Volume XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  30,  1898.

Number  758

diam eter sh eets  o f green   paper,  w ith   red  label,  retail at 5 cen ts.

FLY  BUTTONS
FOR  THE  TRADE 

A  scien tifica lly com p ounded,non-cathartic poison, 
k iltin g   flies  or  an ts  q u ick ly .  6  th ick   3%  inch 

30  ce n ts  per  doz.,  in  fa n c y   counter  disp lay
b oxes  o f 3 doz.,  coupon  in  b o x,  w h ic h  t quals 

5  ce n ts  per doz.  off. 

It p a ys  to push  for  coupons.

COUPON  PREMIUMS 

F o r  2  C ou p on s,  R u b b er  D a tin g   Stam p,
w o rth  40 ce n ts ;  prints,  “ P a id ,”   “ A n s ’d,”
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In k  B o ttle w o rth   60  ce n ts;  p ressure  into fun n el  top  b rin gs  up  in k   from   cen ter  o f 
bottle;  no th ick   in k  w ith   th is.  F o r 6 Coupons,  %  g ro ss  F ly   B u tton s,  delivered.

TO  START  YOUR  TRADE  W e  furn ish  th ro u gh  jobber, free

fo r  y o u r  custom ers. 
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Is the ORIGINAL and GENUINE  Horseradish  Mustard.

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[O R   cen tu ries  th e  E n g lis h   h a ve  been  k n ow n   as  g re a t m ustard-eaters— the g re a te s t  in  the 
w o rld .  T h e y   differ from   th e  Southern  races,  su ch   as th e  F ren ch ,  S p a n ish ,  Italian,  etc., 
in  th at  th ey ran k  cond im ents  h ig h e r than   sauces.  T ru e ,  th ey  m an ufacture  and  exp o rt 
sauces,  but  th ey  prefer  fo r   th eir  ow n   use  condim ents,  and  the  grea test  o f  a ll  condim ents  is 
m ustard.  T h e   a v e ra g e   E n g lish m a n   d e lig h ts  in  h a v in g   h is  m ustard  prepared  fo r   him   fresh  
e v e ry   day.

T h e re  seem s to  b e a reason   fo r th is  S au ces, a lth o u g h  ap p etizin g, are m ade w ith  d ru g s and 
are m ore  or  less  d isgu ised   in  th eir  n ature and artificial  in  their effects.  M ustard ,  on  the co n ­
tra ry,  stren gth en s  th e  n atural  ton e  o f th e  stom ach,  increases  th e flow   o f the g a s tric ju ice , and 
th ereb y  prom otes  th e g en e ral  b o d ily  health . 
It  is  p robably  on accou n t  o f  th is  p o w er o f g iv in g  
life   to  the  system   and  en a b lin g   it to th ro w   o ff u n h ea lth y produ cts  that  th e E n g lis h   in  form er 
ye a rs  used   m ustard  as  a  m edium   o f p u rify in g  th e  blood  in  sk in   d iseases and  sim ilar ailm ents.
F o r  som e tim e  past  w e   h a ve  m ade  q uite a  stu d v o f m ustard,  its  proper preparation and th e 
p reservation   o f  its  qua lities.  O u r lin e o f m ustards  is q uite  com plete,  and  each  and a ll w ill  be 
fou n d  to  be so   put  up and p acked  as  to last for  years in  perfect  condition
F o r  S a le b y  
W h o le sa le   and  R e ta il  G ro cers 
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B O L E   M A K E R   . . .

Owing  to  the

shortage  of  fruit  in  our  State

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

of  Canned  Goods.

ltiu$$elman Grocer Company

Grand Rapids, micb.
Don’t  let  your  stock  get  low.

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

those  Nunley,  Hines  &  Co.’s 

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It  pays  any  dealer  to  have  the  reputa­

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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, 
DELICIOUSNESS

and  will  have  it.

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

particular  people,  keep 
Cracker. 

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National  Biscuit  Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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are m an ufactured b y  us  and a ll  sold  on  th e  sam e basis,  irresp ective 
o f  size,  sh a p e  or  denom ination. 
F re e   sam ples  on  ap p lication .

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

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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.  &  1.,  F.  &  P.  M.,  M.  &  N.  E.,  or
Ann  Arbor  R.  Rs.  Correspondence solicited.

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System  of  Advertising 
now.  We  are  offering a

Special  Inducement

for  new  customers.
Write  and  we  will  tell 
you  about  it.

Stebbins  Manufacturing  Co.,

Lakeview,  Michigan.

N.  B.  We  want  a  few  more 
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Michigan  Bark  &  Lumber  Co.,

527 and  528 
Widdicomb Building, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C.  U.  C L A 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.

DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING  AND LUBRICATING

OILS

NAPHTHA  AND  GASOLINES

Office and Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE.,

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Em pty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

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

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

low soil  than any  Stick  Handle  Planter made.

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

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

Every tool warranted to work perfectly.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MARCH  30,1898.

Number  758

Volume  XV,

Rare Chance for  Small  Capital.

A   plant  equipped  fo r  p lan in g,  re s a w in g ,  tu rn in g, 
inside fin ish in g,  etc.,  c o s tin g   o rig in a lly   o ver  $ io ,- 
ooo,  offered  fo r about  one-third  th at.  Good  co n d i­
tion.  N o w   in  operation .  J ust  taken  on  debt b y 
p resen t o w n ers  w h o   h a ve  oth er  bu sin ess.  G ro w - 
in g   city ,  8,ooo  p opulation. 
F in e   su rroun d in g 
cou n try .  G ood  op en in g  for lum ber yard.  C e rta in ­
ly   a  s n a p .  E a s y   term s.  L o c k   B ox  7,  T ra v e rse  
C ity ,  M ich .

The Commercial Credit Goinpony. LTd

of Grand  Rapids.  Mich.

W e  gu a ran tee  th e  paym ent  o f a ll m oneys c o l­
lected   b y   our  represen tatives  in  th e  U n ited  
S ta tes and  C an ad a  w h en   claim s are  receipted 
tor b y  us.

L . J .  S T E V E N S O N ,  M an a g er and  N otary.

R . J.  C L E L A N D ,  A tto rn e y .

W e   are rea d y  to  buy  fo r C A S H

Car  Lots or Mill  Cuts

Pine  and  Cedar Shingles

W rite   us  sta tin g  kin d ,  am ount  on  hand  and price.

C.  C.  Follmer  &  Co.,

13 Fountain  St., 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich
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importance 

The  growing  of  winter  lettuce  is  an 
interest  of  considerable 
in 
this  city  and  neighborhood,  and  the  va­
riety  universally  recognized  as  the  best 
for  winter  growing  the  country  over  had 
its  origin  in  this  city  and  is  known  as 
the  Grand  Rapids  Forcing. 
It  is  the 
variety  that  the  growers  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  and  of  the  Atlantic  shore  alike 
call  for,  and  all  the  great  middle  coun­
try  uses  it  and  its  fame  has  even  spread 
to  foreign 
is  a  lettuce  that 
will  grow  rapidly,  that  will  not  rot  at 
the  roots  or  in  the  leaf,  that  will  be ten­
der  to  eat  and  that  will  stand  shipment 
without  wilting. 
It  possesses  all  the 
virtues  of  good  lettuce  and  has  come  to 
be  recognized  as  the  standard  for winter 
cultivation.

lands. 

It 

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ice, 

The 

lettuce  growing  industry  started 
in  this  city  about  twenty  years  ago. 
Eugene  Davis  and  his  father  were  its 
founders.  They  had  a 
little  20x50  hot­
house  out  on  Kalamazoo  avenue,and  the 
demand  for  winter  lettuce  in  those  days 
was  so  light  that  the  first  crop  was 
brought  into  town  in market baskets  and 
peddled  around  among  the  grocers. 
It 
the  market  until 
did  not  appear 
March,  and 
it  was  looked  upon  as  a 
good  deal  of  a  curiosity,  and  with  the 
snow  still  on  the  ground  and  the  river 
clogged  with 
there  was  no  mad 
rush  among  the  people  to  buy  it.  The 
citizens  of  Grand  Rapids  had  not  at 
that  time  acquired  the  habit  of  liking 
vegetables  and 
fruits  out  of  season. 
They  were  content  to  wait  for  nature  to 
bring  things  around  in  her own  proper 
time.  Lettuce  and  radishes  and  young 
onions  were  not  due  until  May  or  June, 
and  to  have  them  offered  in  March  was 
an 
innovation  which  they  looked  upon 
with  suspicion  and  distrust.  Those  who 
overcame  their  scruples  in  this  respect 
—and  the  sight  of  the  fresh  green  in the 
market  basket  had  a  wonderfully  quiet­
ing  effect  on  compunctions  of  this  kind 
—cheerfully  paid  20 to  30  cents  a  pound 
for  their  lettuce,  and  the  demand  for 
it 
gradually 
increased.  The  Davis  plant 
was 
in  size  and  then  others 
went  into  the  business  and  Grand  Rap­
ids  is  to-day  one  of  the  largest  lettuce- 
producing  points  in  the  country.

increased 

There  are  about thirty lettuce-growing 
plants  in  Grand  Rapids  and  immediate 
vicinity  at  the  present  time.  Some  of 
them  are  large  concerns,  with  15,000  to 
20,000  square  feet  of  glass,  while  others 
is­
are  small  affairs,  conducted  as  side 
sues  to  market  gardens  or  the  farm. 
If 
all  the  houses  could  be  put  into  one,  it 
is  estimated  that  the  one  big  hot-house 
would  cover  four  acres  of  land  area, 
and  possibly  even  more.  Some  of  the 
large  plants  are  Eugene  Davis,  15,000 
square  feet  of  glass;  Charles  Chadwick, 
with  20,000  feet;  S.  J.  Perry,  15,000; 
Thomas  and  Robert  Graham,  15,000; 
Charles  M.  Norton,  20,000;  Charles  W. 
Garfield,  9,000;  Harley  Strong,  8,000; 
Alex  Hannah,  8,000;  F.  J.  Cook,  6,000, 
and  a  score  or  more  with  less  than  5,000 
feet.  No  statistics  are  obtainable  with­
out  a  canvass  of  the  entire 
industry  as 
to  the  quantity  of  lettuce  grown,  but  it

is  more  now 

is  estimated  that  the  shipments  to  out­
side  points  annually  bring  to  this  city 
between  $30,000  and  $40,000,  and  the 
amount  may  be considerable more.  This 
include  the  home  consump­
does  not 
tion,  which 
in  a  single 
winter  month  than  it  used  to  be  for  an 
entire  year  twenty  years  ago.  Most  of 
the  plants  are 
located  in  the  southern 
part  of  the  city,  in  the  vicinity  of  Bur­
ton  avenue,  where  the  light  sandy  soil 
seems  particularly  suitable  for  the  cul­
tivation.  Charles  VV.  Garfield,  standing 
on  the  porch  of  his  house  on  Burton 
avenue,  can  see  the  shining  roofs  of 
nine 
large  plants  that  are  grouped  in 
that  vicinity.  Besides  the  plants  south 
of  the  city  there  are  half  a  dozen  or 
more  west  of  town,  a  few  north  and  sev­
eral 
It  is 
an 
interest  that  is  growing  and  one  of 
the  new  plants  put  in  in  the  past  season 
is  that  of  Mr.  Garfield,  with  a  glass 
area  of  9,000  square  feet.

in  and  around  Grandville. 

For  winter  lettuce  the  seed  is  planted 
for  the  first  crop  early  in  September. 
It  is  planted  in  drills  and  is twice trans­
planted,  first  into  rows  two  inches  apart 
and  then  into  rows  six  inches  each way, 
and  after  the  second  transplanting  it 
is 
allowed  to  grow  until  ready  for  the mar­
ket. 
It  grows  to  the  height  of  12  or  14 
inches,  and 
just  before  it  is  ready  for 
the  market  a  shake  of  the  plants  at  one 
end  of  the  long  bed  will  send  a  quiver 
the  entire  length  of  the  solid  mass  of 
green.  The  first  crop  is  ready  for  the 
market  hy  Thanksgiving,  and  as  soon 
as  the  first  is  out  of  the  way  a  second  is 
planted  for  the  March  market.  Some­
times  a  third  crop  of  lettuce  is  planted, 
but  more  often  the  beds  are  put  into 
radishes or  onions,and  sometimes  into  a 
double  crop  of  radishes  or  onions  and 
cucumbers,  the  former  getting  out  of 
the  way  before  the  cucumbers  have  at­
tained  troublesome  proportions. 
The 
cucumbers  are  trained  up  on  wires  and, 
when  they  have  reached  full  size,  they 
form  veritable arbors,  the vines reaching 
to  the  roof  and  often  covering  the  alleys 
between  the  beds.  The  lettuce  growers 
usually  plant  their  different  houses  a 
week  or  so  apart  so as  to  have  a  con­
tinuous  crop,  instead  of having their en­
tire  crop  ready  for  the  market  at  the 
same  time.

A  large  proportion  of  the  winter  let­
is  shipped  to  other 
tuce  grown  here 
It  goes  as  far  east  as  Buffalo 
points. 
and  Pittsburg,  south  to  Cincinnati  and 
west  to  Minneapolis  and  St.  Paul.  De­
troit  draws  almost  her  entire  supply 
from  this  city  and  Chicago  takes 
large 
quantities,  but  Chicago  is  not  consid­
ered much  of  a  winter  lettuce town.  The 
first  outside  shipment  made  from  Grand 
Rapids  was  sent  to  Jackson,  but  Jack- 
son,  Muskegon  and  several  other Michi­
gan  towns  now  grow  their  own  lettuce, 
or  depend  upon  Grand  Rapids  tor  only 
an  occasional  supply  at  most.  Other 
cities  which  Grand  Rapids  used  to  sup­
ply  are  also  going  into  the  business  on 
their  own  account  and  the  territory  has 
appreciably  narrowed  since  the  busi­
ness  first  began  here,  but  it  may  be  said 
that  this  narrowing  of  the  territory  is 
partly  compensated  for  by  the  increased 
demand  for  it.

It 

It  originated 

The  lettuce  known  as  the  Grand  Rap­
is  essentially  a  Grand  Rapids  pro­
ids 
in  the  Davis 
duction. 
hothouse  and 
is  a  cross  between  two 
varieties  which  were  formerly  held  in 
esteem.  The  new  variety  was  obtained 
after  long  and  careful  study  and  exper­
imenting  and  when 
its  success  was 
fairly  demonstrated,  the  Davises  gave 
some  of  the  other  growers  here  some  of 
the  seed. 
It  was  proposed  at  first  to 
keep  the  seed  in  this  city,  that  Grand 
Rapids  might  have  a  monopoly  in  the 
growing  of  a  superior  quality  of  let­
tuce,  and  for  several  years  this  was 
done. 
is  related  that  upon  one  oc­
casion the  late  VV.  T.  Lamoreaux offered 
$50  for  a  single  ounce  of  it,  but  none  of 
the  growers  would 
let  him  have  it  at 
any  price.  Mr.  Lamoreaux  wanted  it 
for  D.  M.  Ferry,  the  Detroit  seedsman, 
who,  recognizing  the  superior quality  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  plant,  wanted  some 
In  the 
of  the  seed,  regardless  of  price. 
course  of  time  some  of  the  seed  fell 
in­
to  the  bands  of  outside  growers,  and, 
realizing  at  last  that  the  “ monopoly”  
was  getting  away  from  Grand  Rapids, 
the  Davises  sold  half  a  pound  of  the 
seed  to  an  Indiana  dealer  for  $50.  The 
seed  was  put  up 
into  little  packages 
and  sold  at  25  cents  each,  and thereafter 
the  Grand  Rapids  became  a  standard 
lettuce  and  the  seed  can  now  be  had  at 
almost  any  seed  store.

of 

Several  years  ago  the  lettuce  growers 
had  an  association  for  mutual  protec­
tion  and  benefit. 
It  was  proposed  to 
sell  the  entire  product  through  one 
insuring  a  better 
house  or  agent,  thus 
distribution 
the  crop,  guarding 
against  glutting  any  one  market  and 
tending  to  keeping  the  prices  up.  The 
association  lasted  a  short  time  and  then 
dissolved,  apparently  of 
its  own  ac­
cord.  No  effort  has  since  been  made 
to  organize  the 
interest,  although  the 
growers  all  admit  that  material  benefits 
could  be  gained  by  co-operation.

The  winter  grown  lettuce  is  now  held 
at  10  to  12  cents  a  pound,  and  some­
times  even  drops  to  8  cents.  There 
is 
not  the  money  in  the business  that  there 
was  a  few  years  ago,  but  it  is  still  a 
profitable  industry. 
It  does  not  require 
a  large  capital  to  begin  with,  and  a 
small  farm 
is  just  as  good  for  it  as a 
large  one.  The  working  season  is  from 
September  to  May  or  June,  and  when 
the  ordinary  farmer 
is  perspiring  in 
the hay  or  harvest  field  the lettuce grow­
er  is  off  fishing  or  tinkering  around  the 
place,  unless,  of  course,  he  is  a  general 
farmer,  too.  The 
is  sold  en­
tirely  by  the  pound  in  this  market,  and 
this 
is  another  Grand  Rapids  innova­
tion,  and  it is  one  that  is  being general­
ly  adopted  throughout  the  country. 
In 
New  York  lettuce  used  to  be  sold by  the 
bushel,  but  the  quotations  are  this  sea­
son  beginning  to  appear  by  the  pound, 
indicating  that  the  Eastern  growers  are 
adopting  the  Grand  Rapids  style. 
In 
Chicago  the  custom 
is  to  sell  by  the 
dozen  heads,  and  Chicago  still  sticks 
to  this  custom,  although  there  are  oc­
casional  signs  of  a  break  to  the  more 
rational  way.  Selling  by  weight  will, 
undoubtedly,  in  time  become  universal, 
because  it  is  the  only  really  satisfactory 
way  of  handling 
lettuce,  either  to  the 
grower,  dealer  or consumer.

lettuce 

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Dry Goods

M a g n itu d e   o f  the  U m b re lla  

in  T h is   C o u n try.

Ind ustry 

More  than  one-half  of  the  umbrellas 
used 
in  this  country  are  produced  in 
Philadelphia,  and  the  distinction  of  the 
Quaker  City 
in  this  respect  is  no  new 
thing,  for 
it  has  passed  almost  into  a 
proverb  throughout  the  United  States 
that  “ when  the  Quakers  come  to  town 
it  is  going  to  rain.”   Very  few  persons 
idea  of  the  extent  of 
have  any  correct 
the  umbrella  business 
in  the  United 
States. 
in  a  year,  taking 
the  retail  figures,  to  $25,000,000.  There 
in  this  country  500  umbrella  facto­
are 
ries,  having  an 
invested  capital  of 
$6,000,000,  of  which  more  than  $3,000,- 
000 
is 
the  city  of  Philadelphia 
alone. 
New  York,  Massachusetts, 
Maryland,  and  Ohio  are  the  other  States 
which  are 
in  the 
manufacture  of  umbrellas,  while  all  the 
states  are 
represented,  although  un­
evenly,  in  their  sale.

largely  represented 

It  amounts 

in 

For  many  years  some  of  the  best  um­
brellas  were  imported  from  abroad,  es­
pecially  from  England,  and  the  rate  of 
duty  upon  them  prior  to  1890  was  50 
per  cent,  ad  valorem 
if  covered  with 
silk  or  alpaca  and  40  per  cent,  if  cov­
ered  with  any  other  material,  cotton  or 
linen  included.  Under  the  tariff  of  1890 
— the  McKinley  bill,  so  called—Ameri­
can  umbrella  manufacturers  were  fa­
vored  by  an 
increase  in  the  duty  of  5 
per  cent.,  the  rate  upon  silk  and  alpaca 
covered  umbrellas  being  55  per  cent, 
and  on  those  covered  with  other  mater­
ial  45  per  cent.  Since  then  the  impor­
tations  of  English  umbrellas  have  de­
clined,  although  this  change 
is  not  to 
be ascribed wholly  to the  workings of the 
tariff,  but  rather  to  the  fact  that  Ameri­
can-made  umbrellas 
are  decidedly 
cheaper  and  quite  as  serviceable  as 
those 
imported  from  other  countries. 
Moreover,  they  have  the  additional  ad­
vantage  of  being  lighter  and  less  cum­
bersome,  and  are  not  constructed  to 
meet  the  requirements  of  hard  and  con­
tinuous  usage,  as  is  the  general  custom 
abroad ;  for  the  number  of  those  who al­
ways 
is  materially 
larger  on  the  other  side  than  it  is  here. 
The  American  plan  is  to  carry  umbrel­
is  raining  or  seems 
las  only  when 
likely  to  rain,  and 
is  a  matter  of 
common  observation  in  American  cities 
that  there  are  more  men  who  neglect, 
omit,  or  are  unable  to  get  umbrellas  on 
rainy  days  than  there  are  men  who 
carry  umbrellas  when  the  weather  is 
fair.  This  condition  is  exactly  reversed 
in  most  European  cities,  wbete  it  is  no 
uncommon  thing  to  see  many  umbrellas 
carried  on  a  bright,  clear  day.  The 
average  rainfall  in  inches  is  25  in  Lon­
don,  23 
in  Berlin,  20  in 
Vienna,  17  in  St.  Petersburg,  and  44  in 
Glasgow.  The  average  in  New  York  is 
about  40  inches,  but  the  number  of days 
in  which  there 
is  some  rain  is  larger 
abroad  than  it  is  here.

carry  umbrellas 

in  Paris,  24 

it 

it 

There  are 

in  the  United  States  more 
than  8,000  persons  (the  larger  number 
of  them  men)  engaged  in umbrella man­
ufacture,  and  the  total  wages  paid  in  a 
year  in  this  branch  of  American  indus­
try  exceeds  $4,000,000.  What  peculiar 
merit  the  city  of  Philadelphia  offers  to 
umbrella  makers 
is  not  easily  stated. 
The  materials  which  enter 
into  um­
brella  manufacture  are  not  procurable 
with  any  unusual  advantage  in  Phila­
delphia  and  the  chief  market  of  sale 
is 
New  York.

T h e  D ry  G oods  M a rk e t.

Staple  Cottons—Brown  osnaburgs  and 
ducks  continue  quiet,  without  material 
change  in  prices.  Bleached cottons have 
been 
in  moderate  request.  Prices  are 
without  change  at  first  hands,  but  with 
jobbers  there 
is  some  irregularity  rul­
ing.  Only  moderate  sales  of  wide  sheet­
ings  have  been  made during  the  week, 
but  prices  bold  steady.  Denims  are 
in 
steady  demand,  coming  from  the  cut­
ting  up  trades,  and  with  stocks  in  good 
shape  prices  are  generally  firm.  Ticks

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

are  quitt  auu  unchanged. 
i'iaius  have 
sold  well  as  a  rule,  with  prices  holding 
firm.  Cheviots,  cottonades  and  checks 
and  stripes  are  without  prominent  fea­
ture.

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  most grat­
ifying  feature  of  the  week  in  the  de­
mand  for  prints  and  ginghams  is  the 
good  distribution  going  forward  from 
second  hands.  Each  day  has  witnessed 
a  steady  supply  of  orders  coming  for­
ward,  which,  while  small 
individually, 
in  the  aggregate  make  up  a  good  total 
sales  for  the  week.  Regular  fancy  cal­
icoes  have  figured  to  a  fair  extent  in 
these  and  are  doing  somewhat  better 
than  a  few  weeks  ago.  The  market 
is 
without  material  change  either  in  tone 
or  price  and  all  leading  makes  are  gen­
erally  steady.  Shirting  prints  are  well 
situated  and  mostly  well sold up.  Indigo 
blues  rule  quiet  and  without special fea­
ture.  Turkey  reds  and  staples  still  show 
some 
in  price,  but  this  is 
no  more  pronounced  than  a  week  ago. 
Blacks  and  whites  and  grays  are  in  fair 
demand.  Satines  are  showing  fair  re­
sults.  Both  the  low  and  the  finer  grades 
of  sheer  fabrics  continue  to  show  fair 
results,  a  steady  demand  of  goodly  pro­
portions 
Printed 
napped  fabrics  are  quiet.

irregularity 

forward. 

coming 

Hosiery— Staples  have  been  attracting 
more  attention  than  they  have  for  some 
time,  a  fact  which  we  apprehend  has 
its  cause 
in  that  buyers  have  filled  up 
pretty  well  with  fancy  hosiery,  and  are 
awakening  somewhat  to  the  fact  that 
man  can  not  live  by  fancy  hose  alone. 
The  standard  of  the  goods  has  been well 
maintained,  as  far  as  we  can  observe, 
which  we  wish  were  also  the  case  with 
domestic  goods ;  and  goods  of 
inferior 
design,  material  or  construction  meet 
with 
little  success.  Buyers  are  very 
discriminating  when  prices  are  ad­
vanced,  and  only  the  best  can  hold  their 
attention.  Business  for  fall  is  coming 
in  rapidly  now,  and  the  aggregate  of 
business  will  not  be  inferior  to  the  av­
erage.

than 

Woolen  Goods—There  is  a much  firm­
er  and  more  encouraging  tone  to  the 
woolen  market  this  week 
that 
which  has  ruled  recently.  This 
is  due 
in  part  to  the  better  feeling  existing 
among  the  clothing  manufacturers,  who, 
on  account  of  the  pleasant  weather 
which  has  for  the  past  few  weeks  pre­
vailed 
in  nearly  every  section  of  the 
country,  have  been  besieged  with  tele­
grams  to  hurry  forward  shipments  of 
spring  clothing,  and  they  have  also  re­
ceived  not  a  few  duplicate  orders  on 
goods  which  have  been  shipped  earlier 
in  the  season.

Underwear—The  finer  underwear  end 
of  the  market  is  receiving  some  atten­
tion  at  this  time,  and  fairly  good  orders 
are  being  booked.  These  lines,  as  a 
rule,  command  a  trade  that 
is  not  so 
much  affected  by  advances  in  price, 
and  the  effect  of  deterioration  in  con­
struction  and  quality  is  not  so  obvious 
in  them.

O pposed  to   Any  R estrictio n.

While  German  agriculturists  are  en­
deavoring  to  shut  out  American  food 
products,  the  industrial  and commercial 
classes  are  bitterly  opposed  to  any  arti­
ficial  restrictions  of  the  food  supply, 
urging  that  the  failure  of  European har­
vests  has  so  increased  the  cost  of  food 
that  the  situation  of  the  city  laboring 
classes  is  becoming  desperate,  and  that 
only  free  and  profuse  importations  can 
avert  famine  before  another  crop  can 
be grown.

If  some  men  would  remember  the 
answers  to  half  the  questions  they  ask, 
they  would  have  a  liberal  education.

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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 
sale,  send  us  the  pattern  number,  size 
of  room  or  quantity  wanted  and  we will 
ship your order the same day as  received 
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OVER  3,000  D EALERS  are  now  han-  jSJ 
dling our carpets profitably.  Let us start  w. 
you to success.

For One  Dollar 

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The  Pretty 

Girl

is  always  on  the  lookout  for 
the  latest. 
Plaids  and  Stripes  in  Ribbons  are  the 
proper  thing  just  now.  Our  first  big  pur­
chase nearly  sold,  but  we  have  another  lot 
on  the  way.  We  are  also  showing  some 
novel  things in the  line of Jewelry, Belts and 
Kid  Gloves.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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In  Black,  Colored,  Stripes,  Polka-dots and  Plaids.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Sale  M ade  at 

the  S to ckin g   C o u n te r 

to   a  P oor  S hop per.

He 

looked 

good-tempered, 

even 
afiable,  and  his  immaculate  dress,  care­
fully  curled  mustache,  and  carefully 
turned-up  trousers  betokened  him  a 
well-balanced 
likely  to  do 
nothing  precipitate,  even  under  stess 
of  circumstances.

individual 

‘  These—ah,  this  pair  with  the  all- 
over  red  tops— they  will  wear well?”   he 
asked  of  the  shop  girl,  who  was  unfold­
ing  yards  of  stockings  for  his  inspec­
tion.

‘ ‘ Good,  lightweight,  all  silk,”   quoted 
the  girl  in  the  tone  of  a  person  who  has 
said  the  same  thing  so  often  that  the 
words  have  lost  significance.

The 

red-topped 

stockings  were 
dropped  and  a  pair  with  orange  and 
green  up  and  down  stripes  staring 
enough  to  set  the  observing  faculties  on 
edge  was  taken  in  hand  and  examined 
narrowly.

"A re  stripes  worn  much  just  now.1’”  
he  questioned,  as  he  ran  his  hand  down 
into  the  stocking  and  stretched  out  his 
fingers  critically.

“ Quite  a  good  deal,”   answered  the 

girl.

“ Do  you  like  them?”
“ For  some  people  I  like  them,”   was 
the  answer,  “ but  for  any  one  who  was 
slender  I  would  not  advise— ”   Then 
she  stopped,  and  ever  so  faint  a  pink 
rose  in  her  cheeks.

The  shopper  toyed  with  the  stripes 

as  if  half  inclined,  half  opposed.

“ This  pair 

in  blue  with  silver  bars 
and  openwork  checks—they  are  nice; 
$1.75,”   suggested  the girl.

“ Bars  running  round  and  round,”  
“ Do  you  ad­

murmured  the  customer. 
vise  them?”

“ I  don’t  know  anything  about  it,”  
“ I  only  know  what's 

was  the  answer. 
pretty. ’ ’

The  silver  bars  were  pulled  trans­
versely,  just  as  the  other  patterns  had 
been,  and  then  the  man  dropped  them 
and  stuffed  both  hands  in  his  pockets, 
running  them deep down as  if to get hold 
of  some  hard-to-be-arrived-at  conclu­
sion.

“ Much  obliged,”   he  said,  affably. 
“ Now,  would  it  be  too  much  trouble for 
you  to  show  me  the  plaids,  the  all-over 
plaids. 

I  rather  like  them.”

“ Without  black 

feet,  $1.87^.  Come 

this  way.”

He  carried  his  carefully  furled  um­
brella  four  yards  further  up  the  store 
aisle  and  settled  it  against  a  projecting 
box  opposite  where  the girl  was  getting 
out  the  plaids.  A  gay  pair  in  peacock 
blue  and  checked  green  and  gold  took 
his  eye,  but  this  time  he  did  not  run his 
hand  down  into  the  stocking  as  though 
to  look  for  holes;  he  took  it  up  double, 
just  below  the  top,  and tested  the  width.

“ Do  these  give  much?”   he  asked.
“ I  think  so,”   said  the  girl,  with  an­
influx  of  pink 
in  her  cheeks. 
is,  they  are  as  elastic  as  most 

other 
“ That 
well-made  silk  stockings.”

The  man  pulled  the  width  of  plaid 
to  its  utmost  and  regarded  it  critically. 
Then  he  took  up  a  pair  wrought  in  old 
rose  and  delicate  blue  and  tested  the 
width  of  that  also  near  the  top.

“ If  I  thought  they  would  do— ”   he 

said  with  a  speculative  air.

“ Here’s  a  pair  with  more  black  in 
the  pattern,”   spoke  up  the girl,  who be­
gan  to  realize  that  her  sale  perhaps 
hung  in  jeopardy.  Two  or  thiee  women 
waiting  to  get  stockings  looked  on  in­
terestedly.

“ Oh!  the  patterns  do  all  right,”   said 
the  customer,  “ but—, ”   and  he  took  up 
the  blue,  green  and  gold  pair  again  and 
tried  the  width  at  the  top.

“ These  are  the  usual  size?”  he asked.
“ You  wished  them  for  a  No.  3  shoe; 
those  are  the  usual  size,”   was  the  re­
ply,  with  the  pink 
in  the  pale  cheeks 
rapidly  growing  carmine.

The  customer  again  dropped  every­
into  his  trousers 
in 

thing  to  dive  deep 
pockets.  There  was  agony  of  doubt 
his  expression  and  attitude.

“ Really,  on  my  word,”   he  said,  “ I 
don't  like  to  trouble  you  so  much,  but 
I ’m  bothered  about  the  size.”

“ Can  be  exchanged 

suit,”   urged  the  girl. 

if  they  don’t 

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“ Oh! 

I  know  the  feet  would  fit,”  
groveling  and  grinding  in  the  depths  of 
his  pocket  for  resolution,  “ but  you  see 
I’m  not  a  very  good  shopper,  and  if  you 
don't  mind— now  would  those  tops  be 
comfortable  for  a 
lady,  say,  of  yout 
size?”

The  red  in  the  girl’s  cheeks  mounted 
to  her  brow  and  receded,  but  she  stuck 
to  her  guns  bravely.

j ‘ I  think  they  would,”   she  answered 
in  good

steadily. 
“ The  stocking 
proportion,  I’m  quite  sure.”

“ Then  give  me  one  pair,”   came  the 

is 

decision. 
gold  bars  in  the  plaid.”

“ Those  with  the  broader

The  girl  picked  out  and  folded  over 
the  purchase;  but,  as  she  bent  over  her 
register  book  to  jot  down  the  sale,  the 
carmine  still  stained  her  cheeks,  where 
it  had  settled 
in  two  vivid  spots  after 
the  ordeal,  and  her  hair  had  the  ap­
pearance  of  a  person  who  has  been  flus­
tered.

“ Did  you  make  that  sale?”   asked  an­
other  stocking-seller,  as  the  man  took 
his  parcel  and  his  furled  umbrella  out 
of  the  way.

“ Blooming 

idiot!  All  that  fuss  for 

one  pair,”   snapped  the  girl.

L e cture d 

to   D eath— C rushed  by  a 
F lo o r  W a lke r.

“ I  don’t  wonder  that  real  manly  men 
object  to  lagging  around  with  wife,  or 
sister,  or  sweetheart  on  a  shopping  ex­
cursion,”   said  a  tired,  mussed-up,  and 
thoroughly  disconsolate  little woman  the 
other  day.  She  had  been  trod  on,  she 
continued,  “ by  great  big  women,  who 
simply  elbow  a  little  person  like  me  out 
of  the  way  of  the  bargain  counters,  and 
then  I  have  been  held  up  and  crushed 
to  boot. ’ ’

Invited  to  tell  her  troubles  in  detail, 
the  little  woman  went  on:  “ Well,  I 
wish  the  managers  of  these  big  stores 
had  to  go  around  in  petticoats just once. 
They’d  sympathize  with  us  women then. 
-To  day  I  wanted  especially  to  look  at 
some new  spring  goods,  cballies  and  so 
on,  you  know.  Then  1  had  to  visit  the 
corset  department  as  well.  Right  there 
I  was  held  up.  For  some  reason  I  am 
unable  to  fathom,  the  merchants  allow 
manufacturers  of  proprietary  articles  to 
put  their  goods  on  exhibition  and  to 
in  the 
send  a  young  girl  or  man  along 
capacity  of  lecturer  or  barker. 
I  struck 
three  of  these  department  store  lectur­
ers  to-day.  One  delivered  a  long  ha­
rangue to me on the hygienic excellencies 
of  a  corset  she exhibited ;  another  dwelt 
on  the  virtues  of  a  new  skirt lining,  and 
a  third  almost  browbeat  me  into  buying 
a  new  bicycle.  Oh,  I  was  mad  clear 
through.

stores, 

it,”   con­
“ That  was  not  the  worst  of 
“ I  hap­
tinued  the  hectored  shopper. 
in  one  of  the 
pened  to  think,  while 
largest  department 
that  we 
needed  a  box  of  poker  chips  at  home, 
just  to  use  for  fun,  you  know,  in  our 
little  social  games  of  hearts  and  euchre. 
Well,  I  asked  one  of  the  salesmen  to di­
rect  me  to  the  proper  department.  He 
graciously  turned  me  over  to  an  im­
posing  floor  walker,  one  of  the  most im­
pressive  of  his  class.  He  looked  pos­
itively  shocked  when  I  asked  him : 
‘ Where  do  you  keep  the  playing  cards 
and  poker  chips?’

‘ Madam,’  he sternly replied,  ‘ poker 
chips  and  playing  cards  are  not  per­
mitted  to  be  sold  in  this establishment. ’
“ I  stammered  out,  ‘ Well,  you  have  a 
celluloid department,  haven’t you?  May­
be  I  can  get  the  chips  there.’

caressingly, 

“ That  awful  man  stroked  his  flowing 
whiskers 
towered  above 
poor  little  me,  and  crushed  me  com­
pletely. 
I  had  added,  ‘ I  know  I  can 
get  them  at  So  &  So’s,  and  I  thought  I 
might,  that  is,  I  trade here,  and—-and— ’ 
That  was  as  far  as  he  allowed me  to get.
‘ poker 
chips  and  other  gambling  devices  may 
be  had  at  So-and-Sa’s,  but  not  here. 
Good-day. ’

"   ‘ Yes,  madam,’  he 

said, 

“ I  know  I 

like  a  guilty, 
looked 
bunted,  cheap  gambler. 
I  must  have.
I  sneaked  out of  that  store  and  forgot all 
about  the  corsets  and  the  spring  dress 
goods, ’ ’  concluded  the  shopper.

