Volume  XV. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JULY  6,  1898. 

Number  772

Little Giant Sprayer

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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  econom­
ical, 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

Wm.  Brummeler & Sons.,

260 South  Ionia  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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

30  cents  per  doz.,  in  fancy  counter  display 
boxes of 3 doz.,  coupon in box,  which equals

TRADE 
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5 cents per doz. off.  It pays to push for coupons.

COUPON  PREMIUMS 

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For  2  Coupons,  Rubber  Dating  Stamp,
worth 40 cents;  prints, “ Paid,”  “ Ans’d,”
“ Rec’d,** “ Acp’d,”  “ Ent’d,” and dates to 1903.  For 3 Coupons, Patent Pneumatic 
Ink Bottle worth  60 cents;  pressure  into funnel  top  brings  up ink  from  center  of 
bottle;  no thick ink with this.  For 6 Coupons,  % gross Fly Buttons, delivered.

TO  STATE  YOUR  TRADE 
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samples  for  your  customers.
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Fly Destroyers are coming into greater use.
Of all means for their  destruction 
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  6,  1898.

Number  772

T O L E R A T E   N O   T R E A S O N .

The  stamp  taxes  necessitated  by  the 
increased  expenses  incident to the Span­
ish  war  are  now  in  effect  and  all  classes 
have  submitted  gracefully  and patriotic­
ally  to  the  burden  thus  imposed,  with 
the  single  exception  of  the  express com­
panies,  which  have  undertaken  to  evade 
a  patriotic  duty  by  saddling  the  burden 
on  the  shipper,  instead  of  assuming  it 
uncomplainingly,  as  the  transportation 
companies  have  voluntarily  done.

Many  suits  have  been  brought  against 
the  companies  because  of  their  refusal 
to  accept  shipments  without  the  pay­
ment  of  the  stamp  tax—not  because  of 
the  small  amount  involved,  but  because 
this  action  of  the  express  companies 
plainly  places  them  in  the  category  of 
traitors  to  the  country—and  there  ap­
pears  to be  concerted  action  in  the  mer­
cantile  world  to  punish  treason  by  com­
pelling  them  to  bear  the  expense  of  at­
torney  fees  in  defending  the  suits  which 
will  amount 
in  the  aggregate  to  much 
more  than  the  stamp taxes would amount 
to  in  years.  Besides  this  expense,  the 
shipments  which  are  being  diverted 
from  the  express  companies  and  for­
warded  by  mail  and freight  entail  a  loss 
which  will  be  severely  felt  when  the 
time  comes  to  compute  dividends  on 
the  enormously  watered  stock  of  the 
companies.

throwing 

insist  on 

Spanish  bullets  are  ugly  things to con­
tend  with,  but  they  are  not  half  as  dan­
gerous  to  the  country  as  the  spectacle 
of  a  dozen  great corporations which have 
waxed  rich  at  the  expense of the people, 
refusing  to  array  themselves  on  the  side 
in  blue  in  prosecuting  the 
of  the  boys 
war,  but 
stum­
bling  blocks  in  the  pathway  of  progress 
by  conspiring  together  to  evade  a  duty 
which  every  patriot  delights  to perform.
It  is  not  yet  too  late  to  bring  traitors 
in  session. 
to  terms.  Congress  is  still 
Let 
it  amend  the  tax  law  by  doubling 
the  tax  on  express  receipts,  making  it 
obligatory  on  the  companies  to  furnish 
the  stamps  and  making 
it  a  criminal 
offense  for  express companies to advance 
their  rates  to  recoup  themselves  for  the 
cost  of  the  stamps.  We  should  not  only 
tolerate  no  treason,  but  punish  those 
who  array  themselves  on  the  side  of  the 
enemy.

A  S IG N IF IC A N T   S T R IK E .

in  Chicago  is 

The  strike  of  the  newspaper  stereo­
typers 
in  some  regards 
the  most  notable  of  any  on  record  con­
sidering  the  number  of  workmen  con­
cerned,  and  probably  there  is  no  other 
in  which  the  essential  and  most  obnox­
ious  principles  of  modern  unionism 
have  received  more  forcible illustration. 
It  would  be  difficult  to  conceive  of  any 
combination  of  circumstances  which 
would  more  thoroughly  enforce  the  les­
son  that  under  unscrupulous  leadership

the  “ rights  and privileges”  of organized 
labor  are  not  only  a  constant  menace  to 
the  industries  which  they  essay  to  con­
trol,  but  that  in  the  operation  of  the 
forces  created  and  set in  motion  by such 
principles  the  worst  sufferers  are  the 
workmen  themselves.

It 

is  generally  understood  that  the 
in  the  hands  of 
most  effective  weapon 
is  the  necessity  of  the  em­
“ labor”  
ployer. 
If  he  can  be  caught  with  con­
tracts  which  must  be  fulfilled,  for  in­
stance,  then  is  the  opportunity  for  the 
striker;  ®r  if  any  great  industrial emer­
gency  arises  there  is  the  constant  threat 
of  the  preferring  of  demands,  which 
thus  become  assured  of recognition how­
ever  unreasonable  or  unjust.

The  eve  of  battle  of  Santiago  was  an 
occasion  of  the  most  imperative demand 
on  the  part  of  the  public  for  news.  The 
obligation  and 
interest  of  the  publish­
ers  to  meet  that  demand  were  so  great 
that no  ordinary  hindrance  could  be  al­
lowed  to 
interfere  for  a  moment.  So 
the  opportunity  was  too  tempting  for 
the  few  dozen  stereotypers  whose  work 
was  essential  to  the  issuing  of  the  news­
papers.  They  were  combined  in  a  typ­
ical  union, which  agreed upon that emer­
gency  to  enforce  the  demands that would 
place  them 
in  such  a  position  as  they 
desired  as  to  wages,  hours  of  labor,  etc. 
That  there  could  be  any  hesitation  in 
that  contingency,  when  interference with 
the  ordinary  sources  of  news  would 
amount  almost  to  a  public  calamity, 
would 
industry  of 
many  thousands  and  would  not  only 
sacrifice  the  unusual  profits of  such  an 
occasion,  but  would  entail  tremendous 
loss besides,  was  scarcely  to  be  consid­
ered.  So  it  was  with  the greatest  assur­
ance  of  success  that  the  strike  was  or­
dered.

interfere  with 

the 

But  it  so  happened  that  the  existence 
of  the  modern  union  among  employes 
had  resulted  in  corresponding  organiza­
tion  among  the  employers.  That  there 
should  be  such  organizations,  or  “ com­
bines”   as  they  are  termed,  is  a  matter 
which  meets  the  severest  condemnation 
of  the  apostles  of  labor,  who fail to com­
prehend  that  their  existence  is  a  neces­
sity  dependent  upon  the  unions.  So  a 
great  outcry  is  made  that the  publishers 
should  exclude  from  present  and  future 
employemnt  all  concerned  in  the  strike 
and  agree  to  remain  under  suspension 
until  all  are  enabled  to  resume  together.
logical 
outcome  of  such  movements  would serve 
to  hint  to  working  men  that  there  may 
be  a  better  way  than  the  unreasoning 
force  and  arbitrary  assertion  of  labor 
combines  and  that  the  welfare  of  both 
might  be  better  assured 
in  the  recog­
nition  of  mutual  rights  and  interests.

It  would  seem  as  though  this 

It  was  an  allwise  Providence  that 
created  women  after  everything  else had 
been  finished;  otherwise  she  would have 
wanted  to  boss  the  job.

Trying  to  quell  a  woman’s  wrath  is 
like  sitting  down  on  a  bunch  of  lighted 
firecrackers  to  prevent  their going  off.

Spain 

is  as  easy  as  the  new  postage 
stamps.  She  can  be  licked  and  never 
know  it.

G E N E R A L  T R A D E   S IT U A T IO N .
Aside  from  the  natural  slackening  on 
account  of  midsummer  vacations,  the 
closing  of  the  fiscal  year  and  the  usual 
taking  of  accounts 
in  many  industries 
and  shutting  down  for  repairs,  the  gen­
eral  volume  of  business  goes  on  without 
abatement.  The  war  as  a  depressing 
factor  can  scarcely  be  said  to  have  sig­
nificance.  Stock  values  have  been  gen­
erally  advancing  and  even  this  most 
cowardly  element  has  been 
scarcely 
affected  by  the  actual  progress of a great 
battle.

Industrial  returns  are  less 

instructive 
in  the  season  of  midsummer  rest  and 
uncertainty  than  in  any  other,  and  the 
stoppage  of  some  works  for repairs,  and 
of  others  to  wait  for  the  development  of 
the  next  season’s  trade,  gives  some  dis­
couragement  in  the  iron  business  at  the 
East,  where  a  slightly  lower  quotation 
for  steel  rails  is  printed,  with  Southern 
pig  offered  at  lower  figures  since  the 
disagreement  of  makers.  Bessemer  pig 
at  $10.25  and  Grey  Forge  at  $9  are 
both  slightly 
lower  at  Pittsburg,  but 
most  of  the  works  there  have  ample  or­
ders  ahead,  and  at  Chicago  the  demand 
really  seems  to  be  about  as  large  as 
ever,  especially  for  materials  used 
in 
implement and car works and  for bridges 
and  buildings.

The  silk  works  are  doing  well,  and 
most  of  the  mixed  textile  works,  and 
there  is  better  demand  of  late  for  cotton 
goods,  with  a  shade  advance  in  print 
In  woolens  there  is  a  somewhat 
cloths. 
increase  in  demand,  with  more 
general 
progress 
in  spring  weights,  changes 
which  have  much  improved  the outlook, 
but  yet  have  not  wholly  cleared  it  from 
uncertainty.  Prices  ot  wool  are  still 
held  at  the  West  much  above  those 
which  can  be  paid  by  manufacturers  at 
the  East  under  present  circumstances, 
although  there  is said to be of late a little 
more  disposition  to  consider  that  wool 
can  not be  marketed  unless manufactur­
ers  can  market  goods.  Shipments  of 
boots  and  shoes  were  not  as  large  from 
the  East  in  June  as  in  the  same  month 
of  four  previous  years,  and  yet  were 
exceeded  very  little,  and  works  have 
liberal  orders  ahead  for  this  season.

situation  continues  the 
The  grain 
same  general 
features  of  quite  pro­
nounced  fluctuation  from  day  to  day, 
with  on  the  whole  a downward tendency, 
especially  at  the  last.  Export  move­
ment  cf  both  wheat  and  corn,  and  es­
pecially  the  latter,  continues  unusually 
heavy.  The  ending  of  the  year  shows 
an  export  of  corn  which  has  never  been 
equaled.

The  volume  of  businessfin  June  has 
continued  heavy,  payments 
through 
clearing-houses  exceeding  those  of  the 
same  month 
in  1892  by  12  per  cent. 
Thus  the  transactions  for  the  half  year 
have  been  altogether  larger  than  those 
of  any  previous  half-year,  averaging  at 
the  fourteen  chief  cities  $208,000,000 for 
each  business  day,  against  $152,000,000 
last  year,  an 
increase  of  36.4  per  cent., 
and  against  $188,000,000  in  the  same 
month  of  1892,  a  gain  of  10.3  per  cent.

A  barber  can help  a  man  into a scrape 

easily  enough.

Volume  XV.

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Send for sample leaf. 

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O F  D ETRO IT«  M IC H IG A N .

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Insurance in  force.................................
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Net Assets............................................
Losses Adjusted and  Unpaid...............
Other  Liabilities..................................
Total  Death Losses Paid to Date........
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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,  ali  manufactured 
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If you  wish  to  look  over  my  line,  write 
me,  Box  346,  Marshall,  Mich.,  or meet me 
at Room 612, Palmer House, Chicago, from 
Monday, July  11,  to  Saturday, July  16,  or 
at Sweet’s Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich , from 
Wednesday, July 20, until Wednesday even­
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Reports and Collections.

L. J. STEVENSON, Manager and Notary.

R. J. CLELAN D, Attorney.

THE  FORGOTTEN  PAST

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

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

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D r y  G oods___

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

is  coming 

Staple  Cottons—The  slow demand  that 
has  been  experienced  during  the  last 
few  days  for  staple  fabrics  has  not  been 
accompanied  by any indication  of  weak­
ness. 
If  there  had  been  any  radically 
weak  spots  in  the  market  they  would 
have  shown  themselves  before  this  and 
their  absence  should  give  buyers  the 
courage  to  operate  freely  in  the’  future. 
Wide  sheeting  and  low  grade  bleached 
goods  are  as  weak  as  anything  in  the 
market,  yet 
leading  makes  of  these  are 
held  more  firmly  than  was  the  case  a 
week or  two  ago.  Price  would  not  have 
stimulated  demand  during  the  last  ten 
days,  and  most  lines  are  now  in  such 
improved  shape  that  buyers  will  have 
difficulty 
in  obtaining  concessions  in 
the  future.  Brown  sheetings  and  drills 
are  moving  actively  upon  old  contracts, 
but  new  business 
forward 
slowly.  Agents  handling  several  lead­
ing 
lines  of  heavy  goods  are  not  in  a 
position  to  make  deliveries  upon  new 
orders  for  two  or  three  months.  Export 
makes  are  especially  well  sold  ahead, 
and  were  never  held  more firmly than  is 
the  case to-day.  Low  grade  lightweight 
brown  sheetings  and  drills  were  moved 
with  considerable  freedom  during  June 
firm  at  quoted  prices. 
and  are  quite 
Duck  continues  firm,  despite  an 
in­
creased  production.  Government  or­
ders  are  the  principal  support  of  the 
market,  but  deliveries  of  regular  goods 
are  so  far  behind  that  the  removal  of 
the Government as a  factor  in  the market 
would  not  materially  aflect  prices.  Os- 
naburgs  are  slow,  but  firm.  Colored  cot­
tons,  other  than  denims,  plaids  and 
cheviots,  are  very  dull,  but  a  large  sup­
plementary  demand  is  soon  expected 
in  the 
from  the  cutting-up  trade,  and 
interim  prices  are  maintained 
firmly 
upon  all  leading  lines.  No  line  of  goods 
in  the  market  reflects the  increased  con­
suming  power  of  the  West  more  ac­
curately  than  grain  bags.  The  demand 
for  these  during  the  last  few  months has 
been  phenomenal,  and  continues  almost 
unabated. 
Leading  makes  are  sold 
ahead 
into  the  winter  months,  and 
prices  have  been  advanced  about 3 cents 
during  the  last  two  months;  an  advance 
of  a  cent  has  been  forced  during the last 
two  weeks.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Despite  the 
temporary  dulness  in  other  lines  of  dry 
goods,  there  is  a  fairly  active  demand 
for  fancy  prints  and  printed  specialties 
for  fall.  Dark  ginghams  and 
fancy 
domets  are  also  enjoying  a  fair call. 
Staple  lines  of  prints  are  inactive,  but 
napped  prints  move  with  considerable 
freedom.  Fair  sales  of  white  goods  are 
still  recorded 
in  the  primary  market; 
organdies  and  lawns  can  be  had,  but 
welts  are  practically  unobtainable  ex­
cept  from  jobbers,  who  prepared  for  a 
large  demand  some  time  ago.

Carpets—The  jobbers  of  carpets  re­
port  trade  as  very  unsatisfactory  since 
the  auctions  recently  held  in  New  York, 
as  many  of  their  former  customers  are 
filled  up  with  a  stock  of  goods  sufficient 
to  satisfy  their  requirements  for  some 
time,  while  others,  who  have  not  pur­
chased,  are  inclined  to  hold  off as  long 
as  they  possibly  can.  Some,  when  the 
goods  are  wanted,  place  orders  with  a 
proviso  that  they  shall  have 
immediate 
deliveries.  This  is  the  direct  effect  of 
the  unsettlement  of  the  carpet  market, 
caused  by  the  auctions,  which  have 
taught  the  retailers  to look  for surprises.
Upholstered  Goods—The  jobbers  re­

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

port  business  as  very  fair  on  velours 
and  corduroys.  Damask 
is  receiving  a 
moderate  share  of  attention,  while  bro- 
catelle  is  very  quiet.  The bunting trade, 
which  a  few  weeks  ago  was  very  brisk, 
has  fallen  off,  owing  to  the  fact  that  so 
many  went  into  the  business.

Blankets—Two  or  three  more  con­
tracts  for  blankets  that  have  been  made 
by  the  Government  have  served  to assist 
this  part  of  the  business  and  make  buy­
ers  still  more  anxious  to  get their goods.

About  Flags.

A  nation’s  flag  represents  its  sover­
in 

eignty  and  is  prominently  displayed 
all  its  battles.

To  “ strike  the  flag’ ’  is  to  lower  the 
National  colors  in  token  of  submission 
to  the  opposing  forces.
Dipping  the  flag  is  lowering  it slight­
ly  and  then  hoisting  it  again,  to  salute 
either  a  vessel  or  fort.

A  flag  of  truce  is  a  white  flag  dis­
played  to  the  enemy  to  indicate  a  de­
sire  for a  parley  or  consultation.

The  black  flag 

is  a  sign  of  piracy. 
The  yellow  flag  shows  a  vessel  to  be  in 
quarantine,  or  is  the  sign  of  a  conta­
gious  disease.

A  flag  at  half  mast  means  mourning. 
Vessels  come  into  a  harbor  with  a  flag 
at  half  mast  to  announce  the  loss  or 
death  of  some  of  the  crew.

Flags  are  used  as  the  symbol  of  rank 
and  command,  the  officers  using  them 
being  called  flag  officers.  Such  flags  are 
square,  to  distinguish  them  from  other 
banners.

The  red  flag  is  a  sign  of  defiance,  and 
is  often  used  by  revolutionists. 
In  the 
American  service  it  is  a  mark  of  dan­
ger  and  shows  a  vessel  to  be  receiving 
or  discharging  her  powder.

The  white  flag  with  a  red  cross  is  a 
sign  of  peace.  After  a  battle  parties 
from  both  sides  often  go  to  the  field  to 
rescue  the  wounded  or  bury  the  dead 
under  the  protection  of  such  a  flag.

W hy  She  W anted  a  P int.

Ethel  is  small,  but  extremely  sober- 
minded,  and  therefore  to  be  trusted  to 
run  on  household  errands.

The  other  day  her  mother  called  her 
from  her  play  and  said:  “ Ethel,  I  want 
you  to  run  over  to  the grocer’s  and  get 
me  a  quart  of  vinegar.’ ’

Ethel  looked  thoughtful and hesitated.
“ I'd  rather  get  a  pint,  mamma,”   she 

answered.

“ Why,  Ethel,  dear!”   exclaimed  her 
“ I  need  a  quart, 

astonished  parent. 
which  you  must  get.”

Again  the  little  girl  paused. 
she  said;  “ I ’ll  get  you  a  pint.”

“ I ’m  surprised  at  you !  Why  should 
you  buy  a  pint  when  1  wish  a  quart?”  
insisted  the  mother.

“ Bceause, ”   answered  Ethel,  the  tears 
“ I  can  say  pint, 

beginning  to  come, 
and  I  can’t  say  krort!”

“ No,”  

T he  F o rce   o f   E xam ple.

A  certain  eminent  judge  who  was  re­
cently  re-elected,  when  he  was  asked 
about  the  facility  with  which  he  turned 
from one  case to another,  replied  that  he 
had  learned  that  from  what  he  saw  at  a 
baptism  of  colored  people,  when  he  was 
a  boy.  The  weather  was  very  cold,  so 
that  to  immerse  the  candidates 
they 
were  obliged  to  cut  away  the 
It 
befell  that  when  one  of  the  female  con­
verts  was  dipped  back  in  the  water,  the 
cold  made  her  squirm  about,  and  in  a 
from  the 
moment 
preacher's  hands  and  was  down 
the 
stream  under  the 
ice.  The  preacher, 
however,  was  not  disconcerted.  Look­
ing  up  with  perfect  calmness  at  the 
crowd  on  the  bank,  he  said :

she  had  slipped 

“ Brethren,  this  sister  hath  departed- 

ice. 

hand  me  down  another.”

F ictio n  E nough.

asked. 
tion?”

It  happened  in  a  bookstore.
“ What  can  I  show  you,  madam?”   he 
“ Something  in  the  line  of  fic­
“ I 
I 
think 
get  enough  fiction  when  my  husband 
gets  home  late  from  the  lodge. * ’

“ No,”   she  answered,  slowly. 

I ’ll  try  history  for  a  change. 

f 

— 

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

mCarpets

All grades cut at wholesale.

You  Carry  Only  Samples

We  carry the stock.  When  you  make  a 
sale,  send  us  the  pattern  number,  size 
of  room! or  quantity  wanted  and  we will 
ship your order the same day as received 
—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 
inches.  These  samples  are  cut 
q xi8 
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  ST S.,  CHICAGO.

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

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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.
VOIOT,  HERPOLSHEIMER  &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

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

the  M a rke t.

Special Correspondence.

New  York,  July  2—The  Fourth  was 
such  a  big  day  this  year  that  it  began 
on  Friday,  so  far  as  the  suspension  of 
business  was  concerned.  Saturday  is  a 
short  day,  anyway,  and  so  a  lull  is exist­
ing  that  will  last  until  Tuesday.  A  hot 
wave  has  also  put 
in  an  appearance, 
and  the  only  way  we  can  keep  cool  is  to 
read  the  accounts  of  the  weather  in 
Cuba  where  the  soldiers  are.

Coffee  has  been  one  of  the very dullest 
items  on  the  list.  Brokers  say  they  have 
scarcely  any  orders  to  fill,  especially 
from  out  of  town,  and  in  an  invoice way 
matters are  very  quiet,  also.  Rio  No.  7 
is  still  held  at  6}4c. 
In  store  and  afloat 
there  are  849,498  bags,  against 604,836 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild 
grades  have  been  doing  rather  better 
than  a  week  ago  and  West  Indian  sorts 
of  desirable  coffee are  held  at full value.
Holders  of  teas  show  no  anxiety  to 
sell  and  buyers  show  still  less  to  pur­
chase.  The  holiday  has  taken  dealers 
out  of  the  city  and  quietude  reigns  su­
preme.  No  changes  have  been  made  in 
quotations  and  the  market  might  be 
fairly  called  a  steady  one.

Raw  sugars  are  steady,  but the volume 
of  trade  has  been  limited,  as  refiners 
state  that  they  will  do  nothing  until 
after  the  holidays  are  over.  Refined 
sugars  have  shown  more  activity,  and  a 
fair  volume  of  business  is  transacted. 
Some  granulated  sugar 
from  Europe 
(Austria)  has  been  sold,  it  is  said,  at  a 
rate  practically  the  same  as  that  of  the 
domestic  article.  Refiners  of  domestic 
refined  continue  the  guarantee  as  to 
price  for  another  thirty  days  from  date.
for  rice  have  been  re­
ceived,  but  the  market 
is  steady  and 
prices  are  firmly  adhered  to.  Dealers 
appear  to  have  every  confidence  in  the 
future  and  make  no  concessions.  Prime 
to  choice  Southern,  6y£@6%c.  Advices 
from  abroad  are  strong  and  the  chances 
are  that  we  shall  see  rice  no  cheaper  for 
some  time.

Few  orders 

into  negotiations  for 

Buyers  of  spices  appear  to  be  willing 
to  enter 
liberal 
quantities—if  they  can  have  their  own 
way  as  to  price,  but  holders  are  firm  in 
their  views  and  say  they  are  convinced 
that  the  situation  will  warrant  no 
lower 
rates,  and  so  both  sides  seem  to  be 
waiting. 
little 
business  during  the  week.

Jobbers  have  done  very 

Grocery  grades  of  molasses  are  very 
quiet  and  the  volume  of  business  could 
not  well  be  less  than  it  is.  Still,  prices 
for  centrifugal  are  generally  steady  for 
medium  grades.  Lower  grades  are  not 
wanted  at  all.  Low  grade  beet  syrups 
are  expected  to  make  their  appearance 
this  month  and  this  will  be  another  fac­
tor  of  competition  for  low  grade  cane 
molasses.

little 

In  canned  goods,  the  week  has  been 
a  very  quiet one,  the  principal  item  of 
interest  being  a  decided  reaction  in  the 
price  of  spot  tomatoes.  The  chances  of 
the  crop  are  being  discussed  and 
it 
seems  to  be  the  prevailing  opinion  that 
there  will  be  the  usual  bumper  supply, 
later  than 
although  possibly  a 
usual.  The  Southern  pea  pack 
is  said 
to  be  only  about  two-thirds  as 
large  as 
usual,  but  the  quotations  are  not  at  all 
affected  by  this  narrative,  although  the 
market  is  generally  firm  in  tone.
in 
either  foreign  or domestic  dried  fruits. 
Fancy  evaporated  apples  are  in  very 
light  supply  and  are  firm.

There  is  scarcely  anything  doing 

Oranges  lack  animation,  although  the 
supply 
is  not  excessive.  Lemons  are 
doing  better  and,  of  course,  the  trade 
for  the  Fourth  has  kept  dealers  busy 
in 
filling  orders.  Sicily  lemons,  as  to  size 
and  condition,  are  worth  $4@6  per  b ox; 
Sorrentos,  $6@6.75.  California  oranges, 
$2.5o@4  per  box.  Bananas are  quiet  and 
lower.

Butter  jobbers  are  taking  only  enough 
for  current  requirements  and  the  market 
is  rather  more  quiet  than  a 
generally 
week  ago.  Extra  Western  creamery 
is 
is  probably 
nominally 
16 c;  sec­
shaded, 
onds,  I5@i5>£c;  Extra  Western 
imita­

if  necessary;  firsts, 

17c;  but  this 

tion  creamery, 
seconds,  n j£@ i2c.

I4@ i4j£c;  firsts,  I2j^c; 

The  cheese  market  shows  signs  of 
weakness  and  it  is very doubtful whether 
the  quotations  of  a  week  ago  could  be 
obtained  to-day.  Exporters  have  been 
doing  almost  nothing,  as  they  say  this 
market 
is  beyond  their  reach.  Small 
size  full  cream  is  not  in  excessive  sup­
ply  and  is about  steady  at  8c.

Prime  to 

fancy  Pennsylvania  and 
Michigan  eggs  are  held  at  I3@ I3J£c. 
The  supply  of  really  good  stock  is light, 
as  might  be  expected  during  such  hot 
weather  and,  while  there  is  enough  of 
inferior goods,  the  demand  is  naturally 
small.

Beans  are  quiet  and  the  market  is 
well  supplied.  Choice  marrow,  $1.50; 
choice medium,  $1.25 ; choice pea,  $1.20.

G erm an  U nde rstan ding  o f  “ R eceiver.”  
From the  Cincinnati  Commercial-Tribune.

old 

A  few  days  ago  a  case  was  in  one  of 
the  courts  that  involved  a  receiver  for  a 
building  association.  The plaintiff  was 
a  highly  respected  German  who  knew 
what  he  wanted,  but  in  some  manner 
the  attorney  had  not  taken  the  steps that 
his  client  desired.  When  the  plaintiff 
was  on  the  stand  his  attorney  examined 
him  at  length.  During  the  examination 
the 
gentleman  became  excited 
and  answered  the  questions  in  such  a 
way  that  the  Judge  was  under  the  im­
pression  that  he  didn’t  thoroughly  un­
derstand  the  questions  and  answers.  He 
declared  that  he didn’t  want  a  receiver, 
that he  didn’t  want  his  attorney  to  take 
the  step,  and  that  all  he  wanted  was  his 
money.

At  this  point  the  Judge  suggested  that 
the  court 
interpreter  be  sent  for,  that 
the  German  might  make  himself  more 
clearly  understood.  But  he  declared that 
he  understood  what  he  wanted,  and  that 
was  his  money,  and  if  he  failed  to  get 
it  he  would  kill  himself.

To  ascertain 

if  he  knew  what  he 

wanted  the  Judge  said :

“ Do  you  know  what  a  receiver  is?”
“ Yes,  sir;  I  do,  sir,”   said  the  hon­
“ He  vos  der  man  vot  gits 

est  German. 
der  monish  und  I  gits  nottings. ”

This  convinced  the  Judge 

that  the 
plaintiff  knew  quite  well what be wanted 
and  what  be  was  talking  about.

the 

interpreter  was  dispensed 

with,  for the  time  being,  at  least.

“ I  guess,”   said  the  Judge,  in  con­
clusion,  “ he knows  as  much  about  a  re­
ceiver  as  we  do. ”

So 

New  Route/ to   C hicago.

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  postolfice,and near the  down  town 
business  and  hotel  districts.  Other 
railroads  using  this 
station  are  the 
Atchison,  Topeka  &  Santa  Fe,  Wabash, 
Chicago  &  Eastern  Illinois,  Chicago, 
Indianapolis  &  Louisville,  and  Erie. 
No  transfer  will,  therefore,  be  neces­
sary  for  passengers  to  or  from  the above 
mentioned  lines.

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

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

The following  is a condensed schedule:
D aily.
Lv Grand Rapids............ 7:10am  2:10pm 
11:35pm
A r  Chicago  ....'  ........... 2:00pm  9:10pm 
6:30am
11:45pm
Lv Chicago.....................  
3:02pm 
Ar Grand  Rapids...........  
9.30pm  7:25am

General  Passenger  and  Ticket  Agent.

C.  L .  L o ck w o o d,

Poor
E conomy

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

“ Lily White” Flour

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

NOW.

Valley City Milling  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

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r SPAIN

WILL
SETTLE

Dwight’s  Liquid  Bluing 

never  settles.

Manufactured  by

The  W olverine  Spice  Co.,  ä
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Grand  Rapids, Mich. 

Blank 
Books

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

„

Will  M.  Hine,  Commercial  Stationer,

49 Pearl Street, 
2 and 4 Arcade,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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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  ist. 
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,

Work  Bros.  & Co.,

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

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

E N T E R P R I S E  
N E C K W E A R   C O ., 

KORTLANDER 
BLOCK,

GRANO  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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Around  the State

M ovem ents  o f  M e rch a n ts.

Durand—Frey  &  Jones  have  sold their 

meat  market  to  E.  Balanger,  Jr.

Houghton—Jas.  Goggin  has purchased 

the  meat  business  of  W.  F.  Miller.

Avoca—John  E.  Staiey  has  purchased

the  drug  stock  of  Harry  A.  McKenna.

Cold water—Fred  Parker  succeeds  Gay 
&  Parker  in  the  confectionery  business.
Coldwater—F.  R.  Drury  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  J.  W.  Somerlott  &  Co.
Coldwater-----Bitter  &  Huff  succeed
Calkins  &  Weston  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness.

Hesperia — H.  E.  Stebbins,undertaker 
furniture  dealer,  has  removed  to 

and 
F  erry.

Davison—J.  A.  Austin,  of  Bancroft, 
has  purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  L. 
P.  Herd.

Gaylord—Qua  &  Wilson  have  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Elmer  W. 
Humphrey.

Detroit—Frank  F.  Liska  succeeds 
in  the  merchant  tailor­

Li ska  &  Stone 
ing  business.

Grand  Haven—Kooiman  &  Zaagman 
have  purchased  the  flour and  feed  busi­
ness  of  A.  Stap.

Mt.  Pleasant—Fox  &  Thiers,  drug­
gists,  have  dissolved  partnership,  F.  G. 
Thiers  succeeding.

Benton  Harbor—Teetzel  &  Hayden 
are  succeeded  by  Gideon  W.  Hayden  in 
the  jewelry  business.

Springport—West  &  Stanceli  have 
opened  a  meat  market  in  connection 
with  their  grocery  business.

Albion—Geo.  M.  Church  has  pur 
chased  the  confectionery  stock  and  res­
taurant  and  bakery  of  Mrs.  Glover.

Fremont—The  firm  of Crawford  Bros., 
bicycle  dealers,  has  been  dissolved,  P. 
H.  Crawford  continuing  the  business.

Vestaburg—E.  F.  Owen  lost  his  drug 
stock  by  tire  a  few  days  ago.  The  dam­
age  is  estimated  at  §1,200,  with  no 
in­
surance.

Crawford—Elihu  Walling, 

formerly 
in  general  trade  at  Lamont, 
in  the  drug  business  at 

engaged 
has  engaged 
this  place.

Decatur—G.  B.  Browning,  druggist, 
has  formed  a copartnership with Edward 
Peterson,  and  will  continue  the business 
under  the  style  of Browning &  Peterson.
Coloma—A.  F.  Ragatz,  of  Vineland, 
111.,  and  Alvin  P.  Kniebes,  of  South 
Coloma,  have  formed  a  copartnership 
and  engaged  in  the  jewelry  business  at 
this  place.

Hillsdale—Geo.  F.  Washburn,  of  E. 
in  coal, 
M.  Washburn  &  Co.,  dealers 
has  retired  from  the  firm.  E.  M.  Wash- 
bum  will  continue  the  business  in  his 
own  name.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—John  G.  Lake  and 
Wm.  Harper,  who  conducted  a  commis­
sion  business  here  under  the  style  of 
Lake  &  Harper,  have  dissolved.  Mr. 
Lake  will  continue  the  business.

Ypsilanti—Ned  Bristol,  formerly  with 
Parke,  Davis  &  Co.  (Detroit),  will  as­
sume  the  management  of  the  Central 
drug  store,  heretofore  under  the  super­
vision  of  the  late  Ray  D.  Rowley.

St.  Johns—The  Webber  clothing  store 
has  been  closed  and  the  stock  removed 
to  Ionia.  W.  W.  Peck, who managed the 
business,  has  engaged  in  the  real  estate 
business 
J.  C. 
Flynn.

in  partnership  with 

Linwood—Jacob  R ivkin ’s 

general 
stock  has  been  seized  on  attachments  is­
sued  at  the  instance  of  Hine  &  Chat- 
field,  of  Bay  City,  Miller  Bros.,  of  Vas- 
sar,  and  Phipps,  Penoyer  &  Co.,  of 
Saginaw.

Lenox—The  Macomb  County  Savings 
is  being  organized  at  this  place 
Bank 
with  a  capital  stock  of  §25,000.  The 
stock  has  nearly  all  been  subscribed and 
is  held  entirely  by  Macomb  and  St. 
Clair  county  business  men.

Saginaw—Samuel  N.  Henion,  dry 
goods  dealer,  has  executed  a  chattel 
mortgage  amounting  to  $11,384.77 on his 
entire  stock  and  personal  effects  to 
las. 
Seed  &  Co.,  of  Bay  City,  with  whom  he 
was  connected  in  business.  Mr.  Henion 
will  hereafter  conduct  the  business 
alone.

Hancock—Reeves  &  Burns,  doing 
business  under  the  name  of  the  Han­
cock  Mercantile  Co.,  have  dissolved 
partnership  and  retired 
from  trade. 
Mr.  Reeves  will  go  to  St.  Paul,  where 
he  will  enter  other  fields  of  business, 
while  Mr.  Burns  will  enter  the  commis­
sion  firm  of  A.  Ruhl  &  Co.,  of  Hough­
ton,  as a  partner.

M a n u fa ctu rin g   M a tte rs.

Owosso—The  Castree  &  Shaw  Co.  is 
erecting  a  warehouse  to  be  used  for  the 
storage  of  the  finished  product  of  its 
foundry.

Fremont—Francis  W.  Feed  and  John 
Weiler,  who  operated  a  flouring  mill  at 
this  place  under  the  style  of  Reed  & 
Weiler,  have  dissolved  partnership,  Mr. 
Reed  succeeding.

Detroit-James Kingsley has purchased 
on  private  terms  from  the  Union  Trust 
Company  the  plant  of  the  Richardson 
box  factory,  consisting  of  mill building, 
engine  house,  dry  kiln,  lumber  sheds 
and  dwelling  house.

Traverse  City—The  firm  of  V.  &  A. 
Petertyl,  for  many  years  engaged  in  the 
wagon  and  carriage manufacturing busi­
ness,  has  dissolved,  A.  J.  Petertyl  retir­
ing.  Victor  Petertyl  will  continue  the 
business  in  his  own  name.

Marysville-—N.  &  B.  Mills  are  ship­
ping  over  the  Detroit  &  Mackinac  R ail­
way  to  Tawas  8,000,000  feet of long Nor­
logs,  that  are  said  to  be  as  fine  as 
way 
were  ever  cut 
in  Michigan.  The  logs 
will  be  rafted  to  Marysville.

Sebewaing—The Sebewaing Lumber & 
Manufacturing  Co.  is  working  overtime 
in  order  to  keep  pace  with  orders. 
Aside  from  the  lumbering  feature  of  the 
company’s  business  it  is  filling  an  order 
for  1,000  center  tables  for  a  Cleveland 
concern.

Flint—The 

Fenton  Manufacturing 
Co.,  manufacturers  of  whip  sockets  and 
nickel  carriage  rails  and  trimmings, 
will  shortly  remove  its  plant  from  Fen­
ton  to  this  place.  A  building  50x139 
feet 
stories  and 
basement,  with  a  wing  18x24  feet,  is 
now  in  process  of  erection.

in  dimensions,  two 

lumber  on 

Saginaw—A.  C.  White  has  purchased 
the  stock  of 
the  yard  of 
O'Donnell,  Spencer  &  Co.  for  §10,000 
cash.  The  stock  was 
inventoried  and 
appraised  by  experienced  men at about 
§14,000,  and  experts  have  said  that  it 
could  not  be  bought  in  the  open  market 
at  within  a  dollar  and  a  half  a  thousand 
of  the  appraised  valuation.

Manistee—The  R.  G.  Peters  Salt  & 
Lumber  Co.  started  its  new  double  ac­
tion  vacuum  pans  last  week,  and  the 
output  so  far  exceeded  expectations  that 
it  was  found  they  had  not  provided  half 
enough  storage  capacity  and  would  not 
be  able  to  furnish  with  their  six  wells 
half  enough  brine  to  keep  the  block 
in 
operation  steadily.  The  company  will 
probably  put  in  the  air  pump  system  on 
its  wells,  as  this  would  more 
than 
double  the  capacity  of  each  well.

