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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  2,  1898.

Number  754

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ing business.  We  have  attained  special  distinction  in 
such construction.  We invite enquiry from school boards.

GRAND  RAPIDS. MICH.

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WHY  NOT  T R Y   THEM  NOW?

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So  OIGARS

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

SOLD  BY  ALL JO B B E R S .

G RAN D   R A PID S.  MICH.

"   Tis not in nature to command success, but we’ll do more.  Sempronius,  w e'll deserve it.' 

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” 10J?. or  iff®  d^guised  in  their nature and artificial in their effects.  Mustard, on the con­
trary,  strengthens  the  natural  tone of the stomach,  increases the flow of the gastric juice, and 
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It is probably on account of this power of giving 
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years  used  mustard  as  a  medium of purifying the blood in skin diseases and similar ailments. 
have made quite a study of mustard, its proper preparation and the
qual‘,t,es-, ° .ur llne,of mustards is quite complete, and each and all will be

found to be so put up and packed as to last for  years in perfect condition

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NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Offic« and Works, BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

ORAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Bulk.works’at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac,  Big  Rap­
ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington,  Allegan 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart’ 
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Are  You 
In  Earnest

about  wanting  to  lay  your  business 
propositions  before  the  retail  mer­
chants of  Michigan  and  Northern  In­
diana? 
If you really  are,  here is your 
opportunity.  The

Michigan  Tradesman

devotes all its  time  and  efforts  to cater­
ing  to  the  wants  of  that  class. 
It 
doesn’t  go  everywhere,  because  there 
are  not  merchants  at ever}'  crossroads. 
It has a bona fide paid circulation.  Has 
just  what  it  claims,  and  claims  just 
It  is  a  good  advertising 
what  it has. 
for  the  general  advertiser. 
medium 
We’ll  make 
it  better  right  along. 
Sample  and  rates  on  request.

Grand  Rapids.

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

A  M O D EL  C R E A M E R Y   OF T H E   TR U E  S Y S T E M

True  Dairy Supply Company,

30 3  to  309  Lock  Street,

Syracu se,  N ew   York.

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

R.  E .  STU R G IS,  General  M anager of  W estern  Office,  A llegan,  nich.

For Kent, Allegan and Ottawa 
counties of the celebrated

Buffington

Acetylene  Gas  Machine

The best and  cheapest  light in 
the  world.  Estimates 
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Endorsed  by  the  Board  of  Un­
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and  simplest  in  the  market. 
Satisfaction  guaranteed.  Write 
for further information.

Sproul  &  McGurrin,

184  E. Fulton Street, Grand Rapids, Mich.

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

“Lily White” Flour

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

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Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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The  Leader  of  all  Bond  Papers

Made from New Rag Stock,
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from  Adulteration, 
Perfectly Sized,  Long  Fiber

Magna Charta 

Bond

A paper that will withstand 
the ravages of Time.

Carried  in  stock  in  all  the 
standard sizes and weights by
TRADESMAN  COMPANY

Manufacturer's Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Having added a Folding Box and Printing Department to our Regular Box Factory, occupying 
two floors in addition to  our  already  large  establishment,  we  are  prepared  to  make  Folding 
Boxes,  printed or plain, of every description, including tuck end bottle cartons for extracts,  toilet 
articles  and  family  medicines.  We  also  make  a  specialty  of cartons for cereals, dried fruits, 
mince meats, crackers, bakers51 sweet  goods,  candies,  cigar  clippings,  etc.  We  make  Folding 
Boxes with tuck ends, lock ends, or square ends, and of all kinds of stock, from plain strawboara 
to the finest enameled folding box boards in all colors.
Our  facilities  for  box  ana  bottle  labels  are  unexcelled.  We  make  a  specialty  of  gold  leaf 
work, embossing and all kinds of odd-shaped label work.
\\ rite  us  for  samples  and  prices.  We  will  guarantee  first-class  work,  save  you  excessive 
freight  charges  and  fill  orders  in  less  time  than  is  ordinarily  taken by  Folding Box Manufac­
turers in the  East.  Address

GRAND  RAPIDS  PAPER  BOX  CO.,

81,  83  &  85  Campau  St.,  Grand  Rapids, Mich.

I.  A.  M U RPH Y, General Manager. 

He  piicnigan  pimqtiie Agency

F LO W ER S,  M A Y  &  M O l.O N EY, Counsel

Special  Reports. 

Law  and  Collections.

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

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

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

THE  EUREKA

THfPINGREE’

The “ EUREKA”   for  1898.  With  Improved  Tube and 
‘‘Stud”  Lock.  As the tube is largest at the bottom, perfectly 
round  all  the way  down,  and  free  from  obstructing bolt  or 
rivet heads,  it cannot clog, and as the  “ Stud”  Lock  relieves 
all tension on  the front jaw,  it cannot pick  up  the seed.

The “ E U R E K A ” is 20 per  cent, faster  in  light  or  mel­

low soil  than any Stick  Handle  Planter made.

The  “ PINGREE,”   with  “ Stud”  lock.  "  The  handiest 
best  finished  and  most  durable  Stick  Handle  Planter  on 
the  market.

The  “ E U R E K A ”  and  the  “ P IN G R E E "  are  the only 
Hand  Potato  Planters with  Self-Locking jaws  or  adjustable 
depth gauge.  As  the  jaws  lock  automatically  the  instant 
the Planter is raised free  from  the ground, the potato cannot 
drop through, nor can  it force the jaws apart so as to  permit 
the earth to enter between them and thus  crowd  the seed to 
the  surface as the beak  enters the ground.

Every  tool warranted to work perfectly.

GREENVILLE PLANTER CO., Sole Mfrs., Greenville, Mich.

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Number  754

PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

O F  D E TR O IT,  M IC H IG A N .

O U T  OF  SEASON.

Epicurean  Demands Supplied by  Home 

Enterprise.

Commenced  Business September i,  1S93.

 

Insurance in  force..................................... $2,746,000.00
104,000.00
Net Increase during  1S97........... 
 
32,738.49
Net Assets................................................. 
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid................  
None
Other  Liabilities...................................... 
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Total  Death  Losses  Paid to Date......... 
40061.00
Total Guarantee  Deposits  Paid to Ben­
812.00
eficiaries................................................... 
Death Losses  Paid During  1897........... 
17,000.00
Death Rate for 1S97.................................. 
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Cost  per 1,000 at age 30 during  1S97__  
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Grand Rapids,  from  Saturday,  March  i7st 
until  Wednesday,  March  23d.

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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.

It 

If  our  grandfathers  could  return  to 
earth,  they  would  see  many  things  that 
would  surprise  them,  and  the  surprising 
things  would  not by  any  means  be  con­
fined  to  the  wonders  of  invention  and 
development.  The  patriarchs  returned 
to  earth  would,  doubtless,  be  amazed  at 
the  trolley  cars  and telephone,  and  then, 
going  to  dinner,  would  be  equally  as­
tonished  at  the  possibilities  of  the  mod­
ern  midwinter  menu. 
is  possible 
they  might  look  upon  the  electrical  and 
steam  appliances  as  uncanny— at  least, 
they  would  not  pretend  to  understand 
them—but  when 
it  came  to  things  to 
eat,  they  would  expect  to  be  right  at 
home and  to  find  at  least  a  few  familiar 
dishes  to  partake  of.  New  »potatoes, 
lettuce,  young  onions 
new  peas,  fresh 
and  new  radishes 
in  February  would 
probably  surprise  them  even  more  than 
the  workings  of  the  trolley  car.  Fresh 
strawberries and  new  pie plant in March 
would  be  as  amazing  as  the  steam  lo­
comotive. 
and  mushrooms 
would  be  as  strange  to  them  in  mid­
winter  as  a  pond  of  ice  in  midsummer. 
And  yet  these  unseasonable  things to eat 
are  well  known 
in  this  modern  age. 
Some  of  them  are  made  possible by 
improved  methods  of  transportation and 
others  by 
improved  methods  of  grow­
ing.  The  new  potatoes,  peas,  beans  and 
tomatoes  come  from  the  Sunny  South 
and  are  landed  in  the  markets  here  al­
most  as  fresh  as  when  they  leave  their 
native  soil.  The  lettuce,  radishes  and 
onions  are  home  grown  in  hot  houses 
and  broilers  and  mushrooms  are  also 
products  of  home  enterprise  and 
in­
genuity.

Broilers 

lamp. 

Broilers  are  young  chickens,  eight  to 
ten  weeks 
from  the  egg,  and  when 
properly  cooked  are  as  tender  and sweet 
and  juicy  as  chicken  can  be.  They  are 
delicacies  for  the 
invalid  and  choice 
morsels  for  the  banquet  board,  and  if 
waited  for  to  come  in  the  natural course 
of  events,  as  our  grandfathers  were 
compelled  to  do,  they  would  not  be  due 
yet  for  four or  five  months.  Broilers  in 
March  are  as  much  of  an artificial prod­
uct  as  lettuce  or  radishes.  The  only 
natural  thing  about  them  is  the  original 
egg.  The  mother  is  a  machine  and  the 
warmth  that  gives  life  to  the  embryo 
comes  from  a  kerosene 
The 
incubator  chicks,  and 
broilers  are  all 
they  are  brought 
the  world  by 
wholesale.  For  the  first  “ crop,’ ’ the 
eggs  are  placed  early  in  December,  and 
a  “ loaded”  
incubator  will  hold  100  or 
more. 
It  takes  an  egg  just  as  long  to 
hatch  in  the  incubator as  the  eggs  that 
the  old  hen  sets  on,  which 
is  three 
weeks,  and  the  warmth  is  supplied  by 
a  lamp  which  is  constantly  kept  burn­
ing.  The  eggs  are  turned  from  time  to 
time  by  the  attendant  and  when  the 
time  comes  for  the  chicks to come forth, 
the  attendant  is  on  band  to  lend  any  of 
the  infant  chicks  too  feeble  to  emerge 
alone  such  assistance as  may be needed. 
The  chicks  are  kept  warm  and  are  fed 
and  cared  for  as  tenderly  as  any  mother 
hen  could  or  would  do,  and  in  eight  or

into 

ten  weeks  they  are  ready  for  the  mar­
ket.  The  wise  broiler  grower  does  not 
put  all  his  eggs  to  hatch  at  one  time, 
but  tucks  them  in  at  intervals  so  as  to 
have  a  successive  crop,  the  first  coming 
into  market about  this  time  and  the  lat­
er broods  at  intervals  of  a  week  or more 
until  the  spring  is  well  advanced,  or un­
til  the  natural  grown  broilers  are  ready. 
The  first  broilers  are  now  in the market, 
but  it  is  too  early  yet  for  them  to  have 
a  very  warm  reception  or  to  command 
anything 
like  fancy  prices.  The  late- 
grown  chickens  of  last  fall  are  still  ten­
der  and  fresh,  and  they  can  be  had  so 
much  cheaper than  the  incubator  chicks 
that  they  are 
in 
April  and  May,  however,  the  winter- 
grown  broiler  will  be  in  demand,  and 
where  they  command  only 
11  and  12 
cents  now,  they  will  then  easily  bring 
25  to  35  cents  a  pound,  live  weight. 
The  broiler  market  is  supplied  mostly 
by  local  growers.  There are  several  in­
cubators  in  town,  the  largest  one on  the 
West  Side,  and  there  are  also  growers 
at  Allendale,  Saranac  and  Ionia.  The 
product 
large  that  consi derable 
quantities  are  shipped  to  Detroit,  Chi­
cago  and  other  points.

in  demand.  Along 

is  so 

In 

Mushrooms, 

essentially  a 

summer 
in  this  climate,  are an  all-the- 
product 
year-around  article  in  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  markets.  They  are grown  in  the  old 
plaster quarry  on the  West  Side  by Allie 
Apted,  and  while  the  home  maiket  con­
sumes  only  about  10  to  20  pounds  a day, 
he  has  a  product  of  30  to  40  pounds  a 
day,  shipping the  surplus  to  Detroit  and 
other  points. 
In  the  fall  wagonloads  of 
barnyard  refuse  and  rich black earth  are 
into  the  quarry  and  the  soil  is 
drawn 
properly  worked 
into  beds  and  left  to 
heat  and  “ ripen. ”   When  the  condi­
tions  are  right  small  bits  of  spore  are 
pushed  down  into  the  soil,  and  then  all 
that  has  to  be  done  is to  wait  for de­
velopments.  The  beds  are  placed  far 
within  the  quarry,  and 
in  winter  and 
summer  the  temperature  is  practically 
the  same. 
It  is  intensely  dark  and  the 
mushioom  gardener  has  no  weeds  to 
pull  or  cultivating  to  do.  He 
just 
waits. 
the  course  of  time,  some 
morning  when  he  enters  the  quarry  he 
will  find  the beds  dotted  over  in patches 
with  white  spots,  and  these  spots quick­
ly  develop  into  mushrooms.  The  local 
demand  has  greatly  increased  in  recent 
years.  Four  or  five  years  ago  ten  or 
twenty  pounds  would  have  answered  all 
the  purposes  of  this  market  for  a  week, 
while  that  quantity  is  now consumed  in 
a  single  day.  The  quariy-grown  mush­
rooms  are  good  until  the  outdoor  article 
is  found  in  the fields and barnyards,  and 
the  natural-grown 
fungi  drives  the 
quarry-grown  out  of  market  by  reason 
its  cheapness.  Mushrooms  have 
of 
been  grown 
in  dark  corners  of  hot­
houses,  but  their  cultivation  has  never 
been  sufficiently  successful to encourage 
the  business. 
In  other  cities  where 
plaster  quarries  do  not  exist  regular 
cellars  are  built  for  mushroom  cultiva­
tion  and 
in  Paris  the  old  catacombs, 
the  home  of  the  long-since  dead,  are 
utilized.  The  spore,  used  as  “ seed”  
for  planting  the  mushroom  beds,  comes 
in  the  form  of  bricks  and  is  impoited 
from  France  and  England,  although 
some of  it  is  produced  in this country.

An  Unlucky  British  Trust.

From the London Economist.

At  a  time  like  the  present,  when  the 
attention  of  investors  is  being  so  per­
sistently 
invited  to  combinations  and 
amalgamations 
intended  practically, 
if  not  admittedly,  to  create  industrial 
monopolies, the  dividend  announcement 
of  the  Salt  Union  appears  opportunely 
as  a  note  of  warning  to  those  who  are 
being  misled  into  the  belief  that  enter­
prises  of  the  kind  have  real  prospects 
of  becoming  permanently  successful. 
When 
the  Salt  Union  was  formed  we 
ventured  to  warn 
the  public  against 
subscribing  to  it ;  but  the  combination 
was 
introduced  under  what  were  de­
scribed  as  highly  favorable  auspices, 
and 
it  made  such  a  brave  start  with  a 
10  per  cent,  dividend  for  1889  that  the 
ordinary  shares  went  to  a  substantial 
premium. 
In  the  following  year,  how­
ever,  the dividend  was  reduced  to  7  per 
cent.  ;  then  for  two  years  in  succession 
5  per  cent,  was  paid;  for  1893  the  dis­
tribution  was  3  per  cent.  ;  for  the  next 
year  2  per  cent.  ;  for  the  next  2  per 
cent.,and  for  1896  1  per  cent,  was  paid. 
And  now,  not  only  is  the  ordinary  div­
idend  ‘ 1 passed, ’ ’  but  only 
per  cent, 
is  proposed  to  be  paid  on  the 7 per cent, 
preference  shares;  so  that  the  descent 
has  of  late  years  been  very  steep.

The  unsatisfactory  result  is  attributed 
in  the market  to  the  unfortunate  trading 
with  the  United  States  and  with  India; 
and  it  is  reported  that  the  directors  are 
conferring  with  the  large  shareholders 
in  the  hope  that a  scheme  may  be  ar­
ranged  for getting  the  undertaking  out 
is  not  an  en­
of  the  mess.  The  task 
viable  one,  for  the  Salt  Union 
is  enor­
mously  capitalized,  and  the  product  in 
which 
in 
most  quarters  of  the  globe.

is,  happily,  found 

it  deals 

it 

It 

for  the  process 

is  sincerely  to  be  hoped  that the 
history  of  the  Salt  Union  may  act  as  a 
deterrent  to 
investors  who  may 
feel 
join  in  one  or other of  the 
tempted  to 
combinations  that  are  being  so  freely 
talked  about, 
is  as 
inimical  to  the  interests  of  the  country 
as  a  whole  as 
is  usually  sooner  or 
later  unprofitable  to  those  whose  capital 
is  embarked  in  it.  One  of  the  essentials 
of  all  these attempted  monopolies  is  to 
raise  prices,  but 
it  generally  happens 
that  the advance  is  confined  to the home 
markets,  so  that,  with  the  larger  profits 
exacted 
in  Great 
Britain,  the  combinations  may  be  the 
better  able  to  undersell  their  compet­
itors  abroad.  While  so  much  is  being 
said  about  the  necessity  of  obtaining 
fresh  markets  for  our  products,  it  is 
certainly  a  matter for  careful  considera­
tion  whether 
it  is  really  an  advantage 
to  the  country  generally  that  the  estab­
lishment  of  these  new  markets  should 
be  effected  at  the  expense  of  the  con­
sumers  at  home.  Meanwhile,  the  ex­
ample  of  the  Salt  Union  is  not  calcu­
lated  to  encourage 
in  other 
lines  of  business.

consumers 

imitators 

from 

The  discoverer of  Mount  Bischoff.the 
in  the  world,  which 
greatest  tin  mine 
has  paid  §7,500,000  in  dividends,  died 
a  short  time  ago  practically  penniless. 
“ Philosopher”   Smith,  as he  was called, 
had  a  pension  of  $ 1,000  per annum from 
the  New  South  Wales  government,  but 
it  did  not enable  him  to  make provision 
for  his  wife.  The  New  South  Wales 
parliament  was  accordingly  asked  to 
continue  half  the  pension  in  her  favor, 
which  it  did  by  a  large  majority.  When 
Mount  Bischoff  was  made  into  a  stock 
company  Smith  took  a  large  number  of 
shares,  but,  losing  confidence in his own 
discovery,  sold  them  for  a  song.

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£

D ry   G oods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

in  the 

Staple  Cottons—The  heads  of  depart­
ments 
jobbing  houses  express 
themselves  as  feeling  positive  that  un­
less  there 
is  a  decided  change  in  the 
market  conditions 
in  the  near  future, 
they  will  have  to  pay  at  least  %c  ad­
vance  on  two  or  three  of  the  leading 
tickets;  in  fact  certain 
lines  that  are 
short  have  already  been  advanced  a 
trifle.

in 

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  market 
for  prints  and  ginghams  has  continued 
steady,  without  any  particular  feature. 
In  the  jobbing  houses  the  best  business 
was 
in  wash  goods,  and  ginghams, 
zephyrs,  etc.,  have  been 
large  de­
mand ;  in  fact,  a  fair  business  has  been 
done  from  the  very  cheapest  ginghams 
to  the  highest  priced  domestic  and 
im­
ported  fabrics.  Fancy  printed  fabrics 
in  the  primary  market  are  firm  as  a 
rule,  and 
lines  of  organdies  and 
other  sheer  goods,  running  from  7^(g 
15c  per  yard,  there 
is  a  steady,  un­
abated  demand,  and  it  is  fair  to  assume 
that  several  tickets  are  securing  a slight 
advance.

in 

Silks—The  sales  of  dress  silks  have 
been  very  good  during  the  winter,  but 
from  the  preparations  that  are  being 
made  for  the  coming  spring  and  sum­
mer,  dealers  are  having  every  reason  to 
expect  a  much  better  season  of  busi­
ness.  Plain  goods  are  going  to  be  much 
more  popular  than  stripes  and  plaids, 
as  the  latter  patterns  have become some­
what  passe.  Changeable  silks  are  not 
likely  to  take  quite  so  well  as  they  have 
done  for  a  year  or  two  back,  as  the 
styles  of  goods are changing ;  in cbange- 
ables  this  year,  there  is  to  be  noticed  a 
difference,  in  the  formation  of  both  the 
warp  and  woof  of  the  silk,  from  what 
has  been  usually  seen,  in  that  they  are 
of  a  light  and  a  somewhat  darker  shade 
of  the  same  color, 
thereby  giving  a 
shaded  effect,  instead  of  being  of  con­
trasts,  as  have  been  used  so  much.  The 
designs  shown  in  this  season’s goods are 
very  tasty,  neat  and  well  chosen,  and 
there  are  very  few  very  gaudy  things 
that  will  be  used.  Prices  are  consider­
ably  higher  than  they  were  a little while 
ago,  the  reason  being  on  account  of  the 
rapid  rise  in  the  price  of  raw  silk. 
These  advances 
in  values  affect  the 
amount  of  buying  being  done  but  very 
if  a  person  wants  a  thing  he 
little,  for 
generally  purchases 
it,  regardless  of 
whether  it  costs  a  little  bit  more  or  not.
Carpets  and  Rugs—Reds  and  greens 
appear,  from  all  indications  up  to  the 
present  time,  to  be  the  shades  which 
will be  the  most  popular  in  carpets  dur­
ing  this  season.  All  the  dealers  are 
looking  forward  to  a  rather  satisfactory 
trade 
in  the  carpet  and  rug  lines,  and 
ior  that  reason  have,  in  a  way,prepared 
accordingly,  taking  in a few more goods, 
perhaps,  than  they  ordinarily  would,  if 
money  did  not  appear  to  be  circulating 
somewhat  better  than  it  has  been doing. 
Prices,  as  a  rule,  are  not  so  very  much 
higher  than  they  have  been  for  some 
little  while  back.  The  tendency  among 
purchasers 
is  for  no  especial  patterns, 
the  flowery,  empire  and  common  or  or­
dinary  patterns  all  selling  about  as  well 
as  each  other,  but  the  colors  that  are 
being  chosen  usually,  in  the  general run 
of  cases,  border  on  the  red  or  green 
shades.  Rugs  are  selling  about  as  well 
as  they  always  do,  although  almost  all 
the  call 
is  for  domestic  goods,  as  it  is 
in  the  carpet  trade.  Every  one  nearly 
in  the  carpet  business anticipated  the

great  advance  there  would  be  in  the 
duty  on  all  kinds  of 
imported  straw 
mattings,  and  so  brought  in  a  good  deal 
of  these  goods  before  the  bill  went  in 
force,  so  that  now  for  a  while  one  is 
able  to  secure  this  special  article  at  a 
much  more  reasonable  price  than  he 
would  have  been  able  to  do  if  dealers 
had  not  done  this.

is 

is  pretty  poor.  There 

Linings—Linings  of  all kinds,but cot­
ton  goods  and  satines,  principally,  are 
in  a  very  quiet  condition,  and  business 
in  general 
is 
hardly  any  demand  to  speak  o f;  what 
there 
is  of  but  very  little  conse­
quence.  Silesias  and  satines  are  about 
the  only  things  that are selling.  Speak­
ing  of  prices,  it  can  be  said  that  they 
are  lower  than  they  have  been,  because 
of  the  latge  supply  of  these  goods  al 
ready  manufactured,  and  of  the  recent 
drop 
In  this 
in  a  good  many  others, 
business,  as 
everything 
looks  rather  blue,  because 
of  the  stopping  of  what  is  usually a very 
good  demand  for  all  kinds  of  good3 
from  the  different  New  England  cotton 
manufacturing  towns,  tor  when  such  a 
number  of  operatives  are  thrown  out  of 
work  as  has  been  done  by these  strikes, 
none  of  the 
local  dealers  care  to  have 
much  extra  stock  on  hand  which  would 
not  be  very  likely  to  be  sold.

in  the  price  of  cotton. 

if 

in 

largely 

flourishing,  one 

Furs—The  past  fall  and  winter  sea­
son  has  been  a  satisfactory,  but  by  no 
means  very 
the 
ladies’  fur  garment  trade. 
In  the  early 
part  a  large  number  of  collarettes  ana 
shoulder  capes  were  worn,  on  account 
of  the  unusually  mild  weather,  and  tbi- 
of  necessity  caused  a  demand  for  a  1 
kinds  of  muffs,  but  the  best  seller  was 
the  small,  plain,  24-inch  muff,  although 
the  decorated  ones  sold  pretty  well. 
Heads,  but  tails,  principally,  of  thr 
various  small  animals  have  been  used 
very 
in  trimming  up  the  ga  - 
ments  this  season,  and  they  will  also 
be  used  a  good  deal  next  fall  and  win­
ter.  However,  lately  the  call  has  betn 
for heavier  wraps,  instead  of  the 
light 
ones,  and  seal  coats  and  jackets  ha\ r 
sold  about  the  best  in  this  way,  for  now 
the  prices  on  seal  skins  are  about  a ; 
low  as  they  will  be  for  some  time,  ow­
ing  to  the  stopping  of  their  being 
brought  into  this  country.  The  electric 
its 
seal  has  been  a  fair  seller,  owing  to 
cheapness,  and  some  people  are 
just 
now  trying  to  get  cheaper  priced  goods, 
no  matter 
it  does  not  wear  half  as 
well  as one real,  good,  higher  priced  one 
would.  Some  marten  and  the  blue  fox 
have  been  used  quite 
largely  for  all 
purposes,  but  in  speaking  of  the  lighter 
fur,  there  has  been  quite  a  good  deal  of 
alpaca  used  in  making  shoulder  capes 
and  some  collarettes,  loo.  For  evening 
wear,  during  the  chilly  summer  even­
ing,  there  will  be  very  likely  quite  a 
number  of  these  light fur garments used.
Trunks—Dealers  in  trunks  and  bags 
are  pretty  confident  of  a  rather good 
season  of  business  in  those  lines  during 
this  coming  spring  and  summer,  partly 
because  of  the  poor  trade  of  last  sea­
son,  which  held  back  the  demand  for  a 
number  of  these  goods  which  were 
needed  at  that  time,  and  because,  from 
the  present  general  appearances,  there 
seems  to  be  a  little  more  in  circulation 
than  there  was  a  year  ago.  There  are  a 
great  many  novelties 
in  trunks  being 
shown,  such  as  those  with  fancy  trim­
mings,  and  those  with  a  number  of 
leather  straps  on  them,  but  the  most  of 
them  are  of  canvas  rather  than 
leather. 
Dress  suit  cases  of  all  sizes  are  very 
likely  to  be 
in  excellent  demand,  as 
they  always  are,  and  hand  bags,  too,  of 
the  most  improved  and  regular  patterns 
are  sure  to  sell  pretty  well.

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Dealers  don’t  keep  our  goods;  they  SELL  them .

Carpets

All  grades cut at wholesale.

You  Carry  Only  Sam ples

We  carry the stock.  When  you  make  a 
sale,  send  us  the  pattern  number,  size 
of  room  or  quantity  wanted  and  we will 
ship  your order the same day as received 
—sewed  if desired.
O VER  3,000  D E A L E R S   are  now  han­
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you to success.

For  One  Dollar

We  will  send  you a book of Carpet  Sam­
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q\i8 
inches.  These  samples  are  cut 
irom the roll, so you can guarantee every 
carpet as  represented—in style, color and 
quality.  No  picture  scheme  or  Misrep­
resentation.  Every  sample  is  finished, 
numbered and quality specified on ticket, 
so you can  make no  mistake when order­
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Laundried shirts  with or without collars;  soft 
front  or  laundried  plaids  and  stripes,  $ koO, 
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10  dozen  $4.50 grade  to close at $3.50  regular.

Large  line  of  Men’s  Hats,  Children’s  Caps 
and  Boys’  goods  in  Felt,  Flannels  and  Straw 
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Woman’s World

Transparent  Falsehoods  Dear  to  the 

Hearts  of  Women

With  most  women  Lent  may  be  de­
scribed  as  a  kind  of  spiritual  spring 
cleaning,  when  they  overhaul  their  con­
science,  as  they  do  their  wardrobes,  to 
see  what  needs  repair,  and  with  pretty 
much  the  same  general  results.  After 
a  season  of  balls  and  parties  and  pink 
teas  and  crushes,  the  stoutest  virtue 
is 
apt  to  show  signs  of  wear  and tear about 
the  edges;  good  qualities  that  we  flat­
tered  ourselves  were  all  wool  and  a yard 
wide  have  shrunken  to 
infinitesimal 
proportions,  and  the  best  temper  is  re­
duced  to  a  thing  of  shreds  and  patches.
Now,  women have  been  told  they  were 
angels  so  long  we  have  come  to  believe 
it,  and 
is  always  with  genuine  and 
unexpected  surprise  that  we  find  we 
really  have  faults  after  all.  Of  course, 
in  church  we  say  that  we  have  done  the 
things  we  should  not  have  done  and 
have 
left  undone  the  things  we  should 
have  done,  but  that’s  a  general  state­
ment. 
In  private  we  are  even  willing 
to  go  a  step  farther.  We  admit  we  are 
not  as  spiritual  minded  as  we  should  be 
and  that  our  hankering  after  the  higher 
life  is  not  very  intense  or  real,  so 
long 
as  things  are  going  our way  in  this,  but 
as  for  the  plain,  everyday  sins  we  have 
committed,  we  are  free  to  confess  we 
should  never  have  believed  it  of  our­
selves.

it 

legion. 

Looking  back, 

Now,  there's  the  matter  of 

lying,  for 
instance.  Only,  when  we  speak  of  the 
thing  in  regard  to  women,  we  don’t  use 
that  horrid  word.  We  would  be  furious 
if  any  one  accused  us  of  such  a  thing.
Still  a  fib  is  a  fib,  after  all,  and  the 
number 
it  takes  to  get  one  through  a 
season 
is 
it 
seems 
it  was all  a  tissue  of  false­
like 
hood,  and  you  wonder 
if  it  was  worth 
while.  Don’t  you  remember,  one  day, 
when  you  were 
in  a  saturnine  mood, 
and  you  stood  aside  at  a tea and listened 
to  the  voice  of  society  as  it  went  by, 
and  interrupted  it  as  it  talked. 
‘  Dear 
M rs.  Jones,  so glad to see you. ”   ( M ight 
have  known  that  horrid,  pushing  thing 
would  be  here;  wonder  how  she  got 
in­
vited,  anyway.) 
‘ ’ Ah,  you  here,  Mrs. 
Brown! 
(Wouldn’t  care  if  f  never  saw  her again 
"Such  a  charming 
as  long  as  I  live  ) 
(She's  worn  that  to  every­
frock!’* 
thing  she’s  been  to  this  winter.) 
”  Is 
that  Mr.  De  Smithe  singing?  What  a 
finevoice!”  
"Oh, 
Miss  Blank,  I  bear  you  are  going  to 
favor  us  with  one  of  your  delicious  rec­
itations;  is  it  true?”   (If  that  demon  re­
citer 
is  going  to  perform,  I ’ll  go.) 
‘ ‘ Dear  Mrs.  Hostess,  so  sorry,  but  I 
really  must  tear  myself  away.  Every­
thing  has  been  so  charming,  and  your 
is  quite  the  most  beautiful  one  I 
tea 
have  seen  this  winter.”  
(Thank  heav­
en,  that’s  over.  Never  saw  so  many 
stupid  people  together  in  my life.  Won­
der  where  she  got  ’em .)

So  pleased  to  see  you!”

(For  calling  p igs.) 

And  poor  Mrs.  Hostess,  whose  very 
knees  are  giving away under her through 
sheer  weariness,  heroically  forces  an­
other  sickly  smile  to  her  face  and en­
treats  you  to  stav,  and  you  know  just  as 
well  as  if  you  were  a  mind  reader  and 
could  see  her  thoughts  that  she  is  in­
wardly  thanking  heaven  that  another 
person 
is  gone  and  that  she  will  soon 
have  compromised  her  indebtedness  to 
society  at  40  cents  on  the  dollar.

Of  course,  we  say,  and  we devoutly 
hope  that  the  excuse  will  go  with  the 
recording  angel, 
it  can’t  be

that 

helped;  that  society  would  become  a 
howling  wilderness 
if  everybody  went 
about  saying  what  they  thought,  and 
that  civilization  would  be  shocked  out 
of  existence  by  the  mere  presence  of 
the  unadorned  truth. 
I,  for  one,  don’t 
believe  it.  We  have  gotten  in  the  way 
of  telling  a  lot  of  transparent falsehoods 
that  no  one  believes  and  that  we  don’t 
expect  any  one  to  believe,  and 
it  is 
more  than  likely that  most  people would 
be  glad  to  return  to  a  simple  and  direct 
way  of  speaking 
if  only  they  had  the 
courage  to  do  it.

Suppose  such  an  innovation  could  be 
introduced  and  telling  the  truth  could 
be  made  fashionable.  White  lies  would 
become  as  passe  as  puffed  sleeves,  and 
even  the  useful  and  ubiquitous  tarra- 
diddle  would  be  discarded  with  other 
out-of-date  personal  belongings. 
Just 
think  how  it  would  simplify  things  and 
what  a  lot  of  trouble  it  would save  us!

First  and  foremost,  we  should  revel 
in  the  luxury  of  telling  the  truth  about 
our  pocketbooks.  No  need  for  any  more 
beating  about  the  bush  and  making  ex­
cuses  why  we do  this  and  don’t  do  that. 
We  should  simply  say  we  can’t  afford 
it,  and  that  on  a  calico  dress  and  boiled 
income  we  can't  wear  mirror 
mutton 
velvet  and 
eat  champagne  dinners. 
Now  we  dodge,  and  bluff,  and  prevari­
cate,  and  pretend  our  economies are  the 
result  of  choice  and  not  necessity.  Our 
doctor  has  positively  forbidden  turtle 
soup,  don't  you  know,  and  we  make  our 
own  frocks  because we can’t find a dress­
maker  who  seems  to  understand  our  pe 
culiar  style.

laughed 

Whoever  heard  of  a  woman  who  went 
in  the 
to  a  $3  a  week  summer  resort 
woods  because  of 
its  being  cheaper? 
Nobody !  She  always  goes  for  the  quiet, 
and  she  is  careful  to  tell  us so  We have 
all  met  the  sister  whose diamonds  are 
forever  locked  from  human  eyes  in  her 
husband’s  safe,  and 
in  our 
sleeves  at  the  one  who  was  always  talk­
ing  about  her  butler  and  her  maid, 
when  we  knew  well  enough  she  kept 
only  one  girl  and  helped  herself  with 
the  cooking.  Most  pitiful  of  all  is  the 
woman  who 
is  ashamed  of  her  work, 
who  takes  boarders  for  company,  arid 
sells  embroidery  at  the  Woman’s  Ex 
change  hecause  she  is  so  fond  of  fancy 
work,  and  these  things  accumul  te  so, 
you  know,  keeping  up  to  the  end  the 
pathetic  fiction  of  wealth  she  never 
had,  or  that  has 
long  since  vanished. 
If  anyone  were  deceived  by  these  ab­
falsehoods  there  might  be  some 
surd 
slight 
justification 
in  them,  but  they 
are .a  dead  waste  of  raw  material.  No­
body  is  so  unsophisticated  and  so  silly 
as  to  believe  them.  People  work  be­
cause  they  are  poor  and  need  the 
money,  they  do  without 
luxuries  be­
cause  they  have  to,  and  no  amount  of 
flim-flam  excuses  is  ever  going  to  con­
vince  a  suspicious  world  to  the  con­
trary.

It  is  an  appalling  thought  that  many 
a  woman  spends  her  entire  life in weav­
ing  a  tissue  of  deceit  and  falsehood 
and  that  from  the  cradle  to  the  grave 
there 
is  not  a  single  place  where  she 
can  stay  the  soles  of  her  feet  on  truth 
and  be  at  peace  and  rest.  She  spends 
her  days  trying  to  hoodwink  the  world 
and  make 
it  believe  she  is  richer  and 
more  fashionable  than  she 
She 
starves  the  children  to  give  a  pink  tea 
like  her  rich  neighbor;  she wears  a  silk 
fiock  over  a ragged petticoat;  she  grows 
old  and  haggard  and  sick  and  nervous 
in  trying  to  keep  up  appearances.  She 
reads  the  society  columns  in  the  papers 
and  talks  glibly  about  the  Bullions’  tea

is 

and  the  Croesus’  dance.  She  affects 
familiarity  with  the  rich  and  swell. 
If 
she  has  ever  known,  by  chance,  any 
distinguished  person,  she  drags  his 
name  into  the  conversation  by  the  heels 
or  the  head,  anyway,  so 
it  gets  there, 
and  she  can  refer  to  what  Governor  So- 
and-So  “ said  to  me,”   or  "the  time 
Senator  Something-or-other  and  I  were 
on'  the  same  train.”   Such  pretences 
would  be  infinitely amusing  if  they were 
infinitely  pitiful.  How  one 
not  also 
longs  to  say  to  such  a  woman: 
"M y 
dear  madam,  come  down  into  your  own 
class  and  be  comfortable  and  happy. 
Don't  fib  any  more  about  the  people 
you  don't  know  or  the  invitation  you 
did  not  get.  Tell  the  truth—that  you 
have  not  the  money  to  entertain  and 
live  like  the  ultra  fashionable  and  that 
you  don’t  belong  to  that  set.  Every­
one  knows,  anyhow.”

The  untruth  that  takes  the  shape  of  a 
compliment  and  merely 
indicates  the 
teller’s  desire  to  make  herself  agreeable 
is,  perhaps,  a fault  that  leans  to  virtue’s 
side,  but  it  must  strike  every  observing 
person  that  even  that  amiable  weakness 
is  altogether  overdone.  It  is  the  fashion 
to  be  superlative.  Every  one 
is  ap 
parently,  so  far  as  words  go,  overcome 
with  rapture  every  time  you  meet  them. 
If  you  paint  they  do  not  hestitite  to  tell 
you  that  you  are  a  second  Rubens;  if 
is  not  to  be  compared 
you  sing,  Patti 
with  you; 
if  you  write,  you  are  a 
George  Eliot  or  an  Elizabeth  Barrett 
Browning.  Of  course,  no  one  but  the 
idiotic  take  these 
seriously 
They  are  a  mere  facon  de  parlei,  which 
you  promptly  discount  at  about  go  per 
cent.,  but  the  result  is  that  it  has  taken 
all  the  sweetness  out  of  the  word  of 
praise  you  are  really  hungering  to  hear. 
You  know  well  enough  that  a  casual  ac­

things 

quaintance  can’t  possibly  pine  for  your 
society,  but  you  would 
like  to  know 
whether  she  would like to see you  again. 
You  know  well  enough  you  are  not  a 
genius,  but  you  would  like  to  know  if 
your  work  seems  good  at  all  to  another. 
But  you  never  will.  The  exaggerators 
have  left  the  sincere  nothing  to  say.

There 

is,  too,  a  darker  side  to  this 
subject.  For  the  most  part  women’s 
falsehoods  are  the graceful  little  fibbing 
that  deceives  no  one and  is  compara­
tively  harmless.  Few  women  are  so 
cruel  and  so  heartless  as  to  tell  a  false­
hood  outright  that  will 
injure  another, 
yet  they  do  not-bestitate  to  emborider  a 
story  with  a  suspicion  and  pass  it  on  as 
a  fact  until,  at  last,  its  deadly  work  is 
done and  a  character  is  blasted.  Wom­
en  are  much  more  reckless  in  this  re­
gard  than  men.  They  know  they  are 
seldom  called  on  to  account  for  what 
they  say,  or  vouch  for  a  story,  and  they 
elaborate 
it  unintentionally  and  un­
meaningly.  I  know  we  all  do  it.  There 
isn’t  a  day  of  our  lives  we  don’t  tell 
things  that  would  scare  us  out  of  our 
wits,  if  we  were  called  on  in  court  to 
swear  to  them. 
I  heard  a  good  story 
the  other  day  about  something  like this: 
In  a  party  of  men  and  women  each  one 
was  called  on,  in  turn,  to  tell  what  they 
esteemed  the  most 
important  attribute 
in  forming  character,  and  to  give  the 
name  of  the  person  who  they  thought 
best 
it  One  gave  sterling 
integrity  and  illustrated  it  by  Lincoln. 
Another  tact and  Madame De Maintenon 
as  an  example,  another 
loyalty,  with 
Washington  as  an  example.  At 
last  it 
came  to  a  very  plain  spoken  woman, 
who  gave  truth,  and  added,  “ and 
I 
don’t  know  of  any  example,  living  or 
dead.”

illustrated 

The  pursuit  of  truth  would be a  pleas­
ing  and  novel  Lenten  diversion.  Let’ s 
all  try 
it,  and  see  how  the  plain,  un­
adorned  truth  fits  into  modern  life.

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Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Stanton—J.  Hansen,  of Gowen,  is  soon 

to  engage  in  general  trade  here.

Elsie—Preston  &  Blunt  succeed  Miss 
Hattie  Kester  in  the  millinery business.
St.  Johns—Mrs.  H.  W.  Holton  has 
purchased  the  millinery  stock  of  Miss 
Hattie  Hicks.

Dundee—John  F.  Beeken  has  bought 
in  the  grocery 

E.  T.  Hardy’s  interest 
stock  of  Hardy  &  Porter.

Sonoma—John  Rolfe  has  purchased 
the  store  and  stock  of  C.  N.  Woolcutt, 
general  dealer  and  druggist.

Otsego —E.  F.  Hinkson  will  open  a 
grocery  store  in  the  building  recently 
occupied  by  G.  D.  Woodgate.

Caseville—Fred  Gonder,  the  grocer, 
will  soon  be  ready  for  business  at  the 
old  stand.  Fire  can’t  down  him.

