Volume  X V .

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  23,  1898.

Number  757

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING AND LUBRICATING

OILS

S te b b in s  M a n u fa c tu rin g   Co.,

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE.,

ORAND RAPIDS, MICH.

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

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Do  You  Sell

Wall  Paper and Window Shades?

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.

HARVEY  &  HEYSTEK  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

PU RITY AND  STRENGTH!

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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,

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

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

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY, Grand  Rapids.

F E E D   W D   JVIE/U:

Elgin System of Creameries

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

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.  &  W.  M.,  D  ,  G.
R. &  W  , G.  R.  &  I.,  F. &  P.  M.,  M.  &  N.  E.,  or 
Ann  Aibor R.  Rs.  Correspondence solicited.

filled. 

Walsh-DeRoo  Milling Co.

Holland,  M ich.

BY ALL THE 
LEADING PROCESSES

HALF-TONE 
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TRADESMAN  COMPANY -
GRAND  RAPIDS. MICHIGAN.

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

True  Dairy Supply  Company,

303  to  309  Lock  Street, 

Syracuse,  New  York.

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

R.  E.  STURGIS,  General  M anager  of  W estern  Office,  Allegan,  iTich.

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MERCHANTS

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

W H IT E   H O R S E   B R A N D

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 
our great warehouses.
We want more good agents in towns and 
cities where  we are not  now represented.
Men’s suits.  $4.00  to  »15.00;  Boys’  suits 
$8.00 to 810.00.  Men’s pants 75c to 84.00.
Complete  outfit  free.  Write  for  par­
ticulars.

WHITE  CITY  TAILORS,

213 to 217 Adams Street, Chicago.

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their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to  aid  their —g  
new  article. 

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Who  urges you  to  keep  S a p o lio ?  

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi- —3  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose —^  
very  presence creates  a  demand  for other articles.

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Manitowoc  Lakeside  Peas

Those  who are  familiar  with  Lakeside  Peas 
fully  appreciate  them  and  know  their  value.
We  have  made  the  canning  of  peas  a  scien­
tific  study  and  feel  amply  repaid  by  the  re­
sults  obtained.  They  are  for  sale  by  all 
grocers.  Ask  for  them.

THE  ALBERT LRNDRETH 60., MOWOC, WiS.

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Worden Grocer Co.,  Wholesale  Agents.

Volume  XV.

The ( M o l (M i Compooy. LTD

of Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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lected  by  our  representatives  in  the  United 
States and Canada when claims are  receipted 
tor by us.

L. J. STEVEN SO N ,  Manager and  Notary. 
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R.J.  C LE LA N I),  Attorney.

We are ready to buy for CASH

Car  Lots or  Mill  Cuts

Pine and  Cedar Shingles
Write us stating kind, amount on hand and price.

C.  C.  Follmer & Co.,

13 Fountain  St., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

O F   D E T R O IT ,  M ICHIGAN.

Commenced  Business September
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Net Increase during  1S97......................
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Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............
Other  Liabilities....................................
Total  Death  Losses Paid  to Date........
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See  our  $4  Spring  Overcoats  and  Suits. 
Spring line of fine goods—excellent  Write 
our  Michigan  agent,  W il l ia m   C o n n o r,
Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or  meet him at 
Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand  Rapids,  Thursday 
and Friday, April 7 and 8.  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  be 
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
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GRAND  RAPIDS.

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  23,1898.

labor-saving  machinery, 

Evolution  of the  Carpet  Sweeper.
In  this  modern  age  of  improved meth­
the 
ods  and 
household  has  come  in  for  a  fair  share 
of  the  attention  of  inventors  and  gen­
iuses.  We  have  improved  washing  ma­
chines,  machines for washing the dishes, 
patent  churns,  baby  carriages,  egg beat­
ers,  pumps  that  almost  run  themselves 
and  numberless  other  devices  that  re­
lieve  the  busy  and  often  overworked 
housewife  and  mother of  at  least  a share 
of  her  burdens,  if  not  of  her  responsi­
bilities.  Even  the  broom  has  been sup­
planted,  and  instead  of  a back-breaking 
operation,  sweeping  the  carpets  has  be­
come  almost  a  luxury  with  the  modern 
carpet  sweeper.

for  future 

is  propelled 

The  carpet  sweeper—everybody knows 
what  is  meant  by  the  term.  It  is  a  com­
bination  of  wheels,  brushes,  rubber 
bands  and  springs  enclosed  in  a  neat 
wooden  box  which 
like 
a  lawn  mower  by  means  of  a  handle.  It 
is  found  in  nearly  every  household  and 
is  appreciated  alike 
in  the  city  and 
It  is  a  Yankee  idea,  like 
on  the  farm. 
many  another  modern 
invention,  and 
was  first  brought  out  in  Boston  by a man 
named  Herrick  about  1858.  The  first 
sweeper  was  a  crude  affair  and  if  any 
of  the  original  sweepers  are  still  to  be 
found,  they  would  doubtless  be  looked 
upon  as  curiosities,  as  are  the  original 
solid  tire,  50-pound,  solid  metal  first- 
make  safety bicycles,  compared with  the 
up-to-date  chainless. 
It  was  a  germ 
rather  than  a  finished  product,  and  the 
foundation 
improvements 
rather  than  an  article  that  could  be 
recommened  as  having  all  the  merits 
claimed  for 
it  as  a  labor  saver.  The 
original carpet sweeper industry,  in spite 
of  the  crudity  of  the  product,  prospered 
until  the  war,  and  then,  with  more  mo­
mentous  questions  before  the  public 
than  how  to  save  work  in  the household, 
it  dwindled  away  and  peacefully  died.
In  the  early  ’70s  interest  in  the carpet 
sweeper  revived  and 
factories  were 
started  in  various  parts  of  the  country, 
and  inventors  began  studying  how  the 
original  idea  could  be  improved  upon. 
The  seat  of  the  industry  in 
its  revival 
in  the  East,  but  Western  in­
was  still 
ventors  were  not  neglecting  the  oppor­
implement 
tunities 
afforded  for  improvement.  Several 
in 
this  city  were  studying  it  and  at  other 
points  midnight  oil  was  being  burned 
in  experiments  which  would  lead  to  a 
sweeper  that  would  sweep.  In  1876  M. 
R.  Bissell  was  in  the  crockery  business 
on  Canal  street  with  his  father.  Among 
other  goods  handled  by  the  firm  were 
carpet  sweepers,  the  old  “ Welcome,” 
manufactured  by  a  Boston  concern. 
In 
looking  his  stock  over  one  day, Mr.  Bis­
sell  noticed  one  feature  in  the  sweepers 
that  could  he  materially  improved,  and 
he  at  once  went  to  work  to  put  his  idea 
into  execution.  His 
improvement  was 
a  self-adjusting  brush,and  he  began  the 
manufacture  of  sweepers  with  this  fea­
ture.  He  had  the  sweeper  cases  manu­
factured  by  Z.  E.  Allen  and  the 
inner 
mechanism  he  had  put  together  in  the 
basement  of  the  crockery  store.  This 
was 
industry  thus 
started  soon  outgrew  its  basement  quar­

in  1876,  and  the 

the  household 

ters.  An  old  wooden  factory  at  the  foot 
of  Erie  street,  on  the  canal,  was  leased, 
and  in  1882  a  brick  factory  on  the  site 
of  the  piesent  factory  was  erected. 
In 
1883 the present Bissell  company  was or­
ganized,and this  company has developed 
into  the  largest carpet sweeper manufac­
turing  concern  iri the world  and  is  one of 
the  representative  industrial  institutions 
in  the  city.

the  Michigan, 

In  1880  there  were  seven  different car­
pet  sweeper  manufacturing  concerns 
in 
the  city.  They  were  the  Bissell,  the 
Grand  Rapids, 
the 
Plumb,  the  Favorite,  E.  B.  Clark  and 
the  Grand  Rapids  Brush Co.  The Grand 
Rapids  Sweeper  Co.  was  under  the 
management  of  Charles  B.  Judd.  The 
Michigan  Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  was  a 
corporation,  with  A.  J.  Reeves  as  Pres­
ident.  And  the others  active  in  its  man­
agement  were  Norman  Cummings,  Wil­
liam  M.  Robinson,  Charles  Cummings, 
Walter  J.  Drew  and  H.  J.  Felker,  and 
Henry  Spring  was  also  interested  as  a 
stockholder.  M.  R.  Bissell  manufac­
tured  the  Bissell  sweeper  and  A.  D. 
Plumb  was  the  inventor  and  manufac­
turer  of  the  Plumb  sweeper.  When  the 
Bissell  Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  was  organ­
ized,  the  Grand  Rapids  and  the  Michi­
gan  companies  were  purchased 
and 
merged  with  it,  and  at  a  later  date  the 
Plumb  factory  was  purchased. 
The 
Plumb  acquisition  was  the  most  im­
portant  to  the  new  company,  because  it 
brought  to 
it  the  “ broom  action”   pat­
ents,  a  principle 
in  construction  that 
is  vital  to  the  efficiency  of  the  sweeper. 
With  the  “ broom  action,”   the  sweeper 
in  the  same  way  as  a  broom—the 
acts 
harder  the  sweeper  bears  down 
the 
closer  will  the  brushes  sweep  the  floor, 
while  without  it  the  brushes  are  station­
ary  and  any  amount  of  pressure  will  not 
produce  any  difference  in  the  sweeping 
action. 
is  upon  this  invention  that 
the  fame  of  the  Bissell  sweeper  has 
largely  rested,  but  without  the  intelli­
gent  and  persistent  energy  that  the  Bis­
sell  Co.  put  into  the business,  even  with 
the  possession  of  this  patent  the  con­
cern  would  not  have  been  the  success  it 
has  proven.  The  sweepers  are  made  in 
twenty-five  or  thirty  different  styles  and 
sizes,  ranging  from  the  baby  sweeper, 
six  inches  in  width,  to  the  hall  sweep­
er,  two  feet  wide,  and  they  are  shipped 
to  every  part  of  the  civilized  world. 
It 
is  estimated  the  world’s  demand  calls 
for  about  300,000  sweepers  annually. 
Beside  the  Bissell  are  the  Sweeperette 
Company  and  the  King  Carpet  Sweeper 
Co.  in  this  city,  and  probably  half  a 
dozen  others 
in  different  parts  of  the 
country.  There  are  several  factories, in 
Europe  and  England,  but  their  total 
product  does  not  cut  much  figure  in  the 
market,  their  styles,  for  the  most  part, 
being  patterned  after  the,']  American 
product.

It 

A  French  mineralogist  has  discovered 
a  cobalt  mine  at  Grand  Encampment, 
Wyo.  The  mineral  is  worth  about  $1.50 
a  pound,  and  at  one  of  the  mines—the 
Doane— in  this  district  there  are  thou­
sands  of  tons  of  the  ore already  in sight. 
The  mineral  is  extensively  used  in  col­
oring  porcelain  and  glass  blue,  and  it 
is  also  the  active  principle 
in  some 
paints.  Hitherto  the  world  has  depend­
ed  for  the  bulk  of  the  supply  on  the 
mines  in Sweden,  Norway and Bohemia.

Number  757

Wherein  Hoyt  Errs  in  Judgment.
A  Central  Lake  merchant  takes  ex­
ceptions  to  the  statement  in  last  week’s 
Tradesman  to  the  effect  that  Hoyt  has 
arrayed  himself  in  opposition  to  the  re­
tail  grocery  trade  by  abandoning  equal­
ity,  and  calls  for  a  bill  of  particulars.

From  the  standpoint  of  the  retail 
dealer  the  Tradesman  believes  that  any 
house  which  does  anything  that  has  for 
its  object  the  overthrow  of  the  equality 
plan 
is  an  enemy  of  the  retail  trade, 
because  it  is  universally  conceded  that 
the  sale  of  sugar  has  been  more  satis­
factory  since  equality  was  introduced 
than  it  ever  was  before. 
It  is  easier  to 
do  business  on  the  equality  plan,  be­
cause  every  retail  merchant  realizes that 
he  is  getting  his  goods  at  the 
identical 
prices  his  neighbor  pays  under  similar 
conditions.  The  small  dealer  is  not  at 
the  mercy  of  the  large  dealer,  and  the 
large  dealer  has  not  the  same  advantage 
over  the  small  dealer  that  he  has  when 
be  can  lay  in  his  goods  5,  10  or  15  per 
cent,  less  than  his  more  modest  com­
petitor.  An  open  market  on  any  ar­
ticle  means  that  the  small  dealer  gets 
the  worst  of  it  every  time,  because  the 
large  dealer,  with  his  ready  cash  and 
greater  shrewdness,  secures  concessions 
which  are  necessarily  denied the smaller 
merchant.  In  the  opinion  of  the Trades­
man,  a  city 
is  more  prosperous  where 
there  are  several_hundred thriving stores 
than  where  the  lion’s  share  of  the  trade 
is  monopolized  by  a  few  department 
stores  and  the  little dealers have a  hand- 
to-mouth  struggle  for  existence.  One- 
third  of  the  transactions  of  the  whole­
sale  and  retail  grocer 
is  confined  to 
sugar,  and  any  system  which  compels 
him  to  handle  this  staple  at  cost—or 
less  than  cost,  which 
is  too  often  the 
case—places  him  at  a decided disadvan­
tage,  as  compared  with  the  position  as­
sumed  by  his  larger  and  more  prosper­
ous  competitor.

A  Safe  with  a  History.

Lansing,  March  21—Charles  C.  Long- 
street,  the  grocer,  is  the  owner  of  an 
old-fashioned  safe  which  has  been  in 
use  ever  since  the  war.  It  was  original­
ly  the  property  of  a  jeweler  at  Flint, 
who  failed  and  went  out of business. 
It 
then  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  old  Pen­
insular  Railroad—now  the  Grand  Trunk 
—and  finally  the  late  John Whiteley pur­
chased  it. 
in  his 
possession  and  eight  years  ago  it  came 
into  the  hands  of  the  present  owner.

It  was  many  years 

When  the 

inner  door  of  the  safe  is 
closed  there  are  a  couple  of  stationary 
iron  bars  which  fit  snugly  into  the  back 
part  of  the  safe,  where  they  are  not 
easily  reached.  Recently  the  door  of 
the  safe  did  not  close  easily  and,  in  or­
der  to  ascertain  the cause,  the proprietor 
made  an 
investigation,  which  revealed 
the  presence  on  the  end  of  one  of  the 
bars  of  a  valuable  gold  ring  with  a 
handsome  topaz  setting.  The  ring  was 
jammed  and  bent.  How  it  came  to  be 
there 
is  only  a  matter  of  conjecture. 
Mr.  Longstreet  is  of  the  opinion  that  it 
was  dropped 
in  there  at  the  time  the 
safe  was  owned  by  the  Flint  jeweler, 
and 
it  must  have  remained  there  un­
disturbed  and  undetected  for  at  least 
twenty-five  or  thirty  years.

The  world  may  owe  every  man  a  liv­
ing,  but  the  majority  of  them  are  too 
lazy  to  hustle  around  and  collect  it.

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Dry  Goods
The  Dry  Goods  Market.

immediate 

Staple  Cottons— Business 

in  brown 
and  bleached  cottons  has  been  some­
what  better  during  this  week  than  in 
other 
lines,  and  prices,  although  no 
signs  of 
impending  ad­
vances  are  shown,  are  very  stiff.  Wide 
sheetings,  which  have  been  advanced 
several  times,  have  been 
in  excellent 
demand,  and 
largely,  but  no 
in  the  prices  seems  imminent 
change 
just  at  present.  Ticks  and  other  coarse 
colored  cottons  do  not  show  a  great  deal 
of  strength  and  the  call  for  them  is 
somewhat  faint  just  at  present.

sold 

Prints  and  Ginghams—There has been 
some  talk  of  a  general  weak  tendency 
on  the  printed  cotton  market,  but  en­
quiry  has  failed  to  elicit  any  such  in­
formation.  There  is  a  slight  relaxation 
of  business  undoubtedly,  but  prices  are 
still  firm  and  no  concessions  are  being 
made  by  sellers 
in  any  of  this  year’s 
lines  of  any  consequence.  There  has 
been  much  printed  cotton  sold  at  ex­
tremely  low  prices  from  time  to  time  at 
various  points,  but  these  consist  sim­
ply  of  carried-over  stock  of  out-of-date 
goods—lines  which  have  failed  to  at­
tract  buyers  at  current  prices  and  have 
proven  failures.  Undesirable  goods  are 
always  to  be  found  selling  below  the 
market,  but  they  do  not  necessarily 
in­
in  general  nor  affect 
fluence  the  trade 
the  current  quotations  and 
is  not 
reasonable  to  ascribe  to  such  causes  a 
general  weakness.

it 

Stripes, 

Shirtings—The  shirtings  to  be  worn 
during  the  warmer  weather  are decided­
ly  attractive. 
plaids  and 
checks  are  all  sure  to  sell  well,  but  it  is 
very  noticeable  that  more  of  this  sea­
son’s  patterns  are 
in  stripes  than  the 
others.  All  colors  are  used,  as  are  con­
trasts,  also,  although,  taking  the  lines 
as  a  whole,  blue  is,  to  all  appearances, 
the  favored  one.  The  all-fancy  shirts 
are  bound  to  be  more  popular  than  the 
shirts  having  white  bodies  and  colored 
bosoms.  White  shirts,  as  is  well  known, 
are  the  regular  old  stand-bys,  but  they 
do  not  sell  as  well  as  the  colored  shirts 
during  the  spring  and  summer,  except 
for  dress  wear.

Shirt  Waists —Shirt  waists  are  ex­
pected  to  meet  with  a  good  deal  better 
enquiry  during  the  coming  season  than 
they  did  the  last  one.  The  general  run
of  the  shirts  are  very  likely  to  be  of  the 
same  pattern  as  was  seen  last  year,  but 
in  this,  as  in  all  cases,  there  are  excep­
tions,  and  a 
few  new  styles  will  be 
shown,  such  as  those  having  a  detach­
able  collar  and  yoke,  slightly  smaller 
sleeves,  and  a  beruffled 
lace  affair. 
Silk  waists  are  also  very  sure  to  be  of 
considerable  popularity;  they  will  be 
pietty  generally  of  one  color,  and  with­
out  any  figure  or  pattern  upon  them, 
and  that  shade  will,  in  most  cases,  be 
the  very  brightest  and  most  showy  pos­
sible,  as  the  tendency  this  season  is  for 
very  bright  colors.  Changeable  silks 
in  waists  will  not  be  used  so  much  as 
psual.  Silk  underskirts  are  being  worn 
more  and  more  all  the  time,  and  from 
what  dealers  say,  it  seems  as  if  a  very- 
good  sale  of  these  articles  is  to  be  ex­
pected.  Very  dainty  creations  in  these 
underskirts  are  shown 
in  the  different 
stores,  the  very 
latest  style  being  one 
with  two  or  three  flounces  of  accordion 
plaiting,  but  both  the  plain  and  ruffled 
skirts  sell  equally  well.  These  skirts 
will  be  of  rather  bright  colors  this  sea­
son,  and  of  plain  goods  principally.

Hosiery— Notwithstanding  the  over­

is  having 

for  fancies 

whelming  demand 
in  the 
hosiery  market,  fast blacks have  suffered 
but  little,  as  they  will  always  be  in  de­
mand  and  enjoy  a  popularity  quite 
apart  from  the  vagaries  of  fashion.  The 
fact  that  in  the  retail  trade  many  deal­
ers  have  forced  off  their  stocks  of  black 
to  make  room  for  fancies,  and  to  get 
rid  of  them  somehow,  will,  in 
itself, 
operate  to  keep  blacks  going,  for  they 
will  assuredly  have  to  be  replaced. 
Many  buyers  of  fancy  hose  who  have 
purchased 
largely  have  been  wearing 
somewhat  anxious  faces  of  late.  The 
reaction  and  chill  that  follows  an  en­
thusiastic  act 
its  effect  on 
them,  but,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  fancy 
hose  have  come  to stay,  for some seasons 
at  least,  and  no  one  who  has  bought 
with  any  judgment  need  fear  that  he 
is 
overstocked.  The  trouble,  if  any,  that 
will  come 
in  the  hosiery  department 
will  lie  in  lack  of  care  in  making selec­
tions  and  assortments.  A  stock  of  fancy 
hose  must  be  well  backed  by  a  thorough 
supply  of  staples,  and  the  fancies  must 
be  pushed  forward  and  displayed  all the 
time,  as  they  must  be  seen  to  attract 
trade.  The  care  displayed  in  making 
selections  will  perhaps  be  the  most  im­
portant  factor 
in  determining  the  suc­
cess  of  a  purchase  of  fancy  hosiery,  as 
the  competition  in  these  goods  is  going 
to  be  so  keen  that  only  the  choicest  will 
survive.

Curtains— Domestic manufacturers are 
producing  at  this  time  finer  lines  and 
have  prepared  to  supply  the  trade  with 
goods  formerly made exclusively abroad. 
Except  on  the  fine  lines,  the  domestic 
manufacturers  have  enough  machinery 
already  engaged  to  fill  the  requirements 
of  the  trade  on  the  coarser  lines  for sev­
eral  years  to  come,  without  any  in­
crease.  Bobbinet  has  been  produced 
this  season  for  the  first  time  in  Ameri­
can  mills,  and  it  is  only  a  question  of  a 
short  time  when  domestic  mills  will 
produce  the  very  choicest  goods,  as 
some  of  the  proprietors  of  the  Ameri­
can  mills  have  been  for  years  engaged 
exclusively  on  all 
lines  of  fancy  lace 
curtains  abroad,  and  have  now  estab­
lished  in  business  in  America.

Laces— This  will  be  a  very  good  if 
not  an  excellent,  season  for  laces,  and 
dealers  expect  to  make  very  profitable 
sales  during  this coming  mild  and  warm 
weather.  Prices  are  not  so  very  much 
higher,  in  fact  not  enough  to  make  any 
noticeable  slacking  up  in  the  demand.
Both  black  and  white goods,  too,  will 
be  about  equally  good  in  demand.

Hats—The  spring  and  summer  will 
be  quite  a  good  season  for  stiff  hats,  for 
men’s  wear,  and  these  bats  in  the  light­
er  shades  will  experience  a  good  call. 
Crash  hats  will  sell  pretty  well,  as  they 
will  take  the  place  of  the  cheaper 
straws ;  for  this  season  only  the  better 
grades  of  straws  will  meet  with any very- 
good  enquiry.  All sorts  of  hats and  caps 
are  expected  to  sell  well.  Although  the 
jobbing  business  is  not 
wholesale  and 
any  better  than 
it  was  last  year,  they 
are  by  no  means  having  any  great  rea­
son  to  find  fault  with  it;  regarding  col­
lections,  the  jobbers  say  that 
just  now 
they  are  not  coming  so  very  fast,  but 
with  every  moderation  of  the  weather 
the  various  retailers’  business  starts  up 
and  then  they  commence  to  settle  up 
their  accounts.

The  man  who  claims  to  have  no 
lending 

memory  may  be  cured  by 
small  sums  to  his  friends.

In  the  midst  of  life  a  man  is  in  debt 
—and  his  creditors  don’t  allow  him  to 
forget  it.

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

Carpets

All grades cut at  wholesale.

You  Carry  Only  Samples

We  carry the stock.  When  you  make  a 
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of  room  or  quantity  wanted  and  we will 
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so you can  make no  mistake when order­
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If you 
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the goods per yard.  We have the  best-selling  goods  on  earth.  Don’t 
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Looking  Backward

a few years  we find MEN’S MACKINTOSHES 
counted among the articles of luxury;  to­
day they  can  be  had  at  the  price  of  a 
rubber coat— not trashy, good-for-nothing 
stuff—but  goods  that  are  stylish  and 
waterproof.  Our  tan  covert  cloth,  box 
coat,  double  texture,  sewed  seams,  with 
velvet collars to  match,  is fit for  the  most 
stylish dressers.  Will be pleased to quote 
you  prices or have salesman  call.

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How  the  Screw of Competition  Twists 

the  City  Grocer.

Prom the Chicago Post.

' ‘ I  am finding the fortunes  of the small 
grocer  far  more  entrancing  than  those 
of  ‘ The  Little  Minister’  or the ‘ Prisoner 
of  Zenda, ’  ”   said  an  observant  matron.
The  pathos  of  the  situation  comes 
right  home  to  my  own  kitchen,  and  the 
chapters 
in  the  commonplace  tragedy 
come  fresh  and  crisp  along  with  my 
celery  and  lettuce,  and are  served  across 
the  counter  with  the  packages  of  sugar, 
tea  and  crackers. 
It's  a  thoroughly  up- 
to-date  sociological  romance,  too  full  of 
problems  and  local  color.

“ The  three  principal  characters  are 
Cummings,  Marx  and  Boyle,  the  pro­
prietors  of  as  many  groceries  within 
almost  a  stone’s  throw  of  each  other 
in 
an  excellent  residence  section  of  the 
North  Side.  Of  course,  there’s  a  wom­
an  m 
it—many  women,  in  fact.  But 
Mrs.  Boyle,  the  cheery little  wife  of  the 
humblest  tradesman 
in  the  trio,  is  the 
only  one  that  need  be  considered.  The 
opening  chapter  of  this  everyday  story 
began  when  i  lived 
in  another  neigh­
borhood,  and  Boyle  used  to  call  at  my 
door  with  green  groceries.  He  proved 
to  be  an  honest,  reliable  fellow,  quiet 
and  pleasant 
in  bis  manners,  whose 
word  was  to  be  depended  upon.  The 
housewives  and  cooks  liked  his  square 
dealings,  and  he*  prospered  where  his 
less 
failed. 
Finally  he  dropped  out  of  sight  and  I 
had  almost  forgotten  him  until  J  moved. 
Then  I  was  surprised  to  find  him  in­
stalled  in  a  small  grocery  of  his  own  a 
few  blocks  from  our  flat.  After  1  had 
made  my  first  purchases  Mrs.  Boyle 
tucked  her  plump  arms  under  her  apron 
and  confided  to  me  that  the  experiment 
was  a  doubtful  one  and  that  many  con­
ditions  were  against  them.  Their  capi­
tal  was  small  and  then  there  were  the 
larger  and  more  showy  stores  of  Cum­
mings  and  Marx  at  the  corner  of  the 
block  on  the  same  street.  The  only  ad­
vantage,  however,  which  these competi­
tors  held  that  inspired  fear  in  the  heart 
of  the 
little  woman  was  the  fact  that 
they  did  business  upon  the  short  time 
credit  system.

competitors 

scrupulous 

‘ You  see,’  she  explained  to  me, 
‘ we  have  to  buy  for  cash  and  we  must 
sell  for  cash.  We  made  up  our  minds 
to  that  at  the  very  start.  When  a  cus­
tomer  walks  out  of  our  door  with  a 
package  of  goods  that  is  not paid  for  he 
goes  away  with 
just  so  much  of  our 
money  in  his  pocket.  Very  likely  we’ll 
get  it  again  all  right,  but meantime he’s 
going  about  with  our  money,  not  his. 
And  so  we  don’t  trust.  But 
there’s 
another  side  to  it.  The rich  folks  don’t 
want  to  be  bothered  with  paying  the 
little  thing  they  buy. 
cash  for  every 
Their  way  is  to  wait  until  a  big  bill 
is 
run  up  and 
then  settle  by  check. 
If 
we  only  had  the  capital  of  Cummings or 
Marx  we  might  stand  the  credit system, 
but  we  haven’t.  The  only  way  we  can 
sell  to  that  class  of  their  custom  is  to 
keep  the  freshest  of  everything.  But 
we’re  hoping  for  the  best.’

“ So  much  for  the  initial  situation 

in 
which  the  Boyles  found themselves.  As 
I  do  my  marketing  with  considerable 
care,  it  did  not  take  me long to discover 
that  I  preferred  to  buy  certain  articles 
at  Cummings’  store,  while  Marx  sold 
the  best  tea  and  crackers. 
In  this  way 
I  kept 
in  constant  touch  with  each 
member  of  the  trio  of  competitors.  One 
day  I  noticed  that  Marx  had  dispensed 
with  two  of  his  clerks.  His  face  was 
constantly  careworn,  and  he  was  evi­
dently  doing  the  work  of  two  men.  Al­
though  I  had  not  found  him  quite  so 
in  bis  dealings  as  Boyle,  his 
frank 
troubled 
looks  touched  me,  and  from 
day  to  day  I  watched  his  struggle  and 
became  better  acquainted  with  him.  A 
few  days  ago  he  chanced  to  occupy  a 
se^t  in  the  ‘ grip’  with  me  and  became 
very  confidential. 
It  was  barely  pos­
sible,  he  confessed,  that  be  might  pull 
through  by  moving 
into  smaller  quar­
ters,  cutting  his  force  of  helpers  down 
to  the  very 
lowest  possible  limit  and 
doing  the  work  of  three  men  himself.

' ‘  'But  I’m  so  worn  out  with  the 
struggle  that  I’m  tempted  every  day  of 
life  to  throw  myself  into  the  lake 
my 
and  be  done  with 
‘ That

it,'sa id   be. 

it 

sounds  like  silly  talk  for a  man,  but  it 
wears  a  man  to  desperation  when  he has 
been  through  this  grind  month  after 
month,  steadily  watching  the  money  he 
put 
into  the  business  drifting  into  the 
pockets  of  his  wealthiest  customers, 
who  take  their  own  sweet  time  to  pay 
their  bills and  will  quit  you  the  moment 
they  are  pressed for  a weekly settlement. 
Then 
is  still  worse  during  the  sum­
mer  season,  when  the  fashionable  peo­
ple  are  away  at  the  resorts.  The  ser­
vants  trade  and  the  bills  wait  until  fall 
for  payment. ’

“ Not  long  ago  when  I  went  to  Cum­
mings’  store  I  found  it  in  the  hands  of 
the  sheriff.  The  proprietor  passed  me 
with  his  hat  drawn  over  his  eyes.  His 
whole  attitude  was  pitiful.  As  I  en­
tered  Boyle’s  store  to  make  the  pur­
chases  which  I  had  intended  to  make  at 
Cummings’  Mrs.  Boyle  greeted  me 
with : 
It  just  scares 
me  terrible!  And  did  you  know  that 
Marx  has  moved  into  a  little  place  in 
the  middle of  the  next  block?  Yes!’

'A in 't  it  too  bad ! 

‘ But  all  this  will  make  your  trade 

better, ’  I  suggested.

'I  know  that,’  she  replied. 

‘ But 
it’s  awful  hard  on  them,  just  the  same. 
We’re  going  to  shut  off  on  everything 
that  leads  up  to  the  credit  system.  Be­
fore  this  we've  been 
in  the  habit  of 
sending  our  boy  out  on  stormy  days  to 
the  doors  of  our  best  customers  to  take 
their  orders.  This  will  be  stopped,  for 
it’s  the  first step  in the credit line.  We'll 
lose  some  tiadeby  it,  but  we  might bet­
ter  stand  out  against  the  thing  that  has 
ruined  Cummings  first  as  last. 
It  takes 
some  grit  to  refuse  to  trust  a  rich  cus­
tomer  for  a  few  groceries,  but  we  must 
fight  it  out  that  way. ’

“ These  are  only  a  few  of  the  ups  and 
downs  in  the  tragedy  of  grocery  keep­
ing  of  which  I  have  been  an 
interested 
witness.  The  result  of  my  observations 
has  been  that  I  now  pay  cash  for  every­
I  do *it  on  principle  and 
thing  I  buy. 
seldom  find  it  more 
inconvenient  than 
the  old  way  of  getting  things  charged. ”

Diagnosis  of the  Grocer.

“ What  is  a  grocer,  papa?”
“ What 

is  a  grocer,  child?  Why,  he 
is  a  good-natured  man  who  deals  in  the 
necessities  of  life at  the  corner,  and 
is 
too  humble  to  believe  for  a  minute  that 
he  has  any  rights.  He  solicits  trade 
by  marking  all  his  goods  down  to  cost, 
and  when  the  customer  doesn’t  pay 
promptly,  he  waits.  Some  grocers  stand 
and  wait  until  the  undertaker  gets  his 
bill 
lean  over  the 
graveyard  fence  and  wonder  how  to  get 
their  money.

in  and  then 

“ He  is  the  man  that  lives  by  selling 
sugar,  and  makes  so  much  money  on  it 
that  he  is  expected  to  give  lumps  of 
it 
to  all  the  children.

they 

“ The  grocer  is  also  a  pious  man.  He 
rarely  ever  swears,  except  when  he  sells 
eighteen  pounds  of  raisins  out  of  a 
twenty-six  pound  box,  or  when  he 
weighs  out  a  barrel  of  granulated  sugar 
and  it  lacks  just  six  pounds,  or  when  he 
hears  Mr.  Never-Pay  say,  ‘ Charge 
it,’ 
or  when  the  summer  is  so  hot  he  loses  a 
dozen  good  cheese,  or  when  the  winter 
is  so  cold  that  his  potatoes  freeze,  or— 
but  your  mother  is  calling  you.  Good­
night,  child ;  I’ll  tell  you  the  rest  about 
the  grocer  another  day. ’ ’

The  tobacco  business  in  Franc?  is  a 
governmental  monopoly.  Tobacco  may 
be  grown  in  only  twenty  departments’ in 
France,  and  in  Algetia;  the  cultivation 
of  the  plant  is  under  the  supervision  of 
the  Ministei  of  Finance,  and  is  taxed. 
The  manufacturers occupy governmental 
buildings,  and  themselves  and  all  their 
employes  are  subject  to  the  Minister  of 
Finance.  The  manufactured  tobacco  is 
sold  by  agents  appointed  by  the govern­
ment,  who  are  allowed  to  sell  foreign 
tobacco  properly  taxed,  as  well  as  na­
tive  tobacco.

We  offer  American  shirting  prints  for 

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A  man  smiles  when  you  speak  of  his 
level  bead ;  but  call  it  flat  and  he  gets 
mad.

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While  William  Alden  Smith  was  in  suffering  Cuba  to  obtain  pure 
Havana  fillers  for  S.  C.  W.  cigars,  he  was  interfered  with  by  the 
Spaniards,  and  to  obtain  his  point  he displayed the courage  of  Samson’ 
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Behold!  Michigan’s  Worthy  Congressman  slew  and  put  to  flight 
with  his  good  umbrella  1867  Spaniards.  The  rest  of  his  committee 
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Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Quincy— F.  C.  Herworth  has  opened 

a  tailor  shop.

Amble—Chas.  Ward  has  embarked  in 

the  grocery  business.

Dimondale—Geo.  W.  Beck,  druggist, 

has  removed  to  Durand.

Brant— Carl  &  Co.  will  shortly  open  a 

grocery  store  at  this  place.

Howard  City— Henry  Strope,  of  Mor- 

ley,  has  opened  a  feed  store  here.

Watervliet— Martin  &]  Wood,  meat 
dealers,  have sold  out  to  W.  E.  Walden.
Benton  Harbor— Hall  &  Baker  suc­
ceed  Henry  T.  Hall  in  the grocery busi­
ness.

Vicksburg— Barney  Julius  has 

re­
moved  his  clothing  stock  to  a  new  store 
building.

Memphis— Martin  V.  Reynolds  has 
sold  his  hardware  stock  to  Chas.  H. 
Reynolds.

Benzonia— The  Case  Mercantile  Co. 
has  purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  H; 
T.  Phelps.

Saginaw— Klein  &  Ide  succeed  C.  F. 
Zoeller  in  the  wall  paper  business at 314 
Hancock  street.

Jackson— Horr  &  Whalen  have  em­
in  the  grocery  business  at  715 

barked 
East  Main  street.

Brookfield— Mrs.  D.  T.  Williams  has 
sold  her  stock  of  general  merchandise 
to  Lamb  &  Spencer.

Traverse  City— Peter  Caulkett4has dis 
posed  of  his  meat  market  to  Flanders  & 
Hager,  of  Fife  Lake.

Vicksburg—Chas.  E.  Powers  has  re­
moved  his  dry  goods  stock  into  his  new 
double  store  building.

North  Branch—C.  C.  Sherman  has 
purchased  the  drug  and  stationery  stock 
of  Mrs.  J.  M.  McKenzie.

Grand  Junction— Frank  A.  Moon, 
druggist,  was  recently  married  to  Miss 
Mabel  Dobson  of  this  place.

Fetoskey—J.  D.  Nichols  has 

em­
in  the  hat,  cap  and  furnishing 

barked 
goods  business  at  this  place.

Six  Lakes—Sara  Rice  has  sold  her 
stock  of  general  merchandise  to  F.  G. 
Rice  and  will  remove  to  Mexico.

Cadillac—Gust  Palm  and  John  Sund- 
berg,  under  the  style  of  G.  Palm  & Co., 
will  shortly  open  a  grocery  store  here.

