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Volume XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER  29,  1897.

Number  745

n Business Proposition

You  have  something  to  sell  to  the  merchants 
You are not at all  particular where you sell  it— 
where the orders come from  so long as  you  get 
the  money  and  freight  rates  do  not  interfere 
with the delivery of the goods.  You only want 
to  get  before  a  prosperous  people--those  who 
have money with which  to buy—in a direct  and 
forcible  way,  with  an  argument  that  will  turn 
their dollars into your pocket. 
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with a strong, well-conducted paper that reaches 
the  majority  of all  those  to whom  you  wish  to 
sell  within that territory.  You make your busi­
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  DECEMBER 29,  1897.

Number 745

O JLDEST,  most reliable wholesale cloth- 
manufacturers in Rochester, N. Y .# are

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Our Spring Line ready—Winter Line still 
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Spring  Line.  Write  our Michigan Agent, 
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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.

RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION IN  1897.
The  Chicago  Railway  Age  makes  up 
in 
its  report  of  railway  construction 
1897,  showing  that  the  new  mileage 
within  the  year  has  been  1,864,  a  small 
increase  over  the  mileage  of  1895,  the 
time  when  the  lowest  increase  in twenty 
years  was  reached,  with the  figures 1,803 
miles.

the 

and 

states 

The  Age  shows  that  track  laying  was 
in  progress  last  year  upon  153  lines 
in 
38  of  the  49  states  and  territories.  Cal­
ifornia  stands  first,  with  210  miles 
laid 
on  9  different  roads;  Louisiana  added 
145  miles,  Michigan  133,  Georgia  119, 
Pennsylvania  116  on  14  lines,  Wiscon­
sin  115,  Alabama 
in ,  Missouri  no, 
Arkansas  109,  Texas  only  103,  Illinois 
92,  and  Misissippi  about  90.  For  the 
other  states  named  the  figures  are  much 
smaller.  No  track  was  laid  in  eleven 
of 
territories—New 
Hampshire,  Rhode  Island,  Connecti­
cut,  Maryland,  Kansas,  Nebraska,  New 
Mexico,  Indian  Territory,  Arizona, 
Wyoming  and  Nevada,  and  five  others 
barely  escaped  from  this  category  by 
getting  credit  for  from  half  a  mile  to  a 
mile  and  a quarter  each.
construction 

its 
highest  activity 
in  1887,  when  nearly 
13,000  miles  of  track  were  added.  The 
rapid.decline  during  the  succeeding 
eight  years,  and  the  slight  improvement 
in  the  last  two  years,  may  be  studied 
comparatively 
in  the  following  state­
ment  of  track  laid  annually  for  eleven 
years:

Railway 

reached 

The Age  expresses  the  belief  that  a 
the  commencement  of  1898  the  Unitec 
States  will  have  184,464  miles  of  com 
pleted  railway. 
If  the  average  of  th< 
last ten  years  is  reached  in  the  next twi 
years,  as  seems  not  unlikely,  the  yea 
1900  will  open  with  191,500  miles 
There  is  room  in  our  vast  couutry  fora: 
much  more,  and 
it  is  easy  to  believe 
that  100,000  miles  will  be  added  in  the 
next  fifty  years  or  less.

EXPERIENCED  MEN  NEEDED.
The  retention  of  a  Democrat  at  the 
Chinese  court  as  the  representative  o 
this  country  through  one  Republicai 
administration  and 
the  announcemen 
that  he  will  be kept  at  his  post  for  some 
time  to  come  is  complimentary  to  Mr. 
Denby,  but  it  also  demonstrates  the  ne 
cessity  for a  wide  reform  in  our  pres 
ent  diplomatic  system.

Mr.  Denby  has  been 

in  China  long 
enough  to  have  become  far  more  usefu 
than  could  be  expected  from  any  new 
man.  He  has 
learned  China  anc 
Chinese  methods and  customs.  He 
is 
acquainted  with  the  diplomatic  issue: 
between  China,  the  United  States  anc 
Europe  and  has  become  especially  ac­
ceptable  to  the  Chinese government.  Nc 
minister can  prove  of  use  to  his  coun 
try  until  he  has  reached  such  a  position 
at  the  court  to  which  he  is  accredited.

Year.
1887..
1888..
1SS9  •
1890..
1891..
1892..
1893--
1594..
1895..
1896..
1897.

Miles.
• 12,983
.  7,I06
•  5,230
•  5.67°
•  4,281
•  4, >92
-  2,635
•  1,94°
’  i,8o2
-  1Ä 8 
1,864

influence 

To  replace  our  representatives  so  often 
that  they  virtually  remain  strangers  to 
their  duties  and  devoid  of 
is 
a  policy  dangerous  to  our  best  interests. 
No  other  nation  of  any  consequence 
pursues  such  a  plan.  The  great  powers 
train 
their  diplomats  as  we  train 
soldiers,  while  we  oppose  to  such  regu­
lars  the  rawest  of  recruits.

If  the  civil  service  rules  are  valuable 
at  home  and  in  other  branches  of  Gov­
ernment  work,  as  tending  to  give  us 
merit  and  experience  in  public  affairs, 
they  are  doubly  necessary  for  our  dip­
lomatic  arm.  True,  we  do  not  affect  a 
foreign  policy  that  would  mix  us  with 
the 
interminable  scheming  for  added 
power and  territory  that  actuates  other 
governments,  but  we  have  immense  in­
terests  at  stake  abroad.  We  are  becom­
ing  scattered  over  the  world  to  such  an 
extent  that  we  are  being  drawn  into  the 
whirlpool  of  international complications 
whether  we  will  or  not.

Instead  of  bearing  Congress  talk  of 
limiting  the  operations  of  the civil serv­
ice  law,  we  should  rather  hear  of  its 
proposed  extension,  at  least  to  include 
our  diplomatic  corps  so  that  we  could 
always  be represented  abroad  by  men  of 
ability and  long  experience—men  capa­
ble  of  bolding  their  own  against  the 
veteran  representatives  of  other  coun­
tries.  Mr.  Denby’s  case  becomes  an 
object  lesson.

THE  SITUATION  IN  CUBA.

There  has  apparently  been  no  real 
change 
in  the  situation  of  affairs  in 
Cuba  during  the  last  few  weeks.  The 
Spanish  administration  has  been  busy 
endeavoring  to  reconcile  the  different 
political  factions  with  a  view  to  a  gen­
eral  acceptance  of  the  scheme  of  auton­
omy.  Efforts  have  also  been  made  to 
induce  the  insurgent  leaders  to  accept 
autonomy,  but  no  success  has  been  met 
with  in  this  direction.

is  still 

As  far as  military  operations are  con­
cerned,  there  have  been  reports  of  sev­
im­
eral  skirmishes  of  more  or  less 
portance ;  but  there 
the  utter 
lack  of  reliable  information  to  be  con­
tended  with  which  has  characterized the 
military  history  of the insurrection since 
its  inception.  While 
is  likely  that 
the 
insurgents  have  made  no  definite 
progress  from  a  military  standpoint,  it 
is  equally  sure  that  the  Spanish  have 
accomplished  nothing 
in  the  direction 
of  pacifying  the  island.

it 

It  now  becomes  a  problem  as  to  bow 
long  the  Spanish  government  will  be 
able  to  keep  up  a campaign  which,after 
nearly  three  years,  has  accomplished 
nothing.  The  drain  upon  the  Spanish 
treasury  has  been  enormous,  and  Spain 
has  about  reached  the  limit  of  her  bor­
rowing  power.  The  plan  of  autonomy 
is  undoubtedly  doomed  to  failure,  for 
the  reason  that  the  insurgents absolutely 
refuse  to  even  consider  it.

Aside  from  the  atrocions  hanging  of 
Colonel  Ruiz,  which 
is  on  a  par  with 
many  of  the  barbarous  acts  attributed 
to  the  Spaniards,  everything  has  pro­
gressed  favorably  for  the  Cuban  cause 
of  late,  and  the  plan  of  tiring  out  the 
Spaniards  seems  to  promise  certain 
success  in  the  end.

ABOLISHING  SUGAR  BOUNTIES.
The  demand 

that  England  adopt 
countervailing  duties  on  beet  sugars 
imported  from  countries  paying  an  ex­
port  bounty  as  a  protection  to  the  West 
is  apparently 
Indian  sugar  producers 
greatly  growing 
in  strength.  The  de­
pression  and  distress  prevailing  in  the 
British  possessions 
in  the  West  Indies 
have  reached  proportions  which  call  for 
prompt  action  at  the  bands  of  the  Brit­
ish  Parliament.  Besides,  the  lack  of 
purchasing  power  in  the  colonies result­
ing  from 
impoverishment  has 
worked  much  injury  to  British  manu­
facturers,  so  that  the  sugar  growers 
have  powerful  allies,  not  only 
in  the 
pronounced  advocates  of  a  paternal  im­
perialism,  but  also  in  all  the  manufac­
turers  and  merchants 
in 
England's  colonial  trade.

interested 

their 

According  to  the  latest  London  re­
ports,  the advocates  of  a  countervailing 
duty  have  regularly  organized  for  an 
aggressive  campaign  to  be  waged  when 
Parliament  reassembles.  Although  the 
special  royal  commission  appointed  to 
investigate  the  colonial  sugar 
industry 
have  advised  against  a  countervailing 
duty,  it  is  reported  that  Lord  Salisbury 
is  disposed  to  take  an  opposite  view, 
based  upon  the  very  showing  of  the 
in­
jury  sustained  by  the  colonies  made  by 
the  commission  in  their  report.

Were  England  to  impose  a  counter­
vailing  duty,  continental  beet  sugars 
would  be  shut  out  of  the  only  markets 
in  which  they  sell  extensively,  and,  as 
a  result,  the  export-bounty  system would 
be  dealt  a  death  blow.  Even  as  it  is, 
the  continental  powers  are  anxious  to 
get  rid  of  the  bounties.  Germany  and 
Austria  have  arranged  for a  conference 
on  the  bounty  question,  the  purpose  be­
ing  to  arrange  for  joint  action  in  abol­
ishing  the  bounties. 
It  is  reported  that 
France  has  also  expressed  a  desire  to 
take  part  in  this  conference.

The  action  of  the  United  States  in 
placing  countervailing duties on bounty- 
fed  sugar  was  the  entering  wedge which 
has 
inaugurated  the  downfall  of  the 
bounties.  Whether  England  follows our 
lead  or  not,  it 
likely  that  the 
bounties  can 
long  survive,  although  it 
must  be  admitted  that  action  by  the 
British  Parliament  would  precipitate 
matters.  ____________

is  not 

After  this,  people  who  eat  butter  in 
Minnesota  will  know  what  they  are  get­
ting,  unless  they  are  color-blind.  Judge 
Lochren  has  decided  that  the  Minne­
sota  “ pink 
law,”   providing  that  all 
oleomargarine  or  butterine  offered  for 
sale 
in  that  State  must  be  colored  a 
bright  pink,  is  constitutional.  The  de­
cision  has  been  filed  in  Duluth,  where 
the  case  was  brought,  and  copies  were 
filed  with  Assistant  Attorney  General 
Edgarton  and  Dairy  Commissioner  An­
derson.  The  State  Supreme  Court  has 
previously  held  this  “ pink  law”   to  be 
constitutional,  and  Judge  Lochren  sus­
tained  that  opinion.

The  January  payments  of  interest  and 
dividends  are  estimated  at  $90,700,000 
at  New  York,  $12,000,000 at  Boston  and 
$10,000,000 at  Philadelphia.

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D ry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market. 

Cottons— The  break 

in  the  price  of 
bleached  and  brown  cottons  which  has 
been  looked  forward  to  for  some  time 
last  come,  and  the  past  week 
has  at 
has  shown  some  decided  changes 
in 
not  only  nearly  all  the  leading  lines, 
It  looks  as 
but  most  of  the  others. 
last  been 
though  the  bedrock  had  at 
reached, ‘  and  buyers  who  have 
long 
been  waiting  for  the  expected  changes 
are  now  placing  orders  with  a  compara­
tively  free  hand,  not  speculative  as  yet, 
but  to  fill  requirements.  So far bleached 
cottons  have  shown  more  activity  than 
browns,  although  the  latter  are  by  no 
means  neglected,  and  have  received  a 
reasonable  share  of attention.

Prints  and  Ginghams—More  has  been 
accomplished  on  strictly  new  lines  of 
fancies  for  spring  than 
in  the  more 
staple  styles. 
The  prices  probably 
have  a  good  deal  to  do  with  this,  and 
have  induced  buyeis  to  place  more  than 
ordinarily  good  orders.

Hosiery— While  the  hosiery  branch  of 
the  knit  goods  business  is  not  quite  as 
active  as  it  was  a  few  weeks  ago,  still 
considerable  business  has  been  accom­
plished.  The  demand  has  been  diver­
sified,  covering  nearly  every  line that  is 
on  the  market.  No  new 
lines  of  any 
consequence  are  opened  now,  nor  will 
there  be  until  after  the  first  of  January, 
and  very  likely  there  will  not  be  a  very 
large  business  done  until  the  15th.  New 
lines  are  arriving  from  Chemnitz,  and 
from  the  samples  that  we  have  been 
permitted  to  see,  there  will  be  some  of 
the  handsomest  lines  shown  this  com­
ing  season  that  have  ever  been  placed 
upon  the  market.  While  there  will  be 
many  loud  and  gaudy  colors,  there  will 
be  a  large  proportion  of  neater effects in 
styles  that  will  please  many  people 
who,  up  to  the  present  time,  have  dis­
liked  the  fancy  hosiery  so  much  in 
vogue.

Velvet— The 

velvet  manufacturing 
plant  of  Rossie  Bros,  is  to  be  moved 
from  Suechteln, 
in  Rhenish  Prussia, 
to  Mystic,  Conn.  The  chief  reason  for 
this  change 
is  to  be  found  in  the  fact 
that  the  American  market  of  the  com­
pany  has  become  very  large  and  the 
high  tariff  rates  on  this  line  of  goods  in 
the  Dingley  law  greatly  handicaps  the 
trade.  The  new  factory  will  be  one 
story  high,  150  by  160  feet,  and  about 
100  people  will  be  employed  at  the  be­
ginning  in  the  various  departments.

into 

Flax  Yarn—As  a  result  of  experi­
ments  which  have  recently been  carried 
on  in  New  England  mills,  it  is  reported 
that  a  process  has  been  found  by  which 
flax  waste  can  be  made 
yarn 
suitable  for  toweling,  dress  goods,  crash 
suitings,  etc.  The  waste  is  worked  on 
ordinary  woolen  machinery,  both 
in 
carding  and  spinning,  and  has  been 
into  quite  fine,  even,  and 
spun  down 
smooth  yam.  When 
is 
bleached.  There  is  a  good  demand  for 
the  yarn,  and  those  who  are  engaged  in 
the  new 
their 
product  readily.

industry  hope  to  sell 

spun, 

it 

The  Trouble  with  Cotton  Goods.

From the American Cotton Reporter.

The  depression 

in  such  goods  as 
standard  sheetings  and  shirtings  is  one 
of  the  features  of  the  cotton  goods  mar­
ket.  Such  goods  as  the  Fruit  of  the 
Loom,  Dwight  Anchor,  and  Lonsdale 
sheetings,  which  for  many  years  have 
sold  freely  under a steady demand,  have 
ruled  dull  and  weak,the  prices  for these 
fabrics  declining  to  the  lowest  point  on 
record.

In  accounting  for  this  depression,  it 
has  become  quite  common  to  say  that 
there  has  been  an  overproduction  of 
goods.  The  production  of  standard  cot­
ton  goods,  however,  is  no  greater  now 
than 
Indeed, 
the  production  of  some  of  these  has 
been  reduced  by  the  makers,  who  have 
gone  off,  to some extent,  on convertibles. 
The  trouble  has  been  a  reduction  in 
consumption  in  the  past  three  years.

it  was  three  years  ago. 

What  is  accountable  for this  reduction 
in  consumption?  This  class  of  goods 
has  been  simply  displaced,  to  some  ex­
tent,  by  a  line  made  principally  in  the 
South,  which  has  filled  a  niche  in  the 
Western  trade  formerly  supplied  by  the 
goods  first  described.'  These  Southern 
goods  weigh  four  yards  to  the  pound ; 
they  are  made  into  sheets  with  a  seam 
in  the  center and  bleached  on  the grass. 
They  are  woven  2  yards  wide,  with  five 
yards  to  the  sheet.  These  sell  for  4c  per 
yard.  The  bleaching  costs  from  a  half 
to  one  cent  per  yard,  making  the  total 
cost  of  the  goods,  when  bleached,  not 
over  sc  per  yard.  An  entire  sheet, 
therefore,  would  not  cost  over  25c.  The 
same  thing 
in  the  North  costs  40c  or 
more.  The  Southern  goods  are  made 
of  20s  warp  and  22s  filling  and  are 
woven  56x60,  whereas  the  Fruit  of  the 
Loom  is  composed  of  about  28s  warp 
and  38s  filling  and  woven  to  twice  the 
count.  The  Southern  makers  use  heav­
ier  yarn  which  “ mashes  up”   well  and 
makes  a  washable  fabric  which  will 
not  crack  and  which  will  wear  fully  as 
well  as  the  standard  goods  made  in  the 
North.  Westerners  have  bought  these 
oods  very  freely 
in  the  past  two  or 
three  years,  and  this  is  believed  to  ac 
count  in  large  measure  for the depressed 
condition  of  the  market  for  standard 
sheetings  and  shirtings.

The  Generosity  of  Millionaires. 

From the Metal Worker 

It 

is  a  too  common  fashion  in  these 
days  to  denounce  the  accumulation  ol 
great  wealth.  Millionaires  are  some­
times  speken  of  as  if  they  composed  a 
kind  of  criminal  class.  Their  riches 
are  held  forth—in  most  cases  without  a 
shadow  of 
justice-as  circumstantial 
evidence  of  their  knavery.  The  mere 
fact  of  a  man  being  the  possessor of a 
large  fortune  stamps  him  in  the  minds 
in­
of  some  unthinking  and  prejudiced 
dividuals  as  a  public  enemy  whose  in­
terests  are  diametrically  opposed 
to 
those  of the  people  at  large.  No  matter 
how  honestly  and  with  what  patient  toil 
he  may  have  amassed  his  wealth,  there 
is  a  lurking  feeling  that  he  has  selfishly 
grasped  a  much 
larger  share  of  this 
world's  goods  than  should  rightfully  be­
long  to  any  one  man.  No  doubt  there 
are too  many  cases  in,whicb large wealth 
has  been  accumulated  by  means  which,  I 
to  say  the  least  of  them,  do  not  measure 
up  to  the  standard  of  the  Golden  Rule. 
There  are,  and  have  been,  millionaires 
who  fully  deserved  the  popular  dis- 
esteem  in  which  they  were  held.  Some 
who  have  made  their  money  bonorablv 
have  hoarded  it selfishly and transmitted 
it  tor  the  aggrandizement  of 
their 
families,applying  none of  it  to  the pub­
lic  welfare.  But  we  venture  to  say  that 
these  unworthy  specimens  are  the  ex 
ception  and  not  the  rule  among  Ameri­
can  men  of  wealth. 
In  no  other  coun­
try  in  the  world  does  the  sense  of  stew­
ardship  appear  so  pronounced  among 
the  wealthy  as  in  this.  Colleges,  edu­
cational  institutions,  libraries,  observa­
tories,  hospitals,  museums,  art  galler­
ies,  churches,  charitable  institutions  of 
all  kinds,  by  the  hundred  and  the  thou­
sand,  all  over  the  land,  stand  as  mute 
but  eloquent  witnesses  to  the  generosity 
and  public  spirit  of  the  men  of  wealth 
who  have  founded,  endowed  or  munifi­
cently  assisted  them.  Science,  art  and 
learning  have  been  fostered  and  pro­
moted  by  the  much  maligned  million­
aires to  an extent  utterly  unthought  of in 
former  generations.  Every  year  sees 
public  gifts  for  philanthropic  and  edu­
cational  purposes  poured  out  on  a  scale 
liberality,  showing  that 
of 
the  possession  of 
riches  does  not 
necessarily  or  even  generally  deaden 
the  moral  sense  or  the  finer  feelings  of 
their  possessors.

increasing 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Tampering  With  Outside  Affairs.

Chas.  F. Jones In Printers’ ink.

A  business  man  that  wishes  to  be 
permanently 
successful  must  attend 
strictly  to his business,and let all outside 
affairs  alone.  A  retail  merchant 
in 
New  York  City  said  to  me  some  weeks 
ago:  “ I  have  made  more  money  on 
sugar  within  the  last  ten  days  than  I 
have  made  in  my  store 
in  a  year.”  
This  is  only  an  admission  that luck  was 
time  with  the  storekeeper  who 
this 
meddled  with  outside  affairs;  for 
it 
might  have  been  that  he  would  have 
had  to  say:  “ I  have  lost  more  money 
fooling  with  sugar  in  the  last  ten  days 
than  I  can  make in  my  store  in a year. ”
in  business 
come  about  through 
tampering  with 
outside  affairs.  Sometimes  luck  is  with 
this  class  of  people,  but  the  great  ma­
jority  of  times  it  is  against  them.  The 
man  who  allows  anything  else  to  take 
his  mind  away  from  his  business  is, 
nine  times  out  often,  sure  of  making  a 
failure  in  the  long  run.  Strict  attention j

A  great  many  failures 

to  business,  forgetting  that  there  is  any 
other  business  in  the  world  except  your 
own,  avoiding  all  temptation  to  specu­
late  or 
invest  in  outside  affairs,  is  the 
surest  way  to  succeed  with  the  one busi­
ness  that  absorbs  your  mind.  This  ap­
plies  to  every  class  of  business  that  I 
know  anything  about.  Even  the  book­
maker  at  the  race  track,  as  a  rule, 
makes  a  success  of  his  business  where 
he  attends  strictly  to  bookmaking  and 
leaves  outside  affairs  alone.
Novel  Scheme  of a  Brooklyn  Firm.
A  new  departure 

is  that  made  by  a 
Brooklyn  firm.  They  have  originated 
what  they  term  a  “ complaint  blank.” 
With  every  package  of  goods  sent  out 
from  the  store  is  a  printed form request­
ing  the  customer  as  a  favor  to  report 
any  cause  of  dissatisfaction.

factories 

The  sardine 

in  Eastern 
Maine  have  closed,  after  a  short season, 
in  which  the pack  is  far  below  the aver­
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W o m an ’s W orld
Woman’s  Vanity  of  Her  Life  a  Part— 

’Tis  Man’s  Whole  Existence.

Women  have  so  long  been  accused  of 
vanity that  the world  has  become  almost 
persuaded  that  they  possess  a  monop­
oly  of  that  weakness.  Every  imaginable 
shortcoming  and  sin  is  laid  to  that  ac­
count ;  That  women  wear graceful  but 
unhealthy  trailing  skirts when short ones 
would  be  so  much  more  convenient; 
that  no  consideration  of  hygiene  can in­
duce  them 
the  baggy  and 
abominable  bloomer;  that  they  adorn 
their  heads  with  the  bodies  of  slain 
birds,  and  ornament  their  garments 
with  the  skins  of  murdered beasts;  even 
their  lack  of  physical  strength  is  attrib­
uted  to  the  vanity  that  makes  them 
preserve  an  etherial  waist  measure  at 
any  cost,  and  wear  low-cut  evening 
gowns  when  they  should  have  on  high- 
cut  red  flannel.

to  adopt 

It 

is  a  subject  on  which  men  have 
been ever  eloquent, and  of  which  patient 
and  long  suffering  women  have  heard  a 
great  deal,  and  so  I  fancy  that  even  the 
meekest  of  her  sex  must  read  with  a 
certain  satisfaction  of  the  St.  Louis  so­
ciety  man  who  had  his  throat  cut  by  his 
collar  the  other  day.  The newspaper  ac­
counts  of  this  deplorable  accident  say 
is  what  is  known  among 
that  the  man 
men  as  a  “ swell  dresser,”   and  that 
in 
particular  he  has  a  neck  built upon such 
liberal  and  giraffe-like 
lines  he  can 
wear  a  collar  that 
is  the  despair  and 
envy  of  all  the  other  dudes  in  the  city. 
A  few  mornings  ago,  resplendent  in  all 
his  shining  expanse  of  white  linen,  be 
boarded  a  car,  and  started  down  town, 
but  when  he  attempted  to  get  off  his 
foot  slipped  and  he  received  a  bad  fall. 
Upon  getting  up  he  found  his  clothes 
and  face  covered  with  blood,  and  that 
he  had  gotten  a  severe  wound  from  the 
points  of  his  collar,  which  had  pene­
trated  his  throat, 
inflicting  two  ugly 
gashes  that  required  the  services  of  a 
physician.

This 

incident  seemed  to  score  one 
against  the  men  for  unapproachable, 
self-sacrificing  vanity, 
tor  no  woman 
has  yet  been  discovered  choked  to death 
by  her  Medici  collar,  although  many  a 
short-necked  woman,  of late, has felt that 
a  certain  verse  in  the  Bible  would  take 
on  a  new  meaning  if  it  were  amended 
to  read,  “ She,  being  in  torment,  lifted 
up  her  eyes,”   at  church  or  theater,  and 
we  are  all  ready  to  admit  that  we  never 
had  any  idea  of  how  uacomfortable  a 
garment  could  be  until  we  made  ac­
quaintance  with 
the  deceitful  shirt 
waist,  with  a  man’s 
laundried  collar 
and  cuffs  on  it.

The  truth 

is  men  have  talked  so 
glibly  about  women’s  vanity  that  we 
have  overlooked  the  fact  that  they  have 
just  as  many  weaknesses  in  the  love  of 
fine  dress  and  display  as  their  frail 
sisters,  and  that  their  vanity  is  just  as 
conspicuous.  Of  course,  they  haven’t  as 
good  an  opportunity  to  show-it.  Un­
kind  fate  has  narrowed  them  down  to  a 
Spartan  simplicity 
in  the  way  of  per­
sonal  adornment,  but  what  they  have 
they  make  the  most  of.  No  debutante 
fussing  over  her  first  party  frock  was 
ever  so  particular  as  a  man  about  his 
neckties.  He  doesn’t  hesitate  to  con­
sign  half  a dozen  white  lawn  ones  to  the 
scrap  basket  if  he musses them  in tying, 
or  fails  to  get  the  proper  set  to  the bow, 
while  no  amount  of  family  affection 
would  induce  him  to  wear  a home-made 
one.  There  are  places  he  couldn't  be 
If
dragged  to  without  an -evening  suit. 

he  suspects  his  collars  to  be  a  thread 
too  low,  or  not  to  have  the  proper  cut, 
he  dumps  them  incontinently 
into  the 
ash  barrel,  without  one  thought  of  the 
wastefulness.

Indeed the man who goes  in for fashion 
at  all  does  so  with  a  recklessness  that 
fairly  appals  a  woman.  She always  has 
her  little  economics—the  sewing woman 
who  comes  to  the  bouse  and  makes  over 
things,  the  cleaned  gloves,  the  hat  she 
retrims  and  uses  another  season ;  but  a 
man  scorns  anything  but  the  best,  and 
is  horrified  at  the  mere  suggestion  that 
he  should  economize  by  having  a  cheap 
tailor  make  his  everyday  coat,  or  that 
he  should  wear  last  year’s  hat.  The 
crown  is  an  infinitesimal  degree  lower 
or  higher;  there  is  the  smallest  change 
in  the  curl  of  the  brim,  but  it  is  fatal 
and  you  couldn’t  sell  him  one  if  you 
threw  in  a  chromo  with  it.  Then 
look 
how  he  has  his  clothes  on  bis  mind. 
Does  he  ever  forget  that  crease  in  his 
trousers?  Never  for  a  single  instant. 
He  is  always  thinking  about  it. 
In  the 
theater,  in  the  car,  in  the  parlor,  the 
moment  he  gets  seated,  he begins  hitch­
ing  at  it,  and  it  is  worse  than  useless  to 
attempt  to  attract  his  attention  until 
it 
has  been  tenderly  settled  in  place.  Now 
it  is  just  as  awful  and  heart-breaking  a 
thing  for  a  tailor-made  frock  to  bag  at 
the  knees  as  it  is  for his  precious  trous­
ers  to,  but  you  never  see  a  woman  in 
public  spending  her  time  pulling  at  a 
seam  in  her  skirt.

Women 

“ I  was  a  poor  boy,  sir. 

are  vain  enough,  heaven 
knows,  but  as  a  general  thing  they  are 
subtler  about  displaying 
it  than  men. 
Take  the  self-made  man,  for  instance— 
the  man  who  from  poverty  has  worked 
up  to  being  rich.  He  can  never  keep 
from  talking  about  himself. 
“ I  did 
this,  I  did  that,”   is  the  burden  of  bis 
song. 
I  had 
no  education. 
I  tramped  into  the  near­
est  village,  bare-footed,  with my  clothes 
tied up  in  a  handkerchief.  I  got  a  place 
in  a  little  store,  and  worked  early  and 
late,  and  saved  every  dime,  and  now  I 
am  a  millionaire.”   Madame,  his  wife, 
may  be  just  as  vulgarly  vain  and  proud 
of  the  money  as  he  is,  but  she  knows 
better  than  to  talk  about  it.  She  never 
is  self-made.  On  the 
brags  that  she 
contrary,  she  seeks  to  give  the 
impres­
sion  that  it  took  all  the  united  civiliza­
tion  and  culture  of  the  world  to produce 
such  a  creature.  You  never  hear  a 
woman  boast  of  the  days  when  she  was 
poor  and  hungry.  She 
intimates  that 
she  has always  dined  on  turtle soup,  and 
was  brought  up  on  a  champagne  bottle 
in  infancy.  Her  vanity  may  be  just  as 
offensive  as  the  man's—only  it  is differ­
ent.

But  the  most  amusing  and  childlike 
exhibition  of  vanity  of  which  men  are 
ever  guilty  is  when  one  is  told  that  he 
looks  like  some  famous  man,  and  goes 
around,  forever  after,  in some ridiculous 
pose,  trying  to  emphasize  the  resem­
blance.  Think  of  the  well-meaning  and 
commonplace  young  men  we  have  all 
known  who  went  about  with  a  dis­
traught  air,  and  a  pale  and  melancholy 
countenance,  because  some  indiscreet 
person  had  detected  their  fancied  re­
semblance  to  Booth.  Recall  the  pom­
pous  gentlemen  whose  principal  object 
in  life  seemed  to  be  to  cultivate  a  pair 
of  whiskers,  and  who  are  forever  relat­
ing  how  they  were  mistaken  in  a  hotel 
for  Chauncey  Depew,  or  the  excessively 
English  American  who  spends  his days 
and  nights  imagining  he  looks  like  the 
Prince  of  Wales.  This  is  one  phase  of 
the  vanity  question  that  is  distinctively 
and  exclusively  masculine.  A woman’s

admiration  for  another  woman  never 
reaches  the  pitch  of  wishing  to look like 
her.

A  man’s  belief  in  his personal charms 
never  wavers.  He  never  grows  too  old, 
or  too  ugly,  to  arrogate  to  himself  ad­
miration  that  a  woman  in  her  palmiest 
days  would  hardly  dare  to  claim,  and 
that  is  the  reason  we  see  so  many  men 
so  easily  taken  in  by  designing  women. 
The  elderly  millionaire,  although  he 
be  the  ugliest  and  most  ungainly  of  his 
sex,  can  see  no  reason  why  he  shouldn’t 
fire  the  fancy  and  come  up  to  the 
ideal 
of  budding  16.  The  warning  advice  of 
friends  falls  on  deaf  ears,  and  he  turns 
indignantly  on  those  who  tell  him  that 
she  is  marrying  him  for  money  and  po­
sition. 
In  his  own  eyes  he  is  still,  now 
and  forever,  the  embodiment  of  all  the 
manly  charms  and  graces,  and  he  can 
never  be  persuaded 
that  any  woman 
wouldn’t  consider  it  a  pleasure  and  an 
honor  to  be  permitted  to  fall  in  love 
with  him.  A woman,  on  the  other hand, 
is  taught  from  the  cradle  that  she  may 
only  hope  to  inspire  love  while  she  is 
young  and  attractive,  and  when  her 
glass  tells  her  that 
is  no  longer  the 
case,  she looks with  suspicion  on  a  com­
pliment,  and  distrust  on 
lovemaking. 
Of  course,  there  have  been  cases  where 
elderly  and  wealthy  women  have  mar­
ried  mere  boys,  but they  are  exceptional 
instances;  while,  as far  as  men  are  con­
cerned,  it  may  almost  be  said  that  the 
aged  millionaire  has  come  to  be  re­
garded  as  the  perquisite  of  the  wily 
ingenue. 
She  gets  him  every  time, 
when  she wants  him,  and  it  is  only after 
the  marriage  ceremony 
it  dawns  on 
him  that  she  had  any  other  object  in 
view  than  pure  and  unadulterated  affec­
tion.

After all,  vanity  in  men  and  women 
alike 
is  a  very  amiable  weakness,  and 
we  could  better  spare  a  better  quality. 
The  woman  who  has  no  vanity  is  a 
monster  to  be  avoided.  She  doesn’t 
care  how  she  looks,  and  she  is  a  frump 
whose  clothes  appear  to  have  been 
pitchforked  at  her.  Her  house 
is 
austere  and  comfortless,  without  the 
nameless  little  adornments  and  fripper­
ies  that make one  homelike. 
If  she  has 
no  vanity,  she  does  not  care  to  win  our 
admiration,  and  so  she  says  the  things 
we  ought  to  hear,  and  not  the  agreeable 
things  we  want  to  be  told. 
In  a  word, 
she  robs  life  of  poetry,  illusion,  grace, 
and  reduces  it  to  the  level  of the strictly 
useful. 
If  men  were  not  vain,  pray 
what  could  women  do?  What  arguments 
were  ever  equal  to  a subtle  compliment, 
what 
irresistible  as  a  little 
judicious  flattery?  By  that  means  does 
a  clever  woman  win  her  husband,  and 
keep  him  once  she  has  gotten  him. 
If 
men  were  not  vain— but,  thank  heaven, 
they  are!  God  made  them  that  way  to 
match  the  women. 

D o roth y  D ix .

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PoorEconomy

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

“Lily W hite” Flour

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

NOW.

Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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We  have  lately placed on the market  •  
a  line  of  portrait calendars which  we 
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think  superior in  many respects to  the  ”  
colored calendars so long in use, In that 
the customer 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.

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This  line of calendars  is  7x11 inches 
in  size,  printed  on  heavy S-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  will send  on photo-
graph and  copy  for reading  matter  as 
early in the month as possible.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 

GRAND RAPIDS.
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shortage  of  fruit  in  our  State

last  season,  we  are  having  an  unprecedented  sale  on  all  kinds 

of  Canned  Goods.

IHusselman Grocer Company

Grand Rapids,  midi.
D on ’ t  let your  stock  get  low.

L o o k  out for higher prices on  Tom atoes.  A sk  our salesm en  about 

those  N unley,  H ines  &  C o .’ s 

Yellow   Peaches.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Negaunee—Harry  Pearce  has  sold  his 

meat  business  to  Thos.  L.  Collins.

Alma— E.  R.  Griffith  &  Co.  succeed 

F.  W.  Hooper  in  the  meat  business.

Boyne  City— Wm.  Pratt,  of  Lake 

City,  has  opened  a  jewelry  store  here.

Olivet—W.  C.  Henry,  of Battle Creek, 
has  purchased  the  bakery  of  E.  A. 
Turner.

Port Huron— Lewis  A.  McCartbar suc­
in  the  grocery 

ceeds  Alex.  McCarthar 
business.

Benton  Harbor— Chas.  Hirsch  has 
purchased  the  meat  business  of  Geo. 
Weninger.

Kalamazoo—Allen  &  McGregor  have 
opened  a  new  grocery  store  at  214  West 
Main  street.

Flint—J.  L.  Moore  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  on  the  corner of  Smith  and 
First  streets.

Grand  Ledge— Stokes  &  'Tucker  will 
engage  in  the  undertaking  business 
about  Jan.  1.

Detroit— Lill  E.  Benedict  succeeds 
in  the  grocery 

Ovenshire  &  Benedict 
and  meat  business.

Orleans— A.  J.  Hale  has  sold his  gen­
eral  stock  to  J.  M.  York,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Perrinton —Mr.  Packard,  formerly  of 
Wayne,  continues the  hardware  business 
formerly  conducted  by  L.  E.  Woodruff.
Houghton—Charles  DeMarce  has  re­
opened  a  grocery  and 
confectionery 
store  at  his  old  stand  in  the  Colombe 
block.

Whitehall— H.  H.  Terwilliger,  of  the 
Muskegon  County  Bank  at  Montague, 
will  open  the  bank  at  this  place  next 
month.

Detroit— Wm.  F.  Lount,  formerly  of 
Bay  City,  has  purchased  the  stock  of 
the  Clinton  avenue  pharmacy  at  243 
Clinton  avenue.

Grand  Haven— Peter  Van  Woerkom 
has  purchased  the  stock  of  Wm.  Juiste- 
ma  in  the  Red  Front  grocery  and  will 
continue  the  business.

Marquette— Hoard  &  Brown,  dealers 
in bicycles  and  electrical  supplies,  have 
dissolved.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  by  F.  H.  Hoard.

Houghton— The  Roach  &  Seeber  Co. 
has  completed 
its  cold  storage  ware­
house  and  has  actively  embarked  in  the 
produce  and  commission  business.

Benton  Harbor—John  B.  Morrison 
and  Bert  Morrison  have  leased  a  store 
in  the  Graham  block  and  will  open  a 
boot  and  shoe  stock  about  March  1.

Thompsonville—R.  McDermott  has 
assumed  control  of  the  grocery  stock  of 
O.  L.  Lovejoy  by  surety  for  Mr.  Love- 
joy  on  his  bond  as  village  Treasurer.