Ionia—W.  E.  Knapman,  of  Detroit, 
has  engaged  in  the  merchant  tailoring 
in  the  Tower  block.
business,  locating 
Houghton—Robert  Hill succeeds  John 
McKeand  as 
foi 
the  Cudahy  Packing  Co.,  of  Milwau­
kee.

local  representative 

Lapeer—The  Lapeer  Mercantile  Co. 
has  filed  a  chattel  mortgage  for  $7,500 
in  favor  of  the  First  National  Bank  of 
Lapeer.

Casnovia—Miss  Mattie  A  Booth  has 
charge  of  the branch  shoe  store  recently 
opened  here  by  the  Booths  of  Cedar 
Springs.

Saginaw—The 

firm  of  Borden  & 
Niederstadt,  wholesale  produce  dealers, 
has  been  dissolved,  Mr.  Niederstadt 
retiring.

Durand—A.  E.  Dutcher  and  L.  L. 
Conn,  of  St.  Johns,  have  opened  up  a 
shoe  store.  The  latter  will  manage  the 
business.

Detroit—Walter  E.  Burlage,  grocer 
at  358  Fort  street  east,  has  given  to  Lee 
&  Cady  a  $1,000  chattel  mortgage  on 
his  stock.

Sturgis—Rehm  &  Smith,  of  Muncie, 
Indiana,  have  purchased  Mrs.  H.  R. 
Snyder’s  shoe  stock  and  will continue at 
the  same  location.

Fremont—Miss  Alice  Walker  sue-' 
ceeds  the  Misses  Madlin  &  Holt  in  the 
millinery  business.  Miss  Madlin  leaves 
soon  for  California.

Union  City—Willie  Barrett,  of  Sher­
wood,  will  shortly  move  his  hardware 
stock  to  this  place  and  go  into  partner­
ship  with  his  father.

Caro—This  place  boasts  of  a  new 
shoe  firm,  the  members  of  which  are 
Chas.  Husted  and  H.  Smith. 
The 
name  will  be  Husted  &  Co.

Adrian—Chas.  Boyd,  who  has  dis­
posed  of  his  meat  market  at  Delaware, 
Ohio,  is  soon  to  engage  in  the  whole­
sale  meat  business  at  this  place.

Alma—A. 

J.  Smith,  of  Detroit,  has 
opened  a  tailor  shop 
in  the  Cohoon 
building.  He  has  with  him  A.  Waters, 
who  was  his  assistant  in  Detroit.

Springport—J.  A.  Stansell  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  S.  J.  Hammond 
in  the  grocery  firm  of  Hammond  & 
West.  The  new  firm  will  be  known  as 
West  &  Stansell.

Belding—Porter  &  Forbes,  of  the 
Model  Market,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship  and  T.  H.  Porter  is  now  sole  pro­
prietor.  Mr.  Forbes  has  returned  to 
his  former  home  at  Fremont.

is 

Petoskey—Miss  Edna  Van  Slyke,  of 
Belding, 
to  move  her  millinery 
stock  here,  where  she  will  engage  in 
business  again  with  Mrs.  W.  L.  Jack- 
son.  The  change  will  take  place  about 
March  1.

Byron—A.  W.  Hoisington  has  pur­
chased  a  stock  of  crockery  and  glass­
ware  and  will  occupy  the  Orr  store  in 
the  near  future.  He  will  continue  the 
drug  business  in  his  new  quarters.

Edmore—Max  Preysz  has  severed  his 
connection  with  Heath’s  drug  store  and 
gone  on  the  road  for  a  Detroit  drug 
firm.  Chas.  Vandeberg,  of  St.  Louis, 
has taken  his  place  behind  the prescrip­
tion  case.

Orangeville—Geo.  W.  Kern,  formerly 
engaged  in  the  drug  business  at  Prarie- 
ville,  has  purchased  a  business  lot  at 
this  place  and  will  erect  a  new  store 
building,  in which  he  will  install  a  new 
drug  stock.

Eikton—A.  J.  Aldrich  has  moved  his 
store  building  here  from  Grassmere,  a 
distance  of  almost  ten  miles. 
The 
building  was  loaded  on  sleighs.  Grass- 
mere,  which  was  once  a  thriving  lum 
bering  town,  is  now  nearly  deserted.

Traverse  City—W.  D.  C.  Germaine 
and  H.  S.  Hull  have  sold  10,000 bushels 
of  potatoes  to  Salmon  Brown,  of  K 11- 
hurn,  Wis.  The  price  paid  was  55  cents 
per  bushel.  The  potatoes  are  being 
loaded  on  cars  for  immediate shipment.
Portland—R.  D.  Stewart  has  pur 
chased  the  stock  of  wall  paper  and 
fancy  goods  owned  by  the  late  George 
Smith  and  has  moved  them  to  the  Dix- 
son  building  on  Kent 
The 
jewelry  stock  has  not  yet  been  disposed 
of.

street. 

Kalamazoo—The  Sperry  &  Hutchin­
son  trading  stamp  crowd  have  aban­
doned  this  field,  the  store  here  having 
been  closed  and  the  remnants  of  the 
stock  clandestinely  shipped  out  of  the 
city,leaving  numerous  holders  of stamps 
to  deplore  their  losses.

employed 

Cadillac—E.  Gust  Johnson,  who  has 
been 
for  the  past  eleven 
| years  with  J.  Cornwell  &  Sons  and 
their  predecessors,  LaBar  &  Cornwell, 
has  purchased  Wm.  Hoag’s  interest 
in 
the  grocery  firm  of  Snider  &  Hoag. 
The  new  firm  will  be  known  as  Snider 
&  Johnson.

Belding—Melvin  Sprague,  of  Ionia, 
has  purchased  the  bakery  business  of 
Frank  Howk,  and  will  add  a  line  of 
I confectionery,  tobacco  and  cigars  and 
shelf  goods.  Mr.  Sprague  comes  well 
recommended.  Mr.  Howk  goes 
to 
Seattle  in  a  few  weeks,  and  has  sinister 
designs  on  the  Klondike  regions.

Hancock—Friends  of  Henry  Stark, 
who  lately  made  an  assignment  for  the 
benefit  of  himself,  have  become  inter­
ested  in  the  affair  and  offered  to  settle 
with  the  creditors  on  the  basis  of  50 
cents  on  the dollar.  The  goods  are  still 
in  the  Kauth  block  at  Hancock,  under 
the  custody  of  Assignee  Tamblyn,  and 
the  creditors  would 
certainly  secure 
more  by  the  above  offer  than  can  be 
realized  on  the  sale  of  the  assets,  as  the 
expense  of  teamsters,  lawyers,  apprais­
ers,  rent  and  officers  amounts  to  a heavy 
sum.

in  the 

Muskegon—The  Sperry  &  Hutchinson 
trading  stamp  exchange has  evaporated, 
so  tar  as  Muskegon  is  concerned,  the 
goods 
local  store  having  been 
clandestinely  moved  out  of  the  city  un­
der  cover  of  darkness.  The  stock  of  the 
stamp  store  has  recently been  dwindling 
perceptibly,  and  finally  a  number  of 
merchants  entered  protests,  stating  that 
if  the  display  was  not  better  kept  up 
they  would  withdraw  from  the  Associa- 
tiion.  A  week  ago  last  Saturday  A.  P. 
Conner  &  Co.,  one  of  the  heaviest  pur­
chasers  of  stamps  among  the local firms, 
decided  to  pull  out  of  the  scheme, 
which  announcement  probably  decided 
the  fate of  the  stamp  store.

Eaton  Rapids—S.  C.  Olmstead  and 
Wm.  Olmstead  have  purchased  Amos 
McKinney's  grocery  stock  The  busi­
ness  wiil  be  conducted  under  the  firm 
name  of  S.  C.  Olmstead  &  Son.

Feunville—George  J.  Stephenson 

Otsego—The  Geo.  H.  Fisher  grocery 
stock  was  recently  seized  by  W.  C. 
Edsell  &  Co.  and  Sherwood  Bros,  by- 
virtue  of  chattel  mortgages  aggiegating 
$1,350.  The  stock  was  subsequently 
sold  to  Olds  &  Stout,  of  Plamwell,  who 
will  continue  the  business  here  under 
the  personal  supervision  of  J.  A.  Stout.
is 
packing  up  his  drug  and  grocery  stock, 
to  Bangor, 
preparatory  to  moving 
it 
where  he  has  purchased 
J. 
Robertson  the  stock  which  Mr.  Stephen­
son  sold  out  about  six  years  ago.  The 
store  building  vacated  by  Mr.  Stephen­
son  will  at  once be  occupied  by  Clar­
ence  N.  Menold,  who will move  his drug 
stock  here  from  Bloom i’ gdale.

from  B. 

Manufacturing  Matters. 

Marquette—The 

large  works  of  the 
Michigan  Polygonal  Turning  Co.,  after 
being  closed  nearly  five  years,  will  soon 
be  re-opened  by  Chicago  and  Oshkosh 
parties.

Adrian—The  Wolf  Creek  butter  and 
cheese  company  has  leased  its  factory 
for  the  coming  season  to  L.  W.  Baker. 
The 
factory  will  begin  operations 
April  1.

Montague -A .  L  Dickinson  has  pur­
chased  his  paitner’s  half  interest  in  the 
Montague  Roller  Mills,  so  that  he  is 
now  sole  owner.  Mr.  Calkin,  the  miller, 
will  remain 
in  Mr  Dickinson's  em­
ploy.

Maple  Rapids—Orin  D.  Casterline 
and  Edwin  Burt  have  rented  the  grist 
mill  of  S  D.  Adams,  and  are  repairing 
and  thoroughly  renovating  the  same 
Mr.  Fred  Casterline  has  been  placed  in 
charge.

Benton  Harhor—Ora  Chapman  has 
purchased  of  A.  F.  Schoeltz  a  half  in 
in  the  Benton  Harbor  Bicycle 
terest 
Works.  The  plant 
is  to  be  enlarged 
and  the  business  increased  during  the 
coining  season.

Holly—The  Michigan  Manufacturing 
&_Lumber  Co.  intends  to  do  an  exten­
sive  business  in  shingles  this  year. 
It 
has  contracted  for  the  output  of  two 
milis 
in  the  northern  part  of  the  State 
and  is  negotiating  for  other  cuts.

Traverse  City—Greilick  Bros.,  of 
Greilickville,  have  purchased  the steam 
barge  Haywood  of  the  Howell  estate  in 
Chicago.  The  vessel  will  be  fitted  out 
with  new  machinery  and  will  be  used 
for  transporting  lumber  for  the  firm..

Ontonagon—A  new  sawmill 

is  being 
erected  on  the  Flint  Steel  River  by  W. 
B.  Miller,  of  Tustin. 
It  is  expected  it 
will  be  in  readiness  to  operate  by  April 
1,  and  will  at  once  begin  cutting  a 
large  bill  of  timber  for  the  Government 
breakwater.

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Leather  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  has  been  organized  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $5,000  to  manufacture 
belts,  pocket-books  and  other  novelties 
made  from  leather.  Wm.  Barie  is  Pres-
ident  of 
the  corporation  and  Louis 
Mautner 
will  act  as  Secretary 
and
Treasurer.

Slights—The  lumber  plant  of  Kelley 
&  Coveil  and  the  business  connected 
therewith,consisting  of  sawmill,  shingle 
mill,  general  store,  etc.,  have  recently 
come  into  possession  of  the  trustees  of 
the  estate  of  John  C.  Lewis,  who  was 
formerly  President  of  the First  National 
Bank  of  Traverse  City. 
John  Gillis 
has  been  engaged  to  manage  the  busi­
ness  for  the trustees.

Schoolcraft—The  plant and machinery 
of  the  defunct  Schoolcraft  Table  Co. 
has  been  sold  to  local  parties,  who  pro­
pose  to  manufacture  refrigerators.

Crisp—The  stockholders  of  the  Crisp 
Creamery  Co.  have  purchased the equip­
ment  of  the  Union  cheese  factory,  of 
New  Holland, 
the  proprietor, 
Jacob  Van  Dyke,  who  has  become  one
f  the  stockholders  and  will  have  a  po­
sition  in  the  creamery  after  March  1.

from 

Chassell—The  Sturgeon  River  Lum­
ber  Co.  will  put  in  1,000,000  feet  more 
of  hemlock 
logs  than  last  year,  giving 
the  company  a  total  of  2,500,000  feet 
this  year.  The  mill  will  start  May  1 
and  will  run  day  and  night  after  May 
15  through  the  season.  The  intended 
cut  this  year  is  20,000,000  feet.

Adrian—The  Gibford  Manufacturing 
C o,  Ltd.,  has  been 
incorporated,  with 
$5,000  capital  stock.  The  corporators 
are  R.  A.  Watts,  Seth  Bear,  H.  C. 
Smith,  Jessie  Gibford,  Robert 
..  G illi­
land,  Chas.  B.  Smith  and  E  B.  Gib­
ford.  Bicycle  chain-cleaners  i 
ad  other 
specialties  will  be  manufactur
1.
Holland—The  Bay  View 
urniture 
Co.  has  purchased  the  so-callt 
bending 
works  plant  and  will  operti 
it  as  a 
table  factory. 
The  capital 
is 
$18,000  and  the  stockholders  ar ■
Henry
Pelgrim,  Peter  De  Spelder,  C.  Cook, 
H.  H.  Karsten,  of  Zeeland,  Herman 
Van  Ark, 
J.  G.  Van  Putten  and  John 
Van  der  Veen.

¡took 

Escanaba—The  Business -  Men’s  As­
look  up  a  number  of 
sociation  will 
desirable  sites  for  manufacturing 
in­
stitutions,  so  that  quick  action  may  be 
taken  when  an  applicant  for  a 
location 
in  the  city  is  found,  instead  of  having 
to  fool  around  so  long  in  finding  a  site 
that  some  other  city  will  have  time  to 
step  in  and  secure  the  plum.

Why  She  Felt  Acquainted.

A  Boston 

lady  of  the  most  reserved 
and  exclusive  type  was  waiting  for  her 
change  at  the  glove  counter  in  one  of 
large  stores  when  she  was  ap­
the 
proached  by  a  very 
large,  gaudily 
dressed  and 
loud  looking  woman,  who 
held  out  a  pudgy  hand  in  a  green  kid 
glove,  and  said :

“ Why,  how  do  you  do,  Mrs.  Blank?”
Mrs.  Blank 
the  proffered 
hand,  and,  drawing  herself  up  stiffly, 
said  frigidly:

ignored 

“ I  do  not  think  that  I  know  you, 

madam. ”

’ No,  I  s’pose  not,”   replied  the  wom­
an,  in  nowise  embarrassed  by  the  cold­
ness  of  her  reception,  “ but  I ’ve  knowed 
you  by  sight  for  a  long  time,  and  now 
I ’ve  got  a  hired  girl  who  worked at your 
house  once,  a  year  or  two ago,  and  she’s 
told  me  so  much  about  you  that  I  feel 
real  well  acquainted  with  you.  Pleasant 
day,  ain’t  it?  Well,  if  she  ain’t  polite 
to  sail  off  without  so  much  as  a  word ! 
Shows  her  raisin’,  anyhow!”

The  citizens  of  Philadelphia  seem 
to  be  already  reaping  the  advantages  of 
the  tranference  of  the  gas  works  from 
municipal  control  to  a private company. 
less  than  two  months  the  candle 
In 
im­
power  of  the  gas  has  been  notably 
proved,  and  further 
is 
just  as  soon  as  the  new  ma­
promised 
chinery  gets  into  working  order.  There 
has  been  no  increase  in  the  price  of  the 
gas,  neither  has there been any decrease.

improvement 

There  are  some  things  to  be  said  in 
behalf  of  French  courts  after  all—for 
instance,  they  don’t  allow  attorneys  to 
talk  ad 
libitum  and  ad  infinitum  and 
other  such  gibberish  outside  or  inside 
the  record.

The  cheapest  thing  a  politician  can 
be  is  to  be  a  jingo.  It  requires  no  brain 
and  no  money;  nothing  but  wind 
whistled  through 
into  silly 
heads.

long  ears 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Sugar—The  market 

The  Grocery  Market.

chased  before  the  advance.

is  strong,  with 
indication  of  a  higher  range  of 

Grand  Rapids  Gossip an  even  keel  by  spot  supplies  pur­
Fish—With the exception of mackerel, 
is  a  strong  Lenten  demand  for 
there 
in 
everything  in  the  fish  line.  Cod 
good  demand  at  unchanged 
prices. 
Values  are  well  maintained.  Lake  fish 
is  also 
in  good  demand  at  unchanged 
prices.  Salmon  is  selling  well  at  steady 
prices,  and  no  fluctuation 
is  expected 
soon.  Sardines  are  still  held  at  the  ad­
vance.

every 
values.

is 

improves. 

Tea—There  is  no  further  advance  to 
note  and  there  probably  will  be  none 
until  the  demand 
There 
ought  to  be  a  good  demand  for  tea  all 
over  the  country  at  present,  but  for 
some  reason  or  other  it  fails to material­
ize.  The  method  of  holding  the  New 
York  auctions  of  tea  has  been  changed. 
Instead  of  being  held  weekly,  they  will 
hereafter  occur  on  the  first  Wednesday 
is  every  month  and  buyers  will  have  to 
take  whole 
lines  instead  of  small  por­
tions  thereof.

Coffee—Brazilian  grades  are  easy, 
although  there 
is  no  change  in  quota­
tions. 
In  the  milder grades  the  market 
is  more  firm  for  desirable  lines. 
It  is 
reported 
the  Mexican  crop  will  be 
about  25  per  cent,  short  of  last  year, 
and  the  Guatemala  about  40  per  cent, 
under a  year  ago.  In  fact,  it  is  claimed 
by  most  of  the  trade  that  all  the  Central 
American  crops  will  be  short  as  com­
pared  with  a  year  ago.  Although  it  is 
generally  believed  the  Maracaibo  crop 
is  a  full  one,  receipts  have  not  been 
large.

in  prunes.  California 

Canned  Goods—Tomatoes  are  quiet 
and  but  little  is  doing.  Prices  are  un­
changed,  but  the  market  is  unquestion­
ably  easier.  The  demand  for  corn  is 
rather  limited  and  some  orders  have 
been  taken  at  shaded  prices.  The mar­
ket,  however,  nominally  rules  at  the  old 
basis.  Peas  are  in  very  small  demand, 
and  the  Baltimore  market 
is  slightly 
easier.  A  few  California  peaches  ate 
being  sold,  together with  a  few  seconds, 
all  at  unchanged  prices.
Dried  Fruits—There 

is  an  upward 
tendency 
loose 
raisins  are  quiet  and  prices  are  unset­
tled,  varying  according  to  holder  and 
quality.  Off-grade  stock  will  only  be 
taken  at  inducingly  low  prices,  but  the 
demand  does  not  seem  to  be  heavy. 
Standard  grades  are  reported  to  be 
somewhat  scarce,  both  here  and 
in 
California.  The  demand  for  currants 
is 
light,  and  the  market  remains  un­
changed, with  a  steady  feeling.  Prunes 
are  moving  along  very  well.  A  strong 
feeling  ptevails  in  the  apricot  market. 
Peaches  of  good  quality  are  reported  to 
light  supply.  The  demand  for 
be 
in 
these 
is  also  light.  Medium  and 
low 
in  fair  supply  and  prices 
grades  are 
are  well  maintained.

Starch  (N.  Y.  Commercial)—Owing 
to higher  prices  of  raw  material—corn, 
potatoes  and  wheat—manufacturers  and 
importers  of  starch  and  dextrine  have 
more  elevated  views  concerning  values 
and  an  upward  tendency 
is  very  dis­
tinct.  As  noted  several  days  ago,  there 
was  an  advance  in  cornstarch  and 
im­
ported  and  domestic  dextrine. 
In  re­
gard  to  starch,  it  may  be  said  that  sell­
ers  are  advising  their  clients  that  it 
would  be  better  for  them  to  buy  right 
away,  in  order  to  forestall  an  advance, 
-which,  they  say,  will  come  in  the  near 
future.  Some  of  the  manufacturers  have 
already  sold  ahead  of  their  output  of 
powdered  and  pearl  cornstarch  several 
weeks.  Considering  the  season  of  the 
year,  there 
is  a  good  movement  of  this 
article,  buyers,  as  usual,  hastening  to 
secure  supplies 
in  an  advancing  mar­
ket.  Cable  advices  from  abroad  would 
warrant,  it  is  said,  at  least 
im­
ported  dextrine,  but  values  are  held  on

on 

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Home  grown  Northern  Spys 
are  about  the  only  thing  in  the  market, 
commanding  $3.75@4.50  per  bbl.  They 
range  from  choice  to  fancy,  but  run 
mostly  to  choice.

Bananas—Receipts  ate  regular 

at 
present,  and  the  fact  that  desirable 
shipping  stock  can  be  depended upon  is 
increasing  the  movement  from  outside. 
A  big  trade  on  this  line  is  looked  for 
this  spring  and  steady  prices  can  prob­
ably  be  depended  upon.

Beets—25c  per  bu.
Butter—Factory  creamery 

at  i9@2oc.  Dairy 
high,  commanding 
for  choice,  and  I2@I3C  for  ordinary.

is  steady 
is  still  scarce  and 
15c  for  fancy,  14c 

Cabbage—The  country  appears  to  be 
full  of  stock,  in  consequence  of  which 
there  is  no  particular  shipping  demand 
from  any  direction.  The  price  ranges 
from  $2@3  per  too,  according  to  size 
and  quality,

Carrots—30c  per bu.
Celery—Choice  stock 

per  bunch.

is  held  at  20c 

Eggs—Supplies  are  coming  in  freely 
and,  in  spite  of  the  strong  demand, 
quotations  have  declined  to  12c,  with 
indications  of  still  lower  prices 
in  the 
near  future.

Green  Onions—15c  per  doz.
Grape  Fruit—Values  are  unchanged. 
There 
is  a  fair  movement,  with  ample 
supply.  Stock  from  Florida  and  Cali­
fornia  is  in  market.

Honey—Dark  ranges 

from  g@roc. 
Light  stock  is higher,  commanding  12c.
Lemons—The  movement,  while  not 
large,  is  fully  up  to  expectations  for 
the  season  of  year.  Bulk  of  supplies  in 
sight  are  California  stock,  and  run  very 
fancy  in  quality.  Values are unchanged, 
although  concessions  are  made  on large­
sized  orders.
is 

Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing 

held  at  15c  per lb.

Onions—Quotations  have  advanced, 
prime  stock  commanding  85@goc  per 
hu.
Oranges—Arrivals  of  Coast  fruit  con­
tinue  liberal,  so  that  the  market  is  well 
supplied  on  stock  from  the  different 
districts  and  on  sizes.  The  reasonable 
prices  that  developed  before  values  set­
tled  to  a  steady  basis  have  largely 
in­
creased  the  movement,  and  one  of  the 
biggest  years  on  record  is  looked for  for 
this  market.  Mexicans  are  in  fair  sup­
ply,  but  short  on  some  sizes,  and  lati­
tude  should  be  allowed  when  ordering 
goods  from  that  district.  No  change  in 
prices  is  reported  from  last  week.

Potatoes—The market continues strong 
and  the  demand  good.  Local  buyers 
pay  48@55c,  but  as  high  as  60c 
is  be­
ing  paid  at  some  of  the  buying  points 
where competition  is  strong.

Sweet  Potatoes—Illinois  Jerseys  com 

mand  S3-75  per  bbl.
Has  No  Sympathy  for  the  Victimized 

Jobbers.

Corning,  Feb.  26—I  am glad you have 
the  sand  to  give  it  to  those  jobbers  who 
help  cut  the  throats  of  honest  retail 
dealers  who  pay  100  cents  on  the  dollar 
for  their  goods.
I  wish  that  more  would  make  them 
squirm.  Paul  Finch  and  the  Wayland 
Mercantile  and  Manufacturing  Co.  did 
an  enormous  amount  of  damage  to  the 
legitimate  retail  trade  of  this  section 
and  every  wholesaler  who  sold  either 
concern  goods  deserves  to  go  in  sack­
cloth  and  ashes  for  feeding  fuel  to  the 
flames. 

E l i  R u n n e l s.

G illie’s  New  York  teas.  All  kinds, 
grades  and  prices.  Phone  Visner,  1589.

Excellent  Record  Made 

Banks.

by  the  Local

The  condition  of  the  city  banks,  as 
shown  by  the  official  statements  of  Feb­
ruary  18,  is  not  radically  different  from 
the  condition  revealed  by  the statements 
of  December 
15,  and  with  only  two 
months  elapsing  between  them  it  could 
hardly  be  expected  that  there  would  be 
much  difference.  There have  been  some 
changes,  however,  and  these  changes 
are  for  the  better.  As  compared  with 
the  statements  of  December  15,  the  five 
National  banks  in  the  city  have  an 
in­
crease  of $424,223.43  in  their  loans  and 
discounts,  a  decrease  of  $246,922.14 
in 
their  cash  resources  and  an  increase  of 
$277,868.33  in  their  deposits.  The  four 
savings  banks  have  an 
increase  of 
$69,274.28  in  their  loans  and  discounts, 
an  increase  of  $109,964.84  in their bonds 
and  mortgages,  a  decrease  of  $27,201.80 
in  their  cash  resources  and  an  increase 
of  $171,749.92 
A 
consolidated  statement  of  all  the  banks 
will  show  an  increase  of  $603,462.55 
in 
loans,  discounts,  bonds and mortgages,  a 
decrease  of  $274,127.94  in cash resources 
and  an 
increase  of  $429,618.25  in  de­
posits.

in  their  deposits. 

A 

The  statement 

increased  their 

$1,407,331.09,  as 

In  two  months  the 

further  examination  of  the  state­
ments  will  show  that  the  National banks 
interest  bearing 
have 
certificates  $24,394.15,  and  that 
the 
commercial  deposits  subject  to  check 
have 
increased  $76,063.04.  The  com­
mercial  deposits 
in  the  savings  banks 
have  decreased  $28,351.63  and  the  sav­
ings deposits have increased $200,101.55.
In  addition  to  their  deposits,  the  Na­
tional  banks  have  deposits  from  other 
State  and  National  banks  to  the  amount 
of 
compared  with 
$1,222,736.05,  an increase  of $184,595.04.
is  certainly  very  en­
couraging. 
loans 
and  discounts  alone  have 
increased 
$493,497.71,  which  means  that 
just  so 
much  more  money  is  being  used  in  ac­
tive  business  operations  now  than  in 
December.  This  increased  demand  for 
money  is  also  shown  by  the reduction  of 
idle  and  reserve  funds  carried  by  the 
banks.  The  increase  in  the  savings  de­
large 
posits  has  been  notable,  and  a 
proportion  of  this  increase  has  been 
in 
the  savings  accounts  carried  by  the  sav­
ings  banks  and  not  in  certificates.  This 
means,  if 
it  means  anything,  that  the 
laboring  classes  are  putting away money 
from  their  earnings  for  future  use.  The 
large  increase  in  the  deposits  from  out- 
of-town  banks  would  indicate  a  surplus 
of  funds  in  the  surrounding  towns.

Hides,  Furs,  Pelts  and  Wool.

The  hide  market 

is  strong,  without 
change  of  price.  Scarcity  rules;  many 
tanners  are  seeking  stock  in  new  places 
from  where 
former  purchases  were 
made,  and  are  at  a  loss  where  to  supply 
their  wants.  An  old  dodge  seems  to  be 
worked  by  Ohio  dealers  on  a  more  ex­
tensive  and  far-reaching  scale  than  for­
merly,  by  buying 
in  the  Northwest 
and  selling  for  Ohio  take  off,  which 
bring  a  higher  price  as  a  rule.

Tallow 

is  firm  in  price  and  in  good 
demand,  without  any  material  advance. 
There  were  larger  sales  for  Liverpool 
the  past  week,  which  shows  foreign 
interest  in  stock  at  our  prices.

Furs  are  normal  and  without  excite­
ment,  awaiting  the  outcome  of  sales 
this  month 
in  London.  The  extreme 
weather  of  late  has  curtailed  the  catch.
Pelts  are  lower and  more  in  conform­
ity  with  wool,  yet  still  higher  than  wool 
market 
Some  large  bold- 
I ings  have  let  go  at  less  price  per  piece

indicates. 

5

and  a  month’s

than  asked  a  month  ago 
later take  off.

There  has  been  little  or  no  trading  in 
wool  the  past  week  East  or  West.  Halt 
blood was  an  exception  if  any,  as  some 
sales  were  made  of  this  grade  at  an 
advance.  Manufacturers  are  not 
in 
market  to  any  extent,  but  are  using  up 
present  supplies  to  fill  orders  on  hand. 
Speculators  are  making  quite  an  effort 
to  obtain  supplies  at  old  prices,  but  as 
holdings  are  firmly  held  above  their 
ideas  little  is moved.  There  appears  to 
be  a  bear  in  the  market  when  the  man­
ufacturer  comes,  and  he  is  looking  for 
something  cheaper,  which 
is  hard  to 
find.  Holders  feel  strong  in  their  po­
sition,  as  stocks  are  light  as  compared 
to  amount  being  ground  up,  and  an  ad­
vance  is  but  6@ 7c  above  the  low  point 
touched  under  free 
trade,  while  the 
duties  are  11c  and  wool  higher  abroad.

W m.  T.  H e s s.

The  Grain  Market.

A  weak  wheat  market  prevailed  dur­
ing  the  past  week  until  a  decline  of 
fully  4c  per  bushel  had  been  recorded 
and 
it  looked  Saturday  after  the  close 
that  prices  would  sag  still  further,  as 
all  news  seemed  to  be  of  a  bearish  na­
ture.  Argentine  shipments  were quite 
large. 
In  India  and  other  localities 
where  haivesting  is  in  progress,  reports 
show  that  the  yield  is  in  excess  of  what 
was  expected.  While  European  stocks 
are  at  a  very 
low  ebb,  their  markets 
were  also  depressed.  However,  when 
the  market  opened  on  Monday  every­
thing  seemed  to  change  for  the  better 
and  prices  weie  up  ic  from  Saturday’s 
closing  market.  Cables  came  in  strong­
er.  The  visible  showed  a 
large  de­
crease  of  1,345,000 bushels,  which  was 
double  the  amount  expected.  The  re­
ceipts  in  the  Northwest  are  falling  off. 
Large  exports  advanced  prices,  so  that 
what  was  lost 
last  week  was  made  up 
again,  notwithstanding  there  was  only 
one  bull  in  the  market  and  that  was  the 
much-talked-of  Leiter.  This  only  cor­
roborates  what has been said  in  previous 
aiticles  that  he  can  put  wheat  to $1.50 
per  bushel 
if  he  is  so  inclined.  May 
options  are  neglected  and  the  trade  has 
been  switched  to  July  options.  To  say 
i the  least,  wheat  prices  are  very 
irregu- 
| lar  and  this  makes 
it  extremely  bard 
for  the  manufacturer  of  flour.

Notwithstanding  the  increase  in  both 
corn  and  oats  was  of good  size,  these 
cereals  showed  remarkable  strength  and 
prices  were  well  maintained.

The  receipts  by  cars  during  the  last 
week  were  very 
liberal,  having  been 
69  cars  of  wheat,  13  cars  of  corn  and  8 
cars  of  oats.

Millers  are  again  paying  92c,  or 3c 

above  last  Saturday’s  price.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.
A  Handsome  Metal  Paper  Cutter 

And  book  mark  combined  sent  free  of 
postage  under  sealed  cover  on  receipt 
of  ten  cents  in  silver  or  stamps.  The 
latest,  best  and  most  serviceable  ad­
junct  of  every  library  and  office.  Ad­
dress  Geo.  H.  Heafford,  410  Old  Colony 
Building,  Chicago,  111.

Acetylene  Gas,  the  New  Light.

Furniture  City  Electric  Co.,  Agents, 
Michigan  Trust  Building,  Grand  Rap­
ids.  Telephones,  electric  light  plants, 
everything  electrical.

Arthur  Lane,  book-keeper  for  Philip 
Graham,  will  shortly  open  a  grocery  at 
the  corner  of  Eighth  avenue  and  South 
Division  street.

B.  C.  Mansfield  &  Co.  have  opened  a 
135  South  Division 

meat  market  at 
street.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

VENGEANCE  OF  IRONW OOD.

Episode  of  a  Reform  Wave 

in  the 

Gogebic  Region.

in  the  Gogebic 

In  the  spring  of  1893  a  wave  of  re­
form  swept  over  the  town  of  Iron wood. 
It  was  time.  Filled  up  with  the  min­
ing  population  which  had  collected  and 
coagulated  there  ever  since  the  first 
prospector 
country 
gazed  at  the  sparkling  black  lump  of 
mineral  he  had  picked  up,  and  with  the 
prophetic  eye  of  science  discovered  the 
millions  of  dollars  under  his  feet,  the 
town  had  grown  darker of  reputation  as 
it  had  grown  larget.  But  at  a  certain 
point 
its  growth  ’the  social  and  re­
ligious  instinct  began  to  be  felt 
That 
was  the  beginning  of  the  end  of  law 
lessness,  the 
last  outbreak  of  which  is 
the  subject  of  this  bit  of  incident il  his­
tory.

in 

the 

infamous 

in  the  West. 

its  antithesis 

Ironwood,  in  its  regenerated  charac­
ter,  had 
in  Hurley,  just 
across  the  Montreal  River,  which  at 
that  point 
is  on  the  boundary  line  be­
tween  Michigan  and  Wisconsin  Hur­
ley  was,  during  the  eighties,  the  tough­
est  town  in  the  United  States.  Its dance 
halls  were  the  vilest,  its  gambling  dens 
the  crookedest,  its  traffic  of  vice  the 
most  glaring,  and  its  bad  characters  the 
It  was 
most  dangerous 
Hurley  that  fostered 
stockades, 
where  kidnapped  women  were  fenced 
within  a  large 
inclosure  and  guarded 
with  rides  and  bloodhounds  against 
chance  of  escape  by  the  masters  who 
made  an 
living  from  their 
slavery.  A  crusade  started  in  Chicago 
tore  down  the  stockades,  liberated  the 
women,  and  forever  put  an  end  to  the 
foulest  blot  on  the  history  of  the  de­
veloping  Northwest,  perhaps  the  foulest 
in  all  American  history. 
It  was  not 
done  without  bloodshed.  The  men  who 
conducted  that  unholy  business,  desper­
ate  characters  all,  were  not  driven  from 
the  country.  They  became  the  dive- 
keepers  and  blacklegs  of  Hurley  and 
Ironwood.
As  the  two  towns  grew,  the  baser  ele­
ment  collected  more  and  more  in  Hur­
ley.  Even  there  it  was  held  in  subjec­
tion.  Men  were  not  shot  in  the  streets, 
nor  was  open  crime  countenanced;  but 
vice  in  its  various  forms  flourished  un­
restricted.  Painted  women  plied  their 
calling 
in  the  variety  halls,  and  there 
was  not  a  square  gambling  place  run­
ning.  Partly  because  of  its  better  char­
acter,  partly  because  there  were  bigger 
mining  interests  on  its  side of the river, 
Iornwood  outstripped  its  neighbor,  and 
when 
in  the  spring  of  1893  *t  elected 
the  Captain  of  the  Norrie  Mine  Mayor 
it  was  the  bigger  place  by  several 
thousands,  and  the  better  place  by  a 
still  larger  majority,  its  citizens  boast­
ed. 
In  fact,  “ over  the  river’ ’  was  an 
expression  of  none  too  fair  repute  in 
Ironwood.

W.  B.  VVinthropp  had  achieved  the 
unenviable  reputation  of  spending  too 
much  of  his  time  over  the  river 
In 
the  case  of  another  man,  greater  offense 
might  have  been 
less  remarked.  But 
VVinthropp  was,  in  a  sense,  a  public 
character,  a  superintendent  of  the  com­
pany  which  furnished 
Ironwood  with 
water  from 
its  reservoir,  a  short  dis­
tance  up  the  river,  on  the  Hurley  side. 
It  was  whispered  that  his  dissipations 
were 
interfering  with  his  attention  to 
business.  On  such  a  point  Ironwood, 
in  its  new  consciousness  of  virtue,  was 
touchy.  VVinthropp  was  criticised;  but 
he  had  many  friends  who  stood  up 
stoutly  for  him.  He  was  a  big,  bluff, 
hearty,  easy-going  sort  of  m an;  the 
kind  that  makes  friends  easily.  More­
over,  there  was  no  specific  allegation 
against  his  professional  capacity.
The  water  works  company  of  which 
he  was  superintendent  was  a  private 
regarded 
corporation,  but 
the  plant  with  complacent  civic  pride 
Hurley  had  no  water  works  worthy  of 
the  name.  By  the  contract  with  the  city 
the 
intake  was  to  be  up  the  river  well 
bevoud  a  point  opposite  the  mine  loca­
tions,  as  the  settiements  around  the 
lo­
cations  drained  their  sewage  in  open 
gutters  into  the  river.  VVinthropp  had 
mapped  out  the  pumping  station,  the 
reservoir  and  the  intake.  He  declared 
that  when  spring  came  Ironwood  should

Ironwood 

have  as  good  water  as  any  place  could 
boast. 
late  that  year. 
Spring  came 
When  the  break-up  came,  in  the  last  of 
March, 
Ironwood,  built  on  a  marsh, 
was  one  huge  swamp.  With  the  coming 
of  April  there  was  a  great  deal  of 
malaria  and  some  cases of typhoid.  The 
doctors  said  it  was  due  to  the  swampy 
nature  of  the  ground. 
The  people 
sniffed  cautiously  at  their  drinking 
water  and  wondered  if  the  doctors  were 
sure.

from  that 

One  man,  a hardware merchant named 
Pientice,  filtered  the  water.  He  found 
the  residuum  inhabited  by  ‘ small  rep­
tiles  of  uncouth  design,  and  charac­
terized  by  a  faint  but  undesirable  odor. 
What  he  had  discovered  he  mentioned 
it  was  worth 
abroad.  Some  said  that 
consideration.  Others  said 
that  the 
doctors  knew  what  they  were  talking 
about.  Merchant  Prentice  found  him­
self  achieving  undesirable  notoriety  as 
a  “ kicker,’ ’  and  said  no  more,  but  his 
household 
time  drank  no 
water  that  was  not  boiled  and  filtered. 
It  may  be  appropriately  stated  here  that 
all  the  Prentice  family  were  alive  at 
last  accounts.  Other  persons  began  to 
talk  about  the  appearance  and  bad  taste 
of  the  water.  Some  of  the  doctors  gave 
way  a  little  and  admitted  that  the  water 
might  not  be  quite  up  to  standard,  but 
after  the  snow  melted  off  it  would  be 
better.  Anyway,  there  was  no  more 
sickness  than  there  had  been every year. 
On  the  whole,  however,  it  would  be  just 
as  well  to  boil  all  water  before  drinking 
at  present.  That  advice  received  such 
attention  as  all  half-hearted 
counsel 
receives;  that  is,  noneat  all  worth men­
tioning.

On  the  morning  of  April  10  “ Rom e" 
for  the  Aurora 
Baker,  supply  clerk 
mine,  was 
in  his  office  when  he  saw 
eight  sturdy  Swedish  miners  come  up 
from  under  ground,  where  they  should 
have  been  working.

‘ What’s  the  matter  with  you,  men?’ ’ 

he  asked,  going  over  to  them.
big  fellow. 
back  ”

‘ Av  tank  I  not  vork  to  day,’ ’  said  a 
“ Ai  tank  I  got  pretty  bad 

their 

Previously 

All  the  others  complained  of  pains  in 
the  back  and  head.  Their  faces  were 
flushed  and  their  eyes  bright.  Baker 
learned  that  they  had  been  in  town  and 
had  drunk  the  water  there  three  days 
before 
drinking 
water  had  been  from  the  pure  springs 
in  the  mine.  Bv  night  all  eight  were 
in  the  company  hospital.  Before  morn­
ing  they  were  raging  in  delirium. 
In  a 
week  three  were  dead,  and  two  more 
followed  them  in  the  next  week  Mean­
time  the  other hospitals  were  filling  up. 
Men  were  stricken  in  the  mines,  on  the 
streets,  and  in their  places  of  business, 
and  were  helpless  in  the  space  of  a  few 
hours.  By  the  middle  of  April  Iron- 
wood  was 
in  the  throes  of  a  true  epi­
demic  of  typhoid  of  the  most  malignant 
It  struck  almost  as  swiftly  as 
type. 
cholera. 
in 
cases,  within  five  or  six  days,  while 
those  who  overcame  the  poison  lay abed 
for  weeks  and  arose  with  shattered  con­
stitutions.

Its  victims  succumbed, 

I11 

Ill  enough  could  Ironwood  face  such 
a  visitation. 
Its  hospitals  were  crude ; 
its  doctors  few.  There  were  no  nurses, 
and  in  typhoid  the  nurse  is  more  than 
the  doctor.  What  physicians  there  were 
were  worn  out  with  the  constant  and  in­
creasing  demands  upon  them.  The  big 
barracks  of 
company  hospitals  soon 
filled  up.  The  town  authorities  threw 
the  armory  open.  Three  days  sufficed 
to  crowd  it.  Two  vacant  buildings  were 
fitted  up. 
hastily 
four  days  the 
doctors 
in  charge  were  forced  to  deny 
applications  for  admittance.  There  was 
lack  of  cots  and  bedclothiug.  Men 
a 
sent  then  own  mattresses  and  bed­
clothes  to  the  hospital,  and  slept 
in 
chairs  or  on  the  floor.  Women  volun­
teered  as  nurses  Aid  was  sent 
from 
neighboring  places,  but  the  plague grew 
and  spread.  At last Ironwood recognized 
the  fact  that  its  powers  were  too  weak. 
The  Mayor  telegraphed  to  Chicago  for 
assistance,  and  in  teply  there  came,  as 
swift  as  steam  could  bring  them,  twelve 
young  doctors  from  the  hospitals  and 
twenty  five  trained  nurses  to  the  aid  of 
the  stricken  city.

