the  demand  is 
increased 
by  the  supply.  The  pharmacist  must 
make  it  known  to  his  clientele  of physi­
cians  that  he has  a  competent  man  who 
will  make  certain  examinations  at  a 
stated  moderate 
fee,  water  analysis, 
poison  tests,  examinations  of  deteri­
orated  or  adulterated  drugs,  tubercular 
sputum,  bloods,  urines,  feces,  etc.

All  come  within  the  province  of a 
pharmacist  who  has  had  training  for 
this  very  work  as  a  chemist  and  as  a 
good  microscopist.

Elaborate  bacteriological  examina­
tions  which  require  the  equipment  of  a 
special  laboratory  and  much  technique 
would  not  be  consistent  with  the  prac­
tical  business  working  of  such  a  branch 
of  pharmacy,  but  rather  the  simpler 
daily  analyses  and  te^ts  which  the  care, 
ful  physician  would  make  a  hundred 
times  more  often  than  he  does  were  the 
opportunity  offered  him  to  have  the 
work  done  promptly,  carefully,  and 
moderately.

The  microscopical 

examination  of 
is  daily  becoming,  a  matter  of

foods 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

more  and  more  importance.  As  busi­
ness  competition  becomes  keener,  un­
scrupulous  dealers  are  not  averse  to 
adulterating  the  ordinary  household 
staples,  powdered  sugars,  baking  pow­
ders,  chocolate,  mustard,  pepper,  etc. 
invalu­
A  microscopical  training  is  of 
able  aid  to  the  chemist 
in  all  work 
along  this  line.

Within  recent  years  the  microscopical 
study  of 
the  blood  has  advanced 
greatly.  The  number  of  the  red  and 
white  blood  cells,  the  percentage  of  the 
moglobin  and  the  specific  gravity  of  the 
blood  are  data  that  the  physician  re­
quires  in  order  to  treat  many  diseases. 
This  is  a  field  that  we  would  suggest  to 
the  pharmacist  with  the proper training.

Adulterated  Volatile  Oils.

While many pharmacists are particular 
about  the  quality  of  the  goods  they  buy. 
it  seems  that  but  few  give  the  subject 
of  the  purity  of  the  volatile  oils  they 
dispense  more  than  passing  notice. 
In 
no  other  line  of  merchandise  is  adul 
teration  practiced  so extensively.  These 
adulterations,  as 
is  well  known,  some­
times  reach  the  amount  of  85  and  even 
go  per  cent,  of  the  oil  sold.  The  adul­
terations  often  are  of  the  most  glaring 
kind,  and  quite  as  frequently  are  as 
easy  of  detection.  However,  pharma 
cists  will  have  no  trouble  in  securing 
oils  of  excellent  quality  if  they are  will 
ing  to  pay  the  price  demanded.

We  have  known  pharmacists  using 
the  so-called  “ German”   oil  of  sandal 
wood  in  prescriptions,  when  it  is  a  no­
torious  fact  that  this  brand  is  simply  a 
mixture  of  pure  oil  of  sandalwood  and 
»¡I  of  copaiba,  while  in  many  instances 
the  cheaper  grades  are  made  by  mix­
ing  oil  of  sandalwood  with  oil  of  cedar- 
wood.  The  first,  while  harmless  as  a 
mixture,  is  not  oil  of  sandalwood,  while 
it  is  not  so  certain  that  the  cedarwood 
oil  mixture 
is  not  a  positive  irritant. 
We  mention  this  particular  oil  merely 
because 
it  serves  well  as  an  example 
ond  because  of  the  fact  that  so  much  of 
the  adulterated  article  is  sold ;  but  it  is 
only  one  of  many  that  are  adulterated 
to  meet  the  low  price  demanded. 
It  is 
said  that  oil  of  rue  offered  on  the  mar­
ket 
is  not  less  than  85  per  cent,  oil  of 
turpentine,  and  anyone  who  will  take 
the  trouble  to investigate  cannot hut find 
that  this  latter  oil  holds  a  very  promi 
oent  position  in  the  adulteration of such 
nils  as  those  of  cedar,  hemlock,  ori­
ganum,  and  many  others.

It  is  only  due  the  jobbers  to  say  that 
they  are  furnishing  these  goods  for  just 
what  they  are  and  rot  as  pure  goods. 
A  careful  examination  of 
the  price 
lists  of  the wholesale druggists will show 
that 
in  almost  every  instance  two  oil? 
of  the  same  name  are  quoted  at  differ­
instance,  “ oil  of 
ent  prices,  as  for 
cedar’ ’  and  “ oil  of  cedar,  pure.”  
It 
is  to  be  regretted  that  the  demand  for 
this  class  of  goods  should  be  such  as  to 
dictate  this  course  to  the  wholesalers, 
who,  as  merchants,  are  simply  supply 
ing  the  demands  made  upon 
them 
Most  of  the  oils  thus  sold  are  limited 
in  their  use  to  liniments  or  for  external 
use,  and  their  use  cannot  he  as  objec­
tionable  as  if  they  were  used  internally. 
Still  it  is  the  duty  of  the  pharmacist  to 
see  to 
it  that  at  least  where  these  oils 
are  intended  for  internal  administration 
only  an  absolutely  pure  article  be  dis­
pensed. 

,

It  is  to  be  regretted  that  it  should  be 
thought  necessary  to  reduce  quality  in 
order  to  cheapen  tha  price,  but  this  is 
not always  the aim,  for  we  have  known 
specimens  of  copaiba  balsam  sold  as

pure  that  consisted  of  as  much  as  40 
per  cent  of gurjun  balsam.  In  the  face 
of  these  facts  it  is  unfortunate  that  our 
pharmacopoeial  tests  for this latter adul­
terant  are  not  to  he  depended  upon.

Orthoform,  a  New  Local  Anesthetic.
Under  this  name  a  new  synthetic 
product  related 
in  constitution  to  co 
caine  has  been  introduced  into  use  for 
the  production  of  local  anesthesia,  as 
the  result  of  an  extended  enquiry  into 
the  cause  of  the anesthetic  action  con­
ducted  by  Professor  A.  Einborn  and 
l)r.  R.  Heinz.  From  the  account  given 
by  those  authorities  orthoform  appears 
to  be  a  substance  of  great  interest  on 
account  of  its  being  without  toxic  char­
acter,  but  at  the  same  time  a  powerful 
antiseptic  and, 
consequently,  well 
adapted  for  use 
in  the  treatment  of 
wounds.

Orthoform 

is  described  as  a  white, 
voluminous,  crystalline  powder,  is  not 
hydroscopic,  melts  at  120  deg.  C., 
slightly  soluble 
in  water,  and  has  ou 
that  account  an  advantage  over  all other 
anesthetic  agents  that  are  known,  inas­
it  is  but  slowly  absorbed  in 
much  as 
consequence  of 
its  sparing  solubility, 
and  thus  a  durable  effect  is  produced. 
The  crystallizable  orthoform  hydro­
chloride  is  readily  soluble  in  water;  it 
produces  anesthesia  like  the  free  ester, 
hut  as  the  solution  has  an  acid  reaction 
it  is  not  always  applicable.

The  remarkable  anesthetic  action  of 
orthoform  is  manifested  very  decisively 
when  occasion  requires  the  tranquiliza- 
tion  of  exposed  nerve ends.  The  other­
wise  painful  operation  of  transpl >nting 
living  skin  may  be  carried  out  under 
the  influence  of  orthoform  without  any 
sensation.  Orthoform  has  a  remarkable 
effect  upon  burns,  contusions,  and  pain­
ful  abscesses,  and 
it  has  been  found 
very  beneficial  in  the  treatment of ulcer­
ation  of  the  throat  or  stomach  and  in 
cancer. 
is,  moreover,  so  free  from 
Doisonous  action 
that  comparatively 
large  quantities amounting  to nearly two 
ounces  may  be  applied  in  the  course  of 
a  week  for  dusting  wounded  surfaces 
without  any  danger. 
Internally  it  has 
been  administered  to  the  extent  of  from 
eight  to  fifteen  grains  daily.

It 

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—This  article  is  much  firmer, 
on  account  of  improvement  in  the  for­
eign  markets. 
It  would  cost  $2.87^  to 
import  to-day. 
for 
higher  prices  in  this  market.

Indications  are 

Morphine—Is  as  yet  unchanged,  but 
an  advance  must  take  place  soon,  on 
account  of  the  continued  advance  in 
opium.

Quinine— There 

is  a  fair  demand  at 
unchanged  prices.  At  the  last  bark 
sale,  the  price  was  advanced  about  10 
per  cent.,  and  an  advance  in  quinine 
would  surprise  no  one.

Balsams—Copaiba 

is  advancing  and 
stocks  are  being  concentrated.  Canada 
fir  is  scarce  and  firmer and  the  market 
is  advancing.

Cocaine—Another  advance  of  25c  per 
ounce  by  the  manufacturers  took  place 
on  Tuesday  last.  The  selling  price  to-

day  is  S3-55  per  ounce  in  ounce  vials, 
with  the  usual  advance  for 
smaller 
packages.  Another  advance  of  50c  per 
ounce  would  not  surprise  any  one,  as 
the  stocks  of  leaves  and  crude  cocaine 
are being  concentrated.

Codeine— Manufacturers  have reduced 
their  price  10c  per  ounce  to  conform  to 
the  lower  price  made  by  foreign  mar­
kets. 
is  not  believed  that  present 
prices  will  rule  for any  length  of  time, 
on  account  of  the  advance  in  opium.

Essential  Oils— Anise 

is  steady  at 
the  recent  decline.  Citronella  is  now 
in  full  supply  and  the  price  is  lower. 
Lemon  grass  has  advanced  and  is  very 
firm.  Sassafras  is  a  fraction 
lower,  on 
account  of  larger  stocks.

It 

Roots— Ipecac  is  advancing,  in  sym­
pathy  with  the  foreign  markets,  and  the 
demand  is  active.  Serpentaria 
is  firm 
and  stocks  are  small.  Golden  seal  has 
reacted  somewhat  and  prices  have  de­
clined.  Dandelion 
is  scarce  and  ad­
vancing.  The  same  may  be  said  of 
mandrake.

China 

is  to  have  a  revolution;  but 
China 
is  not  like  other  nations  whose 
chances  of  happiness  depend  upon  tele- 
eraphs  and  newspapers.  A  rebellion 
might  be  going  on  in  one  state  of China 
and  the  mikados  of  another  state  would 
never  find  it  out.

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Voes......................... 
©   34
©   34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo's 
Soda B oras................   7  ©  
9
Soda Boras, p o .........  7  @ 
9
28
26© 
Soda e t P otass T art. 
Soda,  C arb................ 
ix @  
2
3©  
Soda,  Bi-Carb........... 
5
Soda,  A sh..................  3%© 
4
Soda, Sulphas........... 
@ 
2
Spts. Cologne............  
@  2  60
55
Spts.  E th er  C o......... 
50© 
Spt  M yrcia D om ... 
©   »  00 
@  2  40 
Spts. V ini Reet. bbl. 
Spts.  V ini Rect.V4bbl  @ 2   45
Spts.  Vini R ect.l0gal 
©   2  48 
Spts. V ini Rect.  5gal 
©  2 50 
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, C rystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  S ubl...........  2VS© 
3
2©  2V4
Sulphur,  R o ll.........  
8©  
T am arin d s................  
10
T erebenth V enice... 
28© 
30
Theobrom se..............  
42©  45
V an illa......................  9  00@16 On
Zlncl  S n lp h ..............  
7© 
8

Oils

W hale, w in ter.. . . . . .  
Lard,  e x tra ............... 
Lard, No.  1................  

B B L .  8A.L.
70
45
40

70 
40 
35 

36 
Linseed, pure  ra w .. 
Linseed,  boiled.......  
38 
N eatsfoot, w inter s tr  65 
Spirits T u rp en tin e.. 
35 

19

38
41
70
40

Paints  BBL. 

LB
Red  V enetian...........  IX  2  ©a
Ochre, yellow M ars. 
IX   2  ©4 
Ochre, yellow  B er.. 
IX  2  @3 
P utty, com m ercial..  2X  2%@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V4  2X@3 
V erm ilion,  P r i m e
13© 
A m erican................ 
15
75
70© 
V erm ilion, E nglish. 
19
Green, P a r is .............  13H© 
G reen,  P en in su lar.. 
13© 
16
Lead, R ed ..................  5V4© 
6
Lead, w h ite..............   5V4@ 
6
W hiting, w hite Span 
@ 
70
W hiting,  gilders’... 
@ 
30
@  1  00 
W hite, Paris A m er.. 
W hiting, P aris  Eng.
c liff.........................  
r@  1  40
U niversal P repared.  1  00©   1  15

.¿Varnishes];

No.  r.T n rp C o a ch ...  1  10©   1  20
E xtra  T u rp ..............   1  60©  1  70
Coach Body...............  2 75©  3  00
No.  1 T urp  F u m __   1  00©  1  10
E xtra T urk D am ar..  1  55©  1  00 
Jap. D ryer, No. lT urp 
75

70© 

Acidnm

©

A cetlcum .................... 1  6@8
8
Benzoicum,  German
70© 75
Boracie......................
15
C arbolicum ...............
29© 41
C ltricn m ....................
4L© 42
H y d ro ch lo r..............
3©
5
N ltro c u m ..................
8©
10
O x alicu m ..................
12©
14
Phosphorium ,  d ll ...
15
©
Salicylicum ...............
60© 65
5
S ulpnuricum .............
IX ©
T a rin ic u m ................ 1  25©  1  40
T artaricum ................
38© 40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16  d eg .............
Aqua, 20  d eg ............
Carbonas....................
C hioridum ................
A niline

4©
6©
12©
12©

6
8
14
14

Black........................... 2  00©  2  25
B ro w n .......................
80©  1 on
45© 50
R e d .............................
Y ellow . 
.................. 2  50©  3  00

Baccae.
Cubeaee............ po.  18
J u n ip e ru s..................
X &nthoxylum...........
B alsam um
Copaiba......................
Peru.............................
T erabin, C anada__
T olutan.......................
Cortex
Abies,  C anadian__
Cassise  .......................
Cinch ana F lav a.......
Euonym us  atropurp 
M yrica C erifera, po.
P runus V irgin!.........
Q uillaia,  g r'd ...........
S assafras.........po.  18
ITlm us.. .po.  15.  g r’d 
E xtractum  

G lycyrrhiza  G labra.
G lycyrrhiza,  p o ....... 
Heematox, 15 lb b o x .
Haematox, I s ............
H sm ato x , Vis...........
Hsematox, Vfs.........
F erru

C arbonate  P re c ip ...
C itrate and  Q ninia..
C itrate Soluble.........
F errocyanidum  Sol.
Solut.  C hloride.......
Sulphate,  com ’l .......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cw t.......   .
Sulphate,  pure  .......

Flora
A rn ic a .......................
A n th em is..................  
M a tric a ria ................  

