Volume  XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  15,  1897.

Number  743

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CHRISTMAS 

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Goods  in 

G R E N O B L E   W A L N U T S  
C A L IF O R N IA   W A L N U T S  

S IC IL Y   F I L B E R T S  
T E X A S   P E C A N S  
B R A Z IL   N U T S  
C IT R O N   P E E L  
LE M O N   P E E L  

O R A N G E   P E E L

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CHRISTMAS

We have 
w e have 

a  full  line  of 
demand  at  this  Season.
C L U S T E R   R A IS IN S  

LO N D O N   L A Y E R   R A IS IN S  
O N D U R A   L A Y E R   R A IS IN S  

L O O S E   M U S C A T E L E S   R A IS IN S  
S E E D L E S S   S U L T A N A   R A IS IN S  
S E E D E D  C A L IF O R N IA   R A IS IN S  

O R A N G E S  
L E M O N S

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ILLUMINATING  AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES  ;
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Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH  AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

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

ighest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels. 

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WHOLESALE GROCERS,

CHRISTMAS 

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CHRISTMAS

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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 Our Yellow  Labels, attached to original tin-foil wrappers, will 
procure one Silver  Plated  Teaspoon,  and  50 of same  will  procure  on« 
of either, Table Spoon,  Fork,  Butter  Knife or Sugar Spoon.  For 75  you 
will  receive  one  Silver  Plated  Steel  Table  Knife,  arid  for  10 a  hand­
some Aluminum Thimble is given.

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

Premiums cannot be mailed  under any circumstances.

F L E IS C H M A N N   &  CO.

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

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So  C IG A R S

SO LD   B Y  A LL JO B B E R S.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

THE ONLY WAY...

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

M ICH IG AN  T R A D E SM A N

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

M A C K IN T O S H E S , 
C A N D E E   R U B B E R  
B O O T S   A N D   S H O E S , 
B E L T IN G   A N D   M IL L  
S U P P L IE S .

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Grand  Rapids.

I.  A .  M U R P H Y ,  General  Manager.

F L O W E R S ,  M A Y   &  M O L O N E Y ,  Counsel.

Special  Reports.

Law   and  Collections.

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

Main  Office:  Room  1102  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.

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

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Cbere are  Others

But none as good as

íüalsb'Dc Roo flour

Unequalled for whiteness, purity and strength. 

SU N LIG H T 
DAISY 

PURITY 
VIENNA 

BRANDS

M ORNING  STA R  
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MICHIGAN
DIAMOND

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

Cereal  Foods. 

the UJalsh Dc Roo milling Co., Holland, mid).

Inquiries  invited.

Elgin System of Creameries

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

A  M ODEL CREA M ERY  OF TH E TR U E  SYSTEM

True  Dairy Supply Company,

303 to 309  Lock Street, 

Syracuse,  New  York.

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

R.  E.  STURQIS,  Oeneral  Manager of Western  Office, Allegan,  filch.

Fanis’  Pancake  Floor 

Fanis’  Self-Rising  Bockwieal

20 5 lb; sacks  to a case.. (3.50

FALL1S  &  CO.,  Toledo,  0.

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

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

^oz.  ioc; 

9 oz.  15c; 

1  lb.  25c.

Guaranteed  to  comply  with  Pure  Food  L aw   in 

every respect.

O.  A.  TURNEY,  Manufacturer,

Detroit,  Mich.

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Oyster  Crackers  should 
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They  are  the  finest  Oyster 
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T h o se  who  are  fam iliar  w ith  L akesid e  Peas 
fully  appreciate  them  and  know   their  value.
W e   have  m ade  the  canning  of  peas  a  scien ­
tific  study  and  feel  am ply  repaid  by  the  re­
sults  obtained.  T h e y   are  for  sale  by  all 
grocers.  Ask for them.

THE  BLUEST LRRDRETjl 60.,  PlilllitOWOU, WiS.

Worden Grocer Co.,  Wholesale  Agents.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  15,1897.
The  Grocery  Market.

Volume XV,

^ ^ L D E S T ,  most reliable wholesale cloth­
ing manufacturers in Rochester, N. V., are

KOLB &  SON

Our Spring Line ready— Winter Line still 
complete.  Best $5*5°  all wool Kersey Over­
coat,  and  best  $5  50 Ulster in  market.  See 
balance  of  our  Fall  Line,  and  our  entire 
Spring  Line.  Write  our  Michigan  Agent, 
W il lia m   C on no r,  Box  346,  Marshall, 
Mich,  to call  on you, or meet him at Sweet’s 
Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  December  22  and  23. 
Customers’  expenses allowed.

;   If You  Hire Help— ^
You should use our

Perfect  Time  Book 

—-.— and  Pay Roll.

Made to hold from 27 to  60  names 

and sell  for 75  cents  to  $2. 

Send for sample leaf.

BARLOW  BROS.,
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GRAND RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Hife Assurance Do.

Incorporated  by

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B A N K E R S

Maintains a  Guarantee  Fund.
Write for details.

Home Office,  Moffat Bldg.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

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C O M B L   CREDIT  CO.,  Ltd,

Commeicial  Reports.  Prompt  and 
vigorous attention  to collections.

L.  J.  STEVENSON,  Manager,

R.  J.  CLELAND,  Attorney,

411-412-413 Widdicomb Building.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

fancy  Calendars

The  Tradesman  Company  has 
a large line of Fancy Calendars 
for  1898, to which it invites the 

inspection of  the  trade.  The 
Company  is  also  equipped  to 
prepare  and execute  anything 
in the line of specially designed 
calendars,  either  engraved  or 
printed.

Sugar— Refiners  are  oversold  on  soft 
sugars,  and  stocks  of  granulated  are 
hardly  up  to  the  average  at  this  season 
of  the  year.  The  raw  market  is  strong. 
The  ruling  of  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  on  an  increased  duty  on  Hol­
land  sugars  has  strengthened  the  mar­
ket  in  raws  to  some  extent.  It now looks 
as  though  any  advance  in  raws  would 
be  followed  by  an  advance 
in  refined. 
The  stocks  of  sugar  in  retailers'  hands 
through  the  country  are found  to be very 
light.

Tea— Prices  are  still  very  firm,  with 
absolutely  no  chance  of  securing  con­
cessions  on  anything  desirable.  The 
trade  are  eager  and  anxious  to  buy  if 
they  can  secure  shaded  prices,  but  these 
as  yet  have  not  been  forthcoming.  As 
a  rule,  in  December  the  trade  expect  a 
shading  of  prices  by  about 
ic  per 
pound,  but  this  year  the  conditions  are 
changed.  Considerable  activity  is  ex­
pected  in  tea  after  the  first  of  the  year, 
with  higher  prices  on  nearly  every­
thing.

Coffee—'The demand on package goods 
is  stimulated  by  the  extraordinary offers 
now  being  made  by  the  package  houses 
in  their  war  on  each  other.  This  is 
having  an  effect  to  cut  down  the  de­
mand  for  bulks.  Reports  from  the  East 
show  a  firmer  market  in  Brazil,  and  a 
better  disposition  on  the  part  of  im­
porters  to  buy  at  full  prices. 
Impotters 
think  the  bottom  of  the  market  has 
been  reached,  and  that  coffees  at  pres­
ent  values  are  good  property.  Within 
the  next  two  months  an  advance  in  the 
market  is  expected.

is  unsettled. 

Dried  Fruits— No  change  in  any 

line 
in  this  market  this  week. 
is  reported 
low  this 
Prices  on  Persian  dates  are 
year  and  the  market 
In 
years  past  there  has  always  been  great 
competition  by 
importers  as  to  which 
should  get  a  direct  shipment  of  Persian 
dates  to  this  market  first,  but  this  sea­
son  there  were  no  direct  shipments. 
A  considerable  stock  has  been  carried 
over  in  cold  storage.  New  stock  is  now 
in  market  and  is  of  good  quality.  The 
pack  of  London  layer and  cluster  Cali­
fornia  raisins 
is  reported  to  have  been 
unusually  small  this  year.  The demand 
is  active  with  a  tendency  to  push  the 
market  up.  A  good  many  rain-dam­
aged  raisins  are  reported  to  have  gone 
East  from  the  Coast,  causing  not  a  lit­
tle  trouble  between  seller  and  buyer on 
arrival  at  Eastern  points.  For  strictly 
first-class  goods  the  market  is  reported 
firm  on  the  Coast,  but  on  all  other,  the 
market  is  easy.

Canned  Goods—There  has  been  a bet­
ter  demand  for tomatoes,  which  rule  at 
firm,  but  unchanged,  prices.  An  ad­
vance 
in  these  goods  is  still  expected, 
but  to  what extent remains to be seen. 
It  would  not  be  particularly  surprising 
if  the  market  were  to  remain  just  about 
steady.  Com 
is  very  quiet,  with  prac­
tically  no  demand  and  unchanged,  but 
firm  prices. 
Peas  are  dead,  except 
for  an  occasional  order.  The  market 
rules  at  unchanged  prices.  Not  much 
is  doing 
in  peaches,  on  which  prices 
are unchanged.

is 

Molasses— Molasses 

in  good  de­
in  pure  goods  is  far 
mand.  The  trade 
ahead  of  last  years.  No  change  in  price 
has  occurred,  and  none  is  expected  un­
less  the  demand  should  decrease  or  the 
supply  increase,  neither  of  which  con­
tingencies  seems  likely.

Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Gloucester) 
write  the  Tradesman  as  follows :  The 
Grand  Bank  codfish  fleet  have  all  ar­
rived  from  their  second  fares  and  the 
total  catch  this  year  amounts  to  about 
100,000  qtls.,  compared  with  150,000 
qtls.  last  year—a  reduction  of  50,000 
qtls.,  which  we  think  will  be  noticed  a 
few  months  hence  more  than  now.  The 
price  of  Bank  codfish,  although  some 
higher  than  a  year  ago,  is  still  at  a  low 
figure.  Georges  codfish  are  in  lighter 
stock  and  will  rule  high  for  some  time 
to  come;  in  fact,  the  market  is  scantily 
supplied  with  these  choice  fish  all 
through  the  year.  There  is  a  firm  feel­
ing  in  mackerel  and  some  grades  are 
a  shade  higher  in  price.  The  Ameri­
can  catch  was  exceedingly 
light,  un­
accountably  so.  No one  in  the  business 
can  give  a  reason  for  it,  but  we  are  not 
prepared  tosay,  "There  are no mackerel 
of  any  account  in  our waters," or,  "T he 
mackerel.fisbery  is  a  thing  of  the  past.”  
The  dearth  has  now  continued  twelve 
years,  and  nothing  like  it  has  occurred 
in  this  branch  of  fishery  since  the  be­
ginning  of 
its  activity  in  1819,  except 
the  period  of  from  1839  to  and  closing 
with  1844,  an 
interval  of  six  years, 
when  the  Massachusetts  catch  averaged 
yearly  for  that  period  67,780  bbls.  No 
one 
in  the  business  at  that  time  could 
account  for  the  decrease.  The  Massa­
chusetts  catch  of  1844  amounted  to  only 
86,381  barrels,  while  that  of  the  next 
year,  1845,  ran  UP  to  202,302  barrels,  an 
increase  of  116,000  barrels. 
Judging 
somewhat  from  the  past,  we  are  not 
to  admit  that  the  mackerel 
willing 
is  a  matter  of  the  past,  but  ex­
fishe'ry 
pect  a  larger  and  more 
satisfactory 
catch  for  1898. 
Scaled  herring  are  low 
in  price and  are  likely  to  advance  any 
day.

The  Milk  in  the  Cocoanut.

talk 

sounded 

A  correspondent  of  the  New  England 
Grocer  writes  that 
journal  as  follows 
relative  to  a  concern  which  has  been 
frequently  exposed  by  the  Tradesman :
Some  time  ago  two  well-appearing, 
glib-talking  articles  came  to  the  store 
and  presented  the  good  qualities  of  the 
Comstock  Law  and  Collection  Agency. 
Their 
good,  scheme 
seemed  all  right,  and  we  bit;  hap­
pened  to  be  in  a  little  hurry  and  per­
haps  did  not  pay  so  much  attention  to 
form  of  contract  which  they  read  for  us 
as  we  should  have;  told  them  to  "fill 
'er  out,”   and  we  signed  without  study­
ing  what  they  gave  us,  (foolish,  but 
we’ve  all  been  there).  Sent  in  our  list 
of  dead-wood  and  received  reply that 
same could  not be bandied until our note 
was  paid.  We  looked  up  duplicate  con­
tract  which  they  gave  us,  and  sure 
enough  we  had  our  signature  on  a  very 
clearly-worded  promissory  note.  We 
did  not  reply,  but shortly  received  a  de­
mand  to  settle.  We  didn't  settle.  Not 
long  after  a 
local  lawyer  informed  us 
that  he  had  a  note  of  ours  given  to  the 
C.  L.  and  C.  Agency,  and  wanted  to 
settle.  We  said,"N it, ”  and beard noth­
ing  more  for  more  than  a week,  when

Number 743

we  received  word  from  headquarters  at 
Oswego  that  they  had  not  requested 
their  local  attorney  to  proceed  against 
us  on  first  presentation,  but  if  we  per­
in  refusing  to  pay  they  would 
sisted 
instruct  him  differently. 
Thereupon 
we  again  read  note—read  certain  things 
and  promises  that  we  made,  agreeing 
to  perform  certain  duties  that  we,  upon 
due  reflection,  considered 
impossible; 
got  mad ;  called  on  lawyer  and  told him 
to  extend  our  compliments  to  his clients 
and  say  we  would  not  pay,  and  asked 
him  his  opinion  of  note.  Wj  then 
wrote  to  C.  L.  and  C.  Agency  extend­
ing  them  a  very  pressing  and  cordial 
invitation  to  enter  the  legal  arena,  and 
promised  them  most  faithfully  to  give 
them  free  of  charge  ten 
times  the 
amount  of  the  note in advertising.  They 
evidently  did  not  appreciate  our  good 
intentions,  for  we  heard  nothing  fiom 
them,  and  we  recommend  our  plan  to 
any  grocer  similarly  situated.

The  agreement  which  the  merchant 
signs when he becomesa subscriber to the 
agency  is  one  of  the  most  cleverly-con­
ceived  documents  ever  devised,  inas­
much  as 
it  becomes  a  straight  promis­
sory  note  if  the  conditions  of  the  agree­
ment  are  not  fulfilled.  The  form  is  as 
follows:

For  value  received,  I  promise  to  pay 
to  the  order  of  The  Comstock  Law  and 
Collection  Agency  twenty  dollars,  at 
their  office  in  Oswego,  N.  Y.,  on  the 
following  conditions: 
I  agree  to  send 
to  said  Agency  within  twenty  days  from 
this  date  the  names,  correct  postoffice 
addresses  and  amounts  due  from at least 
thirty  debtors 
living  in  this  State  who 
legally  _  owe  me  accounts  or  notes 
amounting  in  the  aggregate  to  at  least 
one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  to 
send  at  intervals  not  exceeding  twenty 
days,  to  said  Agency  the  names  of  all 
said  debtors  who  do  not  pay,  until  all 
of  said  Agency’s  letter  forms,  which 
are  five,  shall  have  been  sent  to  each 
delinquent  debtor.

I  also  agree  to  send  two  two-cent 
stamps  with  each  name  in  each  list  at 
each  time.

The  first  moneys  received  on  said 
claim  up  to  said  sum  of  twenty  dollars 
I  agree  to  send  within  ten  days  after 
their  receipt,  to  said  Agency,  by  check, 
draft  on  New  York,  postoffice  or  ex­
press  order.

Should  I  fail  to  send  said  list  and 
postage  stamps  every  twenty  days  as 
above  agreed,  I  agree  to  pay  to'said 
Agency  said  sum  of  twenty  dollars 
within  ten  days  after  default.

In  consideration  of  the  above  agree­
ment,  the  said  Agency  agrees  to  fur­
nish,  upon  request,  a  sufficient  number 
of  blanks  for  the  purpose  of  sending the 
names  of  said  debtors,  and  to  send  its 
letter  forms 
in  proper  order  to  each 
debtor  named  in  each  list.

No  solicitor 

in  the  employ  of  the 
Comstock  Law  and  Collection  Agency 
has  authority  to  change  the  terms  of 
this agreement.

Any  merchant  who  would  put  his 
name  to  such  a  one-sided  agreement 
ougth  to  pocket  his  loss  without  a  mur­
mur.
The  Magnanimity of Organized Labor.
A  dispatch  from  Brazil,  Ind.,  under 

date  of  Dec.  7,  is  as  follows.

The  250  employes  of  the  Crawford 
Coal  Co.  quit  this  morning because they 
discovered  a  non-union  man  at  work 
and  also  four  union  men  who  had  not 
paid  their  dues.  General  Manager 
Fisher  refused  to  discharge  the  men 
complained  of  and  all  quit.

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D ry  Goods

The  Show  Window  as  a  Factor  in 
Written for the T r ad esm an.

Retail  Business.

As  the  eye  is  essential  to  the  welfare 
of  man,  so  the  window  is  essential  to 
the  welfare  of  the  business  house.  Ob­
servation  has  taught  me,  in  my  travels 
through  different  places,  and  especially 
in  small  towns,  that  the  show  window is 
too  often  sadly  neglected. 
Through 
false  economy  of  a  few  dollars  in  the 
construction  of  stores,  windcws  are  oft- 
times  put  in  which  are  partially,  if  not 
altogether,  useless  to  the  merchant  in 
the  displav  of  goods.  Cheap  glass, 
small  panes  so  they  will  not  be  easily 
broken—and, 
re­
placed—is  the  cry;  and,  without  a  mo­
ment’s  consideration  but  for  the  present 
cost,  windows  are  placed  that  give  the 
store  a  cheap,  dreary,  cold  and  gloomy 
look,  resembling  a  prison  with 
its 
barred  windows  and  cheerless  appear­
ance,  repelling  to  the  would-be  pur­
chaser.  Beware  of  small  cut-up  show 
windows,  as  they  will  bring  you  many 
hours  of  regret  and  remorse  and  lose for 
you  many  dollars  in  the  course  of  your 
business  career.

if  broken,  cheaply 

Many  have  good  windows  but  sadly 
neglect  their  care.  Nothing  so  lowers 
the  estimation  of  a  merchant  as  to  find 
his windows grimy and dirty and tattooed 
with  numberless  flyspecks,  and  noth­
ing 
is  so  apt  to  cause  a  purchaser  to 
think  twice  before  he  ventures  into such 
a  place.  By  all  means  keep  your  win­
dows  clean,  and  so  avoid  being  classed 
as  a  careless  and  indifferent  fellow.

Next 

in  order  is  the  dressing  of  the 
show  window,  which,  if  properly  done 
is  one  of  the  many 
and  cared  for, 
stepping  stones  to  success 
in  a  retail 
is  nothing  that  at­
business.  There 
tracts  attention 
like  a  tasty,  showy 
window,  and  nothing  that  so invites dis­
favor  as  a  window  used  as  a  sort  of 
catch-all  or  waste  basket,  or  where  the 
windows  are  washed  once  a  year  and 
the  goods  arranged 
in  any  shape  and 
left  there  until  the  dust  is  so  thick  it 
can  be  shoveled  up.  How  can  such  a 
man  expect  to  have  the  trade  of  decent 
and  respectable  people,  coming  from 
neat  and  clean  apartments,  when  at  the 
very  door  you  meet  them  with  such  a 
sight?  It  is  truly  said  that  “ Cleanliness 
is  next  to  Godliness;’ ’  and  I  think  we 
from  a  business  point  of 
may  add, 
view,  tbai  “ Cleanliness 
is  next  to  the 
people’s  pocketbook. ”   Nothing  will 
drive ‘ a  man  to  the  wall  quicker  than 
dirt  and  carelessness,  with  the  credit 
system  considered,  as  the  two  general­
ly  go  hand  in  hand.

Many,  for  the  fear  of  a  few  cents’ 
expense,  do  not  fix  up  their  windows 
and  let  them  help  them  do  the  talking, 
as  they  think,  “ Well,  there  is  no  use  of 
going  to  that  expense,  as  it  will  do  no 
good;  if  they  want  anything  they  know 
me  well  enough  to  come  in  and  get  it. ’ * 
This  is  a  mistake,  my  friend,  as  your 
windows,  if  properly  cared  for,  will talk 
louder,  better  and  to  greater  advantage 
than  the  best  man  you  can  place  behind 
the  counter.

Many  business  men  think  that,  by 
using  printer’s  ink  in  great  profusion, 
they  are  doing  all  that  is  required  to 
boom  their  business  and,  as  a  conse­
quence,  all  else  is  neglected  because  of 
this  unreasonable  conclusion.  The suc­
cessful  advertiser  is  the  man  who  says 
the  right  thing  at  the  right  time  and  in 
the  right  way,  and  follows  it  up  by  do­
ing  all  in  his  power to  bring  about  the

desired  results.  The  successful  adver­
tiser,  in  a  retail  business,  is  the  one 
who  not  only  uses  printers’ 
ink,  but 
follows 
it  up  by  a  handsomely-dressed 
window,  for  through  his  advertisement 
he  tells  about  goods,  in  his  window 
he  shows them and behind his counter  he 
sells  them,each  being  equally  important 
to  his  success.  The  window  as  an  ad­
vertising  medium  reaches  those  who 
never  for  a  moment  glance  at  an  adver­
tisement,  but  whose  eye  is  caught  by 
They 
something  neat  or  attractive. 
mention  it  to  others,  whose  curiosity 
is 
aroused  to  see 
suits 
them,  they  go  in  and  buy  it,  and  many 
sales  are  the  result.

Something 

it. 

When  you  place  anything  in  the  win­
it  must  remain  there 
dow,  don’t  think 
in  this  line  lies  in 
forever,  as  success 
continually 
some­
thing  new  in  place  of  the  old,  that  you 
may  catch  the  same  observer  the  second 
time.

changing— putting 

Another  good  practice  often  neglected 
is  the  affixing  of  prices  to  the  goods 
is  not  an  object 
displayed.  True,  cost 
to  some  people 
if  they  see  what  suits 
their  fancy;  but  to  one  you  find  this 
way  fifty  will go a  block  to save a penny, 
and  the  price  attached  gives  them  con­
fidence  to  go  in  if  they  have  but  a 
lim­
ited  amount  of  money.

“ Well,”   I  hear some of you  say,  “ that 
is  all  well  enough  for  a  city  store,  but 
it  won’t  help  me  any."  A  mistake  for 
you  to  think  so.  The  smallest  town 
needs  this  care  as  well  as  the  largest 
city.  Show  the  people  what  you  have 
in  neat  and  attractive  window  displays 
and  you  will  keep  at  home  many  of 
those  that  rush  to  the  city  to  do  their 
trading,  and  thereby  make  for  yourself 
many  a  dollar.  Spend  a  little  money 
along  this  line  and  you  will  be  amply 
repaid,  and will  find  it  true  in  every  in­
stance  that  a  neat  and  showy  window 
gives  gaiety  and  cheerfulness  to  your 
surroundings,  gives  confidence  to  your 
customers  and  beckons  to  the  passer-by 
to  come  in. 
Uncle  Sam  Will  Hereafter  Demand 

H.  D.  G l e n n .

Actual  Weights.

A  circular  which 

is  of  vital  impor­
tance  to  local  cigar  and  tobacco  manu­
facturers  has  been  received  at  the  In­
ternal  Revenue  office. 
It  is  the  duty  of 
the  Collector  to  annually  receive  from 
the  factory  owners  an  inventory  of  the 
stock  they  have  on  hand  at  the  end  of 
the  year.  The  annual  report  of  the office 
is  made  up  from  these  abstracts.  Much 
trouble  has  been  experienced  in  getting 
correct  inventories,  for the  reason  that 
many  of  the  manufacturers  simply  esti­
mate  the  stock  they  have on  hand  in­
stead  of  actually  weighing  the  same,  as 
the  law  requires.  As  a  result of  this 
neglect  many  manufacturers  are  an­
nually  obliged  to  pay fines for deficiency 
in  their  product

Under  the  new  ruling  it  is  made  the 
duty  of  the  Collector  or  his  deputies  to 
make  a  personal  examination  of  the 
stock  of  manufacturers  in  order  to  de­
termine  the  correctness  of the inventory. 
The  Commissioner  of  Internal  Revenue 
insists  that,as  the  inventories are an  im­
in  making  up  the 
portant  element 
Collector’s  reports,  actual 
instead  of 
estimated  weights  of  stock  and  num­
bers  should  be  given  in  all  cases.  Col­
lectors  ate  enjoined  to  see  that  inven­
tories  are  made  promptly  and  correctly.

A  Montreal  banker  says  that  there  is 
an  uncommonly  large  amount  of  money 
in  the 
on  deposit 
leading  banks  of 
Canada,  the 
last  government  statement 
showing  it  to  be  $215,000,000.  The  de­
posits,  too,  he  says,  are  constantly  on 
the  gain  and  it  is  “ a  matter extremely 
difficult  to  explain.’ ’

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons— Brown  sheetings  and 
drills  are  without  material  change  in 
conditions  and  sales  are  reported  as 
quite  light  and  without  any  steadiness 
whatever.  Some  enquiries  are  reported 
at  prices  below  regular  quotations,  and 
these  are  promptly  refused  by  holders, 
who  feel  that  the  market  is  strengthen­
ing,  and  that  better  prices  will  rule  ere 
long.

Colored  Cottons—There  is  as  much  of 
a  demand  as  might  reasonably  be  ex­
pected  for  the  season  for  plaids,checks, 
stripes  and  cheviots,  and  they  are  sell­
ing  better  than  they  were  last  week. 
Prices  on  these  lines  remain  unchanged 
at  present  writing,  and  from  all  indica­
tions,  we  should  say  that  it  would  be 
unwise  to  predict  much lower quotations 
in  the  near  future.

Prints  and  Ginghams—There 

is  a 
good  demand  for  fancy  dress  ginghams, 
zephyrs,  seersuckers,  Madras  cloth  and 
similar  fabrics  in plaids,  stripes,  checks 
and  similar  effects.  These  are  looked 
upon  as  the  most  promising  lines  tor 
spring  wear  and  will  undoubtedly  be 
bought  up  as  fast  as  buyers  can  pick 
them  out.

Hosiery—The  great  demand  still  con­
tinues  for  fancies,  and  in  the  fancies, 
plaids  stand  by  long  odds  first.  While 
large,  stocks  are  very 
this  demand 
are 
small,  and  prices  consequently 
strong 
Everything 
points  to  a  continuance  of  business  in 
these  lines,  and  with  but  little  prospect 
of  change  in  the  style  demand.

in  every  place. 

is 

Carpets— The  men  are  on  the  road 
representing  both  the  jobbers and manu­
facturers,  and some  have  already booked 
moderate  orders  for  ingrains,  tapestries 
and  other  pile  carpets.  The  weavers 
who  have  placed  orders  weeks  previous­

in  a  position 

ly  for  yarn  are  now 
to. 
accept  orders  understand ingly.  They 
are  first  of  all  anxious  to  obtain  orders 
to  run  their  looms,  even  at  50c  per 
yard,  and  while  some  are  holding  lor 
52 I^c,  most  of  the  early  orders  will  be 
placed  at  the  old  price,  as  the  pile 
fabric  which  will  not  be  advanced  until 
Jan.  15  by  some  of  the  largest  mills 
will  tend  to  attract  the  initial  orders  to 
tapestries.

Upholstery— The  salesmen  are  now 
out  on  the  road  showing  the  new sample 
pieces,  and  while  moderate  orders  have 
already  been  placed,  the  trade  has  not 
fairly  opened  as  yet.  This  season  bids 
fair  to  see  more  draping  of  doors  and 
windows  than formerly.  French methods 
are  becoming  more  popular  all 
the 
time,  as  compared  with  the  German. 
The  heavy  full  length  curtain  is  obliged 
to  give  place  to  the  festoons  caught 
in 
the  open  grille  work.

Ode  to  the  Owing.

You  may  talk  about  the  tariff,  and  protection,  and 

free  trade,

And  party  panaceas  for oppressing  human  ills, 

And  “ improving  trade  conditions,’*  and  the  boom 

that wheat has  made,

But the  way  to  stir  up  business  is  to  pay  your 

little  bills.

butcher ten,

man  five,

business  men,

If  you  owe  the  grocer  twenty,  and  he  owes  the 

And  live  more  to  the  coal  man,  and  to  the  ice 

Your  payment  of  the  twenty  helps  along  three 

And  the  payments  they  can  make  in  turn  make 

other people thrive”

Idle  money in your  pocket  doesn’t  do you any good; 
Unle>s  your  bills are  all  paid  up  in  full  it  isn’t 

Just  pay  up all you’re able,  as  you  wish  that  others 

That’s  the  recipe  for  hard  times  that  invariably 

yours.

would;

cures.

If  you  pay  what  you  owe  others,  others  still  can 

It’s the  circulating  dollar  that  the  pulse  of busi­

So set  your money  working,  and  then  watch  what 

For  the  way  to  stir  up  business  is  to  pay  your 

then  pay you;

ness  thrills.

it  will  do,

little  bills.

W il l ia m   H.  H il l s.

o y s * £

i s .

Look  us  over  before  you  buy. 

If  you  are  too  busy  to  call,  drop  a  line 
stating  amount  to  invest and  we  will  make  up  an  assortment to suit  you.

VOIGT, HERPOLSHEIMER & CO.,

IM P O R T E R S   A N D   J O B B E R S . 

G RA N D   R A P ID S .  M ICH.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,

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SU CC ESSFU L  SALESMEN.

J.  N.  Bradford,  Representing  the 

Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.

in 

James  N.  Bradford  was  born  at  Stony 
Creek,  Oakland  county,  this  State,  Nov. 
23,  1844,  and  shortly  afterward  removed 
with  his  parents  to  Orion,  in  the  same 
county.  There  he  remained  until  7 
years  of  age,  when  his  parents  removed 
to  Grand  Rapids,  where  they  lived  six 
years,  removing  to  Ravenna  to  run  a 
hotel  and  work  a  new  farm.  Brad, 
worked  on  the  farm  summers  and  at­
tended  the  district  school  winters  until 
August  II,  1862.  when  he  enlisted  as  a 
in  the  twenty-sixth  Michigan 
private 
Volunteers,  following 
the  fortunes  of 
his  regiment  until  the  close  of  the  war. 
He  then  returned  to  Muskegon  and,  for 
the  next  three  years,  followed  the  lakes 
summers,  and  worked 
the  lumber 
woods  winters.  In  1869,  he  entered  into 
partnership  with  his  brother,  L.  C. 
Bradford,  under  the  firm  name  of  Brad­
ford Bros., and carried on  a  general  mer­
cantile  business  at  Ravenna,  buying 
out  his  brother’s 
interest  in  1870 and 
removing  the  stock  to  Muskegon,  where 
he  re-engaged 
in  business  on  Pine 
street. 
In  1872  he  formed  a  copartner­
ship  with  D.  G.  Carpenter,  which  con­
tinued  until  1873,  when  they  launched 
out  in  the  lumber  business,  Brad,  sell­
ing  out  his  interest  shortly afterward  to 
Thomas  and  Uriah  Culbert.  He  then 
entered  the  employ  of  Wm.  Martin,  at 
that  time  proprietor  of  the  Muskegon 
City  Mills,  where  he  remained  three 
years,  serving as clerk,  book-keeper  and 
general  hand.  He  then  removed  to 
Fremont  Center,  where  he  managed  a 
general  store  for  Mr.  Martin  two  years, 
under  the  firm  name  of  J.  N.  Bradford 
&  Co.,  Agents,  at  the  expiration  of 
which  time  the  stock  was  removed  to 
Muskegon. 
into 
partnership  with  Peter  Neil,  engaging 
in  the  grocery  business,  disposing  of 
his 
interest  the  following  spring  and 
heading  toward  the  silver  mines  of  Col­
orado,  where  he  arrived  in  June,  1879, 
spending several months roaming around 
among  the  different  mining  cdmps.  His 
next  move  was  to  engage  in  the  tobacco 
and  cigar  business,  at  Denver,  selling 
out  shortly  afterward,  to  travel  through 
Kansas  and  Missouri.  He  landed  at 
Grand  Rapids,  Oct.  4,  1879,  and  imme­
diately  entered  the  employ  of  Arthur 
Meigs  &  Co.,  then  doing  business  on 
Pearl  street.  At  that  time  the  firm  was 
buying  hay  and  grain  in  Indiana  and 
selling  them  to  the  Northern  trade,  and 
Brad,  was  dispatched  to  the  Hoosier 
State  to  do  the  buying.  His  first  move 
involved 
lawsuit,  one 
man  refusing  to  carry  out  his  contract, 
although  afterward  compelled  to  pay 
$517  and  costs  and  recognize  the  fact 
that  the  contract  was  binding.  Jan.  1, 
1880,  Brad,  returned  to  the  house  and 
occupied  successively  the  positions  of 
shipping  clerk,  billing  clerk  and  sales­
man,  taking  a  trip  every  two  weeks  to 
Muskegon  and  the  other  towns  on  the 
Big  Rapids  branch.  The  next  spring 
he  was  given  the  trade  on  the  G.  R  &
I.  as  far  north  as  Tustin,  the  F.  &  P. 
M.,  and  east  on  the  D.,  G.  H.  &  M. 
His  route  was  afterward  changed  so  as 
to  include  all  town  on  the  C.  &  W.  M. 
north,  but  retain  the  territory  on  the 
D.,  G.  H.  &  M.  east  March  1,  1886, 
he  transferred  his  allegiance  to  Olney, 
Shields  &  Co.,  his  territorv  comprising 
the  G.  R.  &  I.  north,  tbe’c .  &  W.  M.

then  entered 

the  firm 

Brad, 

in  a 

north,  the  F.  &  P.  M.  west  of  Reed 
City  and  the  Ann  Arbor  from  Cadillac 
to  Frankfort.  Nine  years  ago,  on  the 
organization  of  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.,  he  became  a  stockholder 
and  two  years  ago  he  was  elected  a  di­
rector  in  the  corporation.

On  the  twenty-third  anniversary of his 
birth,  Mr.  Bradford  was  married 
to 
Miss  Rosa  Sperry,  of  Ravenna,  who 
died  of  consumption  seven  weeks  after 
their  marriage.  May  7,  1870,  Mr.  Brad­
ford  married  Miss  Ella  A.  Routson,  of 
Ravenna,  who  has  borne  him 
four 
children—three  boys  and  one girl.  The 
oldest  son,  Ray,  was  accidentally  shot 
while  hunting,  eight  years  ago,  when 
15  years  of  age.  Another  son,  Frank, 
died  of  diphtheria  at  2%  years  of  age. 
The  remaining  son,  James  R.,  now  17 
is  attending  the  high 
years  of  age, 
school 
the  scientific 
course.  Ethel,  the  only  daughter,  has 
finished  her  studies  at  the  high  school 
and  has  also  taken  a  commercial  course

and  pursuing 

at  the  Grand  Rapids  Business  College. 
The  family  reside  in  their  own  home  at 
102  James  street.
Mr.  Bradford 

is  a  member  of  the 
Park  Congregational  church,  of  which 
his  family  are  also  communicants.  He 
is 
identified  with  three  branches  of 
Masonry—Valley  City  Lodge,  No.  86, 
Grand  Rapids  Chapter,  No.  7,  and  Tyre 
Council,  No.  10.  He 
is  a  member  of 
Imperial  Lodge,  Knights  of  Pythias; 
Custer  Post,  G.  A.  R.  ;  Knights  of 
Honor;  Michigan  Commercial  Trav­
elers’  Mutual  Accident  Association,  in 
which  he  is  also  a  director;  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  in  which  or 
ganization  he  has  always  taken  an  ac­
interest,  having  served  the  local 
tive 
Post 
in  the  capacity  of  Chairman  and 
taken  part 
in  nearly  every  convention 
ever  held  by  the  Association.  Until 
this  year  he  has  been  content  to  march 
in  the  ranks,  but  on  the  de&th  of  Secre­
tary  Slaght,  he  determined  to  enter  the 
field  for  the  Secretaryship, 
in  which 
ambition  he  has  been  encouraged  by 
his  friends,  his  local  Post  having  ac­
corded  him  the  unanimous endorsement 
of 
in 
every  way  qualified  to  discharge  the 
difficult  duties  devolving  upon 
the 
office,  and  in  case  he  is  elected,  be  w ill: 
give  the  organization  a  clean  and  eco­
nomical  administration.

its  members.  Mr.  Bradford  is 

Mr.  Bradford’s  chief  strength  as  a 
in  his  ability  to  make 
salesman 
friends  and  hold  them.  He is a thorough 
groceryman,  understanding  his  line  and

lies 

taking  pains  to  post  himself  on  the 
changes  and  other  points  bearing  on 
the  business.  He  is,  moreover,  a  care­
ful  salesman,  being  a  good  judge  of 
character,  so  that  he  is  able  to  deter­
mine  the  responsibility  of  his  trade. 
He  is  an  exceptionally  successful  col­
lector,  making  comparatively  few  losses 
and  seldom 
involving  himself  or  his 
bouse in misunderstandings of  any  kind. 
Proud  of  his  record  and  satisfied  with 
his  success,  he  has  every  reason  to  re­
gard  his  future  with  complacency.

Detroit,  Dec.  13—At  the regular meet­
ing  of  Post  C,  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  held 
last  Saturday  evening,  the 
following  business  was  transacted :

After  approving  the minutes and some 
very 
interesting  communications  were 
read  and  passed  upon,  F.  S.  Harris  ap­
plied  for  membership  in  the  Post  and 
was  accepted.

for  the  ensuing 

year  resulted  as  follows :

Election  of  officers 
Chairman— P.  T.  Walsh.
Vice-Chairman—S.  B.  Rosenfield.
Secretary  and  Treasurer— H.  Y.  Kin- 

yon.

Sergeant-at-Arms -George  Gorman.
Alleviator—John  McLean.
Executive  Board— E.  C.  Stone,  W. 
C.  Atchison,  G.  S.  Valmore,  A.  M. 
Watson,  C.  W.  Allen.

After  the  election  of  officers,  there 
were  several  long-winded  debates  as  to 
which  was  the  better  jolly  for  railroads 
—molasses  or  vinegar— between  John 
R.  Wood,  the  railroads'  champion,  and 
R.  W.  Jacklin,  winding  up  with  a  neat 
little  speech  by  the  only  Irish  orator, 
roasting  John  R.  Wood  and  the  other 
members  of  the  State  Board  of  Direct­
ors  on  their  actions-in  the  past 
in  try­
ing  to  make  themselves  the whole thing. 
It  was  the  unanimous  opinion  of  those 
present  that  “ there  are  others”   besides 
the  State  Board  of  Directors.

The  newly-elected  officers  were  con-

ducted 
to  their  several  places  with 
considerable  pomp  and  ceremony by ex- 
President'Jacklin,  and  a  more  compe­
tent  or  handsome  lot  of  officers  would 
be  hard  to  find,  to  say  nothing  of  V al’s 
necktie.

The  wide-awake  Chairman  went  to 
work  and  appointed  his  committees,  as 
follows:

Entertainment—W.  H.  Baier,  A.  M. 

Watson  and  George  Gorman.

Badges— R.  W.  Jacklin  and  C.  W. 

Allen.

Hotel— E.  C.  Stone  and  G.  S.  Val­

in ore.

tee  of  one  to  notify  the  hotels  at  Kala­
mazoo  how  many  members  would  be 
there and secure accommodations.

It  was  moved  and  supported  that  all 
members  be  requested  to  vote  against 
the  proposed  amendments  to  the  consti­
tution  whereby  the  Secretary  would  be 
appointed  by  the  Board  of  Directors 
and  that  all  honorable  means  should  be 
used  to  elect  our  candidate  for  State 
Secretary,  M.  Howarn.

The  Secretary’s  annual  report  showed 
the  Post  to  be  in  good  shape  and  a  sur­
plus  on  hand,  afttfr  having  six  dancing 
parties  in  the  year.