For  those  doctors  and  nurses  it  was

and  everywhere  they  commanded  and 
entreated  people  to  drink  no water with­
out  first  boiling 
it,  for  they  knew  at 
it  was  in  the  water  that the 
once  that 
poison  lay.  Nearly  all  the 
local  doc­
tors  had  come  around  to  that  view,  also, 
for  there  was  unimpeachable  proof of it. 
A  typical  one  was  that  of  five  of  the 
Aurora’s  miners  who  came  into  town; 
three,  being 
from  a 
hydrant,  disregarding  thepiotests  of the 
other  two.  Two  days 
later  they  were 
down  with  the  fever.  Their  two  wiser 
companions  were  not  taken.  Scores  of 
similar  cases  could  be  cited.  One  man 
refused to be convinced— Superintendent 
W.  B.  VVinthropp.

thirsty,  drank 

“ The  water’s  as  good  as 

was,”   he  declared. 
doctors  are  meddling  fools. 

it  ever 
“ These  Chicago 
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the  experience  of  a  lifetime.  Of  the 
population  which  was  outside  the  hos­
pital  they  found  half  sternly,  bravely 
but  almost  hopelessly  fighting  the  epi­
demic,  and  the  other  half  terrorized, 
brutalized,  drowning 
in 
drink  and  debauchery.  Women  ran  in 
the  streets  shrieking  and  wailing  for 
their  dead.  Men  wallowed  in the gutters 
or  raged  through  the  town  in  the  delir­
ium  of  drunkenness.  When  two  per­
sons  met  they  asked  each  other:

fears 

their 

“ How  do  I 

look?  Do  you  see  any 

sign?”

And  still  the  epidemic  claimed  new 
victims.  No  sooner  had  a  cot  been 
emptied  and  a  coffin  filled  than  another 
patient  took 
the  vacant  place.  Soon 
there  were  no  caffins  to  be had.  The 
dead  were  buried 
in  pine  boxes,  and 
buried  as  quickly  as  might  be.  There 
was almost  a  continuous  procession  to 
and  from  the cemetery.  Over in  Hurley, 
too,  typhoid  was  making  itself  felt,  but 
to  a  slight  extent  compared  with  the | 
It 1 
terrible  conditions 
was  a  city  of  fear  and  trembling  and 
long,  0 | 
weeping,  and  the  cry,  “ How 
Lord?”   went  up  from  thousands  of 
hearts.

Ironwood. 

in 

What  human  beings  could  do  the  re- 
liet  corps  from  Chicago  did,  and  nobly. 
Not only  among  the  sick  did  they  labor, 
but  they  went  out 
into  the  city  and 
heartened  the  people;  told  them  how  to 
live  and  what  to  avoid ;  had  the  howl­
ing  drunkards  locked  up  and  the  hys­
terical  women  suppressed,  for  there  is 
no  ally  to  death  like  fear.  And  always

M  Who  makes  . . .  

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surrounding  blackness,  and  in  the  cen­
ter,  swinging 
in  the  soft  night 
breeze,  the  black  substance  that  had 
been  Winthropp.

loose 

Manufacture  of  Wood  Alcohol.

It 

from 

into  a 

is  not  generally  known  that  over 
60  per  cent,  of  wood  may  be  converted 
into 
liquid.  The  strongest  hydraulic I 
pressure  would  not  squeeze  one-half  of 
one  per  cent,  of  moisture  from  dry 
wood,  but  by  putting  the  same  material 
into  an  iron  retort  and  converting  it  in­
to  charcoal  by  means  of  heat,  the  gases 
and  smoke,  to  the  extent  of  fully  65  per 
cent,  of  the  weight  of  the  wood,  may  be 
liquid  called  pyro­
condensed 
ligneous  acid,  and 
it  are  ob­
tained  wood  alcohol,  acetate  of  lime,  | 
and  wood  tars.  A  cord  of  wood  weigh­
ing  4,000  pounds  produces  about  2,650 
pounds  of  pyroligneous  acid,  and  700 
pounds  of  charcoal.  The  pyroligneous 
acid  from  one  cord  of  wood  produces 
nine  gallons  of  82-per-cent,  crude  wood 
alcohol,  200  pounds  of  acetate  of  lime, 
and  about  twenty-five  gallons  of  tar,  be­
sides  thirty-five  bushels  of  charcoal.
After  the  pyroligneous  acid  is  neu­
tralized  with 
lime  the  wood  alcohol  is 
distilled  off,  the  lime  holding  the acetic 
acid  in  solution.  After  the  separation 
of  the  woodspirit,  the  remaining  liquid 
is  boiled  down  in  open  pans  to  a  sugar, 
which  is  dried  and  becomes  the  acetate 
of  lime  of  commerce.  Acetate  of  lime 
is  used  for  making  acetic  acid.  Fully 
three-fifths  of  all  the  wood  alcohol  and 
acetate  of  lime  produced  in  the  world  is 
made  in  the  United  States  Fully  15.000 
acres  per  year  are  cleared  for  this  pur­
pose.  Wood  alcohol  affords  a  perfect 
substitute  for  grain  alcohol  for  manu­
facturing  and  mechanical  purposes,  and

It  is 
at  less  than  one-third  the  cost. 
used  principally  as  a  solvent  in  the 
making  of  shellac  varnish;  in  making 
It 
celluloid,  photographic  paper,  etc. 
makes  many  beautiful  dye-tints. 
It  is 
antiseptic,  and  much  used  for liniments 
and  for  skin  rubbing  in  bath-houses.

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in  the  water 

it’s  from  the 
any  taste 
It’s  living 
tamarack  swamps  up  above. 
here  in  this  swampbole  that  brings  the 
fever. ’ ’

While  he  was  blustering  in  this  way 
one  day,  and  a  crowd  of  his  adherents 
were  applauding  him,  one  of  the  doc­
tors  approached  him.

“ You  are  the  superintendent  of  the 

water  works,  I  believe,”   he  said.

discover  how  your  water 

“ Y es;  that’s  m e.”
“ Are  you  going  to  take  any  steps  to 
is  polluted?”  
“ Any  man  that  says  it’s  polluted  is  a 
liar,”   cried  Winthropp.  He  had  been 
drinking,  and  was  flushed  and  excited. 
“ I’ll  see  you  all  in  hell  before  I’ll  tear 
up  my  plant  to  suit  a  pack  of  fools  that 
don’t  know  enough  to  stay  at  home. ”  
“ Then,  I ’ll  tell  you  what  1  believe,”  
said  the  physician,  looking  the  super­
“ I  believe  you 
intendent 
know  what 
is  wrong,  and  as  sure  as 
there  is  a  just  God  you’ ll  pay  with  your 
life  for  the  lives  you’ve  destroyed.”  

in  the  eye. 

Winthropp  turned  white.
“ I  haven’t  got  the  fever,”   he  cried.
‘ * I  haven’t touched the water—not a drop 
of  it.”   Then,  seeing  how  he  had  be­
trayed  himself,  he  rushed  at  the  other, 
but  bystanders  interfered  and  he was led 
away  to  get  drunk.

The  young  doctor’s  words  were  pro­
phetic,  and  that  very night the prophecy 
itself  out,  but  in  a  far 
began  to  work 
different  way 
from  what  he  meant. 
There  was  a  meeting  of  citizens  in  the 
open  lot  by the railroad starion.  Several 
well-known  men  addressed  the  meeting, 
warning  the  men  against  the  water.

“ Winthrop  says 

it  ain’t  the  water, ”  

cried  a  voice.

adjourned. 

The  meeting 

interposed  objections 

“ Then  let  us  find  out,”   said  a clergy­
man.  “ Prof.  Vaughan,of  the University 
of  Michigan,  who  is  a  college  aeqaint- 
ance  of  mine,  is  an  eminent  authority 
upon  such  matters. 
I  will  write  him 
about  it.  After  he  has  analyzed  the 
water  he  will  report  upon  it  for  us. ”
Prof. 
Vaughan  replied  to  the  communication 
asking  that  the  reservoir  be  drained 
and  some  of  the  sediment  at  the bot­
tom  sent  to  him.  To  this  the  water­
works  people 
very  foolish  and  useless proceeding con­
sidering the  state  of public feeling.  The 
reservoir  was  drained  on  a  warm,  sunny 
day,  and  as  the  exhalations  arose  from 
the  slime  at  the  bottom  the  men  on  the 
banks  turned  and  fled.  Two  jars  of  the 
slime  were  secured.  One  was  sent  to 
Port.  Vaughan, the  other  was  kept  for 
very  private  experiment.  Some  of  the 
jar  spread  upon  bread 
contents  of  the 
was  fed  to  two  white  mice. 
The 
sturdier  of  the  mice  lived  three  hours 
In  the  course  of  time  Prof.  Vaughan’s 
report  was  received. 
It  was  brief,  and 
the  pith  of  it  was  this:

“ The  man  who  permitted  the  reser 
voir  to  get  in  such  a  condition  is  guilty 
of  criminal  negligence.”

It  was  read  before  a  sub  committee  of 
five,  and  received  in  silence  to  the  end 
Then  said  the  Chairman :

“ Gentlemen,  this  must  be  kept  quiet 

for  the  present.  You  know  as  well  as 
how  much  Winthropp’s  life  would  be 
worth  if  it  were  known.”
But  it  was  known,  nevertheless.  Ru­
mor  carried  it  swiftly.  By  the  follow­
ing  afternoon  it  was all  over  the  town 
Meantime  a  small  party  had  visited  the 
spot  where  the  intake  for  the  pumping 
house  should  have  been.  They  failed 
to  locate  it;  but  some  rods  below,  just 
opposite  the  two  largest  drains  from  the 
locations  on  the  hill,  they  found  the 
mouth  of  the  pipe.  All  those  weeks 
it 
in  death  from  the 
had  been  sucking 
it  among  the 
seweis  and  distributing 
investigators  went  back 
people.  The 
to  town  and  found  a  meeting  in  the 
lot 
by  the  station.  Nobody  bad  called 
it ; 
it  had  simply  collected  to  demand  the 
report  of  Prof.  Vaughan. 
It would  have 
been  madness  on  the  committee’s  part 
to  refuse  to  give  the  report. 
It  was 
read.  There  was  an  uneasy  murmur 
through  the  crowd.  A  man  climbed 
upon  the  fence  and  told  of  the  discov­
eries  at  the  intake.  The  murmur  be­
came  a  growing  muttering.  One  of  the 
ministers  raised  his  voice  hurriedly : 
“ Remember,  men,”   he  cried,  “ this 
is  no  time  for  lawless  procedure.  With

the  shadow  of  death  still  hanging  over
He  stopped  as  a  writhing  serpentine 
object  shot  up 
into  the  air  over  the 
heads  of  the  mob  and  coiled  down 
again. 
It  was  a  rope.  The  mob  in­
terpreted  it.

“ String  Winthropp  u p !”
Two  men  pushed  through  the  crowd 
and  ran  down  the  street.  They  were 
constables.  The  ministers  and  a  few 
other  influential citizens called out  to the 
men,  imploring  them  to  disperse peace­
ably.  The  appeal  was  addressed  to dull 
ears.  There  were  gathered  in  that  place 
cowards  who  for  weeks  had  lived  in the 
deadly  fear  of  death  that  breeds  mur­
der ; 
there  were  calmly  murderous 
Swedes  from  the  mines,  whose comrades 
had  dropped  beside  them;  there  were 
esperate  men  fierce  with  the  pain  of 
recent  bitter  losses;  there  were  the  vag­
abond  loafers  who,  in  a  mass,  kill  with 
the  animal 
instinct  of  cruelty;  and  in 
one  and  all  there  was the knowledge that 
n  this  case  lawlessness  stood  for  swift 
justice.  Against  such  a 
and  simple 
body  of  men  what  could  the  efforts  of 
the 
law  gain? 
Nothing  but  time.  Time  for  the  two 
constables  to  reach  VVinthropp’s  house, 
and  cpff  him,  still  blustering,  but struck 
to  the  earth  with  terror,  and run him  out 
of  the  back  door,  through  the  yard, 
around  twistings  and 
then 
five'  miles  up  the  rivet  to  the  ford, 
actoss  that  and  down  to  Hurley.
The  mob  found  him  not  at  home. 
Where  was  he, 
then?  The  question 
went  from  mouth  to  mouth,  and  it  soon 
found  an  answer.
Illinois  Annie!  With  the 
woman  he  left his  wife  and  kids  for and 
spent  his  time  with  while  our  folks 
were  dying!”   shouted  a  man. 
‘  He’s 
gone  over  the  river.”

few  upholders  of  the 

turnings, 

“ With 

“ For  the 

last  time,”   rejoined  an­

other,  and  there  was  a  fierce  laugh.

“ To  Hurley!”   was  the  word.  But  it 
was  now  dark.  The  crowd  separated  to 
get 
lanterns  and  weapons.  They  met 
in  an  hour.  The  two  constables,  ar­
rived  at  Hurley  with  their  prisoner,  in­
tending  to  lodge  him  in  the 
jail,  heard 
the  tramp  of  marching  feet  on  the  Hur­
ley  bridge;  saw  the  flicker  of  many 
lanterns  swinging  in  a  long  line.

for 

“ God  help  m e!”   cried  Winthropp, 
“ They're  coming  for 

breaking  down. 
me.  Give  me  a  chance  for  my  life. 
consulted  hurriedly. 
The  constables 
Then  they  took  the  handcuffs  from  his 
wrists  and  bade  him  make 
the 
depths  of  the  woods  as  he  valued  his 
life.  With  the  hour  of  death  close  at 
hand,  Winthropp  ran  straight  to  the 
house  where  his  paramour,  known  as  Il­
linois  Annie, 
lived.  Straight  to  that 
house  went  a  deputation  from  the  seek­
ers 
in  silence,  found  Winthropp  there, 
and  told  him  he  had  not  fifteen  minutes 
to  live.  Had  he  anything  to  say?  Then 
came  a  pitiable  spectacle,  for  he  who 
had  been  so  assured  in  speech,  so  bla 
tant,could now find  no  word  He  opened 
his  mouth  and  the  ja w   hung  loose,  as  if 
it  were  broken.  There  was  a dry  click­
ing  in  bis  throat  That  was  all  His 
knees  weakened  and  his  captors  sup­
p orted   him,  unresisting,  out  the  door, 
w h ile   the  te rrifie d   w om en  ran  from  the 
place  shrieking.

All  was  done 

Back  of  that  house  which  stands  on 
the  outskirts  of  Hurlev  is  a  hill  covered 
with  scrub  pine,  and  in  a  clearing  on 
the  top  grows  a  lone  tree.  Around  this 
tree  the  mob  had  gathered  to  await  the 
coming,  of  the  deputation  with  the 
prisoner. 
in  order. 
Winthropp,  asked 
if  he  had  anything 
to  say,  stared  wild-eyed,  in  the  bright 
moonlight,  around  the  circle  of  faces, 
It,is  doubtful  if  be 
but  spoke  nothing. 
was  then  sufficmetly  master  of  his  un­
derstanding  to  know  the  meaning  of 
it 
all.  The  rope  was  thrown  over  a  limb 
and  fixed,  and  as  the  body  rose  with  a 
rush  the  thunder  of  many  hoofs  was 
heard  from  Hurley  bridge.

horseback. 

A  rescue  party  of  the  law-and-order 
element  had  been  organized,  and  were 
coming  on 
They  rode 
straight  foi  the  hill,  jumped  from  their 
horses,  and  run  up 
into  the  clearing. 
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a  man  in  sight;  only  a  few  black  shad­
ows  that  melted  with  a  rustle  into  the

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WEDNESDAY,------MARCHÉ W98?

GENERAL  TRADE  S IT U A T IO N .
There  has  been  enough  in  the  succes­
sion  of  sensational  reports  as  to  the 
Spanish  situation  to  give  speculators 
plenty  of  variety,  although  the  wonder 
is  that  in  the  face  of  it  all declines have 
been  so  small.  During  the  reaction  in 
November  the  decline  in  both  railway 
and  trusts  was  more  in  three  days  than 
during  the  last  week  of  most  agitation, 
and  that  without  apparent  cause.  That 
the  decline  was  so  small  and  was  limit­
ed  to  speculative  stocks  is  an  evidence 
of  the  general  strength  of  the  situation. 
The  only  product  which  showed  any 
decline  was  wheat,  which  in  its  specu­
lative  characteristics  shares more or  less 
of  the  vicissitudes  of  the  stock  market. 
The  reason  why  the  decline  on  account 
of  the  political  situation  was  so  small 
is  that  the  reports  of  earnings,  especial­
ly  of  railways,  are  so  favorable.  These 
not  only  show  a  great 
increase  over 
those of  last  year  but  exceed  the  earn­
ings  of  the  corresponding  periods  of 
1892,  the  banner  year.  When  the  differ­
ence  in  prices  is  taken  into  considera­
tion  the  enormous 
increase  of  traffic 
will  be  apparent.

In  the  face  of  continued  heavy  export 
movement  wheat  declined  three  or  four 
cents,  owing  to  speculative 
causes. 
Wheat  exports  since  July  i  now  exceed 
151,300,000  bushels,  against  114,200,000 
bushels  for  the  corresponding  period  of 
last  year,  and  are  only  exceeded  by  the 
record  of  one  year  in  the  past.  This  is 
the  more  notable  in  view  of the fact that 
the  export  of  corn  is  beyond  all records, 
even  exceeding  the  unprecedented  out­
last  year  by  14,000,000 bushels. 
go  of 
Thus 
it 
is  not  strange  that  there  was  a 
prompt  rally  from  the  decline  of  last 
week  and  that  the  white  cereal  is  gain­
ing  again  this  week.

The  iron  situation  continues  to  show 
lines.  The 
great  strength  in  nearly  all 
price  of  Bessemer  has  advanced 
15 
cents.  The  demand  for  manufactured 
forms  continues  beyond  precedent  in 
everything  but  rails  and nearly  all works 
are  pushed  to  their  capacity.

Textile  manufacture  shows  encoura­
ging  features  in  most  lines.  The  price 
of  cotton  has  scored  another  advance, 
is  credited  to  the  improved  de­
which 
in  cloths.  On  the 
mand  and  strength 
other  hand,  there 
is  some  disappoint­
ment  in  the  outlook for  the woolen goods 
trade;  not  but  that  it  will  be  heavy,  but 
some  lines  have  been  pushed  beyond 
warrant.  The  movement  of  boots and

shoes  continues  heavy,  Eastern  ship­
ments  for  February  exceeding  those  of 
any  corresponding  month.

A  notable  feature  of  the  general  situ­
ation  is  the  heavy  distributive  trade,es­
pecially  in  the  Middle  West. 
In  many 
localities  the  season  has  opened  beyond 
precedent  or  expectation.  An  important 
and  significant  feature 
is  the  demand 
implements.  As  an 
for  agricultural 
the  most  im­
example,  Kapsas  City, 
portant  distributing  point 
in  this  in­
dustry,  reports  the  demand  exceeding 
all  records,  with  sales 
limited  only  by 
the  ability  to  deliver  orders.

The  ratio  of  bank  clearings  continues 
fully  as  great  as  for  preceding  weeks, 
although  the  total  was  reduced  by  the 
holiday. 
183, 
against  269  for  preceding  week.

Failures  were  only 

TH E  CHINESE  LOAN.

After  announcing  to  the  world  that a 
foreign 
loan  would  be  unnecessary, 
China  has  finally  arranged  such  a  loan 
with the Hong Kong and Shanghai  Bank, 
in  conjunction  with  a 
large  German 
bank.  The  loan  has,  therefore,  been 
floated  under  British  and  German 
auspices,  which  means  that  Russian  in­
fluence  has  received  a  setback.

The  Chinese  loan  is  for  $80,000,000, 
at 
per  cent.,  to  be  secured  by  un­
pledged  revenues  and  the  customs  re­
ceipts  from  certain  new  ports  to  be 
opened  to  foreign  trade. 
It  is,  there­
fore,  evident that  Great  Britain  has  suc­
ceeded  in  forcing  the  opening  of  addi­
tional  ports  to  commerce  and  the  ac­
ceptance  of  the  policy  that  Chinese 
trade  must  be  open  to  the  whole  world.
Although  the  United  States  entertains 
only  the  friendliest  sentiments  toward 
Russia,  any  policy  aiming  at  the dis­
memberment  of  China  would  be  antag­
onistic  to  our  commercial 
interests; 
hence  the  success  of  the  efforts  of  Great 
Britain  in  preventing  the  absorption  of 
China  cannot  but  be  very  favorably  re­
ceived  in  this  country.

Grand  Rapids  was  honored 

last  F ri­
day  with  a  visit  from  a  representative 
of  the  American  Sugar  Refining  Co., 
who  bore  an  autograph  letter  of 
intro­
duction 
from  President  Havemeyer. 
His  mission  here  was  to  investigate  the 
charge,  voiced  through  the  columns  of 
the  Tradesman  of  Feb. 
16,  that  the 
American  Sugar  Refining  Co.  had  been 
putting  up  sugar  short weight. 
Investi­
gation  disclosed  the  tact  that  the charge 
was  sustained,  inasmuch  as  an  average 
shortage  of  two  pounds  per  barrel  was 
established 
in  the  case  of  recent  ship­
ments  of  sugar.  It  is  claimed  that  pres­
ent  shipments  are  put  up  full  weight 
and  that  no  further  criticism  can  be 
made  on  this  score.

During 

the  past  week  Sperry  & 
Hutchinson  have  abandoned  their  trad­
ing  stamp  stores  at  Muskegon  and  Kal­
amazoo,  and  report  has  it  that  they  will 
shortly  pull  out  of  the  State  altogether, 
owing  to  the  lessened 
interest  in  the 
trading  stamp  system.  Reports  from 
other  states  are  to  the  same  effect,  from 
which  the  Tradesman  concludes  that 
Lincoln’s  observation  to  the  effect  that 
all  of  the  people  cannot  be fooled all  the 
time  is  probably  true.

In  a  recent  return  made  to  Congress 
by  Postmaster  General  Gary  he  states 
that 
it  costs  this  country  $48,080,282.01 
to  transport  the  mails and $44,047,530.39 
to  handle  them.  The  aggregate  num­
ber  of  pounds  handled  he  places  at 
582,727,661.

ARE  WE  G ETTING   TH E  BEST? 
The  visit  of 

the  Spanish  warship 
Vizcaya  to  New  York  harbor  enabled 
the  public  to  obtain  some  useful 
infor­
mation  as  to  the  character and  cost  of 
naval  construction  abroad  and  to  make 
some comparisons  not  altogether  to  our 
credit.

The  Vizcaya  is  an  armored cruiser,  as 
we  call  our  New  York  or  Brooklyn,  or 
as  the  Maine  was  sometimes  called. 
She  cost  about  3,000,000,  has  a  speed  of 
21  knots,  carries  two  11-inch  guns  and 
ten  5.5-inch  guns.  She  has  a  low  free­
board,  presenting  the  minimum  of  tar­
get  for  that  kind  of  vessel,  and  an  ar­
mor belt  of  12  inches  of  steel.  She  was 
built  by  the  Spaniards  who  are  not  sup­
posed  to  equal  us  in  shipbuilding  skill. 
In  addition  to  all  this  she  has  a draught 
between  her  coal  bunkers and magazines 
for protection,  which our  ships  have  not, 
and  can  carry  coal  to  last  her  for  10,000 
miles  at  two-thirds  speed.

The  New  York  cost  as  much  as  the 
Vizcaya,  has  no  greater  speed,  has  but 
a  5-inch  armor  belt,  a  lighter battery 
and  is  higher and  more vulnerable.  The 
Mainewas lighter armored,had an inferi­
or battery,  had  nothing  like  the  coal  ca­
pacity  and  was  four  knots  slower  than 
the  Vizcaya.  Yet  the  Maine  and  the 
Texas  were  called  second-class  battle­
ships  and  cost  as  much  as  the  Vizcaya. 
Experts  do  not  hesitate  to say that Spain 
in  this  ship  got  far  better  results  for  the 
money  than  we  have  obtained  for  any 
ship  that  cost  about  the  same amount.

And  yet  our  constructors  have  had  the 
benefit  of  the  experience  of  foreign  na­
tions  in  everything  pertaining  to  naval 
building.  They  brag  that  we  have  “ the 
up-to  date”   navy,  but  actual  compar­
isons,  in  speed,  armament  and  cost, 
with  some  of  the  latest  foreign  types  do 
not  bear  out  our  bureau's  claims.  A 
matter  that  neither  the  public,  nor  Con­
gress,  has  given  sufficient  weight  to 
is 
the  fact  that  many  of  our  types  were 
strongly  opposed  by  the  old-line  offi­
cers  who  had  seen  the  navies  of  foreign 
powers.  But  bureaucracy  rules  in  the 
Navy  Department  and  the  bureau’s 
theorists  were  listened  to  while  many  of 
the  rear admirals  were  given  no  hear­
ing.  The  fact  is,  we  rarely,  anywhere, 
in  Government  service  or elsewhere,  get 
as  much  for  our  money  and  our  pre­
tensions 
in  this  country  as  they  do 
abroad.  But  we  have  the  fortunate  and 
happy  faculty  of  imagining  always  that 
we have  the  best  of  everything!

It 

from 

internal 

Every  day  last  week  the  receipts  of 
the  Government  exceeded 
its  expendi­
tures.  The  total  excess  was  $2,257,922. 
For  the  month  up  to  Saturday  the  re­
ceipts  from  customs  amounted  to  $14,- 
436.715.  a  gain  over  the  same  period 
last  year of  a  little more than $3,250,000. 
The  receipts 
revenue 
were  $10,948,535,  a  gain  of  about  $564, - 
000. 
is  expected  by  the  Treasury 
officials  that  the  receipts  from  customs 
for  March  will  be  larger  than  usual, 
and,  as  there  will  be  small interest  pay­
ments  due,  the  month  will  yield  a  sur­
plus  of  $5,000,000. 
The  excess  of  ex­
penditures  over,  receipts  for  the  first 
year  of  the  present  administration,  ex­
clusive  of  Pacific  railroad  payments, 
will  be  about  $24,000,000,  as  compared 
with  a  deficit  of  about  $47,000,000  for 
the  first  year  of  the  last  administration.
Unless  money  can  be  obtained  by 
some  extraordinary  means,  the  schools 
of  Minneapolis  will  be  closed  for  the 
year  on  April  29.  The  appropriation 
was  scanty  and  no more  can  be obtained 
until  the  next  budget.  Forced  to  econ­

omize,  the  Board  of  Education has man­
aged  to  provide  for  two  months  more  of 
school  than  was  thought  possible,but  its 
resources  are  exhausted,  and  there  is 
likelihood  that  the  children will lose two 
months of schooling.  A remedial scheme, 
suggested  by  a  local  clergyman,  is  un­
der  consideration.  This  is  to  raise  the 
necessary  funds  by  popular subscription 
to  a  loan  fund. 
In  return  for  the  money 
advanced  the  trustees  would  issue  cer­
tificates  bearing  a  nominal  interest  and 
so  worded  as  to  be  payable  only  when 
the  city  shall  make  good  the  amount  by 
taxation  or  bond 
in  due  legal 
future  time.  As  there 
form  at  some 
would  be  no 
legal  security  for such  a 
loan,  citizens  will  probably  hesitate  to 
subscribe;  but  the  local  papers  are  ap­
pealing  to  public  pride  to  save  the 
honor  of  the  city  and  to  do  justice  to 
the  children  and  to  the  teachers.

issues 

While  officials  at  Washington  give out 
calming  assurances  that  there 
is  noth­
ing  out  of  the  usual  in  movements  at 
points  of  defense  and  army  stores,  in­
cidents 
like  this  tell  their  own  story: 
The  British  steamship  Strathtay  an­
chored  in  the  lower  bay  of  New  York, 
Friday,  while 
its  skipper,  Captain 
McKenzie,  went shoreward  in  a  rowboat 
to  telegraph  to  the  agents  of  the  ship 
from  Sandy  Hook  station  and  receive 
orders.  He  had  often  done  the  same 
thing  before.  As  he  drew  near  the 
Government  dock  he  heard  the  warning 
call  of  a  sentry.  Captain  McKenzie 
asked  why  he  could  not 
land.  The 
sentry  said  the  skipper  would  have  to 
get  a  written  pass  from  Colonel  Ludlow 
of  the  United  States  Army  to  get  access 
to  Sandy  Hook  in  these  times.

It  has  remained  for  a  Poughkeepsie 
drummer  to  take  a  firm  and  aggressive 
stand toward  the  ravages  of  the  baggage 
smasher.  On  one  of  his  late  trips  he 
noticed  that  individual using his sample 
trunks  rather  severely,  more  so  than 
was  absolutely  necessary.  This  raised 
the  ire  of  the  plucky  knight  of  the  grip 
and  he  shoved  a  pistol  under  the  nose 
of  the  smasher,  calling  a  halt.  But  the 
other  fellow  also  bad  a  gun  and  for  a 
while  the  passengers  were  afraid  of  a 
scene.  The 
in  con­
nection  with  the case was that  the  drum­
mer  had  caused  the  baggage-man's  ar­
rest and  was  suing  the  railroad  for dam­
ages.

last  thing  heard 

A  bill  has  been 

introduced  in  the 
Massachusetts  Legislatuie  providing 
that  “ no  person  shall  place  or  maintain 
within  500  feet  of  a  state  highway  or  of 
a  parkway  or  boulevard  an  advertising 
sign  or  a  picture  or a  poster  intended 
to  serve  as  an  advertisement,  if  the 
superficial  area  of  the  said  advertise­
ment,  either  by 
itself  or  in  connection 
with  others  within  20  feet  of  it,  exceeds 
10  feet  square. 
It  is  further  provided 
that  any  person  violating  the  provisions 
of  this  act  shall  be  fined  not  to  exceed 
$100  for  each  week  during  which  the 
violation  continues.

A  foreign  paper  says that the Emperor 
of  Germany  has  directed  that  two  offi­
cials  of  the  Department  of  Foreign 
Affairs  and  a  certain  hussar  hold  them­
selves  in  readiness  to  depart  for  Fried- 
richshrue  the  moment  a  dispatch  is  re­
ceived  announcing  the  death  of  Prince 
The 
Bismarck, 
mission  of  these 
is  to 
place  the  seal  of  the  empire  on  all  the 
Prince's  papers  before  any  have  been 
removed.  This 
is  hardly  a  mark  of 
confidence.  His  Majesty  appears  to 
fear  certain revelations.

the  ex-Chancellor. 
functionaries 

TH E  CARE  OF  GREAT  CITIES.
The  government  of  cities  presents  the 
greatest  difficulties  with  which  states­
manship  and  philanthropy  have  to  con­
tend.

it 
their 

The  people  of  the  rural  districts  are 
nearly  always  dissatisfied. 
They  see 
and  hear  of  the  vast  wealth and  the  lux 
living  enjoyed  by  a  few  people 
urious 
in  the  cities  and  they 
imagine  that 
such  living  is  the  rule  in  cities  and that 
this  wealth  has  been  got  by  fair  means 
or  foul,  but  chiefly  by  foul  means,  from' 
the  country  people  and  their  products.
That  sort  of  notion,  which  prevails  to 
a 
large  extent 
in  the  country  districts 
of  the  entire  Union,  has  caused  a  bitter 
and  widespread  prejudice  against  cities 
and  city  people.  Therefore 
is  that 
country  people,  contrasting 
lot 
with  that of  the wealthy classes of cities, 
become,  to  a  large  extent,  dissatisfied ; 
but  if  they  knew  that  in  the  cities  there 
is  the  greatest  amount  of  human  misery 
and  vice  and  that  the  wealthy  class, 
which  they  envy,  make  up  but a  small 
part  of  the  population  of  cities,  there 
would  be  taken 
in  the  country  a  more 
intelligent  view  of  the  actual  situation.
The  first  great  question  of  statesman­
ship  is  how  to  make  the  people  of  a  na­
tion  self-supporting. 
In  the  rural  dis­
tricts,  and  in  countries  where  the  towns 
and  cities  are  small,  the  solution  of  the 
problem 
is  very  simple.  The  people, 
by  even  simple  systems  of  agriculture, 
can  dig  their  living  out  of  the  ground, 
and,  unless 
it  be  in  a  time  of  unusual 
drought,  or  when  other  conditions  occur 
which  cause  a  failure  of  the  crops,  the 
country  people  need  never  suffer  a  day 
for  the  necessaries  of  life.

In  the  cities  the  situation  is  vastly 
different.  Nine-tenths  of  the  people 
live  by  their  labor,  employed  by  corpo­
rations  or  individuals  in  the  numerous 
industries  and  other  complicated  proc­
esses  of  city  life,  and  if,  for  any  reason, 
great  factories  and  mills  should  stop 
work,  or  extensive  employers  of  labor 
should  become  bankrupt  or  financially 
embarrassed,  thousands,  and  sometimes 
hundreds  of  thousands,  of  the  inhabit 
ants  of  cities  are 
liable  to  be  thrown 
out  of  work,  with  no  resource  for  the 
support  of  their  families.

It 

It 

is  the  care  of  the  cities  that  de­
mands  the  wisest 
statesmanship  and 
the  purest  philanthropy.  The  country 
people  can  always  take  care  of  them­
selves. 
is  the  enormous  growth  of 
cities 
in  the  past  few  decades  in  the 
United  States  that  has  created  the  diffi­
cult  political  problems  that  to-day 
trouble  and  perplex  the  patriotic  and 
thinking  citizens  of  this  great  republic. 
In  the  early  part  of  the  present  century, 
when  Thomas  Jefferson  was  President, 
the  United  States  had  only  six  cities  of 
over  8,000  souls 
To-day  there  are 
nearly  three  hundred.  At  the  beginning 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century  only  four 
Americans out  of  each  hundred  lived  in 
cities. 
1890  twenty-seven  out  of 
every  hundred  were  city  people.  At 
the  present  rate  of  increase,  more  than 
one-half  the  population  will  be  in  cities 
within  fifty  years.

It  has  been  well  said  that  the  growth 
of  cities  in  size  and  numbers  has  been 
outstripped  by  their  growth 
in  influ­
ence.  To-day,  as  never  before,  they 
are  the  controlling  social  and moral  and 
economical  centers  of  the  world.  Lon­
don  sets  the  keynote  for  England  and 
her  colonies;  St.  Petersburg  for  Rus­
sia;  Paris  for  France;  Berlin  for  Ger­
many;  Vienna  for  Austria.  What 
is 
said  and  done  in  the  great  cities  is  re­
peated  around  the  world.  The  causes

In 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

of  their  dominant  influence  are obvious. 
The  power of co-operation,  which  makes 
a  hundred  men  working  together  able to 
effect  more  than  a  thousand  separate 
men;  the  "powei  of  the  press,  which 
daily  recites  the  doings  of  the  town 
in 
the  ears  of  the  world;  the  power  of 
wealth,  which  attracts  attention  like  a 
gilt  sign,  and  may  be  used  to  advertise 
anything,  good  or  b ad;  the  power  of 
fashion,  which  makes  men  and  women 
go  with  the  crowd—all  these  powers 
have  made  the  cities  mighty,  and  will 
make  them  mightier,  for  good  and 
for 
evil.

In  a  vast  country 

If  these  statements  are  true  of  Euro­
pean  countries,  so  much  the  more  are 
they  true  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States. 
like  this, 
with  an  already  great  and rapidly-grow­
ing  population  exercising  universal 
suffrage,  with  the  will  of  a  bare  ma­
jority  empowered  to  control  and  gov­
ern,  to make  or unmake  laws,  and to  en­
force  or 
ignore  them,  the  influence  of 
cities  exercises  peculiarly  powerful  in­
fluence  upon  the  nation,  and  the  great 
aggregations  of  wealth 
cities 
more  and  more 
incline  the  people  to 
worship  wealth  and  to  covet  the  power 
it  gives.  Add  to  all  this  the  enormous 
amounts  of  money  spent  by  city govern­
ments 
in  the  mere  acts  of  administra­
tion,  and  the  consequent  opportunities 
for  and  temptations  to  official  corrup­
tion,  and  the  difficulties  of  governing 
the  cities  will  be apparent.

in  the 

increased 

transactions  amount 

Take  the  city  of  New  York  in  its 
It  is  said  that,  some 
present  condition 
275  years  ago,  Manhattan 
Island,  on 
which  a  large part of the city stands,  was 
bought  from  the  Indians  for  $24.  The 
population  has 
from  33,000 
to  3,300,000  in  little  more  than  a  cen­
tury.  Think  of  the  tremendous  massing 
of  wealth  there,  where  the  daily  busi­
ness 
to  nearly 
$100,000,000  every  day;  the  capital  in 
manufactures  alone  is  equal  to  $1,000,- 
000,000,  and  the  annual  wages  to  $400, - 
ooo.coo.  Think  of  the  gigantic  politi­
cal  power  which  centers  in  a  city  with 
an  annual  expenditure  of  $70,000,000  a 
year  for  city  government  and  adminis 
tration—more  than  it  costs  to  maintain 
state,  city, 
town  and  county  govern­
ments 
in  twenty  of  the  Southern  and 
Western  States  and  territories—main­
taining  an  army  of  30,000  municipal 
employes,  larger  than  the  entire  stand­
ing  army  of  the  United  States.

immortal  words 

“DON’T  GIVE  UP  THE  SHIP.”
Lawrence’s 

should 
be  the  motto  of  the  American  Govern­
ment  and  people  in  regard to the Maine. 
Don’t  give  up  the  ship! 
It  must  be  re­
moved  from  the  harbor  of  Havana.  Let 
it  be  raised,  repaired  and  restored  to 
the  navy.  Why  not? 
It lies  in  only  six 
fathoms  of  water,  in a  harbor  protected 
from  rough  seas,  close  to  shoal  water,  a 
floating  dock  convenient  for  us  to fit  the 
hulk  temporarily  to  be  floated  to  the 
New  York  navy  yard,  where  every  pat­
tern  by  which  the  ship  was  built  is  at 
band 
immediate  duplication  of 
parts.  By  raising  the  ship  everybody 
can  see  for  himself  whether  plates bulge 
inward  or  outward.  There  can  then  be 
no  dispute  over  divers’ 
statements. 
This  of  itself  is  desirable.

for 

injured  abaft 

Economy,  patriotic 

sentiment,  the 
need  of  as  early  a  return  of  the  vessel 
to  service  as  practicable,  urge  to  this 
course.  The  Maine  equipped  for  serv­
ice  represented  an  outlay  of  $5,000,000. 
it  with  a  new  ship  of  like 
To  replace 
character  would  cost  nearly  as  much 
in 
money  and  at  least  three  years  of  time. 
(Nine  years  elapsed  between  the author­
ization  and  completion  of  the  Maine.) 
The  forward  part  of  the  warship 
is 
blown  to  pieces,  but  from  forward  of 
amidsbip  to  the  rudder  nothing  is  in­
jured.  The  costliest  parts  are  intact. 
To  reconstruct  the  stern  parts  would  be 
a  simple  matter.  Constructor  Hichborn 
is  quoted  as  saying: 
“ The  ship  is  not 
materially 
the  boiler 
spaces,  and  if  every  ounce  of  metal  for 
ward of its engine compartment is worth­
less,  for  less  than  $1,000,000  he  will  un­
dertake  to  have  the  ship  brought to  New 
York  and  sent  to  sea  more  formidable 
and  powerful  than  ever  within  six 
months,  as  the  maximum  time 
lim it.’ ’
Can  the  ship  be  raised?  Let  Congress 
authorize  the  Secretary  of  the  Navy  to 
put  that  question  to  the  wrecking  com­
panies,  and  contract  for the work  Mod­
in­
ern 
engineering,  and  American 
genuity  and  pluck,  will  do  the  rest. 
If 
it  costs  two  millions,or  three,  to  recover 
and  rehabilitate the  Maine  the  navy will 
have  regained  a  formidable  ship  for 
less  than  a  new  one  can  be  built,  and 
in  much  less  time.  Besides,  the  Maine 
is  endeared  to  the  American  people  by 
its  terrible  experience  in  their  service. 
They  favor  its  resurrection  and  restora­
tion  to  the  active  list  of  the  navy.

“ Don’t  give  up  the  ship !’ ’

What  tremendous  problems  are 

in­
volved 
in  providing  a  government  for 
such  a  city;  indeed,  foi  any  large  city 
How  carefully  ought  it  all  to be guarded 
from  the  control  of  rapacious,  unprin­
cipled  and  irresponsible  politicians  and 
demagogues. 
Is  it  possible  to  surround 
the  administration  of  such  power  with 
too  many  restraints?  Every  patriotic 
and  thoughtful  citizen  will 
say  that 
everything  possible  ought  to  be  done  to 
protect  the  people  from  those beasts  and 
birds  of  prey.

