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inside finishing,  etc.,  costing  originally  over $10,- 
ooo, offered for about  one-third  that.  Good condi­
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present owners  who  have  other  business.  Grow- 
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PREFERRED  BANKERS 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY

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

Commenced  Business September  1,  1S93.

Insurance in  force....................................$2,746,000.00
Net Increase during  1S97........................ 
104,000.00
Net A ssets.................................................  
32.73S.49
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid................ 
None
Other  Liabilities......................................  
None
40.061.00
Total  Death Losses Paid  to Date......... 
Total Guarantee Deposits Paid to Ben­
Si 2.00
eficiaries................................................... 
Death Losses Paid During  1897............. 
17,000.00
Death Rate for 1897................................... 
6.31
Cost per  1,000 at age 30 during 1897__  
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W ILLIAM   C O N N O R  now  shows  a 
full line of Fall and Winter Clothing.  Has 
the  largest  line  of  Kersey  Overcoats  and 
Ulsters on the  road;  best  $5.50  Kersey  all 
wool overcoat  in  market,  all  manufactured 
by K O LB   Sl  SO N .  R o c h e s t e r ,  n .  y .
If you  wish  to  look  over  my  line,  write 
me,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or meet me 

C   at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich , from  3  
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No  reply  to  this  request  was  received, 
but  on  Friday  of  last  week  R.  G.  Dun 
&  Co.  suspended  Suiter’s  rating  and the

It  is  nothing  remarkable  that  citizens 
must  have  the  stamps  to  get  smoothly 
and  safely  through  a  war  period!

There  is  no  difficulty  in finding heroes 
in  a  navy  in  which  every  man  is  a  hero 
when  be  has  a  chance to be.

Suiter  Utters  Mortgages  to  His  Sons 

and  Assigns.

Two  weeks  ago  the  Tradesman  ut­
tered  the  following  timely warning to  its 
patrons  relative  to  A.  Suiter,  the  Cleve­
land  commission  merchant:

Notwithstanding  the  fiascoes  of  Chan­
dler  and  Blackwell  last year and the very 
disastrous  experience  of  Hager  this 
year,  a  Cleveland  house  is  now  flooding 
the  State  with  circulars,  offering  at  least 
a  cent  more  for  eggs  and  two  cents 
more  for  butter  than  the  market  war­
rants. 
In  all  probability,  there  will  be 
found  plenty  of  merchants  who  are cred­
ulous  enough to take the bait  thus  thrown 
out,  but  the  Tradesman  believes  that 
few  of  its  readers  will  be  caught  a  sec­
ond  time  by  such  methods.

A  week  ago  the  Tradesman  published 
three  letters pertinent to the subject—one 
from  an  Ithaca  shipper  who  had  under­
taken  to  do  business  with  Suiter,  one 
from  a  Cleveland  commission  merchant 
who  is  familiar  with  Suiter's  methods 
and  one  from  an  Eastern  handler  who 
has  watched  Suiter’s  career  for  several 
years—summarizing  the  situation  as fol­
lows :

The  reports  of  the mercantile agencies 
disclose  the  fact  that  Suiter’s  real  es­
tate  is  mortgaged  for $5,500 and  that the 
homestead  which  he  inherited  from  bis 
wife  has  been  mortgaged  to  a  bank  as 
security  for  advances  made from time  to 
time.  He  refuses  to  make  a  statement 
of  his  assets  and 
liabilities  and  all 
efforts  on  the  part  of  the  Tradesman  to 
secure  a  personal  statement  have proved 
futile. 
In  the  light  of  these  facts,  and 
in  view  of  the  effort  he  is  making  to 
secure  shipments,  and  considering  that 
he  refuses  goods  when  they  are  shipped 
C.  O.  D .,  the  Tradesman  advises  due 
caution  on  the  part  of  its  patrons  in 
making  shipments  to  Mr.  Suiter.

In  the  meantime  the  Tradesman  had 
exhausted 
its  resources  in  undertaking 
to  secure  a  statement  as  to  Suiter’s  as­
sets  and  liabilities,  so  as  to  form  a  con­
clusion  as  to  net  worth.  He  refused  to 
make  a  statement  for  Dun  &  Co.,  and 
an  appeal  from  the  Tradesman  direct 
resulted  in  a  letter,  referring the enquiry 
to  the  German-American  Savings  Bank. 
To  this  letter  the  Tradesman  replied  as 
follows:

We  are 

in  receipt  of  your  favor  of 
June  9,  in  which  you  refer  us  to  the 
German-American  Savings  Bank  of 
Cleveland.  We  do  not care for references 
of  this  character  because  our experience 
leads  us  to  believe  that they  possess  no 
is  a 
value  whatever.  What  we  wish 
statement  of  your assets  and 
liabilities 
over  your  own  signature. 
You  are 
sending  out  circulars  in  large  quantities 
to  Michigan  merchants,  soliciting  ship­
ments,  quoting  prices  which  we  believe 
to  be  above  the basis  of  the  market. 
If 
you  are  able  to  do  this  financially,  we 
certainly  have  no  objection,  but  if  you 
have  not  sufficient  backing  to  warrant 
such  methods,  we  must  certainly  object 
to  your  continuing  the  same,  so  far  as 
the  merchants  of  Michigan  are  con­
cerned.

Please reply to our  request  and  furnish 
us  a  full  and  detailed  statement  of  your 
assets  and 
in  default  of 
which  we  shall  be  compelled  to  warn 
our  people  that  you  are  unworthy  of 
their  confidence.

liabilities, 

following  day  he  uttered  two  chattel 
mortgages  to his sons—a $5,000 mortgage 
to  Richard  Suiter  on  his  stock  of  butter 
and  eggs  in  the  storage  house  of  W .  J . 
Benton  &  Co.  and  a  $3,000  mortgage  to 
Geo.  Suiter  on  his  stock  in  the  Sheriff 
Street  Market  Storage  Co.  He  thereupon 
assigned  to  J.  J.  Laisy,  who  immediate­
ly  furnished  a  $50,000  bond  and  took 
possession  of  the  assets.  No  official 
statement  as  to  the  assets  or  liabilities 
has  reached  the  Tradesman,  but  Suiter 
informed  a  reporter  of  the  Cleveland 
Plaindealer  that  his  assets  were  $75,000 
and  his  liabilities  about  the  same.  He 
also  asserted  that  he  had  been 
in  busi­
ness  since  1864;  that  he  was  not  in  the 
habit  of  paying above  the  market  price; 
that  he  does  not  owe  the  banks  or  any­
body  except  shippers  who  have sent him 
goods;  that  he  could  have  met  his  obli­
gations  if  all  his  creditors  had  not  de­
manded  their  money  at  once;  that  his 
collapse 
is  due  to  the  action  of  the 
Tradesman  and  Ohio  Merchant  in  cau­
tioning  their  patrons  to  confine  their 
dealings  with  him  to  cash  transactions; 
that  he  will  pull  through  all  right  and 
be  in  business  again  within  six  months.
The  Tradesman  cheerfully  gives place 
to  Mr.  Suiter’s  statements  and  sincerely 
hopes,  for  the  sake  of  the  shippers  who 
have  sent  him  goods  for  which  they 
have  received  no  pay,  that  he  will  be 
able  to  “ pull  through  all  right.’ ’ 
If  he 
pays  100 cents  on  the  dollar,  the Trades­
man  will  cheerfully  doff  its  hat  to  him 
and  publicly  acknowledge  that  he  was 
right  and  the  Tradesman  was  wrong. 
Judging  by  the  experience  of  others, 
however—especially  such  shining  lights 
as  Blackweil,  Chandler and  Hager—the 
Tradesman  fears  that  the  doffing  of  the 
hat  will  have  to-be  done  by  others.

The  Russian  cotton 

industry  is  now 
in  so  flourishing  a  condition  that  it  has 
not  only  almost  driven  foreign  produc­
tions  from  the  enormous  interior  mar­
ket,  but  the  exportation  of  its  manufac­
tured  articles  to  foreign  countries is also 
constantly  on  the  increase.  While  Rus­
sia  numbered  350,000  spindles in  1843, 
each  of  which  furnished  annually  one 
pood  of  spun  goods,  the  number  at  pres­
ent  is  5,000,000,  each  of  which  supplies 
more  than  double  that  weight.  The  im­
ported  raw  cotton  is  being  gradually  re­
placed  by  Russian  cotton,  and  already 
one-fourth  of  the  quantity  worked  up 
is 
derived  from  Central Asia and Caucasia. 
The  Russian  cotton,  grown  from  Amer­
ican  seed,  is  said  to  equal  the American 
both  as  regards  the  length  and  strength 
of  the  staple,  and  is  quoted  on 
'change 
at  as  high  a  price  as  the  latter.  The 
aggreg3te  quantity  of  cotton  now  used 
in  the  Russian 
factories  amounts  to 
12,500,000  poods,  about  one-tenth  of  the 
whole  quantity  used 
in  Europe  and 
America.

Public  ovens  are  established  on  most 
of  the  residential  streets  of  Japanese 
cities,  where  people  can  have  their  din­
ners  and  suppers  cooked  for  them  at 
trifling  expense.

Number  770

T H E   P R IC E   O F  BR EA D .

Nothing  so  clearly  illustrates  the  fact 
that  the  people  of  the  whole  world  are 
bound  together  by  the  golden  chain  of 
commerce  as  the 
fact  that  when  the 
price  of  an  article  of  necessary  daily 
consumption  rises  in  any  great  produ­
cing  country  it  rises  in  all  other  coun 
tries.

This  was  strikingly  demonstrated  in 
the  recent  rise  in  the  price  of  wheat 
in 
the  United  States.  When  the  news  was 
telegraphed  across  the  ocean,  there  was 
a  general  rise  of  breadstuffs  all  over 
Europe. 
is  now  realized  in  Europe 
that  when  there  is  any  deficiency  in  the 
grain  crops  of  Russia  and  Hungary, 
which  are  the  chief  of  the  European 
wheat  producers,the  United  States  must 
be  depended  on  for  daily  bread.

It 

The  area  of  the  wheat  region  of  the 
United  States  is  so  vast  that  a  general 
failure  of  the  crop  is  well-nigh 
impos­
sible,  either  from  excessive  cold  in win­
ter  or  drought  in  summer,  and  it  is  be­
coming  well  understood  how  essential  is 
America  to  the  welfare  and  happiness 
of  the  masses  of  the  people 
in  Europe.
This  does  not  depend  so  much  upon 
the  amount  of  breadstuffs America sends 
regularly  to  Europe  as  it  does  upon  the 
fact  that  nearly  always, in  years  of  great 
crop  failures, 
the  United  States  has 
usually  held  the  balance  of  power,  so 
far  as  breadstuff  resources  were  con­
cerned,  and  in  each  instance  their  posi­
tion  and  supply  have  determined  the 
cost  of  the  European 
loaf  of  bread, 
which  means  the  comfort  and  weal  of 
the  masses;  for  in  Europe,  bread  and 
potatoes  furnish  about  90  per  cent,  of 
the  nourishment  of  the  laboring  class.

The  profound  effect  of  the  recent  rise 
in  price  of  wheat  in  the  United  States 
is  seen  in  the  recent  serious  and  bloody 
riots  in  Italy;  in the  distress  and  suffer­
ing 
in  Spain;  in  the  general  dissatis­
faction  in  Germany;  in  unrest  and  anx­
iety  in  France,  while  millions  of  people 
in  Russia  are  in  need  of  bread;  so  that, 
while  the  American  farmers  have  been 
full  of  glee  at  the  high  prices  of  wheat, 
many  millions  of  people  abroad  have 
suffered  most  grievously,  and  millions 
at  home  have  had  to  pay  higher  prices 
for  bread  with  no  corresponding  rise  in 
their  wages.

For a  nation  at  war  to  borrow  $200,- 
000,000  at  only  3  per  cent,  interest  and 
sell  its  bonds  at  par  is an unprecedented 
thing.  There  is  no  nation  in  the world, 
except  Great  Britain,  whose  consols  pay 
as  low  a  rate  as  2%  per  cent.,  that  can 
get  better  terms  from  its  creditors  than 
that  while  there  is  peace.  British  con­
sols  are  an  indefinite  loan,  which  adds 
to  their  value  when  investors  face  the 
problem  of  a  steadily  decreasing  rate  of 
interest.  The  United  States  is  really 
second  on  the  list  to-day  in  respect  to 
its  National  credit,  for,  although  it pays 
4  per  cent,  on  its  latest  loan,  this  loan 
now  sells  for  124  in  the  market,  which 
makes  an  actual  earning  power  of  2% 
per  cent.

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Dry Goods

The  Dry  Goods  Market.

Staple  Cottons—Drills  are  somewhat 
more  active  than  other  brown  goods,  ex­
cepting  duck.  Both  duck  and  drilling 
is  profiting  by  continued  large  contracts 
for  grades  suitable  for  Government  use. 
Many  mills  have  turned  their whole pro­
ductive  capacity  upon  such  goods.  The 
price  position  of  this  part  of  the  mar­
ket  continues  very  strong,  but 
is  un­
changed.  Denims  have  been  the  favor­
ite  with  buyers  of  colored  goods  recent­
ly,  and  several 
leading  makes  of  nine 
and  ten  ounce  goods  are  somewhat  more 
firmly  held  than  was  the  case  two  weeks 
ago.  Plaids  continue  in  good  demand 
and  they  and  stripes,  checks  and  chev­
iots  are  generally  firm  in  price.  Tuck- 
ings  are  rather  slow  of  sale,  and  low 
grade 
in 
price;  fancies  are  not  subject to fluctua­
tions,  owing  to  small  accumulations.

lines  are  unsteady 

staple 

Prints  and  Ginghams--New  prices 
have  been  named  by  nearly  all  agents 
upon  new  lines  of  fancy  prints  and  con­
siderable  business  has  been  done,  but 
the  market  has  not  yet  assumed  an  even 
price  position.  The reductions  in  prices 
are  equivalent  to  a  cut  of  %c  per  yard, 
but  several  agents  are  offering  discounts 
in  excess  of  those  generally  granted, 
and  some  friction  and  unsteadiness  in 
values  will  probably  be  the  result  tem­
porarily.  This 
is  nothing  unusual  at 
this  period  of  the  season,  but  will  cause 
buyers 
to  exercise  considerable  dis­
cretion  in  placing  orders  until  it  is  cor­
rected.  The  position  of  mourning prints 
is  unchanged  and  any  early  recovery  to 
a  higher  price  basis  is rendered unlikely 
by  the  reduction  of  other  makes  of these 
goods  to  the  present 
Robes, 
draperies,  cretonnes,  etc.,  have  moved 
with  considerable  freedom  during  the 
week,  and  a  nice  business  continues  to 
be  done 
in  napped  prints.  Ginghams 
are  very  active  and  the  arrival  of  new 
makers  in  this  field  does  not  appear  to 
satiate  the  trade;  There  are  no  stocks 
of  seasonable  lines  upon  the  market;  in 
fact,  many  mills  are  behind  with  deliv­
eries  of  such  goods  to-day.  Domets 
and  other  woven  napped  cottons  have 
been  fairly  active  during  the  week,  and 
are  very  firm  in  price.

level. 

Dress  Goods—The  past  week  in  the 
dress  goods  market  has  been  practically 
a  repetition  of  the  week  before.  Jobbers 
are  still  very  hopeful,  but  the  amount  of 
business  transacted 
is  very  light.  Or­
ders  which  have  come  to  hand  are  al­
most  entirely  for  immediate  consump­
tion,  and  unless  the  goods  can  be  de­
livered  almost  on  the  spot,  they  are  not 
wanted.

Flannels—Flannels  have  been  ex­
tremely  quiet,  with  the  exception  of 
blues,  which  have  been  well  cleaned  up 
for  Government  supplies  for  shirtings. 
indications  are  that  there  will  be 
The 
a  large  demand 
for  fancy  woven  black 
goods  before  the  fall  season  ends.  A 
few  manufacturers  have  put  a  fabric  on 
the  market  made  of  part  cotton and  part 
wool  in  matalaise  or  brocaded  weaves, 
which  are  meeting  with  quite  good  suc­
lines  were  but  recently 
cess.  These 
brought  out  and,  to  judge  from  the  size 
of  the 
initial  orders  on  them,  promise 
to  be  a  feautre  of  the  dress  goods  busi­
ness  this  fall.  Many  of  the  large  retail­
ers  are  not  heavily  stocked  for  fall busi­
ness,  and  the  advent  of  the  season  must 
force  them  to  become  quite 
large  buy­
ers.  '  The  jobbing  houses  have  in  some 
cases  fairly  good  stocks,  but  the  size  of 
these  stocks 
is  not  formidable,  and  if

M ICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

there  is  the  slightest  louiuLt.on  fu r  the 
optimistic  views  expressed 
in  many 
quarters,  they  will  have  to  begin  dupli­
cating  as  soon  as  the  country  trade  be­
gins,  about  July  16  usually.

Hose—The  demand  for fancy half hose 
at  first  hands has  grown somewhat  slack, 
except  for  immediate  consumption,  and 
it 
is  generally  thought  that  the  condi­
tions  will  return  to  those  of  two  or  three 
years  ago,  when  half  dozen  or  a  dozen 
styles  were  all  that  were  carried.

-Status  of the  Carpet  Trade.

There  is  nothing  gained  in disguising 
the  fact  that  certain  latge manufacturers 
of tapestries,  by their  recent action,  have 
served  notice  upon  the  smaller  makers 
to  give  up  the  manufacture  of  these 
goods.  One  large  mill  that  is  princi­
pally  responsible  for  the  present  demor­
alized  condition  of  the  market  has  the 
capacity  to  meet  the  total  normal  de­
mand  of  the  country  for  these  goods 
if 
it  be  run  at  its highest producing power. 
It  is  only  by  running  a  mill  in this man­
ner  that  the  largest  economies  can  be 
conserved,  and  that  is  what  the  manu­
facturers  in  question  intend  to  do.  The 
fight  will  not  end  with  another  auction 
if  other  manufacturers  attempt  to thwart 
this  policy.  The  following  article  from 
the  Carpet  and  Upholstery  Trade  Re­
view  discloses  the  feeling  of  the  trade 
regarding the  policy  of som ;  well-known 
manufacturers:

in 

That  the  market  has  been  disturbed 
through  the  sales  at  auction  and  sales  of 
surplus  stocks 
tapestries,  velvets, 
Axminsters,  etc.,  goes  without  saying. 
That  such  stocks  were  accumulated  is 
unfortunate  for  the  trade,  as  a  whole, 
and  of  doubtful  benefit  to  the producers.
The  policy  of  tunning  in  accordance 
with  demand  has  proved  heneficial  to 
the  Philadelphia  manufacturers,  and  it 
would  seem  as  if  the  same  policy  might 
be  wisely  adopted  by  other  makers.
is  no  gainsaying  the  right  of  a 
manufacturer,  or 
jobber,  or  retailer  to 
dispose  of  his  wares  in  any  manner  he 
chooses,  but  the  buyer  has  an  equal 
right  to  purchase  according  to  his  best 
judgment.  From  all  we  can  learn  the 
large  majority  of  buyers  are  opposed  to 
such  violent  depreciations  of  values  as 
have  occurred  in  the  goods  above  men­
tioned.

There 

No  merchant  can  get  in  and  out  of 
stock  quick  enough 
to  accommodate 
himself  to  the  rapid  changes  which 
have  occurred  in  these  prices  during the 
past  forty-five  days,  and 
it  certainly 
seems  judicious  for  the  manufacturers 
to  conserve  the  merchants' 
interests. 
One  can  not  do  without  the  other,  and 
the  protests  of  merchants  against  the 
recent  market  changes  will  doubtless  be 
heeded.  The  one  favorable  outlook  is 
that,  despite  the  great  quantity  of  goods 
let  out  since  May  i,  there  is  an  open 
ing  for  those  makers  who  desire  to  con­
tinue  to  sell  by  regular  methods.  While 
orders  are  not  as 
large  as  usual  for  a 
season's  opening,  we  believe  the  trade 
atmosphere  will  clear  as  the  season  pro­
gresses  and  each  manufacturer  will  find 
he  still  has  an  opportunity  to  do  busi­
ness.
To  Sell 

the  Government  Seedless 

Raisins.

California  seedless  raisins  will 

likely 
play  an  important  part  in  the  rations  of 
the  army  and  navy.  William  Forsyth, 
of  Fresno,  spent  a  few  hours  in  Wash­
ington  several  days  ago,  and  as  a  result 
of  his  efforts  the purchasing departments 
of  both  departments  practically  decided 
to  incorporate  the  seeded  raisins  in  ra­
tions.  Forsyth  was  armed  with  argu­
ments  showing  the  value  of  a  fruit  com­
ponent  of  the  ration,  and  was  most  fa­
vorably received by Commissary-General 
Eagan  and  the  Chief  Paymaster  of  the 
navy.  He  showed  that  seedless  raisins 
contained  properties  which  are  most 
sought  for 
in  the  ration,  and  that  Cali­
fornia  could produce  in  unlimited  quan­
tities  the  fruit  needed.

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F A N S

We  have  a  good  stock to 
select  from:  Palm  Leafs  in 
both cheap and good grades. 
Japanese  Folding  Fans,  full  size,  at  35c,  75c,  90c,  $1.25, 
$ 2.00  and  $2.25  per  dozen. 
The  “ Telescope”   at  90c, 
and  “ Fatinitza”   at  $1.25  per  dozen,  are  both  good 
sellers.  Mail  orders  receive  prompt  attention.
VOIGT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  &  CO.,

W HOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

C a rp e ts

All grades cut at wholesale.

You  Carry  Only  Sam ples

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

For  One  Dollar

We will  send you a book of Carpet  Sam­
ples  containing  about  50  patterns—size 
qxi8 
inches.  These  samples  are  cut 
from the roll, so you can  guarantee every 
carpet as represented—in style, color and 
quality.  No  picture  scheme  or  Misrep­
resentation.  Every  sample  is  finished, 
numbered and quality specified on ticket, 
so you can  make no  mistake when order­
ing.  We also make  up  books  as  above, 
18x18 in., which we will furnish
For  Three  Dollars
This  size  is  very  popular,  as  the  patterns show up beautifully. 
If you- 
prefer large samples we will cut them any length desired at the  price  of 
the goods per yard.  We have the  best-selling  goods  on  earth.  Don’t 
wait, order samples at once;  it will be to  your  interest  and we want  you 
to represent  us.

HENRY  NOEE  &  CO.,

SOUTHEAST  CORNER  MARKET  &  MONROE  STS.,  CHICAGO.

_ 

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

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

3

IN  BAD  CO M PA N Y.

in  the 

Why  Dykema  Cannot  Succeed 

There 

Produce  Business.
is  a  wide  difference  between 
a  dupe  and  a  swindler,  although  in  the 
end  the  result  is  likely  to  be  the  same, 
so  far  as  the  people  who  have  any  deal­
ings  with  either  are  concerned.  The 
dupe  usually  emerges  from  the  transac­
tion  minus  his  capital  and  devoid  of 
his  good  name,  while  the  swindler  fat­
tens  on  his  ill-gotten  gains  and  does  not 
worry  over  the 
loss  of  reputation,  be­
cause  he  had  no  reputation  to  begin 
with.

A  couple  of  weeks  ago  enquiries  be­
gan  coming  to  the  Tradesman  from  the 
retail  merchants  and  shippers  of  the 
State  as  to  the  responsibility  of  J.  Dyk­
ema,  who  purported  to  conduct  a  com­
mission  house  at  47  Ellsworth  avenue. 
At  the  same  time  the  Kent  County  Sav­
ings  Bank  of  this  city  began  receiving 
many  letters  of  enquiry  as  to the respon­
sibility  of  the  same  person. 
Investiga­
tion  disclosed the  fact  that  the  enquiries 
resulted 
large 
number  of  circular  letters  from  the  ad­
dress  named,  offering  higher  prices  for

the  mailing  of  a 

from 

ment  by  offering  more  than  the  market 
really  warrants,  very  few shipments have 
been  secured,  so far as  the  Tradesman’s 
information  goes;  and, 
in  order  that 
the  shippers  of  Michigan  may  be  made 
acquainted  with  the  new  commission 
its  location  and  the  dilapi­
house  and 
dated  appearance  of  the 
in 
which 
is  situated,  the  Tradesman 
presents  herewith  a  photographic  re­
production  of  the  concern.

locality 

it 

Benjamin  F.  Striding,  who 

is  the 
leading  spirit 
in  the  enterprise,  has 
been  frequently  exposed  in  the  columns 
June  17,  1896,  the 
of  the  Tradesman. 
Tradesman  warned 
its  readers  against 
Striding  and  probably  had  something  to 
do  with  bis  discontinuing  the  commis­
sion  business  on  South  Division  street. 
Before  the  exposure,  however,  he  suc­
in  a  considerable 
ceeded 
number  of  shipments, 
for  which  he 
never  paid,  so  far  as  the  Tradesman’s 
information  goes.  The  business  at  that 
time  was  ostensibly  managed  by Chester
A.  Lamb,  and  the  retirement  of  Lamb 
and  Striding  from  the  produce  business 
was  undoubtedly  hastened  by  their  ar­
rest,  in  connection  with  one  Roland,  on

in  getting 

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mg  to  assume  that  he  is  an  honest  man 
and  that  he  has  been  led  into  this  enter-  I 
prise  by  the  designing  hand  and  cun­
ning  representations  of  Striding. 
In 
any  event,  he  will  emerge  from  the  un­
dertaking  wiser  in  experience  and poor- 1 
er 
ning.

in  purse  than  he  was  in  the  begin­

Rumor  Grew.

B ill--“  I  understand  that  you  told Gill 
that  you  raised  some  potatots  on  your 
place  as  big  as  my  head.’ ’
Jill—“ No;  I  never  said  as  big as your 
head ;  only  as  big  as  your brain. ”

Established 1180.

Walter Baker & Co.

D orchester, M ass.
The O ldest and 

L argest M anufacturers or

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOASAND
CHOCOLATES

on th is Continent.

No  Chem icals  are  used  in 

tb e ir m anufactures.

T heir  B reakfast  Cocoa  is  absolutely  pure, 
delicious,  n u tritio u s,  and  costs  less  than  one 
ce n t a  cup.

T heir  P rem ium   No.  1  Chocolate,  p u t  up  in 
Blue W rappers and Yellow Labels, is th e  best 
plain chocolate in the m ark et fo r fam ily use.

T heir  G erm an  S w e et  Chocolate  10  good  to 
eat an d  good  to   d rin k .  It  is  palatable, nutrì, 
tious, an d   healthful ;  a  g reat  favorite  w ith 
children.

Buyers should ask fo r and be sure  th a t  they 
get th e genuine goods. The above trad e-m ark  
is on every package.
W alter Baker &  Co.  Ltd.

Dorchester,  Mass.

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cf Creameries

It will  pay  you  to  investi­
gate our plans  and  visit  our 
factories  if  you  are  contem­
plating building  a  Creamery 
or Cheese factory.  All  sup­
plies 
lowest 
prices.  Correspondence so­
licited.

furnished  at 

R.  E.  S tu rg is,  Allegan,  Mich.

C ontractor and  B uilder of B utter 
and  Cheese Factories, and Dealer 
in  S upplies.

SPAIN
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Dwight’s  Liquid  Bluing 

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M anufactured  by

The  W olverine  Spice  Co.,  $
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Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 
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LADIES’
AND  GENTS’
SUMMER
NECKWEAR.

latest 

Send  in  your  orders  for 
the 
styles,  also 
National  Colors  in  Bows, 
Clubs and Four-in-hands.

EN TERPRISE 
N EC K W EA R   CO.,

KORTLANDER
BLOCK.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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produce  than  the  market  really  war­
ranted.  The  person  primarily  respon­
sible  for  the  letters  is  Jacob  Dykema,  a 
young  man  25  years old,  who had worked 
as  a  metal  polisher  for  several  years 
in 
the  factory  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Brass 
Co.  He  managed  to  accumulate  about 
8300,  which  he  had  deposited  in the sav­
ings  department  of  the  Kent  County 
Savings  Bank.  Benjamin  Striding con­
vinced  him  that  there  was  money  in  the 
commission  business,  and  the  premises 
at  47  Ellsworth  avenue  were  thereupon 
leased 
from  A.  B.  Knowlson  for $2  per 
week.  Striding  ordered  the  necessary 
printed  matter,  giving  the  Kent  County 
Savings  Bank  as  reference,  although  no 
authority  to  use  the  name  was  first  ob­
tained  of  any  officer  or  employe  of  the 
Bank.  As  soon  as  the  letters  of  enquiry 
began  coming  into  the  Bank,  Mr.  Dyk­
ema  was  notified  that  be  must  not  use 
the  name  of that institution as reference, 
whereupon  he  says  he  withdrew  his 
money  from  the  Bank,  and  has  since 
sunk  about  $100  in  getting  the  business 
“ on  its  feet,’ ’  as  he  expresses  it.  Strid­
ing  has  been  actively  identified with  the 
business,  although  Dykema  insists  that 
he  is  working  on  a  salary  and  does  not 
share 
in  the  profits  or  losses  of  the  en­
terprise. 
energetic  efforts 
have  been  made  to  get goods on consign-

Although 

a  charge  of  fraud.  About  a  year  ago, 
Striding  and  the  elder  Lamb  engaged  in 
the  commission  business  in  Milwaukee, 
but  as 
it  was  expected  that  shipments 
would  be  mainly  obtained  from  the fruit 
growers  on  this  side  of  the  Lake,  and 
as  the  Tradesman  promptly  exposed  the 
shortcomings  of  both  gentlemen,  few 
shipments  were  forthcoming  and  the 
attempt  was  abandoned. 
Some  years 
ago  Striding  conducted  a  saloon of ques­
tionable  repute  on  Kent  street.  He  has 
long  had  the  reputation  of  being a dead­
beat  and  any  one  who  has  anything  to 
do  with  him  or  with  any  house  with 
which  he  is  connected  is  quite  likely  to 
be  sorry.

The  Tradesman  advises  shippers  to 
avoid  having  any  dealings  with  Mr. 
Dykema,  except  on  a  cash  basis,  for 
several  reasons:  First,  because  he  has 
not  sufficient  capital  to  properly  exploit 
the business, $200 being  too  small  a  sum 
to  swing  a  business  of  this  kind  suc­
cessfully.  Second,  he  has  had  no  pre­
vious  experience 
in  the  business,  has 
no  acquaintance  with  the  trade  and  has 
no  facilities  for  unloading consignments 
to  advantage.  Third,  his  association 
with  Striding  is  in  itself  sufficient cause 
to  regard  him  with  suspicion.  The 
Tradesman  knows  very  little  about  Mr. 
Dykema  or  bis  antecedents,  but  is  will-

To  Merchants:

We have a sample book  that  we  will 
furnish without charge  express  prepaid  to  any 
good  merchant  who  wishes  to  take  orders  for 
single  suits, either  ready  to  wear  or  made  to 
order.  We manufacture all our  own  Clothing, 
and  do  not  sell  through  agents.  We  sell  to 
merchants  only.  We  furnish  them  the  best 
book  in the market, and are so well known that 
we do not need  to  sail  under  false  colors  like 
the  Empire  Tailors,  or  Royal  Black  Snake 
Manufacturers of Clothing,  or  American  Mon- 
gul  Tailor,  or  the  Black  Horse  Tailors,  etc. 
We have been established twenty-five years, and 
our firm  is well and favorably known.  Can you 
use  a  book  of  samples  to  advantage? 
If  so, 
send  in your  application  and  we will  send  you 
our  next  book  which  will  be  ready  July  1st. 
Our spring  and  summer  books  are  all  placed. 
Get your application  in early,  for  we  will  have 
a  larger  demand  for  our  books  than  we  can 
supply. 

Yours very truly,

W ork  Bros.  &  Co.,

Cor. Jackson and Fifth Ave., Chicago, III.

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4 

Around  the State

Movements  of  Merchants.

Monterey—A.  B.  Towue  has  removed 

his  grocery  stock  to  Hopkins  Station.

Clifford—Sanford  &  Seaman  hav** pur­
chased  the  A.  R.  Pulling  hardware 
stock.

Albion—A. 

J.  Howard  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Smith 
W.  Hill.

Jackson—Isaac  S.  Given,  boot  and 
shoe  dealer,  has  removed  to  Daven­
port,  la.

Marquette—F.  L.  Ht-rlick  & Co.,  gro­
cers,  have  dissolved,  F.  L.  Herlick  suc­
ceeding.

Cheboygan—M. 

J.  Cain  has  closed 
out  his  furniture  stock  and  retired  from 
business.

Saginaw — Hemmeter  &  Keith  will 
shortly  open  a  confectioney  store  at  603 
Court  strett.

Big  Rapids—R.  W.  Rastall  will  re­
jewelry  stock  to  Kalamazoo 

move  his 
about  July  1.

Lansing—Hugo  R.  Delfs  has  opened 
a  tobacco  and  news  store  at  125  Michi­
gan  avenue,  East.

Allegan—George  H.  West  has  opened 
up a  drug  stock  in the corner room of  the 
new  Parker  block.

Freeport—Frank  Smelker  and  Len 
Wolcott  Lave  purchased  the  meat  busi­
ness  of  Geo.  Simpson.

Clifford—J.  F.  DuSaar  has  soid  bis 
drug  business  to  J.  F.  Turner  &  Co., 
who  have  increased  the  stock.

Alma—Judson  Losey,  of  Yale,  has 
in­

engaged  in  the  jewelry  and  musical 
strument  business  at  this  place.

Ishpeming—Sam  Collins  has  taken 
control  of  the  meat  business  heretofore 
conducted  by  O.  Forsberg  &  Co.

Gaylord—Johnson  &  McFayden  suc­
ceed  Wolverton  &  McFayden  in the gro­
cery,  crockery  and  leed  business.

Benton  Harbor—C.  W.  Teezel has  sold 
his  jewelry  stock  to  G.  W.  Haydon,  but 
will  remain  in  charge  of  the  business.

Dexter—John  Croarkin, 

for  many 
years  engaged  in  the grocery business  at 
this  place,  has  sold  his  stock to P.  Sloan 
&  Co.

Byron—A.  F.  Hunt  has  purchased  the 
interest  of  his  partners in  the Byron  E x ­
change  Bank  and  will  continue the busi­
ness  alone.

Fowler—Feldpausch  &  Geller,  meat 
into  the  double 
dealers,  wili  remove 
store  building  now  being  built  for  them 
about  July  1.

Marshall—Leedle  Bros.,  of  Fowler- 
ville,  have  purchased the hardware stock 
of  Cook  Bros,  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Honor—H.  T.  Phelps  has  purchased 
the  general  stock  of  J.  L.  Crane  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.  Mr.  Crane  will  remove  to! 
Chicago.

Detroit—The  Lyon  Bros.  Co.  has  cer­
tified  to  the  County  Clerk  that  the  prop­
erty  and  franchises  of  the  corporation 
have  been  sold,  and  that  the  company 
has  ceased  to  do  business.

Ignace—John  Quance  has  pur­
chased  the  news  and  confectionery stock 
of  H.  B.  Cornell  and,  in  company  with 
bis  brother  William,  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

St. 

Port  Huron—Armstrong  &  Graves, 
who  have  been  engaged  in the  wholesale 
grocery  business  here  for  the  last  twelve 
years,  will  shortly  retire  from  trade. 
They  give  as  their  reason  that  the 
margin  on  groceries  is  so  small  that 
it 
is  impossible  for  a  small  jobbing  house 
to  make a  success  of  the  business.

MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

O aosso—Phelps,  Brac^  &  Co.,  whole-  j 
sale  grocers  or  Detroit,  have  offered 
Byron  Dawes,  of  this  city,  the  position 
of  Upper  Peninsula  traveling  represent 
ative,  with  a  salary  of  §1,500  a  year.

Hancock—Andrew  Bram,  who  has 
been  several  years  a  clerk 
for  S.  D. 
North,  has  opened  a  new  drug  store 
here.  Arthur  T.  Ellsworth  will  have 
charge  of  the  pharmacy  department.

Addison—Butter  was  never  so much of 
in  the  market  as  at  present. 
a  drug 
There  is  absolutely  no  sale  for 
it  here, 
all  grocers  being  sto. ke.i,and good dairy 
butter 
is  going  begging  at  9  cents  a 
pound.

Ludingion—David  Bctka  and  George 
Turgeon  have  purchased 
the  Robert 
Peterson  meat  market,  which  was  sold  a 
short  time  ago  to  Geo.  Mussler.  Mr. 
Peterson  has  purchased  the  meat  busi 
ness  of  C.  L.  Brown  &  Co.  and  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  same  loca­
tion.

Morenci—The  business  men  of  t^e 
village  wish  it  distinctly understood that 
hereafter  they  positively  will  do  no 
business  nor  be  at  their  places  of  busi­
ness  on  Sunday.  A  pledge  to  this  effect 
has  been  signed  by  nearly  every  man 
representing  a  business  in  Morenci.

Detroit—The  arrest  of  a  prominent 
baker,  John  Courado,  for  selling  short 
weigh  bread,  has 
led  to  the  discovery 
that  numerous  Detroit  bakers  have  re­
sorted  to  the  deception  to  avoid  advan­
cing  the  price  of  loaves.  The  alleged 
shortage 
is  one  to  three  ounces  to  a 
pound.  Recorder Chambers  asserts  that 
he  will  prosecute  the  case  vigorously.

Menominee—George  Morley,  of  the 
firm  of  Morley  Bros.  (Saginaw),  and 
President  of  the  Menominee  Hardware 
Co  ,  was  in  the  city  a  few  days  ago  and 
placed  E.  B.  Norris,  an  old  employe  of 
Morley  Bros.,  in  charge  of  the  store 
here  as  manager.  The  work  of  taking 
inventory  of  stock 
is  now  progressing 
under  his  direction,  assisted  by  Mr. 
Hastings.  Mr.  Heinrichs  will  continue 
as  traveling  solicitor  and  salesman.

Pontiac—W 

J  Fisher  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Chas.  M.  Smith,  who  fori 
twelve  years  has  been  traveling  sales­
man  for  T.  H.  Hinchman  Sons  &  Co., 
of  Detroit.  The  store  was 
for  many 
years  conducted  by  A.  Parker,  and  is 
yet  known  to  many  as  the  “ Parker”  
drug  store. 
It  afterwards  passed  into 
the  hands  of  Woodward  &  Payne,  then 
the  C. 
it 
passed  into  the  hands  of  the  late  owner, 
who  sold 
it  to  Mr.  Smith.  The  new 
proprietor  will  not  give  up  his  job'  with 
the  Michigan  Drug  Co.  The  store  will 
be  conducted  under  the  charge  of  Guy 
Walters,  formerly  of  Ciarkston,  but  re­
cently  an  employe  of  the  Michigan 
Drug  Co.

J.  Payne  Co.,  from  whom 

Manufacturing  Matters.

Tecumseh—C.  A.  Slayton  will  shortly 
erect  a  grain  elevator  with  a  capacity 
of  10,000  bushels.

Zeeland—The  South  Ottawa  Cheese 
Co.  has  put 
in  a  separator,  so  as  to  be 
able  to  make  butter  as  well  as  cheese,  if 
necessary.

Holland—The  three-story  brick  addi­
tion  to  the  West  Michigan  Furniture 
Co.’s  plant  will  be  completed  in  about 
two  weeks.  The  dimensions  are  75x150 
feet.

Grand  Ledge—The  Grand  Ledge  Can­
ning  Co.  has  been  reorganized  under 
the  style  of  the  Grand  Ledge Canning  & 
Preserving  Co.,  the  stockholders  being 
J.  W.  Sisco,  A.  T.  Holmes,  A.  B.  Shu­
maker,  W.  R.  Clark,  B.  W,  Kennedy and 
W.  Rollee.