Henderson—Ed.  Bunting,  Jr.,  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  J.  J. 
Davidson,  at  Owosso,  and  removed  it to 
this  place,  where  he  will  embark  in 
business.

McBride’s— C. H.  LaFlamboy  has just 
completed  a  new  store  building,  26x60 
feet,  one  story  high,  and  will  occupy 
same  with  his  hardware  stock  and  prod­
uce  business.

Plainwell— B.  G.  Foreman  has  re­
turned  to  Plainwell  and  re-engaged  in 
the  meat  business  in  the  building  for­
merly  occupied  by  J.  T.  Flagor  as  a 
harness  shop.

Jackson— D.  M.  Osborne  &  Co.  have 
leased  a  portion  of  Robert  Lake’s  big 
building  and  will  utilize  the  space  for 
offices  and  a  warehouse  for  the  display 
and  storage  of  the  firm’s  harvesting ma­
chinery.

Muskegon— Capt.  L.  Larson,  who
has  been  sailing  on  the  steamer  Dyer 
between  Chicago  and  Buffalo  during the 
past  season, has  opened  a  fish  and  oyster 
house  at  24  West  Clay  avenue.

Alma— The  Alma  Mercantile  Co.  will 
its  stock  of  dry  goods  to  the 
remove 
Pollasky  block,  where 
it  will  remain 
until  the  proposed  changes  in  the Opera 
House  block  have  been  accomplished.
Petoskey—S.  Rosenthal,  clothier,  ac­
companied  by  his  wife,  will  sail  for 
Europe  early  in  January  and  spend  sev­
eral  months  at  the  baths  at  Carlsbad. 
They  will  probably  return  the latter part 
of  May.

Lapeer— L.  J.  Hoddrill  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  L.  J.  Hoddrill  &  Co., 
grocers and  grain  and  produce  dealers, 
and  will  engage 
in  banking.  G.  H. 
Cary  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
old  stand.

Niles— It  is  rumored  that several lead­
ing  firms  are  to  consolidate  and  occupy 
the  Hotel  Niles  property,  on  the  corner 
of  Main  and  Front  streets.  Their object 
is  said  to  be  the  creation  of  a  genuine 
department  store.

Alma— Messinger  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
clothing  and  men’s  furnishing  goods, 
will  remove  their  sto:k  into  the  large 
double  store  in  the  new  Pollasky  block, 
now  occupied  by  the  Central  Clothing 
Co.,  and  merge  their  two  stocks 
into 
one.

Cadillac—John  M.  Cloud  has  sold  his 
interest  in  the  hardware  stock  of  Cloud 
&  Morgan  to  J.  H.  Murray.  The  new 
firm  will  be  known  as  Morgan  &  Mur­
ray.  Mr.  Cloud  has  been  engaged  in 
the  hardware  business at this place since
1873.

Woodland—Carpenter  & Son,  formerly 
engaged 
in  the  hardware  business  at 
Lake  Odessa,  have  purchased  the  fur­
niture  stock  of  A.  L.  Cooper  and  will 
continue  the  business  at  this  place. 
Mr.  Cooper  retains  the  undertaking 
business.

Barryton—The  new  store  building  of 
J.  E.  Geiger  is  nearly  completed.  The 
lower  floor,  under  the  management  of 
Mr.  Geiger,  will  be  used  as  an  agricul­
tural 
implement  and  carriage  reposi­
tory.  The  upper  floor  will  be  fitted  up 
for  a  lodge  room.

Benton  Harbor—Edgar  Nichols  has 
purchased  the  notion,  book,  cigar  and 
confectionery  stock  owned  by  Harry 
Kidd  and  consolidated  it  with  his  own. 
He  has  also  formed  a  copartnership 
with  Geo.  R.  .  Dater,  of  the  firm  of 
Kidd,  Dater  &  Co.

Negaunee— Harry  Pearce,  who  has 
conducted  a  meat  market  business  in 
his  own  block  on  West  Iron  street  for 
some  time  past,  has disposed of his  shop 
to  Thomas  L.  Collins,  formerly  of  this 
city,  who  has  been  running  a  similar 
business  at  Ishpeming  for  the  past three 
years  or  so.

Dertoit—A  country dealer  walked  into 
a  wholesale  shoe  house  here 
last  week 
and  anxiously  enquired for some Goliath 
laces.  He  knew  that  the  kind he  wanted 
were  represented  by  a  strong  man,  but 
he  couldn't  think  of  Sandow,  which  is 
the  label.  However,  he  was  supplied 
with  some  “ Goliath”   goods.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Tustin—A.  R.  Bentley  has  sold  his 
feed  mill  to  Shultz  &  Co.,  who will con­
vert  the  same  into  a  flour  mill.

Detroit—The  Moore  Lumber  Co.  has 
decided  to  go  out  of  business,  and  the 
details  of  management  are  now  being 
arranged  before  the  final  step  is  taken. 
At  the  present  time  the  majority  of 
is  owned  by  Arthur  H.  Fleming.
stock 

Boyne  Falls—W.  H.  White  &  Co. 
have  added  a  machine  shop,  24x40  feet 
in  dimensions,  to  their  blacksmithing 
shop.

LeRoy— Dennis  Bros,  have  sold  their 
entire  stock  of  hemlock  lumber  (1,000,- 
000  feet)  to  John  J.  Foster  &  Co.,  of 
Greenville.

Traverse  City—The  J.  E.  Greilick 
Co.  has  begun 
the  manufacture  of 
kitchen  cupboards,  milk  safes,  sports­
men’s  cases,  etc.

Hopkins  Station— F.  D.  Miller,  of 
the  Springhill 
factory,  has 
shipped  2,280  cheese  to  the  Worden 
Grocer  Co.,  at  Grand  Rapids,  during 
the  past  season.

cheese 

It 

Onaway—T.  W.  Dickerson  is  getting 
out  the  timber  for  his  stave  mill,  which 
he  expects  to  have  in  operation  by  May 
1. 
is  expected  that  the  institution 
will  furnish  employment  for  forty  men.
Holland—C.  L.  King  has retired from 
the  basket  manufacturing  firm  of  C.  L. 
King  &  Co.,  having  transferred  his  in­
terest  to  his  partners,  F.  H.  and  L.  J. 
Hanchett,  of  Chicago,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

Bellaire— Ricker Bros,  have purchased 
the  water  power  and  a  tract  of  land  at 
Van  Buren  Junction,  at  the  connection 
of  the  new  Kalkaska,  Grand  Rapids  & 
Southeastern  and  C.  &  W.  M.  Rail­
roads,  and  will  establish  a  large  stave 
factory  there.

Detroit— The  Merchants  and  Manu­
facturers’  Exchange  is  planning  for  its 
annual  meeting,  which  will  be  held  at, 
the  Hotel  Cadillac  Wednesday  evening, 
January  12.  The  meeting  will  be  fol­
lowed  by  an  elaborate  dinner,  and  a 
list  of  speakers  is  being  prepared.

Cadillac—Mitchell  Bros,  have  invest­
ed  over $200,000  in  hardwood  lands dur­
ing  the  past  six  months  and  are.still 
buying  every  available  tract  of  hard­
wood  timber  they  can  handle  to  advan­
tage.  They  anticipate  a  rapid  advance 
in  this  class  of  property  in  the  near  fu­
ture.

Saginaw— The  Saginaw  Lumber  and 
Salt  Co.  manufactured  about  24,000,000 
feet  of 
lumber  during  1897  at  its  mill 
plant  at  Crow Island.  It is  getting  out  a 
fair  stock  of  logs  in  the  Georgian  Bay 
territory  this  winter  and  the  officers  of 
the company  regard  the  outlook  for  the 
coming  year  as  encouraging,  expecting 
a  better  price  and 
increased  demand 
for  lumber.

is  almost  completed. 

Menominee-----The  new  Richardson
shoe  factory 
It 
will  be  in  operation  by  March  1.  The 
machinery  will  be  removed  from  Janes­
ville,  Wis.,  about  February  1.  Mr. 
Richardson  says  he  has  so  many  orders 
ahead  for  goods  to  be  delivered  early 
for  the  spring  trade  that  delay  will  be 
costly.  It  will  require  a  train  of  twenty 
cars  to  move  the  plant.

Saginaw—Gardner,  Peterman  &  Co., 
organized  for  the  purpose  of  manufac­
turing  all  kinds  of  cooperage  stock  and 
shingles,  have  filed  articles  of  associa­
tion  with  the  County  Clerk.  The  com­
pany  will  carry  on 
its  operations  in 
Gratiot  and  Arenac  counties  aud  else­
where  in  Michigan.  The  capital  stock 
in  and  the  stock­
is $75,000,  all  paid 
holders,  with 
the  number  of  shares 
owned  by  each,  are  Melville  G.  Gard­
ner,  of  Saginaw,  2,250;  Cornelius  Pe­
terman,  Breckenridge,  2,250;  Albert  L. 
Gilbert,  Saginaw,  1,500,  and  Daniel 
Mahoney,  Riverdale,  1,500.

Houghton— Arrangements  have  been 
consummated  for  the  consolidation  of 
the  Arnold  and  Copper  Falls  copper 
mines.  The  Arnold  has  ground  enough 
open  at  No.  1  shaft  to  supply  the  stamp

mill  for  two  years  to  come  and  enough 
mined  and  stocked  for  two months.  The 
showing  at  this  shaft  is  excellent,  as  is 
also  that  at  the  second  shaft started,  and 
with  the  advantage  of  a  stamp  mill 
such  as  that  possessed  by  the  Copper 
Falls, 
the  coming  year  should  bear 
splendid  results  from  the  consolidated 
property.

Detroit— Charles  A.  Strelinger  &  Co. 
have  written the  Merchants  &  Manufac­
turers’  Excange,  stating 
that  a  short 
time  ago  they  received  an  order  for 
goods  from  a  firm  in  Amsterdam,  Hol­
land.  They  looked  up  the  standing  of 
the  firm,  and  were  surprised  to  learn 
that  their  correspondent  was  one  of  a 
number  of  Amsterdam  firms which order 
goods  from  United  States manufacturers 
and  dealers  and  fail  to  pay  for  them. 
A 
list  of  seventy  firms  accompanies 
Strelinger  &  Co.’s  letter,  that  seem  to 
be  engaged  in  a  systematic  attempt  to 
swindle  American  houses.

Ishpeming—The  attempt  of  the  mine 
workers’  union  to  force  companies  to 
grant  employes  a  raise  of  pay  was  un­
successful.  Very  few  members  came 
out  last  week  to  cast  ballots,  to  decide 
whether  or  not  a  walkout  should  be  de­
clared.  The  great  majority  of  those 
who  voted  were  opposed  to  the  propo­
In  consequence  of  the  union’s 
sition. 
failure  to  carry  out 
its  threat,  mine 
managers  met  Dec.  24  and  decided  to 
increase  wages  10  percent.,  dating back 
to  December  1.  This will  place  the  low­
est  pay  of  common  laborers  at $1.35  and 
the  average  earnings  of  miners  will  be 
$2  or  over. 
It  is  generally  thought  that 
the  union  will  now  go  to  pieces,  as 
members  assert  that  they  have  become 
tired  of  supporting  the  leaders.

Menominee— Men  who  go  to  the  lum­
ber  camps  this  winter  are  making 
wages  about  30  per  cent,  higher  than 
those  paid  last  year.  A  year  ago  men 
were  in  the  woods  begging  for  work  at 
$18  per  month,  and  this  year  all  the 
men  who  apply  are  being  put  to  work 
at  monthly  wages  at  from  $22  to $24. 
The  scarcity  of  work  in  the  woods 
last 
year  filled  the  State  with  tramps,  but 
this  year  the  tramps  are  comparatively 
few,  the  result  of  plenty  of  work.  The 
demand  for  labor  of  all  classes  is  not  so 
great 
just  at  present,  the  period  when 
inexperienced  men  can  be  used  being 
about  to  close.  Since  the  recent  heavy 
snows  the  logs  are  being  hauled  to  dis­
tributing  points,  which  work  requires 
experienced  men,  for  whom  the  demand 
is  larger  than  ever.

Nearly  Thirty  Years  a  Grocer.

in 

Eaton  Rapids,  Dec.  28— W.  D.  Brain- 
erd,  who  recently  sold  his  grocery  stock 
to  J.  F.  Knapp,  came  to  this  city 
in 
1856,  and  went  into  business  for  him­
i86q,  starting  a  grocery  store. 
self 
In  1878,  he  had  the  misfortune  to  burn 
out,  but  he  immediately  re-established 
the  business  and  continued 
it  until 
1885,  when  he  sold  to  E.  D.  Corbin 
and  went  to  Coronado,  Kansas. 
In 
in  the  real  estate 
Kansas  he  engaged 
and  banking  business,  continuing 
in 
such  business  until  1888,  when  he  re­
turned  to  this  city  and  bought  a  half 
interest  in  the  drug  and  grocery  stock 
of  Mr.  Soule,  who  was  then 
in 
the  G.  A.  R.  building.  Mr.  Brainerd 
aud  Mr.  Soule  ran 
this  business  to­
gether  for  about  two  years,  when  Mr. 
Brainerd  purchased  Mr.  Soule’s  inter­
est  and  moved  the  stock  into  the  build­
ing  he  now  occupies. 
In  1895,  he  sold 
the  drug  stock  and  converted  the  store 
into  an  exclusive  grocery  house,  of 
which  he  has  been  the  proprietor  until 
the  recent  sale.

located 

Gillies  N.  Y.  Clearance  Tea  Sale now 

on.  Phone  Visner,  1589.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Movement Toward  Reduction of Bank­

ing  Capital.

In 

consolidations. 

line  with  the  bankers 

in  other 
is  talk  here  of  reducing 
cities,  there 
capital  and  of 
The 
National  City  Bank  has  appointed  a 
committee  of  the  directors,  made  up  of 
Hon.  T.  J.  O ’ Brien,  Col.  George  G. 
^riRSsi  L.  J.  Rindge,  N.  L.  Avery  and 
T.  Stewart  White,  to  report  upon  the 
advisability  and  plans  for a reduction  of 
the  capital  of  that  Bank  from  $500,000 
to  $300,000.  The  Old  National  Bank  is 
seriously  discussing  a  reduction  from 
$800,000  to  $600,000.  and  some  of  the 
directors  are  strongly  in  favor  of  the 
change.  The  total  capitalization  of  the 
State  and  National  banks 
in  the  city' 
now  is  $2,950,000,  and,  after  the  pay­
ment  of  the  semi-annual  dividends,  the 
surplus  and  undivided  profits  will 
amount  to  nearly  $600,000,  making  the 
actual  bank  capital  about  $3,500,000. 
The  deposits,  according  to  the  state­
ments  published  December  15,  aggre­
gate  $11,250,586.06,  and  of  these  de­
posits over $6,000,000 bear interest,either 
in  the  shape  of  certificates  or  as  sav­
ings  deposits.  The  amount  of  unpro­
ductive  capital  carried  in  cash  and  re­
serve  is  nearly  $4,500,000,  and  it  is  this 
enormous  dead-weight  which 
inspires 
the  movement  for  the  reduction  of  the 
capital  upon  which  dividends  must  be 
paid.

The  movement  for  the  consolidation 
of  some  of  the  banks  has  not  yet  as­
sumed  a  definite  form,  but  it  is  being 
strongly  urged  in  some  quarters  and 
it 
is  quite 
likely  that  something  will  be 
done  in  that  direction.  The  charters  of 
three  National  and  one  savings  banks 
will  expire  by  legal  limitation  within 
the  next  five  years  and  the  total  capi­
talization  of  these  four  banks  is $1,750. 
000.  Two  more  of  the  National  banks, 
with  $600,000  capital,  will  cease  to  have 
a  legal  existence  within  the  two  years 
following.  The first  of  the  banks  to  ex­
pire  is  the  Grand  R?pids  National,  in 
1900;  in  1902,  the  Fourth  National  and 
Grand  Rapids  Savings  Banks  will  wind 
up,  and  in  1903  the  charter  of  the  Old 
National  will  expire. 
The  National 
City  has  until  1905  to  run  and  the  Fifth 
National  can  stay  until  1906.  One form 
of  the  consolidation talk  is  in  the  direc­
tion  of  organizing  one  big  bank  which 
will  absorb  two  or more  of  the  present 
banks.  The  consolidation 
is  fa­
vored  mainly  on  grounds  of  economy, 
as  the  entire  business  of  two  or  even 
three  of  the  banks can be done at little  if 
any  greater  expense  than  that of anv one 
of  them,  while  the  savings  in  salaries, 
rents  and  other  charges  would  be  ample 
to  make  a  dividend  on  a  good  sized 
capitalization.

idea 

During  the  past  year  the  banks  have 
reduced  the  interest  rate  on  deposits  to 
an  average  of  3  per  cent.  Even  at  this 
rate  the  depositors,  without  taxes  to pay 
and  without  risks  to  run  of 
loss,  really 
realize  more  from  their  money  than  do 
the  stockholders.  Few  of  the  banks  in 
this  city  net  the  stockholders  3 percent, 
on  the  money  actually 
invested,  count­
ing  the  surplus  and  undivided  profits  as 
part  of  the  capital.  Twenty  years  ago 
there  was  a  theory  in  banking  circles 
that  large  capitalization  was  not  only- 
advisable  but  necessary. 
Time  has 
brought  changes  in  this  theory  and  now 
a  comparatively  small  capital  and  a 
healthy  surplus  are  considered  more  de­
sirable  than  large  capitalization.  When 
most  of  the  banks  here  were  organized,

the  lumber  business  in  Western  Michi­
gan  was  at  its  height. 
It  was  nothing 
uncommon  for  heavy  operators  to  bor­
row $100,000  or  more  at  a  time,  and  the 
interest  rate  was  7  per  cent.  The  lum­
bermen  do  not  borrow  dimes  now  where 
they  used  to  take  dollars  and  the  cur­
rent  interest  rate  is  no longer  7 per cent. 
The  furniture  manufacturers  used  to 
keep  their  yards  filled  with  lumber  and 
their  warehouses  loaded  with  finished 
goods,  and  this  necessitated  heavy  bor­
rowing,  but  now  they  run  their  lumber 
from  the  cars  to  the  dry  kilns,  so  that 
the  extra 
lumber  stock  is  reduced  to  a 
minimum.  As  for  the  warehouses,  they 
are  kept  as  cleanly  stripped  as  possible 
of  surplus  finished  stock.  The  furni­
ture  manufacturers  are  doing  business 
on  as  nearly  a  cash  basis  as  possible, 
and  it  is  the  same  with  the  merchants. 
They  are  taking  the  discount  wherever 
offered  and  a  1  per  cent,  a  year  savings 
is  regarded  as  a  consideration  worth 
looking  after.  Some  of  the  changes  that 
have  occurred  in  the  banking  business 
in 
late  years  are  the  result  of  natural 
evolution,  but  others  and  the  more  im­
portant  are  the  results  of  the  lessons 
which  the recent  hard times have taught. 
The  changes  brought  by  the  hard  times 
are  in  the  direction  of  conservative  and 
safe  business  methods,  but  they  have 
left  the  banks  heavily  loaded  with 
idle 
money.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Northern  Spys  are  in  moder­
ate  request  at  $3.25@3.50  per  bbl.  The 
is  far  from  choice.  Arkansas 
quality 
Jonathans,  fine 
in  appearance  and  ex­
cellent  in  quality,  command  $5.  Ozarks 
and  Etrus,  also  Arkansas  products, 
fetch  $4.

Bananas—The  market 

is  good,  and 
the  movement 
is  better  than  usual. 
Quite  an  increased  volume  of  business 
is  reported  as  a  result  of  the  Christmas 
demand.

Butter— Dairy  was  dull  and  sluggish 
last  week,  but  the  demand  picked  up 
the  fore  part  of  the  present  week  and 
transactions  have  been  satisfactory  in 
point  of  quantity  and  price.  Fancy 
grades  easily  command  14c.  Factory 
creamery  is  held  at  2i@22c.

Cabbage—The market  is  sluggish  and 
unsatisfactory,  choice  stock  command­
ing  only  $2.50  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Celery— 10(^12yic  per  bunch,  accord­

ing  to  size  and  quality.

Cranberries—Cape Cods have declined 
to  $7.50,  while  Wisconsins  remain  sta­
tionary  at $8.  Jerseys  are  again  in  mar­
ket,  commanding  $7.50.

Eggs—Strictly fresh,carefully candled, 
command  20c.  Storage  stock  is  held  at 
12c,  case  count,  13c  for  candled  and  14c 
for  fancy  candled.

Honey— 11c  for  white  comb and  10c 

for  dark.

Lemons—The  market  is  lower on  all 
varieties.  The  demand  is  light  and  re­
ceipts  are  on  the  increase.
stock.

Lettuce— 12c  per 

for  hothouse 

lb. 

is 

Onions— Red  fetch  65c;  yellow  com­
mand  75c;  Spanish  are  held  at $1.75.
Oranges—The  receipts  of  California 
and  Mexican  is  very  good  and  prices 
are  lower  by  25c  per  box  on  the  whole 
line.  The  movement 
is  very  good  for 
the  holiday  trade.

Potatoes—The  movement 

light, 
there  being  a  tendency  on  the  part  of 
shippers  to  hold  on  until  prices  stiffen 
up  again.  The  seeding  demand  from 
is  beginning  to  be 
the  South,  which 
felt, 
improve  matters 
very  materially.

is  expected  to 

Poultry—The  market  is  flat  and  deal­
ers  are advising  shippers  to  hold  their 
stocks  for  a  few  days,  in  the  expecta­
tion  that  the  demand  will 
improve. 
Turkeys  command  only  8@9C,  ducks 
and  geese  go  at  7c,  fowls  bring  6c  and 
chickens  only  7c.

Sweet  Potatoes—Kiln  dried  Illinois 
Jerseys  fetch  $3.75.  Genuine  Jerseys 
are  entirely  out  of  market.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  market  is  strong  and  ac­
tive,  all  conditions  indicating  a  higher 
range  of  values.  Eastern  conditions  are 
much  as  they  were,  with  light  stocks  of 
granulated  in  the  hands  of  refiners,  and 
a  strong  market 
in  raws  in  both  this 
country  and  Europe.

Tea— Nobody  wants  to  sell  at any con­
cessions,  and  few  are  anxious  to  sell 
even  at  full  rates,  because  the  general 
expectation 
is  that  these  will  be  even 
higher  after  the  first  of  the  year.

Coffee—The  war between  the  package 
coffee  houses  is  still  on,  and  the  extra 
inducements  made  to  the  retailers  to 
handle  this  class  of  goods  are  causing  a 
neglect  of  bulks  in  favor  of  the package 
goods.  The  general  conditions  of  the 
market  are  such  as  to  indicate  a  con­
tinued  low  price  for  Brazils.  The  East­
ern  coffees  are  still  in  but  fair  supply, 
and  are  unchanged  in  price.

Dried  Fruits—Dates  are  lower,  be­
cause  the  second  and  more  liberal 
im- 
porations  are  now  on  the  market.  This 
is  the  usual  course  of  the  market.  Rai­
sins  are  weak.  Prunes  are  steady.  Re­
ports  from  the  East  show  figs  to  be  ad­
vancing. 
Fancy  figs  are  especially 
scarce  and  wanted  for  the holiday trade. 
The  crop 
is  reported  to  be  short  and 
the  demand  advancing.  Reports  from 
the  Coast  show  the  raisin  market  to  be 
quiet.  London  layers  are  about cleaned 
up  on  the  Coast.  The  entire  product 
of  raisins  is  reported  to  be  larger  than 
that  of  last  year,  although  the  propor­
tion  of  fancy  goods  is  smaller.  On  the 
Coast  the  general  demand  is  slow,  and 
a  lack  of  interest  is  shown  by  Eastern 
buyers.  This  condition  is  attributed  to 
the  fact  that  the  product  marketed 
earlier 
in  the  season  was  of  such  large 
volume  as  to  make  the  Eastern  buyers 
believe  the  stocks  to  be  practically 
in­
exhaustible ;  for this reason they are sup­
posed  to  be  waiting  for  the  market  to 
decline.  The  export  trade  that  was 
very  good  at  the  beginning  of  the  sea­
son  is  very  light  now.

is 

Molasses  and  Syrup—There  is  an  un­
derstanding  that  glucose  will  advance 
in  a  few  days,  and  this  will  doubtless 
carry  compound  syrup  up  with 
it. 
Sugar  syrup  is  not  selling.  The  surplus 
is  pretty  well  rtduced,  and  the  price  is 
unchanged.  Molasses 
in  very  fair 
demand,  although  the  weather has  been 
agaihst  it  until  lately.  The  market  for 
good  New  Orleans  molasses,  fine  stock, 
has  advanced  in  New  Orltans  i@3c  per 
gallon.  This  has  not  yet  affected  the 
Grand  Rapids  market,  and  hardly  will 
until  the  prevailing  conditions  change.
Canned  Goods—Tomatoes  have  ad­
vanced  about  5  cents  per  dozen  during 
the  week  and  are  at present writing very 
firm.  The  demand  at  the  advance  is 
very  fair.  Corn 
is  quiet  and  rules  at 
unchanged  prices.  Very  little  trade  is 
reported  in  it.  Peas are  in  precisely  the 
same  condition.  Peaches are  rather dull 
and  the  demand 
is  very  light,  prices 
being  unchanged.  But  little  activity  in 
canned  goods 
the 
spring.  The  winter  from  new  on  will 
probably  be  dull.
The Old  Peddling Law  Again in  Force.
The  Tradesman  regrets  that  the  Su­
preme  Court  found  it  necessary to  annul 
the  peddling  license  law  passed  by  the 
last  Legislature  on  the  ground  of uncon­
stitutional ity.  The  original  draft  of 
the  law  was  prepared  by  the  attorney  of 
the  Michigan  Tradesman,  and  had  the 
law  been  enacted  as  it  was  intended 
it 
should  be,  the  Supreme  Court  would 
not  have  been  called  upon  to  pass  upon 
its  validity.  The  feature  the  Supreme

is  expected  until 

b

Court  objected  to  was  incorporated  in 
the  bill  by  a  rural  legislator  and,  in 
spite  of  the  objections of the Tradesman 
and  the  Committee  of  the  Michigan Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association  having  the 
matter  in  charge,  the  objectionable fea­
ture  was  permitted  to 
remain.  Of 
course,  the  matter  will  not  be  allowed 
to  rest  here  and  between  now  and  the 
next  session  of  the  Legislature  an  ag­
gressive  campaign  will  be  conducted  in 
the 
interest  of  a  re-enactment  of  the 
measure  along  the  same  lines  as  the 
original  draft  presented  to  the 
last 
Legislature.

Attorney  General  Maynard  bolds  that 
the  Legislature  of  1897  did  not  intend 
laws  bearing  upon 
to  repeal  previous 
the  subject  without  enacting  a  new 
law 
instead  and  that,  therefore,  the  old 
law 
providing  for  hawkers’  and  peddlers’ 
licenses  to  be  taken  out  upon  applica­
tion  to  the  State  Treasurer  is  now  in 
force.  The  question  what  the  peddlers 
will  do  who  have  paid  their  money  for 
licenses  under  the  law  just knocked out, 
and  who  will  be  compelled  to  secure 
new  licenses  under  the old  law,  is  not 
passed  upon 
in  the  opinion.  The  law 
in  force  is  found  in  sections  1257 
now 
to  1266,  Vol.  1,  and  1266a  to 
i266e  of 
Vol.  3  of  Howell’s Statutes.
Flout  and  Feed.

During  the  past  month  flour  buyers 
have  been  proceeding  very  cautiously 
and,  as  a  rule,  making  purchases  for 
immediate  shipments  only.  Everywhere 
is  a  feeling  of  distrust  and  fear 
there 
that  present  prices  will  not 
long  be 
maintained  and  that  the  usual  collapse 
of  prices,  forced up  by  speculative trad­
ing,  will  be  sure  to  ensue.  The  out­
come  of  the  December  deal  in  Chicago 
is  awaited  with  considerable  anxiety  by 
the  trade,  but  if  the  parties  who  have 
accepted  the  delivery  of large quantities 
of  cash  wheat  in  that  market  are  strong 
enough  to  hold 
it  and  are  indifferent 
about  selling,the  position  of  the  market 
will  be  greatly  strengthened  and  buyers 
will  take  hold  with  confidence.  The 
most  authentic  advices  now  concur  in 
two  things—that  the  export  demand 
will  be  good  for  the  next  three  or  four 
months  and  that  there  will  be  a  consid­
erable  falling  off  in  farmers’  deliveries 
of  wheat.

Domestic  flour  stocks  are  not  large 
and,  with  a  good  demand  at  home  and 
abroad,  values  are  likely  to  be  well 
maintained  and  seem  likely to go higher 
rather  than  lower.
Millstuffs  are 

in  good  demand  and 
tending  higher.  Feed  and  meal  are  a 
little stronger,  on  account  of  the  upward 
tendency  of  corn  and  oats.

W m.  N.  R ow e.

Hides,  Pelts,  Wool  and  Furs.

Hides  remain  quiet  at  the  former 
advance,  with  ho  accumulation.  The 
market  is  well  cleaned  up on  all grades.
Sheep  pelts  are  extremely  scarce,  as 
farmers  will  not  sell  the  few  they  have, 
preferring  to  increase  their  flocks,  hav­
ing  plenty  of  feed.

Furs  have  quieted  down,  it  being  too 
late  to  ship  for  January  sale  in  London; 
also  for  the  holiday  trade  at  home.

Wool  remains  firm,  with  a  slight  ad­
vance 
in  some  grades  and  with  large 
sales  of  territory  at  the  seaboard.  There 
is  little  enquiry,  as  holders’  prices  are 
well  known  and  are  above  the  manufac­
turers’  ideas  and  also  above  previous 
ruling  prices.  An  attempt  at  combina­
tion  is  being  made  by  the  manufactur­
ers  to  control  prices  of  the raw  product, 
but  supplies 
in  sight  do  not  brighten 
the  outlook  for  them.  Wm.  T.  Hess.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

DRINKS  AND  DRINKERS.

How  They  Differ  in  European  Coun 
tries.
Written for the Tradesman.

The other  day  a  German  lady in Dres 
den  described  to  us  an  American  din­
ner  to  which  she  had  been  invited :  “ I 
think  it  must  have  been  a  very  fine din­
ner, 
she  said,  “ for  there  was  every 
thing  to  eat,  and  I  did  not  even  know 
the  names  of  some  of  the  things;  but, 
would  you  believe 
it,  there  was  not  a 
drop  of  anything  to  drink  on  the  table 
except  water,  and of  course  black  coffee 
after  the  m eal!  The 
idea  of  giving  a 
dinner  and  offering  nothing  to  drink ! 
Is  that  the  way  you  do  in  America? 
I 
nearly  died  of  thirst. 
I  afterward  in­
vited  these  same  people  to  my  Louse 
and  showed  them  bow  guests  ought'to 
be  treated.  Yes,  and  they  seemed  to 
like  my  good  wine,  too.  Why,  in  Ger- 
many,  it  is  considered  an  insult  to  the 
if  they  are  not  offered  the  best 
guests 
the  house  can  afford 
the  way  of 
drinks.  Even  a  poor  washwoman  has 
beer on  her  table  and  most  people  offer 
I  don’t  wonder  the  Americans 
wine. 
look  pale  and  sickly  if  they 
live  on 
water  that  way. 
I  hope  you  are  not  of 
fended  at  what  I  say;  but  it  is  true,  all 
the  same. ’ ’

in 

seeing  in double-quick time.  His neigh 
bors,  aware  of  his  condition,  suggest 
some  wine  or  beer  to  give  him strength, 
and  at  the  same  time  they  dilate  on  the 
purity  of  these  articles  in  their  special 
country,  and  how  much  better  they  are 
tor  the  system  than water or milk,  which 
are  only  fit  for  babies.  So,  blushing 
and  hesitant,  he  orders  a  bottle  of  the 
staple  stuff,  and thinks  how  ashamed  he 
would  be  to  have  any  of  “ his  people 
or  his  friends  see  him,  at  the  same time 
promising  himself  not  to 
indulge  in 
more  than  this  one  bottle.  But  he  finds 
he  cannot  manage  any  better  without 
the  second  bottle,  and  the  third  is  in 
evitable,  and  almost  before  he  has time 
to  realize  the  fact  he  is  no  longer  a  ten 
deifoot  but  has  acquired  the  tastes  and 
habits  of  a  native. 
If  he  travels  much 
he  soon  learns  it  is  better  to  adapt  him 
self  to  the  customs  of  the  country;  and, 
after all,  is  it  not  rather 
interesting  to 
fit  into  the  readymade  grooves  and  feel 
at  home  anywhere,  even  although  it  ne 
cessitates  a  change  every  day?

it 

How  amusing 

is  to  see  how  each 
nation  thinks 
it  alone,  has 
solved  the  food  and  drink  problem 
Yet,

it,  and 

“W hat’s one man’s poison, signor,
Is another’s meat or drink.”

There  certainly  does  seem  to be some­
thing  peculiar  about  the  European  air 
which  makes  the  system  demand  mere 
stimulants  to  keep 
it  normal  than  are 
required 
in  America.  Then,  too,  the 
water  is  poor  in  most  places  on the Con­
tinent,  and  even  the  milk  supply  is  not 
to  be  depended  upon.  So  what  are  the 
people  to  do  under  such  conditions? 
If 
they  were  Americans  they  could  not 
rest  a  moment  until  they had discovered 
a  method  for  making  chemically  pure 
water.  But  they  are  Europeans,  made 
up  of  a  number  of  nations  each  with  its 
own  peculiar  environment  and  tastes.
Did  vou  ever  notice  an  American just 
landed  in  Europe?  He  is  easier  to  spot 
than  a  hen’s  nest.  Nowhere  does  he 
show  his  natural  instincts  more  strongly 
than  at  the  table.  When  the  wine  list 
is  put  before  him  by  the obliging waiter 
he  shoves  it  unceremoniously aside  with 
a  shrug  and  a  “ No  thank  you,  I  always 
take  water. “   And  he  stands  by  his  in 
tries  to 
born,  inbred  principles  and 
drink  the  semi-transparent, 
ill-smell 
ing, 
lukewarm  stuff  called  water  and, 
with  eyes  closed  and  olfactory  nerve 
imagine  himself  hack  at  the 
asleep, 
well  on  the  old  farm. 
Forlorn  delu 
sion !  He  begins  to  study  his  Baedeker, 
and  finds  people are  warned  against  the 
water 
in  the  special  city  where  he  is 
stopping.  He  next  buys  a  spirit  lamp 
and  boils  his  drinking  water,  or  orders 
it  boiled  at  his  hotel  or  pension,  and 
congratulates  himself  on  driving  away 
so  easily  the  fever  phantom  that  dogs 
his  footsteps.  But,  someway  the  water 
is  not quite  satisfactory  yet.  True,  the 
liquid  in  his  glass  is  much  clearer,  be­
cause  a  thick  deposit  of  sediment  has 
been  left  behind  in  the  boiling  kettle; 
but  he  is  still  conscious  of  an  undefin 
able,  sickish  sort  of  smell  issuing  from 
the  depths  of  his  glass,  and  tries  to 
disguise  the  taste  and  smell  with  lemon 
and  indulges  in  lemonade  on  all  occa 
sions.  But,  alas!  he  too  soon  discovers 
there  are  times  and  places  even  for 
lemonade.  The  charms  of soda or seltzer 
water are  even  more  fleeting.  A  heavy, 
tired,  enervating  sort  of  feeling  seems 
to  creep 
into  the  very  marrow  of  his 
bones,  and  he  wishes  the  sun  would  try 
to  shine  through  the  murky sky and give 
him  spirits  to  do  up  the necessary sight­

It 

living 

the  water 

In  Italy  one  cannot  escape  drinking 
wine— most  people,  however,  are  ready 
to  admit  they  find 
it  no  punishment. 
The  wine  is  light,  sweet  and  pure  and 
can  be  indulged  in  freely  without  feel 
ing  any  ill  effects.  At  Naples  the  water 
is  considered  good,  but  in the neighbor­
ing  towns  of  Pompeii,  Amalfi,  Sorrento 
and  Capri 
is  a  veritable 
poison;  but,  on  the  other  hand,  is  not 
the  renowned  Capri  wine  just  at  hand 
nectar  fit  for  the  gods!  Rome  has 
been  famous  since  the  time  of  the 
Caesars 
for  her  pure  water  supply; 
nevertheless,  the  Frascati  wine  is  more 
popular.  Another  drink  much  esteemed 
is  a  liquor  distilled  from  the  eucalyptus 
tree  and  considered  especially  useful  to 
ward  off  malaria. 
In  Florence,  Pisa, 
Leghorn  and  Venice  one  must  resort  to 
the  native  wines.  The  Italians,  as  a 
people,  are  very  particular  about  their 
wines  and  can  detect  the  least  adulter 
ation. 
is  said  that  the  poorest  Ital- 
an  workman,  or  beggar 
in  a 
shanty  on  the  Roman  Campagna,  al­
though  he  may  subsist  on crusts of bread 
dipped 
in  olive  oil,  onions  and 
macaroni  the  year  around,  never fails  to 
lay  in  each  fall  a  large  supply  of  good 
wine,  and  many  times  drinks  a  better 
quality  than  the  rich  man  who  depends 
on  his  wine  merchant.  The  Italians 
are  a  convivial,  happy-go-lucky  race  of 
people,  never  content  without  plenty  of 
boon  companions  and 
flowing  cups. 
There  are  numberless  people  in  Italy 
like  Micawber,  “ waiting  for  something 
to  turn  up;”   meanwhile,  they  live  a  life 
of  idleness,  drink  to  each  others’  health 
and  make  business  for  the  restaurants.
in  Italy  with  work  or  without 
No  one 
ever  lives 
in  the  bouse,  and  under  a 
sunshiny  sky  there  is  a  special  attrac­
tion  about  the  out-door  accommodations 
of  the  various  restaurants.  People  flock 
to  them  by  the  multitude  and  the  wait­
ers  are  as  busy  as  the  streetcar conduct­
ors  after  the  latest  play  in  the  theater 
or  the  most  popular  opera.  There  is  a 
restaurant  facing  St.  Mark's  Square 
in 
Venice,  “ Florian's, ”   which  has  not 
closed 
its  doors  night  or  day  in  three 
hundred  years.  There  seems  no  time 
when  many  of  the  little  tables  are  not 
full  of  people  drinking  caffe  e  latte  or 
sipping  caffe  nero  or  choice  wine.  On 
moonlight  nights  in  summer,  especially 
when  there  has  been  music on the Grand

Canal,  people 
leave  their  gondolas  at 
ten,  eleven,  or  twelve  o’clock  at  night 
long  enough  to  eat  slowly  a  dish  of 
gelato  (ice  cream)  or  granita  (water 
ice)  and  “ Florian’s”   is  then  thronged 
like a  club  house  or  newspaper office  on 
the  evening  of  presidential  election. 
There  is  a  soft  drink  in  Italy  which  I 
have  tasted  nowhere  except  in  Naples 
and  Florence,  and 
in  the  latter  city 
there  is  a  building  devoted  exclusively 
to  it.  About  the  door  is  a  conspicuous 
decoration  of  cocoanuts  and  artificial 
leaves,  for  the  drink 
is  some  sort  of 
concoction  made  from  cocoanut.  Peo­
ple  flock  to  this  shop  and  sip  a  small 
glass  of  this  semi-milky,  very sweet and 
slightly  aerated  drink.

could 

soda  at  robbery  prices. 