Leaders  of  the  recent  uprising  in  the 
Philippine  Islands,  who have  arrived  at 
Hong  Kong,  say  that  the  Spaniards  put 
down  the  rebellion  in  a  way  similar  to 
that  they  have  tried  in  Cuba—by  brib­
ery.  Besides  giving  the  rebel  leaders 
safe  conduct  out  of  the  country,  they 
paid  them  $600,000. 
is  said  the 
money  will  be  used  to  purchase  im­
proved  weapons  and  plenty  of  ammu­
nition,  when  what 
is  expected  to  be  a 
successful  revolution  will  begin.

It 

Although  poverty  may  bring  sorrow, 

riches  create  inquietude.

IM PRO VING   THE  DEFENSES.
If  the  present  war  scare  has  done 
damage  to  business  interests  by  unset­
tling  confidence 
in  Wall  Street,  and 
giving  speculators  a  chance  to  depress 
prices,  it  has  at  least  afforded  the  ad­
vocates  of  improved  National  defenses 
an  opportunity  of  successfully 
impress­
ing  their  views  upon  Congress. 
It  ap­
pears  that  the  average  Congressman can 
only  be  impressed  with  the 
importance 
of  making  preparations  for  war  when 
brought  face  to  face  with  a  good  chance 
of  a  fight  while  unprepared.  Such  be­
ing  the  case,  provident  and  far-seeing 
people  cannot  be  blamed  if  they  make 
the  most  of  the  fears  of  Congressmen  to 
secure  grants 
for  defense  purposes 
which  could  not  be  hoped  for  under  any 
other  circumstances.

A  month  ago  there  did  not  appear  to 
be  the  least  chance  that  the  Senate 
would  pass  the  bill  providing  for  an  in­
crease  of  the  army  by  the  addition  of 
two  regiments  of  artillery;  but  since 
the  disaster  to  the  Maine,  the  bill  has 
been  passed,  with  but  little,  if  any,  de­
bate,  and  promises  to  be  got  through

thè  House  as  easily 
Efforts  are  also 
being  made  to  secure  the  passage  of  an 
improved  National  militia  law,  to  take 
the  place  of  the  existing  obsolete  stat­
ute,  which  has  remained  practically un­
changed  since  the  beginning of the Gov­
ernment.  All  who  have  given  the ques­
tion  of  National  defense  a  single 
thought  have  realized  that  the  defense 
of  the  country  must  depend  mainly  up­
on  the  militia. 
It  is,  therefore,  neces­
sary  that  there  should  be  some  law  pro­
viding  for  the  prompt  mobilization  of 
the  militia  force  in  time  of  trouble.
The  war  scare  will  also  be  useful 

in 
enabling  the  naval  authorities  to  get 
through  Congress  certain  measures  cal­
culated  to  greatly  strengthen  the  naval 
service.  The  first  of  these  measures  in 
point  of  importance  is  the  authorization 
of  several 
large  dry  docks.  The  fact 
that  the  country  does  not  possess  a  sin­
gle  dock 
in  which  our  large  battle­
ships  could  be  received  is a great source 
of  uneasiness  at  the  present  time.  An­
other  source  of  uneasiness  is  the  lack  of 
proper  provision  for  re-enforcing  the 
personnel  of  the  navy.  At  the  present 
time  the  number  of  officers  and  men 
in 
the  naval  service 
is  not  sufficient  to 
properly  man  the  ships  in  commission, 
all  of  which  are  undermanned.  Were  it 
necessary  to  commission  the  ships  now 
laid  up  or  repairing,  or  were  the  auxil­
iary  cruisers  from  the  merchant  marine 
called 
into  service,  the  Navy  Depart­
ment  would  be  seriously  embarrassed  to 
provide  officers  and  men  to  take  charge 
of  them.

In  order  to  provide  against  this  con­
tingency,  a  bill  has  been  introduced  to 
provide  the  regular  naval  service  with 
a  reserve  from  which  it  could  promptly 
draw 
in  time  of  need.  This  bill  pro­
vides  for  the  enrollment  of  officers  and 
men  from  the  merchant  marine  of  per­
sons  belonging  to  certain  callings  en­
gaged  in  coastwise  service  or  fisheries. 
It  also  provides  for  the  better  equip­
ment  of  the  naval  militia  and  the build­
ing  of  a  certain  number  of  torpedo 
boats  to  be  used  by  them.

This  measure  appears  to  be  a  prac­
tical  scheme  to  increase  the  strength  of 
the  naval  defenses  of  the  country  at 
small  cost,  and  it  is hoped that Congress 
will  adopt  it  while  in  the  humor to give 
the defenses  of  the  country  proper  con- 
sideiation.

The  bankruptcy  bill,  which  has  just 
been  passed  by  the  House,  generally 
follows  the  lines  of  the  Torrey  measure. 
In  the  two  preceding  congresses  the 
House  passed  a  similar  bili. 
It  was 
twice  favorably  reported  in  the  Senate, 
but  failed  to  pass.  Last  April  the  up­
per  chamber  ignored  the  recommenda­
tion  of  its  committee  and  passed  a  sub­
stitute  measure,  known  as  the  Nelson 
bill.  This  provided  only  for  voluntary 
bankruptcy.  The  bill  which  the  House 
has  again  passed  retains  the  involun­
tary  clause,  that 
is,  provision  is  made 
for  compelling  insolvent  debtors  to  dis­
tribute  their  assets  equally  among  their 
creditors.  Ample  safeguards  for  honest 
men  engaged  in  business  are  provided. 
But  when  a  debtor  undertakes  to  cheat 
bis  creditors  by  putting  his  property 
secretly  out  of  his  hands  or  doing  some 
other  act  of  bankruptcy,  the  creditors 
may 
intervene,  have  him  declared  a 
bankrupt  and  compel  a  fair  distribu­
tion of his assets among all  his  creditors. 
The  House  passed  the  bill  as  a  whole 
by a  vote  of  158  to  135,  but  on  a  sepa­
rate  vote  on  the  involuntary  provision 
the  affirmative  majority  was  only  16. 
The  Senate  may  again  insist  on  elim­
inating  this  provision. 
If  it  does,  the 
bill  will  be  hardly  worth  passing.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 0

SHACK  STORES

On  the  Frontier,  and  Some  of  Their 

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

Peculiarities.

I  had  passed  a  number  of  years  in  the 
in  a  retail  gro­
drudgery  of  clerkship 
cery  store  in  Chicago. 
In  the  spring  of 
1SS1,  1  had  attained  that  age  when  the 
average  young  man  feels  a  desire  to 
seek  “ pastures  new”  —in  other  words, 
the  roving  spirit  had  come  upon  me. 
This 
longing  to  see  new  territory  be­
came  so  strong  that  1  determined  to  re­
sign  mv  position  and  journey 
into  the 
West.

As  I  strolled  down  Clark  street  on  a 
pleasant  afternoon,  after 
settling  up 
with  my  employer,  and  receiving  a 
hearty  “ God  speed,”   my  attention  was 
attracted  to  a  group  of 
jolly-appearing 
fellows,  smartly  uniformed 
in  Uncle 
Sam’s  blue.  Floating  above  their  heads 
was 
the  glorious  Stars  and  Stripes. 
This  was  the  entrance  to  a  recruiting 
station,  and  the 
idea  popped  into  my 
head  that  here  was  my  oppoitunity  to 
see  the  country  at  the  txpense  of  the 
Government.

the 

legend, 

attractive 

In  the  stairway  was  a  large  poster, 
with 
“ Men 
Wanted  for  the  United  States  A rm y." 
After  a  few  interrogations  of  one  of  the 
soldiers,  who replied  pri mptly and  < our- 
teously,  as  a  “ boy  in  blue”  
is  always 
known  to  do,  he  conducted  me  to  the 
some  preliminar.es,  1 j 
office.  After 
took  the  oath  of  fealty  to  the  military 
power  of  the  United  States,  which func 
tion,  I  must  confess,  was  performed 
in 
a  costume  prevalent 
in  the  time  of 
Adam,  before  he  secured  the  fig-leaf 
trousers 
1  was  then  conducted  to  an­
other  room,  where  were  piles  upon  piles 
of  uniforms  and  overcoats  designed  to 
distinguish  the  “ brave  boys”   from  not 
only  the  common  herd,  but  policemen. 
Proudly  I  glanced  in  the  mirror  at  the 
reflection  of  myself,  and  no  royal  robes 
of  purple  ever  gave  their  wearer  more 
satisfaction  than  did  this  neat  suit  of 
blue give  my  bumhle  self.

I  soon  found  that  I  had  been  assigned 
to  duty  in  the  2d Cavalry,  then stationed 
in  Texas,  and  was  notified  that  I  must 
leave  for  the  scene  of  my future exploits 
in  about  an  hour.  This  was,  indeed, 
rushing  matters,  but  I  managed  to  ob­
tain  sufficient  time  to  bid  farewell  to 
my  former  employer,  whose  eyes bulged 
out 
like  saucers  when  he  saw  my  mar­
tial  habiliments.

In  three  days’  time,  together  with 
other  recruits,  I  was 
in  San  Antonio, 
from  which  point  we  marched  to  Fort 
Davis,  where  we  were  assigned  to  our 
respective  commands.  Having  given 
my  occupation  as  that  of  grocery  clerk,
I  was  delegated  for  duty  as  Commis­
sary’s  Assistant  and  ordered  to  report 
at  the  commissary  store.  Vaguely  won­
dering  of  what  such  work  might  con­
sist,  I  started  in  search  of  “ the  store.”  
No  elaborately  dressed  show  windows 
were  in  sight,  and  no sign of “ Groceries 
and  Provisions”   rewarded  my  diligent 
search,  so  I 
immediately  gave  up  the 
problem  and  began  to  ask  questions.  A 
sentry  smiled  and  silently  pointed  out 
to  my  verdant  eyes  a  large  “ dobe”  
building,  with  windows  about  eighteen 
inches  square,  heavily  barred  with 
iron,  and  resembling  far  more a  prison 
than  a  building  occupied  for  peaceful 
merchandising  by  Uncle  Sam  &  Co.

I  entered  the  only  door  to  be  seen—a 
heavy  oak  door,  of  sufficient  width  to 
drive  a  wagon  through—and reached  the 
interior.  The  floor  was  of  Nature’s 
original  handicraft;  but  the  dirt  was

I compact  and  smooth  from  the  heavy 
tread  of  army  boots.  The  walls  were 
I frescoed  with  whitewash,  and  absolutely 
bare.
.  I  soon  found  the  commissary  officer, 
who  turned  me  over  to.the 
’ clerks”   to 
receive  the  goods  necessary  for my com­
mand.  These  “ clerks,”   in  a  Govern 
ment  store,  are  nothing  more  nor  less 
than  privates  drafted  for  this  duty.

The  contrast  between  this  depait- 
mental  store  of  Uncle  Samuel,  where 
was  a  stock  of  goods  valued  at  about 
Sioo.ooo,  and  the attractive  emporiums 
ol  trade  to  which  I  had  been accustomed 
was  startling.  While,  to  the 
inexptri 
enced  eye,  these  multitudes  of  boxe.- 
in  inextricable  confu 
and  bales  were 
sion  and  hopeless  disorder,  yet, 
in 
reality,  the  strictest  order  pervaded.  A 
majority  of  the  goods  were 
in  hogs- 
neads,  barrels  and  boxes. 
Cords  oi 
say  “ cords  ot 
bacon—and  when 
bacon”   1  speak 
for  there 
least  two  hundred  tons of  this 
were  at 
product 
in  sight—were  piled 
about, 
which  the  clerks  often  used  as  a  side­
walk,  in  their  baste  to  fill  orders.  This 
was  not  a  “ cake  walk, ”   but  a  veritable 
“ bacon  walk. ”

advisedly, 

I 

Coffee,  flour,  hard-tack,  sugar of a very 
dark  complexion,  beans,  baking  pow­
der,  salt, pepper,  vinegar—all the accom­
paniments  of  a  soldier’s  ration—were 
soon  weighed  out and  piled  into  a  huge 
army  wagon,  subject  to  ray  order.  On- 
of  these  wagons  will  carry  the  complete 
stock 
for  an  ordinary  grocery  stock, 
fixtures  and  all,  and  then  have  room  to 
spare.  They  are  drawn  by  six  mules.
Having  a  few  minutes  to  spare,  I  ex 
tended  my  explorations  in  this  gigantic 
store.  Here,  everything  needful  for the 
soldier’s  physical  necessities  and  com­
fort  is  kept.  Various  brands  of  cigars 
and  tobaccos,  good  and  bad,  may  be 
purchased  by  officers  and  men,  at  far 
less  cost  than  even  large  tetailers  can 
buy  them.  These  and  all  other goods 
are  furnished  at  actual  cost,  including 
transportation  and  insurance, to the Gov­
ernment’s  soldiers.  For  instance,  pure 
creamery  butter,  packed  in  hermetical­
ly  sealed  3-pound  cans,  tasting  as  fresh 
as  though  just  out  of  the  churn,  sells  to 
the  soldier  at. an  average  of  10  cents  a 
pound.  Sometimes  the  price  goes  as 
low  as  8  cents,  but 
is  never  more 
than  15.  While  butter  of  this  class  sold 
in  Chicago  at  28  to  35  cents,  Uncle  Sam 
supplied  his  customers  with  butter 
made 
in  Massachusetts  for  about  one- 
third  that  amount,  and  that  in a  coun­
try  about  three  thousand  miles  remote 
from  the  great  trade  centers.  Truly,  our 
Uncle  Samuel  is  a  close  buyer.

it 

It  was  amusing  to  see  the  clerks,  in 
stead  of  decorously  reaching  up  to  the 
shelves  for  articles,  as 
fitting  to  all 
modern 
ideas  of  store-keeping,  diving 
headfirst  into  boxes,  now  bringing  foith 
a  box  of  toilet  soap, 
then  a  roll  ot 
macaroni,  next  a  botile  of  chow  chow, 
or some other article, and  hurrying with  it 
to the  rapidly  increasing  pile  to  which 
it  belonged,  in  completion  of  an  order.
My  search  for  knowledge  was  inter­
rupted  by  a  soldier  of  Irish  birth,  wiih 
the  euphonious  cognomen  of  “ Speed”  
Murphy,  who  remarked:

‘ ‘ Sergeant,  yez  have  no  vinegar  nor 
soap  at  all.  We  can’t  live  without  yin 
egar  for  our  beans,  an’  to  make  our 
dhrink  of, 
sure;  an'  ye’ll  not  luke  so 
purty  an’  white  whin  yez  git  to  Fort 
Davis  av  yez don’t git the soap,  bedad. ”
He  gave  me  a  knowing  wink,  and 
told  me,  in  a 
lower  tone  of  voice,  to 
get  all  the  plunder  the  Commissary 
would  give  me,  as  what  was  left  might

T h e
G a r d e n   o f *

Edward  Atkinson, the famous  economist, says 
that  there  is one  question  he always wants to ask 
in connection  with  any  enterprise.  That  ques­
tion  is a  regular tell-tale;  it  is like a steam gauge 
which  indicates to  every  thinking  man  whether 
the  enterprise  is  properly going forward or  not.
“ W HAT  A R E  

The question  is very simple: 

YOU  T R Y IN G   TO  DO?”

Now ask  the average grocer this question, and 
let  us see  how far his operations correspond with 
his intentions:

“ What are you  trying to do?”
G r o c e r : 
“ Oh,  I’m trying to make  a  living.” 
“ Yes;  but  just  what  do  you  mean  by  that? 
What  is  the  exact  thing  you  want?  Are  you 
working simply for your board  and clothes?” 

G r o c e r : 

“ By  no  means. 

some  money  for  a  rainy  day. 
ahead  iu  the world. 
business. 

I  want some day  to be wealthy.”

I  want  to  lay up 
I  want  to  get 
I  want  to build  up a larger 

it . 

“ But  you  ark  not  doing 

If  that  is 
what you are after, you are  evidently not getting 
it!  You are not going the right way to work. 
If 
you  want  a  bare  living,  go  ahead  as  you  are.
But if y< u want  w hat  you  say  you  w a n t, then 
you  have  not gone the  right  way to  work.”

This conversation  comes very close to absolute 
It  is  true  of  scores—yes,  hundreds  of 

truth 
grocers.

And  what is the cause of their failure?  Nearly 
always  it  is the old story of handling poor goods- 
Instead  of  keeping  standard  brands  of  recog­
nized  merit, they  are  content  to  go along  in the 
beaten  path  of  failure,  ignoring  the  places  on 
which  so  many  well-meaning  merchants  have 
stumbled.

All  this by way of prelude to the general state­
ment that we  handle  goods  of  recognized  merit 
and that the dealer  who  handles  our  specialties 
need  never  fear  the  visits  of  the  sheriff  or  the 
red flag of the auctioneer.

Clark=Jewell=Wells  Co.

Grand  Rapids.

be  “ ixcbanged  for  whisky,  bedad,  whin 
we do  be  gitting  to  the  Fort.”

We  left  this  point,  and  after  nineteen 
days  of  hard  riding,reached  Fort Davis, 
where  we  expected  to  remain.  Here 
we  unpacked  our  belongings,  and  found 
ourselves  possessed  of  numerous  pro­
visions,  saved  on  the  trip,  which  we 
were  entitled  to  dispose  of  for  our  own 
benefit.

The  post  trader,  a  typical  Southern 
frontiersman,  with  an  enormous  quid  of 
natural  leaf  tobacco  stowed  away  in  the 
cavernous  recesses  of  his  mouth,  im­
mediately  appeared  upon  the 
scene, 
asking  us  what  we  had  for  sale.  This 
merchant 
is  always  on  hand,  ready  to 
purchase  any  articles  the  soldiers  may 
have  to  sell,  which  he  puts 
into  his 
stock,  and  in  turn  retails  to  the  team­
sters,  settlers  and  Indians  who  compose 
his  clientele. 
I  showed  him  what  we 
had,  and  he  complimented  me  as  show­
ing  excellent  foresight  for  a  greenhorn, 
in  having  so  much  left  over,  and  agreed 
to  take  the  lot,  paying  in  trade  or  cash. 
The  “ goods”   offered  in  exchange  were 
stale  beer  and  extremely  bad  surrepti­
tious  whisky.

Bacon,  which  cost  at  San  Antonio 6 
cents  per  pound,  we  sold  to  him  for  30 
cents ;  coffee brought  80  cents,  and other 
articles  in  proportion.  The  merchants 
of  Michigan  can 
imagine  what  these 
prices  meant  to  his  customers  when  the 
trader’s  profit  was  added.

Contrary  to  our  expectations,  the  next 
day  we  were  again on the march,  headed 
for  Arizona,  to  assist  in  the  capture  of 
the  famous  Geronimo,  now  in  exile 
in 
the  everglades  of  Florida.  Our 
first 
baiting  place  was  at  Lordsburg,  New 
Mexico,  which  then  consisted  of  one 
genera]  store—in  a tent—and  the  canvas 
dwellings  of  railroad  men,  gamblers, 
etc.  The  signs  on  this  general  store 
were  unique.  The  first  one  which  at­
tracted  my  attention  was  “ grocerys  and 
Provisuns, ”   scrawled  with  charcoal. 
Another  one,  very  prominent  and  terse, 
in 
said  “ Likker. ”  
those  days,  water  was  shipped 
in 
tank  cars,  and  was  an  article  of  mer­
chandise. 
“ good 
Water  sold  here,  Sinco  Centavis  a  can 
teen,”   would  perhaps  puzzle 
some. 
“ Good  water”   was  understandable,  but 
it  was  some  time  before  I  learned  that 
“ sinco  centavis”   was  Spanish  frontier 
vernacular  for  just  a  common  dime.

In  this  country, 
in 

sign  reading, 

A 

We  had  but  little  time  in  Lordsburg, 
which  is  now a  town  of  some  commer­
cial 
importance,  and  were  soon  in  the 
saddle  again,bound for Clifton,  Arizona, 
over  the  famous  Longfellow  trail,  which 
road  is  still  known  as  such.

At  the  Gila  River,  we  came  upon  the 
first  “ dugout,”   or “ shack”  store,  saloon 
and  gambling-house  combination,  that 
I  had  ever  seen.  This  was  a  staging 
station,  and  there  was  not  another  in­
habitant  except  the  store-keeper  within 
a  radius  of  ten  miles.  Yet  he  did  a 
lucrative  business,  owing  to  the  number 
of  pig  copper  trains which stopped there 
to  camp,  Indians,  miners,  stage  pas­
sengers,  etc.

This  emporium  of  trade  was  simply 
a  large  cave  dug  in  the  hillside,  roofed 
over  first  with  brush  and  then  with  sod 
placed  on  the  poles,  with  the  earth  for 
a  floor.  The  only  fixtures  in  the  place 
were  a  bar  made  of  rough  pine  boards, 
covered  with  dirty,  ragged  and  faded 
calico,  over  which  “ likker”   was  dis­
pensed,  and  a  few  old  smoke-begrimed 
candle  lanterns.  Outside  of  the  liquor, 
this  “ shack”  merchant’s stock consisted 
of  a  few  ancient  cans  of  fruit,  sardines, 
a  mouldy  cheese  or  two,  and  some

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lemon sugar,  which  I  was  informed  was 
used  to  make  lemonade  for  the “ tender- 
I  need  not  say  that  “ likker”  
feet. ”  
was  the  commodity  most 
frequently 
called  for.  Writing  paper  cost  5  cents 
a  sheet  and  envelopes  were  also a nickel 
each.  Three-cent  postage  stamps  had, 
at  that  time,  reached  a  premium  of 
“ two  bits,”   a  quarter  of  a  dollar,  and 
the  merchant  did  not  care  to  sell  them 
at  even  that  enormous advance.  A 
lit­
tle  old  rusty  can  of  sardines  cost  45 
cents,  coffee  $1  per  pound,  canned  to­
matoes  75  cents  a  can,  and  so  on.  All 
these  goods  were  dusty,  travel-stained 
and  weary  with  the  weight  of years;  but 
the  dealer  did  a  rushing  trade,  and 
without  advertising.  On  one  side  of 
the  store  were  four  long  rough  tables, 
covered  with  greasy black  oilcloth,  con­
stantly  occupied  by  the  gamblers.

The garniture  of  the  walls  was  star­
tling  to  the  uninitiated.  Winchester 
rifles,  old  and  new  cartridge  belts,  re­
volvers and huge and  murderous-looking 
knives  hobhobbed  sociably  with  a  few 
old  dirty  copies  of  the  Police  News, 
and  several 
Indians’  scalps,  one  of 
which  my irrepressible  friend,  “ Speed”  
Murphy,  carefully  purloined,  in  order 
that  he  might  say  he had “ raised hair,”  
whether  he  ever  saw  a  redskin  or  not. 
This  was  “ taking  time  by  the  fore­
lock”   with  a  vengeance.

Government  45-calibre 

caftridges 
were  here  used  as  coin  of  the  realm, 
being  valued  at  “ two  bits.”   Of  course, 
Uncle  Sam  did  not  know  of  this  sub­
stitution 
for  his  legal  tender,  and  the 
soldier  caught  in  such  exchange  was  in 
danger  of  a  court  martial,  which  might 
mean  death.

The  sight  of  three immense ore trains, 
carrying  copper  from  the  mines,  each 
wagon  drawn  by  from  sixteen  to  thirty 
mules,  and 
led,  instead  of  driven,  by 
two  greasers,  which  we  met  on  our  for­
ward  march,  was  one  I  shall  never  for­
get.  Lack  of  space  forbids  a  descrip­
tion  of  it.

rushing  trade  among  the 
“ sojers, ”  
miners, 
teamsters,  Indians  and  others 
comprising  the  floating  and  permanent 
population  of  the  place,  and  was  the 
possessor  of  an  ample  competence.  He 
may  now,  for  aught  I  know,  be  at  the 
head  of  some  of  the gigantic  depart­
ment  store  enterprises  of  Chicago  or 
New  York. 

N e m o .

Hotel  Rules 

the  Guidance  of 

for 
Guests.

The  motto  of  the  hotel  is 
others  as  they  will  do  you.”

“ Do  unto 

There  are 

three  departments—up­
stairs,  downstairs  and  out  doors.  Out 
doors  is  the  cheapest.

If  the  bell 

wring  the  towel.

in  your  room  is  broken 

“ God  helps  those  who  help  them- 
sleves, " b u t   God  help  those  who  get 
caught  helping  themselves  here.

No  alarm  clock  furnished  by the man­
agement.  Before  retiring  wind  up  your 
bed  and  hear  the  ticks.

To  prevent  guests  from  carrying  fruit 

from  the  table  we  will  have  no  fruit.

Any  one  wishing  to  take  a  drive  after 
lunch  can  repair  to  the  woodshed  and 
drive  nails.

harness  in  the  closet.

Guests  having  nightmare  will  find  the 
Thirteen  at  the  dinner  table  is  a  bad 
It  is  a  sign  that  we  will  have  no 

sign. 
supper.

Each  room  supplied  with  a  handsome 
chromo  card  with  the  following  inscrip­
tion:  “ Honesty 
is  the  Best  Police­
man.”

If  the  hotel  is  not  on  the  right  side  of 
the  street,  let  it  be  known  at  the  office 
and  it  will  promptly  be  removed  to  the 
other side.

No  spoons  allowed  on  the  table  oc­
cupied  by  newly  married  couples.  This 
is  to  prevent  spooning  in  public.
Guests  are  not  expected  to  pay  their 
bills  unless  they  prefer  to  do  so.  We 
its  trunk  for 
have  seen  a  tree  “ leave 
board.”

II

Association M atters

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. W islek,  Mancelona ;  Secretary.  E 
A.  Stowe,  Grand  R apids;  Treasurer,  J .  F 
Tatman,  Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  Chas.  F.  Hock,  Battle  Creek :  Vice 
President.  H.  W.  We b b e r ,  West  Bav  city; 
Treasurer, Henrt C.  Minn ie.  Eaton  Rapids.

Detroit  Retail  Grocers'  Association 

j  President, J oseph Knight:  Secretary.  E.  Marks 

221  Greenwood ave:  Treasurer,  u. H  F r in k.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association
K l a p;  Treasurer, J.  Geo.  L ehman.

President,  F rank  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  IIomer 

Saginaw Mercantile  Association

President.  P.  F.  T reanor:  Vice-President. J ohn 
McBra tn ie;  Secretary,  W.  H  Le w is;  Treas­
urer,  Louie Schwermkk

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association

President, Geo.  E.  Le w is: Secretary.  W.  H.  Por­

t e r ;  Treasurer,  L.  Pklton.

Lansing  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  F.  B.  J ohnson;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

Darling;  Treasurer,  L. A. Gilkey.

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  A.  C. Clark ;  Secretary,  E.  F.  Clev e 

land;  Treasurer,  War.  C.  K oehn.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association 

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

Ho lly;  Treasurer, C.  A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association

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

bell:  Treasurer,  W. E.  Collins.

Alpena  Business Men’s Association

President.  F.  W.  Gilc h r ist:  Secretary.  C  L. 

P artridge.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat  Dealers'  Association
President, L. J .  K a tz:  Secretary, Ph ilip  Wilber 

Treasurer, S. J .  Huppord.

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association 

F resident, T hos  Bromley:  Secretary,  F ia n k A. 

Percy;  Treasurer. Clark A.  Putt

On  our  arrival  at  Clifton  we  estab­
lished  a  permanent  camp  for  the  pro­
tection  of  the  miners  and  stage  ranch. 
Clifton  was  then  only  a  small  settle­
ment,  and  here  was  another store,  which 
we  promptly  christened  the  “ Two  Bits 
Store.”   Like  the  store  on  the  Gila 
Rivei this was a “ dugout, ’ ’with an adobe 
front.  Here  was  located  the  postoffice 
Along  each  side  were  boards  laid  on 
stakes  driven 
in  the  wall  for  shelves. 
The  inevitable  piles  of  canned goods,  of 
all  kinds  and  ages  and  begrimed  with 
smoke  from  the  lamps,  met  the  gaze  of 
the  customer  with  unflinching  calm. 
This  store  bad  been 
in  operation  ten 
years,  and  I  can  affirm  that  many  of  the 
goods  were  of  the  first  invoice.  A  few 
pairs  of  brogans  with  huge  hobnails 
were  on  the  lower  shelf,  together  with 
some  overalls,  Mexican  sombreros  and 
hickory  shirts. 
Two  pairs  of  high- 
heeled  boots,  considered  very  stylish 
and  affected  by  the  “ upper  ten”   class 
of  gamblers,  worth  in  Chicago  about §2, 
sold  for  the  modest  sum  of  $9.50.

Every  article  sold  in  the  grocery  de 
partment  cost  “ two  bits,”   either  by  the 
“ Speed”   Murphy 
pound  or  package. 
asked 
store-keeper  “ how  much 
would  he  be  afther  axin’  fer  a  look  at 
the cheese?’ '  *1 Two bits, ’ ’ was the reply, 
without  a  change  of  countenance.

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We  found  that  postage  stapms  cost  25 
cents  each  here;  but  our cartridges  had 
actually  doubled 
in  value  and  were 
worth  50 cents.  They  were  used  to  pay 
bets,  buy  groceries  with,  and  figured  as 
“ chips”   on  the  gambling  tables.

This  merchant  of  the  “ shack"  did  a

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useless  and  worthless animal.  His  skin, 
when  properly  tanned,  will  make just as 
good  leather  as  the  high  born  pedigreed 
poodle.  Two  or  three  dog  farms  are 
reported 
in  different  sections  of  the 
country,  where  all  worthless  curs  are 
made  welcome  until  slaughtering  time. 
It  does  not  cost  much  to  keep these  ani­
mals  on  a  farm,  for  they  are  fed  on  the 
carcasses  of  their  dead  mates.  Dog 
meat  cooked  to  a  nice  brown  is  relished 
by  the  canines.
The  demand 

for  novelties  in  leather 
for  Dook  binding,  card  cases  and  purses 
and  for  ornamenting  the  edges  of  bibles 
and  prayer  books  has  induced  leather 
manufacturers  to  ransack  the  corners 
of  the  earth  for  animals they  have  never 
before  figured  on 
for  trade.  For  in 
stance,  monkeys  have  been  sacrificed 
ruthlessly to furnish skins  for  the  leather 
trade  and  some  of  the  rare  species  have 
skins  that  are  marked  in a most peculiar 
and  striking  manner.  A  very  novel 
attempt  has  recently  been  made  to  tan 
and  use  the  skin  of  certain  fishes.  Ft 
was  thought  that  the  scales  of  some  of 
the  inhabitants  of  the  water  would  pro­
duce  a  novel  effect  in  pocket-books  and 
bibles;  and  so  they  do.  The  skin  is 
very  hard  to  separate  from  the  body; 
but  when  taken  off  and  cured  it  is  very 
valuable.  The  skin of  eles  can be peeled 
off  easily,  and  this,  when  cured,  makes 
very  good  leather  for  certain  purposes. 
The  skin  of  the  bluefisb  and  salmon 
has  been  successfully  cured,  so  that  the 
scales  adhere  to  it  when  manufactured 
into  articles  of  use  and  ornament.  But 
the  common  brook  trout  furnishes  prob­
ably  the  finest  effect.  The  beautiful 
coloring  and  marking  of  the  scales  are 
retained 
leather  and  they  pro­
duce  effects  that  are  very  desirable

in  the 

for 

tanning 

The  skins  of  birds  would  hardly  be 
into 
supposed  suitable 
leather;  but 
the  manufacturers  have 
been  experimenting  with  them,  and 
with  some  success.  Ostrich  leather  is 
quite  a  new  thing 
in  the  market  and 
quite  attractive.  The  skins  have  been 
taken  from  the  birds  that  have  died,  or 
have  been  killed  for  one  reason  or  an­
other  and,  when  cured  and  tanned,  they 
are  found  to  be  as  tough  as  catskins.

Reptiles  of  all  kinds  come in for their 
share  of  attention  and  belts,  purses  and 
bags  are  made  of  the  Florida  diamond- 
back  rattlesnake  skin  and  of  the  moc­
casin.  The  blacksnake,  garter  snake 
and  all  of  our  common  species  are  used 
in  the  same  way.  All  of  the  bright- 
colored  lizards,  the  common  iguana,  the 
chameleon,  the  horned  toad,  the  skink 
and 
similar  creeping  and  crawling 
creatures  are  offered  up  as  sacrifices  at 
the  altar  of  fashion  and  the 
leather 
manufacturers  ingeniously  convert  their 
hides  into  articles  of  great  beauty. 
In 
fact,  it  would  be  difficult  to  find  an ani­
is  not  utilized  to  some  exent 
mal  that 
in  the  manufacture  of 
leather  goods. 
Thus  a  woman  may  possess  relics  of  a 
whole  menagerie  in  her simple  articles 
of  use  and  ornament—a  snake-skin 
belt,  a  kangaroo  satchel,  an  alligator 
bag,  an  elephant-skin  trunk,  a  pocket- 
book  made  of  catskin,  a  prayer-book 
edged  with  sheepskin,  a  Bible  covered 
with  the  scales  of  a  salmon  or  brook 
trout and  shoes  of  rhinoceros  hide.

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Shoes  and  Leather
New  Things  in  Leather  Are  Now  Put 

T  ogether.

New  things  in  leather  form  some  of 
the  novelties  of  the  season  and  the man­
ufacturers  of  leather  goods  are  making 
great  exertions  to  obtain  the  skins  of 
animals  heretofore  not  utilized  for  that 
purpose.  Some  of  the  most  striking ar­
ticles 
in  the  coming  market  are  made 
from  the  skins  of  the  African  elephant 
and  rhinoceros.  The rough,  thick skins 
of  these  animals  make  excellent  leath­
er,  and  when  stretched  over  steel frames 
they  make  the  strongest  sort of dress suit 
cases,  traveling  bags  and  trunks.  The 
vast  number  of  elephants  killed 
in 
Africa  for  their 
ivory  tusks  has  made 
elephant  leather  comparatively cheap.

Since  the  rapid  decrease  in  the  num­
ber  of  alligators  in  Florida  began  a  few 
yeas  ago,  the  price  of  alligator  hide  or 
leather  has  advanced  sharply ;  but  now 
there  is  to  be  a  revival  of  the  industry. 
Mexican  alligators  are  plentiful  and 
their  skins  are  being  brought 
into  the 
country  in  great  quantities.  The  Mex 
ican  variety  of  alligator  has  a  bide 
scored  more  deeply  than  that  of  the 
Florida  saurian  and  just  at  present  it  is 
more  popular.  The  attempt  to  raise 
alligators  in  the  South  may  result  in the 
re-establishment  of  an  industry  that was 
very  profitable  a  few  years  ago.

leather 

Kangaroo 

is  more  popular 
than  ever  and  manufacturers  can  ob­
tain  some  striking  effects  with  this  hide 
that  nothing  else  can  equal.  There  are 
some 6,000  kangaroo  skins  received 
in 
Newark,  N.  J .,  every  week,  and  they 
are  all  tanned  and  made  up  into  shoes, 
trunks,  bags,  valises  or  pocket-books. 
These  hides  came  direct  from  Australia 
and  New  Zealand,where  the  hunters  are 
so  active  that  the  animals  are  threat­
ened  with  extinction.  Kangaroo  steaks 
and  roasts  are  important  articles  of  diet 
in  Australia;  but  the  hides  of  the  ani­
mals  are  all  shipped  to  this  country 
A  peculiarity  about  the  kangaroo  trade 
is  that  Americans  control  it  almost  en­
tirely  and  London  and  Paris  shoe  man­
ufacturers  buy  their  stock  of  kangaroo 
leather  directly  from  Newark.  Promi­
nent  buyers  from  Germany,  Greece, 
Spain  and  Australia  have  to  do  the 
same.

the 

The  reason  for  this  is  that  an  Ameri­
can  first  established 
industry  of 
tanning  the  hides  for leather  and  he  has 
so  monopolized  the  market  that  no  rival 
concern  has  attempted  to  compete  with 
him.  The  hunters  bring  the  skins  of 
the  kangaroos  to  the  coast  and  the 
agents  of  the  Newark  concern  buy  them 
at  once,  outbidding  all  others. 
The 
hunters  receive  about  70c  a  pound  for 
the  skins  and  some  of  them make$4,000 
or  $5,000 a  year.  The  skins  of  all  of 
the  twenty  varieties  of  kangaroo  are im­
ported  here  and  tanned  foi  the  market.
The  gradual  decrease  in  the  number 
of  wild  animals  suitable  for  the 
leather 
merchant’s  purpose  has had the  effect  cf 
establishing  several  experiment  farms 
for  raising  the  most  desirable  creatures 
for  their  skins.  In  the  last  two  years  cat 
skins  have  been  utilized  by  the  manu­
facturers  of 
leather  goods.  The  skins 
of  these  animals  are  tanned,  and  then 
glued  to  wooden  boxes, 
trunks  and 
other articles  of  use.  The  effect  is  de­
cidedly  novel  and  attractive.  This  has 
increased  the  demand  for  cat  skins  and 
seveia!  farms  have  been 
established 
where  cats  are  raised  at  a  good  profit

The  same  is  true  of  dogs.  The  wild 
is  no  longer  a

mongrel  of  the  streets 

Beginning  Early.

Miss  Edith  Gofford,  of  Tipton,  Ind., 
is  actively  engaged  in the butcher trade. 
She  has  slaughtered  fifty  hogs  and  a 
large  number  of  cattle  in  the  last  few 
months.  She  also  manages  a  store  of 
her  own,  although  she  is  only 
19  years 
of  age.

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advance, and  our trade shall have the  benefit as long as they hold  out.

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error,  the  boxes  were  very  much  alike.
I  cannot  describe  the  mingled  sensa­
tions  of  amazement,  consternation  and 
horror  which  struggled  for  supremacy 
in  Mr.  Boggs’  mind  when  he  opened 
the  box and  saw  the  dainty corsets.  He 
actually  thought  the  woman  secreted 
somewhere  about  his  room,  and  glanced 
fearfully  over  his  shoulder.  As  soon  as 
he  could  control  his  blushes,  Mr.  Boggs 
mustered  courage  and  made  a  closer  in­
spection.  He  must  find  the  owner  at 
once. 
It  would  never  do  for  his  land­
lady  to  find  such  an  article  in  his  room 
—his  reputation  would  be  ruined  for­
ever!  Yes,  there  was  a 
tiny  slip  of 
paper,  with,  horror of horrors,  the  name 
of  Miss  Tw ittit!

How  could  he  rectify  the  mistake? 
One  thing  was  certain,  be  must  leave 
that  boarding  house at  once.  He  could 
never  face  Miss  Twittit  at  the  dinner 
table  again,  with  the  consciousness  that 
he  had  desecrated,  with  his  unlawful 
gaze,  this  article  of  feminine  gear never 
exposed  except  in  the  sacred  precincts 
of  a  woman's  boudoir.

it  of 

Mr.  Boggs  became  more  composed 
when  satisfied  that  no  one  could see him 
in  such  proximity  to  that  delicate,  lace- 
trimmed  article,  and  very  cautiously 
relieved 
its  tissue  wrappings. 
He  gazed  with  fascination  as  the  article 
became  unrolled  before  him,  and  the 
thought  of  the  charming  form  it  was 
intended  to  clasp  again  brought  the rosy 
hue  to  his  cheeks.  Closer  view  made 
him  still  bolder,  and  he  sat  down,  with 
the  corset  still 
in  his  hands,  and  be­
came  contemplative.  Forty  years  of  his 
life  gone,  and  this  was  his  nearest  ap­
proach  to  the  mystery  of  feminine  ap- 
patel!  He  wondered  what  the  rest  of 
woman’s  clothing  was  like. 
If  this  lit­
tle  article  had  such  charms  that  he 
could  overcome  his  bashfulness  and 
actually  hold  it  in  his  hands,  how  cap­
tivating  must  be  the  garmenting  of 
woman.  From  this,  his  mind  naturally 
carried  him  to the owner,  and he thought 
how  delightful 
it  would  be  if  he  were 
married  to  such  a  dear  little  woman  as 
Miss  Twittit  and  actually become famil­
iar  with  feminine  belongings  about  his 
home.  His  home!  A h !  that  was  a 
pleasant  thought.  A  place  for  his  lares 
and  penates,  where  he  would  be  so 
happy  with  a  sweet  little  woman—such 
as  Miss  Twittit,  for 
instance—to  pet 
him.

She  could  say  no  more.
“ Yes,  yes!  For  Heaven’s  sake,  take 

’em  aw ay!’ ’

Thrusting  the  corset  into  the box,  Mr. 
Boggs  put  it  on  a  chair  near  the  door, 
and  turned  his  back  to  Miss  Twittit, 
that  he  might  not  further  embarrass  her 
by  seeing  her  pick  it  up.

Not  until  Miss  Twittit  had  thanked 
him  and  gone  down  the  hall  did  Mr. 
Boggs  venture  to 
look  around.  Then 
he  dashed  cold  water  on  his  burning 
face,  and  sat  down  to  recover  his  com­
posure.  What  an  awful  predicament! 
Actually  caught  with  Miss Twittit’s cor­
sets  in  his  hands,  and  by  the  lady  her­
self !  How  could  be  ever  look  a  woman 
in  the  face  again,  and  especially  the 
little  typewritress?

