Volume  XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  16,1898.

Number 756

MONEY  IN  IT

It  pays  any dealer  to  have  the  reputa­

tion  of keeping  pure  goods.

It  pays  any dealer to keep the Seymour 

Cracker.

T here’s  a  large  and  growing section  of 
the  public  who  will  have  the  best,  and 
with  whom  the  m atter  of  a  cent  or  so  a 
pound  makes  no  impression. 
It’s  not 
H O W   C H E A P  with 
them;  it’s  H O W  
GOOD.

For  this  class  of  people  the  Seymour 

Cracker is  made.

Discrim inating  housewives  recognize 

its  superior

FLAVOR,  PURITY, 
DELICIOUSNESS

and will have  it.

If you,  Mr.  Dealer,  want  the  trade of 
the  Seymour 

particular  people,  keep 
Cracker. 

Made by

National  Biscuit  Company,

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

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M U S T A R D

S A U C E

Elgin System of Creameries

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

A  M O DEL  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,

3®3  to 309  Lock  Street, 

Syracu se,  New  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,  n ich .

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Wall  Paper and Window Shades?

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We are the only  jobbers  in  Michigan,  We sell at 
factory  prices  guaranteed.  Samples  upon  applica­
tion.  We  make  a  specialty  of  made-to-order 
shades.

HARV EY  &  H E Y STE K   COM PANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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This class of work,  involving  Special  attention  in  venti­
lation and circulation, is a distinctive feature in the heat­
ing business.  We  have  attained  special  distinction  in 
such construction.  We invite enquiry from school boards.

WEATHERLY Sc  PULTE

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   M I C H .

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B a y le’s  Horseradish  M ustard
■ OR  centuries  the  English  have been  known  as great mustard-eaters—the greatest in  the 

world.  They  differ from  the Southern  races,  such as the  French,  Spanish,  Italian, etc., 
in  that they rank  condiments  higher than  sauces.  True,  they  manufacture  and  export 

Is the ORIGINAL and GENUINE  Horseradish  Mustard.

sauces,  but  they  prefer  for  their  own  use  condiments,  and  the  greatest  of  all  condiments is 

mustard.  The  average  Englishman  delights  in  having  his  mustard  prepared  for  him  fresh 
every  day.

There seems to be a reason  for this  Sauces, although appetizing, are made with drugs and 
are  more  or  less  disguised  in  their  nature and  artificial  in  their effects.  Mustard,  on  the con­
trary,  strengthens  the  natural  tone of the stomach,  increases  the flow  of the gastric juice,  and 
thereby  promotes the general  bodily  health. 
It  is  probably  on account of this power of giving 
life  to  the  system  ana  enabling  it to throw  off unhealthy  products  that  the  English  in former 
yeare  used  mustard  as  a  medium of purifying the  blood  in  skin  diseases and  similar ailments.
For some time  past we  have made  quite a study of mustard,  its  proper preparation and  the 
preservation  of  its  qualities.  Our line of mustards  is quite  complete, and  eacn and all will  be 
found  to  be so  put  up and  packed as  to last for  years in  perfect condition
For Sale by
Wholesale  and  Retail  Grocers 
Throughout  the  United  States.

GEO. A.  B A Y L E ,

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Four  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.

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

m a n u f a c t u r e r s   o r

SHOW   C A S E S 5

For all kinds of  goods. 
Secondhand  show  cases 
on  hand  and  exchanged..........................................

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Best  and  Cheapest  on  the  market,  not  excepting 
those for which you will pay from $i oo to $2.00.  You 
can’t spill the ink  from  it.  Absolutely  no  evaporation 
from  it.  Only  perfect automatic inkstand for red ink.

S E E   W H A T  IS   S A ID   O F   IT

“ It is used throughout the  city  hall  and  is  the  most  satisfactory 

inkstand  I have ever seen.”  

Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

F R A N K   D.  W A R R E N ,

City Clerk.

“ We  have  it in  most of our  offices  and  have  never  seen  its equal 

either in convenience or economy.”  

H E N  R Y   D.  PRO CTO R ,

County Treasurer  Kent County.

Price only  35c.  Postpaid  40c.

W ILL  M.  HINE*  A R C A D E   BOOK  s t o r e

E X C L U S IV E   A G E N T . 

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Michigan  Bark  &  Lumber  Co.,

527 and 528
Widdicomb  Building, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C.  U.  CLA RK,

President. 

W.  D.  WADE,

Vice-President. 

M i n n i e   M .   C l a r k , 

Secy and Treas.

We  are  now ready  to  make 
contracts  for  bark  for  the 
season of 1898.  Correspond­
ence solicited.

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

Die M a n  (Manille lenca

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

Special  Reports.

Law  and  Collections.

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

Main  Office:  Room  1102  Majestic  Building,  Detroit,  Mich.
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DETROIT FLEXIBLE DOOR DIRTS

STANDARD  SIZES

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

Retail  for  $1.00 upwards.
A ny  dimension  to  order.

Made  of  Flat Wire.  The Latest and Best. 

Supplied by Fos'er, Stevens & Co. 
and the mfrs.  Write for prices.

THE  DETROIT SAFE COMPANY,

67-85  East Fort Street, Detroit, Mich.

FLY  BUTTONS
diameter sheets of green  paper,

FOR  THE  TRADE

A  scientifically compounded,non-cathartic poison, 
killing  flies  or  ants  quickly.  6  thick  3*4  inch 
rith red  label,  retail  at 5 cents.

30  cents  per  doz.,  in  tancy  counter  display 
boxes of 3 doz.,  coupon  in  box,  which tquals

5 cents  per doz.  off. 

It pays to push for coupons.

COUPON  PREMIUMS 

“ Rec’d,”   ‘
Ink  Bottle 
bottle;  no thick  ink with this.

For  2  Coupons,  Rubber  Dating  Stamp,
worth 40 cents;  prints,  “ Paid,”   “ A ns’d,”  
A cp’d,”   “ En t’d,”  and dates  to  1903.  For 3 Coupons,  Patent  Pneumatic 
worth  60  cents;  pressure  into funnel  top  brings  up ink  from  center  of 
YOUR  TRADE  W e furnish through jobber, free
iples  for  your  customers.
If  your 

For 6 Coupons,  % gross F ly  Buttons,  delivered.

TO  START

£ £ 7^   We are the only  firm  doing  this;  it  increases  sales  500  per  cent.  Try it. 
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jobber don,t  fill your order,  upon  receipt  of price we  ship  direct,  paying  charges.

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PU RIT Y  AND  STREN G TH !

As placed on the market  in  tin  foil  and  under 
our yellow label and  signature is

ABSOLUTELY  PURE

Of greater  strength  than  any  other  yeast,  and 
convenient for handling.  Neatly  wrapped  in 
tin foil.  Give  our  silverware  premium  list  to 
your patrons and  increase your trade.  Particu­
lar attention  paid  to  shipping  trade.  Address,

Detroit  Agency,  n 8   Bates St.
Grand  Rapids Agency, 26  Fountain  St.

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

EMGPAVERS BY A LL  THE 

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S E E D   AND  FRUIT

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For Sale by Jobbers. 

Liberal  Discount to  Dealers.

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.

ADESMAN

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  16,1898.

Number 756

Volume  XV.

W e are ready to buy  for C A SH

Car  Lots or Mill  Cuts

Pine  and Cedar Shingles
W rite us  stating- kind, amount on  hand and price

BANK  NOTES.

Inauspicious  Beginning  of a Campaign 

of  Education.

C.  C.  Follmer  &  Co.,

13 Fountain St., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich

of Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

\V e guarantee the  payment  of all moneys col­
lected  by  our  representatives  in  the  United 
States and  Canada  when  claims  are  receipted 
tor by  us.

I ..J.  S T E V E N S O N ,  Manager and  Notary.

R. J.  C L E L A N D ,  Attorno

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PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

OF  DETROIT.  MICHIGAN.

Commenced  Business September  i,  1S93. 

Insurance in  force...................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase  during  lS q j..................
104.
Net A ssets..........................................
32,738.49
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid..............
None
Other  Liabilities...................................
None
Total  Death  Losses  Paid  to  Date.......
40.061.00
Total  Guarantee  Deposits  Paid to  Ben
eiiciaries...............................................
Death Losses  Paid  During  1S07..........
Death  Rate for  1S97...............................
Cost  per  1,000 at age 30 during  1S97...
F R A N K   E .  R O BSO N , P res.

812.00
17,000.00
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Send for sample leaf.

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Spring line of fine goods—excellent.  Write 
our  Michigan  agent,  W ii.i.iam  Connor,
Box  346  Marshall,  Mich.,  or  meet him at 
Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Thursday, 
March  17th,  or  following  days  up 
to 
Wednesday,  March 23d.  He has been  with 
us  16 years  and  will  use  you  right  Cus­
tomers’ expenses allowed.

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST

Which we read about can never he 
forgotten by the merchant who  be­
comes  familiar  with  our  coupon 
system.  The past to such is always 
a “nightmare.”  The present  is  an 
era of pleasure and profit
TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

that 

At  the  last  meeting  of  the  American 
Bankers’  Association,  a  committee  was 
appointed  to  prepare  and  distribute  lit 
erature  relating  to  the  uses  of  banks, 
the  object  being  to  do  away  with  the 
exists  against  banks 
hostility 
among  the 
igfeorant  and  misinformed 
The  members  of  the  committee are Wil 
liam  C.  Cornwell,  of  Buffalo,  Robert  J 
Lowry,  of  Atlanta,  and  Harvey  J.  Hoi 
lister,  of  Grand  Rapids,  and  the  first 
literature  prepared  under  their auspices 
has  just  come  to  hand 
in  the  form  of 
a  brochure  entitled,  “ What is  a  Bank?’ 
The  pamphlet 
is  by  Mr.  Cornwell, 
chairman  of  the  committee,  and  is  in 
the  shape  of  a  “ primer”   telling  what 
a  bank  is,  what  its  uses are  to  the  de 
positor,  the  business  man,  the  manu 
facturer,  the  farmer  and  the  laboring 
man,  and  the  benefits  to  a  community 
that  a  bank  gives. 
is  proposed  to 
distribute  this  pamphlet  among 
the 
workingmen 
in  factories  and  in  other 
quarters,  with  the  view  of  educating 
the  masses  and  by  education  removing 
the  prejudices  that  exist  against  the 
banks.

It 

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It 

that 

is  possible  the  pamphlet  may  in  a 
measure  answer  the  purpose 
intended, 
but  the  writer  of  this  column  doubts  it. 
Conceding 
a  prejudice  exists 
against  the  banks  and  that the prejudice 
s  based  chiefly  on  ignorance,  the author 
of  the  pamphlet  has  proceeded  on  the 
theory  that  the  reader  will  accept  every 
statement  therein  with  childlike  faith 
and  confidence.  He  states  facts,  but 
does  not  back  them  up  with  reasoning. 
The  readers  it  is  intended  to  reach  are 
not  ignorant  in  the  sense  that  they 
lack 
education  and  they  could  stand  a  little 
reasoning  and  argument.  They  may  be 
ignorant  on  banking,  and this ignorance 
may  be  the  basis  of  the  prejudice  they 
entertain,  but  it  must  also  be  admitted 
that  they  are  suspicious.  They  do  not, 
as  a  rule,  look  upon  bankers  as  philan­
thropists.  A  pamphlet  prepared  by  a 
banker  and 
issued  under  the auspices 
of  an  association  of  bankers,  axiomat- 
cally  describing  the  bank  as  the  source 
of  prosperity,  will  be  received  by  those 
already  prejudiced  against  the  banks 
as  a  new  scheme  of  the  unholy. 
It  will 
arouse  their  suspicions  and,  instead  of 
enlightening  them,  will  tend  to  deepen 
their  prejudices.  The  bankers  not  only 
have  long-established prejudices to over­
come,  but  they  have  suspicions  to  dis­
pel,  and  “ What 
is  a  Bank?”   is  not 
calculated  to  answer  either  purpose, 
even  with  its  diagrams  of  red  blood  of 
labor,  yellow  money  and  orange  pros­
perity.
• 
The  most  effective  style  of  pamphlet 
terature  would  be  a  plain,  straight­
forward  statement  of  what banking  real­
ly  is,  how 
is  done and  the  methods 
and  systems  of  doing  business.  The 
brochures 
issued  by  the  Peoples  Sav­
ings  Bank  and  the  Grand  Rapids  Sav­
ings  Bank  of  this  city  are  models  of 
their  kind  and,  with  a  few  modifica-

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it 

tions,  could  be  made  to  serve  the  pur 
pose  of  the  National  banks.  They  are 
well  written  in  a  style  readily  under 
stood,  and  have  none  of  that  air  of 
special  pleading  which  characterizes
is  a  Bank?”   They  are  not  i_ 
“ primer”   form,  and  they  appeal  to  the 
intelligence  of  the  reader,  or  rather  as 
sume  that  the  reader  has  some  degree 
of  intelligence  already  and  really  wants 
further  information.

What 

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It 

labor  and 

is  questionable 

if  the  American 
Bankers’  Association  will  ever  realize 
much  benefit  from  pamphlet  literature 
If  prejudices  exist,  and  it  must  be  ad 
mitted  they  do,  the  best,  easiest  and 
most  expeditious  way of removing them 
and  at  the  same  time  the  most effective 
is  through  the  newspapers.  Long  dis 
sertations  describing  banks 
as  the 
source  of  all  prosperity  and 
lauding 
bankers  as  public  benefactors  will  be 
good 
valuable  newspaper 
space  thrown  away.  Occasional  articles 
describing  the 
inner  workings  of  the 
banks,  how  deposits  are  made,  bow 
loans  aie  procured,  how  exchange 
effected,  bow  the  books  are  kept  and 
the  other  details, will  educate the masses 
upon  banks  and  bankers  and  go  far  to 
ward  removing  the  prejudices.  To  the 
classes  the  Bankers’  Association  wish 
to  reach  with  their  educational 
litera 
is  a  place  of  mystery 
ture  the  bank 
Brief  descriptions 
in  the newspapers, 
written  in  familiar  newspaper  style,  of 
the 
inner  workings  of  this  mystery 
would  educate  and  enlighten  far  more 
than  all  the  pamphlets  that  could  be 
ssued,  whether 
in  “ prim er"  or  any 
other  form.  The  business  man  who  has 
daily  dealings  with  the  banks 
is  not 
prejudiced  against  the  banks,  because 
he 
is  familiar  with  the  institutions,  or 
reasonably  so.  Those  who  have  no  deal 
ngs  with  the  banks,  or  deal  with  them 
at  rare  intervals,  are  the  ones  who  aie 
prejudiced,  and  the  best  way  to  reach 
them  and  make  them  familiar  with 
banking  is  through  the  newspapers,  and 
with  the  familiarity  will  disappear  the 
prejudice  which  ignorance  breeds.

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That  a  prejudice  exists  against  banks 
cannot  be  denied,  and 
if  the  bankers 
will  submit  themselves  to  a  close  inner 
examination,  they  will,  perhaps,  dis­
cover  that  they  themselves  are  largely 
responsible  for  it.  The  writer  can  re­
call  a  time—and  it  was  only  a  very  few 
years  ago,  too—when  a  newspaper  man 
going  into  a  bank  for  information  was 
looked  upon  as  an  intruder,  and 
infor­
mation  asked  for  was  granted grudging­
ly  or entirely  refused,  and  the  impres­
sion  was  conveyed  that  the  bank  was  a 
holy  of  holies  concerning  which  the 
public  had  no  rights  to  ask  questions. 
The  dignity  of  bankers  and  banking 
was  almost  appalling  and  special  pains 
seemed  to  be  taken  to  make  the  busi­
ness  appear  above  and  beyond  any 
other  calling.  The  old  fossil 
ideas, 
which  threw  a  mystery  about  the  bank­
ing  business  and  placed  bankers  on  a 
sort  of  pedestal,  which  kept  the  people 
in  ignorance  of  banking  operations  and 
the  real  purposes  of  banks,  and  which 
suspi­
naturally  bred  prejudice  and 

city. 

in  this 

cion,  have  nearly  passed  out  of  exist­
ence,  especially 
The 
newspaper  man  who  goes  to  the  banks 
now  can  get  almost  anything  he  wants 
in  the  way  of  reasonable  or  legitimate 
information  that  he  asks  for,  and  few 
men 
in  town  are  more  cordial  and 
painstaking  to  accommodate  the  report­
ers  than  Harvey 
J.  Hollister,  W.  H. 
Anderson,  Henry  Idema,  L.  H.  Withey, 
Daniel  McCoy,  Sidney  F.  Stevens  and 
James  B.  Wylie.  The  list  might  be  ex­
tended,  in  fact,  to 
include  the  cashier 
or  executive  officers  of  every  bank  in 
town. 
It  may  be  remarked  in  this  con­
nection  that  Mr.  Hollister  has  always 
been  kind  to  the  newspaper  men  and 
for  the  past  twenty  years,  at  least,  has 
ever  been  willing  to  give  the  reporters 
any 
in  his  power  to  fur­
nish,  and  many  times  has  discommoded 
himself  to  accommodate  them,  and  the 
humblest reporter has ever been accorded 
the  same  courteous  treatment  that  the 
chief  editor  or  the  proprietor  of  the 
paper  received. 
If  all  bankers  were 
like  Mr.  Hollister,  the 
ignorance  re­
garding  banks  and  the  prejudices  that 
exist  against  them  would  not  be  nearly 
so  widespread  as  they are,  and the  cam­
paign  of  education  which  the  Bankers’ 
Association  has  entered  upon  would  be 
unnecessary.

information 

Getting  Down  to  Business. 

Saginaw,  March  15—At  the  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Retail  Merchants'  Associa­
tion,  several  matters  were  discussed 
which  will  not  be  published  at  the pres­
ent  time  at  the  request  of  the  members 
present,  who  thought  that  until  the mat­
ters  were  settled  finally  it  would  be  best 
to  say  nothing  about  them.  One of  these 
matters  will  be  of  vital  importance  to 
the  city  if  carried  to  a  successful  issue.
The  matter  of  the  jubilee  week  which 
has  been  proposed  for  this  summer  was 
taken  up  and  the  committee having  it in 
charge  asked for one  week  more  time  in 
which  to  make  a  report.  This  was 
granted.

further  than 

The  matter  of  cleaning and sprinkling 
streets  was  another  thing  which  the 
Association  has  taken  charge  of. 
In 
the  past  the  city  has  done  nothing  in 
this  regard 
running  a 
weeper  over  the  streets  one  or  two 
nights 
in  the  week  and  the  merchants 
have  paid  for  the  cleaning  of  the streets 
and  the  sprinkling  in  the  daytime. 
It 
was  thought  that  the  city  should  pay  for 
this  work, 
in  all  other 
¡ties  the  street  cleaning  is  paid  for  out 
of  the  highway  fund.  A  committee  was 
instructed  to  hold  a  session  with  the 
Common  Council  and  see  what  could  be 
gained  in  this  line.

inasmuch  as 

It  was  decided  that  the  Association 
should  have  a  definite  plan  and  system 
of  work  and  not  go  at matters haphazard 
and  a  committee  was  instructed  to draft 
such  a  plan.  Then  the  members  agreed 
to  save  all  clippings  regarding  the woik 
of  the  Association  for  publication  in 
trade  papers,  thereby  advertising  the 
ity  and  assisting  the  Association  in 
ts  work.

The  fourth  annual  banquet  ol  the 
Saginaw  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
will  be  held  next  Wednesday  evening. 
It  is  expected  that  delegates  from  Port 
Huron  and  Bay  City  will  be  present 
and,  possibly,  a  delegation  from  Grand 
Rapids  will  attend,  if satisfactory trans­
portation  arrangements  can  be  made 
with  the  Grand  Trunk  system.

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W om an’s World

Miss  Miranda's  Romance.

Wr  were  talking  about  the  right  of  a 
woman  to  ask  the  man  she 
loved  to 
marry  her.  Opinions  differed.  The 
timid  woman  held  that  it  was  a  wom­
an's  bounden  duty  to  manifest  extreme 
surprise  when  the  mattet  of  love  was 
mentioned  to  her.  and  that  no  well-reg­
ulated  female  heart  could  perm 11 
itself 
so  much  as  a  single  tlutter  until  a  man 
had  manifested  unmistakable  and  tm- 
eipmvcal  matrimonial  intentions.

" F u d g e ’”  exclaimed 

the  advanced 
woman ; 
'do  you  suppose  that  either  in 
the  past,  or  the  present,  human  experi­
those  chaste  and 
ence  ever  hove  out 
modest 
theories:  1 
tel!  von  the  heart 
tias  eve1  been  a  truant 
thing  Many  a 
woman  has  given  her  love  unsought  and 
thru  found  out  some  wav  to  let  the  man 
xnow 
' Karkis  was  willin'.  The  only 
thing  now  is  that  we  don't  consider  tt 
recessatx  to  a fleet  such  undue  coyness 
on  the  subuvt.  Not 
that  we  have  at-
Oo.  dear.

sense  and  it  is  bound  to  work.  A  man 
must  be  adamant  who  wouldn't  be 
| touched  by  the  thought  of  a  pretty  girl 
making  a  burnt  offering  of  herself  on 
I the  kitchen  stove  tor  her  love  of  him.
| And  in  spite  of  all  the  nonsense  in  the 
I novels,  love  is  won  by  love  and  not  by 
disdain.  More  than  that,  an  affection 
i that  has 
in  good  cook- 
is  every  bit  as  stable  as  one  that 
i  ing 
originated 
in  a  similar  taste  in  Ibsen 
|or  an  ability  to  dance  the  two  step 
without  treading  on  each  other's  toes.
|  Beauty 
is 
i ephemeral,  but  a  good  cook 
is  some- 
I thing  to  tie  to. ”

is  evanescent  and  grace 

its  foundation 

"T h e   woman  who  is learning  to  cook 
like  a  man  s  mother  isn't  taking  any  j 
j chances  on  the  divorce  court  or  domes­
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tic 
• timid  woman;  "and  she  is  saving  her-1

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and,  for my  part,  I 
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don't  see  why 
level-; 
headed  gtr!  shouldn't  have  a  right  to  go 
.found  p  eking  and  choosing  until  she 
tout'd  a  husband  she 
liked  and  then 
propose  to  bun,  if she  wants to ."

that  kind  of  a 

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the  .  cut  cc.s’.v  enough.  ; n   os sad  went

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lifetime  and  have 
mance  through  a 
lived  on  a  faded 
lock  of  hair  and  a 
yellow  letter.  But  there  was  nobody. 
There  had  never  been  anybody  and, 
worse  still,  there  never  would  be  any­
body  now.

Young  girls  always  came  to  Miss 
Miranda  with  their love  affairs  and  read 
to  her  the  letters  from  their sweethearts, 
and  she  was  sweetly  sympathetic—she 
love  and  had  never 
who  hungered  for 
listened  to  a  tender  word  in  all  her 
life 
love 
nor  gotten  a 
letter.  A  faint  pink 
would  creep 
into  the  faded  cheek,  the 
thin  old  hands  would  grow  tremulous, 
and  the  old  eyes  fill  with  a  tender  mist 
of  tears,  that  the  crude  youth  would  go 
away  vaguely  wondering  at  and  not  un­
derstanding.  But  it  was  a  sort  of  shame 
with  Miss  Miranda  that  no  one  had ever 
been  in  love  with  her.  Women  would 
brutally  brag  to  her  of  their  conquests 
and  of  their  husbands'  love,  and  add, 
“ but  you  don’t  know  anything  about 
that,  Miss  M iranda,"  or  of  their  chil­
dren,  and  say,  “ but,  of  course,  you 
can’t  understand  a  mother's  feelings, 
Miss  Miranda.’ ’  Poor  Miss  Miranda, 
who  had  a  heart  that  ached  for  love  and 
who  had  mothered  every  sickly  and 
neglected  child  in  the  whole  village!

Then 

it,  and  we 

it  was  that  Miss  Miranda  in­
augurated  her  romance.  The  village 
was  simply  convulsed  with  curiosity. 
We  gave  teas  without  number  at  each 
other’s  houses  and  discussed  the  sub­
ject  threadbare  over  angel 
food  and 
peach  cordial.  We  threw  our  shawls 
over  our  heads  and  made  fictitious  er 
rands  to  neighbors  to  borrow  patterns 
and  ask  for  recipes.  We  called  upon 
Miss Miranda  and overwhelmed her with 
offers  of  strawberries  and  asparagus,  for 
it  was  spring,  but  without  avail.  What­
ever  Miss  Miranda’s  secret,  she  pro­
posed  keeping 
fell  back 
baffled  on conjecture.  All  any  one  really 
knew  was  that  Miss  Miranda  had  been 
seen  posting  a  thick  letter  every  week ; 
a 
letter  written  on  the  pinkest  of  pink 
paper,  and  breathingan  ambrosial  per­
fume ;  a  letter  that  by  no  stretch  of  the 
imagination  could  be  mistaken  for  a 
business  letter.  We  could  put  two  and 
two  together,  and we  knew  at  once  Miss 
Miranda  must  have 
a  sweetheart. 
Furthermore,  the letter  was  addressed  to 
a 
certain  Mr.  Guy  Montmorency. 
Then,  indeed,  we  felt  aggrieved.  Miss 
Miranda  had  belonged  to  us  so  long, 
she  had  so  given  herself  to  us  body  and 
soul,  that  we  must  have  resented  any 
one  interfering  with  our  rights,  but  that 
the  interloper  should  have  been a person 
of  whom  we  never  even  had  heard  was 
an  unforgivable  injury.

“ I  wouldn’t  have  thought  it  of  Miss 

Miranda,”   cried  Maria  Wheat.

“ I  don’t 

like  the  name,"   declared 
another; “ sounds  sort  of  play acting and 
—er—er—”

“ I  do  hope  Miranda  Oldsouth  ain’t 
going  to  make  a  fool  of  herself  at  her 
time  of  life ,"  darkly  suggested old  Mrs. 
Blake.

“ Well, 

for  my  part, 

I  think  Guy 
Montmorency  is  just  too  perfectly  sweet 
a  name  for  anything!”   cried  Lavinia 
Brown,  who  was  young  and  romantic.

“ I  shouldn’t  wish 

it  mentioned,  be­
cause  it s   a  kind  of  official  secret,  so  to 
speak,"  put  in  Hetty Green,  whose  hus­
band  is  postmaster,  “ but  John  says  that 
he  never  saw  a  man  who  moves  around 
so  much  as  that  Mr.  Guy Montmorency. 
E ver’  blessed  week  Miss  Mirandy  di­
rects  her  letter  to  a  new  place.  And 
he  must  travel  fast,  because  sometimes 
the  place  is  in  the  East  and  sometimes 
you
in  the  West. 

John,  now 

But 

it,  but  he  takes  the 
wouldn’t  believe 
greatest 
in  that  affair. 
I  say, 
interest 
‘ The  lands  sake,  John,  anybody  would 
think  you  had  enough  to  do  without 
taking 
to  matchmaking,'  but  about 
Miss  Mirandy—you  know,  when  our  lit­
tle  Sally  died  with  the  black  diphthery 
and  not  a  soul  would  come  near  us 
’count  of  its  being  so  ketchin’,  and  me 
with  the  other  child  a  layin"  sick  in 
my  arms,  and  not  knowin’  whether  it 
would  live  or not—why  Miss  Mi rand v, 
she  comes  to  the  door  and  walks  right 
in  and  takes  off  her  bonnet  and  sets 
down 
in  a  cheer,  and  reaches  out  and 
takes  the  baby  in  her  arms  and  cuddles 
it  down  against  her  breast,  just  as  if 
nothing  in  the  world  warn’t  the  matter 
Say,  you  don’t  know  how  it 
with  it. 
feels  to  have  something  the  matter  with 
you  that  makes  your  friends  afraid  of 
you 
It’s—it’s  awful.  Not  that  I  blame 
anybody.  We  all  got  our  own  to  look 
out  for.  But  there  was  Miss  Mitandy 
singing  and  rocking  that  baby.

‘ Miss  Mirandy,  for  God’s  sake,’ 

says  John,  with  a  ketch  in  his  voice.

Hush,'  says  she, 

‘ I’ve  got  no 
husband  and  no  child  to  grieve  for  me 
if  I  should  die. 
It—it  wouldn’t  make 
any  difference  to  anybody  in  the world, ’ 
she  says,  with  her  voice  trembling,  and 
then  I  clung  to  John,  sobbing  as  if  my 
heart  would  break,  for  it  come  to  me  in 
a  minute  that  not  even  death  itself  was 
so  pitiful  as  the 
lonesomeness  of  life 
would  be,  if  there  wasn’t  any  heait  to 
grieve  for  you  when  you  were  dead  and 
you  wouldn’t  even  leave  an  empty place 
when  you  were gone.

“ John,  he  hasn’t  forgotten  that  you 
know,  and  when  Miss  Mirandy  comes 
down  and  hands  them  letters  in  to  him, 
with  a  kind  of  blush  on  her  face,  he 
takes  particular  keer  of 
’em,  and  he 
writes  on  the  back 
‘ if  not  called  for, 
return  to  Pleasanton, ’  you  know,  so  that 
if  Mr.  Guy  Montmorency,  traveling 
around  so,  should  miss  one,  it  would 
come  back  safe  and  sound  to  her. ’ '

We  all  felt  this  to  be  highly  propel 
on  the  postmaster's  part,  and  there  was 
really  nothing  vulgar  in  the  curiosity 
we  felt  in  the  matter,  only  affection  and 
gratitude  and  good  will.

We  frankly  admitted  that  Miss  Mir­
anda  puzzled  us.  She  never told a thing. 
There  was  no  smallest  fragment  of  in­
formation  which  she  vouchsafed us,  and 
such  was  the  gentle  dignity  with  which 
she  bore  herself  we  did  not  question 
her.  Somehow  we  felt  that  the  matter 
was  sacied.  Then  one  day  the  postmas­
ter,  with  a  troubled  look,  handed  back 
to  Miss  Miranda  one  of  the  pink  let­
ters,  with  "not  called  fo r"  stamped 
across  its  face.

She  changed  color,  as  she  reached  out 
a  trembling  hand  and  took  it and turned 
homeward.

“ It’s  common  for  letters  to—to—not 
be  called  for,”   explained  the  postmas­
ter. 
"D o n ’t  worry,  Miss  Miranda. 
It’ll  all  come  out  right."

But  it  didn’t.  Mr.  Guy  Montmorency 
must  have  been  the  most  careless  man 
alive  about  his  mail,  for  each  and  every 
one  of  those  pink,  perfumed 
letters 
came  back  to  Miss  Miranda.  Not  that 
we  knew  it  then.  We never knew it until 
long  after  Miss  Miranda  was  dead.  Not 
even  the  postmaster’s  wife  knew  it,  but 
one  day  when  he  was  passing  Miss 
little  house  she  called  him 
Miranda’s 
in  and  told  him  the  whole story. 
It was 
a  little  romance,  in  which  she  had  put 
all  the  unavailing  longing  and 
love  of 
her  life.  She  had 
imagined  a  lover, 
and  to  him  had  written  the  letters  that 
had  caused  us  so  much  speculation.

All  the  desolation  and  loneliness  of  a 
whole 
life  overflowed  into  them.  The 
unasked  love,  the  sweet  vague  dreams, 
the  long,  long  thoughts.  And  after  all 
there  was  no  Mr.  Guy  Montmorency,  no 
lover;  only  a  lonely  old  maid  reaching 
forth  despairing  hands  after  a  love  that 
she  herself  knew  was  the  phantom  of  a 
dream.

That  was  the  way  the  woman  of  the 
past  dealt  with  a  great  question.  I  won­
dered  if  the  new woman’s  way  would  be 
sweeter  or  better. 

Do roth y  D ix .

GRAND  RAPIDS  KLONDIKERS.

Some  Practical  Suggestions  to  Those 

Preparing  for  the  Perilous  Trip. 
The  Klondikers’ 
supply 

is 
chosen  with  the  greatest  attention  to ob­
taining  the  best  goods  with  little  regard 
to  price.  One  of  the  Grand  Rapids

food 

Kalamazoo  Grocers  Petition  for  Pro­

tection.
Kalamazoo,  March 

15 — J.  Fisher  is 
circulating  the  following petition among 
the grocers  of  the  city :
We,  the  undersigned,  business  men  of 
the 
Kalamazoo,  respectfully  petition 
Chamber  of  Commerce  to  use  its 
influ­
ence  toward  establishing  a  marketplace 
—it  does  not  need  a  building—for  the 
sale  of  fruits,  produce  and  other articles 
of  merchandise.  We  believe  the  same 
would  result  here,  as  elsewhere,  in  great 
benefit  to  both  buyer  and  seller,  main­
tain  a  uniform  price  on  articles  of 
like 
quantity  and  prevent  the sale of inferior 
-and  damaged  fruits,  vegetables,  etc., 
that  are  now  hawked  from  door  to  door 
on  our  streets.

In  the  matter  of  license,  we  would 
request  that  the  following  rates  be  fixed  I 
by  city  ordinance:

ket,  not  less  than  §40  per  year.

1.  Foot  peddlers  with  cart  and  bas­
2.  Peddlers  with  one  horse  or  other 

animal,  not  less  than  $60  per  year.

3.  Peddlers  with  two  horses  or  other! 

animals,  not  less  than  $80  per  year.

All  licenses  to  be  paid  semi  annually 

in  advance.

Home*Seekers’  Excursions.

On  April  5  and  19,  1898,  the  Chicago, 
Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Railway  will sell 
round  trip  excursion  tickets  (good  21 
days) 
from  Chicago,  Milwaukee  and 
other  points  on  its  line,  to  a  great  many 
points  in  South  and  North  Dakota  and 
other  Western  and  Southwestern  States, 
at  greatly  reduced  rates.  Take  a  trip 
West  and  see  what  an  amount  of  good 
land  can  be  purchased 
least 
money.  Further  information  as  to  rates, 
routes,  prices  of  farm  lands,  etc.,  may 
be  obtained  on  application  to  any  cou­
pon  ticket  agent,  or  by  addressing  the 
following named persons:  W.  E.  Powell, 
Immigration  Agent,  410  Old 
Gen’l 
Colony  Bldg.,  Chicago;  H.  F.  Hunter, 
Immigration  Agt. 
for  South  Dakota, 
291  Dearborn  St.,  Chicago,  or  George
H.  Heafford,  General  Passenger  Agent, 
Chicago,  Illinois.

for  the 

delegation  who  has  been 
there  offers 
the  following  list  as  about  right  for  one 
year's  supplies  for  one  man :
400  pounds  entire  wheat 

flour,  20 
pounds  corn  meal,  40  pounds  rolled 
oats,  25  pounds  rice,  100  pounds  beans, 
40  pounds  candles,  25  pounds  dry  salt 
pork,  75  pounds  sugar,  granulated,  8 
pounds  baking  powder,  150  pounds  ba­
con,  25  pounds  dried  beef,  2  pounds 
soda,  6  packages  yeast  cakes,  50  pounds 
salt,  1  pound  pepper,  y2  pound  mus­
tard,  X  pound  ginger,  20 pounds apples, 
evaporated,  20  pounds  peaches,  evap­
orated,  20  pounds  apricots,  evaporated, 
10  pounds  pitted  plums,  5  pounds  rai­
sins,  5  pounds  onions,  evaporated,  25 
pounds  potatoes,  evaporated,  25  pounds 
coffee,  10  pounds  tea,  2 dozen condensed 
milk,  3  bars  tar  soap,  5  bars  laundry 
soap,  1  can  matches,  60  packages,  3 
pounds  soup  vegetables,  1  bottle  Jam ai­
ca  ginger,  butter,  sealed  cans,  plenty 
of  “ S.  C.  W .”   cigars, '6  pots  extract  of 
beef  (4  oz.),  1 quart evaporated vinegar.

Ru m   Ready Rooting

Will  last longer than any other roofing  now on the  market. 
We have full  faith  in  its  merits.  But  if  you  want  other 
kinds  we  always  have them at  reasonable prices.  Let  us 
quote you prices,  if you need  roofing of any sort.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS  &  SON,

Detroit Office, foot of 3d  Street.

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

THE ONLY  WAY...

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We  are  willing  to  abide  by  their  decision.

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

Sparta—Ballard  &  Sons, 

furniture 
dealers  and  undertakers,  have  discon­
tinued  their  branch  store  at  Ballards.
Coldwater—Mrs.  Mary  E.  Morgan has 

purchased  the  Bishop  bazaar  store 
this  place  and  will  take  possession 
April  io.

Manton—W.  G.  Phelps  will  remove 
bis  hardware  stock  to  Bellaire,  where 
he  will  re-engage 
in  the  same  line  of 
business.

Sturgis—J.  B.  Hellenberg  has  pur 
chased  the 
interest  of  his  partner,  E 
E.  Cooper,  in  the  bazaar  and  bakery 
business.
^{.Muskegon—Wm.  Slorf  has  purchased 
the  Larson  &  Rasmussen  meat  market 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  140 
Peck  street.

Caledonia—Jackson  &  Tape  are  clos 
ing  out  their  stock  of groceries and  wi' 
devote  their  entire  attention  to  thei 
méat  business.

Baldwin—Byers  Cash ion,  meat  deal 
er,  has  purchased  the  Fisher  &  Upp 
market  and  will  continue  business  at 
the  latter  location.