Switzerland  has  no  exclusive  drink  of 
its  east­
her own.  The  inhabitants  in 
ern  part  choose  beer  like  their  neigh­
bors,  the  Germans,  while  in  the  western 
part  wine 
is  preferred.  The  native 
wines  are  rather  sour,  so  the  sweeter 
Italian,  Spanish  and  French  wines  are 
mported.  Switzerland  is  very  cosmo­
it  would  seem  as  though 
politan  and 
any  nation 
in  the  world 
find 
drinks  there  to 
its  special  taste.  But 
the  Swiss  seem  more  proud  to  advertise 
American  drinks. 
In  Lucerne  and  Ge­
neva  one  can  get  a  bad  quality  of  ice 
cream 
In 
Geneva  there  has  been  formed  recently 
society  for  encouragement  in  the  use 
of  non-alcohol  drinks.  In  order  to  prop­
agate  their  principles  successfully  they 
have  opened  up  depots  about  the  city 
where  “ soft  drinks”   are  sold  at  cost. 
One  can  have  a  cup  of  good  coffee  for 
cents  or  chocolate  for  3  cents.  Lem­
onade  is  only  2  or  3  cents,  while  seltzer 
s  a  cent  for  a  small  glass.
There  are  two  things  which  a German 
must  have  of  the  very  best  quality,  viz., 
coffee  and  beer.  A  German  seldom 
breaks  bis  fast 
in  the  morning  with 
more  than  a  cup  of  coffee  and  hot  milk 
and  a  roll  with  butter.  But  at  eleven 
’clock,  wherever  he  happens  to  be, 
whatever  he  may  be  doing,  he  must 
take  his  second  bresTkfast,  a  sandwich 
and  liter  of  beer,  although  a  lady  down 
town  shopping  prefers  a  cup  of  choco­
late  with  whipped  cream,  with  a  cake 
two.  Dinner  is  eaten  at  1  130  to  2  p.
,  when  the  man  of  the  house  thinks 
nothing  of  drinking  two  more  liters  of 
beer.  At  4  or  5  p.  m.,  the  afternoon 
coffee 
is  drunk,  and  sometime  in  the

evening  comes  supper,  with  plenty  of 
beer.  As  theaters,  operas,  concerts, 
etc.,  begin  early  in  Germany,  most peo­
ple  eat  sandwiches  and  drink  beer  at 
the  place  of  amusement  where they hap­
pen  to  be  for  the  evening.  Many  of  the 
German  men  prefer  to  drink  beer, 
smoke  and  discuss  politics  with  other 
men  and  are  seldom  to  be found at home 
in  the  evening,  or even  with  their  wives 
at  places  of  amusement.  They 
love 
their  wives 
in  a  way,  but  the  average 
German  Frau  is  such  a  poorly  educated 
creature  she  cannot  talk  plain  sense  for 
any  length  of  time,  and  as  to  discussing 
weightier  subjects,  that  is  quite  outside 
her  scope.  Even  a  man  whose  feet 
much  outweigh  his  head  cannot  spend 
three  hundred  and  sixty-five  evenings 
n  the  year  twirling  his  thumbs  and  re­
peating  tweedledee  and  tweedledum  to 
a  butterfly  or an  oyster,  even  although 
she  be  the  only  darling  he  worships 
in 
all  the  world.  So  he  preserves  himself 
n  beer  and  tobacco  at  his  club  each 
evening,  and  lives  contentedly  and hap­
pily  to  a  green  old  age.

Under  such  conditions  one  would  ex­
pect  to  see  drunkenness  on  all  sides; 
but  this  is  not  the  case. 
I  was  in  Ger­
many  more  than  a  year,  yet  in  all  that 
time  I  never  saw  but  two  cases  of 
drunkenness. 
Climate  must  have  a 
great  deal  to  do  with  the matter.  There 
in 
is  little  sunshine  in  Germany,  even 
summer  weather,  and  the  heavy 
leaden 
clouds  seldom  lift.  How  then  can  there 
be any  lightness  of  body,  mind  or  soul 
under  such  conditions?  Then,  too,  a 
German  drinks 
slowly.  He  thinks 
nothing  of  spending  half  an  hour,  or 
even  an  hour,  over  a  liter  of  beer. 
It 
is  a  common  sight  to  see  husband  and 
wife  or  two  sisters  ordering  one  glass 
between  them.  This  must  be  a  survival 
of  the  old  custom  of  having  one  stone 
jug  for  the  whole  family,  to  be  passed 
from  mouth  to  mouth  the  length  of  the 
table.  But  probably  the  chief  reason 
for  the  sobriety  of  the  German  people 
lies  in  the  purity  of  the  beer.  Here 
is 
a  receipt  which  was  used  in  Berlin  for 
testing  the  purity  of  beer  as  far  back  as 
the  time  of  Frederick  the Great.  A  lit­
tle  beer  was  poured  on  a  chair  and  a 
man  in  leather  jerkins  would  sit  down 
in  it. 
If  he  stuck  fast  to  the  chair  the 
beer  was  good,  if  not—well,  it  was  not 
fit  to  put  in  any  good  German’s  stom­
ach.  To-day  the  Munich  and  Pilsener

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beer  sustains  a  world-wide  reputation. 
The  genuine  article  is  supposed  to  be 
exported  all  over  Germany,  but  it  never 
tastes  the  same  outside  of  headquarters. 
Many  of  the  breweries 
in  Germany 
make  their  beer  after  the  same  methods 
as  these 
Strasburg 
boasts  of  quite  another  kind,  light  in 
color  and  fruity  in  flavor,  which  is  par­
taken  of  more  as wine.  However,  along 
the  Rhine  wine  is  the  accepted  bever­
age.

famous  brands. 

The  land 

in  the  wine  districts  is  so 
precious  that  there  are  no  dooryards  or 
churchyards,  the  vine  being  cultivated 
to  the  very  shadow  of  the  eaves.  Yet 
little  eaten  there  and  are 
grapes  are 
harder  to  obtain 
choicest 
brands  of  wine.

than 

the 

In  hot  drinks  chocolate  almost  vies 
with  coffee  and  all  cooks  seem  to  be 
especially  successful  in  making  it.  But 
tea !  ah,  it 
is  a  delusion  and  a  snare— 
pale  as  a  ghost,  weak  as  a  new  born 
babe.

How  different 

is  on  hand  with 

in  Holland!  Before 
one  is  fairly  awake  in  the  morning  the 
maid 
the  cup  that 
cheers  but  not 
inebriates,  in  order  to 
give  one  strength  and  courage  to get  up 
and  dress  in  the  morning.  At breakfast 
is  no  choice  of  drinks,  but  the 
there 
teapot 
is  given  a  place  at  the  festive 
board  without  a  murmur  or  a  dissenting 
vote  from  the  assembled  compa' y.  The 
coffeepot  “ spouts”   at  noon 
lunch,  but 
the  teapot  is  called 
into  service  every 
two  hours  during  the  day  and  evening. 
The  ordinary  Holland  people  eat  but 
one  good  meal  in the day ;  however,  that 
does  not  prevent  them  from  eating  “ a 
polite  sufficiency’ ’  at  other  times  of 
bread  and  butter,  tea,  coffee,  cocoa  or 
milk. 
In  The  Hague,  Amsterdam,  and 
all  other  cities  for  that  matter,  there  are

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numerous  little  creameries  where  milk 
or  cocoa  are  to  be  had  all  the  day  long. 
People  flock  to  these  shops  by the score, 
and,  if  anything,  the  proportion  of  men 
is  the  greater.  They  sit  at  the  small 
tables  and  quench  their  thirst  with  sev­
eral  glasses  of  milk  or  a  cup  or  two  of 
delicious  cocoa.  Of  course,  Holland 
indulges  in  her  share  of  beer,  wine  and 
gin,  as  every  other  nation  does.  Good 
drinking  water  is  so  hard  to  procure 
that  it  is  sold  by  the wineglass and costs 
as  much  as  beer.

instance,  to 

lose  anything 

The  distance  from  Holland 

to  the 
Scandinavian  Peninsula 
is  not  great, 
yet  the  habits  and customs  of  the North­
It  is 
ern  people  are  radically  different. 
in 
said  that  no  one  can 
Norway  except  his  heart,  and 
the 
Swedes,  although  an  entirely  different 
type  of  people,  seem  equally  as  honest. 
For 
illustrate  how  an  en­
tire  stranger  is  trusted,  one  need  not  go 
beyond  the  Swedish  railroad  station. 
In  the  restaurant  there  are  no  waiters. 
A  large  table  in  the  middle  of  the  room 
holds  all  sort  of  food  and  drink.  A  per­
son  goes  up  and  helps  himself  to  what­
ever  he  prefers,  then  eats  it  at  one  of 
the  small  tables  arranged  around  the 
sides  of  the  room.  When he  has  finished 
he  goes  to  the  desk  and  pays  for  what 
he  says  he  has  had. 
In  this  same  coun­
try  there  is  a  social  law  which  makes  it 
a  breach  of  etiquette  for  a  person  to 
drink alone.  The  custom,  which  seems 
peculiar  to  Sweden,  is  to  begin  a  din­
ner or any  other  hearty meal  with a cold 
lunch  called  “ Smorgasbord.”   On  aside 
table  are  placed  various  kinds  of  salt 
fish,  cold  meat,  pickles,  cheese,  bread 
and  butter and  liquors.  At  the  appcint- 
ed  time  the  family  or  company  enter 
the  dining  room  and  each member takes 
a  plate and  glass  and  helps  himself  to

whatever  he  wishes  ta  eat  and  drink. 
Everybody  stands  or  walks  around  the 
room  nibbling  at  these  appetizers  and 
drinking  to  each  others’  health. 
It  is 
at  this  time  a  person  is  expected  to  ab­
sorb  enough  drink  for  several  hours. 
After  a  few  minutes  of  this  sort of thing 
they  all  sit  down  to  a  bountiful  hot  din­
in  courses  as  in  any  other 
ner  served 
country.  Milk 
is  even  more  popular 
in  Norway  and  Sweden  than  in  Holland 
and  beer  is  freely  indulged  in.  At  one 
time  drunkenness  was  the  bane  of  these 
twin  countries,  but  the  strict 
liquor 
laws  of  the  past  twenty  or  twenty-five 
years  have  greatly  ameliorated  this  evil 
condition.  The  provisions  of  these  laws 
require  that  no  alcoholic  spirits  shall 
be  sold  at  a  hotel  or on  a  steamboat  and 
they  cannot  be  procured  in  the  smaller 
license 
towns. 
larger  city  a 
is 
is  bound 
granted  to a  monopoly  which 
to  pay  over  to  the  municipality 
its 
profits  after  deducting  the  expenses  and 
5  per  cent,  interest  on  the  capital  in­
vested.  With  this  money  the  city is able 
to  help  those  made 
irresponsible  by 
drink.

In  a 

England  has  won  the  gold  medal  for 
her  tea  and  whisky  habits.  Tea  is  the 
accepted  drink  for  breakfast  and  is 
in­
dulged 
in  several  times  more  during 
the  day.  Tea determines  business  hours 
and  controls  social  functions  with  as 
wise  a  judgment  as  it  threw the gauntlet 
before  the  American  Revolution.  But 
the  direst  malady  is  the  whisky  habit. 
Although  the  gin  palaces  are  built  as 
far  as  possible outside  the pale of civili­
zation,  although  there  are  strong  tem­
perance  societies  established 
every­
every  minister  de­
where,  although 
nounces  the  curse  from  the  pulpit  and 
public  opinion 
is  against  it,  yet  there 
is  no  country  on  the  Continent  where

It  would 
drunkenness  is  so  prevalent. 
seem  as  though  the  Devil  himself  had 
been  shipwrecked  on  the  Island  and 
could  not  be  driven  away.

is 

liquid 

\et  France 

just  as  near  destruc­
tion,  for  she  is  being  conquered  by  that 
fierce  monster,  absinthe.  What  it  takes 
whisky  years  to  accomplish,  absinthe 
in  months—almost 
does  successfully 
innocent  that  yellowish, 
days.  How 
greenish 
looks  not  so  different 
from 
lemonade!  As  the  warm  spring 
days  come,  people  are  seen  drinking 
it 
at  little  tables  all  along  the  boulevards 
of  Paris.  How  happy  everybody  looks, 
yet  many  of  them  are  wrecks  on  the 
verge  of  insanity,  ready  to-day  to  com­
mit  suicide,  to-morrow  murder.  What 
are  the  conditions,  what  the  environ­
ments,  that  have  produced  such  results? 
French  children  seem  to  be  born  with  a 
taste  for  stimulants  and  are  given  wine 
from 
Before  they  scarcely 
reach  their  teens  they  are  accustomed 
to  the  use  of  brandy  at  their  father’s 
table.  Is  it  any  wonder  that  these  same 
people,  so  light-hearted,  so  pleasure- 
loving,  so  quick,  so  versatile,  so  capa­
ble  of  the  highest  as  well  as  the  lowest 
emotions  and  passions, should be stunted 
in  their  growth  and  that  from  maturity 
they  should  crave  the  strongest  stimu­
lants?  A  waiter  in  Paris  never  comes 
with  an  order  of  black  coffee  or  milk 
without 
flask  of 
brandy  for  seasoning.  Cognac  and  the 
liquors  are  drunk  with  no  more  qualms 
of  conscience  than  the  eating  of  bread 
and  butter.  The  step  to  absinthe  is 
neither  long  nor  hard  and  before  the 
fact 
is  half  realized  there  is a  mighty 
army  descending  the  steep  road  to  de­
struction. 

Za id a  E .  IJd e l l .

accompanying 

infancy. 

an 

Paris,  France.

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righteousness

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WEDNESDAY,----- DECEMBER  29,  1897.

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION 
The  annual  slackening  in  the  volume 
of  wholesale  trade  which 
is  always  a 
consequence  of  the  approach  of  the 
holiday  and  inventory  season  is  accom­
panied by  the  most  favorable  conditions 
as  to  retail  activity  and price movement 
In  spite  of  the 
known  in  many  years. 
fact  that  unusually 
large  preparations 
were  made  for 
the  holiday  demand 
many  dealers  early  found  themselves 
with  stocks  exhausted 
in  some  lines. 
The  unusual  demand  was  not  only 
characteristic  of 
in 
Michigan,  but  is  reported  from  all  parts 
of  the  country,  especially  the  South 
and  West.  With  one  or  two  unimportant 
exceptions  the  price  changes  have  been 
in  the  direction  of  advance. 
It  is  sig­
in  this  advance  are  to  be 
nificant  that 
included  Bessemer  pig 
iron  and  steel 
billets  in  view  of  the  fact  that  the  out­
put  in  those  products  is  breaking  pre­
vious  records.

the  trade  here 

In  the  stock  markets  the  holiday  dul- 
ness 
is  accompanied  with  a  general 
tendency  to  advance  movement,  which 
is  a  reflex  of  the  generally  favorable 
conditions.  The  fact  that  the  advance 
is  slow  and  cautious  argues 
movement 
The  most 
well  for 
notable  feature  in  the  money  market 
is 
the  fact  that  gold  imports  have  begun 
again,  in  spite  of  the  efforts  of  the  Old 
World  financiers  to  keep  the  yellow 
metal  in  their  own  coffers.

its  permanence. 

The  general  tendency  to  advance  i_ 
the  price  of  wheat  has  been  taken  ad­
vantage  of  by  some  of  the  Chicago 
speculators  to  strive  to  effect  a  corner 
in 
that  cereal,  which  gives  rise  to  all 
sorts  of  conjectures  as  to  advances  in 
the  different  futures.  The  actual  change 
in  price,  however,  is  within  the  range 
of  a  couple  of  cents.  The  export  move­
ment  for  the  month  has  been  very 
large,  amounting  to  11,579,263  bushels, 
against  6.823,598  last  year.

In  the  textile  trade  the  situation  as  to 
cotton  is  more  encouraging  and  the  ex­
ports  for  wool  show  increased  business. 
Cotton  increased  slightly  in  price  and, 
while  there 
is  no  change  in  prices  of 
its  products,  there  is  a  tendency  to  ac­
cept  the  situation  and  to  prepare  for 
business  on  the  basis  which  it  seems 
must  be  accepted.  The  feature  of  the 
boot  and  shoe  trade  is  continued  heavy 
demand,  which  keeps  Eastern 
ship­
ments  at  the  highest.

Pig 

iron 

is  stronger  again  at  Pitts­
burg,  Bessemer at $10 and  Grey  Forge

at  $9,  and  prices  at  Chicago  are  fully 
sustained.  Nor  are  Eastern  quotations 
lower,  although 
in  New  York  some 
Southern  pig  has  been  reduced 25 cents, 
presumably  on  account  of  prospective 
change 
in  freights.  The  demand  for 
iron  and  steel  products  has  anticipated 
the  beginning  of  the  year  by  numerous 
orders,  some of  importance,  which  have 
given  a  much  better  tone to the markets. 
Chicago  reports  one  trunk  line  purchas­
ing  four  thousand  cars;  three  drainage 
canal  bridge  contracts  pending,  of 
which  one  calls  for  5,400  tons;  extraor­
dinary  orders  for  hardware,  bars  and 
wagonmaking  and  sheets  for  tin-plate 
manufacture. 
that  eight 
months’  capacity  of  the  Illinois  Steel 
Company  has  already  been  booked 
ahead,  and  sales  of  rails  have  advanced 
the  price  thereto  $20,  while  8,000  tons 
has  been  sold  here  for  home  and  2,000 
for  Mexican  roads.  The  Eastern  Bar 
Association  has  fixed  1.1  cents  for  re­
fined,  and  tank  steel  plates  at  Philadel­
phia  are  slightly  stronger.

is  stated 

It 

The  lessening  of  wholesale  transac­
tions  attendant  upon  the  season  is  re­
sponsible  for  the  slight  falling  off  in 
bank  clearings  of  3  per  cent,  from  those 
of  preceding  week.  The  amount  was 
$1,330,000,000.  Failures  were  small  for 
the  season  of  year  which  usually precip­
itates  reckonings.  The  number  was  280, 
as  against  283  last week

THE  NICARAGUA  CANAL.

CORRUPT  POLITICS.

The  strangest  fact  in  human  affairs  is 
that  the  most  corrupt  politics  are  to  be 
found 
in  a  country  where  the  govern­
ment  is  wholly  in  the  hands  of  the  peo 
pie.

Everybody  knows 

in  reason  that  the 
honest  and  decent  people  are  in  a  ma 
in  any  country,  and  that  the 
jority 
vicious  and  dishonest  are 
in  a  small 
minority,  and  where  a  majority  of  the 
people  elect  the  officials  and  make 
the  laws,  it  would  seem  inevitable  that 
all  should  be  done 
in  the  interest  of 
honesty,  good  order  and  the  general 
welfare;  but  too  often  the  contrary  is 
true,  and  there  can  be  no  other  conclu 
si on  upon  such  a  result  than  that  those 
who are  supposed  to  be  the  best citizens 
either  fail 
in  their  public  duties,  or 
their  pecuniary  interests  are  advanced 
by  having  pliable  men  in  public  office.
in  many 
cases,  in almost  every  department  of  the 
public  service,  whether 
in  city,  State 
or  National  Government,  public  works 
if  they  were  done  for 
cost  more  than 
in  most 
private  parties.  The  profits 
cases  are  divided  between 
the  con­
tractors  and  those  who  give out  the  con 
tracts. 
is  also  a  fact  that  public 
franchises  of  the  greatest  value  are  sold 
or given  away  for  insignificant  consid 
erations,  or  for  none  at  all.

It  cannot  be  denied  that 

It 

The  Chicago  Tribune 

relates  that 
some  of  the  parties  who  have  been  en 
gaged  in  the  construction of the Chicago 
drainage  canal  are  now  endeavoring  to 
revive  interest  in,  and  raise  money  for 
the  building  of  the  Nicaragua  Canal

improvement 

They  claim ' that,  with  the  improved 
machinery  used  in  excavating  the  Chi 
cago  drainage  channel,  they  can  exe 
cute  the  Nicaragua  Canal  at  a  cost  of 
not  more  than  one-half  or  two-thirds  of 
what  was  estimated  by  the  engineers 
The 
in  the  mechanical 
devices  for  doing  such  work  has  been 
very  great,  and  there 
is  no  doubt  that 
the  work  can  be  done  at  vastly  less  ex 
pense  than  was  that  on  the  Panama 
Canal;  but 
mates  of  the  probable  cost  of  the  work 
were,  in  the  first  place,  too  small,  and 
that  the  $80,000,000  first  proposed  by 
the  engineers  will  have  to  be  increased 
to  more  than  $100,000,000.

it  is  believed  that  the  est 

The  present  concession  held  from  the 
Nicaraguan  government  will  expire  by 
limitation 
in  1809,  and  it  is,  therefore, 
necessary  that  some  very  prompt  steps 
should  be  taken  to  prevent  the  grant 
from  lapsing.

in  February,  1 

The  grant  was  made 

in  1887,  the 
Maritime  Canal  Company  was  incorpo­
rated  by  Congress 
and  work  commenced  the  same  year  by 
the  Nicaraguan  Canal  Construction 
Company  as  contractors. 
It  is  claimed 
that  about $5,000,000 has been expended 
on  the  work,  but  operations  have  been 
suspended 
in  conse­
quence  of  financial  difficulties.  Earnest 
efforts  have  been  made  within  the 
last 
few  years  to  secure  a  guarantee  of  the 
bonds  from  the  United  States  Govern­
ment,  but  it  has  so  far  been  unsuccess­
ful.

for  some  years 

Many  demands  for  the  National  de­
fense,  as  well  as  most  important  con 
¡¡derations  of  commerce,  urge  the  con­
struction  and  completion  of  this  canal 
at  an  early  date.  The  American  peo­
ple,  however,  show  but  little  interest  in 
the  enterprise,  and  there 
is  but  little 
prospect  that  it  will  be  taken  up  by  the 
United  States  Government.

Of  course,  there  would  be  no  corrupt 
officials  if  there  were  no  officials  to  cor­
rupt  them.  There would  be  none  to  take 
bribes 
if  there  were  nobody  willing  to 
give  them.  In  this  way  many  solid  citi­
zens  become  involved  in  schemes  whose 
success  must  depend  solely  on  the  cor­
ruptibility  of  public  officials,  and  since 
such  schemes  can  only  be  carried  on  by 
parties  handling 
these 
persons  who  profit  by  the  crimes  of  the 
public 
their 
wealth  and  social  position  they  occupy 
high  places  in  the  general esteem,  make 
up  a  class  vastly  more  dangerous  to  the 
good  of  the  country,  state  or  city  than 
are  the  mere  placemen  and  spoils-hunt 
ers.

servants,  although  by 

large  capital, 

It  has  been  observed  that 

in  most 
in  all,  there  are 
communities,  perhaps 
considerable  classes  who gain their live­
lihood  by  disobeying  certain laws;  and 
the  police  authorities  of  most  of  our 
cities  and  towns  appear  to  have  more 
respect  for  the  wishes of these lawbreak­
ers  than  they  have  for  the  authority  of 
the  laws.  When  this  goes  on  year  after 
year,  and 
is  tolerated  by  the  citizens; 
when  men  who  have  been  chosen  to  en­
force  the  laws,  and have  sworn  that  they 
it,  hold  conferences  with  the 
will  do 
violators  of  the 
laws,  and  come  to  an 
understanding  with 
them  as  to  how 
law  they  shall  obey,  and  how 
much 
much  they  may  disobey, 
the  moral 
sense  of  the  whole  community  becomes 
perverted,  the  oath  becomes  a  jest  and 
a  magistrate  s  word  of  honor  a  byword, 
the  bond  of  the  social  order  is  weak­
ened,  and  lawlessness  becomes  chronic 
and  reckless  and  blatant.

These  corrupt 

influences  become  so 
far-reaching  that  they  are  felt  in  na 
ional,  state  and  municipal legislatures, 
and  even 
in  the  courts.  Lawmakers 
will  assist  in  enacting laws against vice, 
and  will  not  hesitate  to countenance and 
even  assist  in  their  violation.

Who  is  responsible  for  all  these evils? 
Evidently  a  majority  of  the  people. 
Either  they  desire  and  profit  by  their 
existence,  or  they  neglect  their political 
that  good  men 
duties,  which  demand 
in  office  and  dishonest 
should  be  put 
politics  should  be  abolished. 
In  any 
is  not  resisted  is accepted,
case,  what 

and  such  acceptance  amounts  to  ap­
proval.

The  vast 

increase  of  crime 

in  the 
country  is  due  entirely  to  political  cor­
ruption.  The  laws  are  not  enforced, 
because  there 
is  more  private  advan­
tage  in  such  failure  than  in  their execu­
tion. 
It  must  be  held  that  in  a  country 
where  government  is  by  the  people,  the 
people,  speaking  through  a  majority, 
are  responsible  for  all  the  evils  growing 
out  of  bad  government  and  dishonest 
politics.  There  is  no  other  conclusion 
to  be  reached.

It  becomes  useless  to  talk  of  political 
reform  when  the  great  body  of  the  peo­
ple  do  not  care  for any  change  for  the 
better.  So  long  as  an  individual’s  pi i- 
vate  interests  do  not  suffer  by  bad  pol­
itics,  he  may  not  trouble  himself  about 
the  matter;  but  he  ought  to  understand 
that  political  corruption  will  in  the  end 
so  demoralize  the  people  that  the  great­
est 
injuries  must  come  to  all.  The 
socialism  that  is  growing  up  so  vigor­
in  this  country  as  to  threaten  its 
ously 
institutions 
intended  ns  a  protest 
against  the  evils  that  have resulted from 
bad  politics;  but  it  offers  only  a  violent 
remedy  for  the  disease  which so serious­
ly  affects  the  body  politic.

is 

If  the  people  were  to  rise  in  mass 
against  the  dangerous  public  demorali­
zation  by  putting  good  men  in  office, 
and  demanding  from  them  an  honest 
and  faithful  enforcement  of  the  laws, 
the  disease  could  and  would  be  cured 
peaceably;  but 
if  they  shali  fail  to  do 
that,  then  violent  means  will  be  tried, 
and  they  will  operate  in  purifying  the 
political  situation,  as  does  the  hurri­
in  purifying  the  physical  atmos­
cane 
phere,  by  destroying 
the  good  along 
with  the  bad;  by  outraging 
justice, 
honesty  and  innocence,  while  it  sweeps 
away  crime,  corruption  and  dishonest 
government. 
If  the  peaceable  means 
be  not  adopted,  the  violent  measures 
will  sooner  or  later  be  put  in  force.

is  said 

The  church  pawnshop  in  New  York  is 
selling  its  unredeemed  pledges.  As  no 
is  made  on  security  to  be  inade­
loan 
quate,  it 
it  will  break  about 
even.  The 
inteiest  charged  is  invari­
ably  at  the  rate  of  1  per  cent,  a  month.
A  feature  of  the  plan,  to  encourage  sav­
ing  habits,  is  allowing  borrowers  to  pay 
back  a  loan  by  installments  of  not  less 
than  $1. 
If  interest  on  a  loan  remains 
unpaid  for  more  than  fifteen  months, 
the  article 
sale. 
While  the  direct  result  of  the  work  has 
been  more  beneficial  to  the  borrowing 
classes,  the 
indirect  results  have  been 
equally  marked.  Every  pawnbroker  on 
the  East  Side  has  reduced  his  rate  of 
interest,  some  to  2  per  cent.,  some  to 
i lA  and  some  to  1  per  cent,  a  month. 
They  charged  3  per cent,  formerly.

is  advertised 

for 

The  Kansas  City  Times  truthfully 
says:  “ The  gigantic  wheat  duel  be­
tween  Leiter and  Armour  at  Chicago  is 
no  more  business  than 
the  desperate 
play  of  gamblers.  So  far  from  doing 
any  good 
it  really  injures  business  by 
unsettling  prices,  by  tying  up  millions 
in  unproductive  operations  and  by 
tempting  other  men  to  abandon  legiti­
mate  industrv  for  wild  speculation.’ ’

Britishers  are  said 

to  be  mightily 
It  is 
tickled  with  the  sealing  award. 
one  thing,  however,  to  get  a 
judgment 
against  this  great  and  glorious  republic 
and  another  thing  to  collect  it. 
In  the 
meantime  our  experience in the Behring 
Sea  arbitration  is  not calculated to make 
us  rush  frantically  before  an 
interna­
tional  court  soon  again.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN 

9

The 

INCREASE  OF  AMERICAN  TRADE.
rather  remarkable  speech  of 
Count  Goluchowski,  Foreign  Minister 
of  the  Austro-Hungarian Empire,  on the 
subject  of  the  competition  of  trans­
oceanic  countries  with  the  nations  of 
Europe,  appears  to  have  struck  a  re­
sponsive  chord 
in  nearly  every  one  of 
the  countries  of  continental  Europe,  as 
there 
the  fact  that 
Europe is becoming  very much alarmed, 
not  only  at  the  inroads  this  country  has 
already  made  in  her  trade,  but  over  the 
promise  of  still  greater  inroads  for  the 
future.

is  no  disguising 

With  the  feeling  of  alarm  apparent  in 
the  Austrian  Minister’s 
utterances 
Americans  need  not  concern  them­
selves;  but 
in  the  suggestive  warning 
that  he  utters  to  the  countries  of Europe 
to  combine  against  the  threatened  com­
petition  there 
is  room  for  serious  con­
sideration.  A  turning point in European 
development  had  been  reached,  Count 
Goluchowski  said,  which  called  tor  the 
unremitting  attention  of  the  govern­
ment.  The  great  problems  of  material 
welfare,  which  had  become  more  press­
ing  every  year,  were  no  longer  a  matter 
of  the  future,  but  required  to  be  taken 
in  hand  at  once.  The  increasingly  de­
structive  competition  with trans-oceanic 
countries,  which  had  partly  to  be  car­
ried  on  at  present  and  was  partly  to  be 
expected 
in  the  immediate  future,  re­
quired  prompt  and  thorough  counter­
acting  measures  if  the  vital  interests  of 
the  peoples  of  Europe  were  not  to  be 
gravely  compromised.  They  must  fight 
shoulder  to  shoulder  against  the  com­
mon  danger  and  must  arm  themselves 
for  the  struggle  with  all  the  means  at 
their  disposal.  Just  as  the  sixteenth 
and  seventeenth  centuries  had  been  ab­
sorbed  by  religious  wars,  the  eighteenth 
century  was  distinguished  by  the  tri­
umph  of  liberal  ideas,  and  cur  own  by 
the  appearance  of  the  nationality  ques­
tions,  in  like  manner  the  twentieth  cen­
tury  would  be 
for  Europe  a  period 
marked  by  the  struggle  for  existence  in 
the  politico-commercial  sphere.  Euro­
pean  nations  must  close  their  ranks 
in 
order 
their, 
existence.

successfully 

to  defend 

It  is  not  hard  to  understand  the  cha­
grin  felt  by  European  statesmen  at  the 
many  evidences  of  the  growing  power 
of  this  country  as  a  rival  in  the  world’s 
commerce.  Not  only  are  we  crowding 
their  manufactures  out  of  foreign  mar­
kets,  but  we  are  actually  underselling 
them 
in  their  own  markets,  and  that, 
too,  without  giving  them  the  slightest 
chance  of  selling  their  goods  on  this 
side  of  the  Atlantic.  Although  we  sell 
great  quantities  of  our  produce  to 
Europe,  we  are  constantly  diminishing 
our  purchases  from  that  part  of  the 
world.

it 

Such  being  the  facts, 

is  by  no 
means  astonishing  that  all  the European 
powers  are  incensed  against  us,  and 
it 
would  not  be  at  all  wonderful  should 
they  combine  to  place  obstacles 
in  the 
way  of  our  trade.  This  may  be  done 
by 
increasing  the  tariff  on  American 
goods,  as  France  has  been  doing  of 
late;  or  by  grossly  discriminating 
against  us,  as  Germany  has  so frequent­
ly  done. 
is  not  what 
Count  Goluchowski  advises,  however; 
but  before  European  powers  can  be  ex­
pected  to  effectually  combine  against 
us  they  will  have  to come to some agree­
ment  upon  matters  nearer  home.

Isolated  action 

The  feeling  of  hostility  entertained 
towards  us,  while in  no  way  abating  our 
keenness  in  pushing  our  trade  with  the 
outside  world,  should  serve  as  a  warn­

ing  that  aggressiveness 
in  commerce 
brings  with  it  a  whole  train  of  dangers 
in  the  shape  of  international  disputes 
and  complications.  A 
large  foreign 
trade  can  be  maintained  only  by  a 
vigorous  foreign  policy,  and  the  latter 
is  possible  only  where  there  is  ample 
power  to  make  it  effective. 
It  is  well 
enough  for  us  to  refrain  from  meddling 
in  affairs  in  Turkey,  Africa  and China ; 
but  wherever  Germany,  France,  Russia 
or  other  Euorpean  countries  succeed  in 
annexing 
large  strips  of  territory,  they 
promptly  take  means  to  destroy  Ameri­
can  trade  by  placing  prohibitive  duties 
upon  imports.  Unless,  then,  we  make 
up  our  minds  to  take  a  hand  in  dictat­
ing  the  future  destinies  of  the  countries 
still  free  from  the  yoke  of  European 
powers,  we  must  be  content  to  see  our 
chance  of  capturing  a  large  share  of  the 
foreign  trade  of  the  world gradually dis­
appear.

Count  Goluchowski’s  warning  should, 
therefore,  place  us  on  our  guard,  and 
the  authorities  at  Washington  would  do 
well  to  keep  a  closer  watch  upon  the 
progress  of  events  in  the  Far  East.  The 
United  States’  trade  interests  in  China 
are 
immense,  and  they  should  not  be 
allowed  to  slip  away  from  us  without an 
effort  to  preserve  them.

HOMES  FOR  MILLIONS.

It  appears  from  the recently published 
report  of  the  Secretary  of  the  Interior 
that  the  biggest  real  estate  owner  and 
the  most  active  real  estate  dealer  in 
this country  is  still  our  Uncle Sam,  with 
a  balance  of  acres  still  to  his  credit  of 
*>835>460.638,  or  more  than  one  acre 
each  for  every  soul  on  the  globe at  the 
present  time.

During  the  fiscal  year  ending  with 
June,  1897,  nearly  5,000,000  acres  were 
allotted  by  the  land  office  under  final 
entries,  the  number  of  such  entries  be­
ing  over  33,000. 
In  addition  about
4.500.000 acres  were  allotted  under  orig­
inal  entry.  The  cash  receipts 
from 
sales,  fees  and  commissions amounted to 
something 
like  a  million  and  a  half 
dollars.  Out  of  these  9,500,000  entries
7.250.000  in  round  numbers  were  taken 
up  under  the  homestead  acts. 
E x­
clusive  of  Alaska,  and  of  Government 
and  Indian  reservations  there  still  re­
main  some 600,000,000  acres  of  vacant 
public  land.  The  greater  portion  of 
this 
is  arid,  but  with  irrigation  could 
be  made  to  produce  bountifully.  A l­
lowing  640  acres  to  the  family,  nearly  a 
million  families  can  yet  be  provided 
with  homes  by  the  Government,  not  to 
mention  the  settlement  of  the  reserva­
tions  or  the  peopling  of  Alaska.

The  possibilities  of  the  United  States 
in  the  way  of  the  support  of  a  dense 
population,  when  the  arid 
lands  have 
been  rendered  productive  by  irrigation, 
as  will  be  the  case  at  no  distant  day, 
stagger  the  imagination.  Allowing  two 
acres,  a  most  liberal  allowance,  for  the 
support  of  one  person,  this  remaining 
public  land  alone  could  support  a popu­
lation  of  300,000,000  souls!  Then  there 
are  the  waste  places  in  territories  and 
the  public 
lands  owned  by  states  and 
the 
large  private  holdings,  amounting 
in  hundreds  of  cases  to  thousands  of 
acres—adding  as  much  more  available 
territory  for  homes  without  any  crowd­
ing,  such  as 
is  now  seen  in  Belgium 
and  other  European  countries. 
It  will 
be  readily  admitted  that  we  could  add 
from  six  to  seven  hundred  millions 
more  to  our  present  population  and 
support  them  in  comfort  were  agricul­
tural  pursuits  to  keep  proportionately 
in  the  lead  of  all  others.  We 
as  now 
need  not  fear 
immigration—provided 
only  that  it  is  of  the  intelligent,  indus­
trious  and  moral  kind.