Henderson— Ernest  Convis,  of  Owos- 
so,  has  purchased  a  half  interest  in  the 
hardware  establishment  of Wm.  Palmer.
Ypjilanti—J.  King  has  purchased  the 
stock  of  the  Ypsilanti,  Flint  and  Ann 
Arbor  branch  stores  of  the Chicago Shoe 
Co.

St.  Clair—John Klinger has purchased 
the 
interest  of  John  M.  Hart,  senior 
member  of  the  hardware  firm  of  Hart  & 
Son.

Otsego— H.  E.  Earl,  formerly  with  E. 
M.  Kennedy  &  Co.,  druggists  at  Kal­
amazoo,  has  opened  a  drug  store  at  this 
place.

Otsego-  Lindsay  &  Jewell,  meat  deal­
ers,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Grant 
Heckle  having  purchased  Mr.  Jewell’s 
interest.

Hart— L.  P.  Hyde  has  purchased  the 
boot  and  shoe  stock  of  A.  S.  White  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Port  Huron—Smith  Bros.,  grocers 
and  vessel  supply  dealers,  have  dis­
solved  partnership,  Wm.  D.  Smith,  Jr., 
succeeding.

Alma—Brock  &  Reid,  who  conducted 
a  sheet  iron  works  at  this  place,  have 
dissolved  partnership,  Marcellus  Reid 
retiring and  Arthur W.  Brock continuing 
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Crosweli— Forest)  Jjr-kc,  oi  Mamie 
City,  is  making  arrangements  to  open 
a  boot  and  shoe  and  clothing  and  dry 
goods  store  here.

Big  Rapids—Henry  Schafer  has  re­
moved  his  grocery  stock  from  East 
Maple  street  to  a  better 
location  on 
Michigan  avenue.

Port  Huron— Fish  &  Duncan  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Jas.  A. 
Hope  and  will  continue  the  business  at 
the  same  location.

Hastings—C.  H.  Osborn  &  Co.,  com 
posed  of  Charles  H.  and  George  Os­
born,  have  dissolved  partnership,  C.  H. 
Osborn  succeeding.

Jackson—The  Grand  Union  Tea  Co. 
will  open  a  branch  store  here  about 
April  1,  having  leased  a  vacant  store  in 
the  Carter  building.

Coloma—Chester  W.  Gilson,  who  has 
conducted  a  drug  store  here  for  twenty- 
five  years,  has  sold  his  stock  to  G.  H. 
Ensley,  of  St.  Joseph.

Marquette—The  grocery  firm  of  J.  T. 
Jones  &  Co.  has  been  dissolved,  Rob­
ert  Peters  retiring.  The  business  will 
be  continued  by  J.  T.  Jones.

Wayland—W.  H.  Bechtel,  who  has 
been  employed  the  past  year  in  the  de­
funct  Temple  of  Economy,  has  opened 
a  grocery  and  provision  store.

Marquette—The  shoe  store  of  Good- 
speed  &  Son  has  been  placed  in  charge 
of  B.  L.  Newman,  who  has  been  with 
them  in  their  Ann  Arbor  store  for  sev­
eral  years.

Lansing— Douglass E .  Phetteplace has 
removed  his  stock  of  groceries  to  Isa­
bella  county,  which  he  will  close  out  at 
once,  preparatory  to  making  a  trip  to 
the  Klondike.

Kingston—Ed.  Randall  has purchased 
the  entire  stock  of  dry  goods,  groceries 
and  boots  and  shoes  of  Mrs.  L.  Holmes 
and  will  conduct  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Clinton— The  drug  and  grocery  firm 
of  B.  O.  Randall  &  Co.,  composed  of 
B.  O.  Randall  and  E.  R.  Smith,  has 
been  dissolved,  B.  O.  Randall  continu­
ing  the  business.

Owosso—S.  H.  Opdyke  has purchased 
an  interest  in  the  Owosso  Paint  &  Wall 
Paper  Co.  and  will  hereafter  be  asso­
ciated  with  E.  W.  Beardsley  in  con­
ducting  the  business.

Cheboygan—Jos.  Rosenthal, 

formerly 
engaged 
in  the  clothing  business  at 
Gaylord,  has  purchased  the  interest  of 
Wm.  E.  Rosengarten  in the clothing firm 
of  F.  A.  Kramer  &  Co.

furniture 

Jackson---- The 

store  of
Newell,  Richardson  &  Galbraith  is  now 
in  possession  of  John  W.  Miner,  who  is 
foreclosing  the  mortgages  on  the  stock 
and  closing  up  the  business.

Ypaiiai.ii—Lewis  esc  McKinstry,  gio- 
cers,  have  dissolved  partnership.  M. 
J.  Lewis  continues  the  business.  Frank 
McKinstry  goes  to  Big  Rapids  for  the 
purpose  of  engaging  in  the  milk  busi­
ness  with  his  brother.

Owosso—The  partnership  existing be­
tween  H.  W.  Mann  and  Stephen  T. 
Van  Dusen,  dealers 
in  books  and  sta­
tionery,  has  been  dissolved.  H.  W. 
Mann  will  continne  the  business  at  117 
North  Washington  street.

Allegan—J.  Court  &  Son,  of Marshall, 
who,  with  C.  Hitchcock,  have  been  do­
ing  business  for  the  past  two  years  un­
der  the  name  of  Hitchcock  &  Co.,  have 
leased  a  building  and  will  continue  the 
egg  and  poultry  business.

Middieville—A.  A.  Dibble,  formerly 
a  member  of  the  general  firm  of  M.  S. 
Keeler  &  Co.,  has  decided  to  locate  at 
Reading.  He  has  purchased  a  stock  of 
goods  at  Cleveland,  and  will  move  to 
his  new  home  in  about  a  week.

Bay  City— J.  N.  McDonald  &  Co., 
merchant  millers,  have  filed  a  blanket 
chattel  mortgage  to  the  First  National 
Bank  of  Bay  City  and  a  real  estate  trust 
mortgage  to  George  P.  Cobb. 
The 
liabilities  of  the  firm  aggregate  $65,000.
Battle  Creek—One  hundred  and  fifty 
retail  merchants  of 
this  city  have 
agreed  to  have  nothing  to  do  with  trad­
ing  stamps,  premiums  or  glassware 
tickets  on  and  after  April  1,  on  a  pen­
alty  of  $10  for  any  divergence  from  the 
agreement.

Negaunee— Martin  E.  Joyce,  who  has 
conducted  a  dry  goods  business  in  the 
Heyn  block  since  the  dissolution  of  his 
partnership  with  Nels Mowick,  less than 
a  year  ago,  has  closed  his  doors  and 
turned  his  stock  over  to  his  creditors. 
Burnham,  Stoepel  &  Co.,  of  Detroit, 
are  the  heaviest  creditor.

Detroit— Bruce  Goodfellow  &  Co. 
have  filed  articles  of  association  with 
the  County  Clerk.  The  business  of  the 
company  is  dealing  in  clothing,  men’s 
furnishings,  hats  and  caps.  Clothing 
will  also  be  manufactured  on  a  small 
scale.  The  capital  stock  is  $25,000,  of 
which  $18,500 
is  paid  in.  The  incor­
porators  are:  Bruce  Goodfellow,  1,500 
shares;  Thomas  Haney,  goo  shares,  and 
Willliam  D.  Moore,  too  shares.  Mr. 
Moore  is  not  yet  well  known  to  business 
men  of  Detroit.  He  will  probably  be 
the  Secretary  of  the  new 
concern. 
Thomas  Haney  rose  from  the  position 
of  cash  boy  in  the  C.  R.  Mabley  stores, 
and  has  been  associated  with  Mr.  Good­
fellow  continuously 
thirty 
years. 
It  is  expected  that  he  will  have 
charge  of  the  stock,  while  Mr.  Goodfel­
low  will  attend  to  the  business  details.

for  nearly 

Downingtou—Jos.  H.  Brown  &  Son 
are  succeeded  by  Arthur  Brown  in  the 
planing  mill  and  wagon  manufacturing 
business.

Traverse  City— The Kelly Shingle  Co. 
has  purchased  the  entire  season’s output 
of shingles  of  the Cameron  Lumber  Co., 
of  Torch  Lake.

Bay  City—John  N.  McDonald  will 
continue the flouring  mill business which 
was  formerly  conducted  under  the  style 
of  John  N.  McDonald  &  Son.

Saginaw—A.  E.  Robertson  &  Co.  will 
operate  the  old  Princess  Manufacturing 
Co.  Pane  Bernhardt  will  have  charge 
of  the  manufacturing  department.

Pickford—F.  H.  Taylor  has  leased 
the  creamery  here  and  will  conduct  the 
business  this  season,  having  engaged 
James  W.  McDonald  as  buttermaker.

Menominee—The  Richardson  Shoe 
Co.’s  plant  will  be 
immediately  re­
moved  from  Janesville  to  this  city,  the 
intention  being  to  start  the  new  factory 
not  later  than  April  30.

Saginaw—Sawmills  which  are  de­
pendent  on  Canadian  stock  will  not  get 
a  very  early  start,  as  the  old  log  supply 
in  the  river  is  very  limited.  Some  firms 
are  getting  their  stock  in  this  district, 
but  the  bulk  of  the stock  will come  from 
Canada.

Ionia— Gregg  Williams  has  sold  his 
lumber  yard  and  business  to  F.  A.  Ses­
sions,  and  will  devote  his  entire  atten­
tion  to  the  manufacturing business.  W. 
E.  Root,  a  lumberman  of 
long  experi­
ence,  will  have  charge  of  the  lumber 
business.

Coleman— Knapp  &  Cope  have  pur­
chased  the  old Simons &  McMorris mill, 
and  have  purchased  all  the  heading  and 
shingle  bolts  they  could  get  hold  of  in 
this  vicinity.  They  have  also  purchased 
shingle  and  stave  machinery  and  will 
run  the  plant  day  and  night  during  the 
season.

Menominee-----The  Girard  Lumber
Co.’s  mill  will  be  stocked  with  hard­
wood 
logs  for  the  season’s  run,  which 
will  begin  about  April  1.  The logs  will 
be  brought 
in  by  rail  from  the  Wau- 
saukee  and  Dunbar  branches,  over  in 
Wisconsin,  as  well  as  from  points  in  the 
Upper  Peninsula.

Iron  River—Youngs  &  Fetzer,  who 
operate  the  Iron  River  Land  &  Lumber 
Co.'s  mill  here,  are  maturing  plans  for 
the  colonization  of  6,000 acres  of  land 
in  the  vicinity of Elmwood,  Iron county. 
The  lands  were  purchased  of  the  Paine 
Lumber  Co.,  of  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  the pine 
having  been  cut  off,  a  large  amount  of 
hardwood  and  spruce  remaining.  The 
lands  in  the  western  part  of  Iron  county 
are  claimed  to  be  rich  and  productive, 
with  drainage good  and  water  excellent 
and  abundant.
New  York  Wants  Pure  Maple  Sugar.
The  New  York  State  Agricultural  De­
partment,  at  the  request  of 
several 
members  of  associations  representing 
agricultural  districts,  has drawn  a  meas­
ure  to  prohibit  the  sale  of  impure and 
adulterated  maple  sugar  and  maple 
syrup 
in  that  State.  The  bill  provides 
that  a  person  selling,  offering  or  expos­
ing  for  sale  any  mixture  or  composition 
purporting  to  be  pure  maple  sugar  or 
syrup,  and  containing  glucose  sugar  or 
any  substance  foreign  to  the  product  of 
pure  maple  sap,  shall  be  guilty  of  a 
misdemeanor  and  subject  to  punish­
ment  the  same  as  is  provided  for  any 
violation  of  the  State  agricultural 
law, 
which  the  bill  amends  by  adding  there­
to  an  additional  section.

The  Pontiac  National  Bank  has  re­
organized  as  the  Porttiac  Savings  Bank, 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $50,000.

The  man  who  wants  the  earth  invari­

ably  gets  it—when  he  dies.

Ionia—J.  C.  Beattie,  a  former  Ionian, 
but  now  of  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  has  de­
cided  to  return  to  this  city  and  will 
shortly  take  possession  of  the  E.  E. 
Gates  stock  of  boots  and  shoes.

Ann  Arbor—Len  Miller  has  been  ad­
mitted  to  partnership  with  Mack &  Co., 
furniture  and  dry  goods  dealers,  hav­
ing  had  charge  of  the  furniture  depart- 
ent  of  the  company  for  the  past  two 
years.

Coldwater—Will  Milnes,  who has been 
employed 
in  the  grocery  store  of  A. 
Milnes  for  the  past  three  years,has  been 
admitted  to  patrnership,  the  firm  being 
hereafter  known  as  the  Milnes  Sup­
ply  Co.

Nashville— E.  B.  Townsend  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  slock  of  Frank  Mc- 
Derby,  and  in  company  with  his  father, 
Richard  Townsend,  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  E.  B.  Town­
send  &  Co.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Owosso—Gus  Stephen  has  embarked 
in  the  cigar  manufacturing  business  at 
this  place.

Marcellus—The  Marcellus  Creamery 
Co.  has  begun operations,  churning  four 
days  each  week.

Kingston—L.  M.  Houghton,  of  Lex­
ington,  will  manage  the  creamery  here 
during  the  coming  season.

Kalamazoo—The Kalamazoo Cycle Co. 
shipped  300  child’s  seats  and 

has 
parcel  carriers  to  London,  Eng.

Belleville-----The  Milk  Producers’
Union  has  purchased  the  creamery  of 
John  Clark  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness.

Brooklyn—The  Brooklyn  Cheese  Co. 
to  convert  the 
has  been  organized 
creamery  here 
into  a  cheese  factory. 
John  O'Leary  is  President  of  the  corpo­
ration  and  W.  S.  Culver  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.

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G ra n d   R a p id s  Go ssip

C.  W.  Kent,  formerly  with  Studley  & 
Jarvis,  has  opened  a  meat  market  at 
708  Wealthy  avenue.

O.  J.  Batt  has  opened  a  grocery  store 
at  Farnsworth.  The  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co.  have  opened  a 
commission  house  at  Buffalo as a branch 
of  their  Grand Rapids establishment.

White  &  White  contemplate  merging 
their  headache  powder  business  into  a 
corporation,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000.  -

E.  M.  Stickney  has  purchased  the 
grocery  stock  of Jacob  Kaifer,  227  South 
Division  street,  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location  under  the 
style  of  the  Stickney  Grocery  Co.

A  movement  is  on  foot  to  organize  a 
corporation  here,  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $100,000,  to  undertake  the  beveling 
and  silvering  of  mirror  plates.  The 
movement  is  headed  by  the  local  repre­
sentative  of  the  Atlas  Works,  of Amster­
dam,  who  is  understood  to  be  willing  to 
subscribe  for  one-half  of  the  capital 
stock  of  the  proposed  enterprise.

Purely  Personal.

Geo.  D.  Sisson,  formerly  of  this  city, 
will  represent  the  Peters  Lumber  and 
Shingle  Co.  in  Indianapolis.

W.  W.  Wells,  of  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.,  is 
visiting  bis  brother,  Sumner  M.  Wells, 
Secretary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Clark- 
Jewell-Wells  Co.

Daniel  McCoy,  President  of  the  State 
Bank  of  Michigan,  who  has  been  in 
Cleveland for  the  past  week,  is expected 
home  Friday.

Gaius  W.  Perkins,  President  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  School  Furniture  Co.,  is 
putting  in  a  fortnight  at Florida resorts. 
He  is  accompanied  by  his  wife.

The  resemblance  of  C.  N.  Rapp  to 
Gen.  R.  A.  Alger  is  so  marked  that 
it 
is  not  an  unusual  thing  for  Mr.  Rapp  to 
be  accosted  by  some  one  who  mistakes 
him  for the  genial  Secretary  of  War.

B.  R.  Thompson,  the  heavyweight 
member  of 
the  Thompson-Bonnell 
Lumber  Co.,  was  confined  to  his  bed 
during  all  of  last  week  at  Evansville, 
Ind.  He  went  for  lumber,  but  com­
promised  on  the  gout.

It  will  soon  be  time  for  Frank  Jewell 
(Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.)  to  hie  himself 
away  to  some  imaginary  locality  in  the 
north  woods  and  come  back  with  stories 
of  big  fish  which  cause  his  friends’ eyes 
to  enlarge  and 
glisten.  What  Mr. 
Jewell’s  friends  can  not  understand  is 
that  he  always  eats  the  big  fish  while  in 
camp  and  brings  home  the  little  fish  as 
trophies  of  bis  skill  as  an  angler. 
It  is 
suggested  that  he  purchase  a  camera 
and  have  some  one  take  a  snap  shot  of 
him  in  the  presence of  the monster spec­
imens  of  the  finny  tribe  which he insists 
he  captures  on  the  occasion  of  every ex­
cursion  to  the  Little  Manistee.

The  Produce  Market.

"A p p les— Home  grown  Northern  Spys 
and  Wine  Saps  from  Missouri 
fetch 
$3-5°@4  per  bbl.

Asparagus—$2  per  doz.  bunches.
Bananas—The market  is  firm at prices 
that  move  stock  very  rapidly. 
In  the 
present  condition  of  fruit  supply  in  this 
market  the  banana 
is  a  very  popular 
fruit,  and  the  weather  is  such  as  to  en­
courage  the  best  movement.  The  street 
peddler  is  disposing  of  large  quantities 
of  this  fruit,  and  the  shipments  out  are 
large.  Receipts  can  be  made  to  con­
form  to  the  demand,  and  the  market 
is

steady  at  figures  that  have  ruled  for 
nearly  two  months.

Beans—Jobbers  pay  6o@7oc  for  coun­
try  cleaned,  holding  city  picked  at  go 
@g2c  in  carlots  and  $1  in  small  quanti­
ties.  Few beans  are  coming  into  mar­
ket  at  this  time.

Beets—35c  per bu.
Butter— Dairy  grades  are  in  plentiful 
supply,  commanding  14c  for  fancy  and 
13c  for  choice.  Factory  creamery 
is 
steady  at  i8@igc.

Cabbage—$2.50  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Celery—Choice  stock 

25c  per  bunch.

is  held  at  2o@ 

Cucumbers—$1.50  per  doz.  for  South­

ern  grown.

large  and 

Eggs— Receipts  are 

the 
quality  has  so  far  improved  that Eastern 
buyers  are  beginning  to  take  hold.  Lo­
cal  dealers  pay  8c  on  track,  case  count, 
but 
insist  that  the  price  may  go  to  7c 
before  the  end  of  the  week.  Sorted 
stock  is  readily  taken  by 
local  grocers 
on  the  basis  of gc. 
Indications  point 
to  large  receipts  at  all  primary  markets 
for  the  next  two  months.

Green  Onions— 15c  per  doz.
Honey— Dark  ranges 

from  g@ioc. 

Light  stock  commands  12c.
Lemons—The  demand 

is  excellent 
for  this  season  of  the  year.  The  de­
mand 
is  running  heavily  to  California 
stock,  with  values  a  little  lower  on these 
than  on  Messinas. 
It  seems  that  the 
quality  of  the  former  is  just  as  good  as 
that  of  the  latter.

Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  has 

advanced  to  15c.
75@8sc.

Onions—Dry  stock  has  declined  to 

Oranges— Mexicans  are  now  well  out 
of  the  market.  No  changes  are  to  be 
noted  in  the  quoted  prices  and  the  mar­
ket  may  be  counted  steady.  The move 
ment  is  heavy,  but  not  quite  up  to  what 
might  have  been  expected  from  prices 
so  low.  The  quality  of  fruit  now  being 
received  is  good,  such  frosted  stock  as 
was  put  on  the  market  being  now 
cleaned  out  of  the  way.

Potatoes— The  market  is  stronger  and 
quotations 
in  most  markets  are  fully  5c 
higher  than  a  week  ago.  Local  buyers 
have  advanced  their  paying  prices  to 
55@ 6oc.

Radishes—25c  per  doz.  bunches. 

"'Seeds—Timothy,  prime,  $i.40@i.45; 
Medium 
clover,  $3@3-25;  Mammoth 
clover,  $3@3-4o;  Crimson  clover,  $2.25; 
Red Top,  $i@i. 10;  Alfalfa,  $3.75@4.50; 
Alsyke,  $4.5o@4.65;  Orchard  grass, 
$1.-60;  Kentucky  bluegrass,  $1.30® 1.50.

Spinach—50c  per  bu.
Strawberries— 30c  per  qt.
Tomatoes—$4  per  case  of 6  baskets.
Vegetable  Oysters—20c  per  doz.

Hides,  Pelts.  Furs,  Tallow  and  Wool.
The  hide  market  is  weaker,  with  % c  
decline,  more  from  manipulation  of 
dealers  than  from  any  change  of  supply 
or  demand.  The  quality  is  poor,  which 
cuts  a  figure.  Light  stock 
is  more 
plentiful  and  prices  bold  firm.

Pelts  are  not  plenty  and  the  price 

is 

off, in  sympathy  with  wool.
Furs  hold  up  well,  with 

light  catch. 
Hudson  Bay  sales  last  week  did  not  in­
fluence  our  market,  as  they  are  a  higher 
class  of  goods.

Tallow  remains  slow  of  sale,  with  no 
kick  to  the  trade,  while  the  demand  has 
been  good  for  fresh  stock.

Wool 

is  extremely  quiet,  with  light 
sale  and  no  demand—an  occasional
weak  spot  on 
inferior  grades.  While 
the  bulk  of  holdings  is  firm,  holders ex­
pect  much  higher  prices  during the next 
half  year.  London  sales  are  firm  at  5 
per  cent,  advance  for 
light  offerings. 
Prices  are  higher  than  our  market  will 
warrant  for  importation ;  in  fact,  it  can 
not  be  bought  for  this  side  without  a 
loss. 

W m.  T.  H ess.

Gillies’  New  York  teas.  All  kinds,

A  crank 

is  a  man  who  has  a 

different  hobby  than  your  own.

BANK  NOTES.

Principle  of  Promotion  Exemplified  in 

Mr.  Anderson’s  Elevation

It 

Entirely  aside  from  personal  consid­
erations, 
the  election  of  Wm.  H.  An­
derson  to  the  presidency  of  the  Fourth 
National  Bank  is  pleasing  and  gratify­
ing. 
is  a  recognition  of  the  prin­
ciple  of  promotion,  and  not  only  is  this 
principle  applied  to  him,  but  the  others 
have  the  benefit  of  it  as  well. 
In  the 
past  history  of  banking  in  this  city,  to 
eventually  be  made  a  teller  has  been, 
practically,  the  highest  ambition  held 
out  for  the  aspirations  of  the  young man 
who  goes  into  the  banks  as  a  clerk  with 
the  view  of  making  it  a  life  business. 
When  a  clerk  or  teller  has  graduated  in­
to  a  cashiership,  it  has  not  been  as 
cashier  of  the  bank  in which he received 
his  training,  but  of  some  other  bank  or 
of  some  bank  which  he  may  have  been 
instrumental 
in  organizing.  Mr.  Sey­
mour,  it 
is  believed,  is  the  first  in  the 
city  to  begin 
in  a  bank  at  the  lowest 
round  of  the  ladder,  and  by  regular 
steps  win  promotions  to  the  cashiership 
of  the  institution  in  which  he  started. 
Mr.  Anderson 
is  the  first  cashier  to  be 
promoted  to  the  presidency.  If  the  pol­
icy  of  promotion  were  more generally 
adopted  and  applied,  the  humblest  and 
youngest  clerk  would  have  more  of  an 
incentive  to  hard  work  than  the  mere 
“ holding  of  his 
He 
look  forward 
would  have  something  to 
to  and  to  work  for,  and  this  in  itself 
would  tend 
to  the  development  of  a 
higher grade  of  ability  and  efficiency.

job’ ’  affords. 

Another  pleasing  feature  about  the 
election  of  Mr.  Anderson  is  the  recog­
nition  of  the  principle  that  the  presi­
dent  of  the  bank  should,  in  fact  as  well 
in  name,  be  the  executive  head  of 
as 
institution.  Too  often  the  presi­
the 
dency 
is  given  as  an  honor to  one  of 
the  heavy  stockholders  or  to  some  man 
whose  name 
is  well  known  in  business 
circles,  and  therefore  of  value  to  the 
bank,  but who  may  know  no  more  about 
banking  than  he  does  of  flying,  and  lit­
tle  more  of  the  bank  of  which  he  is 
president  and  the  nominal  head  than 
does  the  average  stockholder.  To  have 
an  honorary  president  may  be  well 
enough  in  a  small  town  bank,  but Grand 
Rapids  has  become  too  much  of  a  com­
mercial  and  financial  center  to  warrant 
its  continuance  here.  It  is  a  wise  move 
on  the  part  of  the  Fourth  National  to 
its  President  the  real  executive 
make 
officer  of  the 
institution.  George  W. 
Gay,  who  for  several  years  has  been 
Vice-President  of  the  Bank,  took  this 
view  of  the  matter,  and,  it 
is  under­
stood,  suggested  Mr.  Anderson  for  the 
place.

*  

*   *

Several  of  the  other  city  banks  have 
presidents  who  are  presidents  in  fact. 
is  one  of  the  hardest 
L.  H.  Withey 
in  the  Michigan  Trust 
working  men 
Company  and 
is  rarely  away  from  his 
desk,  except  when  out  of  town  on  busi­
ness  for  the  Company.  James  M.  Bar­
nett  has  his  regular  desk  and  office 
hours in  the  Old  National  and  his  finger 
is  always  on  the  business  pulse.  Dan­
iel  McCoy 
is  as  prompt  in  his  office 
hours  at  the  State  Bank  of  Michigan  as 
any  of  the  clerks.  Thomas  Hefferan  is 
rarely  seen  elsewhere  than  at  the  Peo­
ples  Savings  during  banking  hours. 
Henry  Idema,  as  Vice-President  of  the 
Kent  Savings,  attends  strictly  to  busi­
ness.  At the  other  banks  the  presidents 
give  more  or  less  close  personal  atten­
tion  to  the  business,  but  do  not  by  any 
means  devote  themselves  to  it.

Mr.  Anderson  came  to  Grand  Rapids 
fresh  from  a  Sparta  township  farm.  He 
was  born  and  brought  up  in  the  country 
and  as  a  young  man  was  thrifty  and 
shrewd.  About  fifteen  years  ago,  while 
still a young man,he sold his farm,moved 
into  the  city  and  engaged 
in  the  real 
estate  and  loan  business,  with  an  office 
under  the  Fourth  National  Bank,  oper­
ating  chiefly  upon  his  own  capital.  He 
was  modest  and  unassuming,  but  in time 
the  success  of  some  of  his  transactions 
became  known  and  attracted  attention 
in  financial  circles,  and  in  1891  he  was 
invited  to  become  a  director  of  the 
Bank.  He  accepted  the  place,  and 
in 
the  fall  of  the  same  year  was  elected 
Cashier  to  succeed  Homer VV.  Nash.  He 
entered  upon  his  duties  November  17, 
1891,  and  at  that  time  the  loans  and 
discounts  were  $872,436 and the  deposits 
$792,843.  The  loans  and  discounts  now 
are  $1,470,742,  an  increase  of  about  75 
per  cent.,  and  the  deposits  are  $1,740,- 
693,  an  increase  of  about  150  per  cent. 
Six  years  ago  the  surplus  account  was 
given  as  $35,000,  and  this  surplus  sub­
sequently  suffered  severely  when  bad 
loans,  long  carried,  were  written  off. 
The  surplus  now 
is  $47,000,  and  it  is 
all  surplus.  The  Bank  then  carried 
$66,000  worth  of  real  estate,  while  its 
real  estate  holdings  now  are 
about 
$10,000.  Under  Mr.  Anderson’s  man­
agement,  the  Bank  has  made  rapid 
strides  forward,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that 
four  of  tne  six  years  he  has  been  Cash­
ier  have  been  years  of  depression,  dis-' 
tress  and  business  uncertainty.

*  

*   *

afternoons. 

A  question  that  is  beginning  to  agi­
tate  the  bankers 
is  whether  or  not  the 
Saturday  half  holiday  will  be  observed 
during  the  coming  summer.  The  Leg­
islature  of 
’93  made  a  law  naming  the 
legal  holidays,  and  to  the  list was added 
“ every  Saturday  from  12o’clock noon to 
12  o'clock  at  night.”   This  law,  which 
is  still  on  the  statute  books,  has  a  pro­
viso,  however,  that  upon  the  vote  of  the 
directors  the  banks  may  keep  open  for 
business  Saturday 
Soon 
after  the  enactment  of  the  law  a  move­
ment  was  started  to  take  advantage  of 
it,  but  two  or  three  banks  held  out 
against  closing  Saturdays,  even  during 
the  summer  months,and  the  subject  was 
dropped.  The  agitation  which  Mayor 
Stow  has  started  for  the  closing  of  the 
factories  Saturday  afternoons  during 
July  and  August 
is  leading  to  a  hope 
among  the  bank  clerks  that  the question 
of  closing  the  banks  may  be  revived. 
The  subject  has  hardly  been  discussed 
as  yet,  but  when  the  birds  begin  sing­
ing  a 
louder,  and  when  the  sun 
grows  warmer  and  the  base  ball  games 
begin  and  the  bicycles  are  taken  from 
the  store  rooms,  a  committee  of  clerks 
will  start  out  with  an  agreement  for  all 
the  banks  to  sign.  There 
is  a  strong 
sentiment  among 
the  business  men 
against  the  Saturday  half  holiday,  even 
during  the  summer,  but 
if  the  manu­
facturers  set  the  pace,  the  merchants 
may  have  to fall  into  line  and  the  banks 
wiil  certainly  not  be  behind  the  others 
in  taking  a  weekly  half  day  off.

little 

*  

*   *

It  may  interest  investors  to  know  that 
Charlevoix  has  voted  $9,000  bonds  to 
move  the  water  works.  Boyne  City  has 
voted  $4,000  for  water  works,  and  Har­
bor  Springs  has  voted  $6,000  bonds  for 
a  municipal  lighting  plant.  Muskegon 
county  will  on  April  4  vote  on  issuing 
$25,000 bonds  to  build  a  highway  from 
Muskegon  to  North  Muskegon.  Jackson 
issuing  $22,340 
will  vote  April  4  on 
street 
Grand 
Ledge  will  vote  on  $25,000  refunding 
water  works  bonds.  Petoskev  will  vote 
ion  $15,000  to  build  a  combined  city 
hall,  engine  bouse  and  jail.

improvement  bonds. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bicycle Shoe  Clerk  Loses a  Customer. 
From the Denver Times.

A  Denver  shoe  store  recently  em­
ployed  a  young  man  for  clerk  who  had 
been 
in  the  bicycle  business  so  long 
that  he  was  an  enthusiast.  A  young 
lady  called  at  the  store  for  a  pair  of 
shoes.

“ I  want  a  pair  of  shoes,”   she  re­

marked  demurely.

“ What  gear?”   he  enquired,  bowing.
“ Sir?”
“ I  meant  what  size.”
“ About  two  and  a  half.”
“ What  model—er,  what  last?"
“ A C   last,  I  think."
‘ ‘ Do  you  like  the  high  sad—the  high 

heels?”

“ Just  medium. ”
He  got  the  shoe  she  seemed  to  want, 
and,  after  fitting  it  carefully,  remarked 
absent  mindedly:

“ You  can  wear  loose  bloomers  with 
that  frame  and  it  will  never  puncture. 
Keep  it  well  greased  and—”

The  lady  called  for  another  clerk.

JERSEY  CREAM

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6 doz. in case 

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4 doz. in case 

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2 doz. in case 

$ 2.00

0.  A.  TURNEY, Mfgr.,  DETWl^ cn,

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PRO  AND  CO N.

Views  of  the  Gate  System  from  Both 

Sides.

With  a  view  to  ascertaining  what  ob­
jections  there  are  to  the  gate  system,  a 
representative  of  the  Tradesman  rode 
last  week 
from  Grand  Rapids  to  Hart­
ford  and  return,  going both  ways  on  the 
local  trains  which  stop  at  every  town. 
At  every  stop  the  train  made  the  writer 
sauntered  out  to  the  car  platform  for 
the  purpose  of  inspecting  the  methods 
used  to  handle  the  people. 
In  each 
case  the  gate-keeper  appeared  to  be  a 
man  of  excellent 
judgment,  throwing 
his  gate  open  promptly  as  soon  as  the 
train stopped  at  the station,  assisting the 
people  to  alight  and  then  passing  those 
into  the  cars  who  possessed  tickets  or 
transportation  of  any  kind. 
Ticket 
holders  handed  their  tickets  to  the gate­
keeper,  who  scrutinized 
them  quickly 
and  punched 
them  as  the  passengers 
passed  up  the  steps  of  the  car.  Travel­
ing men  and  others  who  carried  mileage 
books  were  only  required  to  hold  the 
in  their  hands,  no  attempt  being 
book 
made  to 
inspect  the  book,  even  to  the 
extent  of  looking  at  the  name  inscribed 
on  the  cover.  Although  fully  twenty 
passengers  alighted  from the southbound 
train  at  Holland,  and  as  many  boarded 
it,  the  transfer  was  made  in  good  time, 
without  delay  and  apparently  without 
any  friction.  Several  traveling  men  on 
the  train  who  were  interviewed  on 
the 
subject  stated  that  the  objections  to  the 
system  are 
largely  sentimental  and 
that  there  are  no  valid  reasons  why  the 
gates  should  be  removed,  in  case  the 
management  finds  it  more  profitable  to 
keep  them  on  the  train.
*  *  *

The  average  traveling  man,  how­
ever,  does  not  regard  the gate  system  in 
any  other  light  than  that  of  a  nuisance, 
and  an  unmitigated  nuisance  at  that. 
Even  the  most  conservative  members  of 
the  fraternity  turn  up  their  noses  in dis­
gust  when  asked  to  explain  what  objec­
tion  they  have  to  the  gate  system.  They 
insist  that  they  have  to  stand  out  in  the 
rain  at  country  stations,  waiting  the  ac­
tion  of  the  gate-keeper  in  inspecting 
the  tickets  and  mileage  books  of  those 
in  waiting;  that  it  is  not  an  easy  thing 
for  a  traveling  man  with  two  heavy 
grips  to  carry  his  mileage  book 
in  his 
hand,  and  that  the  only  logical  outcome 
of  the  situation  is  for  the  boys  to  have 
coats  made  with  a  glass  front 
in  one 
pocket,  so  that  the  gate-keeper  can  see 
the  mileage  book  through  the  glass  and 
pass  the  salesman  without  further  cere­
mony.

*  *  *  ^

“ I  began  to  travel  out  of  Grand  Rap­
ids  fourteen  years  ago,’ ’ said  a  well- 
known  salesman,  ‘ ‘ and  it  was  common 
talk  at  that  time  among  the  traveling 
men  that  some  of  the  conductors  on  the 
Northern  division  of  the  C.  &  W.  M. 
were  knocking  down.  The  traveling 
men  talked  it  around  the  station  houses 
and 
it  became  a  matter  of  common 
knowledge  with station agents,  telegraph 
operators  and  section  hands,  yet 
for 
some  reason which I am unable to fathom 
these  men  were permitted  to  continue in 
charge  of  trains  until  their  stealings  be­
came  so  flagrant  that  the  company could 
not  stand  it  any  longer.  Of  course,  the 
is  aimed  at  the  traveling 
gate  system 
man,  the 
it  will 
prevent  collusion  between  the  traveling 
man  and 
I  maintain 
that  it  is  unfair  for  any  railroad  to  dis­
criminate  against  certain classes of trav­
elers  in  this  manner,  and  the  time  will

intention  being  that 

the  conductor. 

come  when  Mr.  Heald  will  see  that,  if 
he  persists  in  keeping  the  gates  on  the 
trains,  the  road  will  not  earn  enough  to 
pay  for  greasing  the  wheels.”

*  *  *

‘ ‘ The  gates  do  not  keep  the  passen­
gers  off  the  trains,”   said  a  veteran 
salesman  who  has  been  traveling  north 
of  Grand  Rapids  for  the  past  fourteen 
years;  “ but  they  keep  the  freight  off 
the  freight  trains,”   he  remarked,  with 
a  sly  wink.  “ It  is  not  so  much  the  gate 
system  the  boys  complain  of  as  it  is  the 
frequent  changes  and  unnecessary  in­
novations  that  are  continually  being 
made  by  the  Heald  lines,  and  the  gate 
matter 
is  simply  the  culmination  of 
annoyances  which  the  traveling  men 
have  been  compelled  to  put  up  with 
ever  since  Mr.  De  Haven  was  placed 
in  charge  of  the  passenger  department. 
Why  he  should  harbor  such  a  dislike  to­
ward  the  traveling  man  is  more  than  I 
can  understand,  especially  when  we 
come  to  think  how  much  that  road  de­
pends  on  the  traveling  men  for  sup­
port. ’ ’

*  *  *

it  put  gates  on 

“ The  C.  &  W.  M.  was  the  most  pop­
in  Michigan,”   said  another 
ular  line 
its 
‘ ‘ until 
salesman, 
is  now 
trains,  and  I  should  say  that  it 
the  most  unpopular  road  in  the  United 
States,  and 
it  will  remain  so  until  the 
gates  are  taken  off and  every  vestige  of 
the  gate  system  is  abolished.  Of course, 
the  boys  have  to  travel  over  the  Heald 
lines,  but  so  long  as  the  gates  remain, 
they  will  travel  just  as  little  as  they  can 
over  these  lines,  and  when  it  comes  to 
the  shipment  of  freight—well,  that  is 
where  the  boys  can  get  in  their  work.”