M atchless  R ibbon.

The  lady—Can you match  this  piece of 

ribbon?

The  gent— No,  lady.  You  may  re­
it  was  one  of  the  match­

member  that 
less  bargains  we  ran  last  Monday.

M achines  fo r  M a kin g  M atches.
Some  of  the  machines  for  making 
matches  make  200  revolutions  a  minute 
each,  and  turn  out  2,500,000  matches  a 
day,  or about  qoo.ooo.ooo  annually.

We  sell  full  standard  fancy  prints 

P.  St e k e t e e   &  Sons.

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Is sold in  every state and territory by our 
agents who furnish  the desired sizes from 
ourgreat warehouses.
We want more good agents in towns and 
cities where  we are not  now  represented.
Men’s suits,  $4.00  to  §15.00;  Boys’  suits 
$8.00 to §10.00.  Men’s pants 75c to $4.00.
Complete  outfit  free.  Write  for  par­
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All  ready  to  lay.  Needs 
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Is odorless, absolutely  waterproof,  will 

resist fire and  the action of acids.

Can  be  used  over  shingles  of  steep 
Will  outlast  tin  or  iron  and  is  very 

roofs, or is suitable for flat roofs.
much cheaper.

Try our pure

ASPHALT  PAINT

For coating tin, iron or ready 
roofs.  Write for prices.

H.  M.  REYNOLDS &  SON,
Grand Rapids Office, Louis and Campau Sts. 
Detroit Office. Foot of Third St.
Established 1780.

Walter Baker & Go. LOL-

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

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 
among  the  Philistines  with  a jawbone.

Behold!  Michigan’s  Worthy  Congressman  slew  and  put  to  flight 
with  his  good  umbrella  1867  Spaniards.  The  rest  of  his  committee 
coming  to  his  assistance,  enough  fillers  were  secured  to  last  the  manu­
facturers  of  S.  C.  W.  cigars  until  the  bloody  war  will  be  over.

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f  M e rchan ts.

Moorland— Beers  Bros,  succeed  E.  L. 

Beers  in  general  trad  .

Hancock—J.  Pinter  is  putting  a  steel 

ceiling  on  his  hardware  store.

Wheeler—A.  P.  Foland  has  sold  his 

general  stock  to  S.  M.  Foland.

Decatur—E.  Arnold  &  Son  continue

the  meat  business  of  Edward  Arnold.

Clare— Halstead &  Becker succeed E l­

mer  Halstead  in  the grocery business.

Alpena—Jos.  Gagnon,  Jr.,  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  Michael  Kotwicki.
Bangor— Silver  &  Hanson  succeed 
Elmer  Westfall  in  the  grocery  business.
Marquette— H.  J.  Koepp  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  Peter  Maier.
Orion—S.  W.  Southwick  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  B.  G.  Monk- 
man.

Ovid— H.  D.  Treat,  grocer  on  Main 
and  Williams  streets,  has  closed  out  his 
stock.

Rose  City—John  L.  Winchester  has 
purchased  the  general  stock  of  John 
Dillon.

Omer— Lizzie  (Mrs.  A.  M .)  Arm­
strong,  shoe  dealer,  has  removed  to  St. 
Charles.

Cadillac— Rbeuman  &  Kennedy  suc­
ceed  Kennedy  &  Maxwell  in  the  meat 
business.

Alma— Wright  &  Willard,  grocers, 
have  dissolved  partnership,Fred  Wright 
succeeding.

Detroit— Hoffman  Bros,  continue  the 
grocery  and  hardware  business  of  Cas­
per  Hoffman.

Scott’s— Wilson  &  Gilson  succeed  H. 
imple­

in  the  agricultural 

E.  Wilson 
ment  business.

Handerson— W.  W.  Palmer  has  sold 
an  interest  in  his  hardware  business  to 
Ernest  Con vis.

Alma— Fred  P.  Wright 

succeeds 
in  the grocery  and 

Wright  &  Willard 
bakery  business.

Lake  Linden—Miss  J.  Friedericks 
has  purchased  the  millinery  stock  of 
Miss  Mary  Currie.

Hart—L.  P.  Hyde  &  Co.,  boot  and 
shoe  dealers,  have  dissolved,  L.  P. 
Hyde  succeeding}

Gladstone—Cbas.  H.  Scott  & Son suc­
ceed  Scott  &  Mason  in  the  house  fur­
nishing  goods  business.

Saginaw— W.  E.  Robey  succeeds 
in  the 

(Mrs.  W.  E .)  Robey 

Ellen  C. 
boot  and  shoe  business.

Vicksburg— Wm.  Welsh  has  removed 
from  Mendon  to  this  place  and  opened 
a  bakery  and  restaurant.

Berrien  Springs— J.  H.  Sparks  &  Son 
succeed  John  H.  Sparks  in  the  lumber, 
flour  and  produce  business.

Leslie—-Ernie  Clark  has  purchased 
in  the 

interest  of  C.  D.  Clement 

the 
bakery  business  at  this  place.

Lansing— Frank  Spauier  has 

pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  H.  H.  Cur­
tis,  at  118  Washington  avenue,  south.

Sturgis—The  name  of  the  Snyder shoe 
store,  recently  purchased  by  Smith  & 
Ream,  has  been  changed  to  the  Hub.

Sand  Beach—Leszcynski  &  Co.,  gen­
eral  dealers,  have  merged  their business 
ifito a  corporation  under  the  same  style.
Richmond—Cooper  &  Son  Co.  is  the 
name  of  the  concern  which  continues 
the  general  store  business  of  Cooper  & 
Son.

interest 

Ann  Arbor— Bert  E.  Holmes  has  sold 
his 
in  the  agricultural  imple­
ment  business  of  the  Hurd-Holmes  Co. 
to  J.  H.  Boyle,  the  members  of  the  new 
firm  being  Ernest  Hurd  and  J.  H. 
Boyle.

Reed  City—T.  V.  Childs  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to Andrew Sturtevant,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Byron— A.  W.  Hoisington  has  re­
moved  his  stock  of  drugs  to  the  Orr 
store  and  added  a  stock  of  crockery  and 
glassware.

Houghton—J.  H.  Zealand,  formerly 
Vice-President  of  the  Soo  Hardware 
Co.,  will  associate  himself  with  F.  S. 
Carlton 
in  the  hardware  buisness  at 
this  place.

Calumet—The  Carlton  Hardware  Co. 
has  put 
in  an  acetylene  gas  plant  to 
light  its  store—the  first  one  in  this  part 
of  the  State.

Manton—Olof  Brink  has  engaged  as 
salesman  at  the  new  store  of  Frank 
Smith,  which  will  be  opened  at  Tustin 
about  April  i.

Roscommon— A.  C.  Sly  has  purchased 
the  dry  goods  and  shoe  stock  of  J.  H. 
Sly  and  will  continue  business  at  the 
same  location.

Harrison— Michael  Fanning continues 
the  grocery,  hardware,  shoe  and  furni­
ture  business  formerly  conducted  by 
Fanning  &  Co.

Detroit—Wolff  H.  Keidan,  formerly 
engaged  in  general  trade  at  Lake  City, 
has  opened  a  department 
store  on 
Gratiot  avenue.

Central  Lake—Underwood  J.  Ackley, 
formerly  engaged  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness  at  Copemish,  has  opened  a  hard­
ware store  at  this  place.

Ludington— Bradl  &  Wilcox,  hard­
ware  dealers,  have  dissolved  partner­
ship.  Frank  Bradl  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Lake  Odessa— Levi  Blough  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  interest  of  J. 
G.  Ralston,  and  the  new  firm  will  be 
known  as  Ingall  &  Blough.

Alma—J.  B.  Parker  and  E.  E.  Huff 
have  formed  a  copartnership  and  will 
continue  the  meat  business 
formerly 
conducted  by  J.  B.  Parker.

Muskegon— Frank  X.  Groleau, 

for 
several  years  employed  in  the  grocery 
store  of  O.  Lambert,  has  embarked  in 
the  grocery  business  at  142  Jefferson 
street.

Owosso—Cyrus  Reimer  has  completed 
a  deal  whereby  he  retires  from  the 
hardware  trade,  and  Mr.  Bloodgood,  of 
Wyandotte,  becomes  proprietor  of  the 
business.

Elk  Rapids—J.  W.  Balcom  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  Chas.  Vaughan,  for­
merly  engaged  in  the  drug  business  at 
Empire  under  the  style  of  Gidley  & 
Vaughan.

Empire—Chas.  Vaughan  has  retired 
from  the  drug 
of  Gidley  & 
Vaughan.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  by  the  remaining  partner  under 
the  style  of  R.  Gidley.

firm 

Thompsonvilie—C.  O. 

Smith  has 
filed  a  trust  mortgage  on  his  shoe  stock, 
securing  creditors  to  the  amount  of 
about  $1,000. 
Parm  C.  Gilbert,  of 
Traverse  City,  is  named  as  trustee.

Whitmore  Lake— H.  P.  Dodge  & 
Son,  general  dealers,  will  put  in  a  new 
store  front  and  add  30  feet  to  the  rear 
of  their  building,  and  also  reshelve  and 
overhaul  their  entire  establishment.

Borland— Eli  Lyons,formerly  engaged 
in  general  trade  at  Altona,  will  open  a 
general  store  at  this  place  ab»ut  April 
11,  placing  it in charge  of W.  W.  Smith. 
Mr.  Lyons  will  also  engage  in  trade  at 
some  other  point  as  soon  as  a  desirable 
location  can  be  decided  upon.

Detroit—F.  W.  R.  Perry,  the  Wood­
ward  avenue  druggist,  complains  to  the 
Mayor  that  the  Board  of  Education 
ig­
nored  his  bid  for  supplying  disinfect­

ants  to  the  schools  end  accepted  the 
higher  proposal  of  the  Strong Disinfect­
ant  Co.  He  avers  that  a  chemical  an­
alysis  shows  the  two  disinfectants  to  be 
equally  meritorious.  Mr.  Maybury  will 
investigate.

Muskegon— Miss  Emma  Neumeister, 
for  many  years  connected  with 
the 
Leahy  Company,  has  purchased  from 
Capt.  W.  J.  Inglis  the  stock  of  boots 
and  shoes  of  the  Economy  shoe  house, 
and  the  business  will  be  continued  at 
the  place  now  occupied  by  that  store.

Traverse  City— McLellan  &  Ash,  con­
fectioners,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
Geo.  McLellan  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  on  Front  street,  while  the  branch 
store,  on  Union  street,  has  been  pur­
chased  by  Geo.  Ash,  brother  of  John 
Ash,  formerly  a  member  of  the  firm.

consolidate 

Saginaw—The  King  &  Moore  Co. 
will 
their  Washington 
avenue  store  with  their  Jefferson  avenue 
store,  the  former  being  abandoned  the 
first  of  next  month.  Henry  King,  man­
ager  of  the  Washington  avenue  store, 
will  sever  his  connection  with  the  house 
at  that  time.

Hancock— Wendell  &  Schulte,  dry 
goods  dealers  and  grocers,  are  erecting 
an  addition  of  24  feet  in  length  to  the 
rear  of  their  store  building  and  exten­
sively  remodeling 
the  old  building. 
Michael  Funkey  &  Co.  are  also  making 
many 
improvements  in  their  building, 
among  which  is  a  new  plate-glass  front.
On way—W.  C.  Sterling  &  Son,  of 
Monroe,  have  purchased  a  lot  on  State 
street,  upon  which  they  will  erect  a 
30x60  foot  store  building  with  steel  sid­
ing  and  stone  front.  The  building  it  is 
understood  will  be  occupied  jointly  by 
Sriodys  and  the  Sterlings  with  drugs 
and  a  full  stock  of general merchandise.

M a nufa cturing  M a tters.

Detroit—Richard  H.  Hall  &  Co.  suc­
in  the  brick 

ceed  Richard  H.  Hall 
manufacturing  business.

Blissfield—The  Michigan  Hat  Co. 
has  begun  operations  under  the  man­
agement  of  Geo.  R.  Carpenter.

Morenci—Chas.  Fish  has  leased  the 
creamery  of  C.  C.  Wakefield  and  will 
operate  the  plant  to  its  full  capacity.

Reed  City— Lee  Caldwell  and  Fred. 
Schalow  have  formed  a  copartnership 
for  the  manufacture  of  wooden  bowls.

Houghton—O ’Connell  Bros,  have  be­
gun  the  manufacture  of  cigars  here  un 
der  the  style  of  the  Upper  Peninsula 
Cigar  Manufacturing  Co.

Owosso—C.  W.  Reed,  of  Oakley,  is 
the  inventor  of  a  reversible  plow  and 
will  shortly  erect  a  plant  in  this  city  for 
the  manufacture  of  bis  device.

Alma—Subscriptions  to  insure  the  re­
building  of  the  woolen  mills  which 
burned  some  months  ago  have  failed 
to  reach  the  necessary  amount,  and  the 
project  is  likely  to  fall  through.

Niles—C.  R.  Smith  has  purchased 
the  Deniston  planing  mill,  near  the  Big 
Four  tracks,  and 
in  all  probability  it 
will  be  converted  into  a  factory  for  the 
manufacture  of  a  patent  piano  stool,  the 
invention  of  Joseph  Snell.

New  Baltimore—The  New  Baltimore 
Creamery  Co.  has  contracted  for  the 
necessary  machinery,  to  be  delivered 
April  15. 
It  is expected  that  the  build­
ing  will  be  completed  so  that operations 
can  be  begun  by  May  1.

Gobleville—The  stock  for  the  new 
creamery  has  all  been  subscribed  and 
work  will  be  at  once  begun  upon  the 
erection  of  the  building  A  new  can­
nery  project 
is  also  anticipated  and, 
from  present  appearances,  it  will  soon 
materialize.

Ludington—The  Pere  Marquette  Can­
ning  Co.  will  start  up  this  season  after 
several  years  of  idleness.  The  manag­
ers  could  not  agree  with  the  farmers  on 
the  question  of  prices. 
is  well 
equipped  with  modern  machinery.

It 

Howard  City— E.  A.  Soules  has  sold 
his 
interest 
in  the  Howard  City  Table 
Co. 
to  J.  M.  Totten.  Messrs.  Brande- 
bury  and  Totten,  the  new  proprietors, 
aie  both  practical  workmen  and 
intend 
to  push  the  business  energetically.

in 

log 

Alpena— N.  Fletcher  &  Sons  have cut 
this  vicinity.  The 
their  last 
Fletcher  timber  was  the  first  to  be  oper­
ated  in  this  region,  and  the  fact  that  it 
required  forty:tbree  years  to  cut  it  all 
shows  how  extensive  were  the  holdings.
Muskegon— F.  M.  Spaulding,  of  Kal­
amazoo,  has  completed  the  construction 
of  one  of  his 
improved  patented  gas 
engines  at  the  Lakeside  Iron  company 
and  negotiations  are  now  being  made 
by  that  company  with  the  Chamber  of 
Commerce for  capital  to  back  a  concern 
for  the  manufacture  of  the  enigne.

Jackson— Eber  L.  Peek,  who  recently 
disposed  of  his  lumber  business to  Hey- 
ser  &  Walker,  has  opened  a  new 
lum­
ber  yard  at  the  corner  of  Mechanic  and 
Trail  streets,  which  is  to  be  known  as 
the  “ Log  Cabin’ ’ 
lumber  yard.  Suit­
able  buildings  are 
in  process  of  erec­
tion.  The  office  building  will  be  con­
structed  of  pine  logs,  which  will  give 
the  yard  its  name.

Hides,  Pelts,  Furs,  T a llo w   and  W ool.
Hides  have  declined  from the extreme 
high  prices  ruling  for  some  time  past. 
There  has  been  little  profit  to  the  tan­
ner  and,  as the  quality  fell  off  on  spring 
take-off,  they  got  very  tired  working 
it.  Nine  cents 
is  all  they  care  to  pay 
for  buffs  and  cows,  and  hold  out  over 
this  price,  which  is  a  decline  of  ic  per 
pound.  The  market 
is  not  strong  at 
this,  nor  is  there  any  great  supply.

The  take-off  of  pelts  has  been  large 
from  Western  sheep  at  stock  yards. 
Prices  at  the  Far West  for  mutton  sheep 
have  tempted  the  flock  masters  and they 
have  sold  freely,  while  our  home  farm­
ers  prefer  to 
increase  their  flocks  and 
are,  consequently,  not  free sellers.  Pull­
ers  find  hard  work  to  obtain  supplies  at 
any  price  to  keep  running.  There  are 
some  large  stocks  of  pelts  accumulated, 
but  at  prices  above  the  present  market. 
Holders  are  not  inclined  to  let  go  at  a 
loss,  as  they  have  faith 
in  the  future 
and  could  not  replace  at  lower  prices.

Furs  at  the  London  sales  showed  an 
advance  over  March, 
1897,  but  this 
price  did  not  cover  the  price  antici­
pated,  which  forces  a  decline  in  prices 
that  have  been  paid.  The  spring  catch 
is 
light,  apparently,  and  the  quality 
poor,  due  to  an  open  winter.  Buyers 
are  not  anxious,  a  quiet  market  thereby 
ensuing.

Tallow  tends  downward,  leaving  the 
is  no  kick  to 

market  lifeless.  There 
the  trade.

Wools  are  firm  on  a  dull,  dragging 
market.  There  are  not  sales  enough  to 
make  a  price  changeable  from  former 
quotations.  An  occasional  holder  gets 
tired  and  sells  a  little  by  concession  to 
a  manufacturer  who  wishes  a  small 
amount  to  piece  out.  The  result  is 
stagnation  of  business  in  thisJine,  mak­
ing  the  reported  sales 
the  lowest  on 
record.  One  and  a  half  million  was  sold 
last  week,  against  12,500,000  during  the 
same  time  last  year  in  Eastern markets. 
There  is  nothing  doing  in  the  State and 
there are  no  enquiries.  Wm.  T.  H e ss.

If  some  men  were  to  lose  their  repu­

tation,'-they  would  be  lucky.

M ICH IG A N   TRADESMAN

5

Qrand  Rapids  Gossip

Barker  &  Colby  succeed  S.  A.  Barker 
iu  the  agricultural  implement  business.
John  Rowson  is  succeded  by  U.  G. 
Hayes  as  manager  of  the  Clark-Rowson 
Lumber  Co.

David  Flatau  succeeds  E.  S.  Flatau 
&  Co.  in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  at 
32  Monroe  street.

R.  C.  DeHart  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Amsden.  The  Musselman  Gro- 
er  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Palm  &  Sunberg  have  embarked 

in 
the  grocery  business  at  Cadillac.  The 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

Manning  Bros,  have  opened  a grocery 
store  on  Wealthy  avenue.  The  Lemon 
&  Wheeler  Company 
the 
stock.

furnished 

The  Adie-Franklin  Hardware  Co. 
succeeds  Adie  &  Dorland  in  the  hard­
ware  business  at  1265  South  Division 
street.

R.  E.  Mablo,  dealer  in  furniture  and 
hardware  at  Riverdale,  has  added  a 
line  of  groceries.  The  Worden  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Gisler  &  Fritz  have  purchased  the 
machinery  and  patterns  of  the Chocolate 
Cooler  Co.  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness 
in  connection  with  their  wagon 
business.

J.  A.  Kenning  has  retired  from  the 
Klein  &  Kenning  Manufacturing  Co., 
manufacturers  of  patent  pails  at  56 
Canal  street.  The  style  of  the  concern 
will  remain  the  same.

Albert  Stonehouse  has  sold  his  drug 
stock  at  35  West  Leonard  street  to  Clar­
ence  R.  Vanderpool,  who  has  been 
identified  with  the  establishment  for 
many  years  in  the  capacity  of  prescrip­
tion  clerk.

The  Tradesman  again  wishes  to  cau­
tion 
its  readers  against  having  any 
business  dealings  with  the  DeWitt 
Produce  Co.,  of  Springfield,  Ohio,  as 
experience  has  demonstrated  that  the 
paying  department  of  the  institution 
is 
badly  out  of  gear.

Hirtb,  Krause  &  Co.  are  now  pleas­
antly  settled 
in  their  new  block  on 
South  Ionia  street.  They  have  arranged 
the  premises  with  especial  reference  to 
their  business  and  confidently  believe 
they  are  able  to  show  their  friends  a 
model  establishment.
The  wool  season 

in  Michigan  will 
open  about  the  middle  of  May,  and,  as 
compared  with  a  clip  of  between 6,000, - 
000 and  7,000,000  pounds  last  season,  it 
is  expected  that  upwards  of  10,000,000 
pounds  will  be  marketed.  The  farmers 
the  past  two  years  have  been cultivating 
their  flocks  and  the  increased product  is 
the  natural  result.  Up  to  two  or  three 
large  proportion  of  the 
years  ago  a 
Michigan  clip  came 
into  the  market 
washed,  but  the  expectation  now  is  that 
fully  three-fourths  of  it  will  be  offered 
in  the  unwashed  condition  this  season. 
The  buyers  have  been  urging  this  for 
the  past  two  seasons,  because  it  saves 
them  the  necessity  of  so  closely 
in­
specting  each  fleece  to  guard  against 
tags,  refuse  and  other  extraneous  matter 
which  they  have  learned  by  experience 
creeps  into  the  washed  fleeces  in  amaz­
ing  quantities  unless  guarded  against. 
The  farmers,  also,  have  come  to  look 
upon  the  washing  operation  as  one  that

does  not  pay.  The  washed  wool  com­
mands  5  or  6  cents  a  pound  higher 
price,  but,  with  the  reduced  weight  of 
the  fleece,  the  net  return  is  only  10  or 
15  cents  for  each  sheep,  and  this  does 
not  pay  for  the  work,  nor  for  the  risk  of 
injuring  the  sheep.  The  opening  price 
this  season  will  probably  be  14  to  18  or 
20  cents  a  pound.  Michigan  has  no 
distinctive  wool  center  or  market,  but 
when  the  season  opens  buyers  go  out  to 
all  the  small  towns  to  pick  up  the  offer­
ings. 

m  m  m

The  P roduce  M a rke t.

Apples— Home  grown  Northern  Spys 
and  Baldwins,  fancy  stock,  command 
$5  per  bbl.

Bananas—The  market  is  very  firm  at 
the  prices  that  have  been  quoted  for 
several  weeks.  The  movement  is  very 
good,  receipts  being  steady,  and  the 
demand  being  steady.  Values  are  ad­
vancing  at  ports  of  entry.
Beans—Jobbers  pay  6o@7oc  for  coun­
try  cleaned,  holding  city  picked  at  go 
@920  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  somewhat 
stronger  than  a  week  ago,  although  lo­
cal  dealers  still  hold  fancy  at  14c  and 
choice  at  13c.  Factory  creamery  com­
mands 
to 
higher  prices  and  possibly  short  sup­
plies  before  grass  butter  cuts  any  figure 
on  the  market.

Indications  point 

i8j£c. 

Cabbage—$2.50  per  100.
Carrots—25c  per  bu.
Cucumbers—¿1.35  per  doz.  for  South­

ern  grown.

Eggs—Receipts  are  large,  but  local 
dealers  are  taking  all  offerings  on  the 
basis  of  7J^@8c  on  track.  The  receipts 
have  an  unusual  amount  of  pullets  and 
dirties,  but  an 
in  both 
respects  is  expected next week,  although 
the  price  may  drop  yic.

improvement 

Green  Onions— ioc.per  doz.
Honey—Dark  ranges 

from 

Light  stock  commands  12c.

g@ioc. 

Lemons—The  demand  is  very  good 
for  this  season  of  the  year,  with  favor 
being  shown  for  California  fruit.  No 
changes  are  to  be  noted  in  values.  Re­
ports 
lemons  are 
showing  much  better  prospects  for  a 
good  summer  yield  than  they  were  sixty 
days  ago.

from  the  coast  say 

ample  supply  at  15c.

Lettuce—Grand  Rapids  Forcing  is  in 
Onions— Dry  stock  has  declined  to 

Oranges—The  movement 

75C-
is  active. 
The  stock 
is  much  finer  than  it  was 
earlier  in  the  season.  There  is  now  no 
frosted  fruit  on  the  market,  as  that  has 
been  disposed  of  sometime  ago.  This 
better  stock  is  having  the  effect  to 
in­
crease  the  movement  of the fruit.  Prices 
continue  very 
low,  and  stocks  are  lib­
eral.  On  good  sized  orders  prices  are 
quoted  as  shaded  a  little.

Potatoes—The  market  is  weaker  and 
quotations 
in  most  markets  are  fully  5c 
lower  than  a  week  ago.  Local  buyers 
continue  to  pay  50c.

Radishes—25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Seeds—Timothy,  prime,  $i.4o@i.45 ; 
Medium 
clover,  $3@3-25;  Mammoth 
clover,  $3@3.40;  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—$3  per  case  of 6 baskets.
Vegetable  Oysters—20c  per  doz.

It  was  the  good fortune  of  the  Trades­
man  to  be  represented  at  the  fourth  an­
nual  banquet  of  the  Saginaw  Retail 
Grocers’  Associtaion,  which  was  held 
last  Wednesday  evening.  The  oc­
casion  was  an  unusually  enjoyable  one, 
P.  F.  Treanor  scoring  a  decided  suc­
cess  as  toastmaster  and  master  of  cere­
monies.  The  menu  was  superb  and  the 
speeches  were  above  the  average.

Gillies’  New  York  teas.  All  kinds, 
grades  and  prices.  Phone  Visner,  800.

B A N K   N O T E S .

R elations  o f  the  C le rk s  

to  

the  Sev­

eral  C ity   Institutions.

Those  whom  the  general  public  see 
behind  the  desks,  windows,  screens  and 
counters  of  the  banks  do  not  own  the 
institutions,  even  although  in  some  rare 
instances  such  an  impression  might  be 
gained  from  talking  with  them.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  comparatively  few  of 
those  actively  connected  with  the  banks 
in  this  city  have  any  proprietary 
inter­
est  in  them.  The  banks  are  “ owned”  
by  numerous  stockholders, 
the  stock­
holders  from  among  their  own  number 
elect  a  board  of  directors  and  the  direc­
tors  employ  the  cashier,  clerks  and 
other  attaches.  The  directors  are,  of 
course,  stockholders  and— in  theory,  at 
least—exercise  a  general 
supervision 
over  the  management  of  the  institution, 
but  those  whom  they  employ  to  do  the 
actual  work  are  not  necessarily  stock­
holders,  and  in  this  city  a  great  major­
ity  of  them  are  not.  In the Old  National 
Bank  only  three  of  those  actively  con­
nected  with  the  bank  are  stockholders, 
and  two  of  the  three  are  President  Bar­
nett  and  Cashiei  Hollister. 
In  the  Na­
tional  City  Bank  Cashier  Wylie  and  As­
sistant  Cashier  Hunt  are  the  only  stock­
holders.  None  of  those  connected  with 
the  Grand  Rapids  National  are  stock­
holders.  President Anderson  and  Cash­
ier  Seymour  are  the  only stockholders in 
the  Fourth  and  Cashier  Shinkman  is the 
only  one 
In  the  Kent 
County  Savings  Bank  Vice-President 
Idema  and  Cashier  Verdier  are  the  only 
stockholders,  the  Grand  Rapids  has  but 
two,  the  Peoples  three  and  the  State  two 
stockholders  actively 
The 
Michigan  Trust  Company  has  seven 
stockholders  among  its  employes,  which 
include  President  Withey  and  Secre­
tary  Hodenpyl,  and  all  but  one  of  those 
actively  connected  with  the  Peninsular 
Trust  Company  are  stockholders, 
the 
Peninsular  in  this  respect  being  an  ex­
ception.

in  the  Fifth. 

engaged. 

*  ^  *

In  some  of  the  banks  the  clerks  are 
encouraged  to  become  stockholders,  in 
none  of  them 
is  it  compulsory  and  in 
all  it  is  entirely  optional  with  the clerks 
themselves  whether  they  invest  or  not. 
That  more  of  them  do  not become stock­
holders  is  because  they  can  not  afford 
it,  or,  if  they  have  surplus  funds,  be­
cause they  can  invest  them  to  better  ad­
vantage  in  other  ways. 
If  purchased  at 
par,  after  paying  the  taxes  the  average 
bank  stock  in  this  city  does  not  pay 
in 
excess  of  4%  per  cent,  on  the  invest­
ment,  and  this  return  is  materially  re­
duced  if  the  stock  has  to  be  bought  at  a 
premium,  as  most  bank  stocks  have  to 
be  now.  There  are  many  stocks  and 
bonds  that  net  better  returns  than  this, 
to  say  nothing  of  mortgages,  but  it  may 
be  said  that  most  of  the  bank  clerks 
who  have  surplus  funds  are  investing 
them  in  homes. 
It may  be  said,  in this 
connection,  that  the  bank  clerks  in  this 
city,  whether stockholders  or  not,  are  as 
loyal  and  true  to  their  respective 
insti­
tutions  as  though  they  owned  them.

*  *  *

Although  bank  stock  does  not  net  a 
very  handsome  return  on  the  money  as 
a  short  time  investment,  yet  when  the 
investor  gets  in  on  the  ground  floor  and 
stays 
in  to  the  finish,  it  is  fairly  satis­
factory.  Take  the  Old  Nationl Bank,  for 
instance,  which 
is  not  an  exceptional 
case,  but  will  do  as  well  as any other for 
an 
The  original  stock­
holder,  who  paid  par  for  his  stock,  has 
been  receiving  6  to  7  per  cent,  divi­

illustration. 

in 

dends  ever  since  the  Bank  was  reorgan­
ized 
its  present  form.  When  the 
charter  expires  there  will  be  a  surplus 
of  20  or  30  per  cent,  to  divide,  which, 
added  to  the  dividends  paid,  makes  the 
investment,  as  a  whole,  a  very  good 
one. 
If  the  stock  had  to  be  bought  at  a 
premium,  the  returns  would  not  be  so 
satisfactory.

*  H=  *

The  bank  clerks,  of  whom  there  are 
about  100  in  town,  formerly  had  an  as­
sociation  of  their  own. 
Its  put poses 
were  combined  social and mutual benefit 
and  it  was  on  the  cards  to  hold  monthly 
meetings,  when  papers  would  be  read 
on  banking  subjects  and  then discussed. 
The  association  flourished  for  a  time, 
but  interest  in  it  has  gradually  died  out 
and  if  it  still  exists  it  is  only  in  name.

#■   #  #

In  at  least  one  of  the  banks,  the clerks 
are  required  to  carry  their  accounts 
in 
some  other  bank.  This  is  done  equally 
for  the  protection  of  the  clerks  and  of 
the  bank,  and  as  it  has  been  a 
long-es­
tablished  rule  and  one  that  is  applied 
to  all alike,  the  rule  is  taken  as a  matter 
of  course.  When  the  account  is  carried 
in  some  other  bank  the  temptation  to 
doctor  or  fix  up  the  books  is  entirely 
removed.  Even  the  cashier  deposits 
bis  surplus  salary  at  another  bank.

*  *  *

The  war  scare 

is  tightening  up  the 
money  rates  in  New  York,  Chicago  and 
other  financial  centers,  but  its  effect  has 
not  yet  been  felt  here,  and probably  will 
not  be  to  any  great  degree.  The  war 
will  be  a  short  one  at  most,  even  if  it 
does  come,  and  the  recovery  from 
it 
will  be  speedy.  The  conditions  are  en­
tirely  different  from  four  years  ago. 
Business  is  now  on  a  firmer  foundation 
and  a  pinch  would  not  be  felt  nearly  so 
severely  in  any  quarter.

P o rt  H uron  G ro cers and  M eat  Dealers 

to   C elebrate.

Port  Huron,  March  28—The  Grocers 
and  Butchers’  Association  has  already 
laid 
its  plans  for  the  serving  ot  a  ban­
quet  on  April  15,and  hopes  to  be  able to 
score  a  success  in  working  up  an  inter­
est  in  the  advantages  to  be  gained  by  a 
thorough  understanding  of  its  members 
with  each  other.  It  is  worthy  of  remark 
that  the  movement  to  establish  a  better 
feeling  among  the  grocers  and  butchers 
is  already  bearing  excellent  fruit,  and 
no 
injustice  whatever  appears  to  have 
been  done to  any  grocer  or  his  customer 
by  the  determination  of  the  Ass  ciation 
to  have  prices  and  commodities  more 
uniform  among  its  members.

T ra d in g   S tam p  S to re  

in  Possession 

o f  the  C onstable

Bay  City,  March  28—Callers  at  the 
trading  stamp  store  the  past  few  days 
have  been  disappointed 
in  case  they 
wished  to  exchange  stamps  for  goods. 
Constable  Houck,  it  seems,  is  in  pos­
session  of  the  store,  and  refuses  to  al­
low  any  of  the  goods  to  go  out.  The 
reason  is  that  he  holds  the  stock  on  a 
claim  of  about $100  for  rent.

Visitors  to  the  Grand  Rapids  market 
who arrive  via  any  of  the  roads  center­
ing  at  union  station 
can  not  help 
noticing  the  new  wholesale  hardware 
house  of  the  Clark-Rutka-Jewell  Co., 
situated  nearly  opposite  the  depot.  Al­
though  less  than  three  months  old,  this 
house  has  already  established  the  repu­
tation  of  treating 
its  customers  well 
and  those  who  call  at  the  house  are  as­
sured  of  a  cordial  welcome.

J.  B.  Furber,  formerly  identified  with 
the  Grand  Rapids  Seating  Co.,  has 
taken  the  agency  for  the  National  Cash 
Register  Co.,  at  Williamsport,  Penn., 
and  will  assume  his  new  duties  at  once.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

6

W om an’s World

P atient  and  U n com plainin g  M a rtha s 

o f   L ife .

It 

It  can  not  be  denied  that  in  these 
days  the  feminine  hero  has  the  center 
of  the  stage,  and  the  eyes  of  the  world 
are  upon  her.  Whenever a  woman  does 
anything  out  of  the  common  we  hear 
enough,  and  more  than  enough,  about 
her. 
is  the  fashion  to  burn  incense 
before  her,  and  we  have,  in  turn,  pros 
trated  ourselves  before  the  woman  ora 
tor,  the  woman  reformer, 
the  woman 
lawyer  and  doctor,  and  all  the  rest  of 
her,  and  chanted  paeons  of  praise 
her  honor.  She  has  taken  up  so  much 
of  our  time  and  attention  that  we  have 
not  had  leisure  to  do  honor  to  the  great 
est  woman  of  all—the  woman  who  stays 
at  home  and  keeps  the  family  together, 
while  the  woman  reformer  is  exploiting 
herself  abroad  and  is  out  hunting  for  ; 
career.

For  my  part,  whenever  I  build  ; 
monument  to  woman,  the 
lady  who  i 
going  to  be  invited  to  occupy  the  front 
top  seat  is  going  to  be  the  family  mar 
tyr,  the  patient  Martha  of  life,  whose 
self-sacrifice  we  only  appreciate,  and 
whose  labors  we  only  realize  when  we 
are  called  on  for  a  few  days  to  try  to 
fill  her  place.  The  first  day  we  are 
appalled  and  conscience 
stricken  at 
what  she  must  have  done.  The  second 
day  we  determine  never  to  permit  such 
an  imposition  to  happen  again  ;  by  the 
thiid  we  have 
lapsed  from  grace  and 
are glad  enough  to  let  the  burden  slip 
back  again  on  the  patient,  uncomplain 
ing  shoulders.

By  just  what  process  of  natural  selec 
tion  one  member  of  a  family  is  sac 
rificed  for  the  others nobody ever knows, 
But  the  family  martyr  is  always  there, 
She  does  all  the  disagreeable  things, 
She  entertains  the  bores.  She  visits  the 
sick.  She  sees about the  housekeeping. 
She  puts  the  babies  to  bed.  She  helps 
the children  with  their  lessons.  She 
is 
the  confidant  of  all  the  hard  luck  stories 
and  must  break  Jack’s  getting 
in  debt 
to  papa  and  Mary’s  determination  to 
marry  Cbolly  Poorman  to  mamma.  In 
word  every  duty  that  everybody  else 
shirks  because  of 
its  unpleasantness 
falls  to  her  lot.  And  nobody  by  any 
chance  ever  appreciates  her.