Reed  City—C.  A  W;they  has  pur­
chased  the  excelsior  plant  of  J.  11.  An­
drews  &  Co.  and shipped it to Harrietta, 
where  it  will  be  operated  in  connection 
with  the  shingle  mill  of  H.  M.  Patrick.
Manistee—The  Buckley  &  Douglas 
Lumber  Co.  is  preparing  storage  room 
for  10,000  barrels  of  salt  in  addition  to 
its  present  capacity  of  300,000  barrels, 
and  is  packing  out  2,500  barrels  daily.
Bay  City—The  mill  of  the  Hitchcock 
Lumber  Co.  started  operations  for  the 
last  Thursday,  with  a  crew  of 
season 
thirty-six  hands. 
is  expected  the 
plant  will  run  steadily  through  the  sea­
son.

It 

Saginaw—Fred 

and  Harry  Frazee 
have  patented  and  begun  the  manufac­
ture  of  a  safety  casket  hook.  The  de­
vice  consists  of  two  nickel-plated  steel 
hooks  attached  to  either  end  of  a  shoit 
oak  bar.

Manistee—Louis  Sands'  new  sawmill 
is 
in  operation,  but  running  only  the 
circular  at  present,  on  hemlock,  and 
getting  out  limber  and  material  for  the 
new  salt  block  to  replace  the one burned 
recently.

Muskegon —After  a  thorough 

investi­
gation  of  the  beet  sugar  industry,  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce 
is  willing  to 
take  steps  toward  the  erection  of  a  fac­
tory 
if  the  farmers  will  agree  to  grow 
the  beets.

Battle  Creek—The  Battle Creek  Steam 
Pump  Co.  is  doubling  the  capacity  of 
its  foundry  by  the  addition  of  a  new 
building,  60x60 
in  dimensions, 
which  will  be  equipped  with  a traveling 
train  and  air  hoist.

feet 

Saginaw—The  Saginaw  Lumber  & 
Salt  Co.  has  started 
its  plant  with  a 
night  shift.  This  concern  is  having  a 
phenomenal  trade  this  season,  having 
nearly  closed  out  all  of  the  old  stock  on 
the  mill  docks.  The  company  does  a 
large  yard  business.

Bad  Axe—Samuel  Robinson  is  build­
ing  a  saw and  shingle  mill  on  the  Mertz 
branch  of  the  Lewiston  branch  of  the 
Michigan  Central  about  ten  miles  from 
Grayling.  He  purchased  what  is  known 
as  the  King  timber  tract  and  expects  to 
cut  30,000 
lumber  and  40,000 
shingles  daily.

feet  of 

Detroit—Freidman  &  Forester,  manu­
facturers  of  knit  goods  at  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  want  to  move  to  Detroit  and  are 
negotiating  for  a  cite  through real estate 
dealers  here.  The  firm  wishes  to  erect 
a  three  or  four-story  factory  building, 
where  100  hands  will  be  employed.  No 
bonus  is  asked.

Onaway—Kelley  &  Williams  have 
completed  their  contract  with  C.  A. 
Miller  &  Co.  and  have  already  begun 
sawing  300,000  feet  of  basswood  logs  for 
H.  Dickerson.  The  mill  will  be  re­
stocked  at  once.  C.  A.  Miller  &  Co. 
are  building  a  pole  track  from  the  mill 
to  a  tract  of  timber  120  rods  away.

Bay  City—The  E.  J.  Vance  Box  Co. 
has  made  arrangements  to  rebuild  its 
box  factory  on  North  Madison  avenue, 
on  the  site  of  the  factory  destroyed  by 
fire  about  a  month  ago.  The  new  plant 
will  be  larger  than  the  old  one,  cover­
ing  a  ground  space  of  140x128  feet.  The 
work  of  rebuilding  is  now  in  progress.
Pentwater—The  largest  business  deal 
in  Pentwater  was  con­
ever  closed  up 
summated 
last  week  when  E.  G.  Max­
well  completed  the  sale  of  his  entire  in­
terests 
in  the  Sands  &  Maxwell  Lum­
ber  Co.  and  the Pentwater Bedstead Co., 
and  A.  W.  Newark  became  a  member 
of  the  corporation.  The  deal  has  been 
contemplated  for  some  time.  Mr.  Max­
well  came  to  Pentwater  in  June,  1863, 
thirty-five  years  ago,  and  became  con­

1875, 
nected  with  the  corporation  in 
since  which  time  he  has  been 
ihe 
harness  every  day,  helping  to  build  up 
the  business  which  has  assumed  such 
mammoth  proportions.

Bay  City—There  has  been  a very good 
trade  in  hardwood  lumber  and  the  stock 
of  dry  lumber  is  pretty  well  cleared  up. 
There  was  not  so  large  a  stock  of  hard­
wood  logs  put  in  last  winter  as  was  ex­
pected,  owing  to  the  deep  snow  and  its 
sudden  disappearance.  Prices are  firm, 
particularly  for  oak  and  ash.  There  has 
not  been  much  call  for  maple,  but  bass­
wood  moves  freely  and  rock  elm  is firm. 
Eight  hundred  thousand  feet  of  bass­
wood  will  be  shipped  next  week  from 
Black  River  to  Oswego.
Grand  Rapids  Retail  G rocers’  Asso­

ciation.

At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
held  at  the  office  of  the  Tradesman 
Company  on  Tuesday  evening,  June  20, 
Vice-President  Wagner  presided.

Alex  Ekkens,  grocer  at  343  West 
in 

Bridge  street,  applied  for  admission 
the  Association  and  was  accepted.

The  Executive  Committee  reported 
that 
it  had  held  a  meeting  at  Sweet’s 
Hotel  the  previous  Friday  evening  and 
unanimously  adopted  the  following reso­
lution,  which had already been furnished 
the  daily  papers:

Whereas—The  price  of  bread  was  re­
cently  advanced  by  the  bakers  to  meet 
the  increased  price  in  flour;  and

Whereas—The  price  of  wheat  has 
lately  declined 
to  nearly  the  former 
basis,  while  bread  still  remains  at  the 
high  figure;  therefore

Resolved—That  we  place  ourselves  on 
! record  as  opposed  to  a  continuance  of 
the  present  price,  believing  that  bread 
should  be  reduced  at  least  1  cent  a  loaf 
in  order  to  equalize the present disparity 
between  flour and  bread.

The  action  of  the  Committee  was 
the  members  noted, 
commended  and 
with  pleasure,  that 
it  has  had  the  de­
sired  result,  inasmuch  as  the  bakers 
bad  decided  to  reduce  their  retail  price 
from  6  to  5  cents  and the wholesale price 
from  5  to  4  cents.

Secretary  Klap  made  a  report  of  his 
recent  trip  to  Grand  Haven,  made  at 
the  instance of the Committee on  Picnic, 
and  stated  that  everything  that  could  be 
done  to  render  the  event  ari  enjoyable 
o.ie  would  be  undertaken  by  the  retail 
dealers  of  Grand  Haven  in  case  that 
place  was  selected  as  the  place  of  hold­
ing  the  picnic.

Chairman  Wagner,  of  the  Committee 
on  Picnic,  reported  progress  in  the  mat­
ter  of  negotiating  for  a  special  train  on 
the  Grand  Trunk  Railway and  was given 
further  time.  Mr.  Wagner  asserted  that 
the  selection  of  Grand  Haven  for  the 
place  of  picnic  would  be  the  means  of 
cementing  the  friendship  already  exist­
ing  between  the  retail  dealers  of  the two 
cities,  and  that  if  the  invitation  of  the 
Grand  Haven  dealers  was  accepted,  he 
would  insist  upon  Grand  Rapids  recip­
rocating  in  the  same  way  next  year.

railway  rate  would  attract  a large crowd.
Mr.  Lehman  recommended  that Presi­
dent  Katz,  Secretary  Hilber  and  Treas­
urer  Hufford,  of  the  Retail  Meat  Deal­
ers’  Association,  be  invited  to  be  pres­
ent  at  the  next  meeting  to  act  in  behalf 
of  the  butchers  in  making  the  prelimi­
nary  arrangements  for  the  picnic.

The  Secretary  was 

On  motion  of  Mr.  Lehman,  it  was  de­
cided  to  hold  a  special  meeting  next 
Tuesday  evening  to  complete  the  ar­
rangements 
in­
structed  to  issue  cards,  urging  every 
member  to  attend  the  meeting  and  also 
advising  that  the  following  prices  be 
observed  in  the  sale  of  fruit jars:  Pints, 
60  cents;  quarts,  65  cents;  half  gallons, 
75  cents.

There  being  no  further  business  the 

meeting  adjourned.

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

A  bridle  for  a  woman’s  tongue  is  a 

necessary  part  of  her  harness.

B, 

S.  Harris  thought*  that  a  50  cent 

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Grocery  Market.

Sugar—The  guarantee  of  the  refiners 
that  there  will  be  no  lower  prices  this 
month  has  tended  to  make  the  market 
steady.  There  is  some  speculation  over 
the  effect  on  prices  which  the  war  tax 
of  one-fourth  of  I  per  cent,  on  sugar 
refiners 
is  a 
small  percentage,  but  the  Trust  is  not 
given  to  paying  even  small  expenses 
where  it  can  foist  them  on  the  grocery 
trade  or  consumers.  Whether  they  will 
follow  their  custom 
in  this  particular 
case  remains  to  be  seen.

is  likely  to  have.  This 

Tea—Cables  from  Japan  state  that  the 
price  of  the  new  crop  has  advanced 
instead  of  declined, 
the  cause  being 
that  the  cost  of  native  living  has  ad­
vanced 
in  Japan,  and  higher  prices  for 
tea  are  necessary  to  make  both  ends 
meet.  The  first  crop  is  said  to  be  the 
smallest  for  nine  years,  and  consequent­
ly  the  advances  will  be  maintained  on 
the first new teas at any rate.  On  the  sec­
ond-crop  teas  the  future  is  uncertain.

Coffee—The  movement  is  good,  rather 
better  because  the  stocks  bought  under 
the  very  low  prices  are  now  being  ex­
hausted  to  some  extent.  The  demand  is 
better  on  bulk goods,but  still  runs  large­
ly  to  package  coffees.  No  report  from 
the  Brazil  fields  goes  to 
indicate  that 
there  will  be  reason  to  look  for  higher 
prices.

on 

Canned  Goods—New  peas  are  firm 
and  active  on  reports  of  short  crop  and 
short  pack,  especially  of  the  higher 
grades.  Some  packers  advanced  5c  per 
dozen 
these  during  the  week. 
Further  advances  may  occur.  Spot  to 
matoes  are  very  dull  and  weak. 
It  is 
said  that  some  holders  offered  to  shade 
the  price,  but  no  sales were made.  The 
Government  contracts  for  three-pound 
goods, which are  expected  to  be  awarded 
any  day,  will  probably  stiffen  the  mar­
ket.  Whether  they  will  actually  advance 
depends  on  the  size  of  the  orders.  Fu­
ture  tomatoes  are  quiet,  but  are  firmer 
than  spot.  Spot corn  is  very  dull  at  un­
changed  prices.  Future  corn 
is  also 
dead.  Peaches  are 
in  small  demand. 
The  high  prices  of  the  new  pack  of 
Californias  curtail  the  demand  some­
what.  No  prices  on  Eastern  futures 
have  yet  been  made.

Dried  Fruits—An  association  of  Cali­
fornia  raisin  growers  has  been  formed 
which  promises  to  hold  the  market more 
steady  the  coming  season,  and  also 
hold  more  of  the  profits  for  the  growers. 
This  will  not  be  necessarily  an  evil  to 
the  market  at  large,  if  it  is  not  over 
done.  This  association 
is  to  pool  its 
products,  with  a  selling  committee  of 
seven.  The  committee  are  authorized  to 
sell  the  raisins  in  the  sweat  box  at  a 
minimum  price  of  2)4 c,  or  may  sell  at 
discretion 
in  such  markets  and  at  such 
times  as  their  best  judgment  shall  dic­
tate.  The  grower  will  give  one  or  the 
other  of  these  options  to  the  committee 
when  he  sends  in  his  fruit.  The  raisin 
packers  are  said  to  favor  this  move  of 
the  growers.

Syrups  and  Molasses—There 

Rice—Foreign  markets  are  very  firm 
and  Southern  handlers  are  very  conserv­
ative.  Holders  are  asking  full  prices.
is  com­
paratively  no  sugar  syrup  in  first  hands, 
but  the  market  has  still  been  somewhat 
weaker.  Whether  there  is  a  decline  de­
pends  on  the  output.  Very  little  mo­
lasses 
is  selling,  and  prices  are  un­
changed.  Fluctuations  are  hardly  likely 
in  the  near  future,  although  there  is  a 
decided  scarcity  of  fine  grades.

MICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

5

Salt  Fish—Receipts  of  old  mackerel 
during  the  past  week  have  been  some- 
1 what  larger,  but  the  fish  have  been  thin 
and  of  undesirable  quality.  The  de­
mand  for  fall-caught  mackerel  seems  to 
improving.  No  further  change  in 
be 
price 
is  expected  during  the  coming 
week.  Cod  is  dull  at  unchanged  prices. 
Lake  fish 
is  still  firm  and  with  only  a 
moderate  demand.  Salmon 
is  a  little 
stiffer  on  account  of  the  Government 
contracts,  and  as  stocks  begin  to  be 
taken  will  probably  advance.  Domestic 
sardines  have  reacted 
from  the  lowest 
point  about  10  cents  per  dozen.
The  Produce  Marker.
Bananas—No  lack  of  stock 

is  com­
plained  of.  The  war  thus  far  has  done 
little  but  to  frighten  prices into a  higher 
level.  The  movement 
is  very  gcod, 
probably  as  heavy  as  it  will  be  for  any 
month  of  the  year.  The  street  sale  is 
arge,  and  shipping  demand  is  good.

Beet  Greens—2o@i$c  per  bu.
Beets—New,  25c  per  doz.  bunches.
Blackberries—The  home  grown  crop 
promises  to  be  large  in  size  and  fine 
in 
quality,unless there should be  a  drought. 
It  will  begin  to  come  in  within  three 
weeks.

Butter—All  grades  are  a little stronger 
Factory  creamery  com­
io@i2c  and 

16c,  fancy  dairy 

and  higher. 
mands 
packing  stock  8@gc.

Cabbage— Home  grown 

is  in  meager 
supply  at  50c  per  doz.  Cairo  commands 
S i.25  for  3  doz.  crate  and  Mississippi 
S i.50  for  5  doz.  crate.

Celery—25c  per  bunch.  Offerings  are 

fine  in  quality  and  excellent  in  flavor.
Carrots—I5@20C  per  doz.  bunches.
Cherries—75@goc  per  crate  of  16  qts 
Cocoanuts—4@$c.
Cucumbers—4o@5oc  per  doz.  for home 

for  red  or  black.

grown.

Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  8c  on  track, 
holding  case  count  at gc  and  candled  at 
gKc.
qts.

Gooseberries—6o@75c  per  crate  of  16 

Green  Onions—10c  per  doz.  for  silver 

skins.
grown.

Green  Peas—6o@75c  per  bu.  forborne 

Honey—Dark 

ranges  from  g@ioc. 

Light  stock  commands  12c.

Lemons—Prices  are  advancing  rap­
idly,  with  prospect  of  further  advances. 
The  season  is  right  for a  large  sale,  and 
the  demand  good.  Both  Messinas  and 
Californias  are 
in  good  demand  and 
both  have  advanced.  Top  price  on 
fancy  Messinas  is  $5  per box.

Lettuce—25c  per  bu.  for  head.
Onions—Dry  stock  from  Mississippi 
commands  $2.25  per  sack;  California, 
$2.50  per  sack.
Oranges—Very  few  good  navels  are 
in  this  market,  but  there  is  a  good 
sweets  and 

left 
supply  of  Mediterranean 
seedlings.

Pieplant—3o@4oc  per  package  of 
Pineapples—Floridas,  ^ 1.25@ 1.75  per 

about  50  lbs.
doz.

Pop  Corn—50c  per  bu.
Potatoes—Old 
stock 

is  pretty  well 
played  out,  the  price  having  declined 
10c  during  the  past  week,  being  now 
held  at  50c.  New  stock  fetches  75@85c 
per  bu.  and  $2  25@2.50  per  bbl.

Radishes—ioc  per  doz.  bunches.
Raspberries—Home  grown  will  begin 
to  come  in  next  week.  The  crop  will 
be  large 
in  size  and  the  yield  is  ex­
pected  to  be  the  largest  ever  known.
Strawberries—The  crop  is  pretty  well 
cleaned  up,  present  offerings  being 
in­
ferior  in  size  but  superior  in  quality  to 
last  week’s  receipts.  Price ranges  from 
5o@75c  per  16 qt.  crate.
Tomatoes—Si  per  4  basket  crate.
Wax  Beans—$1  per  bu.
Watermelons——25@35c  apiece 

for 

choice  Georgia  stock.

Strategy  is  always  demanding  that  the 
ocean  cables  shall  be  cut  in  one  place 
and  mended  in  another.

The  free  lunch  attracts  more men than 

the  church  festival.

T H E   NEW   BO N D S.

Liberal  Subscriptions  Made  by  Local 

Investors.

The  banks,  express  companies  and 
postoffice  are  receiving  subscriptiuns for 
the  Spanish  war  loan  and  the  total  sub­
scriptions  sent  from  this  city  wiil  prob­
ably  exceed  Si, 000,000.  These 
sub­
scriptions  will  not  represent  Grand 
Rapids  capital  exclusively,  but  will  in­
clude  orders  from  Western  Michigan 
generally,  sent  in  here  to  be  forwarded 
instead  of  through  local  channels.  The 
Michigan  Trust  Company  has  already 
forwarded  subscriptions  to  the  amount 
of  $400.000  and  the  other  banking  insti­
tutions  have  also  sent  in  orders,  but  not 
to  so  large  an  amount.  The  subscrip­
tions  will  not  close  until  July  14

*  *  *

The  bonds  bear  3  per  cent, 

interest, 
payable  semi-annually,  and  are  due  in 
twenty  years,  subject  to  call  any  time 
after  ten  years.  They  will  be 
in  de­
nominations  of  S20,  Si00,  $500  and 
S i,000,  and  registered  bonds  will  be  in 
the  same  denomination  and  also  S5,ooo 
and  Si0,000.  Subscriptions  up  to  $500 
will  be  awarded  in  full,  but  above  that 
amount  the  award 
is  subject  to  reduc­
issue  will  be  heavily  over­
tion.  The 
scribed  and  the  larger  subscriptions will 
undoubtedly  be  cut  down.  The  largest 
subscription  sent  from  this  city  up  to 
date 
is  one  of  $50.000.  Many  orders 
ranging  from  $1,000  to $io.000 have been 
forwarded  and  many  of  the  smaller  de­
nominations  have  been  asked  for  and 
the  money  in  payment  therefor  has been 
deposited. 
subscriptions 
are  especially  encouraged,  not  only  by 
the  Government  but  by  the  banks  re 
ceiving  subscriptions. 
the 
bonds  widely  scattered  and  in  the hands 
of  the  people  is  looked  upon  as  a  good 
thing,  not  only  for  the  Government  but 
for  the  people.

To  have 

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The  purely  local  subscriptions and the 
bonds  will  probably  reach  half  or  three- 
quarters  of  a  million,  and  if  the  bonds 
shall  be  awarded  as  asked  for,  it  will 
take  a  considerable  amount  of  ready 
money  out  of  town.  The  banks  are 
pretty  well 
loaded  with  funds  at  the 
present  time,  even  although  there  has 
been  a  marked  improvement  in  the con­
ditions  in  the  past  three  months. 
Inter­
est  rates  have  preceptibly stiffened since 
the first  of  the  year  and  no  longer  can  a 
customer  get  what  money  he  wants  on 
practically  his  own  terms. 
The  with­
drawal  of  a  half  million  or  more  from 
the  local  banks  would have a still further 
stiffening  influence,  but  it 
is  probable 
the  money  would  flow  back  again  before 
long 
in  various  trade  channels.  The 
savings  banks  have  not  yet  felt the effect 
of  deposit  withdrawals  for  bond  sub­
scriptions,  but 
some  of  the  National 
banks  have  seen  their  certificates  of  de­
posit  account  go  down.

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The  savings  banks  pay  3  and  4  per 
cent,  on  deposits  and  the  deposits  can 
be  added  to  or  withdrawn  at  any  time. 
The  bonds,  unless  registered,  are  not 
very  desirable  for  small  investors,  be­
cause  they  are  as  perishable  as  would 
he  greenbacks. 
If  an  ordinary  coupon 
bond  should  be  destroyed  or  stolen  it 
would  be  gone  beyond  recovery,  but  by 
having 
it  registered  the  danger  from 
loss  would  be  removed.  The  bonds  may 
be  registered  without  extra  charge  by 
observing  the  usual 
formalities—even 
the  bonds  of  the  smallest  denomination. 
One  difference  between  a  coupon  and  a 
registered  bond  is  that  in  the  former the 
holder  clips  all  the  coupons  as  they  fall

due  and  deposits  them  in  the  bank  and 
in  the  registered  bonds  the  interest  is 
paid 
in  drafts  that  come  from  Wash­
ington,  where  the  bonds  are  recorded. 
The  new  bonds  are  offered  at  par  and 
when  the  country  shall return  to  a  peace 
is  probable  they  will  com­
footing,  it 
mand  a  premium. 
In  fact,  a  New  York 
syndicate  offered  to  take  the  entire 
is­
sue  at  a  premium  of  1  per  cent.  The 
four  per  cents,  of  1925  are  now  quoted 
at 
interest  rate 
about  2%  per  cent.,  and  they  have  been 
129,  or  on  about  a  2 '/2  per 
as  high  as 
cent,  basis.  The  new  3's  may  go  to 104 
or  105,  and  it  is  in  expectation  of  this 
premium  that  some  of  the  subscriptions 
are  made,  on  the  theory  that  it  will  be a 
very  safe  speculation.

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The  local  banks  will  subscribe 

liber­
ally  to  the  bonds,  but  have  not  yet  spec­
ified  their  wants.  The  aggregate  will 
probably  reach  upwards  of  a  quarter  of 
a  million  dollars.

The  new  war  tax  has  not  as  yet  been 
felt  except  in  tobacco  and  beer  circles, 
but  about  July  1  the  people  will  begin 
to  realize  that  war  is  not  only  h—I,  but 
a  luxury.  The  stamp  tax  on  checks, 
drafts,  notes,  deeds,  mortgages  and 
other  instruments  of  the  business  world 
will  then  he  applied,  and  that  a  war  is 
on  will  become  a reality that will  remind 
some  of  the  older  business  men  of  the 
unpleasantness  of  a  generation  ago. 
The  stamp  tax  will  net  a  very  consider­
able  reveuue.  One  of  the  local  banks 
receives  an  average  of  600  checks  daily 
drawn  by  its  own  customers  and handles 
about 
1,800  foreign  checks  and  drafts 
each  day,  A  2  per  cent,  stamp  on  each 
piece  would 
represent  a  revenue  of 
about  $48  a  day  for  the  Government 
from  this  bank  alone,  and  this  bank  is 
only  one  of  thousands  in  the  country. 
The  tax  will  probably  curtail  the  use  of 
checks  to  some  extent,  especially  in  the 
payment  of  small  bills.
Bell  Telephone  Service  an  Expensive

Luxury.

In  connection  with  the  recent  confla­
gration  at  South  Gran 1  Rapids,  the 
probable 
loss  occurring  because  of  the 
unreasonable  failure  of  the  Bell  tele­
phone  to  connect  with  the  city  fire  de­
is  strikingly  appar­
partment  system 
ent.  When  the 
first  engine  failed  to 
work, word  was  telephoned  over  the  Bell 
Co.’s 
lines  to  send  another  engine. 
This  message  was  received  at  No.  4 
engine  house,  where,  instead  of  switch­
ing  the  call  over  to the house from which 
the  engine  was  sent  and  enabling  the 
order  to  be  taken  direct,  as  is  the  case 
with  the  Citizens 
the  message 
had  to  be  repeated,  which  prevented  the 
information  in  regard  to  the  first  engine 
not  working  properly,  which,  if  known, 
would  have enabled  the  first  engine to be 
used  and,  possibly,  have saved the Hake 
Manufacturing  Co.’s  building. 
This 
result  should  cause  the  Police  and  Fire 
Commission 
to  discontinue  the  Bell 
Co.’s  phone  entirely,  as  better  service 
and  results  are  obtained  over  the  lines 
owned  by  our own  citizens.

lines, 

E.  J.  Manshum,  whose  grocery  stock 
at  Fisher  Station  was  destroyed  by  fire 
about  two  weeks  ago,  has  re-engaged  in 
business  in  his  barn,  pending  the  erec­
tion  of  a  new  store  building  at  the  cor­
ner  of  South  Division  street,  one  half 
mile  east  of  Fisher.  The  Ball  Barnhart- 
Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

No  man  need  stand  around  the  Gov­
ernor’s  office  waiting  for  greatness  to 
be  thrust  upon  him.

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6

W o m a n ’s   W o rld
Heart  Stories  That  No  Eye  Can  See.
I  dare  say  I  recall  an  experience  I 
share 
in  common  with  thousands  of 
other  women  when  I  say  that  the  first 
novel  I  ever  read  was  “ Beulah.”  
I 
come  of  serious-minded  people  who  be­
lieve 
in  serious  literature,  and  to  this 
day  the  word  “ library'’  suggests  to  me 
bookcases  filled  with  glum-looking  calf- 
bound  books—commentaries  on 
the 
Bible,  Rollin’s  Ancient  History,  the 
Works  of  Josephus,  Gibbon’s  Rome—all 
the  books  that  are  so  instructive,  and 
would  be  so good  for  us  if  we only  read 
them. 
I  had  nibbled  at  these,  like  a 
very  small  mouse  at  a  particularly  big 
hard  cheese,  when  one  day 
I  came 
across  “ Beulah,”   distinctly  frivol  us  in 
pink  muslin  and  big  comfortable  type. 
Imagine  the  delight  of  a book-hungry, 
morbidly-sympathetic  girl-child  of  ten 
in  such  a  treasure-trove. 
I  read  the 
first  page  tentatively  and  experimental­
ly,  the  second  with  rapture,  and  lo,  a 
new  heaven  and  a  new  earth bad  opened 
up  before  me  and  I  bad  been  made  free 
in  all  the  fairy world  of  romance.  As  I 
recall  it now,  Beulah was a kind of chi 11s- 
and-ague  and  generally-unhealthy sort of 
person,  who  had  troubles and  persecu­
tions  and  afflictions  to  burn.  At  any 
rate,  I  know  I  had  a  perfectly  heavenly 
time  for  two  or  three  days  weeping 
over  her  woes,  and  I  well recall  how  one 
evening 
I  had  curled  up  on  a  couch  to 
enjoy  a  few  more  afflictions  before  be­
ing  sent  to  bed.  I  had  reached  that part 
of  the  narrative  when  Beulah  decides  to 
pack  up  her  uncomfortable  conscience 
and 
leave  the  doctor’s  luxurious  house 
in  search  of  fresh  misery.  She  loves 
him  and  he  wildly  adores  her,  but,  with 
the  inexplicable  denseness  of  heroes 
in 
fiction,  they  persist 
in  misunderstand­
ing  each  other,  and  in  making  remarks 
to  each  other that  are  enough  to seer  a 
wooden  heart. 
It  is  a  moving  passage, 
and  I  was  simply  revelling  in  it,  with 
the  tears  running  down  unheeded  on  my 
little  blue  pinafore,  when 
in  marched 
my father.  He  gave  one  anxious glance 
at  my  mournful  countenance,  and  then, 
discovering  my  woes  to  be  purely  v i­
carious,  he tossed the  offending  novel  up 
on  top  of  a  high  armoir,  where 
it  may 
be  to  this  very  day,  for  all  I  know.  For 
weary  nights  I 
lay  awake  speculating 
upon  the  fate  of  the  hapless  heroine, 
but  I  never  knew  anything  for  certain, 
for  I  have  never  finished  reading  it.

its 

So  began  my  experience  with  un­
finished  stories.  Unimportant  enough, 
but  somehow  it  always  comes  back  to 
me  with  a  kind  of  haunting  pathos,  it is 
so  prophetic  of  all  those  other  stories  in 
real 
life  we  come to  know  as  we  grow 
older.  Sometimes it is  just  a  line  of  ro­
mance  we  read  in  our  neighbor’s  face; 
sometimes  in  the  dusk  when  the  heart 
faints  under 
load  and  cries  out  for 
comprehension  and  sympathy,  a  whole 
page 
is  spread  out  before  our  eyes; 
sometimes  we  read,  with smiles,  the gay 
beginning  of  a  romance  and  often, 
through  our tears,  we  watch  Death  write 
“ The  end”   at  the  bottom  of  a  chapter 
that  we  thought  had  hardly  commenced, 
it  was  so  short,  but  always  it  is  an  un­
finished  story  that  we only  know in part.
We  may  have  thought the people about 
us  the  very  essence  of the commonplace, 
and  then  in  a  sudden  quick  word,  or  a 
glance  that  is  like  a  momentary 
lifting 
of  the  veil  that  hides  the  soul,  there  is 
revealed  a  story  that  is  sweet  with  love, 
or  grand  with  heroism,  or  bitter  with 
the  hopelessness  of  despair.  We  don’t

see  it  all.  We  may  not  know  the  com­
mencement,  we  shall  never  know  the 
end,  but  it  is  a  part  of  the  romance that 
keeps  the  heart  of  the  world  sweet.

Perhaps  if  we  knew  all  the  unfinished 
stories  about  us  no  one  would  seem dull. 
The  coarse  grained,  slovenly,  hideous 
creature  who  keeps  the  fruit  stall  at  the 
corner  of  my  street,  and  who  is  a  trav­
esty  on  womanhood  almost,  saves  the 
finest  peach,  the  most  luscious  bunch  of 
grapes,  for  the  poor  crippled  little  waif 
who  hobbles  by  on  his  crutch.  To  him 
alone  of  all  the  world  her  voice  softens 
and  her  hand  is  tender,  and  I  wonder, 
seeing  her,  what  it  is  that  she  remem­
bers.  Is  it  some  babe that  once  lay  upon 
her  breast  for  an  hour,  and  then  stole 
back  to  the  heaven  whence  it  came?  Or 
is  she  remembering  her  own  bitter 
childhood  when  she  shrank  away  from 
blows  and  cowered  under  the  threats  of 
some  brutal  taskmaster,  and  so  has  pity 
on  a  weak  and  helpless  creature?

Of  one  thing  I  am  sure,  that  if  we 
could  know  these  stories  of  which  we 
only  catch  glimpses  of  what  others  have 
borne,  what  wrongs  they  have  suffered, 
what  they  have  forgiven,  we  should  be 
less  quick  to  condemn  Most  of  us  have 
had  lessons  about  this.  Once  I 
lived 
near  a  woman  whose  parsimony  was  the 
gossip  of  the  neighborhood.  We mocked 
her  shabby  attire,  we  ridiculed  the  age 
of  her  bonnet,  we  criticised  the  hard 
bargain  she  drove  with 
the  market 
woman  for  the  handful  of  cheap  vege­
tables  she  bought 
for  her  poor  food. 
Everyone  knew  her  to  be  possessed  of 
considerable  wealth,  and  so  we  thought 
her  nothing  more  nor  less  than  a  miser. 
Finally,  she  died—from  lack  of  proper 
comforts,  the doctor  said,  and then  there 
was  a 
little  lifting  of  the  veil  and  we 
knew  we  had  an  unhonored  martyr 
amongst  us.  A  man  from  a  distant  city 
came  to  the  funeral,  and  he  told  of  a 
brother  of  whom  we  had  not  even heard, 
a  dishonest,  weak  creature  who  had 
made  way  with  money  intrusted  to  his 
care,  and  his  sister  bad  given  a  whole 
lifetime  to  standing  between  him  and 
disgrace.

Do  you  ever  think,  when  you  see  a 
woman  following  meekly  along  in  the 
wake  of  some braggart and self-asserting 
man,  or  when  you  see  a  wife  start  when 
her  husband  suddenly  speaks  to  her  and 
a  look  of  fear  comes  creeping  up  in  her 
eyes,  do  you  ever  think  what  a  story  of 
bulldozing  and  intimidation 
is  behind 
that?  Sometimes  I  hear  a  woman  say 
that  it  doesn't  matter  what  she  wears, 
nobody  ever  notice«  it,  or  that  her hus­
band  never  praises  her,  or  notices  her 
housekeeping  except  to  find  fault,  and 
then,  no  matter  how  fortunately  she  is 
situated,  no  matter  how  fine  her  gowns, 
or  how  fashionable  the  location  of  her 
house,  I  know  I  am  looking  on  a  bit  of 
a  domestic  tragedy  that  is  just  as  deep 
and  dark  and  bitter  as  can  be  woven 
out  of  the  woof and  warp  of  a  woman’ s 
disappointed  hope  and  love.  And  when 
a  well-to-do  woman  gets  up  in  a  public 
meeting  and  says  she  can’t  join  so  and 
so,  or  give  her  mite  to  such  and  such  a 
charity  until  she  asks  her  husband,  we 
all  know  that  we  have  a  glimpse  of  an 
oppression  and  slavery  that  is  all  the 
bitterer  because  it  masks  in  the  guise of 
freedom,  and  that  some  day  we  are  go­
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cheerful  widow 
insurance 
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Life  writes  its  stories 

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world  that  can  satisfy  her  heart.  You 
envy  her,  not  knowing,  and 
then  in 
some  moment  when  the  quick  thought 
flashes  to  answer  some  subtle  touch  in  a 
is  it? 
play  or  a  song  you  see—what 
Something  intangible, 
formless, 
inde­
scribable,  but  you  know that  sometime, 
somehow,  there  has  been  a  story  in  that 
life,  and  that  there  are  doors  in  the  soul 
that  have  been  shut  and  barred  to  hold 
prisoner  the  secret  of  the  heart’s  deep 
love  and  loneliness.

Or 

it  may  be  only  the  little  music 
teacher  who  has  a  room  next  yours  in 
some  shabby  boardinghouse.  Surely  she 
and  romance  have  nothing  to  do  with 
each  other.  Old  and  ugly,  ungraceful, 
with  no  flower  of  sweetness  or  beauty, 
she  seems  the  most  uninteresting  thing 
in  all  the  world.  Not  even  music  in  her 
soul,  you  say  contemptuously,  as  you 
listen  to  the  maddening  iteration  of  her 
counting  for  the  scrubby  little  children 
who  come  to  pound  discord  out  of  the 
piano.  One—two—three,  one—two—
three,  one—two—three.  You  listen  and 
listen,  and  then  one  day  you  hear  her 
playing 
in  the  twilight,  when  she  has 
forgotten  you  and  the  world  and  is alone 
with  her  own  soul.  The  music  went 
creeping  through  the  dark  and  musty 
hall,  like  a  ghost  groping  its  way  back 
to  earth  among  half-forgotten  scenes. 
No  need  to  tell  you  that  you  were listen­
ing  to  her  story.  You  heard  it  in  every 
trembling  note. 
There  were  grand, 
brave  chords,  triumphal,  as  if  she,  too, 
had  hoped  and  believed  in  a  golden  fu­
ture.  There  were  clear  notes  of  joy, 
and  ringing  laughter  as  if  the  spring­
time  and  life  had  once  belonged  to  her, 
and  then  the  music  grew  softly  sweet 
and  strangly  wistful,  and  the  heart  sent 
out 
its  half-articulate,  pleading  cry  to 
its  mate,  and  then  suddenly  the  hands 
fell  upon the  keys  with  a  crash and there 
was  no  sound  except  a  woman  sobbing 
in  the  dark.  The  next  day,  when  you 
passed  her  on  the  stair,  her  face  was  as 
hard  and  set  and  impassive  as  ever,  as 
if  she  dared  you  to  know  what  you  had 
heard.

And  so  the  world  goes  by,  each  heart 
with 
its  own  story,  that  its  neighbor 
tries  to  spell  out  in  some  blundering 
fashion,  but  that  we  can  never  know  in 
full,  and  that  must  be  forever  a  mystery 
until  God  himself  writes “  Fin is”   at  the 
end  of  all  our  unfinished  stories.

Dorothv  D ix .

Do  Not  Propose  to  Buy  Trade  Here­

after.

Whereas-----The  practice 

The  Detroit  City  Salesmen’s  Associa­
tion  at  their  last  meeting  passed  the 
following  resolution :
common
among  the  retail  merchants  of  this  citv 
of  asking  city  salesmen  to  buy  raffle, 
gift  or  benefit  tickets as an  implied  pre­
requisite  to  trade,  although,  perhaps, 
not  having  the  appearance  of 
injustice 
in  the  eyes  of  the  merchants,  has  be­
come  a  heavy  financial  burden  to  the 
salesmen;  and  believing  also  that  this 
practice  is  stultifying  to  the  manhood, 
not  only  of  the  merchants  but  of  the 
salesmen  as  w ell;  be  it  therefore

Resolved—That  from  this  time  the 
members  of  this  Association  will refrain 
from  purchasing,  for the  purpose  of  se­
curing  trade,  any  such  raffle,  gift  or 
benefit  tickets.

Why  He  Charged  More  for  Eggs.
‘ ‘ How  do  you  sell  eggs?”   asked  a 
‘ ‘ Eighteen  cents  a  dozen—war  prices, 

woman  of  her  groceryman.
you  know. ”

with  the  bens?”

‘ But  what  difference  does  war  make 
‘ ‘ Why,  don’t  you  see,  all  the  black 
Spanish  hens  have  been  killed  off,  and 
they  were  the  greatest 
layers  of  any 
breed  we  had. ’ ’

MICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

is 

Hardware  Dealers  as  Cycle  Agents.
It 

inconceivable  that  the  makers 
of  first-class  bicycles,  even  those  hav­
ing  an  established  reputation,  the  result 
of  many  years’  expenditure  of  money, 
should  reach  a  point  where  they  fee! 
that  profitable  results,  which  should 
form  a  crown  to  all  successful  effort, 
can  be  reached  without  some  systematic 
and  sustained  methods  to  interest  the 
hardware  trade.
It  is  to  be  hoped,  when  planning  the 
campaign  for  the  coming  season,  that  a 
greater  degree  of  attention  will  be given 
to  the  desirability  of  agencies  for  the 
leading  wheels  being  located  among  the 
dealers  in  hardware  in  every  enterpri­
sing  town.
it 

in  some  way  to 
these  reputable  dealers,  so  that  many 
may  find  it  to  their  advantage  to  be  the 
one  house  in  any  town  to  sell  a  particu­
lar  wheel.  Avoid  making  any  arbitrary 
rules  and  distinctions,  usually  repelling 
in  their  nature,  beyond  naming  an  es 
tablisbed  price.  Make  the  terms  corres­
pond  with  other seasonable  goods, which 
make 
it  unnecessary  to  pay  for  the 
goods  almost  before  they  are  ready  for 
the  trade,  or  else  suffer  pecuniarily  to 
the  extent  of  a  compulsory  cash  dis­
count.

interesting 

Make 

Let 

the  cheaper 

Upon  some  such  terms  the  several 
makes  of  high  grade  wheels  could  be 
successfully  and economically marketed ; 
a  wider  distribution  would  possibly  re­
sult  therefrom,  and  when  a  loss  was 
made,  it  would  not  be  of  such  an  ex­
tensive  character  as  to  jeopardize  the 
existence  of  the  company  represented.
low-grade  wheels, 
only,  seek  department  store  channels  for 
sale  and  distribution.  There  are  few 
things  that  have  so stultified the progress 
of  marketing  wheels  of  world-wide  rep­
utation,  under  commendable  auspices, 
than  the  fact  that  high-grade,  unques­
tionably  superior  cycles  succumbed  to 
the  bargain  counter  moguls  and  decided 
to  reach  the  public  through  such  ques 
tionable  representation.
The  hardware  dealers  of  the  country 
are  a  reputable  body  of  long-established 
houses,  possessing  character,  probitv 
and  honestv,  backed  up  by  capital  and 
credit  worthy  of  their  honorable  record. 
Contracts  involving  thousands  of  dollars 
of  liability  have  every  season  been  en­
tered  into  by  them  under conditions and 
terms  that  have  been  scrupulously  ad­
hered  to. 
is  any  one  thing  in 
which  they  would  be  found  different 
from  the  usual  run  of  bicycle  agents,  it 
would  be  a  palpable  lack  of  that  ir­
responsibility  which  has 
invariably 
been  the  distinguishing  feature  of  local 
aspirants  for  agency  honors  not  already 
in  established  business.