Durand—F.  A.  Millard  and  Ralph 
Augsbury  have  formed  a  copartners!)i| 
and  engaged 
in  the  furniture  and  un 
dertaking  business.

Flint—Goodes,  Hall  &  Co.,  succès 
sers  to  Goodes  &  Hall,  have  added 
line  of  general  hardware  to  their  car 
riage  and  implement  stock.

Allegan—J.  A.  Wiley  has  sold  his  re 
tail  meat  business  to  Smith  &  Co.,  and 
will  confine  his  attention  to  bis  whole 
sale  trade  and  to  buying  stock.

Harbor  Springs—Mrs.  E.  A.  Runyan 
has  purchased  the  millinery  stock of  the 
Misses  Carpenter  and  will  open  millin 
ery  parlors  in  the  Clarke  block.

Wayland—Frank  Burlington,  formerly 
eilSaSed  in  the  meat  and  produce  busi 
ness  at  Bradley,  bas  purchased  the meat 
business  of  Yeakey  &  Hudson.

Nashville—A.  S.  Mitchell  and  Glenn 
in  the 
H.  Young  will  shortly  engage 
hardware  business  at  this  place,  the 
firm  name  being  Mitchell  &  Young.

Port  Austin —John  Buttars  has  sold 
his  stock  of  general  merchandise  to  the 
Huron  Grindstone  Co.,  which  will  con 
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location 
Lowell—Geo.  B.  Craw  uttered  a  chat­
tel  mortgage  on  bis  grocery  stock  to  his 
mother  for §3,200  and  then  transferred 
his  equity  in  the stock to Fred L.  Fallas.
Pentwater—Daggett  &  Gregwer  have 
sold  their  store  building  to  Fred  Lage- 
sen,  baker,  and  purchased  the  meat 
market  and  building  of  Chas.  Nicker­
son.

Orion—G.  B.  Monkman,  M.  D.,  has 
sold  his  drug  store  to  S.  W.  Southwick, 
M.  D  ,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.  Dr.  Monkman 
will  open  a  drug  store  at  Delray.

Fennville-  George  Leland  has  sold 
interest  in  the  Fennville  Fruit  Co. 
his 
and, 
in  company  with  YV.  H.  Whit- 
beck,  will  erect  a  packing  house  and 
also  deal 

in  all  kinds  of  produce.

in  the 

Owosso—C.  S.  Allison, 

formerly  en­
gaged 
jewelry  business  at  St. 
Johns,  has put  in  a  jewelry  stock  at  this 
place  and  will  conduct  the  business  in 
partnership  with  his  son,  Louis  B.  Al­
lison.

Marcelius—Clark  Beebe  has  retired 
from  the  firm  of  Beebe  &  Beebe,  gen­
eral  dealers.  The  firm  name  will  not 
be  changed,  Arthur  L.  assuming  the 
management  and  his  father  being  the 
other member.

Muskegon—The  Towner  Hardware 
Co.  will erect  a  two-story  addition  to  its 
present  building  and  embark 
in  the 
wholesale  business.  A  regular  traveling 
salesman  has  been  engaged  to  visit  the 
outside  trade  every  30 days.

Hart—E.  A.  Noret  has  purchased  the 
half 
interest  of  Joshua  H.  Colby  in  the 
hardware  and  implement  firm  of  Noret 
&  Colby  and  will  continue  the  business 
n  his  own  name.  Mr.  Colby  contem-j 
plates  locating  in  Grand  Rapids.

Detroit—It  is  currently  reported  that 
Bruce  Goodfellow  wili  organize  a  stock 
company  and  rent  the  old  Mabley  stand 
on  Woodward  avenue,  and  open  an  up- 
to  date  haberdashery. 
Tom  Haney, 
formerly  manager  of  the  lower  floor  of 
the  Mabley  &  Goodfellow  Company,  it 
s  said,  has  gone  to  New  York City with 
Mr.  Goodfellow  to  help 
interest  New 
York  capitalists  in  the  project.

Manufacturing  Matters. 

Detroit—The  Hemmeter  Cigar  Co. 
has  declared  a  dividend  of  5  per  cent.
Corunna—The  Fox  &  Mason  Furni­
ture  Co.  recently  shipped  a  carload  of 
ts  product  to  England.
Lewiston—H.  A.  Bauman,  for  some 
years  past  connected  with  the  Michel- 
son  &  Hanson  Lumber Co  ,  has removed 
to  Grayling  and  accepted  a  position 
in 
the  new  bank  at  that  place.

Bloom ingdale---- The  Haven  cheese
factory  turned  out 
110,636  pounds  of 
cheese  last  year  and  sold  the  same  at 
an  average  of  8.1  cents  per  pound. 
It 
urchased  of  the  farmers  over  1,000,000 
pounds  of  milk,  paying  upwards  of
.000  for  same.  This  is  one  of  the  old­
est  cheese  factories  in  the  State  and  has 
always  been  conducted  on  a  paying 
basis.

Salem—Duncan  Leach  has  purchased 
the  Salem  cheese  factory  of  J.  A.  Rob­
ins,  who  has  gone  to  Howell  to  take 
in 
charge  of 
process  of  construction 
there  by  the 
Michigan  Condensed  Milk  Co.

the  cheese  factory  now 

factory  at  this  place. 

Howell—The  Michigan  Condensed 
Milk  Co.  has  begun  the  erection  of  a 
cheeese 
The 
building  will  be  constructed  of  brick. 
30x110  feet 
in  dimensions.  The  fac­
tory  will  he  in  charge  of  J.  A.  Robins.
Bay  City—The  Bay  City  Round  Hoop 
Manufacturing Co.  is  the  latest addition 
to  Bay  City’s  industries.  The company 
is  capitalized  at  $5,000  and  will  make 
hoops  under  patents  owned  by  the  com­
pany.  All  of  the  manufactured  output 
has  already  been  contracted  for.

incorporating 

Detroit—Articles 

the 
Dr.  Knapp  Medical  Co.  have  been 
filed.  The  capital  stock  is  $12,000,  all 
paid  in.  The 
incorporators  are:  Ed­
ward  D.  Hayes  and  Henry  F.  Coon, 
595 shares each ;  Wm.  J.  McSweeney,  10 
shares.  All  the  stockholders  are  resi­
dents  of  Kalamazoo.

Evidently  the  Wrong  Crowd.

New  York,  March 

10—In  the  March 
2  issue  of  the  Tradesman,  in  the  news 
items  from  Kalamazoo,  also  from  Mus­
kegon,  appeared  notices  to  the  effect 
that  the  Sperry  &  Hutchinson  trading 
stamp  crowd  had  “ abandoned  the  field 
and  clandestinely  shipped  their goods 
out  of  the  city,  leaving  numerous  hold­
ers  of  stamps  to  deplote  their  loss.”

We  beg  to  state  that  Sperry  &  Hutch­
inson  had  nothing  whatever  to  do  with 
any  stamp  or  coupon  company  which 
was 
in  Muskegon  or  Kalamazoo,  nor 
ever  did  have  anything  to  do  with 
same;  in  fact,  knew  nothing  of  it.

We  assume  that  you  are  a fair-minded 
man,  and  while  you  may  not  be 
in 
sympathy  with  our  manner  of  adver­
tising,  we,  nevertheless,  are  conducting 
this  business  in  a  perfectly  square and 
legitimate  way  and  on  business  prin- 
cipes. 

S p e r r y   &  H u tc h in so n.

C.  F.  Waters  succeeds  C.  F.  Waters 
&  Co.  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  at 
39  Canal  street.

WANTED

To furnish Western dealers for  their  Eastern 
trade for season of 1898; cold storage in quantit­
ies to suit up to 15,000 cases  of eggs and  30  cars 
butter;  moderate rates and  liberal  advances  to 
reliable parties; modernly equipped  plant;  me­
chanical refrigeration, with an improved system 
of perfectly dry circulation and change of air in 
rooms; intermittent and continuous  circulation, 
also gravity system;  these systems are the  latest 
and best known  in  cold  storage  practices;  our 
eggs are said to be the finest on the Philadelphia 
market this past season; fine distributing point: 
only 2’i hours to Pittsburg, and quick transit by 
both Penn  Central and B.  &  O.  to  New  York, 
Philadelphia.  Baltimore  and  Washington;  we 
are authorized  to  purchase  for  our  local  cus­
tomers 5,0 ¡0 cases finely candled eggs  for  April 
and May deliveries;  also several  cars  creamery 
butter;correspondence solicited.  Address Hyge- 
ia Crystal Ice & Cold Storage Co.,Uniontown, Pa.

Around  the State
Movements  of  Merchants. 

Sebewa—C.  YV.  Cunkrite  has  opened 

a  new  grocery  store.

Mason—H.  Frazell 

music  store  at  this  place.

has  opened  a 

M cBride’s—H.  S.  Dell  will  put  in  a 

line  of  hardware  at  this  place.

Vandecar—Wm.  Mills,  general  deal­

er,  has  removed  to  Crandon,  Wis.

Detroit—Lake  &  Pickard  continue 

the  hardware  business  of  J.  T.  Lake.

Saranac—Chas.  Mandeville,  of  Palo, 

will  shortly  open  a  general  store  here.

Detroit—Robertson  &  Brown  succeed 
Jas.  H.  Brown  in the hardware business.
Elwell—I rving  E.  Chapman  has  re­
moved  his  general  stock  to  Riverdale.
Plainwell—Balch  &  Forbes,  clothiers, 
have  dissolved,  N.  A.  Balch  succeed­
ing.

Traverse City—-Henry  &  Sullivan  sue 
ceed  Wm.  Hoolihan  in  the  meat  busi­
ness.

Durand—Dutcher  &  Conn 

succeed 
Eben  Bliss  in  the  boot  and  shoe  busi­
ness.

Ludington—Forslind  Bros,  continue 
the  dry  goods  business  of  Gary  &  Fors­
lind.

Elwell—L.  H.  Church,  dealer  in  ag­
implements,  will  remove  to 

ricultural 
Alma.

Wayland—W.  H.  Bechtel  has  em­
barked  in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place.

Maple  Rapids—Marion  Burnett  has 
embarked  in  the  grocery business  at this 
place.

Kingston—E.  A.  Randall  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  Mrs.  L.  N. 
"Holmes.

Hamilton—W.  L.  Gillies  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  and  bakery  of  Chet. 
Johnson.

Marlette—M.  B.  Cody  succeeds  Cody 
in  the  agricultural  implement 

it  Paul 
business.

Plymouth—The  Conner  Hardware  Co. 
succeeds  Conner  &  Son  in  the  hardware 
business.

Ovid—Mrs.  A.  C.  Gardner  has  pur 
chased  the  millinery  stock  of  Mrs.  A. 
C.  Chapman.

Detroit—Pennewell,  Cowan  &  Co. 
in  the  drv 

succeed  Samuel  C.  Cowan 
goods  business.

Hillsdale—The Hillsdale Coal & Lum­
ber  Co.  succeeds  E.  H.  Cunningham  in 
the coal  business.

Rochester—Darcy  &  Cleland,  late  of 
Newberry,  have  purchased  the  general 
stock  of  Hoil  Bros.

Silverwood-----Chas.  Ramberry  has
purchased  the  dry  goods  and  grocery 
stock  of  A.  O.  Kelly.

Metamota—Wm.  "Ronald 

is  closing 
out  his  stock  of  groceries  and  meats 
and  will  retire from  trade.

Sunfield—Ransom  M.  Bascom  con­
formerly 

tinues  the  grocery  business 
conducted  by  Bascom  &  Teal.

Marlette—A.  T.  Baker  &  Co.  will 
hereafter  continue  the  general  mer­
chandise  business  in  his  own  name.

Fremont—Harmon  &  Co.  succeed 
Wm.  Harmon  in  the  general  merchan­
dise  business,  Wm,  Harmon  retiring.

Monroe—N.  Althoefer  &  Son,  shoe 
dealers,  have  sold  their  stock  to  E. 
Yeager’s  Sons  and  retired  from  trade.

Jackson—J.  S.  Harrington  will  em­
bark  in  the  clothing  business  at  the cor­
ner of  Cooper  and  Main  streets  April  i.
Alma—F.  E.  Pollasky,  who  sold  a 
stock  of  dry  goods  to  J.  W.  S.  Opdyke 
about  a  year  ago,  on  contract,  has  taken 
possession  of  same  and  is  closing  it 
out.

Watervliet—The  copartnership  exist­
ing  between  Walden  &  Merritield,  dry 
goods  dealers  and  druggists,  has  been 
dissolved,  Frank  H.  Merrifield  continu­
ing  the  business.

Negaunee—Haymacher  &  Son,  who 
engaged 
in  the  grocery  and  dry  goods 
business 
in  the  McDonald  building 
about  a  yeai  ago,  have  assigned  to 
George  A.  McDonald.

Petoskey—H.  W.  Socks,  L.  C.  Kirk 
and  C.  Kirk  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  Socks,  Kirk  & 
Co.  and  engaged  in  the  grocery,  bakery 
and  provision  business.

Belding—L.  L.  Holmes  has 

sold 
his  interest  in  the  drug  stock  of Holmes 
&  Connell  to  Harry  and  Frank  Connell, 
who  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Connell  Bros.

furniture 

Saginaw—The 

establish­
ment  of  Aug.  Eggert,  at  514  Genesee 
avenue,  has  changed  bands  and  here­
after  the  firm  name  will  be J.  C.  Graeb- 
ner  &  Co.,  composed  of J.  C.  Graebner,
F.  W.  Scwatsky  and  J.  F.  Cosendai.

FEED ¡KJiB |\fl E/\L

Strictly  pure  corn  and  oats  goods.  No  oat-hulls, 
barley-dust or other adulteration  in ours.  Orders 
for  any  quantity  promptly 
Favorable 
freight rates to all  points  on  C.  &  YV.  M.,  D.,  G.
R.  &  W., G.  R.  &  I.,  F. &  P.  M., M.  &  N.  E .,  or 
Ann  Arbor R.  Rs.  Correspondence solicited.

filled 

Walsh-DeRoo Milling Co.

Holland,  Mich.

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

Qrand  Rapids  Gossip
Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
15,  at 
held  Tuesday  evening,  March 
Retail  Grocers’  Hall,  President  Dyk 
presided.

The  yeast  question  was  discussed  at 
some  length  and  it  was  finally  decided 
to  issue  a  card  embodying  the  result  of 
the  agreement  reached  by  the  retail 
grocers.
B.  S.  H arris:

letter  was  read  from 

The  following 

It  is  now  twelve  years  since  the  gro­
cers  first  organized  for  their  mutual 
benefit  and  improvement,  and  what  has 
been  accomplished  during  that  time 
is 
enumerated  below,  every  item  of  which 
has  been  of  great  benefit,  not only  to 
you,  but  to  all  others  in  the  same 
line 
of  business:

Early  closing.
The  sugar  card.
Abolishing  Christmas  presents.
Establishing  the  grocers’  picnic.
Uniform  peddlers’  license.
Driving  out stamp  schemers.
Starting  what  is  now  the  Commercial 
Credit  Co.,  which  has  been  of  great 
value  to  the  retail  trade.

of  benefit;  the  smaller  ones  are 
numerous  to  mention.

These  are  the  most  important  items 
too 
The  strength  of  our  organization  has 
been  recognized  several  times.  We  do 
not  think  it  policy  to  mention 
individ­
ual  cases,  in  which  we  took  goods  out 
of  the  hands  of  cutters,  as  in  the case  of 
Swift’s  Cotosuet,  Armour’s 
soaps, 
Soapine,  etc.,  but  our  strength  is  noted 
every  day  by  the  careful  consideration 
of  manufacturers  in  putting  their  goods 
on  the  market  with  the  assurance  that 
their  product  will  not  be  put  in  the 
hands of  cutters.  This  demonstrates  our 
power and  we  all  receive  the  benefit.

The  support  of  our  Association  and 
the  attendance  at  our  meetings  have 
been  most  discouraging  of  late,  and  if 
we  expect  to  maintain  the  benefits  al­
ready  secured,  every  one  of  which  is 
very 
important  to  us,  and  the  attend­
ance  of  the  faithful  ones  continued,  it 
must be  done  by  your  support,  not  only 
financially,  but  by  your  advice  in  our 
work  and  counsels.

Many  of  you  complain  that  the  Asso­
ciation  is  doing  nothing,  at  the  same 
time  standing  back  and 
looking  on 
with  folded  hands,  doing nothing,  either 
by  attendance  or  recommendations  to 
remedy  matters,  but  expecting  a  few 
to  do  the  work  for  all,  although  the 
benefits secured are equal  for  all.  Is  this 
right?  We  think  not.
Our finances  are  in  good  condition— 
thanks  to  a  few  workers—but  unless  you 
take  interest  enough  to  assist  the  other 
members 
in  continuing  this  work,  the 
benefits  already  derived  from  years  of 
hard  work  are  likely  to  be  lost  and  the 
grocers  again to go back  to  long hours of 
labor  and  to  cut-throat  methods of doing 
business,  competition  by  peddlers  with­
out  licenses,  schemes  by  schemers,  no 
holidays,  no  protection,  and  nothing  to 
show  for  your  work  at  the  end  of  the 
year.

Turn,  out  and  help  support  the  or­
ganization  which  makes  you  respected 
among  business  men,  gives  you  some­
thing  for  your  labor  and  which  will  also 
assist  you  in  striking  a  balance  on  the 
right  side  of  the  ledger.

President  Dyk  referred  to  the  ener­
getic  work  of  Mr.  Harris  and  spoke  of 
the  good  feeling  among  the trade,  which 
had  been  stimulated  by  the Association.
J.  J.  Wagner  said  that  it  was  a  great 
pleasure  to  listen  to  a  paper  from so  old 
and  valued  a  member.  He  always  re­
gretted  when  he  was  unable  to  attend 
the  meetings,  as  he  always  received 
pointers  which  were  of  vital  interest  to 
him.  He .  also  stated  that 
if  the  gro­
cers would  all  stand  together,  they  could 
bear  up  under their  burdens  with  much 
better  effect.  Small  attendance  at  the 
meetings  is  really  a  disgrace,  because  a 
city  with  400  grocers  ought  to  show  a 
larger’ attendance  than  a  dozen or twenty 
members.

Chas.  W.  Payne  commended  the  plan 
of  sending  out a  circular  letter  with  the 
yeast  circular.  He  thought  some  plan 
should  be  devised  to  secure  a  larger  at­
tendance  and  suggested  that  some  spe­
cial  feature  be  introduced  to  induce  the 
members  to  be  present.

Mr.  Wagner  referred 

to  the  social 
events  inaugurated  a  few  years  ago.  He 
also  moved  that  the  letter  of  Mr.  Harris 
be  issued  in  circular form.  Adopted.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

The  Produce  Market.

Apples—Home  grown  Northern  Spys 
from  Missouri  fetch 

and  Wine  Saps 
$3.5o@4  perbbl.

is 

Bananas—The  conditions  are  all  fa­
vorable  for  a  large  trade  in  bananas and 
the  demand 
increasing  daily.  No 
changes  are  noted  in  prices,  but  prices 
are  comparatively  low,  and  trade  is 
rather  larger  than  usual  at  this  season.
Beans—Jobbers  pay  60(^700  for  coun­
try  cleaned,  holding  city  picked  at  90 
@92C.  The  market  is dull and dragging. 
Considering  the  present  price  of  pota­
toes,  hand  picked  beans  ought  to  bring 
at  least $1.25.

Beets—Have  advanced  to  30c  per  bu.
Butter—Factory  creamery  is  steady  at 
15c 

19c.  Dairy  is  lower,  commanding 
for  fancy  and  14c  for  choice.

Cabbage—$2.50  per  100.
Carrots—30c  per  bu.
Celery—Choice  stock 

per bunch.

is  held  at  25c 

to 

Eggs—The  price  advanced 

12c 
during  the  stormy  weather  last  week, 
dropping  to  11c  Monday  and  back  to 
ioc  to-day.  Arrivals  are  beginning  to 
come 
in  very  freely  and  a  few  warm 
days  will  probably 
induce  shipments 
which  will  satisfy  the  consumptive  de­
mands  of  the  market.

Green  Onions—ioc  per  doz.
Honey—Dark  ranges 

Light  stock  commands  12c.

fiom  9@ioc. 

Oranges—The  feature  of  the  week 

Lemons—The  stock  now  being  shown 
on  the  market  is  unusually  fine. 
It  is 
principally  of  California  growth,  and 
the  grade  called  choice  now  was  for­
merly  graded  fancy.  The  movement  is 
steady  and  very  good  for  the  season. 
California 
lemons  will  fill  the  greater 
part  of  the  demand  in  this  market  this 
season.
Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  has 
Onions—Dry  stock  has  declined  to  75 

declined  to  i2^ c.
@850.
is 
continued  heavy receipts from the Coast. 
This  brings  about  a  rather  weak  feeling 
in  the  market,  although  the  movement 
for  consumption  is  large.  At  the  pres­
ent  prices  there  should  be  a  very 
large 
consumption.  A  good  many  good  sized 
orders  tor  shipment  out  are  received 
now,  and  on  these  some  concessions  are 
made.
is
weak,  due  to  the  efforts  of  Wisconsin 
shippers  to  supplant 
the  Michigan 
product at  several  points.  Local  dealers 
continue  to  pay  5o@  55c.

Potatoes-----The  Eastern  market 

Seeds—Timothy,  prime,  $1  4o@i.45; 
Medium  clover,  S3@3-25;  Mammoth 
clover,  $3@ 3.40;  Crimson clover,  $2.25 ; 
Red  Top,  $ i @i. 10;  Alfalfa,  $3-75@ 
4.50;  Alsyke, 
$4.50(^4.65;  Orchard 
grass,  $1.60;  Kentucky  bluegrass,  $1.30
@ I * 5° -

The  Moseley  &  Stevens Co.,  Limited, 
has  dissolved  copartnership  and  retired 
from  business.  Mr.  Moseley  con­
templates  re-engaging 
in  business  at 
Norfolk,  Va.

George  La  Barge  will  remove his gro­
cery  stock  from  Grand  Rapids  to  Ada 
soon,  to  occupy  a  corner  store  building 
that  is  now  being  rebuilt  for him.

W.  R.  Brice  &  Co.  have  leased  the 
11  North  Ionia 
in 

two  stores  at  9  and 
street,  which  they  will  occupy  while 
the  market  for  butter  and  eggs.

Homer  Klap  has  purchased  the  store 
building  at  300  West Fulton street, where 
he  has  been 
located  for  the  past  five 
years.

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  W.  M.  Hoyt  Co.  has 
kicked  over  the  traces again,  having an­
nounced  its  abandonment  of the equality 
plan  under  date  of  March  14.  As  usual, 
the  Hoyt  house  has  arrayed  itself  in  op­
position  to  the  best  interests  of  the  re­
tail  trade,  which 
is  practically  a  unit 
in  favor  of  equality  methods.

cut 

lacking  and 

than  a  steady, 

Tea—The  speculative  interest  in  tea 
jobbers  report 
light, 

is  wholly 
nothing  more 
hand-to-mouth  trade.
Coffee—The 
in  roasted 
latest 
coffee  has  been  anticipated,  although  it 
is  not  without  more  or  less demoralizing 
effect,  however,  upon  its announcement. 
Its  application 
is  only  to  low-grade 
trash,  however,  and  good  coffee  holds 
its  own,  and  always  will.  Maracaibos 
are  very  firm,  good grades  being scarce. 
Javas  are  better  on  decreased  crop  ad­
vices.

Canned  Goods—The  general  demand 
for  corn  outside  of  the  lower  grades  has 
been  small.  Tomatoes  are  selling slow­
ly  at  the  decline  noted  two  weeks  ago. 
The  demand  for  peas  is  small,  but  the 
trade  in  Baltimore,  which  draws  its  or­
ders  from  all  over  the  country,  is  said 
to  be  good. 
Prices  are  unchanged. 
There 
is  some  enquiry  for  California 
peaches  and for  seconds  of  pie  peaches, 
Eastern  packing.  There  is  no  change 
in  prices.

in 

few  prunes 

considerable 

Evaporated  apples  are 

Dried  Fruits—No  changes  are  to  be 
noted  this  week 
from  the  prices  last 
quoted.  Reports  from  the  West  Coast 
show a  firmer  feeling 
in  prunes.  The 
same  report  comes  from  Eastern  mar­
kets.  There  are 
the 
hands  of  commission  men,  held  weakly, 
and 
it  seems  probable  that  no  lower 
prices  will  be  seen  this  season.  The 
weakest  item  on  dried  fruits  is  the rain- 
is  dragging  on 
damaged  raisin.  This 
the  Coast,  and 
is  selling  at  discoura­
ging  prices  in  the  East. 
It  is  said  that 
the  load  of  this  off-grade  stock  is  weak­
ening  the  market  in  the  better  grades, 
although  no 
reductions 
have  been  reported  on  the better grades. 
The  firmest  item  in  dried  fruits  on 
the 
Coast  is  apricots,  which are well cleaned 
up. 
fair 
stock  there,  but  are  held  very  firm,  as 
the  stocks  in  the  country  are  extremely 
light.  Peaches  seem  to  be after raisins, 
the  most  plentiful  fruit  on  the  West 
Coast.  Some  reports  make  300 cars there 
still  unsold,  a  rather  large  stock  for  the 
season.  Some  slight  concessions  have 
been  made  on  peaches,  which has  begun 
to  move  them  well.
F ish -  Mackerel  seems  to  be  the  least 
affected  by  the  Lenten  season,  although 
there 
is  a  fair  trade  in  it.  Prices  are 
still  a  little  easy,  but  there  is  still  con­
fidence  that  there  will  be  a  reaction. 
Cod 
is  selling  fairly  well,  and  prices 
are  unchanged.  Lake  fish  is  practically 
out  of  the  market,  which  will  help 
mackerel.  Prices  are  unchanged.  No 
large  lot  of  salmon  are  being offered,  al­
though  prices  are  unchanged.  Sardines 
are  slow  and  prices  are  being  shaded 
about  5  cents.

in 

Provisions—The  provision  market  is 
ruling  about  steady,  with  no 
important 
changes  to  note  during  the  week,  either 
on  pickled  or  smoked  meats.  Lard, 
both  pure  and  compound,  remains  un­
changed  in  price.

The  Grain  Market.

To  say  that  this  has  been  an  excited 
week  in  the  wheat  market  would be put­
ting  it  mildly.  The  week  ended  with 
cash  wheat  2c 
lower  and  deferred  fu­
tures  made  a  slump^of  6c  per  bushel,

in 

5
but  May,  where  the  world  is against one 
man,  remained  stationary  at  $$1.04  per 
bushel. 
It  remains  to  be  seen  whether 
or not  one  bull  will  be  a  match  for  all 
the bears.  However,  be  seems  to  have 
unlimited  means,  and  he  will,  undoubt­
edly,  pull  through.  Receipts 
the 
Northwest  keep  up  surprisingly  well. 
However,  it  should  be  understood  that 
this  is  not  all  spring  wheat,  as  Kansas 
and  Nebraska  are  sending  nearly  sixty 
cars  daily  to  Minneapolis.  Of  course, 
Minneapolis  millers  would  not mix win­
ter  wheat  with  spring  (?),  so  it  prob­
ably  goes  there  to  apply  on  contract 
In  the  winter  wheat  belt  the 
wheat. 
deliveries  from 
almost 
nothing  and,  as  our  harvest  is  almost 
four  months  hence,  we  shall  need  all 
the  winter  wheat  at  home.  The  ex­
ports  were  of  good  size,  but,  owing  to 
the  large  receipts  in  the  Northwest,  our 
visible  showed  a  decrease  of  only  6oo,- 
000  bushels,  while  a  deciease  of  1,250,- 
000  bushels  was  expected.  This  fine 
weather  and  the absence  of  frosts  has  a 
temporary  depressing  effect  on 
the 
wheat  market.  When  the  price  of  cash 
wheat  is  around  90c,  it  is  low  enough.
large 
amount  in  sight,  have  been  depressed. 
It 
is  claimed  that  deliveries  will  de­
crease  as  soon  as  spring  work  com­
mences,  which  will  enhance  prices. 
This 
is  very  problematical  with  the 
large  amount  in  sight.

Coarse  grains,  owing  to  the 

farmers  are 

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  61 
cars  of  wheat,  10  cars  of  corn  and  15 
cars  of  oats.

Millers  are  paying  88c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

The  hide  market 

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool.
is  somewhat  de­
pressed,  with 
light  stocks.  There  is  a 
demand  for  all  receipts  of  all  grades  at 
the  lower  prices.

Pelts  do  not accumulate,  but  there  are 
some  large  holdings  bought  on  a  higher 
market  than  ruled  to-day.  Late  pur­
chases  are  sold  off  readily  at  an  easier 
price.  The  large  kill  at  the  stock  yards 
has  been  consumed  there  and not thrown 
on  the  market.

Furs  are  nearly  nominal,  awaiting 
the  report  of  the  March  sales,  now  tak­
ing  place.

Tallow  shows  a  shade  of  firmness, 
without  au  increase  of  prices  or  stocks.
Wool  does  not  materially  change  in 
price,  while  sales  are  virtually  stopped. 
There 
is  an  occasional  weak  spot,  but 
of  not  sufficient  magnitude  to  affect  the 
market.

Stocks  are  firmly  held,  in  the  belief 
that  the  demand  will  come  at present,  if 
not  higher,  values.  The  London  sales 
will  govern  the  future  materially  while 
the trade  is  affected  by  the  war  scare.
Wm.  T.  H e s s .

Acetylene  Gas,  the  New  Light.

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

luck 

Frederick  C.  Miller  has  been  playing 
to  great 
lately,  having  recently 
been  elected  a  member  of  the Executive 
Committee  of  the  Peninsular  Trust  Co., 
Treasurer  and  Manager  of  the  Elliott 
Button  Fastener  Co.  and  Director  of 
the  Kent  County  Savings  Bank.  Mr. 
is  a  gentleman  of  rare  discern­
Miller 
ment  and  excellent  business 
judgment 
and  will  discharge  the  duties of all three 
offices  with  credit  to  himself  and  with 
satisfaction  to  all  concerned.

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

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Hardware

The  Progressive  Hardware  Merchant.
In  the  broad,  common-sense  lesson  of 
life  the  existence  of  men  in  business 
at  all  always  denotes  a  certain  measure 
of  progression  or  success.  But  we  have 
rather  to  do  with  degrees  of  advance­
ment,  with  comparisons  of old-time  and 
of  modern  methods  of  the  present,  with 
what  we  may  look  forward  to  in  the  fu­
ture.  We  are  never  quite  certain  of any­
thing  until  it  reaches  the  stage  where  it 
becomes  the  past.  Knowing  the  past so 
well  and  judging  from  it  and  from  the 
standpoint  of  the  present,  our  future  or 
our  progression  should  be  even  greater 
than  we  are  able  to  predict. 
It  is  true 
it  always  has  been,  that  men 
now,  as 
aie  classed  as  dreamers,  and 
in  our 
ideals  for  the  future  we  promise  our­
it  would  take  an 
selves 
eternity  to  fulfill,  not  satisfied  that 
in 
the  doing  we  each  have  accomplished 
all  that  man  may  do  in  his  allotment  of 
life.

in  time  what 

There  are  men  who,  even  in  the  way 
larger 
they  do  small  things,  become 
than  any  situation 
in  which  they  may 
be  placed.  This  was  true  of  many  of 
the  earlier  men  who  now  rank  as  the 
pioneers  in  business.  Such  men  were 
leaders—to  advance  and  progress 
born 
in  war  or 
in  peace,  at  the  bar  or  in 
husbandry,  and  the  tiaffic  of  the  times 
in  any  station—like  the great emancipa­
tor  whose  birthday  we  so  fittingly  cele­
brated  here  but  a  few  days  ago,  and 
who  at  the  rail-splitting,  on  the  flat- 
boat 
in  the  rapids,  at  country  school, 
as  country  lawyer,  excelled  and  led  in 
all.  To  such  men  progression,  the  cul­
mination  of  a  natural  ambition,  be­
life. 
comes  a  matter  of  their  everyday 
To  many  men  whose  lives  are  spent 
in 
rough  getting,  reaching  out  and  falling 
backward,  always  aiming  high  enough 
but  falling  short  of  the  aim,  to  such 
men  much  of  progression  is  not  given, 
and  the  survival  of the fittest continually 
leaves others  striving  over  the  business 
graves  of  failures  on  the  great  road  to 
success.

With  these  fathers  of  ours  in  hard­
ware  came  a  dignity  in  trade,  a  com­
mercial  standing  that,  look  where  you 
will  among  all  the  maits  of  traffic,  you 
scarce  find  its  equal.  The  definition  of 
the  word  hardware  alone  carries  with  it 
much  of  ancient  origin  and  substantial 
being,  “ a  collection  of  iron  and  of  ma­
terial  whose  composition  is  principally 
of  iron  and  its  products.”

Whether  in  the  close  relation  it  bears 
to  manufacturing,  to  the  sciences,  to 
chemistry  and  to  all  structural  work,  it 
requiies  a  better  class  of  men  in  its  un­
derstanding  and 
its  handling,  we  best 
know  who are  in  it  without making what 
might  seem  unpleasant  comparisons. 
Certain  it  is,  as  a  rule,  that  the  better 
the  man  the  brainier,  the  higher  his 
standard  of  general  knowledge,  the  bet­
ter  the  hardware  merchant.  With  the 
term  and  the  business,  older  than  the 
ages,  dating 
indeed  back  to  the  mak­
ing  of  tools  and  implements,  metallic 
and  prehistoric,  we  can  go 
for  our 
knowledge  of 
it  only  to  the  day  of  our 
fathers,  and  begin  with  what  was 
known  as  the  general  store,  from  which 
springs 
in  this  country  much,  and,  in­
deed,  all  on  which  are  now  based  the 
many  magnificent  hardwaie  stores  of 
this  United  States  of  ours. 
In  the  day 
of  the  general  country  store  no  pretense 
was  made  at  education  in  the  business, 
while  back  of  the  time  of  the  most  of 
us,  very  often  those  were  the  days  of

the  “ bound  boy,”   where,  as 
in  the 
trades,  what  little  was  imparted  to  the 
youngster  was  paid  for  in  keep,  as  it 
was  called,  until  a  cerain  age  was 
reached  and  pay  for  services  began. 
Within  the  range  of  five  minutes  the 
calls  of  trade  demanded  calico,  butter 
or  nails.

It  is  within  the  recollection  of  some 
of  the  younger  men  among  us  here  how 
and 
in  what  packages  the  small  stock 
of  hardware  carried  came  to  us.  String- 
tied,  paper-wrapped,  oil-soaked  pack­
ages  of  cutlery,  hinges,  files,  lamps  and 
brasses  were  hauled  many  miles  in  the 
old  blue  freight  wagons  after  being 
landed  from  a  storm-soaked 
journey 
across  the  water at  some  Eastern port.

Those  were  the  days  when  the  mark­
ing  of  goods  was  done  by  the  rush 
light,  because  the  day  was  not  long 
enough  to  figure  pounds,  shillings  and 
pence 
into  dollars,  dimes  and  cents, 
with  so  many  pounds  sterling  as  the 
base.  Some  of  us  complain  of  the  nu­
merous  present  lists  and  discounts,  and 
yet  I  am  sure,  with  the  improved  meth­
ods  of  getting  at  such  matters, there  can 
be  no  comparison  in  the  labor  attached. 
Those  were  the  days  that  tried  men’s 
souls,  not  only 
in  the  effort  to  buy, 
mark  and  sell  goods,  but  also  in  the 
manner 
in  which  sales  and  collections 
were made.

It  is  true  goods  were  bought on  longer 
time  than  now,  but  settlements  were 
nearly  an  eternity.  To  the  more  mod­
ern  tradesman,  to  some  of  us  who  know 
there 
is  a  tagged  edge  to  a  bank  ac­
count,  what  an  experience  it  would  be 
now,  the  matter  of  settling  accounts 
once  in  a  twelve-month,  possibly  then 
with  a  note  at  another  half-year,  no 
bank  at  hand  to  make  loans  or  use  your 
discounts,  and  yet  those  days  made 
good  hardware  men,  men  who  were  the 
backbone  and  sinew  of  those  now  fol­
lowing  in  their  paths.

Profits  must  have  necessarily  been 
in  those  days;  it  is  a  question 
larger 
as  to  whether 
losses  were  so ;  not  that 
men  are  more  dishonorable  now  than 
then,  but  that  the  intense  competition 
did  not  then  exist  that  to-day  pushes 
would-be  honest  men  to  the  wall.

There  were  some  oid-time  customs, 
before  the  day  of  inventories  and  state­
ments,  we  are  glad  to  do  without,  not 
as  wrongs,  but  possibly  as  mistakes  of 
the  times. 
It  was  a  custom  with  very 
many  men  to  do  business  year  after 
year  without  an 
inventory  of  stock, 
content  to  let  matters adjust  themselves, 
and  satisfied  that  they  were  able  to  pay- 
bills,  reasonably  certain  that  they  were 
no  worse  off  than  when  they  began. 
With  many  the  discounting  of  bills  was 
a  thing  unknown,  and  perhaps  under 
the  circumstances,  largely 
impossible. 
Statements  were  not  asked  by  mercan­
tile  agencies  and  the  saving  point  that 
“ we  discount”   used  as  a  large  factor  of 
their  credit.