We  don’t mean  to  impose  on her.  On 
the  contrary  we  have  a  consoling  theory 
that  she  leads  a  life  of  inglorious  ease. 
Of  course, she  attends  to  the  housekeep­
ing,  but  everybody  who  has  never  tried 
it  knows  that  a  bouse  is  a  kind  of  per­
petual  motion  machine  that  goes  run­
ning  along  smoothly  and  glibly  by  it­
self  once  you  start  it  going.  Of  course, 
we  all  have  our  little  peculiarities  and 
whims  that  must  be  remembered  and 
catered  to  and  we  should  be  terribly 
upset  and  out  of  temper  if they weren’t ; 
of  course,  meals  must  be  on  time  and 
everything  spick  and  span;  of  course 
the  books  we  leave  on  the  floor  and  the 
papers  and  clothes  we  scatter  all  over 
the  house  must  somehow  get  into  their 
proper  places;  of  course,  when  we  tele­
phone  up  we  are  going  to  bring  com­
pany  home  for  dinner  we  expect  every­
thing  to  be  bright  and  dainty  and  at­
tractive,  but  surely  these  things  happen 
of  themselves.  At  any  rate  they  have 
never  failed  us  and  for  the  life  of  us  we 
can’t  see  what  Martha  finds to  keep  her 
so  busy.  We  sigh  and  say  we  fear  that 
she  is  too  material  and  that  it  is  sad  to 
see  any  one  spending  their  lives  on  the 
pursuit  of  trifles.

Then  we  talk  about  Arabella  who  is

tramps  she  has 

in  a  dozen  bright  pupils, 

studying  art,  with  a  big  A,  and  Port 
who  has  been  admitted  to  practice 
law 
somewhere,  and  Maud  who  has  written 
an 
inscrutable  magazine  poem,  and  we 
say  that  “ poor  Martha  never  had  any 
aspirations.  She  is  satisfied to  do  noth 
ing.’ ’  Do  nothing!  When 
it  wou 
take  a  commissioner  of  the  census 
figure  out  how  many  meals  she  has 
cooked,  how  many  rooms  she  has swept 
how  many  babies  she  has  washed  and 
dressed,  how  many  sick  people  she  ha 
nursed,  how  many  times  she  has  served 
ice  cream  and  cake  at  church  affairs, 
how  many 
fed  and 
clothed.  Why,  the  other  women  in  the 
world  have  done  nothing,  to  her, 
woman  professor  may  inspire  a  love  of 
learning 
million  mothers  are  starting  little  feet 
every  day  on  the  road  to  knowledge, 
woman  doctor  may  make  a  marvelous 
cure.  Thousands  of  women  can  kiss 
hurt  and  make  it  well.  A  woman  re 
former  may  plead  with  trumpet  voice 
for  temperance  and  for  purity.  The 
love  of  some  quiet 
little  woman  has 
kept  more  men  in  the  straight  and  nar 
row  path  than  every  other  agency  in  th 
world  combined.  These  are  some  of  the 
things  that  Martha 
is  doing  while  the 
rest  of  us  are  theorizing  and  aspiring 
and  pitying  her  for being  so  earthy  and 
it 
is  only  now  and  then  that  we  hav 
sense  enough  to  realize  she  has gotten 
right  down  to  the  bottom  of things.  Tb 
world  would  be  a  pretty  uncomfortable 
place  and  there  would  be  a  lot  of  ill 
kept  homes  and  neglected  children  i: 
there  were  no  Marthas  to  go  quietly  and 
unostentatiously  along looking after mat 
ters.  Aspirations  and  dreams  are  all 
right,  but  they  are  not  a  satisfactory 
bstitute  for  three  good  meals  a  day 

and  a  clean-swept  hearth.

In  this  dull  world  there  is  scant  honor 
and  praise  for  those  who  do  not  claim 
t  as  their  right,  and  so  the  Marthas  get 
ittle  or  no  appreciation.  We  only  see 
is  growing  gray, 
l  woman  whose  hair 
whose  cheeks  have 
last  their  bloom, 
and  whose  shoulders  are  bowed  with 
care  and  work.  She seems  nothing  more 
than  a  dull  gray  background,  against 
which  the  brilliance  of  the  rest  of  the 
family  circle  shines  out,  and  we wonder 
at  her  vaguely,  if  we  happen  to  notice 
her  at  all.  Often  and  often  she  is  an 
old  maid  who  lives  at  home  with  her 
mother  after  the  other  children  have 
left,  and  the  grayness  of  her  life  is  like 
the  ashes  that  might  be  left  on  an  altar 
where  some  precious  and  holy  sacrifice 
had  been  offered  up.

here  everything 

growing  garrulous  with  age 

as  care  can  keep  it.  The  roses  look 

Sometimes,  when  I  have  an  hour to 
spare,  I  go  and  sit  with two such women 
as  these.  They  live  in  a  little  cottage, 
is  as  neat  and  sweet 
in 
the  open  window,  by  which  the  old 
woman  sits 
in  her  easy  chair,  and  the 
sun  shines  full  upon  a  group  of  photo­
graphs  that  hang  upon  the  wall.  They 
are  all  of  handsome,  prosperous,  well- 
dressed  people,  and  the  old  woman  who 
likes  to 
tell  you their  story.  “ Yes,  yes,’ ’ she will 
say,  “ they  are  all  pictures  of  my  chil- 
is  Tom.  He  is  a  law- 
"ren.  The  top 
A  judge  now  out  West,  and  they 
say  he 
is  making  a  name  for  himself. 
That  woman  in  the  evening  gown  is  my 
daughter  Jennie.  Yes,  yes.  She’s  very 
beautiful  and  she  is  married  to a  rich 
I  have  never  been 
man 
there  myself. 
I  am  too  old  to  travel, 
but  they  say  she  lives  like  a  princess. 
And  the  next  one  is  Adele.  She  had  a 
lovely  voice,  and  we  gave  her  the  best 
advantages  we  could,  and  she  is  sing­

in  Chicago. 

ing  in  concerts  in  New  York.  Martha, 
you  must  bring  the  papers  and  show her 
what  the  critics  say 
about  Adele’s 
voice.  And  that  other  picture—that’s 
is  going  to  be  a 
my  baby.  Why,  he 
professor  of  ancient 
is 
in  Greece  now,  studying.  All  my  chil- 
dien  are  talented  and  ambitious.  All 
but  Martha,  not  but  what  she  is  a  good 
girl,  too,"  she  adds,  with  a  pity  that 
has  its  contempt  for  failure  in  it.

languages,  and 

“ Ah,  well,  mother,  you  had  to  have 
an  ugly  duckling  amongst  your  swans,’ ’ 
Miss  Martha  will  reply,  smiling  bravely 
with  trembling  lips,  and  the  old  woman 
will  nod  her  head  discontentedly.  All 
her  heart  and  pride  have  gone  with  the 
handsome,  gay,  prosperous  ones  of  the 
flock,  who  left  her  without  a  backward 
glance  of  regert  or  remorse  when  the 
world  beckoned  to  them.  Sometimes 
it  hardly  seems  as  if  she  even  remem­
bers  the  one  faithful  and 
loyal  soul 
who  has  kept  by  her.

No  one  ever  tells,  least  of  all  Miss 
Martha,  that  all  the  other  successes  are 
builded  on  the  wreck  of  her  hopes  and 
love.  She  was  the  eldest,  and  the  bur­
dens  and  the  cares  and  the  responsibili- 
ies  of  the  others  slipped  on  her  shoul­
ders  when  she  was  pathetically  young. 
There  was  Tom  who  was  bright  and 
talented  and  gave  such  promise  if  be 
could  only  have  the  proper  education, 
and  Jennie  who  must  have  fine gowns  to 
set  off  her  splendid  beauty,  and  Adele’s 
voice  that  needed  training,  and  Jack 
who  must  have  a  university  course. 
Miss  Martha  began  teaching  the  year 
after  she  left  school,  and  all  her  youth 
was  sacrificed  to  them. 
toiled 
early  and  late,  and  at  last  she  watched 
them  go  on  their  different  ways,  with­
out  so  much  as  a  word  of  tenderness  or 
appreciation,  without 
ever  knowing 
what  she  had  sacrificed  for  them.  Once 
love  came  Miss  Martha's  way,  but  she 
put  out  trembling  bands  and  pushed 
it 
away.  The  other  children  had  all  gone 
then,  and  she  and  the  old  mother  were 
left  alone.  The  man  would  have  taken 
Miss  Martha  away  and  she felt she could 
not  forsake  the  feeble  old  woman.  To 
the  man  it  seemed a trivial excuse.  Per­
haps 
it  was.  All  of  Miss  Martha’s 
brothers  and  sisters  who  are  pursuing 
careers”   in  the  world  say  that  poor 
Martha  never  had  any aspirations.  That 
she  always  frittered  her  life  away  on 
trifles.

She 

And  that’s  all  the  appreciation  she 
has  ever  gotten.  Poor,  patient,  uncom­
plaining  Martha. 

D o r o t h y   D i x .

The  T o w n  o f  N ogood.

M y  frien d ,  h a ve  yo u  heard  o f  the  tow n   o f  N ogood  

O n  th e  b anks  o f th e  R iv e r  S low ,
■’ here  bloom s  the  W a ita w h ile  flow er fair, 
i here th e Som etim eorother scents  th e air 
A n d   the so ft  G oe asy s g ro w ?
lies  in  the  v a lle y  of  W hatsth euse,
In  th e  province o f  L eth erslid e.
T h a t  I ire d feelin g  is n ative  th ere;

the  hom e o f th e reckless Id o n ’ tcare,

W h e re   th.

G iveitup s abide.

stan d s at the  bottom  o f  L a z y h ill,
A n d   is ea sy  to rea ch ,  I  d eclare, 
ou ’ ve o n ly to fold  up you r  hands and  g lid e  
ow n  th e slop e o f  W e a k w ilP s   tob o gga n   slid e 
To  be landed  q u ick ly  there.

T h e tow n   is a s old as th e hum an race,

A n d   it g ro w s   w ith   the  fligh t  o f y e a rs' 
is  w rapped  in  the fo g   o f id lers'  dream s'

Its  streets are paved  w ith   discarded  schem es 

A n d  sprinkled  w ith   u seless  tears.

T h e C o lle g eb red fo o l  and  th e R ic h m a n ’sh eir 

A r e   p len tifu l  there,  no  doubt;

T he rest o f its cro w d   are a  m otley cre w ,

_ith  e v ery class  ex ce p t  one  in  v ie w —
T h e   F o o lk ille r is  barred  out.
h e to w n  o f  N o g o o d   is  all  h edged  about 
K y   th e  m ountains o f D esp air; 
o sentin el  stands on  its g loo m y  w alls* 
o trum pet  to  battle and  trium ph  ca lls.
For. co w a rd s alon e are  there.

y  frien d ,  from   the d ead alive tow n   N ogood  
If you  w ould   keep  fa r  aw a y,
Just follow your duty through good and ill; 
lake this for your motto, “ 1 can, I will,”

And live up to it each day.

W .  E .  P e n n e y .

M o dern  M e thod s 

o f   D ete rm inin g 

R atings.

is  entitled 

There  are  many  merchants  both  large 
and  small  whose  credit  ratings  are  not 
what  they  ought  to  b e ;  at  least,  they  are 
not  what  the  merchants  think 
they 
Investigation,  however,  dis­
should  be. 
closes  that  in  most  cases,  if  not  in  all, 
the  fault  lies  with  the  merchants  them­
selves.  One  prime  cause  for  the  mer­
chant’s  failure  to  secure  the  rating  to 
which  he  believes  he 
is 
the  lack  of  information  furnished  with 
reference 
to  his  financial  condition. 
Some  merchants  refuse  all 
information 
whatever,  upon  the  assumption,  appar­
ently,  that  their  resources  are  so  large 
as  to  make  them  independent  of  credit 
is  extremely 
ratings.  Such  a  position 
foolish.  The  world 
is  prone  to  accept 
a  man  at  his  own  valuation  until  such 
time  as  it  has  had  the  opportunity  to 
demonstrate  an  error.  Silence 
leaves 
the  world  to  form  its  own  opinion,  and 
at  this  date 
it  is  very  apt  to  conclude 
that  because  no  statement  is  made  there 
must  be  something  to  conceal.  On  the 
other  hand,  a  statement  frankly  made 
and  demonstrated  to  be  correct  carries 
opinions  to  the  other  extreme,  and 
gives  the  merchant  the  full  measure  of 
credit  to  which  he  is  justly  entitled.

Several  points  are  considered  when 
ratings  are  established,  in  addition  to 
capital  or  present  worth.  These  include 
the  broad  questions  of  business 
integ­
rity,  of  general  business  methods,  and 
of  habits  with  respect  to  payments.  Of 
two  men,  equal 
in  all  other  respects, 
one  discounting  his  bills  and  the  other 
habitually  paying  slowly,  the  first  will 
have  the  better  rating  as  to  credit,  even 
although  the  capital  ratings  of  the  two 
are  essentially  the  same.

Merchants  formerly bought their goods 
in  person.  They  journeyed  to  the  ware­
house  and  factory  to  make  selections, 
and  thus  came  into  direct  contact  with 
those  of  whom  they  asked  credit.  Now 
purchases  are  made  through  interme­
diaries. 
The  merchant’s  orders  are 
given  to  traveling  salesmen  or  are  for­
warded  by  mail  or  telegraph. 
The 
merchant,  then,  should  not  overlook  the 
fact  that,  in  the  changes  which  have 
been  made  in  the methods of conducting 
business,  changes  also  have  necessarily 
been  made  in  the  methods  of  establish­
ing  credit  or  determining  a  rating.  A 
signed  statement  to-day  takes  the  place 
of  the  personal  interview  of  a  few  years 
ago.

The  great  commercial  agencies  that 
make  a  business  of  ratings  are  only  an 
instrumentality  that  modern  business 
has  found  necessary  to  employ  in  or­
der  to  meet  changing  conditions.  The 
merchant  who  does  not  have  the  r  tii g 
to  which  he  tnm ks  he  is  e m o te   .  -  >  i 
commence  to  rem edy  the  wrong  y  a 
In  the 
careful  study  of  the  situation. 
end  he  will  be  quite  willing  to  comply 
with  the  reasonable 
requiremei  is  <  I 
modern 
jobbers  and  nianulai tuters. 
some  of  which  are  here  pointed  out

A.  O.  K i t t r e d g e .

American  Apples  in  H am b u rg  

Hamburg  receipts  of American appbs 
to  the  middle  of  November  were  64.538 
barrels,  and  so  superior  is  the  Ameri 
can  to  the  German  fruit  for  table  use 
that  German  growers  who  have  pre 
ferred  quantity  to  quality,  and  grown 
great  quantities  of  apples  which  were fit 
only  for  cider,  have  resolved  to  change 
their  tactics  and  plant  and  graft  the 
finest  varieties.

More  men  have  been  self-undone  than 

have  been  self-made.

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it 

in 

there 

is  true  that 

A  C E R T A IN   G A IN   PER  C E N T .
While 

the  maxim, 
' “Figures  won't 
lie,”   is  not  always  to 
be  depended  upon, 
is  often 
enough 
it  to  lead  to  a  little  whole­
some  thinking.  The  engineers’  strike 
in  England  has  been  reduced  to  figures 
so  far  as  certain  results  are  concerned, 
and  they  furnish  a  basis  for  calculating 
the  gain  per  cent,  of  the  strike.  The 
struggle  between  capital and labor lasted 
six  months. 
in  the  defeat  of 
labor  at  the  cost  of  $15,000,000,  and  it 
cost  the  capitalists $200,000,000,  making 
a 
total  of  $215,000,000  to  settle  the 
fundamental  principle  which  has  now 
been  established.

It  ended 

The  battle  began,  apparently,  to  settle 
the  old  question  whether  eight  hours  or 
It 
ten  should  constitute  a  day’s  work. 
early  became  evident,  however, 
that 
the  same  power  which  was  to  fix  the 
length  of  the  working  day was to assume 
the  right  of  determining  the  amount  of 
finished  product  as  the  resuit  of  a  given 
amount  of  labor.  The  right has  not  been 
conceded  and  the  parties  most  inter­
ested  are  satisfied  that  the  question  has 
been  settled  once  and  forever.

It  has  been  a  matter  of  no  little  as­
tonishment  to  the  watchers of the contest 
on  this  side  of  the  sea  that  the  English 
workman  has  clung  so  long  to  the  idea, 
lcng  exploded  in  this  country,  that  la­
bor-saving  machinery  is  not  calculated 
interests  of  the  opera­
to  forward  the 
tor.  Whether 
the  better 
intellectual 
training 
furnished  by  our  common 
schools  has  made  a  class  of  better think­
ers  of  the  workingmen  may  or  may  not 
have  to  do  with  the  question ;  but 
true 
it  is  that  nothing  is  better  or  more  gen­
erally  understood  than  the  fact  that  the 
machine  increases  the  sale  and  the  de­
mand  of  a  manufactured  product to such 
an  extent  that,  for  one  skilled  workman 
displaced  by  the  use  of  the  machine, 
five  are  required  to  meet  the 
increased 
If  the  English  work­
demand  for 
it. 
ingman  has  at 
last  learned  this  lesson 
—and  the  chances  are  that  he  has—the 
cost  of  the  strike,  great  as  it  was,  will 
not  in  the  end  be  found  exorbitant.

That  satisfied  self-assurance  of  the 
English  mental  make-up,  to  which  the 
Tradesman  has  found  occasion  to  refer 
before,  is  another  feature  which  has 
drawn  attention  to  itself  during  the  ex­
penditure  of  these  two  hundred  fifteen 
millions.  The  keen  eye  of  the  English 
manufacturer  has  not  failed  to  see  that 
one  of  the  leading  causes  which  has  led 
to  the  undersell! ng  of^English  goods  by

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

The  Tradesman has frequently pointed 
out  that,  while  this  country  is  stronger 
in  battle-ships  than  Spain,  this  by  no 
means  implies  that  our  naval strength  is 
sufficiently  superior  to  make  us  over­
confident.  Take,  for  instance,  the  tor­
pedo  flotilla  which  Spain  is  sending  to 
Porto  Rico,  and  which  is  said  to  have 
so  seriously  disturbed  many  naval  offi­
cers;  that  certainly  is  a  force  which 
it 
will  be  very  difficult  to  offset  The tor­
pedo  boats  and  torpedo  boat  destroyers 
comprising  the  flotilla  in  question  are 
the  finest  of  the  kind  afloat,  possessing 
great  speed  and,  if  handled  with  spirit, 
are  capable  of  proving  formidable  even 
against  powerful  battle-ships.

The  superiority  of  Spain 

in  torpedo 
boats  is  a  serious  matter,  as  it  will  ren­
der  the  employment  of  the  great  battle­
ships  a  much  more  difficult  problem 
than 
it  would  otherwise  be.  Had  we  a 
squadron  of  serviceable  torpedo  boat 
destroyers,  our  battle-ships  would  be 
much  safer.  The  possession  by  Spain 
of  this  superiority 
in  torpedo  craft, 
therefore,  in  a  great  measure  offsets  our 
preponderance  in  battle-ships.  In  coast 
defense  ships,  Spain  has  nothing  to 
compare  with  our  double-turreted  moni­
tors,  which,  while  not  the  best  seaboats, 
are  extremely 
in  smooth 
water. 
They  possess  great  battery 
power,  and  would  be  poor  targets for  an 
enemy's  gunnery. 
It  is  a  pity  that  the 
country  does  not  possess  more  of  such 
vessels.

formidable 

In  armored  cruisers,  Spain  has  a  very 
decided  advantage,  as  she  possesses 
seven  of  the  very  finest  type  of  such 
vessels,  as  compared  with  our  two. 
In 
protected  cruisers  and  commerce  de­
stroyers, 
the  United  States  possesses 
in  every  way  than 
much  better  ships 
Spain;  but  again, 
in 
light-draft  gun 
vessels,  we  are  inferior.

As  the  United  States  would,  in  the 
natural  order  of  things,  have  to  take 
the  offensive,  being  the  aggressor,  as 
also  because  it  will  undoubtedly  be  the 
purpose  of  our  Government  to  invade 
Cuba,  we  really  need  a  preponderating 
naval  force  to  make  victory  easy.  As 
we  do  not  possess  such  a  preponder­
ating  naval  force,  it  will  be  necessary 
for  our  fleet  to  do  brilliant  work  to  in­
sure  quick  success. 
It  would  be  both 
unsafe  and  unwise,  however,  to  under 
estimate  either  the  fighting  qualities  or 
the  naval  strength  of  our possible adver­
sary.
It 

is  to  be  hoped  that,  even  if  war 
should  be  avoided  this  time,  Congress 
will  profit  by  the  lessons  learned  and 
make  provision  for  the  future  to  put the 
in  a  condition  to  meet  any  pos­
navy 
sible  adversary.  What,  for 
instance, 
would  have  been  our  position  had  we 
been  brought  face  to  face  with  a  prob­
able  war  with  so  immense a naval power 
as  Great  Britain,  or  even  with  a  power 
like  France?

G E N E R A L   T R A D E   S IT U A T IO N .
There  are  two  ways  in  which  a  war 
scare  affects  the  business  of  the  coun- 
try—the  creation  of  the  feeling  of  un­
certainty  and  distrust  which  tends  to 
curtail  enterprise,  and  the  engaging  of 
public  attention  and  interest  to  the  ex­
clusion  of  ordinary  business  affairs. 
In 
instance,  the  first  of  these 
the  present 
in  the  continued  dulness 
is  manifest 
and  decline 
in  the  stock  market  and 
in  speculative  commodities,  and  there 
is  complaint  among  merchants  and 
salesmen  that  the  latter  is  interfering  in 
no  small  degree  with  current  transac­
tions.

is 

That  the  continued  depression  in rail­
way  securities  is  owing  entirely  to  the 
Spanish  situation 
indicated  by  the 
fact  that  all  other  conditions  continue 
favorable  to  an  advance.  The  ratio  of 
in  earnings  continues  to 
improvement 
increase  steadily,  and  that 
in  face  of 
the  fact  that  there  has  been  such  heavy 
cutting  in  rates  in  some  localities.  As 
compared  with 
last  year  the  earnings 
increased  over  18  per  cent,  for  February 
and  the increase over those for February, 
1892,  was  8  per  cent.  The  eastbound 
shipments  from  Chicago  are  now  very 
nearly  double  those  of  the  same  time  in 
1892.

The  conditions  of  the  foreign  trade 
situation  continue  most  favorable  for 
this  country.  The  continued  heavy  ex­
port  keeps the  balance of trade so largely 
in  favor  of  this  country  that  the  actual 
importations  of  gold  do  not  reduce  it. 
Since  the  inflow  of  gold  began,  no 
less 
than  $20,000,000  has  been  received,  and 
three  fourths  as  much  more  is  reported 
to  be  on  the  way.  This  has  not  affected 
the  balance  of  sterling  exchange,  which 
stands  at  $35,000,000,  so  that  in  these 
two  forms  there 
is  now  $70,000,000 
available,  and  the  amount  due  in  other 
forms  will  make  the  amount  consider­
ably  larger.

in  the  iron  trade. 

Industrial  production  and  consump­
tion  ‘ throughout  the  country  continue 
undiminished.  This  is  especially  evi­
dent 
It  is  reported 
that  the  production  of  structural  forms 
is  fully  80  per  cent,  greater  for  the  first 
three  months  of  the  current  year  than 
for  any  corresponding  period 
in  the 
past. 
Indeed,  the  demand  is  such  that 
some  tin  plate  and  other  works  are  tem­
porarily  stopped  for  want  of  steel.  This 
unprecedented  demand  accounts  for  the 
fact  that  there 
is  a  slight  advance  in 
Bessemer  pig,  notwithstanding  the  fact 
that 
its  production  all  previous 
records  are  being  left  far  behind.

in 

In  the  grain  trade  the  week  shows  a 
decided  decline,  which  is  attributed  to 
the  speculative  situation.  Trade  move­
ment,  both  foreign  and  domestic,  con­
tinues  heavy;  and,  when 
it  is  consid­
ered  that  the  price  of  wheat  is,  on  the 
average,  twenty  cents  higher  than  last 
in  the 
year,’  the  decline  of  a  few  cents 
price  has 
signifi­
cance.

little  unfavorable 

The  situation  in  the  textile  trade  con­
tinues  decidedly  unsatisfactory.  The 
price  of  cotton  has  again  broken  and 
prints  have  declined,  to  again  make  a 
low  record.  The  woolen  situation 
is 
change,  and  while 
without  material 
disappointment 
in  some 
quarters,  it  seems  to  be  based  on  too 
sanguine  expectations.  The  shoe  mar­
ket  continues  the  features  of  unprece­
dented  production  and  demand,  while 
the  tendency  of  prices  is  easier.

is  expressed 

Dulness  in  the  speculative situation is 
in  the  decline  in  the  volume 
manifest 
of  bank  clearings,  to  $1,084,000,000. 
Failures  are  215,  against  233  for  last 
week.

France  says  there  must  be  no  conflict 
between  two  nations  to  whom  she  is  so 
strongly  attached  as  to  Spain  and  the 
United  Stateç.  The  bonds  of  attach­
ment,  in  this  case,  are  the  $400,000,000 
bonds  based  on  Cuban  revenues  which 
France  bolds.  The  bondholder  beats 
the  Quaker  as  a  man  of  peace.

The  silk  industry  of  Russia  consumes 
raw  material  to  the  value  of  $7,500,000 
yearly.  The  mills  are  concentrated 
in 
the  Moscow  district,  and  are  small  but 
very  numerous.  Since  1855  there  have 
been  1,500  started,  having  a  capacity  of
9,000 

looms.

the  American  article  is  due,  in  a  great 
degree,  to  the  Englishman’s 
inability 
to  understand  that  his  methods  and  his 
tools  are  out  of  date  and  worthless,  and 
that  these,  together  with  his  determina­
tion  that  the  buyer  shall  buy  what  he, 
the  manufacturer,  has  decided  to  make, 
have  had  their  part  in  bringing  about 
the  unfortunate  condition  of  things 
The  strike  has  shown  to  employer  and 
employe  alike  that  the  old  has  passed 
away,  that  all  things  have  become  new 
—a  knowledge 
in  itself  well  worth  the 
entire  cost  of  the  strike.

These  conclusions,  important  as  they 
are  taken  either  singly  or  collectively, 
sink  into  insignificance  when  compared 
with  the  underlying  question  of  all 
modern  strikes:  whether  any  man  or 
class  of  men,  organized  or  unorganized, 
shall  have  the  right  to  dictate  how  an­
other  man  or  class  of  men,  organized  or 
unorganized,  shall  use  their  money  or 
manage  their  business.  It  has  been  dis­
long  and  bitterly.  Not  a  phase 
cussed 
of 
it  has  been  left  unconsidered,  and 
after  six  months  of  persistency,  un­
equalled  on  either  side,  it  has  been  de­
cided  against  the  unionist  on  every 
count.  It  has  cost  “ a good  round sum 
and  yet 
it  is  believed,  by  those  whose 
experience  has  made  their  opinion  val­
it 
uable,  that,  large  as 
is,  the  returns 
will  furnish  a  margin 
large  enough  to 
secure  to  all  who  are  interested  a  cer­
tain  gain  per  cent.

The  use  of  the  balloon  in  warfare  will 
be  one  of  the  developments  of  the  near 
future.  A  first-class  modern 
ironclad 
costs  about  $5,000,000.  This  would  con­
struct  and  equip  for  war  purposes  a 
great  many  balloons,  and  it  would  seem 
as  if  they  might  be  used  by  the 
inhab­
itants  of  a  besieged  city  with  which  to 
sail  over an  invading  fleet  and  drop  ex­
plosives  upon  the  warships  underneath, 
wi*h  deadly  effect.  They  might  also  be 
utilized  to  drop  these  explosives  over 
the  cities  occupied  by  an opponent.  Of 
course,  there  would  be considerable  risk 
in  such an  enterprise,  unless the balloons 
could  be  properly  steered,  but  the  dir­
igible  balloon 
is  one  of  he  inventions 
that  we  may  expect  to  see  in  the  near 
future.

A  novel  use  of  electricity  has  recently 
been  made  in  a  process  to  improve  the 
flavor  of  sour  wine.  The  wine  is  treated 
electrolytically  and  carbon  electrodes 
are  used,  the  positive  being  placed  in 
a  cylinder  containing  diluted  alcohol 
and  separated  from  the  wine  by  a  dia­
phragm. 
is 
placed  directly 
in  the  wine  and  the 
hydrogen  generated  by  the  current  de­
stroys  the  acid. 
is  stated  that  wine 
treated 
in  this  manner  can  acquire  in 
a  few  hours  properties  that  would  other­
wise  consume  a  long  period  of  time.

The  negative  electrode 

It 

The  annual  report  of  the  Treasurer  of 
Columbia  University  shows  that,  with 
all 
its  reality,  cash,  bonds  and  mort­
gages,  amounting  to $29,000,000,  it  lost 
last  year  $34,092,  or  about  $20  for  each 
student.  The  statement  discloses  that 
in  the  medical  department  it  cost  more 
than  double  the  fees  to  educate  each 
student.  From  this  it  is  learned  that  a 
university,  like  a  business  man,  must 
work  hard  to  make  ends  meet,  and  all 
that  comes  in  is  not  profit.

The  neutral  flag  protects  the  cargo, 
and  British  bottoms  will  be  at  a  greater 
piemium  than  ever 
in  case  we  com­
mence  our  mill  with  Spain.  There  are 
times  when  it  is  possible  to contemplate 
the  loss  of  our  merchant  marine  with 
some  degree  of  complacency.

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9

attempted  to  force  its  paper  money  into 
circulation,  to  fix  prices  by  law,  and 
to  interfere  generally  in  the  conduct  of 
private  business.  It  had  no  well-defined 
conception  of  the  natural  limits of legis­
lation.

is 

free 

that 

impression 

Now,  for  one  hundred years,  the  idea 
that government  ought  to  be  by  the  peo­
ple,  for  the  people,  has  been  growing. 
It  would  hardly  be  denied  at  this  date, 
in  any  civilized  country,  that  the  proper 
purpose  of  government 
is  the  defense 
and  promotion  of  the  liberty  and  the 
rights  of  the  people.  But  whereas,  in 
former  times,  the  people  were  mainly 
jealous  of  the  power  of  kings and hered­
itary  nobilities,  the  prevalent  feeling 
now 
institutions  are 
menaced,  principally,  if  not  exclusive­
ly,  by  what  is  called  the  money  power, 
and  a  studied  effort  is  constantly  made 
by  certain  leaders,  visionary  or  dema­
gogic,  to  create  the 
that, 
while  the  rich  are  growing  richer,  the 
poor  are  growing  poorer,  and  that  the 
opportunités  of  the  children  of the  com­
mon  people  to  achieve  wealth,  position 
or  distinction  of  any  sort,  are  steadily 
becoming  fewer  and  fewer  as  the  years 
roll  by.  That  effort 
is  as  persistently 
in  this  country  as  anywhere  in 
made 
Europe,  although,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
a  career  for  talent  was  never before pos­
sible  on  so  many  highways  of  enter­
prise,  and  never  before  were  the  com­
forts  and  luxuries  of  life  so  easily  with­
in  the  reach  of  persons  of  small  means.
in  this 
country  that, if  a  youth  is  sound  in  body 
and  mind,  he  will  have  an  opportunity 
to  acquire  a  competence,  and  to  win  a 
full  recognition  for  whatever  degree  of 
power  there 
is  in  him.  There  are  ex­
ceptions  to  this,  as  to  all  rules,  per­
haps;  but  ordinarily  the  American  cit­
izen  who  lives  and  dies  in  poverty  has 
been  afflicted  with  some 
incurable  de­
fect  of  will,  some  excess  of  appetite,  or 
some  fatal  insusceptibility  to  the  com­
mon 
The 
truth  is,  there  is  no  disposition  on  the 
part  of  prosperous  and  moneymaking 
men  to  keep  down  a  struggling  youth 
because  of  his  poverty.  On  the  con­
trary,  capitalists  and  corporations  alike 
are  glad  to  recognize  talent  and  eager 
to  enlist  it  in  their  service.

It  may  be  set  down  as  a  rule 

inspirations  of  manhood. 

A   C A R E E R   FO R   T A L E N T .

It  was  the  boast  of  Napoleon  Bona­
parte  that  he  had  opened  a  career  for 
talent.  There  was  certainly  some  basis 
for  that  claim.  Under  the  old  regime 
in  France,  he  great  body  of  the  people 
were  as  completely  shut  out  from  all 
hope  of  enhancement  in  material  pros­
perity,  of  official  promotion,  or  of  so­
cial  advancement,  as 
if  they  had  been 
members  of  the  lowest  caste  in  India. 
Indeed,  that  was  substantially  the  con­
dition  of  the  masses 
in  nearly  every 
European  country  at  that 
time,  al­
though,  perhaps,  in  France  the  gates  of 
destiny  seemed 
to  be  more  securely 
locked  against  them  than any where else. 
Everywhere  the  poor  were  expected  to 
content  themselves  with  that  position  in 
life 
in  which  they  were  born,  and,  as 
a  rule,  the  boy  adopted  his  father’s 
trade,  or  had  it  forced  upon  him.  This 
seemed,  no  doubt,  a  very  proper  ar­
rangement for the privileged classes,  and 
unquestionably  it  had  its  advantages for 
them.  The  great  achievement  of  the 
French Revolution,  after all,  was that  it 
ideal  of  the 
shattered  the  political 
Legitimists  of  the  old  regime,  in 
lead­
ing  men  to  doubt  and  deny  that  the 
world  was  made  for  the  enjoyment  of 
the  few  favored  families.

When  Bonaparte  declared 

in  effect 
that  talent  ought  to  have  a  career,  he 
sounded  the  keynote  of  true  democracy, 
and  its  echoes  have  been  rolling  from 
soul  to  soul  ever  since.  He  was  a  hard 
man,  an 
implacable  tyrant;  but  there, 
at  least,  he  was  sincere.  He  needed 
talent  at  his  service  in  the  prosecution 
of  his  vast  schemes of  military  conquest 
and  in  the  development  and  execution 
of  his  various  and  comprehensive  proj­
ects  of  political  and  commercial  organ­
ization. 
If  he  found  a  strong,  capable 
man  anywhere,  he  appropriated  him, 
so  to  speak,  and  put  him  to  work.  His 
staff  officers,  his  most  brilliant  gen­
erals,  his  most  famous  marshals,  rose 
from  the  ranks.  They  were  the  sons  of 
mechanics,  of  innkeepers  and  of  small 
shopkeepers;  Bonaparte  made 
them 
dukes,  princes,  and  even  kings.  He 
never  asked  for  a  certificate  of  birth  or 
a  patent  of  nobility.  With  a  word  he 
could  make  a  noble;  but  he  had  to  find 
a  genius.  Before  he  came  to  the  front, 
revolution  had  discovered  a  few  men  of 
eminent  ability.  Outside  of  the  army, 
its  general  tendency  was,  perhaps,  re­
in  its  idea  of  ‘ ‘ the 
pressive.  Glorying 
people, ”   an 
idea  then  so  novel  and  so 
fascinating  to  the  French  mind,  it  was 
jealous  of  individual  distinction.  More­
over,  it  was  apparently  unable  to  com­
prehend  the  wisdom  of  the  policy  of 
' “laissez-faire.”   Yet  the  government

T R O U B L E   IN  S O U T H   A F R IC A .
The  reports  recently  received  from 
is 
London  indicate  that  serious  trouble 
again  brewing 
in  South  Africa.  The 
re-election  of  President  Kruger,  in  the 
Transvaal,  has  caused  a  revival  of  the 
anti-English 
little 
South  African  republic,  and  the  knowl­
edge  that  Great  Britain  is  at  the  pres­
ent  moment  busily  occupied  with 
troubles  in  India,  the  campaign  in  the 
Soudan  and  the  complications  in  China 
has  emboldened  the  Boers  to  assume  an 
aggressive  attitude.

sentiment 

in  the 

The  fact  that  there  exists  an  agree­
ment  whereby  the  Transvaal  Republic 
recognized  British  suzerainty,  and  the 
further  fact  that  all  the  foreign relations 
of  the  little State  are  conducted  through 
the  British  Foreign  Office,  have  for  a 
long  time  rankled  in  the  breasts  of  the 
Boers,  and  they  have  been  preparing  to 
take  advantage  of  the  first  opportunity 
to  throw  off  the  British  allegiance, 
which  has  been  distasteful  ab  initio.

