Volume  XV.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  II,  1898.

Number  764

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lias  begun an aggressive crusade against cheap vinegars which 
are not  up to the legal standard. 
It  will  be  well  for  the  retail 
trade  to  prepare  for  the wrath to come by putting in goods of 
recognized  purity and strength,  and  we  beg  leave  to  call  the 
attention of the trade to the fact  that

Robinson’s  Cider  Vinegar

is always up to the standard established by the Legislature and 
that it  is guaranteed not to contain any deleterious acids or any­
thing that is not  produced from the apple.  One hundred dollars 
in  cash  stands  back  of  this  guaranty.  Ask  your  jobber  for 
Robinson’s vinegar and insist on having no other.  If your job-
ber will not get  it for ■
, order direct from  the  manufacturer,

ROBINSON  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,  Benton  Harbor,  Mich.

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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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To any  person who can find any adulterations in our  Pure  Flavoring  Extracts.
For over a year our business has grown surprisingly,  with slight  effort of ours, sim­
ply upon the widening appreciation of  the superior quality  of  our  goods.  And  some of 
our older competitors are cowardly trying to misrepresent our goods when  thev have dis­
placed  their own.  Our new and larger laboratory  and  salesrooms  at  16  and  iS  S.  Ionia 
street  welcome you  Aprii 251b.

D e   b o e ,  KING  &  CO.,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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J.  A .  M U R PH Y , General Manager.

FLO W E R S,  M A Y   &   M O LO N EY, Counsel

Tie  Whip  mercantile jlpcy

Special  Reports.

Law  and  Collections.

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

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

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

who desire to give their cusióme 
V'inegar on the market,  will buv

LER O U X ’S   PU R E CIDER  VIN EGAR

“ Red  Star  Brand.’9  A  trial  order  will 
convince you of the  merits  of  these  goods, 
and a guarantee bond goes to every purchas­
er protecting him in  the sale of our vinegar.

THE  LEROUX CIDER & VINEGAR CO., Producers, Toledo, Ohio.

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids.

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

FLEISCHMANN  &  CO.

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FLY  BUTTONS 

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

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5 cents per doz. off. 

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

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It pays to push for coupons.

FOR  THE  TRADE 
30  cents  per  doz.,  in  fancy  counter  display
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boxes of 3 doz.,  coupon in box,  which equals
COUPON  PREMIUMS  For *toupons’  Rubber  Datins   stan,p>
worth 40 cents;  prints,  “ Paid,”   “ Ans’d,”
“ Rec’d,”  “ Acp’d ," “ Ent’d,”  and dates to  1903.  For 3 Coupons, Patent  Pneumatic 
Ink Bottle worth  60  cents;  pressure  into funnel  top  brings  up ink  from  center  of 
bottle;  no th:ck ink with this.  For 6 Coupons,  }( gross F ly Buttons, delivered.
TO  STATE  YOUR  TRADE  We furnish through jobber, free
samples  for  your  customers.
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We are the only  firm  doing  this;  it  increases  sales  500  per  cent.  Try it. 
If  your 
jobber don,t fill your order,  upon receipt  of price we  ship  direct,  paying  charges.

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It  pays any dealer  to  have  the  reputa­

tion of keeping pure  goods.

It  pays  any dealer to keep the Seymour 

Cracker.

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

For  this  class  of  people  the  Seymour 

Cracker is  made.

its  superior

Discriminating  housewives  recognize 

FLAVOR,  PURITY, 
DELICIOUSNESS

and will have  it.

If you,  Mr.  Dealer,  want  the  trade oi 
particular  people,  keep  the  Seymour 
Cracker. 

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know  no  competition.  Their  growth  in 
consumption  has  been  simply  marvelous, 
which  only  demonstrates  their  extremely 

.  fine  quality over and  above all others.

Our Coffees  not alone  increase  your  sales 
instantly,  but  pay you a  profit.
Give them  a thirty day  trial  now.  Don’t 
wait—now is  the  opportune  time.

T h e   J .   M .  B o u r  Co.,

113-115-117  Ontario  St.,  Toledo,  Ohio.
129  Jefferson  Avenue,  Detroit, Mich.

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Office and Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

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ONE  OF  THE  MOST  PROFITABLE  THINGS  YOU  SELL.

Popular aversion to flies  is growing, and 
Fly  Destroyers are coming  into greater use.
Of all  means for their  destruction 
Tanglefoot is the most practical 
and the best on account of its greater 
efficacy, cleanliness, endurance and cheapness. 
This is why the sale of Tanglefoot increases yearly.

To  increase your sales of Tanglefoot 
let  your customers see  it in actual  use 
in your store,  in the  Holder;
They will follow your example.
Every customer to whom you sell a box of 
Tanglefoot will  remember it with pleasure 
every day of the summer.

PRICE,  30  CENTS  A   BOX.—$2.55  A  CASE.

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A  N EEDLESS  JOURNEY.

The  anxiety  which  has  followed  the 
in  her  long  voyage 
battleship"Oregon 
around  the  Horn  has  strengthened  the 
conviction  that  the 
journey  was  one 
which  might  have  been  avoided  if  this 
country  had  done  what  it  ought  to  have 
done  years  ago—built  the  Nicaragua 
Canal.  The  war  with  Spain,  should 
it 
accomplish  nothing  else,  has  demon­
strated  that,  from  a  naval  standpoint, 
the  canal 
is  a  necessity,  and  the  com­
mercial  advantages  resulting  from  the 
undertaking  only  increase  this.

Had  the  nation  been  engaged  in  war 
with  a  first-class  power,  the  trip  of  the 
Oregon  would  have  been  hazardous  in 
the  extreme.  As  it  is,  it  was  with  many 
misgivings  that  the  nation  followed  the 
daily  progress  of  the  vessel  and  was 
prepared  for  the  worst 
in  regard  to 
her;  and,  now  that  all  fears  are  at  rest, 
it  becomes  a  matter  of  much  concern 
whether  the  risk  should  be  repeated. 
With  an  extensive  seacoast  on  both 
sides  of  South  America,  with  the  pros­
pects  before  us  that  other complications 
may  make  such  journeys  a  necessity, 
the  transfer  of  a  squadron  instead  of  a 
single  battleship  may  be  desirable  at  a 
time  when  “ doubling”   the  cape can not 
be  taken  into  consideration. 
In  such  a 
condition  of  things  the  canal  would 
meet  the  demands  required,  as  it  would 
to-day  were  it  in  existence.

This,  more  than  anything  else,  leads 
tq  the  assertion  that  the  canal  should 
belong  to  the  Government  of the  United 
States.  Any  other  condition  would  lead 
to  intervention  from  some  quarter—an 
idea  not  to  be  thought  of. 
It  should  be 
built,  owned  and  controlled  only  by  this 
Government,  to  be  of  any  advantage  in 
war,  otherwise,  like  the  Suez  Canal,  it 
would  be  closed  to  combatants  in  war­
time  when  it  was  needed  most.

It 

To  the  business  question,  “ Will 

it 
pay?”   it  may  be  stated  that, 
if  the 
experience  furnished  by  the  Suez  Canal 
is  worth  anything,  the  canal  at  Nica­
ragua  will  be  found  a  paying 
invest­
ment.  The  Suez  Canal  cost $115,000, - 
000. 
is  capitalized  at  §90,500,000. 
It  paid a net profit, in  1892, of §8,333,333. 
Its  shares  are  quoted  to-day  §538.58  for 
§100  par  value,  a  statement  which 
answers  the  question  fairly  and squarely 
and  which  is  suggestive  that  the authors 
of  the  bill  before  the  last  Congress,  who 
asked  the  Government  to  pay  most  of 
the  cost  and 
leave  the  control  of  the 
canal  in  the  hands  of  a  private  corpora­
tion,  had  a  fair  idea  of  what  they  were 
about  and  that 
it  would  prove  a  good 
thing.

The  conclusion  of  the  whole  matter 
is  that  the  Government  should build and 
control  the  canal. 
It  should  be  begun 
at  once.  When  finished,  it  will  be  a 
paying  investment  in times of peace and 
in  wartime  the  country  will  realize 
its 
full  stragetic  value.

Woman’s  Influence  in  the  World.
A  recent  New  York  paper  has  an  edi­
torial  devoted  to  the  subject  of  men 
who  have  become  famous  or  prominent 
on  account  of  their  marriage  or associa­
tion  with  noted  women,  and  adduces a

number of  modern  instances  in  support 
of  its  theory.

It  occurs  to  us  that  the  writer  should 
have  begun  at  the  beginning, 
if  he 
wanted  to  make  an  exhaustive  article 
on  the  subject.  There’s  old  man  Adam, 
for  example ;  where  would he  have  been 
—and where  would  the  rest  of  us be, per­
haps—-if  Eve  had  not  made  a  sneak  on 
the  apple  orchard?  We  can  not,  it  is 
true,  tell  what  might  have  been,  but  if 
there  had  been  no  Eve,  there  would 
have  been  no  apple  eating,  and,  for  all 
we  know,  the  pair  of  them  might  have 
been  in  the  garden  yet  an'd  none  of  the 
rest  of  us  have  been  heard  of.

Later  on  we  find  Jacob’s  mother play­
ing  what  modern  slang  writers  would 
call  “ a  gum  game’ ’  on  old  father Isaac, 
by  which  young  and  smooth-skinned 
Jacob  counted  all  the  points 
in  the 
game  and 
left  poor  hairy  Esau  out  in 
the  cold.  Of  course,  it  is  all  specula­
tion,  but  none  the  less  we  have  often 
wondered  how  things  would  have turned 
out 
if  Esau  had  caught  onto  the  little 
game  and  broken  up  the  combination. 
Esau was  the  older  and  was  entitled  to 
all  the honors  and  privileges  belonging 
to  an  elder  son. 
It  is  natural  to  sup­
pose  that  if  Esau  had  gotten  bis  rights 
there  would  have  been  no  twelve  sons of 
Jacob  to  found  a  Jewish  nation  and  no 
Jewish  nation  to  be  founded.  That  is 
human  reasoning.

On  the  same  line  is  the  case  of Moses 
and  the  daughter  of  Pharaoh. 
It  is 
curious  to  speculate  the  probable  course 
of  events  if  the  dusky  princess  hadn’t 
rambled  down  to  the  banks  of  old  Nilus 
just  at  the  proper  time. 
If  the  little 
Hebrew  kid  had  escaped  being snapped 
up  by  an  unappreciative  crocodile,  the 
chances  are  that  some lowborn Egyptian 
would  have 
found  him  and  either 
slammed  him  against  a  stone  or  raised 
him  as  a  disciple  of  some  one  of  the 
thousand  or  more  deities  of  their  re­
ligion.  There,  to  follow  merely  human 
reasoning,  would  have  been  another 
in  the  succession  of  events,  and 
break 
the  Hebrews 
left  to  labor  as  slaves  of 
the  Pharaohs  fof all  time  to  come.

Coming  further  down  the 
lion-tearing  and 

line,  we 
jawbone- 
reach  the 
wielding  Samson,  whose  exploits  form 
one  of  the  most  stirring  portions  of 
Bible  history. 
If  Delilah  had  not  cor 
railed  him  and  practiced  the  barber’s 
art  on  his  luxuriant  hair,  be  might  have 
gone  on  killing  Philistines  and  wild 
animals  and  tying  foxes’  tails  together 
until  be  died  of  old  age,  like  other 
people;  but  when  he  suffered  himself to 
be  deluded  by  a  woman,  as  many  an­
other  man  has  done,  he  laid  the  foun­
dation 
for  a  tragic  ending  to  bis  al­
ready  stormy  life  and played the dickens 
with  some of  the  best  people  among  the 
Philistines.

And  so  we  might  follow  sacred  and 
profane  history,  from  the beginning  of 
time,  and  find  that  a  woman  has  man­
aged  to  have  more  or  less  influence  on 
the  lives  and  histories  of  prominent 
men  of  all  ages  and  all  countries. 
It’s 
a  way  they  have.

Number  764

Bananas  for  Typhoid Patients.

into  the  stomach, 

After a  long  experience  with  typhoid 
patients,  Dr.  Ussery,  of  St.  Louis, 
maintains  that  the  best  food  for  them  is 
the  banana.  He  explains  by  stating 
that 
in  this  disea'e  the  lining  mem­
brane  of  the  small  intestines  becomes 
intensely  inflamed  and  engorged,  even­
tually  begining  to  slough  away  in spots, 
leaving  well-defined  ulcers,  at  which 
places  the  intestinal  walls  beccme  dan­
gerously  thin.  Now,  a  solid  food,  if 
is 
taken 
likely  to 
produce  perforation  of  the 
intestines, 
dire  results  naturally  following;  and 
this  being  the  case,  solid  foods,  or 
those  containing  a  large  amount  of 
in- 
nutritious  substances,  are  to  be  avoided 
as  dangerous.  But  the  banana,  although 
it  may  be  classed  as  a  solid  food,  con­
taining  as 
it  does  some  95  per  cent, 
nutrition,  does  not  possess  sufficient 
waste  to 
irritate  the  sore  spots;  nearly 
the  whole  amount  taken  into  the  stom­
ach 
is  absorbed,  giving  the  patient 
more  strength  than  can  be  obtained 
from  other  foods.

A  Berlin  paper  has  ascertained 

that 
intoxication  by  means  of  ether  has  be­
come  almost  epidemic  in  Lithuania, 
owing  to  the  fact  that  ether  is  cheaper 
than  brandy  and  less  of  it  is  needed  to 
get  drunk  on.  Many 
families  have 
been  ruined  by  the  habit,  which  has 
also  found  victims  even  among  school 
children.

Ptomaines 

in  shad  roe,  ice  cream, 
oysters  and  pickled  salmon  killed  four 
in  four  days  in  New  York  re­
persons 
cently. 
In  Kansas  City  ptomaines  in 
milk  poisoned  a  family. 
It  is astonish­
ing  how  deadly  these  noxious  bacilli 
become  as  soon  as  they  are  discovered.

The  government  of  Hayti  has decided 
to  tax  American  merchants  and  their 
employes  at  the  same  rate  as  the  na­
tives.  For  the  last  twenty  years  the  tax 
on  foreigners  has  been  double  that  on 
natives.  Americans  are  also  to  have 
the  same  trade  and  labor  privileges.

It  is  almost  certain  now  that  when 
American  snobs  go  abroad  to  spend 
their  money,  those  who  are  not  aping 
the  English  can  be  proud  of 
their 
nation  at home.

The  man  who 

is  really  overworked 
never  seems  to  know  it. 
It  is-the  fussy 
fellow  who  does  not  know  what  work 
is  who  thinks  he  is  doing  too  much.

Now  everybody  who  wants  to be some­
body  remembers  having  known  Dewey 
before  the  young  man  became  famous.

It 

is  said  fifteen  admirals  of  Spain 
are  ready  to  declare  their  allegiance  to 
Don  Carlos.  That  ought  to  kill  him.

You  can  bet  your  life  Portugal  is  now 
willing  to  be  neutral.  Neutrality  is  ever 
so  much  better  than  annihilation.

France  advises  Spain  to  throw  up  the 
sponge.  Very  soon  the  poor  thing  may 
have  no  sponge  to  throw  up.

The  cheerful  giver  is  one  who  would 
if  he  had  anything  at  all  to

give  more 
give.

Charity  begins  at  home;  but  much  of 

it  has  gone  to  Cuba.

A  woman  with  her  hat  on  straight  is 

out of  style  in  these  crooked  days.

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The  Dry  Goods  Market.

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competitors, 

Staple  Cottons—Another  advance  of 
about  5  per  cent,  has been  registered  by 
ducks,  and  prices  of  these  goods  are 
15  to  20  per  cent,  above  those  of 
now 
two  weeks  ago.  Diversion  of 
looms 
and  spindles  from  regular  to  Govern­
ment  goods 
is  the  principal  cause  of 
this  advance,  but  the  demand  from  reg­
ular  buyers  has  been  considerably  stim­
ulated  thereby.  Converters  have  shown 
more  interest  in  heavy  brown  drills  and 
sheetings  during  the  week,  and  several 
leading  mills  are  so  well  ordered  that 
inde­
agents  can  afford  to  adopt  a  very 
pendent  attitude  toward  buyers. 
If  an 
advance  did  not  mean  the  holding  of an 
umbrella 
it  would 
have  been  made  before  this.  Low  grade 
brown  goods  of  light  weight  have  fared 
a 
little  better  during  the  week  under 
review,  but  stocks  of  most  varieties  are 
too  large  to  allow  one  week of  fair  busi­
ness  to  appreciably  strengthen  the  mar­
Bleached  cottons  exhibit  very 
ket. 
little 
improvement,  although  the  cut­
ting  up  trade  has  shown  a  little  more 
interest  in  shirtings,  and  fine  cambrics 
and  muslins.  This  department  of  the 
market  is  almost  as  badly 
in  need  of 
a  curtailment  of  production  as  is  the 
print  cloth  division.  Wide  sheetings 
are extremely  slow and  in  very  lull  sup­
ply;  jobbers,  however,  have  made  a 
considerable  hole 
in  stocks  of  these 
goods,  and  must  soon  go  into  the  mar­
ket  to  replenish.  Colored  goods of heavy 
weight  have  been  selling  more  freely, 
and  can  not  be  had  at  concessions. 
Fancy  ducks,  denims  and  tickings have 
moved  with  added  freedom,  and the cut­
ting  up  trade  has  been  a  freer  buyer  of 
stripes,  checks,  denims  and  plaids. 
Low  grade  colored  goods  are  less  irreg­
ular  in  price  than  two  weeks  ago,  as  a 
result  ot  an  improved  demand.

Prints—Very 

little  has  been  accom­
plished  recently 
in  seasonable  prints. 
Some  leading  lines  are  well  cleaned  up, 
but  there  are 
large  stocks  of  wash 
goods,  printed  lappets,  lawns,  organdies 
and  similar  thin  goods  on  the  market. 
Unless  bright  warm  weather  is  soon  ex­
perienced  large  lots  will  be  carried  for­
ward  to  next  season.  These goods  were 
made  from  high  priced  cloths,  and  the 
loss  to  printers  must  be  considerable.

for 

Hosiery  -The  demand 

fancies 
shows  some decrease,  as the  trade  seems 
to  have  supplied  its  wants  to a  large ex­
tent.  First  class  styles 
in  good  quali­
ties,  however,  are  still  in  demand,  and 
theie  seems  to  be  very  little  probability 
of  any  overloading  of  this  class  of 
goods.  The  goods  that  are  not  selling 
are  a  certain  class  of  fancies  put  to­
gether  by  makers  who  have neither taste 
nor  knowledge  of  the  requirements  of 
the  trade.  The  result  is  that  patterns 
are  seen  in  many  selections  which  are 
simply  grotesque  in  their  combinations 
of  colors  and  an  outrage  on  good  taste. 
Buyers  will  do  well  to  carefully  avoid 
such  goods,  as  certain  loss  will  be 
in­
curred  by  them.

Underwear—Among  the  jobbers  there 
has  been  some  complaint  of  dulness 
in 
spring  and  summer  weights,  which  is 
no  doubt 
justified,  as  the  weather  has 
been  unfavorable  to  that  class  of  goods.
It  is  certain,  however,  that  any  sort  of  a 
demand  that  springs  up  will  show  that 
the  market  is  very  poorly  supplied  with 
spring  weights,  and  is  likely  to  be  bare 
for  the  balance  of  the  season.

Carpets---- The  manufacturers  are

close-mouthed  to  a  man  regarding  the |

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future.  As  yet  they  are  full  of  alarm 
and  do  not  propose  to make goods ahead 
of  demand,  as  they  can  not  get  away 
from  the  present  prices  of  wool  during 
the  present  administration,  as  they  ex­
pect  that  the  tariff  will  restrict  importa­
tions  and  materially 
increase  prices. 
What  is  needed  now  is  to  settle  down  to 
the  actual  conditions  that  confront man­
ufacturers.  Positive  prices  for  foreign 
wool  have  come  to  stay  for  the  next  few 
is  believed,  and  then  manu­
years,  it 
facturers  will  be  enabled  to 
form  a 
basis  of  calculation.  They are  not  eager 
to  take  orders  for carpets in any amount, 
unless  they  see  a  chance  to  make  some 
profit.

Blankets—There  has  been  an  added 
interest  during  the  past  two  weeks  in 
the  blanket  market,  as 
in  the  woolen, 
on  account  of  the  requests  for  bids  from 
the  Government.  The  last  request  has 
been  for  specifications  for  125,000  gray 
woolen  army  blankets.  Besides  this, 
however,  the  medical  departments  have 
asked  how  soon  certain  quantities  of 
finer  white  blankets  could  be  supplied 
in  case  of  necessity.  The  effect  of  these 
requests  has  been  felt 
in  the  general 
tone  of  the  market.  Buyers,  who  have 
up  to  now  withheld  their  orders,  have 
in  several  cases  come 
forward,  and 
seemed  more  or  less  anxious  to  know 
about  deliveries,  feeling  that  the  mills 
that  secure  the  Government  contracts 
will  not  care  to  bother  with  smaller 
orders,  unless  they  have  already  ac­
cepted  them.  The  call  for  bids  also 
shows  another  thing,  and  that  is  that 
the  Government  has  not  the 
large 
supplies  on  hand  of  either  blankets  or 
clothing  woolens  that  it  was  thought  to 
have.

Bunting—The  patriotism  of  the  coun­
try,  which  never  before  was  more 
marked,  is  noticeable  in  the  display  of 
the  National  emblem, not only from  pub­
lic  buildings,  banks 
and  business 
houses,  but  also  from  the  homes  of  the 
people,  and  this  has  caused  a  very large 
number  to  engage  in  supplying  this  de­
mand,  which  has  given  employment  to 
a  large  number  of  people,  and  prices  of 
bunting  have  advanced  during  the  past 
week  over  10  cents  per yard.  The  “ Star 
Spangled  Banner”  
floating  every­
where,  and  will  continue  to  while  the 
war  lasts.

is 

Drill  Your  Clerks.

Drill  your  clerks.  Make  them  all 
stand  “ eyes  front.”   Don’t  allow  them 
to  haDg  around  the  store  entrance  in 
bunches  of  threes  and  fours. 
If  they 
don’t  actually  prevent  people from pass­
ing  into  your  store,  the  sight  of  such  a 
group  may  deter  some  from  making  the 
attempt.

together 

Salespeople,  when  not  engaged  with  a 
customer,  should  always  be  on  the  look­
out  for  one.  For  this  reason  they  should 
never  stand  with  their  backs  to  the 
counter.  They  should  not  gossip  with 
heads 
though  plotting 
against  the  management  or  against  the 
government. 
If  engaged  in  stock work, 
they  should  still  keep  an  eye  open  for 
the  main  chance—the  chance  to  make  a 
sale.
motto.

“ Ever  on  the  alert”   should  be  the 

Don’t  give  customers  who  come  to 
your  store  on  rainy  days  the  impression 
that  you  wish  they  had  stayed  at  home, 
as  you  are  changing  around  stock  and 
don’t  wish  to  be  interrupted.  The  very 
best  trade  often  go  shopping  on  these 
days,  because  they  feel  they  can  take 
more  time  and  receive  better  attention 
from  salespeople  than  on  busy  days.

as 

J.  P.  Platte,  58  Monroe  street,  Grand 
Rapids,  manufacturer  and  wholesaler 
umbrellas  and  parasols.  Also covers and 
repairs  them.  Orders  are  filled  the  same 
day  as  received.

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New  goods

at

Right  prices.

Voigt,

Herpolsheimer

&  Co.,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,

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Also  new  arrivals  in  summer  Wash  Goods. 
Organdy  from  5c  to  20c.  Dimity from 4 ^ c to 
tie.  Lawns,  Lappetts,  Ducks,  White  Goods, 
Percales  and  new  plaid  cotton  Dress  Goods. 
Full  standard  prints,  fancies,  blues,  madders 
and  staples,  4c.  New 
lines  of  Belts,  Belt 
Buckles,  Belt  Pins.  Write for samples.

P. Steketee $ Sons, Jobbers,

Grand Rapids.

The  Gem union  suit

is  the  only  combination  suit  in 
the  market  that  has  given  per­
fect satisfaction.  Being double 
breasted,  and  elastic  in  every 
portion,  it  affords  comfort  and 
convenience  to  wearer  that  are 
not obtained  in any other make.
We  are  the  sole  manufacturers 
and  patentees  and are prepared 
to  supply  the  trade with a great 
variety  of  qualities  and  sizes.
Special  attention  given to  mail  orders.

GlOfifi  Knilling Works,  Grand Rapids.

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3

The  Tendency  in  Shawls.

From the American  Wool and  Cotton  Reporter.
The  caprice  of  fashion,  which  regu­
lates  to  a  large  extent  the  demand  for 
textiles  for  women’s  wear,  has  not  as 
yet  favored  the  market  for  shawls.  To 
he  sure,  golf  capes,  the  next  thing  to 
in  vogue,  and 
shawls,  are  very  much 
shawl  manufacturers  have 
felt  the 
is  no  fashion  as  yet 
effects,  hut  there 
in  shawls.  And  yet  the  orders  this  sea­
in­
son  show—in  most 
for  attractive, 
creased  request,  and 
happy  styles  agents  have  succeeded 
in 
obtaining  better  prices.

instances—an 

In  beavers  woven  with  plain  centers 
from  the  Northwest  and 
the  demand 
West  has  been  excellent,  but  from  the 
Southwest  the  request  has been  more  for 
longs, squares and fancies,  which—where 
the  styles  have  been  right—have  com­
manded  fully  15  per  cent,  advance  over 
last  season’s  prices.  Agents  inform  us 
that  the  trade  this  year  are  disposed  to 
buy  heavyweight  goods,  ranging,  for 
beavers,  as  high  as  48  ounces,  and  for 
rugs  as  high  as  70  ounces in plain, quiet 
effects.

So  far  as 

foreign  shawls  are  con­
cerned,  the  tariff  is  almost  entirely  pro­
hibitory,  60  per  cent,  ad  valorem,  and 
a  pound  duty  of  45  cents,  shutting  out 
imported  goods.  The protection  ranges 
from  no  to  112  per  cent,  to  land  these 
goods,  and  therefore—except  for  rare 
novelties—no  business  can  be  done.

Every  lady  in  the  land,  if  she  desires 
to  be 
in  style,  must  now  own  a  golf 
cape.  They  are  quite  the  proper thing. 
The  colors  run 
from  plaids  reversed 
to  plain,  the  goods  weighing  from  50  to 
70 ounces.

The  shawl 

is  a  sensible,  convenient 
and  economic  garment,  and  in  cases  of 
illness  and  emergencies  is  almost indis­
pensable.

His  ’Rithmetic  Lesson.

“ This  is  a  straight story, ”  said a gro­
cery  clerk,  whose  veracity  has  never 
been  impeached. 
“ It  happened  in  our 
store.  A  little  boy  came  into our  store 
on  Monday,  and  waited  for  some  one  to 
notice  him.  He  carried  a  sheet of writ­
ing  paper 
in  his  hand,  at  which  he 
glanced  from  time  to  time.  One  of  the 
idle  clerks  came  to  him  finally,  and  the 
boy,  reading  from  his paper,  announced 
in  a  sing-song  voice:  ‘ My mother wants 
ten  pounds  of  rice,  fifteen  pounds  of 
sugar,  twelve  pounds  of  oatmeal,  twenty 
pounds  of—’ 
interrupted 
the  clerk.
“ But  the  boy  insisted  on  calling  off 
the  aiticles  himself.  Two  other  clerks 
were  pressed  into  service,  and  the  three 
men  proceeded  to  do  up  the  various 
packages  as  the  boy  called  them  off. 
He  wanted  all  kinds  of  things,  and  be 
asked  the  price  of  each  article  as  they 
went  along,  making  a  note  of  it  on  bis 
paper.  The  clerks  had  the  counter 
stacked  with  packages  when  the  boy 
wound  up  with  ‘ eighteen  pounds  of 
flour. ’  One  cf  the  clerks  called  out  the 
price,  and  the  boy continued,  ‘ And  how 
much  does  my  mother  have  to  pay  for 
her groceries?’

‘ Hold  on!’ 

“ One  cf  the  clerks  counted  up  the 
total  and  announced  it  as  $18.73.  The 
boy  made  a  note  of  it  and  started out.

“   ‘ Come  back  here!  Where  are  you 

going?’  cried  the  clerks  in  chorus.

“   ' Why, ’  said  the  boy,  as  he m «de for 
the  door,  ‘ that’s  jest  me  ’rithmetic  les­
son  fur  Monday. 
I  haveter  know  it,  er 
I’ll  git  licked.’  ’ ’

Took  the  Conceit  Out  of  Him.
A  drummer  tells  a  pretty  good  story 
concerning  a  brother  drummer  who 
in 
his  early  traveling  days  was  overbur­
dened  with  a  deplorable  amount  of 
self-importance.  He  was  one  of  those 
young  men  who  entertain  a  fixed  idea 
that  the  entire  business  community  has 
its  eye  riveted  admiringly  on  them. 
They  are  supremely  convinced  that  the 
business  world  could  not  exist  very long 
without  their  assistance,  and  that  the 
establishment  which  they  honor  by their 
services 
is  so  widely  k- own  and  ap­
preciated  that  a  general  feeling  of  in­
tense  interest  is  created  whenever  men­
tion 
is  made  of  anything  or anybody 
connected therewith.  There are plenty of

these  youths  around  to-day,  but  they get 
the  conceit  taken  out  of  them  sooner  or 
later.

This  particular  drummer had occasion 
one  day  to  call  on  a  large  hotfse,  the 
proprietor  of  which  was  an  exceedingly 
busy  man,  a  man  always  rushed  with 
work  and  who  had  very  little  time  to 
spare  to  callers.  At  the  moment  the 
drummer  made  his  call  the  merchant 
was  busily  dictating  a  letter,  and  his 
visitor  advanced  to  the  desk  and  laid 
down  his  business  card.  The  merchant 
continued  his  dictation  without  looking 
up.  The  drummer  was  a  little  discon­
certed,  and  waited  about  two minutes  to 
receive  the  hearty  and  effusive  welcome 
which  he  was  sure  awaited  him.  Still 
the  merchant  went  on  with  his  work. 
Presently  the  drummer  again  assumed 
the  initiative. 
In  a  pompous  voice  he 
remarked :

“ Ahem!  My  name  is  Brown,  and  I 
represent  the  house  of  Smith  &  Smith, 
Chicago. ”

“ A h !”   said  the  merchant,  “ take  a 
chair,”   and  he  went  on  with  his  dicta­
tion.

“ Excuse  m e,”   said  the  drummer, 
now  thoroughly  on  his  dignity,  “ I  am 
from  Smith  &  Smith,  the great  jobbers, 
ye  know. ’ ’
“ Indeed!”   said  the  merchant,  with­
out  looking  at  him,  “ take  two  chairs.”
That  settled 
the  drummer,  and  he 

I  have  found 

walked  out.
Advantages  of  Buying  of Few Houses.
it  the  custom  of  many 
retail  dealers  to  buy  of  several  houses 
in  the  same  line  of  trade.  When  a  deal­
is  compelled  to  consult  with  the 
er 
wholesale  merchant  because  of  his 
in­
ability  to  meet  his  obligations  and  the 
absolute  necessity  of  extension  of  time, 
I  have  found  him  indebted  to  so  many 
houses  that  it  was  almost  impossible  to 
obtain  an  extension  for  him.  Many  of 
the  smaller  creditors,  knowing  that  they 
have  little  at  stake,  would 
insist  upon 
being  paid,  and  would  refuse  to  grant 
an  extension.  The  aggregate  of  the 
indebtedness  represented by these small­
er  creditors  would  be  sufficient  to  pre­
clude  the  possibility  of  securing  the 
desired  extension.  I  am  sure,  therefore, 
that  the  retail  dealer  will  buy  to  better 
advantage  and  have  his  account 
in 
much  better  shape 
if  he  confines  his 
purchases  to  as  few  houses  as  possible, 
consistent  with  the  need  of  sufficient 
variety  in  his  stock'" to  meet  the require­
ments  of  his  trade.

One  of  the  most  unwise  and  unjust 
acts  which  a  dealer  can  perform  is  to 
attempt  to  transfer  his  trade  to  another 
house  while  behind 
in  his  payments. 
The  act  becomes  known  very  speedily 
and  causes  collections  to  be  vigorously 
crowded.

Be  loyal  to  those  who  have granted 
you  credit.  Do  not  transfer  trade  when 
behind 
in  payments.  Wait  until  you 
have  nothing  past  due,  then  place  your 
orders  with  the  firm  offering the best op­
portunities. ”  

W.  H.  P r e s t o n .

MUSKEGON
SUNDAY
TRAINS

50  CENTS 
ROUND 
TRIP.

moving.

G.  R.  &  I.  trains  are now running be­
tween  Grand  Rapids  and  Muskegon 
every  Sunday.  Leave  Union  Station  9 
a.  m.,  returning,  leave  Muskegon  6:35 
p.  m.  An  inexpensive  Sunday  outing. 

Further  Experiments  in  Stomach  Re­

Since  the  publication  of  Dr.  Schlat­
ter’s  case  of  total  exsection  of  the  stom­
ach,  two  operations  of  the  sort  have 
been  undertaken  in  this  country—one  in 
St.  Louis,  and  the other  in  Milwaukee. 
In  each  instance  the  patient  died  a  few 
hours  after  the  completion  of  the  oper­
ation.

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

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All grades cut at wholesale. 

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You  Carry  Only  Samples 

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

For One  Dollar

We will  send you a book of Carpet  Sam-  i 
pies  containing  about  50  patterns—size 
j 
inches.  These  samples  are  cut  •; 
9x18 
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from the roll, so you can  guarantee every 
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carpet as represented—in style, color and 
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quality.  No  picture  scheme  or  Misrep- 
resentation.  Every  sample  is  finished, 
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numbered and quality specified on ticket,  jj 
so you can  make no  mistake when order-  i 
ing.  We also make  up  books  as  above,  •' 
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For  Three  Dollars 
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m   the goods per yard.  We have the  best-selling  goods  on  earth.  Don't  [ 
ffl|  wait, order samples at once;  it will be to  your  interest  and we want  you  > 
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to represent  us. 

If you 

HENRY  NOEE  &  CO.,

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Complete price list and telegraph code will be sent with samples.

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AN OPPORTUNITYFOR  MEN  WHO

A R E   N O T  LA ZY
i now canvassing with our line of samples, earning from $50 
We want 4,000 more active, reliable men to take the  places

4,000 agents art 
to $200 per month, 
not yet filled.
Many concerns advertise themselves as “ tailors to  the  trade,”   but 
the  o rig in al and on ly  manufacturers on a  la rg e   scale  of  “ ready-to 
clothing exclusively for con sum ers.  We don’t wholesale!  We don’t 
There is but  one  small  profit  between  the  first  cost  of  our  garments  and  the 
men and  boys who  wear  them.  We  run  our  own  plant  ana  the  samples  we 
send out are cut from the cloths we make up in our factory.  We cut suits a thou - 
sand at a time.  Hence the low prices we offer.  These goods bear the trade mark,

W H ITE  H O R SE   B R A N D .

furnished  free  to  our  agents.  Do 
you not th
friends and neighbors and secure
their orders for clothing?  The workmanship and trimmings are the very best on every garmen 

A  superb outfit and  advertising  matter 
vith all these advantages you could interest yc

M en’s Su its $ 1  to  $ 15. 
We also operate one of the largest Custom  Departments where garments are a c tu a lly  ct 

B o y s ’ Suits S 3 to $ 9 .  M en's T rou sers 75 c to # 4. 

and made-to-measure by the most skillful workmen.  The trade mark for this department is

W H ITE  C IT Y   BR A N D .

We furnish our agents with a fine line of samples  and  all  necessary  blanks  from  this  dc 
partment  without charge.  The priced for suits are $12  to  $25.  With  the  two  outfits  you  ca 
meet the taste and purse of every man and boy in your community.  We pay our agents  a  lit 
eral commission.  Don’t miss this chance.  'W rite for particulars to Dept.  G.  II.

W H ITE  C IT Y   T A IL O R S ,  2 2 2 - 2 2 6   ADAMS  S T R E E T ,  CHICAGO.

^THE  BOYS  AT  ISLAND  LAK b ]

Have  had  a  foretaste  of  war  during  the  past  ten  days 
and many of them have yearned for a place at the family 
table and a chance to partake  of  some  of  mother’s  bis­
cuits, made  from

QUEEN  FLAKE  BAKING  POWDER

which  is the favoiite  brand  with  thousands  of  Michigan 
housewives and  is used  and  recommended  by  hundreds 
of cooks and- chefs. 
If you  do  not  carry  these  goods in 
stock, you are making  a  serious  mistake,  both  from  the 
standpoint of your customers’ health and your own  profit 
account.  Manufactured only by

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER

LANSING,  MICH.

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Around  the  State
Movements  of  Merchants.

Honor—D.  H.  Barr  has purchased the 

meat  market  of  A.  E.  Paradise.

Ishpeming—F.  C.  Glocke,  wholesale 
confectioner,  has  sold  out  to  John  Mug- 
fur.

Jackson—McGraw  &  Crone  succeed 
John  E.  McGraw  in  the  hardware  busi­
ness.

Battle  Creek—Landes  &  Co.  have 
opened  a  grocery  store  at  215 West Main 
street.

Marquette — F.  C.  Glocke,  cigar  and 
confectionery  dealer,  has  removed  to 
Calumet.

Benton  Harbor—J.  W.  Lundy  &  Co. 
have  sold  their  stock  of  groceries  to 
Adam  Miller.

Kalkaska—Stanton Swaverly and  Ern­
est  Sherwood  have  engaged  in  the  meat 
market  business.

St.  Charles—Will  Altenburg, 

of 
Ithaca,  has  established  a  jewelry  busi­
ness  at  this  place.

Big  Rapids—E.  G.  Hopkins  has  pur­
chased  the  Peters  Kandy  Kitchen  and 
will  continue  the  business.

Traverse  City—G.  B.  Schiappacasse, 
of  Grand  Rapids,  has  opened  a  fruit 
and  confectionery  store  here.

Alger—Jos.  Fournier,  who  was  for­
merly  engaged  in  general  trade  at  this 
place,  has  removed  to  Colfax.

of 

Lexington, 

Brown  City—H.  McNair  has  taken 
Fred  Kerslake, 
into 
partnerhsip  in  his  mercantile  business.
Marysville—Jos.  Williams,  who  con­
ducts  a  grocery  and  meat  business  here 
and  at  St.  Clair,  has  removed  to  the 
Jatter  place.

Owosso—J.  G.  Davison,  formerly  en­
gaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  this 
place,  has  purchased a stock of groceries 
at  Williamston.