The  members  decided  to  hold  another 
meeting  at  the  Cadillac  Hotel,  on  Dec. 
26,  at  3  p.  m.,  to  complete  arrange­
ments  for  the  trip  to  Kalamazoo.

H.  Y.  K i n y o n ,  Sec’y.

The  probable  action  of  the  Kalama­
zoo  convention  on  the  pet  hobby  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  to  amend  the  con­
stitution  so  that  the  Secretary  shall  be 
elected  by  the  Board  is  foreshadowed 
by  the  simultaneous  action  of  Post  C 
(Detroit)  and  Post  E  (Grand  Rapids) 
in  unanimously  deciding  to  oppose  the 
measure  to  the  uttermost. 
From  all 
outward  appearances  the  proposition  of 
the  Board  will  meet  with  overwhelming 
defeat.

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Portrait C alendars

_  W e  have  lately  placed  on  the  market  a 
line  of  portrait  calendars  which  we  think 
superior  in  many  respects  to  the  colored 
calendars  so  long  in  use,  in  that  the  cus­
tomer  who  hangs  up  a  calendar  with  the 
merchant's  portrait  thereon  will  think  of 
him  and  his  establishment  every  time  he 
glances  at the calendar.

This  line  of  calendars  is  7x11  inches  in 
size,  printed  on  heavy  S-ply  coated  litho. 
cardboard,  with  portrait  of  merchant,  or 
his clerks,  or his  family  at  top  of  card and 
large  monthly  calendar  pads  wire  stitched 
to lower  portion of card,  samples  of  which 
wili cheerfully  be sent  on  application.

W e  can  make  calendars  in  any  size  de­
sired,  printed  either  from  engraved  plates 
or from  type,  with  monthly  pad,  in  one  or 
two colors  of  ink.

W e also have on  hand a  large line  of fan­
cy colored  calendars, which  we can  furnish 
on  exceptionally  favorable terms.

In case you conclude to favor us with your 
order for anything  in  the  calendar  line,  we 
trust you  will send on  photograph  and  copy 
for reading matter as  early  in  the  month as 
possible.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants. 

Thompsonville—L.  G.  Erdle  has 

opened  a  furniture  store  here.

Vassar— Fred  Phillips  has  removed 

his  grocery  stock  to  Crystal  City.

Port  Huron—Jacob  Hoffman 

has 

.  opened  a  shoe  store  on  Huron avenue. 

West  Branch—Bond  &  Co.  succeed 

H.  W.  Sachs  in  the  grocery  business.

Lansing—Jacob  B.  Simon will remove 
his  bazaar  stock to  Muncie,  Ind.,  Jan.  i.
Alto—C.  W.  Williams  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Patrick  Kelley,  of Lowell 
Menominee—John  Payne  has  opened 
a  confectionery  store  at  41  Main  street.
Lansing—C.  Alsdorf  &  Son  will  soon 
open  a  branch  drug  store  in  the  Twaits 
block.

East  Jordan—Mrs. 

F.  Shier  has 
opened  a  restaurant  and  bakery  at  this 
place.

Durand—Geo.  McNicol  succeeds  El 
mer  C.  Barlow  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

East  Jordan— Wm.  A.  Pickard  has 
opened  a  grocery  store  in  the  Burdick 
building.

Coldwater—J.  M.  Lind  has  sold  a 
in  his  meat  market  to  A 

interest 

half 
R.  Brown.

Petoskey—Jas.  M.  Wells  &  Co.  have 
opened  a  book  and  stationery  store  at 
this  place.

Cadillac— D.  M.  Wray  has  embarked 
in  the confectionery and  fruit  business 
at this  place.

Milan—Wm.  A.  Reeves 

continues 
the  meat  business  formerly  conducted 
by  Reeves  &  Welch.

Ionia—J.  F.  Bible  will  succeed  A.  S. 
Wright  as  general  manager  of  the  Ionia 
Wagon  Works  January  1.

Holland— Henry  DeKraker  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  A.  Mich- 
mershuizen  on  Fourteenth  street.

Marquette— Hoover  &  Gleason  have 
rented  a  store  building  and  opened  a 
tailor  shop  and  news  stand at this  place.
Stanton—John  Stearns,  of  Clifford 
Lake,  has  purchased a  half  interest  in 
the 
implement  business  of  Frank 
Strouse.

Brookfield— Mrs.  D.  T.  Williams, 
general  dealer,  has  decided  to  retire 
from  business  and  will  sell  her  stock  at 
auction.

Brookfield—Chas.  Merkle,  of  Eaton 
Rapids, is making the necessary arrange­
ments to start a drug store at this  place 
about  January  1.

Brown  City—J.  L.  Morden,  of  Port 
Huron,  has  purchased  the  Brown  City 
bakery  of  Frank  Snyder  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

Big  Rapids— Frederick  &  Burr  have 
purchased  the  Ward  &  Co.  meat  market 
and  will  conduct  the  same  in  connec­
tion  with  their grocery  business.

Northville—G.  S.  Horton  has  pur­
chased  a  half 
in  the  grocery 
store  of  B.  A.  Wheeler.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Wheeler  &  Horton.

interest 

Ravenna— W.  H.  Davenport,  who  has 
conducted  a  grocery  store  in  the  south­
ern  part  of  Ravenna  township  for  a 
couple  of  years,  has  removed  his  stock 
to  Hart.

Newaygo— W.  D.  Booth  will  go  to 
Alabama  for  the  winter  on  account  of 
his  wife’s  health.  T.  H.  Booth  will 
have  charge  of  the  general  store  here 
during  his  absence.

Homer—John  D.  Hunter  and  Archie 
Young,  of  Albion,  have  purchased  Har­
mon  &  Allen’s  stock  of  clothing  and  re­
moved  it  to  the  Lyon  block,  where  they 
will  continue  the  business.

Clare-James  Boyd  has  sold  his  stock 
of  groceries  to  D.  D.  Pierce,  of  Lake 
Station,  who  will  remove  the  stock  to 
that  place.  Mr.  Boyd  will  engage  in 
the  boot  and  shoe  business  at Durand.

Ovid—Chas.  Farmer,  who  has  been 
in  business  in  Ovid  for  thirty 
engaged 
years,  expects  to 
leave  Ovid  with  his 
dry  goods  stock  for  Durand  as  soon  as 
matteis  can  be satisfactorily arranged.

Mancelona—Cobbs  &  Mitchell,  of 
Cadillac,  who  recently  purchased  the 
tract  of  pine  on  Cedar  River  formerly 
owned  by  Hawks  Bros.,  are  lumbering 
the  same,  A.  C.  Corneil  having  charge 
of  the  operations.

Kalkaska—C.  Kryger  has  purchased 
of  T.  D.  Hobbs  the  store  building  now 
occupied  by  Knowles  &  Hurley  as  a 
meat  market, 
for  a  consideration  of 
Si.ooo,  and  will  occupy  it  with  stocks 
of  dry  goods  and  shoes 

St.  Ignace— P.  Mulcrone  has  started 
building  his  meat  market  on  Mackinac 
It  will  be  a  substantial  build 
Island. 
ng,  24x60  feet 
two 
stories,  well  equipped  with  refrigerators 
and  every  convenience  for  the  handling 
of  meats.

in  dimensions, 

Ishpeming— Kuhn,  Nathan  &  Fisher 
Co.,  of  Chicago,  who  recently  fore­
closed  their  chattel  mortgage  on  the 
clothing  stock  ot  Blumenthal  &  Rutten- 
berg,  bid  in  the  stock at  $8,500,  thereby 
assuming  the  $6,000  claim  of  the Penin­
sula  Bank  of  Ishpeming.

Laurium— Roberts  &  Vivian  have 
purchased  the  stock  and  fixtures  of  the 
Eagle  Drug  store  in  Red Jacket of J.
Clemo,  Sr.  Mr.  Roberts  will personally 
superintend  the  business  in  Red Jacket, 
while  the  store  here  will  be 
in  charge 
of  an  assistant.

Hanover— T.  J.  Kennedy  &  Son, 
hardware,  carriage  and  farm  implement 
dealers,  are  negotiating  for  the  erection 
of  a  suitable  building  for  their  busi 
ness,  having  outgrown  their  present 
quarters.  The  new  building  will  be 
44x 100  feet  in  dimensions,  two  stories 
high

Altona— Eli  Lyons  will  not  again  en 
gage  in  trade  at  Altona,  having  sold  hi. 
store  buildings  to  M.  B.  Armstrong,who 
has  also  taken  the  stock  purchased  in 
the  Grand  Rapids  market  last  week  by 
Mr.  Lyons.  The  store  buildings  are 
25x72  feet 
in  dimensions,  two  stories, 
and  18x30,  one  story.  Mr.  Armstrong 
will  occupy  the  smaller  store  with  a 
clothing  stock.

Alma—A  strange dog  was  accidental­
in  J.  M.  Nichol’s  jewelry  store 
left 
ly 
over  night  recently. 
In  the  morning  it 
was  found  that  the  animal  had  been 
amusing  himself  by  playing  on  several 
of  the  various  musical instruments.  He 
played  so  hard  on  two  or  three  of  them 
that  be  broke  the  strings,  and  handled 
his  music  so  carelessly  that  several  of 
the  music  sheets  were  badly  torn 

Lansing—About  six  weeks  ago a dray­
man  unloaded  a  box  of  goods  in the rear 
of  the  Simons  Dry  Goods  Co. ’s  store. 
When  the  clerks  went  after  the  box  it 
was  gone.  The  case  contained 
four 
dozen  corsets  and  was  valued  at  $36. 
The  case  was  a  puzzling  one and  was 
placed  in  the  bands  of  the  officers  for 
solution.  A  few  nights  ago  the  box  of 
corsets  was  returned,  just  as mysterious­
ly  as  it  had  disappeared. 
It  was  fonnd 
one  morning  when  the  store  was  being 
opened,  lying  in  the  same  place  it  was 
taken  from  back  of  the  store.  The  offi­
cers  think  that  some  farmer  took  the 
box,  as 
in  weight 
thinking  it  was  empty,  found  he  had  an 
elephant  on  his  hands  and  watched  his 
opportunity  to  return  it.

it  was  very 

light 

Eaton  Rapids— S.  Lincoln  Wells  has 
severed  his  connection  with  H.  Kosit- 
check  &  Bros,  dry  goods  store and  gone 
to  Pottsdam,  N.  Y.,  to  accept  the  man­
agement  of  a  large  dry  goods bouse.

Lansing— The  Merchant’s  Supply  Co. 
has  brought  suit  against  Charles  C. 
Longstreet  on  the  ground  that  he  has 
broken  a  contract  which  he  signed 
February  12,  to  hold  one  year,  by  re­
fusing  and  neglecting  to  give  out  trad­
ing  stamps.  Mr.  Longstreet  claims  the 
charge  is  false  and  has  retained  R.  A. 
Montgomery  to  defend  the  suit.  The 
suit  which  the  company  brought  against 
Charles  A.  Creyts,  of  the  Excelsior 
Clothing  Co.,  has  been  settled  by  the 
defendant  agreeing  to  give  out  stamps.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Advance—John  H.  M.  Gee,  of  Jack- 
son,  has  rented  the  grist  mill  at  this 
place owned  by  G.  Von  Platen.

Manton—Truman  Bros.,  who  operate 
a  planing  mill  here  and  a  shingle  mill 
at  Bentley,  have  sold  the  latter  to  Sea­
man  Bros.

Martin—The  Martin  Creamery  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  association  with 
the  County  Clerk,  the  paid  in  capital 
stock  being  $r,8oo.

Marshall —W.  W.  Cleveland 

has
leased  his  roller  mill  to  Gabriel  Rau,  of 
Jamestown,  Ind.,  who  will  operate  it  to 
its  fullest  capacity.

Freesoil—The  lumber  firm  of  Mani- 
gold,  Stephens  &  Co.  expect  to  log 
about  5,000,000  feet  this  winter.  They 
will  buy  all  the  hardwood  logs  they  can 
secure.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Basket  Co. 
has  resumed  operations,  extensive  im­
provements  having  been 
completed. 
The  factory  is  now  turning  out  shooks, 
bicycle  crating,  etc. 
It  is  expected  to 
commence  the  manufacture  of  baskets 
much  earlier than  usual.  The  company 
now  has  ample  store  room and can make 
up  an  unusual  amount  of  stock  in  ad­
vance  of  the  demand  for  it.

Ludington— The  head  office  of  the 
Danaher  &  Melendy  Lumber  Co. 
is 
about  to  be  moved  from  Ludington  to 
Dollarville.  C.  D.  Danaher,  President 
of  the  corporation.,  resides  at  Dollar­
ville  and  the  volume  of  business  there 
far  exceeds  that  of  the  Ludington  plant. 
This  is  the  reason  given  for  the change, 
but  the  real  reason  is  to  escape  the  an­
noyance  caused  by 
the  agitation  of 
Mayor  Smith  in  the  matter  of  taxation.
Oscoda— The  H.  M.  Loud  &  Sons 
Lumber  Co.  is  putting 
in  two  sets  of 
camps  at  the  head  of  Van  Etten  river, 
for  the  purpose  of  logging  the  pine  re­
cently  purchased  of  Pack,  Woods & Co., 
It  is  said  that  these  will  be 
of  Oscoda. 
the  last 
logging  camps  to  be  operated 
near  Oscoda  or  Au  Sable.  There  is 
about  5*000!000  feet  of  pine  to  be  put 
in.  The  small  patch  of  pine  surround-  . 
ing  the  cottages  at  Van  Etten  lake  will 
be  cut  next  spring,  as  will  the  lot  of 
about  2,500,000  feet  near  Wakefield’s. 
The  Loud  company  will  finish  cutting 
all 
its  pine  next  season.  There  is  a 
body  of  pine  available  for  manufacture 
at Oscoda,  for which  the  company  has 
been negotiating,  but  it  is  doubtful 
if
the  deal  will  go  through.

Ypsilanti— Matthew  Roser  has  pur 
chased  an 
interest  in  the  cigar  manu 
facturing  business  of  Matthew Stein and 
the  firm  name  will  hereafter  be  known 
as  Stein  &  Roser.

Cadillac— Paul  Johnson  will  start  h 

sawmill 
in  a  few  days,  having  a  large 
amount  of  hardwood  timber 
to  cut 
which  will  be furnished by  Drayton Sea 
man  and  L.  C.  Eversole.

Menominee—A.  W.  Clark  &  Co., 
match  block  manufacturers,  have  dis 
solved,  A.  W.  Clark  purchasing  the  in 
terest  of  Fred  K.  Barker and continuing 
the  business  in  his  own  name.

Port  Huron—The American  Egg  Case 
Co.  has  sold  the  territory  west  of  Chi 
cago  for  the  manufacture  of  egg  fillers 
to  a  Chicago  concern.  Manager  Herr  is 
at  work  building  six  machines  for  the 
new  company at  an  expense  of  $6,000.

Fremont— Fred  E.  Holt,  who  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  P.  F.  Dykema  about 
three  months  ago,  has  purchased  a  half 
interest 
in  the  stock  and  the  new  firm, 
which  will  be  known  as  Dykema  & 
Holt,  has  added  a 
line  of  shoes  and 
rubbers.

Seney  J.  W.  Balcom,  who 

closed 
down  his  shingle  mill 
last  week  and 
went  into  the  woods  with  a  crew  of  men 
to  get  out  timber  for next summer's run, 
has  been  compelled  to  close  down  camp 
on  account  of  the  deep  snow,  it  being 
over  two  feet  in  the  woods  where  he had 
started  logging.

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Marquette— The  ore  shipments  from 
this  port  the  past  season  amount  to 
is  about  half  a  mil­
lion  tons 
in  excess  of  the  amount 
shipped  last  year,  or any  previous  year 
in  the  history  of  the  port.  Next  year 
Marquette 
is  sure  to  pass  the  two  mil­
lion  mark  and  it  is  predicted  on  good 
authority  that  the  total  will  be  in  the 
neighborhood  of  2,250,000  tons.  This 
prediction  is  based  on  the  present  and 
prospective  condition  of  the  iron  indus­
try.

intention 
here 

Detroit—The  Detroit  Mica  Manufac­
incorporated,  with 
turing  Co.  has  been 
for  the 
a  capital  stock  of  $100,000, 
manufacture  of  mica  into lubricants and 
for  use 
in  stoves  and  electrical  ap­
paratus,  as  well  as other purposes.  The 
mine  which  the  company  will  operate 
is  at  Lyle  Knob,  in  Macon  county,  N.
C.  The 
is  to  bring  the  raw 
to  be  manufactured. 
material 
Superintendent  Sherk 
is  now  at  the 
mine,  where the machinery  is  being  put 
in  and  it  is  expected  to  be  in  operation 
by  March  1. 
is  also  expected  that 
work  will  be  begun  in  the  factory  here 
by  May  1,  and  the  officers  say  that  they 
will  employ  fifty  people  from  the  first, 
and  turn  out  at  least  $100,000  worth  of 
goods  per  year.  The  site  of  the  pro­
posed  factory  has  not  yet  been  chosen. 
Some  of  the  company’s  stock  will  be 
offered  for  sale  through  a  Detroit  bank, 
on which  7  per  cent,  interest  per  annum 
is guaranteed.

It 

Jackson  Jottings.

Clarence  Lewis,  grocer  at  the  corner 
of  First  and  Greenwood  avenues,  has 
closed  out  his  business  and  taken  a  po­
sition  with  Geo.  R.  May  &  Co.,  gro­
cers  at  309  Greenwood  avenue.

Byron  G.  Cbamplin,  grocer  at  501 
First  street,  has  sold  his  stock  and 
fixtures  to  J.  W.  McLetcbie,  formerly 
a  traveling  man,  who  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.  This 
is 
not  a  new  venture  for  Mr.  McLetchie, 
as  he  has  been  in  business  on  his  own 
account  before.

Chanter  Bros,  have  purchased 

the 
grocery  stock  and  fixtures  of  the  Fruit 
House,  129  South  Mechanic  street,  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.  W.  T.  Smith,  who  has  been 
the  proprietor  of  the  t* ruit House for the 
past  three  or  four  years,  has  not  yet  de­
eded  as  to  his  future  movements.
-  Geo.  W.  Fisher  has  opened  a  new 
grocery  stock  in  his  new  brick  building 
at  the  corner of Cooper and  Pearl streets.
last  five 
years has  been  in  charge  of  the  silk  and 
dress  goods  department  of  Cook,  Smith 
&  Feldher,  has  resigned 
in  order  to 
give  his  entire  attention  to  his  maga­
zine and  newspaper  business.

C.  M.  Pigott,  who  for  the 

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

Grand  Rapids  grocery  stores  will  be 
closed  at  noon  on  Christmas  and  New 
Years.

F.  J.  Leach  has  moved  his  grocery 
and  confectionery  stock  from  535  to  323 
South  Division  street.

G.  D.  Winegarden  has  removed  his 
from  579  Grandville 

grocery  stock 
avenue  to  66  North  Waterloo  street.

C.  S.  Swett  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Lakeview.  The Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Jno.  Lubbers  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  East  Saugatuck.  The  Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

M.  N.  Haybarker  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Luther.  The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.

J.  F.  Atchison  has  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business  at  Fremont. 
The 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  furnished 
the  stock.

Isaac  Goldstick  has  engaged  in  the 
The 
grocery  business  at  Petoskey. 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.

Elroy  M.  Reed,  cigar  dealer 

at 
Coopersville,  has  added  a  line  of  gro­
ceries.  The  stock  was  furnished  by  the 
Musselman  Grocer Co.

Peter  Jourdan  and  Henry  Thurkittle, 
under  the  style  of  Jourdan  & Thurkittle, 
have  embarked 
in  the  flour,  feed,  coal 
and  wood  business  at 62  West  Leonard 
street.

Geo.  Metz  and  J.  H.  Baker  have 
formed  a  copartnership  and  engaged  in 
trade  at  Mill  Creek  under  the  style  of 
the  Mill  Creek  Mercantile  Co.  The 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.-

The  Grand  Rapids  Gas  Co.  reports 
for  November  net  eatnings  of  $14,667, 
in  comparison  with  $12,449  last  year,  a 
gain  of  nearly  18  per  cent.  For  eleven 
months  the 
increase  has  been  about  8 
per  cent,  net  earnings  amounting  to 
$114,485,  against  $106,054  for  the  same 
period  in  1896.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples— Northern  Spies command  $3 
per  bhl.  ;  Jonathans,  $5 ;  Ozarks  (A rk.), 
$4;  Etrus  (Ark.),  $4.  The  demand  is 
only  fair,  the  high  prices  tending  to 
decrease  consumption  to  the  lowest  pos­
sible  limit.

the  fruit 

Bananas—This fruit  is  about  the  most 
popular 
line  this 
week.  The  warm  weather  makes  city 
street  peddling  very  possible,  and 
it 
is  very  profitable.  Bananas  are  spelling 
at 35  cents a  bunch  more  than  they  were 
a  year  ago.  The  volume  of  business 
done is  also  very  good as compared  with 
the  average  week 
in  the  average  De­
cember.

item 

in 

Butter—Dairy  grades  are  still  weaker 
than  a  week  ago,  owing  to  the  more 
liberal  arrivals.  Fancy 
is  slow  sale  at 
15c,  while  fair  stock  can  be  had  at 
I2@I3C.  Factory  creamery  is  still  held 
at  18c,  although  the  Elgin  and  Chicago 
markets  are  off  ic.

Cabbage—Slow  sale  at  $3  per  100. 
Carrots—35c  per  bu.
Celery— 15c  per  bunch.
Cranberries—The  market 

is  strong 
and  tending  higher.  Jerseys  command 
$7  and  Cape  Cods  and  Wisconsins  fetch 
$7-So.
Eggs—Strictly fresh  have  sold  as  high 
as  22c  during  the  past  week  and  are 
scarce  at^that.  Storage  stock  is  held  at 
12c,  case^count,  13c  for  candled  and  14c 
for  fancy  candled.

Game—On  account  of  the  close  of

M I C H I G A N

the  rabbit  season  Jan.  1,  dealers  have 
reduced  their  paying  price  to  5o@6oc 
per  doz.  They  continue  to  pay  $1.20 
per  doz.  for  No.  1  squirrels.
Lemons—The  first  new  Messinashave 
arrived  from  the  East,  but  there  is  lit­
tle  demand  for  them,  owing  to  the  time 
of  the  year and  the  supply  of  good  Cali­
fornia  lemons.  The  market  is  compar­
atively 
low  that  few  Messinas 
will  be  attracted  thither  until  such  time 
as  the  market  shall  go  considerably 
higher.  A  few  Verdilli  lemons  are  on 
the  market.  These  are  selling  at  quo­
tations  below  those  given  last  week.
Lettuce—Hothouse  goods  fetch 
per  lb.

low,  so 

15c 

Onions—White  Globe  and  Red  have 
declined  to  65c.  Spanish,  $1.75  per 
crate.

Oranges—The  market  is  in  very  good 
shape,  and  the  Christmas  demand 
is 
decidedly  in  evidence.  The  high  price 
of  apples  is  giving  the  orange  market  a 
good  chance.  However,  prices  are  a 
little  lower this  week.  This  will  tend to 
a  larger consumption  of oranges.  Mex­
icans  still  hold  first  place  in  the  mar­
ket, 
although  California  navels  are 
crowding  them  to 
lower  prices.  The 
seedlings  from  California  will  not  cut 
much  figure 
in  this  market  until  after 
the  first  of  the  year.

Potatoes—The  weakness  of a week ago 
still  continues,  due  to  the  fact  that  the 
car  famine  is  at  an  end,  so that  the  crop 
can  move  freely.  Local  dealers  pay 
50c,  but  outside  paying  prices  range 
from  42@52c,  according  to  quality  and 
the  competitive  conditions  prevailing 
locally.

Poultry—Turkeys  are  in  good  demand 
and  apparently  adequate  supply,  local 
dealers having  made contracts for  their 
holiday  requirements  on 
the  basis  of
10c.  Ducks  and  geese  are  in  plentiful 
supply  at  8c,  although  strictly  choice 
fetches  8j4c.  Hens  command 
stock 
5@6c,  and  spring  fowls  bring  6@7c. 
There  appears  to  be  an  abundance  of 
chickens  to  meet  the  holiday demand.
Sweet  Potatoes— Kiln  dried  Illinois 
Jerseys  fetch  $3.75 ;  genuine  Jerseys  are 
held  at  $4.50.

H ides.  Pelts,  W ool  and  Fu rs.

The  hide  market  remains  firm,  with 
stocks  well  cleaned  up  and  some  lines 
sold  ahead.  The  scarcity  of  light  hides 
and  skins  bolds  prices  well  up  against 
a  reverse  action  of  the  tariff.  Many 
tanners  still  hold  out  for  lower  prices 
and  openly  advocate  a  break 
in  the 
market,  claiming  there 
is  no  profit  in 
tanning  at  the  prices  now  ruling  for 
skins,  which  must  go  lower.

Pelts  hold  steady  at  strong  prices,  on 

account  of  the  strong  feeling  in  wftol.

is 

light 

While  wool 

in  sales,  a  fair 
business  is  being  done  at  good  prices, 
there  being  no  weak  spots  apparent. 
Holders  remain  firm 
in  price,  believ­
ing  there  are  no  resources  beyond  those 
now 
in  sight  to  supply  stocks  for  the 
heavy  weight  goods  which  will  soon  be 
is  the  usual  time 
in  demand.  January 
these  stocks  are  put 
in,  and  with  all 
of  the  spindles  running  full  time,  they 
are  using  up  what  they  have  on  hand 
and must  have  more  later  on.  There  are 
no  speculative  prices,  but  there  is  some 
enquiry  for  sorts  from  manufacturers.

Furs  are 

in  strong  demand  for  home 
trade,  which  has  been  in  excess  of  the 
past  few  years.  The  catch  has  been 
large. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

law 

Organized  labor 

in  Illinois  made  a 
desperate  effort  to  have  Governor  Tan­
ner  include  the  repeal  of  the  Case  gar 
nisbment 
in  his  call  for a  special 
session  of  the  Illinois  Legislature,  but 
was  unsuccessful.  Under  the  present 
law  the  merchant  can  proceed  against 
his  delinquent  customers  with  some  as 
surance  of  success,  inasmuch  as  the  ex­
emption 
is  now  only  $8  per  week, 
whereas  Michigan  merchants  are  still 
hampered  by  the  ancient 
law  which 
gives  the  dead-beat  $25  exemption.

T R A D E S M A N
Exit  of  the  New  England  Trade  Ex­

change.

incorporation  papers  with 

The  Tradesman  has frequently warned 
its  readers  against  the  New  England 
Trade  Exchange,  which  has  been  oper­
ating  in  this  city  for nearly  a  year  past. 
It  was  originally  claimed  that  the  head­
quarters  of  the  organization  were  at 
Providence,  but  diligent  effort  on  the 
part  of  the  Tradesman  disclosed  the 
fact  that  the  address  given  at  Provi­
dence  was  a  fictitious  one  and  that  the 
names  of  the  officers  published  on  the 
stationery  were  not  given 
in  the  city 
directory  of  Providence  and  were  not 
known  in  either  the  business  or  police 
circles  of 
the  Rhode  Island  city. 
Thwarted  in  their  efforts  to  exploit  the 
business  by  claiming  headquarters  in  a 
distant  city,  the  promoters  thereupon 
filed 
the 
County  Clerk  of  this  county,  claiming 
capital  stock  of  $10,000,  all  paid  up. 
John  B.  Henderson  claimed  to  hold  200 
shares;  Chas.  H.  Noble,  175,  and Zenas 
Y.  Coleman,  25  shares.  The signatures 
to  the  articles  of 
incorporation  were 
sworn  to  by  Jas.  W.  Twaits,  a  notary 
public  of  Lansing.  An  aggressive  can­
vass  was  then  begun  for  memberships, 
on  the  basis  of  $25  a  year,  the  usual 
custom  being  to  exact  $10  in  cash  and 
a  note  for  $15.  Report  sheets  of  claims 
receued  and  paid  were  published  for a 
month  or  two  ; nd  an  office  was  leased 
in  the  Houseman  building,  although  a 
reporter of  the  Tradesman  was  never so 
fortunate as to find any  member  of  the 
triumvirate 
in  the  office.  To  all  ap­
pearances  about  one  hundred  members 
werp  secured,  and,  as  near  as 
the 
Tradesman  can  estimate,  the  combina­
tion  must  have  realized  from  $2,000  to 
$3,000  as  the  result  of 
its  summer's 
left  the  city  three 
work.  Henderson 
to  establish  a 
weeks  ago,  ostensibly 
similar  agency 
in  Milwaukee,  while 
Noble  left  about  two  weeks  ago,  claim­
ing  to  be  headed  for  Lansing  on  the 
same  mission.  The 
latter  gentleman 
left  a  $75  board  bill  at  the  Vendome 
and  numerous  other  debts  to  the  cloth­
ing,  shoe,  hat  and  cap  and  dry  goods 
stores.  The  notes  which  were  not  real­
ized  on  before  the  trio  skipped  out  are 
now  in  the  hands  of  alleged  innocent 
third  parties,  who  will  use  .their  best 
efforts  to  enforce  collection.
has 

repeatedly 
warned  its  readers  to  beware  of  fly-by- 
night  and  irresponsible  agencies  of  this 
character,  yet  there  seems  to  be  a  large 
proportion  of  the  business  men  in  this 
city,  and  in  every  other  locality,  which 
is  ready  to  snap  at  every  new  thing 
which  comes  along,  yet  insist  that  they 
cannot  afford  to  support  old-established 
institutions  of  a  reputable  character.

The  Tradesman 

The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  has  been  very  even 
during  the  week,  with  a  slight  upward 
tendency,  but  hardly  enough  to  make 
any  change 
in  the  local  market.  The 
December  options  have  taken  a  wild 
range,  going  as  high  as  $1.09  and  clos­
ing  to  day  at  9714c  The  excitement 
on  the  Chicago  Board  of  Trade  has  not 
been  equaled  since  the  “ Hutch  corner”  
in  wheat  a  few  years  ago  or  the  memor­
able  Harter  deal 
in  May,  1887.  The 
parties  behind  the  deal—the  bull as well 
as  the  bear  sides—are  giants,  so  far  as 
finance  goes,  and  they  are  trying  their 
metal,  notwithstanding 
extraordinary 
inducements  are  held  out  to  head  the 
wheat  for  Chicago.  The  receipts  there 
are  very  moderate 
indeed,  being  only 
about  twenty  cars  of  No.  2  red  winter 
and  perhaps  fifty  cars  of  No.  1  hard

6

is  still  well  up 

spring.  As  December  draws  to  a  close, 
the  fight  may  wage  much  harder.  The 
in  the  winter  wheat  states  are 
receipts 
very  small  and  this  shows  that  there 
is 
not  as  much  wheat  back  in  farmers’ 
bands  as  was  claimed  a  few  weeks  ago. 
The  Northwest 
in  the 
procession,  as  the  receipts  are  yet  con­
siderably  more  than  last  year,  although 
it  is  reported  that  the 
initial  receipts 
are  growing  very  small  and  that  large 
amounts are being shipped from  Western 
elevators.  Our  visible  showed  a  de­
crease  of  101,000  bushels,  while  an 
in­
crease  of  1,000,000  bushels  was  ex­
pected,  leaving  the  visible  34,744,000 
bushels,  against  54,384,000  bushels  in 
1896,  66,834,000  bushels 
in  1P95  and
88.192.000  in  1894.  We  might  state  here 
that  the  exports  from  July  1  to  the  10th 
have  been  115,000,000  bushels  and  the 
daily  exports  have  been  about  1,000,000 
bushels.  To  make  a 
long  story  short, 
we  will  state  that  wheat  was  never  in 
such  a  strong  position  as  it  is  at  pres­
ent  and  there 
is  no  reason  why  prices 
should  not  advance.

tons  of  locusts  and,  with  the  wet 

We  notice  that  Argentine  has  ex­
pended  $2,000,000  to  rid  herself  of
20.000 
weather,  she  will  not  have  much  wheat 
to  export.  Russia  likewise  is  short,  as 
her  exports  from  August  11  to  Nov.  1 
were  only  21,775,000  bushels.

The  demand  for  flour  is  much  better 
than 
it  was  at  the  corresponding  time 
last year.  Mill  feed  is  ready  sale at 
better  prices.

Corn  is  about  2c  higher,  but  oats  are 
at  a  standstill,  and  both  cereals  are 
strong.

The  receipts  were  32  cars  of  wheat— 
rather  moderate—9  cars  of  corn  and  8 
cars  of  oats.

Local millers are paying 86c for wheat.

C.  G.  A .V o ig t.

Ja ck so n   G ro ce rs  to  E at  and  Dance  in 

Jan u ary.

Jackson,  Dec.  10—The regular month­
ly  meeting  of  the  Jackson  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association  was  held  Dec.  7,  with 
President  Lewis  in  the  chair.
audited.

Current  bills  were 

received  and 

An  amendment  to  the  by-laws,  chang­
ing  the  date  of  the  annual  meeting from 
June  to  January,  was  adopted. 
This 
was  thought  desirable,  on  account  of 
the  near  proximity  of  the  annual  meet­
ing  to  the  time  of  the  annual  excurs  on 
and  picnic.

It  was  decided  that  the  Association 
will  hold 
its  regular  annual  social— 
which  will  be  the  seventh  annual—and 
a  committee  was  appointed  with  full 
power  to  act  in  making  arrangements, 
consistine  of  President  Geo.  E.  Lewis. 
B.  C.  Hill,  W.  H.  Porter.  N.  H. 
Branch,  M.  M.  Whitney,  M.  F.  Murray 
and  H.  C.  Eddy.  The  social  has  usu­
ally  been  held  the  latter  part  of  January 
or  early  in  February,  but  the  expression 
of  the  members  is  in  favor  of  bolding 
the  meeting  earlier—not  later  than  the 
middle  of  January,  if it can be arranged.

W.  H.  P o r t e r ,  Sec’y.

The  Customer  the  First  Consider­
From the Topeka Mercantile Journal.

ation.

Time 

in  a  store  has  three  distinct 
values.  The  proprietor’s  time  has  a 
value  in  its  proper  place  and  the clerk’s 
its  value,  but  possibly  the 
time  has 
most 
important  of  all  is  the  ” custom­
er’s  tim e.”   Doubtless  you  will  say  the 
customer  has  all  the  time  there  is  and 
she  can  wait  until  it  pleases  you  or your 
hired  hand  to  wait  on  her.  Nonsense. 
The  customer  is  the  first  consideration 
in  every  store,  or  should  be.  Without 
properly  satisfied  customers  what  does 
your  store amount  to?

Gillies  N.  Y.  Clearance  Tea  Sale now 

on.  Phone  Visner,  1589.

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»VI  I C H   I G  A N  

T 

A M

Worrying  the  Most  Profitless  Thing 

in  the  World.

There 

is  nothing 

is  an 
it 

in  the  world  more 
peculiar  than  the  fetich  we  make  of 
care.  Deep  down  in  the  feminine  heart 
there 
ineradicable  superstition 
that 
is  unlucky—a  sort  of  flying  in 
the  face  of  providence—to  be  openly 
and  undisguisedly  happy. 
If a  woman 
is  given  to  laughing,  we  condemn  he 
as  being  frivolous. 
If  she  goes  cheer 
fully  about  her  duties  as  wife  and 
mother,  we fear she  lacks  a  proper  sense 
of  the  responsibilities  of  her  position, 
and  it  is  only  when  she  appears  to  us as 
a  careburdened  creature  that  we  really 
respect  her  attitude  towards  life.

it.  Where 

Perhaps  the  real  reason  of  this  is  that 
we  are  all  so  given  to  worrying  that  we 
don't  know  what  to  do  with  a  person 
who  doesn’t  fret.  Everybody  worries. 
It  is  impossible  to  es­
It  is  in  the  air. 
cape 
two  or  three  are 
gathered  together  there  goes  up  the uni­
versal  wail  of  complaint,  and  we  all 
join 
in  and  swell  the  dismal  chorus. 
It  is  nothifig  that  we  know  that  worry 
is  bad  for  us  physically,  mentally, 
morally 
it  gives  us  indigestion, 
brings  wrinkles  and  crow's-feet,  and 
premature  age  and  ugliness.  We  go  on 
worrying  in  the  same  old  way  about  the 
things  we  can  help  and  the  things  we 
can’t  help.  We  take  a  melancholy  satis­
faction  in  the  fact  that  we  are  born  to 
trouble  as  the  sparks  are  to  fly  upward, 
and  do  our  level  best  to  make  the  most 
of  our  inheritance.

that 

Worrying  is  not  a  weakness  monopo­
lized  by  women,  by  any  means.  We 
all  know  the  fidgety  and  worrying  man, 
who  makes 
life  a  burden  for  all  about 
him,  but  women  have  a  way  of  excel­
ling  in  things  of  the 
imagination,  and 
when  one  really  puts  her  mind  into  the 
business  of  worrying,  she  can  borrow 
more  troubles  to  a  minute  than  a  man 
can  in  a  week.  Even  the  most  appre­
hensive  of  men  realizes  that  there  are 
times  when  he  must  stand  aside  and 
trust  things  to  fate.  A  woman  never 
reconciles  herself  to  the  fact  that  she 
can’t  control  destiny,  and  she 
frets 
about  it.

It’s  the 
“ but  I  can’t  help  worrying. 
same  way  with  my  children. 
If  they 
are  sick  I  am  worried  to  death  about 
them,  and  if  they  are  well  I  live  in  con­
stant  apprehension  of  their  getting  ill. 
Why,  when  they  were  little  we  lived 
in 
a  continual  state  of  fleeing  from  the 
measles,  and mumps,  or whooping  cough 
and  when  it  wasn’t one  of  them  we  were 
running  from 
it  was  scarlet  fever  or 
diphtheria.  Now  that  they  are  nearly 
grown,  and  away  from  me  at  school,  I 
lie  awake  nights worrying about whether 
they  have  got  on  flannels,  and  for  fear 
the  may  get  hurt  in  the  football  games. 
And  they’ ll  no  sooner  be  through  school 
than  I  will  have  to begin worrying about 
whom they marry.  Oh, I  tell  you.no  one 
else  knows  the  troubles  of  a  mother. 
And  the  very  worst  part  of  it  is  that 
worrying  doesn’t  seem  to  do  a  bit  of 
good. 
If  my  children got  their  feet  wet 
1  was  worried  for  fear  they  would  catch I 
If  they  were  out  of  my  sight  I 
cold. 
was  worrying 
lest  they  were  climbing 
on  the  roof  and  might  get  hurt.  Mrs. 
Smith,  who 
lived  over  the  way,  never 
seemed to worry a bit about her  children. 
They  splashed  in  the  rain 
like  puddle 
ducks,  and 
in  the  top  of  a  tree, 
and  no  one  bothered  about  them,  and 
they  are  just  as  sound  and  healthy  as 
mine. ”

lived 

Of  course,  th’e  worrying  woman  has 
trouble  with  her  servants,  and 
finds 
hospitality  a  terror  instead  of  a  pleas­
ure.  Fiom  the  time  she  invites  you  to 
dinner  she 
is  beset  with  cares.  She 
fears  the  cook  may  spoil  a  dish,  the 
waitress  may  be  clumsy,  and  even  after 
you  are  gone  she  worries  for  fear  you 
may  not  have  enjoyed  yourself.  Noth­
ing  ever  satisfies  her,  not  even  love 
it 
self.  She  sits  with  an  anxious  finger 
on  the  pulse  of  your  affection,  worrying 
lest  a  heartbeat  should  be  less  full  than 
she  expects.  She  worries  lest  her hus­
band  should  care  less  for  her  when  she 
is  old,  or  that  her  children  should  drift 
away  from  her  when  they  are  grown.  If 
she  is  prosperous  now,  she worries about 
a  possible  contingency  when  she  might 
be  poor  and 
In  a  word,  she 
lets  her  own  fear  make  a  thick  black 
veil  through  which  she  looks  upon  the 
brightness  of  the  world,  and  finds 
it 
dark  and  gloomy.

in  need. 

makes  herself  unnecessarily  and  gratu­
itously  ill.