DEPRESSION  IN  FALL  RIVER.
As  a  result  of  the  unfavorable  condi­
tions  prevailing 
in  the  cotton  goods 
trade,  the  mills  at  Fall  River  will  re­
duce  wages  Jan.  1  fully  10  per  cent.  It 
has  been  evident  for  some  time  that  the 
New  England  mills  have  been  losing 
money.  Stocks  of  manufactured  goods 
have  accumulated  to  an  alarming  ex­
tent  and  although  prices  declined  to 
unprecedented  figures,  it  still  seemed 
impossible  to  move  goods.  Under  such 
circumstances 
it  became  apparent  to 
the  mill  owners  that  they  must  either 
close  down  for  a  time  until  trade  should 
improve  or  resort  to  a  reduction 
in 
wages.

A  shut-down  at  this  season  of  the 
year  would  have  imposed  a  very  serious 
hardship  upon  thousands  of  working 
people.  A  reduction  in  wages  appeared 
bad  enough,  but 
it  was  preferable  to 
the  other  alternative,  hence  the  mill 
owners  agreed  to  adopt 
it.  That  the 
claims  of  depression  among  the  New 
England  mills  have  not  been  exagger­
ated  has  been  attested  by  the  published 
results  of  the  year’s  business.  The  an­
nual  dividend 
list  of  the  Fall  River 
mills  shows  that  eleven  mills  have 
passed  dividends 
this  year,  against 
three 
in  1896.  The  earnings  of  the 
mills  were  $776,300,  against  $1,368,875 
in  1896 and  $1,742,625  in  1805,  an aver­
age  on  the  total  capital  invested  of  a 
little  over  3.38  percent.,  against  5.95 
percent,  in  1896 and  8.18  per  cent,  in 
1895.

in  their  favor. 

The  main  reason  assigned  for  the  un­
profitable  character  of  business  in  New 
England  is  the  successful  competition 
of  the  Southern  mills.  This  competi­
tion  was  felt  even  when  trade  was  fair­
ly  prosperous,  but  since  prices  have 
dropped  to  such  ruinous  figures  as  have 
prevailed  this  fall,  the  advantage  of  the 
Southern  mills  has  been  overwhelming.
The  advantage  of  the  Southern  mills 
is based  upon a  number  of  factors which 
operate  constantly 
In 
the  first  place,  the  great  majority  of 
Southern  mills  are  new  establishments, 
provided  with  the  very  best  and  latest 
machinery.  Many  of  the  Fall  River 
mills  are  old  affairs,  hence  are  not  as 
economical  houses  as  their  rivals. 
In 
the  second  place, 
the  Southern  mills 
have  the  great  advantage  of  being  right 
at  the  source  of  cotton  supply,  hence 
are  able  to  save  considerable 
in  trans­
portation  and  handling  charges,  which, 
in  this  day  of  keen  competition,  affords 
a  great  advantage.  Lastly,  it  is  claimed 
that  the  Southern  mills  pay 
less  for 
labor.

For  all  these  reasons  the  Fall  River 
mills  find  themselves  unable  to  compete 
successfully  with  the  Southern  mills. 
Should  the  alternative of lowering wages 
prove  of  no  value  in  meeting  the South­
ern  competition,  then,  indeed,  the  New 
England  cotton  manufacturing  industry 
will  be  in  a  bad  way,  and  the  process 
interest 
of  removing  the  cotton  milling 
to  the  South  will  be  accelerated. 
is 
now  admitted,  even  by  New  England, 
that  the  South  will  be  the  future  great 
center  of  cotton manufacturing,  and sea­
sons  of  depression  such  as  the  present, 
instead  of  retarding  the movement,  only 
serve  to  hasten  it.

It 

THE  MATERIALISM  OF  SOCIETY.
It  seems  that  America  can  no  longer 
be  singled  out  as  the land  where  a  gold­
en  key  opens  all  locks  and  Moneybags 
is  the  courted  favorite  of society.  There 
is  no  question  that 
in  this  country 
wealth  is  a  passport  and  that  too  much 
is  paid  to  money,  but  the
deference 

same  conditions  are  noticed  in  the  very 
midst  of  aristocracies  of  blood  and  un­
der  the  reign  of  monarchy in these days.
The  recent  utterance  of  Lord  Charles 
Beresford,  one  of  the  leading  members 
of  the  old  nobility  of  England,  at a  ban­
quet  in  London, is  attracting widespread 
attention.  Lord  Charles  declared  that 
money 
is  now  the  open  sesame  to  the 
best  society  in  Britain  and  that  “ Mam­
mon  wins  his  way  where  seraphs  might 
despair.”  
It  matters  little  how  the 
wealth 
is  acquired  so  its  possessor  is 
fairly decent and presentable.  Parvenues 
who  have  “ struck  ile,”   or  accumulated 
millions  by  some  lucky  chance,  rather 
than  by  brains,  integrity  and  honest 
effort  in  legitimate  business,  meet  with 
the  same  recognition  that  is  accorded 
worthier  men  and  crowd  poor  but  bril­
liant  men  out  of  the  “  best  sets. ”   All 
classes  bow  to  the  Golden  Calf.  And 
this  social  apostasy  is  on  the  rapid 
in­
crease.

The  fact  cannot  but  prove  a  source  of 
danger  to  society  and  government.  The 
condition  excludes,  more  and  more,  the 
aristocracy  of 
intellect  and  personal 
worth  from  a  voice  in  public  or  social 
affairs  and 
inspires  men  to  seek  the 
dollar above  all  other  objects  of  human 
interest. 
It  creates  a  materialistic  re­
ligion  with  money  as  the  God,  and  nar­
rows  ambition  to  a  search for gold to the 
exclusion  of  the  cultivation  of  those 
higher  and  nobler 
impulses  of  a  for­
mer  time,  and  of  a  regard  for  moral 
excellence,  refinement,  good  ancestry 
and  mental  attainments.

Unfortunately,  we  cannot  see  a  limit 
to  the  growth  and  sway  of  these  new 
and  sordid  ideas.  There  is  no  hope  tor 
society  save  in  the  creation  through  ed­
ucation  and  religion  of  higher  ideals 
than  are  now  commanding  the  notice 
of  the  rising  generation.  Money  is  a 
good  thing  to  have with  which  to supply 
physical and  intellectual wants,  but there 
are  other  things  that  are  better  after  all 
—good  conscience,  a  well-stored  mind 
and  character,  and  these  and  not  money 
should  single  a  man  out  for  social  and 
public  honors.

Two  Valuable  Publications  in the Map 

Line.

and 

The  Michigan Map Co.,  1102 Majestic 
Building,  Defroit,  has  lately  placed  on 
the  market  two  official  maps  of  Michi­
gan  which  will,  undoubtedly,  command 
a 
large  sale—a  wall  map  of  the  State 
and  a  map  portfolio.  Both  maps  are 
carefully  corrected  up  to  Jan.  1,  1898, 
so  far  as  railway  extensions,  projected 
railways  and  county 
township 
boundaries  are  concerned.  The  map 
portfolio,  in  book  form,  shows ten  high­
ly  colored  maps ;  the  official  boundaries 
of  all  congressional,  senatorial  and 
representative  districts; 
judicial  dis­
tricts,  both  National  and  State;  accu­
rate  and  carefully  compiled  statistics 
relating  to  State  matters;  duties  of  va­
rious  officials  and  detailed 
information 
concerning  public 
institutions;  outline 
of  Michigan  history  and  other useful  in­
formation.  Both  publications  have  the 
official  approval  of  several  State  offi­
cers.  The  wall  map  is  sent  prepaid  on 
receipt  of  5°  cents  and  the  map  port­
folio 
low 
price  of  25  cents.

is  sold  at  the  exceedingly 

Futility  of  Spasmodic  Effort.

in 

Spasmodic  effort  results 

little; 
keeping  eternally  at  it  is  what  counts. 
Pumping  up  a  prodigious  amount  of 
energy  one  day  and  allowing  yourself 
to  be  inactive  the  next  will  leave  a man 
always  in  the  rut.  The  hill  may  be high 
and  very  hard  to  climb,  but  when  strug­
gling  up  the  steep  incline,  and  mayhap 
feeling  somewhat  discouraged,  it is  well 
to  remember  that  every  inch  is  so  much 
ground  gained,  and 
is  usually  your 
'it 
own  fault  if  you  lose  it.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

would  turn  him  off,  that  would  be  the 
end  of  it;  but  he  won’t  and  it  begins  to 
look  as  if  it  was  the  beginning  oi 
it, 
and  before  the  matter  goes  any  further 
I  want  to  know  who  and  what  Will 
Morris  is.

last 

to  end. 

foundation 

“ Night  before 

the  postman 
brought  the  worst  looking  letter  I  ever 
saw  in  my  life.  Mr.  Bostwick  slipped 
it  into  his  pocket  and  was  going  to  for 
get  all  about  it ( !);  but  I just  made  him 
hand  it  over  to  me.  It  was  about  Will 
from  beginning 
It  wasn  . 
signed;  and  while  I  think  that  hanging 
is  too  good  for  anybody  who  will  do 
such  a  thing,  there  were  statements  that 
may  have  had  some 
in 
them.  They  were  worth  looking  after 
anyway;  but  that  man  took  that  letter 
between  his  thumb  and  finger  as  if  i 
had  been  so  much  filth,  and  after  read 
it  walked  deliberately  to  the  grate 
ing 
and  threw  it  into  the  fire. 
‘ That’s what 
I  think  of  that,’  says  he,  'and  if  I  had 
the  dirty  devil  that  wrote  it,  I ’d  give 
him  the  same  treatment. 
If  the  cuss 
thinks  he’s  going  to  prejudice  me 
against  the  boy  in  any  such  way as that, 
he’ll  find  himself  mistaken.’  Well, 
we’ve  had  Morris  for  breakfast  and din­
ner  and  supper  ever  since.  Now  then, 
f  there’s  anybody  trying  to  play  this 
mean,  underhanded  game  with  the  boy, 
that’s  one  thing;  but 
if  Morris  isn’t 
what  he  ought  to  be,  I  want  to  know  it. 
You’ve  told  me  out  and  out  what  you 
think.  How  would  it  do  to  tell  me  what 
you  know?”

IO

Clerks’  Corner

Interested  Herself  in  Her  Husband’ 

Clerk.
W ritten for the Tradesman.

the 

in  face  and  manner, 

When  a  woman  among 

fifties 
comes 
into  a  room  with  her  knitting 
and  calmly  and  determinedly  takes  a 
chair  without  an 
invitation,  it  means 
always  that  she  has  come  to  stay  and 
has  decided  to  say  something  while  she 
stays.  Mrs.  Bostwick  came  in  with  that 
idea  visible 
know,”   she  immediately  began,  ‘  that 
you  two  are  going  to  talk  about  Will 
Morris  and  I  want  a  finger  in  the  pie. 
Mr.  Bostwick  doesn’t  know  what  mod 
eration  means  and  he  always  goes  to 
extremes.  A  thing  with  him  is  always 
good  or  bad  and  he  governs  himself 
accordingly.  Up  to  three  weeks  ago 
there  were  not  words  bad  enough  to  tell 
what  a  good-for-nothing  fellow  this  boy 
was. 
To-day  the  good  words  have 
failed,  and  Will  is  next  door  to  King­
dom  Come,  and  there’s nothing too good 
for  him.  Now  I  don’t  like  such  busi­
ness.  I  didn’t  believe  all  the  bad  things 
that  were  said  about  the  boy  and  I 
didn’t  think—and  don’t  now—that  Mr. 
Bostwick  was  justified  in  his  treatment 
of  the  fellow.  Because  somebody  has 
pushed  him 
into  a  position  where  he 
can  see  that  Will  isn’t  so  black  as  he 
seemed  to  be,  I  don’t  think  it’s  neces­
sary  to  think  he’s  an  angel  and  fall 
down  and  worship  him.  Why  not  let 
him  alone  to  work  out  his  own  salva­
tion? 
If  I  understand  young  folks,  es­
pecially  young  men,  one  of  the  greattst 
privileges  they  can  enjoy  is  to  be  let 
alone.  That’s  one  of  the blessings which 
come  with  being  of  age. 
Interference 
of  any  kind  is 
intolerable.  Especially 
do  they  not  want  ‘ bossing;’  and  they 
won’t  have  anybody  all  the  time  telling 
them  what  they  ought  to  do.  This  is 
what  Mr.  Bostwick 
is  constantly  for­
getting.  He  likes  Will  and  because the 
boy  isn’t  55  years  old  and  isn’t  exactly 
like  Mr.  Bostwick,  the  old  man 
is  de­
termined  to  make  over  the  young  one 
after  his  own  model.

” 1  don’t  care  what  he  does  in  that 
line,  providing  he  confines  his  opera­
tions  to  the  store;  but  when  he  brings 
the  trouble  into  the  house,  Will  isn’t the 
only  one  to  rebel. 
From  something 
you’ve  said,”   here  the  good  woman 
looked  over  her 
spectacles  at  me, 
“ Morris 
is  now  an  angel  and  with  the 
angels  stands,  at  least  that’s  what  Mr. 
Bostwick  thinks. 

Is  he  or  isn’t  he?”  

“ Well,”   I  replied,  recalling  another 
verse  of  the  familiar  hymn,  “ I ’m  not 
prepared  to  affirm  that  there’s  ‘ a  crown 
upon  his  forehead,  a  harp  within  his 
hand,’  at  present. 
I  take  him  as  I  find 
him,  and  I  find  him  to  be a  straight­
forward  young  fellow  with  a  warm,  ten­
der  heart 
in  his  body;  who  likes  me 
well  enough  when  I  mind  my  own  busi­
ness  and  who  wouldn  t  hesitate  to  teli 
me  if  I  should  forget  myself  in  that  di­
rection. 
I 
like  him  through  and  through.  He  is 
true  as  steel.  One  always  knows  where 
to  find  him ;  and  when  I  come  across 
such  a  man  as  that,  young  or  old, 
there’s  a  man  who  will  find  a  friend 
in 
me,  if  he  wants  one.”

I  like  him,  Mrs.  Bostwick. 

“ I  can’t understand,  then,  how  it  hap­
pens  that  Mr.  Bostwick  hears  such 
damaging things about  him.  Every  once 
in  a  while  this  one  will  come  and  then 
that  one  will  come  and  all  of  'em  have 
something  mean  to  say  about  Morris. 
Where  there’s  so  much  smoke  there’s 
apt  to  be a  little  fire. 
If  Mr.  Bostwick

“ I  am  sorry  to  say,  Mrs.  Bostwick,”  
answered,  “ that  I  have  nothing  more 
to  tell  you;  but  I  am  sure  you  will  find 
this  young  man  to  be  what  Mr.  Bost­
wick  and  I  believe  him  to  be.”

from 

“ If  I  do,”   she  said,  as  she  bade  me 
good  night  and  withdrew 
the 
room,  “ young  Morris  will  have  three 
good  friends 
instead  of  two;  and  I 
promise  you  here  and  now that  the third 
one  will  see  to  it  that  the  boy  suffers  no 
linger  from  these  slanderous  tongues 
and  pens.”   And  she  did.

R ichard  Malcolm  Strong.
How  to  Attach  Prices.

Chas. F. Jones in Printers’  Ink.

is  used 

in  the  way  they  attach 

A  great  many  storekeepers  make  a 
mistake 
the 
prices  to  their  goods.  The  only  proper 
system  with  which  to  mark  goods  is  to 
put  the  prices  in  plain  figures,  so  that 
everybody  can  see  just  what  the  article 
is  to  be  sold  at.  Except in installments 
where  one  price  is  to  be  asked  for  cash 
purchases  and  another  price  for  credit 
purchases,  there  is  no  excuse  for  using 
a  system  of  marking  which  cannot  be 
read  by  the  customer  as  well  as  the 
clerk.  Where  a  secret  system  of  mark­
ing 
it  many  times  creates  in 
the  mind  of  the  customer  an  impres­
sion  that  the  house  does  not  do  a 
strictly one-price  business. 
In  marking 
goods  never  mark  the  price on the goods 
itself;  mark  the  price  on  a  tag  ^and  tie 
or  paste  it  to  the  article.  Some  people 
object  to  have  other  people  know  what 
they  pay  for  their  merchandise.  Large 
articles  are  usually,  of  course,  marked 
with  a  tag  or  sold  from  a  catalogue,  so 
that  there  is  no  price  upon  them  which 
cannot  be  taken  off.  There  are  stores, 
however,  that  mark  the  price  directly 
on  small  articles,such  as handkerchiefs, 
neckwear,  etc.  Prices  so  marked  are 
sometimes  hard  to  remove  and  are  ob­
jectionable  to  the  purchaser.  A  little 
tag  pasted  on  can  quickly  be  taken 
off,  and  leaves  no  mark.  Marking  the 
price  on  the  goods  itself  is  particularly 
objectionable  about  Christmas 
time, 
when  so  many  people  buy  for  presents, 
and,  therefore,  do  not  care  to  have  the 
person  receiving  the  present  acquainted 
with  the  price  that  they  paid  for  it.

When  a  sinner  turns  saint,  he  is apt 

I to  overdo  it

Next to  the  satisfaction  involved  in  handling-

Pillsbury’s  Best  Flour

and

Old  Fashioned  Lard

is that  of  being able to  give your  customers  a 
good cigar.

Include some in your order when  our traveling  men 

call  on you,

Clark=Jewell-Wells  Co

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

II

VICTORIAN  EXHIBITION.

Special  Features  of  Interest  to  Amer- 

¡cans.
W ritten for the Tradesman 

Next  to  the  American  women,  the 
English  ladies  enjoy  the  greatest  free­
dom.  As  a  result, 
they  have  made 
rapid  strides 
in  development  and  any 
exhibition  of  their  work  shows  them  to 
be  most  fearless 
in  undertaking  new 
lines.  Possibly  this  can  be  accounted 
for 
in  their  sovereign  being  a  queen 
instead  of  a  king.  Certainly,  from  the 
time  Victoria  ascended  the  throne, 
women  have  enjoyed  more  and  more 
educational  advantages  and,  as  a  result, 
have  steadily  advanced  and  made them­
selves  not  only  necessary  in  the 
indus­
trial  world,  but  useful  as  well  in  the 
professions. 
Could  the  advocates  of 
woman’s  rights  and  woman’s  capacity 
have  had  a  grander  opportunity  than  at 
the  Victorian  Era  Exhibition  held  No­
vember  first  at  Earls  Court,  a  suburb  of 
London! 
is  needless  to  add  they 
were  not  slow  to  avail  themselves  of 
this  opportunity  to  prove  their  point 
by  actual  facts  and  show,  in  a  tangible 
form,  woman’s  achievements 
in  Eng 
land  during  the  past  sixty  years.  S 
successful  were  they  that  the  Woman' 
Section  was  the  most 
interesting  pai 
of  the Exhibition  and  w:#s  crowded from 
early  morn  until  late  at  night,  with  men 
as  well  as  women.

It 

The  Duchess  of  Devonshire  was  Pres 
ident  of  the  whole Section,  but  each  de 
partment  was  represented  by  a  band  of 
active  workers. 
All  of  the  exhibits 
were  classified  under  the following divi 
sions:  Literature,  Nursing,  Art,  Music 
Applied  Art  and  Handicraft,  Educa 
tion,  Philanthrophy.

Take,  for  instance,  the  Literary  De 
partment.  How  woman’s  horizon  ha 
broadened  and  what  rapid  strides  sh( 
has  made  in  the  directon  of  journalism 
and  all  higher  forms  of  writing  within 
the  past  fifty  years.  Before  that  time 
there  were  such  stars  as  Miss  Austen 
Miss  Burney.  Miss  Edgeworth  and 
Mrs.  Radcliffe— women  who  worked 
solitude  and  sent  manuscripts  to  the 
press with fear and trembling.  Even the 
Brontes,  George  Eliot,  Mrs.  Gaskell, 
Mrs.  Browning  and  Christina  Rossetti, 
who  have 
the  Victorian 
Age— how  different  a  tale were they able 
to  tell  of  their  own  experience.  Yet 
to-day,  what  are  not  the  possibilities  of 
the  rising  young  woman !

illuminated 

The  Literary  Department  at  the  Ex­
hibition  boasted  of  a  number of original 
letters,  manuscripts  and  sketches,  be 
sides  portraits  of  most  of  the  distin­
guished  women.  One  saw  such  familiar 
faces  among  the  groups  of  pictures  as 
Mrs.  Somerville,  Mrs.  Gaskell,  Char­
lotte  Bronte,  Caroline  Herschel.  Flor­
ence Nightingale,  Fanny Kemble,  Maria 
Edgeworth,  Harriet  Martineaa,  Mary 
Carpenter,  Amelia  B.  Edwards,  Ellen 
Terry,  Mrs.  Gatty  and  Mrs.  Ewing. 
There  were  the  pink  satin  si  ppers  in 
which  Ellen  Terry  made  her  debut  on 
the  stage;  the  last  letter  George  Eliot 
wrote, 
left  unfinished;  two  autograph 
letters  of  Mrs.  Gatty ;  autograph  sheets 
and 
from  Daddy  Darwin’s  Dovecot 
Jackanapes,  by  Mrs  Ewing. 
Along 
the  wall  were  placed  bookcases  filled 
with  only  the  works  by  women.

When  Florence  Nightingale was asked 
to  lend  some  relics  of  the  Crimea,  she 
answered: 
“ The  best  relics  of  the
Crimea  cannot  be  represented  in  con­
crete  form. ”   That  is  not  hard  to  ap­
preciate,  for  is  not  Trained Nursing the 
fruit  of  Miss  Nightingale’s 
single-

hearted,  unselfish  devotion  to  the  sick 
soldiers  during  that  memorable  war? 
The  cart 
in  which  she  rode  from  hos­
pital  to  hospital,  or  even  her  bust  paid 
for  by  penny 
contributions  of  the 
soldiers—do  they  represent  her  so  faith­
fully  as  the  numerous  well-equipped 
hospitals  which  have  sprung  up  within 
the  last  half  century?

The  London  Hospital,  Whitechapel, 
contributed  such  an  exhibition  as  to 
make 
it  possible  to  understand  easily 
the  inside  workings  of  a  hospital  with­
out  needing  to  enter  one.  Dolls  took 
the  place  of  sick  persons.  There  was 
the  fever  patient  on  a  bed  fitted  with an 
ice-cradle.  There was  the  accident  bed, 
the  cot  arranged  for  the  box  splint,  the 
cot  for  the  gallows  splint,  the  steam 
tent  in  position  for  use  in  tracheotomy 
cases.  There  were  dolls  in  incubators, 
while  not  far  off  were  live  babies  un­
dergoing  the  same  kind  of  treatment. 
Pretty  nurses 
in  costume  danced  at­
tendance  at  each  baby’s  bedside,  and 
if  they  are  a  fair  sample  one  cannot  be 
too  thankful  be  did  not  live  during  the 
days  of  “ Sarah  Gamp.”

In  going  through  any  art  exhibition 
one  is  generally  impressed  with the lack 
of  originality 
in  the  woman’s  share. 
What  is  the  reason?  Why  does  her skill 
lie  almost  wholly  in  still  life  and  flow­
ers?  She  certainly  has  a vivid  imagina­
tion,  as  well  as  keen  sympathy,  so  that 
she  ought  to  come  into competition with 
men.  Does  not  her  success  in  society, 
in  acting,  in  romance-writing,  depend 
upon  these  very  characteristics?

The  Art  Department  at  the  Exhibi­
tion  boasted  of  more  than  four  hundred 
paintings,  and 
if  there  was  a  prepon­
derance  of  any  one  kind  it  was  por­
traits.  One 
is  able  to  judge  somewhat 
of  the  variety  of  the  collection  from 
such  titles  as these:  “ In  the  Midst  of 
Life  We  Are  in  Death;“   "Nearly  Bed­
tim e;”   “ The  Fencing  Lesson;“   ’ The 
Harvest  of  the  Poor;”   “ TheSins  of  the 
Fathers;”   “ By  the  Tideless  Dolorous 
Midland  Sea;”   “ The  Prodigal  Son ;”  
“ Love  Whispering  to  the  Shepherd.”  

fifty 

Though  such  women  as  Harriet  Hos- 
mer and  Rosa  Bonheur  have  earned  im­
mortal  fame  on account of their original­
ly  and  the  superiority  of  their  paint- 
ngs,  it  seems  more  difficult  for  women 
to  acquire  the  same  reputation 
in  the 
field  of  music,  and  they  seem to be com­
pelled  to  depend  for  their  success  upon 
their  interpretation  of  the  masterpieces.
It  is  estimated  that  there are about three 
hundred  and 
living  composers 
among  women,  but  who  knows  any  one 
of  them  by  name?  However,  the  Eng- 
ish 
ladies  managed  to  collect  quite  a 
mass  of  manuscripts  and printed  music. 
They  had  no  new  Haydn  or  Handel 
oratorios,  no  new  Wagner  operas,  hut 
an  abundance  of 
light  little  songs, 
perettas  and  dance  music.
The  World’s  Fair  at  Chicago  is  not 
so  long  ago  that  one  forgets  with  how 
much 
in  the 
Woman’s  Building  were examined.  The 
ist  of  inventions  at  the  Victorian  Ex- 
nbition  was  long  and  interesting,  and 
counted  many  appliances  for  making 
housekeeping  and  all  other  walks  of 
“ fe  easier,  such  as:  Window  cleaner, 
hoot  warmer,  non-slipping  overshoe, 
sleeve  extender, 
telescopic  sunshade 
for  cycle,  scientific  hairpin,  bath  for 
nervous  and  other  disorders,  fireguard 
for  nursery,  mail  cart.

interest  the 

inventions 

The  Applied  Art  and  Handicrafts 
Division  could  congratulate 
itself  on 
'ittle  that  was  new.  There  was  the  reg- 
lation  fine  sewing,  the  embroidery, 
the  lacemaking;  also  painted 
tapes-

in  leather 
tries,  artistic  bookbindings 
and  cloth,  and  silver  and  brass  designs 
for  vessels.  Everything  was  good  of  its 
kind,  but  not  superior  to  similar  work 
of  women  in  other  lands.

The  same  criticism  can  be  passed  on 
the  Educational  Exhibition. 
Public 
schools  and  various  colleges  were  rep­
resented.  There  was  a  Kindergarten 
room,  a  Demonstration 
The 
Manual  Training  Department  was  not 
strong  and  simply  exhibited  specimens 
of  needlework,  dressmaking  and 
laun­
dry  work.

room. 

Before  closing  this  paper,  I cannot re­
frain  from  saying  a  few  words  concern­
ing  Philanthropy  in  England. 
In  Italy 
the beggar  begs  or  steals as much money 
as  he  can  lay  hold  of. 
In  London  one 
is  not  followed  by  a  stream  of  beggars, 
but  is  stared  at,  at  nearly  every  corner 
and  in  nearly  every  shop,  bv  contribu­
tion  boxes  that  express  their  pleadings 
in  such  terms  as  these:  “ Please  put  in 
a  penny  f o r -----, ”   naming  some  be­
nevolent  institution ;  and  men,  women, 
and  children  alike  give  heed  to  the  re­
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1 2

Shoes  and  Leather

When  Pegs  and  Lasts  Were  Made  by 

Hand.

I  am  now  in  my  eighty-second  year, 
and  were  it  not  that  memory  serves  me 
well,  I  could  hardly  be  made  to  believe 
that  the  changes  that  have  taken  place 
during  my  life  were  possible.  To  re­
view  the  past  may  not  serve  to 
instruct 
the  present generation,  but  it  may  give 
a  little  insight  of  the  trials  and  toiiings 
of  their  predecessors,  and  in  a  measure 
disapprove  the  idea  that  is  held  by  far 
too  many  that  the  mechanic  of  to-day 
is  worse  off  than  he  of  four  score  years 
ago.

It  matters  little  as  to  my  years  of  life 
I  was 
before  I  went  to  learn  my  trade. 
in 
born  and  grew  up  in  a  little  village 
1 
the  eastern  part  of  New  York  State. 
attended  school  three  months 
in  the 
year,  and  as  my parents were poor  I  had 
to  earn  my  own  living  as  soon  as  I  was 
large  enough,  working  for  fifty  cents  a 
week  and  my  board  around  a  stone 
quarry.

At  the  age  of  fifteen  I  was  indentured 
to  the  village  shoemaker  for  a  term  of 
six  years. 
I  was  to  receive  my  board 
and  clothes  for  the  first  three  years,  and 
in  addition  $5  at  the  end  of  the  fourth 
year,  $10 at  the  end  of  the  fifth,  and  the 
princely  sum  of  §25  and  a  pair  of  boots 
at  the  completion  of  my  apprentice­
ship.

The  boots,  however,  were  to  be  made 
by  me  during  regular  working  hours,
my  employer  furnishiug  all  the  stock. 
The  quality  of  the  boots,  therefore,  de­
pended  upon  my  own  skill. 
I  finished 
the  boots  and  was  highly commended by 
my  employer  for  the  skill  and  care 
taken  in  making  them.

in  the  meeting  house. 

It  was  recorded  in  my  papers  that  I 
was  to  do  no  work  on  the  Sabbath,  and 
that  I  must  attend  church  service  once 
on  each  Sabbath  when  service  was 
held 
I  was  to 
have  two  holidays  a  year,  Fourth  of 
July  and  Christmas,  and  my  hours  of 
work  were  to  be  from  “ sun  to  sun" 
between  the  first  of  May  and  the  first 
of  September,  and  from  six  o’clock 
in  the  morning  until  nine  o'clock  at 
night  between  the  first  of  September 
and  the  first  of  May.

I  was  fortunate  in  having  a  kind  em­
ployer,  and  I  was  seldom  compelled  to 
work  full  hours,  and was allowed  by  him 
two  weeks’  schooling 
in  the  summer, 
and  an  hour  each  evening  before  bed­
time  to  read  and  study.  I  lived with  my 
employer  as  one  of  the  family,  and  I 
so  far  won  his  good  will  that  when  he 
handed  me  my  indentures  at the expira­
tion  of  my  apprenticeship  he  compli­
mented  me  highly,  and  gave  me  an 
extra  five-dollar gold  piece  as  a  reward.
I  found  in  looking  over  my  papers  that 
he  had  given  me  very  complimentary 
recommendat 1 ons.

These  may  appear  as  little  things  to 
the  boys  of  to-day,  hut 
in  those  days 
they  were  highly  appreciated  by  all 
who  were  so  fortunate  as  to  obtain 
them,  and  I  have  retained  my  ap­
prentice  papers  until  the  present  time. 
Although  now  yellow with  age and badly 
worn,  I  often  show  them  to  young  men 
who  complain  of  the  tyranny  of  capital 
and  of  the  fact  that  they  must  work  ten 
hours  a  day.

As  long  as  I  remained  the  youngest 
apprentice  I  was  to  be  up  one  hour  be­
fore  breakfast  time,  a  position  I  held 
for  three  and  one-half  years.  My  first 
work 
in  the  morning  was  to  start  the 
in  a  large  fireplace,  such
kitchen  fire 

in  the  small  fireplace. 

an  article  as  an  iron  cook  stove  being 
unknown 
in  the  part  of  the  country 
where  I  lived.  Then  I  had  to  provide 
wood  for  the  day,  open  the  little  shop, 
clean  up,  and  in  cold  weather  build  a 
fire 
By  the 
time  these  tasks  were  completed  break­
fast  was  ready.  This  meal  generally- 
consisted  of  mush  and  milk,  or  mush 
and  molasses,  in  summer and  buckwheat 
cakes  in  winter.  Salt  pork  or  corned 
beef  and  potatoes  was  the  regular  din­
ner,  except 
in  “ killing  tim e,”   when 
we  had  fresh  meat  instead  of  the  salt; 
for  supper,  bread  and  molasses  and  a 
dish  of  wild  berries  in  season.  On  the 
Sabbath  we  generally  had  fried  pork  or 
a  little  fresh  meat,  procured  from  some 
farmer  in  payment  for  new  shoes  or  re­
pairing  done,  and  a  piece  of  pie  or 
molasses  cake.  So  much  did  I  appre­
ciate  the  pie  that  I  believe  it  was  the 
one  good  thing  that  helped  me  to  over­
come  all  the 
ills  that  beset  me  daily 
during  the  term  of  my  apprenticeship. 
For  the  first  six  months  I  did  nothing 
but  the  “ chores”   and  watch  my  em­
ployer  doing  his  work.  He  would  oc­
casionally  give  me  a  piece  of  leather 
and  a  knife  and  instruct  me  in  a  gen­
eral  way  how  to  skive  or  otherwise  cut 
the 
leather,  and  taught  me  the  name of 
each  tool  and 
its  use.  At  the  end  of 
six  months  I  was  given  a  bench  and 
regularly  installed as an  apprentice,  and 
for  weeks  I  was  kept  at  cutting  strips 
of  leather  or an  old  boot  leg  and  taught 
how  to  handle  the  awl,  sew  up  a  hole  or 
put  on  a  patch;  and,  no  matter  bow
simple  the  work,  I  was  not  permitted  to 
take  up  anything  else  until  I  had made 
the  work  satisfactory  to  my  employer.
During  this  time  I  was  taught  to  dis­
tinguish  the  different  kinds  of  leather 
and 
in  a  general  way  how 
each  was  made.  Later  on  I  was  taught 
the  art  of  making  shoe  pegs.  These 
were  made  from  soft  maple.  My  em­
ployer  would  select  his 
logs  and  have 
them cut up  in  cross sections, peg length. 
Often  these  had  seasoned  for  a  year 
before  they  were  ready  for  cutting  up 
into  pegs.  This  was  done  by  splitting 
them  up  in  strips  of  the  required  thick­
ness  by  the  use  of  a  rine  knife,  such  as 
was  used  by  coopers.  At  first  I  spoiled 
many  blocks,  but 
in  time  I  became 
quite  an  expert  and  could  split  off  the 
strips  to  a  uniform  thickness. 
I  next 
pointed  the  peg  strips  by  a  plane,  after 
which  the  strips  were  cut  into diamond­
shaped  pegs  by  the  use  of  an  old  shoe 
knife.  All  this  seems  very  simple,  but 
I  wonder  what  the  boy  of  to-day  would 
say  if  he  were  compelled to do  it.  I  was 
next  taught  how  to  make  a  waxed  end 
and  to  set  on  the  bristles.

instructed 

After  being  kept  for  two  years  on 
such  work  as  I  have  described  I  was 
allowed  to  do  repair  work.  My first  job 
was  to  half-sole  my  own  shoes,  and  for 
nearly  a  year  thereafter  I  was  kept 
steadily  employed  on  repair  work.  At 
the  beginning  of  my  fourth  year  I  was 
given  the  patterns  and  instructed how  to 
cut  out  uppers,  soles,  etc.,  and  to crimp 
uppers  and  boot  legs  and  then  to  make 
'asts,  as  all  the 
lasts  used  by  my  em­
ployer  were  made 
in  his  shop,  from 
fine  beech wood  blocks.  This  was  a 
tedious  task,  the  details  of  which  would 
interest,  but  the  lasts,  when 
be  of  no 
completed,  were  not 
in  form 
or  finish  to  those  now  used. 
I  worked 
at  making  lasts  fully  one-fourth  of  the 
lime  for  one  year  before  I  could  make 
one  to  suit  my  employer,  who 
in  all 
cases  made  the  final  measurements  and 
gave  the  final  finish.

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I  was  so  far  advanced  at  the  begin-

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But  more  trouble  was  to  follow. 

Charlie  soon  grasped  the  situation, 
It  was  too 
and  a  release  was  ordered. 
late  to  back  up,  and  so  the  journey  was 
continued  inland.
It 
was  soon  evident  that  his  trousers  were 
caught  on  a  nail.  They  could  be  heard 
to  rip,  rip,  with ever  lunge  forward,  but 
the  poor  man  was  too  far  in  to  stop. 
Once on  the  inside  the  door was opened, 
and  Charlie  and  the  porter  beheld  a 
pitiable  sight.  The  right 
leg  of  the 
trousers  was  ripped  from  the  waist  to 
the  knee,  and  the  wearer  had  thrown 
himself  on  the  bed  and  was  shedding 
copious  tears  of  anger.

Becoming  somewhat  calmed  in  a  few 
moments,  he  recollected  that  with  the 
destruction  of  his  trousers  and  his 
bicycle  suit  be  was  without  apparel.

"T ake  ’em  off and I ’ll have the house­
keeper  sew 
’em  up,  while  you  rest 
a while  in bed, ”  suggested Clerk Fields.
This  seemed  sensible,  and  the  idea 
was  carried  out.  After  waiting  three- 
quarters  of an  hour,  during  which  time

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the  clerk  tried  to  console  him,  but could 
not,  the  trousers  were  returned.  He 
had  not  smiled.  The  repaired  garment 
was  put  on  and  without  a  word 
its 
owner  started  for  the  elevator.
“ My  God,”   he  was  heard  to  shriek, 
as  he got  halfway  down  the  hall,  “ am  I 
to_  be  cursed  forever?  The  blooming 
idiot  has  sewed  up  my  pocket.”

Clerk  Fields  wanted  to  laugh,  but 
didn’t  dare,  so  be  agreed  that  the  title 
bestowed  upon  the  innocent  housekeep­
er  was  correct.  Swearing  that  he would 
never  have  faith 
in  anything  again, 
Henry  went  to  his  breakfast.  Until  yes­
terday  afternoon  he  had  not  smiled  or 
spoken  to  a  soul.  And  that  is  why  his 
friends  are  worried  about him.