They  worked  day  and  night,  and  far 
into  the  night,  never  realizing 
that 
more  and  effective  labor  could  be  ac­
complished 
in  the  usual  hours  of  the 
mechanic. 
labored  under  the 
They 
disadvantage  of  not  knowing,  and  ben­
efiting  through  the  medium  of  the  tele­
phone,  and 
in  many  places  the  tele­
graph.

When  the  dull  season  came 

it  was 
lived  through  as  best  it  might  be,  and 
there  were  months  of  it  at  both  ends  of 
the  year,  with  never  an  effort  to  fill 
in 
with  goods  that  would  drive  it away. 
When  goods  were  out  of  stock,  they 
stayed  out  until  the  accumulation  of 
short  goods  made  an  order  sufficiently

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

large  to  send 
in,  or  to  take  East  and 
make  purchase  of.  The everyday  want- 
book  cut  little  figure,  largely  owing  to 
the  difficulty 
in  getting  small  ship­
ments. 
In  nearly  all  cases  the  effort 
was  made  to  carry  what  his  competitor 
carried—not  as 
to 
carry  all  the good  lines  that  he  had  not, 
and  avoid  the competition.  Stocks  were 
carried,  all  sorts,  sizes  and  kinds,  in­
stead  of  confining  as  nearly  as  possible 
to  one  line  or  make  of  goods.  The  trav­
eling  man  was  but  little  known  and  was 
less  appreciated.

in  modern  days, 

Goods  were  bought  in  large quantities 
—often  in  much  larger  than  the  needs— 
because  it  took  some  quantity  to  make 
a  price,  and  goods  were  slow  in  reach­
ing  their  destination. 
small, 
quick-turning  odds  and  ends  were  not 
counted  a  part  of  the  hardware  stock. 
They  were  rather  beneath  the  average 
merchant. 
In  these  days  they  count 
largely  in  paying  rent  and  fuel.  Those 
were  not  the  days  of  mail  orders  which 
now  count  so  largely  in  the  business.

The 

Customers  came 

in  and  waited  until 
they  were  served,  because  they  had  not 
elsewhere  to  go,  and  had  the  time  to 
wait.  To-day  it  takes  a  club  and  all  the 
clerks  at  the  front  to  hold  them.  We 
had  not  the  show  window  with  us  which
has  become  as 
largely  a  factor  of  the 
business  as  any  other  class  of  advertis­
ing.

In  those  days  we  were  buying  our 
guns,  pocket  knives,  razors,  files  and 
tools  from  England ;  to-day we are  ship­
ping  the  best  cutlery,  tools  and  files  to 
every  open  port  of  the  world.  These 
matters  were  largely  faults  of  the  times 
and  not  the  men,  and  the  many  changes 
and  improvements  have gradually led up 
to  the  hardware  merchant  of  the  pres-

ent,  the  best  known  man  in  his  town  in 
business.  With  all  the  modesty  that 
may  belong  to  good  men,  we  say it,  who 
should, that  as  a  class  no  set of men rank 
higher,  mentally,  morally,  physically, 
as  to  quality  of  judgment,  as  citizens, 
money  makers  and  capitalists,  than  thé

$   .......Quick  Meal  Blue  Flame  Stoves
*  
3
$

D.  E .  VAND ERVEEN ,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

STATE AGENT,

Monroe St. 

Complete 
Hardware  Stock 
For  Sab» 
—

Also fixtures, comprising

Shelf Boxes,  Stove  Platforms 

and  Trucks,  Screw  Cases,

Show  Cases,  Office  Desk,s 

Safe,  Etc.,  Etc.

Come quick  and  get  your  choice  if  you 

don’t want everything, or write  us,

Vanderveen  &  Witman,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

106 Monroe St.

flre You Reaflu for me Farmer

Paragon  Pruning  Saw.

Duplex  Pruning  Saw.

We  have  others.  Send in  your orders.

Foster, Stevens & go.,  Grand Rapids.
SYRUP  CANS
Sap  Pails  and  Sap  Pans

Round  and  Square

Write for prices,

W m .  Brum m eler  &  Sons,  M anufacturers, 

Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.

Factory and Salesrooms 260 S. Ionia S t.

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Hardware  Price  Current.

 

AUGURS  AND  BITS
 

Snell’s.......................... 
70
....................................25*10
Jennings’, genuine 
Jennings’, imitation  ...................................60*10
AXES

First Quality, S. B. Bronze........................   5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.........................  9  50
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...............  
  5 50
First Quality. D. B. Steel............................  10 50

 

 

BARROWS

Railroad.............................................»12 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00

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

60&10 
70 to 75 
50

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

Well,  plain...............................  .................» 3 25

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

BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle...................... 
CROW  BARS

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

CAPS

Elys  1  10...........
Hick’s C.  F.  ... 
G. D.................

CARTRIDGES

Rim  Fire...........
Central  Fire.......................

CHISELS

Socket Firmer.. 
Socket Framing 
Socket Corner.. 
Socket  Slicks...

 

 

70

.. per lb

50* 5 
25*  5

hardware  men  of  this generation.  There 
are  good  and  sufficient  reasons  for  it 
among  all  gathered 
statistics,  and 
among  all  merchants.  As  a  class,  they 
are  credited  with  fewer  failures  in busi­
ness  than  those  of  any  and  all  other 
lines.  This  of  itself  makes  a  standing 
we  may  well  be  proud  of.

is 

life. 

We  heard 

it  said,  show  me  a  good 
hardware  man  and  I  will  show  you  a 
man  quick,  bright,  alert,  watchful  of 
his  interests,  up-to-date  in  everything, 
never  lagging  at  anything. 
It  is almost 
a  truth  that a  man  thoroughly  posted  in 
is  fit  for  nearly  any 
general  hardware 
line  in 
It  has  reached  a  point 
where  education  is  business,  or ought  to 
be,  and 
indeed,  a  part  of  the  busi­
ness.  With  the  many  details  now exist­
ing  you  cannot  put  a  stupid  behind  the 
counter.  Man  or  boy,  be  must  have 
some  sort  of  address,  must  be  bright, 
intelligent  and  quick  to 
learn.  The 
standard  of  the  hardware  man  is  grow­
ing,  the  business 
The 
class  of  young  men  who  make  applica­
for  positions  and  are  willing  to 
tion 
learn  the  business  has  certainly 
im­
proved 
in  late  years.  Time  was  when 
quite  a  good  many  men  felt  they  had 
mastered  the  all  of  hardware. 
The 
time 
is  now  when  the  better  the  man, 
the  longer  his  years  in  service,  the more 
certain  he  is  that  he  will  never  master 
it  in  all  its  details.

is  elevating. 

Did  you  ever  realize  that  there  is 
more  of  complication,  more  of 
the 
thousand  and  one  small  things  of  hard­
ware  than  enters  into  that  of  the  care­
fully-trained  and  prepared-for  business 
of  the  drug  store?  Years  of  expensive 
training  is  given  the  candidate  for  this 
that  he  may  not  give  the  wrong  potion 
to  the  right  patient,  and  yet  we are  ex­
pected  to  take  up  a  young  man  and 
make  a  hardware  man  of  him  in  a  year 
or  two,  paying  him  fair  wages 
for 
teaching  him  what  be  will  absorb.  One 
of  the  largest  factors  in  the  present  of 
is  the  evgr- 
the  successful  merchant 
with-us  traveling  salesman, 
to  whom 
we  can  possibly  feel  kindlier  than  to 
almost  any  other  source  for  our  knowl­
edge  of  the  intricacies  of  hardware,  and 
while  speaking  of  the  clean,  clear­
headed  man  of  business,  who  or what 
house  would  for  a  moment  consider  the 
putting  on  the  road  of  a  man  void  of 
education,  void  of  address,  of  some 
natural  polish,  of  some  knowledge  of 
human  nature?  The  nature  of  the  busi­
ness  in  its  present  stage  of  betterment 
requires  men  of  this  class,  and  to  them 
and  through  them  many  of  us  owe much 
of  our  ready  familiarity  with  the  rapid 
changes  that  occur.

The  time  has  not  gone  by  many 
years,  when  to  our  shame  be  it  said, 
that  among  a  class  of  business  men  the 
traveler  was  by  no  means  a  favorite. 
To-day we  cannot  do without  him.  You 
may  take  your  trade  papers,  you  may 
have  your  markets,  you  have  your  mail 
and  your  telegraph,  but  to  none  of  them 
are  you  indebted  so  much  as  to  the  man 
who  carries  with  him  and  can  deliver to 
the  closest 
you  the  newest  changes, 
prices,  the  very  best  datings  it 
is  pos­
sible  for  you  to  obtain.  Speaking  of 
the  various  trade 
journals,  they,  too, 
have  aided  largely  in  giving  to  us  our 
present 
as  merchants,  and 
while  often  in  the  most  of  business  they 
are  laid  aside  or  neglected,  when  read 
from  cover  to  cover  they  well  repay  the 
effort.  Possibly  the  secret  of  their  ben­
efits'  may  come  from  the  fact  that  in 
■ early  every  case  they  are  edited  and 
published  by  practical  hardware  men, 
m en  who  are  bright  enough  to  give  up

standing 

the  manual  part  of  it  and  give  us  the 
benefit  of  their  headwork.  There 
is 
pleasure  to  me,  and  I  doubt  not  to  all 
of  us,  in  making  thorough  search  of 
even  the  line  of  advertisements,  and 
there  certainly  is  not  only  pleasure  but 
profit  in  watching  carefully  each  week’s 
markets.  While 
it  may  be  said  these 
are  not  always  correct  to  the  last t.% per 
cent.,  the  time  has  come  when  they  are 
so  nearly  so  that  there  is  much  of  gain 
in  watching  them,  or being able  to.  The 
knowledge  of  many  new  things  comes 
to  us  through  this  channel.  The  various 
discussions  that  are  carried  on  are  cer­
tainly  of  benefit,  and  all  in  all  it  does 
seem  to  me  that  this  medium,  if  prop­
erly  used,  leads  up  to  larger,  broader 
results  in  business  of  the  present  day.

ignored 

The  clerk  of  to-day  is  by  no  means  to 
be 
in  our  advancement.  He 
has  come  to  be  part  and  parcel  of  us 
Much 
is  given  to  him  to  do,  and  his 
salary,  as  a  rule,  is  not  a  gold  mine. 
Yet  we  depend  on  him  on  all  occasions. 
If  away,  as  just  now,  he  is  our  reliance. 
In  absence  he 
is  our  representative. 
Why  not  make  the  best  of  him  so  long 
as  he  is  serving  each  one  of  us? 
If  he 
is  better  or worse,  we  largely  make  him 
so,  and  because  many  of  us,  in  our 
varied  experiences as clerks,  carried  our 
noses  close  to  the  grindstone,  is 
it  any 
reason  we  should  hesitate  in  some  de­
gree  to  lift  him  up,  when  we are  sure 
that  in  the  lifting  we  raise  the  standard 
of  both  the  man  and  the  business?

for  those  to 

The  small  items  of  the  everyday  life 
of  the  man  in  business  to-day  are  large­
ly  coming  together  in  local  and  state or­
ganization,  and we will be  able  to go for­
ward  as  stronger,  truer,  more  progres­
sive  merchants,  making  a  place  yet  un­
filled 
follow,  making  a 
plane  the  standard  of  which  will  con­
tinually  grow  higher,  making  that name 
of  hardware  significant 
in  all  that  is 
best  of  merchandising,  adding  dignity 
to  trade,  manhood  to  men,  pleasure  to 
profit,  and  profit  with  true  living  as  the 
end,  remembering  that  they  that  toil 
with  the  right  means,  at  the  right  time, 
in  the  right  spirit,  for  a  reasonable  and 
possible  success,  generally  attain 
it,  if 
not  in  one  form,  then  in  another,  even 
if  in  no  other form than  in  having  nobly 
striven  and  nobly  failed,  and  bearing 
in  mind  always:
There's naught in looking back,  be  up  and  on! 
No clock can strike for us the moments gone.
H.  C.  W isem a n.

There  is  something  paradoxical  in the 
depression  of  stocks  at  intimations  of 
war,  and  the  general  opinion  sustained 
by  experience  that  war 
is  “ good  tor 
business,’ ’  puts  money 
in  circulation 
like  a  flood  and  insures  work  for  every­
body.  How  are  these  things 
to  be 
reconciled? 
It  might  be  supposed  that 
if  wai  has  this  effect  on  manufactures, 
trade  and  the  accumulation  of  wealth, 
it  would  enhance  the  value  of  securities 
rather  than  depress  them. 
In  the  pros­
pect  of  a  hopeless  war  the  outlook 
might  be  thought  different,  but  in  the 
present  crisis  there  are  no  such  fears 
on  oui  part,  and,  moreover,  the  losers 
in  such  a  conflict  have,  as  far  as  money 
goes,  to  pay  the  cost. 
Japan  is  greatly 
licher  from  her  war  with  China,  and  so 
it  would  be  with  the  United  States  after 
a  Spanish  war.  And  yet  stocks  take 
fright  and  sink.  Probably 
is  the 
wholly  professional  management  of  the 
stock  market  that  provides  the  answer. 
It  may  well  be  that  the  talk  of  the  ex­
change  being  a  “ barometer,”   etc.,  is 
mere  twaddle.  Rather,  certain  shrewd 
operators  depress  and  excite  it  for  their 
own 
purposes,  making  their  profit 
whichever  way  the  see-saw  works.

it 

DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks......................................  
60
Taper and Straight Shank. 
....................... 50& 5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................... an* 5

ELBOWS

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

¿0
1  35

EXPANSIVE  BITS

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

FILES—New  List

New American...........................................   70&10
Nicholson’s......................................................... 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................................cCeaO

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

13 

14 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

28
17

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and  Level  Co.’s...................... 6u*i0

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

70
  8U

MATTOCKS

1  oñ 
1  75

.. 

NAILS

Adze Eye.................................... $16 uu, dis  60* lo
Hunt Eye...................................   $15 00, dis uU*i0
Hunt's......................................   <18 no, dis  20*10
Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.
Steel nails, base.
Wire nails,  base...........................  
.
20 to 60 advance........................................
10 to 16 advance...............................  ......
8 advance................................................
6 advance................................................
4 advance.................................................
3 advauee................................................
2 advance  ...............................................
Fine 3 advance................................. .
Casing 10 advance....................................
Casing  8 advance....................................
Casing  6 advance....................................
Finish lu advance  ...................................
Finish  8 advance...................................
Finish  6 advance...........  ....................
Barrel  % advance.....................................

MILLS

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

40 
30

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbiu's Pattern...................................  
.  60* lo
Stebbm’s Genuine.......................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

@50
60
@50
@50
60
,6U*10*lu 
70*  5

PLANES

fancy......  ...............

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

PANS

Fry, Acme...................................
Common, polished......................
Iron and  Tinned  .......................................
Copper Rivets and Burs.............................
PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

RIVETS

"A”  Wood's patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 
■B”  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27 
Broken packages *c per pound  extra. 

60
10 21 
9  2>

HAMMERS

list.....................dis
Maydole * Co.’s,  new 
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... dis
Yerkes *  Plumb’s ....... .......................... di®  tO&lO
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel................ 30c lis. 
70
Blackemith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c 1!« .40*18

7

nouse furnishing goods-
Stamped Tin W are.......................new list 75*10
Japanned Tin  Ware.................................. 
iOAl'l
Granite Iron  Ware  .......................new list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARE

Pots......
Kettles
Spiders

Gate, Clark's, 1, 2, 3  .......   .............
State  ........................................per 1

HINGES

WIRE  GOODS

Bright..............................................
Screw Eyes......................................
Hook’s..............................................
Gate Hooks and  Eyes.....................

60*1
.60*10
.60*10

dis 60*10 
•*:et  2 fO

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

LEVELS

70

Sisal, yt inch and  larger.............................   kq
Manilla..  ..  ................................................ 
a

ROPES

SQUARES

Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels 
Mitre...............

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth

com.
Nos. 10 to 14..................................»2  70
10
Nos. 15 to 17.................................. 2 70
2  10 
Nos. 18 to 21...............................  .  2 80
2  45 
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................   3 00
2  55 
Nos. 25 to 26..................................  3 10
2 65 
No.  27 .........................................   3 20
2 75
All sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

SAND  PAPER

List  acct.  19, ’86...................................... dis 
Solid Eyes.

SASH  WEIGHTS

50

Steel, Game............................................. 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s ......... 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 

WIRE

Bright Market............................................. 
Annealed  Market........................................  
Coppered  Market...............................
Tinned Market...................................
Coppered Spring  Steel.......................
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  ...............
Barbed  Fence,  painted.....................

. per ton  20 00
60*10
50
15
1  25
75
75
70*10
62*
2 15 
1  85

TRAPS

HORSE  NAILS

Au Sable. 
.dis 40*11 
Putnam..
.dis 
5
Northwestern...................................... . .dis 10* li

WRENCHES

MISCELLANEOUS

Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled  .........
Coe's Genuine.....................................
50
...... 
Coe's Patent  Agricultural, wrought
80
........ 
8u
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................... .......  
Bird  Cages  ........................................
50
Pumps, Cistern...................................
80
Screws, New List................................
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate....................... .. 50*10*1«
Dampers, Americau............................
50
600 pound casks.................................. ........  Ö**
Per pound 

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

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

12*
>i@*..................................................
The prices of the many othe r q uaiities of solde 
in the market indicated by  private  0rands  var 
according to  composition.

. . 

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 1C, Charcoal..............................   ......I 5  75
14x20 1C, Charcoal......................................   5  75
20x14 LX, Charcoal......................................   7  00

Each additional X on this grade. 11.25.

TIN—Allaway Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................... 
5  uu
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................................   5  uu
10x14 IX, Charcoal......................................   e  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................   ?  uu

Each additional  X on this grade, $1.50.

 

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 1C, 
14x20 IX, 
20x28 1C, 
14x20 IC, 
14x20 IX. 
20x28 1C, 
20x28 IX,

14X56 IX 
14x56 IX

Charcoal,  Dean.............................  5  00
Charcoal, Dean............................  6  00
Charcoal, Dean............................  10 00
Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4  50
Charcoal,  Allaway  Grade  ..........  5  50
Charcoal, Allaway  Grade  ........  
9 00
Charcoal, Allaway  Grade  ..........  11  on
BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 
for  No.  8  Boilers, | 
for  No.  9  Boilers, |- per pound.

« 

tradesman 
Itemized 
Ledgers«
Size, 8^ x14—3 columns.

3  quires,  160  pages...............................................$2  00
3 quires,  240  pages...............................................   2  50
4 quires, 320  pages...............................................   3  00
% quires,  400  pages...............................................  3  50
6 quires, 480  pages........................................... 
4  00
INVOICE  RECORD or BILL BOOK.

So double  pages,  registers J,SSo  invoices.......  $2  00

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E .  A.  STOW E,  E d it o r . 

WEDNESDAY,-----MARCH  16,  1898.

Elsewhere 

W HEREIN  THE  WEAKNESS  LIES.
in  this  week’s  paper  the 
Tradesman  gives  place  to  an 
interview 
with  the  General  Superintendent  of  the 
Heald  system,  setting  forth  the  reasons 
why 
it  was  deemed  desirable  to  place 
gates  on  some  of  the  passenger  trains  of 
the  C.  &  W.  M.  and  D.,  G.  R.  &  W. 
lines.  The  reasons  given  are  twofold, 
as  follows:

1.  To  protect  its  revenues.
2.  To  protect 

its  passengers 

from 
accidental  injuries,  as  the  result  of  get­
ting  on  and  off  the  trains  while  in  mo­
tion.

So  far  as  the  first  reason 

is  con­
cerned,  it  appeals  to  the  fairness  of 
every  man  who  believes  that  railways 
have  rights  as  well  as  individuals  and 
that  a  railway  company  has just as much 
right  to  inaugurate  and  maintain  meas­
ures  for  its  own  protection  and  profit  as 
the 
individual  has  to  establish  certain 
rules  in  dealing  with  his  customers,  to 
the  end  that  he  may  secure  an  assured 
profit  on  his  sales.  No  business  man 
can  afford  to  be  too  arbitrary,  nor can 
any  railway  company  impose  conditions 
which are too exacting, without  incurring 
the  loss  of  more  business,  directly  and 
indirectly,  than  the  arbitrary conditions 
induce.

indulging 

So  far  as  the  second  reason  is  con­
cerned,  it  also  appeals  to  the  fairness of 
all  concerned.  The  fact  that  injuries 
to  passengers  have  cost  the  Heald  sys­
tem  $70,000  during  the  past  five  years 
—an  average  of  $14,000  per year—is  de­
plorable,  and  the  attempt  to  minimize 
this  expense  and  reduce  the  suffering 
and  annoyance 
incident  to  railway  ac­
cidents  is  certainly  praiseworthy.  Per­
haps  the  suggestion  is  out  of  place,  and 
possibly  the  Tradesman  maybe  accused 
of 
in  statements  which  are 
more  properly  the  subject  of  discussion 
and  action  among  the  officials  of  the 
roads  in  question,  but  careful  observa­
tion  for  several  years has established the 
fact  that  a  large  portion  of  the  expense 
sustained  by 
in 
settling  damages  for  accidents  is  due  to 
the  weakness  of  its  legal  department.  It 
is  a  common  remark  that  no  man  can 
do  two  things  at  a  time  and  do  them 
both  well,  and  the  Tradesman  main­
tains  that 
is  an  utter  impossibility 
for  a  man  to  shine  in  the  halls  of  Con­
gress  or  fight  imaginary  umbrella  bat­
tles  in  Cuba  and  at  the  same  time  give 
due  attention  to  his  home  duties.  Com­
parisons  are  odious,  to  be  sure,  but  the

the  Heald  system 

it 

idea 

methods  pursued  by  the  legal  depart­
ments  of  the  G.  R.  &  I.  and  the  Heald 
systems  are  so  much  at  variance  tha 
the  Tradesman  will  be  pardoned  for  re­
ferring  to  them  at  this  time.  The  mo­
ment  an  accident  occurs  on  any  of  the 
G.  R.  &  I.  lines,  the  genial  old  gentle­
man  who  works  up  the details  of  such 
cases  for  the  legal  department  is  noti­
fied,  and  within  a  few  hours  his  report 
is  on  file  in  the  office  of  General  Coun­
sel  O’Brien. 
It  is  universally  conceded 
that  nine-tenths  of  the  claims  made 
against  railway  companies  are  trumped 
up  and  would  not  be  thought  of  if  the 
party  on  the  other  side  were  an  indi­
vidual  instead  of  a  corporation.  With 
this 
in  view,  the  attorney  of  the 
G.  R.  &  I.  Railroad,  with  that  rare 
discernment  which  has  given  him  an 
enviable  position 
in  his  profession, 
quickly  reaches  a  conclusion  as  to  the 
merits  of  the  case  under  consideration 
and,  before  the 
injured  individual  has 
been  sought  out  by  a  shyster  lawyer and 
encouraged  to  bring  suit  for  a  large 
amount,  a  satisfactory 
is 
reached,  receipts  are  passed,  and  the 
annoyance  and  expense  of  defending 
the  suit  before  a  biased  judge  and  a 
prejudiced  jury  are  obviated.  Why  the 
Heald  system  has  not  adopted  this 
plan,  instead  of  permitting  so  many 
into  the  hands  of  shyster 
cases  to  get 
lawyers  and  country  courts, 
is  more 
than  the  Tradesman  can  understand. 
Another  suggestion  may  not  be  relished 
by  the  Heald  management,  and  may  be 
considered  out  of  place  by  some  of  the 
Tradesman’s  readers,  but  candor  com­
pels  the  statement  that  if  the  legal  de­
partment  were  in  as  competent  bands 
as  the  other  departments  of  the  Heald 
system,  there  would  be  little  necessity 
of  adopting  English  ideas  and  shutting 
the  passengers  in  the  cars  like  so  many 
cattle 
in  order  to  protect  them  from 
their own  indiscretions.

settlement 

BEARING  DOWN  HARD.

The  Denver  Board  of  Aldermen  re­
cently  passed  a  license  ordinance  which 
the  Supervisors  and  Mayor  refused  to 
approve  on  account  of  this  provision: 

Each  business  place  whose  business 
comprises  not  exceeding  four  kinds, 
departments  or  lines  of  goods  shall  pay 
an  annual  tax  of  1  per cent,  upon  the 
aggregate  amount  of 
its  gross  assets, 
and  so  on,  doubling  the  rate  per  cent, 
per  annum  upon  the gross  assets  of  any 
business  place  for  each  additional kind, 
department  or  line  of goods  that is here­
by  laid  on  a  business  place  having  the 
next 
lower  number  of  kinds,  depart­
ments  or  lines  of  goods.

According  to  the  Denver  Republican, 
a  Colorado  mathematician  has 
thus 
computed  by  geometrical  progression 
the  results  of  doubling  the  rate per cent, 
per  annum:

Starting  with  five  lines  of  goods,  the 
figures  would  be  as  follows:  Five,  2 
per  cent.  ;  6,  4  per  cent.  ;  7,  8  per 
cent.  ;  8,  16  per cent.  ;  q,  32  per  cent.  ; 
10,  64  pet  cent.  ;  11,  128  per  cent.  ;  12,
13, 512  per  cent.  ;  14,
256  per  cent.  ; 
1,024  per  cent.  ; 
15, 2,048  per  cent.  ;  16,
17, 8 ,192  per cent.  ;  18,
4,096  per  cent.  ; 
16,384  per  cent.  ;  19,  32,768  per  cent.  ; 
20,  65,536  per  cent.  ;  21, 
131,072  per 
cent.,  and  22,  which  one  store  here  is 
said  to  have,  262,144  per  cent.

The  store  with  22  departments 

is 
credited  with  $800,000  gross  assets—it 
may  be  more  or  less,  but  let  it  be $800,- 
000  for  the  sake  of  mathematical  com­
putation.  A  tax  of  262,144  percent, 
on  the  above  capital  would  subject  the 
¡¡cense  aggregating 
institution 
$2,097,152,000. 
If  the  company  should 
its  entire  assets,  the  first  year 
give  up 
it  would  be  indebted  to  the  city $2,097,- 
152,000. 
_________________

to  a 

Some  men  have  a  gallon  of  words  to 

every  spoonful  of  thoughts.

GENERAL  TRADE  S ITU A TIO N .
The  principal  effects  of  war  agitation 
on  business  are  to  be  found  where  they 
would  naturally  be  looked  for—in  spec­
ulative  circles.  Not that  to  the  outsider 
theie  is  any  sufficient  explanation  why 
such  agitation  should  have  so  marked 
an  effect  on  values,  but  it  is  a  matter  of 
observation  that 
it  always  does.  And 
in  this  there  seems  to  be  no discrimina­
tion,  the  transportation 
lines  which 
could  not  fail  to  benefit  by  any  of  the 
threatening  hostilities  suffering  to  fully 
as  great  an  extent  as  any  pther.

Aside  from  this  speculative  reaction, 
which  has 
included  wheat,  the tide  of 
industrial  activity  continues  unabated. 
Export  movements  of  all  kinds,  includ­
ing  wheat  and  corn,  continue  very 
large,  keeping  so  great  a  trade  balance 
in 
as  to  warrant  the  utmost  confidence 
the  general  situation.  Gold 
to  the 
amount  of $6,500,000 was  shipped to this 
country  during  the  week  and  the  quan­
tity  for  four  weeks  is  $15,775,000.  The 
volume  of  distributive  trade,  especially 
in  the  central  and  western  portions  of 
the  country,  continues  unabated  and 
in 
many  lines  is  exceeding all expectation.
Perhaps  the  most  favorable  reports  of 
progress  come  from  the  iron  industry. 
Continually  increasing  production  fails 
to  increase  unsold  stocks,  showing  that 
consumptive  demand 
increasing  at 
an  unprecedented  rate.  The  lines  in 
which  demand  seems  to  be  leading  are 
ship  and  car  building,  agricultural  im­
plement  work  and  sheets.  Among  the 
orders  for  the  week  was  one  for 
10,000 
tons  of  rails  in  Chicago.

is 

The  movement  of  cereals  has  contin­
ued  heavy,  but  the  general  tendency  to 
speculative  reaction  has  given  oppor­
tunity  to  the  bears  to  the  extent  of  5 
cents  on  wheat  and  proportionately  on 
corn.

In  textiles  cotton  shows  a  reaction,at­
tributed  to  the  unexpectedly  heavy  re­
ceipts,  but  resumption  of  work  at  the 
Eastern  m ills  continues. 
The  wool 
trade  is  very  dull,  but  in  woolen  goods 
the  factories  are  still  busy  with  work 
and  have  orders  for  a  considerable  time 
ahead.

The  boot  and  shoe  manufacture  con­
tinues  to  surpass  all  records.  The  ship­
ments  from  the  East  in  two  weeks  have 
been  28,400  cases,  or  nearly 
18  per 
cent,  more  than 
last  year  and  32  per 
cent  greater than  in  1892.  At  the  same 
time  the  growth  of  the  manufacture  at 
many  Western  points  has  been  extraor­
dinary,  and  these  factories  are  reported 
to  be  crowded  with  orders. 
It  is  prob­
able  that  the  recent  concession  in prices 
has  operated  to give  the  movement  mo­
mentum.

Bank  clearings,  while  not  equal  to 
the  record-breaking  report of  last  week, 
still 
continue  heavy,  amounting  to 
$1,282,000,000.  Failures  were  247,  an 
increase  of  20  for the  week.

improvident  this 

THE  WORK  OF  PREPARATION.
However 

country 
may  have  been  in  the  way  of  preparing 
tor  the national  defense,  now  that  an 
emergency  has  arisen  when  it  has  be­
come  necessary  to  prepare  for  possible 
war  at  short  notice,  Congress  has  given 
with  a  liberal  hand,  and  the  War  and 
Navy  Departments,  which  have 
long 
since  made  every  possible  preparation 
for  an  emergency  which  the  means  at 
their  disposal  would  permit,  have  gone 
to  work 
in  a  systematic  and  thorough 
way,  which  has  filled  the  country  with 
confidence  that,  even  although  unpre­
pared  compared  with  what  we  should 
be,  our  army  and  navy  would,  in  the

event  of  an  outbreak of hostilities, which 
it  is  hoped  may  be  averted,  be  in  a  po­
sition  to  make  a  fight  which  would  as­
tonish  the  world.

During  the  past  week  the  Navy  De­
partment  has  bought  ships  and  torpedo 
boats  abroad,  which  will  materially  add 
to  the  strength  of  the  fleet.  Every  ar­
rangement  has  also  been  made  to  place 
the  auxiliary  cruisers 
in  commission 
should  occasion  require  it.  The  navy 
yards  are  being  operated  to  their  full 
capacity,  and  purchases  of  ammunition 
and  explosives  are  being made wherever 
obtainable.

The  most  remarkable  and  surprising 
activity 
is  shown  by  the  War  Depart­
ment.  Great  guns  and  mortars  of  the 
latest  pattern  are  being rapidly mounted 
to  protect  the  Southern  ports;  the  arse­
nals  are  being  operated  night  and  day, 
and  all  private 
factories  capable  of 
turning  out  arms  and  ammunition,  as 
well  as  army  supplies  generally,  are  be­
ing  communicated  with  and  put  to 
work.  Although  no  call  has  been  made 
for  volunteers,  both  the  army  and  navy 
are  busily  engaged  enlisting  men  to  fill 
up  vacancies  existing  in  the  ranks,  and 
to  provide,  as  many  shrewdly  suppose, 
a  surplus  supply  should  an  emergency 
arise.

It  is  gratifying  to  note  that,  now  that 
there 
is  a  prospect  of  active  service, 
the  applications  for  enlistment,  both  in 
the  army  and  navy,  are  very  large.  No 
difficulty  whatever  will  be  experienced 
in  securing  all  the  soldiers  and  sailors 
required,  although,  in  the  case  of  the 
latter,  the  supply  of  skilled  seamen  is 
likely  to  be  smaller  than  could  be 
wished.

Fortunately,  we  have  been  given  time 
to  bring  our  great  natural  resources  into 
play  and  to  exert  the  influence  of  the 
country’s  enormous  wealth  and  un. 
rivaled  credit.  Our  experience  should 
teach  us,  however,  that  the  old  saying,
In  time  of  peace  prepare  for  war,”   is 
eminently  wise  at  all  seasons,  notwith­
standing  the  predictions  of  the  advo­
cates  of 
international  arbitration  that 
the  age  of  wars  has  passed  away.

in 

So  many  people  are 

love  with 
themselves  and  seeking  personal  noto­
riety  that  the  world  is  being  filled  with 
schemes  that  embrace  many  kinds  of 
professional  philanthropy,  bogus  cul­
ture,  wild  philosophy,  Utopian  dreams 
and  all  sorts  of  organizations  that  do 
anything  but  good.  And  yet  the  pro­
moters  of  new  tricks  that  absorb  the 
time and  money  of  those  who  must work 
—and  are  not  rich—seem  to  be  able  to 
live  by  the  use  of  cheek  and  begging.

It 

is  not  particularly  reassuring 

to 
be  told  that  we  can  build  ten  torpedo 
boat  destroyers 
in  seven  months.  Be­
fore  the  seven  months  had  expired  we 
should  have  either  whipped  Spain  or 
been  badly  damaged. 
It  is  one  of  those 
cases  where  a  gun  is  not  only  wanted 
but  wanted  now!

The  Philippine 

islanders  have  felt 
the 
iron  hand  of  Spain  as  heavily  as 
have  the  Cubans  and  are  deserving  of 
the  world’s  sympathy.  And  they  are 
far  enough  away  even 
to  arouse  the 
charitably  inclined  in  New  England !

The  residents  of  Washington  City  are 
greatly  stirred  up  over  the  telephone 
monopoly. 
Innocent  souls!  As  if  there 
were  not  others,  and  by  the  million, 
bearing  this  burden  with  them!

China  will  soon  be  alive  with  specu­
lators,  steam  power,  electricity,  money 
grabbing  and  Russian  soldiers.

COM PARATIVE  NAVAL STRENGTH
The  report  that  a  good  portion  of  the 
$50,000,000  emergency  fund  voted  by 
Congress  to  be  used  by  the  President, 
at  his  discretion,  for  the  National  de­
fense 
is  to  be  spent  for  the  purchase 
abroad  of  war  vessels  and  desirable 
ships  to  be  converted 
into  auxiliary 
cruisers  has  caused  some  people  to won­
der  why  the  navy,  if  so  much  stronger 
than  that  of  Spain,  according  to  cur­
rent  newspaper  reports,  should  be  in 
need  of  further  strengthening. 
Such 
people  fail  to  reflect  that  the  United 
States,  to  be  on  the  same  footing  as 
Spain,  must  really  possess  a  much  more 
powerful  navy  than  that  country,  be­
cause  we  have  a  more  extensive  and 
an  infinitely  more  vulnerable  coast  line. 
We  have  very  much  more  to  defend 
than  Spain  has,  whereas,  in  the  very 
nature  of  things,  this  country  would 
have  to  assume  the  offensive,  as  well 
as  protect  its  commerce  and  ports  from 
powerful  cruisers  and  the horde of “  Let­
ters  of  marque”   that  would  be  in  the 
Spanish  service,

Morever,  there  is  no  reason  to  believe 
that  our  fleet  is  so  very  much  stronger 
than  that  of  our  possible  antagonist.  Of 
course,  all  Americans  have  unbounded 
faith 
in  the  valor  and  ability  of  their 
seamen,  and  have  no  fear  that  they  will 
fail  to  achieve  victory  over  any  antag­
onist  of  anything  near  equal  strength ; 
but  the  relative  strength  of  the two fleets 
is  sufficiently  close  to  warrant  the  Ad 
ministration 
in  making  all  possible 
efforts  to  increase  our  naval  strength  by 
buying  vessels  abroad,  particularly  as 
it 
is  admitted  that  Spain  has  already 
done  the  same  thing.

So  far  as  the  relative  strength  of  the 
two  countries  in  ships 
is  concerned,  it 
must  be  admitted  that  the  United  States 
has  a  considerable  superiority  in  battle­
ships.  We  have  five  battle-ships 
in 
service,  four  of  which  are  of  the  first 
class.  Opposed  to  these  Spain  can  show 
only  one  ship—the  Pelayo—a  fine  vessel 
of  about  the  Indiana  class,  with  lighter 
armament,  however.  Of  coast  defense 
ships  of  a  serviceable  type  we  have  six 
in  service,  all  double-turreted monitors, 
with  heavily-armored  turrets  and  mod­
ern  guns.  To  these  Spain  could  oppose 
three  vessels,  only  one  of  which  could 
be  considered  the  equal  of  our  ships.