It 

in  the  world. 

is  a  whimsical  peculiarity  of  fate 
that  the  things  we  worry  most  about 
and  the  trouble  we  are  always  expect 
ing,  seldom  come  to  pass.  Fate  deal, 
its  hardest  blows  at  our  most  unguarded 
points.  And,  any  way  one  looks  at  it 
worrying 
is  the  most  futile  and  profit 
less  thing 
If  things  can 
be  helped,  help  them  without  fretting. 
If  they  cannot  be  helped,  if  they  must 
be  endured,  what  is  the  good  of  queru 
lous  piotest?  Worry  saps  strength,  i. 
murders  sleep,  it  takes  the  heart  out  of 
ability.  The  woman  who  has  learned 
not  to  worry,  hut  to  take 
life  as  i. 
comes,  cheerfully,  and  make  the  best 
of  the  rain,  as  well  as  the  sunshine,  has 
found  the  true  elixir  of  youth  and  tne 
magic  charm  that  turns  all  hearts  to 
her.

We  don’t  think  of  worry  as  a  sin.  We 
are  so  used  to 
it  that  unless  it  rises 
above  its  usual  monotone  we  don’t  even 
notice 
it ;  but  watch  any  coming  to 
gether  of  an  ordinary  crowd,  and  see 
how  worry  has  written  its  unmistakable 
story  on  almost  every  face.  There  are 
tired 
lines  and  anxious  lines  that  tell 
the  tale,  and  you  know  that  behind  the 
present  enjoyment  of  the  moment  is  the 
everlasting  worry.  A  woman  gives  a 
half-hearted  attention  to  your  story,  or 
to  the  play  at  the  theater,  and  you 
know  she 
is  worrying  about  whether 
the  cat  was  left  in  the  kitchen,  or  the 
baby  has  kicked  the  coverlid  off,  or  the 
milkman  will  find  the  pitcher  in  the 
morning.  And  so  it  goes.

After  all,  isn’t  there  something 

in­
tensely  pathetic  in  the  way  we  cultivate 
killjo y  worries  and  deliberately  rob 
ourselves  of  half  the  pleasures  of  life! 
dreading 
things  that  never  happen?!

| Worse  than  that,  it 
is  positively  irre­
ligious.  We  say  that  we  believe  in  an 
eternal 
love  that  encompasses  all  our 
little  human life  and  in  the  end  leads us 
by  many  strange  ways  to  perfect  good. 
Yet  we  don’t  trust  it  enough  to  rest  on 
it.  We  go  worrying  and  fretting,  for 
fear  the  right  thing  isn’t  being  done, 
and  because  Providence 
is  managing 
matters  without  the  benefit  of  our  ad­
vice.  Really,  when  you  come  to  think 
of  it,  it  comes  pretty  near  to’  being 
sacrilegious,  doesn’t  it?

The  time  of  the  year  is  coming  now 
when  we  shall  all  make  resolves  to  do 
things  differently. 
I  am  in  favor of  or­
ganizing  a  large  and  enthusiastic  class 
of  people  who  are 
resolved  to  quit 
worrying.  All  women  who  don’t  want 
to  cultivate  wrinkles,  who  want  to  make 
home  happy,  and  who  are  desirous  of 
not  making  themselves  obnoxious  to 
friends,  will  be  eligible  to 
their  tired 
membership 
“ Don’t  Worry 
Club.”  

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just  the same,and she would 
love you  a  H E A P   M O R E  
if you  would  get  her a  nice 
Christmas  Present.

W e  don’t  care  whether 
you get  this  Rocker  or not, 
hut get her  St >M ETH IX G . 
It’s a  part  ot  our  business 
to generate  peace  and  hap­
piness  and  we don’t charge 
for our services.

Y ou ’re hard up, we  know, 
but  we’re going to  help you 
out.  Listen.’
This  Rocker is worth  $d.oo 
Well,  w e’re going to 

knock off just 

a .25

Leaving o n ly  $ 3 .75  

You think  that’s fail  ?
Simply  send  us  your ad­
dress  with  $3.75  and  we’ll 
do  the  rest.

Description  —   Made of 
Quartered Oak, Antique fin­
ish, or Birch, Mahoganinzed 
It  is  well  braced, 
finish. 
has  beautiful 
embossed 
carvings,  is  hand  polished 
and  richly  upholstered  in 
Corduroy  or  Velour.

Prompt 

prompt  shipment.

orders 

insure 

Y\ e  handle everything  in 

the  line of  Furniture.

brand Rapids 
Wholesale 
Furniture  Go.

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of three  2-cent  stamps.

Of  course,  in  a  world  where  things  go 
mostly  wrong,  no  one  need  ever  be 
really  in  want  of  a  good,  active  worry, 
if  they  want  one.  Certainly not  a  wom­
an.  She  can  always  find  food  for  fret­
ting  and  needless  anxiety  in  her  house, 
her  servants,  her  husband  and  her  chil 
dren.  So  far,  however,  from  consider' 
ing  worry  a sin,the  woman  who  is  given 
to  this  fault  generally  exploits  it  as  a 
peculiar  virtue.  She  will  tell  you  with 
immense  satisfaction  that  she  cannot 
understand  women  who  take  life  easily. 
She 
serious 
minded. 
“ Now,  there  is  Mrs.  Blank, 
for  instance.  Why,  when  her  husband 
is  detained  down  town  at  nights,  she 
actually  goes  to  bed  and  to  sleep. 
If  it 
was  me,’ ’ she  will  add  with  a  shudder 
of  conscious  self-righteousness,  “ if  it 
was  me,  I  should  be  walking  the  floor 
in  an  agony  of anxiety.  How  does  she 
know  he  has  not  been  waylaid  by  foot­
pads  and  murdered?  Suppose  he  had 
been  run  over  by  an  electric  car?”

they  are  not 

is  afraid 

“ But  Mr.  Blank 

is  an  able-bodied 
man,  of  good  sense,  and  entirely  able  to 
take  care  of  himself,*'  you  protest, 
and,  anyway,  your  worrying  about 
him  couldn  t  possibly  prevent  any  of 
the  catastrophes  you  have  mentioned 
from  happening.”

“ Oh,  I  know  that,”   she  will  agree,

We  hear  a  great  deal  about  physical 
Its  other  name  is  worry.
prostration. 
isn’t  the  work  that  women  do  that 
It 
hurts  them  very  often.  It’s  the  needless 
worry  and  care  that  drives  the  nails 
into  their  coffins. 
In  particular  is  this j 
true  of  business  women.  They  try  to 
carry  the  world  on their shoulders.  They 
worry  about  other  people’s  worries,  as 
well  as  have  a  large  and  varied  as­
sortment  of  their  own.  A  man  knows 
he  can  do  so  much,  and  he  leaves  a  lot 
of  other  things  to  other  people.  The 
business  woman  tries  to  do  it  all,  and 
breaks  down.  When  a  business  man 
gets  up  in  the  morning  he  dresses,  eats 
his  breakfast,  and  goes  down  town  to 
work  like  a  sensible  being. 
It  doesn’t 
occur  to  him  that  he  has  any  responsi­
bility  about  getting  his  room  cleaned.
Not  so  with  the  business  woman. 
It 
worries  her 
lest  the  sweeping  be  neg­
lected,  or  she  darkly  suspicions  dust 
on  top  of  the  bookcase,  and,  besides, 
she  is  a  victim  to  the  habit  of  “ seeing 
to  things. 
If  she  gets  a  gown  she 
worries  over  the  style  and  fit;  if  she 
it  to  pieces,  and 
buys  a  hat,  she  tears 
worries  over  retrimming 
it ;  she  frets 
over  other  people’s  children,  and  wor­
ries  over  tleir  mistakes  and  troubles, 
and  feels  she 
is  worthy  to  be counted 
j amongst  the  blessed  martyrs  when  she

M dCH I GAIN

i   H Ä ö t ö i M  A

! cient  to  support  the  family  of  that  man 
however  large  the  family;  and,  if  he 
cannot  find  employment,  or  if  his  wages 
are  not  adequate  to  maintain  his  fam­
ily,  then  Capital,  or  the  laws,  or  some­
thing,  or  somebody,  is  to  blame.

“ The  remedies  for  poverty  and  hard 
times  must  be  largely  individual  rem­
Improvidence,  lack  of  prudent 
edies. 
forethought, 
is  a  National  sin.  And 
one  of  its  chief  manifestations  is  in  the 
hasty  and  ill-advised  marriage  of  young 
couples  but  poorly  equipped  to  fight  the 
battle  of  life.  And  Capital,  tight-fisted, 
grasping  Capital,  has  taxed  itself  again 
and  again  to  educate  and  support  the 
children  born  of  such  unions,  and  has 
put 
its  hand  down  into  its  supposedly- 
inaccessible  pocket  to  meet,  by  private 
charity,  the  many  needs  which  public 
aid  has  failed  to  supply.

“ While  not  counseling  the  assuming 
of  relations  which  should  be  held  utter­
ly  sacred  from  any  mercenary  motives, 
I  would  still  commend  to  my  young 
friends  the  practical  wisdom  of  Bill 
Arp,  who  hoped  that  no  voung  man  in 
his  audience  would  ever  marry  a  young 
woman  simply  because  she  was  poor, 
and  that  no  young  woman  within  sound 
of  his  voice  would  reject  a worthy suitor 
when  she  had  no  other  objection  to  him 
than  that  he  was  rich! 

Q u i l l o .

Frank  Munsey  as  a  Retailer.

intended  for 

Frank  A.  Munsey,  well  known  as  the 
owner  and  publisher  of  Munsey’s  Mag­
azine,  is  about  to  enter  the  dry  goods 
in  New  London,  Conn. 
retailing  field 
immense 
He  has  turned  into a  hotel  an 
building  originally 
the 
home  of  his  magazine  and  will run a de­
partment  store  on  the  ground  floor.  The 
hotel 
is  named  the  Mohican  and  the 
retailing  establishment  will  be  known 
as  the  Mohican  Stores.  The  number  of 
lines  carried  will  probably  be  greater 
than  that  of  any  of  the  big  department 
stores.  One  of  the  features  will  be  a 
bakery  and  confectionery  department, 
supplied  from  the  Mohican  ovens.

Dust  on  shelves  and  under  counters  is 
apparently  an  insignificant  thing,  but  it 
can  soon  ruin  enough  goods  to  lose  cus­
tomers  and  ruin  profits.

Shall  Women  Usurp  the  Place of Men 

Written  for the  T rad esm an.

in  Business?

My  friend  Ballantyne  is  a  lawyer  and 
a  good  one.  He  also  transacts  much 
business  of  a  confidential  nature,  has  a 
wide  knowledge  of  men  and  things  and 
is  moreover  a  good  talker.  Like  most 
good  talkers  he  is  a  little  apt  to  monop­
olize  the  conversation;  but  I  have  not 
found  monopolies  an  unmixed  evil,  or 
that  all  monopolists  are  rascals.  Bright 
people 
frequent  Ballantyne’s  home,
„  where  they  are  sure  of  a  warm welcome, 
and  I  find  it  a  most  delightful  place  in 
which  to  spend  a  leisure  evening  hour.
The  last  time  I  was  present  at  this 
conversation 
“ feast  of  reason" 
industrial 
drifted  upon 
status  of  women,  and  someone  remarked 
on  the  number  of  men 
living  in  en­
forced  idleness,  during  the  recent  years 
of  financial  depression,  who  have  been 
supported  wholly  or  in  part  by  the  ex­
ertions  of  women.

the  present 

the 

Mrs.  Van  Allen,  the  wife  of  the  rich 
banker  living  next  door,  expressed  the 
opinion  that,  if  women  would  just  con­
tent  themselves  and  remain  at  home, 
the  men  could  take  the  positions  out  of 
which  they  have  been  crowded,  gel  bet­
ter  pay  for  doing  the  same  work  and 
thus  be  enabled  to  support 
in  comfort 
the  women  naturally dependent on them 
Men  would  be  only  too glad  to  do  so, 
she  argued.  This  idea  that,  as  soon  as 
a  girl  is  old  enough  to  get  some  kind  of 
a  position,  she  must  go  out  and  earn 
money,  she  held  to  be  sheer  nonsense. 
Girls  were  better  off  within  the  shelter 
of  their  fathers’  homes.  By  usurping 
paying  positions  women  were  lessen­
ing  their  chances  of  marriage  and  thus 
standing  in  their  own  light. 
It  seemed 
to  her  that  women  had  certainly  had 
enough  of  pushing  out  and  occupying 
places  that  belong  more  properly  to 
men,  and  that  they  had  better  stand 
back  a  little  and  give  the  men a chance.
"There  are  some  difficulties  in  the 
way  of  the  adoption  of  your  remedy," 
remarked 
Ballantyne,  meditatively. 
" T o   begin  with,  you  could  hardly  get 
the  women  to  try  it.  The  same  forces 
that  drove  women  to  brave  all  manner 
of  trials and difficulties  to  get  into  these 
positions  are  still  operative,  and  are  of 
gieater  intensity  now  than  when  women 
first  began  to  force  their  way  into  the 
occupations  formerly  held  by  men  only. 
They  will  not  easily  surrender what they 
have  been  to  so  much  trouble  to  gain. 
Then  the  army  of  workers  is  made  up 
of individuals,  each  with  his  or  her  own 
interests.  You  say 
it  would  be  better 
if  men  were  doing  the  work  and  sup­
porting  the  women  who  are  now  doing 
it.  Perhaps  so,  looking  at  the  matter  in 
a  general  way;  but,  if  any  individual 
woman  should  give  up  her  position  or 
occupation,  is  it  often  that  her  husband 
or  father  or  brother  could  obtain  the 
same  place,  or  could  fill  it  acceptably  if 
he  got  it?  Take  the  case  of  our  washer­
woman. 
If  she  were  to  stop  washing, 
would 
it  give  employment  to  her  hus­
band  who  is  a  carpenter?  Or  my  type­
writer.  She  has  a  brother  able  and 
willing  to  work,  who  has  been  at  home 
out  of  employment  much of  the  time  for 
the  past  two  years.  He  is  a  machinist. 
He  could  not  perform  her  work  in  my 
office 
if  she  were  to  give  up  the  place 
to  him  Go  to  some  successful  spinster 
who  by  years  of  energetic  application 
has  acquired  such  competence  in  her 
profession  that  she  can  command a good 
salary.  Tell  her  that  women,  by  doing 
the  work  of  men,  are  lessening  their 
chances  of  matrimony,  and  that  the

presence  of  women  in 
industrial  occu­
pations 
is  bad  for  humanity  in  general 
and  women  in  particular.  Suggest  to 
her  that,  as  a  perfectly  reasonable  sac­
rifice  for  the  general  good,  she  give  up 
her  lucrative  position.  She  could  reply 
to  you  very  truthfully  that,  were  she  to 
do  as  you  suggest,  and  were  some  man 
to  take  her  place,  he  probably  would 
not  want  to  marry  her.  He  would,  like­
ly  enough,  choose  some  young  girl  who 
never  earned  a  dollar  in  her  life.  The 
woman  who  has  achieved  success  will 
not  consider  it  worth  while  to  exchange 
a  tangible  paying  situation  for a  purely 
hypothetical  husband.  As  I  said  at 
first,  it  would  be  extremely  difficult  to 
get  the  women  to  try  the  proposed  rem­
edy.  And,  even  if  you  could  persuade 
all  the  women  working  for  pay  to  step 
out  simultaneously,  and  their  employers 
could  be 
induced  to  fill  their  places 
with  men  at  an  advanced  rate  of  wages, 
it  would  not  be  long  before  the  relent­
less 
law  of  supply  and  demand  would 
be  felt.  For  every  woman  who  holds  a 
position 
in  which  she  can  earn  pay 
there  are  three  or  four  more  who  would 
like  to  get  one,  and  how  long  would  it 
be  before  these  would  come  and  offer  to 
work  for  less  wages  than  the  men,  and 
the  men  whom  you  had  installed  would 
again  be  crowded  out?"

Then  Ballantyne's  cousin,  who 

is 
visiting  here,  said  he  thought  one 
trouble 
is  that  many  men  financially 
able  to  do  so  are  unwilling  to marry and 
support  families.  He  heartily  approved 
of  that  scheme  for  taxing  bachelors, 
making  with  the  tax  a  fund  for  the  sup­
port  of  indigent  single  women.

is  apt  to  be. 

“ Like  all  pieces  of  legislation  of 
character,”   replied  Ballantyne, 
this 
"this  has 
its  drawbacks.  The  wealthy 
bachelor  might  be  a  hard  man  to  tax. 
is  not  tied  to  any  one  place  as  a 
He 
married  man 
If  the  tax 
didn’t  suit  him  he  could  take  his  pos­
sessions  and  go  to the South Sea  Islands, 
or  Australia,  or wherever  fancy  dictated 
and  celibacy  received  no 
legislative 
discouragement. 
Besides,  how  many 
men  have  you  known  who  have  delayed 
marriage  after  they  were  able  to support 
families,  compared  with  the  number  of 
penniless  young  men  who  have  assumed 
the  responsibility  of  supporting  wives 
before  they  had  any  assured  means  of 
supporting  themselves?  As  to  the  fund 
for  indigent single  women,  I have  failed 
to  see  that  single  women,  as  a  class,  are 
liable  to  become  indigent 
particularly 
in 
I  do  not  see  any  very  heinous  crime 
a  man’s  waiting  until  he  gets  a 
‘good 
ready’  before  he  marries,  and  a  rich 
bachelor  may  not  be  such  an  awfully 
bad  citizen  after  all.

“ If  I  favored  anything  in  that  kind 
of  legislation  I  should  propose  that  a 
law  be  passed  that  before a man marries 
he  must  be  able  to  show  that  he  posses­
ses  some  stipulated  amount  of  money 
or  property.  This  amount  need  not  be 
large,  and  it  would  be  but  a  reasonable 
guaranty  to  the  state  that  his  family 
would  not  be  likely  to  become  a  public 
charge.  The  story  writers  have  bad 
things  pretty  much  their  own  way  until 
it  has  come  to  be  thought  a  commend­
able  thing  for a  young  couple  to  marry 
and  start  out  in  life  with  a  thoroughly 
romantic 
lack  of  provision  for  the  fu­
ture.  There  is  truth  in  the observation, 
that 
‘ Love  in  a cottage  is all  right—but 
how  about  love1 without  any  cottage?’

“ Another deepseated conviction which 
may  have  to  undergo  some  modification 
is  the  very  prevalent  one that  the  wages 
of  one  man,  no  matter  how  ignorant  or 
unskilled  he  may  be,  ought  to  be  suffi-

J

Political  Methods  in  Business.

Miles— I  see  your  friend  Hawkins  has 
sign 

another  “ selling  out  at  cost" 
tacked  up  on  the  front  of  his  store.

Giles—Yes.  Do  you  know  I  think 
Hawkins  missed  his  vocation?  He 
should  have  been  a  political  campaign 
manager.

Miles—Why  so?
Giles— He  is  continually  nailing  lies.

To  assist  in  drawing  shoes  on  the  feet 
a  new  shoe-pull  has  a  horn  to  rest  in 
the  end  of  the  heel,  with  a  ring  at  the 
top  to  pull  upward  and  cause a  lever 
with  its  lower  end  extending  under  the 
heel  to  clamp  the  shoe  and  assist 
in 
pulling  it  on.

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WEDNESDAY.----- DECEMBER  IS,  1897.
GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION. 
Aside  from  some  local  complaints  of 
dulness  in  the  retailing  of  heavy  goods 
on  account  of  the  unusually  warm 
weather  the  trade  reports  are  almost 
without  exception  favorable.  The  week 
is  notable  for the  advance or strengthen 
ing  of  prices  in  most  lines,  and in  some 
cases,  as 
in  the  wheat  movement,  the 
advance  has  been  marked. 
Included 
in  the  number  of  strengthening  prices 
are  most  of  the  bond  lists  and  trans 
portation  stocks.  Some  of  the  former 
have  broken  records  for  high  prices and 
the  reports  of  railway  earnings  for  No 
vember 
improvement  over 
those  of  last  year  of  16.8  per  cent,  and 
over  those  of  the  corresponding  month 
of  1892  of  5.9  per  cent.  The  reports 
for  the  industrials  also  continue  favor­
able,  with  a  broader  market.

show  an 

The  situation 

The  sensation 

in  the  wheat  market 
was  the  speculative  advance  in  Chicago 
last  week,  which  carried  the  cereal  con­
siderably  above  the  dollar  mark,  scor­
ing  an  advance  at  one  time  of  15  cents 
over  the  preceding  week.  The  advance 
in  the  general  markets,  however,  was 
small,  and  has  been  about  lost  again 
this  wee«.  The  movement  continues 
very  heavy  both  in  Western markets and 
for  export.  The  demand  for  corn  still 
continues  heavy,  even 
last  year’s  un­
precedented  movement  having  been 
surpassed  since  September  1,  but  the 
price  rose  only  half  a  cent  for  the week.
in  the  textile  markets 
still  shows  an  unprecedented divergence 
in  the  prices  of  wool  and  cotton.  The 
price  of  the  former  has  continued  at  the 
highest it  has  been  for  sometime,  while 
the 
low  records. 
The  prices  of  woolen  goods  continue 
generally  strong.  Cotton  factories  are 
preparing  to  help  the  situation  in  some 
instances  by  curtailing  production  and 
in  the  case of  the  Fall  River  Mills  a re­
duction  in  wages  of  11  per  cent,  is  un­
der  consideration.  The  boot  and  shoe 
. industry,  in  spite  of  the  reluctance  of 
buyers  to  pay  advances  asked,  con­
tinues  to  ship  from  the  East  more 
cases  of  goods  than  ever  before— in  the 
last  five  weeks  25  per  cent,  more  than 
last  year  and  32.5  per  cent  more  than 
in  1892.  No  change  of  consequence 
appears  in  leather,  although  hides are  a 
shade  weaker.

is  breaking 

latter 

For  some  weeks  the  iron  industry  has 
been  a  little  nervous  at  the  smallness  of 
new orders,  although  both  manufacturers 
expected  business
and  buyers  have 

THE  SEAL  QUESTION.

The  refusal  of  Canada  to  agree  to  the 
abandonment  of  pelagic  sealing,  even 
for  one  year,  has  unfortunately  greatly 
complicated  the  seal  problem. 
The 
treaties  with  Russia  and  Japan  provid­
ing  for  the  stoppage  of  pelagic  sealing 
for  the  time  being,  and  for  the  protec­
tion  of  the  seals,  are  of 
little  practical 
value  without  the  consent  of  Canada, 
or,  more  properly,  of  Great  Britain,  to 
the  arrangement.  While  theoretically. 
Japan,  Russia  and  the  United  States 
have  even  greater  interests  in  the  seal 
herds  than  Great  Britain,  practically 
Great  Britain,  through  her  dependency, 
Canada,  is  the  principal  beneficiary  of 
the  sealing  industry,  by  far  the  greater 
number  of  vessels  engaged  in  pelagic 
sealing  belong  to  Canada.  For 
the 
United  States,  Russia  and  Japan  to  for 
bid  their  subjects  to  take  the  seals 
would  merely  give  Canada  a  monopoly 
of  the  business.  The  strong  opposition 
of  the  Canadian  sealers  to  any  interrup­
tion  with  their business  has  apparently 
persuaded  the  Canadian  government  to 
refuse  to  enter  into  any  agreement; 
hence,  practically,  the  sealing  question 
remains  where  it  was.

Disappointed 

in  not  securing  an  in­
ternational  agreement,  some  of  the ad­
vocates  of  seal  protection  now  propose 
that  the  seal  herds  be  destroyed  entire­
ly,  thus  putting  an  end  to  a  trouble­
some  controversy  and  preventing  Can­
ada  from  securing  the  profits  her  peo­
ple  now  make  out  of  the  seal  industry. 
It 
is  held  that,  under  existing  condi- 
ions,  the  seal  property  of  the  United 
States 
in  Behring  Sea  has  proven  un­
profitable ;  hence  the  country  would  be 
rather  the  gainer than  the  loser  by  the 
destruction  of  the  herds.  At  present 
t  costs  annually  several  hundred  thou­
sand  dollars  to  patrol  Behring Sea,  with­
out  any  resulting  profits.  With  the  seal 
herds  destroyed  and  the  industry  aban­
doned,  this  patrol  could  be  discontin­
ued.

Because  we  are  not 

is  a  most  selfish  and  absurd 
This 
policy. 
smart 
enough  to  outwit  the  Canadians  and 
capture  the  sealing  business  ourselves, 
we  propose  to  destroy  the  seals.  Such 
proposal  would  be  a  disgrace  to  a 
ivilized  community. 
If  we  cannot 
stop  pelagic  sealing,  we  can  at  least 
profit  by  it  to  the  same  extent  as others. 
To  destroy  the  seals  would-be  a  confes­
ión  of  weakness  and  impotence  which 
t  seems  incredible  Congress  would  be 
willing  to  make.

A  GREAT  LEADER.

is  weakening, 

Just  when  the Spaniards are beginning 
to  announce  again  that  the  Cuban  in­
surrection 
the  Havana 
dispatches  to  American  journals  tell  of 
another  great  movement  by  the  patriots 
toward  Havana  province  and  the  alarm 
of  the  Spanish  authorities 
in  conse­
quence.

the  splendid  tactics  of 

As  this  war  progresses  one  cannot  but 
admire 
the 
Cuban  army—now  making  a  bold  raid 
and  striking  terror  into  some  Spanish 
garrison;  now  making  a  bloody  stand 
and 
loss  upon  some  Spanish 
column ;  then  retiring  beyond  the  reach 
of  pursuit  until  the  time  has arrived  for 
some  other  strategic  move  calculated  to 
harass  the  enemy  and  inspire  hope  and 
confidence  in  the  insurgent  ranks.

inflicting 

Who  is  entitled  to  the  credit  for  this 
style  of  warfare  that 
is  gradually  but 
surely  wasting  the  resources  and  de­
stroying  the  hold  of  Spain?  By  common 
consent  the  master  mind  and the  direct­
ing  hand  are  those  of  Gomez,  the  white-

haired  soldier  of  fortune,  who,  at  70 
years  of  age,  is  still 
leading,  as  one 
paper  puts  it,  “ a  vigorous  and  irresist­
ible  revolution.”

In  the  days  of  our  revolution  and 
again 
in  the  dark  days  of  our  civil 
strife  we  are  told  how  it  required  all 
the  greatness  and  firmness  of  Washing­
ton  in  the  one  case  and  of  Lee  and  his 
lieutenants  in  the  other,  to  keep  hungry 
and  ill-clad  men  in  the  ranks  and 
im­
part  to  them  a  vigor  and  bravery  that 
withstood  all  trials.  Cuba 
is  fighting 
without  resources,  almost  without  arms. 
Her  soldiers  are  pitted  against  over­
whelming  numbers  and  resources,  yet 
the  fire  of  patriotism  is  kept  alive  and 
the  ragged  columns  held  to  the  grand 
work 
in  hand,  largely  by  the  magnet­
ism,  the  skill,  the  energy,  the  enthu­
siasm  of 
indomitable 
Gomez.

the  aged  but 

When  the  roster  of  the great  generals 
and  great  heroes  of  the  century  is  made 
up  for  history, 
the  name  of  Gomez 
should  be  high  upon 
list,  and 
whether  Cuba  shall  lose  or  win  he  will 
remain  one  of  the  New  World’s  most 
honored  champions  of  liberty  and  of the 
rights  of  man.

the 

CONGRESS  AT  WORK. 

Although  but  a  few  days have  elapsed 
since  the  “ long  session”   of  the  present 
Congress  opened,  that  body  has  already 
gotten  to  work  in  earnest.  Commonly 
the  entire  time  between  the opening day 
and  the  Christmas  holidays 
is  con­
sumed,  during  a  long  session,  in  organ­
izing  and  getting  the  committees  into 
shape.  All  this  preliminary  work  was 
accomplished  by  the  present  Congress 
during  the  special  session  held  during 
the  past  summer.

The  Republican  managers  of 

the 
House  of  Representatives  seem  deter­
mined  to  make  the  present  session  a 
record-breaker 
in  point  of  short  dura- 
ion.  They  have  determined  to  give 
appropriation  bills  the  right of way,  and 
not  to  enter  upon  the  consideration  of 
any 
important  natter  likely  to  lead  to 
serious  controversy  until  all  the  appro­
priation  bills  are  disposed  of.  Some 
of  the  appropriation  bills  are  already 
prepared  and  in  shape  for  introduction, 
and,  as  the  committees  have  all  been 
is  likely  that  the  others 
appointed,  it 
will  be  rapidly  gotten 
into  shape,  so 
that  all  can  be  introduced  not  later than 
immediately  after  the  holidays.

the 

Aside  from  material  increase  in  pen­
sion  bills,  there  is  a  disposition  to  keep 
down  appropriations,  so  as  to  bring  the 
expenditures  during  the  next  fiscal  year 
within 
limits  of  the  revenues. 
task,  with 
This  will  be  a  difficult 
fortificatiou 
requiring 
sums  and  rivers  and  harbors 
large 
necessitating 
increased  expenditures. 
A  wise  policy  also  demands  that  further 
additions  to  the  navy  should  be  author­
ized,  so  that  altogether 
it  would  seem 
that  the  task  of  keeping  down  expen­
ditures  will  be  a  difficult  one.

improvements 

Railroad  presidents  can  put  an  end  to 
the  ticket  scalping  they  complain  of 
whenever  they  want  to  by  agreeing  to 
redeem,  at  the  purchase  price,  every 
unused  railroad  ticket  presented  for  re­
demption.  The  scalpers  would 
then 
have  no  margin  to  work  on,  and  have 
no  business.  A  law  that  would 
induce 
railroad  ticket  agents  to  redeem  all 
legitimate  tickets  would  be  the  greatest 
law 
in  the  world  against  scalpers  and 
would  cause  no  hard  feelings  by  put- 
ting  people  off  trains  for  trying  to  use 
a  ride  that  had  been  paid  for  by  some 
other  party  than  the  one  thrown  off.

enough  after  January  1.  But  there  is 
marked  change 
in  the  outlook.  Many 
buyers  appear  to  have  concluded  that 
they  have  waited  for  lower  prices  about 
long  enough,  and 
if  they  should  wait 
much 
longer  might  be  caught  behind 
the  rush  of  orders  which  all  expect 
Whatever  the  cause,  more  new  business 
comes  forward,  especially  at  the  West, 
and  in  Chicago  the  demand  is  reported 
good,  with  dealers  cheerful  and  prices 
strengthening,  excellent  structural  busi 
ness,  large  orders  for  rails  carried  over 
to  the  next  year,  contracts  pending  for 
about  five  thousand  railway  cars  and  an 
extraordinary  demand 
for  hardware 
Pittsburg  structural  works  are  taking 
more  contracts,  but  have  others  still 
unfinished,  plate  mills  are  fully  em 
ployed  and  business  in  bars  is  fair.

Eastern  works  have  taken  contracts 
for  several  buildings 
in  New  York, 
others  for  more  than  30,000  tons  being 
under  consideratien,  and  have  secured 
contracts  for  bridges  in  Japan  and  Hoi 
land,  with  several  rail  contracts 
for 
40,000 tons  pending,  15,000  for  Mexico. 
The  exports  of  manufactured 
iron  of 
nearly  all  kinds  are  remarkably large.

Bank clearings continue very heavy for 
the  week,  $1,350,000,000.  Failures  are 
also  numerous,  292,  against  250  for  pre­
ceding  week.

Chicago  begins  the  winter  with  about 
one-half  the  number  of  dependants  who 
fed  upon  its  bounty  last  year.  Improved 
ndustrial  conditions  are  one  cause  of 
the  decrease,  but  the  result 
is  due 
largely  to  the  better  and  discriminating 
methods  of  furnishing  relief.  The  city 
has  ceased  to  invite  the  tramps and des- 
itute  of  other  sections  with  free  soup 
houses  and  free  lodging.  A  consistent 
refusal  to  deal  out  alms  when  employ­
ment could  be  had  has  made  wage-earn­
ers  of  thousands  of  heads  of  families, 
and  the  systematic  and  scientific  co-op­
eration  of  all  charity  agencies  has 
driven  into  easier  fields  the professional 
beggars.  The  city  has  been  divided 
nto  districts  by  the  associated  chari- 
ies.  There  is  a  head  in  each  district, 
nd  800  men  and  women  have  agreed  to 
ive  their  time  and  services  free  in  in­
vestigating  all  applicantions  for  aid. 
The bureau  proposes  to stop all attempts 
at  impositions  but  it  will  not  carry  the 
formality  and  red  tape  to  the extent that 
house  without  a  fire  shall  have  no  fire 
until  all  the  rules  have  been  observed. 
It  plans  to  put  fires  where  there  are 
no  fires,  and  food  in  empty  larders,  and 
then  sit  down  and  find  out  why  the 
family 
is  not  self-supporting,  and  pro­
ceed  to  make  it  self-supporting.

The  new  director general  of  the  Ger 
man  postoffice  has caused  to be issued  to 
the  public  a  “ kartenbrief, ”   or  card 
letter,  which  is  decidedly  an 
improve­
ment  upon  the  ordinary postalcard  used 
u  most  countries.  The  “ kartenbrief”  
s  of  excellent  paper  material,  tinted 
ink,  and  has  four  pages.  With  the 
addition  of  a  stamp  of  10  pfennigs 
(about  2  cents),  it  can  be  sent  to  for- 
gn  countries  belonging  to  the  postal 
union.  The  imperial  postoffice  in  Ger­
is  so  well  managed  that  an  in­
many 
crease  of  30,000,000  marks 
(about 
$6,250,000)  is  expected  during  the pres­
ent  fiscal  year  over 
the  receipts  of 
1895  96.  _____________

Don  "Quixote  would  have  made  a  bad 
politician.  He  said:  “ Let  every  man 
mind  bis  own  business,  and  give good 
words  or  hold  his  tongue;  for,  by  the 
blood,  there  will  be  a  time  when  some 
people’s  rogueries  may  come  to  light  as 
well  as  those  of  other  folks. ’ ’

PROBLEM  OF THE UNEMPLOYED.
The  problem  of  the  unemployed  is  a 
very  important  one  and  deserves  to  be 
studied  with  great  care.  A  doctrine has 
been  advanced  by  a  certain  class  of 
theorists  that  there  are  never,  in  aver­
age  times,  too  many  workers,  but  that 
the  difficulty 
in  the  fact  that  these 
workers  are  not  properly  distributed 
where  they  are  needed.  This  fact  is 
seeii  in  the  gathering  of  the  various  ag­
ricultural  crops  in  this  country.

is 

The  great  wheat  crops  are  harvested 
in  the  summer.  Cotton  and  corn  are 
gathered  in  the  fall,  the  cotton  harvest 
in  the  extreme  South  being  prolonged 
into  the  winter  months.  The  rice  crop 
of  Louisiana  and  other  Southern  States 
is  gathered  in  the  fall,  and  the  sugar­
making  is  continued  through  the  win­
ter.  At  special  seasons  there 
is  a 
most  active  demand  for  labor  to  harvest 
and  house  these  crops,  and 
it  often 
happens  that  there  is  a  great  scarcity  of 
the  required  help.

Many  is  the  time  that  cotton  is  left on 
lack 
the  stalk  standing  in  the  field  for 
of 
labor  to  pick  it,  while  more  or  less 
grain  is  destroyed  by  bad  weather  be­
cause 
it  could  not  be  gathered  and  got 
to  the  barn  or  crib  in  time.  There  is 
not  a  single  great  industry  which  does 
not  suffer  at  times  for  the. lack  of 
labor 
at  a  particular  moment  when  there  are 
number  of  unemployed  people  who  are 
either  so  far  off  that  they  do  not  know 
of  the  employment  that  invites  them,  or 
they  have  not  the  means  of  getting 
where  they  are  needed.

The  remedy  proposed  for  this  is  that 
there  should  be  a  system  of Government 
intelligence  offices  which  would  obtain 
and  keep  weekly  or  daily  records  of  the 
unemployed  people  and  of  the  places 
where  labor  is  needed,  with  an  arrange­
ment  that  employers  should  guarantee 
expenses  of  removing  laborers,  the  ad­
vances  to  be  taken  out  of  the  wages, 
while  all  the  laborers  so transported, but 
refusing  to work,  should be  punished  for 
obtaining  advances  under 
false  pre­
tenses.

In  discussing  the  problem  of  the  un­
employed,  it  must  not  be  lost  sight  of 
that  not  all  the  idle  laborers  are  so  as  a 
result  of  misfortune.  On  the  contrary, 
many  are  so  through  their  own  fault.  It 
is  a  fact  that,  while  the  world  is  full  of 
men,  there  are  not  enough  of  them  who 
are  worthy  and  reliable.  The  woful 
lack  of  good  men  is  seen  daily  in  the 
failures  and  losses  in  almost  every  line 
of  business  through 
the  misbehavior, 
the  incompetence  and  actual  dishonesty 
of  trusted  employes,  in  both  public  and 
private  business.

important 

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  not  only 
in 
have  enormous  losses  been  sustained 
this  way,  but 
enterprises 
which,  under  better  conditions,  would 
have  been  successful  and  prosperous 
have  been  wrecked  and  destroyed  and 
so  utterly  discredited  that  they  were 
wholly  abandoned.  The  present  is  pre­
eminently  the  age  of  commercial  and 
industrial  enterprise,  while  business 
operations  are  so  vast  that  their  con­
duct  must  be  entrusted  to  employes  in 
various  grades  of authority, superintend­
ence  and  control,  so  that  not  only  are 
honesty  and  fidelity  required,  but  the 
highest  degree  of  ability,  prudence  and 
sound  judgment  is  just  as  necessary.

But  the  defalcations,  the  criminali­
ties,  the 
incompetence  and  general 
moral  and mental  deficiencies  of  trusted 
employes  are  seen  every  day  in  the con­
duct  of  every  sort  of  business,  and  the 
conclusion  has  come  to  be  irresistibly 
impressed  on  the  careful  observer  that,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

while  the  world  is  full  of  men,  there  .is 
an  actual  scarcity  of  men  who  are 
thoroughly  reliable,  faithful  and  capa­
ble.  The  same  rule  must  apply  to  the 
humbler  workers.  How  many  of  them 
are  mere  eye-servants,  endeavoring  to 
do  as  little  as  possible  for  their  wages, 
having  no  regard  for  their  employer’s 
interest  and 
intent  only  on  getting  out 
of  him  all  they  can.

It  is  not  surprising  that  the  ranks  of 
the  unemployed  are  in  ordinary  times 
largely  made  up  of  those  who are known 
to  be  unreliable  or  incompetent. 
If  an 
employer  finds  it  necessary  to reduce 
his  expenses  and  to  discharge  a  part  of 
his  force  he  will  always be most ready  to 
part  with  those  who  are 
least  useful 
and  least  faithful.  These  are  the  men 
who are  first  to  lose  their  places  and  the 
last  to  secure  others,  and  they  finally 
reach  a  condition  where  nobody  who 
knows  them  will  give  them  employ­
ment,  and  they  continue  to  swell  the 
ranks  of  the  unemployed  and  become 
the  worst  enemies  of  all  honest laborers.
Of  course,  this  rule  does  not  apply 
in  times  of  financial  panic  and  great 
financial 
industrial  depression. 
Then  business  firms  fail  and  factories 
are  stopped,  and  armies  of  men  are 
turned  out  upon  the  world  for  no  fault 
of  their  own,  and  for  no  fault  of  their 
employers,  but  by  much  the  same  proc­
ess  as  a  destructive  conflagration,  or  a 
flood,  or  an  earthquake  turns  people 
out  of  their  houses.  The  good  and  the 
industrious  and  the  idle,  the 
bad,  the 
faithful  workers  and  the 
loafers,  all 
suffer  together.  But  when  there  comes 
a  revival  of  business,  the  good  and 
honest  and  faithful  men  are  always  the 
first  to get  places.

and 

It  is  always  easier  for  a  man  who  has 
employment  to  get  a  better  place  than 
it  is  for  one  who  is  out  of  employment 
to  get  any  place  at  all,  and  a  man  who 
remains  a  long  time  out  of  work  in  any 
average  period  of  fair  business  will  al­
ways  find  that,  whether  he  deserves  it or 
not,  there  is  some  unfavorable reflection 
resting  on  him.  Many  a  man  refuses 
to  accept  employment  because  the place 
offered  is  not  to  his taste,  or the  work  is 
too  hard,  or  the  hours  are  too  long,  or 
because  something  is  wrong  with  him­
self.  Such  a  man  prefers  to  live 
in 
idleness  and 
loaf  on  his  friends,  and 
does  not  want  to  work.