Folia

13© 15
6©
8
25© 30

55© 60
©   2  40
40© 45
75© 80

18
12
18

¡m
28©
n©
13©
14©
16©

14

12© 
18©
30©

28©
18©
25©
12©
8©

Barosma...................... 
Cassia A cutifol, Tin-
nevelly .................... 
Cassia Acutifol ,Alx.
Salvia officinalis. Vis
and  Vis....................
U ra Ursi.  ..................
Oum m l 
Acacia,  1st p ic k e d ..
©
Acacia,  2d  picked..
©
Acacia,  3d  p ick ed ..
A cacia, sifted  sorts.
©
Acacia, po..................
60©
12©
Aloe,  Barb. po.la@20
Aloe, C a p e __ po.  15
©
@
_
Aloe, S ocotri.. po. 40 
A m m oniac................  
55©
A ssafcetlda__ po. 30 
25© 
28
50© 
55
B en z o in u m ..............  
Catechu,  Is................  
©  
13
©  
14
Catechu, Vis..............  
C atechu,  Vis..............  
16
@ 
C am phorae................ 
48© 
55
©  
E uphorbktm ..po.  35 
10
© 1 0 0
G albanum .................. 
65© 
70
Gamboge  p o ............. 
©  
35
G uaiacum ....... po. 35 
@ 3  00
K ino.............po. 13. u0 
M a s tic .......................  
@  60
40
©  
M yrrh...............po.  45 
O pii.. .po. *4.00@4 20  2  85©  2  9 '
S hellac.......................  
35
25© 
Shellac,  b leach ed ... 
45
40© 
T ra g a c a n th ............... 
50© 
80

H erba

A bsinthium ..oz.  pkg 
Eupatorium  .oz.  pkg 
L obelia.........oz.  pkg 
M ajo ru m __ oz. pkg 
M entha  Pip. .oz.  pkg 
M entha V ir..oz. pkg 
R u e.................oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz.  pkg 
Thym us,  V ..oz.  pkg 
rtagnesia.
Calcined, Pat.............
C arbonate,  P a t.........
Carbonate, K.  A  M..
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

20©
55©
20©
35©

30© 

A bsinthium ..............   3  25©  3 50
Amygdalae,  Dulc  ... 
50
Amygdalae, Amarte .  8  00©  8  25
A nlsi...........................   2  25©  2 3
A uranti  C ortex.......   2 00©  2 20
B ergam ii....................  2  40©  2 50
85©  90
Cajiputi................... 
C aryophylli............... 
7u
65© 
° e d a r..........................  
35© 
65
C henopadii................ 
©   2  75
Clnnam oul i...............  l  80©  1  90
CUtronella. 
50

45©  

©  75
50© 60

90® 

35©  

90©  

Morrhuae,  g a l...........  1 ou@  1  10

Conium   M ac............  
50
C opaiba......................  i   10©   1  20
Cubebte..........................  
E xechthitos  ............   1  00©   1  10
E rig ero n ....................  1  On®  1  10
G a u lth e ria ................  1  50©  1  60
G eranium ,  o u n ce ... 
Gossippii, Sem. g al.. 
H edeom a....................  1  on©  1  10
Ju n ip era.....................  1  50©  2  00
L a v en d u la...................  
Lim onis......................  1  20©   1  40
M entha  P ip er...........  1  60©   2  20
M entha V erid...........  1  9  @  2 00
M yrcia,.......................  4  00©  4  50
75© 
O liv e ............................. 
Picis  L iq u id s........... 
io@ 
12
©   35
Plcls Liquida, g al... 
R ie in a .......................   1  03©  1  08
@  1  00
Rosm arini.................. 
Rosts,  o u n ce............   6  50©  8  50
S u c c in l...................... 
40©   45
S a b in a ...................... 
90©  1  00
S an tal.........................   2 50©  7 00
S assafras.................... 
55©   60
@  65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
T iglii...........................  1  40©  1  50
40© 
f b y m e .......................  
50
Thym e,  o p t............... 
©   1  60
T heobrom as............  
15©  20
P otassium
Bl-Carb.......................  
18
15© 
13©  
B ichrom ate....... 
15
48© 
Brom ide.....................  
51
Garb........................... 
15
12©  
C hlorate..po. 17@19c 
16®  18
40
C yanide......................  K5@ 
Io d id e.........................   2  60©  2  65
Potassa, B itart, pure 
28©  30
Potassa,  B itart,  com 
©   15
P otass N itras, o p t... 
8©   10
Potass N itras............  
7©  
9
25
P russiate.................... 
20©  
Sulphate  po  ............  
15© 
18

1  00

2  00

3  00

Scillse C o.................... 
T o lu ta n ...................... 
P runus v irg ............... 
T inctures 
A conitum  N apellis R 
A conitum  N apellis F
A loes...........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rn ic a ........................
A ssafc etld a..............
A trope  Belladonna.
A uranti  C ortex.......
B enzoin......................
Benzoin Co................
B aro sm a.................... 
C antharides............
C ap sicu m ................. 
C ardam on................
Cardam on  C o...........
C astor.........................
C atechu......................
C inchona.................. .
C inchona Co.............
C olum ba....................
Cubeba........................
Cassia  A cutifol.......
Cassia A cutifol Co  .
D ig italis....................
E rg o t..........................
F erri C hioridum __
G e n tian ......................
G entian C o...............
Guiaca  ....................
G uiaca am m on.........
H yoscyam us............
Io d in e.........................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino.............................
L obelia................... ]
M yrrh........................"
N ux  V om ica...
O p ii............................ ;
Opii, cam phorated..
Opii,  deodorized... 
Q u assia......................
R hatany...........
R hei........................
S a n g u in a ria .............
S erp en taria..............
S tro m o n iu m ............
T olutan......................’
V a le ria n ................... [
V eratrum  V eride ...
Z ingiber.....................

Radix

A conitvm .................. 
20©   25
25
22© 
A lthse.........................  
10©  
12
A n c h u sa .................... 
©  
25
Arum po.....................  
20©  40
Calamus  .................... 
G entians.........po  15 
15
12© 
16©  18
G lychrrhiza. ..pv. 15 
©   65
H ydrastis Canaden . 
®   70
H ydrastis Can., p o .. 
H ellebore,Alba, po.. 
15©  20
Inula, p o .................... 
15©  20
Ipecac,  po.................. 2  GO©  2  10
35©  40
Iris plox —  po35®38 
Jalapa,  p r..................  
30
25® 
@  35
M aranta,  X«............. 
25
Podophyllum , po__  
22©  
g £ ei
75©  1  00
........................... 
@  1  25
Rhei, c u t.. 
75©  1  35
Rhel-PV...................... 
Spigelta......................  
35© 
38
S anguinaria...po.  15 
©   11
S erp e n ta ria ..............  
30©  35
S en eg a.......................  
45
40© 
©   40
Sim uax,officinalis H 
Sm ilax,  M..................
©
10©
Sr-illae................po.35
Sym plocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po....................
V aleriana, Eng. po!30 
V aleriana,  German
Zingiber a .................. 
Z ingiber j .................. 

15©
12©
25©

......... 

Sem en
A nisum ...........po.  15
© 
12 
A plum   (graveleons)
15
13© 
Bird,  Is.....................
4© 
6
C aru i............... po.  18
12 
10©  
C ardam on..................
1  25©  1  75 
C oriandrum ..............
10 
8©  
Cannabis  S ativa...
4©  4V4
Cydonium .................. 
75©   1*00
th en o p o d iu m   ......... 
io@ 
12
D iptenx  O dorate...  2  00©   2  20
©  
Foenlculum ............... 
jo
Fcenugreek, p o ......... 
7©  
9
£*” ! • • • • ;.................... 
3© 
4
Lini,  g rd ........bbl. 3 
35©  40
L o b e lia ...................... 
P harlaris  C anarian. 
4©  4%
Rapa 
4V4®  
5
7©  
■sinapis A ibu............. 
g
Sinapis  N igra........... 
11©  
12
S p iritu s

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

25©

 

 

Sponges 
F lorida sheeps’ wool
carriag e..................  2 50©  2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriag e..................  
©   2 00
Velvet ex tra  sheeps’
w ool, carriage................. @ 1  25
E xtra yellow sheeps’ 
©  1  00
wool,  ca rria g e .... 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
c a rriag e.................. 
©   1  00
®   75
Hard, for slate u s e .. 
Yellow  R e e f ,  for 
slate  u se ................  
©   1  40
S yrups
A cacia.......................  
®  
50
50
@ 
A uranti C ortes......... 
Zingiber.....................  
©  
50
Ipeoac- 
60
©  
........... 
©   50
F e rrilo d .................... 
Rhei A rom ................  
©  
50
60
Sm ilax O fficinalis..  ■  50© 
S en eg a.......................  
50
©  
Sctll®.............  
a  
50

4©  4V4

niscellaneous 

„ 

....................  ©

Æ ther,  Spts.  Nit. 3 F 
30© 
Æ ther,  Spts.  Nit. 4 F   34©
A lum en......................  2V4©
A lum en, gro’d .. po. 7 
3©
A n n atto ...................... 
40©
A ntim oni,  po ........... 
4©
40©
A ntim oni et PotassT 
@ 1 4 0
A n tip y rin ................  
A ntifebrin  .  ............. 
@ 
15
50
©  
Argent!  N itras, oz ! 
A rsenicum ................. 
10©  
12
Balm Gilead  Bud  . 
40
38© 
Bism uth  S. N .........   1  40©  1  50
Calcium  Chlor.,  la.
©  
9
Calcium  Chlor.,  Vis.
©  
10 
Calcium  Chlor.,  x s . 
©  
12
C antharides,  Rus.po 
Capsici  Fructus, af.
15
©  
Capsici Fructus.  po.
15
@ 
Capsici FructusB .po 
©  
15
10© 
C aryophyllus.po.  15 
12 
Carm iné, No. 40 
©   3 00 
50© 
55
C era A lba,  S.  A F 1’ ’ .
Cera  F lav a............."
42
40© 
C occus.................. . "
40
@ 
Cassia F ru c tu s ___
33
©  
10 
© 
Cent raria...................
Cetaceum ..............  ’
45 
Chloroform .............
60©
63 
Chloroform , squibbs
1  25 
C hloralH yd C rst___
1  50©  1  60 
C hondrus...................
20© 
25
Cinchonidine,P.&  W 
25© 
35
22© 
31
C inchonidine, Germ  H H
C ocaïne.....................   3  55©  3  75
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
C reosotum ..........
G reta...............bbl.’ 75
Creta, p re p ...........
Creta, precip 
Creta,  R ubra.
C ro cu s.......................  
Cudbear
Cupri S ulph....... .. . . .
D extrine................."
E ther S ulph..........
Em ery, all  num bers
Em ery, po..................  
E rgota.............. po. 40 
Flake  W h ite............  
G alla........................  
G am bier............... "  
G elatin, C ooper..  . 
G elatin, F ren ch ....... 
Glassware,  flint, box
Less  th a n   b o x __
9©
Glue,  brow n............  
13©
Glue,  w h ite............... 
14©
G ly ce rin s..................  
©
G rana  P aradisi  .... 
25©
H um ulus.................... 
©
H ydraag Chlor  Mite 
@
H ydraag C hlor  Cor. 
@
H ydraag Ox R ub’m. 
@
H ydraag A m m oniatl 
45©
H ydraagU nguentum  
H ydrargyrum ........... 
@
65©
Ichtbyobolla, A m ... 
7 5 © ____
Indigo.......................  
Iodine, R esubi.........  3  60©  3  70
Iodoform .
_  4  20
L u p u lin ......................
© 2 25
L ycopodium ............
Macis
Liquor  Arse:, ethy-
drarg Io d ...............
L iquorPotassA rsinit
Magnesia,  S ulph__
M agnesia,  Sulph,bbl 
M annia, S.  P  ...........
Mentooi 
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18©
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10© 
75©
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30©
12©
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AXLE  QREA5B.
A u ro ra..............
..........55
Castor O il.........
.........60
D iam ond...........
.........50
F ra z e r's ............. ...........75
IXL Golden. tin  boxes 75
nica, tin  boxes. ...........75
P aragon .............

..  . . . »

doz. gross
6  00
7  00
4  on
9 00
9 on
9  »1
6  00

BAKINd  POWDER.

A bsolute.

X lb cans d o z ...................... 
H lb cans d o z......................  
1 

45
85
lb cans d o z ......................  1  50

A cn e.

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

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

El P a rity .

35
55
00

45
85
1  60

14 lb  cans per d o z ............... 
75
H lb cans per d o z .............  1  20
1 
lb  cans per d o z...............2  00

1 lb.  cans,  per d o z................  2  CO
8 oz.  ca  s,  * e r d oz...............   l  25
6 oz. cans, per doz...............  
85

J4 lb cans............................... 
K  lb cana..............................  
1 

45
75
lb  c a n s..............................   1  50

Home.

O ur Leader.

lb  can«. 2 doz ca se 
Jersey  C ream .

14  lb cans, 4 doz ca se........ 
M lb cans. 4 doz ca se.........  
1 
 

14 lb  cans 4 doz ca se.........  
>4 lb cans 4 doz c a se......... 
lb cans 2 doz c a s e .......  

S8§ g

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

1  doz.  pasteboard  B oxes..
3 doz. wooden  bo x es...

BATH  BRICK.

BLITINfl.

P eerless.

CONDIMp

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

40
1  20

85

BROOflS.

So. 1 C arpet.....................
No. 2 C arpet......................
No. 3 Carpet......................
No. 4 C arpet......................
Parlor Gem 
....................
Common  W hisk.............
Fancy  W hisk..................
................
W arehouse 
CANDLES.
8s......................................
16s 
......................................
Paraffine.............................
CANNED  OOODS.
flanitowoc  Peas.

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

..7
. 8
..8

Lakeside  M arrow fat...
95
Lakeside E.  J ................
1  '5
Lakeside, Cham, o f E n g .... 1  2
T.oVodflp  Op  tv,  Kx.
’  4
E x tra Sifted  E arly J a n e ... .1  75
CATSUP.

Colum bia, 
Colom bia  >4  pints

p in ts ____

2 0"
1  25

C H E E S E .

A c m e ............................
© t ’H
A n ib n r..........................
@ 1114
B v r o n ............................
© 11
E ls ie ..............................
© n s
G em   ..............................
© IS *
Gold  M ed al...  ____
© u
H artfo rd .......................
© 12
H erkim er.....................
©
I d e a l..............................
© 114
1 en a w e e ....................
© n
R iv e rsid e ......................
© 12
S p a r ta ........................
© II
© 10
B ri.-k ..............................
E-lam ..........................
© 75
L e id e n ........................
© 18
Li m b u r g e r ..................
© 10
P in e a p p le ..................... 43 © Si
Sap  Sago....................
© 18
Chicory.
5
7

...............................
...............................
CH OCO LA TE.
Walter Baker f t  Co
G erm an S w e e t................
Prem ium ....................
B reakfast-C ocoa.........

Bulk 
R ed 

..23
..34
..«5

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton. 40 ft, per  d o z .......  1  00
Cotton. 50 ft, per  d o z ..........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz  .........1  40
Cotton. 70 ft. per  d o s ..........1  60
Cotton. 80 ft.  per  doz  ......  1  80
i'lte . 60 ft.  per  d o s ............  
80
/a te . 72 ft.  T*»»  <4n«„ 
cs

COCOA SH ELLS.
20 lb   b ag s...........................  
Less  q u a n tity .................... 
Pound  packages............... 
CREAH  TARTAR.

2)4
3
4

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

COFFEE.

O reen.
Rio.

P a i r ............................................... 10
flo o d .............................................. 12
P rim e ............................................ 13
G olden  .........................................I t
P eaberry  ..................................... 15

S an to s.

P a ir  ............................................  1 *
flood  ..........................................  15
P rim e ...........................  
is
Peaberry  ..................................... 17

 

 

M exican  and  Q uatam ala.

P a ir  ............................................  1«
flood  ..........................................  17
F ancy 
........................................14

M aracaibo.

P rim e ..........................................2 i
M illed............................................ 21

In te rio r........................................ ffl
P rivate  flro w th ..........................12
M andehllng................................. 24

Im ita tio n .....................................f2
A rabian  .......................................£4

J a v a .

M ocha.

R oasted.