Detroit—The  Michigan  Beef  &  Pro­
sales­

vision  Co.,  with  down-town 

rooms  at  140  Bates  street  and  a  large 
slaughter  house  and  rendering  works  at 
the  Michigan  Central  stock  yards,  is 
undergoing  a  process  of  reorganization 
which,  when  completed,  will  result  in 
some  changes 
in  the  active  husiness 
staff  of  the  firm.  Ex  Aid.  George  Beck, 
who  has  been  general  manager  for  the 
company  ever  since  its  organization  ten 
years  ago,  will  continue  to  buy  the  cat­
tle  for  the  firm  at  the  yards.  Burke 
Spencer,  who  has  bad  charge  of  the 
firm’s  sheep  and  calf  deal  from  the first, 
will  continue  in  charge  of  this  depart­
ment. 
John  Andrews,  who  has  acted  as 
dressed  meat  salesman  for  the  company 
for  the  past  nine  years,  has  resigned. 
Soon  after  entering  the  employ  of  the 
firm  Mr.  Andrews  purchased  a  block  of 
stock 
in  the  company,  which  he  still 
owns.  William  M.  McKay,  who  has 
kept  the  books  for  the  firm  for  several 
years,  has  also  resigned  and 
intends 
soon  to  engage  in  business  on  his  own 
account.  Thomas  E.  Newton,  who  has 
been  conducting  a  retail  meat  business 
in 
the  Central  market  on  Cadillac 
Square  for  some  time,  has been  engaged 
to  act  as  general  manager.

Strong  Talk  Relative  to  the  Mance- 

fona  Bank  Failure.

The  Mancelona  Herald  thus  refers  to 
the  failure  of  the  banking  bouse  of  A. 
Young  &  Sons,  of  that  place:

This  collapse  was  no  surprise  to those 
in  a  position  to  watch 
who  have  been 
the  conduct  and  management  of  this  so- 
called  “ bank”   during  the  past  several 
years,  for  to  those  who  had  half  an  eye 
it  was  plainly evident that the whole con­
cern was rotten  to  the  core  and  was  rest­
ing  on  the  most  ridiculous  lying  and 
subterfuge  for  its  stock  in trade.  Hence, 
our  merchants  and  other  business  men 
are  not  caught,  nor  will they  be affected 
by  the  crash.

Later  developments  show  that  lying, 
however,  was  only  one  of  many  dishon­
est  traits  adopted  to  bolster  up  the  com­
mercial  carrion  which  was  still  strug­
gling  to  do  business  under  the  name  of 
Bank  of  Mancelona,  but  that  no  scheme 
or  action  was  too  dishonest  or  criminal 
for  the  managers  of  this  institution  to 
resort  to.  The  only  wonder  is  that  the 
putrid ^mass  has  been  able  to subsist and 
fool  any  of  the  people.

is 

We  fail  to  hear  of  one  spark  of  sym­
pathy  for  any  of  the  younger  members 
of  the  Young  family  who  have  had  the 
management  of  this  institution,  but  the 
elder  Mr.  Young,  the  head  of  the  firm, 
who 
illiterate  and  uneducated  and 
who  has  left  the  financial  management 
entirely  to  his  sons,  and  who  has  strug- 
gle'd,  economized  and  saved  to  educate 
these boys and  start  them  in life.and who 
now finds himself in his old age robbed of 
all  his  savings  and  left  with  worse  than 
nothing,  for  while  bis substance is gone, 
he 
is  still  cursed  with  the  dishonest 
progeny  which  have  brought  on  his 
downfall  and  the  family  disgrace  and 
who  still  live  to  dishonor  the  good name 
which  the  old  man  has  struggled  to 
make  and  maintain—to  this  old  man, 
in  his  sorrow,  misery  and  seeming  pov­
erty,  the  Herald  extends  its  sympathy 
and  believes  that  the  community  at 
large  joins  it  in  such  sympathy  for  this 
unfortunate  sire  of  degenerate  scions.

inventory 

As  near  as  we  can  learn  until  later, 
when  the 
is  completed,  the 
following  are  a  few  of  the heaviest cred­
itors:  The  Fifth  National  Bank  of 
Grand  Rapids,  the  Grand  Rapids  Na­
tional  Bank,  the  Detroit  National  Bank, 
Peter Jackson,  Mrs.  C.  E.  Mills,  Almon 
Kimball,  Jas.  DePlanty,  Frank  Harding 
and  Mrs.  H all;  but  these  do  not  include 
the  scores  of  poor  laboring men,  widows 
and  orphans  who  have  lost  their  all, 
owing  to  their  trust  in these unmitigated 
scoundrels.

A  woman  can  talk  as  sweet  as peaches 
and  cream  to  another  woman  she  hates, 
while  two  men  would  be  punching  each 
other  s  heads  before  they  had exchanged 
a  dozen  words.

G rand  Haven’s  W elcom e 

O rd e r.

in  W o rk in g  

Grand  Haven,  July  1—At  a  largely 
attended  meeting  of  the retail merchants 
of  this  city,  held  last  evening,  Homer 
Klap  of  Grand  Rapids  was  present  and 
thanked  the  merchants  heartily  for  their 
invitation  to  hold  the  twelfth  annual 
picnic  at  the  Sand  Hill  City. 
It  was 
the  Grand 
moved  and  adopted 
Rapids  Association 
the  pro­
gram  for  the  picnic.  Committees  were 
appointed  as  follows :

that 
furnish 

Arrangements—H.  Z.  Nyland,  P. 

VanLopik,  John  Juistema.
Sports  and  Games—J.  Ball,  C.  N. 
Addison,  Ed.  Hollestelle.
Finance—D.  A.  Lane, 
J.  M.  Cook, 

Tony  Boet,  B.  V.  D.  Boomgaard.
Reception—Peter  VanLopik,  Stephen 
Brouwer,  Peter  VerDuin,  H.  Z.  Nyland, 
John  \V.  Verhoeks,  C. 
John  Juistema, 
N.  Addison,  Ed.  Hollestelle,  John Boer, 
John  Cook,  Tony  VanTol.
The  following  resolution,  offered  by 

H.  Z.  Nyland,  was  adopted :

Whereas,  the  Retail  Grocers’ Associa­
tion  of  Grand  Rapids  have  accepted the 
invitation  of  the Merchants’  Association 
of  this  city  to  participate  with  them  at 
Highland  Park  in  their  annual  picnic 
August  4;  therefore 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  Merchants’ 
Association  of  the  city  of  Grand  Haven, 
hereby  express  to  the  said  Retail  Gro­
cers’  Association  of  Grand  Rapids  our 
appreciation  of  their  acceptance  of  our 
invitation,  and  assure  them  that  we will 
do  all  in  our  power  to  make  the  day one 
of  pleasure  and  at  the  same  time further 
promote  the  feelings  of  good-fellowship 
between 
the  business  men  of  both 
places.
T h u m b   D ru g g ists  M eet  and  O rg anize.
July  1—A  meeting  of  drug­
gists,  representing  Lapeer,  Sanilac  and 
Tuscola  counties,  held  here  Wednesday, 
resulted  in  the  birth  of the Thumb Phar­
maceutical  Association,  with  the  follow­
ing  officers  elected  for  the  term  of  one 
year:

Clifford, 

President—J.  H.  Vandecar,  North 

Branch.

wood.

Vice-President—E.  Warner,  Marlette.
Secretary—O.  G.  Millikinj  Silver- 

intercourse, 

Treasurer—James  Erwin,  Marlette.
The  promoters of  the new organization 
hope  soon  to  enlist  the  interest  and  co­
operation  of  all  the  drugigsts  of  the 
Thumb  and  are  confident  that  through 
closer 
rendered  possible 
through  this  medium,  much  can  be  ac­
complished  that  will  be of  mutual  and 
lasting  advantage  in  a  professional  and 
business  way.
It  is  proposed  to  hold  quarterly  meet­
ings,  the  next  to  convene  at  Marlette  on 
or  about  Sept.  1.

As  a  supplementary  feature  of  the  or­
ganization,  an  annual  social fete of some 
character  will  be  introduced.

During  their  stay  at  Clifford, 

the 
genial  compounders  of  pills  and  squills 
were  most  hospitably  entertained  by 
DuSaar  &  Kirby  and  J.  F.  Turner  & 
Son,  the  local  druggists.

Hides,  Pelts,  T a llo w   and  W ool.

Hides  remain  firm  and  are  in  good 
demand.  There  is  no  weakening  of  the 
market,  except  on 
light  stock,  which 
seems  to  be  manipulated  by  Chicago 
dealers.

Pelts  are  not  offered  to  any extent  and 

are  dull  of  sale.

Tallow  is  weak  and  lower,  with 

little 
demand.  So  much  grease  for  soapers’ 
stock  is  offered  that  prices  must  remain 
low.

Wool  seems  to  feel buoyant, on account 
of  the  war  victories.  Manufacturers  are 
looking  around  for  future  needs.  They 
find  ample  supplies,  but  no weak prices. 
Sales  are  still  light,  while  the  future 
is 
brighter.  Wools  West  cost  as  much  as 
they  can  be  sold  for  East,  with  freight 
added,  and  are  strongly  held.  Either 
the  clip  is  short  or  growers  are  holding 
back,  on  account  of  the  small  auantity 
marketed. 

W m.  T.  He s s.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

The  Grocery  Marxet.

Sugar—The  market  is without  change. 
The  Trust  has  renewed 
its  thirty-day 
guarantee  against  decline  from  day  to 
day  and  there  is  no  reason  for  any  ad­
vance.  The  refineries  closed  down  from 
Friday  evening  until  Tuesday  morning. 
Several  grades  of  refined  sugar  are  re­
ported  oversold  and  stocks  are  fairly 
light.  Raw  sugar  is  dull  and  the  de­
mand  light.  The  consumption  of  sugar 
ought  to  be  better  at  this  season  than 
it 
is.  One cause  of  the  lack  of activity  is 
the  fact  that  the  trade  bought  pretty 
freely  some  time  ago,  and  are  not  yet 
out of  stock.

Tea—Prices  show no  change,  certain­
ly  no  tendency  toward  shading.  Hold­
ers  are  not anxious  to  sell,  and  there  are 
some  who  believe  in  a  higher  market, 
although  this  view 
is  not  universally 
held.  There  are  no  new  teas  on  the 
market  except  new  Japans,  which  are 
selling  quite  freely.  The  tea  market  in 
Japan  and  China  is  still  firmly held,  and 
no  decline  from  the  recent  advance  is 
expected.  In  any  event,  there  will hard­
ly  be  any  further advance.

is  reported 

Coffee—No  change 

in 
bulks  or  packages,  and  the  feeling  is 
weak  in  green  grades.  The  consump­
tive  trade  seems  still  to  be  feeding  on 
the  package  goods  they  bought  on  spec­
ulation  some  time  ago,  and  retailers 
also  have  but  little  need  for  renewals  of 
stocks  in  this  line.  The  supply  of  coffee 
in  sight,  especially  of  Brazil  coffees,  is 
too  large  to  admit  of  high  prices,  while 
the  admission  of  coffee  duty  free  is  a 
pledge  of  low  prices.  The  duty  on  tea 
will  in  a  measure  strengthen  the  coffee 
market,  but  can  not  create  any  excite­
ment.

is  doing 

Canned  Goods—While  there  is  no par­
ticular  advancé,  there  is  more  buying, 
and  every 
indication  of  an  advance  a 
little  later.  The Government  took  quite 
large  quantities  of  tomatoes  during  the 
week,  and  this  will  help  matters  along. 
Nothing 
in  future  tomatoes. 
Corn  is  very  dull  at  unchanged  prices. 
Peas  are  quiet,  with no  further  advance, 
although  only  the  packers’  need of funds 
causes  them  to  sell  at  present  figures,  if 
their  estimate  of  50  per  cent,  shortage 
in  the  pack  is  correct.  Nothing  much 
is  doing  in  peaches,  which  rule  at  un­
changed  prices.  California  futures  are 
selling  only  in  a  very  small  way.

Dried  Fruits—Reports  from  the  West 
indicate  that  prunes  in  California  are 
about  cleaned  up,  and  that  the  coming 
crop  will  be  materially  lighter  than  that 
of  last  year.  The  crop 
in  the  North­
western  Coast  States,  however,  is  com­
ing  to  be  a  considerable  factor  in  the 
market,  and  promises  this  season  to  be 
larger  than  ever,  which  will  make  it  a 
larger  factor  than  ever  in  the  market. 
However,  it  is  freely  predicted  that  the 
price  of  prunes  of  the  crop  of  1898  will 
be  not  far  from  twice  as  high  in  price 
as  that  of  last  year.  Raisin  growers are 
of  the  opinion  that  prices  will  be higher 
than  they  were  the  past  year, for the rea­
son  that  a  pool  is  being  formed  for  the 
handling  of  a  large  part  of  the  coming 
year’s  crop.  This  is  thought  to  be  nec­
essary  this  year,  for  the  reason  that  the 
present  crop  promises  to  eclipse  every­
thing  yet  known  in  the  crop  record. 
It 
is  feared  that  the  crop  will  not  pay  for 
the  picking  and  packing  unless  some 
method  is  taken  to  make  an  even  mar­
ket.  At  best  the  market  will  be  com­
paratively  low,  for such  a  pool  could  not 
bold  prices  unreasonably  high 
in  the 
face  of  such  a  crop.

Nuts—Peanuts  have  been  advanced 
owing  to  light  stocks  on  hand. 
The  crop  of  California  walnuts  is  re­
ported  to  be  very  large  this  season,  and 
an  association  has  been  formed  for  the 
handling  of  them.  This 
is  likely  to 
have  a  bracing  effect  on  the  market.

Provisions—There  has  been  no further 
drop  during  the  past  week,  although 
local  jobbers  have  marked  their  own 
prices  down  a 
little.  The  supply  of 
hams 
in  the  country  is  very  large,  and 
the  general  market  prices  are  about  as 
low  as  can  be  expected.  There  is  a 
very  good  demand  for  provisions,  but 
stocks  are  very  large,  caused  by  a  lack 
of  demand  earlier  in  the  season.  Lard 
little  off,  because  of  large  stocks 
is  a 
also.  When 
lard  advanced  everybody 
bought,  and  their  purchases  have  not 
yet  been  exhausted.

Fish—The  Eastern  fishermen  are  not 
catching  as  many  mackerel  as  they were 
and  everything  seems  to  indicate  that 
the  market  will  do  better,  or at  least  do 
no  worse.  There  will  hardly  be  any 
change  in  the  next  few  days.  Very  lit­
tle  cod 
is  selling,  and  prices  are  un­
changed.  Lake  fish  could  sell  if  it  were 
available,  but  it  is  not  to  be  had.  Sar­
dines have  advanced  very  sharply  dur­
ing  the  last  few  days.

T he  G rain  M a rke t.

Cash  wheat  has  remained  very  steady 
The  Leiter 
during  the  past  week. 
is  moving  out  very  rapidly,  al­
wheat 
though  at  a  tremendous 
loss.  Receipts 
are  at  a  low  point,  only  197  cars  having 
been  received  in  the  Northwest  Monday 
(which  was  for  two  days),  while  on  the 
same  date  last  year  the  receipts  were 
760  cars.  The  shipments  were  so 
large 
this  year  that  the  visible  made  a  de­
crease  of  2,524,000 bushels,  against 661,- 
000  bushels  for  the  corresponding  time 
one  year  ago,  leaving  the  amount  in 
sight  only 
14,701,000  bushels,  which, 
with  one  exception,  is  the  smallest  vis­
ible 
in  fourteen  years.  Harvesting  is 
now  in  progress  and  the  threshing  ma­
chines  will  soon  be  heard.  Barring 
wet  weather,  the  crop  will  be  in  splen­
did  condition  and  the  yield  will  be 
large,  but  we  think 
it  will  not  be  as 
large  as  many  have  anticipated. 
In 
sections  where  threshing  has  been  done 
the  wheat  is  not  being  moved  as  fast 
as  dealers  expected.  The  cause  for  this 
is  that  millers  have  picked  up  all  that 
has  been  offered  and  farmers  are  not 
forced  to  sell,  as  the  abundant  crop  and 
high  phrices  of  ’97  have  placed  them  in 
good  condition,  financially.  The  bears 
are  predicing  lower  prices,  but  it  is  our 
opinion  that  the  crowding  prices  down 
has  been  overdone  and  that  they  will  be 
elevated  instead  of  lowered.

Corn  and  oats  held  their  own  and  re­
mained  very  steady.  Neither  of  these 
cereals  will  change  for  some  time yet.

The  receipts  in  this  market  have been 
very  moderate,  being  only  32  cars  of 
wheat,  14  cars  of  corn  and  15  cars  of 
oats.  The  receipts  of  grain  in  Grand 
Rapids  during  the  month  of  June  were 
156  cars  of  wheat,  44  cars  of  corn  and 
25  cars  of  oats.

Local millers are paying 79c for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  V o ig t .

E xcursion  to   B uffalo,  N .  Y.

On  July  12,  13,  14  and  15  the  Michi­
gan  Central  will  sell  excursion  tickets 
to  Buffalo  and  return  at  one  fare  for  the 
round  trip  on  account  of  the  Baptist 
Young  People’s  Union.  Return 
limit 
July  19,  with  privilege  of  extension  un­
til  Sept 
1,  inclusive,  on  payment  of  50 
cents.  Stop  over  at  Niagara  Falls  will 
be  granted  on  both  going  and  returning 
journeys.

W.  C.  B l a k e ,  City  Ticket  Agt.

T H E   S T A M P   T A X .

H ow   the  Banks  A d ju st  Them selves to 

the  N ew   C onditions.

it  had 

The  new  war  revenue  law,  requiring 
stamps  on  checks,  drafts,  telegrams, 
freight  receipts  and  other  papers  and 
into 
documents  which  enter  actively 
modern  business  methods,  went 
into 
effect 
last  Friday,  and  so  well  did  the 
people  understand  the  situation  and  so 
kindly  did  they  take  to  it  that  the  new 
law  already  works  smoothly  and  as 
though 
long  been  in  force.  At 
the  banks  it  is  rare  indeed  that  any  ob­
jections  are  heard  to  the  new  order  of 
things  and,  considering  the  novelty,  the 
number  of  checks  presented  without  the 
stamp  adornment  is  surprisingly  small. 
The  stamp  form ality  w ill,  doubtless,  be 
overlooked  occasionally,  even  although 
the 
in  force  for  ages,  for 
the  same  reason  that  letters  are  not  al­
ways  stamped,  but  a  high  average  of 
law  observance  is looked for.  The  banks 
have  not  yet  observed  any  reduction 
in 
the  volume  of  check  business,  but  it 
may  be  too  early  yet  to  judge  what  the 
effect  of  the  tax  will  be.  A  better  con­
clusion  can  be  drawn  a  month  hence 
than  at  this  time.

law  remains 

*  *  *

The  banks  have,  by  clearing  house 
agreement,  decided  to  suspend  the  free 
list,  in  so  far as  the  stamp  tax 
is  con­
cerned,  on  drafts.  The  favored  custom­
ers  who  in  the  past  have  been  getting 
their  exchange  free  will  be  required  to 
pay  for  the  stamp.  The  rates  on  ex­
change  sold,  ranging  from  10  cents  up 
to  25  cents,  will  remain  as  they  are,  the 
banks  paying  for  the  stamps.  Certifi­
cates  of  deposit,  which  the  law  requires 
to  be  stamped,  will  be  issued  as  here­
tofore  and  the  banks  will  put  on  the 
stamps  free. 
is  possible  the  free 
stamps  on  certificates  may  not  last,  es­
pecially  should 
it  develop  that  remit­
tances  are  being  made  with  certificates 
instead  of  with  drafts.

It 

*   $

The  banks  have  declared  their  semi­
annual  dividends  and  none  of  them  in 
this  city  have  disappointed  their  stock­
holders.  The  Kent  Savings  declared  a 
4  per  cent,  quarterly,  the  Fourth  Na­
tional  2  per  cent,  quarterly,  the  M ichi­
gan  Trust  Company  4 ^   per  cent,  semi­
annual,  the  Peninsular  Trust  2  percent, 
semi  annual  and  the  others  each  3  per 
cent,  semi-annual,  the  Oid  National,  in 
addition,  paying  the  taxes.  The  amount 
disbursed  in  dividends  was  $88,000.  On 
the  aggregate  capital the bank dividends 
averaged  3.35  per  cent,  and  their  aver­
age  will  be  very  materially  reduced 
when  the  taxes are  paid,and  still further 
cut  down  when  the  surplus  and  undi­
vided  protfis  are  counted 
in  with  the 
capital.

The  P roduce  M a rke i.

nois.

Apples—50c  per  %  bu.  crate  of  Illi­
Bananas —The  holiday  trade,  com­
bined  with  an  advance  at  the  ports  of 
entry,  has  advanced  fancy  fruit.  The 
movement  is  large,  and  the consumptive 
demand  locally  very  good.

Beets—New,  15c  per  doz.  bunches.
Blackberries—$1  per  crate  of 
16  qts. 
for  home  grown.
Butter—Creamery  is  in  ample  supply 
at  16c.  Choice  grades  of  dairy  are  still 
scarce  and  stronger,  commanding  12 
@130.  Packing  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  9@ioc.
Cabbage—Home  grown 
supply  at  5o@6oc  per  doz.

Celery—i5@2oc  per  bunch.
Carrots—io@i5c  per  doz.  bunches.
Cherries—$1  per  bu. 

for  Red  and 
$ 1 .5o@i.75  per  bu.  for White and Black. 
The  crop  of  red  cherries  is  enormous, 
the  trees  being  loaded  down  to  the  limit

large 

in 

is 

of  endurance.  A  drive 
in  almost  any 
direction  reveals  sights  in  the  way  of 
cherry  orchards  which  are  worth going a 
long  distance  to  see.  Sweet  cherries, 
strange  to  say,  are  a  short  crop  and 
dealers  meet  with  considerable difficulty 
in  getting  stock  in  sufficient  quantities 
to  meet  their  requirements.

Cocoanuts—4@5c.
Cucumbers—3o@35c  per  doz.  for home 

grown.

Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  9c  on  track, 
holding  case  count  at  10c  and  candled 
at  lie.

Gooseberries—Slow 

per  crate  of  16 qts.

sale  at  40@5oc 

Green  Onions—io@i2c  per  doz.  ac­

cording  to  size.

Lemons—The  range  on  Messinas 

Green  Peas—6o@75c  per  bu.  for  home 
grown  Marrowfats.
Honey—Comb is out of stock.  Strained 
in  moderate  supply  and  limited demand 
at  12c.
is 
greater  than  last  week,  although  outside 
quotations  are  the  same. 
California 
stock  is  coming  in  for  the  holiday  trade 
and 
is  selling  at  better  prices.  The 
movement  is  large  and  satisfactory  this 
week.
Lettuce—40c  per  bu.  for  head  and  25c 

per bu.  for  common.

Muskmelons—$3  per  doz.
Onions—Dry  stock  from  Mississippi 
commands  $3.25  per  bbl.  ;  California, 
$2@2.25  per  sack.
Oranges—The  supplies  of  Mediter­
ranean  sweets  and  seedlings  are  large 
for  this  season  of  the  year,  and  the 
quality  is  unusually  good.  The  move­
ment  this  week  for  the  holiday  trade  of 
Independence  Day  is  exceedingly  good. 
The  market 
is  well  prepared  to  take 
care  of  it.
$i@ i.5o  per 
doz.  Arrivals  are  small 
in  size  and 
stock  is  scarce.

Pineapples—Floridas, 

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

is  now  in 
market,  commanding  80c  per  bu.,  with 
every  indication  of  lower  prices  soon. 
Present  arrivals  are  far  ahead  of  the 
Arkansas  stock 
in  point  of  size  and 
quality,  as  the  Tradesman  predicted 
would  be  the  case  last  week.  Old  pota­
toes are  in  limited  supply,  readily  com­
manding  50c  per  bu.

Radishes — 10c  per  doz.  bunches.
Raspberries—Black 
and  Red  7oig:8oc  for 
each  case.

$oCa 60c 
in 
Tomatoes— 80c@3 1  per  4  basket  crate.
Wax  Beans—$1  per  bu.
Watermelons— 20@25c 
for 

fetche 
16  qt.  crates 

apiece 

choice  Georgia  stock.

Dennis  Coon  has  sold  his  half  interest 
in  the  produce  and  commission  firm  of 
Maynard  &  Coon  to  Charles  L.  Reed 
and  will  remove  to  Pasadena,  Cali.  Mr. 
Reed  has  been  employed  in  the  offices 
of  the  C.  &  W.  M.  and  the  Michigan 
Central  Railways 
for  the  past  seven 
years.  The  new  firm  will  be  known  as 
Maynard  &  Reed.

is  represented 

The  Consolidated  Adjustment  Co., 
which 
in  this  city  by 
Chas.  Orrin  Jeffords,  pretends  to  adver­
tise  judgments.  Wonder  if  the  concern 
will  advertise  the  judgment  recently  re­
corded  against  Mr.  Jeffords  in  the  Jus­
tice  Courts  of  Grand  Rapids,  amount­
ing  to  $168.98  and  $2.50  costs?

Geo.  W.  Stowitts  has  severed  bis  con­
nection  with  the  Houseman  &  Jones 
Clothing  Co.  to  accept  a  more  lucrative 
position  with  the  Continental  Clothing 
House,  at  Green  Bay,  Wis.

S.  G.  Tompkins  has«opened  a grocery 
store  at  Entrican.  The Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Daniel  Steketee  (P.  Steketee  &  Sons) 
is  spending  two  weeks’ vacation at Mac- 
atawa  Park  and  Chicago.

Gillies  New  York  Teas  at  old  prices 
while  they  hold  out.  Phone  Visner,  800.

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

6
Woman’s World

Refutes  the  C h a rg e   th a t  W om en  are 

S tingy.

An  English  paper  has  recently  been 
devoting  much  space  to  a  discussion  of 
the  question  whether  woman  is  stingy or 
not,  and,  unfortunately,  the general  con­
sensus  of  opinion  seems  to  be  that what­
ever  her  other  and  manifest  virtues, 
is 
when  it  comes  to  money  matters  she 
decidedly  close  and  mean. 
Various 
things  were  brought  forward  in  support 
of  this  theory—woman’ s  passion  for  the 
bargain  counter,  her  inability  to  buy 
anything  without 
first  trying  to  beat 
down  the  price;  the  adamantine and un­
shakable  attitude  she  takes  towards  the 
giving  of  tips,  and  so on.

Every  woman  who  reads  this  will  feel 
like  entering  a  vigorous  protest  against 
such  an  unjust  accusation,  and  will 
deny  the  charge  in  toto.  We  are  not 
stingy,  and  if,  as  a  sex,  we  are  less  free 
with  our  money  and  more  given  to  a 
cheese-paring  policy  than  men.  it  is  for 
the  very  sufficient  reason  that  we  have 
less  money  to  spend.  Man,  as a  general 
thing,  is  the  money-earner.  He  carries 
the  pocketbook  and  may do as he pleases 
with  his  own,  without giving  an  account 
to  anyone.  Woman  seldom  has  any 
money  of  which  she has absolute control. 
What  is  given  her  for housekeeping,  for 
clothes  and  necessary  expenses  is  the 
very  least  with  which  the  desired  and 
expected  results  can  be  accomplished, 
and  she  must  needs  look  well  to  every 
cent  and  see  that  she  gets  the  worth  of 
her  money. 
is  this  necessity  that 
makes  her  the  victim  of  the  bargain 
counter  and  the  trading  stamp  and  the 
fakirs  who 
sell  make-believe  goods 
where  you  get  something  for  nothing. 
She  has  literally  nothing  to  “ blow 
in’ ’ 
on  things  that  are  a  mere  temporary 
gratification  of  the  moment.

It 

indulgencies,  and  so 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  women  are  not 
expected  to  spend  much  on  purely  per­
sonal 
it  seems 
doubly  hard  for  them  to  be  accused  of 
stinginess.  A  man  thinks  nothing  of 
ordering a  lunch  that will cost a dollar  or 
two.  His  wife  may  be  just  as  hungry 
and  would  enjoy  it  just  as  much  as  he 
does,  but  she  hesitates  before  she  treats 
herself  to  a  glass  of  5  cent  soda.  No 
intelligent  female  stomach  hankers  for 
cream  puffs  and  pie,  as  so  many  seem 
to  suppose.  Women  simply  order  them 
because  they  are  satisfying  and  cheap, 
and  that  not  because  of  stinginess,  but 
it 
because 
is  all  they  feel  they  can 
afford. 
If  any  woman  spent  as  much 
money  on  the  gratification  of  a  purely 
individual  taste  as a  man does on cigars,

she  would  be  held  up  as  a  warning  to 
young  men  about  to  commit matrimony. 
Nobody  would  speak  of  her as  a  liberal 
woman.  They  would  say  she  was  reck­
lessly,  ruinously  extravagant.

list  of  all  the  charities 

It  can  not  be  denied  that  men  and 
women 
look  at  money  from  different 
points  of  view  and  that  men  do  spend 
much  more  freely  than  women.  Take 
the  matter  of  treating,  for  instance.  A 
man  feels  that  he  must  treat  his  friends 
and  set  up  the  drinks,  or  the  cigars, 
even  although  he  is  behind  with his rent 
and  owes  the  butcher  and  baker  and 
candlestickmaker.  He  must  do 
it  to 
maintain  his  character of  liberality,  and 
so  it  happens  that  he  is  often  generous 
before  he  is 
just  or  honest.  He  will 
give,  although  he  may  never  pay.  A 
woman  reverses  the  process. 
She  will 
pay,  even  if  she  never  gives.  Colonel 
Bluster always  heads  the  published  sub­
scription 
in 
town ;  he is  a  liberal  man  and  he  throws 
a  $5  bill  down  on  the  bar  and  invites 
all  the  loafers  present  to  come  up  and 
take  a  drink ;  he  contributes  to  the cam­
paign  fund  and  spends  money like water 
to  elect  bis  candidate  from  the  ’Steenth 
ward,  even  if  his  family  have  to  go  on 
short  rations,  and  pinch and pinch to pay 
for  it.  Mrs.  Colonel Bluster is accounted 
a  close  woman.  She  takes  no  stock 
in 
any  such  liberality.  An  unpaid  bill  is 
to  her  like  a  nightmare;  Mrs.  Jones 
might  go  without  soda  water  forever 
if 
she  waited  for  her  to  treat  her  while 
Mary  needed  a  new 
frock  or  Johnny 
lacked  shoes,  and  if  a  candidate’s  elec­
tion  to  office 
in  a  woman’s  club  de­
pended  on  her  friends  putting  up money 
for  it, she would  never  get  into  the  Pres­
ident’s  chair  in  the  world.

The  truth  of  the  matter  is that whether 
liberality  is  a  crime  or  a  virtue depends 
altogether  on  circumstances.  How  often 
do  we  celebrate  the  generosity  of  this 
or  that  young  man.  He  never  asks  the 
price  of  things,he  never  neglects to send 
flowers  to  his  hostess  or  bonbons  to  the 
debutantes  and  insists  on  paying  every­
body’s  way  on  an  excursion.  How  par­
simonious  beside  him  appears his sister, 
who  counts  every  penny  and  washes  her 
handkerchiefs 
in  her  room  and  dries 
them  on  the  mirror,  and  who  lets  her 
friend  pay  her  own  street  car fare!  But 
then  some  day  we  hear  that  in  his  ex­
pansive  way  of  doing  things  the  open- 
hearted  young  man  has  embraced  the 
contents  of  his  employer’s  cash  drawer 
and  is  a  fugitive  from  justice,  and  then 
we  wonder  if  there  are  not  times  when 
honesty  is  as  good  as  liberality.

AVhen  it  comes  to  real  generosity—the 
generosity  that  means  self-denial  and 
self-sacrifice—the  very  finest  flower  of

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it  may  be  found  among  women.  A 
woman  may  insist  on  having  the  worth 
of  her  money,  she  may  refuse  to  treat or 
pay  the  way  of  those  who  are  perfectly 
able  to  pay  for  themselves,  but  when 
it 
comes  to  a  question  of  real  want  her 
hand  is  the  first  and  quickest  to give.  It 
is  the  mites  that  women  save by scrimp­
ing  here  and  pinching  there  that  build 
the  churches  and  sustain  the  charities 
and  send  missionaries  to  the  heathen.

Among  the  women  against  whom  this 
charge 
is  oftenest  brought  up  is  the 
woman  who  keeps  a  boarding-house. 
Mrs.  Slimdiet’s  stinginess  has  been  the 
subject  of  the  cheap  wits  for  genera­
tions,  who  have  rung  the  changes  on 
ancient  butter  and  the  centipede  legs  of 
the  boarding-house  chicken ad nauseam. 
We  have  seen  her  pathetic  striving  held 
up  to  ridicule,  her  economies  made 
mean  and  sordid,  but  no  one  has  said 
anything  about  the  other  side  of  the 
question—of  the  hundreds  and  hundreds 
of  times  when  she  has  given  shelter  and 
home  to  poor  girls  out of  work  and  of 
the  weeks  and  months  she  has 
let  a 
board  bill  run  along  for  some  young  fel­
low  who  has  lost  a  job  and  who  but  for 
her  would  have  neither  food  nor  shelter. 
No  one  whose  fate  has  not  taken  them 
among  such  people  has  any  idea  of  the 
extent  of  the  generosity—the  generosity 
that  does  not  meet  even  the  poor  re­
ward  of  a  thanks—that  such  women  be­
stow. 
is  given  out  of  poverty  and 
hard  work  and  bitter  striving,  and  one 
girl  so  kept  off of  the  street,  one  man 
saved  from  tramping  or  desperation 
is 
more  real  generosity  and  worth  more 
than  a 
line  of  colleges  and  charitable 
institutions  built  from  here  to the Atlan­
tic  Ocean.

It 

Behind  the  apparent 

stinginess  of 
many  a  woman  lies a pathetic little story 
that  the  world  never knows.  Sometimes 
she  is  a  well-to-do  woman  who  is  cloak­
ing  her  husband’s  miserliness  to  her. 
Sometimes  we  see  her  niggardly,  and 
the  servants  tell  us  tales  of pinching and 
scrimping,  and  we  can  not  know  that 
she  is  heroically  standing,  like  a  lonely 
and  deserted  sentinel  over  wrecked  and 
ruined  fortunes,  trying  to  keep  up  ap­
pearances  until  the  girls  are  married  or 
the  boys  are  in  business. 
It  is  to  his 
mother’s  so-called  stinginess  that  many 
a  poor boy  owes  his  college  education 
and  his  after  career  in  life.  His  father 
hadn’t  the  courage  not  to  be  liberal,  be­
cause he  couldn’t  afford 
it.  He  must 
belong  to  lodges  and  pay  his  part  for 
expensive 
floral  designs  when  Pat 
Doolan  died  and  contribute  to  the  band 
when  some  idiot  suggested  presenting  a 
medal  to  the  leader.  He  was  esteemed 
the  soul  of  generosity  and  the  neighbor­
hood  pitied  him  for  having  a  stingy 
wife. 
“ They  do  say  she  can  make  five 
pies  out  of  three  blackberries,”   they 
whispered  and  tittered  behind  her back. 
But  she  went  unmoved  on  her  way.  She 
stinted  the  coffee  here  and  saved  on  the 
sugar  there,  and  practiced  a  thousand 
heart-breaking  economies,  but  she  gave 
her  boy  an  education  and  a  start  in  life.
is  an  unfounded  charge. 
Women  are  careful  of  money ;  they  are 
just  with 
it  and,  when  there  is  need, 
they  are  liberal. 

D o r o t h y  D i x .

Stingy? 

It 

C le a r  Case.

“ It 

is  mv  opinion,”   said  the  wise 
man,  “ that  the  tax  on  tea  is  a  righteous 
one,  but  that  the  tax  on  tobacco  is  an 
outrage.”
“ But  how  do  you  make  that out?” 

“ Make 

asked  an  admirer.
man;  “ isn’t 
use  tea,  but  I  can’t 
bacco. ’

it  out?”   thundered  the  wise 
I  don’t 
live  without  to­

it  self-evident? 

Licensed  A d u lte ra tio n   o f  B readstuffs.
The  war  tax  which  has  come  into  op­
eration  provides,  among  other  things, 
that  every  person,  firm  or  corporation 
making,  packing  or  repacking  mixed 
flour  shall  pay  a  special  tax  at  the  rate 
of  twelve  dollars  per  annum,  the  same 
to be  paid  and  notice  posted  conspicu­
in  the  office  of  such  party.  The 
ously 
said  parties  shall  also  pay 
for  each 
package  of  such  flour  at  the  rate  of 
four  cents  a  barrel,  or  two  cents  a  half- 
barrel,  one  cent  on  every quarter-barrel, 
and  on  smaller  packages  in  the  same 
proportion.

Section  35  specifies  what  is  meant  by 
mixed  flour as  follows: 
“   ‘ Mixed flour’ 
shall  be  understood  to  mean  the  food 
product  made  from  wheat  mixed  or 
blended,  in  whole  or  in  part,  with  any 
other  grain  or  other  material,  or  the 
manufactured  product  of  any other grain 
or other  material  than  wheat.”

Here 

is  authority,  unquestioned  and 
absolute,  on  the  sole  condition  of  the 
payment  of  a  tax,  empowering  any  and 
all  parties  who  may  choose  to  engage  in 
the  business  to  adulterate,  with  any 
material  that  it  may'  be  profitable  for 
them  to  use,  the  people’s  bread,  the 
staff  of  life.

introduction 

If  the  mixing  bad  been  confined  to 
other  sorts  of  grain,  the  result  would 
be  the  authorization  of  the  depreciating 
of  the  quality  of  the  breadstuff,  but  it 
would  at  least  be  all  edible.  The  use  of 
the  words,  “ other  material, ”   permits 
the 
into  the  flour  of  any 
substance  whatever.  Finely  ground saw­
dust,  chalk  or  terra  alba,  or  any  other 
material  sufficiently  cheap  to  make  the 
mixing  profitable,  can  be  used  under 
this  law  to  adulterate  the  flour  sold 
in 
the  markets  of  the  United  States;  and 
it  will  have  the  full  protection  of  the 
statute.

This  enactment  by  Congress  shows 
that,  when  in  need  of  money,  this  great 
Republic can  become as  unscrupulous  as 
individuals  in  a  like  extremity.  They 
will  stick  at  nothing  to  obtain  the  cov­
eted  funds.  To  defraud 
the  Govern­
ment  of  the  tax  on  adulterated  flour  is 
an  offense  to  be  punished  with  severe 
penalties;  but  to  rob  the  people  in  the 
quality 
and  wholesomeness  of  their 
bread  is  all  right  enough.