In  considering  the  problem  of  the  un­
employed,  many  questions  are  to  be  ex­
amined,  and,  in  seeking  to  provide  a 
remedy,  the idle and the criminal among 
the  unemployed  should  not  be  allowed 
to  profit  by  the  benefits that are intended 
only  for  those  who  actually  deserve 
them. 

_____________

The  grain  receipts  at  the  port  of 
Buffalo  for  1897  up  to  Dec.  i  (including 
11,000,000  barrels  of  flour  estimated  as 
wheat)  show  an  aggregate  of  240,000,- 
000 bushels.  Probably  no  other  inland 
city  in  the  world  can  in  this  particular 
make  such  a  showing  as  the  city  which 
sits  at  the  foot  of  the  lakes.

Another  Utopian  scheme  has  gone  to 
the  wall  in  the  failure of  the  co-opera­
tive  colony  called  New  Australia,  in 
Paraguay.  The  colony  was  started  in 
1891,  and  for a  time  all  went  well,  un­
til 
it  developed  that  a  portion  of  the 
settlers  did  all  the  work  and  the  re­
mainder  did  the  loafing.

Prince  Bismarck  has  been  heard  to 
say  that  he  would  rather  find  a  cure  for 
rheumatism  than  have  all  the  titles of 
Europe  conferred  upon  him.

The  reports  coming  from  Europe gen­
indicate  that,  whereas  there  has 
erally 
been  much  activity  there  for  several 
years  past 
in  many  lines  of  industry, 
there 
is  now  an  unfavorable  turn  and 
there  is  stagnation  and  depression  to  a 
This 
considerable  extent. 
is  attrib­
utable,  of  course,  very 
largely  to  the 
failure  of  crops 
in  the  Old  World  and 
the  bountiful  harvest  here.  This  has 
added  to  the  demand  and  increased  the 
price  for  American  grain,  thus  placing 
in  circulation  here  a  large  amount  of 
money  which  under  ordinary  ciicum- 
stances  would  have  remained  in  Euro­
pean  bands.  After  a  time  this  condi­
tion  will  be  overcome  by  the  harvesting 
of  more  bountiful  crops  in  those  quar­
ters  of  the  globe  which  have  net  shared 
this  year  to  the  usual  extent  in  Nature’s 
bounties,  but  some  months  must  elapse 
before  that  event,  and  they  ought  to  be 
favorable  ones  for  the  people  in  this 
country.

taken 

Lots  of  people  recommend  beer  as  a 
beneficial  beverage  when 
in 
limited  quantities.  They  argue  that 
malted  hops  and  barley  are  appetizing 
as  well  as  nourishing. 
If  all  beer  were 
really  made  of  hops  and  barley  the 
friends  of  beer  would  probably  have  the 
better of  the  argument.  But is  it?  Re­
cent  analyses  of  various  kinds  of  beer 
indicate  the  presence  of  alum,  capsi­
cum,  calamus  root,  carbonate of  potash, 
caraway  and  coriander  seeds,  copperas, 
cocculus 
indicus,  ginger  root,  quassia 
chips,  wormwood,  cream  of  tartar,  nux 
vomica, 
oyster 
shells,  etc.  What  is  more,  new  methods 
of  making  this  popular  drink  are  being 
found  every  day,  and,  as  the  newer 
ways  seem  to  have  the  preference,  it 
is 
possible  that  within  a  few  years  beer— 
the  real,  genuine  article—will  be  some­
thing  unknown  to  commerce.

strychnine, 

ground 

On  the  cranberry  bogs  of  Wisconsin 
descends  every  autumn  an  army  of 
pickers,  composed  in  the  main  of  Poles, 
Indians  and  balfbreeds,  the  Indians  be­
ing  considered  the  best pickers,  because 
they  never  strike  and  always  accept  the 
prices  offered  by  the  overseers.  The 
general  rate  of  wages  is $1  a  day,  with 
lodges  and 
board.  They  bring  their 
tepees  with  them,  and  camp  on 
the 
field.  The  Indians  will  not  begin  work 
until  9  o'clock 
in  the  forenoon,  and 
stop  at  4 in  the afternoon,  no matter  bow 
pressing  the  conditions  of  work,  and 
entirely  disregard  the  urgency  of  their 
employers  and  overseers.

The  Supreme  Court  of  California  has 
decided 
that  under  certain  circum­
stances  a  woman  may  be  compelled  to 
support  her  husband. 
This  decision 
was  rendered 
in  the  case  of  an  aged 
and  infirm  spouse  who  was  deserted  by 
his  wife.  The  wife  was  ordered  to  pay 
the  husband  $24  a  month.

It 

is  said  that  4,000,000  false  teeth 
are  made  annually  in  the  United  States. 
A  statistician  has  been  figuring  on  this 
output,  and  supplements 
it  with  the 
statement  that  one  ton  of  gold  and  three 
tons  of  silver  and  platinum  are  used 
during  the  same  period 
in  filling  old 
stumps.

An  American  traveler  in  England  has 
discovered  that  of  the  material  used  in 
constructing  the  street  trolleys 
in  Bir­
mingham,  the  rails  were  made  in  Pitts­
burg, the cars in Philadelphia,  the boilers 
in  Erie,  the  engines  in  Milwaukee  and 
the  electric  fittings  in  Schenectady.

a
Importance  of  a  Pure  Food 

Supply.

The 

However  valuable  may  be  the  sugges­
tions  offered  from  time  to  time  in  mat­
ters  pertaining  to  other  lines  of  hygiene 
and  sanitation,  there  can  be  no question 
that  the  articles  concerning  diet,  which 
appear  in  the  columns  of  the  American 
Journal  of  Health  attract  a  ^greater 
amount  of  interest  than  is  attracted  to 
any  other  one  subject.  Particularly  has 
this  been  the  case  as  regards  reports 
relating  to  articles  of  food  sold  in  the 
markets  and  which  have  been  made  the 
subject  of  careful  examination  upon  the 
part  of  the  editorial  department  of  this 
journal.  As  all  such  investigations  are 
secretly  conducted  and  in  no  case 
is  a 
charge  made  for  the  publication  of  an 
endorsement  when  the  merits  of,  the 
goods  deserve  such  praise,  the  value  of 
such  editorial  suggestions  can  scarcely 
be  overestimated.  The  fact  that  the re­
ports  in  question  are  made  in  response 
to  enquiries  of  our  subscribers  and  not 
at  the  solicitation  of  manufacturers 
commands  a  respect  and  confidence  not 
bestowed  upon  paid  puffs  and  “ write­
ups”   which  are  unfortunately  too  com­
mon.

in 

In  keeping  with  the  above  methods, 
and  at  the  request  of  many  readers,  we 
have  recently 
investigated  concerning 
the  merits  of Fleischmann’s Compressed 
Yeast,  with  a  result  that  must  be  grati­
fying  to  those  who  insist  upon  utmost 
purity  in  all  food  articles  entering  the 
household.  Through  the  medium  of  our 
Secret  Enquiry  Bureau,  involving  con­
fidential  enquiries  to competent authori­
ties  who  are  thoroughly  familiar  with 
the  product,  but  not  at  all  interested 
financially 
its  manufacture,  and  by 
means  of  samples  of  the  same  obtained 
in  open  market,  we  have  satisfied  our­
selves  beyond  all  question  or  doubt  that 
Fleischmann’s  Compressed  Yeast  is  es­
sentially  pure  and  wholesome  and  can 
be  added  to  the  family  menu  with  the 
assurance  that  good  health  as  well  as 
appetite  will  be  catered  to  in  its  use. 
Housekeepers  should  insist  upon having 
this  superior  article,  as  there  are  so 
many  questionable  food  products  in  the 
markets  that,  unless 
intelligently  ad­
vised,  the  health  of  the  entire Household 
may  be  imperiled.

As  regards  the  high  standing  and  re­
sponsibility  of  the  manufacturers,  too 
much  praise  cannot  be  said,  for  our  in­
vestigation  shows  that 
intelligent  and 
discriminating  purchasers  have  learned 
that  the  name  of  Fleischmann  &  Co., 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  and  New  York,  in 
dicates  unquestioned  merit  and  quality 
beyond  adverse  criticism.  However,  the 
reputation  of  the  house  making  any 
goods  has  no  weight  in  our 
investiga­
tions,  the  same  searching analysis being 
made  in  this  case  as  in  all  others,  and 
the  product  was  judged  solely  upon 
its 
own  merits,  with  a  result  that  most 
thoroughly  demonstrates  Fleischmann’s 
Compresssed  Yeast  is  eminently deserv­
ing  of  a  place among the high-grade and 
healthful  food  articles  of  the  day.

“ Tell  me  what  you  eat  and  I  will  tell 
you  what  you are, ’ ’ says the old  proverb, 
and  modern  dietetics 
lends  additional 
emphasis  to  this  great  truth.  Those 
who  eat  the  best  will  live  the  best,  will 
think  the  best,  will  feel  the  best;  for 
perfect  health  can  be  assured  only  by 
securing  the  choicest 
in  every  line  of 
the  food  supply,  and  in  this  connection 
we  would  editorially  say  that  a  more 
wholesome and  nutritious  product  than 
Fleischmann's  Compressed  Yeast  is  not 
to  be  had.  From  the  standpoint  of  the 
physician,  the  hygienist  and  the  house­
keeper  it  is  all  that  could  be  desired.
S.  J.  T homas,  M.  D.

IO

Shoes  and  Leather
Are  Employers  Too  Generous  with 

Good  Advice?

Tom  Moreland  threw  one  leg  over 
the  other,  hitched  his  trouser  leg  up  a 
little  at  the  knee,  laid  his  arm along the 
back  of  the  settee  behind  me  and  began 
to  talk.
Tom 

in  a  fair­
sized  store  and  has  had  considerable 
experience  in  his  line.

is  a  shoe  salesman 

“ 1  wonder,”   he  said,  “ if  a  clerk 

ever  spoiled  by  over-advice.”

is 

“ Give 

it  up,”   I  replied,  knowing 
that  he  had  a  grievance  to  air  and  that 
his  airing 
it  would  interest  merchants 
generally.  “ Why?”

“ Why?  Well,  because  we  fellows 
who  sell  stuff,  from  bacon  to  boots  and 
from  sauerkraut  to  shoes,  are  everlast­
ingly  being  advised  and  if  we  were  to 
attempt  to  follow  all  the  instructions 
given  us 
in  the  papers  we  would  find 
ourselves  in  a  worse  condition  than  the 
perfectly  healthy  man  who  casually 
glanced  over  a  patent  medicine  pro­
spectus  and  immediately  went  out  to or­
der  his  coffin.”

“ Who  are  you  hitting  at,  Tom ,”   I 
interposed,  “ me  or  some  other  unfor­
tunate?  If it is m e,‘ lay  on,  Macduff.’ ”  
“ If  the  shoe  fit,  wear  it,”   exclaimed 
the  shoe  man  with  a  smile. 
“ I  am 
making  no  specific  charges,  but  the  fact 
remains  that  we  are  advised  to  death.”  
“ Well,  you  seem  to  have  thrived  on 

it,  old  man. ”

" Y e s ;  because  I  have  taken  what 

suited  me  and  let  the  bulk  of  it  go .”

“ I  subside.  Fire  away.”
“ All  right.  VVhat  I  wanted  to  get  at 
was  this,  that  not  a  half  hour  ago  I  read 
n  a  trade  paper  a  chunk  of  advice 
written  by  somebody  I  never  heard  of 
efore,  arguing that  the  biggest  mistake 
a  clerk  could  make  was  to  try  to  sell 
goods. ”

“ How’s  that?”   I  asked.
“ Well,  not  exactly  that,  but  what  he 
did  say  was  that  when  people  were  just 
looking,  the  clerk  should  not  ask  them 
to  buy. ”

to 

just  wanted 

“ You  think  he  should,  then?”
“ Of  course.  Suppose  you  came  in 
here  because  you  saw  a  shoe  in  the win­
dow  and 
look  at  it. 
Should  I  go  get  the  shoe  and  let  you 
look  at 
it,  or  should  I  have  you  sit 
down,  pull  off  your  shoe,  put  the  one 
called 
for  on  and  try  to  sell  it  to  you? 
In  short,  what  am  I  here  for?  Am  I 
here  to  sell  goods  or  merely  to  exhibit 
them?”

“ What  do  you  think  about  it  your­

self?”   I  asked.

“ Simply  this,  that 

if  the  ‘old  man’ 
sees  me  let  a  man  go  out  without  pur­
chasing  he  wants  an  explanation,  and 
no  matter  how  good  it  may  be  he  stores 
these  things  up  against  me.  He  pays 
me  to  sell  goods. ”

“ Just  so,  and  in  your  case  the  advice 
does  not  apply,  for  this  reason,  that  you 
sell  only  men’s  shoes and  can  do  with 
men  what  women  will  object  to.  Nine 
men  out  of  ten  you  can  ‘ jolly’  along 
and  they  will  not  get  angry  where  wom­
en  would  leave  the  store  in  a  huff.  You 
can  reason  with  men.  Women  you  must 
handle  with  kid  gloves. 
The  weak 
feature 
in  this  advice  that  you  object 
to  lies  in  the  fact  that  it  is  too  broad.  I 
believe  that  with  ladies  the  rule 
is  not 
a  bad  one. ’ ’

“ Perhaps  not,”   acquiesced  Tom. 
“ After  all,  it  depends  on  the  clerk. 
You  know  that  some  clerks  can  talk  to

a  customer  in  a  way  that  would  be  re­
sented  in  any  other  salesman.”

“ Yes,  that's a fact.  Take Billy Blank, 
for  instance.  He  has  a  big  personal 
following,  yet  he  treats  customers  in  a 
way  that  is  akin  to  shabby. 
If  I  should 
talk  to  a  man  as  be  does—and  he  talks 
to  strangers  just  as  he  does  to  his  old 
trade— I  should  expect  to  get  cut  so 
short  I  wouldn’t  have  breathing  room 
left.  He’s  so  familiar.  He  doesn’t 
give  more  than  half  attention  to  the 
man;  tells  him  to  sit  down,  takes  off 
the  customer’s  shoe  as  if  he  hated  the 
job,  gets  down  a  shoe  and  tells  him  to 
put  it  on.  Billy doesn’t  work.  He’s  too 
fat.  But  he  sells  the  goods. ’ ’

“ Correct,  and  yet  he  doesn’t  carry 
such  a  big  trade  with  him  as  you  would 
think.  Remember  he  has  been  selling 
shoes  here  a  good  many  years. ”

“ I  don’t  know,”   objected  Tom,  4  he 
has  quite  a  bunch  of  trade  behind  him. 
But  really  I  don’t  see  how  he  holds  it. 
He  tells  a  man  any  old  thing. 
I  don’t 
care  how  stale  a  thing  the  shoe  is,  he 
tells  his  customer  that 
it’s  the  very 
latest  wrinkle  and  all  the  cheese.”  

“ Think  it  pays?”
“ No,  I  don’t  and  I  don’t  follow  the 
practice. 
I  try  to  tell  a  man  what  is 
right.  Somehow  I  can’t  stand  up  here 
and  tell  a  customer that  the  Razor  toe 
is  coming  back  in  again  and  will  be  all 
I  don't  find  it 
the  rage  in  the  spring. 
necessary  either. 
There  are  enough 
men  who  don’t  care  about  style  to  get 
rid  of  goods  that  are  not  too  far  out  of 
date.  When  a  man  asks  for  a  latest 
style  shoe  I  bring  out  the  latest  style 
and  tell  him  what  I  know  about  it.”

“ I  believe  you  are  adopting  the  wis­
est  course,  Tom.  But  we  have  drifted 
off  our  subject. ”

“ Of  too  much  advice?”
“ Just  so.  Now,  most  of  this  advice 
is  the  result  of  personal  experience.  A 
man  or  a  woman  goes  into  a  store  and 
is  waited  on  by  a  clerk  who  doesn’t 
know  his  business  and  he  or  she  is  dis­
gusted.  Other  clerks  are  warned  to 
steer  clear  of  this  one’s  methods,  but  as 
I  said  before,  the  advice  cannot  apply 
to  all  alike. 
It  makes  a  great  deal  of 
difference  who  the  clerk  is.

“ Again,  this  advice  is  merely  meant 
as  suggestion  and  I  must  agree,  Tom, 
that  it  is  usually  mighty  good  sugges­
tion,  too. 
If  some  of  the  clerks  I  have 
had  wait  on  me  had  pasted  a  good  deal 
of  the  advice  1  have  read  in  their  hats 
and  followed 
in  their  conduct  they 
would  have  sold  more  goods  and  gained 
more  friends  among  customers.”  

it 

“ Probably 

that’s  so,”   commented 

Tom.

“ I  know 

it’s  so,  Tom,  and  another 
thing,  I  believe  every  clerk  will  gain 
by  giving  heed  to every  suggestion he 
comes  across,  consider  it  and  convince 
himself  whether  it  will  or  will  not  ben­
efit  him  in  his  own  sphere,  rather  than 
condemn  them  all  because  some  fail  to 
fit  his  case.  Here  comes  a  customer. 
I’ll  slide  out.  So  long.”

“ Good  night,  old  man.  Come 

in 
again,”   yelled  Tom  as  I  closed  the 
door.— Shoe  and  Leather  Gazette.

T it  fo r  T a t.

Grocer—You butchers have a soft snap. 
You  weigh  the  bones  with  the  meat, 
and  charge  meat  prices.
Butcher—I  don’t see as you have  any 
call  to  talk.  When  you  sell  Swiss 
cheese  don’t  you  weigh  the  boles,  and 
charge  cheese  prices  for  them?

An  ordinance  in  Cleveland  permits  “a 
Hebrew  who  observes  the  Sabbath  to 
keep  his  billiard  saloon  open  on  Sun­
day,  but  fines  non-Hebrews  who  may 
play  billiards  therein.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

What  Does  the  Dealer  Owe  to  the 

Consumer?

E. T. Abbott, in St Joseph Journal of Commerce.
He  owes  him  prompt  service  and  fair 
deals.  He  should  furnish  him  the  best 
goods  he  can  for  the  money  received. 
He  owes  him  a  truthful  statement  about 
all  goods  sold,  prompt  delivery  and 
courteous  treatment  at  all  times.  He 
owes  the  consumer  protection,  in  so  far 
as  lies  in  his  power,  against  every  form 
of  adulteration.  He  owes  it  to  the  con­
sumer  not  to  deceive  him  in  any  way, 
either by  his  advertisements  or  words 
spoken  face  to  face,  and  that  he  be  not 
a  party  to  any  kind  of  fraud  which  the 
unscrupulous,  for  the  hope  of  gain,  try 
to  perpetrate  on  the  public  by  the  use 
of  false  or  deceptive  labels;  that  he  re­
fuses  to  handle  any  kind  of goods which 
are  not  what  they  appear  to  be  on  their 
face.

In  conclusion,  they  each  owe the other 
mutual  respect,  confidence  and 
for­
bearance,  recognizing  the fact that  their

interests  are  identical,  and  there  should 
be  no  clashing  between  them,  nor  any 
disposition  of  one  to  try to cast reproach 
upon  the  calling  of  the  other.
A  Miser  Punished.

A  miser  once  lost  a  bag  containing  a 
hundred  pounds,  and,  advertising  his 
loss,  offered  ten  pounds  reward  to  any 
person  restoring  the  bag  to  him.  A 
poor  man  found  it  and  brought  it  to  the 
miser,  who  refused  the  reward,  saying 
that  the  bag  he  had 
lost  contained  a 
hundred  and  ten  pounds.  The  bag  had 
all  along  been  sealed,  and  the  parties 
were  brought  before  a 
The 
judge  opened  the  bag,  and  said,  “ How 
much  did  your  bag  contain?”

judge. 

“ One  hundred  and  ten  pounds,”   said 

the  miser.

“ Oh,”   said  the  judge,  “ then  this 
cannot  be  your  bag,  for  it  contains  only 
a  hundred  pounds.”   Saying  this,  he 
handed  it  to  the  poor  man.  telling  him 
to  keep  it  until  the  right  owner  turned 
up  to  claim  it.

We  Manufacture

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and congress in  2  S.  and  T.  and  %  D.  S., all  Solid—a 
good western shoe at  popular prices.

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

We still handle the best  rubbers— Lycoming  and  Key­

stone—and  Felt  Boots and  Lumbermen’s Socks.

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a 
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I l

Good  Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe 

Dealers.

is 

A  strong  bid  for  your  shoe  trade.  We 
figure  that 
if  we  can  offer  you  better 
shoes  for  less  than  you  have  been  pay­
ing  you’ll  trade here.  That’s what we’ve 
been  doing  ever  since  we  opened  this 
department—and  the  business  we  have 
done  shows  that  you  are appreciating  it. 
To-morrow  we  shall  offer  some  excep­
tional  values  just  for  the  one  day—and 
if  you  will  compare  them  with  what 
others  are  offering  you  will  see  just 
what  remarkable  bargains  these  are.— 
Goldenberg,  Washington,  D.  C.

“ How  can  I  tell  whether  the  welt  of 
a  shoe  really  is  hand-sewed?’ ’  you  ask. 
Do  you  know  what  the  old  doctor  said 
when  asked  how  to  tell  a  mushroom 
from  a  toadstool?  “ Eat  it;  if  you  live, 
it’s  a mushroom ;  if  you  die,  it's a  toad­
stool.”   The same  way  with  shoes;  wear 
them. 
If  the  welts  really  are  hand- 
sewed,  it  will  show 
in  the  wear,  and 
your  cobbler  will  tell  you  so  when  he 
puts  a  sole  on  them.  But  all  styles  of 
cheap  shoes  are  being  called  “ hand- 
sewed  welts.”   Use  your  good  sense. 
If  you  were  told  that  a $1.48  watch  were 
solid  gold,  would  you  believe  it?— Gim- 
bel  Bros.,  Phi la.

to  the 

royalties 

Patented  things  are  expensive,  say 
all—and  all  cannot  be  mistaken.  The 
best  articles  are  protected  by  patent— 
and 
inventors  cost 
money.  So  women  have  been  paving  §5 
or  more  for  the  Kee-Cushion  shoe,  and 
have  been  getting  usual  shoe  value  with 
the  advantage  of  the  patented  part  that 
makes  the  shoe  wonderfully  flexible  and 
comfortable  to  the  sole  of  the  foot—a 
felt 
inner  sole.  But  the  felt  took  up 
room, and  left  less  room  for leather—and 
left  the  foot  susceptihle  to 
the  shoe 
It  set  the  shoe  chief  think­
dampness. 
ing. 
ready— women's 
Kee-Cushion  shoes  with  extra  cork  sole 
— still 
flexible  and  now  practically 
damp-proof.  We  pay  royalty  and  the 
extra  cost  of  the  best  cork  sole—the 
patented  shoe  made  better—and  sell  the 
improved  S5  shoe  at  $2  40.  Button  and 
lace;  quite  dainty  shoes  with  patent 
leather  tips. 
is  a  triumph  in  shoe 
selling.—John  Wanamaker,  Phila.

The  result 

Ever  have  a  nail  in  your  shoe  to  give 
your  foot  misery,  not  to  mention  dam­
age  to  stockings?  Maybe  you  think  all 
shoes  are  that  way.  Gimbels’  hand- 
sewed  welt  shoes  have  no  nails  or 
lumpv  threads  to  hurt  the  feet  or  wear 
out  the  stockings. 
The  hand-sewed 
welt  insures  a  smooth  inner  surface  and 
makes  them  easy and flexible to the foot. 
Gimbel  Bros.,  Phila.

Shoeing  the  foot  is  not  always an easy 
undertaking;  although  this  country  has 
been  making  shoes  for  several  hundred 
years,  continued  change  of last  and  new 
factories  going 
into  operation  contin­
ually  present  to  our  notice  the  depress­
ing  fact  that  ali  shoe  factories  do  not 
know  how  to  make  shoes.  We  think  it 
is  as 
important,  however,  to  you  that 
you  secure  a  fit  in  buying  shoes.  This 
we  are  able  to  give  you,  whether 
it  be 
in  a  low-priced  or  a  high-priced  shoe. 
These  results  are  secured  by  simply 
knowing  where  to  buy  goods  that  fit. 
Diavis  Shoe Co.,  Salt  Lake  City.
We don’t make shoes,  but we  do  buy
leathers  when  the  right  kinds  at  right 
prices  come  our  way.  We  turn  them 
over  to  shoemakers  to  be  made  up 
into 
shoes  for  us.—John  Wanamaker.

Of  course  we  are  in  business  only  for 
fun  and  amusement.  It’s  fun  to  see  how 
good  a  shoe  we  can  give  you  for  a small 
price,  and 
it’s  amusement  to  try  and 
suit  every  one.  Bicycle  shoes?  Yes— 
the  best  are  here.— Shoe  Ad.  Syndicate.
The  “ Jenness  Miller”   shoe  at  $3.50 
ushers  in  a  “ new  era”   of  foot  comfort 
for  women.  As  Mrs.  Jenness  Miller 
writes:  “ It 
is  the  only  shoe  that  can 
be  worn  comfortably  from  the  moment 
■ put  on  new  until  worn  to  the  point  of 
discarding.”   Mrs.  Jenness  Miller  only 
allowed  her  name  to  be  used  after  she 
had  satisfied  herself  by  practical  wear 
that  it  conformed  fully  to  her 
ideas  of 
a  perfectly  easy,  comfortable,  graceful 
and  durable  shoe.—Crocker’s,  Washing­
ton,  D.  C.

Thanks,  good 

friends,  for  the  many 
kind  words  and  wishes  of  yesterday. 
We  mean  to  deserve  the  best  you  can

It 

say  of  us.  We  mean  to  deserve  it  by
giving  you  the  best  shoes  that  can  be 
had  at  the  prices,  and  service  equal  to 
any  that  can  be  had  at  any  price.— P. 
T.  Hallahan,  Phila.

A  lady  said  to  us:  “ This  is  the  only 
place  where  I  can  always  get  shoes 
which  suit  me  in  every  way.”   That’s 
the  point  exactly.  The  shoe  store  that 
is  worth  the  most  to  you  is  the  store 
where  you  can  always  be  perfectly satis­
fied  with  whatever  you  get—with  the 
fit,  with  the  price,  with  everything.— 
George  F.  Streit,  Altoona,  Pa.

Survivals

L

A  thousand acorns  through the  mold,
One summer in  the  days of old,

Hurst  forth  into the sun  and  breeze 
To  grow  into a thousand  trees,

To  fight  the  storm  and  brave  the  cold,

And  live through  many centuries.

There came a keen,  untimely frost;
Five  hundred  infant oaks  were  lost.

And  then  the  herds  that  chanced  that way, 
The  browsing  kine and  lambs  at  play 

Among  the  hillocks greenly  mossed 

Cropped  down  four  hundred  in  a day.

A  hundred  oaks  were  left  to grow,
But  fourscore  perished  in  the snow;
And  of  the score  that still  remain 
Ten  fall  before the  hurricane;

Ten  challenge all  the  winds that  blow 

And cast  their shade o’er all the  plain.

And, as  the years  pass on,  one oak 
laes  shattered  by  the  thunder stroke,

And  one  is  felled,  the  woodman’s  prey;
One  fails through  its own  heart’s  decay;

One  in  the  whirlwind’s  fury  broke,
And  two the torrents  swept  away.

Four oaks now  toward  the sun  aspire;
One  falls  before  an  earthquake dire.

And  one  is  dragged  away  in  chains 
A   keel  to  plow  the ocean  plains;

One  withers  in  a forest fire,

And one -  one only oak—remains.

And  there  it  stands,  the centuries’  pride,
The monarch  of  the  mountain  side,

Blessed  by  five  hundred  summers  bland,
By  breaths  of ferny  fragrance  fanned;

But  no one.notes  the  oaks  that  died—

They are  forgotten  in  the  land.

II.

Each  summer  ’mid  the  waste  and  weeds 
Doth  Nature sow  immortal seeds,

And  scatter over field  and  fen,
Through  tumbling gorge and  babbling glen, 

The seeds of men  o f mighty  deeds,

Seeds  of a thousand  deathless men.

A   thousand  men  of  loftier strain,
O f ampler soul  and  subtler  brain,
By  Nature’s  unexhausted  hand 
Are sown  each  year  in  every  land—

Strong men  and  dow ered  to attain 

The  heights  where  the  immortals stand.

But  many  in  a sordid age 
Yield  up their  birthright  heritage,

And,  scorched  by  traffic  s  poison  breath, 
T h e ir germ  of grandeur  withereth;

For tinsel,  tags  and  equipage 

T h e y   give tneir better  parts  to death.

And  some  forget  their mighty trust,
Through  weakness  mixed  with  human  dust; 

They  burn  with  phosphorescent  tire 
Engendered  in  the slime and  mire;

Are torn  by  tigers  of  their  lust 

And  slain  by  dragons  of desire.

And some from  their high  paths depart 
Through  inborn  cowardice of  heart;
Some fall  unnoticed  in  the  stress,
O f  their unneighbored loneliness;
Some freely  choose the  baser  part,

And  greatness yields  to littleness.

And some whose tainted blood is rife 
With poison at the core of  life,

Who cry,  “ The fault  is  not  in  us!”
But  Fate  will  pause not  to discuss—

They  perish  m the unequal strife 

W  ho  fight with  beasts  at  Ephesus.

And  some send  out their branching  shoots 
But  perish  from  unwatered  roots;

Some,  smit  by  sorrow’s  thunder-stone,
Go down at midnight and alone;

Some, charmed by pleasure’s shawms and flutes, 

Play no  high  music  of their own.

III.

A   thousand  men  were  sown  broadcast— 
Mayhap  but one survives at last; 

lie   shapes  our  thoughts  and rules our ways, 
And  lives an  endless  length  of days,

And  mates  the  n<ig hty  of the  past.

Enshrined  in  Pantheon  pomp of  praise.

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A ye, deathless  is his  very  breath,
For far  his  long thoug ht journeyeth;

But,  ah!  his  termless  life  -  it  springs 
From  the  dark  soil  of  many  deaths.

W e see  the oak  in  all  its  pride.
But  not  the  thousand oaks  that  died;

We see  the  human  demigod,
But not his  peers  beneath  the  sod—

The  lost  unknown  who fell  beside 

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The  Marvins’  Christmas  Tree.

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

There  was  no  doubt  about  Christmas 
in  that  house  that  year.  There  was  no 
work  for  father  and  none  for  brother 
Tom,  and  there  had  been  none  for  three 
months  and  the  cold  weather  was  grow­
ing  colder  every  day  and  they  all  did 
need  everything  so  much.  So  it  was 
simply  out  of  the  question  and  yet,  “ if 
we  only  could  get  something  nice  and 
pretty  and  comfortable  for  Papa  and 
Mama,  and  something  for  Tom  which 
he  wants  and  thinks  he  can’t  .have, 
wouldn’t 
splendid!”   and 
Mary  Marvin—yes,  if  we  go  back  far 
enough  we  shall  find  that  she  belongs  to 
the  Marvins  of  the  good  old  New  Eng­
land  times—and  her  brother  John,  the 
one  thirteen  and  the  other  thirteen,  too, 
were  silent  for  a  little  while,  thinking 
with  all  their  might.

it  be  just 

“ I’ll  tell  you  what  I  might  do,  John, 
and  I  will. 
I’m  going  to  the  Wilming- 
tons'  this  very  minute  and  ask  Mrs. 
Wilmington  to 
let  me  come  every  day 
and  help  about  the  house.  They  have 
lots  to  do,  and  it  comes  just  at  the  very 
time  when  Mama  needs  me 
least. 
Come  on.  Mama,”   she  called,  “ Johnny 
and  I  am  going  up  the  road  a  little 
ways.  We  won’t  be  gone  long;’ ’ and 
away  they  went,  telling  what they would 
do  with  the  money,  “ if  Mrs.  Wilming­
ton  only  would. ”

“ Yes,  and  while  you  are  doing  that, 
what  am  I  to do,  I should like to know?’ ’
“ If  you  were  only  stronger,  John,  you 
might  see  if  anybody  had  any  wood  to 
saw;  but  I’m  afraid  you  couldn’t  do 
that. 
I’ll  tell  you  what  you  might  do: 
see  if  Mr.  Williamson  doesn’t  want you 
to  carry  bundles—no,  you  can't  do  that 
because  you  have  to  go  to  school.”  
Then  with  an  explosion,  "John,  I  know 
what!  and  there’s  time  enough  to  do  it! 
Don’t  you  know  what  a  lot  of  spruce 
are  growing  in  our  north  woods?  Why 
can’t  we  sell  seme  of  them  for  Christ­
mas  trees?  That’s  what  some  children 
did  somewhere  that  I  read  about  and 
they  were  no  older  than  we.  They  cut 
spruce  and  sold  them  and  got  a  lot  of 
money  for  them.  While  I  am  talking 
with  Mrs.  Wilmington,  why  can’t  you 
go  on  to  the  store  and  ask  Mr.  William­
son  what  he  thinks  about  it?  Tell  him 
what  you  want  to  do,  and  I  shouldn’t 
wonder  a  bit  if  he  told  you  to  go  ahead 
—and 
just  the 
same. ’ ’

if  he  doesn’t,  we  can 

So  the  boy  left  his  sister  at  the  Wil­
mington  gate  and  with  a  hope  to glad­
den  his  heart  he  was  not  long  in  reach­
ing  the  village  store.  Of  course,  the 
store  was  full.  A  boy  never  yet  had 
an  idea  which  he  needed  help  in  carry­
ing  out,  without  somebody,  or  several 
of  them,  getting 
in  the  way.  First, 
there  was  a  small  army  of  customers  to 
wait  on,  then  Deacon  Armstrong  had 
something  to  talk  about,  and 
it  did 
seem  as  if  he  never  would  get  through ; 
but  at  last,  when  it  looked  to  poor  John 
as  if  he  should  have  to  go  away  without 
accomplishing  his  object,  the  Deacon 
went  out  and  the  store-keeper turned  to 
him.

“ Well,  boy,  any— ”
“ Mr.  Williamson!  we’ve  got  a  lot  of 
spruces,  and  May  and  I  want  to  cut 
some  of  them  for  Christmas trees.  Will 
you  buy  them ;  and  if not,  won’t  you  see 
if  you  can  sell  them  for  us  in  town?  We 
do  need  the  money  so  much ;  and  May 
and  I  (here  the  boy  went  close  to  the 
store-keeper and  with  upturned  face  be­
gan  to  whisper)  want  to  earn  something 
for  Christmas  presents.  Mama needs— ”  
Here  the  whisper  became  inaudible  ex­

cept  to  Mr.  Williamson,  who,  at  the 
earnest  face  and  the  eyes  bright  with 
something 
looking  suspiciously  like  a 
tear,  bent  down  to  hear  what  the  boy 
was  saying.

He  listened  until 

the  whispering 
stopped.  Then,  putting  his  hand  on 
the  boy’s  head,  he  said :  “ Yes,  1  will. 
You  bring  me  seventy  five  or  a  hundred 
likely  spruces  and  I’ll  give  you  a  dollar 
apiece  for  them.  You’d  better  get  them 
here  by  the  fifteenth,  for  I  shall  want  to 
ship  them  by  that  time.  Do  you  think 
you  can  do  it?”

“ 1  know  I  can!”   and,  with  a  heart 
so  glad  that  he  forgot  to  thank  the 
store-keeper  and  had  to  go  back  to  do 
it,  he  started  for  home  as  fast  as  his 
legs  could  carry  him.  He  had  not  gone 
far  before  Mary  came  in  sight.  Cry­
ing?  As  true  as  I  hope  to  be  remem­
bered  at  Christmas  time,  the  child  was 
crying  as  if  her  heart  would  break,  and 
I  am  convinced  it  would  have  broken 
if  she  had  kept  on  much  longer.  When, 
however,  she  saw  John  on  the  run,  with 
his  face  fairly  glowing  with  the  good 
news  he  had  to  tell,  she  stopped  in  the 
very  middle  of  a  sob,  for  John  gave  a 
tremendous  whoop  which  the  hills  took 
up  and  sent  echoing  down  the  valley.

It  didn’t  take  him 

long  to  tell  his 
story,  and  by  that  time  Mary  didn't 
want  to tell  hers, which  has  already  been 
guessed,  for  there  were  things  more im­
portant  to  talk  about.  Should  they  keep 
—or  try  to  keep—to  themselves 
the 
great  news  and  the  great  undertaking, 
and,  when  Christmas  came,  just  give 
the  family  a  Santa  Claus  visit  which 
they  would  remember  all  their  lives;  or 
would  it  be  better  to  tell  mother  and  so 
save  her  three  weeks  of  planning  to 
make  a  Christmas  of some  sort  for  them 
out  of  nothing?  When  the  thought  came 
of  saving  mother  a  little  worry.it  didn’t 
take  ten  seconds  to  settle  the  question, 
and  by  that  time  it  wouldn’t  have  been 
safe  to  ask  Mary  if  she  bad  been  cry­
ing;  and 
if  her  nose  did  look  like  a 
ripe  red  cherry,  doesn’t a  brisk  walk  on 
a  raw  December  day  sometimes  redden 
noses  as  well  as  cheeks,  I  should  like 
to  know?

Once 

in  sight  of  the  house  and  near 
enough  to  see  their  mother  at  the  win­
dow,  they  could  hold  in  no 
longer,  and 
a  whirlwind  of  swinging  arms  and  fly­
ing  feet  and  ringing  shouts  heralded 
their  coming.  An  open  door  received 
them  and,  in  much 
less  time  than  it 
takes  to  write 
it,  the  good  news  was 
told.

Tom  found  his  tongue  first.
“ Mary  Marvin,you are  a  jewel,  that’s 
what  you  are!  a  genuine  white diamond 
of  the  first  water  without  a  flaw!  And, 
as  for  John,  popsy,  just  as  soon  as  the 
spruces  have  been  cut  and  delivered 
and  paid  for,  you  give  him  a  nickel, 
and  I’ll  give  him  something  be  can’t 
buy  at  the  store  every  day;  won’t  I, 
old  Johnibus?”   and  he  made  such lively 
manifestations  of 
immediate  delivery 
that  Master  John  took  to  bis  heels  at 
once,  while  Mr.  Marvin,  with  a  lighter 
step  than  he  had  had  for  many  a  day, 
went  to  see  if the store-keeper was really 
in  earnest.  There  was  no mistake;  and 
insisted  on  doing 
the  four—for  Mary 
some  excessively  heavy 
looking  on— 
were  not  long  in  getting  to  work.

I  suppose  there  never  was  a  happier 
family  than  the  Marvins  from  that  time 
on—there  couldn’t be.  Every  axe-stroke 
was  a  note  of  praise  and  thanksgiving; 
and,  when  the  last  spruce  was  delivered 
and  Father  Marvin  came  home  with 
one  hundred  dollars,  it  did  seem  alto­
gether  too  good  to  be  true!