 

Clark-.Tewell-WellsCo.,8B rands
F ifth   Avenne.......  
28
Jew ell’«  A rabian M ocha___28
W ells’ M eoha and  Ja v a ........?4
W ells’  P erfection  J a v a ........?4
«•n o o lt»  
23
B reakfast  B’e n d ..................   20
V aliev city  M aracaibo.  — 1814
Tdeal  B lend.............. 
...13
Leader  B lend...........................12

 

P ackage.

for 

Below  are  given  New  York 
price«  on  package  coffees,  to 
th e  w holesale  dealer 
w hich 
add«  th e  local  freight 
from 
to  yo n r  shipping 
New  York 
point, giving yon credit  on  th e 
invoice 
th e  am onnt  o f 
freight  buyer  navs  from  
the 
m arket  in  w hich  he  purchases 
to hi« shipping point, including 
w eight  of  package,  also  1c  a  
potm d. 
In  fin ih.  case« th e list 
is 
ioc  per  inn  lhs.  above  the 
price In  fu ll cases.
A rb n c k le ...........................   10  so
Je rse y ..................................  
in  v i
ricL aughlln’s  XXXX...........10 5'i

E x tract.

V alley City X g ro s s ....... 
P ellx  H  gross  .................. 
H unm e” « foil H gross  .. 
Hummel*« Hu  >4  g ro ss... 

i  gross hnxea 

CLOTHES  PINS.
 
COUGH  DROPS.

C.  B.  Brai d.

75
1  15
85
1 47

 

40

40 5 cen t p ac k ag es............   1  00

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.
S ail  B orden  E ag le................ 6 75
C ro w n ........................................6 2S>
D aisy ..........................................5 75
Cham pion  ............................... 4  5>
...........................   .4  «
Magnolia 
Challenge...................................3 3"'
Dime 
3  >6

........  

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Qrade.

50 books, any d e n o m ....  1  50 
100 books, any d e n o m ....  2  50 
500 books, any d e n o m ....lt  50
1.000 books, any d e n o m ....20  00

Economic Qrade.

50 books, any d e n o m ....  150 
100 books, any d e n o m ....  2  50 
500 books  any d e n o m ....11  50
1.000 books, any d e n o m ....30 00

U niversal Q rade.

50 booss, any d e n o m ....  1  50
100 books, any d enom __   2  50
500 books, any d e n o m .... 11  50
1.000 books, any d en o m __ 20 00

S uperior Q rade.

50 books, any den o m ___  1  50
.  10n books, any d enom ___2  50
500 books, any d enom __ 11  50
1.000 booKs, any d enom __ 20  00

Coupon P ass Books,

Can  be m ade to represent any 

denom ination from  810 dow n.

20 books  ............................  1  00
50 books..................................2 00
100 books  .............................   3  00
250 books................................  C 25
500 books.................................10 00
1000 books.................................17 50

C redit  Checks.

500, any one denom ’n ....... 3 00
1000, any one denom ’n .......   5 00
2000, any one denom ’n ....... 8 00
Steel  p n n c h ...........................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOflESTIC 
S undrted...........................   ©  5*4
Evaporated 50 lb  boxes.  ©   8

Apples.

C alifornia  F ruit*.

A pricots.........................7HS8J4
B lackberries..................
N ectarin es.................... 
©
Peaches...........................   8  ©  9
P ears.......   ....................   8  ©
Pitted C herries.............
Prnnnelles......................12
Raspberries...................

California  P ra n a s .

100-120 25 lb  boxes...........  ©   .r x
90-100 25 lb boxes...........  © 4 V
80 - 90 25 lb boxes...........  ©   F x
70 - 80 g j lb  boxes...........  ©   f
60 - 70 25 lb boxes...........  ©   fi>4
50 - 60 25 lb boxes...........  ©   6*4
40 - 50 25 lb box es...........  ©   7)4
30 - 40 25 lb boxes........  ©
14 

cent less in 50 lb  cases 

R aisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 4 Crown. 
D ebeslas 
......................
Loose M uscatels 2 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 3 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown 

1  50 
2  00
5
6
7

FOREIGN.
C u rran ts.

Patras b b ls...................................®  fit«
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases..........@  6^
C leaned, bulk  .................... ©   8
C leaned, packages............. ©  8)4

Peel.

Citron American 101b  bx  ©14 
Lemon A m erican 101b bx  ©12 
O range A m erican 101b bx  ©12 

R aisins.

O ndura 28 lb boxes.......8  ©   8)4
S ultana  I C row n...........  ©
S ultana  2 Crown  .........   ©
S ultana  > C row n...........  @11
Sultana  4 C row n...........  @fti
l^i’2
Sn’tan« fi Crown  . . . . . .  
S ultana package...........  @’ 4
FARINACEOUS  QOOD5 .
24 1  lb.  package«............... t  75
B ulk, per 10/  lh s................3  £0

F arina.

G rits.

Waluh-DeRoo  Co.’S..........2  15
Bu .k in   10/ lb.  bag s..........3  0/

H om iny.

3

P eas.

B eans.

P earl B arley.

Barrels  .................................2 F0
Flake, 501b.  d ra m s..........1  00
Dried Lim a  ...........................  
M edium  H and  P ick e d ....1   00 
M accaronl and  V erm icelli.
Domestic.  101b.  b o x .........  60
Im ported.  25 lb.  b o x ...........2 50
Com m on................................  2  40
C h e s te r.................................  2 5u
Em pire  .................................  2  75
Green,  b n ...............................   8>
Split,  per lb ............................  
2
b b l........... 3 ?0
Rolled A vena, 
M onarch,  b b l....................... 3 3-
M onarch.  %  b b l.................. i 80
Private brands, 
b b l.........3  5
P rivate brands,  )4bbl..........1 85
Q uaker,  c a ses....................... 3 20
H uron, cases..........................1 75
G erm an ................................. 
E ast  In d ia ............................... 
C racked, b u lk ...................... 
84 2 lb packages....................2 60

Rolled  O ats.

3V4
3
8)4

W h eat.

Sago.

Jen n in g s’.

.1   20
2 0Z...
3 o z ... ...1  50
4 OZ.. . .2  U0
6 oz...
..3  «
No.  8 
1  00
No.  10 
6  00
No.  2 T .l  25 
No.  3 T.2  00 
No  4 T.2  40

!  X

-------- 
.........  6
.........   5
..........  5 «

ifipfin  No. 2
. ..   75
2 oz..
. . . . 1   00 Java,  fancy  h e a d ...
3 oz.
Java,  No.  1................
4 OZ.. ....1   40
........................
...2   UU Table 
6 oz..
No.  8. ..2 40 
SALERATUS.
No.  10 
.4  00 
No.  2 T .  80 
No.  3 T .l  35 
No.  4 T .l  5o

Packed 6U  lbs. In  box.

C hurch’s ..................................3  3(
Deiand’s ..................................3  15
Dwight’s ..................................3  30
T aylor’s ....................................3  00

Souders’ .
In  th e   w orld 

Oval bottle,  w ith  corkscrew . 
the

fo r 

Best 

2 
4 

Regular
Orade
Lemon.
doz
oz.....  75
o z.....1  50
Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 o z__  
.1  2b
4 o z ..........2  40
XX  Orade 
Lemon.

2 o z ..........1  50
o z......3  00
4 
XX Orade 
Vanilla.

UEGA/Vr 
LAVORING  i

l i e

DAYTON.O

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle - Dupont’s.

Kegs 
.................................4  00
H alf K egs..................................2 25
q u a rte r K egs............................ 1 25
1  lb.  c-ihs................................ 
  30
)4 lb   c a n s.................................  18
Choke Bore—Dupont’s.
Kegs  ..........................................4  25
H tlf K egs............................— 2 40
Q uarter K egs............................ 1 35
1 lb   ca n s...................................  34
Keg«............................................8 00
H alf K egs.................................. 4 25
Q u arter Kegs...................... ,..2  25
1 lb. c a n s..................................   45

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

SAL SODA.

G ranulated, b b ls................   75
G ranulated,  100 lb c a ses..  9 i
Lum p, b b ls...........................  75
Lump, 1451b kegs  ..............   55

SALT.

Diam ond  C rystal.

Cases. 24 3-lb  boxes..............1  50
Barrels,  1<X)  3 lb bags.........2  75
Barrels.  40  7 lb bags.........2 40
Bur ter. 28 lb. bags..................  30
Butter, 56 lb  bags..................   60
Butter, 20  t4 lb  bag s............3  00
B utter, 280 lb  b b ls................2 50

Comm on O rades.

100 3 lb  sack s...........................1  70
60 5-lb sack s...........................1  55
28 101b s ack s.........................1  45

W orcester.

lb.  carto n s.................3  25
50  4 
115  2)£lb. sacks..................... 4  00
lb. sack s.....................3  75
60  5 
lb. sacks....................3  50
22 14 
30 10 
lb. sacks..................... 3  50
•S* lb.  linen sack s...................   32
56 lb. linen sack s....................  60
Bulk in b arrels.......................2  50

56-lb dairy In drill bags.......   3(
28-lb dairy In d rill bag s.......  15

56-lb dairy in  linen  sa c k s...  60 

W arsaw .

A shton.

H iggins.

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

S olar  Rock.

Com m on.

56-lb  sack s...............................  21

G ranulated  F lu e....................   7’
M edium   F in e .........................  83

Fish.
Cod.

Georges cured .............. 
©   4)4
Georges  genuine......... 
©   5X
©   1 H
Georges selected ......... 
Strips or  b rick s...........5  ©   7vs

Halibut.

Herring.

C hunks.................................. 
S trips...................................... 

10
9

riackerel.

........... 
...........14

H olland w hite  hoons, bbl.  -0 25 
H olland  w hite hoop 14  bhl  5  ?0 
II  1  and w hite hoop.  «eg. 
72
Hoi  and w hite hoop m chs 
80
AorW egiau.........................   11  On
Round 100 lb s ......................  3  40
R ound  40 lb s......................  1  00
scaled........................................  
Mess ¡O0 l b s ........... ........... 16 on
Mess 40 1 PS............ ...........  6 70
Mess 10 lh s ...........
t 75
8 lb s............. ...........  1 4<
Mess
t,u .  1 luu ItM.
50
No.  1 40 lb s .__ ___ ...........  6 1
.  1 60
MO. 1 10 lb s.............
8 lb s............. ...........   1 30
No.  1
Ao. 2 100 1D8............. ...........1
•0
No. 2 4U lb s............. ...........  4 3 1
Mo. 2 10 1 ha............. ...........   1 15
95
No. 2
Russian kegs 
55
No. 1100 ib s..........................  4  50
No.  1  40 lb s .........................   2  b-
No.  1  10 lb s .......................... 
6i
No. 1  8 lb s .......................... 
51
No.  1  No. 2  F air
2  25
100 lb s .............  6  no 
40 lbs 
1  42
.........   2 70 
4a
lO lbs............. 
75 
8 lb s ............. 
35
63 
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

8 lb s .............
dar dines.
....... 
(rout

5  00 
2  30 
65 
55 

Whlteflsh.

 

HERBS.

INDIOO.

Sage............................................  15
H o p s..........................................   15

M adras, 5  lb  boxes...............  55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb  boxes__   5o

JBLLY.
15 
30 lb  p a lls.................  

lb  p alls............................   40
73

LYB.
Condensed,  2  dos  .................1  2b
Condensed.  4  do* 

...............2

 

LICORICE.

P ure............................................  3(
C a la b ria ..................................   25
Sicily..........................................  14
Root............................................  10

18

MINCE  M EAT.

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

nA TCH ES.

D iam ond  M atch Co.’s brands.

No. 9  su lp h u r................................1 65
Anchor  P arlo r..............................1 70
No. 2  H om e....................................1 10
E xport  P a rlo r..............................4 00

n o L  ASSES.
New O rleans.

11
B lack...................................... 
14
F a ir ........................................ 
G o o d ......................................  
20
24
Fancy 
............................... 
open  K ettle..........................25@35

H alf-barrels 2c extra.

P IPE S.

Clay, No.  216  ........................  1 7
Clay, T.  D.  fu ll co u n t......... 
**
Cob, No. 3............................... 
85

POTASH.

48 cans in  case.

B ab b itt's........................................ 4 Of-
Penna Salt  Co.’s ........................  3 OC

Barrels,  1.200 co u n t.............  5  50
H alf bbls, 600 c o u n t.............  3  30

Barrels, 2.400 c o u n t...........  6  75
H alf bbls,  1,200 co u n t.........  4  00

PICKLES.
riedlum .

Sm all.

RICB.

D om estic.

C arolina b e a d .......................   6)4
C arolina  No.  1 
C arolina  No. 2  ....................  4U
B roken....................................

..................   5

Im ported.

SEEDS.

9
A n is e ....................................  
Canary, S m yrna..................  
3
C a ra w a y ............................... 
8
t ’ardam on,  M a la b a r.......   61
Ce e ry ....................................... 
11
Hemp,  R ussian ................  
3 >4
M ixed  B ird .......................... 
«7«
M ustard,  w h ite ..................  
5
Poppy  ................................... 
1X
R a p e ............................................i)4
C uttle B one............................  20

SNUFF.

Scotch,  in  b lad d ers...............  37
Maccaboy, in ja rs ..................   35
French  Rappee. In  ja rs ........  43

S O \ ° .

JÄXON

Single box.....................................,2 75
5 box  lots, d e liv e re d ........... 2  70
10 box lots. d eL vsied.............2 65

JA$.  $.  KIRK  X  CO.’S  BRANDS.

A merican  Fam ily, w rp 'd __ 3  33
A m erican  Fam ily,  uuw rp'd.3  27
Dome................................................3 .33
C abinet............................................2 20
S avon...............................................2 50
Dusky  Diamond  50 6  oz___2  10
Dusky  Diamond  50  8  o z___3  00
B  ue India, 1U0 34  lb.................... 3 00
K irkoline........................................3 75
* «8
Bn> 
One  box  A m erican  F am ily 
free w ith  five

......  

Schulte Soap Co.’s B rand.

t l

m

100 Cakes, 75  bs.

Single  h o x ..................................... 2 80
5 b'*x  lo ts................ 
2  75
10 box  lots  ...............................2  70
25 box lo ts ............................  2  60
W olverine Soap Co.’s Brands.

 

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

A llen  B.  W risley’s Brands. 

Old  Country. 80 1-1 b  bars  ..2   "5
Good 1  he»-f. 60 1-lb.  b ars___3  75
U110,  100 K*lb.  b ars...................... 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  b ars.................... 8 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes 
Kegs. Engltsh  . 

...................................... 5)4
..............   44«

 

SPICES.
W hole Sifted.
10
Allspice  ...................... 
Cassia, C hina in m ats  .......   2
Cassia,  B atavia in  b u n d ...  £5
Cassia,  Saigon in ro lls.........38
Cloves,  A m boyna...................10
Cloves, Z anzibar....................  9
Mace,  B a tav ia ....................... 55
Nutmegs, fan cy ..................   .00
Nutmegs,  No.  1...................... 50
Nutmegs,  No.  2...................... 45
Pepper, Singapore,  b lack ... 10 
Pepper, Singapore, w h ite ... 12 
Pepper,  s h o t............................10

P u re  Ground in B ulk.

Allspice  ....................................12
Cassia, B a ta v ia ...................... 22
Cassia,  S aigon..  ...................35
Cloves,  A m boyna...................20
Cloves, Z anzibar.....................16
G inger,  A frican .....................15
G inger,  C ochin...................... 20
G inger,  Ja m a ic a .................... 22
Mace,  B atav ia........................70
M ustard, Eng. and T rieste. .20
M ustard, T rieste.....................25
N utm egs.............................40@'0
Pepper, Sing , black .. . .  10©14
Pepper, Sing., w h ite __ 15©18
Pepper, C ayenne............ 17©20
Sage.............................................18

STARCH.

VINEGAR.

Malt W hite W ine..............
P uie  1 iiier.........................
W ashing  Powdrr

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Sw ift  &  Company  quote  as

gg

IOIIOW8:

B arreled  P ork.

W heat.

W heat.......................................  
W in ter  W heat  F lour. 

Local Brands.

P a te n ts ....................................5  50
Second  P a te n t......................  5  10
S traig h t.................................  4  bo
C lear..........................................     40
................................*  4  7^
G raham  
B u ck w h eat.................. *****  4
Bye  ........................... 3 
50
Subject 
to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
F lour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.