For  nearly 

forty  years  the  General 
Government  has  been  raising  an  enor­
mous  revenue  on  the  manufacture  and 
sale  of  liquors.  The heavy  tax  has  con­
stantly  created  a  strong  temptation  to 
unscrupulous  parties  to  adulterate  and 
deteriorate  the  qualities  of  such liquors; 
but  now 
actually 
licenses  persons,  firms  and  companies 
to  adulterate  bread. 
It  is  a  most  re­
markable  act,  and  it  shows  how  utterly 
unscrupulous  even  a  great  Government 
may  become  when 
it  is  determined  to 
wring  money  out  of  the  people.

the  Government 

F r a n k   S t o w e l l .

M U S K E G O N
S U N D A Y
T R A IN S

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

5 0   C E N T S
R O U N D
T R IP .

F rom   the  P rin te r’s  S tand poin t.

Undoubtedly  one  of  the best  toasts  on 
record  was  given  by  a  printer: 
of  Nature's 
“ Woman—the 
work.  The  edition  is  large  and  no  man 
should  be  without  a  copy.”

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Association Matters
Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, J . Wis l e r ,  Mancelona;  Secretary,  E. 
A.  Sto w e,  Grand  Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  P. 
T atm an, Clare.

Michigan  Hardware  Association 

President,  C h ab.  P .  B o ck,  Battle  Creek;  Vice 
President,  H.  W.  VVe b b e b ,  West  Bay  City; 
Treasurer, He n r y  C.  Min n ie, Eaton Rapids.

Detroit Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

221 Greenwood ave;  Treasurer, C. H.  F r in k .
Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’ Association 
K la p;  Treasurer, J .  Geo.  L eh m a n.

President,  F r a n k   J .   D y k ;  Secretary,  H om er 

Saginaw Mercantile Association 

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

Jackson  Retail Grocers’ Association 

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

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

Lansing Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  P.  B.  J o hnso n;  Secretary,  A.  M. 

Darling;  Treasurer,  L. A. G i l k e y .

Adrian  Retail Grocers’ Association

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

l a n d ;  Treasurer,  Wm.  C.  K o ehn.

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

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, A. D.  W h ip p l e  ; Secretary, G. T. C am p 

b e l l ;  Treasurer, W. E.  C o llin s.

Alpena Business Men’s Association 

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

P a r t r id g e .

Grand  Rapids Retail Meat Dealers’ Association 
President, L. J .  K a t z ;  Secretary, P h il ip  Hi l b e r : 

Treasurer, S. J.  Hp p p o r d .

St. Johns Business  Men’s  Association. 

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

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person  who  shall  sell  and  deliver 
at  retail  any  gasoline,  benzine  or 
naphtha  without  having  the  true 
name thereof and the words “explo­
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printed  upon  a  label  securely  at­
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vessel  containing  the  same  shall 
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O U R   L A C K   O F   P R E P A R A T IO N .
Only  people  who  are  utterly  blind  to 
the  Significance  of  passing  events  can 
fail  to  profit  by  the  lessons  which  the 
war  now  in  progress  have  afforded.  The 
most  conspicuous  and  valuable  lesson 
to  be  learned 
is  the  folly  of  the  total 
lack  of  preparation  for  war  which  has 
been  the  policy  of  this  great  country 
since  the  close  of  tne  struggle  of  thirty- 
five  years  ago.  Poor  as  Spain  is,  she 
has  yet  found  the  means  to  fully  equip 
her  troops  with  modern  arms,  with  the 
best  artillery  and  with  smokeless  pow­
der.  The  United  States,  with  unlimited 
wealth  and  credit,  has  hardly  enough 
modern  arms  to  equip  our  small  stand­
ing  army  and  no  smokeless  powder  at 
all.  The  lack  of  these  modern  imple­
ments  of  warfare  greatly  handicapped 
our  troops  in  the  recent  fighting  before 
Santiago.

States  to  have  accumulated  a  supply  of 
modern  arms  sufficient  to  equip  a  quar­
ter  of  a  million  men.  This  could  have 
been  done  at  comparatively  moderate 
expense,  and  the  surplus  supply  main­
tained  in  store  at  the  various  arsenals 
ready  to  be  issued  whenever  needed.  A 
supply  of  modern  weapons  should  be 
provided  at  once,  and  not  only  should 
the  regular  army  and  volunteers  be 
armed  with  them,  but  the  militia  of  the 
states  should  also  be  provided  with  such 
weapons  as  speedily  as  possible.

The  same  lack  of  preparation  is  true 
of  all  other  matters  of  military  equip­
ment.  There  are  not  sufficient  tents; 
no  surplus  stock  of  uniforms;  no  equip­
ments,  such  as  haversacks and canteens, 
and,  in  fact,  no  stores  to  draw  upon, 
except  such  as  have  been  hastily  manu­
factured  since  the  outbreak  of  the  war.
It  is,  of  course,  of  no  use  to  refer  to 
these  matters  now  in  any  spirit  of  com­
plaint  or  reproach,  the  proper  thing  to 
do  being  to  remedy  the  defect  as  best 
we  may.  But  we  would  be  worse  than 
blind  were  we  not  to  carefully  consider 
the  matter  with  a  view  to  draw a helpful 
lesson  therefrom  for  use  in  the  future. 
This  country  must never again be caught 
unprepared  for  war.

It 

The  absence  of  commercial  morality 
is  one  of  the  great  deterrents  to  the 
progress  of  Italy. 
is  a  curious  and 
perhaps  a  significant  fact  that  for  years 
past  the  correspondents  of  the  English 
press  have  glossed  over  or failed to refer 
to  the  things  which  have  been  perfectly 
well  known  in  well-informed  circles  as 
to  the  corrupting 
influence  of  the  suc­
cessive  governments  which  have  ruled 
the  country.  Little  or  no  reference  has 
been  made  to  the  bribery  and  falsifica­
tion  of  returns,  the  place-hunting  and 
inflation  of  the  civil 
log-rolling,  the 
service 
the 
handing  over  of  the  schools  to  men 
morally  unfitted  to  be  in  conact  with the 
children  in  them.

for  political  ends  and 

positions 

The  advantage  secured  by the Spanish 
through  the  use  of  smokeless  powder 
was  so  considerable  as  to  be  noticeable 
to  all  our  commanders.  While the Amer­
ican 
and  batteries  were 
promptly  disclosed  by  the  smoke  of  the 
discharges,  the  position  of  the  Spanish 
batteries  and  intrenchments  could  only 
be  guessed  at,  as  the  smokeless  powder 
did  not  betray  whence  firing  proceeded. 
While  our  positions  were  excellent  tar­
gets,  our  men  were  left  at  sea  as  to  the 
position  of  the  Spanish  batteries.

The  possession  of  a  sufficient  supply 
of  smokeless  powder would have entailed 
but  a  moderate  cost;  hence  it  is  a  sad 
commentary  on  the  lack  of  foresight  on 
the  part  of  our  statesmen  that  the  ap­
propriation  needed  for  the  manufacture 
of  the  powder  was  not  long  since  forth­
coming.  Many  of  the  valuable  lives 
sacrificed  at  Santiago  would  not  have 
been  lost  bad  the  army  been  equipped 
with  smokeless  powder.

Another  evidence  of  lack  of  prepara­
tion 
is  tne  fact  that  a  very  large  pro­
portion  of  the  volunteer  troops  are  be­
ing  provided  with  the  old-style  Spring- 
field  rifle,  long  since  discarded  by  the 
regular  army.  The  Springfield  rifle, 
while  an  excellent  weapon  of 
its  kind, 
in  no  sense  compare  in  effective­
can 
ness  with 
the  modern  small-caliber 
rifle.  The  fire  zone  of  the  modern  gun 
is  nearly  twice  as  great  as  that  of  the 
Springfield  rifle;  hence  troops  armed 
with  the  latter  weapon  are  placed  at  a 
tremendous  disadvantage 
in  a  combat 
with  troops  armed  with  the  modern 
small-caliber  gun.

It  would  have  been easy for the United

If  we  take  Potto  Rico  and  Manila 
promptly,or  within  the  next  week  or  so, 
there  may  be  no  third  call. 
It  is  pos­
sible  even 
for  a  Spanish  cabinet  to 
know  when  it  has  enough.

Spain’s  cabinet  has  postponed 

its 
crisis  until  somebody  gets  licked. 
It  is 
presumed  a  crisis  in  Spain  is something 
that  can  be  kept  on  ice.  or  in  a  pickle.

It  is  said  men  invent more things than 
women,  because  they  do  not  have  hair­
pins  they  can  use  for  so  many  purposes 
in  case  of  an  emergency

The  millionbeiress  is  thought  to  be 
beautiful  because  all  figures  are  good  if 
they  are  on  the  right  side  of  a  bank  ac­
count  and  big  enough.

Spain  says  Yankees  are  a  nation  of 
shopkeepers.  The  dons  will  all  be  on 
the  bargain  counter  for  sale  in  cheap 
job  lots  soon.

There  is  said  to  be  another  large  and 
impatient  army  of  volunteers  ready  to 
take  charge  of  the  civil  offices  in  the 
“ colonies. ”

An 

island  that  does  not  want  to  buy 
anything,  and  has  no  coal  to  sell,  can 
remain  neutral  without  much  self-sac­
rifice.

Spanish  mackerel  are  coming  our 
Soon  everything  worth  having 

way. 
will  desert  Spain.

We  are  remembering  the  Maine  with 

a  vengeance.

W H E N   W IL L   T H E   W AR   C L O S E ?
“ How  long  will  the  war  last?”   is  a 
question  that  is being asked  on all sides, 
with  no  hope  of  getting  a  satisfactory 
answer.

Nevertheless,  it  is  not  difficult  to  get 
an  intelJigent  view  of  the  matter,  so  far 
as  the  contemplation  of  past  experience 
can  go,  and  all  experience  shows  that 
to  the  United  States  a  short  war  is  im­
possible.

for  that 

is  never  prepared  for  war. 

The  reason  for  this  is  that  this  coun­
It  not 
try 
only  has  no  considerable  body  of regular 
troops,  but  its  militia  is  so  poorly  pro­
vided 
it  has  never  been  in  a 
condition,  save  in  small  numbers,  to  be 
ordered  into  the  field. 
If  the  militia  of 
the  several  states  were  kept  organized 
into  companies  and  regiments,  and  duly 
uniformed,  armed  and  equipped,so  that 
at  aoy  time  it  would  be  ready  and  able 
to  answer  a  call,  there  would  be  no  de­
lay,  such  as  there  has  been,  in  getting 
troops  to  meet  any  emergency.

in  camp 

In  this  case,  not  only  has  time  been 
required  to  enlist  the  men,  but  after 
they  were  assembled 
it  was 
found  that  there  were  no  clothes,  shoe's, 
hats,  canteens  and  blankets  with  which 
to  supply  them,  while  the  stock  of  arms 
and  equipments was quite as inadequate. 
Then,  when  it  became  necessary to send 
troops  abroad,  there  was  a  great  scar­
city  of  ships  for  transporting  them  and 
their  supplies.

Thus  it  is  that,  had  everything  requi­
site  for  the  movements  against  the 
Spanish  West  and  East  India  colonies 
been  provided  beforehand,  Cuba  and 
Porto  Rico  and  Manila  could  by  this 
time  have  been  captured  and  placed 
under  control;  but  the  fact  remains  that 
barely  some  preliminary  steps are  being 
taken  to  accomplish  those  results.

is, 

A  war  to  which  the  United  States  is  a 
party 
therefore,  necessarily  slow, 
and  since,  in  the  present  case,  the  war 
has  just  begun,  there  is  no  sort  of  rea­
son  to  suppose  that  it  will  come  to  an 
early  conclusion.

The  American  people  are  excessively 
impatient  and  demand  the  utmost  dis­
patch  in  carrying  on  a  war  and  are  no­
torious  for  persistent  refusals  to  provide 
for 
it  until  driven  to  do  so  by  the  ex­
tremity  of  emergency.  For  years  Con­
gress  has  been  urged  by  an 
intelligent 
and  prudent  press  to  make  adequate 
preparation  for  the  public  defense,  but 
scarcely  anything  was  done,  and,  as  a 
result,  the  country  has  a  war  upon 
its 
hands  with  nothing  ready  for  it.

It 

is  not  strange  that  such  an  impa­
tient  people  as  are  the  Americans  are 
also  carried  away  by  an  overweening 
self-confidence.  No  sooner  was  war  de­
clared  than  the  notion  was  proclaimed 
and  propagated  that  the  war  was  going 
to  be  a  picnic,  to  be  fought  out  and 
settled  in  a  few  days—three  months  at 
the  utmost.  Now,  at  the  end  of  nearly 
three  months  serious  operations  are  be- j 
ing  barely  begun.  The  extreme 
im­
patience  and  the  excessive  overconfi­
dence  of  the  American  people have done 
immense  harm,  because  they  have  led 
to  the  forming  of  a  widespread  notion 
that  everything  would  be  over  by  this 
time,  and  the  result  has  been  an  im­
mense  disappointment  and  a  general 
cooling  of  that  demonstrative  patriotism 
which  in  the beginning manifested  itself 
in  an  eager  desire  to  enlist  in  the army.
Going  back  to  the  experience  of  the 
past  wars  in  which  this  country  was  en­
gaged  with  foreign  countries,  it  is  seen 
that  the  War  of  the  Revolution  lasted 
seven  years;  the  second  war  with  Eng­
land  continued  two  years;  the  war  with

Mexico  went  on  for  two years and a half, 
while  the  Civil  War  required  four  years 
for  its  completion.  The  war  with  Spain 
may  be  given  a  year  for  its  full  course, 
and  then  it  will  be  the  shortest  war ever 
fought  by  the  United  States.

S C H O O L   C O M M E N C E M E N T S .
The  termination  at  this  season  of  the 
sessions  of  the  various  schools,  public 
and  private  and  the  turning  loose  upon 
the  country  of  hundreds  and  thousands 
of  graduates  call  for  some  remark.

Education  in  this  great  free  Republic 
is  intended  to  fit  men  and  women  to  be 
intelligent,  virtuous,  honorable  and use­
ful  members  of  society,  and  to  prepare 
the  men  to  be  worthy  citizens  of  great 
states,  and  enable  them  to  play  well 
their  parts 
in  maintaining  the  rights 
of  the  people  and  their  free  institutions 
under 
constitutional  guarantees  and 
right  regulation.

There  can  be  no  proper  mental  de­
velopment  separated  from  moral  train­
ing.  No  man,  however  distinguished 
his  intellectual  endowments  and  accom­
plishments,  is  fit  to  be  charged  with 
trusts  and  responsibilities  unless  bis 
rule  of  action  be  founded  in  principles 
of  honor,  justice  and  truth.  No  man 
lacking 
in  these  regards  is  fit  to  be  a 
voter,  much 
less  an  official  holder  of 
special  trusts.

A  system  of  education 

is  valuable, 
not  for  the  great  number  and  variety  of 
the  subjects  taught,  but  to  the  degree 
that  its  graduates  are  imbued  with  such 
a  sense  of  the  duties  of  life  as  may  be 
proper  to  youths  and  maidens,  and  are 
inspired  with  a  desire  to  perform  them 
to  the  best  of  their  abilities.

There 

is  much  tendency  in  modern 
schools  to  introduce  in  a  brief  course  a 
vast  variety  of  subjects,  the  value  of  not 
a  few  of  which  being  more  than  ques­
tionable. 
It  makes  such  schools  showy 
at  the  expense  of  thoroughness  and  re­
sults 
in  giving  a  smattering  of  many 
subjects  where  completeness 
in  a  few 
would  be  of  vastly  greater  practical  use. 
There  can  be  no  serious  objection  to the 
fact  that  this  sort  of  fadism  causes  the 
employment  of  more  and  higher-priced 
teachers;  but  the  worst  result  of  it  is 
that  where  the  income  is  limited,  par­
ticularly  in  the  public  schools,  money 
is  withdrawn  from  the  primary  and  ele­
mentary  departments,  where  it  is  most 
needed,  in  order  to  make  a  show  with 
what  are  supposed to be higher branches.
If  the  schools  but  turn  out  incipient 
citizens  and  youthful  men  and  women 
trained  in  right  principles  of  honor  and 
truth,  their  other  shortcomings  may  be 
excused.

The  supply  of  red  crosses  in  Cuban 
towns  threatened  by  our  troops  is  liable 
to  be  immediately  exhausted.  Spanish 
honor  is  not  above  seeking  any  port  or 
violating  any  usage  in  the  face  of a 
storm.

A  man  who  charges  the  Government 
three  prices  for  something  the  Govern­
ment  needs  and  must  have  can  hardly 
expect  to  have  bis  name  put  down  on 
the  roll  of  American  patriots.

If  Honolulu  could  taste  of a  regular 
United  States  Fourth  of  July  celebra­
tion,  she  might  not  want  to  be  annexed.

Much  of  the  means  for  stamping  out 
the  war  in  Cuba  will  be  raised  by  the 
use  of  revenue  stamps  in  this country.

It  won’t  be  so  very  long  before  webe- 

ffin  to  make  Blanco’s  Havana  smoke.

Spain’s 

islands  come  high;  but  we 

must  have them.

T H E   P H IL IP P IN E S .

When  the  United  States  waked  up  one 
morning  and  found  itself  in  possession 
of  the  Philippine  Islands  its  surprise 
was  equaled  only  by 
its  ignorance  of 
these  islands  in  every  possible  particu­
lar.  They  were  off  somewhere  in  the 
neighborhood  of  China;  there  might  be 
five  of  them,  there  might  be a thousand ; 
how  large  they  were,  who occupied  them 
and  what  they  were  worth  or good  for 
hardly  one  in  a  hundred  knew  or  cared. 
It  was  known  that  the  man  Dewey  had 
done  a  pretty  heroic  piece  of  business, 
but  aside  from  that  little  was  to  be said. 
More  for  the  sake  of  finding  out  a  little 
something  about  the  new  possessions the 
old  geographies,  unseen  since  the  early 
school  days,  were  opened  and  the  Phil­
ippine  Islands  for  once  proved  an  in­
teresting  study.

For  ail  intents  and  purposes  there  are 
1,700  of  them,  lying  wholly  within  the 
tropics between 4  degrees 40  minutes and 
20  degrees  north  latitude,  in  a  direct 
line  between 
the  southeast  coast  of 
China  and  the  north  of  Australia. 
Manila  on  the  island  of  Luzon  is  about 
630  miles  from  Hong  Kong  and  7,000 
miles  from  San  Francisco.

The  smaller  islands  are  simply  rocks 
but  the  larger ones  are  extremely  fertile 
and  well-populated.  The  entire  area  is 
estimated  at  about  115,000  square  miles, 
two-thirds  of  which  is  included  in  the 
two  principal 
islands  of  Luzon  in  the 
north  and  Mindanao  in  the south.  This 
territory  is  almost  three  times  as 
large 
as  Cuba,  is  larger  than  Italy  and  20,000 
square  miles  less  in extent  than  Prussia, 
or  about  the  size  of  New  England  and 
New  York.

The  islands  are  mostly  mountainous, 
with  several  active  volcanoes.  Earth­
quakes  and  typhoons  are  common  and 
the  climate,  while  tropical,  is  cooler  to 
the  north,  a  distance  from  the  equator 
of  something  over  fifteen  degrees.  Min­
eral  deposits  are  numerous,  gold  being 
found 
in  considerable  quantities,  there 
are  forests  rich  and  valuable, while trop­
ical  fruits  in  the  greatest  variety  grow 
in  the  greatest  abundance.  Tobacco  and 
Manila  hemp  are  produced 
large 
quantities,  a  less  amount  of  sugar,  and 
rice,  the  principal  article  of  food.

in 

The  population 

is  estimated  at  10,- 
000,000.  Of  the  Aetas  or  Negritos,  the 
original 
inhabitants,  about  25,000  re­
main  in  the  mountains  of  the 
interior, 
where  they  have  fled  from  Malay  in­
vasion.  They  have  never  been  subdued 
by  the  Spaniards  and  are  practically 
independent.  The  rest  of  the  population 
is  chiefly  Malay,  with  a  mixture  of 
Chinese.  There are  a  few  Spaniards and 
a  few  hundred  Americans,  Germans  and 
Englishmen.

The  annual  revenue  to  Spain  from  the 
islands  is about $8,000,000,  raised chiefly 
by  taxing  the  natives,  and  the  amount 
collected  is  greatly  increased  by  the  ex­
tortions  of  the  tax  gatherer  and  higher 
officials.  As  the  Tradesman  has  stated 
before,  all  forms  of  property,  of  busi­
ness  transactions and  of private  industry 
are  taxed,  and there  is  an  additional poll 
tax  on  both  men  and  women, amounting 
sometimes  to  $25  a  year,  the  money  go­
ing  either  to  Spain  or  into  the  pockets 
of  the  local  officials,  while 
little  or 
nothing  is  spent  for local  improvements.
The  foreign  commerce  did not amount 
to  much  until  late  in  the  present  cen­
tury,  and  to-day  the  largest  consumer  of 
the  products  of  the  islands  is  the United 
States.  During 
fiscal  year 
$4.383,740 worth  of  goods  have  been  im­
ported  to  this  country  from  the  Philip­
pines,  although  their  purchases  from

last 

the 

us  were  less  than  $100,000.  From  a  re­
cent  report  of  the  United  States  Consul 
at  Manila,  our  imports  from  the  islands 
have  lately  averaged  $1,000,000 a month. 
All  of  the  commerce  passes  through 
Manila,  the  capital  city,  which  has  a 
population  of  150,000 and  is  situated  on 
the  west  coast  of  Luzon,  the  principal 
island.  It  has  a  fine  harbor,  the  bay  be­
ing  about  120  miles  in  circumference.

While  little  is known  of  this  territory, 
it  is  believed  generally  that,  under  fa­
vorable  circumstances,  political 
and 
financial,  it  would  become  remarkably 
productive. 
seen 
whether,  under  the  protection  of  the 
United  States,  this  condition  of  things 
will  be  realized.

It  remains  to  be 

It 

in  medleys. 

An  order  has  been  issued  by  the  War 
Department  that  hereafter  the  bands  of 
the  regular  army  and  volunteer  service 
must  play  “ The  Star  Spangled Banner”  
and  “ America”   in  their  original forms, 
and  not 
is  ordered, 
furthermore,  that  all  officers  and  pri­
vates  must  remove  their  hats,  no  mat­
ter  what  they  are  doing,  during  the 
rendition  of  the  National  airs.  This 
custom 
is  an  old  one  in  the  army,  and 
the  order  calling  attention  to  it  is  for 
the  benefit  of  the  volunteers. 
It  was 
first  adopted  by  the  cadets  at  the  West 
Point  academy,  and  was  the  result  of 
contact  with  foreign  officers,  who always 
made  it  their  business  to  arise  and  un­
cover  whenever  our  National  hymns 
were  played  at  the  military post  in  their 
presence.

An  Italian  doctor  has  discovered  that 
there  is  in  the  common  pineapple a sub­
stance  similar  to  pepsin,  and  that  one 
pineapple 
to  digest  ten 
pounds  of  beef.  But  one  must  have  the 
stomach  strength  of  a  beef  to  digest  the 
coarse-fibered  pineapple.

is  sufficient 

Debs  glories in the  assertion  that  “ not 
one  of  his  10,000  brethren  of  the  social 
democratic  party  has  enlisted  for  this 
unholy  war.”   Somehow  we  don’t  seem 
to  miss  ’em  any.  The  social  democrat 
s  possibly  a  very  useless  person  in  war 
as  well  as  in  peace.

When  the  new  reporter  decides  that 
he  will  be  a  descriptive  writer,  he  in­
troduces  the  landscape  of  the  action  he 
is  to  tackle  “ as  a  scene  that  beggars 
description.’ ’  Then  comes  the  golden 
wealth  of  his  word-painting.

It  is  not good  form  for  a  young  lady 
to  show  animation  or  emotion  of  any 
kind;  but  when  she  is  at  a  picnic  and 
has  a  bug  crawling  down her  back  there 
s  bound  to  be  an  exhibition of emotion.
Germany  does  not  really  mean  to  be 
too  officious  at  M anila;  but  she  thinks 
a  barrel  of  beer  may  be  tapped  there  by 
Americans  before  her  mug  is  ready.

Don  Carlos  is  liable  to  issue  another 
manifesto at any moment.  He must stand 
eady  to  catch  the  pieces  when  he  sees 
Spain’s  throne  totter  and  fall.

It  is  more  than  likely  that  some  of 
the  cables  connecting  Cuba  with  Mad­
rid  have  not  been  properly  cut.

Laziness  is  a  disease  that grows  on  a 
It  can  only  be  cured  by  hard 

man. 
work.

Lots  of  quinine  has  been  sent to Cuba. 
The  war  will  be  fought  to the bitter end.

Whatever 

is 

is  right,  if  responsible 

parties  are  disposed  to  make  it  right.

The  man  who  means  well should prove 
t  by  doing  well.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

T H E   F O L L Y   O F   P A R T IS A N IS M .
Nothing  in  the  public  life  of  a  demo­
cratic  republic 
is  more  distasteful  to 
sincere  patriots  than  the  bigotry,  bitter­
ness  and  reckless  scurrility  of an  intense 
and  narrow-minded  partisanism.  There 
is,  however,  one  thing  worse  than  that 
evil  temper—that  is,  the  disposition  to 
play  upon  it  for  the  promotion  of  an  in­
dividual  interest.

it 

It  is  said,  sometimes,  that  the  Senate 
is  a  very  good  club,  and  the  Senators  of 
opposite  parties  often  manifest  an  evi­
dent  pleasure  in  each  other’s  society 
when  they  are  not  posing  as  indignant 
patriots  before  the  country.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  however, 
it  is  probable  that 
there  are  some  real,  as  well as some pre­
tended,  partisan  zealots 
in  both  houses 
of  Congress.  And  no  doubt  very  bitter 
things  are  said  in  those  high  places  by 
men  who  mean  them,  and  it  is  discour­
aging  to  reflect  how  little  effort  is  made 
on  the  part  of  the  recognized  leaders  of 
the  people  to  inculcate  the  beauty  of 
Matthew  Arnold’s  rule  of  “ sweetness 
and  light.”   When 
is  remembered 
how  nearly  the  country  has  been  evenly 
divided  between  two  great  parties  for  a 
long  series  of  years,  there  is  something 
almost  appalling  in  the  contemplation 
of  the  absolute  distrust  with  which those 
rival  organizations  have  almost  invari­
ably  regarded  each  other.  One  asks 
himself  whether  it  is  possible  that  one 
organization  has  absorbed  all  the  wis­
dom  and  public  virtue  in  the  country, 
while  each  rival,  although  it  represents 
nearly,  if  not  quite,  half  the  people, 
would  inevitably  involve  the  country  in 
ruin  and  disgrace 
if it were not checked 
and  thwarted  by  its  opponents.  Indeed, 
it  is  inconceivable  that  any  really  sen­
sible  man  can  go quite that far,  although 
one  might  suppose  that  nothing could be 
more  common  were  he  to  judge  solely 
from  what  he  reads  in  party  organs,  or 
from  what  he  hears in partisan speeches.
It  may  be  imagined  by  party  leaders 
who  do  what  they  can  to  cherish  and  in­
tensify  a  feeling  of  partisan  enmity 
in 
the  breasts  of  their  followers  that  it  is 
necessary  to  keep  the  strength  and  ac­
tivity  of  their  own  parties  unimpaired, 
and  they  may  suppose  that  it  tends  to 
promote  their  own  individual  popular­
ity;  but  it  is  altogether  possible,  even 
from  the  very  selfish  point  of  view,  to 
go  too  far  in  this  direction.  The  pres­
ent  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Represent­
atives 
is  an  able  man,  and  his influence 
with  his  own  party  is  so  great  that,  for 
many  years  past,  he  has  been  its  only 
serious  candidate  for  the  speakership 
when  a  Speaker  was  to  be  elected ;  but 
he  is,  of  all  the  more  eminent  of the po­
litical 
leaders  of  this  time,  probably 
the  most  intensely  partisan.  He not only 
acts  with  his  party  and  for  his  party, 
on  every  possible  occasion,  but  he  also 
finds  it  consistent  with  his  own  sense  of 
dignity  and  propriety  to  refer  to  all  op­
posing  parties  in  an  almost  invariable 
tone  of  contempt.  Men  who  are  opposed 
to  Mr.  Reed and  his  party  not  only  are 
mistaken  men,  but  they  are  silly  and 
ridiculous  men,  unworthy  of  serious 
consideration.  But,  despite  his  unques­
tioned  leadership  of  his  own  party  in 
the  House,  Mr.  Reed  has  never  been 
nominated  for  the  Presidency.  He  is 
spoken  of,  from  time  to  time,  as  a  pos­
sible  nominee  for  that  high  office;  but, 
when  the  time  comes,  somebody  else  is 
is, 
preferred.  There 
it  may  be  sus­
pected,  a  feeling 
in  his  party,  as  well 
as  out  of  it,  that  a  man  of  such  an  ultra 
partisan  temper  ought  not  to  be  Presi­
dent  of  the  United  States.  He  who  re­
ceives  the  highest  office  within  the  gift

9

of  the  people  should  feel  that  he  is  the 
President  of  the  whole  people,  and 
should  understand  that  his  election  does 
not  mean  that  the  Government  is  to  be 
administered  for  the  exclusive  benefit of 
his  party  throughout  his  term  of  office. 
It 
is  that  other  feeling  of  implacable 
enmity  to  the  opposition  which,  added 
to  the  natural  desire  to  strengthen  one’s 
own  party  by  bestowing  upon  it  an  ex­
clusive  patronage  at  the  expense  of  the 
whole  people,  renders  it  so  supreme­
ly  difficult  to  secure  a  thorough  enforce­
ment  of  the  rules  established  by  law  for 
the  promotion  of  civil  service  reform.

These  reflections  have  been  suggested 
by  recent  exhibitions  of partisan  feeling 
in  Congress  when  important  war  meas­
ures  were  under  consideration.  There 
is  something  at  once  disgusting  and 
dangerous  in  the  attempt  to  make  polit­
ical  capital  out  of  a  struggle  in  which 
the  honor  and  prosperity  of  a  whole 
country  are  at  stake.  Now,  if  ever  it 
can  come  at  all,  the  time  has  come  to 
lay  partisanism  aside  and  rise  to  the 
level  of  a  hearty  patriotism,  for  if  the 
old  intensity  of  partisanism  is still cher­
ished,  and  unleavened  vindictiveness  is 
permitted  free  play  by  those  who oppose 
the  party 
in  power,  it  is  evident  that 
the  people  of  this  country  are  divided 
by  a  feeling  of  enmity  well-nigh  as  im­
placable  as  any  they  can  possibly  feel 
for  foemen  from  over  the  sea.

R A ILW A Y   C O N S T R U C T IO N .

The  New  York  Railroad Gazette gives 
a  summary  of  the  new  railroad  mileage 
constructed  in  the  United  States  for  the 
first  six  months  of  1898,  showing  a  total 
of  1,092  miles. 
If the  same  rate  of  con­
struction  shall  be  continued for the  com­
ing  six  months,  the  mileage  of  the  year 
will  be  about  2,185,  and  this  will  be 
larger by  some  75  miles  than  that  of last 
year  and  will  exceed  that of  any  year 
since  1894.  Experience  has  shown  that, 
as  a  rule,  more  railroad 
is  built  in  the 
second  half  of  the  year  than  in  the  first, 
so  that  it  is  not  unreasonable  to  suppose 
that  the  summary  for  1898  will  show 
more  than  2,200  miles  built.

The  1,092  miles  reported  was  built  by 
82  companies,  or  an  average  of 
13 ^  
miles  to  each  company;  but  the  build­
ing  by  few  of the companies corresponds 
closely  to  this  average.  The 
largest 
mileage  during  the  six  months  by  any 
one  company 
is  that  of  the  Mobile  & 
Ohio,  which  built  97.6  miles,  com­
pleting 
its  extension  to  Montgomery, 
Ala.

The  State  which  heads  the  list  in  new 
mileage  is  Alabama,  with  125.1  m iles; 
next  comes  Missouri,  94.3  m iles;  then 
Louisiana,  78.3  m iles;  New  Mexico, 
71.5  m iles;  North  Carolina,  64.65 m iles; 
California,  63.51  m iles;  Texas,  63.08 
miles,  and  Georgia,  62  miles.  At  the 
other  end  of  the  list  are  the  following 
States,  without  a  mile  of  new  road  re­
ported :  Connecticut, 
Iowa,  Kansas, 
Kentucky,  Massachusetts,  Nebraska, 
Nevada,  New  Hampshire,  New  Jersey, 
North  and  South  Dakota,  Rhode  Island, 
Utah,  Vermont,  Wyoming  and  the  D is­
trict  of  Columbia. 
interesting 
point  to  note  that  about 620  miles of  this 
increase,  or  three-fifths  of  the  total,  is 
in  the  states  west  of  the  Mississippi, 
and  that  of  this,  all  but  about  80  miles 
is  in  the  southern  half  of  that  section. 
Of  the  mileage  in  the  Eastern  States, 
about  some  378  miles  was  built  in  ten 
of  the  states  south  of  the  Ohio  River. 
With  the  exception  of 
in 
Maine,  not  a  mile  was  built  in  the  New 
England  States.

five  miles 

It  is  an 

IO
Shoes  and  Leather

R etu rning  G oods  and  C la im in g   D is­

counts.

Returned  goods  may  be  divided  into 
two  kinds,  namely,  justifiable  and  un­
justifiable.  The  instances  of  justifiable 
returns  are  more  rare  than  the  unjus­
tifiable.  There  are,  no  doubt,  instances 
where  a  dealer  is  justified  in  returning 
it  is  at  all  times  a  serious 
goods;  still 
matter,  whether  considered 
from  the 
standpoint  of  either  seller  or  buyer. 
The  causes  of  complaint  may  not  be  en­
tirely  with  the  seller or manufacturer.  A 
dealer  may,  in  placing  his  order  with  a 
ideas  of  changes 
salesman,  have  some 
inserted  that  may  result 
in  making  up 
goods  very  different  from  what  he  orig­
inally  intended.  A  small  change—such 
as  a  different  tip,  facing  or  trimming— 
inay  result 
in  making  a  very  sightly 
shoe,  or  it  may  turn  out  just  the  oppo 
site.  A  member  of  the trade who values 
his  reputation  can  not  afford  to  get  for 
himself  the  name  of  returning  goods  or 
canceling  orders.  While  his  ability  to 
pay  may  not  be  questioned,  still  he  soon 
becomes  recognized  as  an  undesirable 
customer  and  his  business  is  not  sought 
after.  The  same  may  also  be  said  of 
the  manufacturer. 
If  he  goes  into  the 
market  and  buys  material  that  is  not  up 
to  the  standard  as  represented  by  sam­
ples  which  were  shown  by  his  salesman 
and  the  goods  are  sent  out,  the  discov­
ery  is  soon  made  and  the goods  are soon 
relegated  to  the  rear.

there 

In  selling  goods,  there 

is  no  doubt 
that 
is  considerable  pressure 
brought  to  bear  on  the  average  dealer, 
and  if  the  salesman  be a careful,prudent 
one,  who  wishes  not  only  to  sell  the 
goods  but  to  build  up  a  trade,  he  will 
be  as  careful  not to  sell  the dealer some­
thing  that  will  result 
in  his  being  dis­
satisfied,  or  that  will  lay  on  the  shelves 
and  be  an  eyesore  to  him  every  time  he 
sees  this  customer,  as  to  sell  goods  that 
will  make  money  for  him.  He  must 
also  not  make  promises  that  he  knows 
his  house  can  not  fulfill.

Quite  a  number  of  goods  are  returned 
by  dealers perhaps without much thought 
on  the  subject. 
If  a  dealer  happens 
to  have  a  few  days  of  dull  trade,  just 
preceding  the  arrival  of  a  shipment  of 
goods,  the  fact  that  he  is not doing much 
gives  him  an  oppoitunity  to  make  the 
common  general  complaint,  that  goods 
are  not  up  to  sample.  Some  buyers 
come  out  candidly,  and  say  that  they 
have  to  return  so  many  goods,  or  make 
complaints,  in order  to  have  goods  come 
up  to  sample,  when,  if  they  knew  the 
actual  facts,  this  would  not  be  necessary 
with  a  reliable  house.

The  question ^before  us 

is  how  to 
remedy  this  evil.  There  is  great  room 
for  improvement,  both  with  the  seller  as 
well  as  with  the  buyer,  not  so  much 
in 
making  any  vital  or great  change,  but 
by 
improving  in  the  small  things  that 
go  into  all  of  our  business  methods,  by 
our  getting  nearer  to  the  dealer,  and be­
ing  in  touch  with  him  and  his  needs.

The  manufacturer  must  use  greater 
care  in  the  small  things  that  go  to  make 
up  our  production,  and  the  dealer  must 
come  nearer  in  touch  with  the  manufac­
turer  and  realize  some  of  bis  difficulties 
in  making  a  good  shoe  from  the  ma­
terial  he  has  to  use,  etc.

We  expect  to  have  complaint  in  re­
gard  to  the  upper  stock,  until  the  peo­
ple  over  in  India  and  South  America 
learn  how  to  raise  the  kids  so  that  every 
hide  they  send  over to  America  is  taken 
from  the  same  kind  of  fat,  round  body,

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so  that  the  skin  when  tanned  here  will 
have  that  nice,  smooth,  meaty  touch 
which  we  all  like.  When  this  is  brought 
about  we  think  the  millennium  will  not 
be  far  off.

The  system  of  discounts  as  used  in 
business  transactions  are  of  two  kinds, 
viz.  :  Trade  and  cash  discount.  The 
former  is  used  nearly  altogether  in  that 
class  of  merchandise  where  the  value  or 
cost  of  production  is  more  or  less fluctu­
ating,  and  by  this  system  of  trade  dis­
counts  the  merchant  or  manufacturer 
is 
enabled  to  have  a  certain  fixed list price 
on  his  goods,  and  by  the  giving of vary­
ing  discounts  may  make  the  price  to 
customers  conform  to  the  actual  market 
value  of  the  article  sold.