*  *  *

A  visit  to  the  various  jobbing  houses 
of  the  city  discloses  the  fact  that  nearly 
every  shipping  clerk  in  town  has  spe­
cific  orders  to  ship  goods  in  every  way 
possible  except  over  the  Heald  lines. 
For  instance,  a  representative  grocery 
salesman  who  was  always  partial  to  the 
C.  &  W.  M.,  in  making  shipments 
to 
Baldwin,  Ludington  and  Manistee  now 
has  a  notice  pasted  in  the  shipping  de­
partment  of  the  house  for  which  he 
travels,  requesting  that  all  shipments 
for  these  towns  be  sent  via  G.  R.  &  I. 
and  F.  &  P.  M.  The  result  is  that 
Baldwin  has  ceased  to  cut  much  figure 
as  a  transfer  station  except  on  through 
business.

*  *  *

such 

determined 

The  above  interviews  serve  to present 
the  gate  question  as  it  appears  to  the 
unprejudiced  observer'—to  one  who  took 
the  trouble  to  investigate  the  matter  on 
his  own  account  and  who  is  unable  to 
determine  wherein  the  system  should 
meet 
opposition. 
Rightly  or  wrongly,  however,  there  is 
no  disputing  the  fact  that  there  exists  a 
deep-seated  antagonism  against  the  sys­
tem,  which  time  will  never  soften,  and, 
judging  by  the  manner  in  which  freight 
shipments  are  being  diverted,  the writer 
has  no  hesitation 
in  asserting  that,  in 
his  opinion,  it  is  a  mistake  to  continue 
to  keep  the  gates  on  the  trains,  because 
every  dollar  that  is  saved  by  the  use  of 
the  gates  is  costing  the  railroad  $100  in 
the  loss  of  freight  which  is  diverted  to 
other  lines  How  long  the  management 
can  afford  to  hold  out  against this oppo­
sition  is,  of  course,  problematical,  but 
it  would  appear  to  the  writer  that  no 
road  or  series  of  roads  can  afford  to 
suffer  such  a 
loss  of  its  revenues  as 
must  be  the  case  under  existing  condi­
tions,  when  the  matter  at  stake  is  so 
insignificant  as  the  continuance  or  abo­
lition  of  the  gate  system.

A  man  always  puts  bis  best  foot  for­

ward ;  a  mule  puts  his  backward.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

There 

vember  and  your  winter  things  about 
the  middle  of  July. 
It  sounds  alluring. 
Most  of  us  have  tried  it,  and  that  no 
woman  has  yet  committed  suicide  when 
she  got  her bargains  out  of  season  is  a 
signal  proof  of  feminine  heroism  and 
fortitude  under  affliction. 
is 
one,  just  one,  infallible  rule  about  this 
— whatever  you  get  will  be  exactly  the 
thing  you  should  not  have  gotten,  and 
you  will 
If  you 
buy  a  stripe  in  the  summer,  when  win­
living  soul  will  be 
ter  comes  every 
wearing  plaids. 
If  you  get  a  dark, 
quiet,  non-committal  color,  fashion  will 
inevitably  demand  a  color  that  pro­
claims  its  glories  from  afar.  You  can 
never  know  how absolutely necessary  the 
latest  thing 
is  to  your  happiness  until 
load  yourself  up  with  last  year’s 
you 
goods,  and 
like  a  perambulating 
back  number.

loathe  and  despise  it. 

feel 

There 

is  converted 

isn’t  any  use 

in  speaking  of 
the  economy  that  prompts  a  woman  to 
do  the  spring  housecleaning  to  save  a 
scrub-woman  or  to  put  down  carpets 
herself  instead  of  hiring  a  professional. 
Doctors  and  trained  nurses  have  to live, 
and  these  are  their  perquisites.  Be­
sides,  no  woman  ever  admitted  she 
made  herself  sick. 
She  may  have 
brought  on  a  spell  that  necessitates  her 
spending  the  summer  at  the  seaside,  or 
in  the  mountains,  to  recuperate  from 
having  painted  a  set  of  cottage  furni­
ture,  but  she  always  believes  it  was  a 
great  saving  in  the  long  run,  and  points 
to  it  with  pride,  as  an  evidence  of  her 
ability  to  economize.  Neither  is  it  nec­
essary  to  say  a  word  of  those  who  make 
home-made  furniture,  where  a  cracker 
box 
into  a  divan  and  a 
flour  barrel 
into  an  empire  chair,  by 
means  of  springs  and  curled  hair  and 
brocade  and  Turkish  rugs,  at  about 
three  times  what  a  decent  article  would 
cost  from  the  store.  When  a  woman 
contracts the home-made-furniture-econ- 
omizing  mania  she  is  simply  hopeless, 
and  there’s  no  use  in  arguing  with  her.
I  suppose  there  has  never  been  a 
woman  who  was  a  housekeeper  who  has 
not  felt  herself  thrill  with  the  possibili­
ties  of  getting  rich  off  what  she  could 
save  from  the  table,  as  she  read  the  in­
spiring  words  of  some  of  the  apostles  of 
household 
throw 
away  a  scrap,  cry  they.  Utilize  every­
thing.  Then  follow  directions  for  con­
verting  the  cold  potatoes  left  from  din­
ner  into  croquettes,  transforming  scraps 
of meat into entrancing  entrees,and  stale 
bread 
into  ravishing  puddings.  Also, 
and  likewise,  every  woman  is  conjured 
to  keep  a  stock  kettle,  where  the  ma­
terials  for  soup  gather  themselves  to­
gether  as  if  by  magic and without price.

economics.  Never 

Now,  far  be  it  from  me  to  say  these 
things  are  impossible. 
I  am  persuaded 
that  nothing 
is  secret  or  hidden  from 
these  oracles,  but  I  do  say  that  a  stock 
kettle  and  nervous prostration are synon­
ymous  terms.  Nothing  short  of  eternal 
vigilance  will  gel  the  right  things 
into 
it  and  keep  the  wrong  things  out. 
Furthermore,  to  reduce  cold  potatoes 
into  fancy  dishes  and  turn  sciaps  of 
meat  into  things  a  la  maitre  d’hoteland 
a 
to  keep  a 
woman  standing  continually  over  the 
cooking  stove. 
is  an  achievement 
entirely  beyond  the  average  plain  cook, 
and  the  game  simply 
isn’t  worth  the 
candle. 
It  is  using up  $5  worth  of  time 
and  $10  worth  of  temper  to  save  15 
cents’  worth  of  cold  victuals.

la  Hollandaise 

is  going 

It 

After  all,aren’t we  victims  to  the  idea 
of  saving  up  things? 
“ Keep  every­
thing.  Sometime  you  may  need  it,’ ’ 
runs 
the  old  adage,  and  so  we  go  on 
piling  up  useless  rubbish  in  our  attics, 
until  they  will  hold  no  more.  And  if,by 
chance,  in  the  process  of  time,  you  do 
happen  to  need  the  thing  the  moths 
it,  or  it  has  gotten 
have  always  eaten 
rusted  and  it  isn’t  any  use  after  all. 
It 
is  a  distorted 
idea  of  economy  that 
makes  women  burden  themselves  with 
things  they  would  be  glad  to  be  rid  of. 
They  simply  haven’t 
the  courage  to 
throw  rubbish  away.  The  idea  of  giv­
ing  things  away  while  they  are  good 
enough  and  fashionable  enough  to  use 
doesn’t  seem 
it 
is  one  of  the  most  practical  forms  of 
philanthropy  in  the  world.

to  any,  yet 

to  occur 

At  the  end  of  the  season  every  woman 
who  goes  about  much  has  a lot of dresses 
and  hats  and  gloves  and  flowers  and 
frills  that  she 
is  reasonably  sure  of 
never  wearing  again.  Suppose,  instead 
of  packing  them  up  and  storing  them 
away,  she  sent  them  to  some  girls  out 
in  the  country  with  a  word  or  two  about 
how  they  could  be  freshened  up  and 
used.  Wouldn’t  it  be  a  veritable  treas­
ure-trove?  Once  I  spent  a  summer  in 
a  little  village  that  had  its  great 
lady. 
She  bad  married  a  rich  man  who  served 
his  country  as  a  cabinet  minister,  and 
both 
in  Washington  and  afterwards  in 
New  Yo’ k  she  was  a  brilliant  and  con­
spicuous  figure  in  society.  As  befitted 
her  wealth  and  position,  she  dressed 
with  great  richness,  but  she  never  for­
got  the  old  friends  left  behind  in  the 
little  town,  and  thither  three  or  four 
times  a  year  she  sent  great  hampers  of 
fine  clothing—gowns,  wraps  and  hats— 
that  were  divided,  at  her  suggestion, 
among  a  number  of  poor  girls,  whose 
cunning  fingers  adapted  them  to  their 
new  owners’  needs.  The  gift  was  made 
without  patronage  and  accepted  without

Sometimes 

false  shame. 
“ Oh,  do  you  know  Mrs. 
B.  sent  me  the  hat  she  wore  to  the  Brit­
ish  Ministei’s  garden  party?”   Or,  “ I 
have  the 
loveliest  ball  frock— it’s  the 
one  Mrs.  B.  had  made  for  the  Patri­
archs’  Ball,”   were  the  explanations 
often  given  of  some  unusual  finery  and 
which  were  accepted  in  an  equally  un­
critical  spirit,  and  it  seemed  to  me  that 
no  act  of  a  life  that  was  fragrant  with 
good  deeds  was  sweeter  or  better  than 
the  generous  remembrance  of  a  young 
girl’s 
love  of  pretty  clothing  that  these 
boxes  expressed.
it 

is  not  alone  the  mania 
for  economy  that  makes  women  put 
away  everything  that  they  have  ever 
had— it  is  a  sentimental  fancy  of  asso­
ciation. 
I  remember  that  once  I  lived 
neighbor  to  such  a  woman  as  this,  who 
used  to  say  that  she  had  in  an  immense 
packing  chest  all  the  clothing  and  play­
things  her  son— now  a  m iddle-aged  and 
prosperous  banker—had  had  until  he 
was  nearly  grown,  and 
that  once  or 
twice  a  year  she  would  overhaul  the 
things  and  weep  over  them,  because  he 
hadn’t  staid  a  baby  but  had  persisted 
in  growing  up.  One  cold  and  bitter 
night  I  was  called  to  see  a  family  in 
the  direst  poverty.  A  little  new-born 
baby  wailed  on  the  breast  of  a  starving 
mother  and  a  half  dozen  half-naked 
children  cowered  about  a handful  of  fire 
in  the  stove. 
I  went  direct  from  them 
to  my  rich  neighbor.

‘  Look  here,  Mrs.  Blank,”   I  said 
abruptly,  “ didn’t  you  tell  me  you  had 
all  the  baby  clothes,  and  clothes  your 
son  wore  when  a  child,  in  a  chest  in the 
attic?”

“ Yes,”   she  said,  “ and  they  are  my 
most  precious  possessions.  Ah,  you 
have  no 
idea  how  many  times  I  have 
wept  over  them—”

“ Precious 

fiddlesticks!”  

I  cried; 
“ and  are  you  going  to  let  that  box  of 
clothes  rot  upstairs  while  those  children 
at  your  very  door 
for 
clothes?  Why,  I  think  your  heart  must 
be  encased  in  boiler  iron.”

freezing 

are 

Do  you 

think 

it’s  wrong?”   she 

asked.

“ Wrong!”   said  I,  seeing  I  was  gain­
ing  the day ;  " I   don’t think you could do 
a  wickeder  thing, 
if  you  hunted  a 
week.”

Well,  at  last  she  gave  me  the  key  and 
sent  me  and  a  servant  up  to  get  the 
things.  She  said  she  couldn’t  bear  to 
do  it  herself,  and  when  we  got  through 
with  that  trunk  there  wasn’t  enough  left 
in  it  to  shed  a  tear  on  in  the  future.

Economy 

is  good,  but  generosity  is 
better. 
It  is  a  good  thing  sometimes  to 
take  care  of  things.  And  sometimes  it 
is  better  to  just  pass  on  our  blessings 
and  give  others  a  chance  at  them.

D orothy  D ix .

Woman’s World
Women’s  False  Ideas  of  Economy.
I  am  more  and  more  convinced  every 
day  that  with  the  majority  of  women 
economy  is  the  root  of  all  extravagance. 
When  one  runs  up  a  bill  that  simply 
paralyzes  her  or  goes  dead  broke  a week 
before  her  allowance  is  due,  nine  times 
out  of  ten  it  may  be  safely  set  down  to 
some  conscientious  and  heartfelt  effort 
to  economize.  That  it  proves a boomer­
ang  does  not  discourage  or  disconcert 
her.  She  simply  wraps  the  mantle  of 
conscious  self-righteousness  about  her 
and  wonders  what  on  earth  her  poor 
family  would  have  done  without  such 
a  financier  to  manage  for  them.

Economy  has  always  been  woman's 
pet  virtue  on  which  she  prided  herself, 
and  each  and  every  one  of  us 
is  fully 
convinced  that  we have a close monopoly 
on  it.  We  are  willing  to  admit  we  don’t 
know  it  all  in  other  directions,  that  we 
make  mistakes  and  failures,  but  I  have 
yet  to meet  the  woman  who  did  not  con­
sider  herself  a  shining  exponent  of  the 
art  of  judicious  saving.  The  one  thing 
a  woman  can  never  understand  is  the 
coolness  with  which  a  man  buys  what 
he  wants,  when  be  wants  it,  or  by  what 
miracle  her  husband  kept  out  of  the 
poorhouse  before  she  took  charge  of  his 
pocketbook.

In  pursuance  of  the  theory of economy 
we  stum ble  into  many  pitfalls.  One  of 
these  is  the  bargain  counter.  Never  was 
there  a  greater  mistake  than  to  imagine 
a  woman 
loves  a  bargain  because  she 
thinks  it  is  cheap.  We  hate  cheapness. 
We  would  far  rather have a high-priced, 
exclusive  article,  but  we  are  victims  to 
the  economy  idea,  and  feel  that  the  un­
pardonable  sin  is  in  passing  by  some­
thing  that  has  been  marked  down.  Mrs. 
Jones  paid  50  cents  apiece  for  some 
towels  she  needed.  We  get  the  very 
same  towels  on  bargain  Monday  for  48 
cents,  and  we  feel  a  triumphant  thrill 
at  the achievement,and  reflect that Mary 
Jones  never  did  know  the  first  princi­
ples  of  economy,anyway. 
It is only  aft­
er our towels come home that  we remem­
ber  that  we  were  already  oversupplied 
and  haven’t  the  slightest  use  for  them— 
that  there 
isn’t  a  shelf  in  a  closet  01 
armoire  where  it  is  safe  to  move a thing 
suddenly  for  fear  of  an  avalanche  of 
previous  bargains  falling  on  our  heads 
— it  is  only  then  that  we  begin  to  enter­
tain  suspicious  thoughts  of  economy 
and  to  wonder  when  a  bargain  is  a  bar­
gain.

Every  now  and  then  some  prophet 

in 
Israel  arises  and  sets  forth .the  advan­
in  No­
tages  of  buying  your  organdies 

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it 

TRAVELING MEN V S .TR A IN   GATES
The  discussion  between  the  traveling 
men  on  one  side  and  the  Heald  railway 
system  on  the  other,  relative  to  the  gate 
system  now 
in  use  on  a  portion  of  the 
trains  of  that  system,  has  reached  the 
acute  stage,  and  the  outcome  is  not  at 
all  difficult  to  foresee.  Both  sides  are 
arrayed  in  invincible  phalanx—and  one 
side  or  the  other  must,  of  necessity, 
yield.  The  Tradesman  has  given  the 
matter  thorough  investigation  and  care­
ful  consideration  and  is  inclined  to  the 
opinion  that  the  objections  to  the  in­
novation  are  more  sentimental  than 
real.  Notwithstanding  this  fact,  how­
ever, 
the  traveling  men  have  taken 
strong  grounds  against  the  gates  and 
insist  that  they  must  go  or  their  freight 
will  go  over  other  lines,  so  far  as 
is 
possible  for  them  to  diveit  it.  They 
have  not  only  registered  this  fiat,  but 
they  are  putting  it  into  execution  with 
a  vigor  and  a  determination  character­
istic  of  the  fraternity.  How  long  the 
Heald  system  can  stand  up  under  such 
a  determination  and  continue  its  pres­
ent  policy  of  opposition  and  defiance 
is,  of  course,  problematical;  but,  as  it 
is  impossible  to  restore  the  friendship 
of  the  traveling  men  and  still  keep  the 
gates,  and  as  the 
friendship  of  the 
traveling  men  is  a  commodity  quite  as 
valuable  in 
its  way  as  any  commodi­
ties  which  can  be  weighed  and  meas­
ured,  the  Tradesman  believes  that  Gen­
eral  Manager  Heald— who  enjoys  the 
reputation  of  being'one  of  the  shrewdest 
and  most  diplomatic  railway  managers 
in  the country—will wisely conclude that 
the  traveling  men  have  opinions  and 
prejudices which even a railway official is 
bound  to  respect,  and  that  he  will forth­
with  issue  an  order  abolishing  the  gate 
system  on  the  few  trains  on  which  it 
is 
now  used.

Had  the  system  been  put  into  opera­
tion  by  concert  of  action  with  other 
Michigan  roads,  or  had  it  been  adopted 
at  a  time  when  the  traveling  men  were 
not  already  keyed  up  to  intense  excite­
ment  by  reason  of  the  adoption  and 
abandonment  of  the  Central  Passenger 
Association  mileage  book,  the  gate  sys­
tem  would  probably  provoke  little  com­
ment  and  excite 
Its 
adoption  at  such  a  time,  however,  was 
premature  and  unfortunate,  and  for  the 
best 
interests  of  all  concerned,  and  in 
order  that  harmony  and  good  feeling 
may  be  restored,  the Tradesman sincere­
ly  hopes  that  Mr.  Heald  will  conclude

little  opposition. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

to  withdraw  the  obnoxious  feature  and 
hold  out  the  olive  branch  of  peace, 
realizing,  as  he  must,  that  he  is  deal­
ing  with  a  class  of  men  who  can  make 
and  unmake  railroads—who  can  precip­
itate  defaults  on  bonds  as  well  as  earn 
dividends  on  stocks.

In 

That  these  unfavorable 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITU A TIO N .
With  the  exception  of  a  perceptible 
checking  of  wholesale  demand  at  cer­
tain  Eastern  points  the  tide  of  trade 
flows  without  abatement  over  all  parts 
of  the  country.  Many 
large  transac­
tions  are  deferred  in  the  seaboard  cities 
on  account  of  the  feeling  of  uncertainty 
caused  by  war  possibilities. 
the 
stock  market  the  effect  is  shown  in  con­
tinued  dulness,  and  as  the  probability 
of  matters  being  brought  to  a  crisis  by 
the  report  of  the  Maine  enquiry  be­
comes  more 
imminent  there  is  a  cor­
responding  increase  in  the  dulness,  and 
this  week  shows  a  decline  in most  lines.
indications 
are  the  result  of  the  political  situation 
alone 
fact  that 
throughout  the  country  trade  movement 
is  very  heavy,  the  central  and  western 
portions  leading.  Perhaps  the  most  fa­
vorable  reports  come  from  Kansas  City, 
where  the  demand  for  hardware  and 
building  materials,  as  well  as  agricul­
tural 
implements,  is  greater  than  the 
supply,  and  difficulty  is  found  in  filling 
orders.  Another  favorable 
feature  of 
is  that  export  trade  con­
the  situation 
tinues  larger  than  the  most  sanguine 
expectations.  The  excess  of  these  over 
imports  is  rapidly  increasing  the  trade 
balance 
in  our  favor,  until  there  is  a 
rapid  inflow  of  gold  from  every  direc­
tion.

indicated  by 

the 

is 

The  wheat  market  scored  a  small  ad­
vance  for  last  week,  but  this week shows 
a  tendency  to  reaction,  although  as  yet 
with  little  change  in  values.  The  situa­
tion  seems  to  be  under  the  control  of 
speculators  in  the  Western  markets  and 
the  small  fluctuations 
in  values  are 
made  to  suit  their  convenience.  Prices 
of  the  other  cereals  have  been  weaker.
iron  situation  continues  the  fa­
vorable  features  of  the  past  few  weeks 
in  nearly  all 
im­
provement  has  been  emphasized  by  the 
political  agitation,  not  only  in  the pros­
pect  of  future  demands,  but  there  have 
been  enough  substantial  orders  given 
by  the  Government  to  have  a  material 
influence.

Indeed,  the 

lines. 

The 

Bank  clearings  continue  very  heavy, 
breaking  records  for  the  corresponding 
weeks  in  any  past  years.  The  amount 
was  $1,288,951,000.  Failures  were  233, 
as  against  247  last  week.

Spring  poetry 

is  coming  in  briskly 
enough,  full  of  roses  and  posies,  and 
love,  from  above,  and  shine  of  the  sun 
and  dearest  one,  dewdrops  of  pearl, 
sweetest girl,and  the  borrowed  perfume 
of  a  honeysuckle-scented  June;  all  of 
which  is  nice.

It  is  reported  that  the  peach  crop  has 
been  nearly  ruined  in  some  of our Texas 
counties.  The  public’s  long  experience 
with  Michigan  and  Maryland  necessi­
tates  something  like  an  affidavit  to  se­
cure  full  credence  for  repoits  as  to  the 
peach  crop.

Senator  Proctor’s  cold 

facts  have 
rather  taken  the  wind  out  of  the Madrid 
press,  but  the  latter  may  be  confidently 
expected  to  come  up  smiling  for  an­
other  round  or  two.  Facts  only  tem­
porarily  embarrass  the  Spanish  editor.

Spain  can  never  sell  her  honor  nor 

pawn  her  pride.

AN  UNFORTUNATE  DECISION.
The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  has  recently  rendered  a  decision 
setting  aside 
as  unconstitutional  a 
statute  of  the  State  of  Nebraska  which 
undertook  to  regulate  railroad  freight 
charges.

This  statute  fixed  a  maximum  sum 
which  might  be  charged 
for  freights 
within  the  State  and  conferred  on  the 
Railroad  Commissioners  of  Nebraska 
power  to  reduce  the  rates  whenever,  to 
a  majority  of  the number,  it seemed  just 
and  reasonable  so  to  do.

A  railroad  company  operating  in  Ne­
braska  complained  that  the  reductions 
of  freight  rates  made  under  this  law 
were  so  great  that  each  of  the  roads 
in­
volved  would  have  been  compelled  to 
do  its  business  at  a  loss,  and  that  thus 
the  effect  of  the  law  was  to  deprive  the 
railroad  companies  of  their  property 
without  compensation,  in  violation  of 
the  constitution.

The  United  States  Supreme  Court 
sustained  the  contention  of  the  railroad 
company  and  held  that  the  authorities 
of  a  State  have  no  right,  under  the  con­
stitution,  to  fix  an  unreasonable  rate  to 
be  charged  by  railroads  even  within  the 
State.  But  the  Court  did not stop there. 
It  undertook  to  fix  the  basis  upon  which 
the  reasonableness  of  railroad  charges 
may  be  ascertained.  Said  the  Court:

We  hold  that  the  basis  of  all  calcu­
lations  as  to  reasonableness  of  rates  to 
be  charged  by  a  corporation  maintain­
ing  a  highway  under  legislative  sanc­
tion  must  be  the  fair  value  of  the  prop­
erty  being  used  by  it  for  the  conven­
ience  of  the  public.  And  in  order  to 
ascertain  that  value,  the  original  cost of 
construction,  the  amount  expended  in 
improvements,  the  amount  and  market 
value  of  its  bonds  and  stock,  the present 
as  compared  with  the  original  cost  of 
construction,  the  probable  earning  ca­
pacity  of  the  property  under  any  rates 
prescribed  by  statute,  and  the  sum  re­
quired  to  meet  operating  expenses  are 
all  matters  for  consideration,  and  to  be 
given  such  weight  as  may  be  just  and 
right  in  any  particular  case.

This  decision 

virtually  empowers 
every  railroad 
in  the  United  States  to 
make  such  charges  for  its  services  as 
will  enable  it  to  do  business  at  a  profit. 
This 
involves  principles  that  are  at 
variance  with  the  rules  governing  the 
prices  of  all  other  services and  products 
in  the  markets.  A  thing  is  worth  what 
it  will  bring,  and  the  market  price 
is 
commonly  fixed  by  competition.  As  the 
result  of  competition,  prices  may  be  so 
low  that  somebody 
loses  money;  but 
is  only  one  of  the  contingencies  of 
that 
business. 
If  some  cau  produce  an  ar­
ticle  of  consumption  at  lower  cost  than 
can  be  secured  by  others,  then  the  com­
petition  may  force  one  producer  to  lose 
money,  while  another  works  at  a  profit. 
Everything  depends  on  facilities  and 
advantages  of  production.

But  railroads,  save  in  rare  instances, 
do  not  compete.  At 
least  each  has  a 
certain  territory,  the  carrying  trade  of 
which  it  controls.  Under  the  operation 
of  the  decision  above  noted  it  would 
seem  that  a  railroad  badly  constructed 
and  worse  managed  would  have  the 
in  fixing  its  charges  for  transpor­
right 
tation  to 
insure  itself  a  profit,  despite 
its  disadvantage,  and  this  profit  is  to  be 
made  out  of  the  persons  who  are forced, 
for  lack  of  other  facilities,  to  use  its 
services,  because  the  original  cost  of 
construction,  the  amount  expended 
in 
improvements,  the  amount  and  market 
value  of  its  bonds  and  stock,  the  prob­
able  earning  capacity  of  the  property 
under any  rates  prescriDed  by  the  state, 
and  the  sum  required  to  meet  to  oper­
ating  expenses  are all  matters  for  con­

sideration 
freight  tariff.

in  making  up  a  reasonable 

In  equity  the  matter  of reasonableness 
should  not  operate  wholly  to  the  advan­
tage  of  the  railways. 
It  .would  seem 
that  those  persons  whose  necessities 
force  them 
to  patronize  the  railways 
should  also  be  considered.  They  might 
be  required  to  pay  for  the transportation 
of  their products such prices as would  in­
sure that their property would not be mar­
keted  at  a  loss.  Certainly,  all  the  rea­
sonableness  should  not  work  to  the  ad­
vantage  of  the  railways  and  against  the 
shippers;  but  it  appears  that  there  is no 
ground  upon  which  shippers  can  stand 
in  court  and  fight  for  the  rights.  They 
cannot  ship  their  goods  without  signing 
a  contract  to  pay  their  freights,  what­
ever  they  may  be,  and  that  ends  the 
matter.  Neither  the  Interstate  Com­
merce  Commission  nor  State  railway 
commissions  can  aid  shippers 
in  the 
face  of  such  a  decision.  The  railroad 
would  only  have  to  show  that  it  must 
charge  a  certain  sum  in  order  to  keep 
up 
its  watered,  or 
otherwise  overvalued,  stock  and  bonds, 
to  secure  the  judgment  of  the  court  that 
this  was  a  “ reasonable  rate.”

its  dividends  on 

The  market  value  of  any  property 

is 
just  wbat  it  will  sell  for.  Many  of  the 
railroads  that  were  built  at  high  costs 
in  times  of  inflation  could be duplicated 
to-day  at  vastly  smaller  outlays.  They 
are  put  up  and  sold  at  sheriff's  sale  for 
a  tithe  of  what  they  cost;  but  if,  in 
making  rates,  the  original  cost  must  be 
considered,  the  shippers  will  be  placed 
at  a  hopeless  disadvantage. 
is  this 
sort  of  thing  done  in  the  courts  that  has 
aroused  so  much  hostility  against  the 
railroads  and  has  given  rise  to  the  wild 
and  radical  socialistic  demands 
that 
they  shall  be  operated  by  the  Govern­
ment.

It 

The  State  of  Indiana,  which  is  con­
sidered  one  of  the  severest  on  the  rail­
roads,  only  taxes  them  to  the  amount  of 
their  selling  value.  Suppose  it  adopted 
the  rule  laid  down  above  for  ascertain­
ing  reasonable  freight charges and taxed 
them  at  their  original  cost,  etc.,  what  a 
howl  there  would  be.

The  State  of  Indiana,  which  taxes  the 
railroads  on  their  selling  value,  secures 
from  them  nearly  20  per  cent,  of  the 
State’s  revenues.  The  Indiana  system 
is  to  assess  against  the  railroads  the 
total  value  of  all  their  property  within 
the  borders  of  the  commonwealth,  no 
matter  where  the  owners may reside. 
If 
lies  two-thirds  in  Ohio  and 
a  railroad 
one-third 
in  Indiana,  it  assumes  that 
Indiana  should  receive  the  tax  on  one- 
third  of  its  total  value. 
In  short,  it  ap­
plies  to  railroad  property  the  same  rules 
as  are  applied  to  the  taxation  of  real 
estate,  and  taxes  the  roads  at  the  gen­
eral  rate.  As  a  result,  the  railroads  of 
Indiana  pay  as  large  a  proportion  of the 
taxes  as  its  real  estate  pays.

island  are  only 

One  can  easily  see  why  Englishmen 
wish  success  to  plans  for  the 
liberation 
of  Cuba.  Their  losses  through  the  dev­
astation  of  the 
less 
grievous  than  our  own.  Scores  of  cot­
ton  and  tobacco  estates  are  owned  or 
mortgaged 
in  England,  and  almost  all 
the  money  invested  in  the  insular  rail­
ways  came  from  London. 
It  was  with 
English  capital  that  public  works  were 
undertaken  in  a  number of  Cuban  cities 
between  1878  and  1894.  No  interest  or 
dividend  will  be  forthcoming  on  any  of 
these  securities  until  peace  has  been 
restored  in  the  island.

General  Fitzhugh  Lee 

is  the  most 

pictured  man  in  America  to-day.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

FREE  VS.  PRISON  C O M P E TITIO N .
A  curious  feature  of  the  prison  labor 
problem  in  this  locality  is  that  the man­
agement  of  one  of  the  prisons  finds 
it­
self  compelled  to  give  up  a  line  of work 
because  outside  competition  makes  the 
convict  labor  in  such  work  unprofitable. 
In  a  communication  to  the  press  on  the 
subject  the  warden  of  the  Ionia  House 
of  Correction  asserts  that  that 
institu­
tion 
is  compelled  to  discontinue  the 
manufacture  of cheap  chamber suites for 
the  reason 
that  outside  “ cutthroat” 
competition  has  made  it  impossible  for 
the  piison  to  continue  the  work ;  and 
he  further  takes  occasion  to  score  such 
competition  and  to  intimate  that  it  is  a 
more  pertinent  subject  for  the  attention 
of  organized  labor  than  is  the  question 
of  prison  competition.

There  is  little  doubt  that  in  the strug­
gle  to  keep  factories  in  operation  dur­
ing  the  depression  of  recent  years  there 
was  too  great  competition  in some lines, 
work  being  continued  when  there  was 
actual 
loss  to  the  manufacturers  and 
wages  were  reduced  to  the  minimum. 
In  these  cases  the  workmen accepted the 
situation  on  the  theory  that  a  small  loaf 
was  better  than  none;  but  when  the 
revival  of  business  began  both  employ­
ers  and  workmen  were  prompt  to  regain 
a suitable  business  basis  for their opera­
tions.  But 
line,  as  in  many 
others,  the  regaining  of  such  a basis  did 
not  necessarily  mean  a  very  radical 
change 
in  the  schedule  of  values,  for 
other  causes  had  operated  to  change  the 
situation,  and  in  many  lines  of  trade  in 
which  there  are  now the greatest activity 
and  prosperity  for  all  concerned  theie 
has  been 
in 
pi ices.

scarcely  any  advance 

in  this 

in 

the 

From  this 

it  may  be  suggested  that 
the  reason  for  the  warden's  discontent 
and  discouragement  may  be  the  result 
of  other  causes—that  for  some  reason  he 
has  possibly  failed  to  meet  changing 
conditions  of  manufacture  and  so  is  left 
behind 
industrial  race.  The 
fact  of  lessened  values  during  the  de­
pression,  instead  of  hindering  the  ad­
vance  of  inventive  improvement,  oper­
ated  to  accelerate  it  by  supplying  the 
spur  of  necessity.  Take  the 
iron  and 
steel  trades,  for  instance.  Those  years 
marked  so  great  a  revolution  in  appar­
atus  and  methods  of  production  that 
the  resumption  of  the  greatest  activity 
ever  known 
is  characterized  by  a  less­
ening  of  prices,  which  enables  this 
country  to  compete 
in  the  markets  of 
the  world  to  a  degree  far  beyond  the 
most  sanguine  expectation,  and 
that 
without  creating  dissatisfaction  on  the 
part  of  the  wage  earners.

To  a  certain  extent  the  same  causes

have  operated  to  affect  the  situation 
in 
other  lines,  including  that  of  furniture; 
and,  unfortunately  for  the  continued 
prosperity  of  prison  industries,  which 
involve  various  mechanical  appliances 
and  processes,  the  management  is  not 
so  situated  as  to  keep  in  a  sufficiently 
advanced  position  in  the  march  of 
im­
provement,  and 
those  among  prison 
wardens  who  find  themselves  hopelessly 
in  the  rear  are  prone  to  attribute  to  the 
undue  competition  of 
free  labor  that 
which  is  owing  to  their  own  limitations 
as  intruders  in  the  industrial  army.

losing 

The  deplorable  situation  in  the  Ionia 
prison  factory 
is  the  natural  result  of 
the  establishment  of  a  prison  industry 
requiring  an  extensive  and  varied  me­
chanical  plant.  Every  private  manu­
facturer  knows  that  one  of  the  greatest 
causes  of  deterioration  of  his  mechani­
cal  outfit  is  the changing of styles caused 
improvement.  Thus  from  year  to 
by 
year  machines  are 
their  effic­
iency,  because newer  patterns  are  doing 
more  and  better  work,  and 
in  many 
cases  are  supplanting  the  older  so  that 
they  are  thrown  aside  entirely. 
In 
carrying  on  such  an  enterprise 
in  a 
prison  it  is  impossible  for  the  manage­
ment  to  meet  these changing conditions. 
The  investment  in  plant  of  such  enter­
prises  means  the  greater  waste  of  the 
state  funds,  in  that  they  soon  become 
obsolete  and  worthless.  The  extent  to 
which  this  is  the  case  is 
in  proportion 
to  the  variety  in  the  machines and proc­
esses.  On  this  account  this  class  of  en­
terprises 
in 
their prosperity  and  soon cease to be dis­
turbing  factors  in  the general  industrial 
field.

in  prisons  are  transient 

It 

But,  unfortunately,  there  are  some 
lines  of  work 
involving  the  use  of  a 
single  machine  or  process  which  are not 
subject  to  such  limitations,  and  these 
are  constant  and  serious  disturbers 
in 
the 
Thus  for 
many  years  the  manufacture  of  cheap 
chairs  has  been  made  almost impossible 
to  free  labor  on  account  ot  this  intru­
sion,  and  so 
in  varying  degree  with  a 
long  list  of  other  manufactures.

industries  concerned. 

is  unfortunate  for  the  interests  of 
free  labor  that,  while  the  management 
of  Ionia  seems  to  fail  to  grasp  the  sad 
difficulty  with  the  furniture  industry,  it 
is  changing  to  those  lines  in  which  the 
prospects  of  success  are more favorable. 
The  warden,  in  his  anxiety  to  keep  the 
good  will  of  the  labor  element,  pro­
tests  that  the  new  shirt  contract  does 
not  come 
into  competition  with  free 
labor;  but  his  explanation  that  they  are 
sold  where  there  has  been  no  market 
is  hardly  sufficient.  Free  enterprise  is 
probably as successful  in finding markets 
as  prison  wardens,  and,  whatever  may 
be  the  temporary  conditions,  the  manu­
facture  of  shirts  in  the  Ionia  prison will 
result,  if  continued,  in  serious  competi­
tion  with  the  free  industry  outside.