W orden G rocer Co.’s B rand.

Q uaker,  54s ............................  4 5 ,
(Quaker,  14s.............................  4 5>
Q uaker,  5*s.............................  4 o0
G uard,  Fairfield & C o ’s B rand.
VViloie W heat 1-igs..............  5 20

S pring  W heat  F lour. 

Clark-Jew ell  Wells Co.'s Brand.
Pills bury’s  Best  54s.............5  55
P illsbury's  Best 54s .............  o  2J
P ilisbury's i.e»t  vss .............5  3
P iilsbuiy's Best  5»s paper .  5  .5 
PLlsoury’s Best  ^ s  paper..  5  .5 
B all-B arnhart-Putm an’s Brand.
G rand Republic,  54s............ 5  55
Grand R epublic,  54s............ 5  -.5
G rand Republic,  y2s.............5  ¿5
Lemou «fc  W heeler Co.’s  B rand.
Gold  Medal  54s ....................... 5  gj
Gold  M edal >4, .........................   OD
Gold  M edal  5*s.......................5  45
Parisian,  jg s....................... .  0  66
P arisian,  54s...............................
P arisian.  5*s...........................  5  4,,

Gluey <fc J u d s o n ’s B rand.

Ceresota,  54s ..........................  5  65
Geresota, ¡4s . . . . ...................  5  55
Ceresota,  jj s ..........................  6  4j

W orden Grocer Co.’s B rand.

Laurel,  54s ............................... 5  6i
Laurel,  54s .............................   5  ^5
Laurel,  * s ................................5  *0

M eal.

B o lte d ....................................   j  75
G ra n u la te d ................” !".!!!  2  to

Feed and  M illstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened  .... 14  0 J
No.  I  co rn  aud  o a ts ...........13  ui
Unbolted Corn  M eal...........13  „0
W inter  W heat  B ran ...........11  Ou
W in ter W heal M iddlings. .JL, uu
Screenings...............................  Uu
The  o .  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 

quotes as follow s:

New Corn.

Car  lo ts.................................. ...
Less than  ca r  lo ts...............3<

O ats.

Hay.

Car  lots.  ...............................   2354
Carlots, clipped................... 35^
Less th a n   car  lo ts ...............28

No.  1 T im othycarlots.........  9  00
No.  1  Tiinoluy, ton lots  ... lo  110

Crackers.

The N.  Y.  B iscuit  Co.  quotes 

as follow s:

B u tter.

Seym our X X X ......................  4
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  454
Fam ily X XX..........................  4
Fam ily  XXX, 3 lb  carton..  454
Salted XXX  ..........................  4
Sailed XXX. 3 lb c a rto n ...  454 

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ...........................   4
soda  XXX, 3 lb  ca rto n __   454
Soda,  C ity.............................   5
Z ephyrette................................. 9
Long lsiand  W afers...........  9
L. 1.  W afers,  1 lb carton  ..  10 

O yster.

Square Oyster, X X X ..........   4%
Sq. uys. XXX.  1  lb  carton.  554 
F arina Oyster,  XXX...........  4
SW EET  GOODS—Boxes.
A u im a ls.................................  9
Bern’s Cold W ater....... ..!  13
Belle  R ose.............................   6
Cocoauut  T affy....................  8
Coffee C akes..........................  8
Frosted  H oney......................  10
G raham  Crackers  ...............  g
G inger Snaps, XXX round.  5 
G inger Snaps, XXX  c ity ...  5 
Gin. snps.XXX hom e made  5 
Gin. Sups.XXX scallo p ed ..  5
G inger  V anilla....................  7
Im p e rials...............................  g
JumDles,  H oney..................   jo
Molasses  C akes....................  g
M arshmallow  ......................  12
M arshmallow  C ream s.......   13
Pretzels,  hand  m a d e .......   g
Pretzelettes, Little G erm an  6
Sugar  C ake...........................   g
S u lta n a s .................................  10
S ears'L u n ch .........................   g
V anilla  S quare..................  
7
V anilla  W afe rs..................   12
Pecan  W afers............ ...........  12
M ixed  Picnic ..  ..................   10
Cream J u m b le s ....................  1154
Boston G iuger  N uts............   6
f’t'm m ip  Rodman 
9
Pineapple Glace............ ". ..  '2
I’eiuiv rake« 
..................  g
M arshmallow  W alnuts__   13
Belle Isle P icnic..................   10

........... 

9  50

8  W
II  60
lu  60
9  7u

Mess 
.............................
Back 
..  .......................
Clear  b a c k .......................
S h o rtc u t.........................
P ig ......................................
Bean  .........................
Fam ily  ..............................
D ry  S alt  M eats.
B ellie s...............................
Briskets  .  ......................
E x tra  sh o rts......................
Sm oked  n e a ts .
Hams, 12 lb  average  ...
9
Hams,  14 lb  average 
...
9
Hams,  16 lb  average.......
85*
Hams, 20 lb  average.......
8
Ham dried beef  .............
15
Shoulders  (N.  Y. cu t).  .
6*
Bacon,  cle a r..................f @9
C alifornia  ham s...............
0
Boneless ham s................
854
Cooked  h a m ....................
11

554
5)4

L ards. 

In  Tierces.

Com pound........................
K ettle......................
55 lb T u b s...........advance
80 lb T u b s...........advance
5o lb T iu s ...........advance
20 lb P ails...........auvauce
10 lb P ails...........advance
5 lb P ails...........advance
3 lb P ails...........advance

S ausages.
B o lo g n a ........................
L iver...........................
F ran k fo rt....................
P o r k ........................
Blood 
......................
Tongue  ......................
Head  cheese....................

Beef.
E x tra  M ess...........
Boneless 
...............
R u m p .........................

P ig s’ F eet.

4
554

lg
\
%
1

5
6%
7 "

9
654

9  0)
12  -5
12 50

Kits, 15 lb s........................
80
(4  bbls, 40 lb s..................
1  5u
54  bbls, 80 lb s.................... 2  80

Tripe.
Kits,  15 lb s................
75
54  bbls, 40 lb s .................... 1  40
54  bbls, 80 lb s .................... 2  75

C asings.

P o r k .........................
Beef  ro u n d s.............
Beef  m iddles....................
S h e e p ...............................

B utterlne.

Rolls,  d a iry ....................
Solid,  d a iry ..............
Rolls,  cre a m e ry .........
solid,  c re a m e ry .........

IB
10

60

10
9 *
14
13*

Canned  M eats.
Corned  beef,  2  lb .......
2  10
Corued  beef,  14  lb ........... 14  U0
Koast  beef,  2  lb .......
2 .0
Potted  ham ,  54s .........
BO
Potted  ham ,  54s ........... 100
Deviled ham ,  54s .........
60
Deviled ham , 
* s ........... 1  00
Potted  tongue  (¿s.......
00
Potted  tongue 54s ........... 1  00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

C a rc a ss......................... 554©  754
* ore q u a rte rs...............  5 @  6
Hind  q u arters.............  7 @  9
Lotus  No.  3..............  
9 @12
R ibs........................... 
a
R o u n d s .........................   ¿54©  754
c h u c k s .....   ........... 
4 tea  5
Plates  .........................
@  3

Pork.

D ressed.......................
L o in s ...........................
S houlders..................
Leaf L a rd .....................   5)4®

@  454
©   6 -i
SL  5

Mutton.

C a rc a ss......................... 6 ©   7
Spring L am bs...............8 ©   9

Veal.

Carcass 

........................6 @  8

Oils.

Barrels.

Eocene  .........................   @1154
XXX W .W .M ich.Hdlt 
@  854
VV  W M ichigan.............  @ 8
Diamond  VVh.te..........   @  7
D.. S. G as.......................   @ 8
Deo.  N a p th a ................   @754
C y lin d e r.......................25  @36
“•ngine  ................. 11  @21
B  ack,  w in te r...  .......   @ 8

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

B u tters.

554
654
654
654
gal.  m eat-tubs,  per gal..  8 

54  sal , per d oz....................  go
1  to 6 gal.,  per g a l............. 
8 gal.,  per g a l ....................  
10 gal.. |ier g a l............... 
12 gal., per g a l.....................  
16 
2u gal. m eat-tubs,  per gal..  8 
25 gal.  m eat-tubs,  per gal..  10 
30 gal. m eat-tubs,  per gal..  10 

2 to 6 gal.,  per g a l........... 
554
Churn D ashers,  per doz...  85 

C hurns.

M ilkpans.

54 gal.  flat or  rd.  hot., doz.  60 
1 gal.  flat or rd.  hot., each 
Fine Glazed M ilkpans.

54  gal.  flat or rd.  hot., doz.  65 
1 gal.  flat or rd.  hot., each 

554 

554 

S tew pans.

54  gal.  fireproof,  bail, d o t.  85 
1 gal. fireproof,  bail, doz.l  10 

Ju g s.

54 gal., per d oz.....................  40
54 gal.,  per doz  ...................   50
1 lo 5 gal.,  per g al............... 

654

Tom ato Ju g s.

54 gal., per doz....................   70
1 gal., e«ch .........................  
7
Corks for 54 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks fo r  1 gal.,  per doz..  30 

P reserve J a rs  and Covers.
54 gal., stone cover, do z...  75 
1 gal., sioue cover, d u z ...l  00 

Sealing W ax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

lbs.  In package, per lb...  2

5 
No.  0  S u n ............................... 
45
No.  1  S un............................... 
50
No.  2  S un............................... 
75
T u b u lar..................................  
50
Security, No.  1...................... 
65
Security, No. 2...................... 
85
N utm eg  ................................. 
50
C lim ax....................................  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Com m on.
Fer box of 6 doz.
No.  0  S u n ...............................  1  75
No.  I  S un...............................  1  88
No.  2  S u n .................................2  70

F irs t  Q uality.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 su n , 

w rapped aud  labeled __ 2  10
w rapped and  labeled __   2  25
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  3 25 

crim p 
crim p 
crim p 

top,
top,
top,

No. 
No. 
No. 

XXX  F lin t.
crim p 
crim p 
crim p 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

w rapped and  lab eled __ 2  55
w rapped  aud  labeled.  ..  2  75 
w rapped  and  labeled  ...  3  75 

top,
top,
top,

CHIMNEYS—P earl  Top.

No.  1  su n ,  w rapped  aud
labeled...................................3  70
No  2  Sun,  w rapped  and
labeled ................................   4  70
No. 2 Hinge, w rapped  and
lab eled ...................................4  88
No. 2  Sun,  “ Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lam os..............  
80

La  B astle.

No.  1  Sun.  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ......................................  1  25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ......................................  1  50
No.  1  Crimp, per d oz........... 1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per d o z.............1  60

R ochester.

Electric.

OIL  CANS. 

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

Pum p  Cans

5 gal  Rapid  steady stream .  9  00
6 gal  E ureka nou-overflow 10 56
3 gal  Home R ule.................. lo  50
5 gal  Home Rule  ...  ......... 12 00
5 gal  P irate  K ing ................   9  50

LANTERNS.
No.  0 T u b u lar......................  4  25
No.  1  B  T u b u lar.......  
...  6  50
No. 13 T ubular D ash...........6  30
No.  1 Tub., glass fo u n t....  7  00 
No.  12  Tubular, side lam p.14  0C
No.  3 Street  L a m p ...........3  75

LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each,  box  10 cem s............. 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases2doz.
each,  box  la  cen ts...........  
45
No.  0 T ubular,  bbls  5 doz.
each,  bbl 35..................... 
  40
No. 0 T ubular,  bull's  eye,
cases  1  doz.  e a c h .............  1  25

LAMP  W ICKS.

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

20
25
38
68
70

@
©4  50
@500

@3  25
©3
©4  uu
<^,4  50
(¿5  u0

©   10
©   12
©  
13
©  
14
©   11
©  
15
g
•  ©  

g

@ 8
©  
©
©   414

@13
@11
@15 
@  854 
@lu 
@H 
@1254

@ 8 
@10 
@12
@1  75 
©4  50

@  654
@  64
@  4 
©  654

Candies.
S tick  C andy.

S tan d ard .................... 
Standard  H.  H ......... 
Standard  T w ist.......  
C ut  L o af.................... 
Jum bo, 321b  ............ 
E x tra H. H ................ 
Boston  C ream ......... 

bbls.  pails
g%@ 7$4
b^2©  754
6  ©  8

@
cases
®   654
©   8*
@

Mixed C andv.

Com petition.............. 
S tandard.................... 
Conserve.................... 
{**«> .........................  
Kiobon........  ............. 
Broken  .....................  
Cut  L oaf............... 
English  Hock........... 
K indergarten........... 
F rench  C ream ......... 
Dandy P an ................ 
Valley C ream ........... 

@  654
@ 7
@754
@ 7 *
@  8ys
@  85.
@  ay»
@  8
© 8 A
@  8»
@iu
@13

F an cy —In B ulk.

Lozenges, p la in .......  
Lozenges,  p rin ted .. 
Choc.  D rops............. 
Choc.  M ouum entals 
Gum  D rops............... 
Moss  D rops...........  . 
Sour D rops................  
Im p e rials..................  

@ 9
@  9
11  ©14
@12
©   g
©   8
@854
@  8*

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon  D rops........... 
@50
s o u r  D rops............... 
©50
P epperm int  D rops.. 
©go
© gj
Chocolate Drops  ... 
H.  M. Choc.  D rops..  ©75
Gum  D rops..............  
©¿0
Licorice D rops......... 
©75
A.  B. Licorice Drops 
©50
Lozenges,  p la in __  
@50
Lo.euges,  p rim ed .. 
©50
Im p e rials.................. 
©50
M ottoes...................... 
@55
Cream  B ar................ 
©,,o
Molasses B ar  . . . . . . .  
©50
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©1  0J
Plain  C ream s...........  go  ©90
D ecorated C ream s.. 
©yo
©go
String B ock..............  
B urnt A lm onds....... 125  ©
W intergreen Berries 
@gj
C aram els.
No.  I  w rapped, 2  lb.
b o x e s ...................... 
No.  I  w rapped, 3  lb.
B oxes...................... 
No. 2 w rapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ................

©30
©45

Fruits.
Oranges.

Fancy  M exicans.

Bod is.

n6s  ...........................  
............................... 
20j F an cy ................... 
Lemons.
Strictly choice  3gus.. 
Strictly choice 3uus.. 
Fancy  3b0s................  
Ex.Fancy  3iH)s......... 
Ex.  Kodi  300s........... 
Bananas.

Medium  b u n ch e s... 1  25  @l  50
Large bunches.........l  75  ©2  00

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

Choice, 101b coxes.. 
E x tra  chub e,  14  lb
b o x e s ...................... 
Fancy,  i2 lo  uuxes.. 
Fancy,  . 0 lo boxes.. 
Im perial M ikados, 18
i b . o . e . .................. 
Pulled, g ib  bo x es... 
N aturals,  in  b ag s... 

1  0j

D ates.

Fards in 10 lb  box< s 
F a rd .  in  61 ib  cases 
Per.-ians.  11.  *1. B.,60
lb cases,  new .........  
Sail's.  (0 1» case-,__  

Nuts.
A lmonds, T arragona.
Almonds,  lr a c a ...........
Almonds,  C aliforuia,
soft  sh elled ............
Brazils u ew ................
F ilberts  ..................
W am uts, Grenobles .. 
W alnuts,  Calif  No.  I. 
W alnuts,  soft  shelled
C a lif.......................
Table  Nuts,  fancy.. 
Table  Nuts,  choice.
Pei aus,  Med.............
Pecans,  Ex.  Large..
Pecans,  Jum n o s........
Hickory  Nuts  per bu.
Ohio,  new ................
Cocoam us,  full  sacks 
Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
R oasted......................
Choice,  H.  P.,  Extras. 
Choice,  H.  P ,  Extras, 

B 'nuted 

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

K ingstord’s  Corn.