China  possesses  the largest and richest 
coal  mines  in  the  world,  which  are  des­
tined  some  day  to  play  a  great  role  in 
the  world’s 
in 
the  Shansi  province  alone  are  estimated 
by  Prof.  Richtofen  to  contain  630,000,- 
000,000  tons.

industry.  The  mines 

ning  of  the  fifth  year  that  I  was  taught 
how  to  measure  feet,  cut  patterns  and 
fit  up  lasts,  and from  that time  until  the 
close  of  my  apprenticeship  I  cut  all 
patterns,  took  all  measures,  and  fitted 
up  all  the  lasts,  and  did  nothing  but 
new  work,  so  that  when  my  term  had 
expired  I  was qualified  to  do  everything 
in  the  line  of  boot  and  shoemaking  and 
was  deemed  a  skillful  workman.

My  six  years  ended  at  last  and  I  con­
fess  that  I  experienced  a  feeling  of  re­
gret  when  my  kind  employer  handed 
me  my  papers  and  gave  me  my  earn­
ings.  As  he  required  no  journeyman, 
he  invited  me  to  remain  with  him  un 
til  I  could  complete  my  outfit,  as  I  had 
determined  to  make  a  start  by  “ whip­
ping  the  cat. ”   When  all  was  com­
pleted  I  bade  the  old  home  good-by, 
and  started  out  for  myself,  ten  days 
after  I  reached  my  majority,  with  a 
good  kit  of  tools,  two  suits  of  clothes 
and  four  dollars  in  silver  in  my  pocket.
I  determined  not  to  interfere  with  my 
old  employer’s  customers,  so  I  walked 
fifteen  miles  before  making  application 
for  work.  At 
last  I  found  a  man  who 
wanted  shoes  and  boots  made  for  him­
self  and  family,  and  I  struck  a  bargain 
with  him  to  work  for  fifty  cents  a  day 
and  be  boarded  and  lodged.  He  had  a 
large  family,  so  that  I  was  kept  stead­
ily  employed  for  two  months. 
I  made 
lasts  for  all,  and  was  very  successful 
with  my  work.  There  being  no  op­
portunity  to  spend  money,  I  had  $30  in 
my  pocket  when  the  job  was completed.
I  continued  to  “ whip  the  cat”   for 
three  years,  during  seven  months  each 
year,  and  worked  in  the  fields  for  the 
remaining  five  months.  During  this 
time  I  learned  a  lesson  of  life that could 
never  have  been 
learned  in  any  other 
way.  But,  becoming  tired  of  seeing  the 
home 
lives  of  so  many  families,  I  left 
the  old  tramping  ground  and  opened  a 
shoe  shop  in  a  thriving  village not more 
than  five  miles  from  where  I  now  live 
In  time  I  saved  enough  money  to  buy 
and  equip  a  farm,  but  I  keep  my  old 
shoe-bench  and  tools  as  links  that  bind 
me  to  the  past.  Occasionally  I  visit 
the 
large  shoe  shops  in  a  neighboring 
city  to  contrast  those  early  days  with 
I  recognize  the  folly  of 
the  present. 
opposing 
improvements,  but  I  cannot 
help  wondering  if,  after  all,  our  young 
men  who  have  to  battle  with  life  with 
out  capital  would  not be better equipped 
if  they  were  compelled  to  start  as  I  did 
and  work  as  I  worked,  learning the need 
of  economy  through  that  bitter  experi­
ence  which  accompanies  necessity.— 
Fitz  in  Boots  and  Shoes  Weekly.

Love  Your  Business.

A  m an  can  no  m ore  be  successful 

in 
a  business  he  does  not  like  than  can  a 
m an  be  happy  with  a  w ife  he  does  not 
love.

Enthusiasm 

is  the  power  which  im­
pels  men  onward  in  any  and  every  avo­
cation.  Without 
it  men  are  lethargic. 
They  will  drift.  But  to  pull  against 
the  tide  they  are  as  unable  as  they  are 
unwilling.

Men 

Drifting,  however,  does  not  win  the 
race,  either 
in  business  or  aquatic 
events.  There must  be the  long  pull,  the 
strong  pull,  and  the  pull  with  vigor.

in  business  to-day  have  no  easy 
task.  There  is  a  great  deal  to  discour­
age  and  very  little  to  encourage  There 
are  foes  within  and  foes  without  to  con­
tend  against.

Under  such  conditions  it  is no wonder 
so  many  either  fail  altogether  or  eke 
out  a  mere  existence.

The  antidote  for  despair 

is  enthusi­
asm,  and  the  germ  of  enthusiasm 
is 
love  for  or  pleasure  in  that  business  or 
avocation  in  which  you  are  embarked.
Therefore,  if  you  would  succeed,  get 

in  love  with  your business.

Tale  of  Woe  Told  by  a  Tireless 

T raveler.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

substantial  grounds 

Tales  ot  hard  luck are frequent among 
traveling  men,  the  good-natured  drum­
it  often  happens  that  they 
mers,  and 
have 
for  their 
kicks.”   This  is  certainly  true  in  the 
case  of  J.  L.  Henry,  who  on  Sunday 
morning  ran  up  against  an  experience 
that  would  make  a  saint  utter  wicked 
thoughts.

Henry  ably  represents  a  hearse  com- 
pany,  and  has  been  sojourning  at  the 
V’ ictoria  Hotel  for  a  few  days,  working 
hard  in  the  day  time,  and  endeavoring 
to  inject  some  pleasure  into  his  exist­
ence  at  night.

But  his  friends  are  fearful  that  he 
will never be  joyful  again,  and  that  that 
complacent  smile  has  left  his  face  for­
ever.  He  is  now  a  pessimist.  Not  one 
of  these  half-way  pessimists,  who  oc­
casionally  see  a  little  sunshine,  but  one 
who  is  firmly  convinced  that  a cruel fate 
is  following  him,  and  that  he  is doomed 
to  be  eternally  “ hoodooed.”

His  sad  experience  came  about  in 
this  manner:  On  Saturday  evening  he 
rented  a  bicycle  and  started  for a  pleas­
ure  spin  toward  Washington  Park.  At 
Thirty-first  street  his  wheel  became 
frightened  at  a  passing  electric  car.  At 
any  rate  it  began  to  buck,  and  in  an  in­
stant 
it  found  itself  in  collision  with  a 
buggy.  The  buggy got  the  better  of  the 
argument,  and  the  wheel  and  its  rider 
were 
in  a  somewhat  shat­
tered  condition.

left  behind 

Henry  gathered  up  the  fragments  of 
himself  and  wheel  and  sought  a  repair 
shop,  not  for  himself  but  his  wheel. 
An  hour’s  work  and  $7  in  lucre  put  the 
wheel  in  good  shape.  The  wait  also 
gave  his  bruised  joints  an  opportunity
to  stiffen.  He  then  sadly  mounted  his 
repaired  wheel  and  started  slowly  for 
home.  He  had  only  got  a  short  dis­
tance  when  one  of  the  pedals,  which 
had  not  been  properly  repaired,  gave 
way,  and  the  unlucky  rider  found  him­
self  “ up  against  it”   again.  He  did  not 
say  anything,  not  even  a  mild  mutter. 
He  was  too  much  angered.

Not  being  able  to  find  a  repair  shop 
in  the  neighborhood,  he  decided 
to 
work  his  way  home  with  only  one  of his 
lame  legs.  Then  came  the  third  chap- 
tei  in  this  harrowing  history.  A  police­
man  stopped  him,  and  he  realized  that 
his  lamp  had  been 
lost  in  the  “ mix- 
up”   with  the  buggy.  The situation was 
explained  and  the  kind-hearted  pre­
server  of  the  peace  allowed  him  to  go 
on  his  way.

On  reaching  the  hotel  the  crippled 
peddler  of  hearses  settled  for  further 
damage  on  the  wheel  by  paying  the 
owner  $10,  after  which he sought bis bed 
to  nurse  his  bruised  limbs  and  to dream 
of  bicycles,  cranks,  hearses,  and  other 
pleasant  things.

The  morning  found  him  stiff and  sore 
and  in  a  pretty  good  humor  for  swear­
ing.  He  arose  and  found  his  bicycle 
suit  demolished  bevond  recognition.  A 
ray  of  brightness,  however,  stole  into 
his  heart  when  he  discovered  that  his 
watch  was  uninjured  He  laid  it,  with 
gentle  hands,  upon  the  dresser.  After 
dressing,  he  went  down  to  breakfast.
At  the  table  the  discovery  was  made 
that  the  watch  had  been 
in  the 
room.  Hastening  upstairs,  he  cursed 
his  fate  when  be  found  that  the  key  had 
also  been  left  inside.  Now  it  happens 
that  the  doors  of  the  hotel  have  catch 
locks  upon  them,  and  Henry  had  sprung 
his  before  retiring  on  the  eventful  night 
preceding. 
Fortunately  the  transom 
had  been  opened  for  ventilation,  and 
being  exasperated  to  the  verge  of  nerv­
ous  collapse,  he  decided 
crawl 
through,  without  letting any one know of 
his  troubles.  So  he  put  his  foot  on  th*1 
knob  of  the  door  and  headed  toward  the 
inside.  He  had  got  his  body  prettv 
well  through  when  some  one  was  heard 
coming  down  the  hall  on  the  double 
quick.

“ Come  out  of  that.  What  do  you 

left 

to 

mean?”

It  was  John  Rowan,  the  porter,  who 

now  had  him  by  the  legs.

In  vain  be tried to explain,  but Rowan 
held  on,  and,  hailing  a  passing bellboy, 
sent  for  Clerk  Charlie  Fields,

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In fact, it is better, for it  brings 
you  in  intimate  touch with  so 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Harris & Frutchey

W holesale  Commission  M erchants

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CHEESE,  BUTTER  and  EGGS.  Consignments  Solicited.

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14

Fruits  and  Produce.
Oleo  Makers  Pay  the  Fines  and  Ex 

penses  of  Dealers.

law 

“ I  have  nothing  to  say,”   remarked 
Food  Commissioner  Grosvenor recently, 
“ about  the  criticisms  which  are  being 
made  upon  the  administration  of  my 
I  have  no  apologies  to  make  as 
office. 
to  the  prosecution  of  the  oleo  cases 
in 
in  reference  to 
the  courts.  The 
oleomargarine  was  passed 
largely 
through  the  influence  of  the  State  farm 
ers’  organizations,  the State  Dairymen’ 
Association,  and  the  State  associations 
of  farmers’  clubs.  Up  to  September  last 
little  or  nothing  was  done  toward  the 
enforcement  of  the  law.  The  farmers 
who  were 
instrumental  in  securing  its 
enactment  have  done  little  or  nothing 
towards  securing  the  enforcement  of  its 
provisions.

“ We  thought  that 

laws  which  our  department 

it  was  due  to  the 
people  of  Michigan  in  general  to  have 
all 
is 
charged  with  enforced  without  fear  or 
favor  from  different  classes.  This  we 
are  trying  to  do.  We  are  not  neglecting 
othei  business  to  enforce  the  act  rela­
tive  to  oleo,  but  are  carrying  on  prose­
cutions  which  properly  come  before  us. 
It  seems  to  be  presumption  to  say  that 
the  people  of  the  State  would  pass a law 
which  they  do  not  want  to  have  en­
forced. 
In  my  opinion,  any  law  which 
is  obnoxious  can  be  repealed  if  it  is 
strictly  enforced.  Petitions  can  be  pre­
sented  to  the  Legislature  setting  forth 
the  grievances  of  those  who  believe that 
inconsistent  or  unjust,  and 
the  law 
in  my  mind  there  is  no  doubt  that 
im­
mediate  steps  will  be  taken  to  repeal 
such  an  act.

is 

into  a  State  acknowledging 

“ It  is  a  peculiar  situation  which  we 
have  to  face.  The  spectacle  of  the  im­
mense  amount  of  capital 
invested  in 
the  manufacture  of  oleomargarine  com­
ing 
the 
validity  and  constitutionality of the law, 
and  still  persisting  in  violating  its  pro­
visions, 
is  certainly  an  unusual  one. 
The  bill  was  passed  in  the  Legislature 
in  the  face  of  an  opposition,  and  the 
lobby  got  the  best  of  it. 
I  do  not  care 
to  discuss  these  matters.  The  law  is 
on  the  books,  and  it  is  my  duty  to  en­
force  it. 
It  makes  no  difference  to  me 
what  is  said  about  our  office.  If  the  law 
is  an 
ill-advised  one  it  should  be  re­
pealed.  Until  such  action  is  taken  and 
I  retain  my  commission,  I  will  go  right 
ahead  in  the  discharge  of  my  duties.

“ Another  thing  which  might 

interest 
the  public,”   said  Mr.  Grosvenor,  “ is 
that  I  have  letters  to show  that  the man­
ufacturers  of  oleo  sent  word  to  their 
customers  that, in  the  event  of their con­
viction  under  the  present  law,  they  (the 
manufacturers)  would  pay  all  fines  and 
expenses  of  court.  One  dealer  who  has 
been  prosecuted  has  admitted  that  he 
has  not  put  up  one  cent  for  his  defense.
In  small  towns 
in  which  oleo  dealers 
had  not  the  protection  of  the  manufac­
turers,  several  complaints  have  been 
made,  in  which  those  charged  with  vio­
lating  the  law  pleaded  guilty and  bad  to 
pay'the  costs  of  court.

“ The  people  should  understand  that 
is  not  aimed  to  suppress  the 
its 
imitation  of 

the  law 
sale  of  oleo,  but  simply  to  prohibit 
sale  when  it  is  colored  in 
butter. ’ ’
Tendency  Toward  Lighter Salted  But­

ter.

From the New York Produce Trade Review.

More  frequent  complaints  have  been 
made  of  late  of  too  light  salted  butter 
in  this  market,  and  it  would  seem  as  if 
buttermakers  were  making  the  same

mistake  that  they  did regarding color.

For  the  past  two  years  there  has  been 
a  steady  trend  toward 
lighter  salted 
goods  for  home  consumption,  as  well  as 
to  meet  the  needs  of  foreign  markets. 
People  have grown  tired  of eating butter 
that  was  heavily  loaded  with  salt,  and 
there  came  such  a  reversion  of  senti­
ment 
in  favor  of  using  less  salt,  that 
buttermakers  were  forced  to  recognize 
and  supply  that  need. 
In  the  effort  to 
meet  the  changing  requirements,  how­
ever,  they  are  going to  the extreme,  and 
considerable  of  the  butter  received  here 
during  the  past  month  has  been  entirely 
too  fresh  in  the  sense  that  it lacked salt.
Whatever  may  be  the  need  of  foreign 
markets  in  the  way  of  sweet  butter,  or 
that  which  contains  a  very  little  salt,  it 
should  be  remembered  that  the  Ameri­
can  trade  demands  moderately  well- 
salted  goods,  and  for  a  large  part  of  the 
year  the  product  of  this cenutry  is  con­
sumed  at  home.

There  are  to-day  in  this  market  nu­
merous  shipments  of  fresh  creamery 
that  have  been  so  lightly  salted  as  to  be 
practically  sweet  butter.  Outside  of  the 
Hebrew  trade  very  few  buyers  can  use 
this  butter,  and  it  hangs  about  the  mar­
ket  regardless  of  the  fact  that  sellers are 
willing  to  accept a  less  price  for  it.

No  definite  rule  can  be  laid  down  as 
to  the  amount  of  salt  to  be  used.  The 
quantity  must  be  varied  at  different 
seasons  of  the  year,  more  being  used 
during  the  winter.  Much  depends  upon 
the  conditions  affecting  the  product. 
It 
is  a  known  fact  that  some  butters 
will  take on  more  salt  than  others;  and 
¡f  washing 
is  practiced  one-eighth  to 
me-quarter  of  an  ounce  more  of  salt 
should  be  used. 
In  the  absence  of  a j 
rule  that  may  be  followed  at  all  times 
and  under  all  circumstances,  the  matter 
must  be  left  to  the  skill  and  knowledge 
of  the  buttermaker;  but  by  careful  at­
tention  to  the  subject,  with  frequent  in­
formation  from  the  selling  agents  in the 
markets  to  which the goods  are shipped, 
the  present  difficulty  regarding  too light 
salted  butter  may  be  quickly  corrected.
Proceeding  Against  Process  Butter 

in  Philadelphia, 

om the Grocery World.
Nearly  all  of  the  Philadelphia  wbole- 
le  dealers 
in  butter  are  considerably 
agitated  over  a  new  campaign  which 
the  Eastern  representatives  of  the  Pure 
I"ood  Department  have  started  against 
hat 
is  known  as  “ process  butter.”  
The  manufacturers  of  this,  Nice  & 
Schriber,  of  Philadelphia,  have  been 
rrested  during  the  last  few  days  and  a 
representative  of  the  firm  was  taken  be­
fore  a  magistrate,  but  the  hearing  was 
postponed  because  of  the 
illness  of  a 
member  of  one  of  the  firm's  family. 
Nice  &  Schriber  are  said  to  have  about 
S2o,ooo  in  the  factory  which  is  turning 
out  this  “ process  butter,”   and  as  there 
is  a  ready  market  for  all  they can make, 
they  will  fight  the  action  of  the  Pure 
Food  Department  as  far  as  they  can.

and 

This  oil 

The  appearance  and 

inferior  grade,  which  fact 

“ Process  butter”   is  bad  butter  which 
has  been  worked  over.  Tn  its  manufac­
ture  exactly  the  same  processes  are used 
as  when  oleo  is  made,  except that where 
latter,  in 
ordinary  fats  are  used  in  the 
“ process  butter”   the  real  butter  oil 
is 
used.  The  process  consists  of  boiling 
old  or  rancid  butter  until  all  of  the  oil 
is  extracted,  and  the  product  is  to  some 
extent  sweetened. 
is  then 
mixed  with  milk 
the  whole 
churned.  The  result  is  a  butter,  but  of 
an 
is  ap­
parent,  however,  only  when  the  butter 
is  tasted. 
the 
smell  are  both  like  good  butter.  The 
Pure  Food  Department  claims  that  the 
“ process butter’ ’  is adulterated,  because 
it  contains  an  excess  of  water  and  too 
is 
small  a  percentage  of  butter  fat. 
alleged  that  somewhere  during 
the 
process  of  manufacture  water  is  added.
“  Process butter”   is  sold  in  prints and 
has  a  very  fine  color  and  a  good  fresh 
smell.  The  taste,  however,  is  bad,  be­
ing  of  a  peculiar  nature  and  quite 
strong.  The  difference  in  the  price  is 
selling  large  quantities  of  the stuff.  The 
retailer  can  buy  the  “ process  butter’ ’ 
for  about  5  cents  per  pound  less  than 
he  would  pay  for  good,  fresh  creamery 
prints.

It 

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161 S. Water St., Chicago.

BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY.  FRUITS  AND  VEGETABLES

Car Lots:  POTATOES, APPLES, BEASS, ONIONS

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

Bankers.  Merchants Nantional Bank, Chicago.

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Cranberries
Grapes
Celery
Onions
Apples

All  kinds  of

V EGETABLES

Ask  for  prices  upon  carlots  or  less.

The Vinketnulder Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Potatoes  --  Beaps  --  Gpiops

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

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GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 
Special  Correspondence.

the  Market.

New  York,  Dec.  25-The  year  has 
been  one  that  recalls  a  saying  of  Josh 
Billings.  He  said  that  his  **Almanax’ 1 
was  one  which  had  “ no  equals and  darn 
few  superiors. ”   Eighteen ninety-seven 
has  been  so  great  an  improvement  over 
its  immediate  predecessor  that  there 
is 
great  occasion  for  rejoicing.  Peace  and 
prosperity  are  words  to  conjure  with 
just  now,  and  from  foreign  strife  and 
entangling  alliances,  Good  Lord  de­
liver  us!

Next  week  New  York  becomes  a  mul­
It  will 
timillionaire  as  to  population. 
from 
measure  thirty-eight  miles  across 
city 
northeast  to  southwest  between 
lines.  Stretch  Grand  Rapids  out 
in 
any  one  direction  as  far  as  this  and  see 
where  you  are  at.  Within  the  limits 
will  be  included  some  of  the  most  God 
forsaken  regions  east of the Alleghanies 
The  city  will  embrace  369  square miles. 
Yet  we  are  not  puffed  up ;  we  are  not 
proud,  and  in  the  future,  as in  the  past 
we  will  spell  Chicago  with  a  big  C.

Business?  Well,  it  has  been  an  ex­
cellent  week  all  around.  Our  jobbing 
grocers  have  been  crowded  and  have 
worked 
like  beavers  to  fill  orders  on 
time.

Thursday  the  coffee  market  was some 
what  agitated.  Reports 
came  from 
Europe  that  the  growing  Santos  crop 
was  seriously  damaged  and  that  prices 
had  taken  an  upward  turn.  The  report 
influence  on  prices  here,  but 
had  no 
sellers  were  not  quite  so  free  with  the 
offerings  of  Rio  No.  7.  This  grade 
, 
now  quotable  in  an  invoice  way  at  6^. 
and  the  market  may  be  called  firm. 
The  total  amount here and afloat  reaches 
the  huge  aggregate  of  1,125,202  bags, 
against  741,675  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year. 
In  mild  coffees  some  quite 
large  transactions  have  been  reported, 
although  prices  are  unchanged.  Fancy 
Java 
is  worth  27@3oc;  Mochas,  1754® 
lq'Ac.

Refined  sugars  have  been  marked  up 
Hc.  The  market  is  active  and  strongj 
Orders  have  been  received 
from  all 
points  by  mail  and  wire  and  the  out­
look  is  for  this  sort  of  market  for  the 
remainder  of  the  year,  although  the 
mark-up  seemed  to  cause  a  slight  fall­
ing  off 
in  business  done.  Raws  are 
firm.  One  of  the  most  prominent  build­
ings  to  be  seen  from 
the  Brooklyn 
bridge  now  is  the  new  Arbuckle  refin 
ery,  which  will  probably  be  in  opera 
tion  by  next  fall.

In 

teas,  we  have  had  an  excellent 
week  and some  large  sales  have  been re 
ported.  There  is  yet  room for improve­
ment,  but,  as  compared  with  the  past 
few  months,  this  has  been  a  banner 
week.  Orders  from  the  country  have 
been  especially  numerous.

Trading 

in  rice  has  been  light,  but 
operators  say  thev  are  rolling  up  their 
sleeves,  preparatory  to  the  rush  they 
expect  after  Jan.  1. 
It  is  evident,  they 
say,  that  stocks  in  the  interior  are  light 
and  there  must  come  a  demand  that 
will  make  things hum.

In  spices,  about  the  usual  demand 
has  prevailed  and,  while  there  is  room 
for 
improvement,  matters  might  be 
worse.  Several  invoice  lines  of  pepper 
have  changed  hands  and  dealers  look 
forward  to  a  good  business  all  around 
as  soon  as  stock  taking  is  through.
In  molasses,  there  has  been  a  fair 
volume  of  business  going  forward,  es­
pecially  for  the  better  grades,  and  the 
tone  of  the  market  is  firm.  From  the 
country  many  orders  have  been received 
and  there 
is  very  little  haggling  over 
rates.  Syrups  are  in  fair  demand  at  re­
cent  quotations.
canned  goods  market  continues 
• 
in  excellent  shape.  There  has  been  a 
steady 
improvement  for  several  weeks 
and  for tomatoes  there  is  an  especially 
lively  demand.  The  consumption  has 
been  so  much  greater  than  was  antici­
pated  that  holders  have  to  “ hustle“  
in 
some  cases  to  get  just  the  sort  of  goods 
wanted. 
Standard  New  Jerseys  are 
cheap  at  $1  and  the  range  is  to  $1.25. 
Lorn,  peas,  string  beans— in  fact,  al­
most  every  item—are  to  be  put  down  as 
in  better  request and  the  new  year  will

nglish  Grocers’  Trouble  Over  Bo- 

racic  Acid  in  Butter.

The  English  grocery  trade  is  agitated 
over arrests  which  have  been  made  for 
selling  butter  preserved  in boracic acid. 
Last  week  a  deputation  of  grocers  wait­
ed  upon  the  Health  Committee  of  the 
Cardiff  Corporation  for  the  purpose  of 
asking  that  no  proceedings  should  be 
instituted  against 
tradesmen  selling 
butter  preserved  by  means  of  boracic 
acid  until  the  question  had  been  defi­
nitely  settled  as  to  whether  the  use  of 
injurious  to  health.  The 
deputation  pointed  out  to  the  commit­
tee  that  butter  was  formerly  preserved 
with  salt,  but  that  working  people  now 
objected  to 
it,  and  boracic  acid  was 
used.  Numerous  prosecutions  had  been 
instituted  against  grocers  in  other  parts 
of  the  country,  and,  whilst in some  cases 
convictions  had  been  recorded,  in others 
the  summonses  had  been dismissed.

is  drug  is 

One  trouble  with  the  world  is  that 
there are  so  many  people  in  it  who  are 
content  to  drift down  stream.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

come  in with stocks more closely cleaned 
up  than  for  a  number  of  years.

Dried  fruits  are  rather  easy,  but  there 
is  a  better  outlook  than  a  month  ago. 
Evaporated  fruits  in  cartons  are  having 
a  great  sale,  if  one  can  judge  from  ap­
pearances. 

r

In  oranges  and  lemons,  the  week  has 
been 
just  a  little  quiet,  but  a  better 
trade  will  probably  spring  up  within 
ten  days,  as  by  that  time  supplies  will 
need  replenishing.  Sicily  lemons  are 
Florida  oranges, 
S>3@4- So-
1 be  butter  market  shows  a  little  im­
provement  and  best  Western  creamery 
is  selling  at  22c.  Aside  from  this  qual­
ity,  theie  is  no  special  enquiry.

$2-25@3-25- 

1 here  is  a  little  more doing  in cheese 
both  by  exporters  and  thè  home  trade! 
Small  size,  9@g%c.

I he  egg  market  is  very  strong.  Best 
grades  easily  letch  26c.  Best  Western 
22@23C. 
’
The  Beautiful Structure of Eee Shells 
From Harper’s  Magazine. 

6

The  Value  of a  Reputation.

From the Massachusetts Ploughman.

A  gentleman  from  a  neighboring city 
while  purchasing  strawberries  of  a deal- 
4n  Pittsburg,  said  to  the  dealer, 
Those  are  fine  berries.  I  can occasion- 
ally  get  as  nice  at  home,  but  am  not 
always  sure  of  them.’ ’  The  dealer  re­
plied  that  he  had  not  received a crate of 
soft  or  dirty  fruit  from  the  grower  for 
ten  years,  and  he  could  guarantee  just 
such  the  season  through.  Thereupon 
the  gentleman  ordered  six  boxes  sent 
him  by  express  three  times  a  week  for 
the  whole  season.

I  said 

Passing  through  the  Boston  market  I 
noticed  some  neatly  put  up  fiuit  at  one 
of  the  best stands  in  the  New  Faneuil 
Hall  Market. 
to  the  dealer 
There  must  be  money  in  that  fruit  for 
He  smiled  and  replied,  “ Well, 
you. 
I  al­
it 
it  the  preference,  for  I  can 
ways  give 
depend  upon 
If  the  grower  tele- 
graphs  a  shipment  made  I  sometimes 
sell  it  all  before  it  reaches  me.  There

is  fine  fruit  ad  nicely  put  up. 

it. 

16

is  not  so  very  much  money  in  it  forme, 
□ut  I  like  to  see  it  in  front  of  my  store. 
I  consider 
it  an  honor  to  any  man  in 
Boston  to  handle  these  goods.”

Scarcity  in  Foreign  Rice.

Japan  rice  promises  to  be  scarce  this 
year.  Reports  give  the  shortage  at  from 
10  to  20  per  cent.  As  a  result  Japan 
mills  are  not  preparing  any  for  export, 
and  advices  from  Japan  state  that  thé 
crop  is  late  and  prices  are  high.  Japa- 
I ?ese  merchants  purpose 
contracting 
for  sufficient  from  Burmah  to  make  up 
the  shortage.  All  this  makes  it  difficult 
to  predict  as  to  how  prices  will  rule, 
home  of  the  Eastern  importers  are  of 
the  opinion  that  the  present  high  prices 
in  Japan  are  caused  by  speculation  of 
European  parties,  and  as  a  result  they 
are  slow 
in  the 
market.

in  putting  offerings 

v o ^ eve-r  disparage 
What 
m other’s  love?

is  more  com m onplace 

the  com m onplace. 
than  a 

service 

An  egg  shell  consists  of  concretions 
ot  carbonate  of  lime  (chalk),  deposited 
in  and  upon  the  fibrous  surface  of  thi 
egg-pod,  and  smoothed  and  soldered  to­
gether  into  polygonal  plates  of  greater 
or  less  thickness,  so  that  under  th 
microscope  the  surface 
looks  like 
tessellated  pavement.  The  microscop 
further  discloses  the  interesting  in fo i- 
“ atfon  that  eggs  of  the  different  group 
01  birds  possess  recognizable  character­
istics,  so  that  a  trained  eye  can  tell,  by 
examining  a  fragment  of  shell,  the  gen 
eral  character of  the  bird  that  laid  it,  ii 
not  its  specific  identity;  and this ability 
has  done 
in  enlarging  our 
knowledge  of  fossil birds,  some of whose 
eggs have been recovered unbroken.  The 
shell 
is  always  permeated  by  minute 
canals  that  admit  air  to  the  growing 
embryo,  for  without  the  presence  and 
aid  of  oxygen  the  processes  of  organic 
development  could  not  go  on.  Close 
these  pores  by  varnishing,  and  the  em­
bryo  would  quickly  die ;  on  the  other 
hand,  such  an  exclusion of  the  air is one 
of  the  methods 
in  use  for  prolonging 
the  edibility  of  fresh  eggs  by  excluding 
air  and  microbes.  As  the embryo grows, 
the  air-pores  enlarge,  the  shell  becomes 
brittle,  and 
its  lining  membrane  splits 
at  the  large  end,  forming  there  a  con­
siderable  cavity  filled  with  air.  When 
the  chick  has  approached  nearly  to  the 
time  of  bursting  the  shell,  it  ruptures 
the  membrane—perhaps  accidentally— 
and  begins  to  breathe  this  air,  and  thus 
to  get 
into  working  order. 
The  beauty  of  this  arrangement  is  that 
the  tender  youngling 
is  thus  provided 
with  air  warmed  to  the  temperature  of 
■ ts  blood,  avoiding  the  chill  of  the  out- 
ude  atmosphere  before 
its  respiratory 
organs  have  grown  strong  enough  to 
bear  the  shock. 
In  order  to  enable  it 
to  break  its  way  out  of  the  shell,  when 
its  time  comes,  the  tip  of  its  soft  little 
beak 
is  armed  with  a  temporary  hard 
knob  or  excrescence  called  an  “ egg- 
tooth,”   which  falls  off  soon  after  the 
chick’s  emergence.

its  lungs 

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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 
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Commercial T ravelers
Drinking  Not  Essential  to Good Sales­

manship.

“ It 

I  never  hire  a  salesm an  until  I  see 
him ,”   remarked  a  member  of  one  ot 
Boston's  large  wholesale  shoe  houses. 
Continuing,  he  said: 
is  well 
enough  to  correspond  with  men  whom 
you  intend  to  engage  as  salesmen,  but  I 
believe  that  something  more  is  needed. 
Recently  I  corresponded  with  several 
salesmen with  the  intention  of  engaging 
a  man  to  represent  our  house.  Then  1 
interviewed  these  men,  one  after  an­
other,  in  peison.  The  man  who  wrote 
the  best  letters  was  not  the  man  whom  1 
engaged.  So  I  repeat  that  it  is,  in  my 
op in lou,  absolutely  necessary  to  have a 
personal  interview  with  the  man  who  is 
to  represent  you,  in  order  to  know  just 
what  he  looks  like,  and what  impression 
his  appearance  and  personality _may 
make  upon  the  trade. ’ ’

“ I  do  not  care  for  a  brilliant  sales­
man,”   remarked  a  shoe  manufacturer 
the  other  day. 
“ The  man  1  can  use 
best  in  my  business  is  he  who  makes no 
special  claim  to  brilliancy  or  original­
ity,  but  who  has  within  him  a  genius 
for  bard  work.  That  is  all  there  is  to 
the  selling  of  shoes  or  any  other  goods. 
Constant  effort  tells  the  story  of  the  ’ 
most  successful  salesmen.  While  we 
occasionally  see  a  brilliant  man  who 
commands  a  big  salary  and  has  enor­
mous  sales  to  his  credit,  yet  we  gen­
erally  find  in  such  a  case  that  the  man 
has  some  specially  favorable  conditions 
which  the  average  salesman  is  not  able 
to  attain. 
It  is  the  everyday,  ordinary 
salesmen  who  are  willing  to  work  and 
stick  to  it  day  in  and  day  out  who  ac­
complish 
in  the  long  run  the  best  re­
sults. ’ ’

*  *  *

I 

laid 

give  you  a  line  one  of  these  days,’  he 
used  to  promise.  The  day  was  a 
long 
I  resolved  to  hasten  its 
time  coming. 
approach. 
I  knew  his  partiality  for  a 
certain  blend. 
in  some  bottles 
of  it,  and  asked  him  to  honor  me  by 
coming  to  dine  and  sample  it. 
‘ But 
you  will  have  to  put  me  up  for  the 
night,'  he  said.  He  was  perfectly  cor­
rect.  He  had  to  be  carried  to  bed. 
I 
must  confess  I  was  little  better,  for  the 
best  part  of  the  time  he 
insisted  upon 
my  drinking  with  him.  Next  morning  I 
was  so  unwell  I  had  to  miss  a  tram  or 
two.  He,  on  the  contrary,  was  quite 
revived. 
‘ It  was  a  grand  night,’  he 
said ;  and  he marked his appreciation  of 
my  hospitality  by  sending  around  an 
order  to  me  next  afternoon.”

There  are  people,  I  will  admit,  with 
whom  a  drink 
is  a  great  inducement, 
but  that  a  “ commercial  traveler”   must 
drink,  I  look  upon  as  a  mean  excuse  of 
the  fathering  of 
individual  weakness 
onto  a  noble  calling.  The  best  repre­
sentative  a  firm  can  have,  apart  from 
business  capacity,  is  one  who  neither 
drinks  nor  smokes. 
If  at  the  present 
time  you  select  a  dozen  buyers  from 
important  houses  and  ask  each  to  have 
a  drink,  a good many  times  oftener  than 
not  the  request  would  be  refused,  and 
the  buyer  would  think  less  of  the  man 
that  asked  him.

Said  the  landlord  of  a  famous  coun­
try  hostelry:  “ There  are  many  more 
travelers  on  the  road  than  formerly,  but 
then they  don’t  drink  like  the  old school 
did.  Why,  it  is  a  rare  thing  to  hear  a 
man  ordering  a  pint  of  wine  for  his 
dinner  nowadays,  and 
if  a  man  has 
tea  or  coffee,  it  is 
more  than  water, 
generally  some  aerated  water. 
I  was 
Drought  up  to  believe  that  the  ‘ com­
mercial’,  whether  at  feeding  time  or 
not,  must  be  ever  standing,  or  being 
stood. ’ ’

the  term 

low  must  be  sociable  to  get  along. 
If 
he  drinks  to  excess  on  some  occasions, 
if  he  stays  out  unreasonably  late  at 
night,  or  does  anything  else  for  which 
he 
is  probably  chided  by  those  who 
naturally  have  an  interest  in  him,  the 
first  thing  the young man  pleads  in  self- 
defense 
is  the  necessity  of  sociability. 
He  probably  could  not  define  what  he 
means  by 
“ sociability,”  
certainly  he  would  utterly  fail  to  dem­
onstrate  how  the  cultivation  of  bad 
habits  becomes  contributory  to  success 
in  any  worthy  application  of  the  word.
is  true  that  people  will  drink  at 
your  expense  and  say,  perhaps,  that 
you  are  a  good  fellow,  but  in 
their 
hearts  they  neither  thank  you  nor  re­
spect  you.  The  very  first  fruits  of  the 
drinking  habit 
is  the  stimulation  of 
It  tends  to  weaken  the  moral 
guile. 
sensibilities  ot  a  man. 
It  leads  him  to 
stoop  to  do  a  mean  or  shameful  thing, 
and  ordinarily  he  will  not  hesitate  to 
lie  to  cover  his  tracks.
*  *  *

It 

“ Honesty  is  the  best  policy.”   The 
man  who  thinks 
it  either  smart  or a 
showing  of  ability  to  deceive  or  take 
any  advantage  of  a  customer,  even  in 
the  slightest  way,  has  not  learned  the 
first  rudiments  of  his  lessons,  which  is 
to  strive  to  cause  his  customer  to  have 
confidence  in  his  assertions.  Of  course, 
a  person  should  be  honest  from  a higher 
motive  than  mere  policy,  but  I  am  only 
considering  the  subject  from  a  material 
standpoint. 
It  does  not  pay,  in  the 
long  run,  to  be  dishonest,  although  one 
may  gain  a  temporary  advantage  by 
stealing,  in  one  form  or  another,  for 
theft 
is  theft,  no  matter  under  what 
name  it  is  concealed.  Trickery  is  sure 
to  be  eventually  discovered,  and  the 
customer  will  desert  him.  When  our

intentions  are  honest  and  we  endeavor 
to  do  right,  even  then  we  make  mis­
takes  enough  without  having  the  mis­
takes  added  to it caused  by the  direct  or 
indirect  influence  of  intoxicating drink. 

*  *  *

I  have  traveled  nearly  this  entire 
world,  in  the  cold  of  the  North  as  well 
as  at  the  equator,  and  have  never  yet 
seen  a  time  when  intoxicating  liquor 
was  either  necessary  or  beneficial. 
I 
have  attended  a  great  many  banquets, 
both  private  and  public,  and  am  still  a 
constant  attendant  at  such  affairs. 
I 
do  not  touch  a  drop  of  wine  upon  these 
occasions,  and  I  have  never  yet  been 
made  to  feel  that  I  was  placed  at  a  dis­
advantage. 
I  can  honestly  say  that  I 
believe a  man’s  best  and  highest  social 
success  is  assured  just  in  proportion  as 
he  abstains  from  liquors.  No  man  ever 
climbed  many  rounds  of  the  ladder  of 
success  with  a  whisky  bottle 
in  his 
pocket.