N ext  to  the  satisfaction  involved  in  handling

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Then  it  was  that  the  real  fun  began. 
Such  going  about  with 
thought-con­
tracted  eyebrows!  Such  consultations, 
now  here  with  one  and  no»/  there  with 
another,  that  house  had  never  seen  be­
fore.  Only  one  question  was  presented 
and  disposed  of  “ openly  and  above­
board,”   and  that  was  a  Christmas  tree. 
John  said  he  thought  of  it  first;  but  he 
didn’t—t’was  Tom,  although  there  was 
no  discussion  about  it.  There  was  no 
time  for  any. 
It  was  hardly  out  of 
Tom’s  mouth  before  everybody  said 
“ Yes”   with  a promptness that suggested 
a  week’s  drill  at  least;  but,  when  the 
boys  insisted  on going  after  one at once, 
Father  Marvin  suggested  that  they  take 
a  good 
in  the  shed  before  they 
started  for  the  woods.  Sure  enough, 
there  “ It”   was,  the  handsomest  tree  of 
the  lot!

look 

That  tree  didn’t  stay  there  long  if  it 
was  three  or  four  day  before  Christmas. 
Tom  took  it  up  bodily,  and  didn’t  put 
it  down  until  it  was  in  the  little  parlor. 
Then,  when  John  had  been  told  to bring 
in  the  big  block  with  a  hole in  it,  which 
he  would  find 
they  all 
looked  at  “ Popsy”   and  gave  him  the 
credit  of  thinking  first  of  the  home 
tree,  after  all.  So  the  Christmas  tree 
was  put  in  place  and  found  to  be  just 
high  enough  for  the  Christ  Child  to  be 
placed  at  the  top.  John”   just  wished”  
they  had  it  now ;  and  there  stood  Mrs. 
Marvin  with  it  in  her  hand!

in  the  shed, 

“ Well  done,  Mother!”   exclaimed 
Mary. 
"Step  on  this  chair and  put  it 
in  place  your  own  dear  self.  There! 
Isn’t 
it  lovely!  How  I  wish  we  had 
some  candles,  so  we  could  fasten  them 
on  now. * ’

“ Will  these  do?”   asked  Mr.  Marvin 
as  he  unwrapped  a  paper  with  a  full 
supply  of  the  little  beauties.

So  the  candles  were  all  put  on ;  and, 
from  that  time  on,  it  seemed  to  the 
whole  household  as  if  the  out-stretched 
arms  of  the  Bethlehem  Baby  had  indeed 
brought  “ peace  and  good  will  to men.”  
All  through  the 
joyful  preparations  it 
followed  them,and  never  a  gift  was  fas­
tened  to  the  tree  or  placed  beneath  its 
its 
branches  that  the  giver did  not  feel 
silent  benediction.  They 
lighted  the 
candles  and  it  crowned  every flame with 
a  halo.  The  Christmas  fire  was  lighted 
on  the  hearth  and  it  blazed  and  roared 
at  the  shadows  dancing  on  the  w all; 
and  even  the  firelight  seemed  to  catch 
something  from  the  Christ  Child  which 
added  to  the  cheery  welcome  to  those 
who  came 
in—for,  of  course,  the  Mar­
vins  were  not  alone  that  blessed  Christ­
mas  Night.

When  it  was  all  over,  when  the  guests 
were  gone,  the 
lights  put  out  and  the 
house  was  dark  and  still,  Mary  Mar­
vin,  in  the  quiet  of  her  chamber,  think­
ing  of  the  Christmas  time  now  over,  of 
the  friends  and  the  feast,  of  the  fire­
light  and  the  candles,  and  above  all  of 
the  Christ  Child,  crept  softly  down  the 
stairs  to  the  deserted  parlor. 
And 
there,  she  says,  above  the  bead  of  the 
Infant  Christ,  was  penciled  upon  the 
dark  a ring of light as bright,  she thinks, 
as  the  glory  was  that  shone  around  the 
shepherds  as  they  watched  their  flocks 
by  night!

It  may  be  so,  it  may  be  that  she 
dreamed,  but  this  I  know:  the  peace 
and  good  will  that  came  with 
the 
Christmastide  to  the  Marvins  stayed 
with  them;  and  the  prosperous  years 
which  followed—and  they  were  many— 
began  with  them  that  year  when  they 
fastened 
the 
Christmas  tree  and  feasted  with  their 
friends  under  the  shadow  of  its  flame- 
spangled,  gift-burdened  branches.

the  Christ  Child 

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ever  occupied  the  attention  of  mechani­
cal  genius  all  over  the  world  has  made 
such  slow  progress  towards  practical 
utility  as  the  science of ballooning.  The 
stories  of  balloon  ascensions,  the  ex­
periences  and  casualties  of  aeronauts, 
are  the  same  from  year  to  year.  The 
same  foolhardy  daring  of  125  years  ago, 
and  not  a  single  step  nearer  to  any 
practical,  enduring  benefit  to  mankind !
I  do  not  recollect  of  any  attempt  to 
make ballooning  of  practical  use  except 
in  taking  observations 
in  the  field  of 
contending  armies;  and  these  are  only 
ascensions  firmly  anchored  and  could 
not  in  any  sense  be  called  aerial  navi­
gation.  Every  year  brings  the  thrilling 
newspaper  accounts  of  aerial  voyages 
ending 
in  accidents,  and  sometimes 
the  blood-curdling  details  of  a  fall from 
above  the  clouds.

“ Foreign 

From  a  volume  of  newspapers  pub­
in  1786  I  copy  an  account  of  a 
lished 
balloon  ascension  that  took  place 
in 
Edinburgh,  Scotland,  which  reads  very 
like  those  we  get  from  year  to  year  dur­
ing  the  ballooning  season  in  this  coun­
try.  This  is  published  under  the  head­
lines, 
Intelligence  Three 
Months  Later  Than  Any  Before  Re­
ceived.”  
incredible 
that  three  months  could  elapse  between 
arrivals  of  news  from  a  people  with 
whom  we  are 
in  daily  intercourse  at 
this  year  of  our  Lord,  1897.  Under  the 
same  headlines  I  find  news 
items  of 
three  months’  staleness  from  London, 
Berlin,  Amsterdam,  Paris,  Naples  and 
Madrid.  Here is  the  quotation  referred 
to :

It  seems  almost 

Edinburgh,  December  22, 

1786—
Yesterday,  Mr.  Lunardi  made  his  fifth

aerial  voyage  in  Scotland  and  his  sec­
ond.from  Edinburgh.  He  took  his  flight 
from  Heriot’s  Gardens  at  one  o’clock. 
The  balloon  ascended  very 
rapidly, 
passed  over  the  city  and  Carlton  Hill 
at  a  great  height  and,  taking  a  direc­
tion  eastward,  seemed  to  go  towards  the 
Isle  of  May.  The  day  was  clear  and 
•he  was  in  sight  from Carlton  Hill  at two 
o’clock.  This  proved  to  be  the  most 
dangerous  voyage  he had hitherto under­
taken.  He  was  seen  through  a  tele­
scope  to  reach  the  sea  near  Gulliness  to 
the  west  of  Dunbar,  and  three  boats 
were  very  near  him.  This  observation 
was  confirmed  by  the  arrival  in  town 
to-day  of  some  fishermen  who  picked 
up  Mr.  Lunardi.  The  account  they  give 
is  that  he  was  floating  in  his  car  when 
they  set  off to  his  assistance.  Although 
very  near  him,  he  was  dragged  through 
the  sea  by  the  balloon  at  so  great  a  rate 
that 
it  was  three-quarters  of  an  hour 
before  they  came  up  with  him,  when 
they  found  him  up  to  the  breast 
in 
water  and  very  much  benumbed  with 
cold.  When  they  got  up  with  him  he 
was six  miles  from  land.  He  informed 
them  of  his  anxiety  to  save  bis  balloon ; 
but,  unfortunately,  when  Mr.  Lunardi 
left  the  car and  went  into  the  boat,  the 
balloon,  relieved  of  his  weight  and  not 
being  properly  secured,  arose  with 
great  rapidly,  carrying  the  car  and  con­
tents, 
including  Mr.  Lunardi  s  great­
coat  and  hat.  His  sword,  being  in  his 
hand  when  drawn  into  the  boat,  was 
saved  and  he  presented  it  to  the  fisher­
men  as  a  token  of  their being  bis  pre­
servers.  They  presented  it  this  day  to 
the  Council  Chamber,  and  were  suitably 
rewarded  for  delivering  Mr.  Lunardi 
from  his  perilous  situation.

W.  S.  H.  W e l t o n .

Apropos  of  the  new  spider  silk,  a 
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covered  in  an  old  book  on  color,  dated 
1814,  an  account  of  attempts  to  promote 
spider  silk  culture,  which failed because 
the 
spiders,  when  brought  together, 
fought  to  the  death  down  to  the  last sur­
vivor.

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sold 
is  $243,810  in“excess  of  last  year. 
Moreover  during  the  season  of  heaviest 
production,  he  was  getting  prices  that 
were  t}4c  more  than  in  1896;  while  his 
Septemher-October  stock,  which 
is  al­
in  amount  than  the 
ways  much 
earlier  make,  sold  at  only  i 
discount 
from 
The  advantage  is 
therefore  on  the  side  of  the  heavier 
make  of  the  early  season and  of the  year 
as  compared  with  iSq6.

last  year’s. 

Further  comparison  shows  that  this 
advantage 
is  not  confined  to  last  year 
alone.  The  transactions  are  also  11,928 
boxes 
laiger  than  they  were  in  1895, 
while  the  average  price  is  .00622  better 
than 
in  that  year,  and  the  total  value 
$136.600  more.  Dairymen 
certainly 
ought  not  to  feel  discouraged  by  such 
results  as  these,  and  yet  many  of  them 
seem  to  feel  that,  because  their Septem­
ber  stock  sold  lower  than that of August, 
the  whole  market  has  gone  to  pieces.  If 
every  year  could  be  a  repetition  of  this 
vear,  and  the  heavy  production  of  the 
summer  months  could  be  sold  at  high 
prices  as  compared  with  the  smaller 
make  of  the  fall  months,  the  dairvmen 
of  this  country  would  be  thousands  of 
dollars better off each  year.  The  com­
bined  sales  at  Utica  and  Little  Falls
very  nearly  reach  two  millions  of  dol­
lars,  the  actual  figures  being  $1,004,646. 
What  other  branch  of  farming  in  this 
section  can  begin  to  show  such  a  record 
of  actual  cash  received  as  this?

All  kinds  of

V EGETABLES

Cranberries
Grapes
Celery
Onions
Apples
Potatoes -- Beaps - Gpiops

Ask  for  prices  upon  carlots  or less.

The Vinkemulder Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

M O S E L E Y B R O S . .  

*’

Established  1876. 

Wholesale  Seeds,  Potatoes,  Beans,  Fruits.

Harris & Frutchey

Wholesale  Commission  Merchants

Are  a  good  firm  to  ship  B u tter and  E ggs to.

from  a 

60  Woodbridge St.,  W ., 

Detroit,  Mich.

14

Fruits and  Produce.

Dime  Museum  Methods 
Trade.  -

From the Sew York Butchers' Advocate.

in  the  Meat 

A 

An  old  Oshkosh  butcher  who  was  in 
New  York  last  week  on  a  visit  stood 
in 
front  of  a  butcher  shop  in open-mouthed 
amazement,  and  finally  gasped :  “ What 
is  this?  A  bunco  game  or  a  circus?”  
The  old  gentleman's  question 
is  ex­
cusable. 
Instead  of  seeing  a  neat-look­
ing  store,  with  a  smiling  proprietor  in­
side,  he  saw  an  array  of  blue  and  red 
lettered  signs,  with  a 
fierce-visaged 
man  standing 
in  the  doorway  of  the 
market  glaring  at  the  proprietor  of  a 
rival  shop  across  the  way.  He  saw  the 
man  across  the  street  rapidly  tear  down 
a  sign  which  said,  “ Chopped  beef, 
io 
cents  a  pound. ’ ’  By  and  by  he  reap­
peared  with  the  sign  and  hung  it  up 
again,  but  this  time  it  said,  “ Chopped 
beef,  9  cents  per  pound.”   Then  the 
butcher  who  had  first  attracted  his  at­
tention  rushed 
into  the  store  and  was 
hid  by  the  signs  for  a  moment,  and 
when he reappeared he hung up a placard 
saying,  “ Chopped  beef,  8  cents  per
pound.”   Bv  this  time  the  man  from 
Oshkosh  was 
interested,  and  began  to 
soliloquize  on  what  the  business  once 
was  and 
its  present  position.  He  was 
awakened  from  his  reverie  by the clang­
ing  of  a  gong,  and  turned  to  see  a 
wagon  coming  along  the  avenue. 
It 
had  white  muslin  sides  covered  with 
letters  a  foot  long,  and  he  read:  “ Go 
to  Getpoor’s  Giveaway  Beef  Company. 
Souvenirs  with  every  order. 
Chuck 
steak  6  pounds  for  a  quarter.  A  pound 
of  fat  free  with  each  pound  of  meat. 
Meat  for  your  cat  and  dog  free  when 
asked  for. 
two-pound  soup  bone 
free  with  5  cents’  worth  of  soup  meat. 
Chopped  beef,  7 cents  per  pound.  Don't 
forget  the  number.  Come.  Your  car 
fare  refunded.  We  also  give  trading 
stamps.”   The  <~>shkosh butcher  pinched 
himself to  see  if  he was dreaming,  shook 
his  head  sadly,  grasned  his  pockethook 
tightly,  and  started  for  home,  whistling 
softlv  to  himself  as  he  took  a  parting 
glance  at  the  rival  butchers,  “ It  don’t 
seem 
like  the  same  old  smile. ”   The 
above  is  a  faithful  picture  of  the  retail 
butcher  business  as  it  is  conducted 
in 
New  York  and  Brooklvn  to-dav,  told  in 
a  wav  that  makes  the  situation  clearer 
and  is  at  the  same  time  entertaining. 
And  the  butchers  sav  thev  cannot  make 
money !  Great  Scott!  how  can  they  ex­
pect  to  when  thev  sell  their  meat  for 
less  money ofttimes than  thev  pav  for it? 
The  man  who  s“lls 6  pounds  of  chuck 
steak  for  25 cents  is a blank  fool,  and the 
man  who  sells  chopped  meat  for  8  cents 
is  a  driveling  idiot.  Time  and  again 
we  hear  the  complaint,  “ We  cannot 
make  money  at  the  price  we  have  to 
pav:“  and  each  time  we  have  said. 
“ Advance  vour  prices  so  that  vou  can 
realize  a  fair  profit.”   We  have  advised 
our  readers  to  steer shv  of  the  trading 
stamp  scheme;  some  of  them  have. 
Now  thev  are  wallowing  in  the  souvenir 
and  premium  mire. 
Instead of  advanc­
ing  prices,  thev  are  cutting  them. 
In­
stead  of  cultivating  the  social  spirit 
thev  should,  thev  are  becoming  filled 
with  animositv,  one  for  the  other.  Get 
together,  gentlemen.  Cease  this  dime 
museum  wav  of  doing  business.  Turn 
vour  trading  stamp  sign  to  the  wall, 
hide  your  souvenirs  under  the  bench, 
give  honest  weight,  get  a  fair  price  tor 
vour  meat  and  make  the  retail  butcher 
business  the  dignified  one  it  once  was.

The  Season’s  Dairy  Trade.

From the Utica Herald.

Whatever  disappointment  the  dairy­
men  of  Central  New  York  mav  have felt 
over  the  decline  in  the  price  of Septem­
ber  and  October  cheese  this  vear,  the 
fact  remains  that  the  cheese  dairyman 
is  much  better  off  this  vear  than  he  has 
The  Utica  dairy 
been 
since  1804. 
board  has  closed 
its  sessions,  and  the 
annual  report of  the Secretary shows that 
the  amount  of  cheese  sold  this  year  is 
40,435  boxes  more  than  last  vear,  the 
average  price  for  the  season  is  nearly 
two-fifths  of  a  cent  higher  than 
last 
year,  and  the  total  value  of  the  cheese

The  Export  Butter  Trade 
Canadian  Standpoint.

From the Montreal Trade Bulletin.

Despite  the  advices  from  England, 
both  by  cable  and  mail,  predicting  a 
in  the  butter  market,  prices 
decline 
there  have  continued  steadily  to  ad­
vance,  and  shippers  here  have  been 
quietly  picking  up  all  the  finest October 
and  winter  creameries  they  could  se­
cure  at  pretty  firm  prices  sales  being 
reported  of  a  number  of  factories.at 
t8l^c  to 
iSjjfC,  and  we  hear of  10c to 
19tic having  been  paid  for  choice  win­
ter  made  creameries.  Stocks here  are 
light,  and  there  appears  to be  no  great 
accumulation  of  late  makes  at  the  fac­
tories. 
In  fact,  it  is  reported  that  the 
bulk  of  this  month’s  butter  has  already 
been  secured.  The total  exports  for  the 
«eason  of  navigation,as stated  by  us  last 
week,  were  208,212  packages  as  com­
pared  with  157,907  packages  for  the 
corresponding  period  last  year,  showing 
an 
increase  of  50.30c  packages.  The 
New  York  market  is  firm,  and  it  now 
seems  that  the  United  States  will  have 
scarcely  any  to  spare  for  export,  conse­
quently  anv  demand  from  the  other  side 
will  have  to  be  supplied  by  Canada, 
whose  stocks  will  not take  ’ong  to  de­
plete  if  the  foreign  enquiry  assumes anv 
large  dimensions. 
It  was  stated  to  the 
writer  bv  a  Western  shipper  that  be  had 
received  returns  from  England  of  a  lot 
of  choice  October  creamery,netting  him 
19J^c  at  point  of  shipment.  There  is 
still  a  lot  of  early  made  creamery  held 
here,  which  is  difficult  to  dispose  of,  as 
the  chief  demand,  both for  the  local  and 
export  trade,  is  for the  finest  qualities. 
There  can  be  no  question  that  our  but­
ter  trade  with  Great  Britain  might  be 
four  or  five  times 
its  present  dimen­
sions,  and  now  that  cold  storage  facili­
ties  are  provided  by  rail  and  ocean 
transportation  during 
summer,  there 
should  be  no  difficulty  in  doubling  our 
exports  next  season.

Unconscious  Sarcasm.

From the Omaha Bee.

A  clergyman  famous  for  bis  begging 
abilities  was  once  catechising  a  Sunday 
school.  When  comparing  himself—the 
pastor  of  a  church—to  a  shepherd  and 
his  congregation  to  the  sheep,  he  put 
the  iollowing  question  to  the  children:
‘ What  does  the  shepherd  do  for  the 
sheep?”

To  the  amusement  of  those  present  a 

small  boy  in  the  front  row  piped  out:

‘ Shears  them!”   .

An 

investigation  of  the  spread  of 
diphtheria  among  the  pupils  of the pub­
lic  schools  of  Baltimore  has  led  to  the 
conclusion  that  it  is  largely  caused  by 
the  indiscriminate  use  of  pens  and  pen­
cils.

M IL L E R   &   T E A S D A L E   C O .

O R A N G E jS  "Eouc.
601   N O R TH   T H IR D   S T ., 

W e have  ioo  cars  La Barca  and  Sonora Oranges rolling,  which can 

be diverted to any point;  wire for prices.

S T .  L O U IS ,  M O.

We are  in the market to buy

P E A S,  B E A N S,  PO T A T O E S

Onions and Onion  Sets, Clover Seed,  Allsyke,  Pop Corn,  etc.

If any to offer, Telephone, Wire or Write us, stating quantity.

ALFRED J.  BROWN SEED CO.,

24 and  26 North  Division  St., 

GRAND  RAPIDS.

M I C H I G A N   G R O W N  
N O R T H E R N   S P I E S .  

CAPE  COD  CRANBERRIES.

Sweet  Potatoes,  Red  and  Yellow  Onions,  Spanish  Onions, 

Honey,  Lemons,  Oranges,  Bananas.

BUNTING  &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids.

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Fibre
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Manufacturers  of  packages 
for  marketing  Lard,  Jelly, 
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Cereals,  etc.  Pay  for  them­
selves 
in  securing  higher 
prices.  Always clean and at­
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Cheaper  than  packages  now 
used.

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BUTTER.  EGGS.  POULTRY,  FRUITS  AND  VEGETABLES

Oar  Loti: 

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Bean  Picking  Machinery.

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Wholesale  Grocers  and

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CHEESE,  BUTTER  and  EGGS.  Consignments  Solicited.

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 
Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Dec.  u — Contrary  to  the 
general  run  of  the  market  for  several 
weeks  past,  we  have  a  firm  tone  to 
coffee. 
It  may  be  only  spasmodic,  and 
certainly  there  can  be  no  appreciation 
of  rates,  but  at  the  moment  we  have  to 
report  a  better  run  of  enquiries,  both  by 
mail  and  wire,  and  from  many  paits  ot 
the  country.  Rio  No.  7  closes  at  6%c. 
The  amount  in  store  and  afloat is 1,028,- 
000  bags,  against  645,000  bags  a  year 
ago,  when  the  price  was  10c,  and  I4%c 
two  years  ago.  Foreign  advices  have 
been encouraging  and  altogetner  dealers 
are  in  a  happier  frame  ot  mind  than lor 
some  time.  Mild  sorts  are  steady  and 
the  quality  of  recent  arrivals  is  very de­
sirable.  The  tea  market,  too,  is  gener­
ally  reported  by  the  jobbing  trade  in 
more  satisfactory  condition  and  the  bet­
ter  grades  especially  are  active.  Orders 
have  been  numerous  enough  to  warrant 
one 
is  a  staple 
Christmas  article.  The  recent  advance 
in  silver  has  created  a  firmer  market 
abroad  and  the  situation  is  rather  more
encouraging  all  around  than  for  several 
weeks.

in  believing  that  tea 

in 

filling  orders, 

Refined  sugar  has  been  in  fair request 
and,  while  no  delay  has  been  experi­
enced 
the  market 
closes  strong  and  the  general  tone  is en­
couraging.  There  is no  apparent  buying 
ahead  of  wants,  but  the  everyday  trade 
is  flourishing.  Granulated 
is  without 
change  in  the  list  price,  which  has been 
5c  for  a  long  time.
While  Southern  markets  are  reported 
strong,  the  rice  situation  here 
is  one 
is  rather  depressing,  at  least  as 
that 
compared  with  a  month  ago.  A  few 
lots  are  moving,  but  this  matter 
small 
of  “ peddling”   is  not  just  the  most  sat­
isfactory  thing  in  the  world  for  dealers. 
They  want  a  “  hustling market. ”   Prime 
to  choice,  SH^SMc.
Pepper  and  cloves  have  been  in  good 
demand  and  the  whole  market  is strong­
er  than  for  some  time.  There  has  been 
no  appreciable  advance  in  quotations, 
but  buyers  do  not  haggle  over  rates. 
The  invoice  rate  on  Singapore  pepper 
is  7%<&7l4 c ;  West Coast,  7@7%c;  Zan­
zibar  cloves,  5&@5^c.

While  no  advance  has  taken  place, 
there  is  a  stronger  feeling 
in  molasses 
and  orders  have  been  decidedly  more 
numerous  than  for  some time past.  This 
is  practically  true  of  foreign,  as  well  as 
domestic,  although  there 
is  no  great 
abundance  of  the  former  here.  Prime 
to  fancy  New  Orleans  open-kettle 
is 
quotable at 2q@30C ; Porto Rico,  26@33c.
interest  has  been  manifested 
in  syrups.  Some  lots  of  good  quality 
went  off  at  satisfactory  figures,  but  the 
general  market 
is  slow  and  there  will 
probably  be  a  dull  condition  of  affairs 
until  after  the  holidays,  as  dealers  are 
generally  seeking  to  reduce  stocks  at 
this  time.

Little 

Oranges  from  California  and  Florida 
have  both  sold  freely and  at good prices. 
The  latter are  well  cleaned  up  and  ar­
rivals  are  quickly  taken.  Lemons  are 
dull.  Bananas  are  not  in  large  supply 
and  are  held  at  $ i @ i . o 5  per  bunch  for 
firsts.  Florida  oranges  are  worth  *3@ 
4.50  per  box.

is  this  true  ot 

Canned  goods  are generally  firm,  and 
especially 
tomatoes. 
Leading  vegetables  are  selling  at  re­
cent  quotations  and  there  seems  to  be  a 
better  supply  of  peas  than  other  sorts. 
The  general  situation  is  a  waiting  one.
Dried  fruits  are  quiet  and  dealers 
seem  to  have  supplied  themselves  for 
the  holidays.

The  butter  trade  is  very  quiet.  Best 
Western  creamery  is  held  at  24c,  but  a 
good  deal  of  defective  stock  is arriving.
little  more 
movement 
in  way  of  export,  but,  as  a 
general  thing,  the  market  is  very  quiet. 
Small  full  cream,  8#@8>£c.

In  cheese, 

Desirable  Western  eggs  command  23 
@24c.  The  market  is  firm  and  receipts 
of  good  goods  are  light.

there 

is  a 

Eggs  by  the  Million.

Prom the Pall Mall Gazette.

Germany,  next  to  Great  Britain,  is, 
according  to  enquiries  that  have  re-

cently  been  made  by  the  United  States 
Consul  at Stuttgart,  the  largest consumer 
of  eggs  in  Europe.  By  the  statistics  of 
.1890,  50,000,000  chickens  were  reported 
in  the  Empire,  and 
it  was  estimated 
that  3,500,000,000  eggs  were  supplied 
from  this  source,  besides  which  there 
was  an 
import  of  176,368,000  pounds, 
valued  at  £3,500,000.  In  1896  there  was 
an  import  ot  196,209,400  pounds,  valued 
at  £4,000,000.

Against  this 

dampness,  causing  a 

importation,  after  deducting 

import  we  find  in  1890 
an  export  of  only  170,173,254  lbs.  Eggs 
are  usually  imported  in  cases,  weighing 
about  220  lbs.  containing  an  average  of
I, 440  eggs  each. 
It  appears  that  the 
net 
the 
small  export,  amounts  to  about  1,520,- 
000,000  eggs.  From  the  whole  importa­
tion  equaling  about  187,391,000  lbs., 
Austria-Hungary  furnishes  about  83,- 
774,800  lbs.  or  680,000,000 eggs;  Italy,
II, 023,000  lbs.  or  90,000,000  eggs;  Hol­
land,  2,204,600  lbs.  equal  to  18,000,000 
eggs,  and  other  countries  1,984,140  lbs. 
equaling  15,000,000  eggs. 
Following 
these  figures  further,  it  would  give  a 
consumption  of  about  100  eggs  a  year 
for  each  inhabitant  of  the  Empire.
Mr.  Johnson,  the United  btates  Con­
sul,  says  that  the  only  reason  he  can 
discover  why  Germany  does riot produce 
ufficient  eggs  for her own consumption, 
is  obliged  to  pay  from 
and  why  she 
£3,500,000  to  £4,000,000 a  year  tor eggs 
imported  from  other  countries, is the  ex­
cessive 
large 
mortality  among  young  chickens,  and 
the  further  fact  that  large  districts  are 
occupied  by  extensive  estates. 
In  all 
districts  are  to  be  found  wholesale  deal­
ers 
in  eggs,  who  buy  up  all  small  lots 
offered  and  pack  and  prepare  them  tor 
the  large  markets. 
It  is  interesting  to 
note  the  difference 
in  weight  in  eggs 
imported.  We  find  1,000 Austrian  eggs 
averaging  no  lbs.;  the  Russian  eggs 
average  105 
lbs.  ;  whereas  the  Italian 
eggs  rise  to  118  lbs.  per  1,000.  There 
being  also  an  extensive  importation  of 
dressed  and  live  fowls  and  feathers  into
the  country,  it 
is  estimated  that  Ger­
many  pays  yearly  for  fowls,  and  prod­
ucts  therefrom,  a  sum  considerably  ex­
ceeding  £5,000,000.
Peculiar  Requests  from  Customers.
A  lady  came  into  a  grocery  store  one 
morning  and  purchased  a  supply  of gro­
ceries,  among  the  articles  being  a  large 
roast  of  beef  which  the  dealer  was  very 
careful  to  trim  and  roll  just  to  suit  her. 
The  goods  were  sent  to  the  house,  and 
everything  was  supposed  to  be  satisfac­
tory.  Late 
in  the  afternoon,  however, 
the  woman  returned  with  the  meat  and 
said  she  wanted  the  item  scratched  off 
her  account.  On  being  asked  what  the 
trouble  was  with  the  roast,  she  said  the 
beef  was  all  right,  but  when  she  bought 
it  she  expected  company;  the  company 
didn’t  come,  and  so  she  thought  she 
would  bring  the  roast  back.  This  was 
a  “ roast”   on  the  grocer,  which  he  had 
to  take  with  assumed  good  grace  or  else 
lose  a  desirable  customer.

The  grocer  bad  not  recovered  from 
the  shock  when  in  walked  another  wom­
an  with  a  package.  She  sweetly  in­
formed  him  that  it  was  some  butter  she 
had  bought  the  day  before.  As  her 
butter  man  had  been 
in  that  morning 
she  bad  no  use  for  this  butter,  and  be 
would  please  take  it  back  and  erase  the 
item  from  her  bill. 
“ It  is  things  like 
these,”  said  the  grocer,  4  that make  you 
warm  under  the collar  these  cool  days. ’ ’

Keeping  Crackers  Crisp.

is 

Complaints  are  frequently  heard  that 
crackers  bought  at  grocery  stores  are 
soggy  and  stale-tasting,  even  when com­
paratively  fresh.  The  fault 
in  the 
way  they  are  kept.  Crackers  demand a 
warm,  dry  place,  and  they  should  not 
be  stored  near oil,  fish  or  other  strong­
smelling  goods.  Great  care  should  be 
exercised  by  grocers 
in  this  respect. 
The  cracker  trade  is  one  of the most im­
portant  features  of  a  retail  grocery busi­
ness,  and 
it  should  be  taken  care  of. 
Crackers  should  be  kept,  as  stated,  in 
a  warm,  dry  place  and  customers should 
be  advised  to  place  them  in  the  oven  a 
few  minutes  before  using.  This  will  re­
store  their  crispness,  even  although they 
have  become  damp and  soggy.

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Who  gets  the  .  .  .

Oyster Trade?

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

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

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

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

How  a  Grocer  Increased  the  Sale  of 

His  Own  Brands.

Stroller in Grocery World.

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If 

isn’t  oiten  you  meet  a  grocer  who 
will  admit  a  defeat. 
in  his  experi­
ence  he  has  had  a  favorite  scheme, 
which  in  operation  has  gone  wrong,  he 
usually  conceals  it.  But  last  week  I 
met  a  grocer,  and  a  good  one,  who  had 
had  a  favorite  scheme,  and  who  had 
failed  ignominiously  with  it.  He  dis­
cussed  the  thing  frankly  with  me,  and 
told  me  why,  in  his  opinion,  it  failed.
This  grocer  has  been  in  business  for 
about  ten  years,  in  the  same  town where 
he  is  now.  When  he  first  opened  his 
place,  ten  years  ago,  he  wasn’t  any  too 
well  known  in  the  place,  and  he  ought 
to  have  considered  that  that  fact  was  a 
weakness 
in  the  starting  of  any  new 
scheme.  But  he  didn’t,  and  that’s  why 
the  scheme  failed.

"When  l  first  started 

in  business,”  
said  this  grocer to  me,  " I   made  up  my 
mind  to  go  on  a  different  plan  from the 
usual  one.  The  way 
looked  at  the 
thing  was  that  the  retail  grocer  as  a 
rule  was  picked  on  by  the  manufactur­
er,  and  forced  to  sell  his  goods  whether 
he  wanted  to  or  not. 
I  resolved  to  be 
independent.  No  manufacturer  should 
bully  me  into  selling  goods.  For  a  long 
while  I  couldn’t  think  of  any  way  to 
reach  this end,  but at  last  I  decided  that 
I  shouldn’t  sell  anybody’s  brands  but 
my  own. 
In  other  words  the  package 
coffee  and  the  baking  powder  and  so 
on  which  I  would  sell  should  all  be 
under  my  own  brands. 
I  would  know 
personally  about  the  quality  of  the 
goods,  I  argued,  the  people  would  have 
confidence 
in  me,  and  in  a  little  while 
I'd  have  a  nice  little  trade  in  my  own 
brands,  in  which  I’d  have  no  compe­
tition.  So  I  had  a  whole  lot  of  things 
packed  under  my  own  labels,  and  made 
a  specialty  of  that  in  my  advertising. 
The  store 
looked  well  that  first  day; 
there  s  no  doubt  about  that.  My  goods 
were  new,  of  course,  and  most  of  the 
labels  were  bright—made  so,  so  that 
they  would  catch  the  eye.”

The  grocer  left  for  a  moment  to  wait 

on  a  customer.

I  had 

’ W ell.”   I  said,  when  he  returned, 
"you  had  just  gotten  to  the  point  where 
the  scheme  was  to  succeed  or  fail.”

"W ell,  it  failed,”   he  said,  without 
circumlocution,  "and  I  was  to  blame 
for  it,  too.  You  see,  I  was  young  in 
the  town,  and  while  I  had  a  good  repu­
tation  among  those  who  knew  me,  I 
wasn’t  known  very.  well.  So  that  when, 
in  recommending  my  private  brands  of 
goods,  I  would 
lay  stress  on  ’ I  put  my 
whole  reputation  on  the  quality  of  these 
goods, ’  there  would  seem  to  be  some­
lacking.  One  woman  made  me 
th ing 
feel  mighty  cheap  one  day. 
just 
told  her  that  I  put  my  whole  reputation 
back  of  some  baking  powder  I  was  sell­
ing,  when  she  coolly  asked: 
‘ Where  is 
your  reputation?’ 

I  felt  like  a  fool.

"N o,  the  scheme  didn’t  work,”   he 
went  cn,  reminiscently.  “ People  would 
come  in  for a  certain  brand  of  bottled 
pickles. 
I  would  elaborately  explain 
that  I  didn’t  keep them,  but 1 had  others 
of  my  own  just  as  good,  etc.,  etc.,  etc., 
but  it  didn’t  seem  to  go,  somehow.  The 
other  goods  had  a  reputation  and  the 
people  wanted  them,  and  they  wouldn’t 
be  satisfied  with  anything  else. 
I’m 
speaking generally now.  Lots of times  I 
got  people  to  take  my  goods  when  they 
came  in  the  store  intending  to buy some 
big  advertised  brand,  but  I  didn't  get 
everybody  to  do  it,  even  while  I  knew 
positively  that  my  own  brand  was 
cheaper  and  purer  than  the  better 
known.

‘ ‘ I  had  sworn  that  I  would never  sell 
any  of  the  big  advertised  brands,  but  I 
had  to  go  back  on  what  I  said.  One  of 
my  customers,  a 
lady  whose  trade  was 
vaulable,  included  in  her  order  one  day 
a  quantity  of  a  certain  sort  of  baking 
powder. 
I  told  her,  what  she  already 
knew,  that  I  didn’t  keep  it,  and  why, 
and  that  I  did  keep  a  better grade  of 
my  own,  and so  on.  The  talk  had  often 
worked  with  her  before,  but  it  didn’t 
this  time.

”   ‘ 1  must  h ave-----, ’  she  said. 

‘ It’s
not  that  I  believe  yours 
isn’t  just  as 
good,  but  I’ve  got  a  new  girl,  and  she 
says  she  won't  use  any  other. 
I’ve  had

so  much  trouble  over  help  that  I'm  go­
ing  to  humor  her.  So  will  you  sell  it 
to  me,  or  shall  1  go  somewhere  else?'
"W ell,  that  was  the  entering  wedge. 
I  had  to  get  the  baking  powder  for  her; 
there  was  no  way  out  of  it.  And  after  1 
had  yielded  once  the  next  time  1  was 
approached 
it  was  easier,  and  so  I 
gradually  drifted,  until  1  was  handling 
quite  a 
fair  sprinkling  of  outside 
brands.  And  then  a  strange  thing  hap­
pened.  As  soon  as  I  began  to  do  this  I 
noticed  that  the  demand  for  my  own 
increased.  I  laid  that  to  this:  You  see, 
if  a  grocer  is  asked  for  a  certain brand, 
and  he  hasn't  got  it,  there  is  a  strong 
motive  when  he  recommends  his  own  or 
some  other.  But  when  he  has  what  is 
asked  for,  and  is  presumably  making  a 
profit  on  it,  and  he  can  put  it  and  his 
own  side  by  side,  then  he  can  talk  with 
more  reason.  He  can  say  that  he  knows 
the  ingredients  of  both,  and  that  his 
is 
by  far the  purer  and  better,  and  he  will 
be  believed.  On  the  other  hand,  if  he 
only  has  his  own,  he'll  be  disbelieved  a 
good  deal  of  the  time.  See?

There 

in  all 

"A s   soon  as  I  recognized  this  fact,  I 
laid 
in  a  number  of  the  best-known 
brands 
lines,  and  began  to  re­
double  my  efforts  to  get  my  own  on  a 
firm  footing.  And  I’ve  worked  on  that 
line  ever  since.  Take  Royal  baking 
powder. 
is  on  that  shelf. 
Right  below  it,  at  2  cents  a  can  less,  is 
my  own, which  is  the  better baking pow­
der  by  far.  I’ve  had  ’em  both  analyzed, 
so  I  know.  And  I  have  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  I  sell  more  of  my  own 
brands  of  things  than  I  do  of  any  ad­
vertised  brands.  Of  course,  my  repu­
tation  has  increased.  People  know that 
I  try  to  do  the  square  thing  by  them.”
This  is  rather  curious,  isn’t  it?  The 
thought  that  a  man  can  sell  more  of  his 
own  goods  by  having  those  of  somebody 
else  to  push  them  is  peculiar.  But  this 
grocer  ought  to  know.

it 

How  Worry  Affects  the  Brain.
Modern  science  has  brought  to 

light 
nothing  more  curiously  interesting  than 
the  fact  that  worry  will  kill.  More 
remarkable  still,  it  has  been  able  to  de­
termine,  from  recent  discoveries,  just 
how  worry  does  kill.
It  is  believed  by  many  scientists  who 
have  followed  most  carefully  the  growth 
of  the  science  of  brain  diseases  that 
scores  of  the  deaths  set  down  to  other 
causes  are  due  to  worry,  and  that alone. 
The  theory  is  a  simple  one—so  simple 
that  anyone  can  readily  understand 
it. 
Briefly  put,  it  amounts  to  this:  Worry 
injures  beyond  repair  certain  cells  of 
the  brain;  and  the  brain  being  the 
nutritive  center  of  the  body,  the  other 
organs  become  gradually  injured,  and 
when  some  disease  of  these  organs,  or 
a  combination  of  them,  arises,  death 
finally  ensues.

Thus  does  worry  kill. 

Insidiously, 
like  many  another  disease,  it  creeps 
upon  the  brain  in  the  form  of  a  single, 
constant,  never-lost 
idea;  and,  as  the 
dropping  of  water  over  a  period of years 
will  wear  a  groove  in  a  stone,  so  does 
worry  gradually,  imperceptibly,  but  no 
less  surely,  destroy  the  brain  cells  that 
lead  all  the  rest—that  are,  so  to  speak, 
the 
commanding  officers  of  mental 
power,  health  and  motion.

Worry,  to  make  the  theory still strong­
irritant  at  certain  points, 
er, 
which  produces  little  harm  if  it  comes 
at  intervals  or 
irregularly.  Occasional 
worrying  of  the  system  the  brain  can 
cope  with,  but  the  iteration  and  reitera­
tion  of  one  idea  of  a disquieting  sort the 
cells  of  the  brain  are  not  proof  against. 
It  is  as  if  the  skull  were  laid  bare  and 
the  surface  of  the  brain  struck  lightly 
with  a  hammer  every  few  seconds,  with 
mechanical  precision,  with  never  a sign 
of  let-up,  or  the  failure of  a  stroke.

in  this  way  does  the  annoying 
idea,  the  maddening  thought  that  will 
not  be  done  away  with,  strike  or  fall 
upon  certain  nerve  cells,  never  ceasing, 
and  week  by  week  diminishing  the  vi­
tality  of  these  delicate  organisms  that 
are  so  minute  that  they  can  only be seen 
under  the  microscope.

is  an 

Just 

It  requires  over 600,000  cattle  yearly 
to  provide  the  many  beef  extracts  on 
the  market.