10  l-lb packages......................  g
20 1  lb packages......................  6)4

Klngsford’s Sliver  Gloss.
10 l-lb packages......................  gu
8-lb  boxes  .............................  7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ................. 5  oe
128  5c  packages...................5  00
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5  0c 

Common Corn.
20 1  lb  packages............
40 1 Ib  pac.a g e s ............
20 lb.  six es...................
40 lb.  boxes.....................
Common Gloss

..  ..  4(4
........  41*
.......   4

l-lb  packages................ .......   4(4
3-lb  packages................ __   4(*
6-lb  packages  .............. .......
40 and 50 lb boxes......... .......3
Barrels
----

STOVE POLISH.

No  1  3 doz tn case, gross..  4  50 
No.  6  3 doz  in case, gross..  7  20

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  w hich  the 
w holesale dealer adds the local 
lre ig h l from   New  York to your 
shipping 
point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  lo r  the 
am ount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from   the  m arket  in  w hich  he 
purchases  to hisshipping point, 
including  2U  pounds  lo r  the 
w eight of the  barrel.
C ut  L oaf................................. 5  63
D om ino................................... 5  »u
C u b e s ....................................... 5  l i
Pow dered  ...............................5  is
XXXX  P ow dered............... .5  26
M ould  A ................................. 5  *a
G ranulated in bbls............... a  Uu
G ranulated  in  bags..............5  00
F ine G ran u lated ................... 0  uu
E x tra  Fine G ran u lated ....... a  1.
E x tra Coarse G ranulated.  o  1
D iam ond  Coufec.  A ............5  uu
Confec. S tandard A ..............4  8:
No.  1....................................... 4  6j
No  2....................................... 4  o-
No.  3....................................... 4  63
No.  4  ......................................4  06
No.  5....................................... 4  5
No.  6....................................... 4  44
No.  7 ..................................... 4  38
No.  8....................................... 4  i
No.  9......................................  4  9
No.  10....................................... 4  13
No.  11....................................... 4  06
No.  12.................. 1  ...............  4 no
No.  13......................................3  «4
No.  14....................................... 4  94
No.  15....................................... 3  88
No.  16........................................3  8»

SYRUPS.

Corn.

B arrels..................  .............  17
H ail  bbls...............................  19

P u re C«ne.

F a ir 
......................................  16
G o o d ......................................  20
C n o ie e .................. ...............  25

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea &  P errin’s,  larg e...... 4  75
Lea A  P errin's, sm all...... 2  75
H alford,  large...................3  75
H alford sm all......................2  25
Salad  Dressing,  large...... 4  55
Salad  Dressing, s m all...... 2  65

TOBACCOS.

C igars.

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

H.  & P.  Drug Co.’s brand.

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

J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brana.

I

00 12 oz pkgs.........................  3 50

WICKING.

No. 0, per gross.........  ...........   25
No.  1. p erg ro ss.......................   30
No. 2, perg ro ss.......................   40
No. 3, per gross.......................   75

Fish  and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

W hitefish..................
I'ro u t......................
Black  Bass..............
H a lib u t....................
Ciscoes or H errin g ..
Blueiish.....................
Live  L obster...........
Boiled L obster.........
c o d .........................
H addock..................
No.  1  P ickerel.........
P ike....................
sm oked  W hite  ...
tied S napper.............
Col  River  S alm on..
M ackerel 
...............

Oysters in Cans.

Per lb.
©
©
©   10
@  4
@  lo
@  18
©   20
@  10
©  
8
©  
9
@ 
7
©   9
©   12
©   ]5
©   18

F.  H.  C ounts.............
F. J.  D. Sell cts.........
Selects ........................
F  J  1).  dla n d aid s..
A nchors.....................
S laudar Is...............
F av o rite s..................

Oysters  in Bulk

F  H. Com ts ...........
E x tra  Selects...........
¿•elec.»........................
.»I.C  lor SLauda]ds..
>t  u(lards..................
Clam ».......................

Shell Goods.

@  27
©   2J
@  2 1
©   18
©   16
©   14

@1  75
@  50
@1  25
©1  10
@1  OC1
@1  25

Oysters, per  100_____ 1 25@1  F0
' Sms.  nor  100
Of

Hides  and  Pelts.

Perkius  &  Hess  pay as  fol-

lows:

Hides.

G re e n __
Part  cured. 
Full Cured.
Dry  ............
Kips,  green 
Kips,  cured 
Calfskins, 
Calfskius, 
D eacouskins

g reen . 
cured.

...  7  @ 8  
© 8V4
—   8*@   9,»
—   9  fell
---- T  @  0
....  8J*@ 9H
—   754©  9 
....  9  © 1 '*  
___25  @30

Pelts.

S h earlin g s.................. 
5®  3 0
L a m b s.........................   4o@  1  10
Old  W ool......................  6d@ 

Furs.

M in k ...........................
CO..........................
s k u n k ...........................
M uskrats, spring.......
M uskrats,  w in te r__
lied  Fox.................. ...1
Gray  F o x ...................
Cross  Fox  ...................2
B adger.........................
Cal,  W ild ....................
Cat,  H ouse..................
F ish er...........................3
Lynx  .. 
..................... 1
M artin,  D ark...............1
Mai tin,  Y ellow .........
o tte r .............................. 5
W o lf................ ...........
Bear 
...........................7
B eaver.......................... 2
Beaver Castors..........
Opo  su m ......................
D eeiskin. dry  p.  rib . 
D eerskin, gr’n, per lb.

4'i@  1  2'i 
i5@ 
80
9o 
5u@ 
©
1’ ©  
15
5©  1  50 
4.1© 
70
5  ©   5 < o 
60 
20©  
15© 
40
10@ 
.0 
oil©  7  00
U © 2 UU 
50©  3  uu 
75©  1  50 
■ Oft  9  0 > 
7  ©   I  50 
00©'5  0 
Uu©  6  00 
@  8 on 
15
5<t 
25
15© 
10© 
15

Wool.

W ashed 
......................10  ©IS
U n w ash ed ....................  5  @14

niscellaneous.

S.  C.  W .....................................3ei  00

H  V an T   ngeren’s  Brand. 

S tar  G reeu.............................. 35 00

T a llo w .............
Grease  Butter.
.••witebes  .......
Ginseng.........

..... 254© 3*
.....   I  © 2
.......   154©  2
.....   @3 2b

22

Hardware

The  Arrangem ent  and  C are  o f Goods.
W ritten fo r th e  T r a d e s m a n .

In  planning  for  the  best  disposal  of 
all  the  various  kinds  of  goods  found 
in 
the  hardware  stock  there  are  a  number 
of 
important  matters  to  be  taken  into 
consideration. 
It  is  not  enough  that  an 
artistic  and  attractive  bestowal  of  the 
goods  with  reference  to  their  engaging 
the attention  of  customers  shall be made 
without  regard  to  the  accessibility  of 
every  article  however  unattractive,  and 
with  the  proper  care  to  guard  against 
deterioration  on  account  of  the  arch 
enemy  of  the  hardware  store,  rust,  or its 
effective  adjuncts,  dust  and  moisture.

So  it  is  well  to  take  into  careful  con­
sideration  the  arrangement  of  shelving 
necessary  to  accommodate  the  boxed 
goods,  the  contents  of  boxes  and  pack­
ages  being  indicated  either  by  labels  or 
samples  attached.  These  shelves  are 
for  the  arranging  of  such  goods  as  are 
received  and  kept  in  original packages. 
They  should  not  be  placed  too  far  apart 
so  as  to  make  the  piles  of  boxes  too 
high,making it  necessary  to  handle  over 
too  many,  and  the  depth  of  the  shelv­
ing  should  be,  of  course,  £S  little  as 
will  accommodate  the  most  of  this  class 
of  packages, 
those  requiring  deeper 
shelves  having  special  provision  else­
where. 
is 
made  by  having  several  wider  shelves 
next  above  the  base  or  ledge  shelf  for 
the  accommodation  of  the  longer  boxes.
Then  there  should  be  provided  a suffi­
cient  quantity  of  shelf  boxes,  also  of 
suitable  depth  to  contain  shelf  hard­
ware  and  tools.  These  may  be  made  to 
occupy  a  space  at  the  end  of  both  the 
deep  and  shallow  shelves,  correspond­
in  depth  and  made  of  varying 
ing 
lengths  from  six  to  twenty-one 
inches. 
These  should  be  provided  with  a  por­
celain  knob  with  which  to  pull  the  box 
out,  and  are  intended  to  have  a  sample 
on  the  front.

Sometimes  this  provision 

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

the 

for  the  products  of  all 

factories.
While  the  prices  of  wheels  are  kept 
up to  the  old  figures  for  the  most  stylish 
tastes,  the  great  increase  in  the  demand 
is  for  well-constructed  moderate-priced 
wheels.  The  perfection  of  automatic 
machinery  is  such  that  good  wheels  can 
now  be  made  and  sold  with  fair  profit 
for $50.  Wheels  at  a 
less  price  than 
this  will  be  found  unreliable  in  con­
struction  and  will  run  hard  and  be 
found  generally  unsatisfactory. 
The 
failure  of  many  manufacturing  con­
cerns  during  the  past  two  years  has

thrown  a  great  number  of  good  wheels 
on  the  market  which  have  been  sold  at 
less  than  their  real  value  and  have 
wrought 
injury  to  the  general  trade; 
but  as  the  business  assumes  a  more 
stable  basis  there  will  be  less  of  this  to 
interfere. 

N a t e .

W rite lo r prices. 

’P h o n e  1357.

THOM AS  DUNN  &   S O N S ,

W H O L E S A L E

Ha r d w a r e  S p e c ia l t ie s,  B eltin g,

E ngineers,  M achinists and 

F actory Supplies.

93  PEARL STREET. 

GRAND  R A P ID S .

STUDLEY  &  BARCLAYI

MACKINTOSHES, 
CANDEE  RUBBER 
BOOTS  AND  SHOES, 
BELTING  AND  M ILL 
SU PPLIES.

4  Monroe  St.,

Grand  Rapids.

Wm.  Brummeler  &  Sons,

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

ment,  than  to  have  the  stocks  lie  too 
long 
in  the  bins  or  require  handling 
over  to  take  out  the  intruding  articles 
or  dirt  prone  to  accumulate 
in  such 
places.

Of  course,  the  arrangement  and  quan­
tities  of  this  provision  of  wall  space 
must  be  subject  to  the  dimensions  of 
the  store  and  the  quantity  and  variety 
of  goods  to  be  accommodated. 
In  the 
larger city  stores  the  length  of  shelving 
will  be  greatly 
increased  and  is  often 
supplemented  by  a  balcony  and  upper 
tier  for  the  lightest  goods.  But  this 
space  is  only  valuable  for  storage, which 
in  smaller 
might  be  found  elsewhere 
stores  without 
is 
better  that  the  shelves  from which goods 
are  retailed  should  only  accommodate 
enough  to  keep them changing and mak­
ing  place  for  fresh  ones  than  that  there 
should  be  an  undue  accumulation  to  de­
teriorate  by  rust  and  become  shelfworn.

inconvenience. 

It 

J.  M e s s e r s c h m i d t .

Styles  and  Prices  o f  W heels.

VVritten  fo r th e  T r ad esm an.

It 

is  but  a  few  years  since  the  ap­
pearance  of  the  new  patterns  of bicycles 
was  looked  forward  to  with  great 
inter­
est  by  all  devotees  of  the new  instru­
ment  of  recreation.  Rumors  and  spec­
ulation  were  rife  and  carefully  guarded 
secrets  were  whispered  here  and  there 
until  the  “ leading  makers”   should  be 
pleased  to  display  the  models  which 
were  to  be  the  indication  of  the  fashion 
for  the  season  in  question.  But  as  the 
wheel  assures  a  definite  type  based  on  a 
gradual  approach  to  the  true 
ideal,  the 
opportunity  for  radical  departures  be­
comes  rapidly  less.  Thus  there 
is  but 
little  more  change  in  the  styles  recently 
than  are  seen 
in  the  fashions  of  other 
vehicles.

To  be  sure,  there  are  still  attempts, 
such  as  the  recent  one  of  the  Columbia 
people,  to  make  a  departure  and  sensa­
tion  as  in  times  past.  In these  they  may 
succeed 
in  making  some  stir and  gain­
ing  some  notoriety,  sufficient  for  adver­
tising  purposes;  but such movements  no 
longer  mean  the  setting  of a new fashion 
w h ic h   shall  make  all  the  present  wheels 
back  numbers  and  obsolete.  There  may 
be  some  who  will  pride  themselves  on 
the  distinction  of  having  discarded  the 
old  chain  and  sprocket,  but  these  will 
be  relatively  a  select  few.

It 

is  a  good  idea  also  to  have  a  sec­
tion  of  the  wall  space  or  shelving  de­
voted  to  boxes  for holding  bolts,  at  least 
in  such  stores  as  keep  these  prone  to 
mixing  goods 
in  considerable  quanti­
ties.  These  boxes  may  be  made  of  such 
size  as  may  be  needed  for  the  stock 
carried,  say  from  5x7  inches,  10  inches 
deep,  to  7x7 
inches  deep. 
These should be  provided  with  a  drawer 
pull  having  a  place 
in  the  pull  for  a 
label  on  which  to  mark  the  sizes  of  the 
bolts,  such  as 
in  common  use  by 
druggists.

inches,  15 

is 

Below  the  base  or  ledge  shelf  should 
be  still  deeper  and 
larger  drawers  in 
which  to  keep  tools,  etc.  These  may 
consist  of  either  three  or  four  rows,  ac­
cording  to  the  size  of  stock  to  be ac­
commodated.  Care  should  be  used  in 
the  construction  of  these  that  they  shall 
fit  so  closely  as  to  exclude  dust  as  far 
as  possible,  and  at  the  same  time  slide 
in  as  freely  as  possible.  Oc­
out  and 
lubrication  with  powdered 
casional 
soapstone  will  aid 
in  the  free  opera­
tion  of  all  drawers.  A  suitable  portion 
of  the  space  under  the  ledge  at  the back 
of  the  drawers  toward . the  rear of  the 
store  may  be  devoted  to  shelf  space  for 
the  accommodation  of  heavy  tools, 
sledges,  sausage  mills,  etc.

On  the  opposite  side  back of the space 
devoted  to  drawers  under  the  base  shelf 
may  be  constructed  bins  for  holding 
such  articles  as  sad  irons,  strap  and  T 
hinges,  etc.  These  should  not  be  made 
too  large  or  deep,  as  it  is better to carry 
in  base­
surplus  stock  elsewhere,  as 

There  are  several  reasons  why fashion 
should  be  of  less  consequence  as  the 
wheel  comes  more  and  more  into  use. 
The  recognition  of  its  universality  as  a 
means  of  progression  makes  it  of  less 
interest as  a  subject  of  comment. 
It  is 
easy  to  keep  up  a  feeling  of  style  or 
fashion as long as  a  subject  has  novelty; 
but  when  every  one  rides,  there  is  little 
more  notice  taken  of  the  mounts  than 
of  the  shoes  of  the  rider.  Then,  many 
of  the  riders  who  were  votaries  to  style 
are  coming  to  consider  a  wheel  a  year 
or  so  old  just  as  good  for  their  use  and 
pleasure  as  a  new  one. 
Indeed,  they 
become  used  to  their  wheel  and  feel  a 
reluctance  to  change 
it  for  something 
different.  The  ordinary  use  of  a  wheel 
for  one  year,  if  it  is  properly  cared  for, 
is  not  enough  to  cause  material 
injury, 
and 
is  consequently  coming  to  be 
considered  the  yielding  to a  silly  fad  to 
change  every  year.

it 

But  this  does  not  mean  that  there  is 
less  demand  for  wheels.  The  number  of 
those  taking  them  up  every  year  is  not 
diminishing.  And  those  who  have  rid­
den  the  same  mounts  for  several  years 
find 
it  desirable  to  change  to  the new 
ones,  so  the  number  requiring  new  sup­
ply  is  enough  to  keep  a  healthy demand

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

2 3

How  to  Controvert  Illegitimate  C om ­

petition.