Lansing—Hodge  &  Hoagland  have 
discontinued  their  wholesale  fruit  busi­
ness  at  Battle  Creek  and  engaged  in  the 
same 
112  Michigan 
avenue.

line  of  trade  at 

Ferry—The  report  that  P.  F.  Ernst 
has  sold  his  drug  stock  to  J.  E.  Con­
verse 
is  the 
case,  Mr.  Converse  having  sold  his 
stock  to  Mr.  Ernst.

is  untrue.  The  reverse 

Hancock—E.  M.  Lieblein  is  moving 
his  wholesale  grocery  stock  into  his new 
three-story  and  basement  brick  block, 
which  is  one  of  the  finest  structures 
in 
the  copper  country.

Ann  Arbor—Edward  Duffy,  who  has 
in  the 
conducted  the  grocery  business 
Duffy  block 
last  thirty-seven 
years,  has  retired  from  active  business 
on  account  of  ill  health.

for  the 

Wayland—W.  H.  Bechtel,  who recent­
ly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at 
this  place,  has  formed  a  copartnership 
with  A.  E.  Butterfield,  of  Paw  Paw. 
The  style  of  the  firm  will  be  Bechtel  & 
Butterfield.

trade 

Fremont—The  Indicator 

thus  notes 
the  tendency  of 
in  Newaygo 
county:  DeWitt  Bros,  are  making  ar­
rangements  to  start  a  general  store  at 
Stumpy  Corners.  This  region  has  evi­
dently  adopted  the  down-South  idea  of 
having  a  store  at  most  every 
important 
cross-roads  and  on  some roads that don’t 
cross.  This  being  a  “ tendency  of  the 
the  question  will  naturally  come 
age, 
up,  What 
is  the  destiny  of  villages  in 
general,  but  especially  that  class  of  vil­
lages 
is 
thickly  populated  with  thrifty  farmers? 
Probably  there  will  be  one  grand  com­
bination,  some  time,  making  it  village- 
country  or  country-village!

in  which  the  country  round 

The  Lesson  to  Be  Learned  from  Mr.

Grosvenor,

But 

Casnovia,  May  7—I  have  watched, 
with  considerable  interest,  the  workings 
of  the  pure  food  laws,  also  the  vigorous 
prosecutions  under  the  laws,  in  many 
cases  against  innocent parties,  which  is, 
no  doubt,  commendable  and  right. 
It 
is,  no  doubt,  right  and  proper  that  the 
people  of  this  commonwealth  should  be 
protected  from 
imposition  by  having 
palmed  off  upon  them  some  articles  of 
food  which,  as  a  rule,  are  not  un­
wholesome  or  injurious  to  health.  The 
worst  that  can  be  said  is  that  the  pur­
chaser  has  been  defrauded 
to  the 
amount  of  the  difference  between  the 
genuine  article  and  the  spurious  one. 
It  is,  no  doubt,  right  that  there  should 
be  a  horde of  paid  officials  to  spy  out 
and  prosecute  offenders  against  this 
particular  law. 
standing  over 
against  this  are  many  laws  which  there 
is  no  such  effort  being  made  to  enforce. 
Prominent  and  most  conspicuous  is  the 
law  governing  the  liquor  traffic,  which 
robs  the  people,  not  only  of  wealth,  but 
of  almost  every  other  Godgiven  right; 
yet  who  stands  sponsor  for  this  law  and 
who  is  responsible  for  its  prosecution? 
What  official  does  the  State  of  M ichi­
gan  pay  whose  especial  business  it is  to 
see  that  this 
law,  governing  the  most 
iniquitous  traffic  the  world  has  ever 
known,  is  properly  enforced?  I suppose 
if  the  merchants  of  Michigan  were  to 
be  mulcted  to  the  tune  of  several  thous­
and  dollars,  the  violators  of  law  might 
be  winked  at  and  they  would  cease  to 
be  “ hampered,  harrassed  and  perse­
cuted,’ ’  as  Mayor  Perry  puts  it. 
It  is 
enough  to  almost  make  one  think  that 
is  a  farce  and  travesty  upon  the 
law 
idea  of justice. 
“ O,  Constancy !  Thou 
art,indeed,a  jewel  of  a  rare  type.’ ’  But 
one  lesson  we  may  learn  from  this,  that 
law  can  be  enforced  if  there  is  a  dispo­
sition  to  enforce  it. 

O.  D.  B.

The  Retail  Dry  Goods  Association 
of  New  York  has  taken  action  toward 
regulating 
the  price  of  proprietary 
goods,  such as patent medicines,  lotions, 
etc.,  which  are  important  items  in  the 
stock  of  department  stores.  The  price 
cutting  on  this  class  of  goods  has  been 
so  severe  that 
in  numerous  cases  the 
sale  of  them  has  been  rendered  abso­
lutely  profitless,  and  something  had  to 
be  done  to  prevent  losses. 
It  has  been 
agreed  that  a  scale  of  prices  shall  be 
drawn  up  which  will  put  these  goods  on 
a  profitable  basis.  This  action  of  the 
retail  dry  goods  men  is  noteworthy  be­
cause 
is  the  first  concerted  attempt 
ever  made  by  them to regulate the price 
of  any  line  of  merchandise.

it 

The  advance  on  rubber 

footwear, 
May  2,  proved  to  be  about-10  per  cent, 
on  nearly  all  of  the  heavy  grades  of 
goods.  Boots,  arctics,  overs,  etc.,  carry 
the  burden  of the advance,  while  sandals 
and  specialties  will  average  about  6 
per  cent.  The  United  States  Rubber 
Co.  is  said  to  have  removed  any restric­
tions  formerly  laid  upon  jobbers and the 
season  now  ahead  of  us  is  expected  to 
be  a  lively  and  interesting  one,  during 
is  safe  to  assume  the  retailer 
which 
will  not be  the  under dog 
in  the  fight. 
The  discounts  are  unchanged.

it 

The  State  Bank  of  Durand  has  been 
organized  with  a  capital of $25,000.  The 
officers  are  Luther  Laucks,  President; 
O.  H.  Obert,  Vice-President,  and J.  D. 
Leland,  Cashier.  A  two-story  brick 
building  will  be  erected  and  occupied 
within  sixty  days.

A  writer 

in  the  Electrical  Review 
inclines  to  the  opinion  that  as  the  elec­
tric  motor superseded  the  horse  car,  so 
the  perfection  of  paving  will  ultimately 
do  away  with  rails  and  currents  alto­
gether,  and  automobile  vehicles  rule 
supreme.

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bad  Axe—A.  Lepcvsky  &   Co.  have 
removed  their  general  stock  to  Minden 
City,  where  they  are  also  engaged  in 
the  mercantile  business.

Port  Huron—J.  W.  Goulding  &  Co., 
wholesale  and  retail  dealers  in  notions 
and  furnishing  goods,  have  opened  a 
branch  store  at  Imlay  City.

Alma—B.  S.  Webb  has  removed  his 
stock  of  drugs  and  wall  paper 
into  the 
new  corner  store  of  the  Opera  House 
block,  being  forced  to  make  the  change 
on  account  of  the  necessity  of  more 
room.

Elk  Rapids—O.  C.  Van  Wormer, 
junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Van 
Wormer  &  Son,  bankers  at  this  place, 
was  married  to  Miss  Lizzie  Verdine,  at 
the  home  of  the  bride’s  parents,  at 
Grand  Rapids,  April  26.

Sherman—E.  B. 

Stanley,  who  has 
been  engaged 
in  the  mercantile  busi­
ness  here  for  nineteen  years,  has  sold 
his  general  stock  to  Gilbert  &  Sturte- 
vant  and  will  devote  his  entire  atten­
tion  to  his  lumbering  interests.

at 

Detroit—John  C.  Hartz,  hatter  and 
haberdasher 
52  and  54  Monroe 
avenue,  has  added  a  shoe  department 
and  placed  the  same  in  charge  of  J.  E. 
Valentine,  who  was 
in  the  shoe  busi­
ness  here  for  many  years.  Mr.  Hartz  is 
at  present  city  assessor.

Battle  Creek—The copartnership here­
tofore  existing  between  E.  N.  Cadwell 
and  S.  A.  Howes,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Cadwell  &  Howes,  has  been  dis­
solved,  Mr.  Howes  having  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in the grocery 
business  at  25  North  Jefferson  street.

Manufacturing  Matters.

Shelbyville—W.  Bostwick  has  pur­
the  cheese 

chased  the  machinery  of 
factory  and will  operate it  this  season.

Detroit—The  Leech-Ellis  &  Gentle 
Lumber  Co.,  Limited,  succeeds  Leech 
&  E llis 
in  the  wholesale  lumber  busi­
ness.

Menominee—The  Richardson  Shoe 
Co.  has  started  six  salesmen  on  the road 
and  expects  to  be  able  to  fill  orders 
in 
the  course  of  a  week  or  ten  days.

Maple  Rapids—The  creamery  at  this 
place  has  been 
leased  by  Smyth  & 
Henry,  who  are  overhauling  it,  prepar­
atory  to  the  manufacture  of  butter  and 
cheese.

Missaukee—All  of  the  machinery  has 
been  taken  from  the  creamery  building 
here  and  removed  to  Vogel  Center,  to 
be  used 
in  the  new  cheese  factory  es­
tablished  at  that  place.

Hastings—A  new  company  has  been 
organized  at  this  place  for  the manufac­
ture  of  tin  car  seals  and  locks.  The 
promoters  of  the  enterprise  are  R.  B. 
Messer  and  J.  T.  Lombard.

North  Branch—A.  D.  K ill ip 

is  now 
sole  proprietor  of  the  cheese  factory  at 
Teeple’s  Corners,  having  purchased  the 
interest  of  the  other  stockholders.  The 
factory  began  operations  last  week.

Cheboygan—The  sawmill  of  Thomp­
son  Smith’s  Sons  started  last  week,  and 
with  a  double  crew  it  will  be  operated 
day  and  night  the  entire  season.  A 
good  portion  of  the  stock  comes  from 
Canada.

Bay  City—J.  W.  McGraw,of this city, 
who  owns  250,000,000. feet  of  timber  on 
the  Mackinaw  division,  and  a  railroad 
which  was  extended 
the  Bag- 
ley  branch  of  this  road  last  season,  has 
negotiated  a  deal  for  the  purchase  of  a 
shingle  mill  built  on  a  branch  of  that 
road 
last  season  at  the new  lumbering 
town  of  New  Toledo,  which  Mr.  Mc­
Graw  was  instrumental  in  founding.

from 

Detroit—Articles 

incorporating  the 
Michigan  Safety  Furnace  Pipe  Co. 
have  been  filed  with  the  County  Clerk. 
The  capital  stock  is  $6,000,  with  $3,000 
paid 
in.  The  stockholders,  each  own­
ing  100  shares  of  stock,  are  Isaac,  Sam­
uel  and  Wm.  Stearns,  all  of  Detroit.

Manistee—Log  shortage  has  become 
a  vital  question.  Rivers  are  so  low  at 
points  that  logs  will  not  float  and  some 
mills  have  had  to  shut  down.  Despite 
recent  rains  the  driving  stage  is  not 
high,  but  better  conditions  are  ex­
pected  soon,  especially  on  Bear  Creek.
Alpena—Manager  McDermott,  who  is 
establishing  cheese  factories  in  this 
lo­
cality,  has  received  the  machinery  for 
the  factory  at  Long  Rapids,  which  will 
begin  manufacturing  in  about  ten  days. 
The  Harrisville  and  Mikado  plants  are 
being  equipped  and  will  be  opened 
soon.

Menominee-----The  Fisher-Anderson
Co.,  composed  of  D.  J.  Fisher  and  A. 
L.  Anderson,  has  been  organized  for 
the  manufacture  of  cartons  for  shoe 
dealers.  The  company  has  a  contract 
to  manufacture  the  boxes  for  the  R ich­
ardson  Shoe  Co.  and,  to  start  with,  will 
turn  out  600 a  day.

Saginaw—The  Walsh  &  Kerry  Manu­
facturing  Co.,  which  recently  started  in 
business  here,  is  employing  30  men  and 
is  making  boxes,  having  so  many  or­
ders  that  there  has  been  no  opportunity 
as  yet  to  begin  the  manufacture  of  ma­
ple  flooring,  which 
is  to  be  one  of  the 
features  of  the  concern’s  business.

Edmore—John  Dallavo,  of  Wyman, 
has  purchased  the  Spanagle  lumber  and 
shingle  mill  machinery  south  and  west 
of  Stanton,  and  will  remove  the  same  to 
his  green  timber 
in  Ferris  township. 
He  is  erecting  shanties  for  the  accom­
modation  of  his  men  and  teams,  and  in 
a  very  short  time  will  have  the  mill 
in 
operation.  Aside  from  hardwood  tim­
ber,  he  has  considerable  green  cedar 
and  some  pine  which  he  will  manufac­
ture  into  shingles.

Owosso—The  Michigan  Package  Co., 
lined  but­
manufacturer  of  parchment 
its  stock  and 
ter  packages,  has  sold 
leased 
its  plant  to  J.  B.  Wo'din,  who 
has  had  the  management  of  the  estab­
lishment  for  the  past  year  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  under  the  same  style. 
Mr.  Wood in  has  displayed  remarkable 
executive  ability 
in  establishing  the 
business,  and  richly  deserves  the  good 
fortune  in  store  for  him  as  the sole own­
er  of  the  institution.
Jackson  Grocers  To  Picnic  Aug.  II.
Jackson,  May 
last  meet­
ing  of  the  Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Asso­
ciation,  it  was  decided  to  hold  the  an­
nual  picnic  on  Aug.  ir.  N.  H.  Branch 
was  selected  to  act  as  chairman  of  the 
general  Committee  on  Arrangements, 
the  sub-committees  being  as  follows:
Tickets—W.  H  Porter,  J.  Frank Hel- 
mer,  B.  C.  Hill,  G.  E.  Lewis,  Lewis 
Pelton. '

10  At  the 

Transportation—C.  G.  Hill,  G.  E. 

Advertising—W.  H.  Porter,  P.  W. 

Lewis,  J.  Frank  Helmer.
Haefner,  B.  D.  Legg.
mer,  J.  L.  Petermann.

Music—H.  C.  Eddy,  J.  Frank  Hel­

Badges—M.  M.  Whitney,  M.  Fisher. 

The  place  of  picnic  has  not  yet  been 

W.  H.  Porter.

decided  upon.

W.  A.  McGraw,  proprietor  of  the 
Michigan  Shoe  Company 
(Detroit), 
submitted  to  a  surgical  operation  for 
appendicitis  about  two  months  ago. 
He  has  recently  been  removed  from  the 
hospital  to  his  home  at  Grosse  Point, 
where 
is  confidently  expected  that 
he  will  completely  recover  his  health, 
although  the  recovery  will  necessarily 
be  slow.

it 

Grand  Rapids  Gossip
Jenson  has  opened  a  grocery 
N.  P. 
store  at  Amble.  The  Worden  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

H.  O.  Lester  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  Delton.  The  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Compton  &  Swanson  have  opened  a 
grocery  store  at  Manton.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished  the 
stock.

The  Valley  City  Desk  Co.  has  pur­
chased  the  plant  of  the  defunct  Grand 
Rapids  Seating  Co.,  paying  $16,000 
therefor.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Wholesale  Grocers’  Association,  which 
was  called  to  convene  in  Detroit  this 
week,  has  been  postponed  for  the  pres­
ent,  pending  negotiations  for  a  correc­
tion  of  the  sugar  irregularities.

W.  R.  Brice  &  Co.,  who  have  con­
ducted  an  egg  buying  bouse  here  for 
the  past  two  months,  have 
secured 
enough  stock  to  fill  their  storages  and 
will,  therefore,  discontinue  operations 
here  at  the  end  of  the  present  week. 
This  house  has  taken  in  14,000  cases  of 
eggs,  affording  a  cash  market  which 
has  been  very  acceptable  to  Michigan 
merchants.

The  Grand  Rapids  Fancy  Furniture 
Co.  has  purchased  a  tract  of  land  on the 
south  side  of  Hall  street,  alongside  of 
the  Michigan  Central  Railway,  and  will 
immediately  begin  the  erection  of  a 
three-story  brick 
factory  building,  6ox 
200 feet  in  dimensions.  The  plans  for 
the  structure,  which  are  in  the  hands  of 
Architect  Williamson,  contemplate  mill 
construction  on  the  slow  burning  plan, 
automatic  extinguishers  and  all  other 
improvements  which  are 
modern 
in­
cluded 
in  an  up-to-date  factory.  Un­
less  there  is  unexpected  delay  in  erect­
ing  and  completing  the  building,  Man­
ager  Uhl  expects  to  be  able  to  occupy 
the  new  premises  by  Sept.  1.
The  Grain  Market.

We  have  seen  the  wheat  market  very 
excited  and  irregular,  but  the  past  week 
has  eclipsed  anything  that  has  been 
seen  since  April,  1877,  when  wheat  ad­
vanced  50c  per  bushel  in  one  week,  but 
this  year  wheat  advanced  70c  per bushel 
in  the  same  time.  Traders  seemed  to 
be  wild 
in  bidding  and,  owing  to  the 
import  duty  being  removed  in  France, 
Italy,  Spain  and  other  wheat-importing 
countries,  it  set  every  trader  to  buying 
wheat.  New  York  No.  2  red  reached 
§1.90  per bushel,  while  Chicago  struck 
about  $1,85  at  the  highest  point.  These 
prices  are  for  cash  and  May  wheat. 
July  was  also  very  excited  and  to-day 
sold  as  high  as  $1.24  and  as  low  as 
$1.05,  closing  at  $1.14,  against  $1.20 ^  
yesterday.  Wheat  has  gone  higher  than 
the  most  sanguine  bull  ever  dreamed  it 
would,  but  such  are  the  present  condi­
Flour  has  naturally 
tions. 
followed 
wheat 
in  the  advance,  but  not  so  fast, 
and  the  demand  has  been  very  good. 
Mill  feed  is  as  much  looked  after  as be­
fore  and  prices  have  been  very  steady.
fully  4c, 
while  oats  have  advanced  4j^c  per 
bushel.  The  decrease 
in  wheat  was 
somewhat  of  a  surprise,  being only 735,- 
000 bushels,  while  a  decrease  of  2,000,- 
000  bushels  was  expected.  We  have 
now  23,187,000  bushels  in  sight,  against
31,862,000  bushels  last  year  and  54,062,- 
000  two  years  ago.  To  show  how  Chi­

Corn  has  also  advanced 

cago  drives  wheat  up,  we  will  say  that 
on  May  9,  343  cars  of  wheat  were  re­
ceived  in  that  market,  against  nine cars 
the  same  date  last  year. 
In  these times 
we  can  not  foreshadow  prices.  How­
ever,  we  are  of  the  opinion  that  they 
will  remain  about  where  they  are  until 
the  new  wheat  comes  in.

The  receipts 

in  Grand  Rapids  were 
very  heavy,  having  been  81  cars  of 
wheat,  17  cars  of  corn  and  9  cars  of 
oats.

The  mills  are  paying  $1.25  for  white 

wheat and  $1.35  for  No.  2  red.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

The  Produce  Market.

Asparagus—75@$i  per  doz.  for  home 

grown.

is  pretty  well 
Bananas—The  market 
supplied,  but  the  trade 
is  active,  and 
the  movement  is  good.  Prices  are  very 
firm,  and  it  would  not  be  surprising  to 
see  prices  advance  soon.

Beans—The  market  declined 

last 
week,  but  rallied  again Monday,  regain­
ing  the  ground  lost.  Local dealers  hold 
city  picked  at $1.20  per  bu.  in  carlots 
and  $1.25 
in  smaller  quantity,  includ­
ing  bags.

Beets—Old  are  played  out.  New,  40c 

per  doz  bunches.

in  consequence  of  largely 

Butter—Dairy  and  creamery  are  both 
weaker, 
in­
creased  receipts.  Dairy  fetchesg@ nc, 
ranging  from  choice  to  fancy,  and  fac­
tory  creamery  is in  moderate  demand  at 
16c.

Cabbage—$3  per  crate  of  40  heads. 
All  receipts  so  far are from  Mississippi.
Cucumbers—75c  per  doz.  for  home 

grown.

Eggs—Local  handlers  are  still  paying 
gc  on  track, but  as  all  the  storage buyers 
are  about  full  and  the  quality  is  now 
deteriorating,  lower  prices  are  looked 
for.  Receipts  are  large.

Green  Onions—10c  per  doz.
Green  Peas—$1.25  for  %  bu.  crate.
Honey—Dark  ranges 

from  9@ioc. 

Light  stock  commands  12c.

Lemons—There 

is  no  change  to  be 
noted 
in  the  market,  but  prices  are 
very  firm  at  the  advances  last  quoted. 
The  movement  has  not  been 
large  this 
week,  owing  to  the  cool  weather.

Lettuce—8c  per  lb.
Onions—Dry  stock  from  Mississippi 

commands  $1  per bu.

Oranges—Prices  are  rather better than 
last  quotations.  There  are  good  stocks 
of  navels  on  hand  here  yet,  but  they  are 
going  fast,  and  promise  to  be  out  of 
market  earlier  than  usual.  They  have 
about  ceased  to  arrive  from  the  coast. 
Seedlings  are  also  in  better  form,  and 
are  selling  well.  There 
is  very  fair 
stock  of  bloods  and  Mediterranean 
sweets,  which  are  selling  well.
“  Parsnips-  25c  per  bu.
“ Pieplant—ic  per  lb.  for  home  grown.
' “ Pineapples—Medium  Bermudas  com­
mand  $i.<;o@2  per  doz.

Potatoes—The  market  is a  little weak­
er,  on  account  of  the  amount  of  stock 
the  farmers  have  succeeded 
in  scaring 
up  and  rushing  into  market  in  order  to 
avail  themselves  of  the  present  high 
prices.  Dealers  pay  75@85c  for  old 
and  hold  new  Southern  at  $1  25  per  bu.
Seeds—Timothy,  prime,  $1.45(^1.50; 
Medium  clover,  $3@ 3.25;  Mammoth 
clover, 
$3. i5@3-4o;  Crimson  clover, 
$2.35;  Red  Top, 
$ i @ i. 10;  Alfalfa, 
S3-7l>@4-50 !  Alsyke,  $4  5o@4.65 ;  Or­
chard  grass,  $1.60;  Kentucky bluegrass, 
$1.30© 1.50.

Spinach—40c  per  bu.
Strawberries—Tennessee  stock  is  now 
coming  in  very  freely,  commanding  $3 
per  case  of  24  quarts.  The  first  arrivals 
of  Illinois  will  reach  this market Thurs­
day,  commanding  $4.  The  Tennessee 
stock 
is  of  medium  size  and  firm  in 
quality.

Tomatoes—$3  per  6 basket  crate.
Vegetable  Oysters—15c  per  doz.
Wax  Beans—$1.25  per  %   bu.  crate.

A  $400,000  boot  and  shoe  factory  will 
be  opened 
in  Atlanta  next  month,  and 
Georgia  will  begin  to  compete  with  an­
other  of  the  great  industries  of  Massa­
chusetts.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—A  decline  of  a  sixpence  on 
nearly  all  grades  of  refined  was  an­
nounced  Monday. 
Jobbers  were  unable 
to  understand  why  prices  should  be  re­
duced,  as  the  market  was  just  about  re­
lieved  from  its  heavily  oversold  condi­
tion  and  grocers  throughout  the  country 
were  receiving  considerable  of the sugar 
purchased  on  the  last  spurt  of  activity.
Teas—The  market 
is  still 
firm  at 
the  advance  noted 
last  week.  No 
news 
is  reported  concerning  the  new 
crop  that  will  soon  be  on  the  way  from 
the  Orient.  The  fact  that  the  Spanish 
fleet  has  been  cleaned  off  the  Pacific 
ocean  will  doubtless  have  the  effect  to 
make  the  shipment  of  teas  more prompt 
and  certain,  and  possibly  to 
reduce 
freights. 
It  will  not  be  long  before  the 
new  crop,  or  a  few  of  the  first  pickings, 
will  be  coming  to  this  country.

Coffee—The  situation  is  very  strong. 
As  a  result  of  the  general  rush for coffee 
by  retailers  and  consumers,  it  is  stated 
that  warehouse  stocks  show  a  decrease 
of  about  700,000  bags  in  the  world’s 
supply.  The  supply  is  large,  however. 
If  there  shall  be  no  material  hindrance 
in  getting  stocks  to  this  country  the 
market  for  Brazil  coffee  should  not  go 
very  high.

Rice—So  far  as  foreign  markets  are 
concerned,  it  is  not  a  question  of  price, 
but  a  question  of  getting  the  goods. 
Holders  are 
indifferent  about  selling 
increased  now  and  then 
and  bids  are 
without  bringing  out 
large  offerings. 
The  situation  in  New  York  is  just  as  it 
has  been  in  reference  to  spot  supplies, 
and  everything  is  about  cleaned  up  and 
sales  have  been  made  ahead  for  this 
month,  which  prevents  the  taking  of 
any  large  sized  orders  for  prompt  deliv­
ery.

Spices—Foreign  advices are still firm, 
in  a  strong  undertone  in  the 

resulting 
American  market.

Canned  Goods—The 

feature  of  the 
week  has  been  the  strong  position  taken 
by  Western  canners 
in  relation  to  to­
matoes.  Most  canners  have  booked 
orders  for  all  the  futures  they  are  to 
handle  and  in  many  cases 
jobbers’  or­
ders are  declined.  The  season  is  likely 
to  be  from  two  to  three  weeks  late, 
which  naturally  causes  the  canners  con­
siderable  uneasiness  on  account  of  the 
fear  of  frost.  Future  canned  corn  is  a 
little  stronger.  No  opening  prices  have 
yet  been  made  by  the  fruit  canners  of 
the  West  coast.  This  is  due  to  the  fact 
that  the  dry  weather  is  making  the  can­
ners  uncertain  as  to  the  supplies. 
It 
is  expected  that  there  will  be  a  good 
crop  of  pears,  plums,  grapes  and  ap­
ples,  and  a 
fair  cherry  crop.  But  the 
apricot  and  peach  crops  are  not  to  be 
unusually 
Spot  peaches  and 
pears  are  reported  to  be  very  firm,  and 
apricots  are  held  generally  for  better 
prices

large. 

Dried 

Fruits—-Prunes  are  higher. 
There  is  no  change  in  peaches  or  apri­
cots.  There  is  not  great  assurance  that 
the  coming  crop  of  prunes  will  be  ade­
quate  to  the  demand.  They  have  sus­
tained  some  frost  damage,  and  in  Cali­
fornia  the  drought,  which 
is  unprece­
dented,  is  certain  to  make  a  shortage 
in  the  crop  in  that  State. 
irri­
gation  country  this  will  be  in  a  meas­
ure  obviated.  The 
last  season’s  crop 
was  truly  an  immense  one.  From  San 
Jose,  Cal.,  alone,  55,000,000  pounds  of 
prunes  were  shipped  during  the  past 
crop  year,  with  some  more  still  to  come 
forward.  The  odd  lots  of  lower  priced 
stock  on  the coast  have  been picked  up, 
with  five  months  still  to  new  crop. 
It

In  the 

5

is  apparent  that  prices  must  hold  at 
least  to  the  advance,  and  possibly  go 
higher.  The  low  grade  soft  raisins that 
have  troubled  the  market  for  some  time 
are  about  cleaned  up,  and  better  grades 
are 
in  better  condition.  Good  sound 
stock  is  reported  not  to  be  plentiful  on 
the  coast.  The  outlook 
for  the  grow­
ing  crop 
in  districts  where  water  is  to 
be  had  is  reported  to  be  good.

Salt  Fish—No  changes  in  prices  are 
to  be  noted,  although  there  is  a  scarcity 
of  mackerel  and  cod, with  prospects of a 
shortened  catch  this  season.  A  good 
many  of  the  fishers  have  gone  to  sea 
with  the  navy,  while  many  vessel  own­
ers  have  decided  not  to  risk  their  boats 
on  the  high  seas  until  the  war  is  over. 
The  mackerel  catches are  not  very  large 
thus  far  this  year,  and  are  in  a  meas­
ure  disappointing.

Tobacco—It 

is  announced  that  the 
new  plug  tobacco trust  will  be  launched 
include  the  plug 
within  a  month,  to 
tobacco  factories  already 
included  in 
the  American  Tobacco  Co.  and  the 
factories  which  have  been 
other  plug 
conducted  independently. 
It  is  claimed 
that  options  have  been  secured  on  all 
of  the  independent  factories  except  the 
plant  of  the  Liggett  &  Myers  Tobacco 
Co.,  of  St.  Louis,  payment  to  be  made 
in  preferred  stock  at 
the  appraised 
value  of  the  plants,  with  10  per  cent, 
of the  appraised  value  in  common  stock 
as  a  bonus.  The  capital  stock  of  the 
new  trust  will  be  $30,000,000,  one-half 
preferred  stock  and  the  remainder  com­
mon  stock.  Those  manufacturers  who 
refuse  to  accept  stock  in  exchange  for 
their  plants  will  be  paid  in  cash,  and 
the  aggregate  of  such  payments  will 
be  $8,000,000,  which  will  be  raised  by 
the  sale  of  preferred  stock  at  par. 
It  is 
expected  that  Frank  Ray  will  be  placed 
at  the  head  of  the  organization  as Presi­
dent  and  executive officer.  Mr.  Ray  has 
made  a  remarkable  record  as  selling 
agent  for  the  P.  J.  Sorg  Tobacco  Co., 
of  Middletown,  Ohio,  and  is  personally 
known  to  every  Michigan  grocery 
job­
ber  and  to  many  large  retailers through­
out  the  State.  His  business  career  has 
been 
little  short  of  meteoric.  Twenty 
years  ago  he  was  porter  and  office  boy 
for  the  Chicago  representative  of  Sorg. 
The  regular  agent  became  so  intimate 
with  John  Barleycorn  that  he  neglected 
his  duties,  and  the  porter  summoned 
Mr.  Sorg  to  Chicago  to  staighten  things 
out.  The  outcome  of  the  visit  was  that 
the  agent  was  relieved  from  his engage­
ment and  Mr.  Ray  was  placed  in charge 
of  the  branch  office.  Within  a  year  the 
new  representative  was  on  the  highway 
to  prosperity  and  within  a  dozen  years 
his  commissions  from  sales  in  his  ter­
ritory  amounted  to  $175,000  a  year.  No 
finer  example  of 
the  opportunities 
afforded  for  advancement in this country 
can  be  found  than 
in  the  remarkable 
career  of  Mr.  Ray,  who  now  aspires  to 
hold  a  position  which  will  carry  with  it 
an  annual  salary  of $25,000.

Peanuts—According  to  the best posted 
authorities 
in  the  trade,  there  is  every 
reason  to  expect  a  further  enhancement 
of  values  before  the  summer  is  over. 
The  stock  of  fancy  handpicked  V irgin­
is  comparatively  small  and  will 
ias 
probably  enter 
into  consumption  long 
before  the  new  crop  is  available.  Low 
grade  unshelled  peanuts  are in more  lib­
eral  supply  because  of  the  effects  of  the 
rain  which  fell  while  many  of  the  nuts 
were  in  the  shock.  Shelled  nuts  have 
had  a  good  demand,  owing  to  their 
cheapness,  the  consumption  being  enor­
mous.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6
Woman’s World

Silence  a  Trump  Card  in  the  Game 

o f  Life.

If  it  were  given  me  to  make  but  one 
wish  for  woman,  I  would  wish  that  she 
might  be  inoculated  against  the  morbid 
craving for sympathy that seems to afflict 
the  entire  sex.  Somehow,  in  the  com­
plexities  of  the  feminine  makeup,  the 
faculty  of bearing things alone in silence 
was  left  out,  and  from  the  cradle  to  the 
grave  we  struggle  against  the  tempta­
tion  to  tell  our  hopes  and  desires  and 
troubles  to  anybody  who  has  the  time 
and  amiability  to  listen  to  us.

It  is  a  weakness  that  is  full  of  dan­
ger  and  has  wrought  untold  misery. 
Many  a  woman  has  repented 
in  bitter­
ness  and  tears  the  things  she confided  in 
some  other  woman  for  no  better  reason 
than  that  they  were  alone  together 
in 
the  dusk.  Her  heart  was  full  and,  be­
fore  she  knew  it,  she  had  revealed  fam­
ily  secrets  or  betrayed  the  laith  of  those 
who  trusted  her  and  told  things  she 
would  have  given  her  bead  to  have 
recalled.  For  an  instant’s  dole  of  sym­
pathy  she  had  bartered  knowledge  that 
should  never  have  been  made  public 
and  that  but  for  her  might  have  been 
kept  from  the  world.

If,  as  a  cynic  has  said,  we  hate  the 
man  to  whom  we are indebted for money 
or  favors,  be  sure  we  doubly  hate  and 
distrust  the  one  to  whose  discretion  we 
are 
indebted  for  the  keeping  of  our 
secrets.

The  flabby-souled  woman  who  must 
talk  or die  would  be  bad  enough,  in  all 
conscience,  if  she  only  told  her  ttoubles 
to  those  whose  long  friendship and faith 
she  could  trust,  but  she  is  simply  reck­
less  in  her  confidences.  Give  a  woman 
a  sympathetic  looking  face  and  make 
her  a  good  listener;  put  her  on  a  sum­
mer  resort  gallery  with  a  piece  of fancy 
work  and 
inside  of  a  week  she  will 
know  the  private  history  of  nine-tenths 
of  the  women  present,  and  that  without 
any  prying  curiosity  of  her  own.  The 
chances  are  that  she  doesn’t  want  to 
know  their  affairs  and  has  troubles 
enough  of  her  own 
to  keep  her  oc­
cupied,  but  she  can’t  help  herself.  She 
is  the  victim  of  the  indiscreet  confider 
and  must  listen  whether  she  will  or  not, 
or  give  mortal  offense.  And  what  things 
these  women  te ll!  Good  heavens,  the 
folly,  the  madness  of  it,  and  the  wonder 
that  anyone  with  so  little  sense  should 
be  permitted  to  be  at  large  without a 
guardian!

in  the  conversation! 

Consider  the  lack  of  dignity  of  a wife 
who  will  confide  her  husband’s  short­
comings  and  faults  and  her  own  unhap­
piness  to  a  woman  she  never  saw  be­
fore,  just  because  the stranger murmurs, 
’ ’ Poor  thing!”   in  a  sympathetic  tone  at 
every  pause 
Just 
lovelorn  damsel  who  con­
think  of  a 
fesses  that  she 
is  the  victim  of  unre­
quited  affection  and  who  will  hold  up 
the  cracks  in  her  broken  heart  for 
in­
spection,  because  some  woman  is  will­
ing  to  plaster  it  over  with  a  little  cheap 
pity !  Think  of  a  mother  who  is  will­
ing  to  raise  the  dark  curtain  that should 
hide  a  son’s  or  daughter’s wrong-doing, 
just  because  somebody  was  sorry  for 
her!  There  are  women  as responsive  to 
a  word  or  look  of  sympathy  as  a  bottle 
of  champagne  is  to  a  corkscrew.  Ap­
ply  it,  and  they  are  bound  to  effervesce 
and  slop  over.

Of  course,  when  the  heart  is  bowed 
down  with  sorrow,  there 
is  a  natural 
impulse  to  share  the  burden  with  s< me 
one  else,  and  to  a  woman  a  grief,  for

the  time  at  least,  has  lost  half  its  bit­
terness  when  another  mourns  with  her. 
It 
is  this  feeling  that  is  generally  at 
the  bottom  of  her  confidences,  so  often 
misplaced,  so  more  than  often 
indis­
creet.  Say  what  one  will,  there  is  tem­
porary  comfort  in  “ talking things over”  
with  a  sympathetic  person,  and  in  that 
lie  the  temptation  and 
the  danger. 
We  tell  of  our  disappointment  in  this 
one,  of  the 
ingratitude  of  that  one, 
something  has  happened  that  makes 
our  hearts  sore  and  heavy,  and  we  pour 
it  all  out,  only  to  wonder  the  next  day 
what  on  earth  made  us  guilty  of  such 
idiocy. 
In  a  clever  novel  that  was pub­
lished  a  few  years  ago  it  is  related  that 
a  young  man  was  discovered  sitting, 
silent  and 
lonely,  out  on  a  fence  while 
the  college  hop  was going  gayly  on near 
by.  A   friend  asked  what  he  was  do­
ing,  to  which  the  young  philosopher 
responded  that  he  was  trying  to  keep 
from  making  a  fool  of  him self;  that 
there  was  a  girl  at  the  dance  that  he 
knew  he  should  propose  to  if  he  were 
to  give  himself  the  chance,  and  that  if 
he  did  he  would  regret  it  the  next  day. 
There 
is  a  world  of  suggestion  in  the 
remaik,  and  when  we  are  tempted  to 
confide  our  personal feelings and experi­
ences  in  strangers  it  would  save  us  a lot 
of  subsequent  mortification  and  regret 
if  we  would  only  go  off  by ourselves and 
sit  on  a  fence  until  we  had  cooled  off 
and  were  reasonably  safe  from  com­
mitting  such  a  folly.

The  desire  for  sympathy  that  is  such 
a  passion  with  most  women  leads  them 
into  all  sorts  of  unintentional  selfish­
ness.  They  simply  won’t  bear  anything 
by  themselves.  They  don’t  mean  to  be 
hard  on  their  friends  or  families.  They 
only  fail  to  realize  how  wearing  contin­
ual  drafts  on  one’s  sympathy  can  be­
If  their  servants  are  unsatis­
come. 
factory, 
they  spend  hours  recounting 
their  misdeeds,  and  you  must  moan  and 
groan  with  them  over  the  degeneracy  of 
domestic  help. 
If  their  dressmaker 
disappoints  them,  you  never  hear  the 
last  of  it  and  you  are  expected  to  think 
that  it  is  the  worst  catastrophe  that ever 
occurred. 
If  they  are  sick,  it  is  rank 
heresy  to  believe  that  anybody  ever 
suffered  so  before  and  you  are  bound 
to  maintain  an  unwearied  attitude while 
the  thrilling  recital  of pills  and  potions 
goes  on. 
Such  women  deluge  their 
husbands  with  all  the  petty  domestic 
worries  of  the  family,  not  because  they 
want  any  help,  or  would  take  a  sug­
gestion  from  him,  but  just  because  they 
want  him  to  sympathize  with  them  and 
know  the  troubles  they  have. 
It  never 
occurs  to  them  that  a  man  may  have 
troubles,  too,  and  that  after  worrying 
with  the  bread  and  butter  problem  all 
day  and  being  harassed  with  his  own 
employes,  by  the  time  he  comes  home 
he  is  a  peace-at-any-price  sort  of  per­
son  and  would 
like  a  little  quiet  and 
sympathy  on  his  own  account.