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

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

Every  grocer should have it  in  stock. 

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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  will  be 
displeased and avoid you 
afterwards. 
You  can 
guarantee.  . .

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  &  CO.,  Allegan,  Mich.

Michigan  trade supplied  by  the 

Olney  & Judson  Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rapids.

“Lily W hite” Flour

We authorize you  to  do 
so.  It makes good bread 
every  time.  One  sack 
sold  to-day  will  bring 
customers for two  sacks 
later  on.  Order  some 

Valley City Milling Co.

NOW.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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We have no time to tell  long stories, but have all we can  do  to 
mind our own business.  16 ounces in a pound,  12  good  eggs  in  a 
dozen—that's the way we sell and  make our returns.

C.  M. Drake sells butter from 7 a. m. until 6 p. m.
J.  R. Jarrett sells poultry and eggs all the time.
Billy  Brice looks after the finances and  leads the procession.

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Gripsack  Brigade.

Handsome 

invitations  to  the  Kala­
mazoo 
convention  of  the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  have  been  issued 
by  the  committees  having  the entertain­
ment  in  charge.

S.  T.  Bowen,  who  has  been  laid  up 
for  several  months  with  rheumatism  of 
the  most  aggravated  form,  is  again  on 
the  warpath,  having  discovered  a  spe­
cific 
in  the  preparation  of  a  Boston 
specialist.

Geo.  Noble,  salesman 

for  the  Estey 
Manufacturing  Co. 
(Owosso),  who  is 
spending  a  short  vacation  at  home,  is 
confined  to  the  house  by  a  painful 
sprain  of  the  foot  which  he  sustained 
by  tripping  on  the  stairs.

R.  P.  Bigelow,  State  agent  for  the 
Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,  was  in 
Grand  Rapids  Monday  and  Tuesday  for 
the  purpose  of  meeting  prospective 
salesmen  and  making  his  plans  for  the 
covering  of the  Western  portion  of  the 
State.

J.  F.  Wildermuth,  proprietor  of  the 
Hotel  Wildermuth,  Owosso,  has 
invi­
tations  out  for an  8  o’clock  dinner  Fri­
day  evening,  Dec.  17.  Dancing  will 
be  complimentary  to  the  traveling  men 
and 
their  wives  of  that  city.  The 
Owosso  fraternity  numbers  about  half 
a  hundred.  Mr.  Wildermuth  is  always 
at  the  front  when  the  commercial  trav- 
ler  is  interested.  “ The  best  is  none  too 
good  for  the  boys,”   is  bis  motto.

General  Passenger  Agent  Smith,  of 
the  Lake  Shore,  who  never  misses  an 
opportunity  to  insult  the  traveling  men 
and  who  stated  at  the  recent  meeting  of 
Michigan  railway  managers  and  pas­
senger agents  that  the Klondike mileage 
book  was  everywhere  hailed  with  de­
light,  except 
finds 
that  the  traveling  men  of  Ohio  are quite 
as  strongly  opposed  to  the  book  as  was 
the  case  with  their  Michigan  fraters. 
There  a ie   none  so  blind  as  those  who 
won’t  see.

in  Michigan,  now 

The  announcement  made  at  the  meet­
ing  of  Post  E  (Grand  Rapids)  Saturday 
evening,  to  the  effect  that  the  Michigan 
railroads  had  finally  conceded  the  re  * 
quest  of  the  traveling  men  and  would 
give  them  an  acceptable  mileage  book 
on  or  about  Jan.  1,  immediately  met the 
hearty  recognition  of  those  present  and 
is  everywhere  receiving  the  commenda­
tion  of  the  fraternity.  The  agitation 
for  a  better  book  than  the  Klondike 
mileage  has  been  steady  and  persistent, 
and  to  the  concerted  effort  of  the  travel­
ing  fraternity  as  a  class  is  due  the  con­
cession  now  obtained.  The  Tradesman 
takes  to 
itself  a  small  portion  of  the 
credit  attaching  to  the  concession,  and 
believes  that,  as  the  advantages of  the

17

new  book  are  made  apparent,  the  part 
the  Tradesman  played 
in  the  matter 
will  be  very  generally  conceded.

Hoskins  &  Company
GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK

CO M M ISSION  B R O K ER S.

176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. 

Hodges  Building.

Private  wires:  N ew   York,  Chicago and  St.  Louis.

For Two  Dollars

$è

in 

A  day,  it’ s  the  finest 
hotel 
the  State; 
newly furnished, high- 
class  table  and  ex­
cellent  service,  at

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POSTAL & MOREY, Props.  DETROIT, MICH.
Hotel  Normandie  of  Detroit  Re­

duces Rates.

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

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

Carr  &  Reeve.

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Cutler  house  at  Grand  Haven.

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fortable  Rooms.  H.  D.  and  P.  H 
IRISH  Prop,

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ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT. Prop.
THE  WHITNEY  HOUSE

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

Chaj. E  Whitney.  Prop..  Plainwell.  Mich.

Photographs

Samples,  Display  Cards,  Etc.

of

It often  occurs  that  traveling  salesmen  find  photo­
graphs  of  such  articles  as  are  too  large  to carry 
a  great  convenience.  The  engraving  department 
of  the Tradesman  Company  is  prepared  to  furnish 
such  photographs of the best «pialitv on  short notice.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of the  Qrlp. 

President, J ab. P.  IIam m e ll. Lansing;  Secretary, 
J.  C.  Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer,  C h as.  Mc- 
N o l ty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President, S.  H.  H a r t,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D.  Mo r r is, Detroit.

United  Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

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

dent  Association.

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

President,'A. F. P e a k e , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  o f  Directors—P .  M.  T y l e r ,  H.  B.  P a ir - 
c h ild , J a s. N. B r a d fo r d , J. H e n r y Da w l e y ,G eo. 
J.  He in z e l x a n ,  C h as. S.  R obinson.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.
President,  W .  C.  B row n,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A .  P .  W ixson,  Marquette.
Annual  Meeting  of  Post  E.

Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  13—At  the  an­
nual  meeting  of  Post  E,  held  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel  Saturday 
11, 
Chairman  Wetzel  presided.

evening,  Dec. 

Geo.  F.  Owen,  chairman  of  the  Com­
mittee  on  Arrangements  for  the  Kala­
mazoo  convention,  reported  that Manley 
Jones  and  A.  S.  Musselman  had  been 
elected  to  respond  to  toasts  on  the  oc­
casion  of  the  annual  banquet  at  Kala­
mazoo.  The  report  was  accepted  and 
the  Committee  continued.

The  question  of  selecting  a  route  to 
the  convention  was  then  introduced  for 
discussion,  and  a  verbal  report  was  re­
ceived  from  the  G.  R.  &  I.  Railway, 
authorizing  a  rate  of  $1.46  for  the round 
trip.

Clark  S.  Rogers,  City  Passenger 
Agent  of  the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan 
Southern  Railway,  offered  a  rate  of 
.$1.25 for  the  round  trip,  whereupon  Jas. 
Mclnnes  moved  that  the  contract  be 
given  the  Lake  Shore  unless  the  G.  R. 
&  I.  made  a better  rate  or  offered  better 
facilities.  Adopted.

The Secretary  presented  the  following 
communication  from  General  Passenger 
Agent  Lockwood,  of  the  G.  R.  &  I., 
which  was  greeted  with  applause

An  agreement  has  been  reached  by 
the  principal  roads  of  Michigan  where­
by 
interchangeable  1,000  mile  tickets, 
sold  at  $30,  with  a  rebate  of  $10,  will  be 
honored  on  trains,  without  requiring the 
holder  to  go  to  the  ticket  office  for  ex­
change  tickets,  as  at  present.  This  ar­
rangement  will  go 
into  effect  January 
1,  or  as  soon  thereafter  as  the  necessary 
details  can  be  arranged.  Baggage  will 
also  be  checked  through  junction  points 
where  there  are  no  wagon  transsfers.

Jas.  Mclnnes  called  attention  to  the 
proposed  amendment  to  the  State  con­
stitution  fathered  by  the  State  Board  of 
Directors,  providing  for  the  election  of 
the  Secretary  bv  the  Board.  He  cited 
a  case  where  the  Secretary  insisted  on 
auditing  and  paving  two  death  claims 
in  opposition to  the desires of the Board, 
who  wished  to  go  through the  year  with­
out  breaking  the  previous  record.  He 
believed  the  centralization of power thus 
placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Board  would 
operate  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  As­
sociation  and  the  dissatisfaction  of  the 
members  generally.

Leo  A.  Caro  called  attention  to  the 
amendment  he had prepared for the elec­
tion  of  the  officers  by  means  of  a  sealed 
mailed  ballot.  He  stated  that  such  a 
system  had  been 
in  use  by  the  I.  O. 
O.  F.  for  several  years  and  by  the  L. 
A.  W.  for  seventeen  years,  with  excel­
lent  results  in  both  cases.

L.  M.  Mills  endorsed  the  positions  of 
both  of  the  previous 
speakers  and 
strongly  hinted  that  the  Board  would 
hear  from  him  at  the  Kalamazoo  con­
vention.

A  resolution  was  then  unanimously 
adopted,  declaring 
it  to  be  the  sense 
of  the  meeting  that  each  member  be  re­
quested  to  oppose  the  proposed  amend­
ment  to  the  Board  and  also  render  such 
assistance  as  may  be  necessary  to  bring 
the  Caro  amendment  to  the  attention  of 
the  convention.

Caucusing  for  a  candidate  for  State 
Secretary  being  then 
in  order,  Fred 
Ephlin,  F.  E.  Walther and W.  F.  Blake 
were  appointed  tellers.  The  first  ballot 
in  twenty-nine  votes  for  Cap­
resulted 
tain  Bradford  and  twenty-one 
for  J. 
Henry  Dawley,  whereupon  Mr.  Dawley 
moved  that  Mr.  Bradford  be  declared 
the  unanimous  nominee  of  the  Post, 
which  was  adopted.

Manley  Jones  was  then  called  upon  to 
in  prepara­
rehearse  the  speech  he  has 
tion 
convention, 
for  the  Kalamazoo 
which  he  did  to  the  satisfaction  of  all 
concerned. 
interspersed  with 
wit,  logic,  history,  biography,  oratory, 
etc.

It  was 

Capt.  Bradford  moved  that  a  com­
mittee  of  three  be  appointed  to  draft 
suitable  resolutions  on  the  death  of  Dell 
C.  Slaght.  The  chairman  appointed  J. 
N.  Bradford,  E.  A.  Stowe  and  Leo.  A. 
Caro,  who  were  given  permission  to  re­
tire.  The  following  report  was  subse­
quently  presented  and  adopted  by  a  ris­
ing  vote:

Whereas,  It  has  pleased  the  Almighty 
Ruler  of  the  Universe  to  remove  from 
his  earthly  cares  to  the  Rest  Eternal our 
Brother,  Dell  C.  Slaght,  and

Whereas,  In  bis  death  his  wife  has 
lost  a  loving  husband,  and  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip  have  lost  a 
faithful  officer  and  an  honored  member; 
therefore  be  it

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  Post 
E,  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip, 
hereby  tender  to  the  bereaved  family  of 
our  departed  brother  our  sincere  and 
heartfelt  sympathy  and  that  we  deplore 
with  them  the  loss  we  have  all  met  and 
turn  with  them  to  the  shelter  of  God’s 
kindness,  believing  that  He  doeth  all 
things  w ell;  and  be  it  further

Resolved,  That  a  copy  of  these  reso­
lutions  be  sent  to  the  family  of  our  late 
brother  and  also  spread  upon  the  min­
utes  of  Post  E.

Chairman  Wetzel  then  announced  the 
standing  committees  for  the  ensuing 
year,  as  follows:

Executive— F.  M.  Tyler,  W.  F.  Blake 

and  Cornelius  Crawford.

Entertainment—Frank  Haddon,  B.  S. 
Davenport,  F.  E.  Walther,  W.  S.  Burns 
and  Fred  Ephlin.

Sergeant-at-Arms—Will  Richmond.
There  being  no  further business,  the 
meeting  was  adjourned  until  Saturday 
night  of  this  week,  when  it  hoped  there 
will  be  a  large  attendance  because  mat­
ters  of  great  importance  to  the  Post  are 
to  be  taken up  for discussion and action.

E .  A.  St o w e,  S ec’y.

Mr.  Peake  Heard  From.

Jackson,  Dec.  11—There  are  several 
rumors  going  the  rounds  of  the  State  to 
to  the  effect  that  Post  B  (Jackson)  has 
several  candidates 
for  different  posi­
tions  I  will  say,  for  the  benefit  of  those 
who  may  have  been  misinformed,  that 
we  have  only  one  candidate  and  he 
is 
Chas.  T.  McNolty  for  Treasurer,  to suc­
ceed  himself.  He  received  the  unani­
mous  endorsement  of  Post  B  and  our 
Secretary  was 
instructed  to  so  inform 
the  Tradesman. 

A.  F.  Pe a k e.

inform 

The  Secretaiy  did  so 

the 
Tradesman  and  the  announcement  was 
made  in  proper  form  in  these  columns 
several  weeks  ago.  Mr.  Peake  has  evi­
dently  failed  to  read  the  Tradesman  as 
carefully  as  he  should  have  done  or  else 
he 
is  actuated  by  a  desire  to  cast  un­
warranted  criticism  on  the  shoulders  of 
the  Secretary,  which  he  is  not  justified 
in  doing  under  the  circumstances.
Mr.  Dawley  Expresses  His  Thanks.
Grand  Rapids,  Dec.  13— I  wish  to 
express,  through  your  valued  paper  mv 
thanks  to  the  traveling  men  of  Grand 
Rapids  for  the  loyal  support  given  me 
in  the  short  campaign  just  ended. 
I 
hope  they  will  accord  the  same  loyal 
support  given  me  to  our  worthy Brother, 
James  N.  Bradford,  for  Secretary  of  the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip.

J.  H.  D a w ley.

Uneasy  lies  the  foot  that  wears a corn.

MIS

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware

The  Arrangement  and  Care of Goods. 
Written for the Tradesman.

Another  kind  of  goods  which  give 
much  trouble 
in  keeping  properly  as­
sorted,  and  which  require  a  large  num­
ber  of  places,  is  the  wood  screw,  with 
its  great  variety  of  sizes  and  lengths. 
Perhaps  as  good  an  arrangement  as  any 
is  that  shown  in  the  illustration.  The

row  at  the  top  and  wide  at  the  bottom 
and  each  shelf  should  be  made  deep 
enough  to  allow  the  ends  of  the  files  oc­
cupying 
it  to  just  come  flush  with  the 
edge,  and  no  more.  Should  a  16-inch 
flat  bastard  or  horse  rasp  be  carried  the 
bottom  shelf  should  be  16  inches  deep. 
If  it  should  be  necessary to carry shorter 
files  on  any  of  the  shelves  than  those 
corresponding  with  the  width,  pieces  of 
wood  can  be  put  in  of  sufficient  thick­
ness  to  make  the  ends  come  flush.

Perhaps  as  good  an  arrangement  as 
any  for  the  accommodation  of  horse

is.  39 

frame 
inches  long  by  16  inches 
high  and  9  inches  deep  and  is  divided 
into  six  rows  of  pigeonholes,  each  2% 
inches  high,  3^ 
inches  wide  and  9 
inches  deep.  The  screws  are  contained 
in  tin  boxes  that  slide  freely  in  these 
openings,  with  a  flange 
in  front  that 
strikes  against  the  wood  partition  when 
in  place.  On  the  front  of  each  box  is  a 
%-inch  porcelain  knob,  with  the  screw 
cut  off  and  soldered  to  inside  of  box. 
The  boxes  may  be  painted  any  color 
desired  and  the  number  and  length  of 
the  screws  may  be  painted  on  the  front 
of  each.  This  space  of  16x39  inches 
gives  54  boxes,  which  are  sufficient  for 
a  complete  assortment  for  most  country 
stores.  Of  course,  the  arrangement  may 
be  made  larger  or  smaller,  as  required. 
The  partitions  of  the  pigeonholes  are 
made  of  soft  wood  and  are  covered  by 
the  tin  flanges  on  the  boxes.  The  frame 
for  this  case  occupies  the  space  left  by 
removing 
requisite  number  of 
shelves  and  so  takes  up  no  unnecessary 
room;  it  rests  on  the  lower  shelf,  which 
is  the  height  of  the  adjoining  shelving 
from  the  ledge.

the 

In  a  former  article  I  gave  a  descrip­
tion  of  a  file  case,  in  which  the  files 
were  to  be  kept  in  boxes  to  be  drawn 
from  pigeonholes. 
The  arrangement 
is  not  so  good  an
illustrated  herewith 

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11

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FILE  C A SE

arrangement,  as far as safety in  handling 
goods  and  accumulation  of  dust are con­
cerned,  but  it  has  other  advantages  and 
is  in  more  general  use. 
It  is  built  into 
the  shelving  and  may  be  varied  in  size 
and  number  of  compartments  to  meet 
the  requirements  of  the  assortment  car­
ried.  The  cross  pieces  or  shelves  are 
of  %-inch  stuff  and the upright partition 
j£-inch  or  less.  The  case  is  made  nar­

H O R SE  S H O E  RA CK.

eral arrangement will be understood from 
the  diagram,  in  which  the  dimensions 
are  given.  One  side  of  the  rack  is  used 
for  fore  and  the  other  side  for  hind 
shoes.  The  bars  of  wood  are  protected 
with  ^-inch  hoop  iron,  and  each  bar  is 
capable  of  holding  a  keg  of  shoes.  For 
the  purpose  of  utilizing  the  space  in­
side  the  rack,  a  box  is  made  as  repre­
sented,  with  divisions  for  pick,  stone, 
axe  and  other  handles;  or  this  space 
may  be  used  for  other  kinds  of  goods, 
if  desired.  Horse  nails  are  kept 
in 
boxes  on  top  of  the  rack.

J.  M e s s e r s c h m id t.

Begin  the  New  Year  by  Adopting 
Better  Methods.
Ante Lucem in American Artisan.

Now  I  am  no  believer  in  the  swear- 
off  principle  at  any  set  time,  the  be­
ginning  of  a  new  year  or  on  any  fete 
day,  but  believe  reforms  are  always  in 
order,  and  that  they  should  be  taken  up 
at  any  hour  or  moment  of  time  when  a 
man  becomes  convinced  of  their  neces­
sity.  The  new  year,  1898,  will  soon 
be  with  us,  and  it  might  not  be  inap­
propriate  at  that  time  to  inaugurate  a 
plan  to  improve  the  general  stove  busi­
ness  by  eliminating  the  very 
cheap 
class  and  work  up  to  a  better  grade  of 
goods.  The  manufacturer  must  first  be 
blamed  for  the  making  of  such  cheap 
goods  and  encouraging  the  dealer  to sell 
them ;  secondly,  the  retailer  should  be 
censured  for  laying  down  on  the  price 
question,  and  thinking  he  can  only  sell 
a  piece  of  goods  because  of  the  small 
price  which  goes  with  it.

The  manufacturer  should,  through  his 
traveling  salesmen,  try  to 
induce  and 
convince  the  dealer of  the  ruinous  pol­
icy  of  selling  small,  cheap  heaters, 
which  cannot  give  universal  and  good 
satisfaction,  and  the  dealer  must  edu­
cate  his  customers  up  to  the  positive 
fact  that  a  small  stove  is  poor  economy, 
no  matter  at  what  price,  and  will  prove 
disastrous  in  the  end.
Close  competition  to  sell  induces  the 
manufacturer  to  make  these  small,  in­
efficient  goods,  and  the  same  close  com­
petition  prompts  the  dea'er  to  buy 
them,  and  in  the  end too  much  is  prom­
ised  for  them  and  too  much  expected  of 
them ;  the  consumer  is  most  grievously 
disappointed,  the  dealer  is  injured  ty  
the  transaction,  and,  finally,  the  whole 
thing  reacts  on  the  manufacturer,  who 
loses  caste,  and  finally  good  name  as  a 
maker. 
If  these  goods  could  always  be 
bought  and  sold  for  what  they  actually

are,  there  would  be  less  harm  to  the 
business.  Such 
is  not  often  the  case. 
They  carry  too  high  a  guarantee  from 
the  manufacturer  down  through  to  the 
consumer.

Along  about  the  first  of  the  new  year 
is  stock  taking  time  with  most  retail 
it  offers  a  most 
hardware  dealers,  and 
propitious  time  for  various 
little  re­
forms,  such  as  arrangement  of  stock, 
cleaning  up  of  store,  the  weeding  out 
of  all  old  chestnuts,  etc.,  etc.  Every 
good  thrifty  dealer  will  pay  particular 
attention  to  the  chestnut  class  of  goods, 
and  all  dealers  should  do  so.  Every­
thing 
in  the  shape  of  obsolete  goods 
should  at  the  time  of  stock  taking  be 
marked  for  the  slaughter.  Let  them  be 
gathered  into  a  convenient  and  particu­
lar  section,  put  a  job-lot  price  on  them, 
even  give  little  premiums  to  your clerks 
to  push  them  and  work  them  off at  ear­
liest  possible  time.  All such  stock  only 
encumbers  the  store,taking  up  the  room 
of  good,  fresh,  salable  goods.  The  first 
loss  is  the  best  loss,  and  so  soon  as  the 
dealer  finds  he  has  a  chestnut,  a  stayer, 
so  soon  should  he  begin  to  hustle  it  off, 
even  although 
it  be  a  new  piece  of 
goods,  a  sample  he  has  just  bought. 
Sell  it  and  sell  it  quick  at  first  loss  be­
fore  the  interest  on  the  money  invested 
has  added  a  second  loss  to  it.

The  winter  months  offer time for stock 
taking,  arranging  of  goods,  building 
tool  racks,  cleaning  up  store  in  general 
and  putting  everything 
its  place. 
Set  a  pace  for  your  neighbor  and  com­
petitor  in  orderly  reform  of  your  store.

in 

Inaugurate  new  and  wholesome  rules for 
the  general  conduct  of  your  business. 
Have  regular  hours  for  opening  and 
closing,  and  make  promptness  one  of 
the  essential  features  for  your  help.

So  far  as  possible  begin  the  new  year 
on  a  cash 
line  of  business,  taking  all 
possible  advantage  of  cash  offerings  in 
buying,  and  sell  as  close  to  the  line  of 
cash  as  possible.  Followed  out  for  a 
twelve  months  will  find  you  with  more 
cash  on  hand,  less  book  accounts  and 
larger  net  earnings,  and  a  hundred  per 
cent  more  independence  than the credit 
system  can  grant  you.  Any  man  who 
will  adopt  and  carry  out  such  a  plan  for 
one  year  will  never  return  to  the  credit 
policy  again ;  never  will ask  What’s  the 
dating,  but  What  is  the  cash  off  on  ar­
rival?  The  man  who  thinks  he  can 
secure  a  commercial  rating  by  buying 
on  time  and  paying  when  time  is  up 
will  never  have  so  good  a  one  as  the 
man  who  pays  cash.

Couldn’t  Sit  Down.

Father— Why  don’t  you  sit  down?
Son—This  morning  I  asked  you  how 
many  made  a  million,  an’  you  said: 
“ Darned  few.”  
in 
arithmetic  class  to-day,  an’  that’s  why 
I  can’t  sit  down.

I  told  teacher  that 

The  law  which  at  present  governs  the 
practice  of  medicine  in  France  forbids 
the  simultaneous  practice  of  medicine 
and  pharmacy,  even  by  a  person  who 
may  be 
in  possession  of  diplomas  in 
both  branches.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Mí CH* GAIN  1 RAD LS MAN

Morphia, 3.P.&W... 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. Co....................
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No.  1......
Nux Vomica... po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
Picis Liq. N.N.4gal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80 
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__po. 35
Pi ix  Burgun  .........
Plnmbi  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac etOpii 
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
~nassi*..................
furnia, S. P. & W .. 
Quiñi a, S. German..
Qulnia, N.Y............
Rubia Ti neto rum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin....................
Sanguis Dracouis...
Sapo,  W..................
Sapo, M....................
Sapo. G....................
Siedlitz  Mixture__

2  15®
2  15® 
@ 
65® 
@ 
la®

10®
10®

30® 
8® 
35® 
28© 
33® 
12® 
18® 
3 00® 
40® 
12® 
10®
_ 
20  @  

2 40
2 40 
40 
80 
10 
18
1  00
2 001  00 
85 
50 
18 
30
12
1 20
t  25 
33 
10 
40 
38
14 
20 
3  10 I 
50 
14 
12
15
22 j

Sinapis...........,.......
Sinapis, opt............
Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................
Snuff Scotch,DeVo’s
Soda Boras..............
Soda Boras, po.......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.
Soda,  Ash......
Soda, Sulphas.
Spts. Cologne..
Spts. Ether  Co 
Spt  Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vlni  Rect. bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect.Vibbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
Less 5c gal.  cash 
Strychnia, Crystal..
Sulphur,  aubl........
Sulphur,  Roll........
Tamarinds............
Tereoenth Venice..
Theobrom*.........
Vanilla..................
Zinci  Sulph............

@
8  @
8  @ 
26®
1 Vs®
3®
34®
@
@ 2 
50®
@
@ 2 
© 2 
@ 2
10 days.
1  40®  1 
2 4® 2®  ; 
8® 
28® 
42®
7®

9 00@16 

Oils

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

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Linseed, pure  raw..  37
Linseed,  boiled 
...  39
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  364 

41
42
70
42

Paints  BBL.  LB
1*  2  m
14  2  @4 
ìli  2  @3 
21*  24@3 
24  2ÿ @3
13®
15
70®
134®13®
54®
54®

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

16 
6 
6 70 
10 
1 00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

Varnishes]'

No.  PTurp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Tarp............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............   2  75® 3 00
No.  1 Turp  Fura__  1  00®  l  10
Extra Turk Damar  .  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer, No. ITurp  70®  75

W H OLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—
Declined—Quinine, all brands;  Gum Guaiac.

Acidum

Acetlcum.................I  6@l
Benzolcum, German  70®
Boracic....................   @
Carbolicum............. 
39®
Citricum.................  
41®
3®
Hydrochlor............  
NItrocum................ 
8®
13®
Oxalicum................ 
Ph osphorium,  dii... 
®
Saliey licum............. 
60®
Sulphuricum...........  1%@
Tannicum..............  1  25®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Corbonas................. 
Chi ori dum 
...........  
Aniline
Black....................... 2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
Brown....................
45® 50
R ed.........................
Yellow.................... 2 50® 3 00
Bscca-.
13® 15
Cubeæe...........po. 18
6®
Jnniperus...............
8
25® 30
Xantnoxylum.........

4®
6®
19®
12®

Balsamum

Copaiba...................
Peru........................
Terabin, Canada__
Tolutan...  ..............
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Casslæ  ....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!.......
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus., .po. 15,  gr'd 
Extractum 
Glyeyrrhl/a  Glabra. 
Glyoyrrhiza, po 
Hæmatox, 15 lb 1 
box.
Hæmatox, Is .
Hæmatox, 4 s .........  
Haematox, Ms.

55® 60
@ 2 40
45® 50
75® 80

18
12
18

34® 
28® 
1 1® 
13®
14®
16®  17

15 
2 25

12®
18®
30®

Perm
Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Qulnia..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......
Plora
Arnica  ...................
Anthemis...............
Matricaria  ............
Folia
3®  28
Barosma...................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, >48
12®  20
and 4 s................. 
Ura Ursi.  ................ 
8® 
10
Gummi
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®  65
®  45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
Acacia,  3d  picked..  @  35
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
®  38
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  13®  14
Aloe, Cape___po.  15  @  12
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafcetida___po. 30  35®  28
50®  55
Benzolnum............  
Catechu, Is.............. 
®  13
14
Catechu, 4 s............  
® 
Catechu, 4 s............ 
®  16
Camphor».............. 
48®  55
Euphorbium..po. 35 
® 
lu
Galbanum...............   @  1  00
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Gualacum........po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. 83-uO  @ 3 00
Mastic....................   @  60
Myrrh.............. po.  45  @  40
Opii..  po. *4.10@4.30 3 00®  3  10 
Shellac.................... 
25®  35
Shellac, bleached.
40®
Tragacanth ............
50®
Herba
Absinthium..oz.  pkg 
Eupatorium .oz.  pkg
Lobelia........oz.  pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip. .oz.  pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz.  pkg
..  ......oz.  pkg
Rue 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V.. oz.  pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. A  M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc__ 
30®  50
Amygdalae. Amarae .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi.......................   2 25®  2 3
Aurantl  Cortex......  2 0u@  2 30
Bergami!.................  2 40®  2 So
Cajiputi................. 
85®  90
Caryophylll............  
6®   7"
"edar....................... 
35®  65
®  75
Chenopadii............  
Cinnamonii.............  I 8t®  I  90
Oitronella  ___.... 
45®  50

55®
20®
20®
35® 36

90® 

Conium  Mac.
35®  50
Copaiba...................  i  10®  1  20
Cubebae......................  
90® 
Exechthitos...........  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................  1  On®  1  10
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  oo®  1  10
J uni pera.................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula................  
Limonis.......................   1  20®  1 40
Mentha Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae, gal.........   1  00®  1  10
Myrcia,........................   4 00®  4 50
Olive....................... 
75® 3 00
Picis  Liquida.  ...... 
10®  12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
R icina.....................  1 03® 1  08
®  1  00
Rosmarini...............  
Rosse,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini................... 
40®  45
Sabina............... 
90®  1  00
 
Santal.......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglfi........................   1 40®  1  50
Thyme.................... 
40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
is®  18
Bichromate............  
13®  15
Bromide..................  
50®  55
12® 
Carb.......................  
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c  16®  18
Cyanide................... 
35®  40
Iodide.......................  2 60® 2  65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras........... 
7®
Prussiate.................  20®
Sulphate p o ........... 
is®

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20®
22®
Althse...................... 
Anchusa................. 
it®
Arum po..................   @
Calamus.................  20®
Genti ana........po  15 
12®
Glychrrhiza.. .pv. 15  16®
Hydrastis Canaden 
Hydrastis Can., po.
@15®
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
_
_ 
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   2  10® 2 25
Iris plox--- po35®38 
35®  40
25®  30
lalapa, pr...............  
Maranta,  J£s...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po__ 
22®  25
..................................  75® 1 00
Rhei, cut 
...........  @ 125
75®  I 35
Rhei.pv................... 
Spigelia...................  
35®  38
Sanguinaria.  . po. 15 
@  14
Serpentaria............  
30®  35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
®  25
Smilax, M...............  
Scili*..............po.35
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 3Ò 
Valeriana,  German
Zingiber a...............  
Zingiber j ...............  
Semen
Anisum.......po.  15  @
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®
Bird, Is.................... 
4®
Carui............. po. 18  10®
Cardamon................   1 25®  1  75
Coriandrum............ 
8® 
lo
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4® 4 ¡4
Cvdonium...............  
75®  1 uo
Sienopodium  ........ 
io® 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00®  2 20
Foeniculum............   @
7®
Foenugreek, po........ 
3®
L ini......................... 
Lini,  grd....... bbl. 3 
4®
Lobelia..................  
35®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®
Rapa................. 
..  44®
Sinapis Albu........... 
7®
Sinapis  Nigra......... 
n®
Spiritus

@15®
12@
25®

10®  

Frumenti, VV.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F.  R..  2 00©  2 25
Frum enti.................  1 25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  65® 2 00 I
Junineris Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto..............  1 25® 2 00
Vini  Alba................   1 25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool 
carriage  ...
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............
\ elvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps'
woo),  carriage__
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes.......
Zingiber..................
Ipecac 
.........
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis..
Senega ....................
Scillsa...........

2 50®

2 00

@
@  1  00 
©  1  00

@  1  40

@  50
@  50
50
@  
@  60 
@  50
@  50

51®

©  50

1  00

2 00

@  50
@  50
@  50

niscellaneou* 

50
75 
1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
0 
60 
60 
50

ScilleCo  ...............
Tolutan...................
Prunus virg............
Tincture* 
Aconitum N apellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Aurantl  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon..............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot......................
Ferri Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co............
Guiaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
Lobelia..............   .
Myrrh....................)
Nux  Vomica.........
Opii.........................
Opii, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia..................
Rhatany.............
Rhei.......................
Sanguinaria  __
Serpentaria............
Stromonium  .........
Tolutan...................
Valerian..............
Veratrum Veride ... 
Zingiber..................
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30® 
35
ia©
¿Ether, Spts.  Nit. 4 F 
38
Alumen...................  24®
3
4
Alumen, gro’d  po. 7 
3®
Annatto...............  
40®
50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
50 
Antipyrin.............. 
@
1  40 
<a
Antifebrin 
........ 
15
Argenti Nitras, oz .. 
„
@  50
Arsenicum..............  
10®
12
Balm Gilead  Bud
38®  40
Bismuth  S. N.........
1  40®  1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  is!! 
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  54s. 
Calcium Chlor..  44s. 
® 
12 
Cantharides,  Rus.po 
@  75
Capsici  Fructus. af.
@  15
Capsici Fructus.  po 
®  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
@  15
Caryophyllus..po.  15
10®
Carmine, No. 40  ... 
@ 3  00
Cera Alba, S .4 P   . 
50®  55
40®  42
Cera Flava........... 
Coccus....................  @  40
@  33
Cassia Fructus .. 
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum............. 
@  45
Chloroform.......... 
60®  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @ 1  25
Chloral Hyd Crst  ...  1  50® 1  60
Chondrus............. 
20®  25
25®  35
Cinchouidine.P.A w 
22®  30
Cinchonidine. Germ 
3 55®  3 75
Cocaine 
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct 
70
Creosotum. 
@
35
Creta.............bbl. 75 
@
Creta, prep
Creta, precip 
9®
Creta 
 
_
, Rubra
@
Crocus.............. 
18®
Cudbear.................  @
5®
CupriSuiph.........  
Dextrine................  
10®
Ether Sulph......... 
75®
Emery, all  numbers  @
Emery, p o ..............
Ergota............po. 40
30®
Flake  White..........
12®
Galla................... 
’
Gambier...............„
8®
Gelatin, Cooper..
@35®
Gelatin, French......
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown...........
9®
.........
Glue,  white 
13®  25
Glyeerina 
.........
20
Grana  Paradisi  __
@  15
Hum ulus.................
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
@  80 
Hydraag Chlor Cor 
@  70
Hydraag Ox  Rub'm.
@  90
Hydraag Ammoniati 
©  I  00 
Hydraag C nguentnm
45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........
@  65
65®  75
_
Icnthyobolia, Am... 
75®  1  00
Indigo...................... 
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 '0
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin..................   @225
Lycopodium........... 
45
Macis 
 
Liquor  4rseuetli/-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPoiassArsinit
.Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Mannia, S. F ...........
Menthol. 
........

@  25
10®
2® 3 «4 
50®  60
@  ? Tfl

40®
65©

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PAINT

BRUSHES

We  shall  display  Sample  Lines 
of a  complete  assortment of Brushes 
January  1,  1898,  consisting  of
White,  Wove  Heads 
Kalsomine,  Wall 

Oval  and  Round 

Paint  and  Varnish

Flat, Square  and 

Chiseled  Varnish 

Sash  Tools 

Painters’  Dusters 

Artists’  Materials
and  invite  your  inspection  and  or­
ders.  Quality  and Prices  are  right

HAZELTINE 
& PERKINS 
DRUG CO.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CU R R EN T.

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

AXLB  GRBA5B.
Aurora................. ..... 55
Castor Oil........... ......60
Diamond............. ...... 50
.75
Frazer’s 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... ......75
Paragon.............. .  ...55

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

........

BAKING  POWDER.

Absolute.

Acme.

45
K lb cans doz............... .
85
>4 lb cans doz.................
lb cans doz........  ...... .  1  50
1 
45
fd lb cans 3 doz...............
75
4 lb cans 3 doz...............
1 
lb cans 1 doz..............
.  1  00
Bulk.................................
10
4  lb cans per doz  .........
75
4  lb cans per doz  ......... .  1  20
lb cans per doz........... .  2  00
1 
35
id lb cans 4 doz case  ..  .
55
14 lb cans 4 doz case......
90
lb cans 2 doz case  __

El Purity.

Home.

Jersey Cream.

45
id lb cans, 4 doz case......
85
14 lb cans. 4 doz case...  .
lb cans. 2 doz case........  1  60
1 
1 lb. cans, per doz............ .  2 no
9 oz. cans, 1 er doz........... .  1  25
85
6 oz. cans, per doz...........
46
4 lb cans........................
75
14 lb care........................
1 
lb cans........................
1  50
85
i lb. cans  .......................
BATH  BRICK.

Our Leader.

Peerless.

....70
Xmerlc&n........................
English............................. ...  80

BLUING.

rONDENSi;D
£ < pearC
fc sL U IN s

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

4*
1  20

sw oons.

>0.1 Carpet.................
So. 2 Carpet.  ___
No. 3 C arpet...............
......
No. 4 Carpet. 
Parlor Gem  ...............
Common Whisk 
........
Fancy Whisk.
Warehouse.........

CANDLES.
88................................
16s  ...............................
Paraffine......................

1  90
1  75
1  50
1  15
2 00
70
80
2  25
_7
..8
..8

CANNED  GOODS.
ftanitowoc  Peas.
95
Lakeside Marrowfat.  .
Lakeside E.  J ..............
1  15
Lakeside. Cham, of Eng.
1  21
Lakes!cIp. Gem.  Kx.  si fted. »  4b
Extra Sifted Early Jan e... .175

CATSUP.
Columbia, 
Columbia.  14 pints

pints......

CHEESE*
Acme......................
© Hü
Amboy..................
© UH
Byron............  
...
Crìi
11
Elsie.......................
© 1214
Gem.........................
Crìi 1214
Gold  Medal............
© 11
Hartford..................
© 12
Herkimer................
©
Ideal.......................
© UH
Jersev  ....................
© 12
Lenawee................. @
11
Riverside.................
©
12
Sparta....................
© M
Brick......................
© 10
Edam......................
© 75
Leiden....................
© 18
Limburger..............
10
Pineapple................ 43 © 85
Sap  Sago................
© 20
Chicory
Bulk
5
Red
7

Walter Baker & Coe*â.

CHOCOLATE.
German Sweet..  __
Premium.....................
...
Breakfast  Cocoa 

.23
.34
45

CLOTHES LINES.

1  00
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz 
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz 
1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per doz  .. 
1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz  ....... l  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz  ......  1 80
Jute, 60 ft.  per  do*........... 
80
Jute. 7i  rt.  per  do*.. 
OR

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............  
CRBAfl  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

2H
3
4

COFFEE.

Qreen.
Rio.

P air......................................... 10
Good........................................12
Prim e......................................13
Golden  ...................................14
Peaberry  ................................15

Santos.

Pair  ........................................14
Good  ....................................  15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................17

Mexican  and  Ouatamala.

Pair  ....................................... 16
Good  ...............................   ...17
Pancy 
...................................18

Maracaibo.

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

Interior...................................20
Private  Growth...................... 22
Mandehling.............................24

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

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

 

Package.

Cl ark-.Tewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......  
  28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha. ..  28
Wells’ Mocha and Java.......24
Wells’  Perfection  Java.......24
«»noalbn.............................-23
Breakfast  B’end................  20
VsllevC.’tv Mft'acalbo.  — 18V4
Tdeal  Blend..........................14
Leader  Blew!.......................12
Below  are  given  New  York
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also  lc  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   10 50
Jersey..............................  10 50
ricLaughlln’z  XXXX........ 10  50
Valley City 4  gross...... 
75
1  15
Felix >4  gross................. 
Hummel’* roil y, gross... 
8fi
TTranmel’s tin VC  gross_ 
1  4?
CLOTHE»  PINS.
6 gross boxes 
40
 
COUdH  DROPS.

Extract.

for 

 

C. B  Brand.

2 On
1  25

40 5 cent packages...........  1  00

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gail Borden  Eagle..................6 75
Crown......................................6 25
D aisy....................................... 5 75
Champion  .................  
Magnolia 
Challenge................................. 3 35
Dime 
8 86

4  50
...................  <  *

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom....  2 50 
500 books  any denom. ...It  50
1.000 books, any denom. ...20 00 I

Economic  Grade.