Trade  discount  is  not  intended  to  be 
a  certain  fixed  rebate,  but  from  its  very 
nature  and  from  the  result  obtained  by 
its  use  it  must  be  more  or  less  varying, 
according  to  circumstances.  However, 
this  kind  of  discount  cuts  no  figure  in 
the  shoe  business.

Cash  discount,  on  the  other  hand,  oc­
cupies  an  entirely  different  position 
in 
the  “ economy  of  business,”   and  is  one 
of  its  most  vital  principles.  By  its  use 
the  evils  of  the  “ credit  system”   are  to 
a  great  extent  overcome.  Sharp  com­
petition  in  the  business  world  to-day 
is 
the  cause  from  which  most  of  the  evils 
of  the  “ credit  system”   arise.  Many 
manufacturers  or  wholesale  dealers  are 
trying  to  gain  an  advantage  over  their 
longer 
competitors  by  the  giving  of 
time,  extra  datings,  and 
larger  cash 
those  methods 
discounts,  and  while 
seem  to  be  acceptable  and 
eagerly 
sought  for  by  the  customer,  it  is  un­
doubtedly  to  his  disadvantage 
in  the 
end.

All  business,  to  be  successful,  must be 
done  at  a  profit,  and  by  the  present  sys­
tem  the  profits  are  reduced  to  such  an 
extent  that  any  especial 
inducement 
offered  to  the  customer  by  the  seller 
must  be  made  up  in  some  other  direc­
tion.  All  business  to  be  successful  must 
be  done  on  business  principles, 
the 
most  important  of  which  is  the  employ­
ment  of  a  capital  that  must  be  utilized 
to  the  best  advantage  by  “ turning  it 
over”   as  many  times  as  possible  in  a 
given  period,  and  each  time  it  is  used  a 
certain  margin,  or  profit,  should  be  ob­
tained. 
If  turned  a  sufficient  number 
of  times,  and  the  other  details  of  busi­
ness  carefully watched  at  the  same time, 
the  business  will  be  successful;  the  re­
verse  is  equally  true.

Where  the  customer  takes  a  longer 
time  than  that  allowed  by  the  seller  he 
takes  just  that  much  more  than  belongs 
to  him,  and  that  his  creditor  can  really 
afford  to  grant;  for  the  creditor,  if  a 
good  business  man,  has  made  his  cal­
culations  on  receiving  his  pay  in  a  cer­
tain  time,  so  as  to  have  it  to  use over 
again,  and,  if  not  received,  his  calcu­
lations  are  disturbed. 
It  is  in  this  con­
nection  that  the  cash  discount  system 
plays  an  important  part  in  the  economy 
of  business.

The  seller,  in  making  his  terms  and 
prices,  makes  a  calculation  as  to  the 
value  of  money  to  his  business,  and  on 
the  result  of  this calculation  bases  his 
per  cent,  and  time  for  cash  discount, 
and  makes  the  proposition  to  the  debtor 
that  “ if  you  will  pay  this  account  in 
such  a  time  I  will  give  you  such  a  per 
cent,  cash  discount,  as  the  money  is 
worth  that  much  to  m e.”   He  makes 
the  proposition  to  the  debtor  after  hav­
ing  made  his  calculations  as  to  what  he 
can  afford  to  pay  for  the  money  before 
it  is  actually  due,according  to  the  terms 
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If  the  foregoing  statement 

is  in  ac­
cordance  with  the  facts,  as  it  undoubt­
is 
edly 
in  all  well-managed  concerns, 
then 
if  the  debtor,  in  paying  the  ac­
count,  takes  a  larger  discount  or  longer 
time  than  that  allowed,  he  must  be 
in­
fringing  on  the  rights  of  the  creditor 
and  demanding  that  to  which  he  is  not 
entitled.

The  principal  reason  why  a  cash  dis­
count  is  offered,  and  which  is  not  often 
mentioned,  especially  to  the  debtor,  is 
that  the  creditor  is  willing  to  allow  a 
concession  for  the  elimination  of  the 
risk,  as  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  long­
er  the  account  runs  the  greater  the  risk ; 
and  another  reason  for allowing  a  cash 
inducement  for 
discount  is  to  make  an 
the  debtor  to  pay  the  account  before 
it 
is  due,  so  that  the  proceeds  may  be 
used 
in  the  business  and  enable  the 
creditor  to  run  his  business  on  a smaller 
investment  than  would  be  necessary 
if 
the  full  time  were  taken  by  all  his  cus­
tomers.

In  the  event  a  customer  takes  the  full 
time,  and  also  demands  the  cash  dis­
count,  he  is  asking  something  entirely 
unreasonable  on 
it,  and 
which  he  is  apparently  unable  to  see, 
and  the  only  explanation  to give  for this 
failure  to  understand  the  reasons  for 
cash  discount 
is  that  “ There  are  none 
so  blind  as  those  who  won’t  see.”

face  of 

the 

it  is  of  even  more 

So  far,  the  subject  of  discount  has 
been  considered  from  the  standpoint  of 
creditor  only.  Viewed  from  the  debtor’s 
standpoint 
impor­
tance. 
It  enables  him  to anticipate  his 
maturities  at  an  advantage,  and  also  re­
duces  the  net  cost  of  his  goods,  and,  if 
taken  advantage  of  on  all  occasions, 
with  other  details  of  his  business looked 
after  with  care,there  is  very  little  doubt 
as  to  his  final  successs.

J.  M.  G r a h a m .

H ow   the  F arm   W as  Paid  F o r.

Speaking  about  this  war  with  Spain, 
and  the  mint  of  money  those  Chicago 
speculators  are  coining  by  dealing  in 
“ futures”   with  grain,  reminds  me  of 
the  way  I  chanced—just  happened,  you 
know—to  turn  an  honest  penny,  in  our 
civil  war.

It  was  old  Nick  Walrod,  a  neighbor­
ing  farmer,  who  was  talking,  and  who 
had  been  one  of  the  first  to  enlist  as  a 
high  private  in  defense  of the starry flag 
nearly  forty  years  ago,  and who received 
his  discharge  in  better  health  than when 
he  enlisted,  if  I  except  the  loss  of  the 
index  finger  of  his  right  hand :  although 
he  yet  smiles  at  that  small  loss  and 
says,  “ I  was  well  paid  for  it  and  am 
quite  satisfied. 
Sit  right  down  here 
on  this  log,  Frank,  while  I  tell  you  all 
about  it,”   said  the  old  gentleman.

‘ ‘ F.arly  in  1859 I had bought an eighty- 
acre  farm  adjoining  my  father’s,  not 
far  from  Rockford,  Illinois.  Land  was 
cheaper  then  than  now,  and  money 
scarce  as  hen’s  teeth. 
I  was  to  pay  two 
thousand  dollars  for  the  farm  and  the 
apology  for  a  house  upon  it;  $500down 
and  the  balance  in  eight  years  with  6 
percent,  interest;  with  the  stipulation 
of  paying  the  balance  due  at  any  time 
previous. 
I  was  strong  and  rugged  for 
a  man  of  my  years—then  22—and  was 
looking  ahead  to  a  home of  my  own. 
My  father  was  to  furnish  me  a  span  of 
horses,  and  a  few  other animals  to  par­
tially  stock  the  farm,  and  for  the  time 
being  I  was  to  board  at  home.  After 
the  Rebs  hung  old  John  Brown—whose 
soul 
is  marching  on,  you  know—I 
guessed  there  would  be  war  sure,  and 
although 
I  had  paid  five  hundred  in 
cash  on  my  farm,  and  held  my  bond  for

a  deed,  I  took  mighty  little  interest  in 
my  work ;  and  my  mind  -was  made  up 
to  go  for  a  soldier  if  the  call  came  for 
defenders  of  the old Starry Flag.  There 
was  only  one  thing  stood 
in  the  way 
of  my  enlisting,  and  that  was  a  plump 
little  girl  of  18  years,  who  had  already 
promised  to  go  in  partnership  with  me 
in  farming,  and  she  is  now  Mrs.  Wal­
rod.  This  young  woman,  Miss  Fanny 
Kinney,  and  her  brother,  Harry Kinney, 
were  the only  children  cf  their  parents, 
who  were  both  stricken  with  cholera 
and  died 
just  about  the  time  I  bought 
my  farm.  Young  Kinney,  a  few  years 
my  senior,  was  a  carpenter  by  trade, 
and  at  the  first  call  of  Father  Abraham 
for  seventy-five  thousand  men  he and  I 
enlisted,  but  each  preferred  a  different 
branch  of  the  service—be  going  as  En­
sign  Kinney  on  board  a  gunboat  on  the 
Mississippi  River,  and  I  in  a  regiment 
of  cavalry  as  a  common  soldier.  We 
met  each  other but  once  only  after  we 
left  for  the South ;  and  that  was  early  in 
the  spring  of  1864  at  Memphis.  Tennes­
see.  Then  we  enjoyed  a  visit  with  each 
other  for  about  half  a  day  to  the  fullest 
extent,  and  congratulated  each  other up­
on  our  improved  physical  appearance.

“ Of  course  I  was  corresponding  with 
his  sister—Miss  Fanny—and  was  kept 
informed  of  matters  in  my  father’s fam­
ily,  and 
in  the  autumn  of  1864  her  let­
ters  expressed  much  anxiety  about  her 
brother,  whose  quite  regular  missives 
had  for  some  reason  failed  to  arrive, 
and  about  this  time  news  reached  me 
that  the  flotilla  in  which  he  was  serving 
had  been 
in  an  engagement  with  the 
Rebs.  Two  weeks  later  a  letter  from 
Fanny  stated  that  Harry  was  reported 
among  the  missing. 
I  need  hardly  add 
that  the  poor girl  was  wild  with  grief, 
nor  that  my  share  of  suffering  for a time 
rendered  me  almost  heart  broken  at  the 
affliction.  No  particulars 
regarding 
Harry’s  death  were  ever  received.  Dur­
ing  the  winter  of  1864-5  my  regiment, 
with  squads  from  others—all  cavalry— 
was  ordered  into  Southern  Tennessee  to 
drive  out  the  bushwhackers  who  were 
then  busy 
in  that  region,  devastating 
and  destroying  the  property  of all Union 
families  and  their  sympathizers.  Our 
regiment,when  once  on  the  ground,  usu­
ally  scouted 
in  companies,  but  en­
deavored  to  be  together  or  within  easy 
reach  of  each  other  every  night,  that 
no  superior  force  might  surprise  us.  At 
that  time  the  Johnnies were hard pressed 
for  clothing,  and  presented  anything  but 
a  military  appearance 
in  all  respects. 
Every  conceivabie  kind  and  color  of 
garments  were  worn,  and  their  half  mil­
itary  and  half  rag  tag  and  picked  up 
tinsel  from  the  dead  Union  soldiers,  to 
eke  out  their garments,  rendered  it  im­
possible  to  tell  officers  from  privates. 
One  afternoon  my  company  was  sud­
denly  startled  by  emerging  from a  forest 
road  which  made  a  sharp  turn  to  the 
right  close  to  the  timber  and  riding 
dump  into  a  camp of bushwhackers just 
enjoying  their  supper.  Like  ourselves 
they  were  mounted  men,  and  no  time 
was  wasted 
in  reaching  their  horses. 
Our  Captain  ordered  a  surrender,but  the 
order  fell  upon  unwilling  ears,  and  the 
next  order  was  to  his  own  men  to  fire 
The  standing  trees and underbrush saved 
many  lives,  but  gave  us  a  number  of 
severely  wounded  to  care  for. 
I person­
ally  singled  out  a  Johnny  Reb  whom  I 
took 
for  an  officer  by  the  cap  he  was 
wearing,  which  was  of  Union  blue  and 
ornamented  with  a  bright  tinsel  baud. 
He  saw  me  raise  my  Winchester  while 
yet  standing  beside  his  horse  ready  to 
mount,  and  we  both  fired  at  each  other

almost  at  the  same  instant. 
I  felt  the 
whiz  of  his  bullet  as  it  passed  near  my 
face,  and  my  gun  fell  from  mv  hands 
as  I  saw  his  horse  fall  dead  at  the  re­
port  of  mine.  His  cap  was  knocked  off 
by  the  falling  horse,  and  without  stop­
ping  an 
instant  he  ran  like  a  deer  in 
the  direction  his  companions  were  tak­
ing  As  I  dismounted  and  led  my  horse 
along 
in  order  to  pick  up  the  cap  he 
had  dropped,  I  noticed  for  the  first  time 
the  bleeding  stump  of  the 
index  finger 
of  my  right  hand,  and  also  that  the  lock 
of  my  gun  was  ruined.  The  cap  I 
picked  up,  while  badly  soiled  by  use, 
was  still  a  good  one  and  evidently  be­
longed  to  a  soldier  in  the  United  States 
navy,  and  to  my  surprise,  above  the 
gold  band  on  its  front  were  the  letters, 
H.  K .,  the  initials  of  my  lost  friend, 
Harry  Kinney!  Hastily  fastening  this 
treasure  to  my  belt,  I  answered  the  re­
call  to  join  my  company.  The bleeding 
stump  of  my  finger  required  attention, 
as  the  first  and  second  phalanges  were 
entirely  gone.  To  make  a  long  story 
short,  Frank,  after  spending  several 
weeks 
for  my 
wound,  I  was  mustered  out  of  the  serv­
ice  as  no  longer  fit  for  duty from the loss 
of  this 
important  member  of  my  right 
hand,  and  returned  home. 
In  due  time 
there  was  a  wedding  at  my  father’s 
house  and  Miss  Kinney  became  my 
wife.  The  cap  bearing  her  brother’s 
initials  was in due time renovated almost 
to 
its  original  freshness  and  beauty, 
and  was  kept  as  a  memento  of  patriot­
ism  of  one  who  gave  his  life  for  his 
country.  As  the  initials  of  many  other 
men  might  be  the  same,  doubts  whether 
this  cap  had  belonged  to  Fanny’s  broth­
er  had  often  arisen  not  only  in  our  own 
minds,  but  also  in  others.’

in  a  hospital,  caring 

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“ We  are  settled  at  last  in  our  own 
‘apology  for  a  house,’  and  on  our  own 
farm,  and  I  am  pleased  to  say  that  we 
hold  a  clear  title  to  the  property  and are 
contented  and  happy. 
in 
this  way :

It  happened 

“ Oneday while  Fanny  was  exhibiting

the  sailor’s  cap  to  a 
lady  friend  she 
noticed  that  a  portion  of  the  lining  had 
been  coarsely 
re-stitched  part  way 
around,  and  with  different  thread;  and 
also  that  a  prominence  was  perceptible 
at  this  point.  Ripping open  the lining, 
a  small  oiled  cloth  covered  packet  was 
found,  which,  upon  being  opened,  re­
vealed  twelve  hundred  dollars  in  green­
backs  of  large  denominations,  and  up­
on  a  slip  of  paper  in  the  well-known 
writing  cf  her 
lost  brother  were  these 
words,  ‘ For  my  dear  sister  Fanny,’  and 
signed,  ‘ Harry  Kinney.’  ”

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will  relieve  burning,  -stinging  and 
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keep the feet as sweet  and healthy as 
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Shoes  that  are  Money 
Winners. 
The  most  of 
them  sold  at  Bill  Price. 
We  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 
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19 S. Ionia St., Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

OUR  FALL  LINE 
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We are especially  strong  in  our  men’s  $2.50  line. 
Black  Vici,  Box  Calf,  Enamel  and  Winter  Tans. 
If you have not seen this line  it will  pay  you  to  do 
so before placing your order.
Our sales last  year  on  Woonsocket  and  Wales-Good- 
year rubbers were the largest  in  the  history  of  the 
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Concern in the State.

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Fruits  and  Produce.

R ejoicing  O ve r the  V indicatio n  o f O leo­

m a rg a rin e .

From the New York Commercial.

it  was 

Oleomargarine,  having  fought  a 

long 
fight,  has  at  last  gained  a  substantial 
victory.  This  much-maligned  product 
was,  at  the  instance  of  the dairy 
inter­
ests,  which 
long  supposed  to 
menace  seriously,  discriminated  against 
vigorously,  boldly,  and,  as  the  United 
States  Supreme  Court  recently  decided, 
unjustly,  by  the 
laws  of  almost  every 
dairy  state 
in  the  Union.  While  only 
the  oleomargarine  laws  of  New  Hamp­
shire  and  Pennsylvania  are  by  this  de­
cision  expressly  declared  unconstitu­
tional,  the  position  of  the Court is plain, 
and  similar  laws  in  other  states  will  be 
overthrown.  Both  of  these  States  sought 
by  statute  to  prevent  the  sale  of  oleo-: 
margarine  by  prohibiting  not  only  its j 
its  introduction 
manufacture,  but 
into 
the  State.  This 
the  Supreme  Court j 
holds  is  a  violation  of  the  Federal  Con­
stitution  relative  to  the  freedom  of  in­
terstate  commerce.  The  New  Hamp­
shire  law  provided  that  in  case  the oleo­
margarine  were  colored  pink,  so  as  to | 
distinguish  it  unmistakably  from butter, 
it  could  be  brought  into  the  States,  hi t 
this  the  Federal  Court  treated  as  a  mere 
evasion  which  does  not  alter  the  force 
of  the  law’s  unconstitutionality.

in 

There  was  a  time.before  the  creamery 
era,  and  when  the  disposition  to  sneak 
bogus  butter  upon  the  consumer  as  the 
real  product  was  pronounced,  when  this 
question  was  considered  of  great  im­
portance.  Buttermakers  demanded  the 
outlawing  of  a  product  which  they  be­
lieved  struck  at  the  very  existence  of 
their  industry.  Consumers  were  led  to 
believe  that  the  product  was  unbealth- 
ful  and  almost  poisonous—at  best  a  vile 
concoction  of  stale grease and pernicious 
coloring  matter,  deftly  molded 
and 
placed  upon  the  market  to  decoy  and 
deceive  people.  It  was  in  vain  that  pro­
test  was  made  and  an  inspection  of  the 
methods  of  manufacture and  all  the  ma­
terial  used  was  demanded. 
Clamor 
prevailed  and  prohibition  that  did  not 
prohibit  was  pronounced  in  many  states 
against  oleomargarine.  The  panic  has 
subsided 
late  years,  the  opposition 
settling  down  to  a  more  rational  basis. 
Hence,  the  decision  of  the  Supreme 
Court  causes  no  consternation  among 
farmers  and  will  attract  little  attention.
All  that  is  required  to  protect  butter- 
makers  from  competition  and  consum­
ers  from  being 
imposed  upon  by  oleo­
margarine 
is  a  law  that  prohibits  the 
sale  of  the  product  as  butter.  Under its 
own  name  it  can  do  no  harm  and  has a 
right  to  the  courtesies  of  the  market. 
Many  states,  including  our  own,  have 
such  a  law,  and  carefully  administered 
it  has  been  found  quite  effective.  The 
mistake  was  made  in  the  first  place  in 
trying  to  do too  much.  Arbitrary meth­
ods  in  this  country  defeat  their  object. 
The  American  people  do  not  take  kind­
ly  to  prohibition  when  it  invades  their 
kitchens  and  cellars.  Very  few  of  them, 
relatively  speaking,  wanted  to  eat  oleo­
margarine,  but  the  number  who  were 
not  over  particular  in  the  matter  ran  up 
into  the  thousands  many  times  multi­
plied,  and  the  substitute being  cheaper 
than  butter,  they  preferred  to  use  it. 
Supply  was  inevitable  and  manufactur­
ers  found  it  profitable  to  furnish  it.  So 
the  long  fight  has  ended  in  a  decision 
of  the  Supreme  Court  qn  constitutional 
points 
and  concessions  that 
will  settle  the  matter  on  a  reasonable 
basis.

involved 

H ow  O ranges and Lem ons A re   H andled 

in  G otham .

New  York,  July  2—Of  the  millions  of 
boxes  of  oranges  and  lemons  received at 
the  port  of  New  York  about  80  per cent, 
is  disposed  of  at  public  auction.  Many 
methods  have  been  tried,  but  this  has 
proved  the  most  successful,  and  scarce­
ly  a  day  passes  throughout  the  year, 
with  the  exception  of  Sunday,  that  there 
is  not  a  cargo  selling  under the ham­
mer.

New  York  boasts  of  two  fruit  auction- 
houses.  The more  important  of  the  two

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has  bad  a  successful  career’ of’over forty 
years,  while  the  other,  although  a  new­
comer  in  the  field,  has  already  secured 
a  flattering  patronage.  No  doubt  many 
enterprising  business  men  would  take 
to  the  auction  business  were  it  not  for 
the  fact  that  the  capital  required  is  un­
usually  large.  One  of  the  inducements 
found 
in  the  auction  system  is  a  cash 
settlement the  day  after the  sale.  When 
it 
is  known  that  in  a  single  day  sales 
have  been  made  aggregating  $50,000  to 
$100,000,  it  will  be  readily  seen  that  the 
auction  house  must  have  a  pretty  good- 
sized  bank  account  to  draw  on.  Then 
again,  a 
large  amount  of  room  is  re­
quired  for  storing  and  exhibiting  sam­
ples,  to  say  nothing  of  a  small-sized 
amphitheatre  where  the  auctions  are 
conducted.

One  of  these  two  big  concerns  oc­
cupies  a  large  four-story building,  while 
the  other  uses  three  floors  of  another. 
By  an  ingenious  arrangement  the  seats 
are  so  arranged  that  when  a  sale  is  not 
in  progress  they  may  be  hauled  up  and 
fastened  to  the  ceiling,  leaving  the  val­
uable  space  below  for  exhibiting  sam­
ples. 
In  both  auction  rooms  the  seats 
rise  tier  upon  tier,  so  that  every  buyer 
is  in  full  view  of  the auctioneer.  In  this 
way  not  a  single  bid  escapes  notice.  A 
fruit  auction  sale  in  full  blast  is  an 
in­
teresting  entertainment  and  is  worth go­
ing  a  good  way  to  see.  The  dusky  sons 
of  Italy  are  still  largely  interested  in 
this  trade,  and  with  their naturally 
im­
pulsive  natures  they  make  excited  bid­
ders,
large  number  of  sales  take  place 
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right  on  the  steamship  piers.  The  scene 
is  entirely  different,  for  there  are 
here 
no  seats 
for  the  buyers,  and  they  are 
obliged  to  stand  in  a  group  around  the 
auctioneer,  who  is  perched  on  a  box  or 
other  point  of  vantage.

The  handling  of  perishable  fruit  in­
volves  a  large  element  of  risk as  regards 
the  condition  of the  fruit. 
In  purchas­
ing  a  lot  of  two  or  three thousand  boxes 
the buyer  is guided  by  a  dozen  or  more 
sample  boxes  which  are  opened  for his 
It  is  said  that  human  na­
inspection. 
ture  appears  in  all  its  weakness 
in  the 
fruit  business,  for the  seller  desiring  to 
obtain  the  best  price  possible  for  his 
goods  shows  a  marked tendency to “ fix”  
the  samples.  So  bitter  was  the  feeling 
engendered  over  this  subject  that  many 
times 
life  has  been  threatened.  Under 
the  present  system  inspectors  are  hired 
by  the  Fruit  Buyers’  Union,  whose busi­
ness  it  is  to  watch  the  opening  of  sam­
ples  and  report  if  the  fruit  is  tampered 
with.  This  report  is  made  to  the  auc­
tioneer,  and  he  is  obliged  to  read  it  be­
fore  offering  the goods  for  sale.

Time  was  when  most of  the  fruit  was 
imported,  but  the  speedy  development 
of  California  has  caused  a rapid shifting 
around  of  conditions.  New  York  re­
ceived  from  California  last  year  about 
1,600  carloads  of  336  boxes  each.  A 
box  contains  between  eighty  and  three 
hundred  oranges.  Not  more  than  20 
per  cent,  of  all  the  fruit  disposed  of 
in 
the  city  is  sold  at  private  sale.  Even 
the  branch  bouses  of  the big  California 
fruit  companies  turn  their  consignments 
over to  the  auctioneer.  While  oranges 
and  lemons  are  the  principal  varieties 
thus  sold,  it  is  found  that bananas,  pine­
apples,  onions,  grapes  and  dried  fruits 
are  also  extensively  handled  in  a  sim­
ilar  manner.

N ot  W o rrie d   by  the  W ar.

Mrs.  Styles—“ Is  your  husband  wor­
ried  about  business  during  these  war 
times?”
Mrs.  Rich—“ No,  indeed.  He  thinks 
the  war  will  help  his  business.  He’s 
interested  in  a  gas  company,  you  know, 
and  he  thinks  there  will  be  so  many 
young  men  go  to  war  that  there  will  be 
no  more  occasion  for  turning  down  the 
parlor  lights  every  night.”

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On  the  top  of  this  long  tube  is  a  funnel 
that  always  faces  the  w ind.  An  a ir  out­
let 
the  top  of  the  curing 
J ohn  W.  D e c k e r .
room. 

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J .  W ILL A RD   L A N S I N G  
B U R G E   D.  C A T L IN

the  whey. 

H ow   to   B uild  a  Cheese  Fa ctory.
People  have  asked  me  how  I  would 
build  a  factory  and  how  much  it  would 
cost.  A  good  one  can  be  put  up  for 
about  $1,200.  If  possible,  I  would  build 
it 
into  the  side  of  a  hill,  for  two  rea­
sons:  First,  to get  a  cellar  curing  room 
in  which  an  even  temperature  can  be 
held,  and  second,  to  secure  an  elevated 
whey  tank  without  it  being  necessary  to 
elevate 
I  would  build  a 
basement  with  two  rooms  for  curing 
cheese.  One  room  can  be  kept  fairly 
dry  for  the  new  cheese.  New  cheese 
ought  to  dry  on  the  outside  for  a  few 
days,  until  a  good  rind  is  formed,  and 
then  they  may  go  into  a  room  contain­
ing  a  more  humid  atmosphere,  where 
they  will  dry  out  less;  in  fact,  they  will 
cure  better.  One  reason  why  our  peo­
ple  complain  that  the  cheese  is  too  dry 
is  that  the  makers  have  to  make  the 
cheese  firmer  to  stand  the  hot  curing 
rooms,and  the  cheese  is  dried  still  more 
in  such  rooms.

The  building above  the  ground  can  be 
built  fifteen  feet  longer  to  accommodate 
a  boiler  room  at  the  end,  right  on  the 
ground,  as  it  will  be  necessary  to  get  a 
foundation  in  the  ground  for  the  boiler. 
The  rest  of  the  building  above  ground 
can  be  divided  into  a  making  room  and 
a  store  room  for  supplies.  The  floor  of 
the  making  room  should  be  well  sup­
ported  from  below  to  stand  the  heavy 
weight  upon 
It  should  also  be 
double  thickness  with  tar,  or  something 
similar,  between,  to  prevent  water  run­
ning  through. 
It  must  also  be  remem­
bered  that  the  insulation  from the warm­
er  rooms above  must  be  secured  for  the 
curing  rooms.  The  inside  of  the  build­
ing 
should  be  properly  ceiled  and 
painted.

it. 

For  ventilation  of  the  curing  rooms, 
run  two  galvanized  iron  pipes,  one  foot 
in  diameter,  through  the  roof,  one  for 
an  inlet  of  air,  and  the  other  for  an  out­
let.  On  top  of  the 
inlet  have  a  funnel 
with  a  vane  to  it,  so  that  it  will  always 
swing  on  a  pivot  towards  the wind.  The 
air  would  then  flow  down  the  funnel  in­
to  the  room  below,  and  the  air  in  the 
room  would  be  forced  out  of  the  other 
tube.  For  times  when  there  is  little  air 
moving,  a  steam  jet  may  be  inserted  in­
to  the  outlet.  A  small  jet  of  steam  es­
caping  will  cause  a  surprisingly  strong 
current  of  air  that  will  make  a  partial 
vacuum 
in  the  curing  room,  and  of 
course  air  will  rush  in  through  the inlet.
For buildings  that  can  not  be  built  on 
a  side  hill  I  would  recommend  a  sub- 
earth  duct  for  ventilation.  The  ground 
is  warmed  in  summer  and  cooled  in 
winter  down  to  a  depth  of  about  ten 
feet.  To  secure  an  even,  low  tempera­
ture  we  must  go  down  ten  or twelve 
feet.  Air  drawn  through  a  long  tube, 
laid 
in  the  ground  at  that  depth  will 
be  cooled,  and  a  curing  room  built 
above  ground,  but  well 
insulated,  can 
be  kept  at  a  temperature  of  60  to  65 
deg.  Fahrenheit.  There  are  some  im­
portant  points  that  must  be  observed 
in 
securing  a  good  earth  duct,  such  as 
depth  in  the  ground  and  surface  of  duct 
in  proportion  to  size  of  room,  as  the  air 
is  cooled  by  coming  in  contact  with  the 
walls  of  the  duct.

The  curing  room  must  be  properly  in­
sulated  from  outside  temperatures.  The 
approved  plan,  up  to  date,  is  to  dig  a 
trench  ten  feet  deep  and  too to  200  feet 
long,  and 
lay  down  about  ten  rows  of 
six-inch  drain  tile.  A  brick  chamber 
is  built  up  to  the  ground  at  each  end, 
and  the  earth  tilled  in.  One of  the brick 
chambers 
is  connected  with  the  curing 
room,  while  on  the  other  one  is  erected 
a  wooden  tube  not 
less  than  twelve 
inches  in  diameter  and  fifty  feet  high.

Result  o f 

Insisting  on  Case  C oun t 

Sales.

From  the  New  York  Produce  Review.

A  receiver  of  eggs  the other day called 
our  attention  to  a  letter  he  had  received 
from  a  large  egg  shipper  in  regard  to 
selling  eggs loss  off.  This  shipper  packs 
a  fine  quality  of  eggs  most  of  the  year 
and  he  wrote  as  follows :

“ I  will  not  ship  eggs  and  have  them 
sold  loss  off  to  fit  the  market. 
If  I  can 
not  sell  at  mark  will  not  ship  any,  as  I 
can  place  all  the  eggs  I  get  at  mark and 
know  what  I  am  doing.  The  time  must 
come  when  the  packer  must  sell  his 
eggs  at  mark  or get  out  of  the  business, 
and  I  am  now  ready  to  get  out  of  the 
business,  so  will  try  to  find  a  place  to 
put  eggs  case  count. ’ ’
This  letter  brought  to  mind  one  phase 
of  the  case  count  egg  selling  question 
which  is  interesting  to consider.  Under 
the  present  circumstances  in  this  mar­
ket  eggs  are  sold  both  case  count  and 
loss  off.  The  bulk  of  the  cheap  and  in­
ferior  eggs,  including  seconds,  are  sold 
case  count  to the  cheap  trade,  who  judge 
of  their quality by  a  partial examination 
before  the  candle  before  buying.  There 
are  also  a  few  lots  of  superlative quality 
graded  eggs  which  are  taken  by  first- 
class  trade  on  a  case  count  basis  during 
the  loss  off  season.  These are sold  either 
at  mark  or  with  a  light  fixed  average 
loss,  the 
loss  terms,  together  with  the 
price  per  doz.,  entering  into  the  deter­
mination  of  the  net  value  at  mark. 
There  are  now  certain  definite  rules  in 
force  on  the  Mercantile Exchange which 
prescribe  the  quality  which  may  be  sold 
at  mark  even  during  the  loss  off  season. 
But  these  requirements  are  very  high 
and they are  met  by very  few  of  the  eggs 
arriving.  Under  the  present  method  of 
packing  eggs  in  the  West  the great  bulk 
of  the  stock  arriving  will  bring  the  full 
value  of  the  good  eggs  contained  only 
under  loss  off  sales.  Therefore,  for  a 
shipper  to  say,  “ I  will  not  have  my 
eggs  sold  loss  off,”   will,  if  he  really 
means  it,  result  in  one  of  three  things: 
either  his  eggs  will  have  to  arrive  here 
so  closely  selected  and  so  free  from  de­
fects  as  to  meet  the  requirements  of  the 
case  count  «rules,  or,  if  they  are below 
this  quality  they  will  have to be  sold for 
less  than  they  would  realize  if  sold  loss 
off,  or  he  will  have  to  find,  as  he  says 
he  can,  some  less  fastidious  outlet.

We  are  pretty  well  convinced  that  a 
large  part  of  the  receipts  of  Western 
eggs  can  be  so  handled  in  the country as 
to  meet  the  requirements  of  a case count 
rule  at  all  seasons;  also  that  if  this 
could  be  effected  it  would  be  an  enor­
mous  economy  to  the  egg trade  at  large. 
We  are  equally  confident  that  a satisfac­
tory  business  can  not be  done  in  mixed 
and 
irreglar  qualities  of  eggs  on  a  case 
count  basis  with  dealers  whose  only  out­
let 
is  for  fine  stock;  this  is  the  trade 
which  handles  the bulk  of  the  supply.
We  have argued  in  favor  of case count 
sales  in  spite  of  this  conviction,  for  the 
reason  that 
it  appears  to  be  the  only 
method  which  will  assure  the proper rel­
ative  range  of  values  for  superior  qual­
ity  and  because  we  believe  it  alone  will 
force a  close  grading  of  Western  eggs. 
If  the  trade  should  suddenly  determine 
to  sell  all  eggs  case  count,  most  of  the 
stock  which  is  now  going  to  good  trade 
loss  off  would  undoubtedly  have  to  be 
sold  below  its  present  value;  and  if  this 
were  persisted 
in  shippers  would  have 
to 
improve  the  goods  by  throwing  out 
before  shipment  all  that  are  now  thrown 
out  here.  Thus  the  cure  would be  effect­
ed.  We see  no  other  advantage  to  ship- 
ers  in  insisting  upon  sales  of  mixed 
qualities  at  mark ;  it  would  undoubted­
ly  be  disadvantageous  so  long  as  their 
goods  continued  mixed  and  irregular. 
It  is  this  fact—that  case  count  sales  of 
mixed  qualities  would  be  disadvanta­
geous  to  the shipper—that  makes  us  be­
lieve  that  a  general  insistence upon  case 
count  sales  would  force  a  grading  close 
enough  to  satisfy  buyers  on  a  case  count 
basis  and  eliminate  the  enormous  loss 
which  now  arises 
from  shipment  of 
worthless  and  inferior  eggs.

Lansing  &  Catlin

Wholesale Dealers in

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C h a ra cte r  the  Basis o f C re d it.

in  his  first  in­
George  Washington, 
“ The  founda­
augural  address,  said: 
tion  of  our  National  policy  will  be  laid 
in  the  pure  and  immutable  principles 
of  private  morality, ”   and 
in  reply  to 
this  address  of  Washington  by  the  Sen­
ate  of  the  United  States  these  words 
were  used:  “ We  feel,  sir,  the  force  and 
acknowledge  the  justice  of  the  observa­
tion that  the  foundation  of  our  National 
policy  should  be  laid  in  private  moral­
ity. 
If  individuals  be  not  influenced by 
moral  principles,  it  is  vain  to  look  for 
public  virtue.”   A  well-known  writer 
says: 
“ What  we  are  sooner  or  later 
shows  itself  in  what  we seem.  Our char­
acter,  unconsciously  but  inevitably,  ex­
presses  itself  in  our  actions,  our speech, 
our  manner,  our  looks,  and  finally  it  is 
seen  by  our  fellows  as  they  observe us. ”
What  is  character?  It  is  an  individual 
matter.  You  can  not  have  another’s 
character.  You may try  to  imitate,  per­
haps,  the  character  of  some  great  man ; 
but  to  the  man  himself  who  is  his  own 
master  bis  character standetb  or  falletb. 
Character  is  that  something  within  you 
which  receives  and  impresses  upon your 
mind  and  writes  in  indelible  letters  on 
your  heart  your  thoughts,  words  and 
deeds.  Character  is the  fine  tone of  your 
heart  strings,  or  else  it  is  the  dull  thud 
of  life  which  seems  to  chill  you  through 
and  through.  Character  is  that  some­
thing  which  points  you  onward  and  up­
ward 
in  life’s  work,  or  else  drags  you 
down  to  lower  and lower  depths  as  it be­
comes  foul  with  the  heavier  material  of 
life’s  dregs.  Some  one  has  well  said 
that  “ Character is  not  something  that  is 
added  to  your  life,  but  it  is  life  itself. ”  
Character  building  is  not  the  work  of  a 
moment  or  a  day.  You  can  not  jump 
into a  character as  you  would  into a  suit 
of  clothes,  unless 
it  be  an  assumed 
character.  The  man  with  an  assumed 
character  is  a  hypocrite,  whom  we  all 
despise.  Character building  is  a  slow 
process. 
It  must  be  worked  at  contin­
ually,  and  we  are  building  even  when 
we are  not  conscious  of  it.

J a m e s  G.  C a n n o n .

No  S ym pathy fo r S u ite r’s  V ictim s. 

Prom the Dairy JVorld.

It  is  amusing  to  note  the  profuse  ex­
planations  now  being  made  by  some 
dairy  and  so-called  creamery  papers  as 
to  the  recent  failure  cf  A.  Suiter,  the 
commission  merchant  of  Cleveland, 
Ohio. 
The  Dairy  World  repeatedly 
warned  the  dairy  public  against  his sys­
tem  of  business  and  advised  them  to re­
frain  from  makine  anv  shipments  to 
him,  despite  the  fact  that  he  occupied 
large  and  plausible  advertising  space  in 
those  papers'  and  that  they  endorsed 
him,  and  if  any  buttermakers  have  now 
been  caught  in  his  failure,  as  must  be 
the  case  with  quite  a  number  judging 
from  the  fact  that  his  liabilities  are  re­
ported  to  be  S75.000,  thev  have  them­
selves  and  these  “ veracious”   papers  to 
blame.  Verily,  as  Barnum  tersely  put 
it.  or  some  equally  good  authority  has 
said,  “ A  fool 
is  born  every  second;”  
but  the  worst  of  the  situation  is  that 
such  poor,  deluded  mortals  will  rush  in­
to  their own  loss  and ruin,  notwithstand­
ing  the  best  efforts  of  friends  to  save 
them. 
Is  there  any  pity  to  be  expended 
on  such  a  class  of  people?