A  war  waged  against  the  British  by 
the  Boers  could  not  prove  successful; 
but  at  the  present  time  it  would  give 
the  English  government  no  end  of 
trouble,  especially  as  all 
its  energies 
are  occupied 
in  coping  with  serious 
problems  in  other  parts  of  the  world. 
The  Boers  have  been  preparing  for  a 
considerable  time,  and  in  their  own  ter­
ritory  they  are  formidable opponents.  It 
would  take  at  least  fifty  thousand  well- 
equipped  British  troops  to  defeat  them.
When  one  contrasts  the  lack  of excite­
ment  in  Great  Britain,  notwithstanding 
the  many  very  grave  complications con­
fronting  the  British  Empire,  with  the 
fuss  and  excitement  existing 
in  this 
country  over  the controversy with Spain, 
there  is  little  cause  for  feeling  proud  of 
the  self-possession  of  our  people. 
It  is 
true  that  England  is  always  engaged  in 
war 
in  some  portion  of  her  dominions; 
hence  her  people  have  become  accus­
tomed  to  warlike  preparations  and  com­
plications,  whereas  a  foreign  compli­
cation  is  a  rarity  with  us. 
It  is  time  to 
realize,  however,  that  our  old-time  iso­
lation  from  foreign  relations  is  a  thing 
of  the  past;  hence  it  will  be  profitable 
for  the  future  to  cultivate  some  of  the 
sangfroid  and  quiet  confidence  of  our 
English  cousins.

copper  one-cent-piece  has  undergone  no 
change  whatever,in  years.

It  is  now  proposed  by  some  reformers 
in  Washington  to  change  the  composi­
tion  and  style  of  the  minor  coins.  After 
some  deliberation,  the  House  Commit­
tee  on  Coinage,  Weights  and  Measures 
has  decided  to  look  into  the  matter  of 
certain  changes  suggested  in  the  small 
coins,  and  has reported favorably a  reso­
lution  authorizing  the  Secretary  of  the 
Treasury  to  make  experiments  to  de­
termine  the  best  materials  for  minor 
coins  and  to  submit  new  designs  for 
them  in  Congress.

As  the  result  of  its  deliberations  upon 
the  subject,  the  committee  has  reached 
the  conclusion  that  the  copper  cent 
is 
it  becomes  dingy 
undesirable,  because 
and  dirty,  and  by  corrosion  poisonous ; 
and  that  the 
five-cent  nickel,  three- 
quarters  copper,  should  be  displaced 
It  is  pointed  out 
because  it  is  too  soft. 
by  the  committee 
that  Switzerland, 
Austria-Hungary and  Italy  have  adopted 
pure  nickel  for  their  minor  coinage 
with  very  satisfactory  results,  the  coins 
being  hard,  durable  and  retaining  their 
color,  while  not  corroding.

Of  course,  it  is  not  desirable  to  make 
in  the  coinage  too  hastily,  al­
changes 
though 
is  admitted  that  our  small 
it 
coins  are  susceptible  of  much  improve­
ment.  The  resolution  proposed  will  do 
no  barm,  however,  as  it  only  provides 
that  the  Secretary  of  the  Treasury  shall 
experiment.  That  official  can  be  de­
pended  on  not  to  proceed  without  due 
deliberation.

line  of  trade 

is  engaged,  as  well  as 

The  Postoffice  Department  at  Wash­
ington  has  decided  that  the  printing 
upon  the  address  side  of  postal  cards  of 
in  which  a  business 
the 
house 
its  ad­
dress,  constitutes  an  advertisement,  and 
that  letter  postage  is  to  be  collected  on 
all  such  cards.  This  renders  valueless 
many  thousands  of  postal  cards  already 
piinted,  it  having  for  some  time  been 
the  custom  of  business  houses  to  supply 
their  correspondents  with  self-addressed 
cards  prepared  in  this  style.  Business 
men  are  protesting  against  the  imme­
diate  enforcement  of  the  order.

American  manufacturers  are especial­
ly  interested  in  the  action of the Nether­
lands  government  exempting  from  all 
duties  many  articles  of  iron  and  steel, 
and  of  machinery.  Among  the  articles 
exempted are such ventilators, exhausters 
and  bellows  as  are  worked  by  steam, 
gas,  petroleum  or  electric  motor  only.

The  Spanish  onion  must  go. 

It  is 
strongly  suspected  of  being  unpopular 
in  Washington.

Japanese  auctions  are  conducted  rn  a 
plan  which  gives  rise  to  none  of  the 
noise  and  confusion  which  attend  such 
sales  in  the  United  States.  Each  bid­
der  writes bis  name  and  bid  upon a  slip 
of  paper,  which  he  places 
in  a  box. 
When 
is  over  the  box  is 
opened  by  the  auctioneer  and  the  goods 
declared  the  property  of  the  highest 
bidder.

the  bidding 

O U R   M IN O R   C O IN S .

It  has  been  a  long  time  since  there 
has  been  any  change  in  the  character  or 
form  of  our  minor  coinage.  The  nickel 
five-cent  piece  has  undergone  one  or 
in  size  and  design 
two  modifications 
since  it  has  been  in  use;  but  to  all 
in­
it  is  still  the  same 
tents  and  purposes 
ugly  and  discolored 
little  coin.  The

EVERY  MAN  LIKES

“MR.  THOMAS

The  Best  Nickel  Cigar  in  the State.

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

♦  

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F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

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P rice  C u ttin g   as  a  Business  P olicy. 
W ritten for the T radesman.

“ The  bargain  day  is  a  delusion  and 
a  snare, “   said  one  of  Detroit’s  most 
experienced  salesmen  to  the  writer  re­
cently.

“ How  can 

this  be,”   was 

asked, 
“ when  one  of  the  largest  retail  firms  in 
this  city  was  first  to  adopt  this  policy, 
and  always  maintained  that  the  results 
of  the  experiment  were  highly  satisfac­
tory?”

The  answer  came  promptly,  about  as 
follows:  “ I  can  not  account  for  the 
adoption  of  this  policy  by  this  firm,  or 
any  other;  nor  can  I  account  for  the 
claim  which  they  make  as  to  results. 
But,  is  it  not  a  very  significant  fact that 
this  firm,  in  spite  of  the  great  benefits 
derived  from  this  so-called  shrewd  and 
far-sighted  business  policy,  has  recent­
ly  failed? 
it  not  probable  that  the 
operation  of  this  scheme  had  something 
to  do  with  putting  this  old  established 
firm  ‘ on  the  bum,'  as  the  boys  express 
it,  and  causing  its  time-honored  name 
to  be  erased  from  the  list  of  Detroit’s 
business  houses?

Is 

it  may  have  upon 

“ I  would  go  farther  and say that  I  be­
lieve  that  the  adoption  of  these bargain- 
day  methods  will  put  any  firm  or  any 
line  of  trade 
‘ on  the  bum;’  in  fact,  1 
believe  that  the  adoption  of  this  policy 
by  the  retail  trade  of  any  city  will  soon 
seriously  injure  the  ttade  of  that  city, 
not  because  of  any 
immediate  effect 
which 
the  daily, 
monthly  or  annual  sales,  but  because 
the  purchasing  methods  of  the  consum­
ing  public  will,  eventually,  become  so 
vitiated  and  completely  permeated  with 
the  bargain-hunting  craze  that 
their 
trade  will  be  of  little  value  to anyone.”  
the 
interviewer. 
“ Permit  me  to  call  you 
back  to  your  subject.  This  is  a  matter 
of  selling  rather  than  of  buying.  What 
effect  does  this  policy  have  upon  the 
volume  of  the  year’s  business?”

“ But  you  are  rambling,”   said 

“ Rambling,  am  I?”   retorted  he  of 
the  yard-stick  and  the  ready  reply. 
“ Just  pray  tell  me  how  you  will  sell 
unless  some  one  buys.  And  again,  what 
is  to  be  gained  by increasing the volume 
of  business  without  a  corresponding  in­
crease  in  the  profits  of  the  same?  What 
is  of  more  value  than  the  ‘ good  will’  of 
an  old-established  house?  And  in  what 
does  that  ‘ good  will'  consist,  if  not  in  a 
long 
list  of  well-satisfied  customers, 
every  one  of  whom  is  a  walking  adver­
tisement?  All  honor  to  the  business 
firm  straight  enough 
to  deserve  this 
‘ good  w ill,’  and  with  sense  enough  to 
avoid  changing  this  confidence  into sus­
picion  and  distrust  by  the  adoption  of 
modern  bargain-day  tactics.

“ It  has  been  urged  by the enthusiastic 
advocates  of  this  sensational  policy  that 
shelf-worn,  unseasonable  goods  can  be 
disposed  of  in  this  way  without  loss. 
1 
will  concede  the  truth  of  this  statement, 
but  will  further  urge,  in  the  same  con­
nection,  that,  for  every  dollar  which 
is 
saved  through  the  universal  adoption  of 
these  questionable  methods  by the entire 
retail  trade  of  any  city,  two  dollars  will 
be  lost,  by  the  increase  in  the  accumu­
lation  of  these  same unseasonable goods. 
Chronic  bargain  hunters  soon  learn  to 
wait  for  goods  s'ightly  out  of  style  or 
unseasonable,  which,  experience  has 
taught  them,  the  frequent  return  of  the 
bargain  day  will surely bring forth.  And 
they  wait.  While  they  are  waiting 
there  are  others  who  are  waiting.  The 
clerks  in  the  stores  are  waiting  for  cus­
tomers.  The  proprietor  is  waiting  to 
get  his  money  out  of  the  goods.  The 
jobber  is  waiting  to  get  his  money  from

M ICH IG A N   TRADESMAN  •

is 

is  he?  Standing 

the  retailor.  The  ¡..ajuiacl.r.r  .s  v. a.t- 
ing 
for  the  jobber.  The  laboring  man 
— where 
in  the  long 
procession,  also  sadly  waiting.  The  last 
mentioned  party  is  the  one  supposed  to 
be  most  benefited  by  these 
low  prices. 
impatiently  waiting  for  a 
But  he 
change  in  wages.  A  change  comes— 
but,  after  its  coming,  the  poor  fellow’s 
family  must  buy  the  necessaries  of 
life 
cheaper 
at  bargain-day 
prices,  or go  without  altogether.”

even 

than 

‘ What  would  you  do  in  order  to  get 
rid  of  your  cull  stock  if  you  were  the 
proprietor  of  a  retail  business?”   was 
asked.

“ I  would  feed  the  furnace  with  it 
rather  than  do  as  some  firms  are  doing, 
these  days!”   was  the  reply. 
“ It  would 
not  be  so  bad,”   continued the salesman, 
“ if dealers sold only their old-fashioned, 
unseasonable  goods  on  these  occasions, 
but  the  fact  is  that  nearly  all  sell 
large 
quantities  of 
cheap  money-makers, 
mixed  so  deftly  with  the  regular  stock 
as  to  cleverly  deceive  the  unwary  of 
the  average  buyer.  These  goods  are 
clever 
imitations  of  the  genuine  and 
look  to  be  worth  fully  twice  as  much 
as  they  really  are.  The  old  customers 
of  the  firm  drop 
in  and  accidentally 
buy  some  of  these  goods—and  there  you 
are.  Will  they  come  back  again? 
I 
guess  not.  A  few  dollars  may  be  made 
in  this  way,  but  I  certainly  believe  that 
there  is  no  more  effectual  way  of 
liter­
ally  dtiving  away  from  your  store  a 
long,  well-established  list  of  customers. 
Anyway,  the  suckers  who  would  bite 
a  second  time  at  such  a  bait  would  not 
be  worth  having.  Better  far  to  per­
suade  a  man  to  buy  a  good  article  at  an 
outrageously  high  price  than  to  sell  him 
an  inferior  article at one-half its value.

Thus  discoursed  this  friend  of  mine; 
and  it  must  be  conceded  by  the  candid 
observer  that  the  view  he  takes  of  the 
situation 
is  well  warranted  by  many  of 
the  recent  events  in  Detroit’s  commer­
cial  life.  When  the  dealers  who  resort 
to  these  methods,  as  trade  winners,  are 
approached  they  often  urge  that the plan 
enables  them  to  keep  the  present  in­
come 
to  the 
standard  of  other  years ;  that,  while  the 
margin  of  profit  on  each  individual  ar­
ticle 
is  smaller,  the  large  increase  in 
the  total  volume  of  trade  more  than 
makes  up  the  deficiency.

their  business  up 

from 

in  view 

lose  much  of 

This  claim  may be true in some  cases ; 
but,  once  let  the  whole  retail  trade  of  a 
city  adopt  bargain-day  methods,  and 
this  argument  will 
its 
force.  But 
it  matters  not  whether  we 
accept  this  explanation  or  listen  to  the 
more  frank  acknowledgment  of  some 
others  who  are  engaged  in  the  practice 
of  price-cutting,  to  the  effect  that  the 
real  object 
is  to  humbug  the 
public  into  the  belief  that  this  particu­
lar  firm  is  selling  goods for less than  any 
other  firm  in  the  city,  by  cutting  values 
on  articles  with  which  the  buyers  are 
familiar  and  making  up  on  others  with 
the  value  of  which  they  are  not  ac- 
jquainted.  While  the  latter  explanation 
seems  the  more  plausible  one,  the  real 
result  aimed  at 
in  both 
cases,  namely,  the  success  of  the  few 
and  the  ultimate  failure  of  the  majority 
of  those  engaged 
in  the  line  of  trade 
under  consideration.

is  the  same 

THE  BEST  FLOUR

in  the  world  is

PILLSBURY’S BEST

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"ECONOMY  IS  W EAian ”

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  io 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 
T h at’s all

The  most  enthusiastic  friends  of  bar­
gain-day  methods  do  not  claim  that 
the  total  volume  of  trade  is  increased 
it  will  be  diverted 
thereby,  but  that 
from  the  channels  through  which 
it 
originally  flowed  and  be  caused  to  min­
ister  to  the  financial  prosperity  of  a  few 
“ up-to-date”   dealers,  as  they  style

CLARK-JEWELL-WELLS  CO.

Sole  Owners.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

themselves. 
Is  this  a  result  which  is  to 
be  desired,  either  by  the  general  retail 
In  the 
trade  or  by  the  public  at  large? 
is  worthy 
first  place,  no  trade  policy 
the  advocacy  of  an  unbiased, 
fair- 
individual  which  will  not,  in 
minded 
its  practical  workings,  result 
in  “ the 
greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number’ ’ 
of  those  engaged  in  any  given 
line  of 
If  the  public,  fooled  by  shrewd­
trade. 
ly-worded  advertisements,  are 
led  to 
take  advantage  of  cheap  street  car  fares 
and  rush  down  town  and  buy  everything 
they  need  from  a  few  large  department 
stores,  will the number of  men  employed 
as  salesmen  in  the  city  at  large  be 
in­
creased  thereby?  Will  the  number  of 
empty  stores  in  outlying  districts  be 
decreased,  and  will  the  general  pros­
perity  of  these  outlying  districts  be  in­
creased  and  value  be  added  to  the  real 
estate  in  these  localities?  Will  the 
in­
terests  of  the  small  tradesmen  of  the 
city  be  subserved,  or  will  they  eventual­
ly  be  driven  out  of  business  by  this 
selfish  one-sided  policy?

Surely,  any  policy  which  favors  the 
interests  of  only  a  fragment  of  the  peo­
ple  -should  be  discontinued.  But  how 
is  this  to  be  accomplished?  This  ques­
tion  has  ,been  asked  often,  during  the 
past  year,  by  men  who  have  the  welfare 
of  the  general  public  at  heart  and  are 
anxious  to  see  “ a  square  deal’ ’  all 
around.  Some  have  gone  so  far as  to 
predict  that,  sooner  or  later,  this  ques­
tion  must  be  made  the  subject  of  spe­
cial  legislation.  No  doubt  some  of  the 
“ up-to-date”   dealers  will  hold  up  their 
hands 
in  holy  horror  and  insist  that  a 
man  has  a  right  to  sell  his  own  goods, 
in  his  own  way,  at  his  own price.  But, 
while  they  are  making  this  claim,  let 
some  traveling  auctioneer 
commence 
doing  business 
in  a  vacant  store  next 
door  to  their  place  of  business  without 
complying  with  the  local  license  ordi­
nance,  and  mark,  bow  unanimous  are 
these  gentlemen  on  the  question  as  to 
the  “ right”   of  the  city  to  intervene. 
But  why  assume  to  control,  and  often 
positively  prohibit,  the  business  of  the 
auctioneer  while  the  dealer  in  the  same 
block 
is  allowed  to  resort  to  methods 
which  are  as  reprehensible  and  are 
productive  of  results  a  thousand  times 
more  detrimental  to  the  interests  of  the 
city  at  large? 

H.  H.  Mack.

H ow   a  B oston  T ra v e le r  R egards 

C heap  G oods.

In  the  advertisement  of  a  leading  de­
partment  store 
in  one  of  the  Sunday 
papers  is  found  this  significant  head­
ing,  “ Shall  we  have  war?  Not  with 
Spain,  we  hope,  but  we  are  having  a 
little  war  of  our  own—and  not  so  very 
little,  either.  We  are  waging  war  on 
high  prices.  We  have  waged  this  war 
for  years,  but  we  are  just  now  making 
it  hotter  than  ever.  Those  who  visit 
our  store  this  week  will  find  this  war 
going  on  with  relentless  vigor  and 
in­
tensity. ”

is  already 

This  may  be  good  advertising,  but  it 
certainly  shows  much  to  the  mind  of 
one  who 
imbued  with  the 
facts  that  even  although  times  are  bet­
ter,  cheaper  goods  are  what 
is  being 
asked  for  by  the  trade.  How  much  of 
this  is  due  to  the  department  store? 
Is 
this  advertisement  pregnant  with  sig­
nificance?  A  friend  of  mine  who  makes 
bicycle  tires  tried  to  sell  that  same 
house.  The  buyer  said,  “ If  you  can 
in 
make  them  cheap  enough  I  will  buy 
large  quantities.”   He  was  asked 
to 
It  was 
name  a  price,  which  he  did. 
about  a  dollar  a  tire.  The  tire  manu­
facturer  then  said:  “ I  can  make  them

at  that  price,  but  they  won’t  wear 
long 
enough  to  carry  the  rider  ten  blocks 
after  they  are  put  on  his  wheel. ”   The 
buyer  did  not  care  how  long  they  wore. 
All  he  wanted  was  a  price  at  which  he 
could  beat  all  his  competitors  and  still 
make  money.  The  bargain  was  struck, 
and  the  tires  will  soon  be  delivered. 
I 
pity  the  poor  rider  if  he  gets  far  away 
from  home  on  one of  those tire5.  Again, 
my  own  wife  has  bought  some  of  these 
department  houses’  17c  tin  cooking 
utensils,  and  the  heat  of  an  ordinary 
stove  has  melted  the  thin  metal  until 
in  less  than  a  week  it  was  utterly  use­
less.  This  sort  of  thing  comes  borne  to 
us  in  our  own  industry.  A  department 
store  buyer  was  in  Boston  recently,  and 
he  said  he  had  got  sick  of  trying  to  t e ll 
his  clerks,  and  through  them  his  cus­
tomers,  that  a  cheap  price  meant  cheap 
goods  that  would  not  wear.  This  man 
said,  with  truth,  “ Our  customers  say, 
‘ Well,  we  can  go  across  the  street  and 
get  a  shoe  for gi  or 1. 50, ’  ”   as  the  case 
may  be,  “   ‘ and  we  want  a  shoe  at  that 
price.’  ”   This  buyer  knew  when  he 
bought  very  cheap  goods  that  he  was 
buying  paper  and  other  substitutes  for 
leather.  Still,  he must  have  cheap  goods 
in  order  to  beat  his  competitor.
Let  me  ask  you,  if  this  thing 

is  car­
logical  conclusion,  where 
ried  to 
will 
it  come  out?  These  department 
stores  are  absolutely  and  designedly 
“ waging  war  on  high  prices,”   as  the 
advertisement  says,  and  they  are  meet­
ing  with  success,  too.  Under  the  direc­
tion  which  they  are  taking  prices  will 
grow  lower  and  lower,  until  the  Ameri­
can  people,  whom  Barnum  said  “ like 
to  be  humbugged, ”   arrive  at  the  con­
clusion  that  cheap  prices  mean  cheap 
goods,  medium  prices  better  goods, 
and  a  fair  price  must  be  paid  for  the 
best  goods.  That  advertisement  struck 
me  as  an  object  lesson,  and  I  made  up 
my  mind  that  I  would  call  your  atten­
tion  to  it  when  you  called  on  me  again. 
My  duty 
let  me  say  in 
closing  that  I  myself  sell  department 
houses,  and  therefore  want  to  say  that 
there  are  times  when,  by  reason  of  large 
capital,  these  concerns  can  take  advan­
tage  of  the  people  going  into insolvency 
and  bankruptcy,  and 
thus  advertise 
true  bargains  to the  consumer.  Still,  I 
venture  the  assertion,  without  much 
fear  of  contradiction,  that  where  one 
such  sale  is  legitimately  advertised  one 
hundred  other  cheap  grades  are  either 
put  in  with  that  sale  bought  for  the spe­
cial  purpose  of  selling  at  a  price,  or 
It  may  be 
the  sale 
good  business,  but 
is  hard  on  the 
customer. 

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Shoes  and  Leather

S hoe  M a n u fa c tu rin g   in  N ew   E ngland.
New  England  is  the  cradle  in  which 
the  infant  industry  of  shoe  manufactur­
ing  in  America  was  rocked.  The  de­
velopment  of  this  art  within  a  period  of 
half  a  century  is  one  of  the  greatest  of 
the  many  achievements  in  mechanism 
which  have  made  this  age  illustrious. 
The  pioneers  in  this  field  of  labor  could 
not  have  had  any  conception  of  the  im­
mensity  of  the  harvest  which  was  des­
tined  to  grow  out  of  the  seeds  they  were 
planting 
the 
outset  were  limited  in quantity,  of crude 
materials,  and  not  especially  attractive 
in  respect  of  style  and  shapeliness.

Their  productions  at 

Within  the  memory  of  men  who  are 
still  young  enough  to  be  in  active  busi­
ness  there  were  in  many  a  village  two 
or  three  little  shops  in  which  a  few 
in­
dividuals  were  making  shoes  by  hand. 
They  plied  the  lapstone  with  the  ham­
mer  to  fit  the  hand-cut  and  hand-closed 
upper  to  the  last,  pounded  the  wet  sole 
to  render  it  as  solid  as  they  could,  fas­
tened 
it  to  the  last  with  nails,  held  it 
over  the  knee  with  a  strap  around  the 
shank,  and  then  with  a  hammer  in  one 
hand,  an awl  in  the  other,  and  a  mouth­
ful  of  wooden  pegs  ready  for  service, 
they  pegged  the  sole  and  inner  sole  to­
gether.  Having  gotten  the  fabric  into 
shape  by  pegging  and  by  trimming,  the 
latter  process  consisting  of  the  applica­
tion  of  a  piece  of  window  glass,  broken 
over  a  file  to  assure  a  cutting  edge, 
the  grain  was  scraped,  as  a  preliminary 
to  the  sandpapering  of  the  pegs  and  of 
the  sole  to  give 
smoothness. 
Then  the  bottom  was  rubbed  with  a 
stick,  beeswax  was  applied  to  impart  a 
gloss,  a  coat  of  ink put around the  edge, 
and,  after  that  had  had  time  to  get  dry, 
the  operation  was  repeated,  the  varnish­
ing  was  performed,  and  the  shoe  of  the 
period  was  ready  to  be worn.  The whole 
performance  was  primitive,  clumsy  and 
slow.

them 

Shoemaking  in  winter  and  farming  or 
fishing  in  summer  furnished  congenial 
occupations  to  many  thrifty  men,  pro­
viding  them  with  comfortable  homes 
and  the  means  for  living  well  and  lay­
ing  by  some  savings  from  their  income. 
Their  children,  boys  and  girls,  attend­
ed  school  in  the  daytime  and  worked  at 
stitching  and  such  other  parts  of  the 
mechanism  as  they  could  do  to  advan­
tage  when  they  were  not 
studying. 
Doubtless 
in  the  brains  of  many  of 
these  youthful  artisans  ideas  originated 
which  afterwards  took  practical  form  in 
the  construction  of  machines  of  inesti­
mable  value.  The  children  at  the cheer­
ful  fireside  were  busy  with  their  hands 
and  with  their  thoughts,  and  while  they 
were  contributing  to  the  support  of  the 
household  they  were 
things 
constantly  which  were  destined  to speed 
their  way  to  fame  and  fortune.  The 
domestic  hearths  around  which  these 
little  groups  gathered  were  nurseries  in 
which  the  new-born  offsprings  of  genius 
were  tended  in  their  infancy  and  reared 
to  full-grown  stature  and strength.  The 
surroundings  were  advantageous to  their 
development.  They  were  favored  with 
a  hardy  climate  and  an  invigorating 
atmosphere,  and  under  the  influence  of 
healthful  associations  they  drank  in  life 
with each breath they drew and  advanced 
from  the  moment  they first saw the light, 
by  regular  stages  of  progression,  to 
sturdy  maturity.

learning 

The  shoe  manufacturers  had  no  mar­
kets  for  their  fabrics,  except  such  as 
they  sought  and  found,  at  first  near  by

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and  afterwards  farther  off.  They  suc­
ceeded  by  diligence and perseverance in 
selling  shoes  to  dealers 
in  the  large 
cities  in  the  Middle  States.  The  peo­
ple  of  the  South  were  among  their earli­
est  and  largest  customers.  The  plain, 
homely,  substantial  brogan  was  found 
by  the  Southern  planters  to  be  the  most 
serviceable  foot  covering  for 
its  cost 
which  they  could  procure  for  the  bond- 
men  over  whom  they  held  the  undis­
puted  claim  of  ownership  At  that  time 
few  ready  made  shoes  were  worn ;  cus­
tom  work  was  deemed 
indispensable 
to  comfort.  Even  shoes  made  to  order 
were  the  cause  of  considerable  suffering 
to  the  wearers  until  they  had  become 
adapted  to  the  contour  of  the  foot.  Be­
ing  made  of  leather  which  was  inflex­
ibly  stiff,  it  was  rarely  that  there  was 
not  some  part  of  the  foot  at  which  they 
pinched  unpleasantly,  it  being  so  diffi­
cult  to  fit  a  person  by  measure.

It 

is  necessary 

Shoes  made  for  promiscuous  use  were 
still  more  liable  to  inflict  pain  at  some 
point. 
to  take  these 
things  into  account  to  form  an  adequate 
estimate  of  the  disadvantages  encoun­
tered  by  the  shoe  manufacturers, in  their 
early  efforts  to  popularize  their  produc­
tions.  There 
is  no  other  article  of 
raiment  of  which  it  is  so  essential  that 
it  should  be  easy  to  wear. 
It  is  highly 
creditable  to  the  ingenuity  of  the  shoe 
manufacturers  of  New  England 
that 
they  have  succeeded  so  well  in  clearing 
this  obstacle  out  of  the  path  of  their 
progress.

The  cordwainer’s  kit  of  that  time 
varied  but 
little  from  the  collection  of 
tools  used  two  thousand years ago.  A  set 
of  them  is  preserved  in  the  Musuem  at 
Mayence  which  were  exhumed  from  the 
ruins  of  a  Roman  village.  The  process 
of  manufacture  did  not  differ essentially 
in  the  beginning  of  the Nineteenth Cen­
tury  from  what  it  was  before  the  Chris­
tian  Era.

The  expansion  of  the  shoe  industry 
during  the  last  half  of  the  present  cen­
tury  has  been  amazingly  great.  The 
evolution  from  the  little  workshop  to 
the  colossal  factory  building  has  pro­
gressed  so  quietly  that  the  magnitude 
of  the  change  can  hardly  be  compre­
hended,  except  by  those  who  bestow 
careful 
attention  upon  the  subject. 
Numerous  cities  have  grown  up  from 
the  little  hamlets,  the 
inhabitants  of 
which  have  acquired  wealth  almost  ex­
clusively by  the  prosecution  of  the  shoe­
making  art.  The  consumption  of  shoes 
has  increased  prodigiously.  Rival  es­
tablishments  have  sprung  into  existence 
in  all  parts  of  the  Union,  but  New 
England  still  holds 
its  primacy  and 
prestige. 
In  every  improved  method  it 
has  led  the  van.  No  measure  of  excel­
lence  has  been  reached  which  did  not 
serve  as  a  stimulus  to  further  aspira­
tions.  The  encouragement  given  to  in­
ventive  genius  has  been  instrumental  in 
bringing  into  general  use  a  vast  num­
ber  of  machines  so  dexterous  of  con­
struction,  so  admirable  in  their  opera­
tion,  and  so  effective 
in  utilizing  and 
economizing  labor,  that  they have great­
ly  enhanced  the  value  of  the  work  done 
by  them  and  cheapened 
its  cost.  The 
part  which  machinery  plays  in  the  shoe 
manufacture  is  of 
impor­
It  was  not  until  after  1850  that 
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Subsequently  they  multiplied  so  rapidly 
that  now  almost  every  portion  of  the 
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in­
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each  one  doing  the  share  assigned  to 
him 
in  the  production  of  it,  the  sub­
division  of  labor  being  so  arranged  that 
the  best  and  most economical results  are 
secured.  The  workmen  in  the  factories 
do  not,  under  this  system,  acquire  a 
knowledge  of  the  trade  of  shoemaking ; 
that 
is  an  unsatisfactory  feature  of  it, 
but  the  work  is  done with such precision 
and  skill,  and  with  so  much  saving  of 
expense,  that  the  use  of  machinery  has 
caused  a  very  great  reduction  in  the 
prices  of  shoes.

By 

increasing  the  facilities  of  pro­
duction  the  manufacturers  have  aug­
mented  the  consumption  of  shoes vastly. 
They  have  directed  their 
ingenuity  to 
the  conception  of  new  styles  and  fash­
ions,  attractive  enough  to  induce people 
to  buy  what  they  might,  without  a  sac­
rifice  of  comfort,  dispense  with,  but 
which  they  are  tempted  to  indulge  in 
because  they  suit  their  tastes  and  are 
not  dear.  The  shoe  manufacturers  have 
in  this  way  created  a  stupendous  de­
mand  for  their  wares,  so  that  their  an­
nual  sales  are  greatly  in  excess  of  the 
actual  necessities  of  consumers.  The 
varieties  of  their  productions  are  vir­
tually  illimitable.  They embrace  colors 
to  match  all  sorts  of  costumes,  materials 
of  every  conceivable  kind, 
from  the 
plainest  to  the  most  ornate;  shapes  to 
suit  every  fancy  and  caprice;  modes  so 
diversified  that  no 
inhabitant  of  the 
land,  however  fastidious  or  eccentric, 
can  fail  to  get  accommodated  fully  and 
completely.

Because  of  their  resourcefulness  and 
versatility  the  shoe  manufacturers  of 
New  England  have  enlarged  their  busi­
ness  to  colossal  proportions.  There 
is 
no  country  in  the  world  in  which  there 
is  so  great  a  per  capita  consumption  of 
shoes  as  in  ours,  and  this  is  in  a  large 
measure  attributable  to  the  masterful 
ability  which  has  been  displayed 
in 
every  elaboration  of  the  art. 
They 
have  been  continually  originating  novel 
and  attractive  specimens  of  their handi­
craft,  thereby  creating  a  demand  which 
could  never  have  existed  but  for  their 
skillfulness.

The  extraordinary  progress  which  has 
been  made 
in  the  amplification  of  the 
shoe  industry  in  New  England  has  been 
so  steady  and  regular  that  it  has elicited 
less  attention  and  received  less  admira­
tion  than  it  is  entitled  to,  in view of  the 
fact  that  so  much  has  been  accom­
plished.  There  has  been  a  continuous 
and  uninterrupted succession of achieve­
ments,  and  the  contributions  to  them 
have  been  so  numerous  and  the  effects 
they  have  produced  have  been  so  strik­
ing  that  it  may  be said that the guerdons 
of  merit  belong  to  the  entire  fraternity, 
no  single 
individual  towering  so  far 
above  his  compeers  as  to  impair  their 
claims  to  renown  in  a  field  of  endeavor 
in  which  they  have  won  distinction,  ac­
quired fortune,  and rendered  inestimable 
services  to  their  fellow  men.

The  fact 

is  self-evident  that  in  this 
multitude  of  artisans  there  must  have 
been  vast  numbers  who  possessed  in  a 
large  degree  the  faculty  of  creating 
fabrics  so  thoroughly  adapted  to  the 
predilections  of  consumers  that  there 
were  sure  to  be  markets  for  them  as 
soon  as  they  were  exhibited.  The  pro­
ducers  were  full  of  ideas.  They  were 
imparting 
forever  discovering  ways  of 
additional  value  to  their  wares  by 
in­
vesting  them  with  some  embellishment 
which  had  never before  entered  into  the 
mind  of  any  rival  to  supply. 
In  this 
respect  their  range  of  conception  seems 
to  have  been  virtually  illimitable.  The 
novelties  were  brought  forward  in  end­

less  profusion.  They  accumulated,^to 
such  an  extent  that  purchasers  had  not 
time  enough  at  their  disposal  to  exam­
ine  them  all  and  make  selection  of  the 
kind  which  suited  them.  They  were 
embarrassed  by  having  so  many 
invit­
ing  styles  to  choose  from.  Neverthe­
less,  the  varieties,  so  far  from  having 
diminished,  have  steadily  continued  to 
increase,  until  a  full  assortment 
in  a 
well-appointed  shoe  store  presents  a 
succession  of  objects  of  beauty,  at 
which  any  tasteful  person  can  gaze  for 
hours  with  pleasure.

from 

One  conspicuous  feature  of  the  shoe 
industry  is  that  it  grew  to  great strength 
without  nurture  and  flourished  without 
It  has  had  no  support  or 
stimulants. 
fostering  care 
legislation,  nor 
have  there  ever  been  any  combinations 
or  organizations  to  infuse  vitality  into 
it. 
It  became  powerful  wholly  through 
the  operation  of  natural  causes.  The 
contributors  to  its  success  have  worked 
as  effectually  for  the  common  interest 
as  if  they  had  been  in  concert  from  the 
beginning,  although  they  have  not  been 
consciously 
each 
other.  Every  one  of  them  has  simply 
evolved  bis  own  conceptions 
in  his 
mind,  and  produced  the  best  results  ob­
tainable  therefrom.  And  with  so  many 
minds 
same 
thought,  it  is  not  difficult  to  account  for 
the  multiformity  and  diversity  of  the 
fabrics  generated  in  such  a  fecund  soil. 
Yet  they  are  striking  evidences  of  the 
prowess  of  the  men  whose  gifted  brains 
and  cunning  hands  have  wrought  such 
vast  quantities  of  shapely  articles,  alike 
indispensable  in  their  utility  and super­
lative  in  their attractiveness.

co-operating  with 

intently  on  the 

fixed 

It 

in  the  front  rank 

They  have  performed 

So  much  that  is  wonderful  has  hap­
pened  in  this  age  of  industrial  progress 
and  scientific  discovery  that  we natural­
ly  feel  some  hesitation  in  exalting  the 
in 
exploits  of  any  one  class  ot  experts 
mechanical  art  over  others.  Nor  is 
it 
necessary  to  make  any  invidious  dis­
tinctions. 
is  enough  to  say  that  the 
producers  of  shoes  are  entitled  to  a 
place 
in  the  great 
utilitarian  procession,  the  stately  tread 
of  whose  triumphal  march  resounds  all 
over  this  continent.  They  have  made 
themselves  a  place  among  the  artists  of 
their  time.  They  have  succeeded 
in 
converting  large  quantities  of  the plain­
est  materials  into  objects  of  beauty  and 
of  use. 
the 
doubly  valuable  function  of  ministering 
to  the  refined  tastes  of  the  populace  and 
of  adding  largely  to 
aggregate 
wealth  of  the  nation.  Their  master­
pieces  combine  the  merits  of  substance 
with  the  garniture  of  show.  The  satis­
faction  of  looking  at  them  is  greatly 
enhanced  by  appreciation  of  their  serv­
iceability.  They  have  a  property  value 
independently  of,  and 
in  addition  to, 
interest  they  elicit  because  of  their 
the 
comeliness  of  appearance.  And  taking 
into  consideration  the  immense  quanti­
ties  there  are  of  them,  of  what  an  in­
finite  variety  of  shapes  and  fashions 
there  are,  and  how  many  phases  of  dis­
similar  mechanical  ingenuity  are  repre­
sented  by  them,  they  invest  with  strong 
interest  the  great 
industry  which  they 
have  brought  to  such  a  high  degree  of 
perfection.

the 

industry  has  exercised  a 
The  shoe 
influence  upon  social 
life 
wholesome 
in  New  England. 
In  the  great  shoe 
towns  the  communities  are  far  above 
the  average  in  culture  and  refinement. 
They  have  excellent  schools,  well-se­
lected 
libraries,  and  all  the  concomi­
tants  essential  for  making  the  most  of 
their  opportunities  for  cultivating  the 
graces  of  friendly  intercourse  and  good 
neighborhood.  They  are  valuable  citi­

zens.  They  fully  comprehend  their  re­
sponsibilities,  and  discharge  them  with 
conscientious  fidelity. 
They  display 
good  taste  in  architecture  and build  fine 
houses;  they  lay  out  excellent  roads; 
they  establish  parks  and  pleasure  re­
sorts;  they  contribute  largely  in  numer­
ous  ways  to  each  other’s  enjoyment. 
Being  well-to-do  and  independent,  their 
bouses  are  pleasant  and  supplied  with 
comforts  and  even  with  luxuries.  They 
are  peaceful, 
law-abiding,  considerate 
of  one  another.  They  meet  together  and 
devise  measures  calculated  to  enhance 
the  common  happiness.  They  pay  at­
tention  to  the  education  of  their  chil­
dren.  They  are  diligent;  they  employ 
their  time  to  good advantage.  And not­
withstanding  their  devotion  to  business, 
they  have  a  thorough  appreciation  of 
pleasure  and 
indulge  in  it  on  suitable 
occasions  with  genuine  relish.  There 
are  so  many  of  them  and  they  possess 
such  diversities  of  gifts  that  they  are 
able  to  do  a  great  deal  towards  their 
mutual  entertainment  and  edification. 
They 
in  and  for  each  other,  and 
their  associations  and  fellowship  are  in 
a  very large degree potential  in strength­
ening  the  ties  which  bind  them  together 
into  closer  unity  and 
and  bring  them 
intimacies  have  been 
accord.  Their 
productive  of  beneficent  effects. 
is 
because  of  them  that  the  people  of  New 
England  have  such  a  faculty  for  self- 
government  that  their  local  affairs  are 
so  judiciously  administered ;  that  they 
conduct  themselves  with  so  much  dis­
cretion  and  good  sense;  that  there  are 
rarely  any  disturbances  or  controversies 
intelli­
among  them ;  that  they  take  an 
gent  interest  in  all  that  is  going  on 
in 
the  world,  far  and  near,  at  home  and 
abroad ;  that  they  are  familiar  with  cur­
rent  and  with  classical 
literature;  that 
they  are  constantly  adding  to  their  store 
of  knowledge  by 
judicious  reading; 
that  they  enlarge  their  experiences  of 
life  by  travel,  at  suitable  times,  in their 
own  country  and  in  foreign  lands.  They 
are  always  on  the  alert  to  gather  up  all 
the  good  things  within  their  reach  and 
turn  them  to  the  best  account.