If  there 

The  20,000 to  25,000  hardware  dealers 
present  a  phalanx  of  workers 
from 
which  a  selection  of  agents  could  be ob­
tained,  the  efforts  of  whom  to  make  a 
successful  representation  of manufactur­
ing  interests  would  be  of  the  most  sat­
isfactory  and  profitable  kind,  and  re­
dound  to  the 
lasting  credit  of  all  con­
cerned.  See  to  it,  O  ye  intelligent  and 
far-seeing  cycle  makers,  that  efforts  are 
inaugurated  to  secure  these  desirable 
and  energetic  workers  for  the  season 
now  approaching.

Automatic  Salesman  of  the  Nickel-in- 

the-Slot  O rder.

It 

Country  store 

ingenuity  coping  with 
country  store habits of acquisitiveness in 
the  matter  of  small  commodities  has 
evolved  an  1‘ automatic clerk”  or “ silent 
salesman”   for  which  its  inventor claims 
all  of  the  virtues  and  none  of  the  vices 
of  the  animate  clerk.
is  a  nickel-in-the-slot  machine  of 
comparatively simple design, which,  as a 
matter  of  fact,  it has taken nearly twenty 
years  to  perfect.  The  inventor,  T.  S. 
Wheatcroft,  has  one  on  private  exhibi­
tion.
Mr.  Wheatcroft  is  the  proprietor  of  a 
country  store 
in  Rush,  Penn.,  where 
he  sells  coffee,  peanuts,  dried  apples, 
cross-cut 
lollipops,  pickaxes, 
bean-shooters,  putty,  pop-corn,  calico, 
and  other  necessaries  of  life.

Pennsylvanians  are  very  fond  of  pea­
nuts,  and  it  has  always  been  the  cus­
tom  of  Mr.  Wheatcroft’s  patrons to  re­

saws, 

gard  the  peanut  sack  as  a  sort  of  grab 
bag  of  perquisites  to  the  purchaser.
Watching  his  peanuts  and  his  profits 
disappear,  the  country  storekeeper  grew 
wan  and  haggard.  Once  he  tried  put 
ting  wire  screens  over  the  peanut  sack, 
but  desisted  upon  hearing  a  general 
rumor  about  town  that 
”  Wheatcroft’s 
gettin’  too  slimnation  mean  to  trade 
with. ”

In  the  course  of  time  he  evolved  the 
idea  of  an  automatic  peanut  machine 
which  should  prevent  high  handed  rob­
bery,  and  yet,  by  the  interest  which 
it 
excited,  shouid  prevent  the  people  from 
brooding  upon  their 
lost  proprietary 
rights.

For  years  he  labored  on  his  devices 
only  to  turn  out  a  succession  of  ma­
chines  which  were 
lacking  in  one  or 
another  essential  particular.  Now,  at 
last,  he  has  an  invention  which  he  be­
lieves  meets  every  want,  and  it  sells  not 
only  peanuts,  but  coffee,  flour,  crackers, 
tea,  sugar,  rice,  or any  other  small  com­
modity  of  that  kind.

The  machine  is  an  oblong  box,  6  feet 
tall,  with  glass  panels  in  front,  through 
which  the  commodity 
it  is 
dealing  and  part  of  the  workings  can  be 
seen. 
It  can  be  set  either  for  a  cent, a 
nickel,  a  dime  or  a  quarter.

in  which 

The  inventor  dropped  a  nickel  in  the 
slot  and  a  small  funnel  leading  down 
from  the  storage  box  opened,  letting  a 
quantity  of  peanuts 
into  a  paper  bag. 
Then  he  pulled  a  handle,  the  filled  bag 
tore 
loose,  slid  down  a  sort  of 
groove,  and  came  out 
little 
trough,  while  the  nickel  went  clinking 
down  and  registered  itself.

Without  adjusting  the  machine  to  a 
in 
dime,  Mr.  Wheatcroft  then  dropped 
im­
a  coin  of  that  denomination. 
mediately  came  out  through  a  slot  lower 
down.  The  machine  did  nothing.  The 
same  performance  was  repeated  with  a 
cent.

into  a 

itself 

It 

it  works 

‘ ‘ That’s  the  way 

if  it’s  a 
good  coin,”   said  Mr.  Wheatcroft.  “ But 
now  look  here. ’ ’
From  a  pile  of  mutilated  and spurious 
coin  he  selected  an 
iron  marker  filled 
in  with  lead,  exactly  the  size  and  ap­
parently  the  weight  of  a  nickel,  and 
dropped 
it  in.  There  was  no  response 
on  the  part  of  the  machine,  but  the  imi­
tation  coin  was  confiscated.  Next  he 
put  in  a  nickel  with  a  hole  in  it.  Same 
result.

“ You  can't  fool  it,”   declared  the 

in­
ventor. 
‘ ‘ If  you  put  in  a  good  coin  of 
the  wrong  denomination  you  get it back, 
but  a  bad  coin  goes  to  the  machine. 
There’s  a  bunch  it  collected  in  Phila­
delphia. ”

He  showed  a  collection  of  thirty  tes­
timonials  to  the  guile  of  the  Quaker 
city.

‘ They  tried  to  beat  it down therewith 
another  game,  but  I  was ready for that, ”  
he  continued.  ‘ ‘ The  working  of  the  de­
livery 
in  plain  view,  you  see. 
Some  smart  Yankee  boys  down  there got 
a  long,  thin  blade  and  tried  to  reach  up 
through  the  delivery  groove  and  force 
the  grates  of  the  funnel  apart.  Do  you 
know  what  happened  to the  boy  who  did 
that?  He  went 
just  kiting  across  the 
sidewalk  and  stood  on  his  head  in  the 
gutter.  There’s  an  electric  battery  in­
side  there,  and  anyone  who  monkeys 
with  the  works  gets  a good enough shock 
so  that  he  won’t'come  back  for  more.”

is  all 

It  is  the  custom  in  Denmark  not  only 
to  send  city  children  to  the  country,  but 
country  children  to  the city.  Comment­
ing  on  this,  a  writer 
in  the  Boston 
Transcript  says:  “ The  country children 
have  their  taste  of  a  pleasure  and  ben­
efit  derived  from  visits  to  the  city, 
where  new  and  strange  interests  appeal 
strongly  to  the  wonder-loving  mind  of 
the  child  to  whom  city sights and sounds 
and  scenes  are  unfamiliar.  The  child 
of the  rural  district  is  as  susceptible  to 
the  healthy  influence  of  change  as  is  his 
city  cousin,  and  well  might  Denmark’s 
custom  of  sending  country  children  to 
the  city  be  adopted  in  the 
laud  where 
her 
‘ country  week’  suggestions  have 
grown  and  flourished  with  each succeed­
ing 
‘ city  week’  might 
with  profit  be  established  which  in days 
to  come  would  rival  even  her  sister 
charity  in  popularity  and  success.”

summer.  A 

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WEDNESDAY.  -  -  •  JUNE 22.  1898.

G E N E R A L   T R A D E   S IT U A T IO N .
Principal  characteristics  of  the  week 
^ have  been  an  unprecedented  volume  of 
business  for  the  season  in  production 
and  distribution,  notwithstanding  heavy 
reactions 
in  speculation  on  account  of 
the  Leiter  failure  and  the  conflicting  in­
terests  affected  in  its 
liquidation,  and 
the  long  waiting  in  the  stock  market  on 
account  of  the  slowness  and  uncertain­
ties  feared  in  military  operations.  The 
midsummer  dulness  and  closing  of 
works 
for  repairs  and  vacation  are 
talked  about,  but  seem  as  yet  to  have 
little  actual  effect  as  to  the  general 
situation.

The  fact  that  clearing  house  reports 
hold an  average  for  the  weeks  of  June of 
over $1,250,000,000,  far  exceeding  anv 
June  on  record,  becomes  more  signifi­
cant  as  to  the  vast  volume  of  merchan­
dise  and  ether  business  exchange  when 
is  considered  that  prices  are  still 
it 
much 
in  previous  years  of 
heaviest  reports.  Railway  tonnage  is 
another  reliable  barometer  as  to  trade 
volume.  As  indicating  the  change  from 
the  year  of  heaviest  traffic  before  the 
increase  in  eastbound  traffic 
panic,  the 
from  Chicago 
is  65  per  cent,  over  that 
of  iSg2.

lower  than 

The  iron  and  steel  industry  was  con­
suming  on  June  1,  notwithstanding  the 
stoppage  of  some  concerns  for  repairs, 
over  232,875  tons weekly,  against  169,151 
in  1892,  an  increase  of  38  per  cent.,  and 
the  accounts  published  do  not 
indicate 
any  considerable  decrease  in  June  thus 
far.  The  consuming  works  in  the Pitts­
burg  region  and  at  the  West  are  pushed 
to  fill  orders  covering  weeks  or  months 
in  that  section  new  orders 
ahead,  and 
are  exceptionally  good 
for  structural 
forms  and  for bars,  which  have  now  ad­
vanced  a  shade 
in  price at  Pittsburg. 
The  demand 
is  better at  the 
West,  and  it  is  mentioned  that  the  Illi­
nois  rail  works  have  just  taken  one  or­
der  for  Calcutta,  India,  and  that  ship­
ments 
in  May  included  quantities  sent 
to  Sweden,  Belgium,  South  Africa. 
Siberia  and  three  other  countries.

for  pipe 

The  textile  situation 

is  affected  by 
the  bet ween-seasons  period  and 
the 
usual  stoppages  for  repairs,  inventory, 
etc.  Government  orders  are  still  rush­
ing  some  mills,  and  there  seems  to  be  a 
general  healthy  demand 
for  men’s 
goods. 
In  cottons  a  better  tone  is  re­
ported,  with  more  active  demand  for 
staples.

Wheat  seems  to  have  reached  its  low­
in  the  decline attending  the

est  level 

Leiter  collapse  early  in  the  week,  and 
later  price  movements  have  been  quite 
sharp  advances  and  declines  from  day 
to  day,  with  little  variation  in  the  aver­
age.  Export  movement  continues  be­
yond  expectation,  which  accounts  for 
the  price  being  kept  above  the  level 
which  would  seem  to  be  natural  in  view 
of  the  unprecedented  harvests  just  com­
mencing.

The 

indications  are  that  when  the 
present  war  with  Spain  is  over  we  shall 
control  Porto  Rico,  the  Philippines  and 
the  Sandwich  Islands,  so  say  nothing 
of  Cuba.  We  must  maintain  a  larger 
standing  army  and  a 
large,  efficient 
navy.  We  must  build  a  canal  across the 
isthmus  of  Panama.  All  this  means  that 
thousands  and  hundreds  of  thousands  of 
able-bodied  men  will  be  withdrawn 
from  ordinary  pursuits,  that  new  fields 
will  be  opened  for  the  enterprising, 
that  the  unemployed  may  bave  employ­
ment  if  they  will,  that  a  period  of  pros­
perity  for  the  farmer  and  for  the  artisan 
and  consequently  for  the  whole  country 
is  near.  How 
long  the  boom  will  last 
and  what  will  be  the  ultimate  result  are 
other  questions,  hut it behooves  the  wise 
to  have  their  wits  about  them  and  be 
up  and  doing.  That  some  sort  of  a  re­
action  will  come 
in  time  there  can  be 
no  doubt.

The  exact  amount  of  the  indebtedness 
of  General  Barillas,  the  gay  ex-Presi- 
dent  of  Guatemala,  has  just  been  made 
public.  Some  time  ago  the  creditors  of 
the  General,  fearful  lest  his  vast  estates 
might  be  entirely  dissipated  before  they 
could  have  any  chance  of  recovering, 
took  steps  to  force  Barillas  into liquida­
tion.  Accordingly,a committee  of  three 
pr ominent  bankers  of  Guatemala  was 
app  inted  to  take  charge  of  his  entire 
business.  They  carefully  examined  his 
accounts,  made  appraisements 
in  the 
valuation  of  all  his  coffee  plantations, 
his  various  ranches,  etc.,  and  as  well 
made  a  tabulated  report  of  his  debts 
and  debtors.  Although  General  Barillas’ 
entire  estate  is  valued  at  85,985,165,  as 
evidence  of  how  deeply 
is  incum­
bered, 
just  received  here 
shows  that  he  had  but $52.05  in  cash. 
He  owes  $4,709.060.

the  report 

it 

The  country  is  not  yet  ready  to  risk 
the  life  of  General  Miles  for  the  sake  of 
having  him  personally  lead  the  assault 
against  Havana  while  wearing  one  of 
the  handsomest  uniforms  ever  put  011 
the  form  of  a  soldier.

is  expected 

The  cigarette 

to  add 
about  $3,000.000  a  year  to  the  war  rev­
enue.  All  efforts  to  reform  the  cigarette 
fiend  or  prevent  his  slow  suicide  will  be 
suspended  until  after  peace  has  been 
restored.  _____ .______ _____

About  $2,000,000  worth  of  nuts,  or­
anges, 
raisins  and  wines  have  been 
hitherto  imported  annually  from  Spain. 
The  trade  this  year  will  be  supplied  by 
the  people  of  California  and  Florida.

It  is  hard  to  convince  an  unsoldierly 
man  that  he  is  not  a  patriot  when  he 
wants  to  be  a  colonel  and  will  serve 
in 
the army  in  no  other capacity.

Cervera  must  be  patient  in  his  Santi­
ago  bottle.  All  things  come  to  him  who 
waits,  and  the  shells  of  Sampson  will 
come—by  and  by.

It 

is  hard  for  a  grain  speculator  in 

futures  to  play  against  growing  crops.

Men  who  are  doing  the  fighting  have 

no time  to  do  the  talking.

It 

AN  U N P LEA SA N T   D U T Y .
is 

impossible  that  a  trade  journal 
should  take  a  position  adverse  to  the in­
terests  of  any  class  of  sharpers  without 
gaining  much  of  criticism,  not  only 
from  the  ones  directly  concerned  but 
from  those  who,  by 
indirect  support, 
intentional  or  not,  make  their 
whether 
enterprises 
possible  and  successful. 
Thus  it  is  that,  in  the warfare which  the 
Tradesman  has 
always  maintained 
against  fake  commission  houses  whose 
operations  are  constantly  developing, 
many  have  been  found  to  criticise  and 
decry  its  course  and  to  impute  all  sorts 
of  ulterior  and  sinister  motives  as 
prompting 
in­
comprehensible  that  with  no  direct  in­
terest  a  publisher  should  go  so  far  out 
of  his  way  to  unearth  and  expose  such 
swindles.

its  activity. 

It  seems 

than 

journals  have 

Possibly  one  reason  why  there  has 
been  so  much criticism  and  suspicion of 
motives 
is  to  be  found  in  the  fact  that 
there  have  been  some  so-called  trade 
journals  which  have  been  made  to  serve 
other 
legitimate  purposes—as 
promoters  of  collection  schemes,  infor­
mation  bureaus,  etc.  The  careers  of 
justly  brought  dis­
such 
credit  upon  themselves,  and 
is  not 
strange  that  the  influence  should  be  felt 
in  the  field  of  legitimate  trade  journal­
It  is  to  be  noted  that  the  number 
ism. 
journals  has  greatly  lessened, 
of  these 
hut  the  injurious 
impressions  are,  un­
fortunately,  more  permanent.  So,  while 
in  many  cases  the  strictures  are prompt­
ed  by 
interest  in  or  sympathy  with  the 
promotors of these swindling enterprises, 
the  fact  that  so  many  trade  papers  have 
served  improper  purposes  suggests  this 
feature  of  criticism.

it 

It  has  no  collection  or 

The  Tradesman  scarcely  need  dis­
legiti­
claim  any  relation  outside  of  its 
mate  work. 
in­
formation  bureau  or  other  purpose  to 
serve  than  to  fill  the  field  of  a  trade 
paper,  seeking  its  reward  in  the  returns 
a  zealous  and  faithful  performance  of 
its  duties  as  such  will  bring.

It  may  be asked,  then,  why  so  much 
attention 
is  given  to  the  exposure  of 
questionable  enterprises?  The  answer 
would  seem  evident: 
It  is  the  duty  of 
every  journal,  in  any  field,  to  protect 
the  interests  of  its  clients—and  all  sub­
scribers  are  clients—as  far  as  lies  in  its 
power.

and  exposure  of 
The  unearthing 
swindling  schemes 
is  not  a  pleasant 
work.  Many  sleepless  nights  and  days 
of  anxiety  could  be  avoided  if  the as­
sistance  of  the  Tradesman  was  never 
invoked 
for  such  matters.  Combined 
with  the  need  for  thorough  promptness 
in  warning  against  such  swindles  is  the 
necessity  of  absolute  certainty  as  to  the 
fact  of  their  being  swindles,  and  as  to 
whose  names  are  brought  in  as  respon­
sible  or accessory.  A  single  mistake  in 
this  regard  would  be  visited  by  the 
penalty  of  costly  litigation  and  possible 
damages.

From  the  fact  that  there  is  no  more 
easily  managed  swindling  scheme  than 
the commission  game  and  that  there are 
so  many  opportunities  for  hiding  and 
dividing  its  operations,  it seems  to  have 
become  a  favorite  method  of  fleecing 
the  public.  That  there  are  so  many 
undertaking  such  enterprises 
is  to  be 
accounted  for  in  the  organization  of 
such  gangs  as  that  originated  in  this 
city  by  Frank  Lamb  as  a  consequence 
of  his  failure,on  account  of dissipation, 
in  legitimate  business  and  in  the  turn­
ing  of  unsuccessful  commission  enter­
prises 
into  swindles,  prompted  by  the 
ill-gotten 1
opportunities  for^ pocketing 

gains  before  and  during  the  final  break­
up.

In  its  extended  clientage  and  corres­
pondence  the  Tradesman  is  very  apt  to 
have  its  attention  called  to  questionable 
or  suspicious  operations,  such  as  un­
warranted  quotations,  failure  in  remit­
ting  as  agreed,  etc. 
In  such  a  case  the 
question  to  be  decided  is  whether  the 
criticism 
is  the  manifestation  of  a  per­
sonal  grievance  from  some  unreasonable 
customer  or  the 
indication  of  a  deep- 
laid  plot  liable  to  heavy  cost  to  the 
merchants  and  shippers  of  the  State. 
The  task  of  quickly solving this problem 
is  often  a  difficult  one,  but  that 
is 
worth  the  effort 
is  proved  by  the  fact 
that,by  reason  of  the Tradesman’s activ­
ity  in  this  direction,  many  thousands  of 
dollars  have  been  saved  to  the  subscrib­
ers  of  the  Tradesman  every  year.
O U R   R E L A T IO N S   W ITH   CAN ADA

it 

The  Washington  authorities  appear 
determined  to  take  advantage  of  the 
existing  friendly  feeling  towards  this 
country  in  Great  Britain  and  her  de­
pendencies  to 
improve  our  relations 
with  the  Dominion  of Canada.  Despite 
the  good  feeling  which  has  prevailed 
for  years  between  the  people  of  the 
United  States  and  those of  Canada,  dif­
ferences  over  tariffs,  fishing  rights  and 
boundaries  have  caused  many  misun­
derstandings.  How  to  obviate  these 
causes  of  friction  has  long  been  a  prob­
lem  with  our  administration.

There 

is  soon  to  be  a  conference  be­
tween  the  United  States  and  representa­
tives  of  the  British  government  on  the 
subject  of  our  relations  with  Canada, 
and  President  McKinley  is  determined 
to  take  advantage  of  this  opportunity 
to  finally  settle  all  our controversies with 
the  Dominion  and  to  arrange for a treaty 
which  will  place  our  relations  on  a  per­
manent  and  satisfactory  basis.

It 

is  reported  that  the  President  w illi 
appoint  a  commission  of  five  prominent 
men  to  represent  the United  States  in 
the  conference.  All  of  these  men  will] 
be  members  of  Congress,  and  although* 
the  findings  of  the  conference  will  not 
become  binding  until  they  have  been 
reviewed  by  Congress, 
is  no 
doubt,  in  the  present  state  of  public 
feeling,  that any reasonable arrangement 
is  certain  of  approval.

there 

The  subjects  to  be  considered  are 
many ;  but,notwithstanding the disagree­
ments  of  the  past,  there 
is  no  reason 
why  a  satisfactory  understanding  should 
not  be  arrived  at  now  that  it  is  possible 
to  approach  the  subject 
in  a  friendly 
spirit,  with  every  disposition  to  make 
concessions  on  both  sides.  The  question 
of  the  Alaskan  boundary,  the  problem 
of  the fisheries,  the transit  trade through 
either  country  for  goods  destined  for 
the other country,  the  control  of  immi­
gration,  and  the  rights  of  the two  coun­
tries  on  the Great Lakes, will all be taken 
up  by the commission  and  considered  in 
their  direct  bearing  on  the  interests  of 
the  two  countries  and  on  their  relations 
each  with  the  other.

It 

is  to be  hoped  that  the  conference 
will  prove  successful,  as  it  is  most  de­
sirable  from  every  point  of  view  that 
there  should  be  the greatest  freedom  of 
trade,  as  well  as  the  most  cordial  feel­
ing,  between  this  country  and  its  north­
ern  neighbor.

Manila  has  been  taken  so many times, 
and  fallen  so often,  that  she  is  ready  to 
fall  now  whenever  a  soldier  looks at her.

The  babies  named  after  Joseph  Leiter 
last  year  are  not  too  old  to  have  their 

— vg changed,  by  the  way.

MICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

E X P O R T S   O F   M A N U FA C T U R E S .
Owing  to  the  heavy  foreign  demand 
for  food  products  of  American  growth 
and  manufacture  this  season,  less  atten­
tion  is generally  given  to  manufactures 
in  the  strict  sense  of  the  word.  Owing 
to  the  high  prices  for  wheat  and  flour, 
and  the  immense  cotton  crop,  the  value 
of  raw  products  exported  shows  a  great­
er  proportionate  gain  than  of  manufac­
tured  goods.  Nevertheless,  the  total  ex­
ports  of  manufactured  goods  for  the  ten 
months of  the  present  fiscal  year  exceed 
those  of  last  year  by  $10,000,000,  and 
it  is  well  known  that  last  year  broke  all 
previous  records  in  the  matter of exports 
of  manufactured  goods.

It  is  especially 

interesting  to  record 
the  fact  that,  for  the first time on record, 
the  total  value  of  our  exports  of  manu­
factures  exceeds  that  of  our  imports. 
The  detailed  record,  furnished  by  the 
Hon.  O.  P.  Austin,  the  new  Chief of the 
Bureau  of  Statistics  of  the  Treasury 
Department,  shows  that  for  ten  months 
of  the  present  year  our  exports  of manu­
factures  exceeded  imports  by  over  $40,- 
000,000,  and 
is  not  improbable  that 
the  full  year’s  excess  will  reach  $50,- 
000,000.  How  well  this  compares  with 
preceding  years is shown by  the fact  that 
in  1897  our  imports  of  manufactures  ex­
ceeded  our  exports  by  $27,000,000;  in 
1896,  by  $104,000,000,  and 
in  1895,  by 
$121,000,000.

it 

While  there  has  been  a  considerable 
shrinkage  in  our  imports,  the  shrinkage 
has  been  nothing  like  as  heavy  as  has 
been  the  increase  in  exports  of  manu­
factures.  Merchants  have  reached  out 
more  actively  for  trade  than  fortnerly, 
finding  that  the  home  market  no  longer 
sufficed  to  absorb  the  entire  output  of 
our  factories,  as  was  formerly  the  case.
Comparisons  with  past  years are  very 
in­
interesting,  as  showing  the  rapid 
crease 
in  our  exports  of  manufactures. 
When  comparisons  are  made  with  1888, 
a  decade  ago,  it  is  found  that  our  ex­
ports  of  manufactures  have  more  than 
doubled.  Those  of  iron  and  steel  have 
quadrupled ;  those  of 
iliuminating  and 
lubricating  oils  have  doubled,  while 
our  exports  of  cottons  are  50  per  cent, 
larger;  of  wire  nails, 
times 
greater,  and  of  iron  and  steel  plates, 
ten  times  what they  were  ten  years  ago. 
Exports  of  leather  and  of  copper,  of 
paraffine  and  paraffine  wax,  have  all 
heavily  increased  in  the  same  period, 
and  but  few  lines  of  our  export  trade 
show  a  falling  off.

eleven 

Very  naturally  our  trade  rivals  look 
with  envy  on  this  rapid  growth  in  our 
export  trade,  as  it  is  a  notification  to 
them  that  in  the  future  they  must  ex­
pect  to  find  American  merchants  active 
competitors 
in  all  of  the  world’s  mar­
kets. 
It  is  probable  that,  as  a  result  of 
the  existing  war  with  Spain,  many  new 
markets  will  be  opened  to  our  manufac­
tures  and  products,  particularly  should 
the  Philippine  Islands  be retained.

The  Philadelphia  Record  says  that 
foreign  baggage  labels  are  in  great  de­
mand  just  now.  And  a  student  of  the 
University  of  Pennsylvania  has cornered 
the  market  in  these  labels,  selling  them 
to  the  people  who  want  to  show  some 
evidence  of  having  been  abroad.  "T h is 
year,"  says  the  Record,  "the  demand 
seems  to  be  greater  than  ever,  and  al­
ready  the  bluffers  have  started  to  smear 
their  dress-suit  cases  with  the  marks 
belonging  to  European  hotels.  One  of 
these  interesting  gentlemen  appeared  in 
Chestnut  street  yesterday with his travel- 
marked  grip,  and  attracted considerable 
imi-
attention.  Home-made  labels  in 

tation  of  those  from  various  hotels  in 
Switzerland,  France  and  Germany bring 
the  highest  prices,  as  the  enterprising 
dealer  claims  that  these  are  very  rare. 
The  profit  in  this  queer  business  must 
be  exceedingly  large,  as  this  particular 
is  depending  upon  his 
chemist,  who 
own  resources 
for  his  livelihood  and 
schooling,  is  enabled  to  take  quite  ex­
tensive  trips  and  live  in  luxury  during 
his  summer  vacation.  His  fellow-stu­
dents  are  his  principal  customers,  but 
lots  of  other  young  men  and  girls  also 
are  often  seen  emerging  from  the  label 
merchant’s  boarding-house  with  colored 
slips  in  their  hands. ’ ’

It 

irresistible. 

Nothing  puts  spirit  and  energy 

into 
military  service  like  hope  of  promotion 
from  the  ranks.  This  is  what  made  the 
armies  of  the  French  republic  and  the 
first  empire 
is  what 
causes  our  volunteer  service  to  be  pre­
ferred  to  the  regular  army.  Lack  of 
that  hope  makes  enlistment  discoura- 
gingly  slow  now. 
It  ought  to  be  sup­
plied.  We  shall need a much  larger  reg­
ular  army  after  this  war. 
Its  work  will 
be 
increased,  and  the  worthlessness  of 
the  National  Guard  has  been  proved. 
The  service  ought  to  be  made  attrac­
tive,  so  that  its  quality  may  not  dete­
riorate  with  the  necessary  increase  of 
numbers.  The  army  ought  to  offer  a 
career  to  American  youth,  whose  door 
shall  be  wider  than 
the  academy  at 
West  Point.  American  youth  will  em­
brace  no  career  without  hope  of  ad­
vancement.  The  way  to  get  the  right 
sort  of  privates  in  an  army  is  to  give 
them  hope  of  becoming  officers.

is  possible 

As  the  only  self-governing  community 
of  Africans  in  Africa,  Liberia  occupies 
a  unique  position.  The  experiment  is 
successful  in  that  it  stands  and  shows 
no  prospect  of  dissolution.  Yet  it  has 
failed  in  the  result  intended.  Now  that 
political  freedom 
in  the 
United  States,  the  emigration to Liberia 
has  decreased,  for  the  negroes  prefer  to 
remain  here,  especially  when 
in 
Liberia 
is  unpleasant  because  of  the 
tropical  climate,  which  few  American 
negroes  are  able  to  endure.  There  are 
but 
the 
population  of  1,083,000.  Lacking  im­
migration  from  America,  the  Liberians 
have  shown  a  disposition  to  deteriorate 
to  the  level  of  the  native  races,  and  the 
schools,  which  were  originally  flourish­
ing,  are  not  as  good  as  they  were. 
Monrovia’s  population  has  fallen  from 
13,000 to  5,000,and  many  signs  of  decay 
are  present.

18,000  Americo-Liberians 

life 

in 

The  mail  steamships  for  Europe  dur­
ing  the  past  few  months  have  carried 
millions  of  dollars’  worth  of  new  securi­
ties  sent  abroad  to  take  the  place  of 
bonds,  etc.,  called 
in.  The  securities 
have  gone  by  registered  mail  in  pack­
ages,  the  postage  upon  each  being about 
$50.  Nearly  every  large  railroad  reor­
ganization  transaction 
is  accompanied 
by  similar  shipments  of  securities  both 
from  and  to  this  country.  Sometimes 
the  securities  are  expressed,  but  gener­
ally  the  registered  mail  is  used,  and  the 
securities  are  insured against loss.  Post­
age  stamps  of  large  denominations  are 
placed  upon  the  packages. 
In  the  case 
of  shipments  from  this  country  $1,  $2 
and  $5  stamps  are  used.

The  one-thousandth  anniversary  of 
the  sausage  has  just  been  celebrated 
in 
Germany.  It  is  claimed  that  this  article 
of  food  dates  back  to  897  A.  D.  Owing 
to  Luetgert’s  troubles,  this  anniversary 
was  not celebrated  in  Chicago.

BA N KIN G  R EFO R M .

Review  of  the  Present  and  Proposed 

System s.

In  the  last  article  we  made  reference 
to  some  of  the  monopoly  bank  systems 
of  Europe  which  base  their  credit  notes 
on  business  assets.  Let  us  review  some 
of  the  systems  which,  in  common  with 
our own,  are  on  an  independent,  com­
peting  basis.  None  other  will  find  favor 
with  the  American  people,  who  cherish 
a  healthy  hatred  of  monopolies 
in  any 
branch  of  business.

Sweden  has 

twenty-seven  private 
banks,  besides  the  Official  Bank  of 
Sweden.  These  twenty-seven  banks  is­
sue about  sixteen  million  dollars in  cir­
culating  notes,  or  an  average  of  about 
$600,000  each.  The capital  of  each  bank 
is  required  to  be  at  least  $268,000 and 
each  is  allowed  to  issue  notes  equal  to 
the  aggregate  of  its  invested  capital, 
the 
invested  reserve,  half  of  its  total 
credits  and  the  coin  reserve.  Each  has 
to  redeem  its  notes  in  gold  on  demand, 
and  this  requirement  has  kept  the  value 
of  their  notes  at  par  and  their  volume 
constantly  within  prudent  limits.

In  Switzerland  there  are  thirty-four 
small  banks  and  the  average  note  cir­
culation  is  $12  per  capita.  The  circu­
lating  medium  has  increased  quite  rap­
idly  during  the  past  thirty  years,  under 
the  present  system,  but  this 
increase 
does  not  measure  all  the  advance  they 
have  made 
in  banking  facilities,  for 
there  has  been  a  great  development  of 
other  forms  of credit.  These  banks  have 
met  every  requirement  for  credits  with­
out  exceeding  an  average  of  $1 
in  note 
issues  for  each  $7  in  commercial  assets, 
and 
in  the  meantime  the  volume  of 
trebled.  The  banking 
banking  has 
power  of  Switzerland 
is  about  $85  per 
capita,  against  $120  in  Great  Britain, 
$94  in  this  country  and  $44  in Germany. 
The  security  required  for  circulation  in 
Switzerland  varies  in  the  different  can­
tons,  in  some  of  which  public  securi­
ties  are  required,  but  the  larger  banks 
and  most  of  the  smaller  ones  base  the 
circulation  entirely  upon  their  commer­
cial  assets  and  a  reasonable  metallic  re­
serve.

Scotland  and  Canada  furnish  the  most 
complete  successes  of  the  system  of 
banking  upon  business  assets.  Scotland 
is  naturally  one  of  the  most  barren  of 
countries  and  was  in  a  sad  state  of  pov­
erty  after  the  close  of  her  civil  war. 
Students  of  her  history  claim  that  her 
splendid  banking  system  has  done  more 
than  any  other  one  thing  in  rescuing 
her  from  wretchedness  and  making  pos­
sible  her  present  position  of  wealth  and 
thrift.  The  Scotch  banks  are  permitted 
to  issue notes  up  to  a  certain  point  upon 
their  general  business  assets  without 
pledged  securities.  Their  notes  are  a 
paramount 
lien  on  their assets  and  the 
liability  of  the  stockholder 
limited 
only  by  the  amount  of  wealth  he  pos­
sesses.  While  making  their  banks  as 
ingenuity  could  sug­
sound  as  human 
lost  sight  of  the  fact 
gest,  they  never 
that  elasticity 
is  not 
incompatible 
with  soundness.  Their  system  so  com­
manded  the  confidence  of  the  people 
that  it  drew  practically  every  farthing 
of  available resources  into  the  channels 
In  his  "H istory  of  Bank­
of  industry. 
ing,”   William 
J.  Lawson  pays  the 
Scotch  system 
"Almost 
this  tribute: 
every 
individual  throughout  Scotland 
who  has  by  trade  or  otherwise  accumu­
lated  capital  becomes  a  partner  in  the 
banking  establishment of  his  immediate 
neighborhood  or  otherwise 
interests 
himself  in  its  success.  This  is,  in  truth,

is 

9

the  foundation  of  the  unlimited  credit 
enjoyed  by  the  Scotch  banks. 
is  the 
basis  of 
the  undoubting  confidence 
which  the  public  reposes  in  their  sta­
bility.’ ’

It 

in  rates 

Interest  rates 

The  Canadian  banks  enjoy  the  free­
dom  of  banking  upon  commercial  as­
sets.  The  benefits  derived  from  having 
their  credit  notes  at  all  times  in  auto­
matic  relation  to  commercial  transac­
tions  are  very  favorably  commented  on 
by  the students  who  have  compared  the 
Canadian  with  our  system.  Mr.  Corn­
wall,  on  "T h e   Currency  and  Banking 
Laws of the Dominion  of Canada, ”  says : 
"W hile 
in  the  United  States  the  rate 
of  interest  may  be  from  4  to 6  per  cent, 
in  the  extreme  East,  and  12  to  20  per 
cent,  in  the  extreme  West,  it  is  not  so 
in  Canada,  where  from  one  end  of  the 
the  extreme 
Dominion  to  the  other, 
is  not  over  2  per 
variation 
cent.”  
in  Canada  are 
lower  than  in  any  of  the British colonies 
and  lower  than  in  the  United  States  ex­
cept  in  the  great  cities  of  the  East. 
The  law  proposed  for  the  United  States 
embodies  all  the  essential  features  of 
the  Canadian  and  Scotch  systems. 
Its 
adoption  would  tend  to  level  interest 
rates  throughout  the  Union,  and  the 
authorization  of  branch  banks  would 
help  to  perfect  the  machinery  for  loan­
ing  and  thus  spread  the  surplus  capital 
of  the  older  sections  throughout  the 
newer  sections  of  our  country.  This 
must  be  accomplished  before  we  can 
attain  the  best  results  in  using  the  loan­
able  capital  of  our  eastern  country  in 
the  development  of  our  southern  and 
western  resources. 
Retirement  of a  Large  Liverpool  Op­

A n d r e w   F y f e .

erator.

Information  reaches  us  that  John  T. 
Warrington  of  Liverpool, 
is  retiring 
from  the  cheese  trade,  with  which  he 
has  been  closely  identified  for  a  good 
many  years.  Mr.  Warrington  has  been 
one  of  the  heavy  operators  in  American 
cheese  and  his  retirement  will  remove 
one of  the  most  conspicuous  figures  ever 
connected  with  the  trade.

One  of  our  English  friends,  writing 
under  date  of  June  4,  says  that  the  pub­
lic  auction  sale  of  9,500 boxes  of  States 
and  Canadian  cheese,  and the  announce­
ment  of  Mr.  Warrington’s  desire  to  re­
tire  from  business,  "m arks  an  epoch  in 
the  history  of  the  cheese  trade.  Mr. 
Warrington, whose name  it might  be  said 
is  a  synonym  of  the  words  American 
cheese,retiring  at  the  commencement  of 
the  1898  season,  will,  with  the  events  of 
the  past 
1897-98  seasons 
deeply  on  the  minds  of  those  in  the 
trade. ”

season, 

fix 

for  all  accidents 

A  new  law  adopted  in  Italy  requires 
that  every  employer  shall,  at  his  own 
cost,  provide  for his  workmen  compen­
sation 
the  conse­
quences  of  which  last  more  than  five 
days.  The  compensation  under  the  law 
is  as  follows: 
If  there  shall  result  from 
the  accident  disablement  of  a  complete 
and  permanent  nature  the  compensation 
shall  be  an  amount  equivalent  to  five 
times  the  man’s  yearly  wages,  but  in 
This 
any  case  not 
in 
amount  is,  as  a  rule,  to  be  invested 
a  life  annuity  for  the  benefit  of  the 
in­
jured  workman.

less  than  $600. 

A  New  York  policeman,  in  reporting 
an  arrest  made  in  a  restaurant  the  other 
day,  said  he  judged  from  a  sign  in  the 
window  that  the  woman  who  kept  the 
place  was  "Charlotte  Russe. ”

And  it  came  to  pass  that  Leiter,  up to 
his  ears  in  wheat,  had  a  deal  too  much.

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Shoes  and  Leather

Some  Points  on  Advertising  a Country 

I.  F ite m  in  B oots  and  S hoes  W eekly.

Shoe  Store.

When  a  man  goes  into  business  with 
a  limited  capital,  he  always  feel  sur­
prised  on  the  start  to  find  what  a  fine 
stock  he  can  put  in  for  his  $3.000  cash. 
It  seems  so  silly  to  carry  a  big  stock, 
and  he  says  it  is  sheer  laziness  on  the 
part  of  a  shoe  dealer  to  let  a  stock  run 
up  so.

There's  much  that  is  poetry 

I  never  knew  a  young  man  to  go 

“  In our store, ”   he says,  “ we  will  size 
up  every  day  or  two,  and  just  about  as 
soon  as  we  sell  a  pair  we  will  have  a 
new  pair  of  the  same 
lze  and  style 
making,  and  then  we  won't  get  over­
stocked  and  our  assortment  will  always 
be  complete.’ ’  And  he  does  this  for 
about  a  week,  and  he  keeps  sending 
in 
bis  little  orders  to  his  manufacturers, 
and  they  write  that,  owing  to a  strike in 
their  factory,  or  our  recent  fire,  or  a 
great  rush  of  orders  just  at  present, 
your  order  is  much  delayed,  but  we  will 
try  to  ship  in  the  course  of  two  or  three 
weeks,  by  which  time  his  stock  is  brok­
en  beyond  repair,  and next  time  he  buys 
in  case  lots,and  the  stock  gets  merrily 
larger  and  larger,  and  the  assignee  finds 
a  beautiful  line  all  assorted  for  the 
job 
lot  men.
in  the 
life  of  a  shoe  man,  and  much  that  is 
likely  to  take  the  poetry  out  of  a  man.
into 
business  with  a 
limited  capital  who 
didn’t  have  a  lot  of  brand-new  ideas 
about  advertising  all  ready  to  spring 
They  are  such  nice  economical  ideas. 
I  am  talking  about  a  man  in  one of  the 
“ busiest  towns  on  the  line.’ ’  The 
five 
thousand  to  ten  thousand  sort  of  towns 
—don’t  know  anything  about  the  cities. 
It  is  foolish,  he  says,  to  spend  money 
in  weekly  papers.  People  forget  you 
from  one  week  to  the  next.  Advertising 
in  newspapers 
is  all  right  where  there 
are  daily  papers,  but  it  is largely money 
thrown  away  where  the  only  newspapers 
are  those  which  come  out  but  once  each 
week.  So  he  places  his  dependence 
largely  on  “ signs  in the country. ”   They 
don’t  cost  anything  to  speak  of,  he says; 
he  can  paint  them  himself  on  old  shoe 
box  covers,  borrow  Jim 
Jimson’s  old 
horse  and  platform  spring  wagon  and 
nail  them  up  himself  all  along  the 
country  roads  on  trees,  and  barns,  and 
fences,  and  there  they  will  stay,  an  ad­
vertisement  for  all  time  that  doesn’t 
cost  a  cent,  and  everybody  that  comes 
along the  road  will  read  and  come  right 
into the  Parlor  shoe  store  and  buy—only 
they  won’t  do  any  such  thing.