AVERSION  TO  SAN ITATION .
It  is  singular,  but  nevertheless  true, 
that  people  resent  all  attempts  at  en­
forcing  upon  them  sanitary  measures. 
This  appears  to  be  a  trait 
in 
human  nature,  and  no  amount  of  civili­
zation  or  education  has  been  entirely 
able  to  eradicate  it.  This  reflection  is 
provoked  by  the  account  of  the  riots 
which  took  place,  a  few  days  ago,  in 
Bombay,  in  which  numbers  of  people 
were  killed  and  wounded.

inherent 

The  trouble 

in  Bombay  grew  out  of 
the  efforts  of  the  authorities  to  sanitate 
the  plague-infected  quarter  of  the  city. 
The  people  keenly  resented  the interfer­
ence  with  their  habits  and  privacy  re­
sulting  from  house-to-house  inspections 
and  the  disinfecting  processes.  They 
attacked  the  doctors  engaged 
in  hos­
pital  work  and  killed  one  of  them. 
They  also  attacked  the  soldiers  engaged 
in  the  Sanitary  Corps  and  stoned  three 
to  death.  So  serious  was  the  riot  that 
a 
large  detacument  of  troops  had  to  be 
called  out  to  suppress  the  mobs,  and  the 
people  had  to  be  fired  on,  and  some 
were  killed.

This  Bombay  riot  is  but  a  repetition 
of  the  scenes  which  were  enacted  in 
various  parts  of  India  some  years  ago, 
when  the  plague  assumed  serious  pro­
portions.  The  semi  civilized  Hindoos 
and  Mohammedans  resented  keenly  the 
action  of  the  authorities  in  sanitating 
their  homes  and 
the 
plague-stricken  quarter,  and  no  amount 
of  persuasion  or  explanation  sufficed  to 
reconcile  them  to  the  measure  which 
it  was  thought  necessary  to  adopt  to 
check  the  disease.

disinfecting 

interference  with 

This  same  opposition  to  sanitation  is 
witnessed,  although,  of  course, 
in  a 
smaller  degree,  at  every  place  where  a 
serious  infectious  or  contagious  disease 
develops.  People  in  even  the  most  en­
lightened  communities  will  revolt  at 
any 
their  domestic 
arrangements  or  any  close  house-to- 
house  supervision.  Human  nature  re­
bels  at  sanitary  methods  from  the  very 
cradle,  as  all  fond  parents  have  doubt­
less  discovered,  and  on  this  point,  un­
fortunately,  men  do  not  appear  to 
im­
prove  with  age.  No  doubt  human  na­
ture  will  never  change  in  this  respect; 
but,  for  all  that,  rebellious  humanity 
must  be  disciplined  in  its  own  interest. 
It  is  this  plan  that  the  British  are  pur­
suing  in  India.  Sanitation  goes  on  un­
interruptedly  in  spite  of  the  riots,  and, 
when  persuasion  fails, 
is  used 
without  scruple. 
is  to  the  credit  of 
the  English  soldiers  that  they  keep  up 
the  work  of  cleansing  and  disinfecting 
the  homes  of  the  ignorant  natives  of  the 
plague-stricken  districts  despite  the

force 

It 

9

danger  of  contagion  and  the 
risk  of  serious 
hands  of  infuriated  fanatics.

imminent 
injury  or  death  at  the 

DEADLY  FIRE  TRAPS.

in  Chicago 

The  terrible  conflagration  which  oc­
curred 
last  week,  during 
working  hours,  when  many  persons  lost 
their  lives  by  inability  to  escape  from 
the  building,  is  another  one  of  the  ob­
ject  lessons  which  teach  that a most rad­
ical  reform 
is  needed  in  the  construc­
tion  of  the  lofty  buildings  that  are  in 
vogue  to-day.

These  buildings,  supposed  to  be  fire­
proof,  are  commonly  furnished  with  ex­
tremely  limited  stairway  facilities.  The 
height  of  such  structures  makes  the 
climbing  of  stairways  extremely 
la­
borious,  and  therefore  most  attention  is 
given  to  supplying  elevators,  while even 
for  a  large  building  a  single  stairway  is 
all  that  is  provided.

This  was  the  case  with  the  structure 
It  was  used 
which  burned  in  Chicago. 
for  business  purposes,  and  hundreds  of 
people  were  employed  in  it.  While  they 
were  all  at  work  the  house  was  found  to 
be  on  fire.  The  elevator  became  un­
manageable,  the 
single  stairway  was 
impassable,  and  many  were  unable  to 
get  out.  Those  who 
jumped  from  the 
windows  were  either  killed  outright  by 
the  fall  or  were  badly  bruised  and 
maimed,  while  others  were  burned  to 
death  in  the  building.

There  have  been  other  such  catas­
trophes  in  the  modern lofty  structures in 
the  past  few  years,  and  they  furnish  les­
sons  that  ought  to  impress  themselves 
in  the  most  forcible  way  upon  the  ar­
chitects  and  engineers  who  make  the 
plans  for  such  buildings.  They  should 
remember  that  a  house  which,  when 
empty,  may  be  perfectly  fireproof,  can, 
when  filled  with  combustible  merchan­
dise,  become  a  veritable  furnace,  gen­
erating  such  heat  as  to  burst  the  outer 
and  partition  walls.

The  fact  that  such  a  building  is  con­
structed  of  fireproof  material  induces 
neglect  of  provisions  for  the  escape  of 
the  inmates  in  case  of  fire,  or,  at 
least, 
in  the  amount  of 
an  undue  economy 
space  g i ven to sta i rways.  The fac i 1 i t i es 
and  conveniences  afforded  by  the  ele­
vators  for  the  rapid  transportation  of 
persons  and  merchandise  have  caused 
the  general  use  of  the  upper  floors  for 
factories  and  warehouses,  where  large 
numbers  of  employes  are  engaged.

The  benefits  arising  from  the  use  of 
lofty  buildings  should  not  have  charged 
against  them 
increased  risks  to  the 
lives  of  the  employes.  These  dangers 
can  be  provided  for,  and  they  ought  to 
be.  Certainly  the  architects  and  en­
gineers  are  equal  to  all  demands  in  the 
premises. 
Indeed,  the  dangers  that 
have  been  emphasized  by  horrors  like 
that  at  Chicago  demand  the 
immediate 
attention  of  constructors  and  planners 
of  buildings.

EVERY  MAN  LIKES

“MR.  THOMAS

The  Best  Nickel  Cigar  in  the State.

Ruhe  Bros.  Co.,  Makers. 
Factory 956,1st  Dist.  Pa.

4  +

♦

F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative 

Kalamazoo,  Miçh.

IO

Clerks’  Corner.
From  Counter  to  College.

Written for the T rad esm an.

Things  have  been  winding  up  with 
a  bang,  as 
it  were.  Will  Morris  has 
concluded  that  the  world  is hollow;  that 
friendship 
is  only  a  name,  and  an 
empty  one  at  that,  and that  life  is  made 
up  of  strenuous  efforts  to  get  something 
for  nothing,  by  fair  means  or  foul,  out 
of vthe  .world  at 
large,  and  especially 
out  of  your  friends,  if  you  can  find  any­
body  who  wants  to  sustain  that  doubtful 
relation  to  you.

For  some  reason,  which  I do  not  think 
it  needful  to  give,  there  are  two  clerks 
in  the  Bostwick  establishment  who  have 
concluded  that  Will  Morris  is  suffering 
acutely  from  a  sudden  and  violent  en- 
largment  of  the  bat-band.  His  sudden 
rise  in  the  opinion  of  “ the  old  man’ ’  is 
too  much  for  him ;  and,  because  he 
lives  there,  he  has  begun  to  think  him­
self  an  essential  part  of  the  establish­
ment  and  is  getting  to  be  too  high  and 
“ Y e’d  think,  to  see 
mighty  to  endure. 
'im  going 
’round  with  one  of  the  old 
man’s  cigars  stuck  into  his  mouth,  that 
he’d  earned  i t ;  and  to  hear  one  of  his 
condescending  ‘ Hellos’  nowdays  fairly 
lifts  your  hair.  Strange, 
folks  can’t 
have  a  little  prosperity  without  its mak­
ing  a  fool  of  ’em,  ain’t  it?”

This  last  condition  of  things 

is  due, 
doubtless,  to  a  certain  conclusion  which 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bostwick  have  reached 
in  regard  to  Will.  Mr.  Bostwick  has 
been  having  a  warm  spot  in  his  heart 
for  the  boy  for a  good  while  and  long 
ago  would  have  done  something  hand­
some  for  him  if  Will  had  been  willing 
to  give  now  and  then  a  glimpse  of  the 
good  that  was  in  him.  Mrs.  Bostwick, 
on  general— female—principles,  didn’t 
take  kindly  to  Will  at  first.  A  woman 
seems  to  go  on  the  principle,  in  such 
matters,  that  her  husband’s  friends  are 
drawn  to  him  by  the  bad  that  is  in  him 
—similia  similibus—as  she  was  drawn 
to  him  and  clings  to  him  for  the  good 
that  she  only  can  see  in  him !  So,  when 
Bostwick  came  home  with  only  praises 
for  the  boy,  at  once  she  scented  mis­
chief,  not  afar  off,  and  proceeded  to 
hate  the  youngster  with  all  her  might 
and  main.  When,  however,  she  became 
convinced  that  her  prejudice  had  run 
away  with  her  judgment— is  that  an­
other  womanly  characteristic?—the  door 
of  her  affection  swung open  with  a  bang 
and  Will  was  taken  in  without  farther 
question  and  his  fate  fixed.  Even  then 
it  is  doubtful  whether  the  future  would 
have become  so  suddenly  bright  had  he 
not  turned  the  tables  on  his  employer 
by  showing  him  that  if  the  one  could 
take  pleasure  in  playing  the  part  of  “ a 
parent, “ the  other  could  extract  some 
few  drops  of  enjoyment in going through 
“ the  son  racket." 
I  know  from  what 
Bostwick  said 
to  me  that  the  clever 
turning  of  the  tables  is  what  brought 
him  to  bis  sudden  decision;  and  I 
know,  too—and  so  do  the  rest  of  Mrs. 
Bostwick’s  friends  by  this  time—that 
the  moment  Bostwick,  at  the  request  of 
Will,  gave  up  his  pipe,  long  the  de­
testation  of  his  worthy  wife, 
there 
wasn't  anything  in  this  world  too  good 
for  him,  and  certainly  nothing 
she 
wouldn’t  do  for  him.

When,  then,  it  became  known  that  the 
clerk  bad  made  up  his  mind  to  be  an 
first,  and  a  tradesman 
educated  man 
afterwards,  unless 
the  meantime 
something  better  should  beckon  to  him, 
there  was  no  halfway  work  about  the 
result.  They  made  up  their  minds  what

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they  were  going  to  do —if  the  boy  would 
let  them.  I  was asked  to  come  over and 
offer  any  suggestions  which  seemed 
good  to  me,  and  when  I  came  away  this 
was  the  program :  From  now  to  the  first 
of  September  there 
is  to  be  a  general 
getting  ready  for  a  first-class  prepara­
tory  school 
in  the  East.  The  West  is 
well  enough  in  certain  lines  of  life,  but 
in  mental  training  “ the  old  familiar 
places”   are  the  better.  This  shall  be  a 
matter  of  choice  with  the  boy.  Then, 
if  he  wants  a  college  course,  he  is  to 
have  it;  and  then,  if  he  wants  to  go  in­
to  business,  there 
is  to  be  a  place  for 
him  right  here  with  Mr.  Bostwick ;  or, 
if  be  wants  a  profession  and  shows  apt­
ness  for  it,  he  shall  have  that!

It  took  us  old  heads  far  into  the  night 
to  fix  things  just  as  it  seemed  for  the 
best;  and  the  chief  anxiety  now 
is 
whether  Will  will  carry  out  the  present 
arrangement, 
young-fellow-like, 
think 
it  best  to  make  out  one  for  him­
self.

or, 

I  couldn’t  help  thinking,  as  I  walked 
slowly  home  in  the  starlight  that  night, 
how  strange  it  was  for  all  these  things 
It 
to  have  taken  place  as  they  have. 
reads  more  like  a  bit  of  fiction  than 
it 
does  like  anything  real. 
I  might  have 
tried  from  week  to  week  to  “ make  up" 
what  has  taken  place,  but  I  am  glad 
now  that  I  didn’t  “ touch  up”   certain 
parts  of  these  incidents,  as  I  freely  ad­
mit  I  was  strongly  tempted  to  do.  Still, 
who  could  have  guessed  that  my  drop­
ping  in  to  see  the  boy  that  night  when 
Mr.  Bostwick  “ went  for’ ’  him  so  sav­
agely  should  have 
led  to  such  results; 
and  who  could  have  believed  that  so 
much  could  have  centered  in  a  chance 
meeting  as  did 
in  that  one  at  the  cor­
ner  of  the  street  when  Will  and  I  found 
ourselves  wheeling  side  by  side  that 
summer  morning  to  and  from  the  park.
Well,  after  all,  boys,  you  have  this  to 
think  of,  as  I  have  in  watching  what 
has  been  here  recorded,  that  everyday 
life  is  full  of  just  such  things,  and  that 
our  lives,  could  they  be  watched  and 
followed,  would  show  matters  just  as 
far-reaching  and 
just  as  important  as 
what  has  been  written  of  Will  Morris. 
There  is  no  doubt  about  it;  it is  the  lit­
tle  everyday  affairs,  the  likes  and  the 
dislikes,  the  quarrels  and  the make-ups, 
that  settle  the  life-questions  for  us;  and 
as  we,  like  Will  Morris,  look  at  these 
questions  to-day  squarely  and  answer 
them  wisely,  so  we  settle  for  ourselves 
the  to-morrow  and  all  that  the  to-mor­
row  holds. 
isn’t  of  any  use  to  tell 
me  that  every  fellow  doesn’t  run  into 
such  “ a  snap”   as  Morris  has. 
I  know 
what  I'm  talking  about,  and  I  say  that 
it  may  not  be  in  that  particular  form, 
but 
it  comes  to  every 
clerk,  as  to  everyone  in  any  other  vo­
cation,  when  he  himself  decides  the 
question  of  his  own  advancement.  As 
he  decides  so  he  suffers  or  rejoices. 
Morris  has  proved  it,  others have proved 
it ;  and  every  one  of  you  boys  knows 
already,  in  that  private  corner  of his 
heart  where  he  is  true  to  himself,  that 
the  statement 
is  true—a  bit  of  wisdom 
for  which  there  is  no  extra  charge.

in  some  shape 

It 

I  do  not  know  as  it  is  worth  stating; 
but,  if  any  of  you  fellows  remember  a 
certain  Sid.  Benton  who  clerked 
it  for 
Cy  Huxley  at  Militown  until  he  went 
away  to  school,  it  may  please  you  to 
know  that  Morris  has  decided  to  go  to 
that same school; and, with two such good 
fellows  together,  we  shall  probably  hear 
from  them  later.

R ic h a r d  Ma lc o lm   Str o n g.

Most  men  are  ready  and  willing  to 

die  for  their  country—of  old  age.

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

PILLSBURY’S BEST

THE  BEST  FLOUR

in the world is

''ECONOMY  IS  WEALTH »

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

Good  flour  necessitates  the  use  of  good  baking 
powder  and  to  meet the demand for a high grade powder 
at  a  popular  price  we  have placed on the market a brand 
which  is  known  as

PEERLESS

which  is  sold  in  pound  cans  only  and  retails  at  10 cents 
for  16  ounces  net.  This  powder  is  guaranteed  to  be 
made  from  pure  and  healthful  ingredients  and  to  make 
as  beautiful,  fllaky  and  light  biscuit  or  cake  as  any 
brand  of  baking  powder  on  the  market.

No  Scheme 
No  Prize 
No  Chromo 
Only  Quality 
That’s all

CLARK=JEW ELL=W ELLS  CO.

S ole  O w n ers.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Honest  Methods  Pay.

From the Dry Goods Economist.

It  is  always  safest  and  best  to  judge 
a  finished  work;  premature judgment  is 
ever  liable  to  error.

An  unscrupulous  competitor  may  be 
filling 
the  newspapers  with  “ fairy 
tales, ”   and  setting  the  town  wild  by 
questionable  merchandising  methods.

Will  he  last?
Are  such  methods  good  foundations 

to  build  a  business  upon?

Dare  you  trust  to  such  methods?
Do  you  know  of  any  merchant  who 
was  able  to  build  up  a  large  or  perma­
nent  business  by  such  methods?

They  don’t  wear  well.
The  public  sooner  or  later  discovers 
all  the  bogus  spots,  and  then  great 
is 
the  fall  of  unjust,  unscrupulous  compe­
tition.

legitimate  business 

tition  hurts 
a  while  hut  in  the  end 
the  honest  dealer.

It  cannot  be  denied  that  such  compe­
for 
it  strengthens 
fly  by-night  merchant  caused 
much  uneasiness  a  few  years  ago,  but 
we  hear  little  or  nothing  of  such  com­
petition  now. 
It  has  virtually  ceased to 
exist.

It  killed  itself.
Honest  merchants  sometimes  fail,  but 
don’t  think  that  honesty  had  all  to  do 
with  it.

Honesty  will  not  cover  other  business 

The 

sins  and  shortcomings.

Origin  of  the  Word  Trust.

In  1882  the  directors  and  controllers 
of  a  large  number  of  corporations 
in­
terested  in  the  production,  refining,  and 
carrying  of  coal  oil  made  an  agreement 
by  which  they  placed  their  stock  in 
those  corporations  in  the  hands  of  nine 
persons  as  trustees,  who  thus  obtained 
complete  control  of  these  corporations. 
This  is  the  first  recorded  instance  of  a 
commercial  trust;  as 
it  was  precisely 
like  an  ordinary  equitable  trust,  it  re­
ceived  the  name  of  trust.  Other  trusts 
have  been  formed  on  similar  lines;  so 
the  name  has  come  into  common  use.

Small  Towns  and  Railways. 

Written fo r the T rad esm an.

it. 

The  idea  largely  obtains  that  no  town 
can  be  considered  prosperous  while 
lacking  railway  conveniences,  and  so 
there  are  few  such  towns  which  are  not 
hoping  and  striving  for  the  attainment 
of  this  requisite  to  substantial  and  per­
manent  growth. 
In  some  cases the real­
ization  of  this  ambition  inaugurates  the 
era  of  development  hoped  for,  while  in 
many  others  it  proves  a  sad  disappoint­
ment.  The  question  whether  a  railway 
will  prove  the  blessing  anticipated  usu­
ally  depends  upon  the  character  of  the 
tributary  trade  and  upon  whether  the 
railway  will  not  serve  the  unexpected 
purpose  of  diverting  more  trade to  some 
large  center  made  accessible  than 
it 
brings,  and  so  make  the  small  town 
tributary  to  its  more  fortunate neighbor.
The  subject  of  the  relation  of the rail­
interesting 
way  to  the  small  town  is  an 
one. 
In  the  early  days,  as  the  railways 
came  to  feel  their  greatness  and  impor­
tance  the  disposition  was  manifested  to 
afford 
little  consideration  for  the  con­
venience  of  any  except  as  it  accorded 
with  their  regular  routine.  The  writer 
recalls  an  incident  in  the  recollection of 
his  early  boyhood  which  may 
illustrate 
this  characteristic.  The  New  York  & 
Erie  had  recently  been  opened  through 
the  southwestern  counties  of the Empire 
State  and  the  road  was  run  as  though 
most  of  the  region  belonged  to 
It 
happened  at  one  of  the  stations,  the 
hamlet  of  Baker’s  Bridge, 
that  the 
stream  through  the  town  had  carried 
away  the  bridge  which  gave  it  its  name 
and  a  new  one  was  in  process  of  build­
ing.  Mr.  Lewis, 
the  contractor,  was 
engaged 
in  transporting,  by  the  aid  of 
half  a  dozen  ox  teams  and  a  consider­
able  force  of  men,  one  of  the  largest 
forest  trees 
the  locality,  to 
serve  as  a  “ stringer”   for  the  new  struc­
ture,  when  he  found  his  way  blocked 
By  a  freight  train  which  had  taken  the 
“ blind  siding”   to  wait  for  the  passen­
ger.  The  polite  request  that  the  train 
be  cut  and  the  way  opened  met  a  curt 
refusal,  and 
its  urging  only  provoked 
jeers  and  ridicule,  while  the  relative 
positions  were  maintained  until  the  ar­
rival  of  the  expected  train  a  quarter  of 
an  hour  later.  Then  the  freight  backed 
to  take  its  place  on  the  main  track  and 
as  soon  as  the  way  was  clear  the  bridge 
builders,  with  the  usual  vociferation 
of  ox  driving,  resumed  their  journey. 
As  the  timber  bad  reached  half 
its 
length  across 
track  Mr.  Lewis 
stopped  his  teams  and  awaited  the  per­
emptory  request  that  he  should  clear the 
way.  With  the  nasal  twang  for  which 
he  was  noted,  he  replied,“  Walk  right 
up  and  bunt  it— I ’ll  risk  the  tree;”   and 
the  occasional  repetition  of  this  obser­
vation  was  the  only  response  to the most 
energetic  expostulations  and  threaten- 
ings  which 
remained 
quietly  sitting  upon  the  object  of  inter­
est  until  he  thought  the reckoning  about 
settled,  when  the  cavalcade  resumed  its 
way  and  the  belated  train  was  soon 
speeding  to  make  up  its  lost  time.

followed.  He 

found 

the 

in 

But  it  was  not  long  before  the  devel­
opment  of  the  new  systems  of  transpor­
tation  brought  the  need  of  a  remedy  for 
such  arrogance  to  the  attention  of  the 
legislatures  and  laws  were'enacted  reg­
ulating  the  behavior  on  both  sides.  But 
in  spite  of  these  there  have  always  been 
abuses 
localities,  and  many 
towns,  while  acknowledging  the  need  of 
the  railway,  accept 
it  as  an  unpleas­
ant,  although  necessary,  evil.

in  some 

Recent  tendencies  in  the  centraliza­
in  the  larger  towns  have

tion  of  trade 

It 

is  natural  that 

served  to 
lessen  the  value  of  the  rail­
way  to  the  smaller  towns  still  more,  and 
to  increase  the  evil  to  others  by  the 
lessening  to  the  utmost 
limit  of  the 
service  and  by  indifference  and  antag­
onisms. 
through 
trade  and  the  trade  of  the  more  im­
portant  towns  should  receive  the  more 
attention  and 
in  accordance  with  this 
tendency  the  service  in  the  smaller ones 
is  reduced  to  the  utmost  limit  compat­
ible  with  maintaining  charters.  One 
train  each  way  per  day  and  the  most 
irregular  and  uncertain  freight  service 
is  grudgingly  accorded,  and  even  this 
is  often  an  expense  instead  of  profit.

But,  when  there 

is  added  to  this  a 
positive  antagonism,  the  town  in  ques­
tion  is  doomed  to  suffer.  Such  antago­
nisms  are  often  the  result  of  some  dis­
agreement  as  to  the  observance  of  mu­
nicipal  regulations,  or  the  payment  of 
local  taxes,  damage  litigation,  etc.

The  station  on  the  Wabash  railroad  at 
Fairmount,  111.,  is  an  illustration  of  the 
effects  of  such  antagonism  when  carried 
to  its  length.  In  this  case  it  is  claimed 
by  the  railway  people  that  many  of  the 
villagers  testified  against  the  company 
in  a  damage  suit,  which  it  lost,  and  so 
it  sought  to  be  revenged  on  the  town. 
All  service  was  reduced  to  the  mini­
mum.  Telegraph  wires  were  taken away 
from  the  station  building  and  the  doors 
and  windows  boarded  up,  as  shown. 
One  passenger  train  per  weekday  each 
way 
is  all  the  service  given  and  the 
agent  faces  the  surly  townsmen  at  his 
long  enough  to  meet  re­
window  only 
quirements. 
In  the  fight  the  town  has 
tried  to  retaliate  by  stringent  taxation, 
which  the  company  refuses  to  pay. 
Then 
it  will  allow  no  wire  fencing  on 
the  right  of  way,  and  the  speed  ordin­
ance  of  ten  miles per hour  is  rigidly  en­
forced. 
limits  are 
widely  extended  and  so  train  after  train 
of  the  heavy  traffic  of  this  through 
line 
creeps  slowly  through  the  town;  but, 
with  the  exception  noted,  none  of  them 
stop.

corporation 

The 

The  railway  people  assert  that,  if  the 
fight  continues,  they  will  ruin  the  town; 
and  it  looks  almost  as  though  they  were 
right.  Trade 
is  almost  paralyzed  and 
the  shipments  for  the  country  around 
are  taken  to  other  points.  Of  course, 
when  a town  has  its  trade based  upon  a 
it  in 
railway  service  the  loss 
much  worse  condition  than  if 
it  never 
had  a  road.

leaves 

For  the  small  town  and  the  railway  to 
be  a  mutual  benefit,  it  behooves  both, 
and  especially  the  former,  to  show  the 
utmost  consideration  in dealing with  the 
questions 
involved.  At  the  best  the 
business  of  such  towns  is  of  relatively 
less  value  than  the  through  business, 
if  one  point  does  not  ship  for  a 
and 
given 
locality  adjacent  points  will. 
The  town  then  is  the  more  susceptible 
to  injury  and  care  should  be  exercised 
that  good 
judgment  and  conservatism 
shall  control  in  dealing  with  the  rela­
tions  to  the  less  vulnerable  corporation.

R osen ste in.

The  man  who  attends  strictly  to  his 

own  business  has  a  good  steady  job.

II

A sso c ia tio n  M a tte rs

Michigan  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

Michigan  Hardware  Association

President,  Chab.  F.  Bock,  Battle  Creek:  Vice 
President,  H .  W.  W e b b e r ,  West  Bay  city: 
Treasurer, H enry C.  Min n ie ,  Eaton Ka'pids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J o seph Kn ig h t ;  Secretary. E.  Ma r k s, 

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, C. H  F r in k .
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J.  G e o.  L ehm an.

President.  F ran k  J.  Dt k ;  Secretary,  H o m es 

Saginaw Mercantile  Association 

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

Jackson Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, G e o .  E.  L e w is ; Secretary,  W.  H.  P or 

t e r ;  Treasurer,  L.  P blto n.

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association

President,  F .  13.  J o h n so n;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

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

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President.  A.  0. C l a r k ;  Secretary,  E  F.  C levb 
l a n d :  Treasurer, W s.  C.  K o eh n.

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

President,  T h os.  T.  Ba 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.  G il 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 . K a t z;  Secretary, P h il ip  H il b e r  

Treasurer. S.  J .  H u it o r d .

St. Johns  Business  Men’s  Association.

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

P e r c y ;  Treasurer, Cl a r k  A. P u t t.

Douible

.

.

.

The  grocer  sells  salt  to  the  buttermaker  and  buys  it  back  in 
the  butter.  The  better  the  salt  he  sells,  the  better  will  be  the 
butter  he  buys.  No  butter  so  good,  none  so  poor,  that  it  won’ t 
be  bettered  by  being  salted  with  ‘■ '■ The  salt  ¿hat’ s  all  salt.'"  Let 
the  grocer  sell  Diamond  Crystal  Salt  and  butter  that’s  salted 
with 
it,  and  he  will  please  both  the  buttermaker  and  the 
butter  user.

20 cents’ worth of Diamond  Crystal Butter 
Salt will  salt  about  224  pounds  of  butter.

Greater  facilities— the  result  of  greater  sales— have resulted  in 

lowering  the  price of

DIAMOND  CRYSTAL

BUTTER SALT

Old  Price  List. 

New  Price  List.

“  

Barrels,  2S0 lbs.  Bulk........................ $2  50 
20 14-lb.  Bugs...................... 3  00  | 
30 
60 

Sacks,  iS lbs............. ............................ 
36 lbs.............................  ..........  

“ 
“   224 lbs.........................................   2  25  I 

“ 

Barrels, 2S0 lbs.  Bulk......................... $2  25
20  14-lb. Bags......................  250
25
55
.....2 0 0

Sacks, 2S lbs.......................................... 
56 lbs. (Irish Linen)................. 

“  
“   224 lbs. 

“ 

“ 

 

During  the  Spring  25  Sample  Bags  of  Butter  Salt 

will  be  packed  in  each  barrel  of  twenty  fourteens.

Send us your name and address  if you would know more about salt.

DIAMOND  CRYSTAL SALT CO., St.  Clair,  flich.

12
Shoes  and  Leather
Why  Some  Shoe  Dealers  Fail  To Suc­

ceed.

I  saw  a  lot  of  shoes  the  other  day  that 
were  made  by  a  well-known  maker  and 
the  stock  was  cut  from the now-long-for­
gotten  French  kid.  They  cost  the  re­
tailer  $3.85  a  pair  and  he  owned  up  to 
the  fact  that  the  goods  were  just  ten 
years  old  and  he  now  offers  them  at  35 
cents  a  pair.  Here 
is  a  shrinkage  in 
merchandise  values  that  cannot  be  dis­
counted  by  any  deal  in  the  country. 
It 
will  be  noticed  that  the  price  is  not 
even  10  cents  on  the  dollar.  Now  I 
want  to  ask  what  would  have  been  the 
result 
if  this  retailer  had  sold  these 
goods  nine  years  ago  at  S3  a  pair  or  85 
cents  a  pair  less  than  cost?  One  thing 
is  absolutely  certain  and  that  is  that  he 
would  not  have  had  to  pay  insurance, 
storage  room  and  clerk  hire  to  care  for 
them  for  the  last  nine  years,  and  as  the 
interest  on  S3  for  ten  years  at  7  per 
cent.,  without  compounding 
it,  would 
amount  to  $2.10,  the 
loss  apparent  on 
this  method  of  doing  a  shoe  business  is 
so  plain  that 
it  seems  to  me  a  child 
would  see  it.

In  figuring  out  the  mere 

interest 
charges,  I  am  only  discussing  one 
If  that  retailer  had 
portion  of  the  loss. 
had  the  use  of  that  S3  every  season 
for 
the  past  nine  years,  he  would  have  been 
able  to  make  on  it  at  least  twenty-five 
per  cent,  each  season,  or  every  six 
months,  which 
is  a  modest  way  of  fig­
uring  the  thing  on  the  basis  that  a  man 
turns  his  stock  only  twice  a year,  which 
all  retailers  will  admit 
is  decidedly 
slow 
in  the  year  1898.  On  this  basis, 
what  do  we  have?  We  have  fifty  per 
cent,  a  year  profit  lost  through  the  lack 
of  the  use  of  the  $3  which  in  ten  years 
would  amount  to  $15.  adding  to  which 
we  have  the 
interest  at  7  per  cent., 
$2  10,  making  a  total  of  $17.10  which  it 
has  cost  this  man  a  pair  to  carry  these 
goods,  and  the  gain  in  the  end  to  him 
is  seen 
in  the  selling  of  the  goods  at 
less  than  ten  cents  on  the  dollar.

is,  where  he 

I  see  these  things  frequently  in  the 
shoe  business  and  am  more  than  sur­
prised  that  they  exist.  There  is  no  man 
in  the  shoe  business  to-day,  no  matter 
who  he 
is  or  how  much 
business  he  is  doing,  that  can  do  busi­
ness  on  this  basis  and  expect  to  keep 
out  of  the  sheriff’s  hands.  I  have  talked 
this  thing  before  to  retailers  in  these 
columns,  I  have  given  them  plain  fig­
ures  which  show  a  frightful  loss  to them 
in  actual  dollars  and  cents,  and  I  hope 
that  any  retailer  who  reads  this  and 
finds  himself  in  this  position  will  make

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

a  move  without  delay  to  convert  any 
goods  of  this  kind  into  cash  at  what  he 
can  get,  so  that  he  may  have  the  use  of 
the  money  in  his  business.

Sta n l e y   S ta n to n.

Good  Advice  and  its  Results.

From the Wichita Eagle.

A  Wichita  traveling  man  about a  year 
ago  was  asked  by  a  clerk  in  a shoe  store 
to  get  him  a  job  traveling.  The  young 
man  was  told  to write in to the ' ‘ house. 
He  did  and  the  proprietor  asked  the 
traveling  man  about  the  young  fellow 
and  was  told  that  he  might  make  a good 
man.  The  house  told  the  young  man  to 
begin.  The  young  man  came  to  the 
old  traveling  salesman  and  asked  him 
how  he  should  begin  and  received  this 
advice: 
“ Know  nothing  but  shoes. 
Talk  nothing  but  shoes.  Never  go  into 
a  store  without  having  your  pockets  full 
of  shoes.  Take  an  old  boot  and  carry 
it  under  your  arm.  Set 
it  up  on  the 
•wash-stand  and  when  you  go  to  bed  fall 
asleep  studying  that  boot.  Look  at  the 
boot  the  minute  you  wake  up  in  the 
morning.  When  you  go 
into  a  store 
if  he  will  buy. 
never  ask  a  merchant 
Never 
induce  him  to  s a y ’ No’ at  the 
start.  Show  him  your  goods  and  talk 
shoes.’ ’  Well,  the  young  fellow  started 
out.  Pretty  soon  a  friend  of  the  old 
traveling  man  said:  “ Your  house  has 
got  the  biggest  knock-kneed 
idiot  on 
the  road  that  ever  struck the state.  Why, 
the  darn  fool  lugs  an  old  boot  around 
with  him  and  you  can’t  get  anything 
is  a  ninety- 
but  shoes  out  of  him.  He 
eight  chainless 
is. 
Why don’t  you  get  the  house  to  call  him 
in.”   But at  the  end  of  the  first  year  the 
young  man’s  work  was  sized  up  by  the 
house  and  they  wanted  to  give  him  a 
banquet.  He  had  not  only  earned  his 
salary  but $2,200  in  commissions  in  ad­
dition. 

idiot,  that 

fellow 

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Minor  Shoe  Notes.

It 

that 

J.  G.  Triberg, 

retailer,  Buffalo, 
Minn.,  is  reported  to  have  applied  for 
a  patent  on  a  birch  bark  sole  for  shoes 
for  which 
is  claimed  wear  equal  to 
cork  or  leather.

is  said  that  the  loss  through  the 
branding  of  cattle 
in  South  Australia 
amouuts  to  about  $1,500,000  a  year. 
With  this  staring  them  in  the  face,  it 
remarkable 
seems 
some  other 
method 
less  expensive  should  not  be 
employed  to  indicate  ownership.

Two  ingenious shoemakers of Collogne 
have 
invented  a  ventilated  shoe.  By 
means  of  a  bellows  and  a  spring,  situ­
ated  between  the  heel  and  sole,  and 
working  when  the  foot  is  raised,streams 
of  fresh  air  are  sent  through  boles  in 
the  inner  sole  to  every  part  of  the  foot.
Some  years  ago  a  mechanical  genius 
of  Waterville,  Me.,  invented  a  machine 
simplifying  the  manufacture  of  shoes 
A  New  England  shoe  manufacturing 
company  purchased  his  invention,  pay­
ing  him  $100,000  and  agreed  to pay him 
$2,500  every  year  of  his  life  providing 
he  would  do  nothing.  He  accepted  the 
proposition. 
The  object  of  the  shoe 
in  buying  his  time  was 
manufacturers 
to  prevent  him  from 
inventing  some

other  machine  that  would  be  better 
than  the  one  bought  by  them  and  which 
he  might  sell  to  a  competing  firm.

We  are  drifting  again  toward  the  soft 
toe,  without  any  box,  for  men’s  wear, 
another  step 
in  the  direction  of  the 
plain  French  toe.
Good  Things Said by  Up-to-Oate Shoe 

Dealers.

Sincerity  pays.  Your  confidence  in 
the  “ Old  Corner”   was  gained  by  in­
tegrity  and  business  wit  together.  We 
truly  give  you  makers'  prices.  Others 
claim  to;  but—do  they?— P.  J.  Halla­
ban,  Fhila.

Saving  half  as  much  as  you  spend 

is 
pleasant,  surely.  Well,  a  chance  for 
it—and  ten  cents  more  than  half  as 
much,  which  seems  to  stand  for  carfare 
—$4  shoes  at  $2.60  We  could  put  them 
with  the  other  $4  shoes  and  make  the 
profit  we  now  share.  But  we  saved  the 
difference  by  planting  orders  when  the 
business  world  was  barest. 
It  was  good 
is  good  selling.  And
buying.  This 

the  fame  of  this  greatest  retail  shoe 
store  keeps 
spreading.—John  VVana- 
maker,  Phila.
War  seems 

imminent  and  it  is  just 
as  well  that  we  all  prepare  for  it  while 
we  have  opportunity.  The  head  of  this 
house  is  now  “ diving”   into  the  depths 
of  the  great  shoe  centers  of  the  East. 
Upon  his  discoveries  depends  our  fu­
ture  conduct. 
If  we  find  that  the  shoe 
business  of  our  competitors  has  been 
‘ blown-up” —as  we  stiongly  suspect— 
from  “ within”  
there  will  be  war. 
Everybody  has  been  claiming  to sell  the 
best  footwear  at  the  lowest prices.  Some 
one  is  wrong.  We  are  anxious  that  the 
public  should  know  the  truth,  and  to 
that  end  we  hereby  appoint  the  public 
as  a  board  of  enquiry  to  investigate  in­
to  these  many  claims.  Upon 
their 
judgment  we  rest  our  case.—Johnson’s 
Shoe  Palace,  Altoona,  Pa.