Universal Grade.

Credit  Checks.

Superior Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 110 down.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom.... 11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom....  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2  50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books.........................  1  00
50 books...........................   2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...........................   G 25
500 books............................10 00
1000 books............................17 50
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2300, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel  punch.......................   75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Sundried...................   @ 
5H
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 8%
California  Fra Its.
Apricots.....................  74 3 8q
Blackberries...............
Nectarines........ ........   ©
Peaches........................  8 © 9
Pears......   .................   8  @
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles...................12
Raspberries................
California  Pranas.
100-120 25 lb boxes......... © 3>4
90-100 25 lb boxes......... ©  4
80 - 90 25 lb boxes......... @ 4H
70 - 80 25 lb boxes......... ©  5
60 - 70 25 lb boxes......... ©  54
50 - 60 25 lb boxes......... ©  74
40 - 50 25 lb boxes......... © 84
30 - 40 25 lb boxes......... ©
id rent less in 50 lb cases

Apples.

Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown.
London Layers 4 Crown.
Dehesias 
....................
Loose Muscatels 2 CrowD
Loose Muscs tels 3 Crown
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown

1  60
2  00
4
54
64

PORE1GN.
Currants.

Peel.

Grits.

Farina.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Patras bbls...................... .© 64
Vostizzas 50 lb cases...... @  694
Cleaned, bulk  ................ .©  8
Cleaned, packages......... •@ 8H
Citron American 101b bx  ©13
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ©12
Orange American 101b bx  ©12
Ondnra 28 lb boxes......8 ©  84
Sultana  1 Crown......... ©
Sultana 2 Crow n........ ©
Saltana 3 Crown......... ©11
Sultana  4 Crown......... ©
Qnltftn«  R Omwri
©
Sultana 6 Crown......... ©12
Sultana package......... @14
FA RIN A C EO U S  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.........   . 1  75
Bulk, per 100 lbs............ 3  50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s........ 2  15
Bulk in 100 lb. bags........ 3 00
Barrels  .......................... 2 50
Flake. 50 lb.  drums........ 1  00
Dried Lima 
......  ........
3
Medium Hand  Picked...
90
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  101b. box.  ...
60
Imported.  25 lb. box. . . . 2 50
Common.........................
2  40
Chester..........................
2 50
Empire  .................  ......
2  75
Green,  bu.......................
85
Split,  per lb................  ..
2
Rolled Avena,  bbl....... 3 75
Monarch,  bbl................ 3 50
Monarch.  H  bbl............ 1  95
Private brands,  bbl__
Private brands, 4  bbl__
Quaker, cases................. 3 20
Huron, cases.................... 1  75
German..........................
East  India......................
Cracked, bulk.................
24 2 lb packages.............2 W

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Beans.

Peas.

Sago.

3H
3

F i s h .
Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured............
© 4H
Georges  genuine.......
©  54
Georges selected........
© 64
Strips or bricks.........   5 ©  74
10
Chunks.............................
9
Strips...............................
Holland white hoops, bbl 10 25
Holland white hoop 4  bb’ 5 50
72
Holland white hoop,  zeg
Holland white hoop mebs
80
Norwegian...................... 11  On
3 40
Round 100 lbs.................
1  60
Round  40 lbs.................
15
Scaled..............................
16 00
Mess 100 lbs....................
6 70
Mess  40 lbs....................
Mess  10 lbs....................
1  75
Mess  8  lbs....................
1  43
No. 1 100 lbs....................
14  50
6  10
No. 1  40 lbs....................
1  60
No. 1  10 lbs....................
1  30
No. 1  8 lbs....................
l  J 60
No. 2 100 lbs....................
4 30
No. ¡t  40 lbs....................
1  15
No. 2  10 lbs....................
No. 2  8 lbs....................
95
Russian kegs 
...............
55
4  50
No. 1  100 ibs....................
No. 1  40 lbs...............  
.
2  10
No. 1  D ibs....................
60
No. 1  8 lbs......................
51
No. 1  No. 2 Fam
100 lbs...........  6 75  5 00
2 50
40 lbs_____   3 00  2 30
1  30
10 lbs........... 
40
65
8 lbs........... 
35
55
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Sardine*.
Trout

WhItefUh.

83 
80 

Sage.....................................   15
Hops....................................   15

Madras, 5  lb  boxes.............  55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes___  50

HERBS.

INDIOO.

JBLLY.

15 lb  palls............................   40
30 lb  pails............................   73
LYB.
Condensed, 2 dos  ..............1 20
condensed.  *  rt-i* 
2 25

LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   80
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................   10

MINCE MEAT.

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

nATCHBS.

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

riOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
P air..................................  
14
Good................................. 
20
Pancy  ........... 
24
 
Open Kettle......................25@35

 

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MUSTARD.

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz........... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery. 1 doz......... 1  75

P1PBS.

Clay, No.  216......................  1 7J
65
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
Cob, No. 3..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

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

Barrels, 2,400 count........ 
6 75
Half bbls,  1,200 count  ......  4 00

PICKLES.
riedlum.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Jennings’.

D. C. V anilla
! 2 oz.........1 20
I 3 oz.........1 50
4 oz........ 2 00
6 oz........ 3 Û0
No.  8  4 00
No.  10.  .6 00 
No.  2 T.l  25 
No.  3 T.2 00 
No  4 T.2 40

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.......  75
3 oz........1  00
4 oz....... 1  40
6 oz.......2 00
No.  8. .  2 40 
No.  10  . .4  00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3T.1S) 
No.  4 T.l  5q
Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Souders’.
in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs 
........................... 4  00
Half Kegs........................... 2 25
Quarter Kegs...................... l  85
1 lb. c«hs..............................  30
H lb  cans............................  18
Kegs  ................................... 4  25
Half Kegs............................2 40
Quarter Kegs.......................1  35
1 lb. cans.............................   34
Kegs.................. ..................8 00
Half Kegs............................4 25
Quarter Kegs...................... 2 25
1 lb. cans..............................  45

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

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

, 

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................
Japan.  No. 2 ....................
Java, fancy  bead..............
Java, No. 1.........................
...............................
Table 
SALERATUS. 

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.
Church’s .......................... .
Deland’s .............................
Dwight’s ............................
Taylor’s.............................

6M
5
44
3X
Sii5M6

5
»4

3 SC 
3  15 
3 30 
3 00

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Cases, 24 3-lb  boxes............ 1  50
Barrels,  100  3 lb bags........2 75
Barrels.  40  7 lb bags........ 2 40
Butter, 28 lb. bags...............  30
Butter, 56 lb  bags...............   60
Butter, 20  14 lb  Dags...........3 00
Butter, 280 lb  bbls...  ........2 50

Common Grades.

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

Worcester.

lb. cartons.............3 25
50  4 
115  241b.  sacks......................4 00
60  5 
lb. sacks......................3 75
22 14 
lb. sacks.............   3  50
3010 
lb. sacks......................8 50
28 lb. linen sacks................   32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels....................2 50

Warsaw.

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

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60

Solar  Rock.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks. 
60
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Granulated  Pine.................   77
Medium  Pina......................  88

Common.

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  93
Lump, bbls......................   75
Lump, 1451b kegs.
..........  85

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

60
11

3M4*5
84
4*20

Scotch, In bladders.............  87
M&ccabov, in jars................  35
French Rappee, in jars......   43

SOAP.

JAXON
Single box.............................2 75
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........2  65

JAS. S. KIRK S CO.'S BRANDS.

American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome.........................................3 33
Cabinet..................................... 2 20
Savon...................................2 50
Dusky Diamond. 50 6  oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  oz_3 00
Blue India, 100 Ji lb..................3 00
Kirkoline.................................. 3 75
Eos............................. 
3  65
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box............................2 80
5 box lots.............. 
2  75
10 box lots.............................2 70
25 box lots..........................   2  60

 

Allen B. Wrlsley’s Brands.

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bare__3 75
Uno, 100 5£-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bare............ 2 05

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 do z......2 40
Sapollo, hand. 3 doz...........2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  54
4V
Kegs. E n glish  

SPICES.

Whole Sifted.
Allspice  .......................  
10
12
Cassia, China in mats... 
22
Cassia, Batavia in bund 
Cassia, Saigon in rolls......32
Cloves, Amboyna..............  10
Cloves, Zanzibar..............  0
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy................  au
Nutmegs, No.  1................... 60
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite... 12 
Pepper,  shot........................ 12

Pare Ground In Balk.

Allspice  .............................. 12
Cassia, Batavia................... 22
Cassia,  Saigon.....................40
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 18
Cloves, Zanzibar..................13
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica..................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.. ’8
Mnstard, Trieste..................20
Nutmegs,...................... 40@=0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., wblte............15
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage....................................  15

Kingsford'a  Corn.

10 l-lb packages...................  g
JO 1 lb packages........  .......... <5)4

Kingsford's  Silver  aloes.
40 l-lb packages...................6Vi
6-lb boxes  .........................  7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

201 lb  packages....................4%
40 1 lb. packages..................  4U
20 lb. boxes..........................  4
401b. boxes..........................  3%

Common Oloss.

l-lb  packages......................  4V4
3-lb  packages......................  4Q
6-lb  packages  ....................   4 \
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels 
...............   254

STOVE POLISH.

SUaAR.

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

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 75
Domino.................................... 5 63
Cubes......................................[5 31
Powdered  ...........................5 31
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 38
Mould  A.................................. 5 38
Granulated in bbls................... 5 13
Granulated in  bags................. 5 13
Fine Granulated...................... 5 i3
Extra Fine Granulated.......5  25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 25
Diamond  Confec.  A........... 5  13
Confec. Standard A..................5 00
No.
No 
.4 75 
No.
.4  €9 
No.
.4 63 
No.
.4 56 
No.
.4  44 
No.
.4 38 
No.
.4  31 
No. 
____ _____ __
.4
No.  10................................... 4 19
No.  11................................... 4 13
No.  12............... 
4 U6
No.  13....................................4 06
No.  14................................... 4 00
No.  15................................... 3 94
No.  16................................... 3 88

 

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

00 12 02 pkgs.....................3 50

WICKINO.

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

Fish  and  Oysters

Per lb. 
9
@  
9
@  
@  10 
@   15 
4
@  
@  10 
@   18 
@  20 
@   1U

Fresh Fish.

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

Oysters In Cans.
(
<
(
&

F. H. Counts........... 
F. J. D. Selects........ 
Selects....................  
F. J. D. Standards
Anchors...............
Standards............
Favorites............

@

Oysters  in  Bulk

F. H. Counts...........  @1  75
Extra Selects.........   @1  50
Selects....................   @1  25
Anchor Standards..  @110
St.ndards...............   @100
Liams......................  @1  25

Oysters, per  100......... l  25@1  50
■ 1 

Shell Goods.
nar  10T  . 

»81

Hides  and  Pelts.

Perkins  A  Hess  pay  as  fol­

lows:

Hides.

Green........................... 7  @8
Part  cured.................  @ 8Vi
Full Cured.................  8)4®  9 2
g f y .............................  9  @11
Kips,  green.................  7  @ 8
Kips,  cured................. 8*@  9*
Calfskins,  green........  7Vi@  9
Calfskins, cured........8vi@10
Deaconskins  .............25  @30

Pelts.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
¿tick  Candy.

. 
Standard................. 
Standard H.  H___  
Standard Twist......   6
Cut Loaf.................
Jumbo, 321b  ..........
Extra H .H ..............
Boston  Cream........

bbls. pails
6 Vi®  7
6Vi@ 7
@ 8 
@ >04 
cases 
@ 6V4 
®  »Vi 
®

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Mixed Candv.

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

Fancy-In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........  n
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops..............
Imperials.........”  "

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

‘

@ 6 
® 7 
@ 7 Vi 
@ 7 V4 
@ 8 Vi 
@ 8Vi 
® 8 Vi 
@ 8 
® 8 Vi 
& 8 Vi 
@10 @13

& 8 Vi 
® 8 Vi 
@14 
@11 @ 6 
@ 8 
@ 8 Vi 
®  8 Vi

@50 
@50 
@60 
@60 
@75 
@30 
@75 
@50 
@50 
@50 
@50 
@55 
@o0 
@50 
@1  00 @90 
@90 
@60
@60

@30
@45

Wheat.

Wheat.................................
Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents.............................
5 50 
Second  Patent................ ]]
5 00 
Straight..........................]]'
4 80 
Clear.............................]]]_
4  40 
Graham  .........................
4
Buckwheat......... ]. ] ] ] 
4  ¿5
Rye--.......................... . 
3 50
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis 
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad 
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Vis........................  4  66
Quaker, * s ........................  4 65
Quaker, Vis........................   4  &
Guard, Fairfield A Co’s Brand
Whole Wheat 1-I6s............  5 20

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Vis...........  5 55
Pi lsbury’s Best Qs...........  5  45
Pillsbury’s Best v,s...........  5  36
Pillsbury’s Best Vis paper..  5 35 
Pillsbury’s Best * s paper..  5 35 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, Vis...........5 55
Grand Republic,  14s............ 5  45
Grand Republic, Vis...........5 35
Lemon A Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Vis..................  5  55
Gold Medal j^s...................... 45
Gold Medal Vis..............  !  5 3o
Parisian, Vis..................... .'. 
Parisian, Qs.......................  5 45
Parisian. Vis.......................   5 35
Oiney A Judson’s Brand.
Ceresota, Vis......................  5 55
Ceresota, Qs............... ]]]]]’ 
Ceresota, Vis.......................] 
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Vis..........................  5 55
Laurel, * s ..........................  5 *5
Laurel, vis..........................  5 i>5
Bolted.......................
Granulated__ ..»."."]*]]*
Feed and Millstuffs.

1  75
2 OO

Meal.

St. Car Feed, screened___
.14 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats......   13  00
Unbolted Corn Meal...........12 oO
Winter Wheat  Bran........... 11 oo
Winter Wheat Middlings. .1j 00
Screenings...........................  qo
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots............................. 29
Less than  car lots...... .']’’  34

Fruits.
Oranges.
Mextcans  150 176-200
Cal. Seedlings__
Fancy Navels 112  ..
126 to 216.................
Lemons. 
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s„
Fancy 360s........
Ex.Fancy 300s...... .
Bananas.

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

@3 50 
®3 25

@3  25 
@3 25 
@4 00 
@4.50

@1  50 
@2  00

Foreign Dried  Fruits 

Figs.

Choice, 101b boxes..
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy, 121b  boxes..
Fancy, 50 lb boxes..
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 6lb boxes...
Naturals,  in  bagB...
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in  60 ib cases 
Persians, H. M. B., 60
lb cases, new........ 
Sairs,  601b cases 
 

@  10
@  12 
@  13 
@  14
@  14 
@  13 
@  6

@  6
@ 6
@  4%

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @12
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new...............
9 
Filberts  ................
@10 @13 
Walnuts, G renobles.. 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
@11
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@ 10 @12 
Table Nuts,  fancy....
Table Nuts,  choice...
@10 
Pecans, Med...............
@ 8 
Pecans, Ex. Large.. . ."
@10
Pecans,  Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Choice, H. P., Extras!
Choice. H. P.,  Extras,

Roasted..............

Roasted 

.........

@ 6 Vi
@  6 Vi @ 4
©  5 V4

@1  75 
@4  50

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

Oats.

Hay.

No. 1 Timothy carlots........  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__ 10 00

Crackers.

TheN. Y.  Biscuit  do.  quotes 

as follows:

Butter.

Soda.

Oyster.

Seymour XXX...................  512
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6
Family XXX......................  5^
Family XXX, 31b  carton..  6
Salted XXX........................  5y
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  6
Soda  XXX  ........................  «u
Soda  XXX, 31b carton__  (">4
Soda,  City.........................
Zephyrette............... ]]]].”’ 10 2
Long Island  Wafers....]]]  11 
L. I. Wafers, 11b carton  ..  12
Square Oyster, XXX.........   6
Sq. Oys. XXX, l  lb carton.  7 
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   6
SWEET  00005—Boxes.
Animals.............................  ¡g
Bent’s Cold Water............   13
Belle Rose....................]]]  g
Cocoanut Taffy..............]]  9
Coffee Cakes................... ]  8Vi
Frosted Honey.................]  43
Graham Crackers  __ ..]]]  g
Ginger Snaps, XXXround.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla...................  g
Imperials............................   8vi
Jimmies,  Honey.................  u
Molasses Cakes................. ] g
Marshmallow  ..................]  15
Marshmallow  Creams........  ig
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......   gu
Pretzelettes, Little German  6V4
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas............................  12
Sears'Lunch..................]]] 714
Vanilla  Square..................  814
Vanilla  Wafers...............   it
Pecan Wafers....................   1514
Mixed Picnic................] ] 
1054
Cream Jumbles.................  1114
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   814
lo
Chimmie Fadden............  
Pineapple Glace................]  16
Penny Cakes.......................   gu
Marshmallow  Walnuts..]]  16 
Belle Isle Picnic................  11

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Mess  ........
Back  ......
Clear  back. 
Short cut.. 
Pig.
Bean  .............................  
Family  ..................

Dry Salt  Meats.

Bellies.........
Briskets  .  ... 
Extra  shorts.

8  50 
11  00
9  50 
9  50
14  (JO Oo 
g
9  50

Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb average  __  
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 Id  average...... 
Hams, 20 lb  average......
Ham dried beef  ............  
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear...........7Vi@»Vi
California hams............  
Boneless bams...........  
9
Cooked  ham................... 
Lards.  In Tierces.

9
844
8)4
15
644
544
11

4
514

Compound..................  
Kettle........................ 
56 lb Tubs.......... advance 
a
u
80 lb Tubs.......... advance 
50 lb T ins...........advance 
>4
201 b Pails...........advance 
Vi
10 lb Pails...........advance 
44
5 lb Palls...........advance  %
3 lb Pails...........advance 

1

Sausages.

5 55

5 45
g 35

Bologna......
Liver............
Frankfort__
P ork............
Blood  .........
Tongue ........
Head  cheese.

Extra  Mess....................  9 00
Boneless  ....................  12 z5
Rump.............................]ia 50

Pigs’ Feet.

Kits, 15 lbs......................  80
H  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  50
Vi  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 80

Tripe.

Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
75
V4  bbls, 40 lbs..............].  1  40
Vi  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 75

Casings.

P ork.................. 
 
Beef  rounds................... 
Beef  middles.................  
Sheep.............................  

 

Butterine.

Rolls, dairy................... 
Solid,  dairy.................... 
Rolls,  creamery......... ] 
Solid,  creamery............  

Canned  Meats.

16
4%
10
go

10
914
14
13^4

Corned  beef,  2 lb........... 2 10
Corned  beef, 14  lb..........14  00
Roast  beef,  2 lb.........   2 i0
Potted  ham,  V£s.........  
80
Potted  ham,  Vis.........   1  00
Deviled ham,  vis.........   60
Deviled ham,  Vis.........   1  00
Potted  tongue Qs.........   60
Potted  tongue Vis.........   1  00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................5Vi® 7Vi
F ore q u arters............... 5  @  e
H ind  q u arters.............  7  @  9
Loins  No.  3................  9  ®12
Ribs............................  g  @12
Rounds......................  6 Vi®  7Vi
Chucks.......................  4  @ 5
Plates  .......................  @ 3

Pork.

Dressed......................  @4
§{>ln*  ......................   @  6
Shoulders...................  @ 5
Leaf Lard.............  5

Mutton.

Carcass......................6
Spring Lambs............ 8

Barrels.

Eocene  . . .
XXX W.W.Mich 
W W Michigan 
Diamond White
D., S. Gas........
Deo. Naptha  ..
Cylinder........
Engine  .........
B ack, winter.

@llVi 
@  8 Vi 
® 8 
@ 7 
@ 8 
@  7 Vi 
@36 
@21 
@ 8

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

Vi gal., per doz..............
1  to 6 gal., per gal...........
8 gal., per g a l.................
10 gal., per gal..................
12 gal., per gal............. ..
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..
*
2 to 6 gal., per gal......  ...
Churn Dashers, per doz... 

Churns. 

Milkpans.

5Vi
85

Vi gal. flat or rd.  hot., doz.
60
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each 
5Vi
Fine Qlazed Milkpans.
Vi gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  5Vi 

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per doz..................  40
Vi gal., per doz..................  50
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   6Vi
Vi gal., per doz.................   70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for Vi gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
Vi gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun..........................  
45
No.  1  Sun.......................  
50
No.  2 Sun..........................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, N o.  1...........]]]]] 
65
  85
Security, No. 2............... 
Nutmeg  ............................ 
50
Climax...............................  j  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common. 
_  
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun.........................]  1  88
No.  2 Sun.........................]  2 70

First  Quality.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

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

crimp  top,
crimp 
top,
crimp  top,

XXX Flint.

No. 
No. 
No. 

0 Sun, 
1 Sun, 
2 Sun, 

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

La  Bastle.

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

Rochester.

Electric.

Pump  Cans

OIL CANS. 

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........  3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz).. 
..  4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........  4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)____  4 40
Doz. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv Iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3  50 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 75 
3 gal galv iron with faucet  4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet  5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  8 00
5 gal galv iron  Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule.... ...........10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 50
LANTERNS.
No.  0Tubular......  .........   4  25
No.  IB  Tubular...]. 
...  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C 
No.  3 Street  Lamp  .........  3 75
LANTERN  OLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cas.es 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box  15  cents.........   45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls  5 doz.
each, bbl 35:....................  40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1 doz. each......... 
1  25
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross...................  20
No. 1 per gross................... 
25
No. 2 per gross  .................   33
No. 3 per gross................... 
53
Mammoth........................... 
79

STARCH.

V1NB0 AR.

Malt White Wine................ 
7
Pure  Cider.......................... .]  g

Washing Powder

. 

Pure Cane.

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

Shearlings...............
Barrels.......................... ...1 6
Half  bbls...................... ...1 8
Old  Wool...............
Furs.
Fair  ............................. ..  16
Good......................
..  20 Mink....................
Choice..............
Coon...................
..  26
0@  90
..............  50®  1  00
Skunk  ... 
Muskrats, fall...........  6@ 
12
Muskrats, spring......   @
Muskrats, w inter....  12®  18
Red Fox................... 1  25®  1  50
Gray Fox..................  40®  70
Cross Fox  ............... 2 5i @ 5 00
Badger......................  20®  60
Cat, W ild.................  15®  40
Cat, House...............  
io@  20
Fisher........................3 50® 7 00
Lynx  . 
1  O'® 2 00
Martin, Dark............. 1 50® 3 00
Martin, Yellow.......  75©  1  50
gtter.......................... 5 to® 9 00
Wolf.........................  75®  1  50
Bear.......................... 7 oo@15 ( 0
Beaver....................... 2 00®  6 00
Beaver Castors.........  ®  8 00
Opossum..................  
15
Deerskin, dry, per lb.  15®  25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb.  10®  15

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

Clark-JeweU-WeUs Co.’s brand.
New  Brick........................ 35 00

H. A P. Drug Co.’s brand.

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

5® 

 

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

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 

Star Green.........................35 oo

Wool.

Washed 
.................14
Unwashed............... .17
niscelloneous.

@23 
@17

Tallow.......................   2Vi® 3u
Grease Butter............   1  @ 2
Switches  ...................  lu®  9
Ginseng......................  @3 25

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
The  Drug  Mai icet.

■ 22

Drugs-=Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term  expires
-  Dec. 31, 1897
-  Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 3t, 1900
-  Dec. 31,1901

S.  E.  Pa r k iix , Owosso 
F.  W. R.  Pe r r y .  Detroit 
A. (j.  Schu m ach er.  Ann  Arbor 
G eo. G u n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L. E. R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
- 

--------  
- 

- 

President, F. W. R.  P e r r y , Detroit.
Secretary, G eo.  Gu nd rum , Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Sch u m ach er, Ann Arbor. 

Examination  Sessions.

Detroit—Tuesday, Jan. 4 and 5.
Grand Rapids—March 1 and 3.
Star Island—Juue 37 and 28.
Marquette—About Sept. 1.
Lansing—Nov.  1 and 2.

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

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. W e b b e r , Cadillac.
Secretary—C h as.  Ma n n ,  Detroit.
Treasurer—J o h n   D.  Muir. Grand Rapids.

Fallacies  Regarding  the  Druggist  and 

His  Vocation.

Written for the T r ad esm an.

lime,  truth 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that,  while a hun­
dred  errors  of  this  nature  will  be  scat­
tered  broadcast  among  the  people  in  a 
brief  period  of 
is  so  ex­
tremely  slow  in  its  dissemination.  This 
is  more  particularly  the -case among  the 
uneducated  and  thoughtless,  and  is  the 
most  perplexing  feature  to  contend  with 
in  such  a  field.  Our  native  Yankee  is 
inquisitive  human  being 
the  most 
known,  and  will 
invent  the  most  ir- 
genious  and  often  amusing  “ ways  and 
means”  
to  accomplish  his  purpose. 
First,  fiom  the  very  nature  of  the  drug 
business,  much  of  it  is  a  sealed  book  to 
the  uninitiated  and  therefore,  on  that 
account,  erroneously coupled with  fraud. 
A  man  or  woman  enters  a  drug  store 
with  a  prescription  from  a  physician, 
and  either  their  anxiety  concerning  the 
patient,  or  want  of  confidence 
in  the 
physician  employed,  causes  them  to 
question  the  druggist,  almost  to  the 
verge  of  impertinence.  The  customer 
may  not  know  that 
is  a  breach  of 
trust  or  propriety  tor  the  druggist  to ex­
plain  to  them  in  detail  the  nature  of,  or 
object 
the  medicine  pre­
scribed,  or  even  to  converse  with  them 
upon  that  subject,  and 
is  only  by 
courtesy  that  he  may  briefly  answer  a 
few  questions  concerning  it.  The  party 
employing  a  physician  should  possess 
confidence 
in  him,  and  converse  with 
him  alone  regarding  everything  con­
nected  with  the  patient’s  disease  and 
treatment.

in  using, 

it 

it 

It 

Our  native  American  is  altogether too 
inquisitive,  even  many  times  to  rude­
ness,  while  the  native  of  the  Old  World 
has  been  taught  to  repose  more  confi­
in  both  the  physician  and  the 
dence 
apothecary. 
is  a  common  error  to 
infer  that  the  prescription  of  a  physi­
cian  and  the  ordinary  recipes  and  for­
mulas  of  farmers,  mechanics  and  non- 
professional  persons  should  all  be  en­
titled  to  the  same  rules  and  deference 
from  the  chemist  and  druggist,  when 
called  upon  to  prepare  and  dispense 
them.  With  the  physician’s  prescrip­
tion  the  rules  are  inexorable,  while  the 
domestic  formulas  from  all other  classes 
of  people  may  be  discussed  from  every 
standpoint,  by  any  person,  and  may  be 
altered  and  changed  in  kind  and  quan­
tity,  if  consented  to  by  the  owner,  pre­
supposing 
that  the  druggist 
possesses  a  thorough  knowledge not only 
of  the  nature  of  the  drugs  wanted,  but 
also  their  minimum  and  maximum 
dose,  and  their  liability  to  spontaneous 
combustion  when combined.  En passant, 
we  may  add  that  in  some  of  our  states 
the  courts  have  decided  that  the  drug-

always 

gist  who  fills  a  physician’s  prescription 
is  entitled  and  expected  to  retain  and 
place  the  original  on  file,  consecutively 
numbered  and  dated,  for  his  own  pro­
tection,  and  the  party  obtaining  the 
medicine  may  only  demand  an  exact 
copy  of  it.  A  man  with  whom  I  was 
acquainted  entered  a  drug  store,  having 
a  prescription  from  a well-known  physi­
cian.  Handing  it  to  the  proprietor,  in 
whose  presence  I  was standing,  be  said : 
‘ ‘ Please  prepare  this  while  I  wait; 
and,”   he  added,  placing  a  finger  upon 
one item—pulv.  Opu.  grs.  X .--“ you will 
omit  that,  as  I  would  rather  the  patient 
should  not  take 
The  druggist 
answered: 
“ Pardon  me,  Mr.  Gray,
but  I  cannot  change  a  physician’s  pre­
scription  in  the  least.  I must either  pre­
pare  it  as  only  he  directs,  or  not  at  all.
I  will  assume no responsibility  in taking 
from  or  adding  to  a  physician’s  pre­
scription.”   Mr!  Gray  rather  curtly  re­
plied  that  he  “ thought  all  druggists 
would  not  be  as  particular and  he would 
go  elsewhere.”   And  he  did.

it.”  

It 

is  quite  a  common  error,  among 
even  fairly  well-educated  persons, 
to 
imagine  that  much  deception  is  prac­
ticed  by  druggists  generally  in  connec­
tion  with  their  everyday  sales.  Here  is 
the  basis  of  that  error:  Two 
ladies 
visit  a  store  in  company.  One  asks  for 
epsom  salts  and  muriatic  acid.  They 
are  put  up  for  her  and  labeled  as  en­
quired  for,  the  first  in  a  paper  package, 
the  other—a 
liquid—in  a  vial.  Her 
companion  then  presents  an  order  for 
sulphate  of  magnesia  and  spirit  of  salt; 
and,  to  the  surprise  of  both  ladies  these 
also  are  dispensed  from  the same bottles 
and 
labeled  with  the  last  two  names. 
An  explanation 
is  required.  But  the 
druggist  has  practiced  no  deception 
and  still  has  dispensed  exactly  what 
each  called  for. 
is  often  difficult  to 
convince  the  customer  that  the  drug 
they  are  purchasing  may  be  known 
in 
medical  nomenclature  by  from  two  to 
six  entirely  different  technical  names, 
and  often  as  many  more  known  as 
“ common  names,”   in  use  by  the  peo­
ple  generally,  all  of  which  are  correct 
and  desirable. 
In  fact,  there  are  com­
paratively  few  druggists  who  are  per­
fectly  familiar  with  all  the  more  com­
mon  names  of  the  great  number  of 
botanic  medicines  known  as  “ simples” 
which  it  has  become  necessary  to  keep 
in  stock.

It 

it 

spoken 

As  a  rule,  it  is  a  mistake  of  the drug­
gist,  when  a  customer  calls  for  a  medi­
cine— it  matters  not  how  cheap  or  sim­
ple—to  question  his  use  of  it,  or  to  dis 
couiage  the  use  of  it,  if  he  personally 
knows  it  to  be  harmless.  Even  a  word 
concerning 
inadvertently, 
leading  him  to  think  he  has  blundered 
or  is  ignorant  of  its  use,  may  drive  the 
customer  from  your  store  permanently. 
Scarcely  a  year  ago  I  witnessed  an  ob 
ject  lesson  of  this  kind.  A  well-dressed 
gentleman  entered  a  drug  store  and 
asked  fur  half  an  ounce  of  chloride  of 
soda.  A  faint  smile  overspread 
the 
face  of  the  clerk,  who  replied,  “ Tom,
I  think  you  have  plenty  of  it  at  borne, 
and  need  not  buy  it,  as  it  is  only  com­
mon  salt,  you  know.”  
I  thought,  on 
the  instant,  that  the  “ you  know”   would 
let  the  man  out;  but  in  the  presence  of 
several  strangers  it  apparently  did  not, 
for  his  face  reddened  on  the  instant,  as 
he  replied,  “ Yes,  I  know,  of  course, 
but  I  thought  you  might  have  a  strictly 
pure  article  for  medicinal  purposes. ”  
The  man  was  offended  and, 
to  my 
certain  knowledge,has  never  entered the 
store  since,  although  his  residence  is 
near  by. 

F r a n k  A.  Howig.

Opium— Is  steady  and  unchanged.
Morphine—Is  firm  at  the  recent  ad­

vance,  with  good  demand.

Quinine—On  account  of  large  offer­
ings  of  bark  at  the  Amsterdam  sales  on 
the  qth,  lower  prices  were  paid  and 
quinine  has  declined  2c  for  all  brands. 
This  was  unexpected,  as  an  advance 
was  looked  for  rather  than  a  decline.

Acids— The  market 

is  steady,  with 
the  exception  of  boracic,  which  is  very 
firm,  with  an  advance  looked  for.

Balsams—Copaiba  is  firm  and  in  good 
is  firm  and  stocks  are 

demand.  Peru 
light.

Cocaine—Market 

is  strong  and 

a 

further  advance  is  looked  for.

Cubeb Berries— Have advanced abroad 
and  prices  here  have  an  upward  tend­
ency.

Essential  Oils —Lemon  grass  has  ad­
vanced  over 
ioo  per  cent.  Stocks  are i 
very  light  and  only  small  packages  can 
be  had.  Orange  is  firm,  but  unchanged.
Gums—Camphor  is  quiet,  on  account 
of  the  season,  but  firm  in  price.  Japan 
is again  being  imported  in  large  quan­
in  good  demand,  on  ac­
tities  and 
count  of 
appearance. 
Guaiac  is  lower.

is 
its  handsome 

Juniper  Berries—The  better  grades 
in  small  stock  and  the  market  is 

are 
firmer,  with  an  upward  tendency.

Leaves— Short buchu are slightly lower. 
Senna  are  firm  and  the  better  grades 
are  scarce.

Roots—Columbo 

Mercurials—Are quiet and unchanged, 
but  on  account  of  the  decline  in  quick­
silver,  lower  prices  may  be  looked  for.
is  very  scarce  and 
advancing  rapidly. 
is 
the  market 
Golden  seal 
is  quiet  and  unchanged. 
Serpentaria  is  scarce  and  firm.  Gentian 
and  hellebore  are 
in  small  supply  in 
the  primary  markets,  and  high  prices 
will  rule  next  year.
A  German  Druggist’s  Experience with 

Advertising.

you  dinks?  Dot  feller  he  print  in  dot 
newsbaber  t  ree  bounts in each backage ! 
I  was  mat  as  nefer  vos.  I  dakes  dot 
shentleman  py  the  seat  mit  his  pants 
und  I  drows  him  indo  der  sfatreet  oud. 
Chiminy  grickeds!  I  dinks  I  pooty  near 
exshblode!  Tree  bounts  in  each  back- 
age!  only  den  cents!  Vy,  cert’inly,  oof 
gorse,  you  bet  dere  was‘ no  quinine,  no 
antibyrine  in  id,  at  ten  cents  for  t’ree 
bounts!  All  der  heebies  gome  runnin’ 
do  my  shtore  vor  dem  Headache  Bow- 
ders,  und  dey  pring  marget-paskets 
mit  dem  to  garry  it  avay.  I  dinks  I  vas 
a  tarn  vool  to  atferdise  in  der  news- 
babers— vot  you  dinks’ ?’

A  story  is  told  of  a  colored  preacher 
who  was  holding  a  meeting  in  a  large 
tobacco  barn  in  a  rural  district  in  Ken­
tucky.  An  empty  tobacco  hogshead 
was  impressed  into  service  as  an  eleva­
tion  upon  which  to  stand  while  deliver­
ing  his  discourse.  Warming  up  with 
his  subject,  he  soon  became  excited. 
Throwing  his  arms 
into  the  air  above 
his  head,  and  elevating  one  foot,  he 
exclaimed:  “ De  righteous  shall  rise 
and  de  wicked  shall 
fall!”   At  the 
word  “ fall”   he  brought  his  foot  down 
vehemently  upon  the  head  of  the  hogs­
head,  and  like  a  flash  it  gave  way,  and 
he  dropped  out  of  sight,  being  short  of 
stature.  Amid  the  precipitated  uproar 
he  reached  up  and  grasped  the  chime 
of  the  barrel and drew himself into view, 
shouting,  “ Bress  God,  dey  shall  rise 
again !”

* C . B /
Gouqh  I 
Dropsj

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I  * 

—>’ 

’   I  
1
1  MANUFACTURED  by 
[THE  C.BLOtt, J r J  
CANDY CO.,  J 
• HOLLAND,-Mini!

“ Dot  newsbaber  feller  hecoomaroun’ 
‘ Mr.  Schmidt,  bleas,  an 
und  say  he, 
atfertisement  oph  your  peezness. ’ 
I 
say,  ‘ Geet  owet,  I  don’t  got  no  money 
for  such  dings— it’s  all  blagued  non­
sense,  dis  atterdising.’  But  bimeby, 
bretty  soon,  dot  feller  he  make  me  be­
lief  I  makes  a  gross-big  vortune  eef  I 
atverdise  mit  his  newsbaber—so  I  say, 
‘ Ferry  veil,  I  atlerdise.’  But,  chiminy 
grickeds! 
I  tou’t  know  anyt’ ings  vot 
to  say 
in  dot  atferdisement!  Nefer 
mind— I  t’inks  I  gif  him  choots  such  a 
leetle  lapel  like  dis— ”

( Here  he  handed  me  the  label  of  a 
package  of  headache  powder,  which 
read,  “ Gustavus  Schmidt's  Fatherland 
H jadache  Powder—warranted  to  con­
tain  no  quinine,  anti-pyrine,  or  other 
hurtful  drugs.  Three  powders  in  each 
package.  Price  io  cents. ” )

“ Und  I  dells  him,  ‘ Dere—you  huts 
dot  in  der  newsbaber  vor  mine  atfer­
disement—now,  geet  owet!'

“ Now  vot  you  dinks?  Dot  feller  he 
come  aroun 
t’ree,  vour  day  later,  und 
he  gif  me  a  pill  vor  dot  atferdisement.
I  vorgit  all  about  dot  píame  atfertis- 
ment  so  I  say,  ‘ Veil,  but  vurst  I  must 
see  id  in  the  haber. ’  Den  he  bulls  owet 
a  newbaber  mit  his  bocket,  und  he  put 
his  finger  up  in  one  leetle  gorner,  about 
so  pig  as  a  hallef  eench,  und  I  reat  my 
atfertisement.  But,  holy  scbmoke!  vot

For  Sale  by  Leading  Jobbers.

Manufactured  by

H. VAN TONGEREN, Holland,  Mich.

For Sale  by All Jobbers.

M A S T E R  ” 
Y U M A ”

The beet 5 cent cigars ever made.  Sold by

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

B E S T   St  R U S S E L L   C O . ,   G h i o a o o . 

Treating  the  Traveling  Man  with  Due 

Respect.

Sidney Arnold In American Artisan.

‘ ‘ That  fellow  Snooks,”   said the  hard­
ware  salesman  to  his  fellow  members  of 
the  knights  of  the  grip  who  were  loun­
ging  around  the  hotel reading room,  “ is 
nothing  more  nor  less  than  a  howling 
boor  and  an  incarnate  curmudgeon. 
I 
called  on  him  to-day,  handed  him  my 
card,  and  asked  if  he  needed  anything 
in  our  line.  After  looking  at  my  card 
he  went  toward  the  front  of  his  store 
and  picked  up  a  newspaper  without 
deigning  to  pay  any  attention  whatever 
to  my  question.  On  my  repeating  the 
query  I  was  met  with  a  surly  snarl  and 
the  retort,  ‘ if  a  gentleman  couldn’t read 
his  paper  without  being  pestered  to 
death  by  one  of  those  pesky  fools  of 
I  quietly  remarked  that  1 
salesmen?’ 
didn’t  see  any  gentleman  present  who 
was  reading  a  paper  and  left  him.  Per­
sonally  I  would  like  to  get  a  good  green 
rawhide  whip  and  pound  a  lew  of  the 
fundamentals  of  ordinary  business  cour­
tesy  into  the  craniums  of  some  of  these 
uncouth  boors.”