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are  the  best shoe in the country for $i  oo.  P- S.  W e  purchased  th ese  go o d s  before  the 
ad van ce,  and  our  trade sh a ll  h a ve  th e  benefit as  lo n g   as  th ey  hold  out.

Michigan Shoe Company,

81-83 Jefferson  Ave.,

Detroit,  Michigan

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Fruits  and  Produce.

Reasons  W hy  F o dde r  Cheese  S hould 

N ot  Be  M ade

low  price. 

Little  Falls,  N.  Y ,,  March  28—Will 
you  kindly  allow  me  to  address  the 
cheese  manufacturers  of  Michigan  on 
the  advisability  of  putting  off  the  open­
ing  of  their  cheese  factories  this spring, 
and  to  state  that  I  advise  such  a  course 
on  their  part,  firmly  believing  that  it 
will  result  in  much  better average prices 
for  the  season  than  if  they make  a  lot  of 
fodder  cheese,  which  will  have  to  be 
sold  at  a 
I  have  just  re­
turned  from  a  six  weeks’  trip  to  Eng­
land,  and  during  my  sojourn  there  I 
visited  many,  and, 
in  fact,  may  say 
nearly  all  the  principal  points  of  dis­
tribution  of  cheese.  From  a  careful 
canvass  and  trustworthy estimates  it  ap­
pears  that  there  is  now  about  double  the 
amount  of  cheese  in  dealers’  hands  that 
they  usually  have  this  season  of  the 
year.  They  claim  that  they  have  enough 
stock  on  hand  to  last  them  until  Jnne  1.
I  do  not  say  that  they  will  not  buy  new 
before  that  time,  as  they  will  undoubt­
edly  take  on  some 
if  offered  at  a  low 
price;  but  that  will  result in their carry­
ing  a  big  stock  of  fine  old  cheese  still 
later  into  the  season,  when  they  should 
be  in  the  market  for  large  quantities  of 
fine  grass  cheese.  This  must  result  in 
very  low  prices,  if  we  have  an  average 
make. 
I  believe  the  only  remedy  is  to 
curtail  production  until the consumptive 
demand  takes  the  current  make.  This 
can  only  be  accomplished  by  concerted 
plan  on  the  part  of  the  factorymen.

If  you  figure that  your  neighbor  will 
not  make  any  fodder  cheese,  that  there 
will  be  a  demand  for  a  few,  and  that 
you  will  make  to  supply  that  demand, 
you  can  rest  assured  that  your  neighbor 
is  arriving  at  the  same  conclusion  and 
pursuing  the  same  tactics. 
It  will  be 
in  the  end  to  have  an  un­
much  better 
derstanding  and  fix  the  time  to  begin 
making,  and  stick  to  the  agreement. 
Besides,  if  the  present  prices  of  butter 
and  of  well  fatted  calves  hold,  farmers 
will  find  an  immediate  gain  by  divert­
ing  their  milk  into  those  channels;  and 
the  value  of  their  milk  will  be enhanced 
when  made  into  cheese  later  in  the  sea­
son.

In  advocating  a  late  opening,  I  have 
no  ax  to  grind,  as  I  am  carrying  no 
cheese,  but,  on  the  contrary,  a 
late 
opening 
is  against  my  interests,  inas­
much  as 
it  will  give  me  just  so  much ] 
less  stock  to  handle  and  necessarily 
make  my  season’s  business  less  than 
would  an  early  opening  of  my usual line 
of  factories.
I  find  that  in  many  sections  of  Eng­
land  there  exists  a  prejudice  against 
“ states”   cheese  and  in  favor of  “ Cana­
dians,”   and  I  regret  to  say 
in  most 
cases  the  same  is  well  founded,  as  most 
of  the  Canadian  cheese  possesses  better 
keeping  qualities  than state cheese.  The 
principal  fault  of  our  cheese  is  that  too 
much  moisture  is  left  in  the  curd  when 
made.  This  comes 
from  our  makers 
for  the 
sacrificing  keeping  qualities 
sake  of  getting  a  big  yield. 
If  we  are 
going  to  compete  successfully  with  Ca­
nadian  cheese  in  the  English  markets 
we  must  pay  more  attention  to  keeping 
qualities  a"d  less  to  yield.  Their  de­
mand 
is  for  a  firm,  close  boring,  rich 
curd,  but  one  from  which  the  moisture 
has  been  thoroughly  expelled 
in  the 
making;  in  other  words,  they  want  a 
curd  as  dry  as  it  can  be  made  and leave 
all  the  butter  fat  in.  Of  course,moisture 
adds  weight  to  the  cheese,  and  it  takes 
more  milk  to  make  cheese  suitable  for 
the  English  market  than  for  our  home 
trade,  which  has  become  educated  to 
use  a  loose-made,  sloppy  curd,  full  of 
moisture  and  which  does  not  contain 
nearly  as  much  nutriment  as  the  cheese 
the  English  demand  as  one  of  the:r 
staple  articles  of  food. 
If  the  consum­
ers  of  cheese  here  at home could come to 
know  that  what  they  call  cream 
in 
cheese  is  largely  water,  and  if  they  only 
would  get  to  using  a  make  of  cheese 
from  which  the  water  was  properly  ex­
pelled  without  sacrificing  any  of  the 
cream,  not'eating  the  same  until  it  was 
thoroughly'  cured,  they  would  find  the 
same  much  more  palatable,  nutritious

larger  borne  consumption  and 

it  would  result  in 
in­

and  digestible,  and 
a 
creased  demand.

As  to  the  size  best  for  export,  a 
cheese  14]/2  to  15 
inches  in  diameter 
and  11  to  12  inches  in  height,  weighing 
70  to  75  pounds,  seems  to  be  the  most 
desired.  While  various  sections  want 
different  shades  of  color,  the  general 
demand  is  for a  full  color,  if  colored  at 
all,  but  in  all  sections  white  cheese  a'e 
growing  more  into  favor  each  year.  For 
example,  the  three  principal  ports  of 
distribution  in  England  are  Liverp  ol, 
London  and  Bristol.  Liverpool,  which 
a  few  years  ago  took  about  equal  quan­
tities  of  white  and  colored,  now  takes 
three  white  to  one  colored.  London 
formerly  took  nearly  all  colored,  and 
now  takes  as  many  white  as  colored, 
while  Bristol,  which  has  grown  very 
rapidly  as  a  point  of  distribution  in  the 
cheese  trade,  demands  nearly  90  per 
cent,  of  her  supply  uncolored.

The  Canadians  are  putting forth every 
effort  to  supply  the  requirements  of  the 
English  market.  The  states  cheese  has 
lost  prestige  in  the  last  few  years.  Only 
by  the  utmost  care  and  pains  taken  in 
making  and  catering  to  the  foreign  de­
mand  as  to  quality  can  we  hope  to  re­
tain  the  trade  we  now  have.

C.  W.  R i c h a r d s o n .

E vapo rating  Bananas  in  N icaragua. 
From   the New Y o rk  Commercial.

Millions  of  bunches  of  bananas,  ripe 
and  luscious,  are  allowed  to  rot in  South 
and  Central  American countries,  which,
with  proper  management,  would  be  a 
source  of  revenue  to  their  owners.  Two 
gentlemen  of  Rama,  Nicaragua,  Wil­
liam  Edwards  and  Ed.  Neubaus,  hear­
ing  that  the  natives  of  the  Samoan  Is­
lands  dried  bananas 
in  the  sun  and 
shipped  them  abroad,determined  to  im­
prove  upon  the  idea,  and  thus  the  in­
dustry  of  evaporating  bananas  was  in­
augurated. 
It  is  in  its  infancy  yet,  but 
it  bids  fair  to  be  of  great  importance.

Many  interesting  details  are  given  in 
a 
letter  sent  by  M.  J.  Clancy,  United 
States  Consular  Agent  at  Bluefields, 
Nicaragua,  in  reply  to  a  request  for  in­
formation  sent by Valentine  Brothers,  of 
this  city.  This  firm,  besides  being  the 
buying  agents  for  the  Honduras  Rail­
way Company, own  vast tracts  of banana- 
producing  land  in  Honduras.

The  evaporating  machines  in  use  at 
present  are  improvised  and  homemade. 
The  bananas,  thoroughly 
are 
peeled  and  put  into  an  oven  made  from 
sheet 
iron,  and  are  dried  there.  They 
remain  there  twenty-four  or  forty-eight 
hours.  No  one  knows  the  temperature, 
as  no  thermometer  is  used.  The  neces­
sity  of  having  a  proper  machine  for 
this  evaporation  designed  and  manu­
factured  is  emphasized  by  Mr.  Clancy. 
Six  pounds  of  bananas  are  required  to 
make  one  pound  of the  evaporated fruit. 
The  saccharine  matter  crystallizes while 
the  fruit  is  in  the  oven  and  appears  on 
the  surface.  The  evaporated  fruit 
is 
put  up  in  five-pound  wooden  boxes.

ripe, 

The  banana 

in  this  form  is  used  by 
confectioners  as  the  base  in  the  manu­
facture  of  candied  fruits,  and  it  is  con­
sidered  excellent  food 
for  animals  in 
public  parks,  as  well  as  for  home  pets. 
The  evaporated  fruit  has  been  intro­
duced,  in  a  small  wav,  into  Denmark, 
Norway,  Sweden  and  Germany,  as  well 
as  the  United  States,  and  all  are  said  to 
be  good  markets. 
It  is  the  intention  of 
the  pioneers  in  this  industry  to  sell  the 
prepared  fruit  to  dealers  at  New  Or­
leans  or  New  Yoik  for  10  cents  a  pound 
gold  in  large  quantities.

Consul  Sorsby,  writing  from  San Juan 
del  Norte,  adds  to  Mr.  Clancy’s  state­
ment  the 
information  that  ”  if  the  de­
mand  for  evaporated  bananas  should 
become  general,  the  industry  would  em­
brace  every  banana  district  of  Central 
and  South  America,  Jamaica,  Cuba,  the 
West  Indies,  Hayti  and  other  tropical 
and  semi-tropical  belts,  and  the  sale  of 
the  machinery  therefor  would  be  enor­
mous. ”

Experiments  are  also  being  made 
It 

in 
the  manufacture  of  banana  flour. 
is 
asserted  that  for  cakes  it  excels  the  best 
buckwheat,  and  that  it  can  be  used  also 
for  bread  or biscuit,  while  for  dyspep­
tics  it  is  highly  recommended.

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point  of  shipment.

R.  HIRT,  Jr.,

Produce  Commission  Merchant,  in

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Promptness is the essence of our success.
We will buy your

Butter  and  E ggs  for  Cash

Correspond with  us.  We do not  claim  to  be  the  oldest  and  largest  commission 

house  in the  country, but  in  many respects one of the best.

HARRIS &  FRUTCHEY,  Detroit

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and  these  we  can  always
supply.

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

STRAW BERRIES

All  Green  Vegetables— Tomatoes,  Green  Onions,  Radishes,  Cu­

from  the  South  will  soon  be  cheap  and 
within  reach  of everybody.

cumbers,  Spinach,  etc.
Oranges,  Lemons,  Bananas.
Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Manufacturer  of

EGQ  CASES,  FARM ERS’ 
CASES, EQQ CASE FILLERS 
ODORLESS FILLERS 
AND  EXCELSIOR.

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sh o rt  notice.  W ill  m ake  a n y  ca se  desired.  W rite   fo r 
price lis L   W e com p ete  w ith   a ll  o th er m an ufacturers.

EATON  RAPIDS,  niCH.

WE  ARE  IN  P O S IT IO N   TO  FILL  YOUR  OR­
DERS  FOR  F IE L D   S E E D S   BOTH  IN  Q U A L ­
IT Y   AND  P R IC E   THAT  SHOULD  WARRANT 
YOU  IN  DEALING  WITH  US.

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G O T H A M   G O S S IP .

New s  fro m   the  M e tro p o lis — Index  to 

the  M a rk e t.

Special  Correspondence.

New  York,  March  26—The  demand 
for  refined  sugar  has  been  moderate 
throughout  the  week,  with  no  change  in 
quotations,  granulated  closing  at  5*^c. 
Offerings  ot  raw  have  not  been  large 
and  there  has  been  a  drop  of  %c  in 
prices.  Late  advices  from  European 
markets  note  a 
limited  business  and 
small  fluctuations.

The  same  unsatisfactory  conditions 
which  have  existed  in  the  coffee  market 
lor  a  number  of  days  continue.  Out- 
of-town  buyers  are  still  pursuing  a 
hand-to-moutn  policy.  No.  7  Rio  is 
selling  to-day  at  5^c.  There  has  been 
some  investment  buying,as  the  result  ol 
better  foreign  cables.  Mild  coffees  have 
ruled  quiet,  with  Good  Cucuta  quoted 
at  8%c  and  Padang  Interior  at  23#@ 
30c,  as  to  grade.

Only  a  very  moderate  line  of  business 
in  tea  has  been  transacted  during  the 
week.  Buying  has  been  only  tor  im­
mediate  wants  at  unchanged 
figures. 
Invoice  trading  is  dull.

improvement 

Jobbers  report  an 

in 
spices  at  full  values.  The  general  mar­
ket  has  been  fairly  firm,  with  a  moder­
ate  volume  of  business 
in  Singapore 
black  pepper.  Cloves,  nutmegs  and 
ginger  are  quiet  and  unchanged.
^Domestic  grades  of  rice  are  quiet  and 
the  demand  is  slow.  Prices,  however, 
are  firmly  maintained.  Southern  mar­
kets  are  reported  quiet  and  firm.  For­
eign grades  are  selling  slowly,  but  there 
is  a  firm  tone  to  the  market,  owing  to 
stronger  European  advices.

Orders  leceived  here  for  molasses 
from  out-of-town  buyers  have  been  few 
in  number  and  the  local  demand  is  also 
quiet.  Stocks 
in  the  hands  of  dealers 
are  light  and  they  are  still  not  anxious 
to  make  sales  at  a  concession.  Good  to 
prime  New  Orleans  Centrifugal  is  held 
at  I5@33c;  open  kettle,  good  to  prime, 
27@3oc. 
Foreign  advices  note  good 
demand  and  market  strong.  Offerings of 
syrups  have  also  been  light  and  the  ex­
port  trade  has  fallen  off.  Prime  to 
fancy  sugar  syrups  range  from  I7@22c. 
Reports  of  damage  to  California  fruits 
have  had  little  influence  on  the  market 
here.  The  higher  grades  of  California 
raisins  are  scarce.  Dates  are  cheap. 
Currants  are  quiet  and  steady.  Nuts  ot 
all  kinds  are  in  buyers’  favor,  with  no 
change 
for 
evaporated  apples  is  still  fairly  active 
and  desirable  grades  are  held  firm  at 
unchanged  prices.  Receipts  of  apples 
are  moderate  and  there  is  no  material 
change 
in  the  market.  There  is  some 
enquiry  for  pineapples,  but  arrivals  are 
light.  Bananas  are  quiet  and  steady. 
Free  offerings  of  poor  quality  Califor­
nia  oranges  have  demoralized  the  spot 
market.  Floridas  are  in  light  supply. 
Lemons  are  steady,  with  a  moderate de­
mand  from  both  local  and  country  buy­
ers.
There  is  nothing  new  to  report  in  the 
canned  goods 
in 
prices  have  taken  place  and  the demand 
is 
for  all  sorts  of  fruits  and  vegetables 
good.  Oyster  packing 
in  Maryland  is 
reported 
limited  this  season  and  prices 
of  that  article are  likely  to  advance.

in  prices.  The  demand 

line.  Few  changes 

Fancy 

The  butter  market  at  this  writing  has 
a  steady  to  firm  tone,  although  not  as 
active  as  early  in  the  week.  Offerings 
of  strictly  fancy  are  light.  Best  grades 
sell  at  I9@i9^c. 
Imitation  creamery 
is  in  light  supply, with  a fair  enquiry.

favors  buyers. 

Supplies  of  cheese  are  liberal  and  the 
market 
full 
cream,  8c  for  large  and  8%@8}&c  for 
small.  Buyers  for  export  have  to  pay 
7 # @ 7>fcc.

Receipts  of  eggs  have  been 

large, 
amounting  on  Friday  to  17,140  cases. 
The  market  closed  firmer,  with  an  up­
ward  tendency.  Sales  of  nearby  fancy, 
nj^@ i2c;  Western  fresh  gathered,  10X 
@io%c.  ____
Decrease  o f  E xp o rts   o f F illed  Cheese.
Washington,  March  28—The  Bureau 
of  Animal  Industry  of  the  Agricultural 
Department  has  sent  a  reply  to  the 
State  Department’s  enquiry  in  regard to

statements  made 

the 
from  English 
sources  that  filled  cheese  is  being  ex­
ported  to  England.  The  Bureau  says:
“ From  the  beginning  of  the  Nine­
teenth  Century,  exports  of  cheese  from 
the  United  States  increased  year  after 
year,  with  no  fluctuation  of 
conse­
quence,  and,  as  partly  shown  by  the  fol­
lowing  table,  until  the  maximum  of 
148,000,000  pounds  was  reached  in  1881. 
This  was  more  than  half  the  total  prod­
uct  of  the  country.  Nearly  all  of  these 
exports  went  to  Great  Britain,  and  the 
quality  of  the  article  steadily  improved 
until  cheese  from  the  United  States 
stood  at  the  bead  in  the  English  mar­
ket.

“ Beginning  between  1881  and  1885,  a 
change  took  place,  and  cheese  exports 
from  the  United  States  to  the  United 
Kingdom  decreased  gradually  for fifteen 
years.  This  decline  was  accounted  for 
partly  by  a  remarkably  rapid  growth  in 
the  cheese  industry  of  Canada,  fostered 
by  extraordinary  aid and encouragement 
on  the  part  of  the  Dominion  govern­
ment,  and  partly,  during  the  later  years, 
by  a 
loss  of  reputation  sustained  by 
United  States  cheese,owing to the expor­
tation  from  this  country,  by  unscrupu­
lous  dealers,  of  much  low  grade  cheese 
and  the  adulterated  or counterfeit article 
known  as  ‘ filled  cheese.’

“ The  evil  of  unidentified filled cheese 
became  so  great,  at  home  and  abroad, 
that  the  Congress  of  the  United  States 
enacted  a  law  in  June,  1896,  regulating 
the  manufacture  and  sale  of  the  article. 
This  act 
is  now  so  well  enforced  that 
the  output  of  filled  cheese  has  been 
is  well 
greatly  reduced.  The  product 
identified,  and,  although  some 
is  still 
exported, 
leaves  the  ports  of  the 
United  States  under  such 
form  and 
markings  that  purchasers  can  not  be 
deceived  as  to  its  true  character.  What 
becomes  of  it  later,  and  how it is offered 
to  consumers,  are  points  beyond  the 
control  of  the  exporting  country.

“ The  filled  cheese  frauds  at  home 
have  been  practically  terminated,  and 
the  reputation  of  genuine  cheese  from 
the  United  States  has  been 
improving 
of  late.' ’

According  to  British official statistics, 
the 
imports  of  cheese  into  the  United 
Kingdom  from  Canada  and  the  United 
States  were  as  follows  during  the  calen­
dar  year  of  1896:  From  Canada,  138,- 
241,264  pounds,  valued at $12,600,822.32, 
or  9.12  cents  per  pound; 
the 
United States,  65,092,944 pounds,  valued 
at  $6,005,441.06,  or  9.23  cents  per 
pound,  showing  that  the  quality  of  the 
American  cheese  was  superior  to that  of 
Canada.

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Mrs.  Fairleigh—Does  your  husband 
ever  compare  your  housekeeping  to  bis 
mother's?

Mrs.  Warwick—Not  now.  He  used 

to,  though.

him  of  it?

Mrs.  Fairleigh— How  did  you  break 

Mrs.  Warwick—I  compared  his  be­

havior  to  that  of  my  first  husband.

Advertisements  are  the  powder  and 

shot  in  the  gun  of  business.

Eoo Shippers Attention

T h e   b est  p a ck in g   for  e g g s   is 
ex ce lsio r.  O rd er  d irect 
from  
the m an ufacturers,

Bay  City  Excelsior  Co.,  Bay  City,  Mich.

W ANTED

T o 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; modelnly equipped  plant;  me­
chanical refrigeration, with an improved system 
of perfectly dry circulation and change of air in 
rooms; intermittent and continuous  circulation, 
also gravity system;  these systems are the  latest 
and best known  in  cold  storage  practices;  our 
eggs are said to be the finest on the Philadelphia 
market this past season; fine distributing point; 
only 2‘A 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.

When  You  Begin  to  See  Anything  Green

Think  of Vinkemulder.  When  you  need anything Green  send 
your  order  to  Vinkemulder.  We  have  choice  Dry Onions,
Parsnips,  Bagas, Carrots, Old and New Cabbage,  White  Beans,
Pop  Corn,  Onion  Sets,  New  Lettuce,  Pie  Plant, Green  Onions,
Spinach,  Radishes,  Vegetable  Oysters,  Oranges,  Lemons and 
Bananas.  Will bill at our lowest mail  order prices.

The  Vinkemulder  Company,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

ESTABLISHED  1893 

.

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 VECETABI

LES

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 .

C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co., 

Commission  Merchants

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

|||W e  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 
refer  Michigan  shippers  to  the  Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand 
Rapids  Savings  Bank  and  Michigan  Tradesman,  all  of  which 
are familiar  with our standing and acquainted with our methods 
and  will  cheerfully  answer  any  enquiries  which  may  be  made 

TV  in  regard  to  us.

To flny  Grocer

Creamery  or  Dairyman  having  a 
in  either  Dun  or 
good  rating 
Bradstreet  we  will 
send  One 
Hundred  Paraffined,  Parchment- 
Lined  Butter  Packages  on  ap­
proval.  They  are 
light,  strong 
and  neat.  Try them.

Michigan package 6o..

O w o s s o ,  M ich.

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Tradesman Company 

Grand  Rapids.

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A  Case  o f  the  G reedy  D og. 

Stroller in Grocery  World.

Have  you  ever  heard  the  story  of  the 
greedy  dog  who  was  carrying  a  bone  in 
his  mouth  over  a  stream,  and  who,  see­
ing  his  reflection  in  the  water,  thought 
looking  at  another  bone,  and 
he  was 
grabbed  tor 
it,  losing  his  own  in  the 
process?  Probably  you  have;  everybody 
has,  and  it  has  just  as  much  point  in  it 
to-day  as  it  had  probably  centuries  ago, 
when  it  was  lirst  born.

1 here’s  a  grocer  over  in  North  Jersey 
who  has  been  carrying  a  good  big  bone 
in  his  mouth,  but  who  is  at  present 
in 
the  act  of  grabbing  at  another  shadowy 
one.  He  hasn’t  entirely 
lost  his  own 
yet,  but  it's  halfway  out  of  his  mouth, 
and  will  probably  go  entirely 
if  he 
doesn’t  mend  his  ways.

This  grocer  does,  or  did,  a  good 
business. 
I  suppose  his  trade  aggre­
gated  S4o,ooo  a  year,  and  as  he  got good 
prices  for  everything  he  scld,  being 
in 
a  rather  exclusive  territory,  I  suppose 
he  averaged  at  least  I2j£  or  15  per 
cent,  proht.  The  business  is  one  which 
Smith,  as  I’ll  call  him,  built  up  him­
self  and  was  a  mighty  good  thing. 
It 
netted  him  a  comfortable  income,  he 
lived 
in  a  handsome  house  ,  and  en­
joyed  life.  And  yet  in  face  of  all  this, 
it  that  man  don’t  change  his  tactics, 
his  nice  business  will  be  gone  and 
wasted  inside  of  two  years,  probably  in 
one  year,  for  he  has  live  competitors.

Smith  is  following  a  will  o’  the  wisp. 
He’s  completely  under  the  spell  of  the 
Klondike  fever.  Not  that  he’ll  ever  go 
there;  I  don’t  believe  he  will;  don’t 
believe,  in  fact,  that  he  has  any 
inten­
tion  of  going  there,  but  the  subject  has 
about  it  the  fascinating  glitter  of  gold, 
and  Smith  is  hypnotized  by  it.

When  the  Klondike  fever  first became 
epidemic,  Smith  succumbed,  and  he’s 
its  spell  ever  since.  He 
been  under 
reads  every 
line  of  matter  he  can  get 
about  the  gold  fields,  neglecting  prac­
tically  everything  else 
in  the  daily 
paper,  and  he know's  more  about  the  lay 
of  the  land  up  there  than  any other  man 
I  ever  met.  Mention  anv  of  the  camp­
ing  stations  or  passes,  or  whatever  you 
call  ’em,  and  Smith  will  sit  down  and 
tell  you  all  about  them.  He  knows 
where  the  most  gold  has  been  found, 
what 
it  assays  to  the  ton,  and  every 
thing  else  about 
it.  One  day  when  I 
was 
in  his  place  I  happened  to  men­
tion  a  display  of  nuggets  that  some 
market  street  (Philadelphia)  store  had 
in 
its  window,  and  I’ll  be  slapped  if 
he  didn’t  go  down  to  Philadelphia  the 
next  day  for  nothing  but  to  see  them.

Smith  never  in  the  world  expects  to 
go  to  Klondike. 
I ’m  not  sure  that  he 
wants  to  go.  He  simply  likes  to  talk 
about  the  thing.  The  stories  of  the  poor 
clerks  and  men  who  had  been  failures 
in  the  States  going  up  there  and  com­
ing  back  with  a  big  pile  dazzle  him. 
They  make  his  own  business,  good  and 
solid  and  remunerative  as  it  was,  seem 
humdrum. 
looks  slow,  don’t  you 
see,  to  make  only  §3,000 or §4,000  in  a 
whole  year,  when  up  in  Klondike you’re 
liable  to  turn  up  a  nugget  worth  that 
any  minute.

It 

The  result  of  this 

is  that  Smith  is 
neglecting  his  business—badly.  He 
thinks,  talks,  and  probably  dreams,  of 
nothing  else  but  gold. 
It’s  obscuring 
his  eyes  so  he  can’t  see  his  store,  and 
the  store,  being 
left  to  itself,  is  slip­
ping  gradually  away  from  him.  Did 
you  ever  see  a  business  that  wouldn’t 
play  when  the  cat  was  away?

into  his  territory. 

Smith’s  competitors  are  shrewd  fel­
lows,  and  they  are  taking  advantage  of 
his  absence  of  mind  by  sending  sales­
men 
I’m  told  they 
have  found  that  the  time  was  ripe,  be­
cause  these  salesmen  found  dissatisfac­
tion  rife.  Mr.  Smith  hadn’t  done  this, 
or  that,  or  the  other,  and  the  people 
didn’t  like  it.  .  One of  these  salesmen— 
a  bright  fellow-—told  me  this  himself. 
And  in  view  of  it  the  other grocers have 
had  very 
little  trouble  in  getting  their 
hooks  in.  And  the  getting  of their hooks 
in  means  the  getting  of  Smith’s  out.
The  quickest  thing  which  a  grocer’s 
customers  size  up  and  feel  aggrieved 
oyer 
inattention  or 
indifference. 
They’ll  forgive  errors 
if  the  grocer 
shows  that  he  feels  them  of  sufficient

is 

M ICH IG A N   TRADESMAN

That 

importance  to 
tiuriy  up  and  scurry 
around  attending  to  them.  So  when 
Smith,  by  pure 
lack  of  interest  or  at­
tention,  delays  the  delivery  of  this  cus­
tomer’s  order,  or  that  one’s,  dissatis­
faction waxes  and  flourishes  like a green 
bay  tree.

is  exactly  the  condition  of 
Smith’s  business  at  present.  He 
is 
inattentive,  doesn't  pay  the  attention 
either  to  his  customers  or  to  his  buy­
ing  that  he  used  to,  and  in  consequence 
both  suffer. 
And  when  you  neglect 
both  the  buying  and  selling  ends  of  a 
business,  how 
long  do  you  think  it’s 
going  to  run  itself?

just  shows  what  a  fool  a  man  can 
be!  Here’s  Smith,  with  a  sure  thing— 
no  nugget  business,  but  the  certainty  of 
a  steady  income  probably  as  long  as  he 
lives,  or as  long  as  he  attends  to it.  And 
it’s  a  good  income,  too.  And  yet,  for 
the  glitter  of  gold  10,000  miles  away, 
he’s  wasting  what  he  has,  and  will  end 
up,just  as  sure  as  I’m  aiive,  a  penniless 
man,  if  he  doesn’t  stop  it.

It 

It’s  a  hard  thing  to  talk  to  an  intelli­
gent  man  about  such  things  as  this. 
Yet  l  did  my  best  to  make  him  under­
stand  his  danger,  without  telling  him 
so  in  so many words,  but  I failed—failed 
utterly.  You  couldn’t  get  him  to  talk 
about  his  business  at  all.  The  minute 
I’d  bring  it  up  he’d  switch  the  conver­
sation  off  by  asking  me  whether  I’d 
heard  of  this  or  that  big  strike,  and 
finally  I  gave  it  up.

If  Smith  only  knows  it,  he’s  drifting 
toward  Niagara,  and  he’s  pretty  near 
the  rapids.

S om e  o f  the  P rod ucts  o f  Java.

Away  off  in  the  Indian  Ocean,the  lit­
tle 
continent  called  by  the  natives 
Djawa,  supports  twenty-four  millions  of 
people  within  the  area  of  New  York 
is  the  most  densely  packed 
State. 
It 
population 
in  the  world,  except  pos­
sibly  Belgium,  which  has  540  people  to 
the  square  mile,  Holland  has  359,  and 
the  most  crowded  portion  of  Massachu­
setts  has  about  300.  The  Javanese  are 
little  known  except  as  producers  of 
coffee  and  quinine,  and  Sumatra  is  fa­
mous  for  its  inferior  but 
indispensable 
tobacco.  The  Dutch  rule  as  conserva­
tively  here  as 
in  the  Transvaal,  their 
methods  remain  primitive, 
their  dis­
cipline  is  severe  to  brutality  and  their 
attitude  to  tourists,  whether  on  business 
or  pleasure,  is  that  of  suspicion.  When 
the  Dutch  first  worked  Java  they  for 
many  years  secured  a  minimum  profit 
of  300  per  cent,  by  destroying  planta­
tions  to  limit  the  production  of  spices. 
From  1811  to  1816  Sir  Stamford  Raffles 
introduced  a  more  enlightened  rule,  na­
ive  chiefs  were  given  great  estates, 
peasant  ownership  was encouraged,ports 
were  made  free  to  all  nations and  a  sys­
tem of justice was established.  When  the 
country  was  ceded  back  to  Holland  at 
the  close  of  the  Napoleonic  wars,  the 
Dutch  reverted  to  the  main 
lines  of 
their  harsher  land  system,  exacting  one- 
fifth  of  produce  as  rent,  and  forced  the 
peasants  to  plant  one-fifth  of  the  land 
in  crops  to  be  sold  to  the  government 
at  fixed  prices,  the  peasant  giving  one 
day’s  labor  in seven.  Revenue dwindled 
seriously,  until  the  “ culture  system”  
in  1830,  by  which  the 
was  established 
government  backs  the  native 
in  devel­
oping  the  land’s  resources,  of  course  on 
highly  advantageous terms  to  Holland. 
This  opened  a  fine  field  for  sons  of 
wealthy  Dutchmen  to  settle  as  planters, 
in  a  vast  increase  of 
and  has  resulted 
trade 
indigo,  quinine, 
tin,  salt  and  opium,  the  last  two  being 
close  government  monopolies.  Although 
the  cinchona  tree  was  only  introduced 
in  1850,  no 
less  than  one  half  of  the 
world’s  supply  of  quinine  is  grown  in 
late  years  the  Dutch  have 
Java.  Of 
found 
it  pays,  in  more  ways  than  one, 
to  treat  their  subject  natives  more  hu­
manely  than  in  the  old  days.  The  cul­
ture  system  has  worked  wonders  and 
the  reign  of  monopoly  and  selfish  coer­
cion  is  approaching  its  end  in  Java  as 
in  another  fair  island  or  two.

in  sugar, 

tea, 

It  is  a  good  idea to become acquainted 
with  your  customers  so  as  to  be  able  to 
greet  them  by  name  when  they  enter 
your  store.

T h e   “ H u m p ty   D u m p ty ”

No  Broken  Eggs!  No  Time  Wasted!  No  Disputed  Count!  A  con­
venient  Farmers’  Crate.  The  best  and  cheapest  egg  carrier 
in  the 
United  States.  A   first-class  advertising  novelty.  Made  in  sizes  to 
hold  6  and  12  dozen.  We  will  print  your  “ ad”  neatly  on  covers  in 
lots  of five  dozen  or  more,  free  of  charge.  Write  us  for  prices.

CUMMER  MFG.  CO.,  Cadillac,  Mich.

•23*  i3 r -

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.

REFERENCES:

Com  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.

Detroit  Commission  and  M anufacturing  Co.

Manufacturers of CHICORY— Yellow  Rolls  (imitation  of  Sellig’s).
Pink  Rolls.  Red  Rolls.  Also Granulated  Chicory and  Essence of 
Coffee  in  bulk  or  tin  foil  constantly  on  hand.  M alt  Coffee, 
Cereals,  Koffiee Aid.