If  you  will 

look  at  the  records  you 
will  discover  that  most  men  who  die 
young  are  hustlers.

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13

Remarkable  Career  of  the  Truthful 

Drummer.
M.  Quad in American Druggist.

I  happened  to  be 

in  the  wholesale 
house  of  Brush  &  Co.,  druggists'  sun­
dries,  when  Truthful  James  Ross  ap­
plied  for a  position  as  traveler. 
I  liked 
the  looks  of  him.  He  was  frank-faced, 
had  an  honest  eye,  and  his  smile  was 
magnetic.  Mr.  Brush  also  liked  his 
appearance.  Mr.  Ross  was  modest  and 
retiring,  but  not  too  much  so. 
In  reply 
to  certain  questions  he  said :

“ I  am  Truthful  James  Ross. 

I  am 
called  Truthful  because  I  cannot  tell  a 
lie. 
I  will  go  on  the  road  with  your 
goods,  tell  the  truth  under  all  circum­
stances,  and  if  I  cannot  do  50  per  cent, 
more  business  than  the  liars  I  will glad­
ly  resign. ”

Mr.  Brush  had  never  met  with  a 
truthful  drummer  before,  and  although 
a  little  doubtful  as  to  the  experiment he 
agreed  to  give  Truthful  James  a  show. 
In  a  few  days  the  young  man  was  ready 
to  start  out,  and  trom  one  source  and 
another  I  have  gleaned  his  adventures 
as  a  drummer.  He  was  given  a  route 
which  extended  as  far  west  as  Toledo, 
but  his  first  objective  point  was Buffalo. 
The  train  which  bore  him  and  his  sam­
ple  cases  had  scarcely  rolled  out  of  the 
Central  depot  when  Truthful  James 
opened  his  career  of  virtue  and 
integ­
rity.  He  discovered  that  his  fellow- 
passenger  was  a  man  who  loved  the 
truth  above  all  else,  and  he  gave  it  to 
him  at  wholesale  rates.  He  was  the 
“ Co.”   of  Brush  &  Co.  He  bad  put 
in 
a  million  dollars  against  Mr.  Brush’s 
experience  and  certain  discoveries.  He 
was  making  a  trip  in  order  to  have  a 
personal  talk  with  druggists.  One  of 
the  discoveries  was  an  ointment  which 
would  grow  hair  on  a  bald  head  in  two 
weeks.  There  was  a  case  of  it  right 
before  the  man’s  eyes.  The  luxuriant 
growth  of  hair  on  Mr.  Ross’  head  had 
all  grown 
in  seventeen  days.  Another 
discovery  was  a  disinfectant,  so  cheap 
and  yet  so  powerful  that  for  the  trifling 
sum  of  three-quarters  of  a  cent  the  air 
surrounding  half  a  dozen  dead  horses 
could  be  made  to  smell  like  a  field  of 
roses.  A  third  one  would  warm  up cold 
feet  or  cool  off  hot  ones,  just  as  de­
sired,  and  a  fourth  was  a  troche  war­
ranted  to  destroy  the  germs  of consump­
tion  within  two  hours.  When  Syracuse 
was  reached  the  stranger  grasped  Mr. 
Ross’  hand  in  a  hearty  way  and  said:

“ You  are  well  named  Truthful James.
I  had  given  up  all  hopes  of  finding  a 
truthful  man  in  this  world,  and  I  can’t 
tell  you  bow  rejoiced  I  am.  Keep  on  in 
the  way  you  have  begun  and  your  re­
ward  will  be  certain  and  great.”

Mr.  Ross  was  encouraged  to  per­
severe.  At  Buffalo he  discovered  that 
his  figures  on  toothbrushes  were  10 
per  cent,  above  those  of  rival  houses. 
He  was  not  ready  to  meet  the  cut,  but 
he  was  ready  with  a  reason  why  he 
could  not.  Every  separate  bristle  in 
his  toothbrushes  had  been  picked  up 
by  itself  with  a  pair  of  tweezers and 
dropped  into  a  glass  of  solution  and  de­
odorized,  disinfected  and  rendered  per­
fectly  harmless  to  the  human system  be­
fore  being  secured  to  the  handle.  There 
were  no  germs,  bacteria  or  microbes  ly­
ing  in  ambush  in  his  brushes,  and  he 
must  have his  price.
Rival  houses  had  been  cutting  the 
price  of  soaps,  but  Truthful  James  was 
not  in  the  cut.  His  house  had  its  own 
factory.  It  was  not  situated  in  the midst 
of  a  marsh,  where  every  cake  of  soap 
imbibed  a  certain  amount  of  malaria, 
nor  did 
it  make  use  of  the  fat  of  cats, 
dogs,  coons,  possums  and  polecats.  His 
factoty  was  built  on  a  hilltop  kissed 
by  the  rising  sun  and  braced  by  the 
ozone  of  the  Atlantic.  The  fat  used 
was  all  taken  from  gazelles,  raised  on 
the  firm’s  own  ranches  in  Montana,  and 
every  cake  was  submitted  to  a  pressure 
of  100  pounds  to  the  square  inch  before 
being  sent  forth  into the world.  Crowned 
heads  used  it,  and  every  American aris­
tocrat  cried  for  it.

Truthful  James  went  over  his  route 
speaking  the  truth  on  all  occasions  and 
never  forgetting  that 
is  the 
stepping  stone  to  success,  and  although 
he  didn’t  do  so  well  as  he  hoped  for, 
he  laid  the  foundations  of  his  career on

integrity 

a  sure  and  ceitain  basis.  Very  few  of 
the  retail  druggists  had  ever  met  with 
a  truthful  drummer.  They  were  in­
clined  to  believe  that  Truthful  James 
was  no  better  than  the  rest.  Some  even 
did  not  hesitate  to  call  him  a  prevari­
cator,  and  at  the  western  terminus  of 
his  route  he  was  thrown  out  of  a  drug 
store,  body  and  boots,  tor  what  was 
thought  to  be  cheek,  but  he  was  not 
discouraged.  On  his  second 
trip  he 
found  things  better,  and  on  his  third 
he  was  welcomed  as  an  old  friend  and 
found  orders  all  made  out  for  him  in 
advance. 
I  have  treasured  up  some  of 
the  truths  told  by  Truthful  James  dur­
ing  his  career  as  a  traveler,  and  will 
give  them  here  as  an  incentive  to  be­
ginners  of  a  career:

He  claimed  that  the  hot-water  bags 
sold  by  his  house  had  cured  hundreds 
of  cases  of  enlarged  liver,  even  when 
only  applied  to  the  feet  of  a  patient.

His  porous  plasters  had drawn needles 
and  pins  out  of  patients  without  caus­
ing  the  slightest  pain,  and  thereby  re­
moved  chronic  ailments.

His  firm  always  kept  at  least  1,000 
cords  of  Peruvian  bark  on  hand  in 
their  sheds,  and  their  quinine  was 
ground  fresh  to  order.  The  grinding 
mills  were  kept  open  until  10  o’clock 
Saturday  evenings  to  fill  Sunday  orders.
His  chest-protectors  were  not  made 
in  sweat-shops  and  out  of  material 
taken  from  the  rag-bag,  but  by  Quaker­
esses,  each  of  whom  took  a  cold  bath 
every  morning,  and  of  material  manu­
factured  expressly  for the  purpose  in  an 
exclusive  factory  owned  by  a  religious 
woman.

Every  nursing-bottle  sent  out  by  his 
house  was  first  inspected  by  three  emi­
nent  physicians  as  a  sanitary  precau­
tion,  and  then  by  a  committee  from  the 
Comstock  Society,  to  see  that  nothing 
affecting  the  morality  of  the  infants  of 
America  should  break  loose.

His  firm  raised  its  own  sponges,  on 
its  own  ocean  bed,  and  from  seed  care­
fully  selected  two  years 
in  advance. 
The  moral  character  of  each  and  every 
its 
one  was  carefully  looked  after  from 
birth,  and  no  druggist  need 
fear  to 
handle  these  goods.

The  above  are  only  a  few  specimens 
of  the  handiwork  of  Truthful  James. 
He  hadn’t  fairly  got  started  when  the 
end  came.  That 
is,  he  got  a  better 
thing  and  quit  the  road.  The  manager 
of  a  truthful  New  York  daily newspaper 
integ­
heard  of  Mr.  Ross  and  his  strict 
rity,  and,  arranging  for  an 
interview, 
he  said:
“ I  want  a  correspondent to  go to Cuba 
—one  who  will  tell  the  truth  although 
the  heavens  fall.  The  salary  will  be 
$200  per  week.  Will 
you  take  the 
place?”

“ Won’t  I  have  to  lie  at  all?”   asked 

Truthful  James.
“ Not  a  lie.”
“ Nor  even  exaggerate?”
“ Not  in  the  slightest. 

it. 

I  want  plain 
facts,  without  the  slightest  gloss. 
I 
could  have  got  a  liar  for  $100  per
week,  but  I  am  after  a  truthful  man.”
Mr.  Ross  took  the  position  and  sailed 
away,  and  I  am  happy  to  announce  that 
he  has  made  a  great  success  of 
In 
his  very  first  dispatch  he  was  two 
months  ahead  of  all  rival  newspapers 
in  announcing  war.  He  has  interviewed 
a  dozen  different  men  whom  nobody 
ever  heard  o f;  located  submarine  mines 
all  by  himself;  unearthed  conspiracies 
by  the  aid  of  the  kodak  and  ear-trump­
et,  and  originated  some  fifty  different 
theories  regarding  fifty  different  things. 
His  jealous  rivals  sneer  at  him  and  talk 
about  fakes,  but  Truthful  James  goes 
his  wav  undisturbed  and  serene,  and 
only  yesterday  telegraphed  the  fact  that 
thus  far  he  was  the  only  newspaper  cor­
respondent  who  had  been  permitted „to 
interview  the  street  car  driveis  of 
Havana  and 
learn  that  the  battle  ship 
Maine  was  blown  up  by  the  explosion 
of  a  kerosene  lamp.

Window  Trims  in  Small  Towns. 

From the Shoe and Leather Gazette.

The  shoe  dealer  in  the  small  town 
which  only  boasts  of  weekly  newspapers 
has  really  more  need  of  paying  strict 
and  careful  attention  to  the  matter  of

window  displays  than  the  larger  and 
more  pietentious  towns  and  even,  per­
haps,  the  large  cities.

This  remark  was  made  by  a shoe  man 
this  week,  and  furnishes  much  food  for 
reflection,  especially  as  it  is  opposed  to 
the  views  on  the  subject apparently held 
by  many.

Taking  the  stand  that  the  dealer  in 
the  small  town  has  just  as  much  need 
to  advertise  his  wares  as  those  in  the 
larger  marts  of  trade,  it  becomes  clear 
that  he  is  under  obligations  to  himself 
to  develop  such  facilities  as  he  pos­
sesses  to  give  publicity  to  his  goods,  to 
the  point  where  results  will  be  as  great 
proportionately  as  in  places  where  the 
advertising  resources  are  more  varied.
No  town  liveth  unto  itself.  The  deal­
ers  in  it  come  in  competition  with those 
of  the  larger  towns  and  cities.  People 
may  be  attracted  by  the more aggressive 
advertising  of  the  merchants 
in  the 
larger  places  to  buy  their  merchandise 
there,  although  the  dealers  at  home may 
be  able  to  satisfy  their  wants  just  as 
well.

The  dealer  who  can  not  appeal  to  his 
local  public  daily  through  the  medium 
of  the  press,  but  must  depend  on  week­
ly  doses  through  that  medium,  has  in 
his  windows  a  means  of  making  up  the 
deficiency  to  a  great  extent.

Acme  M anufacturing  Co.,
of Hattie  Creek,  Mich.,  manufacturers  of  Window 
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Winners.  The  most  of 
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We  are  still  making  the 
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the 
means  at  his  command  to  show  his 
goods  to  the  best  possible  advantage 
in 
his  windows,  changing  bis  displays  as 
often  as  possible,  showing 
the  new 
goods  he  gets  in  with  the  greatest prom­
inence  and  calling  attention  to the styles 
and  quality,  with  attractive  descriptive 
window  cards.

He  should  seize  every  opportunity  to 
make  special  offerings,  not  waiting  for 
the  weekly  paper,  but  announcing  them 
in  bis  windows.
By  these  methods  he  will  produce  the 
impression  on  the  people  of  his  town 
that  he  is  in  touch  with  the  new  things 
in  the  trade  and  is  just  as  able  to  give 
them  price  advantages  as  the  more 
metropolitan  dealers.

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M ICH I GAN  TRADESMAN

F r u its   a n d   P ro d u c e .
How  Bananas  Are  Grown 

in  Costa 

Rica.

Although  bananas  are  raised  to  some 
extent  in  Southern  Florida,  the  cultiva­
tion  of  the  fruit  is  an  industry  which 
can  not  grow  to  any  importance  in  this 
country,  owing  to  the  unsuitability  of 
the  climate.  Consequently  few  Amer­
icans  are  familiar  with  the  methods  of 
banana  growers  in  running  their  plan­
tations,  and  have  little  idea  of  the  cap­
ital  which  must  be 
invested  or  the 
profits  which  can  be  derived  from  the 
business.

A  man  who  has  just  returned  to  this 
city  from  an  extended  trip through parts 
of  Central  America  had,  while  in  that 
country,  excellent  opportunities  to  be­
come  acquainted  with  the  banana  in­
dustry,  especially  as  it  is  carried  on 
in 
the  southernmost  of  the 
Costa  Rica, 
Central  American  States. 
In  his  opin­
ion 
is  the  most  lucrative  pursuit  of 
the  State,  which  has  been  well  known 
for  many  years  for  its  older  and  more 
widespread  industry  of  coffee-raising.

it 

‘ ‘ The  cultivation  of  bananas,”   he 
says,  ‘ ‘ was  begun  in  Costa  Rica  about 
the  year  1883,  and  is  carried  on  almost 
entirely  in  the  region  along  the  Matina 
River, 
in  the  neighborhood  back  of 
Limon,  on  the  East  Coast.  There  are 
plenty  of  other  districts  where  it  would 
flourish  as  well,  except  for  the  lack  of 
railroad facilities for transportation.  The 
owners  of  the banana  plantations are  for 
the  most  part  Costa  Ricans  and  Eng­
lishmen.  They  are  making  a  great  deal 
of  money  out  of  the  business,  and  I 
think  that  if  more  Americans  knew  how 
little  capital  it  takes  and  how  large 
in 
proportion  the  profits  are  they  would  go 
down  to  Costa  Rica  and  engage  in  it 
for  themselves.  As  to  the  chances  of 
success,  I  think  there 
is  'no  question. 
Bananas  are  hardy,  require  very  little 
attention,  and  there  are  no 
sudden 
changes  of  climate  there  to  injure them.
‘ ‘ It  is  this  very  matter of  the climate, 
though,  which  constitutes  the  greatest 
drawback  that  I  can  see  to  the  occupa­
tion. 
In  the banana  region  the  weather 
the  year  around  is  not  only  hot,  but  so 
damp  that  it  is  like  being  in  the 
inte­
rior  of  a  greenhouse  all  the  time.  The 
perspiration  pours  off  one  continually, 
which  is naturally  weakening  to the sys­
tem.  There  is a  good  deal  of  fever 
in 
the  country,  to  which  Northerners  are 
particularly  susceptible.  But  many  of 
the  banana-raisers  arrange  their  affairs 
so  that  they  can  live  in  San  Jose,  the 
capital,  and  come  down  to  the  lowlands 
only  about  once  a  week  to  visit  their 
plantations.  You  see,  the  nature  of  the 
country  there  is  like  this:  San  Jose 
is 
situated  somewhat  over  one  hundred 
miles  from  the  Atlantic  Coast,  in  a  line 
about  due  west  from  Port  Limon,  and 
is  on  a  tableland  in  the  great  mountain 
range  which  runs  through  the  country 
in  a  northwesterly  and  southeasterly  di­
rection.  This  range 
is  a  part  of  the 
great  Andes  and Rocky Mountain chain. 
The  plateau 
in  which  San  Jose  lies  is 
about  six  thousand  feet  above  the  sea, 
and  mountains  and  volcanic  peaks 
tower  up  another  six  thousand  feet  on 
the  east  and  west  sides  of  the  plateau. 
The  climate  of  this  tableland  is  tem­
perate  and  delightful,  so  that  the  city  is 
finely  situated.  A  railroad,  owned  by 
an  English  syndicate,  runs  from  Port 
Limon  to  San  Jose.  The  banana  re­
gion  begins  at  the  coast  and  extends  for 
about  forty  miles  back 
the 
leaves  a  distance  of
mountains,  which 

toward 

lives 

over  sixty  miles  to  be  traversed  by  the 
planter  who 
in  the  capital  and 
pays  visits  to  his  banana  field  in the low 
country.  The  chief  banana  region  up 
to  the  present  time  is along  the  course 
of  the  Matina  River  and  some  of  its 
tributary  streams,  nowheie  very 
far 
from  the  railroad.  These  rivers  fre­
quently  overflow  their  banks,  fed as they 
are  from  many  mountain  streams,  and 
in  doing  so  they  make  the  surrounding 
land  extremely  fertile.

‘ ‘ All  the  work  on  the  plantations  is 
done by  Jamaica  negroes,  who  work  by 
contract.  That  is,  a  foreman  or  super­
intendent  will  agree  to  run  a  plantation 
for  a  certain  sum  per  manzana—a  man- 
zana  is  equal  to  one  and  three-quarters 
acres.  The  usual  terms,  per  manzana, 
are $40  a  year  in  gold,  or  its  equivalent 
of  one  hundred  Costa  Rican  silver  dol­
lars.  The  hot,  moist  climate  does  not 
seem  to  affect  the  negroes  at  all,  and 
they  are  probably,  considering that fact, 
the  best  people  for  the  work.  It  is  true, 
though,  that  the  most  successful  plan­
tations,  from  a  business  point  of  view, 
are  those  which  are  most  carefully 
watched  by  their  white  owners. 
It  is 
not  well  to  place too  great  reliance  up­
on  the  Jamaica  negroes,  who,  if  left  to 
themselves,  are  frequently 
in 
both  industry  and  strict  honesty.

lacking 

‘ ‘ A  plantation  is  started  in  this  way: 
The  ground  having  been  selected—a 
tract  of  fotest  land  along  some  stream— 
the  workmen  proceed  at  once  to  set  out 
the  young  banana  plants,  or 
‘ suckers,’ 
as they  are  called.  Plenty  of  room  is  al­
lowed  them,  one  sucker  being  planted 
at  each  cornei  of  a  twenty-two-foot 
square.  Not  a  particle  of  clearing  is 
done  to  the  ground  before  setting  out 
the  plants,  only  at  the  corners  of  the 
squares 
in  the  particular  spots  where 
the  suckers  are  put  the  men  dig  holes 
and  clear  a  little  round  space 
just  big 
enough  to  give  the  plants,  which  are 
about  a  foot  high,  breathing  room.  The 
planting  can  be  done  at  any  season,  so 
little  change  is  there  in  the  climate  the 
year  around.  After  the  suckers  are  set 
out  the  negroes  begin  to  do  some  gen­
eral  cutting;  you  can  scarcely  call  it 
their  machetes—the 
clearing.  With 
knives  which  they  use  for  every 
imag­
inable  purpose—they  cut down the dense 
tropical  growth  of  trees  and  vines  and 
underbrush, 
it 
falls. 
If  a  big  tree  happens  to  land  on 
top  of  a  banana  plant,  that  makes  no 
difference.  It  does  not  kill  the  plant,  as 
you  would  suppose;  if  the  main  stalk  is 
crushed  down  a  new  sucker  starts  out 
from  it,  crawls round  under  the  tree  and 
starts  its  career  afresh,  quite  undiscour­
aged.

just  where 

leaving 

it 

forest  growth 

‘ ‘ As  a  general  rule,  although 

the 
quantity  of  the 
in  that 
country  is  far  more  abundant  than  it 
is 
here 
in  the  North,  it  is  lighter  in  its 
nature.  There  are  few  large  hardwood 
trees,  and  the  vegetation  of  palms  and 
vines  is  more  easily  cut  down  than  our 
forest  trees  would  be,  and  decays  more 
readily.  As  I  said,  it  is  left  as  it  falls, 
it  soon  begins  to  rot  in  the  damp 
and 
atmosphere. 
it 
helps  to  fertilize  the  banana  plants.

Instead  of  harming, 

‘ ‘ In  thirteen  or  fourteen  months  the 
trees  have  gained  their  full  growth  and 
begin  to  bear  fruit.  After that  time  the 
ground  around  them 
is  cleared  four 
times  a  year.  After  the  bearing  period 
is  once  reached,  bananas  may be  cut  for 
shipment  every  week  in  the  year.  The 
trees  grow  to a  height  of  ten  to  twelve 
feet.  They  look  somewhat  like  palms, 
with  their  sheathlike  trunks  and  spread­
ing  bunches  of  huge  leaves  at  the  top.

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YOU  IN  DEALING  WITH  US.

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Commission  Merchants

56 West  Market  St.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.

We  solicit  consignments  of  Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry,  Beans 
and  Produce  generally,  assuring  prompt  sales  and  immediate 
returns.  W e  are  a  branch  of  the  Grand  Rapids  house  of  the 
same  name,  which  has  been  established  eleven  years.  We 
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^   in  regard  to  us.

The  fruit  of  each  tree  grows  in  a  single 
dense  bunch 
just  at  the  base  of  the 
leaves.  The  bananas  are  in  a thick clus­
ter  along  the  stem  of  the  bunch,  and  the 
bunches  grow  with each banana pointing 
up,  not  down,  as  people  usually  sup­
pose  until  they  see  them.  A  bunch  con­
tains  one  hundred  bananas  or  mure,  and 
weighs  about  that  number  of  pounds.
in  which  they  are  cut  is 
3,“ The  way 
the  bananas  have 
curious.  When 
reached  their 
full  size  and  are  still 
green the  negroes  go  up  to  the trees with 
their  machetes,  and,  reaching  as  high 
as  they  can,  make  a  deep  cut  into  the 
trunk,  just  below  the  bunch  of  fruit. 
This 
leaves  the  entire  top  of  the  tree 
suspended  on  a  sort  of  hinge.  They  do 
not  cut  quite  deep  enough  to  let  the 
trunk  break  at  once,  for  that  would 
let 
the  bananas  fall  to  the  ground  and 
bruise  them.  A  man  stands  ready  to 
gather  the  fruit,  and  when  the  cut  has 
been  made  and  the  top  of  the tree sways 
down  on  its  hinge  he  gets  hold  of  the 
bunch  and  cuts 
it  off.  Then  another 
deeper  cut  is  made  in  the  trunk  near its 
base,  and  the  entire  tree  is  felled  to  the 
ground.  Thus each  plant  produces  only 
one  bunch  of  bananas  and  then dies,  for 
if 
it  were  left  standing  no  more  fruit 
would  appear.  But  in  the  meantime  the 
tree  has  sent  out  several  suckers  along 
the  ground,  and  these,  taking  root,  be­
come  new  trees.  Some  planters  believe 
in  transplanting  all  the  new  suckers 
in 
squares,  as  I  described  the  setting  out 
of  the  plantation,  but  others  think  the 
trees  do  just  as  well  if  the  suckers  are 
allowed  to  run  on  and  root  and  grow 
in 
their  natural  way.

is 

The  average  yield 

“ By  timing  the  planting,  you  see,  a 
banana  plantation  may  be  made  to yield 
fruit  constantly  throughout  the  entire 
year. 
thirty 
bunches  a  month  from  each  manzana, 
which  would  be  at  the  rate  of  from  fif­
teen  to  eighteen  bunches  a  month  from 
an  acre.  There  is  no  expense  for  trans­
portation,  for  the  men  carry  them  to the 
railroad  nearby,  and  the  present  mar­
ket  price  for  each  bunch,  at  the  rail 
road,  is  from  20 to  30  cents,  gold.  At 
the  rate,  say,  of  25  cents  gold  a  bunch, 
and  a  yield  of  thirty  bunches  a  month 
from  each  manzana, 
the  amount  re­
ceived  annually  for  the  product  of  each 
manzana  would  be  $90.  The  contract­
or’s  usual  charge  for  running  the  plan­
tation,  covering  all  expenses,  being  $40 
a manzana, it  leaves  a  pretty  good profit.
Stories  are  often  told  of  the number of 
bunches  of  bananas  which  have  to  be 
thrown  overboard  because  they  spoil 
while  the  ships  are  on 
their  way  to 
Northern  ports,  but  as  a  matter  of  fact 
these  are  usually  much  exaggerated. 
The  vessel  on  which  I 
left  Central 
America  three  or  four  weeks  ago  had  a 
cargo  of  sixteen  thousand  bunches  of 
bananas,  and  of  this  number  only  two 
bunches  were  ripe  enough  to  be  eaten 
when  we  reached  N ew Orleans.

“ It  has  been  found  that  the  bananas 
will  last  about  twelve  days  after  being 
picked  without  becoming  fully  ripe  and 
beginning  to  rot.  Their  transportation 
is  hastened  as  much  as  possible  by  the 
railroads  and  steamers.  The  planter’s 
responsibility  ceases  when  the 
fruit 
reaches  the  railroad  and  is  put  into  the 
cars.  From  there  it  is  run  down  to  the 
coast  and  loaded  on  shipboard  the  same 
day  that  it  is  picked.  There 
is  a  ma­
chine  for  putting 
it  into  the  vessel’s 
hold,  which  saves  the  expense  of  hav­
ing  all  the  loading  done by  hand.  This 
machine  consists  of  an  endless  belt 
passing  around  two  drums,  one  of 
in  the  car  to  be  un­
which 

is  placed 

loaded  and  the  other  on  the  steamer  at 
the  wharf  nearby. 
The  bunches  of 
bananas  are  placed 
in  this  belt  and 
transferred  from  the  car  to  the  ship  at 
the  rate  of  two  thousand  five  hundred  a 
minute.  Men on  the  vessel  receive  them 
and  stow  them  away,  and  they  are 
packed  with  a  view  to  securing  good 
ventilation  during  the  trip. 
It  takes 
the  banana-laden  steamers  five  days  to 
reach  New  Orleans  and  seven  to  reach 
New  York.  Upon  their  arrival  at  either 
port  the  bananas  are  unloaded  at  once 
into  special  trains  which  are  waitng  to 
take  them  to  all  parts  of  the  country. 
These  trains  are  very  fast,  sometimes 
being  run  with  the  passenger  express 
trains  and  sometimes  even  ahead  of 
these,  at  a  greater  rate  of  speed. 
It 
does  not  injure  the  bananas to be picked 
while  green.  They  ripen 
just  as  well 
off  the  trees.  The  ripe  fruit  which  I 
ate 
in  Costa  Rica  was  not  a  bit  better 
than  the  bananas  we  get  here ;  in  fact, 
some  of 
it  was  not  so  good.  All  the 
choicest  fruit  is  sent  Noith.

“ When  you  consider  the  industry  on 
all  its  sides—the  small  capital  required 
at  the  outset,  the  ease  and  cheapness 
with  which  competent  laborers  may  be 
obtained, 
the  conditions  of  climate, 
which  permit  the  gathering  and  ship­
ping  of  fruit  every  week  in  all  seasons, 
the  hardiness  of  the  plant,  the  fact  that 
no  expensive  machinery  whatever 
is 
needed  on  the  plantations (everything  is 
done  with  the  machete),  and  the  ready, 
constant  market  for  bananas 
the 
North— it  is  easy  to  see  why  the  raising 
of  the  fruit  is  proving  lucrative in Costa 
Rica.  When  railroad  facilities  there 
are better  it  will  doubtless  increase  very 
rapidly  throughout  all 
low-lying 
the 
parts  of  the  country. 
It  is  an  oppor­
tunity  for  the  American  who  wants  to 
try  his  hand  at  a  new  pursuit—always 
remembering,  of  course,  that  he  must 
incur  a  certain  amount  of  risk  if  he 
makes  his  home  or  stays  much  in  the 
tropical  fever  breeding  climate  of  the 
coast.

in 

“ Among  the  few  dangers  which  beset 
the  banana  plants  there 
is  one  which 
often  gives  trouble  while  the suckers are 
young.  This 
is  a  strong  vine  which 
twines 
itself  tightly  around  the  green 
banana  shoot.  It  grows  at  just  the  same 
rate  as  the  latter,  and 
if  not  removed 
will  soon  choke  out  its  vitality.  The 
plantations  have  to  be  watched  for  this 
and  other  weeds  which  grow  up  too 
rapidly  around  them  while  they  are  still 
small.  After  they  have  developed  so 
far  that  the  large  leaves  of  the  different 
plants  meet  overhead,  thereby  shading 
the  ground,  there 
is  no  longer  need  of 
much  weeding,  for  the  lack  of  sunlight 
puts  a  check  upon 
the  rank  under­
growth. 
It  has  been  given  as  another 
disadvantage  of  banana-raising  that  the 
ground 
is  likely  to  become  exhausted 
after  a  time. 
this  is  never 
true  of  the  lands  which  are  overflowed 
by  the  rivers,  and,  as  I  told  you,  the 
largest  and  best  plantations  are  always 
located  in  such  places.  One  of  the  fin­
est  banana  plantations  in  that country  is 
now  seventeen  years  old  and  shows  no 
sign  of  deterioration.”

think 

I 

Asking  for  What  He  Wanted. 

Sturgis  Democrat.

Two  little  tots  of  Hudson  were  kneel­
ing  at  their  mother's  knee  saying  the 
Lord’s  Prayer.  The  older  one  was  re­
it  after  his  mother,  and  when 
peating 
he 
reached  the  passage  that  reads, 
“ Give  us  this  day  our  daily  bread,”  
what  was  the  mother’s  astonishment 
when  the  little  tot  exclaimed:  “ Hit 
him  for  a  pie,  Johnny;  hit  him  fora 
pie. ”

E S T A B L IS H E D   1 8 9 3

T.  L.  BRUNDAGE,

WHOLESALE  COMMISSION  MERCHANT

54  and  56 Central  Ave.,  Cleveland,  Ohio.

Only  Exclusive  Butter  and  Egg  House  in  the  City

Want to correspond  with those who have butter and 

eggs to ship.  Can  handle large quantities.

EARLY FRUITS 
AND VEGETABLES

Will  please your customers and make  you  money.
Popular prices prevail.  Ask for quotations.
F.  J.  D E T T E N T H A L E R ,

117-119  M O N R O E   S T R E E T ,  

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

We  are  Shipping  Fancy  Cabbage

They  are  white,  crisp,  solid  and  will  surely 
please  you.  We  wrap  each  head  in  paper 
to  guard  against  frost.  Prices  reasonable.
M AIL  US  YOUR  ORDERS.  We  guaran­
tee  satisfaction.

T he  V in k e m u ld er  C om pany,  Grand  Rapids.

Detroit commission ana Mia. Go.
Grocers’ Sundries

Manufacturers of
Chicory

Specialties

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

Malt Coffee 
Cereals 

Kottee flirt

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

Butter an d   E.q q s

a Specialty

27  Farmer  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

Telephone,  New  131a.

Tradesman Company 

Grand  Rapids.

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False  Economy  on  the  Part  of  Egg 

Shippers.

From the New York Produce Review.

It 

We  find  that  some  egg  shippers,  no­
tably  those  doing  business  at  nearby 
Western  points,  are  making  an  effort  at 
economy  by  using  second-hand  egg 
cases. 
is  a  false  economy.  These 
second-hand  cases  are  very  objection­
able  to  buyers  in  this  market  and  seri­
ously 
interfere  with  the  sale  of  the 
goods.  Sometimes  when  offerings  are 
short  of  requirements  and  buyers  can’t 
afford  to  be  too  particular, 
they  sell 
without  serious  disadvantage,  but  when 
eggs  are  plenty  for  all  needs  buyers 
pass  them  by,  and  unless  the  price  is 
shaded  they  remain  unsold 
just  at  a 
time  when  prompt  sale  means  money 
gained.
New  No.  2  cases  are  comparatively 
cheap  and  the  saving  by  using  second­
hand  rattletraps  is  trifling  in  compari­
son  with  the  losses  often  occasioned  by 
dull  sale  or  increased  breakage.

Egg Shippers Attention

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

Bay  City  Excelsior  Co.,  Bay  City,  Mich.

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 21/» 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 5,000 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.

We  Have  Some 
Special  Inducements

to  offer  to  .  .  .

Com m ission
Merchants
Write us
for  particulars.

MICHIGAN PACKAGE CO.,

OW OSSO, MICH.

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W. R. Brice. 

C- *>. Drake.

Established in Philadelphia 1852.

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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 St., 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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.

16

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis-—Index  to | 

the  Market.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  Mar.  19—We  have  perfect 
summer  weather  and  buyers  who  come 
here  dressed 
in  suits  made  to  agree 
with  the  climate  of  Vermont,  or  per­
chance  of  Michigan,  wish  they  had 
brought  their  dusters.  Of  course,  it  may 
all  end 
in  a  frost  that  will  kill  all  the 
peaches  in  Maryland ;  but that’s another 
story.  Business  is  good,  and  the  only 
thing  that  interrupts  the  general  gaiety 
of  nations 
is  the  war  spirit.  Senator 
Proctor’s  speech  made  a  profound  im­
into  what  store  you 
pression,  and  go 
will,  you  hear  talk  of  fight. 
It  per­
meates  all  classes  and  nothing  else  has 
so  occupied  men’s  thoughts  for  many 
years.
The  markets  have  held  their  own,  and 
save  for  the  usual  declines  in  the  butter 
and  egg  trade  to  be  expected at this sea­
son,  everything  seems  to  remain  steady, 
is 
unless  we 
except  coffee,  which 
troubled  by  another  cut.  R io  No.  7 
is 
now  held  at  5|^c.  This  decline  has 
made 
interior  roasters  fearful  of  an­
other  slash  in  package  goods  and  a  rate 
of  jy 2c  on  such  will  cause  no  surprise.
A  little  more  has  been  done  in  invoices 
and  news  from  Brazil  indicates  a  de­
cided  falling  off  in  the  movement  of the 
crop.  This  led  to  a  little  more  enquiry 
on  the  part  of  jobbers  and some  of  them 
have  made  material  additions  to  their 
stocks. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  amount 
of  coffee  reaches  1,161,537 bags,  against 
732,126  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.
In  mild  sorts  there  is  little  to  note  of 
interest.  Of  the  better  grades  the  sup­
ply  is  not  excessive  and  good  Cucuta  is 
worth  gc  if  the  quality  is  all 
it  should 
be.  East  Indias  are  quiet  and  prices 
are  well  sustained.
Teas  have  held  their  own,but  the  vol­
ume  of  trade  during  the  week  has  not 
been  up  to  the  average,  either  among 
country  or  city  dealers.  The  better  sorts 
move  with  some  degree  of  freedom,  but 
as  a  whole  the  market  is  uninteresting.
The  week  has  been  very  quiet,  so  far 
as  sugar  is  concerned;  indeed,  not since 
the  year  opened  has  the  market  shown 
less  animation.  Stocks  are  large  and 
is  thought  a  fractional  reduction  in 
it 
granulated  may  take  place. 
It  is  still 
$}ic.  Raw  sugars  are  quiet  and  with­
out  change.  Refiners  manifest 
little 
interest  in  the  situation  and  seem  to  be 
waiting  until  the  stock  of  refined  is  re­
duced  somewhat  before  making  any 
heavy  purchases.
There  appears  to  be  a  misunderstand­
ing  between  rice  buyers  and  sellers,  so 
they  are  not  working  harmoniously  this 
week.  Holders  are  very  firm 
in  their 
views  and  feel  confident  that  the  future 
will  be  on  their  side,  and  those  who 
want  to  buy  think  they  will  “ wait 
a  while.’ ’  Indications  favor  the  holder. 
Foreign  styles  have  moved  with  rather 
more  freedom  than  domestic  and for  the 
better  grades  the  enquiry  has  been quite 
fair.

is 

Invoice  trading 

No  changes  have  taken  place 

in 
is  absolutely 
spices. 
nil  and  spot  business 
is  of  an  every­
day  character.  Prices  show  no  change. 
Holders  are  firm  and  will  concede  noth­
ing-
Desirable  New  Orleans  molasses  is 
good  property  to  have  just  now.  Quota­
tions  are  firmly  held  and,  as  stocks  are 
small  and  the  supply is  mostly  in  one  or 
two  hands,  the  situation 
favorable 
for  better  prices.  Good  to  prime  cen­
trifugal,  I 5@22C.  Good  to  prime  open- 
kettle,  27@3oc.  Syrups  are  firm,  but 
the  supply 
is  fully  as  large  as  can  be 
taken  care  of,  and  if  the  accumulation 
larger  there  will  come  a  de­
be  much 
cline.  Little 
in  an  export 
way. 
Prime  to  fancy  sugar  syrup, 
I7@22C. 
Dried  fruits  are  quiet,  exceedingly 
so,  with  the  exception  of  prunes,  which 
seem  to  be  moving  with  rather  more 
freedom,  although  at  low  rates.  Raisins 
are  dull  and  unsettled.  Evaporated  ap­
ples  of  extra  quality  are  selling  pretty 
well  at  gI^@ioc.

is  doing 

Lemons  are  firm  and  the  market  is 
steady.  The  warm  weather,  if  it  con­

.. 