With  the  battle-ships  and  coast  de­
fense  vessels  our superiority  ends.  We 
possess  only  two  armored  cruisers,  as 
compared  with  Spain’s  seven.  These 
Spanish  armored  cruisers  are  about  as 
fine  ships  of  their  class  as  any  afloat. 
They  are  modern  in  every  respect,  are 
well  protected,  have  high  speed  and  a 
powerful  armament. 
fought

If  well 

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

these  ships  would  prove  formidable  an­
tagonists.  The  finest  and  newest of this 
list  of  armored  cruisers  is  the  Cristobal 
Colon,  recently  built  for  Italy  and  sold 
to  Spain.  There 
is  no  finer  cruiser  of 
her  size  afloat  than  that  ship.  To  this 
strength  of  armored  cruisers  will have to 
be  added  the  vessels  which  Spain  is  re­
ported  to  have  recently  purchased. 
If 
she  has  secured 
the  Chilian  cruiser 
O’ Higgins,  now  about  completed  at 
Elswick, 
splendid  armored 
cruiser  wili  have  been  added  to  her list. 
The  O’ Higgins  is  much  larger  than  the 
Cristobal  Colon,  has  a  thicker  armor 
belt  and  carries  a  heavier  armament, 
all  her  guns  being  rapid-fire  of  the 
latest  type. 
If  Spain  has  not  yet  se­
cured  possession  of  this  ship  the United 
States  should  buy  her  at  any  cost,  as 
it 
if  even  the  Brooklyn  is  as 
is  doubtful 
heavily  armed;  and 
it 
is  certain  her 
battery  is  not  as  modern.

another 

Of  cruisers  and  gunboats  the  United 
States  possesses  about  fifty  vessels  of 
all  sizes, including  serviceable  old  ships 
—and  they  are  as  fine  ships  as  any  to 
be  found  anywhere.  To  offset  these 
cruisers  Spain  has  112  ships,  the  great 
majority  of  which  are  small  gunboats, 
which  would  not  be  of  very  great  serv­
ice  in  time  of  war,  although  they  would 
have,  of  course,  to  be  taken 
into ac­
count. 
In  the  matter  of  torpedo  boats 
the  United  States  is  distinctly  and  seri­
ously  deficient.  We  have 
in  service, 
or  about  to  be  commissioned,  ten  tor­
pedo  boats,  as  compared  with  twenty- 
eight  possessed  by  Spain.  Of  torpedo 
boat  destroyers  of 
large  size  and  very 
great  speed  Spain  bas  six,  while  we 
have  none. 
In  torpedo  boats,  therefore, 
we are  seriously  deficient,  and  the  pos­
session  of  the  destroyers  by Spain  would 
be  of  immense  advantage  to  her  if  the 
boats  were  well  bandied.

It  will,  therefore,  be  seen  that  our  su­
in  battle-ships  and  coast  de­
periority 
fense  vessels  is,  in  a  measure,  offset  by 
Sp ain ’s  superiority  in  armored  cruisers 
and  torpedo  vessels.  This  evening-up 
of  naval  strength  is  certainly  nothing  to 
be  worried  about,  and  would  probably 
give  our gallant  sailors  no  trouble;  but 
it  certainly 
justifies  the  President  in 
making  every  possible  effort  to  add  to 
our  naval  strength  by  putting  in  order 
every  ship  we  have,  in  preparing  to 
arm  our  auxiliary  cruisers  and 
in  pur­
chasing  all  available  warships  which 
can  be  secured  abroad.

One  more  sign  that  the  South  is work­
ing  ahead  in  the  matter  of  cotton manu­
facture 
is  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that 
the  Lynchburg,  Va.,  cotton  mills  are 
about  to  double  their  equipment.

BRITISH  SYM PATHY.

One  of  the  strangest  developments 
connected  with  the  existing  war  scare 
is  the  disposition  shown  on  all  sides  to 
court  British  support,  both  moral  and 
material.  As  our  public  men  have  been 
prone  to  denounce  everything  English 
upon  every  opportunity, 
this  sudden 
change  in  front  would  appear  remark­
able,  were 
it  not  for  the  fact  that  re­
cent  events  have  shown  that  this  coun­
try  has  really  no  friends  abroad,  with 
the  single  exception of England.  Should 
there  be  war  with  Spain,  all  the  coun­
tries  of  continental  Europe  would  be 
either  openly  or  covertly  in  sympathy 
with  Spain. 
That  British  sympathy 
would  be  with  us  there  is  not  the  least 
doubt; 
it  has  already  been 
shown  in  various  ways. 
It  is  now  clear 
to  everybody  that,  if  we are  to  secure 
ships  and  munitions  of  war  abroad,  it 
will  be  from  England  that  these  sup­
plies  will  have  to  come.

in  fact, 

All  this  is  not  so  extraordinary  after 
largely  of  the  same  blood 
all.  We  are 
as  the  British;  the 
institutions  of  the 
two  countries  are  much  the  sam e;  we 
have a  common  literature  and language, 
and  similar  traditions and customs.  The 
English-speaking  peoples  may  quarrel 
among  themselves  occasionally,  but  as 
against  a  foe  of  another  race  they  are 
more  likely  than  not  to  stand  together. 
Aside  from  the  sympathy  which  is  un­
doubtedly  felt  in  Great  Britain  for  this 
country,  there  is  another  good  and  solid 
reason  why  the  British  government  and 
people  should  desire  to  win  our good 
graces. 
is  clear  to  everyDody  that 
England  is  about  entering  upon  a strug­
gle  with  Russia  for  the  control  of  Asia. 
As  Russia  has  the  backing  of  France, 
and  may  eventually  secure  that  of  Ger­
many  and  Austria,  it  becomes  all  im­
portant  that  the  sympathy  of  the  United 
States  should  be  enlisted  on  the  British 
side.  Our  British  cousins  are  shrewd 
enough  to  see  that  the  best  way  to  se­
cure  our  help 
in  their  hour  of  need  is 
to  throw  their  support  in  our  favor  in 
the  contest  we  may  possibly  have  on 
our  hands  with  Spain.

It 

It  has 

long  been  a  dream  of  some 
English  statesmen  that,  sooner or  later, 
there  will  be an  alliance,  offensive  and 
defensive,  arranged  between  all  the 
English  speak ing peoples.  These states­
men  now  see  an  opportunity  of  making 
a  long  stride  in  the  direction  of  accom­
plishing  what  they  propose,  and  they 
are  not  likely  to'  allow  the  chance  to 
slip  through  their  fingers.  They  will 
not  fail  to  point  out  to  us  that  our 
in­
in  the  Far  East  are  identical 
terests 
with  those  of  England.  The  United 
States,  after  Great  Britain,  enjoys  a

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larger  share  of  the  trade  of  the  Orient 
than  any  other country,  and,  consequent­
ly,  we  would  be  heavy  losers  were  the 
powers  of  continental  Europe,  and  par­
ticularly  Russia,  to  impose  their  sway 
upon  China. 
In  a  struggle  with  Russia 
over  the  possession  of  China,  England 
is  certain  to  have  our  moral  support, 
and  if  British  public  men  manage  mat­
ters  adroitly,  it  is  by  no  means 
impos­
sible  that  they  might  secure  something 
more  substantial  than  mere  moral  aid  in 
the  struggle  which  is  sure  to  come soon­
er  or  later.  An  Anglo-Saxon  alliance 
does  not  certainly  appear as  visionary 
as 
it  did  a  little  while  back.  Should 
we  have  war  with  Spain,  it  would  be 
pretty  certain  to  come  if  Great  Britain 
sought  it.

From  May  to  October  of  next  year 
there  will  be  held  in  Philadelphia,  un­
der  the  auspices  of  the  Philadelphia 
Commercial  Museum,  an 
international 
commercial  congress  that  will  be  of 
great 
interest  and  benefit  to  American 
manufacturers. 
It  is  proposed  to  bring 
to  this  countiy  representatives  of  the 
chambers  of  commerce  of  all  nations, 
and  show  them  what  goods  America 
can  manufacture  and  at  what  prices. 
The  principal  exhibits  will  be  of  goods 
that  are  most  suitable  for  export,  and 
these  will  be  displayed  side  by  side 
with  the  European  goods  with  which 
they  have  to  compete.  There  will  also 
be  a  department  showing  how  goods 
have  to  be  packed  to  meet  the  demands 
of  foreign  trade,  what  labels  must  be 
used,  and  how  merchandise  must  be 
put  up  for  the  export  trade. 
It  is  con­
fidently  believed  that  great good  must 
result  to  American  manufacturers  from 
thus  being  brought  into  direct  personal 
contact  with  the buyers,  merchants  and 
bankers  of  foreign  countries.

The  New  York  system  of  employing 
convicts  in  the  manufacture  of  supplies 
for  state  charitable  and  penal  institu­
tions  has  been  such  a  success  that  the 
committee  recommends  extensions  that 
will  make 
it  more  general  and  more 
effective  in  its  scope.  For  the  further 
employment  of  the  inmates  of  the  penal 
institutions,  the  committee  recommends 
that  a  flour  plant  industry  be  assigned 
to  one  of  the  penitentiaries,  so  that  the 
large  quantity  of  flour to  be  consumed 
daily  by 
institutions 
throughout  the  State  may  be  made  by 
the  labor  of  the  convicts.

various 

the 

One  of  the  pests  of  being  a  well- 
known  man 
is  the  shoals  of  begging 
letters  that  assail  him.  Prince Bismarck 
receives  these  appeals  by  the  thousand. 
One  day  his  Secretary  added  up  the 
sums  begged 
for,  and  found  that they 
amounted  to  10,000,000  marks.

EVERY  MAN  L IK E S

“MR.  THOMAS”

The  Best  Nickel  Cigar  in  the State.

Ruhe  Bros. Co.,  Makers. 
Factory 956,  ist  Dist.  Pa.

♦  

♦  

♦

F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

IO
Petting  the  People
Failure  and  Success in  General Adver­

tising  Methods.

W ritten for the T radesman.

lies 

There 

is  no  part  of  the  business  of 
selling  goods  so  profitable  as the public­
ity,  it  directed  properly.  The  utmost 
care  is  used  in buying—prices,  qualities 
and  fitness  for  the  trade  are  closely 
looked  after. 
The  best  knowledge 
in  the  experience  of  the 
which 
merchant 
is  devoted  to  these  points 
and  to  the  arrangement  of  the  goods 
upon  the  shelves  and  counters  and  in 
the  show  cases  and  windows  to  the 
greatest  possible  advantage,  with  ref­
erence  to  their  sale. 
In  conversation 
with  the  customer,  the  merchant  or 
clerk  makes  use  of  every  telling  argu­
ment  to  convince  the  prospective  buyer 
that  these  articles  are  what  he  needs, 
and  to  show  him  that  prices  and  quali­
ties  are  on  a  level  with  economy.

to  secure  that  presence 

On  this  phase  of  the  work  the  mer­
chant  expends  time  and  brains  after  the 
customer’s  presence has  been  secured. 
in  his 
But, 
store,  what  does  he  do? 
In  far  too 
many  instances  the  dealer  expends  hard 
cash,  with  the  accompaniment  of  no 
btains.  Everyone  knows  that  money, 
unless  helped  out  by  human 
intelli­
gence, 
is  of  no  use.  The  oid  apple 
woman  who  paid  a  penny  each  for  ap­
ples  and  sold  them  for  ten  cents  a 
dozen 
illustration  of  this.  Her 
philosophy  was  that  she  didn't  make 
much  money,  but  made  up  for  it  by  do­
ing  a  big  business.

is  an 

Ridiculous  as 

it  may  appear,  there 
are  many  advertisers 
in  this  United 
States  to-day  who  are  conducting  their 
advertising  business  on  much  the  same 
principle  as  the  old  apple  woman—they 
spend  money  minus 
intelligence,  but 
make  up  for  the  lack  of  results  by  us­
ing  large  space,  and  then  they  say  that 
advertising  doesn’t  pay.

is  an  old  story,  but 

I  am  well  aware  that  what  I  am  say-( 
ing  here 
it  is  a 
story  which  admits  of  unlimited  repeti­
tion,  and  even  then  does  not  become 
fixed  in  the  minds  of  some.

If  anything,  more  caution,  vim  and 
brains  should  be  put  into  the  advertis­
ing  than  any  other  depaitment  of  mer­
chandising.  The  people  must  be  con­
tinually  appealed  to  in  such  a  manner 
that  their  interest  will  never  flag.  The 
successful  advertiser 
is  the  one  who 
conducts  his  publicity  so  fascinatingly 
that  the  public  is  always  eager  to  read 
his  advertisements,  aud  speculation 
is 
indulged  in  as  to  what  he  will  do  next.
This  attractiveness  consists  of  a  com­
bination  of  numerous  qualities,  more 
prominent  among  which  are the features 
which  arouse  curiosity,  personal  inter­
est,  novelty  and  a  display  of  energy 
which  shows  that  the  merchant 
is  a 
good  one  to  buy  of,  not  only  on  paper 
but  in  his  store.

To  embrace  these  points  and  give 
each  its  due  share  of  attention  to  insure 
profitable  publicity 
requires  careful 
study.  And  not  the  least  care  must  be 
displayed  to  convince  people  that  the 
advertisement 
is  not  the  result  of  this 
study,  but  a  spontaneous  production  in­
spired  by  a  knowledge  of  the  merits  of 
the  goods  advertised.  The  advertise­
ments  must  convince  the  reader that  the 
goods  are  so  complete  and  satisfying  in 
themselves  that  they  are  a  source  of 
inspiration  for  good  things  to  be  said 
of  them. 
It's  the  goods  you  are  adver­
tising,  not  the  man  who  wrote  the  ad­
vertisement.

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

The  merchant  who  expects  and  in­
tends  to  win  success  first  carefully  se­
lects  his  stock  with  a  view  to  the  class 
of  trade  he  hopes  to  win.  When  the 
jobber  ships  the  goods,  the  merchant 
unpacks  aud  arranges  them  in  proper 
order  in  his  store,  with  a  view  to  their 
best  display. 
In  bis  show  windows  he 
displays  the  best  of  his  stock  in  the 
most  attractive  manner  possible,  that 
the  public  may  judge  from  these  sam­
ples  what  is  on  sale  inside.  What  would 
be  thought  of  the  man  who,  when  his 
stock  of  goods  arrives,  dumps  them 
promiscuously  around  his  store,  and 
puts  a  miscellaneous  heap  of  them  in 
nis  show  windows,  without  any  refer­
ence  to  taste  or  order?  Why,  people 
would  say  he  was  crazy.
In  advertising  these 

same  goods, 
lack  of  order,  taste  and  at­
this  very 
in 
tractiveness,  which  are  so  essential 
the  store 
itself,  is  allowed  to  display 
itself,  in  far  too  many  instances.  Words 
and 
ideas  which,  if  properly  assorted 
and  arranged  as  they  should  be  in  the 
advertisement,  are  “ things  of  beauty" 
and  “  People Getters”   are  jumbled  to­
gether 
intelligible  ver­
biage,  or  else  the  old  stereotyped  forms 
are  adhered  to.  And  yet  the  buying 
public  ought  no  more  to  be  expected  to 
read  such  publicity  than  they  would  be 
to  select  a  merchant for patronage whose 
stock  of  goods  is  piled  in  an 
indistin­
guishable  heap 
in  the  middle  of  the 
floor.

in  a  heap  of 

is 

Language 

joist  as  much  and  as 
profitable  a  part  of  a  merchant’s  stock 
in  trade  as  is  his  merchandise.  Words 
properly  grouped  convey  to  the  mind 
impressions,  as  the  sun  prints  on  the 
photographer’s  plate.  In  the  latter case, 
if  the  focus  is  not  correct,  the  picture 
becomes  a  hideous  caricature. 
In  the 
case  of  an 
illy-written  advertisement 
the  impression  on  the  mind  of  the  pos­
sible  customer 
is  either  distorted  or 
lost  altogether.  But  when  the  arrange­
is  logical,  attractive,  convincing 
ment 
is  right,  and  a 
and  forcible,  the  focus 
profitable 
is  the  inevitable 
result.

impression 

‘ ‘ But, ’ ’  says  the  unsuccessful  adver­
tiser,  “ I  have  said  all  I  can  think  of, 
over  and  over  again. 
I  have no  new 
ideas. ’ ’  Let  me  ask  you  if,  when  the 
customer enters  your  place  of  business, 
you  find  any  difficulty  in  the  selection 
and  use  of  such  words  and  phrases  as 
are  necessary  to  put  the  merits  of  the 
goods  before  him 
in  such  a  pleasing 
light  that  the  sale  is  made  and  the  cus­
tomer 
“ N o ,"  you  say,  “ of 
course  not.  But  that’s  a  different  matter 
entirely.  In  that  case  you  have  the  man 
or  woman  personally  before  you  to  talk 
to. ’ ’

satisfied. 

is 

This 

just  the  point  I  wish  to  im­
press  upon  the  advertiser: 
In  writing 
of  the  good  qualities  of  your  merchan­
dise,  talk  to  the  public  with  the  idea  in 
your  mind  that  the  public  is  one  per­
son,  and  that  that  person  is  before  you 
in  the  body.  Say  to  him,  in  your ad­
vertisements,  just  those  words  to  which 
you  would  give  utterance  vocally.  Be 
as  natural  as  possible;  and,  if you  think 
you  would  say  “ Howdy,”   in  greeting 
a  possible  customer,  and 
the 
Hoosierism  would  please  him  and  in­
fluence  him  in  your  favor,  say  it.  While 
the  use  of  good  language  is  always  de­
sirable,  phrases  which  approach  the 
reader  on  figurative  stilts  are  worse than 
the  most  unintelligible  and  uncouth 
colloquialisms.

that 

“ One  man  power”   is  poor  policy 

in 
writing  publicity.  Every  merchant  has 
clerks  selected  because  of  their  capa-

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The Tesi oi Tine

A  business  house  that  runs  the 
gauntlet  of  time  and  comes  out 
unscathed from  the  scourgings  of 
driving  competition,  double  deal­
ing,  debasement  of  goods,  price 
requirem ent,  etc.,  and  in  spite  of 
it  all  steadily  advances—carries 
conviction  with  it  at  every  turn. 
It  must,  to  stand  the  test.
Dealers  who  are  solicitous  of 
their own  ability  to stand the time 
test flock  to  the  standard  of  such 
a house  and  handle  brands  of  rec­
ognized  merit,  such  as

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all of  which  brands  are  controlled 
by  us  in  this  market, 
together 
with  other lines of goods on which 
we  have  established  a  large  and 
constantly 
increasing  demand. 
Ample  capital,  shrewd buying and 
correct business methods have en­
abled  us to attract and hold a large 
circle  of  patrons.  W e  expect  to 
win  many  more  patrons with  the 
same  organization  and  by  a  con­
tinuation  of the broad gauge policy 
we  have  pursued  in  the past.

Giark-Jeweii-Weiis 60.,

Grand Rapids.

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

bilities  for  disposing  profitably  of  mer­
chandise.  To  sell  goods,  the  clerk  must 
be  a  man  or  woman  of  brains,  and  ca­
pable of  using  them.  The merchant  who 
consults  with  his  clerks  about  his  ad­
vertisements  will  find  a  mine  of 
ideas 
information  which  he  can  not 
and 
afford  to  neglect. 
Such  consultation 
and  adaptation  of 
ideas  also  serve  to 
give  variety  and  piquancy  to  the  sub­
ject  matter  of  the  advertising.

Bad  advertising 

is  synonymous  for 
dulness,  staleness,  slowness  and  sloth- 
fulness.

Good  advertising  signifies  vim,  push, 
brilliancy,  naturalness  and  originality.
The  one  loses—the  other  wins.  Which 

will  you  choose? 

N em o.

Courtesy  Behind  the  Counter.

It 

Courtesy 

in  businsss 

link  in  a  lost  chain. 

is  one  of  the 
secrets  of  success,  and  the  want  of  it 
the  broken 
It  is 
as  true  in  business  as  it  is  in  most other 
things  that  the  average  man  prefeis  a 
soft  hand  to  the  paw  of  a  bear.  Every­
body,  whatever  of  barnacles  or  barbed 
wire  he  may  carry  on  his  person,  has 
a green  leaf  in  his  nature,  that  turns  its 
front  to  the  sun  and  its  back to the frost. 
Even  a  cat  prefers  a  pat  to  a  broom­
stick,  and  even  a  wasp,  with  a  pug­
nacious  disposition,  is  less  likely  to  get 
inside  a  grocer’s  cellar  when  molasses 
is  in  the  neighborhood.  A  schoolmas­
ter  that 
is  more  generous  with  the  rod 
than  with  bis  sympathy  is coffee without 
sugar and  cake  without  currants  to  the 
average  boy.

is  the  same  in  a  mill  or  a  mine 
where  a  manager  mistakes  men 
for 
mules  and  a  foreman  loves  to  find  fault 
as  a  cat  does  to  catch  a  mouse.  Nor 
is  a  store  any  exception  to  the  same 
rule. 
It  requires  courtesy  to  sell  even 
cheap  calico,  or  a  teapot  below  cost. 
In  saying  this  we  do  not  limit  the  value 
of  courtesy  to  simply  an  effective  busi­
ness  policy,  nor  do  we  believe.that,  if 
assumed  for  this  sole  purpose,  it  passes 
for  more  than  a  plugged  dime  or  a 
wooden  nutmeg. 
It overloads  the  mule, 
and  to  any  man  who  has  budded  his 
wisdom  teeth  purely  business  courtesy 
has  the  suspicious  look  that  spoon  bait 
has  to  a  trout  that,  having  once  got  on 
the  hook,  only  escaped  the  frying  pan 
by  a  dash  for  freedom.  Few  men  are 
so  short-sighted  as  not  to  see  the  differ­
ence  between  a  courteous  clerk  and  a 
simpering  boor.  True  courtesy  is  not  to 
be  put  on  as  is  a  collar,  or  taken  off  as 
is  a  necktie;  nor  can  it  be  turned  on 
like  gas  or  shut  off  like  water.

It is the same outside the store  as  in  it, 
and  in  failing  to  make  a  sale  as  it  is  in 
It  must  be 
selling  a  bolt  of  satinet. 
natural  to  be 
effective. 
Simulation 
never  pays.  We  have  heard  of  onions 
and  tears,  smiles  and  schemes,  and  of 
smooth  words  when  the  velvet  was  nec­
essary  to  cover  up  a  trade  fraud;  but, 
however  successful  the  diplomacy, 
it 
was  only  a  question  of  time  when  the 
bens 
located  the  fox.  Nor  is  genuine 
courtesy  simply  a  style  of  speech  or 
manner.  Some  men  are  gifted  with  the 
persuasive  eye  and  the  musical  tongue 
—some  are  not.  They  are  less  plau­
sible,  more  direct  and  positive,  and  by 
no  means  luxuriant 
in  vocables  and 
They  are  not  singing 
mannerisms. 
birds, 
like  the  canary,  but  practical 
and  grave  as  the  raven  and  the  rook. 
Now  these  variations 
in  type  do  not 
exclude  an 
It  is 
the  same  tune  on  another  instrument, 
and  not a  whit  the  less  perfect  on a  cor­
net  than  on  a  violin.  The  secret  of 
identity  is  not  in  the  instrument,  but  in 
the  m usic;  nor  is  it  to  be  forgotten  that 
courtesy  in  a  grave  and  positive  char- 
actei 
impressive  and 
effective  than 
in  that  less  staid  and 
more  pictorial.  The  secret  of  it  all 
lies 
its  genuineness.  The  aroma 
in 
cf  a  violet  is  not  supplied  by a distiller, 
nor 
is  the  color  of  a  cherry  obtained 
from  a  painter;  so  can  true  courtesy 
spring  from  aught  else  than  the  self-re­
spect  that  includes  the  respect  due  to 
others.  Behind  the  counter  it  is  of  in­
calculable  value,  and  where  it  is  miss­
ing  it  is  a  case  of  a  clerk  being  of 
less 
value  than  his  salary.

is  often  more 

in  courtesy. 

identity 

The  Cash  Principle  in  Retail  Business.
The advantages  of  cash  dealings  are 
many,  the  objections  are  few,  and  yet 
the  objections  are  so  strong  that  they 
have  dominated  the  human  race  from 
the  beginning  down  to  the  present time. 
Only  now  and  then  has  a  brave,  hard- 
headed  merchant  dared  to  conduct  his 
business  on  the  right  principle.  None 
of  us  is  in  business  for  bis  health,  nor 
yet  for  amusement.  The  first  object 
is 
to  make  money.  That  system  bearing 
plainly  the  stamp  of honesty,  which  will 
secure  us  the  largest  net  gain  and afford 
us  the  greatest  contentment  of  mind 
while  operating  it, is  the  best to employ.
I  wish  to  be  understood as referring to 
the  cash  principle  in  its  perfect  form. 
There  are  no  books  except  the  cash 
book.  All  goods  are  sold  fot  cash  and 
all  purchases  are  discounted.  This 
plan  is  feasible  if  sufficient  capital 
is 
provided  to  conduct  the  business.  One 
great  advantage  of  this  system  is  the 
reduction  in  the  actual  expense  of  con­
ducting the business.  There are no book­
keeping,  no  collecting,  no  loss  from 
bad  accounts,  and  no  charge  for 
inter­
est. 
In  place  of  the  latter  there  is  an 
important  credit  to  profit  account  se­
cured  by  the  discount  on  purchases. 
This 
is  a  source  of  gain  entirely  un­
known  to  the  man  who does an extensive 
credit  business,  even  although  he  oper­
ates  on  the  same  capital  as  his  neigh­
bor.  Goods  rightly  bought  are  half 
sold,  is  an  old  adage,  and  experience 
shows  how  true 
is.  We  all  realize 
that  cash,  other  things  being  equal,  is 
that  with  which  to  purchase. 
It  buys 
goods  right.

it 

A  man  who  is  not  obliged  to  use  his 
time  and  ability  in  running  after  what 
should  have  been  his  when  the  goods 
were  passed  over  the  counter,  or  to 
stand  off  some  importunate creditor,  has 
opportunity  to  keep  posted  as  to  prices 
and  as  to  the  general  condition  of  the 
markets.  He  is  able  to  keep  abreast  of 
the  times.  Who  shall  say,  then,  that 
the  up-to-date  merchant  has  not an  im­
portant  advantage 
in  many  ways,  and 
who  will  believe  that,  by  the  employ­
ment  of  his  time  in  the business,  as  just 
described,  he  does  not  find  means  to 
add  to  his  profits?

Perhaps  you  ask  why, 

if  the  cash 
principle  leads  to  this  superior  man­
agement  of  business  and  to  contentment 
in  various  respects  is  a 
of  mind,  and 
life,  it 
panacea  for  the  ills  of  business 
is  not  universally adopted? 
I  reply  that 
in  the  majority  of  cases  it  is  the  same 
as  in  your  own  case.  You  have  not  the 
courage  to  make  the  change.  You  fear 
that  you  will 
lose  trade,  that  you  will 
offend  certain  old  customers  who  are 
“ perfectly  good,”   and  that  your  trade 
will  go  to  your  competitor.  This 
last 
would  probably  be  true,  if  you  kept 
your  prices  where  you  found 
it  neces­
sary  to  put  them  to  enable  you,  under 
the  old  system,  to  show  a  profit.  Let 
me  ask,  do  you  not  owe  something  to 
the  dear  public,  or at  least  to  that  por­
tion  of  it  which  has  the  cash  or  has  al­
ways  paid  you  promptly,  and  is  it  fair 
that you should longer ask cash customers 
to  pay  the  premium  you  once demanded 
because  certain  dead-beats  never  paid 
anything?

It 

The  cash  system  treats  all  alike.  No 
one  pays  the  debts  of  another. 
is  a 
recognized  fact  that  the  prices  of  goods 
in  stores selling  for cash  are less  than  in 
those  where  business 
is  transacted  on 
the  credit  basis. 
In  many  cases  the 
difference  is  as  much  as  to  per  cent., 
and'  in  some  even  15  per  cent. 
If  this 
in  price  will  not’   bring  to
advantage 

you  as  liberal  a  trade  as  you  heretofore 
enjoyed,  then  it  is  to  be  concluded  that 
you  are,  for  a  fact,  operating  in  a  very- 
dry  community.  Consider  the  cases  of 
the  few  merchants  scattered  throughout 
the  country  who  have  had  the nerve  and 
courage  to  adopt  the  cash  system.  En ­
quire  of  them  if  they  would return to the 
old  way.  Ask  them  as  to  their  net 
profits,  and  whether  or  not  they  sleep 
well  nights.  Their  answers  will  heartily 
commend  the  cash  system.  The  profits 
actually  realized  upon  the  business  and 
the amount  of  wear  upon  the  merchant 
include  the  whole 
in  conducting 
F.  J.  H o pk in s.
question. 

it 

How  a  Fly  Caused  Many  Sleepless 

Nights.

A  book-keeper 

in  a  San  Francisco 
wholesale  house  recently  spent  sleepless 
nights  for  three  weeks  in fruitless efforts 
to  make  his  books  balance.
T here  was  an  ap parent  shortage  of 

$goo  that  could  not  be  accounted  for.

He  added  up  columns  and  struck  bal­
ances  until  he  was  almost 
insane.  He 
finally  worked  himself  into  the  frame  of 
mind  that  usually  lands  a  man  in  Can­
ada,  the 
insane  asylum  or  a  suicide’s 
grave,  when  the  manager  of  the  house 
invited  his  confidence.

they  went  over 

the  books  to­
gether,  but  the  $goo  shortage  was  still 
there.

The  head  of  the  house  was  called  in 
and  the  work  of  overhauling  accounts 
commenced  again.  They  had  not  gone 
far  before  they  came  to  an  entry  of 
Si, goo.

Then 

“ Why  that  should  be  $1,000!“   ex­

claimed  the  employer.

“ How  did 

it  happen  to  be  entered 

$i,goo?”

A  careful  examination  showed  that  a 
fly  had  been  crushed  between  the  pages 
of  the  cash-book,  and  one  of  its  legs 
made  a  tail  of  the  first  cipher  of  the 
$1,000  entry,  converting  it  into  a  nine.

Association Matters

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J. W is l e k ,  Mancelona :  Secretary.  E 
A.  St o w e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F 
T atm an, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C h a s.  F.  Bock, Battle  Creek;  Vice 
President.  H.  W.  W e b b e r ,  West  Bay  city; 
Treasurer, Hen r y C. Min n ie ,  Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J o seph Kn ig h t ;  Secretary. E.  Ma rk s, 
221 Greenwood ave:  Treasurer, u. H  F r in k .
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers' Association 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  Ge o.  L ehm an.

President,  F ran k  J.  Dy k ;  Secretary,  H ome 11 

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

President, P. F. T r ea n o r;  Vice-President. J ohn 
McBr a t n ie ;  Secretary,  W.  H.  L e w is ;  Treas­
urer,  L o u ie S c h w er m er

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, G e o.  E.  Le w is ; Secretary,  W.  II.  P o r­
t e r ;  Treasurer,  L. P elto n.

Lansing Retail  Grocers’ Association 

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

D a r l in g ;  Treasurer,  L. A. G il k e y .

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President.  A.  C. C l a r k ;  Secretary, E.  F.  Cl e y e 

l a n d ;  Treasurer, Wsi, C.  Ivoehn.

Traverse City Business Men’s Association
H o l l y ;  Treasurer, C. A. H ammond.

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

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

b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E. Co ll in s.

Alpena  Business Men’s Association

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

P a r t r id g e.

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat  Dealers' Association 
President, L. J .  Ka t z :  Secretary, P h il ip  H il b e r 

Treasurer, S. J .  II u pfo r il

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association. 

President, T hos  B r o m l e y ;  Secretary,  F p a n k A. 

Pe rc y ;  Treasurer. C l a r k  A . Pt t t .

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Shoes and  Leather

How  Sim 

the  Shoemaker  Taught 
the  Trade.

About  ten  years  ago,  in  Silverton, 
Oregon,  one  summer  afternoon  I  sat 
in 
the  shoe  shop  of  Frank  Sim eral,  the vil­
lage  cobbler,  whittling 
leather  scraps 
with  one  of  his  sharp  knives.  During 
the  afternoon  1  had  cut  up  a  pair  of up­
pers  by  mistake  for  old  scraps.

In  a  gruff  voice  Simeral  enquired 
why,  if  I  was  so  fond  of  cutting  up 
leather,  1  did  not  learn  the  shoemaker’s 
trade.

“ You  have  been  setting  around  my 
shop  cutting  up  leather  for  more  than  a 
I  ain't 
year  without  missing  a  day. 
much  of  a  judge  to  tell  what  a  feller 
is 
cut  out  fer,  but 
if  I  was  I  would  say 
you  was  a  natural  born  shoemaker,  and, 
besides,  you’re  getting  big  enough  now 
to  make  a  start  in  life.'*

I  went 

For  the  first  time  in  my  life  I  felt  the 
responsibilities  of  becoming  a man,  and 
a  man  with  some  particular occupation, 
and  I  looked  at  Simeral  with  as  much 
feeling  as  a  chorus  girl  does  at  the 
author  of  the  play. 
It  was  about  the 
first  time  I  had  ever  heard  Simeral  talk 
in  earnest  on  anything  but baseball,  and 
the  advice  had  really  commenced  to 
work. 
in  Tiext  door  with  tears 
in  my  eyes  and  asked  Billy  Jones,  the 
photographer,  if  he  thought  I  had  any 
talent  for  making  shoes.  Billy,  after 
some  deep  thought,  came  to  the  con­
clusion  that  if  I  had  any  talent  at  all  be 
would  say  it was  for  making  boots.  So, 
I  returned  to  Simeral  with  favorable 
news  from  the  photographer  and  was 
ready  to  listen  to  more  fatherly  advice 
from  Sim.  We  called  him  Sim 
for 
short.

“ Well,’ ’  says  Sim,  “ I ’ll  teach  you 
the  trade.  You  work  for  me  for  one 
year  for  your  board,  and  at  the  end  of 
that  time  I  will  pay  you  what  you  are 
worth.' ’

“ All  right.  When  do  I  commence?’ ’
“ Monday,”   he  suggested.
But  I  couldn’t  wait  until  Monday,  so 
in,  and  I  was  to  com­

he  finally  gave 
mence  the  next  morning.

I  was  as  excited  as  a  2-year-old  at  its 
first  race  and  I  spent  most  of  the  after­
noon  smearing  my  fingers  with  shoe­
makers'  wax,  so  that  I  would  look  as 
much  like  a  shoemaker  as  possible.

I  told  some of  the  other  boys  in  town 
—those  who  I  knew  would  be  envious.
I  sat  up  with  Sim  that  evening  until  be 
closed  up  for  the  night,  for  this  man 
had  suddenly  grown 
in  my  estimation 
from  the  runty  looking  shoemaker  that 
he  was  to  the  greatest  cobbler  that  ever 
muffed  a  ball.  He  seemed  to  me  a 
I  fairly 
giant  promoter  of  young  men. 
worshipped  the  seat  he  sat 
in  (it  was 
better  than  mine).  To  think  this  man 
had  discovered  what  I  was  intended  for 
in  one  year,  while  a  man  of  my  father’s 
ability  had  been  sixteen  years  in  search 
of  it,  and  then  hadn’t  found  it!

It  was  closing  time  and  he  let  me 
take  home  a  pocketful  of  shoemakers' 
awls  and  a  lot  of  wooden  pegs,  so  that 
I  might  sleep  well. 
I  sneaked  home 
with  the  secret  of  my  debut  as  a  shoe­
maker  deep  in  my  breast. 
I  lay  awake 
all  night  thinking  of  what  the  town 
girls  would  do  when  they  heard  that  I 
bad  really  gone  to  work,  and  at  such  an 
enviable 
1  stood  it  until  about  4 
in  the  morning.  Then  I  got  up  and 
went  straight  to  the  shoeshop  and  there 
waited  for  Simeral,  who  generally  got 
down  about  9.  Now,  my  chief  duties 
at  home  were  to  get  up  the  cows  in  the

job. 

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

morning  and  milk.  We  let  them  run 
in  the  streets  at  night  in  the  hope  that 
they  would  eat  enough  hay  and  other 
life  out  of  the  farmers’ 
necessities  of 
wagons  to  keep  them 
in  the  best  of 
health.  On  this  occasion  I  did  not  even 
get  the  cows  up.  My excitement  was  too 
great.

It  seemed  as  though 

Simeral  arrived  about  9  o’clock  and 
I  never  was  so glad  to  see  a  man  in  my 
life. 
I  hadn't 
seen  him  for  a  year.  He  unlocked  the 
door,  and  we  sauntered  in. 
I  started  to 
put  on  one  of  the  aprons,  and  expected 
that  I  would  go  right  to  pegging  boots, 
but  Sim  said: 
“ Now,  Homer,  there 
ain’t  any  work  in  that  you  can  start  at 
in  two  or three  days  there 
to-day,  but 
will  be  some  that  you  can  work  at. 
In 
the  meantime,  however,  I  will  tell  you 
in  the 
what  I  wish  you  would  do.  Up 
alley  back  of  my  house  there 
is  about 
three  cords  of  wood.  Now,  I  wish  you 
would  go  up  and  find  my saw  and  buck. 
Saw  that  wood  twice  in  two  and  throw 
it  over  into  the  woodshed.”