Specialties in GROCERS’ SUNDRIES.  Produce and Fruit of all 

Kinds.  Flour,  Feed,  Baled  Hay and Straw.

Butter and  Eggs a specialty.

Telephone, New, 1312. 

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27  Farmer Street,  Detroit,  Mich.
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ingredients. 

of  choice  coffee  with  palatable  cereals  and  other 
wholesome 
to  all 
“cereal” drinks.  12 prizes  in each and every pound 
package.  Retails for  13c a package, affording  re­
tailer  big  profit.  Pleases  customers.  Order  trial 
case and see how quickly it sells.

Far  superior 

W O O D B U R Y   S i  O O . ,   m p g r s .

C H A R L O T T E .  M I C H .

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

CommercialTravelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip. 

President, J ohn A. Hoffman, Kalamazoo; Secre­
tary, J.  C.  Saunders, Lansing;  Treasurer, Chas. 
McNolty, Jackson.
Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  C.  C.  Snbdeker,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C. W.  A llen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.

Grand  Counselor,  F.  L.  Da y.  Jackson;  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V almore, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, Geo.  A.  Reynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan  Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.

dent Association.

Lake  Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club.

President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  Wesson, Marquette.

E fficie n t  W o rk   o f the  Ladies’  A u xiliary.
Detroit,  March  28— Post  C  held  its 
regular  business  meeting Saturday even­
ing.

Chairman  Howeran,  of  the Cake Walk 
Committee,  made  a 
report  which 
fired the  boys  with  the  same  enthusiasm 
that  the  genial  Mike  carries  around 
with  him,  and  the  result 
is 
goin’  to  have  a  cake  wa’k,  “   ‘ sho’s  yo 
bon”   and  under  the  auspices  of  Post 
C,  and  in  the  near  future,  too!

is,  Detroit 

Chairman  Walsh  appointed  a  com­
mittee  of  the  whole  to  meet,  subject  to 
the  call  of  the  Secretary.  The  details 
are  well  under  way  and  about  the  latter 
part  of  April,  just  watch  our  smoke.

As  no  business  of  importance  was  on 
hand,  an  early  adjournment  was  voted, 
as  the  Ladies'  Auxiliary  had  taken  en­
tire  possession  of  our  hall  (our  business 
session  was  held  in  the  anteroom)  and 
we  were  anxious  to  see  what they had  in 
store  for  us.  Now,  I  want  to  say  a  word 
right  here  about  our  ladies’  auxiliary. 
They  are  hustlers  in  every  sense  of  the 
word,  and  pull  together  like  a  matched 
team. 
It  was  hinted  to  them  when  ap­
pointed  that  the  Post’s  funds  were  low. 
They  took  the  hint  and  gave  us  the 
most  novel  and,  from  a  financial  stand­
point  the  most successful,  entertainment 
in  the  Post’s  history.

Whatever  magic  spell  they  cast  over 
their  victims  is  not  known,  but  we  do 
know  that  a  vote  of  thanks  is  due  and 
heartily  given  to  the  following,  for their 
cheerful  donations;
coffee.

W.  J.  Gould  &  Co.,  5  pounds  Tava 

Lee  &  Cady,  bag  of  oranges.
H.  &  I.  Marks,  a  box  of  cigars.-
John  McLean,  a  box  of  cigars.
San  Telmo  Cigar  Co.,  a  box  of 

cigars.

E.  J  Harris,  a  bottle of  wine.
G.  S.  Valmore,  several  rolls  cotton 

bats  and  several  pairs  dress  stays.

E.  Van  Nostitz,  5  dozen  buttonhole 

bouquets.

P.  T.  Walsh,  can  smoking  tobacco.
Brerth’s  Restaurant,  bag of loaf sugar.
F.  Traver,  basket  of  fruit.
R.  H.  Traver,  loan  of  uniform  caps.
Miss  Van  Nostitz  and  Mrs.  Flowers, 

music  for  dancing.

J.  C.  Goss,  loan  of  canvas.
Geo.  Gorman,  pair  of  slippers.
Michigan  Central  Railroad  officials, 
Mrs.  C.  W.  Allen,  a  prize  cake  (a 

lanterns,  etc.

Ladies  of  the  Post,  all  the  provisions 

beauty).

needed.

With  the  above  equipments,  they  laid 
their  plans,  perfected  their  arrange­
ments  and  then  made  a  raid  ou  our 
purses,  and  to-day  Post  C  is  richer  by 
S31  than  it  was  on  Saturday  morning.

We  cam e!  We  saw !  We  conquered ! 
will  well  apply  to  the  Ladies’  Auxiliary 
pf  Post  C.  But  as  I  will  want  to  tell  you 
about  the  cake  walk  next  month,  I  fear 
I  am  taking  too  much  space.

H.  Y.  K en y o n,  Sec’y.

M ovem ents o f Lake S u p e rio r T ravelers 
Arthur  McMillan  has  severed  his con­
nection  with  the  Ferguson,  Hardware 
Co  (Soo)  and  will  represent  the  John­
son  Electrical  Supply  Co.  (Milwaukee),

with  headquarters  at  Kalamazoo.  Mack 
is  all  right  and  success  to  him.

W.  E.  Conroy  (Foster,  MungerCo.) 
is  doing  the  Upper  Peninsula this week. 
“ Con”   is  an  old hardware man ;  worked 
for  P.  M.  Church  (Soo)  eight  or  nine 
years  ago,  and  was  Lake  Superior  rep­
resentative  of  Freeman,  Delemater  & 
Co.  for a  short  time  in  1890.

George  Walz,  formerly  with  the  Fer­
guson  Hardware  Co. 
(Soo),  has  ac­
cepted  a  position  with  Buhl,  Sons  & 
Co.,  at  Menominee.

W.  F.  Mitchell 

is  now  with  the  Soo 
Hardware  Co.,  taking  the  position  va­
cated  by  J.  H.  Zealand.

E.  E.  Emmons 

is  representing  the 
Geo.  Worthington  Co. 
(Cleveland)  in 
the  Copper  Country.  Mr.  Emmons  has 
a  few  other  specialties.

A 1  Lighton  (W.  F.  DermotCo.,  Trout 
Creek)  has  organized  a  base  ball  team 
for  1898  which  promise  to  clean  out  all 
visiting  clubs.  We  don’t  know  how 
they  will  fare  when  away  from  Trout 
Creek.

Late  additions  to  the  membership  of 
the  Lake  Superior  Commercial  Travel- 
es’  Club  are:  Roscoe  C.  Bradley,  New­
berry ;  Charles  Wenzel,  St.  Ignace;  J, 
H.  Scott,  De  Pere,  Wis.  ;  Frank  D. 
Schwartz,  Marinette,  Wis.

The  G ro cery  M a rk e t.

Sugar—There  is  an  improved demand 
for  refined  grades  and  the  refiners  have 
improved  the  opportunity  by  making 
two  advances  so  far  this  week.  Buyers 
are  generally  of  the  opinion  that  still 
higher  prices  will  rule.

last  year.  There 

Teas—The  greater  part  of  the 

import 
orders  have  already  been  placed,  and  at 
figures  that  are  about  equal  to  the open­
ing  prices  of 
is  a 
tendency  to  avoid  ordering  the  higher- 
priced  Japan  teas,  that  is,  such  as  must 
sell  to  the  retailer  at  more  than  30 
cents.  One  wholesaler  of  this  city  ex­
presses  the  belief  that  the  day  of  high- 
priced  Japan  teas 
in  this  country  is 
about  over.  Moreover  there  will  be  not 
much  of  the  very  low  grade  tea  handled 
in  this  country  this  year  because  of  the 
operation  of  the  inspection 
laws.  The 
result  will  be  to  bring  the  price  of  the 
medium  and  best  grades  of  Japan  teas 
nearer  together.  There  will  be  but 
little  tea  this  year  sold  to  jobbers  un­
der  14  cents,  and  the  same  grades  of 
teas  that  sold  at  this  figure  last  year 
will  probably  cost  about  ><@ic  more 
this  year.

Dried  Fruits— Prunes  are  not  strong, 
in  spite  of  the  reports  of  a  cleaned-up 
coast,  and  frosts  on  the  coming  prune 
crop.  Peaches  are  also  weak,  there  be­
ing  a  considerable  stock  yet  unsold  on 
the  coast.  Apricots  are  said  to  have 
been  affected  by  the  reported  heavy 
frost  on  the  coast.  As  these  frost  re 
ports  are  annual,  and  are  rarely  as 
destructive  as  at  first  reported,  this  re­
port  is  not  given  full  credence 
in  buy­
ing  circles.  There  are  still  a  good many 
second  and  rain-damaged  raisins  in  the 
market,  which  are  being  hurried  off  as 
fast  as  possible  to  avoid  further  damage 
by  reason  of  hot  weather.  This 
is 
making  the  raisin  market  rather  easy 
in  all  grades.  There  has  been  a  drop 
in  raspberries,  which  makes  them lower 
in  price  than  they  have  been  for  eight 
years.  Blackberries  are  high,  but  are 
moving  but  slowly  because  of  the  very 
low  price  of  raspberries.  The  demand 
for  foreign  dried  fruits  is  confined  in 
large  part  to  the  call  for  currants,  but 
the  movement  of  these  is  not very large.
Molasses— Medium  grades  are  selling 
fairly  well  at  full  quoted  rates.  At  New 
Orleans  stocks  are  light  and  strictly  de­
sirable  grades  are  held  firmly  at  top 
prices.

The  moral  support  of  a  man  without 

morals  is  not  a  strong  pull.

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take  cuts  very  little  figure,  one  way  or 
the  other.

Equality  soon  found  friends  among 
the  retail  trade  and  is  now  very  gener- 
aily  regarded  as  quite  as  advantageous 
to  the  retailer  as  it  is  to  the  wholesaler. 
It  has  been  commended  by  the  Grand 
Rapids Retail  Grocers’  Association,  the 
Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
and  the  Illinois  Retail  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation  and  is everywhere conceded to be 
the  best  help  the  small  dealer  has  in his 
effort  to  compete  with  the  large  dealer 
and  the  department  store.  The  fact  that 
the  department  store  people  condemn 
equality  and  are  bending  every  energy 
to  bring  about  its  abandonment is pretty 
good  evidence  that  the  system  is  an  ad­
vantageous  one  for  the  small  dealer.

Myron  A.  Fish,  formerly  engaged  in 
the  furniture  and  hardware  business  at 
Jamestown,  N.  Y.,  has  engaged 
to 
travel  for  the  Towner  Hardware  Co.,  of 
Muskegon,  the  engagement  to  date  from 
May  1.

C.  L.  Comey  has  been  engaged  as 
for  the  Clark-Rutka- 

salesman 

city 
Jewell  Co.

HOTEL  WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

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

R a tes  $1.00  to  $1.25  per  day.  C om p lete  San ita ry 
Im provem en ts. 
E le c tric   L ig h ts .  G ood  L iv e r y  
in  connection.  S tate  L in e  T elep h on e.

Chas. E. Whitney, Prop.. Plainwell, Mich.

Hoskins  &  Company
GRAIN, PROVISIONS and STOCK

C O M M IS S IO N   B R O K E R S .

176 Griswold Street, Detroit, Mich. 

P riv a te  w ires:  N e w   Y o r k ,  C h ic a g o  and St.  L o u is.

H o d g es  B uildin g-

E quality  N ot 

the  C reation  o f 

S uga r  T ru s t.

the 

Pentwater,  March  28— Referring 

to 
the  article  in  the  Michigan  Tradesman 
of  March  22,  “ Wherein  Hoyt  Errs  in 
Judgment, ”   kindly  explain  why 
it  is 
not  the  duty  of  any  patriotic  citizen  of 
this  country  to  bother a  trust  at  every 
opportunity. 
It  seems  that  Hoyt  was 
compelled  at  one  time  to  obey  the  com­
mands  of  the  sugar  trust. 
If  he  can 
now  throw  off  the  fetters,  he  should  do 
so,  and  all  other  wholesale  grocers 
should  buy  their  sugar  from  some  other 
house  than  the  sugar  trust.

At  the  United  States  Senate 

investi­
gation  of  trusts 
in  New  York,  some 
two  years  ago,  Mr.  Searls,  the  Secretary 
of  the  sugar  trust,  testified  that 
it  cost 
to  produce  barreled  granulated  sugar, 
f.  o.  b.  New  York,  3  cents  per  pound, 
and  the  trust  was  then  getting  4  cents 
per  pound  for  such  sugar  f.  o.  b.  New 
\ork.  There 
is  no  question  but  the 
stockholders  of  the  sugar  trust  buy  the 
raw  sugar  at  low  prices  and  sell  such 
raw  sugar  to  the  trust  ai  fictitious  high 
prices.  Refined  granulated 
is 
sold  in  New  Orleans— 1,000  miles  from 
the  New  York  refinery  -at  50  cents  per 
100  pounds  less  than  the  same  kind  of 
sugar 
is  sold  at  the  refinery  in  New 
York.  Doubtless  the  stockholders  wish 
to  get  some  cheap  raw  sugar  to  sell 
to  the  sugar  trust.

sugar 

The  greatest  good  for  the  greatest 
number”   will  eventually  be,  “ The 
greatest  good  for  the  retail  grocer.”  
The  equality  plan  is  not  for  the  good  of 
the  consumer.  The  sugar  trust  is  evi­
dently  not  satisfied  with  nearly doubling 
its  money  on  every  pound  of  sugar sold, 
as  every  barrel  of  sugar  we  get  is  shy 
four  to  five  pounds.

S.  E.  Russell  &  Co.

The  Tradesman  has  no  love  for  the 
the 
sugar  trust,  as  every  reader  of 
Tradesman  will  testify. 
Its  existence 
is  a  curse  to  the  country  and  a  menace 
to  our  free  institutions.  This is  the  po­
sition  taken  by  the  Tradesman  on  the 
organization  of  the  trust  and  this  posi­
tion  has  been  consistently  maintained 
ever  since.  The  Tradesman  is  the  only 
trade  journal  in  the  country  which  ex­
posed  the  practice  of  the  trust  in  put­
ting  up  refined  sugars  short  weight.  As 
the  result  of  such  exposures,  a  repre­
sentative  of  the  American  Sugar  Refin­
ing  Co.  visited  Grand  Rapids  with  a 
letter  of 
introduction  from  President 
Havemeyer  and  spent  a  day  investi­
gating  the  charges  made  by  the  Trades 
man. 
It  was  currently  reported  that,  if 
the  charges  were  found  to  be false,  legal 
proceedings  would  be  taken  against  the 
Tradesman,  but  careful 
investigation 
disclosed  the  fact  that  the  charges  were 
sustained  and  more  recent  investigation 
leads  to  the  belief  that  the  trust  has  re­
formed  its  methods  and  is  now  putting 
up  its  sugars  full  weight.

if 

first 

Mr.  Russell  is  evidently harboring the 
delusion  that  the  equality  plan  was 
created  and  foisted  on  the  trade  by  the 
trust.  Such 
is  not  a  fact.  Equality 
originated  with  the  wholesale  grocery 
suggested  by  the 
trade-being 
Western  wholesale  grocers, 
the 
Tradesman  remembers  rightly—and  it 
took  several  months  to  induce  the  trust 
to  put  it  into  execution;  in  fact,  it  was
adopted  by  the  trust  only  after  the  most 
aggressive  measures  were  resorted  to  by 
the  wholesale  trade.  The trust  has  never 
in  sympathy  with  equality,  be­
been 
cause 
it 
is  utterly  devoid  of  the  ele­
ment  of  monopoly,  and  it  is  hinted  that 
the  action  of  Wm.  M.  Hoyt  &  Co.,  in 
withdrawing  from  equality,  is 
inspired 
by  the  trust  in  the  hope  of  breaking  up 
in  the  West.  Fortunately  the 
equality 
Hoyt  house 
is  such  a  small  concern, 
compared  with  a  half  dozen other whole­
sale  grocery  establishments  at  the  Chi­
it  may
cago  market,  that  any  action 

A  R E M A R K A B L E   C A S E

H a v in g  suffered  w ith   rheum atism   and  co n stip a­
tion  fo r o ver  tw e n ty-five ye ars,  and  m v ca se   h a v in g  
been  pronounced  h opeless  last  sum m er  b y the best 
m edical  sk ill,  w h en   I w as g iv en  up to die,  I m iracu ­
lo u sly  had  m y  attention  ca lled   to F r y e ’s  Q u ickstep , 
w h ich   saved  m y  life ,  and  I am   n ow   a   w e ll  man. 
I 
h a ve sin ce recom m ended th is  rem edy to m y  frien d s 
and  so  m any  h a ve ordered  itth ro u g h  m e  th at I  keep 
it  on  hand  for  hu m an ity’s  sake.  P rice,  $i.oo  per 
bottle.  N e a rly  a ll  M ich ig a n   people k n ow   m e.  M y 
hom e  address 
is  5406  K im b ark   A v e .,  C h ica go . 
G rand  R a p id s  peop le  can  obtain  th is  rem edy from  
m y custom er, John  B enson,  th e cloth ier,  26 M onroe 
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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Drugs—Chemicals

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

- 
F. W. R. Pir b y , Detroit 
A. C.  Sch u m ach er,  Ann  Arbor 
Gso. Gundrum,  Ionia  - 
- 
L. E .  R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
Henry Heim,'Saginaw  - 

—  

President, F. W. R.  P e b b y, Detroit 
Secretary, Geo.  G u n d r u m .  Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schtjmacheb, 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 ib, Grand Rapids.

represent 

T h e   “ A lk a lo id s ”   o f   C o d -L iv e r  O il.
Of  late  years  there  have  appeared 

in 
the  journals  a  number  of  articles  con­
cerning  the  so-called  “ alkaloids”   or 
“ active  principles”   of  cod-liver  oil, 
and  discussing  whether  these  chemical 
compounds 
the  wonderful 
virtue  possessed  by  the  oil  itself.  Con­
flicting  views  have  naturally  been  ex­
pressed,  since  there  must  always  be  two 
sides  to  every  new  question;  and  ex­
periments  on  the  part  of  chemists  and 
therapeutists  have 
it 
would  seem  to  us  that  there  is one phase 
of  the  subject  which  renders  experi­
mentation  almost  unnecessary,  and  that 
is  this:  Cod-liver  oil  must  be  regarded 
simply  as  a  food,  and  one  of  such  great 
and  peculiar  efficiency  that  it  deserves 
to be  classed  as  a  therapeutic  agent  by 
virtue  thereof.

resulted. 

But 

As 

is  well  known,  a  certain  amount 
of  fatty  material 
is  a  necessity  to  the 
organism  when  performing  its  regular 
functions.  Under  ordinary  conditions 
it  matters  little  in  what  form  this  ole­
aginous  material  is  supplied  to  the  di­
gestive  organs,  which  can  generally  in­
its  preparation  and  absorption. 
sure 
But 
it  frequently  happens  that  under 
the  conditions  supervening  in  cases  of 
inanition,  phthisis,  strumous  skin  dis­
eases,  or  disorders  referable  to  exhaus­
tion  or  debility  of  the  nervous  centers, 
the  assimilative  organs  are  unable  to 
supply  the  fat  required  to  carry  on 
properly  the  vital  functions,  much 
less 
make  good  the  loss  which  has  already 
occurred.  Under  these  circumstances 
in  cod-liver oil  a  food  which 
we  have 
can 
instances,  unfortunately 
not  in  all,  be  assimilated  in  full  meas­
ure.  This  is  the  whole  secret  of  its  sur­
passing  excellence.  By virtue  of  chem­
ical  constitution 
it  yields  itself  to  the 
manipulation  of  the  enfeebled  organs 
of  assimilation  with  peculiar  readiness, 
is  necessary  to 
and  but  little  change 
adapt 
function.  Otherwise, 
butter,  cream  or olive  oil  would  be  just 
as  suitable,  and  would  perhaps  be  pref­
erable  on  the  score  of  attractiveness.

in  many 

it  to 

its 

When  the  oil  is  assimilated,  there  fol­
low  the  results  so  much  desired,  name­
ly,  facilitation  of  the  digestive  proc­
esses,  increase 
in  body  weight  and  in 
the  proportion  of  red  blood-corpuscles, 
and  a  stimulation  of  healthy  cell-for­
mation  throughout  the  tissues.  To  sum 
up  the  whole  matter  in  a  few  words,  it 
may  be  said  that  the  oil  sustains  the 
organism  until 
is  able  to  renew  its 
functions  and  to  rebuild  the  shattered 
structure.

In  performing  the  role  above  outlined 
for  cod-liver  oil,  we  can  not  see  that 
there 
is  any  need  for  the  intervention 
of  an  active  principle;  the  evident

it 

necessity 
is  not  for  some  minute  sub­
stance  which  by  its  presence  will  stim­
ulate  the  process  of  elimination ;  in­
stead,  the  demand 
is  for  food.  The 
special  food  value  of  the  oil  is  attested 
by  the  fact  that,  of  the  hundreds  of sub­
stitutes  which  the  past  has  brought 
forth,  many  of  them  oils  of  fatty  com­
binations  of  every  conceivable  variety, 
not  one  has  survived  the  practical  test, 
and  cod-liver  oil  is  consumed  in greater 
quantities  than  ever  before.

Now,  as  to  the  so-called  alkaloids. 
The  oil  from  which  the  alkaloids  are 
extracted,  and  which  the  advocates  of 
the  active  principle  theory  claim  to  be 
most  efficient,  upon  which,  say  they, 
reputation  of  cod-liver  oil  was 
the 
founded  before  the  advent  of 
improved 
methods,  is  collected  by  allowing  the 
livers  to  lie  exposed  until  by  decompo­
sition  of  the  hepatic  tissues  the oil  is 
allowed  to  exude.  It  is  well  known  that 
liver  tissue  is  a  most  inviting  field  for 
bacterial  growth ;  how,  then,  can  any 
sane  man  convince  himself  that  bacte­
rial  decomposition  of  the  albuminous 
matter, with the  formation  of  ptomaines, 
will  not  supervene  during  the  time  re­
quired  for  the  breaking  down  of  the  oil 
cells?

Furthermore,  if  the  active  principles 
are  present 
in  the  livers  when  taken 
from  the  fish,  why  are  they  not  present 
in  the  oil  which  is  extracted  by 
imme­
diate  manipulation  before  decomposi­
tion  sets  in?  Yet  we  have  the  evidence 
of  the  advocates  of  the  “ active  princi­
ples”   as  our  authority  for  the  statement 
that  these  alkaloids  do  not  occur  in  the 
light  oil  made  by  the  improved  proc­
esses,  but  that  the  dark  oil  procured 
by  decomposition  processes 
in 
it  not  reasonable  to  expect 
them. 
both  oils  to  take  these  alkaloids 
in  so­
lution?

is  rich 

Is 

Again,  a  noted  advocate  of  the  alka­
loid  theory  states  that  the  reputation  of 
cod-liver  oil  was  made  several  hundred 
years  before  the  advent  of  the  “ steam- 
process,”  etc.  ;  arguing further  that  this 
oil  made  by  the  decomposition  process 
owed  its  virtue  to  the  alkaloids  it  con­
tained.  He  further admits  that  the  oil 
made  by  the 
improved  process  in  use 
since  1853  does  not  contain  these  alka­
If  this  be  so,  what  shall  we  say 
loids. 
improved  oil  made  since  1853 
of  this 
and  which  has  for  nearly  a 
lifetime 
practically  superseded  the  oil  made  by 
the  old  process?  Has  it  proved  the  less 
efficacious?  Do  not  physicians  get  just 
as  good  results  as  before?  Has  any­
thing  been  found  to  supersede  it?  Is  it 
not  a  fact  well  known  to  all  physicians 
that  where  theie  were  half  a  dozen  pa­
tients  who  could  stomach  the  old  oil, 
there  are  now  twenty  who  can  take  the 
the  alkaloids 
new  with  comfort? 
impart  to  cod-liver  oil  all 
its  value, 
why  is  a  new  oil,  which  contains  none 
of  them,  so  invaluable?

If 

Jo n h  M.  F r a n c is.

C a s to ria   N o t  a  T ra d e   M a rk .

The  United  States  Court  of  Appeals 
has  affirmed  the  decision  of  the  United 
States  Court  of  North  Nebraska  that 
“ Castoria,”   being the  descriptive  name 
of  an  article  on  which  the  patent  has 
expired,  can  not  be  appropriated  as  a 
trade-mark.  This  is  an  absolute  victory 
for  the  “ Pitcher’s  ”   people,  who  main­
tained  their  right  to  use  the  word  in 
designating  their  product,  but  who  for 
such  use  were  in  1896 sued  by  the  Cen­
taur  Company.

You  may  count  on  newspaper  adver­

tising  as  the  best  aid  to  count  profits.

The  man  who  doesn't  wantabigbusi 

ness  shouldn’t  advertise a  little one.

larger  proportion  of  his  indebtedness  is 
paid  than  would  follow  from  a  general 
assignment.

A  customer  saved  is  worth  much more 
to  a  creditor  than  a  failed  or  ruined 
customer,  even  although 
in  the  latter 
case  the  same  amount  of  debt  has  been 
liquidated.  Every credit man,  therefore, 
will  put  forth  every  effort  to  save  an 
honest  debtor,  even  although  the  first 
result  may  be  a  loss  to  his  house. 
If 
these  conclusions  are  correct,  then  it  is 
excellent  counsel 
to  give  an  embar­
rassed  business  man  to  promptly  con­
sult  with  his  creditors,  taking  this  step 
before  making  a  general  assignment  or 
giving  a  chattel  mortgage.

D.  C.  D e l a m a t e r .

T h e  D ru g   M a rk e t.

Opium—The  market  is  quiet,  due  to 
lack  of  information  from  primary  mar­
kets.  Prices  are  unchanged.

Morphine—Is  in  good  demand  at  un­
looked-for  ad­

changed  prices. 
vance  has  not  yet  been  noted.

The 

Quinine—The  market 

is  quiet  and 
no  change  of  price  is  expected  before 
Thursday  next,  on  which  date  the  bark 
sale  will  take  place  in  Amsterdam. 
It 
is  believed  on  the  other  side  that  bark 
will  sell  at  an  advance,  in  which  case 
quinine  will  be  advanced.

Spermaceti—Owing  to  light  demand, 

the  price  has  declined.
Sassafras  Bark— Is 

in  better  supply 
and  lower  in  price.  Crushed  soap  bark 
is  believed  to  be  cheap  at  present 
prices  and  an  advance 
is  looked  for 
when  the  summer demand  starts  in.

Essential  Oils—There  are  no  changes 
in  full  supply 

is 

te  note.  Peppermint 
and  easy.

Linseed  Oil— Is  active  at  unchanged 

prices.  The  demand  is  good.

T o  

Lessen 

Free  D ispensary 

the 
Abuses.

The  State  Board  of  Charities  of  New 
York  has  caused  to  be  introduced  in 
the  State  Legislature  a  bill  designed  to 
prevent  in  large measure the patronizing 
of  free  dispensaries  by  people  able  to 
pay  for  medical  treatment. 
In  support 
of  its  movement,  the  Board has gathered 
statistics  which 
lead  it  to  declare  that 
more  than  50  per  cent,  of  the  people  of 
New  York  City  are practically receiving 
free  medical  attention!

Failure  is  sometimes  more  profitable 
than  success,  because  we  don’t  waste 
any  time  bragging  about  it.

M r ’s Carbolate 

of  Iodine Pocket lokaler

18  GUARANTEED  TO  CURE| 

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

A i l  d ru g g ists $1.
Buffalo. N. Y.

A re  Business  A ssignm ents  Necessary?
It  has  been  the  experience  of  a  vast 
jobbers 
number  of  manufacturers  and 
largely  on 
who  are  selling  their  goods 
credit  that  when  a  customer  wno 
is 
strictly  honest,  desiring to  pay  his  debts 
in  full,  becomes  discouraged  from  the 
stress  of  hard  times,  or  from  being 
pressed  for  payment  on  accounts  a  little 
overdue,  and  acting  from  a  desire  to 
serve  all  alike,  makes  a  general  assign­
ment  without  preferences,  he  takes,  a 
step  which  in  many  cases  is entirely un­
necessary. 
is  one  that  results  only 
in  a  sacrifice  of  the  debtor’s  business, 
and  the  payment  of  a  very  small  per­
centage  of  his  debts.  While  an  assign­
ment  under  the  circumstances  named  is 
strictly  legal  and  not  subject  to  severe 
criticism,  from  a  moral  point  of  view, 
yet 
it  has  come  to  be  regarded  among 
large  givers  of  credit  as  generally  in­
judicious. 
It  certainly  is  not  the  plan 
that  is  the  best  for  paying  debts.

It 

Upon  the  assumption  that  the  debtor 
is  honest,  and  has  no  desire  to  give 
preferences,  but  wishes  his  estate  to 
in  paying,  pro  rata,  assign­
be  used 
ment  proceedings  should  be  avoided 
in 
every  possible  case.  The  great  objec­
tions  to  an  assignment  are  that  thereby 
the  debtor  delivers  his  business  over  to 
be  managed  by  an  outsider,  who  can not 
obtain  the  good  results  that  the  owner 
can  secure.  The  assignee  is  obliged  to 
close  up  the  business  by  forced  sales, 
that  rarely  bring  more  than  a  small  per­
centage  of  its  value.  As  a  final  result 
the  owner  loses  his  business  and  sees 
his  assets  greatly  reduced,  with  only  a 
very  small  amount  of  his  debts  actually 
paid.

This  question  then  naturally  arises: 
Are  assignmnts  really  necessary,  and  if 
they  are  not  necessary,  how  can  they  be 
avoided?

As  the  world  has  grown  older,  there 
has  been  an 
improvement  in  business 
practice  and  in  business  ideas,  as  well 
as  in  many  other  directions.  There has 
come  to  prevail  a  kindlier  feeling  for 
the  honest  debtor  upon  the  part  of  the 
creditor  than  prevailed  in  earlier  days. 
At  present  harsh  plans  of  collecting  and 
peremptory  demands  for  the  settlement 
of  obligations  are  not  the  methods  most 
in  favor  with  jobbers  and  manufactur­
ers. 
in  ac­
tive  business  practice  much  more  of 
the  spirit  of  the  Golden  Rule.

Instead,  there  is  manifest 

In  cases  of  business  embarrassment 
the  first  step  upon  the part  of  the  debtor 
should  be  a  conference  with  all  his 
creditors,  at  which  a  complete  and  hon­
est  statement  of  his  condition  is  sub­
mitted.  Business  men  engaged  in  large 
transactions  are,  in  a  great  majority  of 
cases,  fair-minded  men.  Where a'debtor 
presents  a  truthful  statement  of  his  em­
barrassment,  it 
is  their  inclination,  in 
nine  cases  out  of  ten,  to  at  once  make 
some 
arrangement  with 
him,  either  in  the  form  of  an  extension 
or  a  compromise.  Thereby the  debtor’s 
business 
is  saved  him,  and  a  much

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34 
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20
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Moschus Canton  .. 
Myristica, No.  1.  .. 
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Os  Sepia.................
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Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints.  ... 
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Piper Nigra.. .po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Pilx  Burgun  .
Plumbi  Acet...........
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Pyrethrum,  pv__
Quassias...............
Quinia, S. P. A W. 
Quinia, S. German
Quinia, N.Y.........
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SaecharumLactis pv
Salacin...............
Sanguis Draconls
Sapo,  W  ............
Sapo, M...............
Sapo. G...........
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30®
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29Q
29® 
12® 
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40® 
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niuapis. 
t0
Sluapis, opt........... 
@  30
Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
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@  34
Snuff,Sco teh.De Vo’s  @  34
Soda Boras.............   9  @  u
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart 
2
Soda,  Carb............ 
!M@ 
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
3® 
5
Soda,  Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda. Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @  2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom... 
@ * 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl. 
@ 2 42
Spts. VinlRect-Mbbl  @2 47
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 50
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
@ 2 52
Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40® 1  45
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2M@ 
3
2®  2M
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terenenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromse............  
42®  45
Vanilla..................   9 00@16 ¿0
Zinc!  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Oils

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

19
43
45
70
45

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

40 
42 
65 
37 
Paints  bbl

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

1*   2
m
Mi  2  @4 
Mi  2  @3 
2 \  2M@3 
2M  2M@3
15 
75 
19
16 
6 
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@  1  00
40 
15

70®
13M®
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Extra  Turp........
Coach Body........
No.  1 Turp F um .. 
Extra Turk  Damar.. 
Jap. Dryer,No. lTurp

1  10®  1  20
1  60®  1  70
2 75® 3 00 
1  00®  1  10 
1  55®  1  60
70®  76

Advanced—
Declined—Turpentine.