A nte  Lueem in A m erican A itisan.

1  was  talking  with  a  hardware  dealer 
and  he  said  m  his  town  there  were  two 
grocer)men  carrying  lull  lines  ol  pieced 
and  stamped  tinware  and  lately granite- 
ware  had  been  added,  and  pieces  ot 
furniture,  plated  ware,  cheap  jewelry, 
clocks,  watches,  etc.,  procured  wnn 
alum  powders,  package  coffees,  etc., 
were  also  cariied 
trade 
catchers.  Now,  what  can  anyone  ex­
pect  from such  a  line  of  business?  Can 
they  expect  honesty  and  square  deal­
ing,  good  goods  and  fair  values?  Can 
any  man  sell  a  dollar’s  worth  ot  goods 
and  give  away  with  each  sale  50  or  75 
cents’  worth  of  any  other goous,  livt, 
pay  his  honest  debts  and  do  an  honest 
business?  It  is  as  impossible as it would 
be  to  remove  spots  lrom  the  sun.

in  stock  as 

When  any  man  comes  along  offering 
free  gilts  ot  great  values  with  your  pur­
chases,  remember  one  sure  thing:  he 
intends  to  rob  and  cheat  you  and will do 
it  so  sure  as  you  take  the  bait.

is 

These  dealers  who  handle  goods  out­
side  their  regular  lines  largely  use  them 
as  fakes  to  catch  a  class  ot  customers 
who  are  always  looking  for  something 
for  nothing,  but  who  usually  get  a  thing 
for  something,  i.  e.,  it  they  pay.  Who 
is  to  blame  for  this  class  of  business 
which 
last  crushing  out  legitimate 
trading?  The  manufacturer  and  whole­
saler,  and  they  cannot  long  follow  this 
course,  or  they,  too,  will  be 
in  the 
maelstrom  of bankruptcy,lor  surely  they 
are 
last  bankrupting  the  commercial 
business.

If  the  stream  will  not  float  the  craft, 
lessen  the  burden,  aou’t  lighter  it  into 
every  stagnant  pool  because  it  bears  the 
name  John  Smith,  general  merchandise. 
Our  country 
is  too  great,  our  commer­
cial  interests  too  valuable,  to  be  ruined 
by  the  sclnsh  interests  ot  man.

“ What  are  you  going  to  do  about it?’ ’ 
says  one  wholesaler. 
“ What  are  you 
poing  to  do  about  it?”   say  I.  Less  than
eighty  miles  lrom  the  counting-room 
door  of  this  wholesale  hrm  is  a  smalt 
country  village  with  one  good  retail 
hardware  firm,  also  a  veritable  depart­
ment  store,  which  also,  of  course,  car­
ries  hardware.  Several  years  ago  this 
wholesale  house  sold  both  concerns; 
finally,  the  regular  dealers  protested, 
advising  the  salesman  of  their  wishes, 
saying 
lungei 
patronize  a  house  that  did  not  protect 
tneir 
interests,  since  which  time  the 
wholesale  house  has  sold  only  the  de­
partment  store.

could  not 

they 

tnat 

in  a  small 

Now,  the  latter  store  hardly  in  any 
wise  represents  a  real 
live  hardwart 
store.  As  the  hardware  man assured me, 
the  owner  was  a  real  live  dealer  who 
carried  a  large  stock  of  hardware  ana 
sold  a  pile  ol  goods.  I  once  called  upon 
the  owner,  and  this 
is  what  l  found: 
The  hardware  stock,  such  as  it  was, 
carried 
lean-to  one-story 
building,  about  18x30,  and  largely  kept 
under  lock  and  key.  At  toe  tune  of  my 
visit  the  building  was  open  and  no  one 
in  or  about  the  place.  The  store,  if  one 
could  call  it  so,  was  in  peifect  disorder 
(if  there  is  such  a  thing  as  perfect  dis­
order),  and  contained  a  few  prison  and 
cheap-made  stoves,  a  measly  stock  ol 
hardware,  and  looked  much  the  average 
of  second-hand  stores.
If  one  wanted  to  buy  from  the  stock, 
he  must  go  first  to  the  mam  store,  wait 
until  some  clerk  could  count  out  a  few 
bars  of  soap,  draw  a  gallon  of  vinegar, 
tie  up  six  yards  of  calico,  hand  out  a 
package  called  coffee,  and  ptrhaps  in 
all  waste  a  halt-hour's  time  to get some­
one  to  go  with  him  to  the  hardware 
goods,and then  be waited upon  by  some­
one  who  knov/s  as  little  about  general 
hardware  as  a  hog  does  of  Latin.  And 
is  business,  protecting  the  legiti­
this 
mate  trader,  building  up  our  commer­
cial  industries. 
Forsooth,  gentlemen, 
what  are  you  going  to  do  about  it?

Can  you  blame  the  real  merchant  for 
organizing  for  trade  protection? 
Is  it 
pot  right  that  be  should  do  so?  Where 
is  the  grievous  wrong?  In  protecting 
himself,  he  protects  all,  the  wholesaler, 
the  manufacturer.  What  mural  right 
has  any  manufacturer  or  wholesaler to 
seek  trade  from  the  regular  dealer  and

then  poison  the  regular  dealer’s  trade 
by  dumping  bis  wares  into  the  bands  ot 
every  otner  dealer  in  the  town,  where 
they  are 
largely  used  as  catch-penny 
affairs  to  lure  trade?

Let  every  manufacturer  and  every 
wholesaler  take  thnty  days  off, 
go 
through  the  country,  study  the  condi­
tions,  commingle  with  dealers,  and  he 
will  readily  learn  the  causes ot commer- 
cil  depressiou.  He  will  then  go  home 
and  start  his  traveling  salesmen  out 
witn  a  new  line  ot 
instructions.  Alter 
a  twelve-months’  rigid  enforcement  he 
will  hnd  where  he has  wronged  himselt, 
wronged  the  dealer,  in  previous  indis­
criminate  selling  to  everyone  he  can 
nnd  to  sell  to.  At  the  end  of  a  twelve- 
months' 
legitimate  merchandising,  the 
retail  dealer  will  see  the  benehts  de­
rived  from  every  line  to  itself,  and  he 
will  not  want  to  dabble  in  every  known 
line  ot  goods.

Wben  you  see  one retailer encroaching 
upon  auotner's 
line,  you  must  expect 
retaliation  in  kind.  One  jobber  departs 
lrom  a  regular  line  ot  business  and  an­
other  loliuws  suit,  until to  day  it  is  hard 
to  tell  what  a  jobber  may  not  have  in 
nis  sample  kit.  Take  the  wholesale 
hardware  dealer  with  his  reed  and  rat­
tan  goods,  mackintosh  goods,  gasoline 
and  oil  goods,  baby  carriages,air lights, 
etc.,  fully  50  per  cent,  of  the  line  no 
pait  whatever  ot regular hardware slock. 
vVhen  one  line  ot  trade  sees  encroach­
ments  by  anoiber  line,  what  do  they  do? 
Abandon  the  field?  No.  But  counter 
oy  a  like  action,  and  down  go  all  mar 
gins  ot  profit  and  then  comes  the  as­
signee,  receivtr,  bankruptcy,  ruin  and 
ad  the  consequent  evils.

The  Good  Landlord.

I  sin g   to  you  about  a   m an  w hose  m em ory  long 

H is  nam e  w as  H iram   M orethangood,  h e  lived  in 
A nd tiio ’  to save  his  native  land  he  never  drew   a 

lie   w as  w hat  all  his  ten an ts  called  a   m ig h ty   fine 

bhoulu last;
Nolioofast;
sw ord,

landlord.

o r in rain,

o t glass,
“ Alas!**

W h en e’e r a ten an t chanced to break a   pane  or  tw o 
H e  never  u>ed  to  storm   and  rav e  or  m urm ur  out 
But  he w ould go  and  buy  som e  m ore,  in  sunshine 
O r it it w as a t zero,  and have them  set  again.
X o m atter if in room   or  h all  th e  paper  should  g et
H e w ould not, as som e landlords do, com plain from  
A nd  it  th e  paint  g o t  scarred  and  soiled,  th e  first 
He*cl send and have th e painter  com e an d   p ain t the 

n ig h t till  m om ;
thing  he w ould do
house anew .

X o  m atter  if  a   fau cet  froze  o r  if  g o t  clogged  a 

It m ade no difference to him ;  he never  w ould com ­

A n d  if a  ten an t short of wood should  burn  th e  cel­

H e alw ays th o u g h t  it  sw eet  delight  to  m ake  such 

dram ,

plain.

lar stairs,
sm all  repairs.

blind,

A nd  if a  ten an t should  neglect to  close  a   sw in g in g  

A nd  it  should  be  throw n  from   its  place  by  th e 

A nd  tum bling  to  the  w alk  below   som e  passer-by 
H e  w ould  not  say  one  unkind  w ord,  but  g o  and 

fierce w inter  w ind,
should kill.
pay the bill.

A nd ere th e m orning lig h t broke forth  he  from   his 

bed  would rise.
eyes,

A nd  not w ith  th u n d er in  his  tone  nor  an g er  in  his 
B ut  w itli a  rosy shade  o f  joy  upon  his  m anly face,
v\ ould to th e ten an t g o  and g iv e a   fu ll  deed  of the 

place.

T hom as  F .  P o r t e r. 

I

S uggests  a  Convention  o f  T rading 

Stam p  Victims.

From th e D enver Comme  c L l Tribune.

The  rebate  stamp  people,  as  we 
prophesied  some  weeks ago,  have  at  last 
struck  Denver,  and  bave  enlisted  sev­
eral  merchants 
in  their  scheme.  We 
shall  report  kicks  as  fast  as  they  come 
in.  We  suggest  that  a  convention  of  re­
bate  stamp  suffereis  be  held  at  some 
central  point  next  spring,  and  that  the 
convention  be  opened  by  the  holding  of 
an  experience  meeting.  Every  mer­
chant  who  has  used  the  rebate  stamp 
will  be  an  accredited  delegate.  The 
badge  might  be  a  No.  9  bob-nailed 
boot,  rampant,  with  the  words  “ Kick 
me"  underneath.

During  the 

fiscal  year  1895-96  the 
United  States  Fish  Commission  distrib­
uted  over  487,000/000  young  fish  in  va­
rious  parts  of  the  country.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUaURS AND  BITS

Snell’s ............................................................ 
170
Jen n in g s’, genuine  .............. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25*10
Jen n in g s’, im ita tio n ..........................................60<Sil0

F irst Q uality, S.  B. B ro n ze.............................  5  00
F irst Q uality, D. B. B ronze.................. 
95o
F irst q u ality . S. B.  s. s te e l......................  
550
F irst q u ality , D. B.  ¡Steel.................................  10  5u

R a ilro a d .................................................... 112  00  14  00
G arden.......................................................   n et  30 uu

AXES

BARROWS

BOLTS

60*10

70 to 71

S ,t o v ® ............................................................................................... 
ca rriag e new  lis t..  ................................... 
Flow ...............................................
BUCKETS

Well,  p la in .................................... .......................#  3  25

BUTTS,  CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............... 
70&10
W rougnt  N arrow ................................................’.'«Ootio

 

 

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

70

BLOCKS

CROW  BARS 
.......................................per lb

Cast S teel..............................

CAPS
Ely’s  1-10................................... 
H ick’s C. F .................... 
G.  D .......................... * ...................
M usket...............................

 

CARTRIDGES

Rim  F ire...............................
• • „ . . » . „ I   UK—  
C e u tra i  F ire

i,«.
- - -
p e rm  
per m  
per m 

65
55 
35
6u

....................................... ...D IM »

.25*

CHISELS

Socket F irm er...........................................
socket  F ram in g ........................***"*"*’
socket  C oruer.................................! ! .." ! ! " *
socket  s lic k s ............................ ¡JJ

DRILLS

Morse’s B it S to ck s............................... 
T aper aud Straight S h a u k ........ ..  . . .  . 
. . .50&
M orse’s ‘Taper S nauk...................................’. .50^

go

ELBOW S
Com. 4 piece, 6 in .................................doz. n et
j  ¡¡^
C orrugated................................. 
A djustable......................................" ! ! ! " .' ,'dis 40*iu

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

FILES—New  L ist

New A m erican ......................... 
 
.Nicholson’s ......................................... 
H eller’s H orse R asps..............." .6C«siiu

Nos.  16 to 20; 22 an a 24;  25 and 26;  27........... 
nisi  12 

GALVANIZED  IRON
10 

13 

15 

14 

. 

D iscount, 75 to 75-10

nurin
70

28
1

GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New L ist

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

80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.................................. ........ #10  oo> dIs  60&10
H unt Eye........................................... #15  00, dis  60*10
t*u u t 8................................................ .. 
50, dis  206:10

NAILS

 

 

 

A dvance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

ad vance............  

j ’^5
Steel nails,  base..................................................  
Wire nails,  base........................................j  75
Base
20t o 60ad v an ce.................................. 
 
1U to  16 ad vance.......................................................... 05
8 ad v an ce.....................................................................10
gp
6 
4 ad v a u ce....................................................................3u
................................................................45
3 advance .
2 a d v a n c e ................................................. . . . . . . .  
7^
Fine 3 ad v ance........................  
50
Casing 10 ad vance......................................................15
Casing  8 advance......................................................25
Casing  6 advance.............................................j. 
35
F inish 10 a d v a u c e ........................................... "  
25
Finish  8 ad vance...................................................... 3.,
Finish  0 advance........................................  
 
45
Barrel  %  ad v an ce.............................. 
  80
 

 

 

 

 

 

M ILLS

Coffee, P arkers Co.’s .................................. 
 
Coffee,  P.  S. & W.  Mfg. Co.’s  M alleabies... 
Coffee,  Landers,  Ferry & C lark's..................  
Coffee, E nterprise............................... 
 
MOLASSES  OATES

 

 

40
40
40
  30

Stebbin’s P attern ................................................. 60&10
stebbin’s G e n u in e ....  .................................” [60*10
Enterprise, self-m easuring...........................  
30

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ......................................  @50
Sciota B e n c h ........................................................ 
00
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ................................ @50
Bench, first q u ality .............................................  a m
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s w ood..............  
00

PANS

RIVETS

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

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

00
eo

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

M aydole *  Co.’s, new   list.................  
dis  SSA
25
Kip’s  ............................................................... dU 
Yerkes A Plum b’s ...........................................di« tO&lO
M ason's Solid Cast Steel..................... 30c list 
70
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel H and 30c 11« .40*18

HOUSE  PURN1SHING  GOODS

Stam ped Tin W are.............................new  list 75*10
Japanned T in W are........................................... 20*10
G ranite Iron  W are.............................new  list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARB

Pots.
.60*1
K e ttle s ...................................................................'eo&io
spiders 
................................................................. 60*10

MNGBS

W IRE  GOODS

Gate, Clark’s, 1 ,2 ,3 ....................................  dis 60*10
8 ti ,e ................................................ per  doz.  net  2  50
B rig h t..................................................................  
go
go
Screw E yes......................................... 
 
H ooks................................................ .......  . . . . . .  
80
G ate Hooks a n d  E yes...................  
80
„ 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s ....................dis 

LEVELS

70

 

ROPES

Sisal,  V4 inch and larg er....................  
M anilla......................... ...............................g*
„ 
Steel and Iro n ...............................................
Try and B e v e ls .............. !............. 
................
M itre ................................................... . . . . I ” ! ”

SQUARES

, 

514

SHEET  IRON

___ 

com. smooth,  com.

„  
Nos.  10 to  14.........................................|2  7J 
Nos.  15 to 17.............................  
Nos.  18 to 21..........................................2  80 
Nos. 22 to 24..........................................3  00 
Nos. 25 to 26.........................................  3  10 
No.  2 7 .................................................  3  20 
w ide not less than 2-10 ex tra.