I  was  trembling 

Well,  it  struck  me  as  a  rather  queer 
branch  of  the  trade  which  I  was  sup­
posed  to  be 
learning,  but  rather  than 
have  a  misunderstanding  the  first  day  I 
went  up  and  began  sawing  the  wood. 
All  at  once  I  recognized  the  sound  of  a 
familiar  cowbell. 
I  looked  around  and 
discovered  my  father  driving  our  cows 
—the  cows  I  had  neglected—  right  up 
the  small  street  where  I  was  learning 
the  trade. 
in  every 
limb  for  fear  father  would  recognize 
m e;  not that  I  had  fear  of  a  thrashing, 
but  I  feared  that  he  would  laugh  when  I 
told  him  the  truth,  as  he  had  a  merci­
less  sense  of  humor. 
I  knew  he  would 
play  on  me  as  long  as  I  lived.  So  I 
determined  that  I  should  say  nothing 
and  continue  to  saw  wood 
in  the  hope 
that  he  would  plod  on  by  without  recog­
nizing  me.  But  the  cows  knew  me. 
They  stopped  and  then  father  stopped.
My  heart  was  beating  as  loud  as  a 
bass  drum  and  the  cold  perspiration 
stood  out  on  my  bare  arms  and  brow 
like  the  morning  dew  on  a  pumpkin 
leaf.

“ Well,  what’s  this?”   exclaimed  my 

aged  parent.

doing  here?”

I  said  nothing,  but  sawed  wood.
“ Homer,  what 

in  the  world  are  you 

I  couldn’t deceive  him  any  longer,  so 

I  told  him  the  truth.

“ Pa,  I  am  learning  the  shoemaker’s 

trade  of  Frank  Sim eral.”

The  old  gentleman’s  face  was a study. 
At  first  I  thought 
I  saw  great  pain, 
mingled  with  a  sort  of  crying  laugh. 
His  face  was  making  a  terrible  bluff  all 
the  time  at  keeping  straight  and  I  im­
mediately  went  to  work  again,  when  he 
stopped  me.

“ Well,  hold  on.  Can’t  you  talk  with 
me  a  moment?  So  you’ re  learning  the 
shoe trade,  are  you?”

“ Yes,  I  am .”
Taking  me  by  the  hand,  father  said  : 
look 
“ Well,  now,  Homer,  this  don't 
right  to  me. 
I  am  recognized  by  all 
the  town  as  your  father,  and  I  am  get­
ting  old.  Now,  I  don’t  want  to  stop  you 
from 
learning  the  shoemaker’s  trade, 
but  unless  you  are  playing  to  favorites 
come  home  and  learn  it  of  me.  We’ve 
got  all  our  winter’s  wood  to  saw  up 
yet. ’ ’
-  So  father,  the  cows  and  I  fell  in 
line 
and  went  home.  After  breakfast—which 
up  to  that time  I  had  forgotten—I  be­
gan  the  shoemaker’s  trade  at  home, 
while  father  went  down  to  Simeral’s 
sboeshop  to  talk 
it  over  with  my  ex­
boss. 

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of  Study.

Written for the Tradesman.

m bellishm ents by  the  roadside,  to  which  I  had  shipped 
a  consignment  of  my  goods. 
In  front 
of  it,  on  a  large  swinging  sign,  I  read :

Years  ago,  I  possessed  an  intimate 
friend 
in  the  person  of  a  certain  Dr. 
Wing,  who  considered  no 
labor  too 
in  the  acquisition  of  useful 
arduous 
knowledge,  provided 
it  had  a  practical 
application  in  some  of  the  daily  affairs 
of  life.  There  was  no  vanity 
in  the 
man’s  nature  and all his knowledge must 
possess 
in  some  way  an  efficient  and 
operative  force.  Thus,  after  he  had 
mastered  all  the  ordinary  branches  of 
school  education,  he  reached  out  after 
what  he  termed  “ the  useful  embellish­
ments.”   These  last  acquisitions  were 
not  for  amassing  personal  wealth,  but 
for  gratuitous 
serviceable  purposes 
among  his  fellowmen  when  nothing  else 
would  answer  so  well.

Let  me  illustrate:  Riding  out  with 
some  friends  and  relatives  one  day  far 
away  from  his  home,  they  lost the direc­
tion  they  desired  to  take;  and,  beckon­
ing  to  a  man  standing  in  the  door of  a 
farmhouse,  the  driver  enquired  the  di­
rection  to  the  county  seat.  The  man 
answered 
in  a  foreign  language,  not  a 
word  of  which  was  understood  except 
by  my  friend,  the  guest  of  the  party. 
He  talked  with  the  stranger  fluently  in 
his  own 
language,  and  then  explained 
to  the  company  that  the  man  was  a 
Spaniard,  and  had  given  him  all  the 
information  required.  Arriving  at  the 
suburbs  of  the  village,  they  found  an 
assemblage  of  a  dozen  or  more  persons 
around  a  seemingly 
insane  man,  who 
was  making  a  variety  of  rapid  gestures, 
yet  not  uttering  a  word  or  sound.  My 
friend,  noticing  him,  asked  the driver 
to  stop  the  carriage  for  a moment,  while 
he  arose  from  his  seat  and,  raising  one 
band,  attracted  the  supposed 
insane 
man's  attention,  whose  perplexed  ex­
pression 
instantly  changed  to  a  smile, 
and  with  rapid  motions  of  his  fingers 
the  doctor  began  to  converse  with  him 
in  the  sign  language  of  deaf  mutes  and 
in  a  few  moments  was  able  to  send  him 
on  his  way  with  his  desired  informa­
tion,  the  man  smilingly  bowing  bis 
thanks  to  his  unknown  friend.  Dr. 
Wing  also  spoke  and  wrote  the  German 
language  with  ease  and  elegance,  and 
was  a  good  telegraph  operator  as  well, 
and  wherever  known  as  such  a  compli­
mentary  use  of  the  key  was  always  at 
his  service.

regarded 

I  make  these  prefatory  remarks  to 
show  how  convenient  and  useful  the  so- 
regarded  embellishments  of  an  ordinary 
education  may  become,  oftentimes  sav­
ing  even  life  and  pioperty.  Our  young 
people  should  neglect  no  opportunity, 
particularly  where  the  cost  is  only  a  lit­
tle  time,  to  obtain  a  fair  knowledge  of 
those  useful  attainments  which  are com­
monly 
as  specialties,  but 
which  too  many  imagine  hardly  worthy 
of  study  unless  they  are  for a  permanent 
business  and  possess a  cash value.  Hav­
ing  myself  a  practical  knowledge  of  te­
legraphy, it  is  often  a  source  of  pleasure 
least  once  served  me  a 
to  me,  and  at 
very  useful  purpose  as  well. 
I  was 
engaged 
in  the  sale  of  miscellaneous 
books 
in  the  northwestern  portion  of 
Canada.  My  goods  were  forwarded  by 
public  conveyance  to  some distant  point 
in  this  then  newly-settled  section  of  the 
province,  whither  I  would  follow,  some­
times  on  foot,  and  would  dispose  of 
them  at  public  auction  each  evening 
and  by private  sale  during  the day,often 
remaining  an  entire  week  at  one  place. 
After  a 
long  day’s  tramp  through  a 
sparsely  settled  country,  one  hot  day 
in  summer,  I  reached  a  public  house

M AGNETIC  HOTEL.

for 

the 

I  was 

the  night, 

I could  not  repress  a  smile  at  the  name, 
for  I  saw  nothing  attractive  (  !)  about 
it,  save  the  nam e;  and,  although 
I 
afterward  found  the  barroom  was  some­
thing  of  a  loadstone  in  the  evening,  the 
balance  of  the  hotel  was  surely  a  nega­
tive  pole.  The  second  evening  of  my 
sale  was  largely attended,and I was  kept 
busy  until  ii  o’clock,  when  I had closed 
out  the  entire  stock.  As  I  was  about  to 
retire 
landlord 
beckoned  me  to  come  with  him  to  the 
diningroom,  and  asked 
if  I  would  not 
partake  of  a  light  lunch—a  glass  of  ale 
or  cup  of  tea  and  a  bit  of  bread  and 
cheese—before  retiring,  as  about  six 
hours  had  elapsed  since  I  had  eaten.
I  accepted  the  cup  of  tea  and  bread 
and  cheese,  which  he  placed  before me, 
and  then  he  retired  to  the  barroom. 
I 
gingerly  took  a  sip  of  the  hot  tea,  but 
as  it  seemed  poor  in  quality,  I  ate  only 
the  bread  and  cheese,  which  I  relished. 
Then,  rising  from  the  table,  I  emptied 
the  balance  of  the  tea 
into  an  open 
fireplace  at  one  end  of  the  room  and 
proceeded  to  retire  for  the  night.  As  I 
had  quite  a  sum  of  money 
in  my 
pocket,  I  thrust  my  single-barreled  pis­
tol  under  the pillow,and carefully placed 
a  washstand  against  the  only  door of 
the  room,  which  had  no  lock  upon  it, 
and  the  floor  of  which  was  bare  of  rug 
or  carpet. 
I  then  pushed  a  heavy  bolt 
on  the  door  to  its  place,  crawled  into 
bed  and  was  soon  asleep.  Sometime  in 
the  night  I  was  awakened  suddenly, 
I 
I  sat  up 
never  knew  from  what  cause. 
in  bed  and  listened,  but  all  was  quiet 
about  the  house. 
just  dropping 
off to  the  land  of  dreams  again,  when  1 
heard  a  disconnected  tapping,  as  the 
end  of  a  pencil  might  be  supposed  to 
make  on  an  empty  pasteboard  box.  The 
sound ceased occasionally for  a  moment, 
but  soon  was  heard  again,  although  less 
rapid  and  less  sonorous. 
I  was  listen­
ing  intently,  when  quite  unconsciously 
I  found  myself  reading  a  conversation 
between  two  persons.  One  sentence 
said: 
“ No,  he 
is  all  right  for  a  few  hours;  I  put  mor- 
feen  in  his  tee,and the cup was empty, ”  
was  the  next  sentence. 
“ Aha!  you 
d id !”   I exclaimed  tomyself.  “ A  high- 
principled 
landlord  you  are,  although 
a  veiy  poor  speller!  That  alone  should 
convict  you.  So  my  cup  was  empty, 
eh?  Fortunately,  I  do  not  contain 
its 
contents."  After  what  seemed  a  half 
hour,  but  might 
in  reality  have  been 
only  a  few  minutes,  during  which  I  lay 
intently 
listening,  I  heard  the  cautious 
sliding  of  my  washstand  over  the  floor, 
as  if  the  door  were being pushed against 
it.  This  astonished  me,  as  I  was  pos­
itive  I  had  bolted 
it.  The  night  was 
pitch  dark  and  I  could see nothing.  The 
noise  on  the  floor  ceased  and  soon  1 
could  hear  the  steady  breathing  of  some 
person  not  far  from  the  chair  on  which 
I  had  deposited  my  clothes.  Quietly- 
grasping  my  pistol,  I  pointed  it  in  the 
direction  of  the  sound  and  was  ready 
for  action.  Happening  to  move  my 
thumb  along  the  barrel,  I  found  I  bad 
it,  and  then  quickly- 
failed  to  cock 
raised  the  hammer  to 
its  place,  the 
double  clicking  resounding  through  the 
room.  After  waiting  some  time,  and 
finding  the  breathing  had  ceased, 
I 
struck  a  light. 
I  was  the  only  occupant 
of  the  room !  The  door  was  closed  and 
bolted  as  I  had 
it,  and  had  the 
washstand  not  stood  a  good  distance 
from  it,  I should  have  said,  “ It’s  only  a

‘  He  may  be awake.”  

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men’s  Medium  P r i c e d
Shoes 
that  are  Money
W inners.  The  most  of 
them  sold  at  Bill  Price. 
W e  are  still  making  the 
Men’s  Heavy  Shoes  in 
Oil  Grain  and Satin;  also 
carry  Snedicor &  H atha­
way’s  Shoes  at  Factory 
Price in Men’s,  Boys’ and 
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dream.”   Nearly  a  year  afterward,I read 
of  this  landlord's  arrest  and  prosecu­
tion  for  stealing  money  from  his guests. 
It  appeared  that  he  had  practiced  this 
for  many  years.  His  own  wife  was  his 
it  was  this  precious  couple  I 
aid,  and 
had  heard  conversing  by  sound 
in  one 
end  of  their  dining  room.  They  were 
never  known  to  take  all  the  money  a 
guest  might have—only  a  small  percent­
age  of  it ;  yet  they  had  amassed  wealth. 
An  examination  of  the  hotel  revealed 
a  secret  sliding  panel 
in  every  door, 
where  a  hand  might  reach  through  and 
unbolt  and  bolt  it  noiselessly.

F ra nk A.  H o w ig.

T h e   B oy  W as  V e ry   Honest.

“ Papa,”   said  Johnny,  “ I  am  a  very 
honest  little  boy,  and  I  proved  it  to­
day.”

“ Tell  me  about  it,”   asked  his  father 

proudly,  taking  son  on  his  knee.

‘ 11  went  to  the 

store, ’ ’  answered 
Johnny,  “ and  the  grocervman  went  into 
a  backroom  and  left  me  all  alone  near 
a  barrel  of  apples. 
I  could  have  stolen 
them  all,  but  I  thought  I  would  be  hon­
est,  so  only  took  two. ’ ’

Too  Costly  for  Regular  Smoking.
‘ What  did  you  think  of  that  cigar  I 

gave  you  yesterday?”

It  cost  me $4. ’ ’

“ Not  much. 
“  How  so?”
“ Why,  it  gave  my  wife  the  idea  that 
leaking  somewhere,  and 

the  gas  was 
she  sent  for  a  plumber.”

Reviving  the  Incident.

Miss  Elderly—I  am  deeply  interested 
Miss  Cutting—He  was  a  near  relation 

in  the  study  of  prehistoric  man.
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may  have  some 
with  which  they  multiply.

idea  of  the  rapidity 

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Fruits  and  Produce.
Effect  of  Good  and  Bad  Bacteria  on 

I  have  been 

Cheese.
interested  for  the  past 
fifteen  years  in  the  study  of  the  bacteri­
ology  of  cheese. 
I  was  first  introduced 
into  this  work  about  1883 or 1884,  when 
about  300  cases  of  cheese  poisoning  oc­
in  Michigan,  and  I  was  called 
curred 
upon  to 
investigate  the  cause  of  the 
poisoning.  Ever  since  that  time  I  have 
not  quit  the  work;  I  have  been  at  it 
more  or  less.  Of  course,  I  have  a  great 
many  duties  and  I  could  not  stick  at 
it 
constantly,  but  nearly  every  odd  mo­
ment  that  I  have  had  I  have  been  hunt­
ing  through  some  cheese  to  find  some 
new  germs.

to 
into 

Bacteria  are  very  low  forms  of  vege­
table  life.  They  are  not  animals,  they 
their 
are  vegetables.  According 
form  we  divide  bacteria 
three 
groups—little rods,  or  bacilli,  as  we  call 
them;  iittle  round  balls,  or  coxae,  as 
we  call  them;  and  twisted  or  curved 
rods,  which  are  called  spirilla,  which 
in  regard  to  form. 
is  a  distinction 
Bacteria  might  also  be  divided 
into 
those  that  are  harmful  and  those  that 
are  beneficial.  We  hear  a  great  deal 
more  about  the  former  than  the  latter. 
Some  are  seiviceable  to  u s;  in  fact,  I 
have  no  doubt  that  bacteria  make  many 
tbings  pleasant  to  the  palate  and  I  have 
no  doubt  that  bacteria  are  important 
factors 
in  the  manufacture  of  cheese, 
although  Prof.  Russell,  of  the  Univer­
sity  of  Wisconsin,  has  recently  an­
nounced  that  he believes  the  substance 
which  is  developed  in  ripening  cheese 
is  a  chemical  ferment  and  not  bacteria. 
It 
is  certainly  true  that  the  flavor  of 
cheese  and  its  palatability  are  largely 
dependent  upon  the  bacteria  that  grow 
in  them.

As  to  the  size  of  these  organisms, 
they  vary  a  great  deal,  but  the  average 
bacterium  is  about  one three-thousandth 
of  an  inch  small.  It  takes  a  pretty  good 
magnifying  glass  to  see  such  an  object. 
It  is  about the  diameter  of  a  red  bjood 
corpuscle.  The  bacterium 
is  about  as 
long  as  the  diameter  of  a  red  corpuscle. 
You  can  get  some 
idea  of  how  these 
little  things  might  get  through  our 
bodies  when  you  know  how  manv  blood 
corpuscles  pass  through  our  arteries 
and  our  veins  and  through  the  smallest 
capillaries  in  our bodies.

Bacteria  grow  by  fission,  as  we  call 
it.  They  lengthen  out  and  divide  into 
two  and  each  one  has  a  separate  exist­
ence;  then  each  one  of  these  divides 
into  two; 
in  fact,  a  Frenchman  has 
written  a  work  in  which  he  has  shown 
quite  logically  that  bacteria  are  the only 
things  in  this  world ■ which are immortal. 
He  says  here  is  a  bacterium  which  di­
vides  into  two,  and  which  is  father  and 
which  is  child  you  can  not  say—one 
is 
just  as  much  parent  and  just  as  much 
off-spring  as  the  other,  and  if  there  was 
no  way  of  killing  them,  they  would  live 
forever—and  you  can’t  answer  that  ar­
gument.

I  say  that  they  multiply  very  rapidly. 
If  you  could  take  one  of  these  bacteria 
and  let  it  grow  under the most favorable 
conditions,  first,  the  one  would  divide 
into  two  and  the  two  into  four,  four  into 
eight,  and  so  on,  and  some  one  has 
figured  out  that,  if  a  single  germ  could
go  on  uninterruptedly  multiplying  in 
this  way  and  not  meet  with  any  ad­
verse circumstances  at  all,  after  about 
ten  days  there  would  be  enough  from 
that  one  germ  to  fill  every  drop  of 
water  there 
is  on  the  globe.  So  you

This 

is  of 

importance  to  us  in  the 
consideration  of  the  bacteriology  of 
cheese.  As  I  have  said,  some  of  the 
bacteria  are  harmful  and  some  are  ben­
eficial. 
In  my  study  of  the  bacteriology 
of  cheese,  I  have  endeavored to separate 
the  harmful  from  the  harmless  and  the 
beneficial  germs.  Last  fall  I  felt  that 
I  had  a  little  time  that  I  might  devote 
to  the  study  of  the  bacteriology  of 
cheese,  and  through  the  State  Board  of 
Health  and  through  the  Food  Commis­
sioner,  I  requested  each  manufacturer 
of  cheese 
in  the  State  to  send  me  a 
sample  of  his  cheese,  whether  good  or 
bad,  for  examination,  and  I  must  thank 
the  cheesemakers  for  the  readiness  with 
which  they  responded  to  this  request. 
I 
received  samples  of  cheese  from  fifty- 
five  different  manufacturers,  most  of 
I 
whom  are  in  the  State  of  Michigan. 
received  two  samples, 
I  think,  from 
Herkimer  county,  New  York,  about  a 
dozen  samples  from  Wisconsin  and  two 
or  three  from  Canada.

is  dead,  be 

I  have  taken  those  samples  of  cheese, 
and  with  a  knife,  which  had  been  ster­
ilized  by  being  heated 
in  a  flame,  1 
have  made  a  section  through  the  piece 
of  cheese  and  then  with  a  little  loop  of 
platinum,  which has also been sterilized, 
have  dug  out  a  little  piece,  about  the 
same  size  in  each  case,from  the  interior 
of  the  cheese  sent  me.  Then  I  have 
placed  that 
little  bit  of  cheese,  very 
small,  almost  microscopical,  in  a  tube 
of sterilized beef tea.  Then I have placed 
the  beef  tea  in  an  incubator  and  kept  it 
at  the  temperature  of  the  human  body, 
about  98  deg.  Farhenheit,  for  twenty- 
four  hours.  Then  I  have  injected  the 
beef  tea,  and  with  the  growth  of  the 
germs  at  about  the  end  of  twenty-four 
hours  the  beef  tea 
is  all  cloudy  and 
filled  with  germs.  Then  I  have  injected 
a  sample  of  this  beef  tea  into  a  rabbit, 
a  cat  and  a  guinea  pig,and  if  the  ani­
mal  dies—and  he  does  in  the  majority 
of  cases  within  twenty-four  hours—I 
then  make  sections  from  the  spleen  and 
the  liver  and  take  a  tiny  drop  of  blood 
from  the  heart  of  the  animal  without 
opening  the  heart.  As  soon  as  the  ani­
mal 
is  opened  and  a  tiny 
bit  from  the  liver  and  the  kidney  or the 
spleen  is taken  out  with  a  loop,such as I 
have  described 
in  taking  the  bit  of 
cheese,  and  that  is  put  in  some beef  tea 
for  the  germs  to  grow.  Then  I  have 
taken  the  heart  unopened  and  run  over 
the  surface  of  that  with  a  red-hot 
iron, 
so  as  to  kill  any  germs  that  might  in 
the  meantime  have  gotten on the  suiface 
of  it,  and  then,with  a  very  fine  piece of 
sterilized  glass  tubing,  I  have  pierced 
the  wall  of  the  heart  and sucked  up  into 
the  tube  a  drop  of  the blood  and  have 
placed  that 
in  beef  tea  and  allowed  it 
to  grow.  At  the  same  time  that  I  made 
the  preparation  for 
injecting  into  the 
animals,  I  took  a  little  bit  of cheese and 
put  it 
into  a  tube  of  gelatine—gelatine 
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not  enough  to  destroy  the  germs,  and  it 
spreads out all  over  the  plate  and where- 
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that  are  ' in  the  cheese—the good,  bad 
and  the  indifferent.  From  the  animal 
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germ  that  I  get  from  the  animal  must 
also  appear  on  the  plate,  otherwise there 
is  something  wrong  with  the  experi­
ment. 
It  must  be  on  the  plate,  because 
it  must  have  been  in  the  cheese,  and 
unless  I  find  a  germ  common to  the ani­
mal  and  to  the  plate,  then there  is some­
thing  wrong  with  the  experiment.

is  this: 

One  of  the  first  things  for  us  to  recog­
nize 
I  am  not  condemning 
cheese  at  all,  I  am  doing  everything  I 
can  in  my  way  to  help  the  cheese indus­
try ;  but  of  the  fifty-five  samples  of 
cheese  that  I  have  examined, practically 
every  one  of  them  has  contained  a  germ 
which  killed  animals.  There  are  only 
one  or  two  exceptions  out  of  the  fifty- 
five  samples  from  the  fifty-five  different 
cheeses,and  it  would  be rather invidious 
to  mention  those  one  or  two  cases,  of 
course,  in  taking  so  minute  a  speck 
from  the 
It 
shows  that  the  poisonous  germ  must  be 
pretty  well  distributed,  if  I  get  it  in  so 
many.

interior  of  the  cheese. 

This  germ  that  I  have  found  so  com­
in  cheese  is  a  germ  belonging  to 
mon 
the  colon  group,  as  we  say. 
I  do  not 
believe  that  any  two  of  the  germs  have 
been  exactly  the  same;  that  is,  there 
has  been  some  little  point  of  difference 
here  or  there,  but  in  every  one  of  these 
samples  of  cheese  I  have  found  some 
representative  of  the  colon  group  of 
germs.

Where  does  the  colon  germ 

come 
from? 
It  comes  from  the  intestines  of 
some  animal,  and  the  conclusion  that  I 
necessarily  draw  from  this 
is  that  in 
every  sample  of  cheese  there  has  been 
some  contamination  with  the  excretions 
from  some  animal,  most 
likely  from 
cows.  When  we  think  of  the  chances 
that  there  are  for  this  germ  getting  into 
the  milk,  we  can  scarcely  wonder  at  its 
being  present  so  often.  The  colon  germ 
is  very  frequently  on  our  hands,  even 
although  we  keep  fairly  clean  hands. 
If  you  make  a  culture  from  the  ends  of 
the  fingers,  and  especially  if  you  take  a 
little  dirt  from  under  the  finger  nail 
and  make  a  culture  from  it,  you  will  in 
a  large  proportion  of  the  cases  find  the 
colon  germ  present.  Then,  if  you  wash 
the  udder  of  the  ordinary  cow  with  a 
little  sterilized  water  and  make  a  cul­
ture  from  this,  you  will  find  the  colon 
germ  present,  so there  are  two  chances 
of  getting 
from  the  hands  of  the 
milker and  from  the  udder  of  the  cow ; 
and,  then,  of  course,  the  colon  germ 
is 
lying  about  here  and  there,  everywhere 
in  the  barn,  in  the  form  of  dust  and 
little  particles.

it, 

I  have  found  in  my  study three groups 
of  germs.  The  germ  which  I  found  in 
the  poison  cheese  some  fourteen  years 
ago  probably  is  not  the colon germ ;  that 
is  a  much  more  virulent  germ  than  the 
colon,  much  more poisonous,  much more 
powerful  in  its  action.  Then some  three 
years  ago  I  found  in  some  samples  of 
poison  cheese  again  a  germ  which  was 
not  the  colon  germ,  which  was  more 
poisonous  than  the  colon  germ.  Those 
germs  get  in  the  milk  only  in  compara­
tively  exceptional  cases,  while  we  may 
say  that  the  colon  germ  was  nearly  al­
ways  present.  There  are  these  three 
classes  of  germs.  How  does  the  germ 
produce  results?  You  know  what  the 
yeast  plant 
it 
multiplies  in  a saccharine solution.  You 
know  if  you  take a  tiny  bit  and  put 
it
in  sugar  and  keep  it  in  a  warm  place, 
the  solution  will  be  cloudy.  Now,  one 
of  these  bacteria 
is  very  closely  allied 
to  the  yeast  plant.  When  it grows,  it 
produces  two  things—carbonic  acid  gas 
and  alcohol. 
It  produces  the  poisonous

it  grows,  how 

is,  how 

it 

substance,  alcohol.  Now,  all 
these 
harmful  germs  act  very  much  as  the 
yeast  plant  does—they  produce  poisons 
and  these  poisons  are  the  substance 
rather  than  the  germ  itself, which causes 
the  ill  effects.  Of  course,  as  long  as 
the  germ 
is  there,  and  whenever  it  is 
theie,  and  whenever 
is  going,  it  is 
producing  a  poison  and  when  you  take 
the  germ 
into  your  body,  you  take  the 
poison  along  with  it,  and  some  of  these 
germs  continue  to  live  a  little  while 
in 
the body  and  to  produce  poison.  That 
is  the  way  in  which  germs  are  harmful.
I  have  gone  thus  far  in  my  study  of 
the  bacteriology  of  cheese. 
I  may  say 
that  1  have  found  a  large  number  of 
non-poisoning  germs—any  amount  of 
them—where  I  have 
injected  them  at 
times 
into  animals  and  have  produced 
no  ill  effects  at  all,  and  some  of  these 
geims  are  certainly  beneficial  to cheese. 
If  you  take  one  of  these  non-poisonous 
germs  and  put  it  into  a  glass  of  steril­
ized  milk  and  allow  it  to  stand  at  the 
temperature  of  the body  for a number  of 
hours,  it  quite  completely  digests  the 
caseine  in  milk,  peptonizes  it,  makes  it 
soluble,  and  I  think  there  can  be  no 
question  but  that  such  a  germ  as  that 
in  the  cheese  is  beneficial.

factory. 

I  have  separated  these  harmful  germs 
from  the  harmless  germs.  That  is  not 
I  will 
worth  a  great  deal  to  you,  is  it? 
is 
admit  that  it  is  not  worth  much. 
It 
a  necessary  step,  however,  to  take. 
I 
do  not  know  that, I  am  able  to  go  any 
farther  with  the  work,  but  I  expect  to 
go  ahead,  examining  different  kinds  of 
cheese  and  getting  good  germs  and  bad 
germs,  so  far  as  I  can,  but  what  you 
want 
is  to  know  how  to  keep  the  bad 
germs  out  and  how  to  have  the  good 
germs  present.  The  practical  applica­
I  shall  be  glad 
tion  of  this  is  for  you. 
in  Michigan  will 
if  any  cheesemaker 
allow  me  to  come  sometime 
in  the 
spring  when  he  begins  to  make  cheese 
and  try  to  study  this  question  in  the 
cheese 
I  know  practically 
nothing  about  making  cheese,  but  I 
think  that, with a practical cheesemaker, 
I  might  be  able  to  ascertain  something. 
What  are  the  probabilities now,as I  look 
at  it?  Of  course,  if  you  could  sterilize 
the  milk  and  the  sterilization  did  not 
for  cheesemaking—I 
render 
don’t  know  whether 
it  would  or not— 
if  the  sterilization  didn’t  cost  so 
and 
much—I 
imagine  it  would  cost a  good 
suppose  you  can  pasteurize 
deal—(I 
imagine 
milk  for  making  butter,  but  I 
if  you  pasteurize  milk 
for  making 
cheese,  it  would  cost  a  good  deal)—it 
would  need  special  apparatus;  every­
thing  would  have  to  be  sterilized,  the 
vats  and  all  the  utensils.  The  ideal 
way,  I  think,  would  be  to  sterilize  a  lot 
of  milk  and  have  the  sterilized  milk 
inoculated  with  the  beneficial  germs 
and  allow  those  to  grow  for  a  while  and 
then  make  your  cheese.  Whether  that 
is  practical,  I  can  not  say;  I  am  afraid 
it  is  not.

it  unfit 

Has  anything  of  the  kind  ever  been 
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found  that  most  of  the  yeast  that  was 
used  in  making  beer  was  diseased,  bad
these  bacteria  that  I  am  speaking  of 
in 
it.  He  said  the  only  thing  to  do  was 
to  get  a  pure  culture  of  yeast,  and  with 
a  pure  culture  of  yeast—good,  healthy 
yeast—they 
that 
wouldn't  be  contaminated with bacteria.

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So,  now,  most  of  the  large  breweries  of 
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yeast  for  the  manufacture  of  their  beer, 
but  there  the  thing  is  different;  there 
are  not  so  many  harmful  bacteria  to 
deal  with  and  there  they  only  have  to 
handle  the  culture,  pick  out  one  nice 
culture  and  plant  it  and  grow  it  and use 
that  tor  making  their  cultivation,  so  the 
is  not  so  difficult  as  it  is  in 
problem 
the  manufacture  of  cheese,  but 
it  is 
eucouraging to  note  that  something  has 
been  done  in  this  direction.

is  possible  or  not—and  that 

laboring  to  do. 
feasibility  of 

Now,  you  may  think  that  there  is  an­
other  possibility—I  don't  know  whether 
it 
is  to 
keep  the  bad  germs  out.  That  is  what 
I  doubt  very 
you  are 
much  the 
it;  I  doubt 
whether  you  will  succeed.  What  one 
man  regards  as  filth,  another  man  does 
not 
look  upon  as  filth,  and  you  would 
have  to  have  every  man  who  supplies 
you  with  milk  practically  up  in  bacter- 
iology  to  keep  out  all  of  the germs. 
Milk, when  it  is  drawn  directly  from the 
udder  of  a  healthy  cow  into  a  sterilized 
vessel,has  no  germs  in  it.  In  1888  I  did 
this.  I  got  a  number  of  very  fine  tubes 
capillary  tubes,  and  drew  them  out  at 
both  ends  and  closed  each  end  and  her­
metically  sealed  it,  and  sterilized  them, 
and  went  to  the  barn  and  took  along  a 
little  bichloride of  mercury  solution and 
washed  off  the  udder  of  a  cow,  of course 
having  my  hands  sterilized. 
I  took  a 
little  alcohol 
lamp  along  and  I  heated 
one  end  of  a  tube  in  the  lamp,  broke 
it  off  and  introduced  the  tube  into  the 
udder  of  a  cow  and  allowed  it  to  be 
fii[ed  with  milk  and  immediately  sealed 
the  end  of  the  tube,  and  I  kept  those 
tubes  until  1894,  when,  in  making  some 
changes  in  mv  bouse,  they  were  broken. 
1894  those  tubes  of 
But  from 
milk  stood  and  never  became  sour. 
I 
mention  this  simply  to  show  you  that 
milk,  as 
is  taken  from  the  udder  of 
the  perfectly  healthy  cow  is  germ  free. 
Of  course,  it  will  have  to  be  drawn  un­
der  perfectly  safe  conditions;  the  udder 
would  have  to  be  sterilized  with  as 
much  care  as  the  surgeon  uses  before 
he 
is  going  to  make  a  surgical  opera­
tion ;  the  hands  would  have  to  be  steril­
ized,  the  pail 
into  which  the  milk  is 
drawn  would  have  to  be  sterilized  and 
then  closed  and  carried  to  the  cheese 
factory,and  it  would  have  to  be  placed 
in  a  sterilized  vat.

1888  to 

it 

I  have  no  doubt  some  of  my  readers 
are  ready  to  ask  me  why  it  is,  if  these 
germs  are  so  common  in  cheese,  that 
poison  is  not  more  frequent. 
I  will  say 
that  the  colon  germ  produces 
this, 
poison  very  slowly  and 
is  not  a  very 
baletul  poison.  Why  it  grows  faster  in 
one  cheese  than  in  another,  I  am  sure  I 
can  not  tell  probably  a  great  many 
more  get 
into  some  samples  of  cheese 
than  into  others.

There 

is  another  possibility.  There 
is  a  struggle  for existence among germs, 
as  well  as  there  is  among  men,  and  we 
may  after  a  while  learn  the  conditions 
under  which  one  of  these  beneficial 
germs  will  grow 
rapidly,  while  the 
harmful  germs  wili  grow  slowly  and, 
both  of  them  present  in  the  milk  or 
in 
the  cheese  the  beneficial  germ  may  kill 
out  the  other.  That  is  one  of  the  things 
I  am  hunting  for. 
I  am  now  taking  a 
sterilized  milk  and  putting  a  harmful 
germ 
in  and  a  harmless  germ  in  and 
having  them  grow 
for  a  number  of 
days  and  then  inoculating  animals  with 
a  mixed  culture  in  order  to  find  out,  if 
possible,  which  germ  predominates, 
that  is  a  possibility  we  are  looking for.

Ann  Arbor,  Mich.

V i c t o r   C .  V a u g h a n .

GOTHAM   GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  Mar.  12—The  coffee  ma. 
ket  here  is  anything  but  lively just now 
orders  from  interior  roasters  having  al 
most  ceased.  The  receipts  of  green 
continue  very  large,  but  there  are  those 
who  maintain  that  this  condition  wi 
perhaps,  come  to  a  sudden  stop,  whi.., 
certainly  will  be  the  case  if  Brazil  re 
pudiates  her  national  currency. 
It  it, 
thought  that  the 
large  planters  are 
hurrying  forward  their  crops,  that  they 
may  be  able  to  pay  their  obligations 
while  the  currency  is  still  legal  tender 
If  such 
is  the  case,  coffee  at  present 
prices 
is  certainly  a  good  purchase. 
Rio  No.  7  *tt 6  cents  seems  like  a  great 
bargain,  but  the  market  is  not  active, 
and  the  still  further  cut 
in  package 
coffees  shows  that  the  big  roasters  are 
willing  to  run  the  chances  of  low  prices 
—or 
it  a  cut-tbioat  competition  in 
which  they  are  indulging?  The amount 
of  coffee  in  store  and  afloat  amounts  t 
1.185,313  bags,  against  747,196  bag 
at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild  sorts 
have  sold  quite  freely  and  Good  Cucuta 
is  quotable  at  g@gj£c.  East  Indias  are 
not  attracting  special  attention,  but 
prices  are  firmly  adhered  to.  Padang 
Interior  is  held  at  23^0,  up  to  27^300 
for  very  fancy  stock.

is 

Granulated  sugar  has  dropped  back 
%c,  being  at  this  writing  5
Thi 
demand  during  the  week has been rathe, 
light  and  no  delay  seems  to  have  been 
experienced 
in  promptly  filling  orders 
as  received.

Tea  sales  have been made at full rates 
and  the  market is  firm,  although the vol 
ume  of  business  done  has  not  been  ex 
traordinarily  large.  Little  was  done  11 
nvoice  trading.
Stocks  of  rice  dealers  have  become 
quite  low,  but  there  seems  to  be  a 
lack 
of  interest  as  to  the  future.  Values  are 
firm,  both  for  domestic  and  foreign, 
and  the  outlook 
is  encouraging,  even 
although  present  trade  is  light.

Spice  prices  are  firmly  held,  although 
trading  during  the  week  has  been rather 
more  quiet  than  previously.  Sellers  are 
very  firm  in  their  views  and  will  make 
no  concession  to  speculators,  even  al­
though 
lead  to  good  sales. 
Pepper  is  especially  well  held,  and  this 
article  leads  in  activity  in  sales.

it  might 

Molasses  prices  are  firm  and  trading 
light.  Stocks  are  not  burdensome  as 
to  magnitude  and  dealers  show  little,  if 
any,  disposition  to  curry  favor  by  mak­
ing  any  reduction.  What  sales  were 
made  were  at 
full  values.  Good  to 
prime  New  Orleans  Centrifugal,  15(g) 
22c.  Good  to prime open kettle,  27@30^ 
The  export  trade  in  syrups  has  saved 
the market  from absolute dulness.  Home 
trade  has  been  very  light  and  the  trans­
actions  taking  place  have  been  for  sort­
ing-up  purposes.  Prices,  however,  are 
firm  and  indeed  many  think  them  most 
too  high  for  the  transaction  of  much 
business.  Prime  to  fancy  sugar  syrups, 
J 7 @ 22C.