Of  course,  we  all  know  very  well  that 
there  is  no  other  subject  under  heaven 
quite  so 
interesting  as  ourselves  and 
those  belonging  to  us,  and  next  to  our 
troubles  we  like  to  talk  about  our  hopes 
and  plans  and  ambitions.  We  feel  that 
Johnny’s  talent  for  drawing  and Susan’s 
turn  for  music  are  topics  of  absorbing 
importance  to  everybody  we  know. 
That  is  the  reason  we  expatiate  on them 
by  the  hour,  but  it  is  a  cold  and  selfish 
world,  my  sisters,  and 
it  is  quite  use­
less  to 
look  for  sympathy  along  this 
line.  Every  woman  you  know  is  also 
the  mother  of 
infant  phenomenons, 
and  try  to  remember  how  you  have 
writhed  under  the  accounts of what these

It 

little  prodigies  have  said  and  done  and 
how  you  wondered  what  made  anybody 
idiotic  enough  to  so  exploit  their  own 
vanity  for  the  derision  of  their  friends.
is  also  well  to  reflect  that  while 
people  may  wish  us  well  and  be  glad 
to  know  of  our  success,  they  don't  care 
to  hear  all  the  details,  particularly 
about  the  things  we  are  going  to  do. 
alack,  which  of  us  has 
Alas,  and 
failed  to  fall 
into  this  pit?  A  quiet 
hour,  a  sympathetic  person  disposed 
towards  a  listening,  and  we  had  spread 
out  all  the  poor,  vain,  shallow  heart  of 
us  for  their 
inspection,  and  bragged, 
and  bragged,  and  bragged  about  our 
plans  and  prospects.  And  the  plans  fell 
flat  and  the  prospects  ended  in 
inglori­
ous  failure. 
It  is  one  of  the  things  that 
we  hope  are  forgotten,  but  we  are  beset 
with  doubts 
People  always  remember 
what  you  would  be  willing  to  pay  them 
to  forget.

It 

is  an 

After  all,  the  brave  attitude  towards 
life  is  in  shouldering  our  own  cares and 
responsibilities  and  bearing  them  with­
out  asking  ever  the  sympathy  of  the 
ignoble  and  weak 
world. 
creature  who  would  shift  its 
load  onto 
any  willing  back.  At 
its  best,  even 
when  given  in  its  fullest  measure,  sym­
pathy  amounts  to  very  little.  In  its  dire 
need,  at  the  extremity  of  its  joy  or  sor­
row,every soul  must  be  as  lonely  as  if  it 
were  the  only  one  in  created  space,  for 
it 
is  eternally  true  that  “ each  heart 
knoweth  its  own  bitterness  and  a  stran­
ger  intermedleth  not  with  its  joy.”   It is 
not  easy  to  acquire  the  habit  of  keep­
ing  things  to  ourselves,  but 
is  one 
that  is  worth  cultivating  and  that  will 
yield  large  and  handsome  dividends  on 
the  investment  and  labor  expended.-  It 
will  save  us  from  getting  into  a  world 
things  we 
of  trouDle  by  telling  the 
should  have  kept  to  ourselves. 
It  saves 
us  from  making  ourselves  ridiculous.  It 
is  never  the  thing  we  didn’t confide that 
we  regret. 
In 
whist,  when  in  doubt,  says  the  old  rule, 
always  play  trumps.  Silence is  a  trump 
card  in  the  game  of  life.

It  is  the  thing  we  told. 

it 

D o roth y  D ix .

Wherein  Woman  Is  Superior.

F rom  the Sioux City Tribune.

“ The 

longer  I 

live,”   said  the  house 
physician  of  one  of  the  big  hotels,  “ the 
more  I  wonder  at  and  admire  the  fe­
male  stomach. 
That  abused  organ, 
cabined,  cribbed  and  confined  in  a  cor­
set  two  sizes  too  small,  can  stand  more 
hard  knocks  than  any  pugilist  that  ever 
stepped 
into  the  ring.  The  average 
woman  at  a  hotel  has  the  choice  of  a 
world  of things to eat,  and  does not know 
in  the  least  what  to  eat.  Here  is  the  list 
of  the  things  that  were  stowed  away  at 
my  table  the  other day  by  a  spirituelle 
creature  weighing  not  more  than  ioo
, 

pounds  and  measuring  seventeen  inches 
about  the  middle:

“ Soup,  fish  with  rice  sauce,  olives, 
sliced  cucumbers,  sweetbreads,  turkey 
with  chestnut  dressing,  grouse  aspar­
agus,  new  potatoes,  cauliflower  with 
cream, 
two  helpings  of  lobster  New- 
burg,  lemon  pudding,  ice  cream,  cakes, 
Roquefort  cheese  and  coffee.  The 
liq­
uids  were  a  glass  of  white  wine  and  a 
quart  bottle  of  beer,  which  she  shared 
with  her  father.  This  is  her  usual  per­
iq5  pounds,  and 
formance. 
I  weigh 
take  a  great  deal  of  exercise.  My  din­
ner  consisted  of  a 
light  soup,  stale 
bread,  a 
liberal  portion  of  b e e f,  some 
peas,  asparagus,  cheese and coffee.  That 
was  plenty, 
And 
women  will  drink  sherry,  milk  punches, 
cocktails  and  other  heavy  concoctions, 
and  perhaps  feel  the  effects  of  them, 
too.  But  they  get  over  it quickly.”

if  not  too  much. 

When  a  man 

should  never  place  much  confidence 
his  companion.

is  beside  himself,  he 
in 

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

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“Lily White” Flour [

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

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Valley  City  Milling  Co. S
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

NOW. 

Anti-Adulteration  manae I

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THE INTEGRITY OF EACH  IS THE CONCERN  OF ALL. 

W 

T H IS   IS   T O   C E R T IF Y   T H A T

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$ 1 , 0 0 0 . 

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waisn-De roo Minina Go..

having duly made affidavit and signed contract required,  is a member of The Anti-Adulteration 
League.  Membeis of this league guarantee the  Absolute  Purity  of  their  Flour  bv  a  sworn 
statement  and  a  Bond  of  One  Thousand Dollars.  Relying thereupon The A^i-Adulteration 
League  guarantees  that  the  Flour  made  by  this  mill  is  Free from  Adulteration  of any 
kind, and engages to collect from its owners, managers or proprietors  the  sum  of  $1,000  upon 
receipt of proof to the contrary.  Signed,

The  Executive  Committee  Anti-Adulteration  League.

L '  G re e n le a *.  Chairman. 

W.  C.  E d gar.  Secretary.

GOTHAM  GOSSIP.

News  from  the  Metropolis— Index  to 

the  Market.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  May  7—General  business 
here  continues  in  as  satisfactory  a  con­
dition  as  could  be  expected.  A  good 
many  buyers  have  been  here  during  the 
week  from  widely  separated  points. 
In 
the  dry  goods  district  the great  carpet 
sale  was  the  attraction,  and 
about 
$2,500,000  worth  of  carpets  changed 
ownership.  Prices  have been  quite  sat­
isfactory  and  the  general  bidding seems 
to have  averaged  about  12 ^   per  cent, 
below  the  store  price  of  the  goods. 
There  was  a  large  auction  sale  on  teas 
on  Thursday  and  many  buyers  were 
present.  The  bidding  was  spirited  and 
the  trade  seemed  to  take  more 
interest 
in  the  proceedings  than  for  a  longtime.
The  coffee  market  remains  pretty 
much 
in  the  same  condition  as  char­
acterized  it  last  week.  The  belief seems 
to  be  gaining  ground  that  the  Woolson 
and  Arbuckie  war  will  cease  before 
long  and  matters  adjust  themselves  ac­
cordingly.  Prices to-day  are  fractionally 
lower,  being  6&'c  for  Rio  No.  7.  The 
deliveries  from  warehouse  are  much 
lighter  than 
they 
reached  the  huge  total  of  about  goo,000 
Indications  now  point  to  about
bags. 
500,000  bags  for  May. 
In  store  and 
afloat  there  are  1,050,852  bags,  against 
685,551  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Not  as  much  interest  has  been shown  by 
country  dealers 
in  coffee  as  there  was 
last  week.

last  month,  when 

While  the  auction  sale  of  teas  was 
quite  interesting,  as  stated,  prices  were 
full  cejpt  a  pound. 
“ off,”   perhaps  a 
This  was  about  what  was  expected.  On 
the  street  trading  was  rather  dull,  with 
orders  few  and  far  between.  Very 
lit­
tle  interest  has  been  manifested  by  the 
country  trade  and  all  buyers  are  ap­
parently  pretty  well  stocked  up.

There  is  a  lessening  of  interest  in  the 
sugar  situation  and  a  somewhat  weaker 
feeling  all  around,  although  there  is  as 
yet  no  decline  in  prices.  Refiners  are 
largely  oversold  and,  of  course, 
still 
some  delay 
in  filling 
some orders.  Raw  sugars  are  easier,  on 
account  of  probable  “ early  termination 
of  hostilities. ”

is  experienced 

Rice  is  active.  Orders  have  come  in 
very  satisfactorily  and  from  all  points. 
Holders  are  happy  and  there  is  no hunt­
ing  for  bargains  among  would-be  buy­
ers.  They  promptly  take  what  is  offered 
and  know  that  they  are  getting  value 
received  right  along.  Both  domestic 
and 
foreign  are  sought  for  and  prices 
are  firm.  Prime  to  choice  Southern 
6@ 6j£c;  Japan,  5%@6c.

A  fair  trade  has  been  done  in  spices 
and  prices  are  remarkably  firm.  For 
cassia  and  nutmegs  there  has  been  most 
Jobbers  generally  report  good 
call. 
trade  and  say  that  orders  have  come 
in 
with  quite  a  good  degree  of  freedom  for 
supplies  to  be  filled  at  full  values.

Molasses  is  firm.  There  has  been  a 
good  jobbing  business  done  and  orders 
have  come 
in  quite  freely  from  local 
dealers,  as  well  as  from  the  country. 
Full  rates  are  asked  and  obtained  and 
the  outlook 
is  very  encouraging.  The 
market  is  rather  short  of  really  desir­
able  centrifugal  molasses,  but  of  all 
other grades  there  is  sufficient  to  fill  or­
ders  with  little  if  any  delay.
Quotations  on  syrups  are rather higher 
than  buyers  care  to  consider  and  the 
volume  of  trade  during  the  week  has 
been  somewhat  curtailed.  The  refiners 
make  no  concessions  and  seem  to  be  in 
a  position  to  obtain  all  they  ask.  The 
market  is  not  at  all  overstocked  and  the 
general  tone  is  firm.

Canned  goods  are  firm,  both  for  spot 
and  futures.  Tomatoes  have  advanced 
line  is  strong,  with 
5c  and  the  whole 
weakness  nowhere  felt.  A 
let  of  in­
ferior  salmon  has  been  offered,  run-  . 
ning  as  low  as  50c  per  dozen.  Califor­
nia  fruits  are  especially  strong  and  the 
supply  of  apricots  is  rather  light.

There 

is  a  good  export  demand  for 
evaporated  apples  and  desirable  stock 
brings  10c.  Sun  dried  are  firm  and  sell 
from  3 @ 4 C .

Lemons,  oranges  and  other  fruits  are

in  about  the  usual  request.  The  weather 
has  been  somewhat  against  the  lemon 
trade.  California  oranges  have  been 
sought  for  and  at  good  rates.  Pineap­
ples  are  in  light  supply  and  moderate 
demand.  Bananas  are  quiet  and  steady, 
from  $1.301^1.60  per  bunch  for  firsts.

i6>£c ;  seconds, 

The  butter  market 

is  so  closely 
cleaned  up  at  present  that  it  is  difficult 
to  fill  orders.  Not  for  a  long  time  has 
this  condition  prevailed,  and  the  con­
sequence  is  that  prices  are  firm  and  the 
trend  upward  unless  the  receipts  on 
larger  supplies  soon 
Monday  indicate 
due.  Extra  Western  creamery  is  worth 
17c;  firsts, 
15,^1^160; 
thirds,  15 c ;  imitation  creamery,  extra, 
15 c ;  seconds,  I4@i4j£c.
i5 ^ c ;  firsts, 
The  cheese  market  is  quiet,  both  for 
new  and  old.  The  former  has  been  in 
some  request  by  exporters,  but  they 
want  very  low-priced  stuff.  Stock  of  old 
cheese  is  not  large  and  holders  are 
in­
clined  to  hold  firmly  to quotations.  New 
State,  colored,  fancy,  large  size,  8j^c; 
do.  old  cheese,  gc.

On  Friday  the  receipts  of  eggs  ag­
gregated 
15,581  cases.  The  demand, 
while  not  especially  active,  is  pretty 
brisk  and  quotations  are  quite  firmly 
adhered  to  Western  firsts  average about 
io^c,  with  some  really  desirable  goods 
a  quarter  of  a  cent  higher.  Western 
selected,  nj^@ i2c.

Beans  are  steady,  but the market lacks 
animation.  Choice  marrows  are  held 
at $1.80;  choice  medium,  $1.50;  choice 
pea,  $1  50.  Receipts,  Friday,  715  bar­
rels,  all  sorts.

New  Route  to  Chicago.

Commencing  May  15,  i8g8,  a  through 
car 
line  will  be  established  between 
Chicago  and  Grand  Rapids,  operated by 
the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  system  and 
the  Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway, 
via  Vicksburg.

Trains  will  arrive  at  and  depart  from 
Dearborn  station,  Chicago.  This  sta­
tion  is  on  Polk  street, between  State  and 
Clark  streets,  is  only  three  blocks  south 
of  the  postoffice,and near the  down  town 
business  and  hotel  districts.  Other 
railroads  using  this 
station  are  the 
Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe,  Wabash, 
Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois,  Chicago, 
Indianapolis  &  Louisville,  and  Erie. 
No  transfer  will,  therefore,  be  neces­
sary  for  passengers  to  or  from  the above 
mentioned  lines.

Important  stations  on  this  through car 
line  between  Chicago  and  Grand  Rap­
ids  are  Valparaiso,  South  Bend,  Mish­
awaka, 
Ind.,  Cassopolis,  Macellus, 
Schoolcraft,  Vicksburg,  Kalamazoo  and 
Plainwell,  Mich.

The  equipment used  in providing  this 
service  will  consist  of  new  standard 
vestibuled  day  coaches.  Pullman buffet 
parlor  cars  and  the  latest  designs  of 
Pullman  wide  vestibuled,  gaslighted, 
twelve  section  drawing  room  sleeping 
cars. 
It  is  believed  that  the  character 
of  this  equipment  and  the  convenience 
of  the  schedules  will  be  such  as to merit 
a  liberal  patronage  by the traveling pub­
lic.

The following is a condensed schedule :
Daily.
11:35pm
Ev Grand  Rapids............ 7:10am  2.10pm 
6:30am
A r C h ica g o .....................2:00pm  9:10pm 
Lv Chicago.......................  
3:02pm 
11:45pm
A r Grand  Rapids............  
9:30pm  7:25am

C.  L.  L o ckw ood,

General  Passenger  and  Picket  Agent. 
Will  Not  Injure  Legitimate  Business.
From the Boston Globe.

Once  we get  used  to  the 

idea  of  war, 
enterprising  men  are  going  ahead  with 
their  business  and  the  hum  of  industry 
will  continue  to  be  heard  in  the  land. 
No  doubt  the  weak-kneed,  the  incom­
petent  and  the  timid  will  sit  down 
in 
their  offices,  spending  most  of  their 
time  in  hunting  rumors  and  dwelling 
on  them  until  they  addle  what  few 
brains  they  have.  But  the  pushing, 
vigorous  business  man  will  go  ahead 
and  will,  as  usual,  make  money.  A 
war  like  this,  on  the  whole,  as  soon  as 
we adapt  ourselves  to  it,  ought  to  make 
business  better  for  the  time  being  in­
stead  of  worse,  and  the  first  measure  of 
adaptation  should  be  to  give  the  wild­
eyed  rumor  fiend  a  wide  berth  and  to 
cease  to  waste  anv  further  time  on  men 
who  wish  to  discuss  their  fears  rather 
than  forge  ahead  and  transact  business.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

Michigan 

flceiïiene  eos  do.. 

Lia.

J f i e U ^ o o .   M i c h .

The following  letter  from  a  noted  pa­

tent expert  is self explanatory:

Detroit.  April 

j r>-l  have  just  returned  from
Washing!, m,  and Vhile  tilt re  in  coni ect ion with
mv  patents,  I  had occasion  t
¿h the  files
and examine  paten s  pt rta.ii ing  to  the gl­neration
and control  of  Acetylene  G is.  With int was  an
expert  from  tile  oil ce  of  R. G.  Dyer & l’o  ,  late
commissioner  of  p ttents.
It  may he a  sonree  of
some  satisfaction to  you  1o  know  that he  pro
nounced the ‘‘Buffi i gtOIl’’ lit nera tor the hest  thing
of the kind on the  i îarket  and  we  ex; ini led  over
a  dozen  different generate rs  pertain ng to  this
industry.

foiiKIS,  E ectrician.

E.  C.

Sproul  &  McGurrin,

General Agents for Western  Michigan.

DISPLAY  ROOMS,  181  E  FULTON  ST.,  GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

We  Are  the  People

Our new  Acetylene  Gas  Generator,  which 
has  been before the Board  of  Underwriters 
for several weeks, has received the approval 
of that organization  and  we  are  now  pre­
pared to execute orders for all sizes prompt­
ly.  We  claim  for  our  generator  superior 
strength,  simplicity  of  construction,  dura­
bility, economy in operation and elasticity of
capacity,  and  caindidly  believe  that  an  tn-
spection of  our  nnachine  and  a  comparison
with  the generate>rs of other  manufacturers
will result in the selection of our generator.
Illustrated catalo;gue and price list furnished
on  application.
A ll  enquiries  promptly
and carefully a,nswered.

M. B. Wheeler Electric Co.

Grand  Rapids.

B la n k

B o o k s

Inks,
Mucilage,
Etc.,

G ough  I 
P rop s!

and  all  kinds  of  Office 
Nick  Nacks. 
Examine 
our  new  device  for  copy­
ing letters.

Will  M.  Hine,  Commercial  Stationer,

49 Pearl Street,
2 and 4 Arcade,

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

! For  Sale  by  Leading  Jobbers.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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„  KfflGANtiADESMAN

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Devoted to the  Qest Interests of Business Men

Published at the New Blodgett Building, 

Grand Rapids, by the

TRADESM AN  COMPANY

ONE  DOLLAR  A  YEAR,  Payable  In  Advance.

ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION.

i  ummunications invited from practical business 
men.  Correspondents  must  give  their  fu ll 
names and addresses, not necessarily for  pub­
lication, but as a guarantee o f good  faith.
Subscribers  m ay  have  the  m ailing  address  of 
their papers changed as often as desired.
No paper discontinued, except  at  the  option  of 
the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid.
Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at  the  Grand  Rapids  Post  Office  as 

Second Class mail  matter.

When writing to any of our Advertisers, please 
say  that  you  saw  the  advertisement  in  the 
Michigan Tradesman.

E .   A .  STOW E,  E d i t o r . 

WEDNESDAY.  -  -  -  MAY  II, 1898.

improvement 

GENERAL  TRADE  SITUATION.
The  dominant  influences  of  the  week 
have  been  the  reassurance  of  the  Amer­
ican  successes  and  the  emphasizing  of 
the  demand  for  breadstuffs  by  the  fam­
ine  riots  in  Italy  and  Spain.  The  nat­
ural  consequence  of  the  demonstration 
of  our  ability  to  prevent  any  serious 
interference  on  the  part  of  Spain  has 
been  a  decided 
in  all 
speculative  prices,  with  a  degree  of 
trading  activity  exceeding  that  of  any 
time  for  many  months.  This  improve­
ment  includes  nearly  all  the 
industrial 
and  transportation  stocks  and,  of course, 
Government securities  come  in  for  their 
share. 
In  foreign  trading  the  domi­
nant  element  has  been  the  American 
situation. 
In  spite  of  any  adverse  in­
fluences  of  the  war,  export  trade  con­
tinues  heavy,  with  the  balance  still 
heavily 
in  our  favor.  The  exports  for 
the  week  were  36  per  cent,  more  than 
those  for  the  corresponding  week  of  last 
year,  while  the 
imports  for  the  same 
period  were  55  per  cent.  less.  As  a 
consequence,  gold  shipments  still  con­
$3,000,000  was 
tinue,  although  but 
actually 
Some  $q, 000,000 
more  was  ordered  and  is  yet  to  come.

received. 

General  trade  distribution  throughout 
interior  of  the  country  continues 
the 
Indeed,  the  activ­
without  diminution. 
ity  on  account  of  military  demand 
seems  to  fully  offset  any  depressing 
in­
fluences  caused  by  the  war.  The  hesi­
tation  in  the  prosecution  of  new  enter­
prises  is  more  than  counterbalanced  by 
increased 
the 
iron  and  steel  activity, 
the 
increase  of  shipbuilding  and  the 
demand  for military  supplies.  The  lat­
ter  has  had  a  material  influence  in some 
lines  of  cotton  and  woolen  goods,  shoes, 
projectiles  and  all kinds of ammunition.
In  the  iron  and  steel  industry,  in  ad­
dition  to  the  natural  stimulation  of  de­
mand  for  plates  for  shipbuilding,  there 
is  to  be  considered  the  material  for  the 
arming  and  equipment  of  vessels,  forts 
and  armies  and  for construction of  more 
cars  and  other  facilities  of  transporta­
tion.  Aside  from 
the  war  demands, 
there  are  many  favorable  indications, 
as  in  the  placing  of  a  number  of 
large 
orders  for  building  materials  and  for 
rails,  including  one  from  Mexico.

The  wheat  situation  for  the  week  has 
been  the  most  remarkable  for  many 
years.  The  rapid  advance  in  prices  for 
near  delivery 
is  naturally  credited  by 
many  to  the  existence  of  the  war.  Such 
an  idea  is  entirely  erroneous  The  war 
excitement  and  complications  may,  and

doubtless  do,  have  some  influence,  but 
the  prime  cause  of  the  advance  in  this 
cereal,  and  by  sympathy  of  the  others, 
as  well,  as  all  kinds  of  provisions,  is 
the  scarcity  obtaining 
in  the  various 
trans-Atlantic  countries.  This  is  suffi­
ciently  indicated  by  the  bread  riots 
in 
Italy  and  Spain  and  by  the  fact  that 
several  of  the  governments  have  remit­
ted  the  duty  on  wheat,  while  Russia  has 
forbidden 
is  the 
misfortune  of  our  neighbors  which 
makes  the  comparative  abundance  in 
our  hands  so  profitable  to  us.

its  export.  Thus 

it 

industrial 

The  least  favorable  showing  in  any  of 
the 
lines  seems  to  be  in  the 
textiles.  The  principal  activity  seems 
to  be  on  military  account.  Cotton  print 
cloths  made a  new  record  of  1.87  cents, 
and  some  mills  are  stopping  to  relieve 
the  pressure  of  over-production. 
In 
is  still  an  un­
boots  and  shoes  there 
usual  demand,  which 
is  the  more  re­
markable 
in  that  it  succeeds  so  long  a 
period  of  activity.

As  promising  for  the  continuance  of 
favorable  conditions  the  crop  situation 
is,  as  a  whole,  an  excellent  one.  This 
is  particularly  true  of  wheat,  both  win­
ter  and  spring,and  indications  for  other 
crops 
in  most  parts  of  the  country  are 
unusually  favorable  as  far  as  the  season 
has  advanced.

Some  time  ago  the  Woman's  Feder­
ation  of  Federations  pledged  its  sup­
port  to  the  President 
in  case  of  war, 
but  we  haven’t  heard  anything  lately 
from  the  fair  creatures. 
If  they  really 
meant  business,  now 
is  the  time  for 
them  to  come  forth.  Let  each  put  on 
a  cast-iron  sun  bonnet  and  sally  forth 
with  a  rolling-pin  in  hand.  We believe 
a  regiment  of  unterrified  women  could 
do  great  execution 
if  given  half  a 
chance,  particularly  if  they  could  man­
age  to  read  a few  of  their  original  man­
uscripts  to  the  enemy.

The  Scientific  American  of  April  23 
contains  an  artic le  on acetylene gas gen­
erators,  illustrating  and  describing  a 
simple  generator  which  is recommended 
to  be  of  sufficient  capacity  to illuminate 
an  ordinary  house. 
The  Tradesman 
warns 
its  readers  against  undertaking 
the  use  of  such  a  machine,  because  it 
is  so  constructed  that  it  comes  under 
the  prohibition  of  the  insurance  under­
writers,  who  refuse  to  approve  any  gen­
erator  having  a pet cock,  rubber  tubing, 
rubber  packing  or asbestos  packing.

Owners  of  large  ranches  in  Califor­
nia  are  preparing  to  be  independent  of 
the  elements  in  the  matter  of  moisture. 
They  will  rely  upon  gas-pumping  en­
gines  rather  than  on  the  clouds.  A  re­
cent  issue  of  a  California  paper  reports 
that gas  engines  are  being erected  in  all 
parts  of  the  State.  They  vary  in  ca­
pacity  from  twenty  to sixty horse power, 
and  some  of them,on the largest ranches, 
have  a  lifting  power of  200,000  gallons 
of  water  per  hour.

Queen  Victoria  seems  likely  to  sur­
vive  two  more  of  her  prime  ministers. 
While  the  life  of  Mr.  Gladstone 
is  de­
spaired  of  and  Lord  Salisbury’s  health 
seems  shattered,  the remarkable old  lady 
in  her  79th  year,  who  rules  over  400,- 
000,000  people,  and  nominally  controls 
about  one-sixth  of 
the  whole  earth, 
keeps  well  despite  the  alarmists.

General  Jake  Coxey 

is  missing  thq 
chance  of  his 
life  in  not  volunteering 
his  army  for  service  against  Spain  in 
Cuba. 
It  would  just do  the hearts of his 
tramps  good  to  go  there  and  have power 
to  make  Spaniards  keep  off  the  grass.

THE  MILITIA  LAWS.

After  the  war  with  Spain  is  ended 

it 
is  probable  that  a  strong  effort  will  be 
made  to  so  thoroughly reform the militia 
law  that  never  again  will  such  difficul­
ties  be  encountered  in  creating a federal 
volunteer  army  as  those  which  have  ap­
peared  since  the'  President  called  for 
125,000  volunteers.  Ever  since 
1792, 
when  the  law  was  passed  for  the  organ­
ization  of  the  militia,  the  defects  in  our 
militia  system  have  been  apparent. 
Many  attempts  have  been  made  to  cor­
rect  these  defects,  but  without  success. 
Not  very  long  ago  an  attempt  was  made 
to  provide  a  militia  force  that  would 
come  somewhere  near  answering  the 
needs  of  the  country,  but 
it  was  de­
feated,  largely  by  the  efforts  of  the  na­
tional  guard.  The  militia  colonels  and 
their  men  insisted  that whenever the op­
portunity  presented 
itself  they  should 
have  a  chance  for  glory.  No  doubt  they 
were  animated  by  a  patriotic  spirit,  but 
the  developments  of  the  last  few  days 
in  militia  circles  have  indicated  that 
they  did  not  foresee  the  difficulties  in 
the  way,  under the  existing  condition  of 
affairs,  of  quickly  creating  a  large  and 
effective  federal  army.

There  is  no  lack  of  patriotism  among 
the  organized  militiamen  of  the  differ­
ent  states.  There  are  about  115,000  of 
them,  and 
if  the  President  bad  called 
for  them  for  any  one  of  the  three  pur­
poses  mentioned 
in  the  constitution, 
they  would  have responded with remark­
able  promptness,  but he did  not  want  an 
army  especially  for  any  one  of  these 
purposes.  He  wanted  one  that  he could 
use  as  the  situation  demanded—that  he 
could  send  out  of  the  country  if  it  be­
came  necessary  to  do  so.  Therefore,  he 
had  to  call 
for  volunteers.  Naturally, 
it  was  expected  that  the  members of  the 
militia  organizations  would  be  the  first 
to  volunteer,  because  they  are 
in  a 
measure  trained  soldiers,  but  it  became 
apparent  at  once  that  if  they  did so they 
could  not  retain  their  organizations  and 
officers,  because,  in  many,  if  not  most, 
instances,  the  regiments  and  companies 
have  not  their  full  complement  of  men, 
and  also  because  of  the  necessity  which 
might  exist  for  breaking  up  regiments 
in  the  organization  of  the  volunteer 
army.  The  consequence 
is  that  the 
members  of  the  organized  militia  are 
not  enlisting 
in  all  the  states  as  freely 
as  it  was  expected  they  would.

There  is  no  doubt,  of  course,  that  the 
for  will  be 
number of  volunteers  called 
obtained. 
It  is  roughly  estimated  that 
already  more  than  half  a  million  of 
men  have  offered  their  services,  but  the 
volunteer  army,  when  completed,  will 
not  be  so  well  disciplined,  nor  in  any 
other  respect  so  ready  for actual  service 
in  the  field,  as  it  would  have  been  had 
it  been  made  up  almost  wholly  of  mem­
bers  of  the  militia  organizations.

There  is  need  for  a  radical  change  in 
the  militia  laws—a  change  that  would 
put  the  military  organizations  under the 
orders  of  the  President  whenever  and 
wherever  their  services  were  needed, 
not only  for  the  purposes  stated 
in  the 
constitution,  but  also 
in  any  war  de­
clared  by  Congress.  A  change  of  this 
is  necessary  or  else  there  will  be  a 
sort 
demand 
larger  standing 
army  than  we  have  at  present.

for  a  much 

DAWN  OF  A  NEW  ERA.

The  Tradesman  declared,  at  the  time 
of  the  first  act  of  the  present  war,  that 
the  United  States  was  taking  a  step that 
would  precipitate 
inter­
national  politics  of  the  Old  World,  and 
scarcely  a  fortnight  has  elapsed  before

into  the 

it 

the  Western  Republic  has  begun,  in  a 
most  brilliant  and  splendid  naval  vic­
tory,  the  conquest  of  the  vast  Spanish 
dominions  in  Asia.'

in 

squadron 

It  might  well  have  been  supposed 
that  the  first  blow  of  conquest  would 
have  been  struck  at  Spain's  island  pos­
sessions  on  our  own  hemisphere;  but, 
confary  to  every  probability,  the  first 
battle,  the  first  victory,  the  first  act  of 
consummated  by  an 
conquest,  was 
American 
the  Eastern 
Hemisphere.  The  group  of  the  Philip­
pine  Islands,  nearly  two  thousand  in 
number,  covers  an  area  of  some  350,000 
square  miles,  with  a  population  of, 
perhaps,  eight  million  souls.  The  city 
of  Manila,  which 
is  now  in  the  bands 
of  the  United  States  Admiral,  has  a 
population  of  nearly  300,000  souls,  and 
the  Island  of  Luzon,  on  which  it  is  sit­
uated,  is  of  more  than  40,000  square 
miles  extent.

It  thus  turns  out  that  the  Great  R e­
public  has 
launched  forth  on  a  tide  of 
conquest  that  may  end  in the  permanent 
acquirement  of  territory  in  the  Asiatic 
seas  that  will  place  this  country  in  the 
same  category  with  Great  Britain,  Hol­
land,  France  and  other  European  coun­
tries  that  have  possessions  in  the  East 
Indies,  and  in  relations  of  proximity  to 
China  and  Japan.

These  conditions,  which  will  in  all 
probability  be  added  to  by  the  annex­
ation  of  Cuba  and  Porto  Rico  and 
Hawaii,  will  force  upon  the  Republic 
the  necessity  of  garrisoning  those  dis­
tant  colonies  with  standing  armies,  the 
establishing  of  lines  of  steamships  and 
submarine  cables,  and  of  maintaining 
all  the  organization  and  material 
force 
required  to  hold  colonial  possessions.

in  Congress  and 

The  acquisition  of  extensive  foreign 
territory  will  change  the  character  of 
the  American  system,  since  all  the  peo­
ples  and  parts  of  the  Republic  should 
be  represented 
free 
from  military  control.  The  compara­
tively  barbarian,  and  even  savage,  races 
that  will  be  thus  brought  into  the Union 
will  require  for  long  periods  to  be  held 
under  military  control,  necessitating 
the  permanent  tembodiment  of  a  large 
standing  army,  and 
it  will  fall  to  the 
lot  of  the  American  negroes  to  furnish 
the  main  body  of  the  troops  that  will  be 
required  to  hold  the  colonies  or  terri­
tories  of  the  East  and  West  Indies.

With  this  acquirement  of  colonial 
domains  in  various  parts  of  the  world 
will  come  a  new  commercial  policy,  the 
opening  of  the  ports  of  this  country  to 
free  trade  with  all  the  colonies,  and  the 
carrying  of  the  commerce  in  American 
ships.  The  United  States  and  Great 
Britain,  the  two  great  commercial  and 
colonizing  nations,  will 
combine  to 
share  the  trade  of  the  world  between 
them,  and  with 
it  armed  coalition  for 
the  protection  of  that  trade,  and  a  new 
order  of  public  administration,  entirely 
at  variance  with  the  old  policy  of  an 
isolated  republican  system,  will  be  nec­
essary.

Already  European  statesmen  are  an 
ticipating  all  these  probabilities,  while 
the  thinkers  among  the  American  peo­
ple,  unaccustomed  as  they  are  to  con­
sider  great  problems  of  statesmanship, 
can  not help foreseeing the mighty  even­
tualities  that are 
looming  up  so  por­
tentously  in  the  horizon  of  the  future.

improved  navy,  capturing  all 
An 
ships 
in  all  waters,  indicates  that  war 
is  being  carried  on  by  machinery  and 
lawyers.

Spain  saved  her  honor;  but  she 

her  ships.

lost 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

the  approximation 

For  the  nine  years  preceding 

1897 
the  normal  annual  vintage  yield  in  Cal­
ifornia  was  15,000,000  gallons,  and  the 
doubling  of  this  last  year 
is  claimed  to 
be  due  to the abandonment  of  haphazard 
methods  and 
to 
science  through  the  experiments  and 
advice  of  the  viticultural  department  of 
the  University  of  California.  Vines  to 
which  the  soil  and  climate  of  the  State 
are  adapted  are  now  generally  culti­
vated,  and  the knowledge of what grapes 
to  grow  in  order  to get  a  desirable  blend 
in  the  wine  is  spreading.  Not  only  has 
the quantity  of  wine  produced  in  the 
State  doubled  in  the  last  ten  years,  but, 
in  his  re­
as  Prof.  Hilgard  points  out 
port  of  1896,  “ a  very  notable 
improve­
ment  in  the  average quality of our  wines 
has  occurred  within  the  past  five  or  six 
years  and  the  high  excellence  of  the 
product  obtained 
in  so  many  cases 
renders  any  further  continuance  of  slip­
inexcusable.  Hereafter, 
shod  methods 
California  wines  may  appear 
in  the 
world’s  markets  under  their  own  names, 
instead  of  being,  as  has  heretofore  been 
too 
largely  the  case,  disguised  under 
foreign  ones  when  of  good  quality, 
while  the  poorer qualities  were  sure  to 
be  placed  upon  the  market  with  the 
true  statement  of  their  California  ori­
gin .”

The  spectacle  of  putting  $50,000,000 
into  the  hands  of  one  man  without  ac­
countability—to  be  expended  at  his  dis­
cretion-attracted  no  attention 
in  this 
country,  for  the  people  knew  the  man 
was  their  President,  and  that 
its  ex­
penditure  would  be  in  making  the  be­
ginning  of  a  war  preparation 
that 
There  was  no 
needed  to  be  made. 
thought  of  its  being  diverted  to  other 
uses.  The  people  knew  the  President— 
any  President  could  be  trusted 
implic­
itly  to  do  the  very  best  he  knew  in  the 
premises.  But  the  spectacle  is  still  the 
wonder  of  Europeans.  They  can  not 
quit  talking  about  it.

When Spain’s Queen  Regent runs away 
it  will  be  to  get  away  from  Spanish 
traitors.  No  American  would  barm  a 
hair  of  her  head,  although  she  wants  us 
killed.  She  is  a  woman.

All  that  remains  for  the  United States 
to  do  now 
is  to  press  the  button  on 
Blanco  with  a  bayonet;  the  insurgents 
will  do  the  re'-t.

seems 

victories 

By  force  of  circumstances  the  news of 
naval 
to  be  more 
thought  of  now  than  that  of  baseball  or 
politics.
Spain 

in  reduced  circumstances, 
in  her  defense  will 

and  all  the  forts 
soon  be  in  the  same  condition.

is 

SPANIARDS  STILL.

round 

When  a  distinguished  Spaniard  de­
clared  the  other  day,  in  a  moment  of 
patriotic  fervor*  to  the  anxious  Regent 
Queen,  “ We  are  Spaniards  still!’ ’  he 
doubtless  thought  that  the  terse  expres­
sion,  pregnant  with  patriotism,  would 
follow 
the 
“ the  shot  beard 
and  thrill  the  hearer  of  every 
world, 
clime  with  the  Spaniard's 
love  ot  his 
native  land. 
Into  the  four  short  words 
what  pride  was  crowded  of  Spanish 
pomp  and  glory,  rising  first  from  be­
hind the mountains of Asturias,  a decade 
of  centuries  ago,  when  the  struggle 
beg in  which  drove  the  followers  of  the 
Crescent  from  Spain  and  from  Europe 
before  the  determined  soldiers  of  the 
Cross.  How  the  Spanish  heart throbbed 
at  the  oft-recurring  story  of  the  Spanish 
Queen  who,  by  the  pledging  of  her 
jewels,  gave  strength  to  the  despairing 
Columbus  and  an  impetus  to  the  awak­
ening  spirit  of  that  questioning  century 
and  added 
to  the  Spanish  crown  a 
splendor  which  remains  undimmed. 
What  wonder  if  the  glory  that  followed 
in  the wake  of  Columbus's  discovering 
keel  should  bring  back  pleasing  recol­
lections  of  power  and  possession  and 
conquest  in  the  New  World,  which  the 
genius  of  the distinguished  Genoese had 
lifted  from  the  waves  of  the  Western 
Sea.  What  wonder  that  the  grandeur  of 
the  old  times  returned  when  the  gift  of 
Columbus  to  the  Castilian  crown,  which 
the  early-coming  century  placed  upon 
the  head  of  Charles  V.,  was  only  a  gem 
added  to  a  crown  already  ablaze  with 
the  royal  pomp  and  power  of  the  grand­
est  empire  Europe  had  seen  since  the 
days  of  Augustus,  uniting,  as  it  did,the 
arms  of  Spain,  the 
looms  of  Flanders, 
the  gold  of  Peru  and,  as  a  crowning 
glory,  the  triple 
tiara  of  the  Pope. 
That  was  the  vision  that  Sagasta  saw  as 
be  spoke  to  the  Regent  Queen,  and  that 
was  the  thought  that  forced  to  his  lips 
the  boastful  words,  “ We  are  Spaniards 
s till!’ ’

Not  so,  however,  does  the  outraged 
world  receive  them.  There  is  another 
side  to  the  picture,  another  story  to  tell 
which  adds  strength  to  the  expression, 
a  depth  of  meaning  and  a  sarcasm 
which  the  boaster  did  not 
intend  to 
convey.  The  wail  of  the  Cuban,  dying 
of  Spanish  cruelty,  is  not  an  unfamiliar 
sound  along  the  highway  of  the  centu­
ries,and every  groan from the  lips of this 
the  latest  victim  sanctions  the  assertion 
that  the  Spaniards are, 
indeed,  “ Span­
iards  still!’ ’

What  the  Spaniard  was  and  has  been 
is  not  an  unknown  story.  Yielding  to 
persecution,  the  acknowledged  spirit  of 
the  age,  the  gentle  Isabella  began  the

instrument  of 

nefarious  history  by  expelling  the  Jews 
through  an  edict,  the  cause  of  untold 
misery,  which  was 
looked  upon  as  a 
signal 
instance  of  piety.  The  same 
power  called  to  its  aid  the  inquisition, 
the 
incredible  torture, 
burned  thousands  at  the  stake  and  con­
demned  tens  of  thousands  more  to  pen­
alties  hardly  less  terrible.  Led  by  bis 
thirst  for  gold,  the  Spaniard 
landed 
with  Cortez 
in  Mexico,  and  during  a 
three  years’  war  of  unexampled  cruelty 
completed 
its  conquest;  Pizarro  and 
Peru  stand  for  years  of  untold  misery 
at  the  hands  of  Spain,  and  the  curse  of 
African  slavery  which  deluged  this 
country  with  blood  owed 
its  existence 
to  the  same  detestable  race  who  proudly 
proclaim 
“ Spaniards 
stilM”

themselves  as 

Follow  Charles  V. 

in  his  relations 
with  the  Netherlands,  and,  when  he  has 
grown  weary  of  the  work  of  fire  and 
sword,  mark  how  closely  Philip  II.,  his 
son,  carries  out  the  Emperor’s  design, 
continuing  the  carnage  for  more  than  a 
generation  and  adding  to  Spanish 
ig­
nominy  the  assassination  of  the  Prince 
of  Orange. 
is  a  continued  story  of 
human  misery  and  bloodshed  from  first 
to 
last,  and  confirms  the  assertion  of 
Sagasta  that  he and  his  detested  race 
are  “ Spaniards  still.”