Laster  says  that  if  you  want  to  make 
out  a  tolerably  correct  list  of people who 
have  been 
in  business 
in  Lasterville 
in  the  last  ten  years,  just 
and 
failed 
take  a  trip  around  the  country  roads and 
read  the  advertising  signs;  and,  by  the 
Old  Harry,  it's  so,  loo! 
It  seems  piti­
ful,  too,  to  ride along  and  see  an  old  ad­
vertising  sign,  weather  beaten  and  old, 
which  tells  you  to  go  to  Climer’s  for 
fine  shoes—the  leading  dealer  in  Laster- 
ville.  And  old  Laster  will  tell  you  how 
he  failed  and  shot  himself,  and  the  as­
signee  sold  the  stock  to  a  man  whose 
name  you  can’t  find  on  the  fences  any­
where.  Still,  I  don’t  think  that  it  al­
ways  holds  good,  for  when  I  was  out  on 
my  wheel  last  Sunday,  away  out  on  a 
crossroad  that  doesn’t  have  a  wagon  a 
it,  l  found  on  an  old  board 
week  on 
fence  the  faint  outline  ot 
letters  once 
painted  carefully  with  white  paint  and 
infinite  pains:

GO  TO   1 -A S T E R 'S  

F O R   S H O E S .

And  when  I  took  the  old  man  to  task 
about  it,  he  laughed  and  owned  up  that 
he  painted 
it  the  first  year  he  was  in 
business—oh,  ever  so 
long  ago—and 
had  forgotten  all  about  it.  He  hasn't 
been  a  failure,  and  he  won’t  be,  you 
bet!  Laster  is  just  the  sort  of  man  to 
get  young  fellows,  like  me,  in with  him,

M ICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

a n d   if  th e y   h a v e   a n y   g o o d   id e a s   to  k n o w  
just  bow  to  put  them  to  good  use.

VVe  have  a  daily  paper  here  now,  and 
it  a  good  deal,  but  the 
we  are  using 
is  young  yet  and  hasn’t  got  a 
paper 
very 
large  circulation,  so  we  have  to 
all 
sorts  of  other  advertising 
use 
schemes.  Our  latest  is  my  idea,  which 
Laster  has  enlarged  on.  There  are  sev­
eral  printing  firms 
in  New  York  and 
Chicago,  and  I  don’t  know  but  plenty 
of  other  places,  who  will  furnish 
1,000 
tiny  dodgers,  about  as  big  as  a  postal 
ca’ d,  for  from  $1  to  $1.50.  They  do 
it 
so  cheap  by  getting  enough  orders  so 
that  they  can  print  a  whole  sheet  at 
once  and  then  cut  the  dodgers  up  after­
ward ;  but  that  has  nothing  to  do  with 
the  idea.

Now,  as  a proposition,  those  advertis­
ing  dodgers,  by themselves,  aren’t  worth 
a  continental,  hut  as  an  adjunct  they 
are  a  great  success.  My 
idea  was  to 
10,000  that  simply  said  Laster’s 
buy 
Shoes  on  them,  and  then  throw  them 
broadcast,  but  Laster  said  that  was  all 
right,  but  a  good  deal  better  idea  would 
be  to  get  ten  lots  printed  at  once,  and 
then  put  a  few  out  each  day  and  change 
the  kind  each  day.  VVe  put  $13  into the 
scheme,  and  we  have  100,000 dodgers, 
with  ten  different  legends.  One  set 
says:  “ New  lot  of  those $2.25  shoes  for 
gentlemen,  just  received  at  Laster’s. ’ ’ 
Another, 
“ On  Friday,  at  Laster’s, 
there  will  be  a  special  sale  of  shoes  for 
children.  A  school  shoe  for  a  girl  of 
ten  for  $1. ”   Another,  “  Have  you  ten­
der  feet?  Try  Laster’s  Comfort  Shoe,”  
and  “ It  may  rain  to-morrow.  Are  you 
sure  you  have  a  pair  of  Laster’s  Glove­
fitting  Rubbers?”   and  “ You  ought  to 
get  fitted  and  suited  with  $12,000  worth 
of  shoes  to  select  from  at  Laster’s ,”  
and  “ Look  at  the  decorations  in  Last­
“ Guess  on 
er’s  Shoe  Store  windows. ”  
the  weight  of  the  turkey 
in  Laster’s 
window,  and  maybe  you  will  eat  turkey 
Sunday.  No  charge,”   etc.,  etc.

Those  are  only  a  few,  and  aren’t  the 
best  ones  at  all.  The  best  ones  have 
strictly  local  meanings,  which  the  gen­
eral  reader  would  not  understand.  With 
a  few  exceptions  the  dodgers  are  all 
what  might  be  called  “ stock”   wording; 
that  is,  they  may  be  used  at  one  time 
as  well  as  another  VVe  put  out  about 
600  or 800  of  one  kind  at  a  time,  and 
it 
keeps  something  going  on  in  the  dodger 
line  all  of  the  time.  By  the  time  we 
get  around  with  all  of  the  kinds the  first 
dodger 
is  new  again,  practically,  and 
we  can  put  a  few  more  hundreds  of  it 
out.  VVe  have  a  “ Special  Sale”   dodger 
for  each  day  in  the  week  for  both  wom­
en’s,  children’s  men’s  and  boys’  shoes, 
and  altogether  the  little  dodgers,  with 
what  we  have  printed  right  here  at 
home  that  relate  to  special  prices  and 
the 
like,  we  find  the  neatest  thing  yet.
Of  course,  very  few  newspapers,  un­
less  they  have  job  offices  attached,  find 
much  that 
is  good  to  say  for  the  hand­
bill  or  circular,  but  Laster  is  a  firm  be­
liever  in  both  of  them.  Every  fall  he 
has  a  neat  circular  gotten  out  in  type­
writing  type  to  his  customers,  thanking 
them  for  their patronage  in  the  past  and 
calling  attention  to  his 
facilities  for

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The  most  of 
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W e  are  still  making  the 
Men’ s  Heavy  Shoes  in 
Oil  Grain  and Satin;  also 
carry  Snedicor  &  Hatha 
way’ s  Shoes  at  Factory 
Price in  Men’s,  Boys’  and 
Youths’ .  Lycoming  and 
Keystone Rubbers are the 
best.  See  our  Salesmen 
or  send  mail  orders.

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If you have not seen this line it will  pay  you  to  do 
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I 

find, 

think 

catering  to  their  wants 
in  the  line  of 
footwear  for  the  season.  He  has  an 
address  line  left  blank  to  fill  in  with  a 
pen  and  signs  each  one  with  ink  him 
self.  That  is,  all  of  us  go  at  it  and  fill 
in  the  addresses  and 
sign,  but,  of 
course,  the  customers  all 
that 
Laster  does  it  himself.  He  has  a  list 
of  his  customers  that  he  has  marie  up 
for  the  last  ten  years  and  revised  every 
year,  almost  nine  hundred  names of reg 
ulars.  Well,  when 
I  first  knew  about  it, 
I  thought  that  it  was  about  the  silliest 
idea  that  I  ever  heard  of,  but  I've  got 
ten  so  that  I  don’t  laugh  at  Laster'sold- 
fashioned  ideas  so  much  as  I  did  before 
I  failed,  and,  do  you  know,  it’s  a  great 
for  an  old-established  business. 
thing 
People, 
like  to  have  you  do 
things  for  them  that are  unnecessary.  It 
doesn’t  make  any  new  customers,  to 
speak  of,  but  it  helps  a  lot  to  cement 
old  ones.  Anybody  can  see  at  a  glance 
that  it  isn’t  intended  especially  to  draw 
trade,  and  you  can  laugh  at  it  all  you 
like,  but  when  an  old  farmer  gets  a  cir­
cular which begins,  * ‘ As one of our oldest 
and  best customers we want to thank you, 
etc.,”   he  can’t  help 
feeling  sort  of 
tickled  to  know  that  his  custom  is  ap­
preciated  and 
it  sort  of  warms  him  to­
ward  the  house,  and  he  puts  his  spec­
tacles  on  and  reads  it  all  through,  even 
down  to  the  place  where  it  says,  “ If 
you  ever  get,  or  have  got  anything  of 
us  not  entirely  satisfactory,  we  want  to 
know  ft.  Don’t  conceal  it  or  get  angry 
and  vow  you’ll  never  trade  with  us  any 
more;  come  and  tell  us  about  it  and 
let 
us  try  to  make  it  right.  Maybe  the  in­
formation  you  give  us  may  be  of  the 
greatest  value  to  us  in  our  buying.”

I  tell  you,  it  has  its  effect.  And  that’s 
only  one  of  the  ways  to  use  mailed  cir­
culars  in  a  retail  shoe  business.

A  while  ago  Laster  made  a big run  on 
a  $2  kid  shoe.  Well,  he  went  to  the 
factory  and  made  a  deal  for  a  big  lot  of 
scraps  of  kid  of  the  kind  that  was  used 
in  the  shoes,  and  then  he  cut  those 
scraps  up 
into  neat  littie  pieces  about 
half  of  an  inch  square,  and  with  a  neat 
circular,  calling attention  to  this  special 
shoe  and  incidentally  to the entire stock, 
he  mailed  nearly  two  thousand  of  them 
to  the  female  shoe  wearers. 
It  was  a 
great  big  hit.  You  wouldn’t  believe  the 
number  of  pairs  of  those  shoes  that  we 
sold  where  the  sales  could be  traced  di­
rectly  to  the  sample  and  circular. 
It 
started  the  line  going 
in  great  shape, 
each buyer being a living advertisement; 
and  following  the  idea  up  in  the  daily 
and  weekly  papers,  and  with  a  lot  of 
stock-dodgers  harping  on  the  shoe,  we 
have  gotten  up  the  biggest  sale  on  a 
special-priced  shoe  in  the  history  of  the 
trade  in  Lasterville.

Leather  from  Kangaroo  Skins.

An  inventor  has  perfected  a  process 
for  making  a  superior  quality  of  patent 
and  enameled 
leather  out  of  kangaroo 
skins.  The  new  leather  will  be  used 
largely  for  fine  shoes  for  men  and  slip­
pers  for  women.  The  kangaroo  skins 
come  from  Australia,  where  the  animals 
are  found 
in  great  numbers  and  are 
killed  by  men  who  make  a  business  of 
it.  The  skins  are  dried  and  shipped  to 
this  and  other  countries  in  bales.  The 
skins  vary  in  size  from  three  to  ten 
square  feet.  Seth  Boyden,  whose  statue 
is  in  Washington  Park,  Newark,  N.  J., 
was  the  inventor  of  patent  leather,  and 
that  city  has  a  world-wide  reputation 
for  the leather  it  has  since  produced.

Woman’s  Way.

Bertba—These  men  are  troublesome 

things!

Edith—Why,  what’s  the  matter  with 

Bertba-—For  the 

the  men  now?
life  of  me,  I  can't 
make  up  my  mind  whether to  let  Fred 
or  Charley  fall  in  love  with  me.
Knew  His  Business.

Mrs.  Longwed  (yawning—Oh,  dear!  I 

wonder  if  angels  ever  get  sleepy?
was  courting  you,  darling.

Mr.  Longwed—You  never  did when  I 

Then  the  old  rascal  kissed  his  wife 
and  went  to  the  club  without  a  struggle.

Wherein  the  Manufacturer  Is  Unjustly 

Punished.
W ritten  for the T rad esm an.

instance, 

judgment 

The  monthly  Bulletin  of  the  State 
Food  Commissioner,  as  now  published, 
frequenty  does  an  injustice  to  the manu­
facturer.  By  its  reports  of  analyses  the 
department  chemist  is  the  whole  court, 
judge  and  jury.  His 
is  in­
fallible,  no matter how close he draws the 
lines.  For 
in  examining  a 
vinegar,  the  law  requires  the  ash  to  be 
0.25.  He  finds  0.23  and  so  reports 
in 
the  Bulletin,  condemning  the  goods,  no 
matter  whether  he  is  right  or  not.  Per­
haps  another  chemist,  just  as  capable, 
would  find  the  same  vinegar  to  contain 
0.26 oro. 27 asb.jbut the manufacturer has 
no  redress. 
Judgment  has  been  passed 
by  the  chemist  and  the Bulletin has been 
published 
broadcast 
throughout the  State,  to the  injury  of  the 
manufacturer.  Here is  another  instance: 
A  lot  of  vinegar  is  sold  late 
in  the  sea­
son  and  the retailer  allows the vinegar  to 
stand  out  during  freezing  weather,  bulg­
ing  the  heads  and  allowing  leakage. 
The  first  to 
leak  out  is  always  acetic 
acid  or the  acid  strength  of  the vinegar, 
thereby  reducing  the  original  strength 
of  the  goods.  A  sample  of  this  vinegar 
is  taken  up  by  the  deputy  and  the  de­
partment  chemist  finds 
it  below  legal 
standard  strength  and  it  is  reported  ac­
cordingly  in  the  Bulletin,  with the  name 
of  So-and-So  as  producers.  This  natur­
ally  causes  every  one  to  come  to  the 
conclusion  that  the  goods  were  put  out 
as  reported,  below  standard  strength.

scattered 

and 

it 

Is this fair to the  manufacturer?  When 
he  sold  the  vinegar  it  was  lawful  goods, 
but  through  the  carelessness  of  the  re­
tailer 
is  made  unlawful  by  freezing 
and  the  producer  is  condemned  for  it, 
probably  receiving  many  letters pertain­
ing  to  his  product,  as  well  as  having 
many  orders  countermanded.

improved. 

The  deputies, 

We  think  the  present  system  could  be 
greatly 
in 
picking  up  samples,  could  make  enqui­
ries  at  times  that  would  satisfy  the  de­
partment  where  to  place  the blame.  We 
do  not  blame  any  of  the  officials,  as 
they  are  acting  according  to  law  and  a 
system  established  for  them  at  the  time 
the  department  was created,  but  as  we 
go  along  we  see  how  the  present  system 
could  be  improved  without  injury  to  the 
good  work  of  the  food  department.  One 
of  the suggestions we would  make  is that 
they  hold  the  retailer  responsible  in 
every  case  and  he,  in  turn,  will  he  care­
ful  that  he  buys  from  only  reliable  deal 
ers  and  manufacturers,  such as  will  give 
their  guaranty  bond  to  the  retailer  and 
protect  them.

The  manufacturers  should  not  be  re­
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department  is  fully  satisfied  that  such 
manufacturers  are  making  a  business  of 
selling  goods  which  do  not  comply  with 
the  requirements  of  the  law,  and  such 
should  be  prosecuted,  and  this  in  turn 
would  keep  their  products  out  of  the 
State. 

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The  Retail  Dealer  Should  Advise  the 

Producer.

W ritten f o r  th e  T r a d esm a n.

is  willing  to  do 

That  there  should  be  a  better  under­
standing  between  the  city  retailer  and 
his  brother,  the  country  grower  of  the 
produce  which  must  furnish  the  table 
of  the  city  consumer,  I  think  no  one 
will  venture  to  deny.  The  ever-increas­
ing  list  of  artificial  food  products  has  a 
tendency  to  bring  about  changes 
in 
tastes  and  in  the  requirements  of  the 
table 
in  order  to  properly  balance  the 
daily  food  ration;  These  changes  are 
soon  brought  to  the  attention  of  the  re­
tailer  through  the  persistent  enquiries 
from  his  customers  for  something  which 
he  is  unable  to  furnish.  The  retailer 
has  a  duty  to  perform  in  this connection 
which  no  one  can  do  for  him.  The 
producer 
anything 
within  his  power  to  improve  the  quality 
of  his  product  if  only  he  can  ascertain 
where  the  change  should  be  made.  The 
retailer  is  far  too  prone  to  pass  the 
matter  by  and  fail  to  explain  to  the men 
of  whom  he  buys  his  produce  how  the 
In  most 
commodity  can  be  improved. 
cases  this  neglect  comes 
from  pure 
thoughtlessness  or  lack  of  time. 
It  is  a 
well-known 
fact  that  there  are,  in  all 
sections  of  the  country,  a  few  farmers 
and  gardeners  whose  products are eager­
ly 
looked  for  on  account  of  their  fine 
quality  and  the  fact  that  they  are placed 
upon  the  market 
in  such  a  condition 
that  they  precisely  meet  the  public  de­
mand  and  give  complete  satisfaction  to 
the  consumers  who  purchase  them  The 
fact  that  these  men  bring  articles  of 
such  fine quality  as  to  bring  the  highest 
price  and  be  constantly  sought  after  by 
both  dealer  and  consumer,  while  the 
general  market  is  perhaps  glutted  with 
inferior  stock  of  the  same  kind,  proves 
that  they  have  been  studying  the  ques­
tion  closely.

That  the  producer  should  give  this 
question  of  quality  the  closest  attention 
goes  without  saving,  but  it  must  be  re­
membered  that  he,  like  the  dealer,  is  a 
busy  man  and  has  very  little  extra  time 
for  thought  and  meditation  if  he  keeps 
the  wheels  moving  and  succeeds 
in 
making  both  ends  meet  at  the  end of the 
year;  what  he  learns  must  be  “ caught 
on  the  fly. 
But  the  dealer  to  whom 
he  sells  can  help  him  out  very  much 
if 
he  will.  When  he  meets  the  producer 
on  the  general  markets  or  in  his  own 
store,  suggestion  as  to  quality  and  the 
needs  of  the  market  will  not  be  amiss. 
When  be 
is  sending  out  circulars  and 
advertising  matter, 
if  the  grocer  or 
commission  man  will  give  explanations 
as  to  quality  required,  in  language  easy 
to  be  understood,  much  can  be  accom 
plished  in  the  way  of  an 
improvement 
of  the  general  quality  of  the  produce 
offered.  Many  dealers  have  come  to 
recognize  the  importance  of  this  matter 
and  the  attention  which  they  have given 
the  subject  largely  accounts  for the great 
improvement  in  quality,  in  many  lines, 
which  has  been  brought  about  during 
the  last  few  years.

One  of  the  most  obvious 

illustrations 
of  the 
importance  of  studying  the  de­
mands  of  a  market  is  to  be  found  in  the 
item  of  dairy  butter.  A  few  years  ago, 
when  creameries  were  established,  the 
public  almost  entirely  abandoned  the 
use  of  dairy  butter,  not  because  they 
preferred  to,  but  simply  because  they 
were  unable  to  get  it  while  it  was  still 
fresh  and  palatable.  Of  late,  however, 
our  country  buttermakers  have  greatly

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improved  their  methods  and  for  the  last 
two  years  there  has  been  an  active  and 
ever-increasing  demand  for  prime  dairy 
butter.  There  are  yet  many  buttermak­
ers  who  need  to  study  more  closely  the 
demands  of  the  trade.  How  many  times 
during  the 
last  year  have  I  heard  the 
statement  from  some  customer  who  was 
examining  some  dairy  butter,  “ What  a 
pity  that  a  fine  article  of  butter  should 
have  been  spoiled  by  the  maker  by  put- 
ing 
in  too  much  salt.”   There  is  no 
room  for  doubt  but  that  the  majority  of 
those  who  buy  good  butter  really  prefer 
dairy  to  creamery,  the  whole  question 
hinging  on  the  methods  followed  in  the 
making. 
it  not obvious  that  the  re­
tail  dealers  can  do  more  to  bring  about 
reform  by  timely  suggestion  and  criti­
cism  than  can  be  accomplished 
in  any 
other  way?

Is 

Before  leaving  this  butter  question  I 
can  not  refrain  from  mentioning  a  mat­
ter  which  concerns  every  dealer in  dairy 
or  private  creamery  butter,  namely,  the 
practice  of  marking  down  the  actual 
weight  of  crocks.  That  this  practice 
is  well  known  by  all  who  are 
prevails 
actively  engaged 
in  the  handling  of 
butter  from  the  country.  For  example, 
a  country  dealer  goes  out  and buys 1,000 
pounds  of  dairy  butter  in  gallon  crocks, 
of  which  there  would  probably  be  about 
140;  by  subtracting  one-half  pound 
from  the  weight  marked  on  the  bottom 
of  each  crock  he  can  get  pay 
for 
seventy  pounds  more  butter  from  the 
dealer 
in  the  city  who  changes  crocks 
itself,  would  be  a 
with  him.  This,  in 
good  profit. 
In  many  states  laws  are  in 
force  obliging  buttermakers  to  use 
crocks  which  are  sealed  regularly by  the 
proper  authorities. 
The  grocers  of 
Michigan  should  see  to  it  that  a  similar 
law  is  passed  here,  for  it  will  make  a 
great  difference  in  annual  profits  of  the 
grocers  and  produce  dealers of the State.
illustration  of  the 
importance  of  keeping  up  to  the  times 
in  everything  is  to  be  foun'3  in  the  mat­
ter  of  rural  cold  storage.  Nearly  all 
farmers  consider  that  a  good  fair  cellar 
is  the  best  place  in  which  to  keep  vege­
tables,  but  when,  in  this  time  of  year, 
one  of  these  gentlemen  takes  his  posi­
tion  in  the  market  beside  a  farmer  who 
has 
just  taken  his  vegetables  out  of  a 
properly  constructed  cold  storage  build­
ing  he  will  soon  find  his  mistake.  The 
expense  of  the  erection  of  a  cold  stor­
age  cellar  on  the  farm  is  not  great  and 
the  benefits  to  be  derived  therefrom  will 
very  soon  equal  and  exceed  the  trifling 
cost.  In  many  cases  all that the producer 
needs  is  to  have  his  attention  called  to 
the  advantages  of  having  such  conveni­
ences,  and  no  one  is  in  a  position  to  do 
this  with  such  telling  effect  as  the 
dealer  who  handles  his  produce.

Another  pertinent 

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Tfie  Yield  of  California  Fruits  to  Be 

Large.

San  Francisco,  June  17—Despite  the 
most  unusual  climatic  conditions,  as 
much  money  will  come  into  the  State 
for  fruits  as  usual.  There  will  be  a  full 
crop  of  grapes,  apples  and  pears  all 
over  the  State.  The  prune  crop  in  So­
noma  and  Napa  counties  will  be as good 
as  usual.

The  apricot  crop  is  very  light.  That 
fruit  ripened  was  small  and  of 
inferior 
quality.  The  peach  crop  will  be  about 
half  the  usual  crop.  The  grape  and 
apple  yield  will  be  very  heavv,  and 
scarcity  of  other  fruits  will  stiffen  the 
price  of  table  grapes.  The  walnut  crop 
now  promises  well.  Oranges  are  set­
ting  well,  but 
it  is  early  to  tell  much 
about  the  yield.

Even  a  dull  girl  is  sharp  enough  to 

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Desirability  of  Patronizing  Home  M ar­

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kets.

A  good  home  market  depends  upon 
loyal  home  patronage,  but  any  patron­
age,  home  or  foreign,  will  not  respond 
without  consistent  market  attractions. 
Trade  moves 
in  the  direction  of  the 
least  resistance,  or  in  response  to  the 
strongest  attraction,  which  are  one  and 
the  same  thing in practical results.  Mer­
chants  and 
local  newspaper  publishers 
are  offended  when  a  dollar  of  local  pat­
ronage  goes  to  outside  concerns,  yet 
in 
many 
instances  they  both  contribute  to 
bring  about  just  such  a  result.

to 

confine 

community 

It  may  be  practically  impossible  for  a 
civilized 
its 
patronage  exclusively  to  home  produc­
tion  and  to  dispose  of  its  surplus  for 
cash  to  outsiders. 
If  it  were  possible, 
the  theory  of  accumulation—get  all  you 
can  and  keep  all  you  get—would  be 
beautifully  exemplified.  The  local  mer­
chant  and  his  family  imagine  that  some 
article  of  necessity  or  luxury  which they 
see  advertised  in  the  local  paper  by  an 
outside  concern  is  superior  to  that  sup­
plied  in  the  home  market  and 
ignore 
the  home  producer  or  dealer,  spending 
their  money  elsewhere.  His  brother 
merchant,  engaged  in  another  line,  does 
likewise.  They  both  even  go  so  far  as 
to  order  their  printing  from  an  office 
located 
in  another  town.  They  sub­
scribe  to  outside  publications  to  the  ex­
clusion  of  their  home  paper,  which loses 
interest  by  comparison  with  the  better- 
patronized  and  more-prosperous  foreign 
publication,  until  the 
local  paper  be­
comes  practically  worthless  as  an  ad­
vertising  medium,  for  want  of  local  in­
terest  manifested  in  it.  And,  when  this 
condition  of  affairs  dawns  upon  the par­
ticipants  and  chief  sufferers,  a  triangu­
lar  wail  unites 
in  the  troubled  atmos­
phere 
in  a  frantic  appeal  to  the  com­
munity  not  to  follow  their  example  but 
to  patronize  home 
industry.  But  the 
buying  public  are  not  ignorant  of  the 
imagine  they  see 
inconsistency  and 
attractive  outside,  them­
something 
selves. 
Alienated  patronage  has  the 
right  of  way  and  local  business  is  side­
tracked.  Not  until  every  interest  in  the 
community  has  felt  the  forego  influence 
will  matters  change  in  favor of the home 
market.

Human  nature  seems  to  have  been 
constructed  with  a  large  open  pouch 
in 
front,  to  contain  the  inconsistencies  of 
its  fellows,  while  its  own  shortcomings 
are  concealed 
in  a  small  neat  package 
at  its  back.  Not until human nature can 
lay  aside  its  self-destructive  pride  and 
face  the  cold  and  stubborn  fact  that  it 
is  a  miserable,  beggarly dependant  upon 
its  fellows  for  the  necessaries  as  well  as 
it  learn 
the  enjoyments  of 
the  care  of 
practical  co-operation 
mutual 
in  the 
Golden  Rule.

interests  as  enjoined 

life  will 

in 

There  seems  to  be  a  sort  of  super­
natural,  as  well  as  fatal,  equity  over­
ruling  business  transactions,  so  that  it 
might be asked  in paraphrase.  What shall 
it  profit  a  community,  or  a  nation,  to 
gain  the  whole  world  and  lose  its  home 
trade?  Business, 
like  charity,  should 
begin  at  home.  The  most  prosperous, 
the  happiest 
the  most 
is  self-sus­
community 
taining,  whether  or  not 
it  ever  sold  a 
dollar's  worth  of  surplus. 
is  the 
If 
sole  aim 
life  of  the  members  of  a 
community  to  accumulate  wealth,  and 
they  are  willing  to  stint  themselves  and 
“ skin”   the  stranger  to  accomplish  that 
end,  they  ought  not  to  complain of slack 
business  occasioned  by  abnormal  econ­

independent, 
is  that  which 

in 

it 

omy  at  home  on  the  part  of  their  con­
temporaries,  in  their  efforts  to  provide 
a  surplus  and  to  accumulate  a  reserve 
in  cash;  nor  should  they  cry  out,  “ Stop 
thief!“   when  the  stranger  happens  to  be 
aggressive  and  successful  enough 
to 
appropriate  some  cuticle  himself,  from 
where 
it  may  be  the  most  inconvenient 
to  part  with  it.

imagine, 

It  is  not  good  diplomacy  to  attempt to 
convert  a  man  to  your  way  of  thinking 
by  finding  fault  with  him  or  abusing 
him ;  rather  must  he  be  won  over  by 
superior  attractiveness  and  more  con­
vincing  display.  The  same  rule  applies 
to  trade  and  can  only  be  suspended  by 
compulsion  and  under  protest,  which 
will  embrace  the  first  opportunity  for 
successful  revolution.
Very  little  trade,  I 

is  di­
verted  from  strictly  selfish  and  self-in­
terested  channels through sympathy ;  the 
personality  of  the  tradesman  merely 
gives  him  the  advantage  of  preference, 
other things  being  equal,  or  at  least  the 
impression  prevailing 
in  the  mind  of 
the  buyer  that  they  are  so  Hence  it 
follows  that,  to  develop  a  healthy  and 
robust  home  trade,  the  buyers  of  the 
community  must  be  first  convinced  that 
it 
is  to  their  interest  to  patronize  the 
home  market.  This  ought  not  to  be very 
difficult  in  an  enterprising  and  intelli­
gent  community  if  it  is  gone  about  in 
the  right  way.

instruction 

It  would  appear  that,  as  the  commer­
cial  spirit  is  essentially  a  selfish  one, 
the  first  lesson  for  the  class  in  “ local 
economy”   should  be  calculated  to  teach 
that  the  best  interests  of  the 
individual 
lie  in  the  direction  of mutual patronage, 
for  the  reason  that  each 
individual.  is 
naturally  dependent  on  .  every  other, 
and  that  a  favor  dispensed  by  one 
is 
sure  to  be,  in  turn,  reciprocated  by  all, 
in  some form,unless hindered or diverted 
from  its  natural  course  by  the  mistaken 
overt  act  of  some  member  of  the  collec­
tive  individuality. 
If  there  happens  to 
be  an  abnormally  developed  “ hog”   in 
the  community,  the pork-packing  season 
should  not  be  permitted  to  pass  unim­
proved.
The 

in 
the  next  higher 
grade  should  consist 
in  object-lessons 
of  desirability  and  utility,  elaborated 
by  appropriate  lectures 
in  the  form  of 
attractive  advertising.  To  render  the 
instruction  more  effectual  and  lasting, 
there  should  be  frequent  recitations  by 
the  whole  class,  and  graduating  exer­
cises  at  short  intervals,  to  encourage  the 
younger  pupils  to  persist  to  the  end  of 
the  course.  As  “ All  work  and  no  play 
makes  Jack  a  dull  hoy,”   it  might  prove 
conducive  to  health  and  the  better  ap­
plication  to  study  to  interject  a  holiday, 
occasionally,  in  which  such  divertise- 
ments  as  “ chasing  the  Almighty  Dol­
lar”   or  “ a  run  on  the  bank”   might  be 
indulged 
in  by  way  of  recreation ;  but 
great  care  should  be  bad  not  to  permit 
over-exercise,  especially 
in  the  case  of 
pupils  of  excitable  temperament  or 
weak  financial  organs. 
In  case  of  in­
advertent  injury  to  these  organs.a bank- 
draft  applied  to  the  face  (of  a  legacy), 
by  way  of  a  tonic,  will  often  restore 
normal  conditions,  unless  the  patient  is 
too  far  gone  (to  the cemetery,  for  in­
stance),  in  which  case  apply  the  draft 
to  bis  life  insurance  policy.

If  all  these  things  fail  to  produce  a 
healthy  home  market,  a happy  and  pros­
perous  community,  try  some  other  ex­
periment ;  and let me know how it works.

J.  M. B a n k e r .

It 

is  easy  enough  for  a  woman  to 
make  up  with  a  rival—if the  rival  is  the 
homelier.

W E  CLAin p

ERFECTION  FOR  OUR 
ARAFFINED , 
ARCHMENT-LINED 
ACKAGE

FOR  HANDLING  BUTTER.

Light—Neat—Strong.

No crocks to weigh and return.

Catalogue for  the  asking.

M ICH IG A N   P A C K A G E   CO ..

O W O SSO ,  MICH.

^ a a 5 E 5 5 S E 5 a 5 H5 a 5 H S5 a a 5 E 5 H SPS5 a S E 5 E S aSH SaS H 5 E5 a s a S ^

The  Food  Commissioner

has begun an aggressive crusade again« 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 you, order direct from  the  manufacturer,

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

W . R. Brice.

E st.  18 52.

C. M.  D rake

W. R. Brice & Co.

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.

Com  Exchange  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.

Western  National  Bank,  Philadelphia.

Fourth  National  Bank,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

D.  C.  Oakes,  Coopersville,  Mich.

E.  A.  Stowe,  Michigan  Tradesman.

Take  an  Observation

Philadelphia  to-day 
is  the  leading  Butter  market  of  the 
United  States.  The  receipts  of  all  grades  of  Butter  are 
light  and  the  market  is  firm  and  active.

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Extra  Creameries  selling  a t.................  
Firsts  selling  at......................................i6@ i6j^c
Seconds  selling  a t....................................14(0)15  c
Fancy  Imitations.....................................14(0)15  c
Ladles......................................................  
12  c
Packing  stock  in  barrels  or  tubs......... u @ i2   c

Ship  your  Butter  to  a  Butter  house  and  be  happy,  knowing 
you  will  get  full  market  value  and  quick  returns.  We  solicit 
a  share  of your  consignments  on  business  principles.

W .  R.  B R IC E   &  CO.

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Peculiar  Plea  for  the  Peddler. 

Written for the T radesman.

Every  human  being  born 

into  the 
world  is  said  to  possess  certain  inalien­
able  rights.  These  were  defined  by  the 
founders  of  our  Government  to  be 
“ life,  liberty  and  the  pursuit  of  happi­
ness.”

No  human  being  can 

live  without 
food,  air  and  water.  These  he  must 
procure  by  his  own  exertions  or  by  the 
labor  of  another.

Liberty  is  the  freedom  of  the  indi­
vidual  to  procure  the  necessaries  of 
life  without 
infringing  the  rights  of 
others.  The  man  who  drafted  the  defi­
nition  of  what  constitutes  “  inalienable 
rights”   must  have  been  a  philosopher, 
else  he  would  not have  chosen  the  word 
“ pursuit,”   instead  of  “ possession, ”   in 
connection  with  “ happiness.”   There 
is  a  pessimistic  undercurrent  of  irony 
in  the  expression,  which  strikes  one  as 
indicating  that  it  was  born  of  a  spirit 
which  bad  known  the  bitterness  of  ad­
versity  and  unmerited  disappointment. 
As  education  and  refinement  develop, 
something  more  than  the  bare  neces­
sities  of  life  become  imperative  to  the 
hopeful  pursuit  of  happiness.

Human  selfishness  is  at  the  bottom  of 
most  of  the  troubles  the  human  race  has 
to  contend  with.  We  decide  according 
to  our best  judgment  as  to  the  formula 
that  promises  to  contribute  the  largest 
to  our  personal 
interests  and  then  we 
immediately  want  a  law  enacted  com­
pelling  everyone  to  conform  to 
that 
standard;  then  we  wonder  why  so  many 
unjust  and  useless 
laws  encumber  our 
statutes.  Why,  bless  you,  money  and 
influence  will  procure  any  sort  of  legis­
lation.  The  tragedy  of  “ Shylock  and 
the  pound  of  flesh,”   however,  has  its 
counterpart 
in  continuous  performance 
in  the  courts  of  our  land  and  Justice has 
her  equivalents  to  hold  in  check  much 
of  the  over-reaching  tendencies  of  bad 
legislation.

It 

is  a  question  whether  or not  most 
laws  enacted 
in  restraint  of  trade  are 
not  altogether  pernicious.  This,  how­
ever,  must  not  be  confounded  with  the 
question  of  laws  enacted  for  the  regula­
tion  or  prohibition  of  dishonest  trade. 
The  rapacity  of  the  money-worshipper 
needs  other  restraints  than  those  sup­
plied  by  his  own  elastic  conscience.

Men  who  have  by  honest  industry  and 
good  management  secured  a competency 
should  be  protected 
in  their  rights  in 
the  fullest  sense,  but  these  rights  should 
not be  construed  to  overshadow  and  ex­
tinguish  the  rights  of  the  humblest indi­
vidual  entitled  to  “ life,  liberty  and  the 
pursuit  of  happiness,”   which  are  as 
necessary  and  as  dear to  him  as  are  the 
more  diversified  to  the  more  opulent 
individual.  With  these preliminary  ob­
servations  we  will  take  up"the  subject  of 
“ peddlers. ”

A  peddler  may  be  an  embryo  mer­
chant  or a  circumstantially  retired  one. 
He  may  use  questionable  methods  to 
sell  his  wares;  so  do  many  merchants. 
He  may  not  pay  his  just  proportion  of 
municipal  tax ;  many  wealthy  property 
owners  are  openly  charged  with  a  like 
offense.  He  may  sell  goods  at  less  than 
legitimate  margins  (whatever  that  may 
mean);  many  merchants  are  obliged  to 
do  the  same.  He  may  be  familiar  with 
the  art  of  selling  38  or  40 quarts  of  ber­
ries  out  of  a  bushel; 
I  have  heard 
others 
in  higher  standing  in  the  com­
mercial  world  accused  of  the  same  ac­
complishment.

If  the  peddler has  been  swindling  his 
customers  and  defrauding  the  common-

wealth  from  time 
immemorial,  certain­
ly  the  shrewd,  honest,  wide-awake,  solid 
business  men  of  the  country  ought  to 
have  been  able  long  ago  to  have  con­
vinced  the  public  of  the  fact,  so that  the 
business  would  have  died  out  of  itself 
and  not  have  waited  to  be suppressed by 
the  strong  and  expensive arm  of the law. 
If  I  choose  to  adopt  more  expensive and 
luxurious  methods  of  doing  business 
than  my  competitor,  is  that  a  valid  rea­
son  for  the  enactment  of  a  law  compell­
ing  him  to  adopt  my  methods  or  suffer 
the  alternate  of  a  fine  or  imprisonment 
to  bring  his  expenses  up  to  the  required 
standard?

If  I  happen  to  be 

in  possession  of 
more  porperty  than  my  neighbor,  ought 
it  to  be  required  of  him  to  pay  the 
same  amount  of  tax  or  to  suffer  the 
equivalent  in  a  fine  or  license  to  be per­
mitted  to  live?

If  my  property  is  not  worth  the  tax 

I 
am  required  to  pay  for the  enjoyment  of 
its  possession,  why  should  I  not  inflict 
my  neighbor  with  the  possession  of  it 
and  thus  require  him  to  bear  the  burden 
a  while?

I  suppose  this 

is  a  cruel  suggestion 
and  rather  rough  on  the  neighbor,  but 
the  Christian  injunction  says,  “ Bear  ye 
one  another's  burdens,”   and  I  am  al­
most  sure,  from  my  acquaintance  with 
the  neighbor,  that  if  the  transfer  should 
be  suggested  to  him  for  the  considera­
tion 
involved,  he  would  be  r**ady  to 
meet  it  in  the  Christian  spirit  implied. 
This  leads  us  to  observe  that  civiliza­
tion  has  adopted  a  queer  system of  taxa­
tion.  For  instance,  an  enterprising  and 
public  spirited 
individual  owning  a 
piece  of  vacant  land  places  valuable 
improvements  upon  it;  the  tax-assessor 
comes  along  and  reports  him  to  the 
proper authorities,  who  immediately  as-

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It  is  poor  economy  to
handle  cheap  flour. 
It
is  never  reliable.  You
cannot guarantee it.  You
dr  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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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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

NOW.

M ICH IGAN  TR A D ESM A N

Merchants—'

Correspond  with  me  about  your  Butter  and  Eggs. 
I 
want 5,000 pounds Butter per week.  Write at once.  Get 
your  name  on  my list  and  receive quotations each  week. 
Want your Butter,  Eggs and  Poultry the year  around.