Just  then  Mr.  Boggs’  bosom  friend, 
Bangs,  came  in.  Here  was  an  inspira­
tion !  He  would  confide  his  difficulty 
to  Bangs,  first  swearing  him  to  secrecy, 
and  ask  him  the  best  way  out  of  the 
scrape.  Bangs  was  a  married  man  and 
would  know  what  to  do

“ What 

shall  you  do?’ ’  reiterated 
Bangs,  when  Boggs  had  gasped  out  the 
harrowing  details.  “ Why,  man,  there’s 
only  one  thing  to  do—propose  marriage 
to  the  lady  at  once,  and  then  you  will 
have  rendered  to  her  the  only  fitting 
If  you 
tribute  and  apology  possible. 
like  some 
don’t  do 
women,  she’ll  tell  every  soul 
in  the 
boarding-house,  and  then  you'd  have  to 
leave  town, 
for,  with  your  extreme 
modesty,  you  never  could  stand  such  an 
exposure. ”

if  she’s 

it,  and 

Boggs  did 

it—on  paper—and  dis­
patched  the  note  at  once,  requesting  an 
immediate  answer.

It  came  promptly:
Dear  Mr.  Boggs:
I  am  honored  in  accepting  your offer, 
and  beg  to  assure  you  that,  in  so  do­
ing,  I  am  happy  to  be  relieved  of  the 
necessity  for  leaving  the  city,  as  I 
never  could  stand  the 
ridicule—and 
perhaps  scandal—I  should  otherwise  be 
subjected  to,  for  that  miserable  little 
chambermaid  saw  me  leaving  your  door 
with  that  unlucky  box  in my  band.

K.  E.  T.

Mr.  Boggs  will  shortly  become  well 
accustomed  to  the  phenomena  of  femi­
nine  garments,  as  the  wedding  occurs

13

in  May.  And  he  often  congratulates 
himself  on  the  lucky  mistake  of  the 
package  clerk,  for,  if 
it  had  not  oc­
curred,  he  probably  would  have  died  a 
bachelor. 

N em o.

Changes  in  the  Matter  of  Widths.
A  well-known  Chicago  shoe  jobber, 
in  discussing  the  changes  which  have 
taken  place  in  the  shoe  trade  in  the  last 
fifteen  or twenty  years,  remarked :

“ We  are  inclined  to-day  to  think  it  is 
necessary  to  carry  more  stock  to  con­
duct  a  successful  business  than  back  in 
f the  ’70s,but  in  looking  over  the ground, 
we  find  that  at  that  time  it  was  neces­
sary  to  carry  quite  a  number of  lines  of 
men’s  and  women’s  shoes  to  secure  the 
necessary  assortment,  as,  for  instance, 
one  Massachusetts  manufacturer  made 
a  certain  line  of  goods  and  made  them 
on  one  width  only ;  another  manufactur­
er  made  his  on  a  different  width,  and 
another  manufacturer  on  just  another 
width,  and  to  secure  the  assortment 
which 
is  now  represented  by  widths 
known  as  A  and  E  it  was  necessary  to 
buy  the  same  grade  of  goods  from  a 
half  dozen  different  firms  to  enable  the 
jobber  to  meet  the demands  of  his  trade 
for  shoes  to  fit  the  different  widths  of 
feet.  And,  again,  we  had  in  the  Serge 
shoe  period  some  half  dozen  grades  of 
Serges  running 
14,  16  and  18 
in  turn  were  repre­
thread,  and  these 
sented  by  the  plain  Serge  polish,  Serge 
congress  and  Serge  button,  also  in  the 
same  goods  kid  foxed.’ ’

10, 

12, 

We have .  .
a  
¿P 
$  

A line of  Men’s  and  Wo-
men’s  Medium  P r i c e d
Shoes  that  are  Money
Winners.  The  most  of 
them  sold  at  Bill  Price. 
We  are  still  making  the 
Men’s  Heavy  Shoes  in 
Oil  Grain  and Satin;  also 
carry  Snedicor &  Hatha­
way’s  Shoes  at  Factory 
Price in Men’s,  Boys’ and 
Youths’.  Lycoming  and 
Keystone Rubbers are the 
best.  See  our  Salesmen 
or send  mail orders.

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Results.
Written for the Tradesman.

life. 

Mr.  Boggs 

is  a  single  gentleman 
about  40  years  of  age,  of  irreproach­
able  character.  He  is  book-keeper  for  a 
hardware  house,  with  a  comfortable sal­
ary,  and  something  of  a competence  be­
sides,  saved  in  years  of  moral 
It 
is  not  Mr.  Boggs'  fault  that  he  never 
took  to  his  hearthstone  a  helpmeet. 
It 
has,  up  to  this  time,  been  owing  to  Mr. 
Boggs’  extreme  modesty,  which  term  is 
used  to  exemplify  the  fact  that  Mr. 
Boggs  was  bashful.  He  adored  and  rev­
erenced the wearers of feminine  apparel, 
but  at  a  respectful  distance.  With  the 
paradoxical  nature  of  the  bashful  man, 
to  meet  a  woman  was  to plunge him  into 
the  depths  of  anguish  and  at  the  same 
moment  to  raise  him  to  the  heights  of 
bliss.

Miss  Twittit  had,  for  some  years, 
boarded  in  the  same  establishment  with 
Mr.  Boggs.  Their  rooms  were  on  the 
same  floor,  and  they  met  twice  daily  at 
the  same  table—at  breakfast  and  at 
dinner.  They  had  been  introduced,  of 
course,  but  farther  than  a  demure  little 
bow  from  Miss  Twittit,  and  a  shame­
faced  raising  of  the  hat  in  recognition, 
Mr.  Boggs  and  Miss  Twittit  had  never 
got.

you—did 

Miss  Twittit  was—well,  out of  cour­
tesy  to  the  sex  I  will  not  state  her  exact 
age;  suffice 
it  to  say,  it  was  in  con­
sonance  with  the  age  of  Mr.  Boggs.  So 
tastily  did  she  dress,  however,  and 
with  such  an  enchanting  smile  and  rosy 
cheeks—natural,  mind 
she 
greet  her  acquaintance,  that  one  might 
readily  be  pardoned  for  never  thinking 
of  such  a  horrid  thing  as  Old  Father 
Time  in  connection  with  Miss  Twittit. 
And  when  one  watched  the  delicate, 
blue-veined  hands  as  she  deftly  manip­
ulated  the  keys  of  the  typewriter  in 
Mr.  Landon’s  office,  one  was  tempted 
to  clasp  them  and  give  them  a  tender 
little  squeeze.

I  could  say  a  great  deal  more 

in 
eulogy  of  Miss  Twittit’s  personal  qual­
ities,  and  why  she  had  never  married ; 
but,  as 
is  necessary  for  me  to  con­
dense  this  narrative,  I  will  simply  say 
that  she  was  a  womanly  woman,  and  a 
man  of  sense  could  do  no  better  in  the 
selection  of  a  partner  for  life.

it 

it 

I  wouldn’t  dare  say  this in Mr.  Boggs’ 
is  an  actual  fact  that 
presence,  but 
Miss  Twittit  wore—corsets!  As this ar­
ticle  of  feminine  toilet  is  subject  to  a 
certain  strain  and  wear,  Miss  Twittit 
found,  one  day,  that  a  new  corset  was 
important  for  the  peace  and  dignity  of 
her  mind  and  personal  appearance.  So, 
during  the  noon  hour,  she  stepped 
into 
the  nearest  department  store  to  make 
the  necessary  purchase.  Passing  the 
gentlemen’s  furnishing  goods  counter, 
Miss  Twittit  espied  Mr.  Boggs  in  the 
act  of  careful 
inspection  of  a  pair  of 
silk  suspenders.  Not  wishing  to  cause 
him  emtarrassment,  Miss Twittit avoid­
ed  him,  and  proceeded  to  make  her 
purchase.  Having  some  further  shop­
ping  to  do,  Miss  Twittit  ordered  the 
package  sent  to  her  boarding  place.

O, 

happy  coincidence!  O,  Cupid, 

The 

situations. 

full  of 
thy  ways  are,  indeed,  wily  and 
strange 
little  god 
prompted  Mr.  Boggs  to  have  his  new 
silk  suspenders  delivered,  even  as  Miss 
Twittit  had  done.  Some unimaginative 
people  would  say 
it  was  carelessness; 
but  I 
insist  Cupid  took  a  hand  in  the 
game,  when  the  package  clerk  wrote 
Miss  Twittit's  name  on  the  box  of  sus­
penders,  and  Mr.  Boggs’  name  on  the 
box  of  corsets.  Whateverjcaused^the

Utterly  lost  in  this  entrancing  dream, 
the  form-beautifier  still 
in  his  clasp, 
Mr.  Boggs  did  not  bear a  gentle  rat  a- 
tat  on  his  door.  He  heard  the  second 
summons,  however,  and,  foigetting  all 
about  the  corset,  called  out  an  absent- 
minded  “ Come  in !’ ’

and 

Dainty 

self-possessed,  Miss 
Twittit  stood  before his astonished gaze, 
with  a  box 
in  her  hand,  which  Mr. 
Boggs  at  once  recognized  as  the con­
tainer  of  the  silk  suspenders  that  day 
purchased.

The  situation  was  tragedy and comedy 
combined.  When  Mr.  Boggs  came  to 
earth  again,  and  found  Miss  Twittit 
staring  at  the  dainty  corset  in  his hand, 
he  nearly  fainted,  and  could  only  gasp, 
like a  fish  out  of  water.  Miss  Twittit 
came  bravely  to  his  rescue,  although 
blushes  were  chasing  themselves  over 
her  pretty  face,  for  she  was  old-fash­
ioned  in  her  ideas  of  modesty.

"What  a  ridiculous  blunder those peo­
ple  have  made,  Mr.  Boggs. 
I  saw  you 
purchasing  these  suspenders  where  I 
was  shopping,  and  saw  at  once  they 
were  delivered  to  me  by  mistake.  But, 
is 
it  possible  that  they  have  sent  you 
my—my—”

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in  quality, 

Fruits  and  Produce.
The  Problem  of  Process  Butter.
A  subject  of  which  we  are  daily  hear­
ing  more,  and  of  which  more  yet  will 
certainly  be  heard,  is  that  of  this  class 
of  butter  called 
ladled,  blended,  re­
packed,  process,  new  process,  sterilized 
and  imitation  creamery.  Although  but­
ters  known  by  these  various  names 
diffei  widely  in  method  of  preparation 
and 
including  the  good, 
the  bad,  and  (largely)  the  indifferent, 
they  may  fairly  be  placed  in  one  class. 
The  fat  which  gives  them  a  question­
able  title  to  the  name  of  butter  has,  in 
all  cases,  been  in  an  inferior,  low-grade 
condition  since 
leaving  the  churn,  in 
some  cases  absolutely  bad,  and  most  of 
it,  probably,  unmerchantable  as  butter. 
The  object  of  the  different  processes 
has  been  renovation  and 
improvement. 
It  comes  upon  the  market  in  a  form  ac­
it 
tually  and  commercially  better  than 
ever  held  betore. 
it  is 
just  the  opposite  of  genuine, 
fresh 
creamery  butter,  which  has  always  been 
in  as  good  condition  and  quality  as 
when  in  market,  if  not  better.

In  this  regard 

constitute  a 

The  re-packed  or  process  goods  un­
questionably 
legitimate 
food  product  of  their  kind,  and  may  be 
justly  claimed  to  be  (generally)  the  fat 
of  milk,  purified,  rather  than  pure. 
But  should  these  goods  be  called  butter 
without  some  distinctive  and  descrip­
tive  qualification?  They  are  destitute 
of  the  original  and  most  highly  valued 
characteristics  of  fresh  butter,  the  fla­
vor and  the  grain  or  body.  The  artifi­
cial  flavor  contributed  by  the  process  is 
transient  and  uncertain.  The  true  grain 
of  butter  can  never  be  restored  to  fat 
which  has  been  reduced  to  a  limpid 
oil.  For  my  own  use,  knowing  the  his­
tory  of  the  principal  constituents  and 
the  methods  of  preparation, 
I  much 
prefer  a  good  article  of  butterine  to  the 
best  process  butter.

in 

large 

Like  oleomargarine  and  butterine  the 
origin  and  indentily  of  these  renovated 
butters  are  known  to the wholesalers  and 
jobbers  and,  generally,  so  long  as  they 
remain 
lots.  But  when  they 
pass  into  the  hands  of  retailers  and con­
sumes  their  identity  is  usually  lost,  and 
opportunities  are  then  offered  for  the 
practice  of  deception  and  fraud. 
In 
my  opinion,  as  the  case  stands  to-day, 
the  entire  class  of  process  goods  con­
stitutes  a  more  immediate  and  serious 
menace  to  the  interests  of straight,  fresh 
creamery  and  dairy  butter  than  the 
compounds  subject  to  the  oleo  laws.

The  pertinent  question  seems  to  be 
What  are  the  creamerymen,  their  sell­
ing  agents  and  representatives  in  the 
trade going  to  do  about  this?

Honest  men  insist that oleomargarine, 
butterine  and  all 
imitations  of  butter 
and  substitutes  therefor  shall  be  made, 
offered  and  sold  for  just  what  they  are. 
This  done,  no  fair-minded  man  can  ask 
for  more.  Should  not  the  same  general 
rule  be  made  to  apply  to  renovated  and 
process  butter  of  all  kinds?  Are  new 
laws  necessary  to  this  end? 
If  so,  who 
shall  ask  for  them,  frame  them  and  se­
cure  the  needed  legislation?

H e n r y   E.  A l v o r d .

Classification  and  Grading  of  Eggs  in 

New  York.

The  New  York  Mercantile  Exchange 
has  adopted  the  following  rules  for  the 
classification  and  grading  of  eggs  sold 
under  the  auspices  of  that  organization :
sold 
“ At  Mark”   shall  contain  at  least  85 
per  cent,  and  when  sold  “ Loss  Off”   at

Fresh  Gathered  Firsts--When 

the 

should 

least  65  per  cent,  of  prime  full  sweet 
eggs  reasonably  clean,  and  of  fair  size; 
the  balance  of  the  good  eggs  may  be 
sweet  held  stock.  The  salted,  heated, 
frozen,  cracked  and  very  small  to  be 
settled  for  at  half price.  Eggs  contain­
ing  fifty  (50)  per  cent,  of  prime,  full 
sweet  eggs  during  the  months  of  No­
vember  and  December  shall  be  consid­
ered  a  good  delivery.  They  must  be  in 
good  order  and  in  sweet  dry  packing, 
and  when  sold  “ At  Mark”   the  loss 
must  not  exceed  15  eggs  to  the  36 dozen 
cases  or  12  eggs  to  the  80  dozen  case. 
But 
those 
amounts  not  to  exceed  50  per  cent,  the 
stock  shall  be  a  good  delivery,  but  the 
excess  of 
loss  shall  be  allowed  to  the 
purchaser.  Fresh  gathered  firsts  when 
sold  “ At  M ark,”   to  be  a  good delivery, 
shall  he  in  new  cases  and  fillers.

loss  exceed 

Fresh  Gathered  Seconds—Shall  com­
prise  stock  containing  not  less  than  50 
per  cent,  of  prime  full  sweet  eggs;  the 
balance  of  the  good  eggs  may  be  sweet 
held  stock.  The  frozen,  heated,  salted 
and  cracked  to  be  settled  for  at  half 
price.  Eggs  containing  35  per  cent,  of 
prime  full  sweet  eggs  during the months 
of  November  and  December  shall  be 
considered  a  good  delivery.  They  must 
be 
fair  order,  and  the  packing  in 
fair  condition.  Seconds  shall  also  in­
clude such  eggs  as  are  Firsts in  qualitv, 
but  which  fail  to  pass  as  Firsts  by  rea­
son  of  imperfect  or  defective  packing, 
or because  of  being  unreasonably  dirty.
Held  Eggs—May  grade  as  Firsts  and 

in 

Seconds.

Firsts—Shall  comprise  25  per  cent, 
of  perfectly  full  sweet  eggs,  reasonably 
clean.  The  balance  of  the  good  eggs 
to  be  useful,  sweet  stock  that  have  not 
been 
storage.  The  salted, 
frozen,  heated,  cracked  and  very  small 
to  be  settled 
for  at  half  price.  Cases 
and  packing  to  be  in  good  order.

Seconds —Shall  be  a  grade  not  good 

cold 

in 

enough  to  pass  as  Firsts.

stock, 

Refrigerator  Eggs  -May  grade  as 

Firsts,  Seconds  and  Thirds.
Firsts—Shall  comprise  sweet  storage 
eggs  reasonably  full  and  clean,  good 
useful  stock  in  good  order  and  in  sweet 
dry  packing.

Seconds—Shall  comprise  eggs  which 
are  old  flavored  or  slightly  tainted  or  in 
imperfect  or  defective  packing,  but 
must  not be  musty.

Thirds—Shall  comprise  all  eggs  too 
poor  to  pass  as  Seconds,  but  which  are 
not  rotten.

Limed  Firsts—Shall  comprise 

fine 
limed 
perfectly  sweet,  well 
cleaned,  in  sweet  dry  packing  and  in 
order,  and  must  not  lose  to  exceed  three 
dozen  on  30 dozen  cases  and  three dozen 
seven  eggs  on  36  dozen  cases.

l  imed  Seconds—Shall  comprise  stock 
that  is  rusty, weak  and shows hot weather 
defects;  but  must  contain  at 
least  60 
per  cent  of  good  eggs  of  fairly  useful 
quality.

Known  Marks--Sball  comprise  such 
eggs  as  are  well  known  to  the  trade  un­
some  particular  designation  or 
der 
in  the 
mark,  and  must  grade  as  firsts 
season 
are  offered. 
Known,  marks  to  be  offered  on  the 
“ call”   must  previously  have  been  reg­
istered  in  a  book  kept  by  the  Superin­
tendent  for  that  purpose.

in  which  they 

All  former  rules  governing  the  sale  of 
eggs  on  the  floor  of  the  Exchange  are 
hereby  annulled.

How  He  Would  Do  It.

“ Well,”   said  the  great  importer,  you 
“  want  a  position  as  tea-taster,  do  you? 
Have  you  ever  had  any  experience  in 
this  business?”

“ No,”   the  applicant  replied, 

“ but 
I've  boarded  around  and  eaten  at  res­
taurants  so  long  that  I  know  I ’d  be  a 
I could  tell  the  genuine 
good  one  at  it. 
tea  right  off,  because 
it  would  be  so 
different,  you  know.”

Bent  Out  o f  Shape.

Proprietor—What are you taking back, 

there?

Waiter—Customer 

sent 

this  steak 

back;  says  he  couldn't  cut  it.

Proprietor  (examining 

it 
back  to  him  at  once  and  tell  him  he’ll 
have  to  pay  for  it  We  can  never  use  it 
again ;  he  has  bent  it all  out  of  shape.

it)—Take 

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Will  buy or  handle on  Commission 

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Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St.  Branch Store, 333 Russell St., op  Eastern  Market.

Rumors  of  War

don’t  influence our  business.  Our  Northern  S p ys 
are  not  from  Spain;  they’re grown  right  in  Mich­
igan,  and  are  the best  Apples offered.

Oranges,  Cape Cod Cranberries,  Honey,  Lemons,  Bananas,
Sweet Potatoes,  Red and  Yellow  Onions,  Spanish  Onions.

Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

BUNTING  &  CO., 
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B U TTER

of  all  grades  bought  at 
point  of  shipment.

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,

ni  Market  St.,  Detroit. 
Produce  Commission  Merchant,  in
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BEANS  AND  POTATOES

CARLOTS  O N LY.

M IL LE R   &  T E A S D A L E   CO.,

ST.  LOUIS. 

M ISSOU RI.

We are in the market to buy

PEAS,  BEANS,  POTATOES

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

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

ALFRED J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.,

24 and  26  North  Division  S t., 

G R AN D   R A P ID S.

W e  solicit  you r  business  because  w e  feel 
th at  w e can  do  you r  shipm ents  justice  in  the 
full  sense  of  the  word.  W e  offer  no  extraor­
din ary  inducements— no  one-half cent or  more 
above  the  m arket,  no  top  price  for  goods  irre­
spective  of qu ality— but  w h at  w e  do  offer  and 
guarantee  every  shipper,  w h eth er  of a   single 
package of  butter  or eggs,  or a  carload,  is  the 
very  best  service  a n y   strictly  responsible, 
experienced  house  in  this  or  in  a n y  m arket 
can  give.

If  you  are  satisfied  to  h ave  your  goods  sold 
upon th eir m erits,  w ish to enjoy the ad vantages 
of  a  large,  established  trade,  and  be assured  of 
square,  liberal  treatm ent,  correspond  w ith   us; 
or,  better  still,  m ark  us  up a   few   shipm ents.

Harris &  Frutchey,

Commission  Herchants,

DETROIT,  MICH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN 

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Relation  of the  Commission  Merchant 

to  the  Shipper.

The  subject  assigned  me  for  presen­
tation  at  this  representative  gathering 
of  one  of  the  most 
important  branches 
of  industry  in  our  country  is  one  of  no 
inconsiderable  importance,  and,  at  the 
same  time,  in  order  that  it  may  receive 
just  treatment  at  my  hands,  I  find  my­
self  in  somewhat  of  a  delicate  position. 
I  am  aware  that  often—aye,  too  often— 
we  think  the  commission  merchant  is 
ostracized  and  subjected  to  unfair  crit­
icism  and  unjust 
judgment  because 
sufficiently  precautionary  measures have 
not  been  taken  by  the  shipper and  pro­
ducer.

The  commission  merchant  is  a  neces­
sary  factor 
in  nearly  every  branch  of 
trade,  and 
it 
is  fair  to  state  that  with 
all  the  perfected  arrangement  of  the 
grain  and  live  stock  trade  of  Buffalo, 
representing 
in  value  millions  of  dol­
lars  annually,  nine-tenths  of  the  amount 
passes  through  the  hands  of  the  com­
mission  merchant.  The  real  and  suc­
cessful  commission  merchant  must  be 
an  expert 
judge  of  goods  in  his  line; 
he  must  have  a  large  acquaintance  with 
the  trade  in  general,  a favorable  locality 
in  which  to  dp  business  and  a  substan­
tial  capital.  He  must  at  all  times  be 
posted  on  the  tendency of the  market,  as 
well  as  present  market  values,  and  also 
command  the  respect  of  the  trade.

Of  necessity,  a  commission  merchant 
or  middleman  is  wanted  to  act  between 
the  farmer  or  shipper  and  the  retail 
dealer,  and  the  first  thought  of  the  pro­
ducer  or  shipper  is,  With  whom  can  1 
entrust  my  goods?  He  consults  his  bank 
or  some  mercantile  agency  or,  possibly 
some  friend  who  tells  him  of  one  or 
several  responsible  houses  in  the  mar­
ket  he  has  in  mind  whose  aim  it  is  to 
treat  all  shippers  alike  and  to  sell  as 
promptly  as  expedient  with  best  results 
the  goods  entrusted  to  his  care.  Let 
me  emphasize  the  fact  that  great  care 
should  be  used 
in  selecting  a  house 
which  has  the  ability  to  dispose  of  both 
small  and  large  quantities  of  produce 
and  one  which  has  had  experience  in 
business  and 
is  financially  responsible 
for  the  prompt  returns  of  all  sales  sent 
on  consignment.

it 

Confidence  by  the  shipper  and  pro­
duce  dealer  is  necessary  in  the  commis­
sion  merchant.  When  satisfied  that  you 
have  selected  the  right  man,  that  he 
will  do  all 
in  his  power  to  obtain  for 
you  the  best  results  possible,  taking 
advantage  of  the  market  in  every  in­
stance,  consign  him  your  goods.  Grave 
carelessness  is  too  often  made  in  ship­
ping  a  house  before  even  its  record 
is 
learned.  Because  a  house 
floats  the 
country  with  attractive  letter  heads  and 
circular  price  currents, 
telling  how 
many  years  it  has  been  in  business,  and 
that 
is  prompt  and  reliable,  with  an 
invitation  to  look  it  up,  is  no  guarantee 
that  it  is  what  it  represents  itself  to  be. 
Look  it  up  and  satisfy  yourself  as  to  its 
standing  before  you  entrust  your  busi­
ness  to  its  care.  Neglect  to  do  this  has 
brought  many  a  shipper  to  grief,  with 
the  result  that good  houses  have  come 
in  for  unjust  criticism  and  the  “ ban” ' 
is  placed  upon  the  trade  in general.  In­
vestigate  carefully  the  standing  of  a 
commission  merchant  before  you  put 
your  business 
into  his  hands  and  less 
adverse 
judgment  will  result,  and  less 
contumely  will  be  heaped  upon  the  en­
tile  profession. 
If  your  bank  says  to 
‘ ‘ not  only  go  light,  but go  very  light,”  
it  is  time  to  look  further.

It  is  easy  and  a  very  important  mat­
ideal  house  I  have  de­

ter  to  find  the 

scribed  and  it  is  worth  the  time  it  will 
take  you  to  get  the  information  correct­
ly,  and  then  when  thoroughly  convinced 
of  the  truth  of  the  examination,  place 
your  confidence 
in  such  a  commission 
merchant  and  house  to  which  to  con­
sign  your  shipments.  Do  not  fail  to 
write  him  at  the  time  of  shipment,  giv­
ing  full  details  thereof.  Do  not  hesitate 
to  ask  such  a  house  for  daily  or semi­
weekly  quotations  on  the  goods  you  are 
shipping  and  to  keep  you  fully  posted 
on  the  market  as  to  receipts,  sales  and 
advisements  as  to  prospects  for  further 
shipments.

find 

fancy,’ 

adding, 

shipper. 

in  candling 

is  found  the  weight 

A  shipper  writes  and  encloses  bill  of 
lading.  He  has  shipped  25  cases  of 
fresh  eggs.  The  commission  merchant 
may  tell  one  of  his  customers  that  he 
can  sell  him  a  nice  lot  of  fresh  eggs  to 
arrive  that  day,  and he  disposes  of  them 
as  a  fancy  lot at  a  fancy  price  and,  on 
arrival,  the  stock  is  examined  and  it  is 
found  that  a 
larger  percentage  of  the 
eggs  are  badly  settled,  with  some  rots 
and  brokens.  Then  the  purchaser  says,
Can‘t  use  at  any  price ; the stock is too 
old.”   The  loss 
is  quite 
heavy  and  a  shaded  price  must  betaken 
for  the  best 
in  the  shipment.  Confi­
is  broken  between  the  commis­
dence 
sion  merchant  and  the 
A 
creamery  writes,  “ We  ship  you  this  day 
our  entire  week’s  make  of  butter,  which 
is  very 
‘ ‘ Enclosed 
please 
gross  weight  and  tare 
marked  on  each  tub  accordingly.”   The 
shipment  arrives  and  it  is  found  on  ex­
amination  that  the  butter  shows  up 
salvy,  flat  of  taste,  loss  of  flavor  and 
only  grades  as  common.  Upon  weigh­
ing  a  tub  to  a  customer,  to  whom  much 
persuasion  has  been  used  to  purchase, 
it 
is  one  pound 
shoit  The  price  obtained  is  for  ordi­
nary  make  of  creamery,  quality  far 
from  fancy.  The  shipper  upon  receiv­
ing  his  returns  claims  an  injustice  has 
been  done  him  and  doesn’t  ship  any 
more;  in  fact,  there  has  been  an  error 
of  judgment  on  the  part  of  the  shipper 
and  confidence  is  broken  on  the  part  of 
the  commission  merchant  and  results 
are  not  what  they  should  be  by far.  The 
best  results  obtained  by  both  shipper 
and  commission  merchant  are 
from 
those  shipments  that  the  shipper  sends 
that  are  well  and  carefully  packed  and 
put  up  for  market  as  directed  and  are 
in  quality  as  represented. 
In  this  en­
lightened  country,  where  an education  is 
provided  for  every  boy  and  girl  if  they 
improve  the  opportunity,  all  can  very 
distinctly  understand  the  terms  used 
in 
business,  so  that  few misunderstandings 
can  take  place. 
If  misrepresentation 
is  used  or  practiced  by  both  shipper 
and  commission  merchant,  the  results 
cannot  be  far  from  disastrous;  but  if 
honest  representation  by  shipper  and 
commission  merchant,  honest  sales, 
prompt  returns,thorough  posting of mar­
kets,  then  the  best  results  must  be  ob­
tained.

Allow  me  to  say  that  the  relation  of 
the  commission merchant  to  the  shipper 
and  producer 
is  that  of  a  middleman 
The  middleman  becomes  the  agent  or 
employe  of  his  shipper. 
In  order  that 
the  best  results  may  be  brought  about, 
a  relation  of  confidence  must  mutually 
be  entertained  one  for  the  other.  The 
commission  merchant,  to 
inspire  the 
confidence  of  the  shipper  or  producer, 
must  be  a  man  of  integrity,  ability,  ex­
perience  and 
financially  responsible. 
On  the  other  hand, that confidence be en­
tertained  by  the  commission  merchant 
in  the  shipper  and  producer,  the  latter 
must  be  possessed  of  integrity  and  all

representations  be  honest  in  every  way. 
By  so  doing  the  best  results  can  be 
realized  by  both  parties  interested.

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

G e o .  R .  W i l l i a m s .

The  Folly  of  Over-Charging.

Prom  Hardware and  Metal  Merchant.

If  a  merchant  does  not  make  a  profit 
out  of  the  goods  he  sells  it  is  only  a 
question  of  time  before  he  will  be  com­
pelled  to  go  out  of  business.  That  is 
just  as  certain  as  it  is  that  a  river  will 
run  dry  if  its  source  is  cut  off.

But  there 

is  a  wrong  way  as  well  as 
a  right  way  of  securing  profit.  And  to 
follow  the  wrong  way  is  almost  as  bad 
as  to  make  no  profit  at  all.

One  of  the  ways  which  some  mer­
in  their  desire  to  make 
chants  follow 
profit 
is  by  charging  one  or  two  cents 
per  pound  more for  this  commodity,  or 
a  dollar or  two more  for  that article than 
the  ruling  market  price  warrants.

Aside  altogether  from  the  injustice  of 
is  a  most  foolish 

such  a  procedure,  it 
one.

Nine  out  of  every  ten  of the customers 
thus  taken  advantage  of  will  discover 
the  fact  before  a  great  while,  and  then 
nine  times  out  of  ten  there  will  be  a 
paiting  of  customer  and  merchant.

We  have  no  reference  to  the  fact  that 
one  merchant  often  finds  himself  being

undersold  by  another  who 
is  cutting 
prices.  We  merely  have  reference  to 
the  man  who  makes  a  practice  of  per­
sistently  charging  his  customers  in  ex­
cess  of  the  market  prices  for  his  wares.
That  there  are  those  who  are  doing  it 
is  not  supposition.  We  know  it  for a 
fact,  and  could  give  names 
if  neces­
sary.

is  the  merchant  who 

In  these  days  of  keen  competition 

it 
is  not  the  merchant  who  exacts  for  bis 
wares  more than  the  ruling  market price 
that  obtains  success  and  earns  a  com­
is 
petency. 
energetic,  up-to-date, 
ideas, 
and  who  turns  his  stock  over frequently.
Verily,  he  that  overchargeth  his  cus­
tomers  is  like  unto  the  man  who  goeth 
into  his  cellar  and  pulleth  the  plug  out 
of  the  tap-hole  of  his  wine  cask,  for 
when  he  overchargeth  a  customer  he 
certainly  releaseth the plug of confidence 
that 
is  so  essential  to  the  keeping  of 
trade.

rich 

in 

It 

A  Paris  paper  relates  that  a  Belgian 
manufacturer  has  taken  out  a  patent  on 
a  new  kind  of  mouse-trap  in  which  a 
small  music-box  takes  the  place  of 
cheese  or  bacon  as  a  bait,  it  being  well 
known  that  mice  are 
attracted  by 
music.

A  flow  of  words  is  no  proof  of  wis­

dom.

SB

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16

G O THA M   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  Feb.  26—It  has  been  a 
week  of  some anxiety  in business circles 
and  this  was  reflected  in  the  disturbed 
condition  of  things  in  the  Stock  E x ­
change.  The  feverish  feeling  will  crop 
out  once  in  a  while,  in  spite  of  all  that 
cooler  heads  can  do.

in 

Jobbers 

ladies’  skirts  and 

All  of  the  hotels  in  the  business  part 
of  the  city  are  crowded  every  night  just 
now,  and  the  many  buyers  who  are  here 
are  largely  responsible.  Vacant  rooms 
are  scarce,  for  the  demand  exceeds  the 
supply.  Many  of  the  buyers  have  to 
content 
themselves  with  the  houses 
is  the  rush. 
farther  uptown,  so  great 
They  are  a  jolly  lot,  are  these  buyers, 
whose  time,  after  business  hours, 
is 
spent 
in  all  kinds  of  innocent  amuse­
ment.  Not  only  the 
jobbers  and  the 
betels,  but  the  amusement  managers 
and  many  others,  profit by  their  visits.
the 
cheaper grades  of  dresses  for  ladies  and 
children  are  entering  a  vigorous  pro­
test against  the  out-ot-town  buyers  for 
patronizing  the  wholesalers  who  deal  in 
goods  that  are  manufactured  in  sweat­
shops.  The  articles  are  sold  at  such 
rates  that  the  wholesalers,  who  pay 
liv­
ing  prices  for  the  manufacture  of  their 
goods,  cannot  compete  with  the  dealers 
in  sweat-shop  products.  There  is  no  at 
tempt  at  denial  on  the  part  of  the  buy­
ers  that  they  are  patronizing  such  deal­
ers.  They  claim  that  there 
is  a  de­
mand  for  the  cheap  goods,  not  only 
from  the  poorer  classes,  but  from  the 
more  wealthy  people  as  well.  The  mat­
ter  is  of  grave  importance  to  the 
job­
bers,  and  is  made  more  so  by  the  fact 
that  there  seems to  be  no  way  to  remedy 
it.  There 
it 
brought  to  the  attention  of  the  Mer­
chants*  Association.

is  even  talk  of  having 

is 

is 

labor 

is  being 

On  every  hand  there 

indisputable 
evidence  of  steadily  returning  business 
prosperity.  Evidences  from  every  de­
partment  of  business  are  constantly  ac­
cumulating  that  new  enterprises  are  be­
is  plenty,  trade  is 
ing  started,  money 
increasing,  prices  are 
improving,  and 
new  life  and  energy  are  everywhere  ap­
industries  are 
parent.  Manufacturing 
reviving, 
employed, 
idlers  are  disappearing,  the  prices  of 
farm  products  are  rising,  our  foreign 
trade 
increasing,  also  the  business 
done  through  the  Clearing  House  of 
New  York  as  compared  with  that  of 
London,all furnishing confirmatory proof 
of  increased  prosperity  in  this  country.
Coffee  remains  quiet  and  practically 
unchanged.  Business  is  certainly  not 
crowding  and  buyers  are  taking  only 
enough  to  keep  them  going.  Roasters 
of  lesser  degree  fear  that  the huge  con­
cerns  will  make  further  cuts,  and  so 
seem to  have  adopted  a  policy  of  taking 
only  what  they  need  from  day  to  day. 
Rio  No.  7  remains  at  (>y%c.  The  amount 
afloat  is  1,172,511  bags,  against  718,157 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild 
coffees  are  about  steady.  The  volume 
of  business  is  of  an  average  character. 
Good  Cucuta,  9@9>¿c. 
India 
growths  are quiet,  but  prices  are  firm.

Dealers  appear  to  have  a  fairly  good 
supply  of  sugar  on  hand  and  orders 
have  not  been  as  numerous  as last week. 
There  has  been,  however,  a  pretty  firm 
feeling  and  the  quotation  of  5f£c  for 
granulated 
is  still  maintained.  There 
is  little  if  any  purchasing ahead of pres­
ent  wants.  Raws  are  steady,  but  the 
movement  is  not  very  active  at  the  mo­
ment.

East 

Little 

is  doing  in  tea,  yet  there  is  a 
better  feeling  throughout  the  trade  and 
dealers  are  seemingly  pretty  well  satis­
fied  with  the  turn  of  affairs.  Auction 
sales  will  be  held  monthly  hereafter,  in­
stead  of  weekly,  and this  change  will  be 
beneficial  and  will  doubtless  bring  out 
more  buyers.  Teas  are  steadily  im­
proving 
in  quality  and  statistics  show 
that  the  consumption  is  also  increasing.
Rice  is  firm,  but  there  has  been  no 
great  amount  of  business  done.  Both 
foreign  and  domestic  sorts  have  been 
well  held  and  concessions  have  not been 
the  rule.

Spices  are  quiet,  but  a  firm  feeling 
pervades  the  market  and  quotations 
show  no  weakness.  Orders  have  come 
from  the  country  with  more  freedom 
than  from  the  city  trade.

Grocery  grades  of  New  Orleans  mo­
lasses  are  firm  and  sales have been made 
at  full  values.  Business,  while  not  large 
in  volume, 
is  quite  satisfactory  and 
dealers  are  confident  of  the  future.  A 
cargo  from  Porto  Rico  at  New  Haven 
is  being  offered  at  29@3oc.  The  market 
for  syrups  is  firm  and  within  the  range 
of  I7@22c  for  prime  to  fancy.  Home 
trade  is  rather quiet,  but  exporters  have 
been  purchasing  with  rather  more  free­
dom  and  the  situation  is  quite  encour­
aging.

Spot  tomatoes  are  firm,  as  are.also 
gallon  apples,  which  are  higher.  Busi­
ness 
in  futures  seems  to  be  going  for­
ward  on  a  basis  that  will  allow  a  very 
narrow  margin  of  profit  to  the  canner; 
in  fact,  it  is  hard  to  see  where  there 
is 
anything  left  whatever  after  selling  to­
matoes  and  corn  at  60c  per  doz.  Cali­
fornia  apricots  are  scarce,  owing,  per­
haps,  to  the  great  demand  from  the 
Klondike.  The  salmon  market is quiet, 
with  Columbia  River  tails  from  $i.2o@ 
*-35-

is  an 

There 

improved  demand  for 
raisins,  peaches  and  apricots,  with  slow 
trade  for  prunes  and  currants.  Some 
recent  figures  are  put  out,  showing  the 
declining  use  in  this  country  of Spanish 
Valencia  raisins.  The  California  prod­
is  fast  superseding  the  same  and 
uct 
within  five  years 
it  seems  likely  will 
YVe’11  get 
drive  them  out  entirely. 
even  with  Spain  in  more ways than  one.
Trading  in  beans  has  been  of  a  some­
what  limited  nature,but  prices  are  firm. 
Choice  marrows,  $1.40;  choice  pea,
$1.15.

Butter  quotations  during  the  past  few 
days  have  remained  unchanged,  with  a 
better  trade  existing  all  around.  Both 
home  trade  and  business 
for  export 
improvement  over  last  week. 
show  an 
Extra  Western  creamery, 
i9^@ 2oc; 
firsts, 
i6 ^< gi7‘^c; 
i8@I9c ;  seconds, 
State  creamery,  i8j^@ i9c;  State  dairy, 
finest  fall  makes,  i6 j^ @ i7 ^ c ;  Western 
imitation  creamery,  i6@ 17c  for  fancy ; 
x4@ 15c  for  firsts ;  Western factory,  extra 
fresh,  I3K@>4c :  firsts,  I3@ I3K c ;  sec­
onds,  I2>2@i3c.  There  is  a  rather  light 
supply  of  extra  creamery  and the imme­
diate  outlook 
is  certainly  encouraging 
for  well-sustained  rates.

The  cheese  market  m anifests 

little 
worthy  of  note.  Most  of  the  trading 
has  been  for  small-sized  cheese  and 
the  quotations  on  this  for  full  cream 
range  from 
for  strictly  desir­
able  goods,  although  many  sales  have 
been  made  at  less  than  these  figures  on 
stock  that  is  very  little  below  standard. 
Exporters  are  doing  a  little  more  busi­
ness,  but  their  wants  are  chiefly  for 
stock  worth  6@7C.

Eggs  are 

in  short  supply  and  good 
demand,  and quotations  are  higher.  For 
Western  fresh  gathered  the  quotation  of 
15c  is  firmly  adhered  to.  Receipts  now 
average  something  like  7,000 cases,  and 
are  absorbed  very  readily.  Advices  of 
larger  supplies  on  the  way  have  been 
received  and  matters  may  be  easier  by 
next  week.

Matrimonial  Proposition  in  Nebraska. 
From the Gordon Journal.

A  woman  who  can  earn  $40 a  month 
teaching  or  in  any  other  honorable  call­
ing  shows  decided  weakness  when  she 
swaps  the  job  for  a worthless husband.

Fortunes  Made  Easy.

“ Getting  rich 

is  nothing;  you  just 
everybody 
“ Governor,  wish  I  knew  the  formula 

manufacture 
something 
wants,  and  there  you  are. * ’
for  common  sense.”

The  gradual  cooling  of  France 

is 
proven  by  its  vegetation.  The  Italian 
poplar,  common  in  early  French  etch­
ings,  is  now  seldom  seen  in  the  coun­
try,  while  the 
lemon  has  disappeared 
from  Languedoc  and  the  orange  from 
Roussillon,  and  the  northern 
limit  of 
many  plant  species  has  shifted  far  to 
the  southward.

Mrs.  Malaprop  Still  Abroad 

in  the 

Land.
W ritten for the T r a d e s m a n .