It 

That  they  will  remain  Spaniards  to 
the  end,  there  is  little  doubt.  Whether 
they  will  continue  to  carry  on  their 
Spanish  ideas  of tyranny  and  cruelty  re­
mains  to  be seen ;  but,  whether  the  end 
is  far  or  near,  there  is  little  doubt  that, 
when  it  comes,  the  Spaniards  will  be 
found  “ Spaniards  still!”

It  is  now  evident  that  thousands  of 
citizens  who  would  have  gone  abroad 
under  normal  conditions  will  manage 
in  some way to pass  the summer  in  their 
own  country  This  means,  among  other 
things,  that  many  millions  of  dollars 
that  would  else  have  been  expended  in 
foreign  parts  will  be  kept  at  home. 
Some  portion  of  this 
large  aggregate 
will  remain  in  the  hands  of  present 
owners,  but 
is  probable  that  the 
major  part  of  it  will  be  expended  in 
travel  and  recreation  in  this  wonderful 
country  of  ours,  which  very  few  of 
those  who  have  been  in  the  habit  of 
visiting  the  Old  World  have  ever  ex­
plored.

it 

The  Spanish  dynasty  is  tottering,  and 
will  make  a  nasty  die  of  it. 
It  is  hard 
for  a  widely  scattered  nation  to  enthuse 
over  the  kingship  of  a  little  boy  whom 
few  of  its  people  have  ever  seen.

PHILANTHROPY  INCREASING.
Some  days  ago  the  New  York  Times 
printed  a  list  of  persons  who,  from their 
private  fortunes,  during  the 
last  five 
years  have  given  a  total  of  $165,800,000 
for  public  uses.  The  gifts  have  risen 
from  $29,000,000  in  1893  to  $45,000,000 
in  1897.

Among  the  donors  mentioned  are: 
Wm.  Waldorf  Astor,  Andrew  Carnegie, 
Mrs.  Alfred  Corning  Clark,  John  Watts 
De  Peyster,  George  R.  Edwards, 
Marshall  Field,  Lewis  Ginter,  Wm.  R. 
Grace,  Mrs.  Mary  R.  Hawley,  Adrian 
Iselein,  Sr.,  Emanuel  Lehman,  Mrs. 
Winifrede  Martin,  Geo.  M.  Pullman, 
John  D.  Rockefeller,  Chas.  Broadway 
Rouss,  P.  A.  Wildener,  Mrs.  Leland 
Stanford  and  Cornelius  Vanderbilt.

It  was  stated  that,  while all  the  per­
sons  mentioned  were  not  millionaires, 
there  were  but  few  of  the  owners  of 
great  fortunes 
in  the  country  whose 
names  were  absent  from  the  list.  The 
vast  amount  of  money  stated  above  was 
given  to  endow  universities  and  other 
schools ;  to  found  or  endow  hospitals 
and  asylums  for  the  dependent  classes ; 
to  establish  libraries  and  other  bénéfi­
cient  institutions,  which  are  the  crown­
ing  glory  of  modern  civilization  and 
Christian  countries.

In no other than  Christian countries are 
there  to  be  found  any  grand  charitable 
institutions.  Those  persons  who  re­
ject  all  the  spiritual  powers  and  ihflu- 
ences  claimed 
for  Christianity  must 
admit  that  it  is  at  least  a religion which 
is  devoted  to  works  of  charity  and  ben­
efaction,  and  its  material  monument  is 
built  in  the  numerous  and  great  be­
neficent  hospitals,  asylums  and  other 
such 
spiritual 
record 
in  the  fact  that  millions  of 
orphans,  sick  and  other  suffering  hu­
man  beings  have  been  succored  and 
relieved  by  the  good  works  accom­
plished  by  that  means.  Philanthropy 
is  one of  the  noblest  principles  that  can 
inspire  human  nature,  and  it  is  worth 
while  knowing  that 
it  operates  on  the 
wealthy  as  well  as  on  those of  humble 
means.

institutions,  while 

its 

is 

German  law  holds  a  man  to  his  bar­
gain  when  he  has  agreed  to  give  up 
his  name.  A  young  count.  Finck  von 
Finckstein,  in  order  to  marry  a  girl  of 
whom  bis family disapproved,  consented 
to  change  his  name,  and  petitioned  the 
emperor  to  be  allowed  to  call  himself 
Stein 
instead.  After  obtaining  per­
mission,  however,  he  kept  on  using  his 
former  name,  and  has 
just  been  fined 
“ for  illegal  use of  a  title  of  nobility.”

The  Spanish  fleet  had  rope  enough  at 

Manila,  and  tied  itself  up.

Spain,  as  she  is,  is  of  few  days  and 

full  of trouble.

EVERY  MAN  LIKES

“MR.  THOMAS”

The  Best  Nickel  Cigar  in  the State.

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

♦

 

♦

F.  E.  Bushman,  Representative. 

Kalamazoo,  Mich.

IO
Fruits  and  Produce.
Something  New Regarding the Potato.
One  would  imagine that science  could 
not  furnish  us  with  anythiug  new  in  our 
daily  foods,  but  it  is  a  remarkable  fact 
that  our  food  potato  has  not  been  suffi­
ciently  examined 
from  a  scientific 
standpoint,  while  greater  attention  has 
been  paid  to  the-  varieties  of  potatoes 
employed  for  industrial  uses.

is  in  starch. 

The  French 

chemist  Balland  has 
striven  to  fill  this  void  in  an  essay  pre­
sented  to the  Paris  Academy  of  Science, 
divulging  many 
interesting  character­
istics  of  the potato used for food.  Aside 
from  the  skin,  which  only  represents  a 
small  fraction  of  the  total  weight,  the 
potato  consists  of  three  layers  well,  dis­
tinguishable  with  the  naked  eye 
if  a 
light. 
thin  slice 
is  held  against  the 
Still  more  distinctly  these  three 
layers 
become  visible  if  photographed with the 
Roentgen  rays.  The  strata  are  of  dif­
ferent thicknesses,which decrease toward 
the  interior.  The  outermost  layer  con­
tains  comparatively  the  most  starch  but 
less  nitrogenous  substances;  with  the 
is  just 
innermost  layer  the  proportion 
layer  has  a 
the  reverse.  The  middle 
mean  composition  between 
the  two 
others.  The  skin 
layer  is  the  driest, 
while  the  inside  marrow  contains  con­
siderably  more  water.  On  an  average  a 
three-quarters  of 
potato  contains 
its 
weight  of  water, 
two-tenths  of  starch 
and  one-fiftieth  of  nitrogenous  matters. 
Balland  has  discovered  the 
important 
fact  that  the  food  value  of  the  potato  is 
so  much  greater  the  more  nitrogenous 
it  contains,  and  so  much 
substances 
smaller  the  richer  it 
In 
the  best  table  potatoes  the  proportion 
between  nitrogenous  matters  and  starch 
attains  three  times  as  high  a  value  as 
with  the  food  potatoes  of  the 
lowest, 
quality.  Hence  the  value  of  a  potato 
can  be ascertained  by  a  chemical  analy­
sis ;  but  it  so  happens  that  the  food 
value  of  different  varieties  of  potatoes 
can  be.  judged  according  to  their  be­
havior  when  boiled.  We  all  know  that 
some  potatoes  swell  up 
in  hot  water, 
in  certain  places,  and  even 
cracking 
breaking  apart,  while others  retain  their 
original  shape,  even  when  done. 
It 
was  supposed,  formerly,  that  the  crack­
ing  or  breaking  apart  of  potatoes  was 
indicative  of  an  especially 
large  per­
centage  of  starch,  the  starch  swelling 
up  and  breaking  the  skin.  According 
to  the  latest  investigations  this  is  erro­
neous,  the  percentage  of  albumen  being 
If  a  potato 
responsible. 
is  compara­
tively  rich 
in  this  substance,  it  will 
keep  its  shape  on  boiling;  a  cracking 
and  falling  apart  indicates  a  deficiency 
of  albumen.  The  potatoes  containing 
most  albumen being  the  most nutritious, 
everybody  can  determine  the  worth  of 
a  potato  by  boiling  it.  The  best  varie­
ties  are  those  which  do  not  fall  apart, 
but  remain  whole,  on  cooking.
Let  the  Snides  Alone.
From the New York Produce Review.

There  is  no  reason  why  shippers  of 
produce  to  this  market  should  ever  lose 
anything  by  entrusting  their  goods  to 
irresponsible  or  fraudulent  concerns. 
In  no  other city  of  the Union  is  there  so 
large  a number of thoroughly responsible 
commission  merchants  and 
is  easy 
to  find  them.  The 
larger  operators  in 
produce  at 
interior  points  who  are  fa­
miliar  with our market and the personnel 
its  merchants  are  not  likely  to  be 
of 
fly-away  concerns  whose 
caught  by 
tempting  bait  consists  of  promises 
im­
possible  of  fulfillment,  but  there seem to 
be  a  good  many  small  shippers  who  do 
not  realize  the  fact  that  first-class  con­

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

cerns  get  as  much  for  their  goods as can 
be  obtained,  and  who  are  ready  to  try 
new  and  strange  houses  whenever  a 
goodlooking 
letter  head  brings  a  claim 
of  “ superior  advantages"  which  enable 
the  sender  to  secure  prices  for  goods 
above  their  worth.

Every  little  while  we run across traces 
of  snide  houses  who  thus  entrap  the  un­
wary  and  we  are  occasionally able  to 
show  up  the  frauds;  but  it  is  only  after 
damage  has  been  done.  Shippers  have 
only  themselves  to  blame 
if  they  fall 
into  these  snares,as  they can easily learn 
of  the  character  of  a  strange  house  by 
enquiry  through  the proper sources.  The 
fact  that  references  are  given  is  not 
enough  of 
insure  character. 
Enquiry  should  be  made  from  sources 
apart  from  those given  by  the  strange 
solicitor.

itself  to 

The  method  adopted  by  snides  is  to 
get  up  a 
lot  of  attractive  stationery 
headed  with  a  fictitious  firm  name,  hire 
a  cellar  or  an  office  in  some  more  or 
less  obscure  place  and  write 
letters 
claiming  all  sorts  of  advantages,  fol­
lowed  by  quotations  for  produce  con­
siderably  higher  than  the  goods  are 
worth.  These 
letters  are  sent  to  ship­
pers  and  usually  result  in consignments. 
Sometimes  the  first  lots are  returned  for 
in  the  hope  of drawing larger lots,  some­
times  not  at  all. 
In  the  end  the  ship­
per  gets  nothing  for  something.  When 
the  damage  is  done  and  enquiries  make 
things  dangerous,  the  snide  shuts  up 
shop,  opens  a  new  deal under a different 
name  and  proceeds  as  before.
We  frequently  learn  of  small  shippers 
leaving  old  and  responsible  commission 
houses  to  take up with these fly-aways,  to 
their  ultimate  sorrow.  We  should  have 
little  sympathy  for  them  if  it  were  not 
for  the  thought  of  their  ignorance  of the 
danger,  and  we  give  these  repeated 
warnings  so  that  this 
ignorance  shall 
not  exist  excusably  among  any  of  our 
readers.

Never  Made  Any  Returns.

New  Yoik,  May  io—For  some  weeks 
past  complaints  have  been  coming  in 
from  egg  shippers  in  New  York  State, 
Pennsylvania  and  other states  that  their 
consignments  to  J.  H.  Montgomery  & 
Co.,  78  Barclay  street,  were  not  being 
returned  for,  and  we  have  taken  occa­
sion to investigate the matter thoroughly. 
The  result  is  that  we  have  in  our  pos­
session  a  mass  of  evidence  of  such  con­
clusive  character  as  to  brand  the  firm 
as  swindlers.

Their  method  of  doing  business  is 
almost 
identical  with  that  of  Walter 
Sinclair  &  Co.,  whose  crooked  ways 
the  Tradesman  exposed 
three 
weeks  ago; 
in  fact,  we  see  the  ear­
marks  of  the  same  man  or  men;  and 
the  belief  of  the  commercial  agencies, 
as  well  as  of  the  police  authorities,  is 
little  while 
that  the  gang  operate  for  a 
under  an  assumed  name,  and  when 
it 
gets  too  hot  for  them  they  change  the 
firm  name,  rent  new  offices  and  start 
out  to  entrap  other  shippers.

some 

For  a  while  J.  H.  Montgomery  &  Co. 
occupied a small,  poorly-furnished  office 
upstairs 
in  78  Barclay  street.  From 
there  letters  were  sent  to  country  ship­
pers,  and  in  response  to  these  a  number 
of  consignments  of  eggs and  other  prod­
uce  were  secured.  Unlike  some  of  the 
snide  concerns  that  are  content  with 
stealing  i@2c  per  doz.,  besides  getting 
their  commission,  this 
firm  took  the 
whole  thing,  and  never  made  any  re­
turns.

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

Butter  and  Eggs 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

E G G S   W A N T E D

Will  buy  them  in  any  quantity  on  point  of 

shipment  or  delivered.

R.  HIRT, J

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P R O D U C E   C O M M I S S I O N   M E R C H A N T ,

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C.  N.  RAPP &  CO.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Correspond  with your old friend,

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them.  They solicit consignments  of  Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry,  Beans  and  ^ 3  

f c ;  Produce generally,  assuring  pvompt sales and  immediate  returns.  They

are a branch of the  Grand  Rapids  house  of  the  same  name,  which  has  3  

p -   been  established  eleven  years.  They  refer  Michigan  shippers  to the

Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand  Rapids  Savings  Bank  and  Michigan  ^ 8  

y -   Tradesman, all of which are  familiar with their standing and  acquainted 
with  their  methods and  will cheerfully answer  any  enquiries which  may 
be made in regard to them.

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W. R.  Brice. 

Est.  1853. 

C.  M.  Drake

W .   R .   B r i c e  &   C o .

Philadelphia’s 
Leading  Hustling 
Commission  Merchants

R E F E R E N C E S :

W.  D.  Hayes,  Cashier  Hastings  National  Bank,  Hastings,  Mich.

Corn  Exchange  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.

Western  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.

Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D.  C.  Oakes,  Coopersville,  Mich.

E.  A.  Stowe,  Michigan  Tradesman.

W A N T E D

To furnish Western dealers for  their  Eastern 
trade for season of 1896; cold storage in quantit­
ies to suit up to 15,000 cases  of eggs and  30  cars 
butter; moderate rates and  liberal  advances  to 
reliable parties; modernly equipped  plant;  me­
chanical tefrigeration, 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*4  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 5,0D0 cases finely candled eggs  for  April 
and May deliveries;  also several  cars  creamery 
butter;correspondence solicited.  Address Hyge- 
ia Crystal Ice & Cold Storage Co.,Unlontown, Pa.

We  have  closed our branch  house  in  Grand  Rapids  and 
will  not  buy any  more eggs  this season,  but  want your  Butter 
and  Eggs now  at our main  house in  Philadelphia on  commis­
sion  and  you can  rest assured  that  we will  watch  your  inter­
ests carefully,  make  you  prompt  sales  and  prompt  returns, 
and  you can  be assured  of the best  service  to  be  had  ip  our 
city. 

W.  R.  BR IC E   &  CO.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

LEGAL  SUPERVISION.

Regulating  the  Commission  Business 

by  Inspectors.

[c o n t in u e d   f r o m   l a s t   w e e k .]

Mr.  Walsh : 

If  there  are  men 

I  happened  to  be  on  the 
committee  that  framed  this  resolution, 
and  would  simply  state  to  the  meeting 
that  the  intention  was not to give offense 
to  honest  men,  nor  to 
injure  honest 
men,  nor  to  do  aught  but  was  honest 
and  upright.  Now,  the  thought  occurs 
to  me, 
from  Mr.  Barnett’s  statement— 
which,  of  course,  I  do  not  recognize  as 
speaking  to  the  resolution—he  simply 
shows  you  what  he  himself  did  toward 
promoting  honesty  and  toward  getting 
money  back  of  which  people  were 
robbed. 
If  he  can  accomplish  that, 
how  much  more  can  Uncle  Sam  accom­
I  would  like  to  have  that  ques­
plish? 
tion  answered. 
in 
robbing  the 
that  business  who  are 
people,  is  it  right  and 
just  that  they 
should  not be  turned  out  of  it?  Can  he 
offer  any  argument  why  they  should  ex­
ist?  Can  he  offer  any  argument  why 
they  should  not  be  turned  out?  He  can 
assume  that  commission  men  are  not  to 
blame  for  anything.  A  poor  man  has 
ten  cases  of  berries,  and  he  expects 
from  the  proceeds  to  buy  a  pair  of 
shoes  for  his  child,  or a  dress  for  his 
wife,  or  something  of  that  kind;  he 
sends  them  to  a  commission  man  he 
does  not know  (he  gets a  flaming  adver­
tisement  through  the  mails  and be sends 
those  ten  cases  of  berries),  and  he  re­
ceives  io cents  or  nothing.  Where 
is 
his  redress?  Certainly,  there  is  a 
law, 
but  can  that  poor  man  avail  himself  of 
it?  Now,  wbat  this  resolution  proposes 
to  do  is  to  cover  such  cases—turn  that 
class  of  men  out  who  are  perpetrating 
these  crimes,  and  let  honest  men  do  the 
in  hand  with 
business.  We  are  band 
Mr.  Barnett.  We  want  honest  men 
in 
the  business.  We  want  to  turn  the  ras­
cals  out,  and  the  best  way  we can  con­
ceive  of  doing  it  is  to  license  them  and 
have  a  Government  officer  look  after 
them.  When  Mr.  Barnett  puts  his 
money  into  the  bank,  the avails  of  his 
day’s  or  week’s work,  there  is  somebody 
to  look  after  it  and  see  to  it  that  money 
is  not  thrown  away.  Why  should  not 
the  poor  man’s  interests  be  looked  after 
by  this  Government 
just  as  much  as 
Barnett’s  or anybody else's?  The object 
of  the  resolution 
is  to  correct  these 
wrongs  that are  going  on  and  to  place 
the  business  as  nearly  as  possible  in  the 
hands  of  honest  men. 
I  can  not  see  for 
the  life  of  me  why  any  class  of  men 
should  be considered  free-commoners  in 
this  country,  with 
just 
saying  to  their  fellows, 
’  We  will  send 
you  what  we  have  a  mind  to  for  your 
product.”  
I  cannot  see  why  any  class 
of  men  should  expect  any  such  right,  to 
the  exclusion  of  all  others,  for  there  is 
no  one  else  who  has any  such  right,  and 
there  is  not any  attempt  made  to  correct 
any  business  or  any  methods  but  what 
somebody  opposes  it. 
It  seems  to  me 
there  is  nothing  wrong  in  the  adoption 
of  the  resolution  by  this  Association; 
and, 
further,  we  have  the  opinion  of 
our  Congressman  and  Senator,  and  the 
opinion  of  one  of  the  best  judges  in  our 
State  that  such  a  law  would  be  just  and 
honest  and  certainly  could  hurt  no  hon­
est  man  and  will  dispose  of  the  rogues.
item  of  informa­
tion  for  Mr.  Walsh.  There 
is  on  the 
statute  of  Illinois  a  law  which  will  en­
able  any  shipper  to  go  to  the State’s At­
torney,  make  his  affidavit  against  any 
commission  man  in  the  city,  and  if  he 
is  wronged,  unless  that  man  at  once

Mr.  Barnett:  One 

the  right  of 

rectifies  it,  he  can  be  locked  up  in  the 
county 
jail,  without  bail,  and  sent  to 
the  penitentiary.

Mr.  Slayton :  Does  that  include  friait 

sold  from  Michigan?

Mr.  Barnett:  From  any  state.  Any­
thing  that  is  sold  and  not  paid  for,  if 
sold 
is  a 
penitentiary  offense.

the  State  of  Illinois, 

in 

The  President:  Does  that  also  in­

clude  false  returns?

I  presume 

Mr.  Barnett: 

it  does. 
There  was  a  man  arrested 
in  Chicago, 
where 
it  was  claimed  be  sold  7,000 
pounds  of  poultry  out of  a  carload,  and 
then  the  same  attorney  that  said  that 
he  was  engaged  in  keeping  the  fellow 
out  of  the  penitentiary  told  me  just  how 
he  did  it.  They  could  not  put  him  in 
the  penitentiary under this  law,  and this 
law  was  more  stringent  than  any 
law 
the  United  States  Congress  will  ever 
It  is difficult  to  prove  intent  with 
pass. 
the  wrongdoing,  and 
is  also  very 
difficult  to  prove  what  the  market  on 
your  goods  is.  and  especially  on  perish­
able  fruits. 
I  simply  speak  of  this  as 
among  the  difficulties  of  the  question.
I  am  not  opposed  to  these  resolutions, 
but  under  the  general  discussion  [  want 
to  air  some  of  the  practices  and  present 
some  of  the  facts  surrounding  the  com­
mission  business,  and  enter  my  protest 
against  vilifying  honest  commission 
merchants  when  you  are  trying  to  reach 
the  dishonest  ones.

it 

the 

Mr.  Graham: 

It  seems  to  be  the 
popular 
idea  here  to-day  to  advocate 
these  resolutions,  and  I  am  well  aware 
that  in  arising  to  speak  against  them  I 
am  going  against  the  popular  will  of 
this  assemblage.  But  I  am  opposed  to 
the  resolutions on  general  principles. 
I 
am  opposed  to  governmental  inspection 
of  private  business  matters.  We  have 
no  such  thing 
in  the  United  States  to­
day. 
I  do  not  think  we  ever  have  had, 
and  I  do  not  think  we  want  it.  Refer­
ence  has  been  made  to  our  banking 
system  of 
inspection.  That  is  an  en­
tirely  different  matter.  The  Govern­
ment,  in  a  measure,  stands  behind  the 
banks,  stands  behind  their  solvency, 
stands  behind 
bill-holder  and 
makes  his  loss  good.  Can  they  pretend 
to  do  it  in  regard  to  commission  men? 
If  you  are  going  to  have  an  inspection 
of  commission  men,  why  single  out  the 
commission  men  who  handle  only  farm 
products?  Why  not  take  them  all? 
Why  not  go  further?  Why  not  appoint 
a  commission  to  make  all  men  honest 
solvency  of  evety 
and  look  after  the 
1  am connected  at  home 
business  man? 
with  a  business 
institution  outside  of 
my  farm  operations  that 
lost  $10,000 
last  year  in  bad  accounts,  a  manufac­
turing  institution.  We  received  orders 
we  sold  the  goods,  we  looked  up  the 
purchasers  in  the  commercial  reports, 
but  before  the  bills  had  been  paid  they 
failed  and  our  concern 
lost  $10,000. 
Why  not  include  such—have  a  commis­
sioner  to  look  after  the  solvency  of  such 
people?  Then,  again,  your  banking 
commissioner  does  not  pretend  to  look 
after  the 
individual  deposits  and  ac­
counts  and  business  deals  of  the  indi­
vidual  depositors  and  patrons  of  the 
bank  in  any  sense. 
If  I  go  to  a  bank 
and  ask  for  a  loan,  and  offer  to  put  up 
certain  collateral  or  certain  endorse­
ments,  and  the  bank refuses to accept it, 
and  from  my 
inability  to  obtain  that 
loan  I  fail  in  business,  can  I  go  to  the 
United  States  Congress  or  the  banking 
commissioner  and  ask  for  redress?  Not 
at  all.  Think  of  this  a  moment  before 
we  place  ourselves  on  record  as  advoca­
ting  the enactment of  a  resolution  for the

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Lansing  &  Catlin

Wholesale Dealers in

Butter  and  Eggs

44  W.  Market  St.
103  Michigan  St.

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

We deal  EX C LU SI\  E l.Y   in  Butter  and  Eggs  Watch  for  our  Card  here  each 
week and  try  BUFFALO   markets  with  us.  Write  us  or  Michigan  Tradesman 
for references.

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Popular prices prevail.  Ask for quotations. 

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E S T A B L IS H E D   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  w ho have butter and 

eggs to ship.  Can handle large quantities.

N.  W O H LFELD ER   &   CO.,

C O M M IS S IO N   M E R C H A N T S

3 9 9 -4 0 3   HIGH  S T .,  E A S T   S ID E ,

D E T R O IT ,  M ICH.

Ship  to  as your  Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese  and  Potatoes  and  get 

Full  Market  Prices.

Our  City  Trade_____

With  Detroit merchants want  some  more  of 
your  Michigan  produce.

Irwin  S.  Scrimger &  Co.

43-45  W.  Wood bridge St.,  Detroit.

R e f e r e n c e s :  Bradstreet’s or  Dun’s Commercial Agencies.

City Savings  Bank

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any quantity for Cash,  F.  O.  B.  at your
station.  Also  Butter.  Quote us prices.

HER WANN C. NAUMANN & CO., Detroit, Mich.,

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■Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St.,  -  Branch Store, 353 Russell St., op  Eastern Market.  Ifl
STR AW BER R IES

from  the  South are  now cheap  and within 
reach  of everybody.

All  Green  Vegetables—Tomatoes,  Green  Onions,  Radishes,  Cu­
cumbers,  Spinach,  Asparagus,  Pie  Plant. 
Oranges,  Lemons,  Bananas.
Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

BUNTING  &  CO., 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

indifferent. 

appointment  of  a  commissioner.  Let 
us  look  at  it  in  a  practical  light.  Sup­
pose  I  should  ship,  as  the  poor  man 
did,  ten  cases  of  berries  to  Chicago  to 
a  commission  man.  They  go 
in  there 
with  ten  hundred  thousand  more  cases, 
I  do  not 
good,  bad,  and 
get  sufficient  returns  to  satisfy  me. 
1 
enter  my  complaint  to  this  commis­
sioner.  How  many  complaints  would 
there  be  entered  this  week  on  account 
in  the  Chicago  market 
of  the  slump 
last  week? 
Is  there  a  grower  or  a 
in  Michigan  who  would  not 
shipper 
have  entered  a  complaint? 
Is  there 
one  single  man  who  would  not  have 
entered  a  complaint  to  this  commis­
sioner? 
How  many  commissioners 
would  you  need  in  the  city  of  Chicago, 
how  many  hundred 
commissioners? 
How  many  thousand  commissioners  in 
th’   whole  country  would  you  need  to 
look  after  these 
individual  cases  and 
look  up  the  purchaser  of  an  article— 
how  much  he  paid  for  it,  the  condition 
in  which  he  found  it,  and  so on?  Every 
town  in  the  United  States  would  want  a 
commissioner.  Think  of 
little 
into  this  matter;  let  us 
before  we  go 
look  at  it 
I  be­
lieve  it  is  the  fault  of  the  shipper  him- j 
self  when  he  is  beaten,  in  nine  cases 
out  of  ten.  There  are  dishonest  com­
there  are  dishonest 
mission  men, 
growers, 
in 
every  walk  of  life ;  but  they  are  in  the 
minority.  Last  year  there  were  some 
people  in  the  city  of  Detroit  who  were 
soliciting  consignments  of  fruit  by ad­
vertising. 
I  got  daily  cards  from  those 
people  during  almost  the  entire  ship­
ping  season,  offering  the  very  greatest 
inducements—great  prices,  good  sales, 
their  ability  and  facilities  for  getting 
rid  of  fruit  were  superior  to  those  of 
I  had  had  too  much  ex­
any  one  else. 
perience  to  be  caught. 
I  did  not  send 
them  any  fruit,  and  I  did  not  reply  to 
them  in  any  way;  but  I  know  some 
poor  people  who  did,  some  people  who 
needed  every  dollar  they  could  get  for 
their  fruit,  who  were  caught  by  these 
things  and  who  did  ship  them  some 
fruit,  and  they  never  got  anything  for 
it. 
That  was  simply  poor  business 
ability—nothing  more  nor  less.

there  are  dishonest  men 

in  a  practical 

light. 

it  a 

A  Member:  Suppose  there  had  been 
a  commissioner  at  that  time  who  had 
seen  what  you  saw  there,  could  not  that 
have  been  prevented?

Mr.  Graham:  No,  sir. 

It  is  simply 
private  business. 
I  have  a  right  to 
advertise,  and  all  the  laws  on  earth  can 
not  prevent  it. 
If  I  advertised  that  I 
am  in  a  position  to  handle  fruit  to  the 
very  best  advantage,  that  my  facilities 
for  getting  good  prices  for  fruit  are  su­
perior,  and  people  are  foolish  enough 
to  send  me  their  fruit  knowing  they 
have  no  redress,  without  looking  me  up 
in  any  way,  are  you  going  to  stop  it  by 
an  enactment  of  law?  You  can  not  do 
it,  gentlemen ;  do  not  try  it,  do  not  do 
it.  Twenty  years  ago  I shipped  a dozen 
carloads  of  fruit  to Minneapolis  and  left 
it  there  to  be  stored  during  the  winter, 
in  the  hands  of  a  commission  man. 
Along  toward  spring  he  sent  me  an 
account  of  sales,  and  he  owed  me  some­
thing  like  $1,100,  but  he  said:  “ My 
partner  has  run  away  and  I  have  not 
got  a  dollar—flat  on  my  back,  don’t 
believe  I  can  pay  you.”  
It  was  not 
twenty-four  hours  until  that  man  was 
locked  behind  the  bars  for  embezzle­
ment,  and  you  can  do  it  in  any  state  of 
the  Union,  but  you  can  not  compel  him 
to  send  you  accounts  of  sales  that  are 
honest.  You  can  appoint  just  as  many 
commissioners  as  you  see  fit,  but  you

twenty 

it.  When 

there  are  ten 
can  not  do 
thousand, 
thousand,  or  fifty 
thousand  people  sending  little  consign­
ments  of  fruit  or  farm  products  to  the 
great  markets,  you  can  not  keep  track 
of  these  individual  consignments;  they 
will  send  you  what  they  please. 
If  the 
commission  men  are  not  doing  business 
right,  that  is,  as  a  body,  let  us  select 
those  who  are  doing  it  right;  and  above 
all  things, 
let  us  drop  the  commission 
men  just  as  soon  as  we  can  and  sell 
direct. 
If  they  desire  our  goods,  let 
them  come  to  our  markets  and  buy 
them.  They  will  do  it.  They  come  to 
Grand  Rapids  and  buy  our  products. 
We  do  not  ship  them  to  any commission 
men.  They  come  there and  buy  them 
and  pay  us  cash  for  them  right  there  on 
the  spot,  and  you  can  all  do  the  same 
thing.

Mr.  Barnett:  Now  fo ra  suggestion: 
Organize  every  locality  into  an  associa­
tion,  have  a  board  of  directors  as  out­
lined  by  Mr.  Thayer,  accept  applica­
tions  for  business,  and  ship  only  to 
those approved  by  the  directors.  Then 
stay  by  them,  if  they  prove  true,  the 
entire  season,  and  you  minimize  your 
loss  and  increase  your  profits.

Mr.  Morrill:  And  watch the  business 
as  closely  as  you  possibly  can—I  might 
add  that.

somebody 

Mr.  Lawton: 

It  occurs  to  me  that 
this  does  not  meet  the  evil.  The  pre­
amble  in  these  resolutions  sets  forth  all 
the  misfortunes  under  which 
fruit 
growers  are  suffering  very  faithfully. 
We  can  agree  with  all  that  is  set  forth j 
in  the  preamble,  but  when  you  come  to 
the  resolutions  for  the  remedy 
it  does 
not  seem  to  me  that  they  meet  it.  We 
can  not  delegate  this  thing.  There  is a 
disposition  on the part  of human  nature, 
whenever  one  gets  into trouble,  to 
look 
around  and  find  a  remedy  by  shoving 
responsibility  upon 
else. 
This  advocates  appointing  a  commis­
sioner,  and  what  does  he  do?  Why,  he 
simply  authorizes  somebody  to  do  busi­
ness,  and  if  that  man  does  not  do  busi­
ness  right,  be  will  remove  him.  Now, 
we  know  that  our  troubles  in  Chicago 
are  not  with  “ snide”   commission  men.
I  never  deal  with  such  commission  men 
or  men  of  no  responsibility  whatever. 
There  are  men  who  make  no  returns 
and  all  that,  and  those  men  will  get 
certificates  to  do  business  and  you  can 
not  reach  them,  nor  find  out  who  they 
The  remedy  must  be  different 
are. 
from  that. 
I  do  not  think  the  appoint­
ing  of  a  commissioner  to give somebody 
a  certificate  to  do  business,  and  then 
taking  it  away  if  he  does  not  do  busi­
ness  right,  is  going  to  remedy  the  evil. 
We  must  get  away  from  the  commission 
man,  have  as 
little  to  do  with  him  as 
possible,  and  contrive  in  some  sort  of 
way  to  sell  our  fruit  and  not  allow 
them  to  eat  us  up.
Mr.  Cornelius: 

just  want  to  say 
this,  as  to  why  we  did  not  make  this 
resolution 
large  enough  to  cover  all 
creation.  We  must  commence  as  we 
can.  This  inspector  in  Chicago  is  not 
a  man  who  is  to  go  there  and  do  every­
thing.  He  is  a  man,  as  I  understand 
it,  to  be  appointed  by  the  Government, 
and  in  case  letters  are  written  to  him, 
or  business  actions  of  parties 
in  the 
commission  business are  complained  of, 
he  is  to  be  empowered  by  Congress  to 
go  and  command  them  to  show  up  their 
books  and  their  sales.

I 

The  President: 

I  did  not  understand 
the  resolution  in  just  that  way,  but  that 
the  Government  was  to 
license  them 
first.

Mr.  Cornelius:  License  them,  and  by

The  “ Humpty  Dumpty” 

Folding
Egg 
Crate

No  Broken  Eggs!  No  Time  Wasted!  No  Disputed  Count!  A  c o n ­
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.

P.t  Feb  20.  94 

CUMMER  MFG.  CO.,  Cadillac,  Mich.

WM.  SMITH —
Manufacturer  of

EGG  CASES,  FARM ERS’ 
C ASES, EGG CASE FILLERS 
ODORLESS  FILLERS 
AND  EXCELSIOR.

Capacity  one  carload  a  day.  Prompt  shipment  on 
short notice.  Will make  any  case  desired.  Write  for 
price list.  We compete witH all other manufacturers.

BEANS  AND  POTATOES

EATON  RAPIDS,  n  CH

CARLOTS ONLY.

M IL L E R   &  T E A S D A L E   C O  ,

ST .  LOUIS. 

MISSOURI.

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WANTED

Detroit Commission  &  Manufacturing  Co., 

27 Farmer Street,  Detroit. Mich. 

To represent  a  first-class  Roller  and 
Rye  Flour  Mills  in  our  market,  or  3  
will  buy the same on the basis of cash-  3
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supply.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

24  and  26  North  Division  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

WE  ARE  IN  POSITION  TO  FILL  YOUR  OR­
DERS  FOR  FIELD   S E E D S   BOTH  IN  QUAL­
ITY  AND  PR ICE  THAT  SHOULD  WARRANT 
YOU  IN  DEALING  WITH  US.

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Jobbers-Seed-Beans-Potatoes-Produce 

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  Oni.ms 
Spinach,  Radishes,  Vegetable  Oysters,  Oranges,  Lemons and 
Bananas.  Will bill  at our lowest mail order prices.

The  Vinkemulder  Company,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

the  means  of  their  holding  a  license  the 
Government  has  power  to  control  them 
I  cannot  see  anything 
in  this  manner. 
about  that  which  is  wrong. 
I  am  glad 
to  hear  that  Mr.  Barnett  and  his  society 
are  co-operating  with  us  and  working 
in  the  same  line  of  business,  but  there 
is  this  point  about  it:  they  do  not  seem 
to  touch  the  class  that  are  ruining  us, 
I  use  these 
that  are  stealing  our goods. 
terms  because  I  know 
I  have  sent 
goods  over  there  and  have  traced  them 
and  found  that  they  sold  for  one-third 
more  than  returns  were  made  for.

it. 

Mr.  Cornelius: 

The  President: 

I  did  not know  it. 

You  could  have 
locked  that  man  up  in  the  penitentiary.
I 
have  just  found  it  out  to-day.  But  that 
is  just  for  Illinois.  We  have  commis­
sion  men  in  other  states.  Have  all  the 
law?  We  want  this  to be  a 
states  that 
United  States 
law  that  will  protect  us 
against  the  commission  men —the  dis­
honest  ones.  We  wish  to  work  with  the 
honest  ones,  with  Mr.  Barnett’s society. 
He  says  they  have  no  fight  with  us. 
In 
proof  of that,  will  his society turn around 
law  enacted, 
and  help  us  to  get  this 
because  then  the  fruit  will  go 
into  the 
hands  of  honest  men?

Mr.  Cook :  This  resolution  is  up  be­
fore  the  State  Society,  where  there  are 
but  few  who  have  thought  about  the 
question  at  all,  and  I  think 
it  ought  to 
have  more  consideration  than this;  and, 
if  it  is  in  order,  I  move  that  it  be  post­
poned  or  laid  on  the  table  until  another 
left  to  the  executive 
meeting,  or  be 
committee  for  their  consideration, 
if 
that  could  be  done.