. 

,

tinues,  will  send 
lemons  rapidly  to  a 
higher  point  than  now.  Oranges  of  all 
kinds  seem  to  be 
in  sufficient  supply 
and  prices  show  no  material  change.

is 

in 

for 

The  butter  market  is  working  out 

Trading  in  canned  goods  has  mostly 
been 
futures,  and  so  far  as  spot 
transactions  are  concerned  the  market 
keeps  on 
the  even  tenor  of  its  way. 
Corn,  peas  and  salmon  are  in  better  de­
mand,  while  tomatoes  sag.  New  Jersey 
3s,  $1.
in 
good  shape.  Supplies  are  not  extreme­
ly  large  and  a  good  demand  has  set 
in. 
The  weather 
larger 
shipments.  Best  Western  creamery  is 
quotable  at  19c.  Western  firsts, 
i8@ 
iSj^c; 
I7@ i7^c;  Western 
imitation creamery,  extras,  i6j^c;  firsts, 
i5@»5Kc;  seconds,  14c;  choice  rolls, 
I 4 ^ c . 
.
Cheese home trade  is quiet,  but  a  little 
is  doing  in  an  export  way.  Do­
more 
mestic  buyers  are  taking  only  sufficient 
supply  for  everyday  wants.  Large  full 
cream  State,  September  make,  8c; 
small  fancy,  8j^c.

favorable 

seconds, 

The  egg  market  has  been  firm  and 
some  advance  has  taken  place,  owing 
to  moderate  supplies  and  good  en­
quiry.  Western  fresh  gathered  are  worth 
lie,  and  at  this  price  purchasers  seem 
to  have  no  hesitation  in  taking  offer­
ings- 
Reports  Which  Do  Not  Represent 

.  _

. 

. 

Real  Receipts.

From the New York Produce Review.

There 

is  now  a  very  general  belief 
among  receivers  of  eggs  in  New  York 
that 
the  receipts  as  collected  by  the 
New  York  Mercantile  Exchange  are 
short  of  the  fact,  and  that  the  failure  to 
report  correct  figures  by  some  of  the 
transportation  lines  is  at  the  instance  of 
certain  Western  shippers  who  make 
their  patronage  of  these 
lines  condi­
tional  upon  the  withholding  of  a  report 
of  the  quantity  delivered  here.  One 
day  last  week  we  received 
information 
from  a  number  of  houses  that  they  had 
in  the  aggregate  over  2,500 
received 
cases  from  a  certain  railroad  line,  while 
the  report  of  the  deliveries  given  by 
that  line  to  the  Exchange  collectors  was 
only  625  cases.

it 

The  knowledge  that  the  scale  of  re­
ceipts  has  an 
important  bearing  upon 
the  tone  of  the  market  is  sufficient  to 
supply  the  probable  motive  of  these 
shippers 
in  trying  to  falsify  our  sta­
tistics.  But  as  soon  as  the  fact  becomes 
generally  known 
is  sure  to  prove 
something  of  a  boomerang.  Dealers 
now  generally  believe  that  the  receipts 
are  reported  short  of  the  fact,  and  there 
is  a  disposition  to  exaggerate  the  short­
age  so  as  to  be  on  the  safe  side.  Thus 
on  Monday  of  this  week,  when  receipts 
were  posted  something  over 
15,000 
cases,  most  of  the  trade  were  basing 
their  judgment  of  the  position  upon  a 
supposition  that the  actual receipts were 
from  20,000  to  25,000  cases.

It  is  certainly  most  unfortunate  if  the 
correct  collection  of  trade  statistics  in 
this city is to be interrupted and thwarted 
by  the  whim  of  a  few  operators.  The 
fact  that  the  deception  cannot  possibly 
produce  the  desired  result  is  not  suffi­
cient  to  guard  the  integrity  of  the  re­
ports.  The  collection  of  accurate  sta­
tistics  of  supply 
is  one  of  the  chief 
functions  of  the  New  York  Mercantile 
Exchange  and  is  so  important  that  any 
assault  upon 
its  natural  sources  of  in­
formation  should  be  resisted  and  re­
pelled  with  every  resource  at  command.
If  other  means  fail  efforts  should^  be 
made  to  secure  the  enactment  of  a  State 
law 
transportation  com 
panies  to  furnish  accurate  statistics  to 
the  accredited  representatives  of  trade 
organizations,  on  the  ground  of  public 
necessity. 

compelling 

_____

A  counterfeiting  plant  was  recently 
discovered 
in  the  State  Prison  at  Fol­
som,  Cal.  The  work  was  done  in  the 
engine-room  by  a  couple  of  convicts. 
So  far  as  known,  only  nickels  were 
coined,  the  material  used  being  babbit 
metal,  taken  from  the  engines 
in  the 
prison.

Some  men  seem  to  have  been  made 

out  of  dust  that  had  giavel  in  it.

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17

C o m m e rcia l T ra v e le rs

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President, J ohn A. H o ffm a n, Kalamazoo; Secre­
tary, J.  C.  Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  Treasurer, C h a s. 
McN o lty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  C.  G.  Sn e d e k e r ,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W. Al l en   Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  F.  L.  D a y,  Jackson;  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V a lm o r e, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, G e o. A .  R ey n o l d s, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J .  B oyd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer,  G eo.  F.  Ow e n ,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  B row n,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. W ix so n,  Marquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

One  never  feels  so  much  like  a  child 
as  when  listening  to  the  sound  wisdom 
and  versatile  information  which  comes 
from  the  traveling  man.

A  few  traveling  men  drink  too  much. 
More  of  them  are  genuinely  religious. 
The  man  who  drinks  too  much  soon 
ceases  to be a  traveling  man.

Chas.  McNolty,  Treasurer  of 

the 
Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip,  who  has 
been  seriously  ill  with  pneumonia  at his 
home  at  Jackson,  is  recovering  rapidly 
and  expects  to  be  able  to  resume  his 
regular  duties  soon.

L.  H.  Richardson,  of  Hancock,  has 
taken  the  position  of  Upper  Peninsula 
salesman  for  the  wholesale  grocery  fiim 
of  Steele,  Weddes  &  Co.,  Chicago,  to 
succeed  A.  F.  Leopold,  who,  since  the 
death  of  his  father,  has  decided  to  re­
main  permanently  in  Chicago.

The  traveling  salesman  is  the  repre­
sentative  of  the  firm,  and  all  the  firm 
to  most  of  its  customers.  The firm  name 
may  be  rated  high  on  all  sorts  of  re­
ports  and  stencilled  on  the  boxes  in  the 
largest  letters,  but  to the retail merchant 
it  means  only  a  rotund,  pleasant,  ex­
tremely  gentlemanly  and 
thoroughly 
businesslike  man  who  comes  into  the 
store  every  so  often.

Some  of  the  traveling  men  may  fail 
to  get  past  St.  Peter,  because  their 
ticket  reads  by  another  route,  but  each 
of  them  has  a  high  credit  rating  for 
kindness  to  his  fellowmen 
in  the  re­
ports  made  up  by  the  recording  angel. 
It 
is  with  the  personality  of  the  trav­
eling  man  that  the  public  has  most  to 
do.  He 
is  more  truly,  sincerely,  gen­
uinely  polite  than  the  Frenchman  ;  he 
is  more  diplomatic  than  the  Italian ;  he 
can  talk  in  a  firmer  tone  than  even  the 
Englishman;  on  proper  occasions  he 
can  dodge  like  a  Spaniard ;  and  all 
in 
all,  he  is  the  best  fellow  to  meet  of  any 
class  of  men  that  one  meets  at  all.

The  traveling  man  of  to-day  knows 
more  about  the  details  of  the  firm’s 
business  in  his  territory  than  any  other 
man,  not  excepting  the  head  of  the- 
house  himself.  And 
the  head  of  the 
house  knows  this,  whether  he  will  ad­
mit  it  or  not.  Even that  personification 
of  dignity  and  epitome  of  wisdom,  the 
head  book-keeper,  must  take  his  place 
below  the  traveling  man.  Something 
in  the  appearance  of  the  store  in  the 
small  town,  or  something  in  the  manner 
of  the  proprietor  when  the  traveling 
man  comes 
impression 
that 
incorrect,  and  in 
his  daily  letter  is  a  sentence  telling  the 
bouse  to  go  slow  on  Jones’  credit,  or  to 
draw  on  Smith  and  insist  on  payment 
at  once.

is  very  seldom 

in,  makes  an 

Halifax  Maritime  Merchant: 

' ‘ I 
invariable  rule,”   said  a

it  an 

make 

prosperous  dry  goods  dealer  to  a  Mer­
chant  representative  the  other  day,  ‘ ‘ to 
treat  every  traveling  salesman  with  the 
greatest  courtesy  and  to  look  at  his.  line 
whenever  possible  whether  I  buy  of 
him  or  not. 
I  find  this  plan  remunera­
tive,  because  not  only  do  I  run  little  or 
no  risk  of  missing  good  things,  but  I 
gain  the  reputation  of  being  a  good 
fellow,  and  that  reputation  is worth hav­
ing.  A  salesman  frequently  has  it  in 
his  power  to  do  a  customer  a  good  turn, 
and  when  he  has  anything  special  to 
offer,  he 
is  sure  to  give  the  preference 
to  the  merchant  who  has  treated  him 
well.  Then,  too,  there  is  a  freemasonry 
among  traveling  men.  The  manners 
and  methods  of  their  customers,  or  pos­
sible  customers,  are 
freely  discussed 
and  the  word  is  quickly  passed  around 
as  to  who  is  halfway  decent  and  who 
is 
an  overbearing  crank.  That’s  why  I  say 
it’s  worth  dollars  and  cents  to  be  pleas­
ant  to  the  traveling  man.”

I  had  been 

The  drummer  had  just  finished  read­
ing  the  story  of  a  train  hold-up,  and  let 
his  newspaper  fall  into  his  lap. 
‘ ‘ I  bad 
a  rather  romantic  experience  once  with 
train  robbers,"he  said,  “ which  I  think 
I  won’t  ever  forget. 
laid 
up  sick  for  a  week  at  a  tavern  in  a 
Kansas  town,  and my attendant bad been 
a  very  sweet  and  gentle  girl  who  was  a 
relative  of  the  landlord’s.  She  was  such 
a  nice  girl  that  I  was  in  no  hurry  to  get 
well,  and  while  1  was  putting  it  off all  I 
could,  I  was  as  industriously  putting  on 
the  chains  of  love.  At  the  end  of  ten 
days  I  was  able  to  take  up  my  sam ple 
case  again,  and  when  I 
left  the  town 
my  gentle  nurse  was  on  the  same  train, 
in  my  charge,  bound  for  Kansas  City, 
where  she  was  to  be  met  by  friends. 
I 
had  never  talked  to  her,  and  I  fancy 
she  didn’t  suspect  me  of  anything  ex­
cept  a  desire  to  flirt  a  little,  but  I  had 
made  up  my  mind  to  talk  seriously  to 
her  before  I 
let  her  friends  take  her 
away  from  me.  I  fooled  along,  as  most 
men  do  under  the  same  circumstances, 
waiting  for  a  real  good  chance  to  come 
in,  but  before  I  reached 
the  proper 
condition  the  train  came  to  a  sudden 
stop 
lonely  place,  and  by  the 
time  we  had  asked  what  the  trouble 
was,  a  half-masked  train  robber  stood 
in  the  aisle  of  the  car  with  a  revolver 
covering  the  contents.  The  girl  turned 
as  white  as  a  sheet,  and  I  thought  she 
would  faint,  but  1  told  her  she  wouldn’t 
be  hurt,  and  she  sat  there  staring  as  if 
she  had  been  turned  into  stone.  As  it 
happened,  I  kept  my  wits,  and  when 
a  shot  and  a  shout  arose  on  the  air 
outside  and  attracted  the  robber’s  at­
tention  for  a  moment  I  whipped  my  re­
volver  out  of  my  overcoat  pocket  and 
would  have  got  him  sure,  but  as  I 
brought  the  gun  around  the  girl  at  my 
side  caught  my  arm  and  stopped  me. 
I 
looked  at  her  in  amazement. 
‘ Don’t!’ 
‘ It’s  nay  father,’  and  she 
she  gasped. 
then  fell 
in  a  faint,  while  the  robber 
burned  out  in  response  to  the calls  from 
his  partners.  As  for  me,”   concluded 
the  drummer,  “ I  thought  probably 
it 
would  be  just  as  well  for  me  not  to  add 
to  the  poor  girl’s  troubles  by  trying  to 
get  into  her  fam ily.”

in  a 

The  misunderstanding  between Clark- 
Jewell-Wells  Co.  and 
the  Lemon  & 
Wheeler  Company,  growing  oat  of  the 
aggressive  attitude  recently  assumed  by 
Mr.  Thomas  Catt.bas  been satisfactorily 
explained  and  entente  cordialehas  been 
re-established.

The  rule  of  the  road  among  nations 
should  be,  “ Keep  to  the  right,“ and  do 
nothing  that  is  not  right.

The  Grain  Market.

it 

is 

is  very  congested. 

The  wheat  market  ruled  strong  dur­
ing  the  past  week  and  cash  wheat  ad­
vanced  2@3c  per  bushel  at  all  points. 
While  long  futures  are  very  steady,  the 
irregular,  and  that  is  be­
May  deal 
cause 
It  travels 
as  easy  from  $1.03  to  gi.07  as  the  whim 
of  one  man  is  inclined  to  make  it.  No 
other  man  has  any  business  to  touch 
this  deal—not  even  a  professional.  We 
opine  that  all  will  let  it  alone  except  a 
stray  bear  who  has  been  caught  nap­
ping  and 
is  now  trying  to  cover  his 
deals.  Leiter  seems  to  be  a liberal seller 
at  prices  around  $1.07  and  a  buyer  at 
$i.o3@i.o4.  The  receipts  in  the  North­
west  seem  to  decrease,  while  locally 
they  are  a  mere  bagatelle.  The  visible 
decreased  1,000,000  bushels,  which 
is 
about  the  same  as  it  decreased last year. 
The  visible  now  stands  31,000,000  bush­
els,  against  40,000,000  bushels  at  the 
same  time 
last  year  and  61,000,000 
bushels  two  years  ago.  The  Dakotas 
are  importing  seed  wheat  from  Milwau­
kee  at  $1.02.  One  county  alone  needs
20,000  bushels.  This  goes  to  show  how 
the  growers  sold  themselves  short.  Tak­
ing  all  things 
into  consideration,  we 
think  there  will  yet  be  a  big  squeeze  in 
May  wheat.  New crop  futures  are  like­
ly  to  go  lower,  especially  as  we  are 
having  fine  weather  and  no  frosts.  We 
are  of  the  opinion  that  flour  dealers 
would  be  more  liberal  buyers,  Were  it 
not  for  the  fact  that  they  think  prices 
may  go 
lower,  as  they  have  several 
times.  However,  we  think  they  need 
have  no  fears  until  the  new  crop  gets  to 
moving.  The  flour  trade  is  fair  and  all 
the  Grand  Rapids  mills  are  running 
full  time.

Mill  feed  keeps  up  and  prices  remain 

steady.

Corn  meal  and  feed  have  advanced, 
in  sympathy  with  the  price  of  oats  and 
corn.

Coarse  grains  remain  very  strong  this 
week  and,  were  it  not  for  the  war scare, 
all  commodities  in  the  grain  line  would 
be  advanced.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were 
unusually  small,  being  21  cars  of wheat, 
7  cars  of  corn  and  15  cars  of  oats.

Millers  are  paying  90c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t.

Around  the  World  in  Eighty  Minutes
Detroit,  March  21—The  regular  busi­
ness  meeting  and  social  of  Post  C  will 
be  held  Saturday  evening,  March  26,  at 
Bamlet  hall.

Remember  this  entertainment  will  be 
in  charge  of  the  Ladies’  Auxiliary  and 
they  have  prepared  a  program  for  the 
occasion  that  will  far  eclipse  any  pre­
vious  affair  in  the  history  of  the  Post; 
in  fact,  they  propose  to  take  you  on  an 
excursion,  taking  in  the  principal cities 
of  our  own  country  while  enroute.  Just 
think!  the  blustering  winds  of  March 
may  blow  without,  yet  we  safe

Within the walls of Bamlet hall, 

and  enjoying  all  the  comforts 
incident 
to  a  railroad  trip  in  June,  including  the 
funny  people  one  meets  on  the  train, 
the  tramp,  the  parson,  the  farmer,  the 
inquisitive  boy  who  wants  to  know 
the 
everything, 
the  chic  old  maid, 
blushing  bride,  and,  last  but  not 
least, 
the  ubiquitous  traveling  man  and  the 
irrepressible  train  boy. 
In  connection 
with  this  excursion  there  will  be  an  op­
portunity  to  win  a  valuable  prize,  as the 
ladies  in  charge  have  devised  a  scheme 
by  which  they  will  award  prizes  (six  in 
all),  three  to  ladies  and  three  to  gentle­
men.  This  will  give  you  a grand chance 
to  see  a  great  deal  without  going  far  or 
staying 
The 
price  of  tickets  for  this  excursion  is 
only  the  paltry  sum  of  10 cents,  children 
free.  Expense  need  deter  no  one  from 
taking  the  trip,  and  you  stand  a  chance 
to  win  a  souvenir  many  times  the  value

long  or  costing  much. 

of  your  round  trip  ticket.  A  buffee 
dining  car  will  be  attached,  containing 
all  the  delicacies of  the  season  at  a  very 
low  price  and  served  an  the  European 
plan.  At  one  of  the  cities  we  visit  is 
to  be  found  one  of  the  largest  and  most 
magnificent  art  galleries  in  the  world, 
rich  in  its  rare  treasures  of  fine  paint­
ings  and  sculpture.  Here  one  can  revel 
to  his  heart’s  content, 
in  the  works 
of  the  old  masters.  Our  stop  at  this 
point  will  give  all  ample  time  to  visit 
this  wonderful  collection—don’t  miss 
it.  Do  not 
let  anything  prevent  you 
from  taking  this  trip.
By  special  arrangements  with  K.  of 
G.  R.  R.  officials,  1,000  pounds  of  bag­
gage  will  be  checked  free.

Business  meeting  at  8  sharp;  train 

starts  at  9. 

H.  Y.  K en yon,  Sec’y.

The  man  with 

the  handsome  silk 
handkerchief  is  the  one  who  is  the  most 
afraid  of  a  sore  throat.

A  man  may  be  as  honest  as  the  day  is 
long,  and  still  do  a  lot  of  mischief  dur­
ing  the  night.

Shallow  men  are  generally  despised, 
but  they  don’t  require  as much  watching 
as  deep  ones.

The  more  a  man  has  the  more  he 

wants—unless  it  happens  to  be  twins.

HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT, Prop.
THE  WHITNEY  HOUSE

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

Chas. E. Whitney, Prop., Plalnwell, Mich.
H o sk in s  &  C o m p an y
GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK

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176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. 

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

Hodges Buildinir.

S i l l  Hill! H

A   R E M A R K A B L E   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.  My 
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.

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D rugs—Chem icals
MICHIGAN  STATE  BOARD  OP  PHARMACY.
Term expires
Dec. 31,1898
-  Dec. 31,1899 
Dec. 31,1900
Dec. 31,1901
-  Dec. 31,1902

- 
P. W. R. Pe b b y, Detroit 
A. C. Schumacher,  Ann  Arbor 
- 
Geo. Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
L. E. R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
Henry  Heim,'.Saginaw  - 
- 

— —  

President, P. W- R.  P e r r y, Detroit.
Secretary, Geo. Guhdrum,  Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor.

Examination  Sessions.
Star Island—June 27 and 28.
Marquette—About Sept. 1.
Lansing—Nov.  1 and 2.

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

MICHIGAN STATE PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A. H. Webber, Cadillac. 
Secretary—Chas. Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—John D.  Mu ir, Grand Rapids.

“We  Can  Get  It  for  You.”

How  often  does  a  druggist  offer  to 
procure  for  an  applicant  an  article  that 
he  does  not  carry  in  stock?  How  often 
after  the  usual  statement,  “ No,  we 
haven’t  it,”   does  he  add,  “ But  we  'can 
get  it  for you?”

To  answer  this  question  by a practical 
experiment,  I visited  stores  to  the  num­
ber  of  a  score  in  a  certain  metropolis 
not  a  thousand  miles  from  Greater  New 
York,  and  in  each  enquired  for  a  prep­
aration  for  which  I  felt  sure  they  had 
had  no  previous  demand,  but  which  I 
knew  was  in  the hands  of  the  local  job­
bers  to  accommodate  the  trade  in  ad­
jacent  towns  where  the  product  had  a 
moderate  sale. 
Among  those  twenty 
druggists  there  were  but  two  whose 
sagacity  prompted  them  to  enquire  if 
they  might  get  the  desired  article  for 
me.  The  preparation  chosen  for  this 
experiment  was  *ne  of  the  few  on which 
the  druggist  can  realize  a  fair  profit—a 
particular  brand  of  a  much-used  prod­
uct.

in  question,  if 

When  the  diversity  of  the  stock  car­
ried  by  my  preceptor  proved inadequate 
to  fill  some  demand,  he  invariably taxed 
every  resource  to  remedy  the  deficiency 
in  this  way:  When  a  call  was  received 
for  something  we  did  not  have,  the 
customer  was  told  that  while  we  were 
without  the  article 
it 
could  be  had 
in  the  neighborhood  we 
would  get  it  for  him  in  a  few  minutes 
and  send  it  to  his  home,  and  thus  save 
him  the  trouble  of  further  search.  This 
offer  usually  met  with  an  affirmative 
reply,  and  I  was  detailed  to  find  the 
article.  If  my  efforts  in  this  line  proved 
futile,  the  failure  was  communicated  to 
the  applicant  with  a  request  to  permit 
us  to  order  from  our  local  jobber,  and 
permission  was most eagerly given.  And 
the  article  was  ordered  and  delivered 
on  arrival.

By  this  means  the  store  not  only  won 
favor  with  the  neighboring  residents, 
but 
its  fame  for  supplying  one  with 
what  he  wanted  spread  past  the  stores 
of  competitors,  that  felt  the  effect,  but 
apparently  knew  not  the  cause.  People 
would  come 
into  the  store,  and  after 
asking  for  something  foreign  to  our 
stock  and  being  told  of  our  willingness 
to  accommodate  them  at  the  earliest 
moment  with  what  we  did  not  then 
have,  they  would  say,  “ Well,  if  you 
didn’t  have  it  I  intended  asking  you  to 
get  it  for  me,  as  I  have  tried  in  several 
stores  to  do  so  without  success,”   or 
some  words  to  the  same  effect.

This  “ system”   proved  an  effectual 
advertisement  and  brought  to  the  store 
many  a  patron  that  might  otherwise 
have  continued  dealing  where  they  were 
less  observant  of  the  wants  of  those  who

This, 

supported  them. 
is  the 
profit  my  preceptor  won  and  prized by  a 
simple  method  that  we  so  seldom  see 
observed—strictly  observed.

then, 

it.  His 

incident  will 

But  a  short  time  ago  I  did  find  a 
in  this  re­
druggist  who  was  shrewd 
illus­
spect,  which  this 
trate:  A 
lady  enquired  for  a  certain 
cough  remedy  which  he  did  not  have 
and  promptly  admitted 
fair, 
customer  as quickly  responded  that  she 
could  get  it  trom  Mr.  Brown,  who  was 
his  nearest  competitor.  The  druggist 
pondered  a  moment  and  then  ventured 
to  remark  that 
if  she  would  sit  but  a 
minute  he  would  look  over  his  stock, 
as  it  was  just  possible  that  he  had  been 
a  little  hasty  in  his  reply  and  had  mis­
judged  the  extent  of  same.  Then  to 
the  time  of  clinking  bottles  he  charged 
his  clerk  to  hasten  to  Brown’s  by  the 
rear  way  and  buy  a  bottle  of 
‘ ‘ that 
stuff.”  
later  he  was 
handing  it  over  the  counter  to  the  un­
suspecting  and 
contented 
patron. 

Jo se ph   F.  H o s t e l l e y .

Five  minutes 

thoroughly 

Regarding 

the  Admission  of  Doses 

into  the  Pharmacopoeia.

Much  has  been  and  is  being  said  and 
the  admission  of 
written  concerning 
doses  as  a  part  of  the  text  of  the  Phar­
macopoeia.  In  the  writer’s  opinion  this 
immediately  be  done,  not  only 
should 
under  each  article,  but 
in  a  separate 
table  as  well.  The  doses  of  many  reme­
dies  are  variously  stated  by  different 
authorities,  and 
the  ranges  of  dose 
given  by  them  differ  widely  also.  A 
physician  may  often  be  at  a 
loss  to 
know  what  the  proper  dose  of  a  sub­
stance 
is,  and  the  pharmacist,  too,  has I 
no  absolute standard  upon  which  to  rely 
as  to  what  constitutes  a  proper  dose  of 
many  of  the  remedies  he  may  be  called 
upon  any  moment  to  dispense.  There 
is  no  valid  reason  why  the  Pharma­
copoeia  should  not  be  made  such  a 
standard.  Since 
it  is  always  the  legal 
standard  of  what  its  drugs  ought  to  be, 
so  far  as  purity  and  fitness  are  con­
cerned,  it  should  state  how  much  of 
such  pure  and  fit  drugs,  whose  standard 
it  fixes,  should  be  the  proper  dose 
Both  single  and  daily  maximum  doses 
should  also  be  given.

The  introduction  of  doses  would  tend 
to  prevent  overdosing,  yet  need  not 
prevent  a  physician  from  prescribing  a 
large  dose  sbould  such,  in his judgment, 
be  desirable  or  necessary.  He  need but 
indicate  bis  intentionally  large  dose  by 
a  sign  (  !)  placed  after  the  dose,  to  be 
thoroughly  understood  by  the  dispenser, 
and  he  would  thereby  relieve  the  phar­
macist  of  a  very  grave  responsibility  at 
a  time  when  minutes  may  cost  a  life— 
when  the  delay  caused  by  a  search  for 
the  physician 
in  order  to  verify  the 
dose  might  have  most  serious  conse­
quences.

it 

in  which 

It  would  be  well,  also,  to  state  the 
therapeutic  properties  of 
each  sub­
stance,  as  well  as  the  affections,  so  far 
as  possible, 
is  usually 
given.  Those  additions  would  make 
the  Pharmacopoeia  much  more  popular 
among  physicians,  the  great  majority 
of  whom,  as  we  all  know,  rarely,  if 
ever  possess  a  copy  of  it.  Their  lack 
of  interest  in  the  volume  as  it  exists  at 
present  is  easily  accounted  for:  there  is 
nothing  of  direct  interest  in  it  to  them ; 
they  do  not  care  very  much  for  dry 
working  formulas  or  descriptions  of 
crude  drugs;  nor do the  lists  of  reagents 
or  tables  of  the  various  specific  gravi­
ties  attract  them  much.  These  things 
have  absolutely  no  practical  value  for 
them,  and  this  being  so,  they  believe  it

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

to  be  a  waste  of  good  money  to buy 
such  a  book,  put  it  on their shelves,  and 
then  never  look  at  it.  Were  the  sug­
gestions  as  above  made  carried  out, 
however,  the  work  would have a distinct 
value  for  them,  and  the  majority  would 
buy it,  to the everlasting  benefit  of  phar­
macy,  because  then  they  would  be  much 
more  likely  to  prescribe  the  official 
compounds 
instead  of  the  numberless 
proprietary  preparations  that  are  gotten 
up  “ for  physicians  to  prescribe,”   and 
with  samples  of  which  their  offices  are 
deluged. 

A l b e r t  I.  Co h n.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium— Has  advanced 

in  Eastern 
markets,  but  is  still  io@2oc  below  the 
cost  of 
importation.  The  damage  to 
the  growing  crop  has  been  confirmed 
and  higher  prices  will  no  doubt  rule.

Morphine— Is  as  yet  unchanged,  but 

an  advance  is  expected  daily.

Quinine—The  market  is  quiet  at  the 

decline  at  unchanged  prices.

Insect  Powder—On  account  of  large 
stocks  of  flowers  and  also  on  account  of 
strong  competition,  the  price  has  de­
clined.

Essential  Oils—A  further  advance has 
taken  place  in  bergamot.  Cajiput 
is 
slightly  lower.  Croton  has  advanced, 
with  higher  prices  looked  for.

Gums—Arabic  and  tragacanth,  as pre­
dicted  in  a former issue,  have advanced, 
on  account  of  new  classification  under 
the  tariff.

Sulphur and  Brimstone—Are  tending 
higher,  on  account  of  an  advance  in
crude.

Camphor— Is 

in  active  demand  and 

the  price  is  firm.

Linseed  Oil—Is  steady.
Turpentine— Has  declined.

Taking  the  Chances.

From Harper’s Round Table.

He  walked  into  the  apothecary  shop 
with  a  hesitating  step,  and  glanced 
nervously  at  the  rows  of  bottles  with  a 
scared  look  in  his  pale blue  eyes.  After 
fidgeting  about  uncertainly 
for  some 
time,  he  at  last  caught  the  eye  of  the 
clerk,  and,  beckoning  mysteriously,  led

the  way  to  a  secluded  corner  by  the 
cigar  case,  where  the  clerk  was  sur­
prised  by  finding  a  trembling  forefinger 
hooked  tenaciously  into  one  of  his  but­
tonholes  and  an  eager  face  thrust  sud­
denly  almost  against  his.

“ What’s 

the  matter?”   asked  the 

clerk.

“ I  s’pose  you  can  lay  your  hand right 
on  the  mophine  bottle,  can’t  you?”   said 
the  stranger,  in  an  anxious  whisper.

“ Yes,  sir.  Certainly,”   replied  the 

astonished  salesman.

“ An'  I  reckon  if  you  was  pushed  you 
could  find  the  strychnine  in  a  minute 
or  two?”

“ Of  course.”
“ Mebbe  the  arsenic  hasn’t  got  lost  or 
mislaid  clear beyond  findin’,  if you  just 
had  to  have  it?”

“ Assuredly  not.”
“ An’  the  sugar-of-lead  bottle couldn't 

get  away  from  you  if  it  tried?”

“ No,  indeed.”
“ An’  chasin’  up  the  vitriol  to  its  lair 

would  be  just  play  for  you?”

“ My  dear  sir,  of  course  I am familiar 

with  all  the  drugs  here.”

“ But  s’posin'  some  of  the  other  fel­
lers  had  been  changin’  them  around, 
just  as  a  joke,  you  know?”  
t  “ What  do  you  mean?”
"  “ Suppose  the  bottles got mixed?”  

“ Impossible.  Besides,  everything  is 

plainly  labeled.”

“ And  there  ain’t  no  chance  of  your 
palmin’  off  prussic  acid  for  pepper­
mint?”

“ Not  the  slightest.”
‘ * Well, I’ve—half—a—notion—to— risk 
— it.  Yes,  you  may  give  me  two  ounces 
of  peppermint,  young  man.”

Men  are  like  chickens:  they  always 

want  to  get  on  the  highest  roost.

Caller’s Cartolate 

of  Iodine Pocket  iDijaier

IS  G U A R A N T E E D   T O   C U R E  

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

A ll druggists $i.
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I  r i n l l L L w   les, eruptions  caused  byingrow-  f  
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X le«s.  At  drug  stores 25c per bottle; by mail 35c.  7 
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ples and prices before  placing your order.  They may help you.

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

KALAMAZOO.  MICH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Turpentine. 
Declined—Linseed Oil.

Acldum

4® 
6
6® 
8
12®  14
12®  14

t;@* 
Acetlcum.................t 
3
Benzoicum, German  70®  75
Boracic.................... 
® 
15
Carbolicum............   29® 
a
Citricum................. 
40®  42
3®  5
Hydrochlor................ 
Nitrocum...............  
8®  10
12®  14
Oxallcum................ 
Phosphorium,  dll...  @ 
15
Salicyllcum............. 
60®  65
Sulphuricum...........  1m@ 
5
Tannicnm...............  1 25®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.......................  2 00® 2 25
Brown....................  
80®  1  00
R ed......................... 
45®  50
Yellow....................  2 50® 3 00
Baccae.
Cube see.......... po. 18  13®  15
Juniperus................ 
6® 
8
25®  30
Xantboxylum.........  
Balsamum
Copaiba...................   55®  60
® 240
Peru......................... 
Terabin, Canada__ 
45®  50
Tolutan...................  
50®  60
Cortex
Abies, Canadian.... 
C assia.................... 
Cinch ona Plava...... 
Guonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Yirgini........ 
Quillaia,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras........po. 18 
Ulmus...po. 15,  gr’d 
Extractum
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza, po......  
Hcematox, 15 lb box. 
Hamatox, I s ........... 
Hamatox, Ms.........  
Hsematox, Ms.........  

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

18
12
18
30
20
12
14
12
15

Perm

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Perrocyanldum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride......  
Sulphate, com’l ......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt......... 
Sulphate, p u re ......  