Less  activity 

is  displayed  in  canned 
last  week,  both  as  to  the 
goods  than 
Changes 
market  for  spot  and  futures. 
have  been  slight 
in  quotations  and  in 
fact  are  practically  the  same.  The  list 
of  canneries  being  erected  continues  to 
grow  apace,  and  if  canned  stuff 
is  not 
plenty  next  fall,  it  will  not  be  for  lack 
of  facilities  for  saving  the  same.

Dried  fruits  are  fairly  steady.  The 
is  hardly  up  to  that  of  last j 
demand 
week.  Prices  are  about  the  same. 
In 
domestic  dried  there  seems  to  be  the 
for  evaporated  apples 
most  demand 
that  will  hardly  grade  as 
first-class. 
Fancy  evaporated  are  worth  gK@ ioc.

Apples  are  quite  free  in  receipt,  and 
range  in  price  from  $2.5o@4  soper  bbl. 
Little 
is  doing  in  oranges  and  lemons 
and  the  best  that  can  be  said  of  the 
market  is  that  prices  are  steady.

It  requires  a  most  excellent  article  of 
butter  to  bring  20c,  although  this  is  the 
official  rate  for  best  Western  creamery. 
The  weather  is  so  mild  that  holders  are 
a  little  more  eager  to  dispose  of  stocks 
than  they  were  and  a  good  class  of  but­
ter  can  be  purchased  for  less  than  20c.

17c; 

firsts, 

Western  creamery,  firsts,  i8@ tgc;  sec­
creamery, 
onds, 
I5@ i6c ; 
imitation  fancy, 
I4K @ I5 c ; 
Western 
firsts,  I4 @ i4 ^ c;  roils,  I4K@ I5c.

I7@ i7^ c  i  Western 
extras, 

factory, 

The  cheese  market  has  sagged  and 
there  is  scarcely  anything  of  interest  to 
chronicle 
in  the  way  of  passing  sales 
Fancy  full  cream  are  held  at  8c  for 
large  size  and  8>£c  for  small.  Exporters 
complain  that  business  is  very  dull  and 
yet  there  is  some  business  going  in  this 
way  at  about  6%@7%c.

The  egg  market  is  steady,  but  values 
are  on  a  pretty 
low  basis.  Western 
fresh  gathered,  io #c.  Receipts  on  F ri­
day  were  7,300  cases  and  ample  sup­
plies  are  reported  as  on  the  way.

Amount  of  Stock  to  Carry.

From Shoe and Leather Facts.

Injudicious  purchasing  is,  of  course, 
usually  the  cause  of  excessive  stocks. 
Just  where  the  line  shall  be  drawn 
in 
purchasing  supplies,  however,  is  a  very 
difficult  problem  to  solve,  because  the 
same  rule  will  not apply  exactly  to  any 
‘ wo  stores.  There  is  no  question  that 
many  retail  merchants,  especially 
in 
the  smaller  towns,  pay  entirely  too  little 
attention  to  their  stocks. 
It  is  common 
to  hear  merchants  say  that  their  trade 
in 
does  not  demand  so  much  strictness 
this  respect  as 
in  large 
cities.  The  merchant who can only sup­
ply,  say,  80  per  cent,  of  those  who  call 
on  him  with  the  goods  desired  is  losing 
valuable  trade,  the  price of which would 
go  a  long  ways  toward  paying  his  ex­
penses.

is  necessary 

On  the  other  hand,  the  evil  of  over­
buying  is  also  undoubtedly  a  great  one. 
The  tendency-in  this  direction  is  shown 
mostly  by  buyers,  managers  and  em­
ployes  in  some  of  the  larger  stores  who 
do  not  appreciate  the  dangers  which  lie 
■n  this  direction  as  much  as  they  would 
f  they  were  proprietors. 
In  placing 
their  orders  they  perhaps  often  do  not 
stop  to  think  as  to  who  is  going  to  pay 
for  the  goods  as  much  as  they  would 
if 
they  had  to  do  so  individually. 
In 
many  of  the  stores  a  certain  limit  is

It  is  a  natural  and 

placed  upon  the  buyers,  and  it  must  be 
confessed  that  this 
is  sometimes  too 
low 
in  proportion  to  the  amount  of 
business  they  are  expected  to  do  in  the 
department. 
laud­
able  desire  to  try  to  make  a  stock  as 
complete  as  possible,  because 
in  this 
way  business 
is  built  up  and  trade  is 
retained.  The trouble often  is,  however, 
that  the  purchases  are  allowed  to  ex­
pand  too  rapidly  until,  all  of  a  sudden, 
comes  the  realization  that  an  over-sup- 
ply  has  been  laid  in.  Larger sales  with 
less  stock  is  a  motto  which  every  buyer 
must  constantly  keep  before  him ;  and, 
in  order  to  accomplish  this,  trade  and 
the  tendency  of  styles  must  be  studied 
closely.

The  depression  of  the  past  few  years 
showed  many  a  buyer  the  possibilities 
of  doing  business  on  a  small  stock,  but, 
like  most  other  lessons,  this one is likely 
to  be  soon  forgotten  under  the  changed 
conditions  which  are  now coming about. 
The  only  thing  to  do  is  to  keep  a  care­
ful  tally  on purchases and compare them 
frequently  with  those  of  previous  sea­
sons. 
If  smaller,  and  you  are  able  to 
supply  the  wants  of  your  trade,  you 
are,  undoubtedly,  on  the  right  track.  If 
larger,  see  that  the  extra  sales 
fully 
warrant  the  increase.

Not  What  They  Want.

“ I  don’t  see  how  I  failed,”   said  the 
ex-traveling  man,  who  had  tried  to  run 
a  hotel.  " I   thought  I  had  been  on  the 
road  long  enough  to  know  just  what  the 
traveling  public  would  want.”

" I t   isn’t  so  much  a  questiion  of  what 
they  want, ”   his  lawyer  explained,  “ as 
what  they  will  stand.”

Egg Shippers Attention

The  best  packing  for  eggs  is 
excelsior.  Order  direct  from 
the manufacturers,

Bay  City  Excelsior  Co.,  Bay  City,  Mich.

w . R. Brice. 

C. M. Drake.

Established in Philadelphia 1852.

% & .  
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w   fat,
&

We  are  in  the  market  for  large 
quantities of  Fine,  Fresh,  Selected 
Eggs delivered on board cars  your 
station.  Write for prices.

W.  R.  Brice &  Co.,

9 and  11  N.  Ionia S t. 
Orand  Rapids,  Mich

Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,  Philadelphia. 
Western  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.
W.  D.  Hayes,  Cashier Hastings  National  Bank 

Hastings,  Mich.

Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich,
D. C. Oakes,  Coopersville,  Mich.
E. A.  Stowe,  Michigan  Tradesman.

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President, J ohn a. Hoffman, Kalamazoo; Secre­
tary, J. C.  Saundbks, Lansing;  Treasurer, Chas. 
McNoltt, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  C.  C.  Snedeker,  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
urer, Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Clnb.
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson, Marquette.

PRO TECTING   PASSENGERS.

Real  Reasons  for  the  Adoption  of  the 

Gate  System.

Inasmuch  as  the  Tradesman  has  pub­
lished  at  different  times  during  the  past 
three  months  somewhat  severe 
com­
ments  on  the 
introduction  of  gates  on 
the  trains  of  the  C.  &  W.  M.  and  D.,
G.  R.  &  W.  lines,  it  was  deemed  only 
fair  that  an  opportunity  be given  the 
railway  management  to  present  its  side 
of  the  question,  and  with  this  end  in 
view  a  reporter  of  theTradesman recent­
ly  called  on  Mr.  J.  K.  V.  Agnew,  Gen­
eral  Superintendent  of  the  above  lines, 
and  solicited  the  opportunity  of  discus­
sing  the  subject  with  him.  The  re­
quest  was  granted  and  a  very  pleasant 
half  hour  was  spent  in  going  over  the 
ground  fully  and  fairly.

Mr.  Agnew  stated  that  the gates  have 
been  put  on  only  about  one-third  of  the 
passenger  trains  of  the  Heald  system, 
but  that  the  results  are  so  satisfactory 
—from  the  standpoint  of  the  railways— 
that  the  matter  of  extending 
them 
to 
service 
of  the  system  will  be  taken  up  and 
carefully  considered  on  Mr.  Heald’s  re­
turn  from  Hawaii.

passenger 

entire 

the 

The  real  reasons  for  introducing  the 
gate  are  twofold—to  protect  the  revenue 
of  the  loads  and  also  to  prevent  the  ac­
cidents  to  passengers  which  were  hap­
pening  with  alarming 
frequency,  by 
reason  of  people  getting  on  and  off 
trains  while  they  were in motion.  These 
accidents  were  confined  almost  wholly 
to  people  unaccustomed  to  traveling; 
in  fact,  an  accident  to  a  traveling  man 
was  almost  unheard  of,  because  the 
familiar 
traveling  man  becomes  as 
with  boarding  and 
jumping 
from  a 
train  as  the trainmen  themselves.  With­
in  the  past  five  years  the  lines on  which 
Mr.  Agnew  is  Superintendent have been 
compelled  to  pay  $70,000  for  injuries  to 
persons  unaccustomed  to  traveling—in­
juries  which  could  never  have  occurred 
had  the  gate  system  been  in  operation. 
Since  the 
introduction  of  the  gates  no 
accidents  have  occurred  on  the  trains 
on  which  the  gates  have  actually  been 
used.

The  use  of  the  gates  has  also given 
the  railways  the  benefit  of  passenger 
fares  between  short  stations,  such  as 
Grand  Rapids  and  Grandville,  Benton 
Harbor  and  St. 
Joseph,  West  Grand 
Rapids  and  the  D.  &  M.  Junction. 
These  fares  properly  belong  to  the  rail­
way,  because  it  assumes  all  the risk and 
should  receive  due  compensation  for 
assuming  the  risk  and  carrying  the  pas­
sengers.

Why  the  traveling  men  are  so  averse 
to  the  gate  system  and  exercise  so much 
antipathy 
in  regard  to  it  is  more than

17
nounced  later. 
It  will  not  be  a  com­
plimentary  affair.  The  members  at­
tending  will  pay  for  their  own  tickets 
and  are  at  liberty  to  invite  whomever 
they  wish—two  guests  free  with  each 
paid  ticket  and  a  slight  additional  ex­
pense  when  accompanied  by  more  than 
two  guests.  The  Club  is  in  a  flourish­
ing  condition,  with  almost  200  mem­
bers  and  new  members  coming  in  every 
day.  The  success  of  the  first  party 
in­
sures  a  good  time  to  those  who  attend 
the  next. 

A.  F.  W i x s o n ,  Sec’y.

H.  M.  Betts,  formerly  engaged  in  the 

drug  business  at  La  Grange,  Ind.,  has 
purchased  E.  H.  Betts’  drug  stock  at 
Wolcottville, 
Ind.,  and  will  continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

A  man  who 

lives  on  free  lunches  is 
not 
interviewed  and  made  famous,  be­
cause  there 
is  no  register  for  him  to 
write  his  name  in  and  no  clerk  to  point 
him  out  as  a  capitalist.

The  imaginary  discovery  of perpetual 
motion  is  perpetually  coming  to  cranks 
who  dream  such  things.

C.  S.  Keefer,  druggist  at  Middleton, 

died  a  few  days  ago  from  pneumonia.

HOTEL WHITCOMB

A. VINCENT. Prop.

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

THE  WHITNEY  HOUSE

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

Chas. E. Whitney. Prop., Plain well, Mich.

Hoskins  &  Company
GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK

COMMISSION  BROKERS.

176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. 

Hodges  Building.

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

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

Having suffered  with  rheumatism  and  constipa­
tion for over twenty-five years,  and  my case having 
been pronounced hopeless last  summer  by the  best 
medical skill,  when  I was given up to die,  I 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  remedy 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.  M y 
home  address  is  5406  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  278 Franklin St., from 
Feb.  20  to  April  1,  and  hope  my trade  will make 
that establishment  headquarters while in the city.

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

Mr.  Agnew  can  understand.  The  gates 
were  not 
introduced  to  make  the  con­
ductors  honest  or  to  reflect  on  the  in­
tegrity  of  the  traveling  man  or  to  give 
him  unnecessary  annoyance 
in  being 
compelled  to  show  his  ticket  or  mileage 
book  to  the  gate-keeper,  but  solely  for 
the  purpose  of  protecting  the roads from 
damage  suits  resulting  from  the  care­
lessness  and  ignorance  of  people  unac­
customed  to  tiaveling.

The gate  system  was  put  into  opera­
tion  by  the  Chicago  &  Alton  Railroad 
several  years  ago  and  has  given  univer­
sal  satisfaction.  Some  years  ago  the 
gates  were  ordered  off the  trains  by  the 
Board  of  Railroad  Commissioners  of 
Missouri,  on  the  ground  that  they  were 
contrary  to  public  policy.  The  man­
agement  demurred  and  the  matter  was 
taken  before  the  State  Attorney  Gen­
eral,  who  gave  the  matter  a  public 
hearing—on  Nov  28,  1893—subsequently 
deciding  that  the  gates  were  not  pro­
hibited  by  the  laws  of  Missouri.  The 
Commissioners 
rescinded 
their order.

thereupon 

Oak  Olson,  formerly  with  F.  J.  Det- 
J.  Boer  as 
tenthaler,  succeeds  John 
Holland  colony  salesman  for  the  Ball- 
Barnbart-Putman  Co.

A.  F.  Peake,  Secretary  of  the  Mich­
igan  Acetylene  Gas Co.,  of  Jackson,  was 
in  town  this  week.  He  has  given  up 
the  detail  work  of  calling  upon  the 
retail  trade  of  De  Land  &  Co.,  but  still 
makes  regular  visits  to  the 
jobbing 
trade.

W.  E.  Krapp,  who  represents  W.  C. 
Barbour  &  Co.,  neckwear  manufactur­
ers,  in  Southern  Michigan,  has  been 
laid  up  at  his  home  in  Detroit  with  a 
serious  illness.  He  has  recovered  suffi­
ciently  to  anticipate  taking  his  terri­
tory  in  a  few  days.

Max  Fleischmann,  who  has  been  pro­
moted  to  the  head  of  the  yeast  depart­
ment  of  Fleischmann  & Co.,  paid Grand 
Rapids  a  visit  for  the  first  time  last 
week  in  company  with  Ludwig  Winter- 
large 
nitz.  Mr.  Fleischmann  met  a 
number  of  local  grocers  and 
impressed 
them  all  as  a  young  man  of  unusual 
energy and  executive  capacity.

Mr.  Agnew  stated  that  the  number  of 
people  who are  maimed  and permanent­
ly  injured  every  year  by  reason  of  rail­
way  accidents 
is  enormous,  and  that 
if  statistics  were  to  be  published  on 
this  point,  the  legislatures  of  every 
state  would 
laws 
compelling  the  adoption  of  the gate sys­
tem.

immediately  enact 

With  a  view  to  ascertaining  whether 
the  aversion  to  the  present  system 
is 
due  to  the  existence  of  the  gate  or  hos­
tility  te  the  gate-keeper,  Mr.  Agnew 
withdrew  the  gate-keeper  on  one  of  the 
trains  and  assigned  to  the  brakeman the 
duty  of  opening  and  shutting  the  gates. 
The  results  were  found  to  be  nearly  as 
satisfactory  as  where  the  gate-man  ac­
companied  the  train,  inasmuch  as  the 
people  have  come  to  purchase  tickets, 
although  the  brakeman  does  not  insist 
on  punching  the  ticket  or  seeing  the 
mileage  book  before  the  passenger 
boards  the  train.

There  appears  to  be  a  disposition  on 
the  part  of  Mr.  Agnew  to  modify  too 
stringent  rules  and  conciliate the travel­
ing  men  where  it  is  thought  that concil­
iation 
is  necessary  or  desirable.  He 
covets  their  business,  cherishes  their 
friendship  and  realizes  that  their  good 
will  is  worth  a  great  deal  to  any  road. 
On  account  of  the  friendly  spirit  he 
has  always  manifested  toward  the  trav­
eling  fraternity,  his  statements  are  en­
titled  to  weight;  and  in  the  opinion  of 
the  Tradesman  any  grievance which anv 
traveling  man  or organization  of  travel­
ing  men  may  have  against  the  road  or 
any  of  its  employes  or officials  will  be 
cheerfully 
investigated  and  carefully 
considered  by  him.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Robert  McLaughlin  has  engaged  to 
travel  for  the  Belding  Shoe  Co.,  the 
engagement  dating  from  April  1.

John  Smythe,  formerly  local  represen­
tative for the Riverside Yeast  Co., is now 
State  solicitor  for  Fleischmann  &  Co.

Geo.  F.  Webber,  formerly  office  man 
for  Lyon  Bros.,  wholesale  hosiery  deal­
ers  at  Detroit,  has  gone  on  the  road  for 
the  firm.

S.  B.  Krause  and  A.  B.  Hirtb  (Hirth, 
Krause  &  Co.)  are  visiting  Eastern 
shoe  centers,  looking  up  the  leather  and 
rubber  markets.

Dr.  Josiah  B.  Evans,  for  many  years 
with  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman Co.,  has 
accepted  a  position  with  Jaques  &  Co  , 
tea 
is  now 
making  a  four  months’  trip  through 
Montana  and  Colorado.

jobbers  of  Chicago,  and 

New  Method  of  Advertising  Yeast. 
Mr.  Max  Fleischmann,  of  Fleisch­
mann  &  Co.,  yeast  manufacturers  of 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  accompanied  by  L. 
Wintemitz,  supervisor  of  agencies,  is 
out  on  an 
inspection  tour  throughout 
their  Western  agencies,  and  spent  a 
couple  of  days  last  week  looking  over 
the  Grand  Rapids  market.

The  firm  has  decided  to  put in a corps 
of  competent  canvassers,  who,  with  the 
assistance  of  an  additional  local  force, 
will  work  up  their  yeast  trade  in  the 
immediate  future  and  thereby  create  a 
greater  demand  for  their  yeast.

Fleischmann  &  Co.’s  canvassers  will 
visit  all  private  families  and  leave  with 
each  a  gift  ticket,  good 
for  one  of 
Fleischmann  &  Co. 's  yellow  label  yeast 
cakes.  This  ticket  is  good  for  one cake 
at  any  grocery  and  is  then  redeemed  by 
Fleischmann  &  Co. 's  local  agents  at  2 
cents  cash  straight  for  each  ticket.

This  mode  of  advertising  is  a  rather 
expensive  one  for  Fleischmann  &  Co., 
but 
it  proves  to  the  consumers  the  su­
periority  of  Fleischmann  &  Co.’s yeast, 
which  is  put  up  in  tinfoil  for family use 
only,  and  which 
is  far  stronger 
than 
other  yeast  bandied  in  a  loose  way.

Boards  of  health  in  many  cities  have 
is  sold 
warmly  endorsed  yeast  which 
in  tinfoil  packages,  as 
it  does  away 
with  the  handling  of  the  yeast  by  gro­
cers  when  cutting 
lumps  and,  there­
fore,  gives  the  consumer  a  sealed  and 
air  tight  package  of  pure  and  whole­
some  yeast.
Movements of Lake Superior Travelers 
The following  travelers  Sundaved over 
at  Marquette:  L.  C  Bradford,  B.  W. 
Sweet,  P.  M.  White,  S.  D.  Rogers,  M.
J.  Hemmens,  R.  D.  Estes.

The  latest  members  to  the  Lake  Su­
perior  Commercial  Travelers’  Club  are 
as  follows:  S.  D.  Rogers,  Milwaukee; 
Manley  J.  Hemmens,  Janesville,  Wis  ; 
Robt.  D.  Estes,  Superior,  Wis  ,  H.  M. 
Weinstock,  Milwaukee;  J.  N.  Suits, 
Ewen,  Mich.  ;  J.  J.  Seagars,  Saginaw, 
E.  S.  ;  E.  F.  Gray,  Oshkosh,  Wis.  ;  J. 
McCulley,  Menasha,  Wis.  ;  C.  H.  Mark­
ham,  Houghton;  G.  W.  May,  Ft.  At­
kinson,  W is.;  M.  R.  Hines,  Toledo; 
E.  A.  Christopher,  Chicago;  J.  H. 
Bromer,  Chicago;  Elmer  M.  Little, 
Sheboygan  Falls,  Wis.

Wm.  C.  Brown 

left  Sunday  for  Ap­
knitting 

pleton,  Wis.  Mr.  Brown’s 
works  there  is  rushed  with  orders.

August  12  will  be  a  gala  day  for  the 
Lake  Superior  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Club,  at  which  date  occurs  their  sec­
ond  annual  party  and  reception.  The 
place  for  holding  the  same  has  not 
been  decided  tupon,^but  will  be  an­

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Drugs-=Chernicals

--------  

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

F .  W.  R.  Perry,  Detroit 
A . C. Schumacher, A nn  Arbor 
Geo. Gcndrum,  Ionia 
- 
L.  E.  Reynolds, St.  Joseph 
Henry Heim, .Saginaw  - 
- 

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

- 

Examination  Sessions.
Star Island—Ju n e 27 and 28.
Marquette—About Sept.  1.
Lansing—R oy.  1 and 2.

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

MICHIGAN  STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. Webber, Cadillac.
Secretary—Chas. Mann, Detroit.
Treasurer—J ohn D.  Muds,  Grand Rapids.

How  Prices  Were  Regulated 

Country  Town.

in  a 

There  were  four  young,  active  and 
well-meaning  druggists  in  our  country 
town.  Each  had  an  established  trade, 
and  each  was  making  a  fair  living  at 
his  business.  While  several  of  the  four 
bad  some  advantages 
in  the  way  of 
equipment,  with  handsomer  fixtures  and 
more  elaborate  soda  apparatus  than  the 
others,  yet  these  points  were  counter­
balanced  for  the  latter  by  favorable 
lo­
cation  and  an  established  patronage,  so 
that  altogether the  business  seemed very 
equally  divided.  No  cutter  had  ever 
invaded  the  town,  and  all  the  druggists 
were getting  full  prices  on  patent  m edi­
cines.  A  verbal  understanding,  indeed, 
existed  on  this  point,  and  for  a  long 
time  there  was  no  complaint  that  the 
regular  prices  were  not  observed.

Gradually,  however,  a  feeling  of  jeal­
ousy  seemed  to  arise,  and  charges  were 
made  that  one  druggist  was  presenting 
each  purchaser  of  a  dollar-bottle  of  pat­
ent  medicine  with  a  cake  of  soap ;  that 
an o th er  was  giving  his  customers  cigars 
and  occasionally  discounting  prices. 
This  was  explained  bv  the  first by  the 
claim  that he  had  only been thus getting 
rid  of  a  surplus  stock  of  soap  and  en­
deavoring  to  create  a  demand  for  it  bv 
-giving  awav  samples.  The  other said 
that  the  occasional  gift  of  a  cigar  to  a 
good  customer  was  simplv  a  courtesv 
and  an  evidence  of  good  feeling,  and 
was  not 
in  any  way  intended  as  a  dis­
count.

However,  one  of  the  other  druggists, 
impatient  with  these  explanations  and 
imagining  that  some  of  his  customers 
were  going  to  the  other  stores,  hecame 
very  much  incensed  and  determined  on 
a  bold  stroke  that  he  thought  would  set­
tle  the  matter 
in  a  summary  way  and 
add  largely  to  his  own  patronage.

Accordingly,  without  any 

intimation 
of  his  purpose  to  the  others,  he  had  a 
large  quantity  of  circulars  printed,  giv­
ing  a  long  list  of  patent  medicines  with 
ptices  cut  almost  to  cost—Hood’s  Sar­
saparilla  and  other dollar  preparations 
quoted  at  67  cents  and  many  of  the 
common  drugs  and  chemicals  cut  to a 
correspondingly  low  figure.  He  pla­
carded  his  window  with  announcements 
of  the  new  scale  of  prices,  and  boldly 
stated  that  he  would  give  the  others 
cutting that would ‘ * bust  some of them. ’ ’
However,  the  ink  was  not  yet  dry  on 
bis  window  cards  before  each  of  the 
others  placed  similar  notices 
in  their 
windows,  and  followed  them  up  by  ad­
vertisements  in  the  country  papers  sav­
ing  their  prices  were  lower  than  the 
lowest;  that  they  did  not  overcharge  on 
prescriptions,  and  would 
even 
postage-stamps  at  cost.  The  resylt  was

sell 

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

that  while  a  bitter  feeling  was  engen­
dered  against  the  first  druggist  and  a 
common  bond  ot 
interest  established 
among  the  others,  all  suffered  alike  in 
sacrificing  their  profits.  The  sale  of 
increase 
patent  medicines  did  not 
much,  and  what  was  sold  went  at 
little 
more  than  cost.  The  trade  was  just  as 
evenly  divided  as  before,  and  while 
each  saw  the  folly  of  the  movement, 
there  was  such  a  feeling  of  resentment 
against  the  originator  of  the  cut  that  no 
one  of  the  others  was  willing  to  make 
any  move  toward  a  reconciliation  and  a 
businesslike  adjustment  of the difficulty.
For  at  least  a  year  these  prices  were 
continued  and  the  public  alone  were 
benefited.  The  druggists  were  not  mak­
ing  any  money,  but  suffered  in  silence. 
Finally,  one  of  the  broader  minded  of 
the  three  broached  the  subject  of  recon­
ciliation,  and  said  be  was  willing  to  see 
the  offending  druggist  and 
the 
matter  over  with  him.

talk 

Much  to  their  surprise  they  found  he 
was  quite  as  anxious  as  they  to  make 
some  satisfactory  arrangement  to restore 
prices.  Accordingly,  a  meeting  of  the 
druggists  was  called,  and  the matter was 
talked  over  in  a  friendly  way,  and  in  a 
short  time  a  plan  was  formulated  to  set­
tle  all  the  differences. 
It  was  agreed  to 
organize  a  druggists’  association,  with 
regular  officers,  and  to  hold  a  meeting 
once  a  month.

Any  complaints  were  then  to  be  pre­
sented,  there  was  to  be  a 
full  and 
friendly  discussion  of  their  matters,  and 
such  a  scale  of  prices  was  to  be adopted 
as  would  be  for  the  best  interests  of 
all. 
It  was  further  arranged  that  an 
agreement  should  be  drawn  up  for  the 
purpose  of  abolishing  cutting  among 
the  members  of  the  association,  and  to 
regulate  the  prices  at  which  patent 
medicines,  etc.,  should  be  sold,  and 
that  this  agreement  be  signed  by  each 
member,  and  that  the  agreement  should 
make  any  member  liable  to  a  fine  of $25 
for  violation  of  its  provisions.

Each  member  was  to  deposit  this 
amount  with  the  treasurer,  to  be  placed 
in  a  bank 
in  the  name  of  the  associa­
tion,  and  to  be  subject  to  check  only 
when  signed  bv  a  majority  of  the  mem­
bers.

Proof  of  violation  was  to  be  made  to 
the  satisfaction  of  all  the  other  mem­
bers,  and  the  fine  was  to  be  divided 
among  the  non-offenders. 

\

There  was  considerable  discussion  as 
to  the  possibility  of  again 
restoring 
regular  prices  on  patent  medicines,  and 
suggestions  were  made  for  a partial  res­
toration  only,  but  it  was  finally  agreed 
that  full  prices  as  printed  on  the  wrap­
pers  be  required.  This  was  formally 
adopted  and  made  a  part  of  the  agree­
ment.  The  agreement  was  drawn  up 
and  signed,  and  the  money  deposited 
and  the  new  prices  at  once  put  into 
effect.  There  was  some  little  complaint 
from  the  public  that  the  druggists  had 
¡formed  a  “ combination,"   tut 
it  was 
surprising  that  there  was  so  little  diffi­
culty 
in  getting  the  old  prices.  Veiy 
few  customers  seemed  to  object  when 
¡told  that  we  were  getting  only  a  fair 
profit.

The  association  has  been  in  existence 
now  more  than  two  years,  and  has 
worked  smoothly  and satisfactorily  from 
the  start.  Not  a  single  member  has 
been  fined,  and  there  are  the  most 
friendly  feelings  and  relations  between 
the  members.  We  are  so  far  removed 
from  the  larger  cities  that  we  have  but 
little  competition  from  outside  cutters, 
and  our  town 
is  too  small  to  justify  a 
cutter  establishing  himself  here.  We

have  our  regular  meetings  and  our  dis­
cussions  are  beneficial  to  all,  and  usu­
ally,  after  the  regular  business,  we  ad­
journ  to  a  restaurant  and  have  an  oyster 
supper.  We  find  we  have  not  only  got 
rid  of  the  cutting  evil  among  ourselves, 
but  that  a  very  pleasant  and  friendly 
spirit  has  thus  been  fostered  between 
the  members  of  the  association.—C.  J. 
Wolfe  in  American  Druggist.

Pleasures  Incident  to  the  Druggist’s 

Career.

literally 

is  not  always 

Altogether  the life  of an average drug­
gist  is  not  so  rosy  and  well  perfumed as 
the  world  would  fain  believe.  His path­
way 
streaked 
with  rays  of  sunshine,  nor  hedged  in 
with  the  good  things  of  earth.  He may 
have  his  blissful  moments  when  he  sells 
a  bottle  of  pain  killer  at  regular  rates 
and  charges 
it  on  the  book,  but  these 
“ do  not  come  in  unbroken  packages.”  
He 
is  the  hitching-post  between  the 
medical  profession  and  the  cemetery— 
always 
in  a  state  of  nervous  endeavor 
to  keep  “ on  the  inside”   with  one  and 
“ on  the  outside”   of  the  other.

His  daily  exertions  begin  with  the 
first  blush  of  dawn,  usually  continue 
far  into  the  night,  and  be  is  often  wak­
ened  at  2  in  the  morning  to  sell  a  pos­
tage  stamp  or to  allow  a  cigarette  fiend 
to  look  in  the  city  directory.

No,  the  life  of  a  druggist  is  not  al­
together  rosy.  His  salary  list  is  higher 
than 
in  other  branches  of  trade,  as  he 
is  compelled  to  employ  only trained  and 
educated 
clerks  who  possess  social 
qualifications  sufficient  to  recommend 
them  to  the  “ 400“   of  the  ward.  To 
command  for  his  character  and business 
a  certain  degree  of  the  public  confi­
dence,  he  must  be  an  educated  man 
himself,  and  do  his  whole  duty  towards 
keeping  the  undertakers’  hits  few  and 
well  scattered.

The  druggist  of  to-day  seldom  exer­
cises  the  authority  or  importance  of  a 
“ boss”   over  his  employes,  but  treats 
them  with  kind  consideration  and  tries 
to  remember  the  early  period  in  life 
when  he  washed bottles and licked labels 
for  the  whole  store.  He  believes  in  a 
liberal  application  of  the  golden  rule, 
and  of  course  usually  stays  in  during 
baseball  games.

Besides  being  a  moral  man  and  re­
spectable  citizen,  the  druggist  is  sup­
posed  to  be  equally  posted  on  prize­
ring  rules  and  contribute  a  part  of  his 
enormous  profits  to  backing  the  local 
team.
He 

is  compelled  to  keep  his  store 
open  all  day  Sunday,  and  when  he  goes 
to  church  Sunday  evening  it  is  usually 
his  luck  to  hear  a  temperance  sermon 
in  which  the  whisky-selling  drug  stores 
are  roasted  to  the  finest  kind  of a piano- 
finish.  He  does  his  level  best  to  appear 
calm,  cool  and  composed  during  the  un­
gloved  part  of  the  excoriation,  while his 
face  is  geting  redder  and  redder  all  the 
time.  And  then  as  he  strays  toward 
home  in  the  blissful  hush  of  the  sweet

Sabbath  eve,  he  wonders  if  any  one 
all  that  congregation  thought  of  him !

in 

No,  the 

life  of  a  druggist  is  not  al­
together  rosy.  He  is  usually  bald  as  a 
pill-tile,  and  carries 
in  stock  every 
hair-grower  known  to  science  and  im­
agination,  which  he 
forced  to 
recommend—with  his  hat  on.  At  the 
sunset  of 
life  he  is  there  and  mingles 
his  tears  with  the  broken  hearted,  while 
the  department  store 
is  selling  all  the 
soothing  syrup  at  the  sunrise  of  a  new 
one. 

J o h n   S o u r w i n e .

is 

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—Cables  from  Turkey  report 
higher  prices  and  our  market  is  very“ 
firm  and  has  advanced.  Some 
jobbers 
in  the  West  are  selling  this  article  on 
the  basis  of  purchases  before  higher 
prices  ruled—prices  at  which  they  can 
not  replace  it.

Morphine—Is  steady  at  unchanged 
prices.  The  market  is  firm  and  an  ad­
vance  is  looked  for.

Quinine—The  market 

is  quiet  and 

steady  at  the  decline.

Atropine—Has  been  advanced  abroad 
and  this  market  has  responded.  This 
advance 
is  on  account  of  scarcity  of 
the  crude  drug.

Eserine—Has  advanced  J^c per grain.
Harlem  Oil—Owing  to  strong  compe­
tition  among  importers,  prices have been 
reduced.

Essential  Oils—The  Messina  essences 
are  steady  at  the  late  advances.  Cit- 
ronella  is  weak  and  lower.  Sassafras  is 
very  firm  and  advancing.

and 

Gums—Arabic 

tragacanth  are 
likely  to  advance. 
The  Government 
has  assessed  these  gums  at  %c  per 
pound  and  10  per  cent.  The  importers 
have-  protested,  but 
in  the  meantime 
is  being  sold  under  a  very 
the  article 
is  active  and 
firm  market.  Camphor 
>he  demand 
large  at  unchanged 
prices.

is 

Linseed  Oil—Has  declined  2c.

investments  unless  he 

A  business  man  should  not  make  out­
side 
is  paying 
cash  for  his  stock  and  taking  advantage 
of  all  possible  discounts.

The  amount  of  business  you  do  this 
year  will  be  governed  not half  so  much 
by  the  time  and  trade  conditions  as  by 
your  own  efforts.

Conduct  your  business  boldly  and 

thus  show  you  have  confidence  in  it.

n i  U p i   P  A blackheads, boils, blotches, freck- 
r l N I r L E O  les, eruptions  caused  by ingrow* 
| ing hair, skin that is soft and wrinkly, or rough or 
swarthy, in fact, all complexion difficulties should 
, be treated with SCHROUDER'S  LOTION,
1 a  scientific  preparation  for  keeping  the  skin 
, smooth, firm and clear—it produces and preserves 
! a healthy glow to the complexion; perfectly harm- 
I less.  At  drug  stores 25c per bottle: by mail 35c.
1  B.  Schrouder,  Pharmacist,  Grand Rapids. Mich.

Pocket  Invaler

M ’o   Carbolate 
y  of  Iodine
18  G UARANTEED  TO   CURE 

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

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

The  Cheapest  Enameled  Playing  Card

o n ; t h e   m a r k e t   is   t h e

NO.  2 0   R O V E R S

Has  a  handsome  assortment  of  set  designs  printed  in  different  colors—Red, 
Blue,  Green and  Brown;  highly finished, enameled, and  is the best  card  in  the 
market  for the money.  Each  pack in a handsome enameled  tuck box.  Put  up 
in one dozen assorted  designs and  colors.  A   good  seller.  List  price  $ 2 0   per 
gross.  We make a full line from cheapest  to highest grades, and can meet your 
wants in every way. 
If you are  handling playing cards for profit get  our  sam­
ples and  prices  before  placing your order.  They may  help you.

T H E   A M E R IC A N   P LA Y IN G   C A R D   C O ..

KALAMA2QO,  MICH.

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

@  50
@  50
@  50

MI CHI GAN  T R A D E S M A N
Morphia, S.P.& W ...  2  15® 
2 40
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  2  15®
2 40 
©
Moschns Canton.... 
40 
Myristica, No. 1......  
65©
80 
Nux Vomica. ..po.20 
©
10 
Os  Sepia................. 
15®
18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................
®  1  00
Picis Llq. N.N.54 gal.
@ 2 00 
@
doz............................  
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  Burgun...........  @
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10®
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10® 
1  20
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @
1  25
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30®
33 
Quassise..................  
8®
TO
29®
Quinia, S. P. & W .. 
34 
23®
Quinia, S. German.. 
30 
Quinia, N.Y............  
29®
34 
Rubia Tinetorum... 
12®
14 
SaccharumLactis pv  18®
20
Salacin....................   3 00®
3  10 
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®
50
Sapo,  W................... 
12®
14 
Sapo, M.................... 
10®
12
Sapo, G....................  
®
15 22
Siedlitz  Mixture__20  @

19
43
45
70
47

40 
42 
65 
42 

Sinapis.................... 
© 
is
®  30
Sinapis, opt............  
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo's 
@ 34
Soda Boras..............  9  @ 
11
Soda Boras, po........  9  ©  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  1V4® 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   334® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  MyreiaDom...  @  9 00
Spts. Vini Reet. bbl.  @ 2  42
Spts. Vini Reet. 34bbl  @ 2 47
Spts. Vini Reet. lOgal  @2 50 
Spts. Vini Reet.  5gal  @ 2 52
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   234® 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2V4
8®  10
Tamarinds.............. 
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
42®  45
Theobromae............  
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 Oo
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Oils

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

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

Paints  BBL. 