“ That  Northern  Michigan Mrs.  Mala­
prop 
is  not  the  only  one  abroad  in  the 
land  by  any  means,”   said  a  business 
man’ s  wife  who  had  glanced  over  the 
columns  of  last  week’s  Tradesman.

in  a 

“ I  happened  to  overhear,”   she  con­
tinued,  “ a  conversation  between  some 
young  women  clerks 
large  dry 
goods  store. 
It  was  early  one  morning 
during  the  recent  blizzard.  The  store 
was  deserted  of  customers  and  these 
girls  were  arranging  and  dusting  the 
stock 
in  their  various  departments. 
They  kept  up  a  running  fire  of  conver­
sation,  in  a  subdued  tone of  voice.  As 
I  came  up  to  the  counter  I  could  not 
help  hearing  what one  of  them  was  say­
ing.  Evidently,  their  talk  had  turned 
on  religion.

‘ What  do  I  believe?’ 

said  one  of 
their  number. 
‘ Well,  I  don’t  believe 
much  of  anything;  I  guess  I ’m  what 
you  could  call  an 
in-fee-dal, ’  with  a 
strong  accent  on  the  second  syllable.

“ I  glanced  at  her  curiously;  but  her 
eyes  were  cast  on  her  work,  and  her 
face  was  perfectly  sober  and might have 
been  whittled  out  of  wood  for  any  ex­
pression  it  bore.”
*  

*  

*

“ Your  reference,”   said  this  same

lady,  “ to  the  Mrs.  New  Rich  who  could 
close  up  the  holes  in  the  lid  of  her  new 
kettle,  and  so  ‘ keep the  Romeo  from  es­
caping,’  reminds  me  of  the  remark  my 
grocer  made  the  other  day.  He was  ex­
length  on  the  merits  of  a 
patiating  at 
certain  new  brand  of  coffee  he  had 
just 
begun to  handle,and  among  other things 
said  that 
‘ its  ammonia  was  very  ap­
petizing !'

“ Another  time  this  same  grocer  told 
rne  he  had  some  nice  fresh 
‘ desecrated 
cocoanut.'  And  the  same  man  once,  in 
my  presence,  referred  to  a  dissected 
map  as  a  ‘ desiccated  map !’  ”

#  *  *

Speaking  of  such  mistakes  reminds 
me  of  the 
lady  who  was  calling  on  a 
friend  and,  noticing  a  strange  flower  in 
the  garden,  asked  the  name  of  it.  The 
owner  was  not  familiar  with 
its  name, 
whereupon  the  caller  said,  “ Oh,  well, 
never  mind ;  your  son  John  can  analyze 
it  in  his  chemistry.”
*  

*  

*

I  am  also  reminded  of  the  woman 
who,  in  speaking  of  a  rising  young 
man,  enthusiastically  declared that  ‘ his 
star  was  in  the  antecedent!”

Polly  P e p p e r .

Over  400  diamonds  are  known  to  have 
been  recovered  from  the  xuins  of  an­
cient  Babylon.  Many  of  the  gems  are 
uncut  but  most  are  polished  on  one  or 
two  sides.

FLY  BUTTONS

A scientifically compounded.non-cathartic poison, 
killing  flies  or  ants  quickly.  6  thick  3 ^   inch 

diameter sheets of green paper, with red label, retail at 5 cents.

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FOR  THE  TRADE 
 
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COUPON  PREMIUMS 

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It pays to push for coupons.

5 cents per doz.  off. 

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f  centsf p*r doz ’ in fancy  coun‘er,displa-v
boxes or 3 doz.,  coupon in box,  which equals

‘ 

For  2  Coupons,  Rubber  Dating  Stamp,
woith 40 cents;  prints,  “ Paid,** “ Ans’d,”
“ Rec*d,”  “ Acp’d,”   “ Ent’d,”  and dates  to  1903.  For 3 Coupons, Patent  Pneumatic 
Ink Bottle worth  60  cents;  pressure  into funnel  top  brings  up ink  from  center  of 
bottle;  no thick ink with this.  For 6 Coupons,  % gross  F ly Buttons,  delivered.
TO  START  YOUR  TRADE  W efu" lish through jobber, free
tiples  for  your  customers, 
icreases  sales  500  per  cent.  Try it. 
If  your 
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We are the only  firm  doing  this;  i 
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Detroit commission and Mio. Go.
Grocers’  Sundries

Chicory

Manufacturers of

Specialties in

Yellow  Rolls  (imitation  of  Sellig’s).  Pink • 
Rolls.  Red Rolls.  Also Granulated Chic­
ory  and  Essence  of  Coffee  in  bulk  or  tin 
foil constantly on hand.

Malt Goflee 
Cereals 

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Produce and Fruit  of  all  kinds. 
Flour,  Feed,  Baled  Hay  and 
Straw.

Butter and  Eggs

a  Specialty

2 7   Farm er  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

Telephone,  New  1312.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President, J ohn A.  H offman,  Kalamazoo ; Secre­
tary, J.  C.  Saunders,  Lansing;  Treasurer, Chas 
McN olty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  G.  G.  Sn edeker,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C.  W.  Allen,  Detroit.

United  Commercial Travelers of  Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  F.  L.  Day.  Jackson:  Grand 
Secretary, G.  S. Valmore, Detroit;  Grand Treas- 
nrer, Geo. A.  R eynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent  Association,

President,  J .  Boyd  P antlind,  Grand  Rapids- 
Secretary and Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en,  Grand 
Rapids.

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

Gripsack  Brigade.

Frank  E.  Bowen,  for  several  years 
traveling  salesman  for  Mulkey,  Button 
&  Co.,  has  transferred  his  services  to 
the  firm  of  Moran,  Fitzsimons  &  Co., 
of  Detroit.

Kenneth  McRae,  a traveling  salesman 
of  Hopkinsville,  Ky.,  has  filed  suit  for 
$5,000  damages  against  the  Louisville 
&  Nashville  Railroad  for 
failure  to 
transmit  by  telegraph  the  price  of  his 
railroad  fare  home 
from  Louisville, 
thereby  detaining  him  in  Louisville and 
causing  him  to  lose  a  lucrative  position 
that  was  open  to  him  at  the  time,  and 
also  causing  his  wife’s  serious 
illness.
The  Northern  Mileage  Bureau  has 
declined  the  proposition  of  the  bureau 
of  the  Central  Passenger  Association  to 
allow  the  Lake  Shore  and  the  Nickel 
Plate  to  use  the  mileage  of  the  latter 
between  Cleveland  and  Buffalo,  and  the 
Lake  Shore  and  the  Michigan  Central 
to  do  the  same  between  Toledo  and  De­
troit.  This  declination  is  made,  how­
ever,  subject  to  a  condition,  which  is 
that  it  will  not  be  carried  into  effect 
if 
the  Northern  Bureau  books  can  be  used 
in  the  territory  of  the  Central  Bureau.

Detroit  Boys  Know  How  to  Have  a

Good  Time.

Detroit,  March 

i—At  the  regular 
business  meeting  of  Post  C,  held  on 
the  evening  of  Feb.  26,  Chairman 
Walsh  appointed  the  following 
ladies’ 
auxiliary  committee:
Mrs.  H.  Y.  Kenyon,  Mrs.  Geo.  Gor­
man,  Mrs.  A.  M.  Watson,  Mrs.  P.  T. 
Walsh,  Mrs.  M.  Howeran,  Miss  Van 
Nostitz,  Miss  Harris.
The  details  and  full  arrangements  for 
the  next  entertainment  are  in  the  hands 
of  the  ladies'  auxiliary,  and  we  expect 
a  hot  time  in  the  old  town  that  night.

After  the  routine  business  bad  been 
finished,  the 
following  pleasant  and 
varied  program,  arranged  by  W.  H. 
Baier,  was  carried  out:

Miss  Edna  Kenyon,  recitation,  “ The 

Drummer’s  W ife.”

Miss  Theresa  Van  Nostitz,  piano 

solo,  ‘ ‘ The  Chase. ’ '

W.  H.  Baier,  comic  solo.
Miss  Myrtle  Anger,  recitation,  “ The 

Minuet. ”

Miss  Birdie  Walker  and  Mr.  W.  H. 
Baier,  duet,  “ Star  Spangled  Banner.’ ’
recitation, 

Miss  Hazel  Thompson, 
“ Christmas  at  the  Quarters.”

P.  T.  Walsh,  dialect  recitations.
Mr.  Green,  poem.
Miss  Todd,  recitation,  “ The  Chris­

tening. ’ ’

Party  Dress.' ’

Mike  Howeran,  oration,  “ The  V-Cut 

R.  L.  Hall,  a  five-minutes’  talk.
Miss  Hazel  Thompson, 

fancy  skirt 

dance.

R.  W.  Jacklin,  “ The  American  Citi­
in  Case  of  War  With 

zen’s  Duty, 
Spain. ”

Miss  Hazel  Kenyon,  recitation,  “ The 

Weary  Drummer."

The  floor  was  then  cleared  and  a 
couple  of  hours  was  spent  dancing,  to

the  enjoyment  of  every  one  present. 
It 
was  ladies’  choice,  and  a  fine  of  $5  was 
imposed  on 
every  gentleman  found 
guilty  of  asking  a  lady  to  dance.  This 
is  a  money  raiser  and  Post  E  would  do 
well  to  follow  suit  whenever  its  funds 
run  low. 
is  getting  stale  with  us, 
however,  and  the  boys  are  on  their 
guard.  The  only  one  who  paid  a  fine 
was  Windy  Williams,  and  he  didn’t 
kick  either,  for  be  knows  a  good  thing 
when  he  sees  it—never  ducks  anything.

It 

H.  Y.  K e n y o n ,  Sec’y.

Conflict  Between  Time  Card  and

Gateman.

Kalamazoo,  March  1— On  last  Thurs­
day  afternoon  another  traveler  and  I 
wanted  to  make  Sparta  and  then  go 
north  on 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  train.  We 
did  not  care  to  stay  there  very 
long,  so 
we  called  up  the  ticket  agent  and  asked 
if  we  could  get  off  the  No.  62  Saginaw 
train  there,  figuring  that  we  could  make 
our  calls 
in  an  hour and  catch  the  C. 
&  W.  M.  train  north.  The  agent  said 
we  could  do  so  by  getting  off at  the 
junction.  My  friend  was  to  take  the 
train  at  union  station  and  I  was  to  join 
him  at  Bridge  street  depot.  At  this 
depot,  to  make  sure  I  examined  the 
time  card 
issued  and  noticed  in 
the  column  for  train  No.  62  at  Sparta, 
“ See  note,”   which  I  looked  up  and 
it 
“ Train  No.  62  (Saginaw  divi­
reads: 
sion)  will  stop  at  T.  S.  &  M.  station  at 
Sparta  to  let  off  passengers  for  Sparta 
and  West. ”   This  seemed  to  be  authori­
tative,as  it  was  over  the  names  of  J.  K. 
V.  Agnew  and  Geo.  DeHaven  as  Gen 
eral  Superintendent  and  General  Pas­
senger  Agent, and  I  supposed  these  boys 
knew  their  business,  so  I  felt  easy.

last 

When  the  train  pulled up and stopped, 
the  low-salaried  individual with the high 
collar,  who  graciously  grants  us  the 
privilege  of  getting  on  or  off  his  train 
(for  he  owns  it),  or  refuses,  as the  state 
of  his  liver  dictates,  yelled  out,  “ This 
train  don’t  stop  at  Sparta!”   and  no 
amount  of  argument  would  change  the 
mandate,  for  he  refused  to  open  the 
gate,  even  if  the  train  should  stop.  As 
I  had  no 
liver  pills  with  me,  I  was 
compelled  to  forego  the  pleasure  of  rid­
ing  with  him. 
Just  to  find  if  any  of  the 
boys  knew  anything  about  the  business,
I  called  up  the  General  Passenger Agent 
and  asked  him  about  it  and,  after  get­
ting  three  persons  to  the  ’phone  in turn,
informed  by  the  last  one,  whose 
1  was 
voice  was  a 
little  more  gruff  than  the 
others,  that  thev  knew  nothing  about 
it 
at  all,  and  that  if  there  was  such 
infor­
mation  on  the  time  card  they  knew 
nothing  about  it,  but  would  investigate.
We,  of  course,  waited  for  the  next 
train  and  be  stopped  over  night  at 
Sparta  and  I  skipped  the  town.  Of 
course,  we  are  both  plugging  for  the 
road.  Nit. 
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers
inclined  Marquette 
friends  took  pity  on  L.  B.  Young 
(Michigan  Stove  Co.)  and  E.  B.  Clark 
(Banner  Tobacco  Co.)  Sunday  and  in­
vited  them  out  to  a  square  meal.  They 
did  the  occasion  justice.

Some  charitably 

E.  S t a r b u c k .

J.  J.  Alger  has  done  the Upper Penin­

sula  in  the  bicycle  business.

The  following  are  the  late  additions 
to  membership  of  the  Lake  Superior 
Commercial  Travelers’  Club:  Oscar 
Hopperstead,  Menominee;  J.  A.  Gon­
zalez,  Grand  Rapids;  E.  A.  Strauss, 
Cincinnati;  H.  A.  Ziem,  Oshkosh ;  L.
B.  Young,  Detroit;  C.  B.  Burt,  Chi­
cago ;  W. 
J.  Sampson,  Houghton;  H.
H.  Decker,  Chicago;  J.  B.  Tucker, 
Alma;  Will  J.  Engel,  Ishpeming.
with  us  again.

Robert  F.  Fee  (Banner  Cigar  Co.)  is 
F.  S.  McCurdy  (Jenness  &  McCurdy) 
is doing  the  Upper  Peninsula this week.
We  do  not  see  so  much  of  Fred,  now 
that  be  has  part  of  Ohio  tacked  to  his 
territory.
L.  D.  Packer  has  severed  his  connec­
tion  with  C.  Elliott &  Co.  We’re  sorry 
to  loose  * ‘ Pack. ’ ’

A .  F .  W i x s o n ,  S e c ’ y.

A  pen  carrying  a  small  electric 

lamp 
to  prevent  shadows  when  writing  has 
been  patented  in  Germany,

Yonie  Yonson  Tank  Hae  Gattang 

Bace  Bal  Club.

gavang  mae 

Travarca  Caity,  Feb.  28—Sae,  Mais- 
tar,  aie  rote  yo  lattar  so  yo  gattang  mae 
yob  bae  R.  R.  Co.  gate.  Aie  skal  tank 
yo  bane  bout  som  lake  dos  fallal  gat­
tang  Franchise  bae  Wastarn  Ball  la g e - 
gud  Iang  taime  gattang  rady  makang 
yor  maind  up.  Aie  skal  tal  yo  aie 
yange  mae  maind ;  aie  skal  yump  das 
yob  bae  R.  R.  Co.  Aie tank  aie gattang 
batar 
schame;  drumar  fallar  tallang 
mae  Omahaw  gattang  Bace  Bal  Clubt 
an  Gran  Rapid  bane  laft  out  on  cold. 
Aie  tank  bae  masalf  Anson bane Sweede 
fallar,  an  bane  gude  Bace  Bal  mans. 
Aie  rote  ham  lattar  an  tal  ham  aie  tank 
aie  gattang tame bae Gran  Rapid.  Hae 
tal  mae  bane  gude  millioms 
in  at. 
Dacon  Ellas  makang  in  2  yar  Saxteen 
Tousand  Dolar.  Yumpang  Yarusalam ! 
aie  tank  bane  gude  tang.  Aie  skal  tal 
yo  of  vo  kan  kal  matang  bae  dam  fans 
hae  Gran  Rapid  an  gattang  Franchase 
bae  mae.  Aieskai  gattang  gude  Sweede 
Mans  Club  an  skin  all  dam  onder fallar. 
Aie  skal  gattang  all  Sweede  mans  lake 
Anson,  an  avry  fallar  a  Colt.  Aie  skal 
vant  not  much  halp  from  Caity.  Yust 
tal  dam  fallar,  of  aie  bane  gattang  Bal 
Park  for  noting,  an  Strate  Car  fallar 
bane 
Fime  Hundrad 
Dolar,  an  Hotal  mans  kape  mae  Club 
free,  aie  skal  gattang  tame  out  saight. 
Aie  bat  mae  Tan  Dolar  aie  tickal  dose 
fans.  Aie  bane  rote  lattar  to  all  dam 
fallar  aie  skal  hav  on  tame.  Aie  skal 
tal  yo  bout  at.  Yo  skal  kape  at  quiate 
tall  aie  gattnng  Franchase.  Aie  skal 
have  all  Sweede  mans,  aie  say—mana- 
gar  an  playars.  Aie  skal  gattang  for 
managar  Yon  Kalaim,  bae  Dunham 
House,  Manastee.  Yon  managed  das 
Manastee  tame  las  yar.  Hae  bane gude 
on,  aie  skal  tal  yo.  Aie  gattang  for 
catchar  Yorge  Dunham,  Manastee.  Hae 
bane  hard  hittar,  too.  Aie bane gattang 
Yim  Duncan,  Manastee.  Hae  bane 
wharlwand  for  patchar,  aie  tal  yo.  An 
das  allarond  playar  for  1st  Bace,  Will 
Wait,  Manastee;  an  yo  bat  yo,  bae  vill 
vait  tall  bae  gattang  gude  bal  avry 
taime.  Aie  tank  hae  skal  vait  all  sumar 
af  hae  kant  make  Horn  Run.  Aie 
gattang  bae  2d  Bace,  Pete  Oleson,  bae 
Leroy.  Pete  bane  gude  on,  aie  bat  yo. 
Pete  kapang  his  mussal  up  al  taime 
shootang  Rabit  an  fisbang  whan  hae 
skal  not  play  Bal.  Aie  skal  bav  bae 
short  stop  das  nimbal  lattle  cus,  Rob 
Yonson,  bae  Cadilaca.  Hae  yumpang 
roun  so  quick,  aie  tal  yo.  3d  Bace 
bane  coverad  bae  Labe  Carpantar, 
Baldwin;  an  bae  go l!  hae  don’t 
lat 
som  bals  gattang  bae  ham,  aie  bat  yo. 
Aie  gattang  bast  feeldars  in  hole  biz- 
nass.  Aie  gattang  Norm  Slade,  bae 
Saganaw;  Will  Cortwright,  bae  Ne­
waygo;  Ezra  Gilbert,  bae  Sherman. 
Aie  bat  yo,  aie  skal  subsprize  dos  fans. 
Yontilatv  mans  an  Change  Catchar, 
Byron  Davenport,  Gran  Rapid.  Hae 
ban  korkar  aie  skal  tal  yo.  Aie  skal 
carray  tree  extra  mans—Yarlie  Brooks, 
Yoe  Reed  an  Frank  Pierce.  Yust  tal 
dam 
fallars  aie  skal  hav  das  Y.  M.  C. 
A.  Yimnasty  Rom  free  for  Boys  fattang 
damsalvas.  Aie  skal  no  go  Sout  bae 
practica  das  sprang;  hae  bane  so  lat. 
Aie  tal  yo,  Maistar,  das  tame  bane 
vorld  batars,  an  Gran  Rapid  fan  bane 
havang  gude  taime  rootang  bae  das 
taime.  Hole  matang,  an  rote  mae  iat- 
tar.  Aie  bane  on  ban  bae  taime  Bel 
rangang. 

Y o n i e   Y o n s o n .

P.  S .—Aie  skal  tal  yo,  Yud  Rice,  bae 
Sweet  Hotal,  bane  frend  bae  mae,  an 
aie  tank  hae  go  mae  bale  bon.  Y.  Y.
■  P.  P*  S. — Aie  skal  do  gude  tang  bae 
Gran  Rapid.  Had  Bactaar,  aie  tank, 
vill  bane  on  mae  resarva  last.  Y.  Y.

How  to  Treat  Drummers.

The  fact  that  a  man  is  a  traveling 
salesman  does  not  mean  that  he  is  en­
tirely  devoid  of 
feeling.  He  must, 
necessarily,  learn  to  curb  his  temper 
and  mask  his  annoyance  when  treated 
discourteously,  but  this  does  not  mean 
that  he  does not  feel  such  treatment.

It  requires  but  little  time  to  be  cour­
teous  to  traveling  salesman,  and  this 
courtesy  will,as  a  general  rule,  be heart­
ily  appreciated  and 
repaid. 
Every  salesman  has  occasional  bargains 
and  most  are  human  enough  to  offer

richly 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in 

fact, 

frequently  offer 

these  first  to  those  who  are  courteous. 
Many  of  the  travelers  are  unusually 
bright  men; 
it  requires  a 
bright  man  to  be  a  good  salesman ;  and 
having,  as  they  do,  unusual  opportuni­
ties  for  observation  on  account  of  the 
number  of  stores  which  they  visit,  they 
can 
suggestions  of 
great  practical  utility  as  to  the  conduct 
of  business  or  the  introduction  of novel­
ties.  Hints  thus  gained  will  often more 
than  repay  the  druggist  for  the  time  de­
voted  to  the  salesman. 
If  it  happens 
that  a  drummer  should  come  in  at  an 
inopportune  time,  it  does  not  necessar­
ily  follow  that  the druggist  should  neg­
lect  his  own  customers,  but  be  can 
nearly  always  make  an  appointment  for 
some  hour  when  he  is  less  likely  to  be 
occupied,  telling the salesman,  however, 
that  he  is  either  likely  or  not 
likely  to 
purchase  as the occasion may be.  Polite­
ness  is  one  of  the  cheapest  commodities 
at  our  command,  and  politeness  on  the 
part  of  the  buyer  is  as  essential  to  suc­
cess  as  it  is  on  the  part  of  a  salesman.

American  Butter  for  China.

Good  butter  sells  in  Hong  Kong  for 
from  38  to 62  cents  per  pound 
in  gold. 
The  American  Consul  at  that  port  in­
sists  that  there 
is  an  opportunity  for 
the  sale  of  American  butter  and  canned 
milk  in  that  market,  which  articles  are 
now  mainly  supplied  by Denmark,  Aus­
tralia  and  France.

HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT. Prop.
T H E   W H IT N E Y   HOUSE

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

Cha». B. Whitney, Prop.. Plalnwell, Midi.

Hoskins  &  Company
GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK

CO M M ISSIO N   B R O K E R S .

176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. 

Hodges  Building.

Private wires:  New  York, Chicago and St.  Louis.

A  R EM A R K A B LE  C A S E

. Ha vins; suffered  with  rheumatism  and  constipa­
tion for over twenty-five years, and mvcase having 
been  pronounced hopeless last  summer  by  the best 
medical skill,  when I was given up to die, T  miracu­
lously had my attention called  to Frye’s Quickstep, 
which saved my life, and  I am  now  a  well  man. 
I 
have since recommended this  remedv to my friends 
and so many  have ordered it through me that I keep 
it  on  hand  for  humanity’s  sake.  Price,  $1.00  per 
bottle.  Nearly all  Michigan people know me.  My 
home  address  is  <406  Kimbark  Ave.,  Chicago. 
Grand  Rapids people  can  obtain  this  remedy from 
my customer, John Benson, the clothier,  26 Monroe 
St., upstairs.

Stephen T. Bowen.

I  will  be  in  Chicago  at  the  clothing  factory  of 
John G.  Miller & Co., 276 and 27S Franklin St., from 
beb.  20  to  April  1,  and  hope  my trade  will make 
that establishment headquarters while in the city.

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Drugs-=Chem teals

MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dee. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900
-  Dec. 31,1901 
Dec. 31,1902

F . W. R.  Per r y, Detroit 
A. C. Schumacher.  Ann  Arbor 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
L.  E. R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
H enry H eim,  Saginaw  - 

-------  

President, F. W. R.  P erry, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. Gundrum, Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.

Examination  Sessions.

Grand Rapids—March 1 and 2.
Star Island—Ju n e 27 and 28.
Marquette—About Sept.  1.
Lansing—Nove 1 and 2.

A ll meetings w ill  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. Webber, Cadillac.
Secretary—Chas.  Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—J ohn D.  Mu ir,  Grand Rapids.

Patents  in  the  Pharmacopoeia.

if 

therein 

is  not  given, 

While  I  desire  to  see  the  Pharmaco­
poeia  revised  along  liberal  lines,  I  do 
not  believe  that any  patent  or  special 
preparation,  no  matter  what  its  charac­
ter  or  from  whom  it  emanates,  should 
be  incorporated.  The  mere  fact  that a 
preparation  is  placed  on  the  market  by 
firm  of  prominent  manufacturing 
a 
chemists  as  a  specialty,  with 
its  for­
mula  patented,  and  that  it  is  a  medic­
inal  agent  of  great  value,  is  no  more j 
an  excuse  than 
it  came  from  snme 
lesser  source,  as  tar  as  the  principle 
goes.  If  the  Pharmacopoeia  is  to  be  the 
authoritative  guide  both  for  the  phar­
macist  and  the  physician,  then  place  no 
preparations 
for  which  the 
working  formula 
and I 
which,  being  patented,  would  prevent 
the  profession  from  the  free  use  of  the 
same. 
I  fully  recognize  the  medicinal 
value  of  some  cf  the  patented  prepara­
tions,  but  do  not  think  it  the  business 
of  the  Pharmacopoeia  to  promote  the 
private  affairs  of  any  persons,  no  mat­
ter  what  their  prominence.  The  dis­
pensatories  and  text-books  will  deal 
with  these  fully  enough,  and  there  can 
be  no  objection  to  this,  but  let  us  leave 
them  from  the  Pharmacopoeia  until 
incorporation  will 
such  time  as  their 
it  the  freedom  to  use  the 
bring  with 
processes  of  manufacture. 
The  sub- 
gallate  of  bismuth,  although  a  chemical 
of  much  medicinal  value,  was  rightly 
omitted  from  the 
last  revision  on  ac­
count  of  the  process  and  formula  being 
patented;  but  this  objection  can  no 
longer  keep  it  from  a  place  in the Phar­
macopoeia,  since  the  patent 
is  now 
conceded  to  be  worthless,  and  its  prep­
aration  can  be  undertaken  by  whom­
soever  may  see  fit.  Among  the  army  of 
synthetical  preparations  there  are  some 
of  gieat  value,  medicinally,  but  they 
should  be  kept  out of the Pharmacopoeia 
while  their  processes  of  manufacture 
are  protected  by  patents,  else  where  can 
we draw  the  line? 

F r a n k   E d e l .

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Is  very  firm  at  the  last  ad­
vance,  with  higher  prices  probable. 
The  report  of  damage  to  the  growing 
crop  has  been  confirmed.

Morphine—Is  as  yet  unchanged  and 
an  advance  is  probable  within  the  next 
few  days.

Quinine—Is  weak 

at 

unchanged 

prices.

Alcohol—Is  very  firm  and  an  advance 
is  looked  for  within  the  next  few  days.
Chloral  Hydrate—Has  declined.  The 
new  duty  of  55c  per  pound  is  not  in  the 
Dingley  bill  and  importers  are  now only 
paying  a  duty  of  25  per  cent.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is 

Glycerine—Is 

in  good  demand  and 
steady.  The  present  low  tange  of  prices 
will  probably  hold  during  the  season.

Essential  Oils—Anise 

in  fair  de­
mand  at  unchanged  prices.  Bergamot 
is  steadily  advancing,  on  account  of 
higher  prices 
in  the  primary  markets. 
is  scarce  and  high  prices  are 
Cajiput 
well  maintained.  Clove 
is  firm  and 
tending  upward,  under  the  influence  of 
higher  prices  for  the  spice.  Sassafras 
is  in  large  demand  and  prices  are  firm.
in  short  supply 
and  price  is  firm.  The  Government  has 
assessed  a  duty  of  3c  per  pound  on 
laurel 
leaves,  claiming  that  they  are 
under  the  head  of  spices.  This  has 
advanced  the  price  3c  per  pound.

Buchu  Leaves—Are 

Seeds—German  fennel 
Russian  hemp 

is  scarce  and 
higher. 
is  advanced 
abroad  and  the  price  has  been  marked 
up  here.

Spices—Are  very  active. 

Gingers 
have  been  advanced.  Cloves  are  still 
tending  higher.  Nutmegs  have  ad-t 
vanced  about  10  per  cent.

Keep  Abreast  of the  Times.

it. 

Read 

the  advertisements  of  others. 
Notice  what  your  neighbor  says  of  his 
goods,  and  how  he  says 
Then 
model  your  own  advertisements  a  little 
differently.  Make  them  distinctive  of 
you  and  your  store. 
If  they’re  not  a 
success  solicit  the  aid  of  one  who 
knows;  it  will  pay  you. 
Lend  your 
ears  to  the  experience  of  yout  fellow 
men,  and  don’t  be  a  clam  yourself. 
Raze  old 
Eschew 
ancient  methods  whose  death-knell  has 
long  since  been  tolled,  and  wake  up  to 
the  times.

traditions. 

fogy 

Read  your  pharmaceutical  journals. 
Question  the  drummer  before  he  de­
parts.  He’s 
just  the  one  to give  you 
some  happy  suggestion  or  a  bit  of 
timely  news.  Ask  him  what  Smith  is 
doing  in  Brownville,  and  what  Brown 
is  doing 
in  Smithville.  Build  on  the 
idea  of  others.  Pay  your  respects  to 
your  contemporary  on  the  corner  below. 
Don’t  just  borrow  his  goods.

Leave  the  store  for  an  hour  to-day, 
and  each  day  hereafter.  The  change 
will  do  you  good.  Take  a  turn  about 
town,  go  through  the  shops,  peer  into 
the  windows,  and  see  what  is  going  on 
around  you.  Keep  conversant  with  the 
progress  of  the  times.—Spatula.

Evidences  of  High  Living.

the  lad.

A  member  of  the  police  force  came 
across  a  boy  the  other  day  who  was 
wheeling  home  a  load  of  oyster cans and 
bottles,  and,  curious  to  know  what  use 
the 
lad  could  put  them  to,  he  made  a 
direct  enquiry:
“ Going  to  throw  them  over  into  our 
“ I  took 

back  yard,”   replied  the  boy. 
two  loads  home  yesterday. ’ ’

“ But  what  do  you  use  them  for?”
“ It’s  a  trick  of  the  fam ily,”   grinned 
“ How  trick?”
“ I ’d  just  as  lief  tell,”   continued  the 
boy,  as  he  spit  on  his  bands  to  resume 
hold  on  the  barrow. 
“ We are  going  to 
have  some  relashuns  come  in  from  the 
country.  We  may  not  have  much  to 
eat,  but  if  they  see  these  cans  and  bot­
tles  and  boxes  they’ll  think  we’ve  had 
figs,  and  nuts  till 
isters,  champagne, 
we’ve  got  tired  of  ’em,  and  are 
living 
for  a  healthy 
on  bread  and  taters 
change. ’ ’
The  officer  scratched  his  ear  like  a 

man  who  had  received  a  new  idea

Cerosie,  a  new  product,  extracted 
from  the  scum  rising  on  sugar  cane 
juice,  is  claimed  by  a  French  chemist 
to  have  the  properties  of  ordinary  bees­
wax,  which  it  resembles  in  appearance.
According  to  the  latest  figures  China 
owes  her  creditors  the  sum  of $193,525,- 
000.

What  to  Avoid 

in  Writing  Advertise­
ments.
W ritten for the T radesman.

I  have  below  put  into  condensed  form 
in­
a  few  of  the  pitfalls  into  which  the 
experienced  advertisement  writer 
is 
liable  to  tall,  explaining  why  these  er­
rors  should  be  avoided.  Common  sense 
will  teach  how  to  keep  from  them.

1. 

Writing  an  advertisement  without 

thoroughly  understanding  the  subject. 
No  man  can  write  descriptively  of 
Africa  without  having  seen  the  country 
with  his  own  eyes.  Neither  can  any­
one  write  a  convincing,  truthful  adver­
tisement  of an  article  he  has never seen, 
or 
is  familiar  with  through  hearsay 
only.  First  study  the  stock  to  be  sold, 
and  then  you  can  write  profitably  about 
it  and  “ get  the  people”   to  buy  it.

2. 

Using  stilted  phraseology- high- 

sounding  words. 
In  writing  a  book,  the 
successful  author  uses  such  language  as 
intends  to 
will  please  the  masses  he 
gain  as  readers.  What  suits  your 
ideas 
may  not  be  suitable  for  your  public. 
Clothe  your  advertisements 
in  such 
language  as  will  please  and  attract  the 
greatest  number  of  readers.

4. 

3.  Vulgarity  and  slang.  The  class 
of  human  kind  given  to  the use of either 
of  these  blots  on  the  purity  of  English 
are  not  usually  a  class  whose  custom 
is 
particularly  desirable.  Besides,  an  ad­
vertisement  writer  has  no  right  to  sup­
pose  that  any  of  his readers  wish  to read 
such  publicity. 
insult, 
and  uncalled  for.

It  is  an  offered 

rarely 

Joking—except  unusually  good 
and  new,  and  then  very seldom.  A  good 
salesman 
jokes  when  talking 
business.  A  good  advertisement  is  the 
best  of  salesmen,  and  therefore  avoids 
spoiling 
its  opportunities  for  talking 
business  by  the use of  stale  pleasantries. 
If  you  are  inclined  to be  humorous,  buy 
space 
in  the  funny  column  and  keep 
your  witticisms  out  of  your  advertise­
ment.

the 

purchaser. 

5.  Misleading statements.  No  jockey 
ever  sold  a  horse,  claiming  or  implying 
it  to  be  perfectly  sound,  when,  in  fact, 
it  had  ringbones,  hut  that 
it  was  dis­
covered  by 
This 
statement  applies  to  any  class  of  mer­
chandise,  and  the  discovery  of  falsity, 
in  the  slightest  degree,  will  be  at  the 
expense  of  custom  and  profit.
6.  Fulsomeness.  By  this, 

I  mean 
using  much  verbiage  in  description  of 
an  article,  when  a  few  plain,  terse 
statements  will  serve  the  purpose  much 
better.  This  florid  style 
is  very  well 
for  circuses,  but  doesn’t  pay  in  selling 
sugar  or  calico.

7.  Vagueness.  A  stained  glass  win­
dow 
in  a  cathedral  is  an  object  of  de­
light,  but  no  one  can  see  through  it  the 
“ Pretty 
beauties  of  the  church  within. 
talk”   does  well 
lovers  and 
babies,  but  it  will  not  sell  goods.  Make 
the  glass  of  your  advertisement  win­
dows  so  clear  that  the  merits  of the arti­
cles  spoken  of  will  shine  through  like 
the  noonday  sun.

for  young 

8.  Exploiting  too  many  articles  at 
once.  Unity—“ oneness” —is  the  great 
underlying  principle  of  successful  ad­
vertisement  writing.  Select  the  article 
with  care,  and  then  talk  about 
it  as 
though 
it  weie  the  only  article  in  the 
world  and  your  life  depended  on  your 
success  in  telling  people  of  it.

9.  Writing  sufficient  to  comfortably 
inches  for  a  ten-inch  space. 
fill  twenty 
Novels  printed 
in  small  type,  unless 
they  are  by  noted  authors,  are  avoided 
by  those  whose  time  is  valuable  or  eye­
sight  bad,  while  even  poor  writers  find 
sale  for  their  books  if  they  are  printed 
legibly.  Make  your  space  fit  the  ad­
vertisement,  not  the  advertisement  the 
space,  and  make  them both  come within 
the  bounds  of  common  sense.

to.  Advertising  standard  goods  for 
sale  “ below  cost  to  make  room 
for 
spring  stock. ”   This  old  fable  is  worn 
utterly  threadbare.  Not  one  buyer  in 
five  hundred  believes  that  you  have 
paid  one  dollar  in  cash  for  a  standard 
article  and  are  foolish  enough  to  sell 
it 
for  ninety-seven  cents.

n .  Dulness. 

If  you  cannot  write 
something  bright,  original,  attractive 
and  convincing,  allow  the  space  con­
tracted  for to  remain  blank,  rather  than 
smirch  its  purity  and  your  own  reputa­
tion  as  a  progressive  business  man  by 
taking  refuge  in  old,  worn-out,  custom- 
destroying  advertisements.  Better  say, 
if  a  druggist,  “ Poison  sold  in quantities 
to  suit  all  purses,”   than “ Smith  &  Co., 
Dealers  in  Drugs  and  Medicines,  Pre­
The  first 
scriptions  carefully,”   etc. 
may  startle  some  one.  The 
latter  will 
only  put  them  to  sleep. 
Filling  Petrolatum  into  Small  Bottles.
A  chemist  who  handlej  large  quanti­
ties  of  petrolatum  writes 
in  Spatula: 
“ After  trying  nearly  every  method  that 
I  could  think  of,  I  have  found  nothing 
to  equal  a  water-bath  with  a faucet lead­
ing  from  the  inside  vessel.  The 
inner 
vessel  should  have  a  bottom  which 
tapers  almost  to  a  point,  to  which  the 
faucet  should  be  connected.  By  using  a 
vessel 
like  this  it  is  an  easy  matter  to 
fill  bottles  with  petrolatum  quickly  and 
neatly.  There  is  on  the  market  a  filler 
of  this  kind,  the  price  of  which,  I 
think,  is  $1.50,  which  is  less  than  a  tin­
ner  would  ask  for  making  a  single  in­
strument  of  this  kind.  This  filler  is 
well  arranged  and  of  a  size  suitable  to 
the  wants  of  the  retail  pharmacist.”

N e m o .

A  handful  of  common  sense is worth  a 

bushel  of  learning.
till 1 lui  0  Of  Iodine Pocket  Inhaler
Pntlor’e  Cartolate 
IS  G U AR AN TEE D   TO   CURE 

W.  H.  SMITH  &  CO.,  Props., 

A ll druggists $1.
Buffalo. N. Y.

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X  I  l l f i r L U O   les,  eruptions  caused  byingrow-  f  
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7 swarthy, in fact, all complexion difficulties should  t
I  be treated with S C H R O U D E R 'S   L O T IO N ,  7
X a  scientific  preparation  for  keeping  the  skin  r 
X smooth, firm and clear—it produces and preserves T 
X a healthy glow to the complexion; perfectly harm- f 
X le«s.  At  drug  stores 25c per bottle ;  by mail 35c.
I   B.  Schrouder,  Pharmacist,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—
Declined—Chloral Hydrite.

Acidum

Acetlcum................. I 6@t  8
Benzoicum, German  70© 
75
Boracic....................  @ 
lg
Carbolieum............   29®  41
Citricum................. 
40®  42
3® 
Hvdrochlor............  
5
Nitrocum...............  
8®  10
Oxalicum...............  
12®  14
Phosphorium,  dll...  @ 
15
Salicylicum............. 
60®  05
Sulphuricum...........  1M@ 
g
Tannlcnm...............  1  25®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black......... .............   2 00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80®  1 00
R ed.........................  45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00

4® 
6
6® 
8
12®  14
12®  14

Bacete.
Cubesee...........po. 18 
JnnlperuB...............  
Xanthoxylnm.........  
Balsamum
Copaiba...................  
Peru......................... 
Terabln, Canada__ 
Tolutan...................  
Cortex
Abies,  Canadian__
Cassi®  ....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Dlmus...po.  15,  gr'd 
Bxtractum 
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po...... 
Hæmatox, 15 lb box. 
Hæmatox, Is .
Hæmatox, Mis.........  
Heematox, Ms.

.  . 

Perm

Carbonate Prectp... 
Citrate and Quinla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol.
Solut.  Chloride......
Sulphate, com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure  ......
Flora

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

Folia

13®  15
6® 
8
25®  30

55®  60
® 2 40
45®  50
50®  60

24®
28®
U ®13®
14®  15
16®  17

12@
30©

18®

12® 

23®  28
Barosma................... 
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, M8
and Ms.................  
20
Ora Ursi...................... 
8® 10
Gumml
®
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
65 
®
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
45 
®
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
35 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
®
28 
60®
Acacia, po................ 
80 
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  12®
14 
Aloe, Cape__po. 15 
®
12 
Aloe, Socotri.. po. 40  @
30 
Ammoniac.............. 
55®
60 
AsBafaBtlda__po. 30
25®
28 
Benzolnum............
55
1®
Catechu, Is..............
13
@
Catechu, Ms............
14 
Catechu, Ms............
16 
Camphor®  .............
40®
43 
Kuphorbium ..po.  35
10
®
Galbanum...............  
1  00 70 30 
65®
Gamboge  po........... 
Guaiacum......po. 25 
<rh
Kino...........po. I3.u0
@ 3 00 
M astic....................
60 
Myrrh.............po.  45
40
Opii.. .po. I4.10©4.30 3 15®  3 20 
Shellac....................  
Shellac, bleached.
Tragacanth ............
Herba
Absinth!urn..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum  ... oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip. .oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
riagnesla.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat. . . . .  
Carbonate, K. *  M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum

55®
20®
20®
35®

25®
40©

Absinthium............   3 25®  3 50
Amygdalse, Dulc....  30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarse .  8 00®  8 25
AJHSi.......................   2 25® 2 35
Auranti  Cortex......   2 25®  2 40
Bergami’.................  2 40® 2 50
Cajiputi................... 
85®  90
Caryophylli............  
75®  80
35®  66
a . .............. 
Chenopadii..............  @275
Clnnamonii.............  1  80®  1 90
Ci trancila................ 
45® 
50

90© 

35®  w
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba..................   i  10®  1  20
Cubebae  .................... 
90® 
Exechthitos 
.........   1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................  1  00®  1  10
Gaultheria..............  1  go® 1  60
Geranium,  ounce... 
(@ 
75
Gossippii,Sem. gal.. 
50@  60
Hedeoma.................  1  oo©  l  10
Junípera..................  1  go® 2 00
Lavendula................  
Limonis 
...............   1 3J@ 1 50
Mentha  Piper.........   1  go® 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   l  so® 1 60
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1  oo@ 1 10
Myrcia,.....................  4 oo@  4  50
75® 3 00
O hve..... 
...........  
Picis  Liquida.........  
io@ 
12
Piéis Liquida, gal...  @ 
35
gtaina  ....................  
9?@ 1  10
Kosmarini...............  
@ 10 0
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
4o®  45
Succini................... 
Sabina..................  
90@  1  00
Santal.......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55@  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65 
........................   1 40®  1  50
™yme,  opt............   @  1  60
lheobromas........... 
jg®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb....................
15®
Bichromate............
13©
Bromide............... .
50®
Carb.......................
12®
Chlorate., po. 17®19c
16©
Cyanide...................  &g@
Iodide.......................  2 60©
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
2a@ 
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
8©
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass Nitras......... 
7®
Prussiate................. 
20®
Sulphate po  ..  ......  
15®

Radix

Aconitvm...............  
20©
^ lth* .....................  
22©
n®
Anchusa............  
©
po..................  
Calamus................. 
20@
12@
Gentiana..........po.  15 
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15  16©
®
Hydrastis Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @
15®
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
Inula, po................. 
i5@  _
Ipecac, po...............   2 50© 2 60
Iris plox —  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa,  pr...............  
25©  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @ 
35
Podophyllum, po.  .. 
22© 
25
ghei  .......................  
75®  1  oo
<a  1  95
Rnei, cut...  .........  
75©  1  §
RheLpv................... 
Spigelia...................  
35® 
38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @ 
13
Serpentaria............  
30®
Senega.................... 
40®
Similax,officinalis H  @
Smilax, M..............
@10®
Scillae..............po.35
Symplocarpus, Foetl- 
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng.póiáó 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a.............  
 