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

Flora

Folia

15
2 25
75
40
15
2
50
7

12®  14
18®  25
30®  35

Barosma..................  
23®  28
Cassia Acutifol, Tin- 
-
nevelly................. 
18©  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms................. 
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, Socotri.. po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac.............. 
55®  60
Assafoetlda__po. 30 
25®  28
50®  55
Benzolnum............  
Catechu, Is.............. 
®  13
®  14
Catechu, Ms............  
Catechu, Ms............  
®  16
Camphor*.............. 
40®  43
Euphorbium, .po.  35  @ 1 0
Galbanum...............   @ 100
Gamboge  po........... 
65®  70
Guaiacum......... po. 25  @ 
30
Kino..............po.S3.u0  @3  00
M astic....................  @  60
Myrrh................po.  45  @ 
40
Opii.. .po. 84.10@4.30 3 25®  3 35
Shellac.................... 
25®  35
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Yir..oz. pkg 
Rue...............oz. pkg 
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V. .oz. pkg 
Hagnesla.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............   3  25® 
Amygdala, Dulc__  
30®  50
Amygdala, Amara .  8 00®  8 25
Anisi.......................   2  15® 
Aurantl  Cortex......   2  25® 2 40
Bergamii.................  2  40® 
86®  90
Cajfputi................... 
Caryophylli......... 
re®  80
"edar....................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli..............  @275
Clnnamonii.............  l  65®  1  75
Cltronella...............  
45®  50

3 50

2 25
2 50

Conium Mac...........  35®  50
Copaiba...................  1  io@  1  20
C u b e b a................. 
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..................  i  oo@  l  10
Junípera...................  i  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 00
Limonis....................  1  30®  1  50
Mentha Piper.........  1  60® 2 20
Mentha Verid...........  1  50@  1  60
Morrhua,  gal.........   1 00®  1  10
Mvrcia.....................  4 00®450
75® 3  00
........... 
Olive...... 
Piéis  Liquida.........  
lo® 
12
Picis Liquida, gal...  @  35
g icin a.................... 
99® 1  10
©  1 OO
Rosmarini...............  
Rosa,  ounce...........  6 50© 8 50
Succini................... 
40®  45
Sabina..................  
90©  1  00
Santa]......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras................. 
55©  60
Sinapis, ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.......................  1  40©  1  50
Thyme....................  40@  g0
Tbyme,  opt............   @  l  60
I neo bromas........... 
20
Potassium
gJCarb.................... 
15®  18
50®  I
ia a  
Bichromate.........  
ik
Bromide..................  
cart)....................... 
i2@, 
15
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
16@ 
18
Cyanide...................  35®  40
Iodide...................  2 60® 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28@  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @ 
15
Potass Nitras, opt...  8@ 
10
Potass Nitras........... 
7® 
9
Pressiate................. 
20®  25
Sulphate po  ..  ......  
15®  18

Radix

Aconitvm...............   20®  25
22®  25
A ltha...................... 
Anchusa................. 
io@ 
12
Arum po..................   @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
12@  15
Gentiana........po.  15 
16®  18
Glychrrhiza. ..pv. 15 
@  55
Hydrastis Canaden . 
@  60
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18@  20
Inula, po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po............... 2 50® 2 60
Iris plox —  po35@38 
35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po__   22®  25
gbei  ....................... 
75®  1  00
Kbei, cut...  ...........  @ 125
75®  1  35
Rhei,pv..................  
Spigelia................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria... po. 15 
©  14
Serpentaria............   30®  35
f?n?Sa ....................  
40®  45
@  40
Simllax,officinalis H 
Smilax,  M...............   @  25
............ -po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
@  25
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
12@  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25©  27
Semen
@  12
Anisum.........po.  15 
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is................. 
4/7* 
a
Carni............ po. 18 
10®  12
Cardamon...............   1  ¿5®  1  re
Coriandrum......... . 
g® 
jq
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4@  454
Cvdonium...............  
75®  1  00
io® 
Chenopodium........ 
12
Dipterix  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
Fceniculum............  
® 
10
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
Bini.........................  3M@  4M
Lini,  grd...... bbl. 3 
4®  4M
Lobelia  ................... 
35®  40
Pharlans  Canarian. 4®  414
Bapa.......................  4M® 
5
Smapis Albu........... 
7© 
g
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
li® 
12
Spiritus

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

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage............... 2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriage...............   @ 2 00
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
Ipecac. 
@  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @  50
50®  60
Smilax Officinalis... 
Senega....................  @  50
Scilla....................... 
@ 5 0

.........  

ntscellaneous 

Scilla Co.................  
(£
1  50
Tolutan................... 
I
1  50
Prunus virg............. 
|
I  50
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
60 
Aconitum Napellis F
50 
Aloes.......................
60 
Aloesand Myrrh__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafoetlda............
50 
At rope  Belladonna.
60 
Auranti  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin...................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
('an th arides...........
75 
Capsicum............ .
50 
Cardamon...............
75 
Cardamon  Co.........
75 
Castor......................
1 00 
Catechu...................
50 
Cinchona.................
50 
Cinchona Co......... !
60 
Columba.................
50 
Cubeba....................
50 
Cassia Acutifol......
50 
Cassia Acutifol Co  .
50 
Digitalis.................
50 
Ergot.......................
50 
Ferri Chloridum....
35 
Gentian...................
50 
Gentian Co..............
60 
Guiaca....................
50 
Guiaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus...........
50 
Iodine.....................
75 
Iodine, colorless....’
75 
Kino........................
50 
Lobelia................. ”
50 
Myrrh......................
50 
Nux Vomica.........
50 
Opii.........................
75 
Opii, camphorated..
50 
Opii,  deodorized....
1  50 
Quassia...................
50 
Rhatany...........
50 
Rhei......................
50 
Sanguinaria...........
50 
Serpentaria............
50 
Stromonium...........
60 
Tolutan...................
60 
Valerian................ ’
50 
Veratrum Veride.!!
50 
Zingiber..................
20
ZSther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
35
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
Alumen...................  2M@
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
4 
Annatto................. 
40®
50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
5
50 
Antimoni etPotassT  40®
Antipyrin.............. 
@
1  40 
Antifebrin..........  
@
15 
Argenti Nitras, oz ..  @
50 
Arsenicum.......... 
10®
12 40 
Balm Gilead  Bud  .. 
38®
Bismuth  S. N........  1  40®
1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@
9 
Calcium Chlor., Ms 
@
10 
Calcium Chlor.,  ws 
"©
12
Cantha rides, Rus.po  @
Capsici  Fructus. af.  @
15
Capsici Fructus, po 
@
15
Capsici FructusB.po  @
Caryophyll us.. po.  15  ’  12® 
14 
Carmine, No. 40  . 
@
3 00 
Cera Alba, S. & F 
50®
55 
Cera Flava.............. 
40®
42 
Coccus.............. 
@
40 
Cassia F r u c t u s @
33 
Centraria...............  
@
10 45 
Cetaceum............... “  @
Chloroform.......60®
63 
Chloroform, squibbs  @ 
1  15 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  25®
t  50 
Chondrus............. 
20®
25 
Cinchonidine.P. & W  25® 
35 
Cinchonidine, Germ  22®
30 
Cocaine..................   3 55®
3 75 
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
70 
Creosotum....... 
@
35 
Creta...............bbl.’75  @
2
Creta, prep........... 
@
5 
Creta, precip.........  
9®
11
Creta, Rubra........ 
@
8
Crocus......................... lg®
2024
Cudbear......... @
CupriSulph__ 5®
6 
Dextrine................. "   10®
12 
Ether Sulph.........  
75®
90
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
e
Emery, po...............   @ 
30®  35
Efgota............ po. 40 
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
©  23
g alla....................... 
8® 
9
Gambier.................. 
.  @ 6 0
Gelatin, Cooper.. 
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
70
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__ 
60
Glue,  brown.........  
9®  12
Glue, white........... 
13®  25
Glycerina..............  *3M@  20
Grana  Paradisi  ....  @ 
15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  80
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  70
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.  @  90
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  00 
HydraaglTnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  65
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
65®  75
Indigo...................... 
75®  1 00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin.  ................  @225
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
............  
Macis 
65©  75
Liquor  Arsen et h j-
drarglod.............   @  25
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10® 
12 
3
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1M
Mannia, S. F ........... 
50®  60
Menthol................  
  @ 2 75

19

43
45
70
47

Morphia, 8.P.& W...  2  15® 2 40 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  2  15® 2 40
Moschus Canton__  @  40
65®  80,
Myristica, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica...po.20  @  10
Os  Sepia................. 
15®  18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D. Co....................  @  1  00 I
Picis LIq. N.N.Mgal.
doz........................  @200
Picis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg...po.  80  @  50
Piper Nigra... po.  22  @ 
18
Piper Alba....po.  35  @  30
Pilx  Burgun...........  @ 
7
Plumbi  Acet........... 
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  10®  1  20 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
&P. D. Co., doz...  @125
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
30®  33 I
Quassia................... 
8®  10
Quinia, S. P. & W .. 
29«
"   * 
34
Quinia, S. German
30
Quinia, N.Y............  
29®  34 I
Rubia Tinctorum... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv  18®  20
Salacin.................... 3 00® 3  10
Sanguis Draconis... 
40®  50
Sapo,  W................... 
12® 
14
Sapo, M.................... 
io@  12
Sapo, G....................  @ 
15
Siedlitz  Mixture 
  20  @  22

' 

Sinapis....................  @  18
Sinapis, opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @  34
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s 
Soda Boras..............  9  @  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  n
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart' 
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
2
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  MyrciaDom...  @  9 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 42
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbi  @2  4?
Spts. Vini Rect.lOgal  @ 2 50
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
® 2 52
Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@ 
3
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
2®  2M
Tamarinds.............. 
8@  10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
42®  45
Theobroma............  
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 ¿0
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Oils

B B L .  S A L .
70
70 
Whale, winter.........  
Lard,  extra.............  40 
45
Lard, No. 1.............. 
35 
40

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

40 
42 
65 
42 
Paints  BBL. 

@ 34

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
1M  2  @i 
1M  2  @4 
1«  2  @3 
2M  2M@3 
2M  2M@3
13®  15
70® 
re 
13 M@  19 
13®  16
6
5M@ 
5M® 
6
@  70
l@  yo@ 100
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

Varnishes];

No. l'Turp Coach
1  10®  1  20
Extra  Tarp........
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

 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Q R O C B R Y   P R I C E   C U R R E N T .

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

AXLE  GREASE.
Aurora................. ......55
Castor Oil........... ......60
Diamond............ ...... 50
Frazer’s ..............
tXL Golden, tin boxes 75
{Tica, tin boxes... ...... 75
Paragon.............. .  ...55

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

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
X lb cans doz.................. 
45
85
44 lb cans doz................... 
1 
lb cans doz..................  1  50
ii lb cans 3 doz.................   45
44 lb cans 3 doz................. 
75
lb cans 1 doz................   1  00
1 
10
Bulk.................................... 
lb cans per doz............  
75
14 lb cans per doz  ...........   1  20
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
1 
X lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
44 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
90
lb cans 2 doz case  ......  

El Purity.

Home.

Jersey Cream.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
85
14 lb cans, 4 doz case------ 
lb cans, 2 doz case........  1  60
1 
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  
85
14 lb cans..........................  
45
14 lb cans..........................  
75
lb cans..........................   1  50
1 
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85

Our Leader.

Peerless.

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUINO.

C tp iK S E D

,  doz. pasteboard Boxes..,
doz. wooden boxes.....
3 

B R O O n S .

So. 1 Carpet.......................
No. 2 Carpet.......................
No. 3 Carpet.......................
No. 4 Carpet.......................
Parlor Gem.......................
Common Whisk.................
Fancy Whisk.. 
...............
Warehouse........................

CANDLES.

8s......................................
16s......................................
Paraffine............................
CANNED  GOODS, 
rianitowoc  Peas.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........
Lakeside E.  J ....................
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng... 
Lakeside. Gem, Ex. Sifted 
Extra Sifted Early June.. 

CATSUP.

Colombia, 
pints............
Colombia, 14 pints............

CHEESE
Acme......................
Amboy....................
Byron......................
Elsie.......................
Emblem...................
Gem.........................
Gold  Medal............
Ideal.......................
Jersey  ....................
Lenawee.................
Riverside.................
Springdale..............
Brick.......................
Edam.......................
Leiden....................
Limburger..............
Pineapple................ 43
Sap  Sago.................
Chicory.
B ulk...............................
Bed 
...............................

©

©

40 
1  20

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

..7
..8
..8

95 
1  15 
1  20 
1  45 
.1  75

.2  00 
.1  25

1114
1214
11
11
11
11
11
1114
121475
18
10
85
18

CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker & Co.'a.

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

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz......... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz......... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz......... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jote. 72 ft.  per  doz... 
.......  95

COCOA SHELLS.
201b  bags.......................  
Less quantity................. 
Pound  packages............  
CRBAn  TARTAR.

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

214
3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican  and  Guatemala.

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

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

Java.

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

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

Mocha.

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue...... 
.......28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Weils’ Perfection  Java......24
Sancaibo.............................22
Breakfast Blend...............   18
Valley Cl ty Maracaibo.......1854
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  fTom 
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 lV4e a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  
950
Jersey.............................  
9 50
ncLaughlln’s  XXXX........9  50
75
Valley City 44 gross...... 
Felix 44 gross........  ...... 
1  15
Hummel's foil 44 gross... 
85
1  43
Hummel’s tin 44  gross.. 
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes 
............   40
COUGH  DROPS.

Extract.

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

CONDENSED  MILK.

C. B. Brand.

Gail Borden  Eagle............6 75
Crown................................6 25
Daisy..................................5 75
Champion  .......................... 4 50
.......................... 4 25
Magnolia 
Challenge........................... 3 35
Dime 
.................................8 36

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 
20 books.........!..............  100
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......................   744@8J4
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   © 754
Peaches.......................  8  © 844
Pears..........................   8  ©  744
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries.................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  © 344
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © 4
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   ©  444
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   @5
60 - 70 25?lb boxes.........  @544
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   ©  744
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........   @844
30 -'40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
44 cental ess in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California  Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

1  60 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
2  00
London Layers 4 Crown. 
Dehesias.......................
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
39£ 
5 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4Crown  6

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Grits.

Parlna.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Patras bbls.......................@  744
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........@  744
Cleaned, bulk  ................. ©  844
Cleaned, packages...........©  844
Citron American 10 lb bx @13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12 
Orange American 101b bx  @12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  @844
Sultana  1 Crown.........   @
Sultana 2 Crown.........  @
Sultana 3 Crown......... 944@10
Sultana 4 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 5 Crown  ........  @
Sultana 6 Crown.........  @12
Sultana package.........   @14
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages..............1  75
Bulk, per 100  lbs..............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s.........2  15
Bulk in 100 lb. bags.........3 00
Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums.........1  00
Dried Lima  .......................  
Medium Hand Picked__1  09
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box....... 2 50
Common...... ......................   1 75
Chester..............................  2 00
Empire  ..............................  2 50
Green,  bu...........................  80
Split,  per lb...................... 
2
Rolled Avena,  bbl........3 90
Monarch,  bbl..................3 75
Monarch,  44  bbl............. 2 00
Private brands,  bbl......
Private brands, 44bbl......
Quaker, cases.  ................3 20
Huron, cases....................1  75
German............................ 
344
East  India.......................  
3
Cracked, bulk................... 
344
24 2 lb packages...............2 50j|

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Beans.

5ago.

Peas.

3

Jennings’.

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

D. C Lemon
...  75
2 oz.
3 oz.
....1  00
4 oz. ......1  40
6 oz.......2  00
No. 8...2 40
No. 0...4 00
No. 2T.  80
No. 3 T.l  35
No. 4 T.l  50
Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world  for 

Souders*.

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

doz
3 oz....... 1  20
4 oz....... 2 40
XX  Orade 
Lemon.

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

Fish.
Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

ilackerel.

Georges cured............  @5
Georges genuine........  @ 544
Georges selected........  © 6
Strips or bricks.........   6  © 9
Chunks............................. 
944
Strips................................   844
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoop 44 bbl  5 50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
75 
Holland white hoop mchs 
35
Norwegian.......................   11  00
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
13
Mess 100 lbs.................. 
  16 39
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......................   130
No. 2 100 lbs......................  9 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  00
No. 2  10 lbs......................  107
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
88
Russian kegs.................... 
55
No. 1100 lbs......................  5 50
No. 1  40 lbs......................  2 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
70
No. 1  8 lbs.............-........  
59
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs...........  6 75  5 75  2 75
40 lbs_____   3 00  2 69  1  *0
10 lbs........... 
43
8 lbs........... 
34
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Sardines.
Trout-

Whltaflsh.

73 
61 

83 
89 

HBRBS.

INDIGO.

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

JBLLY.

Madras, 5  lb  boxes...........  55
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb boxes__  50
15 lb  palls............................   40
30 lb  pails............................   73
Barrels........................ 
Half barrels.........................2  00
LYE.
Condensed, 2  doz  ...............1  20
Condensed.  4  doz 
.............2 26

KRAUT.

LICORICE.

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

MINCB MEAT.

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

nATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No. 9 sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor  Parlor..........................1 70
No. 2  Home.............................. 1 10
Export  Parlor..........................4 00

SAL SODA.

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

SBBDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery.................................  11
3 50
Hemp,  Russian................ 
344
Mixed  Bird......................  444
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape.................................  444
Cuttle Bone........................  30

Scotch, in bladders.............  37
Maccabov, In Jars...............   35
French Rappee, in ]ars......   43

SNUPP.

SOAP.

JAX O N
Single box.............................2 75
5 
box lots, delivered....... 2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........2  65

nOLASSBS.
New Orleans.

Black................................  
11
F air......   .........................  
14
Good................................. 
20
Fancy  ....................... 
24
 
Open Kettle...................... 25@35
Half-barrels 2c extra. 

MUSTARD.

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

American Family, wrp’d....2 66
Dome.............................  
..2 75
Cabinet.................................2 30
Savon................................... 2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8  oz__3 00
Bine India, 100 % lb.............3 00
Kirkoline............................. 3  50
Eos.......................................2  50

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

PIPBS.

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

65
85

POTASH.

48 cans in case.

Babbitt’s.................................  4 00
PennaSalt  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

PICKLES.
riedlum.

Small.

RICE.

Domestic.

Carolina bead............ .......   644
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  444
Broken...............................  35i
Japan,  No. 1......................  5%
Japan.  No. 2......................  544
Java, fancy  head.......... 
6
Java, No. 1.........................  5
Table..................................  544

Imported.

SALERATUS.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church’s ..............................8 80
Deland’s ............................. 3 15
Dwight’s ..............»..............3 30
Taylor’s...............................3 00

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

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. bnlk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 3014 lbbags.3 50
Butter, sacks, 38 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 3 lb sacks....................... 1  90
60 5-lb sacks.......................1  75
38 10-lb sacks......................1  60
50  4 
lb.  cartons..............3%
115  3441b. sacks.................. 4 00
lb. sacks..................3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks..................3 50
30 10 
lb. sacks..................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  33
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels....................3 50
56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
38-lb dairy In drill bags......  15
56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy In linen sacks ...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................   31
Granulated Fine.................   79
Medium  Fine......................  85

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar  Rock.
Common.

Warsaw.

[

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single box............................2 80
5 box lots............................ 2 75
10 box lots............................ 2 70
35 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 54-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d oz...... 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz...........2 40

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  544
Kegs. English......................  454

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  .............................. 1244
Cassia, China in mats..........11
Cassia, Batavia in bund__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 32
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, white.. .12
Pepper,  shot........................12

Pure Ground In Bulk.

Allsplee  — ........................ 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............... 
15

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Pare Cane.

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

Fair  .................................  16
Good.................................  20
Choice.............................   25

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

f i2oz.

.1  75 
.3 50

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

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Regs 
Half Regs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
44 lb. cans............................   18
Regs  ....................................4  25
Half Regs................................2 40
Quarter Regs............................ 1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34
Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
QuarterjKegs............................2 25
lib. cans..............................  45

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain__  6
Malt White Wine,80grain....  9
Pure Cider.............................   9
Pure Cider,  Leroux............... 11

Washing Powder.

STARCH.

Kingzford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages...................  6M

Klngsford’s Silver  Glosa.
401-lb packages...................  6 ¡4
6-lb  boxes.......................   7

Diamond.

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

Common  Corn.

201 lb. packages.................   5
40 1 lb. packages.................   4%

Common Gloss.

l-lb  packages......................  4
3-lb  packages......................  4
6-lb  packages  ....................   4M
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   2%
Barrels  ...............................  2%

STOVE POLISH.

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

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino...............................5 63
................5 6i
Cut  Loaf.. 
Crushed...
................5  63
Cubes......
................ 5 31
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
No.
...... 4 75
No
...... 4 75
No.
......4 69
No.
...... 4  63
No.
No. 6.......................... ......4  50
No. 7.......................... ...... 4  44
No. 8.......................... ...... 4 38
No. 9.......................... ...... 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

1..........................
2..........................
3 
........
4  .........................
........
5 

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

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

S. C. W............................... 33 00

Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand.

Ure Unkle..........................35 00

Ure Unkle
Ruhe Bros Co.’s 

Brands.

Mr. Thomas........................35 00
Sir  William........................35 00
Club Fine...........................35 00
Generals Grant and Lee__35 00
Spanish Hand Made..........35 00
Crown  Fine........................35  00

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

W1CKING.

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

F i s h   a n d   O y s t e r s

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...............
@  9
T rout...................... @  9
Black Bass..............
©  12
Halibut..................
©  15
Ciscoes or Herring..
©  4
Bluefish......... .........
©  10
Live  Lobster.........
©  20
Boiled Lobster........
©  22
Cod........................
@  10
Haddock................. @  8
No.  1  Pickerel.......
@  8
Pike.......................
©  7
Perch......................
@  3M
Smoked White........
©  9
Red Snapper...........
©  10
Col  River Salmon..
©  10
Mackerel 
.............. @  25

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts........... @  35
F. J. D. Selects.......
@  27
Selects.................... @  22
F. J. D. Standards..
©  20
Favorites...............
@

Oysters  in Bulk

F. H. Counts........... @175
Extra Selects.........
@1 50
Selects .................... @1 25
Anchor Standards.. @1  10
Clams...................... @1 25

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per  100........ .1  25@1  50
C aros,  per 100

H i d e s   a n d

P e l t s .

The Cappon & Bertscb  Leather
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes as
follows:
Hides.
Green No.  1.............
© 8
Green No. 2.............
© 7
Cured No. 1.............
@  9
Cured No. 2.............
© 8
Calfskins,  green No. 1  © 9
Calfskins,  green No. 2  ©  74
Calfskins, cured No. 1  @10 M
Calfskins, cured No. a  @ 9

Furs.

Large  Bear............... 1  oo@i5 no
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......................... 2f @ 2 00
Muskrats..................
2©  15
Mink......  ................
5©  1  20
Martin......................
25®  3 00
Otter......................... 1  00®  9 00
Racoon.....................
10©  80
Black skunk............
10©  1  00
W olf......................... 2l@  1  50

Pelts.

Pelts,  each............... .  50© 1  00

Ta'low.
No. 1..........................
No. 2.........................

® 25£
© 2

Wool.
Washed, fine  ...........
©20
©25
Washed, medium ...
Unwashed, fine.......
.13  @15
Unwashed, medium .18  ©t0

Oils.
Barrels.
Eocene  ....................
©UM
XXX W.W.Mich.lidll
©  8M
W W Michigan........
© 8M
Diamond White......
@ 7M
D., S. Gas.................
© 8
Deo. N aptha...........
© 7
Cylinder.................. .25  ©34
11  ©21
Engine....................
B'ack, winter........

Stick  Candy.

bbls.  pails
Standard................. 
6M@ 7
Standard H.  H.......  
6M@ 7
Standard Twist......   6 © 8
Cut Loaf.................
@  8K 
cases
Jumbo, 32 lb  ..........
© *>M
Extra H. H............
© 8M
Boston  Cream........
@

Mixed Candv.

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

© 6
© 7
©  7M
@ 7m
@ 8M
@ 8M
@ 8M
© 8
© 8M
@  8M
@10
@12

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
© 8M
Lozenges,  printed..
© 8M
Choc.  Drops...........  10 @14
Choc.  Monumentals
@11
Gum  Drops............
© 6
Moss  Drops.........
@  8
Sour Drops...........
® 8M
Imperials...............
© 8M

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon  Drops.........
©50
Sour  Drops........
@50
Peppermint Drops.
@60
Chocolate Drops  ...
@60
H. M. Choc. Drops..
@75
Gum  Drops...........
©30
Licorice Drops......
@75
A. B. Licorice Drops
©50
Lozenges,  plain....
@50
Lozenges,  printed.. 
@50
Imperials............
©50
Mottoes.................
Cream Bar............
@o0
Molasses B a r......
©50
Hand Made Creams.  80 @1  03
Plain  Creams.........   ¿0 @90
Decorated Creams..
@90
String Rock...........
@60
Burnt Almonds...... 1  25 ©
Wintergreen Berries 
@63
Caramels.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes .................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes .................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes  .................

©30
@45

F r u i t s .

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

Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy  360s..............
Ex. Fancy  300s........
Ex. Fancy .¡60s.......
Bananas.

Figs.

Choice, 101b boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes....................
Fancy,  121b boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............
Pulled, 6lb boxes...
Naturals,  in  bags..
Dates.
Fards in 10 lb  boxes
Fards  in  60 ib cases
Persians, G. M’s......
lb cases, new........
Sairs,  601b cases__

@2 Si
@3 00
©

@3 00
@3 25
@3 25
@3 50
©3 75

©  13
©
©  14
©  15
@  13
© 6M
@ 8
©  6
© 5M
©  6
© 4M

Medium bunches... 1  25 @1  50
Large bunches........1  75 @2 00

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona..
©13
Almonds, Ivaca.........
Almonds,  California, @11
soft shelled............
@13
Brazils new...............
©  9
Filberts  .................... @10
Walnuts, Grenobles .. @12
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
©to
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
©  9
Table Nuts,  fancy__ @10
Table Nuts,  choice...
© 9
Pecans, Med............... @ 8
Pecans, Ex. Large__ @10
Pecans, Jumbos........
@12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new...............
@1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
@4  50
Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted..................
Choice, H. P., Extras. 
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,

Roasted 

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

© 7
© 7
© 4M

5

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

C a n d i e s .

brains and reedstuiis

Provisions.

Wheat.

Wheat................................   go

follows:

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

P atents.............................   g go
Second  Patent..................   5 00
Straight............................  4 go
Clear..................................   4 40
Graham  ............................  4 75
Buckwheat......................  3  go
B ye..................................  3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  Ms........................  4  75
Quaker, Ms........................  4 75
Quaker, Ms........................   4  75

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.

Pillsbury's  Best Ms...........  5 65
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  5 55
Pillsbury’s Best vss...........  5 45
Pillsbury’s Best %& paper..  5  45
Pillsbury’s Best ms paper..  5  45
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth  Imperial, Ms........... 5 50
Duluth Imperial, Ms........... 5 40
Duluth imperial,  Ms..........  5 30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal Ms...................  5 45
Gold Medal M®.....................5 35
Gold Medal Ms.....................5 2a
Parisian, Ms......................   5  45
Parisiau, Ms......................... 5 35
Parisian. Ms.......................   5 25

Olney *  Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, Ms.......................  5 65
Ceresota, Ms......................   5 55
Ceresota, Ms......................   5 45
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Ms.........................  5  6a
Laurel, m s.........................  5 50
Laurel, Ms.........................  5 4o

Meal.

Bolted................................  1 75
Granulated........................  2 00

Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened___15 25
No. 1 Corn and  Oats...........H 25
Unbolted Corn Meal.......... 13 75
Winter Wheat  Bran.......... 14 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15  00
Screenings.......................... 13 00

New Corn.

Car  lots............................. 33
Less than  car lots............  37

Oats.

Car  lots.............................   30M
Carlots, clipped................  32
Less than  car  lots............ 36

Hay.

No. 1 Timothy  arlots........   9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots___10 00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass......................  6M@ 7M
Fore quarters............   5M@  6
Hind  quarters...........  7M@ 9
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
Ribs............................8  @12
Chucks................. 
Plates  .......................  @4

4  @ 5*

Pork.

Dressed......................  @ 5
Loins  .........................  @  6M
Shoulders...................  @  5M
Leaf Lard...................5M@

Mutton.

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

Veal.

Carcass  ....................   6M@ 8

10  71
11  00 
10 5U 
10 50 
14 00
8 7a 
10 50

6
9
6M

Sausages.

Pigs’ Feet.

10
9M
14
13M

.  9 09
.12 00
80
.  2 80

.  1  40
.  2 75
10
4
10
60

Barreled Pork.
Mess  ..........................
Back  ..  ......................
Clear back__.  ...........
Short cut.................
pig............................::
Bean  ..........................
Family  .......................
Dry Salt  Meats
Bellies.........................
Briskets  .....................
Extra  shorts................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams,  12 lb  average  ...
Hams, 14 lb  average 
Hams, 16 lb  average....
Hams, 20 lb  average__
Ham dried beef  ...........
14
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).
6
Bacon,  clear.................
@8
California hams............
6
¿M
Boneless hams...............  
Cooked ham.................. 8@H
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................... 
4
Kettle.......................... eu
w
55 lb Tubs.......... advance 
80 lb Tubs.......... advance 
%
50 lb T ins.......... advance 
%
20 lb Pails.......... advance 
%
10 lb Pails.......... advance 
%
5 lb Pails...........advance 
1
31b Pails......... advance 
1M
Bologna..............
Liver....................
Frankfort........
P ork..............
Blood  ...........
Tongue  ..............
Head  cheese.  ..............
Beef.
Extra  Mess........
Boneless  ........
Rump.........
Kits, 15 lbs......
X  bbls, 40 lbs.........
M  bbls, 80 lbs..............
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs...  ..
X  bbls, 40 lbs..............
M  bbls, 80 lbs...........
Casings.
P ork.................
Beef  rounds.........
Beef  middles__
Sheep...............
Butte rine.
Rolls, dairv..............
Solid,  dairy........
Rolls,  creamery ...
solid,  creamery...........
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2 lb 
.  2 15
Corned  beef, 14  lb__ .14 75
Roast  beef,  2 lb..
.  2 15
Potted  ham,  Ms  ..
80
Potted  ham,  Ms..
.  1  00
Deviled ham,  Ms__
60
Deviled ham.  Ms.
■  1  00
Potted  tongue Ms......
60
Potted  tongue Ms........ .  1  00
__Crackers.
quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX..................   6
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6M
Family XXX......................  6
Family XXX, 31b  carton..  6M
Salted XXX.......................  0
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  6M 
Soda  XXX  .......................   7
Soda  XXX, 3 lb carton__  7M
Soda,  City........................   g
Zephyrette..................... 
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.........   6
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  iom
Bent's Cold Water............   14
Belle Rose.........................  3
Cocoanut Taffy.................  9M
Coffee Cakes......................  9
Frosted Honey..................   12M
Graham Crackers  ............   y
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX home made  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla.................  g
Imperials..........................   8M
J um Dies,  Honey...............   11 m
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ..................   15
Marshmallow  Creams......   16
Pretzels,  hand  made  ......  9
Pretzelettes, Little German  7
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas...........................   ism
Sears'Lunch......................  8
Vanilla  Square...............   8M
Vanilla  Wafers...............   14
Pecan Wafers....................  ism
Mixed Picnic....................   10M
Cream Jumbles.................  12
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   8M
Chimmie Fadden..............  10
Pineapple Glace................   16
Penny Cakes......................  8M
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Belle Isle Picnic...............   U

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

Oyster.

Soda.

.

2 1

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

M gal., per doz.................  50
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5M
8 gal., per g a l.................  CM
10 gal., per gal.................. 
6M
12 gal., per gal..................   6M
15 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
20 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  8 
25 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 
30 gal. meat-tubs, per gal..  10 

Churns.

Milkpans.

to 6 gal., per gal...  ... 

2 
5M
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  60 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5M 
M gal. flat or rd. bot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each  5M 
M gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.l  10 

Stewpans.

Jugs.

M gal., per doz..................  40
M gal., per doz..................  50Q
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
6M

Tomato Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

M gal., per doz.................   70
1 gal., each...................... 
7
Corks for M gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covert.
M gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
2
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun...................... 
  45
No.  1  Sun..........................  
50
No.  2 Sun......................... 
75
Tubular.............................  
go
65
Security, No. 1................... 
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ............................  
50
Climax...............................  1 50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   175
No.  1  Sun..........................   1  88
No.  2 Sun..........................  2 70
No. 
No. 
No. 

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

top,
top,
top,

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
0 Sun,  crimp 
1 Sun,  crimp 
2 Sun,  crimp 

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

La  Bastia.

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

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c do*)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ...... 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)........  4 40
Doz. 
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3  50 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 75 
3 gal galv iron with faucet  4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............8 00
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule............ 10  50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9  50
No.  0 Tubular...................  4  25
No.  IB   Tubular......... .  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
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.
feach, bbl 35!....................   40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1 doz. each............ 1 25
20
25
38
58
76

LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross....-........  
No. 1 per gross................... 
No. 2 per gross  .................  
No. 3 per gross................... 
Mammoth.......................... 

LANTERNS.

22

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN  _

Hardware

Silent  Salesmen  of 
Dealer.

the  Hardware 

help  him, 
for  the  show  windows,  com­
manding  the  attention  of  the  people 
more  surely  and  constantly  than  any 
other  one  thing  he  can  devise,  can  be 
made  his  very  best  salesman.

The  name  of  the  first 

Silent  Salesmen!  Those 

inanimate 
aids  to  business  which  yet  speak  louder 
than  the  men  who  make  use  of  them, 
and  make  or  mar  the  merchant’s  pros­
perity,  according as  they  are  controlled  ; 
that  work  night  and  day,  week  days, 
Sundays  and  holidays,  rain  or  shine; 
that  don’t  go  to  funerals  in  the  baseball 
season,  don’t 
throw  business  to  the 
winds  every  time  a  brass  band  comes 
up  the  street,  nor  try  to  flirt  with 
lady 
customers;  exacting 
in  their  require­
ments  as  a  tax  gatherer,  yet  yielding 
faithfully good returns  for fair treatment.
is  the  store 
It  stands  to  an  establishment  as 
front. 
the  face  to  a  man,  and  the  wayfarer 
is 
attracted  or  repelled  by  the first  impres­
sion  of  the  outside  of  a  place  just  as  he 
is  by  the  first  sight  of  a  person’s  coun­
tenance.  One  does  not  associate  thrift 
with  an  unpainted  building  any  more 
than  with  an  unwashed  face,  nor  does 
he  expect  courteous,  intelligent,  satis­
factory  service  when  he  enters  a  store 
the  very  outside  of  which  proclaims  a 
man  indifferent to appearance.  A  dingy, 
weather-beaten  sign,  second  story  win­
dows  rendered  light-proof  with  dirt,  a 
broken  step  or  badly  arranged  entrance, 
old  worthless  samples  displayed outside, 
ashes  dumped 
into  the  road  before  the 
door—each  and  all  betoken  a 
laxity 
that  will  in  all  probability  find  further 
expression  within,  and  cause  a  pro­
spective  purchaser  to  seek  further.

Nor  should  the  merchant  go  to  the 
other  extreme.  A  door  front  can  be 
made  to  assume  a  too  smart  appeaiance 
that  is  as  fatal  to  confidence  as  sloven­
liness.  A  book  could  be  written  on  in­
dividuality  in  store  fronts.  The  dude, 
the  smark  aleck,  the  sluggard,  the  solid 
citizen  and  the  pretentious  humbug  find 
their  exponents  in  the  fronts  of  differ­
ent  hardware  stores, 
just  as  certain 
types  of  femininity  are  exhibited  in 
others  in  other  lines  of  trade.  The  store 
front  should  be  made 
inviting  in  ap­
pearance,  and  in  general  effect  set forth 
the  character  and  magnitude  of  the 
business  done  within—or  perhaps  carry 
an  impression  a  little  in  advance  of  the 
real  truth,  just  as  the  proprietor’s  ideal 
is  above  the  reality.

Next 

in  order,  and  equal  in  impor­
tance,  come  the  show  windows,  the  eyes 
in  the  store’s  face,  through  which  the 
business  looks forth  at  the  buyer,  ogling 
and  cajolin g  him ,  captivatin g  his  er­
rant 
fancy  and  creating  hot  desire,  or
repulsing  by  indifference  to his opinion, 
even  as 
is  the  way  of  a  maid  with  a 
man.  There  is  a  general  recognition  of 
the 
importance  of  having  the  show 
windows  well  and  frequently  dressed, 
and  yet  one  does  see  lamentable  cases 
of  neglect  and  ill  judgment  in  this  re­
gard—where  the  goods  from  a  dozen 
different  lines  are  arranged  in  a  jumble 
that  fails  to  make  any  impression  what­
ever  upon  the  casual  observer,  or  where 
the  same  articles  are  displayed  week 
after  week  without  change.  The  aver­
age  hardware  dealer  has  a  consuming 
desire  for  dollars,  and  is  not  wont  to  be 
sparing  of  exertion  where anything  is  to 
be  gained.  So 
it  is  pretty  safe  to  say 
that  when  his  show  windows  are  not  all 
they  ought  to  be  it  is  through  lack  of 
proper  knowledge  or  taste.  The  former 
he  can  remedy  when  he  discovers  his 
need,  but 
if  the  fault  lie  in  the  latter 
he  will  do  well  to  cast  among  his  clerks 
for  latent  talent or  call  in  outsiders  to

Window  trimming.  Bottles  of 

ink 
have  been  spilled  and  reams  of  paper 
wasted  in  the  endeavor  to  tell  the  mer­
chant  how  his  windows 
should  be 
trimmed,  but  there  is  one  thing  that  the 
self-styled  experts  all  seem  to  miss,  and 
that 
is,  that  the  window  should  show 
forth  the  merchant’s  personality.  Give 
Jones,  Brown  and  Smith  the  same  as­
sortment  of  cutlery  for  the  windows  and 
the  three  displays  will  be  widely  differ­
ent—and  they  should  be,  with  a  differ­
ence  founded  in  the  peculiar  quirks  of 
the  make-up  of  each,  although  to  get 
the  best  iesults  all  must  observe  a  very 
few—two  or  three—plain  rules  that form 
about  all  there  is  to  three-fourths  of  the 
articles 
that  are  written  concerning 
window  display:

Cleanliness,  neatness  and  light.
But  one  line  of  goods  at  a  time.
Frequent  changes.
The  third  of  the  silent  salesmen  is 
the  advertisement,  whose  work  lies  out­
side  the  store,  going  to  the  homes  and 
business  places  of  the  purchasing  pub­
lic  and  soliciting  favors  for  the  mer­
chant,  with  accounts  of  bargain  sales, 
dear  to  the  heart  of  the  good  housewife, 
tools  for  the  artisan, 
implements  for 
the  farmer,  hammocks  and  bicycles  for 
the  summer  girl,  sporting  goods  for  the 
swaggering  youth  and  all  sorts  of  things 
for  the  head  of  the  family. 
It  catches 
its  victims  when  they  are  in  a receptive 
mood,  seeking  for  new  impressions  and 
devouring  what 
is  set  before  them  in 
their  paper. 
It  silently  tells  its  tale, 
and  if  it  fails to interest  the  first time,  it 
retires  with  honors  and  comes again and 
again  with  new  temptations  until 
it 
makes  a  customer  for  its  sender.