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

LB
1% 2  m
1*  2  @4 
2  @3 
234  2V4@3 
234  2*@3
13®
15 
70®
75 
19
1334®
13®
16 
6 
534®
6
534®
_  70
r@  90
@  1 00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

Varnishes]’

No. 1 Turp Coach
1  10®  1  20
Extra  Turp........
1  60®  1  70
Coach Body........
2 75® 3 00 
No. 1 Turp Fum . 
1  00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar
1  55®  1  60
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp  70®  75

1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
*0 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20
35
38
3
4
50
50 
1  40 
15 
50 
12 
40 
1  50 
9 
10

15 
®  15
15 
14 
3 no

63 
1  15 
1  50

Scillse Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus virg............
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafcetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma.................
Cantharides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co.........
Castor......................
Catechu...................
Cinchona............
Cinchona Co...........
Columba.................
Cubeba....................
Cassia  Acutifol......
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
Digitalis.................
Ergot.......................
Ferri Chloridum....
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..........."
Guiaca....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus...........
Iodine......................
Iodine, colorless__
Kino.........................
Lobelia.............. ..."
Myrrh......................’
Nux Vomica...........
Opii........................'
Opii, camphorated..
Opii, deodorized....
Quassia...................
Rhatany............... [
Rhei.................[
Sanguinaria  .  . . . . .
Serpentaria............
Stromonium...........
Tolutan................
Valerian.................
Veratrum Veride.! 
Zingiber..................

niscellaneous 

^Sther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
-¡Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  *4®
Alumen...................  2Q@
3®
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
Annatto................. 
40®
4®
Antimoni,  po....... 
Antimoni etPotassT  40®
Antlpyrin.............. 
@
Antifebrin 
@
........ 
@
Argenti Nitras, oz ' 
Arsenicum............. 
to®
Balm Gilead  Bud 
38@
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
Calcium Chlor., vis 
@ 
Calcium Chlor.,  54s 
@
Cantharides,  Rus.po  @ 
Capsici  Fructus. af.  @
Capsici Fructus,  po 
Capsici FructusB.po 
12® 
Caryophylius.po.  15 
@
Carmine, No. 40 
Cera Alba, S. & F 
50®
. 
Cera  Flava............  
40®
Coceus 
......................... @
Cassia Fructus... V   @
Centrarla.................  @
Cetaceum............[ ’ ’ 
@
C h l o r o f o r m . . 60® 
Chloroform, squibbs  @ 
Chloral H ydCrst...  1  25®
Chondrus................   20®
Cinchonidine,P.& w  25® 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®
Cocaine..................   3 55®
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct. 
@
Creosotum.. 
Creta.............bbl.'75 
@
Creta, prep  ........... 
@
Creta, precip......” 
g@
Creta, Rubra.........  
@
is®
Crocus............ . ] “ * 
©
Cudbear........’’ 
5®
Cupri S u l p h [ 
Dextrine.................. 
10®
Ether Snlph__ 
75®
Emery, all  numbers  @
Emery, po....... ........  @
Ergota............po. 40  30®
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla........................ 
©
g©
Gambier.................. 
Gelatin, Cooper.. . .   @
Gelatin, French__ 
35®
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown........... 
Glue, white...... 
Glyeerina...........1334®
Grana  Paradisi  ... 
Humulus.........  
Hydraag Chlor  Mite 
Hydraag Chlor  Cor
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @ 
Hydraag Ammoniati  @ 
HydraagUnguentum  45®
Hydrargyrum.........  
@
Iehthyobolla, Am... 
65®
Indigro. 
75®
................. 
Iodine, Resnbi........  3 60®
@
Iodoform...............  
Lupulin...........................@
Lycopodium........... 
40®
............  
Macis 
66&
Liquor  Arsen et ¿ j-
drarglod.............   @
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10®
Magnesia, Sulph__ 
2®
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @
Mannia, S. F ........... 
50®
Menthol................. 
h.

 

g@
t3@
@
25®
@  80 
70 
90 
1  00 55 
65 
75 
1  00
3 70
4  20 
2 25
45

25 
12 
3 
U4 00 
2 75

Advanced—Turpentine. 
Declined—Linseed Oil.

Acidum

Aceticum....................... t   6@$ 8
Benzoicum, German  70®  75
Boracic....................   @ 
15
Carbolicum............   29®  41
40®  42
Citricum................. 
3® 
Hydrochlor............. 
5
Nitrocum...............  
8®  10
12®  14
Oxalicum................ 
© 
Phosphorium,  dil... 
15
Salieylicum............. 
60®  65
Sulphurlcum........... 
1^@ 
5
Tannicum..............  1  25@  1  40
Tartaricum.............  
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
4® 
6
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
6® 
8
Car bon as................. 
12®  14
Chloridum.............. 
12®  14
Aniline
Black......................... 2 on® 2 25
Brown....................  
80®  1  00
R ed......................... 
45®  50
Yellow....................   2 50® 3 00
Baccte.
13@  15
Cubesee...........po. 18 
Juniperus...............  
6@ 
8
X&nthoxylum.........  
25®  30
Balsamum
Copaiba...................   55®  60
® 2 40
Peru......................... 
Terabln, Canada__ 
45®  50
Tolutan...................  
50®  60
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassise  ....................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virglni........
Quillala,  gr’d
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza, po...... 
Haematox, 15 lb box. 
Haematox, I s ........... 
Haematox, Vis.........  
Haematox, Vis......... 

24®  25
28®  30
11®  12
13®  14
14®  15
16®  17

Ferro

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride...... 
Sulphate, com’l ...... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt......... 
Sulphate, pure  ......  

Flora

15
2 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

Folia

12®  14
Arnica.................... 
18®  25
Anthemis...............  
Matricaria..............  30®  35
Barosma..................  
23®  28
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18@  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, 34s
and  Vis................. 
12®  20
Ura Ursi..................  
8® 
10
Gummi
@  65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®  45
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
®  35
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
Acacia, sifted sorts. 
®  28
Acacia, po...............  
60®  80
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape__po. 15  @  12
Aloe, SocotrL.po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac..............  55®  60
Assafcetida__po. 30 
25®  28
Benzolnum............  
50®  55
Catechu, Is.............. 
®  13
Catechu, Vis............  
®  14
Catechu, Vis............  
®  16
Camphors  ............  
40®  43
Euphorbium..po.  35  @ 
10
Galbanum...............  
® 100
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Guaiacum......po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. #3.u0  @ 3 00
M astic....................  @  60
Myrrh............ po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. S4.10@4.30 3 25®  3 35
Shellac....................  25©  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba
25
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
20
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
25
28
Majorum .... oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
23
Mentha Vir..oz. pkg 
25
Rue...............oz. pkg 
39
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
22
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
25
ITagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat____ 
20®  22
20®  25
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc.... 
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00© 8 25
Anisi......................... 2  15®  2 25
Auranti  Cortex......   2 25®  2 40
Bergamii.................  2 40®  2 50
Cajiputi...................  85®  90
Caryophylll............   75®  80
°edar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli..............  @ 2 75
Cinnamonli.............  1  65®  1 75
OlteoneUa.  ............. 
45®  50

Radix

35®  50
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  1  io@  1 20
Cubebae.  ...................  
90® 1 00
Exechthitos............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  1  00® 1  10
Gaultheria...............  1  50® 1  60
Geranium,  ounce...  @  75
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50® 60
Hedeoma.................  1  00©  1  10
Junipera................   150@200
Lavendula................  
90® 2 00
Limonis 
..............  1 30@  1  50
Mentha Piper.........   1 60@ 2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1 50@  1  60
Morrhuae,  gal.........  1 00@  1  10
Myrcia,......................   4 00® 4 50
S . ^ v ”
75® 3 00
........... 
Picis  Liquida.........  
io@ 
12
©  35
Picis Liquida, gal... 
R icina....................  99® 1  10
Kosmarmi...............  
1 00
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90®  1 00
Santa]......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55@  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tlgiii.......................  1 40®  1  50
40®  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
i5@  go
Potassium
gJCarb.................... 
15®  18
130* 
Bichromate........... 
15
Bromide..................  
50®  55
12® 
Carb....................... 
is
Chlorate..po. 17©19c  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
35®  40
Iodide.. 
..............  2 60® 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
® 
15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8®  10
Potass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
Prussiate.................  20®  25
Sulphate p o ..  ...... 
15@ 
18
Aconitvm...............  20®  25
A lth*.....................   22®  25
Anchusa................. 
10® 
12
Amm po..................   @  25
20®  40
Calamus................. 
Gentiana  ......po  15 
12®  15
Glychrrhiza...pv. 15 
I6@ 
18 
Hydrastis Canaden.  @  55
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  60 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®  20 
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   2 50® 2 60
Ins plox —  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25©  30
Maranta,  34s........... 
©  35
Podophyllum, po__  22®  25
ghei  ........................  75®  1 00
Rhei, cut................. 
© 125
Khm.PV................... 
75®  1  35
Spi geli a...................  
35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............  
30@  35
40®  45
Senega .....  ........... 
<a  40
I Similax,officinalis H 
Smilax, M............  
^   oe
10® 
gcil1®............-PO.35 
12
Symplocarpus, Fceti- 
dus,  po................. 
©  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
Valeriana,  German. 
15®  20
Zingiber a...............  
12® 
i6
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
Anisum......... po.  15 
@ 
12
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
g lrd>.ls.................... 
4® 
6
Carui.............po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  ¡g©  1  75
Coriandrum............  
8®  m
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4 ®   4%
Cydonium............... 
75®  100
10® 
Chenopodium  ........ 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
Foenlculum............  
© 
to
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
H n l.........................  3Vi@  434
gini,  grd.......bbl. 3 
i@  434
Lobelia..................  
35@  40
4®  4%
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
?.apa :••• •••............   4V4® 
5
Sinapis Albu........... 
7® 
0
Sinapis Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirltus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00@ 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frum enti...............   1  25@  1  50
Jun peris Co. O. T..  1  65® 2 00
Junipens Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saaeharum N. E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vim Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Yr.) Cporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25© 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................. 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage................  @  2 00
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  @  1 25
Extra yellow sheeps’ 
@ 1 00
wool,  carriage.... 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage 
.........   @  1 00
Hard, for slate use.. 
®  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............  @  1 40

Syrups

Acacia....................  @  50
Auranti Cortes........  @  50
Zingiber..................  
©  50
IPeeae. 
@  60
.......... 
Ferri Iod......  
.....  @  50
RheiArom..............  @  50
50®  60
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega.................... 
©  50
Scili».......-..............  
©  50

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

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLB  QRBA5B.

doz.  gross
Aurora..........................55  6 00
Castor Oil.................... 60  7 00
Diamond......................50  4 00
Frazer’s .......................75  9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9 00
nica. tin boxes............ 75  9 00
Paragon....................... 55  6 00

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
45
)i lb cans doz................... 
85
£  lb cans doz................... 
lb cans doz...................  1 50
1 
45
W lb cans 3 doz................. 
H lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz.................  1 00
1 
10
Bulk.................................... 
% lb cans per doz............. 
75
% lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
lb cans per doz............   2  00
1 
ii lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
% lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz case  ...... 
90

El Purity.

Home.

Jersey Cream.

45
M lb cans, 4 doz case......  
85
% lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
lb cans, 2 doz case........  160
1 
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz............. 
85
H lb cans..........................  
45
£  lb cang..........................  
75
lb cans..........................   l  50
1 
1 lb. c a n s.........................  
85

Our Leader.

Peerless.

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUING.

c < p is p

1 doz. pasteboard Boxes... 
3 

40
doz. wooden boxes.....   1 20

BROOnS.

So. 1 Carpet.......................   1 90
No. 2 Carpet.......................   1 75
No. 3 Carpet......................  1 50
No. 4 Carpet.......................   1 15
Parlor Gem.......................   2 00
Common Whisk.................  
70
Fancy Whisk.... ................. 
80
Warehouse.................... . 
2 25

CANDLBS.

8s.........................................7
16s.........................................8
Paraffine...............................8

CANNED  GOODS, 
rianitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside B.  J ....................  1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1 20 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  45 
Extra Sifted Early Jane.... 1  75 
Columbia, 
pints..............2 00
Columbia, % pints............. 1  25

CATSUP.

CHEESE

Acm e......................  @  ll
Amboy....................   @
Byron......................  ©  11%
Elsie.......................   ©  12%
Emblem...................  ©  11%
Gem.........................   @
Gold  Medal............   ©  11
Ideal.......................   ©  11%
Jersey  ....................   @  11
Lenawee.................  @  ll
Riverside.................  @
Springdale..............  @  11%
Brick.......................  ©  12%
Edam.......................  ©  75
Leiden.....................  ©  18
Limburger..............  ©  10
Pineapple................ 43  ©  85
Sap  Sago.................  ©  18
B ulk............................... 
5
Red  ................... ...........  
7

Chicory.

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker A  Co.'s.

German Sweet........................23
Premium................. 
34
Breakfast Cocoa.....................45

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  d o t......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......... 1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  d o t......... 1  80
Jnte, 60 ft,  per  dot............   80
Jute, 72 ft.  per  dot.............  06

COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............  
CRBAfl TARTAR.

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

2%
3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

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

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

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

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

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

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 Blend...............   20
Valley City Maracaibo.......18%
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader Blend.....................12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also l%c a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................   9 50
Jersey.............................   9  50
rtcLaughlln's  XXXX........9  50
75
Valley City % gross  —  
Felix % gross................. 
1  15
Hummel's foil % gross  .. 
85
Hummel’s tin %  gross... 
1 43
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross bo x es......................  40
COUGH  DROPS.

Extract.

C. B. Brand.

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

CONDENSED MILK.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

4  doz in case.

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.

Credit Checks.

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 
20books.........................  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—DOHESTIC 
Sundrled.......................   © 5%
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 8%
Apricots.....................  7%@8%
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................  © 7%
Peaches.......................  8  ©8%
Pears..........................8  © 7%
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  ©  3%
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  ©  4
80-9025 lb boxes.........   ©4%
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.......   © 5
60 - 70 25Tlb boxes.........   © 5%
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @7%
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........   ©8%
30 -'40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
% rent'less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  60 
London Layers 4 Crown. 
2  00
Dehesias.......................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown  3%
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown  5
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown  6

FOREIGN.
Currants.

.. 

Peel.

Grits.

Farina.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Patras bbls.......................© 7%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.........@ 7%
Cleaned, bulk  ..................© 8%
Cleaned, packages............ © 8%
Citron American 101b bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  ©12 
Orange American 101b bx  ©12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  ©8%
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown  ...........  ©
Sultana 3 Crown..........9%©10
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana fi Crown 
©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  ©12
Sultana package.........   ©14
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages................... 1 75
Bulk, per 100 lbs...................3 50
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s..........2  15
Bulk in 100 lb. bags..........3 00
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums..........1  00
Dried L im a..................... 
3
Medium Hand Picked__ 1  00
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Common................................  1 75
Chester.................................  2 00
Empire  ..............................  2 50
Green,  bn.........................  81
Split,  per lb...................... 
2
Rolled Avena,  bbl.........3 90
Monarch,  bbl........................3 75
Monarch,  %  bbl...................2 00
Private brands,  bbl......
Private brands, %bbl......
Quaker, cases.  ................ 3 20
Huron, cases............ ; ..... 1  75
German............................ 
3%
East  India.......................  
3
Cracked, bulk................... 
3%
24 21b packages................2 50ji

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Beans.

Sago.

Peas.

Fish.
Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

llackerel.

Georges cured............  @5
Georges  genuine.......   © 5%
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or  bricks.........   6  © 9
Chunks............................. 
9%
Strips................................   8%
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoop % bbl  5  50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
Holland white hoop mchs 
35
Norwegian.......................  11  00
Round 100 lbs...................  2  75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
13
Mess 100 lbs......................  16  30
Mess  40 lbs......................  6  90
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  82
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1100 lbs......................  14  50
No. 1  40 lbs......................  6  10
No. 1  10 lbs......................  160
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2 100 lbs......................  9  50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  00
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
1  07
88
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
Russian kegs...........  ...... 
55
No. 1 100 lbs......................  5 50
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2  50
No. 1  10 lbs.
No. 1  8 lbs.

Sardines.
Tront.

Whiteftsh.

No. 1 No. 2
5  75
2 60
73
61

100 lbs.... ....  6 75
40 lbs  ... ....  3 00
10 lbs__ .... 
83
8 lbs.... .... 
89
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

^ X X

[STABUSHEP 1672
E
Jennings’.

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

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.......  75
3 oz....... 1  00
4 oz...... 1 40
6 oz.2 00
No. 8...2 40
4 00
No. 2 T.  80
No. 3 T.l  35
No. 4 T.l  50
Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

Sonders’.
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

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Regs 
............................4 00
Half Kegs............................2 25
Quarter Kegs...................... 1 25
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
% lb. cans............................  18
Kegs  ............................„..... 4 25
Half Kegs............................2 40
Quarter Kegs...................... 1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34
K egs......................................... 8  00
Half Kegs......   ...................4 25
QuarterjKegs...................... 2 25
lib .can s..............................  45

Eagle Dnck—Dupont’s.

HERBS.

INDIOO.

JELLY.

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

Madras, 5  lb  boxes.............  55
S. 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  doz...............2 25

LYE.

LICORICE.

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

MINCE MBAT.

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

rtATCHBS.

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

nOLAASBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
F air..................................  
14
Good................................. 
20
24
Fancy  .............................. 
Open Kettle...................... 25©35

Half-barrels 2c extra. 

MUSTARD.

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

PIPB5.

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

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

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

PiCKLBS.
riedlum.

Small.

RICB.

Domestic.

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

Imported.

SALBRATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s ............................. 8 30
Deland’s ............................. 3  15
Dwight’s ............................. 3 30
Taylor’s ...............................3 00

SALT.

Diamond  Cryatal.

Worcester.

Common Grades.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  boxes.. 1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels.  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bulk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Batter, sacks, 28 lbs............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 3 lb sacks....................... 1  90
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  75
2810-lb sacks..................... 1  60
50  4 
lb. cartons.............. 3 25
115  2%lb. sacks...................4 00
lb. sacks..................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks..................3 50
3010 
lb. sacks..................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels....................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy in drill bags......  15
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60
56-lb dairy in linen sacks 
60
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Granulated Fine.................  79
Medium  Fine......................   85

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common.

Warsaw.

SAL SODA.

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

SEEDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3
8
Caraway..........................  
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery................................. 
11
Hemp.  Russian..................  
3%
Mixed  Bird........................  
4%
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  ...............................  
10
Rape...................................   4%
Cuttle Bone........................  20

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders.............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In  jars......   43

J A X O N
Single box............................. 2 75
5 
box lots, delivered.......2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65

 

American Family, wrp’d....3 33 
American Family, unwrp’d.3 27
Dome...................  
3 33
Cabinet.................................2 20
Savon....................................2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  oz__3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb.............3 00
Kirkoline..............................3 75
Eos.....................................  3 65

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

(IYKUILE

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box........................... 2 80
5 
box lots....................... 2  75
10box lots.......................v-,.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 %-lb. bars.............. 2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars.............2 05

Scouring.

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

Boxes  ......... i.....................   5%
Kegs, English......................4%

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ............................   12%
Cassia, China in mats..........11
Cassia, Batavia in band__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 82
Cloves, Amboyna................ 15
Cloves, Zanzibar..................11
Mace,  Batavia.....................55
Nutmegs, fancy................  .60
Nutmegs, No.  1................... 50
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black... 11 
Pepper, Singapore, w hite... 12 
Pepper,  shot........................12

Pare Ground In Balk.

Allspice  .............................. 15
Cassia, Batavia...................30
Cassia,  Saigon.....................40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica..................23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard..........................12@18
Nutmegs,...................... 40@50
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white............20
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage........... t..........................15

STARCH.

Klnggford’s  Corn.

10 1-lb packages..................   e
20 1 lb packages............... "   gw

Klngsford’s Silver  Qlou.

40 l ib packages. 
8-lb  boxes  ......

654

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ............
läi  5c  packages............
32 10c and 64 5c packages

Common  Corn.
201 lb. packages.............
101 lb. packages..............

.5  00 
.5 00 
.5 00

Common Gloas.

1-lb  packages.....................   4
3-lb  packages......................  4
8-lb  packages.................. . ’  4
10 and 50 lb boxes..................2
Barrels 
”  ?

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

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUOAR.

 

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 63
Cut  Loaf............................  5 63
Crushed....................................5 63
Cubes......................... 
Powdered  ...........................5 31
XXXX  Powdered..............  .5 38
Granulated in bbls...................5 13
Granulated in  bags................. 5 13
Fine Granulated...................... 5 13
Extra Fine Granulated.......5 25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5  25
Mould  A...................................5 38
Diamond  Confec.  A........... 5  13
Confec. Standard A..................5 00
No.  1....................................... 4 75
No 
.................................4 75
No.
............................ 4  69
No.
............................ 4  63
No.
............................ 4 56
No.
............................ 4 50
No.
...........................4  44
No.
............................4  38
No.
............................4  31
No.  10.....................................  4 25
No.  11..............................  
4 19
No.  12.....................................  4 13
No.  13....................................... 4 06
No.  14....................................... 4 00
No.  15....................................... 3 94
No.  16....................................... 3 88

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................   15
Half  bbls............................ 17

Pure Cane.

Fair  ..................................  
lg
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-JeweU-Wells Co.’s brand.
New  Brick........................ 33 00

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

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

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40grain.  ..  6 
Malt White Wine,80 grain....  9
Pure Cider.............................  g
Pure Cider,  Leroux...............n

Washing Powder.

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

bbls.  pails
_ 
Standard.................  654@ 7
Standard H.  H 
054@ 7 
Standard Twist 
®  8 
Cut Loaf.........
@ 8 % 
cases 
Jumbo, 321b  ...
® 6 54 
Extra H. H......
© 854
Boston  Cream.

Mixed Candv.

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

Fancy—in Bulk.

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

10

© 6 
© 7 
© 7*  
© 754 
© 8 54 
© 8% 
©  8* 
© 8 
© 8* 
© 854 
@10 
@12

© 854 
© 8* @14 
@11 
@ 6 
@ 8 
@ 854 
@ »X

Fancy-

In  5  lb.  Boxes

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

Fruits.
Oranges.
Cal. Seedlings........
Fancy Navels 112  ..
126 to 216.................
Choice....................

Lemons. 
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s............
Ex. Fancy 300s........
Ex.Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

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

@30
@45

@2 75 
@3 00

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

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

@1  50 
@2  00

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

@  13
@©  14
@  15 
@  13 
@ 654

@ 8 
@ 6 
@  S54 
@ 6 
© 454

Choice, 101b boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy, 12 lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 61b boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags...
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes 
Fards  in  60 lb cases
Persians, G. M’s......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases__
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
@13
Almonds, Ivaca.........
@11
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new...............   ®  9
Filberts  ....................  —
@10
Walnuts, Grenobles .. 
@12@10
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1 
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
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.

@1  60 
@4  50

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

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @  7
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
« 7
Choice, H. P., Extras.
@ 454
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  .................

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

WICKING.

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

Fish and  Oysters

Per lb. 

9
9 
12 
15
4
10
20

©

©

Fresh Fish.

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

.........

Oysters in Cans.

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

Oysters  in Bulk

F. H. Counts...........
Extra Selects.........
Selects ....................
Anchor Standards..
Standards...............
5 31
Clams.....................

@1  75 
@1  50 
@1 25 
@1  10 
@1  00 
@1  25

Oysters, per 100......... 1  25@1  50
oo
'ram* 

Shell  Goods.
rx»r  100 

Hides.

Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon & Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows:
Green No.  1................  @854
Green No. 2................  
7X
Cured No. 1................  
ia. aii
Cured No. 2................
© SM 
Calfskins,  green No. 1 
@ 9 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
@  754@1054 
Calfskins, cured No. 1 
Calfskins, cured No. 2
@  9

Furs.

Large Bear...............1 00@15 00
Beaver......................  50@ 6 00
Cat, W ild................. 
5@  25
Fisher......................1  00® 7 00
Red Fox...................   25®  1  50
Gray Fox..................  25@  70
Cross Fox  ...............  
5@ 5 00
Lynx.........................  20@ 2 00
Muskrats..................   2@ 
15
Mink  ....... 
5@  1  20
Martin......................  25@ 3 00
Otter.........................1  00@ 9 00
Racoon..................... 
io@  80
Black skunk.............   10@  1  00
W olf.........................  20@  1 50

 

Pelts,  each.................  50@1  00

Pelts.

Tallow.

Wool.

No. 1................  @ 25£
No. 2...................  @2

Washed, fine  ............   @20
Washed, medium............  @25
Unwashed, fi ne............13 @15
Unwashed, medium  ..18 @20

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene  ......................  @1154
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 85k
WW Michigan...........  @ 8«
Diamond White.........  @754
D., S. Gas....................  @8
Deo. N aptha..............  @7
Cylinder....................25  @34
Engine.......................n   @21
B  ack, winter............   @9

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
54 gal., per doz.................  50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
554
8 gal., per g a l.................  654
0 gal., per gal..................  654
J? gal., per gal..................   654
lo 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......   ... 
554
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milkpans.

X gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  60
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  554
54 gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each  554 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Stewpans.

54 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
X gal., per doz..................  40
54 gal., per doz..................  gon
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   654

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

54 gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., each......................  7
G°rks for 54 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
54 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz...l  00 

Sealing Wax.

80

top,
top,
top,

First  Quality.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
„  
No.  0 Sun..........................   45
No.  1  Sun....................  ” 
go
No.  2 Sun............   ........... 
75
Tubular..................... .......  59
Security, No.  1...... ...........   65
Security, No. 2......... ."  " ' 
85
Nutmeg  ........................ 
50
Climax................................  4 59
LAMP  ChlMNEY^  Common. 
„   „ „ 
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun...................... 
4  75
No.  1  Sun............................ 1  cq
No.  2 Sun.......................”  2 79
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 

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

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 79
No, 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.................................  4 79
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled.................................. 4 88
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lanins............ 
La  B as tie.
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ..................... 
125
. 
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  .............................   4  59
No. 1 Crimp,per doz.. W "'.  1 35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60
No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 59
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.
l 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................40 50
5 gal Home R u le.............42 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 59
No.  0 Tubular..................   4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash. 
....  8 30 
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN  OLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents...........  45
No. 0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents.. 
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35!................... 
40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 
cases 1 doz. each...  .....  1 25 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................ 
20
No. 1 per gross................... 
25
No. 2 per gross.................  
38
No. 3 per gross...................  58
Mammoth.  ............  
79

,  ,  OIL  CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

LANTERNS.

Rochester.

Electric.

Swift  & 

follows:

Company  quote  as

Barreled Pork.
.  .

Mess  .................
Back  ............... . 
Clear back__
Shortcut........
pig.......................
Bean  ......................
Family  ...........

Dry Salt  Meats.

10 75
11  00 
10 50 
10 50 
14 00
8 75 
10 50

4

w
%
%
^
%

Sausages.

Smoked  Heats.

Lards.  In Tierces.

Bellies...................... '
Briskets  ............
Extra  shorts...
*>X
Hams, 12 lb  average...... 
9
83k
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
Hams, 161b  average...... 
854
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
75k
Ham dried b e e f......  
14
Shoulders  (N. Y. c u t ) ! 
6
Bacon,  clear................. 7  @8
California hams......... ]. 
6
Boneless hams........ 
854
Cooked ham..............”  8@11
Compound.............. 
Kettle.................... 6w
......... advance 
l5 } v 
f®JLTubs......... advance 
T ins......... advance 
fX 
£a?}s......... advance 
JL Baj!s......... advance
o ,9 Ba4is......... advance
o lb Pails......... advance
H  1  „  
Bologna...............
Liver.....................
Frankfort...........
P ork............ "  ..............
Blood  ............ . . . . ........
Tongue.........
Head  cheese.........
_ 
Beef.
Extra  Mess
9 00
  40
Boneless  ................ 
Rump.........
.12 00
_ _   Pigs’ Feet,
Kits, 15 lbs__
80
54  bbls, 40 lbs__1  Si
54  bbls, 80 lbs.............. 
2 80
Kits, 15 lbs...  .  ............. 
7=
1 40
54  bbls, 40 lbs................. 
54  bbls, 80 lbs.............."  275
Casings.
P ork......................... 
,6
Beef  rounds...... . . .  . 
4
Beef  middles...... . 
10
Sheep..................................... gg
„   „  
.  Butterine.
Rolls, dairy........... 
Solid,  dairy........... 
Rolls,  creamery...... 
Solid,  creamery........ 
_ 
Canned  Meats.
Corned beef,  2 l b ........2 15
Corned  beef, 14  lb....  1475
Roast  beef,  2 lb .......  2 15
Potted  ham,  54s..........  
60
Potted  ham,  54s..........   1 00
«n
Deviled ham,  vg 
Deviled ham,  54s ." " : :   100
Potted  tongue 54s.......... 
60
Potted  tongue 54s ..........   1 00

m
914
14
43^

Tripe.

 

Crackers.

654

754

Soda.

Oyster.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX................  g
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton
Family XXX__
family XXX, 3 lb  carton
Salted XXX....................
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton.
Soda  XXX  .......................   7
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton.. 
Soda,  City...... 
g
Zephyrette.........  
I  10
Long Island  Wafers.........   11
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX.........   6
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb  carton  7
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   e
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
iniz
Animals.......................  
Bent’s Cold Water.........  
14
Belle Rose.................... 
‘  g
Cocoanut Taffy.................  914
Coffee Cakes.................   "   g7*
Frosted Honey...........  ""  4354
Graham Crackers  __ g
Ginger Snaps, XXX round  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Sups,XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  vanilla......... 
g
Imperials..............................gw
Jumbles,  Honey.............. 
1454
Molasses Cakes.................  
g
Marshmallow  ............ . . ."  45
Marshmallow  Creams..":  16 
Pretzels,  hand  made  . 
9
Pretzelettes, Little German  7
Sugar  Cake...................... 
Sultanas..........................   431/
Sears’ Lunch......... ........  g
Vanilla  Square.......:........   siz
Vanilla  Wafers......  
44
451/
Pecan Wafers........... 
Mixed Picnic................  "  io2
Cream Jumbles.......  
"   12
Boston Ginger Nuts........’..  854
Chimmie Fadden__ 
10
Pineapple Glace.............   '  16
Penny Cakes.................  
§54
Marshmallow  Walnuts....  16 
Belle Isle Picnic.............. '  11

6

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

Grains and Feedstuffs

Provisions.

Wheat.

Wheat

Winter  Wheat Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents.............................   5 59
Second  Patent............ 5 00
Straight............................  4 80
Glear...................................  4  40
Graham  ..................  
4 75
Buckwheat......... ............. 3 50
......................boo
Subject 
to usual  cash  dis­
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­

count.
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Quaker,  54s ........................  4 60
Quaker, 54s........................  4 80
Quaker, 54s........................   4  60

Bpring  Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.

Pillsbury’s Best 54s...........  5 65
PiUsbury’s  Best 54s...........  5 55
Pillsbury’s Best 54s........  5 45
Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper..  5 45 
Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper..  5 45
Ball Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth Imperial, %s...........5 50
Duluth Imperial, 54s ........   5 40
Duluth Imperial, 54s.........   5 30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand.
Gold Medal %s.......................  5 45
Gold Medal 54s.........................5 35
Gold Medal 54s.............. 
5 25
Parisian, 54s....................    5  45
Parisian, 54s............................. 5 35
Parisian. 54s...........................   5 25

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, 54s ...................  5  65
Ceresota, 54s........................5 55
Ceresota, 54s........................5 45
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, 54s.............................   5 50
Laurel, 54s .............................   5 40
Laurel, 54s ..............................  5 3^

Meal.

Bolted.......................  
Granulated......... 2 00

j  75

Feed and Milistuffg.
St. Car Feed, screened  . 
No. 1 Com and  Oats..........11  50
Unbolted Corn Meal..........13 75
Winter Wheat  Bran..........14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 00 
Screenings.............................. 43 99

15 50

New Corn.

Car  lots............................. .....
Less than  car lots............   37

3354

Car  lots............................. ...
Carlots, clipped..........   . ..  3254
Less than  car lots........35

No. 1 Timothy  arlots........  9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__10 00

Fresh  Meats.

Oats.

Hay.

Beef.

Carcass.......................6J4@ 754
7H@ 9
--- --  
Fore quarters..............  554@ 
Hind  quarters. 
Loins  No.  3.
9  @12 
Ribs............
8  @12 
Rounds  ......
654@  754 
Chucks........
4  @ 5
Plates  ........
@ 4

Pork.

Dressed...
L oins......
Shoulders. 
Leaf Lard.

Mutton.

Carcass.........
Spring Lambs.

Veal.

@ 854 
@ 554 

5 X©

© 8 
@ 9

Carcass  ....................  654@ 8

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

journals 

is  proceeding  slowly. 

Staple  Cottons—The  strikers  in  New 
England  are 
losing  their  hold  of  the 
public  attention  to  a  great  extent,  and 
in  the 
the  space  which  they  occupy 
is  now 
daily 
comparatively 
The  Legislative  Com­
insignificant. 
mittee  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts 
is 
at  work  on  the  matter  and the investiga­
tion 
Southern 
cotton  mills  are  eagerly  taking  advan- 
age  of  the  opportunity  afforded  them 
and  are  making  hay  as  rapidly  as  pos­
sible.  Three  large  cotton  manufactur­
ing  companies  have  been 
incorporated 
in  South  Caiolina 
in  a  single  week. 
One  of  these  will  manufacture  the  high­
er  class  of  goods  which  has 
long  been 
regarded  as  the  particular  province  of 
New  England.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Prints  and 
ginghams  are  the  most  prominent  fea­
tures  of  the  market,  and  some  lines  of 
these  are  nearly  sold  up.

Woolen  Goods—The  general  tone  of 
the  entire  woolen  goods  market has been 
quiet  during  the  past  week. 
In  no  de­
partment  has  there  been  enough activity 
to  cause  comment. 
In  men’s  wear 
woolens,  business  seems  to  be somewhat 
on  the  mend,  although  no  business 
worth  mentioning 
is  being  transacted. 
Nearly  all  the  traveling  salesmen  have 
been  called  home,  as  manufacturers and 
jobbers  realize  the  futility of attempting 
to  get  more  business  just  now.  The 
clothier  has  the  reins  at  present,  and 
woolen  men  must  await  his  pleasure 
with  as  much  patience  as  they  can com­
mand.  There  have  been  many  'new 
lines  shown,  but  as  fast  as  some  orders 
are  taken,  they  are  canceled,  because 
some  “ new”   line  appears  which knocks 
the  last  line  completely  out.

Hosiery—Owing  to  the  overwhelming 
sales  of  fancies,  staples  have  suffered 
somewhat,  but  the  orders  received  have 
been  fair  and  the  demand  has  been I 
moderately  active.  Fast  blacks  have 
enjoyed  their  usual  steady  demand,  and 
no  complaint 
is  made  by  any  one of 
poor  business in these  lines.  Solid  colors 
have  not  done  so  well.  This  has been 
notably  the  case  in  tans.  Fashion  dic­
tates  that  fancy  hose  will  be  worn  with 
russet  shoes this  year,  as  they  were  last, 
which  has  seriously  injured  the  sale  of 
tan  colored  hose  in  the  various  shades. 
Some  business  has  been  done,  however, 
but  the  prices  are  not altogether  satis­
factory.

Carpets—The  proposed 

ingrain  car­
pet  combination  has  continued  to  be 
the  all-absorbing  topic  of  conversation, 
both  among  the  manufacturers  and  the 
retail  merchants.  Several  manufactur­
ers  are  free  to  admit  that  something 
radical  should  be  done to  make  a  uni­
form  price 
for  the  different  grades. 
They  realize  that  for  a  long  time  the 
ingrain  manufacturers  have 
suffered 
from  competition  of  other  grades of car­
pets,  especially  the  tapestry.  Will  such 
combination  as  is  now  proposed  reduce 
competition?  Some  are  free  to  state 
that  they  believe  it  will  increase  it.  At 
first  the  combination  was  started  with 
the  intention  of  including  all  grades  of 
carpets. 
idea  was  afterwards 
abandoned  as  not  feasible.  There  are 
certain  evils  connected  with  the ingrain 
carpet  business  which  should  be  cor­
rected,  however.  So  far  as  our  knowl­
edge  of  the  situation  goes,  we  can  not 
find  that  the  large  Eastern  and  Middle 
States’  manufacturers  have  joined  the 
in-
combination.  The  total  number  of 

This 

grain  power  looms  in  the  United  States 
is  placed  at  4.779-  Of  this  number,
3.235  are 
located  in  Philadelphia,  and
1.235  are  distributed  in  various  states, 
including  New  York,  Pennsylvania, 
Connecticut,  Massachusetts,  New 
Jer­
sey,  and  Indiana.  There  are  outside  of 
those  mentioned  185  ingrain  art  square 
looms  in  the  United  States.  Out  of  this 
number, 116  are  owned  and  operated 
in 
Philadelphia.  Some  of  those  who  sell 
carpets  do  not  care  how  soon  the  trust 
comes,  as  they  believe  it  would  bene­
fit  the  small  retailer  and  check  the ruin­
ous  price-cutting  now  carried  on  by  the 
ingrain 
large  department  stores.  The 
trade 
largely  to  the 
Western  States.  The  Eastern  and  Mid­
dle  States  each  year  are  using the tapes­
try  and  pile  carpets  more than formerly. 
Next  season  will  find  several more  mills 
engaged  on  tapestries,  in  order  to  meet 
this  growing  demand,  and 
it  is  from 
this  source  that  the  ingrain  will  meet 
with  the 
larger  share  of  competition, 
although  the  straw  matting  has  for  sev­
eral  years  injured  the  sale  of 
ingrains.

is  confined  very 

The  Penalties  of  Wealth.

it 

ill. 

lots. 