The  President:  There  is a  legislative 

committee  in  the  society.

Mr.  Cook :  Well,  let it  go  to  that  com­
mittee,  or  a  proper  committee,  to  be 
examined  thoroughly  and  discussed  at 
a  future  meeting. 
It  seems  to  me  we 
are  not  ready  to  vote  on  this  question 
now.

The  President: 

I  have  had  consider­
able  experience  shipping  fruit,  as  many 
of  you  know.  For  ten  or  fifteen  years 
I  have  shipped  almost  as  much  as  any 
man  in  Michigan,  of  his  own  growing, 
and  during  that  time  I  have  not  had 
any  trouble  with  the  commission  man. 
All  this  sounds  as  though  it  was  a  fight 
against  somebody,  some  commission 
man. 
I  know  that  there .  is  rank  work 
among the commission  men,  and  1  know 
that  they  are  not  alone  in  doing  these 
things;  but  I  do  feel  as  though  this 
resolution  does  not  cover 
the  entire 
ground ;  that,  if  you  propose  to  ask  for 
legislation  of  this  kind,  you  should  in­
clude  the  fruit grower,  see  that  he  does 
not  defraud  anybody.  Then  you  can 
ask  for  common  honesty  among  all men, 
and  enforce 
is 
practicable.  When you  do  that  you  will 
do  away  with  a  great  deal  of  trouble, 
but  I  feel  as  though  we  ought  to  be  a 
little  careful  about  these  matters.  The 
State  Society  does  not  wish  to  put  itself 
in  a  position  to  be  criticised,  but 
it  is 
anxious  to  do  anything  and  everything 
that  can  really  improve  the  fruit  inter­
ests  of  Michigan.

it,  if  such 

legislation 

End  of the  Paskola  Litigation.

A  better  feeling  has  developed  among 
the  parties  to  the  various  Paskola  suits 
and  while  the  litigation  has  not  all  as 
yet  been  closed  up,  the probabilities are 
that  it  soon  will  be.  Most of  the  prin­
cipal  parties  to  the  suits  are  pbout  to go 
to  Europe  and  there  will  be  no  further 
prosecution  of  the  suits  on  either  side, 
leave  having  been  asked  to  have  the 
suits  dismissed  in  the Ohio  courts.

A 

jerky  puller  splits  the  singletree 

and  the  loadstands  still.

Shipping  Fruit  from  the  Source  of 

Supply.

The  average  guest  at  the  hotel  who 
gets  his  dish  of  strawberries  for  break­
fast  scarcely  realizes  the  manner 
in 
which  this  luscious  fruit  has  reached 
his  plate.

There  is  a  Baltimore  firm  who  are the 
undisputed  kings  of  shipments  of  early 
strawberries  and  peaches  to  the  cities 
of  the  East,  West  and  North.  Their 
shipments  reach  Connecticut,  Massa­
chusetts,  Rhode 
Island,  New  York, 
Pennsylvania,  Ohio, 
Indiana,  Illinois 
and  Michigan.  This  firm  has  distrib­
uting  points  at  Syracuse,  Binghamton, 
Elmira  and  Salamanca.  These  points 
are  for  the  systematic  distribution  of 
from  one  to  more  crates  as  per  booked 
daily  orders  from  patrons  whose  wants 
are  for  less  than  carload  quantities.

From,  say  the  first  to  the  tenth  of 
May,  the  firm receive at Elmira,  N.  Y., 
in  express  train  lots  over  the  Northern 
Central  Division  of  the  Pennsylvania 
railway  from  Baltimore,  berries  that 
come  originally 
from  North  Carolina 
and  extreme  Southern  Virginia  points. 
After  May  io,  the  source of contribution 
is  Norfolk  and  contiguous  points  on 
the  eastern  and  western 
shores  of 
Chesepeake  Bay.  The  Northern  Central 
Railway  transports  the  fruit  in  solid 
trains  from  Baltimore  daily  to  Elmira, 
N.  Y.,  at  which  point  there are retained 
one  or  more  cars,  the  next  passing  ex­
press  trains  taking  one  car  each  to 
Binghamton,  Syracuse  and  Salamanca, 
and  one  or  two  cars  each  to  Rochester 
and  Canadian  points.  This  inaugurates 
the  season  of  special  berry  trains  of  ten 
to  twelve  cars,  which  are  increased later 
to  twenty  or  thirty  cars.  These  trains 
carry  no  other  product.  The  Pennsyl­
vania  Railroad  Company  receives,  on 
an  average,  §155  per  carload,  proving 
the  most  remunerative  train  sent  over 
any  section  of  this  system.

A  similar  condition  obtains  in  the 
peach  season,  which  opens  about  the 
first  of  August.  This,  also,  is  conducted 
over  the  above-named  system  of  trans­
portation,  with  this  difference,  that  the 
freight  originates 
in  Delaware  and 
adjacent  eastern  shores  of  Maryland 
counties—solid  trains,  as 
in  the  berry 
season,  and  of  about  the  same  capacity 
—leaving  the  Delaware  stations at about 
4  or  5  o’clock 
in  the  afternoon  and 
reaching  Elmira,  N.  Y.,  at  about  6  or 
7  o’clock  the  next  morning,  and  is  dis­
tributed  in  the  same  manner  as  the  ber­
ries  described  above.

These  berry  and  fruit  trains  have  the 
right  of  way  over  all  passenger  and 
other  express  trains,  thus  proving  the 
fastest  service  of  the  road.

The  principal  firm  conducting  this 
in  active  existence 

business  has  been 
for  upward  of  thirty-five  years.

N.  T r is s e l .

A  portfolio, 

The  American Navy, Cuba and  Hawaii.
in  ten  parts,  sixteen 
views 
in  each  part,  of  the  finest  half­
tone  pictures  of  the  American  Navy, 
Cuba  and  Hawaii  has  just  been  issued 
by  a  Chicago  publishing  house.

The  Michigan  Central  has  made  ar­
rangements  for  a  special  edition  for  the 
its  patrons,  and  a  specimen 
benefit  of 
copy  can  be  seen  at  the  ticket  office 
in 
the  depot.  Single  parts  may  be  had  at 
ten  cents each ;  the  full  set,  one hundred 
and  sixty  pictures,  costs  but  one  dollar. 
Subscriptions  for  the  set  may  be  left 
with  the  agent. 
In  view  of  the  present 
excitement  regarding  Cuba,  these  p ic­
tures  are  very  timely.  Call  at  the  ticket 
office  and  see  them.—765.

Deal  openly  with  your  clerks,  that 

they  may  be  frank  with  you.

A  MODEL  CREAM ERY  OF TH E TRUE  SYSTEM

True  Dairy  Supply  Company,

303  to 309  Lock  Street, 

Syracu se,  New  York.

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

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

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INCORPORATED  1896

EXCELSIOR

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Shoes  and  Leather

Plain  Talk  and  Sensible  Suggestions 

to  Shoe  Salesmen.

is 

I  wonder 

infinite,  and  that 

if  some  people  have  any 
idea  how  much  trouble  they  cause  us,”  
sighed  a  clerk  to  me  the  other  day 
after  a  long  siege  with  a  hard  custom­
“ Some  of  them  seem  to  think  that 
er. 
our  patience 
it 
makes  no  difference  how  much  work 
they  make  us.  Of  course,  we  never  ob­
ject  to  showing  a  customer  goods  until 
he  is  perfectly  satisfied,  but  some  peo­
ple  will  sit  and  look  at  goods  and  keep 
us  trying  them  on  long  after  they  have 
decided  in  their  mind  what  they  expect 
to  take.  Take  the  man  I  just  bad,  for 
instance; he  knew  what  he  was  going to 
take 
in  fifteen  minutes  after  he  sat 
down,  yet  he  stayed  with  me  a  good 
forty  minutes.”

*  *  *

lines 

In  order  to  be  at  all  successful  as  a 
clerk,  in this  advanced  age,  a  man  must 
be  a  fairly  good  judge  of  human  nature 
and  be  able  to  read  his  customer  at  a 
glance,  as  he  would  the  head 
in 
his  morning  paper. 
If  a  clerk  is  of  an 
observant  nature the training  he  will  get 
in  a  big  shoe  store,  where  he  comes  in 
contact  with  all  kinds  of  people,  from 
the  poorest  to  the  richest,  of  all  colors, 
races  and  nationalties,  good,  bad  and 
indifferent,  will  naturally  make  him  a 
quiet 
judge  of  people  and  incidents. 
He  must  put  his  mind  in motion,  teach­
ing  it  to  do  its  work  rapidly,  for  often 
he  must  think  and  act  at  the same time. 
He  gains  a  wide  experience  and  insight 
into  the  sharp  side  of  human  nature 
that  are  hard  to  gain  in  any  other  way, 
for  nowhere  else  is  the  niggardly  side 
of  men  and  women displayed so plainly. 
He  learns  to  put  this  and  that  together 
and  draw  his  conclusion  and  he  is  sel­
dom  wrong  as  to  the  result.

*  *  *

It  had  been  a  fearfully  dull  day  and 
all  the  clerks  were  wondering  if  they 
were  going  to  be  able  to add  a few more 
dollars  to  their  sales,  when a  young  lady 
entered  the  store.  She  was  so  decided­
ly  pretty  and  pleasant  looking  that  all 
of  the  clerks  started  forward  to  wait  on 
her—rather  an  unusual  occurrence.  She 
asked,  “ May  I  see  a  pair  of  tan  boots, 
please?”   and  when  the  clerk  produced 
a  pair  she  admired  them  and  promptly 
asked  him  to try them  on. 
‘ ‘ My !  what  a 
snap,”   thought  the  rest  of  the  clerks. 
Just  then  one  of  the  periodical  rushes 
came  along  and  for  the  next  half  hour 
everybody  was  busy.  When  the  rush 
was  over  the  discovery  was  made  that 
the  pretty  young  woman  was  having  her 
old  shoes  put  on,  and  they  heard  her 
saying  to  the  poor  fellow  who  was  serv­
ing  her,  “ I  am  sure  I  am  very  much 
obliged  to  you  for  showing  me  all  those 
nice  shoes. 
I  had  an  extra  half  hour 
and  I  thought  that  I  would  just  come in 
and  see  what  you  had—thank  you  very 
much,”   and  the  pretty  girl  with  the 
sweet  smile  and  the  pleasant  look  was 
gone.

*  *  *

A  good  majority  of  clerks  expect 
some  day  to  have  a  store  of  their  own. 
To  those  clerks  I  would  like  to  give  a 
word  of  advice. 
I  know  unasked  ad­
vice  is not  very  acceptable  as  a  rule, but 
if  you  read  this  1  am  sure  you  will 
think  it  is  right.  You  are  a  bright,  up- 
to-date  young  man,  of  course,  and  have 
been  saving  enough  to  have  a  nice  bal­
ance 
if  you  have 
been  working 
in  the  city  then  choose 
a  city  to  do  business  in  when  you  start 
out  for  yourself. 
It  doesn’t  need  to  be

in  the  bank.  Now 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

New  York  or  Chicago,  but  have  it  some 
place  large  enough  to  use  city  methods, 
the  methods  you  have  been  used  to. 
If, 
on  the  other  band,  you  have  been  in  a 
country  store,  then  stay  in  the  country. 
Your  place  is  there.  City  methods  and 
city  ways  are  so  different  from  what 
you  have  been  used  to  that  you  will 
find  yourself  unable  to  compete  with 
other  people  simply  from  sheer  lack  of 
knowledge  as  to  their  ways. 
It  is  only 
in  a  great  while  that  a  city  man 
once 
makes  a  success 
in  the  country  or  a 
country  boy  makes a success  in  the city. 
Country  boys  coming  to  a  city  oftener 
make  a  success  than  city  boys  going  to 
the  country,  because  the  country  boy  is 
willing  to  begin  at  the  bottom  and 
learn,  while  the  city  boy  has  a  habit  of 
thinking  he  already  knows  enough  to 
into  the  best  of  positions.  But 
step 
wher.  you  are  ready  to  start  in 
life  for 
yourself  stick  to  what  you  are  used  to 
and  you  will  make  a  bigger  success 
than  in  an  entirely  new  line.

*  *  *

When  a  possible  customer  finds  fauit 
with  the  goods  you  are  showing  him, 
don’t  spring  too  vigorously  to  their  de­
fense.  Show  him  something  else,  or,  if 
you  have  nothing  else  that  will  suit 
him  better, 
talk  about  the  style,  the 
texture  and  other qualities  that  haven’t 
occurred  to  him.  But  don’t  dispute 
with  him.  Don’t  try  to  convince  him 
that  he  doesn’t  know  what  he  is  talking 
about—few  people  do,  but  it jars  a  man 
awfully  to  be  told  so.

Sjc  *  *

is 

is  about 

Fred  and  Bob  are  clerks  in  a  down­
town  shoe  store  and  a  short  time  ago 
were  the  very  best  of  friends.  To-day 
they  never  speak  as  they  pass  by  and 
each  thinks  the  other 
the 
meanest  fellow  they  know.  Now  Fred 
is  quite  a  ladies’  man  and  Bob 
just 
the  opposite.  Fred  had  a girl and finally 
after  many  trials  he  induced  Bob  to  go 
with  him  and  call  on  her.  Now  he 
wishes  that  he  had  not  been  so  friendly, 
for  Bob  got  stuck  on  the  girl  and,  sad 
to  say,  the  girl  got  stuck  on  Bob.  Poor 
Fred  tried  his  best  to  keep  bis  place. 
He  even  tried  to  argue  with  Bob,  but 
Bob  told  him  that  all  was  fair  in  love 
and  war,  and  that  he  guessed  he  had 
just  as  much  right  with  the  lady  as  any 
one.  So  one  word  led  to  another  and  to 
tell  the  truth  Freddie  got  rather  the 
worse  of 
last  accounts  the  girl 
had  heard  of  his  scrap  with  Bob  and 
she  had  cut  him  dead  and  was lavishing 
all  her  time  and  affection  on  the  more 
fortunate  Bob.  Now  Fred  is  spending 
his  days  and  his  nights  trying  to  think 
of  some  scheme  to  get  even  with  them.
If  he  succeeds  this  story  may  be  con­
tinued  sometime  later.
*  *  *

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A  young  man  and  bis  pretty  wife 
came  into  a  retail  store  where  I  was one 
day  not 
long  ago  and  asked  to  see  a 
ladies’  shoes.  The  obliging 
pair  of 
clerk  first  showed  them  some 
light 
turned  shoes.  These  suited  the  lady 
very  well, 
indeed,  but  her  husband 
thought  she  should  have a  heavy  shoe 
and  asked  the  clerk  to  get  some  and 
let  her  see  them.  A  pair  was  brought 
out  and  tried  on  her,  but  she  would  not 
have  them  and  plainly  said  so.  This 
made  the  male  member  of  the  family  a 
trifle  angry  and  he  tried  to  argue  her 
out  of  what  he  termed  “ her  sillv  no­
tions,’ ’ "but  without  a  bit  of  success 
He  finally  got  so  excited  he  lost  his 
temper,  and  told  her  she  never  did have 
any  sense,  anyhow.  By  this  time  his 
wife  was  shedding  briny  tears,  but  even 
this  didn’t  soften  him.  The  poor  clerk

The  Rodgers  Shoe  Co.,

Toledo,  Ohio

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The  Store  Boy.

thought  it  was  a  last  sale  and  had  half 
a  mind  to  fight  the  husband.  But  had 
he  known  him  as  well  as  madame  did 
he  never  would  have  worried  any.  She 
asked  the  clerk  between  sobs,  to  put  on 
the  old  shoe and  to  have  the  heavy  pair 
wrapped  up.  Then her  Lord  and  Mas­
ter  (?))  broke  in  and  ordered  Mr.  Clerk 
to  “ wrap  up  the  light  ones,  that  he 
guessed  she  didn’t  have  to  wear  what 
she  didn  t  like.’ ’  The  light  ones  were 
accordingly  done  up  and  they  went  out, 
but  on  the  way  to  the  door  the  clerk 
received  a  queer  little  smile  and  nod 
from  the 
lady  that  meant  as  plainly  as 
words, 
“ I  knew  I  should  get  what  I 
wanted. ’ ’
Good  Things Said by Up-to-Date Shoe 

Dealers.

You  can  put  your  foot  into  any  shoe 
we  sell  and  rest  content  in  the  belief 
that  you  have  really  done  a  good  thing; 
not  only 
for  your  feet,  but  for  your 
pocketbook  as  well.—Hahne  &  Co., 
Newark,  N.  J.

The  bugle  call  has  been  sounded  and 
the  gathered  hosts  of  newest  and  pretti­
est  styles  in  spring  footwear  await  your 
coming.  Here  are  a  few  “ flowers  of 
the  army”   of  splendid  bargains  we 
offer.—Lazarus,  Columbus,  Ohio.

Here’s  a  shoe  for  which  you’d  pay  a 
custom  shoemaker $9 or  $10,  and  you’d 
not  be  overcharged  at  that,  as  shoe 
values  are  geneially  gauged.  We  sell 
this  shoe  at  $6  a  pair,  and  we’ll  fit  you, 
too,  as  well  as 
if  it  were  made  to  or­
der.—John  Wanamaker,  N.  Y.

Hess  shoes  have  become  known  here 
leading  shapes -  they  set  the 
as 
styles,  in  fact.  The  “ Mastiff”   and  the 
“ E gg”   shapes  were  created  by  Hess— 
bear  the  stamp of  fashion.  You  pay 
from  $3  to $ 7   a  pair—little  enough  for 
such footwear goedness.—N.  Hess’ Sons, 
Washington,  D.  C.

the 

Shoes  for  fussy  men. 

If  you  are  one 
of  the  particular  men  who  take  a  great 
deal  of  pains  to  get  exactly  such  a  fit 
and  such  a  shoe  as  pleases  you,  you  are 
likely  to  be  a  steady  customer  of  ours, 
for  that’s  the  kind  of  men  we  please. 
We  have  already  a  reputation  for  pains­
taking  and  accurate  fitting,  and we  wish 
to  extend 
it  all  we  can.—John  Wana­
maker,  N.  Y.

Shoes  extraordinary  at  prices  extraor­

dinary.—Siegel-Cooper  Co.,  N.  Y.

Tramp, 

The  difference  between  the $5  patent 
leather  shoes,  the  $3  derbys  we  sell  and 
the  $7  shoes,  the  S5  derbys  sold  else­
is:  ours  are  worth  the  price 
where 
asked—your  money  back 
if  you  want 
it.—Rogers,  Peet  &  Co.,  N.  Y.

tramp,  tramp,  the  boys  are 
marching.  And  they  must  have  strong, 
easy  boots  and  shoes.  They will find just 
what they  need at our store.  Should  they 
tramp  all  over  Cuba  they  will  not  re­
quire  more  than  one  pair  of  our war 
boots or  war  shoes  for  this  campaign.— 
Cammeyer’s  Shoe  Store,  N.Y.
been 
reached  in  Hess  Footwear.  They  are 
the  embodiment  of  all  those qualities 
which  make  a  shoe  popular.  They  have 
a  certain  distinctive  style  and  smart­
ness  about  them—the  mark  of  bestness 
—that 
from  any 
other  make.—N.  Hess,  Washington, 
D.  C.

is  entirely  missing 

footwear  has 

Perfection 

in 

ladies’ 

A  remarkable  purchase  of  2,400  pairs 
of 
fine  shoes  from  one of  the 
famous  Rochester  shoe  manufacturers— 
who,  being  sorely  pressed  for  money, 
came  to  The  Big  Store,  where  he  de­
posited  his  “ load  of  trouble”   in  ex­
change for an  exceedingly low sum—will 
be  placed  on  sale  to-morrow,  and  at  a 
price  that  promises  to  create  a  little  in­
surrection 
in  sboedom.—Siegel-Cooper 
Co.,  N.  Y.

Useless  Languages.
Its  surprising  how 

Jones: 

imprac­

tical  some  very  learned  men  are.

Smith:  Y es;  there’s  Professor  Lin- 
gwist,  for  instance.  He  spent  over  half 
his  life  in  acquiring  fluency  in  nine  or 
ten  different  languages,  and  then  went 
and  married  a  wife  who  never  gives 
him  a  chance  to  get  in  a  word  edge­
ways.

It 

is  a  question  whether  or  not  boys 
are  useful  in  stores  to  act  as  assistants 
in  waiting  on  customers  and  attending 
to  the  stock ;  that  is,  to  keep  the  store 
neat,  clean  and  in  good  order.  There 
are  many  varieties  of  boys,  as  every 
one  knows.  Some  are  amenable  to  rea­
son,  industrious,  intelligent  and  finally 
work  up  to  responsible  positions  from 
very  menial  ones. 
In  order  to  attain 
this, 
the  boy  must,  undoubtedly,  be 
trained  by  his  employer.  There  are 
instances  where  this  care on  the  part  of 
the employer  is  well  repaid  by  the  de­
velopment  of  a  personal  attachment  and 
a  deep 
interest  in  the  business  on  the 
part  of  the  protege.  Lately  a  compre­
hensive  discussion  of  the  whole  matter 
in  a  journal,  which  took  the 
appeared 
point  of  view  that  a  boy  in  the  store 
is 
an  important  factor  nowadays,  although 
he 
is  usually  ignored  and  disregarded 
until  he 
reaches  an  age  when  the 
problem  arises  as  to  what  position  he 
should  be  promoted,  to  be  a  salesman 
or discharged?

There  is  a  prevalent  feeling  that  boys 
are  rathei 
irresponsible  and  that  but 
little  dependence  can  be  put  on  them, 
although  there  are  some  things  which  a 
boy  can  do  as  well  as  a  man,  if  he  is 
properly  taught  the  manner  in  which 
If  some  patience 
they  should  be  done. 
and  perseverance  were  employed 
in 
training  boys,  and  ideas  about  business 
gradually 
inculcated  one  by  one  into 
their  minds,  they  would  soon  learn  how 
to  be  useful  as  well  as  popular.

again  until 

The  tendency  on  the  part  of  boys  to 
slight  their  work  could  be  overcome 
if 
at  the  beginning  of  their apprentice­
ship  they  were  made  to  do  a  thing  over 
and  over 
it  was  done 
thoroughly.  Boys  are  expected  to  as­
sist  in or do  the  janitor  service  entirely. 
But  comparatively  few  people,  young  or 
old,  know  how  to  sweep  properly,  for  it 
is  no  light,  easy  task.  Never  let  a  boy 
begin  by  sweeping  around  movable  ob­
jects,  but  see  that  he  lifts  them  out  of 
the  way.  Always  dampen  the  floor  by 
some  means  before  beginning  to  sweep, 
after  which  the  broom  should  be  ma­
nipulated  so  as  to  prevent  as  little  dust 
as  possible  from  rising,  as 
it  injures 
from  spattering 
goods,  and  be  kept 
wood  work  with  water.  Even  although 
is  dampened,  some dust  cir­
the  floor 
culates 
in  the  air,  and  this  should  al­
ways  be  carefully  wiped  off  after  it  has 
been  allowed  sufficient  time  to  settle.
One  of  the  principal  places  where 
many  stores  show  neglect  is  the window 
glass  in  the  front.  This  form  of  neglect 
is  noticed  as  much  as  any  other  by  cus 
tomers.  Cleaning  should  be  done  sys­
tematically  and  at  regular  intervals  not 
in  order  to  be  effective 
too  far  apart 
and obtain  that  unvaried,  shining  clean­
liness  which 
is  so  pleasing  to  rehned 
minds.  All  stores  can  not  have  the 
handsomest  fixtures,  or  great  expanses 
of  plate  glass,  but  they  can  have  neat­
ness  and  order,  which  require  little  ex­
pense  and  effort.
When  sent  out  with  parcels  the  boy 
instructed  to  handle  them 
should  be 
carefully,  not  toss  or  bump  them  about 
or  against  anything.  Packages  should 
reach  their  destination  in  good  condi­
tion  or  customers  will be offended.  Boys 
should  be  taught  nice  manners,  to  be 
courteous  and  gentle.  This  can  not  be 
learned  too  soon. 
It  will  repay  the 
boy  a  hundred  fold  in  late  years  if  he 
has  cultivated 
faculty  of  being 
agreeable. 
If  some of  these  suggestions 
are  borne  in  mind,  a  better  generation 
of  salespeople  may  be  evolved.

the 

Bargain  Day  in  the  Rural  Store.

From the St.  Louis  Globe-Democrat.

“ You  say  them  shoes  is  wuth  $1,  but 
you'll  take  75  cents ef  I  pay  cash,  won’t 
you?”

“  Yes. ”
“ Then  you'll  fling  in  a  pair  of  woolen 

socks,  I  guess?”
“ Reckin’  so. ”
“ Hold  on;  them  shoes  hain’t  got  no 
“ I ’ll  give  you  a  pair.”
“ Better  make  hit  two  pair;  one  will 

strings,  have  they?”

soon  wear  out. ’ ’

“ All  right,  here  they  are.”

“ Looks  like  you  might  gimme  a  pair 

of  suspenders  fer good  measure. ”  
it.  What  else?”

“ Well,  rather  than  miss  trade  I ’ll  do 

set  ’em  up,  don’t  you?”

“  When  a  feller  buys  a  bill  you  alius 
“  Yes,  what’ll  you  take?”
“   I wo  segars  an’  a  pound  o’  cheese.”
Summer Schedule on the Grand Trunk.
The  Grand  Trunk  Railway  System, 
Detroit  &  Milwaukee  Division,  has 
opened  up  the  summer  season  by  pla­
cing  in  service  five  trains  daily,  except 
Sunday,  each  way  between  Grand  Rap­
ids  &  Grand  Haven,  and  two  each  way 
on  Sundays.  Excursion  tickets  will  be 
sold  same  as  last  year:  Grand  Haven 
and  return  on  Sunday,  50  cents.  For 
particulars,  call  at  D.  &  M.  city  office, 
Morton  House,  or  at  depot  —665.

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Men’s  Heavy  Shoes  in 
Oil  Grain  and Satin;  also 
carry  Snedicor &  Hatha 
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Price in Men’s,  Boys’ and 
Youths’.  Lycoming  and 
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Learn  the  lesson  of patience thoiough- 
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and  tear  of  your  life  will  cease.

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In 

institution. 
the  Government 

this  reason  must  be  treated  as  a  semi­
chartering  a 
public 
bank 
practically 
vouches  for  the  confinement  of  its  oper­
ations  within  certain  general 
limita­
tions,  and  the  public  has  a  right  to  as­
is  adequate  value  be­
sume  that  there 
hind  its  credit  notes. 
It  is  the  duty  of 
the  Government  to  see  that  credits  are 
kept  within  safe  limitations,  not  by  ab­
solute  fixity  of  volume,  but  through  a 
relative  fixity  by  which  they are allowed 
to  expand  or  contract  as  production 
and  exchange  rises  or  recedes.  When 
an 
individual  offers  a  promissory  note 
it 
is  generally  a  comparatively  easy 
matter  to  fairly  ascertain  his  resources, 
honesty,  etc.,  but  without  some  guar­
law  as  to  resources,  it  would 
antee  of 
be 
impossible  for  the  great  mass  of 
people  to  determine  the  quality  of  a 
bank’s credits,  and each  bank  would  be-  I

come  the  object  of 
investigation  by 
hundreds  of  individuals  each  day.  Un ­
der  such  conditions,  business  would  be 
retarded  and  credit  notes  would  become 
practically  worthless 
for  facilitating 
exchanges  beyond  the  immediate  vicin­
ity  of  the  bank  of  issue.  This 
lack  of 
a  pioper  guarantee  by  law  was  the  real 
weakness  of  the  wild-cat  system  that 
prevailed  prior  to  the  rebellion  and 
made  it  necessary  that  each  person have 
recourse  to  daily  market  quotations,  in 
order  to 
learn  the  value  of  the  credit 
notes  of  each  bank.

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BANKING  REFORM.

The  enactment 

Systems.
into 

Review  of the  Present  and  Proposed 

law  of  the  bill 
now  before  Congress  for  the  revision 
of  our  banking  system  would  mark  one 
of  the  greatest  economic  advances  in 
the  history  of  our  country. 
It  contains 
forty-six  sections,  and  every  part  has 
some  relation  to  every  other  part,  so 
that  a  review  of  the  bill  in  all  its details 
in­
would  be  quite  impossible  without 
definitely  extending  these  articles. 
It 
is  the  foundation  of  a  complete  and 
symmetrical  system  of finance,  conform­
ing  to  the  conditions  of. an advanced  in­
Its  operation  would 
dustrial  organism. 
be  as  simple  as  seems  possible  and 
its 
parts  seem  to  be  as  harmoniously  con­
structed  as  human  ingenuity  can  make 
them. 
It  is  no  experiment.  The finan­
cial  history  and  experience  of  every  na­
tion  of  any  commercial  importance  has 
been  consulted  and  examined  into  by 
those  who  drafted  its  main  provisions. 
Many  of  its  parts  are  fashioned  after 
the  Canadian  and  Scotch  banking  sys­
tems,  which  are  acknowledged  by  all 
students  of  banking  to  be  the  best in  the 
worid.  Under 
laws  of  trade, 
commerce,  competition,  supply  and  de­
mand—in  a  word,  the laws  of  economics
-are 

of  each  borrower and the security offered 
for  each  loan  sought.  A  bank  exists  to 
make  loans  of  its  own  capital  and  the 
capital  of  others  entrusted  to  it.  When 
approached  by  a  borrower  it  accepts  or 
rejects  his  request  as  the  judgment  of 
its  responsible  head  dictates. 
If  its 
patrons  have  large  orders  on  hand  from 
responsible  parties,  or  ample  actual  as­
sets,  these  form  a  safe  basis  for  large 
credit  accommodations;  if  orders  are 
small  or  from  questionable  sources,  or 
actual  assets  are  small,  credits  should 
be  correspondingly  contracted  and  the 
regulation  of  these transactions  must,  in 
the  nature  of  things,  he  with  the  officers 
of  the  bank  and  such  transactions  are, 
as  a  matter  of  fact,  absolutely 
inde­
pendent  of  statutory  enactments.  The 
main  object  of 
statutory  regulations 
should  be  the  fixing  of  the  minimum  ot 
assets  necessary  to  the  maximum  ot 
credits,  coupled  with  only  such  regu­
lations  as  will  prevent  or  detect  fraudu­
lent  operations.  Within  these  lines  the 
banks  should  be  allowed the most liberty 
to  augment  or  contract  credits  in  obedi- 
! ence  to  the  rise  or  fall  of  exchanges 
I within  the  radius  of  their  patronage. 
An  enlightened  self-interest  will  at  all 
times  prompt  the  hanks  to  grant  the 
largest  credits  consistent  with  safety, 
for  their  prosperity  depends  upon  the
linked  to  and  operate  band  in 1 ProsPertfy  of  their  patrons.  Bankers
can  not  prosper  by  adopting  a  course  of 
action  that  minimizes  exchanges,  for 
exchanges  are  the  creators  and  sustain­
e d   of  banks  and  their  interests  are best 
served  when  actual  exchanges  call  for 
many  credits.  The  real  pitfalls  for 
banks  are  not  bona  fide  exchanges  but 
speculative  enterprises.

it  the 

it 

hand  with  credits,  the  touchstone  of all 
These  laws,  like  the 
laws  of  gravita­
tion,  are  parts  of  the  constitution  of  the 
universe  and  serve  man’s  purposes  only 
in  so  far as  he  adjusts  his  principles  of 
action  to  theirs.  This  bill  will  place 
credits  in  touch  with  the  magnets  that 
attract  or  repel  them,  obedient  to  nat­
ural  laws,  in  the  supplying  of  man’s 
needs.  A  banking  system 
is  efficient 
in  aiding  the  exchange  of  goods  and 
products  only  within  the  limitations  by 
which 
is  by  law  allowed  to  operate. 
It  is  through  it  that  the  whole process of 
credits,  which  take  the  piace  of  actual 
money,  is  evolved.  Banks do  not  make 
the  necessity  for  credits,  but  this  neces­
sity  calls  them  into  existence  and  it  is 
a  short-sighted  policy  that  seeks  to  cur­
tail  their  powers  of  supplying  credits, 
so  long  as  they  keep  within  the  general 
safety 
lines  prescribed  by  law,  for  be­
yond  this  point  the  success  or  failure  of 
each  bank  must  depend  upon  the  hon­
esty  and  business  judgment  of  those  re­
sponsible  for  the  conduct  of  its  busi­
ness  The  individual  transactions  of  a 
bank  can  not  be  the object  of legislative 
guidance  and  direction.  These  are,  in 
the  nature  of  things,  left  to  practically 
one  man  in  each  bank,  whose  business 
it  is  to  investigate,  quickly  and  quietly, 
the  pecuniary  responsibility and honesty

The 

line  of  demarkation  as  to  the 
safety  of  credits  can  not  be  arbitrarily 
drawn  and  defined  in a legislative enact­
ment  any  more  than  can  be  the  quality 
of  volume  of  an  individual’s promissory 
notes.  An 
individual  may,  under  fa­
vorable  business  conditions,  negotiate 
and  redeem  many  times  more  promis­
sory  notes  than  he  could  meet  under 
changed  business  conditions,  and  he 
might  be  more  solvent  while  he  had  a 
large  credit  debt  against  him  than when 
such  debt  was  at  a  minimum.  The  de­
gree  of  stability  would  be  found 
in 
comparing  at  given  times  his  credit 
liabilities  with  the  volume  of  his assets. 
This  rule  alone  should  be  the  test  of  a 
bank’ s  issues  of  credit  notes  and  there 
would  be  no  more  need  for  fixing  the 
maximum  volume  of  a  bank’s  credit 
notes  by  law  than  there  is  of  fixing  the 
volume  of  an  individual’s  promissory 
notes  were  it  not  for  the fact  that a bank 
is,  of  necessity,  the  trustee  of  the  funds 
and  credits  of  scores  of  people,  and  for

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip. 

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

and Treasurer, C. W.  A llen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
Grand  Counselor,  F.  L.  Day,  Jackson;  Grand 
Secretary, G. S. V almore, Detroit;  Grand Treas­
urer, Geo. A. Reynolds, Saginaw.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

President,  J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer, Geo.  F.  Owen,  Grand 
Rapids.
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W.  C.  Brown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F. Wixson,  Marquette.
He  Was  Prepared  for  Emergencies.
It  was  raining  straight  down,  as  the 
saying  goes,  and  had  been  doing  so  all 
day;  one  of  those  soakers,  when 
it 
seems  impossible  to  stop,  a  sticky,  hot, 
wet  night 
in  September,  as  I  stepped 
from  a  train  at  a  little  station  on  the  B. 
&  O.  road.

I  was  a  full-fledged  drummer.  My 
only  customer  at  this  village  was  the 
general  merchant  in  the  place,  a  dealer 
in  sugar,  grindstones,  patent  medi­
cines,  calico  and  eggs;  a  department 
store  of  “ auld  lang  syne.”

it  did  rain. 

My  schedule  said  to  see  this  customer 
and  sell  him  wbat  I  could;  get  supper 
at  a  boarding  house  half  a  mile  away 
and  get  back  to  catch  the  9 o’clock train 
for  the  West.
Rain—how 

I  had  two 
light-weight  overcoat,  but 
grips  and  a 
no  umbrella. 
I  rushed  to  M. ’s  place 
and  found  the  old  gentleman  alone, 
reading  the  evening  paper  and awaiting 
the  return  of  his  two  clerks,  who  were 
out  to  supper.  After  the  usual  trade 
greeting,  I  said:  “ Mr.  M.,  I  must  get 
over  to  the  boarding  house  (hotel,  he 
called  it)  and  back  for  the  next  train 
west,  and  I  have  no  umbrella.  Can 
you  loan  me  one?”  
“ Well,  now,”   he 
said,  “ what  a  night  to  borrow  such  a 
thing.  We  keep  two  here  and  the  boys 
have  both  of  them  out  to  supper,  and 
they  won’t  be  back  for  an  hour.  But, 
my  boy,  I  will  fix  you  out.  Back  here 
in  a  barrel,  under  my  long-legged desk, 
I  keep  a  big,  cotton  umbrella  that  is  a 
veteran. 
It  has  seen  service  many 
years. 
I  never  allow  anyone  to  carry 
it  but  myself,  and  I  know  it  is  always 
there. 
it  every  time. 
It  is  the  Old Man’s  private property and 
no  one  disturbs  it. 
‘ rainy 
I  will  loan  it  to  you  if 
day’  umbrella. 
you  will  bring 
it  directly  back  after 
supper  and  return  it  to  me  personally ; 
it’s  an  old  friend  and  I  can’t  do  busi­
ness  without  it.”

I  can  bet  on 

I  call  it  my 

I  complied  with  the  old  gentleman’s 
request;  sold  him  a  nice  order,  had  my 
supper,  caught  the  west-bound  train, 
was  dry  and  felt  well  contented  with 
myself  and  with  the  world  at 
large. 
Over  a  cigar  in  the  smoker,  as  the  train 
rumbled  and  swung  along,  it  struck  me 
that  there  was  a  moral 
in  my  old 
friend’s  umbrella  for  a  young  man, 
merely  a  boy,  as  I  was at  that  time.

I 

fell 

into  this  train  of  reasoning: 
That  old  gentleman  has  been  a  suc­
cessful  merchant,  has  a  fine  trade,  car­
ries  a  big  stock  of  goods,  discounts  bis 
bills,  and 
is  the  adviser,  attorney  and 
the  friend  of  every  farmer  within  ten 
miles  of  his  place;  be  is  looked  up  to 
as  authority  by  everyone 
in  his  little 
bailiwick,  yet  he  made  so  much  ado 
about  an  old  cotton  umbrella!  But

then,  it  was  his  rainy  day  umbrella; 
one  that  he  did  not  use  in  sunshine,  one 
that  he  did  not  carry  about  in  fair 
weather,  but  for  emergencies,  like  this 
to-night.  He  knew positively  just  where 
to  put  his  hand  on  it;  knew  without  a 
shadow  of  a  doubt  that  he  would  find 
it 
ready  for  anything—a  good,  big,  sub­
stantial  rainy  day  umbrella.  And  then 
I  said,  have  I  such  an  article,  that  I 
know  to  be 
in  exactly  such  or  such  a 
place;  not  for  rain,  but  for  clothing, 
bread  and  butter,  and  for  any  pressing 
wants  that  might  arise?  And,  believe 
me,  I  could  not  remember  where  I  had 
any  such  an  arrangement  that  was  re­
served  and  set  apart  for  rainy  days.