3

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Addnm
Acetlcum................. I
Benzolcum, German
Boracic....................
Carbollcum............
Cltricum.................
Hvdrochlor.............
Nitrocum...............
Ozalicum................
12t
Phosphorium,  dll... 
_
Salicylicum............. 
00®
Sulphur! cum...........  13£@
Tannlcum...............  1 25® 1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniline
Black.......................  2  00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80®  1  00
R ed.........................  45®  50
Yellow....................  2  50® 3 00

4® 
6
6®  8
19®  14
12®  14

Baccre.
Cube see.......... po. 18  13®  15
Juniperus................ 
6®  8
Xanthoxylum.........   25®  30
Balsamum

Copaiba...................   55®  60
Peru.........................  @ 240
Terabin, Canada.... 
45®  50
Tolutan...................  
50®  60
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__ 
Casslse.................... 
Cinchona Flava...... 
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrlca Cerlfera, po. 
Prunus Virgin!........ 
Quillaia,  gr’d .........  
Sassafras........po. 18 
Ulmus.. .po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum
24®  25
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza, po......   28®  30
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
11®  12
Hsematox, I s ........... 
13®  14
Hsematox, Ms.........  
14®  15
Hsematox, Q8.........  
16®  17

18
12
18
30
20
12
14
12
15

Perru

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Perrocyanldum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride......  
Sulphate, com’l ......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bDl, 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

@ 75

@ &5

- 

35®  50
Coni urn  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  i  io@  i  20
S 
.......... 
90®  100
Exechthitos...........  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................  1  00®  1  10
Gaulthena..............  1  50®  1  60
Geranium,  ounce... 
Gossippli, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma......   ........  1  on®  1  10
Junípera..................  1  so@ 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
go® 2 oo
..............  1  30®  1  50
Mentha Piper.........   1  60@ 2 20
Mentha Vend.........   1  so®  1  60
Morrhuse,  gal.........   1  ou@  1  10
Mjrcia.....................  4 00® 4 50
O live..... . . . . . .   75® 3 00
Picis  Liquida......... 
iota  12
Picis Liquida, gal... 
Ricina  ....................   99® 1  10
Rosmarini...............   @100
Rosse,  ounce...........  6 50®  8 50
| u®pinl ...................  40®  45
f abl.n a ................... 
90®  1  00
ganta] ......................  2 50® 7 00
Sassafras.................  55®  go
Sinapls, ess.,  ounce. 
@ 65
Jí?1“ .......................   1  40®  1  50
Thyme 
............   40®  50
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
gl-Cart*.................. 
15®  18
j5
13® 
Bichromate............ 
Bromide..................  
50®  55
Garb.......................  
\¡¡0l 
15
Chlorate., po. 17@19c  16@  18
Cyanide..................   35®  ^
Iodide....  ..............   2 60@ 2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
28®  30
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
@  15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
8@  10
?®  9
PotassNitras...  .... 
O s i a t e ................. 
30®  25
Sulphate po  ........... 
15® 
jg

Radix

Aconltvm...............   20®  25
•^th® ...................... 
22®  25
Anchusa................. 
io@ 
12
Arum po........  ........  @  25
Calamus.................  20®  40
G entiana...... po  15 
12®  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
Ins plox —  po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr. ..............  25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum, po....  22®  25
g™5  .......................  
75®  1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
75®  1  35
®be,.JP*................... 
Spigelia. 
..............  35®  3g
Sangui narla... po. 15  @ 
11
Serpentaria............   30®  35
Senega 
..............  40®  45
Slmilax,officinalis H  @ 40
Smilax, M...............  
®  25
10®  »
Scillae  ............ po.35 
symplocarpus, Fosti-
©  25
xríiU8i ***  ™  ........... 
Valeri ana, Eng. po. 30  @  25
15@  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zjnfjbera...............  
12@  16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen

po.  15  @ 
Amsum 
i2
|3@ 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
4® 
Bird. Is.................... 
6
- - -
Carui 
- -  — 
10®
po.  18 
Cardamon 
.......   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum
8® 
,, 
lu
4®  4.,.
Cannabis  Sativa  .. 
Cydomum........  
75®  I  uo
io@
< nenopodium 
Diptenx  Odorate 
2  00®  2 2¡J
Fœuicalum 
®
Axi'Jtii
Liai,  grd  ___bbl. 3 A Vt-Út  Vi

 

Scillae Co.................  @  50
Tolutan...................  @  50
Prunns virg............  
@  50
Tinctures
Aconitum NapellisR 
60
Aconitum Napellls F 
50
Aloes.......................  
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
¿0
Arnica.................... 
50
Assafuetida............  
50
60
Atrope  Belladonna. 
Auranti  Cortex...... 
50
Benzoin................... 
60
Benzoin Co.............. 
50
Barosma................. 
50
Cantharides........... 
75
Capsicum.............. 
50
Cardamon............. 
75
Cardamon  Co.........  
75
1  00
Castor...................... 
go
Catechu................... 
Cinchona................. 
50
Cinchona Co........... 
60
Columba.................  
50
Cubeba....................  
50
Cassia  Acutifol...... 
50
50
Cassia Acutifol Co 
Digitalis................. 
50
Ergot....................... 
50
Ferrl Chloridum.... 
35
Gentian................... 
50
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Guiaca....................  
50
60
Guiaca ammou........ 
Hyoscyamus........... 
50
Iodine...................... 
75
Iodine, colorless !. ! 
75
Kino......................... 
50
Lobelia.............  
' 
50
................................. 50
Nux Vomica........... 
50
Opil......................... 
75
50
Opii, camphorated.. 
1  50
Opli, deodorized.... 
Quassia................... 
50
Rhatany..................  
50
Rhei....................... 
50
Sanguinaria..........! 
50
Serpentaria............  
so
Stromonium........... 
00
Tolutan.................... 
60
Valerian................. 
50
Veratrnm Veride . ! 
50
Zingiber.................. 
20
Æther, Spts. Nit. 3 F  30®  35
38
Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F 
Alumen...................  2Ji@ 
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto................... 
40®  50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4® 
5
Antimoni et PotassT  40®  50
Antipyrin.............. 
@  1  40
Antifebrln 
@ 
.........  
15
Argents Nitras, oz ..  @  50
Arsenicum.___ 
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Bud 
Bismuth  s.  N.........   1  40®  1  50
Calcium Chlor.,  is..  @ 
9
Calcium Chlor., Ms.  @ 
10
Calcium Chlor..  Qs 
@ 
¡2
Cantharides.  Rus.po  @ 
"5
Capsici  Fructus. af.  @  15
@ 1 5  
Capsici Fructus.  po 
r  
Capsici FructusB.po  @ 
12® 
Caryophyllus  .po.  15 
14
Carmine, No. 40  ... 
@  3 ou
Cera Alba, S.  & F 
50®  55
Cera Flava........... 
40®  42
@  40
Coccus 
........ 
@  S3
Cassia Fructus 
tu
Centraria. 
@ 
Cetaceum.. 
@ 4 5
bo<&  ns
Chloroform.. 
<fh  I  J=> 
Chloroform, sq ulM>- 
1  25».  I  ;.u 
Chloral Hyd <'ml 
choudru» 
20® 
->5
Cinchouidiiif.!“  v  'I 
25® 
5
j-fiT»  3 
cincnonidnf*  < i • » - »T, 
■'  ' Hi-te 
5 ®  7

niscellaneous

@

23®  28
Barosma..................  
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and  ^ s ................. 
12®  20
Dra Ursi...................... 
8® 10
Gnmmi
Acacia.  1st picked.. 
Acacia.  2d  picked.. 
Acacia. 3d  picked. 
.Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po. 
...........
Aloe.  Barb. po,18@20 
Aloe, Cape 
.. po.  15 
Aloe. So^otri. .po. 40
Ammoniac 
...........
Assaf'uetida 
po. 30
Beuzoiuum 
Catechu, Is.
Ca&ecnu, Ms
< îa£.eeim.  V4S 
Cam paone
Euphorbium po.  35 @ (0 Lobelia
Gal ban am.
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19®
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50®
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Majorum 
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Mentha Pin.  oz.  pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg 
Rue 
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TauacetumV oz.  pkg 
i'hvmus.  V  oz.  pkg 
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Calcined, Pat.. 
Carbonate, Pat.......  
Carbonate, K A M  
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Kloriiia aueeps' Wool 
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carn a g e 
Nassau sheeps  wool
carriag e.................. 
@  2 uo
.1 v ei extra sheeps' 
@  1 25
wool, carriage.  ... 
Extra yellow sheeps' 
wool,  carriage  ... 
@  1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............   @  1 Ou
@  75
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Yellow  R eel,  for 
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Oleum
Absinthium 
3
Amygdalae, Dulc__
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8
Anisi.......................  2  lf.„
Auranti  Cortex......  2 25®
Bergaml!........  ......  2 40®  2 .-a.
85®  91
Cajfputi 
............  
Caryophylli 
7>@  8
'’edar.....................  
35®  oo
Chenopadll.............. 
@  75
Cinnamonli.............  1  65®  1 75
Gltronella.  ..  ........  45®  50

slate  use......... 
Syrups
Acacia 
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Auranti Cortes.......  
Zingiber................. 
Ipecac 
Ferri  lod 
Rhei Arom............ 
Smilax Officinalis... 
S en eg a........................ 
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of  250.

The  Challenge

A  good  5  tent  cig.ir 

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One  box  of  25  cigar-  free  with  e  ch  ,  urchase 

of  250.

The  Fumado

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLB  GREASE.

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

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
ii lb cans doz................... 
45
% lb cans doz...................  85
lb cans doz...................  1 50
1 
14 lb cans 3 doz................. 
45
% lb cans 3 doz.................   75
lb cans 1 doz.................   1  00
1 
10
Bulk.................................... 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
>4 lb cans per doz............  
75
% lb canB per doz  ...........   1  20
1 
lb cans per doz............ 2  00

Arctic.
El Purity.

Home.

14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
(4 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
lb cans 2 doz c a se ......  

35
55
90

Jersey Cream.

54 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
85
lb cans, 2 doz case......   1 60
1 
lb. cans, per doz.........   2 00
1 
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
85
6 oz. cans, per doz............. 
v  lb cans.......................... 
45
% lb cane.......................... 
75
lb cant..........................   1  50
I 
1 lb. c a n s......................... 
85

Our Leader.

Peerless.

BATH  BRICK.

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

BLUING.

C O P ^ D

40
75

S l u i i ^ G
Small, 3 doz.......................  
Large, 2 doz.......................  

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

CANDLES.

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

CANNED  GOODS, 
rtanltowoc Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat.........
Lakeside E.  J ....................
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng.... 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 
Extra Sifted Early Jan e... 
Columbia, 
pints............
Columbia, % pints............

CATSUP.

95 
1  15 
1  20
I  45 
.1  75
.2  00 
.1  25

CHEESE

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

Chicory.

CHOCOLATE.

•  Walter Baker A Co.’s
German Sweet...................
Premium.............................
Breakfast Cocoa...............

II
11%
12
11
11
11
11
11
11%
12%75
18
10
85
18
5
7

CLOTHES LINBA.

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  dos.......... 1 80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jute. 72 ft.  per  dos...  ........  96

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

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

2%
3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
RIo.

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

Santos.

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

Mexican  and  Guatamala.
Fair  ....................................... 16
Good  ....................... ..............

Maracaibo.

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

Java.

Interior...................................20
Private  Growth...................... 22
Mandehling............................ 24
Im itation............................... 22
Arabian  .................................24

Mocha.

Roasted.

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenne......  
...........28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha__28
Wells’ Mocha and Java..... 24
Wells’ Perfection  Java..... 24
Sancalbo................  ...........22
Breakfast Blend...............   18
Valley City Maracaibo.......18%
Ideal  Blend........................14
Leader  Blend.....................12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
the  wholesale  dealer 
which 
adds  tbe  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also l%c a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list- 
Is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckle....................... 
9 50
Jersey..............................  9 50
ricLaughlln’s  XXXX........9  50
Talley City % gross...... 
75
Felix % gross................. 
1  16
Hummel’s foil % gross... 
85
Hummel’s tin %  gross  . 
1  43
CL0THB5 PINS.
5 gross boxes......................  40
COUGH  DROPS.

Extract.

C. B. Brand.

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

CONDENSED MILK.

4 doz in case.
Gall Borden  Eagle...........  6 75
Crown......................................6 25
Daisy.........................  ........5  75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia  — ................ 
4 25
Challenge................................. 3 35
Dime........................... 
  8  35

COUPON  BOOKS.

Tradesman Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00
50 books, any denom__   1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books  any denom__ 11  50
1.000 books, any denom... .20 00

Economic  Grade.

Universal Grade.

Credit Checks.

Superior Grade.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from $10 down.

50 books, any denom__  150
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 he made to represent any 
20 hooks...........................  1 00
50 books..........................   2 00
100 books  ..........................  3 00
250 books..........................   C 25
500 books...........................10  00
1000 books...........................17  50
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOnBSTIC 
Sundrled.......................   @ 5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  8 
Apricots....................... 7%@8J4
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  ©7%
Peaches.......................  8  © 8%
Pears.......................... 8  © 7%
Pitted Cherries...........
Prnnnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   © 32£
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   © 4
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   © 4%
70 - 80 ® lb boxes.........   @ 5
60-170 25 lb boxes.........  @5%
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........  @7%
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........   © 8Ji
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
M cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Fruits.

Apples.

Ralalns.

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

1  45 
2 00
33£ 
4% 
5% 

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Grits.

Farina.

Raisins.

Hominy.

Patras bbls.......................@7%
Vostizzas 50 lb cases.......©  7%
Cleaned, bulk  .................© 814
Cleaned, packages.......... © 83i
Citron American 10 lb bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx @12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  @12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  @ 8%
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crown..........  ©
Sultana 3 Crown..........  @7%
Sultana 4 Crown..........  @
Sultana R drown.........   ®
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 1001b. bags.........3 00
Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drums........ 1  00
Dried Lima  .......................  
Medium Hand Picked__1  00
Maccaroni and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box.......2 50
Common.............................  I 75
Chester..............................  2 00
Empire  ..............................  2 50
Green,  bn...........................  80
Split,  per lb...................... 
2
Rolled Avena,  bbl.......3 90
Monarch,  bbl................. 3 75
Monarch,  %  bbl.............2 00
Private brands,  bbl......
Private brands, %bbl......
Quaker, cases................. 3 20
Huron, cases...................1  75
German............................ 
East  India.......................  
Cracked, bulk................... 
24 2 lb packages.............. 2 50

Pearl Barley.

Rolled  Oats.

3%
3
3%

Wheat.

Beans.

Sago.

Peas.

3

Cod.

Halibut.

Herring.

riackerel.

Georges cured............  © 5
Georges  genuine........  @5%
Georges selected........  @6
Strips or bricks.........   6  © 9
Chunks.............................  
9%
Strips................................   8%
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoop % bbl  5  50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
75
Holland white hoop mens 
35
Norwegian.......................   tl  00
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled................................ 
13
Mess 100 lbs......................  16 30
Mess  40 lbs......................  6  90
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  82
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  48
No. 1 100 lbs......................  14  50
No. 1  40 lbs...............  
  6  10
NO. 1  10 lbs....................   160
No. 1  8 lbs......... ; ..........   130
No. 2 100 lbs......................  9 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4 00
No. 2  10 lbs......................  107
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
88
Russian kegs.................... 
56
No. 1 100 lbs......................  5 50
No. 1  40lbs................. 
2 50
NO. 1  10 lbs..................... 
70
No. 1  8 lbs............. 
59
Whlteflah.

 
No. 1 No. 2
5 75
....  3 00 2 60
73
61

100 lbs.... ....  6 75
40 lbs  ..
83
10 lbs.... .... 
69
8 lbs....
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

Aardlnes.

Trout.

 

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
2oz....... 1 20 
3 oz.......... 1 50 
4 oz..........2 00 
6 oz.......... 3 00 
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 
2oz------  75
1 00
3 oz. 
4 oz 
1 40
6 oz 
2 00
No.  8.. .2 40
No. 10...4 00
No.  2 T.  80
No.  3 T.l  25
No.  4 T.l  50

Aouders’.

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the 

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon, 

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

OUNPOWDER.
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Choke Bore—Dupont's.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

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

 

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

HERBS.

INDIGO.

JBLLY.

KRAUT.

15 lb pails............................   40
30 lb  pails............................   73
Barrels....................... 
Half barrels.........................2  00
Condensed, 2 doz  ...............1  20
Condensed. 4  d o z ...................2 25

LYE.

 

LICORICB.

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

MINCB MBAT.

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

flATCHBS.

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

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

IT0LA5SBS.
New Orleans.

Black.  .............................  
11
F a ir..................................  
14
Good...... .........: ..............  
20
Fancy  .............................  
24
Open Kettle...................... 25@35

Half-barrels 2c extra. 

MUATARD.

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

PIPBA.

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

65
85

POTAAH.

48 cans in case.

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

PICKLBA.
■Tedium.

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

Small.

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................   6H
Carolina  No. 1...................  5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4%
Broken...................v..........   3Ji
Japan,  No. 1......................  55i
Japan,  No. 2................  
  5M
Java, fancy  head..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  5
Table..................................  5%

Imported.

SALERATUA.

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

Church's...................................3 8C
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, 2014 lbbags.2 50
B utter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 31b sacks.............................1 90
60 5-lb sacks.............................1 75
2810-lb sacks........................... 1 60
50  4 
lb. cartons...................3 25
115  2%lb. sacks........................4 00
lb. sacks...................... 3 75
60  5 
2214 
lb. sacks...................... 3 50
3010 
lb. sacks.......................3 50
281b. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.........................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15
56-lb dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56-lb  sacks..........................   21
Granulated Fine.................   79
Medium  Fine......................  85

Ashton.
Higgins.
Solar Rock.
Common.

Warsaw.

SAL SODA.

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

ABBDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3
Caraway..........................   8
Cardamon,  M alabar......   60
Celery.................................  11
3 50
Hemp,  Russian................ 
3 H
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4%
5
Mustard,  white................ 
Poppy  ..............................  10
Rape...... .......................... 
4%
Cattle Bone........................  20

SNUFF.

Scotch, in bladders............   87
Maccaboy, In jars............ 
35
French Rappee, In jars......   43

SOAP.

J A X O N

Single box............................ 2 75
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 70
10 box lots, delivered..........2 65
JA3.  8.  KIRK  8 CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d__2 66
Dome.................................... 2 75
Cabinet...............................2 20
Savon....................................2 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6 oz__2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__3 00
Blue India, 100 3£ lb.............3 00
Klrkoline............................. 3 50
Eos.......................................2  50

an100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

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

Allen B. Wrlsley’8 Brands. 

Old Country, 801-lb. bars  . .2  75
Good Cheer, 601-lb. bars__3  75
Uno, 100 5S£-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

SODA.

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

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

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  ............................   13
Cassia, China in mats..........12
Cassia, Batavia in bund__25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 82
Cloves, Amboyna................ 14
Cloves, Zanzibar..................12
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.

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

SYRUPS.

Corn.

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

Pure Cano.

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

TABLE  AAUCEA.

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

STARCH.

VINEQAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain....  6
Malt White Wine, 80 grain__9
Pure  Cider.............................   9
Pure Cider,  Leroux............” 11

Washing Powder.

Kingston!'*  Corn.

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

Klngsford’s  Silver  (Uosa.
40 l ib packages...................  6*
6-lb boxes.........................  7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ...............5  oo
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 Qloss.

1-lb  packages......................  4
3-lb  packages......................  4
6-lb  packages......................  414
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. .1 7 20

SUGAR.

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

WICKING.
No. 0, per gross.........
No. 1, pergross.........
No. 2, per gross.........
No. 3, per gross.........

........  30
........  40
........  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................... @  12
Ciscoes or Herring.. @  4
Bluefish..................
@  10
Live  Lobster.........
@  18
Boiled Lobster........ @  20
Cod......................
@  10
Haddock................. @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @  9
Pike.......................
@  7
Perch....................... @  3%
Smoked  White........ @  9
Red Snapper........... @  10
Col  River Salmon.. @  JO
Mackerel 
@  25

...........

M ICH IG A N   TRADESMAN

Grains and Feedsluiis ! 

Provisions.

C a n d ie s .

Stick  Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
6*©  7
6*@ 7
6  @ 8
@ 8*
cases
@654
@854
@

Mixed Candv.

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

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges,  printed..
Choc.  Drops...........  10
Choc.  Monumentals
Gum  Drops............
Moss  Drops............
Sour Drops..............
Imperials..............

@ 6 \ 
@  7 
@ 754 
@ 754 
@ 854 
@ 854 
@  854 
@ 8 
@ 854 
@ 854 
@10 
@12

@ 854 
@  854
@14 
@11 
@ 6 
@ 8 
@ 854 @  854

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Lemon  Drops.........
Sour  Drops............
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
Gum  Drops............
Licorice Drops........
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  plain.... 
Lozenges,  printed..
Imperials...............
Mottoes...................
Cream Bar..............
Molasses Bar  .........
Hand Made Creams.
Plain  Creams.........
Decorated Creams..
Burnt Almonds...... 1
Wintergreen Berries
Caramel*.
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes ...................
No. 1 wrapped, 3  lb.
boxes ..................
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes.................

Fruits.

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

Fancy 360s or 300s...
Ex.Faucy 300s........
Ex. Fancy 360s........
Bananas.

@50
@50
@60
@60
@15
@30
@75
@50
@50
@50
@50
@55
@o0
@50
80  @1  00
60  @90 
@90 
@60
25  @ 
@60

@30
@45

@2 23 
@2 75 
@3 00

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

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

boxes.

lb boxes.

Figs.

Dates.

lb cases, new.

Nuts.

@  13
@
@  14
@  15 
@  13 
@ 654

@ 8 
@ 6 
@ 5 
© 6 
@ 454

soft shelled.

@13
@11
@13 
@ 9 
@10
Walnuts, Grenobles..  @1:
@10
Walnuts,  soft  sheiled 
Calif.......................
@ 9 
@10 
@ 9 
@ 8 
@10 
@12
@1  60 
@4  50

Pecans’ Ex. Large..

Ohio, new.

Peanuts.

Wheat.

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

, 
Local Brands.
Patents.......................
Second  Patent....... .!!.!!!
Straight............................
Clear....................... ......
Graham  ..................... . . . .
Buckwheat...............
R ye.............................. ‘ *'
Subject  to  usual  cash 
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl, 
ditional.

5 50 
5 00 
4 80 
4  40 
4  75 
3 50 
3 00 
dis-
, ad-

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.

Quaker,  54s......................   4  75
Quaker,  54s...................  
4  75
Quaker, 54s........................   4  75

Spring  Wheat  Flour. 

Clark-Jewell Wells Co.’s Brand.

M i r a - c *  r|r|
l i
I t e x x x j i !

Pillsbury’s  Best 54s...........  5  55
Plllsbury’s Best Ms...........  5 45
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  5 35
Pillsbury’s Best 54s paper .  5  35 
Pillsbury’s Best  ms paper..  5  35
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.
Duluth  Imperial,  54s........5  50
Dulutb Imperial,  Ms.  ...  . 5 40
Duluth Imperial,  54s........  5 3d
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  B rand.
Gold Medal 54s.............  5 53
Gold Medal Ms....................5  45
Gold Medal 54s....................5 35
Parisian,  54s......................   5  55
Parisian, Ms.........................5 45
Parisian. 54s.......................  6  35

Olney A Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, 54s ......................  5  65
Ceresota, 54s................  5 55
Ceresota, 54s..  ....................545
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, Ms........
Laurel, Ms.................
Laurel, Ms......

......  5 45

Meal.

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

Feed and  Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened  .... 15 25
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........U  35
Unbolted Corn Meal..........13 75
Winter Wheat  Bran___  14 uo
Winter Wheat Middlings. .15 00 
Screenings.............................. 13 00

New Corn.
Car  lots.................... 
Less than  car  lots.....35

.....  3¿¡A

Oats.

Car  lots.  ...........................  3054
Carlots, clipped.................  32
Less than  car lots.............. 35

Hay.

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

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

Carcass..................  ..  6M@ 754
Forequarters............   554®  6m
Hind  quarters...........  8  @9
Loins  No.  3...............   9  @12
gib s -.........................  854@1254
Rounds......................  6 7 y2
Chucks.....................   454@ 554
Plates  .......................  @4

Pork.

Dressed......................  @5
Loins.........................  @7
Shoulders...................  @ 5M
Leaf Lard...................  554®

@  7
@ 7 
@ 454

Mutton.

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

Veal.

Carcass  ....................   654@ 754

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

follows:

Barreled Pork.

Mess  .............................   10  75
Back  ..............................  11  uo
Clear back...................... 
lu 50
Shortcut.....................  
10  50
gig..................................   14 00
Bean  ...................... 
g 75
Family  ..............................10 50

Smoked Heats.

Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies............................ 
6
53^
Briskets  ..................... * * 
Extra shorts..................  
55^
Hams, 12 lb  average  __ 
9
Hams, 14 lb  average 
... 
834
8M
Hams, 16 lb  average......  
Hams, 20 lb  average......
Ham dried beef.........  
14 
.
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).  . 
6
Bacon,  clear........  ...... 7  @g
California hams............  
6
Boneless hams...............  
8*
Cooked  ham...................8@ll
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound..................... 
4
Kettle......................cm
55 lb Tubs.......... advance 
u
80 lb Tubs.......... advance  %
50 lb T ins.......... advance 
94
20 lb Palls.......... advance 
54 1
10 lb Pails...........advance 
%
8 Jb Pails...........advance 
1
3 lb Pails...........advance 
154

Beef.

Tripe.

Sausages.
Bologna................. 
Liver.........................aw
Frankfort.............. 
p o rk ......................
Blood  .....................  
Tongue.......................... 
Head  cheese................... 
Extra  Mess....................  9
Boneless  ..................  
' jo
Rump..............................12
Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs......................
M  bbls, 40 lbs........... 
1
54  bbls, 80 lbs.............."   2
Kits, 15 lbs...  . . . ...........
M  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1
54  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2
t>  v 
Beef  rounds.........
Beef  middles..............
Sheep.........................
Butterlne.
Rolls,  dairy...................
Solid,  dairy..............
Rolls,  creamery........
Solid,  creamery.........
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2 l b ......  2
Corned  beef, 14 lb__ 
14
Roast  beef,  2 lb......  2
Potted  bam,  Ms.........
Potted  ham,  54s__.. .  1
Deviled ham,  Ms.........!
Deviled ham,  54s.......  1
Potted  tongue Ms......... .
Potted  tongue 54s.......  1

Casings.

5
7
e
9
654

60

10
14
1354
15 
75 
15 
60 
00 
60 
00 
60 
00

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 

Butters.

54 gal., per doz.................  50
1 to 6 gal., per gal...........  554
8 gal., per g a l.................  654
10 gal., per gal..................  654
12 gal., per gal..................   654
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 

to 6 gal., per gal.........  554
2 
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Milk puns.

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

Fine Glazed Milkpans.

Stewpans.

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

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

M gal., per doz.................   40
54 gal., per doz..................  50D
1 to 5 gal., per gal............   654
54 gal., per doz.................  70
1 gal., each......................  7
Corks for 54 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Cover*.
54 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 

Sealing Wax.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun...................... ...  45
No.  1  Sun..........................   50
No.  2 Sun......................... 
75
Tubular.............................   50
Security, No.  1................... 
65
Security, No. 2................... 
85
Nutmeg  ............................  50
Climax...............................  1  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................   1  75
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 

First  Quality.
0 Sun,  crimp  top,
1 Sun,  crimp  top,
2 Sun,  crimp  top,

XXX Flint.

No. 
No. 
No. 

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

Soda.

Oyster.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX...............  
g
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  654
Family XXX......................  6
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  654
Salted XXX.......................   6
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  654 
Soda  XXX  .......................   7
Soda XXX, 3 lb carton__  754
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............................  1054
Bent’s Cold Water............   14
Belle Rose........................   g
Cocoanut Taffy.................  12
Coffee Cakes......................  10
Frosted Honey...................  1254
Graham Crackers  ............   g
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  7 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7 
Gin. Snps,XXX borne made  7 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7
Ginger  Vanilla.................  g
Imperials..........................   g
Jumoles,  Honey................  1294
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ad e......  854
Pretzelettes, Little German  654
Sugar  Cake.......................  8
Sultanas................... 
  13^4
Sears’ Lunch......................  8
Vanilla  Square..................  854
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Pecan Wafers....................  1554
Mixed Picnic....................   1054
Cream Jumbles.................  12
Boston Ginger Nuts..........   854
Chimmie Fadden..............  10
Pineapple Glace.................  16
Penny Cakes........................  854
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Belle Isle Picnic....  ......   11

 

La  Baa tie.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  .................................  1 25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
...  1  60
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 
Rochester.
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 dbz)........  4 40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1 65
2 gal galv iron with spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 50 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4 75 
3 gal galv Iron with faucet 4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  8 00
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas  ...  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka- non-overflow 10 50
3  gal Home Rule............10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular...................  4  25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............  6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash. 
....  6 30 
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye, 

each, box 10 cents...........  45
each, box 15  cents.........   45
each, bbl 35]....................   40
cases 1 doz. each...  .....  1 25 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................ 
20
No. 1 per gross................... 
25
No. 2 per gross  .................  
38
No. 3 per gross...................  58
Mammoth.  .......................   79

LANTERNS.

 

@

Shell Goods.

Oysters  in Bulk

Oysters in Cans.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
tV-
Cams,  tot  100

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

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 
F. H. Counts........... @1  75
weight of the barrel.
Extra Selects.........
@1  50
Domino....................................5 63
Selects.................... @1  25
5 63
Cut  Loaf...... ................  
Anchor Standards.. @1  10
Crushed.................................... 5 63
Clams...................... @1  25
Cubes.......................................5 38
Powdered  ...........................5 33
XXXX  Powdered.................... 5 44
Granulated in bbls...................5 13
Granulated in  bags..................5 13
Pine Granulated...................... 5 13
Extra Fine Granulated.......5  25
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 25
Mould  A...................................5 44
Diamond  Confec.  A........... 5  13
Confec. Standard A..................5 00
No.
...... 4 75
2.......................... ...... 4 75
No
No. 3.......................... ......4 69
No. 4.......................... ...... 4 63
No. 5.......................... ......4 63
No. 6.......................... ......4 56
No. 7  ...
...... 4 44
No. 8.......................... ...... 4 44
No. 9.......................... ...... 4 38
No. 10.......................... ......4 31
No. 11..........................
No. 12.......................... ....  4 13
No. 13.......................... ...... 4 13
No. 14..........................
... .4 06
No. 15..........................
....4 00
No. 16.......................... ......3 94

Green No.  1................ @ 8
Green No. 2................
Cured No. 1................
© 9
Cured No. 2................ @ 8
Calfskins,  green No. 1 @ 9
Calfskins, green No. 2 ©  7Y%
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10*4
Calfskins, cured No. 2 @  9

The Cappon & Bertscb  Leather
Co., 100 canal  Street, quotes  as
follows:

H i d e s   a n d   P e l t s .

Hides.

Furs.

'frtÿç 

...4

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand.

Quintette.........................35 00
G. J. JohnsonCigarCo.’sbrand.

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

Pelts.

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

Tallow.

No. 1...........................
No. 2...........................

© 2%
© 2

Wool.

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

Oils.

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  Pine............................... 35 00
Generals Grant and Lee... .35 00
Spanish Hand Made...........35 00
Crown Fine............................ 35 00

Barrels.
Eocene  ...................... @11*
XXX W. W.M ich.Hdlt
©  8M
W W Michigan........... @ 8M
Diamond White......... @ 7M
D., 8. Gas.................... @ 8
Deo. Naptha.............. @ 7
Cylinder.................... 25  @34
Engine — ................. 11  @21
B  ack, winter
( i   f

Roasted.

Roasted

22

Hardware

T h e   A ge  o f   S teel.

Written for the T radesman

Within  the  recollection  of  a  consider­
able  portion  of  those  still  actively  en­
gaged  in  the  field  of  industry  there  was 
a  time  when,  in  the  divisions  of  the 
economic  conditions  of  the  world  into 
the  various  ages  of  stone,  bronze,  iron, 
etc.,  the addition of the  Steel  Age  would 
have  had  comparatively 
little  mean­
ing.  This  was  not  on  account  of  the 
lack  of  importance  of  this  form  of  the 
grey  metal,  for  even  at  that  time  it 
gave  the  principal  significance  to  this 
in  the  problem  of  civilization; 
factor 
but  it  continued  subordinate  in 
impor­
tance  to  the  cruder  forms,  for  the reason 
that  these  had  to  be  first  produced  and 
then  by  certain  refining  and  chemical 
processes  changed  into  the  form capable 
of  varying  degrees  of  hardness  and 
toughness.  Thus  steel  was  only  one  of 
the  products  of  the  metal  which  appro­
priately  gave  the  name  of  the  Iron  Age 
to  that  period.

At  that  time  the  production  of  steel 
was  a  very  costly  process. 
It  was  first 
necessary  to  select  suitable  ores  and 
subject  these  to  reducing  and  refining 
processes  involving  the  use  of  much  la­
bor  and  costly  fuel  and  other  materials 
to  produce  the  form  of  iron  suitable  for 
conversion  into  steel,  and  then  with  ad­
ditional  expenditure  of  much  more  la­
bor  and  fuel  and  the  most  careful  and 
skilled  manipulation  the  final  process 
was  accomplished.  The  importance  of 
steel  as  a  factor  in  all  economic  proc­
esses  had  built  up  immense  industries 
and 
its  production  and  use  even  then 
were  of  wonderful  importance.

laid  with 

consideration. 

But  a  comparison  of  the  conditions 
then  with  the  present  shows  a  revolu­
tion  exceeding  the  most  ingenious  im­
agination.  At  that  time  all  railroads 
were 
iron  rails—the  idea  of 
using  steel  for  such  a  purpose  was  too 
Then  all 
absurd  for 
railway  bridges  which  were  not 
too 
large  were  constructed  of  timber,  and 
the  remainder  were  of  masonry  and 
iron,  involving  vast  labor  and  expense 
and  the  most  serious  engineering  prob­
lems.  Then  the  construction  of  a  build­
ing  of  steel  would  have  been  about  as 
ridiculous  a  proposition  as  it  would  be 
now  to  construct  it  of  copper.  Even  so 
late  as  when  the  first  elevated  railroads 
were  projected 
in  New  York  the  ma­
terials  were  wood  or  cast  iron  for  the 
posts, with  the remainder of the construc­
tion  of  timber,  held  in  position  by  iron 
rods.  Then  steel  was  not  known  as  a 
material  in  commercial  ship-building, 
and 
in  naval  architecture  was 
only  in  forms  produced  at  tremendous 
cost  for  defensive  purposes.  Then  cars 
were  constructed  entirely  of  wood,  held 
together  by  the  sparing  use  of  iron  in 
the  forms  of  rods,  etc.  Then  petroleum 
and  other  liquids  were  contained 
in 
wood  or 
iron  tanks.  Similarly  might 
be  enumerated  many  other  uses,  which 
will  serve  to  suggest  the  extent  of  the 
revolution  of  later  years.

its  use 

How  recent  is  the  change  thus 

indi­
cated  is  brought  to  the  attention  by  the 
fact  of  the  death,  a  few  days  ago,  of 
the  man  whose  inventions  and  discov­
eries  are  responsible  for  the  entire  de­
velopment  of  modern  metallurgy.  Fifty 
or  sixty  years  ago,  William  Bessemer 
was  experimenting  in  London  to  find  a 
practical  method  of  producing  steel  di­
rectly  from  the  ores,  so  as  to  avoid  the 
costly  manipulations  which  were  neces­
in  first  preparing  the  iron  as  a
sary 

M ICH IG A N   TRADESMAN
material, 
in  a  wonucifuiiy  short  time, 
involving  only  a  few  years,  the  experi­
ments  were  successful,  and 
the  new 
method  was  promptly  adopted  by  the 
steel  workers  to  whose  attention  it  was 
brought.  But,  while  the  revolution  thus 
inaugurated  was  wonderfully  rapid,  the 
magnitude  of  the  changes  involved  re­
quired  many  years;  indeed,  they  are  by 
no  means  yet  complete.  At  the  first, 
the  new  product,  while  materially 
cheaper  than  any  other  form  of  steel  of 
equal  quality,  was  still  far  more  costly 
than  iron;  and  the  contest  between  the 
two, 
gradually 
changed,  extended  over  many  years  un­
til  finally  they  became  reversed.

positions 

their 

as 

Qark-Rutka- Jewell Co.

Ionia  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Opposite  Union  Depot.

civilization 

industry  and 

The  extent  to  which  the  inventions 
of  Sir  William  Bessemer  have  affected 
modern 
is 
nearly  incalculable.  Modern  transpor­
tation  has  been  made  possible  by  them, 
and  this  has  wrought  the  changes  in 
economic  conditions  which  ha^e  been 
the  themes  of  many  writers.  Thus  the 
wheat  fields  of  the  American  North­
west,  of  Argentine  and  Russia,  and  the 
corn  fields  of  the  Mississippi  Valley 
have  cheapened  the  food  supplies  of  the 
centers  of 
industry  of  the  Old  World 
until  the  conditions  of  labor are  incom­
parably  improved.  At  the  same  time 
this  has  reduced  the  value  of  the  farm­
ing  lands  in  the  old  industrial  countries 
to  a  nearer 
level  with  the  rest  of  the 
world,  and  has  thus  taken  from  the 
wealthy  and  distributed  to  the  needy.

like  this. 

The  extent  of  the  changes  wrought  by 
the  direct  conversion  of steel can scarce­
ly  be  indicated  in  the  limits  of  an  ar­
ticle 
It  has  not  only  taken 
the  place  of  iron  until  its production has 
become  the  cheaper,  but 
it  has  very 
largely  superseded  wood,  thus  partially 
answering  the  question,  which has given 
much  concern,  as  to  how  that  need  of 
civilization  could  be  supplied  after  the 
exhaustion  of  the  forests.  Not  only  are 
the  railways  of  the  world  supplied  with 
the  most  rigid  and  durable  steel  rails, 
but  nearly  all  bridges,  trestles  and other 
engineering  constructions  are  of  the 
same  material.  Even  the  railway  build­
ings 
in  most  localities,  as  well  as  the 
rolling  stock,-are  very largely dependent 
upon  it.  And 
increasing  produc­
tion  and  cheapness  permit  the  railways 
to  penetrate  what  were  the  most 
inac­
cessible  regions  of  the  earth.

its 

Then  in  the  sister  branch  of  transpor­
it  has  taken  the  place  of  wood 
tation 
and  iron  in  naval  construction  until 
it 
not  only  monopolizes  the  ocean  marine, 
but  has  taken  the  lake  and  river as well, 
and  has  even  driven  wood  out  of  the 
field  of  canal-boat  construction.

the 

Also  note  the  revolution  in  the  archi­
tecture  of  all  the  cities  of  the  modern 
in  the  construction  of  all 
world,  and 
important  edifices.  Note  the 
street 
railway  systems  of  every  town  in  this 
and  other  countries.  Note 
less 
numerous,  but  more  gigantic,  enter­
prises  in  the  greatest  cities  in  the  con­
struction  of  the  steel  elevated  roads; 
and  then  the  almost  universal  use  of 
the  same  material 
in  the  construction 
of  industrial  implements  of  every  sort.
The  Age  of  Steel  is  only  just  begin­
ning.  The  changes  are  now  progress­
ing  at  an  undiminished  rate.  Where  it 
will  end,  the  full  consequences  of  the 
invention  of  this  one  mind  in  the  army 
of  the  world’s  workers,  who  can  com­
prehend? 

W a r r e n   N.  F u l l e r .

New  Wholesale

Hardware House

New  House,  New  Goods,  New  Prices.
Call  and  see  us  when  in  the  city.
Write  us  for prices.

Clark=Rutka=Jewell  Co

N ovelty  Blue  Flam e

Foster, Stevens & Co. Orand Rapids, Mich.

SYRUP  CANS
Sap  Pails  and  Sap  Pans

Round  and  Square

Write for prices,

Wm.  B ru m m eler & Sons,  Manufacturers, 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

Factory and Salesroom* 260 S. Ionia St.