2  75
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

#2 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 65

2 70 

 

 

SAND  PA PER

L ist  acct.  19, ’86.............................................aig
„ 
Solid E yes...............................................per ton  20 00

SASH  WEIGHTS

TRAPS

Steel, G am e.................................................... 
O neida Com m unity, New house’s ......... . 
O neida Com m unity, Hawley *  N orton's 70*10
Mouse, choker................................per doz 
Mouse, delusion............................per doz 

60*10
50
15
125

W IRE

B right M arket....................................... 
75
A nnealed  M arket.......................................................75
Coppered  M arket................................................. 70*10
Tinned M arket...............................................tS2V4
Coppered Spring  Steel..............................................50
Barbed  Fence, g a lv a u iz e d ......................... 
o
Barbed  Fence,  p ain ted ................................. ", 
f  gj

 

HORSE  NAILS

Au Sable......................................................................djg 40AIC
P utnam ........................................................... dis 
N orthw estern.............................................................dis 10*10

5

WRENCHES

B axter’s A djustable, nick eled .......................  
Coe’s G enuine...................................................... 
Coe's P atent  A gricultural, w rought 
Coe’s P atent, m alleable....................................  
Bird  Cages  ................................................... 
50
Pumps. C istern............................................. 
go
screw s, New List.........................................  
gg
Casters, Bed and  Plate..............................  50*10*10
Dampers, A m erican....................................  
60

MISCELLANEOUS

30
go
80
80

600 pound casks................................................... 
Per pound............................................................. 

M ETALS—Zinc

8u
  g j

SOLDER

......................................................................  12V4
The prices of the m any o th er qualities of solder 
in  the m arket indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  com position.

TIN—M elyn Grade

10x14 1C, Charcoal...........................................  # 5 75
14x20 1C, C h arc o al.............................................   5  75
20x14 IX. C h arc o al......................................... .. 
7  00

Each additional X on this grade, #1.25!

TIN—A llaw ay  G rade

10x14 IC, C h arc o al.............................................  5  00
14x201C, C h arc o al.............................................   500
10x14 IX ,C h arco al..... ..................................... ’  g  gg
14x20 IX, C h arc o al..........................................“   0  00

E ach additional  X on this grade, #1.50l 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, D ean.................................  5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D e a n ................................  0  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, D ean..................................  10  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, All« w ay G rade...............  4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal,  Allaway G rade...............  5  50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, A llaway G rade..............   9  00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway G rade..............   11  00

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE
____  

14x50 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers,  I 
14x56 IX. fo r  No.  9  Boilers. ( *5er P°und ... 

. 

„
9

TRADESMAN 
ITEMIZED 
LEDGERS

Size  8  1-2x 14— Three  Columns.

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

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

TRADESMAN COMPANY

GRA.ND  RAPIDS.

2 4

M ICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

Chinese  M erchants  Discourage 

the

Patronage  o f  Am ericans.

P rom  th e New York Sun.

The  worst  salesmen  in  New  York  are 
the  Chinese  whose  shops  are  in  Dovers 
and  Mott  streets,  whose  windows  are 
filled  with  Chinese  handiwork  as  a  bid 
for  the  curious  tOj  enter.  When  a 
would-be  purchaser  once  gets 
inside  a 
shop  the  proprietor  treats  him  as  an  in­
truder.  Most  of  these  shops  are modeled 
on  the  same  plan.  Near  the  door  is  a 
little  box-like  office,  and  from  this  ex­
tends  a  counter  half  the  length  of  the 
store.  The  back  of  the  store  is  shut  off 
by  a  board  partition,  and  if  the  visi­
tor 
is  curious  and  pokes  his  head 
around  it  a  Chinaman  is  very  likely  to 
appear  from  the  darkness  and  gently 
push  him  toward  the  front  of  the  room. 
It  the  storekeeper  chooses  to  entertain 
a  few  friends  back  there  it  is  no  one’s 
business,  and  he  doesn’t  propose  to 
have 
idea  of  what 
sort  of  entertainment  he  may  be  fur­
nishing.  The  dull,  heavy  odor  that 
tills  most  of  these  little  shops  makes  it 
possible  to  guess  pretty  accurately  as  to 
what  is  going  on  behind  the  partition. 
Each  shop  has  about  the  same  collec­
tion  of  wares.  Chinese  edibles  fill  the 
shelves,  and  in  the  windows  are  bright 
colored  Chinese  vases,  bowls, 
fans, 
children’s  toys,  and  occasionally  a 
isn’t 
piece  of  carved 
much  demand  for  carved 
in 
Chinatown,  and  the  small  dealers  say 
that 
is  too  expensive  to  carry  in 
stock.  An  American  customer  who  en­
ters  one  of  these  shops  is  greeted  by  the 
proprietor  with an indifferent,  ‘ ‘ Hello, ”  
and  a  perfectly  expressionless 
face. 
The  proprietor  stands  behind  the  coun­
ter,  but  he 
isn’t  anxious  to  sell  bis 
goods.

intruders  get  any 

There 

ivory. 

"H ave  you  any  carved  ivory?”   asks 

ivory 

it 

the  customer.

The  Chinaman  stares  at  him  suspi­

ciously  and  answers:

“ No.  No  ivly.  No  got. ”
There  are  three  pieces 

in  the  case 
behind  him,  and  the  customer  points 
them  out.  The  Chinaman  turns  and 
looks  at  them  as  if  he  had  never  seen 
them  before.

"L e t  me  see  them?”   asks  the  cus­

tomer.

"Want to  buy?”   says  the  Chinaman, 

still  without  interest.

The  customer  nods,  and 

the  shop­
keeper  goes  over  to  talk  to  a  Chinaman 
who  has  just  come  in. 
Incidentally  he 
looks  at  the  customer’s  shoes  to  see  if 
they  have  the  heavy  soles  and 
the 
square-cut  toes  which  stamp  the  ward- 
man.  If  his  conversation with  the  other 
Chinaman  proves  uninteresting  he  will 
come  back  to  his  customer  and  eye  him 
suspiciously.  He  may  even  be  per­
suaded  to  take  the 
ivories  out  of  the 
case  and  tell  their  prices.  He  shows  no 
interest  in  it  and  it  apparently  doesn’t 
occur  to  him  that  it  is  his  business  to 
sell  his  wares.

M anufacturing .M atters.

West  Bay  City—The  plant of the Kern 
Manufacturing  Co.  has  temporarily shut 
down  on  account  of  having  exhausted 
the  stock  of  logs  on  hand,  but  some  re­
pairs  will  be  made  and  the  mill  will  re­
sume  operations  about  the  first  of  next 
month  and  will  run  the  greater  portion 
of  the  winter.

Detroit—The  American  Tobacco  Co 
has  bought  all  the  brands  and  part  of 
the  assets  of  the  defunct  American 
Eagle  Tobacco  Co.  for $60,000,  and  is 
now  in  charge  of  the  factory  on Atwater 
street.  The  factory  will  be  closed  in 
about  two  weeks after manufacturing the 
stock  on  hand.

Kalkaska—The  Freeman  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  succeeded 
in  making  a 
machine  which  manufactures  wood 
spoons  rapidly  and  accurately.  Up  to 
this  time  the  company  has been  com­
pelled  to  buy  these  spoons  from  Ver­
mont  manufacturers,  but  from  now  on 
they  will  be  manufactured  in  Kalkaska 
from  the  forest  products  of  Kalkaska 
county.

Kalamazoo—The  King  Folding  Can­
vas  Boat  Co.  is  the  name  of  a  new  con­
cern  in  this  city.  George  H.  Winans  is 
at  the  head  of  the  company.  The  com­
pany  has  secured  the  old  Pratt  factory 
on  North  street,  and  will  at  once  put  a 
force  of  men  at  work  on  the  manufac­
ture  of  the  well-known  canvas  boats, 
the 
invention  of  Charles  W.  King,  of 
this  city.

Tustin— The  Engel  Lumber  Co., 
which,  in connection  with  its  lumbering 
operations  in  this  vicinity  for  the  past 
three  years,  has  been  running  a  general 
store,  has  sold  its  stock  of  general  mer­
chandise  to  Holmes  &  De  Goit,  who 
will  probably  continue  the  business 
in 
connection  with  their  present  hardware, 
furniture  and  grocery  store.  Herman 
Engel,  who  has  been  in  charge  of  the 
Engel  Lumber  Co. 's  operations  here, 
will  assume  charge  of  the  company’s 
office at  Cadillac.

Com m ittees  in  C harge  o f  the  Kala­

mazoo  Entertainment.

Kalamazoo,  Nov.  2—The  local  Post 
of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip 
has  created  the  following  committees 
for  the  purpose  of  undertaking  the  work 
of  entertainment  at  the  coming  annual 
convention  of  the  State  organization : 

Executive—Jno.  A.  Hoffman,  A.  S. 
Cowing,  C.  V.  Cable,  L.  Rosenbaum, 
Henry  Dasher, 
L.  Verdon,  F.  L. 
Nixon,  Sig.  Folz,  E.  F.  Lander.

Reception— Messrs,  and  Mesdames 
Jno.  A.  Hoffman,  H.  B.  Coleman,  G. 
i.  Blowers,  U.  L.  Hunter,  W.  L.  Broad- 
erwick,  L.  Verdon,  E.  Starbuck,  A.  S. 
Cowing,  C.  V.  Cable,  L.  D.  Austin,  M. 
A.  Crooks,  G.  S.  Dennis,  Sig.  Folz,
E.  F.  Zander,  A.  H.  Rothmel,  G.  W. 
Russell,  Wm.  Shear,  E.  Weakley,  L. 
Rosenbaum,  W.  H.  Rohlmyer,  A.  Sehl- 
myer,  G.  M.  Logan,  L.  Larson,  W.  C. 
Davis,  Asa  Clark,  C.  Thayer,  J.  D. 
Green,  Miss  L.  Stephens,  Mr.  F.  L. 
Nixon,  Mr.  H.  E.  Rice.

Banquet— C.  V.  Cable,  G.  W.  Rus­
sell,  Sig.  Folz,  A.  S.  Cowing,  G.  I. 
Blowers,  E.  Starbuck.

Ball—A.  S.  Cowing,  C.  V.  Cable, 
Sig.  Folz,  H.  E.  Rice,  C.  H.  Thayer,
G.  I.  Blowers,  W.  H.  Jones,  D.  W. 
Rogers,  L.  Verdon,  F.  L.  Nixon,  J.  L. 
Sternfield.

Hotels  and  Railroads— L.  Verdon,  E.
F.  Zander,  C.  H.  Waldo,  W.  H.  Jones, 
W.  D.  Watkins,  F.  L.  Walker,  Henry 
Stern,  Harry  Lewis.

Music—F.  L.  Nixon,  A.  J.  Able,

H.  Hill.

Printing— Sig.  Folz,  E.  Starbuck,  R. 
S.  Broderick,  W.  H.  Rohlmyer,  F.  L. 
Nixon,  Ward  Doubleday,  E.  Gill is.

legal  regulation  of 

A  consequence  of  the  recent decisions 
in  cases  involving  the  authority  of  the 
Interstate  Commerce  Commission 
is 
that  both  the railroads  and the advocates 
of  the 
interstate 
traffic  are  anxious  that  the  subject  of 
revision  and  a  better  definition  of 
authority  shall  receive  the  early  atten­
tion  of  the  coming  session  of  Congress. 
The  demands  of  the  roads  for  the  priv­
ilege  of  forming  pools  are likely to meet 
the  approval  of  the  members  of  the 
commission  provided  it  is  given author­
ity  to  supervise  and  limit  the  operation 
of  such  pools. 
It  is  stipulated  that,  if 
such  an  arrangement  is  made,  the ques­
tions  of  the  policy  and  justice  of  pool­
ing  contracts  must  be  left  to  the  Com­
mission,  and  that  it  must  be  allowed  to 
pass  upon  maximum 
freight  rates. 
There  may  be  some  railway  managers 
who  would  prefer to  see  the  old  system 
of  unrestricted  competition  and  rate­
cutting  restored;  but the majority are  in 
favor  of  the  legal  provision  for  co-oper­
ation,  and  these  will  urge  the  matter, 
even  although 
it  involves  the  super­
vision  of  all  such  operations  by  the  In­
terstate  Commerce  Commission.

A   Skin  Game  Throughout.

From  the St. Louis Grocer.

Is  or  is not  the  trading  stamp  scheme 
a  fraud? 
lhere  are  grocers  and general 
merchants  all  over  the  United  States 
whose  shelves  are  filled,  more  or  less, 
with  worthless  stock  in  the  way  of  bak­
ing  powders,  cigars,  coffees,  spices, 
etc.,  that  have  been  sold  to  them  in 
connection  with  some  deceptive  prem­
ium,  claimed  to  be  alone  worth 
the 
price  paid  for  the  total  amount  of goods 
shipped.  Desks,  clocks  and  queens- 
ware,  sold 
in  connection  with  cigars, 
baking  powders,  coffees,  etc.,  have  dis­
gusted 
the  average  merchant  with 
scheme  goods,  and  as  a  result, 
the 
schemers  who  prey  on  the  retail  mer­
chant,  and  want  part of  his  hard-earned 
profits,have concocted the  trading  stamp 
scheme. 
is 
solicited  to  purchase  stamps  look  into 
the  scheme  carefully  and  be  will  find 
that  it  is  a  polite  drain  on  his  general 
profits,  without  risk  to  the  promoters, 
without  any 
in  the  trade  of 
the  deceived  retailer,  and  a  skin  game 
throughout.  The  trade  press  has  very 
generally  condemned  it.

Let  every  retailer  who 

increase 

Gives  Cash  Instead  o f  Stam ps. 
F rom  the St  Joseph Jo u rn al of Commerce.

The  dealer  who  ‘gives  the  5  cents  in 
cash  instead  of  in  trade  coupons  to  his 
customers  will  find  that  he  is  getting  a 
whole  lot  more  advertising  and,  conse­
quently,  better  results  than  the  fellow 
who  gives  trading  stamps.  A  smart 
grocer 
in  Quincy  is  doing  this  and  be 
is  corralling  the  trade.  He  finds  his 
customers  prefer  the  cash  to  the  tickets 
and  he  simply  says  to  the  other  mer­
chants  who  object—stop  the 
stamps, 
which  cost  5  per  cent,  and  I  will  stop 
giving  away  cash.

Great  Britain 

is  said  to  have  im­
ported  $20,000,000  worth  of  eggs  and 
poultry  last  year,  while  France,  during 
the  same  period,  exported  $70,000,000 
worth.

W AN TS  COLUMN.

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

New  Idea  in  M atches.

for 

the 

striking  a 

The  electric  match 

invention  promised. 
long 

is  the  next  im­
Before 
portant 
phosphorous-tipped 
very 
wooden  splints  now 
in  use  will  be  re­
placed  by  a  handy  little  tool  that  may 
in  the  pocket  or  hung  up 
be  carried 
conveniently 
light. 
Twentieth  century  people  will  doubtless 
speak  of  the "hell  sticks”   of the present 
day  as  primitive  and  absurd,  just  as  we 
are  disposed  to  look  with  scorn  upon 
the  flint  and  steel  of  our  forefathers. 
Already  there 
is  on  the  market  a  gas- 
lighter  which  afforas  more  than  a  sug­
gestion  of  the  electric  match  of  the  lu- 
ture,  a  twist  of  the  handle  generating 
sufficient  electricity  to  accomplish  the 
purpose.