The  grocer  pushes  trade  for  all  it  is 
worth.  He  cuts  a  profit  here  and  one 
there  to  draw  business;  works  late  and 
early,  keeps  his  clerks  and  delivery 
men  on  the  jump;  uses  his  “ fair  day”  
umbrellas  for  the  wholesale  grocer  and 
the  notion 
jobber,  for  the  butcher,  his 
butter  man,  the  produce  dealer  and  for 
his  help. 
If  the  supply  of  umbrellas 
does  not go  around  some  one  must  wait. 
He  never  thinks  of  himself;  and  now 
an  unexpected  but  positive  demand 
comes  from  an  outside  concern,  where 
he  bought 
just  a  few  too  many  goods, 
goods  that  were  new  style  and  have  not 
sold  readily;  in  fact,  most  of  them  are 
on  the  shelves  or  unpacked in the cellar, 
and  bis  credit  is  at  stake.

What  now? 

It  must  not  get  to  Dun, 
or  to  Smith,  who  travels  for  Rice  & 
Co.,  the  big  wholesale  grocers  and  his 
principal  creditor.  His  paper  gone  to 
protest  for  the  want  of  just  one  small 
umbrella  to  protect  it !  That  must  not 
happen. 
It  shall  not;  and  then  he 
thinks  of  his  old-standby,  solidly-made, 
rough,crook-necked,  old-fashioned rainy 
day  umbrella,  that  he  has 
laid  away 
with  Interest  &  Co.,  bankers,  and  he 
takes  it  out,  for  he  knows  exactly where 
he  will  find 
it;  takes  up  his  paper, 
anxiously  awaits  a  few  collections  and 
a  few  days’  sales,  and  then  back  goes 
the  old  cotton  friend,  back  into  the  old 
hiding  place,  its  duty done.  Clouds  and 
rain  gone,  sunshine  now.  No  use  for 
anything,  not  even  a  parasol.  The  day 
is  saved.  His  credit 
is  saved.  His 
name  is  at  par the  world  over.  And  all 
honor  to  his  old,  homely,  rainy  day  um­
brella.  Have  you  got  such  a  one?

W .  B.  G e r o e .

He  Got  His  Receipt.

Uneducated  people  sometimes  have  a 
happy  knack 
in  coming  to  the  point. 
Dan  and  Mose,  neither  of  them  noted 
for  erudition,  were  partners  in  an  en­
terprise  which  it  is  needless  to  specify. 
One  morning  a  customer  called  to  set­
tle  a  small  bill,  and  after  banding  over 
the  money asked  for  a  receipt.

Mose  retired  to  the  privacy  of  an 

in­
ner  room,  and  after  a 
long  delay  re­
turned  with  a  slip  of  paper  on  which 
were  written  these  words :

“ We’ve  got  our  pay.  Me  and  Dan.”

Joe  F.  O.  Reed  (H.  Leonard &  Sons) 
has  stolen  a  march  on  his  friends  by 
abandoning  the  state  of  single  blessed­
ness,  the  fortunate  partner  of  his  joys 
and  sorrows  being  Mrs.  Eliza  Lathrop, 
of  Delta.  The  ceremony  occurred  at  the 
residence  of  the  bride Tuesday evening. 
The  happy  couple  will  reside at 48 Bost- 
wick  street. 
Joe  has  hosts  of  friends 
who  will  join  the  Tradesman  in wishing 
him  and  his  bride 
long  life  and  much 
happiness.

H.  S. 

(Happy  Hi)  Robertson  has 
engaged  to  cover  the  retail  trade  of 
Western  Michigan 
the  Diamond 
Crystal  Salt  Co.,  of  St.  Clair.

for 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Requisites  of  the  Successful  Cigar 

Salesman.

In  the  first  place,  a  salesman  must  be 
the  soul  of  honor.  The 
implicit  truth 
is  the  only  road  to  a  customer’s  con­
fidence,  and  where  there is no confidence 
predominating  there  can  be  no  suc­
cessful  business  relations. 
It  is  more 
than  necessary  for  this  confidence  and 
integrity  to  find  its  fountain  head  at  the 
factory.  An  employer  and employe must 
be  as  closely  allied  to  each  other  as  the 
partners  of  the  concern  are,  and  they 
must  know  and  feel  that  their 
interests 
are 
identical,  and  hence  oft-repeated 
interchange  of  ideas  should  be  resorted 
to.

To  be  a  successful  cigar  salesman 
one has  to  be  a  thorough  physiognomist 
and  a  competent 
judge  of  human  na­
ture.  He  must  be  able  to  conclude  at  a 
glance  how  and  in  what  strain  to  open 
a  conversation  with  a  buyer,  and  should 
he  have  made  a  mistake  he  must  be  so 
quick  to  detect 
it  that  he  can  change 
the  style  of  wording  his  phrases  so  as 
not  to  be  discovered.

There  are  no  two  people  that  you  can 
address  alike  or on  whom  you  can make 
an  impression  with  the  same  words.

A  man  starting  on  the  road  must  first 
of  all  feel  that  he  is  selling  the  finest 
productions  in  his  line  that  are  manu­
factured.  He  recognizes  no  competition 
with  regard  to  quality,  and  knowing  or 
believing  this,  he  can  represent  his 
goods  with  truth  and  accuracy.

is  quite  necessary  for  him  to  be 
thoroughly  conversant  with  the  modus 
operandi  of  making  a  cigar,  what  it 
is 
made  of,  how  it  is  made  and  a  full  de­
scription  of  same  from  the  time  the  to­
bacco  goes  to  the  stripper  until  it leaves 
the  packer’s  table.

It 

The  personality  of  the  salesman  is an­
other  great  requisite.  Of  good  address 
and  neatly  clothed,  he  must  be  able  to 
impress  a  buyer upon  first  sight with the 
knowledge  that  the  caller 
is  a  perfect 
gentleman,  and  as  the  conversation  ad­
vances  be  must  by  his  talk  and  actions 
convince  the  buyer  that  if  he  has  con­
cluded  that  such  is  the  case he has made 
no  error.

The  amount  of  conversation  that  a 
salesman  resorts  to  does  not  count  for 
much with  a  merchant,  as  it  is  the  qual­
ity  of  talk  that  inspires  confidence  and 
leads  to  good  orders.

A  salesman, 

to  meet  with  success, 
dare  not  under  any  circumstances  make 
any  misrepresentations,  nor make  prom­
ises  that  be  knows  beforehand  his  firm 
will  not  nor  can  not  live  up  to.

Becoming  too  familiar  with  a custom­
er  is  not  a  good  thing  to  do.  A  sales­
man  must  avoid  becoming  a  bore,  and 
must  strive  to  conduct  himself  in such  a 
way  that  he 
is  at  all  times  a  welcome 
visitor  in  a  merchant’s  place  of  busi­
ness,  so  that  the  buyer  will  always  be 
pleased  to  see  him,  whether  he  does 
business  with  him  or  not.

A  salesman  must be  able  to 

interest 
a  possible  purchaser  sufficiently  to  get 
him  to  look  over  his  line  of  goods,  and 
so  make  an 
impression  on  him  that 
he  will  remember his line and he eventu­
ally  get  some  of  his  trade.

Never  neglect  to  call  on  all  the  trade. 
Slight  no  one  and  never  leave  a  c ty  
until  you  have  thoroughly  canvassed  all 
the  good  houses,  and  although  you  don’t 
succeed  in  doing  a  large  business,  you 
can  feel  that  you  have  conscientiously 
done  your  duty.

There  are  many  other  requisites  nec­
essary  to  become  a  successful  cigar 
salesman.and yet  the  representative  of  a 
jobber  or  manufacturer  can  but  place

17

the  goods  with  the  trade,  and  the  firm 
at  the back  of  him  must  do  the rest,  be­
cause  people  can  only  reorder  such 
goods  that  sell  and  that  the  public  will 
smoke,  and  desire  to  smoke  again,  thus 
creating  a  demand  for  brands,  and  this 
means  mail  orders  whether  the  sales­
man  comes  around  or  not.

- ...♦

  •   ♦ —

A .  M e t z g e r .
Some  Facts  About  Mr.  Murphy.
Total  reported  production  of  potatoes 
164,015,964  bushels,  being 
in  1897  was 
88,218,576  bushels,  or  35  per  cent,  less 
than  was  reported  for  1896.

The  total  reported  area  of  production 
was  2. 534. 577  acres,  as  compared  with 
2.767.465  acres 
1896,  a  decrease  of 
232,888  acres,  or  8.4  per  cent.

in 

The  total  value  of  the  crop  was 
$89,643,059,  an  increase  of  $17,460,709, 
or  24.2  per  cent.

The  average  yield per acre, 64.7  bush­
less  than  was  re­
els,  is  26.4  bushels 
ported  for 
1896 and  10.4  bushels  below 
the  average  of  the  ten  years  from  1887 
to  1896.  A 
lower  yield  than  that  for 
1897  was  reported  in  the  preceding  dec­
ade  only 
in  the  years  1887,  1890,  1892 
and  1894.

The  average  value  per  bushel,  54.7 
cents,  is  26.1  cents  per  bushel  higher 
than  the  average  for  1896,  and  is  more 
than  double  the  average  price  per 
bushel  realized 
for  the  crop  of  1895. 
The  average  value  per  acre  was  $35.37, 
as  compared  with  $26.08  in  1896.

in 

in 

There  was  only  one  extensive  and 
clearly  defined  section  of  the  country, 
namely, 
the  Pacific  coast,  where,  in 
1897,  the  potato  crop  was  not  to  a  very 
large  extent  a  failure.  Only  from  ten 
states  altogether  was  any  increase  re­
ported  over  the  crop  of  1896,  and  in  the 
case  of  several  of  these  the increase  was 
unimportant.  The  production  of  the 
whole  of  New  England  was  but  little 
greater 
1897  than  that  of  the  single 
State  of  Maine 
1896.  New  York 
shows  a  reduction  of  over  one-third, 
and  Pennsylvania  of  almost  one-half. 
In  the  central  West  the  conditions  were 
still  worse,  the  production  of  Ohio, 
Michigan,  Indiana  and  Illinois  falling 
off  from  61,000,000  in  1896 to  29,000,000 
in  1897.  Wisconsin  and  Minnesota  re­
port  a  notable 
increase  of  production 
from  a  somewhat  reduced  acreage,  but 
Iowa,  Missouri,  Kansas,  Nebraska,  and 
the  Dakotas,  all  important  potato-grow­
ing  States,  report  a  greatly  reduced 
production.  Washington,  Oregon  and 
their 
California,  however, 
contribution 
from
in­
4,800,000 
crease  but  one  that,  after  all,  makes  but 
little  impression  on  the  greatly  reduced 
grand  total.  With  the  exception  of 
Rhode  Island,  which  reports  a  yield  of 
no bushels  per  acre,  all  the  states  re­
porting  more  than  100  bushels  per  acre 
are  west  of  the  Mississippi  River,  and 
all  except  Minnesota  are  in  the  Rocky 
Mountain  region  or on  the Pacific coast.

increased 
to  the  total  crop 

to  7,000,000,  a  noteworthy 

A   member  of  Congress  from  the  West 
has  just  received  this  startling  informa­
tion  from  a  soured  constituent  who  did 
not  approve  of  bis  position :  “ I ’ve got a 
big  yellow  squash  left  over  from 
last 
year’s  harvest  that’s  got  more  brains  in 
it  than  you’ve  got.”

HOTEL WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH.

A. VINCENT, Prop.
THE  WHITNEY  HOUSE

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

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

“ I  have  a  cute  pain  in  my  child’s 
diagram.  Please  give  my  son  some­
thing  to  release  it. ”

Another anxious  mother  wrote:
“ My  little  babey  has  eat  up  its  fath­
er’s  parish  plasther.  Send  an  anecdote 
quick  as  possible  by  the  enclosed  little 
g irl.”

The  writer  of  this  one  was  evidently 

in  pain:

“ I  haf  a  hot  time  in  my  insides  and 
which  I  wood  like  it to be extinguished. 
What  is  good  for  to  extinguish  it.  The 
enclosed  quarter  is  for  the  price  of  the 
extinguisher.  Hurry  pleas. ”
New  York  Legislation  on Paris Green.
Owing  to  the  many  complaints  which 
have  reached  the  New  York  Legislature 
recently  from  the  rural  districts  regard­
ing  the  poor  quality  of  the  Paris  green 
sold  to  the  credulous  farmers  for  de- 
storying  potato  bugs  and  ether  entomo­
logical  devastators,  a  bill  for  the  pur­
pose  of  regulating  the  quality  of  this 
article  was  prepared,  and,  after  meet­
ing  the  approval  of  both  Houses  of  the 
New  York  State  Legislature, 
is  now 
signature  of  Governor 
awaiting  the 
Black.  Under  the  proposed 
law  all 
Paris  green  sold  within  the  boundaries 
of  the  State  must  be  up  to  a  certain 
standard,  or,  to  quote  the  b ill: 
“ The 
composition  of  Paris  green,  when  sold 
in  this  State,  shall  be  a  chemical  com­
pound  of  acetic  acid,  arsenious  oxide 
and  cupric  oxide.  All  Paris  green  sold, 
offered  or  exposed  for sale,  shall  contain 
at  last  50  per  cent,  of  arsenious oxide. ”
The  hill  also  provides  that  all  whole­
sale  dealers  in  Paris  green  must  obtain 
a  permit  and  provide  samples  of  their 
product  for  analysis  by  the  State  Agri­
cultural  Department.  The  penalty  for 
violation  of  this  proposed  law  is  a  fine 
of $200.

The  Pleasure  Was  Mutual.

Browne—Allow  me  to  have  the  pleas­
ure  of  returning  that  $5  that  I  borrowed 
the  other  day.

Smyth— Thanks. 

The  pleasure 

is 

mine.

18
Drugs—Chemicals

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

F. W. R. P i b b t, Detroit 
A. C. Schumacher.  Ann  Arbor 
Gko. Gtjkdbum,  Ionia  - 
L. £. R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
Henry  Heim,'Saginaw  - 
- 

------- 

- 

President, F. W. R.  Pe b b t, Detroit- 
Secretary, Geo. Gundbcm,  Ionia.
Treasurer, A. C. Schcmacheb, 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. Wbb beb, Cadillac. 
Secretary—Chas.  Mann, Detroit. 
Treasurer—J ohn D. Mu ib, Grand Rapids.

Is  There  a  Kola  Habit?

The  statement 

is  occasionally  met 
with  that  the  continued  employment  of 
kola  or  its  preparations  as  a  medicinal 
agent  or  light  stimulant  results  in  the 
contraction of a  “ habit.”   This  “ habit”  
has  been  described  as  being either more 
or  less  dangerous  than  the  morphine 
habit—depending  considerably  on  the 
fertility  of  the  writer’s  imagination— 
and 
its  effects  on  body  and  soul  have 
been  depicted  in  a  manner  well  worthy 
of  DeQuincey.  My  own  experience  re­
futes  these  statements  so  completely 
that  I  feel  constrained  to  relate  it.

if 

in 

investigating,  under 

For  the  past  two  years  1  have  been 
engaged 
the 
supervision  of  Prof.  A.  B.  Prescott,  of 
Ann  Arbor,  the  chemistry  of  this  inter­
esting  drug.  During  that  time  I  had 
constantly  at  band  a  supply  of  fresh 
kola,  and 
for  the  first  few  months  I  ate 
two  or  three  of  the  so-called  “ nuts”  
every  day,  a  quantity  represented  by  a 
good  deal  more  of  the  various wines and 
elixirs  of  kola  than  most  persons  would 
be  apt  to  use 
in  the  same  period  of 
time.  The  stimulating  effect  was,  of 
course,  perceptible,  and  I  soon  learned 
not to  paitake  of  the  drug  in  the  even­
ing  unless  I  wished  to  remain  awake 
until  a  late  hour.  After  three  months, 
or  perhaps  a  little  longer,  I  decided  to 
abstain  from  further  use of  it  for a time 
to  ascertain 
it  had  really  become  a 
necessity  to  me.  The  first  day  of  ab­
stinence  I  suffered  from  a  dull  head­
ache,  the  second  day  the  headache  was 
less  noticeable,  and  the  third  day  there 
was  no  headache  or  discomfort  of  any 
kind—the  same  effects  exactly  that  I 
have  noticed  on  abstaining  from  coffee 
or  tea  after  using  it  for  a  time.  There 
was  positively  no  more  desire  for  kola 
than  for  tea  or coffee  under  the  circum- 
tances,  and  that  certainly  can  not be re- 
gaided  as  a  serious matter.  After  about 
two  weeks  of  abstinence  had  convinced 
me  that  no  habit  had  been  formed,  I 
resumed  its  use  with  about  the  former 
regularity,  but  after  about  a  month  I 
felt  that  I  was  gradually  coming  to  dis­
like  it;  in  a  few  months  more  I  had 
ceased  using  it  entirely,  and  that  with­
out any  resolution  or  previously  formed 
intention  to  do  so. 
I  quit  merely  be­
cause  I  did  not  care  for  it  any  longer. 
During  the  second  year  of  my  research 
I  do  not  suppose  I  ate  more  than  a 
dozen  kola  nuts.  And  this 
is  the  kola 
habit!

The  stimulating  action  of  kola  seems 
to  me  to  be  much  the  same  as  that  of 
coffee,  except  that  it  is  more  prolonged 
than  that  produced  by  coffee.  This 
might  be  explained  by  the  fact  that 
caffeine  kolatannate, 
form

in  which 

rather  more  than  half  of  the  caffeine  of 
kola  exists,  is  but  slowly  soluble  in  the 
fluids  of  the  stomach,  and  this  slow  ab­
sorption  would  tend  to  prolong the stim­
ulant  effect.  The  fact  that  certain  prep­
arations  of  kola  are  so strongly alcoholic 
that  the  stimulation  produced  by  them 
is  much  more  due  to  the  alcohol  than  to 
caffeine  may  be  in  part  responsible  for 
the  notion  that  there 
is  a  kola  habit. 
If  any  one  finds  that  such  a  preparation 
of  the  drug  has  become  an  absolute 
necessity  to  him  it  is  very  likely  that  a 
few  simple  experiments  will  show  that 
it  is  the  alcohol  he  wants  instead  of  the 
caffeine.  No  one 
is  disputing  that 
there  is  an  alcohol  habit,  but  let  us  call 
things  by  their  right  names  and  there­
fore  not  call  this  the  kola  habit.

James  W.  T.  Knox.

The  Drug  Market.

Opium—The  market  is  steady  at  the 
advance  noted  last  week  and  continues 
firm,  with  an  upward  tendency.

Morphine—In  sympathy  with  opium, 

is  also  firm  and  has  advanced  ioc.

Quinine—Speculators  have  dropped 
the  article  for  the  time  being  and  man­
ufacturers’  prices  rule.  At  the  auction 
sale  of  cinchona  bark,  very  much  high­
er  prices  were  paid  and  it  is  reasonable 
to  expect  that  quinine  will  remain  at 
the  present  price  for  some time to come.
Quicksilver—Has  advanced  about  7c 
per  lb.,and  an  advance  in all mercurials 
is  looked  for.

Balsams—Copaiba,  Peru  and Tolu  are 

all  firm  at  the  recent  advance.

Soap  Bark—Is  scarce  and  has  been 

advanced.

Gums—Asafoetida  is  in  good  demand 
and  steady.  Kino  has  been  advanced 
50c  per  lb.

is 

in 

Roots—Jamaica  ginger 

light 
stock  and  the  price  has  been  advanced. 
Golden  seal  is  in  good  demand  at  high­
er  prices. 
Ipecac  is  firm  and,  with  the 
stock  in  a  few  hands,  prices  have  been 
advanced.  An  advance  is  expected  on 
the  price  of  licorice,  on  account  of  the 
war.

Seeds—Canary,  caraway  and  celery 
is  higher. 
are  all  advancing.  Hemp 
There 
little  California  yellow 
mustard  to  market  this  year  and  high 
prices  will  rule.  Poppy  is  scarce abroad 
and  has  advanced.

is  very 

Sulphur—There  has  been  a  sharp  re­
action,  on  account  of  the  arrival  of 
crude,  and  we  note  very  much  lower 
prices.

Linseed  Oil—On  account  of  competi­
tion,  has  declined,  but  the  seed  market 
has  advanced  and  it  is  thought  the  low 
price  will  only  rule  for  a  few  days.

Sperm  Oil—Has  advanced  on  account 
of  the  Government  having  purchased 
nearly  all  the  oil  in  market.
Peculiar  Orders  Received  by  Drug­

gists.

A  local  druggist  is  making  a  collec­
tion  of  the  queer  orders  he  receives 
from  people  who  send  children  to  the 
store  for  things  they  need.  Here  are  a 
few  samples  of  them :

“ This  child  is  my  little  girl. 

I  sent 
you  5  cents  to  buy  two  sitless  powders 
for  a  groan  up  adult  who  is  sike. ”  

Another  reads!:
“ Dear  Dochter,  pies  gif  bearer  five 
sense  worse  of  Auntie  Toxyn  for  to gar­
gle  babi’s  throte  and  obleage. ’ ’

An  anxious  mother  writes :
“ You  will  pleas  give  the  leetle  boi 
five  cents  worth  of  epecac  for  to  throw 
up  in  a  five  months’  old  babe.  N  B — 
The  babe  has  a  sore  stummick. ”
This  one  p u lle d   the  druggist;

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Forgot  His  Latin.

“ I’m  afraid 

I  have  lost  a  patient,”  
said  the  young  physician  who  realizes 
the  value  of  making  an  impression.

“ Didn’t  you  know  what  remedy  to 

prescribe?”

“ Perfectly.  That  part  of  it  was  sim­
ple  enough.  But  I  couldn’t  think  of  the 
Latin  for  ‘ mustard  plaster.’  ”

A  R EM A RKA BLE C A S E

Having suffered  with  rheumatism  and  constipa­
tion for over twenty-five years, and my case having 
been  pronounced hopeless last  summer  by the best 
medical skill,  when I was given up to die,  I miracu­
lously had my attention  called  to Frye’s Quickstep, 
which saved my life, and  I am  now  a  well  man. 
I 
have since recommended this  remedy to my friends 
and so many have ordered it through me that I keep 
it  on  hand  for  humanity’s  sake.  Price,  $1.00  per 
bottle.  Nearly all  Michigan  people know me.  My 
home  address  is  5406  Kimbark  Ave.,  Chicago. 
Grand  Rapids people  can  obtain  this  remedy from 
my customer, John Benson, the clothier.  26 Monroe 
St., upstairs. 

Stephen T.  Bowen.

I  will be at Sweet’s  Hotel  from  Friday, 
May 6,  until  Tuesday,  May  io,  with  my 
entire winter line  and  all  spring weights 
we have left.

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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced—Opium 
Declined—

Quinine

Acidum
Acetlcum................. 8  6@S
8
Benzolcum, German
70® 75
Boraclc....................
@ 15
Carbolicum............
29® 41
Citricum.................
40® 42
Hvdrochlor............
3® 5
Nltrocum...............
8® 10
Oxalicum...............
12® 14
Phosphorium,  dll...
@ 15
Salicylicum.............
60® 65
Sulphuricum...........
5
lx®
Tannicum.............. 1  25®  1 40
Tartaricum..............
38® 40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16  deg...........
4® 6
Aqua, 20  deg...........
6®
8
12® 14
Carbonas.................
12® 14
Chloridum..............
Aniline
Black...  ................. 2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00 
Brown  . 
45®  50
RedYellow.
2 50® 3 00
Baccæ.
Cubeæe...........po. 18
Juniperus...............
Xanthoxylum ...........

13®  15
6® 
8 
25®  30

60®
@ 2 75 
45®  50

Balsamum 
Copaiba...................  
Peru
Terabin, Canada—
Tolutan...................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
C assi®  .......................
Cinchona Flava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini.......
Quill aia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmu8...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum 

24®
Glycyrrhiza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza, po......   28®
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
11®
Hsematox, I s . 
13@
14®
Hsematox, Ms.........  
16®
Hsematox, Ms

Perru

®

60©
12®

12®
18®

15
2 25
75
40
15
2

Carbonate Precip... 
Citrate and Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanidum Sol. 
Solut.  Chloride...... 
Sulphate, com’l ...... 
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per cwt.........
Sulphate,  p u re ......
Flora
Arnica....................
Anthemis...............
Matricaria..............
Folia
23®  28
Barosma..................
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18@
Cassia Acutifol ,Alx.  25® 
Salvia officinalis, Ms
and Ms.................  
12®
Ura Ursi..............  .. 
8®
Oumml 
Acacia,  1st picked..
Acacia, 2d  picked..
Acacia,  3d  picked..
Acacia, sifted sorts.
Acacia, po...............
Aloe, Barb. po.l8®20
Aloe, Cape__po. 15
Aloe, Socotri. .po. 40
Ammoniac.............. 
55®
Assafoetlda__po. 30 
25®
Benzoinum............   50®
Catechu, Is..............  @
Catechu, Ms............   @
®
Catechu, Ms............  
Camphor®............  
40®
Enphorblum..po.  35 
®
Galbanum...............   @
65®  70
Gamboge  po........... 
Guai&cum.....po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. $3.u0 
© 3  00
M astic....................  @  60
Myrrh............po.  45  @ 4 0
Opii.. .po. $5.00@5.20 3 75®  3  0
25®  35
Shellac.................... 
Shellac, bleached...  40®  45
Tragacanth............  
50®  80
Herba
25
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
20
Eupatorium .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
25
Majorum__ oz. pkg 
28
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
23
Mentha Yir..oz. pkg 
25
Rue...............oz. pkg 
39
TanacetumV oz. pkg 
22
Thymus,  V. .oz. pkg 
25
(Tagnesia.
Calcined, Pat........... 
55®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
20®  22
Carbonate, K. & M..  20®  25
Carbonate, Jennings  35®  36

Oleum
Absinthium............
Amygdalae, Dulc....
Amygdalae, Amarae.
Anise......................
Auranti  Cortex......
Bergamii.................
Cajiputi..................
Caryophylli............
oedar.......................
Chenopadil..............
Cinnamonii.............
uronella...............

3 25® 3 50 
30®  50
8 00®  8 25 
2  10®  2 20 
2 25® 2 40 
2 40® 2 50 
85®  90
75®  80
35®  65
@ 2 75 
1  60®  1  70 
45®  50

00® 4 50

00®  1 10
50®  1 60

75
50®  60
00®  1 10
50© 2 00
30@  1 50

35®  50
Conium  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  1  15® 1  25
Cnbebae.................... 
90®  1 00
Exechthitos...........   1 00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  l 
Gaultheria..............   1 
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma.................  1 
Junipera..................  1 
Lavendula.............. 
90@ 2 00
Limonis...................  l 
Mentha Piper.........   1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae,  gal.........   l  10@  l  25
Myrcia,....................  4 
Olive. ..................... 
75@ 3 00
Picis  Liquida.........  
10®  12
Picis Liquida, gal... 
@ 35
K icina.................... 
99® 1  10
Rosmarini...............   @  1  oo
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini................... 
40®  45
90©  1  00
Sabina................... 
50® 7 00
Santal........................2 
Sassafras................. 
55®  60
@ 65
Sinapis, ess., ounce. 
TigUi.......................  1 
70®  1 80
40® 
Thyme.................... 
50
©  1  60
Thyme,  opt............  
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
15©  18
BiCarb.................... 
Bichromate............  
13® 
15
Bromide..................   50® 
55
12®  15
Garb.. 
.................  
Chlorate..po. 17@19c 
16® 
18
35®  40
Cyanide................... 
Iodide......................  2 
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
28®
Potassa, Bitart,  com 
@10®
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass Nitras.
10®
Prussiate.................  20®
Sulphate po
15®

60® 2 65

Radix
Aconitvm...............
20®
Althae...................  
22®
Anchusa................. 
10®
Arum po............. 
  @
Calamus............ 
201»
Gentiana........po.  15
12@
Glychrrhiza. ..pv. 15 
16®
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..  @ 
Hellebore, Alba, po.. 
18®
Inula, po................. 
15®  __
Ipecac, po............... 2 80® 3 00
Iris plox--- po35@38 
35@  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25@  30
r»  as
Maranta,  Ms........... 
Podophyllum, po.
22©
g£e  .......................  
75®  1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
Khei.pv............ 
75® 1  %
... 
Spigelia...................  
35®  38
Sanguinaria...po. 15  @ 
18
Serpentaria............  
30® 
35
Senega.................... 
40®  45
Similax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Smilax, M............. 7.  @  25
Scillae.............   po.35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Fceti-
............   @  25
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30  @  25
15@  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
i6
12® 
Zingiber i ...............  
25®  27
Semen

diis, po 

12

Anisum.........po.  15  @ 
13®  15
Apium  (graveleons) 
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
Carui.............po. 18 
10® 
12
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum............  
8©  10
Cannabis  Sativa__ 
4®  454
Cydonium...............  
75®  1  00
io@ 
Chenopodium........ 
12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
Foeniculum........... 
@ 
10
Fcenugreek, po........ 
7® 
9
L inl...................  
  3M@  4M
Lini,  grd —  bbl. 3M 
4®  4M
Lobelia..................  
35®  40
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
4®  4%
R.aP» 
5
............ 
Sinapis Albu........... 
7@ 
g
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Spirit us
Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti......  
....  1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T..  1  65@ 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum N. E ....  1  90@ 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Vini Oporto............   1  25© 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
Nassau sheeps  wool
Velvet extra  sheeps’
Extra yellow sheeps’ 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac. 
..........
Ferri Iod...... ..........
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Scill®.......................

carriage...............   2 50® 2 75
carriage...............   @ 2 00
wool, carriage......  @  1  25
wool,  carriage....  @  l  00
carriage...............   @  1  00

@  50
@  50
@r  50 
@  60 
@  50
@  50
0®  60 
®  50 
O  50

@ 75
1  40

niscellaneous 

Scillse Co.................
@  50
Tolutan...................
@  50
Prunus vlrg............
@  50
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis R 
60 
Aconitum Napellis F
50 
Aloes.......................
60 
Aloes and Myrrh__
60 
Arnica....................
50 
Assafoetlda............
50 
Atrope  Belladonna.
60 
Auranti  Cortex......
50 
Benzoin...................
60 
Benzoin Co..............
50 
Barosma.................
50 
Cantharides...........
75 
Capsicum..............
50 
Cardamon...............
75 
Cardamon  Co.........
75 
Castor......................
1  00 
Catechu...................
50 
Cinchona.................
50 
Cinchona Co...........
60 
Columba 
.............
50 
Cubeba....................
50 
Cassia  Acutifol......
50 
Ciss’c  »cutifolCo  .
50 
is.gi  »Ls 
..........
50 
Ergot.......................
50 
Ferri Chloridu  >
35 
Gentian..................
50 
Gentian Co..............
60 
Guiaca...................
50 
Guiaca ammon........
60 
Hyoscyamus...........
50 
Iodine......................
75 
Iodine, colorless....
75 
Kino.......................
50 
Lobelia...............  '
50 
Myrrh................
50 
Niue Vomica.........
50 
Opii.........................
75 
Opii, camphorated.
50 
Opii,  deodorized....
I  50 
Quassia...................
50 
Rhatany...........
50 
Rhei....................... ;
50 
Sanguinaria  . 
......
50 
Serpentaria............
50 
Stromonium...........
60 
Tolutan...................
60 
Valerian............... .
50 
Veratrum Veride..!
50 
Zingiber..................
20
jEther, Spts. Nit. 3F  30® 
35
jEther, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
38
Alumen...................  2M@
3
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
4
Annatto...................  40®
50
Antimoni,  po.........  
4®
5 
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
50
Antipyrin.............. 
@
1  40 
Antifebrin ..............  @
15 
©
Argenti Nitras, oz . ] 
50 
Arsenicum.......... 
10@
12 
Balm Gilead  Bud..1 
38®
40 
Bismuth  S. N......... 1  40®
1  50 
Calcium Chlor.,  Is 
@
9 
Calcium Chlor., Ms.  @
10 
©
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms 
12 
Cantharides, Rus.po  @ 
75 
~
Capsicl  Fructus, af 
15 
Capsicl Fructus, po 
15 
@
Capsici FructusB.po 
15 
©12®
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
14 
Carmine, No. 40...
3 00 
Cera Alba, S. & F. \ ’
50®
55 
Cera Flava..............
42 
Coccus..................”
40 
Cassia Fructus
33 
Centraria.................
10 45 
Cetaceum........... \ * *
Chloroform.......... "
63 
Chloroform, squibbs
1  15 
1  50 
Chloral Hyd Crat__  1
Chondrus............... ’
25 
25®
35 
Cinchonidine,P.&w 
Clnchonldlne, Germ
30 
22®
Cocaine..................   3 30®
3 50 
Corks, list, dls.pr.et.
70 
Creosotum........  
@
35 
Creta..............bbi/75  @
2 
Creta, prep..............  @
5 
Creta, precip...........’ 
9®
11 
Creta, Rubra........ 
@
8 
18@
Crocus..  ................ 
20 
Cudbear.................  @
24 
5®
Cupri Sulph........... "  
8
Dextrine.................. 
io@ 
12
75®  90
Ether Sulph............  
Emery, all  numbers  @ 
8
Emery, po................  @ 
6
Ergota............ po. 40 
30®  35
Flake  White........... 
12®  15
Galla........................  @  23
8® 
Gambier.................. 
9
Gelatin, Cooper___  @  60
Gelatin, French...... 
35®  60
70
Glassware, flint, box 
Less  than  box__ 
60
9® 
Glue,  brown........... 
12
Glue, white............  
13®  25
Glycerina................ 
J4@  20
Grana  Paradisi......  @ 
15
Humulus................. 
25®  55
Hydraag Chlor  Mite  @  80
Hydraag Chlor Cor.  @  70
Hydraag Ox Rub’m. 
©  90
Hydraag Ammoniati  @  1  00 
HydraagUnguentum  45®  55
Hydrargyrum.........   @  68
65®
Ichthyobolla, Am... 
75®  1  00
Indigo...................... 
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3  70
Iodoform.................  @420
Lupulin.  ................  @2 25
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
Macis.................... 
65®  75
Liquo» Arse:; et Hy-
drarglod.............   @  25
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10® 
12 
3 1
Magnesia, Sulph.... 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  1M
Mannia, S. 7 ........... 
50®  60,
Menthol. 
@ 2 75

, M 

Morphia,S.P.& W.. 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co..............  ...
Moschus Canton__
Myristica, No. 1 ......
Nux Vomica...po.20
Os  Sepia.................
Pepsin Saac, H. & p.
D. Co....................
Picis Liq. N.N.M gal.
doz........................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Liq., pints......
Pil Hydrarg... po.  80 
Piper Nigra... po.  22
Piper Alba__po.  35
Piix  Burgun...........
Plumbi  Acet...........
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quassiae..................
Quinia, S. P. & W .. 
Quinia, S. German..
Quinia, N.Y............
Rubia Tinctorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin....................
Sanguis Draconis...
Sapo,  W...................
Sapo, M....................
Sapo, G....................
Siedlitz  Mixture__

2 45®
2 45® 
@ 
65® 
@ 15®
@

10® 
1  10®

8® 
35® 
30® 
33® 
12® 
18® 
3 00® 
40® 
12® 
10® 
®
20  @

Sinapis....................  @ 
is
Sinapis, opt............  @ 
30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.....................   @ 
34
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @ 
34
Soda Boras..............  9  @ 
11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @ 
11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
2
Soda,  Carb..............  1M@ 
Soda, Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
2
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt  Myrcia Dom...  @  * 00
Spts. Vini Rect. bbl.  @ 2 46
Spts. Vini Rect.Mbbl 
@ 2 51
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 54
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal  @ 2 56 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   4M@  5M
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
4«@  5  ”
8®  10
Tamarinds.............. 
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromse............  
40®  42
Vanilla..................   9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph............  
7® 
8

Less 5c gal. cash 10 days. 

Oils

Whale, winter.........  70 
Lard,  extra............   40 
Lard, No. 1 .............. 
35 

BBL .  G AL.
70
45
40

2 70 
40 
80 
10 
18
1  00
2  00 
1  00 
85 
50 
18 
30
12 
1  20
1  25 
30 
10 40 
38 
38 
14 
20
3  10 
50
14 
12
15 
22

19

45
47
70
40

Linseed, pure  raw..  42 
Linseed, boiled......  
44 
Neatsfoot, winter str  65 
Spirits Turpentine..  34 

Paints  B B L. 

LB
Red Venetian.........  
IX  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  1X2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Ber.. 
IX  2  @3 
Putty, commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American.............  
13®  15
75
Vermilion, English.  70® 
Green, Paris...........  16M® 20M
16
Green,  Peninsular..  13® 
Lead, Red...............   »M® 
6
Lead, white...........  5m@ 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  10
White, Paris Amer..  @ 100
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

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

POCKET  BOOKS

AND

PURSES

We shall  sample in  a  few  days  a  large 

and well  assorted  line  of

Ladies’  Pocket  Books 

Ladies’  Purses 

Gentlemen’s  Pocket  Books 

Gentlemen’s  Purses

And  invite your inspection  and order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

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

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

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
W 'b cans doz................... 
45
M I d   Jans doz...................  %
lb can  doz...................1  50
M lb cans 3 doz.................  
45
75
lb cans 3 doz................. 
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
Bulk.................................... 
10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
M lb cans per doz............  
75
% lb cans per doz  ...........  1  20
1 
lb cans per doz.............2  00
14 lb cans 4 doz case........ 
35
K lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz c a se ......  
90

Arctic.
El Purity.

Home.

Our Leader.

Jersey Cream.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
% lb cans, 4 doz case........ 
85
1 
lb cans, 2 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz.............  %
14 lb cans..........................  
45
H lb cans..........................  
75
lb cans..........................  1  50
1 
1 lb. can s.........................  
85
3 oz., 6 doz. case................   2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case  .................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................  4  80
1 lb., 2 doz. case.................. 4  00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................. 9 00
American.............................   70
English..................................   80

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Flake.

Peerless.

BLUING.

40

... 

BROOI15.

Small, 3 doz.................
Large, 2 doz.................
No. 1 Carpet.................. ...  l  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
3 s .........................................7
16s..........................................8
Paraffine................................ 8

CANDLES.

CANNED  OOODS. 
rUmltowoc  Peas.

CATSUP.

Lakeside Marrowfat.........  
95
Lakeside E.  J ....................   1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng....  1  20 
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted.  1  45
Extra Sifted Early June... .1  75
Columbia, 
pints......
.2 00
Columbia, *4 pints......
.1  25
CHEESE
Acme......................
© 9
Amboy....................
© 9
Byron...................... @ 9*4
Elsie.......................
© 10
Emblem..................
© 9*4
Gem...................  ...
© 914
Gold  Medal............
©
Ideal.......................
© 9*4
Jersey  ....................
© 9*4
Lenawee.................
© 9
Riverside.................
© 9
Springdale..............
©
Brick.......................
© 12
Edam.......................
© 70
Leiden....................
© 18
Limburger..............
© 12
Pineapple.................50 © 85
Sap  Sago.................
© 18
Chicory
Balk 
5
Red
7

......
CHOCOLATE.