E.  M.  SMITH,  Cedar Springs,  Michigan.

HARVEY  P.  M ILLER. 

EVERETT  P .  TEASDALE.

MILLER &  TEASDALE  CO.

WHOLESALE  BROKERAGE  AND COMMISSION.

FRUITS,  NUTS,  PRODUCE
ST.  LOUIS,  no.

NEW  POTATOES A SPECIALTY.

835  NORTH  THIRD  ST., 
830 NORTH FOURTH ST.,

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

Butter  and  Eggs

A n y   quantity  at  any  station  gets 
highest cash  prices  from   me.

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,  36  Market  St.,  Detroit,  Mich.

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Buffalo, N. Y.

D.  E.  Knowlton,  Près,  and  Gen’l  Mgr.

C apacity 600,000 cubic feet.

¡1 Warehouse “A”
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Butter and  Eggs

Exclusively

Liberal  Advances.

Low  Insurance.

Warehouse “B”

Capacity  500,000 cubic feet.

Poultry,  Cheese,  Fruit 
and  Miscellaneous 
Storage.
Don’t  try  experiments. 

Store 
where  you  know  your  goods  will 
be properly cared  for.

S 5S

Correspondence  Solicited.

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Ship  us your«

BERRIE5

etc.,  and  get  highest  prices  and  quick  returns.

I  

W e  still  want  your

|  BUTTER AND  EGGS
I   for  cash  at  your  station.  W rite  us  before  ship-  |  
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4   Main Office, 33 Woodbridge St., W. 

HERMANN  C.  NAUMANN  &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

Branch  Store, 353  Russell  Street.  $

ping elsewhere. 

EARLY FRUITS
AND VEGETABI

LES

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

117-119  MONROE  S T R E E T ,  GRAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

d.  W ILLA RD   LA N SIN G  
B U R G E   D.  C A T LIN

Lansing  &  Catlin

Wholesale Dealers in

Butter  and  Eggs

44  W.  M arket  St.
103  Michigan  St.

Buffalo is headquarters for Eggs.  Our  market  has  advanced  one  cent  per  dozen 
since last week.  Ship  us your Eggs, as we want them and  can  get  you  top  prices.

EG G S 

EGGS 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Wall  Paper and  Paints

Our Stock  of

Is  New  and  Fresh  from  the  Factory.
Every Wall  Paper Design  is of  1898 make. 

Picture  Frames made to order.

C.  L.  Harvey & Company,

59 Monroe St., Grand  Rapids.

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

sess  a  heavy  fine  against  him  for  daring 
to  buy  materials  and  to  employ  labor  to 
beautify  and  to  make  the  earth  more 
habitable,  while  his  more  conservative 
neighbor  who  owns  a  vacant  lot  over­
grown  with  weeds  is  let  off  with  a  nom­
inal  tax.

Any  avocation  that  continues  to  de­
pend  upon  public  patronage  for  sub­
sistence  must  fill  a  want  or  it  could  not 
exist,  and  to  effectively  suppress  the 
avocation  the  want  must  first  be  dis­
posed  of.  Nature 
is  greater  than 
its 
in­
creatures  and  the  creatures  can  not 
definitely  restrain  a  natural  force—it 
will  find  vent  in  some  direction.

The  tax-payer  who  insists  upon  re­
straining  an  individual  from  earning  a 
livelihood  by  his  own exeition  may,  per­
force,  be  obliged  to  support  that  indi­
vidual  in  idleness.  The  individual  who 
does  not  earn  his  own  living must either 
be  deprived  of  life  or  supported  by  the 
substance  or  labor  of  others. 
It  would 
seem  that  the  better  way  to  abate  the 
peddler  nuisance,  as  it  is  called,  would 
be  to  enact  a  law  requiring  every  seller 
of  merchandise  having  no  fixed  place  of 
business  to 
fee 
therefor  sufficient  to  pay  the  expense  of 
conducting  a  strict  supervision  of  the 
traffic  and  providing  in  the  regulation  a 
system  of  inspection  to  cover  the  ques­
tion  of  the  sale  of  impure  or  unwhole­
some  food,  and  fraudulent  transactions 
of  whatever  nature,  violations  of  the 
law  to  be  punished  by  adequate  fines 
and  forfeitures.

register,  charging  a 

If  the  peddlers  should  be  required  to 
sell  as  good  quality  of  »’ares  and  to  be 
held  to  the  same  weights  and  measures 
as  are  the  merchants  who  have  a  fixed 
location,  and 
it  should  then  transpire 
that  the  peddlers  could  sell  cheaper and 
do  more  business,  the  merchants  ought 
then  to  consider  seriously  the  advisabil­
ity  of  revising  their  system  to  meet  the 
exigencies  of  the  case  by business meth­
ods,  instead  of  appealing  to  the  law  to 
compel  the  public  to  contribute  to  the 
support  of  an  exorbitant  system  that 
would  thus  have  shown  itself  unable  to 
fairly  meet  competition. 
In  our  com­
it  is  not  a  question  of 
petitive  system 
“ the  survival  of  the 
fittest,”   but  of 
the  survival  of  the  cheapest.

Therefore,  let  no  proud  merchant  ap­
prehend  with  horror  the  possibility  of 
his  engaging 
in  the  “ peddling  busi­
ness,”   if  that  should  prove  to  be  the 
most successful  method  of  selling goods. 
No  merchant  pays  extra  salaries  to  his 
clerks  to  enable  them  to  live  more  ex­
pensively,  but  his  salary  list  is  graded 
according  to  the  market  price  of  clerks 
and  what  they  are  worth to him.  Neither 
will  the  public  consent  to  pay  extra

profits  to  the  merchant  to  enable  him  to 
own  property  and  to  pay  taxes  and  to 
do  business  in  a  down-town  store.

Permit  me  to  hint  at  a  possible  solu­
tion  of  the  vexing  problem,  within  the 
reach  of  the  merchants  themselves,  in 
this  parting  sentiment: 
is  often 
easier  to  beat  a  man  at  his  own  game 
than  to  compel  by  law  to  play  at  yours.

It 

J.  M.  B a n k e r .

Experience  of  One  Woman 

in  Pre­

serving  Eggs.

W ritten fo r the T rad esm an.

This  is  the  first  time  I  ever  wrote  to  a 
newspaper,  but  perhaps  I  can  aid  some 
person  by  relating  my  experience  in  the 
matter  of  preserving  eggs. 
I  began, 
on  a  small  scale,  in  1894,  having  only 
§4  to  start  with.  Last  summer  I  pre­
served  ten  whisky  barrels  full  of  eggs, 
which  held 
1,500  dozen  and  cost  6 ^  
cents  a  dozen,  or §97.50  for  the  lot.  The 
preservation  cost  §13.50;  total,  $ m . 
I 
sold  them 
in  December  at  our  home 
market  for  18  cents  a  dozen ;  total,  $270. 
The  following  is  my  recipe:  Take  36 
gallons  of  water;  add  6  pounds  of  salt 
and  4  ounces  of  Per  Algretta ;  dissolve 
the  Per  Algretta  in  2  gallons  of  boiling 
water  and  pour  into  the  cold  mixture, 
thus  making  38  gallons 
in  all.  This 
will  preserve  two  barrels  (300  dozen 
eggs).  Put 
19  gallons  of  the  solution 
in  each  barrel;  place  the  eggs  therein 
as  purchased  and  allow  them  to  remain 
covered  with  the  mixture  until  they  are 
sold.  Procure the powdered  Per Algretta, 
as  it  is  more  soluble  than  the  bulk.

Next  year  I  shall  invest  my  $270  in 
eggs  and,  by  selling  and  reinvesting 
it 
for  two  years,  I  shall  have  a  capital  of 
over  $1,500,  with  which  I  can  make  a 
profit  of  $2,000  a  year.

I  can  not  see  why  a  good  profit  could 
not  be  made  at  this  business,  as  eggs 
are  consumed  everywhere  and  always 
sell  for  a  much  higher  price 
in  winter 
than  in  summer. 
I  hope  many  of  the 
readers  of  the  Tradesman  will adopt this 
method  and  communicate  the  result  of 
their  experience  through  this  valuable 
paper. 
I  am  confident  they  would  meet 
with  success,  as  eggs  preserved  in  this 
way  are  equally  as  good  as  the  fresh 
product. 

Mr s.  J.  W.  W h ite.

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. 

M U SK EG O N
SU N D A Y
T R A IN S

50  C E N T S  
RO U N D  
T R IP .

Most  women  nowadays  are  fair just  in 

proportion  as  they  are  false.

HOURS
COFFEES

MAKE  BUSINESS

An  Insult 
jk 
To  the  Grocer  *7

Some  coffee  roasters  and  jobbers  occasionally  claim 
wonderful  qualities  for  their  goods  regardless  of  the 
fact  that  they  cannot  produce  such  up-to-date  blends 
as  ours.  We  build  business  on  a  solid  foundation 
FO R  US  as  well  as  for  the  retail  grocer.

The  J.  M.  Bour  Co.,

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

M ICH IGAN  T R A D E S M A N

N.  W O H LFELD ER  & CO.,

CO M M ISSIO N   M E R C H A N T S

3 9 9 - 4 0 3   HIGH  S T .,  EA ST  SID E ,

D E T R O IT ,  MICH.

We  want  your  shipments  of  Eggs,  Butter  and  Cheese  and  will 

make  liberal  advances  on  same  to  reliable  parties.

Your  Best Trade

appreciate  only  Fancy 
Butter. 

The  Finest

Creamery 
in
Goods 

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THE  FIN EST  1-2-3 
O R 5-L B   PACKAG E 

afford you a good  profit.  Write  us.

MAYNARD  &  COON,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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G O TH A M   G O S S IP .

News  from  the  Metropolis-—Index  to 

the  Market.

S pecial Correspondence.

New  York, 

June  18—It  has  been  a 
good  week  among  jobbers  and  the  vol­
ume  of  business  done  is  very  large 
in­
deed. 
In  many  instances  overtime  has 
been  necessary  to  fill  the  orders  and 
everything  seems  to  be 
flourishing. 
Prices  generally  were  well  sustained.

Among  the  great  grocery staples coffee 
has  moved  as  slowly  as  any.  Orders 
coming  to  hand  have  been  for the small­
est  amounts  and  there  seems  to  be  no 
anxiety  whatever  on  the  part  of  buyers 
to  stock  up  beyond 
immediate  wants. 
In  invoices  nothing  was  done.  Holders 
show  no  special  desire  to  dispose  of 
stocks,  although the  new  crop  will  begin 
to  arrive  before 
long.  Rio  No.  7  is 
held  at  6f£c  and  the  supply  in  store  and 
afloat  aggregates  866,747  bags,  against 
758,760  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Mild  grades  have  been  in  fairly  good 
request  and  jobbers  have  shown  quite a 
“ hankering”   for  the  better  sorts.  Good 
Cucuta 
is  held  at  S^'c,  although  this 
might  be  shadeo  in  some  cases,  if  nec­
essary.  The  statistical  position  of  coffee 
is  such  that  we  may  expect  a  very  low 
price  for  the  next  few  years, at  least.
The  tea  market  awoke  to  find  itself 
Enormous  sales  have  been 
famous. 
made,  and  prices  have  advanced  5@ioc 
along  the  whole  line. 
is  said  that 
40.000  packages  of  Formosas 
in  one 
block  were  sold  and  50,0 0 0  of  Oolong. 
It  is  such  figures  as  these  that  make  the 
tea  market  of  the  past  seem  mighty 
lifeless.  Congous  to  the  extent  of  many 
thousand  packages  have  also  changed 
hands.  Good  Amoy,  20@21 c ;  good  Foo­
chow,  2 1 >2 @ 2 3 0 ;  Good  Formosa,  26@ 
27c ;  good medium Japan,  21 @230.  Sin 
Jan.  1  the  appraiser’s  office  here  has 
passed  17,000,000  pounds  of  tea  and  re­
jected  1,068,000  pounds.

It 

Sugar  is  firm.  The  price  of  refined, 
which  has  been  guaranteed  for  a  long 
time  past,  will  remain  for another  thirty 
days  This  has  made  a  firm  market  and 
dealers  know  where  they  are  at.  There 
is  a  good  demand  and  orders  have come 
from 
in  satisfactory 
amounts.  Granulated,  5fSc.

all  parts  and 

The  rice  market  is  quiet  but  firm  and 
there  is  no  weakness  shown at any point. 
During  the  week  some  13,000  bags  of 
rough  rice  from  Japan  and  6,000 from 
Java  and  Patna  have  been  received. 
Practically  all  of  it  was  sold  before  ar­
rival  and  stocks  here  have  not increased 
to  any  appreciable  extent.
The  spice  market  is  firm,  but  buyers 
seem  anxious  to  have  some  concessions 
if  they  are  to  take  hold  with  any  free­
dom.  Quotations,  however,  are  practic­
ally’  unchanged  and  holders insist on full 
rates.  Cloves,  7^@ Sc.  Cassia  is  firm 
at  8 %c.

Molasses 

is  dull,  dull,  dull.  Stocks 
are  not  excessive,  but  seem  amply  suffi­
cient  to  meet  all  wants,  which  are  of 
hand-to-mouth  character. 
It  is  thought 
that  there  are  about  150,000  barrels  of 
molasses  yet  to  be  marketed  at  the 
plantations.  Good  centrifugal,  i6@igc 
good  open-kettle,  29^300.  Syrups  have 
been  in  moderate  request,but  rates  have 
been  well  adhered  to  and  the  outlook 
rather  encouraging.

Less  interest  seems  to  be  displayed 

canned  goods  and  the  situation  is  rather 
one  of  waiting;  in  fact,  it  appears  to be 
the  general  opinion  that  the  volume  of 
is  behind  that  of  last  year  to 
trading 
date.  Spot  tomatoes  are  in 
light  de­
mand  and  prices  are  practically  un­
changed.

Prices  of  dried  fruits  are  firmly  ad­
hered  to,  but  the  demand  is  very  light 
and  scarcely  any  interest  is  displayed. 
Evaporated  apples  of  desirable  quality 
are  asked  for  and  sell  at  9 ^ @ io@ n c.

There  is  a  moderate  amount  of  busi­
ness  in  butter  going  forward,  but  there 
is  still  room  for  improvement.  Stocks 
on  hand  are  not  excessive,  nor  do  the 
advices  as  to  the  amount  of  stock  on 
the  way  seem  to  indicate  anything  like 
overcrowding.  Gilt  edge  creamery  is 
in  a  while  a 
worth  17c,  although  once 
trifle  more  is  said 
to  be  obtained. 
Western  creamery  firsts,  i6@ i6*£c;  sec­
creamery
onds, 

iS@ lS/^c i 

imitation 

extras,  I4 @ i4 ^ c;  firsts,  I2 ^ @ i3 c ;  fac 
tory,  J2@i3c.

The  cheese  market  shows  a  trifle more 
firmness,  but  there  has  been  no  advance 
in  quotations. 
Best  grades  of  new 
cheese  may  be  fairly  quoted  at  7@7%c, 
Old  cheese 
is  completely  cleaned  out.
Eggs,  best  stock,  are steadily held and 
the  demand  seems  brisk  enough  to  take 
pretty  good  care  of  arrivals. 
Fresh 
gathered  Western  eggs  are  held  at  10 ^
@IIC.

The  bean  market  is  extremely  dull 
and  there  is  not  a  sign  of  improvement. 
Choice  marrow,  $1.6 5;  medium,  § 1.3 5 ®  
i-37^ :   pea.  S>.32^ @ i  35-
Increase 

in  Amount  of  Case  Count 

Business.

F ro m   th e  N ew   Y ork  Produce  Review

to  recognize 

We  wish  to  call  the  attention  of  our 
friends 
in  the  egg  business  at  interior 
points  to  some  features  of  our  egg  mar 
ket  which  are  a  little  different  from 
those  of  former  seasons.  One  of  the 
bars  to  a  close  grading  of  stock  has 
been  at  least  partially  removed,  and 
there 
is  a  growing  disposition,  and  a 
growing  ability, 
strict 
merit  by  holding  buyers  to  a  case  count 
basis  where  the  goods  come  up  to  cer­
tain  definite  and  established  require­
ments  in  point  of  quality  and  assort­
ment.  There  is,  in  fact,  more  and  more 
case  count  business  being  done  here 
from  year  to  year,  but  it  is  confined  to 
such  very  fancy  goods  as  show  in reality 
little  or no  loss  on  the  one  hand,  and  to 
such  goods  as  are  too  poor  to  sell  to 
regular  dealers  on  the  other.  The  goods 
which  have  to  go  loss  off,  however,  still 
include  the  majority  of  our  receipts; 
they  are  those  lots  of  so-called  firsts 
which  contain  enough  fine  eggs  to  war­
rant  regular  dealers  in  using  them  un­
der  their  own  candling,  but  too  many 
poor  eggs  to  warrant  them  in  taking  the 
stock  case  count.

We  have  lately  noticed  an 

increasing 
quantity  of  the  ungraded  eggs,  which 
run  so  poor  as  to  find  no  outlet  except 
to  cheap  trade  at  very 
It 
does  not  pay  to  ship  stock  in  this  fash­
ion ;  it  was  a  waste  of  expense  to  pay 
freight  on  the  bad  eggs  and  their  pres­
ence  in  such  quantity  injures  the  sell­
ing  value  of  the  better  eggs  with  which 
they  are  mixed.

low  prices. 

Under  our  present  Exchange  rules 
stock  which  is  received  here  in  perfect 
condition  and  which  contains  no  small 
or  dirty  eggs,  being  packed 
in  white 
wood  cases,  with  medium  or  No.  1  fill­
ers,  and  which  does  not  lose  over  1  doz. 
to  the  case  (counting  checks  at  half 
loss)  can  be  sold  at  mark.  We  think 
the  fact  is  worth  notice  and  an  effort  to 
give  us  goods  of  this  character,  al­
though  many  may  try  for  the  grade  and 
not  always  reach 
it.  During  the  hot 
weather  an  assortment  bv  casual  in­
spection  will  not  produce  the  requisite 
quality;  it  can  only  be  done  before  the 
candle  and  by  experienced  and  com­
petent  hands.
Wisconsin

Line  on  the  Cheese 
Ration.

Plymouth,  Wis.,  June  15—The follow­
ing  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted 
by  the  Plymouth  Dairy  Board  yesterday 
and  similar  resolutions  will  be  adopted 
by  every  dairy  board  in  Wisconsin  this 
week  or  next:

Whereas—American  cheese  is  known 
to  be  a  nutritious  and  healthful  article 
of  food  and,  in  the  warm  climate  where 
the  United  States  army 
is  called  to 
in  the  present  war  with  Spain, 
serve 
especially 
is  it  far  more  healthful  than 
pork  and  bacon,  therefore  be  it

important 

Resolved—That  we,  the  members  of 
the  Plymouth  Dairy  Board  of  Trade, 
representing  one  of  the  greatest  and 
most 
interests  in  the  State, 
do  hereby  unite  in  urging  the  members 
of  Congress  from  the  State  of  Wiscon­
sin  to 
immediately  take  active  and 
earnest  measures  to  have  American 
cheese  placed  on  the  list  of  rations  of 
the  United  States  army,  and 
further 
be  it

Resolved—That  a  copy  of  these  reso­
lutions,  signed  by  the  President  and 
Secretary  of  this  Board,  be  mailed  to 
each  Wisconsin  member  of  the  Senate 
and  House  of  Representatives.

S  A ll  G roce*•<= 

®  

who desire to give their customers the  best
Vinegar on the market, will buy

L E R O U X ’S  P U R E  C ID E R  V IN E G A R

“ Red  S ta r  Brand.**  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.

BEWARE OF-

Impure  Extracts

and  avoid  the  Food  Commissioner’s  raid.  Our  Flavoring  Extracts 
are  pronounced  Absolutely  Pure  by  the  Michigan  State  Analyst.

De  Boe,  King  &  Co.,

Grand Rapids,  Michigan.

FOLDING  PAPER  BOXES Printed  and  plain  for  Patent 

Medicines, Extracts, Cereals,
Crackers  and  Sweet  Goods,
Candy,  Cough  Drops,  Tobacco  Clippings,  Condition  Powders,  Etc.  Bottle 
and Box Labels and Cigar Box Labels our specialties.  Ask  or write us for  prices.

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ingredients. 

of  choice  coffee  with  palatable  cereals  and  other 
wholesome 
Far  superior  to  all 
“cereal” drinks.  A beautiful  Tea  and  Coffee  Pot 
Stand given with each 2  pound  package.  Retails 
for  13c  a  pound,  affording  retailer  big  profit. 
Pleases  customers.  Order  trial case and  see how 
quickly it sells.

W O O D B U R Y  

C O ..
CHARLOTTE.  MICH.

M FRS..

New

We  are  now  offering  our  1898  pack  of 
Canned  Goods  for  future  delivery.  Com­
pare  our  new  prices  with  prices  of  spot 
stock and you will buy.

M USSELM AN GROCER CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS. MICH.

Canned

Goods

MICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the drip. 

President, J o hn  a .  H o ffm an,  Kalam azoo;  S ecre­
tary, J   C.  Sa u n d e r s,  Lansing;  T reasurer, C has 
McN o lty, Jackson.
Micnigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association. 
President,  C.  C.  Sn e d k k e r ,  D etroit;  Secretary 

and T reasurer, C.  VV. Al l e n   D etroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan. 
G rand  Counselor, J. J.  Evans,  Hay City;  G rand 
Secretary. G  S. Vai.more, D etroit;  G rand Treas­
urer,  W .  S.  W e s t, Jackson.
Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­

dent Association.

President,  J .  B o td  P a n t l in d,  G rand  Rapids; 
Secretary and Treasurer,  G eo.  P.  Ow e n,  G rand 
Rapids.

Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
President,  W .  C.  B row n,  M arquette;  Secretary 
and T reasurer, A. F.  W esson,  M arquette.

Gripsack  Brigade.

M.  0.  Williams,  traveling representa­
tive  for  Williams,  Davis,  Brooks  & 
Hinchman's  Sons,  Detroit,  has  taken  a 
position  in  the  sundry  department  and 
given  up  work  on  the  road.

Thos.  Macleod  (Geo.  W.  Farnbam 
Co.)  has  a  son,  Edward  W.  Macleod, 
who  is  with  the  Detroit  Naval  Reserves 
on  the  Yosemite  and  expects  to  see  ac­
tive  service  with  Sampson  at  Cuba  or 
Porto  Rico.

A.  W.  Peck  (Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.)  has  been  compelled  to  relin­
quish  the  exploitation  of  his  automatic 
ventilated  cycle  seat,  on  account  of  the 
objections  of  his  house  to  his  handling 
a  side  line.  He  has  therefore  parceled 
out the  territory  among  his friends,  hav­
ing  transferred  Southern  Michigan  to 
A.  A.  Howard 
(Coldwater),  Eastern 
Michigan  to  “ Old  Wrinkles’ ’  Crawford 
(Flint)  and  Western  Michigan  to  L.  J. 
Koster  (Grand  Haven).
Backward,  turn  backward,  O  time, 

in

your  flight,

Feed  me  on  gruel  soup  just for to-night; 
I  am  so  tired  of  this  sole  leather  steak, 
Petrified doughnuts and vulcanized cake, 
Oysters  that  sleep  in  a  watery  bath, 
Butter  as  strong  as  Goliath  of  Gath ; 
Weary  of  paying  for  what  I  can’t  eat, 
Chewing  up  rubber and  calling  it  meat! 
Backward,  turn  backward,  for  weary  I
am,
Give  me  a  whack  at  my  grandmother’s 
? jam,
Let  me  drink  milk  that  has  never  been 
“ skimmed,
Let  me  eat  butter  whose  hair  has  been

trimmed,

p ie ;

Let  me  once  more  have an old-fashioned

Then  I ’ll  be  ready  to  curl  up  and d ie !

It 

is 

Judging  by  the 

following  clipping 
from  the  New  Orleans  Picayune,  the ob­
in  vogue  on 
noxious  gate  system 
some  of  the  Louisiana  railways: 
“ The 
gate  system  in  use  by  some  railways  to 
prevent  persons  from  entering  the  cars 
or  the  inclosures  where  the  cars  stand, 
unless  they  show  tickets, was  the  subject 
of  discussion  before  a  committee  of  the 
General  Assembly  at  Baton  Rouge,  last 
night. 
is  contended  by  the  railways 
that  the  gates  are  necessary  to  prevent 
dishonest  officials  of  the  roads  from rob 
Ding  the  companies.  Very  well,  why 
not  provide  some  remedy  that  will  not 
worry  and  annoy  and  inconvenience  the 
roads'  customers?  Men  and  women, 
often  with  children  in  arms  or  loaded 
with  bundles,  are  forced  often  to  stand 
exposed  to  the  weather  and  jammed 
in 
a  crowd  and  placed  at  the  greatest  in 
convenience  to  prevent  some  dishonest 
conductor  from  robbing  his  employer. 
Why  visit 
the 
passengers,  and  not  on  the  prospective 
or  possible  thief?  Why  persecute  the 
innocent  and  not  adopt  some  method 
of  security  that  will  be  felt  by  the  dis­
honest  employe?  On  the  English  rai--

the  punishment  on 

ways,  where  the  gate  system 
is  used, 
passengers  are  received  under  shelter. 
In  this  country,  protection  of  any  sort 
to  those  enteiing  the  cars  is  the  excep­
tion.  The  railways,  in  all  probability, 
can  not  afford  to  shelter  their  passen­
gers,  and  ought  not to  be  required  to  do 
it  if  they  are  not  able;  but  the  passen­
gers  should  be  protected  against  having 
to  suffer  unnecessary  inconvenience. 
The  matter  is  a  simple  one,  and  should 
be  decided 
in  a  spirit  of  justice  to  all 
parties,  and  with  discrimination  for  or 
against  none.”
Bardeen’s  Invitation  Held  in Abeyance.
At  a  special  meeting  of  Post  E   held 
at  Sweet’s  Hotel  last  Saturday  evening, 
Geo.  F.  Owen  was  elected  Chairman 
and  Manley  Jones  acted  as  Secretary 
pro  tern.

Several  letters  from  Geo.  E.  Bardeen, 
President  of  Otsego,  were presented,  in­
viting  the  Grand  Rapids  traveling  men 
to  visit  Otsego  on  July  4.  The  invita­
tion  was  discussed  by  everyone  present 
and,  at  the  close  of  the  discussion,  it 
was  unanimously  decided  to  hold the in­
vitation  in  abeyance  until  Mr.  Bardeen 
explain  the  meaning  of  the  word  “ cali- 
pothiaphicahn. ”   Grand  Rapids  travel­
ing  men  are  bold 
in  the  presence  of 
danger,  but  they  do  not  mean  to  be 
led 
into  a  trap  from  which  they  can  not  ex­
tricate  themselves,  and  if  Mr.  Bardeen, 
or  any  other  man,thinks  he  can  pull  the 
wool  over  the  eyes  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
traveling  men,  he  is  mistaken.

Some  of  Mr.  Bardeen's  several  letters 
of  invitation  are  decidedly 
interesting, 
as  may  be  inferred  from  the  following 
extracts:

I  have  received  a  clipping  from  Mr. 
Stowe  of  the  Tradesman  and  in  a noteat 
the  bottom  he  asks  or rather states, I will 
be  at  the  meeting  to  explain  what  a 
caliphotbiaphicahn  is.  Now,  I  can  not 
give  this  out  publicly,  but  I  will  say 
it 
to  you,  knowing  you  are  a  discreet  per­
son—one  who  can  keep  a  secret,  and 
simply  tell  his  personal  friends,  whose 
personal  friend  will  simply  communi­
cate  it  to  their  personal  friends,  and  in 
this  way  it  will  be  kept  perfectly—that 
a  calipbothiaphicahn  is  neither  a  man 
nor a  woman. 
It  is  dressed  so  it  is  im­
possible  to  tell,  and  we  expect  all  the 
Knights  of  the  Grip  to  come  down  here 
so  dressed,  as  well  as  the  Elks  and 
others.  We  expect  this  is  going  to  be a 
regular  old  4th  of  July  caliphothiaphi- 
cahn  day.

I  note  that  you  are  surprised  that  we 
that  such  a  thing 
have  a  cemetery, 
should  be  superfluous  in  a  city  of  my 
adoption.  You  are  very  right  in  your 
conclusion.  The  cemetery  is  not  located 
here  for  the  purpose  of  the  inhabitants 
here,  but  for the  people  that  come  from 
outside  and  can  not  withstand  the dry 
atmosphere.  They  pass  away  and,  in­
stead  of  cremating  them,  we  take  them 
up  on  the  hill  to  save  expense  of  car­
riage  to  other  points.

Hides,  Pelts,  Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  remains  high  in 
price,  with  no  accumulations.  Stocks 
are  eagerly  sought  and  taken  at  ruling 
prices.  The  country  kill  is  extremely 
small,  with  no  apparent  increase  for  the 
future.

is 

There  are  no  sheep  pelts  offering. 
Sheerlings  will  be  a  scarce  offering 
throughout  the  country  and  in  good  de­
mand  for  clothing  purposes.

Tallow 

in  fair  demand  at  lower 
prices.  Any  influence  to  advance  prices 
seems  to  meet  with  defeat.  Soap  stocks 
are  plenty.

Wool,  remains 

firm  at  good  prices, 
with  no  sales  at  seaboard  to  make  a 
quotable  price.  Sales  so  far  this  year 
have  been  $1,000,000  or  under  per week, 
compared  with  from  $6,000.000  to  $10,- 
000,000  during  the  corresponding  time 
la s t  y e a r. 

Wm.  T.  H e s s .

S U C C E S S F U L   S A L E S M E N .

Thos.  Macleod,  Representing the  Geo.

W.  Farnham  Co.
Thos.  Macleod  was  born 

in  Edin­
burgh,  Scotland,  April 
12,  1839.  His 
father  was  manager  cf  the  bible  pub­
lishing  bouse  known  as 
the  Queen’s 
Printing  Office.  He  was  the  oldest 
child  in  a  family  of  four  sisters  and  one 
brother,  Wm.  B.  Macleod  of  Edin­
burgh  being  probably  the  most  promi­
nent  dentist  in  the  realm.

Mr.  Macleod  attended  school  until 

15 
years  of  age,  when  he  took  a  clerkship 
for  an  Edinburgh  bouse,  where  he  re­
In  1857  he  emi­
mained  three  years. 
grated  to  America,  landing 
in  Detroit, 
where  he  secured  a  position  as  manager 
of  the  Ed.  Fishpool  dry  goods  bouse  at 
New  Baltimore.  Three  years  later  he 
to  Houghton,  where  he  was 
removed 
successively  identified  for  ten years with 
the  general  stores  of  J.  Hoar  &  Bro., 
Northrup,  Butler  &  Co.  and  Condon  & 
Close. 
1870  he  returned  to  Detroit

In 

I

t, 

' 

”  " *ig

twenty-six  years  with 

and  took  a  position  with  H.  P.  Bald­
win  &  Co.  as  traveling  salesman,  re­
maining 
that 
house  and 
its  successors,  H.  P.  Bald­
win,  2d,  &  Co.  and  Baldwin,  McGravv 
&  Co. 
In  Sept.,  1897,  Mr.  Macleod  ac­
cepted  an  offer  from  the  Geo.  W.  Farn­
ham  Company,  of  Buffalo,  N.  Y.,  to 
cover  the  entire  State  of  Michigan,  with 
the  exception  of  the  Thumb  and  the 
Saginaw  Valley,  with  which  bouse  he  is 
stili  identified.

Mr.  Macleod  was  married  Nov. 

17, 
1868,  to  Miss  Lucy  O.  P.  Le’ Breton, 
of  Boston,  and  the  family  now  consists 
of  four  children,  three  boys  and  one 
daughter,  the  latter married.  Mr.  Mac­
leod  was  originally  a  Presbyterian  and 
was  for  many  years  a  strong  adherent  of 
that  church.  Some  years ago he espoused 
the  belief  of  the  Episcopal  church,  with 
which  he 
is  stili  identified.  He  is  an 
enthusiastic  member  of  the  Masonic 
fraternity,  including  Union Lodge,  Pen­
insular  Chapter,  Detroit  Commandery 
and  Moslem  Temple  of  the  Mystic 
Shrine.  He  was  one  of  the  original 
thirteen  traveling  men  who  organized 
the  Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’ 
Association  in  1874,  and  has  served  the 
organization  as  President  one  year,  as 
Secretary  one  year  and  as  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Directors  for  sixteen years. 
He  has  also  been  a  member  of  the 
Northwestern  Traveling  Men’s  Associa­
tion  for  over  twenty  years.  Although  he 
n e v e r  smelled  gunpowder,  he  tendered

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his  services  to  the  country  of  his  adop­
tion,  having  been  a  member  of  the  first 
Michigan  Lancers  for  six  months.  He 
was  discharged  March  22, 
1862,  by
reason  of  the  regiment  being disbanded. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Fellowcraft 
Club  of  Detroit,  in  which  he  is  held  in 
high  esteem.

Personally, Mr.  Macleod  is probably as 
well  known  as  any salesman  in the State, 
owing  to  the  extent  of  territory  he has 
covered  and  the  length  of  time  he  has 
traveled.  He  is  everywhere  regarded  as 
a  man  of  the  highest 
integrity,  having 
never  been  accused  of  taking  an  undue 
advantage  of  a  competitor  or  presuming 
on  the 
ignorance  or  inexperience  of  a 
customer.  As  a  result  of  this  policy, 
rigidly  adhered  to,  he  possesses  a  large 
circle  of  steadfast  friends  and  no incon­
siderable  number  of  warm  admirers.

That  “ All the world’s a stage, ”   I grieve,
And  from  my  inmost  soul 
I  suffer  from  dyspepsia  when
My  wife  “ creates  a  roll.”

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Drugs—Chemicals

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

F.  W.  R.  P ebry, D etroit 
A. C.  Schumacher,  A nn  A rbor 
Geo. Gukdrum,  Ionia 
- 
L.  E. R eynolds, St.  Joseph 
H enry H eim,¡Saginaw   - 
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- 

- 

P resident, F.  W. R.  P er r y, D etroit.
Secretary, Geo. Gukdrum, Ionia.
T reasurer, A. C. Schumacher, A nn Arbor.

E xam ination  S essions.
S tar Islan d —J u n e  27 an d  28.
M arquette—A bout Sept.  1.
Lansing—N ot.  1 an d  2.

All m eetings w ill  begin  a t  9  o’clock  a. m. ex­
cept th e Star Island  m eeting,  w hich  begins  a t 8 
o'clock p. m.

MICHIGAN  STA TE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

P resident—A.  H.  Webber, Cadillac. 
Secretary—Chas.  Mann, D etroit. 
T reasurer—J ohn D.  Mu ir, G rand Rapids.

How  Pharmacy  Boards  Can  Protect 

the  Profession.

Botanically,  the  apprentice  is  known 
as ‘ ‘ Quantitas Un-non-ias 
chemically, 
just  a  trace  of  organic  matter,  and phar­
maceutically,  the  apprentice,  with  rare 
exceptions,  is  a  runaway  from  school 
who  smokes  cigarettes,  chews  gum,  and 
sometimes  sells  a  little  of  both.  When 
he  can  not  get  around 
it,  he  washes 
bottles,  makes  a  bluff  at  keeping  the 
store  clean,  and,  after  having  performed 
these  arduous  duties,  he  gets  all  the 
affidavits  he  can  scrape  up,  testifying 
that  he  has  had  two  years’  experience 
behind  the  prescription counter and  gets 
his  certifícate  as  assistant  pharmacist. 
He  is  now  admitted  to  the  mysteries  of 
the  soda  fountain,  practices  the  fine  art 
of  drawing  Monday  morning  eye-open­
ers, and  in  the  more  refined  pharmacies, 
more  progressive  beverages  like  “ kow- 
mist”   and  other  “ milk  shakes”   in  the 
most  approved  .fashion.  After  having 
done  this  for  a  term  of  three  years, 
perchance 
looking  on  when  the  boss 
puts  up  a  difficult  recipe,  like  putting  a 
label  on  a  bottle  of  some  proprietary 
nostrum,  the  assistant  can  prove  up  five 
years’  experience  in  the  aggregate,  the 
second 
lot  of  affidavits  enters  the 
records  and  the  registered  pharmacist  is 
ready.  Ready  for  what?  To  canvass 
the  wholesale  trade  for  foreclosed  mort­
gage  sales ;  and  if  he  has  a  few hundred 
dollars  the  wholesaler  generously  ac­
commodates  the  applicant  by  taking  bis 
cash  and—another  mortgage—and  when 
in  the  course  of  a  few  years  the  situa­
tion  is  ripe  for  another  foreclosure,  our 
new  competitor  has  sunk  bis  savings 
and  acquired  the  first  dose  of  real  genu­
ine  “ experience.”

job 

Is  this  an  exaggeration?  Alas,  I  fear 
it  is  too  truly a snap-shot picture.  What 
is  the  remedy?  None,  except  we  drug­
gists  help  ourselves  by  giving  more  at­
tention  to  the  kind  of  calibre  we take  in 
as  apprentices  and  by  demanding of  our 
various  boards  of  pharmacy  that  nobody 
be  accepted  as  an  apprentice  unless 
qualified.  Careful  observers  have  agreed 
long  ago  that  our  ranks  are  overcrowded 
and  that  unjustified—almost  senseless— 
competition  is  the  curse  of  our  trade. 
I 
am  almost  tempted  to  admit  that  phar­
macy  is  a professsion.  If we were trades­
men,  we  would  have  trades  unions,  and 
you  all  know  that  trades unions,  without 
any  legislative  machinery,  regulate even 
the  number  of  apprentices  each  boss 
is 
permitted  to  employ. 
It  is  true,  boards 
of  pharmacy,  as  well  as  colleges,  have 
their  requirements  for  preliminary  edu­
cation—mostly  honored 
in  the  breach. 
Look  over  the  crop  of  papers  handed 
in  to  our  examiners—may  they  be  for

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

incompetent, 

ignorant  boys 

the  board  or  college  examinations—look 
over  the  direction  labels  written  by  the 
average  clerk  who  passed  both  board 
and  college  examinations,  and  you  are 
sure  to  find  a  more  strained  relation 
existing  between  the  young  pharmacist 
and  orthography  and  grammar  than 
would  be  necessary  for  a  modern  decla­
ration  of  war.  We  pharmacists  pay  for 
the  administration of  the  pharmacy  law, 
and  we  have  a  perfect  right  to  demand 
of  our  board  that  it  protect  us  against 
insane  competition  produced  by  admit­
ting 
into 
the  ranks  of  pharmacy. 
If  I  bad  my 
way  about 
insist  that  the 
it,  I  would 
rules  governing  admission  to  our  ranks, 
in  relation  to  preliminary  education,  be 
most  stringently  enforced.  A young  man 
of  good  education,  with  good  practical 
training  and  a  thorough  theoretical 
knowedge  of  pharmacy, 
is  certainly 
bound  to  be  a  more  honorable  competi­
tor  than  the  ignorant  chap  who  embarks 
in  pharmacy  by  way  of  so-called  “ ex­
perience,”   only 
for  the  purpose  of 
slashing  around 
left  and  right  for  all 
there 
in  it,  not  to  forget  practice  at 
the  bar.  We  are  not  justified  in  com­
plaining  at  all  unless  we  take  the  rem­
edy 
in  hand  ourselves  by  most  careful 
scrutiny  of  all  the  qualifications  of  the 
young  men  we  adopt  as  apprentices,and 
by  insisting  that  our boards  enforce  the 
requirements  of  preliminary  education.
Glittering  generalities  on  paper  will 
not  fill  the  bill.  Considering  the  pres­
ent  state  of  pharmacy, 
it  requires  a 
courage  worthy  of  a  better  cause  to  em­
bark  in  pharmacy.  Let  us  be  honest  to 
the  young  men  who  offer  themselves  as 
apprentices.  Let  us  be  honest  in  the 
affidavits  that  we  give  to  these  young 
men  proving  up  experience,  and  soon 
the  conditions  will  change  for  the  bet­
ter.

is 

Primarily,  pharmacy  acts  may  have 
been  established  for  the  protection  of 
the  people,  but  I  am  frank to admit that 
I  have  no  use  whatever  for  a  pharmacy 
act—and  the  board  executing  it—that 
does  not  protect  the  pharmacists  who 
pay  for the  administration  of  the  act.
W.  B o d e  m a n n .