“ There  can’t  be  any  question,”   said 
the  foundry  supply  man,  who  had  been 
an  attentive»  listener  to  the  hardware 
salesman’s  tale  of  woe,  “ but  that  this 
isn’t  fit  to  stay  in 
man  you  speak  of 
business,  and  his  churlish 
insolence 
will  soon  drive  him  into  a  commercial 
ostracism  which  he  richly  merits, 
notice  from  the  expressions  of  sympa­
thy  accorded  our  friend  here  that  the 
uncourteous  retailer  who  deliberately 
insulted  a  traveling  man  is  generally 
condemned,  ‘ thumbs  down’  being  the 
unanimous  decree.

light, 

‘ ‘ If  we  deal  thus  harshly  with  the 
boorish  retailer,  what shall  we  say  of the 
churlish  manufacturer?  There  may  be 
a  host  of  reasons  why 
it  may  be  ex­
cusable  for  a  retailer  to  turn  down  a 
traveling  man,  for  he  knows  nothing  of 
the  expense  of  sustaining  him  on  the 
road,  but  it  is  certainly  execrably  poor 
taste,  to  look  at  the  matter  in 
its  most 
charitable 
for  a  manufacturer, 
who  himself  employs traveling men,  and 
knows  what  it  costs  for  travelers  and 
expenses,  to  curtly  refuse  an  audience 
to  a  representative  for a  first-class  con­
cern.  You  can  wager  a  good  E  Pluribus 
Unum  dollar  to  a  burnt  doughnut  that 
a  manufacturer  wouldn’t  go  very  tar out 
of  his  way  to  favor a  dealer  who  had 
turned  down  one  of  his  traveling  men 
without  an  audience,  granted  that  the 
man  was  not  repulsed  on  account  of 
personal  offensiveness.  Besides  his  em­
ployer,  a  traveling  man,  be  he  ever  so 
inferior,  must  have  some  friends  whom 
he  might  influence  favorably or unfavor­
ably,  as  occasion  might  require,  in  re­
gard  to  any  particular  maker  or  dealer. 
This  treatment  of  travelers  resolves  it­
self 
into  a  question  of  whose  ox  is 
gored,  and  the  manufacturer  wants  a 
very  easy  blow  struck  when  he  is  the 
anvil,  but  wields  the  hammer  with  all 
the  force  he  can  command  when  the 
other  fellow  is  down.”
*  ’ *  *

‘ ‘ You  have  pretty  well  sized  up  the 
matter,”   said  the  competing  supply 
man,  “ but 
let  me  give  an  illustration 
from  the  personal  experience  of  one 
of  my 
friends.  A  certain  gentleman 
who  covers  the  entire  North  and  West, 
and  leading  Southern  points  as  well,  at 
least  once a  year,  calling  on  makers  of 
heating  apparatus,  was 
in  a  certain 
Eastern  city  recently  and  had  on  his 
list  a  certain  furnace  concern  located 
one  and  a  half  miles  from  town,  away 
from  car  lines  and  exceptionally 
inac­
cessible.  As  there  was  a  heavy  snow­
storm  and  as  the  head  of  this  furnace 
company  was  frequently  absent  on  busi­
ness  trips,  this  saleman  took  the  wise 
precaution  to  telephone  out  and  ascer­
tain 
if  the  party  he  wished  to  see  was 
in.  He  also  announced  his  intended 
visit,  and  made  the  trip  to  the  foundry 
in  the  storm.  On  his  arrival  he  found 
the  manufacturer  busy  and  consequently 
chatted  with  the  book-keeper  until  the 
train  he  wished  to take was pretty nearly 
due,  when  he  told  the  book-keeper  he 
would  like  to  see  Mr.  Manufacturer  be­
fore  going.  The  man  of  ledgers  went

upstairs  and  returned  to  announce  that 
Mr.  Blank  wished  to  be  excused 
Mr.  Salesman  asked  the  book-keeper 
how  many  traveling  men  bis  house  had 
on  the  road,  and  on  being  told  seven 
was  the  number,  asked  how  Mr.  Blank 
would  like  it  if  one  of  these  men  went 
to  Chicago  or  St.  Louis or other Western 
point  to  call  on  a  possible customer only 
to  be  excused  without  an  opportunity 
to  explain  the  object  of  that  particula 
visit.  By  this  time  it  dawned  on  the 
book-keeper  that  perhaps  his  boss  had 
been  a  trifle  remiss  in  the  extension 
of
customary  courtesies 
in  this  instance 
‘ You  ain’t  mad? 
so  he  naively  asked : 
Mr.  Salesman  replied  with  this  Par 
shot  as  he  bowed  himself  out 
^°V  a* 
I  have  too 
much  tact  for  that,  but Mr.  Blank  would 
be  mad  if  any  of  his  men  were  treated 
so.
Welcome  Decision  of  the  Supreme

I  assure  you. 

Court  Affecting  Peddlers.

Ionia,  Dec.  13—The  Supreme  Court 
has  affirmed  the  decision  of  the  Ionia 
Circuit  Court  sustaining  the  Ionia  city 
peddling  ordinance.  The  city  officials 
a  year  ago  got  after  G.  I.  Baker,  rep 
resenting  the  American  Wringer  Co. 
and  arrested  him  for  sending a peddlin; 
wagon  through  here  and  unloading  hr 
wares.  He  refused  to  pay  the  license 
of  S5  a  week,  and  the  court  held  that 
this_ was  a  reasonable  tax ;  also  that  the 
ordinance 
is  constitutional.  The  Su 
preme  Court  decision,  sustaining  thi: 
position,  affects  municipalities  all  over 
the  State.  Circuit  judges  everywhere 
have  held  contrary  to  Judge  Davis.  The 
city  of  Ionia  won 
in  Justice,  Circui 
and  Supreme  Courts,and  will  now  make 
it  hot  for  peddlers.

On  leceipt  of  this  encouraging 

infor 
mation,  the  Tradesman  immediately ap 
pealed  to  Chas.  Girard,  City  Clerk  of 
Ionia,  for  a  copy  of  the ordinance above 
referred  to.  Mr.  Girard  promptly  re­
sponded  to  the  request  and  the  Trades­
man  herewith  presents  those  paragraphs 
of  the  ordinance  which  have a  direct 
bearing  on  the  subject  of 
licensing 
peddlers,  as  follows :

Sec.  5.  Peddlers  or  persons  going 
about  said  city  on  foot  from  place  to 
place,  carrying  with  them  any  goods, 
wares,  supplies  or  property,  or  samples 
of  the  same,  and  selling  or  offering  for 
sale  the  same  either  by  sample  or other­
wise,  shall  pay  for  each  weekly 
license 
the  sum  of  five  dollars.  Peddlers  or 
persons  going  about  the  city  with  a 
wagon  or  vehicle,  drawn  bv  any  horse, 
mule  or  ox,  or any  team  of  either  of  thé 
same,  carrying  goods,  wares,  supplies, 
property  or  samples  of  Ihe  same,  selling 
or  offering  the  same  for  sale  by  sample 
or otherwise,  shall  pay  for each  weekly 
'icense  the  sum  of  five  dollars.

Any  person  selling  or  exposing  for 
sale  any  goods,  wares,  jewelry  or  prop­
erty  from  any  wagon,  hand  cart  or  show 
case,  or  show  stand  on  any  open  space, 
or  place  in  said  city,  either  by  sample 
or  otherwise,  shall  pay  a  weekly  license 
therefor  the  sum  of  five  dollars,  and  for 
each  day  less  than  one  week,  three  dol­
lars  per  day,  and  no such  goods  shall  be 
sold  on  any  public  street  or  open  space 
or  place  within  forty  feet  of  the  main 
street  of  said  city,  and 
it  shall  be  so 
specified  in  said  license.

This  section  shall  not  apply  to  any 
person  or  persons  selling 
ice,  vege­
tables,  fish,  meat  or  farm  pioduce,  nor 
to  bakers  delivering  bread  and  pastry 
to  their  customers  at  their  dwellings 
in 
said  city.

An  Increased  Popularity.

The  demand  for  patent  leather  shoes 
is 
increasing  with  every  year,  partic­
ularly among  young men.  Social  affairs 
of  every  description,  too,  have  their  in­
fluence  upon  this  particular  style  of 
shoe.  Time  was  when  a  man  could 
wear almost  any  kind  of  shoe,  barring 
russets,  with  evening  clothes,  but  to-day 
if  he  wears anything  but  a  pair  of light- 
soled  patent 
leathers  with  his  claw­
hammer  he  is  considered  something of a 
back  number.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Jennings’, genuine  ................................25*10
Jennings’, Imitation ...  .............................. 60*10

AXES

5  00
First Quality, S. B. Bronze........ 
........  9 30
First Quality, D. B. Bronze............  
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel............... ' ” "'  5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel............................  10 50

g a ^ o a d .............................................112 00  14 00

BARROWS

BOLTS

Stove............  
60*10
Carnage new list....................................  70 to 75
Plow.................................................  
an

 

 

Well,  plain......

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

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

BLOCKS

 

 

Cast Steel............................................ perlb  

CROW  BARS

70

4

CAPS

Ely’s  1-10... 
Hick’s C. F .
ti. D...........
Musket......

.per m 
.per m 
.perm 
.per m

CARTRIDGES
Kim Fire.  ................................. 
E.1 
Central  Fire

 

=n* s
....................................OU9t 0
CHISELS

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

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks............................ 
......... 50&
Taper and Straight Shank.  ..... 
Morse’s Taper Shank..............................'. .50&

(

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
;
Corrugated..............................................  
j 25
Adjustable..............................................dis 40* 10

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, $18;  large, 836........ 
Ives’, 1, #18; 2, #24; 3, #30  ......................' "  '

FILES—New  List
New American............................  
Nicholson’s................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............'.  ".eC*io

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

GALVANIZED  IRON
|6 

13 

14 

15 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

30*10

70*10
70

28
17

GAUGES

70
80

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

KNOBS—New List
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings 
...!. 
MATTOCKS

 

NAILS

Adze Eye............................. .......#16 00, dis 60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................#15 00, dis 60*10
Hunt 8........................................ #18 50, dis 20*10
Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire
Steel nails, base...........................................  
j  55
Wire nails, base............................. . . ” ..” !  1
  Base
80 to 60 advance...........................  
10 to 16 advance..................................................06
8 advance.......................................................... 10
6 advance......................................' 
gg
4 advance.......................................................... 30
3 advance............................... .  ” "  ”
45
2 advance......
Fine 3 advance..........................................  
  gg
Casing 10 ad vance.............................................. jg
Casing  8 ad vance..............................................25
Casing  6 advance.............................................. 35
Finish 10 advance..............;...................’ ’ 
gg
Finish  8 advance.............................................. 35
"inish  ¿advance........................ .............  45
Barrel % advance...............................................gg

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MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s................................
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies.
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s..............
Coffee, Enterprise.....................................

40 
40 
40 
30

MOLASSES  OATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine................................. ’ ” ] 60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring........................", 
30

PLANES

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

 

PANS

Fry, Acme .  ............................................60*10*10
79*  g
Common, polished.................................. 
Iron and T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs..............................'. 
go

RIVETS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list........................dis  3$-*
Kip’8  ...................................................... dit 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s..................................... di« 10*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c lisi 
70
Blacksmith’s soUd Cast Steel Hand 30c 11» .40*10

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

HINGES

70
514
g

SHEET  IRON

WIRE  GOODS

......per doz. net

HOLLOW  WARB

LEVELS
ROPES

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

inch and  larger........ 
SQUARES

Stamped Tin Ware........................ new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................  20&10
Granite iron  Ware........................ new list 40*10
„ 
P°to-............................................................  60*1
£ e“ leS ...........................................................
Spiders......................................................... t>0*iu
Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3...............................<iis eo*iu
State.
2  no
Bright..................................
Screw Eyes.................................................
Hook’s.............................
Gate Hooks and Eyes__!!!” !” ” !.” ” ”
„ 
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.................dis
Sisal, 
Manilla............................................ ' ''  '' '' 
„ 
. 
Steel and Iron.............................
Try and Bevels............ ..............................
Mitre......................................."."I".".".".'” "
, T 
com. smooth
Nos. 10 to 14..................................#g 70
Nos. 15 to 17.................................  2 70
Nos. 18 to 21............................ 
2 80
Nos. 22 to 24.......................... '  3 00
Nos. 25 to 26.............................. 
3  10
No.  27..........................................  320 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
, ,  
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... ..
„ 
Solid Eyes....................................... per ton  20 00
Steel, Game........................................... 
60*10
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ” ... 
50
Oneida Community, Hawley * Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker............................per doz 
15
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 
1  25
Bright Market.............................  
7=
Annealed  Market............... 75
Coppered  Market........................................ 7n*m
Tinned Market................................ " .........
Coppered Spring  Steel.............. ” ”   .......... 
S
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ..............o ig
Barbed  Fence,  painted............... . . . . . . .  . .  1  80
................................................. dis 40*1C
e

com. 
<2 40 
2 40 
2 45 
2 55 
2 65 
a  10
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

HORSE  NAILS
Putnam......   .............................. 
Northwestern....................dis 10*10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled................. 
33
Coe’s Genuine.....................................  ......  
gg
80
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought  ” ! ” ” 
gg
Coe’s Patent, malleable..........................        
Bird  Cages  ........................................ 
gg
Pumps, Cistern.......................... 
og
S’
Screws, New List............................  
Casters, Bed and  Plate............... ”   ” ”  50*10*10
gg
Dampers, American............................... 
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METALS—Zinc
600 pound casks..........................  
au
Per pound........................................” ” ” ” 
6K
SOLDER
-  - 
jgu
...................................  
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  varv 
according to  composition.
10x14 ic, Charcoal........................................#575
14x20 IC, Charcoal
...........  5  75
20x14 EX, Charcoal....................
7 00

MISCELLANEOUS

Each additional X on this grade, #1.25]

TIN—Melyn Grade

TRAPS

WIRE

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TIN—Allaway Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................... 
5 nn
14x20 IC, Charcoal................. 
..............   g  nn
10x14 IX, Charcoal.............. 
..............  2  £
14x20 IX, Charcoal.......................................... (00

Each additional X on this grade, #1.50. 
ROOFING  PLATES
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................... 
5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean............ . 
..........  r nn
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean............... 10 00
4 50
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.. . ” ” ”  g  5g
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade........... 
9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00
14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers! f per P°und  - • 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Comparative  Pulling  Power  of  City 

and  Country  Advertising.

Written  for the T r ad esm an.

One  reason  why  an  advertisement 

in 
the  country  newspaper  of  to-day  does 
not  have  the  effect  of  pulling  trade  as 
does  the  city  advertisement  is  because 
of  the  fact  that  trade 
in  the  country 
towns  might  be  more  properly  termed 
“ dicker.”   Very  little  cash  comes  into 
the  hands  of  the  farmer  in  trading  with 
the  country  merchant.  His  goods  are 
purchased with  the  products of his  farm 
and  it  would  be  safe  to  say  that  not  one 
farmer  in  tour  purchases  his  merchan­
dise  with  cash.  There 
is  nothing  that 
will  put  a  business  edge  on  a  man  so 
much  as  the  handling  of  money.  There 
is  something  magical  in  its  clink,  whil 
the  rustle  of  a  bright  new  bill  or the soft 
swish  of  an  old  one  nerves  a  man  up  to 
the  realities  of  life  and  makes  him  feel 
is  not  all  a  “ fleeting 
that  this  world 
show,”   or,  if 
it  is,  he  has  the  price  of 
admission  and  isn’t  compelled  to  carry 
water  for  the  elephant,  and  that 
ii 
practically  what  the  farmer  is  doing  to 
day.

Pay  your farmer  cash  for  his produce, 
let  him  know  that  there  is  such  a  thing 
as  money,  let  him  handle 
it,  let  him 
take  it  home  with  him,  and  then  come 
out  in  your  home  paper  with  a  live  ad 
vertisement  and  see  if  it  will  not  pull 
trade.  Why  should  the  farmer  be  un 
der  the  present  system  of  doing  busi 
ness?  An  article  in  merchandise  means 
to  him  so  many  dozen  of  eggs,  so  many 
pounds  of  butter,  so  much  this  and  si 
much  that.  Nothing  that  he  sells  ap 
pears  to  have  a  cash  value,  because  he 
does  not  receive  the  cash  for  it. 
It  i 
true  that  his  grain,  his  wood,  his  stock 
brings  cash,  but  he  doesn’t  have  it  long 
enough  to  realize  that  it  is  money. 
It 
is  used  for  taxes,  for  interest,  for  ma 
If  he 
cbinery. 
could  keep 
it  in  small 
amounts  it  would  prove  a  revelation  to 
him.

It  all  goes  in  a  bunch. 

it  and  spend 

Sharp,  shrewd  business  men  like  to 
deal  with  “ business  men.”   Then  why 
doesn't  the  country  merchant  make 
business  men  of  his  farmer  customers? 
He  can  do  it.  Let  him  pay  them  the 
money  fot  their  produce  and  it  will  not 
be 
long  before  that  business  man  will 
have  a  cash  trade  and  his  ledger  will 
not  be  so  full  of  running  accounts. 
I 
have  often  heard  merchants  say  that 
such  and  such  a  farmer  came  in  and 
got  trusted  for  goods  when  he  had  the 
money  in  his  pocket.  Can  you  blame 
the  farmer  for  doing  this?  If  he  had  al­
ways  received  cash  for  his  produce  he 
would  pay  cash.  The  merchants  say 
they  pay  cash  for  produce.  But,  have 
you  noticed  that  it  is  from  io  to  15  per 
cent,  less  than  they  will  pay  in  mer­
chandise?  If a  farmer  should  happen  to 
have  cash  he  would  be  foolish  to  pay  it 
out  when  it  will  buy  less  goods  than  his 
produce  will  get.  No  one  realizes  the 
term  “ per  cent.”   more  than  the  farm­
er,  and  when  a  merchant  pays  14  cents 
for  eggs  in  trade  and  10  cents  in  cash 
he  is driving  money out of circulation  in 
country  towns  more  effectually  than  any 
currency 
it.  The 
country  merchant  says  to  the  farmer, 
is  worth  less  in  money 
“ Your  produce 
than 
in  merchandise,”   when  the 
value  of  both  should  be  the  same.  No 
business  can  be  truly  successful  when 
run  on  a  false  financial  basis.

legislation  can  do 

is 

it 

When  the  farmer  receives  the  cash for 
his  produce,  the  pulling  power  of  the 
country  newspaper  advertisement  will 
be  as  strong  as  that  of  the  city  adver­
tisement,  if  not  a  great  deal  stronger.

The  farmer  can  then  say  to  his  wife, 
“ Mary  Ann,  we  have  $5  worth  of  prod­
uce,  according  to  the  market  report; 
and,  looking  over  the  various advertise­
ments,  I  notice  that  Smith,  the clothier, 
is  selling  a  fine  pair  of  dollar  gloves  for 
50  cents;  I  believe  I’ll  get  a  pair. 
Brown,  the  jeweler,  is  cleaning  clocks 
for  75  cents  this  week;  we  had  better 
take  the  old  clock  down  and  have  her 
cleaned  up.  Clark,  the  grocer,  is  sell­
ing  wooden ware  for  one-third  off ;  there 
are a number of things  mentioned  that 
we  want.  Jones, 
the  harness  man,  is 
having  a  run  on  halters;  I  guess  I’ll 
drop 
in  and  buy  a  couple.  Williams, 
the  dry  goods  dealer,  is  selling  factory 
one-third  off;  don’t  you  think  we  had 
better  buy  some  of  it?”   etc.,  etc.  He 
goes  to  town,  drops  into  the  dry  good 
store,  buys  his  factory,  gets  the  balance 
in  money  and  purchases  the  other  arti 
cles  that  he  has  read  about  in  the  home 
paper.

is 

But  how 

it  now?  He  comes  to 
town.  No  one  pays  cash  for  produce, 
or,  if  they  do,  it  is  way  below  merchan 
dise  prices.  He  goes  and  purchases  his 
factory  and  gets  the  balance  in  money 
which,  figured  out 
in  “ cash  prices,’ 
makes  him  short  and  he  hasn’t  enough 
money  to  purchase  what  he  calculated 
upon.  He 
is  compelled  to  go  without 
some  of  the  articles  of  merchandise. 
Which  shall  it  be?  All  of  the  adver­
tisements  have  appealed  to  him,  one  as 
strongly as  the  other;  but  now  these  ad­
vertisements have lost some of their pull 
ing  power.  His  plans  are  upset  and 
when  he  goes  home  he  feels 
inter 
ested  in  the  advertisement  of  the  coun­
try  merchant  than  he  did.

less 

C l y d e   W .  F r a n c i s .

Responsible  for  Excess  Baggage. 

From the New York Dry Goods Chronicle

away  back 

At  last  it  is  decided,  if  it  hasn’t  been 
before,  that  a  railroad  company  is  re­
sponsible  for  the  safe  carriage of sample 
trunks  and  contents.  John  E.  Mercer, 
representing  two  firms  of  Columbus, 
Ohio, 
in  March,  1893, 
shipped  four  trunks  on  the  line  of  the 
Toledo  &  Ohio  Central  Railway,  pay­
ing  excess  baggage 
for  each  trunk. 
They  were  destroyed 
in  a 
wreck,  and  the  company  refused  to  pay 
for  them,  claiming 
it  was  responsible 
only  for  the  passenger's  own  wearing 
apparel.

fire 

by 

loss  or  damage. 

The  case  was  tried  in  a  district court, 
and  the  court  held  that  by  accepting 
the  payment  for  the  baggage  that  was 
n  excess  of  the  passenger’s  ordinary 
allotment  the  company  incurred liability 
for 
The  Supreme 
Court  of  Ohio  has  confirmed  this  rui­
ng.  The  amount  of  the  judgment  is 
$959,  which  the  company  must  pay.
Thus,  all  the  bluffing  by  means  of 
releases  that  didn't  release  the  passen­
ger  from  paying  for  excess  baggage 
comes  to  naught,  as  it  should. 
It  has 
taken 
justice  four  and  a  half  years  to 
settle  this  simple  question,  but  it  is  un­
doubtedly  settled  right  at  last.  Paste 
this  decision 
in  y.  ur  note-book,  boys, 
information  of  other  railroad 
for  the 
officials.  They,  poor 
innocents,  will 
never  know  of  it  if  you  don't

Unsophisticated  Traveler, 

Ireland, 

rom the San Francisco News-Letter.
A  native  of 

landing  at 
Greenock,  wanted  to  take  the  train  to 
lasgow.  Never  having  been  in  a  rail­
way  station  before,  he did not  know  how 
to  get  his  ticket.  Seeing  a  lady,  how­
ever,  going 
in,  Pat  thought  he  would 
follow  her  and  he  would  soon  know  bow 
to  get  aboard.  The  lady,  going  to  the 
ticket  box  and  putting  down her money, 
said,  “ Maryhill,  single.”   Her  ticket 
was  duly  handed  to  her,  and  she walked 
off.  Pat,  thinking  it  all  right,  planked 
down  his  money  and  shouted,  “ Patrick 
Murphy,  married!”

Wny  Wisconsin  Has  Eclipsed  Mich­

igan  as  a  Cheese  State.

From the M. A. C. Record.

In  conversation  with  E.  L.  Aderhold, 
the  noted  cheese  expert,  the  other  day, 
we  asked  him  what  advantages  Wiscon­
sin  possesses  as  a  cheese  State.

“ Why,  among  her  natural  advantages 
Wisconsin  has  a  good  soil  for  raising 
grass,  an  abundance  of  pure  water,  and 
her  climate  conditions  are  favorable— a 
humid  atmosphere  and 
cool  nights. 
Then,  most  of  the  farms  are  small,  as 
compared  with  those  farther West, which 
increases the  yield  of milk  per acre. ”
“ From  what  you  have  seen  of  Michi­
gan,  do  you  considei  her  natural  advan­
tages  equal  to  those  of  Wisconsin?”

“ Certainly.  I see no reason  why  Mich 
igan  should  not  be  as  good  a  cheese 
State  as  Wisconsin.”
“ Then  why  is  it  that  Wisconsin  has 
in  cheesemak 
got  a  start  of  Michigan 
ing?”
“ Wisconsin  took  hold  of  it  earlier, 
Three  or  four  men  came  there  from 
New  York  and  started  cheesemaking 
on  the  factory  system  somewhere  near 
1870.  Prices  at  that  time  were  very 
high  and  because  there  was  so  much 
money 
in  it  the  industry  pushed  ahead 
rapidly.  Although 
it  started  in  a  hap 
hazard  way,  it  is  now  being  reduced  to 
something  of  a  system.  In this  the dairy 
school  of  the  Wisconsin  University 
doing  grand  work,  not  only  by scientific 
and  practical 
ganizing  numerous  associations  among 
the  cheesemakers. ”

instruction,  but  by 

Bank  Notes.

resident 

Montrose—The  organization  of  a  pri 
vate  bank  has  been  completed  here  and 
the 
stockholders  are  John 
Flynn,  Wm.  Middlebrook,  James  Shan 
ahan,  Charles  Haight  and  Clarence 
Haight,  who  are  to  supply  one-half  of 
the  stock  and  a  Grand  Rapids  man 
takes  the  other  half.  The  capital  stock 
has  been  fixed  at  $40,000.  The  erection 
of  a  new  building  will  be commenced at 
once. 
James  Shanahan  was  chosen 
President,  and  C.  F.  Haight  Cashier.
Fennville— The  Fennville  City  Bank 
will  be  reorganized  under  the  State  law.
It  will  have  a  capital  of $15,000,  all  of 
which  will  be  taken  by  local  parties.  It 
s  probable  that  N.  L.  Rowe,  one  of  the 
proprietors  of  the  Farmers  and  Mer­
chants’  Bank  of  Athens,  will  occupy 
the  position  of  Cashier.

Evart—The  First  State  Savings  Bank 
has  declared  a  semi-annual  dividend  of 
4  per  cent,  and  increased  the number  of 
directors  from  five  to  seven,  the  present 
board  being  as  follows:  V.  R.  Davy, 
C.  H.  Rose,  Wm.  Rogers,  V.  E.  Lacy, 
W.  Matthews,  J.  S.  Edwards,  G.  E. 

Brandeberry.

A  Short-Lived  Scheme, 

i’rom the Jewelers’ Weekly.
The  trading-stamp  scheme  has  taken 
a  great  hold  upon  the  mercantile  com­
munity.  Like  the  watch  club  scheme 
and  all  other  schemes,  it  will  probably 
It  cannot 
be 
short-lived. 
increase 
legitimate  trade. 
It  simply  amounts  to 
taxation  of  the  merchant  to  support  a 
machine  wholly  unnecessary  to  the  con­
duct  of  his  business,  and  like  all  other 
forms  of  taxation,  voluntary  or  other­
wise,  it  enhances  the  cost  of  merchan­
In  this  case  the  added  cost yields 
dise. 
nothing  worthy  of  consideration 
to 
either  the  merchant  or  his  customer. 
The  Trading  Stamp  Company  sells  the 
stamps  to  merchants  for  cash,  and  it 
sells  for  stamps  to  the  merchant’s  cus­
tomers  goods  which  cost  less  than  the 
marked  prices.  The  merchant is obliged 
to  charge  more  for  his  goods,  the  cus­
tomer  pays  a  profit  to  the  stamp  com­
pany,  and,  as  the  latter  redeems  stamps 
only  after  they  represent  purchases  of 
$99  or  more,  it  also  realizes  a  handsome 
profit  from  unredeemed  coupons.  The 
whole  scheme  simply  amounts  to  sup­
porting  trading  stamp  companies  and 
their  management  at  the  expense  of  the 
consumer.

W A N 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.

well secured and $2,OOU to $5,000 cash  for a good 

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

441

451

450

A GOOD  DRUG  bUSiNLSs  FOR  SALE; 
•$3,000 in  stock  and  fixtures.  Must change 
climate on account of health.  Address Dollars, 
CHie Michigan Tradesman. 
446
W ANTED — A  GOOLl  FLOURING  MILL, 
best locatiou in the State;also good plan-
ing  mill. 
Address  F.  Salisbury, Middleton, 
M ich.
447
TT'OR SALE—DRUG STULK  FOR CASH,  ONE- 
J-1 
third its real value.  Address Copperas, care 
Michigan  Tradesman. 
Ho u se  a n d  l o t,  w e l l   r e n t e d .  40 
acre  farm,  land, contract;  first mortgage 
exclusive or  general  stock.  Investigate.  Wm. 
Fagan, Manisiee. Mich. 
AIT AN TED-GUOO LOCATION JN  MICHIGAN 
t v 
for first-class dry goods store; town. 1,000 
to 5,r00 peoj.le.  Address  A.  Z.,  care  Michigan
Tradesman.___________ 
448
H A V E  A PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR 
general  stock.  Must  be  a  bargain.  I  have
buyers for any line  of  merchandise. 
H.  Gil- 
bert, 109 Ottawa St.. Grand Rapids.
440
IT'OR  SALE—IN  ONE  OF  THE  BEST  BESL­
AN  ness towns in Northern Michigan, my entire 
'tock of groceries;  only grocery  store in  Petos- 
bey doing a strictly cash business.  Good reasons 
for selling.  For  particulars write to J.  Welling 
& Co., Pe oskev. Mich. 
IrtOR  SALE  CHE  \P- 
$1,500  STOCK  OF  DRY 
goods  A  bargain.
Address  box  5,  Byron, 
Shiawassee Co., Mich.
445
|7K)E EXCHANGE—A PARLOR GRAND AUT 
-F  ohaip, cost $75, for typewriter of equal value. 
Gea  H.  Monroe, Pontiac.  Mich. 
'T'O  RENT—FOR  LIGHT  MANUFACTURING 
A  purposes;  two-story building, 28x78. with  20 
to *0 horse power;  electric lights; side track and 
two railroad  connections;  Chicago line of boats 
daily for six months in the r ear; located in best 
town in northern  Michigan:  timber of all kinds 
to be had;  low tent.  Address box 128. Petoskev.
Mich.__   _____________________ 443
VIJ  ANTED—GROCERY  STOCK 
IN  EX- 
'*   change for house  and  lot  located  in  the 
thriving town of  Rockford,  fifteen  miles  north 
of Grand Rai ids.  Full  particulars  on  applica­
tion.  John J. E’y, Rockford,  Mich. 
438
li'GR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK,  IN VENTOR Y- 
-T  ing $1.2uu, located at the  corner  of  Leonard
treet and Alpine  avenue,  Grand  Rapids.  Rea­
- '  ~ 
son fl 
1 for selling,  owner is  not  a  registered  pnar- 
macist.
cist.  Address No.  .34, care Michigan Trades-
man. 
VIT aNTED- 
»»  want go
WANTED — FIRST-CLASS 
BUTTER  FOR 
Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.
I/'OR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
A  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
73
IpOR SALE—JUDGMENT FOR$8.08 AGAINST 
Niles H. Wlnans,  real  estate  agent  In  the
Tower  Block 
Tradesman  Company, Grand
Rapids.
382

Lunn A Strong, Toledo, Ohio. 
retail trade.

-BUTTER  AND  EGGS.  IF  YOU  -  
; good pric-s and quick  returns  w  iteH 

Traverse City, Mich. 

v u u v t  v a i u u u   I i a p i u a .  

***J'*M V 

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434

444

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PATENT  SOLICITORS.

F5REE-OUR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
ents.  Cillev  &  AUgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
rand Rapids. Mich.___________  
339
MISCELLANEOUS.

IN  NORTHERN 
\ \ f  ANTED  —  POSITION 
Tf  Michigan  by  registered  pharmacist  hav­
ing  twelve  years'  experience.  Correspondence 
solicited.  Good  references  furnisned.  L.  J. 
Snafer, 31 Calkins Ave.. Grand Rapids. 
WANTED  SITUATION
PH.  G. REGIS-
__   ______   by
an. 1.  Three  years  of city  experience.  First- 
class references.  Address No. 453, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
453
W AS Ü- FO8ITI0N  IN  WHOLESALE  OR 
groce’y  or  crockery  business  by 
sale-man  of  eight  years’  experience.  Address 
438
»0. 436  care Michigan Tradesman 

tered  in  Michigan desires  situation

4)9

^  

|   P ortrait C alendars 

|
W e  have  lately  placed  on  the  market  w
j f  
a  line  of  portrait calendars  which  we 
think  superior  in  many  respects  to  the  g? 
colored  calendars  so long  in  use, in  that  J  
the  customer  who  hangs  up a calendar  Jf 
with  the  merchant’s  portrait  thereon 
will  think of him  and  his establishment 
every  time he glances at the calendar.

This  line  of  calendars  is  7x11  inches 
in  size,  printed  on  heavy  8-plv  coated 
litho.  cardboard,  with  portrait of  mer­
chant  at  top  of card  and  large monthly 
calendar  pads  wire  stitched  to  lower 
portion  of  card,  samples  of which  will 
cheerfully be sent on  application

In case you conclude  to favor us with 
your order for anything  in  the calendar 
line,  we  trust  you  w ill  send  on  photo­
graph  and  copy  for  reading  matter  as 
early in  the month as  possible.
TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

dRAND RAPIDS.

DETROIT, Grand Rapids & Western

Travelers*  Time  Tables.

Going to Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit.................  11:40am  5:45pm  10:30pm

Returning from  Detroit.

Lv. Detroit 
........8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids...... 12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and  areenville.

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

G e o .  D e Ha v e n ,  General Pass. Agent.

( i p  A l v n   TrBnk Rallway s>
'A  1 V r a i  1 
Detroit and Milw

Stem

Iw ankee  Div

(In  effect  October 3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive
+ 6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit  and  East..t  9:55pm
+10:10am.. . .  ..Detroit  and  East........t 5'07pm
t 3:30pm  .Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am

___ 

WEST

Haven  and  Int. Pts— *10:15pm 
Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm
I . 
+ jj:12pm.... Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi.... tlO :05am
110:00pm....... Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
EMtward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
•Dally.  tExcept Sunday.

E. H.  H u sh e s, A. G. P. & T. A.
B hn.  F l e t c h b b, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J ab. Ca m p b e l l, City Pass. Agent
oity rasa. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St.

CANADIAN p,c"“

e a s t   b o u n d .

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

W EST  BOUND.

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

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

 

DULUTH,s”““

WEST  BOUND.

Lv.  Grand  Rapids  (G.  R.  &  L )+ ll :10pm  17:45am
Lv.  Mackinaw C ity ...................  7 :35am 
4 :20pm
Ar.  St  Ign ace...........................   9 :0iam  
5 :20pm
Ar.  Sault Ste.  Marie...............   12:20pm 
9 :50pm
Ar.  M arquette...........................   2 :50pm  10:40pm
Ar.  Nestoria...............................  5:20pm  12:45am
8 :30am
Ar.  D uluth.................................................  

B A S T   BOUND.

Lv. Duluth.............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria.......................   .  tl 1:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm
Ar. Mackinaw City................  8:40pm  11:00am
G .  W.  Hi b b a r d ,  Gen.  Pass.  Agt.  Marquette. 
E-  L.  O viatt,  Trav.  Pass.  Agt.,  Grand Rapids

Begin th e^
New Year R ights

and  -£>  „■*

Shake off the

Dragfcrincf  Chains  > 4 .  o f C r e d it

TRAVEL

F.  &  P.  M.  R.  R

VIA

CHICAGO“‘" Ä r '

AND  S T E A M S H I P   L INES 

T O   ALL  P O IN T S   IN  MICHIGAN
H.  F.  MOELLER,  a .  g .  p .

Going to  Chicago.

Returning  from  Chicago.

LT-  G. Rapids...............8:45am  1:25pm *ll:30pm
Ar.  Chicago..................3:10pm 6:50pm  6:40am
Lv.Chicago................7:20am  5:15pm *11:30pm
▲r.GdRaplds............  1:25pm  10:35pm  * 8:20am
gaplds..............................1:25pm  6:25pm
Ar.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm..........  10:25am
kv.G ’d  Rapids..........................  7:30am  5:30pm
Ar. Traverse  City  ...................  12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Charlevoix..........................   3:15pm .
Ar.  Petoskey............................  3:45pm.."!!
P A B LO B   AN D   SL E E P IN S  CABS.  CHICAGO.

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey

Muskegon.

Parlor  cars  leave  Grand  Rapids  1:25  p  m 
leave  Chicago  5:15  p m.  Sleeping  cars  leave 
Grand  Rapids  *11:30 pm;  leave  Chicago  11:30 
pm.
Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m 
G eo. D e H a v e n , General Pass. Agent

Others week days only.

T BA V EBBE  C IT Y   AND  B A T   VIEW .

•Every  day. 

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C ’y , Petoskey & Mack., .t 2:15pm  + 6:35am
.......................... + 5:25pm til:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving  at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
_. 
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
_ 
Cincinnati................................t 7:10am  t 8:25pm
Pt. Wayne................................ f 2:10pm  t  2:00pm
Cincinnati................................* 7:00pm  * 7:25am
• :10 a. m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2:10 p. m.  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m. train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati, 

. 

Muskegon Trains.

GOIN S  W EST.

LvG’d  Rapids..............t7:35am tl:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon.................  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
^▼Muskegon.............t8:10am tll:45am t4:01pm
Ar G’d Rapids............9:30am  12:55pm  5:21pm
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

tExcept Snnday.  »Dally.

GOING  BAST.

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

MINNEAPOLIS,5^ “ 1^ «

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G.  R. & I.)................. t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City...................................  4  atom
Ar. Gladstone..../........................ !..!!..  9:6®S
A r.S tP aa l...  .................... ................... 8:45am
Ar. Minneapolis.........................................9:30am
iflnneapolis....................................  +6:30pm
-fr-St  Pau1.............................................   7:20pm
Ar. Gladstone.....................................  
5 -45am
Ar. Mackinaw City................................... 11:00am
Ar. Grand Rapids....................................  10:00pm
W.B. Ca ll a w a y, Qen. Pass. Agt-, Minneapolis. 
E. C. Ov ia t t, Trav. Pass.  Agt., Grand  Rapids.

B A S T   BOUND.

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.
Write for information  to 
W .  C.  R in earson,  G e n ’l  Pass 
Cincinnati,  O.
Send  i o  cents for fine A rt Colored Lith- 
ograph  of  Lookout  Mountain  and 
Chickamauga.

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. m

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

No  Chemicals  are  used  in 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious,  and costs less than  one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put  up in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  ij  good  to 
eat and good to drink.  It is palatable, nutri­
tions, and  healthful ;  a  great  favorite  with 
children.
Buyers should ask for and be sure that they 
get the genuine goods. The above trade-mark 
is on every package.
W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.,

Dorchester,  Mass.

Is  there  a  m erchant  in  this  land,
W h o   does  not  need  a  helping  hand? 
Statistics  show  but  ten  per  cent.
O f  G rocery  men  on  business  bent 
H ave  ever  made  the  thing  a  go 
On  scales  where  losses  would  not  show.

T o   use  the  oldest  scales  invented 
A nd  close  your  store  at  night  contented, 
A nd  wonder  w hy  with  every  year,
A   bare  living  only  you  can  clear,
W ill  alw ays  keep  you  mystified 
U ntil  Our System   you  have  tried.

You  don t  realize what you  have  lost  by  an  old  method  of  weighing 

until  Our System  points  it out to you.

The  Dayton  Money  Weight  System  has  found  its way  into 

nearly  30,000  stores  in  the  United  States  alone.

D E T A IL S   W ILL  IN T E R E S T   YO U .  MAY  W E  S E N D   T H E M ?

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,

DAYTON,  OHIO.

■g I Most Peopled

«

Know  the  value  of  personal 
contact in  conducting  business 
of  any  kind.  An  advertise­
ment  in the  columns of the

M ichigan^
Tradesman^t

Is 
just  like  personal  contact. 
In fact, it is better, for it  brings 
you  in  intimate  touch with  so 
many  more  people.  W e  are 
just  like  one  large  family—  
relying upon and  helping  each 
other.  Want  to  come  under 
our roof?  Write us at

Grand  Rapids.se

|THE  STIMPSON,ai.se 
* 

COMPUTING  SCALE t
$I

W  

Is superior to all  others for  Simplicity,  Accuracy  and  Finish.  So  say thousands  of  : 
If  not  using  one 

for  our new catalogue.

i U   chants  all over this  vast country.  Sizes for all kinds  of  business. 
¿ft
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Stimpson  Computing  Scale  C o.,

Elkhart,  Ind.

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R. P. BIGELOW, Owosso, Mich., State Agent.