There  is  nothing  harder  for  the  aver­
age  woman  to  realize  than  that  money is 
not  a  panacea  for  every 
In  her 
is  not  the  love  of 
system  of  ethics 
money  that 
is  the.root  of  all  evil,  but 
the 
lack  of  it.  Doubtless  it  is  because 
women  are  generally  kept  on  such  short 
allowances,  and  are  so  generally  forced 
to  make  one  dollar  do  the  work  of  two, 
that  they  come  to  place  such  an  undue 
value  on  money,  and  not  because  they 
are  more  avaricious  than  men.

The  poor  woman  with  a  house  full 
of  children  can  hardly  be  blamed  for 
envying  the  rich  woman  across  the  way 
or  contrasting  their 
The  rich 
woman  never  has  to  lie  awake nights 
planning  how  she  may  get  money  to 
send  a  clever 
lad  to  college  or  give  a 
pretty  young  daughter  the  dainty  frock 
she  needs.  She,  fortunate  woman,  does 
not  know  how  bitter  it  is  to  be  forced tc 
disappoint  the  eager  little  ones  in  some 
cherished  pleasure  because  one  can  not 
afford  a  single  cent  extra  outlay. 
It  is 
only  now  and  then  that  the  poor  woman 
remembers  how  one  day  the  death  an­
gel  came  to  the  rich  neighbor’s  house 
and  bore  the  only  child  away,  and  not 
all  the  money  nor all  the  skill  could  bar 
those  costly  portals  against  it.

In  reality  wealth  has  its  own  peculiar 
penalties  and  burdens 
For  one  thing 
it  clouds  the  dearest  and  nearest  rela­
tions  of  life  with  suspicion.  The  poor 
girl  is  sure  she  is  wooed  and  loved  for 
herself  alone.  The  rich  girl 
is  fore­
doomed  to  be  the  prey  of  fortune  hunt­
ers.  No  matter  how  attractive  she  may 
be  or  well  worth  loving,  no man  can  ap­
proach  her  without 
incurring  the  sus­
picion  of  sordid  designs  Her  very 
wealth 
is  a  barrier  which  keeps  the 
high  minded  from  showing  the  sincere 
affection  they  really  feel,  lest  they,  too, 
be  classed  with  the  parasites.

The  same  thing  may be said of friend­
ship.  Fiiendship 
is  one  of  the  pleas­
ures  the  rich  seldom  know.  The  very 
conditions  of  their  lives  surround  them 
with  flatterers,  who  fawn  upon  them, 
and  only  too  soon  does  the  rich  man  or 
woman  find  that  almost  every  expres­
sion  of  affection  covers  some  demand. 
This  one  smiles  upon  them  because  he 
wants  to  borrow  money;  that  one  has  a 
scheme  to  work ;  another  wants  to be in­
vited  to  dinner;  another  to  ride,  in  their 
carriage  or sit  in  their  box  at the opera, 
and  so 
it  goes,  until,  at  last,  the  poor 
lonely  Croesus 
looks  about  him  in  the 
arid  waste  of  society,  and  sees  not  one 
single  friend  who  loves  him  for  what 
he  is,  and  not  tor  what  he  has.

It  is  absolutely  true  that  in  the  great 
crises  of 
life  we  all,  rich  and  poor 
alike,  stand  upon the same plane.  There 
comes  a  time  in  every  life  when  we  can 
not  bribe  death  or  pain  or  sorrow  with 
money.  There 
is  no  gold  coined  that 
will  buy  friendship  or affection,  and  the 
heart  that  asks  for  love  must  still  sue 
as  a  beggar.  For  love  is  not  bought nor 
sold,  but  given  as  a  largesse.

S A Y ,  M I S T E R !

It  matters  not  what  the  salesman  may  tell 
you,  you  know  as  well  as  we  do  that  the 
wear  there  is  in  a  garment  depends  NOT 
upon  its appearance but upon the honesty of 
its maker.  We claim  to show as good a line 
of low and medium  priced  PANTS  as  there 
is  on  the  market  to-day.  We  will  sub­
stantiate this with a guarantee on  every pair 
sold.  Our gbods are made  right.

V O IG T ,  H E R P O L S H E IM E R   &   C O ..

M ANUFACTURERS  AND  JOBBERS, 
G R A N D   R A P I D S .   MICH.

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Laundried shirts with  or without collars;  soft 
front  or  laundried  plaids  and  stripes,  $+.50, 
$0.00,  $7.50,  $10.50.  We  have  a  job  of  about 
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 
from  45c to  $12.00  per doz.

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ship  your order the same day as received  6» 
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pies  containing  about  50  patterns—size  jrfi| 
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carpet as  represented—in style, color and  jjnftj 
quality.  No  picture  scheme  or  Misrep-  feff 
resentation.  Every  sample  is  finished, 
numbered and quality specified on ticket,  fijjj 
so you can  make no  mistake when order-  «7 
ing.  We also make  up  books  as  above, 
18x18  in., which we will furnish

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If  a  man 

is  big  and  fat  and  able  to 
keep  his  mouth  shut,  he  can  bluff  near­
ly  anybody.

If  you  give  a  bald-headed  man  a  fair 
show,  he  will  always  be  found  well  up 
in  front.

MERCHANTS

who  have  lost  money  trying  to 
carry a stock  of clothing  should 
read this.

FOR  SALE

Broom  Factory  complete,  with 
capacity of 6o  to  75  dozen  brooms 
per  day.  Steam  sewers  and  all 
necessary machinery for  operating 
same.  Factory  now  in  operation 
with  established  trade.  Best  rea­
sons for selling.  Address  “ Broom 
f  actory,  care of Michigan Trades­
man.

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Liquid  Bluing 

that  will  not  settle?

THE_____ 

WOLVERINE 
SPICE  CO.,

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ORAND RAPIDS. MICH.  2;

This celebrated brand of

Ready-to-Wear 

Men’s  and  Boys’  Clothing

is sold In  every state and territory by our 
agents who furnish  the desired sizes from 
ourgreat warehouses.
We want more good agents in towns and 
cities where  we  are not  now represented.
Men’s suits.  84.00  to  S15.00;  Boys’  suits 
SB.00 toS10.00.  Men’s pants 75c to $4.00.
Complete  outfit  free.  Write  for  par­
ticulars.

WHITE  CITY  TAILORS,

213 to 217 Adams Street, Chicago.

Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. lid.

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

“A  Gam e  o f  Good  Sam aritan. 

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

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After  the  room  was  "fixed ”   to  suit 
the  severe taste  of  its occupant,  a house­
warming  was  the  next  thing  in  order 
and  three  “ good  fellows”   whom  Morris 
had  taken  a  strong  fancy  to  came  over 
one  evening  to  dedicate  the  apartment 
to  ” a  glorious  and  a  happy  future,  and 
to  wreathe  the  brow  of  our generous- 
hearted  host  with  the green laurel leaves 
of  success,”   as  Jack  Horner  put  it  dur­
ing  the  course  of  the  evening.

For  some  reason  or  otb< i,  1  have 
It  struck 
never  liked  that  Jack  Hornet. 
me  the  first  time 
I  took  his  cold, 
clammy  band  in  mine  that  he  was  one 
of  these  make-the-most  of-you 
fellows, 
always  on  the  lookout  for  a  good  chance 
to  put  his  theory 
into  practice.  When 
his  eyes  fell  upon  Will’s  room,  its  com­
forts  and  delights,  he  at  once  deter­
mined  that  there  should  be  another, 
only  a  better one.  All  the  talent  in  that 
line  wasn't  crowded  under  Will  Morris’ 
hat.  With  this  thought 
in  his  mind, 
he  was 
in  everything  that 
met  his  sight.  He  asked  questions; 
he  handled  everything;  he 
lifted  the 
table  cover  to  see  how  the  thing  was 
put  together,  and the  soap-box  bookcase 
submitted  to  the  closest  examination. 
Morris  was  delighted.  “ If  you’ll  try  it, 
Ja ck ,”   said  he,  ‘ ‘ I ’ll  help  you,  if  you 
want  me  to,  all  I  can. ’ ’  So  there  were 
busy  and  delightful  times  at  the  home 
of  Jack,  whose  mother  would  have 
turned  over  the  whole  establishment  to 
her  “ darling  Jack”   had  he  so  much  as 
hinted  that  he  wanted  it.

interested 

As  Jack  had  surmised,  the  moment 
that  Will  began  he  “ went  in  for  all  he 
was  worth.”   He  sawed,  he  planed ;  he 
nailed,  he  varnished. 
In  season  and 
out  of  season  he  and  Jack  were  busy 
fitting  up  Jack’s  “ den;”   and,  when 
it 
was  done,  Will  had  done  the  work  and 
Jack  the  heaviest  looking  on  that  has  so 
far  been  recorded !  Then  Mrs.  Horner 
was  allowed  to  step  over  the  enchanted 
threshold  and  gaze  upon  the  solid  com­
forts  about  her. 
“ And  you  did  it  all, 
Jack! 
I  never  would  have  believed  it. 
How  did  you  ever  get  a  bookcase  out 
of  a  lot  of  soap  boxes?  And  wheie  did 
you  get  the  idea of making an easy  chair 
out  of  a 
flour  barrel?  Springs,  too! 
Well,  I  never!  You  surely  never  man- 
ufactuied  that  lounge,  Jack?”   and  Jack 
was  forced  to  answer  in  the  negative. 
in  such  a  funny  way, ”  
“ But 
he  explained. 
“ I  told  Will  that  a  den 
without  a  bedlounge—let  me  open  it up, 
mother—wasn’t  a  den  at  all.  There! 
isn’t  that  fine?  So  Will  kept  his  eyes 
open  and  found  one  advertised  and  I 
went  down  and  bought 
“ Well, 
everything harmonizes so ; that  isn’t your 
work,  Jack—you  don’t  know  red  frorq 
yellow.  That’s  Will’s  work,  too.”

it  came 

it.”  

So,  from  one  thing  to  another  she 
turned  and  saw  in  everything  not  Jack’s 
handiwork  and  taste  and  skill.  Will 
had  chosen  the  paper  on  the wall.  Will 
had  selected  the  carpet,  the  curtains, 
the  table  cover  and  the  lounge  cover. 
In  fact,  the  boy  had  done  his  best  and 
the  room,  if  anything,  was  finer  than 
It  was  the  work  of  an  honest, 
his  own. 
straightforward 
thought 
of  doing  a  good  turn  to  a  friend  with 
the  hope  that  it  might  be  the  means  of 
leading  that  friend  to  better  things.

fellow  who 

Interested  in  this  common  work,  they 
were,  of  course,  much  together;  and, 
after  the  den  was  done,  the  two  were 
still  often  together,  enjoying  to  the  ut­
most  the  result  of  the  efforts  put  forth, 
until  Will  began  to  believe  that Jack 
was  the  best  and  jolliest  friend  alive.

But 
it"'did  seem  strange  to  him  that 
Jack’s  cigars  were  always  out.  How­
ever,  as  he  could  get  his  at  a  discount 
from  the  wholesale  price,  and 
Jack 
couldn’t,  he  was  glad  to  do  that  much 
for  the  fellow.  And  so,  in  one  way  or 
another,  he  was  always  turning  some­
thing  over  to  Jack.

‘ 

One day  when  Mr.  Bostwick  and  Will 
were  on  the  way  down  town  together, 
and  Will  had  slipped  an  extra  cigar 
into  his  pocket  for  his  friend,  Mr.  Bost­
wick  remarked: 
’Tain’t  any  o’  my 
business,  Will,  what  you  do  with  your 
money;  but  I  heard  a  couple  of  the 
boys  talking  about  you  and  Jack,  and 
on  of  them  ‘ wondered  how  long  ’twould 
oe  before  you  tumbled  to  Jack  Horner; 
that  it  was  all  take  with  him  and  never 
give,  and  that  you’d  find  it  out  one  o’ 
these  days  as  they  had.’  ”

The  young  fellow  was  “ mad  as  a 
March  hare”   and  “ guessed  he  knew  a 
good  fellow  when  he  se e ’ im ;”   but “ the 
old  man”   smoothed  the  boy’s  ruffled 
plumage  by  “ wondering  how  much  of 
the  talk  he  had  heard  was  due  to 
jeal­
ousy, ”   and  concluded  by  telling  him 
that  “ he  must  be  careful  to  treat  the 
boys  all  alike  or  there  would  be  trouble 
in  the  camp. ”

lookout 

In  spite  of  his  determination  to  think 
no  more  about 
it,  what  Mr.  Bostwick 
had  said  “ stuck;”   and,  almost  against 
judgment,  he  found  himself 
his  better 
on  the 
for  any  signs  which 
might  give  credence  to  what  he  had 
heard.  Consideiing  this  wholly  reverse 
to  the  part  a  friend  would  play,  he  de­
termined  to  be  cheated  rather  than  en­
tertain  such  ideas  toward  the man whose 
friend  he  claimed 
Fortune 
then  came  to  the  front—or  misfortune, 
rather—for  Will  was  taken  sick  and 
confined  to  the  house  for a week.  All the 
boys  came  to  see  him  except  Jack. 
Even  Dick  Dane  came  the  night  his ill­
ness  was  the  worst  and  insisted  on  stay­
ing  all  night  with  him ;  and  the  min­
ute  he  began  to  mend,  the  boy was over­
whelmed  with  the  good  things  which 
came  from  the  fellows 
in  the  way  of 
fruits  and  flowers  and  others  pleasant 
things—from  all  but  Jack.

to  be. 

It  hurt.  Will  said  nothing—there was 
nothing  to  say ;  but  he  made  up for it in 
thinking.  Finally,  when  the  boy  was 
pronounced  on  the  mend,  and  was  told 
that  he  might  smoke  if  he  would  con­
fine 
it  to  one  cigar,  Will  sent  word  to 
Jack  to  send  him  one  of  a  particular 
brand  which  they  had  often  smoked  to­
gether. 
sent 
again.  The  same  result.  The  third 
request  was  accompanied  with the need­
ful  ten  cents,  and the  cigar  was  prompt­
ly  bought  and  brought  home  by  Mr. 
Bostwick,  who  told  Will  that  Jack  said 
he  “ would  have  brought 
it  himself  if 
be  hadn’t  had  an  engagement  with  a 
feller  for  an  evening  at  billiards.”

It  didn’t  come.  He 

it 

“ I ’m  glad  of 

in  one  way,  and 
mighty  sorry in another, ”  said Mr.  Bost­
wick,  who  has 
just  told  me  the  story. 
“ I ’m  glad  to  have  the  boy  learn  the 
lesson,  if 
it’s  got  to  be  learned;  but  it 
does  seem  a  pity  to  have  him  find  out 
the 
little  meannesses  that  are  so  often 
wrapped  up  in  the  human  hide.  Now, 
to  my  knowledge,  that  boy  has  given 
that  stingy  cuss  no  end  of  things  for  bis 
room ;  and  he  has  been  feeding  him  on 
that  very  brand  of  cigars  for  months. 
Will  ain’t  saying  a  single  word,  and  he 
ain’t  going  to;  but  I ’ll  tell  you  right 
now  that  Jack  Horner  will  find  that 
cigar  the  costliest  cigar  for  him  that  he 
ever  let  another  fellow  buy.”

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Dorchester,  Mass.

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

Origin  and  Development  of  the  Fly 

Paper  Industry.

Grand  Rapids  is  famous  for 

its  fur­
is  not  in  furniture  alone 
niture,  but 
it 
that  this  city 
The 
is  pre-eminent. 
largest  plaster  mills  in  the  world  are  lo­
cated  here,  the 
largest  carpet  sweeper 
factory  on  earth  is  in  this  city  and  no­
where  on  the  globe  is  so  much sticky  fly 
paper  manufactured  as  in  Grand  Rap­
ids.  Sticky  fly  paper 
is  essentially  a 
modern  product.  The  ancients endured 
the  house  fly  evil.  Our  immediate  an­
cestors  poisoned  them. 
The  modern 
is  to  tangle  them  up  on  a  sticky 
way 
sheet,  and  the  modern  way  has  devel­
oped  an  important  industry  in  this city.
Sticky  fly  paper  is  so  modern  a  prod­
uct  that  even  the  young  housekeepers 
can  recall  the  time  when  the  saucer  of 
fly  poison  was  a  summer  adjunct  of  the 
household.  The  family  cat  would  oc­
casionally  quaff  the  potation  prepared 
for  the  flies,  or  possibly  the  baby  would 
revel 
it  or  devour  the  flies  that  had 
succumbed  to  the  bane—the  fly  poison 
was  the  source  of  endless  trouble,  but 
the  housewife  could  not  keep  house 
without  it.

in 

introduced. 

Less  than  a  score  of  years  ago  sticky 
fly  paper  was 
Its  manu­
facture  was  begun  on  a  small  scale  in 
connection  with  the  drug  business  of 
the 
late  William  Thum.  Mr.  Thum 
was  a  German  chemist  and  a  pioneer 
druggist,  coming  to  this  city  back  in 
the  tifties.  He  had  four  sons  who,  as 
they  grew  up,  became  associated  with 
him  in  business.

Who 

invented  the  sticky  fly  paper  is 
a  Thum  family  secret  and  the 
ingredi­
ents  of  the  sticky  compound  are  known 
to  none  outside  of  the  inner  circle.  The 
protection  of  the  patent 
laws  has  not 
been  sought  as  a  guard  against  compe­
tition 
in  the  manufacture  of  the  fly 
paper,  but  the  secrets  of  the  business 
have  been  guarded  as 
jealously  as  a 
father  would  guard  his  children ;  and 
so  successfully  have  the  family  pre­
served  their  secret  that  the  company 
has  not  yet  had  competition  of  any  con­
sequence.

The  business  was  begun  on  a  small 
scale  at  the  West  Side  store  of  the 
Thum  family  and  the  first  sticky  fly 
paper  was  delivered  at  the  drug  stores 
about  town 
in  a  market  basket.  The 
business  has  developed  to  such  an  ex­
tent  that 
it  is  now  shipped  out  by  the 
carload  and  there  is  scarcely  a  civilized 
part  of  the  world  that  does  not  know  its 
virtues  and  appreciate  its  merits.  The 
early  manufacture  was  carried  on at first 
in  a  basement;  then  an  annex  was  built 
to  the  store,  and,  when  the  annex  was 
outgrown,a factory  building  was  erected 
and  three  or  four  years  ago  the  factory 
was  doubled  in  capacity.  And  it  is  still 
growing.

is 

The  factory 

located  on  the  West 
Side,  south  of  Butterworth  avenue.  It  is 
surrounded  by  a  high  picket  fence  and 
is  carefully  guarded  against 
intruders. 
The  buildings  are  divided  into  sections 
and  the  employes 
in  one  section  are 
never  allowed  in  another,  and  the  ex­
pert  operator  in  one  department  knows 
nothing  of  the  manipulations 
the 
others. 
in  this  manner  that  the 
secrets  of  the  business  have  been  pre­
served,  and 
it  has  been  found  more 
efficacious  than  the  protection  afforded 
by  the  patent  laws.  The  only  appear­
ance  the  company  has  ever  made  in  the 
courts  to  defend 
its  processes  was  to 
prevent  a  faithless  former  employe  sell­
ing  the  secrets  of  the  business  to  a  pro­
posed  competing  company.
The  compounding  of  the 

ingredients

in 

is 

It 

In  the  early  days  of  the 

for  the  sticky  stuff  is  done  by  one of  the 
brothers  in  the  seclusion  of  a  room  that 
is  never  left  open.  The  various 
in­
gredients  are  melted  and  duly  prepared 
and  the  compound  then  passes  out 
into 
the  factory,  to  be  spread  upon  sheets  in 
the  familiar  fly  paper  form.  The  gum 
is  put  on  by  machinery  invented  for the 
incredible 
purpose  and  it  is  done  with 
speed. 
indus­
try 
it  was  spread  by  hand  with  a  brush 
and  one  of  the  Thum  brothers  and  a 
small  boy  helper  did  the  work.  The 
sheets  are  given  a  narrow  strip  of  wax 
just  inside  the  edge  to  prevent  the  gum 
oozing  out;  and  the  wax  border,  the 
spreading  of  the  sticky  compound  and 
the  folding  of  the  sheet  in  the  familiar 
commercial  form  are  all  done in one run 
through  the  machine.  The  compound 
will  not  “ strike  through”   the  paper 
and  when  exposed  to  the  air  it  will  not 
lose  its  tenacity,  and  to  these  facts 
is 
due  the  success  of  the paper and  in them 
lies  the  chief  secret  of  the  business. 
Competing  concerns  have  put  sticky 
fly  paper  on  the  market,  but  none of 
them  have  succeeded  in  mixing  a  prep­
aration  that  will  not  soak  through  the 
sheet  and  that  will  not  dry  up,  and 
therefore  none  of  them  have  succeeded. 
After  the  sheets  have  been  spread  and 
folded,  they  are  carefully  inspected. 
If 
the  inspection  shows  the  quality  is  not 
|  up  to  the  standard,  the  lot  is  ruthlessly 
destroyed,  for  none  but  perfect  quality 
paper  is  sent  out.  Alter  the  inspection, 
the  paper 
is  packed  and  is  then  ready 
for  shipment.  A  spur  of  the  Lake  Shore 
&  Michigan  Southern  Railroad  enters 
the  yard  around  the factory,  which facil­
itates  carlot  shipment  and  the receipt of 
raw  product,  which  comes  in  cailots  al­
together

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 
25 cents.  Advance  payment.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

536

545

\ \ T AN 1 ED—TO  SELL  WHOLE  OR  ONE~ 
VV  half  interest  in  my large  general  store: 
trade large and profitable.  Best of  reasons  for 
selling.  $10,000 capital; can easily  do  $50,000 of 
business  Write for particulars. * M. S.  Keeler. 
Middleville, Mich. 
543
TXT ANTED—STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE
vv  for 24 i acre farm, 20 acres goi.d  timber,  40 
acres winter wheat, 4 acres orchard,  balance all 
tillable; 3good  barns,  house;  all  fenced;  one 
mile  from  Bangor,  Mich.;  $12,000,  clear.  F. 
Fredenhagen, 177 LaSalle S t, Chicago. Ill,  544 
rPO   EXCHANGE—STORE  BUILDING  AND 
A  general stock of merchandise for good farm­
ing  lands.  Address  Lock  Box  254,  Wolcott- 
vilie, Ind. 

in a town of 5,000 population with onlv  four 
drugstores.  Terms to  suit,  with  a  small  pay­
ment down  Address W. W  Hunt,  under  City 
National  Bank, Gianq Rapids,  Mich. 

FOR"sa l e—stock  d r u g s AND FIXTURES
fj'Oit  KX( ’IIA KG E  Ft IR  GROCERY  OR  MER- 

chandise  stock—Choice  section  land  near 
Jamestown,  North  Dakota.  Dakota  lands  in 
great  demand  for  farming  or  stock  raising. 
Carl Dice.  Monroe. Mich. 
ANTED—TO  EXCHANGE  FARM  OF  40 
vv  acres, two miles  from  Bangor,  Mich.,  or 
houses and lots in city of Benton Harbor, Mich., 
for a stock of goods.  Benton  Harbor  has  7,500 
population—best town  in  Southern  Michigan. 
Address W. L. Hogue, 146 Bronson Ave.. Benton 
Harbor, Mich. 

t|H)R  SALE—SECOND-HAND  MATHEWS’ 
soda fountain, six  syrups,  removable  glass 
cans, one 10 gallon eopper tank, retinned in 1597, 
1  five  foot  counter  slab  of  pink  Tennessee 
marble, six tumbler  holders.  Price  and  terms 
easy.  Wiite L.  A. Phels s. Douglas, Mich.  549 
W f  AN T KD—RESPONSIBLE  AGENIS  TO 
I *   sell  the  celebrated  Buffington  Acetylene 
Gas Machine in Michigan and  Ohio  Apply  to 
Sprou  &  McGurrin  local  agents  for Kent,  Al­
legan and Ottawa counties, or Michigan  Acety- 
lene Gas Company. Jackson, Mich. 

IpoR  SALE—MY  60  BBL.  STEAM  ROLLER 

mill,  modern  machinery,  everything  first- 
class.  Good house, barns,  etc.,  located  in  live 
town in Southern  Michigan.  Might  take  small 
Michigan  farm  as  part  payment  or  desirable 
Grand Rapids  property.  For  full  descriptions 
and  particulars  address  Grain  Dealer,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

IpOR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  FARM— 

$3,500 hardware stock in good  town with  no 
competition.  Address  No.  518,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

549

534

543

537

543

547

528

SODA FOUNTAIN, LARGE,  ELEGANT,  FOR 
sale  cheap;  good  condition;  complete  out­
fit.  Write Crozier Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich. 
_________________________________535
T   HAVE  SEVERAL  GOOD  FARMS  NEAR 
A  Grand Rapids, from 5 to 110 acres  each.  Not 
desiring to rent, will sell at  prices  that  cannot 
fail  to  suit.  Part  exchange.  G.  H.  Kirtland, 
1159 South  Division  St., Grand  Rapids,  in  dry 
goods store. 

tl'OR  SALE—A  FINE  FARM  SIX  MILES 

from Grand Rapids and near graded school, 
churches and stores;  large house  and barn  and 
long  time  or  ex­
flowing  well.  Will  sell  on 
change  for  stock  of  merchandise—no  drugs. 
Would take  improved  city  property.  Address, 
Farmer, care Carrier 41, Grand Rapids. Mich.
\I7ANTED  TO EXCHANGE—40  ACRES  OF 
good unimproved  land,  situated  on  the 
v V 
banks of  a  beautiful  lake,  two miles  from rail­
road. west and north of Pierson, for small stock 
of drugs,  medicines or general  merchandise; or 
will trade for other goods or property.  Address 
No. 528, care Michigan Tradesman. 

tpOR  SALE—80  ACRES  GOOD  LAND,  35 
clea  ed, house and barn, 12 acres full grain. 
Will  sell  cheap  and  on  easy  terms.  John C. 
McGowan, West Branch, Ogemaw Co., Mich. 532 
tp o R  SALE—FEED  STORE  STOCK  IN  AN 
-T 
enterprising little village of about  2,500 in­
habitants.  Can give reasons forselling.  Address 
Box 78, Alma. Mien. 
'117ANTED—-POSITION  IN  STORE  AFTER 
t v   March  15.  Large  experience  in  generai 
store.  Good references furnished.  Address No. 
526, care Michigan Tradesman. 

tpOR SALE—120 ACRES, 80 CL EARED,  WITH 
house  and  barn,  near  city,  for $1,000,  on 
easy payments.  Would  exchange  for  merchan­
dise.  Address  No.  525,  care  Michigan Trades­
man. 
525
rpH E   BEST  BUSINESS  CHANCE  ON  THIS 
A  PAGE—On account of the death of my hns 
band, I will sell my  stock  of  general  merchan­
dise, invoicing from  $7,000 to  $8,001.  Best cash 
trade in Frankfort,  Michigan,  county  seat town 
of about 2,000 population.  Enquire quick if you 
wish  it.  Terms,  cash  or  bankable  paper.  Ad­
dress Mrs. M. B. Grlsier. 

I7HLR EXCHANGE -  RESIDENCE LOTS, FREE 

from all incumbrance, for hardwood timber 
lands or improved farm.  Address  T,  Lock  Box 
56,  Monroe, Mich. 
OARTNER  WANTED —WITH  CAPITAL  TO 
A  manufacture  something  in  wood.  Have 
plant  in  best shipping  town  in  Central  Michi­
gan.  Address  Day,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
____________________________________517
TAT ANTE D—A  PRACTICAL  MILL  MAN, 
VV  with $1,000 capital, to  take  a  one-half  or 
full  interest  in  a  stave,  heading  and  planing 
null.  3,00j  contract,  with  stock  to fill it.  All 
goes.  Five years’ cut  in  sight.  Side  track  to 
mill.  Good reasons for selling.  Address  Stave 
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 

524

527

516

533

526

516

TT'OR  SALE—ONE  SAWMILL  COMPLETE, 
A1  except boiler and engine, for only $100.  Ad­
dress A. H. Young & Co., Hartford,  Mich.  520 
/COMPLETE PICKLE AND VINEGAR WORKS 
VT  for sale  for  one-fourth  its  value;  capacity
25,000  bushels;  situated  in  section  very  favora­
ble for growing vegetables;  best  of  railroad fa- 
cilities.  J. E. Cristy. Ringwood, III. 

ceries and shoes.  Will sell or rent building. 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Address  u. 
Schrock, Clarksville, Mich. 

IpOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS,  GRO- 
IpOR  SALE —BUILDING  AND  GENERAL 

stock;  best  farming  section  in  Michigan. 
No trades.  W  H. Pardee, Freeport,  Mich.  500 
\ \ J  ANT  ALL  KINDS  OF  GRAIN  IN  CAR 
lots.  Name price or ask for bids.  Rhodes 
TV 
Co., Grain Brokers. Granger, Ind. 
T   HAVE  A  PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR 
A   general  stock.  Must  be  a  bargain.  I  have 
buyers for any line  of merchandise.  W. H. Gil 
bert, 109 Ottawa St.. Grand Rapids. 
440
TTT AN TED —FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
tt  retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 

IilOR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 

-  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

479

493

381

73

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

TTREE-OCR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
J?  ents.  Cilley  &  AUgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
Grand Rapids. Mich.______  

339

MISCELLANEOUS.

511

Tj'XPERIENCEl)  TRAVELING  SALESMAN 
4 3  first class  references,  desires  a  position. 
Address 1013 Michigan Ave., E.,  Lansing,  Mich.
Y V  ANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
required.  A 
TV  of  experience,  references 
permanent  position  offered.  Address  No.  53s, 
care  Michigan Tradesman. 
533  ’
VITANTED—CLERK  FOR GENERAL  STORE 
in country.  Must have experience and up- 
VV 
to-date, one who speaks German preferred.  Ad- 
dress Lock Box 4,  Hopkins Station,  Mich.  539
S ITUATION W'ANTED-REGISTKRED PHAK" 
macist, ma’ried, 27 years  of  age,  registered 
8 years, country  and  city  experience.  Best  of 
references  given.  Address  F.  S.  Tuxbury,  Elk 
Rapids,  Mich 
\jUTANTED—BY  MAN  OF  NINE  YEARS’ 
v v  experience,  position  as  manager  of  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 
traveling, to sell  our  lubricating  oils and 
VV 
greases, either  as  a  special  or side line.  Salary 
or commission. Special inducements to hustlers 
The Empire Oil Co , Cleveland, Ohio. 

530

519

515

Percale

Wrappers

This  cut  represents  one  of  the 
many styles of  Percale  Wrappers 
that we are producing in our factory, 
known  as  the  celebrated  Triton 
Wrapper, all  made from standard 
goods.  Honest  work.  Guaran­
teed  in  every  way to  please  as to 

fit,  style,  wear,  etc.

Prices range from $5.50 
to $13.50 per doz.  Sample 
dozens sent subject to your 
approval.

Give  us  a  trial  order 
and  establish  a  trade  for 
yourself by carrying at all 
times  one  brand of  wrap­
pers, and that the

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Our Celebrated No.  104  Percale  Wrapper,  Price  $9.00  per doz.

Strong, Lee &  Co.,

DETROIT,

Travelers’  Time  Tables.

CHICAGO

Chicago.

Ly.  G. Rapids............... 8:45am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
At.  Chicago...................3:10pm 6:50pm 
6:40anr
Ly.Chicago................ 7:20am  5:I5pm *ll:30pir
At. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:3ipm  * 6:2lair
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Ly. G’d  Rapids............   .........   7:30am  5:30pm
Parlor  and  Steering  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROIT,0'™ ', '& Western. 

i8®7.

Detroit.

Ly. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
At. Detroit.................. 11:40am  5:45pm  10:20prr
Lv. Detroit....................8  00am  1:10pm  8:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids...... 12:55pm  5:20pm  10:56pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

Gno.  DeHavsn,  General Pass. Agent.

/ I D  A INin Trunk Railw*y System
vH a A I i  1 /   Detroit and Milwaukee Dir

(In effect January 19,1898)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am.Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo 4 N Y . t   9 :55pm
tl0:10am.........Detroit  and  East.......... t  5:07pm
t 3:30pm..Sag.,  Det., N.  Y.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm 
*10:45pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am
711:10am........  Mixed to Durand.......... t3:15pm
* 7:00am— Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....*10:15i>m 
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm
+ 5:12pm— Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi__710:05am
110:00pm........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.
♦Dally.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST

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

GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana  Railway

Dec. 5,  1897.

Owing to the 

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shortage of fruit in our  State 

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

of  Canned  Goods.

mu$$e)man Grocer Company

Grand  Rapids,  micb.

Look out for higher prices on Tomatoes.  Ask our salesmen about 

Don’t let your stock get low.

those  Nunley,  Hines &  Co.’s 

Yellow  Peaches.  I

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many Wide Awake Dealers
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in  Michigan are going  to  push  the 
sale of World  Bicycles for  1898.

ARE  B U ILT  

LOOK
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jT A Y

and last  but  not  least  the  PR IC E 
is  R IG H T.  Good  dealers  who 
want to  get  next  to  a  good  thing 
should  write for  World  catalogue 
and  particulars.  Drop  a  card  for 
our ’98 catalogue of bicycle sundries.

AD AM S  &  H A R T,  Grand  Rapids.

OuUÜUUULlULlLtUlJUULSLSL^^ 

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Selling agents  for  World  Bicycles 
in  Michigan.

Shake  o ff the

D ra g g in g 1  C h a in s ^ ]^   o f  C r e d it

Northern Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am  t  5:15pm 
Trav. O’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 2:15pm  t  6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..................¿10:50pm
Cadillac..................................t  5:25pm tll: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  8:25pu
Pt. Wayne............................................t  2:10pm  t  2:00pn
Cincinnati........................................... * 7:09pm  * 7:25an
7:10 a. m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2  10 p. m.  train  has parlor  car  to Port  Wayne. 
7:00 p.m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon Trains.

8 0 » «   WEST.

Lv G’d  Rapids.............77:35am 71:00pm T5:40pr
Ar Muskegon...............   9:00am  2:10pm  7:05rm
Lv Muskegon............................78:10am  7U:45am 74:09p»
ArG’dRapids............................ 9:30am  12:55pm 5-2)pir

soars east.

7Bxcept Sunday.  »Daily  ¿Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

DULUTH, *-**%£.***

WEST  BOOED.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)tll:10pm  77:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St  Ignace..........................  9:Ooam  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie...............   12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette  .......................   2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth.............................................   8:30am

EA8T  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth.............................................  76:30pm
Ar. Nestoria............................. 711:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette........................  
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  3:30pm 
.........
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  H i b b a b d ,  Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  A  P.  M .  R.  R.

AND  8TBAM 8H IP  LINE8 

TO  ALL  POINT8  IN  MICHIGAN

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

By abandoning the pass book and other  out-of-date  methods of  keeping  jnffj 
track of the credit transactions  of  a  retail  store  and  adopting  in their 

H   stead the modern method of handling credit accounts, the 

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C O U P O N   BO O K   S Y S T E M  

By means  of  which  the  credit  transactions  of  a  retail  business  can  be 
placed on a cash basis and annoyance and  loss supplanted by peace and  jf(uj 
profit.  We make four different kinds of Coupon  Books,  all of which are  SSI 
sold  on  the  same  basis,  irrespective  of  grade  or  denomination.  We  Ism] 
cheerfully send samples of any or all  of our books  on  application,  confi-  igvn 
^  dent that our prices are lower than those of any  other  house  in  our line,  k M 
wi  quality of work and accuracy of workmanship  considered.
TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS. 

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For  Sale  by  Leading  Jobbers.

The  Leader  of  all  Bond  Papers

Made from New Rag Stock,
F ree 
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’! ¿gent,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

P o o r
E c o n o m y

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 W hite” Flour

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

NOW.

Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA AND  GASOLINES

Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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Hulk>orkB"at Grand  Rapids,  Muskegon,  Manistee, Cadillac,  Big Rap­
ids,  Grand  Haven,  Traverse  City,  Ludington, Allegan, 
Howard  City,  Petoskey,  Reed  City,  Fremont,  Hart! 
Whitehall, Holland and Fennville

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

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Owosso,  Mich.,  Nov.  3,  1897. 

Stimpson  Computing  Scale  Co.,  Elkhart,  Ind.

Gentlemen:  After  using  the  Stimpson 
Computing  Scale going  on  three  years,  think  it 
pays  for  itself  every  six  months.  Consider  it 
superior to all  Computing  Scales  and would  not 
part with it unless  I  could purchase  another.

Yours  very truly,

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of all  weighings,  thus  making 
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