This  is  the age of  printers’  ink.  Great 
are  the  "advertisement,”   the  "w rite 
up,”   the  "free  puff,”   the  "reading 
notice”   and  the  "fa k e ”   scheme,  and 
thrice  blessed 
is  that  ironmonger  who 
knows  how  to  employ  them  to  get  the 
maximum  of  results  with  the  minimum 
of  expense.  The  advertising  manager 
of  one  of  the  great  monthlies  says  in  a 
burst  of  confidence  that  only  about  io 
per  cent,  of  his  patrons  make  it  pay  to 
advertise,  but  of  the  purely  local  adver­
tisers 
is  probable  that  less  than  io 
per  cent,  find  that  it  does  not  pay.  A 
merchant  must  advertise,  or  spiders will 
spread  their  nets  across  his  doorway. 
The  public  expects  it  of  him  and  goes 
to  buy  at  stores  the  pioprietors  of which 
pronounce  them  as  the  best  and  largest,
with  finest  stocks and lowest prices—and 
if  the  proprietor  doesn't  know,  who 
does?

it 

If  a  fellow  will  tell  us  a  thing  often 
enough  and  forcibly  enough,  we  will  in 
time  accept 
it  as  truth  and  finally  an­
nounce  it  as  a  fact we ourselves evolved, 
with  additions  and enlargements accord­
ing  to  the  scope  of  our  imagination.  In 
this  fact  lies  the  power  of  the  press  to 
mould  public  opinion,  and  it  also  fur­
nishes  the  wise  advertiser  a  powerful 
lever  for  advancement  if  he  will  claim 
for  himself  and  his  business  every  ad­
vantage  he  truthfully  can  (truthfully, 
mind!),  do  it  persistently  and  forcibly, 
and  see  to  it  that  the  people  whom  his 
advertisements  draw  to  his  store  do  not 
go  away  disappointed. 
"H e   that  blow- 
eth  not  his  own  horn  the  same  shall  not 
be  blowed, ”   and 
it  behooves  the  wise 
blower  to  see  that  his  neighbor’s  trom­
bone  does  not  drown  the  sound of  his 
own  penny  whistle.

SACRIFICE  SALE!

PLA N T  OF  THE *se 
LANSING  LUMBER  CO.

p S g J lg È lft

^  

of  its  kind  in  the  State. 

^ ^ H I S   property  is  one  of  the  finest  equipped  plants 
It  is  fitted  with  the 
latest  improved  and  best  kinds  of  woodworking  machinery, 
centrally  located  on  one  of  the  principal  avenues  of  the  city 
and  everything is complete  for any first-class business adapted 
to  such  a  plant. 
The  property  must  be  sold  to  settle  an 
estate.  For  further  particulars  address,

Horace  Lapham,  or  Chas.  C.  Longstreet,

Lansing,  Michigan.

Novelty  Blue  Flame

and

Discount.

F o s te r, S te v e n s & Co. Grand Rapids, Mich.

SYRUP  CANS

Round  and  Square

Sap  Pails  and  Sap  Pans

Write for prices,

W m .  Brum m eier  &   Sons,  Manufacturers, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Factory and Salesrooms a6o S. Ionia St.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fourth  comes  good  stationery,  and 

it 
is  surprising  how 
little  value  is^often 
placed  upon  this  valuable  assistant  to 
a  good  impression.  It is  recognized  that 
the  largest  firms  in  the  country  all  use 
good  stationery,  and  the  appearance  of 
the  letter  alone  will  generally  determine 
the  commercial  importance  of  the  writ­
It  costs  very  little  if  any  more  tor 
er. 
good,  well-arranged 
letter  beads,  bill 
heads,  statement  blanks  and  envelopes 
than  for  poor  ones,  and  the  increased 
effect  produced  upon  a  prospective  cus­
tomer 
is  tremendously  cheap  at  the 
price,  and  will  at  times  alone  suffice  to 
turn  the  scale  of  a  wavering  buyer’s 
favor.

Fifth 

is  punctuality,  promptness 

in 
delivering  goods,  sending  bills  and 
collecting  accounts.  The  customer  who 
gets  his  goods  quickly  is  pleased.  He 
wants  his  bill  at  once,  to  see  that all 
is 
right  regarding  the  price,  and  if  pay­
is  exacted  when  due  he  is  apt  to 
ment 
remain  the  merchant’s  friend. 
It is  the 
fellow 
is 
given,  and  who  let  his  bills  stand  until 
long  past  due,  who  falls  out 
they  are 
with  the  merchant, 
leaves  him  for  a 
competitor  and  repays  his  kindness  by 
making  slurring  comments  to  his 
in­
jury.

to  whom  extended  credit 

And  still  the  force  of  silent  salesmen 
increases. 
The  dodger,  labor  savers, 
full  stocks,  convenient stores,  all deserve 
due  credit  for  the  good  work  they  do  in 
aiding  the  merchant  to 
increase  bis 
sales.  His  “ silent  salesmen”   form  a 
longer  list  than  that  which  is  found  up­
on  his  pay-roll,  and  the  wise  hardware- 
man  will  see  that  they  are  all  employed 
and  doing  their best  to  help  him  in  his 
race  for  supremacy 
in  his  field  of  en­
deavor. 

John  H a bek m a n.

The  Hardware  Market.

Trade  for  March  is  very  satisfactory, 
as  dealers  in  the  surrounding  towns  are 
finding  quite  a  revival 
in  business. 
There 
little  change  to  note  in 
prices  and  of  what the  future  will  bring 
forth  it  is hard  to  form  an  idea.

is  but 

Wire  Nails— Wire  nails  are  quiet  and 
it  is  now  believed  there  is  no  prospect 
of  the  large consolidation  of  all  the  wire 
and  nail  mills  going  into  effect.  Prices, 
however,  remain  firm  and  it  is  not  be­
lieved  there  will  be  any  material  ad­
vances  just  for  the  present.  We  quote 
$1.50  at  mill,  but  if  a  carload  buyer was 
in  the  market,  this  price  could  probably 
be  shaded.

Barbed  Wire—Conditions  controlling 
the  prices  of  nails  are  those  governing 
the  wire  and  prices  remain  as  quoted  in 
our  last  report.  The  demand  continues
good  and  it  is  believed  there  will  be  a 
large  trade  on  wire  the  coming  spring.
indications  point 
to  an  advance  in  window  glass,  which, 
if  it  takes  place,  will  undoubtedly  put 
a  stop  to  the  excessive  cutting  that  has 
been  going  on  of  late  between  various 
jobbers  of  window  glass.

Window  Glass—All 

Rope—’Prices  are  firm  and  with  an 
advancing  tendency  on  all  kinds  of 
cordage.  This  is  caused  by  great  scar­
city  of  the  fiber  which  goes  into  the 
manufacture  of  rope  and  which  has 
been  steadily  advancing  during  the 
past  sixty  days.  Those  who  are  con­
versant  with  the  inside  facts  prophesy 
that  prices  will  be 
fully  maintained 
during  the  spring  months.

Reports  from  other  markets  are  as 

follows:

St.  Louis:  Hardware  trade  continues 

to  show  daily  improvement.
Chicago:  Jobbers  report 

trade  de­

cidedly  active.

Omaha:  The  movement  of  all  kinds 
of  hardware  from  this  point  has  been 
very  heavy  and  very  satisfactory  to  the 
jobbing  fraternity.

Louisville:  There 

is  active  demand 
for  most  articles  of  hardwaie,  particu­
larly  those  pertaining  to  agricultural 
use.

San  Francisco:  Trade  continues  to 
improvement  and 

show  encouiaging 
prospects  point  to  a  very  good  year.

St.  Paul:  Trade  in the Northwest has 
begun  a  month  earlier  this  year  than 
usual  and 
in  with  a  great 
deal  of  vigor.

is  starting 

New  Orleans:  Business 
fairly  active  in  this  section.

continues 

Cleveland :  The  movement  in  hard­
last 

ware  has  been  excellent  since  our 
writing.
Electricity  Necessary 

to  Keep 

the 

Human  Dynamo  Vigorous.

Next  to  the  welfare  of  the  human  soul 
one  of  the  most  important  things  in  life 
is  the  sole  of  the  foot.  To  this  gener­
ally  overlooked  and  disregarded  part  of 
human  anatomy  may  be  attributed  a 
large  number  of  the  ills  which  flesh  is 
heir  to.

Physicians  will  tell  us  that  the  sole 
of  the  foot  is  a  network  of  nerves  that 
radiate  like  telegraph  wires  to  different 
portions  of  the  body.  A  disturbance  of 
the  nerves  of  the  feet  will  therefore 
cause  hygienic  troubles  that  may  be­
come  serious.
Who  knows  but  that  Napoleon  might 
have  conquered  Russia  if  he  had  kept 
the  soles  of  his  feet  and  the  feet  of  his 
soldiers  warm?

Yet 

Up  to  recent  years  physicians  have 
never  given  a  thought  to  the  possibility 
of  hygienic  connection  between 
the 
soles  of  the  feet  and  the  eyes.
it  is  ofteu  the  case  that  where  a 
man  with  perspiring  feet  uses  a  powder 
to  stop the trouble  he is  at  once  attacked 
by  a  wonderful  running  of  water  from 
the  eyes and  loss  of  sight.

Rubbers  constantly  worn  will  often 
cause  a  similar  trouble.  The  latest  ad­
vances  of  science  concede  the  fact  that 
the  nervous  system  is  to  all  intents  and 
purposes  the  electrical  system  of  the 
body.

It  is  necessary,  physicians  say,  that 
this  system  should  have  direct  connec­
tion  with  the  earth,  more  especially 
through  the  soles  of  the  feet,  as  this 
is 
the  most  highly  organized  nerve  surface 
of  any  in  our  bodies.

This 

is  why  we  cannot  bear  tickling 

on  our  feet  with  a  straw  or  feather.

Disturb  the  natural  currents  between 
the  feet  and  the  earth  in  any  way  and 
the  consequences  are  inevitable.  One 
person  will  be  stricken  with  blindness, 
another  deafness,  another  baldness,  or 
cancer  or  consumption  or  heart  failure, 
decayed  teeth,  rheumatism,  neuralgia, 
or 
indeed  any  other  unnatural  or dis­
eased  state  of  the  body.

Diseases  caused  by  neglected  soles 
affect  different  subjects  in  divers  ways 
simply  because  some  are  weak 
in  one
place  and  some  in  another,  the  partic­
ular  location  being  determined  entirely 
by  the  idiosyncrasies  of  constitution.

From  certain  physiological  causes  the 
in  all  cases  the  first 
eyes  are  perhaps 
organs  plainly  damaged  by  the  insula­
tion  of  the  feet.  But  although  they 
are  more  directly  injured  they  are  not 
more  damaged  than  other  organs  are  in 
time  from  the  same  cause.

♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ 
*  FOR  SALE

Broom  Factory  complete,  with 
capacity of 60  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 
Factory,” care of Michigan Trades­
man.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS AND  BITS
Snell’s............................
70
Jennings’, genuine  .......................
Jennings’, imitation  ...  ................ ............ 25410
............ 60410
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...........
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel...........
First Quality, D. B. Steel.........
BARROWS

............   5 00
............   9 50
...........  5 50
............   10 50

AXES

Railroad...................
Garden..............................

...$12 00  14 00

BOLTS

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

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

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST
Cast Loose  Pin, figured............
Wrought Narrow...................
BLOCKS

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

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

CROW  BARS

CAPS

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

60&10
..  ..  70to 75 
50

......... » 3 25

............ 70410
............ 70410

70

4

..per lb 

CARTRIDGES 

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

Socket Firmer............................................. 
Socket Framing........................................... *’J”**_ go
Socket Comer........................................’
Socket  Slicks............................................ * 

go
go
go

DRILLS

Morse’s Bit Stocks.....................................  
go
Taper and Straight Shank............... . . . . . . . .504 5
Morse’s Taper Shank................................... 504  5

 

 

ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
Corrugated........................... 
125
Adjustable.............................................'.'dis 40410

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark's small, $18;  large, $26........ 
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, *24; 3, *30............................. 
FILES—New  List
New American............................................. 70&10
Nicholson’s....................................  
70
Heller’s Horse Rasps................................. ",eC4i0

30&10
  25

* 

 

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60410

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

NAILS

Adze Eye.....................................316 00, dis 60410
Hunt Eye.................................... $15 00, dis 60&10
Hunt’s.........................................$18 50, dis 20410

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base............  
........... .  ........  1  65
Wire nails, base...........................................   1 75
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance.................................................... 
10
advance...............................................  
6 
20
4 
advance...............................................  
30
3 
advance................:.......... .................. 
45
2 advance................................................... 
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.............  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance..................................... 
35
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  ¿advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  g5
40
Coffee, Parkers Co.’s.................................... 
40
Coffee, P. S. <St W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleables... 
Coffee, Landers. Ferry & Clark’s................ 
40
Coffee, Enterprise............. 
 
30

MILLS

 

 

 

 
MOLASSES  OATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60410
Stebbln’s Genuine........................................ 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

PLANES

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

@50
60
@50
@50
60

PANS

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

RIVETS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages *c per ponnd  extra. 

♦
I  
Maydole 4 Co.’s, new  list................................dis 33*
Kip’s  ...................................................... di& 
26
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................................. di« 10&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lia .40419

HAMMERS

2 3

HOUSE  PURNISHING  OOODS

Stamped Tin Ware......  ............... new list 75410
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20410
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40410

HOLLOW  WARE
Pots................................................
Kettles  ..........................................
Spiders  ........................................

.6041
.60410
.60410

HUSOES

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3................................ dis 60410
State......................................... per doz. net  2  50

WIRE  GOODS

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

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

LEVELS

ROPES
Sisal, *  inch and  larger......
Manilla.................................
SQUARES
Steel and Iron.......................
Try and Bevels......................
M itre......................................

£0
*o
f 0
jo

70

6*8

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.
Nos. 10 to 14................................ .12 70
12 40
Nos. 15 to 17................................. .  2 70
2-40
Nos. 18 to 21............................
.  2 80
2“45
Nos. 22 to 24...............................
.  3 00
2 55
Nos. 25 to 26............................
.  3  10
2 65
No.  27........................................ .  3 20
2 75
over  30 inches
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter, 

............ 254  5

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

SAND  PAPER

50

Solid Eyes........................................per ton 20 00

SASH  WEIOHTS

TRAPS

Steel, Game....................... ............  
... 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
Oneida Community, Hawley 4  Norton’s 70410
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 

60410
50
15
1  25

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

75 
75 
70410 
62* 
50 
2 15 
1  85
An Sable..................................................die 4041C
Putnam............  
5
Northwestern.................................................... dis 10410

HORSE  NAILS

dis 

 

WRENCHES

28
17

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

30
go
80
80

50
80
85
50410410
50
fljf
gy

MISCELLANEOUS
Bird  Cages.....................................
Pumps, Cistern...............................
Screws, New List............................
Casters, Bed and  Plate...................
Dampers, American.......................

600 pound casks...........................................  
Per pound..................................................... 

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

*@ H ............................................................  12*
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal......................................... $5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal.......................................   5 75
20x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................   7 00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25. 

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................................
10x14 IX, Charcoal................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal..........................
Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

5 00
5 00
6  00 
600

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   500
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.............................  g 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5  50
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   9 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   11  00

BOILER  SIZE TIN  PLATE 

14x56 IX, for No.  8  Boilers, 1 
14x56 IX, for No.  9  Boilers, ( 

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  ...... Quick  Meal  Blue  Flame  Stoves 

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D.  E.  VANDERVEEN,  *
STATE AGENT, 
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Grand Rapids, Mich. 

S   106 Monroe St. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 4

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  expected  decline 

in  re­
fined  sugar  did  not  materialize  Monday. 
Some  people  reported  a  somewhat  bet­
ter  demand,  but  the  aggregate  business 
for  the  day  was  not  very  considerable, 
as  buyers  evidently  think  that  lower 
prices  will  come  very  soon.  This  ex­
pectation,  however,  may not  be  realized, 
as  it  is  very  often  the  unexpected  that 
happens  in  the  sugar  market.

Tea—The  tea  trade  seems  to  be  open­
ing  up  rather  better,  and  as  soon  as  the 
war  scare  subsides  will  probably  fulfill 
all  expectations.  A  feature  of  the trade 
of  the  past  week  was  the  good  demand 
for  good  grades.

Canned  Goods— Tomatoes  are  dull 
and  prices  are  normal.  Corn  is  in  light 
request  at  unchanged  prices  and  the 
market  is  fairly  steady.  Peas  are  sell­
ing  in  a  very  small  way  and  prices  are 
unchanged. 
Peaches  are  also  quiet 
and  the  sales  are  confined  to  a  few Cali­
fornia  extra  standards  and  Maryland 
seconds.  Prices  are  unchanged.

Dried  Fruits—The  movement  of  all 
kinds  is  about  normal  foi  this  season  of 
in  advance  of  the 
the  year  and  quite 
movement 
in  this  market  a  year  ago. 
Reports  from  the  West  Coast  show  the 
stocks  of  prime  loose  muscatel  raisins 
very  light,  but  in  spite  of  this  the  mar­
ket  conditions  are  unfavorable  for  the 
holder  because  of  the  large  stock  of 
rain-damaged  goods  to  be  disposed  of. 
Holders  of  this  class  of  goods  are  re­
ported  to  have  been  attempting  to  force 
sales  at  low  prices  and  this 
is  making 
in  the  better  grades  very 
the  market 
little  stock  of  dried 
weak.  There 
fruits  aside  from  raisins 
left  on  the 
Coast,  except  that  peaches  are  in  fair 
supply.

is 

Cheese—Strictly  fancy  cheese  is  held 
fairly  well,  but  cheese  less  than  strictly 
fancy  is  being  offered  at  comparatively 
It 
low  prices. 
is  hard  to  account  for 
the  dulness 
in  the  cheese  market,  as 
prices  are  extremely 
compared 
with  other  seasons,  and  also  with  other 
food  products.  Nothing  in  the  food  line 
seems  to  be  sold  as  relatively  low  as 
cheese. 
There  seems  to  be  ample 
cheese  to  supply  the  demand.  It  is  hard 
to  predict  the  future  of  the  market,  as 
the  low  prices  may  delay  the  opening 
of  the  factories  for  the  new season.

low 

Corn  Syrup  (New  York  Commercial) 
— It  looks  as  if  the  much-talked-of  op­
position  to  the  Glucose  Sugar  Refining 
Co.,  through  the  United  States  Sugar 
Refinery,  would  not  develop  into  a mat­
ter  of  fact.  The  latest 
information  is 
that  United  States  Sugar Refinery stock­
holders  are  more  inclined  to  sell  their 
plant  than  they  are  to  make  glucose. 
It 
appears  that  the  stockholders  held  a 
meeting  recently  at  Waukegon,  111.,  for 
the  purpose  of  submitting  to  a  vote  of 
its  stockboldes  a  proposition  to  author­
ize  the  increase  of  the  capital  stock  of 
the  corporation  by  an  additional  issue 
of  15,000  shares  of  stock  at  a  par  value 
of  §100  each,  and  to  ratify  the  action  of 
the  Board  of  Directors  authorizing  the 
sale  of  1,000,000  first  mortgage  bonds  of 
the  corporation.  This  was  to  enable  it 
to  carry  out  plans  for  remodeling  and 
enlarging  its  plant  and  obtaining  work­
ing  capital  for  its  operating  etc.,  and 
for  the  purpose  of  submitting  to  vote  of 
its  stockholders  a  proposition  to  author­
lease  of  its  plant  to  others  for a 
ize  a 
term  of  years.  This 
is  supposed  to 
mean  that  the  stockholders  wanted  to 
pay  off  the  debt  of  the  corporation  and 
lease  or  sell  the  plant  to  the  Glucose 
Sugar  Refining  Co.,  or  any  other 
in  the  market.
that  would  come 

stockholders  of  the  Waukegan  glucose 
plant  are  said  to  be  at  sixes  and sevens, 
and  it  is  thought,  in  the  trade,  that  the 
Waukegan  plant  will  never  take 
its 
place  as  a  competitor  of  the  Glucose 
Sugar  Refining  Co. 
If  this  be  so,  it 
leaves  the  Glucose  Sugar  Refining  Co. 
in  possession  of  almost  the  entire  field.
Provisions— There  have  been  but  few 
changes  during  the  week,  and  none  of 
these  have 
important. 
Lard,  both  pure  and  compound,  remains 
unchanged,  but  the  feeling 
is  a  little 
easier,  especially  at  Western  packing 
points.

been  really 

Fish—John  Pew  &  Son  (Gloucester) 
write  the  Tradesman  as  follows:  The 
Grand  Bank  cod  fleet  are  getting  ready 
to sail  to  the  Banks.  One  vessel  has  al­
ready  sailed.  About  thirty  five  vessels 
will  comprise  that  fleet  from  this  port, 
about  the  same  number  as 
last  year. 
The  early  spring  fleet  of  mackerel 
catchers  are  also  commencing  to  fit  out 
for  the  Southern  waters  and  will  prob­
ably  consist of about thirty vessels, which 
may  be  increased  according  to  the pros­
pect  of 
catch.  Our  hand-line 
Georges  cod  fishing  fleet  continues  a 
small  one  and  at  present  there  is  a scar­
city  of  those  choice  fish.  The  weather 
thus  far  this  month  has  been  fine  and  a 
large  amount  of  fresh 
fish  has  been 
landed  at  our  port.  Our  market  is  the 
largest  one  in  the  United  States  for  fish 
kinds,  and  with  an  average  catch  of 
mackerel  this  year,  the  receipts  at  this 
port  would  be  probably  all  of  two  hun­
dred  million  pounds,  and  would  make 
it  the  largest  fishing  port  of  the  world 
in  the  quantity  lauded.

the 

Getting  Down  to  Business.

Saginaw,  March  21— At the  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Retail  Merchants’  Associa­
tion,  the  special  committee  on  the  pro­
posed  street  fair  presented  a  report, 
recommending  that  when  the  member­
ship  in  the  Association  reaches  175  the 
matter  be  taken  up  and  pushed  and that 
at  the  present  time  the  merchants  be 
asked  to  commence  to  advertise  the 
coming  affair  in  a  systematic manner  in 
their  correspondence. 
It  was  also  sug­
gested  that  an  organizer  be  secured  to 
work  among  the  merchants  with  a  view 
to  increasing  the membership  to  the  de­
sired  point. 
Further,  the  committee 
advised  that  a  special  committee  of  five 
be  appointed  to  push  arrangements  for 
the fair.  These suggestions were adopted 
and  the committee  was discharged.  The 
new  committee  will  be  appointed  in  a 
few  days.

The  matter  of  the  retention  of  Little 
Jake's  clock  in  this  city  was  then  taken 
up.  The  committee  which  had  been 
appointed  to 
interview  Col.  Jeffers  on 
the  matter  was  discharged  without  re­
porting. 
It  has  been  ascertained  that 
Col.  Jeffers  has  absolutely  nothing  to  do 
about  the  matter.  According  to  the 
papers  which  he  signed  with  Little 
Jake,  he has  no  control  over  that  tower 
and 
is  obliged  to  give  access  to  it  at 
any  time.  The  facts  in  the  matter  are 
that  Little  Jake  gave  the  clock  to  Mrs. 
Joseph  Seligman  and  she  holds  all  of 
‘he  papers.  The  committee  from  the 
Association  called  on  Mrs.  Seligman 
and  asked  her  at  what  figure  she  would 
sell.  She  named  a  price  which  the com­
mittee  announced  at  once  would  not  be 
paid.  Later  she  made  anotbei  proposi­
tion  to  the  Association  which  was  taken 
under  consideration  and  will  be  acted 
upon  at  the  next  regular  meeting  in  one 
week.

The  committee  on  street  sprinkling 
was  given  one  week  longer  in  which  to 
report  and  so  was  the  committee  ap­
pointed  to  formulate  plans  for  associa­
tion  work.  A  communicat:on  was  re­
ceived  from  the 
’98  comm'ttee  of  the 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  asking  the  Association 
to  endorse  the  plans 
f  *Jw  committee 
fo r  d eco ra tio n   anr?  other  things  in  con-
nection  with  the  coming  convention and 
buyer'it  was  unanimously  adopted  and  the 

The  sanction  of  the  Association  given.

WAIST5   COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

551

552

558

553

557

550

Ir»OR  SALE—ONE  OF  THE  BEST  BAZAAR 

stocks in Southern Michigan.  Located  in a 
good live town  with  excellent  country  round­
about  and  a  good  established  trade.  A  to.;d 
chance  for  the  right  person. 
If  you  wish  it 
write soon to Lock Box 111, Cas'opolis,  Mich.  555 
r p o   EXCHANGE—FOK  CLOTHING,  DRY 
JL  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  553, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
dpO  EXCHANGE —FARMS  AND  OTHER 
A  property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shot s. 
Address P.  Medaiie, Mancelona, Mich. 
IpOR  SALE  (NO  TRADE)—ONE  OF  THE 

finest and best suburban drug  stores  in this 
city.  Satisfactory reasons for  desiring  to  sell. 
Address  Druggist,  1169  Wealthy  Ave.,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
TX7ANTED—CASH  AND  GOOD  SECURITY 
Tv  for well-located, good-paying general mer­
chandise  stock:  or will  trade  stock,  store room 
and  good  residence  property  for  good  small 
farm in Indiana or  Southern  Michigan.  A  bar­
gain.  Call or address Box 21, Bryant, Ind.  550 
\ \ T  ANTE 0—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS,
Tv  daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich. 
W7"ANTED—CLEAN  GROCERY  STOCK  IN 
tv  good town with good trade.  Give full par­
ticu lar at once.  Cash  deal.  Address  Box  110, 
Hart. Mich. 

IpOK  SALE—STOCK  OF  STAPLE  AN'» 

fancy groceries, crockery, etc., in one of the 
best towns in Michigan.  Will sell for cash only. 
Stock will invoice about #2,500, average sales 
daily.  Located in one of  the  liveliest  towns  in 
Michigau.  For full particulars address  No. 558, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
\VT aN • ED—TO  SELL  WHOLE  OR  ONE: 
V v  half  Interest  in  my large  general  store; 
trade large and profitable.  Best of  reasons  for 
selling.  #10,f00capital;  can easily  do  $5),‘ 00 of 
business  Write for particulars.  M. S.  Keeler, 
Middleville, Mich. 
VVT ANTED—STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
for 240 acre farm, 20 acres good  timber,  40 
Tv 
ac  es winter wheat. 4 acres orchard,  balance all 
tillable; 3 good  barns,  house;  all  fenced;  one 
mile  from  Bangor,  Mich.;  $12,000,  clear.  F. 
Fredenhagen, 177 LaSalle S t, Chicago, 111.  544 
r p o   EXCHANGE—STORE  BUILDING  AND 
A  general stock of merchandise for good farm­
ing  lands.  Address  Lock  Box  254,  Wolcott- 
ville, Ind. 
i flOR SALE—STOCK DRUGS AND FIXTURES 

in a town of 5,000 population with only  four 
drugstores.  Terms to  suit,  with  a  small  pay­
ment down  Address W. W  Hunt,  under  city 
National Bank, Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
yTofTEXCHAEGE  FOR  GROCERY  OR  MKR- 
X1  cliandise  stock—Choice  section  land  near 
Jamestown,  North  Dakota.  Dakota  lands  in 
great  demand  for  farming  or  stock  raising. 
Carl Dice,  Monroe, Mich. 
\ \ T  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. 

1l»OR  SALE—SECOND-HAND  MATHEW&’ 

soda fountain, six  syrups,  removable  glass 
cans, one 10 gallon copper tank, retinned In 1897, 
1  five  foot  counter  slab  of  pink  Tennessee 
marble, six tumbler  holders.  Price  and  terms 
easy.  Write L. A. Phelps, Donglas, Mich.  54) 
'|*V  ANTED— RESPONSIBLE  AGENiS  TO 
Tv  sell  the  celebrated  Buffington  Acetylene 
Gas Machine in Michigan and  Ohio.  Apply  to 
Sproui  «£ McGurrin. local  agents  for Kent,  Al­
legan and Ottawa counties, or Michigan  Acety­
lene Gas Company, Jackson, Mich.  * 

I ¡TOR  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. 

545

543

534

536

537

549

548

547

526

528

_____  

SODA FOUNTAIN, LARGE,  ELEGANT,  FOR 
sale  cheap;  good  condition;  complete  out­
fit.  Write Crozier Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich.
5V>
I  HAVE  SEVERAL  GOOD  FARMS  NEAR 

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  S t, Grand  Rapids,  in  dry 
goods store. 
W f ANTED  TO  EXCHANGE—40  ACRES  OF 
good unimproved  land,  situated  on  the 
TT 
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. 
IEOR  SALE—80  ACRES  GOOD  LAND,  35 
A*  clea ed, house and barn, 12 acres full grain. 
Will  sell  cheap  and  on  easy  terms.  John C. 
McGowan, West Branch, Ogemaw Co., Mich. 5.32 
\ \ T ANTED—POSITION  IN  STORE  AFTER 
tt  March  15.  Large  experience  in  general 
store.  Good references furnished.  Address No. 
526, care Michigan Tradesman. 
HPHE  BEST  BUSINESS  CHANCE  ON  THIS 
A  PAGE—On account of the death of my hus 
band, I will sell my  stock  of  general  merchan­
dise, invoicing from  $7.000 to  $8,000.  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. Grisier. 

I THOR EXCHANGE-RESIDENCE LOTS, FREE 

’  from all incumbrance, for hardwood timber 
lands or improved farm.  Address  T,  Lock  Box 
56,  Monroe, Mich. 
ANTED—A  PRACTICAL  MILL  MAN, 
with $1.000 capital, to  take  a  one-half  or 
full  iuterest  in  a  stave,  heading  and  planing 
mill.  3,00u  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. 

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

t l»OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS,  GRO- 
IEOR  SALE —BUILDING  AND  GENERAL 

stock;  test  farming  section  in  Michigan. 
No trades.  W.  H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich.  500 
V l/ AXT  ALL “KINDS- OF  GRAIN  IN  CAR 
TT 
lots.  Name price or ask for bids.  Rhodes 
Co., Grain Brokers, Granger, Ind. 

1 HAVK  A  PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR 

general  stock.  Must  be  a  bargain.  I  have 
buyers for any line of  merchandise.  W. H. Gil­
bert, 109 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. 
\ \ r  AN TED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
TT  retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 

F OR  EXCHANGE-TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 

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

479

440

546

381

534

533

491

73

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

I)  ATE NT  ATTORNEYS,  20  YEARS’  PKAC- 

tice.  Ideas  developed.  Drawings  a  spec­

ialty.  Reasonable rates.  Dennis Rogers, Grand 

5.-,4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Rapids. 
TjTRKE—OUR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
J*  ents.  Ciiley  &  AUgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
Grand Rapids, Mich.__________________ 339
1 EXPERIENCED  TRAVELING  SALESMAN, 

Zj  first class  references,  desires  a  position. 
Address 1013 Michigan Ave., E.,  Lansing,  Mich.
______________________________541
W A N T E D -A   REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
TT  of  experience,  references  required.  A 
permanent  position  offered.  Address  No.  538, 
care  Michigan Tradesman. 
\ \ T ANTED—CLERK  FOR GENERAL  STORE 
in country.  Must have experience and up- 
T T 
to-date, oue who speaks German preferred.  Ad­
dress Lock Box 4, Hopkins Station,  Mich.  539
S“  ITUATION  W ANTED-REG1STKRED PHAR 
macist, married, 27 years of  age,  registered 
8 years, country  and  city  experience.  Best  of 
references given.  Address  F.  S.  Tuxbury,  Elk 
Rapids,  Mich. 
530
XX7ANTED—BY  MAN  OF  NINE  YEARS’ 
TT  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. 

538

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Travelers’  Time  Tables.

C H IC A Q O  ’"‘ " “ T U S’ *’’

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids............... 8:45am  1:35pm *ll:30pn
Ar.  Chicago.................. 3:10pm 6:50pm  6:40ap
Lv.Chicago................ 7:20am  5:15pm  *ll:30pn
Ar. G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:35pm  * 6:2Tan
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids........................   7:30am  5:30pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

♦Every  day. 

Others week days only.

D E T R O IT Graod Rapid> & We>tcra*

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids......7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit.................. 11:40am  5:45pm  10:20pm
Lv. Detroit...................8  00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pxr

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

Gxo.  D eHaven,  General Pass. Agent.

G R A N D   Trank Railway System

Detroit and Milwaukee Dlv

(In effect January 19,1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive.
+ 6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo & N Y  .+ 9:55pm
+10:10am.........Detroit  and  East..........t  5:07pm
+ 3:30pm. .Sag.,  Det., N.  Y.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm 
♦10:45pm...Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am
■til:10am........  Mixed to Durand..........+ 3:15pm
* 7:00am--- Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts. ...*10:15pm
112:53pm. Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm
+ 5:12pm__Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi__ tl0:05am
tlO :00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
♦ Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST

E. H.  Hushes, A. G. P.  & T. A.
Ben.  Fletcher. Trav. Pass. Agt., 
C.  A.  J u s t i n ,  City  Pass.  Agent.
No. 23 Monroe St

39R ’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.

There’s  a  large  and  growing  section  of 
the  public  who  will  have  the  best,  and 
with  whom  the  matter  of a  cent  or  so  a 
pound  makes  no  impression. 
It’s  not 
HOW   CH EAP  with  them;  it’s  HOW 
GOOD.

For  this  class  of  people  the  Seymour 

Cracker  is  made.

Discriminating  housewives  recognize 

its  superior

FLAVOR,  PURITY, 
DELICIO U SN ESS

and  will  have  it.

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

particular  people,  keep 
Cracker. 

Made  by

N a tio n a l  B isc u it  C o m p a n y , 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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. . .

“ L ily W h ite ’’ F lo u r

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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G R A N D Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

Dec. 5,1897.

Michigan  Bark  &  Lumber  Co.,

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrlvr 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack  ..t 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey *  Mack., .t 2:15pm  t 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..................tl0:50pm
Cadillac................................... t 5:25pm til :15am
Train leaving at 7:46 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrtvi
Cincinnati...............................t  7:10am  t  8:25pu
Ft, Wayne................................t  2:10pm  t  2-OOpu
Cincinnati............................... * 7:01pm  • 7:25u>
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati 
2  10 p. m.  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p. m  train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati. 

Muskegon T reins, 

some w e s t .

Lv G’d  Rapids............ t7:35am  tl :00pm t5:40pr
Ar Muskegon..............  9:00am  2:10pm  7:C5rm
LvMnskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am  t4 OJpt
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55r>m  5  2'prr
tExcept Sunday.  »Dally  ¿Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

some e a s t .

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

D U L U T H , Sooth Shore and Atlantic 

Railway.

WEST  b o u n d .

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & L )tll :10pm  t7:45am
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

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth............................................. 
Ar. Nestoria.......................... til :15am 
Ar. Marquette.......................  
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............   3:30pm 
Ar. Mackinaw City................ 

t6:30pm
2:45am
1:30pm  4:30am
.........
8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  IIi b b a r d ,  Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

T R A V E L

VIA

F .  &   P .  M .  R .  R .

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

T O   ALL  P O IN T S   IN  M IC HIGAN

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

«_.V   life  »

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I  *  ^=s^s=r—»
I  MANUFACTURED  BY 
! THE  C.BLOM, J r .

CANDY CO.,

I HOLLAND,-MICIli

For  Sale  by  Leading  Jobbers.

The  Leader  of  ail  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’! Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

527 and  528 
Widdicomb  Building, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C.  U.  CLA R K ,

President. 

W.  D.  W ADE,

Vice-President. 

M.  M.  C l a r k ,

Sec’y  and Treas.

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

♦n

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

shortage  of  fruit  in  our  State

Owing  to  the

of  Canned  Goods.

musselman Grocer Company

Grand Rapids, mid).

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

those  Nunley,  Hines  &  Co.’s

Don’t  let your  stock  get  low.

I  Yellow  Peaches.  I

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CANNED  FISH 

I 

I 

CANNED  MEATS

Like a Cat matches for a Rat

We  watch  for  the  leaks  and  overweightsO

O V E R W E IG H T S  AR E  T H E   RU IN ATIO N  
O F  A N Y   B U SIN E SS;  they  are  avoidable  if  you  have 
a  scale  to  show  you  what  an  overweight  amounts  to  in 
dollars  and  cents.

The  M ONEY  W E IG H T   SY ST E M   embodied 
in  our  Computing  Scales  shows  you  the  Money  Value
of all  weighings,  thus  making 
you  more  cautious.  No  mis-
takes 
in  calculations.  Re-
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Address

F o u r  R e a s o n s

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,

E.  L.  D E V ER EA U X .

why grocers  should  sell  a  brand  of  Stove  Polish  which,  above 
all  others,  consumers  want,  and  for  which  grocers  can  offer 
no substitute  without  injury  to  their  trade.

Enameiine

I  The Modem STOVE POLISH

First:  It  is  Superior to  all  others  in  Quality. 

Second:  It 
gives  Perfect  Satisfaction  to  consumers.  Third:  It  is  Thor­
oughly  Advertised  and  sells  itself. 
Fourth:  No  other  Stove 
Polish  on earth  Has  so  Large  a  Sale.

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