Edward  W.  Bok,  editor  of the Ladies’ 
indulgence 
Home  Journal,  says:  “ An 
in 
intoxicants  of  any  sort  has  never 
helped  a  man  to  any  position worth hav­
ing.  On  the  contrary,  it  has  kept  many 
from  attaining  a  position  to  which  by 
birth,  good  breeding  and  ability  they 
were  entitled.  No  young  man  will  ever 
find  that  the  principle  of  abstinence 
from  liquor  is  a  barrier  to  any  success, 
social,  commercial  or  otherwise.  On 
the  other  hand,  it  is  the  one  principle 
in  his  life  which  will,  in  the  long  run, 
help  him  more  than  any  other.” —J.  B. 
Lewis,  in  Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Bourrier,  after  a  series  of  experi­
ments,  has  come  to  the  conclusion  that 
in  a  room  filled  with  the 
fresh  meat 
smoke  of 
tobacco  absorbs  nicotine 
readily,  and  may  under  circumstances 
become  so  tainted  as  to lead to digestive 
disorders.

in  his  methods. 

“  We  have  a  salesman  who  sells 

lots 
of  goods  for  us,”   remarked  a  member 
of  one  of  Boston’s  leading  wholesale 
shoe  houses,  “ and  he  is  a  good  fellow 
beside.  He  is,  however,  very  slack and 
unbusiness-like 
It  is 
his  frequent custom  to  write  that  he will 
send  a  certain  batch  of  orders  in  two  or 
three  days,  and  then  neglect  doing  so 
for  many  weeks.  In  addition  to  this,  he 
makes  many  promises  to  his 
trade 
which  it  is  impossible  for  us  to  carry 
out.  We  like  this  man,  but  we  are  not 
at  all  in  sympathy  with  bis  methods. 
Consequently  we  shall  probably 
be 
obliged  to  make  a  change  unless  we  are 
able  to  reform  him,  which  I  think  un­
likely.  No  matter  how  good  a  sales­
man  a  man  may  be,  he  should  bear  in 
mind  that there  are  other  qualifications 
which  go  to  make  up  the  successful 
is  easy  enough  to 
traveling  man. 
sell  goods 
if  you  make  the  prices  low 
and  have  attractive  samples,  but  the 
true  test  of  a  salesman  is  in  the  careful 
fulfillment  of  his  promises,  both  to  his 
firm  and  his  customers.”

It 

*  *  *
salesmen 

Are  road 

compelled  to 
drink?  A  well-known  commercial  trav­
eler  unhestitatingly  indorses  “ Yes”   to 
this query.  He  declared  that  had  he- 
been  a  teetotaler  he  would  not  have  had 
half his  present  income. 
“ I  have  over 
and  over  again  had  to  drink  my  way 
into  their  order  books, ”   he  affirmed. 
“ There  was  one  bouse 
in  particular 
which  my  house  were  always  complain­
ing  I  did  not  sell.  The  buyer  was  an 
elderly  man  who,  so  far as  I  could  see, 
subsisted  entirely  on whiskey and water.
He  never  paid  for  it.  Whenever  I  met 
him,  morning  or  afternoon,  hot  or  cold,
‘ I  will
I  had  to  stand  him  a  drink. 

A  new  type  of  road  salesman  has 
sprung  up—keen,  abstemious,  hustling, 
alert.  The  modern  traveler  has  no  time 
tor  long,  drowsy  chats  over  glasses  of 
grog.  His  aim  is  to  cram  as  much  as 
ne  can 
into  a  day’s  work.  He  knows 
that  “ there  are  others”   on  the  road  and 
that  he  will  lose  the  order  if  his  com­
binations  are  not  made  correctly;  he 
knows  also  that  there 
is  only  a  short 
time 
in  which  he  can  woik,  and  he 
wishes  to  take  advantage  of  every  sec­
ond  of  time  to  enable  him  to  meet  the 
trade.

‘ Had 

Said  the  head  of  one  of  our  manufac-! 
turing  houses :  “ Our  late  traveler  was 
quite  notorious 
in  the  trade  as  a  hard 
drinker.  Mind  you,  he  did  a  splerdid 
account,  but  very  often  used  to  go  out 
in  the  morning  and  not turn  up  again 
tor  a  few  days.  Yes,  drinking  with 
others,  he got  too  bad  to  return. 
‘ Was 
after  an  order  that  wanted  a  lot  of  get­
ting, ’  he  would  explain. 
to 
stand  so-and-so  a  lunch  and  other  treats 
Defore  he  would 
let  me  book  it. ’  So 
long  as  he  did  get  the  order  it  didn’t 
matter  to us,  but I often  used  to  think  it 
a  great  pity  that  he  was  obliged  to  go 
this  way  to  work.  Last  year  he  died.
I  engaged  a  young  fellow  who  was  a 
teetotaler  and  who  at  the  time  was  do­
ing  fairy  well  with  another  firm.  At 
first  the  orders  dropped off.  The  ‘ booz­
ers’  looked  at  him  with  unfriendly eyes, 
but  his  capacity  carried  him  through. 
Not  a  single  customer  has  been 
lost  to 
us,  and  this  month,  while  he  has  only 
been  with  us  a  little  over  a  year,  he  has 
nearly  doubled  the  business  of  his 
predecessor. ”

One of  the  commonest  excuses  for bad 
habits  among  young  men  is  that a  fel­

w.  R .  B R IC E .

E STA B LISH ED   1 8 5 2 .

C .  M .  D R A K E .

W.  R.  Brice & Co.,

Produce  Commission  Merchants

Butter, Eggs and Poultry 

23 South Water Street, Philadelphia, Pa*

To our many shipper  friends:
The  past year has had a good 
many ups  and downs, and has no doubt 
been profitable  to some of you, 
while  right  the reverse  to others. 
Our  business has grown year by year, 
and  this has  been  the banndr year. 
Our  sales have  run over  themillion 
dollar mark,  and we believe that 
our  success  is  due  to  the energy 
and perseverance with which we have 
conducted our  business  for many 
years.  We believe we have  a  repu­
tation  for  treating  consignors 
squarely,  giving  them right prices, 
proper weights  and quick returns. 
Would  this not interest you?
We wish you all  a Happy and Pros­
perous New Year.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the  Grip. 

President, J as. P .  Hammell. Lansing;  Secretary, 
J.  C.  Saunders,  Lansing;  Treasurer,  Chas.  Mc- 
Nolty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President, S.  H.  Hart,  Detroit;  Secretary  and 

Treasurer, D. Morris, Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers ot Michigan.

dent Association.

Grand  Counselor,  P.  L.  Day.  Jackson:  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. Valmore, Detroit;  Grand Treas 
urer, Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Accl 
President, A. F .  P e a k e , Jackson;  Secretary and 
Board  of  Directors—F.  M.  Tyler, H.  B  F air 
child,J a s. N. Bradford, J. Henry Dawley.Geo 
J. Heinzelman, Chas. S.  Robinson.
[Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson,  Marquette.

Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen, Grand Rapids. 

Gripsack  Brigade.

man  in  Michigan  for  H.  &  M.  Gais  & 
Co.,  manufacturers  of  boys’  and  chil­
dren’s  clothing,of  Syracuse,  N.  Y.  Mr. 
Barnes  will  continue  to  reside  in  Owos­
so,  retaining  his  interest  in  the  firm  of 
Clark  &  Co.

its 

The  Tradesman  regrets 

inability 
to  present  a  report  of  the  Kalamazoo 
convention  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of 
the  Grip 
in  this  week’s  issue.  As  the 
Tradesman  goes  to  press  Wednesday 
noon  and  the  convention  closes  its  ses­
sions  Wednesday  evening,  it  would  be 
impossible  to  give  more  than  a  bare 
summary  of  the  first  day’s  proceedings 
in  the 
issue  of  the  current  week,  and 
it  is  therefore  deemed advisable to defer I 
the  publication  until  next  week, 
which  time  the  Tradesman  hopes  to 
able  to  present  a  full  and  detailed  re 
port  of  the  work  accomplished.

G.  K.  Coffey  has  signed  with  the 

P.  Dieter  Co.,  of  Chicago,  for  a  second 
year.

Sumner  M.  Wells,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of the Clark-Jewell-WellsCo., 
is  confined  to  his  house  by  an  attack  of 
the  grip.

W.  F.  Blake  (Worden  Grocer  Co. 
was  taken  with  a  severe  attack  of  lum 
bago  last  Sunday  and  will  probably  be 
confined  to bis  bed  for  some days.

Rev.  Donald  D.  MacLaurin  wi.. 
preach  the  annual  sermon  to  the  Detroit 
members  of  the  Michigan  Commercial 
Travelers’  Association  at  the  Woodward 
Avenue  Baptist  church  Sunday evening 
Jan.  2.

Geo.  A.  Newhall  (Clark-Jewell-Wells 
Co.)  is  unable  to  visit  his  trade  for  a 
couple  of  weeks  on  account  of  hav 
ing  contracted  a  severe  cold.  His  ter 
ritory  will  be  covered  in  the  meantime 
by  Fred  E.  Morley.

J.  Dow Trimmer, formerly editor of the 
Eaton  Rapids  Herald,  but  recently  a 
resident  of  Jackson,  has  accepted  a  po­
sition  as  traveling  salesman 
for  the 
Shaw  Stocking  Co.,  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
his  territory  comprising  the  entire State 
of  Michigan.

F.  R.  Lawrence,  who  has  been  repre­
senting  the  Art  Stove  Co.  in  Ohio  for 
the  past  four  years,  has  engaged  to 
travel  next  year  for  the  Detroit  Stove 
Works,  covering  Northern  Ohio  and 
Southern  Michigan.  He  will  continue 
to  reside  in  Lansing.

Drummer  in  Knee  Breeches.

From the Louisville Dispatch.

in 

Arkansas  has the youngest commerci 
traveler 
the  world.  His  name 
Walter  B.  Hopkins,  Jr.  He  lives 
De  Vails  Bluff.  He  is  just  12  years  old 
and  wears  knee  trousers,  long  stock­
ings  and  a  wide  turn  down  collar  like 
other  boys  of  his  age.  Walter  may  be 
said  to  be  a  born  drummer.  He  has 
been  making money  since  he was 8 years 
old,  when  be  embarked  in  the  business 
of  selling  illustrated  papers  and  period­
icals.  Walter  recently  sent  to  a  rubber 
goods  house  for  samples  and  started  out 
on  the  road.  His  success  did  not  meet 
his  expectations  and  he  sent  to  Chicago 
for  samples  of  soaps  and  flavoring  ex­
tracts.  With  these  he  made  a  success 
from  the  start.  The  merchants  of  hi 
own  town,  struck  by  his  enterprise 
patronized  him,  and,  thus  encouraged, 
he  extended  his  field,  visiting  other 
towns 
in  the  vicinity.  His  sales  in 
creased,  and  he  further  enlarged  hi. 
territory.  He  got  a  neat  sample  case, 
i,000-mile  ticket  and  began 
bought  a 
making 
trips  of  a  week’ 
length,  taking  towns  on  the  Memphis 
and  Little  Rock  railroad  lines,  and  also 
making  the  towns  and  villages  off  the 
railroad,  reaching  them  by  stage  or 
hired  conveyances,  and  in  every respect 
s  a  full-fledged  drummer.  The  boy 
carries  a  dozen  different  kinds  of  soap 
and  flavoring  extracts 
in  variety,  and 
he  rattles  off  their  merits  and  prices 
ike  any  veteran  of  the  road.  His  con­
tact  with  the  world  has  not  spoiled 
u'm.  He  does  not  smoke  cigarettes, 
s  manner  is  quiet  and  gentlemanly 
nd  he 
is  not  given  to  profanity.  He 
s  strictly  business  and 
is  a  great  fa­
vorite  wherever  he  goes.

regular 

The  twenty-third  annual  meeting  of 
the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association,  for  the  election  of  officers 
and  such  other  business  as  may  come 
before  the  convention,  will  be  held  on 
Friday  morning  at 
the  Association 
headquarters  in  Detroit.

territory 

M.  G.  Wood,  who  has  covered  Cen­
tral  Michigan 
for  the  past 
twenty  years  for  various  Detroit  gro­
cery  houses,  has  severed  his  connection 
with  Lee  &  Cady  to  accept  a  m ore 
lucrative  offer  from  the  Dow  &  Snell 
Co.,  of  Toledo.  Mr.  Wood  will  con­
tinue  to  reside  in  Ypsilanti,  which  city 
has  been  his  home  for  many  years.

Tbos.  A.  Wilkinson  has  accepted  a 
position  as  traveling  salesman  for  the 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  Mr  Wilkinson 
is  well  known  to  most  of  the  trade  of 
Western  Michigan  and  needs  no  intro­
duction 
in  the  territory  which  he  for­
merly  covered  for  the  Valley  City  Mill­
ing  Co.,  for  which  he has  acted  as  trav­
eling  representative  for  the  past  seven 
years.
-  Charles  Barnes,  of  the  firm  of  M.  L. 
Clark  &  Co.,  dealers  in  clothing  and 
men  s  furnishing  goods  at  Owosso,  has 
secured  a  position  as  traveling  sales­

Kalamazoo’s  Greeting 
Carriers.

to 

the  Grip 

From the Kalamazoo Telegraph, Dec. 28.

To-day  Kalamazoo  welcomes 
the 
nights  of  the  Grip.  The  army  of 
[ichigan  commercial  travelers  is  here 
-dav  and  will  he  feasted  to-nigbt  at 
e  Academy  of  Music  banquet.
The  commercial  traveler  is  a  product 
the  nineteenth  century.  He 
is  a 
iquitous  fellow,  seen  everywhere  and 
uch 
liked.  He  has  many  homes, 
many  friends,  many  stories  and  many 
sweethearts.  He  is  a  commercial  neces­
sity  and  is  a  jolly  good  fellow.

The Knights oftheGrip”  isa form id- 
able  title,  but  smacks  of  chivalry  and 
bravery.  Their  conquests  are  for  cash, 
not  glory;  theii  victories  are  of  peace 
and  samples,  not  of  war.

Kalamazoo, 

the  handsomest 

and 
smartest  town  of  25,000  people  in  the 
land,  welcomes  the  commercial  travel­
ers  of  Michigan!

Roy  L.  Newman,  formerly  book-keep­
er  for  the  Wolverine  Soap  Co.,  of  Port 
land,  has  opened  an  office  at  19  Lyon 
street  as  the  Grand  Rapids  representa­
tive  of  the  Phoenix  Accident  and  Sick 
Benefit  Association  of  Benton  Harbor.

The  colder  the  climate  the greater the 

size of  the  human  brain.

One  of the  Little  Things  of  Business.
Stroller in Grocery World.

little 

It's  astonishing  what 

things 
mark  the  dividing  line  between  a man’s
business  success  and his  failure,  things 
little  sometimes  that  a  calculation 
so 
which  would 
include  them  would  be 
looked  on  by  the  average  business  man 
as  fol-de-rol.

It  s  bard  to  believe  that  the  mere 
matter  of  having  the  entrance  to  a  gro­
cery  store  a  step  up  from  the  sidewalk 
could  affect  its  success,  that  is  to  say 
could  turn 
it  into  a  failure  in  spite  of 
the  very  best  stock,  the  shrewdest  busi­
ness  methods,  the  most  courteous  serv­
ice,  but  there 
is  strong  reason,  never­
theless,  to  believe  that  such  is  the  case.
I  used  to  know  of  an  old  and  success­
ful  firm  of  retail  grocers  who  were  wont 
to assert  with  great  positiveness  that  no 
grocery  store  whose  entrance  was a  step 
up  from  the  street,  that  is,  where  the 
customer  was  compelled  to  take a  step 
upward  to  enter  it,  could  succeed.  At 
one  time  I  thought  this  was  stuff,  but 
1  m  not  so  sure now,  because I’ve known 
a  number  of  cases  where  grocery  stores 
who  had  a  step  up  failed,  and  where 
the  cause  of  failure,  aside  of  this  step 
business,  could  not  be  found.

These  remarks,  and  a 
•11  a 

few  others 
my  readers’  permission,
follow  them,  were  inspired  by  the 
Will 
fact  that  a  Market  street  store  has  been 
built  with  a  step  up.  Don’t  take  me  as 
even  insinuating  that  that  one  step 
is 
going  to  cause  failure.  I  use  their  step 
«imply  as  a  text.

On  the  northeast  corner  of  Tenth  and 
Market  streets  stand  two  stores.  One 
s  occupied  by  Thomas  Martindale  as  a 
grocery  store, and  the  other  has  been  oc­
cupied  for  various  purposes.  There  has 
never  been  a  merchant,  whatever  his 
latter  store,  who  has  not 
tailed  or  who  has  not  given  the  place 
up  because  of 
its  unprofitableness, 
lnere  has  never  been  a  merchant  in  the 
Martindale  store  but  who  has  made  a 
fortune.  Thomas  Martindale,  the  pres­
ent  occupant,  is  very  well  fixed,  and  he 
made  a  good  part  of  his  money  right 
there  at  Tenth  and  Market.
Now,  an  odd  fact  in  connection  with 
u  {j,story 
these  two  stores  is  that 
the  hoodooed  store—the  home  of  the 
successive  failures—has  a  step  up  and 
the  Martindale  store  has  none.

It 

I  know  another  store—a  retail  grocery 
store  up  town—which  has  been  vacant 
for  about  five  days. 
is  a  new  store, 
and  has  been  occupied  by  three  mer­
chants,  a  hardware  dealer,  a  druggist 
a^:d  latterly  a  retail  grocer.  Each  one 
of  these  has  failed  ignominiouslv.  The 
neighborhood  is  a  good  one,  the  store 
well  fitted  and  all  of  the  environments 
pparently  favorable. 
Yet  here  are 
these  three  failures,  with  nothing  to  ex- 
a'n  them  but  the  fact  that  he  who 
ishes  to  enter  the  place  has  to  mount 
one  step.  Surely,  three  business  men, 
different  lines,  would  not  have  each 
• 
business  capacity  as  to  have
iled,  in  a  well-located  store, 
three 
mes  in  succession.  What  other  wav  is 
there  to  explain  this,  then,  except  on 
the  score  of  the  step?

There 

is  a  philosophical  law  which 
has  a  strong bearing on this matter.  I’ve 
forgotten  the  exact  language,  but  it runs 
something  like  this:  “ All  bodies  travel 
the  path  of  least  resistance.’ ’  That’s 
hy  ships  beating 
in  the  face  of  the 
md  tack  from  side  to  side,  instead  of 
rectly  against  it.  This  may  solve  the 
step  problem.  We  all  have  the  elements 
laziness  in  our  composition.  A  sin- 
:  step  seems  like  a  small  thing,  but 
there  is  a  repugnance  against lifting the 
body  to  mount  it,  if  we  can  escape 
it, 
and  I  believe  that  if  there  is  anything 
in  the  step  matter,  this  rule  of  philos-
ophy  is  the  reason.

One  thing  I’m  sure  of,  and  that  is 
that  the  step  doesn’t  make  much  differ 
ence  to  the  credit  customers. 
I  don’t 
mean  that  sort  of  a  credit  customer  who 
pays  up  promptly  every  Monday  morn­
ing,  but  he  who  waits  and  waits  and 
waits  until  whole  seasons  pass  before 
paying  his  account.  That  sort  of  an 
individual  doesn’t  care a  rap  for  a step.
He  would  mount  ten flights to get  credit 
because  he  has  to.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

They  Favor  the  Torrey  Bill.

The  Milwaukee  Chamber  of  Com­
merce  has  sent  a  letter  to  all  members 
of  Congress  and  to  each  Senator  of Wis- 
consin  regarding  the  Torrey  bankruptcy 
bill.  The  Chamber  holds  that  it  is  im­
portant  to  the  welfare  of the country that 
the  Torrey  bill  should  become  a  law  as 
soon  as  possible,  and  that  its  passage 
will  materially  aid  the  restoration of the 
prosperity  of  the  nation.
The  New  York  Credit  Men’s  Associa- 
*IOj   IS  sending  a  circular  to  members 
influence  pressure  upon 
and  others  to 
Congressmen 
favor  of  the  Torrey 
in 
bankruptcy  bill. 
It  says,  among  other 
things:  “ We  ask  you,  whether  you  are 
or are  not  a  member  of  our Association, 
to  write a  letter  to  the  Congressman  of 
your  district  on  your  business  letter 
head,  urging  him  to  do  all  in  his  power 
to  forward  and  pass  the  bill.  We  should 
like  to  have  the  letter  prepared  before­
hand  and  mailed  on  Jan.  7,  1898,  be­
lieving  that  the  simultaneous expression 
of  the  needs  of  the  merchants  and 
manufacturers  of  the  country  will  have 
a  great  effect. ’ ’

The  parties  to  the  combination  of 
manufacturers  of  wire,  wire  nails  and 
allied  products  have  issued  an  official 
announcement  of  their  purpose.  They 
explain 
that  provisional  agreements 
have  been  made.  They  have  three  en­
gineers  making  examinations  of  the 
plants,  and  the  prices  of  these  will  de­
pend  on  such 
it  is 
thought  they  will  be  found  worth  the 
prices  named  for  them.  Much  of  the 
stock  of  the  new  corporation  is  to  be 
taken  by  the  parties  to  the  deal,  and 
the  balance 
is  to  be  underwritten  by 
J.  P.  Morgan  &  Co.

investigation,  but 

In  Greenland  potatoes never get larger 

than  marbles.

Cutler  House  at  Grand  Haven.

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

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A. VINCENT.  Prop.
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Rates  $1.00 to  $1.25  per  day.  Complete  Sanitary 
Improvements.  Electric  Lights.  Good  Livery 
in connection.  State Line Telephone.
Hoskins  &  Company
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Private wires:  New York, Chicago and St. Louis.
For  Two  Dollars

$

in 

A   day,  it ’ s  the  finest 
hotel 
the  State; 
new ly furnished, high- 
class  table  and 
e x ­
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Determined to continue  catering  to  popular  de­
mand for good hotel accommodations at low prices, 
we  reduce  the  rates  on  fifty  rooms  from  $3.50  to 
$3 per day, and rooms with bath from $3.50 to $3. 

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

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Drugs—Chemicals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OF  PHARMACY.
Term expires
-  Dec. 81,1897
Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
-  Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31, 1901

S. E. Parkill, Owosso 
- 
P. W. R.  Perry. Detroit 
A. C. Schumacher.  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
L. E. Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
- 

— —  
- 

- 

President, P. W. R.  Pkrby, D etroit 
Secretary, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schumacher,  Ann Arbor.

Examination  Sessions.

Detroit—Tuesday, Jan. 4 and  5.
Grand Rapids—March 1 and 2.
Star Island—June 27 and 28.
Marquette—About Sept.  1.
Lansing—Nov.  1 and 2.

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

MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. W ebber, Cadillac. 
Secretary—Chas.  Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—J ohn D. Muir, Grand Rapids.

Medicine and  Medical  Practice— No.  2. 
Written for the T radesman.

Having  a 

leisure  evening,  I  again 
called  upon  my  friend,  Dr.  James  John­
son,  reminding  him  of  his  promise  to 
further  upon  the 
enlighten  me  still 
subject  of  medicine. 
“ Yes,  yes,”  
cheerily  answered  the  gentleman;  “ 1 
will  be  pleased  to  relate  what  I  know  to 
be  true,  and,  as  you  are  yet  young,  it 
may  be  of  service  to  you  in  after  years. 
It  will,  at  least,  furnish  you  food  for 
thought,  and  as  you 
intend  studying 
medicine,  whether  you  practice  or  not, 
it  may  possess  a  financial  value.  You 
will  remember  that  I  was  relating  my 
experience  in  a  country  practice.  Well, 
it  was  far  from  what  I  desired  or  ex­
pected,  either  from  a  social or monetary 
view,  and  I  resolved  to  locate  in  a large 
city 
in  the  Far  West  where  there  was 
more wealth and the fees were larger.  To 
resolve  was  to  a ct;  and,  arriving  at  the 
end  of  my 
journey,  I  at  once  secured 
an  office  and  hung  out  my  shingle, 
which,  in 
its  simplicity,  afforded  no 
clew  to  my  school  of  practice.  My  first 
patient  was  the  result  of  a  street  fight 
opposite  my  office  and  required  some 
surgical  work,  which,  fortunately,  gave 
me  notoriety;  and  the  following  day  I 
was  honored  with  a  call  which  fairlv 
weakened  my  faith  in  all  medicine.  A 
gentleman  elegantly  and 
fashionablv 
dressed  called  upon  me,  presented  his 
card,  and,  with  a  most  courtly  bow,  re­
marked : 
‘ I  saw  your  name  in  connec­
tion  with  an  accident  yesterday  and, 
being  an  old-time  friend,  concluded  to 
call  upon  you.’  Motioning  him  to  a 
seat  I  glanced  at  his  card,  which  was  a 
very  modest  one,  and  read  the  name 
‘ Geo.  H.  Turner,  M.  D. ’  For  a  mo­
ment  I  was  fairly  dazed  and  stared  at 
the  man  as  if  in  a  dream. 
‘ You  do  not 
recognize  m e,’  said  the  stranger,  but  a 
smile  upon  his  face  and  an  extended 
hand  proved  a  revelation. 
I  instantly 
grasped  the  proffered  symbol  of  friend­
ship  and  pressed  it  warmly.  He  and  I 
had  been  schoolmates 
in  youth,  and 
when  I 
last  saw  him  years  before,  he 
was  a  master  workman  at  cabinetmak­
ing. 
I  knew  that  he  possessed  a  really 
good  high  school  education,  and  nature 
had  done  much  for  him  in  the  way  of 
polish,  but  I  never  knew  he  had  studied 
medicine  and,  later,  found  that  he  had 
‘ So  you  have  changed  your  avo­
not. 
cation?’  I 
‘ Yes,’ 
was  the  reply,  ‘ I  have  been  reading 
medicine  more  or  less  during  the  years 
since  we  lost  sight  of  each  other,  but 
was  unable  to  attend  a  medical  school, 
and  now  find that  I  do  not  have  to.  As 
a  specialist  I  have  my  full  share  of 
patients,  and  my  percentage  of  loss  is 
even  less  than  most  others.  I  never  met

ventured  to  say. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

to  be 

In  fact, 

following  strictly 

with  much  success  until  I  came  West 
and  changed  my  method  of  practice. 
I 
soon  discovered  that  the  truly  conscien­
tious  physician, 
in 
the  path  of his  alma  mater,  attains  no 
success,  compared  with  those  who  study 
human  nature  as  it  is  and  practice  ac­
cordingly. 
I  found  that  the  larger  pro­
portion  of  chronic  diseases  were  among 
the  most  ignorant  of  the  very  wealthy 
classes,  generally  residing  in  the  larger 
cities.  This  was  principally  the  result 
of  denying  themselves  the 
requisite 
number  of  hours  for  rest  and  sleep  and 
partaking  of  food without regard to  time 
or  place. 
in  delicate 
health  and  under  the  constant  care  of  a 
physician  seemed  to  be  a  fashionable 
fad,  and  I  at  one  changed  my  course  of 
action,  bowed  to  the 
inevitable,  and 
rented  a  richly  furnished  office,  em­
ployed  a  coachman,  and  advertised  as a 
“ specialist  in  chronic diseases. ”   That 
word  “ chronic.”   seemed  to  include  all 
diseases  which  were  generally  aban­
doned  or  deemed  incurable  by  the  gen­
eral  practitioner,  and  thus  a  large  field 
was  before  me.  This  departure  of  mine 
called  for 
increased  expenses,  but  my 
enlarged  fees  soon  left  a  goodly  sum  to 
my  credit. 
I  assure  you,  Dr.  Johnson, 
that  the  best  paying  patients  are  not  as 
a  rule  among  our  most 
intelligent  and 
busy  workers.  They  are busy  with both 
hands  and  brain,  and  tell  me  they  have 
no  time  to  be 
ill.  They  are  found 
among  those  who  are  uneducated  and 
who  have  by  some  lucky  windfall,  haz­
ard  of  a  die,  or  chance  speculation  sud­
denly  come  into possession  of  a  fortune. 
Once  introduced  and  acknowledged  as 
the  elite  of  fashion—the  gentler sex par­
ticularly—they  soon  become 
initiated 
into  all 
its  various  mysteries  unknown 
to  the  substratum  of  society.  Practicing 
among  this  class  of  wealthy  citizens  as 
a  specialist,  I  could  not  remain 
long 
unknown,  and  the  demand  for  my  serv­
ices  was  such  that  I  could  select  the 
patients  I  most  desired  and  those  from 
whom  the  largest  fees  could  be  consist­
ently  claimed.  One  of  my  patients 
(Case  No.  64)  was  a  Mrs.  Jones,  almost 
70 years  old,  a  widow  and  very  wealthy. 
She  was  an  extremely benevolent woman 
who,  when  able,  was  going  about  en- 
aged 
in  all  manner  of  kindly  charities 
among  the  poor;  was  illiterate,  and  had 
an 
idea  that  she  was  a  confirmed  in­
valid.  I  soon  discovered  that  a  placebo 
was  all  she  required,  and  prescribed  a 
Dleasant  mixture  to  be taken  twice  each 
dav.  At  her  request,  I  called  to  see  her 
professionally  twice  a  week,  carefully 
noting  her  pulse  and  temperature,  and 
she  invariably  had  my  tee  for  the  visit 
—S i.50—ready  for  me.  On  discharging 
her as  convalescent  at  the  expiration  of 
a  few  months,  she  remarked  seriouslv: 
“ I  feel  it  my  duty  to  say  that  you  are 
an  all  killin’ good doctor!”   “ Rather an 
ambiguous com plim ent,”   I  replied  with 
a  hearty  good-natured  laugh. 
“ A  big 
compliment,  did  you  say,  Doctor?  Well,
I  mean  what  I  say,  and  here  is  a  little 
somethin’ extra for you ;”  and she placed 
a  bank  check  for $10  in  my  bands,  re­
marking,  “ Don’t  say  a  word,  Doctor, 
it’s  none  too  much  for  you,  and  wuth  it 
all  to  me.  Should  I  be  sick  so again,  I 
shall  surely  send  for  you,  and  I  am  sure 
you  will  oblige  m e  by  com ing  at once. “
I  assured  her  that  I  was  hers  to  com­
mand  at  any  hour.  Case  No.  43  was  a 
young 
suffering 
from  chronic  indigestion.  She  had  been 
a  great  sufferer;  confined  to  the  house 
and  much  of  the  time  to  her  bed  for  the 
past  two  years  before  I was called.  Five 
or six different physicians had diagnosed

lady,  aged  14,  and 

In 

her  disease  and  prescribed  for  her;  yet 
with  only  temporary  relief.  A  majority 
of  them  could  not  agree  as  to  the  pre­
disposing  cause  of  her  illness,  as  up  to 
the  age  of  10  years  she  had  enjoyed 
good  health.  She  was much  emaciated, 
ate  food  sparingly,  wore  an  anxious, 
frightened  expression  upon  her  face,  as 
if  expecting  the  worst  to  happen  at  any 
moment. 
conversing  with  her 
mother,  I  learned  that  at  the  age  of  10 
years,  while  her  parents  resided  in  the 
country,  she  came  home  from  the  hay- 
field  one  summer afternoon,  quite  badly 
frightened,  and  said  that  while  drink­
ing  from  a  spring  she  had  swallowed 
either a  small  snake  or  lizard.  Gradual­
ly  serious  symptoms  of  disease  of  the 
stomach  developed,  and  all  the  other 
symptoms described  followed.  I avoided 
walking  in  the  footsteps  of  her  previous 
counsel,  and  at  once  agreed  with  her 
and  her  parents  that  the 
inhabitant  (?) 
of  her  stomach  must  be  given  a  sopo­
rific,  and  then  ejected  by  an  emetic. 
This  declaration  met  their  united  ap­
proval,  and  revived  the  drooping 
in­
valid,  who  pressed  my  hand  gratefully. 
A  Dover’s  powder  was  left  to  be  given 
the  patient  the  following  evening  at  6 
o’clock,  and  two  hours  afterward  I  had 
decided  to  administer the  emetic.  Up­
on  my  second  visit,  I  found  the  girl 
more  quiet  and  cheerful,  and the parents 
more  confident  of  my  skill. 
I  had  pre­
viously  ordered  that  no  food  be  given 
the  patient  that  day after her dinner,and 
requested  the  parents  to  be  present  as 
witnesses  if  any  unusual  thing  or  sub­
stance  was  ejected.  The  emetic  acted 
promptly,  and  with  a  pair  of  forceps,  I 
drew  from  the  partially  digested  food 
and  mucus  a  small  garter  snake  eight 
inches 
it  aloft.  The 
animal  was  apparently  dead,  yet  as nat­
if  sleeping.  The  girl  made  a 
ural  as 
rapid  and  permanent  recovery. 
It  is 
hardly  necessary  to  add  that  I furnished 
the  dead  snake  which  I  drew  from  the 
pail,  and  as  the  young  lady  is  now  a 
ward  of  mine,  I  can  affirm  she  is  in 
good  health  and  attending  school.’  ”  
F r a n k  A.  H o w ig.

long,  and  held 

The  Joke  Was  on  Him.

“ Och,  now! an’  phwat are iggs to-day, 
Mister  Doolan?”   asked  Paddy,  enter­
ing  the grocer’s  shop.

“ Eggs  are  eggs  to-day,”   replied  the 
shopman,  looking  triumphantly  at  two 
or  three 
lady  customers,  who  smiled 
sweetly.

“ Sure,  an’  I’m  moighty  glad  to  hear 
it !  The  last  iggs  I  had  from  here  were 
nearly  chickens.”

The  Drug  Mancet.

On  account  of  reasons  given 

last 
week—the  annual  stock  taking—there  is 
very  little  doing  in  the  Eastern  markets 
in  this  line.

Opium—This article  is  a  little  easier, 
but  with  any  demand  the  price  will 
again  advance.

Morphine,  Codeine  and  Quinine  are 

unchanged.

Borax— Is  in  a  very  firm  position  and 
higher  prices  will  probably  rule  during 
the  next  year.

Gum  Camphor— Has  declined.

One  Woman  Draws  a  Family.

It’s  a  good  point  for  clerks  to  recog­
influence  which  children  in­
nize  the 
variably  exercise  over  their parents. 
If 
a  child  comes  into  your  store,  it  is  the 
part  of  wisdom  to  be  polite  to  it  and 
endeavor  to  speedily  gain  its  good  will. 
A  woman  invariably  prefers  to  trade  at 
a  store  where  her  children  are  treated 
with  consideration,  and  one  woman  se­
cured  as  a  new  customer  by  this method 
means  a  whole  family  eventually.

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19

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—
Declined—

Acidum

4®
0®
12®
12®

Acetlcum...................t  6®8
Benzoicum, German  70®
Boracic....................  
A
Carbolicam.............  29®
Cltricum.................  
40®
3®
Hydrochlor............. 
8®
Nitrocum................ 
Oxalicum................ 
12®
Phosphorium,  dll... 
®
Salicylicum.............   60®
Sulphuricum...........  134®
Tannicum...............  1 25®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonaa.................  
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.........   ...........  2 00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80®  1  00
Red  .  ...................... 
45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Baccze.
Cube see..........po. 18  13®  15
Juníperas................ 
8®
Xanthoxyium.........  
25®  30
Balsamum
Copaiba...................   55®  60
® 2 40
Peru........................ 
Terabin, Canada__ 
45®  50
Tolutan...................  
75®  80
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 
Cassise....................  
Cinchona Flava...... 
EuonymuB atropurp 
My rica Cerífera, po. 
Prunus Virgini........ 
Quillaia,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras........po. 18 
Ulmus..  po. 15.  gr’d 
Extractum
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
Hsematox, I s ........... 
Hsematox, 44s.........  
Hsematox, 44s.........  