Walter Baker ft Co.’s.

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

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  doz.........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft, per  doz.........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft, per  doz.........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft, per  doz.........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft, per  doz.........1  80
Jute, 60 ft,  per  doz............   80
Jute. 72 ft.  ner  doz..............  96
COCOA SHELLS.
20 lb  bags.......................  
2*4
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound  packages............  
4
CREAIT  TARTAR.
5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes..30-35

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

g
F a ir......
............................... 10
Good —  
............................... 11
Prime ... 
............................... 12
Golden  . 
...........................13
Peaberry
Santos.
...........................12
Fair  ....
............ 13
...............................14
Prim e...
................. 15
Peaberry
Fair  __ .............  ................15
..  16
Good  ...
..............................  17
Fancy
Maracaibo.
......................19
Prim e...
...............................20
Milled...

Mexican  and  Guatamala.

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

Java.

Mocha.

Roasted.

Interior...................................19
Private  Growth...................... 20
Mandehllng............................ 21
Im itation................................20
Arabian  ................................. 22
Clark-JeweU-Wells Co.’s Brands
Fifth  Avenue......................28
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 28
Wells’ Mocha and Java......24
Wells’ Perfection  Java...... 24
Sancaibo............................. 22
Breakfast  Blend...............   18
Valley City Maracaibo.  —  18*4
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader Blend......................12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  or  package,  also %e  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price in full cases.
Arbuckle.......................  10 50
Jersey.............................   10 50
rfcLnughlln’s  XXXV 
.  9  50
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all orders 
direct to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  &
Co., Chicago.
Extract.
75
Valley City *4 gross 
Felix K  gross................. 
1  15
Hummel’s foil *4 gross... 
85
Hummel’8 tin *4  gross 
t 43
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes.......................   40

COUGH  DROPS.

C. B. Brand.

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

CONDENSED  MILK.

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

COUPON  BOOKS.

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 hooka, any denom__ 20 00

Economic Grade.

Universal Grade.

Superior Grade.

Credit Checks.

Coupon Pass Books,

denomination from CIO down.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1,000 books, any denom__ 20 00
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books......................... 
1  00
50 books.........................,  2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...............................  C 25
500 books................................10 00
1000 books................................17 50
500, any one denom’n ...... 3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel punch.......................   75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOITBSTIC 
Sundried.......................   © 5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  ©  8 
Apricots.....................  7  ©8
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................   @714
Peaches.......................  6*40 714
Pears......   .................  8  @ 714
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........  ©  414
90-100 25 lb boxes.........  @5
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   @514
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........  @  *
60 -170 25 lb boxes.........   @7
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   ©
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  ©  814
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........  ©
14 cent less in 50 lb cases 

California Prunes.

California Fruits.

Apples.

Raisins.

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

1  45 
2 00
3%
4*4
554

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Raisins.

Patras bbls.......................@  754
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........©  754
Cleaned, bulk  .................@854
Cleaned, packages...........@  8*£
Citron American 10 lb  bx  @13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx  @12 
Orange American 101b bx  @12
Ondura 28 lb boxes.....8  @814
Sultana  1 Crown...... ■ ■  ©
Snltana 2 Crown  .  .. ..  ©
Sultana  3 Crown...... ••  @7*4
Snltana 4 Crown......
.  ©
Sultana 5 O ram ......
©
Sultana 6 Crown.........  @12
Snltana package.........   ©14
FARINACEOUS  OOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.........   .. 1  65
Bulk, per 100 lbs............. 4 00

Farina.

Grits.

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s.

35£

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages.............. 2 75
100 lb. kegs.......................4  13
Barrels  ............................2 50
Flake, 501b.  drums.........1 00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
Medium Hand Picked__1  25
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box.......2 50
Common...........................  2 00
Chester............................  2 25
E m pire............................  3 00
Green,  bu.........................  90
Split,  per lb...................... 
RoUed Avena,  bbl....... 4  60
Monarch,  bbl..................4  40
Monarch.  *4  bbl.............2  35
Monarch, 90 lb sacks.......2  150
Quaker,  cases................  .3 20
Huron, cases................... 1  75
4
German................. ..........  
East  India.......................  
3*4
Cracked, bulk................... 
3m
24 2 lb packages...............2 50

Rolled  Oats.

Wheat.

Sago.

Peas.

2*4

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

Kegs 
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
*4 lb. cans............................  18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ....................................4  25
Half Kegs.............................2 40
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 35
1 lb. cans..............................  34

Eagle Duck—Dupont's.

Kegs..........................................8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
1 lb. cans......................... 

  45

HERBS.

INDiaO.

JELLY.

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

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

15 lb  palls..........................  
30 lb  pails........ 
.............. 

LYE.
Condensed,  2  d o z ............. 1  20
Condensed.  4  dos 
2 25

35
65

LICORICE.

Pure.....................................  30
Calabria.............................   25
Sicily....................................  14
Boot......................................  1C

M1NCB MBAT

Ideal, 3 doz. in case__ __2 25

nATCHBS.
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9  sulphur............
....1  65
Anchor  Parlor............ ......1  70
No. 2  Home................. ......1  10
Export  Parlor............. ___4  00

nOLASSES. 
New Orleans.
Black.........................
11
14
F air..............................
Good............................
20
24
Fancy  ......................
Open Kettle............ .... ...25@35

Half-barrels 2c exfra. 

PIPES.

......1  75
......3 50
...  1  75
J  7-
6R
85

MUSTARD.
Horse Radish, 1 doz... 
Horse Radish, 2 doz...
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..
Clay, No.  216..............
Clay. T. D. full count.
Cob, No. 3...............   . .... 
POTASH. 
Babbitt’s ....................
Penna Salt  Co.’s........
PICKLES.
•Tedium.
....  5 25
Barrels, 1,200 count...
....  3  13
Half bbls, 600count...
6 35
Barrels, 2,400 count...
Half bbls  1,200 count. ...  3 75

48 cans in case.

... .  4  OU
..  3 00

Small.

RICE.

.... 
iH
5
... 
....  4
... 
3%
6*4
6
....  6
5*4
... 

Domestic.
Carolina bead__
Carolina  No. 1  .........
Carolina  No. 2...........
Broken.......................
Imported.
Japan,  No. 1..............
Japan.  No. 2
Java, fancy  head......
Java, No. 1...............
Table..........................
SALERATUS
Church’s ......................
... .3  3«.
Deland’s ....................... ...3   15
Dwight’s .......................
.. .  3  30
Taylor’s.........................
...,S0(

Packed 60 lbs. in box.

SAL SODA.

SBBDS.

Granulated, bbls...........
75
Granulated,  100 lb cases ..  9)
..  75
Lump, bbls...................
Lump. 1451b kegs
85
9
3*4
8
6
11
3*
**
10
4M
..  20

A nise..........................
Canary, Smyrna...........
Caraway.....................
Cardamon,  Malabar  ..
Ce'ery...........................
Hemp,  Russian...........
Mixed  Bird.................
Mustard,  white.........
Poppy  .........................
Rape............................
Cuttle Bone.................

.. 

SNUFP.

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

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. bulk.2 25 
Butter, barrels, 2014 lbbags.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55
100 3 lb sacks............................. i 90
60 5-lb sacks.............................1 75
28 10-lb sacks........................... 1 60
50  4  lb. cartons...............3  25
115  2*41b. sacks........................4 00
60  5  lb. sacks........................3 75
22 14  lb. sacks...............   3 50
30 10  lb. sacks........................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................  60
Bulk in barrels.........................2 50
56-lb dairy in drill bags__ 
30
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15
60
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks. 
60
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
56-lb  sacks......................... 
21
Granulated Fine.................   75
Medium  Fine....................  
75

Solar  Rock.
Common.

Ashton.
Higgins.

Warsaw.

SOAP.

j a X o n

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

m.  $.  KIRK l CO.’S BRANDS.

American Family, wip’d....2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet......................................2 20
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry__..6  25
White Cloud,  toilet..................3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50  6  oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Blue India, 100 % lb................. 3 00
Kirkoline.................................. 3 60
Eos.........................  

  2 50

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

 

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Allen  B. Wrisley’s Brands. 

Single box............................ 2 80
5 box lots.............................2 75
10 box lots.............................2 70
25 box lots............................ 2 60
Old Country, 801-lb. bars  ..2 75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars__3  75
Uno, 100 5£ lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 d o z......2 40
Sapollo, hand. 3 doz...........2 40
Boxes  .................................5*4
Kegs. English 
4%

Scouring.

SODA.

.......  

 

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.
Allspice  ...................... 
13
Cassia, China in mats......  12
Cassia, Batavia in  bond...  25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls......  32
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
Allspice  .............................. 15
Cassia, Batavia.................  30
Cassia,  Saigon.....................40
Cloves, Zanzibar..................i4
Ginger,  African...............   15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 18
Ginger,  Jamaica................. 23
Mace,  Batavia.....................65
Mustard......   ................ 12©18
Nutmegs,......................40©.-0
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne................. 20
Sage........  ... 
................. 15

Pure Ground In Bulk.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels...............................   16
Half  bbls..........................   18
Fair  .................................  16
Good.................................  20
Choice......... ' ..................  25

Pure Cane.

Fish.
Cod.

Herring.

nackerel.

Georges cured............  ©  5
Georges  genuine........  @ 554
Georges selected........  ©  6
Strips or bricks.........   6  ©  9
Holland white hoops, bbl.  10 25 
Holland white hoop 54 bbl  5 50 
Holland white hoop, keg. 
75
Holland white hoop mens 
35
Norwegian.......................  11  00
Round 100 lbs...................  2  75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled............................... 
13
Mess 100 lbs...............   ...  16 31
Mess  40 lbs...................   6  90
Mess  10 lbs...................   1  82
Mess 
8 lbs...................   1  48
No. 1100 lbs......................  14 50
No. 1  40 lbs......................  6  10
No. 1 
10 lbs...................   160
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  30
No. 2 100 lbs......................  9 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  4  CO
No. 2  10 lbs......................  1  07
No. 2 
88
5 50
No. 1100 lbs. 
2 50
No. 1  40 lbs................... 
NO. 1  10 IDE....................  
70
8 lbs...................  
No. 1 
59
Wbiteflsit.
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
100 lbs....... ..  6 75  5 75  2 75
.  3 00  2 6 1  1,0
40 lbs 
10 lbs....... . 
4*
8 lbs  .........  
34
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

8 lbs...................  

Trout.

83 
69 

73 
61 

Jennings’ .

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

D. C. Lemon
2 oz.......   75
3 oz........1  00
4 oz....... 1  40
6 oz.......2 00
No.  8..  2 40 
No. 10. .. 4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T .l  25 
No.  4 T .l  50
Lern  Van. 

1 20
1 20
2 00
2 25

Northrop Brand.
75 
2 oz. Taper Panel.. 
2 oz. Oval..............  75 
3 oz. Taper Panel. .1  35 
4 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  60 

Souder*’ .

Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew.
the

in  the  world 

for 

Best 
money.

Regular 
Grade 
Lemon.

dos
2 oz........  75
4 oz......... 1 50

Regular 
Vanilla.

doz
2 oz.........1 20
4 oz.........2 40
XX  Grade 
Lemon.

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

2oz........1  75
4 oz........ 3 50

FLY  PAPER.

Tanglefoot, per box...........  30
Tanglefoot, c’se of 10 b’x’s 2 55
Tanglefoot, 5 case lots......  2 50
Tanglefoot, 10 case lots....  2 40

STARCH.

Klogiford’i  Corn.

40 1-lb packages..................   e
30 1 lb packages..................   6M

Klngsford’s  Sliver  (Uosa.
40 1-lb packages......... *...... 0u
6-lb  boxes........................... 7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
IJ8  5c  packages.................5 oo
32 10c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain....  6
Malt White Wine, 80 grain___9
Pure Cider..............................ju
Pure Cider,  Leroux................11

Washing Powder.

Ü K T   \
I  \

1 2  

Common  Corn.
301 lb. packages............
40 1 lb. packages...........
Common Gloss.
1-lb  packages..............
Mb  packages.................
3-lb  packages.................
10 and 50 lb boxes...........
Barrels  ..........................
STOVE POLISH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
drains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

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

Mixed Candy.

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

bbls.  pails
6M@  7
6M@  7
@ 8 
6
@  8% 
cases 
@ 6M 
@  m  
@

@  6 *  @  7 
@   7% 
@  7*  
@  8M @ 8M 
@  8M 
@ 8 
@  m  
@  8*4 
@10 
@12

Fancy—In Bulk.

Lozenges, plain......  
@  9
Lozenges,  printed..  @ 9
Choc.  Drops........1. 
@14
Choc.  Monumentals 
@11
Gum  Drops............  
@ g
Moss  Drops............  
@ 8
Sour Drops.............. 
@ 9
Imperials...............  
@ 9
Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes.

Wheat.

No. 1 White.................. 
1  25
No. 2  Red..........................   1  35

Winter  Wheat  Flour. 

Local Brands.

Patents....................
8  00 
Second  Patent.........
7 50 
Straight-............................... ....
30
C’lear............................... .'.  6 50
Graham 
..........................   ¿75
Buckwheat................. 
4 00
Rye 
.................... .......... ‘  4 50
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25e per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, Ms.......................7 50
Diamond, Ms.......................7 59
Diamond, Ms.......................7 50
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker, Ms........................  7 to
Quaker,  Ms........................  7 00
Quaker,  Ms........................  7 00

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  8 00
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  7 90
Pillsbury’s Best Ms...........  7 80
Pillsbury’s Best M* paper..  7 80 
Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper..  7 80
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand.

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..
String Rock............
Burnt Almonds...... 1
Wintergreen Berries
Caramels. 
No. 1 wrapped, 2  lb.
boxes .. . 1 .............
No. 1 wrapped, 3  ib.
boxes............ .
No. 2 wrapped, 2  lb. 
boxes  ............

Fruits.
Oranges.
Cal. Seedlings........ 
1o«Hcy»„avelB U2  -- 
Choice.....................  
Medt Sweets............ 
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s.. 
Strictly choice 300s.. 
Fancy 360s or 300s... 
Ex.Fancy 300s........ 
Ex. Fancy 360s........ 
California 300s.  ... 
Bananas.

Figs.

Choice, 101b boxes.. 
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes..................  
Fancy, 121b boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
lb boxes...............  
Pulled, 61b boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags... 
Dates.

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

@35
@50

@2 EO
@3  00
@
@2  75

@3 50
@3 50
@4  ao
@
@
@3 25

@  12
@
@  14
@  15
@  13
@ 6H

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits. 

Duluth  Imperial,  Ms... ....  8  OO
Dulutb Imperial, Ms.
. . .   7 90
Duluth Imperial, Ms... ....  7 80
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’ Brand.
Gold Medal Ms............ ....  8  00
Gold Medal Ms......... .
....  7 9o
Gold Medal Ms...........
....  7 80
Parisian,  Ms............. __   8 00
Parisian, Ms.............
...  7 90
Parisian.  Ms................
....  7 80

Oiney A Judson ’s Brand.

....  8 00
....  7 90
....  7 80

Ceresota, Ms.............
Ceresota, Ms.............
Ceresota, Ms.........
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel,  Ms...................
Laurel, Ms.................
Laurel, Ms...............

...  8 00
...  7  99
...  7 80

Meal.

Bolted..............
Granulated..............

...  2 00
...  2 25

Feed and Mlllstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened__ 19  00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........18 00
Unbolted Corn Meal..........17 00
Winter Wheat  Bran..........17 00
Winter Wheat Middlings. .18 00 
Screenings......................... 16  00

New Corn.

Car  lots.............................   4i
Less than  car lots............   43

Oats.

Car  lots............................. 35
Carlots, clipped............. .  33
Less than  car lots............ 40

Hay.

Provisions.

Swift  <fc  Company  quote  as 

follows:

11  50 
11  50 
11  25
10 7a 
14 50 
9 50
11  00

Barreled Pork.

Sausages.

Mess  ............
Back  ....................
Clear  back.................
Shortcut...........
pig.......................
Bean  ..........................
Family  ............!!!!!!!!
Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies..........................
Briskets  ...........!!!!!!!
Extra  shorts.................
Smoked  Heats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  ...
Hams, 14 lb average
Hams, 161b  average__
8M
,,,
Hams, 20 lb  average...... 
Ham dried b e e f...... 
X4
6u
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut).'! 
®acon,  clear..................7M@8M
California hams............  
6M
Boneless hams...............  
gL
Cooked ham...............!!io@12M
Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound........... 
414
Kettle....................... .V!!;  6%
55 lb Tubs.......... advance 
m
80 lb Tubs..........advance 
94
50 lb T ins.......... advance  %
20 lb Pails.......... advance 
54
ib }b Pails.......... advance 
*
alb Pails.......... advance 
1
1 %
31b Pails...........advance 
Bologna........... 
5
Liver..................... ...!!!!  6M
7”
Frankfort........ 
P ork.................... !!!;!!!'  8M
Blood  ...................... 
e
Tongue...........................!  9
Head  cheese............ !. !!
Extra  Mess....................   9 00
Boneless  ........ 
11  sn
Rump................... :::;!:;io re
Kits, 15 lbs...................... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  35
M  bbls, 80 lbs............... .  2 40
Kits, la lbs...................... 
70
M  bbls, 40 lbs.................  1  35
M  bbls, 80 lbs.................  2  40
P ork............................... 
,5
Beef  rounds................... 
4
Beef  middles........... 
10
Sheep....................... 
' 
(¡a
Butterine.
Rolls, dairy.............. 
in
Solid, d a iry ............... !. 
9^
Rolls,  creamery............  
14
Solid,  creamery............  
13^
Canned  Meats
Corned  beef,  2 lb  __
.  2 50 
Corned  beef,  14  lb ..
.16 50
Roast  beef,  2 1b.........1   50
Potted  ham,  94s.........  
70
Potted  ham,  Mb........   1  10
70
Deviled ham,  Ms__ 
Deviled ham,  Ms........   1  10
Potted  tongue Ms.........  
70
Potted  tongue  Ms........  1  10

Pigs’ Feet.

Casings.

Tripe.

Beef.

Crackers.

Soda.

Oyster.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX................. 
7
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  7M
Family XXX......................  7
Family XXX, 3 lb  carton..  7M
Salted XXX.............. 
6m
Salted XXX. 3 lb carton!.'!  7 
Soda  XXX  .......................   6M
Soda-XXX, 3 1b  carton__  7
Soda,  City.........................  g
Zephyrette...........................49
Long Island  Wafers..!!!!!  11 
L. I. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX.........   7
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  8
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   7
SWEET  GOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  iom
Bent’s Cold Water..............  14
Belle Rose.........................  g
Cocoannt Taffy..................  12
Coffee Cakes.....................        10
Frosted Honey..................  12M
Graham Crackers  ..............  g
Ginge r Snaps, XXX round.  7M 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7y, 
Gin. Snps.XXX home made  "M 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7m
Ginger  Vanilla...................  g
Imperials............................  8
Jumbles,  Honey...............   12M
Molasses  Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ....................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  made  ........  9
Pretzelettes, Little German  7
Sugar  Cake.........................  8
Sultanas............................  13^
Sears’ Lunch.......................   8
Vanilla  Square.................. 
Vanilla  Wafers................   14
Pecan Wafers....................  ism
Mixed Picnic....................   iom
Cream Jum bles..................  12
Boston Ginger Nuts...........  8M
Chimmie Fadden...............  10
Pineapple Glace..................  16
Penny Cakes.......................   8M
Marshmallow  Walnuts__  16
Belle Isle Picnic.................  11

8M

21

Crockery  and

Glassware.

Butters.

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

Churns.

Milkpans.

2 to 6 gal., per gal............
5M85
Churn Dashers, per doz... 
M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.
60
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 
5M
Fine Glazed Milkpans.
M gal. flat or rd. hot., doz.  65 
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 
M gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
M gal., per doz..................  40
M gal., per doz..................  5oq
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
6M

Stewpans.

Jugs.

5M 

Tomato Jugs.

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

Sealing Wax.

2  10 
2 25
3 25

First  Quality.

LAMP  BURNERS.

5 lbs. in package, per lb...  2
No.  0 Sun..........................  
45
No.  1  Sun........................ !!  50
No.  2 Sun...................... 
75
Tubular.............................  
50
'  @5
Security, No. 1 .............. 
Security, No. 2............  
85
Nutmeg  ............................  
50
Climax...............................  j  50
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common. 
„   _ „ 
Fer box of 6 doz.
No.  0 Sun..........................  1  75
No.  1  Sun.......................... ! j  go
No.  2 Sun.........................!! 2 70
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
f  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

top,
wrapped and  labeled....
top,
wrapped and  labeled....
top,
wrapped and  labeled....
top,
wrapped and  labeled....
2 55 
top,
wrapped and  labeled.  ..
2 75
top,
wrapped and  labeled__  3 75
CHIMNEYS—Pearl  Top.
No. 1  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.................................  3 70
No. 2  Sun,  wrapped  and
labeled.....................  
No. 2 Hinge, wrapped  and
labeled.......................  
No. 2  Sun,  ‘‘Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lanins............ 
No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
 
1  25
No. 2 Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
„ do?  .................................  1  50
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

La  Bast is.
 

  4  70
4  gg
80

doz  ............ 

 

 

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL  CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)........  4  00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)........4  70
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)__,.  4 40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv iron with spout.  1  65
2 gal galv iron with spout.  2 87
3 gal galv iron with spout.  3 50 
5 gal galv Iron with  spout.  4 75 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4 75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............  8 00
5 gal galv Iron Nacefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9 00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 50
3 gal Home Rule................10 50
5 gal Home Rule................12 00
5 gal Pirate  King..............  9 go
No.  0 Tubular...................  4 25
No.  1 B  Tubular..............6 50
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... e  30
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp.14 0C
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........3 75
LANTERN GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15 cents.........  
45
No.  0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35!....................  
40
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
1 25
cases 1 doz. each...... . 
LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................ 
20
No. 1 per gross................... 
re
No. 2 per gross..................  38
No. 3 per gross...................  58
Mammoth...........................  n

LANTERNS.

2%

....  3 50

00 12 oz pkgs.............
WICKING.
No.'O, per gross............
No. 1, per gross............ ......   30
No. 2, per gross............ ......   40
No. 3, per gross...........
......  75

Fish and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitefish...............
@  8
T rout..................
@  8
Black Bass..............10 @ 
11
Halibut............
@  12
Ciscoes or Herring.. @  4
Bluefish..................
@  10
Live Lobster.........
@  18
Boiled Lobster........ @  20
Cod 
...................
@  10
Haddock................. @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........ @  7
Pike.................
@  6
Perch...................
@  2M
Smoked White........ @  8
Red Snapper........... @ 
10
Col  River  Salmon.. @  10
Mackerel 
@  25

........

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts........... @  40
F. J. D. Selects........ @  30
Selects...............
@  25
F. J. D. Standards.. @  25

Oysters  in  Bulk

F. H. Counts........... @2 00
Extra Selects.........
Anchor Standards.. @1  10
Clams.................

©

Shell Goods.
nor  1Q0

Oysters, per  100........1 25@1  50
H 
OO

Hides  and  Pelts.

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

Hides.

Green No. 1................ @ 8M
Green No. 2................
Cured No. 1.............
@  9M
Cured No. 2................ @ 8M
Calfskins,  green No. 1 @  8M
Calfskins, green No. 2 @  7
Calfskins, cured No. 1 @10
Calfskins, cured No. 2 @  8M

Pelts.

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

Tallow.

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

Wool.

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

Oils.
Barrels.

No. 4, 3'doz In case, gross..[4  50 
No. 6, 3 doz in case, gross..  7 30

SUGAR.

Below  are given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds the local 
freight from New  York to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  the  invoice  for  the 
amount  of  freight  buyer  pays 
from  the  market  in  which  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  for  the 
weight of the barrel.
Domino....................................5 88
Cut  Loaf.................................. 5 88
Crushed....................................5 88
Cubes.......................................5 63
Powdered  ...........................5  63
XXXX  Powdered.....................5 69
Granulated in bbls...................5 38
Granulated in  bags................. 5 38
Pine Granulated......................5 38
Extra Pine Granulated...... 5 50
Extra Coarse Granulated.. .5 50
Mould  A..................... 
  5 63
Diamond Confec.  A........... 5 38
Confec. Standard A................. 5 25
No.  1............ 
5 00
No  2....................................... 5 00
No.  3.......................................5 00
No.  4.......................................4 94
No.  5.......................................4 94
No.  6....................................... 4 88
No.  7.......................................4 81
NO.  8.......................................4 75
No.  9.......................................4 69
No.  10........ 
No.  11....................................... 4 56
No.  12.......................................4 44
No.  13....................................... 4 38
No.  14.......................................4 31
No.  15....................................... 4 25
No.  16................  

4  25

4  63

 

 

 

 

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

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

S. C. W.............................. 33 00
Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand.

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

Ure Unkle
Ruhe Bros Co.’s 

Brands.

Mr. Thomas............................ 35 00
Sir  William............................ 35 00
Club Pine.............................. 35 00
Generals Grant and Lee__ 35 00
Spanish Hand Made...........35 00
Crown Pine............................ 35 00

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @ 8
@  8
Pards  in 60 lb cases 
Persians, G. M’s......  
@ 5
lb cases, new........ 
@  0
Sairs,  601b cases__ 
@ 414

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

Nuts.
„__
Almonds, Tarragona. 
@13
Almonds, Ivaca.........   @n
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new................  @ 8
Filberts  ....................  @10
----
Walnuts, Grenobles .. 
@13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1. 
@10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................
@ 9 
Table Nuts,  fancy__
@10 ■  9
Table Nuts,  choice...
Pecans, Med...............  @ 8
Pecans, Ex. Large__
@10
Pecans, Jumbos........  
<@12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Dressed......................4 75@5 00
Ohio, new......... ......
____   L oins..........................   @ ?m
@1  60
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks 
@4  00 | Shoulders...................  @6
Leaf Lard..................   5M@

Carcass......................  6%@ 7M
Forequarters............   534@  6v
Hind  quarters...........  8M@ 9
Loins  No.  3................9  @12
Ribs...........................8M@12M
Rounds......................  7
Chucks................. 
6  @ 8M
Plates  .......................  @ 4

Pork.

Beef.

Eocene.....................   @11V4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 8J£
W W Michigan...........  @ 8J4
Diamond White.........  @714
D., S. Gas....................  @ 8J4
Deo. N aptha..............  @ 7
Cylinder....................25  @34
Engine.......................11  @?i
B lan k ,  w in te r ................. 
f?  s

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

@ 7
0 7
@  4M

Mutton.

Carcass......................  7
Spring Lambs............ 8

@ 8 
@  9

Veal.

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

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Hardware

Trend  of  the  Retail  Trade in  Bicycles
It  is  often  asserted  that  the  ultimate 
fate  of  the  cycle  dealer  is  to be absorbed 
in  one  of  the  older,  recognized branches 
of  trade.  Some  people  even  profess  to 
believe  that  cycles  will  always  be  car­
ried  by  retail  business  men  of  all 
branches  of  trade.  The  latter  opinion  is 
equal  to  declaring  that there  is  nothing 
about  bicycles  to  be  understood  or  that 
knowledge  of  bicycles  and  accessories 
does  not  enable  a  dealer  to  purchase 
and  sell  with  greater  skill  than  one  may 
display  who  has  only  ordinary  commer­
cial  sagacity  for a guide.  This opinion, 
although  widely  shared,  is  contrary  not 
only  to  business  experience 
in  other 
branches  of  trade,  but  even  to  the  ex­
in 
perience  accumulated 
the  cycle 
trade,  yet  so  young. 
Other  things 
being  equal,  it  is  almost  beyond  dis­
jewelers, 
pute  that  hardware  men  and 
among 
trades,  have 
proved  to  possess  the  greatest  ability  to 
handle  bicycles  as  a  side  line. 
Ihey 
have  survived  the  vicissitudes  of  the 
trade better  than  others  to  such  a  de­
gree  that  a very considerable  percentage 
of  non-exclusive  cycle  dealers  to-day  is 
made  up  from  these  two  trades  alone. 
This  has  come  about 
in  spite  of  the 
great  difficulties  which  both  trades  as 
a  rule  experience 
in  finding  store  room 
for  a  complete  stock  of  cycle  goods  and 
the  still  greater  disadvantage  that  they 
can  not  display  cycle  goods  properly 
without  dwarfing  their  main 
In 
the  hardware  trade  comes  hereto  the 
circumstance  that  the  busy  cycle  sea­
son  is  also  the  busy  season  in  builders’ 
hardware,  dividing  the  energy  of  the 
dealer  between  two  lines,  each  of  which 
requires  undivided attention.

recognized 

line. 

the 

When  hardware  jobbers have persisted 
in  selling  bicycles  and  hardware dealers 
continue  to  handle  them,  it  is  difficult 
to  find  any  other  explanation  than  that 
they  managed  to  avoid  losses  through  a 
general  knowledge  of  metal  ware  which 
steered  them  clear  of  costly  mistakes, 
in  other  lines  were 
where  tradesmen 
not so  fortunate. 
Jewelers  have  perhaps 
had  less  experience  with  steel  goods 
and  steel  goods  manufacturers,but have, 
on  the  other  hand,  had  some  training 
for  understanding  and  appreciating  all 
of  that  minutely  accurate  workmanship 
which 
is  necessary  in  cycles  and  for 
detecting  rough  work  at  a  glance,  be­
sides  which  they  have  been  able  to  give 
most  of  their  time  to  the  bicycle  trade 
during  spring  and  summer.

It seems  that these facts speak strongly 
against  the  assumption  that  the  retail 
cycle  trade  will  be  divided  as  much  in 
the  future  as  it  has  been  during  the 
rush  of  the  past  few  years. 
It  is  ad­
mitted  that  it  requires  more  knowledge 
now to  buy  right  and  to  sell  right  than 
ever  before,  and  that  the  close  margin 
of  profits  makes  mistakes  more  serious. 
New  types  of  bicycles  in  the  market  in 
great  variety  of  makes  will  draw  still 
more  heavily  on  the  retailer’s  experi­
ence  if  the  largest  possible  profit  shall 
be  secured  for  him.  The  public  will 
no  more  be  led  by  a  nameplate  alone  or 
by  any  dealer  who  does  not  know  his 
book  to  the  last  dot.  Small  orders  and 
quick  deliveries  are  of course  the  favor­
ite  means  of  tiding  past  the  dicffiulties 
of  making  a  choice  among  cycle  goods, 
but  the  greatest  profit  must  always  fall 
to  him  who  can  decide  his  orders  on  a 
large  scale  and  far  enough  in  advance.
According  to  these  observations,  all 
tbe  requirements  for  thorough  success

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

are apparently  possessed  in  a  higher de­
gree  by  a  cycle  goods  dealer whose time 
and  energy  can  be  given  to  business 
matters,  which  will  tend  to  increase  his 
capacity  for  distinguishing  good  values 
from  bad  ones,  and  the  only  fact  which 
prevents  the exclusive  cycle dealer  from 
being  in  the  best  position  is  the 
inter­
mittent  character  of  the  cycle  trade  and 
the  absence  of 
income  during  the  dull 
season.

imperative  to  add 

Hardware  dealers,  although  much 
in  this  respect,  have 
better  situated 
found  it 
live  side 
lines  to  their  stock,  and  it  seems  that 
cycle  dealers  who  adopt 
the  same 
method  need  only  to  be  extremely  care­
ful  that  they  do  not  depart  too  far  from 
the  nature  of  the  business  with  which 
they  are  acquainted,  in  the  selection  of 
their  lines,  in  order  to  have  the  best 
chances  in  the  world  not  only  for  re­
maining  in  business,  but actually  build­
ing  up  a  new  branch  of  trade,  clustered 
around  cycle  affairs  but 
in 
its  scope  many  of  the  products  of  the 
most  modern  forms  of  the  steel,  rubber, 
small  machinery  and  electrical 
indus­
tries. 
If  this  field  shall not be occupied 
by  those  persons  who  are  now  experi­
enced  cycle  dealers,  whether  exclusive 
or  in  connection  with  kindred  lines,  it 
will  in  all  likelihood  be  taken  posses­
sion  of  by  other 
individuals,  who  will 
then 
in  short  order  develop  a  great 
capacity  for  absorbing  also  the  cycle 
retail  trade  by  reason  of  natural  fitness 
for  it.

including 

Cycle  dealers,  as  a  class,  will  go  on 
existing  and  flourishing,  but  it 
is  a 
question  who  the  persons  will  be  who 
shall  compose  it.

Look  Over  the  Stock.
From the Stoves and Hardware Reporter.

We believe  that  it  will  repay  hard­
ware  dealers  to  examine  their  stocks 
carefully  at  this  period,  in  order  to  as­
certain  just  what  requires  renovating  or 
rearranging.  Upon  close 
investigation 
it  will  be  found  that  many  things  are 
out  of  order,  displaced  or  soiled.  An 
air  of  dinginess  will  pervade  the  estab­
lishment  which  retains the accumulation 
of  winter’s  grime  and  dust.  All  this 
should  be  carefully  removed,  or  else 
both  stock  and  store  will  be given  an 
antiquated  appearance.  Age  may  be 
commendable 
in  humanity  when  the 
years  have  been  well  spent,  but  hard­
ware  can  have  no  sentimental  feeling 
attached  to  it  which  can  render  it  more 
interesting  with  age.  Articles  of  mer­
chandise  at 
least  have  the  advantage 
over  people,  in  that  a  cleaning  or  coat 
of  paint  will  make  them 
look  new 
again,  while  human  nature  can  resort  to 
to  bring  back  a 
no  such  expedient 
youthful  appearance. 
It  is  really  re­
markable  how  much  the  appearance  of 
shabbiness  detracts  from  the  value  of 
an  article.  A  shabby  article,  although 
begrimed,  may  be  as  good  as  a  bran 
new  one;  but  people  will  not  believe  it, 
and  always  think  they  should  not  be 
asked  to  pay  as  much  for  it. 
It  will 
repay  dealers  to  brighten  up  tools,  steel 
parts,  etc.,  and  paint  others  when  they 
require  it.  Let  their  arrangement 
in 
the  store  be  altered  so  as  to  display 
them  to  the  best  advantage  and  at  the 
same  time  protect  them.  It  will  also  be 
the  means  of  cleaning  out  certain  dark 
corners  which  may  contain  mysterious 
accumulations 
that  have  not  been 
touched  for  years—a  task  which  has 
doubtless  been  postponed  so  long  that 
it  has  assumed  gigantic  proportions  in 
the  dealer’s  mind. 
It  will  be  well  to 
select  a  dull  day  to  effect  changes  and 
do  the  odd  jobs  which  should  not  be 
neglected..

The  Woman’s  Way.

“ We’ ve  got  to  economize,”   said  Mr. 

Gadgoyle  to  his  wife.

Very well, ’ ’ replied  the good woman, 
“ You  shave  yourself  and 

cheerfully. 
I ’ll  cut  your  hair.”

3j  Oark=Rutka=J ewell Co.  5^

ï  

Ionia  Street,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Opposite  Union  Depot.

New  Wholesale

Hardware House

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

i=i*uiKa=jewen  co.
Clark=Rutka=Jewell  Co.
m m m m m

p m r r n r i m r r r r n r r T i ^ ^
È   FISHING  TACKLE  5

To regular dealers in  this  class of  goods  we  are  al 
ways  glad to send our catalogue  and discount sheet.

Foster,  Stevens  &  Co. 9  Grand  Rapids, Mich

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Louisville:  We  are  glad  to  report  a 

fair  amount  of  business.

Hardware  Price  Current.

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HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stamped Tin W are....................  new list TSifeto
Japanned Tin Ware.............. 
new llst Z&J2
Granite Iron Ware........................ new iist 40*10

The  Hardware  Market.

in  all 

General  trade  in  Michigan  keeps  up 
lines  of  hard 
remarkably  well 
The  tendency  of  the  market 
ware. 
among  manufacturers 
is  of  a  varying 
nature.  On  some  lines  there  is  a  ma 
terial  advance  in  prices,  while in others 
there 
not  believed,  however,  that  any  changes 
will  be  made  that  will  be  of  any  great 
moment.

is  a  feeling  of  weakness. 

It 

Wire  Nails—The  market  on wire nails 
is  not as  firm  as  it  has  been,  as  all  fac 
tories  at  the  present  time  are  running 
full  time,  and  the  demand  not  being  up 
to  what 
it  usually  has  been,  the  resu 
is  laige  stocks  have  accumulated  in  all 
mills.  This 
is  readily  accounted  for, 
especially  in  this  State,  as  retail  deal 
ers  are  well  stocked,  having  bought 
early  in  the  year and  having not had oc 
casion  to  order  many  nails  since.  The 
price  at  present  for  shipment  at  mill  i 
Si. 40  base  and  from  stock  $1.65.  Ad 
vices,  however,  from  nail  sections 
in 
dicate  that  there  will  be  an  advance  of 
5c,  which  will  take  place  shortly

Barbed  Wire—The situation on barbed 
and  plain  wire 
is  somewhat  different 
from  nails,  as  the  demand  is  something 
unusual  and  factories  in  all  parts  of  the 
country  have  great  difficulty 
in  keep­
ing  up  with  their  orders,  it  now  taking 
from  ten  days  to  two  weeks  to  get  an 
ordinary  order  filled,and  that  is  consid­
ered  quite  well.  The  price  as  quoted 
at  present  is  $1.50  on  painted  barbed 
and  S i.80 on  galvanized,  when  shipped 
from  mill,  with  an  advance  of  20c  per 
cwt.  when  shipped  from  stock.

Window  Glass—Owing  to  the  unusual 
demand  for  glass,  the  manufacturers 
have  found  it  necessary  to  make  an  ad­
vance  in  prices,  averaging  about  15  per 
cent. 
Jobbers  are  quoting  at  present  80 
and  20  by  box  and  80  and  10  by  the 
light. 
In  addition  to  this  advance  in 
discount,  the  prices  on  the  following 
sizes  have  been  advanced  $3  per  box : 
12x28,  16x20,  16x22,  16x24  and  18x20.

Rope—Nothing  in  the  hardware  line 
nas  scored  such  advances 
in  the  last 
month  as  both  sisal  and  Manila  rope. 
The  cause  of  this  is  the  war,  which  in­
terferes  with  bringing  in  of  the  fiber  to 
this  country  from  the different sources of 
supply.  Quotations  from  this  market 
are  as follows :  Sisal,  8c ;  Manila,  gy2c 
It  is  prophesied  by  those  who  seem  to 
know  that  before a  week  is  out,  another 
advance  of  at 
least  ic  per  pound  will 
take  place.  Retail  dealers  will  make  a 
mistake 
if  they  give  their  rope  away 
This  advance  has  also  affected  binders 
twine  of  all  kinds,  as  well  as  other 
twines  which  dealers  usually  carry 
in 
stock.