Zingiber j ................ 
Semen
Anisum............po.  15  @
Apium  (graveleons) 
13®
Bird, Is....................  
4®
Carol................ po. 18  10®
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Loriandrum............  
[q
4®  414
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
Cydonium............... 
75®  1  00
Cnenopodium  ........ 
10© 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
Foenlcnlnm 
@ 
10
Foenugreek, po.....]
L ini............ . . .........
3®
Lini,  grd........bbl. 3
4®
Lobelia..................
35®
Pbarlaris  Canarian.
4©
Rapa.......................
4M®
Sinapis Albu....... ”
ii@ 
Sinapis  Nigra.......1 
Spirit us

15®
12®
25®

12

Frumenti, W.  D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R ..  2 00© 2 25
Frum enti..................1  25®  1  50
Jumperis Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90@ 2  10
SPt-.Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
VjnJ Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   l  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............   2 50® 2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
@ 2  00
carriage...............  
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage...... 
@ 12 5
Extra yellow sheeps’
©  1  00
wool,  carriage__ 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage  .............. 
®  j  oo
Hard, for slate use..  @ 
75 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1  40

Syrups
Acacia.................
Auranti Cortes__
Zingiber...............
Ipecac
Ferri Iod............ !
Rhei Aram...........
Smilax Officinalis.
Senega.................
Scili»................

©
@
©50©
&
O

miscellaneous 

Scillae Co 
Tolutan 
1  00
Prunus virg
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.................
Aloes and Myrrh 
Arnica 
Assafcetida 
2 00
Atrope  Belladonna 
Auranti  Cortex 
Benzoin 
Benzoin Co.
Barosma 
Cantharides 
Capsicum 
Cardamon 
Cardamon  Co 
Castor 
Catechu 
Cinchona.
Cinchona Co 
Columba 
Cubeba
Cassia  Acutifol 
Cassia Acutifol Co 
Digitalis 
Ergot 
Ferri Chloridum....
Gentian.................
Gentian Co............
Guiaca..................”
Gniaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus........
Iodine....................
Iodine, colorless!. ].
Kino.......................
50 
Lobelia.............]"
50 
Myrrh................." "
50 
Nux Vomica.........]
50
Opii.......................
Opii, camphorated..
50 
Opii,  deodorized....
1  50 
Quassia...................
50 
Rhatany.........
50 
Rhei................... ;;;;
50 
Sangu inaria.........“
50 
Serpentaria............
50 
Stramonium...........
60 
Tolutan..................
60 
Valerian................ ]
50 
Veratrum Veride".!! 
50 
Zingiber..................
20
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
35 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  ^4®
38
Alumen...................  2M@
3
3®
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
Annatto................... 
40®
50
Antimoni,  po__ !]' 
4®
5
AntimonietPotassT  40®
50 
@
Antipyrin............  
1  40 
©
Antifebrin ............. 
@  15
Argenti Nitras, oz .”  @
@  50
Arsenicum...........  
10©
10®  
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud
38®  40
Bismuth  S. N.........
1  40®  1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  is 
9
@ 
Calcium Chlor., Ms! 
@ 
10 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms. 
@ 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
@  75
Capsici  Fructus. af.
@  15
Capsid Fructus, po 
@  15
Capsici FructusB.po 
@  15
Caryophyllus.. po.  15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40 
© 3 00 
Cera Alba, S .4 P   "
50@
Cera Flava..............
40©  42
®
Coccus.............  
 
®  40
©
Cassia Fructus.!..!! 
©  33
Centraria.................  @
@ 
10 @  45
Cetaceum........... ] ] ] 
®
Chloroform......... 
60©
60©  63
Chloroform, squibbs  @ 
@  1 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  25®
1  50 
Chondrus............. 
20®
25 
35 
Cinchonidine,P.&W  25® 
Cinchonidine, Germ 
22®
30
Cocaine..................   3 80® 4  00
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct
70 
Creosotum........  
@
35 
Creta.............. bbl.’75  @
2
Creta, prep  .........  
@
5 
Creta, preeip  ... 
9®
11
Creta, Rubra.........  
@
8 
Crocus...................!!  18®
20
®
Cudbear.............. 
24
g®
Cupri Sulph...... 
6 
Dextrine.................. 
io@
12 
7g@
Ether Sulph............  
90
Eme’ry, all  numbers  @
8 
Emery, po........... 
@
635 
Ergota............ po. 40 
30®
Flake  White........ 
12®
15 
Galla................  
©
23 
8®
Gambier...................! 
9 
Gelatin, Cooper___  @
60 
Gelatin, French...... 
35®
60 
Glassware, flint, box
70 
Less , than  box__
60 
9®
Glue,  brown........... 
12
Glue, white............  
13®
25 
Glycerina..........."   13M®
20 
Grana  Paradisi  ... 
®
15 
Humnlus..............
25®
55 
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
80
Hydraag Chlor Cor.
@  70
Hydraag Ox Rnb’m.
&  90
Hydraag Ammoniati 
©  1 00 
HydraagU ngnentum
45®
Hydrargyrum.........
@  65
Ichthyobolla,  Am
65®  75
75®  1  ¿0
Indjgo...................... 
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @ 4 20
@ 2  25
Lupulin.  ................ 
Lycopodium...........  40®  45
65®  75
............  
Macis 
Liquor  Arse:; et Hy-
drarg Iod.............  
sa
LiquorPotassArslnit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ........... 
Menthol.

<a 
10®
2®
_  
go®
o  2 75

C.  Co 

Morphia, S.P.& W ...  2  15® 2 40 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
..............  2  15® 2 40
Moschus Canton.
@  40
Myristica, No. 1 ...... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica. ..po.20
@ 
10
Os  Sepia................. 
is
lg® 
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
@  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................
@ 2 00 
Picis Liq., quarts__
@  1  00 
Picis Liq., pints......
@  85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
@  50
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
@  18 
Piper Alba__po.  35
@  30
Piix  Burgnn...........
@ 
7
Plumbi  Acet...........
12
10®  
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  15®   1  20 
Pyrethrum, boxes H 
& P. D. Co., doz...
1  25 
Pyrethrum,  pv........
30®
33 
Quassiae...............
8®
10 
Quinia, S. P. & W ..
33®
38 
Quinia, S. German..
38 
Qninia, N.Y......   ... 
33®
38 
12®
Rubia Tinctorum... 
14 
SaccharumLactis pv  18®
20
Salacin....................  3 00®  3 ÍÓ
40®  50
Sanguis Draconls... 
12®  14
Sapo,  W................... 
Sapo, M.................... 
io@ 
12
Sapo, G....................   @ 
lg
Siedlitz  Mixture....  20  @  22

is
® 
Sinapis.................... 
Sinapis, opt............   @ 
30
Snuff, Maccaboy,De
Voes......................  @ 
34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @ 
34
Soda Boras..............  9  @ 
11
ji
Soda Boras, po........  9  @ 
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
im@ 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
g
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 80
Spts. Ether Co........ 
go®  gg
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @ 0 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 42
Spts. ViniRect.Mbbl 
@ 2 47
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 52
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@ 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2M
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromae............   42®  45
Vanilla....................  9 00® 16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

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

BBL.  SAL.
70 
70
40 
45
35 
40

Linseed, pure  raw..  42 
Linseed, boiled......   44 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  40 

45
47
70
45
Paints  BBL.  LB
Red Venetian.........   1M  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1M  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
1M  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2¥@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13® 
15
Vermilion, English. 
70® 
75
Green, Paris...........  13M®  19
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
16
Lead, Red...............   5M@ 
6
Lead, white............   5M@ 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’... 
r@ 
yo
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
„c liff......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

•••  1 

□Varnishes

No. l'Turp Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp............   1  go®  1  70
Coach Body............   2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp F um ....  1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  75

PAINT

BRUSHES

We  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.

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

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 
It is im­
dealers.  They are prepared just before going to press and are an  accurate index of the  local  market. 
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.
Fish.
Cod.

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

SAL SODA.

HERBS.

 

 

 

Halibut.

Herring.

Georges cured............  @ 5
Georges  genuine.......   @ 5Vi
Georges selected........  @6
Strips or  bricks.........   6  @9
Chunks............................ 
9 Vi
Strips............ . 
8Vi
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoop Vi bbl  5 50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
75 
Holland white hoop metis 
35
N orwegian......................   11 00
Round 100 lbs...................  8 25
Round  40 lbS......... 
160
Scaled............... 
14
 
nackerel.
Mess 100 lbs......................  16 30
Mess  40 lbs.  ...................  6  90
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  82
Mess  8 lbs...... ..............   1  48
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............   ......   9 50
No. 2  40 lbs............   —   4 GO
No. 2  10lbs............. 
 
107
No. 2 8 lb s,..,.................... 
88
.Sordino*.
Russian kegs.................... 
56
Treat.
No. llOOlbi......................  5 60
No. 1  401bi......................  2 59
No. 1 
70
NO. 1 

10 lbs.................... 
8 lbS_59
Whlteflsh.

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 75  5 75  2 75
40 lbs..........   3 00  2  6J  1  40
10 lbs........... 
43
8 lbs........... 
34
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

83 
69 

73 
61 

_  

ESTABLISHED i&72

33EB3E

Jennings’ .

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

D. C. Lemon
2 oz....  75
3 oz. 
.. .-.1 0Q
4 oz.... 140
6 OZ........2 00
No. 8...2  40
00
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

1  50 
3 00

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.
.................................. 4 00

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs 
Half Kegs..................................2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cahs...........................-..  30
Vi 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
QuarteriKegs........................... 2 25
’fib, Sans..............................  45

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

INDIOO.

JBLLY.

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

KRAUT.

15 lb  pails............................   40
30 lb  palls............................   73
Barrels.................................3  50
Half barrels  ....................... 2 00
Condensed, 2 doz  ...............1  20
Condensed. 4  doe  .............. 2 25
Pure................. j..................  30
Calabria  ..............................  25
Sicily...................................  14
Root......................................... 10

LICORICE.

LYE.

MINCE MEAT.

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

HATCHES.

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

nOL ASSES.
Naw Orleans.

Black...............................  
11
F air.........................................14
Good................................. 
90
Fancy  .............................  
24
Open Kettle.....................25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MtJSTARD.

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 Sait  Co.’s ................. 3  00

Barrels, 1,200 count...........   5 25
Half bbls, 600 count...........   3 13

Barrels, 2,400 count...........  6 35
Half bbls  1,200 count........   3 75

PICKLE«.
riedium.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6k
Carolina  Nfl. 1 .............  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4V4
Broken...............................   3k
Japan,  No. 1......................  5 k
Japan,  No. 2.................... 
5k
Java, fancy head..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  5
Table..................................  5Vi

Imported.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Chnrch’sJ.,.,,,.................... 8 3C
Deland’s .......................  
3 15
Dwight’s .......................  
3 30
Taylor’s .................................... 8 00

 
 

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases, 24 3-Ib  boxes.. 1  50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bnlk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 3 lb sacks............................. 1 70
80 5-lb sacks.............................1 55
2810-lb sacks...........................1 45
50  4  lb.  cartons....................3 25
115  2Vilb. sacks........................4 00
60  5  lb. sacks........................3 75
22 14  lb. sacks........................3 50
30 10  lb. sacks........................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk in barrels.........................2 50
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.................   79
Medium  Fine......................   85

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar  Rock.
Common.

Warsaw.

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

SEEDS.

A nise...............................  
9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  M alabar......  60
Celery...............................  11
3k
Hemp,  Russian................ 
M ixed  B ird .......................... 
4v%
M ustard,  w h ite ..................  
5
Poppy  .............................. 
8Vi
Rape...............................  4 Vi
Cuttle Bone......................  20

SNUPP.

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

SOAP.

J A X O N

Single box............................ 2  75
5 box lots, delivered..........2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........2 65
JDS.  S.  KIRK  S IKI.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome.................................... 3 33
Cabinet........,........  
2 30
Savon........................ 
2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz.. ..2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  oz__3 00
Blue India, 100 k  lb.............3 00
Kirkoline..............................3 75
Eos.....................................  3  65

 

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

GLYDE8DA

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, 601-lb. bars__3  75
Uno, 100 -Si-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars.............2 05

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z......2 4fi
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz...........2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  5vi
Kegs. English....................   4K

S P IC E S.
Whole Sifted.
 

 

Allspice  ............... 
id
Cassia, China in mats......  12
Cassia, Batavia in bund...  22 
Cassia, Saigon in rolls—  ..82-
Cloves,  Amboyna................ 10
Cloves, Zanzibar................  10
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

Pure Ground In Balk.

Allspice  ...  ........................ 12
Cassia, Batavia...................22
Cassia,  Saigon..  ..............  4(>
Cloves, Amboyna................ 18
Cloves, Zanzibar..................13
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia.....................70
Mustard, Eng. and Trieste.. ’8
Mustard, Trieste..................20
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white............15
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage....................................  15

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

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

Acm e.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
45
k lb cans doz................... 
!4 lb cans doz..................  
85
lb cans doz...................  1  50
I 
M lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
75
V4 lb cans 3 doz................. 
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk.................................... 
10
k  lb cans per doz...........   75
V( lb cans per doz  ..........  1  20
lb cans per doz...........   2 00
1 
k  lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
55
Vi lb cans 4 doz case.......  
lb cans 2 doz case  ...... 
90

El Purity.

Home.

E E f r a n i

lb cans, 2 doz case 
Jersey Cream.

Vi 1 b cans, 4 doz case......  
45
Vi lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
85
1 
 
1  60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz............. 
85
k  lb cans..........................  
45
Vi lb cans.......................... 
75
lb cans..........................  1  60
I 
X lb. cans  ......................... 
85

Our Leader.

Peerless.

BATH  BRICK.

BLUING.

American................................70
English.................................... 90
Co n d e n s e d
j ^ E A R L V ;
B lu inG

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

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

95 
1  15 
1  30 
1  45 
.1  75

2 00 
1  25

@  llVi

BR00n5.
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, 
flanitowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat........
Lakeside E.  J ...................
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng... 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted 
Extra Sifted Early Jane.. 

CATSUP.

Columbia, 
Columbia, Vi pints........

pints............

CHEESE

Acme..................
Amboy...................  @
Bloomingdale.........  @
Byron......................  @
Elsie.......................   @
Gem.....................:.  @
Gold  Medal............   @
Ideal.......................   @
Jersey  ....................   @
Lenawee.................  @
Riverside.................  @
Springdale..............  @
<a
Sparta..................... 
Brick.......................  @
Edam................... 
  @
Leiden.....................  @
Limburger..............
Pineapple................ 43
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
Bulk 
..................
........
Red 
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.’a.

German Sweet....................  23
Premium..................................84
Breakfast  Cocoa.....................45

CLOTHES LINES
Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz...
Cotton, 50 ft, per  do*__
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz  .  .
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz__
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz__
Jute, 60 ft,  per  dos....
Jute. 72 ft.  per  dos...
COCOA SHBLLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............  
CREAn  TARTAR.

1  00 
1  20 
1  40 
1  60 
1  80 
80 
96

2Vi
3
4

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

F a ir........................................ 10
Good.......................................12
Prim e......................................13
Golden  ...................................14
Peaberry  ................................15
Fair  ....................................... 14
Good  ......................................15
Prim e......................................16
Peaberry  ................................17

Santos.

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

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

Maracaibo.

Prim e........  ..........................30
Milled......... ............................21

Java.

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

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

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
Sancaibo............................23
Breakfast B’end...  .........  20
Valley City Maracaibo....... 18V4
Ideal  Blend........................ 14
| Leader  Blend..................... 12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  oh  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 lvie a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbnckle.......................   10 00
Jersey................  
io 00
ncLaugblln’s  XXXX......  10  00
Valley City Vi gross__ 
75
Felix H gross...............  
1  15
Hummel’s foil Vi gross 
85 
1  43
Hummel’s tin Vi  gross 
CL0THE5  PINS.
5 gross boxes 
....................   40
COUGH  DROPS.

Extract.

 

 

C. B. Brand.

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

CONDENSED  MILK.

4 doz in case.
Gail Borden  E ag le........... 6 75
Crown....................................  6 25
Daisy....................................... 5 75
Champion................................4 go
Magnolia 
Challenge................................. 3 35
Dime........................................ a 35

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

.4  25

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books  any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00

Economic Grade.

Universal Grade.

Superior Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from 810 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-DOneSTIC 
Suiidrled...... . 
@ 5k
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  8k 

Credit Checka.

Apples.

California  Fruits.

California Prunes.

FBlackberries.
Nectarines...............   @ 7k
Peaches......................   8  @  8V4
Pears..........................   8  @ 7Vi
Pitted Cherries..........
PrunneUee-,-,................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  © 3 k
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   @4
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........  @4Vi
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   @5
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........  @ 5 Vi
50 -60 25 lb boxes 
40 - 50 25 lb boxes 
30 - 40 25 lb boxes, 
k  pent less in 50 lb cases 
Raisins.

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

1  60 
2  00
3k

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Grits.

Farina.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Patras bbls........................ @ ?k
Vostizzas 50 lb cases......... @ 7Vi
Cleaned, balk  ..................@  8k
Cleaned, packages............ @ 8k
Citron American 10 lb bx  @13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  @12 
Ondura 28 ib boxes......8  @ 8Vi
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crown  ........  @
Sultana 3 Crown.........9Vi@10
Sultana 4 Crown.........   @
Sultana 6 Crown.........   @
Sultana 6 Crown.........  @12
Sultana package.........  @14
FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.............1  75
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s........ 2  15
Bulk In 100 lb. bags.........3 00
Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drams........ 1  00
Dried Lima  .......................  
Medium Hand Picked__1  00
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box.......2 50
Common........................... 
1  75
Chester............................  2 00
Em pire............................  2 50
Green,  bu...........................  so
Split,  per lb...............   ... 
2
Rolled Avena,  bbl........3 90
Monarch,  bbl..................3 75
Monarch,  Vi  bbl............. 2 00
Private brands,  bbl......
Private brands, Vibbl......
Quaker, cases.................. 3 20
Huron, cases....................1  75
German............................ 
3vi
East  India.........................  
3
Cracked, bulk................... 
354
24 2 lb packages................2 50^

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Beans.

Peas.

Sago.

3

STARCH.

VINEOAR.
Malt White Wine........
Pure Cider...................
Washing Powd:

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs
_  
Wheat  ...............................
Winter  Wheat Flour. 

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Wheat.

Klngaford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  8
20 1 lb packages...................  654

Klngsford’s Silver  Glose.
10 1-lb packages...................  64
6-lb boxes.......................... ^

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.
201 lb. packages.............
401 lb. packages.............
Common Gloss.
1-lb  packages.................
3-lb  packages..................
6-lb  packages..................
40 and 50 lb boxes............
Barrels  ............................
STOVE POLISH.

..  4
..  4 
• •  44
..  24 
2%

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.
Domino..............................5  75
Cut  Loaf............................ 5  7a
Crushed..............................5  7a
Cubes.................................5  41
Powdered  ...........................5 44
XXXX  Powdered.............. 5  50
Granulated in bbls.............5  25
Granulated in  bags........... 5  25
Pine Granulated................5  25
Extra Fine Granulated...... 5  38
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 38
Mould  A............................ 5  50
Diamond Confec.  A..........5 25
Confec. Standard A............ 5  13
No.  1.......................  
No  2................................. 4  88
No.  3.................................4  81
No.  4  ................................. 4  75
No.  5................................. 4  69
No.  6................................. 4  56
No.  7.................................4  50
No.  8................................. 4  44
No.  9................................. 4  38
No.  10.....................  
No.  11................................. 4  31
No.  12.................   ............   4 25
No.  13................................. 4  19
No.  14................................. 4  13
No.  15................................. 4 06
No.  16................. ................ 4 00

 

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cane.

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 65

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.

00 12 oz pkgs.

WICK1NG.
No.O, per gross............
No. 1, per gross............
-•  4% No. 2, per gross............
No. 3, per gross............

3 50

....  25
....  40 
....  75

Fish and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
__ 
Wmtefish................  @  8
T rout......................  @  8
Black Bass..............  @  ]2
Halibut..................   @ 
is
Ciscoes or Herring..  @  4
Bluefisb..................   @ 
jo
Live Lobster.........  @  ¿0
Boiled Lobster........  @  2i
Cod.........................  @ 
io
Haddock.................  @  g
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @ 
7
Smoked White........  @  9
Red Snapper...........  @ 
12
Col  River  Salmon..  @  ny* 
Mackerel 
..............  @ 
is

Oysters in Cans.

P. H. Counts...........  @  35
P. J. D. Selects........  @  27
Selects....................   @  22
F. J. D. Standards..  @  20
Anchors.................   @  18
Standards...............   @  16
Favorites...............   @

Oysters  in Bulk

P. H. Counts...........  @1  75
Extra Selects.........   @1  50
Selects....................  @1  25
Anchor Standards..  @ 110
St  ndards...............   @1  00
Clams......................  @1  25

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@i  50
r! ini, 

Shell Goods.
ier mo  .  __  vi

4 88
Hides  and  Pelts.

lows:

Perkins  &  Hess  pay  as  fol­

4 38

  7  @8

Hides.
Green.................... 
Part  cured.................  @ 84
Pull Cured.................  84@ 94
g r y .........................     9  @11
Kips,  green.................  7 @ 8
Kir«  cured.................  84®
Calfskins,  green........  74®  9
Calfskins, cured........  9  @104
Deaconskins  .............25  @30

Pelts.

Shearlings.................. 
5@  30
Lambs.......................   40@ 
Old  Wool.................1 < 0@  1 50

Furs.

50@  11  40
30@ 1  00
Skunk...............
50@  11  00
Muskrats, fall__
5@ 12
Muskrats, spring.
14@ 17
Muskrats, winter
12@ 14
Red Fox.............
....1 2b@  11  50
Gray Pox............
40(a)
70
Cross Fox  .........
...2 50@ s> 00
Badger................
20® 60
Cat, W ild...........
15® 40
Cat, House.........
10® 20
Fisher.................
...3 50® 7f (JO
Lynx.................
....1 00® s! 00
Martin, Dark......
. . . 1 50@ i1 00
Martin, Yellow ..
75©  1i  50
Otter...................
( 0@  ()  00
W olf...................
75@  1l  50
Bear...................
00@U> 00
Beaver................
. . . 2 U0@  (> 00
Beaver Castors...
@  t> 00
Opossum............
5ft
15
Deerskin, dry. per lb.
rib. 15® 25
Deerskin, gr’n, per lb
rib.
10® 15

Wool.

Washed 
................... 14  @23
Unwashed...................|4  (@17

8. C. W..............................33 00
H. Van Tongeren's Brand. 
Star Green........................30 50

Hiscellaneous.

Tallow......................   24® 3H
Grease Butter..............  1  @ 2
Switches  ...................  It4@ 2
Ginseng......................  @3 00

„ 
Standard................. 
Standard H.  H........ 
Standard Twist......  
Gut Loaf.................
Jumbo, 32 lb  ...
Extra H. H......
Boston  Cream.

bbls.  pails
64® 7
64® 7
@ 8 
6
@ 8 4 
cases 
@ 64
@ m

Mixed Candv.

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

@ 6 
@ 7 
@ 74 
@ 7% @ 8% 
@  8 '/j
@  84 
@ 8 
@ 8* 
@ 84 
@10 
@ 12

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........
Choc.  Monumentais
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops..............
Imperials...........’"

Fancy

in  5  lb.  Boxes.

@  84 
& 84@14 
@11 
@ 6 
@ 8 
@ 84 
@ 8H

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

@30
@45

@3 00 
@2  2 > @2 75 
@3 00 
@

@3 00 
@3 25 
@3 25 
@3 50 
@3 75

@1  50 
@2  00

a

<g
a
@  14 
@  12 
@ 6 4

@ 8 
@ 6 
@ 8% 
@  6 
@ 44

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

Fruits.
Oranges. 
Mexicans  150 176-200
Cal. Seedlings........
Fancy Navels 112  ..
126 to 216............
Choice.................. 7
Lemons. 
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s........
Ex.Fancy 300s.... 
Ex. Fancy  360s__

Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Figs.

1  10

Choice, 101b boxes. 
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............  
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags..
Dates.
Fards In 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in  60 lb cases
Persians, G. M’s......
Sairs,  601b cases....

lb cases, new__

Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
@12
Almonds, Ivaca......... 
a n
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............
@13 
Brazils new..............
@ 9 
Filberts  ............ .
@10 
Walnuts, Grenobles 
@12 
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1 
@10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@  9 
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@10 
Table Nuts,  choice.
@ 9 
Pecans, Med...............
@ 8 
„
Pecans, Ex. Large....’ 
@ 10
Pecans,  Jumbos........  @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new.............. 
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
Peanuts.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flagg
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,

Roasted........

@ 44

a i   60
@4  50

Roasted

Local Brands.

Patents............................... 5  50
Second  Patent......... 7 .7   5 00
Straight............................  4  go
Clear..................................  4  40
Graham  ........................    4  75
Buckwheat............ . 
3  50
Rye  ..................................   3  00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis- 
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, 4 s........................  4  60
Quaker, fts..........................  4  60
Quaker, 4 s........................   4  60

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.

Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

.

aJi

10 75
11  00 
10 50 
10 50
¡4 00
s vf>
10 50

Mess  ......
Back 
Clear  back 
Shortcut..
Pig............................. 7! 
Bean  ...........................  
Family  ..................
Dry Salt  Meats
Bellies..........................
Briskets  .................. .7
Extra  shorts.................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 121b  average__
Hams, 14lb  average 
...
84i
Hams, 16 lb  average..... 
¿2
Hams, 20 lb  average..... 
71
Ham dried beef  ............  
13 ‘
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut). 
. 6
Bacon,  clear.................7  @8
California  hams........... 
g
Boneless hams...............  
8y
Cooked  ham.................8@il
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound..................... 
Kettle......................7. . 7
55 lb Tubs..........advance
80 lb Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
20 lb Pails..........advance
IU }h Pails..........advance
5 Ib Palls..........advance
3 1b P ails.............advance 

J 4

4
6M

Sausages.

Bologna.....................  
Liver......................7 ..... 
Frankfort........... 
Pork.................. 7/77777' 
Blood  ....................... ; 
Tongue 
Head  cheese

5
B u
7
g Li
e

Pillsbury’sfcBest %s...........
Pillsbury’s  Best 4 s...........
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s.........
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s paper.. 
Pillsbury’s Best 4 s paper.. 
BaU-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Grand Republic, 4 s.......... 5 50
Grand Republic, 4 s.......... 5 40
Grand Republic,  4 s...........5  3u
Lemon <St Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal 4 s ...................  5 65
Gold Medal ........................ 5 55
Gold Medal 4 s .............   * 5 45
Parisian,  4 s ......................7 5 65
Parisian, 4 s....................   5 55
Parisian. 4 s.......................  5  45
Ceresota, 4 s......................   5 50
Ceresota, 4 s..............              540
Ceresota, 4 s........... ......... 5 30
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 4 s .........................   5 50
Laurel, 4 s .............. 
5  40
Laurel, 4 s ........................7  5 3j
Bolted.................... 
|  75
Granulated............./ / 7 .- /  2 00

Olney & Judson’s Brand.

Meal.

Feed and Millstuffs.
St. Car Feed, screened  ...  16 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats......  
15  00
Uubolted Com Meal.... 
14 50
Winter Wheat  Bran... 
14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.. 11 00
Screenings.......................... 13 00

New Corn.

fa r  lots............................. 334
Less than  car lots............   37

Oats.

Car  lots............................. ...
Carlots, cli pped.........../  ’.  3214
Less than  car lots. 
........35
Hay.

No. 1 Timothy  arlots..
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots.

..  9 00
..10 00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................  64® 7y
Forequarters............ 5 4®  6
Hind  quarters...........  74® 9
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
XllUS...........
•  8  @12
Rounds  ......
Chucks__
4  @ 5 
Plates  ........
@ 3

Pork.
Dressed..................
L oins.................. 7
Shoulders__
Leaf Lard......
Carcass...........
Spring Lambs........... ■  7  @ 8 
.  8  @ 9
Carcass  .........
.  8  @  9

Mutton.

-  54®

Veal.

@ 5 
@ 74 @  6

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ................
XXXW.W.Mich.Hdit
W W Michigan...........
Diamond White.........
D., S. Gas....................
Deo. N aptha..............
Cylinder.................  25
Engine............... ....... u
B’«ck. winter__...

@114 
@  84

@  8 
@ 74 @36 
@21 e» 8

Beef.

Casings.

.  9 00 
. 12 25 
.12 25
80 
.  1  50 
2 80

5 65 
Extra  Mess..............
5 55
Boneless  ........7... 7
&  551 Rump.......................
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs...............
4   bbls, 40 lbs__
4   bbls, 80 lbs...........
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs...  .  ....
4   bbls, 40 lbs.................
1  40
4   bbls, 80 lbs.................  2 75
d  v 
P ork............................... 
i6
Beef  rounds..................  
4
Beef  middles...........7.77 
10
Sheep__ ■....................77 
go
Rolls, dairy................... 
19
Solid, dairy................   /  
94
Rolls,  creamery............  
14
Solid,  creamery.........  
134
Canned  Meats.
Corned beef,  2 lb  .. 
2 15
14 75
Corned beef, 14  lb. 
. 
Roast  beef,  2 lb..........   2 15
Potted  ham,  4 s.........  
80
Potted  ham,  4 s..........   1 00
Deviled ham,  4 s___ 7!  60
Deviled ham,  4 s.........7 1  00
Potted  tongue 4 s.........  
60
Potted  tongue 4 s...........  1 00

Butterine.

Crackers.

Soda.

Oyster.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX.........  
e
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  04
Family XXX......................  g
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  64
Salted XXX.........................  g
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton...  64 
Soda  XXX  .......................   7
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton__  74
g
Soda,  City...............  
Zephyrette.7 . 7 7 / 7  
10
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX.........   g
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  7
Farina Oyster.  XXX.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  404
Bent’s Cold Water......... 
134
Belle Rose.........................  g
Cocoanut Taffy.................  94
Coffee Cakes......................  g
Frosted Honey..................  124
Graham Crackers  __ .7 
3
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped. 
7
Ginger  Vanilla................   y
Imperials..........................   84
Jumbles,  Honey...............   114
Molasses Cakes...................  g
Marshmallow  ................ /   15
Marshmallow  Creams.7!!  16
Pretzels,  hand  made  ......  9
Pretzelettes, Little German  7
Sugar  Cake.......................  g
Sultanas............................  124
Sears’ Lunch.................... 
g
Vanilla  Square................ 
84
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Pecan Wafers.........   .......\  454
Mixed Picnic....................   104
Cream Jumbles.................  12
Boston Ginger Nuts...........  84
Chimmie Fadden..............  10
Pineapple Glace.......... . . 7  16
Penny Cakes......................  34
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  18
Belle Isle Picnic.............. 
ii

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

4  gal., per doz.............. 
50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
54
8 gal., per g a l................. 
(¡4
10 gal., per gal.................. 
04
12 gal., per gal..................   64
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

2 to 6 gal., per gal......   ... 
54
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

4  gal. flat or rd.  hot., doz.
60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each 
54
Fine Glazed Mllkpans.
4  gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 

54 

Stewpans.

Jugs.

4  gal. fireproof, bail, doz.  86 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
4  gal., per doz.................   40
4  gal., per doz..................  50D
1 to 5 gal., per gal...
64
4  gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for 4  gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
4  gal-, stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00

Tomato Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
2
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun..........................  
45
No.  1  Sun..........................  
50
No.  2 Sun.......................  
75
Tubular.............................  
50
Security, No.  1 ........................65
Security, No. 2............ /  /  
gg
Nutmeg  ...................... 
50
Climax............................./7 j 50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
„  
Fer box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun..........................., 1 gg
No.  2  Sun..........................7 2 70

First  Quality.

top,
top,
top,

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

No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled....  2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..  2 75 
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  gg
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lames............  
80

La  Bastie.

 

 

Electric.

doz  ........ 

OIL  CANS. 

Pump  Cans

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
1  25
No. 2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
!  doz 
............................  1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........  l  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
.  .  1  60
Rochester.
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)..........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz). . . . .   4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ......  4  00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv Iron with spout.  3 50 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 75 
3 gal galv iron with faucet  4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  8 00
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule.....................10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King...................  9 50
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  OC 
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents.........  
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls  5 doz.
each, bbl 35'....................
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 doz. each.........
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................
No. 1 per gross..............
No. 2 per gross 
No. 3 per gross.
Mammoth.......................... 

45
4=1
40 
1  25

LANTERNS.

20

79

22

Hardware

Rapid  Growth and  Increasing  Influence 

of  Retail  Organizations.

Ante Lucem In American Artisan.

life 

The  annual  convention  of  the  hard­
ware  organizations  of  the  several  North­
western  States,  Wisconsin,  Minnesota 
and  North  Dakota,  seem  to  have  put 
into  the  scheme  for  bettering 
new 
the  condition  of  the  retail  trade. 
It  is 
not  alone  confined to  the  hardware  men, 
but  has  become  contagious :  the  spirit 
moveth  among  the  machinery  men,  and 
the  furniture  and  grocery  organizations 
are  putting  on  new  life.  People  do  not 
wait  to  be  told  of  the  objects  and  listen 
in  a  half  dazed,  careless  manner,  but 
are  asking  for  and  seeking information, 
not  waiting  for  it  to  seek  them.  “ What 
can  we  do  to  improve  matters?’ ’  and 
“ can  you 
inform  us  about  the  several 
moves,  objects,  etc.,  etc. ?”   are  com­
mon  talk.  All  the  hardware  dealers  do 
not  appear to  have  caught  onto  the  real 
objects  and  aims  of  the  organization, 
and  some  have  formed  the  most  erron­
eous 
ideas  of  what  is  to  be,  or  the  in­
tent  of  what  should  be.

Two  dealers  have  told  me  they  would 
have  been  in  long  ago  had  the  Associa­
tion  declared  for  a  cash  business  deal­
ing.  The Association  puts  no  restriction 
upon  anyone  preventing  any  reform  of 
business  within  his  own  shop  be  may 
see  fit  to  inaugurate,  and  if  to  do  busi­
ness  on  a  cash  basis  is,  in  the  eyes  of 
any  member  of  the  Association,  a  good 
reform  measure,  well  and  good.

With  a  confinement  of  all  businesses 
within  their  legitimate  channels,  and 
legitimate  and  fair  competitive  dealing 
for 
its  prime  object,  it  will,  as  an  or­
ganization,  aid  any  and  all  of  its  mem­
bers 
in  furthering  any  reform  or  re­
forms,  such  as  any  member  or members 
may  evolve  or  undertake.

Not  a  few  members  of  the Association 
have  gone  to  the  cash  method,  and 
others  are  contemplating  such  a  move­
ment.  Reforms  of  this  kind  are  likely 
to  become  more  prevalent  under asso­
ciation 
influence  than  under  a  go-as- 
you-please,  the devil-take-the-hindmost- 
one  plan  of  work.

These  frequent  conferences  and  mu­
tual  exchanges  of  thought  and  views  are 
more  likely  to  crystallize  into beneficial 
measures  than  a 
lonely,  isolated  busi­
ness  proposition  can  possibly  produce. 
As  Brother  Peck  says,  “ no  one  knows 
it  all,  no  one  but  knows  something,  one 
cannot  do  it  all,  but  each  can  do  some­
judgment  and  ac­
thing. ”   Combined 
tion  will  produce  results. 
Individual 
action  alone  cannot  produce  great  re­
forms  beyond  one’s  own  business  place.
The  exchange  of  opinions  always  de­
velops  the  happy  middle  ground  of  a 
sound  business  policy.  The  mere  fre­
quent  the  exchanges  of 
thought  the 
earlier  the  solution  and  more permanent 
the  results.  Men must rub up against one 
another,  impart  and  gain  new 
ideas, 
thus  awakening  new  business  methods, 
giving  a  better  life  to  trade.
Every  county  should  have 

its  co-op- 
erative  body,  holding  occasional  meet­
ings  for  exchange  ol  ideas.  The  results 
of  these  several  meetings  should  be con­
veyed  to  the  Secretary,  and  from  him 
given  out  to  the  other  county  organiza­
tions.  With  but  a  slight  expense  and 
three  or  four  meetings  of  county  asso­
ciations a  year,  the  organization  can be­
come  a  tower  of  strength  to  all  mercan­
tile  interests.  Even  the  secretary  of 
each  county  organization  could  confer 
direct  with  each  neighboring  county 
secretary,  and  the  results  of  these  meet­
ings  and  conferences, when boiled down, 
could  be  transmitted  to  the  State  Sec­
retary,  and  a  digest  of  the  whole  matter 
considered  at  any  annual or semi-annual 
meeting.  Through  some  such  measures 
the  whole  Association  will  become 
strong,  vigorous,  bringing  good  to  each 
and  all  its  members.  The  work  should 
be  confined  to  the  absolute  membership 
in  good  standing. 
If  any  one  does  not 
support  and  aid  the  Association  neither 
should  he  expect  aid.
The  question  of  stove  sales  to  a  cer­
tain  class  of  dealers  was  passed  over  bv 
a  reference  to  the  Executive  Committee

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  stove  business 

of  the  Minnesota  Hardware  Association 
with  power  to  act.  Some  parties  say  it 
will  yet  come  up  for  a  vigorous  ventila­
tion.  So  far  as  sales  to  regular  furni­
ture  dealers  (time  houses)  go,  this  fea­
ture  will  be  a  delicate  one  with  large 
division  of  opinions.  There  are  two 
features  of 
that 
should  and  do  demand  close  scrutiny 
and  immediate  attention,  that 
is,  sales 
to  department  stores  and 
catalogue 
houses.  Of  the  latter,  there  is  not  now 
such  a  large  following  in  sales,  but  the 
Executive  Committee  and  officers,  even 
members,  would  not  need  to  look  far 
from  Minneapolis  to  find  some  of  this 
work ;  even  the  child  of  the  greatest  on 
earth  is  likely  to  be  found  strictly 
in  it 
on  some  deals.

large  advertisements 

The  manager  of  a  stove  manufactui- 
ing  concern  at  the  convention,  armed 
with 
in  Chicago 
papers,  was  asking  certain  parties  what 
the  Association  “ was  going  to  do  about 
it?’ ’  (making  reference  to  the  several 
advertisements),  meaning,  of  course, 
will  it  and  its  members  continue  to  buy 
from  people  who  sell  in  other states  to  a 
class  of  competitors  they  are  utterly 
antagonistic  to  wherever  dispersed?

Some  months  ago  I  made  mention  of 
a  Minnnesota  dealer  who  tried  to  huy 
from  the  St.  Louis  Stamping  Co.  a 
quantity  of  seconds,  the  correspondence 
and  flat  denial  of  making  such  grades, 
and  the  final  oyster  act  of  the  company
when  Mr.  M-----sent  them  their  own
trade  mark  and  gilt  edge circulars taken 
off  of  and  out  of  the  goods  be  had 
bought  through  a  New  York  auction 
mart,  and  asked 
if  such  was  not  their 
wares,  children  of  their  product.  Echo 
answered  yes,  but  up  to  present  time 
the  company  bas  said  nit.  Now  a judi­
cious  law  governing  advertising,  brand­
ing  and  selling  any  product  would  cut 
off all  such  work,  and  no  concern  could 
brand  an  inferior  article  as  a  genuine.
We  would  not  then  read  that  cele­
brated  brand  of  strictly  pure  St.  Louis 
white  lead  three  cents,  the  chemical 
analysis  of  which  develops  something 
like  80  per  cent,  rock,  a  small  quantity 
of  zinc  and  fish  oil.