W hy  D airy  B u tte r  is  D oom ed.

One  of  the  reasons  why  buttermaking 
on  the  farm  is  rapidly  giving  way  to 
the  creamery  system  is  because  it  is  al­
most 
impossible  to  secure  as  good  a 
price  for  farm  butter  as  for  creamery 
butter  unless  the  farmer has  special cus­
tomers.  The  dairyman  who  keeps  a 
large  number  of  cows  and  therefore has 
large  output  of  butter  sells  it  to  as
a 

good  advantage  as  a  creamery  can,  but 
those  who  keep  a'  few  cows  find 
it  im­
possible  to  sell  butter  by  ordinary  meth­
ods  at  the  price  of  creamery  butter,  al­
though  the  butter  may  be  as  good  or 
even  better.  This  is  the  complaint  of 
the  private  dairymen  all over the  United 
States.  There  does  not  appear  to  be 
any  way  by  which  small  lots  of  butter 
can  be  sold 
in  the  general  market  at 
top  prices,  and  creameries  are  likely, 
therefore,  to  keep  on  making  a  rapidly 
increasing  proportion  of  the  butter  for 
some  time  to  come.

M o ld y  B u tte r  T u bs.

A  correspondent  of  the  Rural  New 
Yorker  recently  made  an  attempt  to 
mold  some  tubs,  in  order  to  find  some­
thing  about  the  subject.  Four  60  pound 
tubs  were  taken  from  the  store-room and 
kept  under  water,  entirely  submerged, 
four  days.  After  this  soaking  they  were 
allowed  to  dry  for  one  day,  and  were 
then  placed 
in  a  tightly-covered  tank 
which  had  about  one-half  inch  of  water 
on 
its  bottom.  The  tubs  were  left  in 
this  damp  atmosphere  a  few  days  and 
soon  showed  a  luxuriant  growth  of  mold 
on  the  surface  of  the  wood.  This  evi­
dence  seemed 
to  show  that  the  com­
plaints  about  moldy  butter  probably 
came  from  the  dampness  of  the  wood 
in  the  butter  tub,  and  that  the  mold 
could  be  prevented  by thoroughly drying 
the  tubs  before  they  were  used.  Store 
them 
in  a  dry  room  and  not  in  a  base­
ment.

He  K new   the  Sex.

“ Young  man,”   said  the  magistrate 
is  conclusive 
severely,  “ the  evidence 
against  you.  You 
tried  to  kiss  the 
plaintiff  against  her  will.  Have  you 
anything 
is 
passed  upon  you?”

say  before  sentence 

to 

“ Only  this,  Judge,”   replied the young 
man,  who  was  about  as  handsome  a 
specimen  as  you  could  find  in  a  day’s 
journey; 
“ only  this,  Judge,  that  I  am 
exceedingly  sorry 
I  did  not  succeed. 
When  I 
look  upon  the  beautiful  face 
and  the  rosy  red  lips  of  the  plaintiff  I 
feel  that,  if  I  had  succeeded  in  kissing 
her,  I  would  have  paid  the  fine  with  the 
greatest  cheerfulness. ’ ’

“ Judge, ”   faltered  the  fair  plaintiff, 
“ if  you  don't  mind,  I  should  like  to 
withdraw  the  charge.”

D o c to r  S aid  so.

An  excellent  story  was  told  at  a  char­
ity  dinner.  One  day  a  man  was  brought 
into  the  accident  hospital  who  was 
thought  to  be  dead.  His  wife  was  with 
him.  One  of  the  doctors  said,  “ He 
is 
dead,’ ’ but  the  man  raised  his  head  and 
said,  “ No,  I ’m  not  dead  yet,”   where­
upon  his  wife  admonished  him,  saying, 
“ Be quiet;  the  doctor  ought  to  know 
best. ’ ’

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T he  M easure  o f  Business  Expense. 
W ritte n  f o r   th e  T r a d e s m a n .

The  one  question  a  business man most 
often  asks  himself  without  a satisfactory 
answer  is,  “ How  much  can  I  afford  to 
pay  my  help?’ ’  or  “ With  how  small  a 
salary  list  can  I  manage  my  business?”  
And  so  seldom  is  there  any  satisfaction 
gained 
from  personal  enquiry  on  this 
vexed  and  vexing  question  that  I  ven­
ture,  in  the  limits  of  this  article,  to give 
my  views  on  this  theme  of  universal  in­
terest :

The  first  proposition  to  make  is  as 
broad  and  deep  as  the  very  foundation 
of  business,  to  wit,  profit  alone 
is  the 
gauge by  which  to  measure  returns  from 
any  investment;  nor  can  we  take  into 
consideration  the  expense 
incurred  to 
reach  this  conclusion.

If,  through  the  increase  of  his  salary 
list  ioo  per  cent.,  a  business  man  adds 
to  his 
income  a  single  dollar,  he  has 
been  justified  in  the  raised  cost  of  run­
ning  his  business:  and 
is  most 
generally  the  case,  a  corresponding  ad­
vance  of  ioo  per  cent,  has  been  made  in 
the  year’s  net  gains,  then  was  the  act  a 
wise  one,  as  on  his  profits  only  must  a 
man’s  gain  be  gauged.

if,  as 

It  would  be  a  poor  plan,  if  not  cen­
surable  folly,  for  a  farmer  to  sow  wheat 
screenings,  could  they  be  secured  with­
out  expense,  instead  of  prime  seed  that 
cost  Si  a  bushel,  simply  to  save  expense 
when  getting 
in  his  fall  wheat  crop, 
because  the  returns  would  not  only  be 
disappointing  but  show  a  loss  on  the 
In  this  case  “ The  best 
season’s  crop. 
is  always  the  cheapest”  
in 
the  matter  of  store,  or  we  might  add, 
any  hired  help.

true 

is 

Again,  the  expense  of  seed  is  like un­
to  a  man’s  salary  list,  for  from  its  frui­
tion  does  he 
look  for his  profit.  The 
farmer  does  not  hesitate  to  sow  clover 
seed  at  $10 a  bushel,  when  needed,  even 
if  beans  could  be  bought  at  less  than 
one-twentieth  the  original outlay  of  cash 
for  seeding  the  same  land.

On  the  same  hypothesis  does  the  man 
in  business  who 
is  sustained  by  true 
business  acumen  willingly  pay  $20  a 
week  for  that  combination of body,brain 
and  hands 
thoroughly  qualified  for 
what 
is  to  be  done,  instead  of  getting 
incompetent,  although  equally  as  large, 
hands 
if  they  might  be  secured  at  $1 
per  week  less.

Using  the  farmer  again  as  an  illustra­
tion,  we  state,  it  is  more  to  his  advan­
tage  to  harvest  forty  bushels  of  dollar 
wheat  from  an  acre  to  secure  which  it 
cost  him  $20  as  expenses  than  to  have 
saved  at  seeding  time  and  reaped fifteen 
bushels  from  the  same  ground,  even  al­
though  he  may  have  saved  one-half,  or 
$10,  per  acre  expense  “ from  seed  time 
to  harvest. ”   Equally  true  is  it  of  the 
business 
the  expense  to  run  which 
amounts  to  $100  per  week,  and  $50  net 
profit  accrues, compared  to the getting of 
the  same  work  done at  $50 on which only 
$25  shows  as  net  profit,  with  chances  all 
in  favor  of  the  prospects  for  the  coming 
week  to  be brighter  than 
in  the  latter 
instance,  where  cheapness  led  in  secur­
ing  help.  From  which  we  can  state  that 
the  best,  the  brightest  help,  paid  all 
such  help 
is  worth,  is  a  better  invest­
ment  than  cheap  help  at  any  price,  or 
even  no  price  at  all. 
In  selection  of 
is  never  a  question 
store  help  there 
raised  but  that  brains  are  of  more  value 
than  hands, 
in  the  building  up  of  a 
business,  and  when  able  brains  guide 
is  suc­
and  direct  willing  bands  there 
cessful 
especially 
when  those  helpers  are satisfied that they 
receive  their  work’s  worth  and  have  an 
equitable  rating  on  the firm’s salary list;

business-building, 

but  where  dissatisfaction  on  this  point 
exists  there 
is  always  chance  to think 
better  results  might  have  been  secured 
had  a  better  understanding  of  business 
worth  and  recompense  been had between 
employer  and  employed.

Some  one  has  suggested  that  among 
the  duller  minds  are  to  be  found  the 
greater  percentage  of  strictly  honest 
helpers  for  store  work,  hence  a  good 
excuse  to  employ  only  such  in  the  re­
from  which  surmise  1 
tail  business; 
again  call  on  our  farmer  friend 
for  a 
homely 
illustration:  Suppose  a  well- 
ripened  field  of  wheat  should  shell  in 
the  harvesting 
10  per  cent,  of  its  bulk 
and  bring  the  highest  market  price  at 
selling  time,  would 
it  not  be  policy  to 
lose  this  per  cent,  rather  than  to  cut  the 
crop  while  green  and,  although  saving 
this  loss,  lose  through  shrunken,  mouldy 
grain  one-fourth  or  more  its  value,  as 
might  be  expected?  How  can  other 
than  one  answer  be  given,  that 
it  is 
more  profitable  to  have  the 
smaller 
amount  of  a  first-class  article  than  in­
creased  bulk  of  a  second.  Therefore 
we assert,  even  if  bright  help  will  pil­
fer  (which  we  strenuously  deny),  it  is 
better  to  have  such  about,  even  at  this 
expense  added  to  their  higher  salary, 
than  the  cheap  dullard.  But,  on  the 
other hand,  when  the  farmer  knows  of 
improved  machinery  by  the use of which 
he  can  save  the  loss  by  shelling  at  har­
vest  time,  what  excuse  on  earth  can  be 
made  to  justify  the  premature  harvest­
ing,  especially  when  the  outlay  for 
im­
proved  machinery  can  be  but  a  small 
per  cent,  of  the  total  saving  in  grain 
and  handling  expense;  or, 
in  other 
words,  what  excuse  can  that  merchant 
make  for  employing  dull  salespeople  in 
order  to  secure  honest  ones,  when  the 
means  is  at  hand,  purchasable  at  small 
cost,  that  almost 
insures  absolute  ac­
curacy  and  honesty among  store  help?

Our  opinion,  based  on  several  years 
of  careful,  practical  study  along  busi­
ness  lines,  confirms  our  belief  that  good 
help  well  paid 
is  the  best  means  of 
reaching  that  success  at  which  we  all 
aim  and  hope  to  reach  through  the  va­
rious  channels  of  business  in  which  our 
all  is  ventured.

Nor  yet 

is  that  man  who  seeks  to  do 
all  his  own  work  very  far  advanced  to­
wards  the  fruition  of  his  hopes,  a  retir­
ing  competency,  because  he,  like  the 
army  general  who  attempts  to  do  the 
private’s  daily  duties,  fails in that  high­
est  duty  to  himself,  his  country  and  his 
family  when  he  drops  the  reins  of  gov­
ernment  to  do  that  which  others  might 
as  well  do  for  him.  Rather  should  he 
give  his  time  to  strategy  than  toil,  to 
plans  than  performance, 
to  direction 
In  retail  business  the 
than  execution. 
eye  of  the  master 
is  worth  both  his 
bands,  yea,  many  other hands  added  to 
his  can  not  offset  the  loss  to his business 
interests  from  his  eye  and  mind  being 
turned  from  the  management of his work 
to  the  drudgery  of  minute  performance. 
First-class 
lieutenants  are  essential  to 
success  and  there  is  no  business  small 
or  large  but  that  is  worthy  a  “ second  in 
command”   on  whom  the  duty  of  direc­
tion  must  devolve  when  circumstances 
remove  from  the  active  field  its  com 
mander-in-chief.  And  this  should  be 
one  thoroughly  trustworthy  and  capable, 
one  who  can,  and  does,  enter  complete­
ly  into  the  plan  of  campaign  and  who 
can  carry  it  on  “ all  but  as  well”   as  he 
in  chief  command,  the  proprietor  him­
self.

But  don’t,  my  worthy  retail  friends, 
think  for a  moment  that  such  an one can 
be  bought—he  must  be  made  to  fit the

Is  no  more  appetizing  than  an 
season’s  Luscious  Fruits  and 
etables  in  all  their  freshness. 

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GROWN  Cucumbers,  Spinach,  Asparagus,  Pie  Plant,  New  Dry 

1  Onions,  Turnips,  Carrots,  Squash,  Wax  Beans.

BUNTING  &  CO.,  Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

place,  either 
in  your  or  some  similar 
employ;  and  once  made,  he  will  be 
capable  of  filling  that  place  with  satis 
faction  and  profit to  both  the  business 
and  its  owner.  Such  a  one  will  cost  you 
money,  but,  as  in  the  case  of  first-class 
seed,  the  expense  is  thoroughly  justified 
and  the  returns  will  demonstrate  the 
outlay  to  have  been  one  based  on  true 
business  principles,  that the  profit  there 
on  exceeds  the  expense.

Our  final  conclusions  are  that 

it 

it 

that 

poor  policy  to  secure  help  on  the  one 
understanding 
is  seemingly 
cheap,  as  measured  by  the  coin  of  the 
realm,  because  nothing  is  cheap  at  pur 
chase  price  unless  returns  thereon  show 
a  clear  balance  of  profit,  and  the  ex 
perience  of  all  our  business  past  dem 
onstrates  that  high-priced  help  about 
one’s  store  or  place  of  business  secures 
a  greater  gain  per  cent,  to  that  business 
than  the  "cheap-in-price”   help. 
It  al 
ways  has,  does  yet  and  forever  will  hold 
true  that  any  purchase  that  turns a profit 
on  the  investment  is  a  good  one;  and 
just  as  true  is  it  that a  poor 
investment 
shows  loss. 

L.  A.  E l y .

H ow   People 

Im pose  on 

Boy.

the  G ro cery 

“ Hully  gee,  but  I ’m  hot,’ ’  said  the 
grocery  boy,  as  be  brought  in  the  gro 
ceries  that  had  been  ordered  in  the 
morning. 
" I ’m  most  dead,  too,  and 
it’s  only  12  o’clock.’ ’

He  turned  to  the  cook  and  continued 
in  an  injured  tone: 
" I   wonder  if  other 
people  have  to  work  as  bard  as  I  do 
Just  because  I  work  in  a  grocery  store, 
every  one  thinks  they  can  walk  all  over 
me. ”

just  the  sam e: 

He  got  no  answer  to  his  query,  but  he 
went  on 
" I   get  up  at 
6 every  morning,  clean  up  that  darned 
store,  put  everything  up  shipshape,  and 
open  up  at  7.  Then  at  8  I  start  out  after 
the  orders.  Oh!  don’t  I  have  a  nice 
time  getting  the  orders!  Perhaps  you 
don’t  think  I  have  any  reason  to  be 
cross,  but  I  guess  you'd  be  worse  than  1 
am 
if  the  boss,  when  he  comes  down­
stairs  after  you  have  put  all  the  things 
out 
in  front  of  the  store,  swears  at  you 
like  the  Dutchman  he  is  just  because 
you  put  the  watermelons  on  top  of  the 
butter  beans.

' I ’m  glad  I  don’t  have  to  take  orders 
all  day.  Somebody always  blows  me  up 
because  that  fool  Eddie  down  at  the 
store  puts  up  the  order  wrong,  and  they 
think  that  I  don’t  care  what  happens  as 
long  as  I  sell  ’em  a  lot  of  stuff. 
I  have 
to  tell 
’em  that  the  strawberries  are 
fresh  when  I  know  that  they  came in the 
day  before.  Anyway 
it  won’t  be  my 
fault  if  I  don’t  go  to  heaven.  The  boss 
makes  me  lie. 
I  pass  the  day  gettin’ 
blown  up  first  by  the  boss,  then  by  the 
customers,  and  then  by  the  boss  again, 
and  on  Saturdays  it's  worse than ever.

"T h is  morning  when  I  went  over  to 
I25  the girl  over  there  asked  me  to  fix 
the  garden  hose  for  her. 
I  couldn’t  do 
it,  and  I  knew  it,  but I had to try,  ’cause 
the  boss  says  I  must  always  be  accom­
modating.  That’s  just the trouble;  when 
any  one  asks  me  to  do  anything I ’ve  got 
to  try,  whether  I  want  to  or  not. 
If  the 
boss  hears  that  I  won’ t  try  and do things 
for  the  customers  then  I  get  the  bounce.
" I   get  asked  to  do  the  craziest  things 
you  ever  saw.  You  know  Mary,  don’t 
you?  Well,  she  has  got  the  darnedest 
nerve  of  any girl  I  ever  saw.  What  do 
you  suppose  she  wanted  me  to  do?  You 
know  the  Dirtsenemy  Soap  Company 
gives  prizes 
for  the  wrappers  on  the 
soap?  Well,  Mary  wanted  me  to  take 
fifty  wrappers  that  she  had  saved  and

’em  off  and  get  her  a  belt  for 

send 
prize.  How’s  that  for  nerve?  She  asked 
me  to  spend 
stamp  to  get  her  a  belt.  And  she  never 
winked,  either.”

two  cents  on  a  posta 

"W ell,  did  you  do  it?”   asked  the 

cook.

"D o   it?  Of  course  I  did  it. 

I  had 

to.  Don’t  I  do  everything?  But 
pinched  the  stamp  from  the  boss,”   he 
added  confidentially.

"D a y   before  yesterday  I  was  gettin 
an  order  when  the  missus  comes  down 
stairs  and  asks  me  to  go  down  to  her 
sister’s  and  get  her  card  tables,  as  she 
was  going to  have  an  euchre  party.  Say 
do  you  know  why  they  always  play 
I ’ve  often 
euchre  and  not  pinochle? 
wondered.  So  I  got  the  table  and  a 
lot 
of  camp  chairs,but  you  can  bet  your life 
I  didn’t  get  no more.  Not even‘ thanks.

"T h e   next  morning  I  went  up  and 
down  came  the  missus  again. 
She 
wanted  me  to  try  and  put  up  a  cabinet 
that  had  fallen  down. 
I  thought  to  my­
self  that  I  couldn’t  do  it  for  nothing 
and  so  I  told  her  I  didn’t  know  how. 
Then  she  asked  me  to  stop  at  the  car 
penter's  and tell  him  to  go  up,  and  then 
—say,  what  do  you  think,  you  could 
have  knocked  me  down  with  a  straw 
She  gave  me  a  dollar  and  said  that  she 
was  ever  so  much  obliged. 
I  felt  like 
a  farmer,  but  I  couldn’t  back  down 
There  ain’t  nothing  too  good  for  her 
now.  She  gets  the  biggest  eggs  and  the 
best  butter,  and  her  strawberries  ain 
rotten,  either.

But  they  ain’t  all  like  her,  you  can 
bet.  The  very  next  place  I  went  to  the 
mistress  and  the  cook  was  putting  up 
job  on  me  to  do  something  for  them. 
The  mistress  asked  me  to  go  to  a  friend 
of  her's  house  and  borrow her stretchers. 
Of course  I  did  it,  but  it  made  me 
late 
back,  and  the  boss  didn’t  do  a  thing  to 
me.  And  then  you  wonder  because  I 
get  sore  when  you  ask  me  to  do  things 
for  you  that  takes  me  all  day.
‘ Do  you  know  that  Bridget 

is  going 
to  have  a  party?  The  missus  went  away 
yesterday  and  next  week  Bridget  is  go­
ng  to  have  it.  This  morning  she  asked 
me  to  put  on  a  clean  apron  and  wait  on 
the  folks.  She  promised  me  a  lot  of 
grub  and  beer,  so  I  guess  I ’ll  do  it. 
It 
ain’t  every  day  I  git  all  the beer I  want.
Oh,  I  forgot;  here’s  an  answer  to 
the  letter  I  took  down  to  Jack  for  you 
this  morning.  Hope  it's  all  right.  So 
long. ’ ’

S m o o th in g   D ow n  the  O ld  M an.
‘ I  have  come,”   said  the  young  man, 

‘ to  ask  for  your  daughter’s  hand.”
The  proud  banker  gazed  over  his 

glasses  at  the  fellow  and  demanded :

Well,  have  you  any  means  of  sup­

porting  her?”

story. ’ ’

‘ Alas! 

I  am  poor.  But  hear  my 

"G o   on. ”
“ When  I  spoke  to  Claudia  about com­
ing  to  see  you  she  told  me  it  was  use­
less—that  her  mother  was  the  man of the 
house,  and  that  I  had  better  go  to  her. 
But  I  said,  ‘ No.  Your  father  may  per­
mit  your  mother  to  think  she  is  the  man 
of  the  bouse,  just  to  humor  her,  but  I 
have  seen  enough  of  him  to  know  that 
rben  a  matter of  importance  comes  up 
is  strong will  must  always  assert  itself. 
His  strength  of  character  may  not  be 
brought  out by  little  things,  still—’  ”  

"M y   boy,”   interrupted  the  old  gen- 
lteman,  patting  him  on  the  shoulder,  " I  
have  known  all  along  that  you  were  not 
one  of  those  ordinary  persons  who  are 
incapable  of  understanding  what 
is  go­
ing  on  in  the  world  around  them.  Take 
her  and  may  you  always  be  happy. ”

New

Pack

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.

MUSSELMAN  GROCER  CO.,

GRAND RAPIDS, MICH.

Canned]

1Goods

The  Food  Commissioner

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

Robinson’s  Cider  Vinegar

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

ROBINSON  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,  Benton  Harbor,  Mich
^ SE S E SB SH SE SS SE S E SH SE S E E fH SE S

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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  CIDER VINEGAR

“ Red  Star  Brand.”   A  trial  Older  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.

I  

THE  LEROUX CIDER &  VINEGAR CO., Producer«, Toledo, Ohio.

Season  Now  Open

Congdon’s Cider Saver and 
FRUIT  PRESERVATIVE  Compound

Had a big sale  in  1897 and all stores must sell  it this year.  Guaranteed 
to keep  your  cider  and  fruits  pure  and  sweet  without  changing  their 
flavor or color.  No salicylic acid or ingredients injurious to the  health.
Order of any first-class jobber or of the manufacturers.

J.  L.  CONG DON &  CO.,  Pentwater, Mich.

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.

GRAN D   R A P ID S   P A P E R   BOX  CO.

P H O N E   8 5 0 .  

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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   a t   O O ..  m p r s „

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

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Michigan  Commercial  Travelers’  Association.
President,  C.  C.  Snedeker,  Detroit;  Secretary 

and Treasurer, C.  W. Allen  Detroit.

United Commercial Travelers of Michigan.
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Michigan Commercial Travelers’ Mutual  Acci­
President,  J .   B o yd  Pa n t l in d ,  Grand  Ranid s- 
Rapids.*7  and Treasurer’ Geo-  f -  ° wkn,  Grand
Lake Superior Commercial Travelers’ Club. 
W'  C/  B rown,  Marquette;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, A. F.  W ixso n,  Marquette.

dent Association.

T ro u b le s   o f  a  T ra ve le r.

is  competition,  which 

We  have  already  enumerated  some  of 
the  disagreeable  things  a  traveling  man 
has  to  contend  with  at  the  hands  of 
hotel  and  baggage,  ’bus  and  railroad 
lines;  but this  is  by  no  means  all.  The 
great  question  with  every  traveler  is 
how  he  can  sell  the  goods  necessary  to 
satisfy  his  house,  which,  of  course,  is 
the  key  to  obtaining  a  satisfactory  sal­
ary,  so  conducive  to  personal  comfort 
and  a  happy  home.  The  greatest  ob­
stacle 
in  these 
days  is  so  sharp.  The  methods  used  by 
travelers  to  sell  goods  are  varied 
in­
Some  travelers  are  salesmen, 
deed. 
others  are  order-takers,  while  others  are 
order-wreckers. 
The  latter  class  are 
contemptible.  They  do  not  try  so  much 
to  sell  their  own  goods  as  they  dotodis 
satisfy  a  customer  with  the  goods  al 
ready  purchased  from  other  travelers. 
They  are  sure  to  make  low  quotations 
when  a  customer  has  already  placed  his 
order  or  when  they  see  a  nice  bill  of 
goods  being  received.  These 
fellows 
tell  a  customer  of  a  low  price  mad 
some  other  dealer  by  a  competitive 
traveler.  These  travelers  often  consider 
themselves  the  only  pebbles  on  th^ 
beach,  that  the  trade  belongs  to  them 
and  that  other  travelers  in  the  line  have 
no  raison  d ’etre.  These  fellows  swell 
out of  shape  and  treat  competitors  with 
contempt.  Such  men  fall  by  the  way 
side  and  the  cream  of  the  business  L 
obtained  by  the  gentlemen  who  travel 
and  act  as  if  they  were  alone in the line 
paying  no  attention  to  other  travelers 
business,  minding  their  own  business 
strictly.

Order-takers 

always  consider 

that 
price  alone  sells  the  goods. 
Their 
knowledge  of  the  goods  they  sell  is  very 
limited  and  if  they  happen  to  travel  for 
a  bouse  whose  policy  is  to  consider  the 
average  profit  on  the  whole  bill  rather 
than  a  profit  on  each  item,  they  are  sure 
to  name  some  extremely  low  prices 
in 
order  to  get  the  buyer  started,  and  take 
advantage  of  the  first  opportunity  to  get 
an  extra  profit  out  of  some  of  the  other 
items  so  as  to  even  up  the  average 
profit.  This  kind  of  jockey  business 
goes  for  a  little  while,  but  a  traveler 
prone  to  such  methods  will  not  wear 
and  soon  he 
is  representing  another 
house.  Salesmen  who  are  salesmen  and 
know  their  business  know  that  a  profit 
on  each  and  every  item  is  necessary and 
just.  There  are  few  buyers  who  expect 
to  buy  goods  at  cost.

We  are  between  two  fires,  lower  prices 
on theonehand and closer competition on 
the  other,  which  necessitates 
larger 
gross  sales 
in  order  to  keep  up  the  net 
profit.  Cut  prices  are  always  remem­
bered  by  our  customers;  and 
if  one 
traveler  cuts  on  a  few  items  this  trip, 
the  next  man  does  the  same  and  in  a

the  staples  are  cut  so 
short  time  all 
closely  that  there  are  but  few  items  left 
that  will  show  any  profit.  Expenses  are 
fully  as  large  as  they  used  to  be  and  we
are  working  harder  than  ever  and  some 
of  us  accomplish  scarcely  more  than 
enough  to  make  both  ends  meet.

In  no  other  profession  do  we  find  so 
many  beginners  or  first-trippers.  The 
ranks  of  the  travelers  are  filled  princi 
pally  by  recruits  from  among  clerks. 
Many  a  clerk  has  become  acquainted 
with  a  traveler  and  listened  to  stories  of 
road  experiences  and  longed  to  take  a 
grip  out  himself.  He  thinks  the  life  of 
a  commercial  traveler  one  round  of 
pleasure  and  wishes  be  had  so  soft  a 
snap.  He  laments  his  condition  with  its 
monotony,  cranky  customers  and  more 
than  cranky  employer  and  longs  for  an 
opportunity  to  take  out  a  line  of  goods 
and become a  traveling  man.  At  last he 
starts  out  with the  principal  idea of hav- 
'n£  a  good  time,  and  making  promiscu­
ous  acquaintances  (female  as  well  as 
male),  learns  very  soon  to  call  the  buy­
er  by  his  first  name,  and  establishes  the 
reputation  of  being  a  dead  game  sport 
and  all-around  jolly  good  fellow.  Such 
beginners  are  short lived ; they are called 
in  and  laid  off.

In  these  days  of  sharp  competition  a 
traveler  has  no  time  for  frivolities;  he 
must  be  on  deck  seven  days  in  the week 
and  all  the  time,  working  by  day  and 
traveling  by  night  in  order  to  make  a 
showing  and  establish  a  trade  that  will 
permit  of  his  taking  it  easy  later in life

Ouix.

M ovem ents o f Lake S u p e rio r T ravelers
Marquette,- July  5—Among  the  travel­
ers  who  attended  the  Shriners’  meet­
ing  and  ball  were:  H.  C.  Work,
L.  H.  Richardson,  W.  R.  Smith,  A.’ 
P.  Simpson,  Alex  Stevenson,  A.  F. 
Wixson,  P.  A.  Jacobson,  J.  C.  Foster,
M.  R.  Manhard  and  W.  C.  Monroe—all 
members  of  the  Lake  Superior  Com 
mercial  Travelers’  Club.

The  latest  addition  to  the  Travelers 
Club  is  the  dapper  little  traveler  for  th< 
Palmetto  Fibre  Co.,  Miss E.  R.  Phelps. 
It  is  needless  to  say  we  receive  her with 
open  arms.

A  large  number  of  our  travelers  at 
tended  the  carnival  at  Milwaukee  last 
week.

E.  F.  Gengnagel  (National Cash Reg 

ister  Co.)  is  in  our  midst.

was  with  us  last  week.

J.  N.  Mackin  (Henry  Disston & Sons 
F.  S.  McCurdy  (Jenness  &  McCurdy) 

s  in  the  copper  country.
E.  R.  Morrison  (alias  Baby  Bliss, 
presents  a  fine  250  pound  appearance 
astride  a  wheel.

John  Power  (Franklyn  MacVeagh  & 
Co.)  is  entertaining  his  family  at  Isb 
peming.  Mr.  Power's  home  is  at  Ap 
pleton,  Wis.,but he makes his  headquar 
ters  at  Ishpeming.

Sam  Rose  (Detroit  Cap  Co.)  was with 

us  last  week.

Alex  Stevenson 
examine 

(Buhl  Sons  &  Co.) 
thirty-five  recruits. 
helped 
After 
it  was  over  Alex  complimented 
himself  by  saying  that  in  some  respects 
he averaged  with  the  best  of  ’em.

A.  F.  Wixson  (Fletcher  Hardware 
Co.)  goes  to  Detroit  for  a  couple  of 
weeks. 

Quix.

G rip sack  B rigade.

Jackson  and  Hillsdale  traveling  men 
held  a  joint  picnic  at  Baw  Beese  Lake, 
near  Hillsdale,  last  Friday.  Boos’  band 
furnished  the  music  and  a  closely'con­
tested  ball  game  was  one  of  the  features 
of  the  day.

Geo.  H.  Jewett,  who  has  covered  Cen­
tral  Indiana  and  Western  Ohio  for  the 
past  two  years  for  L.  Perrigo  Co.,  of 
Allegan,  bas  severed his connection with 
that  bouse  and  contemplates  identifying 
himself  with  a  Grand  Rapids  establish­
ment.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Martin  R.  Wilkins,  who  was  formerly 
engaged 
in  the  manufacture  of  soap  on 
his  own  account  at  Detroit,  has  been 
engaged  by  the  Schulte  Soap  Co.  to  look 
after  its  interests  in  Western  Michigan 
and  will  make  Grand  Rapids  his  head­
quarters.  Mr.  Wilkins  expects  to  devote 
the  month  of  July  to  making  the  ac­
quaintance  of  the  city  trade.

16, 

J u l y  

The  members  of  Post  E  will  hold  a 
meeting  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  Saturday 
evening, 
for  the  purpose  of 
making  preliminary  arrangements  for 
the  annual  picnic  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
traveling  men  and  to  take  a  fall  out  of 
Hea1^  system  on  the  gate  question. 
All  traveling  men  are  invited  to  attend 
and  participate  in  the  proceedings.

R.  L.  Hall  (Allan  B.  Wrisley  Co.) 
was  elected  President  pro  tem  of  the 
last  week. 
Detroit  Board  of  Education 
Mr.  H all’s  election  was  a  complete  vic- 
for  the  "reform ”   faction  of  the 
Board. 
It  may  mean  radical  change  in 
the  policy  of  the  Board  in  accordance 
with  Mr.  Hall’s  well-known  views  on 
the  measure  of  economy  which  should 
be  practiced  in  school  affairs.

r e m o d e l e d   H O T E L   B U T L E R
|.  M.  BROWN,  PROP.

Kates, $i. 

Washington Ave. and  Kalamazoo St.,  LANSING.
HOTEL  WHITCOMB

ST. JOSEPH,  MICH. 

A.  VINCENT. Prop.

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This Resort is  conceded  to  be  the  great 
I  Central  Park  of  Michigan,  located  eleven 
j  raUes fro,n Lansing, on the  Detroit,  Grand 
Rapids  & Western R.  R„ and  its  northern 
division  terminating  at  this  place  makes 
it easy of access from any point in the State.
One of the  finest  row  boat liveries;  two 
splendid  steamers,  150-passenger capacity; 
hotel and  grounds  thoroughly  illuminated 
by electricity;  a veritable paradise for those 
appreciating  rugged  rock  scenery,  beauti­
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years of experience,  we  feel  competent  to 
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excursionists,  picnicers,  etc.  Those  con­
templating a summer vacation, write me for 
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P.  S.  Owing  to  other  business,  I  offer 
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We  are  having  a  large  run  on 
Flag  Envelopes,  printed  in  imita­
tion  of  Old  Olory,  which  we  are 
prepared  to  furnish  you  on  short 
notice,  imprinted  in  black ink  on 
either  front  or  back  of  envelope.
In  no  way  can  you  show  your 
patriotism  at  this  time  better 
than  by  the  use  of  Old  Glory 
Envelopes. 
Samples  sent  and 
prices  quoted  on  application.

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M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

T h e  Drugf  M a rke t.

The  changes  are few and unimportant, 
while  the  volume  of  business  is  very 
large.  Prices  are  well  maintained.

Opium—The  market 

remains  firm 
with  the  recent  reports  of  small  crops. 
There  is  no  change  in  the  primary  mar­
kets,  although  prices  are  higher  here.
is 
unchanged  and  an  advance  is  looked 
for.

Morphine—The  very  firm  position 

Quinine—It 

is  believed  that  bottom 
has  been  reached  and,  while  prices  may 
remain  the  same  for  some  time,the  next 
change  will  be  an  advance.

Alcohol—Has  advanced  4c  per  gallon 
and,  as  both  of  the  spirit  companies  are 
now  working 
in  unison,  higher  prices 
are  looked  for.

Norway  Cod  Liver  Oil—The  fishing 
has  ended  and  the  result  is  below 
last 
year.  Large  purchases  are being  made 
in  the  primary  markets  and  an  advance 
is  shown  here  of  about  $3  per  barrel.

Iodine  and  the  Iodides—Have  been 
10c  per 

reduced  by  manufacturers 
pound,  due  to  competition.

Balsams—Copaiba  is  unchanged,  but 
higher  prices  are  looked  for,  on  account 
of  large  stocks.  Tolu  has  declined  un­
der  the  same  influence.

Essential  Oils—Anise  is slightly high­
Bergamot  has  advanced  abroad 
is  scarce.  Higher  prices  will  rule 

er. 
and 
here.

Spices—Both  black  and  white  pepper 
have  advanced.  Nutmegs  have  de­
clined.

Linseed  Oil—Is  weak,  although  prices 
are  well  maintained  for  the  time  being.

S top  the  Leaks.

The  drug  business  is  one  in  which the 
sales  are  small,  and  from  the  nature  of 
the  stock  it  is  liable  to  evaporation  and 
leakage;  natural  changes  spoil  some  of 
the  goods  and  render  them  unfit  foi 
medicinal  use.

One  very  serious  leak  is  the  accumu­
lation  of  dead  stock.  Patent  medicines 
quickly  become  such  when  the  advertis­
ing  stops.  Although  the  sale  may  have 
stopped  with  you,  in  some  territory  cov­
ered  by  your  wholesaler  there  may  be  a 
demand.  Make  an  exchange  with  him 
at  some  price.

Your  essential  oils  and  perfumes  have 
been  left  exposed  to  the  sun  and  are  no 
longer  salable.  Don’t  let  this  happen 
again.

Your ointments  have  become  rancid, 
because  you  did  not benzoinate your lard 
and  keep  it  in  a  cool  place.

Your  camel’s-hair  brushes  and  others 
are  moth-eaten,  because  you  have  not 
frequently  handled  them  or  taken care to 
use  some  moth  preventive  in  time.

Your  apprentices  are  careless  in  re­

gard  to  weights  and  measures.

In  your  anxiety  to  do  business you are 
too  easy 
in  the  matter  of  credits  and 
bad  debts  accumulate.  A  very  serious 
leak 
is  loss  of  customers.  New  ones 
are  hard  to  get,  therefore  hold  fast  to 
those  you have.  They  are  your  friends; 
use  them  as  such  and  give  them  no 
cause  for  complaint.  Some  things  may 
occur 
in  which  you  must  submit  to  an 
injustice,  or  they  will  be  dissatisfied 
and  leave  you,  never  to  return.  Submit 
cheerfully  to  this.  Their  future  patron­
age  will  more  than  cover  the  pecuniary 
loss,  and  time  will  give  you  an  oppor­
tunity  to  correct the temporary injustice.
Drug  stores  sometimes  burn.  Have 
insur­

you  this  leak  stopped  by  reliable 
ance?

J.  W..  B a l l a r d .

T h irty-o n e   O u t  o f  S eventy-tw o.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Michigan 
Board  of  Pharmacy  was  held  at  Star  Is­
land  last  week. 
In  all  seventy-two  took 
the  examinations,  fifty-five  for  regis­
tered  pharmacist  and  seventeen  for  as­
sistants. 
For  registered  pharmacist 
twenty-four  passed  and  seven  secured 
the  certificate  for  assistants.  For  the 
ensuing  year  Geo.  Gundrum,  of  Ionia, 
was  elected  President;  A.  C.  Schu­
macher,  of  Ann  Arbor,  Secretary,  and 
Henry  Heim,  of  Saginaw,  Treasurer. 
The  Board  will  meet  at  Marquette  Au­
gust  30 and  31,  and  at  Lansing  Novem­
ber  1  and  2.  The  successful  candidates 
were  as  follows:

Registered  Pharmacists-----W. 