The  Drug  Market.

There  are  no  new  features  of  the  drug 
market.  With  the  single  exception  of 
opium,  everything 
in  the  drug  line  is 
steady.

Opium—On  account  of  excited  and 
large 
advancing  primary  market  and 
demand,  prices  have  advanced. 
The 
crop  is  reported  poor  quality  and  small.

Morphine—Unchanged.
Quinine—Is  steady  at  the  recent  de­

cline.

is  not  so 
Glycerine—The  demand 
large,  but  prices  are  firm. 
Indications 
are  for  higher  prices  during  the  coming 
season.

Balsams—Copaiba  has  declined,  on 
account  of  increased  stocks.  Peru  and 
tolu  are  unchanged.

Essential  Oils—Are  dull.  Bergamot 

and  anise  are  very  firm.

Roots—Gentian  has  advanced  abroad 
and  will  be  higher  here.  Golden  seal  is 
lower.

Seeds—California  yellow  mustard  has 
advanced,  with  higher  prices  in  pros­
pect.

Congressman  Eddy  is  so  conspicuous­
ly  plain  looking  that a beggar  who asked 
him  for  a  quarter 
in  Washington  the 
other  day,  and  got  it,  returned  it,  after 
a  good 
look  at  the  Congressman,  with 
the  remark: 
if  I ’ll 
take  your  money ;  go  and  buy  yourself 
a  square  meal  and  I'H  strike  some  one 
else."

“ I ’ll  be  hanged 

The  “ R ”  on  a  Prescription.

in 

Reminders  of  a  time  when  mortals 
were  supposed  to  have  close  intercourse 
with  the  gods  come  up  now  and  then, 
and  often 
the  most  unexpected 
places.  For  example,  there  are  several 
hundred  thousand  persons  in  the  coun­
try  who  daily  write  invocations  to  Jupi­
ter  or  Zeus.  Many  times  this  number 
give  of  their  substance  for  these  talis- 
manic  ciphers,  hoping  thereby  to  be  rid 
ill.  Now,  the  curious 
of  some  bodily 
part  of  this  latter-day  pagan  worship 
is 
that  those  who  make  the  sign  of  High 
Olympus’  king  have 
if  any, 
thought  of  what  they  are  doing,  and 
those  who  eagerly  seek 
the  “ parch­
ments”   never  suspect  that  they  are  tak­
ing  part 
in  a  medico-religious  rite  of 
the  Middle  Ages.  In  short,  the  “ priests 
of  Jupiter”   are  physicians  and  drug­
gists,  the  suppliants  their  patients  or 
customers,  and  the  parchments  ordinary 
prescriptions. 
left-hand  upper 
corner  of  every  physician's  prescription 
or  druggist’s  recipe  may  be  found  a 
letter  “ R ,”   having  a 
line  drawn  ob­
liquely  across  its  tail.

In  the 

little, 

in 

Not  one  person  in  ten  who  writes  a 
prescription  takes  the  trouble  to  recall 
the  significance  of  that 
little  stroke 
across  the  “ R ,”   and  not  one  in  a  thou­
sand  who  carries  a  prescription  to  the 
dispenser  knows  anything  at  all  as  to 
the  meaning  of  the  symbol.  Physicians’ 
and  druggists’  text-books  tell  us 
it 
stands  for  “ recipe,”   and  means  “ take 
of  the  following.”   Many  of  those  who 
write  and  dispense  prescriptions  will 
pause 
their  busy  moments  long 
enough  to  say  it  is  a  mere arbitrary sign 
and  means 
little,  if  anything;  but  the 
student  of  ancient  things  finds  in  that 
well-known  symbol  a  relic  of  the  days 
when  prescriptions  had  to  be  blessed  of 
the  gods  to  be  effective,  and  will  tell  us 
it  originally  meant  “ May  Jupiter  or 
Zeus  (or  some  other  god  who  happened 
to  be  not  overbusy  at  the  time)  bless 
this  prescription  and  bring  the  patient 
health. ”

line. 

Archeologists,  while  agreeing  as  to 
the  antiquity  of  this  medical  symbol  or 
talisman,  differ  somewhat  as to  its  exact 
original  meaning.  The  oldest  form  of 
the  letter  appears  to  have  been  a  figure 
like  the  English 
letter  “ Z ,”   with  the 
lower  horizontal  part  crossed  with  a 
sceptre-shaped 
This,  or  some 
modification  of  it,  has  been  from  time 
immemorial  the  symbol  of  the  planet 
Jupiter.  And  this  is  given  as  the  rea­
son  for  placing 
it  at  the  head  of  pre­
scriptions,  for  the  great  planet,  bearer 
of  the  name  of  the  father  of  life,  was 
believed 
in  olden  davs  to  have  a  pe­
culiar  and  powerful  defense  over  dis­
eases.  The  symbol  has  also  been  gen­
erally  described  as  simply  the  initial 
letter  for  Zeus,  the  Greek  name 
for 
Jupiter.  But this  only  accounts  for  part 
of  it,  as  it  makes  no  provision 
for  the 
sceptre-stroke,  an  object  which,  accom­
panied  or  entwined  by  a  serpent,  was 
prominent  in  representations  of  Jupiter.

Still  others  have  figured 
it  as  being 
made  up  of  the  initial  and  terminal  let­
ters  of  Zadakiel,  the  angel  and  spirit  of 
the  great  planet.  Some,  taking  it  to  be 
a  combination  of  “ R ”   and  “ I ,”   have 
held  that  it  might  be  derived  from  the 
name  of  Raphael,  angel  of  the  sun, 
while  one—Taylor—says : 
“ This  ideo­
gram  resolves  itself  into  an  arm  grasp­
ing  a  thunderbolt, ”   which  is  only  an­
other  way  of  ascribing  it  to  Jupiter.
The  Standing  of  the  Retail  Druggist. 
F ro m   th e  A m erican  D ruggist.

is 

The  position  occupied  by  the  retail 
in  the  community  varies,  of 
druggist 
course,  in  particular 
instances  accord­
ing  to  the  personal  worth  of  the  indi­
vidual  druggist.  On  the  whole,  how­
ever,  the  American  druggist  occupies  a 
satisfactory  position  in  the  community, 
particularly  among  the  smaller  towns. 
In  the  cities,  the accumulation  of  wealth 
and  development  of  a  leisure  class  has 
lines  of  social  cleavage  which 
created 
leave  the  druggist 
in  the  class  of  the 
small  shop-keeper,  lower  in  the  social 
scale  than  the  physician,  but  decidedly 
above  the  keeper  of  the  corner  grocery 
or  neighborhood  haberdashery of the res­
ident  section.

If  he  choose  wisely  a  lad  of 

Most  druggists  probably  realize  quite 
clearly  that  their  own  position  in  the 
community 
largely  dependent  on 
their  personal  characters  and  habits  of 
life,  although  probably  few  realize  the 
immense  power  on  the  future  of  phar­
macy  which  they  are  called  upon  to  ex­
ercise  when  selecting  what  we  still  term 
apprentices,  although  the  term  is  now 
scarcely  recognized. 
In the  selection  of 
a  boy  to  enter  his  drug  store  at  the  foot 
of  the  ladder  of  pharmacy,  every  drug­
gist  has  imposed  upon  him  a  most  seri­
ous  duty,  for  in  choosing  this  boy  he  is 
aiding  to  determine  the  future  of  phar­
macy. 
in­
telligence,  industry  and  refinement,  one 
accustomed  to  the  refining 
influences 
dominant  in  a  well-bred  family,  he  will 
have  done  well  for  his  calling. 
If,  on 
the  other  hand,  he  carelessly accepts the 
first  applicant,  he  will  have  done  an  ir­
reparable 
injury  to  the  future  of  phar­
macy  and  one  which  no  exercise  of 
courtesy,  sobriety  and 
integrity  on  the 
part  of  the  pharmacist  himself  can  ever 
quite  compensate  for.  We,  therefore, 
direct  the  particular  attention  of  our 
readers  to  this 
important  subject  and 
would 
impress  upon  them  the  serious 
character  of  the  responsibility  which 
they  must  assume  in  selecting  the young 
men  who  enter  pharmacy  and  who  will 
some  day  determine  the  standing  of 
the  pharmacists  in  the  community.

A  Drug  in  the  Market.

The doleful druggist  cries, 

“ This war with Spam 
Gives ine a pain,”
“ Because those who 
Buy from me do 
Not stop to  analyze,

That  I can have no hope 

“ But hate, you know,
The Spanish so 
Of selling now,
By any how,

My stock*of Castile soap.”

Like  a  Man.

“ Our  nation,”   the  orator  rehearsed 
before  the  mirror, 
forth  with 
bread  in  one  hand  and  the  sword  in  the 
other—”

“ went 

“ Isn’t  that  just  like  a  man?”   his wife 
interrupted  him  to  ask;  “ a  woman 
would  have  taken  a  hreadknife.”

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14
25
35

28
23® 
18® 
25
25®  30
12®  
20
8®  
10

Barosma.....................  
Cassia A cutifol, Tin-
nevelly .................... 
Cassia A cutifol,A lx. 
Salvia officinalis, 14s
and  14s.................... 
U ra D rsi...................... 
Gummi
®   65
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
®   45
Acacia,  2d  p ick ed .. 
®   35
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
®   28
A cacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po.................. 
80
60® 
14
12® 
Aloe, Barb. po.lS@20 
Aloe, C a p e __ po.  15 
12
®  
30
@ 
Aloe, Socotri-.po. 40 
A m m oniac................  
60
55® 
28
25® 
A ssafoetida__ po. 30 
55
50® 
B en z o ln u m ..............  
Catechu, Is................  
13
®  
Catechu,  J4s..............  
®  
14
C atechu, 14s..............  
®  
16
40®  43
Camphorse 
®   10
E u p h o rb iu m ..po.  35 
@  I  00
G albanum .................. 
Gamboge  p o ............. 
70
65® 
G uaiacum .......po. 25  @ 3 0
K ino............po.  S3.u0 
@ 3  00
M a s tic .......................  
@ 
60
40
@ 
M yrrh...............po.  45 
O pii.. .po. 35.20®5.40  3  85®  3  95
S hellac.......................  
25®  
35
Shellac,  b le ach ed ... 
40®  45
T ra g a c a n th ............... 
50® 
80

. 

Herba

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

A bsinthium ..oz.  pkg 
Eupatorium  .oz.  pkg 
Lobelia.........oz. pkg 
M ajo ru m __ oz.  pkg 
M entha Pip. .oz.  pkg 
M entha Yir. .oz.  pkg 
R u e.................oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V  oz. pkg 
Thym us,  Y. .oz. pkg 
rtagnesia.
Calcined, Pat............. 
C arbonate, P a t......... 
Carbonate, K.  A  M .. 
Carbonate, Jennings 
. 
A bsinthium ..............   3  25®  3  50
Amygdalae, D ulc__  
50
Amygdalae, Amarse .  8  00@  8  25
A nisf..........................   2  lf@   2  20
A uranti  C ortex.......   2  25®  2  40
B ergam ii....................  2  40®  2  50
85
C ajip u ti...................... 
C aryophylli............... 
80
n ed a r..........................  
65
@  2  75
C henopadli................ 
C innam onii...............  1  60®  1  70
50
C u ro n ella.................. 

55® 
60
20®  
22
20®  25
35®  36

80® 
75® 
35® 

Oleum

30® 

45® 

90® 

35©  

©  
50® 

Conium  M a c .......... 
50
C opaiba......................  i  15©   1  25
Cubebae..........................  
E xechthitos 
...........  1  00@  1  10
E rig ero n ....................  i  00©   1  10
G a u lth e ria ................   1  50®  1  60
G eranium ,  o u n c e ... 
75
Gossippii, Sem. g a l.. 
60
Hedeom a....................  1  on®  1  10
Ju n ip era............ 
...  1  50®   2 00
L a v en d u la.........  ... 
90®  2  00
L im onis......................  1  30®  1  50
M entha  P ip er...........  1  60@  2  20
M entha V erid ...........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae,  g a l...........  1  to®  1  25
M yreia,.......................  4 00®  4  50
O live........................... 
75®   3  00
Picis  L iq u id s........... 
10®  
12
©  
Picis L iquids, g a l... 
35
R ic in a .......................  
99®  1  10
Rosm arini.................. 
@  1  00
Rosae,  o u n ce______   6  50®  8  50
40® 
S u c c in i...................... 
45
S a b in a .....................  
90®  1  00
S antal.........................   2 50®  7  00
S assafras.................... 
55® 
60
65
@ 
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
T Iglii...........................  1  70®  1  80
T h y m e ....................... 
50
40® 
Thym e,  o p t..............  
@  1  60
T heobrom as............  
15® 
20
P otassium
Bl-Carb.......................  
18
.B ichrom ate..............  
15
Brom ide.....................  
55
15
C arb........................... 
C hlorate., po. 17@19c 
18
40
C yanide...................... 
Iodide.........................   2  60®  2  65
Potassa, B itart, pure 
30
Potassa,  B itart,  com 
15
Potass N itras, o p t... 
12
Potass N itras............. 
11
P russiate.................... 
25
Sulphate  po  ............. 
18

15© 
13@ 
50®  
12®  
16® 
35®  
28@ 
@ 
10@ 
io@ 
20®  
15®  

Radix
A conitvm ................  
20@ 
25
22®  
25
A lthse......................... 
10©  
A n c h u sa .................... 
12
Arum po.....................  
@ 
25
20® 
40
C a la m u s.................... 
G entians.........po  15 
12® 
15
16® 
18
G ly ch rrh iza.. ,pv. 15 
@ 
H ydrastis Canaden . 
50
@ 
H ydrastis Can.,  p o .. 
60
IS® 
H ellebore,Alba, p o .. 
20
Inula,  p o ...  ............  
15®  
20
Ipecac,  po..................2  80®  3  On
£5® 
Iris plox —  po35@38 
40
Jalapa,  p r.................. 
25® 
30
M aranta,  Ws............  
@ 
35
22®  
Podophyllum ,  po---- 
25
g “ e;  .  ........................ 
75®  1  00
75®   1  35
R h ei.p v ...................... 
Spigelia......................  
38
35®  
@ 
S anguinaria...po.  15 
13
S e rp en taria............... 
30® 
35
S en eg a.......................  
40® 
45
Sim ilax,officinalis H  @ 4 0
Sm ilax,  M.................. 
@ 
25
10® 
Seillae................. po.35 
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti- 
@ 
dus,  p o .................... 
25
25
@ 
V aleriana,E ng.po.30 
15© 
V aleriana,  G erm an. 
20
Z in g ib ers................ 
12®  
16
Zingiber j .................. 
25®  
27

Sem en

A nisum ...........po.  15 
@ 1 2
13® 
Apium  (graveleons) 
15
Bird, Is.......................  
4®  
6
10@ 
C arui...............po.  18 
12
Cardam on..................  1  25®  1  75
C oriandrum ..............  
8@ 
10
Cannabis  S ativa__  
4®   414
Cydonium .................. 
75@  1  00
io@ 
Chenopodium   ......... 
12
D iptenx  O d o rate...  2  00®  2  20
@ 
F ceniculum ............... 
jo
Fcenugreek, po .........  
7®  
9
4®  
Lini,  grd  .-.bbl.  3M 
iy t
L o b e lia .....................  
35®  
45
4®   4ti
P harlaris  C anarian. 
R.aPa ...........................  4H@ 
5
9®  
Sinapis A lbu............. 
10
Sinapis  N igra........... 
11®  
12
S p iritu s

F rum enti, W.  D. Co.  2  00©  2  50 
F rum enti,  D. F.  R ..  2  00®  2  25
F ru m e n ti..................  1  25®  1  50
Ju n ip eris Co.  O. T ..  1  65@  2  00
Ju n ip eris Co.............  1  75©   3  50
Saacharum   N.  E ....  1  90®  2  10
Spt.  Vini  G alli.........  1  75®   6 50
V ini O porto...............  1  25®  2 00
V ini  A lba..................  1  25®  2 00

Sponges 
F lorida sheeps’ wool
ca rriag e..................   2  50®  2  75
Nassau sheeps  wool
ca rriag e.................. 
®   2 00
V elvet ex tra  sheeps’ '
w ool, carriage....... 
@  1 25
E x tra yellow sheeps' 
@  1 00
wool,  ca rria g e .... 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriag e..................  
@  1 00
@ 7 5
Hard, for slate u se .. 
Yellow  R e e f ,  for 
slate  u se................  
@  1 40
S yrups
A c a c ia .......................  
A uranti C ortes......... 
Zingiber...................... 
Ipecac 
...........  
F e r r ilo d .......  
......... 
R hei A rom ................  
Sm ilax O fficinalis... 
S en eg a.......................  
.. 
SCillSB............... 

@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
@ 
50® 
@ 
Q  

50
50
50
60
50
50
60
50
50

. 

1  00

Scillse Co  ..................  
T o lu ta n ...................... 
P runus v irg ............... 
T inctures 
A conitum  N apellis R 
A conitum  N apellis F
A loes...........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rn ic a .......................
A ssafoetida..............
A trope  B elladonna
A uranti  C ortex.......
B enzoin......................
Benzoin Co..............
B aro sm a....................
Can tha rid es............
C ap sicu m ................
C ardam on..........
Cardam on  Co...........
C astor.........................
C atechu......................
C inchona....................
Cinchona  Co............
Colum ba 
..............
Cubeba........................
C assia  A cutifol.......
Ctssi'-  ac u tifo l Co 
UigLahs 
.. 
Rffect.....................
F erri Chloridu
G e n tia n .....................
G entian Co.......   .
G u ia c a ......................
G uiaca am m on.........
H yoscyam us............
Io d in e..................
Iodine, colorless.  .
K ino.........................
L obelia.....................
M yrrh........................
N ux  V om ica............
O p ii..........................   ’
Opii, cam phorated.
Opii,  deodorized__
Q u assia......................
R hatany...........
R hei.................. 
...;
S a n g u in a ria ............
S e rp en taria..............
S tro m o n iu m ............
T o lutan......................’
V a le ria n ....................
V eratrum  V e rid e .! 
Z ingiber.....................

.

@
@
@

1  00 
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50
50 
1  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
20

ntscellaneous 

35
38
3
4
50

^Sther, Spts.  Nit. 3 F  
30® 
./Ether, Spts.  Nit. 4 F 
34© 
A lum en......................  2J4@
A lumen, gro’d
po.
3®
A n n a tto .........
A ntim oni,  po ....... .
4®
40®
A ntim oni et PotassT
A n tip y rin ....... 
_
A n tife b rin .................„   @ 
15
A rgenti N itras, oz 
..  @  50
A rsenicum ............ 
10@ 
12
Balm G ilead  Bud 
..  38®  40
Bism uth  S.  N ...........1  40®  1  50
Calcium  Chlor.,  Is 
@ 9  
@ 
10 
Calcium  Chlor.,  54s.
12 
@ 
Calcium  Chlor.,  54s. 
C antharides,  Rus.po 
75
@ 
Capsici  Fructus, a f .
15
@ 
Capsici F ructus,  po 
15
@ 
Capsici FructusB .po 
®  
15
14
12® 
Caryophyllus..po.  15 
Carm ine, No. 40  ..
@  3  00 
Cera Alba, S.  A F . ..
50® 
55
Cera  F lav a...............
40®
C occus...................   ”
40 
Cassia F ru c tu s........ !
33 
10 
C entrarla....................
Cetaceum ............... ’
45 
Chloroform ...............
60®
63 
„  
Chloroform , squibbs 
1  15 
Chloral H y d C rst....  125®
1  50 
C hondrus................... 
20®
25 
Cinchonidine.P. & W 
25® 
35 
__
C inchonidine, Germ 
22®  
30
C ocaine.....................   3 30®  3  50
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
C reosotum .... 
G reta...............bbl.’ 75 
Creta, p rep ................  
Creta, precip........... 
Creta, R u b ra............  
C ro cu s.......................  
C u d b e a r................... ’ 
C u p riS u lp h .............. ] 
D extrine..................... 
E ther S ulph..............  
Em ery, all  num bers 
Em ery, p o ................ 
E rgota............po. 40
w jm m  
ITIalro  WVii frn
F lake  W h ite............  
G alla................... 
Gambier.  .........
G elatin, Cooper 
G elatin, F re n c h ....! 
G lassware, flint, box
Less  th a n   b o x __
60 
12 
G lue,  brow n............  
9®
13®
G lue,  w h ite............... 
25 
G ly ce rin s......... ........   15 54®
*32 
G rana  P aradisi  ___ 
@
15 
H um ulus.................... 
25®
55 
@ 
H ydraag Chlor  Mite 
85 
H ydraag Chlor  Cor. 
@ 
75 
@ 
H ydraag Ox R ub’m . 
95 
H ydraag A m m oniati 
1  10 
45®
55 
H ydraagU nguentum
H ydrargyrum ...........
70 
@65®
Ichthyobolla, A m ...
75
Indigo.....................
75®  1  00
Iodine, R esubi.........  3  60®  3  7Ö
@ 4 2 0
Iodoform .................... 
L upulin.  ..................  
@ 2   25
L ycopodium ............. 
40® 
45
65© 
75
Macis 
L iquor  A rsen et Ry-
25
@ 
d ra rg lo d ................ 
12
L iquorPotassA rsinit 
10® 
2® 
M agnesia,  S ulph.... 
3
@  1H
M agnesia, Sulph,bbl 
60
M annia. S.  F . . . . . . . .  
SO® 
.....  ©9 75
Menthol 

@
@
@
9®
@
is®
@
5®
10®
75®
@
@
3o@
12®
-
©
8®
_
35® 

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

19

Linseed, pure  ra w .. 
Linseed,  b o iled .......  
Neatsfoot, w inter str 
Spirits T urpentine.. 

42 
44 
(g 
33 

45
47
70
40

P ain ts  BBL. 

Red  V enetian...........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow  B er.. 
P utty, com m ercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P r i m e
A m erican...............
V erm ilion,  English.
Green, P a r is .............
G reen,  P eninsular..
Lead,  R ed..................
Lead, w h ite .............
W hiting, w hite Span 
W hiting,  gilders’... 
W hite, Paris A m er.. 
W hiting, Paris  Eng.
c liff.........................
U niversal Prepared.

V arnishes

LB
13£ 2  m  
1 *   2  @4 
13i  2  @3 
214  214 @3 
2V4  23£@3
13® 
15
75
70® 
16H®  2014 
16
13® 
6
514© 
6
514®  
©  
70
@ 
10 
@  1  00
@  1  40 
1  00®  1  15

No.  1  T urp Coach.
E xtra  T u rp ...........
Coach Body...........
No.  1  T urp F u ra .. 
E xtra Turk Dam ar
Jap. D ryer,N o.lTurp 

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

70® 

©

S inapis.......................
Sinapis,  o p t..............
Snuff,  Maccaboy, De
Voes.........................
Snuff, Scotch,DeVo’s
Soda B oras................
Soda Boras, po.........
1  @
Soda et Potass Tart
26®
Soda,  C arb................  1H@
Soda,  Bi-Carb
3® 
Soda,  A sh................
3V4®
Soda, Sulphas.........
2 
@ 
Spts. Cologne...........
@  2  60 
Spts.  E ther  C o.......
55
50® 
@ 9 00 
Spt  Myreia D om..
Spts.  Vini  Reet. b b l.
@  2  48 
Spts.  V ini Rect.Vibbi 
@  2  53 
Spts.  V ini Rect.lOgal 
@  2  56
w   _  „, 
Spts. V ini Beet.  5gal 
Strychnia, C rystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Subl...........  314®   4*4
Sulphur,  R o ll......... 
10
T am arin d s................  
T erebenth V enice... 
30
Theobromae..............  
42
V anilla......................  9  00@16  00
Zinci  S ulph..............  
8

3W@  4
8® 
28® 
40® 
7® 

Less 5c gal,  cash  10 days. 

Oils

W hale, w inter....... .. 
Lard,  e x tra ........... .. 
Lard, No.  1............

BBL. GAL.
70
45
40

70
40
35

C.  C o__

Morphia, S.P.A W ... 
M orphia,  S.N.Y.Q.A
M oschus Canton 
M yristica, No.  1. 
N ux Vomica,  po.20
Os  S epia....................
Pepsin  Saac, H. A P
D.  Co......................
Picis Liq. N .N .H gal
doz...................
Picis Liq., quarts 
Picis Liq., pints.
Pil H y d rarg .. .po.  8Ö 
P iper N ig ra .. ,po.  22
Piper  A lba__ po.  35
Pilx  Burgun  ...........
Plum bi  A cet............
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
Py rethrum , boxes H. 
& P.  D.  Co., d o z ...
Pyrethrum ,  p v .........
Quassias......................
Q uinia, S.  P. & W .. 
Q uinia,  S .G erm an ..
Q uinia, N .Y ...............
R ubia T in cto ru m ... 
Saecharum Laetis pv
S alacin.......................
Sanguis D raconis...
Sapo,  W ......................
Sapo, M.......................
Sapo, G.......................
Siedlitz  M ixture__

2  45®  2  70
2  45®  2  70 
40 
65®
80 
10 
@15®
18
@  1  00
@ 
2  00 
@ 
1  00 
@ 
85 
® 
50 
© 
18 
@ 
30
@ 
10® 
12
1  10®
1  20
1  25
®  
25@ 
30 
8® 
10
29® 
31
22© 
32 
29® 
34 
12® 
14 
20
18® 
3  00® 
3  10 
40® 
50
12® 
14 
10®
12
15
20  @  22

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AXLE  GREASE.
doz.  gross
A u ro ra............................55 
6  00
Castor O il........................60  7  00
D iam ond......................... 50  4  00
F razer’s ...........................75  9 00
IXL G olden, tin  boxes 75 
9  00
n ica, tin  boxes...............75  9  00
P aragon............................55  6 00

A bsolute.
^  ’b cans d o z ......... 

BAKING  POWDER.
.......  
Id  cans d o z ...................... 
lb can  d o z ......................1  50

45
85

Acme.

H  lb cans 3 doz.................... 
V& lb cans 3 doz.................... 
1 
B alk.......................................... 

45
75
lb cans 1 doz....................  1  00
10

A rctic.

El  P u rity .

6 oz. E ng. T um blers............. 

85

>4 lb cans per d o z............... 
75
Vi  lb cans per doz  .............   1  20
1 
lb  cans per d o z...............2  00

hom e.

w lb cans 4 doz c a se ......... 
Vi lb cans 4 doz c a se......... 
lb cans 2 doz case  .......  

35
55
90

Vi lb  cans, 4 doz ca se.......
Vi lb cans. 4 doz ca se.........

lb cans, 2 doz case.........  1

Jersey  Cream .

1 lb. cans,  per d o z................  2
9 oz. cans,  per doz...............   1
6 oz.  cans,  per doz...............

O ur Leader.

X  ib san s..............................
Vi lb  cans..............................
I 

lb cans...............................  I

P eerless.

Queen Flake.

1  lb. cans  .............................
3 oz., 6 doz. c a se...................  2
6 oz., 4 doz. case 
................ 3
9 oz., 4 doz. ca se...................   4
1 lb., 2 doz.  c a se................... 4
5 lb., 1 doz. ca se...................   9
A m erican ....................................
English.........................................

OATH  BRICK.

BLUING.

CONSIMD

S l u i M G

BROOnS.

CANDLES.

Sm all. 3 d o z.............................. 
40
Large, 2 d o z..............................  
75
No. I C arpet...........................   l  SO
No. 2 C arpet...........................  1  75
No. 3 Carpet...........................   1  50
No. 4 C arpet...........................  1  15
Parlor G e m ...........................   2  00
Common W hisk.......................  
Fancy W hisk............................  
W arehouse.............................2  25
8s.
1 6 s ............................................
Paraffine..................................
CANNED  GOODS, 
rtanitow oc  P eas.
Lakeside M arrow fat...........
Lakeside E.  J ........................
Lakeside, Cham,  of E n g .... 
Lakeside. Gem, E x.  Sifted. 
E x tra Sifted E arly J u n e ... 
Colum bia, 
p in ts................
Colum bia.  Vi  p in ts ..............

CATSUP.  *1

70
80

CHEESE

A c m e .............................   @
A m boy...........................   @
B u tte rn u t......................  @
Carson C ity ...................  @
Em blem ...*.....................  @
G em .................................   @
I d e a l...............................  @
Jersey  ............................  @
L enaw ee........................  @
Riverside........................  @
S pringdale....................   @
B ric k ...............................  @
E dam ...............................  @
L e id e n ............................  @
L im b u rg er....................   @
P ineapple................... 50  @
Sap  Sago........................  @
Balk  __
Red

C hicory.

CHOCOLATE. 

W alter B aker & C o .'s.
G erm an S w e et........................
Prem ium ...................................
B reakfast  Cocoa................

U niversal G rade.

50 books, any denom __   1  50
100 books, any denom __   2  50
500 books, any denom __ 11  50
1,000 books, any d enom __ 20 00

C redit  Check*.

12

A pples.

California  F ru its.

500, any one denom ’n .......   3 00
1000, any one denom ’n .......   5  00
2000, any one denom ’n .......   8  00
Steel p u n c h ...........................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOITESTIC 
Sundxied...........................   @ 5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  @  8 
A pricots.........................  @8V4
B lackberries.................
N ectarin es....................  @  7M
Peaches..........................   6V4@  7V4
P ears...............................  8  ©   7V4
P itted C herries............
Prunnelles.....................
R aspberries...................
100-120 25 lb  boxes...........  @
90-100 25 lb boxes...........  @  5V£
90 25 lb boxes...........  @
80 25 lb boxes...........  @  'Vf
70 25 lb boxes...........  @  7V4
60 25 lb boxes...........  @  8
50 25 lb b oxes..........   @  9
40 25 lb  boxes......... 
,@
r-ent less in 50 lb  cases 

California  P ru n as.

R aisins.

Lo jd o n  Layers 3 Crown. 
London Layers 4 Crown.
D eh esias...........................
Loose M uscatels 2 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 3 Crown 
Loose M uscatels 4 Crown 

1  45
2  00

4V4
5V4

FOREIGN.
C u rran ts.
P atras b b ls........................... @  7jf
@  7V4 
Vostizzas 50 lb cases
■ @ R Vf 
Cleaned, bulk  .........
■@ 83f
Cleaned, p ack ag es..
Peel.
Citron  A m erican 10 lb  bx  @13 
Lemon A m erican 10 lb bx  @12 
O range American 101b bs  @12
ttalsifid.
On dura & ib boxes...
S ultana  !  Crown... 
.
0
Sultana  2 <>owu
@
Sultana  Crown  .. 
.
@  7H
Sultana  •> < >own
@
<fhy 2
Sultana fi O own
Sultana package.......
@14
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages................ 1  65
B ulk, per 100  lb s ................ 4  (0
W alsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

8  @  «Vi

F arina.

G rits.

CLOTHES LINES.

Cotton, 40 ft, per  d o z.............1 00
Cotton, 50 ft,  per  d oz............. 1 20
Cotton, 60 ft,  per  d o z .............1 40
Cotton.  70 ft, per  d o t............. 1 60
Cotton. 80 ft, per  d oz............. 1 SO
Ju te, 60 ft.  per  d o z.................  80
Jute  72  ft 
...........  95

p c -  d o t... 

COCOA SHELLS.

20 lb   b ag s............................... 
Less  q u an tfty ........................ 
Pound  packages................... 

CREA fl  TARTAR.

5 and 10 lb. w ooden boxes..30-35

2 vi
3
4

COFFEE.

Green.
R io.

............................................  9
F air 
G o o d ..............................................10
P rim e ............................................ 11
Golden  .............................  
P eaberry  ..................................... 13

S an to s.

F air  .............................................. 12
Good  ............................................ 13
P rim e ............................................14
P eaberry  ..................................... 15

M exican  and  G uatam ala. 

F air
Good 
Fancy

. 

Prim e  . 
Milled

Ja v a

In te rio r........................................19
P rivate  G row th......................... 20
M andehllng..... ........................... 21

M ocha.
I m ita tio n ....................... ............ 20
A rabian  ...................
Roasted. 

Clark-Jewell-W ells Co.’s Brands
F ifth   A venue.......  
—   29
Jew ell’s  A rabian M ocha___29
W ells’ M ocha and  J a v a .....24
W eils’  P erfection  J a v a ........?4
S ancalbo ...................................21
B reakfast  B len d ..................  18
Valley City M aracaibo. 
Ideal "Blend................ 
14
Leader  B lend.......................... 12

... 18V£

Package.

for 

freight 

th e  local 

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
w hich 
th e  w holesale  dealer 
adds 
from 
New  York  to   your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
Invoice 
th e  am ount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from   the 
m arket  in  w hich  he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
w eight  of  package,  also M.c  a 
pound. 
In  60 lb.  cases th e list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above 
the 
price in full cases.
A rb u c k le ...........................  10  50
Je rse y ..................................   10  50
.-lrl  »ughiln’e  XXVY.
M cL aughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F .  M cLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

E x tract.
V alley City  Vs gross 
F elix  V4  gross.................... 
H um m el’s foil VS gross  .. 
H um m el’s tin  14  gross 
CLOTHES  PINS.
5 gross boxes

75
>  16
85
> 49
. ..  40

CONDENSED MILK.

95
1  15
4 doz in case.
1  20 G ail B orden  E ag le.
...........6  75
1  45 Crown 
. 6  25
.....................
1  75 D a isy ......................... ...........5  75
4  50
C h a m p io n ................
2 on M agnolia 
d  25
..............
1  25 C hallenge................... .............3 35

Dime 

...............
COUPON  BOOKS.

T radesm an G rade.
50 books, any denom ..
100 books, any d enom ..
500 books, any den o m ..
1.000 books,  any d en o m ..
Economic  G rade.
50 books, any denom ..
100 books, any den o m ..
500 books  any denom
1.000 books  nnv denom..
S uperior O rade.
50 books, any d en o m ..
100 books, any d en o m ..
500 books, any d enom ..
1.000 books, any d en o m .. 
Coupon P ass Books,

1  50
2  50 
11  50 
20  00
1  50
2  50 
II  50 
20  00
1  50
2  50 
11  50
.20  00
Can be m ade to represent any 
20 books.............................   1  00
50 books....................................   2 00
100 books  .............................   3  00
250 books....................................   C 25
500 books..................................... 10 00
1000b o o k s.............................17  50

denom ination from  310 dow n.

33£

P eas.

B eans.

H om iny.

P earl B arley.

24 2 lb. packages................. 2  25
100 lb.  kegs............................3  60
200 lb. b arrels....................... 6  90
B arrels  ................................. 2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drum s.  ........ 1  00
D ried L i m a .......... .............  
M edium H and  P ick e d ___ 1  30
M accaronl and V erm icelli.
D omestic,  10 lb. b o x .........  60
Im ported,  25 lb. b o x ..........2  50
Com m on................. ..............  2  00
C h e s te r.................................  2  25
E m pire  .................................  3 00
G reen,  b u .............................  95
Split,  p er lb .......................... 
Rolled A vena, 
b b l___ ...4  00
M onarch,  b b l.......................4  85
M onarch.  14  b b l.................2  10
M onarch, 90 lb  sacks..........1  90
Q uaker, c a ses....................  3 20
H uron, cases.........................1  75
4
G e rm a n ................................. 
E ast  In d ia ...........................  
3V4
F la k e ...................................  
3>4
3%
P e a rl.....................................  
A nchor, 40 1 lb. pkges__  
5
C racked, b u lk ...................... 
3$f
24 21b packages, a ..............2  50

Rolled  O ats.

Tapioca.

W heat.

Sago.

2V4

Salt  Fish.

H erring.

Cod.
Georges  cured .......
Georges  genuine..
@  5V4 
@ 6
Georges selected ..
S trips or  b ric k s...........  6  @  9
H olland w hite hoops, bbl. 
H olland  w hite hoop V4bbl 
2  75
H olland,  v<  b bl..................   1  30
H olland w h ite hoop. keg. 
SO
H olland w h ite hoop m chs 
85
N orw egian...........................
R ound 100  lb s ...........
1  30 
R ound  40 lb s ...........
13
Scaled..........................
rtackerei
15  01
Mess  100  lb s ...  .......
Mess  40 lb s .........................   6 30
Mess  10 lb s ..........................  1  65
1  35 
Mess  8  lbs.
13-25 
No.  1  100 lb s .................
5  6j 
No. 1  40 lb s ................
1  48 
No. 1  10 lb s .......   ........
1  20 
No. 1  8 lb s ..................
8  50 
No. 2 100 lb s ..................
3  70 
No. 2  40 lb s ..................
1 0° 
No. 2  10 lb s .................
83
No. 2  8 lb s ..................
No.  1  100  x v
No.  1  40 l b s ................
lo lb*..................
No.  1 
No.  1  8 lb s..................
Whitefish.

2  40 
68 
57
No.  1 No. 2 Fam
100 IDs 
.  ti 25
1  75
1  O'!
.  2  so
40 lbs 
7S
ii3
10 lbs. 
85
29
8 lbs.
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

5  75
2  6 )
73
61

T rout.

Jen n in g s’.

D.C. V anilla 
2 oz........ 1  20 
3 oz.........1  50 
4 oz..  ..  2  00 
6 oz........ 3  00 
No.  8 
4 00 
No.  10.  .6  00 
No.  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.  2 T.  80 
No.  3 T .l 25
No  4 T 1 50
Lem  Van. 

N orthrop B rand.
2 oz. T aper P a n e l..  75 
2 oz. O val................   75 
3 oz.  T aper P a n e l.. 1  35 
4 oz. T aper P an el.. 1  60 

Soudera*.

1 20
1 90
2 00
2 25

R egular
Grade
Lem on.

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

R egular
V anilla.

doz
2 oz...........1 20
4 oz.......... 2 40
XX  Grade 
Lem on.

.1  50 
.3  00
XX  Grade 
V anilla.

.1  75 
.3  50

tUCANj- 

, 

^ F lavoring  :jl!l

« a l
ftoYAL  M   !|

DAYT0N.0.M
....  :  I 
j/

... 
4 oz 
FLY  PA PER.

GUNPOWDER.
Rifle—D upont’s.

.................................4
Kegs 
H alf K egs..................................2
Q uarter K egs............................1
1 lb. ca h s...................................
K lb. c a n s .................................
Choke Bore—D upont’s.

Kegs  ..........................................4
H alf K egs................................. 2
Q uarter K egs............................1
1  lb.  ca n s..................................
Eagle Duck—D upont’s.
K egs............................................8
H alf K egs..................................4
Q u arter K egs...........................2
1  lb. c a n s..................................

Sage...........................................
H o p s ..........................................

M adras, 5  lb  boxes............
S.  F., 2. 3 and 5 lb  boxes__

HERBS.

INDIOO.

JELL Y .

io ib  p alls.................................
30 lb  p a ils.................................

LYE.
Condensed,  2  doz 
Condensed.  4  ilm

1  202 25
P u re ........................................ 
80
.................................  25
C alabria 
S icily..... ....................................  14
R oot............................................  10

LICORICE.

MINCE  M EAT.

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

HATCHES.

D iam ond M atch Co.’s brands.
No. 9 su lp h u r..........................1  65
A nchor  P a rlo r........................1  70
No. 2  H om e............................. 1  10
Export  P a rlo r........................4  00

nO LA SSES.
New O rleans.