When  you  read  these  things  and know 
the  facts,  what  more  natural  question  to 
ask  than,  “ What’s in  a  trade  mark  any­
how?”   You  can  put 
it  onto  any  old 
thing,  ist,  2d,  3d  Srs.,  Jrs.,  Grand  Jrs., 
or  Great  Grand  Jrs.,  and  what  does  it 
signify?  Nothing,  and  will  so  continue 
until  the  law  steps  in  and  bv  the  sever­
est  penalties prohibits lying advertising.
Eliminate  all  these  catch-penny  ad­
vertising  schemes,  sell  every  and  all 
brands  of  goods  under  the  honest 
light 
of  what  they  actually  are,  sell  them  in 
the  one  legitimate  channel  by  an  hon­
est  process,  and  merchandising  will  not 
be  such  a  bad  means  for  gaining  an 
honest  living. 
I  wonder  if  very  many 
have  considered  the  enormous amount of 
business  that  is  now  builded  upon  some 
scheme,  if  they  have  thought  how  easy 
it 
is  to  give  five  dollars  in  cash  with 
every  ten  dollars'  worth  of  goods.

fraud  and 

Underneath  every  scheme  for  the  sale 
If 
of  goods 
unitedly  all  the  dealers  would  say  to  the 
salesman  as  he  begins  to  unfold  his 
scheme," nit,’ ’  and  say  it  in  large caps, 
sticking  to  it,  much  good would  be  done 
legitimate  business  and  the  consumer.

theft. 

lurk 

Newest  Dancing  Shoes.

The  newest  dancing shoes are made of 
perfectly  plain  white  kid,  without  so 
much  as  a  row  of  perforated  stitching 
across  the  toe.  Their  toes are  broader, 
too,  and  the  vamps  not  so  long  as  for­
merly.  For  a  time  kid  dancing  shoes 
and  slippers  went  entirely  out  of  vogue, 
and  only  those  made  of  satin  were  con­
sidered  strictly  swell.*  But  satin  does 
not give,  and  is  most  uncomfortable,  so 
it  has  been  ousted.

A New  York  merchant  says  the  Amer­
ican  people  use  328,500,000  handker­
chiefs  annually.  They  are  gradually 
taking  the  office  of  hand  backs  and  coat 
sleeves,  and 
indicate  the  progress  of 
culture  and  refinement.

A  lie  well put  will  carry  conviction  to 
the  average  mind  more  surely  than  a 
good  reason  ill  expressed.

The  Hardware  Market.

Owing  to  the  severe  storms  which 
have  prevailed  in  Michigan  during  the 
month  of  February,  trade  has  not  been 
what  we  might  have  expected  had  we 
bad  different  weather.  As  this  condi­
tion  has  been  quite  prevalent  over  a 
large  part  of  the  Northern  States,  a 
general  stagnation  in  business  is  the  re 
port  from  all  quarters.  Manufacturers 
as  well  as  jobbers  have  been  laying  on 
their  oars  and  we  have  but  few  changes 
to  note  in  the  market  prices.

in  our 

Wire  Nails—Conditions  are  the  same 
last  week’s 
as  were  reported 
market.  As  near  as  we  can 
learn,  the 
parties  who  are  trying  to  form  the  nail 
pool  are  expected  to  have  a  meeting 
in 
New  York  this  week  and  we  expect 
something  definite  to  be  done.  It  is  also 
intimated  in  some  quarters  that,  owing 
to  the  war  scare  now  abroad 
in  the 
land,  it  will  be  impossible  for  the  syn­
dicate  to  float  the  stock  and  bonds  of 
this  immense  corporation,  consequently 
a  trust  will  not  be  formed  for  the  pres­
ent. 
If  such  is  the  case,  we  may  not 
look  for  any  higher  price  for  wiie  or 
nails  and  there  may  be  a  slight weaken­
ing.  The  price  still  remains  at  $1.55 
at  the  mill.

Wire—In  sympathy  with  the  condi­
tion  controlling  the  nail  market,  there 
is  no  change  to  note  in  wire.  Prices 
remain  as  quoted  last  week.

Rope—The  price  on  rope  fiber  is  still 
on  the  up  grade,  both  manilla  and  sisal 
having  advanced  J^c  per  pound.  This 
advance  is  held  firmly  by  all  large man­
ufacturers,  but 
in  some  cases  jobbers 
who  have  bought  freely  at  lower  prices 
are  disposed  to  shade  the market.  Local 
prices  remain  as  quoted  last  week.

Window  Glass—If  anything,  the  mar­

ket 
is  firm  on  this  article  and  the  ex­
treme  cutting  which  was  started  by 
some  glass 
is  being  curtailed 
and  the  market 
is  assuming  a  much 
firmer  tone.

jobbers 

Sheet  Iron—Orders  are  being entered 
for  sheet 
iron  for  next  fall  shipment 
and  it  is  believed  that  those  who  cover 
their  wants  at  this  time  are  not  making 
any  mistake,  as  prices  are  lower  than 
they  have  been  for  a  great  many  years; 
in  fact,  lower  than  the  writer  ever  re­
members  of  having  known.

Lead  Market—The lead market,  which 
governs  the  price  of  shot  as  well as  lead 
pipe,  is  on  an  advancing  tendency.

Gas  Pipe—The  market  is  not  overly 
strong  on  this  line  of  goods  and  prices 
are  being  quoted  as  low  as  during  the 
time  of  depression.

Sash  and  Doors—A  new  list  has  been 
adopted by manufacturers, which became 
effective  Feb.  1.  Dealers  who  handle 
these  goods  and  have  not  yet  received 
them  can  do  so  by  corresponding  with 
their  jobbers.

Combine  in  Enameled  Ware.

The long  talked-of combination among 
the  enamel-ware  manufacturers  appears 
to  be  a  reality  at  last.  Word  was  re 
ceived  from  St.  Louis  last  week  to  the 
effect  that  all  of the Neidringhaus plants 
had  been  combined  with  those  of  the 
Agate  Ware  Co.,  of  Chicago,  the  Pitts­
burg  Stamping  Co.,  the  Illinois  Manu­
facturing  Co.  and  the  Ohio  Stamping 
Co. 
It  was  said  that  about  §10,000,000 
of  invested  capital  is  represented  in  the 
new  combination.  When  asked  what 
the  purposes  of  the  combination  were, 
one  of  the  officials  of the Central Stamp­
ing  Co.  said : 
“ Like a  majority  of  the 
combinations  that  have  taken  place  in 
a  number  of  trades  lately,  we  are  going 
to  try  and 
increase  our  profits  by  de­
creasing  the  cost  of  production.”

Wire  Nails

Barb  Wire

Plain  and  Galvanized  Wire

Enter  your  order  now  for 
spring  shipments  and  save 
the  advance.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.,

W holesale  H ardw are, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

S Y R U P   C A N S
Sap  Pails  and  Sap  Pans

Round and  Square

Write for prices,

W m .  Brum m eler  &   Sons,  M an u factu rer;, 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Factory and Salesrooms 360 S. Ionia St.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

23

A  Game  Two  Can  Play  At. 

Written for the T radesman.

There  are,  at  this  moment,  two  men 
on  the  sunset  slope  of  life  who  are  sat­
isfied  that  an  enthusiast  can  go  too  far 
with  his 
idea  of  reform.  Those  two 
men  are  a  grocer  by  the  name  of  Bost- 
wick  and  an  occasional  writer  whose 
last  name  begins  with  S.  The  two  have 
for  sometime  been  indulging  in scatter­
ing  broadcast  their  condensed  wisdom 
free  of  charge,  all  of  which  has  been 
poured  upon  the  head  and  shoulders  of 
a  certain  clerk  whose  name  is  Morris— 
Will  Morris.  The readers of  this  column 
may  remember  that  Mr.  Bostwick  was 
more  than  aggressive  in  his  attempt  to 
reform  certain  undesirable  habits 
in 
his  clerk,  while  the  other  old  fellow 
complacently  looked down from his tran­
quil  heights  to  pour  his  philosophic 
balm  upon  the  troubled  waters  of  strife 
going  on  below,  with  an  occasional  and 
timely  “ Peace,  be still.”

The  genuine  reformer,  always  enthu­
siastic,  radiates  his  earnestness  from  a 
common  center  on  the  just  and  the  un­
just  alike,  and  there,  in  this  case,  is 
where  the  mischief  began.  Middle 
life,  especially  that  period  where  “ the 
grey  is'mingled with  the brown, ”  knows 
positively  that  it  is  more blessed  to give 
than  to  receive—advice;  and,  while  de 
termined  to  dispense  it  in  large  doses 
in  season  and  out  of  season,  he is  equal­
ly  determined  not  to  receive  any,  no 
matter  how  small  the  quantity.

Well, 

the  time  came  when  young 
Morris  concluded  that  turn  about  was 
fair  play  and  naturally  enough  turned 
his  attention  as  a  reformer  to  Mr.  Bost­
wick  and—most  unnaturally,  as  I  think 
—to  me.  Among  other  habits,  which  1 
do  not  feel  called  upon  to  enumerate, 
Mr.  Bostwick 
is  given  up,  body  and 
soul,  to  smoking.  So  what  does  this 
young  Martin  Luther  do  but  “ go  for”  
his  employer,  who  may  tell  his  own 
story  as  he  told  it  last  night  to  m e:

“ 1  was  pulling  away  for  dear  life  on 
my  old  briar,  when 
in  walked  Will. 
‘ Whew!’  says  he,  ‘ how  like  the  devil  it 
smells  in  here.  Heavens!  you  can  cut 
it  with  a  knife.  Let  me  open  a  win­
dow  so  I  can  breathe.  O,  I  know  your 
pipe-fodder  cost  enough’ —Pipe-fodder! 
Did  you  ever  hear  anything  quite  so 
bad  as  that?—‘ more’s  the  pity—and  I 
know  all  about  the  expense  of  your 
meerschaum;  but  you’re  puffing  your 
life  away 
just  the  same  and  making 
your  den  and  your  clothes smell  like  the 
Old  Nick.  What  makes  you  do 
it? 
Don’t  you  kwon  there’s  nicotine enough 
in  that  amber  stem  to  kill  at  forty  rods? 
Well,  I  do 
if  you  don’t,  and  so  does 
Mrs.  Bostwick ;  and  she’s  offered  me— 
don’t  you  wish  you  knew  how  much?— 
if  I  can  get  you  to  stop. 
I  stopped 
playing  billiards  when  you  asked  me 
to,  and  shut  down  on  what  little  whisky 
I  swallowed,  and  all  that,  because  you 
wanted  me  to.  Now  I  want  you  to  throw 
that  nasty  old  pipe  out  the  window  and 
not  smoke  any  more  of  that  kind  of  to­
bacco,  because 
it’s  better  for  you—and 
will  bring  me  in  a  neat  little  sum,  be­
sides.  Will  you  do  it?  Say!  will  you? 
Let  me  have  the  foul  thing  now  and 
send 
’er  flying.  Come!'  and  I ’ll  be 
kicked  if  that  cub  didn’t  take  my  pipe 
out  of  my  mouth  and  throw  it 
into  the
fire! 
I  was so-----mad for a minute that
I  couldn’t  speak.  Then  the  whole  thing 
took  a  turn  and  I ’ve  been  laughing at  it 
ever  since. 
Isn’t  it  the  funniest  thing 
you  ever  heard  of?"

It  was,  and  I  said  so—a  great  deal 
funnier,  anyway,  than  what  took  place 
in  this  very  room  no  longer  ago  than

in  about 

night  before 
last.  My  room  is  always 
open  to  Will  and  he  comes  in  when  he 
wants  to  and  stays  as  long  as  he  likes. 
I  happened  to  be  out  later  than  usual, 
and  when  I  came 
eleven 
o’clock  Morris  was  wrapped  up  in  a 
book  we  both  think  a  good  deal  of,  and 
didn’t  take  any  notice  of  me.  We  have 
a  biand  of  cigar  we  both  like,  and  each 
buys  one  for  the  other  fellow  when  he 
gets  one  for  himself.  So  I  took  Will’s 
cigar,  cut  the  end  off  and  laid  it  within 
easy  reach.  The  young  fellow  took  the 
cigar,  glanced  at  me,  and  then,  with the 
queerest 
in  his  eyes,  a  look  that 
seemed  to  bore  a  hole  right  into  mine, 
and  that 
lasted,  it  seemed  to  me,  for 
five  minutes,put  down  his book,  placing 
the  cigar  in  his  mouth  very  deliberate­
ly ;  and  then,  with  the  air  of  the  Great 
Mogul,  motioned  me  to  a  chair—he  had 
mine!  With  a  look  of  penitence  ap­
propriate  to  the  existing  condition  of 
things,  I  sat  down  upon  the  edge  of  the 
indicated  chair.

look 

After a  pull  or  two,  that  confounded 

Will  Morris  began :

“ I  wonder  if  you  haven’t  been  hav­
ing  a  schooner  of  beer?”   The  question 
the 
was  a  surprise,  but  I  admitted 
charge  with  a  schoolboy  nod. 
“ That 
Englishman  treated  you.”  
It  was  not 
a  question,  but  I  admitted  the impeach­
I  have  an  idea  that  that  port 
ment. 
wine  which  you 
like  with  your  whist 
and  your  cigai  is  making  your nose red ; 
and  I  know 
it  gives  you  a  bad  breath. 
Do  you  think  you’d  better  keep  it  up? 
I  never  could  stand  that  combination 
—an  evening  of  wine  and  cigars  with  a 
top-off of  beer;  it  always  upset  me  and 
sent  me  home  skating.  It doesn’t seem”  
—you  ought  to  have  heard  that  fellow 
emphasize  seem—“ toaffect  you,  in  that 
way,  but 
its  work  on 
your  nose,  for  a  fact;  and  I ’d  stop  it. 
Don’t  you  think  you’d  better?  Say! 
don’t  you  think  you  had?”

it’s  getting 

in 

You  could  have  knocked  me  down 
with  a  feather! 
I  felt  a  flush  of  wrath 
rising  in  my  cheeks,  and  turned  to  Will 
Morris  to  give  him  a  crusher.

I  didn’t  give 

it.  That  boy’s  face, 
with  a  tenderness  that  I  never  dreamed 
he  had  for  anything  human,  had  an  ex­
pression  of  pleading  earnestness  which 
completely  unarmed  me.  Anger  gave 
place  to  something  else;  and,  with  a 
“ Well,  Will,  I ’ll  think  about 
it,”   we 
turned  pleasantly  and  easily  to  the book 
the  boy  was  reading.

Do  you  know,  I  haven't  any  use  for a 
reformer  under  forty !  Earlier  than  that 
they  don’t  seem  to  understand  their 
business.

R ic h a r d  Malcolm  Str o n g.

He  Obeyed  the  Summons.

fiercely, 

“ Is  there  a  man  in  all  the audience, ”  
demanded  the  female  speaker  on  wom­
an’s  rights, 
“ who  has  ever 
done  anything  to 
lighten  the  burden 
resting  on  his  wife’s  shoulders?  What 
do  you  know  of  woman’s  work?  Is  there 
a  man  here,”  she  continued,  folding her 
arms  and 
looking  over  her  audience 
with  superb  scorn,“   that has ever  got  up 
in  the  morning,  leaving  his  tired,  worn 
out  wife  to  her  slumbers,  gone  quietlv 
downstairs,  made  the  fire,  cooked  his 
own breakfast,  sewed the missing buttons 
on  the  childien’s  shoes,  darned 
the 
family  stockings,  scoured  the  pots  and 
kettles,  cleaned  and  filled  the  lamps, 
swept  the  kitchen,  and  done  all  this,  if 
necessary,  day  after  day,  uncomplain­
ingly? 
is  such  a  man  in  this 
audience,  let  him  stand  up. 
I  should 
like  to  see  him .’ ’  And  far  back  in  the 
hall  a  mild-looking  man  in  spectacles, 
in  obedience  to  the  summons,  timidly 
arose.  He  was  the  husband  of  the  elo­
quent  speaker. 
It  was  the  first  chance 
he  had  ever  had  to  assert  himself.

If  there 

H ardw are  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’8................. 
Jennings’, genuine  ............
Jennings’, imitation 

.  .
AXES
First Quality, S. B. Bronze ... 
First Quality, D.  B. Bronze..
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel. 
First Quality, D. B. Steel. . . .
BARROWS

Railroad........

BOLTS

StOVe.............................
Carriage new list..............
Plow...................

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

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST 

Cast Loose  Pin, figured.  . 
Wrought Narrow......

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

BLOCKS

Cast Steel...............

CROW  BARS 

........ 

nn
2&&10

............ 5 00
......  
9 §0
...........  5 50
............   10 50

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS.

O,o 
»tamped Tin Ware....................  
Japanned Tin Ware...........  . . . .
.  ¡5&ÏÔ
Granite Iron Ware......................... new list 40*10
_  . 
HOLLOW  WARE
K ettles.................. ......................
Spiders  ...................

new lint
 

.60*1
.60*10
.60*10

.

HINGES

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 
State....................

3...............................  dis 60*10
....................per doz. net  2 50
WIRE  GOODS
Bright.................  .....................
Screw Eyes........................ .
Hook’s.............................
Gate Hooks and Eyes__ . ......

. 

80
80
80
80

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

LEVELS

« a re

............ 70*10
............ 70*10

ROPES
Sisal, H inch and  larger......
Manilla.................................
SQUARES

Steel and Iron., 
Try and Bevels 
M itre...............

70

0*
8

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

..per lb 

70

4

55
£

CAPS

Ely’s  l-lO..............
Hick’s C. F ............................;;......... Serm 
Musket........... 
.........................S îî“  

CARTRIDGES 

Rim Fire..............
Central  Fire...............   ............................"¡5 *  5

CHISELS

Socket Firmer................................. 
Socket Framing....................’’“ "  
Socket Comer.................  ” ”.....................  
Socket  Slicks................ .............................. 

an
an
an
¡¡¡J

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks ....
Taper and Straight Shank.  ... 
Morse’s Taper Shank..............
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6 in.................
Corrugated.....................
Adjustable.................. ’  ........

60 
.50* 5 
50*  5

doz. net 
¿0
1  25
........ 
....... dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS 
Clark's small, $18;  large, #26 
Ives’, 1, #18; 2, *24; 3, $30..............
FILES—New  List

New American...................
Nicholson’8..................... . . . . .....................
Heller’s Horse Rasps...... ’.'.. ’"  " * '"  "   "

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

GALVANIZED  IRON
16

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

30*10
25

70*10
70
6C*iO

28
17

Stanley Rule and Level  Ca’s......................60*10
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings................. 

KNOBS—New List

70
80

MATTOCKS

NAILS

Adze Eye.....................................#16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................#15 00, dis  60*10
Hunt 8......................................... #18 50, dis 20*10

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

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

 

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleable«.!. 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s...............  
Coffee, Enterprise..................................... 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  QATES

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

PLANES

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

 

PANS

Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
70& 5
Common, polished...............................  . 
Iron and T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

RIVETS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list.......................dis  3SH
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis 
25
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................................... di« tO&lO
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c 11« ,40*18

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.
#2 40

. . . . . .  

„  
Nos. 10 to 14..................................#270 
Nos. Is to 17.................................. 2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21............................ 
2 80 
No8.g to 2 4 ................................ !  3 00 
Nos. 25 to 26..................................  3 10 
"O-  27 •.........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.
.  
List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... dis 

SAND  PAPER

All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

2 ¿5

53

2 -40
2 45
2 65
2 75

SASH  WEIGHTS

WIRE

TRAPS

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  ‘>3
Bright Market......
Annealed  Market.
Coppered Market.................
Tinned Market....................... 
Coppered Spring  Steel.................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ............
Barbed  Fence,  painted.........
HORSE  NAILS
An Sable........................................
Putnam.............................
Northwestern............................
WRENCHES

«oí2
...........  2 15

—  dis 40*1C
. ...dis 10*10

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled.................... 
Coe’s Genuine........................................... 
Coe’s Patent  Agricultural, wrought  .........  
Coe’s Patent, malleable............................... 

30
50
80
go

MISCELLANEOUS

Bird  Cages  ...........................................  
go
Pumps, Cistern...................................... 
go
Screws, New List...................................  
35
Casters, Bed and  Plate........................... 50*10*10
Dampers, American............................... 
go

600 pound casks...........................................  
gu
Per pound..........................................................6M

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

H@H............................................................  12H
The prices of themanvotherqualitiesof solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.....................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal............................
20x14 IX, Charcoal................................ . .
Each additional X on this grade, (1.25!

TIN—Allaway Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal..................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal..........................
10x14 IX, Charcoal.................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal................................
Each additional X on this grade, #150.

.< 5 75 
.  5  75 
.  7 00

5 00
5 00
6  00 
6  00

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean.........................!.  6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean..........................!.  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4  go
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE

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

9

tradesman
Itemized
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Size, 8^ x14 —3 columns.

2 quires,  160  pages................................................$3  00
3 quires, 240  pages................................................   2  50
4 quires, 320  pages.................................................  3  00
s quires, 400  pages................................................   3  50
6 quires, 480  pages.................................................400

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T R A D E S riA N   CO M PAN Y,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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The  End  of  a  Good  Man.

M. Quad in American Druggist.

If  it  had  been  found  necessary  for  his 
friends  to  raise  a 
little  purse  to  bury 
John  Q.  black  when  he  died  the  other 
day.  and  to  put  a  suitable  stone at  the 
head  of  his  grave,  I  should  have  felt 
hurt  had  1  been  lett  out  of  the  affair. 
1 
had  known  and  appreciated  him  for  a 
score  oi  years,  and  it  can  be  truthfully 
written 
in  his  case  that  death  loved  a 
shining  mark.

John  Q.  black  was  a  druggists’  sun­
dries  man.  He  started  in  with  the  firm 
when 
it  had  nothing  but  Epsom  salts 
and  tooth-brushes  to get  orders  tor,  and 
he  the  only  traveler,  and  he  died  know­
ing  that  his  house  was  rated  at  half  a 
million  dollars  and  bad  a  dozen  men  on 
the  road  with  a  big  trunk  apiece. 
John 
went  right  to  the  head  of  the  profession 
the  first  day  he  started  out,  and  he 
never  lost  the  position.  He  was  the 
right  man 
in  the  tight  place.  At  the 
first  hotel  he  stopped  at  be  found  that 
half  a  dozen  ola  drummers  from  New 
York,  Boston  and  Philadelphia  had pre­
empted  all  the  best  rooms.  They  were 
there  tor  various  houses  which  could 
have  bought  and  sold  his  a  hundred 
Those  drummers  were 
times  over. 
used  to  the  best 
in  the  land,  and  ex­
pected  to  see  at  least  every  second  man 
take  off  his  hat  to  them.  They  were 
running  the  dining-room,  the  office,  the 
billiard-room—in  fact,  all  the  hotel, 
when  he  arrived.  He  had  got  a pointer 
down  the  road,  and  he  arrived  on  an 
engine  hired  tor  the 
last  run  of  fifty 
miles.  He  had  telegraphed  ahead  for 
a  carriage,  and  he  reached  the  hotel 
with  the  horses  on  a  gallop.  As  be  was 
told  by  the clerk  that  ail  the  best  rooms 
were  taken,  he  offered  to  rent  the  hotel 
for  a  week,  and  although  the  arrange­
ment  was  not  closed,  they  turned  an  old 
drummer  out  and  gave  him  a  parlor. 
He  rushed  upstairs  and  down,  out 
around  town  and  back,  and  when  he 
finally 
long 
breath  he  explained  to  the  wondering 
and  bewildered  people:

found  time  to  draw  a 

“ Philadelphia  was  making  a  corner 
on  Epsom  salts,  and Boston  was  making 
one  on  tooth-brushes,  and  our  house  was 
fighting  both. 
Thank  God,  we  have 
busted  ’em,  and  there  wiil  be  no  raise 
in  prices!”

John. 

From  that  day  John  Q’s  position  was 
established,  as  was  that  of  his  bouse. 
For  months  and  months  his  house  was 
unable  to  pay  full  salaries,  and  bis 
watch  and  pin  and  overcoat  were  al­
ways  in  pawn,  but  no  one  evei  knew  it. 
John  Q.  had  the  cheek  of  a  Government 
mule  and  the  tongue  of  a  woman.  He 
would 
leave  hotel  bills  behind  him 
where  other  men  had  been  arrested;  he 
would  take  orders  where  other  men  had 
failed  in  disgust.  There  might  be  other 
drummers  at  the  hotel,  but  they  came 
in  only  after 
If  one  of  them 
bought  a  whole  seat  in  a  parlor  car  he 
bought half  of  another  car  for  himself ; 
if  any  one  bragged  about  a  lower  berth 
he  bought  two  or  three  sections.  He 
was  always,  at 
in  imagination, 
fighting  rings  and  corners  and  trusts  for 
the  benefit  of  the  trade,  and  every drug­
gist  on  his  long  route  was  so  grateful  to 
him  that  not  a  shilling  of  his  trade 
could  be  diverted.  He  was  a  man  who 
knew  the  worth  of  gall  in  his  profes­
sion,  and  he  had  gall  by  the  ton. 
It 
wasn’t  impudence—it  wasn’t  exaggera­
tion  to  be  seen  through  as  he  boasted— 
it  was  something  to  catch  admiration  as 
he  leaned  carelessly  on  the  desk  of  the 
hotel  office and  said :

least 

“ Sorry  I ’ve  got  to  leave  this evening, 
but  I ’m  going  up  to  Chicago  by  special 
train  to  bust  that  ring  on  quinine. 
They’ve  put  up  a  million  dollars  to cor­
ner  the  market,  but  I ’ll  knock  ’em  cold 
within  twenty-four  hours. 
I ’ve  instruc­
tions  from  our  house  to  bust  it  if  it 
takes  three  million  dollars  to  do 
If 
they  make  their  corner,  quinine  is  to go 
up  fifty  per  cent.”

John  Q.  was  not  a  liar.  He  simply 
said  things. 
If  any  other  drummer  had 
said  them  they  would  have  been  booted 
down,  but coming  from  his  mouth  they 
were  entitled  to  belief  and  respect. 
In 
his  quiet,  calm  way,  but  a  way  which 
listeners,  he
always  duly  impressed  all 

it. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  Spanish  government  may  have 
bad  no  mines  in  Havana  harbor,  but 
it 
begins  to  look  as  if  somebody  got  hold 
of  something  equally  as  effective  and 
used  it.

It  is  now  possible  to  photograph  the 
human  voice.  This  will  be  useful  to 
stump  speakers  who  have  nothing  but 
voice  to  give  to  the country’s  cause.

The  last  two  descendants  of  Christo­
pher  Columbus  are  said  to  be  occupants 
of  a  poorhouse  in  Cadiz.

W ANTS  COLUMN.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under  this 
head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first  insertion 
and  one  cent  a  word  for  each  subsequent  in­
sertion.  No advertisements taken for less than 
35 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

521

522

’  with  fixtures:  established  trade;  best  in 
vestment  in  the  city.  Address  No.  523,  care 
523
Michigan Tradesman. 

Ij>OR SALE—COMPLETE  GROCERY  STOCK, 
ITIOR  -ALE OK EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK  OF 

vends—IriO acres of pine and hardwood  tim­
ber in Upper  Peninsula.  G.  E.  Iiaiu,  Fremont, 
Mich. 
V*rANTED  GOOD"  SECOND-HAND  SODA 
i t  
fountain in  two  parts,  of  12  syrups  each. 
M ust bj cheap.  Wallace Bros.,  Benton  Harbor, 
Mich. 

except boiler and engine, for only $1U0.  Ad­

dress A. H. Young & Co., Hartford,  Mich.  520

from all incumbrance, for hardwood timber 
lends or improved farm.  Address  T,  Lock  Box 
56,  Monroe, M ch. 

IpoK EXCHANGE- RESIDENCE LOTS, FREE 
tWR  SALE—ONE  SAWMILL  COMPLETE, 
ÎpOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  FARM— 
$3,500 hardware stock in good town  with  no 
competition.  Address  No.  518,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
518
PARTNER  VV AN TED—WITH  CAPITAL  TO 
manufacture  something  in  wood.  Have 
plant  in  best shipping  town  in  Centra)  Michi­
gan.  Address  Day,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
517
/COMPLETE PICKLE AND VINEGAR WORKS 
for sale  for  one-fourth  it«  value;  capacity 
25.000 bushels;  situated  in  section  very  favora­
ble for growing  vegetables;  best  of railroad fa­
cilities. 

.1. E. Cristy. Ringwood, 111. 

J^OR  SALE—CREAMERY  AND  CHEESE 

factory  outfit,  on  easy  terms;  price,  $450. 

Whutemore & Phinney, Tawas City, Mich.  507

516

524

511

514

W I L L   PAY  CASH  FOR  STOCK  OF  SHOES, 
i t   clothing  or  general  merchandise  worth 
from  $5,000  to >125,000.  Address  No.  511,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
D ru g  st o r e  a n d  f ix t u r e s  fo r  sa l e
cneap;  located  in  a  good  town;  part  cash, 
balance on time, to suit the purchaser.  Address 
512
J.  VV  Balcom, E  U Rapids,  Mich. 
I ¡»OR SALEPa LLOF  THE WOOD WORKING 

machinery,  belts,  shafting,  pulleys,  stock 
carts, cabinet  benches,  etc.,  etc.,  in  our  furni­
ture  factory;  also  a  Rhodes  automatic  band 
saw sharpener,  one  edger  with  chisel,  pointed 
tooth  saws,  with  extra  teeth,  and  one  set  of 
Knight's  sawmill  dogs.  Address the  Converse 
Mfg. Co., Newaygo. Mich 
U'OK  SALE-STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS,  GRO- 
X?  cedes and shoes.  Will sell or rent building. 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Address  L. 
Schrock, Clarksville, Mich. 

stock;  lest  farming  section  in  Michigan. 

No trades.  W  H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich.  500

I ¡'bit  SALE —BUILDING  AND  GENERAL 
ti'OR  SALE—THREE  STOKE  BUILDINGS 

(all  well  rented),  fine  modern  residence, 
two  vacant lots and 80  acre  farm  near  prosper­
ous city, in exchange for stock  of  merchandise. 
Address Thos  Skelton  Cold water,  Mich.  493 
XI/ANT  ALL  KINDS  OF  GRAIN  IN  CAR 
1 1  
lots.  Name price or ask forbids.  Rhodes 
Co., Grain Brokers, Granger, Ind. 
T  HAVE  A  PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR 
_L  general  stock.  Must  be  a  bargain.  I  have 
buyers for any line of  merchandise.  W. H. Gil­
bert, 109 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. 
YX7’ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
1 1   retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
t'O R   EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
X?  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

440

381

479

493

73

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

I¡iREE—OUR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 

’  ents.  Cilley  &  AUgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 

Grand Rapids. Mich. 

339

MISCELLANEOUS.

\*TANTED—BY  MAN  OF  NINE  YEARS’ 
•  r  experience,  position  as  manager  <>f  gen 
eral  store.  Have  had  experience  in  all  lines: 
can also do book-keeping of any kind and would 
do same with other work.  Address No.519. care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
YX7ANTED—SALESMEN, BOTH LOCAL AND 
1 1  
traveling, to sell  our  lubricating  oils and 
greases, either as  a  special  or side line.  Salary 
or commis-ion. Special inducements to hustlers 
The Empire Oil Co , Cleveland, Ohio. 
YYTANTE’—POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
1 1  
pharmacist  of  eight  years’  experience, 
college education ; capable of managing: best of 
references  furnished.  Address  No.  508,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

519

506

515

p n r r i r r r r i n r r r n r y ^ ^

would 
sa y:

lay  down  his  billiard  cue  and 

“ Gentlemen,  please  excuse  me,  but  I 
see  a  boy  at  the  door^with  a  telegram. 
It’s  about  that 
Of  course  it  is  for  me. 
castor  oil  syndicate 
I 
in  Buffalo. 
thought  I  had  ’em  downed,  but  if  they 
have  bobbed  up  again  I ’ll  wipe  ’em  off 
the  face  of  the  earth!”
The  telegram  was  for  him,  and  the 
syndicate  had  “ bobbed,”   and  he  would 
rush  to  the  telegraph  office 
to  send 
twenty  different dispatches.  He used  to 
receive so  many  telegrams  that  it  got  to 
be  believed  he carried  a  boy  and  thou­
sands  of  blanks  with  him.  They  came 
to  him  every  half  hour  of  the  day,  and 
up  to  ten  o'clock  at  night,  and  as  he 
opened  them  he  always  had  something 
to  say  about  trusts,  syndicates,  tons  of 
quinine,  carloads  of  flaxseed  and  hun­
dreds  of  barrels  of  alcohol.  Other drum­
mers  envied  him,  but  he  was  above 
envy  himself;  many  drummers  hated 
him,  but  he  was  too  busy  to  hate  back. 
When  he 
left  the  hotel  in  the  morning 
to  call  upon  the local druggists he didn’t 
go  plodding  along  on  foot  like  other 
drummers,  and  neither  did  he  hurry 
himself.  He  might  go  the  rounds  or 
he  might  drive  out 
into  the  country 
and  not  return  until  a  late  hour.  When 
this  was  the  case  he  would  drive  to  the 
diuggist’s  house  and  rush  him  out of 
bed  to  get  orders  for  chest-protectors, 
sponges,  tooth-brushes,  or  what  not, 
which  were  bound  to  advance  thirty  per 
cent,  before  the  next  morning.

As  I  said  before,  John  Q.  nevet 

lied. 
Nobody  ever  doubted  his  word,  even 
when  he  casually  remarked,  after  read­
ing  a  long  telegram,  that  his  house  had 
just  established  a  branch  at  Bombay, 
making  the  fifteenth  abroad.  Once when 
he  had  hurt  his  band  and  couldn't  hold 
a  pen,  a  crowd  of  us  beard  him  dictate 
a  300-word  telegram  to  the  President, 
giving  his  views  and  the  views  of  his 
bouse  (but  bis  first)  on  the  tariff  ques­
tion,  so  far  as  it  affected  alcohol.  He 
said  he  would  spend  $3,000,000 to defeat 
the  high  duty 
imposed,  and  he  made 
threats  as  to  what  the  electors  of  Amer­
ica  would  do,  but  I can’t  remember  that 
any  of  us  said  to  each  other  that  the 
telegram  would  never  get  out  of  the 
hotel,  or  that  the  $3,000,000  was  all 
in 
his  eye.

A  good  man  has  departed  this  life. 
He  was  a  good  man  and  a  good  drum­
mer.  His  cheek  was  right  and  his 
tongue  did  no  wrong.  There  was  a 
life  for  him  and  he  pushed 
place 
himself  up  the  ladder  and  filled 
I 
do  not  know  what  awaited -him  on  the 
other  shore,  but  I  am  sure  if  there  was 
a  front  seat 
lying  around  loose  he  el­
bowed  his  way  through  the  crowd  and 
took  it,  and  sat  down  with  the  proper 
dignity  and  announced  that  his  house 
was  ready  to  supply  all  demands at  the 
lowest  possible  figures.

it. 

in 

In  the  Chase 
For  the Alm ighty 
D o l l a r ^ ^

Don't  forget  that  the best place to buy your

Coupon
Books

Is  the  Tradesman  Company,^  which 
makes the hugest line and carries  the  hugest 
stock of any house in the country and  is  the 
only manufacturer which  stands  back  of  its 
product by an absolute  guaranty  as  to <5* <5* 
accuracy.

Travelers*  Time  Tables.

CHICAGO "dW“

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............... 8:45am  1:25pm *ll:30pm
Ar.  Chicago.................. 3:10pm 6:50pm  6:40am
Lv. Chicago................   7:20am  5:15pm «11:30pm
Ar.G’dRapids............  1:25pm  10:35pm  * 8:20am
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.........................  7:30am  5:30pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROITQrand Rap,ds 4 Western

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit..................   11:40am  5:45pm  10:20pm
Lv. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pm
Lv. GR 7:10am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Gao.  De Havbn,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect January 19,1898.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
+  6:45am. Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo i N Y . t  9:55pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  East..........t  5:07pm
+ 3:30pm..Sag.,  Det., N.  T.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada...« 6:35am 
♦ 7:00am....Gd. Haven  and  Int.  P ts ....*10:15pm 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm
t  5:12pm— Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi__tl0:05am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
«Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST

E. H. Hu sh es, A. G. F. & T. A.
Ben. F letch er, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
C.  A.  J ustin,  City  Pass.  Agent.

No. 23 Monroe St.

Established 1780.

W a l t e r   B a k e r   &   G o .  £ 9 :

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers oi

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS

AND

C H O C O L A T E S

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

Owing to the

of  Canned  Goods. 

shortage of fruit in  our State 

X
last season,  we  are  having  an  unprecedented  sale  on  all  kinds  X 
X
THu$$elman  Grocer Company  j
X
X
Look out for higher prices on Tomatoes.  Ask our salesmen about  X 
X
X

Grand  Rapids,  Iflicb. 

those  Nunley,  Hines & Co.’s 

Don’t  let your stock  get low. 

Yellow  Peaches. 

r T m m n m n m n n n ^ ^
Pour  Kinds  of  Coupon  Books

are manufactured by us and all  sold on the same basis, irrespective 
of  size,  shape  or  denomination.  Free  samples  on  application.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

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K O C H ,   your  o l e r h c s ,   attorneys,  ager.j, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
holding  through  or  under  you,

GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana Railway 

Dec. 5 ,  1897.

Greeting t

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.. .t 7:45am  t  5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 2:15pm  t  6:35am
Cadillac  ..................................t  5:25pm til :15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...................................t 7:10am  t 8:25pis
F t Wayne....................................t 2:10pm t 2:00pn
Cincinnati................................ * 7:00pm  * 7:25air
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati. 
210 p.m .  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains, 

some w est.

LvG’d  Rapids.............t7:35am  tl :00pm t5:40pre
Ar M uskegon..................   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon.............. t8:10am  tll:45am  t4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids.............................9:30am  12:55pm 5:20pm

tBxcept Sunday.  «Dally.

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

}   5t  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  Distr * t 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  there’« 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  M ORGAN’S  SONS  COM PANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap

Ilo n i, ^ e r e fo r e , we  do  strictly  command  and perpetually  enjoin you,  the  said  HENRY

DULUTH, South Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. A L)tll:10pm
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am
Ar. St  Ignace.........................  9:00am
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................  12:20pm
Ar. Marquette  ........................  2:50pm
Ar. Nestoria............................   5:20pm
Ar. Duluth.............................................

t7:45am 
4:20pm 
5:20pm 
9:50pm 
10:40pm 
12:45am 
8:30am

EAST  BOUND.

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

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  y 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you'  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scour.ng 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO"  in  any 

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F.  &  P.  M.  R.  R.

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

T O   A L L   P O IN T S   IN   M IO H IQ A N

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

The  honorable  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
in  the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

[ s e a l ]

ROWLAND  COX,

Coniplainanf s  Solicitor

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
our  Lord,  one  thousand

S.  D.  OLIPHANT,

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By abandoning the pass book and other  out-of-date  methods of  keeping  ran 
track of the credit transactions  of  a  retail  store  and  adopting  in their  Kffi 
stead the modem method of handling credit accounts, the 
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COUPON  BOOK SYSTEM  

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By means  of  which  the  credit  transactions  of  a  retail  business  can  be  jp l 
placed on a cash basis and annoyance and  loss supplanted by peace and  |f(u] 
profit.  We make four different kinds of Coupon  Books,  all of which are 
sold  on  the  same  basis,  irrespective  of  grade  or  denomination.  We 
cheerfully send  samples of any or all of our books  on  application,  confi-  inn 
dent that our prices are  lower than those of any  other  house  in  our line,  Kffj] 
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quality of work and  accuracy of workmanship  considered. 
TRADESMAN  COMPANY, 
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

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Elkhart,  Ind. 

Scale  (2)  years,  was  persuaded  into  changing  for  a  Dayton  $

fa   Computing Scale,  and,  after giving it  a  fair  trial,  am  very free

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to  say that  I  am only too  pleased  to return  to  my first love  on  Mfr 
the opportunity’s presenting  itself,  and  now  know  positively  W  
I  have had  all  the  Dayton  Scales  I  ever  wish  to  use  as long as  SK

can  get the  Stimpson at  the same price.

(Signed)

P A L M E T E R .

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ELKBBBT,  IBB.

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Our  money  weight  System  is  so  Simple 

H  C lil  Cae  Understand  it

It  is  just  simply  this—it  saves  what  has 

heretofore  been  given away.

It is a system.

1 st. 
2nd.  A systematic  check  on  overweight.
3rd.  Weighs all  merchandise in  its  money 

value.

4th.  Enables you  to  handle your goods  as 

safely as you  do your  cash.

5th.  On  pound  and  ounce  scales 

losses 
don’t  show,  and  you  don’t  realize  what  you 
are giving away.

6th.  By  the  M O N E Y   W E IG H T   S Y S ­
T E M   nothing  escapes  you. 
It  gives  you 
what  belongs to  you,  H O N E S T   P R O F IT S .
7th.  Over  40,000  merchants  in  the  United 
States are users and endorsers of the M O N E Y  
W E IG H T  S Y S T E M .

For any information  desired  address

TOE SOflTW SEULE GO.. D3M, M.