E.
Brown,  Stockbridge;  J.  Bertram,  De­
troit;  W.  H.  Blome,  Ann  Arbor;  C.  J. 
Biebl,  Sanduskv,  O.  ;  B.  E.  Bauman, ^ 
Kalamazoo;  J.  W.  Cobb,  Ann  Arbor;  J.
J.  Dawson,  H astings;  C.  C.  Dewey, 
Jackson ;  F.  Elder,  Elkton ;  R.  Jackson, 
Detroit;  O.  H.  Kessell,  Saginaw;  D. 
E.  Laing,  Detroit;  M.  B.  Hawes, 
Parm a;  Wm.  Kremers,  Holland ;  H.  E. 
McLellan,  U tica;  E.  M.  Laird,  De­
troit;  H.  E.  Neuhoff,  Detroit;  D.  A. 
Skinner,  Detroit;  A. 
I.  Ulrich,  Kala­
mazoo;  C.  S.  Prentiss,  Quincy;  L. 
Short,  Manistee;  A.  Vander  Velpen, 
Detroit;  W.  H.  Whitcomb,  Vicksburg;
J.  Winterborn,  Saginaw.

Assistants—W.  F.  English,  Kingston ; 
B.  W.  Glaspie,  Fenton;  W.  A.  Howell, 
West  Branch;  A.  A.  Johnson,  Marion ; 
L.  M.  Tebbel,  La  Porte;  E.  H.  Thilck, 
Detroit;  W.  F.  E.  White,  Detroit.

Thirty  druggists  in  Buffalo  have  been 
detected  in  a  violation  of  the  city  ordi­
nance  forbidding  the  sale  of  nursing 
bottles  with  long  rubber  tubes.

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offers  the  inducements that the American does.

Rover Playing Cards are the cheapest enameled 
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a competitor.  Send for samples and  prices.

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Drugs-=Chem icals

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 e r r y , Detroit 
A. C.  S c h u m a c h er,  Ann  Arbor 
Gso. Gu n d r u m ,  Ionia  - 
L. E. R e y n o l d s, St.  Joseph 
H e n r y   H e im ,  Saginaw  - 

- 

President, G eo .  G u n d r u m ,  Ionia.
Secretary, A. C. Sch u m a c h er,  Ann Arbor. 
Treasurer, Henbt  H e im , Saginaw.
Examination Sessions.
Marquette—Aug. 30 and 31.
Lansing—Nov.  1 and 2.

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

MICHIGAN STATE  PHARMACEUTICAL 

ASSOCIATION.

President—A . H. W e b b e r ,  Cadillac. 
Secretary—C h a s.  Ma n n , Detroit.
Treasurer—J ohn D.  M u ir , Grand Rapids.

S yrup  fo r   the  S oda  Fountain.

it 

With  summer  upon us,druggists every­
where  are  overhauling  their  soda  ap­
paratus,  figuring up the profits (or losses) 
of  the  past  year,  and  elaborating  plans 
for  the  summer  season.  With  many  the 
experiences  of  former  years  have been 
such  as  to  seriously  call  forth  the  ques­
tion  of  the  advisability  of  continuing  to 
operate their  fountains  during  the  sum­
mer.  Here  surely  something  is  wrong, 
for 
is  commonly  acknowledged  that 
not  alone  is  the  soda  fountain  self-sup­
porting,  but  that,  with  proper  manage­
ment,  it  becomes  the  most  profitable  of 
all  the  side-lines  open  to  the  druggist. 
As  a  general  rule,  it  is  found  that  fail­
ure  is  due  either  to  bad  management  or 
to  the  use  of  poor  materials. 
In  addi­
tion,  such druggists  buy  ready-made  the 
supplies  for  their  fountains,  paying  lit­
tle  regard  either  to  the  prices  paid  or 
the  quality.

it 

is  almost 

In  looking  over the  accounts  of  pre­
vious  years, 
invariably 
found  that  the  heaviest  items of expense 
have  been  for  syrup.  The  usual  cus­
tom 
is  to  buy  the  syrup,  under  various 
high-sounding  names,  in  quantities  of  a 
barrel  or  less.  Experience,  however, 
has  shown  that  it  is  far  more  advanta­
geous  to  the  average  druggist  to  manu­
facture his  own  syrup,  for  various  rea­
sons.  First  of  all,  the  manufactured 
syrups,  if  of  good  quality,  are  too  ex­
pensive ;  if  not  of  good  quality,  it  is 
folly  to  buy  them.  Another  disadvan­
tage,  which  especially  affects  country 
druggist,  and  those  west  of  the  Mississ­
ippi,  where  freight  charges  are  high, 
is  the  matter  of  freight  and  containers. 
It 
is  certainly  poor  economy  to  pay 
freight  on  several  hundred  pounds  of 
water.  The  schedule  of  the  sugar  trust 
is  such  that  the  price  of  sugar varies but 
little  between  different  localities,  and 
the  druggist  might  as  well  mix  his 
sugar  and  water  at  his  own  store. 
Again,  the  quality  of  many  of  the  so- 
called  “ rock-candy”   syrups  is  not to  be 
relied  upon.  True,  there are good  syrups 
to  be  had ;  but  such  are  rather  the  ex­
ception  than  the  rule.  An  examination 
of  some of  the  cheaper  grades soon dem­
onstrates  the  truth  of  this  statement. 
Some  time 
last  year  a  barrel  was  re­
ceived  bearing  the  label,  “ Pure  Rock- 
candy  Syrup.”   The  price  was  such  as 
to  warrant  the  assumption  of 
its  being 
of  at  least  fair quality.  The  syrup  was 
dense,  somewhat  cloudy,  and  slightly 
opalescent.  Upon  the  addition  of  car­
bonated  water,  it 
lay  at  the  bottom  of 
the  glass,  much  like  a  thick  jelly,  re­
quiring  much  agitation  to  effect  its  so­
lution. 
Its  sweetening  power  was  but 
slight,  an  excessive  amount  being  re­
quired  for  each  glass  of  soda.  Upon  in­

vestigation,  it  proved  to  consist  of  little 
more  than  sweetened  glucose.

It  was  with  the  end  in  view  of  obvi­
ating  these  difficulties that the apparatus 
here  described  was  devised.  Two  years' 
trial  has  proved  it  to  give  entire  satis­
faction.  It  is  at  once  cheap,  simple  and 
efficient. 
It  can  be  used  continuously 
or  at  interavis,  and  can  not  get  out  of 
order.

An  ordinary  five  or  ten  gallon  cylin­
drical  can,  such  as 
is  commonly  used 
for  alcohol,  is taken,  the bottom removed 
and  the  edges  slightly  smoothed  with  a 
mallet.  A  close-fitting  wooden  cover 
with  a  handle  should  be  made  for  the 
can  so  as  to  exclude  dust.  A  twenty 
gallon  wine  cask 
is  then  taken  and  a 
hole  bored  in  the  head,  of  such  a  diam­
eter  as  will  snugly  admit  the  neck  of 
the  alcohol  can,  which  rests  upon  the 
cask.  Two  or  three  inches  above  the 
bottom  of  the  barrel,  another  hole  is 
bored,  and  a  common  water  tap,  or  yet 
better,  an  iron  “ syrup  tap”  with  a  wide 
mouth,  such  as  is  made  for  the purpose, 
is 
In  the  neck  of  the  can,  a 
small,  clean  sponge  is  introduced,  and 
above  this  is  laid  a  perforated,  circular 
piece  of  tin  (aluminum  is  better  than 
tin  for  this  purpose)  to  keep  the  sugar 
from  the  sponge,  which  acts  as  a  strain­
er.  The  whole  is  now  supported  upon a 
box  fourteen  or sixteen  inches high,  and 
the  apparatus  is  complete.  However, 
before 
should  be 
thoroughly  cleaned.  First  rinse  with 
cold  water  several  times;  the  same  with 
hot  water; again  with  cold  water,  con­
taining  a 
little  ammonia,  and  lastly 
with  pure  water.  These  precautions  are 
necessary,  in  order  to  remove  all  pos­
sible  source  of  contamination.

inserted. 

using, 

cask 

the 

From  twenty  to  fifty  pounds  of  granu­
lated  sugar  is  now  introduced 
into  the
can,  which  is then  filled with  water,  and 
the  process  of  percolation  goes  on. 
Cane-sugar 
is  much  to  be  preferred  to 
that  made  from  beets.  The  syrup  thus 
is  all  that  could  be  desired. 
prepared 
is  of  a  high  specific  gravity,  clear, 
It 
brilliant  and  sparkling. 
It  mixes  read­
ily  with  the  soda,  requiring  but  little 
stirring;  and  what  is  more,  it  is  cheap­
er  than  the  commercial  syrups,  at  least 
those  of  good  quality. 
In  some  cases 
several  of  these  percolators  can  be  used 
at  the  one time  to  good  advantage. 
It 
is  well,  every  two  weeks  or  so,  to  dis­
continue  the  percolation,  and  subject 
the  apparatus  to  a  thorough cleansing.— 
Leon  L.  Watters  in  American  Druggist.

A  P erfu m ed  D a rlin g .

Prom the Philadelphia  Record.

Among  the  customers  of  a  Columbia
ave.  drug  store  a  few  evenings  ago  was 
a  young  colored  man  attired  in  a  very 
flashy  suit  and  with  the  air  of  a  “ real 
hot  sport,  sub.”   He  asked  for  io cents’ 
worth  of  perfumery,  and  the  druggist, 
sizing  up  his  taste  properly,  poured  out 
an  ounce  or two  of  the  loudest-smelling 
In  the  meantime 
cologne  in  the  store. 
the  young  “ blood"  stood 
in  front  of  a 
mirror  admiring  his  own  shape.  He 
confided  to  the  druggist  that  he  was  go­
ing  to  see  his  b'est  girl. 
“ Yo*  needen’ 
wrap  up  de  bottle,  m istah ,"h e  said. 
“ I  wish  yo’  would  po’  hit  ovab  m e.”  
“ What!  Pour  it  all  on  your  clothes,  do 
you  mean?”   asked  the  astonished  drug­
gist. 
I 
done  want  to  smell  good  fo’  onct in mah 
life .”   After  complying  with  the  queer 
request  the  druggist  sold  him  another  io 
cents'  worth  for  his  girl.

“ Dat's  jes’  wat  I  mean,  suh. 

S w eetly  Sad.

Groom—A  ring  around  the  moon  is  a 

Bride  (sweetly)—And  a  ring  around  a 

sign  of  rain.
woman’s  finger  is  the  sign  of—
|   Groom  (sadly)—Reign.

L.

New  stock. 
to  mail  orders.

Special  attention 

FRANKE  BROS.,  Muskegon,  Michigan.  |

Jobbers in Druggists’  and  Grocers’Sundries,  Fishing 
In h h arc  Im  n«>ii rrrrl 
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WHOLESALE  PRICE  CURRENT.

Advanced-
Oeclined—

4® 
6
6® 
8
12© 
14
12®  14

Acidum
Aeetieum................. |
6@8
8
Benzoicum,  German
70® 75
Boraclc....................
® 15
_
Carbolic urn............. 
29® 41
Cltricum................. 
42®
42® 44
3®
Hydrochlor................ 
.3® 5
Nltrocum................... 
8®
8® 10
Oxalicum................ 
12®
12® 14
Phosphorium,  dll...  @
® 15
Salicylicum............. 
60@
60© 65
Sulphuricum......... 
12£@
1«@ 5
Tannlcum ...............  I 25®  1  40
Tartaricum.............. 
38®  40
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg........... 
Aqua, 20 deg........... 
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum.............. 
Aniliae
Black........................   2 00® 2 25
Brown.................... 
80® 1  00
B ed......................... 
45®  50
Yellow....................  2  50® 3 00
Baccae.
Cubeaee...........po. 18 
13®  15
Juniperus...............  
6® 
8
Xantnoxylum.........   25®  30
Balsamum
Copaiba................... 
55®  60
Peru.........................  @ 2 75
Terabin, Canada__ 
45®  50
Tolutan...................  
50®  55
Cortex
Abies, Canadian__
Cassise....................
Cinchona Plava......
Euonymus atropurp 
Myrlca Cerifera, po.
Prunns Yirgini.......
Quillaia,  gr’d .........
Sassafras........po. 18
Ulmus...po.  15,  gr’d 
Extractum
25
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  24® 
Glycyrrhlza, po...... 
28®  30
11® 
Hsematox, 15 lb box. 
12
Hsematox, I s ........... 
13®  14
Hsematox, Vis.........  
14®  15
Hsematox, %s.........  
16®  17

Ferru

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

15
2 25
40
15

Arnica.................... 
Anthemls................ 
Matricaria..............  30®

12®  14
18®  25

Folia

Barosma..................   23®
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
18®  25
Cassia Acutifol,Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis, Vis
and  Vis................. 
12®  20
Ura Ursi................... 
8®  10
Gummi
Acacia,  1st picked.. 
® 
65 
Acacia,  2d  picked.. 
®
45 
© 
Acacia,  3d  picked.. 
35 
Acacia, sifted sorts.
28 
Acacia, po...............
60®
80 
Aloe, Barb. po,18@20
14 
12®
Aloe, Cape__po. 15  @
12 
Aloe, Socotri. .po. 40 
®
30 
Ammoniac..............  55®
60 
AssafcBtida__po. 30 
25®
28 
Bensoinum............  
50®
55
Catechu, Is.............. 
©
13
Catechu, Vis............
14 
Catechu, Vis............
16 
®40®
Camphors..............
43 
10
Bnpnorblum..po.  35
Galbanum...............
®   1  00 
Gamboge  po...........
©   70
Guaiacum......po. 25
®  30
Kino...........po. I3.u0
@ 3 00 
M astic....................
“ 
60 
_
Myrrh............ po.  45 
40
Opii.. .po. *5.20@5.40 3 85®  3 95
Shellac.................... 
25®
25® 35
Shellac, bleached...
40® 45
Tragacanth ............
50® 80
Herbs
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vir. .oz. pkg
Rue...............oz. pkg
TanacetumY oz. pkg 
Thymus,  V..oz. pkg 
rtagnesla.
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. & M..
Carbonate, Jennings
Oleum
Absinthium............   3 25® 3 50
Amygdalae, Dulc.... 
30®  50
Amygdalae, Amarae .  8 00® 8 25
Anhd-......................  2 
Aurantl  Cortex......   2 25® 2 40
Bergamii.................  2 
80®  85
Cajiputl. 
............  
75®  80
Caryophylli............. 
Cedar..................... 
35®  65
Chenopadli.............. 
® 2 7 5
Cinnamonii.............  1 
60®  1 70
45®  50
CUronella.  .,  ........ 

25
2025
28
23
25
39
2225
55® 60
20® 22
20@ 25
35® 36

li® 2 20
40® 2 50

1 10
1 10
1 60
75
50®  60
1 10
2 00
1 50

35®  50
Comum  Mac........... 
Copaiba...................  1  15®  1  25
Cubebse  ...................  
90® 
Exechthitos  ...........  1 00® 
Erigeron.................  1 00® 
Gaultheria..............  1 50® 
Geranium,  ounce...  @ 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma.................  1  oo® 
Junípera..................  1 so® 
Lavendula................  
90® 
Limonis...................  1  30® 
Mentha Piper.........   1  60®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   l  50®  1  60
Morrhuae,  gal.........   1  10®  1  25
Myrcia,....................  4 00® 
4 50
gbye 
75® 3  00
................... 
io® 
Piéis  Liquida......... 
12
Picis Liquida, gal... 
@  35
Ricina  ....................  
9f@ 1  10
Rosmarini...............   @  1  00
Rosae,  ounce...........  6 50® 8 50
Succini..................  
40®  45
Sabina..................  
go® 1  oo
Santa]......................  2 50® 
7 00
Sassafras................. 
ao
@  6?
Sinapis, ess.,  ounce. 
TIglü.......................  1 70® 
1 80
40©  50
Thyme.................... 
Thyme,  opt............   @  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15® 
20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®
¡3®
Bichromate...... 
Bromide..................    50®
Carb.......................  
12©
Chlorate.po. 17@19c 
16®
Cyanide.................  
35®
Iodide.. 
..............   aw@
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®
Potassa, Bitart,  com  @
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10®
Potass Nitras........... 
10®
Prussiate................. 
20®
Sulphate po  .
15®  18

22®
10®
@20®
12®
16®
@
@18®
15® 

Radix
Aconitvm...............
Althae...............
Anchusa ............... ’
Arum po...............  ”
Calamus...............”
Gentiana........po.  is
Glychrrhiza... pv. 15 
Hydrastis Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po..
Inula, po............ 
tj u
Ipecac, po............... 2 80® 3 00
Iris plox.... po35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25@  30
Maranta,  Vis...........  @ 
35
Podophyllum, po.... 
22®  25
75®  1  00
................. 
75®  1  35
Rhei,pv................... 
S p ig e lia ............... 
35®  38
Sangmnana... po.  15  @ 
IS
Serpentaria............  
30® 
35
i f  nf>ga •' ~.............. 
40®  45
®  40
Similax, officinalis H 
Smilax, M................ 
©  05
Scillse............. .po.35 
n
Symplocarpus, Poeti-
®  25
dus,  po................ 
©  25
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
15®  20
\  aleriana,  German. 
Zingiber a...............  
12® 
16
Zingiber j ...............  
25®  27
Semen
An i sum......... po.  15
12 
®  
Apium  (graveleons)
13®  15
Bird, Is...........
4® 
6
Carui...............po.is
10®  
12 
Cardamon............
1  25® 1  75 
Coriandrum........
8® 
10 
Cannabis  Sativa.
4®  4 ¡4 
Cvdonium...............
75®  1  00
Cnenopodium...... 
io@  *  12
Diptenx  Odorate...  2 00® 2 20
Foeniculum........
Poenngreek, po. 1..
7®
L ini.........................
3VÍ®
Lini,  grd— bbl. 3w
Lobelia..................... 
35®
4®
Pharlaris  Canarian. 
R.aPa-......................  4V4®
Sinapis Albu........... 
9®
Sinapis Nigra.........  
ii@
Spiritus 

10® 

.. 

Prumenti, W. I). Co.  2 00® 2 50 
Prumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Prum enti...... 
j  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ..  1  65© 2 00
Juniperis Co...........  1  75® 3 50
faacharum N.  E ....  1  90® 2  10
Spt-Vml Galli........  1  75® 6 50
Oport<>............   1  25® 2 00
Vini  Alba...............   1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 2 75
b assau sheeps  wool
carriage...............
2  00 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  25
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool,  carriage__
®   1 00
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
@  1  00 
Hard, for slate use..
®  75
Yellow  R eef,  for 
slate  use..............
1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Auranti Cortes........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac. 
.........
Perri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax Officinalis...
Senega....................
Belli»......................

@50®
®
©

.. 

4
(j
4

1 00

2 00

50
50
50
50
50 
I  50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
60 
60 50 
50 
20
35
38

niscellaneous 

Sciilte Co................. 
Tolutan................... 
Prunus virg............  
Tinctures
AconitumNapelllsR
AconitumNapellisF
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetida............
Atrope  Belladonna.
Auranti  Cortex......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co...........
Barosma.................
Cant ha rides...........
Capsicum..............
Cardamon...............
Cardamon  Co...  .  .
Castor......................
Catechu................
Cinchona...............’
Cinchona Co......... .
Colnmba 
............
Cubeba.................
Cassia  i  cutifoi.
U-’ssf  »cutifolCo  .
i~gi  <»liS 
.
Peril Chioridu  1 
’ ’
Gentian..................
Gentian Co.........
Guiaca.................
Guiaca ammon.......
Hyoscyamus........"
Iodine..................
Iodine, colorless. " '
Kino.....................
Lobelia.............
Myrrh................ ’ ” ’
Nux  Vomica......
Opii........................'
Opil, camphorated.
Opii,  deodorized__
Quassia..................
Rhatany......
Rhei.................
Sangninaria........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium........
Tolutan..............    ”
Valerian..............
Veratrum Veride!! 
Zingiber..................
-'Ether, Spts. Nit. 3 P  30® 
34©
-¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 P 
Alumen...................  2Q@
Alumen, gro’d .. po. 7 
3®
Annatto  ... 
40®
........ 
4®
Antimoni,  po......  
Antimoni et PotassT  40®
Antipyrin.............. 
©
Antifebrin.........,'
©
Argenti Nitras, oz "'
@
Arsenicum...........
10®
Balm Gilead  Bud
38®
Bismuth  S. N........
Calcium Cblor.,  is 
@
Calcium Chlor., V4s 
Calcium Chlor.,  vs. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid  Frnctns, af.
Capsici Pructus,  po 
Capsid FnictusB.po 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
12®
flftrnilnA  AT«  4A
Carmine, No. 40 
50®
Cera Alba, S. & F  . 
Cera Flava........... 
40®
Coccus....................  @
Cassia Pructus.....'  @
Centraria............... 
@
Cetaceum..........  
@
Chloroform..... 60®  63
Chloroform,squibbs  @  1  15 
Chloral HydCrst....  1  25®  1  50
Chondrus................ 
20®  25
Cmehoni dine, P. & w   25®  35
Cinchonfdine, Germ 
22® 
30 
Cocaine..................   3 30®  3 50
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct. 
Creosotum...
Creta.............bbi.rë
Creta, prep........
Creta, preclp....
Creta, Rubra...
®
crocus................... ;;  18®
Cudbear........... 
@
5®
CupriSulph.........."" 
in®
Dextrine...................] 
Ether Sulph........... 
75®
©
Emery, all  numbers 
Emery, po....... ........  @
Ergota............ po. 40 
30®
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla.................. 
@
Gambier............ ! " \ \ 
3®
Gelatin, Cooper..  . 
®
Gelatin, French.... 
35®
Glassware, flint, box
Less  than  box__
Glue,  brown........... 
9®
13®
Glue, white..............’ 
Glycerina............ 15V4®
Grana  Paradis!  ....  @
Humulus.............. 
25®
Hydraag Chlor  Mité 
Hydraag Chlor Cor 
Hydraag Ox Rub’m.
Hydraag Ammoniati 
HydraagUnguentnm
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla, Am...
Indigo.....................  
75®  1  00
Iodine, Resubi........  3 60® 3 70
Iodoform.................  @420
@ 2 25
Lupulin.  ................ 
Lycopodium........... 
40®  45
65®
Macis
L iq u o r  Arseti et Hy­
drarg Iod.............
LiquorPotassArsinit
Magnesia, Sulph__
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl 
Mannia, S. F ........... 
Menthol.

1  40®  1  50 
10 
12
15 
15 
15 
14 
3 00

10®
2®
_  
50®
© 2 75

®

®

Morphia,S.P.&W...  2 45® 2 70 
Morphia,  S.N.Y.Q.&
C.  Co....................  2 45® 2 70
Moschus Canton__  @  40
65®  80
Myristica, No. 1...... 
Nux Vomica. ..po.20  @ 
10
Os  Sepia................. 
15® 
18
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D- Co.................... 
©  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.V4 gal.
_.d9*V;..................   @2 00
Picis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......
@ 85
Pil Hydrarg.. .po.  80 
® 50
Piper Nigra.. .po.  22 
@ 18
Piper Alba....po.  35
@ 30
Pi ix  Burgun...........
@ 7
Plumbi  Acet...........
10® 12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii 
10®  1  20
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...
@  1  25
25® 30
8® 10
29® 31
22® 32
29® 34
12® 14
18® 20
00® 3 10
40® 50
12® 14
10® i2
@ 15
>  @ 22

Quinia, S.  P. & W .. 
Quinia, S. German..
Quinia, N.Y.............
Rubia Tinetorum... 
SaccharumLactis pv
Salacin.....................
Sanguis Draconls...

Sapo, G...............
Siedlitz  Mixture.

Sinapis....................  @ 
is
Sinapis, opt............   @ 
30
Snuff, Maceaboy.De
Voes.....................  @ 
34
Snuff, Scotch,DeVo’s  @ 
34
Soda Boras..............  9  @  11
Soda Boras, po........  9  @  11
26®  28
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
2
tVi® 
Soda, Bi-Carb......... 
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3V4® 
4
Soda. Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spt.  Mvrcia Dorn...  @  ® 00
Spts. Vini Rect.bbl.  @2  48
Spts. Vini Rect.Vibbl  @ 2 53
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @2 56
Spts. Vini Rect.  5gal 
© 2 53 
Strychnia, Crystal...  1  40®  1  45
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   3V4®  4W
Sulphur,  Roll........ 
3M@  4
8® 
Tamarinds.............. 
10
Terebenth Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromae............  
40®  42
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 00
Zinci  Sulph............ 
7® 
8

Less 5c gal.  cash 10 days. 

Oils

Whale, winter.
Lard,  extra__
Lard, No.  1 ......

BBL.
70
40
35

LB

42
44
65
31

45
47
70
40

Linseed, pure  raw..
Linseed, 'boiled......
Neatsfoot, winter str
Spirits Turpentine..
Paints
BBL.
Red Venetian.........
1\  2 
®a@4
Ochre, yellow Mars. 
2
13£ 2
Ochre, yellow  Ber. 
@3
Putty, commercial.
2*  2V4@3
Putty, strictly  pure.  2V4  2V@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
13®  15
American.............  
70®  75
Vermilion, English. 
Green, Paris...........  I8V4®  22
13®  16
Green,  Peninsular.. 
Lead, Red...............   554® 
6
Lead, white............  5V4@ 
6
Whiting, white Span  @  70
Whiting,  gilders’...  @  TO 
White, Paris Amer..  @  1  00 
Whiting, Paris  Eng.
cliff......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  00®  1  15

Varnishes

No. l’TurpCoach...  1  10®  1  29
Extra  Turp............   1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............ 2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Purn....  1 00®  1  10 
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap. Dryer, No.lTurp  70®  75

POCKET  BOOKS

AND

PURSES

We shall  sample in  a  few  days  a  large 

and  well  assorted  line  of

Ladies’  Pocket  Books 

Ladies’  Purses 

Gentlemen’s  Pocket  Books 

Gentlemen’s  Purses

And  invite your inspection and order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

20

M IC H IG AN   TRADESMAN

GROCERY PRICE CURRENT.

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

AXLB GREASE.

doz.  gross
Aurora..........................55  6 00
Castor Oil.................... 60  7 00
Diamond......................50  400
Frazer’s .......................15  9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9 00
nica, tin boxes............ 75  9 00
Paragon....................... 55  0 00

Acme.

Absolute.

BAKING  POWDER.
*  'b cans doz..................  
<4 Id 2ans doz................... 

45
85
lb can  doz...................1  50
lb cans 3 doz.................  45
75
if lb cans 3 doz................. 
lb cans 1 doz.................  1  00
1 
10
Bulk.................................... 
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers........... 
85
u  lb cans per doz............  
75
ft lb cans per d o z ...........  1  20
1 
lb cans per doz............ 2  00
35
ii lb cans 4 doz case........ 
if lb cans 4 doz case........ 
55
lb cans 2 doz case  ......  
90

Arctic.
El Purity.

Home.

Our Leader.

Jersey Cream.

14 lb cans, 4 doz case......  
45
if lb cans, 4 doz case___  %
lb cans. 2 doz case........1 60
1 lb. cans, per doz.............   2 00
9 oz. cans, per doz.............  1  25
6 oz. cans, per doz............. 
85
14 lb cans..........................  
45
ft lb cans..........................  
75
lb cans..........................   1  50
l 
1 lb. cans  ......................... 
85
3 oz., 6 doz. case................   2  70
6 oz., 4 doz. case  .................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................. 4 80
1 lb., 2 doz. case.................. 4  00
5 lb., 1 doz. case.................  9  00
American............................... 10
English....................................SO

BATH  BRICK.

Queen Plake.

Peerless.

BLUING.

CONDITO)

BROOJ15.

40
75
1  90
1  75
1  50
1  15
2 00
70
80
2 25
..7
..8
..9

Small, 3 doz....................... 
Large, 2 doz....................... 
So. I Carpet..................
No. 2 Carpet..................
No. 3 Carpet..................
No. 4 Carpet..................
Parlor Gem..................
Common Whisk............
Fancy Whisk.................
Warehouse....................
CANDLES.
8s..................................
16s................................
Parafine........................
CANNED  GOODS.
ITanitowoe  Peas.
Lakeside Marrowfat__
95
Lakeside E. J ...............
1  15
Lakeside, Cham, of Eng__ 1  20
Lakeside. Gem. Ex. Sifted. 1  45
Extra Sifted Early June... .1  75
Columbia, 
pints........
.2 00
Columbia, ft pints......
.1  25
C H E E SE
Acme......................
© 7ft
Amboy....................
© 8
Butternut...............
© 8
Carson Citv.............
© 8
Emblem..................
© 1 ft
Gem.........................
© 8ft
Ideal.......................
© 7ft
Jersey  ....................
© 7ft
Lenawee.................
©
Riverside.................
© 8
Springdale..............
©
Brick.......................
© 11
Edam.......................
© 70
Leiden....................
© 17
Limburger..............
© 12
Pineapple.................50 © 85
Sap  Sago.................
© 17
Chicory.
Bulk 
5
Red
7

CATSUP.

.

CHOCOLATE.
Walter Baker A Co
German Sweet.............
Premium......................
Breakfast Cocoa...........

...23
. .  34
...46

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

COFFEE.

Green.
Rio.

Fair 
....................................
Good.....................................
Prim e....................................
Golden  .................................
Peaberry  .............................

9
10
11
12
13

Santos.

.12
.13
.14
.15
.15
.16
.17
.19
.20

Fair  .....................................
Good  ....................................
Prim e....................................
Peaberry  .............................
Mexican  and  Guatamela,
Fair  ....................   ..............
Good  ....................................
Fancy 
................................
Maracaibo.
Prime  ..................................
Milled....................................
Java.
.19
Interior.................
20
P riva te   Grow th —
.21
Mandehling...........
Mocha,
Im itation..............
.20
Arabian  ...............
.22
Roasted.
Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’sB rands
Fifth  Avenue......................29
Jewell’s Arabian Mocha— 29
Wells’ Mocha and Java......24
Wells’ Perfection Java......24
Sancaibo............................. 21
Breakfast  Blend.................  18
Valley City Maracaibo. 
... 18V4
Ideal  Blend.........................14
Leader  Blend......................12

Package.

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  package  coffees,  to 
which 
the  wholesale  dealer 
adds  the  local  freight  from 
New  York  to  your  shipping 
point, giving you credit  on  the 
invoice 
for  the  amount  of 
freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market in  which he  purchases 
to his shipping point, including 
weight  of  package,  also %c  a 
pound.  In  60 lb.  cases the list 
is  10c  per  100  lbs.  above  the 
price In full cases.
Arbuckie.......................   10 50
•Jersey.............................  
9 50
rid  rughlin’s  XXlfX.
McLaughlin’s XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City if gross  ..... 
Felix if  gross................. 
Hummel’s foil if gross... 
Hummel’s tin ft  gross 
CLOTHES PINS.
5 gross boxes... 

75
1  15
85
1 43
.............   40
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden  Eagle.............. 6 75
Crown.................................. 6 25
Daisy................"...............   5 75
Champion  ...........................4 50
Magnolia  ' ...................... 
4 25
Challenge..............................3 35
e 
..........  ................
..................................8  35
Dime 
COUPON  BOOKS.

CONDENSED  MiLK.

Extract.

Tradesman Grade.

Superior Grade.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom 
11  50
1.000 books, any denom__ 20 00
Economic Grade.
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom 
  2 50
500 books  any denom__II  50
1.000 bonks, any denom__20 00
50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__ 2 50
500 books, any denom__11  50
1.000 books, any denom__20 00
Can be made to represent any 
20 books......................... 
1  00
50 books...............................  2 00
100 books  .........................  3 00
250 books...............................  G 25
500 books...... .‘.......................10 00
1000 books........  ................ 17 50

denomination from CIO down.

Coupon Pass Books,

Universal Grade.

Apples.

Credit Check*.

California  Fruits.

50 books, any denom__  1  50
100 books, any denom__  2 50
500 books, any denom__ 11  50
1,000 books, any denom —  20 00 
500, any one denom’n ......  3 00
1000, any one denom’n ...... 5 00
2000, any one denom’n ...... 8 00
Steel  punch.......................  
75
DRIED  FRUITS—DOITESTIC 
Snndrled.......................   @5
Evaporated 50 lb boxes.  © 8 
Apricots.....................   ©8ft
Blackberries...............
Nectarines.................  ®  7M
Peaches.........................6ft®  7ft
Pears..........................   8  0  7if
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries.................
100-120 25 lb boxes.........   ©
90-100 25 lb boxes.........   0   4%
80 - 90 25 lb boxes.........   ©
70 - 80 25 lb boxes.........   ©
60 - 70 25 lb boxes.........   © 53i
50 - 60 25 lb boxes.........   ©  634
40 - 50 25 lb boxes.........  © 9
30 - 40 25 lb boxes.........   ©
14 cent less In 50 lb cases 

California  Prunes.

Raisins.

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

1  45 
1 55
3%
4ft
5%

FOREIGN.
Currants.

Peel.

Raisins.

Patras bbls..............................© 7ft
Vostizzas 50 lb cases........ © 714
Cleaned, bulk  ..................@  814
Cleaned, packages........... ©  844
Citron American 10 lb bx  ©13 
Lemon American 10 lb bx ©12 
Orange American 10 lb bx  ©12 
Ondura 28 lb boxes......8  ©  8ft
Sultana  1 Crown.........   ©
Sultana 2 Crow n........  ©
Sultana  3 Crown.........   ©  7%
Sultana  4 Crown.........  
0
Sultans  5 Crown 
®
Sultana 6 C row n........  ©12
Sultana package.........   ©14
FARINACEOUS  GOODS.
24 1 lb.  packages.............1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs.............3 50
Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Farina.

Grits.

344

Peas.

Beans.

Hominy.

Pearl Barley.

24 2 lb. packages...............2  25
100 lb. kegs.......................3  60
2001b. barrels...................6  90
Barrels  ............................ 2 50
Flake, 50 lb.  drums.........1  00
Dried Lima  ..................... 
Medium Hand Picked__
Maccaronl and Vermicelli.
Domestic,  10 lb. box........  60
Imported,  25 lb. box........2 50
Common...........................  1  15
Chester............................  2 00
Empire  ............................  3 00
Green,  bu.........................  95
Split,  per lb...................... 
2if
Rolled Avena,  bbl........4 00
Monarch,  bbl...................3  85
Monarch,  if  bbl..............2  05
Monarch, 90 lb sacks....... t  85
Quaker, cases.  ................ 3 20
Huron, cases....................1  75
German............................  
4
East  India.......................  
3if
Flake..............................
Pearl................................
Anchor, 40 1 lb. pkges__
Cracked, bulk...................
24 2 lb packages................2

Rolled  Oats.

Tapioca.

Wheat.

Sago.

3ft
50

Salt  Pish.

Cod.

Herring.

nackerel.

Georges cured............  ©  4
Georges genuine........  ©  5
Georges selected........  ©  5%
Strips or bricks.........   6  © 9
Holland white hoops, bbl. 
Holland white hoop If bbl  2 75
Holland,  i4  bbl................  1  30
Holland white hoop, keg. 
30
Holland white hoop mchs 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  2 75
Round  40 lbs...................  1  30
Scaled...............................  
13
Mess 100 lbs......................  15 01
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 30
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  65
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  35
No. 1100 lbs......................  13 25
No. 1  40lb s....................  5 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................   148
No. 1  8 lbs......................  120
No. 2 100lbs... 
..............  8 50
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3 70
No. 2  10 lbs...................... 
100
No. 2  8 lbs...................... 
83
T rout.
5 25
No. 1 100 lbs............
2 40
No. 1  40 lbs...........
No. 1  10 lbs............
68
57
No. 1  8 lbs............
Whlteflsh.
No. 1 No. 2 Fam
100 lbs...... ...  6 25
1  15
1  00
40 lbs —  .....  2 80
33
10 lbs.......... 
78
29
8 lbs---- .... 
85
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS.

5 75
2 60
73
61

Jennings’.

D.C. Vanilla 
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
2oz.......   75
3 oz........1  00
4 oz........1  40
6 oz....... 2 00
No.  8. ..2 40 
No. 10...4 00 
No.  2T.  80 
No.  3 T.l  25 
No  4 T.l  50
Northrop Brand.
Lem.  Van.
1  20
2 oz. Taper Panel.. 75
75
1  20
2 oz. Oval..............
2 00
3 oz. Taper Panel.. 1  35
2 25
4 oz. Taper Panel..1  60
Oval bottle,  with  corkscrew. 
the

Souders’.
Best  In  the  world 

for 

Regular
Grade
Lemon.

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

Regular
Vanilla.

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

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

2 oz. 
4 oz. 
FLY  PAPER.

.1  75 
.3 50

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

GUNPOWDER. 
Rifle—Dupont’s.

Kegs  ....................................4  00
Half Kegs................................. 2 25
Quarter Kegs............................ 1 25
1 lb. cahs..............................  30
if lb. cans............................   18

Choke Bore—Dupont’s.

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

Eagle Duck—Dupont’s.

Kegs.......................................... 8 00
Half Kegs................................. 4 25
Quarter Kegs........................... 2 25
lib. cans..............................  45

HERBS.

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

INDIOO.

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

JBLLY.

LYB.

15 lb  palls............................   35
30 lb  pails............................  65

Condensed, 2  dos  ..............1  20
Condensed. 4  doz  ...  ........2 25

LICORICE.

Pure.....................................   80
Calabria..............................  25
81cily....................................  14
Root......................... ■...........  10

M1NCB MEAT.

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

flATCHBS.

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

nOLAASBS.
New Orleans.

Black.  .............................  
11
14
Fair  ................................. 
Good................................  
20
Fancy  ............ 
24
 
Open Kettle...................... 25@35

 

Half-barrels 2c extra.
MU5TARD.

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

PIPES.

Clay, No.  216......................  1  70
Clay, T. D. full count........ 
65
Cob, No. 3..........................  
85

POTASH.

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s............................  4 00
Penna 8alt  Co.’s...............   3 00

Barrels, 1,200 count...........  5 80
Half bbls, 600 count...........  3 00

Barrels, 2,400 count.........   6 00
Half bbls  1,200 count........  3  50

PICKLBS.
rtedium.

Small.

RICB.

Domestic.

Carolina head....................  6ft
Carolina  No. 1  .................   5
Carolina  No. 2...................  4
Broken.............................  
3ft

Imported.

Japan,  No. 1......................  6\
Japan,  No. 2—  
............   6
Java, fancy head..............  6
Java, No. 1.........................  6ft
T ab le................................

SALBRATUS. 