24®
28®
11®
13®
14®
16®

18
12
18
30
20
12
14
12
15

25
30
12
14
15 
17
15 
2 25 
75 
40 
15 
2
50
7
12®  14
18®  25
30®  35

F e rn s
Carbonate  Precip...
Citrate and Quinia..
Citrate Soluble.......
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l ......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......
F lo ra

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

F o lia

nevelly 

60®
12®
_
55®
*®
50®

Barosma..................  
23®  28
Cassia Acntifol, Tin-
.............. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol.Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, 44 s
and  44s................. 
12®  20
Ora Ursi.........   . . . .  
8®  10
G u m m l
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
@  65
Acacia.  2d  picked.. 
@  45
Acacia.  3d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
®  28
Acacia, po...............
80 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20 
14 
Aloe, Cape  ... po. 15 
12 
Aloe. Socotri.. po. 40 
30 
Ammoniac.............. 
60 
Assaf uetlda  ... po. 30
28 
Bensolnum............  
55
Catechu, Is
13
Catechu, 44s............
14 
Catechu, 44s............
16 
®42®
Camphorte 
.... 
45 
Euphorbium..po.  35  w
10
Galbanum............... 
®
1  00 70 
Gamboge  po........... 
65®
30
Gualacum......... po. 25 
eh
© 3 00 
Kino...........po. I3.u0
Mastic....................
@  60 
Myrrh............ po.  45
®  40
Opii  .  po. 84.10®4.30 3 00®  3  10
_
Shellac 
Shellac, bleached... 
40®
Tragacanth............  
50®
Herbs
Absinthium..oz.  pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetnmV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  00
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. A M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum

Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalse, Dulc....  30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00®  8 25
Antsi......................... 2 25®  2 3
Auranti  Cortex......   2 00®  2 20
Bergamii.................  2 40®  2 50
go®  go
Cajlputi................... 
Caryophylll.............  65®  7o
«w r....................... 
36®  Q5
Chenopadli.............. 
©  * 75
Clnnamonii.............  1  80®  1 90
Crtmnell» 
....  45®  59

go® 

35®  50
Conium  Mac......... 
Copaiba...................  i  io@  i  20
Cubebse......................  
90® 1 00
Bxechthitos  ...........  1  00®  1 10
Erigeron.................  1  On®  1 10
Gaultheria..............  1  50®  1 60
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
75
Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1  on®  1 10
Junipera..................  I  50®  2 00
Lavendula................  
Limonis...................   1 20@  1  40
Mentha  Piper.........  1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  sc®  1 60
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1  Ou®  1 10
Myrcia,....................   4 00® 4 50
75® 3  00
Olive..... 
........... 
Picis  Liquida.........  
10©  12
®  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
Bicina........!.........   1  03® 1  08
Rosmarini...............  
® 1  00
Rosse,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90® 1  00
Santal......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55® 
so
©  65
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
Tlglii.......................  1  40®  1  50
40®  50
Thyme 
............  
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®
13®
Bichromate.........  
50®
Bromide................... 
Carb.......................  
12®
Chlorate., po. 17@19c 
16®
Cyanide...................  35®
Iodide......................  2 60®
Potassa, Bitart, pure  2s@ 
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®
Potass Nitras........... 
7®
Prussiate.................  20®
Sulphate p o ........... 
15®

Radix

dus,  po

Aconitvm............... 
20®
Althæ......................  22®
Anchusa................. 
19®
Arum po................... 
®
CalamuB.................
12®
20®
Gentiana........po  15
Glycbrrhiza.. .pv. 15 
16®
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
.
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
15®
Inula, po................. 
15®  w
Ipecac, po............... 2  10® 2 25
Iris plox  ... po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  14s...........  @
Podophyllum, po__  22®  25
B{jei 
75®  1  00
...................... 
Rbel, cut................. 
<Sil25
Rhei.pv..................  
75®  i  æ
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
© 
Sanguinaria.  po.  15 
1
Serpeutaria
30®
Senega  .................
40®
Similax.officinaiis H
®
Smilax,  M...............
@10®
S'dllae  ............ po.35
Sympiocarpus, Fceti- 
®
Valeriana. Eng. po.30 
@15®
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a .........
12®
Zingiber j ............
25®
Semen
Anisum
po.  15
12 15 
Apium  (graveleons)
13®
Bird, Is..................
6
Carui.............po.' is
12 
10®  
Cardamon...............
25®  1  75 
Coriandrum............
8® 
10 
annabis  Sativa..!
4®  4 -4
ydonium...............  
75®  1
henopodium  ........ 
10® 
12
Dlpterix  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
FcBnlculum............   @ 
jo
7© 
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9
binl 
3®
................. 
Lini,  grd.......bbl. 3 
4®
444
Lobelia..................  
35®
4®  414
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
SS U aik::::.:::  *1|  
|
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirltus
Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti..................1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. 0. T ..  1  65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Sgt-Vlnl Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vin  Oporto....... . 
1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   @ 2 00
v elvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1  25
Extra yellow sheeps'
wool,  carriage__ 
®  1  00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  @  1  00
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 

slate  use..............  @  1  40

® 75

Syrups
Acacia.................
Auranti Cortes__
Zingiber...............
Ipecac 
........
Ferri Iod......   ....
Rhei Arom...........
Smilax Officinalis.
Senega .................
Soil l«p

1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
00 
50 
• 60 
50

50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50
60

50 
5 
50 
1  40 
15 
50 
12

<g
^

2 00

niscellaneous 

Scillse Co................. 
Tolutan................... 
Prunus virg............
Tinctures 
Aconitum N apellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida...........
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co............ .
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon........... ’,.
Cardamon  Co__
Castor......................
Catechu................. .
Cinchona................\
Cinchona Co......
Colnmba.................
Cubeba...................
Cassia  Acntifol...'"
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot.................... “
Ferri Chloridum__
Gentian..................
Gentian Co.......... .]
Guiaca................... . ’
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus.........
Iodine................... ]’
Iodine, colorless__
Kino........................
Lobelia............. * ”
Myrrh.................*” *
Nnx Vomica.........
Opii.........................
Ooii, camphorated..
Opii,  deodorized....
Quassia..................
Rhatany........
Rhei..................
Sanguinaria........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium__
Tolutan............
Valerian..............."
Veratrnm Veride 1" 
Zingiber..................
vEther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
iEther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  @ 
Alumen..................   244©
Alumen, gro’d
3®
po.
Annatto..................
ADtimoni,  po.........
4®
Antimoni etPotassT
40®
Antipyrin..............
Antifebrin 
........*
Argenti  Nitras, oz: "
10®38®1  40®  1  50
Arsenicum.  .  .........
Balm Gilead  Bud  ".
Bismuth  S.  N ...........
Calcium Chlor.,  is 
@S
Calcium chlor..  44s 
Calcium Chlor..  14s 
®
Cantharides.  Rus. po 
@
Capsici  Fructus. af.
15 15
@
Capsici Fructus,  po 
Capsici FructnsB.po 
@  P
Caryophyllns  .po.  15 
10® 
12 
Carmine, No. 40 
®  3 <10 
_
Cera Alba, S. & F 
50®
Cera  Flava.............. 
’«to®
42 
®
Coccus 
...............  
40 
Cassia Fructus......  @
33 
Ceutraria...............  
@
10
Ce tace um............[[[ 
@
60®  63
Chloroform.. 
Chloroform, squibbs  @  1  25 
Chloral H ydCrst...  1  50®  1  60
Cbondrus................  20®  25
Cinchouldine,P.& W  25®  35 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®  31
3 55® 3 75
Cocaine 
70
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
Creosotum.. 
®  35
Greta............. bbl. 75 
2
® 
Creta, prep
Creta, precip 
Creta.
i, Rubra
is®
crocus........... ;;;;;; 
®
Cudbear.............. 
Cupri Sulph........ 
5®
10®
Dextrine.................. 
Ether Sulph............ 
75®
Emery, all  numbers 
®
Emery, po........... 
@
Ergota............ po. 40  30®
Flake  White........ 
12®
Galla........................  @
Gambier.................. 
8®
Gelatin, Cooper..  .. 
©
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
Glassware, flint, box 
60
Less  than  box.... 
Glue,  brown........... 
9® 
12
13®  25
Glue,  white............  
Glycerina..................1314®  20
@
Grana  Paradisi  . 
Humulus................. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  80
Hydraag Chlor  Cor.  @ 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  90 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  00 
Hydraagünguentum  45®
Hydrargyrum.........  
®
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
65®
Indigo...................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform
® 4  20 
Lupulin...................
@ 2 25 
Lycopodium...........
45
Macis 
Liquor  Arse:; et ¿y-
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArslnlt
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl
Manuia, S.  F ...........
Menthol. 

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

©  26 
10®  
12 
a®  31
@  144 
50®  60,
© 2 78

10

,

Morphia, S.P.A W ...  2  15® 2 40 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C. C o ..................  2 15® 2 40
Moschus Canton__ 
©  40
Myristica, No. 1...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica...po.20  @  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15® 
18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
@  1  00
Picis LIq. N.N.44 gal.
doz........................
@ 2 00 
®  1  00 
Picis LIq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
@  85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
®  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22 
@  18 
Piper Alba....po.  35
@  30
Piix  Bnrgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1 10®  1  20
Pyrethrum, boxesH.
& P. D. Co., doz...
®  1  25 
Pyrethrum,  pv........
0®  33
Quassise..................
8®   10
Quinia, S. P. & W ..
35®
Quinia, S. German..
28®
Quinia, N.Y............
Rubia Tinctorum...
12®
SaccharumLactis pv 
_
18®
Salacin....................  3 00® 3 10
40®  50
Sanguis Draconls... 
Sapo,  W..................  
12®  14
Sapo, M.................... 
io@ 
12
Sapo, G....................  
© 
15
Siedlitz  Mixture 
  20  ©  22

© 
is
Sinapis.................... 
©  30
Sinapis, opt............  
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
Voes.....................  
©  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s  @  34
Soda Boras..............  8  ©  10
Soda Boras, po........  8  ®  10
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb..............  m ®  
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   344® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @  %
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
©  9 00 
Spt  MvrciaDom... 
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
® 2 40 
Spts. Vini Rect. 44bbl 
® 2 45 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @ 2 48 
Spts. Vini Reet.  5gal  @ 2 50 
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphnr,  SnbI.........   244© 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  244
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terenenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromse.........   .  42®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00©16 On
Zlnci  Sulph............  
7®  ^

Oils

, 

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

LB

42
43
70
42

Linseed, pure  raw..  38 
Linseed, boiled......  40 
Neatsfoot, winter str  66 
Spirits Turpentine..  3644 
Paints  BBL. 
1)4  2 
@4
1)4  2 
1)4  2  _
2 5   2 44@3 
244  2)4®3
13® 
15 
70® 
75 
19
1344© 13® 
16 
6 
544© 
6
544® 
70 
® 
30 
®
®  1 00
r@ 1  40 
1  00®  1  15

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.................. f.
Universal Prepared.

¡.¡Varnishes]]

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

PAINT

BRUSHES

W e  shall  display  Sample  Lines 
of a  complete  assortment of Brushes 
January  1,  1898,  consisting  of
Whitewash  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.

20

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

G R O C E R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T .

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

AXLE  OREASE.
doz. 
Aurora.................
..... 55
Castor C” ........... ......60
Diamond............. ...... 50
Frazer’s .............. ___75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75
nica, tin boxes... ...... 75
Paragon.............. .  ...55

gross 
6 00
7 00
4 00
9 00
9 00
9 00
6 00

Acme.

A b s o lu te .

BAK1NQ  POWDER.
J4 lb cans doz....................  
45
85
14 lb cans doz....................  
lb cans doz....................   1  50
1 
ii lb cans 3 doz................... 
45
75
% lb cans 3 doz................... 
lb cans 1 doz...................  1 00
1 
10
Balk.................................... 
14 lb cans per doz.............. 
75
% lb cans per doz  ............  1  20
lb cans per doz..............2  00
1 
35
K lb cans 4 doz case......... 
14 lb cans 4 doz case........  
55
90
lb cans 2 doz case  ....... 

El Purity.

Home.

Jersey Cream.

45
14 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
14 lb cans. 4 doz case____ 
85
lb cans, 2 doz case........  1  60
1 
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, rer doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  
85
14 lb cans.......................... 
45
14 lb can$......................... 
75
lb cans..........................  1  50
1 
85
1 lb. cans  ....................
BATH  BRICK.

Our Leader.

Peerless.

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

BLUING.

 

1  doz. pasteboard Boxes..
§ doz. wooden boxes..
BROOHS.
So. 1 Carpet................
No. 2 Carpet...............
No. 3 Carpet...............
No. 4 Carpet...............
Parlor Gem...............
Common Whisk.........
Fancy  Whisk..............
Warehouse.................
CANDLES.
8s...............................
16s  ..............................
Paraffine......................

CANNED  GOODS.
rianitowoc  Peas.

40
1  20
1  90
1  75
1  50
1  15
2 00
70
80
2 25

..8
..8

Lakeside Marrowfat..
95
Lakeside E.  J ..............
1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng...
1  20
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1  45
Extra Sifted Early Jane... .1  75
Colombia, 
pints......
Colombia, % pints......

CATSUP.

.2 00
.1  25

© 11%
© H%
© 11
© 12%
© 12%
© 11
© 11
© 11%
© 12
© 11
© 12%

C H E E S E
Acm e......................
Amboy....................
Byron............ .........
Elsie.......................
Gem.........................
Gold  Medal............
Herkimer................
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Lenawee.................
Riverside.................
Sparta
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden....................
Limburger..............
Pineapple.................43
Sap  8ago.................
Chicory.
Balk 
............................
...................
Red 
CHOCOLATE. 
Walter Baker & Co.

German Sweet...........
Premium................ .
Breakfast  Cocoa...........

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......  1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz.......1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz.......1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz.......1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  d o t.......1  80
Jute, 60 ft.  per  .in«............   80
Jute. 7S ft.  rx»»’  dm.. 
96

.. 

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity.................  
Pound  packages............. 
CRB An  TARTAR.

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

214
3
4

COFFEE.

Qreeu.
Rio.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican  and  Quatamala.

Fair  .......................................16
Good  .....................................17
.................................. 18
Fancy 
Maracaibo.

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

Interior..................................20
Private  Growth......................22
Mandeb ling............................ 24

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

 

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................28
Jewell's Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Mocha and Java......24
Wells’  Perfection  Java......24
Sancalbn...............   ...........23
Breakfast  B’end...............   20
Valiev Oitv Maracaibo........18%
Tdenl  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend......................12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  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
ncLaughlln’s  XXXX........ 10 50
Valley City % gross......  
75
1  15
Felix %  gross................. 
Hummel’s foil % gross... 
85
1  48
Hummel’s tin Mi  gross... 
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes 
40
 
COUdH  DROPS.

Extract.

 

C. B  Brand.

40 5 cent packages........... 

I  00

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz in case.

Gall Borden  Eagle..................6 75
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion................................4 50
Magnolia 
4 25
....................  
Challenge  ............................3 35
Dime 
...........................3  35

COUPON  BOOKS.

jHHi^o58i

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.... 11  50
1.000 books, any denom....20 00

Economic  Grade.

. i i i w a h i
Universal Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from CIO 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...........................  C 25
500 books............................10 00
1000 books............................17 50
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ......   5  00
2000, any one denom’n ...... ,8 00
Steel punch.......................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOriESTIC 
Snndrled.......................   © 5*
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  8%
Apricots.....................  7%@8%
Blackberries...............
Nectarines........ ........  © 7M
Peaches.......................  8  © 8%
Pears..........................   8  © 7%
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  ©  3%
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  ©  4
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   @4%
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.......  © 5
60-70 25 lb boxes.........   ©5%
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  © 7%
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  © 8J4
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
14 cent less In 50 lb cases 

California  Prunes.

California  Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

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

1  60 
2 00
4 
5V4 
6% 

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Grits.

Farina.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Patras bbls...................... @ 6%
Vostlzzas 50 lb cases.......© 6%
Cleaned, bulk  ................. ©8
Cleaned, packages..........© 8%
Citron American 10 lb bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ©12 
Ondnra 28 lb boxes.. .*.. 8  ©  8%
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 3 Crown.........   ©11
Sultana 4 Crown..........  ©
4nltzm*  5 Crown....... .  ©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  ©12
Sultana package.........   ©14
FARINACEOUS  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, 501b.  drams.........1  00
Dried L im a.......................  
Medium Hand Picked__  90
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box....... 2 50
Common...........................  2 40
Chester............................  2 50
E m pire............................  2  75
Green,  bu...........................  85
Split,  per lb........................  
2
Rolled Avena,  bbl........3 75
Monarch,  bbl.................. 3 50
Monarch,  %  bbl..............1  95
Private brands,  bbl......
Private brands, %bbl......
Quaker, cases.  ................3 20
Huron, cases....................l  75
German...........................   3%
East  India.......................... 
3
3%
Cracked, bulk................... 
94 2 lb packages................2 to

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Beans.

Sago.

Peas.

3

Fish.
Cod.

Herring.

Halibut.

riackerel.

Georges cured............  @4%
Georges genuine........  @5%
Georges selected........  ©614
Strips or bricks.........   5  ©  7%
Chunks.  ..........................  
10
Strips................................
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoop % bbl  5 50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
72 
Holland white hoop mens 
80
Norwegian.......................   11  Oil
Round 100 lbs...................  3 40
Round  40 lbs...................  1  60
Scaled...............................  
15
Mess 100 lbs......................  16 00
Mess  40 lbs.....................  6 70
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  75
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  43
No. 1 100 lbs......................  14  50
No. 1  40 lbs......................  6  10
No. 1  10 lbs......................  160
No. 1  8 lbs......................  130
No. 2 100 lbs........................10 00
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 30
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  15
96
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
Russian kegs....................  
56
No. 1100 lbs......................  4  50
No. 1  *.• lbs......................  2  10
No. 1  101bB...................... 
60
51
No. 1  81ba...................... 
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 75  5 00  2 50
40 lbs..........   3 00  2 30  1  30
10 lbs........... 
40
8 lbs........... 
35
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Whlteflah.

Sardinia.

Trout.

83 
69 

65 
55 

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
2 oz.......1  20 
3 oz.........1  50 
4 oz.........2 00 
6 oz.........3 JO 
4 00 
No.  8 
No. 10. 
.6 00 No. 10...4  00
No. 
2 T.l 25 
No. 
3 T.2 00 
4 T.2 40 
No 

D. C. Lemon
2 oz___   75
3 oz....... 1  00
4 oz....... 1  40
6 oz.......2 00
No. 8  . .2 40
No. 2 T.  80
No. 3 T.l  35
No.  4 T.l  5o
Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Souders’.
in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz....... 1  20
4 oz....... 2 40

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

S ouders
F lavoring  j

s § ?

.DAYTON  ~

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
Kegs 
.................................. 4  00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs...................  ..1  85
1 lb. cahs........ 
..................  30
% 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 26
lib . cans..............................  46

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

JELLY.

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

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

Krant.

15 lb  palls............................   40
30 lb  palls............................   73
Barrels.................................3 50
Half barrels.........................2 25
Condensed, 2  dot  ..............1  20
Condensed. 4  dos.............. 2 25

LYE.

LICORICB.

Pure......................................  30
Calabria..............................  25
Sicily....................................  14
Root......................................  10

MINCB MBAT.

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

HATCHES.

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

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

11
Black................................ 
F air..................................  
14
Good................................. 
20
Fancy  .............................. 
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

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216......................  1  70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
65
Cob, No. 3..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s............................  4 00
Penna Salt  Co.’s................  3 00

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

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

PICKLES.
riedlum.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head__ ...............   6%
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4%
Broken...............................   3Ji
Japan,  No. 1......................
Japan.  No. 2 .............  
 
Java, fancy  head..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  5
TaWe  ................................   5%

Imported.

  5%

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. in  box.

Church’s ............................. 8 SC
Deiand’s ............................. 3  15
Dwight’s .............................3 30
Taylor’s...............................3 00

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

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
Batter, 56 lb  bags................  60
Butter, 20  14 lb bags...........3 00
Butter, 280 lb  bbls..............2 50
100 3 lb sacks....................... 1  70
605-lb sacks.......................1  55
28 10-lb sacks..................... 1  45
50  4 
lb. cartons.............. 3 25
115  2%lb. sacks.................. 4 00
lb. sacks..................3 75
60  5 
22 14 
lb. sacks................ 3  50
3010 
lb. sacks..................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk in barrels....................2 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Granulated Fine.................   77
Medium  Fine......................   86

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar  Rock.
Common.

Warsaw.

SAL SODA.

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

SBBDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3
Caraway........................... 
8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery.................................  11
Hemp,  Russian................  3u
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4%
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  .............................. 
8%
Rape.................................  4%
Cuttle Bone........................  20

SNUFF.

Scotch, In bladders..............   87
Maccabov, 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
JUS.  8.  KIRK  I  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 54 lb..................3 00
Kirkoline.................................. 3 75
Eos.....................................  3  65
One  box  American  Family 
free with five.
Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand. 
‘^acmas>^Aa£T

UbS^vauHnW

f

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. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..2 75 
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars....3  75
Uno, 100 3s£-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 10010-oz.  bars.............2 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  5%
Kegs, English......................  444

S P IC E S .
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ...........................  10
Cassia, China in mats........  12
Cassia, Batavia in band__ 22
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 82
Cloves, Amboyna................ 10
Cloves, Zanzibar.................  9
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy...................60.
Nutmegs, No.  1................... 50
Nutmegs, No.  2.......... 
  45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .10 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12 
Pepper,  shot........................ 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. .18
Mustard, Trieste..................20
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white............15
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage...................................... 15

STARCH.

KIngsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................  0m

Kingston!'* Silver  Gloss.
40 1-lb packages...................634
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.................   454
401 lb. packages.................   4u
20 lb. boxes..........................  4
401b. boxes..........................  35^

Common Glosa.

1-lb  packages......................  4*4
3-lb  packages......................  434
6-lb  packages.....................   434
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3
Barrels  ...............................  234

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Cut  Loaf.......................... ..5 88
Domino.......................
..5 75
Cubes.............................
.5  44
Powdered  .................
..5 44
XXXX  Powdered............ ..5 50
Mould  A.......................... ..5 50
Granulated in bbls........... ..5 25
Granulated in  bags.........
.5 25
Fine Granulated.............. ..5 25
Extra Fine Granulated...
.5 38
Extra Coarse Granulated. .5 38
Diamond Confec.  A........
.5 25
Confec. Standard A.........
.5  13
No.  1.........................
.4  8j
No  2.......................
.4 88
No.  3..........................
4  81
No.  4......................
.4 75
No.  5................
.4 63
No.  6....................
No.  7.......................
.4 50
No.  8............
.4 44
No.  9..........................
.4 38
No.  10...................
.4 31
No.  11....................
.4 25
No.  12..........................  
No.  13....................................... 4 13
No.  14.................................  4 06
No.  15........................................4 00
No.  16....................................... 3 94

 

 

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

W1CKINO.

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

Fish and  Oysters

9

Per lb. 
<&
-
©

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

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

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tj 
e
Oysters in Cans.

9
12
1*3418

Oyster*  in  Bulk

F. H. Counts...........  @1  75
Extra Selects.........   @1  50
Seiects. 
................  @1  25
Anchor Standards..  @110
St.ndards...............   @1  uo
Uam s......................  @1 25

Shell  Goods.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@l  50
rtp
G ams,  per  100 

. 

Hides  and  Pelts.

lows:

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

  7  @ g

Hide*.
Green...................  
Part  cured.................  @  834
Full Cured.................  8M@  9m
g j y ...............................9  @11
Kips,  green.................  7  @ 8
4 19
£ 1i?’J?ured............... 8*@  9*
Calfskins,  green........  734@  9
Calfskins, cured........83i@io
Deaconskins  .............25  @30

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................   ie
Half  bbls............................ is

Pare Cano.

Pair  ..................................   16
Good..................................   20
Choice...............................   25

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & Perrin’s,  large..... 4  75
Lea & Perrin’s, small..... 2  75
Halford,  large................3  75
Halford small...................2 25
Salad Dressing, large..... 4  55
Salad Dressing, small..... 2  66

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick........................ 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

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

8- C. W...............................33 00

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 

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

Pelt*.

Shearlings...............  
g@  30
£?“ bs ......................  40@  1  10
Old  Wool.................  60@  1  25

Fur*.

Mink.........................  50@  1 30
goon 
......................   30@  90
Skunk.......................  50@  1 00
Muskrats, fall........... 
g@ 
12
Muskrats, spring......  @
Muskrats, w inter__  12@ 
10
Re«1 Fox...................1  25®  1  50
Gray Fox..................  40®  70
Cross Fox  ................2 5°® 5 00
Badger......................  20®  60
Cat, W ild............ 
15®  40
Cat, House...............   10®  aO
Fisher........................3 50® 7 00
Lynx... 
....1  or® 2 00
Martin, Dark.............1  50® 3 00
Martin, Yellow.......  75©  1 50
Otter.......................... 5 oo® 9 00
Wolf........................   75®  i 50
Bear.........................7 00@15 00
Beaver....................... 2 00®  6 00
Beaver Castors.........  @  8 00
Opossum..................  
5®  15
Deerskin, dry, per lb.  15® 25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb. 
10®  15

Wool.

Washed 
..................14
Unwashed.................17
niscellaneou*.

@23
@17

Tallow .......................   234® 3m
Grease Butter............   1  @ 2
Switches  ...................  i 34@ 2
Ginseng......................  @3 gg

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

VINEGAR.
Malt White Wine...... 
7
Pure  Cider.................... 777.  8

Washing Powder.

Candies.
Stick  Candy.
. 

. 

bbls.  pails

„ 
Standard.................  634®  7
Standard H.  H____  0*4® 7
Standard Twist......  6  @ 8
Cut Loaf................. 
Jumbo, 321b  ...
Extra H. H......
Boston  Cream.

@
cases 
@ 634 
@ «Vi 
©

® 6 
@ 7 
@ 734 
@ 7*4 
© 854 
© 834 
@ 834 
© 8 
© 834 
© 834 
@10 @13

@  834 
@ 834@14 
@11 @ 6 
@ 8 
@ 834 
@ 834 

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

@30
@45

@4  00 
@3 00 
@3 00 
@3 75

@3 25 
@3 25 
@3 75 
@4 00

@1  50 
@2  00

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

@ 8
@ 6
@ 6
@ 434

Wheat.

Wheat.................................  87

Winter  Wheat Flour. 

Local Brands.
Patents.......................  
5 50
Second  Patent........7 7 " "   5 00
Straight............................  4 go
g,e*r ....................................    40
Graham  ................. ........   4 ^
Buckwheat......... .............4 ¡¡5
B£e u - -- v :................. 3 so
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 34s........................  4  65
Quaker, 34s........................  4  65
Quaker, 34s........................   4  55
Guard, Fairfield & Co.’s Brand.
Whole Wheat 116s............  5 20

■Spring  Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  5 65
Pillsbury s Best Ms...........  5 55
oHis£ury,s Best ^ s ...........  5 45
Pillsbury s Best 34s paper..  5  45 
Fills bury s Best ¿4s paper..  5 45 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, Ms...........5 55
Grand Republic, Ms..  . 
5  *5
Grand Republic, 34s...........5  35
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms......  
s  <k
Gold Medal m s.: : : : : : :  .
Gold Medal Vis.... 
*  5 45
Parisian,  Ms............. .7.7.'.' 5 65
Parisian, Me.......................... 55
Parisian. 34s.......................  g  45

Oiney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, Ms......................   5 55
Ceresota, Ms......................  5 45
Ceresota, 34s......................  5 35
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms........... 
k ==
  5  .5
Laurel, Ms.................. 
Laurel, Ms........................... 5 35
Meal.
Bolted.................
Granulated ....II 111.1711 
Feed and Millstuffs 

1  75
2  00
St. Car Feed, screened . r.  14 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats.........13 00
Lnbolted Corn Meal......... 12 go
Winter Wheat  Bran......... 12 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 13 00 
Screenings..........................  qq
The  O.  E.  Brown  Mill  Co. 
quotes as follows:

New Corn.

Car  lots.. . . . . . . . . 3 1 3 4
Less than  car lots:.’.'.".777  33 
Car  lots............................  25
Carlots, clip p ed ......I:::.  28
Less than  car lots...... 77.  30

Oats.

Hay.

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

Crackers.

.

t

7

o

. 

Soda.

Oyster.

asfollows:  BiSCnU  C°*  qa0tes
_ 
Butter.
«
Seymour XXX............. 
1«
! S “ g g \ 316- 
I K ’S ' . 3.!“.0“ “ ;;  « •
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  634
„ 
Soda  XXX  ...................... 
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton....  734 
Soda,  City...
zephyrette.
 
Long Island Wafers.... 
11 
L. L Wafers, 1 lb carton  .:  12 
_ 
Square Oyster, XXX.........   6
Sq. Oys. XXX, l  lb carton  7 
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  10
Bent’s Cold Water.... 
13
Belle Rose................... 7 7   8
Cocoauut Taffy...... 7 7 7 ’  9
Coffee Cakes....77’.” ' 
834
Frosted Honey..............  *  jg7*
Graham Crackers___77.’  8
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla............  
g
Imperials.......................... *  834
Jumbles,  Honey...........77  11
Molasses Cakes...........  ” ’  3
Marshmallow  ...........7’7”.  15
Marshmallow  Creams'.___ 16
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......  834
Pretzelettes, Little German  634
o  2
Sugar  Cake........... 
Sultanas....................... 77. 12
Sears’Lunch...7 7 7 7 . 
734
Vanilla  Square__.... 
aii-
1 1*
Vanilla  Wafers........ 
Pecan Wafers................. 
151/
Mixed Picnic.....................  10H
Cream Jumbles........... 
\ \ y
Boston Ginger  Nuts..... 77  .834
Chimmie Fadden..............  fi)
Pineapple Glace.......  
ib
Penny Cakes....................   '  334
Marshmallow  Walnut*....  ib
Belle Isle Picnic................  11

Boxes.

Mixed Candv.

Competition............
Standard......
Conserve...............,"
Royal..............
Ribbon......   ...........’
Broken...............7
Cut Loaf...........7 7
English Rock........'
Kindergarten..  . 
French  Cream....’
Dandy Pan..............
Valley Cream.........

Fancy-in Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........
Choc.  Monumental»
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops__
Sour Drops...........7
Imperials..........j"  ’
Fancy—In  5  lb.

Lemon Drops......
Sour  Drops......77
Peppermint Drops.'
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops.........
Licorice I)rops.7 7 .
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain..
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials..............
Mottoes...........
Cream Bar..........."
Molasses Bar  .7 7 7
Hand Made Creams.  80 
Plain  Creams... 
00 
Decorated Creams
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...’ " 1  25 
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramel*.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes...................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  ib.
boxes...............
No. 2 wrapped, 2  ibl 
boxes........

Fruits.
Oranges. 
Mexicans  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... 1  25 
Large bunches........1  75

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

Choice, 10lb boxes..
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy, 12 lb  boxes.
Fancy, 50 lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 61b boxes.. 
Naturals,  in  bags...
Date*.

Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in  60 lb  cases 
Persians, H. M. B.,60
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases__

Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @12
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @n
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............  
¡ai3
Brazils new...............  
-  -
@ 9 
Filberts  ....................
@10 
Walnuts, G renobles i 
@13 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1 
@ 1 1
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@10 
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@12 
Table Nuts,  choice...
@10 
Pecans, Med......
@ 8 
Pecans, Ex. Large.77
@10
Pecans, J umbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bn.,
Ohio, new...............
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 

Peanut*.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................
Choice, H. P., Extras.
Choice, H. p.,  Extras,
Roasted  .................

@1 75 
@4  50

@  634
@  634 @ 4
© 534

Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

follows:

8 50 
11  00
9  50 
9  50 
14  UO
8  OO
9  50

9
8M
8M
7^
j5
6M

9

j j

4
834 
M 
M 
M 
34 
ik 
%

634

Barreled Pork.

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

Dry Salt  Meats.

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

Smoked neats.

Hams, 12 lb average___ 
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 16 lb  average...... 
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
Ham dried b eef........ 
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
Bacon,  clear...........734@»34
California hams..... 
g&
Boneless hams................... 
Cooked  ham................ 

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound.........................  
Kettle.
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
10  Pails..........advance
8 lb Palls..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance

Sausage*.

Bologna
Liver........
Frankfort.
P o rk ........
Blood  __
Tongue
Head  cheese...........7 .7  

Beef.

Extra  Mess..............
Boneless  ............. 7 7
Rump....................7.7
Pigs’ Feet.

.  9  00 
.12 25 
.12 50

Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
80
M  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  go
34  bbls, 80 lbs............... .  2 80

Tripe.

Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
75
M  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  40
34  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 75

Casing*.

P ork............................... 
ig
Beef  rounds................... 
414
Beef  middles...................7. 77 10
Sheep................. ..........' 
g0

Butterine.

Rolls,  dairy................... 
Solid, dairy..............7 7  
Rolls,  creamery............  
Solid,  creamery............  

10
934
14
1334

Canned  Meats.

Corned  beef,  2 l b ........2  10
Corned  beef, 14 lb...........14 00
Roast,  beef,  2 lb............2 10
60
Potted  ham,  m».......  
Potted  ham,  34s..........  1 00
60
Deviled ham,  Ms.......  
Deviled ham, 
34s.......   100
Potted  tongue Ms.........  
60
Potted  tongue 34s..........   1 00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

34® 734

Carcass......................53,
Forequarters...... 7 7   5  @6
Hind  quarters...........  7  @  9
Loins  No.  3............... 9
1*1 US.................
.  8  @12
Rounds........
-  6%@  7
Chucks__
-  4  @ 5
Plates  ...........

Pork.

Dressed........
Loins........
Shoulders...........
Leaf Lard........

@ 4
@  5 

•  534®

Mutton.
Carcass...................
Spring Lambs........7 .  6  @  7 
.  8  @  9

Veal.
Carcass  ............

.  6  @  8

Oils.

Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @1134
W W Michigan...........  @ 8
Diamond White.........  @  7
D., 8. Gas.......................   @ 8
Deo. N aptha..............  @734
Cylinder................... 25  @36
E ngine-...................a   @21
B ack, winter.............  @  8

2 1

Crockery and

Glassware.

Butter*.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
34 gal., per doz.................  go
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
534
8 gal., per g a l.................  634
10gal., per gal............. 
634
12 gal., per gal..................   634
la gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

2 to 6 gal., per gal......... ... 
534
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churn*.

Milkpans.

34 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. fiat or rd. hot., each  534 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

34 gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  534 

Stewpans.

34 gal. fireproof, ball, do*.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz..................  40
34 gal., per doz..................  go
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   634

Jugs.

Tomato Jug*.

34 gal., per doz.................   70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for 34 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
34 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. In package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun..........................   45
No.  1  Sun..........................  
go
No.  2  Sun..........................    7g
Tubular.............................  
50
65
Security, No. 1............ 77. 
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ............................  
go
Climax...............................  1  go
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common. 
_  
Fer box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun............  
j  7g
No.  1  Sun.........................[  1  88
No.  2  Sun.................................2 70

 

 

First  Quality.

No.  0 Sun, 
No. 
1 Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

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

crimp  top,
crimp  top,
crimp  top,

XXX Plint.

No.  0 Sun, 
No. 
1 Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

crimp  top,
wrapped and labeled__   2 55
orimp  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 Lames...........
80

La  Bastie.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................
1  25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per 
doz
....................  1 50
„   P P  
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  3g
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Can*.

No. 1, Lime  (66c doz)........  3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c do*)___  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 go
No.  0 Tubular..................   4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount__  7 00
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,

each, box 10 cents...........  45
each, box 15  cents.........   45
each, bbl 351....................   40
cases 1 doz. each............   1 25
No. 0 per gross.................  20
No. 1 per gross................... 
25
No. 2 per gross  .................   38
No. 3 per gross...................  gs
Mammoth............ .  ..... 
70

LAMP  WICKS.

LANTERNS.

22

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware

The  Display  and  Care  of  Goods. 

W ritte n   fo r th e T r ad esm an.

Among  the  unmanageable  articles  of 
the  hardware  stock  may  be  classed  the 
various  sizes  of  crosscut  saws.  On  ac­
count  of  the  sharp  teeth  great  care  must 
be  exercised 
in  handling  these  goods, 
and  when  a  quantity  are  kept  where 
they  are  allowed  to  rest  against  each 
other  the  problem  of  removing  the  one 
required  without  receiving  injury  from 
it  or  from  the  others  is  one  of  consid­
erable  difficulty.  There  is  shown  in  the 
illustration  an  arrangement  which 
is

are  placd  in  a  tier  one  above  another. 
On  the  floor 
in  front  is  a  3-foot  rule, 
made  by  driving brass-headed tacks into 
the  floor,  so  in  cutting  off the  cloth  it  is 
I not  necessary  to  use  a  pocket  rule  or 
yard  stick.  The  edge  of  the  cloth  is al­
ways  true,  being  cut  level  with  the  box. 
The  annoyance  of  having  wire  cloth  un­
roll  and  loosen  up  as  soon  as  the  orig­
inal  fastenings  are  broken  is  entirely 
overcome  by  this  plan  of  handling  it.

Another  unpleasant  and  unsightly 
material,  but  one  which  needs  to  be 
accessible,  is  rope  in  its  various  kinds 
and  sizes.  Perhaps  the  best  arrange­

C R O SSC U T   SAW  CA SE.

perhaps  as  simple  and  inexpensive  as 
any  and  which  serves  the  purpose 
effectually.  The  side  pieces  of  the case 
are  of  wood  y%  inch  thick  and  the  case 
is  7  inches  wide at  the  base.  The  width 
at  the  top  is  4  inches,  the  case  standing 
against  the  wall.  As  shown,  it  accom­
modates  12  each  of  6  foot  and  5 
foot 
saws,  and  of  course  the  same  principle 
may  be  applied  to  other  sizes.  Saws 
are  inserted  top  first  into  slots  back  of 
the  top  board,  part  of  which  is  broken 
away  in  the cut to show the construction. 
They  are  thus  kept  from  falling forward 
and  are  easily  and  quickly  removed  as 
desired.

Another  refractory  material  to  deal 
with  is  wire  cloth  in rolls.  The simplest 
contrivance  for  the  management  of  this 
fabric  consists  of  a  box  the  sides  of 
which  are  slotted,  and  a  bearing  stick— 
a  sawed-off  fork  handle— is 
inserted, 
while  a  stick  is  passed  through  the  cen­
ter of  the  roll,  upon  which  the  cloth  re­
volves. 
The  bearing  stick  bears  up 
against  the  cloth,  being  held  snug  by  a 
spiral  spring  hooked  over  each  end  and 
extending  to  the  axis  stick  of  the  roll. 
This  arrangement  entirely  overcomes

WIRE  CLOTH  BOX.

the  loosening  of  the  roll  and  makes  the 
cloth  much  nicer  to handle.  The  boxes I

ment  is  the  one  shown,  which  is  in  use 
in  many  places.  The  rope  is  kept in the 
cellar  on  a  shelf  next  to  the  wail  and 
under  that  portion  of  the  store  where 
it 
is  sold.  The  ends  of  the  different  sizes 
of  rope  are  drawn  through  the  floor  be­
hind  the  counter,  an  arrangement which 
has  the  advantage  that  all  sizes  can  be 
exhibited  to  the  customer and  the  de­
sired  size  measured  off  and  delivered 
without  encumbering  the  store  room 
with  the  stock.  When  the  rope  is  not 
it  will  be  seen  by  the  cut 
being  §pld 
that  a  knot 
is  tied  in  the  end,  which
rests  on  the  floor.  The  rope  should  be 
taken  from  the  center  of  the  coil,  to 
prevent  it  from  becoming  kinked  or 
tangled. 

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

The  Loss  of  Self-Respect.

Deacon In Furniture News.