Minneapolis Flour M illers Not Satisfied.
The  case  of  the  Pillsbury-VVashburn 
Flour  Mills  Co.  against  H.  R.  Eagle, 
in  which  the  former  as  complainants 
sought  to  enjoin  Eagle  from  using  the 
stencil  marks 
and 
“ Minnesota”   on  flour  which  was  manu­
factured  at  Milwaukee,  has  been  taken 
to  the  United  States  Circuit  Court  ol 
Appeals.  Mr.  Eagle  won  the  suit  in 
the  lower  court,  Judge  Showalter  hold­
ing  that  no  name  of  a  city  or  country 
could  be  copyrighted  by  any  individual 
or corporation.

"M inneapolis" 

Chinese  T ea  People  Protest.

The  Chinese  tea  importers  will  con­
test  the  decision  of  the  general  ap­
praisers  rejecting  tea imported by them, 
on  the  ground  that  there  is  no  estab­
lished  standard.  They  hold  that  as  the 
law  directs  the  standards  for  all  teas 
imported 
into  the  United  States  shall 
be  established,  their  tea  cannot  be  re­
jected  simply because the committee ap­
pointed  for  that  purpose  tailed  to  es­
tablish  a  standard.

French  Duties  on  American  Pork.
The  Customs  Committee of the French 
Chamber  of  Deputies  has  decided  to 
recommend  that  the  Government  main­
tain  the  previously-adopted  duties  on 
pork  products,  including  lard,  with  the 
exception  of  reducing  the  duty  on  salt 
pork,  hams  and  bacon  from  30  to 25 
francs.

ill; 

Mark  Twain  writes  denying  the  re­
port  that  he  recently  made $82,000.  He 
says. 
‘ ‘ It  has  been  reported  that  I  was 
seriously 
it  was  another  man. 
That  I  was  dying;  it  was  another  man. 
That  I  was  dead;  the  other  man  again. 
It  has  been  reported  that  I  received  a 
legacy;  it  was  another  man.  That  I  am 
out  of  debt;  it  was  another  man.  And 
now  comes  this $82,000.  Still  another 
man.  You  can  see  yourself  there  isn’t 
anything  more  to  be  reported. 
Inven­
tion  is  exhausted.  As  tar  as  1  can  see, 
nothing  remains  to  be  reported  except 
that  I  have  become  a  foreigner.  When 
you  hear  that,  don't  believe 
it,  and 
don't  take  the  trouble  to  deny  it. ”

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

tjVJK  SALK—KIKE  PROOF  SAFE  W IlH  

burglar chest, size 514x3 feet, D etroit m ake; 
also  one 
For  particulars  address  Newaygo  Mills,  New­
aygo,  Mich. 

tw o-horse  la riy   in  good  condition. 

435

 

4(5

429

434

432

433

STOCK 

r AN 1 ED—GROCERY 

IN  E x ­
change  fo r house  and  lo t  located  in   to e 
thriving to» 11 of  Rockford,  fifteen  m iles  north 
of G rand  Rai ids.  Full  particulars  on  applica­
tion.  J.>hn J   E 'y,  Rockford.  Mich. 
■ AOR  SALK—DRUG  STOCK 
IJNVENTOKY- 
f
ing $l,2uu, located at  the  corner  o f  Leonard 
-tre tt and A lpine  avenue,  G rand  Rapids.  R ea­
son for selling,  ow ner is  not  a  registered  phar­
m acist.  A ddress No.  ,34, care  M ichigan Trades­
m an. 

t o r   p a rtic ­

IN TEREST 

WANTED—STOCK  O F  DRY  GOODS 

IN 
exchange fo r a   M ichigan  im proved  farm . 
Stock m ust be clean, fresh  and  invoicing  about 
$',50u.  A ddress No.  433,  care  M ichigan  T rades 
m an. 
VIT'ANTED.  CHEAP  FOR  CASH-GROCERY 
vv  or general stock.  Address,  w ith  fu ll  par­
ticulars  w .  II. G ilbert,  119 O ttaw a stree t, G rand 
Rapids, Mich 
IA o K  SALE  ONE  HALF 
IN 
F   w ell-selected  stock  of  groceries  aud  crock -1 
ery.  Will sell  right if sold a t once.  O ther busi-l 
ne-s  is  reason  for  selling.  A ddress  F.,  Lock 
Box 2.  P ortland.  M  ch. 
IjV jR   SALE—RESIDENCE  AND  MARKET 
F   attached,  tools  and  w agons,  located  In  the 
nustiing town o f O ak  G rove, on  th e  A nn  A r‘ or 
Railroad, seven m iles to nearest m arket.  A bar­
gain forsom eone.  A ddress K. D  Dickerson. 4  1
L 'O R   EXCHANGE — PKO uU ClTV E  CITY 
F   property an a cash for  dry  goods  or  general 
m erchandise.  A ddress  L.  &  Co.,  Rockford, 
Mich.. Box 7. 

first-class farm ing com m unity, 

ulars address Box A, B urnip’s C orners, Mich.
424

1>H Y slC lA N   W A N i E j - u OOU  LOCATION;
fr*OK  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—STORE  AND 

dw elling  com bined, a t  McCord  Station,  on 
D., G.  K.  &  W.  R  K .;  good  w ell  In  house,  cis­
tern,  new horse barn, etc.  Store  finished  ready 
for  goods.  An  excellent  point  fo r  business. 
Price,  $700—a  bargain.  A ddress  D r.  L.  E. Has-
kin.  M e ’ord, Mich._______________________421
\  \T  ANTED—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS  OR 
• '   general  m erchandise  for  N orthern 
In ­
diana, Illinois and  Iow a im proved farm s.  Have 
buyerB  fur  general  stores,  and  stores  fo r  sale. 
Address  N o.419,care M ichigan T radesm in.  419 
\ \ T A N TED -G O O D   DRY  BEECH  AND  MA- 
11  pie 16-inch  block  wood,  not less th a n   two- 
thirds  hard  m aple.  Price  on  cars a t shipping 
point.  A. Hyde, 860 M adison  Ave., G iand  R ap­
ids,  Mich. 

IF   YOU 
w ant good  pric-s and  quick  retu rn s  w  ite 
us.  L uim  «V. Strung, Toledo, Ohio 

WA N T E D -B U T T E R   AND  EGGS. 
WANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
ITIOR  EXCHANGE — A  W ELL-ASSORTED 

’  dru g  stock th a t  wi  1  inventory  $1,200  for  a 
stock  of  groceries.  A ddre-s  Jo h n   C< oper,  340 

retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond w ith 

C aulkett & Co., T ra v e'se City,  Mich. 

W oodworth avenue. G rand  Rapids  Mich.  366
Ij 'O R   EXCHANGE—TWO  F IN E   IMPROVED 
F   farm s  fo r  stock  of  m erchandise;  splendid 
location.  A ddress No. 73, care M ichigan Trades­
m an. 

tNOR SALE—JUDGMENT F O R $8 08 AGAINST 

N iles li. W inan«.  real  estate  sg en t  in   the 

Tow er  Block.  Tradesm an  Com pany,  G rand 

Rapids___________________________________388

430

381

411

73

4(2

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

IjiRKE—OUR  NEW   HANDBOOK  ON  PAT 

ents.  Ciiley  &  AUgier,  Patent  A ttorneys, 
u ra n d   Rapids, Mich._____________________ 339

MISCELLANEOUS.
W ANTED—A FTER  D ECEM BER 
rO al- 
tion  by  experienced  shoe  salesm an la  re­
tail store.  Have  h ad  tw elve  years'  experience. 
Can  fu rn ish   best  o f  references.  A ddress  No. 
428, care  M ichigan Tradesm an. 
ANTED  —  REGISTERED 
ASSISTANT 
p h arm acist  A ddress  Lock  Box  50,  Lake 

428

i 

Odessa,  Mich. 

426

Travelers’  Tim e  Tables.

CANADIAN p*c“c

DETROITan>ndRap,ds&Westeni

doing to Detroit.

Lv.  G rand  R ap id s....... 7:00am 
l:?5pm   5:35prr
Ar. D etro it....................  11:40am  5:45pm  10:20pn

Returning from  Detroit.

!.▼. D e tr o it.... 
......... 8:00am  1:10pm  8:10pm
Ar.  G rand  R ap id s....... 12.55pm  5:80pm  10:55pm

Saginaw. Alma and  Greenville. 

k v O R 7 :M a in  4:20pm  Ar. G R 18:80pm  9:30pn- 
P arlor cars on all tra in s  to  and  from   D etroit 
a n d  Saginaw.  T rains ru n  w eek days only.

Gao.  D e H a v en,  G eneral Pass. A gent

GRAND Tn,l,k Railway System

D etroit and  M ilw aukee  Dtv

(In  effect  October  3,  1887.)

EAST. 

Reave. 
A rrive,
t   6 :45am ..Saginaw,  D etroit  and  E a s t..t  9:55pm
tlU:10am...........D etroit  and  E a st..........+  5:07pm
t  S taipm ..S aginaw ,  D etroit and  E a st..1 12:45pm 
♦10:45pm.. .D etroit, E ast and C an a d a...*   6:35am 

W EST

*  7:00am ....G d.  H aven  and  I n t   P ts___*10:15pm
tl2:53pm .G d.  H aven  and Interm ediate.!-  3:22pm
+  5:12pm— Gd. Haven MU. and C h i__ tl0:05am
tl0:0upm .........Gd.  Haven  and  Mil.............................
E astw ard—No. 14 bas W agner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  W estw ard—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No.  15  W agner parlor car.

♦Dally. 

tE x cep t Sunday.

E.  H.  H ushes, A. G. P.  & T. A.
Hem.  F l e t c h e b , Trav.  Pass. Agt., 
J as. Ca m pb e l l, City Pass.  Afeent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. D etroit................................... +ll;45am  *11:35pm
Ar.  T oronto................................   8:3,ipm 
8:15am
Ar.  M ontreal................................  7;20am 
8:00pm

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. M ontreal............................  
Lv. Toronto.................................   4:00pm 
Ar. D etroit..................................... 10:45pm 

8:50am  9:0Opm
7:30am
2:10pm
D.  McNicoli,  Pass. Traffic Mgr . M ontreal.
H. C.  O viatt, T rav. Pass. A gt.,G rand Rapids

 

DULUTH, 

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Atlantic

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. G rand  R apids  (G. R.  & L )+11:10pm  +7:45am
Lv.  M ackinaw  City....................  7:35am 
4:20pm
Ar.  St  Ignace.............................   9:0,am  
5:20pm
9:5f pm
Ar. S anlt Ste. M arie.................  12:20pm 
Ar. M arquette  ...........................   2:5Upm  10:  0pm
Ar.  N estoria.................... 
5:20pm  12:45mn
Ar.  D uluth..................................................... 
8:30am

 

 

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. D u lu th ....................................................  +6:30pm
Ar. N estoria...........................  
2:4 ,am
.  t i l  :15am 
1:30pm 
Ar.  M arquette........................... 
4:30am
Lv.  Sault Ste.  M arie................. 
3:30pm
Ar.  M ackinaw City.................. 
8:40pm  11:0  am
G.  W.  H ib b a r d . Gen.  Pass.  Agt.  M arqueite. 
E. C. O viatt, Trav.  Pass  Agt., G rand R apids

TRAVEL

VIA

F.  A  P.  M-  R.  R.

CHICAGO

A N D   S T E A M S H IP   L IN E S  

T O   A LL  P O IN T S   IN   M IC H IG A N

H.  F .  MOELLER,  a .  g .  p .  a .

finii Fanners’ Boiler

M ost convenient,  durable, effective, 
economical and ch eap est F eed Cooker 
m ade.  A  
the  year 
around.  A   good  dealer  w anted  in 
every  tow n  in  N o rth ern   and  W e st­
ern  M ichigan.  W rite for prices.

ready  seller 

ADAMS  &  HART,

.M S
S T!  I." ¡ ( i t i

2  

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■a WEST BRIDGE ST.,  GRAND  RAPIDS.

u A iu u c   ^1«,  UKAl+U  K A N U a.  >

Who gets the
Oyster  Trade?

T h e m an w hose oysters are  th e 
fresh est and best flavored.
Who  loses other  trade?

T h e  m an  w ho sells fishy oysters 
diluted  w ith   ice  to  d isg u st  his 
custom ers.

A void  su ch   a   calam ity  by 
usin g   o u r  O yster  C abinets. 
(See cut.)  T hey  are  lined  w ith  
copper so you can  use  salt w ith 
the  ice.  T h ey   have  porcelain 
lined cans.  Send for circular.

Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co.

Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

Going to Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids................. 8:30am  1:25pm  *U:30pn
Ar.  Chicago.....................3:10pm  6:50pm 
6:40am
Returning from  Chicago.

L v.C hicago................... 7:20am  5:15pm  *ll:30pn
Ar. G ’d R a p id s.............. 1:25pm  I0:3>pm  ♦  6:20au

Muskegon.

Lv. G’d  R apids................  8:30am  1:25pm  6:2Spn
Ar.  G ’d R apids................   1:25pm ...........   10:10an

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

kv. 
R apids.............................  7:30am  5:<opm
Ar. T raverse  City  ...................     12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar.  C harlevoix......................... 
Ar.  P etoskey...............................  3:45pm ................

3:15pm ............

PARLOR  AMD  8LEEPINS  CABS.  CHICAGO.

P arlor  cars  leave  G rand  R apids  1:25  p  m ; 
leave  Chicago  5:15  p  m.  Sleeping  cars  lpave 
G rand  R apids  *11:30  p m ;  leave  Chicago  *9:30 
p m .

TBAVERSE  CITY  AND  BAY  VIEW.

P arlor  car  leaves  G rand  Rapids  7:30  a  m. 
G e o.  D e Ha v e n ,  G eneral Pass. A gent.

O thers w eek days only.

♦Every  day. 

GRAND  Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

Northern  D lv.  Leave 

A rrive 
T ra v .C ’y,P etoskey & M a c k ...t  7:45am  t   5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey A M ack., .t 2  30pm  t   6  3  am
Cadillac  .................................. + 5:25pm +11:15am
T rain  leaving a t 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
tra in   leaving  a t  2:30  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
M ackinaw.
Arrive
C in cin n ati..................................... + 7:10am  t  8:25pt
P t  W ayne......................................f  2:00pm  + 210pm
C incinnati......................................* 7:00pm  •  7:25an
7:10 a .m .  tra in   bas parlor  ear to   C incinnati 
2-00 p. m .  tra in   has psrlor  ca r  to  P o rt  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m. tra in   has  sleeping  car  to  C incinnati. 

Southern  D lv. Leave 

Muskegon Trains.

GOINS WEST.

Lv G’d  R apids...............t7:35am  +1:00pm  +5:40pr
Ar M uskegon..................  9:00am  2:10pm  7:G5pm
Lv M uskegon................ +8:10am  +11:45am  +4:0Jpi
A rG ’d R apids...............9:30am  12:55pm  5-2 fait

GOING BAST.

tE x cep t Sunday.  «Dally.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

G en'l Passr.  an d  T icket Agent.

MINNEAPOLIS, *  “ £ £ £ £ *

£

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WEST  BOUND.

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

BAST BOUND.

Lv.  M inneapolis............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. St.  P a u l.....................................................  7:20pm
Ar. G ladstone.................................................  5:45am
Ar.  M ackinaw C ity......................................   u  ¡0 >am
Ar. G rand R apids..........................................  10:00pm
W .  R. C a lla w a y, Gen. Pass. Agt-, M inneapolis. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav.  Pass.  Agt.,  G rand  R apids.

I Are you Going

South?
Then make
the trip over the famous 
Queen  &  Crescent Route. 
Historic and scenic country 
en  route, vestibuled trains 
that have no equal 
in the South, and  the 
shortest journey possible.
You save a hundred miles of 
travel to the most important 
Southern cities via the 
Queen  &  Crescent.
W rite  fo r inform ation to
W . C.  R inearson,  G en’l P a ss’r  A g en t,
C incinnati,  O.
Send i o  cents for fine A rt Colored L ith ­
o graph  of  L ookout  M ountain  and 
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R epresented in every city and county in th e U nited S tates and C anada.

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

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