Packed 60 lbs. In  box.

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

SAL SODA.

Granulated, bbls..............  75
Granulated,  100 lb cases..  93
Lump, bbls.......................   75
Lump, 1451b kegs..............  85

5BBDS.

A nise...............................   9
Canary, Smyrna................ 
3if
Caraway..........................  
8
Cardamon,  Malabar  ........  60
Celery.................................  u
Hemp.  Russian.............. 
3if
Mixed  Bird...................... 
4ft
Mustard,  white................ 
5
Poppy  ................................  10
Rape................................. 
4ft
Cuttle Bone........................  20

SNUPP.

Scotch, in bladders............   37
Maccaboy, In Jars................  3:.
French Rappee, in  Jars......   48

SALT.

Diamond  Crystal.

Table, cases, 24 3-lb  boxes. .1 50 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb bags.2 75 
Table, barrels,  40 7 lb bags.2 40 
Butter, barrels, 2801b. bulk.2 25 
Butter, barrels,2014 lbbagg.2 50
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs.............  25
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  55

Common Grades.

100 3 lb sacks............................. 1 90
60 5-lb sacks.............................1 75
28 10-lb sacks........................... 1 60

Worcester.

50  4  lb. cartons.................... 3 25
115  2ftlb. sacks........................4 00
60  5  lb. sacks........................3 75
22 14  lb. sacks........................3 50
30 10  lb. sacks........................3 50
28 lb. linen sacks.................  32
56 lb. linen sacks.................   60
Bulk In barrels.........................2 50

56-lb dairy In drill bags......   30
28-lb dairy In drill bags......  15

56-lb dairy In linen sacks.  .  60 

Warsaw.

Ashton.

Higgins.

56-lb dairy in linen sacks...  60

Solar Rock.

56-lb  sacks..........................   14

Common.

Granulated Fine.................  70
Medium  Fine......................  70

SOAP.

J A X O N

Single box.................................2 75
5 box lots, delivered_____ 2 70
10 box lots, delivered.........  2 65
m .  S.  KIRK  l  CO.’S BRANDS.
American Family, wrp’d__2 66
Dome.........................................2 75
Cabinet........................ 
2  20
Savon........................................ 2 50
White Russian......................... 2 35
White Cloud,  laundry...  ..6 25
White Cloud,  toilet................. 3 50
Dusky Diamond, 50 6  oz__ 2  10
Dusky Diamond, 50 8 oz__ 3 00
Blue India, 100 ft lb..................3 00
Kirkoline..................................3 50
Eos........................................... 2 50

Schulte Soap Co.’s Brand.

100 cakes, 75 lbs.

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

Allen B. Wrisley’s Brands.

Old Country, 80 1-lb. bars  . .2 75
Good Cheer, 60 1-lb. bars__3  75
Uno, 100 ft-lb. bars..............2 50
Doll, 100 10-oz.  bars............ 2 05

Scouring.

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

SODA.

Boxes  .................................  5ft
Kegs, English......................  4ft

SPICES.
Whole Sifted.

Allspice  .......................... 
13
Cassia, China in mats..........U
Cassia, Batavia in  bund__ 25
Cassia, Saigon in rolls........ 32
Cloves, Amboyna................14
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 12
Mace,  Batavia................... 55
Nutmegs, fancy...............
Nutmegs, No.  1.................  50
Nutmegs, No.  2................... 45
Pepper, Singapore, black.. .11 
Pepper, Singapore, white... 12
Pepper,  shot........................12
Allspice  ..............................15
Cassia, Batavia  ............ ! 3j
Cassia,  Saigon............  
.. 40
Cloves, Zanzibar..............] 14
Ginger,  African..................15
Ginger,  Cochin................... 13
Ginger,  Jamaica  ................•>?
Mace,  Batavia.................... fg
Mustard.......................12@18
Nutmegs,......................
Pepper, Sing , black............12
Pepper, Sing., white........... 20
Pepper, Cayenne..................20
Sage......................................15

Pure around In Bulk.

SYRUPS.

Corn.

Barrels................................. 15
Half  bbls.............................17
Pair  ................................  
16
Good.............................   20
Choice..........................   25

Pure Cane.

STARCH.

Klngsford’s  Corn.

40 1-lb packages...................  6
20 1 lb packages__ 1 ............  634

Klngsford’s Silver Gloss.
40 1-lb packages.....................6yi
6-lb   b o x e s ___ ’. ...........................  7

Diamond.

64 10c  packages  ............... 5 00
128  5c. packages.................5 00
3210c and 64 5c packages.. .5 00

Common Corn.

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

Common Qloss.

1-lb  packages......................  4*4
3-lb  packages......................  4%
6-lb  packages......................  4%
40 and 50 lb boxes...............   3 %
Barrels  ...............................  3

STOVE POLISH.

No. 4, 3 doz in case, gross..
No. 6, 3.doz in case, gross..

SUGAR.

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

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs

Candies.
Stick  Candy.

Wheat.

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

79

Local Brands.

Patents............................. 5 90
Second  Patent............ .  "  5 40
Straight............................  5  oj
Ulear..................................  5 60
Graham  ..........................  4  go
Buckwheat................. 
4 00
Bye 
...............................  3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond, *4s...................... 5 00
Diamond, *|s...................... 5 00
Diamond, *4s.......................5 co
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Quaker,  *£s____ ___  
4  55
4 55
Quaker, *4«.................. 
Quaker, *4s...... ..................  4  55

Spring Wheat Flour. 

Clark-Jewell-Wells Co.’s Brand.
Pillsbury’s Best %a... 
5 25
Pillsbury’s  Best *fs...........  5  15
Pillsbury’s Best <4s...........  5 05
Pillsbury’s Best *£s paper .  5  05 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper..  5 05
Ball Bamhart-Putman’s Brand.

Provisions.

Swift  &  Company  quote  as 

12  00 
12 60 
12  00 
11  00 
15 00 
9
li  50

6*4

71.

13 514 
6*4 
i@8
9

10@13

Barreled Pork.

follows:
Mess  ....................
Back  ...................•
Clear back......  ....!!!
Shortcut............
Pig......................
Bean  .........................
Family  ...........

Dry Salt  Meats.
Bellies.......................
Briskets  .  ............!.!.
Extra  shorts........!!..!..
Smoked  neats.
Hams, 12 lb  average  ....
Haras, 14 lb  average
Hams, 161b  average......
Hams, 20 lb  average......
Ham dried beef  .........
Shoulders  (N. Y. cut)
Bacon,  clear........ 
California  hams. 
iTa 1 '? /Aim in  t-k 
...
 
Boneless hams. 
Cooked  ham...

Lards.  In Tierces.
Compound...................
Kettle.........................!!
55 lb Tubs..........advance
§0 lh Tubs..........advance
50 lb T ins..........advance
Bails..........advance
Bails..........advance
|  }J> Bails..........advance
3 lb Pails..........advance

TOBACCOS.

Cigars.

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

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brand. 

Quintette..........................35 00

G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

s- C.  W............................... 33  00

Michigan Cigar Co.’s brand.

Ure Unkle

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

Ruhe Bros. Co. ’s Brands.

Double Eagles, 6 sizes.$55^70 00
Gen. Maceo, 5 sizes__  55@70 00
Mr. Thomas...............  
35  00
Cuban Hand  Made.... 
35 00
Crown  Five...............  
35 00
Sir  William................ 
35 00
Club Five................... 
35 00
Gens. Grant and Lee.. 
Little Peggy.............. 
35  00
Signal  Five...............  
35  00
Knights of Pythias.... 
35  00
Key West Perfects, 2 sz  55@60 00

TABLE  SAUCES.

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

VINEGAR.

Malt White Wine, 40 grain.  ..  6
Malt White Wine, 80 grain__ 9
Pure Cider......................... 
10
Pure Cider,  Leroux................11
Pure Cider, Genesee............... 11
Pure Cider, Bobinson.............11

WICKINQ.

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

35 00

Standard................. 
Standard H. H........ 
Standard Twist......  
Cut Loaf
J umbo, 32 lb
Extra H. H......
Boston  Cream.

bbls.  pails

634@  7
6 H@ 7
©  8
6
@ mcases 
© 6% 
© 8*4 
©

Mixed Candy.

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

Fancy—In Bulk.

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

©  6*4 
@ 7 
@ 734 
© 734
© 8*4 
© 8*4 
©  8*4 
© 8 
© 8*4© 8*4 
@10 
@12

© 8*4 
© 9 
@14 
@11 

© 6 © 8 © 9 

© 9

Fancy—In  5  lb.  Boxez.

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

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

Crackers.

Soda.

Oyster.

The  National  Biscuit  Co. 

quotes as follows:
Butter.
Seymour XXX...............  
g
Seymour XXX, 3 lb.  carton  6*4
Family XXX......................  6
Family XXX,3 lb  carton..  6*4
Salted XXX.......................   6
Salted XXX, 3 lb carton...  6*4 
Soda  XXX  .......................   6 34
Soda  XXX, 3 lb  carton  . 
7
Soda,  City.......................  
3
Zephyrette...... ........... jo
Long Island  W afers....].!  11 
L. 1. Wafers, 1 lb carton  ..  12 
Square Oyster, XXX.........   6
Sq. Oys. XXX. 1  lb carton.  7
Farina Oyster,  XXX.........   6
SWEET  OOODS—Boxes.
Animals............................  fou
Bent’s Cold Water.............  14
Belle Rose................. ..]  8
Cocoanut Taffy......... . . . ”   12
Coffee Cakes......................  lu
Frosted Honey...................  12^4
Graham Crackers  ......... .]  g
Ginger Snaps, XXX round.  7% 
Ginger Snaps, XXX  city...  7*4 
Gin. Sups,XXX borne made  734 
Gin. Snps.XXX scalloped..  7*4
Ginger Gems......................  8
Imperials..........................   8
Jumoles,  Honey................  1134
Molasses Cakes.................  8
Marshmallow  ...................  15
Marshmallow  Creams......  16
Pretzels,  hand  m ade......  9
Pretzelettes, Little German  7
Sugar  Cake.......................   8
Sultanas............................  1254
Sears’Lunch......................  734
Sugar  Squares................. 
9
Vanilla  Wafers................  14
Pecan Wafers....................  1514
Mixed Picnic....................   1134
Cream Jumbles.................  12
Boston Ginger  Mats...........  934
Pineapple Glace................   16
Penny Cakes......................  8*4
Marshmallow  Walnuts....  16
B elle Isle   PlerPe 
1034

Oils.
Barrels.

Eocene.......................  @11*4
XXX W.W.Mich.Hdlt  @ 8*
WW Michigan...........  @ 8*
Diamond White.........  @ 7U
D.,S.Gas....................  @ 8*4
Deo. N aptha..............  © 7
Cylinder....................25  @34
Engine.......................H  @21
B  ack, winter............   @ 8

©35
©50

@3 00

@4  50 
@4 50 
@5  00 
©
@
@6 50

Duluth  Imperial, *4s................5 25
Duluth Imperial, *4s............... 5 15
Duluth Imperial, *4s..............  5 05
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s  Brand.
Gold Medal *5s.......................  5 00
Gold Medal *4s.........................4 90
Gold Medal *4s.........................4 »0
Parisian, *gs...........................  5 00
Parisian, 54s............................. 4 9*
Parisian. *4s.................... ]  4  80

Oiney & Judson’s Brand.

Ceresota, %s.............................5 25
Ceresota, *4s....................    5  jg
Ceresota, *4s...........................  5 05
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand.
Laurel, *4s..............................  5 25
Laurel, 54s ....................]]]]  5  jg
Laurel, *4s ....................].”   5 05

Fruits.
Oranges.
Medt Sweets........... 
Lemons.
Strictly choice 360s..
Strictly choice 300s..
Fancy 360s or 300s...
Ex. Fancy  300s........
Ex. Fancy 360s........
J umbo cases-Maioris
Bananas.

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

Foreign Dried  Fruits.

Figs.

Choice, 10ib boxes..
Extra  choice,  14  lb
boxes.................... 
Fancy, 12lb boxes.. 
Imperial Mikados, 18
Id boxes...............  
Pulled, 6 lb boxes... 
Naturals,  in  bags... 
Dates.

©
@
@  14
@
@ 1 3
@ 6*4

Fards in 10 lb  boxes  @ 8
Fards in  60 lb cases  @  6
Persians, G. M’s...... 
@ 5
lb cases, new........ 
@ 6
Sairs,  60 lb cases__ 
@ 4*4
Nuts.

Almonds, Tarragona..  @13
Almonds, Ivaca.........  @
Almonds,  California,
soft shelled............   @13
Brazils new...............   @  7*4
Filberts  ...-...............
Walnuts, Grenobles ..  @13
Walnuts,  Calif No.  1 .  @10
Walnuts,  soft  shelled
Calif.......................  @
Table Nuts,  fancy__  @10
Table Nuts,  choice...  @ 9
Pecans, Med.........  ...  @ 8
Pecans, Ex. Large....  @10
Pecans, Jumbos........   @12
Hickory  Nuts per bu.,
Ohio, new................  @160
Cocoanuts,  full  sacks  @4 00

Peanuts.

Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns.  @ 7*4
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted...................  @ 714
Choice, H. P., Extras.  @4*4
Choice, H. P.,  Extras,
Roasted  ................ 
534

Meal.

Bolted.......................  ... 
1  9{)
Granulated............ !.!..!!  2 10
Feed and Millstuffs.

St. Car Feed, screened  ...  16 50 
No. 1 Corn and  Oats..........15 50
Unbolted Corn Meal  __
14  qjj
Winter Wheat  Bran.
13 00
Winter Wheat Middlings 
14 50
Screenings......................
15 00
Car  lots.............................   36*4
Less than  car  lots............   40
Car  lots............................. 33
Carlots, clipped.................34
Less than  car  lots............ 37

Corn.

Oats.

Hay.

No. 1 Timothy carlots......   9 00
No. 1 Timothy, ton lots__10 00
Fish and  Oysters

Fresh Fish.

Per lb.
Whitehsh...............   @  8
T rout.....................   @  8
Black Bass..............  8  @  10
Halibut..................   @  is
Ciscoes or Herring ..  @  4
Bluefish..................   @ 
10
Live Lobster.........   @ 16
Boiled Lobster........  @  18
Cod 
......................  @  10
Haddock.................  @  8
No.  1  Pickerel........  @  8
Pike.........................  @ 
7
Perch.......................  @  4
Smoked White........  @  g
Red Snapper...........  @  10
Col  River Salmon..  @  12
Mackerel 
..............  @  18

Oysters in Cans.

F. H. Counts...........  @  40

Shell Goods.

Oysters, per  100......... 1  25@1  50
Clams,  per  100  . . . .   90@i  00

2 1

Crockery and

Glassware.

Butters.

AKRON  STONEWARE. 
*4 gal., per doz.. v ...........  40
1 to 6 gal., per gal........... 
5
8 gal., each......................  38
10 gal., each................  
  48
12 gal.,  each......................  57
15 gal. meat-tubs, each__  90
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.... 1  20 
25 gal. meat tubs, each....2 25
30 gal. meat-tubs, each__ 2 7j

2 to 6 gal., per gal............  
5
Churn Dashers, per doz...  85 

Churns.

Mllkpans.

*4 gal- flat or rd. hot., doz.
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 
Fine Olazed Mllkpans 
*4 gal. fiat or rd. bot., doz.
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each 

45
414
60
5*4
*4 gal. fireproof, ball, doz.  85 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, doz.l  10 
34 gal., per doz..................  40
*4 gal., per doz..................  42
1 to 5 gal., per gal............  
534

Stewpans.

Jugs.

Tomato Jugs.

Sealing Wax.

*4 gal., per doz.................  42
1 gal., each...................... 
534
Corks for *4 gal., per doz..  20 
Corks for  1 gal., per doz..  30 
Preserve Jars and Covers.
*4 gal., stone cover, doz...  75 
1 gal., stone cover, doz. ..1  00 
5 lbs. in package, per lb... 
2
LAMP  BURNERS.
No.  0 Sun.................
35 
No.  1  Sun.................
40 
No.  2 Sun...............
60 
Tubular....................
50 
Security, No.  1 __..],
60 
Security, No. 2.........
80 
Nutmeg  ...................
50 
Climax.......................
1  25
LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Common. 
Per box of 6 doz.
„  
No. 0 Sun......................... 
1  32
No.  1  Sun....................... ]  1  48
No.  2  Sun....................... "   2  |8
No.  0  San,  crimp 
No.  1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 
XXX Flint.
No.  0  Sun,  crimp 
No. 
1  Sun,  crimp 
No.  2  Sun,  crimp 

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

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

First  Quality.

top,
top,
top,

La  Baatle.

No. 1 Sun. plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................  
90
No. 2  Son,  plain  bulb,  per
doz  ................................   j  x5
No. 1 Crimp, per doz.........   1  35
No. 2 Crimp, per doz......... 1  60

Rochester.

Electric.

OIL CANS. 

Pump  Cans.

No. 1, Lime  (65c doz)........3 50
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)........4 00
No. 2, Flint (80c  doz)....”   4 70 
No. 2, Lime  (70c doz)  ........ 4 00
No. 2, Flint  (80c doz)__ ..  4 40
Doz.
1 gal tin cans with  spout..  1  25
1 gal galv Iron with spout.  1  55
2 gal galv iron with  spout.  2  75
3 gal galv iron with spont.  3 50 
5 gal galv iron with  spout.  4  75 
3 gal galv iron with faucet 4  75 
5 gal galv iron with  faucet 5 25
5 gal Tilting cans..............8 00
5 gal galv iron Nacefas....  9 00
5 gal Rapid steady stream.  9  00 
5 gal Eureka non-overflow 10 56
3 gal Home Rule.... ...........10 50
5 gal Home Rule............... 12 00
5 gal  Pirate  King..............  9 50
No.  0 Tubular...................4 20
No.  1 B  Tubular..............  g 25
No. 13 Tubular Dash......... 6 60
No.  1 Tub., glass fount....  7 00 
No.  12 Tubular, side lamp. 14  00
No.  3 Street  Lamp...........  3 75
LANTERN  OLOBES.
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 1 doz.
each, box 10 cents........... 
45
No.  0 Tubular,  cases 2 doz.
each, box 15  cents.........  
45
No. 0 Tubular,  bbls 5 doz.
each, bbl 35....................  
35
No. 0 Tubular,  bull’s  eye,
cases 1 doz. each............  1 25

LANTERNS.

LAMP  WICKS.
No. 0 per gross................ 
15
No. 1 per gross................. 
21
No. 2 per gross.................  
30
No. 3 per gross...................  48
Mammoth........................... 
70

6*4
a
8*4

Bologna  SaM8a,iM-
Liver.......................
Frankfort....
P o rk ...............
Blood  ...........................  
Tongue .........
Head  cheese__!.
_ 
Beef.
Extra  Mess......................n  05
Boneless  ........................13  00
RumP ...............................13 00
„   Pigs’ Feet.
Kits, 15 lbs..... 
70
54  bbls, 40 lb s....'  "
1  35
*4  bbls, 80 lbs......
2 50
Tripe.
Kits, 15 lbs....................... 
70
*4  bbls, 40 lbs............... 
1  oc
*4  bbls, 80 lbs...............] ]  2 25
P ork......... C“ ln£8; 
15
Beef  rounds................. 
4
n
Beef  middles 
Sheep....................]]'.]] 
go
d  11 
.  Butterine.
10
Rolls,  dairy................  
Solid,  d a i r y ............ . . ! ! . .  
914
Rolls,  creamery........ 
14
Solid,  creamery............   X334
Canned  Meats.
Corned  beef,  2  l b ....... 2  65
Corned  beef, 14  lb......   22 75
Roast  beef,  2  lb.........  2 35
Potted  ham, 
34s 
50 
34s 
Potted  ham, 
90 
Deviled ham,  54s 
50 
Deviled ham, 
34s 
90 
Potted  tongue *48 
50 
Potted  tougue 34s
90
Fresh  Meats.

 

Beef.

Carcass......................7  @ 7*4
Fore quarters............   554@ 634
Hind  quarters.........  9
“ 
|   @10 
" 
g
Loins  No.  3... 
@12
Ribs
D 
-------------  9  @12
R° un£ s ......................  7J4@ 8
gR“cks....................  5*4@ 634
Blates  .......................  3  @ 4

. 

Pork.

Dressed....................
Loins...................... ] ]
Shoulders............. ]..
Leaf Lard.............  ]]
Mutton.
Carcass...........  ......
Spring Lambs........!!

4*@ 5 
© 7*4 
@ 6 

6*4©

7  @  8*4
Hides  and  Pelts.
The Cappon & Bertscb Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street, quotes  as 
follows :

Hides.

Gi^en No.  1................
Green No. 2................
Cured No. 1................
Cured No. 2................
Calfskins, green No. 1 
Calfskins, green No. 2 
Calfskins, cured No. 1 
Calfskins, cured No. 2

© 9 
© 8 @10 
© 9 
© 9*4 
@ 8 
@11 
@ 9*4

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

No. 1. 
No. 2.

© 3 
@ 2

Washed, fine  ............   @18
Washed, medium...........  @23
Unwashed, fine...........11  @13
Unwashed, medium ..16  @18

Pelts.

Tallow.

Wool.

22

Hardware

How  the  Government  Was  Supplied 

With  Gunpowder.

On  the  banks  of  the  Brandywine,  in 
Delaware,  are  the great  Dupont  Powder 
Mills.  Established in  1802  by the French 
Royalist,  Eleuthere  T.  Dupont  de 
Nemours,  who found  Republican  France 
an  uncongenial  home,  they  have  grown 
to  be  the  greatest  mills  in  the  world  for 
the  making  of  explosives.  At  the  time 
of  the  Civil  War  the  Duponts  were,  as 
they  are  to-day,  powdermakers  for  the 
United  States  Government. 
In  1861  the 
Secretary  of  War  sent  for  the  Duponts, 
and  La  Motte  Dupont,  one  of  the  heads 
of  the  firm,  went  to  Washington  in reply 
to  the  summons.

“ Are  you  prepared  to  furnish  a  very 
large  amount  of  gunpowder?”   said  the 
Secretary  of  War.

“ That  depends  on  our  obtaining  salt­
petre,”   was  the  answer. 
“ The  salt­
petre  of  the  world  is  mined  in  India,  of 
course,  under the  control  of  the  British 
government,  and  the  markets  are 
in 
London  and  Liverpool.”

The  Secretary  of  War  was  startled. 
If  England  should  prove  unfriendly 
during  the  course  of  the  war  which  was 
opening,  the  saltpetre  market  would, 
ot  course,  be  closed to the United States.
“ The  Government  must  buy  a  large 

amount  at  once,”   he  said.

“ Excuse  m e,”   said  Mr.  Dupont; 
“ the  United  States  can  not go  into  the 
market  and  buy  saltpetre  at  any  reason­
able  price—indeed,  it  might  not  be able 
to  buy  it  at  a ll;  but the Duponts  can  get 
it  without  exciting  comment.”

“ Will  you  go  to  England  and  buy it— 

buy  all  there  is?”

Mr.  Dupont  agreed  to  go,  and  he  and 
the  Secretary  of  War  talked  a 
few  mo­
ments  longer;  they  made  a  few  figures, 
and  the  powder  man  was  provided  with 
letters  of  credit  on  the  Rothschilds.

introduction 

land  and  presented  himself  with 
of 

On  the  next  steamer he sailed for Eng­
letters 
to  the  Rothschilds.
“ Sorry,  Mr.  Dupont;  your  letters  of 
credit  have  not  arrived” —and  he  was 
politely  bowed  out.  He  next  presented 
letters  of  introduction  to  Baring  Broth­
ers,  the  London  correspondents  of  the 
Duponts.  One of  the  firm,  a  Mr.  Archi­
bald,  cordially 
received  the  powder 
manufacturer. 
“ Very  happy  to  meet 
you,  Mr.  Dupont;  we  have  never  had 
the  pleasure  of  meeting  a  Dupont,  al­
though  we  have  done  business  with  the 
firm  for  fifty  years.”

“ I  am  very  glad  to  meet  you,”   said 
I  am  in  need  of 

the  American,  “ for 
money. ’ '

“ We  shall  be  most  happy  to  furnish 
you  with  all  that  you  require.  About 
how  much  will  you  need?”

Mr.  Dupont  looked  meditatively at the 
floor  for  a  moment,  and  Mr.  Archibald 
looked  with  some  curiosity  at  his Amer­
ican  customer.  A  homely  man  was  this 
powdermaker;  high 
cheek-bones,  a 
square  chin  covered  with  a  thin,  un­
even,  bristly  beard,  spectacles  on  his 
deep,  kind  eyes;  a  man  who  somewhat 
resembled  Lincoln 
in  the  character  of 
his  face.  Mr.  Archibald  thought  he 
might  want  several  hundred  pounds. 
This  American  had  perhaps  found  Lon­
don  a  little  more  expensive  than  in  his 
Western  simplicity  he  had  supposed. 
Mr.  Dupont,  looking  up,  said:

“ I  shall  want  ¿500,000,  and  I  want  it 

right  away.”

Mr.  Archibald  was  amazed—only 
British  phlegm  prevented  his exhibiting 
his  astonishment.  Was  this  American 
a  new  Monte Cristo!

“ By  ‘ right  away’  do  you  mean now?”  

he  managed  to  ask.

“ I  mean  in  twenty-four  hours;  that  is 
what  we  call  ‘ right  away’  in  the  United 
States. ’ ’

Mr.  Dupont  admitted  that 

“ You  will  pardon  me  if  I  consult  my 
partners—it  is  a  good  deal  of  money. ’ ’ 
it  was  a 
good  deal  of  money,  and  he  took  his 
hat.
my  hotel,  ask  for 
registered  under  that  name.”

“ By  the  way,  when  you  send  word  to 
‘ Mr.  Jones;’  la m  

Mr.  Dupont,  having  no  money  to  buy

MI CHI GAN  T R A D E S M A N

saltpetre,  went  sightseeing  and  spent 
the  evening  at  the  theater.  Before  he 
was  out  of  bed  the  next  morning  Mr. 
Archibald  called  He  had  called  the 
night  before and  found  Mr.  Dupont  out. 
The  Barings  would  let  Mr.  Dupont have 
the  money.

Mr.  Archibald  was  hardly  gone  when 
the  agent  ot  the  Rothschilds  hastened 
in  with  profuse  apologies.  The 
letters 
of  credit  had  arrived ;  they  came  on  the 
same  steamer  with Mr.  Dupont,  but were 
delayed  in  transmission.

‘  Mr. 

Mr.  Dupont  now  had  money  to  burn 
(this 
is  not  altogether  slang),  and  he 
set  out  to  buy  saltpetre.  He  proposed 
to  buy  not  only  the  large  lots,  but to  buy 
them  all.  He  went  first  to  Liverpool, 
and  found  the  saltpetre  in  the  hands  of 
four  dealers.  He  was  a 
Jones”  
who  wanted  some  saltpetre.

He  called  on  the  head  of  one  firm ; 
the  dealer  had  so  many  hundred  bags, 
300  pounds  to  a  bag,  so  much  a  pound. 
“ Mr.  Jones”   bargained  like  a  cautious 
man  who  wanted  to  get  bis  money’s 
worth.  He  would  call  again.  After 
visiting  the  other  three  dealers,  he  went 
back  to  the  first,  bought  the  stock  and 
presented  his  check.

“ We  don’t  know  Mr.  Jones.”
“ “ Wire  to  Barings  or  Rothschilds.”
The  reply  came: 
Jones  has 

“ Mr. 

credit  for  any  amount.”

He  bought  the  stock  of  all the dealers, 
and  each  man  hugged  himself  with  de­
light  because  he  had  sold  his  saltpetre, 
until  he  had  discovered  that  there  was 
none 
in  the  market,  and  the  price  had 
advanced ;  therefore  the  balance  of  bis 
days  he  cursed  the  tricky  Yankee.

Meanwhile  “  Mr.  Jones”   had  bought 
all  the  saltpetre  in  London  at  what  was 
virtually  his  own  price.  When  he came 
to  the  last  dealer,  however,  some  rumor 
nad  preceded  him,  and  the  dealer  said : 
“ I  have  five  hundred  bags,  but  it 
is 
not  for  sale.

“ A h !”   said  “ Mr.  Jones,”   “ you  are 
keeping  it for  a  curio.  Good morning. ”
This  great  supply  of  saltpetre  bought, 
the  next  thing  was  to  hire  ships  to carry 
it  to  America..  He  found  American 
vessels 
in  Liverpool  which  would  un­
dertake  to  transport  it,  a  matter  of  some 
risk,  for  saltpetre  was  contraband  of 
war.

The  loading began ;  everything moved 
slowly.  Mr.  Dupont  was  exasperated  at 
the  tedious  delays,  for  all  the  means  of 
transportation  moved  deliberately 
in 
England.  At last the  vessels  were  ready, 
and  he  informed  the  harbor  master  that 
the  ships  would  sail  at  high  tide  that 
evening.  The  harbor  master  found  it 
impossible  to  have  the  papers  ready—it 
would  take  two  or  three  days.  There 
was  red  tape  here  and  red  tape  there. 
Mr.  Dupont  was  now  in  a  fever  of 
im­
patience. 
increased  the 
danger  of  the  government  finding  out 
that  all  the  saltpetre  in  England  was 
about  to  go  over  the  sea;  another  day’s 
delay  and  the  ships  might  not  sail  at 
all.  He  pressed  the  harbor  master  for 
the  clearance  papers.  The  polite  offi­
cial  explained  that 
it  would  cost  him 
bis  position  if  it  was  known  that  he  had 
violated  the  rules.

Every  hour 

“ And  how  much 

is  your  position 

worth?”

“ Three  hundred  pounds  a  year.”
Mr.  Dupont looked  at  the  harbor  mas­
ter  attentively—he  was  a  man  of  over 
sixty  years.  Then  he  put  his  hands  in 
his  pockets  and  looked  out  the  office 
window,  which  bristled  with  masts of  all 
nations.  Now  Mr.  Dupont  knew  his 
Dumas  well,  and  at  that  moment  he was 
turning  over  in  his  mind  the  method the 
Count of  Monte  Cristo  used  to  rid  a gar­
den  of dormice  which  ate  his peaches.

" I   should  like  to  draw  a  check  for 
¿3,000  in  exchange  for  the  papers,”   he 
said.  The  ships  sailed  on  the  next  tide.
When  Mr.  Dupont  reported  to  the 
Secretary  of  War  there  was  a  love  feast 
in  the  office  of  the  War  Department. 
After  the  congratulations  were  over  the 
Secretary  said:  “ How  much  do  we owe 
you,  Mr.  Dupont?”

The  powdermaker  named  the  amount 
of  his  expenses,  to  which  be  added 
$15,000  to  the  harbor  master.
“ But  what  charge  do  you  make  for 

your  services  in  the  negotiation?”

Then 

this  Franco-American,  who

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The 
Novelty  is  conceded  by  every  one  to  be  the 
best one now on  the market.  We sell  it at factory 
price.  Write for circular.

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38  &  40  South  Ionia St.

Opposite  Union  Depot.

Complete  stock  of  HARDWARE, 
TINWARE,  CUTLERY  and  every­
thing  usually  kept  in  a  first-class 
hardware  store.

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might  have  demanded  a  princely  sum 
for  his  extraordinary  services,  bowed  to 
the  Secretary  and  replied :

“ I  have  had  the  distinguished  honor 
of  helping  the Government;  I wish noth­
ing  further.”
t here  is  a  sequel  to  this story.  When 
the  war  was over  Mr.  Dupont,  realizing 
the  tremendous  risk  run  by  the  Govern- 
men 
in  reiying  upon  native  saltpetre, 
set  himself  to  inventing  an  artificial 
substitute,  and  hereatier,  with  moun­
tains  of  nitrate  of  soda 
in  Chili  and 
potash  everywhere,  the  United  States 
will  never  be  in  such  straits  again.

1884  this  distinguished  powder- 
maker  fell a victim  to his enthusiasm  for 
his  business,  and  while  experimenting 
with  high  explosives  was  killed  in  an 
explosion.

In 

H igh  P rices  fo r   Stove  R epairs.

Ante  Lucem  in  American  Artisan.

There  seems  to  have  been  no  inaugu­
ration  of  the  National  Association  reso­
lution  to  advance  prices,  but  if  one  may 
judge  from  what  he  hears,  the  push  who 
wtere  so  anxious  to  get  the  resolution 
through  are  now  beating around the bush 
and  telling  how 
they  have  reduced 
prices,  even  under  the  burden  of 
in­
creased  expenses  for  pig  iron.  Dealers 
are  taking  trade  papers  and  many  are 
watching  market  quotations,  compari­
sons  and  yearly  averages,  using  com­
mon-sense  reasoning  about  these  things, 
and  it’s  harder  to  create  a  sympathetic 
feeling 
it  was 
twelve  or tifteen  years  ago.

in  such  resolves  than 

There 

is  a  growing  feeling  among 
dealers  that  the charge  of  6 and  7  cents 
a  pound  for  repairs and  extras  is an out­
rageous  one  and  not  warranted  by  fair 
dealing.  As  a  dealer  said  to  me,  “ Look 
at  that  lot  of  extras;  I  thought  those 
shelves  would  cost  me  about  25  to  30 
cents  apiece;  they  come  billed  at  7 
cents  a  pound  and  cost 60  to  70 cents 
each,  and  I  give  them  free  with  sales.
I  wrote  the  bouse  and  got  a  curt  letter 
saying  that  was  the  price,  the  rate 
charged  by  all  first-class  houses,  and 
they  could  make  them  no  less.  Now,”  
said  he,  “ their  stoves  are  sold  me  at  a 
rate  not  exceeding  5  cents,  which  in­
cludes  nickel  trimmings, 
reservoirs, 
japanned  covers,  and represents  labor  in 
putting  together,  which  must  cost  con­
siderable  for  each  stove  or  range  and 
add  something  to  each  pound  of  cast 
iron  in  them,  and I  can  see  no  reason  in 
asking  me  to  pay  7  cents  a  pound  for 
such  castings  that  do  not  represent  such 
an  amount  of  extra  labor  in  production.
1  am  just  waiting  for  their  agent.”

C a lifo rn ia ’s  F ru it  Y ield.

"  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  Sonoma  and  Napa  counties  will  be 
as  good  as  usual.

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

it 

T he  R equisites  to   Success.

There  are  three  requisites  to  success 

in  business.

It 

The  first  is  ability  to  buy,  and  the 
is  ability  to  sell,  and  the  third 

second 
is  ability  to  attract  trade.

is  obvious  that  the  man  who  can 
not  buy  right  can  never  sell  with  profit, 
and  that  the  man  who  can  both  buy  and 
sell  right,  and  doesn’t  know  how  to  get 
trade,  can not  do  business.

It  is  evident  that  the 

long-time-pay­
ing  buyer  can’t  buy  at bottom,  and can’t 
compete  with  the  cash  buyer.

The  profit  of  business  is  in  right  buy­

ing. 

^  t  ^

H is  P a rt.

Friend—Do  you  raise  vegetables?
Suburbanite—No,  I  only  plant  them ; 
and,  as  you  observe,  my  neighbors’ 
chickens  raise  them.

The  H a rd w a re   M a rke t.

General  trade  keeps  up  remarkably 
well.  The  demand  for  goods  is  much 
better  than  usual  for  this  time  of  the 
year.  Especially  is  this  noticeable 
in 
the  line  of  seasonable goods.  In  many 
lines 
is  far  beyond  the  ability  of 
mills  to  produce.  Trade for June  was  an 
improvement  over  a  year  ago  and,  if 
nothing  happens  more  than  tbe  present 
indicates,  the  summer  trade  will  fully 
hold  up  to  the  gradual  increase  already 
noticed.

it 

Wire  Nails—Notwithstanding the  con­
solidation  of  nearly  all  of  the  outside 
mills  under  one  head,  the  price  is  not 
strong,  and 
in  many  instances  conces­
sions  are  being  made.  The  fact  that  the 
entire  country 
loaded  up  early  in  the 
year  has  had  its  effect,  as  dealers  have 
not as  yet  been  obliged  to  order  in  any 
large  quantities. 
It  is hoped  that early 
fall  will  show  an  increased  demand  for 
this  line.

Wire—While  the  demand  for  nails has 
been  below  the  average,  both  barbed 
and  plain  wire  have  been  hard  to  get, 
owing  to  the  very  heavy  needs  that  pre­
vail  everywhere.  This  demand  is,  no 
doubt,  caused  by  so  many  patent  fences 
being  put  up 
in  all  parts  of  the  coun­
try.  The  price  remains  firm  and  job­
bers  quote $1.25  for  No.  9  plain,  f.  o.  b. 
mill  and  $1.50  for  painted  barbed,  with 
an  advance  of  30c  for  galvanized.  For 
shipment  from  stock  jobbers  are  trying 
to  get $5@6  per  ton  over  factory  ship­
ments.

Rope—Prices  are  way  up.  Not  for 
years  have  we  been  obliged  to  pay  such 
prices.  It  is  not  believed  that  any  lower 
figure  will  rule,  but  rather  higher  prices 
is  ask­
are  looked  for.  This  market 
ing 
ioj^c  for  sisal  rope  and 
for 
Manila.

Agricultural  Tools—Not  for  years  has 
there  been  such  a  demand  for  goods 
in 
this  line.  Snaths  tand  cradles  are  espe­
cially  out  of  the  market. 
Jobbers  are 
out  and  the  makers  have  no  woods  that 
can  be  made  up  into  new  stock.  This 
scarcity  extends  from  Maine  to  Califor­
nia  and  dealers  need  not  think  Michi­
gan  alone  is  tbe  sufferer.  The  demand 
for  forks,  especially  those  with  4 ^   foot 
handles,  is  far  beyond  the  supply.

Window  Glass—Is  very firm and stocks 
are  not  large  and 
in  any  sizes  are  al­
ready  getting  low.  Price  is held  firmly 
at  80 and  20  per  cent,  by  the  box,  with 
an  advance  of  1  per  cent,  for  it  by  the 
light

An  A rg u m e n t  A gainst  A nnexation.
“ Don’t  you  know,”   said  the  politi­
cian,  “ that  some  of  those  islands  in^the 
Pacific  Ocean  are  the  work  of  coral 
in­
sects?”