Four Kinds oi coupon books

A  bargain  counter  without  an  adver­
tisement  is  like  an  orator without lungs.

You  can  wake  up  even  a  sleepy 

community  by  bright  advertising.

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.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s........................................................... 
70
Jennings ’, genuine..................... ...........25610
Jennings’, imitation....................................60610

axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze................. 
5 00
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........................   950
First Quality. 8. B. S. Steel........................   5 50
First Quality, D. B. Steel............................  10 50

. 

BARROWS

Railroad.............................................112 00  14 00
Garden.................................................  net  30 00

BOLTS

Stove......................................................  
60610
Carriage new list....................................  70 to 75
Plow........................................................ 
go

Well,  plain.................................................. I 3 25

BUCKETS

H ow   to  S ecure  a  M o re   E quitable | 

D ivision  o f   T ra d e .
Ante Lucem  in American Artisan.

It 

This 

is  the 

industries. 

important  problem  now 
being  submitted  to  the  arbitration  of 
the  best  minds  governing  our  commer­
cial 
is  a  mighty  inter­
rogation  point  for  the  first  time  thrown 
upon  the  canvas  by  the  camera  of trade, 
and  can  be  answered  by  no  past  prece­
dent  in  our  country’s  history.  Solve 
it 
and  the  commercial  millennium  is  at 
hand ;  half  the  burden  will  disappear 
like  a  mist  before  the  morning  sun.

re-subdividing 

We  have  gotten 

into  a  rut.  For  a 
number  of  years  we  have been dividing, 
subdividing  and 
the 
different 
lines  of  trade,  until  they  are 
scattered  and  distributed,  and  have  be­
come  a  conglomerate  mass  prevalent  at 
all  trading  points.  The  wholesaler  has 
tried  to  compass  the  earth,  corral  all 
the  products,  all  lines  of  business,  until 
it 
is  hard  to  tell  what  one  may  not 
find  in  the  sample  case  of  his represent­
ative.

The  hardware  jobber  no  longer  sticks 
to  bis  line,  but  has  seized  upon  the  last 
of  the  shoemaker.  He  no 
longer  sells 
shelf  hardware,  iron  and  steel  for  a  liv­
ing,  but  he  handles  paints,  oils,  glass, 
stoves,  sewing  machines,  mackintoshes, 
rubber  goods,  cordage  and  every  con 
ceivable  thing  belonging  to  any  and  all 
distinctive 
This  vari-colored 
product  has  been  as  variously  distrib­
uted,  until  one  can  not  tell  the  color  of 
one's  business from  the  shingle he hangs 
outside.

This  was  forcibly  impressed  upon  my 
mind  in  calling  at  the  store  of  an  old 
acquaintance  after  a  five years' absence. 
The  shingle  read,"Swipe’s Hardware. ”  
On  the 
inside  I  found  shelf  hardware 
and  .stoves  (small  quantities),  harness, 
furniture,  crockery,  bargain  counters 
with  yellow  covered  literature  as  prize 
offerings,and as the auction  notice reads, 
many  other  things too  numerous  to men­
tion.  The  store  did  not  look  like  a  junk 
shop,  but  it  was  little  like  a  real 
live 
hardware  store.  Such 
is  the  modern 
evolution  of  business.

lines. 

All  distinctiveness  is  being lost.  One 
class  of  business 
is  being  used  as  a 
cat’s-paw  to  pull  chestnuts  from  the  fire 
for  some  other  line  of  trade.  The  gro­
cer  uses  granite  and  tinware as  prize 
offerings  for  his  sugars  and baking pow­
ders.  The  fusionist,  as  above  related, 
resorts  to  the  dime  and  half-dime  pub­
lications  tor  his  entering  wedges.  A l­
most  all  lines  of  trade  have  some 
ignis 
fatuus  scheme  as  a  pull,  except  the  re­
tail  hardware  dealer,  who  sits  back  and 
sees  many  of  his  legitimate  articles  of 
trade  cast  into  the  holdings  of  his  com­
petitors,  there  to  become  prize  offerings 
at  less  than  cost. ^  "What  are  you  going 
to  do  about  it,  Davis?"
Every  proposition  that  is  new  is  nec­
essarily  strange,  and  those  whose  men­
tality  flows  along  old-time  ruts  are  slow 
of  action. 
It  will  require  time,  pa­
tience  and  work  to  secure  co-operation 
and  a  radical  correction  of  the  wrongs. 
Let  no  one  be  skeptical,  let  all  know 
that  "T hrice  armed 
is  he  who  has  his 
quarrel  just.”

We  are  beset  with  problems,  but  none 
more  important  to  our commercial  wel­
fare  than  the  one,  "How  can  we  secure 
a  more  equitable  division  of  the  several 
lines  or  distinctive  branches  of  mer­
chandising?" 
is  only  within  a  very 
few  short  months  that  the  question  has 
been  publicly  thrust  before  the  mer­
chandising  community,  and 
that 
short  time 
it  has  become  patent  to  the 
thoughtful  one,  some  step,  some  action 
must  be  speedily  taken  to  check  the 
onslaught  upon 
trading, 
hence  Mr.  Davis’  question,  "What  are 
you  going  to  do  about  it?’ ’is  a  per­
tinent  one,  and  can  be  propounded  to 
all  classes  of  traders,  manufacturers, 
jobbers  and  wholesalers.

legitimate 

The 

individual 

impartial  consideration  of  any 
impossibility,  as 
question  is  almost  an 
insists  on  being  a 
each 
teacher  and  not  in  being  taught. 
If 
success  shall  crown  the  efforts  now  be­
ing  made  to  organize  and  solidify  the 
various  lines  of  trade  operating 
inde­
pendently  for  their  own  class  of  busi­
ness,  and  conjunctively  for  all  the  busi­
ness  of 
the  country,  d esp ite  the  fact

in 

It 

some  refractory  ones  will  be  found 
in 
each  class  of  business,  and  among man­
ufacturers and  wholesalers,  it  will not  be 
so  long  a  time  before  at  least  75  per 
cent,  will  be  working  along  proper lines 
and  in  harmonious  accord.

There  will,  no  doubt,  be  some friction 
to  start  with,  but  no  good  thing  can  be 
had  without labor,  and  hard  labor.  Then 
let  every  trade  patriot  put  forth  his 
might. 
If  a  manufactuier  is  not  with 
you,  labor  with  him  earnestly,  that  you 
may  bring  over  to  your  way  of  think­
ing-  Treat  the  wholesaler 
likewise. 
There 
in  reasoning  out  the 
proposition.  Arbitration  may sometimes 
be  slow,  but  final  results  thus gained 
prove  lasting  and  beneficial.

is  much 

in  every  department 

One  class  of  business  that  is  proving 
interrogation  to  the 
something  of  an 
is  the  tin  and  granite 
hardware  trade 
ware  business. 
It 
is  an  indispensable 
component  part  of  the  business,  and  it 
is  found 
store 
and 
is  the  part  of  the  wares  of  every 
cataloguer of  the  country,  and  no  man­
ufacturer of  either  class  of  goods  can 
show  a  clean  bill  of  health  so  far as 
sales  go  in  those  lines.  Again,  no  class 
of  goods  offer  as  many  inducements  for 
the  catch-penny  transactions  of  trade  as 
these  two  classes.  "What  are  you  going 
to  do  about  it?”   Simply  the  very  best 
you  can  for  your  own 
individual  busi­
ness,  and  when  the  time  shall come  that 
some  responsible  manufacturers  of  these 
goods  shall  break  away  fiom  their  old 
methods,  and  fairly  and  squarely  plant 
themselves  upon  your  platform,  and hew 
to  the  line,  cleaving  every  chip  down 
to  the  score  mark,  they  then  must  be­
come  competitors 
in  the  open  market 
upon  a  price  basis  that  will  insure  fair 
trading  and  fair  remuneration.  That 
some  manufacturers  shall  resort  to  spe­
cial  brandings  for  the  two  classes  of 
trade  (so  called)  will  not  suffice  for  the 
desired  end.

The  stove  question  also  has 

its  com­
issues.  Some  manufacturers  tell 
plex 
you  they  do  not  sell,  it  is,  and  ever  has 
been,  an  invariable  rule  of  theirs  never 
to  sell  to  a  furniture  dealer,  with  par­
ticular  stress on  the  furniture,  as  though 
it  was  a  heinous  crime,  and  yet it  is  not 
an  impossible  thing  to  find  small  quan­
tities  of  their  goods  and  their  outer 
shingle 
furniture  houses, 
even 
in  department  stores  in  remoter 
sections  of  the  country.  Another  pleads 
unswerving  loyalty  to  the  regular  hard­
ware  dealer,  yet  if  the  dealer  will  con­
sult  the  advertising  columns  of  some  of 
the  dailies  of  large  cities,  he  will  read 
Mr.  Department’s  advertisement,  with 
retail  figures  that  would  bring  tears  to 
the  prices  he  paid. 
"What  are  you  go­
ing  to  do  about  it?"

in  regular 

What  a  difference  there  is  between  a 
real  live,  aggressive  hardware  store  and 
a  don’t-care  sort  of  hardware  business. 
One  is  in  trim  shape,  goods 
in  order, 
counters,  show  cases,  etc.,  clean;  stoves 
nicely  arranged,  blackened,  everything 
in  presentable  shape,  the  other  wears  a 
don't-care  air,  covered  all  over  with 
grime.  One  has  a  sharp,  progressive, 
pushing  owner,  who  searches  out,  gets 
business,  makes  business;  the  other 
takes  the  business  that  seeks  him,  and 
wonders  why  more  does  not  come.  One 
buys  sharp,  quick  and  upon  his  own 
good  judgment  soon  formulated.  The 
other 
laboriously  struggles  along  the 
lines  of 
indecision,  doubt  and  fear,  as 
though  he  would  first  consult  the  sooth­
sayers,  oracles  and  wise  men.  Thus 
reads  the  sign  posted  in  an  up-to-date 
hardware  store:

"W e  keep  tools  for  sale.
"W e  have  tools  to  use.
‘ * We  pay  men  to  use  them. ’ ’
"W e  want  pay  for  their  use.  You 
had  better  buy  than  borrow  and  thus 
save  trouble  for  each  of  us. ’ ’ 
In  the 
reading  is  a  sermon  to  beat  the  band.

They  A re   Friends.

Helen—I  wonder  why  Kate  doesn’t 

mind  her  own  business.

Mattie—She  hasn’t  any.
Helen— Business?
Mattie— No;  mind.

A  man's  body  may  be  an  earthly  ten­
ement,  but  he  objects  to  being  called  a 
flat.

23

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware.........................new list 75610
Japanned Tin Ware.....................................20610
Granite Iron Ware........................ new list 40610

HOLLOW  WARE

Pots......................................
K ettles.............................
Spiders  ..................................
HINGES
Gate, Clark’s, 1,2,3.................
State.................................

fittati
fiOÆM
finikin

...............dis 60610
. per doz. net  2 50

WIRE  GOODS 
Bright.................  .....................
Screw Eyes.............................
Hook’s..................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes............
LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.
ROPES
Sisal, )4 inch and  larger........
Manilla...................................
SQUARES

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

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

80
80

---- dis 

70

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

6*
8

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.
$2 40
2-40
2*45
255
2 65
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

„  
Nos. 10 to 14..................................$2 70 
Nos. 15 to 17.............................. ...  2 70 
Nos. 18 to 21......... ........................   2 80 
Nos. 22 to 24.................................. 300 
Nos. 25 to 26.................................. 3 10 
No-  27..........................................  3 20 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

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

SAND  PAPER

50

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

SASH  WEIGHTS

TRAPS

Steel, Game......................................  ... 
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s .........  
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70610
Mouse, choker.......................... per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................per doz 

60&1U
50
15
1  2t

WIRE

Bright Market............................................. 
Annealed  Market........................................  
Coppered  Market................................................... .70&10
Tinned Market....................................................‘ ‘ 6214
Coppered Spring  Steel................................  
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized.........................  2 16
Barbed  Fence,  painted............................. .  1  85

75
75

HORSE  NAILS

Au Sable...................  
dig 4061C
Putnam............................................................. dis 5
Northwestern.................................................... dis 10610

WRENCHES

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

30 
50 
80 
80

MISCELLANEOUS

Bird  Cages........................................ 
50
Pumps, Cistern.................................. 
80
Screws, New List...............................  
85
Casters, Bed and  Plate...................... 50610610
Dampers, American........................... 
50

600 pound casks....................................   6Q
Per pound.............................................  
ex

METALS—Zinc

SOLDER

)4@)4....................................................   12)4
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary
according to  composition.
10x14 IC, Charcoal........................................$ 5 75
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................ 
5  75
20x14 IX. Charcoal.......................................  7 00
Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

TIN—Melyn Grade

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................................  5 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................  ...................  500
10x14 IX, Charcoal.......................................  e 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal.......................................  6 00

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50.

ROOFINa  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................   5 00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean 
....................   6 00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.............................  10 00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............  4 50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   5 50
20x281C, 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, f 1)61 pound- • • 

„ 

-

9

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

BLOCKS

Ordinary Tackle.......................  .
CROW  BARS 
Cast Steel...................................

CAPS

Ely’s  MO.....................................
Hick’s C. F ...............................
G. D.............................................
Musket........................................
CARTRIDGES
Rim  Fire....................................
Central  Fire............................. [

CHISELS
Socket Firmer.........................
Socket Framing......................
Socket Comer.........................
Socket  Slicks..........................
DRILLS
Morse’s Bit Stocks...............
Taper and Straight Shank.  .. 
Morse’s Taper Shank............
ELBOWS
Com. 4 piece, 6 in ....................
Corrugated.............................
Adjustable.............................

EXPANSIVE  BITS
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.........
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30................
PILES—New  List
New American...............................
Nicholson’s.....................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps..................."

70&10 
• 7U610

70

4

65 
55 
35
60

..per lb 

per m 
perm 
per m 
per m 

.506  5 
.256 5

80
80
80
80

60
.506  5 
.506  5

doz. net 
50
1 25
........ 
........dis 40610

30610
25

.70610
70
-6C6Í0

28
17

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......................60&10

KNOBS-New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................$16 00, dis  60610
Hunt Eye.....................................$15 00, dis 60610
Hunt’s........................................  $18 50, dis 20610

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................   1  go
Wire nails, base...........................................   1  75
20 to 60 advance...........................................   Base
10 to 16 advance.......................................... 
05
8 advance.................................................... 
10
6 advance.................................................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance...................................................  
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance  ..................................... 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  6 advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85

MILLS

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

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

Stebbin’s Pattern.......................................... 60610
Stebbin’s Genuine........................................ 60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring......................... 
30

PLANES

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

PANS

Fry, Acme........  ..............................:... 60610610
706 5
Common, polished................................. 
Iron and T inned........................................  
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 
60

RIVETS

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages He per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole 6  Co.’s, new  list.............................. dls 3SH
25
Kip’s  ...................................................... dU 
Terkes 6  Plumb’s..............................................die «0610
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list. 
70
Blacksmith’! Solid Cast Steel Hand 80c lia ,40619

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M I CH I GAN  TRADESMAN

T H E   T R O U B L E S   IN   C H IN A .

The  people  of  the  United  States  are 
not  alone 
in  enjoying  the  luxury  of  a 
genuine  war  scare.  While  we  are  has­
tening  preparations  for  a  possible  tilt 
with  Spain  over  the  Cuban  question, 
Russia  and  Great  Britain  are  hurriedly 
mobilizing  fleets  and  setting defenses in 
order,  owing  to  the  rivalry  existing  be­
tween  them  for  the  control  of  affairs 
in 
the  Far  East.

Something  like  a  fortnight  ago,  Rus­
sia  made  a  demand  upon  the  Tsungli- 
yamen,  or  Chinese  Foreign  Office,  for 
a  practical  cession  of  Port  Arthur  and 
Talien-wan,  with  the  privilege  of  ex­
tending  the  Trans-Siberian  Railroad 
southward,  through  Manchuria,  to  Port 
Arthur.  Notwithstanding  the  opposi­
tion  of  England,  it  is  reported  that  the 
Chinese  government  has  determined  to 
yield  to  Russia’s  demands,  having  been 
thoroughly 
intimidated  by  the  Czar’s 
representatives.

indignation 

The  success  of  Russia 

in  practically 
securing  the  consent  of  China  to  her 
occupation  of  Port  Arthur  has  aroused 
popular 
in  Great  Britain. 
Lord  Salisbury  has  been  accused  of 
im­
having  been  caught  napping,  and 
mediate  and  decisive  action 
is  de­
manded.  There 
is  no  disguising  the 
fact  that  the  British  government  con­
siders  the  situation  critical,  as  several 
hurried  Cabinet  meetings  have  been 
held,  and  unusual  activity  is  reported 
from  the  various  British  naval  stations. 
Public  sentiment 
in  Great  Britain  de­
mands  that  either  Russia  be  restrained 
from  prosecuting  her  designs  in  the  Far 
East,  or  that  the  British  government  at 
once  take  steps  to  demand  for  the  Brit­
ish  Empire compensating  advantages.

The  British  government  has  an  enor­
mous  fleet  in  Chinese  waters.  Several 
first-class  battle-ships  are  now  stationed 
in  that  part  of  the  world,  and  additions 
to  the  fighting  strength  there  are  being 
constantly  made.  British  agents  have 
taken  the  precaution  to  buy  up  all  the 
available  coal  in  those  waters,  a  bit  of 
prudent  foresight  which  insures not only 
a  good  supply  of  coal  for  British  ships 
in  case  of  trouble,  but  at  the  same  time 
a  scarcity  of  coal  for  the  enemy’s  ves­
sels.

It  is  difficult  to  see  how  a  clash  be­
tween  Great  Britain  and  Russia  can  be 
avoided.  The  possession  of  an  open 
port  in  Eastern  Asia  has  long  been  the 
ambition  of  Russia,  and  she  will  risk 
much  to  secure  the  coveted  facility. 
Now  that  she  has  her  talons  on  Port 
Arthur,  it  will  be  difficult  to  either 
persuade  or  frighten  her 
into  relin­
quishing  her  hold.

Now  that  the  troubles  on  the  Indian 
frontier  have  been  practically  settled, 
Great  Britain  is  in  a  better  position  to 
cope  with  Russia.  The  British  naval 
strength 
in  the  Far  East  is  infinitely 
greater  than  that  of  Russia;  hence, 
should  Great  Britain  determine  to  for­
cibly  eject  the  Russians 
from  Port 
Arthur,  it  could be readily accomplished 
at  the  present  time.  Foi  some  unex­
plained  reason,  Lord Salisbury  seems  to 
shrink  from  openly provoking hostilities 
with  Russia.  This disinclination  is  be­
lieved  by  many  to  be  due  to  the  oppo­
sition  of  Queen  Victoria  to  a  war  dur­
ing  her  lifetme. 
It  is  doubtful,  how­
ever,  if  the  British  Cabinet  will  be  able 
the  popular  pressure, 
to  withstand 
which 
favor  of 
prompt  and  energetic  action  against 
Russia.
Japan 

is  also  to  be  reckoned  with, 
and,  unless  all  signs  are  deceptive, 
Russia  is  in  about  as  great  danger  from

is  unmistakably 

in 

that  power  as  from  Great  Britain.  The 
Japanese  power 
in  the  Far  East  is  de­
cidedly  formidable;  moreover,  the  Japs 
are 
in  possession  of  the  stronghold  of 
Wei-Hai-Wei,  which  would  be  a  for­
midable  base  of  operations  against  Port 
Arthur..  The  danger  of  a  clash  in  the 
Far  East  is  really  more  imminent  than 
the  danger  of  war  between  this  country 
and  Spain.

S U G A R C O N S U M P T IO N IN   E U R O P E
The  failure  of  the  sugar  bounty  sys­
tem  in  Europe  to  stimulate  the  produc­
tion  of  beet  sugar  at  paying  prices  has 
forced  the  growers  to 
look  about  for 
other  means  of  improving  the  condition 
of  their  industry.  The  bounties  paid 
are  paid  entirely  on  exports,  and  as  a 
heavy  tax 
levied  on  internal  con­
sumption  to  meet  the  outlay  for  boun­
ties,  the  free  movement  of  beet  sugar 
to  foreign  countries 
is  maintained  al­
most  entirely  at  the  expense  of  home 
consumption. 
improvement  of 
home  consumption  is  now  looked  to  by 
the  beet  growers  as  a  partial  remedy  for 
the  existing  depressed  state  of  the  in­
dustry.

The 

is 

According  to  the  last  number  of  the 
Louisiana  Planter,  the  Sugar  Manufac­
turers’  Association  of  Germany  is  en­
larger  home! 
deavoring  to  develop  a 
consumption  of  sugar,  and  with 
this 
purpose 
in  view,  they  have  petitioned 
the  Minister of  War  to  add  sugar  to  the 
rations  of  the  army.  For  this  purpose 
the  Association  has  placed  sufficient 
sugar  in  the  hands  of  the  army  officials 
to  conduct  certain  experiments,  with  a 
view  to  determining  the  food  qualities 
of  sugar.

The  French  beet 

growers,  always 
quick  to  adopt  any  improvement  ad­
vanced  by  their  competitors,  are  also 
considering  the  advisability  of  intro­
ducing  sugar  into  the  food  supply of  the 
French  army.  Of  course,  everything 
that  will 
improve  the  domestic  con­
sumption  of  sugar  will  improve the gen­
eral  sugar  market,  but  the  continent  of 
Europe  can  never  hope to popularize the 
consumption  of  sugar  until  the  cost  of 
the  article  to  the  masses  is  materially 
cheapened.  While  sugar 
is  selling  in 
England  and  this  country  for  less  than 
4  cents  per  pound,  it  is  selling  in  Ger­
many  and  France  for  prices  ranging 
from  7  to  9  cents.  Of  course,  it  is  out 
of  the question  to  expect  any  expansion 
of  the  industry,  as  far  as  domestic  con­
sumption 
such 
prices  as  those  prevail.

is  concerned,  while 

The  prices  prevailing 

in  Germany 
and  France  are  relatively  higher  than 
equal  figures  would  be  in  this  country, 
because  of  the  lower  ratio  of  earnings 
of  the  laboring  men  and  the  generally 
smaller  range  of 
incomes  among  the 
masses.  The  only  way  to  popularize  a 
food  product  is  to  cheapen  its  cost. 
It 
is  because  of  the  low  prices  which  have 
ruled  for  years  that  the  consumption 
in 
of  sugar  has  increased  so  materially 
this  country  and  England. 
In  the  latter 
country,  it  is  even  proposed  to  further 
improve  the  consumption  of  the  article 
by  using  it  for  cattle  feed.  The  reason 
why  sugar  is  not  consumed  more  exten­
sively 
in  Germany  and  France  is  be­
cause  its  cost  is  above  the  means  of  the 
masses  of  the  people.

G eneral  U tility   F ru it.

“ Here’s  an  order  from  a  customer 
who  wants  a  bushel  of  winesaps,  a 
bushel  of  Northern  spys,  and  a  bushel 
of  willowtwigs. ’ ’

“ All  right.  Open  that  barrel  of  Ben 
Davis  and  sort  ’em  into  the  three  kinds 
he  wants.’ ’

The  G rain  M a rk e t.

Wheat  during  the  past  week  was  in 
the  dumps.  War  talk,  fine  weather, 
fair  Northwestern  receipts  and 
large 
Argentine  shipments  were  all  bearish 
news.  The 
large  visible  decrease  and 
the  large  world’s  shipments  were  about 
all  the  bull  news  that  could  be  mustered 
up.  This  allowed  cash  wheat  to  de­
cline  fully  2c  and  new  futures  fully  4c. 
Chicago  May  held  as  firm  as  a  rock  at 
$1.04,  but  as  we  are  getting  very  near 
May,  the  play  will  soon  end.  Busy 
tongues  have  it  that  Leiter  and  Armour 
have  come  to  an  understanding  as  to 
their  respective  deals,  and  only  the 
most  venturesome  will  tackle  the  May 
deal.  We  have  to-day  9,000,000  bushels 
of  wheat  less  in  sight  than  we  had  at 
the  same  time  last  year,  and  the  price 
one  year  ago  was  80c  in  local  markets, 
against  88  cents  to-day.  Our  exports 
are 
large,  but  most  of  Jbe_wbeat  was 
bought  some  time  ago,  but  since  then 
the  Leiter  clique  have  been  making 
large  shipments.

Rye  has  been  very  steady  and  did  not 
follow  the  fluctuations  of  wheat,  owing 
to  the  large  foreign  shipments.

Corn  advanced  about  tc  per  bushel. 
While  oats  held  firm,  they  did  not  ad­
vance.

The  decrease 

in  wheat  during  the 
week  was 
1,316,000  bushels;  corn, 
6,000  bushels,  and  oats,  668,000 bushels. 
The  demand  for  flour  is  fair.  While 
the  slump 
in  wheat  would  naturally 
make  buyers  hold  off,  we  find  they  take 
flour  quite  readily,  owing  to  the  fact 
that  stocks  are  light.

Bran  and  middlings  are  in  good  de­
mand  and  the  mills  are  behind  with 
their  orders.  The  receipts  during  the 
week  were  only  fair,  being  33  cars of 
wheat  (which  is  about  the  same  as  De­
troit  received),  12  cars  of  corn  and  7 
cars  of  oats.

Mills  are  paying  88c  for  wheat.

C .  G .  A .  V o i g t .

A  woman  is  profoundly  interested 

in 
a  man  when  she  remembers  how  many 
lumps  of  sugar  he  takes  in  his  coffee.

W AN TS  COLUMN.

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

559

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

I ¡'OR SALE—I  HAVE  FOR  SALE  CHEAP  A 

complete  cigar  factory,  including  tables, 
chairs, moulds, presses, zinc lined  boxes! book­
keeper s writing  desk,  iron  safe  with  burglar 
proof chest, cigar boxes, labels  for  two  brands 
of  cigars  which  have  a  wide  reputation,  and 
everything ready  to  go  on  with  the  business. 
It is the factory formerly  known  as  the  United 
States  Cigar Co., on Lyon street, Grand  Rapids, 
Michigan. 
It must be sold  to  satisfy  creditors 
and will be sold cheap.  The factory consists of 
three large rooms and can  be  rented  for $10 per 
month, 54 Lyon street.  For particulars, address 
C  O. Smedlty, 15 and  16  New  Houseman  Bldg., 
Grand Rapids, Michigan. 
X \T ANTED  —  DRUGGISTS’  SECONDHAND 
tt  fixtures,  prescription  case,  shelves  and 
counters,  oak  preferred.  Would  exchange 
choice lots in Lansing for complete  drug  stock, 
say $5,000.  Address Chas.  Maynard,  Gagetown,
Mich._______________ '_______________ 561
ANTED—LOCATION FORA SMALL  AND 
well-assorted  new  stock  hardware.  Ad­

dress No. 564, care Michigan Tradesman.  564

i pOR  SALE—ONE  OF  THE  BEST  BA7.aT r 

stocks in Southern Michigan.  Located  in a 
good live town  with  excellent  country  round­
about  and  a  good  established  trade.  A  good 
chance  for  the  right  person. 
If  you  wish  it 
write soon to Lock Box 111, Cassopolis, Mich.  555 
r p o   EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
X  property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shoes. 
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. 
W ANTED  TO  EXCHANGE—40  ACRES  OF 
good unimproved  land,  situated  on  the 
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. 

553

528

551

558

W ANTE D -l,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich. 
555
I ¡'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  STAPLE  AND 
'  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 $75 
daily.  Located in one of  tne  liveliest  towns  in 
Michigan.  For full particulars address  No. 5\S, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

t j'OR  EXCHAEGE  FOR GROCERY  OR  MER- 

chandise  stock—Choice  section  land  near 
Jamestown,  North  Dakota.  Dakota  lands  In 
great  demand  for  farming  or  stock  raising. 
Carl Dice.  Monroe, Mich. 

cans, one 10 gallon copper tank, retinned in 1897, 

I ¡'OR  SALE—SECOND-HAND  MATHEWS’ 

soda fountain, six  syrups,  removable  glass 
1  five  foot  counter  slab  of  pink  Tennessee 
marble, six tumbler  holders.  Price  and  terms 
easy.  Wiite L. A. Phelps, Douglas, Mich.  54 »
W ANTED—RESPONSIBLE  AGEN1S  TO 
sell  the  celebrated  Buffington  Acetylene 
Gas Machine in Michigan and  Ohio.  Apply  to 
Sprou'  & McGurrin  local  agents  for Kent,  Al­
legan and Ottawa counties, or Michigan  Acety- 
lene Gas Company, Jackson, Mich. 

534

549

548

IpOR  SALE—MY  60  BBL.  STEAM  ROLLER 

mill,  modern  machinery,  everything  first- 
class.  Good house, barns,  etc.,  located  in  live 
town in Southern Michigan.  Might  take  small 
Michigan  farm  as  part  payment  or  desirable 
Grand Rapids  property,  For  full  descriptions 
and  particulars  address  Grain  Dealer,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
SODA FOUNTAIN, LARGE, ELEGANT,  FOR 
sale  cheap;  good  condition;  complete  out­
fit.  Write Crozier Bros., Grand Rapids, Mich.
535
V*7ANTED—CASH  AND  GOOD  SECURITY 
”   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
W ANTED—POSITION  IN  STORE  AFTER 
March  15.  Large  experience  in  general 
store.  Good references furnished.  Address No. 
526, care Michigan Tradesman. 
526
r|'H E   BEST  BUSINESS  CHANCE  ON  THIS 
X  PAGE—On account of the death of my hus 
band, I will sell my  stock  of  general  merchan­
dise, invoicing from  $7,000 to  $8,003.  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. 
TX»  EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
X  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  558, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
552
ANTED—A  PRACTICAL  MILL  MAN, 
with $1.000 capital, to  take  a  one-half  or 
full  interest  in  a  stave,  heading  and  planing 
mill.  3,003  contract,  with  stock  to fill it.  All 
goes.  Five years' cut  In  sight  Side  track  te 
mill.  Good reasons for selling.  Address  Stave 
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 

IpOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  DRY  GOODS,  GRO- 
ceries and shoes.  Will sell or rent building. 
Reason  for  selling,  poor  health.  Address  L. 
Schrock. Clarksville, Mich. 
493
FOB  SALE — BUILDING  AND  GENERAL 
stock;  best  farming  section  in  Michigan. 
No trades.  W  H. Pardee, Freeport, Mich.  500
W ANT  ALL  KINDS  OF  GRAIN  IN  CAB 
lots.  Name price or ask for bids.  Rhodes 
479
Co., Grain Brokers, Granger, Ind. 
I  HAVE  A PARTY WANTING GROCERY OR 
general  stock.  Must  be  a  bargain.  1  have 
buyers for any line of  merchandise.  W. H. Gil­
bert, 109 Ottawa St., Grand Rapids. 
440
WANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.. Traverse City, Mich. 
381
tilOR  EXCHANGE—TWO  FINE  IMPROVED 
X;  farms  for  stock  of  merchandise;  splendid 
location.  Address No. 73, care Michigan Trades­
m an_____________________  

533

546

73

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

339

PATENT  ATTORNEYS,  20  YEARS’  PRAC- 
tice.  Ideas  developed.  Drawings  a  spec­
ialty.  Reasonable rates.  Dennis Rogers, Grand 
554
Rapids. 
E'REE—OUR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 

ents.  Cillev  &  Allgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 

Grand Rapids. Mich.____________  
MISCELLANEOUS.

W ANTED—SITUATION  BY  FIRST-CLASS 
tinner  on  furnace,  general  job  and  tin 
work,  some  knowledge  of  plumbing;  twenty 
years’ experience, with best of references;  mar­
ried;  desires  steady  work.  ’ Address  H.  M. 
Holmes. 905 S  Clayton St., Bloomington. 111.  563 
OITUAl'lON  WANTED  BY  A  REGISTERED 
X?  pharmacist of seven years’  experience.  Ad- 
dress Lock Box 35, Lowell, Mich.________562
W ANTED  —  POSITION 
IN  GENERAL 
store by one who  speaks  German  and  has 
had years of experience and is capable of taking 
charge of a  store.  Address  No.  560,  care  Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
560
W ANTED—POSITION  IN  HARDWARE OR 
grocery and  dry  goods  store.  Large  ex­
perience  in  store  business.  References  furn­
ished if desired.  Address  No.  565,  care  Michi­
565
gan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—A REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
required.  A 
permanent  position  offered.  Address  No.  538, 
care  Michigan Tradesman. 
SITUATION WANTED-REGI8TRRED 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. 

of  experience,  references 

■ ANTED—BY  MAN  OF  NINE  YEARS’ 

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. 

530

53$

519

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CHICAGO and West Michigan R'y

Dec.  I,  1897.

Chicago.

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

*Bvery  day. 

Others week days only.

DETROIT.Grand Rapids & Western.

Nov  a t,  1897.

Detroit.

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

Saginaw, Alma and  Groonvllle.

Lv. G R 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.

Gao.  DbHavbn,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank  Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee  D i’?

(In effect January 19,1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t 6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo & N Y  .t 9:55pm
+10:10am......... Detroit  and  East..........t 5:07pm
+ 3:30pm  .Sag.,  Det., N.  Y.  &  Boston..tl2:45pm 
*10:46pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada.. .* 6:35am
til :10am........  Mixed to Durand...........13:15pm
* 7:00am —  Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....*10:15nm 
112:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:22pm
t  5:12pm —  Gd. Haven Mil. and Chi__tl0:05am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil.........................
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
♦Daily.  tExcept; Sunday.

WEST

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

G R A N D Rapids  k   Indiana  Railway

Dec.  s,  1897.

Northern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
9  Trav. C’y,Petoskey & Mack...t 7:45am t  5:15pm 
Tràv. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .t 2:15pm  t 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..................J10:50pm
Cadillac....................................t 5:25pm tll: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  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati..............................t  7:10am  t  8:25pn
Ft. Wayne...............................t 2:10pm t  2:00ptt
Cincinnati...............................* 7:00pm  * 7:25an
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 Trains.

SOINS WEST.

LvG’d  Rapids............ t7:35am  tl:00pm t5:40pn
Ar Muskegon............... 9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am  til :45am  t4:0Jprr
Ar G’d Rapids............ 9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pir
tExcept Sunday.  «Daily  ^Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

soots bast.

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

D U L U T H ,”

™ " ' *

WEST  bo u n d.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)tll:10pm  t7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..........................   9:00am  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

BAST  BOUND.

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

 

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Manufacturer's  Agent,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

Poor
E conomy

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

“Lily White” Flour

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

NOW.

Valley  City  Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Elgin System of Creameries

It w ill  pay  you to  in vestig a te  our  plans  and  v isit  our  factories,  if  you  are  co n ­
tem p latin g b u ild in g  a  C ream ery  or  C h e ese  F a c to ry .  A ll  sup p lies  furn ish ed  at 
lo w e st prices.  C orresponden ce solicited.

A  M O D E L   C R E A M E R Y   O F  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.

C o n tractors  and  B u ild e rs  o f  B u tter  and  C h e ese  F acto rie s,  M an u facturers 
and  D ealers  in  S u p p lies.  O r  w rite

R.  E.  STURGIS,  General  Manager of Western  Office, Allegan,  rtich.

P U R IT Y  A N D   STR E N G TH !

&  CO.'S

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,

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

F L E 1SCHMANN  &  CO.

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We  are  the  Only  Jobbers  of

WALL  PAPER  in  Michigan

We carry over  1,000,000 rolls  in  stock.  Our 
line is  very  complete.  Our  prices  the  low­
est.  Samples on application.

HARVEY  &  HEYSTEK  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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F L O W E R S ,  M A Y   &   M O L O N E Y ,  C ounsel

Special  Reports.

Law  and  Collections.

R ep resen ted   in  e v e ry   c ity  and  co u n ty  in  th e U n ited  S tates and  Canada.

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

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

B I C Y C L E   S U N D R I E S

One of the largest stocks in Michigan.  Prices  right.  Service  prompt. 
Write for our ’98 catalogue with dealers’ net price sheet.

A D A M S   &   H A R T ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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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 .

SACRIFICE  SALE!

PLA N T  OF  THE  *se 
LANSING  LUMBER  CO.

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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.

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We  watch  for  the  leaks  and  overweights.  O V E R W E IG H T S  ARE  T H E   RU INATION
OF  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 
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liable,  Accurate,  Systematic.

in  calculations. 

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