On  the  train  one  evening  last  week  I 
noticed  opposite  me  two  girls  evidently 
sisters.  The  younger,  perhaps  ten  years 
old,  sat  in  the  seat,  but  the  other  squat­
ted  on  a  grape  basket  at  her  feet  with 
her  face  to  the  wall.  Both  had  a  kind 
of  hunted,  guilty 
look  like  that  of  the 
little  girls  you  see  gathering  stuff  in 
baskets from  the  garbage  barrels  in  the 
city.  As  the  conductor  came  down  the 
aisle  taking  tickets,  I  saw  by  their 
furtive  looks  that  the  older  one  was  try­
ing  to  dodge  paying  her  fare.  After 
the  conductor  had  gone  by  she  rose  and 
sat  in  the  seat,  having  grown  about four 
years 
I  remember 
once  seeing  a  mother  jam  her  thirteen- 
year-old  boy  onto  a  handbag on  the  car- 
floor,  pull  off  his  hat  and  convert  him 
into  a  ten-year-old  for  the  inspection  of 
the  conductor.

in  size  by  the  act. 

If  the  railroad  companies  had  lost  as 
much  by  such  deceptions  as  do  the 
in­
dividuals  who  practice  them  they  would 
all  have  gone  into  the  hands  of  receiv­
ers  long  ago.  No  person  can  afford  to 
lie,  even  to  a  railroad  company.  He 
may  swindle  the  company  out  of  a  few 
dollars  and  some  cents,  but  he  cheats 
himself  out  of  more  self-respect  than  a 
large  block  of  railroad  stock  will  pay 
for.

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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.

Detroit  Flexible  Door  Mats.
STANDARD  SIZES

16 x 24 in.  20 x  30 in.  24 x 36  in.

Retail for  $1.00 upwards.
A n y  dimension  to  order.

Made of Flat Wire.  The Latest and Best.

Supplied by all jobbers and  the mfrs.

W rite for prices.

67-85  East Fort Street, Detroit, Mich.

THE  DETROIT SAFE COMPANY,
Page  mire  Door  mats

N E A T   D U R A B L E  

C H E A P

Housekeepers insist on 
having them.  Agents 
wanted.

€. €. Ifletcalf, District Rgt.,

Grand  Rapids.

14  w .  Bridge St, 

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P age  Fence  Headquarters.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Organization  a  Universal  Panacea  for 

Trade  Evils.

Ante Lucem In American Artisan.«

I  wish  there  was  not  a  department 
store  in  existence  nor  a  single  easy pay­
ment  bouse  in  the  whole  country.  They 
are  a  menace  to  the  retail  business  and 
but  a  stepping  stone  to  the  centraliza­
tion  of  wealth. 
It  will,  however,  take 
time  to  educate  the  people,  and  he  who 
thinks  more  of  his  country  than  his  sor­
did  selfish 
interest  should  aid  in  the 
work  by  not  s e llin g s   or  encouraging 
that  class  of  business.

A  manager  for  a  stove  house  asked 
me  how  it  was  that  only  two  stove  man­
ufacturers  were  exempt  from  the  North­
western  black 
list.  This  I  could  not 
tell  him,  but  I  could  prove  to  him  that 
one  of  the exempted  companies boasts of 
a  large  clientage  from department stores 
in  certain  states  of  the  Union.

I  do  not  know  what  action  the Minne­
sota  Hardware  Association  will  take  on 
stove  selling  to  furniture  houses,  but 
think  nothing  beyond  an  effort to induce 
a  scale  of  higher  prices.  Prison-mad 
stoves  and  the  commissioning  of  stoves 
will  no  doubt  come up for consideration, 
but  the  chap  who  expects  to  increase 
his  business  because  his  house  doesn’t 
sell  that  class  (furniture and department 
stores)  will  have  a  lot  of  things  to  clear 
up.  The  chap  who 
is  going  to  move 
D6EV6Q  3nd  earth  because  some  manu 
facturers  see  fit  to  sell  furniture  houses 
will  have  a  heap  of  trouble  getting 
around  the  fact  his  house  prefers  to  sell 
a  large  Chicago  department  store  rather 
than  to  sell  fifty  or  sixty  regular  hard 
ware  dealers  in  the  same  city.  Gentle 
men,  just  see  that  there  are  no  ditches 
the  other  side  of  the  hedge  before  leap 
ing.
ii 
reference  to  the  retail  hardware associa 
idea  that  such 
tions,  he  advanced  the 
organizations  should  also  be  bureaus  of 
information  on  subjects  concerning  the 
hardware  trade. 
is  practically 
one  of  the  objects to  be accomplished  so 
soon  as  perfected  organizations  can  be 
had.

In  conversation  with  a  dealer 

That 

The  associations  are  not going  to  dis 
cuss  maufacturers,  their goods  andbusi 
ness  in  detail,  but  they  will  assume  to 
keep  abreast  of  the  times,  and  on  all 
important  measures  affecting  the  best 
interests  of  their  membership,  advise 
They  also  expect  from  their  member 
ship  a  reporting  of  current  events  in 
their  own  transactions  with  manufac­
turer  and wholesaler beneficial  to  all  the 
membership.

It 

is  through  this  interchange  the  as­
sociation  expects  in  a  reasonable  time 
to  do  a  good  work.  For  details  and 
many  things  the dealer  must  consult  bis 
trade  papers,  scan  the  market  reports, 
advertisements  and  news  items.  When 
a  dealer  tells  me  he  doesn’t have time to 
read  the  trade  papers,  I  think  he  has 
put  fifty  good  dolllars  behind  him never 
again  to  see  it.

A  question  oft  propounded 

is,  where 
do  the  cataloguers  get  their  supplies 
I  am  no  soothsayer,  don’t  know 
from? 
all  that 
is  to  be,  but  pre­
is,  was,  or 
sume  there  are  some 
in  the  wholesale 
hardware  trade  that  you  can’t  most  al­
ways  tell  about.  The  domain  of  our 
Uncle  Samuel 
is  wide,  and  there  are 
others  and  others,  holes  and  holes  upon 
holes  in  the  skimmer.

But,  gentlemen,  do  not  concern  your­
selves  so  much  about  that  at  present  as 
how  you  are  to  reach  the  consumer  di­
rect,  get  onto  his  curves,  line  up  along­
side  of  him,  and  cement  that  bond  of 
friendship  that  should  be  a  union  of  his 
business 
interests  with  your  own.  Get 
in  touch  with  him  and  constantly  keep 
in  touch,  make  things  pleasant  for  his 
coming,  make  efforts  to 
improve  his 
home  market,  make  cash  prices  to  him 
(®r  his  cash)  and  show  him  you  can 
sell  as 
low  as  any  one,  saving  freight, 
delays,breakage and giving the privilege 
of  thorough  inspection  before  buying.
In  the  larger  towns  adopt  the  Rochester 
idea  for  the  benefit  of  his  coming  to 
town.

I  met  a  farmer  a  few  days  ago  (often 
meet  them)  and  in  a  twenty-minute talk 
he  said  he  knew  it  was  wrong,  ill  treat­
ment  to  the  home  dealer,  detrimental 
to  the  town,  country  and  community,

and  he  could  give  no good  reason  why 
the  farmer  should  send  bis  ready  cash 
from  home  for  distribution  and  at  last 
admitted  that  for  cash  he  could  always 
buy  as  cheaply  at  home.  He  also  told 
me  that 
in  his  home  town  the  dealers 
had  lately  made  some  efforts  (with  sue 
cess)  to  improve  the  home  market.

United  efforts  in  every town will bring 
good  beneficial  changes to local  consum 
ers.  Gentlemen,  get  in  line  with  your 
trade  organizations.  Gel  your  neighbor 
who  is  in  some  other  branch  of  busi­
ness  to 
line  up  with  his  fellows,  get 
into  home  co-operation  among  your 
selves,  study  the  questions,  and  from 
their  analysis  the  solution  will  be  clear, 
and  the  great  bugbears—department 
stores  and  catalogue  houses— will  dis­
appear,  because  you  will  have  absorbed 
their  business  in  part,  and  unitedly  wi 
have  convinced  the  manufacturer  and 
wholesaler  their  best  interests  and  the 
best 
interests  of  all  commercial  trans 
actions  are  better  conserved  through 
legitimate  channels.  The time spent  11 
wonderment  of  what  someone  else  is do 
ing  is  so  much  time  lost.  The  soldier 
acts  and  acts  promptly. 
Aggression 
wins  out.  Procrastination  never  won 
race  or  brilliant  success  at  anything.

Cut  vs.  Wire  Nails.
course 

In  the  course  of  an  extended  com
JB._____
of  the  virtues  of  cut  and  wire 
n  the  Age of  Steel,  Joseph  Parker

parison
nails
says:

ingress 

There  are  three  kinds  of  nails  to  be 
considered,  viz.,  the  wire  nail,  the  iron 
cut  nail  and  the  steel  cut  nail. 
If  the 
wire  nail  is  easy  to  drive,  it is  also  easy 
to  draw,  having 
less  grip  than  either 
of  the  others,  being  so  smooth,  with  so 
short  a  point.  The 
is  not  so 
It  is  therefore  somewhat  dis 
gradual. 
astrous  to  cherry,  mahogany,  vermil 
lion, 
in  fact,  any  hard  grain  wood 
hence  there  are  quite  a  number  wasted 
or  rejected,  particularly  in  small  sizes 
which,  if  not  perfect,  will  glance  off 
hardwood  and  deface the surface;  hence 
it  is  a  common  practice  to  use  wax  or a 
prepared  grease  in  order to drive freely 
if  not,  it  frequently  bends  or  splits  the 
wood.  For  packing  box  work,  furni­
ture  and  such  like  purposes  it  is  much 
used  with  satisfaction,  but  it  lacks  the 
adhesion  so  essential  in  heavy  and  sub 
stantial  work.

iL 
The  iron  cut  nail  is  good  for  holt 
soft  or  hard  wood.  Will  travel  right 
if 
perfect;  if  not,  will  turn  and  become 
very  difficult  to  draw. 
In  green  oak 
and  other  unseasoned  wood,  particularly 
if  exposed  to  moisture,  it  will  rust  and 
swell,  bursting  the  fiber. 
It  is  good  for 
flooring  and  house  work,  and  is  used  in 
contract  car  shops  on  account  of  its 
grip.  But  the  good  points  of  this  nail 
are  also  applicable  to  the  steel  cut  nail, 
which  is  preferable  because  of 
its  re­
liable  qualities,  being  pliable,  strong, 
clean,  even  more  difficult  to  draw  than 
the  iron  n ail;  it  cuts  its  way  with 
less 
displacement,  owing  to  sharper  and 
cleaner  edges,  and 
is  easier  to  drive; 
in  fact,  it  is  the  most  satisfactory  nail 
for  all  purposes,  particularly  for  heavy 
joinery,  ship  work,  dock  yards,  pier 
work,  elevators,  bridge  and 
trestle 
work,  etc.

The  Busy  Merchant.

The  successful  merchant  wastes  no 
time.  He 
is  the  busiest  of  the  busy. 
He  knows  the  condition  of  every  de­
partment  of  his  store,  whether  sales  are 
increasing  or  falling  off.  He  rights  the 
wrongs  with  dispatch.  He  is  thorough­
ly  posted  on  his  trade and  the  prevail­
ing  conditions  of  the  country.  He  con­
siders  the  rights  of  his  customers  as 
well  as  his  own.  He  knows  how  to get 
trade  and  how  to  keep  it.  Considering 
the  many  duties  of  the  merchant,  who 
will  deny  that  he  is  a  busy  man?

Made  a  Difference.

"T he 

" I t ’s  a  swindle,”   she  said. 
dea  of  charging  $4  for  that!”
"Under  the  circumstances,  madam,”  
returned  the  floorwalker,  who  had  been 
attracted  to  the  spot,  "w e  will  make  it 
$3.99  to  you.”
4 " A h !”  she  said,  producing  her purse, 
‘ that’s  more  like  it. ”

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUOURS AND  BITS

Snell’s......................... 
70
‘25*10 
Jennings’, genuine  ..'/.".'.".'.V.'.’*.’.‘. " ” ‘
Jennings’, Imitation.................................... 60&10

AXES

Klret Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................  
s  no
9 50
1 irst Quality, D. B. Bronze........ 
First Quality, S. B. S: Steel......................  5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel............................  10 50

BARROWS

BOLTS

Stove.......................  
Carriage new list......... 70 to 75
Plow.

60&10
50

Well,  plain.

BUCKBTS
.......................................$ 3 25

BUTTS,  CAST

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

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

BLOCKS

Cast Steel.

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

CROW  BARS
....................  

CAPS

.. 

..per lb 

...perm  
...per m 
...perm  
...perm

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire............................... 
Central  Fire................................ I” * *

rn

70

4

65

CHISELS

.
Socket Firmer.......................................... 
Socket Framing...................**” *""* 
1
an
Socket Comer.......................... 
 
 
Socket  Slicks......................................................80

 

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

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ELBOWS

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

EXPANSIVE.B1TS

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26~............. 
30&10
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30.................................... 25

FILES—New  List

New American...........................................   70&10
Nicholsons............................................. 
70
HeUer’s Horse Rasps............'.".eC&iO
GALVANIZED  IRON 
Nos. 16 to 20; 22 and 24; 25 and 26;  27 
16
List  12  13 

14 

15 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

GAUGES

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

KNOBS—New List

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

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................$16 00, dis 60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00, dis 60*10
Hunts......................................... $18 50, dis 20*10

NAILS

 

 

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire

Steel nails, base................................  
j'gg
Wire nails, base....................................!!.'.!!  1  75
20to 60advance.................................!!’!!.'" Base
10 to 16 advance..................................................05
8 advance.......................................................... 10
6advance......................................  
20
4 advance................  
 
30
3 advance..........................................................45
2 advance..........................................................70
Fine 3 advance................................................... 50
Casing 10 advance.............................................. 15
Casing  8advance..............................................25
Casing  6 advance.......................... 
35
Finish 10 advance.....................................  ” 
35
inish  8 advance...............................................35
 
inish  0 advance............................... 
45
Barrel % advance...............................................35

 
 

 

 

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s............................  
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies!.’ 1 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry *  Clark’s................ 
Coffee, Enterprise........................................ 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.....................................   60*10
Stebbin’s Genuine................................. *” 160*10
Enterprise, self-measuring.................  
30

PLANES
...... ....... ...................... 

Ohio Tool Co. ’s.  fancy. 
....................   @50
Sciota Bench.
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy........................   @50
Bench, firstquality.......................................  @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............. 
60
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Fry, Acme .............................................. 60*10*10
70*  5
Common, polished.................................. 
Iron and  T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs..................................... 60

RIVETS

PANS

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 V4c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list......................dis  33*.
Kip’s  ......................................................  
05
Yerkes *  Plumb’s........................ .".'. .".".'. dis tO&lO
Mason’s 8olid Cast Steel.................. 30c li«u 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid cast Steel Hand 30c 11a .40*19

 

HOUSE  FURNISHING  OOODS

HINGES

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware....................  
20*10
Granite Iron Ware........................ new iist 40*10
HOLLOW  WARB
_  ^ 

WIRE  GOODS

..................................................................00*1
Spiders......................................................... 60*10
Clark’8> 1. 2, 3................................ dis 60*10
8tale......................................... per doz. net  2 50
_ 
Bright................................................ 
Q0
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Screw Eyes......................... 
Hook’s.................................................................«o
Gate Hooks and Eyes......................!.!!!!!! 
80
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s................ dis 
70
m 
Sisal, y* inch and  larger..........  
514
Manilla 
Manilla
Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels 
M itre...............

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

SQUARES

LEVELS

ROPES

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SHEET  IRON

 

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WIRB

TRAPS

SAND  PAPER
SASH  WEIGHTS

com. smooth,  com.
•w». 
....$2 70 
Nos. 10to 14................ 
$2 40
Nos. 15 to 17............... 
2 70 
 
2 40
Nos. 18 to 21............................ 
2 80 
2 45
NOS. 22 to 24.............................;.  3 00 
2 55
Nos. &> to 26..................................  3 10 
2 66
No.  27......... .........................  3 20 
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 
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 M arket.........................................70*  1 n
Tinned Market................................. '.'.'.I'.'."
Coppered Spring  Steel.................... . . . . . . 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..............!!!!.’ 
o in
Barbed  Fence,  painted...................I  80
,  o  , , 
HORSE NAILS
An Sable............................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam.... ................  ... 
dis 5
Northwestern.................................... ” "dla 10*10
WRENCHES
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled. 
30 
Coe’s Genuine.
50 
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought' 
80 
Coe’s Patent, malleable....................
80
MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages...........................................  
50
Pumps, Cistern........................... 80
Screws, New List........................... og
Casters, Bed and Plate.................50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
50
600 pound casks.............................. 
«w
Perpound..........................................................6K

METALS—Zinc

^ 

SOLDER

$4@Vi............................................................  1214
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  varv 
according to composition.
TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................  
14x201C, Charcoal................................ 
20x14 IX. Charcoal................................ 
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.
10x14 IC, Charcoal.................................. 
14x20 IC, Charcoal.............................. 
10x14 IX, Charcoal.................................  
14x20 IX, Charcoal.................................... 
Each additional X on this grade, $f.50. 

TIN—Allaway Grade

*5 75
 
 

 
 

 

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..................................  5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean ........................ 
600
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean........... 
10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade......... .".  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...........5 50
20x28 1C, 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 Pound... 

BOILER  SIZE TIN PLATB 

9

5 «
7

c no
 
« m
 
  a qq

5 qq

Write for prices. 

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The  United  States  and  China.

The  condition  of  things  recently  de­
in  China  has  caused  all  the 
veloped 
leading  commercial  nations  to  review 
the  relations  existing  between  them  and 
the  great  Oriental  empire.  They  are 
all  asking  themselves  how  they  will  be 
affected  by  the  proposed  dividing  up 
of  that  vast  country.  The  United  States 
has 
in  China  second  only  to 
those  of  Great  Britain,  and  greatly 
superior  to  those  of  either  Russia  and 
Germany,  and  yet  the  latter  two  powers 
have  already 
inaugurated  the  work  of 
annexing  portions  of  China.

interests 

Our  puDlic  men,  and  the  great  ma­
jority  of  our journals, take  it  for granted 
that  we  should  pursue  our  traditional 
Is  this  a 
policy  of  non-interference. 
wise  course  to  follow  in  the  present 
in­
stance,  however?  Having  greater  inter­
ests  in  China  than  most  of the European 
countries,  why  have  we  not  as  good  a 
interfere  in  Chinese  affairs  as 
right  to 
any  of  them? 
It  will  be  admitted  that 
we  have  every  right  to  protect  our 
im­
mense  Chinese  trade;  and  were  that  in­
terfered  with,  Congress  and  the  Presi­
dent  would  not  hesitate  to  take  all 
proper  steps  to  act  promptly.  And  yet 
the  dividing  up  of  China  by  Russia, 
Germany,  France  and  other  European 
countries  would  not  only  interfere  with 
our  trade  with  that  part  of  the  world, 
but  absolutely  destroy  it.

It 

is  to  the 

interest  of  the  United 
States  that  China  should  remain  free 
from  European  domination. 
Should 
any  of  the  European  powers,  and  par­
ticularly  the  continental  powers,  annex 
portions  of  China,  they  would  promptly 
shut  out  American  trade  by  prohibitive 
duties.  Why  not, 
therefore,  protest 
against  the  course  of  Germany and Rus­
sia?  Considering  the  great 
interests 
this  country  has  in  China,  not  only  in 
the  volume  of  our  trade  with  that  coun­
try,  but  also  in  the  number  of  our  citi­
zens  residing  there,  we  should  have  a 
voice  in  negotiations  which  are  sure  to 
grow  out  of  attempts  to  annex  Chinese 
territory.  Next  to  Great  Britain,  the 
United  States  enjoys  the  largest  trade 
with  China,  and  more  of  our  people  re­
side  there  than  those  of  any  other 
nationality  but  the  British.

It  is  reported  that  Great  Britain  and 
Japan  propose  protesting  against  any 
attempt  to  dismember  the  Chinese  Em­
pire.  Why  should  not  the  United  States 
join 
in  such  a  protest?  That  would 
involve  no  formal  alliances  with  any­
body,  nor  even  a  threat  of  armed  inter­
vention.  Such  a  course  would  be  amply 
justified  by  our great  trade  interests.
F rank  Sto w ell.

The  Grain  Market.

ic 

The  visible 

Owing  to  the  manipulation  of  De­
cember  wheat  by  the  Chicago  clique, 
the  market  dragged  along  during  the 
entire  week,  closing  about 
lower, 
while  the  May  option 
is  about  ic  up 
from  one  week  ago.  There  have  been 
more  cash  deliveries  and  Chicago  now 
holds  about  8,000,000  bushels  of  con­
tract  wheat. 
increased
1,062,000  bushels,  being  about  double 
the  amount  expected. 
The  world’s 
shipments  were  of  good  size  and our ex­
ports  seem  to  keep  up  remarkably  well. 
It  is  certainly  strange  that  our  visible 
continues  to  increase  while  the  exports 
are  so  large.  Last  year  our  visible  de­
creased  about  800,000  bushels.  How­
ever,  we  may  expect  the  receipts  to  de­
crease  as  December  draws  to a  close. 
Europe  expects  that  the  United  States 
will  have  to  furnish  about  4,000,000 
.bushels  weekly  for  about  sixteen  weeks

yet,  and  by  that  time  the  Argentine 
wheat  will  be  available.  Should we  ex­
port  anywhere  near  that  much,the  ques­
tion  arises  (as  we  have  asked  before), 
Where  is  the  wheat  to  come  from  after 
about  April?

Taking  the  time  of  the  year  into  con­
sideration,  the  demand  for  flour  is  very 
good.  Mill  feed  has  made  another  ad­
vance  and  is in excellent demand—more 
so  than  usual.  This  is  probably  due  to 
the  large  amount  of  dairy  farming.

Corn  made  a  slight  advance,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  the  visible  showed  a 
decrease  instead  of  an  increase.

Oats  are  getting 

into  a  very  strong 
position  and  we  would  not  be  surprised 
to  see  much  higher  prices 
for  that 
cereal.

The  receipts  were  moderate,  being 
only  47  cars  of  wheat,  9  cars  of  corn 
and  7  cars  of  oats.

Local  millers  are  paying  87c 

for 

wheat. 
Profit-Sharing  Plan  of Jordan,  Marsh 

C.  G.  A. V oigt.

&  Co.

The  first  profit-sharing  plan  to  be 
adopted  in  Boston has been  promulgated 
by  Jordan,  Marsh  &  Co.,  the  biggest 
department  store  in  Boston.  The  plan 
is  to  allow  every  employe  1  per  cent,  of 
his  individual  sales  in  addition  to  bis 
regular  salary.  The  announcement  to 
this  effect  was  greeted  with  cheers  and 
loud  demonstrations  of  approval  by  all 
the  employes.  The  managers  said  that 
they  determined  to  adopt  the  plan  in 
order  to  give  their  employes  an  addi­
tional 
incentive  to  make  sales  and  to 
work  in  the  interest  of  the  firm.

New  Bank  at  Ithaca.

Ithaca,  Dec.  28—The  Ithaca  Bank­
ing  Co.  will  begin  business  Jan.  15  in 
the  building  formerly  occupied  by  the 
First  National  Bank,  which  went  into 
insolvency  several  months  ago.  The 
company  is  composed  of  Pontiac  capi­
tal,  comprising  as  its  members  W.  G. 
Hinman,  President  of 
the  Pontiac 
National  Bank ;  John  J.  Pellett,  Teller 
of  the  same  bank,  and  D.  H.  Power, 
Cashier of  the  Oakland  County  Savings 
Bank.  Mr.  Pellett  will  remove  to 
Ithaca  and  be  the  Cashier  of  the  new 
bank.

For  many  years  the  sawdust  dumped 
into  the  Ottawa  River  from the sawmills 
along  the  banks  has  been  a  serious 
nuisance. 
It  is  now  proposed  to  abate 
it  completely,  and  at  the  same  time  to 
start  up  a  profitable  industry,  by  using 
the  sawdust  in  the  manufacture  of  cal­
cium  carbide,  the substance  from  which 
acetylene  gas  is  made. 
It  is  even  pre­
dicted  that  eventually  dredges  will  be 
employed  to  reclaim  the  enormous  de­
posits  of  sawdust  at  the  bottom  of  the 
river.

The  exportation  of  raw  cotton  from 
the  Southern  States  to  Japan  by  way  of 
Pacific  coast  ports  is  practically  double 
what  it  was  last  season.  According  to 
the  figures  of  the  Southern  Pacific  Com­
pany,  there  are  at  present  in  San  Fran­
cisco  15,000  bales  of  cotton  awaiting 
shipment  to Japan.  There are not steam­
ers  enough  in  the  Pacific  mail  service 
to  prevent  a  congestion  of  this and other 
westbound  Oriental  freight.

Burdett  Bruce  and  Ira  Cleveland,  un­
der  the  style  of  Bruce  &  Cleveland, 
have  embarked  in  the  grocery  business 
at  Wallin.  The  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

Mancelona—C.  F.  Ackley  is  erecting 
a  new  saw  and  planing  mill  at  this 
place.  He 
is  also  building  a  handle 
factory  in  Rapid  River  township.

There  are  thirty-two  cities  in  Austria 

with  populations  exceeding  20,000.

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 
2 ; cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINE5 5   CHANCES.

457

455

_________________ 
auent;on — An  opportunity 

i|X)K  SALE  OK  KENT—STORE  BUILDING, 
30x70 feet,  fixtures  on  ground  floor,  good­
paying  opera  house  above,  dwelling  rooms, 
barns  and  ice  house  in  rear,  adapted  to  any 
kind  of  business.  Store  fitted  with  electric 
lights.  G.  K  Coffey, Whi e Cloud  Mich 
U'OK  SALE  FUKNJTURn  AND  UNDER- 
-f  taking  business;  an  excellent  opportunity 
to  secure an  old established  business.  Reason 
for  selling,  rheumatism.  Small  capital  re­
quired; 
terms  easy.  Address  U.  E.  Singer, 
Hillsdale, Mich. 
45g
f pOR SALE—ON ACCOUNT OF OTHER Busi­
ness, only dental office in  locality  of  40,000 
people.  Addies» 109 Bostwick  St.,  Grand  Hap
ids. 
456
TqlRATERNAL  INSURANCE  ORGANIZERS 
to  organize 
“Fraternal insurance without  the  lodge ”  The 
New  Era  Life  Association  of  Grand  Rapids, 
Mich., has accomplished this,  and  practical  or­
ganizers now in  the  field  are  having  splendid 
success.  Two district organizers and local  rep­
resentatives  wanted.  Apply  C.  D.  Sharrow, 
General Manager. 
\ 1 7 ANTED — EVERT  YOUNG  MAN  AND 
**  young  woman  desiring  improvement  in 
Business Arithmetic to send for  circular of  the 
School of Correspondence and  Business  Arith­
metic.  Address A.  S.  Parrish,  1U9  Ottawa  St., 
Grand Rapids.  Mich. 
A  GOOD  DRUG  RUSiNESs  FOR  SALE; 
jl\ .  $3,000 in  stock  and  fixtures.  Must change 
climate on account of health.  Address Dollars
cme Michigan Tradesman._____  
446
W T  ANTED —A  GOOD  FLOURING  MILL, 
b<.st location in the State; also good plan 
ing  mill.  Address  F.  Salisbury,  Middleton 
Mich. 
447
IpOR SALE—DRUG STOCK  FOR CASH,  GNE- 
third Its teal value. Addre-sCopperas, care
Michigan  Tradesman. 
450
H ouse  an d  l o t,  w e l l  r e n t e d .  40 
acre  farm,  land  contract;  first mortgage 
well secured and $2,000 to $5,000 cash  for a good 
exclusive or general  stock.  Invest'gate.  Wm. 
Fagan,  Manistee, Mich. 
I  HAVE  A  PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR 
general  stock.  Must  be  a  bargain.  I  have 
buyers for any line of  merchandise.  W. H. Gil­
bert, 109 Ottawa St.. Grand Rapids. 
440
|jX)R  SALE—IN  ONE  OF  THE  BEST  BUSI- 
X1  ness towns in Northern Michigan, my entire 
‘tock of groceries;  onlv grocery  store  in  Petos- 
key doing a strictly cash business.  Good reasons 
for selling.  For  particulars write to J.  Welling 
& Co., Pe.oskev, Mich. 

__________ 

453

441

451

73

443

381

402

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

tp O   RENT—FOR  LIGHT  MANUFACTURING 
1   purposes;  two-story building, 28x78, with  20 
to so horse power;  electric lights; side track and 
two railroad  connections;  Chicago line of boats 
| daily for six months in the j ear; located in best 
town in northern  Michigan:  timber of all kinds 
to be had;  low tent.  Address box 126. Petoskey, 
Mich. 
V lf ANTED—BUTTER  AND  EGGS.  IF  YOU 
t »  want good prices and quick  returns  w  ite 
us.  Lunn & Strong, Toledo, Ohio. 
VVT ANTED —FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
»» 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
§DOK  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
J?  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
F'RKE-OUR  n e w   hand bo o k  on  PAT- 
ents.  Ciiley  &  A'lgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
339
’117'ANTED — POSITION  »IN  NORTHERN 
vv  Michigan in  wholesale  or  retail  grocery 
or meat business.  Six  years’  experience;  first- 
class  references.  Address  No.  454,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
\ \ T  ANTED  —  POSITION 
IN  NORTHERN 
TV  Mich  gan  by  registered  pharmacist  hav­
ing  twelve  years’  experience.  Correspondence 
solicited.  Good  references  furnisned  L.  J. 
Snafer,  31 Calkins Ave., Grand Rapids. 
Y\7ANTED  SITUATION  -  PH.  G.  KEGIS- 
T v 
tered  in  Michigan desires  situation  by 
Jan. 1.  Three  years  of  city  experience.  First- 
class references.  Address No. 453, care Michigan 
Tradtsman. 
VITANTED—POSITION  IN  WHOLESALE  OR 
Tv  retail  groceiy  or  (yockery  business  by 
side  man  of  eight  years’  experience.  Address 
No. 436  care Michigan Tradesman_____ 

MISCELLANEOUS.

4*9

436

452

454

The  Profit

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

Exclusive Agency

for  Kent,  Allegan 
and  Ottawa  coun­
ties  of 
the  cele­
brated

Buffington 
Acetylene 
Gas  Machine

in 

light 

The best and cheap­
est 
the 
world.  Estimates 
furnished  and  con­
tracts  taken.  This 
machine is  endors­
ed  by  the  Board  of 
Underwriters  and  is 
the  most  complete 
and simplest in the 
market. 
Satisfac­
guaranteed. 
tion 
Write 
for  further 
information.

Sproul  &  McGurrin, 184  E.  Pulton  St.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Travelers* Time  Tables.

CANADIAN

DETROIT **raBd 

* Western.

doing to Detroit.

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

Returning from  Detroit.

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

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

Gao.  D k H a v b n ,  General Pass. Agent.

r i n   4  \ j n   Trunk Railway Syitem

I v / a l   v I ß   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In  effect  October 3,  1897.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am..Saginaw,  Detroit and  E ast..t 9:55pm
tl0:10am........Detroit  and  East..........t 5:07pm
t  3:30pm..Saginaw,  Detroit and  East..tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am 
* 7:00am....Gd. Haven  and  InL Pts....*10:15nm 
112:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm
t  5:12pm— Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi 
tlO:05am
tlO :00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

•Dally. 

WEST

E. H .  H u s h e s , A. G. P. & T. A. 
B e e .  F l e t c h e r ,  Trav. Pass. Agt., 
J a b .  C a m p b e l l ,  City Pass. Agent, 
No. 23 Monroe St

Begin tDe«
Dew year Right

äfid 

d^

Shake off the

D ra jg in j  Chains

o f Credit

E A S T   BOUND.

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

W EST  BOUND.

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

DULUTH,

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)tll:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace.........................  9:0 »am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............  12:20pm  9:5Ppm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:  0pm
Ar. Nestoria.................. 
5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth............................................. 
8:30am

 

EA ST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth............................................  
t6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............................ tU:15am  2:45am
Ar.  Marquette.......................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm 
..
8:40pm  11:00am
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 
G. W.  H i b b a r d ,  Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass  Agt., Grand Rapids

T R A V E L

V IA

F .  &   P .  M .  R .  R .

CHICAGO and West Michigan R'y

Dec.  1,1897.

A N D   S T E A M S H IP   L IN E 8  

T O   A LL  P O IN T S   IN   M IC H IG A N

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

Are You Going

South?
Then make
the trip over the famous 
Queen  &  Crescent  Route. 
Historic and scenic country 
en  route, vestibuled trains 
that have no equal 
in the South, and  the 
shortest journey possible.
You save a hundred  miles of 
travel to the most  important 
Southern cities via the 
Queen  &  Crescent.
W rite for information to
W .  C.  Rinearson,  Gen*l  Pass*r A gent,
Cincinnati,  O.
Send 10 cents for fine A rt Colored Lith ­
ograph  of  Lookout  Mountain  and 
Chickamauga.

WHOLE  WHEAT  FLOUR

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

doing to Chicago.

Returning  from  Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............... 8:45am  1:25pm *ll:30pn
Ar.  Chicago.................. 3:10pm 6:50pm  6:40an
Lv.Chicago.................7:20am  5:15pm *U:30pn
Ar.G’dRapids............1:25pm  10:35pm  * 6:20an
Lv. G’d  Rapids..............................1:25pm  6:25pn
Ar.  G’d Rapids..............  1:25pm..........  10:25a r
Lv. G’d  Rapids.........................  7:30am  5:>iUpm
Ar. Traverse  City  ...................  12:40pm  11:10pm
Ar.  Charlevoix.....................  
3:15pm............
Ar.  Petoskey..........................   3:45pm............

Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.

Muskegon.

PA RLO R  AND  8L X B P IN S   CABS.  CHICASO.

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 
p m.

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

Parlor  car  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:30  a  m 
G e o .  D e H a v b n ,  General Pass. Agent

Others week days only.

•Every  day. 

GRAND Rapids  k  Indian* Railway

Dec. 5,  1897

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrlvi 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey <* Mack., .t 2  15pm  t  6 35am
Cadillac...... ...........................f 5:25pm til :15am
Train leaving at 7:46 a. m  has  parlor car, and 
train  eaving at 2:15 p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  A r r lV '
Cincinnati................................t 7:10am t  8:25po
Ft. Wayne................................ t  2:10pm t  2-OOpt
Cincinnati................................* 7-0opm  * 7:25-u
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Clnctnnst' 
2:l'i p. m.  train  has o«rior  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m. train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

S O U S   W EST.

LvG’d  Rapids............ t7:35am  tl:00pm t5:40p*
ArMuskegou..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:G5rm
Lv Muskegon............. t8:10am  tll:45am  t4 OTpi
ArG’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5 21pn
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

tExcept Sunday.  »Dally

s o m e   E AST.

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

MINNEAPOLIS,SL

W EST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I )..................+7:45am
Lv  Mackinaw City.............  
4:20pm
Ar. Gladstone............................................  9:5"pm
Ar. >t.  Paul.................................................8:45am
Ar. Minneapolis 
......................................9:30am
EA ST  BOUND.

Lv. Minneapolis.....................................   to:30pm
Ar. St. Paul.............................................   7:20pm
Ar. Gladstone.................. ...................   .  5:45am
Ar. Mackinaw City.................................  11:0  am
Ar. Grand Rapids.................... 
10:00pm
W  R. Calla wat. Gen. Pasa Agt., Minneapolis. 
E. C. Ovlatt, Trav. Pass.  Agt., Grand  Rapids.

 

 

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

E very  grocer should have it in stock. 

Manufactured  b y __

GUARD,  FAIRFIELD  k  CO.,  Ailegaa,  Mich.

M ichigan trade supplied by the 

Olney &  Judson  Grocer Co., Grand Rapids.

by abandoning the time-cursed credit system, 
with its losses and  annoyance,  and  substitut­
ing therefor the

dt  Coupon  Book  System

which  enables  the  merchant  to  place  his 
credit transactions  on  a  cash  basis.  Among 
the  manifest advantages  of  the  coupon  book Jjg 
plan are the following:

No  Forgotten  Charge.
No  Poor  Accounts.
No  Book-keeping.
No  Disputing  of  Accounts.
No  Overrunning  of  Accounts.
No  Loss  of  Time.
No  Chance  for  Misunderstanding.

We are glad at  any  time  to  send  a  full  line 
of sample books to any one applying for them.

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Is there  a  merchant  in  this  land,
W ho  does  not  need  a  helping- hand? 
Statistics  show but ten  per cent.
Of Grocery men  on  business bent 
Have ever made the thing a go 
On  scales where  losses  would  not  show.

To use the  oldest scales  invented 
And  close  your  store  at  night  contented, 
And wonder why  with every year,
A   bare  living only you  can  clear,
W ill  always  keep you  mystified 
Until 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   Y O U .  M AY  WE  S E N D   T H E M ?

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,

DAYTON, OHIO.

P ortrait  C alendars

W e  have  lately  p la c e d o n th e   market  a 
line  o f  portrait  calendars  which  we  t  link 
superior  in  many  respects  to  the  colored 
calendars  so  long  in  use,  in  that  the  cus­
tomer  who  h an .s  up  a  calendar  with  the 
merchant’s  portrait  thereon  w ill  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-ply  coated  litho. 
cardboard,  with  portrait  of  merchant,  or 
his clerks, or his fam ily  at  top  of  card and 
large monthly calendar  pads  wire  stitched 
to lower portion of card,  samples  of  which 
w ill cheerfullv  be sent on application.

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

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

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

tradesman Company

Grand  Rapids.

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Is superior to all others for  Simplicity,  A ccuracy  and  Finish.  So  say thousands  of 
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I f  not  using  one 
for our new catalogue.

Stimpson  Com puting  Scale  Cov

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Elkhart,  Ind.

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