“ What  has  that to  do  with  our  taking 

possession  of  them?”
“ My  friend,  you  are  wholly  deficient 
in  the  foresight  that  makes  a  statesman. 
Supposing  some  ship  with  a  cargo  of 
insect  powder  was  to  founder 
in  the 
neighborhood ?”

A   Really  Good  S to ry.

“ I ’ve  a  great  story  to  tell  you,  boys,”  
said  a  man  to  a  group  at  the  City  Hall. 
“ 1  don’t  think  any  of  you  ever  heard 
me  tell  it  before. ”

“ Is  it  a  really  good  one?”   asked  one 

of  the  party,  doubtfully.

“  It  certainly  is. ”
“ Then  you  never  told 

echoed  the  crowd.

it  before,”  

H e r  T a le n t.

“ There’s  a  young  woman  who  makes 

little  things  count.”

“ How does  she  do  it .”
“ Teaches  mathematics  in.the  public 

school. ’ ’

What  men  call  firmness  in  themselves 

they  call  contrariness  in  others.

Hardware  Price  Current.

AUQURS  AND BITS

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

AXES

First quality, S. B. Bronze........................   5  00
First quality, D. B. Bronze................. 
y go
First Quality. S. B. S. Steel......................'  5 50
First quality, D. B. Steel............................  10 50

BARROWS

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

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

.......................  
60*10
.......................   70 to 75
.............

Well,  plain...............................  .................* 3  2>

BUCKETS

BUTTS,  CAST

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

Ordinary Tackle....................... 
CROW  BARS
.................................per lb 

Cast Steel.

 

 

70

4

BLOCKS

CAPS

............................................per m  65
Ely’8.
nick s C. F ............................................per m  55
35
M usket..................................................perm  60

................................................ perm 

CARTRIDGES

Rim Fire.  .................................................... 50* 5
Central  Fire..................................................05& g

Socket Firmer............................................. 
Socket Framing 
................  ......!. 
Socket Comer.. 
.............................  
Socket  Slicks...
.............................  

go
80
80
80

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

 

CHISELS

DRILLS

ELBOWS

Com. 4 piece, 6 in............................doz. net 
50
1  25
Corrugated..............................................  
Adjustable.................................................dis 40*10

EXPANSIVE  BITS

Clark’s small, *18;  large, *26........-... 
Ives’, 1, *18; 2, *24; 3, *30............................ 

30&10
25

FILES—New  List

New American...........................................   70<fel0
Nicholson’s......................................................... 70
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................... '.".ec*10

GALVANIZED  IRON

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

16.  .. 

14 

13 

Discount, 75 to 75-10

15 
GAUGES

Stanley Rule and Level  Co.’s...................... 60*10

KNOBS—New List

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

70
80

MATTOCKS

Adze Eye.....................................*16 00, dis  60*10
Hunt Eye.....................................*15 00, dis 60&10
Hunt’s.........................................*18 50, dis 20&10

NAILS

Advance over base, on  both  Steel  and  Wire.

Steel nails, base...........................................  
1  60
1  65
Wire nails, base...........................................  
20 to 60 advance............................................. Base
10 to 16 advance..........................................  
05
8 advance.................................................... 
10
6 advance.................................................... 
20
4 advance.................................................... 
30
3 advance................................  
 
45
2 advance...................................................  
70
Fine 3 advance........................................... 
50
Casing 10 advance.......................................  
15
Casing  8 advance.......................................  
25
Casing  6 advance.......................................  
35
Finish 10 advance  ..................................... 
25
Finish  8 advance........................................ 
35
Finish  ¿advance........................................ 
45
Barrel % advance..........................................  85

 

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

40
40
40
30

MOLASSES  GATES

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

MILLS

PLANES

Ohio Tool Co.’s,  fancy................................   @50
Sciota Bench................................................ 
60
Sandusky Tool Co.’s,  fancy.........................  @50
Bench, first quality......................................   @50
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s wood............  
60
Fry, Acme...............................................60*10*10
Common, polished................................ 
70& 5
Iron and  Tinned  ........................................ 
60
60
Copper Rivets and Burs............................... 

RIVETS

PANS

PATENT PLANISHED  IRON 

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

Broken packages *c per pound  extra. 

HAMMERS

Maydole & Co.’s, new  list...................... dis
Kip’s  ...................................................... di& 
25
Yerkes A Plumb’s............................................. di« 40*10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.................. 30c list 
70
Blacksmith’s Solid Cast Steel Hand 30c lia»40*l*

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

23

HOUSB  FURNISHING GOODS

Stamped Tin Ware............ ............new list 75*10
Japanned Tin Ware..................................... 20*10
Granite Iron  Ware........................ new list 40*10

HOLLOW  WARE

£ot8; .............................................................60*1
Spiders......................................................... 60*10

HINGES

Gate, Clark’s, 1, 2,3................................dis 60*10
State......................................... per doz. net  2 50

WIRE  GOODS

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

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

80
80

70

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

Sisal, 14 Inch and  larger..............
Manilla.............................

ROPES

SQUARES

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

............   10*III4

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

6Ò
50

SHEET  IRON

com. smooth,  com.

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

*2 40
2 40
2 45
2 55
2 65
3 20 2 75
All sheets  No. 18  and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

 

 

 

List  acct. 19, ’86...................................... <us 

SAND  PAPER

50

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

SASH  WEIGHTS

Steel, Game............................................  
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s __ 50
Oneida Community, Hawley & Norton’s 70*10
Mouse, choker........................... per doz 
Mouse, delusion........................ per doz 

15
i  2£

60*10

TRAPS

WIRE

Bright Market............................................. 
75
Annealed  Market..............................   
75
Coppered Market...........................                70*10
Tinned Market.......................................... .’ ’  6214
Coppered Spring Steel............................... . 
50
Barbed  Fence, galvanized..................................’ 205
Barbed  Fence,  painted......... .-............... 1  75

HORSE  NAILS

Au Sable............................................................dis 40&1C
Putnam............  
Northwestern....................................................dis 10*10

dis 

5

 

WRENCHES

28
17

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

30 
50 
80 
80

MISCELLANEOUS

Bird  Cages...............................................  
go
Pumps, Cistern......................................... 
go
Screws, New List.....................................  
gg
Casters, Bed and  Plate............................. 50* 10*10
Dampers, American................................. 
go

METALS—Zinc

Per pound.................................................... ”   qJ

SOLDER

* @ * ...............................................................   1214
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to  composition.

TIN—Melyn Grade

10x 14 IC, Charcoal.......................................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.....................................
20x 14 IX, Charcoal..........................   .........
Each additional X on this grade, *1.25!

TIN—Allaway Grade

10x 14 IC, Charcoal.......................
14x 20 IC, Charcoal............................  .
10x 14 IX, Charcoal....................................
14x20 IX, Charcoal......................................
Each additional X on this grade, *1.50.

5 75 
5  75 
7 00

4 53
4 63
5 50 
5 5)

ROOFING  PLATES

14x20 IC, Charcoal,?)ean...............................  4  50
14x20 IX, Charcoal, D ean.......................... ’.  5  go
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............................  9  00
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   4  00
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   5  00
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade.............   8 00
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Alla way Grade.............  10 00

14x56 IX, 
14x56 IX,

BOILER  SIZB  TIN  PLATE
for  No.  8  Boilers, | 
for  No.  9  Boilers, per pound..

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:

100.................................  25 cents.
aoo.................................  40 cents.
Soo............ ................75 cents.
1000................................*1  00.

Labels  sent  postage  prepaid  where  cash 

accompanies order.

Tradesm an  Com pany,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

24

T h e   D ru g   E d ito r’s  E xperim ents.

M.  Quad  in  American  Druggist.

I  couldn’t  stand  it  any  longer,  and  I 
have  moved  into  another  building—far 
away  from  the  drug  editor  and  his  trial- 
boys.  The  drug  editor  is  an  all-around 
good  fellow,  but  he  has  certain  ways 
which  I  object  to,  and 
I  knew  that  I 
must  either  quarrel  with  him  or get  be­
yond  sight  and sound of his experiments.
I  had  scarcely  taken  an  office  along­
side  of  the  drug  editor  when  he  adver­
tised  for  a  boy.  He  explained  that  he 
wanted  a  willing  boy,  and  one  in  the 
best  of  health,  and  that a  boy  devoted  to 
his  interests  would  have  a  steady  place 
and  a  liberal  salary.  Of  the  fifty  boys 
who  called 
in  answer,  the  drug  editor 
picked  out  the  fattest  and  plumpest, 
and  a  few  minutes  later  I  heard  him ex­
plaining :

“ Now,  sonny,  we  will  begin business. 
Here  are  two  pills  which  I  wish  you  to 
swallow  right  away,  and  you are  to  keep 
close  track  of  any  symptoms  which  may 
follow. ”

The  boy  protested,  but  he  was  a  fath­
erless  boy  with  a  widowed  mother  on 
his  hands,  and  be  had  to  swallow  the 
pills  or  lose  his  job.  They  were  a  new 
kind,  sent  to  the  editor  for  experiment 
and  report;  but  he  wasn’t  taking  any 
chances  himself.  They  didn’t  kill  the 
boy,  although  his  ears  kept  twitching 
and  his  hair  continued  to  curl  for  the 
next  two  hours.  The  poor,  innocent  lad 
was 
just  getting  his  nerve  back  when 
the  drug  editor  called upon  him  to  swal­
low  a  generous  dose  of  a  new  kidney- 
cure.  There  was  nothing  wrong  with 
that boy’s  kidneys,  and  he  tearfully  pro­
tested  against  being  experimented  on, 
but the  drug  editor  fixed  him  with  his 
eye,  and  replied:

"V ery  well,  sonny. 

If  you  had  rather 
see  your  poor  mother begging  from door 
to  door  than  surrounded  by  all  the  lux­
uries  that wealth  can  buy,  then  so  be  it. 
It  is  either  swallow  this  or go.”

The  boy  wept  for  a  while  and  then 
swallowed  the  stuff.  He  was  taken 
with  cramps  soon  after,  and  then  the 
drug  editor  worked 
in  a  panacea  on 
him,  and  made  two  experiments  out  of 
one.  That  was  the  beginning. 
I  didn’t 
feel  like  saying  anything  in  opposition, 
but 
it  made  my  heart  bleed  to  watch 
that  boy  day  after  day.  After  three  or 
tour days  the  drug  editor got  him  down 
to  a  regular  routine.  The  first  move  in 
the  morning  was  to  sweep  out  the  office. 
Then  he  was  given  a  dose  of  some  new 
consumption  cure.  Then  came  an  er­
rand  or  two  and  a  dose  of  something  to 
stir  up  his  liver.  Then  he  went  to  the 
postoffice after  stamps,  and upon  his  re­
turn  it  was  a  spring  tonic  or  a  cure  for 
dyspepsia.  His  fatness  and  his  plump­
ness  soon  disappeared  and  at  the  end  of 
a  fortnight  he  was  hollow-eyed and weak 
in  the  knees. 
I  saw  that  he  was  not 
long  for  this  world  unless  the  drug  edi­
tor let  up,  and  I  mustered  up  courage to 
throw  out  a  hint.

“ Johnny?  Yes,  he 

is  going  fast,’ ’ 
was  the  calm  reply.  “ He  hasn’t  got  the 
constitution  I  thought  he  bad. 
I  don’t 
expect he  will last over  two  weeks  more. 
However,  boys  are  plenty,  and  I  must 
have  one  to  try  these  things  on.”

Two  weeks  later Johnqy’s  mother  sent 
word  that  he  was  dead,  and  the  drug 
editor  sat  down  to  write  another  adver­
tisement  for another  victim.  This  time 
he  got  a  boy  with  moles  on  his  chin and 
warts  on  his  hands.  The  stock  of salves 
had  been  piling  up,  and  here  was  a  boy 
to  use  ’em  on.  A  dozen  tiroes  a  day  his 
moles  were  touched  up  and  his  warts 
liberally  greased,  and after the  third  day 
a  sure  cure  for  cold  feet  and  a  liniment 
for  lumbago  were  mixed 
in  with  the 
others. 
In  a  week  he  lost  five  pounds 
of  flesh  and  began  to  have  a  wandering 
look  in  his  eyes.  The  drug  editor  tried 
to  brace  him  up  by  ringing  in  a  remedy 
for dandruff,  but  the  boy  continued  to 
fali  away  and  wonder  where  he  was  at 
until  he  fell  down  the  stairs  one day and 
broke  three  ribs  and  was  paid  his salary 
up  to  date.

lad,  and 

Then  a  third  boy  appeared.  He  was  a 
frank,  trusting 
it  grieved  me 
to  see  him  there.  He  was  welcomed 
with  a  dose  of  a  new  remedy  for  tape­
worms,  and  before  night  had  taken  an 
anti-cholera  mixture,submitted his corns

WANTS  COLUMN.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

@43

IAOR  SALE—ONE  SECONDHAND  FIVE-
X   barrel oil  tank;  one  double-door  safe;  one
jeweler’s  safe.  H.  Leonard  &  Sons,  Grand 
Rapids.  Mich. 
IT'OK  SALE — GENERAL  MERCHANDISE
XI  stock in growing town  in  Southern  Michi­
gan.  Will bear investigation.  Address No. 644, 
ca<-e Michigan Tradesman 
644
il'OR  SALK—AN  $8J0  SODA  FOUNTAIN  FOR 
1200.  Address  J.  H.  Levinson,  Petoskey,
Mich.________________________ ______ 630
r p o   EXCHANGE—1  HAVE  A  GOOD  FARM 
X  to trade for  a  stock  of  goods.  Large  crop 
on the ground.  Soil  very  good.  One-half  mile 
from fine village.  Address No.  639,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 

639

631

Best  lo ca tion  in   Mic h ig a n  fo r  a

cold  storage  and  general  produce  dealer. 
Write to the  Secretary  of  the  Otsego  Improve- 
ment_Association, Otsego, Mich. 
VX7ANTED—CLEAN  GENERAL  STOCK  IN 
T V  growing Michigan  town  in  exchange  for 
cash and 13 acres of land in the suburbs of Grand 
Rapids which will surely double  in value inside 
of five years.  Will  sell "land  at  its  cash  value. 
No old stock  desired.  No  poor  towns  need  ap­
ply.  Address  No.  633,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
f>33
Me r c h a n t s —do  y o u  w ish  c a s h   q u ic k
for your stock of merchandise,  or  any  part 
of it?  Address John A. Wade, Cadillac, Mich.
628
I[30R  SALE—ONLY  FIRST-CLASS  BOOK- 
store in hustling  town  of  3,0u0  population. 
Address F.  C.  Wallington,  Mt. Pleasant,  Mich.
636
|?O R SALE—A  PROSPEROUS  DRUG  AND 
X   grocery  stock,  invoicing  from  $4,000  to 
$5,009,  consisting  of  drugs,  groceries,  school 
books, wall paper, crockery, paints  and oils and 
notions, in live town Carson City;  best  town  of 
its size  in  State;  brick  store  building  in  best 
location  in  town.  Outside  business  averages 
inside running  expen ses.  Reasons  for  selling, 
loss of partner and poor health.  Kelley  &  Cad- 
well invite inspec.ion. 
625
I  HAVE  SMALL  S>TOCK  OF  DRUGS  AND 
fixtures in  Ionia,  taken  on  mortgage.  Will 
sell cueap for cash or trade for  productive  real 
estate.  Answer  immediately.  Will  sell  soon. 
W. W. Hunt, Under National  City  Bank,  Grand 
Rapids. 
596
Ij 'o k  k en t—d o u b l e  s t o r e   b u il d in g
X   in  Opera  House  block,  Mancelona,  Mich., 
best location in town;  best  town  in  State.  Ad 
dress Julius H. Levinson, Petoskey. Mich.  580
Ij' ok  s a l e, ex c h a n g e ok k e n i—la r g e
two-story  store  and  residence  building  iu 
town of 1,900  population  in  Northern  Indiana; 
stone basement, 120  feet  in  dimensions.  Inves­
tigate.  Address No. 575, care  Michigan  Trades 
man. 
nPO  EXCHANGE—FOR  CLOTHING,  DRY 
X  goods or shoes, very nice  well rented Grand 
Rapids property.  Addiess No.  552, care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
552
nno  EXCHANGE — FARMS  AND  OTHER 
X  property for d ry  goods, clothing  and  shoes.
Address P.  Medaiie.  Manceiona, Mich.
553
'yyANTED
MILL  MAN, 
one-half  or
full  interest  in  a  stave,  heading  and  planing
mill.  3,000  contract,  with  stock  to fillTt.  All 
goes.  Five years’ cut  in  sight.  Side  track  to 
mill.  Good reasons for selling.  Address  Stave 
Mill, care Michigan Tradesman. 
546
A b o m e r s,  m a n u f a c t u r e r   o f  h ig h -
•  grade  brooms  at  all  prices,  for  retailers 
only.  Grand Rapids, Mich. 
605
I ¡'OR SALE-MODERN, WELL-ESTABLISHED 
and equipped broom factory and good trade. 
Other  business  commands  our  attention.  Ad­
dress No. 5b4, care Michigan Tradesman.  584

A  PRACTICAL 
to!

with $1,000 capital, to

BROOMS

575

COUNTRY  PRODUCE

W ANTED — FIRST-CLASS  BUTTER  FOR 
retail trade.  Cash paid.  Correspond with 
381
Caulkett & Co., Traverse City, Mich. 
W ANTED—1,000  CASES  FRESH  EGGS, 
daily.  Write  for  prices.  F.  W.  Brown, 
Ithaca,  Mich. 
556
■3 EO.  M. SMITH,  NEW  AND  SECONDHAND 
W  safes,  wood  and  brick  building mover, 157 
Ottawa street. Grand Rapids. 
613
SHIRTS.

FIREPROOF  SA F E S

H a v e  yours  ma  >e to y our m e a su r e.

Send  for  measurement  blanks.  Frank  T. 
Coilver. 103 Washtenaw St. E., Laming,Mich. 635

MISCELLANEOUS.

645

'1X7ANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
» t  at once.  Address,  with  references, M.  A. 
Barber, Petoskey, Mich. 
XX7 ANTED—MAN  OF  EXPERIENCE  TO 
m   work in grocery and  meat  market.  Must 
be well recommended.  Address E. B. Huntoon, 
Carson City, Mich. 
YX7 ANTED —POSITION  BY  REGISTERED 
Tv  pharmacist;  eight  years’  experience  in 
general  drug business  and  with  soda fountain; 
aest  references.  Address  P.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

SITUATION WANTED BY YOUNG MARRIED 

man,  registered  pharmacist;  excellent  ref­
erences;  five  years’  experience  in  retail  and 
wholesale  stores.  Address  629,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
629
■ ANTED—POSITION  IN  CLOTHING  OR 
general store by an A1 salesman.  Address 
622
F, care Michigan Tradesman. 

640

641

MI CHI GAN  T R A D E S M A N

for  treatment  and  had  four  or  five differ­
ent  porous  plasters  sticking  to  him.  He 
trusted  the  drug  editor,  and had no  guile 
in  his  heart,  but  he  didn’t  last  a month. 
His  mother  called  and  said  the  boy  had 
got  so  nervous  that  he  would  climb  a 
tree  at  sight  of  a  bicycle,  and  so poor  in 
flesh  that  he  was  like  a  mop-stick,  and 
she  thought  he  had  better  give  up study­
ing  to  be  a  drug  editor.
There  were  other  boys—seven or  eight 
of  them.  All  began  and  ended  alike, 
except  that  the  majority  of  them  were 
brought  to  the  grave.  Liquids and solids 
—powders  and  ointments—salves  and 
plasters—it  made  no  difference  to  the 
drug  editor. 
It  was  his  duty  to  investi­
gate  and  analyze  in  the  interest  of  the 
drug  trade  and  he  would  not  permit  a 
boy  to  escape. 
In  his  enthusiasm  he 
went  further.  He  got  a  machine  and 
advertised  for  a  type-writer,and  the  one 
he  selected  had  scarcely  written  “ Dear 
Sir”   on  a  business  letter  when  be  inter­
rupted  her  to  sa y :

“ Miss  Jones,  I  had  forgotten  to  men­
tion  that  I  have  just  received a sure cure 
for  fits,  and  that  the  inventor  wants  a 
report  as  to  its  efficacy  at  once.  Please 
take  a  teaspoonful  before  going  any 
further. ”

“ But  I  never  had  a  fit  of  any  sort,”  

she  protested.

“ No?  Well,  you  have  certainly  had 
spells  of  dizziness  and  loss  of  appetite, 
and  we  will  try  it for those complaints. ”
She  was  a  proud  and  obstinate  girl, 
and  rather  than  work  for  her  employer’s 
interest,  she  quit  the 
job,  but  the  one 
who  took  her  place  also  took  her  regu­
lar  dose  until  one  day  she  was  carried 
I  wanted  to  interfere— 
to  the  hospital. 
I  wanted  to  call  in  Bergh  and  the 
law, 
but  a  fear  came  upon  me  that  if  I  inter­
fered  and  drove  away  those  trial-boys 
and  trial-typewriters  the  drug  editor 
would  demand  that  I  submit  myself  a 
victim.  Yesterday  he  obliged  the  poor, 
wan-faced,  type-writer  to  eat  half  a  pint 
of  infants’  fbod,  experiment  with  three 
different  pectorals  and  gulp  down  a 
dozen  tablets,  and  the  office  boy  was 
subjected  to  three  sorts of  squills,  a cup­
ping  process  and  five headache powders.
I  was  powerless  to  interfere,  but  I  re­
solved  to  be  no  party  to further murders, 
and  when  night  came  I  moved  my  be­
longings  far  away.  The  drug  editor 
will  go  right  along  with  his experiments 
just  the  same,  and  office  boys  and  type­
writer  girls  will  pale  and  fade  and  go 
to  their  doom,  but  I  shall  not  be  there 
to  hear  them  sigh  nor  see  them  weep.

P.  S .—I  stop  the  press  to  announce 
that  the  drug  editor  had  a  fresh  adver­
tisement 
in  the  papers  this  morning. 
That  means  that  the  office  boy  died dur­
ing  the  night.  The  type-writer  may  last 
the  week  out,  but  her  doom 
is  surely 
sealed.

The  Canadian  C o n fe re n ce .

Notwithstanding  the  action  of 

the 
Senate  Appropriations  Committee,  the 
for  the  expenses  of  the 
appropriation 
conference  between 
this  country  and 
Canada  is  certain  to  be  provided  for,  as 
the  Senate  itself  has  decided  to  restore 
the  appropriation  to  the  general  defi 
ciencv  bill,  thus  insuring  the  prope 
provision  for  the  expenses  of  the  con 
ference.

The  Governments of Great Britain and 
the  United  States  agreed,  not 
long 
ago,  on  a  conference  for  the  settlement 
of  all  outstanding  questions  relating  to 
Canada.  Owing  to  the  many  vexatious 
problems  which  have  cropped  out  of  re 
cent  years  to  produce  friction  between 
the  two  countries,  the  holding  of  a  con 
ference  to  arrange  all  these  matters  ap 
peared  to  be  a  matter  very  much  to  be 
desired ;  hence  the  action  of  the  Senate 
Committee  was  surprising  and  unpa 
triotic.

To  meet  the  expenses  of  the  commis 
sion  to  be  appointed  by  the  United 
States,  the  sum  of  fifty  thousand  dollars 
was  set  apart  in  the  general  deficiency 
the  House  of 
bill.  That  bill  passed 
Representatives  with  this  item 
in  it 
When  the  bill  reached  the  Senate,  the 
appropriation  was  stricken  out  by  the 
Senate  Committee,  but  happily  was  re­
stored  later  by  the  Senate  itself.

No  good  reason  was  assigned  by  the 

that 

Senate  Committee  for  its  course,  and 
it  was  a  side  blow 
is  assumed 
aimed  at  the  President. 
It is  matter for 
congratulation  that  the  conference  i 
now  assured.  The  relations  of  thiscoun 
try  with  Great  Britain  are  at  present 
very  cordial,  and  it  is  much  to  be  de 
sired  that  they  may  continue  so.  The 
time  appears  ripe  to  arrive  at  an  ami 
cable  settlement  of  all causes for dispute 
growing  out  of  our  relations  with  Can­
ada,  and  it  would  be  a  great blunder not 
to  improve  the  opportunity.

B anking  Change  at  O tsego.

W.  C.  Edsell  has  sold  his  interest 

in 
the  banking  house  of  W.  C.  Edsell  & 
Co.,  at  Otsego,  to  Hiram  A.  DeLano 
and  Geo.  E.  DeLano,  who  have  formed 
a  copartnership  with  Mr.  Edsell’s  for­
mer  partner,  C.  Irvin  Clapp,  and  will 
continue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
DeLano  &  Clapp.  Geo.  E.  DeLano 
will  shortly  remove  from  Allegan  and 
take  up  his  residence  in  Otsego.

The  S u ite rs  U nde r A rre s t.

Cleveland,  Ohio,  July  5—August  Sui­
ter,  the  commission  merchant  who made 
an  assignment,  and  his  two  sons,  G.  A. 
and  R.  B.  Suiter,  were  arrested 
last 
week  on  charge  of  contempt  of  court. 
Their  arrest  was  ordered  by  John  H. 
Simpson,  a  notary  public,  because  they 
refused  to  be  sworn  to  make  depositions 
in  relation  to  the  condition  of  their 
business.  The  three  men  were 
imme­
diately  taken  to  the  county  jail,  when 
their  attorney,  J.  C.  Heald,  commenced 
habeas  corpus  proceedings  to  get  them 
released.

After  Mr.  Suiter  made  an  assignment 
on  June  17,  C.  W.  Cornell  filed  a  peti 
tion  in  the  Common  Pleas  Court,  asking 
that  the  business  be  placed  in  the hands 
of  a  receiver,  for  which  a  hearing  was 
set  for  July  6.  Mr.  Suiter  and  his  two 
sons  were  called  before  a  notary  public 
md  asked  to  make  certain  depositions. 
They  refused  to  be  sworn  at  all,  where­
upon  Mr.  Simpson  had  them  placed  un­
der  arrest.

Engbert  Kuyers  and  David  Hooger- 
hyde,  travelers  for  P.  Steketee  &  Sons, 
two  weeks’ 
are  enjoying  a 
vaca- 
ion,  visiting  with  their  families.

When  a  lot  of  women  get  together,  the 
main  subject  of  conversation  is  whether 
some  other  woman  knows  how  her  hus­
band  is  acting.

It  is  said  in  Indiana  that  the  Ameri­
can  Lamp  Chimney  Company,  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $750,000,  has  been  in­
corporated  at  Anderson,  under  the 
laws 
of  West  Virginia,  for  the  purpose  of 
controlling  the 
lamp  chimney  markets 
of  the  country  by  revolutionizing  manu­
facture  by  the  introduction  of  machin­
ery,  which  will  blow  at  a  cost  of  5  cents 
a  dozen  better  chimneys  than  can  be 
produced  by  band  at  15  cents  a  dozen. 
Aside  from  this  saving  in  cost  of  blow­
ing,  there 
is  also  a  material  saving  in 
other  particulars.  The  company  will 
control  the only machine yet constructed. 
The  annual  consumption  of  the  Nation 
is  7,000,000 dozen  per  annum. 
It is  fig­
ured  that  they  can  control  the  market by 
cheap  prices.  Edward  D.  Libby,  of 
Toledo,  Ohio, 
is  President  of  the  new 
company.  The  company  will  also  man­
ufacture  reflectors  and  globes.  This  in­
novation  will  go  far,  if  successfully  car­
ried  out,  in  revolutionizing  all  kinds  of 
glassmaking  by  the  introduction  of  ma­
chinery  to  displace  men.

A  woman  can  go  to  church  and  after­
ward  tell  you  what  every other woman  in 
the  congregation  had  on—and  some­
times  she  can  even  remember  what  the 
text  was.

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

M A NI <sT F F  & Northea8lern Ry-
I ^ l i m i   m 1 O   m  Lw 1-4  Best route to Manistee. HOLLAND  &  CHICAGO  LINE

Lv Grand Rapids.,
Ar  Manistee........
Lv  Manistee........
Ar Grand  Rapids

..........
7:00am 
12:05 pm 
..........
8:30am  4:10pm 
i ;oopm  9:55pm

T R A V E L

VIA

F .  A   P   M .  R .  R ,

A N D   S T E A M S H I P   L I N E S  

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

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

( g y u u u u u u u u u u ij^ ^

n s   11  H i t   M S

We have  a  large  line  of  new 
goods 
in  fancy  shapes  and 
unique  designs,  which  we  are 
offering at right prices.  Samples 
cheerfully  sent  on  application.

(ftW in n n n n n ^^

CHICAGO'ni™ S R'’

Chicago.

Lv.  G. Rapids...............7:30am  3:40pm * 8:15am
Ar  Chicago..................2:10pm  9:C5pm  7 3it m
Lv. Chicago................  7:20am  4:15pm *  8 45  m
Ar.G’d Rapids............1:25pm  10:30pm  * 215  m
Traverse  City,  Charlevoix and  Petoskey.
Lv. G’d  Rapids.............2:15am  8:05am  2:10pm
Parlor  and  Sleeping  Cars  on  afternoon  and 
night trains to and from Chicago.

•Every  day. 

Others week days only.

n  FT DO IT  0rand RaPids * Western.

I / C l   I v U I   I f  

June 19 .  1898.

Detroit.

Lv. Grand  RapldB......7:00am  1:35pm  5:35pir
Ax. Detroit.................  11:40am  5:45pm  10:05pm
Lv. Detroit 
.................8:00am  1:10pm  6:10pm
Ar.  Grand  Rapids......12:55pm  5:20pm  10:55im

Saginaw, Alma and  Greenville.

Lv. G R 7  0 )am 4:20pm  Ar. G R 12:20pm  9:30pv 
Parlor cars on all trains  to  and  from  Detroit 
and Saginaw.  Trains run week days only.

G k o .  D e H a v b n .  Genera) Pass. A g e n t.

H D   A  M i i   Tn,nk Ra,,w®y System
V A IV /a l V a J   Detroit and Milwaukee Div

(In effect May 15,1898)

EAST. 

Leave. 
Arrive,
t  6:45am  Sag.,  Detroit, Buffalo &N Y  ,t  9:56pm
tl0:10am......... Detroit  and  East.........t  5:27pm
t  3:20pm..Sag.,  Det., N.  Y  &  Boston..tl2:45pm
* 8:00pm.. .Detroit. East and Canada.. .* 6:35am
tl0:45am........  Mixed to Durand..........t 3:15pm
* 8:35am__Gd. Haven  and  lut. Pts....* 7:05nm
tl2:53pm.Gd. Haven  and Intermediate.t 3:12pm 
t  5:32pm..Gd. Haven and Intermediate.tl0:05am
* 7:40pm... Gd. Haven and Chicago.....   8:15am
tl0:00pm........Gd. Haven  and Mil..........  6:40am
Eastward—No. 16 has Wagner parlor car.  No. 
22  parlor  car.  Westward—No  11  parlor  car. 
No. 17 Wagner parlor car.
tExcept Sunday.

*Dally. 

WEST

E. H. Hushib, A. G. P. & T. A. 
Ban. F l e t c h e r , Trav. Pass. Agt., 
C. A.  J u s t i n ,  City  Pass.  Agent.
97 Monroe St.  Morton House.

Established lì 80.

Walter Baker & Go. H2¡

Dorchester, Mass.
The Oldest and 

Largest Manufacturers of

PURE,HIGH GRADE
COCOAS
CHOCOLATES

on this Continent.

In effect June 25th.

Operating  the  elegant  and  fast  steamers  “Soo 
City” and “ City of Holland”  between  Holland and 
Chicago,  connecting  at  Holland with  the C. A W. 
M.  Railway  for  Grand  Rapids  and  all  points  east 
and north.  SUMMER  SCHEDULE.
Lv.  Holland, daily (except Sunday)................... 8:00 p.m.
Lv. Holland, Sunday.......................................... 3:00 p.m.
Lv. Holland, Saturday (special).........................6:30 a.m.
Lv. Chicago, daily (except Fri. and Sat.)..7:00 p.m.
Lv. Chicago, Friday........................................... 4:00 p.m.
Lv. Chicago, Saturday........9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.
FARE- 
Single  Round 
Between Holland and Chicago 
$3.50
$2.25 
5.00
Between Grand Rapids and Chicago  3.15 

Berth included.

SPECIAL  RATES.

Chicago to  Holland  and  Resorts,  Friday  and  Sat­
urday, leaving Chicago  at  4  p.  m.  one  way,  $1.75: 
round  trip,  $2.50.  Saturday  morning, * leaving 
Chicago  and  Holland,  $1.00  each  way.  Above 
special rates for transportation only.

Office, No.  1 State St, 

Chicago. 

Charles  B. Hopper, 
Gen’l F. & P. Agt.

their manufactures.

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

Dorchester,  Mass.

I m i t a i

jof tljc  finita  States  of America,

K O C H ,   your  o l e p k s ,   attorneys,  ager.jj 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  of 
holding  through  or  under  you,

GRAND ¡tepida  k  Indiana Railway

To

_ 
Sheeting :

N orthern  D iv .  Leave  Arrive 
Trav.C’y,Petoskey & Mack...* 7:45am  t 5:15pm 
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.,  t 2:15pm  t 6:35am
Trav. C’y, Petoskey & Mack.................. i 10:50pm
Cadillac................................... t 5:25pm til :15am
Train leaving at 7:45 a. m. has  parlor car, and 
train  leaving  at 2:15 p.  m.  has  sleeping  car  to 
Mackinaw.
Southern  Div.  Leave  Arrive
Cincinnati................................t  
Ft. Wayne.................................t 
Cincinnati................................* 
7:10 a.m.  train  has parlor  car to  Cincinnati. 
2:10 p.m .  train  has parlor  car  to Fort  Wayne. 
7:00 p.m. train  has  sleeping  car  to Cincinnati.

7:10am t  8:25pm
2:10pm t  2:00pm
7:00pm  * 7:25am

Chicago Trains.

TO CHICAGO.

FROM  CHICAGO.

Lv. Grand Rapids...t7  10am  t2  10pm  *11 35pm
Ar. Chicago.............   2  0, pm  9  10pm 
6 30am
Lv. Chicago....................................... t3 02pm *11 45pm
Ar. Grand Rapids........................  9 30pm  7 25am
Train  leaving  Grand  Rapids  7.10  a.  m.  has 
buffet  parlor  car  to  Chicago.  Train  leaving 
Grand Rapids 11 35 p. m. has coach and Pullman 
sleeping car to Chicago.
Train leaving  Chicago  3.02  p.  m.  has  buffet 
parlor  car  to  Grand  Rapids.  Train  leaving 
Chicago  11.45  p.  m.  has  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car to Grand Rapids.
som a west.

Lv G’d  Rapids..............t7:35am  tl:00pm  t5:40pm
Ar Muskegon..................  9:00am  2:10pm  7:05pm
Lv Muskegon..............t8:10am til :45am  t4:00pm
ArG’dR apids...............9:30am  12:56pm  6:20pm
Sunday trains leave  Grand  Rapids  9.00  a.  m. 
and 7.00 p. m.  Leave  Muskegon  8.35  a.  m.  and 
6.35 p. m.

Muskegon Trains, 

tExcept Sunday.  ‘Dally.  ¿Saturday only.
C.  L.  LOCKWOOD, 
W. C. BLAKE, 

Gen’l Passr. and Ticket Agent. 
Ticket Agent Union Station.

GOINS BAST.

DULUTH,”

".’.“

WEST  BOUND.

Lv. Grand Rapids (G. R. & I.)til :10pm
Lv. Mackinaw City.................   7:35am
Ar. St. Ignace.........................  9:00am
Ar. Sault Ste. Marie..............   12:20pm
Ar. Marquette.........................  2:50pm
Ar. Nestorla............................   5:20pm
Ar. Duluth.............................................

+7 :45am
4:20pm
5:20pm
9:50pm
10:40pm
12:45am
8:30am

BAST  BOUND.

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

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

■J  h  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of
Ne.v  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap,

lloro, <£l)crcfi)re, « do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you,
*n  case  ° f   disobedience,  that  you  do
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from   in  an y  m anner  unlaw fully  using  the  word  “ SA P O L IO ,”   or  an y  word  or  words 
substantially  sim ilar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  m anufacture  or  sale  of  an y  scouring 
soap  not  m ade  or  produced  b y  or  for  the  Com plainant,  and  from   directly,  or  indirectly,

B y  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPOLIO,”   or  when  “ SAPO LIO ”   is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

in  any  way  using  the  word  "SA PO LIO ”   in  any 

911

[seal]

The  honorable  Me l v il l e   W.  F u l l e r ,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  the  year  of 
Jersey,  this  i6th  day  of  December, 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[signed]

ROWLAND  COX,

Complainants  Solicitor.

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
our  Lord,  one  thousand,

S .   D.  6LIPHANT,

Clerk

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A S ID E   T H E   K N IF E   AN D  

C L E A V E R   LO N G   E N O U G H   TO  S T U D Y  

T H IS   A N N O U N C E M E N T

You  have  been  looking  for  a  reliable,  Quick-acting, 
Spring-balance  “ Computing”   Scale.

WE  HAVE  IT  FOB  YOU

The  Spring  Balance  Automatic  Scale  we  now  offer  the 
public  is  the  best  that  brains  and  money  can  produce. 
Our  long  successful  career  as  the  Pioneer  Manufac­
turers  of  Money-Weight  Scales  is  a  sufficient  guarantee 
that  anything  in  this  line  we  may  offer  you is a “Success.” 
A  scale  that  shows  the  selling  price  in  money.  One 
operation  to  obtain  results. 
Shows  both  weight  and 
value  of  the  article  weighed.  Has  two  separate  and 
distinct  dials.  The  front,  or weight and value dial,  shows 
money-value  and  weight  of  the  article  being  weighed. 
The  reverse  dial  gives  weight  alone.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,  Makers,  Dayton,  Ohio,  U.  S. A

W RITE

MONEY  IN

It  pays  any dealer  to  have  the  reputa­

tion  of  keeping  pure  goods.

It  pays  any  dealer  to keep the Seymour 

Cracker.

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