11
B lack...................................... 
14
F a ir ........................................ 
G o o d ...................................... 
20
24
Fancy 
Open K ettle.........................25@35

............................... 
H alf-barrels 2e extra. 

MUSTARD.

Horse Radish,  1 d oz...............1  75
Horse R adish, 2 doz..............3  50
Bayle’s Celery,  1  doz............. 1  75

PIPE S.

Clay, No.  218..........................   1 70
Clay, T.  D. fu ll co u n t......... 
65
85
Cob, No. 3............................... 

POTASH.

4S cans in  case.

B abbitt’s .................................  4 Of-
P enna S alt  Co.’s .................. 
3 Of'

B arrels,  1.200  co u n t.............  5 25
H alf bbls, 600 co u n t.............  3 13

PICKLES.
H edium .

Sm all.

RICB.

D om estic.
Carolina h ea d ............  
 
 
C arolina  No.  1  ................  
.  5
C arolina  No. 2......................  4
B roken................................. 

tV4

35£

Im ported.

Japan,  N o ..l...................... 
6%
6
Japan,  No. 2 .................... 
Java, fancy  h e a d ................   6
 
Jav a, No.  1.....................  
53f
T ab le........................................

SALERATUS.

Packed 60  lbs. In  box.

C hurch’s ..................................  3 3l
D eland’s ................................. 3  15
D w ight’s ................................. 3  30
T aylor’s ................................... 3  00

SAL SODA.

G ranulated, b b ls................   75
G ranulated,  100 lb cases..  90
Lum p, bblSv  .......................   75
Lum p. 1451b kegs.................  

85

SEED S.

A n is e ................................. 
9
Canary, S m yrna................  
3 Vs
C a ra w a y ............................. 
8
Cardam on,  M alabar  .......  6i>
C eiery.......................................  11
Hemp,  R u ssian ................  
3M
M ixed  B ird .........................
M ustard,  w h ite ..................  
5
Poppy  ..................................... 
10
R a p e ......................................  
-¡V4
C uttle B one..........................  20

1  50
2  75 
2  40 
2  25 
2 50
25
55

.1  75 
.1  60

.3  25 
.4  00 
.3  75 
3  50 
.3  50 
.  32 
.  60 
.2  50

SALT.

Diam ond  C rystal. 

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  b o x e s.. 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags. 
Table, barrels,  40 7  lb bags. 
B utter,  barrels, 280 lb. bulk. 
B utter, barrels, 2014 lb bags.
B utter, sacks, 28lb s ..............
B utter, sacks, 58 lb s ..............

Comm on G rades.

100 3 lb sack s...........................
60 5-lb sack s...........................
28 10-lb s ack s.........................

W orcester.

lb.  ca rto n s..............
50  4 
115  2V41b. sacks..................
60  5 
lb. sack s..................
22 14 
lb.  sack s..................
30 10 
lb. sacks..................
28 lb.  linen sack s................
56 lb. linen sacks................
B ulk in  b arrels....................

W arsaw .

A shton.
H iggins.

56-lb dairy In  d rill b ag s... 
28-lb dairy  in d rill b a g s... 
58-lb dairy In  linen  sacks. 
56-lb dairy in linen  sacks 
56-lb  sacks...........................
G ranulated  F in e................
M edium  F in e ......................

S olar  Rock.
Comm on.

SOAP.

JAXOtN

Single box....................
5 box lots, delivered..
10 box lots, delivered..
(IAS.  S.  KIRKS CO.’S
A m erican F am ily, w rp’d... .2
Dom e...........................................2
C abinet...................................... 2
Savon..........................................2
W hite Russian
W hite Cloud,  la u n d ry ...  ..6 
W hite Cloud,  to ile t.............. 3  5
D usky D iam ond. 50  6  oz__ 2
D usky Diam ond, 50  8  oz__ 3
Blue India,  100 % lb ............... 3
K irkoline................................   3
E o s ....................... 
2

 

 

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.Gill

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

Single  b o x .................................3 80
5 box lo ts................................. 2 75
10 box lots.................................2 70
25 box lo ts...............................  2 60

A llen  B.  W risley’s Brands. 

Old Country, 80 l-!b. bars  ..2  75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb.  b ars__ 3  75
TTno,  100 Sf-lb. b a rs.................2  50
D oll, 100 10-oz.  b a rs............... 2  ¿5
Sapolio. kitchen, 3 d o z .......2  4u
Sapolio, hand, 3 d o z .............2  40
Boxes  ................   ..... .............5Vi
Kegs. English 
4%

Scouring.

SODA.

__  

SPICES.
W hole Sifted.

Allspice  .............................  
13
Cassia, C hina In m a ts__  
12
Cassia, B atavia in  b u n d ...  25
Cassia,  Saigon  in ro lls..........32
Cloves,  A m boyna................   14
Cloves, Z an zib ar..................   12
Mace,  B atav ia........................ 55
N utm egs, fan cy ..................   60
N utm egs, No.  1................  
.  50
N utm egs, No.  2.......................46
Pepper, Singapore, b la c k ... 11 
Pepper, Singapore, w h ite ... 12
Pepper,  sh o t............................ 12
A llspice  ....................................15
Cassia. B a ta v ia ....................  30
Cassia.  Saigon..  .................  40
Cloves, Z anzibar.....................14
G inger,  A frican .....................15
G inger,  C ochin.......................IS
Ginger,  J a m a ic a .................... 23
Mace,  B atav ia........................f5
M ustard..............................1?@18
N utm egs............................40@ 0
Pepper, Sing , b la c k ..............12
Pepper,  Sing.,  w h ite ............. 20
Pepper, C ayenne.....................20
15
Sage............... 

P u re  G round in B ulk.

SYRUPS
B arrels... 
18
.........................  
2J
H alf  b b ls.......................... 
P u re C sne.
F air  .......................  .. 
is
G o o d ....................................  
20
C h o ic e ..................................   25

Coro

 

Tanglefoot, per box............  
30
T anglefoot,  e’se of 10 b’x ’s  2  55
Tanglefoot, 5 case lo ts.......   2  50
Tanglefoot,  lOoaee lo ts__   2  40

SNUFF.

Scotch,  In b la d d ers...............  87
Maccaboy, in ja rs ..................   35
F rench Rappee, In  ja rs .......   43

Oval bottle,  w ith  corkscrew. 
the

th e  world 

fo r 

in 

Best 

Barrels, 2,400 co u n t......... 
H alf bbls  1,200 co u n t__  

6  35
3  75

STARCH.

R ube B ros. Co.’s B rands.

D ouble Eag’es, 6 Mzes.$55@70  00
Gen. Maoeo, 5 sizes__   55@TU  00
Mr. Thom as.................. 
35 00
35  00
Cuban H and  M ade__  
35  00
Crown  F iv e .................. 
Sir  W illiam .................. 
85  00
35  oo
Cluo  F iv e...................... 
35 00
Gens. G rant and Lee.. 
35  00
L ittle Ft g g y ................  
Signal  F iv e .................. 
35  ( 0
K nights of P ythias__  
35  00
Key  West P erfects, 2 sz  55g60 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

Lea & P errin ’s,  la rg e...  4  75 
Lea &  P errin ’s, sm all...  2  75
H alford,  la rg e...................   3 75
H alford sm all...................... 2  25
Salad  Dressing, large.  .. .4  55 
Salad  Dressing, sm all.......2  65

VINEGAR.

Malt W hite W ine, 40 grain.  ..  6 
Malt W hite  W ine,80 g ra in ....  9
Pure  C ider...................................lu
Pure Cider,  L eroux.................. 11
P ure Cider, G enessee................11

W ashing P ow der.

K ingsiord’s  C ora.

íO t-lb packages. 
20 1  lb packages.

«Q

K ingston]’*  S ilver  Glose.
40 1-lb packages......................
0-lb  boxes  .............................  7

D iam ond.

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

Common  Corn.
20 1 lb.  packages..............
401 lb.  packages..............

Common Gloss.

!-lb  packages.......
3-lb  packages.......
6-lb  p a c k a g e s ___
40 and 50 lb boxes. 
Barrels 
.............

STOVE POLISH.

4?i

4H
3*4

m s

00 12 oz pkgs................
WICKING.
No. 0, per gross.............
No. 1, per gross.............
No. 2, per gross.  .........
No. 3, per gross.............

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

Fish and  Oysters

SUGAR.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices on sugars,  to  w hich  the 
w holesale dealer adds th e local 
freight from  New  York  to your 
shipping  point,  giving  you 
credit  on  th e  invoice  fo r  the 
am ount  o f  freight  buyer  pays 
from   the  m arket  in   w hich  he 
purchases to his shipping point, 
including  20  pounds  fo r  the 
w eight of the barrel.
D om ino.................................
Cut  L oaf............................... ..5  88
C rushed................................. ..5  88
C u b e s.................................... ..5  61
Pow dered  ........................... ..5  63
XXXX  Pow dered.............. . .5  69
G ranulated in bb ls............. ..5  38
G ranulated in  bags........... . .5  38
F ine G ran u lated ................ ..5  38
E x tra F ine G ran u lated ... . .5  50
E x tra Coarse G ranulated. . .5 5U
M ould  A ...............................
.5  63
Diam ond  Confec.  A ......... . .5  38
ñ  25
Confec.  S tandard A ...........
No.  1..................................... . .5  00
No  2 ..................................... . .5  00
No.  3..................................... ..5  00
No.  4 .................................... . .5  CO
No.  5.................................... ..4  94
No.  6.................................... ..4  88
No.  7 .................................... ..4  81
No.  8.................................... .. 4  75
No.  9.................................... . .4  6 .J
No.  10.................................... . .4  63
No.  11.................................... ..4  63
No.  12.................................... ..  4  50
No.  13...............................
. .4  44
No.  14.................................... . .4  38
No.  15....................................
.4  31
No.  16.................................... . .4  25

TOBACCOS.

C igars.

Clark-Jewell-W ells Co.'s brand. 
New  B rick.............................33  00

H. & F. D rug Co.’s brand. 

Q u in te tte ...............................35  00

G. J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

PMm

S. C.  W ...................................33  00
M ichigan Cigar Co.’s brand.

U reU n k le!

U re Tinkle.............................35  00

F resh F ish.

W hitefish ..................
T r o u t.........................
Black Bass................   8
H a lib u t......................
Ciscoes or H errin g ..
Bluefish......................
Live  L obster...........
Boiled L obster.........
Cod 
.........................
H addock....................
No.  1  P ickerel.........
P ik e.............................
P erch ..........................
Smoked W hite.........
Red S napper.............
Col  River  Salm on.. 
M ackerel 
................  

Per lb.
© 8
© 8
© 10
© 12
© 4
© io
© 16
© 18
© 10
© 8
© 7
© 6
© 2)4
© 8
© 10
„
© 12
©
© 20

O y sters in Cans

F. H.  C ounts.............

© 40

Shell  Goods.

Oysters, tier  10 0 .........1  25© 1
~  a rm   m r   ICO 

onr»

Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappou  &  Bertscb  L eather 
Co.,  100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follow s:

Hides.

Green No.  1..................
Green No. 2...................
Cured No.  1...................
C ured No. 2...................
C alfskins,  green No.  1 
C alfskins,  green  No. 2 
C alfskins, cured No.  1 
C alfskins, cured No.  2

@ 8 
©10 
@  9 
@  9)4 
@  8 
@11 
@  944

Pelt*.

Pelts,  ea ch ..................
Tallow .
No.  1..............................
No. 2..............................

50@1  00

©   3
©   2

W ool.

W ashed, fine  .............
©IS
W ashed, m edium ......
©23
1  nw ashed, fine.......... 11  @13
U nwashed, m edium  . 16  @18

Oils.
B arrel*.
E o c e n e ........................
@11)4
XXX W .W .M ich.Hdlt
©   8 Sí
W  W M ichigan...........
©   SM
D iam ond  W hite.........
D „ S. G as.....................
@  8)4
Deo.  N a p th a ...............
©   7
C y lin d e r...................... 25  ©34
E ngine  ........................ 11  ©21
B  ark , w i n t e r ...........
®   8

Provisions.

Swift  A  Company  quote  as 

follows:

21

Crockery and

Glassware.

12  00 
12  25 
12 25

6«

AKRON  STONEWARE 

B utter*,

40

44 gal.,  per doz.............
1  to 0 gal., per g a l............
8 gal., ea ch .............. .........
10 gal., ea ch .........................
12 gal.,  ea ch ........................
15 gal.  m eat-tubs, e a ch ....
90
20 gal. m eat-tubs, each ___1  20
25 gal. m eat tubs, ea ch . . . . 2  25
30 gal. m eat-tubs, ea ch __ B  7 1

Churn*.

M ICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
S tick  C andy.

S tan d ard .................... 
S tandard H.  H . 
S tandard Tw ist 
C ut  L oaf...........
Jum bo, 321b  ...
E x tra  H. H .......
Boston  C ream .

bbls.  pails

6)4©  7
0)4©  7
@ 8 
© 8% 
cases 
© 644 
©   844 
©

M ixed C andy.

C om petition..............
S tan d ard ....................
C onserve....................
R o y a l..................  
[
R ibbon.......
B ro k e n ................ ’..
Cut  L oaf...............
English  R ock...........
K indergarten .......
F rench  C ream __
D andy P a n ................
Valley C ream ...........

F ancy—In B ulk.

Lozenges, p la in .......
Lozenges,  p rin ted ..
Choc.  D rops............
Choc.  M onum entais
Gum  D rops..............
Moss  D rops__
Sour D rops...............
Im p e rials............."

©  644 
©   7 
©   744 
@  744
©   844
@ 844 
@  844 © 8 
©   844 
@  844 
©10 
©12

©   844 
©   9 
©14 
©11 
© 6 
© 8 
©   9 
©   9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxes

Lemon  D rops...........
Sour  D rops.............
P epperm int Drops. 
Chocolate Drops  ...
H.  M. Choc.  D rops..
Gum  D rops...........
Licorice D rops...." .
A. B. Licorice Drops 
Lozenges,  p la in .... 
Lozenges,  p rin ted ..
Im p e rials.........
M ottoes.............|
Cream  B a r.....’.’. . ’’
M olasses B a r .......
H and Made Creams.
P lain  C ream s...........
D ecorated Creams 
String R o ck ....
B u rn t A lm onds. 
W intergreen Berries
C aram els.
No.  1 w rapped, 2  lb.
b o x e s ......................
No. 1 w rapped, 3  ib.
boxes  ....................
No. 2 w rapped, 2  ib. 
b o x e s ...........

...1   25

Fruits.
O range*.

Cal.  Seedlings . 
M edt S w e e ts...

Lem ons. 
S trictly choice  360s.. 
Strictly choice  300s . 
Fancy  360s or 300s...
Ex. Fancy  300s.........
E x.F ancy  360s.........
Jum bo cases-M aiorls
B ananas.

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

©35
©50

@2 50 
@3 00

@4  75 
@4 50 
@5  00 
@5  50 
@5 50 
@ 6  00

M edium  bunches. 
Large b unches__

1  25 
50
1  75  @2  00

Foreign Dried  F ruit*. 

F igs.

Choice, 10 lb boxes.. 
E xtra  choice,  14  lb
„ boxes..................  
ra n c y , 1 2 lb  boxes.. 
Im perial Mikados, 18
lb boxes.................. 
Pulled, 6 lb bo x es... 
N aturals,  in  bags... 

D ates.

Fards in  10  lb  boxes 
F ards  in  60 lb  cases 
Persians,  G. M’s .......  
lb  cases,  new ......... 
Sairs,  601b  cases__  
Nuts.
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Iv aca.........
A lmonds,  C alifornia
soft  sh elled .............
Brazils n e w ................
F ilberts  .....................
W alnuts, Grenobles  . 
W alnuts,  C alif No.  1 
W alnuts,  so ft  shellec
C a lif.........................
Table N uts,  fan cy ... 
Table N uts,  choice..
Pecans,  Med..............
Pecans,  Ex. L arge...
Pecans,  Jum b o s........
H iekory  N uts per bu
Ohio, n ew ..................
Cocoanuts,  fu ll  sacks

P ean u ts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
R oasted......................
Choice, H. P., E xtras. 
Choice, H.  P.,  E xtras, 
R oasted  ....................

©
@
@ 
(»
@ 
13
©   644

14

©   8
@  6
©   5
@ 6
©   444

@13
@11
@13 
© 8 
@11 
@13 
@10

@10 
@ 9 
@ 8 
@10 
@12
@ 1  60 
@4  00

@  744
©   744 
©   444
544

W heat.

W h eat..................................... 
W in ter  W heat  Flour. 

75

Local  Brands.

P a te n ts ..................................   5  go
Second  P a te n t................. "   5  10
S traig h t.................................  4 9 ,.
C lear.................................... . .  4  40
G raham   ................................   4  75
B u ck w h eat.................. 
4  00
R y e ....................................‘  3  75
S ubject to  usual  cash  dis-
count.
F lour in  bbls., 25c per bbl. ad- 
ditional.
B all-B arnhart-Putm an’s Brand
D iam ond, }£s........................  5  oo
D iam ond, 44s ...........................5  00
D iam ond, 44s........................... 5  00

W orden G rocer Co.'s  Brand.

Q uaker,  44s .....................
Q uaker,  44s ............................
Q uaker,  44s............................
S pring  W heat  F lour. 

Clark-Jew ell W ells Co.’s Brand.
P illsbury’s  Best  44s ... 
540
P illsbury’s  Best 44s ............   5  30
P illsbury’s Best  t$s............   5  20
P illsbury’s Best  44s paper .  5  20 
Pillsbury’s Best  44s paper..  5  20
Ball  B arnhart P utm an’s Brand.

. 

■

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w
t

| fl
ft  \
t • . 5 \4pFT* .«1 • pi 
'¿ ¿  »A-tfMt'if/*'  .  jlU

I 2 e 

'

D uluth  Im perial.  44s ..................5 25
D ulutb  Im perial,  44s ..........  5  15
D uluth  Im perial,  44s................   5 05
Lemon A  W heeler Co.’s  B rand.
Gold M edal  44s .....................  5  2>
Gold Medal 44s ..................   .  5  15
Gold M edal  44s......................5  05
P arisian,  44s ..........................  5  25
P arisian, 44s...........................5  15
P arisian.  44s...........................  5  05

Olney <fc J u d s o n ’s B rand.

Ceresota,  44s ...............................   5 25
Ceresota, 44s ...............................   5 15
Ceresota,  44s ...............................  5 ¿5

W orden G rocer Co.’s B rand.
Laurel,  44s .............................
Laurel,  44s ......................’.. ’
Laurel,  44s ........................

M eal.

B o lte d ......................... 
2  00
G ra n u la te d ........................       2  25

 

Feed and M iilstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened  ...  16  50
No.  1 Corn and  O ats.......  
15  5 >
U nbolted Corn  Meal  ..........]4  50
W inter W heat  B ran ............13  00
W inter W heat  M iddlings. .14  50
Screenings................................... 15 00

Corn.

Car  lo ts.................................. 37
Less than  ca r  lo ts...........  .  39

O ats.

Car  lo ts.................................. 32
Carlots, clip p ed .........  . . .   35
Less th a n   car  lo ts .............. 37

H ay.

No. 1 Tim othy  a rlo ts.........  9  00
No. 1 Tim othy,  ton lo ts ___ 10  00

Fresh  Meats.

Beef.

C a rc a ss.........................   7  ©   744
F o re q u a rte rs..............   5fc@  644
H ind  q u arters.............  85£@  9
Loins  No.  3..................  9  @12
R ibs................................   9  @12
R o u n d s .........................   744©   844
C h u c k s ................ .. 
6  ©   7
Plates  ..........................   344©  4

P ork.

D ressed.........................   4?g@  5
L o in s ............................. 
©   744
Shoulders.....................  
@ 6
Leaf L a rd ......................  644©

M utton.

C a rc a ss .........................  7  @ 8
Spring L am bs.............. 9  @12

Carcass 

Veal.

........................  7  @ 8

B arreled  P ork.

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

Mess 
Back  .....................
Clear  back 
S h o rtcu t  . . . .
p ig ...........................
Bean  ................................
..................
Fam ily 

Dry S alt  Meat*.
B ellies..............................
Briskets  ................ . . . . . .
E xtra  sh o rts................

Sm oked  H eats.
Hams,  12 lb  average  .
..
Hams,  14 lb  average 
Hams,  161b  average__
Hams, 20 lb  average  .
Ham dried beef  .
Shoulders  (N.  Y. cut)
Bacon,  cle a r................
C alifornia  h a m s..
Boneless ham s...........
Cooked  h am ................io@j3
C om pound................
K ettle........................
jji i*5 T u b s.......... advance
°o lb T u b s.......... advance
in i k b “ ? ...........advance
7*} }£  na !,ls ...........advance
*9 
P ails...........advance
j?J|>Pai Is...........advance
3 lb P alls...........advance

In Tierces.

L ards. 

S ausages.

B o lo g n a ............
L iv er.....................
F ran k fo rt...
P o r k .............. ...;  ..............
Blood 
................................
T o n g u e ....... ......................
Head  cheese.
_  
Beef.
E x tra  M ess......... 
Boneless 
..............
R u m p ..................11;
K its,  15 lb s __
44  bbls, 40l b s .................
44  bbls, 80 lb s......... 
Tripe.
Kite,  15 lb s .....................
44  bbls, 40 lb s..................
44  bbls, 80 lb s .........

P ig s’ F eet.

i

<

p o r k ..........Caalaga:
Beef  ro u n d s....................
Beef  m iddles__
S h e e p .....................

B utterine.

Rolls,  d a iry ............
Solid,  dairy
Rolls,  c re a m e ry ..............
Solid,  c re a m e ry ...........
Canned  M eats.
Corned  beef,  2  1 b ... 
Corned  beef,  14  lb ... 
R oast  beef,  2  lb.
Potted  ham , 
44s.
44s.
P otted  ham , 
Deviled ham , 
44s.
Deviled ham , 
44s.
Potted  tongue  44s.
tongue  44s.
P otted 
Crackers.

844134*
644
@9
044
9

%

644

10
944
1344

;
i;

The  N ational  B iscuit  Co 

quotes as follow s:
B u tter.

Seym our X X X ............. 
644
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  7
Fam ily X XX .................... 
7
Fam ily XXX, 3 lb  carton . 
TV,
Salted XXX  .........................   7
Salted  XXX, 3 ib carton  ..  744

Soda.

Soda  XXX  ........................ 
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  c a rto n ..
Soda,  C ity.........................
Z ephyrette................ 
'
Long Island  W afers...........  11
L.  I.  W afers,  1 lb carton

7

O yster.

Square Oyster, X X X ...........  7
Sq. Oys. XXX.  t  lb  carton.  8
F arina Oyster,  XXX...........  7
SW EET  GOODS—B oxes.
A n im a ls ................................   <044
B ent’s Cold W ater...........  ,  14
Belle R o se.............................  g
Cocoanut  T affy................ ’.  12
Coffee C akes.....  
...............  i,~
Frosted H oney......................  1244
G raham  Crackers  ..............   g
G inger Snaps, X X X round.  744 
G inger Snaps, XXX  c ity ...  744 
Gin. Sups,XXX hom e m ade  744 
Gin. Sups,XXX scalloped..  744
G inger G em s.........................   3
Im p e rials..............................  
s
Jum nles,  H oney..................  1144
Molasses  C akes....................  g
M arshmallow  ......................  15
M arshm allow   C ream s.......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade  .......  9
Pretzelettes, L ittle German  7
Sugar  C ake...........................  8
S u lta n a s................................   1244
Sears’ L u n ch .
8 
Sugar  S quares..............
9 
V anilla  W afers 
...........
14 
Pecan W afers..................
1544 
M ixed P ic n ic ..................
1144 
Cream Ju m b le s ..............
12 
Boston G inger  N u ts.......
944 
Pineapple Glace..............
16 
P enny C akes....................
844 
M arshmallow  W alnuts.
16
Belle Isle P icn ic................  
1644

2 to 6 gal., per g a l..............  
Churn D ashers,  per doz... 

M ilkpans.

44 gal.  Hat or rd.  bot., doz.
1  gal.  flat or rd. bot., each 
Fine Glazed Milkpans 
44 gal. flat or rd.  bot., doz 
1 gal.  flat or rd.  bot., each 

~
85

4«
GO
544 

Stew pans.

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

Ju g s.

H gal., per d o z....................  40
44 gal.,  per d o z.....................  42
1 to 5 gal.,  per g al..............  

544

Tom ato Ju g s.

44 gal., per doz....................  42
1 gal., e a c h .........................  
507
Corks for 44 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks fo r  1 gal., per doz..  30 
P reserve J a rs  and Cover*.
44 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1  gal., stone cover, doz. ..I  00 

Sealing W ax.

2

5 lbs. in package, per lb ... 
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0  S u n .............................
35 
No.  1  S un ............................ '
40 
No.  2  S un......................... ’ ’
60 
T u b u lar.........................    " ‘'
50 
Security, No.  1...............]
60 
Security, No. 2.  .......... . . "
80 
N utm eg  ..........................
50 
C lim ax...................................[_ _ _
1  25
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Com m on.
Per box of 6 doz.
No.  0  S u n ..............................   1  32
No.  1  S un...............................  1  43
No.  2  S u n ..  ................ 
"   2 18
F irs t  Q uality.

No.  0 Sun, 
No. 
1  Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

w rapped and  lab eled __   2  10
w rapped and  labeled  ...  2  25 
w rapped and  labeled.  ..  3  25 

crim p 
crim p 
crim p 

top,
top,
top,

XXX F lin t.
crim p 
crim p 
crim p 

No.  0 Sun, 
No. 
1  Sun, 
No.  2 Sun, 

w rapped and  lab eled __   2  55
w rapped and  labeled.  ..  2  75 
w rapped and  la b e le d ....  3  75 

top,
top,
top,

CHIMNEYS—P earl  Top.

No.  1  Sun,  w rapped  and
labeled.................................3  70
No  2  Sun,  w rapped  and
labeled.................................  4  70
No.  2 Hinge,  w rapped  and
lab eled ............ ....................  4  gg
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”
for Globe Lam es..............  
80

La  Baatie.

No.  1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ...................................... 
90
No.  2  Sun,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ......................................  1  15
No.  1 Crim p, per d o z...........  1  35
.  1  60 
No. 2 Crimp, per doz.. 

. 

R ochester.

No.  1, Lime  (65c doz)......... 3  50
No. 2,  Lime  (70c doz)__ _  4  00
No. 2, F lin t (80c  d o z).........  4  70

E lectric.

OIL  CANS. 

No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  .......   4  00
No. 2, F lin t  (80c doz). . . . .   4  40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans w ith  sp o u t..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron w ith  spout.  1  55
2 gal galv Iron w ith  spout.  2  15
3 gal galv Iron w ith spout.  3  5u 
5 gal galv Iron w ith  spout.  4  75 
3 gal galv Iron w ith faucet  4  75 
5 gal galv iron w ith  faucet  5  25
5 gal Tilting ca n s................ 8  00
5 gal galv Iron  N a c e fa s....  9  00
5 gal R apid steady « ream .  9  00 
5 gal E ureka non overflow 10  50
3 gal Home R u le.....  
....... 10  50
5 gal Home R ule.................. 12  00
5 gal  P irate  K ing................  9  50

Pum p  Cao*.

LANTERNS.

No.  0 T u b u lar......................  4  20
No.  I B   T u b u lar....... .  ...  6  25
No.  13 T ubular D ash...........6  50
No.  1 Tub., glass fo u n t....  7  00
No.  12  Tubular, side lam p. 14  0C
No.  3 S treet  L am p.............  3  75

LANTERN  GLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents............. 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases2 doz.
each,  box  15  cen ts...........  
45
No.  0 T abular,  bbls  5 doz.
each, bbl 35!........................ 
35
No. 0 T ubular,  bull's  eye,
cases 1 doz. e a c h ............1  25

LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................. 
No.  I per gross......................  
No. 2 per gross  ....................  
No. 3 per gross......................  
M am m oth...........  
................. 

15
21
30
48
70

22

M ICHIGAN  TRA D ESM A N

RIVAL  STO RES.

How  a  Woman  Won  a  Victory  Over 

a  Man.

New  York,  June  20—Mrs.  Schulinger, 
widow,  and proprietor  of  the  deicatessen 
store  at  No.  116  East  Houston  street,  is 
in  the  enjoyment  of  victory,  and  E. 
Granitz  and  R.  Granitz,  his  wife,  joint 
proprietors  of  the  delicatessen  store  at 
No.  88, 
in  the  next  -block,  although 
preserving  outwardly  their  usual  front, 
are  suffering  the  pangs of defeat.  When­
ever  Mrs.  Rosa  Granitz  or  her  husband 
catches  sight  of  Mrs.  Schulinger  or  the 
dapper  young  man  who  assists  Mrs. 
Schulinger  in  the  conduct  of  the  busi­
ness  at  No.  116  there  immediately  en­
sue  a  stiffening  of  muscles  and a mettle­
someness  of  bearing,  and  the  Granitz 
eyes  take  on  that  stony,  unseeing 
look 
that  is  the  way  with  eyes  on  occasions. 
As  for  Mrs.  Schulinger,  that  frail  and 
careworn  widow—mother  of  five  as  like­
ly  young  East  Siders  as  there  are  on  the 
block—she  goes  on  her  way  in  the  full 
serenity  of  conscious  rectitude,  with 
only  a  slight  suffusion  of  pink  in  her 
worn  cheeks,  and  perhaps  a  nervous 
tightening  on  the  strings  of  the  knitting 
or  shopping  bag  that  she  carries. 
If  all 
feeling  and  bitterness  now 
the  hard 
blockaded  in  the  Granitz  breast  should 
be 
loose  against  the  widow  the  re­
sult  might  make  history 
in  the  neigh­
borhood,  but,  as  it  is,  the  mother  of  the 
tive  littie  Schulmgers  has  right  and  the 
law  on  her  side,  and  public  sentiment 
is  with  her.

let 

large,  even 

It  was  in  the  last  month  of 

i8q7  that 
the  widow,  having  accumulated,  by  un­
flagging  industry  at  jobwork,  housework 
and  sewing,  the  sum  of  $500  (a  sum 
representing  years  of  labor  and  self-de­
nial,  because  of  the  five  small  Schulin- 
gers  to  be cared  for),  realized the height 
of  her desires  and  became the proprietor 
of  a  delicatessen  store.  The  deceased 
Schulinger  had  been  manager  of  such  a 
little  shop  once,  and  she  had  gained  in­
sight  into  the  business.  Just  as  her  sav­
ings  had  reached  the  round,  practicable 
sum  of  S500,  and  she  was  casting  about 
for  a  desirable  stand  to  purchase,  E. 
Granitz,  who  kept  the  Old  Homestead 
delicatessen  store,  which  she  had 
long 
patronized  (on  occasions  when  she  had 
not time  to  cook  the meals),  wanted  to 
sell  out.  The  Old  Homestead  would 
be  a  beautiful  stand.  The  store  was 
small,  but,  in  the  widow’s' eyes,  it  was 
full 
spacious.  The  two 
dark  back  rooms  would  make  excellent 
living  quarters  for  her  brood,  and  she 
would  get  her husband’s  nephew  to help 
in  the  shop.  A  business  so  long  estab­
lished  could not fail  to  be  lucrative.  All 
the  neighborhood  dealt  there,  had  dealt 
there  for  years,  and  would  go  on  deal­
ing  there  if  she  kept  the  store  just  as 
nice,  and  she  and  Lambert  together 
would  work  hard  to  please  the  people 
and  keep  up  the  business.  After  mature 
consideration  and  much  consultation 
with  friendly  advisers—her  well-to-do 
aunt,  the  plumber’s  widow,  who  lived 
up  in  Harlem,  Mr.  Schnieker,  the  to­
bacco  and  snuff  dealer,  who  had  been 
her  husband's  great  friend,  and  Mrs. 
Renderman,  who  kept  the  thread  and 
needle  and  pattern  store  where  she  had 
frequently  found  work—the  widow  de­
cided  to  invest  her  little  all  and  buy  out 
the  delicatessen  business  at  the  Old 
Homestead.  E.  Granitz  agreed  not to 
sta rt  a  similar  business  in  the  neighbor- 
hoed  or  anywhere  where  it  would  be 
likely  to 
interfere  with  the  widow’s 
custom.

The deal  being closed,Mrs.  Schulinger 
found,  somewhat  to  her  regret,  that  the 
sign  of  the  Old  Homestead  was  not 
in­
cluded  in  the  property.  That  sign  Mr. 
Granitz  prized,  and  would  keep  as  a 
souvenir.  Anyhow,  it  was  better  for  a 
new 
sign  bearing  Mrs.  Schulinger’s 
name  to  be  put  up over the door.  Every­
body  in  the  neighborhood knew the stock 
116. 
of  goods  habitually  kept  at  No. 
The  sign  was  a  very  small  matter.
in  her  new  business,  Mrs. 
Schulinger  worked  early  and  late,  not 
only  to  make  the  shop  attractive,  but 
to  secure  such  little  additions  to  the 
stock  as  would  aid  her  customers’  con­
venience.  Somebody  hinted  that  block 
kindling  wood  would  be  a  handy  thing

Settled 

in 

line. 

to  keep,  and  she  got  in  a  supply,  al­
though  this  was  a  new  departure  in  the 
delicatessen 
She  also  kept  a 
smaller  cut  of  roast beef,  on  purpose  to 
please  her  single  women  customers, 
who  only  wanted  a  mouthful  at  a  time. 
Lambert  was  a 
industrious 
helper,  and  prosperity  smiled  on  Mrs. 
Schulinger  and  her  new  venture.

faithful, 

Nealry  three  months  had  passed  since 
the  taking  down  of  the  sign  of  the  Old 
Homestead  from  No.  116  and  the  sub­
stitution  of  the  widow’s  modest  inscrip­
tion,  when  Lambert  came 
from  a 
Sunday  afternoon  outing  greatly  agi­
tated.
‘ ‘ That  store  where  they  was  putting 
in  goods  yesterday  at  No.  88, ”   he  said, 
“ Granitz  is  going  to  keep 
it.  Delica­
tessen, just  like  this.  I  saw  Mrs.  Granitz 
sitting 
inside  reading  the  paper  as  I 
come  by.  They’ve  been  off  somewheres, 
but  they’ve  come  back.  The Old  Home­
stead  sign  is  leaning  up  against the wall 
on  the floor,  all  ready  to  be  put  up  to­
morrow.

Mrs.  Schulinger  was  aghast. 

“ You 
think  he  really  means  to  open?”   she 
asked.

“ I  know  it for certain.  That youngest 
Habers  boy  is  hired  to  do  errands  for 
’em.  His  brother  told  me. ”

Mrs.  Schulinger  did  not  sleep  well 
that  night.  Her  usual  run  of  customers 
came  in  the  next  day,  however,  and  the 
next  after  that,  and  she  got  over  the 
shock  somewhat. 
She  and  Lambert 
agreed  that,  as  people  seemed  to  like 
them  pretty  well,  if  they  kept  things  up 
to  the  mark  they  would  be  able  to  keep 
their  trade  in  spite  of  Granitz.  That 
Old  Hometsead  sign  hanging  out  at  No. 
88  was  a  constant  menace,  though,  and 
when  Mrs.  Schulinger  was  in at a neigh­
bor’s  one  night,  and  stout,  prosperous 
Mrs.  Granitz  came  in  on  an  errand,  the 
widow  went  out  through  a  back  door 
and avoided  meeting her.  Later,  trouble 
befell.  Mrs.  Schulinger,  when  adding 
up  the  contents  of  her  till  one  evening, 
found  the  sum  to  be  less  by  $2  than 
usual.  Twelve  and  thirteen  dollars  had 
been  the  largest,  $ 11  and  $10  the  small­
est  amounts  taken 
in  on  any  day,  for 
some  time.  This  evening  only $8  could 
be  counted.

Mrs.  Brewster  ain’t been getting any 
pot  cheese  for  a  couple  of  days, ’ '  said 
Lambert,  “ and  the  Starlings  ain’t  come 
after  the  milk  as  usual. ’ ’  Mrs.  Brewster 
was  the  friend  who  had  suggested  the 
kindling-wood,  and  Mrs.  Schulinger 
immediately  sent  her  eldest  girl  in  to 
Mrs.  Brewster’s  to  enquire  if  that  wom­
an  was  sick,  and  if  there  was  anything 
she  could  do  for  her.  The  oldest  girl 
came  back  promptly,  saying  that  Mrs. 
Brewster’s  health  was as  usual,  and add­
ing  that  with  her  own  eyes  she  had  seen 
pot  cheese  on  the  Brewster  table  and  a 
piece  of  wrapping-paper  that  had  the 
Old  Homestead 
in  print  on  it.  Mrs. 
Schulinger  again  passed a restless night. 
She  passed  many  restless  nights  after 
that,  and  counted  up  the  receipts  in  the 
till  each  evening  with  feverish  anxiety. 
Six  dollars,  §5,  $4,  came  the  total, 
steadily  growing 
less,  and  then  the 
snuff-dealer  came 
in  with  news  that 
Granitz  had  personally  visited 
the 
Brewsters,the  Starlings  and  half  a  dozen 
other  of  his  sometime  customers,  and 
prevailed  upon  them  to  come  back  to 
him,  offering  better-grade  goods  for  the 
same  money,  and  even  hinting that Mrs. 
Schulinger  was  taking  advantage  of  her 
patrons  and  foisting  off  common  stuff 
on  them  for  a  higher  price.  The  snuff- 
dealer  felt  that  something  ought  to  be 
done  to  protect  Mrs.  Schulinger’s  inter­
ests,  but  be  didn’t  know  what.

it  put  in  the  sale  papers  that 
Granitz  wasn't  to  open  a  store  in  this 
neighborhood?”   he  asked  the  distressed 
widow.  Mrs.  Schulinger  wasn’t  sure 
whether 
it  was  set  down  in  black  and 
white  or  not,  but,  anyhow,  his  promise 
not  to  set  up  against  her  was  the  main 
reason  of  her  buying  the business,  and 
he,  Granitz,  must  know,  and  his  wife 
must  know,  that  they  were  doing  a  sin­
ful  thing  in  thus  taking the  bread  out of 
her  mouth.  Mrs.  Renderman  and  other 
friends  argued  that  something  should 
be  done  to  put  a  stop  to  Granitz'  vil­
lainy.

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worse  and  worse. 
If  the  snuff-dealer 
had  not  lent  the  widow $25  she  would 
have  had  to  close  out.  Lambert’s  salary 
remained  unpaid,  and, 
although  he 
stuck  to  the  shop,  he  was  blue  and  dis­
pirited. 
“ I  will  go  up  to  Harlem  and 
see  if  Aunt  Schlump  won't  let  me  have 
money  to get  a  lawyer  to  look  into  this 
matter,”   announced  Mrs.  Schulinger 
one  evening.  Spent  and  weary  with 
conjecture  and  planning,  she  put  on  her 
bonnet  and  betook  h e is e ll  up  town. 
‘ ‘ Money  for  a  lawyer!”   exclaimed  Aunt 
“ And  where  am  1  to  get  it? 
Schlump. 
It  would  take  $100!  1  ain’t  finished 
payin’  off  the  burial  charges  on  your 
uncle  yet,nor  paid  all  on  the  tombstone. 
I  ain't  a  believer  in  lending.  You were 
foolish  to  go  into  business  without  be­
ing  sure  you’d  succeed. 
Better  had 
kept  your  $500  and  gone  on  going  out 
to  day's  work. ”

Mrs.  Schulinger  did  not  remind  the 
old  woman  that  she  had  been  one  to  ad­
vise  the  investment  at  No.  116,  but  she 
represented,  as  well  as  she  could,  that 
the first  money  she got  hold  of  as  a  re­
sult  of  the  lawsuit  would  be  given  to 
her  aunt 
for  any  loan  she 
might make.

in  return 

she 

‘ ‘ See  here!”  