Building  Paper—The  advance  made 
early  in  the  season  on  this  line  of  goods 
is  fully  maintained  and  jobbers’  prices 
are  as  follows: 
Plain  board,  $1.0 5; 
tarred board, $ 1 . 15 ;  tarred felt,  $1.75.

Reports  from  other  markets  are  as 

follows:

Chicago :  The  demand for shelf hard­
ware  appears  to  have  felt  the  uncer­
tainty  attending  a  state  of  war.

St.  Louis:  Trade  is  in  a  very  sat­
isfactory  condition  and  salesmen  are 
sending  in  liberal  orders.

Baltimore:  The  quiet  which general­
ly  characterizes  trade  at  this  season 
now  prevails,  although,  taking  every­
thing 
into  consideration,  we  are  well 
pleased  with  business  we are now doing.
San  Francisco :  The  dry  weather  still 
continues.  The  state  of California is ex­
periencing  the  driest  season  that  we 
have  had  for  many  years.

Portland:  The  demand 

for  heavy 
goods  is  only  moderate  but  shelf  hard­
ware  goes  off  in  good  quantities.

Boston :  Business  continues  but  mer­
chants  are  limiting  their  wants  to  the 
smallest  possible  quantities.

Cleveland :  Shelf  hardware  is  in  bet 
ter  demand  than  for  some  time.  The 
trade  in  general  can  be  classed  as good 
Omaha:  There  has  been  a  marked 
and  steady  increase  in  volume  of  busi 
ness  since  January 
1st.,  each  month 
showing  a  gain  over  the  corresponding 
period  of  last  year.

Random  Shots  at  Wisdom.

A Chicago  hardware man  has gathered 
together  the  following  choice  bits  of 
wisdom;  some  he  heard  and  others 
came  from  his  inner  consciousness :
A  tombstone always  has  a  good  word 
for  a  man  when  he’s  down.

the  eyes.

If  people were  compelled  to bury their 
faults  the  undertakers  would  be  kept 
busy. 

r
Burning  kisses always  go  with  sparks. 
Love  and  potatoes  both  spring  from 
Love 
is  a  tickling  sensation  at  the 
heart  which  can  not  be  scratched.
A  cow  has  many  good  qualities,  but 
she  is  too  modest  to  blow  her  own  horn.
Notwithstanding  the  hard  times,  seal­
skins  are  worn  the  year  ’round—by  the 
seals.

The  man  with  a  shady  character 

ought  to  be  able  to  keep  cool.

Always  avoid  the  use  of  big  words ; 
inconvenient  to 

sometimes 

they  are 
swallow.

The  hog  may  be  a  squealer,  but  he 

never gives  anything  away.

There 

is  no 

insurance  against  the 

flames  kindled  by  a  woman's  eyes.

The convict on  a chain  gang  is  always 

attached  to  his  work.

Most  people  are  as  bad  as  they  look, 

and  the  rest  a  great  deal  worse.

The  hand  that  once  rocked  the cradle 

now  grips  the  handle  bars.

A  waitress  may  not  know  how  to  deal 
pack  of  cards,  but  she  always  raises 

the  deuce  when  she  drops  a  tray.

If  you  need  exercise  and  haven’t  a 
wheel,  get  out  in  the  street  and  dodge 
those  who  have.
A  lawn  mower  is  an  appropriate  wed- 
•nR  gift  for a  man  who marries  a  grass 
idow.
Time  used  to  fly,  but  now  the  wheel­

men  make  a  century  run.

Hints  on  Selling  Stoves.

Probably  because  of  the  little  atten­
tion  bestowed  on  them,  stoves  for  sum­
mer  use are  not  sold  in  as  great  quan­
tity  as  they  should  be.  Within  the  last 
few  years  this  condition  of  affairs  has 
gradually  changed  for  the  better,  since 
there 
is  no  earthly  reason  why  people 
of  average  means  should  not  be able 
easily  to  buy  both  a  coal  range  for  win­
ter  use  and  a  gas  or gasoline  for  the 
summer. 
In  order  to  attract  attention 
to  this department,  and give prominence 
to  it  so  as  to  increase  sales,  some  mer­
chants  have  adopted  methods  which, 
while  extending  the  volume  of  sales, 
have  gradually  decreased  the  profits. 
This  mistaken  couise  arose  primarily 
from  the  desire  to  make  a  low  price  the 
principal  feature 
in  the  sale  of  the 
stoves. 
In  order  to place the retail stove 
business  on  a  more  profitable  basis  a 
departure  must  be  made  from  the  pres­
ent  system.  We  believe  that  if  mer­
chants  would  endeavor  more strenuously 
to  educate  their  trade  to  buy  and  use 
better  stoves,business  in  this  line  would 
prove  more  remunerative  to  them.  No 
doubt  this  will  be  a  discouraging  proc­
ess  which  can  not  be  executed  quickly, 
but  by  exercising  patience  the  mer­
chant  may  overcome 
the  difficulty. 
That 
is,  of  course,  if  he  does  not  suc­
cumb  before  the  object  in  view  is  at­
tained.

There  has  been  a  remarkable develop­
ment  of  late  in  the  furniture  manufac­
turing  business  in  North  Carolina.  The 
j factories  now  number  thirty-five.

AUGURS  AND  BITS

Snell’s........
................................... 25*10
Jenninfü’’ f®?tUl5 e 
Jennings , imitation  ........ 
AXES

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

a an
a «1

................................................  00  14 00
en.................................................  net  30 00

BOLTS

HOLLOW  WARE

"“MO H etties.................  .....................................}n

sPlders  .................................7'776o&!o

HINOES

Gate, d a rk ’s, 1, 2, 3...........................  

dis «0*10
.........   in «n aul,u........................................  perdoz.net  2 50
an
80
80

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

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

WIRE  GOODS

ñew íí¿¿: :  : : : : : :. : : ; ; ; ;. ; ; ; ; • ; ;  *?£?*

............................................................. 50

BUCKETS

Well,  plain...................................................,  3 «¡5

BUTTS,  CAST

Cast Loose  Pin, figured............   ...........  
70&10
Wrought Narrow................................. .77.70*10

BLOCKS
Ordinary Tackle..................

LEVELS
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s
ROPES
Sisal, % inch and  larger.... 
Manilla........

SQUARES

Steel and Iron.. 
Try and Bevels 
M itte...............

........dis 
70
...  ....  R

70*10
60

.50* 5 
.25* 5

60
.50* 5 
. 50*  5

-,n
oO

Cast Steel.

CROW  BARS
................................ per lb

CAPS
Ely’s  1-10............................
Hick’s G.  F .................................................
G. H ... 
Musket. 

......................perm
i . .....................................S!rm
.............................................. perm

' 

Rim Fire.  .. 
Central  Fire.

CARTRIDGES

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.................. ::;;;;di8 «4 *

doz  net 
..............ooz. net 

e x p a n s iv e   b it s

.7.7 

30*10
25

PILES—New  List

Ciark's small, $18;  large, $26............  
Ives’, 1, $18; 2, $24; 3, $30  ................... 
New American........... 
Nicholson’s.................7
........................,0&4°
Heller’s Horse Rasps......... . 7.77.777 7  .ec*10
on
Nos.  16 to 20; 22 ana 24; 25 and 26:  27 
Li. v 12 
7?

GALVANIZED  iron

i6.  :::: 

„„„

i4 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

is 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s ... 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.777 

KNOBS—New List 

unarm

gj,

MATTOCKS

.....................................*16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt’s 
.....................................! 15 °°> dls 60*M>
Hunt 8......................................... ..  50, dis 20*10

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire
,  ,.Q
Steel nails, base...................... 
Wire nails, base........................................... 
i
80 to 60 advance............... .7 .7 .7 ..."  ............ 
1  00
Base
10 to 16 advance............... .7 7. 7 7 "
05
8 advance.......................7 7 .."
10
6 advance............................. ..7 7 .7 7 ..
20
4 advance...........  ............[ .".7.7.
30
3 advance.............................. 77.7.7..
45
2 advance................■.... 7 7 7 .
70
Fine 3 advance............... '. .".'.'77.......
50
Casing 10 advance...............................................7  
Casing  8 advance.................... . 
. 
25
Casing  6 advance................. .  7 7 .7 7 7  
35
Finish 10 advance
5=
Finish  8 advance................ . 77.............  
Finish  6 advance...............77..7.7.  ......... 
45
Barrel % advance........................................

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s................. 
Coffee, P. S. & W. Mfg. Co.’s  Malleabies: i: 
Coffee, Landers, Ferry & Clark’s, 
Coffee, Enterprise.......................

40
40
•*«

MOLASSES  OATES

t ‘ebbm;s Pattern.......................................... 60&10
btebbin’s Genuine........................................60*10
Enterprise, self-measuring................. 
30

 

PLANES

PANS

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy.............. 
a v i
Sclota Bench............ . .....................7777"" 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy...............:: 77 ‘  @50
Bench, first quality............................... 
"  SK)
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood...777 
60
...................................60*10*10
Fry, Acme. 
Common, polished............................  
70*5
Iron and  Tinned  ........................................ 
60
Copper Rivets and Burs................... 7777 
60
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 20 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  9 20 

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

Broken packages *c per pound  extra. 

RIVETS

 

HAMMERS

Maydole *  Co.’s, new  list........................dis  3S*
Bap’s  ......................................................dis 
25
Yerkes *  Plumb’s..................................... di« 10*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel  Hand 30c li* ,40*19

SHEET  IRON

com.^mooth.  com
Nos. 10 to 14...................... 
Nos. 15 to 17............ 
12 40
o 70 
2 40 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................a «J
2 45 
Nos. 22 to 24..................................  i  m
2 55 
Nos. 25 to 26............... : : :......3
2 65 
No.  27.
3 20
2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 
wide not less than 2-10 extra.

List  acct. 19, *86.....................................dis 

SAND  PAPER 

^

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

SASH  WEIGHTS 

TRAPS 

Steel, Game...............
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s 7 
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker.....................  
De,  doz 
Mouse, delusion.........................per doz 

so
is
i  25

WIRE

Bright Market............ 
Annealed  Market......... .............................
Coppered Market.
iUOiIKCt................. 
'inned Market........................ 
Coppered Spring  Steel........
Barbed  Fence,galvanized  ...
Barbed  Fence,  painted....
. 
p u tn ^ e:.7 
2.1! 40* “
Northwestern........................ .' 7.'.'.'.7!! di. 10*10

_
iWtLin
;  .............7U“ J"
62*
..................... 
50
....................   2 05
....................   1  75

HORSE  NAILS

„ 

 

 

WRENCHES
•«,
Baxter’s Adjustable, nickeled 
rx
 
Coe’s Genuine................................ 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, wrought 
an
Coe’s Patent, malleable...................777 
gJJ
Bird  Cages..........................  
—
Pumps, Cistern.....................  
XX
Screws, New List................. 
Sx
Casters, Bed and  Plate..............7 7 7 7  50* 10*10
Dampers, American...............................

m is c e l l a n e o u s

 
“  

„  

 

 

 

METALS—Zinc

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

6«6*
j2u
1 j f  “ “ny other qualities of solder
¡Jlht E5ic?s 
a n /i^ faar. et ^nd^cate<I by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition. 
3

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

SOLDER

TIN—Melyn Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal............  
14x20 IC, Charcoal........... 
20x14 IX, Charcoal..............777 
”
Each additional X on this grade, *1.25.

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

s 5 75
5  75 
7  00

 

is

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.............. 
4 = 1
14x20IC, Charcoal............ 
......................  4 ?,
......................  I
10x14 IX, Charcoal............  
14x20 IX, Charcoal..............7777777  '  5  vi
Each additional X on this grade, fi.50.

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean........... 
4  sn
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean  .... 
:   u
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...........' 77 7 7 7  :  9  no
4  on
i5 ’ Charcoal, Allaway Grade. . . . 7 7 ’  5  00 
20x28 1C, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.... 7 7  8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade............   10 00

Charcoal, Allaway Grade.... 

.........  

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATB 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX, for  No.  9  Boilers, f P*r Pound - • • 

9

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST

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

TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

24
Didn’t  Want  Nothin’  But  the  Pure 

Stuff.

“ Speakin’ of bilin’  things, ”   remarked 
Deacon  Puffer  to  the  throng  in  the  vil 
lage  store,  “ reminds  me  of  my  wife. 
Some  time  ago  she  sez  tu  me,  sez  she, 
‘ Josiah,  ef  th’  exertion  won’t  be  too 
much  fur  ye, 
I ’d  be  obleeged  ef  ver 
would  fetch  me  ’bout  a  pint  of  alcohol. 
An’  Josiah,’ -sez  she,  ‘ I  want  it  strong.’
“ What  she  wanted  it  fur  ’pears  I ’ve 
furgottin’  neow,  but  when  1  fetched  it 
tu  hum  she  smelled  of  it  several  times 
an’ sez  she,  4 It du beat the world,  Josiah, 
how  these  pesky  critters  du 
’dulterate 
things  neowadays.  Why, ’  sez  she,  ‘ if 
this  hain’t  more’n  half  water  then  my 
Christian  name hain’t  M alviny.’  Well, 
gentlemen,”   said  the  deacon,  recross­
ing  bis 
legs  and  then  crossing  them 
again,  “ Malviny  bein'  Mrs.  Puffer’s 
Christian  name,  as  ye  all  be  knowin, ’ 
it  warn’t  fur  me  tu  dispute,  an’  I  vowed 
thet  th’  best  thing  fur  tu  be  done  was 
fur  me  tu  take  th’  stuff  back  an’  sug­
gest  thet  what  was  wanted  was  pure 
stuff,  or  none  ’tall. 
‘ An’  then  hev  ’em 
send  worse  stuff  than  afore, ’  remarked 
Malviny. 
‘ No,  Josiah,'  sez  she,  ‘ them 
critters  be  past  redeemin'.  Leave  it  tu 
me,  Josiah. ’
it  tu  Malviny,  gentlemen,”  
“ I  left 
explained 
the  deacon,  after  helping 
himself  to  a  bit  of cheese  and a cracker, 
“ an’  out  I  goes  tu  du  my  chores. 
I 
’spose  I  was  at  ’em  fur  ’bout  five  or six 
minutes  when  all  of  a  sudden  I  heerd 
th’  durndest  explosion  an’  the  tallest 
yellin’ 
from  th’  kitchen,  where  I  left 
Malviny,  thet  ye  ever  heerd  tell  of.  1 
runs 
’spose  I 
find?

in  there,  an’  what  ye 

“ Dura  my  buttons,”   chuckled  the 
deacon,  before  any  one  could  reply,
ef  I  didn’t  discover  Malviny  flat  on  I 
her  back by  th'  stove,  which  was  busted 
all  tu  thunder,  with her  eyebrows  gone, 
an’  no  more  hair  on  her  head  hardly 
than  ye’d  find  on  a  baby’s. 
‘ Bury  me 
Josiah,’  sez 
from  th’  meetin-  house, 
she,  as  I  bent  over  her, 
‘ an’  don’t 
’ low  Hannah  Perkins 
in  th’  door,  for 
I ’m  done  fur. ’  But  she  warn’t  done  for, 
an’  when  I ’d  convinced  her  of  thet fact, 
an’  thet  she  had  not  been  called  as  yet, 
she  up  an’  told  me  all  ’bout  it.

it 

She  put 

“ It  ’pears,  gentlemen,”  continued  the 
deacon,  “ thet  Malviny  hed  decided  tu 
strengthen  thet  alcohol,  an’  she  con­
cluded  thet  to  du  thet  she’d  better  bile 
it  deown. 
in  a  b’ iler, 
slapped 
it  on  th’  stove,  an’  then  goes 
’bot  her  work.  T h’  stove  was  pretty 
hot,  an’  afore  Malviny  hed  done more’n 
tu  or  three  things,  an’  hed 
jes  started 
tu  look  tu  see  how  that  b’ ilin’  process 
was  a  cornin’  on,  th’  dura  thing  blew 
up  Malviny  never  sed  much  ’bout  it, 
rnore’n  tu  tell  me  how  it  happened,  an’ 
if  she’s  hed  alcohol  in  the  house  sence 
I  ain’t  heerd  of  it. ”
Hides,  Pelts,  Furs.  Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  have  advanced  to  an  extremely 
high  price,  with  no 
accumulations. 
There  seems  to  be  no  limit  to  the prices 
asked  and  paid.  The  quality  has  im­
proved  and  the  stock  is  desired  by  tan­
ners.  Each  day’s  report  shows  an  ad­
vancing  tendency,  with  sales  one-quar­
ter  higher  and  one-quarter  more  being 
asked.  The  home  kill  has  been  great­
er,  on  account  of  soldiers’  consumption 
in  camp.  Light  stock  also  shows  an 
advance,  but  not 
to  the  extent  of 
heavier  hides.

Pelts  are  too  scarce  and  wool  too  flat 
to  ensure  quotable  prices  or  a  stable 
market.

Furs  are  few  and  the demand limited. 
They  ar» almost  out  of  season,  and  the 
few  which  are  coming  in  must  be  car­
ried  over.

Tallow  shows  more  demand  at a slight 
advance,  but  not  sufficient  to  create  any 
kick  to  the  trade.  Prices  are  low  and 
long-time  holders  of  stock  are  getting 
weary  of  waiting  for  the  advance  they 
believe  must  come  sometime.  There 
are  large  stocks  of  old  renderings  held.
Wool  disappoints  all  holders.  With

in 

1897  more  than 

no  foreign  offerings  of consequence suit­
able  for  this  side  and  with  prices  4c 
above  the 
importing  point,  it  would 
seem  that  prices  should  go  higher  here, 
as  the  coming  clip  is  not  over  half 
its 
former  magnitude  and  as  manufacturers 
consumed 
in  any 
previous  year;  yet  the  trade  is  stopped. 
For  weeks  past  there  has  been  no  de­
mand,  with  no  sales  worthy  of  note. 
There 
is  enough  wool  East  to  supply 
manufacturers’  wants  for  six  months. 
Money 
is  bringing  a  high  rate,  which 
stops  consignment.  The  Government 
orders  bring  110  profit  to  manufacturers. 
While 
last 
week,  it  has  not  created  trade,  and  no 
advance  is 
looked  for  before  August  or 
September. 
Potatoes  Scarce  and  Strong  at  St.

there  was  more  enquiry 

W m.  T.  H ess

Louis.

St.  Louis,  Mo.,  May  10—The  receipts 
of  potatoes  from  the  North  and  North­
west  during  the  past  week  were  never 
so  light  at  this  season  of  the  year.  St. 
Louis  has  had  to  depend  almost entirely 
for  the  past  two  weeks  on  potatoes  from 
Colorado,  and  some  very  nice  stock  has 
been  received,  as  well  as  several  cars 
of  Colorado  seconds  and  culls,  all  of 
which  have  found  ready  sale,  as  did 
everything  arriving  from  any  section. 
Some  few  cars  of  Washington  and  Ore­
gon  stock  came 
in,  also  a  few  cars  of 
Iowa  common  potatoes,  but almost  noth­
ing  came  in  from  Dakota,  Minnesota  or 
Wisconsin,  as  Chicago  offered  a  better 
market  than  ruled  here.  However,  our 
market  rules  strong  and  has  steadily ad­
vanced ;  but  we  have  not  been  able  to 
keep  pace  with  Chicago,  where  the  re­
ceipts  have  been  heavy,  but the  Eastern 
demand  has  kept  up,  and  Chicago being 
the  gateway  to  the  East  for  Northern 
potatoes,  the  receipts  at  Chicago  there­
fore  represent  the  bulk  of  the  supplies 
for  the  Eastern  markets  as  well  as  for 
Chicago, 
locally,  except  a  few  ship­
ments  from  Michigan,  where  potatoes 
are  scarce  and  shipments  light.  Look­
ing  at  the  situation  in  this  light,  the re­
ceipts  at  Chicago  are  not  heavy.  Our 
market  is  in  good  strong shape; receipts 
are light,  with very little in sight for next 
week.  We  look  for a  good  market  next 
week  and  higher  prices  unless  receipts 
are  much  heavier.

M il l e r   &  T e a s d a l e  Co.
Appropriateness.

It 

When  people  are  in  a  buying  humor 
is  the  best time  to  push  sales.  Make  the 
store  attractive  with  new  goods  and  fur­
nish  up  things  generally.  There  is  al­
ways  a  veritable  purchasing  epidemic 
of  wide-spreading  extent  which  takes 
possession  of  people 
in  the  spring. 
Their  thoughts  turn  to  new  goods  as 
surely  as  the  young  man’s  fancy  does  to 
love. 
is  the  tide  which  should  be 
taken  at  the  flood  by  dealers in all lines. 
Every  one  comes  in  for a  share  of  the 
prosperous conditions. 
If  the  hardware 
dealers  will  but  take  advantage  of  this 
opportunity  and  make  an  effort all along 
the  line  to  sell  better  goods,  they  will 
not  have  so  much  leisure  time  to  spend 
in  discussing  the  encroachments  of  the 
department  stores.  Rather  the  opposite 
will  ensue  and  possibly  the  department 
stores  will  complain  of  the  falling  off 
of  trade  in  their  hardware  departments.

Corn  Prizes  for  a  State  Fair.

The  Illinois  State  Board  of  Agricul­
ture  has  determined  to  renew  prizes  for 
the  greatest  yield  of  corn  per  acre  for 
the  State  Fair  of 
1898,  and  will  offer 
liberal  premiums  to  the  persons  raising 
the  first,  second and  third  greatest  num­
ber  of  bushels  of  corn  on  one  acre  of 
measured  ground.  The  rules  governing 
the  contest  are  similar  to  those  which 
prevailed  last  season.

How  a  Bashful  Man  Got  a  Wife.
“ Blusher 
ever  knew. ”

is  the  most  bashful  man  I 

“ How  on  earth,  then,  did  he  come  to 

get  married?”

“ He  was  too  bashful  to  refuse.”

Forgot  He  Was  Married.

The  best  joke  of  the  honeymoon  sea­
son  is  told  by  a  hotel-keeper.  The  male 
half  of  the  new  partnership  registered 
like  this:  “ August  Buerger  and  w ife.”  
He  remained  one  day,  and  when  he 
stepped  up  to  ask  the  amount  ef  bis 
bill  the  clerk  said  it  would  be $4.

“ Four  dollars,”   Mr.  Buerger  said ; 
“ why,  your  rates  are  rather high,  aren’t 
they?”

“ No,  I  guess  not;  that's  only  §2  a 

day. ”

replied.

But  I  have  been  here only one day. ’ ’
it’s  $4,“ the  clerk 

“ I  know 

it,  but 

“ How  do  you figure that?”   the newly- 
wedded  man  asked,  as  he 
leaned  over 
the  counter  with  a  frown  of  perplexity 
on  his  otherwise  blissful  features.

“ Well,  there's  yourself,  one  day,  §2; 
and  there’s  your  wife,  one  day,  $2;  two 
and  two  are  four. ’ ’

Then  the 

fellow  slammed  his  fist 
down  on  the  register,  while  a  crimson 
flush  of  blood  suffused  his  cheeks. 
“ Well, 
I ’ll  swear!”   he  cried;  “ if  I 
didn’t  forget  all  about  her  I ’ll  eat  my 
the 
hat.  Here, 
take  this  V,  keep 
change,  and  say  nothing  about 
it, 
please.' ’

But  the  clerk  didn’t  keep  the  change, 
so  he  thought  there  was  no  reason  why 
he  shouldn’t  tell  the  story.
Chinese  Honor.

Non-progressive  as  the  Chinese  are, 
it  would  be  well  for  Americans  to  emu­
in  some  of  their  business 
late  them 
ethics. 
In  some  respects  the  Chinese 
are  superior  to  some  Americans 
in 
point  of  honor,  even  although  they  may 
not  be  so  progressive.  The  American 
consul  at  Ningpo,  China,  is  responsible 
for  the  assertion  that  Chinamen  are  the 
souls  of  honor 
in  mercantile  affairs, 
whether  in  transactions  among  them­
selves  or  with  foreign  merchants.  This 
feeling  is  so  highly  developed 
in  their 
minds  that  it  induces  them  in  many  in­
stances  to  deal  harshly  and  unjustly  to­
ward  themselves.  For  a  Chinaman  to 
fail  to  pay  his  debts  is  such  a  disgrace 
that  it  frequently  causes  him  to  commit 
suicide.  Fraudulent 
failures  are  un­
heard  of  in  China—they  never  occur— 
and  in  case  of  failure  the  creditors’ 
claims  are  good  against  the  whole  fam­
ily.  The  father  is  responsible  for  the 
debts  of  the  son,  and  vice  versa.

Willie’s  Heroism.

Mamma:  How  did  you  get  your 

clothes  so  badly  torn?

from  being  licked.
Who  was  the  boy?

W illie:  Tryin’  t’  keep  a 
little  boy 
Mamma:  That  was  a  brave  deed. 
W illie:  Me.

PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

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

Commenced  Business September i,  1893.

Insurance in  force..................................... $2,746,000.00
Net Increase during  1S97........................ 
104,000.00
Net Assets.......................................... 
32,738.49
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid................  
None
Other  Liabilities......................................  
Notie
Total  Death  Losses Paid  to Date......... 
40.061.00
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
812.00
eficiaries................................................... 
Death Losses Paid During  1897............. 
17,000.00
6.31
Death Rate for 1897................................... 
Cost per 1,000 at age 30 during 1897.... 
8.25
F R A N K  E.  ROBSO N,  P res.

T RU M A N   B. GO O DSPEED, S ec’y .

W ANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

Fo r   s a l e —d r u g   s t o c k   i n   g o o d   r a i l -

road  town  of 800  inhabitants.  Only  drug 
and wall  paper  stock  in  town;  part  cash,  re­
mainder on easy terms.  Good  reasons  for  sell­
ing.  Address Otis Jones, New Buffalo, Mich.
_____________________________  
601

OR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK;  STORE  TO 
rent;  good location,  good  trade.  Will  sell 
cheap for  cash.  Royce  &  Rolison,  Hamburg, 
Mich. 

599

591

571

¿10

588

582

59fi

I ¡'OR  SALE-THE WELL KNOWN  BUSINESS 
of the  Detroit  Pharmacal  Co.  A  splendid 
chance to buy  an  established  drug  trade.  Ad­
dress Geo.  R  Angel I, 149  Griswold  S t. Delroit, 
Mich. 

595
HAVE SMALL  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND
fixtures in  Ionia,  taken  on  mortgage  Will 
sell c  eap for cash or  trade for  p-odn  tivc  real 
estate.  Answer  immediately.  Will  seil  s> on 
W. W. Hunt, Under National  City  Bank,  Grand 
Rapids. 
KICK  STORE  FOR  RENT—BEST  LOCA- 
tion In city;  will be let for any business  ex­
cept dry  goods  and  cloth:ng.  J.  H.  Levinson, 
Petoskey. Mich. 
Ij'OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE—STOCK~OF 
.T  drugs and fixtures;  furniture  of  gum wood 
finely  finished;  elegant  soda  fountain  and 
charging  apparatus  complete;  located  on  cor- 
ne  of  two  best  principal  streets  in  city  of 
Muskegon,  Mich.  Can  be  mov, d  if  desired. 
Stock and fixtures invoiced April  1 about $4.8' 0 
V\ il. exchange for productive real estate timber 
land or  something  similar,  located  most  any 
where.  Drugs are out of  my  line  of  business. 
Will give someone a great bargain. Cation or, ,<i 
dress D. S. Hopkins. Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
.-93 
L  OK  SALE—I have two complete  drug  stocks 
A 
in Middleville.  Will seil one and move other 
away,  or  will  sell  one ha,f  interest  in  either 
st  ck— one to be moved into an  other location— 
to reliable man.  Dr. Nelson Abbott, Middleville, 
Mich. 
n p o   EXCHANGE  -320  acres  farming  land  in 
JL  Crawford  county,  Mich ,  title  perfect,  ror 
st  ck millinery or groceries.  Address Lock Box 
4*i  St.  Louis, Mich. 
I  HAVE  SOME  GOOD  CITY  ¿»KOPEK i'Y, 
free and clear, to exchange  for stock of  mer­
chandise  Would  assume a little  incumoran'-e 
if  necessary.  W.  H.  Gilbert  ¿,9. 'Ottawa  Si.. 
Grand  Rapids.  Mich. 
59O
nnWO  WELL - LOCATED,  WELL-hENTED 
JL  residences  near  Normal  College, Ypsilaut . 
to exchange for merchandise.  Address 202 Con­
gress St., Ypsilanti. 
jL'OR  RENT—LARGE  DES1HABLE  STORE 
X  on  best  street.  Address  Mrs.  B.  Brewer, 
Owosso, Mich. 
1NOK  KENT—DOUBLE  STORE  BUILDING 
J?  in  Oper-i  House  block,  Mancelona,  Mich., 
be-t location in town:  best  town  in  Mate.  Ad­
dress Julius II. Levinson.  Pet-iskey, Mich.  580 
Tj'OR  SALE—B 1 KING.  CON FE<  TIONEKY, 
JT  cigar stock  and  ice  cream  tusiness,  with 
good fixtures.  Address  No  579,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
PpOK SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISH ED 
and 1 quipped broom factory and good trade. 
Other  business  commands  our  attention.  Ad- 
dress No. 5-4, care Michigan Tradesman.  584
Fl'OK  SALE, EXCHANGE OR REN  —LARGE 
two-story  store  and  residence  building  in 
towuof 1,000  population  in  Northern  Indiana: 
stone basement  120  feet  in  dimensions.  Inves­
tigate.  Adaress No. 575, care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
ipoK  KENT—THE  FIRST  AND  SECOND 
floors and basements of the  brick  building 
numbeied 12 and 14 Lyon  street,  recently occu­
pied by  Hirth, Krause & Co.;  suitable  for  mer­
cantile  or  manufacturing  purposes.  Also  the 
large hall on the third floor  over 8 and 10  Lyon 
street,  especially arranged  for  fraternal  socie­
ties.  Apply to Wm.  McBain,  Agent  Estate  of 
Jas.  W. Converse, 433 Michigan  Trust  Building, 
Grand Rapids. 
ANTED —FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
Caulkett & Co.. Travcse City, Mich. 
381
tpOR SALE —FlRsT-CLASS GROCERY, MEAT 
market and crockery  stock,  located  in  one 
of the best towns in  Michigan;  best  location  In 
the  city.  Good  reasons  for  selling:  a  bargain 
for the right  person.  Will  sell  for  cash  only. 
Address No. 568. care Michigan Tradesman. 568
IPOK  SALE —BUILDING  AND  GENERAL 
stock;  test  farming  section  in  Michigan. 
No trades  W  H. Pardee, Freeport,  Mich.  500 
Tj 'OR  KXcHAEGE  FOR  GROCERY  OR MER- 
Jc  chanuise  stock—Choice  section  land  near 
Jamestown,  North  Dakota.  Dakota  lands  in 
great  demand  for  farming  or  stock  raising. 
Car] Dice,  Monroe, M’Ch. 
'T'O  EX<  HANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY
A  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Address No.  552, care  Michi-
gan Tradesman._______________  
552
TIT ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
v »  daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich.____________ 
'T'O  EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
A  property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shoes. 
Address P.  Medaiie,  Mancelona, Mich. 
TTrANTED—A  PRACTICAL^  MILL  MAN, 
tt  with $1.000 capital, to  take  a  one-half  or 
full  interest  in  a  stave,  heading  and  planing 
mill.  3,000  contract,  with  stock  to fill it.  All 
goes.  Five years’ cut  in  sight  Side  track  to 
mill.  Good reasons for selling.  Address  Stave 
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 

553

546

556

579

578

575

534

PATENT  SOLICITORS.

IpREE—OUR  NEW  HANDBOOK  ON  PAT- 
ents.  Ciiley  &  AUgier,  Patent  Attorneys, 
339
Grand Rapids. Mich. 

MISCELLANEOUS.

ANTED —^REGISTERED  ASSISTANT 
pharmacist,  single  man.  Must  furnish 
good references as to  character,  etc.;  one  from 
the country  preferred.  Address  No.  597,  care 
Michigan Tradesman._________________ 597
W ANTED—POSITION 
IN  GROCERY.  1 
make a specialty of teas  and  coffees;  age, 
27.  Frank Bentley, Ludington, Mich. 
598
W ANTED — REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
at once.  Must furnish good  references as 
to character.  J. H. Chapman,  Mears,  Mich.  592
W ANTED—SITUATION  BY  REGISTERED 
pharmacist of  twenty  years’  experience. 
Address No. 589, care Michigan Tradesman.  589

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

CHICAGO *"dW”‘M,lci^"R'y

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Chicago.
Lv.  O. Rapids. 
---- 8:45am  1:25pm *ll:30pn
A.r.  Chicago...
...  3:10pm 6:50pm  6:40an
Lv. Chicago__
...  7:20am  5:15pm  *ll:30pir 
Ar. O'd Rapids.
1:25pm  10:35pm  *  « : :20air
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. O’d  Rapids........................   7:30am  5:30pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

♦Everyday. 

Others week days only.

^Æ!Lr

m

DETROIT, Grand Rapids & Western

/ S e a s o n ^
& une 25, to Scpl.25.

In n .
CHARLEVOIX-THE^
^BEAUTIFUL

mkM m

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Established 1780.

Largest Manufacturers of

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Walter Baker & Go. Lm
(PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

AND

on this Continent.

their manufactures.

_  
No  Chemicals  are  used  it) 
Trade-Mark, 
Their  Breakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious, nutritious, and costs less than one 
cent a cup.
Their Premium  No.  1  Chocolate, put up in 
Blue Wrappers and Yellow Labels, is the best 
plain chocolate in the market for family use.
Their  German  Sweet  Chocolate  id  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 a lte r   B a k e r  &   Co.  Ltd..
______ Dorchester,  Mass.

A  HEAVY  LOAD

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  Rapids........7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. Detroit................... 11:40am  5:45pm  10:2'on
Lv. Detroit....................8:00am  1:10pm  6:lopm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids.......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

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

Gao.  De Havbn,  General Pass. Agent.

GRAND Trank Railway  System

Detroit and Milwaukee Ui

(In effect May 2,1898 )

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am.Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo & N Y  .t 9:55pm
+10:10&m-------Detroit  and  East.......... t 5:07pm
t  3:30pm..Sag.,  Det., N.  Y.  &  Boston..+12:45pm 
*11:00pm.. .Detroit, East and Canada...* 6:35am
+ll:10am........  Mixed to Durand...........13:15pm
* 8:35am....Gd. Haven  and  Int. Pts....* 7:10pm 
112:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate. + 3:22pm
+ 5:12pm.... Gd. Haven and Chi............ +10:05am
*5:40pm.Gd. Haven and Intermediate.  8:15am
+10:00pm........Gd. Haven and Mil..........  6:40am
Eastward—No. 14 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
18  parlor  car.  Westward—No.  11  parlor  car. 
No. 15 Wagner parlor car.
*Daily.  tExcept Sunday.

WEST

E. H. Hu sh e s, A. G. P.  & T. A.
Ben.  F letch er, Trav. Pass. Agt., 
C.  A.  J ustin,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

GRAND Rapids  &  Indiana Railway

Dec. 5 ,  1897.

Northern  Dlv.  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...+ 7:45am + 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack., .+ 2:15pm + 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack..................{10:50pm
Cadillac................................... + 5:25pm +ll:15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving at 2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Dlv. Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati...  .........................+  7:10am  + 8:25pm
Ft. Wayne................................+ 2:10pm  + 2:00pm
Cincinnati................................* 7:00pm  * 7:25air
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.

OOIN9 WEST.

LvG’d  Rapids............. +7:35am  +1:00pm t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon................. 9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon...............+8:10am +ll:45am +4:00pm
ArG’d Rapids...............9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pm

+Except Sunday.  *Daily.  {Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 

eoaro east.

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent.

DULUTH, SoEth  Shore aad Atlantic 

Railway.

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)+ll :10pm  +7:45am
Lv. Mackinaw City..................  7:35am  4:20pm
Ar. St. Ignace..........................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie................   12:90pm  9:50pm
Ar. Marquette..........................  2:50pm  10:40pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. Duluth............................................  8:30am

EAST  BOUND.

Lv. Duluth.............................................  +6:30pm
Ar. Nestoria.............................+U:15am  2:45am
Ar. Marquette........................ 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. Sault Ste. Marie..............  3:30pm 
..........
Ar. Mackinaw City................  8:40pm  11:00am
G. W.  Hib b a r d , Gen. Pass. Agt. Marquette. 
E. C. Oviatt, Trav. Pass. Agt., Grand Rapids

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F.  Su  P.  M.  R.  R.

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AND  STEA M SH IP   LIN ES 

TO   A LL  PO IN TS  IN  MIOHIQAN

H.  F.  M O ELLER ,  a .  g .  p .  a .

Everything  new  and  strictly  first-class.  For  terms,  address  Egbert  T. 
Osborn, Charlevoix-the-Beautiful,  Mich, f  and  bear  in  mind  that  the Chicago 
&  West Michigan  and  Detroit,  Grand  Rapids & Western  Railways are the 
only direct lines to Charlevoix, the prettiest place  in  Northern  Michigan.

Geq.  D e H aven,  Gen’l  Passenger Agent.

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Our  Stock  of 

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Is  New  and  Fresh  from  the  Factory. 

i  Wall  Paper and  Paints 
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C.  L .  H a rv e y   &   C o m p a n y, 

Every Wall  Paper Design  is of  1898 make. 

[We are not connected with any other firm using our name.] 

59  Monroe St.,  Grand  Rapids. 

Picture  Frames made to order. 

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We  are  the  only  wholesalers in  the  State.  Write  us

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use  Tradesman  co  s  Poison  Labels

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

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he undertakes to handle  the  credit 
transactions  of  his  establishment 
by  means  of  pass  books  or  other 
equally  antiquated methods.  The 
strain 
lessened, 
however, when he adopts  the  Cou­
pon  Book  System  and  places  his 
credit  transactions on a cash basis. 
We  make  four  kinds  of  Coupon 
Books and cheerfully send samples 
free on application.
TRADESMAN  COMPANY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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“It’s as good as  Sapolio,”  when  they try to sell you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to aid  their —■S  
new article. 

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Who  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi- 
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SACRIFICE  SALE!

PLANT  OF  THE**
LANSING  LUMBER  CO.

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.

Unloading
Baby  Cabs

We are quoting JO BBERS’ PRICES
to MICHIGAN  MERCHANTS  on  50
S T Y L E S   of Cabs.

Every one  is  High Grade.
Every one is Low  Priced.
Every one is  Guaranteed.

Large  Catalogue  sent  on  applica-

tion.

GRAND  RAPIDS

WHOLESALE FURNITURECO.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Owing to  the 

shortage of fruit in  our State

of  Canned  Goods.

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

mu$$elmait Grocer Company

Grand Rapids, micb.

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

Don’t  let your  stock  get low.

those  Nunley,  Hines & Co.’s 

Yellow  Peaches. 

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