Grannie  Schlump  put  on  her  think­
ing-cap. 
said. 
‘ ‘ When  your  Uncle  Hermann  got  that 
back  wages  bill  paid  up  that  he  col­
lected  from  Farringer  a  while  before  he 
died,  the  lawyer  that  managed  the  case, 
although 
'most  a  year, 
didn’t  charge  him  but  $2. 
I ’ve  got  the 
society’s  address  put  away  somewhere, 
and  maybe  you  might  go  there  and  ask 
them  to  help  you. ”

lasted 

for 

it 

listened 

The  address  was  found,  and,  com­
forted  by  the  ray  of  hope,  Mrs.  Schu­
linger  early  next  morning  went  to  the 
Legal  Aid  Society,  taking  her  papers 
with  her.  There  she  met  cordial  wel­
come,  her  story  was 
to,  her 
papers  were  examined  and  she  took 
leave  with  the  assurance  that  action 
would  be  at  once 
instituted  against 
Granitz,  and  that  the  case  would  not  be 
dropped  until  all  was  done  that  could 
be  done  tending  to  redress  her  wrongs. 
It  was  likely  that  an  injunction  would 
be  secured  against  Granitz,  and  the  Old 
Homestead  delcatessen  store  be  closed 
to  customers 
in  short  order.  Mrs. 
Schulinger’s  visit  to  the  Legal  Aid  So­
ciety’s  rooms,  her  knowledge  gained 
there  of  the  benefits  given  free  to  the 
poor,  was  a  revelation  to  the  special  lo­
cality  in  which  the  rival  stores  were  lo­
cated.  That  the  widow  had  able  coun­
sellors  to  fight  her  case,  and  that  she 
would  gain  her  rights  under  the  law, 
made  her  an  object  of 
interest  to  her 
neighbors.  They  all 
invested 
in  pot 
cheese  and  sardines,  roast  beef,  sausage 
and  similar  delicacies,  and  the  Old 
Homestead  was  looked  at  with  curiosity 
as  an  enterprise  that  had  fallen  under 
the  ban.

interference, 

There  was  parleying  and  red  tape  to 
be  gone  through  before  the  attorney 
carried  out  his  plans  in  this  particular 
case.  The  wily  Granitz  made  plea  that 
R.  Granitz,  his  wife,  and  not he,  owned 
and  conducted  the  business  at  N®.  88. 
secured  against 
An 
injunction  was 
him,  however,  and  the  Old  Homestead 
was  ordered  closed. 
The  Granitzes, 
husband  and  wife,  resented  this  order 
as  unwarrantable 
and 
calmly  continued  to  dispense cheese and 
cooked  meats,  pickles  and  whatnot  to 
such  as  came  to  buy.  Mrs.  Schulinger, 
although  already  cheered  by  the rallying 
of friends and  the  feeling  that  a  stanch 
attorney  had  taken her part,  was not to be 
fashion.  Sne  sent 
hoodwinked  in  this 
Lambert  to  the  Legal  Aid  office  to  ad­
vise  the  authorities  there  that  the  Gran­
itzes  had  not  closed  up.  Then  the  so­
ciety’s  attorney  had  the 
law-defying 
delicatessen  dealer  arrested  and  cast  in­
to  jail  for  this  second  transgression. 
In 
the  meantime,  Mrs.  Rosa  Granitz  at­
tended  to  customers  at  the  Old  Home­
stead,  and  the  neighborhood  discussed 
the  situation,  Mrs.  Schulinger maintain­
ing  stoutly  that  her  lawyer  would  see 
her  righted  before  the  matter  was 
dropped.  As  a  result  of  the  action,  and 
in  preference  to  staying  in  jail,Granitz, 
at  the  expiration  of  ten  days,  paid  over 
to  the  Legal  Aid  attorney  §260,  this  be­
ing  the  fine  imposed  by  the  Judge.

The  rival  delicatessen stores are yet in 
active  operation  at  Nos.  88  and  116. 
Mrs.  Schulinger  is  in  excellent  spirits; 
she  sleeps  well  at  night.  Her  victory  in 
court  has  made  her  of  consequence 
in 
the  neighborhood.  People  drop  in  to 
talk  as  well  as  to  buy,  and  she  has  been 
able  to  pay  Lambert’s  back  wages,  and 
restore  to  the  good 
snuff-dealer  the 
money  he  lent  her  in  time  of  need.  Be­
sides,  she  is  cheered  by  the  reflection 
that  she  now  has  friends  who  will  inter­
fere  in  her  behalf  whenever  wrong  or 
injustice  threatens.  The  Granitzes’  dis­
comfiture 
is  too  recent  for  them  to  feel 
as  comfortable  as  usual.  They  argue 
that  they  were  misunderstood,  and  that 
three  months  was  long  enough  to  give 
any  woman  a square  chance  with  a  store 
116. 
in  as  good  a  stand  as  that  at  No. 
When,  as  Mrs.  Granitz, 
in  neat  print 
gown  and  starched  apron,  sat  looking 
out  from  her  pavement  chair  on  Deco­
ration  Day,  Mrs.  Schulinger  went by 
with  three  of  the  small  Schulingers  in 
tow,  Mrs.  Granitz  drew  her  flowered 
skirts  aside  and  scowled  at  the chubby- 
little  ones.  Their  mother  is  an 
faced 
inconvenient  person  to  have 
in  the 
neighborhood, according to Mrs.  Granitz 
—a  person  who, 
instead  of  bearing 
things  quietly  when  she  is  “ put  upon,”  
makes  a  fuss  and  goes about telling peo­
ple  and  stirring  up  things  uncomfort­
ably.  The  children  of  such  a  mother 
will never  amount  to  anything,  and,  for 
her  part,  she  is  going  to  get Mr.  Granitz 
to  move  out  of  the  street.  His health  is 
not  good 
lately,  and  they  may  go  up 
town  somewhere  to  live,  where  people 
are  pleasanter.

New  Route  to  Chicago.

Commencing  May  15,  1898,  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
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in 
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ily,  “ we  know  all  about 
it,  for  I ’ ve 
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KNOBS—New L ist

Door, m ineral, jap. trim m ings...................... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trim m ings............... 

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye........................................... *16  00, dis  60&10
H unt Eye........................................... $15 00, dis  60*10
H unt 8................................................ $18  50, dis  20*10

NAILS

A dvance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  
j  60
Wire nails,  base...............................'.  
j  05
20t o 60ad v an ce..................................................... Base
10 to 16 ad vance.......................................................... 05
8 ad v a n ce............................................. ’ ’ ' 
jq
6 advance.................................................................... 20
4 a dvance............................................. ! .! ! " ! !  
30
3 a d v a n c e ................................................................... 45
2 a d v a n c e ................................................................... 70
F ine 3 advance............................................................50
Casing 10 ad v an ce........................................” . 
jg
Casing  8 advance......................................................25
Casing  6 advance......................................        
35
F in ish  10a d v a n c e .....................................   . '  
25
F inish  8 advance...................................................... 35
F inish  6 advance....................................... . ”  ’ 
45
Barrel  %   ad v an ce........................ 
85

MILLS

Coffee, Parkers Co.’s ...........................  
Coffee, P. S. & W.  Mfg.  Co.’s  M alleabl'es!!! 
Coffee, Landers, F erry & Clark’s.................. 
Coffee, E nterprise........................ 
 

 

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  OATES

Stebbin’s P a tte rn ................................................. 60*10
Stebbin’s G en u in e...............................................60*10
E nterprise, self-m easuring........................ 
30

’ 

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fan cy ......................................  @50
Sciota B e n c h ........................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.............................  @50
Bench, firstquality .............................................  @50
60
Stanley R ule and Level Co.’s wood............. 

PANS

RIVETS

Fry, A cm e...................................................... 60*10*10
Common, polished........................... 
70&  5

Iron and  T i n n e d ......................................  .... 
Copper Rivets and B urs.................................... 

ho
60

PATENT  PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages Vic per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

M aydole *  Co.’s, new   list.........................dis  3SVs
K ip’s  ...............................................................dis 
25
Yerkes & Plum b’s .........................................di« to&io
M ason’s Solid Cast Steel..................... 30c llsi. 
70
Blacksm ith’s Solid Cast Steel  H and 30c Us .40*10

23

HOUSE  FURNISHING  GOODS

Stam ped Tin W are.............................new  list 75*10
Japanned Tin W are...........  ............. 
20*10
G ranite Iron  W are.............................new list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARB

£®‘8; ........................................................................60*1
f e t t l e s ..................................... 
60*10
................................................................. 60*10
SpMers 

HINGES

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2, 3 ..................................... dis 60*10
H tate................................................per  doz.  net  a  r>o

W IRE  GOODS
B rig h t................................................  
Screw E yes..............................
H ook’s......................................
G ate Hooks and  Eyes.......

.........................  
" 
- ............. 
......................... 

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

LEVELS

on
80
80
80

70

Sisal, Vi inch and  la rg er...........
M anilla....................... .  . 

.

ROPES

SQUARES

Steel and Iro n .. 
Try and Bevels 
M itre .................

10Vi11)4

70*10
60
50

SHEET  IRON

. 

.. 

n«8- p to 24.............s 00 

com. smooth,  com.
*2  40
2 in
2 44
2 65
2 75
.Ml sheets  No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

, T 
Nos.  10 to 14....................................... 12  70 
Nos. 15to  1 7 .........  ..  . . . . . . . . .   2  70 
Nos. 18 to 21..................................  
Nos. 25 to 26.........................................  3 10 
No.  27 ..................................................  3 20 
w ide n ot less th a n  2-10 extra.

it

2 80 

 

L ist  acct.  19, ’86.........  ................................ (jjs 

SAND  PAPER

jq

SASH  WEIGHTS

Solid E yes...............................................per ton  20  00

TRAPS

Steel, Game........................................... 
O neida Com m unity, N ew house’s . 
O neida Comm unity, H awley *  N crton’ s 70*10
Mouse, choker.....................................per doz 
M ouse, delusion................................. per doz 

60*10
50
15
¡25

W IRE

B right M arket.................................... 
75
A nnealed  M arket....................... 
¿g
Coppered  M arket............................................... 70*  1 n
T inned M arket.................................... 
govt
 
Coppered Spring  Steel......................  "   
 
. 
Barbed  Fence, galvanized  .............. .. 
2 05
Barbed  Fence,  p ainted..............................." ]  
{ 75

 

 

S

HORSE  NAILS

Au Sable......................................................................dis 40&1C
P u tn am ........................................................... ¿is 
N orthw estern.............................................................dis 10*10

5

WRENCHES

B axter’s A djustable, nick eled .................... 
Coe’s G enuine.............................................................”  [ 50
Coe’s P atent  A gricultural, w r o u g h t ......... 
Coe’s P atent, m alleable.................................. ‘

30
80

MISCELLANEOUS
B ird  C ages........................................ 
5«
Pum ps, C istern....................................... ’
qq
Screws, New L ist........................................................ §5
Casters,  Bed and  Plate................ 
50&10&10
Dampers, A m erican....................................  
55

600 pound  casks..................................  
P er p o und......................................................  

METALS—Zinc

gw
gjJ

SOLDER

)4@V4................................................... 
j2vi
The prices of the m any other qualities of solder 
in the m arket indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  com position.

 

 

TIN—M elyn G rade
10x14 IC, Charcoal.......................  
14x20 IC, C h arc o al....................... . 
20x14 IX. C h arc o al........................ 

Each additional X on this grade, 11.25!

*  5  74
.......  
s  «
........  7  qq

TIN—A llaw ay Grade
10x14 IC, C h arc o al..............................  
4  so
14x20 IC, C h arc o al.................. 
4  m
 
10x14IX ,C h arco al.............................. 
556
14x20ix ,c h a r c o a l................................................. 5  50

 
 
E ach additional X on this grade, *1.50.

ROOFING  PLATES

4  50
14x20 IC, Charcoal, D ean............................. 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D e a n .......................           5  50
20x28 IC, Charcoal, D ean.....................  
9  qq
14x20 IC, Charcoal, A llaway G rade..............   4  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway G rade..............   5  00
20x28 1C, Charcoal, A llaway G rade..............   8  00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, A llaway G rad e..............   10 00

BOILER  SIZE  TIN  PLATE 

14x56 IX, for  No.  8  Boilers, I 
14x56 IX, fo r  No.  9  Boilers,  f Per Pound . . 

9

Paris Green Labels

The  Paris  Green  season  is  at  hand  and 
those  dealers  who  break  bulk  must  label 
their packages  according  to  law.  We  are 
prepared to furnish  labels  which  meet  the 
requirements of the law, as follows:
JO° .................................  25 cents.
2° ° ....................................   40 cents.
5°°..................... 
1000................................$1  00.

75 cents.

 

Labels  sent  postage  prepaid  where  cash 

accompanies order.

Tradesman  Company,

G rand Rapids,  Mich.

M ICHIGAN  TR A D ESM A N

2 4

LETT ER S  FROM  BANKS.

The  Unreliability  of Such  Recommen­

dations.

The  Tradesman  has  frequently  cau­
its  patrons  to  take  very  little 
tioned 
stock 
in  the  letters  of  recommendation 
sent  out  by  banks  in  the interest of  their 
customers,  because  experience  has dem­
onstrated  that  they  possess  little  value 
except  in  the  way  of  leading  the  ship­
pers  astray.  The 
latest  instance  of  the 
truth  of  this  statement  is  afforded  by the 
case  of  A.  Suiter,  who  failed  at  Cleve­
land  last  Saturday  with  alleged

ties  of §75,000. 
In  response  to  an  en­
quiry,  a  Michigan  shipper  received  a 
letter  from  an  officer  of  the  German- 
American  Savings  Bank  of  Cleveland, 
pronouncing  him  “ worthy  of  credit," 
yet,  within  three  days  after  the  letter 
was  written  and  mailed,  Mr.  Suiter 
made  a  voluntary  assignment,  after  hav­
ing  uttered  chattel  mortgages  on  his 
stock  of  butter  and  eggs  to  his  two  sons 
amounting  to  §8,000.

In  order  that  there  may  be  no  mis­
the  part  of  any  of  the 
givings  on 
Tradesman's 
regarding  this 
matter,  a  photographic  facsimile  of  the 

readers 

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Treas.

BOSS  TWEED  METHODS.

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Board  of  Education,  held  last 
evening,  opportunity  was  afforded  for 
the  manifestation  of  public  interest  in 
the  matter  of  the  discharge  of  a  consid­
erable  proportion  of  the  oldest  and  best 
of  the  teachers  of  the  high  school  for 
alleged 
insubordination  to  the  Board 
Thousands  of  names  of petitioners,  com 
prising  the  most  influential  people  of 
the  city,  appeared 
in  their  behalf  and 
these  were  supplemented  by  a  large  del 
egation,  representing  the  best  elements 
in  educational  circles,  which  crowded 
the  rooms  of  the  Board.  Eloquent  ap 
peals  in  behalf  of  these  teachers,  and 
the  schools  as  affected  by  the  ill-consid 
ered  action  of  the  Committee  on  Teach­
ers,  were  made  by  half  a  dozen  of  those 
whose  prestige  and  standing  would 
seem  to  have  most 
The 
received  and 
written  petitions  were 
politely  buried 
the  files,  and  the 
general  attitude  of  the  Board  seemed  to 
be  that  what  is  done  is  done,  now  what 
are  you  going  to  do  about  it?

influence. 

in 

The  St.  Louis  Potato  Market.

St.  Louis,  June  21—New  potatoes  for 
last  few  days  have  been  in  better 
the 
demand. 
Prices,  however,  have  re­
mained  about  the  same.  Our  home 
grown  potatoes  are  affecting  the  market 
to  some  extent,  as  there  is  now  nearly 
sufficient  coming  in  to  supply  the  ped­
dling  trade,  leaving  the  Southern  and 
Southwestern  stock  to  be  bandied  by  the 
best  trade,  who  prefer  it  on  account  of 
than  home 
its  being  better  matured 
grown.  The  potatoes  grown 
this 
vicinity are  of  excellent quality  this  sea­
son  and,  as  soon  as  they  are  a  little  bet­
ter  matured,  we  feel  assured  that  they 
will  give  satisfaction  wherever  shipped.
There  is  practically  nothing  doing  in 
old  potatoes,  as  there  is  little  or  no  de­
mand.  The  same  might  be  said  of 
white  beans.  We  quote :

in 

White  hand  picked  pea  at  § i . o5 @ i . o8 

and  screened  at  10c  per  bushel  less.

New  Potatoes—Arkansas  and  Texas 
Triumphs,  58@67^c  per  bushel,  as  to 
condition  and  quality;  homegrown,  45 
@55c  per  bushel.

Old  Potatoes—3o@5oc  per  bushel,  as 
to  variety,  condition  and  quality,  Bur­
banks  bringing  the  top  price.

M i l l e r   & T e a s d a l e   Co.

632

invoicing  from   $4 030 

D rues, care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.

S m a l l d r u g sto ck fo r s a l e .

ADDRESS
ITO R   SALE—A  PROSPEROUS  DRUG  AND 
-T  grocery  stock, 
to 
$->,00ii,  consisting  of  drugs,  groceries,  school 
books, w all paper,  ciockery,  paints  and oils and 
notions, in live tow n Carson City:  best  tow n  of 
its size  in  State;  brick  store  building  in  best 
location  in 
tow n.  O utside  business  averages 
inside ru n n in g   expenses.  Reasons  fo r  selling, 
loss of p artn er and  poor  health.  Kelley  &  Cad- 
w ell in v ite inspec  ion. 
SjlOR  SALE  OK  EXCHANGE  FOR  HARD 
J -  wood tim ber—Clean stock of shoes  invoicing 
about $4.000, in one of the  best  tow ns  in  M ichi­
gan.  A ddress J   P., care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.

625

62!

m en’s furnishings and  groceries,  in  one  o f  the 

f lO R  SALE,  ON  ACCOUNT  OF  SICKNESS— 

W ell-selected stock  of  dry  goods,  notions, 
best  tow ns  in  S outhern  M ichigan,  located  on 
M ichigan C entral R ailroad 
Slock w ill invoice 
ab o u t  $8,000;  an n u al  sales,  $18,(00;  store  rent, 
$180 per y ear;  nearest com petition, six m iles;  a 
bonanza fo r th e one  th a t  m eans  business.  Ad- 
d ress No. 623. care M ichigan  T radesman. 

623

H”  AV1NG  PURCHASED TH E  LUMBER AND 

general  m erchandise  stock  a t  ‘Norwood, 
M ich.,  form erly  ow ned  by  th e   R ittenhouse  & 
Em bree Co., I offer  the  m erchandise  stock  for 
sale at low price. 
It is one of the  best  places in 
M ichigan  for  general  m erchandise  business 
and the  h an d lin g   of  fru it and other farm  prod­
ucts.  The  am ount  o f business done in  the last 
sixteen  years  has  averaged  about  $3,000  per 
m onth.  R eason for  selling,  wish  to  devote my 
w hole atten tio n  to lum bering.  Stock w ill inven­
tory about $7.500.  Term s, $5.000  cash.  W rite o r 
call on  L. J.  N ash.  Norwood,  Mich 
r |''H E  
B E sT   OPENING  IN  MICHIGAN  FOR 
I   an ;
an active business m an  w ith  $  u.OOJ  or  $  2,- 
0l0 to step into a w ell-established, paying w hole­
sale business.  For particulars, address Business, 
care M ichigan  T radesm an. 

I  HAVE  SMALL  STOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 

fixtures in  Ionia,  taken  on  m ortgage.  Will 
sell cneap fo r cash o r  tra d e fo r  productive  real 
estate.  A nsw er  im m ediately.  Will  sell  soon. 
W. W.  H unt, U nder N ational  City  Bank,  G rand 
Rapids. 
17'OR  RENT—D o tB L E   s'JORfc,  BUILDING 
F  
in  Opera  House  block,  M ancelona,  Mich., 
best location  in to w n ;  best  tow n  in  State.  Ad 
dress Ju liu s H.  Levinson.  Petoskey. Mich.  580

596

616

608

17'OR  SALE,  EXCHANGE OR REN 1 —LARGE 

two-story  store  and  residence  building  in 
tow n of 1,000  population  in  N orthern  Indiana; 
stone basem ent, 120  feet  in  dim ensions. 
Inves­
tigate.  A ddress No. 575,  care  M ichigan  Trades 
m an. 
575
17'OR  EX cH A EG E  F g R  GROCERY  OK  MER- 
F   chandise  stock—choice  section  land  near 
Jam estow n,  N orth  D akota.  D akota  lands  in 
great  dem and  for  farm ing  or  stock  raising. 
Carl Dice.  M onroe,  M’Ch. 
n p o   EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
A   goods or shoes, very nice  well rented G rand
Rapids property.  A ddress No. 
, care  M nhi- 
gan Tradesm an.
'T 'O   EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
A   property for dry  goods, clothing  and  shoes.
A ddress P.  M edaiie,  M ancelona.  Mich.

WANTED—A  PRACTICAL  MILL  MAN, 

w ith $1.000 capital, to  take  a  one-half  or 
fu ll  interest  in  a  stave,  heading  and  planing 
m ill.  3,000  contract,  w ith  s  ock  to fill It.  All 
goes.  F ive years’ c u t  in   sight.  Side  track 
to 
m ill.  Good reasons for selling.  A ddress  Stave 
Mill, care  M ichigan Tradesm an. 
546

553

534

552

•  grade  broom s  a t  all  prices

BROOMS
MANUFACTURER  OF  HIGH- 
for  retailers 

■   BOMERS,
i j30RSALE-M ODERN. W ELL-ESTABLISHED 

and equipped  broom factory and good trade. 

O ther  business  com m ands  o u r  attention.  A d­

G rand Rapids, Mich. 

dress No. 5-4, care M ichigan Tradesm an. 

605

584

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

TX 7A N T ED —BUTTER,  EGGS  AND  PÖUL- 
vv 
try;  any quantities.  W rite  me.  O rrin  J. 
Stone,  Kalamazoo,  M ich. 
\ \ T  ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
tv 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond w ith 
la u lk ett & Co.. T raverse City.  Mich. 
FRESH  EGGS, 
V \ 7  ANTED—1.000  CASES 
i t   daily.  W rite  fo r  priées.  K.  W.  Brown,
Ithaca,  Mich.

604

381

Bi l l

FIR E PR O O F  S A F E S

T   safes,  wood  and  brick  building  mover,  157 

613

O ttaw a street. G rand Rapids. 
SHIRTS.

H a v e   yo u r s  ma  e to yo u r  m e a su r e.

Send  fo r  m easurem ent  blanks  F rank  T. 
Coliver,  103 W ashtenaw  St. E   . L am ing, M ich. 6T5

MISCELLANEOUS.

T U  A NTED—  POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
i t   assistant  pharm acist  of  five  years'  ex p e ri­
ence.  Good references.  A d d reis'c.  M., care E. 
Cox, 106  F ourth  St.. G rand R apids. 

W1ANTED— POSITION  ISA’  ¡A  COMPETENT

ploym ent.  Best  of  references  furnished  A d­
dress  Book-keeper,  care  M ichigan  Tradesm an.

637

VST" ANTED — POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
t v   pharm acist.  Best of references furnished. 
A ddress 637, fa re  M ichigan Tradesm an. 
g IT U A T lO N  W ANTED BY YOUNG MARRIED 
m an,  registered  p h a rm a ii-t;  excellent  ref-
five  years’  experience  in  retail  and
eren ces; 
w holesale  stores. 
A ddress  629,  care  M ichigan 
Tradesm an
TXT ANTED—A  BUSINESS  MAN  WITH  SOME 
t v   capital  to take  charge  of  a  fu rn itu re  fa c ­
tory, an old  established  line. 
I.  F rankford,  53 
W est B ridge St.  P hone 1236. 

617

637

629

634

The  Grain  Market.

Weat  has  sagged  daily during  the  past 
week  and  a  decline  of  14c  per  bushel  on 
futures  can  be  recorded.  Cash  wheat 
did  not  suffer  in  the  same  ratio.  The 
weather  in  the  winter  wheat  section  has 
been  exceptionally  fine  for that  cereal, 
but  in  some  localities  it  is  reported  that 
the  crop  has  been  damaged. 
This 
counts  for  naught,  however,  as  all  other 
reports  are  of  a  bearish  nature. 
It  was 
conceded  by  many  that  the  visible 
would  decrease  1,500,000 bushels,  but  ”a 
decrease  of  only  593,000  bushels  showed 
up,  against  2,000,000  bushels  at  the 
same  time  last  year.  Unless  some  un­
foreseen  calamity  befalls  the  growing 
crop,  we  see  nothing  to  rally  prices very 
much.  However,  it  should  be  borne 
in 
mind  that  the  granaries  are  empty  and 
that  farmers  are  not  going  to  tumble 
over  each  other  to  sell  their  wheat,  so 
that  some  of  the  bears  may  yet  get 
rapped.

Both  corn  and  oats  have  declined 
about  ic  per  bushel.  Neither  of  these 
crops  is  looking  very  well 
in  the  lo­
calities  where  they  are  raised,  as  there 
has  been  too  much  wet  weather  and

when  corn 
is  replanted  it  makes  the 
stand  very  uneven.  The  wet  weather 
causes  the  oats  to  grow  rank  and  be­
come  lodged  badly.

The  receipts  during  the  week  were  39 
cars  of  wheat,  3  cars  of  corn  and  4  cars 
of  oats.

Local millers  are paying 75c for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V oigt.

The  Cash  Carrier  Cases  Decided 

Against  the  Trust.
June  20—The  suit  against 
James  Pound,  of  Benton  Harbor,  has 
been  held  back  until  the  result  of  a  de­
cision  in  a  similar  suit  at  Boston.

Detroit, 

In  that  suit  the  lower  court  held  the 
infringed,  and 

patent 
granted  a  preliminary  injunction.

to  be  valid, 

The  Circuit  Court  of  Appeals  has  re­
versed  that  decision,  dissolved  the  in­
junction,  but  did  not  decide  as  to  the 
validity  of  the  patent  except  to  use  the 
following  language:  " I t   is  sufficient  to 
say  that  we  are  all  of  the  opinion  that 
the  validity  of  each  claim  is very doubt­
ful, " b u t   declined  to  pass  upon  the 
question  any  more  definitely  on  motion 
for  preliminary  injunction.

I  presume  our  case  will  now go ahead, 

and  hope  for a  successful termination.
J a m e s   W h i t t e m o r e .

WANTS  COLUMN.

A dvertisem ents  w ill  be  Inserted  under  th is 
head  for  tw o   ce n ts  a  w ord  th e   firs t  insertion 
and  one  cen t  a  w ord  for  each  su b seq u en t  in­
sertio n .  No advertisem en ts ta k en  for le s s  th a n  
25 cen ts.  A dvance  p ay m en t.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

636

17'OR  SALE—ONLY  FIRST-CLASS  BOOK- 
F   store in hustling  tow n  o f  3,0.0  population. 
A ddress F.  C.  W allington,  Mt.  P leasant,  Mich. 
______  
117ANTED—CLEAN  GENERAL  STOCK  IN 
TV  grow ing  M ichigan  tow n  in  exchange  for 
cash and  13 acres of land in th e suburbs of G rand 
R apids w hich  will surelv double  in value inside 
of five years.  W ill  sell  land  a t  its  cash  value. 
No old stock  desired.  No  poor  tow ns  need  ap­
ply.  A ddress  No.  633,  care  M ichigan  T rades­
m an. 

SODA  FOUNTAIN  FOR  SALE 
A ddressJ. H.  L evinson, Petoskey,

I  ARGE 
MERCHANTS—DO YOU  WISH CASH  QUICK 

fo r your stock of m erchandise,  or  any  part 

of It?  A ddress Jo h n  A.  W ade, C adillac,  Mich.
628

.2  CHEAP

inic-u. 

630

f33

626

17'OR SALE  CHEAP—TH E  BEST  EQ U IPPED  
L  cigar and new s  store  in   Lansing;  connected 
w ith  th e  H udson  H ouse; 
fixtures  and  every­
thing  in   th e  room  are  cherry.  M.  Sternfield, 
Lansing,  M ich. 
17'OR  SALE,  CASH  ONLY—CLEAN
STOCK
F   1
groceries,  invoicing  ab o u t  $1.500.  R eason 
for selling, death of head m em ber o f firm.  Ad- 
dress Jno.  W . Lott & Son. Petoskey.  Mich.  620
Y \ ^ a N T E k— IMMEDIATELY,  PARTNER  IN 
v V 
lig h t man ufacturing business, lady or gen­
tlem an,  w ith  $500  or  $1,000  cash;  governm ent 
co n tracts:  investigate.  A ddress Lock Box  103, 
G rand  Rapids,  Mich. 
B 1EST  LOCATION  IN   MICHIGAN  FOR  A 
J   cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
W rite to the  S ecretary  of  th e  Otsego  Im prove 
m ent A ssociation. Otsego. Mich. 
’y y A N T E D —POSITION  IN   CLOTHING  OR
A ddress 
632
F, care M ichigan Tradesm an.

general store by an A l salesm an. 

624

631

T ra v e le rs*  T im e   T a b le s.

CHICAGOmmZ T £ r’

Chicago.

Ly.  G.  Rapids..................8:45am  1:25pm  *11:30pm
A.r.  Chicago..................... 3:10pm  6:50pm 
6:40am
Ly. C hicago................... 7:20am  5:15pm  *11:30pm
A r.G ’d R ap id s..............  1:25pm  10:35pm  *  8:20am
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Ly. G’d  R apids.............................  7:30am  5:30pm
P arlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 

n ig h t trains to and from  Chicago.

♦Bvery  day. 

O thers w eek days only.

DETROIT, Qraod Rapids & Western

Detroit.

Ly. G rand  R ap id s......... 7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pm
Ar. D etro it.......................11:40am  5:45pm  10:20pm
Ly. D e tro it.......................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  G rand  R ap id s........12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55pm

Saginaw, Ahna and  Qreenville.

Lv. G R  7:10am 4:20pm  Ar.  G R 12:20pm  9:30pm 
P arlor cars on all tra in s  to  and  from   D etroit 
an d  Saginaw.  T rains ru n  w eek days only.

Gao.  Ds Havbh,  G eneral Pass. Agent.

GRAND Tn,nk Rli,w*y System

D etroit and M ilw aukee Diy

(In effect May 15,1898.)

EAST. 

Leave. 
A rrive.
+  6:45am.Sag.,  D etroit, Buffalo & N Y  .+  9:55pm
tl0:10am ...........D etroit  and  E a st........... t   5:27pm
t   3:20pm ..Sag.,  Det., N.  Y.  &  B oston..tl2:45pm
*  8:00pm .. .D etroit,  E ast and C an a d a...*  6:35am
tlO :45am .........  M ixed to D u ran d ............13:15pm

WEST

* 8:35am— GW.  H aven  and  Int. P ts ....*   7:05pm 
tl2:53pm .G d. H aven  and In te rm ed ia te.t  3:12pm 
t  5:32pm..Gd. H aven and Interm ediate.tlO :05am
*  7 :40pm ...G d.  H aven and C hicago......   8:15am
tl0:00pm ......... Gd. H aven  and M il...........   6:40am
E astw ard—No. 16 h as W agner parlor car.  No. 
22  parlor  car.  W estw ard—No  11  parlor  car. 
No.  17 W agner parlor  car.

♦Daily. 

fE xcept Sunday.

E. H .  H u s h e s , A. G. P. & T. A. 
Ben. F letcher, Trav. Pass. Agt.,
C.  A.  J ustin,  City  Pass.  A gent.
97 Monroe St.  M orton House.

GRAND Rmpids  k   Indiana  Railw ay

N orthern  D lv.  Leave 

Arrive 
T ra v .C ’y,P etoskey & M ack...*  7:45am  t   5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, P etoskey & M ack., . t  2:15pm  t   6:35am
T rav. C’y, Petoskey & M ack.....................¿10:50pm
C adillac................................................ t  5:25pm 
T rain  leaving a t 7:45 a. m.  has  parlor car, and 
tra in   leaving  a t  2:15  p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
M ackinaw.
S o u th ern   D lv.  Leave  A rrive
C in c in n ati............................................t  7:10am 
F t. W ayne............................................ t  2:10pm 
C incinnati............................................ * 7:00pm 
7:10 a. m.  tra in   has parlor  car to  C incinnati. 
2:10 p .m .  tra in   has parlor  car  to F ort  W ayne. 
7:00 p. m.  tra in   has  sleeping  car  to  C incinnati. 

Chicago T rains.

FROM CHICAGO.

TO CHICAGO.
Lv. G rand R ap id s...t7   10am  +2 10pm  *11  35pm
Ar. C hicago..............   2  00pm 
9 10pm 
6  30am
Lv. C hicago...................................t3 02pm 
Ar. G rand R apids.......................   9 30pm 
T rain  leaving  G rand  R apids  7.10  a.  m.  has 
buffet  parlor  car  to  Chicago..  T rain  leaving 
G rand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach a nd P ullm an 
sleeping'car to Chicago.
T rain leaving  Chicago  3.02  p.  m.  has  buffet 
parlor  car  to  G rand  Rapids.  T rain 
leaving 
Chicago  11.45  p.  m .  has  coach  and  Pullm an 
sleeping car to  G rand Rapids.

Muskegon Trains.

GOING WEST.

*11 45pm
7 25am

IW  A   M I C T  C  C   &  Northeastern Ry.
E r C   Best route to Manistee.

Via  C. &  W .  M.  Railway.

..
Lv Grand  Rapids................................J:ooam 
A r  Manistee.......................................12:05pm 
. . . . . .
L v  M anistee.....................................  S:30am  4:10pm
A r Grand  Rapids  ................ '.........   1 :00pm  0:55pm

HOLLAND  &  CHICAGO  LINE.

Little Giant Sprayer

An improvement over all  others.  Does work that no  other  Sprayer  can,  as 
it  throws a spray either up or down. 
Just the thing for spraying all kinds of 
Small  Fruit  Trees,  Vines  and Plants.  Throws a mist with such force  as 
to reach every  part of the tree or plant with one action.  Very  economical, 
as it saves enough compound  in  one  day  to  pay  for  itself.  Tank  holds 
enough  to  spray  600  to  800 hills of potatoes.  Full directions and formulas 
for using furnished with each sprayer.  Manufactured only by

W m .  B ru m m eler &   S o n s,

2 6 0   S .  Io n ia  S t ., 

G ra n d   R a p id s,  M ich .

World Ricygles

A B E   H A N D S O M E ,  S T R O N G ,  S P E E D Y . 

A  G E N T L E M A N ’ S   M O U N T.

$ 4 0

$ 5 0

$ 7 5

A  FEW   M ORE  GO O D   A G E N T S   W A N TED  
IN  U N O C C U P IE D   T E R R IT O R Y .

AD AM S  &  H A R T ,

S E L L IN G   A G E N T S   FO R   M ICHIGAN

12 W.  BRID GE S T ., 

GRAND RAPID S. MICH.

Connects at Holland with Chicago  &  West  Michi­
gan for Grand  Rapids, Saginaw,  Lansing,  Detroit, 
and all  Northern  points on the C. & W.  M.  R.  R., 
also with C.  & W.  M.  for  Allegan,  Marshall,  Bat­
tle Creek and Toledo,  via C.  & W.  M. and D.,  T.  & 
M. railroads.
The elegant and fast steamers  of  this  line  leave 
Holland daily at S  p.  m.;  leave  Chicago  daily  at 
7 p. m., making close connections at Holland in the 
morning with the Northern and East-bound trains.
Single  Round
$5.00
$3.15 
3.15 
5.00
2.25 
3.50

Fare, Grand Rapids to  Chicago 
Fare, Allegan to Chicago 
Fare, Holland to Chicago 

Berth  included.

Through tickets can be  purchased  at  all  stations 
on the C. & W.  M.,  D.,  G.  R. & W. and D., T. & M. 
R ’ys.  C. & W.  M.  train  leaving  Grand  Rapids  at 
6.25 p.  m.  daily  makes  close connection at Holland 
with steamers of this line for Chicago.

Office, No.  1  State S t, 

Chicago. 

C harles B.  Hopper, 
Gen’l F . & P. Agt.

T R A V E L

VIA

F.  A  P  M.  R.  R.

AND  S T E A M S H IP   L IN E S  

T O   A L L   P O IN T S   IN  M IC H IG A N

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

W hich  we read about can never  be
forgotten by th e m erchant w ho  be
comes  fam iliar  w ith  our  coupon
system .  The past to such is always
a “nightm are.”  T he present  is  an
era o f pleasure and p ro fit

•   THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST
t i l  :15am
m 
® 
•  
t   8:25pm
0  
t   2:00pm
*  7:25am
•  
■  
s  TRADESMAN  COMPANY,
"  

GRAND  RAPID5.

L v G ’d   R apids..............t7:35am  tl:00pm  t5:40pm
Ar M uskegon..................  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
LvM nskegon................ t8:10am  til:45am   t4:00pm
A rG ’d R apids........... 
9:30am  12:55pm  5:20pm
Sunday train s leave  G rand  Rapids  9.00  a.  m. 
an d  7.00 p. m.  Leave  M uskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
6.35 p. m.

GOING EAST.

tB x c ep t Sunday.  «Daily.  ¿Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W.  C.  BLAKE, 

G en’l Passr.  and T icket Agent. 
T icket A gent U nion Station.

D U L U T H , " " . " 1

WEST  BOOED.

Lv. G rand R apids  (G. R.  & I.)+ ll :10pm 
t7:45am
Lv. M ackinaw  C ity.....................   7:35am  4:20pm
Ar.  St.  Ig n ace...............................  9:00am  5:20pm
Ar. S ault Ste. M arie....................  12:20pm  9:50pm
Ar. M arquette...............................  2:50pm  10:40pm
A r. N estoria..................................  5:20pm  12:45am
Ar. D u lu th ..................................................... 
8:30am

BAST  BOUND.

Lv. D uluth....................................................   +6:30pm
Ar. N estoria............................... t i l  :15am 
2:45am
Ar.  M arquette....-...................... 
1:30pm  4:30am
Lv. S ault Ste. M arie................. 
3:30pm 
...........
Ar. M ackinaw  C ity..................  
8:40pm  11:00am
G.  W. Hibbard, G en. Pass. Agt.  M arquette. 
E. C. O viatt, T rav.  Pass.  Agt.,  G rand Rapids

jgM m m rnm m M m m im m m g
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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  —g  
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new  article. 

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W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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Is  it  not  the 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and  judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for  other  articles.

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money-value  and  weight  of  the  article  being  weighed. 
The  reverse  dial  gives  weight  alone.

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WRITE

MONEY  IN  IT

It  pays  any dealer  to  have  the  reputa­

tion  of  keeping  pure  goods.

It  pays  any  dealer  to keep the Seymour 

Cracker.

There’6  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 
H O W   C H E A P   with  them;  it’ s  H O W  
GOOD.

For  this  class  of  people  the  Seymour 

Cracker  is  made.

Discriminating  housewives  recognize 

its  superior

FLAVOR,  PURITY, 
DELICIOUSNESS

and  will  have  it.

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

particular  people,  keep 
Cracker.

Made  by

National  Biscuit  Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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DEALERS IN

ILLUMINATING  AND  LUBRICATING

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Office and  Works,  BUTTERWORTH AVE., 

ORAND  RAPIDS, MICH.

B ulk w ork «¡at G rand  Rapids,  M uskegon,  M anistee, Cadillac,  Big R ap­
ids,! G rand  H aven,  T raverse  City,  L udington, A llegan 
H ow ard  City,  Fetoskey,  R eed  City,  F rem ont,  H art’ 
W hitehall, HoUand a nd F ennville

Highest  Price  Paid  for  Empty  Carbon  and  Gasoline  Barrels.

